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Between the Lines: Finding a balance with youth sports

Posted on February 3, 2011 |
By Gregory Dennis



On most mornings this time of year, she gets out of bed at 5 a.m. so she can be at the rink at 6.

Some days she has company from other skaters, whom she joins in rehearsals for synchronized numbers they’ll perform as a group in the Winter Carnival ice show.

Other mornings, though, she’s alone. The ice is fresh from the previous night’s Zamboni sweep and the only sound is the scrape of her skates. She practices her solo routine or works on “moves in the field” so she can pass the next test of skating proficiency.

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Between the Lines: The tracks of John Boehner's tears

Posted on January 20, 2011 |
By Gregory Dennis



Pity the poor liberals. They spent decades convincing Americans that it was a good thing for women to be strong, high-profile leaders. So who comes along and grabs the mantle of the high-profile political woman? Not a liberal, but the dreaded Sarah Palin.

Then after years of creating space for men to be more in touch with their feelings, liberals have to watch new Speaker of the House John Boehner — he of the tough-guy politics and country club demeanor — become the most emotive man in public life.

It’s enough to make progressives want to go out and burn a bra.

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Between the Lines: Shaking off the January blues

Posted on January 6, 2011 |
By Gregory Dennis



It’s right about this time of year that some of us begin to wonder why we ever thought it was a good idea to live in Vermont in the first place: Two weeks after Christmas and three more months of wintry weather to come.

Couldn’t God have just skipped January (and maybe November) and given us only the shocking green of spring, the lazy warmth of summer, and the gold of autumn?

Sure, we’ll take a few weeks of late winter thrown in there for good measure, complete with longer days and fresh maple syrup.

But as for January? A lot of us would just as soon hit the fast-forward button.

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Between the Lines: The Snow Bowl is alive and well

Posted on December 23, 2010 |
By Gregory Dennis



For skiers, no website is as bittersweet as the one dedicated to the New England Lost Ski Areas Project.

NELSAP chronicles the history of the scores of New England ski areas that have closed their doors over the past 70 years.

There was a ski area in Bristol, for example. The website quotes a 1939 source, “Ski Trails in the East and How to Get There”:

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Between the Lines: Choosing a tree, and a life

Posted on December 9, 2010 |
By Gregory Dennis



It’s way too early to get a Christmas tree, I said.

But V. and S. had other ideas.

I grew up in a family that reserved the annual finding and cutting of the tree until the day of Christmas Eve. To their way of thinking, the day after Thanksgiving isn’t too early.

The first weekend of December, in my childhood experience, was for paging through the Sears catalog and figuring out if you were going to ask Santa for a new bike or a Fanner Fifty cap gun.

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Between the Lines: Saying thanks for life's small heroes

Posted on November 24, 2010 | Blog Category:
By Gregory Dennis



There are plenty of reasons to see through the glass darkly in late November. You don’t need me to remind you what they are.

But there are also good reasons why it’s become an American tradition to say thanks amid the gathering darkness.

On this holiday, I’m grateful for a few small-time heroes.

I call them “small-time” not because their heroism is petty or unworthy. It’s just that their kind of everyday valor goes largely unnoticed.

I got to thinking about that when I attended a wedding at the Waybury Inn this past summer.

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Between the Lines: Listenin' to the (Tom) Rush of time

Posted on November 11, 2010 |
By Gregory Dennis



To hear what it was like to play professional football in the early days of the NFL, you’d want to talk to a guy like Y.A. Tittle. Interested in the history of the feminist movement? Go hear a Gloria Steinem talk. George McGovern could tell you all you needed to know about trying to change a political party.

And if you wanted to learn about folk music — which reaches back several centuries yet still shapes the music we hear today — you couldn’t do much better than going to a Tom Rush concert.

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Between the Lines: 350.org and social media activism

Posted on October 14, 2010 |
By Gregory Dennis



Almost every day at Middlebury College, I receive an influx of e-mails announcing the latest environmental initiatives and encouraging students to make their voices heard.

Last weekend, climate change activism took the global stage by storm with the 10/10/10 Global Work Party organized by 350.org. The group inspired a groundbreaking 7,347 events across 188 countries. With such broad-based support, the case for change seems fairly clear: People are demanding a global transition towards a clean energy economy.

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