High Mowing News

Join us for our Spring Open House on April 24, 2018 from 9:30 - 11:30am.

Find more and register here.

High Mowing School is proud to present a musical production of Opposites Will Attract—The House of Four Temperaments at 7:30 pm on April 26, 27, and 28, 2018. It will be performed at the school’s Pine Hill Auditorium, located at 77 Pine Hill Drive in Wilton.

The 2018 Music on the Hill benefit concert series concludes the year with For the Beauty of the Earth (an Earth Day Concert).

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 now a professor of writing at University of New Hampshire. Her work has been published in The New York Times, Creative Nonfiction, The Southern Review, Five Points, Prairie Schooner, and several anthologies.

Peter MITCHELL '14 and Tristen RODGERS '14 are working to clean up trash in the ocean and to prevent future pollution. Together they founded a 501c(3) to organize cleanup events, to encourage companies to eliminate plastic waste, and to coordinate community education efforts. So far they have removed 2,300 pounds of trash from the ocean, and they already have several sponsors. Peter and Tristen are students at the University of Rhode Island.

Follow their efforts on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, and visit their website to learn more and get involved.