California's
Imperial Valley is a long way from Richmond, Va., where
TAYLOR
ANTRIM,'96,
grew up. And before profiling Jim Kuhn, '86, he'd never been
near a hay farm. "I was driving east from San Diego into the
middle of nowhere, trying to read a map and stay on the
road, when I realized I don't even know what alfalfa looks
like," says Antrim, '96. The San Francisco-based journalist
has covered everything from wineries to books (he's an
editor at Wine & Spirits and writes reviews for
the San Francisco Bay Guardian), but Kuhn's story
may have been his biggest challenge yet. "He was going on
about Sudan grass and the difference between Jersey and
Holstein cows," says Antrim, "and I felt a little over my
head. I kept thinking, 'When do I get to ride the
tractor?'"
Bay
Area freelancer NINA
SCHUYLER, '86, is equally at home penning poetry
for literary journals or reporting tech and business stories
for PC World, Working Woman, Health and
Newsday. But then, she's had an ambidextrous
education: economics at Stanford, a law degree at Hastings
and, in progress, an MFA in fiction from San Francisco State
University while she writes her first novel. Schuyler grew
up in Washington state and looked back north to situate the
book, whose anthropologist heroine probes the mysteries of
an obscure British Columbia tribe--and her own marriage. In
this issue, Schuyler covers Stanford's ventures in distance
education. She has mixed feelings about online
learning. "I think if it's used in conjunction with
classroom learning, or some form of community, it's a really
valuable tool," she says. "It's easy to marvel at
technology, get blinded by its brilliance and forget to look
at the value of learning alongside another human being."
NIGEL
HOLMES has a thing for
Eadweard Muybridge. It goes back to his art-student days in
1960s London, when he discovered an unbound copy of The
Horse in Motion at a library clearance sale. "I have kept it
within 50 feet of me ever since," the illustrator confides,
calling the 1882 book "a wonderful artistic reference."
Holmes has delivered lectures on Muybridge's photographic
work but says it wasn't until he diagrammed
the famous racehorse experiment that he fully appreciated
the man's technical wizardry. A former graphics director for
TIME, Holmes runs a design company in Westport, Conn. He's
also the hand behind that shadowy horse running through the
pages of our Farm Report--inspired by (whom else?) Eadweard
Muybridge.
California's
Imperial Valley is a long way from Richmond, Va., where
TAYLOR
ANTRIM, '96,
grew up. And before profiling Jim Kuhn, '86, he'd never been
near a hay farm. "I was driving east from San Diego into the
middle of nowhere, trying to read a map and stay on the
road, when I realized I don't even know what alfalfa looks
like," says Antrim, '96. The San Francisco-based journalist
has covered everything from wineries to books (he's an
editor at Wine & Spirits and writes reviews for
the San Francisco Bay Guardian), but Kuhn's 
Bay
Area freelancer NINA
SCHUYLER, '86, is equally at home penning poetry
for literary journals or reporting tech and business stories
for PC World, Working Woman, Health and
Newsday. But then, she's had an ambidextrous
education: economics at Stanford, a law degree at Hastings
and, in progress, an MFA in fiction from San Francisco State
University while she writes her first novel. Schuyler grew
up in Washington state and looked back north to situate the
book, whose anthropologist heroine probes the mysteries of
an obscure British Columbia tribe--and her own marriage. In
this issue, Schuyler covers Stanford's ventures in distance
education. She has mixed feelings about 
NIGEL
HOLMES has a thing for
Eadweard Muybridge. It goes back to his art-student days in
1960s London, when he discovered an unbound copy of The
Horse in Motion at a library clearance sale. "I have kept it
within 50 feet of me ever since," the illustrator confides,
calling the 1882 book "a wonderful artistic reference."
Holmes has delivered lectures on Muybridge's photographic
work but says it wasn't until he