Vermont has an Air National Guard unit based at Burlington International Airport (BTV). They fly F-16s. The Air Force intends to eliminate some F-16 bases, keep others and convert some bases for use by the new F-35 warplane. Burlington is the Air Force’s number one pick to base the F-35. Why is that? It’s because […]
Hey folks, why not come on up to Burlington this summer? We’ve got a lovely waterfront, one festival every other weekend and heck, we do the little things well, things you might not notice, but enhance your tourism experience all the same. For example, our collection of quaint street people – vagrants and vagabonds, wanderers, […]
Around my 20th birthday, I realized I could name the make, model and year of every car parked along the street where I lived, but had only a vague idea of the trees. I knew a maple from a birch from an oak, but had no real concept of a sycamore, beech or elm. This […]
My dad’s union (UA Local 13) went on strike on May 1, 1970. He knew it would be long and saw an opportunity. Whatever the union got him in wages, my dad never had a paid vacation, holiday or sick day, so knowing he’d be out of work for at least a month, he and […]
I was hiding out in the White Mountains of New Hampshire this week, trying to get my mind right. It is rainy and cool in New England, third week of May. It’s Teen Death Season. Classes are ending, exams starting, proms and end of season sports parties. Late nights, alcohol, drugs and motor vehicles. Two […]
The Flood of July
The little ones ran through the back yard last night with sparklers in their hands, screeching with delight and anxiety. It’s a rare for their parents to allow them to hold anything on fire. Monty the Saint Bernard stood among them, panting, somehow seeming in charge of the situation. The teenaged girl had long since […]