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Mirror Lake
When you live beside a New England lake, each season brings its own special intimacy. An early morning in August finds the author on his dock on “Number10 Pond,” officially known as Mirror Lake, in...
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Seaweed Dreaming
Harvesting wild seaweeds off the coast of Maine is an extraordinary lifestyle.Adrienne Anderson On a gray dawn in October, a half mile off a small Maine island far from shore, Micah Woodcock and I...
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On the Rise | The “Grainiacs” of Vermont’s Elmore Mountain Bread
The day I learned I’d been eating dead flour all my life came last summer when I wandered into my local co-op and picked up a loaf of hearth bread still warm from its oven. It was dark and crusty, with...
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‘Wild Skating’ on Lake Morey | First Light
Putting your best foot forward on Lake Morey Resort’s ice skating trail calls for Nordic-style skates, which glide on top of the ice instead of digging into it. Here, the author and his wife, Mary,...
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The Essence of Appledore
Scenes from the “Take a Bite Out of Appledore” weekend, including a view of the marine lab campus and a pile of mackerel caught right offshore.Mark Fleming Appledore Island is a glacier-raked lump of...
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Big Plan on Campus
On a wintry Saturday in the Academic Center of Olin College, 16 teams of high school seniors raced to build a device that could be lowered from a balcony to scoop up a plastic egg from a paper nest 10...
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Shaun Hill and the Price of Perfection
Wednesdays are supposed to be the slow day at Hill Farmstead, the cult brewery in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, but on a steamy summer day at 11 a.m.—an hour before it opened—30 cars were parked along...
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Weekends with Yankee Q&A | Michael Terrien
Michael Terrien isn’t the first person to make wine from Maine’s famously flavorful wild berries, but he’s the first with serious winemaking chops. The Maine native had been making celebrated Pinot...
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Wild Blue Wonder | Bluet Wild Blueberry Wine
Wild Maine blueberriesGreta Rybus Michael Terrien squats in the field and picks a handful of fruit. He crushes it, squeezing the shockingly purple juice into a plastic beaker. He pours a few drops into...
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The Ephemerals
Tonight is the night. After months of thin winter air, a warm breath has blown in from somewhere south, thick with moisture, and the land starts to unfold. The maples flush the faintest scarlet, and in...
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‘Wild Skating’ on Lake Morey
Putting your best foot forward on Lake Morey Resort’s ice skating trail calls for Nordic-style skates, which glide on top of the ice instead of digging into it. Here, the author and his wife, Mary,...
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A Christmas Loon
A Christmas Loon We began to worry about the loon in early December. What was it still doing here? For 18 years, we’d watched the loons come and go from the Vermont lake we live on, arriving in April...
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