September 27 • 1995
Olive Me; Deadheads Do It on Film; A Hundred Years Before Judevine; Burlington Electric Heats Up; Kisonak on ‘Seven’
Backtalk: Jeff Miller, Rachel Bissex, Veronica Lopez-Schultz, David Giancola, Breakaway
MILLER TALE: Forget about big-time promoters. Most of the people who bring art to Vermont are small-time. No attitude. No gold pinkie rings. And in the case of Jeff Miller, no health insurance. Miller has been running the Burlington Coffeehouse for almost three years on a volunteer basis. He books the artists, puts out the…
It’s a Gas, Gas, Gas: Federal dollars build the world’s biggest biomass generator — in Burlington
Twenty years ago the woodburning power plant in the Burlington Intervale looked like the perfect solution to the “energy crisis.” Clean, reliable and cost-effective, its fuel source was not trapped under miles of sand in the Persian Gulf, but readily accessible in the woods of Vermont. Who would have known then — with gas lines…
Guess We’re Not in Danvis Anymore: David Budbill revisits 19th-century Vermont with a new edition of stories by Rowland Robinson
Like many Vermonters, you may have driven down Route 7 near Ferrisburg — perhaps hundreds of times — and wondered about the road that leads to the Rokeby Museum. If you read Danvis Tales, next time you may decide to turn in. Rokeby is the homestead where Rowland E. Robinson — perhaps the state’s greatest…
