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...well-cropped grass and several cars in the driveway, but I knew that my grandmother saw something quite different. She leaned over my shoulder to rethread the bobbin I habitually tangled as she taught me to make a patchwork quilt. She was transported. She looked out the same window, but instead saw the hills of central Kentucky of 70 years...
...grandmother taught me the ways of this land, a land of winding dirt roads and hills peppered with rolls of hay perched on hillsides like giant spools of thread. In my Currier dorm room, I have a patchwork quilt on my bed and pencil holders made of reused tea canisters on my desk. It is a direct result of the strength and permanence of Appalachian values and Granny’s—my family’s—diligence in their preservation...
...Harvard’s inaugural Playwrights Festival, which was held April 23 through April 26 at the New College Theatre. The festival of staged readings was the culmination of the semester-long efforts of undergraduates in English Camr: “Advanced Playwrighting 2,” a workshop taught jointly by Briggs-Copeland lecturer Christine M. Evans and Gideon Lester, the 2008-2009 director of the American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.). “[Evans and I] both felt that although seminars are good for introductory playwrights, in the end playwrights really learn best when they get to collaborate with...
...While the class was initially conceived and taught by Giribet, soon after she arrived at Harvard, Extavour approached him about co-teaching so that she might be able to contribute her unique perspective. Giribet, who specializes in invertebrates, embraced Extavour’s focus on embryonic development and began teaching the course with her this year...
...When Oppenheimer taught, she was typically the youngest person in the room. “They were all adult classes, but I knew all of them and I was friends with them,” she recalls. She fondly refers to the dancers as her “adoptive parents...