A year ago, on Oct. 16, 2013, Brian Sweetland died when he fell as he walked his dogs. A wonderful exhibit at the Southern Vermont Art Center in Manchester…
Attentive walkers in Cambridge’s Mt. Auburn Cemetery will find surprises every few feet. Yesterday, we found the unremarkable monument in the accompanying picture. The epitaph it bears, however,…
Marcia Angell is a doctor, a crusader for reform in medicine, a fine writer and a first-rank muckraker. I’ve admired her work for years. Going through a…
Driving US Route 7 down the central Valley of Vermont, past the steeply rising road to Ripton, I think of Robert Frost when I see the tired monuments…
‘Don’t ever worry ’bout nothin’, ’cause there ain’t nothing gonna be alright no how. You can count on that.’ So an expert on nothing going right, Hank Williams,…
As I read Flash Boys (Norton, 2014), I find myself asking, ‘Can I trust Michael Lewis? Is he a reliable reporter?’ Uncomfortable questions, those, when posed of someone…
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