The Big Trip: A Family Gap Year by Martha McManamy ’75
The Big Trip: A Family Gap Year by Martha McManamy ’75 Lulu Publishing, July 2014 Taking a year off from the “rat race” is an idle dream for many, but the McManamy family — including their three teenagers — decided to make it happen. The Big Trip: A Family Gap Year tells how they put high school, college and work on hold while they learned Spanish in Spain and volunteered in Bolivia, Guatemala and Kenya. Choosing home stays and local transportation over hotels and rental cars, they undertook a deeply immersive journey of“slow travel,” living simply, and experiencing life...
Read MoreThe Season of Migration: A Novel by Nellie Hermann ’96
The Season of Migration: A Novel by Nellie Hermann ’96 Farrar, Straus and Giroux, January 2015 Vincent van Gogh is one of the most popular painters of all time, and yet we know very little about the difficult period in his youth when he and his brother, Theo, broke off all contact. In The Season of Migration, Nellie Hermann conjures a profoundly imaginative, original and heartbreaking vision of Van Gogh’s early years. In startlingly beautiful and powerful language, Hermann transforms our understanding of Van Gogh and the redemptive power of art. Nellie Hermann was born in Boston and lives...
Read MoreA Kinder, Gentler Place: An Appeal to My Contemporaries
By Martha Rose Shulman When I graduated from Milton Academy in 1968, I did not look back. I kept in touch with close friends and a few of my teachers, and I visited the school once, but I never went to a class reunion and I never donated. Nor did my sister (Class of 1967). I always appreciated the amazing education I got at Milton, especially because I didn’t go on to lead a conventional life, and I’ve always believed that my Milton education gave me the intellectual confidence to do that. But I do not have fond memories of my time there. So I am more surprised than anyone that I am now a...
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