
Aug 23, 2018
Walls Come Tumbling Down
By Stephen Wilson Temperatures ranging from 116 degrees to -40 degrees. Rugged and exposed terrain. Lack of water, vegetation, and game. There was a reason…
By Stephen Wilson Temperatures ranging from 116 degrees to -40 degrees. Rugged and exposed terrain. Lack of water, vegetation, and game. There was a reason…
By Stephen Wilson It takes 300 hours of electricity, which is about 12 days, to make one simple cotton T-shirt. If that doesn’t sound like a lot of energy…
By Bill Landauer Markus Dubischar’s Elementary Latin class is seldom so elementary. Krista Yetter’s fifth-graders from Cheston Elementary School in…
A child, wearing an “Old Sparky” commemorative T-shirt, plays around a display of the electric chair where 361 prisoners sat between 1924 and 1964…
By Stephen Wilson Giving 7-year-olds sharp tools may not always be a good thing. Yet they sit transfixed as Nestor Armando Gil, assistant professor of…
By Stephen Wilson A presidential election crisis. Mass demonstrations. Political unrest. Police crackdowns. Sounds like scenarios across the globe over…
By Bill Landauer Silver tags and teardrops ripple on a chain-link fence near the center of Karl Stirner Arts Trail. Each inch-wide drop is hiding something…
By Stephen Wilson According to Pennsylvania Department of Health, the prescription opioid and heroin overdose epidemic is the worst public health crisis…
By Stephen Wilson Building stuff means getting messy, but gluing your fingers together? It happens more than you’d imagine as Cheston Elementary fifth-graders…
Lafayette collaborated with community partners to organize one-time service opportunities for students, faculty, staff, and alumni during Lafapalooza…