The Dirty Water Brass Band rocks a crowd in Harvard Square with their rendition of the classic soul tune “Knock On Wood.” Drummer Don Stevenson and sax player Mary Curtin are part-time West Glover residents. Along with trombonists Todd Page and Tim Opperman,... More »
by Tena Starr NEWPORT — Phil White, lawyer, former county prosecutor, and the man who tried so valiantly to save IROC, has taken on a new venture. Mr. White has started a for-profit company called Kingdom Games to organize and promote outdoor activities such a... More »
copyright the Chronicle, October 9, 2013 by Tena Starr Stella Halpern is hoping someone will solve a mystery for her. What was a very old, battered, handmade black doll doing in the rafters of a house in East Burke? Mrs. Halpern bought the doll in 2003 at an ... More »
by Bethany M. Dunbar LOWELL — “There’s no losers in this kind of a deal. Everybody wins,” said Ed Newton as he held up his first place ribbon for his 1947 Massey Harris tractor. Identical ribbons went to each participant in the Lowell FOLK festival parade on... More »
by Tena Starr ORLEANS — The heavy rain and wind that hit northern Vermont last week had an unusual victim: the magnolia tree that has, for some reason, been thriving in Orleans for nearly 60 years. Magnolias don’t generally overwinter in far northern Vermont ... More »
by Richard Creaser HOLLAND — There was very little warning of when the riders would make their first appearance, only a best guess and a couple of Labrador’s barking out a greeting at a photographer. The sound came first, the crunch of tires on gravel, the s... More »
by Bethany M. Dunbar CRAFTSBURY COMMON — Toby Marx-Dunn, a high school student from Jericho, was listening to National Public Radio one day, and it got him thinking about the food he eats. He decided he wanted to know more and get better, healthier food. Thi... More »
by Natalie Hormilla GLOVER — “The assessment is more important for the participants than for me.” This is what Peter Schumann answers when asked what he thinks of Bread and Puppet Theater turning half a century old this summer. Mr. Schumann has been the artist... More »
by Joseph Gresser GLOVER — An annual community event with a weight of tradition always faces the risk of becoming stodgy. Glover Day, with its Chamberlain Run, bicycle race and puppet show re-enacting the story of Runaway Pond, could easily become a snooze. ... More »
by Joseph Gresser GREENSBORO — Secrets are notoriously hard to keep in small towns. But Greensboro has managed to keep a thriving arts organization quiet for eight years. With its tent theater set up on the green in front of the Town Hall in the middle of tow... More »
by Paul Lefebvre When writer Edward “Ted” Hoagland turned 80 in December, he had 22 books under his belt. Today, he has one more and is working on another. Of course there’s an essay in the works, from the man writer John Updike called “the best essayist of... More »
by Joseph Gresser STANNARD — The new agricultural businesses that have flourished in the Northeast Kingdom over the past decade could not have grown so quickly without capital. Many of the necessary resources were found by Rian Fried, a pioneer in the field o... More »
