HISTORY SETS SAIL: It’s not every day that a schooner from the 1800s sails up the Hudson River, especially one that was the setting of an event that helped change the course of slavery in America. The Amistad docked in Poughkeepsie for two weekends in October as part of a program hosted by the Mid-Hudson Antislavery History Project with substantial support from Vassar College...
GIVING BACK Like many wartime adoptees, Bindy Crouch ’97 can only sketch a rough outline of her past. She knows she was born in 1974 and celebrates her birthday on November 12, but there is no surviving record of her birth, and no way for her to trace back to her orphanage in Vietnam...
TRICKS AND TRAILS “Together with some North Shore style stunts, big drops, plenty of dirt jumps and enough log crossings to make a bash guard a worthwhile investment, this place will leave you begging for more,” boasts Mountain Bike Review...
DRUMMING TO THEIR OWN BEAT If the first thing that comes to mind when you picture a troop of girl scouts is making crafts and selling cookies, think again. When leader Renee Boyd, program specialist with the Girl Scouts of Dutchess County, gathers her troop, it’s anything but quiet...
I’M VITO AND HE’S STEVE... OR IS IT THE OTHER WAY AROUND? Steve and Vito, known on campus as the Brothers Cataldo, get skeptical looks when they tell fellow students they never engaged in any sibling rivalry as youngsters growing up in West Islip, NY...
SPEAKERS AT VASSAR: Each year Vassar welcomes hundreds of guest speakers and lecturers. What began with Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1867, was followed by notables like Robert Frost, Mark Twain, and Gertrude Stein. In the past decade, Vassar has hosted writers, artists, and public figures like Hillary Rodham Clinton, Tom Hanks, Stephen King, and David Sedaris. This year, visitors included Salmon Rushdie, an acclaimed author (and freshman course lecturer) whose novel Satanic Verses created a furor in the Muslim world; Colson Whitehead (Vassar’s Writer-in-Residence), author of Apex Hides the Hurt and recipient of the prestigious Whiting Award and a MacArthur Fellowship; and writer, humorist, and social commentator Sarah Vowell, a frequent guest on Late Night with Conan O’Brien and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.