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Treading Softly
Linda Tatelbaum

Associate Professor of English Linda Tatelbaum moved to Maine in the late 1970s as a back-to-the-land idealist who wanted to live a simple life. She and her husband, Kalman Winer, bought a few acres in a town near the coast, parked their "funky pink trailer" in the middle, hired a local contractor to dig a hole and pour a foundation, imported some friends and built a one-room, passive solar house, sweating and swearing and making mistakes. They ate fresh vegetables from their garden and drew water from their spring. Tatelbaum canned their excess produce--enough for a year--using a Coleman stove. She stored the bounty in jars in the cellar. On October 16, 1977, Tatelbaum wrote in her journal: "I've been hard cider, fermenting, caught in a bottleneck. Hard cider, hard times. But today I feel uncorked, effervescent & free."


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A new book co-written by Robert Weinstein '76, The Kids' College Almanac: A First Look at College (Gerson Publishing, 270 pages) attempts to demystify the world of higher education for students just beginning to think about attending college.

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