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This is a story about a song. Six years ago, seventeen-year-old Finn Rooney killed himself in his home in Walden, Vermont. A couple days...

I met Arwa and Habib Meiloud because they’re Anne’s kids and Anne works at the post office in the village here in East Calais. They live in...

Kaye Phipps lives in Montpelier, Vermont. Right now she works as a custodian at a local grocery store. She’s also been a florist, a...

Jules Guillemette grew up on their family farm in Lamoille County, Vermont, which has been in the family nearly 100 years. Since then,...

What Class are You? is a periodic series I make for Vermont Public, which started back in 2022. I wanted to talk with people about growing...

This is a show about Thanksgiving, and what it sounds like. It is made entirely of your recordings. Thank you everyone for sending me...

A couple days ago I asked you to send me some recordings from Thanksgiving. I figured I'd give you a little better sense of what I'm...

Let's make a show about Thanksgiving. I have always wanted to do this, and the time has come.Anyone who is willing, I would love you to...

Music for this show is by Brian Clark, who is awesome.

Thank you Phil Edfors of Vermont Public for cleaning up the whale recordings. This was no small feat and I am grateful.The whales were...

CreditsThanks to all the residents who talked with me, and the beautiful Arlene and Becky Wright, managers of the house.My friend Kelly...

I stopped in to visit with Forrest Foster about his barn project. Here's our conversation.

Williams Family Field of Dreams Tractor Pulls

A couple weeks ago my friend Susan Randall came to visit. She’s a private investigator and we’ve been friends for thirty years and every...

Bryan's substack, Chasing Nature Bryan's article about the zombie snails and some wicked video

Links:Adopt a Station: Where you can donate to your local public radio station or find stations to supportTransom: The place where good...

The women in this show are: Clare Dolan, Holly Rae Taylor, Alison Bechdel, Deb Fleischman, Annie Greensfelder, Rosana Vestuti and Tamar...

This is the last episode in season 6 of What Class are You?, a periodic series I make for Vermont Public.Susan Ritz grew up in a wealthy...

Today, episode 4 of season SIX of What Class are You?, a periodic series I make for Vermont Public about living in the American class...

Dan Sedon has been working as a criminal defense attorney in Vermont, where he works with poor people and rich people and all the people in...

What Class Are You? is a periodic series I make for Vermont Public about our lives in the American class system.Sharon Plumb works for a...

This is a series I make for Vermont Public. Thank you to Vermont Public for allowing me to run this series on Rumble Strip.

This is the fourth episode of What Now Sounds Like, a periodic series comprised entirely of your recordings from all over the world, in...

This was the inaugural year of Hardwick State, a weekend long university in Hardwick, Vermont, organized by the Civic Standard, and...

Death in Venice is a story Larry Massett produced in the early 80s. Joe Frank narrates, and Larry wrote and performed all the music.

We're raising money to rebuild Forrest Foster's barn. This is a very short story (plea) about it. And here is the GoFundMe!!

Larry Massett was driving up through northern California toward Oregon and ended up spending a little more time at Mt. Shasta than he'd had...

This is the second show for LARRY MASSETT TRIBUTE WEEK.Larry Massett owned two Porsches, and he talked about them all the time. His friend,...

Larry Massset died last week. He was my mentor and my favorite radio producer. His stories was insane and brilliant and heretical and...

The Haskell Free Library and Opera House was intentionally built to straddle two nations and two communities. Three quarters of the...

This is a show about the challenges of getting health insurance and understanding health insurance and paying for health insurance and...

Recordings: In this show you hear from Carolyn and her neighbors on Coits Gore Road in Vermont, Amanda in the Blue Mountains in New South...

T.O. got out of prison in Rutland a couple weeks ago, after a six and a half year bid. I met T.O. through my private investigator friend...

Here is episode 2 of What Now Sounds Like, a show I make that is entirely comprised of your recordings. Desperate times call for desperate...

What Now Sounds Like is made by all of us. You send me recordings that sound like this time we're living in, and I make shows with them. It...

The world is chaotic. Systems are failing, towns are burning. If you need to make an appointment with your doctor you may have to wait til...

What Class Are You? is a periodic series about the ways that socioeconomic class shapes our lives.Thankun Thongjunthoug’s parents each...

What Class Are You? is a periodic series about the ways that socioeconomic class shapes our lives. Today, Episode 4.Katrin Tchana lives in...

What Class Are You? is a periodic series about the ways that socioeconomic class shapes our lives. Today, Episode 3...Ingrid Jonas. I met...

What Class Are You? is a periodic series about the ways that socioeconomic class shapes our lives, even though we don’t like to talk about...

What Class Are You? is a periodic series about the ways that socioeconomic class shapes our lives, even though we don’t like to talk about...

Forrest Foster found a new old truck, thanks to you listeners. We drove around and talked about the truck and about Forrest's new job and I...

Things have been pretty grim around here. I lost my cat Zu Zu and she was only two and a half and she left behind her brother Kenny and...

We raised ALL the money for Forrest's new old truck and we are so GRATEFUL!!!

After the last show, a lot of people asked me how they might help Forrest Foster. So I called his friend Steve Gorelick and we set up a Go...

Forrest Foster is a dairy farmer in Hardwick, Vermont. Two months ago he sold his cows. He didn't want to do it. But his barn doesn't meet...

This summer, a one-in-a-thousand-year flood hit the village of Plainfield, Vermont. A local apartment building, which everyone called the...

This is a story about active drug addiction. Last year I made a story about my private investigator friend Susan Randall, after her office...

Mark Utter was born with a form of autism that makes it impossible for him to say what he's thinking. For the first thirty years of his...

On the one-year anniversary of a 100-year flood, Vermont experienced another devastating flood. This is the story of one Plainfield,...

There are about 15 million people in this world having thoughts and ideas that they can't put into words. People who have had had strokes...

This is a follow-up show to Finn and the Bell. If you haven't heard that story, you might want to start there.At Bread and Puppet in...

Will Staats worked for both Vermont and New Hampshire for forty years as a wildlife biologist. He’s also a passionate hunter. He knows the...

I hung out with Forrest Foster in his sugarhouse a few weeks ago. Sugarhouses are the best because they’re full of warm, sweet steam and...

This is a show I made a few years ago that very significantly involves Total Eclipse of the Heart, which is my favorite song. I am playing...

Kasey Phipps is transgender and has always been transgender. But Kasey didn’t grow up in a place where the word transgender was well...

What Class Are You is a periodic series I make for Vermont Public. Thank you Vermont Public for letting me share the series on Rumble Strip.

What Class Are You is a periodic series I make for Vermont Public. Thank you Vermont Public for letting me share the series on Rumble Strip.

What Class Are You is a periodic series I make for Vermont Public. Thank you Vermont Public for letting me share the series on Rumble Strip.

Many of you got in touch with me after Isaac's story aired in the first week of What Class Are You. Isaac's on his way to Columbia in the...

What Class Are You is a periodic series I make for Vermont Public. Thank you Vermont Public for letting me share the series on Rumble Strip.

What Class Are You is a periodic series I make for Vermont Public. Thank you Vermont Public for letting me share the series on Rumble Strip.

What Class Are You is a periodic series I make for Vermont Public. Thank you Vermont Public for letting me share this series with Rumble...

What Class is a periodic series I produce for Vermont Public. Thank you Vermont Public for allowing me to share this series with Rumble...

What Class Are You is a periodic series I make for Vermont Public. Thank you Vermont Public for allowing me to share the stories with...

What Class Are You is a periodic series I make for Vermont Public. Thank you Vermont Public for allowing me to share these stories with...

Irfan Sehic and his family fled the war in Bosnia when he was seventeen, and landed in Barre, Vermont. Irfan did a lot of jobs when he got...

Isaac lives in Newport, Vermont, which is as far north as you get in Vermont. It’s a town in the Northeast Kingdom with a beautiful lake....

Today is the first episode of What Class Are You, a periodic series I make for VP. This series started as an experiment a few years ago. I...

This is a rerun of what could be called a VALENTINE’S DAY SPECIAL, and I hope you enjoy it.Last year on Hardwick's Front Porch Forum,...

The Anair story was produced for Vermont Public.

This is one of my all time favorite shows. I made it for Vermont Public in 2019 and I think about these guys all the time. It was the...

East Hill Tree Farm is awesome. Honestly. It's just the best.

I got in a car accident. For some reason I thought it would make me feel better to talk with Forrest Foster about all the accidents he’s...

Music for this show is by Justin LanderJohn's company is called Farmers Underground, based in West Glover, VT

A lot of people in rural America live near small towns or villages. Here in Vermont, a lot of small village schools and general stores and...

My friend Kelly Green is a defense attorney who represents people accused of murder. She spends a lot of time reading autopsies and driving...

Susan’s been a private investigator in Vermont for 24 years. She defends people who are accused of crimes, which often involve drugs in one...

Forrest Foster is a dairy farmer in Hardwick, Vermont and a friend of mine. This past spring, on Memorial Day, Forrest’s partner, Karen...

Music by Justin LanderOriginally produced for Vermont Public

Special Note: Hill Farmstead, the best beer in the world, just named a beer after the Civic Standard. Which is fricking VERY COOL. Here's a...

Rose Friedman and Tara Reese were in the early stages of starting the Civic Standard, an organization that gives the people of Hardwick...

Thanks to Brave Little State and Vermont Public for letting me run this episode on Rumble Strip. You can find Brave Little State wherever...

Credits: Music by Ishmael Ensemble, John Caroll Kirby, Riley Mulherkar and Elori SaxlEdited by Daniel Guillemette & Daniel GumbinerSound...

For years I've been wanting to make a show about the terrible cultural divides growing in our country, but I couldn't figure out how to do...

Mary Lake is a sheep farmer and sheep shearer and itinerant slaughterer. She is a tall, muscular woman in bib overalls and a baseball hat...

It's town meeting day here in Vermont.In most of New England, town citizens become legislators for one day a year. They get together in...

Sheila LaPoint wrote a post in Front Porch Forum asking if there was anyone in town who could turn her grandmother's fur coat into a teddy...

Tom Mustill is a conservation biologist and he makes beautiful films about where nature and people meet. He’s worked with Greta Thunberg...

This show is about crime. Really crimey crime.

Transom Bio: Jay Allison has been an independent public radio producer, journalist, and teacher since the 1970s. He is the founder of...

Forrest Foster was loading up the tractor with kindling for deer camp. It was two days before deer season. I was over there visiting and...

Nick Paley is a writer, editor and director for film and TV, and a co-writer on the recent film, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, which...

Vaughn Hood was a 118-pound barber when he was drafted into the Vietnam War. And in Vaughn’s war, most men didn’t survive their first...

Armand Patoine sat with me in his tea house, deep inside his garden, which leads down to a stream. He has been creating this garden for 49...

My son is leaving for his freshman year of college in a week and I am feeling maudlin. I listened to this show I made years ago and it made...

Leland is my neighbor and for the last seven years, we’ve been getting together in the spring to talk about his year, and things like God...

A couple weeks ago on Hardwick's Front Porch Forum, someone called Tiana asked if there was anyone who could help her with her hair and...

Ira Karp lives on a farm in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom, surrounded by music, puppets, and a family of incredible storytellers. Over his...

This show is a kind of coda to Finn and the Bell....At long last, the bell is in its tower at Hazen Union High School. The final...

Tara Wray is a photographer. And a dog person. She takes pictures of dogs which are haunting and beautiful, and every bit as distinctive as...

I've been thinking of getting a dog for years but even though I have an eighteen-year-old son, I've never felt mature enough to have a dog....

Forrest Foster is a farmer in Hardwick, Vermont. It’s an organic dairy farm, seventy cows total and about forty milking at any given time....

Helena de Groot grew up in Belgium and is now a radio producer living in New York City. When I found out she was about to take her...

I am home alone on New Years, cleaning and listening to music, and suddenly I remembered Grant Owen, a kid I interviewed at the beginning...

It’s been another challenging year of the pandemic, and families across the nation are trying to figure out how to be together for the...

Will Staats worked for both Vermont and New Hampshire for forty years as a wildlife biologist. He’s also a passionate hunter. He knows the...

Finn Rooney killed himself on January 3, 2020 in the afternoon after school. No one predicted it. There were no signs. All that can be said...

I heard recently that Peter Dunning died. I want to play this again, in tribute. He was an amazing man. Peter Dunning’s farm was a Vermont...

In cases where a defendant seems unjustly accused, the defense attorney is our hero. But if they seem guilty…or if it’s an especially...

In cases where a defendant seems unjustly accused, the defense attorney is our hero. But if they seem guilty…or if it’s an especially...

Susan is a private investigator and I interview her a lot for my show. Last week she hit an owl with her car and it died. She didn’t want...

At the onset of Covid in March, 2020, the Vermont Supreme Court declared a judicial emergency, suspending all non-essential court hearings....

Zeno Mountain Farm is a camp for people with and without disabilities, which is a super reductive way to describe it. Most other camps are...

Chris and Beth sing a lot. You’ve heard them before, if you listened to the show Sing your Job. They were the ones singing Game of Thrones,...

Alexis Harte is out biking on a chilly afternoon last November when a new song pops into his head and mesmerizes him. It doesn’t seem...

Irfan Sehic grew up in Bosnia and spent most of his childhood living in a civil war. One day the kids across the street were his best...

My friend Bryan Pfeiffer is a writer, educator and field naturalist. He used to be a professional birding guide. He knows all about birds...

Jane Lindholm recently left her position as host of Vermont Edition, VPR’s midday public affairs show. In her fourteen years on the show,...

It’s been too long since I’ve reported on police activity here in Vermont and it’s been a challenging time for law enforcement. Calls to...

Vaughn Hood was a 118-pound barber when he was drafted into the Vietnam War. And in Vaughn’s war, most men didn’t survive their first...

I met Leland when he was in school with my son Henry at Calais Elementary. I interviewed him when he was over playing at our house when he...

Here is a little musical about the beautiful minutia of your lives. And I just keep adding to it because our lives just keep going on and...

The first time I meet Han MeiMei, we were standing on my deck in Vermont. She looked at the fields around my house and she said, ‘That’s a...

Rose Friedman and some friends decided to start making free meals on Wednesday nights for anyone who wants them. They set up outside the...

We’re a year into Covid and in Vermont we’re almost into the last stretch of winter and I’ve been thinking a lot about married people, or...

In most of New England, town citizens become legislators for one day a year. They get together in school gyms and town halls and vote in...

This is a FUN show to celebrate FRICKIN’ INAUGURATION DAY which we’ve been waiting for for 1000 years!!!!!! It’s from the Shaking Out the...

It’s been a challenging year. Families are trying to figure out how to be together for the holidays when they can’t be together physically....

Daniel Kirk is a children’s book author and illustrator and he lives with his wife in New Jersey, about twelve miles outside of Manhattan....

Bill Schubart is a writer and a cultural and political commentator. He’s chaired a lot of important boards here in Vermont. He’s really...

I first interviewed them when they played in Vermont in 2017 and we became friends. In fact Amelia is the only person with whom I have...

François Clemmons was born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1945 on the plantation where his great great grandmother Laura May’s family had been...

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I’ve been doing a couple freelance jobs for extra money. One requires a great deal of video conferencing. I have learned that I do not...

Karl Hammer is the founder and president of the Vermont Compost Company in East Montpelier, right up the hill from Montpelier, the state...

A GUEST SHOW from one of my favorite radio producers….Bianca Giaever. During a period of personal loneliness, radio-maker Bianca Giaever...

Winnie Wilkinson is originally from Jamaica but she spent half her life in New York City before moving up to St. Albans, Vermont, where...

Clare is the curator of the Museum Of Everyday Life, which lives in a barn on Route 16, about eight miles from Glover, Vermont, population...

I met my friend Leland when he was in first grade and he came over to play with my son Henry. For six years now, we’ve been having a yearly...

Last month a friend of mine sent me a picture of miles and miles of cars lined up waiting for food that was being distributed by the...

Here’s our last show, which also happens to be show number seven. In this show you heard Cheering healthcare workers in Barcelona and...

This is Our Show, number six. Your recordings about the pandemic. In this show you heard from: Alicia and Liv in Los Angeles, CA Ada in...

Here’s Our Show, number five…your recordings about the pandemic. In this show you hear from: Niels in Copenhagen, Denmark Thomas singing in...

Here is Our Show 4, your recordings during the pandemic. Thank you for sending me remarkable recordings from all over the world, and the...

This is Our Show number three…made from your recordings during the pandemic. Keep that tape coming. Let’s keep making damn shows. In this...

This is the second installment of Our Show, which is about all of us during this pandemic, and is made from all the recordings you’re...

It’s amazing. An entire planet of people living mostly in isolation…or those of us lucky enough to be well. It’s the darkest thing to...

Hi all, My father died a couple weeks ago. He died peacefully at the UVM Medical Center in Burlington. My mother and sister and I spent six...

Susan Randall is a private investigator here in Vermont and she’s been my friend for twenty five years. If you listen to the show, you...

People often assume the Joslyn House is a nursing home, probably because a lot of old people live there. But it’s not a nursing home. It’s...

An outtake with bear biologist Ben Kilham, about living with dyslexia, and how it informs the way he thinks about bears.

Ben Kilham and his sister Phoebe are the only licensed bear rehabilitators in the state of New Hampshire. For over twenty-five years, the...

For many years I have privately loved the song Total Eclipse of the Heart, by Bonnie Tyler. I started to love it when it came out in 1983,...

Patrick Soniera has been hunting and tracking bobcats in Vermont for fifty years, and he has a diary entry about every single hunt–the...

This is the fifth episode of Problems, a radio drama about Pam and Joel, two old friends who support each other through their problems. In...

Garret Keizer and I stood together in a field, in the late summer, in the Northeast Kingdom, and he read poems from his new book, The World...

It’s the summer musical in Randolph, Vermont…one day before showtime. It’s been an annual event at Chandler Music Hall for over twenty...

Leland lives over the hill from me in East Calais. We’ve been friends since he was in first grade, and every year around this time we get...

If you drive around rural Vermont, you see logging skidders parked in people’s dooryards. You see them working in smaller woodlots and...

Gamelan Sulukala is a group of fifteen people in central Vermont who come together at the dead end of a dirt road in the basement of the...

When I was in high school I remember being amazed by how much grownups seemed to forget about being young. But as it turns out….you do...

The criminal justice system is not designed to answer to the needs of crime victims. It’s designed to figure out if there’s enough evidence...

Welcome to the fourth episode of Problems, a radio drama about Pam and Joel, two old friends who support each other through their...

Captain JP Sinclair has been at the center of over five-hundred death investigations and a hundred-and-one homicides in the state of...

I interviewed T.O. back in the summer of 2017. He’d just gotten out of prison, where he’s spent the majority of his adult life, and he was...

I spent the night before deer season at Jim Welch’s deer camp in Chelsea, Vermont. His camp is an old school bus, outfitted with a...

A lot of you who listen to the show regularly already know Susan Randall. She’s a private investigator and an old friend and I interview...

I spent a day riding around with game warden, Jeff Whipple, on the second weekend of deer season…just when some hunters are getting...

What most people outside Vermont know about Christine Hallquist is that she was the country’s first transgender gubernatorial candidate....

Welcome to another episode of Problems–a series about Pam and Joel, two old friends who support each other through their problems. Because...

Sarah Holland had no history of mental illness. She was a full-time R.N., she had three kids and a small farm. She was busy. Then suddenly...

How should people live long-term in our state if they have a serious mental illness? The hope is that they’ll find ways to integrate into...

Both Alexis and Steve were diagnosed with schizophrenia. This is the story about how meaningful, paid work plays a role in their recovery....

Leslie Nelson has heard voices for as long as she can remember. She sees things other people don’t see. This is a conversation about what...

Connie’s son was diagnosed with schizophrenia when he was nineteen, just as he was becoming independent. He didn’t believe there was...

There are Vermonters who experience psychiatric crises for years — and repeated visits to emergency rooms and psychiatric hospitals. Where...

A story about Vermont’s only permanent, supervised housing for people with serious mental illness. Featuring: Anne Donohue, state...

We didn’t have cheerleading at my school. Or pep rallies. I think we would’ve made fun of cheering and cheerleaders at my school. Because...

Steve Grody has dedicated his life to his passions. He’s an accomplished swing dance teacher. He’s a self defense instructor. And in the...

This is a show about women running for office. It’s not about issues or policies. You won’t learn where these women stand on public...

Daphne Kalmar was a school teacher for over twenty years. She taught in California, Massachusetts and then in a small school in Vermont....

I picked Amelia up at The Shelburne Museum the other day. It was a few hours before her soundcheck so she had some time to kill and we took...

Thomas Caswell has autism. Which doesn’t tell you very much about him. Autism doesn’t describe a person. If you’ve met one person with...

It’s time again for another conversation with my neighbor Leland. He’s fourteen now. He just finished eighth grade. He’s got big plans for...

Welcome to the second episode of Problems, an occasional mini-series of Rumble Strip. Problems. Because no problem is too small to complain...

It’s almost summer here in central Vermont, and as it gets hotter, it seems to get more dangerous. Law enforcement is working hard behind...

Depending on who you talk to, The Shaggs were either one of the best bands from the ’60s, or one of the worst bands of all time. Helen,...

Directions to Carl Blaisdell’s house: Go about seven miles down this road. Then there’s a road that kind of goes up to a Jersey farm on the...

This is a show I made back in 2008. I’m running it as a tribute to my friend Greg Sharrow. Greg was one of the first people I met when I...

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. –Rumi This winter Susan Randall worked with the...

[Uhm…..satire. In case that wasn’t evident….] Some of life’s inevitable problems are big and some are quite small. But no problems are too...

Son Lux is a band that doesn’t live comfortably in any genre. Their sound is massive, anthemic, but it’s also strangely intimate. The...

The Northeast Kingdom is mostly small towns separated by miles and miles. Sometimes it’s featured in trout fishing magazines. It also has...

People having mental health crises are visiting emergency rooms in record numbers. But emergency room nurses are not trained to treat...

This is another guest show from radio producer Scott Carrier, which he produced when he was twenty-six. He hitchhiked across the United...

Here is our annual season’s greetings card, this year from Liz and Jerry Danforth. Fair warning…they had a pretty rough year. Credits...

My friend Tim Kasten died two weeks ago. Ever since I met Tim, he’s been preparing for his own death. Partly because he had significant...

I’ve been reading the news too much. I read every version of the same story in every news outlet, and sometimes I forget I’ve read them and...

This fall my friend and I were going for a walk and as we walked past a small barn set down off the Upper Road in Calais, we heard someone...

The mission of The Museum of Everyday Life is “a heroic, slow-motion cataloguing of the quotidian–a detailed, theatrical expression of...

Rob Mermin had a career as a mime clown for forty years, then in 1987 he started a circus company here in Vermont called Circus Smirkus....

Peter Dunning’s farm is a Vermont hill farm. It’s a hundred and thirty-six acres of forest and orchards and wet spots and steep, rocky...

My mother used to say that everyone should waitress at least once. So I did. And I failed. In this program, I talk with some of the finest...

Mind Windows is a public radio program that gives your mind a chance to open its windows. Open them and then…see what happens! Our guest...

A few weeks ago I got a call from my friend Susan Randall, the private investigator you might remember from previous shows. She said that...

The first time I learned of Amelia Meath was in an email exchange. She’d written me a nice note about Rumble Strip and at the end she...

It’s been some time since we’ve heard reports from the police about criminal activity here in Vermont. And I’m sorry to say that so far...

Last month, Attorney General Jeff Sessions sent a memo to all federal prosecutors, with new directives for charging and sentencing in...

It’s spring in Vermont, and it’s been a full year since we heard from my friend Leland. When we left him last year, he was just about to...

The Eventide Singers are a volunteer hospice choir based in Greenfield, Massachusetts. They aim to comfort people who are ill, homebound,...

Robert Ford served as the last U.S. Ambassador to Syria. He arrived in the country right before the protests began there in 2011 and he was...

This is a show about how the charitable food system works and how it’s not working. The topic of hunger is not very exciting. Stories about...

In the concrete jungle, it all starts out innocently enough: especially if you live in a high-rise. It was a blustery Tuesday morning, when...

Ed Cashman spent twenty-five years on the bench, presiding over drunk driving cases and murders and everything in between. After a while,...

For the last four and a half years, Victor’s been working on dairy farms in the Northeast. Like 11 million other people in this country,...

When Marlo Mack’s son was three and just learning to talk, he informed his mother that he was not a boy. He said that something had gone...

It’s really dark here in Vermont this time of year. And every year, by the third week in January, I feel like I’m seeing everything through...

Steve Sheinkin is an award-winning writer of stories for kids about American history. When he started out, he was a writer of boring...

Ho ho ho! It’s time again for the annual seasonal update from the Keen family! In certain American subcultures, there’s a long holiday...

As some of you may remember, last year I did a pledge drive. It was called the Shwag Pledge Drive. I gave away a number of prizes to...

“That’s the thing about lentils, if they were going to soften, they would have already fucking softened. Honestly, you’d be better off...

Happy Thanksgiving everyone. Here is hunter Barry Forbes talking about turkey hunting again. I could listen to Barry Forbes talk about...

Charlie Hunter is a plein air painter, which is a fancy way of saying he paints outside. His paintings of Vermont are stark and evocative...

A couple weeks ago my son and I volunteered at the soccer Special Olympics in Northfield, VT. The athletes came from all over the state and...

Today, an interview with songwriter and Grammy winning record producer Jim Rooney. He and his wife Carol live in an old farmhouse in...

More and more Vermonters can’t afford groceries by the end of the month. The paycheck isn’t enough. The food stamps won’t stretch. And...

I met Jubal Durivage through my boyfriend, Gordon. Gordon and his two partners, Robby and Hilton, own a small hydroelectric plant way up...

Last summer I interviewed my friend Susan Randall, a private investigator. Susan trained me as an investigator, and we’ve spent whole days...

It’s hot here in central Vermont, and there’s a whole lot of crime going down. Here’s a sampling of calls to the police, as reported in the...

This is a conversation with Bread and Puppet founder and director, Peter Schumann…a conversation in which I ask him over and over again to...

The kids of Randolph, Vermont describe their neighborhood as a place with three purple houses. They tell me there’s a shortcut through the...

Rob Mermin and Bill Morancy lived in neighboring apartments in Montpelier, Vermont. They were best friends. And when Bill was diagnosed...

Last winter I made a show about working for the Department of Children and Families and I’d promised to make a show about what it’s like to...

Here’s another show from my friend Larry Massett’s brain. The story is called Aunties, and it’s from his soon-to-be-released podcast, Lick...

Leland Kennedy lives one hill over from me in East Calais, Vermont. I interviewed Leland last year when he was ten, and I’ve received some...

I have been remiss in reporting on calls to the local police. I apologize. Here is a sampling of reports to the Barre and Montpelier police...

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