You Can Learn Something New
Walking is Fitness
Dave Paul
4.8 • 597 Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Walking every day offers an opportunity to learn. During today's ten-minute walk on the campus of the College of William and Mary, Dave talks about ways to take advantage of this.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's 10-minute walk is helping you stay fitness consistent. |
| 0:07.0 | So let's go for a walk. |
| 0:09.0 | At the moment I am crossing, I think this is Richmond Avenue. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm in Colonial Williamsburg, day three. |
| 0:15.0 | Final day here in Colonial Williamsburg, crossing Richmond Street, Richmond Road. and I'm now on the campus of the |
| 0:24.0 | College of William and Mary. And this college is old. 1693 is when this college was founded. |
| 0:38.3 | And I'm looking at the W-R-E-N building, that's W-R-E-N, the W-R-E-N building. |
| 0:44.3 | This is the oldest college building still standing in the United States. |
| 0:50.3 | It took five years to build. They started in 1695, completed construction in 1700. It is a beautiful |
| 0:59.1 | building. Looks very Williamsburg-y. I didn't realize this, but this building has been gutted by |
| 1:09.3 | fire three times. |
| 1:11.6 | So about five years after they finished building the Wren building, |
| 1:16.6 | after it was completed, it was gutted by fire. That was the first time. |
| 1:20.6 | And then in 1859 as well as 1862, it was gutted by fire. |
| 1:26.6 | Each time it was restored, renovated, and they still use it. |
| 1:31.3 | The college, of course, is much larger than simply the Wren building, but they still use it for classes. |
| 1:38.3 | We also have some faculty offices, so some professors, members of the William and Mary faculty, have their offices in the Wren building, |
| 1:48.9 | which I imagine is pretty amazing. At least it strikes me that way. I go teach at the College of |
| 1:57.1 | William and Mary and my office is in the Wren building, the oldest college building |
| 2:02.2 | still standing in the United States. William and Mary, they have about 10,000 students, |
| 2:11.2 | and this campus is beautiful, and it's accessible, because it's right at the end of Duke of |
| 2:18.0 | Gloucester Street and colonial Williamsburg and so I've talked quite |
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