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.
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.
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.
In This State: Thai Phat – a neighborhood market with an Asian taste
Consider the produce: long beans, Japanese yams, fresh bamboo, fuzzy squash, banana blossoms, and various greens wrapped in plastic and simply labeled “Asian vegetable.”
In This State: Don Heise, the iceman of Curtis Pond
What Heise has created over the years is not only a recreation gathering spot and pond hockey paradise but a thriving outdoor winter community.
In This State: Five hundred teacups and counting
The East Barre Antique Mall is a repository of stories about times gone by.
In This State: Tim Matson is Vermont’s supreme ponderer of ponds
He is finding that pond owners these days are confronting a whole new set of challenges that come with erratic weather, possibly the result of global climate change.
In This State: Artist Kathleen Kolb finds “moments of sublime contact”
Kolb hopes to soothe and comfort people. “I want my art to contribute to their sense of place, their sense of home, their joys and responsibilities.”
In This State: For botanical artist Bobbi Angell, the beauty is in the details
Angell has long worked with the prestigious New York Botanical Garden and for a dozen years she illustrated garden columns for the New York Times.
In This State: Steve Young thinks globally, botanizes locally
Most Vermonters know of Steve Young from the Center for Northern Studies, which he founded in 1977.
