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Page 32: Short Takes on Five Vermont Books
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Seven Days writers cannot probably learn, a lot much less overview, all of the books that arrive in a gradual stream by submit, electronic mail and, in a single memorable case, a skulk of foxes. So this month-to-month characteristic is our means of introducing you to a handful of books by Vermont authors. To do this, we contextualize every e book just a bit and quote a single consultant sentence from, sure, web page 32.
House Film
Charles Barasch, Ending Line Press, 70 pages. $19.99.
Why, when Carlton Fisk / hit the house run, / did the person in Part 22, / … elevate his arms for pleasure…
A gifted poet can discover immeasurable magnificence in life’s darkness. For 50 years, Charles Barasch of Plainfield has been publishing poems that reveal tenderness and pleasure simply as they chronicle loss and human frailty. A retired speech language pathologist who labored with younger kids, Barasch has stuffed this retrospective with poems on a wide selection of topics, together with relationships, nature, life in Vermont and baseball.
“A Man and a Lady Are Mendacity in Mattress” traces myriad occasions and choices that introduced a pair to an intimate second. Little lifeless quadrupeds face their destiny with aplomb in “Elegy for Mice.” Neighbors are neither too pleasant nor too unfriendly in “On Our Filth Street.” And the 13 quick strains of “World Collection,” which is excerpted above, take the reader from the fun of a celebrated 1975 sport to the heartache of a wedding mismatch.
Studying House Film is like stepping contained in the thoughts of a extremely observant, imaginative and delicate soul.
— E.M.S.
Olmsted and Yosemite: Civil Conflict, Abolition, and the Nationwide Park Concept
Rolf Diamant and Ethan Carr, Library of American Panorama Historical past, 186 pages. $28.
Yosemite, regardless of the claims of its promoters, was not a wilderness.
On this account of the influential work of panorama architect Frederick Regulation Olmsted, coauthors Rolf Diamant and Ethan Carr concentrate on the Civil Conflict period. Drawing a connection between the rebuilding of the nation and the emergence of nationwide parks, the authors look at Olmsted’s position within the latter phenomenon.
Greatest often known as the designer of Central Park, Olmsted was the panorama architect of Shelburne Farms within the Eighties. This quantity, enlivened by main supply materials, considers (and reprints) his 1865 work “The Yosemite Report,” during which Olmsted presents his “imaginative and prescient for a reconstructed postwar nation the place nice public parks have been keystone establishments of a liberal democracy,” the authors write. Key parks mentioned within the e book are sure by Olmsted’s assertion that entry to the pure world needs to be as equitable as it’s useful.
Diamant, who teaches on the College of Vermont, is a former superintendent of Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller Nationwide Historic Park in Woodstock, Vermont’s solely nationwide park.
—S.P.
Alzheimer’s Canyon: One Couple’s Reflections on Residing With Dementia
Jane Dwinell and Sky Yardley, Rootstock Publishing, 272 pages. $18.99.
Some [posts] may even start to rhyme / others have slipped their anchors to time / WELCOME TO MY WORLD!
In 2016, at age 66, Sky Yardley was identified with early stage Alzheimer’s. In response, he and his spouse of 30 years, Jane Dwinell, launched the Alzheimer’s Canyon weblog “as a solution to erase the stigma connected to dementia and to extend understanding of the way in which it impacts folks on a day-to-day foundation,” they wrote.
The above excerpt is from Yardley’s first entry on this assortment, which spans 5 years: the primary 12 months after his analysis via the 12 months of his demise in 2021. Yardley writes of every little thing from having hassle sleeping and feeling silly within the first 12 months to his hallucinations and poor stability within the third, the final 12 months he blogged. Dwinell’s posts are sporadic close to the beginning and turn out to be the one ones in years 4 and 5, when the illness took its biggest toll. In accessible and trustworthy prose, the couple reveal how studying, creativity, flexibility and love helped them navigate a path neither needed.
— E.M.S.
Arribada
Estela González, Cennan Books of Cynren Press, 234 pages. $30.
My mom begged the Virgin to guard me; she promised I’d by no means reduce my hair for so long as I lived.
For youngsters, a seashore is a playground. For builders, a get-rich alternative. And for the ocean turtles that nest on the picture-perfect stretch of Mexican Pacific shoreline in Middlebury Faculty professor Estela González’s new novel, a seashore is the distinction between survival and extinction.
All these factions and extra converge in Arribada — or “arrival,” a time period additionally generally used for the ocean turtles’ synchronized nesting. In 1990, live performance pianist Mariana returns to her coastal hometown, the place her beloved uncle has vanished and her mom has suffered a stroke. On her uncle’s path, she reconnects with an Indigenous buddy who opens her eyes to the injury that a long time of improvement — spearheaded by Mariana’s late father — have executed to the panorama they each love.
González’s incantatory prose drifts freely amongst numerous views and eras, its fluidity evoking the continuity of household custom whilst Mariana makes discoveries that redefine house for her. It makes for a strong, immersive learn.
— M.H.
Not Alone
Frederic Martin, NthSense Books, 302 pages. $12.99 paperback; $2.99 e-book.
Drawing was about the one optimistic factor that got here from all her in any other case ineffective remedy classes.
Misfit teenagers with superpowers aren’t precisely new to younger grownup fiction. However Richmond creator Frederic Martin inventively rewrites that system along with his self-published Vox Oculis collection, which opens with Not Alone. Fourteen-year-old foster child Blue can hear folks’s ideas. Fiercely protecting of her secret, she thinks she’s the one one left of her variety till she strikes to a placement in small-town Vermont and meets Will and his household, who can talk utilizing the identical silent technique she does. Will’s scientist dad has researched their uncommon trait — which he calls vox oculis (voice to the eyes) — and found that it is not as supernatural as it could appear.
Martin, who gained the 2018 Vermont Writers’ Prize, spins an efficient story that remembers an earlier period of YA fiction. Will’s supportive, science-minded household might remind readers of the Murrys in Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time, and Martin folds info about bioluminescence and different actual phenomena into his thrilling thriller plot. Two sequels are additionally obtainable.
— M.H.
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Women’s Soccer Ends in 1-1 Stalemate Versus FDU on Sunday – University of Vermont Athletics
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FINAL SCORE: Vermont 1, FDU 1
BURLINGTON, Vt. – The Catamounts battled to a 1-1 draw against FDU on Sunday afternoon from Virture Field, tallying their third draw of the season. With the result, Vermont now holds a 1-1-3 record while FDU moves to 0-2-3.
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COACH’S QUOTE
“I thought we had a good response from our group today from a performance we didn’t like Thursday,” said Head Coach Kristi Huizenga. “We were thin in some positions today on a hot day after a long week and I thought we came together well to grind out a result and show some maturity.”
HOW IT HAPPENED
- The Catamounts pounced first in the 20th minute when Kate Bossert found Bailey Ayer streaking up the middle, where she rifled her shot while being surrounded by defenders to the bottom left corner of the net, earning Vermont the 1-0 advantage.
- In the 41st minute, the Knights responded when Marina Burzaco pinned the top left corner of the net from just outside the box, knotting the score, 1-1.
- No goals were scored in a competitive second half, as the match went final with a score of 1-1.
INSIDE THE BOX SCORE
- Graduate student goalkeeper Dani Pollard made her first start of the season, making five total saves, a new career high for saves in a single game.
- Ayer scored her fourth goal of the season against the Knights, putting her at four goals in five games, the first Catamount to do so since Bossert in the first five matches of the 2023 season.
- Bossert picked up her first point of the season after assisting Ayer’s goal. Bossert tallied three shots and one shot on goal to go along with her assist.
- Della Weir led the Catamounts with two shots on goal.
- Maddy Cronin led all Catamount field players in minutes, playing all 90 total.
- Eight different Catamounts registered a shot on goal against FDU, the third time that’s happened this season.
UP NEXT
Following Sunday’s matchup with the Knights, Vermont will travel to Loudonville, N.Y. on Wednesday, September 4 to take on MAAC foe, Siena, in the team’s second road match of the season. The start time for the match is scheduled for 4 p.m. ET. The matchup will be broadcast live on ESPN+.
For news and updates about the Vermont women’s soccer program, follow @UVMwsoccer on Instagram, X, and Facebook, and visit UVMathletics.com.
New England Federal Credit Union is the presenting sponsor of Vermont soccer
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Vt. man accused of attacking pregnant nurse at hospital
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A man is facing several charges after he allegedly attacked a pregnant nurse during a visit to a hospital in Berlin, Vermont, on Friday.
Berlin police tell NBC10 Boston affiliate WPTZ that Michael Partlow, 62, of Barre City, also allegedly yelled obscenities, threatened staff and refused to leave while at Central Vermont Medical Center.
Partlow is charged with assault on a protected professional, disorderly conduct, criminal threatening, trespass and violating conditions of release, according to WPTZ.
He was issued a citation to appear in court in October to answer to the charges. It wasn’t immediately clear if he had obtained an attorney.
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The Valley Reporter – It’s farmer appreciation week in Vermont – here’s Hadley Gaylord
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Despite countless trips past the Gaylord land located on both sides of Route 100, I knew of little else besides the visible black and white cows, a service station I use, flowers and vegetables growing in the field in summer, a farm stand, and a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) option available year-round.
I did know that at least 40 years ago a very kind woman, Eloise Gaylord, lived in the home on the site where our 8-year-old sought help. I had forgotten her at The Drug Store that once was next to Mehuron’s and, with the other six kids and my best friend, drove home to Warren unsuspecting. Clutching her bag with the Valentines she wished to give out the next day, she thought she could just walk home. In the dark and cold, seeing lights on, she knocked on the farmhouse door and, explaining her plight, asked if she could phone home.
Racing to retrieve her feeling enormous guilt and embarrassment, I was met on the porch by Mrs. Gaylord encircled in a white apron. She looked straight at me and said, “Never mind, I once left a little Gaylord at church.” Her kindness and words absolved me. I would also come to know her almost-famous husband Hap who owned and ran a gas station with two brands of gas — Texaco and Esso, a repair and towing service and was celebrated each year as he, in some sort of military garb, led the Fourth of July parade. Both parents are gone as is the farmhouse that was destroyed by fire in 2020 but that little Gaylord, Hadley, is now a grandparent to four and carries on the traditions of both his parents.
He credits his mom’s insights and beliefs about food and that only good, natural, food mattered. Her fresh food and all she managed to can, and preserve were always available to their six children plus the extras usually around. His dad, Hap, started a small dairy farm in 1948 before his interests took him into auto mechanics. He opened and ran a two-bay service center on the property. Hadley found he would rather have his hands in the dirt, shovel manure and grow food.
The result was developing 500 acres to raise chickens, hogs and cattle and grow organic and healthy food. The majority of the acreage is owned but some is leased. The farm, to be manageable, has pastures all over The Valley, divided into smaller paddocks so that water is available for the cattle. As the Angus, Simmental-Cross and some Belted Galloways graze on grass, they have to be checked on once a day and may have to be moved to feed on new grass.
Additionally, Hadley, his son Brendon who works full-time with him, or their helpers have to check on the chickens and feed the hogs twice a day. For feed, he travels as far as Northfield’s La Panciata organic bakery for their spent bread. There is also the task of transporting cows to a USDA inspected slaughterhouse and his products to Mehuron’s and Sun Flower Foods in Waterbury. We never got fully into all the ancillary things he does like haying, equipment maintenance and lending a hand in the garage when needed.
Asked why he chooses to make time each Saturday to anchor the north-end entrance to the farmers market, he said he gets a great deal of satisfaction out of it. He values being able to supply clean food that is the least trafficked — with his farm being but one mile from his stand. Some items are freshly picked that morning. Cartons of fresh eggs are available. A large cooler stocks frozen beef, pork, and chicken. He is thankful to have help from neighbors and his three daughters, Connie, Amy, and Jenny who alternate each week.
There is no question but that he is passionate about good, wholesome and organic food. He is greatly dismayed by the alternatives too many people eat, and he fears they are trying to kill themselves. He laments that there is so much volatility in today’s world, but there is no excuse for bad food.
He has been fortunate to hire two young people who help farm. They were drawn to the work because they value the organic commitment Hadley believes in. He feels that while it is very sad how many Vermont farms have been lost through the years, he is encouraged by the young people who want their own food and, therefore, do their own thing to make that happen. The emotion, passion, and gratitude he feels for what he grows and for the land on which he grows it, is palpable.
Hadley shares that it is very hard to farm, and that it definitely does not offer a 40-hour week. He starts between 5 and 6 a.m. and the outdoor work goes until dark every day. Only hard rain can make it an earlier day. Once home, he fixes dinner and may do paperwork before finding any time to relax. With any spare time, he enjoys anything outdoors. He will hike the Long Trail and treasures time away when he can get to Canada to hunt and fish or get out west to hunt white tail, elk, or mule deer. He’s never had a home outside The Valley but seems very content with that decision. On some summer days, Brendon will bring his young daughter to work adding the face of another Gaylord generation. This is more than okay with the grandpa she calls, “Chief.” Hadley’s notes with additional pride that his other son Amos is a policeman in Barre.
Observing his exchanges at the farmers market with regulars and visitors alike, his kind and earnest face lights up with warmth and cheerfulness. A friend, who said she was feeling a bit down on herself, related to me that as she headed out toward the parking lot just as the vendors were packing up, a man, she would learn was Hadley, approached her holding two sunflowers to ask if she might want them. This simple gesture altered her day.
It is not hard to see that the kindness and generous spirit his mother exemplified as well as the work ethic of his dad, lives on in Hadley. And, hopefully, the farm stays in the dedicated hands of the Gaylord family for generations to come and Valley residents continue to support and appreciate our local farms.
Contributing writer Sherman lives in Warren.
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