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Dutch Class Gives Students a Taste of Amsterdam
Five students straggled into a Fletcher Free Library meeting room on a Saturday morning, unusual peers for an unusual class: Dutch. Over the next hour and a half, they wrapped their minds around a...
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Phet Keomanyvanh's Journey from Refugee Camp to City Hall
When Phet Keomanyvanh (pa-et geld-ma-ni-vun) was about 6 years old, she had a frightening experience at school in St. Johnsbury that would shape her later life. Newly arrived from a refugee camp,...
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Drag Queens Turn Pages — and Heads — in Tiny Cambridge
It's not every day that two drag queens sashay up to the door of the Varnum Memorial Library in Jeffersonville, a village within the small Lamoille County town of Cambridge, for story hour. On a...
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Virginia Heffernan to Speak on Internet 'Magic and Loss'
"The Internet is paradigmatic magic," writes New York-based cultural critic Virginia Heffernan. "It turns experiences from the material world that used to be densely physical ... into frictionless,...
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The Art Of... Family Volunteering
When I was growing up in upstate New York, my parents dragged me along to various volunteer activities, from serving pies at the local rescue squad's annual fundraiser to handing out blankets at a...
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Indoorsy Type? Here's How to Craft Through Winter
Winter is coming, and the cold is deep; the dark is more. Whether or not you suffer from ye olde seasonal affective disorder, it can be helpful to have some tricks for occupying yourself indoors when...
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Can Saving Endangered Languages Be Child's Play?
The board game is Glagolitic Abbey. The players choose an avatar: the Assassin, the Inquisitor, the Spy or the Scholar. Their task is to solve the murder of the abbot and then to find the "legendary...
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Becoming Americans: New Vermonters Recall Their Pathways to Citizenship
Hameda Hinkle might not have become a United States citizen this year if it weren't for President Donald Trump. When he signed his executive order of January 27, restricting entry to the U.S. for...
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Seven Questions for Vermont Folklife Center's Kathleen Haughey
Two years ago, Kathleen Haughey moved from Rhode Island, where she had completed a master's degree in ethnomusicology at Brown University, to become the education director at Vermont Folklife Center...
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Facebook Group Sensi-Babeington Offers a Safe Forum
It's no secret that the internet is a scary place. It's home to bullies and scammers of every stripe. It may be slowly sucking the souls of America's children (just kidding, sort of). But there's one...
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Questions, and Answers, About 'The Bachelor: Winter Games'
Earlier this fall, reports began circulating that a spin-off of ABC's hit reality dating series "The Bachelor" would be filmed in Vermont over the winter. The new series, called "The Bachelor: Winter...
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Vermont's Ma & Pembum Crafts Leather Bags With an Altruistic Mission
Four years ago, Phebe Mott had a nightmare: "My kids had been taken, and I didn't know where," she says. Sitting in a sunlit booth at the Bristol Bakery & Café in Hinesburg, she recalls the dream...
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New Zine 'Sniff This BTV' Showcases Skateboarders
Evan Litsios sounds like an ethnographer when he talks about Burlington's skateboarding scene. Its culture, he asserts, is built on a foundation of shared stories and oral histories, whether related...
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Cary Brown Talks Sexual Harassment, Shaming and Change
When the New York Times first reported on sexual harassment allegations against movie mogul Harvey Weinstein in October, it took the nation by storm. Riveting subsequent stories by Ronan Farrow in the...
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Learning the Truth About Santa Claus
Warning: If you're a parent of kids who are old enough to read but young enough to still think Jolly Old St. Nicholas is coming to town, please hide this article. Preferably not in the same place...
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Life Stories: Remembering Vermonters Who Died in 2017
Glass artist Toby Ruth Schwartz is one of thousands of Vermonters whose lives ended in 2017. We chose eight of them for this package of stories reflecting on Vermonters who died this year — an annual...
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These Rutland Pastors Run a Mobile Mission for the Homeless
Inside the Bakery in Rutland on a wintry Thursday morning, ministers Hannah Rogers and John Longworth grabbed a quick bite and soaked in the warmth. Then, bolstered by carbs and caffeine, they headed...
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How Green Mountain is Your Love? A Vermont Compatibility Quiz
Finding a compatible partner is among life's great challenges — one that can feel especially daunting in Vermont, where the sparse population limits your choices. Sure, you can always pick up, move to...
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At Winooski’s Nectar & Root, a Bridal Florist Grows Her Business
Erin Ostreicher is living her childhood fantasy. The 32-year-old florist says that when she was a kid growing up in Westport, Conn., she dreamed of working with flowers. She made dolls out of...
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Dr. Tango Teaches Newlyweds to Pivot With Panache
At many North American nuptials, among the first things couples do after the ceremony is step onto a dance floor. Some choose to improvise: They might wrap arms around each other and sway to a beloved...
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