These days, independent booksellers are a rare breed.  They deserve our admiration AND our support.  Joelle Beck owns the Boxcar & Caboose, an independent bookstore on Railroad Street in St. Johnsbury.  With just days to go before Christmas, and in these uncertain economic times, Joelle phoned in on Friday morning with LOTS of good news, [...]

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Sure,  you’re burnt out on all the politicking, so we won’t tell you that we’ve lined up ALL THREE GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATES for their last shot on Monday morning.  This week, there was plenty of campaigning to absorb too, along with our interview with a vampire expert (who also works for NPR!) and some other Halloween insanity. [...]

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In the midst of the political frenzy, with just five days to go before the election, we took a break!  Following Republican Tuesday and Democratic Wednesday, turned today into Vampire Thursday. Eric Nuzum is a programming executive for National Public Radio in Washington, D.C.  He is probably the only NPR executive who drank his own [...]

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This is a long book, or a ‘weighty tome’ as we referred to it on the air Wednesday morning.  BUT…Jay Winik is a terrific writer (both of his books are New York Times bestsellers) and he made this critical period in global history, 1788-1800 come alive in this compelling and important read.  If you feel [...]

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I’m guessing that John Walker, department chair for St. Johnsbury Academy’s Fine Arts Department and the director of “Two Gentlemen of Verona” at the academy this weekend and next, doesn’t have much of a problem getting the attention of his young charges. He’s very tall, he has a booming voice and his passion for Shakespeare [...]

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Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor was a neuroscientist at Harvard’s Brain Research Center. At the age of 37, she suffered a stroke. Dr. Taylor said, after the pain subsided, that her worries went away, her worldview (and perceptions about life) completely changed and “The energy of my spirit seemed to flow like a great whale gliding [...]

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Sue Halpern is a former Rhodes Scholar, a Guggenheim Fellow, she holds a Doctorate from Oxford and she is a scholar-in-residence at Middlebury College. Smart lady? You betcha. Her new book is about memory and Alzheimer’s disease and the research that she’s been doing to help us remember. You won’t believe what she discovered after [...]

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