Dacie Moses is a house filled with ingredients perfect for whipping up delicious cookies and memories alike. For more than … years, Dacie’s has been a place of comfort and fun for students seeking to escape the stress of academic life at Carleton. There is just so much history associated with this house that it is impossible to accurately depict its actual significance. For this very reason, the following paragraphs are a brief narration of the history of Dacie (Candace) Moses and how her house came to be what it is today.
Dacie Moses lived on 110 Union Street, a block away from campus, and worked at Carleton for over 50 years. Both her husband and son were Carleton alumni. Dacie was exceptional in so many ways, in her extreme generosity and hospitality which attracted groups of students to brunches and house gatherings daily, and in her open-mindedness which encouraged an atmosphere of shared ideas and thoughts.
These are just a few of Dacie’s qualities which attracted Carleton students to the house. According to the “Northfielder”, by 1960, groups of twelve to forty people were attending the Sunday brunches. Today, the house hosts around 75 students during the two-hour brunch period.
We could try and include the most important and “memorable” events in the Dacie Moses history, but these are relative and personal to each person. For example, baking a brunch inspired by my hometown’s recipes was more memorable than the much celebrated birthday brunch that same year. Memories are personal and as such, we would like to offer our readers, who have been to Dacie Moses and would like to share an anecdote, the opportunity to do so. Please type your story in the comment section below and we will publish it in our story board page!
Sources: https://d31kydh6n6r5j5.cloudfront.net/uploads/sites/275/2020/01/Sherri_sPaper.pdf
