The Goodyear house is heading home
Finding an 1880 Vermont farmhouse, fully intact, smack in the middle of the road just never gets old. Watching it on a flatbed...
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26 Jul
Untold Stories, Vermont
Category Archives: Untold Stories
24 May
Untold Stories, Vermont
Thank you, Grace Experience, for living up to your name
The first time my daughter, Grace Experience, appeared in this column, she was in utero: it was Mother’s Day, 1993. How long ago...
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10 May
General, Untold Stories, Vermont
The great moms endure Barney and “Gettysburg”
In November 1993, not quite a week before my wife’s and my daughter was born, my wife made a sacrifice of epic proportions:...
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03 May
Untold Stories, Vermont
Let’s learn from these bike tragedies
My wife confessed something to me this week: whenever I leave on a bike ride, whether it’s a brief 15-mile jaunt or a...
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22 Apr
Armenia, Untold Stories
The Souls and Stories That Vanished in the Armenian Genocide of 1915
The photo can only be called exotic. It was taken at the end of the 19th century in an Ottoman city southeast of...
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19 Apr
Armenia, Untold Stories
The Norwegian who helped the Armenians come to America
Earlier this year, I journeyed from Vermont to Oslo to introduce myself to Marit Greve, an 86-year-old Norwegian who still swims in the...
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05 Apr
Untold Stories
The ties that bind? A baseball’s cross-stitching.
On Monday afternoon, my beloved New York Mets resume their annual quest to reach mediocrity. Once again they will try to win a...
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08 Feb
Untold Stories, Vermont
You don’t forget a friend like John Vautier
Lincoln’s Andrew Furtsch works out at the gym in Bristol in a pair of ratty Converse high tops. On the white toecap of...
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25 Jan
General, Untold Stories
My father never lost heart — until his heart gave out
Today is my father’s birthday, but he died in 2011 so it’s really just another day. He would have been 87. But I...
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30 Nov
Untold Stories, Vermont
A friendship born of dueling monsters
Here’s the scene: A conference room in what once was a private home in Burlington, Vermont. The year is 2003. A recently retired...
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