The President delivers the State of the Union address. I can only offer a state of affairs on a sprawling campus in central New Hampshire. I'll let the photographs lead. It's very cold on North Street at 8:00 AM.
Now let's pry into classrooms. In ninth grade science, students are working in teams of three constructing box-like structures, that may, or may not, survive future seismic shocks.
Their building materials are sweet and salty. In place of cinder blocks and mortar, we're working with sugar cubes glued together with smooth peanutbutter. Dylan has the latter all over his hands.
Just down the hall, students in Advanced Placement Environmental Science are documenting findings on global climate change on the whiteboard.
In the Wise Center, where students hang out during free blocks, we can only guess what Irene and Lia are studying.
This social science class is working in Lovejoy Library.
If all of these guys were hockey players, or basketball players, I wouldn't worry about what they're enjoying so much. That's not the case....
