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Stowe Foliage Arts Festival is this weekend
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Photos by Glenn Callahan
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Autumn brings colors and crafts
Where can you buy a one-of-a-kind hand made scarf for winter, a quality Vermont micro brew and eat a big honking sausage all at the same place?
The Stowe Foliage Arts Festival — formerly the Art and Craft Festival — is the place, and it’s back this weekend for its 26th straight year.
The festival, which typically draws about 200 exhibitors and 10,000 people, is one of Stowe’s most well attended and longest running events. Its popularity has a lot to do with the quality of the unique cr
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Hunting starts; take care
The last weekend in September marked the opening day of the ruffed grouse hunting season — a moment greatly anticipated by many local hunters.
For me, the upland bird opener not only means days afield with great working dogs, fine double
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Discover it: Moss Glenn Falls
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Deer hunting in Bear Swamp: Gramp Kaiser is on the left with pipe.
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The forest of Moss Glen Falls, a refuge for hikers and mountain bikers, artists, lovers and picnickers, rustles with the voices of ghosts. Traces of those who have come before are everywhere: remnants of foundations, a sluice, handrails, bits of iron whose use is no longer discernable.
The voices of lumberman and farmers, sounds of children sledding and berrying, the hectors of schoolmarms, and the hammering of the smithy at the forge are echoes of a time gone by. In little over a hundred years, between the 1830s and the 1950s, the forest gave way to settlemen
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Covered Bridges of Lamoille County
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Stowepostcard: A vintage postcard shows Stowe’s covered bridge at the beginning of Route 108. Today, only the footbridge remains.
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One hundred years ago, there were five times as many covered bridges over the numerous waterways in Vermont as today. With over 100 historic covered bridges remaining, Vermont has more than all other New England states combined, and the Stowe and Smugglers’ Notch region has perhaps the greatest concentration of these romantic and functional reminders of the past.
Each of the surviving bridges has its own character — even charm. They are fine examples of Yankee ingenuity in building. The old New England saying “use it up,
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Kayaking Vermont's Waterways with the Lepine Sisters
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Gert and Jeanette Lepine prepare for a paddle.
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What do farm girls from Mud City, Vt., do after they hang up their milking stools for the last time?
“One of our favorite things to do now is kayaking Vermont’s rivers and streams,” said Jeanette Lepine, one of the three farming Lepine sisters.
Boating is actually part of chapter three of their adult lives. Jeanette and Gertrude Lepine, and their sister Therese, operated their 700-acre dairy farm, Mt. Sterling Farm, in Mud City for 34 years before retiring in 1996. Mud City is located a stone’s skip north of Stowe in Morristown.
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Weather outlook
Forecast For Greater Stowe & Vicinity:
Synopsis: Fall foliage still hanging on across the region for this weekend's viewing. The weather will be good with predominantly sunny skies Friday into Sunday. It’s all due to fair weather high pressure system bui
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