Dylan Banko was one of more than 1,500 graduates to complete their education at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs this year, receiving a degree in mechanical engineering earlier in May.

Marcia Barker, 63, a retired L.L. Bean inventory manager living in Boonton, N.J., on her jalopy racing car, as told to A.J. Baime. For years while I was working at L.L. Bean in Maine, I owned a ...