Taking it to the Trail
By Jeff Wasserboehr, Contributing writer

Deep in the backwoods of northern Maine stands a 4,292 foot mountain called Katahdin. This illustrious bump in Earth’s surface marks the end of the Appalachian Trail for many northbound hikers, including Katherine Kessler, a writing and rhetoric professor. Surrounded by cone-shaped evergreens, it is not only fenced in by beauty, but it is the subject of the hiker’s final quest on an epic journey through more than 2,200 miles of wilderness.  The expedition to the foot of this beast is a magnificent one that spans across a 14-state stretch of terrain containing flatlands, mountains, boulders, valleys, lakes and rivers.  More...

Finding Your Center
By Lindsay Casale, The Breeze

Where can someone be a pigeon, a stretching dog, a cat or a tree in the course of an hour and a half? The answer: at any one of Harrisonburg’s dedicated yoga studios. More...