“The turkey, slain, slowly cooked over our gas or electric fires, is the central figure at our holy feast. It is the totem animal that brings our tribe together. And because it is an awkward, intractable creature, the serving of it establishes and reinforces the tribal hierarchy. There are but two legs, two wings, a [...]

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Darcy Carter is the District Director for the Small Business Administration in Vermont.  In late February, she called in to tell us about some new financial and business development programs the SBA was implementing. On Tuesday morning, Darcy called in again, to give us some numbers, and to give us what on the surface seems [...]

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Rusty DeWees is a mass of contradictions.  His main character (he has plenty) is The Logger and in addition to a bunch of TV shows and movie appearances, writing a book, doing a weekly radio gig in Burlington and talking to high school kids about lifestyle choices, he spends a lot of time traveling Vermont [...]

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The music stream for Vermont Mornings now features 10,340 songs.  We counted.  Everything from Gregorian chants to Rachel Bissex singing “Drive All Night”, which I’m listening to right now on my Blackberry. Oh yeah,  you can listen to us on your Blackberry.  And your iPhone. On your iPhone, just go to Shoutcast and do a [...]

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From Facebook: How about we all just hug it out? That’s the theory behind Hug A Jew Day set to take place this Friday November 13th at the stroke of midnight, wherever you are in the world. The concept is as simple as the day, find a Jewish person and give him or her a [...]

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Where are we headed, and what’s with this handbasket?? Since economists have no clue at all, we decided to have the Great Recession explained by a…cartoonist.  Fortunately, we went to the top. On Wednesday morning, Bob Mankoff, New Yorker Magazine cartoon editor (and a damn fine cartoonist in his own right) called in.  Amazingly, as [...]

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It’s a little hard to see (the picture was taken on the fly with a cellphone camera) but the thermometer outside Community National Bank in downtown Lyndonville at 3:00 this afternoon showed 64F.  We waited through all of October to see Indian Summer arrive on Sunday and Monday.  The snows will be here soon; today [...]

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Jennifer Hartswick left Sheffield, her hometown, eleven years ago.  She graduated from Lyndon Institute, headed to New York City, spent a couple of years at the Hartt School of Music at the University of Hartford and lives now in Chicago. She plays trumpet, she sings, she mixes jazz, funk, soul and other genres and brings [...]

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