Theresa Maggio
Hope springs eternal
Back in 1987, Ruth Marx, a human geneticist and avid gardener, had paid a man good money for his blue lobelias only to hear a friend later say, “Oh, why didn't you tell me? I'd have given you some of that.”
About the same time, Bess Richardson, a nurse at Grace Cottage, was tossing her culled perennials over a bank.
Tales from a long trail
Vermont's oldest horse show turns 75
Southern Vermont's oldest continuous horse show will mark its 75th edition on Saturday, July 2, starting at 8:30 a.m., at West River Stables at Meadowbrook Farm, 102 Hill Rd., rain or shine. As always, the NewBrook Horse Show's proceeds benefit the volunteer NewBrook Fire Department serving Newfane and Brookline,
Historic NewBrook Horse Show characters
Betty and Bradley Cohn For fifty years Elizabeth Riera Cohn (1917-2014) was the secretary and treasurer of the NewBrook Horse Show. The horse-loving Philadelphia blue-blood transplanted to New York City was recruited as secretary by George Ware while she was on a weekend stay at his West River Camp.
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From trash to treasure
The soundtrack is the clink and tinkle of crockery and glasses being shelved, the clatter of pots and pans, the soft-shoe shuffle of sneakers on cement. On Saturday mornings the 20-by-60-foot shed is a beehive of activity. Roberta Bremmer, a volunteer staff member at the Windham Solid Waste Management District's Swap Shop, estimates that the swap keeps from 500 to 1,000 pounds of material out of the landfill every week. It's a winning trifecta: depositors don't pay to dispose of...