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Arts + Culture
Out of Darkness
Book review: The Abacus and the Cross: The Story of the Pope Who Brought the Light of Science to the Dark Ages
What springs to mind when you hear the phrase “the Middle Ages”? Perhaps something like the scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail… -
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Building Character
Vermont-raised sportswriter Buster Olney gets lucky
Sportswriter Buster Olney ends all his columns with the same line: “And today will be better than yesterday.” It’s a curious signature, given that Olney’s… -
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A Former Vermonter Tells Readers Why I Left the Amish
State of the Arts
Most of us take our hot showers for granted. Not Saloma Miller Furlong. Furlong, who grew up in an Amish community in Ohio, remembers… -
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Young and Restless
Excerpts From Young Vermonters: Not An Endangered Species
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Beauty and the Bank
Book Review: American Plastic: Boob Jobs, Credit Cards, and Our Quest for Perfection by Laurie Essig
We all know the role subprime mortgages played in sending the U.S. economy into a tailspin. But how did breast implants contribute to the… -
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Race to the Bottom
A Waitsfield writer tells of the search for the world's deepest cave
Two decades ago, writer James M. Tabor was exploring a cave called Run to the Mill in the Tennessee-Alabama-Georgia area. That’s as specific as he… -
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Arts + Culture
Gloverites and Their Descendants Ponder the Pond That Got Away
State of the Arts
Two hundred years ago this Sunday, a pond in Orleans County burst its banks and “ran away.” Some Vermonters and their descendants are still… -
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Arts + Culture
Hinesburg's Black History
Book review: Discovering Black Vermont
Lincoln Hill is the official name conferred on a lonely corner of Hinesburg in honor of the president who decreed the end of slavery. South… -
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Arts + Culture
Native Son Writes Guide to "Vermonners"
State of the Arts
Of the many reference books on the Green Mountain State, few have been written by natives. But now comes Leon Thompson’s Not Too Awful… -
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Arts + Culture
Burlington Travel Writer Offers Enlightenment
State of the Arts
It’s folly to try to predict the future. That’s Burlington travel writer Tim Brookes’ take-away from witnessing Indian meteorologists’ attempts to forecast the arrival… -
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Arts + Culture
Vermonter's Book Details New York's Great Adirondack Experiment
State of the Arts
The current mantra in everything from agriculture to urban design is “sustainability.” As a professor of ecological economics at the University of Vermont, Jon… -
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Arts + Culture
A New Book Examines Culture, Media and "Boy Trouble"
State of the Arts
Don’t get me wrong: I’m grateful when our 3-year-old boy receives clothes. It’s the faux camouflage and macho images that give me pause. For… -
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Food + Drink
Of Tomes and Tommes
How an award-winning writer got his goats in Vermont
If you arrive at Brad Kessler’s southern Vermont farmhouse and don’t find him at home, he’s probably out walking the goats. In clement weather,… -
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Arts + Culture
Local Novelist Chronicles the Search for One Good Affair
State of the Arts
In the first three pages of Tess Stimson’s novel One Good Affair, a neonatalogist enjoys torrid sex with her long-time lover, thinks tenderly about… -
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Arts + Culture
Bullets and Bandages
A Vermont combat medic tries to reconcile his roles as soldier, healer and man of faith
When Thomas Middleton enlisted in the Army Reserve in 1985, he never actually expected to go to war. Then a 17-year-old high school student in… -
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Arts + Culture
Lake Lit
A new book tells old stories, in pictures and prose, of the Champlain watershed
As this summer’s Lake Champlain Quadricentennial festivities wind down, celebrants may want a more lasting way to remember the anniversary than just scrapbooking their Tony… -
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A Rare Man of Peace
Book review: Champlain’s Dream
Vermonters have christened everything from convenience stores to chocolate companies after Samuel de Champlain (ca. 1570-1635). The French explorer charted vast stretches of North America… -
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News
Health Insurance Rx
In a new book, Howard Dean proposes a fix for a dysfunctional system
Howard Dean is a former six-term Vermont governor, presidential candidate and chairman of the Democratic National Committee. He’s also the founder of Democracy for… -
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Arts + Culture
Vermont Environmentalists Collaborate on Water Words
State of the Arts
Plenty of writers are publishing books about the global water crisis. Annette Smith, executive director of the nonprofit Vermonters for a Clean Environment, reads… -
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Arts + Culture
New Lit Journal Draws Authors from Afar
State of the Arts
New literary magazines sprout in college towns like mushrooms. But Burlington College’s Queen City Review, whose inaugural issue appeared in December, is more than… -
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Arts + Culture
Way Back When
A new photo book recalls old Montpelier
In the whir and blur of the YouTube era, the magnetic intrigue of historical photographs can be forgotten. Montpelier: Images of Vermont’s Capital City is… -
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Arts + Culture
Feats and Freaks
Vermonter Larry Olmsted writes his own book on Guinness World Records - and breaks a few himself
You don't need to be creative to break a Guinness world record. Countless record holders have put thought into inventing unlikely categories, and to… -
Arts + Culture
Local Author Traces Life and Death of Howard Dean's Brother
State of the Arts
Lincoln writer Louella Bryant remembers when Howard Dean, running for president in 2004, smiled with seeming invincibility on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine. That's… -
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Arts + Culture
Memoirist Tells of Life on the Autism Spectrum
State of the Arts
John Elder Robison prefers machines to people. Machines are predictable — governed by rules and logic. People, on the other hand, are unpredictable, and… -
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Arts + Culture
Reeve's Tale
Book Review: Forward From Here: Leaving Middle Age - and Other Unexpected Adventures
In Reeve Lindbergh’s new book Forward From Here, the youngest child of famed aviator Charles Lindbergh and author and aviatrix Anne Morrow Lindbergh writes…
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