“Wow—look at all that blue sky! You didn’t put in any of our grey winter clouds,” June Pichel Cook, the local reporter noted as she assessed the new mural, its paint still wet. “Yes, this is an idealized version,” Sarah Mutrux, the Art House’s executive director replied, “but we feel it celebrates the best aspects […]
Julia Shipley
Dave Brown likes to make things. Along with his wife, Ann, he’s hewed most of their home’s furnishings: beds, tables, desks—everything but a brown couch and a reading chair that outfit the house they built. When it came time to make the spindles for the ladder back chairs, Dave purchased a second hand lathe, which […]
S.D. Ireland’s truck number 6 sits in the third bay of the garage on Grove Street in South Burlington, being prepped for its next outing. Unlike the concrete trucks in the first and second bays, number 6 won’t be delivering concrete for sidewalks, driveways, foundations, footings or bridges anytime soon. Its drum has been washed […]
Here in Vermont, there are still more barns from the last two to three centuries than there are box stores from this one. Armed with Thomas Durant Visser’s Field Guide to New England Barns and Farm Buildings, and The Vermont Barn Census brochure of “Historic Barn Types,” my recent Sunday drive to gaze at these inspiring […]
Craftsbury Common is a handsome patch of grass surrounded by pretty white buildings. Depending on the season, this 2.2 acre parcel of land might be the site of a soccer game, a farmer’s market, a concert, a Hitchcock movie* (*see caption on last photo), or the finishing line of cross county ski race. According to […]
Dog Mountain, home to the world’s only dog chapel, offers hiking trails, a pond, and a collection of Stephen Huneck’s humorous, colorful, dog-oriented art.
It’s admittedly counterintuitive, calling the sensation of wearing almost no clothing in 20° to 30° air and 38° ocean water “warm and fuzzy,” but that’s precisely how Nantucket Islanders describe the feeling on Children’s Beach on Thanksgiving morning. Nantucket’s “Cold Turkey Plunge” pulls some 500 big and little dippers out of bed and away from […]
<!– _ It’s the size and shape of an ice cream truck. And certainly kindles the same enthusiasm, “They’re here!” shout the kids of a North Troy day care, as the big white truck lumbers down their long dirt road. Yet it’s not ice cream sandwiches and popsicles, they’re giddy about, it’s The Lunch Box […]
The Museum of Everyday Life is a self serve, honor system, roadside attraction, kinda like a farmstand, completely ensconced in an old cow barn along Route 16 in Glover, Vt. The Museum operates in much the same spirit the Bread and Puppet Museum, another cowbarn full of beautiful oddities five miles up the road, and […]
Two men have a vision for the future on a rural dirt road in northern Vermont. First step, plant trees.
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Northern Star
“Please take out your passports and have them ready for inspection,” Captain Andy Scott announces over the boat’s loudspeaker as we glide right into Canada’s waters on Lake Memphremagog, a 28 -mile lake extending between the state of Vermont and the province of Quebec, Canada. Captain Andy is of course joking, (no passports needed), […]
Oh the donuts. I can smell them from fifteen miles away. Those crisp tender golden brown loops jumbled together in their glass jar turn my ecologically minded, calorie counting self into a reckless carboholic, burning my low- mpg- jalopy down a warren of pitted back roads: (along Seaver Brook to South Albany to Andersonville to […]