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Proposed for Enosburg Falls: A Museum of Substance Abuse
When Dr. Ashbel Parmlee Grinnell conducted a study of Vermonters' opiate usage, he couldn't believe the results. According to Grinnell's statewide survey of physicians, druggists, store owners and...
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Somali Bantu Women Pursue Skills and Dreams in Sewing Class
Binti Abdullahi's biggest dream is to start her own clothing line. She and her peers "don't want to dress how our grandmother ... and mother [are] dressed," said the 23-year-old Somali Bantu woman....
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Burlington Music Lovers Play DJ for a Day Online
Not all music venues are created equal. But whether it's a 1,000-person stadium or a tiny stage in a bar that fits 30 people, the purpose tends to be the same: to bring people together to experience...
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A Fictional City Installation Explores Sense of Place
How do you know a place exists? Because you can find it on a map or google it? You see its name emblazoned on a sweatshirt, or written on a souvenir in someone's kitchen? Perhaps you hear it...
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An Attorney Makes a Case for Finding Friends
Ryan Kriger was miserable. It was 2010 and, by all outward appearances, things were going well for him. He earned a good salary as an attorney with a prestigious New York City law firm. He had plenty...
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Former 'National Geographic' Photographer on Changing Views
From its inception in 1888, National Geographic became synonymous with far-flung adventure and "exotic" encounters — at least for white audiences of the global North. Earlier this month, the magazine...
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Get on the CannaBus: A Smokin' Festival In Burlington
Here's the major challenge of creating a successful pot-themed film festival, especially one that's scheduled on the stoner high holiday of 4/20: Compile an impressive-enough lineup of feature films,...
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'Sesame Street' Veterans to Talk About Life on the Show
It's a rare couple that can claim Oscar the Grouch as one of their wedding guests. "Sesame Street" writer Annie Evans and puppeteer/Muppet captain Martin P. Robinson are among the lucky few. Married...
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Hey, Cannabis Fans: Take the 2018 Weeders Survey!
We want to learn more about you, the cannabis consumer: when, why and how often you consume; with whom you’re inclined to indulge; how much you pay to partake; and what you love doing when you’re...
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An Epic Bucket List to Help You Plan Your Summer
Traditionally speaking, summer of 2018 includes 99 days spanning Memorial Day to Labor Day. Technically speaking, we have even less time: 93 days, 15 hours and 47 minutes, to be precise — June 21 to...
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How to Spend Three to Six Hours in St. Albans
If Winooski is the Brooklyn of Burlington, then in an inexact local analogy, St. Albans is the Hudson Valley. But really, it's a place all its own. A half-hour drive north of Burlington and just 20...
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Loving Day Vermont Celebrates Interracial Relationships
When Sarah Brown began dating Nicholas Glass in 2009, she had never heard of Loving v. Virginia. After several months together, Brown, a white woman, sought to introduce Glass, who is black, to her...
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Vermont Singers Aim to Revitalize Franco-American Music
Kim Chase is an atheist, but she considers Franco-American music sacred. In her first year teaching at Lyman C. Hunt Middle School in Burlington, when she tried to lead the class in French folk songs,...
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Riding the Rails With John McClaughry: Conservative Thought Leader, Politico,...
Feather River John lazily strummed his guitar in the back of a speeding Ford Ranchero, hat slung low to shield his eyes from the brilliant northern California sun. Beside him in the bed of the...
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The 2018 Weeders Survey Results Are In
Green Mountain staters have a saying: "I'm from Vermont, I do what I want." Nothing embodies that rhyming chestnut quite as well as the generally relaxed attitude toward cannabis here. Technically,...
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At 80, Peace Activist Robin Lloyd Still Crosses the Line
As guests arrived at the Saturday afternoon party to celebrate the 80th birthday of Burlington activist, philanthropist and filmmaker Robin Lloyd, they were greeted at the garden gate by a wooden bowl...
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Seven Vermonters Play Tourist in Their Own State
You've probably heard the phrase "No man is a hero in his own country," coined by Australian World War I commander John Monash. Well, here's a related sentiment, updated and de-gendered: No one is a...
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Straight Dope Calls It … 45 Years
If you're one of the "teeming millions" who have enjoyed reading the Straight Dope weekly in Seven Days, we have sad news: The column in our June 27 issue was the last. We thought you might like to...
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Seven Days Staffers Pick Even More Vermont 'Bests'
Fair and impartial reporting is the rule here at Seven Days. But, just this once, we've decided it's OK to play favorites. As we prepared to release the results of our annual Seven Daysies readers'...
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Trish Denton Cultivates Hybrid Storytelling With Parallel Narratives
Deep in a forest, a young boy uncovers a shiny, jagged hunk of obsidian. A newborn fawn watches curiously as the boy stuffs it into his backpack. The fawn asks him why he's collecting such a sharp,...
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