Assembled before the hikeThe freshman class made their first hike up to the Rock with Dr. Curtis–and Friday! Thanks for Mr. Kelly for the great photos.

By Kendall Carpenter ’11Commencement Address, May 29, 2011First Monday of the first week of my first year at Deerfield. Tying my sneakers tightly, I waited at the horse’s head for my first trip to the all-famous Rock. Nervously I surveyed the scene, boys and girls oozing the same curiosity I knew I must have been [...]

Read the new issue of the Deerfield Magazine online.Read about Dr. Little’s science class in his article River/ Valley/ Rock:“Bedrock was squeezed upward to form theHimalaya-sized Appalachian Mountains. The compression and heat of these orogenic events transformed Deerfield’s deep bedrock into metamorphic rock types such as gneiss, schist, slate, and marble.”Read Ellie and the Georgics by Naomi [...]