In the past 15 years, my husband and I have lived in 17 different abodes. Among others, there was a loft in Montréal; an old hunting cabin in Huntington, Vt.; an antebellum Victorian in Staunton, Va.; a tiny, marble-floored condo in the Little India section of Singapore. And, lest I forget, a brand-spanking-new house in Québec’s Eastern Townships that looked eerily similar to the one in Andrew Wyeth’s painting “Christina’s World.”... Read more

The security deposit never covered the full cost, financial or emotional, that Brooke Hadwen incurred at the rental property she once owned on North Avenue.

Early one morning in September 1997, one of Hadwen’s female tenants showed up at the Burlington Police Department to report a domestic assault by her live-in boyfriend. Soon thereafter, officers entered the apartment. In the ensuing struggle, the boyfriend picked up a handgun and fatally shot himself in the head; police fired on him at the same time.... Read more

Her son’s college diploma and a stack of photos from his recent graduation were all that Pam Mack was able to grab before floodwaters inundated her Waterbury home. The Winooski River rose at a rate faster than anyone in the town could remember, and, before Mack knew it, her rental home on Route 2 held four and a half feet of water. In the family’s backyard, where a shed full of her son’s belongings once stood, there is now a river.... Read more

7/30/11: The Green Mountain Draft Horse Association presented Draft Horse Field Day at Shelburne Farms on Saturday. Horses, oxen and mules were in attendance for reaping, threshing, and plowing demonstrations.
Visitors hitched rides on wagons to experience Shelburne Farms as it was meant to be seen, from a horse's perspective.... Read more

6/13/11: Eva tags along with Linda Peake's 3rd grade class from Shoreham Elementary School as they celebrate the end of the school year with a trip across the lake to historic Fort Ticonderoga, also known as "America's Fort."
During the Revolutionary War, Vermont's Green Mountain Boys captured Fort Ti and won "America's First Victory."
Thousands of school children visit the 18th century fort every year to watch history come alive.... Read more

Hector Santos of Brownsville started working as a stonemason when he was 18. Twelve years ago, when he was 25, he launched his own Woodstock-area business, Hector Santos Inc. So he’s been around long enough to see how some of the dry-laid stone walls and outdoor sculptures he built a decade ago have fared with time. Judging by the pictures Santos took for his self-published book about his work, The Modern Stone Age, they haven’t budged.... Read more

If you take Route 15 toward Hardwick, it’s hard not to notice the tangle of brown buildings that stretches nearly the entire length of “downtown” Wolcott. The structures, connected by a series of enclosed breezeways, have the cobbled-together look that comes from many years’ worth of additions. Around their upper story runs a thick blue and green band — a festive bow tying all that brown together. Along the length of the band one word appears again and again, hand painted in that same brown: Buck’s.... Read more

You’ve probably heard him on the radio or seen him on TV. Perhaps you’ve watched his how-to videos online, attended one of his talks, read his books, subscribed to his e-newsletter or even employed him in your own backyard. There are so many options — Charlie Nardozzi seems to be everywhere.... Read more

As Darrel Depot and I drive past a pair of ducks paddling across a waterlogged lawn in Williston, he shakes his head and verbalizes the obvious: His phone will ring off the hook all day and night.... Read more

You see them scattered all over Vermont: private homes that used to be barns, schoolhouses, warehouses, grist mills or churches. What’s it like to live in a place that once held dairy cows, rum runners or congregations?

We spoke to the residents of three such places in Vermont, each of whom had a different reason for living in a converted home. Linda Bove, who dreamed up and designed her house inside a barn, loves the surprise factor. Her home is tucked so neatly into the rural icon that people passing might not even know it’s there. ... Read more