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New Americans at Pine Island Farm Carry on Without Founder
Beads of sweat trickled down Theogène Mahoro's temple as he shoveled goat manure and hay onto his pickup truck. Mahoro, a chicken farmer at Pine Island Community Farm in Colchester, had awakened at 5...
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Longtime Director of Rokeby Museum to Step Down
Last summer, Rokeby Museum director Jane Williamson received a crash course in the pitfalls of uniting past and present. After the police killings of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling and the...
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Spectrum Launches a Car-Detailing Biz for Youth
Spectrum's Jump on Board for Success program helps youth turn their lives around by helping them find and hold stable jobs.
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An African American-Owned Farm Becomes a Heritage Site
When young photographers Zymora Davinchi and Audrey Grant spoke at the opening of their exhibit "POC: Power of Color" at the Clemmons Family Farm in Charlotte last week, they included a special...
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VNA Provides Day Care to New American Elders
In a sunny room at the Adult Day Program in Colchester, Harka Rai sat hunched over a coloring page. The 81-year-old Bhutanese man had colored the central floral design red and blue and was moving on...
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A New Place to Buy Vintage Pops Up in Burlington
Since American Apparel closed its doors on Cherry Street in downtown Burlington last January, the capacious white-walled space has remained barren. On August 1, that's going to change. Groton-based...
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The Daylilies 2017 — Seven Daysies Staff Picks
For the 15th anniversary of the Daysies, we thought we’d sneak in a big surprise: the first-ever Daylilies. What are they, exactly? Seven Days staffers’ own personal picks for what’s best in Vermont....
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Vermont Women Pilots Are Soaring
Women make better pilots than men, or so contends Doug Smith. He ought to know. Smith, 68, is cofounder of the Vermont Flight Academy and program director of Vermont Technical College's professional...
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Zambian Performer Joins Circus Smirkus
When Zambian circus artist Patrick Chikoloma does a back flip or strikes a pose on a Chinese pole in front of an enraptured audience, he isn't just defying gravity. He's also proving skeptics wrong....
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Rutland Grows Maker Movement With the Mint
Vermont's newest maker space, The Mint in Rutland, has been active since January, but it's hosting a grand-opening celebration this Saturday, August 12. The event coincides with the third annual...
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Québec's Foresta Lumina Attracts Visitors to the Light
Lava ran down the side of the cliff, and rocks began to crumble into the gorge. Behind the rubble, a glowing hidden chamber revealed itself to the enthralled crowd. Inside it danced a young woman...
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A UVM Migration Scholar Talks Refugee Resettlement
At his office in the University of Vermont's Old Mill building, Pablo Bose joked that he isn't much of an interior designer. His young daughter's drawings were scattered about the room. A poster of...
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Central Market Offers One-Stop Multicultural Shopping
On a Friday morning, Som Timsina was bleary-eyed as he straightened the vegetable baskets in his supermarket in the Old North End in Burlington. The owner of Central Market: Taste of Asia had returned...
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Intimate Agritourism at Green Mountain Girls Farm
The co-owners and founders of Green Mountain Girls Farm in Northfield say they farm relationships. To Mari Omland, 50, and Laura Olsen, 46, the concept of "relational farming" underscores the...
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Tractors, Tools and Trinkets: Collectors Swarm the CRACK Show
"We are junk magnets," said Virginia resident Joe Hagerman, one of two blacksmiths manning a coal-fired forge at the annual show put on by the Connecticut River Antique Collectors Klub (CRACK) in Ely....
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A_Dog Day [SIV502]
8/26/17: A_Dog Day is a celebration of skateboarding, art and music inspired by the life of a man who was a fixture in Burlington, Andy "A_Dog" Williams. When Andy was diagnosed with leukemia in 2012,...
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WWJD? A Jane Austen Weekend in Vermont
The Governor's House in Hyde Park was built in 1893 by Vermont's 43rd governor, Carroll S. Page, to resemble a house erected more than a century earlier — the Georgian home of poet Henry Wadsworth...
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Living Tree Alliance Cultivates Earth-Based Judaism
On an unpaved road in Moretown, amid woods and meadows along Dowsville Brook, one of Vermont's newest cohousing projects is under way. It looks like the typical rural intentional community, with solar...
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Fashion Revolution in the Upper Valley
The words "fashion show" might evoke thoughts of glossy lips, doll-like eyes and rail-thin bodies. That standard has been slow to evolve on an international scale — shout-out to the trans and...
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UVM's Soul Food Social Serves Diverse Community
When Khalil Munir attended the University of Vermont in 1970, he was one of 13 African American students on a campus of 8,000. "It was a cultural and ethnic wasteland," he said. Since then, things at...
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