The above quote is from Karen Brecher Alschuler (Class of 1967). Read the full memory below:

November 9, 1965… I was sitting in one of those wonderful carrels looking over Providence when everything went black! We knew right away that it was the whole City that had been affected since we saw the City lights go out. We did not yet know it was the whole East Coast.

The few of us on that floor called out to each other, held hands as we snaked our way down the stairs and out the door—let go and went our separate ways!

Only one of innumerable evenings spent at The Rock from its opening when we were Sophomores through to graduation. Those were the days when you could wander the stacks of a great library unhindered.