High Mowing News

Thomas BUCHANAN '15 recently founded his own leather good production company. He specializes in custom-made leather backpacks, but also produces pencil cases, laptop cases, bracelets, and earings.

To order a custom-made leather backpack, visit the "Design Your Bag" section of the Lichen Leather website, which launched on December 7. During his senior year at High Mowing, Thomas made a leather backpack for his Projects Block experience walking the Camino Trail in Spain--watch the video here.

Without a Map: A Memoir

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Meredith HALL '67 recently appeared on an episode of Safe Space Radio to talk about her book "Without a Map: A Memoir." In both the interview and in the book she spoke about her teen pregnancy--and how Mrs. Emmet, founder of High Mowing, accepted her to the school after the child was born. Meredith said that Mrs. Emmet "saved her life" by creating a refuge from the stigma and the shunning that had followed her since her pregnancy became known. Spending her senior year at High Mowing, which she described as "idyllic," allowed her to recover and to chart a new course for her life.

Listen to the interview here, and buy her book here.

Meredith Hall is a writer and professor emeritus at University of New Hampshire. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, Creative Nonfiction, The Southern Review, Five Points, Prairie Schooner, and several anthologies.