Sep 15 – Nov 30, 2020
An Architecture Firm’s Creative Nonprofit Collabs; Stop and Smell the ‘Slow Flowers’ in Winooski; Hot Tips From a Home Energy Auditor; A Jericho Family Reclaims Fay Farm; Porch Pumpkins Spice Up a Woodstock Colonial
Woodstock Home Draws Visitors With a Porch Full of Pumpkins
Nikki VanVoorhis is all in for pumpkins. As decorative items, that is. And not just a few artfully arranged squash on a tabletop; VanVoorhis and her husband, Matt Tashjian, go for a veritable cascade of them on the front stoop of their Woodstock home. In this historic town that could hardly be more picture-perfect New…
An Energy Auditor Helps Homeowners Lower Bills as They Raise Thermostats
After two decades in the energy efficiency business, Wayne Thompson doesn’t necessarily have to walk inside a house to know where it’s losing heat. Sometimes he can spot the problem from outside, whether it’s icicles hanging from the gutters or a bare patch on an otherwise snow-covered roof. “I love that, because it makes my…
Kelsey Adams Offers ‘Slow Flowers’ at Urban Farm in Winooski
Kelsey Adams didn’t grow up gardening. Before she and her partner bought a house in Winooski, she hadn’t done much of it at all. But that first summer, in 2015, she installed raised beds and grew vegetables. Two years later, Adams dug out the entire lawn, transforming her backyard into an urban oasis of flowers…
A Jericho Family Reclaims Its Ancestral Farmhouse
Most 19th-century homes have changed hands many times over the years; once an estate is out of the family, the descendants rarely have a chance to reclaim their erstwhile property. Yet a Jericho brood recently did just that, buying a stout farmhouse that their ancestors occupied from the 1870s to the early 2000s. And they…
Nest — Fall 2020
As much as we might want this year to be over already, it’s hard to say goodbye to summer. But then fall comes along and mollifies us with spectacular foliage — and pumpkins. If you’re like one Woodstock family, that brings a good excuse to decorate the heck out of your front stoop. For an…
Duncan Wisniewski Architecture Marks 35 Years of Building Community
The intersection of North Avenue and North Street in Burlington might as well be called Bob and Michael’s corner — that is, Bob Duncan and Michael Wisniewski, founding principals of Duncan Wisniewski Architecture. Three of the firm’s buildings are visible from the intersection: the new Sara Holbrook Community Center, with its playfully projecting window frames;…
