A beautiful late summer afternoon, and as I look out over goldenrod and purple loosestrife (I know, I know it’s on the Vermont Noxious Weed Quarantine list, but I think it’s pretty.), out toward trees tinged ever so slightly with bronze, I am thinking, what books should I tell about this week?
Vermont is not a place one typically wants to leave in the summer, and there isn’t much that can tempt me to head out of town between June and September, but there is one thing, and that is the ocean.
When it comes to the supernatural, couple Frank Chodl and Betz McKeown say they’ve got everybody covered.
Thrifted garments woven with plant fibers, carefully sculpted patchworks that look like mossy growths creeping out of the wall.
The first Grange on the Green concert this summer was dedicated to a lifelong member of the Grange organization, Dave Perrin.
It’s a beautiful day in northern Vermont but, holy cow, the wind is muscular, tipping over pool umbrellas, toppling tomato plants, ripping furniture covers off sofa and chairs, whipping up the wind chimes into a gaudy symphony that’s verging on ear splitting.
The Shelburne Museum presents the work of renowned British artist Paul Scott in the exhibition Confected, Borrowed & Blue:…
The Champlain Valley Exposition, a Vermont institution, along with its community partner Higher Ground, is working to bring more music to Essex Junction, with an ultimate goal of revamping the grandstand and growing its appeal as a venue.
The other day, while walking with my dogs on a path in the woods, I had this thought that the trees, grass, flowers, rocks, birds, bears, etc.
Naming this monthly column from Charlotte Grange “Stronger Together” was intentional. Not only is “stronger together” a core tenet of Grange as a community organization, the principle of cooperation and mutual support implied in the phrase is the core driving force of the living world.
Alan Taylor is an American television and film director. I’ve never met the man and had never heard of him until just now. The reason I’ve brought him up at all is he is my birthday twin.
The Pigeon Comes to Burlington: A Mo Willems Exhibit makes its debut at 10 a.m., Saturday, May 25, at ECHO, Leahy Center for Lake Champlain.
Shelburne Museum presents All Aboard: The Railroad in American Art, 1840-1955, an exhibition exploring depictions of trains in American visual culture during the rapid industrialization and expansion of the 19th and 20th centuries.
It’s a funny thing about books, how sometimes we love them and sometimes we don’t. Sometimes I will love a book, but another person will not love it at all.
Longtime Charlotte resident Jimmy Sheldon-Dean is presenting “Trouble and Together,” a salute to some of the composers and artists that have been his musical influences over the years in a free show at the Flynn Space just days after the eclipse, April 12 and 13.
My mother’s mother died in the 1980s and I really wish I had listened better when she told me things about her life. I loved her so much, and I definitely paid attention when she spoke to me. I mean, I didn’t ignore her, but I have forgotten a lot of details as, it seems, have my sisters.
Mrs. Price brought treats to school like Russian fudge. “If we were good,” Justine the narrator explains, “she said, there’d be more treats, because good things happened to good people.
Years ago, when my daughter was about 8 years old, a small group of friends and I gathered one winter afternoon at Village Wine and Coffee in Shelburne, where (some of you might remember this) there was — situated on the counter
“In April, millions of tiny flowers spread over the blackjack hills and vast prairies in the Osage territory of Oklahoma. There are Johnny-jump-ups and spring beauties and little bluets.
It’s raining again and I just ran around my house gathering up all the books I’ve read in the past few months that I have not yet written about in this column. I turned up: seven.