In El Salvador, life had become quite tiresome for Emely Alfaro-Zavala ’21. She left home early in the morning and came home late at night after a 10-hour…
Yeongha Oh ’21 was a child when she moved to the United States with her parents and big brother, Chan ’18, in 2002. At just 3 years old,…
In Estill County, along a stretch of the Kentucky River, five turbine generators are converting a million gallons of water per minute into clean electricity. The 13-foot tall,…
As a kid, Vidya ’23 liked to tinker, mainly with vacuum cleaners. With just a screw driver and a natural mechanical ability, he’d take them apart and put…
Sometimes a labor assignment can lead to a lifelong passion. For Tim Marema ’85, it also led to the creation of a rural news website that is read…
Frances ’22 When Frances ’22 looks out the window of her Fancy Gap, Va., home, there’s not much to see. “There are more cows living on my road…
When the late Alex Haley, author of “Roots,” took William Turner to the Museum of Appalachia in Norris, Tenn., a short distance from the Haley estate, both men…
Every other summer, the blue and white Berea College bus winds its way over a narrow, mountainous road in eastern Kentucky, rock wall to the left, nothing but…
Chase ’21 has worked in the Woodworking program with Student Craft for four years. His favorite piece to make is the Forest Stool. Photo by Tyler Rocquemore ’22…
Trudy Morrison Fd.’63 has a long history of dealing with microbes. Her father, Berea College biology professor Seth Gilkerson ’38, would send her out into the flora around…