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Home › Historical Archive › Town Legends › Knock Twice In fog, people at the harbor knock before they step aboard. You pick a piling at the edge of the floats, rap it twice with your knuckles and listen. If something under the dock knocks back, you stay ashore...

Home › Historical Archive › Town Legends › Last Stake At orientation, in the week before finals and again on commencement day, older students tell this one on the main campus walk, usually to someone who has read the plaque and asked. The stake marked the end ...

Home › Township › Legends & Myths › The Legends and Myths of Briarmont Briarmont's tales get told at the places they are about, on the harbor floats and the campus walks, and each one comes with something to do. None of them has been proven. People keep the cu...

Home › The Historical Archive This shelf holds the record of how Briarmont started: the timber camp of 1857 and the company that grew out of it, the will of 1911 that left the founder's estate to the town, the forestry school that opened there in 1918, and the...

Home › Oakridge College › Oakridge Campus › Neil Ostrander Neil Ostrander Age In his sixties From Hartwell County Lives Briarmont Occupation President of Oakridge College Neil Ostrander is the President of Oakridge College, and new to the office. He grew up in...

Home › Oakridge College › Academics › Majors and Programs A student at Oakridge chooses a major and a level when registering. A certificate takes 30 credits, an associate degree 60 and a bachelor's degree 120. The majors fall under five departments, and Depart...

Home › Oakridge College › Academics › Departments Every major at Oakridge belongs to one of five departments, and Majors and Programs lists which. Arts When a play goes up on campus, the cast, the lights and the set tend to come out of the same few Arts classr...

To the people who teach at Oakridge, I'm Neil Ostrander, the college's new president. I spent most of my working life marking timber in the county's forests, and nearly everything I know I learned from somebody who showed me once and then stood back while I go...

Out of character. This page is written to you, the player, if your character teaches at Oakridge. Getting a course If you'd like your character to teach, talk to whoever holds the Oakridge Faculty seat in the Briarmont Group Leads group. Come with an idea of t...

Dear students, If you've been accepted, you've already seen my name at the bottom of your letter. It's Neil Ostrander, and I'm new in the president's office. Before that I was a forester in this county for forty-odd years, and my boots are still by the office ...

Out of character. Everything below is written to you as a player, for a character who studies at Oakridge. Enrolling Enrolling happens in world: you use the computer in the Admissions office to apply, the printer beside it for your letter if you're accepted, t...