In The Trenches (ITT), the quarterly news magazine of the National Association of Geoscience Teachers, started with the goal to "provide a venue...to inform NAGT members about your best teaching ideas, resources or other special topics relevant to our profession that do not lend themselves to more research-focused journals" (David Steer, first editor of ITT). Nearly eight years later, ITT still holds to that goal and invites participants at the Earth Educators Rendezvous to come by and talk about both the history and future of ITT with its current editor.