Lindsay Crater started third grade at Idyllwild School, finished eighth grade and, like many, went on to Hemet High. This August, she returned to her alma mater to teach fourth grade. “I grew up here,” said Crater. “It’s still the same magical place, as open and beautiful as it was when I was a child.”…

Argentina-born Monica Dietrich overheard a mother pig’s conversation with her piglets when she was eight. She thought nothing was out of the ordinary until she told others. “I thought everyone does this,” she recalled.