Main Street’s New Buzz

2006 Issue 1January 20, 2006May 2, 2014

Main Street’s New Buzz

ON A BRIGHT EARLY-AUTUMN SATURDAY AFTERNOON, pedestrians fill the central block of Main Street, which has been closed to vehicles for "Middletown Dances." A dance team from Middletown High School teaches "Hand Jive" on a temporary stage near Court Street. Onlookers young and old, of various ethnicit…

2006 Issue 1January 20, 2006May 2, 2014

Valley of Extremes

IT ALL CAME DOWN TO THE WIND ON VENTIFACT RIDGE. The wind—thousands of years' worth of sand-filled storms and sustained breezes blowing in excess of 50 miles per hour—had carved dramatic features into the solid rocks an…

2006 Issue 1January 20, 2006April 25, 2014

Dance of the Genes

"One of the great lessons I've learned from Liz [Lerman] in the three years we've worked together is the importance of 'rattling around in somone else's universe,'" writes Center for the Arts director Pamela Tatge '84 in…