Gaal Shepherd's pastel interpretations of Vermont's peaceful and verdant landscape are beautiful, luminous, and by her own admission and intent, just a bit mysterious. Herein are reproductions of 26 of them, in every season of the year, along with the artist's essay about why she finds the hills, fields, forests, and people of her adopted state so compelling, and why she wants to share her appreciation of them.

Tranquil Vermont: The Pastels of Gaal Shepherd

Arts & Photography

Shepherd, Gaal

Drawing

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Granite and Cedar represents an unusual collaboration between a documentary photographer and a writer of fiction to produce a haunting portrait of the people and the land of Vermont's most rural area, often referred to as the "Northeast Kingdom." Veteran photographer JOHN M. MILLER (Dear Camp: Last Light in the Northeast Kingdom) uses his brilliant collection of elegiac, but unsentimental, images dating from the 1970s to evoke the disappearing folkways, the rugged people, and the desolate and abandoned landscape of his native corner of the Green Mountain State. Miller's austere, black-and-white photos richly detail the erosion and the breakup of the small farms of the region and of the families who worked those farms. While they emphasize the stark beauty of the land, they also pay homage to the innate dignity and fierce pride of the people who live in such hardscrabble circumstances. As both a counterpoint and an underscoring of Miller's thesis, popular Vermont writer HOWARD FRANK MOSHER (The Fall of the Year, Where the Rivers Flow North, Northern Borders, Stranger in the Kingdom, and many others) describes the evolution of a fictional Northeast Kingdom community and its families over several generations. Taken together, these two accounts paint a poignant yet compelling picture of the epochal change that time and societal upheavals produce in a rural population.

Granite & Cedar: The People and the Land of Vermont's Northeast Kingdom

Literature & Fiction

Mosher, Howard Frank

Miller, John M.

Genre Fiction

With his large-format camera tucked into a specially-equipped pack, Gardner has tromped Vermont's wilderness areas for more than a decade, chronicling their beauty in all seasons and all kinds of weather. Here are 65 of his full-color photographs, from all parts of the state. Some are close-ups of rare and wondrous flowers and foliage; others show spectacular vistas. We present them to you in these pages for your perusal and appreciation, along with an explanatory text by ecologist Tom Wessels.

Untamed Vermont: Extraordinary Wilderness Areas of the Green Mountain State

Gardner, A. Blake

Travel

During his more than a quarter-century tenure at The Associated Press, Chris Graff covered myriad big stories. Among them: The rise, fall, and rise again of Howard Dean; The remarkable career of Jim Jeffords, including his defection from the Republican Party; The ascension of Patrick Leahy as a power in the U.S. Senate; The roaring populism of Burlington Mayor-turned Congressman-turned U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders; and The first-in-the-nation legalization of civil unions for gay couples.

Dateline Vermont: Covering and Uncovering the Stories, Big and Small, That Have Shaped a State - and Influenced a Nation

Politics & Social Sciences

Graff, Chris

Politics & Government

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