Jaclyn Goddette

In order to understand the communities in which their students live, Jefferson-Houston PreK-8 IB School staff visited local Black history sites with Manumission Tour Company.

When her train pulled into the rural New Hampshire station in 1947, Lore Baer had already experienced more turmoil in her life than most 8-year-olds. Growing up as a Jew the Netherlands during World War II, she regularly hid from the Nazis in a dark hayloft. She had watched the Gestapo arrest her ill grandfather and survived the Dutch famine of 1944-45.

There are no magic words, no “open sesame,” that will swing open school doors. Instead, school leaders must weight numerous factors to decide how and when to gradually reopen.

I discovered Sufjan Stevens' Illinois during a period in my life when my hometown was too small, an ill-fitting sweater. It was also a period in which I felt compelled to pin down the meaning of everything, so I spent a lot of time on songmeanings.com. I learned a lot about the album, like how Sufjan scoured historical records while also compiling personal anecdotes from friends and Internet chat room users during the album's songwriting phase. A lot of the allusions are to pretty famous events or figures—like the Sears Tower or Carl Sandburg, but I found myself drawn to reading about the localities mentioned in "Decatur, Or, Round Of Applause For Your Stepmother!"

When biology major Marina Good ’19 started working in a biosafety cabinet during her summer internship with biotech company Adimab Lab in Lebanon, N.H., she became acutely aware of how she moved. Cell culture requires sterile conditions, so Good put on gloves, had her hands sprayed down with ethanol and donned a lab coat before getting to the task at hand. She felt like a giant trying to maneuver around her surroundings the first time, but now it feels natural.

My dad, who has been working in some capacity since he was an 11-year-old with a newspaper route, retires at the end of this year. It’s an exciting time for our family. My dad has been looking forward to this moment for as long as I can remember, and in the last few months, he’s been ramping up all the necessary preparations.

At the midpoint of Seeing Through the Wall: Meeting Ourselves in Palestine and Israel, an Israeli father whose child died in the ongoing conflicts tells a group of American tourists something. It is a message that he has made his life’s work to spread. “We are not doomed, we can break this endless cycle of violence,” he says, “and the only way to do it is simply by talking to each other.” And on July 26 at the Library Arts Center (LAC), a group of people took time out of their week to do just that.

A love of sports usually begins in a fan’s hometown parks, streets and playgrounds where they learn to play the game, and then they learn to love the teams that represent their state and region. There’s a direct link between home team loyalty and hometown pride, and it is embodied by sport management major Will Hyland ’19.

After the Big Dig buried Boston’s interstate highway, the city put new surface space to good use and created a 1.5-mile ribbon of parks known as the Rose Kennedy Greenway. Environmental studies major Nicole Semeraro ’18, who interned at the nonprofit and took a position there after graduation, cultivates and maintains the plants that make Boston beautiful.

The art of cinema is a bit like an extended magic trick. Both depend upon a suspension of disbelief and a carefully crafted performance to make the pretend seem real. But like any magic show, a lot of work needs to happen behind the scenes to bring the illusion to life. As a location manager, Colby Picanso ’11 is one of the first people to see a script. It’s his job to find and manage the locations that become the foundation of movie magic.

A loaf of bread is more than just a filling grain product. It occupies a unique role as a staple found in nearly every culture and an important item in countless social and cultural traditions. And for Laurie Schive and Mike Morgan, bread holds the potential to breathe life into a town. They founded Blue Loon Bakery to create traditional artisan-style breads while giving back their community.

The Division for Children, Youth and Families (DCYF) celebrated local foster parents and the difference they make in children’s lives on Saturday by hosting a fun party for their families. The get-together, which featured bounce houses and a performance by magician Dylan Tenney, is an annual tradition. This year’s event took place at the Newport Recreation Center.

A short, free-verse poem "Transubstantiation" was accepted into Good Fat Poetry Zine, a quarterly publication that showcases writers of the seacoast area of New Hampshire and beyond.

When Bill Bartlett drove into Newport after crossing the finish line of the Iditarod in 1980, a big sign greeted him on Main Street. It read, “Welcome home, musher Bill.” “That was the greatest sense of accomplishment,” said Bartlett. “I have no words.”

On a warm June day in 1953, just hours after she graduated from Colby Junior College, Gretchen Hoch watched her family’s car drive off as she stood in the college parking lot. Gretchen was engaged to a man whom her father did not approve of because of religious differences, and given an ultimatum, she’d chosen her fiancé over her father. It’s not a unique story, but what happened next is: Gretchen’s professors took her in, helped plan her wedding and on-campus reception, and Gretchen and her husband made New London their home.

Good writers know that compelling characters are often contradictory. Take Marvel superhero Matt Murdock — blind lawyer by day, vigilante by night — or Jesse Pinkman, the drug dealer with a heart of gold on Breaking Bad. Contradictions make a story more interesting by subverting an audience’s expectations. They also express a seeming paradox of life: People are one thing, but they’re also another.

Symbiosis describes a relationship between two or more organisms that live closely together, often for the benefit of both parties. From the microbes taking up residence in the human gut to the bumblebees that pollinate flowers on their search for nectar, life depends on—and is better—in partnership. The same holds true for research. Learning is most meaningful when applied to real-world scenarios, and the relationship between Colby-Sawyer College and its hometown of New London has allowed envir

In the last few months, George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four jumped to Amazon's bestsellers list and The Handmaid's Tale earned Hulu its first-ever Emmy series nomination. Such is the cultural landscape in which Eduardo Rabasa makes his novelistic debut with A Zero-Sum Game: an audience attuned to the way our society's biggest ills can be exposed through exploring an exaggerated depiction of them. Rather than Orwell's totalitarian state, it's neoliberalism that Rabasa takes to its logical conclusion.

Controlling 30 strong, high-energy sled dogs is an exercise. It is an exercise in flexibility and teamwork, but it’s also just plain exercise. Mushing requires intense and precise physical exertion from both the dogs and people trained to practice Alaska's official sport. This summer, Bailey Friedman '18 applied her exercise science major to her canine athletes while interning at Alaska Heli-Mush Inc.

Baseball is in full swing in the summer. For a lot of students, the season is also the perfect time to complete Colby-Sawyer’s required internship. Chris Hood '18, a sport management major from Goffstown, N.H., paired the classic summer activities as an intern with the Upper Valley Nighthawks in White River Junction, Vt. Baseball is America’s pastime, and it was Hood’s job to make it the pastime of the Upper Valley, too.