Any high school graduate who thinks that college is merely a next step should walk a mile in Gabe Acheson’s shoes. When the Park School graduate arrived Thursday at Yale University, he’d walked nearly 400 miles, fulfilling a promise he’d made in his application to the Ivy League school, and to himself, to not just embark on a new adventure but create one.

Acheson set out from his Rodgers Forge home on July 29, with a 35-pound … Read More »