CBS spotlights Titcomb construction

As Dartmouth students, we cannot help but admire the awe-inspiring scenery that surrounds our campus. Apparently CBS can't resist the green mountain charm either. CBS Sunday Morning producer Mary Lou Teel '78 referred to the Upper Valley as "one of the most beautiful corners of the world," in an interview with DartmouthNow.

That's one of the reasons that the CBS Sunday Morning decided to dedicate one of its weekly segments to Dartmouth's efforts to rebuild Titcomb Cabin on Gilman Island, which burned down in 2009.

Teel, along with comedian and host Mo Rocca, spent two days filming the story in collaboration with students in the production of the segment to be aired this Sunday at 9 a.m. Students paddled with Rocca in canoes, while Teel rowed alongside with other members of the camera crew in a pontoon boat. Once they arrived at the construction site students, Rocca, crew and students worked on the nearly finished cabin construction. Rocca eagerly awaited an opportunity to use a chain saw, DartmouthNow reported.

It is expected that more than one in 60 Americans, five million in all, will tune in to watch Rocca and students in the construction of the cabin. How about that for publicity!