2000s, Alumni, Entrepreneurship
Cannabis Trailblazer
Michael Sims ’00 is the co-owner of Middlebury-based FLORA, one of three stores in Vermont to welcome long lines of customers on October 1, the first day of legal recreational cannabis sales.
2000s
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2000s, Alumni, Athletics, Identity
A Boost for Adaptive Sports
In September 2022, the 17th annual Kelly Brush Ride raised more than $1 million to help people with spinal cord injuries afford cost-prohibitive adaptive sports equipment.
Sharing the journey to recovery
Clay Moorhead ’02 shares his motivation for giving back to Middlebury. Sober for nearly six years, Moorhead wants to help others who face addiction. “There is a better way of life,” he says.
2000s, Alumni, Arts, Language, Culture, Identity
Mister Miss America
Neil D’Astolfo ’07.5 portrays Derek Tyler Taylor, the first male contestant in his small-town beauty pageant, in the off-Broadway solo show Mister Miss America at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater.
2000s, Alumni, Arts, Language, Culture, Experience
The Adele of Audiobooks
Julia Whelan ’08 has established herself as the voice narrating hundreds of audiobooks, including Gillian Flynn’s thriller Gone Girl and Tara Westover’s memoir, Educated.
2000s, Alumni, Arts, Language, Culture, Identity
Award-Winning Short
A film by Jude Dry ’09 won “Best New England Short” at this year’s Provincetown International Film Festival.
2000s, Middlebury College, Alumni, Arts, Language, Culture
Antler Boom
Every spring, shed hunters head to the woods looking for deer and elk antlers that may fetch thousands of dollars or social media fame.
2000s, Bread Loaf School of English, Arts, Language, Culture
Words of Undoing
Guernica magazine recently published a poem by Kellam Ayres, MA English ’07. You can read or listen to “Tenement” online.
1980s, 2000s, Middlebury College, Language Schools, Alumni, Athletics, Politics & Government
Top of Their Game
2000s, Middlebury College, Alumni, Arts, Language, Culture
Righteous Gemstones
Cassidy Freeman ’04 talks about playing a devoted, firearms-toting wife in a televangelist family on HBO’s The Righteous Gemstones.