There are milestones in life that we automatically designate as “joyful,” but sometimes those things don’t turn out as expected. We’ve certainly learned that over the past year and a half as the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted weddings, reunions, graduations, and so many more big events that were supposed to be happy times. I recently learned …
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Looking Back On an Olympic Time
Franklin County is a rural area on the U.S./Canadian border in northwest Vermont. Some 49,000 people populate the 14 towns and one city across 692 square miles. This county is one of the few in Vermont that can still pass the sniff test (quite literally when it’s time to spread cow manure on the fields) …
Care Package for Sunday, March 28, 2021
Poetry: Ode to Anger by Marilyn ChinSoak in a hot bath;arrange my futuristic hair,then, the futon & the cushioned tatami.Read More Lyrical: Hard Times by Gillian WelchSo come on, you ragtime kings, and come on, you dogs, and sing/And pick up a dusty old horn and give it a blow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Lwr1aW6jr8 Art: Bahram Gur Sees …
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In a few hours, it’ll be the seventeenth anniversary of the last time someone saw Brianna Maitland. At least as far as we know. Brianna Maitland Brianna hasn’t been seen since leaving The Black Lantern Inn – her place of employment – in Montgomery, VT, after her shift ended on March 19, 2004. The next …
Five Bucks, Canadian
One of the great pleasures that comes with living in a small town in northern Vermont is the ability to become an international traveler just by driving a few miles up the road. From where I make my home, there are four border crossings no more than 20 minutes away. The closest is a five …