Here in Hanover - Spring 2018

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SPRING 2018

VOLUME 23, NO. 1

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SPRING 2018

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CONTENTS

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Features 36

Vermont Center for Ecostudies Partnering with citizen scientists to promote wildlife conservation.

by Anne Richter Arnold

Migrants 44 Helping in Mexico Upper Valley firefighters aid the Mexican Red Cross.

by Lisa Ballard

an Iconic 62 Saving and Beloved Animal Dartmouth scientists collaborate to stem giraffes’ quiet march to extinction.

by Nancy Burton

44 About the cover: This giraffe inhabits a private conservancy in Kenya. Photo by Nancy Burton.

This page, top: Photo by Steven D. Faccio, courtesy of Vermont Center for Ecostudies.

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Departments 17 Editor’s Note 18 Contributors 20 Online Exclusives 22 Around & About

83 Living Well

28 Best Friends

A calendar of events.

by Cassie Horner

Tips, news & furry facts.

32 Seasonal Views

Benefits of native plants.

by Deb Thompson

56 Great Ideas

Virtual visits.

by Katherine P. Cox

86 The Hood & The Hop

Arts and entertainment at Dartmouth.

90 Happenings

95 Advertisers Index 96 Hanover Talks

A visit with Ruby Simon, new director of the Howe Library in Hanover.

by Mike Morin

A perfect pair: Celebrating five years of Noodle Station and The Swirl & Pearl combo.

by Linda A. Ditch

74 Travel Time

Off the beaten path in Tuscany.

by Lisa Ballard

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E D I TO R ’ S N OT E

Spring Rebirth

P HOTO BY I A N R AYM O N D

After a long, brutal winter, I’m guessing everyone in our area is ready for warmer weather. With the approach of spring, we anticipate tender shoots, leaves, and buds soon bursting forth in a riot of colorful blooms. Our brown lawns turn green again, and backyard feathered friends return to our birdfeeders.

Our cover story for this issue is taking us to Africa, where dedicated Dartmouth scientists are working to save the giraffe from extinction (page 62). Read about the technology they’ve developed and are using to track these majestic animals.

We’re also traveling to Mexico with Lisa Ballard, who acted as a correspondent on a humanitarian mission with a group from the Upper Valley (page 44). It’s an eye-opening experience to learn of hardships that people on our own continent are forced to deal with every day. We’re grateful for the selfless, generous group of people who give their time and expertise as well as supplies and equipment to help those in need.

On page 36, we’re learning about Vermont Center for Ecostudies’ various programs, including one that recruits citizen scientists to participate in monitoring vernal pools, birds, and other aspects of our environment. Find out more in this fascinating story about people working right in our midst in Norwich, Vermont, to ensure healthy habitats.

When you’re considering what to plant in your landscape this year, be sure to check out the new book Native Plants for New England Gardens (page 32). Authors Mark Richardson and Dan Jaffe explain why plants that grow naturally in our area are the best choices—they’ve evolved over millennia to grow here.

On other adventures, we’re traveling to a little-known village in Tuscany (page 74), and we’re dropping in on Noodle Station and The Swirl & Pearl (page 56) to catch up on this favorite local dining and dessert spot.

Wherever your busy life takes you this spring, keep up with local news, articles, and events online at www.hereinhanover.com. Enjoy!

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C O N T R I B U TO R S ANNE RICHTER ARNOLD, WRITER Anne is a freelance writer living in New Hampshire. She writes for several magazines as well as the Portsmouth Herald. Anne is a voracious reader and self-proclaimed foodie who enjoys world travel, tennis, horseback riding, and hiking.

KATHERINE P. COX, WRITER Kathy is a freelance writer and former writer and editor for The Keene Sentinel in Keene, New Hampshire. Her work has also appeared in Vermont’s Local Banquet, So Vermont Arts & Living, Monadnock Small Business Journal, and the anthology Beyond the Notches: Stories of Place in New Hampshire’s North Country. She was also a writer and producer for Captured Light Studio, Inc., a video and interactive production company in Keene.

LINDA A. DITCH, WRITER Linda’s love for food dates back to times spent watching her grandmother cook in her Missouri farmhouse kitchen. Her love of wine developed while writing for the Concord Monitor and the Hippo. A freelance writer for almost two decades, her work has also appeared in the Boston Globe, Dallas Morning News, Better Nutrition, and CatFancy.

NANCY BURTON, WRITER Nancy is a former New York City reporter for the Associated Press. Born in Keene, New Hampshire, she spent summers with her grandmother in East Haverhill where Sundays always included a visit to the Morse Museum in nearby Warren. Ira Morse opened the museum in 1928 to display his huge collection of African wildlife trophies from six safaris. Nancy recently went on a photographic safari in Kenya, but childhood memories of the Morse Museum, now closed, remain vivid. She’s working on a book about Africa.

CHANTELLE NEILY, PHOTOGRAPHER Chantelle grew up in rural Vermont.

At a young age she was introduced to photography and was immediately drawn to the excitement, challenge, and opportunities that each new photograph presented. After receiving a BFA in Photography from Sage College of Albany and a Certificate in Professional Photography from Hallmark Institute of Photography, she moved back to the Upper Valley and started CPerry Photography.

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JIM MAUCHLY, PHOTOGRAPHER Jim was given his first camera at the age of six.

During high school he worked weekends as a photographer’s assistant in his hometown of Norristown, Pennsylvania. While serving in the Navy, he attended photography school and received training in photojournalism, aerial photography, and portraiture. Jim is a member of the Professional Photographers of America. In 2001, he opened Mountain Graphics Photography, a professional studio, photo gallery, and custom frame shop in Fairlee, Vermont.

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A RO U N D & A B O U T

BY

Cassie Horner

E V E NTS I N TH E H ANO V E R ARE A

A LOCAL TREASURE

In Lyme, New Hampshire, CONVERSE FREE LIBRARY HAS FRIENDS

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atrons of the Converse Free Library in Lyme enjoy some extra perks, thanks to the work, kindness, and dedication of the Friends of Lyme Library. This group of volunteers works with Director Judy Russell, who moved to Lyme in 1989 and has been part of the Friends since 1991, and the trustees to identify programs and facility needs not included in the normal operations budget.

“The Friends group was founded in 1983,” says Cindy Swart, co-president with Nadia Gorman.

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“The original idea was to support the library and help get the community involved in it. About that time, it was realized that the library needed to be updated and renovated.

The Friends were part of that fundraiser.” Since then, the tradition of support has continued. “When they develop a budget, they ask us for a wish list,” says Judy.

Some of the extras funded by the Friends include underwriting the summer reading program, honorariums for adult program speakers, museum passes, and a subscription to the print edition of the New York Times. They also pay for theater

Clockwise from far left: The Little Free Library on the Lyme Common, designed and constructed by Lyme school principal Jeff Valence and sponsored and maintained by the Friends of Lyme Library. Members of the Friends board (starting at bottom, moving clockwise) include co-president Nadia Gorman, treasurer Margot Maddock, co-secretary Marya Klee, corresponding secretary Anne Baird, co-president Cindy Swart, and co-secretary Mardi Bowles. Library user Charles LaCour reads the New York Times provided by the Friends.

Library visitors attend an art show sponsored by the Friends.

and natural history programs for children and purchase supplies for the self-serve coffee and tea station in the reading room.

“We complement what the library has to offer,” says Nadia Gorman. She joined the Friends about four years ago when she retired. Her special role is organizing the art shows that are one of the group’s initiatives.

“They really are a strong Friends group,” Judy says. “In 2015, they were named Friends’ Group of the Year by the New Hampshire Library Trustees Association. They provide financial support and act as advocates for the library in the community.”

Cindy Swart has been involved with the Friends for about 10 years. “I had been on a lot of boards throughout my career,” she says. “This board is just fun. We all love libraries and books, and we enjoy each other. It’s fun to be part of such a vibrant library.” For more information, visit the Converse Free Library or call (603) 795-4622.

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COMMUNITY SUPPORT

Norwich celebrates its OLYMPIC CONNECTIONS

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Simon & Schuster, $26, hardcover, 288 pages.

Karen Crouse.

he little town of Norwich, Vermont, has a fascinating claim to fame that caught the attention of Karen Crouse, a New York Times sportswriter. Norwich can boast of having 12 athletes with Olympic connections—an amazing statistic that includes Kevin Pearce, who was injured in 2009 before the 2010 Games. Her intensive research to discover the roots of this phenomenon led to her recently published book, Norwich: One Tiny Vermont Town’s Secret to Happiness and Excellence.

“The book was timed for the winter 2018 Olympics,” Karen says. “But it is also perfect timing for this story of connectivity and community when we are facing so much divisiveness and discord.”

Karen, who had never been to Vermont, spent about five months living in Norwich to talk with dozens of people as she sought to understand why the town has produced so many top athletes. “Within a day of being here, I felt as if I understood the town on a cellular level,” she says. It reminded her of growing up in Santa Clara, California, as a young swimmer when it was largely agricultural and also the epicenter for swimmers.

“Norwich attracts a certain person,” Karen says. “People here are all seeking something, and their value system prioritizes what is important to them in life. They want to raise their children in a healthy environment.”

She talked to people shopping at Dan & Whit’s, visiting the local library, lunching at King Arthur Flour, and those living in yurts as well as residents of historic houses. She also talked to Olympians, their families, and the people who know them. “This started out as an Olympics book about a town that produced 11 Olympians,” Karen reflects. “It became a parenting guide masquerading as a sports book.”

In her years spent writing and thinking about sports, Karen has noticed the stresses faced by Olympians who struggle to find a grounded life in the wake of their athletic successes. Yet the Norwich Olympians, for the most part, have had a different experience. Why? “Any Norwich athletes I spoke to were very adamant that they found sports on their own,” she says. “They pursue their own passion; it was

“People here are all seeking something, and their value system prioritizes what is important to them in life. They want to raise their children in a healthy environment.”

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not thrust upon them by their parents. In all cases, the children were in the driver’s seat.” The parents are supportive but give their children ownership of their pursuits.

The community also plays a role in supporting its children. For example, Hannah Kearney, queen of the moguls, “a classic elite athlete with the character of an overachieving, hardwired perfectionist,” was buffered from burnout by the community.

“The town is her collective therapist,” Karen says. When Hannah faced Olympic disappointments, townspeople spontaneously told her how proud they were of her and how pleased to see her represent them on the Olympic stage.

Karen sees Norwich as a model for other communities. “They have to adopt the same values as Norwich instead of the attitude that second place is the first loser,” she says.

“Being the best they can be is a message to encourage all children, along with treating each child’s success as everyone’s success. One child’s success can inspire everyone.”

Looking at Norwich gives people an alternative to the too-common view that kids have to either enjoy a sport or excel in it. “Give sports back to youth,” says Karen. “I wrote the book in hopes that parents wanting to get off the treadmill can read about the careers of Hannah Kearney and others and take solace in the fact that there is another way to do this to return children’s childhoods to them.” Norwich: One Tiny Vermont Town’s Secret to Happiness and Excellence is available for purchase at the Norwich Bookstore.

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Playing volleyball provides Norwich residents a chance to exercise while having fun and meeting new people.

FUN, FREE OFFERINGS

Programs from the NORWICH RECREATION DEPARTMENT

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are for a game of badminton, basketball, or volleyball for some exercise and a chance to meet like-minded folks? Norwich residents can do that at the Marion Cross Elementary School gym. These longtime programs sponsored by the Norwich Recreation Department are fun, free offerings for people in town.

“People come for exercise, camaraderie, and a chance to meet people new to the community,” says Recreation Director Jill Kearney Niles.

“Some of the attendees are really dedicated and

have been coming for a long time. Residents can come with no commitment and see if it is a good fit for them.

New people are always welcome.”

The setup is casual, with play determined by how many folks show up on any given day.

The three activities are intended for a variety of ages. Basketball is limited to ages 25 and older. Volleyball is for school-age kids and up.

Badminton is designed for high school kids and up.

“People come for exercise, camaraderie, and a chance to meet people new to the community,” says Recreation Director Jill Kearney Niles.

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Photos by Tammy Finney

Two locals volunteer to keep the free programs running. “It is wonderful to have volunteers in Norwich in charge of overseeing this and ensuring that it runs smoothly,” says Jill. Andrew Katz, who coordinates badminton and volleyball, has been involved for more than 10 years. Craig Thurston, who coordinates basketball, has also volunteered for over a decade.

The programs are held during the school year. Badminton is held on Mondays through June 11 from 7:30pm to 9pm. Basketball is on Tuesdays through June 12 from 7pm to 9pm, and volleyball is offered on Thursdays through June 14 from 7pm to 9pm. For more information, contact Andrew Katz at (802) 649-5641 or Craig Thurston at wallpapervt@gmail .com or (802) 649-1599.

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BEST FRIENDS TIPS, NEWS & FURRY FACTS

O Pet, Where Art Thou?

Kitty Love With a reputation for aloofness, cats still love their people. How do we know? They show affection in various ways, and while most people think purring is the beginning and end of it, other signs show your cat loves you just as much as you love him.

When cats drop and roll on the floor, it means they’re happy to see us, and many are known to greet owners at the door. Exposing their tummies means they want attention, and it’s not always the “Feed Me NOW!” kind. When a cat looks into your face with wide-open eyes, she’s saying she trusts and adores you. In fact, if she stares at you from across the room and slowly blinks, she has thrown you a kiss.

Cats knead their people too, a good reason to keep claws trimmed unless you enjoy being a pincushion. It’s a throwback to kitten days when kneading their mom caused the letdown response, making the milk flow. Adult cats knead when they’re content and relaxed, often in their owners’ laps.

Head bumps and rubbing against you is how cats say, “I love you.” They’re scent marking and saying, “You’re mine.” And gifts of mice and other prey are offerings of affection. The raised question-mark shaped tail? That’s another love sign. And one more that most of us can do without is licking and sucking on our clothing.

But what’s a little slobber between soul mates?

Spring’s breezes uncover a treasure trove of aromas that can lead pets astray—dogs especially, with their super “scentsor” noses. A new smarter pet tag, Pawscout, is the most advanced pet accessory of its kind, with features designed to build safe communities for pets.

Traditional tags offer an address or phone number, and while advances like microchips and GPS devices have emerged, they’re still simple tracking or identification devices.

Pawscout gives pet owners a new way to connect with and keep a close eye on furry family members.

Pawscout is compatible with smartphones, and the Pawscout app tracks movements and identifies lost pets and lets owners share alerts and get virtual updates from their online community of friends, family, and other pet owners. The tag tracks walking distances, and a live map means you can spot your wanderer in real time if he’s within a 300-foot range of anyone with the Pawscout app. Learn more at pawscout.com.

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Itsy Bitsy Spider?

Arachnids aren’t the animal of choice for most people, but they can be ideal pets for some.

Tarantulas are often the choice for those who want to befriend a spider. They are interesting to observe, very quiet, and some can be handled easily. The curly-haired tarantula is known for being calm, as are the pink-toed and the Chile rose varieties, and less likely to bite if you decide to handle them.

A tarantula can live in a fish tank with a tight lid or a special habitat called a vivarium. A knowledgeable

dealer can tell you about the best habitat for each kind of spider.

An important aspect of this pet is that you can’t let it dehydrate, so a spray bottle is a must. Rather than muscles, spiders have a system that pushes body fluids into different parts of their anatomy to move, so dehydration can spell death.

Tarantulas are not big eaters and generally need feeding only two or three times a week. Some even go for weeks without eating.

Live insects, usually crickets, are a staple of their diet.

Before you get a dog, you can’t quite imagine what living with one might be like; afterward, you can’t imagine living any other way. — Caroline Knapp

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A Wet Dog Can Be a Happy Dog Spring rain often means the appearance of dogs in cute raincoats, but before you dress your dog, consider Alexandra Horowitz’s advice. The scientist, who heads the Dog Cognition Lab at Barnard College and wrote the highly popular Inside of a Dog, explains that, while dog owners may have the best intentions, their dogs might not appreciate their thoughtfulness. If your pup cowers and curls his tail between his legs when the coat appears, maybe he’d prefer being wet and having a thorough shake to wearing a coat.

As the author explains, most dogs, like their wild ancestors and presentday cousins, have a fairly waterproof coat. Because a raincoat covers their backs, chests, and sometimes head, dogs may respond the way their wild cousins do, interpreting having something on their backs as being dominated by another dog, or a wolf, in the case of wild things. So, while we see a raincoat as protection from the elements, our dogs may interpret it as a threat. H

Send us photos of your pets and we’ll share them in a future issue.

Email high-resolution images to dthompson@mountainviewpublishing.com.

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SEASONAL VIEWS

Wild Blue Phlox

Deb Thompson PHOTOS BY Dan Jaffe BY

BENEFITS OF NATIVE PLANTS THEY’RE MEANT TO GROW HERE

Have you started planning your garden for this year?

Why not treat yourself to a few new perennials? But not just any perennials will do. Make it easy on yourself and choose native plants, which have adapted to the local environment and are therefore easier to grow and maintain.

In their new book Native Plants for New England Gardens, authors Mark Richardson and Dan Jaffe recommend using these no-fuss plants whenever possible. They’ve evolved to live here, and when planted in locations they like, they won’t require the time-consuming work and attention of extra irrigation, fertilizers, and pesticides.

“We always subscribe to the right plant, right place mantra. The native flora include plants that will grow in any difficult condition, and when you pick the correct plants, you don’t need to add anything other than the plants themselves,” Dan explains. “Our thought is that if any plant requires pesticides in order to survive, we’ll simply skip that plant and chose a better one in its place.”

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Blue Vervain

Sundial Lupine

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Another benefit? Native plants help the environment and contribute to the overall health of the region.

The authors advise that we start thinking of our home landscapes as more than just ornamentation.

They stress, “Our gardens are critical ecosystems, providing habitat for wildlife, capturing and filtering storm water, and sequestering carbon.”

Getting Started No one can know everything about plants—there’s too much to know— and beginning gardeners can feel overwhelmed not knowing where to start, but don’t let that deter you!

Why not try your luck at planting your favorites, maybe even some of the plants below?

Wild blue phlox (P. divaricata) favors partial sun to shade and is drought tolerant once established.

Blue vervain (Verbena hastata), in combination with blue flag iris and rose milkweed, is part of a perfect trio to ring pond or creek edges or any moist meadow, say the authors.

Sundial lupine (Lupinus perennis) is the only host plant for the Karner blue butterfly, federally recognized as an endangered insect as well as New Hampshire’s state butterfly.

Unfortunately, lupines in many garden centers are most likely the Western lupine (L. polyphyllus), a species introduced from the West Coast of the US. While adult Karner blue butterflies will lay eggs on Western lupine, their caterpillars are unable to feed on the plants and subsequently die.

An Important Note Mark and Dan advise that we can’t be too cautious when it comes to pesticide use. “We always recommend that people ask these questions at their local nurseries: What native plants do you carry? Have any of your plants ever been treated with systemic pesticides?” Dan says.

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Virginia Bluebell

Black Cohosh

PHOTO BY JACKIE DONNELLY

PLANTING FOR SHADE Foamflower (Tiarella cordifolia var. cordifolia) in combination with Virginia bluebells (Mertensia virginica) and wood poppies (Stylophorum diphyllum) make an easy display that will carry your garden from early to late spring. Add some King Solomon’s seal (Polygonatum biflorum) and black cohosh or bugbane (Actaea racemosa), plus water and compost, and enjoy your new shade garden, the authors suggest.

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“Nurseries are businesses and will respond to the needs of their customers when the questions start piling up,” Mark adds. “We can also recommend Van Berkum Nursery in Deerfield, New Hampshire, and of course, people are always welcome to visit us at our Framingham or Whately locations. There are also a number of online sources these days, and many of our native plants are easy to grow from seed, which is very easy to source online.”

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS Mark Richardson, director of the Botanic Garden at New England Wild Flower Society, studied ornamental horticulture at the University of Rhode Island and holds a master’s degree from the University of Delaware’s Longwood Graduate Program.

Photographer and author Dan Jaffe earned a degree in botany from the University of Maine, Orono, and has years of nursery and plant sales experience. He is the official propagator and stock-bed grower for New England Wild Flower Society.

New England Wild Flower Society is based at Garden in the Woods, a naturalistic botanic garden of native plants set on 45 acres in Framingham, Massachusetts. The Society also has seven sanctuaries in Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont that are open to the public. Learn more at www .newenglandwild.org. H SPRING 2018 • HERE IN HANOVER

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ECOSTUDIES PARTNERING WITH CITIZEN SCIENTISTS TO PROMOTE WILDLIFE CONSERVATION

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ermont Center for Ecostudies (VCE) works throughout North and South America to promote wildlife conservation by teaming research scientists with volunteers in the field.

Across two continents and in every type of ecosystem, VCE biologists gather and analyze information about wildlife, from birds to frogs, all to help understand trends and influence conservation policies. The scale of their work would be minimal without the help of ordinary people in the field—what they call “citizen scientists.” Farmers, landowners, photographers, and backyard wildlife enthusiasts give their time to help collect crucial data for VCE’s important research.

Chris Rimmer, executive director of VCE, says this would be impossible on such a large scale without community participation. “People depend on healthy ecosystems. And increasingly, healthy ecosystems depend on people who have the knowledge and motivation to manage them wisely. At VCE, we excel in science that guides and inspires conservation. Our work gathers strength from volunteers—citizen scientists who monitor wildlife in the Northeast—and from a robust network of partners that extends from Canada through the Caribbean to South America. Our approach is successful because conservation is as much about people as it is about ecology.”

Locally, VCE has several important ongoing projects. Whether watching for birds, photographing wildlife while walking their dogs, or monitoring the landscape for fragile ecosystems in transition, citizen scientists are an important part of VCE.

Volunteers help search for frog and salamander eggs at a vernal pool in Sharon, Vermont. Photo by Steven D. Faccio.

Inset photos, from top: Tiger Spiketail dragonfly (Cordulegaster erronea). This dragonfly travels on streams and rivers east of the Mississippi and rarely this far north. Dale Ferland snapped the photo on the Black River in Springfield, Vermont. It was posted on iNaturalist Vermont, a project of the Vermont Atlas of Life.

On rainy spring nights, spotted salamanders migrate en mass to vernal woodland pools to mate and lay eggs, then return to the forest for the rest of the year. Photo by Steven D. Faccio. Male Bobolink in Derby, Vermont. Photo by Doug Gimler.

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UPPER VALLEY GRASSLANDS VCE’s biologists work alongside owners, managers, and stewards of grasslands in the Upper Valley and beyond. They help landowners adapt their management strategies to accommodate the needs of nesting grassland birds, which are undergoing a steep population decline, while meeting the overall goals for the property, such as aesthetics, invasive species control, recreation, and hay production. In 2018, the project will expand to include teaching interested participants how to measure and monitor the success of their efforts by learning to recognize and record evidence of breeding and fledgling songbirds in their grasslands.

Project leader Dr. Rosalind Renfrew explains why this project is dependent on the community. “Starting with the landowners is so important because they are there all the time and have a special type of engagement attached to the outcome. We provide information and advice on the land and sometimes point them to where they can get financial assistance through conservation programs. Engaging landowners in stewardship of their properties is crucial for working against a declining trend for a species, and these practices have a direct impact.”

Dr. Renfrew adds, “Our objective is establishing a certain number of acres and maximizing the acres to save some habitat for birds. In the past three years, we have put 800 acres under management with 50 landowners. We will now teach them to monitor their own progress in helping the birds have a better habitat, pairing them with citizen scientists to teach them more about the birds and increase their skills.

The landowners in the project are so important to its success. We want them to get other landowners involved to show how we can manage the land better in terms of long-term sustainability.”

MOUNTAIN BIRDWATCH One of VCE’s longest-running citizen science projects, Mountain Birdwatch, takes place across the entire Northeastern US and adjacent Canada. More than 100 participants learn to recognize the songs and calls of high-elevation nesting songbirds, and then, on one day each June, they hike to a specific mountain ridgeline to conduct predawn bird surveys. The same 103 routes have been completed annually now for more than a decade and have provided valuable data to managers and conservation planners across the Northeast.

Dr. Jason Hill describes the project. “The Mountain Birdwatch takes place every June on a single day, with volunteer citizen scientists observing birds on hiking trails 2,000 feet and up. Because it is only 10 species, it is a manageable number [of birds] to learn, and we give people a lot of training materials to help them become familiar before going out.

“We also give them specific routes with three to six sampling points that remain the same every year. This effort and these data provide information about the population, helping to track and monitor changes in these specific areas. The data are used for a host of conservation efforts in the Green and White Mountains, such as appropriately siting wind turbines and ski trails to minimize impact and to help determine conservation land for rare bird species in the area.”

VERNAL POOL CONSERVATION Vernal pools are seasonal wetlands found in forested areas that are breeding grounds for some species of insects and amphibians, such as the spotted salamander, the wood frog, and the fairy shrimp. Conservation of these wetlands has declined over the years.

These species need about three months of water to successfully breed, so they are threatened if their habitats are disturbed or destroyed. They can’t easily move to another breeding site, and if conditions change, their chances of survival diminish.

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Clockwise from left: VCE biologist Roz Renfrew talks with dairy farmer Paul Miller about options to protect grassland birds nesting in his pasture. Photo by Cathryn Abbott.

Inset: Meadowlark.

Photo by Dan Kim. Roz with an Eastern Meadowlark, one of the grassland nesting birds. Photo by Dan Kim. Jason Hill in the field. Photo

by Jaidon Lalor. A group of birders train their binoculars on peregrines high in the sky. Photo by Kent McFarland.

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Clockwise from above: Mountain Birdwatch citizen scientists survey birds at dawn on mountain ridgelines across New York and New England.

Photo by Wendy Cole.

Steve Faccio in the field.

Photo by Susan Hindinger. VCE hosts landowner workshops to discuss hayfield management to benefit grassland birds. Photo by Roz Renfrew.

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municipal officials, and citizen naturalists protect these wetlands and their vibrant communities of wildlife. Now that VCE has identified and mapped the location of potential vernal pools in every Vermont town, trained volunteers are field-verifying their exact locations.

Project leader Steve Faccio explains, “A new vernal-pool monitoring project kicks off this spring and is a long-term endeavor. Currently, we are looking for about 30 volunteers who would work in teams to monitor 15 pools, and in subsequent years, we would like to expand to monitor about 50 pools. The teams will go to the pool two or three times in the spring and observe the breeding wildlife, check water quality and level, and timing.

“This information will help create a picture of how things are changing and how environmental factors affect a species. The data will help to detect changes in these fragile ecosystems, and the protocol will serve as a model for use in other states in this region.

Open-source information accessible online provides important information to state and federal agencies that are mandated to protect the species.”

HARVESTING DATA VCE manages several digital tools and databases that gather crowd-sourced information more informally. Perhaps the most familiar of these is Vermont eBird, the first state portal for what is now a global program through the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Birdwatchers keep checklists of every species they observe and report them on ebird.org. Another digital portal is iNaturalist Vermont, a state portal for the now global iNaturalist.org. Participants can take a photo of any living thing in nature and—whether they can identify it or not—upload the photo to iNaturalist.org. The iNatura list.org community views each other’s observations and confirms or corrects identifications. A third digital portal is eButterfly, which functions just like eBird only with butterflies.

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is to recruit, educate, steward, and encourage participants, and then to analyze the data these platforms provide, which can be very powerful and cover much larger geographies than the small staff alone could. VCE manages all these citizen science projects under an umbrella project called the Vermont Atlas of Life.

VCE’s Kent McFarland states that these platforms provide a scale not possible with just their research staff. “These projects take advantage of people’s passion to harvest the data for science. We have found that crowdsourcing works well for gathering information. It would be impossible to create this kind of data set by using just biologists, even in a place as small as Vermont.

“We get about a million pieces of data in a year. People who care about nature are putting their observations together with others like pieces of a puzzle to find out what is going on in an ecosystem. For instance, we can get information on what the changes are in bird population, and we can stave off things that can be harming them.”

Kent notes, “Since most people have a smartphone in their pocket all the time, it’s easy to post data with iNaturalist Vermont. With citizen science, people have discovered new populations of plants, dragonflies, and other wildlife in everyday experiences like when fishing or out for a walk, all by accident.

Biologists like me look at these photos and record the species. I know of three times people have just taken a photo that turned out to be a new species for Vermont. The impact they can have with one photo is amazing.”

Kent summed up the ease of becoming a citizen scientist. “It doesn’t have to be a National Geographic expedition, it can be a walk in your own backyard.

Every little piece of information we get can collectively make a big impact on conservation. If we work together, we can make a huge difference.” H For information on becoming a citizen scientist with VCE, visit vtecostudies.org.

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Pico de Orizaba, the highest peak in Mexico and a dormant volcano, towers over the town of Tlachichuca, base camp for the Upper Valley firefighters.

Inset: The firefighters and John Markowitz (left) meet one of their counterparts in the Mexican city of Puebla.

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n November 1, 2017, three firefighters—Charlie Barker from Lebanon, Tom Ritland from Hartford, and Chris Sweitzer from Hanover—joined John Markowitz, an

emergency room technician at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC), and David Foster, an electrical engineer from Enfield, on a 10-day humanitarian trip to Mexico. The trip came together quickly in response to a major earthquake six weeks earlier that made international headlines for the damage it caused in Mexico City. In fact, the state of Puebla, the volcanic region to the east of Mexico City, got hit equally hard. Of the 220 cities, towns, and villages in this region, 212 sustained extensive damage.

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Each year, 100,000 men, women, and children, typically from Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador, jump onto cargo trains they call “the beasts” near the southern border of Mexico, hoping to ride them 2,400 miles north to the US. Clockwise from above: Charlie Barker checks out the controls of a Mexican fire truck. Tom Ritland takes a ride in one of Puebla's fire trucks. Charlie waits for the next train by the Red Cross migrant shelter near Serdan.

Charlie teaches an injured migrant teenager how to use basic power tools. The same teen, who lost his legs falling off a train, visits the scene of his accident with the firefighters.

Chris Sweitzer (left) and Charlie set up a solar oven at Red Cross headquarters in Serdan.

John Markowitz put the trip together. This former college football player turned mountaineer had led several other trips to this part of Mexico to climb the volcano Pico de Orizaba (18,491 feet), the highest peak in Mexico (and the third highest in North America after Denali in Alaska and Mount Logan in the Canadian Yukon) and to aid the Mexican Red Cross.

MEETING URGENT NEEDS Last November’s trip promised a hike to Pico de Orizaba base camp at 14,000 feet, a big draw, but the real purpose was humanitarian. Toward that end, John received a grant from the Hitchcock Foundation, and then a second grant from Dr. and Mrs. Terry Bradigan in Hanover. The funds helped pay for the trip, which included $5,000 worth of medical gear, five solar ovens, and a generous dose of Upper Valley enthusiasm and know-how, although the focus of the firefighters’ aid turned out to differ from their original intent.

Once in Mexico, the more urgent need had nothing to do with the earthquake and everything to do with the ongoing challenges faced by migrants. Each year, 100,000 men, women, and children, typically from Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador, jump onto cargo

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trains they call “the beasts” near the southern border of Mexico, hoping to ride them 2,400 miles north to the US. It’s at least a two-month journey, holding onto the roof or a narrow grate between the train cars in the scorching sun and traveling at high rates of speed. The lucky ones find shelter in an empty boxcar for a few days. The less fortunate fall off and sustain serious injuries. What’s more, bandits sometimes hijack the trains and kidnap migrants.

The small staff and volunteers at the Mexican Red Cross facility in Cuidad Serdan, Puebla, focus many of their scant resources on helping migrants. John had dedicated his previous humanitarian work in Mexico to these desperate travelers and knew many of the Red Cross personnel.

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The firefighters pose with Red Cross staff and volunteers by their newly constructed bunk beds inside the migrant shelter.

Photo courtesy of John Markowitz.

water to those riding past. And when they saw the shelter maintained by the Red Cross at a deserted train depot, with its thin mattress pads and wool blankets on a cold stone floor, they knew their project: Build tripledecker bunk beds for the shelter.

ON-THE-JOB TRAINING Sounds like an easy enough job, but when you don’t know Spanish, have no tools with you, don’t know where to buy the right wood and screws, and you’ve never built bunk beds before, it’s hard to know where to begin.

But John and the firefighters’ can-do attitude proved up to the task.

In addition to building the bunk beds, the firefighters got a taste of how firefighting and ambulance rescue work happens in Mexico. They met

GET INVOLVED The Upper Valley firefighters’ mission to Mexico continues at home. As a result of their trip, they are working to raise an additional $2,000 to purchase prosthetic legs for a migrant teenager who was injured falling off a train. To learn more and to make a donation, contact John Markowitz at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, john.markowitz@hitchcock.org.

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a migrant boy who had lost both legs after falling off a train and taught him some carpentry skills. They also visited mountain villagers in their homes and showed Red Cross volunteers how to cook with a solar oven. They distributed medical gear, school supplies, and soccer equipment, and they got to sample hiking on the volcanoes. It was a memorable, rewarding experience, and one that will save lives in the future. Here’s each one’s takeaway.

Charlie Barker, age 50, Lebanon Fire Department: I thought we would be doing more first-aid work on ambulances. I pictured it like in the States, but those people get by with so little.

The ambulance had to stop all the time to keep putting in $5 worth of gas. At home, we never let an ambulance get below three-quarters full. They’re doing great work with barely nothing. It makes you want to figure out how to help.

It’s important to aid those less fortunate. It sounds corny, but we have the ability. That’s why I do my job as a firefighter, cutting someone out of a car or helping people who are sick or dying. This was just an extension of it.

I’m always up for adventure. If I can help people, it’s a plus. The tequila was pretty good too.

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with John Markowitz. The first time, we summited Orizaba. On that trip, I was involved with raising money for an ambulance that’s now there.

The service piece drew me back.

We’re just regular people who want to help. We knew we were going to do some sort of service work but had no idea what. The fact that we were helping migrants . . . that was just helping other people who have no place to go. There’s no solution, really.

We were just putting a small bandage on a big problem.

It’s not a vacation at the beach. I’ve traveled with my wife to Costa Rico and Belize, but we didn’t meet people in their own homes. You only say hola (hello) on the surface at a resort. You merely drive through the culture. On this trip, we were in it.

Chris Sweitzer, age 26, Hanover Fire Department: John Markowitz came to the station and said, “Here’s what we’re doing.” Planning a trip like this is huge, but that was done, and I didn’t have to go alone. I just needed to say yes.

I enjoy helping people. It’s part of my daily life. At home, I might not know them. I might not like them. In Mexico, it’s the same, and there’s such a need.

It was eye-opening because there are lots of similarities to the US in Mexico, but it’s also very different. It would have been easy to just keep skiing and mountain biking here. I can do the Presidential Traverse every year, but I would have missed out on something even better. How often can you get in an ambulance and have no idea where you’re going?

I do volunteer work at home, clearing and building mountain bike trails.

It benefits me directly, but on a trip like this to Mexico, we were helping people with their problems. It was even more commendable. This is one of those trips that I will look back on with many good memories. H ONLINE EXTRA

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a perfect pair CELEBRATING FIVE YEARS OF NOODLE STATION AND THE SWIRL & PEARL COMBO

Above: Owners Chris Gale and Samantha Chu with their manager, Jackie.

Samantha Chu and Christopher Gale do things in twos. The couple opened Noodle Station and The Swirl & Pearl as a dinner and dessert pairing. The menu at Noodle Station is part Chinese and part Italian, and The Swirl & Pearl offerings are part frozen yogurt and part bubble tea.

The inspiration for the two-business enterprise came from the building itself. Once a Subway and a Ben & Jerry’s, the couple wanted to keep it a place where someone could enjoy a tasty meal (or get it to go) and then go next door for dessert. Samantha adds, “We also wanted to bring bubble tea to the Upper Valley. It’s popular in Boston, and we wanted to introduce it here. Also, frozen yogurt was the trend at the time, and we wanted to keep it a dessert spot.”

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What’s bubble tea? It’s an Asian dessert tea that originated in Taiwan.

You can pick a milk tea made with a black tea base or a fruit tea with a green tea base in a variety of flavors.

What makes the “bubbles” is tapioca boba, which are slightly sweet and chewy like gummy candy. They sit on the bottom of the drink and come up through the straw for you to enjoy.

You can also ask for a bursting boba, filled with fruit juice that bursts in your mouth, or jellies instead of the tapioca boba.

PERFECTING THE MENU Samantha grew up in the Hanover area. Her parents established China Station in Lebanon in 1988, so she has years of restaurant experience. Still, she always wanted her own business in Hanover. While at Vermont Technical College, Samantha met Christopher, who has a degree in architectural engineering but had no food-service experience at all. Then, on vacation, the couple saw a noodle bar that was wildly popular. That sparked a dream that became Noodle Station. How does Samantha feel about working with her husband every day? “I personally love it!” she says. “It works very well for our relationship. We have complementary personalities.”

Samantha says the biggest challenge in the past five years has been finding a consistency with the flow of incoming customers, mainly because of the makeup of Hanover. She was accustomed to her parents’ Lebanon location, with its regular base of customers built up over 30 years of being in business. In Hanover, things were different.

“If it’s a hockey night, then it’s busy,” she explains. “But if the students have midterms or finals, it can be pretty quiet. That was kind of

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Above: Samantha pours a honeydew bubble tea with strawberry bursting boba.

Right: Delicious Asian Persuasion with the favorite Thai Tiger in the background.

Opposite, from top: Casey sautés a customer’s dish. Inset: Grown-Up Mac ’n Cheese topped with crispy prosciutto and toasted panko bread crumbs. Customers place their orders at the Noodle Station counter.

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surprising. Also, in the past five years, we’ve grown and matured. The menu has become more solid. People who tried us early on when we were perfecting the menu should try us again.

We make everything from scratch, and we cook out front so you can watch.”

Noodle Station’s menu is small, with 11 house dishes. However, there is a create-your-own option that allows you to indulge your cravings.

Samantha notes that her heritage is half Chinese and half Italian, and many of the dishes are inspired by family. The classic Italiano sauce and meatballs are inspired by her greatgreat-grandmother’s recipe, and the spring rolls and lo mein dishes are inspired by China Station.

TWO CULTURES – TASTY DISHES The most popular noodle dishes are the Thai Tiger (rice vermicelli noodles sautéed with carrots, green cabbage, bean sprouts, peas, and onion in a savory, slightly spicy red curry sauce), GrownUp Mac ’n Cheese (cavatappi pasta smothered in a four-cheese sauce and topped with crumbles of crispy prosciutto and toasted panko bread crumbs), and Peter’s Special (a China Station favorite of lo mein noodles sautéed with carrots, pea pods, onions, mushrooms, and bean sprouts in a seasoned sauce). There are also rice dishes, salads, and noodle soups, plus both Asian and Italian appetizer options.

Samantha points out that the biggest reward of the past five years has been getting to know the regular customers and watching their children grow up along with her two boys. She also likes seeing people leave with a smile on their faces. She says, “Feeding people can be very rewarding. Sometimes you can change a person’s day with a good meal.” H Noodle Station and The Swirl & Pearl 11 Lebanon Street Hanover, NH (603) 277-9230 noodlestation.wixsite.com/noodlestation 60

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Clockwise from left: Family portrait with Chris, Rowan (2 years), Driver (6 months), and Samantha. Hanna prepares a deliciously refreshing bubble tea. The Swirl & Pearl offers an array of frozen yogurt toppings. Step up and order your favorite flavors of frozen yogurt and bubble tea.

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Dartmouth Scientists Collaborate to Stem Giraffes’ Quiet March to Extinction

This Masai giraffe inhabits the Mara Naboisho Conservancy, a protected reserve in Southwestern Kenya adjoining the vast Masai Mara, which connects with the Serengeti in Tanzania.

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Dartmouth-sponsored researchers have virtually obliterated that divide as they hasten to identify hundreds of individual giraffes from their unique skin patterns with an innovative software program created by Dr. Hany Farid, chair of the Computer Sciences Department. They are in the forefront of a race against time to save the giraffe from extinction.

A POPULATION-TRACKING INNOVATION The program, called Wild-ID, has enabled Dartmouth researchers to conduct the largest individually based demographic study of the giraffe ever, including population size, birth and death rates, and migration patterns.

They hope this new wealth of sciencebased data will inform governments and decision-makers to develop effective conservation measures before it’s too late.

In the remote bush, on month-long safari-like expeditions (Spartan class), the scientists photograph giraffes at 50 yards and feed the user-friendly software thousands of digital images of the ungulates’ right-side torsos.

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A timeless parade of giraffes, zebras, and a Masai herdsman share the Kenya savanna of the Naboisho Conservancy.

Peering into the distance, giraffes are constantly on the lookout for predators.

Browsing on thorny acacia shrubs, the giraffe’s staple food source, from a sitting position. Dr. Hany Farid, creator of Wild-ID, at his Dartmouth office computer display of dozens of giraffespot images.

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Clockwise from left: What almost looks like a two-headed giraffe at first glance browses in a thicket of acacia in Kenya’s Masai Mara savanna. Parade of Masai giraffes in the Tarangire ecosystem of Tanzania along with a herd of zebra, which rely on them for their height and superior vision to spot predators. Photo by Dr. Douglas Bolger. A giraffe stoops amidst the acacia shrubs in Nairobi National Park.

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If no action is taken, the inevitable next steps are endangered, critically endangered, extinct in the wild, and extinct.

to a previously identified giraffe already in the database or represents a new “capture.” The program is efficient, cost-effective, and saves time, and it avoids the need to tranquilize the animals with dart guns to secure satellite collars or other physical markings, thereby avoiding injury and trauma. It’s also nearly 100 percent accurate.

This population-tracking innovation came along none too soon. Giraffes are already extinct in at least seven African nations (Senegal, Nigeria, Mali, Guinea, Mauritania, Eritrea, and Burkina Faso), and their numbers in the remaining 17 nations where they still roam wild have plummeted to alarmingly low levels. As one example, the reticulated giraffe, the universally recognized giraffe subspecies with rust-colored, mosaic-patterned skin that inhabits the scorched plains of Northern Kenya, has been depleted by 80 percent over the past 30 years, from an estimated 36,000 to 48,000 in the 1990s to some 8,661 animals in 2016.

And although the Masai giraffe, with their distinctive irregular spots with jagged shapes and edges that resemble leaves or snowflakes fringed in ice—one of nine recognized subspecies of giraffe—is Tanzania’s official national animal, its numbers there and in neighboring Kenya have dropped by 52 percent over the same period, from 66,450 to 31,500.

HEADING TOWARD EXTINCTION That’s according to Dartmouth’s Dr. Douglas T. Bolger, director of the Environmental Studies Africa Foreign Studies Program, a preeminent giraffe authority and prolific author of academic research. He spends two months each year teaching and conducting field research in African locations. Dr. Bolger also serves as an official assessor who analyzes giraffe-population data for the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), which has published a science-based “Red SPRING 2018 • HERE IN HANOVER

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Above: Dartmouth giraffe protectors in the field in the Tarangire ecosystem in Tanzania.

From left are Dr. Douglas Bolger, Tom Morrison, and Derek Lee. Inset: Giraffe right-torso photographs in the Wild-ID database.

List” of threatened and endangered species worldwide since 1964.

In December 2016, the IUCN created shockwaves in the global conservation community and among legions of giraffe lovers when it updated its 2010 listing to move giraffes two categories closer to extinction, from “least concern” to “vulnerable.” Translation: Giraffes in the wild face extinction in the not-distant future if nothing is done to minimize threats to their existence. If no action is taken, the inevitable next steps are endangered, critically endangered, extinct in the wild, and extinct. This gentle giant was quietly heading toward extinction.

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Hope. Today, their range is an obstacle course limited to fragmented, unprotected outposts and national parks.

Human activity has reduced their habitat and driven their decline. Accelerating population expansion, encroachment from cities and villages, highways and rail networks, industrialization, and devastation from civil wars, poverty, unrest, and poaching are among the causes.

Massive foreign investment in African infrastructure is another. In Kenya, for example, where Nairobi National Park adjoins the capital’s city limits and is home to a peaceable kingdom of the giraffes, lions, leopards, rhinos, and Cape buffalo, Chinese interests are financing a new major rail route through the park. Some fear it will lead to permanent displacement and perhaps loss of wildlife.

Giraffes are also taken for bushmeat by starving people

in the war zones of South Sudan and Congo, and foreign trophy hunters and tourists create a market for their skins and six-foot-long necks. Traditional cultures have prized giraffe tails for stringing bracelets and beads, fly whisks, and dowry payments to secure a desirable bride. Often, giraffes are trapped in snares hidden in tree canopies and shrubbery and left to die an agonizing death. Predators too exact a terrible toll; half of all giraffe babies are taken by wily lions and leopards.

A COLLABORATIVE SOLUTION “All of Africa is in transition,” said Dr. Bolger in an interview. “Historically, giraffes coexisted with humans across many millions of acres, but herder and pastoral lifestyles are changing.

They’re being incorporated into the economic systems of the world. The changes are perhaps irreversible.”

In 2008, Dr. Bolger sought out his Dartmouth colleague, Dr. Farid, a nationally recognized expert in digital forensics, for his help developing a computer program to identify individual wildebeests. Dr. Bolger was studying their migration patterns and dwindling numbers in East Africa, and he knew the wildebeests’ shoulder-stripe markings were unique to individuals. Could a computer program be developed to replace the maddeningly difficult strategy of comparing thousands of photographs of wildebeests with the human eye to identify individuals?

“Doug contacted me and described the problem,” Dr. Farid recalled during an interview in his campus office. “He said [they’d] go out there and [they’re] trying to figure out these migration patterns, but it’s just a nightmare trying to keep track of these things, and there’s no good way to do it.”

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appealed to Dr. Farid. “The standard that I always use for whether I’m interested in spending time on something is basically, ‘Well, that sounds cool,’ and if I think it does, I’m game,” said Dr. Farid. “I think it’s an important problem to understand migration patterns. Certainly understanding those problems is key to preserving these types of really amazing wildlife.

“The other reason I thought it was cool is that I actually thought we could probably do something. There are lots of problems that are super cool and really important but are also intractable, but this one seemed tractable,” he added.

With graduate student Bennett Vance, Dr. Farid devoted a year to developing the program as it was being tested, validated, and tweaked simultaneously in the Tanzania bush

by Dr. Bolger with Dartmouth PhD candidate Tom Morrison under his wing. (Tom has published a study that found that Wild-ID led to a 38-fold labor savings in comparison to the manual-matching process.)

“The ideas, I will say, for doing this were not particularly novel,” Dr. Farid acknowledged. “It’s not like we invented a whole new branch of image processing, computer science, or math. The ideas were sort of in the ether. As it turned out, it worked really well on giraffes.”

DATA DRIVES DECISIONS By 2012, Dr. Farid, Dr. Bolger, and their collaborators published their seminal academic paper on Dr. Farid’s patternidentification program, “A ComputerAssisted System for Photographic Mark-Recapture Analysis.” It was Dr. Bolger’s idea to apply Wild-ID to giraffes. “Their patterns appeared very detailed, so I thought they would contain a lot of information,” he said.

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until recently only scantly studied, proliferated as the database of verified individual giraffes expanded.

“When individuals are identified, we can look at movement patterns. That’s really the importance of population biology. The beauty is that some organisms like the giraffe have already been marked,” said Dr. Bolger. “I see my role as to help collect data more rigorously, something solid for decision-makers to base their policies on.”

Dr. Bolger had selected the 7,700 square-mile Tarangire National Park ecosystem in Northern Tanzania as the site for trying out Dr. Farid’s WildID program to track wildebeests and giraffes on a massive scale. “It’s a mixture of protected and unprotected lands that the wildlife roam across, and we knew there had been significant declines in wildebeest numbers,” Dr. Bolger explained. The study area includes two national parks (Tarangire and Lake Manyara), a private wildlife conservancy (Manyara Ranch), and three “game-controlled” areas where wildlife hunting for subsistence and trophies is permitted, although hunting giraffes is prohibited by law in Tanzania. A major highway cuts through the study area.

Dr. Bolger took on Derek Lee, then a Dartmouth PhD candidate, as a research assistant for the Tarangire giraffe study using Wild-ID. Last May, the two coauthored a detailed and groundbreaking study of a 660-squaremile area within the Tarangire ecosystem. During the two-year study, they observed 1,094 individual females and analyzed their “encounter histories” in what they called “the first estimates of per capita movement rates for giraffe among subpopulations.” That is, their focus was migration into and out of protected areas to the peril-fraught surroundings where the researchers discovered that illegal hunting of giraffes for bushmeat is common.

Not surprisingly, Dr. Bolger and Derek Lee were able to conclude that female giraffe survival correlated positively with the intensity of antipoaching patrols.

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The report contains grim findings, suggesting that strengthening antipoaching efforts and the exclusion of human settlements and agriculture, if not carried out, will likely drive the giraffe outside protected areas and to extinction. This concern, while intuitive and often expressed, was now backed up by solid data based on rigorous scientific principles.

The report may be read as a desperate call to the conservation community, as well as countries giraffes inhabit, for their attention.

EXTENDING WILD-ID’S BENEFITS Now, Dr. Derek Lee has gone on to found his own NGO, Wild Nature Institute, to continue giraffe field research. “It is tough, hot, muddy, and full of tsetse flies,” he wrote in a recent blog, “but we are privileged to be able to work on such an intimate level with the tallest and one of the most beloved animals on the planet.”

Dr. Bolger has recently returned from an expedition to Murchison’s Falls National Park in Uganda, an isolated gem of biodiversity, home for millennia to the Rothschild’s subspecies of giraffe, among the most threatened, and his current focus. With only 1,600 of these giraffes living in the wild, and with the Uganda government driving a huge oil-exploration project within the national park by a French-owned company, giraffe protectors resorted to extreme measures. They used an arklike ferry to transport 20 Rothschild’s giraffes across the river that bisects the national park, the Victoria Nile, to the south side of the river. Giraffes don’t swim, and the forced containment is considered key to their survival. Dr. Bolger’s research assistant, Michael Brown, carries on the Rothschild’s Wild-ID research when Dr. Bolger returns to academia.

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giraffe subspecies to individual species. Such a shift could clear the path for greater legal and policy protections if the newly designated species are in severe collapse, such as in the civil war ravaged Democratic Republic of Congo, where the Kordofan subspecies has dropped by almost half in 30 years to an estimated 2,000 giraffes. Amassing critical and accurate data can drive legal protections already available. The Red List highlights the building tensions and attracts financial and NGO support to conservation efforts.

Indeed, shortly after the IUCN put giraffes on the “vulnerable” list in 2016, five major wildlife-protection organizations petitioned the US Fish and Wildlife Service to name the giraffe an “endangered species,” a designation that can spur protections such as banning imports of giraffe trophies, skins, and bones. Americans are believed to be the worst traffickers in giraffe parts. The petitions are pending before the FWS. Meanwhile, Wild-ID’s creator, Professor Farid, though no longer actively involved in the Wild-ID project, noted the program he developed is being freely applied around the world. Diverse scientists are using it to study and protect species as diverse as salamanders, lynx, trout, chameleons, butterflies, toads, terrapins, and anacondas, among others. Because the program was developed with a federal grant, it is not copyrighted and is available free to all users.

“I think there’s this tendency for academics to be seen as being sort of away from the real world—we just work on our esoteric problems,” he noted. “But I’m not really like that. I actually like to work on problems that will have an impact on the real world— presumably a good impact.” H

ONLINE EXTRA

Watch a video of Dr. Derek Lee and his partner and spouse Monica Bond working among the giraffes in Tarangire and feeding digital images into their field computer Wild-ID program at www.hereinhanover.com.

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Take a step back in time

A cobblestone street in Fiumalbo, Italy.

Opposite: A stairwell into one of Fiumalbo's quaint neighborhoods.

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April, I had never heard of this tiny comune (municipality), population 1,400, in the province of Modena in Italy’s Emilia-Romagna Region— better known to Americans as the Apennine Mountains of Northern Tuscany.

The purpose of my trip was spring skiing with two friends, Gianfredo Puca, an Italian from Naples, and Anne Nordhoy, a Norwegian who now lives in the United States. Our destination was Abetone, a ski resort five miles up a winding mountain road above Fiumalbo.

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During our first day on Abetone’s slopes, the snow seemed to melt under our skis. After a couple of hours struggling to make turns in the heavy slush, the base terminal of the gondola looked more brown than white, so we declared it lunchtime. Gianfredo, who had visited Abetone several times in the past, suggested a little café he knew. “It’s not very far down the valley,” he explained. “It’s in Fiumalbo. I would like to take you there.”

A MEDIEVAL TOWN ENCHANTS In Italy, every meal is a dining pleasure. The food is fresh and “five star,” even the pizza, and the midday meal is often the largest and most leisurely. Anne and I looked forward to whatever dining suggestion Gianfredo might have. After all, there are no wrong 76

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We changed quickly and got into Gianfredo’s car. As we wound down toward the valley from the ski resort, I peered out the car window from the back seat. Steep hills plunged into deep valleys, recently free of snow and bearing the first signs of spring. Early flowers and greening tufts of grass caught my eye, though the trees clung tightly to their buds. Nudged by the warm sun, this part of the world was just winking awake after a long winter slumber.

Suddenly, the car took a very sharp turn to the right, down what looked like a steep narrow driveway. Gianfredo braked hard as he maneuvered slowly around several tight switchbacks.

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TRAVEL TIPS Getting There: There is no train station in Fiumalbo. Take a train to Modena, Bologna, or Firenze (Florence), then travel to Fiumalbo by rental car or on an ATCM bus.

Lodging: Few tourists come to Fiumalbo, so lodging options in the village are limited to a handful of local inns, all inexpensive: Hotel Appennino, Albergo il Laghetto, Albergo Val del Rio, Albergo Bristol, Albergo La Carinzia, Albergo Alla Sorgente, and Albergo Bel Soggiorno.

Food: Most of the restaurants are in the old section of the village, where you can find excellent local farm to table fare: Ristorante da Dorio Di Lenzini Maria Rita, Ristorante Pizzeria il Bruco Di Bonacchi, Bar Pizzeria Colo, Ristorante Casablanca, Il Borghetto Di Rocchi Lauri, and La Capanna Dei Celti Di Matteoni Leonello.

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with an umbrella-shaded table or two for patrons wishing to imbibe in both the food and the fresh air. Beyond the cafés lay a couple of narrow cobbled streets barely a car-width wide, several stairwells, and a very old church. Any sense of urgency utterly evaporated. The hubbub of the ski resort seemed hundreds of miles away, or more accurately, hundreds of years later. It was as if we had passed through a time warp.

Gianfranco led us to one of the cafés. A 20-something waitress greeted us and gave us wine glasses. There were no menus, only the special pasta du jour. As Gianfredo took care of the food and wine, a black cat padded by, glancing at us briefly before trotting away on an unknown mission. A bird serenaded us from a blooming dogwood. Fiumalbo enchanted us.

CHIESA DI SAN BARTOLOMEO The owner-chef of the café came out to say hello as we finished our meal. She sat with us for a moment chatting in Italian with Gianfredo.

She was in no rush, as we were her only customers. “She says be sure to see the church,” translated Gianfredo.

After paying our bill, we walked the short way to what looked like one of the oldest buildings in the heart of Fiumalbo, a thick-walled church with a sculpture of Saint Bartholomew peering down from one of its hulking gray walls.

The historical centerpiece of this tiny, well-preserved medieval village is Chiesa di San Bartolomeo, or Saint Bartholomew’s Church, which was built in 1592. The current church was constructed over an even more an-

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cient church that dated back to 1220. The café owner assured us the door would be open, but the heavy wooden door itself proved the most interesting part of the church, with geometric shapes, soldiers, and horsemen carved into it. One of the friezes on the portal showed only two people on horseback, one of which looked like an important woman. “Who is she?”

I wondered aloud.

“Probably the Contessa Matilda,” replied Gianfredo. Matilda of Canossa (1046–1115) was a countess of Tuscany who is most remembered for her role in the 11th century conflict between Pope Gregory VII and the Holy Roman Emperor, Henry IV. In 1077, an armed confrontation between the emperor and the pope took place at Matilda’s Canossa Castle. A close friend of Pope Gregory VII, Matilda sided with the Catholic Church. After Henry IV was excommunicated, she continued to wage war against him now and again, sometimes personally leading her troops. She also helped finance the Pope’s army.

THE VILLAGE After learning about the history of the church and Matilda, we took a walk around the small village. The narrow streets were a labyrinth of stone, smaller centuries-old churches, houses, and tiny shops, all haphazardly yet charmingly crowded together. My sense of direction quickly vanished, but I had no fear of getting lost because of the compact nature of the place.

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Eventually we came to an archway through a wall, which seemed to mark the boundary of the village. We assumed the wall protected the village during feudal times. Outside the wall, the Torrente San Francesco (river) had not yet reached full spring run-off.

We could see an old seminary perched above the river and imagined young priests taking a break from their lessons to stroll along the very path we walked.

The outer wall had a stone sidewalk built into it that ran along the waterway, then eventually curved back inside the village through another gate. Just inside that second gate, we came to a small canal with a large wooden waterwheel in it. We surmised that, before modern plumbing, the waterwheel pulled water from the river into that part of the village.

As we strolled, we wondered how many generations of each family still lived in Fiumalbo. A man wearing a butcher’s apron chatted with a woman walking her pint-sized terrier. An elderly man leaned on his cane, talking with great animation to another elderly man who dozed on a bench. Several school kids ran by, shouting greetings at us. How special to be part of this tiny Italian town, if only for an afternoon. H

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Telemedicine connects patients and doctors, from anywhere in the world CAN’T MAKE IT TO THE DOCTOR’S OFFICE? NEED TO SEE YOUR PROVIDER BUT CAN’T GET IN FOR A COUPLE OF WEEKS? NOT A PROBLEM. Telemedicine, also known as telehealth, can connect you with your physician—or another health care provider—from the comfort and convenience of your home via smartphone, laptop, or computer.

“The doctor is in, anytime, anywhere, anyplace,” says Dr. Andre Berger, founder of the Rejuvalife Vitality Center in Beverly Hills. “Telemedicine holds a lot of promise and is growing in terms of adoption.” According to the American Telemedicine Association, more than 10 million people have made virtual visits to their health care providers, and the number is growing as health insurers such as Anthem Blue Cross and United Healthcare provide coverage for these visits depending on your plan.

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“It’s not meant to do everything,” Dr. Berger says, “but it allows the doctor to provide a diagnosis and discuss a treatment plan.”

UNPARALLELED CONVENIENCE “There are a lot of opportunities and advantages,” Dr. Berger says, among them convenience and accessibility to your family provider as well as other experts. “A lot of patients want access to treatment and expert opinion but can’t travel to the source,” he says. “This gives them access and choice to a higher level of expertise.”

It also enables access to providers for people in rural or underserved areas, for example. Telemedicine can serve as an initial consultation that can be followed up by the patient’s doctor or even serve as a second opinion to a diagnosis.

Being able to speak with your doctor from home provides unparalleled convenience, as appointments are more flexible and can be done anywhere via a secure link on a patient’s mobile device or computer.

“The quality of the audio and video technology has improved, making it possible for interactions that are two-dimensional,” Dr. Berger says. This enables the doctor to see the patient’s body language, which can be an important form of communication that provides more information than a phone call or text would, he says.

“When we think about it for cosmetics and anti-aging, video allows us to see the patient and the detail we need to help the patient. It’s very exciting. It provides most of the clues we need to give sound medical advice.” The high level of security that’s built into the system makes telemedicine HIPAA compliant, ensuring the same level of privacy and security one would have at the doctor’s office.

WHAT TO EXPECT “The important thing to remember is that, with a telehealth visit, the same rules apply as at an office visit,” Dr. Berger says. All the pertinent information is gathered in advance, and an appointment is made. The patient can go online, schedule a visit, and explain what he or she wants to discuss or have examined. The appointment is confirmed, and a link with instructions on how to sign in is sent.

“When it’s time, you push a button and connect,” Dr. Berger says. It’s not meant to address an urgent situation, he cautions. The visit is documented the same as a regular office visit would be.

The interactivity of telemedicine allows patients to ask questions and show the physician areas of concern. In the cosmetics and dermatology field, it also allows for comfortable full-body assessments in the privacy of a patient’s home.

“It’s not meant to do everything,” Dr. Berger says, “but it allows the doctor to provide a diagnosis and discuss a treatment plan. It saves patients a trip to the office and gives them a chance to think about what they want to do.” Additional questions can be addressed at follow-up telemedicine visits or in person.

Similarly, there are enormous benefits post-treatment. “It’s a great way to follow up with patients who can’t come in,” Dr. Berger says. The doctor can make sure things are going according to plan. Medications, except for controlled substances that require hands-on assessment, can be prescribed, and vital signs can be documented, allowing medical personnel to manage and monitor various conditions.

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homebound for a variety of reasons, virtual visits can improve access to good health care.

“The benefits are significant,” Dr. Berger says. Medical history is documented, the patient is evaluated, a treatment plan is discussed, and any medication prescriptions can be mailed to the pharmacy. Patients can be directed to nutritionists or wellness coaches and “prescribed” sanctioned videos and other medical information that can be viewed online at the patient’s convenience.

“It’s a whole new way of providing access so patients all over the world can have this kind of care.” At Dr. Berger’s Rejuvalife Vitality Center, which specializes in cosmetic treatments, “we do three to four telemedicine visits a day, both new patients and follow-ups, and we’ve just started.”

Telemedicine also provides an opportunity for patients to get second opinions from high-level practitioners and learn about treatment options, pros and cons, and alternatives their regular health care provider may not know about or suggest. “The beauty of this is that you’re not geographically restricted.

If you can’t get in to see your doctor, you can schedule a visit with another doctor for a consultation,” Dr. Berger says.

The costs of telemedicine visits are less than offi ce visits, and for many, the value lies in time saved not traveling or waiting in offi ces. “It’s an important advance,” Dr. Berger says, “and it will grow as people become more aware and more physicians offer this service.” H

For more from Dr. Berger, see his book THE BEVERLY HILLS ANTI-AGING PRESCRIPTION.

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THE HOOD MUSEUM OF ART@ DARTMOUTH COLLEGE The Hood Museum of Art is free and open to all. Public programs are free unless otherwise noted.

Visit hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu for more information, or call (603) 646-2808.

EXHIBITIONS

HOOD DOWNTOWN While the Hood Museum is under construction, visit the Hood’s downtown Hanover exhibition space to explore new contemporary art. Join us for social gatherings, talks, and educational programs, and explore an innovative slate of loan exhibitions featuring art in a variety of media. Many of these works by a diverse group of artists will be on view in Hanover for the first time. The exhibitions will be challenging and engaging—and fun—for both campus and community audiences. Located at 53 Main Street, Hanover, NH.

Above: Sin-ying Ho, Rosy Garden—Unification No. 4, 2010, porcelain, high-fired reduction, hand-painted cobalt pigment, over-glaze enamel, clear glaze. Courtesy of the artist and Ferrin Contemporary.

Below: Sin-ying Ho, One World, Many People, No. 2, 2010, porcelain, hand-painted cobalt pigment, high-fired under-glaze decal transfer, glaze. Courtesy of the artist and Ferrin Contemporary.

Visit hoodmuseum.dartmouth. edu/explore/museum/ hood-downtown for more information and current hours.

March 30–May 27

Sin-ying Ho: Past Forward If Chinese ceramic art has a heart, it beats in Jingdezhen. For centuries, artisans there have made vessels that traveled far and wide. Their fluid forms and recognizable decorations have inspired celebratory prose and devoted followers around the world. Today, Sin-ying Ho works in these same ceramics factories. Though Jingdezhen potters have long defined tradition, Sin-ying has expanded both their forms and their imagery in contemporary ceramics that are thoroughly of the 21st century. She makes her works—whether they are monumental vases or smaller, more clearly assembled sculptures—from multiple parts. She emphasizes the many parts by glazing each of the pieces differently. Together they form a whole that maintains the legacy of being created from myriad fragments.

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SPRING EVENTS April

12 ∂ Art and Innovation Speaker Series:

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5 ∂ Student Reception for Sin-ying Ho:

Let’s Make Some Sound Rebecca Drapkin is a composer and sound designer for interactive immersive media who works in Boston. While at Dartmouth, she focused on sound installations, live-media programming, and electronic instrument building. At the Thayer School of Engineering, she taught musical audio principles to engineers and programmable fabrication techniques to artists. Event co-sponsored by DEN and the Hood Museum of Art. ▷Hood Downtown, 7–9pm

9 ∂ Adult Workshop: Exploring Form

Past Forward Explore the new ceramics exhibition and meet the artist. Light refreshments provided. Wine for 21+ with state ID. Free and open to all Dartmouth students. ▷Hood Downtown, 7–9pm

6 ∂ Public Opening Reception: Sin-ying Ho: Past Forward Explore the new ceramics exhibition, enjoy light refreshments, and meet the artist. ▷Hood Downtown, 5–7pm

7 ∂ Conversations and Connections: An Afternoon with Artist Sin-ying Ho In this informal discussion, chat with Sin-ying Ho and John Stomberg about Ho’s ceramics on view. Limited seating is available. ▷Hood Downtown, 2–3pm

25 ∂ Lunchtime Gallery Talk: Exploring Chinese Culture through Sin-ying Ho’s Porcelain This gallery talk will examine a long Chinese pottery tradition and its contemporary transformation through works of the potter Sin-ying Ho from Jingdezhen and New York. ▷Hood Downtown, 12:30–1:30pm

and Surface This discussion-based workshop focuses on the ceramic works in the exhibition Sin-ying Ho: Past Forward.

Using centuries-old traditional ceramic-making techniques developed in Jingdezhen, China, Ho creates intricately detailed porcelain sculptures that combine traditional fine-line cobalt painting with contemporary digital decal printing.

We will create a series of drawings to help us explore the relationship between the varied forms of her sculptures and their densely decorated surfaces. No artistic background required. This workshop is free, but space is limited. Please sign up online

by May 6. ▷Hood Downtown, 6–8pm

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17 ∂ The Dr. Allen W. Root Contemporary Art Distinguished Lectureship: Times out of Joint: or, When Arab Art Will Have Been Modern This talk performs a double investigation of historiographic accounts of modern and contemporary art made in North Africa and the Middle East. On the one hand, it considers several artists whose work might be said to operate in the temporality provided by the grammatical “future perfect.” On the other, it historicizes the role of the contemporary art critic in trying to write these selfsame artists into the history of a future that their work hopes to enable. ▷Carpenter 031, 4:45pm

19 ∂ Family Workshop: Exploring Contemporary Ceramics What do Wonder Woman and Chinese porcelain have in common? In this family workshop, children and their adult companions will explore the work of ceramic artist Sin-ying Ho. Through facilitated discussion and gallery activities, we will learn about how she combines traditional porcelain painting with familiar images from pop culture to create fascinating visual juxtapositions. In the studio, families will experiment with a transfer process using magazine images and will work together to create a large-scale collage inspired

by Ho’s work. For children ages 6–12 and their adult companions.

This workshop is free, but space is limited. Please sign up online by May 16. ▷Hood Downtown, 1–3pm

HOPKINS CENTER EVENTS @ DARTMOUTH COLLEGE hop.dartmouth.edu For information, tickets, or pricing information, call the Hopkins Center Box Office at (603) 646-2422 or visit hop. dartmouth.edu. The Hopkins Center Box Office is open Monday through Friday from 10am to 6pm.

Sally Pinkas

Leslie Odom Jr.

19 ∂ Anthony Hudson: Looking for Tiger Lily ▷Warner Bentley Theater, 7 & 9:30pm

March 30, 31 ∂ Dada Masilo: Giselle

20 ∂ The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain ▷Spaulding Auditorium, 8pm

▷The Moore Theater, 8pm

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22 ∂ An Evening with Leslie Odom Jr. ▷Spaulding Auditorium, 8pm

5 ∂ Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma ▷Spaulding Auditorium, 7pm

26 ∂ Inon Barnatan, Piano ▷Spaulding Auditorium, 7pm

6, 7 ∂ Gob Squad Collective: War and Peace ▷The Moore Theater, 8pm

10 ∂ Sally Pinkas ▷Spaulding Auditorium, 7pm 12 ∂ Daymé Arocena ▷Spaulding Auditorium, 7pm

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28 ∂ Dartmouth College Gospel Choir ▷Spaulding Auditorium, 2pm 28 ∂ HopStop Family Show: Alissa Coates ▷Alumni Hall, 11am; CSB Community Center, 3pm

Everybody Loves Pirates

Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble

May 5 ∂ Dartmouth College Wind Ensemble ▷Spaulding Auditorium, 8pm

6 ∂ Dartmouth College Glee Club ▷Rollins Chapel, 2pm

12 ∂ HopStop Family Show: World Music Percussion Ensemble ▷Alumni Hall, 11am 12 ∂ HopStop Family Show: Frogtown Mountain Puppeteers: Everybody Loves Pirates ▷CSB Community Center, 3pm 12 ∂ Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble ▷Spaulding Auditorium, 8pm

19 ∂ Handel Society of Dartmouth College ▷Spaulding Auditorium, 8pm 25, 26 ∂ Dartmouth Dance Ensemble ▷The Moore Theater, 8pm 25, 26 ∂ Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra ▷Spaulding Auditorium, 8pm

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HAPPENINGS: SPRING 2018 MARCH ∂ APRIL ∂ MAY

Making Music inspires creativity while exploring the science of musical instrument design.

Through August Exhibit: Making Music: The Science of Musical Instruments

March 26, April 17, 21, 26, May 6, 26 Color Mixing

March 24, April 15, 20, 25, May 5, 20 Hoopster Gliders

March 27 Elementary Students and Climate Change: Exploring the Poles

Learn to build a glider that soars through the air! ▷11am

Montshire Museum of Science One Montshire Road Norwich, VT (802) 649-2200 www.montshire.org

March 24, April 1, 15, 18, 20, 22, 25, 27, May 5 Lab Coat Investigations

We’ll use the Arctic and Antarctica as starting points for introducing climate change into your elementary classroom.

For teachers of grades 2 through 6. ▷8:30am

Each Lab Coat Investigation explores a different topic. ▷3pm

March 27 Artificial Intelligence and Responsible Design

March 25, April 17, 21, 26, May 6, 26 Mirror, Mirror

Dr. Eugene Santos explores what exactly artificial intelligence is and can do, and the implications of this technology on society. ▷6:30pm

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March 31 Cardboard City Become an urban planner and architect as we design, create, and build! ▷12pm

April 1, 18, 22, 27, May 12, 27 Microscopic Investigations ▷11am

April 2 Tinkering in the Library This full-day workshop just for librarians will be full of low-cost, easy-entry tinkering projects, along with information about facilitation, environment, and sourcing materials. ▷10am

April 2, May 7 Books and Beyond: Science for Preschoolers Each week presents a different book and a fun, hands-on experiment for children ages 3 to 5 and their parents or caregivers. ▷10:15 & 11:30am

April 3 Gardening with Intensity: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Gardeners ▷1pm

April 6 Montshire Makers Come and spend First Fridays exploring new skills and hanging out with friends. ▷6:30pm

April 7, 16, 23, 28, May 13, 28 Straw Rockets ▷11am

April 7, 16, 23, 28, May 13, 28 Fossils: Evidence of the Past ▷3pm

April 8, 19, 24, 29, May 20 Skulls ▷11am

April 8, 19, 24, 29, May 20 Sound Science ▷3pm

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HAPPENINGS April 13 Montshire Unleashed Join us for the perfect date night or postwork happy hour! ▷6:30pm

April 16–20 Spectacular Science April Break Camp Explore a different topic each day with engaging projects and fun games. ▷9am

April 23, 30, May 7 Afterschool Adventures (for K–2) Explore science and nature using handson experiences and real experiments. ▷3:30pm

April 25–May 16 Young Scientist Program: Session 5 This program for preschoolers and kindergartners integrates hands-on experiments, fun projects, and individual explorations in the physical and natural sciences. ▷Morning session: 9:30–11:30am ▷Afternoon session: 1–3pm

May 1 Dahlias: How to Grow Them and How to Love Them ▷1pm

Howe Library 13 South Street Hanover, NH (603) 643-4120 www.howelibrary.org March 19 Cine Salon: Distant Montages Films: Beginning (1967), Inhabitants (1970), Seasons of the Year (1975), Life (1992), End (1994), We (1969), Our Century (1983). ▷7pm 92

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March 22 Ledyard Gallery Opening Reception: Immersive Tactiles Howe Library invites you to join us for a reception for Immersive Tactiles, an exhibition by Sue Wheeler. ▷5–7pm

March 26 You Come Too Help us celebrate Robert Frost’s birthday!

Bring a favorite Frost poem to recite or come to listen and enjoy. ▷6:30pm

April 2 Cine Salon: Avant-Gardes Film: Selections from DVD, Avant-Gardes: Chef-d’-oeuvre du cinéma experimental (2017). ▷7pm

April 16 Cine Salon: The Sun Shines Bright / Carolee Schneemann Films: The Sun Shines Bright (1953) John Ford, Carolee Schneemann at Pittsburgh Filmmakers (1978). ▷7pm

Norwich Bookstore Norwich Square 291 Main Street Norwich, VT (802) 649-1114 www.norwichbookstore.com April 6 Robin MacArthur: Heart Spring Mountain ▷7pm

April 11 Liniers: Macanudo: Olga Rules ▷7pm

April 12 A Grace Paley Reader: A Tribute ▷Dartmouth College, 5pm

April 19 Blair Braverman: Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube: Chasing Fear SPRING 2018 • HERE IN HANOVER

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HAPPENINGS and Finding Home in the Great White North, Cleopatra Mathis Poetry & Prose Series ▷Sanborn Library, Dartmouth College 4:30pm

April 25 Reeve Lindbergh: Two Lives ▷7pm

May 9 Alexander Chee: How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays ▷7pm

May 16 Melanie Finn: The Underneath ▷7pm

Other Noteworthy Events

books, and a sealed-bid auction. Proceeds support scholarships for VT and NH students at Mt. Holyoke, Simmons, Smith, Vassar, and Wellesley Colleges.

March 17 Introduction to Wool-Spinning Workshop Learn to spin sheep fleece into yarn, starting with a primitive forked stick.

▷Lebanon High School, 9am–5pm Sat, 9am–3pm Sun (half-price day)

five-collegesbooksale.org

▷Enfield Shaker Museum, 10am–12pm www.shakermuseum.org

April 25, May 30 Genealogy Drop-In Group

March 27, April 24 Disaster Planning Workshop

▷Norwich Historical Society, 10am norwichvthistoricalsociety.org

▷Norwich Historical Society norwichvthistoricalsociety.org

May 2 First Wednesdays: Mourning Lincoln Public responses to Lincoln’s assassination have been well chronicled, but New York University Professor of History Martha Hodes is the first to delve into personal and private responses—of African Americans and whites, Yankees and Confederates, soldiers and civilians. In this talk, she investigates the reaction on a human scale to America’s first presidential assassination, when the future of the nation was at stake for everyone whether they grieved or rejoiced at the news.

April 11 Wine Tasting ▷Norwich Inn, 5pm norwichvthistoricalsociety.org

April 21, 22 Five Colleges Book Sale One of New England’s largest book sales with over 50 categories of carefully sorted, modestly priced books, both fiction and nonfiction. Included in the sale are a large collection of children’s books, DVDs, CDs, audio books, videos, special collectibles, rare

▷Norwich Congregational Church, 7pm

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A visit with

Rubi Simon

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New director of the Howe Library in Hanover

At her previous position as the director of the Fletcher Free Library in Burlington, Vermont, Rubi Simon was described as “a visionary leader.”

What is your vision for the Howe Library?

I have found through my career that no library is the same.

It’s the community that sets the goals and priorities, which makes the process of creating new services or programming exciting. I encourage staff to think in the same way and to be creative. This is an exciting time for libraries. There are so many amazing programs and initiatives going on in public libraries, particularly around emerging technologies.

Our goal in the next year is to develop our digital literacy services and hopefully create some innovative programs.

In general, how have libraries continued to serve as relevant community assets in an era of instant Internet access for information?

Libraries are still functioning in their fundamental capacity, which is to ensure access and the dissemination of information. Having instant access does facilitate certain services, but communities still need support to navigate the flood of information. As libraries, we adapt to any format; it doesn’t matter if it’s print or digital, and we support our communities through the process. In terms of instant Internet access, we try not to take this for granted. There is still a large gap between people who do not have access or can’t

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afford access. In our work, we talk about the digital divide and its implications on communities all the time.

How does your passion for civil rights make you a better library director?

My passion for civil rights is one of the primary reasons I became a librarian. This profession, because of its level of community engagement, allows me to work with people daily and create ways for us to connect with the world around us. We as librarians are information managers and equalizers, and by understanding how information is disseminated, we ensure that we provide access to communities beyond ours. It was the Aspen Institute that said, “Libraries have become hubs of civic engagement and support the fostering of new relationships and strengthening the human capital of the community.” This is how I see my primary role as a librarian.

What pursuits or activities do you enjoy away from work?

My husband and I have three children, so most of our time is spent keeping up with them. We’ve recently moved to Hanover and are slowly making our way through all the great community events of the Upper Valley. H