by Deborah Lee Luskin | Mar 27, 2019 | Living in Place
Spring Rises: Frost blooms to mud, sap ascends, steam billows; syrup sweetens hope. Hope is not the same as impatience for snow to melt or the hyacinth’s perfume. Hope rises on wings, sings, nests, raises young...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Mar 20, 2019 | Living in Place
A photo from the family archive. I have more to say about my grandfather since last fall, when I wrote both about him sexually abusing me and about Vermont Public Radio not allowing me to say so. First of all, admitting this abuse took place has helped me see the long...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Mar 13, 2019 | Living in Place
This year’s Newfane Town Meeting was held in Williamsville Hall, a former grange built in 1910. Low attendance spurred some discussion about ways of improving Newfane’s Town Meeting. Two possibilities were raised: 1) allowing the use of remote...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Mar 6, 2019 | Living in Place
Jan. May 2015. We were so astonished to see the bald eagle on that rainy Sunday in February, we didn’t realize it was Jan, saying goodbye. The eagle flew across the sodden snow and perched in a pine at the far end of the field. Her head and tail appeared like patches...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Feb 27, 2019 | Living in Place
The West River, the town’s northeast boundary, in late summer, when the world was impossibly green. Photo by Marion Dowling, Chair of the Selectboard. In preparation for moderating Town Meeting on the first Tuesday in March, I’ve been reading the Town Report. At its...
