Rumble Strip

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...