You can’t live in Vermont for very long if you don’t embrace snow. While we have so much in our driveway I don’t know where I’m going to put the extra 6-8 inches they’re calling for tonight, I can still appreciate the beauty.
Snow was falling,
so much like stars
filling the dark trees
that one could easily imagine
its reason for being was nothing more
than prettiness. -Mary Oliver
Ashley Weeks Cart, having graduated with a double major of studio art and women and gender studies, added that she also loves living in a community where the arts are “deeply valued” and also easily accessible in a way that wouldn’t be the case in a city. This, she said, is going to offer “great benefits for our kids.” In the meantime, they sometimes have to stay at home with babysitters, but even this highlights another positive thing about Williamstown: “my kids’ babysitters,” she said, “are some of the smartest people in the world.”
A brief profile of young alums (ha! I can’t believe that I still get to lay claim to that title) working at Williams in the College newspaper this week.