2. WOODSTOCK, VT
Woodstock perfectly encapsulated everything you’d want in a Vermont getaway. It’s a cute town packed with colonial architecture, farm-to-table restaurants and craft brewers (swing by Long Trail Brewing Company for a VT IPA). On the rustic appeal front, we’re big fans of the Billings Farm & Museum, which were once owned by Laurance and Mary French Rockefeller. Woodstock also has a thriving arts community. So you can scoop up landscape paintings, plaid textiles or hand-carved wood bowls to bring a piece of the Green Mountain State back home.
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The Montpelier Bridge
For most Vermonters, mid-May is a time that brings the joyful realization that spring is finally here.
For me, though, itâs a time of reckoning. Itâs when, once again, I realize Iâve been taken hostage.
Now considering the political climate, you might think Iâm being held by right-wing loonies or black-clad Antifa protesters (or perhaps black flies, who hold many of us unfortunate rural denizens hostage indoors in May).
But actually, itâs far worse than that.
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Iâm a hostage of my gardens, whose brutal demands are relentless, persistent, insistent, perverse and, at my age, ever-more back-breaking and stiffness-inducing. And yet I submit willingly, a clear example of Stockholm Syndrome, whereby one sympathizes with his captors, not to mention revealing a tendency for masochistic pursuits.
A new electric vehicle fast-charger at Mad River Taste Place in Waitsfield When the Vermont Senate passed its 2022 budget bill in late April, administration officials were less surprised by what was in the $7.1 billion bill than what
wasn t in it. Despite their heated rhetoric about the need to act urgently on the climate crisis, lawmakers had passed a bill that contained $28 million
less in climate investments next year than Gov. Phil Scott had proposed. The idea that climate didn t rise to the same level for the legislature as it did for the administration was striking to me, Natural Resources Secretary Julie Moore said last week.
Grace Potter. (photo: Pamela Neal)
At 37, Grace Potter has already positioned herself as one of the finest stage performers and singer-songwriters of the early 21st century. A signature blend of soul, rock, folk and pop sensibilities, she left her native Vermont as a teenager and never looked back.
After a short stint at St. Lawrence University, she soon found herself fronting a rock ensemble (Grace Potter & The Nocturnals), a group that quickly garnered a large following rumbling across every big stage and major festival from coast to coast, atop opening for the likes of The Black Crowes and The Rolling Stones.