Potash Hill Marlboro College | Spring 2019 Return to Table of Contents Spring 2019 | 1 | Potash Hill POTASH HILL ABOUT MARLBORO COLLEGE Published twice every year, Marlboro College provides independent thinkers with exceptional Potash Hill shares highlights of what Marlboro College community opportunities to broaden their intellectual horizons, benefit from members, in both undergraduate a small and close-knit learning community, establish a strong and graduate programs, are doing, foundation for personal and career fulfillment, and make a positive creating, and thinking. The publication difference in the world. At our campus in the town of Marlboro, is named after the hill in Marlboro, Vermont, where the college was Vermont, students engage in deep exploration of their interests— founded in 1946. “Potash,” or potassium and discover new avenues for using their skills to improve their carbonate, was a locally important lives and benefit others—in an atmosphere that emphasizes industry in the 18th and 19th centuries, critical and creative thinking, independence, an egalitarian spirit, obtained by leaching wood ash and evaporating the result in large iron and community. pots. Students and faculty at Marlboro no longer make potash, but they are very industrious in their own way, as this publication amply demonstrates. ALUMNI DIRECTOR: Maia Segura ’91 EDITOR: Philip Johansson PHOTO EDITOR: Richard Smith STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERS: Clayton Clemetson ’19, David Teter ’20, and Emily Weatherill ’21 STAFF WRITER: Emmett Wood Photo by Noah Woods ’14 DESIGN: Falyn Arakelian Potash Hill welcomes letters to the editor. Mail them to: Editor, Potash CLEAR WRITING BY SAM AMBER ’18 Hill, Marlboro College, P.O. Box A, Dark Dark Trees Marlboro, VT 05344, or send email to
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