Accessibility DescriptionPanel text reads: I learned about Black Mountain from a friend who was there in the fall of 1943. I had always been disgusted with my schools and schooling. In March 1943, age 17, I was a dissatisfied freshman at Ohio University. In a meeting with the Dean, I related my dissatisfaction and showed him the Black Mountain catalogue. In those days catalogues looked like manuals for farm equipment. Not the Black Mountain catalogue. It was a stunner. "This looks like the place for me," I told the Dean. He said, "Go down there and if it does not work out, you can always come back to Ohio." I wrote Black Mountain and the college never replied. I decided to "make" them let me in. Dressed in my ROTC uniform, I hitched to North Carolina and presented myself to Dorothy Trayer, the Registrar, who was also the farmer's wife. Yes, they had received my letter, had not acted on my request, and now it was between quarters. Everybody was away. Dorothy suggested I stay and work on the farm until people returned. Then they would make a decision. My work was clearing pasture with Ike Nakata using a two-man saw. When the faculty returned, my case was considered and happily, I was admitted. Later that month, I asked Dorothy why they let me in. I knew they had never sent for my records. She replied, "We liked the way you used your end of the saw." Larry Fox

Dimensions24 x 18 inches

Rights StatementIn copyright

CreditGift of Larry Fox

CitationLarry Fox, "I learned about Black Mountain from a friend...", 1995. Photographs and printed paper on foam board. Collection of Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center. Gift of the artist.

Collection 1995 Remembering Black Mountain College Exhibition and Alumni Reunion Collection

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