12/31/07: New Year’s Eve in downtown Burlington and First Night was in full swing. 

Colorful dragons, life size puppets, an AT-AT walker (All Terrain Armored Transport from Star Wars), The Junkman and his posse of junk-playing kids, Burlington Taiko and Sambatucada paraded down Church St to the delight of onlookers young and old.

Happy New Year!  It’s nice to be stuck in VT with you!

This article appears in Jan 9-15, 2008.

Seven Days senior multimedia producer Eva Sollberger has been making her award-winning video series "Stuck in Vermont" since 2007. In 2024, she won first place from the Association of Alternative Newsmedia for her video, “Barbie Collector.” She received the Margaret L. (Peggy) Kannenstine Award for Arts Advocacy from the Vermont Arts Council in 2023. This map details her travels around the state; her 500th video was a musical. New episodes appear on the Seven Days website every other Thursday...