Tufts grads sure do like cute stuff with elephants!

Jumbo statue on the Tufts campus

It seems every weekend, someone will come in asking what we have with elephants on it. After packing up lots of elephant bibs, elephant shirts, elephant blankets, elephant necklace charms, even elephant Crawlings kneepads, I finally realized
Tufts grads sure do love their Jumbo.


And, thanks to the internet, I now know P.T. Barnum was a Tufts grad, and Jumbo was a very real, very big, and very special elephant. Take a read of this fascinating story behind the Jumbo. 

My favorite elephant something at the Tiny Hanger is Nugget, the little Jellycat. Got him sitting on the counter with me right now.

I may just have mascot envy. As a UMass–Amherst grad, I must admit, a Minutemen just isn't cuddly, and tiny tri-corner hats for toddlers are not practical.

Guess it could be worse, my school mascot could have been this guy.