Monthly Archives: August 2007

Monday marks day three of the Champlain Valley Fair, northern Vermont’s annual 10-day celebration of 18th-century opera, elegant spa cuisine, and reading. Oh, wait: I must be looking at the wrong news release. My bad. Let’s try that again: Monday … Continue reading →

I was driving through a lovely hamlet in Vermont earlier this summer, the name of which I shall take to my grave. (It happens to rhyme with a brand of chocolate syrup, but you didn’t hear that from me.) I … Continue reading →

So, we all know now how the Harry Potter saga has ended. A lot of us do, anyway. I won’t spoil it for the seven people in the country who haven’t yet heard how the final volume, “Harry Potter and … Continue reading →

Summer is not over yet, despite the cruelty of retailers who are now hanging banners in their windows with four of the scariest words any 8-year-old (or schoolteacher!) has ever read: Back-to-School Sale. We are barely a sixth of the … Continue reading →

Earlier this month, the day of “The Simpsons Movie” premiere in Springfield, I overheard a conversation while I was having a maple cookie at Jamie’s on Main, a bakery and sandwich shop in the center of Stowe. The exchange occurred … Continue reading →