“During hors d’oeuvres on the porch, someone mentioned that Albert Einstein had been a frequent guest here at Knollwood. A great sailor, apparently, but he couldn’t swim.“ for Middlebury Magazine.
Categories: Print • Tags: Albert Einstein, Hiroshima, mistakes, Nagasaki, Saranac Lake
For North Country Public Radio. After Joe Birkett sold his dairy operation in Ferrisburgh, Vt., he wondered what to do with his 200 acres of land. His son, Ian, suggested planting something that hasn’t been farmed in the state since the 1800s.
Categories: Radio • Tags: craft beer, Farmers Under Forty, Square Nail Hops Farm
For Vermont Public Radio. Vermont gets a long overdue butterfly atlas, and Kevin “Sweet Nectar” Hemeon demystifies the art of butterfly chasing.
Categories: Radio • Tags: butterflies, citizen science, Vermont Center for Ecostudies
For North Country Public Radio. Vermont’s wide open spaces are beautiful – but they can also be isolating. Particularly so for the hundreds of undocumented Mexican workers who don’t have cars and aren’t eligible for driver’s licenses. They’re more or less trapped on the dairy farms where they work. At least, they used to be.
Categories: Radio • Tags: Addison County Farmworker Coalition, Juntos, Little City Bicycles, Middlebury College, Treehouse Grants, Vermont Migrant Farmworker Solidarity Project
For Vermont Public Radio. The Burlington School District is more diverse than most Vermont counties. Thanks to the city’s strong refugee resettlement program, more than 60 countries are represented in the district’s student body, and 27 percent of the students are of color. What are teachers and administrators doing to build community?
Categories: Radio • Tags: Burlington School District, refugee resettlement, Vermont Reads
For North Country Public Radio. Catholic sisters have long been associated with activism – from fighting poverty to promoting education and social justice. Today, sisters around the country are uniting around a new cause: healing the earth. Sisters Gail Worcelo and Bernadette Bostwick have brought “green” Catholicism to a monastery in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom.
Categories: Multimedia, Photography, Radio • Tags: Bernadette Bostwick, faith, Gail Worcelo, Green Mountain Monastery, religion, Thomas Berry
For PRX’s World Vision Report. In West Virginia, coal the economic turbulence and ever-present danger associated with coal mining has all but emptied many communities. But in one town near the Coal River, residents are doing more than just hanging on. Sierra Crane-Murdoch reported this story; I co-produced with Sierra and World Vision Report‘s Claire Schoen.
Categories: Radio • Tags: coal mining, Coal River, line dancing, Sierra Crane-Murdoch, West Virginia
For The Beautiful Brain. Concerning bipedalism, consciousness, Dionysus, and Susan Sontag.
Categories: Print • Tags: Baudelaire, consciousness, Dionysus, flaneur, Homo erectus, walking, wanderlust
For Middlebury Magazine. A pair of students is using new methods to revive an ancient tradition. Full text: On a rainy night in September, Bianca Giaever ’12 steps onto a small cement-and-bedrock stage in the basement of Gifford Hall. Members of the audience surround her on all sides, sitting on velour beanbags, the floor and one another in various leg-numbing contortions. A few track lights are out, but the microphone works fine. Giaever asks how many are newcomers here; when […]
Categories: Print • Tags: Middlebury College, MothUP, oral tradition, storytelling, the medium is the message, The Moth
I joined Milan-based journalist Emanuele Bompam for a visit with the famed linguist, philosopher and activist Noam Chomsky. My photographs accompanied Emanuele’s feature in the November 2010 issue of the Italian monthly Intelligence in Lifestyle.
Categories: Photography • Tags: Emanuele Bompam, Intelligence in Lifestyle, Noam Chomsky
For North Country Public Radio. Dick Bentley dealt with death on both sides of Lake Champlain. His mother died in Vermont; his father died in New York. In both cases, he wanted to keep things simple – and in the family. Turns out that different state laws made for very different experiences. Note: Champlain Sounding is the name of my previous website.
Categories: Multimedia, Photography, Radio • Tags: green burial, home burial, New York burial law, Vermont burial law
For North Country Public Radio. Rich Greenough has been a full-time charter captain on Lake Champlain for almost thirty years. He knows where and when the fish will bite, and for a fee he’ll take you out there and share his secrets.
Categories: Radio • Tags: charter fishing, invasive species, Lake Champlain, lake trout, sea lamprey, Sure Strike Charters
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