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The Crumb Tuesday, June 30, 2009 The Daily Bulletin of the Bread Loaf School of English in Vermont Volume 90 Number 6 Raise a Glass to a Bread Loaf Friend We are each other’s Bread Loaf lost a devoted friend with yesterday's passing of Chester Scott of Deacon magnitude and bond. - Gwendolyn Brooks Hill in Ripton. The Scott family owns the lovely log house in the woods just below the Bread Loaf Burdick cabin. Chester and his wife Rosemary and their children and ` + grandchildren have hosted decades of Bread loaf students, faculty, and staff on the EVENTS best screened-in porch in Vermont for parties, music and animated discussion. Our children have grown up picking blueberries from their fields, playing darts on their Today porch, and wondering at the wildlife that routinely passes through their land. One of All School Photo Chester's favorite Bread Loaf stories will always be summer softball with Robert 12:30 PM, Stone Wall Frost. As a teenager, Chester made the mistake of actually catching Frost's line drive and was chased by an angry Frost wielding a bat. Chester Scott has been part of the Staff Photo fiber of Ripton for years and Bread Loaf will miss his friendship. 1:30 PM, Stone Wall Faculty Photo Regal Regalia 1:40 PM, Stone Wall Seniors! Your Graduation regalia forms are due TOMORROW (July 1%). Please Computing Questions schedule a meeting, via BreadNet, with Barbara Farrell before the end of the day 2 PM — 5 PM, Apple Cellar (today) to have your brilliant, humongous big-heads measured. You will find your + regalia form in your mailbox. Barbara will be reading in the Inn Lobby this afternoon, Wedesnday so stop by! Place your completed forms in her mailbox. Drop/Add Deadline All-School Photo ‘riting Centers Meeting If the beautiful weather holds, please join us for the photo-shoot lineup. The All- 7 PM, Barn 1 School Photo will be at 12:30 PM, the Staff Photo will be at 1:30 PM, and the Faculty Photo will be at 1:40 PM in the field across from The Inn. WEATHER: Drop/Add Deadline Draws Ominously Near TODAY Scattered Thunderstorms Tomorrow is the last day for dropping/adding courses for the summer session. If you High: 71 need to make any last-minute course corrections, please see Elaine as soon as TOMORROW possible. Thunderstorms ‘High: 66 Writing Matters DINNER Andrea Lunsford invites anyone interested in writing centers in high schools or middle SALMON RED PEPPER AIOLI schools to join her at 7 PM on Wednesday in Barn 1 for a brief video presentation on SPINACH STRUDEL JULIENNE VEGGIES W/ Stanford’s writing center and a discussion of high school writing centers she has ARUGULA helped develop. Everyone welcome!! SPINACH AND ONIONS TOASTED ALMOND SAFFRON PILAF l Please Welcome Please welcome Jeremy Engle, director of curriculum and instruction for the Youth Media Learning Network (YMLN), to Bread Loaf. A New Yorker who hates to fly and doesn't drive, Jeremy, nonetheless, travels the country leading documentary workshops for teachers and students. This is Jeremy's third Bread Loaf summer. Tim Dorsey (Bread Loaf '97), formerly with YMLN and now program officer at a foundation in NYC, will be on campus later this week. First Bread Loaf Teacher Network Meeting The Bread Loaf Teacher Network (BLTN) will meet Thursday, July 2"4, Barn 1, 7-8:30 PM. All who are interested in working online with other Bread Loafers.and possibly their students are welcome. BLTN's second meeting on Thursday, July 9", will feature members of the Andover Bread Loaf Writing Workshop, led by Lou Bernieri (BL '80), Phillips Academy, Rich Gorham (BL '01) and other BLTNs, including David Wandera. They'll talk about BL/ABL events and on-going work in Nairobi, New Orleans and Lawrence, MA. ALL WELCOME. Frost Picnic, Sunday @ 5 PM The Bread Loaf, Vermont campus will have its annual Frost Picnic Sunday, July 5". The picnic will be at Homer Noble Farm, just a short way down Rte. 125 from campus. A shuttle service and tours of the Frost Cabin will begin at 5 PM and dinner will be served at 6 PM. All members of the Bread Loaf community, their families, and their friends are welcome to attend this (free) event. Good and Bad News Bears With all the of the impressive wildlife sightings taking place this summer, we thought it’d be pertinent to give you a few safety tips. Moose and black bears are with calves and cubs at this time of year. Safety Tip 1: If you see a bear while you’re out walking, jogging, running, biking, or picnicking, do not approach it. If the bear changes or stops what it is doing, then you’ve gotten too close. It is particularly important to give bears with cubs or moose with calves (should you spot them together) a wide berth. Safety Tip 2: Do not run. Even if you won the Charlie Orr last summer, you will not be able to out run a bear. If a bear comes towards you or your group, try to make yourself as big as possible. Yell aggressively, throw non-food items, or wave a stick in the air. Safety Tip 3: For the most part, neither moose nor bears are interested in humans. For more information, visit the National Park Service website at www.nps.gov. you Kaew I Dorr LIKE BLEACHED Fur! yOu PID TS DUST 7O BE PaLAAzZino! New Schedule for Field House, Fitness Center, Natatorium Field House* Fitness Center* Natatorium* M-F, 9AM — 8:45PM M-F, 6AM — 8:45AM, 12PM — M-F, 6AM — 9AM, 12 PM- 8:45 PM 8:45PM Sat. — Sun., 10AM — 4:45PM Sat. — Sun., 10AM — 4:45PM Sat. — Sun., 10AM — 4:45PM * All facilities CLOSED on July 4". The Crumb Monday, June 29, 2009 The Daily Bulletin of the Bread Loaf School of English in Vermont Volume 90. Number 5 Faculty Reading, Catherine Tudish Professor Tudish has been teaching at Bread Loaf for three summers. Among her most recent works are Tenney ’s Landing (2005) and American Cream: A Novel (2007). Of American Cream, it has been said, “American Cream is, indeed, a beautifully written, incandescent debut novel, with a quiet elegance to its prose.” Professor Tudish lives in Vermont and is a Senior Lecturer in English at Dartmouth College. Please join us this To see a world in a grain of evening for Professor Tudish’s reading in The Barn at 7:30 PM. sand, /And heaven in a wild flower, /Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, /And Harry Potter Discussion eternity in an hour. Rob Watson encourages anyone who is interested in books by J .K. Rowling, Jonathan - Blake Stroud, Cornelia Funke to meet up tonight for a lively, informal discussion in Barn 1 + from 5 PM — 6 PM. EVENTS Today The Best of the Blue We had an incredible turnout for the first Blue Parlor reading last night — thanks to all Catherine Tudish Reading, 7:30 PM, The Barn who shared their poetry and prose and to all of you who attended. There will be wine served at this week’s reading (July 5"), and at future readings there will be lemonade Harry Potter Discussion and cookies. Please feel free to BYO___ of your choosing. 5 PM-6 PM, Barn 1 Ultimate Frisbee Upcoming Contests: Poetry, Fiction, Photo 5 PM, Field + The Robert Haiduke Poetry The Freeman Fiction Prize** The Bread Loaf Photo Tuesday Contest Contest **The deadline for this contest | All School Photo The Robert Haiduke Poetry has been extended to FRIDAY, Show off your photography 12:30 PM, Stone Wall Contest was established many JULY 3". skills! Bread Loaf is looking years ago as an opportunity for for beautiful images in two Staff Photo Bread Loaf students to obtain The Jon and Rebecca Freeman different categories: shots of 1:30 PM, Stone Wall recognition for their original Fiction Prize is a new award for Bread Loaf people and shots Faculty Photo poetry. It is a multi-campus Summer, 2009. Bread Loaf is featuring the campus or 1:40 PM, Stone Wall competition with one dealine for seeking fiction entries from current nearby scenery. The deadline submission: MONDAY, JULY students in a multi-campus in Vermont is: THURSDAY, WEATHER: 13". competition. Each student may JULY 30". Please submit To enter, submit one or two make one submission of no more your photos to Sandy LeGault poems (maximum 40 lines each) than 10 double-spaced pages, on BreadNet. (pictures in high TODAY Thunderstorms by email to Karen Browne on ideally a self-contained piece of res, formatted in low res, 72 High: 66 BreadNet. writing. Please use one-inch dpi and not 300 dpi). The winner(s) will receive a margins and a font size no smaller The winner in each category TOMORROW substantial cash prize and the than 10. Your writing should be will receive a small cash prize Scattered Thunderstorms winning poems will be published submitted by email to Karen and the picture(s) may be High: 74 and distributed at all Bread Loaf Browne on BreadNet. There will be used in Bread Loaf campuses and published on the a cash award. Please note, that by publications (with photo DINNER Bread Loaf website. Please note, entering this contest, you give credit) and/or on the Bread DIABLO SHORTRIBS TORTELLINIS WITH that by entering the contest, permission for your writing to be Loaf webpage. Please note MUSHROOM AND SAGE you give permission for your printed and distributed. that by entering the contest SAUCE poems to be printed and you give permission for you ROASTED SUMMER VEGGIES distributed. photos to be printed and ~ YASTED RED POTATOES distributed. First-Year Meetings John Elder has really enjoyed the chance to meet with and get to know a number of our first-year students. If you are a first-year student, however, and have not yet signed up to meet with John, please see Elaine as soon as possible to schedule a meeting. John’s office hours are 9:30 AM — 12:30 PM. He’s looking forward to hearing from you and he knows who you are! Directing Scenes Alan MacVey's Directing Workshop students are looking for interested participants to try out/sign up for upcoming scenes. Alan has a sign-up sheet posted outside the Dining Hall. All-School Photos Please join us just beyond the Stone Wall (across from The Inn) for the all school photo, tomorrow at 12:30 PM. Staff (1:30 PM) and Faculty (1:40 PM) photos will be taken immediately follow lunch. Computing Questions If you’re having problems or questions concerning computing on campus, you’re in luck! Tuesday afternoon from 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM, two masters of the technology universe will be in the Apple Cellar to help and console folks. One of the consultants is from the main campus and will address network connectivity and configuration issues. Calling All Madrigalists! If you are interested in participating in this year’s Madrigals, please join us for a meeting in the Blue Parlor directly after lunch on Thursday. WimbleLoaf If anyone wants to compete in Wimbleloaf — singles or doubles — please sign up at the Front Desk by Wednesday at 8 AM. Depending on how many sign up, we will figure out level or play and type of draw. Bear Necessities On another afternoon fishing adventure, Jakob and Angelo Gooch spotted a large, loping bear up at Lake Silver. Keep an eye out for your fishing companions — both friends and foes — if you’re in pursuit of trout. Chances are you’re not alone. Moose Tracks Rte. 125 seems to be the hot spot for moose sightings. Liz Winter and Jenn Mattson report sighting a mother moose and a calf/juvenile grazing alongside the road. Kalli, Edward, and Peter, also, spotted a moose along Rte. 125 last week. Dog Tales Tamar Paull is looking for a dog sitter! She needs someone to come stay at her lovely (romantic, pristine, beautiful, not very rustic) cabin only 2.5 miles from campus (right across from the Interfaith Trail in Ripton) from Friday, July 10 -S unday, July 12. The pup is a very obedient, house broken, sweet-as-you- can-imagine 11 month old Wheaton-Poodle mix (hypoallergenic, non-shedding) named Ugali. Tamar will negotiate compensation with interested dog lovers/ get-away seekers. The Crumb Friday, June 26, 2009 The Daily Bulletin of the Bread Loaf School of English in Vermont Volume 90 Number 4 Open To All The Bread Loaf community and their families, living on- and off-campus, are invited to join us for a (free) picnic on the West Lawn this evening at 6 PM. If the thunderstorms ever do roll in, we will picnic indoors. And were an epitaph to be Hitch my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would If anyone is headed to Burlington TODAY, please take Willow with you! She is more have written of me on my than happy to contribute a pittance for petrol. If you’ve got space, send her an email at stone: I had a lover's quarrel [email protected]. with the world. - Frost Phedre, TONIGHT! + EVENTS Michael Cadden has some tickets available fort onight’s closed circuit televised showing of the National Theatre of Great Britain’s production of Racine’s Phedre, Today starring Helen Mirren and Dominic Cooke. It was raved in The New York Times yesterday and mentioned in passing by Professor Marjorie Garber last night. The Senior Meeting showing is at 8 PM at the Town Hall Theatre in Middlebury, on the Green. Tickets are 2 PM, Blue Parlor ALL SENIORS MUST $16. See Professor Cadden or leave a note in his box if you’re interested. By the way, ATTEND! Helen Mirren delivered breakthrough performances in two plays by Thomas Middleton — The Changeling and The Roaring Girl. Ultimate Frisbee 3 PM, Field Timely Traditions Movie 9 PM, The Barn Tom Bahre and Co. will call the Square Dance this Saturday evening in The Barn (9 Chicken Run PM). Bring your boots and your thinking caps to keep up with this lot as they show us how to “Dive for the Oyster,” “Dig for the Clam,” and “Promenade through the Happy + Land.” Weekend Square Dance Mystery Managed Saturday 9 PM, The Barn There is not just one mystery yoga teacher! Kelsey Bickers and Laura Vitale offer you the opportunity to join them at any or many of their yoga classes this summer. If you Blue Parlor Reading do not have yoga mats, you can purchase one for $15 from Laura, who is certified in Sunday 7:30PM-8:30PM, Hatha yoga. The first class will start Sunday, June 28". All classes will be held in Blue Parlor Barn A. WEATHER: Morning Classes: Tuesdays: 6:40 AM-7:15AM, Level 2 Vinyasa flow yoga TODAY Scattered Thunderstorms Thursdays: 6:40 AM-7:15 AM, Level 2 Vinyasa flow yoga High: 76 Sundays: 9:45-11:00 AM, All levels Hatha yoga ($5) TOMORROW Scattered Thunderstorms Evening Classes: High: 72 Mondays: 5:00 PM-5:50 PM, Levels 1 or 2, Introduction to Vinyasa flow yoga Tuesdays: 7:15 PM-8:30 PM, All levels Hatha yoga ($5) DINNER PICNIC, FREE TO ALL, Wednesdays: 8:00 PM-9:00 PM, Yoga for stress relief WEST LAWN .IPOTLE BBQ CHICKEN HAMBURGERS, RIBS There may be yet another yoga instructor offering other classes, too, so keep an eye BLACK BEAN BURGERS out for further details. Please email Kelsey ([email protected]) or Laura PASTA SALAD, BAKED BEANS ([email protected]) with any questions you have. COLE SLAW, CORN Harry Potter and Friends: Curiosity is Not a Sin Join Rob Watson for an open, informal discussion group focused on the novels of JK Rowling, Jonathan Stroud, Cornelia Funke, etc. Aimed at students aged 9-19, but open to all. Mondays, 5-6 at Platform 9 3⁄4 (Barn 1), starting June 29". i All-School Photos Edward Brown will be taking the school photos next Tuesday, June 30", around lunchtime. Should Edward go toppling off the impressive ladder he perches on, you will not want to have missed it! Of Moose and Men Our first (reported) moose sighting was confirmed by Jakob and Angelo Gooch. En route to an afternoon fishing hole (the trout are biting!) between the Long Trail and Texas Falls, Jakob and Angelo spotted a mama moose and her baby nibbling on what the boys believed were some sumptuous roots. Loafographies The Bread Loaf faculty and the Directors kicked off opening night with their ideas about teaching and returning to Bread Loaf and the richness of community, so we thought we’d try to continue in the same vein by asking to get to know some of the students. Our first Loafographers are Ken Hincker and Caitlin Plummer, in their own words. Ken and I met five summers ago here in Vermont at Bread Loaf. One fateful evening on Larch porch, Ken arrived with the inimitable Chris Nattrass at his side, and I was instantly intrigued. While Nattrass was clearly the jokester, Ken remained quiet and thoughtful - and totally adorable that evening. Ken will assure you that I was far too interested in chatting up another young man to pay him any attention that night; however, I began looking out for that red baseball cap, and one week later, at the incomparable Two Brothers, Ken and I made a true connection over Red Sox baseball and beer. We talked into the wee hours of the morning that night and many nights after. When summer ended, I knew I did not want that connection to end, and so after traveling from Boston to Savannah once a month for seven months, I finally took the plunge and moved to Savannah to be with him. Ken proposed a year ago in March, and we got married at Mead Chapel on Middlebury's campus last Saturday. We also graduate this summer. Thus, having met five summers ago, we not only leave Bread Loaf with a master's degree but also a life partner. : AAs {i Ne 4 Bread Loaf, 2008, Just After Their Final Scenes from Acting Workshop The Crumb Thursday, June 25, 2009 The Daily Bulletin of the Bread Loaf School of English in Vermont Volume 90 Number 3 Drew Lecture, “Shakespeare and Modern Culture” "Marjorie Garber is the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of English and of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University, where she is also Chair of the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies and Director of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. She is senior Trustee of the English Institute, a member of the All of us get lost in Board of Directors of the American Council of Learned Societies, and served until the darkness; recently as the President of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes. A dreamers learn to steer by the stars graduate of Swarthmore College (B.A. 1966; hon. D. 2004) and of Yale University -Rush (Ph.D. 1969), she has taught at Yale, at Haverford, and—since 1981—at Harvard." + She is the author of Dream in Shakespeare (1974), Coming of Age in Shakespeare EVENTS (1981), and Shakespeare's Ghost Writers (1987), Symptoms of Culture (1998), Academic Instincts (2000), Quotation Marks (2002), Shakespeare After All ( 2005), Today and her recent work, which shares the title of this evening’s speech, Shakespeare and Modern Culture (2008). Pantheon writes, "Shakespeare and Modern Culture is a tour Drew Lecture de force - reimagining of our own mental and emotional landscape as refracted 7:30 PM, The Little Theater through the prism of protean Shakespeare." Tonight's Drew Lecture, at 7:30 PM in Reception to Follow, Treman The Little Theater, is an indispensable Bread Loaf event. + Sequestered Nooks Friday The bookstore, located in the underbelly of Annex, is open from 8 AM until 4 PM on Senior Meeting weekdays. You can purchase course books, professors’ books — including Drew 2 PM, Blue Parlor Lecturer Marjorie Garber’s Shakespeare and Modern Culture — and most other LL SENIORS MUST ATTEND! necessities. Ultimate Frisbee 3 PM, Field CyberBarn We encourage you to continue to check your email incessantly — particularly your Movie BreadNet accounts. On your BreadNet Desktop, you will find CyberBarn, which is a 9 PM, The Barn Chicken Run communal space where the Directors and staff convey general information and notify the community of any late-breaking news or schedule changes. + Weekend What’s in a Name? Square Dance If you are trying to get mail to friends, professors, or budding love interests on 9 PM-1AM, The Barn campus, please be sure to write the recipient’s name, not his/her box number, on the item(s) you are sending so that our Front Desk staff can deliver your notes. WEATHER: TODAY Another Brick in the Wall Isolated Thunderstorms High: 82 Bread Loaf’s buildings are under window construction. The crew is making its way through the campus, and will be headed for Tamarack, Birch, and Maple next. As the TOMORROW workers make their way through campus, please know that they will need to be inside Thunderstorms High: 75 and outside your rooms to work on the windows. They will begin work in the women’s dorms at 10 AM and in all other dorms at 8 AM. We will keep you informed DINNER of their trajectory. PEPPERED MAPLE PORK LOIN RISOTTO CAKES WITH APRICOT SAUCE SHREDDED POT CAKES Whispered in the Sounds of Silence While we generally encourage social encounters with other adults on campus as often as humanly possible, please be aware that some students appreciate the occasional opportunity to “fall into the Lethe of forgetfulness.” We ask that you aim for Quiet Campus Hours starting at about 11 PM during the week. They Have Their Exits and Their Entrances As the rehearsals for The Changeling get underway, Alan MacVey invites you all to observe/attend rehearsals. In the next day or so, Alan will post the rehearsal times outside the Dining Hall. If you decide to take Alan up on his offer, please be courteous of the work in progress by exiting and entering downstage at appropriate stops or intervals. So Here’s to You, New York Noam Osband is heading to New York City late this afternoon and is returning early Friday afternoon. If anyone wishes to join him for a free ride and what guarantees to be scintillating conversation, please send him an email, drop a note in his box, or catch him in the Dining Hall. I Believe I Can Fly Every Friday night, Bread Loaf screens a movie in the Barn at 9 PM. This Friday’s movie is Chicken Run, which deals with many of the same themes that come up often in lunch-hour or late-hour conversations — repression, escapism, and learning to fly. Popcorn will be served. The Dragon’s Laird If you’re interested in sharing your poetry and prose with friends and colleagues, please sign up at the Front Desk or email Laird Kopp if you have further questions. The Blue Parlor Readings take place every Sunday evening (7:30 PM-8:30 PM in the Blue Parlor) of the summer term, and may include anything from readings, singing, strumming, drumming, or otherwise, allotting us our fifteen minutes or less of fame. The Crumb Friday, June 26, 2009 The Daily Bulletin of the Bread Loaf School of English in Vermont Volume 90 Number 4 Open To All The Bread Loaf community and their families, living on- and off-campus, are invited to join us for a (free) picnic on the West Lawn this evening at 6 PM. If the thunderstorms ever do roll in, we will picnic indoors. And were an epitaph to be Hitch my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would If anyone is headed to Burlington TODAY, please take Willow with you! She is more have written of me on my than happy to contribute a pittance for petrol. If you’ ve got space, send her an email at stone: I had a lover's quarrel [email protected]. with the world. - Frost Phedre, TONIGHT! + EVENTS Michael Cadden has some tickets available for tonight’s closed circuit televised showing of the National Theatre of Great Britain’s production of Racine’s Phedre, Today starring Helen Mirren and Dominic Cooke. It was raved in The New York Times yesterday and mentioned in passing by Professor Marjorie Garber last night. The Senior Meeting 2 PM, Blue Parlor showing is at 8 PM at the Town Hall Theatre in Middlebury, on the Green. Tickets are ALL SENIORS MUST $16. See Professor Cadden or leave a note in his box if you’re interested. By the way, ATTEND! Helen Mirren delivered breakthrough performances in two plays by Thomas Middleton — The Changeling and The Roaring Girl. Ultimate Frisbee 3 PM, Field Timely Traditions Movie 9 PM, The Barn Tom Bahre and Co. will call the Square Dance this Saturday evening in The Barn (9 Chicken Run PM). Bring your boots and your thinking caps to keep up with this lot as they show us + how to “Dive for the Oyster,” “Dig for the Clam,” and “Promenade through the Happy Land.” Weekend Square Dance Mystery Managed Saturday 9 PM, The Barn There is not just one mystery yoga teacher! Kelsey. Bickers and Laura Vitale offer you the opportunity to join them at any or many of their yoga classes this summer. If you Blue Parlor Reading Sunday do not have yoga mats, you can purchase one for $15 from Laura, who is certified in 7:30PM-8:30PM, Hatha yoga. The first class will start Sunday, June 28". All classes will be held in Blue Parlor Barn A. WEATHER: Morning Classes: TODAY Tuesdays: 6:40 AM-7:15AM, Level 2 Vinyasa flow yoga Scattered Thunderstorms Thursdays: 6:40 AM-7:15 AM, Level 2 Vinyasa flow yoga High: 76 Sundays: 9:45-11:00 AM, All levels Hatha yoga ($5) TOMORROW Scattered Thunderstorms Evening Classes: High: 72 Mondays: 5:00 PM-5:50 PM, Levels 1 or 2, Introduction to Vinyasa flow yoga DINNER Tuesdays: 7:15 PM-8:30 PM, All levels Hatha yoga ($5) PICNIC, FREE TO ALL, Wednesdays: 8:00 PM-9:00 PM, Yoga for stress relief WEST LAWN A IPOTLE BBQ CHICKEN HAMBURGERS, RIBS There may be yet another yoga instructor offering other classes, too, so keep an eye BLACK BEAN BURGERS out for further details. Please email Kelsey ([email protected]) or Laura PASTA SALAD, BAKED BEANS ([email protected]) with any questions you have. COLE SLAW, CORN Harry Potter and Friends: Curiosity is Not a Sin Join Rob Watson for an open, informal discussion group focused on the novels of JK Rowling, Jonathan Stroud, Cornelia Funke, etc. Aimed at students aged 9-19, but open to all. Mondays, 5-6 at Platform 9 % (Barn 1), starting June 29". All-School Photos Edward Brown will be taking the school photos next Tuesday, June 30", around lunchtime. Should Edward go toppling off the impressive ladder he perches on, you will not want to have missed it! Of Moose and Men Our first (reported) moose sighting was confirmed by Jakob and Angelo Gooch. En route to an afternoon fishing hole (the trout are biting!) between the Long Trail and Texas Falls, Jakob and Angelo spotted a mama moose and her baby nibbling on what the boys believed were some sumptuous roots. Loafographies The Bread Loaf faculty and the Directors kicked off opening ita with their ideas about teaching and returning to Bread Loaf and the richness of community, so we thought we’d try to continue in the same vein by asking to get to know some of the students. Our first Loafographers are Ken Hincker and Caitlin Plummer, in their own words. Ken and I met five summers ago here in Vermont at Bread Loaf. One fateful evening on Larch porch, Ken arrived with the inimitable Chris Nattrass at his side, and I was instantly intrigued. While Nattrass was clearly the jokester, Ken remained quiet and thoughtful - and totally adorable that evening. Ken will assure you that I was far too interested in chatting up another young man to pay him any attention that night; however, I began looking out for that red baseball cap, and one week later, at the incomparable Two Brothers, Ken and I made a true connection over Red Sox baseball and beer. We talked into the wee hours of the morning that night and many nights after. When summer ended, I knew I did not want that connection to end, and so after traveling from Boston to Savannah once a month for seven months, I finally took the plunge and moved to Savannah to be with him. Ken proposed a year ago in March, and we got married at Mead Chapel on Middlebury's campus last Saturday. We also graduate this summer. Thus, having met five summers ago, we not only leave Bread Loaf with a master's degree but also a life partner.