“My mom was born into the war in Germany, survived that, and raised four kids as a single parent while working full-time.Anything that was in her way didn’t last long, and I think maybe I inherited some of that perseverance from her. She always believed in me. I realize these days that kids have so […]
Few Olympic athletes achieve the kind of success that swimmer Jenny Thompson did. Born in Danvers, Massachusetts, and raised in Dover, New Hampshire, she became the most decorated female American Olympic athlete to date, with 12 medals, including eight golds, over the course of her long career. Today, Thompson has embarked on a new life […]
Wolfie and Cheyenne were German shepherds, already old and infirm, who’d slept in the barn no matter how cold the night, when the author and his wife took them in. What a lucky ending for two rescued dogs.
Under the guidance of a master Vermont craftsman, the naked table project inspires anyone to build a cherished piece of family furniture.
Peter Martin built 3-foot-high raised wooden beds for vegetables, to minimize bending. The bonus is that they warm up early in spring, jump-starting early crops. Bush beans flop over the sides of the raised beds for easy picking and are free of ground slugs. Raised beds are for vegetables only; flowers go into the ground […]
Among the country-fair staples of hog calling, log rolling, tractor pulling, and other rural feats, is the iron skillet toss — the unique art of hurling a frying pan. Each July the Lamoille County Field Days in East Johnson, Vermont, hosts a “Ladies’ Underhanded Skillet Toss,” wherein females in six age divisions, from “Peewees” (7 and […]
A man down the road grows dahlias, the magnificent and ancient starbursts of color that in northern climes only really dedicated gardeners will grow. Ted and his wife, Wendy, are schoolteachers in another state. Several years ago, they bought this small dormered Cape as a summer place. It faces the mountain and was at that […]
The contemporary Maine art scene was largely created by groups of artists who got together following World War II to create such institutions as the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture (1946) and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts (1950) and to form cooperative galleries such as the Barn Gallery (1958) in Ogunquit, Maine Coast […]
The city of Boston is home to more than 50 colleges and universities, each churning out thousands of diplomas at graduation ceremonies every spring in recognition of noble scholastic achievement. Some Boston University graduates, however, are leaving school with a hard-earned appreciation of a subject other than Shakespeare or Socrates. In the basement of the […]
My three-year-old border terrier, Harriet, has been a big discipline problem since day one. Black with a white star on her chest and brindle legs and face, she’s curious, rugged, and wicked cute. Good thing. She once chewed on the emergency-brake handle in my car so vigorously that the town fire chief had to pitch […]
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