I am pretty sure she was a little disappointed when I turned into the Kent Pond parking lot. Can someone really get excited about the 100 acre pond that you pass by all year long on the way to the […]
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Arts, Dining & Entertainment, Movie Diary
A break in the action
When I was in college, my friends and I decided to vacation to Florida during spring break week. One of the guy’s parents lived near Ft. Lauderdale, so we made a plan to drive down in one 24-hour stretch, hang […]
Arts, Dining & Entertainment, The Outside Story
Headwater streams are vital sources of clean water
By Barry J. Wicklow For nearly 15 years, I have been exploring the headwaters of a river near my home. The entire drainage area, encompassing all the streams, rainfall, and snowmelt that pass into a single river, is called a […]
Arts, Dining & Entertainment, Mountain Meditation
Riding over the mountains: an expedition to a rodeo wedding
Building a Killington Dream Lodge, Part 10 As the ski house we were building in Killington grew, I did, too, from age 7 on up. I entered adolescence and continued helping with various tasks. My latest assignment was pretty exciting […]
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The animals are counting on us
The Earth is beautiful, That should never change, The earth is natural, And it should stay that way. Magical and wild, The earth has always been, Sunning and gorgeous, It should always be. But our earth is slowly losing, What […]
Column, Cosmic catalogue
A quiet moment amidst the storm
As the dust begins to settle upon the chaos that April has been, thus far, don’t be fooled into thinking the storm is over. While the skies are quiet comparatively to what they’ve been, this is simply a chance to […]
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Bookstock cancels summer event after 14 years
Courtesy Bookstock Book lovers seen at a recent Bookstock event selceting from a wide variety of literature. Bookstock, the summer literary festival in Woodstock, cancels its annual event after 14 years. After 14 years of annual literary festivals, Bookstock is […]
Column, Mountain Meditation
Crêpe breakfast tradition at sport hill
Building a Killington Dream Lodge: Part 9 Dad was on a mission to build our ski lodge so wasn’t thrilled by invitations to escape our Killington work camp. But Mom and I were elated and ready to get off “the […]
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Two guys, Ives and Quinn, and the end of Baseball’s color barrier
By Bruce Bouchard John Turchiano, a retired union official and a close friend of 50 years, and I often talk baseball. What follows is from a chat we had recently about Jackie Robinson and the reversal of the color barrier in […]
Column, Looking Back
Quotes that seniors can relate to
“Old age comes at a bad time!” – Sam Banducci I think retirees will agree with that statement. We work all our lives and once we retire we finally have time to do all the things we dreamed of doing. […]