Spoiler alert: the Sound of Music is based on a real family who traded the Austrian Alps in for American slopes. Follow their footsteps on a weekend trip to Stowe, Vermont. — Photographs by Kyoko Hamada As the 1965 Oscar-winning best picture The Sound of Music fades out, the triumphant ending shows the von Trapps escaping Nazi-occupied Austria by crossing the Alps into the safe haven of Switzerland. But in 1938, the real family simply crossed the street and boarded a train…

During this season of giving, there is still room to help Puerto Ricans recover from the devastating effects of Hurricane Maria. — Photographs by Ian Allen Illustrations by Grace Hemler; map by Holly Wales IN SEPTEMBER 2017, Category 4 Hurricane Maria leveled 70,000 homes and 80 percent of Puerto Rico’s utility poles. For a community mired in a 12-year recession, it was a devastating blow. In the nine days following the storm…

I was one of the tens of thousands of people who ran for their lives at the Global Citizen Festival in New York City’s Central Park on Saturday All I remember is the silence. The eerie hollowness of tens of thousands of people running toward me in the dark, as…

One voice lost in a hundred can prove to have quite some resonance, as I discovered while singing in Lincoln Center’s debut of “In the Name of the Earth” First and foremost, I am not a singer. Yes, my mom put me in voice lessons in high school, I sang…

Yes, we all have a “Crazy Rich Asians” story. Yes, they all need to be told. And no, they don’t all look the same. — A Rachel who grew up in the Bay Area, lives in New York, and has Taiwanese roots? Quite literally, Crazy Rich Asians might as well be about me (well, minus the perfect Prince Harry-like boyfriend, but I’m open to that too). When I read Kevin Kwan’s book, I felt like…