For KLCC Eugene. A recent community dinner in Eugene, Oregon provided hot meals and warm clothes for more than 2,000 people. One group was giving away something little less tangible — and a lot more permanent. . Advertisements
Categories: Radio
For Vermont Public Radio. Up in Ripton, you might say that fuel assistance grows on trees.
Categories: Radio • Tags: firewood, fuel assistance, Ripton, Ripton Energy Assistance Program, Warren King
For Vermont Public Radio. A Windsor artist renders dynamic, windy scenes with an unlikely medium.
Categories: Radio • Tags: Carol Santa Maria, Lyme Converse Library, Mexico, paper art, West Africa
For Vermont Public Radio. Theodore Roosevelt returns to the town of Barre to reprise a 1912 campaign stump speech. Turns out Green Mountain voters are more supportive of him today than they were 100 years ago.
Categories: Radio • Tags: 1912, Barre, presidential elections, reenactment, Theodore Roosevelt, Vermont Historical Society
For Vermont Public Radio. A bi-national same-sex couple in Dummerston has been given a reprieve on the deportation of one spouse, but advocates say it’s only a temporary victory.
Categories: Radio • Tags: DOMA, Frances Herbert, Immigration Equality, immigration rights, same-sex marriage, Takako Ueda
For Vermont Public Radio. When Abby Raeder met Robert Sarly, the Vermont Institute of Contemporary Art was just a twinkle in his eye.
Categories: Radio • Tags: Abby Raeder, Chester, contemporary art, Robert Sarly, VTica
For Vermont Public Radio. Students and pros come together to film a feature-length film — about Vermont, in Vermont, starring Vermonters (and a few folks from Hollywood).
Categories: Radio • Tags: Howard Frank Mosher, Jay Craven, Kingdom County Productions, Marlboro College, Northern Borders
For Vermont Public Radio. The town of Brattleboro examines a recent spate of pedestrian deaths.
Categories: Radio • Tags: Brattleboro, Healthy Communities Coalition, Meeting Waters YMCA, pedestrian deaths, town planning, West Brattleboro Association
For NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday. Family heirlooms take all shapes — a pocket watch, a painting. For Robin MacArthur and her husband Tyler Gibbons, who form the indi-folk duo Red Heart the Ticker, the inheritance consists of an old house in the woods, and lots and lots of songs.
Categories: Radio • Tags: ghosts, Margaret MacArthur, Marlboro, Red Heart the Ticker, Robin MacArthur, Tyler Gibbons
For Vermont Public Radio. Farmers know how to grow food — but what about growing community?
Categories: Radio • Tags: Bread and Butter Farm, community building, Vermont Land Trust
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
