As summer time nears, so does camp season! Here s a list of ideas you may not have considered or known about to keep in mind as you plan. Registration space is limited for most camps and may no longer be available.
Campers will explore ECHOâs special summer exhibit, Human Plus, to discover some amazing inventions that extend human abilities. Theyâll discover how neuroprosthetic limbs can be controlled by a personâs thoughts and other marvels of biomedical engineering. Theyâll even meet special guests from the community who work in this innovative field to learn about what it takes to engineer life-changing tools.
Book Review: Pre-Fab Living
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Y: Cube Mitcham is the first of several developments produced for the YMCA in south London, UK. Designed by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, the modular units provide affordable starter homes for young people unable to afford a conventional house. Photo courtesy Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners
Book by Avi Friedman (Thames & Hudson, 2021)
Pre-Fab Living provides a timely overview of current pre-fabrication technologies through a collection of projects that explores current design trends and construction approaches. Authored by Avi Friedman, who teaches architecture at McGill and has been a long-time advocate for sustainable and affordable housing, the book includes 40 small to mid-rise projects from around the globe. They’re grouped by themes including Innovative Communities, Apartment Buildings, and Net-zero Homes, presenting pre-fabrication as an evolving and experimental set of processes with ample space for imagination, growth and cross-poll
In March of 2020, chef Jonathan Davis closed his restaurant, the Starving Artist Café in South Burlington s Davis Studio, due to the pandemic. By August, Jonathan had launched a new business called Pie Society. He bakes 80 to 100 pies every week and there are three options two savory, one sweet with two pickup locations. Jonathan is loving his new pie venture and has no plans to return to restaurant work. Eva met up with Jonathan at the Davis Studio, an arts education center and school founded by his mother, Teresa Davis. She watched him do some pie prep, tasted some pies and talked to Jonathan about his longtime love of the buttery nine-inch pastries. For the record, Eva is also a member of Pie Society although there is no official membership and has been eating his pies weekly since Thanksgiving.
Courtesy of Camp Abnaki It might seem a bit incongruous that in the same week Vermont looks its most wintry, our parenting publication,
Kids VT, is hosting a virtual camp fair promising fun in the sun six months hence. The timing makes perfect sense to those familiar with the summer salvation the event promotes. Especially this year, after 11 months of being cooped up with their kids, parents would love it if someone else could take them for a while. People who have attended summer camp tend to be repeat customers. The rest of the year pales by comparison to those weeks in the woods with individuals who are not your parents, siblings or schoolmates. Camp friends, who are generous with hugs and have a tendency to burst into song, are worth waiting for.
click to enlarge Jonathan Davis of Pie Society I have been obsessed with pie since I was very little, Jonathan Davis said. He was explaining the roots of his latest culinary enterprise, Pie Society, which launched in August. As evidence, Davis offered an autobiography authored in kindergarten that highlighted his love of apple pie. The young foodie also documented a mythical world populated by creatures who ate only pie. Davis, now 28, went on to work at a number of Vermont bakeries, restaurants and confectioners, including Mirabelles Bakery, then in Burlington; the Spot in South Burlington; and Vermont Cookie Love in North Ferrisburgh. In late 2015, he opened the Starving Artist Café in South Burlington in the Davis Studio, an arts education center and school founded by his mother, Teresa Davis.