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Monthly Archives: April 2012
Next Sunday, walk a mile in COTS’ shoes
Imagine you’re eighteen years old and beginning your freshman year of college in northern Vermont. You’re from a small town on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and this is your first time away from home. Your parents divorced when you were six, … Continue reading
Retiring the penny makes good sense
Recently Canada announced that beginning this fall, the nation will no longer mint or distribute pennies. This would have been a much bigger story in the world, had there not been rumors – quickly squashed – that Lindsay Lohan had … Continue reading
Pulitzer committee and jury options — plenty of options
So, the Pulitzer committee chose not to select a Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. Baffling. Disturbing. Insulting. Here are just a few of the novels from 2011 that I would have been happy to see win: The Tiger’s Wife Swamplandia The … Continue reading
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‘Titanic’ movie just the tip of the iceberg
By now, it may seem to you as if we have been commemorating the centennial of the Titanic’s epic sinking for, well, a hundred years. Perhaps you feel like Kate Winslet does when she hears Celine Dion’s “My Heart Will … Continue reading
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Tagged Bohjalian, Carpathia, Kate Winslet, The Sandcastle Girls, Titanic
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More reasons why I love libraries — in honor of National Library Week
Below is a link to a Q and A I did with Random House in honor of National Library Week. There are a half-dozen questions. Here is one. RH LIBRARY: If you were a character in a book who would … Continue reading
Raise the Titanic? Vermont’s Lyric Theatre will sink it first.
Last month in an article in “Smithsonian Magazine,” writer Andrew Wilson speculated that “Titanic” is the third most widely recognized word in the world – trailing only “God” and “Coca-Cola.” (And you thought it was going to be “Facebook” or … Continue reading
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Tagged Jack and Rose, James Cameron, Lyric Theatre, Maury Yeston, Peter Stone, Titanic
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Village Peeple descend upon Middlebury, Vermont
Sometimes great art demands brutality, and so Leigh Boglioli, 13, savaged her Peeps. Leigh, a 13-year-old seventh-grader from East Middlebury, Vermont, began by slicing single ears off of select rabbit Peeps and glued them on to other ones, creating mutated, … Continue reading
