Well Worth a Shindy tells the story of the Old Well, beloved symbol
of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the United
States' first public university. The Old Well is a Greco-Roman
garden temple built in 1897 over an old water well on the campus.
The facts concerning the Old Well's beginnings serve to introduce
an historical study of the round temple from Mycenaean tholos tombs
and treasuries to eighteenth-century English garden follies. The
reasons that the Old Well was built, according to its commissioner,
Edwin Alderman, the sixth president of the University of North
Carolina, are repetitious of those that directed such as Alexander
the Great, Augustus Caesar, and Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain to
build round temples to be symbols of their territorial and dynastic
desires. the designer of the Old Well, Eugene Lewis Harris, used to
construct the temple were not new but were ancient guides filtered
through Medieval and Renaissance prisms. A catalog of over 100
round structures in 14 countries is provided.
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