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François Clemmons Remembers His Years With Mister Rogers in Advance of a New...
Once upon a time, there was a nice man who lived in a nice town called Middlebury. He lived in a quiet little house on a quiet little street, which he shared with a dog named Princess, who was also...
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A Cult Awareness Educator Helps Survivors by Sharing Her Own Cautionary Tale
It's been eight years since Margaret Pitkin's world crumbled, but she's finally comfortable admitting to herself and others that she once belonged to a cult. The 37-year-old Albany, Vt., native was...
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New Head Stretchers Society Challenges Us to Learn New Things
A lot is going on at Burlington's Karma Bird House. The coworking space at 47 Maple Street is a maze of hallways and creaky wooden floors leading to shared spaces and the offices of therapists,...
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Art Therapist Emily Piccirillo Wants to Help You Deal With Loss
Emily Piccirillo keeps a six-inch stack of index cards, soft and fraying at the edges, bound with a length of red ribbon. Each card is marked with a name and a few notes and dates. Each represents a...
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Vermont Wood Banks Offer Neighborly Heating Assistance
On a windy stretch of Bristol Road in Monkton, Lee Kauppila was ready to tell a story. Clad in a red checkered jacket, toque and work gloves, he was all booming voice and broad gestures. Kauppila is a...
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Winter Is a Drag Ball Turns 25 in 'Queens' City
If you had told Bob Bolyard in 1995 that he'd still be planning and pulling off the wildest party of the winter in 2020, he would have had some choice words for you. For example, "'You lie!'" Bolyard...
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The Benefits and Bothers of 'Forever Engagements'
When Anthony "A.J." Browne was thinking about proposing to Kelly Clements during their romantic weekend getaway last month in Stowe, he was unsure about the perfect time and place: while out hiking in...
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The Green Mountain Chorus Delivers Camaraderie — and Singing Valentines
Katie Hodges barely batted an eye when she found four men in white tuxedos standing expectantly by her desk. As Seven Days' sales and marketing coordinator and de facto front desk receptionist for...
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The Etiquette and Legalities of Wedding Weed
Since Colorado and Washington became the first states to legalize recreational marijuana, in 2012, it seems there are few aspects of American life that cannot, somehow, be infused with it. Americans...
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Public Libraries Adapt to the 21st Century … and Uphold Democracy
Outside, frigid temperatures had turned Burlington's latest snowfall into crusty meringue and rocks of ice. Inside the more hospitable Fletcher Free Library on a weekday morning, it was business as...
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Chief Don Stevens Represents a New Era of Abenaki Leadership in Vermont
Don Stevens stepped to the podium in the Cedar Creek Room of the Vermont Statehouse on February 5 and reasserted the sovereign rights that his people have never ceded: to hunt and fish freely on their...
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Vermont Educators, and Students, Collaborate on New Abenaki Dictionary
When technology has vastly expanded the platforms for receiving and sending information, it's a cruel irony that some populations are watching their very languages disappear. The loss of indigenous...
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Pinup Calendar Sales Result in $10K Donation to VT Lyme
Was it the Carhartts that did it, or the work boots and sparkly dress? The Elmer Fudd hat? Maybe just the broad grins, with tongue firmly in cheek. Whatever the appeal, the Vermont-style pinup-girl...
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After 40 Years and Five Mayors, Doreen Kraft Steers Burlington City Arts Into...
Doreen Kraft doesn't really want to talk about Doreen Kraft. During a recent reception for new exhibitions at the BCA Center on Church Street, she preferred to direct a reporter's attention to...
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Pandemic Etiquette From the Emily Post Institute
Social distancing is among the most important recommendations for slowing the spread of COVID-19, more commonly known as the coronavirus. It's also really hard. For one thing, a lot goes into...
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Vignettes of Vermonters Adapting to Life in a Pandemic
On March 8, our little corner of the world fundamentally changed. That was the day state officials announced the first Vermonter infected with the novel coronavirus. The number of infections mounted...
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Enterprising Vermonters Go Virtual With Online Classes, Tours and Cute Animals
You've burned through your Netflix queue after a few days of social distancing. Now what? Many Vermont organizations are taking their workshops, activities and exhibitions to the web, giving residents...
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Christopher Kaufman Ilstrup Redefines Vermont Humanities in Turbulent Times
During the Cold War arms race, when the U.S. government was funneling money into scientific and technological research, the public intellectuals who called themselves "academic humanists"— university...
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Actor Jacob Tischler Performs, and Multiplies, for Social Media
At the beginning of March, 29-year-old actor Jacob Tischler moved to New York City and got a job as a bartender at the Belasco Theatre in Times Square. On Thursday, March 12, his second and final day...
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Three Vermont Podcasts to Get You Through Social Distancing
Like cattle and sugar maples, the rolling mountains of Vermont are rich in podcasts. The offerings span a wide variety of topics. A listener could fall down the rabbit hole of Rumble Strip, a unique...
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