Kelly Bower, the Emmaus High School librarian, is starting a Reading Olympics team this school year. Reading Olympics is a club where students read and discuss books given to them on a list, and then in the spring, they compete against other high schools...

The New Vrindaban Palace of Gold is located in the rural mountains of Moundsville, West Virginia. The Palace of Gold is a Hare-Krishna Hindu temple. It was founded by Srila Prabhubada, leader of the ISKCON movement — the International Society for Krishna...

Origami: the Japanese art or process of folding squares of paper into representational shapes. Hikari Inaoka has been practicing the art of origami since elementary school. From the time he was young, his grandparents in Japan would send him origami...

Additional reporting by Heather Fabritze.

Denial. Shame. Fear of being seen as something that I’m not.  These are all common emotions for someone with an “unusual” or misunderstood identity to feel. I have not felt these things because I am ashamed to be a person of color, someone who...