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Big Broadcast a Big Success!

Big Broadcast Takes Mount Holyoke Back to the Swingin’ 1940s On Sunday, March 10, the audience in Chapin tuned into WJAZ and traveled back in time to a 40s style radio broadcast. It was the eighth annual Big Broadcast, and in two acts the Mount…... » Read more

New Orleans Club Storms the Sazerac

New Orleans Club Celebrates MHC by Stormin’ the Sazerac For nearly half the twentieth century, when women in New Orleans wanted to drink the famous Sazerac cocktail—a mixture of whiskey, bitters, and absinthe—they had to wait until Fat Tuesday (Mardi Gras), the only day of the…... » Read more

Wine: Time in a Bottle

Wine is a time capsule. Every bottle tells a story,” says Nicole Brun-Cottan FP ’05, who gave up a career in glass artistry in 2008 and moved to Sonoma County, California, to apprentice at a winery. She lived in a 350-square-foot home with an outhouse,…... » Read more

Alum Blog: “Yankee Kitchen Ninja” Julianne Trabucchi Puckett ’91

Julianne Trabucchi Puckett ’91 is known to her faithful followers as the Yankee Kitchen Ninja, or “the Ninj” for short. This title might have something to do with her knife skills in the kitchen and the unorthodox recipes she features on her blog Adventures of…... » Read more