You could call it a hootenanny, à la the 1960s, or a Hawaiian-style kanikapila. Or, more simply, a whole lotta ukeing going on.

It’s a Thursday evening in Montpelier, and 19 ukulele players are strumming and singing away on the 1959 ballad “Sea of Love.” There are some missed notes and a touch of confusion. ... Read more

From his rural studio in East Montpelier, artist Hal Mayforth has issued a veritable army of little people. They’ve populated the print world for more than three decades, and, unless you never read, you’ve probably encountered his distinctive brood of excitable, big-eyed, bulbous-nosed characters.... Read more

You’d think it would be easy to find a dead man in a cemetery. But when there are more than 6000 headstones to roam among, the search can be, well, monumental.

Leo LaCourse should be simple to locate — his distinctive headstone is a granite biplane arcing into the sky. Yet, after five minutes of wandering around Hope Cemetery, I haven’t spotted it. It doesn’t help that this paean to granite artistry, north of Barre on Route 14, covers 65 acres and has roads laid out Vermont style: like meandering cow paths. No angular rows here, à la Arlington National Cemetery.... Read more

On the Vermont map, the tiny village of Rochester lies between Killington and Sugarbush in the twisting Route 100 corridor, nestled in a narrow, lush valley against a chunk of the Green Mountain National Forest. When Anni Mackay chose to call her artistic digs in Rochester the BigTown Gallery, she had a little irony in mind. But there’s also a bit of truth in the name, because a visit to Rochester uncovers a town that lives larger than its size would suggest.... Read more

One year shy of its 70th birthday, the Adamant Music School somehow remains one of Vermont’s best-kept summer secrets, as well as one of its best bargains and concert settings. Where else can you find a 200-acre waterside venue with a sculpture garden, cascading stone spillways, verdant hills and rampant flowers in a tiny, 19th-century white-clapboard village filled with remarkable pianists?... Read more