Day Forty-Nine: Sky Light

This wooden crossbeam structure will one day support the roof of a new pavilion outside Cordley Elemtary School in Lawrence. It caught my attention on the way home from my work at Lawrence High School, a building that is undergoing some renovations of its own.

Many of the schools in Lawrence (primarily those on the east side of town) have been undergoing reconstructive surgery - some major, some minor - as an attempt to ward off old age, trying to keep up with their more youthful west Lawrence counterparts.

Lawrence High, which turns 55 this year, will soon be the proud papa of a new sports complex hoping to bring football - among other things - back to the high school campus (facing the rising costs of renting the town's university football stadiums on Friday nights throughout the fall).

As for Cordley Elementary (just down the road from Lawrence High), it is the oldest elementary school in Lawrence, originally built in 1915. Since then additions and expansions have heightened and lengthened the building to its current size and shape.

Soon students will be able to enjoy the school's outdoor recreation area with a newly covered structure to shelter them from the elements. But until the pavilion construction is complete, passers by can enjoy its many "windows to the sky."