Holy cow - that is the only way I think most of us can describe our tour of Macon Georgia!
As my blogs before have covered, this past Friday we took a trip to Macon Georgia to visit some of the landmarks of ADPi history.
First Stop - Rose Hill Cemetery
Rose Hill Cemetery in where the Eugenia Tucker Fitzgerald is now buried. As the original Alpha Delta Pi women she is the one who started it all. This is also very important to sorority women around the world, not just ADPi's. As the founder of the first secret society for women, she started what we know as sorority life today.
Mother Fitzgerald was originally buried in Texas, but the Alpha Delta Pi's of Macon decided that it was important that she be buried at home in Macon next to her husband. She was then exhumed from her grave and moved to her now eternal resting spot in Macon. Her grave is in a fenced area that is kept up by Alpha Delta Pi. Below you can check out my pictures from her grave sight, because of course, we had to get some in before our next stop!
Mother Fitzgerald was originally buried in Texas, but the Alpha Delta Pi's of Macon decided that it was important that she be buried at home in Macon next to her husband. She was then exhumed from her grave and moved to her now eternal resting spot in Macon. Her grave is in a fenced area that is kept up by Alpha Delta Pi. Below you can check out my pictures from her grave sight, because of course, we had to get some in before our next stop!
Onto the Cannonball House!
The Cannonball House is basically a museum that has a room dedicated to Alpha Delta Pi and Phi Mu. Phi Mu was founded in 1852, and rumor has it that is was founded by Eugenia's roommate that she would not allow into that Adelphean Society so she decided to start her own.
It houses the original portraits of the Founder's that are replicated at Memorial Headquarters. It is filled with various ADPi artifacts from pins to sliver that members donated. It serves the purpose of commemorating the significane of the founding of Alpha Delta Pi in Macon and is one more place for ADPi's to visit and become part of the history of Alpha Delta Pi.
It houses the original portraits of the Founder's that are replicated at Memorial Headquarters. It is filled with various ADPi artifacts from pins to sliver that members donated. It serves the purpose of commemorating the significane of the founding of Alpha Delta Pi in Macon and is one more place for ADPi's to visit and become part of the history of Alpha Delta Pi.
Look Out Wesleyan Here We Come!
Though the Wesleyan Campus today is not the same campus in which Alpha Delta Pi was founded on, and there is no sororities on campus today, Wesleyan has done a great job of perserving the memories of both Alpha Delta Pi and Phi Mu, and the significance their campus had in their founding. Our first stop was the Adelphean Fountain.
Different pieces of the Fountain were donated on various occasions to help commemorate the importance of Wesleyan and its ties to Alpha Delta Pi. (Not to mention to my ADPi sisters - we are the only ones on campus with a fountain(; ...). The steps are engraved with the names of our founders and some of the first members, as well as "We Live for One Another" Its guarded by two Alphies, of course, (for those non-ADPi's that's the name of our lions mascot), and has a crest centered before the fountain in the middle. And I could not help but take the chance to hop in and take a picture :). |
The ADPi history did not stop there from a bench outside the library with the crest and names of the Founders, to the Adelphean Parlor filled with pins and pictures, and finally we got a sneak peak into a new addition of ADPi history on campus. In the library they are starting to develop a new room called the Wesleyan Room which will be filled with all the paper histories of ADPi. We got to sneak in and flip through programs, year books, the 100 year commemoration book, and all kinds of pieces of ADPi history.
It was a very long but very worth while day! Being there made Alpha Delta Pi so much more real, walking the town they walked, seeing the pictures, books and buildings, to even just the many things that commemorate our founding - you can't help but realize how much bigger all of this is than just yourself. If there was one wish that I could have had that day, it would have to have been to have all my Epsilon Mu sisters there with me. I think that this is something every Alpha Delta Pi should get to experience and because I know that isn't the case I am so thankful that I am one of the lucky ones who can.
No matter how many violets we right, how much alphabetizing we spend our days doing - this day made this experience stand out above any other. And I am so thankful for that!
It was a very long but very worth while day! Being there made Alpha Delta Pi so much more real, walking the town they walked, seeing the pictures, books and buildings, to even just the many things that commemorate our founding - you can't help but realize how much bigger all of this is than just yourself. If there was one wish that I could have had that day, it would have to have been to have all my Epsilon Mu sisters there with me. I think that this is something every Alpha Delta Pi should get to experience and because I know that isn't the case I am so thankful that I am one of the lucky ones who can.
No matter how many violets we right, how much alphabetizing we spend our days doing - this day made this experience stand out above any other. And I am so thankful for that!