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Award-winning chef and restaurateur Spike Gjerde ’85 seeks to subvert the American industrial food system.

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The Story That Changed My Life

The prompt was simple; the exercise was anything but. Faculty, staff, students, and alumni tell us about the story that changed the course of their lives.

By Middlebury Magazine Staff
Illustrations by Carmen SegoviaNovember 8, 2019

The Voice of Reilly

Whether coaching basketball, announcing football games, leading an athletics program, or swapping stories, Russ Reilly had a way with words.

By Jim Collins
Illustration by Joe MorseNovember 8, 2019

The Disrupter

Award-winning chef and restaurateur Spike Gjerde ’85 seeks to subvert the American industrial food system.

By Dale Keiger
Photographs by Stephen VossNovember 8, 2019

Get the Lead Out

How a Bi Hall research project resulted in safer water in Addison County schools—with further expectations to do the same for all public schools in Vermont.

By Kim Asch
Illustration by Laura LiedoNovember 8, 2019

Pursuits

Words at Work

What does it take to be a translator and interpreter for a drug task force in New York City?

By Sara Thurber Marshall
Photographs by Jon RoemerNovember 8, 2019

Q&A

On Display

History professor Amy Morsman discusses the woman suffrage movement—and what it takes to mount a history exhibit on the topic.

By Matt Jennings
Photograph by Paul DahmNovember 8, 2019

Editor’s Note

Tell Me a Story

How storytelling may save you in a zombie apocalypse. No, really.

By Matt Jennings
November 8, 2019

Old Chapel

Your Moment of Midd

What does Middlebury sound like? We think we have an idea.

By Laurie L. Patton
November 8, 2019

Road Taken

In Search Of

A quest for solace on the Camino de Santiago.

By Susie Davis Patterson ’67
November 8, 2019

Quotation

I have no stories of fancy places, no idea that’s going to cure anything, no history of hard times that is going to make anybody cry. What I do have is myself, and that is enough.”

—Nia Robinson ’19, delivering the talk “We Are Not As Lost As We Think We Are” at TEDxMiddlebury 2017. (She was wrong. There were tears.)

Podcasts

Episode 6: Koby Altman ’04

Cleveland Cavaliers General Manager Koby Altman '04 talks hoops, life, and the intersection of the two with Middlebury President Laurie Patton.

By Middlebury Magazine Staff
November 11, 2019

Episode 5: Adul Samon and Mr. Punnawit Thepsurin

In 2018 Adul Samon and his boys’ soccer team were rescued from a flooded Thai cave. During the rescue effort, Adul took on an unexpected leadership role as an interpreter. Last spring Adul was the inaugural recipient of Middlebury's Global Citizen's Award, and he and his teacher at the Band Wiang Phan School joined Laurie Patton to discuss, among other things, the power of language.

By Middlebury Magazine Staff
November 4, 2019

Episode 4: Bianca Giaever ’12.5

Bianca Giaever ’12.5 is a storyteller. She has produced audio pieces for This American Life and Radiolab; video pieces that have gone viral and won Emmys; and magazine pieces for The Believer and this humble publication. And her conversation—recorded just after Bianca finished her first summer of study at the Bread Loaf School of English—is a story all its own.

By Middlebury Magazine Staff
October 28, 2019

How Did You Get Here?

Lizzie Apple

By Georgia Grace Edwards
July 11, 2018

Aube Strickland

By Georgia Grace Edwards
July 11, 2018

Stephen Bissainthe

By Julia Trencher
July 11, 2018

Review

Battle of the Fiercest

The girls were told to wait—and to stay alive.

By Maria Padian ’83
Illustration by Nicole XuNovember 8, 2019

What We’re Talking About

Taking a Stand Against Plastic Bags, Surveying Gen Z on “Inclusivity,” and More

By Middlebury Magazine Staff
Illustration by Loris LoraMay 14, 2019

Highlighting Winter Term Workshops, Welcoming Frank Bruni, and More

By Middlebury Magazine Staff
Illustration by Loris LoraFebruary 1, 2019

Katz Translates Dostoevsky, Simmons Rocks TED Radio Hour, and More

Recapping the news, notes, stories, and interesting tidbits that have grabbed our attention this week.

By Middlebury Magazine Staff
Illustration by Loris LoraMarch 21, 2018

Videos

Art Meets Science

The Heath Quartet, as part of a weeklong residency, gave a performance and discussion session for neuroscience majors studying sensation and perception.

By Chris Spencer
October 24, 2019

Votes…for Women?

While a relative few voices publicly questioned the prohibition against women voting in the decades following the country’s founding, most Americans did not wholeheartedly consider this question until the last century.

By Chris Spencer
October 3, 2019

The Voice of Reilly

We remember Russ Reilly as a dedicated coach and teacher, as a selfless volunteer, as a spirited stadium announcer, and as a cornerstone of the Middlebury community. Most of all, we remember Russ for giving voice to our most cherished values.

By Chris Spencer
Text by Jim CollinsSeptember 24, 2019

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