A woman in Middlebury is finally recognized for creating a monument to Emma Hart Willard, a local luminary and pioneer in the education of women.

Ken Burns's latest documentary explores the causes and effects of one of the worst man-made environmental disasters in modern times-the Dust Bowl. The first part in the two-hour series previews Friday, July 13 at Dartmouth's Hopkins Center.

Historian Nicholas Clifford says the devastation of Irene may not quite equal its 1927 counterpart, but it does merit comparison: