Road Diary: Driving College Park

Observations and recollections in a deeply settled early suburb

Unlike my little college town in New Jersey, College Park, Maryland, where I went to grad school, gives me a feeling of returning to an important place in my life. I go back often to shop, or eat, or meet friends, or work on this newsletter, and I always enjoy it.

A lot has changed there just since I graduated, as the old roadside landscape gets built u…