Middlebury Magazine

Summer 2019

Pursuits

Water Works

What exactly does it take to start an oyster farm? Will Peckham ’14 left a job on Wall Street and, with a friend, figured it out.

By Sara Thurber Marshall
August 9, 2019

Review

Sunshine Cowboys

How did Hawaii produce prize-winning rodeo contenders?

By Bill Burger
Illustration by Erin RobinsonJuly 30, 2019

Features

Natural Collection

How an assemblage of preserved insects in Bi Hall came to be. And how it has come to be used.

By Matt Jennings
Photography by Rosamond PurcellJuly 29, 2019

Features

Who Was Arnold McKinney?

He may have been the most important hire in the College's history. Fifty years later, we remember his legacy.

By Karl Lindholm ‘67
Illustration by Barry FallsJuly 26, 2019

Features

A Conversation with Rebecca Makkai

The award-winning author and Bread Loaf alumna talks about family history, the craft of writing, and the role art plays in understanding the world.

By Matt Jennings
Photographs by Brett SimisonJuly 26, 2019

Road Taken

Cooking with Dad

Tips on crafting Southern cuisine, handed down from father to son.

By Jake Guth ‘19
Illustration by Joe CiardielloJuly 26, 2019

Old Chapel

A Global Connection

How a Thai teenager, the school that is educating him, and Middlebury have further defined what it means to be a citizen of the world.

By Laurie L. Patton
Illustration by Montse BernalJuly 26, 2019