I was there for grad school, and I guess there's supposed to be an orchid society group there, but I never heard more than a rumor about it (even being a hort. major!) and was more than up to my eyeballs in school and health and lack of decent health insurance issues, so I just worked and watered my plants while I was there! Hope you find some sort of orchid fix while you're there! There's a few various orchids in at least one of the hort department greenhouses that you might be able to get a tour of, but it's not going to be a slipper person's heaven - Phals, Catts, Dends. mostly.No slipper stuff since I moved away! Kidding, kidding, there could very well be plenty of others growing Paphs in town, but nothing commercial that I'm aware of.
While I was there it snowed and actually stuck and stayed on the ground for a little bit, so everyone was a little nuts being so unused to it...a 13 yr old girl told me excitedly that she had just made her first snowman, and I'm pretty sure my eyes bugged out and my chin almost hit the floor before I pulled it together and stopped myself from asking what kind of kid hasn't made a snowman before that age One that lives somewhere where the last snow to stick to the ground was about 20 yrs ago, that's what kind! ...I got 'blamed' for the snow, since I moved there from ND 
