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    Can I Get a List of Those Books?

    October 23, 2018  |  by William McMahon
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    One of our number one goals when a family visits Thacher is for them to come away with a very clear understanding of what makes Thacher Thacher. To that end, we have crafted a visit day that includes the usual …
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    Parting Words for the Class of 2017

    September 6, 2017  |  by Michael Mulligan
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    A few months ago we gathered on our Upper Field to celebrate Thacher’s 128th commencement. Others have encouraged me to publish here the parting words I shared then with our seniors and their families. Here they are: We now come …
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    On Teenage Defiance

    September 20, 2016  |  by Michael Mulligan
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    A recent article in the New York Times offers this catchy headline:   Can Teenage Defiance Be Manipulated for Good?   The author is accurate in that teens slide quickly to polarization and respond well, therefore, to hero-villain scripts. They …
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      The Long View

      December 11, 2018 By Blossom Beatty Pidduck

      A few days ago my 10-year-old daughter confessed to me that she hasn’t been doing very well in her language arts assignments at school. My eyebrows immediately went up (according to my kids this is my instant “tell” of displeasure). …
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      Can I Get a List of Those Books?

      October 23, 2018 By William McMahon

      One of our number one goals when a family visits Thacher is for them to come away with a very clear understanding of what makes Thacher Thacher. To that end, we have crafted a visit day that includes the usual …
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      Happy Campers

      May 21, 2018 By Joy Sawyer-Mulligan

      Standing in the grocery store line a couple of days before Thanksgiving, four items beyond Express Lane maximum, I tore my gaze away from the magazine racks (recent challenges for Britney, the Queen’s real feelings about Kate, how Jen stays …
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      In Stark Relief

      December 28, 2017 By Joy Sawyer-Mulligan

      If you think of the land as a palimpsest—a piece of fabric or hide, sturdy pergamena or velum, here wrinkled, here smooth—on which human and natural history is written and rewritten, then what are fires? Are they a kind of malevolent …
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      Time and Looking

      December 22, 2017 By Joy Sawyer-Mulligan

      We’d come indoors, Beto (José Cortez, Thacher Facilities) and I, from picking up the smaller downed limbs in the yard and raking some of the other detritus ripped from trees around the house in the demon-winds of that first night. …
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