Live it: A professor teaches the cell-phone generation about prehistory — blood, guts and all

He was teaching her how to treat a hide in the way her prehistoric ancestors had done, to produce leather soft and strong enough to use as clothing. Nearby – but not so close that the deer fur might fly into the vat – other Washington College students were helping to brew beer. Inside in the kitchen, another small group was chopping vegetables, and a freshman from Delaware was reaching tense fingertips with pale-blue nail polish into a bucket of raw goose legs, face turned away, to begin making confit.