Fall 2005 Contents

From the Editor

%FromtheEditor%right% The sky was flawlessly blue this morning, the view from the steps of Miller Library to the east reaching halfway to Belfast. With first classes still a day off, the campus was quiet, with a few early-risers crossing the academic quad. I stood for a minute taking in the morning, then went to write about another morning, half a world away but with a direct line to Mayflower Hill.

This one takes place in northern Thailand, near the Burmese border. The view is of cloud-shrouded mountains; the village is called Huay Pu Keng. For the past few months it was home to... Read more »

• Ruani (Ru) S. Freeman (�,From the Ashes,�Š P. 20) is a freelance writer and social activist living in Waterville. She directs the Maine-based Sahana Project (www.sahanaproject.org), a post-tsunami relief effort focused on her native Sri Lanka.

  David Treadwell (�,Ties That Bind,�Š P. 10) is a freelance writer who lives in Brunswick. He specializes in writing institutional materials for select colleges and has had articles published in the alumni magazines of Bowdoin, Connecticut College, and Brown University. .

  Alison Jones Webb �‰81 (�,Torture Chronicles,�Š P. 36) is a freelance writer and president and owner of Webb Management Services, a consulting firm that provides project management, advocacy, grant writing, research, and other services to nonprofit organizations in Maine.