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After a four-year hiatus, the Paran Plunge returned Saturday with a big splash many splashes, in fact. The event kicked off the North Bennington, Vt., Winter Festival.
As crisis calls to its counseling center rose during the pandemic, Norwich University administrators started looking for new ways to ease the adjustment from home.
Vermont Voices —Fear, loss, and letting go — one cold dip at a time. That’s how 76-year-old Alisa Del Tufo sees it. She’s been taking an early morning dip into the beautiful waters of Lake Paran most every day of the year for the past several years— even now with the coming winter’s cold, when the water’s edge is starting to freeze up, and most of us are still asleep or sipping our first cup of hot coffee. We caught up with the North Bennington resident on a frigid December morning to watch her swim and talk about coping with trauma, being alone on the lake, and conquering fear.