Kid Lit
In a book by Natalie Babbitt '54, the everlasting family with this last name is cursed to live forever
What is Tuck?
Smith Alum Anne '28 and husband Charles with this surname were known aviators who made many exploratory trips together
Who are the Lindberghs?
The Smith campus was designed by the same architecture firm of this famous New York City green space
What is Central Park?
Barbara Ackermann '48 was the first woman mayor of this Massachusetts city where Harvard is located
What is Cambridge?
What is the fifth?
Jane Yolen '60 wrote How Do these prehistoric creatures Say Goodnight? in 2000
What are dinosaurs?
The McConnell Rooftop Observatory is filled with these, used by students to stargaze on clear nights
What are telescopes?
This word for rapidly falling debris and earthy material is also a drink you can order at the Campus Center Café
What is a mudslide?
This Wisconsin Senator was the first woman in the LGBTQ+ community elected to the Senate and lived in a Smith House sharing her surname
Who is Tammy Baldwin '84?
The story of Pandora's Box is one of these
What is a myth?
This series by Ann Martin '77 follows a group of friends running a local babysitting service
What is The Baby-Sitters Club?
In December 2020, a UMass Amherst professor spotted one of these patriotic birds of prey on the Smith campus
What is a bald eagle?
Students can take classes in the biology department about this practice of garden cultivation and management
What is horticulture?
Her one-woman play Achieving the Dream paid homage to her father's famous speech
Who is Yolanda King '76?
What is a scythe?
32 years after A Wrinkle in Time she wrote of the South Pole in Troubling a Star
Who is Madeleine L'Engle '41?
The Astronomy department offers a class on galaxies and this type of space material that cannot be directly seen
What is dark matter?
At the MacLeish Station 10 miles north of Smith campus, students collect sap from maple trees for this process of turning it into maple syrup
What is sugaring?
Harriet Henry '45 became this New England state's first woman judge in 1973
What is Maine?
This word means a heavy supporting base, like a pedastal
What is a plinth?
Erin Morgenstern '00 wrote a fantasy novel with this title set in 19th century London. It spent seven weeks on the New York Times best seller list in 2011
What is The Night Circus?
Ann Baumgartner Carl '39 became the first American woman to fly a jet plane for this group as a test pilot in World War II
What is the United States Army Air Force?
Since the Japanese Garden is based on the concept of mitate, meaning to see anew, it features this type of materials
What is repurposed?
What is recycled?
After Julie '70 married her husband from Amherst College, she shared her surnames with these two U.S. presidents, one was her father and the other her grandfather-in-law
Who are Nixon and Eisenhower?
Your friends, relations and acquaintances are not your kin, but your this
What is kith?