Professor Andrea Berlin’s CAS AR593 BU Today Class Feature

294 Steps to Class

BU archaeology course teaches memorials’ meanings aren’t set in stone

10.25.2012 By Rich Barlow

Class by class, lecture by lecture, question asked by question answered, an education is built. This is one of a series of visits to one class, on one day, in search of those building blocks at BU.

Sweating, panting, pausing for breath, and occasionally taking the Lord’s name in vain, Andrea Berlin’s six students troop up the 294 steps of the Bunker Hill Monument. “You told me there were 275. You lied,” one tells the professor.  Read more.