Lawrence Biemiller

Lawrence Biemiller is a longtime senior writer for The Chronicle of Higher Education who has covered campus architecture and many other topics. He is also a volunteer for the East Broad Top Railroad and Coal Co., in Rockhill Furnace, Pa., for which he learned how to operate small rail vehicles; and for the Washington, D.C., chapter of the National Railway Historical Society, for which he is learning to prepare meals in the 1934 kitchen of the Pullman car “Dover Harbor.” A graduate of Franklin & Marshall College, in Lancaster, Pa., he lives in a Washington neighborhood where potholes regularly reveal the paved-over tracks of the streetcar system that preceded Metrorail.