Issue: April 2020
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Fresh food in a pandemic
Region’s farmers forge ahead as shutdowns scramble local-food networks Lisa MacDougall holds two flats of kale inside one of her many greenhouses at Mighty Food Farm in Shaftsbury, Vt. photo by Joan K. Lentini By TRACY FRISCHContributing writer As the Covid-19 outbreak began to shut down the nation last month, the region’s farmers and… read more
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Work at home? Not so fast
Rural towns work to upgrade spotty, slow Internet links Arlene Bentley and Bill Meyer stand with a laptop computer outside the Rosalind K. Kittay Public Library in Rupert, Vt. The local library is the only WiFi hotspot in the rural town, where most residents can’t get high-speed Internet service at home. Joan K. Lentini… read more
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Retracing a family’s roots — and uprooting
Illustrator’s memoir draws on childhood in wartime China James McMullan’s memoir tells the story of his family’s life in China and his childhood there amid the Japanese occupation of 1937-41. Courtesy photo By JOHN SEVENContributing writer STOCKBRIDGE, Mass. With a family story centered on China that stretches back 100 years, illustrator James McMullan is… read more
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Virus arrives in region, upending all plans
The coronavirus crept into the region stealthily, probably sometime in late February, then burst into public view on the weekend of March 7-8. That weekend, Vermont officials announced that a patient being treated at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center in Bennington had the state’s first confirmed case of Covid-19. A patient at Berkshire Medical Center in… read more
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First battle was lost in failure to test
As we prepare this issue for press at the end of March, the Covid-19 pandemic has shut down much of the Northeast and is threatening to hit New York City and its suburbs with catastrophic force over the next few weeks. For now, the focus of the nation and our region is appropriately on how… read more
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A leader known as a foe of slavery, friend of workers
Vice President Henry Wilson, a former U.S. senator from Massachusetts known as “always the working man’s friend,” rode on the driver’s seat as he took a coach from Glens Falls to Lake George and back again on Aug. 6, 1874. Wilson went to Lake George to have lunch at The Fort William Henry Hotel, and… read more