Castleton Magazine | Spring 2022

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One of the things I miss most as a parent is storytime. It’s where my parents instilled a love of reading in me, and it has provided many fond memories of time spent with my own children.

As happens, my kids have grown and are now in middle and high school, and storytime has given way to busy nights of soccer and lacrosse practice, video games, TikTok, and time spent with friends. Our old go-to’s, many worn from hundreds of readings, are shelved away for our hypothetical grandkids - but they’re replaced by some of the favorites from my youth that I was able to pass along. As a parent, I’ll call it a win that I was able to move them from “Fox in Sox” to “My Side of the Mountain” as they aged out of storytime, given the distractions and today’s siren song of electronic devices.

As you may have guessed, the theme of this edition of Castleton Magazine is an aptly timed focus on books. Around the country, we are seeing a concerning rise in challenges to books that appear in schools and libraries.

(You can find English Professor Mr. Bill Wiles’ thoughts on this subject on page 2.) My hope as an educator and parent is that my kids are able to complete their education with access to a variety of ideas and information, things they agree and disagree with, things that are thought-provoking, and things that help them become the thoughtful citizens and critical thinkers the world needs. I worry more about what they could find on social media than what they might take away from “The Catcher in the Rye.” Castleton Magazine is truly a labor of love for the Advancement Office staff, and I’m pleased to present this spring edition of Castleton Magazine.

In these pages, you will find tales of Castleton’s past and present, as well as its future alumni. You’ll learn about books from our students, faculty, staff, and alumni, find a plethora of book recommendations, and much more. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as we did making it. As always, thank you for your unwavering support of Castleton University. We certainly couldn’t do it without you.

UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION interim president DR. THOMAS MAUHS-PUGH director of human resources JANET HAZELTON chief budget and finance officer LAURA JAKUBOWSKI chief technology officer GAYLE MALINOWSKI ’95 dean of enrollment MAURICE OUIMET dean of students DENNIS PROULX ’87 associate dean of advancement JAMES LAMBERT

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CASTLETON PROFESSOR TAKES AIM AT BANNED BOOKS

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BANNED BOOKS TO BOOKWORM

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ALUMNI AUTHORS

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NOT JUST FOR KIDS

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Banned Books

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Faculty Book Shelf

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Banned Books to Bookworm

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Castleton Theater

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Now & Then

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The Spartan Sports Writer

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In a Hole In the Ground

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Alumni Authors

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Coaches Corner

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Not Just for Kids

Castleton Professor Takes Aim at A N N E D Books BBanned Bill Wiles, who recently finished up his 17th year as a parttime English instructor at Castleton, has turned an issue he is passionate about into a course to educate students on the problems caused by presenting an inaccurate version of history.

“When I first proposed this course, I thought it would be something interesting for college students to look at,” Wiles said. “Then, the top blew off with concerted efforts at the local and state levels to restrict what students can and cannot know.

I believe that ideas and information need to be brought out into the light of day so that people can discuss them without fear of reprisal.”

Wiles banned book class, which launched last fall, aims to bring awareness to the restriction of literary content in the present day and throughout history. Banned Book Week was established in 1982 to celebrate the freedom to read. It was launched following a surge in the number of challenges to books in schools, bookstores, and libraries. Held the last week of September, Banned Books Week brings people together in support of the freedom to express ideas, no matter how unpopular they might be.

“I believe that ideas and information need to be brought out into the light of day so that people can discuss them without fear of reprisal.”

Wiles said that the idea of banning books has a long history but has resurfaced recently due, in part, to the political climate in the country. He cited the loss of meaningful conversations about what it means to be human as a side-effect of banning books.

“If students and teachers are only allowed to explore sanitized versions of history and literature, they lose the opportunity to grapple with ideas that challenge their sheltered view of the world,” he said.

Wiles says it is important that we don’t shield students from ideas that challenge how we look at the world.

Wiles has pushed back against the banning of books for many years, including at one point selecting only books from one banned list or another.

“There is an argument used by those who want to remove books from libraries and school classrooms that some information is ‘not age-appropriate for elementary schoolaged children,’” Wiles said. “What they leave out is when it would be age-appropriate because they don’t want the information to ever be learned.”

“I want students to become more comfortable being confused, disoriented, and uncomfortable with literary and non-literary texts,” Wiles said. “My hope is that they learn to argue with/about texts in a respectful, fair, and empathetic manner, bearing in mind that listening is a key part of ethical argument.”

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Bringing A Book to Life Castleton students are encouraged to pursue their passions and expand their experience through hands-on, experiential learning opportunity like internships. Junior Richmond Rathbun is doing just that.

Rathbun, a double major in Graphic Design and Media and Communication, is helping multimedia artist and poet Ruth Hamilton publish an illustrated children’s book.

Hamilton is multi-medium artist who has shown her work throughout New England and has explored artistic expressions through art and poetry all her life. She is a founding member of the Poultney Area Artists Guild as well as a board member of Compass Music and Arts Foundation.

Hamilton is currently working on publishing an illustrated children’s book, a project that has been in development for quite some time. Originally, she had planned to work with Castleton University Assistant Professor Bill DeForest on the graphic design for the book cover as well as the InDesign layout for the book, organizing the text and art on page in a cohesive way.

However, circumstances were complicated by the impact of COVID-19 and the project was set aside. Now, with a majority of students back on campus, DeForest was able to connect Graphic Design and Media and Communications student Richmond Rathbun with Hamilton.

“It’s been a lot of a learning things I’ve never done. I’ve never made a book in the sense of putting it in order, but it’s been

fun. And Ruth is very, very, nice. She’s very sweet. She’s really excited about this whole book,” Rathbun said.

The story follows a young girl and her imaginary friend as they experience grand adventures together. However, after a falling out from an argument, they become separated. By the end of the story we learn that her imaginary friend is more real than she could have ever imagined.

“This is my first individual large project where I have to make all the executive decisions, and other people’s opinions aren’t involved yet,” they said.

One challenge for Rathbun has been bridging the gap in language when it comes to discussing the details of design.

“When you have this knowledge of how describe things, like san-serif and serif fonts, it’s much easier. But with somebody who has never done that, who doesn’t do graphic design, there’s a bit of a gap as far as that goes,” they said.

Hamilton will be self-publishing the book through Lulu, an on-demand printing service, which allows for Hamilton and Rathbun to take their time as they work on the project.

Aspiring to be a freelancer once they graduate from Castleton, Rathbun is appreciative of the opportunity to build their professional portfolio by working on this project “It’s an opportunity to say I’ve actually made a book and I have experience publishing,” they said.

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Faculty Bookshelf Castleton’s faculty members are recognized as experts in their field and are celebrated for their professional achievements.

Explore recent books written by Castleton University faculty members.

COVID Chronicles Dave Blow Castleton Media & Communication Professor Dave Blow ‘89 published his second book in April of 2021. Unlike his first – which rounds up stories and columns from his time as a journalist – Blow’s second book turns the spotlight on the work of his students. “COVID Chronicles” collects blog posts from 18 students in his Media Writing course, focusing on their personal experiences navigating life during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The personal accounts reflect on adjusting to remote learning, managing changes in their mental health, family members being diagnosed with COVID-19 and their own fear of catching the virus, being afraid to leave their homes, and more.

“I was trying to think of some cool assignment – not cool, even – but some thought-provoking assignment. I start Media Writing with a personal story, so they write that, and I was thinking that this could be a way to just purge their souls a little bit. What I started getting was just so powerful and wellwritten. It was just so raw,” Blow said. “It was halfway through the semester when I really started thinking these needed to be shared.”

Many students, like Mason Svayg, found the positives in the pandemic, like time spent with family they’ve missed while away at college. He reflected on listening to his dad’s old cassette tapes, enjoying sushi for dinner every Sunday night, and adventures with his two dogs.

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Students also shared the struggles they’ve encountered.

Student Lily Doton shed light on bias and inequality during COVID-19. Doton wrote about witnessing a rise in racism against East Asian people and her experience as a Vermonter of Asian descent.

“I’ve really struggled seeing everything that’s going on in other parts of the country, even though I don’t directly feel unsafe here,” Doton said. “I think it’s messed with my mental state a little bit, but I wrote about those feelings, too, and that’s helped me cope with it.”

The book’s cover art, which depicts a student in a cap and gown sitting in front of a laptop with a panel of masked students behind him, was created by students Jasmin Gomez and Anthony Richichi.

Blow and students Lily Doton, Aris Sherwood, Jacob Gonzalez, Martin Kelly, and Jasmin Gomez presented a panel discussion titled “Making Lemonade out of COVID-19” at the College Media Association’s Spring National College Media Convention in New York City in March. They shared their experience writing about the pandemic’s impact in real time and having their work published.

“COVID Chronicles” can be purchased on Amazon.

The Colors of Love: Multiracial People in Interracial Relationships Dr. Melinda Mills “How are multiracial people identifying and how does that impact their romantic relationship choices and their experiences within those relationships?” That’s the question that Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies Melinda Mills’ recent book “The Colors of Love: Multiracial People in Interracial Relationships” aims to address.

“The Colors of Love” was published in December of 2021 and builds off of the foundation laid by Mills’ previous book “The Borders of Race: Patrolling ‘Multiracial’ Identities” as well as her graduate school dissertation.

Mills grew up in an interracial family in the Caribbean and was attending graduate school at Columbia University when the U.S. Census Bureau began to allow multiracial people to claim two or more races on the Census, which inspired her formal research. This work has been expanded on through her published books, addressing different aspects of multiracial identity.

making a similar choice. So they’re saying, ‘pick this group’…

I was finding that pattern emerging over and over again, and that was interesting and surprising to me,” she said.

She also uses the book to bring attention to the evidence of persistent anti-black racism and the ways that it plays out in romantic relationships. She argues the importance of acknowledging that romantic relationships are a social space where broader racial dynamics are still at play.

Mills hopes that readers are able to use her book as a tool for connection, understanding, and appreciation of other people’s experiences. She also hopes that it creates new ways for people to communicate how they identify themselves racially.

“There’s a lot there to celebrate, right? There’s a lot to appreciate. There’s a lot for multiracial people to learn about themselves and their own sort of internalized racism, where it exists. And there’s a lot from their experience that I think other folks can connect to and learn from as well,” she said.

“I was really trying to make space in this book to talk about and try to capture some of the fluidity. What does it mean to be multiracial and to identify as just one race throughout one’s life, but also maybe one race at one particular moment, or in one particular place? And then to have that change over time and space? Or to keep changing, right? How do you grapple with that fluidity and put it on paper?” Mills said.

The fluidity Mills references has a direct impact on how multiracial people engage in romantic relationships. When the cultural expectation is for people to “stick with their own kind or partner with someone who is similar,” as Mills’ frames it; what does similarity look like for someone who is multiracial?

“We have the previous generation of parents who are married or partnered interracially and, depending on how they experienced that they’re saying, “please don’t do that again” and discouraging their children who are mixed race from

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Banned Books to Bookworm

BY JUSTIN GITTO ’24

It’s 8:30 in the morning. After checking on all eleven piercings and putting on her mismatched socks, Trinity Robichaud hits the start button on her Toyota Prius. Before she leaves her grandparents’ house, she latches in the seatbelt for her guest in the passenger seat.

Her enormous bag of books.

With a slight whistle from the nearly silent engine, the shaking of her Dunder Mifflin sign hanging from the rear-view mirror, and a clunk when she comes to a stop, Robichaud and her worn-out Prius won’t be back until 6 p.m.

For Robichaud, this is every day, because this English major isn’t your typical English major.

As a senior, Robichaud has to meet a capstone requirement for her degree. These options include writing a scholarly paper, creating a portfolio of creative writing, student teaching, or an internship. To meet the requirement, she only has to do one of them. She’s doing all of them.

“I want to explore my options,” she said.

Strict Childhood Growing up in a religious, old fashioned family, Robichaud “never got to go through a rebellious middle-schooler phase,” she said.

“I make jokes about my family being a religious cult,” she said.

“Big family, very religious sounding names. We’ll never find our names on keychains.”

For Robichaud, being rebellious was a game. If she went too far, it could’ve been a disaster. It started with her wearing makeup that got progressively brighter and stranger.

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“Eventually I started wearing two different shoes, and the peak was when I had half my lips red, and the other half were purple. That was the extent of what I got away with,” she said.

As soon as Robichaud got to campus, she went with a friend to get her nose pierced.

“Then I dyed my hair teal, then purple, red, blue, and slowly accumulated more piercings,” she said.

Nerdy and Bookish Everybody knows that glorious feeling in elementary school when recess comes. Mobs of screaming kids rush out the door and run to the playground for their long awaited break from the monotony of the school day. Some kids were playing basketball or four-square, others were playing tag or climbing on the monkey bars.

Then there was Trinity Robichaud, sitting on a swing with a book in her hand.

“I’ve always been pretty nerdy and bookish, even when I was little,” she said.

She read so much as a kid that instead of getting video games or toys taken away as punishment like other kids, she would get her books taken away.

“There was one time where I read a book that had a lot of language in it, and my dad found out about it and I couldn’t read for two weeks. That’s how nerdy I am,” she said.

Even as a youngster, she was reading some heavy books – or at least trying to.

“I wasn’t allowed to read “Harry Potter,” and I wasn’t allowed

“I would stay up all night reading all the books I wasn’t supposed to read, and now I’m smuggling them to my sister so she can read them.” to read “Hunger Games,” she said.

Her parents didn’t want her reading books with “bad language” in them. One of these books just so happened to be one of her favorites, “Inkheart.”

“My dad busted me because there’s some language in it so he didn’t let me read the rest of the trilogy. I think I actually cried about it,” she said.

When she moved into Rutland at age 12, she was able to walk into town to a used book store. She bought all the books that she wasn’t allowed to read, and hid them in her closet, which became her secret hideout.

“I would stay up all night reading all the books I wasn’t supposed to read, and now I’m smuggling them to my sister so she can read them,” she said.

She was also chosen for the McNair Scholars Program. At first Robichaud was confused by this, because the program’s research project usually pertains to math and science, but she found a way.

“I put together a research project on dystopian fiction and connected it to social media,” she explained.

It’s through this interaction with the McNair Scholars Program that she got an idea. She wanted to explore all kinds of options for her degree.

Hermit Life In high school, Robichaud’s ideal day was spent in her room, locked away with her books. Having been homeschooled for two years at this point, she was living this ideal day every day, until her parents broke the news to her.

“My parents basically told me ‘you’re a cryptid, and you never leave, so we’re going to send you back to school,’” she said.

It turns out, the school they put her in was a very small private school. So small in fact, that she was the only graduate in her class.

“My parents said ‘you’re gonna have to make friends,’ and I was like ‘jokes on you I’m the only one in my grade level,’” she said, laughing hysterically.

She also said that constantly being in small environments made her used to it. Because of this, she was reality checked when she moved onto the Castleton campus for the first time.

She quickly got the hang of it and started making a name for herself.

“Whenever someone asked me if I wanted to try something new, it was an automatic ‘no,’ and in my senior year of high school I started working on that,” she said.

Clearly, she’s worked on it well enough. Her advisor, Professor Flo Keyes, described her as being very enthusiastic about whatever she gets into.

“She really is excited about doing things, learning things, and experiencing things,” Keyes said. “She always has an expectation that ‘this is going to be cool,’ and because of that, it usually is.”

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A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder March 24-27, 2022 Castleton University’s Theater Arts Department spring musical was inspired by the 1907 novel “Israel Rank: The Autobiography of a Criminal” by British author Roy Horniman. In the book, Israel Rank has everything he could want – loving parents, a nice home, and more – but after learning he’s an heir to the Gascoyne earldom, he sets out to kill everyone who stands in his way. “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder” cast included Veronica Stevens, Helen Mango, Luke McGee, Daniel Jackson, A. J. Grant, Kaetlyn Collins, and Kathryn Osburn.

Nearly 40 students, faculty, and staff contributed to the production. The musical marks the last performance directed by Theater Professor Harry McEnerny, who will retire at the end of the academic year.

Photos: Jules Hazen ’25

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Purposeful Picks Castleton faculty, staff, and students recognized Black History Month and Women’s History Month with events featuring works created by and celebrating diverse groups.

For Black History Month, Castleton’s librarians curated a collection of books about the Black experience, Black history, and anti-racism. These works were on display in library, and a Black History Month Book Expo was held in the Campus Center’s 1787 Room. The community was encouraged to drop in and explore the books, and to share their own stories and experiences about books they have read.

ITE H W ITY L I G FRA WHY IT’S SO HARD FOR WHITE PEOPLE TO TALK ABOUT RACISM

ROBIN DIANGELO

So you want to talk about race

by Ijeoma Oluo

Featured books included: “Between the World and Me”

by Ta-Nehisi Coates “So You Want to Talk about Race”

by Ijeoma Oluo

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“White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism”

by Robin DiAngelo

BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME

Castleton’s Women’s History Month Committee hosted a discussion in March for Etaf Rum’s debut novel “A Woman is No Man.” The book is based on the experiences of a multi-generational Palestinian/ Palestinian-American family, particularly the women of the family. It explores the stigmatization Muslims face in popular culture, the presence and absence of choice, how shame functions throughout generations, and more.

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A NOVEL

ETAF RUM

NOW AND THEN | CASTLETON’S CALVIN COOLIDGE LIBRARY In February, Castleton received a letter from Dr. Edward Scott, who served as director of library and learning resources from January 1978 to August 1981 at what was then Castleton State College. The note contained photographs of the library and its surrounding area on campus – before Stafford Academic Center was built and the days when Jeffords Science Center was named after Florence Black.

A second letter was received from Scott in March. This one reminisced on fond memories from his time at Castleton.

The note read, in part: “If I may be indulged to relay one of my favorite stories about my time at Castleton: when I arrived on campus, the “shape” of the library was pretty much determined, but the Vermont building codes and weather were serious challenges. I, as one of those rebels from the southeastern U.S., initiated a campaign to put a heater in the handicapped ramp to keep the snow melted. I was told that the grounds crew could certainly keep the ramp cleared of snow. I protested, noting that if someone coming up the ramp on crutches fell and injured themselves, there may not be enough money in the state to settle the damages. As luck would have it, the concrete on the ramp did not meet specifications and it had to be drilled out and replaced. I immediately restarted my campaign for a heater, and it was grudgingly accepted.

Fast forward to the first snow after the building opened. We turned on the heaters, and the snow disappeared. On that first day, a young woman came into the library and asked, ‘How do you keep the snow off the ramp?’ I boldly announced that there was a heater in the ramp that melted the snow. This was not the news that this young, energetic conservationist wanted to hear. She began an impassioned litany asking did I know how many gallons of oil that would take; how many tons of coal would be required for this blatant waste of money?

At that point, I assured her that I was pulling her leg, but she insisted that I tell her how we kept the snow on the ramp melted. In my most serious academic demeanor, I assured her that when we mixed the concrete to be used on the ramp, we put salt in the mix that migrated to the top when the ramp got snow on it, resulting in the immediate melt.

Ever so relieved to find that we were not wasting electricity, she announced that mixing salt in concrete was something she had never heard about, but that it was a great idea. She left infinitely pleased, and to the best of my knowledge, I never saw the young woman again (although I have wondered if she ever advocated for such an innovative idea).”

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Sharing The Joy of Reading Emily Benz’s love of reading helped her identify a problem that she knew she could help fix.

Benz, a Nursing major from Burlington, Vermont, found through tutoring kindergarten students that many of them didn’t have books at home. So, she immediately got to work to change that by starting Project Bookshelf, a program that collects and distributes books to kids in Vermont who need them.

To date, Benz and Project Bookshelf have collected almost 900 books to distribute. She works with partner organizations, such as the Children’s Literacy Foundation, LUND, and various community centers around Vermont to get the books in kids’ hands.

“The kids are so excited to be able to bring books home. The looks on their faces make the work all worth it. It’s really about the excitement in their faces at the end of the day,” she said.

Benz said that it’s important to get kids excited about reading because there is a strong correlation between kids having access to books and academic success.

“I am a big book reader myself, and my mom is a kindergarten teacher. I grew up with a love of books, so I wanted to share that with the kids and make sure that they were getting the same opportunities that I had,” Benz said. “There’s this gap that happens when kids don’t have books at home. They are more likely to drop out of school down the line, and I want to make sure these kids have an equal opportunity.”

Giving back to her community is important to Benz, and she does plenty of it. In addition to Project Bookshelf, Benz

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serves as president of the Nurses Association, a justice on the Student Government Association College Court, and as a peer tutor in the Academic Support Center. She is also a community advisor in the residence halls. She plans to work as a neonatal intensive care unit nurse and go back to school to become a neonatal nurse practitioner.

At Castleton, she enjoys the campus environment the most.

“It’s such a tight-knit college. Almost anywhere you go, there is someone you can say ‘hi’ to and form a connection.

I knew right away that I would fit in because everyone is so welcoming,” Benz said. “I became a community advisor so I can help welcome new people into the community.”

Castleton Golden 50th Reunion Members of the Castleton Classes of 1970, 1971 & 1972 We want to celebrate the 50th anniversary of your graduation from Castleton!

Saturday, July 16, 2022 | 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. | 1787 Room, Campus Center

To reserve your seat at the Golden Reunion visit: castleton.edu/goldenreunion 12 CASTLETON UNIVERSITY

or contact Carrie Savage at (802) 468-1089

“The games, talking to the athletes,

The Spartan Sports Writer Castleton Alumnus Tom Haley ’73 talks about his time at Castleton, his career in sports writing, and his first book, “Maple Mayberrys and Other Sweet Spots.“

When Tom Haley ’73 first stepped foot on the Castleton campus as a student, he wasn’t thinking about sports writing as a career. After winning the National Sports Media Association’s Vermont Sportswriter of the Year Award for the 10th time this year, the longtime Rutland Herald correspondent and 2004 Castleton athletics Hall of Famer is proud of the path his career took.

The thought of writing as a career first entered his mind when, during his time writing for The Spartan, a professor left him a note following one of Haley’s stories in the student newspaper.

“A professor I never even had in class, John Gillen, wrote me a very encouraging note complimenting a story I wrote on Castleton cross country runner Mike Canty,” Haley said. “A professor taking the time to write a note to a student he did not know is the essence of the motto ‘small school with a big heart.’ It was what really got me thinking about writing as a career.”

The career that was launched in part due to a simple gesture took another step during the pandemic, when Haley was faced with ample free time when local sports play ceased in the spring of 2020. During that time, he checked a project off his list that he had been waiting a long time to do: write a book.

“I had always wanted to write a book, but never had the time,” Haley explained. “A five-month pandemic furlough changed that. The inspiration for this book, in particular, was that I have always loved everything about small towns including the way communities embrace their local teams.”

putting the words on the computer screen—even traveling to and from the games ... It is all so exciting.

It really never gets old.”

and big names from every corner of Vermont to other parts of New England and well beyond. Haley also dedicated an entire chapter to Castleton and its rich athletics history.

“Castleton will always be home,” Haley said. “Seeing the transformation from the school I attended to what it is now makes me swell up with pride. It was in 2009, while watching a men’s lacrosse game against Mount Ida, that I looked over at the frame shooting skyward: the beginning, what would be Spartan Stadium, and then Dave Wolk Stadium. Looking at it that day, I recall saying to myself, ‘I will never take this for granted.’ I haven’t.”

As time marches on, Haley remains steadfast in his dedication to his profession and to the local athletes, including those student-athletes at Castleton.

“The games, talking to the athletes, putting the words on the computer screen – even traveling to and from the games,” Haley stated when asked what he enjoys the most about the job at this point in his career. “It is all so exciting. It really never gets old.”

Haley wraps it all up the best way a sportswriter could when asked about the importance of his 10th award: “When you are 74 years old, all that it means is that you still have your fastball.”

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Practico’s grandaughter, Harper stands outside her hillside hobbit inspired playhouse. photo provided by: randy pratico

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In A Hole In The Ground Some grandparents outfit their backyards with sandboxes, play structures, or tree houses for their grandchildren to enjoy when they visit. Others, like Biology alumnus Randy Pratico ‘74, build a child-size recreation of an iconic location from literature and film.

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“In a hole in the ground lives a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.”

— “The Hobbit” by J.R.R. Tolkein

Long amused by “The Lord Of the Rings” and “The Hobbit” franchises, it was during excavation for roadwork on his property that the retired pharmacist was inspired to convert a complex cliff area of his backyard for the project.

Having been woodworking recreationally since he was 15-years-old, Pratico had over 50 years of experience to lean on when it came to planning and building the structure.

“I don’t go by plans. I hate plans,” he said. “So I just kind of built it, you know?”

In the opening lines of “The Hobbit”, published in 1937, author J.R.R. Tolkein wrote: “In a hole in the ground lives a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.”

This spirit of comfort is abundantly present in Pratico’s build.

At six-by-eight feet in size, the space exudes a cozy feeling as soon as you lay your eyes on the round cobalt blue door set into deliberately placed stone work. The grassy arched roof evokes not only the Tolkienesque fantasy world, but also sod houses of the 1800s.

In order to create the iconic arched roof he had to special order marine plywood that could be bent and flexed to the correct angles. Another benefit of marine plywood is that it holds up extremely well against moisture, an important factor for the longevity of the structure as it goes through the freezeand-thaw cycle of Vermont’s seasons.

Lanterns, stained glass windows, warm-toned Christmas lights, and wooden furniture add to the charm regardless of season. However, a small space heater gets set up in the winter to ensure it doesn’t get too cold.

“My biggest challenge, of course, was waterproofing. Because when you have grass and dirt on top, you have to be very careful and pay attention to that. So, that was my biggest challenge, but I did get that done pretty well. We haven’t had a leak yet!” he said.

His favorite aspect to work on, however, was the door. He made the creative decision to include stained glass in the door window and believes that it really elevated the aesthetic,

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photo provided by: randy pratico

within the bounds of how a hobbit house traditional is depicted as looking.

How long did it take to complete? Just about three months.

event in Rutland, Vermont, selling handmade miniature fairy/elf houses. He also admits that the work he’s done on the miniatures likely helped spark some inspiration for the larger project.

“It took three months to build it because summertime is the worst for me. Because in the humidity, I fall apart. So, I only worked a couple hours in the morning and then I’d just go the next day because it was no big rush,” he said.

“I started doing that probably four years ago, and boy, they’ve really taken off. I’m retired now, so I do only so many a year, but I could do a lot more because there’s a huge demand for them. I did get ideas out of that,” he said.

Although he considers the project to be complete, there are some small details that Pratico expects he will continue to work on this year. These smaller elements include landscaping and building a small bench so there is space to sit and enjoy the exterior.

Ultimately, the main driving force for this project was love the he has for his granddaughter, Harper, who wants to crawl into the hobbit house whenever she comes for a visit.

Despite the challenges, he found a lot of joy working on the different aspects of the build.

“It was a great project. It was very detailed, and it was, you know, difficult for sure to figure out a lot of the different things, but it was fun,” he said.

This isn’t his first foray into fantasy design, though. Pratico can be found twice a year at Art in the Park, a semi-annual

When asked what would happen to the hobbit house when Harper outgrows it, Pratico said he had yet to plan that far ahead. However, he mentioned that his daughter was expecting another child in September and he hopes that the new grandchild will be able to get good use of it as well.

“The fun is that it’s pretty much entirely made out of rock, pressure treated solid timbers, and marine plywood, so I think it’ll last quite a while,” he said. “I think it’s something to look forward to for generations ahead.”

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Celebrating Alumni Authors Our Spartans are making a difference across the world. Some do it with their hands and voice. Others are breaking barriers and bringing people together with their words. Discover books written by – or in collaboration with – Castleton alumni.

Matthew Forrest Esenwine ’89: Inspiring a Love for Reading Communications alum Matthew Forrest Esenwine is the author of several successful children’s books, including “Flashlight Night,” one of the New York Public Library’s Top 100 kids books of 2017, and “Once Upon Another Time,” which was called “a necessary addition to picture book collections” by the American Library Association’s Booklist.

Esenwine began writing for a young audience through his love of creating poetry.

“After years of having adult-oriented poems published in various journals and anthologies, I found I had also collected several children’s poems that I didn’t know what to do with,” he said. “I think writing for children comes naturally to me because I love being able to tell a story or describe a scene in as few words as possible, in a tiny, tight, compact space, which is precisely what poetry is all about.”

Although he was already a published poet in college, making a living as an author was not something Esenwine had yet considered. In his sophomore year at Castleton, he found a job in radio at a station near where he lived in Concord, New Hampshire. He thought his voice might be his source of income. By the time he graduated in 1989, he had three years of professional experience in radio and would spend the next 25 years trying to scratch out a living on the air.

“During those years, I moved around from station to station in the New England area and even lived in Nashville for about

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a year,” Esenwine said. “But I was always writing, whether it was for commercials, comedy bits, or promotions. All of this helped forge the career I have now.”

In 2012, Esenwine and his wife did the math on his radio salary and realized that if they subtracted the expenses for commuting, gas, and daycare, he would net about $150 a month. They decided that it would make more sense for him to stay home, take care of the kids, build his voiceover career – which he had been working on parallel to his career in morning radio – and take the time to develop his writing career.

“I now spend my days writing and revising book manuscripts and poems, working out ideas and concepts for new books and poems, or doing social media and other types of marketing for the books and poems I have out,” he said.

His voiceover business requires him to record audio for clients at a moment’s notice, so when he wakes up with a script in his inbox, that usually takes precedence because he knows this work has been the backbone of his writing career.

“I must have written and voiced thousands of radio commercials over the years, Esenwine said. “Little did I know that all that copywriting, coupled with my poetry, was preparing me for the world of children’s lit - where short, impactful vignettes and word economy are paramount.”

Esenwine recently returned to Castleton to speak with the children’s literature classes and give hard-earned guidance to students interested in the field.

“Take time to hone your skills, time to learn the industry, and the time to make connections,” he said. “Far too many people jump into children’s writing assuming it’s easy because “you’re just writing for kids.”

He also knows it is important for students to realize that jobs and careers can change, just like majors.

“When I began my freshman year in Haskell Hall, I had no idea I would one day be writing children’s books and voicing TV commercials halfway across the country.”

Esenwine’s latest book, “A Beginners Guide to Being Human,” will be released in October.

Stefanie Schaffer ‘20: Hope and Healing Through Writing Stefanie Schaffer was a senior Community Health major at Castleton when she embarked on a dream vacation with her family to the Bahamas in 2018, a trip that would change her life forever.

Schaffer was headed to see the swimming pigs of the Exuma Cays with her mother, sister, and stepfather when the tour boat she was on exploded right below her feet. The explosion severely injured her mother, killed another passenger, and left Schaffer with catastrophic injuries to her lower extremities, resulting in her lower legs being amputated, damage to her kidneys, liver, and spleen, and a spinal cord injury. She also suffered a traumatic brain injury and would spend four weeks in a coma with only a 50 percent chance of regaining consciousness.

“Mentally I would look around and see these machines that were keeping me alive, and I felt like I was lying in that room basically just waiting to die,” Schaffer writes.

She began writing “Without Any Warning: Casualties of a Caribbean Vacation” as a way to cope with the trauma of the accident and enduring the long, difficult recovery.

“Writing has always been natural for me, something I’ve really enjoyed, and it’s how I’ve expressed myself,” she explained.

“I wasn’t thinking far ahead when I began writing. It was therapy for me; working through my story was something I wanted to do.”

She decided early on that she wanted to share her experience.

“I had the idea that this would become a book, and hearing

that other people who knew my story thought that I should write a book, too, gave me the validation to start the project,” she said.

Looking for a place to start, Schaffer sat down at Speakeasy Cafe with former Rutland Herald reporter Yvonne Daley.

“The original thought was that Yvonne would be helping me write or do the majority of the writing, which I didn’t know if I could do it because I had only ever done college papers and things like that,” she said. “But when I sent her my first chapter, she loved it, and I realized it was something I could do.”

“Without Any Warning” took approximately two years to write. As Schaffer navigated penning an honest portrayal of her experience, she kept in mind the reasons it was important for her to author the book.

“I needed to take control of the story and get my voice back,” she said. “I felt for the group of us who were on that boat that day, that our story wasn’t being recognized, specifically that the government of the Bahamas wanted it to go away. And so, this was me saying that we went through this.”

The book describes her family’s attempts to get answers for how this happened, who was accountable, and the frustration with the legal system in the Bahamas that seemed determined to erase the accident.

“I thought if I published it in black and white words, what happened to us would exist forever, and it would bring awareness and a warning to others of possible dangers when traveling outside of their country.”

The 25-year-old hopes her memoir will inspire others. Being an avid athlete and outdoor enthusiast, Schaffer has worked hard to get back into sports, including biking and crosscountry skiing. Her neighbor, who uses a hand cycle, lent her one and took her on her first bike ride.

“There are so many cruel moments that somehow are now in the past, each gone, each survived,” Schaffer writes about competing in her first bike race. “With each motion of these pedals, I again work through every emotion – the anger, the hatred, the heartbreak, the joy, the grief – and they carry me along like a strong wind behind me.”

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Schaffer has become an advocate for body positivity, working with a talent agency in California on photoshoots for brands targeting young audiences. She posts photos on Instagram showing what it is like living with a spinal cord injury and as a double amputee. There is also a discussion in the works for a movie based on “Without any Warning,” and Schaffer hopes to write a children’s book in the future.

“It’s got to be hard for kids, who may have been born with a difference or were hurt early on in their life, to not have books for their age group that really represent them. I think it would be cool to do that,” she said.

In the end, challenging herself and doing the work to heal – both physically and mentally – has strengthened Schaffer.

“Sometimes we think that failure or change is the end of the world, but it’s not,” she said. “It’s just a chance to learn and grow.”

James Kelly ’98: Reflections from the ICU For over 20 years, alumnus James Kelly has pulled three 12-hour shifts a week as an intensive care unit nurse in an adult critical care unit at Lovelace Women’s Hospital, which serves the community of Albuquerque, New Mexico.

“When I leave the ICU after my shift, my mind remembers pieces of the day,” Kelly explains as he recounts the time spent at patients’ bedsides. “I think for the time I was there, the 12 hours, that, more than any other time in my life, I was at the heart of things, life, death, and suffering.”

Kelly is the author of “Where Night Is Day: The World of the ICU,” a nonfiction work that examines life in the intensive care unit of a teaching hospital in New Mexico over 13 weeks, the time of the average rotation of residents.

“The World of the ICU” is not only about medicine, nursing, and the progress of disease, it’s also about patients and families who suddenly find themselves there. The award-winning book bears witness to his daily observations and reflections and the role of caregiver.

“For patients in the ICU, their lives and the lives of families have changed in an instant. They are ordinary people facing uncertainty and tragedy. Their lives are exposed, and as a nurse, you are in the middle of their fear, hope, sadness, anger, and guilt,” he said.

Kelly’s career in nursing did not begin conventionally.

Growing up in Cape Cod, he was drawn to writing because he felt literature, especially the literary realism of writers like John Updike and Richard Ford, explored everyday life, love, family, and loss.

“Reading, and then writing, was for me the way to understand my life and the world,” Kelly said.

After earning a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Kelly studied Zen Buddhism in Rochester, New York, copyedited for a publishing company, worked as a waiter, and picked apples at an orchard in nearby Granville, New York. He met his future wife, Loren Sapphire, at the Rudolf Steiner Institute in Spring Valley, New York, where they were in a program that trained people to become Waldorf School teachers. The two soon moved to Minnesota where Kelly studied Theology at St. John’s College. Loren entered a pre-med program at its sister college, St. Benedict’s, before deciding to return to Vermont and pursue the Nursing program at Castleton.

“Loren decided to go to nursing school, and I decided to go after her. It was a practical decision. Nursing was something that would provide economic security while I continued to write,” Kelly said. “As it turned out, nursing became for me what we seek in any vocation: personal and professional fulfillment. It was a career of profound experiences. I think in nursing, I became the person I was meant to be.”

He earned his degree in Nursing from Castleton in 1998.

“Like many people, my life has been a bit of a wandering,” Kelly said. “I’m sharing this because my thoughts might resonate with others. I think now that if you’re lost or off track or on the wrong road, not on the road you think you should be on, there is beneficence in the world that is watching you and it will seed whatever ground you are on with the seeds that will blossom into the experiences you need.”

Nursing is something that has grounded Kelly.

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“To help someone survive a critical illness and begin the journey back to their life, to see the relief and joy on a family member’s face is the reward of ICU nursing,” he said.

Tara Kellogg ’95 & Dr. Cinda Kane ’94: Collaborating for Kids Castleton alumna Tara Kellogg may not be a writer, but she is using her experience as a therapist to help create stories for children experiencing traumatic experiences like bullying and abandonment.

Kellogg has collaborated with fellow Castleton alumna Dr. Cinda Kane and children’s book author Lesley Millard Zafran to create the “Fantastic Florence It’s Not Your Fault” series.

These books provide parents, caregivers, teachers, and others with a tool to start conversations about difficult topics to help children identify and process their experiences. The main character, Florence, is a magical bag who hears the thoughts of children and writes messages containing easy-to-understand strategies for overcoming the situation. Florence validates children’s feelings, reassuring them that it’s not their fault when bad things happen, and encouraging them to reach out to a trusted adult.

Kellogg holds a bachelor’s degree in Sociology from Castleton and her master’s in Marriage and Family Therapy from Nova Southeastern University. She is a licensed psychotherapist with more than 25 years of clinical experience, specializing in individual and family counseling with a focus on family preservation and trauma-related stressors disorders. She is also a nationally-certified therapist for trauma focused cognitive behavioral therapy. Kellogg currently serves as director of clinical supervision for a community health center in Florida. She also works in private practices and runs a consulting business.

Kane holds a master’s degree in Education and Curriculum from Castleton, as well as a bachelor’s degree in Journalism from Penn State University and a doctoral degree in Higher Education Administration from Nova Southeastern University in Florida. Kane currently teaches at Nova Southeastern University and Broward College, and is the dean of students at The College Academy at Broward College.

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COACHES CORNER WE ASKED SPARTAN ATHLETICS COACHES FOR BOOK TITLES THAT INSPIRE THEM TO WORK, LEAD, AND PLAY BETTER.

The Hard Hat

BY JON GORDON

Emily Lowell, Head Coach | Field Hockey

“The Hard Hat” represents the ‘blue-collar work ethic’ culture; this is shown through toughness, selflessness and hard work. Throughout the winter, the team read “The Hard Hat: 21 Ways to Be a Great Teammate” and did workshops every Thursday. Those workshops were to recognize our strengths and weaknesses as players, teammates, and leaders, and learn what we could do better. We focused a lot on how there are different types of leaders and identified what kind of leader we each are on an individual basis.

There are some that lead by example, some that lead with heart, vocal leaders, and uplifting leaders. All are equally important and all are things that each player can bring to the table every day.

As a team, we have designed and decorated a hard hat to fit with our team. Every Monday morning, the team will vote on who deserves the hard hat based on what they brought to practice and workouts the previous week.

We focus on the effort being put in at practice every day, attitude, coachability and selflessness. Once the recipient is awarded, they bring the hard hat to practice every day until they hand it off to the next player. It has become an honor that all the players strive to receive because they know, if they received it, their teammates believe they deserve it.

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SYNOPSIS: From the moment Jon Gordon heard about George Boiardi and the Hard Hat he was intrigued and captivated. Over the years he visited George’s coaches, attended several “21 Dinners” held in his honor, met his family, talked to his teammates and observed how he inspired all who knew him. “The Hard Hat” is an unforgettable true story about a selfless, loyal, joyful, hard-working, competitive, and compassionate leader and teammate, the impact he had on his team and program and the lessons we can learn from him.

The WE Gear

BY LANCE LOYA

Jamie Blake, Head Coach | Women’s Lacrosse Through inspiring stories and powerful lessons, the book explores the art of being a good teammate while discovering the five keys to shifting one’s focus from me to we.

Most people operate in the ‘me’ gear: What’s in it for me? How does this benefit me? Good teammates take a different approach. They abandon self-serving motives and consider what’s best for their team.

If you want to be a better teammate, coach, teacher, employee, boss, spouse, friend, or parent, take a dive into “The WE Gear.”

Chosen Suffering

BY TOM RYAN

Scott Legacy, Head Coach | Wrestling Real champions aren’t born – they’re built. It’s true in life, business, athletics, and faith.

We must transcend physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual limits if we want to achieve ultimate victory. Author Tom Ryan calls this “chosen suffering.” He knows that success comes with a price, paid for by the daily choices we make. He also believes every person encounters “unchosen suffering,” the type that brings us to our knees. In Coach Ryan’s darkest hour, he and his wife discovered joy, peace, and hope.

Legacy

BY JAMES KERR

Kyle Richards, Head Coach | Men’s Hockey James Kerr goes deep into the heart of the world’s most successful sporting team, the legendary All Blacks of New Zealand, to reveal 15 powerful and practical lessons for leadership and business.

‘Legacy’ is a unique, inspiring handbook for leaders in all fields, and asks: What are the secrets of success – sustained success? How do you achieve world-class standards, day after day, week after week, year after year? How do you handle pressure? How do you train to win at the highest level? What do you leave behind you after you’re gone?

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My Space

EACH ISSUE WE ASK ONE PERSON TO SHARE THEIR SPACE ON CASTLETON’S CAMPUS.

“What I enjoy the most about the library

Stephanie Traverse ’12

is getting to work with students every day.

access services librarian

students go from being timid freshmen

As a work study supervisor, I get to watch to confident seniors ready to take on the world. Finding out a current or former student worker has decided to pursue a career in librarianship because of the experiences they had at Castleton makes my day. I also love hearing from students who frequent the library about how their class projects are going or the internship they applied for – and got!”

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Off •ice Hours LOUIS “TERSH” PALMER | ENGLISH PROFESSOR With an office as full to the brim with books as English professor Louis “Tersh” Palmer’s is, you might imagine that he spends most of his free time working through the nearendless array of literature that surrounds him.

While it’s true that he often has a book on hand, reading acts as a supporting character to the wide variety of other hobbies and projects that he fills his spare time with.

“I enjoy fiction and I try to sort of keep up with contemporary fiction … but I also really enjoy nature writing and so I’ve read a fair amount of nonfiction as well. I’ve been meaning to read the book about Granny Gatewood, who’s one of the first thru-hikers on the Appalachian Trail. She was sixtysomething the first time she did it and went with a bag with very little supplies in it. She has become kind of a legend,” he said.

His interest in this subject stems from the fact that he has thruhiked the Appalachian Trail in the 1990s and has remained an active hiker, kayaker, and canoeist throughout his life. He is also an active volunteer for the New Hampshire chapter of Appalachian Mountain Club (AMC).

His involvement with AMC includes several weeks spent in the summer months working at Three Mile Island camp in Meredith, New Hampshire.

He also puts to use his skills as a commercial boat driver to transport camp goers to and from the island. When he’s not volunteering at camp or visiting with family, Palmer is getting out into nature.

This is unsurprising to students who have participated in the Southwest Semester program, where students and faculty travel to Santa Fe, New Mexico, to experience the art, culture, landscape, and history of the region while also hiking, camping, and participating in archeological projects such as restoring adobe.

“I have sisters who travel around in their RV, so with them in the summers we’ve gone to Newfoundland and out to the Tetons and western mountains, did some canoeing down in Florida and Georgia and so forth,” he said.

His travels haven’t kept him within North America, though.

“I really, really enjoyed Rome. I enjoy the out of the city parts of England and Ireland,” he said. “We’ve had a lot of fun there, camping along the coast and so forth. But generally just getting out and getting in nature, wherever, is what I love to do.”

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Not Just for Kids We asked Castleton faculty and staff to share their favorite children’s books. Here are some of their favorites.

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title:

“Stand Back,” Said the Elephant, “I’m Going to Sneeze!”

Story by: Patricia Thomas Pictures by: Wallace Tripp recommended by:

Maureen LaBate, Admissions Records Specialist “My kids always loved books that rhymed. This one was easy to add different voices to the animals and the pictures always gave a great visual to talk about.”

PROFESSOR MILES’ SON AND BOOK ENTHUSIAST, ETHAN

title:

Pippi Longstocking by: Astrid Lindgren

title:

A is for Activist by: Innosanto Nagara recommended by:

Margaret Miles, Assistant Professor of Social Work

“Professor Sam Davis-Boyd gave my son Ethan this wonderful book. It’s never too early to learn about social justice!”

recommended by:

Michele Perry, Technical Services Cataloger/Archives “I read this book over and over as a child. I love Pippi’s imagination and tried to recreate her adventures and games.

The book is about a girl who shares stories about growing up with her father on the high seas.”

title:

The Rabbit Listened by: Cora Doerrfeld

recommended by:

Martha Coulter, Wellness Center Director

“This is a wonderful book for kids. It has a universal theme about what everyone needs when they are sad about something that has happened to them. It shows children and the adults reading with them that what people need is just for someone to be present with them and to listen.”

MARTHA COULTER READING WITH HER GRANDAUGHTERS, DAHLIA AND FIONA.

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title:

title:

Where The Wild Things Are

The Salamander Room by: Ann Mazer

by: Maurice Sendak

recommended by:

Cynthia Moulton, Ph.D. Professor of Ecology “My kid is 23 years old now but I remember reading it many times, especially after discovering some cool frog, salamander or bug on our walks. I still cherish this book because it helps explain why we need to leave the animals where they live – in a way that helps the child come to this decision on their own. It is both charming and beautiful.”

title:

recommended by:

Tuesday

Lisa Donahue, Part-Time Faculty, Health, Human Movement & Sport

by: David Wiesner

“What child doesn’t want a departure to be wild? Don’t we even as adults? Just to escape the bridled nature of it all! Well, I did, and do, anyway ... To boot, the book was published in my birth year of 1964.”

recommended by:

Flo Keyes, Professor of English “Tuesday is a picture book with only a handful of words, but the story comes across clearly through the wonderful, expressive art. Frogs begin to fly one Tuesday evening and wacky adventures ensue. At the end, we are given a peek at who will fly next Tuesday.”

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Charlie Parker Played Be Bop by: Chris Raschka

recommended by:

Rich Clark, Professor of Political Science

The pictures are bright and stimulating, and the cadence of the words matches the cadence of be bop jazz. It has humor and demonstrates a love of this musical genre. After reading it a few times to kids, those old enough can practically recite it back, and it becomes a long poem with pictures—an ode to the great jazz legend known as the ‘Bird.’

RICH READING WITH HIS CHILDREN.

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