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Claire’s and the Northeast Kingdom

October 23, 2009 at 3:39 PM by Frances

Last weekend we went up to the very tip-top of Vermont, the beautiful and majestically named Northeast Kingdom. Why is it called that? I don’t know. I found it very silly when I first heard the term — probably uttered by my my mother and father in law, who used to live there — but [...]

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Shaping and Scoring: Baking Bread in Vermont

May 5, 2009 at 1:39 PM by Dano

At the end of last summer, I spent a couple months working in the bakery at the Williamstown Hippie Co-Op, somewhat confusingly named Wild Oats (no, not that Wild Oats). A baker’s hours are pretty different from a book designer’s hours, so three days a week I was able to do a bit of both: [...]

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A Weekend in Norwich, VT

May 4, 2009 at 11:39 AM by Frances

Happy Monday, folks. I hope your weekends were as restful as mine. Halfway through last Friday afternoon, Dan and I loaded up the car, leashed up Bix, and headed over the green Berkshire hills to have a weekend adventure in Norwich, Vermont.
As he mentioned in the previous post, Dan had signed up for a shaping [...]

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