Issue: Summer 2020: Related Content

by Joann Bromberg ’63

by Lynn Donovan McCann ’58

An excerpt from the introduction to Michael Pollan's bestselling book, How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence.

As the biographer of Amelia Earhart, I had concluded that her plane would never be found in my lifetime.

I once thought it impossible that our democracy would fail. I now believe failure is not only possible, but happening.

In my first term at Bennington, my mother died. I didn’t know it then but that was the beginning of my spiritual journey.

This is the wrong question for African American Bennington alumni.