SAVING THE FLORIDA TORREYA (2004)
SAVING THE FLORIDA TORREYA (2004) Pesticides: Endangered Species Protection Program Recent Additions | Contact Us | Print Version Search: EPA Home > Pesticides > Environmental Effects >...
View ArticleAMTRAK RUTLAND VT TO NYC 2004
Those who canoe Otter Creek see all sorts of wildlife, because the critters are so used to seeing stuff floating downstream that they don’t get alarmed at the intrusion. Similarly, the world near a...
View ArticleTHE FLAGS OF MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE
When Middlebury College dedicated its new library in the fall of 2004, the flags of 73 countries lined the edge of the roof facing the ceremony. Watchers have also seen those flags carried by students...
View ArticleThe Bomb
The Bomb (Old Brandon) In the years before, during, and after the Cuban Missile Crisis of October, 1962, we lived with the fear of a nuclear attack. At least we children did. In sixth grade, in 1961,...
View ArticleTHE REAL DUTIES OF A LIBRARY DIRECTOR
Under David Clark Ilsley has become an amazing community hub and a growing and essential part of the Middlebury and East Middlebury Community. In March of 2013 in Middlebury, Vermont, there was a...
View ArticleTo the Dump, to the Dump, to the Dump Dump Dump
Dumping (part of Old Brandon) The dump in the Brandon in which I grew up occupied what must have been one of the most picturesque locations for such facilities in all of picturesque Vermont. The place...
View Articlept1–MY MUSICAL TOP 100–AND YOURS IF YOU WANT
pt1–MY MUSICAL TOP 100–AND YOURS IF YOU WANT For years I have been saying from time to time, “That song is in my top 100,” without ever trying to make a definitive list. When I upgraded my computer...
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Pt2–MY MUSICAL TOP 100–AND YOURS IF YOU WANT It’s a wide, wide world—musically, too. Listening to a pioneering radio reggae program in the early 1970s, I said to my wife, “That guy Bob Marley is a GOOD...
View ArticleSidney Rosen’s death (1995 news report)
BRANDON _ No account of this town’s history in the last half of the 20th century will be complete without including Sidney Rosen, who died Tuesday at the age of 90. Relatives and associates recalled...
View ArticlePEDIGREE PET ROCKS
PEDIGREE PET ROCKS When I was a kid, my science teacher mother collected rocks, which often were fascinating. But as I grew older, I discovered they didn’t begin to compare with the collection on view...
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