Monthly Archives: April 2012

Next Sunday, walk a mile in COTS’ shoes

Posted on April 29, 2012 by chrisbohjalian

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 →

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Retiring the penny makes good sense

Posted on April 22, 2012 by chrisbohjalian

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 →

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Pulitzer committee and jury options — plenty of options

Posted on April 17, 2012 by chrisbohjalian

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

Posted on April 15, 2012 by chrisbohjalian

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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More reasons why I love libraries — in honor of National Library Week

Posted on April 12, 2012 by chrisbohjalian

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 →

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Raise the Titanic? Vermont’s Lyric Theatre will sink it first.

Posted on April 8, 2012 by chrisbohjalian

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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Village Peeple descend upon Middlebury, Vermont

Posted on April 1, 2012 by chrisbohjalian

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 →

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