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Painting of former Kuper Island Residential School donated back to the community

Painting of former Kuper Island Residential School donated back to the community

Rahua Beauty founder Anna Ayers talks birdwatching, a few choice Rahua products, and why less is more when it comes to beauty.

Georgia Vasilopoulos & Haeun Park Our two spring interns, Georgia Vasilopoulos and Haeun Park, connect over Zoom and talk about their experience at NER. Q: Tell us a little bit about yourself. Where are you from, and what are you studying at Middlebury? Georgia: My family is from Greece and I was born there, but grew up in Queens, New York City. I am majoring in Literary Studies at Middlebury, but I’m pretty heavily steeped in humanities classes so I try to supplement literature classes with...

Mary Lou Williams, third from left, with friends in her New York apartment (photo: Alamy). In 1954 in Paris, the pianist Mary Lou Williams walked off the jazz bandstand at age 44, suddenly and at the very height of her fame. She had finally succumbed to her midlife panic and bouts of self-loathing that were enough to make just about anyone want simply to exit the stage. Thus began a chain of events leading to her conversion to Catholicism and to a new life’s purpose in composing jazz Masses ...