Landscape Confidential: Forked trees
A tree can tell you a lot about the forest. If you learn the patterns of the forces that shaped the tree, you know a little bit about the history of the woods around you.
In This State: Schools of fish provide sustainability lesson
Four thousand years ago, Egyptian fish farmers raised tilapia in ponds along the Nile; now a northern Vermont teacher is raising the fish at school.
In This State: For Bob and Kim Gray, it’s been a satisfying cultivated life
Their 4 Corners Farm in West Newbury ranks as one of Vermont’s larger market enterprises, diversified in so many edible directions a visitor’s head is left spinning like a salad drier.
‘A great way to move forward’: Thetford’s Carmen Tarleton reveals new face
She arrived at yesterday’s news conference wearing a sunflower pinned to her pink button down shirt and a scarf wrapped around her head. She spoke through lips that appeared frozen, yet functional.
In This State: The branding of Vermont
The English visitor was struck by the beautiful sight of fields ripe with grain, grazing cows, lush woodlands, including a towering pine, and in the distance the blue peaks of the Adirondacks. Inspired, he sketched the panorama on a drinking mug carved from an ox horn.
In This State: Filmmaker Jay Craven and author Howard Frank Mosher mine the Kingdom
At the Burlington premiere, Craven called the making of “Northern Borders” a big step in his effort to create “sustainability” in regional film production.
In This State: For this gardening couple, life’s been a moving, busy experience
Their 24/7 lifestyle as owners of a hands-on flower farm puts them outside every day, immersed in natural beauty and meeting an endless parade of people.
In This State: The smell of paper and the business of books
“Everything’s a treasure in its own way,” says Sonny Saul looking around his Pleasant Street Books in Woodstock, where John A. Graham’s book is just one of many treasures for sale.
Five years in the making, new Vermont Breeding Bird Atlas takes flight
Editor Rosalind Renfrew said the atlas will be an invaluable resource for researchers, planning commissions, public and private landowners, conservation groups and state biologists.
Madeleine Kunin looks at the past and to the future in the fight for women’s rights
Thirty-two percent of women make more than their spouses — that is very different from the time when Friedan’s book was published, and this is good news because it brings the family income up significantly.
