On a sunny day last July, farmer Vince Foy drove back home from a field he rents from a neighbor carrying his fingertip with ...

Dec. 15, it was a fun holiday day in Burke, Vt. Santa arrived via wagon ride to the Community Building in West Burke with ...

Walking down Elmore Mountain this fall, I sensed a change around me while watching my feet and the rocks and roots that I ...

I trudged to Baxter Peak on Mt. Katahdin, hoping the Pamola would not rage against me. I was on a quest to summit the highest ...

With their “superb capacity to find the inner heart of everything they play,” (International Review of Music), the Tesla ...

The January 5, 1839 issue highlights diverse opportunities and innovations across Vermont’s rural communities. Rufus ...

As the days get longer, the cold gets stronger.” That old weather nugget certainly had January in mind, as the average temperatures keep tumbling through the 19th for maximum daily ...

As I rolled the unwieldy 2-foot-diameter log toward the wood splitter, I noticed it was pulpy and rotten in the center. It was too heavy for me, so I had ...

Janus, the Roman god of transitions and passages, of beginnings and endings, gave us the name January for the first month of the new year. It marks the end of ...

Each year as we approach the new year, I note a few cultural markers to set the tone for a new, wide-open year. This year I’m struggling with what these ...

A recent TV program about restoring Notre Dame de Paris after the 2019 fire made me reconsider the meaning of “restoration”: is it possible? The near-finished work on Notre Dame ...

As a child, I gazed at the evening stars, wondering what was out there in the universe. Were there people on other planets? Did they resemble us, talk like us, ...