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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Here's a gallery of photos from the Chilkoot Trail, which I wrote about in Hiking the Chilkoot last week. The Trail Center in Skagway, where we picked up our pass.We took a...