Olivia DrakeNovember 12, 20091min
Wesleyan's Long Lane Farm Club hosted the sixth annual Pumpkin Festival Oct. 31 at the farm on Long Lane. The event was open to the Wesleyan and local community. Activities included food, baked goods, live music, Farmer's Market vendors, pumpkin sales and painting, face painting, t-shirt designing and tours of the organic farm. Music was provided by the student band, 350 degrees, and faculty band, the Mattabessett Pickers. (Photos by Valerie Marinelli)

Olivia DrakeNovember 12, 20091min
Krishna Winston, the Marcus L. Taft Professor of German Language and Literature, dean of the Arts and Humanities and coordinator of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship, translated the new book, Don Juan: His Own Version, written by Peter Handke. The 128-paged book is published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.  It will be released in February.

Olivia DrakeNovember 12, 20092min
Wesleyan University Press published a photographic book about the Connecticut River Oct. 23. The photographs in The Connecticut River: A Photographic Journey Through the Heart of New England follow this major waterway for 410 miles, from its origin near the Canadian border to its wide mouth on Long Island Sound, giving readers a vivid portrait of a living artery of the New England landscape. Middletown is featured in the book. Author and photographer Al Braden opens the book with an essay introducing important aspects of the river, and Chelsea Reiff Gwyther, executive director of the Connecticut River Watershed Council, closes with…

Corrina KerrNovember 12, 20091min
Magda Teter, associate professor of history, associate professor of medieval studies, associate professor of feminist, gender and sexuality studies, is the co-author of "Out of the (Historiographic) Ghetto: Jews and the Reformation," published in Sixteenth Century Journal 40 No. 2, pages 365-393 in 2009.