| Summary: | This image is a photograph used in the book Auburn, a Pictorial History of the Loveliest Village by Mickey Logue and Jack Simms, 3rd edition, 2013, depicting the history of the city and the university. From page 220: Citizens helped recreate history at Langdon Hall on November 9, 1956, by dramatizing the laying of the cornerstone in 1857 for the main building at East Alabama Male College, forerunner of Auburn University. EAMC had been founded in February 1856. Portraying members of the Auburn Masonic Lodge were, left to right: Henry A. Young, F. R. Attleberger, and F. Gordon Bush. Others on stage included, from left, Molly Brasfield Sarver, two unidentified (one holding rope), P. O. Davis, B. Conn Anderson, P. R. "Bedie" Bidez, Elizabeth Glenn Smith Wilder, James E. Greene, and Eleanor Wright McGowen. Photo source: Auburn University Photographic Services.
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