Nell Porter-Brown

Casbah Nights

It is strangely joyful to walk down the narrow, Colonial-era streets of Charlestown, lit by vintage-style gas lamps, and through the doors of...

Back to School

Christoph H. Schmidt '55 and his wife, Babette, initially retired to their summer home in Cushing, Maine, but after several years, they moved...

Edward Conlon Blue Blood NYPD

Edward Conlon '87 cruises the streets of the South Bronx in an unmarked car looking out for Angel, an 18-year-old drug dealer suspected in the...

Where Next for Healthcare

Howard M. Spiro '44, M.D. '47, went to medical school partly because his father and grandfather told him to. "And in the 1940s," he...

Making Things Happen

Last fall, World War II veteran Lawrence Lader '41 and several octogenarian Harvard classmates marched in uniform in front of the White House to...

Hooray for Harvardwood

Alumni in Hollywood rolled out the red carpet for 14 undergraduates who flew to Tinseltown during intersession for "Harvardwood 101,...

The Road to Romance

"I'm at that age where I'm crossing the threshold from high-school-fantasy concepts of romance to the brutal, painful, hopeless world of adult...

The Originals

During a late-night bull session at Winthrop House in 1965, Harvard undergraduates Jeff C. Tarr '66 and Vaughan Morrill '66 dreamed up what was...

The Joys of Adult Education

Nearly 30 years after his college graduation, John W. Cobb '49, Gp '94, finally hunkered down to tackle what he'd always wanted to learn:...

Milan in the Back Bay

It was a fluke—not happenstance, but the fish—that epitomized our visit to Via Matta, the stylish new restaurant across the street...

At Home on the Range

Harvard brothers tend to a cattle ranch in Wyoming

A "portion of the People"

When Dale and Theodore Rosengarten sent out the invitations to their son's bar mitzvah in 1993, their northern friends and family members barely...