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2001, SPRING - A. Blake Gardner photographs
nature, Lincoln rebuilds its library, Keeping the Rochester marble
quarry busy, Spring scenic portfolio, The Vermont Youth Orchestra,
Howard Frank Mosher goes fishing, Satterfield by Howard Frank
Mosher, The brave participants of the Sugarbush Triathlon, Whitingham's
Maple Sugar Festival, Ariel's Restaurant, Middlebury's Beau Ties
Limited, Salamander rescue, The artistry of Charles Heyde. Buy
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2001, SUMMER - Calvin Coolidge's homestead in Plymouth
Notch, Vermont's minor league baseball team - the Vermont Expos,
Summer scenic photo portfolio, Creative gardening, Ethan Hubbard's
photographs of Vermonters, Bethel's drive-in theater, The shipwrecks
of Lake Champlain, A tour of the Champlain Bikeway, Kayaking
around the Champlain Islands, North Hero's Annual Piper's Gathering,
Raspberry picking, Craftsman Brian Longo and his wooden containers,
Hardwick's French Heritage Gathering, Tunbridge rebuilds its
covered bridge, Carrying on a family's legacy through storytelling. Buy
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2001 AUTUMN - Jay Southgate resurrects steeples, Preserving
the Long Trail, Middlesex's Gerald Pease drives his tractor to
church, Autumn scenic portfolio, Bennington County farmers succeed
by diversifying, Guilford is home to four Shirley Squires, Landscape
artist Wolf Kahn, The seasons in a Northeast Kingdom cranberry
bog, Ralph Nading Hill Literary Prize Winner: "Hornpout" by
Louella Bryant, The Ferrisburgh Artisans Guild, Southern food
at Plainfield's River Run Restaurant, a Poultney writer reminisces
about deer hunting with her dad, Vermont Folklife Center and
Vermont Life present the first Vermont Heritage Awards to Ron
West of Richford and Larry Burns of Braintree, The Vermont Symphony
Orchestra's traveling music festival, Haunted forest at the Audubon
Center, Woodstock's clothing sale for charity. Buy
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2001, WINTER - Stowe's hazardous terrain evacuation team,
The Burkes of Berlin, Regional theater, Winter scenic portfolio,
Readers' photos of deep-snow, Brattleboro uses old photos to
spark memories, Coyotes, Craftsbury ski marathon, Voles, Snowshoes:
Boutins and Tubbs, Spas, Pownal's dump, Hatch's granola. Buy
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2002, SPRING - Vermont Law School and
its environmental programs, Working for Wildlife Day, Covered
bridge revival, Autumn scenic portfolio, Dr. and Mrs. Harry Rowe
of Wells River, Students build boats at Lake Champlain Maritime
Museum, The Men of Maple Corner Calendar, Delsie Hoyt's braided
rugs, Gerard Rubaud's bread in Westford, Woodstock's Speakchorus,
Vermont State Parks: the CCC's legacy, Hazen's Notch. Buy
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2002, SUMMER - Lizzie Seiple's summertime at Lake Fairlee;
Shelburne Museum reinvents itself; TV reporter Anson Tebbetts
is never far from the Cabot farm; Summer scenic portfolio; Rochester's
park; Ridgerunners protect the Long Trail; Grafton's cornet band;
Land trusts help farmers; Fisherman Dayton Price in Averill;
The Bondville Fair; Lake Champlain's island parks; Newbury's
Cracker Barrel Bazaar. Buy
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2002, AUTUMN - Charlotte Park and Wildlife Refuge; Marcel
and Paula Masse and their Craftsbury goat farm; Vermont photos
(1936-1942) taken by the Farm Security Administration's Historical
Section; Vermont cheese artisans; Vermont grapes, Vermont wine;
Autumn scenic portfolio; Tunbridge's Euclid Farnham; Valley Quest:
a new kind of treasure hunt; Land for Sale (poem) by Cindy Hill,
Ralph Nading Hill Literary Prize winner; Randolph's New World
Festival; The Payne family's deer camp near Irasburg; Former
VL editors Nancy Price Graff and Brian Vachon; Gordon Tallman
and Peggy Pearl, winners of Vermont Heritage Awards; 6 Baldwin
Street: the Vermont Life staff; Backyard archaeology in Townshend;
House-Mouse Designs of South Burlington; A Southern Vermont Adventure
from Jamaica to mountain biking at Mount Snow; Pick your own
apples. Buy this issue.
2002/2003 WINTER - Vermont has some of the best ice climbing
spots in the world; Logging with horses in East Corinth; Lake
Champlain's women ferry boat captains; the photography of Alan
L. Graham; Preserving the state's painted theater curtains; Writers
make Vermont their home; Excerpt from David Mamet's book South
of the Northeast Kingdom; Jeff Danziger on his woodstove
business; Back in touch with Sue Stanley, farm wife of Franklin;
Fiddling comes with breakfast at Westfield's Old Bobbin Mill
Restaurant; UVM extension brings maple school to the state's
producers; the Vermont International Festival in Essex Junction. Buy
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2003 SPRING - Modern maple
sugaring with the Branons of Fairfield; Photographer Peter Miller’s
new book, Vermont Farm Women; Celebrating spring in
a photographic portfolio; High school basketball championships
at the Barre Auditorium, "the Aud"; Lyman Orton talks
about the Vermont Country Store and the Orton Family Foundation;
George Woodard’s Ground Hog Opry; The distinctive Stinehour
Press of Lunenburg; Back in touch with the Joe’s Pond Ice-Out
Contest; A dazzling hillside of tulips in Dorset; Montpelier’s
independent Savoy Theater; Trout are plentiful at Groton’s
Seyon Ranch State Park; Brattleboro’s gallery walk; New
Vermont music. Buy this
issue
2003 SUMMER - Bicycling, walking and running
on East Burke’s Kingdom Trails; Three different approaches
to agriculture: the Wrights in Bethel, the Hurtubises in Richford
and Orb Weaver Farm in Monkton; Naturalist Gustav W. Verderber
examines a meadow; Summer adventures unfold in a scenic portfolio;
Karl Decker records the people of Townshend; Loons make a comeback;
The Vermont History Expo in Tunbridge; The New Haven River Anglers
Association; Back in touch with the Robb family on their West
Brattleboro farm; Stowe’s Sterling Gorge Natural Area;
Heifers stroll through Brattleboro; It’s a family affair
at the Miss Lyndonville Diner; Books about the Connecticut River
and birding; Manchester’s Race for the Cure. Buy
this issue
2003 AUTUMN - Noel Perrin approves of the Preservation
Trust of Vermont’s work to save historic barns; Brattleboro’s
grand Latchis Hotel; The legacy of Rutland Herald photographer
Aldo Merusi; Metaphors of autumn in a scenic portfolio; “The
Black Bug” by Morrisville native Bill Schubart, winner
of the 2003 Ralph Nading Hill Literary Prize; UVM Professor John
Todd teaches ecological design to keep the world green; A re-creation
of the 1864 Confederate raid on St. Albans; Environmentalist
John Elder gives his view of the controversial Champion lands
sale in the Northeast Kingdom; Back in touch with Montpelier
artist Georgia Landau; Chelsea’s West Hill Church Supper
from a waitress’s perspective; Chef Steve Bogart cooks
up Chinese banquet food at his A Single Pebble restaurants in
Berlin and Burlington; Danville’s Great Vermont Corn Maze;
Books of Vermont Interest: Learning to Drive by Mary
Hays, Mirror Lake by Thomas Greene, Sledding on
Hospital Hill by Leland Kinsey, and more titles; in the
Post Boy news section: Burlington’s ECHO Center explores
the Lake Champlain Basin; Vermont products going organic; Barre
sculptor Frank Gaylord wins award; Whitingham’s Amos Brown
House; the Vermont Natural Resources Council (VNRC) marks 40
years; Hunger Mountain, The Vermont College Journal of Arts & Letters announces
the first annual Ruth Stone Prize in Poetry. Buy
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2003-2004, WINTER - King Arthur's Baking School;
Lake Bomoseen Ice-fishing Derby; Dot's Restaurant in Wilmington;
Back in Touch with Porter Music Boxes of Randolph; The 2003 Vermont
Heritage Awards presented by the Vermont Folklife Center and
Vermont Life magazine; Vermont-style winter clothing; Life in
Vermont, A Year in Photos, a special gallery of Vermont photography;
Cochran's Ski Area, Vermont's Legendary Family Ski Area in Richmond;
Barre Builds a Future Based on Its Granite Quarrying Past: visit
The Barre Opera House, the Labor Hall, the Vermont Granite Museum,
the Vermont History Center, the Rock of Ages Visitors Center
and Studio Place Arts; David Middleton's new photography book,
The Nature of Vermont; The Stone Women: Poet Ruth Stone and her
daughters Phoebe and Abigail; a weekend retreat for women with
Tracks of Vermont; Books of Vermont Interest: Stowe: Classic
New England by Peter Oliver, We Lived in Stowe: A Memoir by Craig
O. Burt and more titles; in the Post Boy news section: So Long
to Fred Tuttle; Battle Flags Tell Stories of the Civil War; four
top hats donated to Calvin Coolidge State Historic Site; last
State House elm becomes a state table; Brattleboro youngsters
aiming for Harris Hill ski jump; Vermonters in the news: poet
Louise Glück, weaver and folksinger Norman Kennedy, snowboarders
Ross Powers and Luke Mitrani, news reporter Anson Tebbetts, eight
named to Agricultural Hall of Fame. Buy
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2004, SPRING - Vermont Heroes:
13 people who have made a difference; Spring Wake-Up Call, a
scenic portfolio; Untamed Vermont by A. Blake Gardner
with commentary by Tom Wessels; Bookmobiles Are Back; Furniture
Vermont Style: Charles Shackleton Furniture, Beeken Parsons,
Copeland Furniture, Pompanoosuc Mills and others; "Portrait
of a Northeast Kingdom Whiskey Runner" by Howard Frank Mosher; “Road
Closed?” essay by Castle Freeman Jr. about driving on the
rural roads of Vermont; raft race on the Ottauquechee; the search
for Private Albert D. Smith, Civil War soldier; Books of Vermont
Interest: Idyll Banter, Weekly Excursions to a Very Small
Town by Chris Bohjalian, Real Democracy: The New England
Town Meeting and How It Works by Frank M. Bryan, Lake
Champlain’s Sailing Canal Boats, An Illustrated Journey
from Burlington Bay to the Hudson River, Building the Canal Schooner Lois
McClure by Arthur B. Cohn and contributors, Vermont Kitchen
Tunks and Parlor Songs (CD); The Day Calvin Coolidge Said “Vermont
Is a State I Love”; Back in Touch with The Jettie Farm;
Bristol’s eateries: Almost Home, Bobcat Café, Bristol
Bakery, Cubber’s, Mary’s Restaurant, Mountain Greens
Market & Deli, Snap’s, Vermont Coffee Co.; in the Post
Boy news section: Film pilgrims go on locations at famous Vermont
movie sites, Canaan girl’s efforts aid border patrol’s
dogs, Vermont-made Howard Dean book surprises all, water buffalo
and fresh mozzarella at Star Hill Dairy in S. Woodstock, college
league summer baseball (the Vermont Mountaineers) returns to
Vermont, Holly Leon wins 3rd annual Vermont Student Citizen Award. Buy
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2004 SUMMER - Ann S. Brandon of S. Randolph
writes about the night she collided with a moose and how it changed
her perspective; Daegan Goodman, son of Vermont Life production
manager, David Goodman, wins the national Odor-Eaters Rotten
Sneaker Contest; George Schenk, owner of American Flatbread in
Waitsfield; Back in touch with Sally Laughlin, birder; John Dillon
discusses Vermont’s wind-power debate; 32 places everyone
who loves Vermont should visit; the new Burlington waterfront;
a scenic portfolio of summer photographs; the Vermont slate industry;
Vermonters rediscover the beauty of butterflies; William Countryman’s
peonies flourish in Northfield; the Roy Brothers Memorial Croquet
Tournament in Barnet; Danville’s plan to reinvigorate the
town green; a tour of the Lake Champlain Islands and Franklin
county; Guilford’s annual Friends of Music Labor Day Festival;
a review of recent Vermont cookbooks by Marialisa Calta; in the
Post Boy news section: Vermont Historical Society’s new
permanent exhibit; Barnet’s Taylor Coppenrath leads UVM
to the NCAAs; Bellows Falls opens Waypoint visitors center; Ed
Koren cartoon; Vermonters in the news: Jacques Bailly, John Fusco,
Jim Davidson, Elsa Hilger; Remember Baker, Green Mountain Boy;
new guide to Northeast Kingdom attractions, Northeast Kingdom
Heritage Guide. Buy
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2004 Autumn - Elizabeth Wright Getchell’s
essay about pears; St. Michael’s College’s centennial;
The Beauty of Anichini – Susan Dollenmaier’s Tunbridge
Company Purveys Luxury Linens and a Vermont Business Ethic; the
Vermont tale behind Norman Rockwell’s famous painting, “The
Coin Toss;” the launch of the “Lois B. McClure;” 10
fall foliage tours with maps and photos; the story behind the
1944 crash of a B-24 Liberator bomber on Camel’s Hump;
a scenic portfolio of autumn photos; Tom Johnson revels in his
family’s roots in Dummerston; the revitalization of Brandon; “Four
Poems for Elizabeth” by Mary Pratt, the 2004 Ralph Nading
Hill Literary prize winner; Tod Murphy and his Farmers Diner
in Barre; Manchester’s annual Vermont Antiques Dealers’ Association
show; The Twelve Seasons of Vermont, a new book from Vermont
Life; Books of Vermont Interest: Freedom and Unity: A History
of Vermont by Michael Sherman, Gene Sessions and P. Jeffrey Potash;
Salt Pork & Apple Pie: A Collection of Essays and Photographs
About Vermont Old-Timers by Ethan Hubbard; Civil Wars: A Battle
for Gay Marriage by David Moats; Men Against Granite by Mari
Tomasi; Rehearsing with Gods: Photographs and Essays on the Bread & Puppet
Theater, photographs by Ronald T. Simon, text by Marc Estrin;
A View From Vermont by Helen Husher; in the Post Boy news section:
new lights on the Bennington Battle Monument, a Vermont touch
at the WWII Memorial, UVM’s Vermont Landscape Change Project,
bringing back the bald eagle, remembering Consuelo Bailey, Waterbury’s
George Woodard in the movie America’s Heart & Soul,
Vermont Youth Orchestra plays Carnegie Hall, international kudos
for the Moosalamoo region, Vermont Historical Gazetteer on CD,
Ted “Cave Dog” Keizer hikes the Long Trail in record
time and more. Buy this
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2004-05 Winter – Burke
Mountain rises again; Ski to eat: six
cross-country ski-to-eat tours that
lead the way to fine dining; Ed Koren,
Brookfield cartoonist; portfolio of
scenic winter photographs; Jane Beck,
founder of Middlebury’s Vermont
Folklife Center; Martin St. Louis makes
hockey history: From Laval, Quebec
to UVM to the NHL; Brookfield Ice Harvest;
Remembering Gerald Pease of Middlesex,
an essay by Burr Morse of East Montpelier;
2004 Governor’s Heritage Awards
go to Judy Fortin Dow of Essex, Abenaki
basket-maker, beader and educator and
Harold Luce of Chelsea, master fiddler;
Adams Farm sleigh rides; Killington’s
Superstar trail; Isis, a women’s
outdoor clothing company in Burlington
founded by Carolyn Cooke and Poppy
Gall; Nordic ice skating; Jamie Hess
of Norwich introduces Nordic skating
to the U.S.; Lake Morey Winterfest;
North American Marathon Skating Championships;
Lake Morey Skate-athon; Quechee Winter
Carnival; Catamount Outdoor Center;
in the Postboy news section: Archaeologists
find skeletons from soldiers who fought
in the War of 1812; rent a chicken
from Manchester’s Hildene; the
renovation of the Northfield Graded
School now known as the Gray Building;
Lawrence Mott of Buel’s Gore
car-pools with Governor Douglas; 60th
anniversary of the crash of the Army
Air Corps B-24 Liberator airplane on
Camel’s Hump; finding the bell
clapper from the East Montpelier Center’s
Old Meeting House. Buy
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2000, SPRING - A pictorial look at Vermont
over the past century, Millennium humor, Vergennes and its Opera
House get a make-over, Spring scenic photo portfolio, A lesson
in life and love from the couples of Chelsea, Tom Wessels and his
nature walks, Salmon return to Vermont, Environmentally friendly
Middlebury College, Celebrating spring in Chelsea, The benefits
of fresh eggs, Green Up Day, Vermont's world champion yo-yo star,
Touring art studios, Town jobs of the past. 
2000, SUMMER - Giving inner city kids a Vermont experience
through the Fresh Air program, Bellows Falls restores its pride,
Farming organic foods, Summer scenic photo portfolio, The history
of music in Marlboro, Treasures of the back roads in Lamoille
County, A musical summer in Weston, Preserving the Grand Isle
Lake House, Machine Tool Trail, Addison County Field Days,
The Bread and Puppet Theater. 
2000, AUTUMN - Vermont photographers, Blanche Moyse
carries on a musical tradition in Brattleboro, Ralph Nading
Hill literary prize winner Sheep Shape by Chris Sims, Littleton
Long's apple orchard, Autumn scenic photo portfolio, The growing
community of the Deerfield Valley, Teens get a head start on
job training at Smokey House, Berner Day, Rutland's newly restored
Paramount Center, Harvesting Ginseng, Learning to be a meteorologist,
Biking along the Missisqoui Rail Trail, Wild Grapes, Pumpkin
recipes, Thetford's Woods Trail run, Creative residents in
Waitsfield, Marlboro Fair, Harvesting wheat. 
2000, WINTER - The Annual Cratfsbury Sled Dog Race,
Environmentally friendly loggers, Paul Miller captures farming
through photography, Winter scenic photo portfolio, Giving
less-privileged kids the chance to snowboard at Bolton Valley,
Bernard Heinrich gives a lesson on Ravens, Woodford's snowmobile
haven, Game suppers, The Wildflower Inn Sleigh Rally, Sutton's
town leaders.