Jun 12-18, 2013
Can a New Director Repair Burlington’s Most Dysfunctional Department?; Riding the Other Two-Wheeler; Little Libraries Spread the Words; Irma Vep Takes Montpelier
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Can a New Parks Director Fix Burlington’s Most Dysfunctional Department?
By all outward appearances, Burlington’s public parks are clean and green — the envy of any small city in America. The infield grass at Smalley Park’s baseball field is neatly mowed. There isn’t a trace of litter on Blanchard Beach at Oakledge Park. On a nice day, the city’s crown jewel, Waterfront Park, teems with people…
Obituary: Myron “Moose” Craig
Myron “Moose” Craig, age 66 years, a lifelong resident of the Highgate and Swanton areas died unexpectedly Saturday, June 8, 2013, at the Grand Avenue residence of his daughter Eva. A Funeral Service will be held Monday, July 1, 2013, at 12 Noon from The Kidder Memorial Home, 89 Grand Ave., Swanton. The Reverend Anne…
Vermont Statehouse Opens Its Doors to Google Maps
Vermont’s historic Statehouse is a veritable museum, and one of the state’s most popular tourist attractions. But you no longer have to trek to Montpelier to see it — thanks to Google Street View, you can take a highly detailed tour online. Google held a press conference at the Statehouse today to launch its tour…
Obituary: Ida Rae (Mulheron) Barney
Ida Rae (Mulheron) Barney, age 80 years, a lifelong Swanton resident died early Wednesday morning June 12, 2013, at her River Lane residence with her husband Gerald and loving family at her side. Born in St. Albans on January 13, 1933, she was the daughter of the late Ezra and Ella (Lashway) Mulheron. She attended…
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again A police officer stopped a car for a traffic violation in Clayton, Mo., and asked driver Joseph Meacham, 39, to step out. Meacham obliged but then shoved the officer and fled on foot. He ducked into a building, which turned out to be St. Louis County police headquarters. After Meacham was arrested…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Irish poet Richard Brinsley Sheridan didn’t confine his lyrical wit to well-crafted poems on the printed page. He used it to say things that would advance his practical ambitions. For example, when he first met the woman who would eventually become his wife, he said to her, “Why don’t you come…
PATRIOT Games: Can Leahy Pry Loose a Surveillance Court’s Secrets?
After an NSA contractor spills the beans on domestic spying, Bernie and his colleagues cry foul.
Steve Goldberg Hits Somber Notes in New Play
Burlington playwright and jazz trumpeter Stephen Goldberg is back with a new work of jazz-inflected theater, Waiting for Angels. Goldberg calls the show, which is currently running at Burlington’s Off Center for the Dramatic Arts, a “happening” rather than a conventional play. It’s appropriate, given that Waiting for Angels mixes music, movement and drama to…
A Burlington Company Takes a Chance on the Segway
There’s something inherently silly about the Segway. The electric personal transporter was, after all, the vehicle of choice of the arrogant older brother and failed magician G.O.B. Bluth in the TV series “Arrested Development.” And it made ironic headlines in 2010 when the millionaire owner of the Segway company plummeted off a cliff to his…
At Vermont’s Little Free Libraries, Books Aren’t Going Away
An eclectic cache of books inside a rainbow-colored cabinet offers relief from the tedium of waiting for a train at the Amtrak station in Essex Junction. “Oh, the Places You’ll Go!” promises the Dr. Seuss exhortation painted on the door of this outdoor literary dispensary. “Take a Book, Return a Book,” urges another sign nailed…
A Food Writer Relearns How to Eat Sans Gallbladder
The fluid the ultrasound technician squeezed over my upper abdomen was warm and sticky. As she glided the transducer near my ribs, a picture began to form on the screen near my head. Of foie gras, I thought. Clearly, it was terminal. My liver looked like foie gras. The technician assured me that in fact…
The Maker of Animal Farm Butter Celebrates Buttermilk in a New Book
Diane St. Clair has the best butter deal going in Vermont — perhaps anywhere. For the last decade, the owner of the cheekily named Animal Farm in Orwell (think George) has been producing farmstead butter — meaning made by hand — from a small herd of Jersey cows. St. Clair knew the stuff was good:…
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Revolutionary War Reenactment [313]
6/8/13: This weekend The Warner Regiment, AKA The Green Mountain Boys, set up camp at the Ethan Allen Homestead Museum in Burlington in honor of Ethan Allen’s 275th birthday. Eva travels back in time to 1776 to see the militia in action as they train to reinforce the American forces in Canada during the Revolutionary…
Grilling the Chef: Mike Orfan, Rustic Roots
The same question has been on a lot of diners’ minds lately at Rustic Roots: “What the hell is fennel bacon?” The short answer is that it’s Canadian bacon coated in dried, ground peas. The longer answer is that the comparatively low-fat cured meat — and other specialties like it — is what brought chef-owner…
Four Local Recordings You Probably Haven’t Heard
So many records, so little time. Seven Days gets more album submissions than we know what to do with. And, given the ease of record making these days, it’s difficult to keep up. Still, we try to get to every local release that comes across the music desk, no matter how obscure. To that end,…
Eyewitness: Vermont Painter Anne Cady
Vermont landscapes are traditionally rendered in a fairly monochromatic palette — shades of green — with an iconic red or white barn. Anne Cady’s Vermont has undulating hills that look like creamy pink sherbet or multicolored patchwork quilts. A barn might be blue with an orange roof, while a stand of purple trees resembles gumdrops.…
Theater Review: The Mystery of Irma Vep
Staging Charles Ludlam’s The Mystery of Irma Vep requires a glorious integration of costumer, director, actors, set designer, props master, sound designer and a full crew of backstage quick-change artists. Two actors play eight roles, in many instances carrying on offstage conversations that make four of them present at once. It’s a showcase of theatrical…
Letters to the Editor
Richards Rocks Former airport community liaison official Brad Worthen was off the mark in suggesting that Gene Richards lacks leadership capability or that his appointment was tied to political support for Mayor Miro Weinberger [“BTV Aviation Director Gene Richards Seeks Smoother Air for Burlington’s Airport,” June 5]. As an owner of the Skinny Pancake, I…
