For many years, Barbara and Richard Ketchum were
influential farmers, writers, and environmentalists in Dorset. In recent years, they had relocated to the Wake Robin retirement community in Shelburne, where last
week, Barbara died at age 89.
Extensive research in 2010 at the Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site in Cornish, NH inspired writer and historian David McCullough to return to the site and lead a walking tour for members of the board of the National Park’s Conservation Association.
A Springfield official says the North Springfield Lake and flood control dam did the job it was designed to do, catching and containing the deluge from Tropical Storm Irene.
VPR
has been visiting West Windsor for the past few years as an example of the
traditional town meeting, and to take the pulse of this basic building block of
democracy. And
indications are that Town Meeting is still alive and well in West Windsor.
Business was brisk at West
Windsor’s town meeting
today and concluded before noon. VPR
has been visiting West Windsor for the past several years to keep track of how the
traditional town meeting is adapting to the twenty first century.
A brand new, original musical has opened at the Briggs Opera House in White River Junction. The four cast members have all worked on Broadway, and they tell a love story with a very modern twist.
VPR’s Betty Smith takes us Backstage at the Northern Stage premier of Take Two.
Poet Hayden Carruth died this week at the age of 87. For twenty-five years, the Northeast Kingdom was his chosen home, and for many years it was the home of his poetic imagination.