Author and conference co-director Les Standiford opened each evening reading at the Eckerd College Writers’ Conference: Writers in Paradise with a “guy walks into a bar” joke. The terrible punchlines usually earned an equal measure of giggles and groans from the enthusiastic audience of writers and readers in Eckerd’s Dan and Mary Miller Auditorium.

Read and written by Ashlyn Fransen '24. For the web version, and photos, visit https://www.eckerd.edu/news/blog/20th-year-writing-conference/

The scent of hot chocolate and sugar cookies laced the air as students crafted their own seashell ornaments, watched Frosty the Snowman and learned more about the Remora App in Triton’s Pub during the Eckerd College Environmental Responsibility Committee’s Waste-Free Winterfest on November 30.

Read and written by Claire Barnett '27. For the web version, and photos, visit https://www.eckerd.edu/news/blog/environmental-responsibility-committee-winterfest/

While cookies baked in the oven, filling Eckerd College’s Zeta lounge with the sweetened aroma of chai, Taylor Swift Society members sat together and chatted about their favorite memories from The Eras Tour.

Read and written by Grey Curcio '24. For the web version, and photos, visit https://www.eckerd.edu/news/blog/eckerd-college-taylor-swift-society/

Every week in Triton’s Pub at Eckerd College—a private liberal arts college on Florida’s Gulf Coast—a group of creative students gathers in a cozy, couch-filled corner to explore hobbies such as knitting, crocheting and sewing. The spicily named club—Stitch ’n Bitch—exists to foster space for relaxation, crafting and venting.

Read and written by Ashlyn Fransen '24. For the web version, and photos, visit https://www.eckerd.edu/news/blog/crochet-club/

Flyers plastered on the Starbucks wall in the James Center for Molecular and Life Sciences at Eckerd College ask a simple question: “Need your dorm room cleaned?”

Read and written by Claire Barnett '27. For the web version, and photos, visit https://www.eckerd.edu/news/blog/entrepreneurship-course-cleaning/

Isabel Warren had been working at her internship for less than a week when she noticed something that most people would never consider valuable. Or even approachable.

Read and written by Tom Zucco. For the web version, and photos, visit https://www.eckerd.edu/news/blog/squid-fertilizer-college-farm/

When Working Food’s co-founder Melissa DeSa was growing her first Seminole pumpkins—a variety originally grown and cultivated by the Calusa, Creek and Miccosukee peoples—she realized only one company supplied the seeds.

Read and written by Grey Curcio '24. For the web version, and photos, visit https://www.eckerd.edu/news/blog/resilient-food-communities/

A room full of students, faculty, staff and friends in Eckerd College’s Fox Hall listened actively to a remarkable woman whose words were chosen to stick with the audience forever.

Read and written by Claire Barnett '27. For the web version, and photos, visit https://www.eckerd.edu/news/blog/roslyn-clark-artis-lecture/

Within the first few days of Autumn Term in 2020, Madyson Woodburn decided she wanted to lead outdoor fitness classes at Eckerd College.

Read and written by Grey Curcio '24. For the web version, and photos, visit https://www.eckerd.edu/news/blog/student-fitness/

“Let’s talk about the weather,” said Emily T. Yeh, Ph.D., the Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar speaking at Eckerd College’s Dan and Mary Miller Auditorium on Nov. 9. But this conversation went far beyond small talk.

Read and written by Ashlyn Fransen '24. For the web version, and photos, visit https://www.eckerd.edu/news/blog/phi-beta-kappa-scholar-weather-modification/