WINE OBSERVED: Weighing the options: Planning a wedding or celebration? Here’s how you can find a wine that will please a number of different palates and complement a wide variety of foods
Here is something to think about as you plan your wedding (or other gathering, for that matter): What wine will you serve at your reception? If you are having the reception at an inn or managed property, you might be limited to buying your wine directly through them or paying a per-bottle corkage fee for what you supply yourself. Even if you are paying a $20 per bottle corkage fee, you can often do better supplying your own wine....
LOCAL FLAVOR: Adding value: Can you improve on the simple goodness of maple syrup? Entrepreneurs and farmers in Southern Vermont are using the sweet stuff in ways that might surprise you.
Maple syrup. It’s never been just for pancakes. The Algonquins wouldn’t have been surprised at the current entrepreneurial nature of the “sugaring” industry. It’s well-known that Native Americans were tapping northern maples for centuries before the first settlers came, and the legend has it that the delicious sweet sap was discovered when a woman — naturally, it was a woman — used some of it to boil up the evening venison. So put...
SPOTLIGHT: 22nd Annual Women’s Film Festival
Celebrated during Women’s History Month, the Women’s Film Festival is devoted to films by and about women. Over the course of five jam-packed days, (Friday, March 8 to Sunday March 10 and Saturday, March 16 to Sunday, March 17) the festival will screen 26 films this year: five feature films, 14 documentaries, and seven shorts from around the world. One of the films, Inocenti, has been nominated for an Oscar for Best Short Documentary....
Save the date for a sweet weekend
Plan to visit the 15th Annual Whitingham Maple Festival on Saturday and Sunday, March 23 and 24 to learn about the life and lore of making maple syrup — sugaring, as it’s known — and its historical importance in this small town (the birthplace of Mormon church icon Brigham Young). The town also hosts a craft fair and pancake breakfasts/luncheons on both days, and a sugar-on-snow supper on Saturday evening. That’s just one of the...
Brattleboro Bling: A southern Vermont town becomes a retail destination for all sorts of jewelry — an art form of universal appeal — from handcrafted original designs to antiques
Brattleboro Bling A southern Vermont town becomes a retail destination for all sorts of jewelry — an art form of universal appeal — from handcrafted original designs to antiques By Joyce Marcel Last August, when goldsmith and platinumsmith David Walter opened his elegant retail showroom on Main Street, a concept that had been flying under the radar for a significant amount of time became unavoidable: Brattleboro has become a jewelry...
Life as a poem put to paper: Guilford’s Verandah Porche releases new poetry collection
Life as a poem put to paper Verandah Porche and her literary friends moved to an abandoned farm in Guilford in 1968 to create what would become a legendary commune. And she wanted her life to be a poem. Porche, 67, has just published a new collection of poems, Sudden Eden, an autobiography in verse. As she has lived a rich life filled with family, friends, farming, lovers and farewells — good birthing, good food, good conversation,...
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In-Sight Photography
In-Sight Photography By Steve Noble One summer, 20 years ago, photographers Bill Ledger and John Willis saw something that bothered them. Teens in Brattleboro were just hanging out with nothing to do, and catching it from local police for loitering. Willis and Ledger decided to do something about it and put together a one-month photography class. It proved so popular , what they started quickly expanded from a one-month class to...
Wine Observed
Wine Observed: This Time it’s Craft Beers by Marty Ramsburg Ten years ago, in November 2002, a craft beer producer made the iconoclastic decision to package its first beer for distribution in a can. Demand for beer produced by the Oskar Blues brewpub in tiny Lyons, Colorado, had grown steadily, encouraging owner, Dale Katechis to expand production beyond what could be consumed on-premise. Releasing his Dale’s Pale Ale in cans,...
Calendar
The Daily Scoop September:Thru Sep 9: North Bennington Plein Air Competition, pleinair-vermont.com.Thru Sep 9: Vermont State Fair, all day, Rutland, vermontstatefair.net.Saturdays: Traditional Craft Saturdays at Billings Farm & Museum, 10a-5p, Woodstock, billingsfarm.org.6: Chinese Painting lecture, First Congregational Church, Manchester Center, 4p,visitmanchestervt.com.7: Gallery Walk in and around downtown...
Music & Theatre
Music & Theater Bellows Falls Opera House7 Centennial Square, Rockinghambfoperahouse.com,802 463-3964Sep 6: Gordie Tentrees, 7:30p. Sep 23: Puppets in the Green Mountains performance, Peter and the Wolf, 8p. Sep 28: Made in Vermont Music Festival Statewide Tour, 7:30p. Bennington Center for the Arts44 Gypsy Lane, Bennington10a–5p, (Closed Mondays)benningtoncenterforthearts.org802 442-7158Sep 29: An Evening with Tom Rush, 8p....
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