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“Why is it the good people that make your life full of joy are always the first ones to go?”

A MySpace user who identified himself as “Cody F” posed that query about Gerald “G.G.” Griggs two days after Griggs, a popular on-air personality at St. Albans’ WLFE country radio, died in a car crash. He was 50.... Read more

The day before Grace Paley died, she may have heard me leave a phone message on her machine. Now, I can’t help but wonder: When would she have returned my call? What would we have talked about?... Read more

A very good friend and an inspiration to thousands of activists, radicals, revolutionaries and thinkers died last week.

He was a teacher and a student in life, in the classroom and in the streets. He was anathema to those who disagreed with him and had very little tolerance for bigotry and injustice, or the people who perpetrate such sores on the flesh of humanity.... Read more

Last Wednesday, February 2, "Big Joe" Burrell passed away a week shy of his 81st birthday. It's an understatement to say that the tall, soulful saxophonist touched the lives of thousands of Vermonters with his music, heart, humor and class. From his decades playing with the Unknown Blues Band, to the long-running Thursday-night "residency" at Halvorson's in Burlington, to his generous mentoring of younger musicians, locals embraced this Michigan native as one of their own. His loss to the Vermont music community is simply unfathomable and his absence will be felt for a long time to come.... Read more

Dave Dellinger's father was a well-connected Massachusetts lawyer and friend of Republican Governor Calvin Coolidge. One of his grandmothers was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Benjamin Franklin was a direct ancestor.... Read more