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Features

Summer 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 Simison
August 9, 2018

Summer 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 Simison
August 6, 2018

Summer 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 Voss
August 6, 2018

Spring 2018

True Detectives

On California’s magnificent Central Coast, a group of North Korea experts track Pyongyang’s every nuclear move. But—if we’re listening—the story they’re telling us is also about ourselves.

By Zach Dorfman
Photographs by Elëna Zhukova
May 3, 2018

Spring 2018

Koby Altman’s Home Court

As the first-year general manager of the Cleveland Cavaliers, Koby Altman ’04 is thriving in one of the NBA’s most high-profile jobs.

By Ryan Jones
Photographs by Luke Copping
May 3, 2018

Spring 2018

Out of Darkness, Light

A young alumna confronts the demons that have plagued her for much of her life—and blazes a path for others who may be suffering in similar ways.

By Lindsay Wheeler ‘14
Illustration by Sandra Dionisi
May 3, 2018

Winter 2018

“What Did I Just See?”

A schoolhouse fire in Cleveland shocked the nation in 1908 and then was largely forgotten—until now. A cohort of Middlebury scholars and students shines a new light on an American tragedy.

By Matt Jennings
Illustrations by Middlebury Animation Studio
January 31, 2018

Winter 2018

Regarding Cloe

Her job at TED is to help people spread great ideas so that we all can understand the world a little bit better. But to really get to know Cloe Shasha ’11, we turned to her best friend.

By Bianca Giaever ’12.5
Photography by Jon Roemer
January 31, 2018

Winter 2018

Tales of Two Cities

A pair of writers are your guides to two European metropolises as you’ve never seen them before.

By J. M. Tyree ’95 and Joseph Pearson ’97
Illustrations by Mark Hoffmann
January 30, 2018
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Features

Heady Topper

Corinne Prevot ’13 has created one of the iconic brands of winter outdoor gear.

By Kelley Freund
Photographs by Erin Little
February 14, 2019

Going Analog

What does it mean when digital natives begin to embrace a seemingly bygone technology?

By Rachel D. Cohen ’18
Photographs by Rachel D. Cohen ’18, Michelle Leftheris, and Esme Fahnestock
February 14, 2019

More Than a Game

The Middlebury field hockey program won its second consecutive Division III national title in November. Yet for the coaching staff and four Panther alumnae, the moment did not compare to what happened next.

By Matt Jennings
Illustration by Laura Carlin
February 14, 2019

A Campus of Their Own

For nearly 50 years, Middlebury envisioned a future where men and women would be kept apart. Only a lack of money kept it from happening.

By Matt Jennings
Illustrations by Sarah Hanson
February 14, 2019

Pursuits

Timber!

How did a former art history major come to manage millions of board feet of timber?

By Kathryn Flagg ’08
Photographs by Brett Simison
February 14, 2019

Q&A

Tour of Duty

Field Hockey coach Katharine DeLorenzo reflects on another championship season and a life-altering trip to India.

By Matt Jennings
Photo by Paul Dahm
February 14, 2019

Editor’s Note

Speaking of Bubbles

It might be time to redefine a common phrase.

By Matt Jennings
Illustration by Elissa Turnbull
February 14, 2019

Old Chapel

Good for Middlebury, Good for the World

The work of inclusivity doesn't always move in a straight line.

By Laurie L. Patton
Illustration by Montse Bernal
February 14, 2019

Road Taken

Forget the Right Way

To find her true path in life, a writer had to stop listening to everyone else.

By Sunny Fitzgerald ’04
Illustration by Jennifer Orkin Lewis
February 14, 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.)

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 Lora
March 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

An Artist, An Activist

Who was the woman behind the stark photojournalism of the 1930s and 1940s?

By Blair Kloman, MA English ’94
Illustration by Pierre Mornet
February 14, 2019

Editors’ Picks for November and December

By Middlebury Magazine Staff
December 14, 2018

The Memory Keepers

In the face of loss and tragedy, two people struggle to find goodness and redemption.

By Claire Skogsberg
November 1, 2018

Videos

Carol Street

Being of mixed races, Demetrius Borge ’16 says that he has enjoyed many of the privileges of being Black, but has faced none of the consequences. So he became inspired to better understand the Black experience at Middlebury—not by internalizing the experience, but by opening himself up to those already in this space.

By Demetrius Borge ’16
February 14, 2019

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
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