Meet Mary and Jen
Hello, Eagle! Our names are Mary and Jen, and we are excited to visit. What exactly are we doing, you might ask?
It’s simple: we want to meet young people and talk to them about technology: cell phones, computers, and social networking sites. We want to spend time with Eagle’s movers and shakers, and as journalists, document their stories for a dynamic new multimedia project.
So lend us your ear, and we will lend you ours. Send us a message or leave a comment if you know someone worth talking to when we get there.
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Mary Buttolph grew up in Virginia and attended Virginia Tech, earning a degree in fisheries science. After working for the U.S. Forest Service in the Pacific Northwest and the Intermountain West, she decided to return to school to study photography. She earned a degree from the Rochester Institute for Technology before pursuing a master’s in photography from Syracuse while serving as a teaching fellow and a research assistant. Buttolph hopes to focus her journalism efforts on the environmental challenges and opportunities facing the world.
Jennifer Ward has an honors bachelor’s degree in literature from the University of Winnipeg, Ward, a native Canadian, brings creativity and innovation to her storytelling. Her 27 years of meeting new people and exploring new places brought her to journalism, where she finds comfort among dinosaurs: the printed word. A spring intern at the Syracuse Post-Standard, Ward’s work has appeared in numerous small publications, community newspapers and magazines. She writes a food blog at www.freshcrackedpepper.com, and for a break from her computer screen, trains for triathlons and tries to spend as much time outside as possible.
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My friend and I met Mary on Sunday June 14 at the top of the stunningly beautiful Hanging Lakes trail near Glenwood Springs. She’ll remember - my friend is a teacher and pursuing a doctorate in education. Mary was wonderfully engaging and we really enjoyed talking with her.
As for myself, Mary will remember I have a middle-school daughter who has unlimited texting, an ipod, a laptop, and all that. And I have a son stuck in his video games. My daughter could counter that I’m never far from my laptop. But that’s my job, I say. I concede writing to you with my laptop from a hotel breakfast area has absolutely nothing to do with my job other than that’s where I should be going right now…
Mary, we are very interested in your work and we talked about you during the remainder of our road trip. We both plan to follow your blog, and hopefully apply some new insight to our relationships with our children! Thank you for taking such a wonderful picture of us together - you really know photography!