Bob Spear, wood carver, founder of the Birds of Vermont Museum
Eighty-one-year-old woodcarver and naturalist Bob Spear has birds on the brain — and has since he started crafting them from wood in 1938. That’s when…
Flick Chick
Appropriating hipster lingo from the jazz world, a group of performers collectively known as the Rat Pack captured the country’s imagination four decades ago. “You…
Making a Scene: An abundance of drama classes teached Vermonters how to act
If it’s true that “acting is suffering,” as T.S. Eliot once wrote, then woe unto the handful of student thespians assembled in Jock MacDonald’s class….
Tome, Sweet, Tome: Bear Pond Books, Montpelier
You can tell a lot about a bookstore by which fiction “faces out.” At Bear Pond Books in Montpelier, Vermont writers Lee Durkee, Robert Jones…
Silk Route: Isadora
“It looks like it’s going to be a lingerie Christmas,” a recent issue of the trade journal Women’s Wear proclaimed. That’s good news, of course,…
Sex in the Country? Good stuff
Let’s face it — St. Albans is not exactly Sin City. Decked out for Christmas, its wholesome Main Street looks like it was lifted from…
Comics Relief: Earth Prime Comics
Do you dream of bounding over tall buildings, or spending your days conquering evil? Maybe you just appreciate great stories and masterful illustration. If so,…
Creative Clutter: Provisions, Waitsfield
Back in horse-and-buggy days, rural folk used to ride into town to pick up “provisions,” maybe catching some vittles at a country café on the…
Badge of Courage
High Noon” on Capitol Hill will hit this Thursday when Attorney General John Ashcroft finally appears in the witness chair before the Senate Judiciary Committee….
