Williams College Library

(Photo by Miss Daniela Thompson, Berkeley Historical Society and Bay Area Historical Society, permission for use pending).

The library of Williams College has been completely redone as evidenced by this recent photograph.  Gone are the long reading tables and chairs Dr. Hopkins and I would utilize to pour over historic and ancient works.  Gone, too, is his personal collection of historic paraphernalia as pertaining to the Understanding movement and flying saucers and visitations from the space brothers.  For me, the clean up crew's tossing his personal papers out under the Great Home's porte cochere for the trashmen to collect to get them out of the way for proper, historic, and well-financed and very expensive renovations was akin to the burning of the library of Alexandria, but you'll just think I am being melodramatic by my so saying.  But I do believe that. 

Williams College burned bright for decades in the Berkeley Hills, like a glittering rare and occult gem.  They all rightly should have had a little more in the way of genuine respect for Dr. John W. Hopkins and his fellow travelers.  He for decades was the real guiding spirit of the place.