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Welcoming an incoming class of about 200 students, Bennington College’s convocation speaker, college librarian Oceana Wilson, urged those gathered in the Usdan Gallery on Tuesday to look to the future.

Mountain Man, the up-and-coming folk trio of Amelia Meath '10, Molly Sarle '12, and Alex Sauser-Monnig '09, continued to impress on their recent summer tour, which included a stop at the 2011 Newport Folk Festival (listen on NPR), and an "engrossing performance," according to The New York Times, at the famed Mercury Lounge.

Several Bennington students have presented work this month at community events around the region.