(Opening on this blog May 6, 2020)
Bouncing along unpaved roads of the Coffeelands of Nicaragua in January 2007, a student in Dr. Hayes-Bohanan's Geography of Coffee travel course shared an idea for a campus event. By April of the same year the idea was a reality, and before long it was a Bridgewater tradition. Sometimes featuring the work of a half-dozen students in a summer course and sometimes swelling to an event drawing hundreds of people to the Campus Center, once even squeezed into my church when no campus space was available, the BSU Coffee Tasting has taken a number of forms and this year, it is taking yet another:
A virtual coffee tasting (BYOB optional)
Because our campus is closed, we will not be providing samples of coffee to represent the countries whose coffeeland stories we tell here. But we do provide suggestions (see the BYOB post) so that visitors can have one or more coffees at home that correspond to the countries whose coffees are the subject of student research in this class.
The tasting features two main areas (all "posters" are in the form of PowerPoints or Google Slides):
- Traditional posters by small groups of students, each about coffee in one of seven different countries in the Coffee Belt
- Topical posters from our Commonwealth Honors section, in which students make connections between the UN Global Goals and the elusive Ben Linder Café
- Lagniappe: Selected posters from my Commonwealth Honors colloquium New Orleans: Global City
And in late April 2021, we hope to see you back on our campus in Bridgewater!
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