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Eurovision Song Contest for the fourth time in five years. The runaway victory by 23year-old Eimear Quinn obligates his country to host next year's contest, and critics there are concerned about the cost of putting on the show again. This year's event was staged in Oslo. Norway won last year, even though third-place Sweden

After taking 1500 lessons aver the past 26 years, Britain's Sue Evan-Jones finally worked up the courage to take her driving test. She failed. "I get very nervous behind the wheel," she told the Times of London. "If I do something wrong, I just start shaking and my mind goes blank."

IN THE DARK Sgt. Joseph J. Wollitz, a corrections officer at * Florida's Duval County Jail, hatched a plan to scare two visiting juveniles into leading law-abiding lives by staging a fight among three inmates. When Wollitz asked for permission, a supervisor said no, but the prisoners were never told. When the fake fight broke out, guards, including Wollitz, subdued the inmates with pepper spray. Wollitz was suspended by Corrections Director John Rutherford, who explained, "We can't ask inmates to perform violent acts with each other to impress any» one.

SONG FEST There was dismay in Dublin, the European reported, when Ireland won the

gave the Norwegian song zero points. The Norwegians called the Swedes sore losers. Five times in the past 10 years, Swedish judges have given the Norwegian entry zero points. Three times the Norwegians have given the Swedes zero points. Contestant Miriam Christine Borg, who sang for Malta, reportedly went to confession immediately after her performance. A devout Catholic, she apparently felt guilt about wearing a miniskirt in the competition.

SILVER LINING Lars Bildman, the chief executive of the pharmaceutical company Astra USA, was fired in June following accusations that he replaced older women with younger, more attractive women, pressured female employees to have sex, and embezzled $2 million. Afterwards, Astra board member Lars Ram qvis t was quoted in the Swedish magazine Maanadens Affaerer as saying: "Of course it's not good with sex scandals, but in the U.S. this has ^ helped us get out Astra's name without having to pay expensive advertising fees."

WRONG ARM OF THE LAW Out with 40 members of his bachelor party, Drug Enforcement Administration agent Pete Sinclair, 28, objected to a $5 cover charge at a topless nightclub in Houston and got into a gunfight with the club's owner, Stavros Fotinopoulos, 38, and manager Lynn Clayton Turner, 39. Fotinopoulos was shot five times and Sinclair twice. Donald Ferrarone, DEA agent in charge in Houston, said Sinclair fired first. • Boston Municipal Police officers Matthew Shea, 26, Mark P

Atlee, 29, and Barry Maguire, 27, attending National Police Week ceremonies in Washington, D C to remember officers slain in the line of duty, were arrested after they ate at a Georgetown restaurant, ran out on an $18 bill and threatened the manager when he ran after them to collect the money. The incident marked the second year of National Police Week disruptions. Last May, as many as 100 New York City police officers, described by city Police Commissioner William Bratton as "morons and nitwits," reportedly went on a drunken rampage at downtown Washington and suburban Virginia hotels. Witnesses said officers fired their weapons into the air, groped women, sprayed fire extinguishers into one hotel's ventilation system, stripped naked and took turns sliding down the beer-soaked center strip of an escalator, stole license plates and set off fire alarms, causing middle-ofthe-night evacuation of guests. Following a two-month investigation, one officer resigned after testing positive for cocaine, and 29 officers were reprimanded for taking their guns out of state.

D0ESN7ADD UP After Rutgers University math professor Walter Petryshyn, 67, was charged with beating his wife to death with a hammer, longtime friend Bohdan Boychuk said Petryshyn may have been driven insane by a math error he made. After Petryshyn published the textbook Generalized Topological Degree and Semilinear Equations, Boychuk "noted very drastic changes" in his friend, he said. "He discovered that there was some mistake in that book and he told me that mistake was very serious, very big and he couldn't solve it." Actually, Petryshyns publisher, Cambridge University Press, considered the error a minor omission and said the book was well-received and selling well. Editor Lauren Cowles dismissed the mistake as "a technicality" and had dealt with it by sending corrections to reviewers for academic journals.

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m e n t insisted on a pre-sunset

referring to t h e 11th A n n u a l

a labor of love by an u n p a i d core-group c o m m i t t e e of

V e r m o n t Reggae Festival, w h i c h

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J a m a i c a n fare, a great selection of reggae C D s a n d

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to give p e r f o r m e r s the recognition

reggae festival in the U n i t e d States. H o p e f u l l y t h e sun

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o n e . O t h e r newspapers reported on

I a m inspired by Rabbi Joshua Chasan's c o m -

t h e event a n d we've learned lots

m e n t s . If readers still have a copy of July 17th's Seven

a b o u t rain, m u d , traffic, c a m p i n g a n d finances. W i t h few exceptions,

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M a y I also correct M a u r i c e Boisvert (Weekly Mail,

a b o u t t h e m u s i c a n d a l i n e u p of gWa ^

s o m e of t h e m o s t talented reggae

July 17) in his continual c a m p a i g n to d e f a m e m e , a

artists to be f o u n d a n y w h e r e . I

mere fellow letter-to-the-editor writer. T h e lawn signs

looked to t h e so-called music a n d

were legal according to standards set by b o t h James

arts press to pick u p t h e slack, b u t

D o u g l a s a n d J i m M i l n e , well-known Republican gov-

c a m e u p e m p t y - h a n d e d . W e missed

e r n m e n t officials. Also, Boisvert's claim that t h e p u b -

y o u . . . a n d you missed a lot! So

lic area w h e r e the lawn signs were taken d o w n was possibly o w n e d by "John Caroll headquarters" is

here's y o u r story:

ridiculous. T h e y only rented a distant p o r t i o n of the

T h e m u s i c kicked off early in

office c o m p l e x nearby.

the m o r n i n g with back-to-back

Also the Free Press article that Boisvert quotes was

b a n d s f r o m Massachusetts, t h e Black Rebels a n d Solid E a r t h . T h e

incorrect in that n o reporter ever c o n t a c t e d m e to get

g a t h e r i n g c r o w d quickly s h o w e d

t h e q u o t e ascribed to me. Two weeks after the lawn

their appreciation by d a n c i n g a n d staking o u t a small

sign incident I endeavored to question t h e police offi-

piece of d a m p t u r f with a t e n t or tarp. T h e m o r n i n g

cer involved for the "quote." H e refused to show m e

progressed with A n d r e w Bees^ a y o u n g roots-inspired

his report a n d , d u r i n g our discussion in t h e S o u t h

Jamaican star with a talented g r o u p of h a n d d r u m -

B u r l i n g t o n Police Station, M a u r i c e Boisvert appeared

mers u r g i n g the crowd to m o v e to t h e r h y t h m .

o u t of nowhere, evidently eavesdropping on m e a n d

I n t r o d u c e d as t h e next Q u e e n of Reggae, W e n d y

t h e officer a n d even c o m m e n t i n g u p o n w h a t we said.

Shaw took t h e stage a n d in no t i m e had the a u d i e n c e

M r . Boisvert, obsessed with m e a n d m y little crime,

in her power as she sang of love for Jah in an almost

even w r o t e to m e a personal diatribe. I owe Mr. Boisvert a small apology. I should have

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In sixth grade in 2972? This is why America Online is so great. On the Internet I merely get mail from different continents. On AOL I get stuff from different parts of the space-time continuum. The story of Planet X starts in 1846 with the discovery of Neptune. Neptune was the first planet whose discovery had been predicted based on irregularities in the motion of nearby bodies, in this case Uranus (which in this squeamish age we've agreed to pronounce YOOR-uh-nuss). Scientists guessed these "perturbations" were due to the gravitation of an unknown planet and calculated where said planet could be found. Sure enough, when astronomers looked in the indicated direction, there was Neptune. Naturally all the other astronomers wanted to duplicate this extremely cool feat. As it happened, Neptune's orbit wasn't precisely as predicted. Within days of its discovery one astronomer was speculating about the existence of yet another planet. Many others chimed in with their own predictions in the following decades. Some of the most famous predictions came from astronomer Percival Lowell, best known for his belief in the canals of Mars, lowell dubbed the mystery body Planet X. He never found it, but after his death Clyde Tombaugh, an astronomer at Lowell's observatory, did. Or so he thought. The new planet, dubbed Pluto, jibed pretty well with Lowell's predictions for Planet X. Just one problem. If was way too small to cause the observed perturbations in the orbits of Uranus and Neptune. (We now know Pluto's mass is only 1/500th that of Earth.) Tombaugh's find was a result of luck and his own doggedness. Back to the telescopes. More Planet X predictions surfaced periodically. The one you remember was made in 1972 by an astronomer who shall remain nameless, who predicted a Saturn-size (i.e., huge) planet that took 500 Earth years to revolve around the sun and whose orbit was tilted at a cockeyed angle to the Earth's. Not surprisingly, within a year other scientists had determined no such planet could exist. Finally in 1993 someone recomputed the orbits of Uranus and Neptune using more accurate data gathered by space probes. Guess what? Once you got the slop out of the numbers there weren't any perturbations - never had been. So no Planet X. All that time and brainpower spent on the chase, and at the end there was squat to show for it. I can relate.

URSMRTRNI? DLUR, TRKE. "Blinded by the Light" was written by a New Jersey musician named Bruce Springsteen. Maybe you've heard of him. It was on his Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J. album. Bruce's lyrics were no paragon of clarity, but at least you could understand the words: "And she was blinded by the light I Cut loose like a deuce another runner in the night I Blinded by the light I She got down but she never got tight," etc. The Manfred Mann's Earth Band ("Quinn the Eskimo") did a cover version of the tune in 1976. It became a hit, no doubt because the band made the lyrics even more opaque than they already were. They changed the line in question to "wrapped up like a deuce." What's it mean? I'm barely on speaking terms with my own subconscious. Don't ask me to explain someone else's. , Dear Cecil, How do u do the thing u do? - Name withheld, via AOL ez. no fresh r, no 6, barely time 2 p. y u x? - CECIL A D A M S

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i HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT Yours truly was looking forward to this one: 8 T h e first official public showdown between Bernie Sanders and Susan Sweetser at the Fairgrounds Friday morning. Surely this would be an opportunity for Susie Creamcheese to get under Ol' Bernardo's skin — confront him on naming his under-$200 donors, and steal the § headlines from the number-one socialist in ; American politics. I Sweetser has been talking tough — at least to the press. "What's Bernie afraid of?" has | become her battle cry. But as soon as Sweetser I started off Friday by holding up a picture of the II farm her grandma was born on back in County | Carlow Ireland, one realized confrontation was not in the cards. It'll take a lot more than the J good wishes of the Ancient Order of Hibernians to knock off Bernie Sanders. But confrontation did occur, thanks to the resourcefulness of the local press corps. 1 Immediately after the forum, reporters moved 1 in and the subject of the just-passed House welfare reform bill popped up. "It doesn't cut food stamps," insisted | Sweetser. "It increases the amount of spending on food stamps over the next seven years from I what we're spending today. I think it's $20 billion in increased spending Asked again if there a be a reduction in food stamps, she replied, "I'm told that there's not a reduction in food stamps." Jane Sanders, who had been listening in on the impromptu press conference, quickly | rounded up the congressman, s who was standing just out of I earshot. No one loves an argu- . 1 ment more than Ol' Bernardo. "If I may just j u m p in," said I the man with the rehabilitated voicebox, "let me respectfully say that both proposals [Republican and Democrat] make major, major cuts in food I stamps, and the Republican proposal eliminated SSI for | 300,000 disabled children. I While I absolutely support wel1 fare reform and have voted for welfare reform," said Sanders, l "what you want is to get people ^ to work, but you don't want to . punish innocent children." % Pretty heavy on the high ® ground, eh? | Sanders won the point in I the campaign's first unscheduled debate. Will members of the More Punishment for Innocent I Children lobby please stand up? "I agree," answered Susie 1 Creamcheese as the troupe of | reporters turned their attention to the challenger. "Nobody 1 wants to punish innocent children, ana I hope that you all ; will do your research and find 1 out was it a cut or was it not a | cut." Don't you just love homework? I remem1 ber my seventh-grade teacher, an Irish Christian Brother who believed homework was what made Christmas vacations worthwhile. He piled it on. No problemo. T h e Senate is working on the House-passed . welfare reform bill as yours truly is at the keyis board. T h e Democrats are trying to tinker with it. Unsuccessfully. But what did the House pass I last week? I ' Maybe you're one of those lucky Americans | who's never had the pleasure of proudly whipI ping out the little government-issued coupon - booklet in the checkout line at Price Chopper. You know right off that anyone who does is a if not worse. And they've probably got a § slacker, 1 2 - p a c k of Labatt's, right? Just ripping off the | system. It never occurs that the group dependI ing the most on food stamps is kids. We're the breadbasket of the world and supj posedly not only at war with drugs but in the | trenches fighting hunger, too. And in terms of ordinance, food stamps are as important to the | war on hunger as "zero tolerance" is to the war on drugs. i Back to the homework assignment. W h o was right, Sanders or Sweetser? Is it a cut or isn't it? According to the Congressional Budget Office, the House bill will reduce the federal food stamp program bv $23.4 billion dollars' i over seven years. T h e food stamp program takes i the biggest hit of any and doesnt include the

$3.3 billion cut out of child nutrition programs I as part of this historic welfare reform legislation. The figure does include all food-stamp J reductions, including those achieved by making * most legal immigrants (damn foreigners) ineligible for food stamps. Only 2 percent of the ? projected savings to Uncle Sam would come from reducing fraud and abuse. T h e bill originally would have limited "able- j bodied" folks without kids to four months of stamps per year if they don't work. Mercifully, that wasn't good enough for the Contract with America team. The Republicans amended the bill on the floor last week. Now it's three months of food stamps for life. Period. Look, no matter where you stand — whether you're a Save the Poor bleeding-heart liberal with 10 shares of Ben &C Jerry's or a Make Da' Bums Work taxpayer witn a mortgage and college tuition on the front burner, the fact is that Susan Sweetser flunked this one. She said "Do your research," and we did. Short M e m o r y Needed — Politics is a war of words. And one of the rules most dreaded by pols is "only you are responsible for what you say." Everybody knows the feeling, "Boy, I sure wish I dian't say that!" But it's much worse in the spotlight. Just ask John Gropper, the Rochester business consultant running for governor again. He was in attendance at Halley Barbour's press conference at the Sheraton last week showing signs of a wound sustained the previous Friday night. O n ETV's reporters round table, Jack H o f f m a n had the audacity to remind folks what Gropper said two years ago on the night he lost the Republican primary to David Kelley. In a moment he'd gladly erase from living memory, John attributed his defeat to the low intelligence of the average Vermont voter. Now, forget it. Real Estate Bulletin — The Sanders for Congress campaign appears to have gotten a pretty good deal on their campaign headquarters on lower College Street. They've rented the old Vanguard Press offices. (Probably performed an exorcism.) It's 2000 square feet at $800 a month. It's a first floor and a leaky basement. Class B property. Let's see, that's $4.80 a square foot. Good deal. Most Class B downtown office space is in the $8-$ 10 range, according to realtors we talked to. Sweetser for Congress has a pretty good deal, too. In fact, a great deal. It's located in a couple offices in the rear of Montpelier's distinguished Barber & Lanier Funeral H o m e on Main Street. The owner is J i m m y Johnston, a guy who's been around Vermont politics for a long time, primarily under the Jim Jeffords banner. His daughter, Darcie Johnston, is Sweetser's campaign manager. All in the family, you know. There's about 600 square feet, according to Jimmy, and the rent is ideal. See, it's an in-kind campaign contribution priced for federal reporting purposes at $150 a month. Class A property on State Street with parking. Let's see, that's about $3 a square foot, and the total won't even come close to the $2000 individual contribution cap. Montpelier realtors we contacted say Class A, first floor with parking goes for $10-$ 14 a square foot. Nice. It looks even better at the Sweetser campaign's new Church Street Marketplace location in Burlington. Second floor above Fremeau's Jewelers. It's 2600 square feet, 'handicap - ap ble and air-conditioned. And it's also rrc free, since, according to Sweetser press secretary Andi Zentz, its an in-kind campaign contribution from Warren and Evelyn Wood of Burlington. How much? we asked. "It will not exceed the legal limit," guaranteed Zentz, who added, "we haven't sat down and done the math." Get ready for some pretty funny arithmetic. Inside Track contacted owner Warren Wood. Mr. Wood declined to discuss his generous campaign contribution, so we can't tell you what the rent normally is. Mr. Wood made it clear that it is his policy not to comment on tenants. "That's their personal business," said Wood. T h e n he hung up. Bye, bye. •

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Pat & Steve's Country Diner Main St., Vergennes. Tres creamy vanilla creemees served in air-conditioned comfort. Flavors are made with real fruit crushed to a pulp in a meat grinder.

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craft luxury chocolates. But they struck it rich in the United States with a product that only pet-rock-loving Americans would actually pay for: chocolate body paint. O n e mention in U.S.A. Today launched their chocolate comedy, er commodity, into a national novelty item. Now a number of high-end specialty catalogs carry the couple's chocolate cow pies, cowlicks, doggones and other comic confections. The only thing that distinguishes this fudge sauce from the stuff that turns up on your sundae is the quality and the packaging. And, of course, the directions. "We just find that humor sells, says Tom Fegley, "along with » sex.

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only good thing about a cold, rainy summer? "Lots of picnics and barbecues have been rained out," says Al Burns at the Vermont Department of Health. Toxicologically speaking, that means fewer cases of food poiMEAT MARKET: "No more pig, soning. Fungal opportunities, no more kilts, more more bagon the other hand, are popping pipes, no more nonsense." up all over. "It was a great seaThat's how Ed Eglites sums up son for mushrooms," Fletcher the new look reference at McKenzie librarian (no more Robert apostrophe) Resnik of Vermont. answers evaUnder the sively in marketing response to a leadership of rumor he Waterbury scored five Holdings, pounds of the original R chanterelles Vermont ^ oj V E R M O N T within walkmeat packing ing distance company has of downoverhauled town. T h e its homey, mycologist sums it up, "This is hog-next-door look for a new the kind of summer we pray upscale one. T h e plan is to for." expand beyond Vermont borders with "Vermont breakfast VINO TO GO: You won't hear products" — thick-sliced coun-

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try bacon and maple link sausage — that will leave yuppies begging for more. McKenzie is also launching a new line of poultry-based dinner sausage in gourmet flavors like Thai chicken, roasted red pepper and apple 'n' onion. Look out, too, for fruited deli meats," Eglites says, like raspberry turkey breast and apricot ham. Hey, if it works for coffee and beer...

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your waiter announce this when he brings the dessert menu: "Partially consumed bottles of vinous beverages that were purchased with a meal may be removed from a licensed premise providing the beverages are recapped or resealed." T h e law passed three years ago, but nobody is exactly promoting vino to go. T h e police have been briefed. "As long as there is a cork in the bottle," a Burlington officer shared from headquarters, "it's not an open container." May not help with the breathalizer, though. Continued

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any visitors fall so deeply in love with Vermont that I they want to eat it. That is, "eat the landscape" — the thinking behind, and marketing slogan for, an innovative partnership linking restaurateurs and small farmers throughout the state. Jointly organized by the State Agriculture Department and the Montpelier-based New England Culinary Institute (NECI), the Vermont Fresh Network is bringing flavorful foods directly to diners' plates. In Chittenden County, organic growers in Charlotte, Huntington and Burlington's Intervale have teamed with such well-known restaurants as the Blue Seal in Richmond, the Sirloin Saloon in Shelburne and Pauline's in South Burlington. It's all part of a nationwide trend toward greater reliance on

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entire region. And while locally produced food may cost more than the stuff from factory farms — remember, advocates add, you get what you pay for. In Vermont, there's the added incentive of protecting an endangered pastoral landscape. The Fresh Network aims to make residents, and especially tourists, aware that they can help keep Vermont green by putting money in the pockets of family farmers. Partnerships between local

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the loop. The network can also seive as a vehicle for solving general problems and meeting mutual needs, Mitofsky adds. "It should be particularly valuable for newer growers who don't have an established clientele," says Jay Vogler, owner of Bingham Brook Farm in Charlotte. A former art installer at New York's Metropolitan Museum, Vogler has been selling salad greens to the Perry Restaurant Group since moving to Vermont in 1991. This year, he added Pauline's to his customer list as a result of a contact made via the Fresh Network.

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produce and meats that have been raised nearby rather than hundreds Or thousands of miles away. Advocates of the buylocal approach say it offers the advantages of higher quality, better service and greater value — not to mention flavor. Lettuce picked this morning is much tastier than heads trucked in from California. A chef with complaints about an order will get a speedier response from a farmer down the road than from a corporate distributor responsible for an j u1y

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growers and civic-minded chefs are not a new phenomenon in Vermont. Many participants in the Fresh Network have longstanding working relationships, acknowledges Elisa Mitofsky, coordinator of the program for the Ag Department. She notes, though, that the new organizational structure gives formal recognition to these individual arrangements while promoting the farm-to-table concept among growers and restaurateurs who haven't yet entered

She hopes the network will help reduce the amount of time she spends looking for new buyers. "It'll enable farmers like myself to relax a little in terms of marketing," says the proprietor of Green Mountain Mesclun. Smoother planning is another benefit the network offers small farmers, notes Mitofsky. "They'll be able to know in advance what types and what quantity of crops to grow — and how much they'll get for them." Similarly, chefs can ask Continned

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ike so many eaters of my generation, I was raised on uniform and hygienic white breads with names like "Wonder," "Tiptop" and "Sunbeam," suggesting good things emanating from above. T h e touted virtues of these breads included an appropriately celestial and pure white interior, a battery of vitamins and minerals to build my young body strong and tall, and a truly miraculous ability to retain their original spongy texture — or "freshness"— almost indefinitely. My mother and her friends, like many moms today, appreciated the pre-sliced and wax- or plastic-wrapped loaves because they were convenient and inexpensive. Kids, on the other hand, knew instinctively, then as now, what squishy white bread was really good for. Sure, we ate it smeared with peanut butter or topped with fried bologna, an innocuous and often unnoticed conveyor of our daily ration of protein, but the bread's full potential was reached in our hand, when we rolled it into grimy little balls that served as cheap, edible backups for Playdoh. Wonder Bread and its ilk reflect perfectly the time and place of their ascendancy. Made fast (45 minutes or so from mix to slice and wrap) in huge and shiny stainless steel machines far from the contaminating touch of human hands, these foods products stand as testaments to technology, instantly ready for pairing with contemporary cousins Tang and Spam. We were in a hurry then, impressed with ourselves and our mastery of the world. We looked forward with Jetson-like anticipation to the day when a slew of pills might stand in for meals, freeing us altogether from the pesky necessity of dining. Sliced bread bleached and clean, so sanitary that it was often pumped with carbon dioxide rather than leavened through the filth of fermentation, bread that could be massproduced and consumed without either consciousness or teeth — that was about as good as it got. Today a quick trip to almost any grocery store will reveal how much things have changed in 30 years. Sunbeam and Wonder are still around, but they no longer occupy the top shelf of honor. You're likely to find them sandwiched between hearty whole-grain loaves, Middle Eastern pita and Jewish

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ryes. T h e newest entries tend to be sliced and packaged like white bread: a little more flavor, same old convenience. T h e true stars of today's bread world , however, sit unsliced on shelves apart, defined more by their makers than their ingredients. Small local "craft" bakeries are springing up all over the country, making bread that is often chewy, crusty, irregular, dark and deeply flavorful — the very antithesis of Wonder. Americans are buying enough, in fact, to have induced major supermarket chains to carry the breads and, in some cases, to produce cheap knock-offs at

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bread is one of humankind's earliest and most significant culinary inventions. Ever since human beings gave up a nomadic lifestyle and settled down to cultivate cereal crops some 10,000 years ago, grains have been our staple, our means of survival. The earliest and most enduring recipes for these protein-iich seeds tend to be the simplest — boiled into porridge, mush and gruel. Nourishing and simple to prepare as these porridges were, they did not stave off boredom, and it wasn't long before creative cooks were experimenting with new ways to prepare their

T h e Greeks are credited with the original pizza pie. T h e baguette is still big in France, but it was bigger^— up to six feet long -— in the '20s. But there's one thing that has remained unchanged, up until the current interest in artisanal bread — the upper-class fascination with white flour. Throughout history, the poor have lived largely on heavy, wholemeal loaves, while bakers for the wealthy spared no expense to produce white and tender breads. Possibly referring to his patron, the Roman poet Juvenal wrote, "...for him delicate loaf is reserved, white

luxury. Today, the very mechanized process which made Wonder Bread so miraculous has also made it cheap. Time is money, and squishy white bread takes little of either to produce. T h e situation of centuries is now reversed: slow-fermented, whole-grain breads formed by hand and baked in small batches cost far more than factorymade bread of little substance. Those who can afford them buy the expensive artisanal loaves, while those who can't stick to the yeasty offspring of Wonder. Is there any real change here — or is it the same old

A baker at Breadsmith begins the baguettes.

their own in-house bakeries. An interest in both the history and the future of foods leads me to wonder what, if anything, this rather abrupt about-face in taste signifies. I'm a joyous convert to the haute bread-of-the-moment — I love its heft and substance, its insistence on being noticed — and I like to imagine that in choosing it we are demonstrating our recovery from decades of bad taste, returning to the physical wisdom and good sense which guided our ancestors in their food choices for millennia. It's an explanation that I like, but not one that I'm quite ready to trust. Bread has been around long enough to have endured the rise and fall of many fads and fashions. There's a Hungarian saying that "bread is older than man," and indeed,

grains. A little leftover mush slapped on a hot rock became the first flatbread. From there, it was probably no more than a matter of hours before the wild yeasts of the air found an untended flatbread dough and produced the first accidentally fermented, or leavened, bread. As one story tells it, an unknown Egyptian housewife, either crazy or courageous, went ahead and baked her wildly mushrooming flatbread dough when good sense would have dictated a call to the priests and an exorcism. Bread has changed over time in response to social mores, economics and technology. T h e Egyptians liked large coneshaped loaves and sometimes molded a special honey bread into the gingerbread-style shapes of people and animals.

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as snow and kneaded of fine flour." During the Middle Ages, the wealthy wouldn't have dreamed of eating brown bread; they ate food off bread baked flat and rectangular to serve as spongy plates, then passed their dirty "plates" to the poor. But does this long-time penchant for white really reflect taste? Not necessarily. Up until the advent of steel roller mills in the late 19th century, grain was ground between stones. T h e resulting meal was flavorful and brown, containing the whole grain as well as occasional flecks of stone and dirt. T h e finest flour would have been sifted through several layers of linen, cotton and silk before it was deemed white enough for a rich man's table. So in this instance, white was equated not with flavor, but with labor and

economic hierarchy, old as agriculture? Will the pendulum swing again, replacing the white loaf on its pedestal? It's anyone's guess, of course, but most of the bakers I spoke with believe there is some permanence to this current trend. Helen Rabin of Upland Bakers in Plainfield thinks that "bread is a very personal thing" and requires the h u m a n touch to be really good. She sees cause for optimism in the rapidly increasing numbers of artisanal bakers. C h u c k Conway of O'Bread in Shelburne enjoys and values the small size of his own operation, but avoids predictions about the market as a whole. He hopes aloud that we have indeed turned a corner, away from any kind of food produced in mass quantities. But Continued

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hen New England Air Systems needed to feed 207 employees at its annual picnic last week, company president Steve Bartlett knew exactly what to do: Call Wetherbee's Catering and let Bill do the barbecue. Since 1947, Wetherbee's Catering of Essex Junction has been barbecuing chickens for mass consumption. The only things that have changed in

homemade baked beans, potato chips, salad and rolls. A party for the Underhill-Jericho Fire Department required 1650 birds on which to prey. And the National Association of Home Economists once needed enough ham to make pigs of 2200 people. Wetherbee roams around every event, refilling relish en route, to hear what people are saying and see what they're eating. Typically, everyone — except any unlucky vegetarians — is a member of the clean plate club. The

dings, anniversaries, reunions and two company picnics. Summer signals time off for most folks, but it's the busiest season for the Wetherbees. A nine-job weekend demands three generations of effort. Wetherbee's amenable teenagers, Katy and Michael, take turns flipping burgers. His wife Martha makes sure the chickens get rotated, while his dad keeps them swimming in the secret recipe. Even in the decade of trimming fat from the company budget — and the family diet

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occasional leftover goes to charity — 1700 birds in one like a local nursing home. Barbecuing is a tricky business, fell swoop. especially if birds are on the menu. Wetherbee's handles mass quantities of chicken with those 45 years are the kid gloves — prophylactic ones, Wetherbee and the grill. actually — and cooks America's Bill Wetherbee bought the favorite white meat to bacteriabusiness from his uncle Ted in free perfection. Manley 1976 and — after a fire comWetherbee, Bill's dad, confesses pletely destroyed the family one trick of the trade: "If you restaurant and catering pavilion can wiggle the chicken's leg easin 1988 — invented the family ily, then it's cooked." moveable contraption that can Obviously, Wetherbee's cook 200 chickens at once. Catering prefers down-home Another version, which fits together like a three-dimension- fare to haute cuisine. "We've cultivated that share of the maral jigsaw puzzle, barbecues ket because we're familiar with 1700 birds in one fell swoop. it," says Bill. Regardless of the quantity, the Good at it is more likely. family's secret basting recipe is Their low-brow food has passed poured on generously from a the taste test of some fairly watering can. highfalutin palates, including "Nobody cooks chicken like the Beach Boys, Reba this," Wetherbee admits. McEntire, Vince Gill and Anne Although some have tried. Murray. "The Beach Boys gave Over the years, several former us a 13-page rider of what they employees sought to take a bite wanted at various times and out of his backyard catering locations throughout their business, but foundered in the stay," Wetherbee recalls. Boys process. "There's just no room will be boys, apparently, for error," he says. because one of their requireThe Wetherbees always err ments was 50 Tootsie Roll pops on the side of excess. No one — but no orange ones. has ever left one of their feasts famished. Not even close. New England Air Systems' company picnic kicked off with a hot dog and hamburger "appetizer" and eased into an entire buffet with 414 pieces of grilled chicken, July

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Whether you're a celebrity or not, Wetherbee says, you get the star treatment. Wetherbee's actually had to turn down a job catering James Taylor's recent concert lor a weekend of wed-

— a hearty picnic at a reasonable price makes most people want to loosen their belts. Wetherbee's serves less red meat these days, but every so often steak and lobster make their way onto the menu. Sterling silver place settings are no problem either, although plastic is the most popular. Wetherbee's is famous for its food and notorious for its attention to detail. And for as little as $11 per person, you get both. A typical buffet includes salad, baked beans (made with maple syrup), fresh fruit, Swedish meatballs, lasagna, chicken, rolls and butter, roast beef and coffee. Condiments and clean-up are included. But the reason people like Dick Brooks from New England Air Systems keep coming back is simple. "It's just good food," he shrugs. •

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Continued from page 11 farmers to grow a specific variety of produce and be assured of receiving it in die freshest condition. And when diners find out how good local food tastes, adds N E C I publicist Pam Knights, they'll start buying it themselves at farmers' markets and at stores that stock meat and vegetables from nearby farms. "Chefs have a lot of purchasing power and influence on the food-conscious public," Knights observes. The Culinary Institute aimed to tap those resources when it hosted a seminar last February that inaugurated the Vermont Fresh Network. Debra Weinstein, owner of the Blue Seal, says she joined the network "because of who I am as a person and a restaurateur. The farmers taking part in it share my convictions." Weinstein, a University of Vermont graduate and former chef at two fashionable

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The Fresh Network aims to encourage production of such specialty foods, Mitofsky adds. "By identifying needs, we'll'be able to find niches that can provide security for family farmers." •

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hat is brown, comes to you directly from the labor of others and inflates like a balloon your conversational skills? If you guessed coffee, then not only are you right on the money, but you'll soon have yet another Church Street location in Burlington in which to imbibe your favorite stimulant. Personally, I crave coffee on Tuesdays. It's not that I can't drink it any other day of the week, but something about the day before Wednesday sets off an internal conversation, resulting in the very defined and delightfully visceral need for a latte. For which of course I am grateful because, being prone to such conversations about every half hour of every day resulting in a far more pronounced need for nicotine means that I am forced to indulge in smelly cigarettes instead of the more pleasant aesthetic of coffee. The caffeine awakening of

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our welcoming brains comes on the cusp of another consciousness change. With Bob Dole's greased-pocket affirmation regarding the questionably addictive qualities of nicotine, and the tobacco industry's profession of a similar ignorance before a congressional subcommittee, we all stand awonder. One of the largest lies ever hoisted upon the American public is now exposed: Tobacco magnates have become rich selling death to anyone who will spend $2.75 a day to meet their maker. And how long until some future president, posed in his distant oval room and straining through his necktie, cautiously announces that he was unaware that caffeine is, well, addictive. Reporters will probe: "Were you aware, sir — uh, Mister President, were you aware that the coffee industry called itself, in 1992, "the caffeine industry," and coffee simply a — and I

quote — "a caffeine-carrying device?" The President, smiling voraciously for the camera, will self-consiously change the subject. So what, right? Anyone who's ever spent 20 or so years swilling cup after cup of the brown stuff for that extra kick in the morning could've told you

that coffee is, indeed, addictive. Who cares? With the demise of the smoking myth, those who choose to make money on human weakness asked, "What else can we

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market?" The answer, of course? "Caffeine!" And now we have guys on mountain bikes with tuxedos, twirling off mountaintops and landing in a rainforest, and finding what in this most precarious yet alluring setting? Only the most caffeinat-

ed soft drink known to humankind. As we plunge into the massmarketing of caffeine, as the last of the undemonized drugs

yearns to be overconsumed, we ride on the back of Juan Valdez's mule, and on each side our favorite sit-com characters swill with neurotic delight the fruits of Juan's tireless labor. As if awakening from a decaf dream, Burlington, like the rest of America, is becoming ever more ensconced in that coffee thang. If we don't watch it, someone might accuse us of having culture. And what is the barometer for culture? Coffee shops! Just ask anyone who's been to Europe, they'll tell you. Those who have more art have more culture; those who have more culture have more coffee shops. It is a simple equation. People basking in the luminous haze of the early evening sun, slowly milking the chocolaty creme de latte, scrutiContinued

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SLIDE LECTURE: Award-winning sculptor Tom Butter discusses his work. Vermont Studio Center Lecture Hall, Johnson, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 635-2727.

words READING: James Facos reads at Cover-to-Cover Bookstore, Randolph, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 728-4206.

BIG APPLE CIRCUS: See July 24. ROYAL LIPIZZAN STALLIONS: The world-famous white horses summer in Vermont. Th.ey strut their stuff in North Hero, 6 p.m. $15. Info, 372-5683. DESIGN IN MARKETING TALK: The principals of Jager Di Paola Kemp Design address the Vermont Venture Network. Radisson Hotel, Burlington, 810 a.m. $15. Info, 658-7830. 'CRUISE-INE': The Bourbon Street Grill caters a floating feast. King Street Ferry Dock, Burlington, 7 p.m. $35. Info, 863-5966.

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N O O N CONCERT SERIES: Vermont folksinger Jon Gailmor plays on the middle block of the Church Street Marketplace, Burlington, noon -3 p.m. Free. Info, 863-1648. VIDA: The four-woman a cappella group offers traditional Balkan and South African harmonies. Holley Hall, Bristol, 8 p.m. $5. Info, 335-6088. V E R M O N T MOZART FESTIVAL: The Oriana Singers lend vocals to a "round" concert of works by Handel, Boyce and Vivaldi. Joslyn Round Barn, Waitsfield, 7:30 p.m. $18. Info, 800639-9097. FIDDLERS CONTEST: Old timers and youngsters compete with a waltz, a hoedown and one tune of choice. Newbury Common, 8 p.m. $5. Info, 866-5518. Fill up first on old-fashioned chicken pie at the Congregational Church from 4:30 to 7:15 p.m. Info, 866-5969.

d a n c e TANGO LESSON: Remember A1 Pacino in Scent of a Woman while you learn to cut the rug. Rooftop Ballroom, Howard Johnson, S. Burlington. Lesson, 8-9:30 p.m. Dance, 9:30 p.m. $10. Info, 862-2207. 'BALLET O N ICE': Vermont hosts young movers from all over the world this week at the International Ballet on Ice Competition. The finals are sched-

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t h e a t e r MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR': See July 24. 'MURDER O N T H E NILE': See July 24. 'LETTICE & LOVAGE': See July 24. ' T H E SOUND OF MUSIC': See July 24. 'OLEANNA': David Mamet explores the other side of sexual harassment. Unadilla Theatre, North Montpelier, 8 p.m. $12.50. Info, 456-8968.

a r t SLIDE LECTURE: See July 25. Painter Robert Birmelin speaks tonight.

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BIG APPLE CIRCUS: See July 24. ROYAL LIPIZZAN STALLIONS: See July 25. Fridays are two-for-one admission days, CHURCH STREET RIDES: Catch an electrifying ride down Church Street in a gas-free vehicle. The technology display tent is located outside the Burlington Square Mall. 10 a.m - 4 p.m. Ftee. Info, 241-3556. WATERBURY FESTIVAL: Duxbury and Bolton get in on the action, too, at this business fair and food festival. A chicken barbecue, dance and theater performance happen in the evening. Various locations in downtown Waterbury, 10 a.m. - 11 p.m. Most events are free. Info, 244-5731. WILDFLOWER MEADOW GARDENING: Learn how to beautify open meadows with native wildflowers. Slides tonight lead to a walk tomorrow at the North Branch of the Vermont Institute of Natural Science, Montpelier, 7 p.m. $13. Register, 229-6206. NATIVE AMERICAN CRAFTS: Crafts will be on sale to support a gathering of elders. Sunray Meditation Society Peace Village, Lincoln, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Free. Info, 453-5898. FIELD DAYS: Lamoille County tugs on its rural roots with ox pulls, horse shows, lumberjacks, crafts and rides. Route 100C, Johnson, 9 a.m. - midnight. $5. Info, 635-7113. 'SOLARFEST': A sun-powered festival offers music, dancing, theater, solar exhibits and camping. Daisy Hollow Road, Middletown Springs, noon through 6 p.m. on Sunday. $20. Info, 235-2641.

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ALT ROCK SHOW: Spill, Sandoze and My Third Leg catch the rays at North Beach, Burlington, 1-4 p.m. Free. Info, 660-1997 VERMONT MOZART FESTIVAL: Mozart takes a backseat to Bach at this outdoor concert featuring soloists David Fedele, Helen Kwalwasser and Hamao Fujiwara. Shelburne Farms, 7 p.m. $18. Info, 800-639-9097. MAD RIVER BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL: Pick from five local bluegrass bands at a barbecue benefit for the only major cooperatively-owned ski mountain in the United States. Mad River Glen, noon - 8 p.m. $10. Info, 496-3551, 'OLD TIME FIDDLERS CONTEST': Sawyers of all ages compete for cash prizes'. Shepards Field, Hardwick, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. $7. Info, 472-5501.

d a n c e LATINO DANCE PARTY: Learn to lambada at the Lincoln Inn, Essex Junction, 9:30 p.m. $5. Info, 862-5082. BURKLYN BALLET: Pre-professional dancers perform excerpts from Coppelia at the china anniversary of the Burklyn Ballet Theater. Dibden Center for the Arts, Johnson State College, 8 p.m. $8. Info, 635-1386. CONTACT IMPROVISATION JAM: Move in concert with one or more partners at rural jam for dancers of all levels. Wolcott Town Hall, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. $25 for the weekend, including food and camping. Register, 482-4184.

t h e a t e r MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR': See July 24, 2 & 7:30 p.m. 'MURDER ON T H E NILE': See July 24. 'LETTICE & LOVAGE': See July 24. T H E SOUND OF MUSIC: See July 24. 'PATIENCE': See July 25, $12.50. 'NEW WORKS': Local actors offer staged readings of local playwrights' newest works. Watch Tracy Girdich and listen to Steve Goldberg at Cafe No No, Burlington, 8 p.m. $5. Info, 865-5066. RUSSIAN THEATER: Even English speakers will get the gist of this Russian play. Dole Auditorium, Norwich University, Northfield, 8 p.m. $5. Info, 485-2165.

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k i d s WATERSHED MODELING: How does a watershed work? Take part in this hands-on activity at the Lake Champlain

Basin Science Center, Burlington, 1-3 p.m. $2. Info, 864-6832. FESTIVAL OF LITERACY: Puppetmaking and Native American storytelling precede a parade through town* Aldrich Library, Barre 10 a.m. 1:30 p.m. Parade, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 4767550.

etc BIG APPLE CIRCUS: See July 24. ROYAL LIPIZZAN STALLIONS: See July 25, 2:30 p.m. CHURCH STREET RIDES: See July 26. WATERBURY FESTIVAL: See July 26, 8 a.m. - 10 p.m. Kids activities, including a parade, are held in the morning. Historic tours, canoe rides and music happen throughout the day. At night, catch a hot air balloon ride. WILDFLOWER MEADOW GARDENING: See July 26, 8:30 a.m. NATIVE AMERICAN CRAFTS: See July 26. In addition, a free healing ceremony begins at 7:30 p.m. FIELD DAYS: See July 26. 'SOLARFEST': See July 26. GEM SHOW: Vermont minerals, fossils and geology are the focus of this year's show. Children and adults hear lectures, see films, and check out jewelry and demonstrations. S. Burlington Middle School, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. $2.50. Info, 863-5980.

music, dance, pastries and hors d'oeuvres. Greek Orthodox Church, Burlington, 7-11 p.m. $5, Info, 862-2155. REGIONAL BASEBALL TOURNAMENT: The Suburban Babe Ruth Baseball* League of Chittenden County hosts at teams from all over New England play for six days. Centennial Field, UVM, Burlington, Games start at 10 a.m., 4 & 8 p.m. The opening ceremony starts at 7 p.m. $3. Info, 899-4767. BERNIE FUNDRAISER: Bernie Sanders benefits from this "Moonlight Mingle." Join the party with Jim Branca and Bloozotomy at Magic Hat Brewery, Burlington, 8-11 p.m. $20. Info, 6603170. SPINAL SCREENING: Have a chiropractor check your back at Origanum Natural Foods, Burlington, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Free. Info, 860-1239. DRAFT HORSE FIELD DAY: How did they manage before John Deere? Watch draft horses in ag action at Shelburne Farms Barn, 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. $4. Info, 985-8442. ABENAKI P O W W O W : Check out Native Vermont dances, drumming and crafts at the Abenaki-sanctioned Mazipskwik Powwow. Champlain Valley Fairgrounds, Essex Junction,, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. $4. Info, 868-5180.

GREEK FESTIVAL: Just in time for the Olympics,Taverna Night features Greek

23th SUCCESS BY DESIGN: Def Leppard relies on their image making. So do Burton and Magic Hat. What gives Jager DiPaola Kemp its cutting edge? Hear from all three partners — and both sides of the brain — at a meeting of the Vermont Venture Network. Thursday, July 25. Radisson Hotel, Burlington, 8-10 p.m. $15. Info, 658-7830.

26th FLOWER H O U R : Is yourfieldof dreams a meadow of foxglove? In a matter of seeds, you can turn that fallow land into a wildflower garden. Plant propagator Arieh Tal demonstrates how to negotiate with Mother Nature. On a field trip, of course. Friday and Saturday, July 26 and 27. Vermont Institute of Natural Science, Montpelier. $13. Info, 229-6206.

27th IN PRAISE OF POT: Vermont is one step closer to having hemp. But legalization of marijuana is still a long way off — as long as federal drug laws apply.

'WEEDSTOCK': Marijuana advocates, celebrate the new hemp bill and strategize how to improve medical access to pot. Pleasant Street, Island Pond, all weekend. $10 includes camping. Info, 888-8451. SIERRA CLUB HIKE: A hike to Morse Mountain via Sterling Pond makes for difficult walking and great views.

Maritime Museum, Vergennes, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. $7. Info, 475-2022. Pot pushers celebrate the perfect plant at the annual picnic of Vermont Vocals. They call it Weedstock. Saturday and Sunday, July 27 and 28. Island Pond, all day. $10. Info, 888-8451. LOTS O F LAMB: It's baaackiava. Taverna Night kicks off a weekend of Olympic feasting at the annual Greek Festival. Excel in eating stuffed grape leaves, gyros, souvlaki and sweet and savory phyllo dough. The only agony is running out of room for more. Saturday and Sunday, July 27 and 28. Greek Orthodox Church, Burlington, Info, 862-2155.

29th T O T O II: Is your kitty ready for Chorus Line! St. Michael's Playhouse is auditioning animal actors for its upcoming Broadway musical, Pets. "There are no lines, no cues." associate producer Chuck Tobin says of the call for local talent. But there is a "carryt-on size limit. "Horses and cows will be ruled out right away." Monday, July 29. St. Michaels Playhouse, Colchester, 3 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2281.

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KEEPING WATCH: Move over, Switzerland. Vermonters were making watches long before Freud coined the phrase "anal retentive." Time is the essence of the Antique Clock Show — a first-time gathering of collectors, appraisers and nautical types. Come see what's kept Vermont ticking for two centuries. Sunday, July 28. Lake Champlain

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'SPORTS IN BARRE': It's open mike for sports memories. Contribute a story or two to this oral history project. Aldrich Library, Barre, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 229-9408. 'FESTIVAL OF ANTIQUES': Seventy dealers from around the country show their wares at Whiskers Field, Stowe, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. $3. Info, 253-9875. TRADITIONAL CRAFTS DAY: Check out cabinet making, quilting, weaving and basketmaking at the Sheldon Museum, Middlebury, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. $3.50. Info, 388-2117. REVOLUTIONARY WAR ENCAMPMENT: American and British forces gather in honor of the grand opening of the new museum and visitor center at Mount Independence State Historic Site, Orwell, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Free. Info, 759-2412. FORESTRY EXPO: Lumberjack and jili competitions, chainsaw carving, log rolling and horse events celebrate Vermont forests. State Fairgrounds, Rutland, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. $5. Info, 533-9212.

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BOAT-BUILDING: August at the Wood School, Burlington. Register, 864-4454. Adults and teens build their own lightweight canoes. Teens take a twonight trip in the completed boats.

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'WRITING THAT MEANS BUSINESS': Four Wednesdays, July 31 - August 21,8-10 a.m. Church Street Cenrer, Colchester. $89. Register, 800-639-3188.

psychotherapy 'INTRO T O EMOTIONAL-KINEST H E T I C PSYCHOTHERAPY' : Wednesday, July 24, 7 p.m. Upstairs at 22 Church St., Burlington. $5. Info, 864-3728. Psychotherapist Marti Killelea offers an introduction.

crafts PINE NEEDLE BASKETRY: Saturday, July 27, 10 a.m . - 3 p.m. Frog Hollow, Burlington. Register, 863-6458. Learn how to make low impact crafts, Native American style.

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TRANSFERING FOR CAREGIVERS: Tuesday, July 30, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Project Home, Burlington. Free. Register, 863-5625. Practice skills for the stand-pivot, Hoyer lift and wheelchair transfers.

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Wednesday, July 24, 7 p.m. Room 204, Hauke Family Center, Champlain College. Free. Info, 425-4279. Learn techniques to remember, understand and better experience your dreams.

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Meet at Smuggler's Cave Parking Area, Cambridge, 8:30 a.m. Free. Register, 655-9611. WHITE MOUNTAIN HIKE: Dot Myer leads a ten-mile hike up Mt. Moosilauke. Meet at UVM Visitor * Parking Lot, Burlington, 6 a.m. Free. Register, 863-2433. LONG LONG TRAIL HIKE: Walk 13 difficult miles with the Green Mountain Club from Route 9 to Glastenbury Mountain. Meet in Montpelier, 6:30 a.m. Free. Info, 223-5603.

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VERMONT MOZART FESTIVAL: The Festival Orchestra is joined by pianist Jean-Francois Latour in a "Moonlight Magic" program featuring Rossini, Debussy, Faure and Chopin. Trapp Family Meadow, Stowe, 7 p.m. $18. Info, 800-639-9097. BAND CONCERT: The Burlington Concert Band entertains against an Adirondack sunset backdrop. Catch the show tunes, marches and originals at Battery Park, Burlington, 7:15 p.m. Free. Info, 985-3740.

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TAI CHI: Tuesdays, 6:30-8 p.m. & 8-9 p.m. Food For Thought, Stowe, $10. Info, 253-4733. John DtCarlo leads ongoing classes.

LUNG LAMENTS & BELLY BLUES: Sunday, July 28, 1-6 p.m. North Montpelier. Sliding scale. Register, 456-1522. Learn to use cheap, common plants simply and effectively for SHAKER OVAL BOXES: August 17colds, pneumonia, asthma and intestinal 18 at the Wood School, Burlington. tract problems. $150. Register, 864-9454. Bruce Pyle LUNG LAMENTS: Monday, July 29, teaches you to make a nested set of five 7 p.m. Purple Shutter Herbs, boxes. Burlington. Sliding scale. Register, 865-HERB. You'll make an antibiotic tincture to take home after learning about herbs for flus, bronchitis and asth- - YOGA: Daily, Burlington Yoga Studio, ma. 174 Main St. Info, 658-YOGA. Classes are offered in Iyengar, Kripalu, Bikram HERBS FOR MALE HEALTH: and Kundalini styles. Beginners can start Tuesday, July 30, 6-9 p.m. Purple

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CONTACT IMPROVISATION JAM: See July 27, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. A public showing starts at 2 p.m. BURKLYN BALLET: Pre-professional dancers perform a preview of dances they will take to the upcoming Edinburgh Festival in Scotland. Dibden Center for the Arts, Johnson State College, 4 p.m. $8. Info, 635-1386.

t h e a t e r 'MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR': See July 24, Shelburne Farms Coachbarn. 'LETTICE &c LOVAGE': See July 24, 7 p.m. 'PATIENCE': See July 25, $12.50.

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475-2022. • STOWE PINNACLE HIKE: Take lunch on a moderately difficult hike to Mt. Hunger. Meet at UVM Visitor Parking Lot, Burlington, 8:30 a.m. Free. Register, 864-0503.

JAPANESE FISH PRINTING: Use water-based paints and rice paper to make a take-home print of a local fish. Lake Champlain Basin Science Center, 1-3 p.m. $2. Info, 864-6832. FAMILY DAY: Puppet-making, a performance, new games and puzzles celebrate literacy. Barre City Elementary School, 11 a.m.-l p.m. Free. Info, 476-7550.

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BIG APPLE CIRCUS: See July 24. ROYAL LIPIZZAN STALLIONS: See July 25, 2:30 p.m. WATERBURY FESTIVAL: See July 26, 9:30 a.m. - 8 p.m. Croquet, films, historic tours and music happen throughout the day. NATIVE AMERICAN CRAFTS: See July 26. FIELD DAYS: See July 26, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. 'SOLARFEST': See July 26. GEM SHOW: See July 27, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. GREEK FESTIVAL: See July 27, noon 7 p.m. REGIONAL BASEBALL TOURNAMENT: See July 27, 10 a.m., 1, 4 & 7 p.m. ABENAKI P O W W O W : See July 27. 'FESTIVAL OF ANTIQUES': See July 27. REVOLUTIONARY WAR ENCAMPMENT: See July 27, 10 a.m. 3 p.m. CHAMPAGNE BRUNCH CRUISE: Isabel's brings the bubbly to this floating feast. King Street Ferry Dock, Burlington, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. $25. Info, 863-5966. VEGETARIAN POTLUCK PICNIC: Bring a dish to share, and your own place setting and silverware. Ethan Allen Homestead, Burlington, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 453-3945. 'BETTER HOMES & GARBAGE: Architect Kate Warner speaks about her demonstration project of resourceefficient home design. Warren Town Hall, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 496-5545. ANTIQUE CLOCK SHOW: Green Mountain Timekeepers appraise your pocketwatch and offer presentations on the history of clock-making in Vermont, Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, Basin Harbor, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. $7. Info,

AUDITIONS: St. Michael's is seeking animal actors for a professional production of Pets!. Bring yours — on a leash — to St. Michael's Playhouse, Colchester, 3 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2281. OPEN STAGE: The dramatic equivalent of open mike happens every Monday at Cafe No No, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 865-5066. 'A M O N T H IN T H E COUNTRY': The Russian classic presents love and freedom as opposing choices, both unreal and comic. Unadilla Theater, North Montpelier, 8 p.m. $10. Info, 456-8968.

kids VIDEOS: East of the Sun and West of the Moon show at the S. Burlington Library, 1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 658-9010.

etc REGIONAL BASEBALL TOURNAMENT: See July 27. 4 & 7 p.m. MOUNTAIN BIKE RACES: Men, women, teens and kids pedal for applause in weekly races for serious and social bikers. Catamount Family Center, Williston, 6 p.m. $8 per race. Info, 879-6001.

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Institute of Natural Science, Woodstock, 8:30 a.m. $4. Register, 457-2779.

t h e a t e r 'A M O N T H IN T H E C O U N T R Y ' : See July 29. 'PETS!': The new review celebrates cats, dogs, boas and guppies, and the people who belong to them. McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 8 p.m. $17.50. Info, 654-2281.

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etc REGIONAL BASEBALL TOURNAMENT: See July 27, 4 & 7 p.m. CONFLICT MANAGEMENT P R O G R A M : Interested in developing your diplomatic skills? Check out an info session on a mediation program. Woodbury College, Montpelier, 1-3 p.m. Free. Register, 800-639-6039. BIRD BANDING: Watch the bird banding station in action. Vermont

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CRAFTSBURY CHAMBER PLAYERS: See July 24. V E R M O N T M O Z A R T FESTIVAL: Flautist David Fedele compares notes* 1 with harpist Victoria Drake irra "Flights of Fantasy" program of works by Debussy, Bach, Bizet and Faure. St. Paul's Cathedra], Burlington, 8 p.m. $18. Info, 800-639-9097.

t h e a t e r O P E N T H E A T E R REHEARSAL: See July 24.

'PATIENCE': See July 25, $12.50. * 'PETS!': See July 30. ' T H E S O U N D OF M U S I C : See July 24. ' E D M O N D ' : This controversial morality play by David Mamet follows a dark and sometimes violent journey through a racially charged urban society. Burlington City Hall Auditorium, 8 p.m. $12. Info, 862-5359. 'SPAGHETTI M U R D E R MYSTERY': Explorer-detective Jeffrey Spaulding stars in a carbonara caper concocted by playwright Jim Hogue. Check out the dinner theater at Villa Tragara Restaurant, Waterbury Center, 6 p.m. $35. Reservations, 244-5288. 'ALICE IN W O N D E R L A N D ' : Lost Nation remakes the Lewis Carroll musical at Montpelier City Hall, 8 p.m. $5.50 for tonights "preview." Info, 229-0492.

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t i l m N I L E S T Y L E TransAtlantic Afrogroove. It's safer than traveling. Kiflu Kidane exerts Ethiopian influence on the New Nile Orchestra Thursday evening at Battery Park. The band heads south for the weekend, to the three-day Solar Fest in Middletown Springs.

'ANGELS IN T H E O U T F I E L D ' : See July 30, Behind City Center, Montpelier, dusk. Free. Info, 244-6957.

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RON POWERS READING: Last Patrol: Memoirs of a Good Guy is read by the author in the Club Room, Basin Harbor Club, 9 p.m. Free. Info, 475-2311.

etc REGIONAL BASEBALL TOURNAMENT: See July 27, 4 & 7 p.m. SIERRA CLUB POTLUCK: Conversation will include national and local environmental issues. A slideshow of Himalayan wildflowers, free childcare and a pre-dinner swim are open to all. Ferrisburg, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 425-3102.

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Horse-powered ferry boats were a common form of transport across the narrower sections of Lake Champlain in the 1830s and '40s. This one was discovered during a sonar survey of Burlington Bay in 1983. The reasons for its presence in the bay remain a mystery, as this section of the lake is much too wide. Historians speculate the ferry was purposely sunk there, notes Eddy, after efforts Continued

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IN BRIEF: "It looks kind of like an Olympic gold," Jimmy Kennedy says of his new medal from the Catfish Institute. His > recipe for catfish jambalaya, served daily at the Plainfieldbased River Run restaurant, was selected and sent out to 10,000 weekly newpapers as an example of fine fish treatment. . . . The price of peace has gone up — in Atlanta, anyway The going rate for a Ben & Jerrys Peace Pop is $1.75 in Burlington. The Olympic rate

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DIVING DEEP

the hull. The wooden decking & eath season in order to visit the has disappeared over the years, underwater wrecks. Divers can Continued from page 25 revealing the gears and a shiftregister at a local dive shop or to salvage it were unsuccessful. ing mechanism that transferred charter service, where they're No records of this particular horse-generated power to the likely to find a booklet entitled, ferry have been found. paddles. "Dive Historic Lake The horse ferry's location The wreck is 63 feet long Champlain," providing specifics just off North Beach is well and 23 feet wide, though the about the wrecks, their locamarked by two large yellow low visibility makes it seem tions and requirements for each buoys. Visitors to the wreck larger as you swim about it. particular dive. moor their boats to one of these "Viz," as Eddy calls it — or the Vermont divers are underbuoys, don their gear and enter lack thereof — is a big factor in standably enthusiastic about the water, following the buoy any dive experience in Lake exploring Lake Champlain's chain down 50 feet and then a Champl ain. Sometimes you can underwater museum. As amashort distance across the silty see 20 feet, at other times only teur archaeologists, they tend bottom to where the ferry now one foot, depending on recent also to be dedicated to the prolies. Divers are greeted at the weather and the conditions of tection of the shipwrecks. Eddy wreck by signs giving brief bits the dive. Wind, Eddy adds, is notes only one known act of of information about the horse particularly detrimental, as the vandalism toward any of the ferry and precautions about its turbulence created in the water wrecks since the preserve frailty. They are reminded to churns up sediment from the opened: Last year a deadeye, a remain neutrally buoyant at all bottom. But he's one diver who small wooden block that made times, in order to float freely claims to enjoy the mystery that up part of the General Butler's above the wreck without touch- murkiness lends to Lake original rigging, turned up missing it unnecessarily or subjectChamplain. You never know — ing. Though a reward was ing it to their weight. It is also a new and exciting find could offered for any information leadimportant to remain buoyant be just a few feet away. ing to its discovery, nothing has because the lake bottom is turned up yet. Despite the If you'd like to become a extremely silty here — visibility certified diver, you must compotential for damage caused, quickly diminishes if divers stir intentionally or inadvertently, by plete the certification course. it up. more frequent visitors, Eddy The National Association of explains that the preserve relies As you approach the wreck, Underwater Instructors and on education and awareness. it slowly becomes distinguishProfessional Association of Down deep, in other words, able in the eery darkness of the Diving Instructors are two of divers are on the honor system. • lake at this depth. Eddy the most common agencies. describes the horse ferry as "a The course comprises a total of skeletal wreck" compared to 40 hours of classroom and For more information about some of the more intact underwater instruction. scuba diving and certification, "romantic" wrecks. Iron hubs If you're already a certified contact the Waterfront Diving and spokes of two large paddle scuba diver, you need only regCenter in Burlington, 802wheels hang on either side of ister with the preserve system 865-2771.

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You can tell the River Run is good by the lines of people waiting to get in every weekend morning. People dressed in '60s garb accented by '90s body piercing and a distinctly Goddard College air. Parents who arrive in new Volvo wagons with state-of-the-art child seats and state-of-the-art children strapped inside. Local farmers. Business types. Teenagers. The River Run — a 24-seat eatery lodged in an aging clapboard building in what passes for "downtown" — serves the kind of killer breakfast worth driving miles for. Stacks of the fluffiest buttermilk pancakes imaginable — served, it goes without saying, with pure maple syrup. The best cup of house-blend coffee in the state. "Fancy Homes" — a mess of potatoes fried with veggies and coated with melted cheese. Bacon so thick and crisp that it has turned many of the local vegetarians into carnivores. Fried green tomatoes. Grilled catfish. Even the oatmeal is great. Central Vermonters of a certain age will remember the River Run as Juanita's, and,

before that, Bill's Barber Shop, although its most recent incarnation was a soda shop called Lickety Split. River Run is owned and operated by Maya and Jimmy Kennedy. Maya, 34, was raised in Plainfield, the daughter of local artist Charlotte Potok. Jimmy, 35 and Mississippi born and bred, takes responsibility for the restaurant's slight Southern accent. He does most of the cooking while Maya runs the front of the house, slipping between the old wooden tables and mismatched chairs to take

orders, refill coffee mugs and deliver heaped, steaming plates. Lunch is a replay of breakfast, with an altered menu but the same laid-back air. Among such standard fare as burgers and BLTs, the restaurant offers Jimmy's signature gumbos and jambalayas, homemade soups, grilled chicken salads and a variety of catfish dishes. A grilled eggplant sandwich with goat cheese, served on sourdough French bread from

the restaurant's own hot sauce, garlic sauce, barbecue sauce and hot pepper vinegar. The house blend of coffee beans is also for sale. nfortunately, River Run is only open for breakfast and lunch, Wednesday through Sunday, but the respite is just what a serious eater needs to sample the goodies offered at the Maple Valley General Store & Cafe, just up the road on Route 2 and open until 10 every night. Maple Valley is not your typical general store. Among the first tip-offs are a white rubber mouse dangling from the deli case, a bowl labeled "Pigs, Flies and Ballerinas," and a container of rolling eyeballs by the cash register. This is clearly a store whose owners have a quirky sense of humor, evident in the collection of novelty items selected by 10-year-old Ngaire, daughter of owners Janet and Dudley Askew. Though Maple Valley fulfills its beer-wine-milk-and-cigarettes mission just like any other country store, it also gives its customers plastic coat hooks shaped like fingers, pop up greeting cards and a 20-seat restaurant serving some of the best traditional (as opposed to "gourmet") pizza around. If you like your pizza with a crust that tastes like bread, not cardboard, and with generous toppings of

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empanadas, and savory turnovers as well as sandwiches. Dinners include lasagna or chili. The average entree is priced at about $5, which includes a salad and the cafes own bread. But the restaurant is probably best known for its pizza, which is offered with a white or wheat crust and is a bargain at $8 for a large. A brand-new*brick oven is allowing the Askews to experiment with a thinner crust. And here's a hint: if, like me, you don't like a lot of cheese on your pizza, ask for it served "like Dudleys" — its a style of pizza that Askew describes as having "a mere suggestion" of cheese. Come November, choices for diners in the greater metropolitan Plainfield area will become even more difficult. That's when A Single Pebble, a Chinese restaurant run by renowned local chef Steve Bogart, will start serving din-

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ners again at the River Run. If Chef Bogart s stint last spring is any indication, reservations will be de rigueur. Which hardly leaves any time to run up the road to Marshfield for some of the extraordinary cherry cheese Danish or a pan bagnas served at Rainbow Sweets. But that, as they say, is another story. • The River Run, located in Plainfield Village, is open from 6a.m. to 3p.m. Wednesdays through Fridays, and 7a.m. to 3 p. m. Saturdays and Sundays. Phone: 802-454-1246. The Maple Valley Country Store & Cafe on Route 2 in Plainfield is open 6a.m. to 10 p. m. daily. The cafe closes at 9 p.m. Phone: 802-454-8626.

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at the Middlebury-based American Hard Cider

Cider Jack is made to taste like European cider — tart,

for a week. It gets a dose of

hard at work convincing beer

slightly bubbly, with only a hint

sugar, a shot of carbonation,

and wine drinkers that an apple

of sweet apple. And, luckily for

and a cool brown label before

a day is still a good idea, espe-

American drinkers, it's a sum-

being shipped out the door.

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making stops. "We're under the

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satisfy the demand, according

Hard Cider Company in Middlebury.

Mirzet Haranbasic Loads kegs at the American

to Coons, even with a dozen other cider companies now get-

ness dependent on a good, fresh

ties from the production line to

ting in on the apple action.

apple supply. Two months later,

offer a fresh sample. Between

Boston-based American Hard

American Hard Cider bought

batches, he finds time to

Cider is the largest and fastest-

the Middlebury plant that was

unload a forklift, answer the

growing. Last year it tripled

formerly occupied by Earth's

phone, correct an invoice and

production and profits.

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test a cider sample.

Attractively packaged in 12-

rolling. It buys 60 percent of its

"At Taylor I had whole

ounce brown bottles with

fruit from New England, and

departments working under

screw-off caps, Cider Jack is

actually imports some apples

me," says the apple entrepre-

about 6-percent alcohol by vol-

from Normandy.

neur. "Here I do everything,

ume — packing nearly the

Coons is still at the core of

same punch as the local

of American Hard Cider. His

draught. But this pale amber,

palate approves the freshly

slightly fizzy brew looks so

pressed apple juices that go into

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othing sums up summer like a ripe, juicy tomato — rosy succulent orbs that call to mind Sicilian soil. But there is nothing Italianate about Vermont's summer this year. Rainy days and cold nights do not bode well for the local love apple. One farmer pulls it off no matter what the weather. David Miskell — whose wife grows the produce for the Inn at Shelburne — grows tomatoes almost year-round in an elaborate high-tech greenhouse in Charlotte. The fruits of his labor — red, juicy and flavorful — pop up in finer food estab-^ lishments as early as March and keep on until early January. His vines will produce 1 50,000 pounds of fruit this year, without chemical intervention of any sort. In Vermont, Miskell is to the tomato what Godiva is to chocolate. After 15 years in the business, he has seen it all: blight, rot, worms, aphids and, last but not least, sauce. Q: David, what advice do you have for all those the poor people trying to grow tomatoes outside this year? A: Forget it. Q: What are the ideal growing conditions — I mean, just to confirm Vermonters are pushing the limits. A: I think the ideal growing conditions are around Maryland. Hot and not real humid. Enough moisture but definitely dry at night. Q: Does the tomato have an arch enemy? A: The outside tomato's worst enemy is cold and wetness. You get blight, fungus. Home gardeners also get the tomato horn worm. It's this horrible-looking worm that eats the fruit, but is easily controlled.

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Q: What about inside? A: For us the biggest problem is keeping up with the work. But last year it was aphids. We just about went bankrupt. We had just built the greenhouse and had huge bills, and we basically lost our crop — we had less than 50 percent of our crop at the most important time of the year, which is spring and early summer. It was like a horror movie, Andromeda Strain, something like that. Q: What did you do? A: We were able to find a predatory insect that did finally take care of the aphids — a small midge. Organic systems need diversity and crop rotations, and we're not able to do any of that. Q: What is the perfect tomato? A: Well, it obviously ripens on the plant. Ninety-nine percent of the tomatoes you see in the grocery store don't ripen on the vine. Q: Yours are typically smaller than the jumbo ones we see in the supermarkets. A: I have an older greenhouse variety. We have gone through and tested a lot of the other varieties, but have not found them to taste very good. I don't want too big of a tomato because of the price in the store. If you have a three-quarter-pound tomato, you get a price shock. Q: Yours is an eating tomato, . then, as opposed to a cooking one? A: Yeah. There is a whole thing in the flavor of the tomato. Once it's cut open, you lose most of the flavor. Q: Is there a scientific explanation for that? A: The aromatics are right below the skin of the tomato. When you first cut it open, that's when you have the best taste.

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ON THE SURFACE Lyrical and weighty, undulating and stiff, Clark Russell's two large wall brooches propose a metaphor of contrasts for the Firehouse Gallery's current exhibit of nine Vermont sculptors. With greater third-dimensional presence than in previous Works, the found-object sculptures are heavy metal, but convey lightness through their elegance of composition. Other contributions to this show might be considered art-lite, notably Rachel Comey's installation of egg beaters draped gracefully, fishing-rod style, from the wall — these echoed by the single beater jutting from the opposite side of the room and hung inexplicably high. Her flyswatter encased in dime-store picture frames reaches even lower on the food chain, as it were, of everyday objects posing, Dadalike, as objets d'art. Humor, history and improbability are strong elements in this show — all three evident, along with function, in Greg Pajala's terrific turquoise settee-cum-sportscar. Painted to emulate the windshield, hood and grille of a '66 Mustang, it's a "Lu Lu," literally, and a clever pun on the convertible couch. Peter K.K. Williams earns kudos for creative excess with his machine-like sculptures: "The Life Ray" is a hybrid of television, high-tech medical instrument and cheap sci-fi gizmo; "Self-Portrait" is a conglomeration of found stuff whose sum is a sort of robotic man-as-video-game replete with knobs, levers and exposed circuitry. If Williams favors the Erector Set mode of construction, Jude Bond is the distaff corollary fascinated with the feminine — and with evanescent memories of her own history. Her several installations, each a variation on "Domestic Bliss," include Crenillin, "by Clark Russell highly detailed assortments of objects, such as the jewelry boxes that might be found on dressing tables of the 1950s, or a set of martini glasses and shaker (filled with fake green olives and white cubes adorned with childhood photos), or tiny papooselike dolls whose faces are also her own. The work is as intricate and delicate as a well-appointed doll house, yet evokes a bittersweet, illicit sense of voyeurism, like looking through someone's diary. Moses Corrette wins the how-did-he-do-it category with a huge, diaphanous sculpture of inflated plastic, its "walls" a milky white skin and shaped roughly like a dog bone. The thing, intriguingly titled "Body Image," takes up floor space with a certain insouciant gravity — the perfect converse for Russell's dreams of steel. — Pamela Polston

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ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 19): Welcome to Real Astrology, t h e Official H o r o s c o p e C o l u m n of t h e 1 9 9 6 S u m m e r Olympics. I'm p r o u d t o say that s o m e of t h e world's greatest athletes have been seeking m e out to help maximize their performances in Atlanta. M y advice has been simple for those jocks born under the sign of t h e Ram: You're ragin'! Don't change a thing! From feats of endurance to physical agility f r o m peak performances to erotic breakthroughs, this is a supremely favorable time for t h e Aries body. I predict that an uncannily high n u m b e r of Rams will win medals this summer. (As for non-Aries athletes, I'm suggesting this. 1) Ask Aries folks to share the secrets of why they have so m u c h energy. 2) Have lots of sex with Aries lovers. 3) H e e d the counsel given to Aries people in horoscope columns.) TAURUS (Apr. 2 0 - M a y 20): All a r o u n d you, the waters are troubled; the air is heavy; die beasts are restless. A n d yet in the midst of this blurry uncertainty and itchy d o u b t , an eerie peace is c o m i n g to dwell in your heart. To w h a t d o we owe this improbable, incorruptible stability? I think it has to d o with the fact that the astrological powers-that-be are conspiring to m a k e you feel m o r e at h o m e in the world than ever before. I sense you're on the verge of discovering your inner dreamhouse. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): C o n t a g i o n will work both for you a n d against you this week. Just as your blazing passions are likely t o fan o u t and ignite the enthusiasm of everyone a r o u n d you, so too will you b e m o r e susceptible than usual to the noxious vibes of sick puppies a n d silly gooses. N o w that you k n o w this vital secret, I hope you'll maximize the positive and avoid the negative effects. Keep your shields raised as m u c h as possible, letting t h e m d o w n only to emit your laser bursts of pure inspiration. CANCER (June 21-July 22): It would not be a good week to get all worked u p about stuff like wax carnations, silicon implants, and inflated resumes. N o r would it be a favorable m o m e n t to act like those F o u n d i n g Fathers w h o owned slaves even though they believed slavery was morally indefensible. But ir will, on the other h a n d , be prime time to find G o d while watering a melon patch, or to seek financial stability by buying yourself a tool or asset that'll m a k e you utterly undownsizable. And while it won't be an auspicious m o m e n t to stage imaginary conversations with Eleanor Roosevelt and M a h a t m a G h a n d i , it'll be a perfect week to fantasize dialogues with j.P. M o r g a n , Croesus, and Bill Gates. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): As the old gospel t u n e says, its time for you to go tell it on the m o u n t a i n . That's m y advice t o you, Leo. C l i m b the highest peak your physical fitness will allow — even if it's just a m o u n d of dirt at a nearby construction site — and sing o u t the gnomic, bristiy t r u t h s that have been fermenting inside you for weeks. A n audience would be nice, b u t is not absolutely m a n d a t o r y to achieve the desired release. If necessary, rant and rave for no one else b u t the field mice. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I can't decide this week whether you need a tender n u d g e at t h e elbow or a rousing kick in t h e derriere. M a y b e I should take o n the dragon face of hard-nosed basketball coach Pat Riley and howl, " Q u i t yer w h i n i n , you wuss!" O r perhaps I should imitate the Bodhisattva compassion of N e w Age motivational genius Jean H o u s t o n and whisper, " T h e very practical love of the Goddess is n o w filling you with a tireless will to overcome your adversities." O n e thing's for certain: You can't keep getting away with what you've been getting away with for too m u c h longer. LIBRA (Sept. 2 3 - O c t . 22): Consider t h e lathe. It's a m a c h i n e which grips a piece of unworked wood or metal and rotates it against an i n s t r u m e n t that shapes it into a tool. What's it got to d o with you? Lots. I see you as being in the clutches of a lathe right now, metaphorically speaking. I picture you being sculpted by a dens ex machina diat s chiseling away your rough edges and excess scrap. It probably hurts sometimes, b u t the payoff is that by the end of this year you'll be a far more useful tool. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Dear Dr. Brezsny: T h r e e nights ago I dreamed of a 9 0 0 - p o u n d gorilla w h o refused to get out of m y way as I was driving m y car. In last n i g h t s dream, the d a m n t h i n g was back, only this time it was trying to hand m e a silver platter on which stood a small pyramid m a d e out of gluedtogether credit cards. W h a t t h e hell am I supposed to m a k e of this? — A Scorpio Who's Tired of Gorilla Theater. Dear Scorpio: I believe the 9 0 0 - p o u n d gorilla symbolizes what you have the potential to become. If it visits again, accept its gifts and advice. It may be trying to help you turn into such a huge and imposing presence that n o o n e in your life will dare m a k e a move w i t h o u t you. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): U n d e r this July's full m o o n , I predict there's only a 15 percent chance you'll cover your naked b o d y with Elmer's glue, attach pigeon feathers and run d o w n t o w n . I f u r t h e r prophesy that the odds are m o r e than 50-1 you'll deluge your favorite celebrity with marriage proposals, and 100-1 that you'll b u y a m a m m o t h b o u q u e t of helium-filled balloons and attempt to imitate a flying dream while wide awake. However, there is a m u c h better than average possibility that you'll stay u p all night scheming h o w to get more beauty inro your life, and a 6 0 percent chance you'll beat y o u r fears by doing exactly what you fear. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): It won't be e n o u g h to read between the lines this week. You'll have to cross your eyes, hold the lines u p to a mirror, and then read between them. Same deal widi the fine print. In order to study it, you're going to have to find it first. Be ready to call on anyone that m i g h t help in this quest: an expert w h o can translate encrypted jargon, a magician who's skilled at bringing to light messages written in invisible ink, or a Scorpio-type wiseguy who's a master at smoking out h i d d e n agendas. N o w meditate on the following words of wisdom. "Don't listen to what people are saying; t u n e in t o w h a t they're not saying." — T h e best waiter at m y favorite restaurant. " D o n ' t play what's there, play what's not there." — Miles Davis.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I see yer lookin' fer a handle, babe. Searchin' fer a way in. Tryin' t o locate the barest h i n t of an invitation, a crack in die facade, a sign that it's finally yer time to slip into the giddy groove. Yer h u n g r y . . . a n t s y . . . schemin' and dreamin that just this once ya won't have to m a n u f a c t u r e yer own lucky breaks with sweat a n d spit. I'd say t h e o m e n s look good fer ya, wanderer — specially if ya keep a l o o k o u t fer the divine crowbar lyin' by the side of t h e yellow brick road. PISCES (Feb. 19-Mar. 20): Your assignment, should you choose to accept it. Refuse t o be a n u m b and unappreciated beast of b u r d e n . D o not, I say u n t o you, let yourself even get close to a position where you'll be full of soggy resentment as you lug a r o u n d abominably heavy baggage for people w h o don't m i n d taking advantage of you. O n the other h a n d , I encourage you to eagerly pick u p and carry t h e kinds of loads that m a k e you feel lighter.. .and that win you useful recognition f r o m people who'll enjoy helping you in r e t u r n . . , a n d that sweeten tire chances that a good cause will succeed. • © Copyright 1996

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kids have, each in their own way, begun to get old. Michael Keaton does the acting work of 10 men — well, four, anyway — as Doug Kenney {named for the late humorist with whom Ramis worked on both Caddyshack and Animal House), a stressed-out contractor who attempts to address his shortage of time with a surplus of self. Given the opportunity to secretly make a clone, he winds up forced to juggle life with three back-up Dougs, without letting his wife (Andie McDowell) in on the secret. Each reflects a separate side of the original: Ones a crotch-grabbing centrafuge of testosterone; one isolates Keaton's feminine side, and a third a fuzzy "bad copy" made from one of the duplicates — is a dimwitted, out-of-focus distillation of the characters's shortcomings. As with Ramis' Groundhog Day, I initially suspected the films conceit would get in the way of the comedy. And once again I was wrong. Keaton delivers a one-man (so to speak) actor's workshop. He's amazing. More importantly, [ the picture is genesplittingly funny. ^I^^^J In a culture as worshipful of youth as our own, one of the few rewards for getting older — and a considerable one for a film lover — is having a guy like Ramis scouting around up ahead and, every few years, reporting back. The march of time may be no laughing matter, but his career has demonstrated that each twist and turn of the road holds its own comic possibilities.

p r c v i c w s KINGPIN From the brothers behind Dumb and Dumber comes this tale of a down-on-his-luck bowler who pins his comeback hopes on a major tournament in Reno. With Woody Harrelson, Randy Quaid and Bill Murray. A TIME TO K I L L Newcomer Matthew McConaughey walks away with the latest John (The Client) Grisham-Joel Schumacher collaboration, the racially charged story of a young Southern lawyer who defends a black man on trial for killing the rednecks who raped his daughter. With Sandra Bullock, Samuel L. Jackson and Kevin Spacey. J O E ' S APARTMENT Three years in the making and based on an odd MTV short, the first film ever to pair Robert Vaughn and Don Ho also tells the story of a young man who moves to Manhattan and develops a meaningful relationship with his roommates — thousands of singing, dancing and wisecracking cockroaches. Starring Jerry O'Connell. THE ADVENTURES OF PINOCCH10 Martin Landau follows his Oscar-winning performance in Ed Wood with the role of a lonely old man who carves a son out oFwood. The film blends live action with animatronics courtesy of Jim Henson's Creature Shop. Co-starring Jonathan Taylor Thomas. JACK From Francis Ford Coppola comes the story of a boy trapped in a man's body.For everyone who didn't see Big and hasn't grown weary of star Robin Williiams' overgrown imp schtick. SUPERCOP How could Jackie Chan have made anothq^ martial arts spectacular already? He hasn't. This is the first stateside release of the actors 1992 Asian hit. In this one the kung fu king chases drug smugflers and shows how he got a reputation for being the most audacious and inventive stuntman ever.

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>fermont WANTED T O ARTISTICALLY PHOTOGRAPH: family member in last resting place. Genuine & respectful interest in recording your loved ones after the departure of life. 863-8313. BURLINGTON: Woman studio artist seeks other women interested in getting together to paint. Would also consider forming small weekly art/painting group. Large-ish waterfront studio available. Purpose: ideas, feedback, support, fun. 864-7480.

carpentry/paint REPAIRS, RENOVATIONS, PAINTING, consultations, decks, windows, doors, siding, residential, commercial, insured, references. Chris Hanna, 865-9813. ABOVE T H E BEST PAINTING SERVICE. Interior and exterior. References. Fully insured. Call Richard anytime at 862-0627 AAA+ - 655-0075. Barry J. Huston Ent. Professional painting service. Interior/exterior sched. fully insured. Great rates. Free written estimate. A-l BUILDERS. CUSTOM HOME BUILDING, REMODELING, ADDITIONS, GARAGES, DECKS, KITCHENS, BATHROOMS SIDING FREE ESTIMATES, FULLY INSURED SINCE 1964. 878-5360. MORIAH ROOFING CUSTOM METAL WORKS & REPAIRS. SHINGLES'SLATE'SINGLE PLY. John A. Jones. 872-0105.

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WOMEN SEEKING MEN X4U+IZBA>X4AX*<°° Well-educated musician, 29,-5'8", beautiful. ISO SWM <36, professional or academic, 5'9" +, athletic, handsome. 4 long conversations athletic adventures, rainy day sleepin'. 64894. HOT-LIPPED S M O O T H OPERATOR seeks sparkling, spunky and demure counterpart for genuine commit nication and excellent fun. Artists and other creative persons preferred. DEPTH ESSENTIAL! 64891 FUN-LOVING TALL MALE lets discover Vermont's summer glory driving with picnic lunch, bicycling, hiking, water games on Lake Champlain. N/S, 48-60, Chittenden County. Are you my adventurous friend? Do you like the outdoors? Do you ski? Come & play with positive & active female. Let's have fun this summer. 64890. SOFT HEART/STRONG WILL in classy, easy, sensuous nature. Attractive, intelligent, adventurous SWF wants to learn to golf/snorkel. Be 35-45, educated, athletic, youthful, willing to teach. 64882 WANNA KNIT YOU A SWEATER, write you a love letter. SWF, mid-30's, seeks SWM, N/S, 32-42 for friendship, possibly more. Must like hiking, mtn. biking, music, reading & be lighthearted If you have past baggage, can you carry your heart like a newborn child? 64880. SJW - 47. Writer, artist, grown kids. Looking for friend & lover to enjoy the summer in the Kingdom. 64878. I HAVE BEEN IN BURLINGTON FOR LITTLE MORE T H A N A YEAR. Lost without a companion. Anyone out there who would like to find me? 64870 MATURE 19YO F LOOKING FOR SOMEONE T O HIKE, rollerblade, rock climb, mtn. bike and enjoy the outdoors with. 64867. SWF, 37, NEEDS T O BE F O U N D by wealthy gentleman. 64869 YOU: SWPM, 27-34. Like the outdoors, have a sense of humor, like music, books, good food/conversation. I am a SWPF, 30, long dark hair, blue eyes, nice smile. Still new to area, looking to share summer fun in Vermont. 64823 SPECIAL REQUEST! SWF, 33, tall, attractive, quiet, with good morals seeking sincere, tall man, 30-46 of MiddleEastern origin only for relationship. 64851. LOOKING FOR A MAN W H O ENJOYS HAVING FUN, sports and quiet time. 64846. SWF SEEKING S T R O N G - M I N D E D INDIVIDUAL that likes reading, long walks who is open to new situations and places and likes to dream. 64849 ARE THERE ANY NICE SINGLE MEN IN THEIR 30'S LEFT? SWJPF, N/S, 34, attractive, petite, slim, fit. Likes: Walking, reading, dining, Letterman humor. Seeks SWM, N/S, 30s, attractive, educated professional who is easygoing with a sense of humor. 64852. ' SIZZLING H O T Central Vt. WF looking for BIG ROCK to DOUBLE MY PLEASURE/DOUBLE MY FUN. MUST BE Clean/Healthy/Discreet/Very Open-Minded. Call, leave NAME/ STATS/NUMBER. 64853 SWF, 26, ISO A FUN-LOVING, EXCITING, FIT PM, 26-40. Not asking for a major commitment, just one for laughter and fun this summer. 64857 RSVP PDQ!!! 23YOSWNSNDPF ISO SPNSNDPM, A.K.A you! RSVP ASAP 4 FUN w/A.B.C.'s + 1, 2, 3's of L.I.F.E! DOA or DUI need not apply. (SALLY SEARCHING FOR HARRY.) (64861) INVITE T O A KISS! 23YOSWPF, naive, shy, funny, blue-eyed curvy blonde ISO gentleman to show me the romantic side of Vermont. 21-31 YO, 5 ' H " + ! Call-me! 64860. SWF, 31, ATTRACTIVE, MATURE AND A VIRGO. Seeking a gorgeous

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male, 25-33, to share good times in the sun. Must be considerate, intelligent, and fun. 64859 WANT MAN need love have cash. 64695 WILD ATHLETIC WOMAN LOOKING FOR FUN IN THE SUN. Educated and experienced. Love to be wined and dined. .64701 JOCK LOOKING TO FEEL THE BIG ROCK. Great friend and lover and loves to do things over and over. 64727 WON'T JUMP OUT OF AN AIRPLANE, do drugs or stop evolving. Otherwise, I'm game. Responsible, attractive, NSDWPF, playful at heart, seeks friend to grow with. 64735 ARE YOU? Creative, fun, outdoorsy, into racing, music, walking, good moral values, romance, cuddling, health, honesty, and communication. Me too! SWCF ISO SWPN/SM between 35-45. 64729 LOOKING FOR FRIENDS: ISO single P.I., police officer, firefighter, or rescue personnel. To meet as friends first, possi' ble relationship. 64757 SWF, 23, enjoys outdoor activities, including hiking, biking & skiing. Looking for out-going, open-minded M who enjoys twisted humor, dancing and good times. Sound like you? What are you waiting for? 64775 ROOTED LIKE AN OAK TREE, loving winds, rain, sun. Core has 47 rings. Educated, fit mom seeks outdoorsy positive adventurous male for fun, laughter, sailing. 64773 LIFE IS G O O D . Let's enjoy it together. Sincere, spirited DWF, mid-40's, 5'8", diversified interests, needs tall D/SWM 43-52 with sense of humor, tender heart, and love of the outdoors to share adventure, laughter and companionship. 64789 N O R D I C VERMONT NATIVE: Searching for a friend. Likes sun, movies, romance, and fun. Ages 23-31. Must have a love for laughter and life. 64790 SPF, 30'S, LOOKING T O SHARE LAUGHTER FILMS, CARTWHEELS, AND O U T D O O R ACTIVITIES. Great friend, witty, novice pool player, hiker/blader. ISO gifted kisser with wisdom and passion to develop trust and intimacy. Loves her dog but wants a man who can contribute to intelligent conversation. 64782 WINTER IS FINALLY OVER! Can't wait to spend more time outside. DWPF, NS, 40's, loves gardens, colors/textures, arts, sports, great conversation, music, friends/fun, travel. Seeking NSPM who loves to laugh, is fit, honest, playful, creative & adventurous. 64783 SCRATCH MY BACK, I'LL PURR LIKE A KITTEN. SWF, 43, seeking tall WM for long walks, good conversation, candlelight dinners, quiet times. 64800 SWF SEARCHING FOR JETSET RENAISSANCE MAN...Charlie Brown with worldly demeanor strongly desired! Let's make it a family affair! Call me to negotiate! 64802 SWPF, 27, 5 7 " , beautiful black-haired vixen seeking a villain to have fun with. Must have a GREAT sense of humor, be adventurous, spontaneous, and adore animals. Not into LTRs with emotional burdens, just friendship with a little bit of spice. Give me a whirl. 64804. SEEKING COMPANIONSHIP. My interests include travel, photography, polo game, museums. Full-figured SWF age 39 seeking M age 40+. 64810 SINGLE, STABLE AND ABLE!! Looking for Mr. Gable. No bars, flys, or one-night stands. Bring out the music let's start the band. SWF, blond, hazel. Seeking SWM, 50s, 60s. 64817

MEN SEEKING WOMEN BE MY WAIF? Loving, compassonate, poor, CSWM, N/S, 5'10", 180 lbs ISO skinny, flat-chested, intelligent, SF, N/S, under 36 for friendship and more. Race unimportant. 64895. ARIES SEEKING ASIAN SF 21 to 35, Physically fit body and mind. Enjoy cooking and know how to please a man! Rock and blues music, dancing, movies, camping, traveling, Sincere relationship! No drugs, social drinking, smoking Ok. Picture+letter a plus. 64897. N O SALES PITCH! Just honesty. SWM, 33, electric, loves music, dining out, long drives to special destinations. Seeking 24 to 40 yr. woman to emotionally and physically spoil. Call. 64898. SAIL AWAY - leave your troubles behind - captain sails for warmer waters in September. Once in a lifetime adventure. No experience necessary. Bring Camera. 64902.3" .

LIKE N O OTHER. Sensitive, intelligent SWM, 34, who will treat you right and want to share good and bad times seeking woman who wants the same, good listener. Massage exchanging and snuggling a must. Romance, computers, rollerblades, walks in woods( quiet times, commitment O.K. 64900 SWM, 38, FIT, N/S Looking for a warm, funny, honest, sincere lady, who enjoys sports,golf, laughter, country rides, movies, dining out, playing cards and good wine. Let's talk. 64899. ELIGIBLE BACHELOR: On a mission in search of the attractive, intelligent,

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dancing, traveling, beaches, picnics, camping, quiet romantic evenings, good conversation, walks in the rain. Kids are great also. ISO SF with similar interests and interest of her own; call me. 64855. SWPM, 34 HIGH PROTEIN, LOW FAT, a little salty and slightly sweet but spicy vegetarian entree seeks lightly seasoned side dish for balanced eating...you pick the wine. 64863. SWPM, 34 EXPERIENCED .TTFRAVT" ELLED...OUTDOOR FIT...INTELLECTUAL holistically motivated male with all options seeks female energy to balance my doshas. Let's talk. 6'1", 175 lbs. 64862 SWM, 32, FIT, ATTRACTIVE, ROMANTIC. Enjoys weightlifting, biking, running, dancing, camping, country & rock music. Looking for attractive lady, 2535 with similar interest. 64768 NEW IN T O W N . SWPM, 25, warm, smart, funny, good-looking, sensitive, honest, fit, N/S. Left NYC with dog for greener pastures. Would like to meet special SWF with similar qualities who enjoys outdoor activities, cooking (vegetarian), and exploring Vermont. Skeptical of personals? Me, too. Please call. 64765 NEW T O BURLINGTON - Attractive, fit DPM, young 40's, 6'2", enjoys dining, theater, dancing, beach, tennis, singing. Seeks S/DF with similar interests. Smoke OK. 64787 NICE, OPEN, ECLECTIC SM, 30s, great country house near Burlington, seeks lovable SF 20s-30s for summer pleasures, maybe more. Nature, sports, arts, spirit, intimacy... 64807 VENUS &~MARS, Moon & the Stars...Some things just go together. Metaphysically inclined SWM, 37, vegetatrian...active, good-looking, a gentleheart, seeks romantic and health-conscious cat-lover for LTR. Let's explore the sensual and mystical together. It'll be great fun! I've been waiting...64808 STILL LOOKING! for that special woman, 40-55, who likes to express herself honestly, enjoys movies, walks, rides in the country, quiet evenings, NSWD. Friendship 1st. 6 4 8 \ 1 I'M HERE, ANY TAKERS?: this loyal biker, hiker, poet, writer (dog) ISO a

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BIWF SEEKS BIWF T O BE FRIENDS AND SHARE W I T H . Must enjoy life or want to learn how. 64901 • BEAUTIFUL F, 19, seeks feminine M/transvestite for friendship, hopeful relationship. 64769 I'M LOOKING FOR SOMEONE A LITTLE CRAZY AND FUN. Great times on their way with me personally is a must and so is sexual awareness. 64528 NO SKINNY MINNIE. Intelligent, creative Montpelier lesbian, 51, seeks same. Enjoy meditation, writing, art, photography, quiet dinners, movies, strolls, opera, giving, healthy eating, pets. You? 64908 GBF - NS - ND - makes no demands that others don't - 62 yrs. young - love sports, love to travel by car or train - want a partner to share my time & space. 64706 ATTRACTIVE FEMME, GWDF, 19, seeks GF who likes to go with wind and have fun, insanity a plus. Equal opportunity lover. 64767 BI AND SLY; don't want no guy, 25 times around the sun; the best is yet to come. Call me crazy or just call me! 64821 SLIM, JEWISH, FEMININE LOOKING, humurous, gentle natured, artistic, intelligent NS who adores Nature, art, music needs a soul friend just like me! No butches please. 64905 SHORN BROWN-EYED WOMAN SEEKING WISE & MAGIC OUTDOORSWOMAN age 25-35 to frolic & maybe cavort with this summer. No excessive vices, please. 64820. HOT-LIPPED SMOOTH OPERATOR seeks sparkling and demure counterpart for genuine communication and excellent

Love to meet on a lily pad for something better than bugs. 64831 SEX SEX SEX 30tsh SWDM. Is this what these ads are about? Looking for someone different. Friendship & conversation. Above not ruled out in time. 64837. SWDM, 42, LOOKING FOR S/DWF W H O ENJOYS T H E OUTDOORS, life, and being held. What was the last movie that made a tear come to your eyes? 64840 I'M 5 7 " , 150 LBS, GOOD-LOOKING. I like to have fun. Movies, long drives, bike riding, lookouts and like kids, u: petite and same likes. 64841. YOUNG ATTRACTIVE M SEEKS OUTGOING ATHLETIC F. N/S preferred. Likes all outdoor sports and likes quiet evenings at home. Looking for nice-looking, fit F. 64842. I LIKE QUIET NIGHTS W I T H FRIENDS. SPM, 31, loves the outdoors and many sports like rollerblading and biking. I'm ISO a SWF, ND, 25-30 who has similar interest in sports. 64843. SPM 26 ISO SPF FOR FRIENDSHIP, fun times, trips, caring, sharing, possibly more. Would like someone who would like to take trips on weekends to secluded locations & citys. 64844.

W O M E N SEEKING W O M E N ECCENTRIC EXPLORER. College student likes movies at home, fun outdoors, writing and wild imaginations. Looking for patient, non-judgmental person with sense of humor. Prefers 19-25. 64896.

MEN SEEKING MEN BTOALECDSEEKSSAMEfor friendship maybe more. 26, brown hair and eyes, likes anything spontaneous! 64892 GWM, 35, 5'10", 140 #, GREEN, BROWN, HIV - 3/96, passive, horses , gardening, acoustic music, alternative energy, homesteading, nudity. Seeks fidelity - conscious, trim woodsman. Woodchucks welcome. 64866 GWM, 43, PROFESSIONAL, 5'9", 160. Does anyone believe in monogamy anymore? Looking for soul mate to share life (25-45). Interests vary: movies, outdoors, travel. All answered. 64876. GWM, 38, ENJOYS JUST ABOUT ANYTHING. Looking for a sincere, honest man to share my life with, 19-45. 64534 PROFESSIONAL GWM, 27, TALL, SLIM N/S, attractive and adventurous seeking straight-acting, discreet guy under 30 for friendship and more. 64667 VERY CURIOUS WM, 6'3", 225/65, brown hair & eyes and have been straight' all my life. Looking for W M to fulfill my fantasy. 64753 ATTRACTIVE, MASCULINE, goodhumored, professional male, 55, 5 1 1 , 170 lbs., central Vermont. Enjoys nature, gardening, music, good food. Seeking

intelligent, fun-loving sensitive male. 64759 GWM, 19, brown hair, blue eyes, 57", 140 #, looking-for another 19-40, for fun times. 64763 __ GWM? RETIRED. Looking for a sincere live-in companion. 64785 __ GM PISCES, 38, 5" 10", 180, looking for a compatible spirit. In search of a partner in workouts and walks, culture and cause, long talks and quiet moments, friendship and touch. 64801. TRANSVESTITE Beautiful, stunning, sexy, aggressive, slender Goddess seeks a gentle gentleman. Creme de la creme and diamonds. A fantasy from heaven. Friendly, caring, and wonderful. 64812 MASCULINE 6'2", 225 Tbs, 37, Itallian WM seeking another 25-45 for discreet fun. Crossdresser a plus. 64839 BlWM, SHY, BONNY, CURIOUS, 5'11", 145 #s, brown/blue, young at 36 years, active &C healthy. Seeking younge, thin, cute guy who likes the outdoors, new music, movies, travel, adventure. Sense of humor &C gentle nature a plus. Realism required. No fooling. 64854. VERY BAD BOY, 46 seeks badder dad. Call me please, sir! 64856.

I SPY I SPIED A BUFF JET SKIER at the Colchester access. I d like to rev your jets. 64910 PLANT LOVING-OCEAN LOVING MAN FROM 1ST SEASONS. Thanks for land loving fun in Denver. Bon Voyage! Be safe and sound. I hope you sink!

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OUR SEINFELD/IMUS They're men if they can't do it. Perhaps I can with women 37 + from writer warrior with love + lust. Box 042. SINCERE, SPIRITED NS/NA 30YO SWM; homeowner, advocate, writer, photographer w/no kids (yet) and no STD's seeks passionate, caring woman for friend-

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TEACHER, COACH, N / S N D P W M , handsome, sensuous, athletic, honest, fun(ny), secure, morals (little crazy/naughty), country home, camp, 5'9", kidless. Wanted: similar woman, thirties (approx.), photo exchange. Box 022. ADVENTURE, PASSION, EXCITEM E N T Looking for a lady to share these with. No commitments. Privacy assured and expected. DWM.42, 180. Come on, write. Box 024. ROBINS SING BETTER T H A N I. Looking for woman by and by. Seeking 39 plus sparks and storys from writer. Entrepreneur. Could be glory? Box 025ANARCHIST ARTIST 45+ with one exquisite dress antl nice teapot sought by subversive SWM for probing the woof and weave of longing thread by thread. Box 037. PEONIES BLOOMING, ROSES SWELLING, IRIS DROOPED. Time to get out of chicken coop. Seeking 39 + lass full of sass from poet? Writer fire. Box 036.

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