Every generation of students treasures its own University of Michigan, then returns decades later only to discover that “my Michigan” is hard to find among the new construction of someone else’s Michigan. It began with graduates of the 1850s who came back after the Civil War and were surprised and a little wistful to find no cows grazing in the Diag. Such bygone scenes make up a ghostly terrain we might call the Lost Campus. James Tobin, a historian and journalist who has written extensively about the University's history for Michigan Today and the University of Michigan Heritage Project, will guide us through a fascinating review of sites and sights once beloved but now long gone — and how the campus might have looked if certain key decisions had gone another way. We'll learn how the Diag almost was built at the north end of State Street, overlooking the Huron River. We'll see stunning architectural plans for the campus that were drawn in the 1830s but never built. We'll see forgotten campus sites such as Sleepy Hollow, the Boulevard and Schoolgirls Glen. And did you know there was once a University of Michigan Zoo?