Tag: Manchester

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    Spicy salami, peppery pork

    At the Italian Market of Manchester, Vt., Patti Fortuna Stannard serves salami, pepperoni, spianata and Italian sausage. — By Stacey Morris read more

    Spicy salami, peppery pork
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    In sign of spring new life emerges on farms

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    Area events provide close encounters with piglets, lambs and more   Piglets are among the new arrivals this spring at the annual Baby Animals festival at Hancock Shaker Village in the Berkshires. Susan Sabino photo.   By KATE ABBOTTContributing writer HANCOCK, Mass. The barn is different on a spring night. Calves lie in the hay read more

    In sign of spring new life emerges on farms
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    As pandemic limits visitors, museums work to adapt

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    As pandemic limits visitors, museums work to stay connected   After the Covid-19 crisis forced it to close its building from mid-March until July, the Bennington Museum is now operating on a restricted basis. Photo by Joan K. Lentini   By EVAN LAWRENCEContributing writer   When Covid-19 began to spread into the region in early read more

    As pandemic limits visitors, museums work to adapt
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    Sharing the solitude Mount Equinox drive offers revelatory vistas near monks’ retreat

    Scenic drive and solitude atop Equinox Funds raised from the 5.2-mile toll road up Mount Equinox, seen here just below the summit, help to support the monks cloistered in a nearby monastery, the Charterhouse of the Transfiguration. Telly Halkias photo   By TELLY HALKIASContributing writer MANCHESTER, Vt. They stand there, proudly, like soldiers on parade, read more

    Sharing the solitude Mount Equinox drive offers revelatory vistas near monks’ retreat
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    Pushing back against plastic

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    Citizen activists pursue local, state curbs on bags, bottles, straws By EVAN LAWRENCEContributing writer MANCHESTER, Vt. Environmental advocates around the region are increasing their efforts to reduce plastic waste by calling for bans on certain single-use plastics – shopping bags and water bottles – and some are asking restaurants and their patrons to cut back read more

    Pushing back against plastic
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    From ancient Egypt to Vermont

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    New Manchester library points a way forward for rural communities By TELLY HALKIASContributing writer MANCHESTER, Vt.   More than two millennia have passed since the first of several destructions of the Great Library of Alexandria. With each catastrophe, the educated world mourned the loss of centuries of knowledge, and the citizens of that ancient Egyptian read more

    From ancient Egypt to Vermont
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    On Hildene’s 400-plus acres, focus turns to ecological stewardship

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    On Hildene’s 400-plus acres, focus turns to ecological stewardship   By TELLY HALKIASContributing writer MANCHESTER, Vt. Stately historic properties make fine museums, though once visitors have seen some of these grand old estates they may figure they’ve already had the full experience. But Hildene, the Lincoln family home in Manchester, has spent the last decade read more

    On Hildene’s 400-plus acres, focus turns to ecological stewardship