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From the McMullen Museum
A 17th-century workhorse ritual book
Once removed
by Carolyn Megan
The children were disturbed, the parents hard to read. Was this family safe?
A reader’s notes
Love and death
Antidotes & fortifiers
For whatever ails
The competition
by John L. Mahoney
Applying to college has never been easier—or more stressful. BC's director of admission explains why
From the senior project exhibition
Oil and burned tobacco on canvas
Hooked
The flies of a champion
Custer’s field
by James S. Brust, Brian C. Pohanka, and Sandy Barnard '65
At the Little Bighorn, the camera doesn't lie. Nor does it banish all illusions
From the Burns Archives
Message on a two-by-four
Honeymoon Snapshot: Diptych
by Suzanne Matson
Dorothy Donnellan, 1930–2006 I. Bermuda sunning in golden-green maillot, she slips straps artfully off white shoulders, inviting us to linger on the beauty of a molded clavicle. Dorothy Donnellan—a starlet’s name— the new “Mrs.” attached like a charm to the woman slowly burning pink in the direct, unfiltered honeymoon sun. After dusk: a dinner […]
Necessity
by Jim Barry '66
Jim Barry '66 put aside his hat, gloves, wallet, and cell phone. The next 24 hours would be a lesson in homelessness
Call of the rails
by Todd DePastino '88
For a time in America, the hobo was a hero and Jack London, his agent
From the McMullen Museum
An Islamic composition
