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FALL FROM GRACE Fogel s documentary explores how Khashoggi (shown with Cengiz) went from being a Saudi insider to an alleged assassination victim. Our streaming entertainment options are overwhelming and not always easy to sort through. This week, the Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival and Vermont International Film Foundation present a new installment of their Split/Screen virtual cinema program, this one curated by MNFF. (Find more info and tickets at middfilmfest.org.) I watched
The Dissident, a ripped-from-the-headlines documentary about the murder of
Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Director Bryan Fogel also made the Oscar-winning sports-doping exposé
When
Woodland Baking & Coffee opens this spring at 394 Mountain Road in Stowe, both halves of its name will have equal weight. It s not just a bakeshop, and it s not just a coffee shop, owner
Matt Carrell said. The menu will feature whole-grain pastries such as croissants and canelés made with various kinds of flour milled by Most people eat just one kind of flour, but we wouldn t accept that for any other food, Carrell said. If most of your baked good is made up of flour, then that s going to be the prime mover of flavor, and you can really change that by using different grains.
Samantha Ford speaking with Steve Goldstein at his home in Shelburne Samantha Ford sees dead people and brings them to life. An archaeologist of sorts, she digs into documents, not dirt. Instead of a spade and sieve, her tools are deeds and vital records. Ford s enterprise, Williston-based Turn Stone Research, can put the limbs on your family tree, find secrets buried beneath the hearth, or help you record and preserve your home s historical records. While the future is unknowable, the past can literally be an open book. We found this out a few weeks ago when Ford, a 32-year-old Charlotte native, sat on the porch of our house on Falls Road in Shelburne and, like a latter-day Scheherazade, told the tale of the land.
The Horse Barn at the former King George School in Sutton A decade ago, Eric Hudson and his maintenance staff kept the grounds of the King George School in Sutton immaculate: lawns and gardens manicured, walkways shoveled and swept, fences regularly painted white. After all, the affluent and mostly out-of-state parents whose high-school-age kids attended the therapeutic boarding school in the Northeast Kingdom paid hefty tuitions on par with those at many elite private colleges. These days, Hudson shows prospective buyers around the place; the 300-acre campus with sweeping vistas of the Green and White mountains has been on the market for almost a decade. Hudson is the sole caretaker and doesn t have much else to do at the shuttered school. One of his jobs is to keep the furnace running in the education building, aka Eddy. Otherwise, the radiant floor heating pipes would freeze and buckle the foundation.
A recent piece by Grace Elletson Elletson, 23, grew up in Cape Cod in Massachusetts and attended Ithaca College in New York. She said she inherited her interior design sensibilities and frugality from her mom. She was just so good at making spaces look beautiful when we had no money, Elletson said. I bring that to refurbishing, because I take furniture that is on its last leg. People are throwing it out. Transforming a large piece of furniture, such as a desk or a dresser, from junkyard-bound to Insta-ready requires some 20 hours of work. Elletson sands and primes every part of the wood, hand-paints, sprays a topcoat, and often replaces the hardware. Some pieces need more repairs, if a drawer is falling apart or a leg is wobbly.