When huge dinosaur tracks were found in a field during construction excavations at Rocky Hill Professor Joe Webb Peoples took the initiative to protect and preserve those fossils and to help in creating what today is known as Dinosaur State Park. Some dinosaur tracks (most from the brownstone quarries in Portland, just across the river) are on exhibit on the wall in front of the Wesleyan Science Library lobby.

Entering the Tower from the south entrance huge wall prints become an immediate presence. Dinosaurs! Those tracks remind us that once, huge prehistoric creatures shook this very ground with their enormous feet.

The flesh of their bodies is gone now and their cries no longer pierce the atmosphere. All we have to show for their presence are their footprints and perhaps some other fossilized afterimages: puzzles passed down the ages to us by nature, to be discovered, explored and deciphered.