Heidi Marshall has never been a Girl Scout. She’s never even been to camp. But recently she’s donated time and engineering expertise to help build a new Girl Scout camp on the edge of Gregg Lake in Antrim, New Hampshire. The challenge, says Marshall, a civil engineer who graduated from UNH in 1985, was to do the necessary building without destroying Camp Chenoa’s beautiful wooded setting. . .

The community of Wakefield is home to seven villages: Wakefield Corner, Sanbornville, Union Village, Woodman, East, North, and South Wakefield. Some of these places hardly exist anymore, except as roadside signposts. But their names evoke an earlier era, a time when communities were small, when people put down roots. . .

Dawn was just breaking one morning in 1996, as Eleanor Briggs paused at the edge of a rice field in the Ayarewady Delta in Burma. The watery plain before her was dotted with feeding cranes, their slender profiles angled like remnants of some ancient script against the morning light.