Credit: Kym Balthazar | Rev. Diane Sullivan

Welcome to our shortest annual theme issue!
We kid, we kid. If anything, this week’s edition is overloaded with hot season fun. Exhibit A: an epic summer bucket list, which outlines everything you should do before it snows again. To that end, get your bicycle tuned. Good news: Cowbell Mobile Bike Shop will come to you. When it’s ready, ride out to GreenSpark in Waterbury Center, the country’s first “interactive sustainability park.” Or perhaps take a few hours to bop around St. Albans. Need to recharge? Ditch your cellphone and try forest bathing for a spiritual cleanse. Afterward, kick back with one of the oh-so-many new Vermont summer beers — ideally at an eatery by the water. And, as always, watch out for bees. And ticks.

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This article appears in The Summer Preview Issue 2018.

Pamela Polston is a contributing arts and culture writer and editor. She cofounded Seven Days in 1995 with Paula Routly and served as arts editor, associate publisher and writer. Her distinctive arts journalism earned numerous awards from the Vermont Press Association, the Association of Alternative Newsmedia and the New England Newspaper & Press Association. Pamela was inducted into the New England Newspaper Hall of Fame in 2015. In 2021, the Vermont Arts Council presented her with the Walter Cerf...