Alison Bechdel’s comic psychodramas
It is lovely to see familiar characters from her previous “Dykes to Watch Out For” chronicles reappear in this memoir, as well as scenes from her father’s tale, now portrayed through another perspective lens.
Young novelist pictures a Randolph in dire straits by the year 2056
“Prussian Blue” explores what a meltdown of Vermont Yankee would mean for Vermont.
In This State: A sugaring family’s gamble paid off sweetly
Because of the Branon’s efforts, and that of fellow sugar-makers in the area, Franklin County is considered the state’s top-producing county.
Bennington Museum set to reveal exhibit on the secrets of local lingerie
How did Victorian women create the illusion of such impossibly tiny waists? How did they maintain hoop skirts of such epic proportions on the eve of the Civil War? Why are our whites white?
Abenaki tribes near state recognition
State recognition will open the door to educational and financial resources for the bands, according to Luke Willard, chair of the Vermont Commission on Native American Affairs.
In This State: How the old Socialist Labor Party Hall got its third life
Quarry workers not only raised money for the building – 50 families chipped in $23.08 apiece – but many helped with construction while still cutting rock six and a half days a week.
Mares on the gamut — from bees to rugby
The author talks to the American everyman and at the same time, manages to sprinkle his book with the erudite quotations of a broadly read intellectual.
A piano’s grand debut in the House
The piano was, in essence, marooned by the storm like many Vermonters, with no one to play it, a sad thing for an instrument with the exalted pedigree of a Steinway.
Fishing the deep freeze
Smoke billows up from the plywood shanties, where venison stew and perch fillets are cooked up in big black skillets. A slate-gray sky threatens even more snow.
In This State: Charlie Cogbill indeed sees the forest for the trees
Charlie Cogbill’s trees are toppling some textbook assumptions about the composition of eastern pre-settlement forests.
