EAST MONTPELIER – The Mansfield Bar, named for the nearby mountain, is a watering hole near Stowe. It’s also the steel hangey-down thing under the back of a tractor trailer, designed to prevent cars from sliding underneath the rear end of the trailer in t... See more
EAST MONTPELIER – This business of long-distance romance between here and Nahant can be a bit daunting, but it’s getting to where the three-and-a-half hours between us seems almost like a commute. Still, I do admit to a bit of hoo-boy! When I get onto I-8... See more
EAST MONTPELIER – I’ve had the dubious good fortune during the past five years to drive every couple of weeks or so to the neighborhood of Boston. It’s becoming a habit, casually alternating visits to Nahant with my friend Bea’s visits here in Vermont. Bu... See more
I’d never heard of Celia Thaxter, so when the producer of our TV show emailed that the crew had a chance to visit her garden on Appledore Island, I was politely underwhelmed. Still, it was a chance to visit one of the Isles of Shoals, which had been on my... See more
Every once in a while, amid the cacophonic news that pours in through the various speakers here and there in the house, I detect a bit of the America I used to know. It’s not necessarily an explicit image, but more of a remembered aroma; as Eliot has it, ... See more
