GRAFTON-Among the summer arts happenings gracing green hills with theater, fine art, craft, circus, puppetry,
DUMMERSTON-All are invited to the opening reception of "Watercolors by Linda Rood" at the Dummerston...
GUILFORD-Pride began with rebellion. Kopkind Colony, the living memorial to the late radical journalist Andrew...
MARLBORO-Bard Owl, the duo of T. Breeze Verdant and Annie Landenberger, will perform a benefit...
Vermonters will have until Sept. 15 to offer comments on the state's new rail plan. According to the Vermont Agency of Transportation (AOT), the period for public comment was extended after many requests from Vermonters to review and speak to the plan. AOT released the new rail plan in June and held two public hearings on in July in Essex Junction and White River Junction. Topping the plan is extending Amtrak's Ethan Allen Express to Burlington and the Vermonter to...
Local author and educator Deborah Lee Luskin will lead two sessions of a popular writing circle to benefit Moore Free Library. Participants will meet via Zoom on Friday, Dec. 31, and in person at the library on Sunday, Jan. 2. Both circles will meet from 1 to 3 p.m. Luskin is an author, blogger, and educator with nearly 40 years of experience teaching students from all walks of life, including inmates, health care workers, children, college students, adults, and elders.
On Dec. 19, 1995, The New York Times reported the discovery of a man's remains, found “face down in a slushy pocket of glacier” in the Italian Alps, along a path where local shepherds still guide their sheep. The German hikers thought they had discovered someone recently lost. In fact, scientists estimate the corpse had abided in the alpine landscape for 5,300 years. Since the, this Iceman has resided, among other places, in my imagination. The miracle of his second...
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