or however people saw, then they would get in touch with her.

COLHOUN: I was surprised, I was here a couple of years ago at the time of the breakout and I met some association members at the Peace Bell and was surprised talking to them. They had come from interstate and one chap said he’d been a guard, and so on. They are getting on in years now, some of these people, but they seem to want to come back and meet again with the people who’d been associated with it.

HAROLD STARR: One old bloke used to come down from Rockhampton and he was well into his eighties, he hadn’t been down for the last couple of years. He would ring up every year and apologise, he couldn’twas a plot to tar and feather them.

Such has been the ambivalent relationship between the Ivy League institution and the farms scattered along its edges over the years. The new exhibit, which is on display now through the middle of June in the college’s Baker-Berry Library, reveals the connections between the college and the agricultural community from those first unwelcome cows some 200 years ago to current efforts to understand farming at the local level.

Presented in text and photos on large panels in the Berry Brickway Gallery – a heavily trafficked corridor that leads to the student cafe – the exhibit highlights the early days of the college, when agriculture was its most popular major, the installation of Victory Gardens at Occom Pond during World War II, the