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Re: "Russian lawn"

From:Ph. D. <phil@...>
Date:Monday, June 2, 2008, 15:57
stevo   </HTML> wrote:
> > Your description matches the vocabulary of > Classical Yiklamu pretty well. When I was > going to the University of Arizona in Tucson, > there was a new bank near campus that had > no sidewalks to the main door. There were > only unpaved paths, apparently a 'Russian lawn'.
Back around 1970, they built a new university here in Michigan. They didn't put in any sidewalks. After the first year, they could tell by the size of the dirt paths where to put in sidewalks and what size to make them. --Ph. D.