Category: Feature Article

Slideshow: The Pied Piper

Posted on April 15, 2011 |

• Feature Article
• Multimedia
• arts
• Mary Hogan Elementary
• play
• slideshow

By Trent Campbell

MARY HOGAN ELEMENTARY School students in Pegasus Theater performed "The Pied Piper" on April 8 at the school. The musical updates the traditional tale of a traveling piper who lures rats away from a town with his hypnotizing tune, and then uses his musical powers on the town's children.

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Patchwork: Italy and Vermont share garden values

Posted on April 7, 2011 |

• Feature Article
• gardening
• Patchwork

By Ilaria Brancoli-Busdraghi

Editor’s note: Our guest columnist this week, Ilaria Brancoli Busdraghi, teaches Italian at Middlebury College and sits on the board of directors of the Middlebury Natural Foods Co-op. Hailing from Italy, where the Slow Food Movement originated, Ilaria cooks with her family and friends.

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Patchwork: Spring takes its time, and so does the garden

Posted on March 31, 2011 |

• Feature Article
• Patchwork

By Barbara Ganley

As spring hems and haws and takes its own sweet time, Kate might be out there merrily tapping maples, but I’m watching the snowdrops shivering alone and the migratory birds wondering if they’ve missed a few degrees of latitude. Everything and everybody look a bit stunned around here.

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Patchwork: Maple expert harvests first crop of the year

Posted on March 24, 2011 |

• Feature Article
• Patchwork

By Kate Gridley

(Written with Kenn Hastings and Valerie Smith Hastings)

Spring teases, as is her wont in March. Longer days and the pendulum swing of the thermometer can mean only one thing. The sap is rising.

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