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.
In This State: The woodstove guy
By Wilber’s reckoning, counting a batch in his barn, he has more than 350 stoves, many of which are broken down and of little value, except for parts. But you also get the sense he has difficulty just letting some go. Nostalgia is part of the business.
Review: Back in the zone with Phish
Phish played a concert last night in Essex, Vt. … and “it was all right.”
When the “Boys of Summer” grow old
For the jocks who retire from the game, the question is no longer: “Do I still got it?” The question is: “How long can I sustain what I got left?”
Barton woman hopes to beat Guiness world record for Cadillac parade
She doesn’t yet have 103 Cadillacs registered for the Barton parade, the number necessary to beat the current record of 102 set in 2002 in The Netherlands.
Stowe’s new performing arts center aspires to take center stage
The performance center, which was opened the week of Dec. 27, 2010, with a bevy of big-names like James Taylor, Ben Vereen, and Eileen Ivers and Immigrant Soul , is a rarity, and not just for Vermont.
