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Features

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

Winter 2018

Envisioning Middlebury

How would you describe Middlebury on its best day? And what does that best day look like tomorrow? And the day after? These are the questions a community and institution wrestled with for the better part of 18 months. We now have a framework to help answer those questions.

By Matt Jennings
January 30, 2018

Fall 2017

Art Mystery

How art historian Pieter Broucke discovered the true provenance of one of the Museum of Art’s paintings. A comic adaptation of a true story.

By Wesley Allsbrook
Based on an article by Kathryn Flagg '08
October 26, 2017

Fall 2017

Wild at Heart

Caleb McClennen '97 races to save the world's most vulnerable creatures.

By David Wolman ’96.5 
Photographs by Keith Ellenbogen
October 26, 2017

Fall 2017

The High Road

Did an American NGO create an entirely new model of sustainable development in the southern highlands of Peru?

By Carolyn Kormann ’04
Photographs by Brett Simison
October 25, 2017

Summer 2017

A History of Middlebury in 46 Objects

Can one capture 217 years of institutional history in fewer than 50 objects? We gave it a shot.

By Matt Jennings
Photographs by Todd Balfour
July 26, 2017

Summer 2017

Lea Davison Is the Most Badass Mountain Cyclist on the Planet

It’s a bold statement, sure. But once you get to know Lea Davison ’05 like we do, we think you’ll agree.

By Sarah Tuff Dunn ‘95
Photographs by Brett Simison
July 24, 2017

Summer 2017

Fox and the Hound

Gabriel Sherman’s dogged pursuit of a corporate behemoth may have forever altered the media landscape as we know it.

By John Wolfson
Illustrations by Victor Juhasz
July 21, 2017
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Recent Stories

Features

A Dog’s Life

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By Sara Thurber Marshall
Photograph by Randal Ford
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By Frederick Reimers ’93
Photograph by Justin Patterson
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Object Lessons

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By Caroline Crawford
Photograph by Adam Detour
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By Elena Valeriote, MA Italian '19 in conversation with Hannah Lewis '97
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Dispatches

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Photographs by Todd Balfour
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Photograph by Jonathan Blake
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Photograph by Hubert Kolka
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By Sara Thurber Marshall
Photograph used with the permission of Melvin B. Yoken
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Essays

Shear Madness

A yarn shop owner with no livestock experience takes an unlikely detour.

By Lindsey Spoor, MA French ’08
Illustration by Ben Kirchner
April 4, 2025

Q&A

37 Minutes with Lorraine Besser

The professor and philosopher talks about the three elements of the “good life”—especially the one happiness culture overlooks.

By Jessie Raymond '90
Photograph by Oliver Parini
April 4, 2025

Quotation

A summer immersed in a language can do wonders, as veterans of Middlebury College’s famous language-learning program can attest. The lockdown is clearly going to amount to the equivalent of about two summers, and there are mini-Middleburys happening in millions of houses worldwide.”

—John McWhorter, writing “The Coronavirus Generation Will Use Language Differently” in the Atlantic.

Podcasts

The Exit Interview with Middlebury President Laurie L. Patton

With her presidency at Middlebury coming to an end, the host of this podcast becomes its final guest.

By Middlebury Magazine Staff
December 18, 2024

The Monterey Trialogue: A Distinct Take on Superpower Diplomacy featuring Anna Vassilieva and Peter Slezkine

Our guests for episode six of season three are Anna Vassilieva and Peter Slezkine, the folks behind the Monterey Trialogue—which brings together leading experts from the United States, China, and Russia for in-depth discussions of their countries' interests and concerns in the vital regions of the world.

By Middlebury Magazine Staff
July 19, 2024

Education as the Great Equalizer, featuring Annie Weinberg ’10

Our guest for episode five of season three is Annie Weinberg '10, the founder and executive director of Alexander Twilight Academy, an educational catalyst program in Boston, Massachusetts, that supports students from under-resourced backgrounds.

By Middlebury Magazine Staff
March 14, 2024

Review

Editors’ Picks for March and April

By Middlebury Magazine Staff
April 10, 2025

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February 14, 2025

Long Live Brazenhead

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By Sara Thurber Marshall
Photograph by Todd Balfour
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Videos

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For three days in March, the sounds, styles, and fashions of global hip hop converged on Middlebury for an electric symposium.

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June 1, 2021

Davis the Owl Returns Home

Having recovered from life-threatening injuries, a beautiful winged creature is released to its natural habitat.

By Andrew Cassell
April 22, 2021
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