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Hope is the tie rack with feathers

Posted on June 16, 2013 by

It wasn’t the worst Father’s Day present ever: Children everywhere have given their fathers gifts that are far more troubling. Exhibit A? Anything at all from the Sky Mall catalog. Nothing says love quite like a Hobbit chess set or … Continue reading →

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UVM senior treks back into her Armenian past

Posted on June 16, 2013 by

Just how small is this world really? Sarah Aghjayan, 21, has been going to the University of Vermont since the autumn of 2010 and will begin her senior year there this September. Our paths have never crossed in Vermont. Yet … Continue reading →

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In a Turkish town that had 10,000 Armenians, now there is only one

Posted on June 8, 2013 by

A woman I met last month in southeastern Turkey is going to die, probably sometime soon. Asiya’s death will not be covered by any news service, and for all but a few people in her small village of Chunkush, she … Continue reading →

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It’s summer! Time to buckle up for redcoats and crummy joints!

Posted on June 2, 2013 by

Back in the day, we here in the Champlain Valley often made the redcoats’ lives hell – the breakfast brawl at Hubbardton notwithstanding. But my parents always had a soft spot in their hearts for one particular redcoat stationed at … Continue reading →

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The gods must be crazy after all

Posted on May 31, 2013 by

HERE’S THE setup: A Coca-Cola bottle falls from a low-flying airplane over an undeveloped corner of Africa. How undeveloped? The local tribesman who finds it — as well as the rest of the villagers — have no idea what it is … Continue reading →

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The medals have finally come home

Posted on May 26, 2013 by

U.S. Army private Corrado Piccoli was killed in France in the summer of 1944. This is, in most ways, a very old story – 69 years old, to be precise. Moreover, Piccoli was only one of the tens of thousands … Continue reading →

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Hollywood’s blockbuster season is here: Duck.

Posted on May 20, 2013 by

It was over thirty years ago that the Hollywood Blockbuster Season gave us “Odorama.” Yup, 1981’s version of 3-D was a scratch and sniff card with numbered aromas. When a number flashed on the screen, we in the audience would … Continue reading →

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Mother’s Day — by the book

Posted on May 12, 2013 by

If you are a little boy and want to test your mother’s love, color in the leaves on the dust jacket of her first edition of Harper Lee’s novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird.” Or draw the Starship Enterprise and a … Continue reading →

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Hope springs eternal: Play ball!

Posted on May 5, 2013 by

You might not know it from what I share in this column, but I played some pretty serious football and baseball as a boy. First of all, I was on the same high school football team – the illustrious Bronxville … Continue reading →

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What it means to be Boston Strong

Posted on April 28, 2013 by

It has been almost two weeks now since the Boston Marathon ended in a nightmarish terrorist attack; it has been nine days since Boston was paralyzed by a manhunt and Watertown was a battleground. The news cycles are moving on. … Continue reading →

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