The Media Issue 2013
Uncertainty for Public-Access TV; Can ‘Vermont Life’ Mag Make It?; Dateline Green Mountains
Free Will Astrology
ARIES(March 21-April 19): The German government sponsored a scientific study of dowsing, which is a form of magical divination used to locate underground sources of water. After 10 years, the chief researcher testified, “It absolutely works, beyond all doubt. But we have no idea why or how.” An assertion like that might also apply to…
During the McCarthy Era, Some Vermont Newspapers Lobbied for Purging Progressives
Even when Vermont ranked as the most reliably Republican state in the nation, it was no reactionary bastion. While many Americans were supporting hard-right politicians during the 1940s and ’50s, Vermont voters were repeatedly electing Yankee pragmatists such as George Aiken and Ralph Flanders to national office. Ultraconservative ideologues have always been out of sync…
Can Vermont Life Magazine Dig Out From a Mountain of Debt?
Two years ago, Vermont Life magazine sloughed off its staid, nostalgic look and replaced it with a spare new logo and contemporary design. Vermont Life today appears to be more interested in the lives of Vermont soldiers deployed to Afghanistan than fall foliage and sleigh rides. It was a dramatic makeover for the venerable, 67-year-old…
Seven Nationally Known Journalists Who Call Vermont Home
Journalists these days can easily file their stories thousands of miles away from their employers. That may be why Vermont has become a haven for its share of professional newshounds — both the semiretired and the still working. After all, when you’re given a choice of living in a pricey, one-bedroom walk-up in New York…
Vermont’s Public-Access Television Faces an Uncertain Future
When opposition researchers wanted to dig up dirt on presidential candidate Howard Dean, they went to the studios of CCTV, the Burlington area’s government-access channel. There, inside a narrow closet next to the equipment room, political operatives found a video archive of almost everything produced since CCTV launched Vermont’s first public-access channel in 1984. The…
Dining at Montréal’s Pommery Ice Restaurant
The cutlery was literally freezing. Too cold to handle without gloves. Luckily, I’d brought a pair, thanks to an email I’d received from the restaurant a few days before that also advised me to wear “snow pants,” a “snow coat” and a “polo neck jumper.” The two-page document put the fear of the freeze in…
Studio Profile: Two Rivers Printmaking in White River Junction
Co-ops may be among the shortest-lived phenomena on Vermont’s protean art scene. It’s hard enough for a single proprietor to sustain a gallery or a rental studio in a state with plenty of starving artists but few art fat cats. Toss in the elements of eccentric personalities and collective decision making, and the lifespan of…
Mildred Moody’s Full Moon Masquerade Moves On Up
Weird shit goes down during a full moon. Emergency rooms regularly report significant spikes in activity. Police blotters are crammed with all sorts of strange, nefarious doings. Dogs are said to be twice as likely to bite humans. Michael J. Fox turns into a slam-dunking, van-surfing, beer-can-chugging teenaged werewolf. While perhaps apocryphal, the abnormalities associated…
Two New Addison County Eateries from Michel Mahe
Side Dishes: Chef Michel Mahe to open restaurants in Vergennes and Middlebury
Vermont Food Writers Are Flocking to the Blogosphere
It may not have made newspaper headlines, but when renowned food writer Amanda Hesser recently discouraged other wannabe writers from pursuing their dreams — at least as a career — her words reverberated throughout the food-media world. “Except for a very small group of people (some of whom are clinging to jobs at magazines that…
Letters to the Editor
Good Pun, Bad Grammar While I sympathize with Ken Picard in [“Hitting the Sack: What a vas deferens it makes when a ‘routine’ vasectomy doesn’t go as planned,” January 16], I found the most painful part of his tale of testicular trauma to be the repeated trouble with subject-verb agreement. Despite the multiple tubes involved,…
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Lavigne Logging at Shelburne Farms [297]
1/17/13: Since the 1970s, father and son team Art and Richard Lavigne have been selectively logging the 400 acres of forest at Shelburne Farms. Eva catches up with brothers Richard and Peter Lavigne as they carefully harvest a 10 acre woodlot behind the Farm Barn and talks to Marshall Webb about the farms’ working landscape.…
