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Catching up with Seth MacFarlane

Q&A for Kent Quarterly with the "Family Guy" and "Ted" creator, singer, animator, and actor.

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Prestigious Lineage

USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance alumnus William Okajima ’24 joins exclusive company as Princess Grace Award recipient.

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Science on Demand

A professor of physics at Princeton, St. Paul's School alumnus Lawrence Cheuk led the team behind a recent breakthrough in quantum mechanics. The work is molecular. The implications are 

much larger. 

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Writing Their Way

Writers Heid E. Erdrich, Janice Y.K. Lee, and Lorene Cary are enjoying an eventful year that is seeing their past work bear new fruit — and lead to new artistic opportunities. 

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Lessons in Knitting

Through her words and actions, writer Betsy Cornwell has created community in her adopted home of Ireland — and beyond. 

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Breaking Bread

Through their Massachusetts bakery, John Gates and Stu Witt are nourishing communities – and hearts – in the midst of a pandemic. 

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Pioneering Progress

Princeton Day School has a new head of school and an all-female cohort of academic heads for the first time in school history.

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Signing Up

For decades, Harry Meyer has been building a one-of-a-kind signed book collection.

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"As We Say in the Village"

Gabe Norwood preserves 17th-century history as a first-person educator at Plimoth Plantation.

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Blessed With The Sound of Music

At the family retreat in Stowe, Vermont, Sound of Music descendant Sam von Trapp forges a name for himself against the backdrop of his storied family.

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Aerobatic Artist

At one point in her life, artist-turned-aerobatic-pilot Lise Lemeland was gripped by a fear of flying. Now, she zigzags through the sky with abandon.

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Sons of the Phonograph

When the physical archivists of St. Paul's School unearthed a gift from Thomas Edison in a dusty attic, history revealed that the inventor's two eldest sons spent three unhappy years at the School, competing with their father's real baby. This article was awarded the 2010 Grand Gold Award for Best Article in an Independent School Magazine by the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education.

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Reinvention, One Snack Bag at a Time

Insurance Exec-Turned Art Education Student Ryan Wosleger Finds His Creative Path at Adelphi University.

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It’s Alive! “Charlottebot” Brings AI Insight to ‘Frankenstein’

Through an AI-enhanced publishing project, Professor Charlotte Gordon is sharing her literary insights with a new generation of readers.

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An Artistic Rebirth

During the most challenging time of his life, Endicott College alumnus Kyle Wallack  discovered his true calling.

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Chasing the Sun

 In becoming a musher in her home state of Alaska, Tekla Butcher-Monson is carrying on her family legacy with joy. 

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2022 Winner of CASE Best of District I Awards for Writing

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Can Thrifting Reduce Financial Stress?

If you ask Endicott College student Lucy Kratman, she’d rather be thrifting.

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Uncovering History

Anthropology Professor Bob Goodby digs up

the past in the Monadnock Region.

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Iconic Entrepreneur

Wayne Presby has made a career of

restoring beloved New Hampshire businesses

to their former glory.

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Advancing the Cause

Attorney Rhiya Trivedi defends clients not for their guilt or innocence, but because they 

deserve mercy.

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Joe Fennessy is known around the Notre Dame campus as the Leprechaun - the mythical, shillelagh-toting symbol of Notre Dame school spirit. But when Fennessy is not leading the Irish football team onto the field, he is a marketing and English major, who takes his studies as seriously as his role as a cheerleader and public figure on campus. 

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Legacy of a Champion

Nine months after he won the 2006 Kentucky Derby, the thoroughbred Barbaro succumbed to a tragic injury. Barbaro's owner, Roy Jackson, talks about what he, his wife, Gretchen, and a surprising number of horse racing fans are doing to perpetuate the good that has come from the honored colt's life.

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Capturing a Golden Age

An alumnus unveils his collection of vintage racing car photos, recalling a time in which car enthusiasts once roamed free among racing's legends.

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