Open Letter to First Lady Michelle Obama Dear Michelle, I am a chef at an independent high school in Northern Vermont. Your work with the White House garden and promoting healthy food choices has been amazing. Presidential food influences have historically meant penchants for jellybeans and Big Macs™, unease with grocery stores, vegetables, and scallops, [...]

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Music that’s been added to the mix this week: Sting‘s ‘Symphonicities.’ Sting hits, Police hits, your favorites, all backed by The Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra. Some say the classical approach is a bit cloying, we say Sting’s too cool to ever be cloying. Eddie Harris‘ ‘That Is Why You’re Overweight.’ An early ’70′s album from [...]

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You might want some Dramamine first… Tribute to Escher in Barcelona

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Need we say more? Discovered walking on Memorial Drive, Lyndonville, Vermont on Tuesday, the 20th of July 2010. UPDATE! His name is Eric Bendl, he’s from Louisville, Kentucky and he and his son Ethan are walking from Washington D.C. to Acadia, Maine to raise awareness about diabetes.  Their website is: www.worldguy.org. Oh yeah, the dog’s [...]

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…and biggest ever Stars & Stripes Festival continues as of this posting (around 7:30 PM EDT Saturday) with the street dance.  Started by the Lyndon State College Foundation, the Lyndon Area Chamber of Commerce took over three years ago, and much like the chamber, the festival continues to grow and grow.  The parade began with [...]

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Vermonters turned out along roadsides this morning in tribute to a fallen Vermont soldier.

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Say what you want (not too many people liked him) but George Steinbrenner not only changed the New York Yankees, he changed sports.  One of the reasons we pay athletes obscene amounts of money is because Steinbrenner, a shipbuilder by trade who bought the Yankees from CBS for a song, was impatient and did not [...]

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“It’s the organ at the church.” That quote is from May of 2000, spoken by the Yankee outfield Paul O’Neill on Bob Sheppard Day at the old stadium. Shepherd, the public address announcer at Yankee Stadium for over a half-century, died Sunday at  home on Long Island.  He was 99. “Certain sounds and certain voices [...]

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We found out about singer Brittany Williams from our old friend Anthony Rootham, International Man of Fun and former Food & Beverage Director up at Burke Mountain.  Brittany is from Denver, she sings and plays piano and she has a CD out called “Cursed With A Blessing.”  Anthony shipped us a copy of the album [...]

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