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Once upon a time, a village named White River Junction fell asleep a weary railroad laborer and woke up an artist.... Read more

The Upper Valley Food Co-op in White River Junction was abuzz last Tuesday, but the talk wasn’t about the rising cost of food. Will Allen of East Thetford’s Cedar Circle Farm was about to discuss his new book, The War on Bugs.

“Oh, that’s good,” a woman in the check-out line said to the cashier. “But does he spray things, or does he just talk?”

The answer, on both counts, is a resounding, “No.”... Read more

Actor Dan Butler is on the phone with presidential advisor Karl Rove, a fan of his irascible Bulldog character on “Frasier.” “I agree, the testosterone level of ‘Frasier’ really went down when I left the show,” says the veteran supporting player, straight-faced. Pause. “I didn’t watch it much either after that.” Pause. “I think you’re sexy, too.”... Read more

If you think of White River Junction as a place to hop off the highway for a bathroom break and a fast-food burger, you may want to give it another look.

The tiny village, located within the town of Hartford in Vermont's Upper Valley, declined after the interstate system replaced the trains that used to bring passengers, and bucks, to area businesses. But over the past decade the locale — which lies at the intersection of I-89 and I-91 — has been experiencing a creative-economy renaissance.... Read more

Some people come to Vermont for the skiing or the landscape. Filmmaker Tara Wray came for the cartoons.... Read more

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"Homesick" appears in the center spread of the 12.19.07 issue of Seven Days. It looks fantastic in print, so pick up a copy.

"Homesick" was written and drawn by Joseph Lambert, a student at the amazingly cool Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction.

I'd bet anything that James Sturm is a picker of scabs. The part-time Vermont resident and director of White River Junction's Center for Cartoon Studies specializes in graphic novels chronicling historical wounds, from scrapes to gashes. Like humorist and National Public Radio commentator Sarah Vowell, Sturm is interested in the personal stories that combine to make up a big historical fact. But Sturm's fictional tales, in their particular tragic absurdity, give us more than social history — they give us art.... Read more

It started as an exhibit of artifacts from the Watergate Hotel, and turned into an exhibit of Nixon masks. Or, more to the point, a happening inspired by memories of wearing them, along with sundry news items about robbers disguised as the Crook-in-Chief, and a stripper who takes it all off . . . except her Nixon mask. It’s hard to keep a straight face at White River Junction’s Main Street Museum, which brings the 19th-century notion of “curiosities” into the age of irony.... Read more