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Arts + Life
WTF: How Did Button Bay State Park Get Its Name?
Did you ever wonder how Button Bay got its name? A quick check of a Lake Champlain nautical chart reveals that the Ferrisburgh inlet… -
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Arts + Life
Catherine Brooks Takes the Reins at Rokeby Museum
The Rokeby Museum in Ferrisburgh might not be known for festive parties, but that's exactly what took place on November 30. The occasion was… -
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Arts + Life
Exploring Vermont's New State Park: Taconic Mountains Ramble
Word to the wise: If you check out Taconic Mountains Ramble State Park, don't wear Chuck Taylors. This is a lesson I learned the… -
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Arts + Life
Timeless Quaker-Made Furniture at Rokeby Museum
Through their commitment to dressing plainly and living simply, the Quakers quietly rebuke contemporary America's blinged-out culture. A corresponding aesthetic of restraint sets Quaker… -
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News + Opinion
Manure Storage Wars: In Ferrisburgh, Flower Power Fights Big Dairy
It's no secret Vermont dairy farms are major contributors to the phosphorus runoff that is polluting Lake Champlain. In particular, the way they dispose… -
News + Opinion
Summer Vacation Guide: Middlebury Area
The museums keep on coming as you roll down Route 7: In Ferrisburgh the Rokeby Museum, once an official stop on the Underground Railroad, preserves… -
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Food + Drink
Pollinate This
Bees team up with elderberries to make a drink that cures
When the thickets burst with summer fruit, we fill our fridges with raspberries and blackberries, but fresh elderberries are hard to find in markets.… -
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News + Opinion
Green Miles
Is Vermont developing an enviro-business corridor?
In the spring of 1981, a wide-eyed University of Vermont engineering student and his soon-to-be-wife drafted a farfetched business plan: Manufacture wind-turbine "assessment" gear… -
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Food + Drink
A Cut Above
A former meat inspector revives one of Vermont's last remaining slaughterhouses
There were 30 slaughterhouses in Vermont when Carl Cushing first started working as a state meat inspector. Three decades later, only seven remain. So, on… -
News + Opinion
Grange Update
Local Matters
FERRISBURGH - Plans for a $2.75 million reconstruction of the historic Ferrisburgh Grange, which was destroyed by arson more than two years ago, suffered a… -
Arts + Life
For a Ferrisburgh Writer, Alzheimer's Is the Muse
State of the Arts
Caring for a parent who has Alzheimer's disease can be numbing, frustrating and sometimes unexpectedly illuminating, as part-time Vermonter Judith Levine showed in her memoir… -
Music
Saturday Night Fervor
On a date with Clean Slate, Panton's rock-and-holy-rollers
On a dimly lit stage, Suzanne Rood sings a love song. "When I'm afraid," she croons in a sweet, plaintive voice, "I climb into your… -
Arts + Life
Shelf Life
State of the Arts
How do you move a million books? Very carefully. And that's just what a Connecticut-based company will be doing beginning next Monday at Middlebury College.…
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