The big crowd that filled the Vermont State House lawn for the April 5 Hands Off!/50501 rally. Click here for a gallery.
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Demonstrating for Canada
Demonstrators at the corner of State & Main in Montpelier, VT, including one in a beaver suit, had a thing or two to say Saturday morning, March 22, about Canada, Vermonters’ neighbor, frequent destination […]
Inching Toward Spring on Lake Champlain
Shards on the shore. Light freezes, wind and wave action made fragments of shattered ice that piled up on North Beach in Burlington last week. They lay in piles on the sand and, frozen in […]
A Nod to Planica
I’m happy to say that one of my favorite photos—the leaders of the men’s 50-kilometer classic race skiing the course during the 2023 FIS World Nordic Championships in Planica, Slovenia, with the Julian Alps as […]
Vermont Trump Protests
Hundreds gathered at the Vermont State House in Montpelier February 5 and on Presidents’ Day, February 17, to protest the policies of the Trump administration as part of the 50 States (50501) demonstrations. Here are […]
Another July, Another Catastrophic Flood
Jim and Jenni Belotserkovsky embrace after their house was inundated when torrential rains from the remnants of Hurricane Beryl hit central Vermont, USA, on July 10. Great Brook, a tributary of the Winooski River, undermined […]
Posts from the Road
Rosa Parks statue, seated on a Montgomery, AL, bus at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, TN, at the Lorraine Motel, where Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968. Below, representation of the […]
Charging Across the Country
Gassing up the Musk-mobile at the truckstop and Punjabi diner in Foss, Oklahoma. Well, just cleaning the windshield using the water bins at the gas pumps. For the past three weeks we’ve been driving cross […]
Fresh Rolls for a Nickel at The Manghis’
There’s only one place that I know of where a kid can buy a freshly baked roll for a nickel, and that’s The Manghi’s Bread in Montpelier, VT. Kids have been taking advantage of this […]
Minneapolis, Day 2; the Day Before
Anticipation built Friday, the day before the World Cup sprints at Wirth Park in Minneapolis. A beautiful sunny day with athletes cruising around the hilly, rolling, curving tracks. The surface is firm and fast and […]
A Couple Awards
I received two regional awards in 2023 in the National Press Photographers Association’s monthly clips contest for New England: First place for spot news in July for a group of photos from the flooding that […]
Montpelier’s Halloween Arises from the Flood
Montpelier did Halloween 2023 in a big way, despite last summer’s flood and a fire last week that destroyed a newly repaired restaurant. Click here for a terrifying gallery.
Wheels for Warmth 2023
A volunteer carries tires to a buyer’s vehicle during the 2023 Wheels for Warmth event at the Vermont Granite Museum in Barre, VT, Saturday, October 28. Since 2005, Wheels for Warmth has been recycling tires […]
Spreading It on
I hope I’m not laying it on too thick when I say that even spreading manure looks good on the Sparrow Farm fields in East Montpelier, VT. You’ve got the bright green autumn grass, the […]
A Celebration of Granite
The Barre granite industry, past and present, was on display Saturday, October 14, at the Vermont Granite Museum in Barre. Above, sculptor Gary Sassi at work on a memorial. Below, in descending order: a detail […]
Lost Nation Returns
Montpelier’s Lost Nation Theater, displaced by the Flood of 2023, produced its first post-inundation play at the City Hall performance space in October. Sam & Jim in Hell by Jeanne Beckwith finds writers Samuel Beckett […]