I’m one of those people who keep things long after I’ve ceased to need them. For instance, my raw material for stories has long been the daily newspapers that come into the office from all corners of New England. I pore over the Maine Sunday Telegram, the Providence Journal; the Hartford Courant; the Cape Cod […]
We recently painted our house and found wood rot, which necessitated a lot of repair and replacement work on the clapboards. What can we do to prevent wood rot? — J.T., Swanzey, NH Homeowners should inspect for wood rot annually. This is a good time of the year to check the condition of exterior trim, […]
For 24 years, vaudevillian Mark “Woody” Keppel has slipped into the skin of his alter ego, Woodhead. Hitching up his Bermuda shorts, tripping over props, flailing away on any instrument that’s handy, and juggling with frantic fury, he’s entertained on six continents, in theaters from Beijing to Berlin. “I’m just out there humiliating myself for […]
Twenty-eight miles long, barely four miles across at their widest point, the three bridge-linked Lake Champlain islands and one peninsula of Grand Isle County offer spectacular water’s-edge views of the Green Mountains and Adirondacks. Summer sojourners looking to enjoy Lake Champlain often head for Milton, Vermont’s Sandbar State Park, with its broad beach, safe shallow […]
So I strap the bike on the back of the Subaru, reluctantly decide against one more cup of coffee at the Willard Street Inn, and head for the islands. In Vermont, “the islands” means the islands of Lake Champlain, and most often, the big ones north of Burlington: South Hero and Grand Isle, North Hero, […]
By David Lyon and Patricia Harris Vermont is New England’s vertical state, where things are always looking up — unless you’re staring down a black diamond ski run at Killington or Stowe. Lacking the saltwater coast of the rest of the region, Vermont compensates with its knobby spine of the Green Mountains and the nation’s […]
(Read more about Ira and Ethan Allen in a Yankee Classic from 1981.) Vermont is different from the other five New England states. For one thing, as true Vermonters are very quick to point out, it was never one of the original 13 states. In fact, in 1777, a couple of years after the Revolution […]
Mark and Clark (Gaier and Frasier, respectively) — the affable and elegant grow-it-yourself restaurateurs from Arrows and MC Perkins Cove in Ogunquit, Maine — have opened Summer Winter at the Burlington (MA) Marriott. Early reports indicate that they haven’t quite found their rhythm in what must be such odd environs for them. Timing and service […]
From Yankee Magazine October 1981 (Also, read about the Ira Allen House, Yankee‘s House for Sale this month.) Vermonters have always been proud of the fact that their state was an independent republic before it joined the United States. Ethan and Ira Allen are justly famed as the leaders who steered that independent course. But […]
Conflict is nothing new to Swanton Red marble, as the rock itself was born of a cataclysmic continental collision. Five hundred million years ago, western Vermont lay beneath a shallow inland sea where billions of generations of tiny marine creatures lived and died, littering the ocean floor with their chalky shells. The shells eventually became […]
The Marble Man came in the spring, when the rushing Missisquoi River tumbles gray and white past forgotten mills in Swanton, Vermont. He could have been just another regular at Pam’s Place, swapping stories over coffee with the locals — hunters and fishermen, dairy farmers, truck drivers, border-patrol officers, and commuters to St. Albans and […]
Beat the winter chill at the Maritime Aquarium in South Norwalk, CT, the best aquarium you may never have heard of.
