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LOOMIS CHAFFEE

As we look to the East we see the Meadows. We don’t see the Connecticut River, which is blocked by the trees at the back edge of the sprawling fields. But out of sight should never be out of mind.   

“For us at Loomis Chaffee, the Connecticut River is a major part of our ecological landscape,” said Marley Matlack, the Christopher H. Lutz director of the Alvord Center for Global & Environmental Studies.   

It is, too, for other schools located near the river that flows for more than 400 miles through New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, and Connecticut before reaching Long Island Sound. The river is, noted Marley, a natural resource that we must preserve and protect.    Read More