Faculty sightings of Daisy

When the College was built and the first faculty hired, there was not enough housing on the campus for everyone.

Some faculty members were invited to live in the extra bedrooms at the Sweet Briar House, the former plantation house of the founding family and now home to the President.

During that time several faculty reported "visits" from Indiana Fletcher Williams and her daughter Daisy Williams...

One evening, an instructor who liked to read in the west parlor was seated comfortably in a large green velvet overstuffed chair, one of two in the room. Electricity had been installed in the house by that time. A few years previously, oil lamps were used.

The large overhead chandelier with crystal prisms had been wired for electricity, but at that moment it was not turned on. The instructor was using a floor lamp. Suddenly the chandelier lit up and immediately switched off. On and off it went a half dozen times. No one else was in the room.

The instructor said, "Daisy, stop playing with the lights!"

The activity ceased immediately. Daisy was known to have been a very obedient child.

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