Six years ago, Circus Smirkus – the Greensboro-based non-profit that trains aspiring
young performers – shut down to resolve a fiscal crisis. Now
it’s going strong again.
About 200 of Vermont’s 251 towns already allow
disabled veterans to deduct $40,000 from the assessed value of
their homes in order to reduce their property taxes. That number could soon increase.
Earlier: Boosting Benefits For Disabled Veterans
Writer Wallace Stegner is an author often
associated with the American West, but
he spent more than fifty summers in Greensboro, Vermont. VPR’s Sarah Ashworth talks with those who remember him.
We learn more about Robert Frost’s life and writings in Vermont and New Hampshire. Then we visit with bestselling Barre author Jennifer McMahon, and we travel to Greensboro, where writer Wallace Stegner summered for more than 50 years.