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Vermont gets crafty this weekend
Everyone knows it's officially 'craft' season as we head into the Holiday stretch, but look carefully into the shows that offer so much more than...
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Head for the hills. Another ski season is on tap, and we've got the latest information to get you ready.
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Behind the old-time veneer,
see an essential country store
Most country stores offer more than dubious snacks to tourists, they're a sustaining element in Vermont village culture.
To the kitchen before the spa
The Essex is New England's first (and so far, only) full-service culinary resort.
Freewheeling
After years in the making, Kingdom Trails rules with mountain bikers looking for thrills, scenery, the scent of pines and, at the end, their badge of mud.
An ancestral revival
This year will be the third time Vermont has marked the Lake Champlain Quadricentennial, but this year is different. For the first time, the Abenakis are coming as themselves.
Between the covers
The nation's smallest state capital, Montpelier, Vt., is home to four independent bookstores whose creaky floors and aisles of books continue to lure devoted customers.
Pints, pitchers, and proximity
There may or may not be a craft beer heaven, but Burlington, Vt. - busting with pubs and tap rooms - comes close. Read the story
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More on Vermont from The Boston Globe
Vermont spa beckons, but first, to the kitchen
ESSEX, Vt. - French bistro. That’s what we would be tackling, a dinner starting with an appetizer of chardonnay-steamed mussels, then moving to steak au poivre, potatoes in truffle oil, sauteed chanterelles, and cherry tomatoes tossed in garlic and olive oil with tiny pattypan squash. The finale would be a fresh berry tart on a bed of lemon curd with ...
Behind the old-time veneer, see an essential country store
To visitors to the Green Mountain State, country stores might seem to have sprouted from the soil like sugar maples.
Freewheeling
EAST BURKE, Vt. - Jake veered left off the road and, like a good dad, I followed his lead, riding on a soft dirt path in a forest rich with the smell of pine. A right turn on the trail, Coronary Bypass, and we were soon flying downhill on a gem of a narrow run, banking corners and bouncing over ...
Like puddles after a rainfall, so many places for paddling
A canoe or kayak is a ticket to flat-water fun across northern New England’s ponds, lakes, and waterways. Surfaces range from smooth as glass to roiling white caps. Here are suggestions for various levels of paddlers.
For Abenaki descendants, an ancestral revival
BURLINGTON, Vt. - His face and scalp are the color of tomatoes. You do a double-take, then wonder whether it might be a severe sunburn. But the crimson is body paint, a mixture of red ochre and bear grease rubbed over the skin the way North American natives must have done.
One woolen mill keeps Vermont clad in plaid
JOHNSON, Vt. - Authentic New England style never goes out of fashion: the lobsterman in yellow bib overalls, the woodsman in L.L. Bean waterproof boots, or the hunter snug in a red or green plaid Johnson jacket.
In a loop on a lake by a resort, an old sport revives
The skating stride is long, rhythmic, a left-right, left-right swing that sends me zipping across the icy skein atop Lake Morey like a pendulum in slow motion. The air bites at my face and stings my nostrils. The day is short, the shadows long. There is no heat coming out of this sun.
It's child's play
STOWE, Vt. -- "High performance" is not a term I usually associate with the most childish of winter sports, but Joe Henry, Umiak Outdoor Outfitters retail manager, was ready to disabuse me of my preconceptions about sledding. In fact, Umiak sells - and more typically, rents - three radically different high-performance sleds.
These houselights cross the line
DERBY LINE, Vt. - Northern New England's border with Quebec is a somewhat tangled affair, with a few communities cleaved in two, and families split on either side. Also exhibiting a split personality is the Haskell Free Library & Opera House, built smack-dab between Derby Line and Stanstead, Quebec.
Not so fast (or else) on these Vermont highways
Mitch Kaplan was on his way to ski Killington one Friday night a few winters ago when he saw the dreaded blue lights in his rearview mirror. Driving his mother's red Honda Civic, Kaplan, who lives in Fair Lawn, N.J., was traveling east on US Route 4 near Rutland, Vt., and was nearing a place where he knew a police ...