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Avery Shawler ’13 left her Idaho apartment one morning in 2016 to hike a prominent mountain peak. It’s a miracle that she returned.

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Out of Office

The places they work. A photographic essay.

By Middlebury Magazine Staff
August 9, 2018

Searching

Avery Shawler ’13 left her Idaho apartment one morning in 2016 to hike a prominent mountain peak. It’s a miracle that she returned.

By David Wolman ’96.5
Photography by Matt Leidecker ’96.5 and Brett SimisonAugust 9, 2018

Vermont Life

The Ripton Country Store is for sale. An alumna reflects on this treasured local landmark.

By Abigail G. H. Manzella ’98, MLitt ’03
Photographs by Brett SimisonAugust 6, 2018

Go Fish

Chris Wood ’88 works to save fish, preserve habitat, and engage a new generation of conservationists.

By Chris Santella ’85
Photography by Stephen VossAugust 6, 2018

Pursuits

The Watering Hole

How two alumni ditched their conventional jobs and opened a brewpub.

By Sarah Ruth Bates ’14
Photographs by Kathleen Dooher, Barley Smalls Photograph by Alyssa ParkerAugust 9, 2018

Q&A

Eye, Media

A professor of gender, sexuality, and feminist studies, discusses her evolution from journalist to scholar and reflects on the promise and peril of social media.

By Matt Jennings
Photograph by Brett SimisonAugust 3, 2018

Editor’s Note

Starry Night

A visit to the Mittelman Observatory

By Matt Jennings
Illustration by Tim ZeltnerAugust 3, 2018

Old Chapel

What Makes a Hero?

Discovering lives of courage and meaning at Reunion Weekend

By Laurie L. Patton
August 3, 2018

Road Taken

Pronouncing the World

A writer reflects on his lifelong relationship with the spoken word.

By Gary Margolis ’67
Illustration by Katy DockrillAugust 3, 2018

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.)

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

What We’re Talking About

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

Fall Splendor on Campus, Strategic Plan Ratified, and More

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

By Middlebury Magazine Staff
November 2, 2017

New Students Arrive, President Patton on DACA, and More

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

By Middlebury Magazine Staff
September 7, 2017

Review

Wild Horses

In this day and age, just how wild and free is the mustang?

By Kathleen McKinley Harris ’62
August 3, 2018

Editors’ Picks for May and June

By Middlebury Magazine Staff
June 14, 2018

Southern Exposure

Two young women do what they must to survive in 1930s Georgia.

By Sara Thurber Marshall
May 3, 2018

Videos

Art Matters

A quartet of professional mural artists and a team of students transform an empty McCullough hallway into a vibrant landscape of human expression.

By Chris Spencer and Demetrius Borge ’16
June 6, 2018

When in the Baltics

Students in the Middlebury College choir are traveling to Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania in the spring of 2018 to perform songs native to the three countries along with music from North American composers.

By Chris Spencer and Stephen Diehl
April 6, 2018

Poetry in Motion

How Cameron McKinney ’14 found his unique voice in modern dance.

By Chris Spencer and Demetrius Borge ’16
February 22, 2018

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