It’s a surprising thing to come across on the Harvard campus. Nine big piles, maybe 14 feet square and 8 feet high, that look like forts children might make. The walls are made of kid-size backpacks, in shades of gray like the stone of real forts. We’re told by Harvard that there are 5,335 backpacks, although my own count is ...
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:00PM on April 16, 2011