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June 26, 2010
Ham radio enthusiasts will tune into Orwell this week By Lou Varricchio newmarketpress@denpubs.com
Marcus Nutting and son Nathan, in costume, relive Vermont’s colonial history at last year’s Battle of Hubbardton event. This year’s event includes an exciting reenactment of the 1777 battle, Vermont’s only Revolutionary War engagement. Photo courtesy of Alan Wulff
Battle reenactment attracts patriots, buffs and Brits Reenactment starts at 7:30 a.m. By Lou Varricchio newmarketpress@denpubs.com Every July since the 1970s, the Battle of Hubbardton living history weekend has been a fun, educational event for the entire family. It provides an ideal opportunity to learn about Vermont in the colonial era as well as the personal sacrifices involved in America’s first War of Independence. Last year, hundreds of locals and tourists visited the Hubbardton Battlefield, some coming from as far away as Great Britain. This year ’s event will welcome several members of the British Society of Colonial Wars, a London-based group that visits U.S. historic sites connected with the French and Indian War, the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, also known as America’s Second War of Independence. This year ’s Battle of Hubbardton event will be on Saturday and Sunday, July 10 and 11, and the public is invited to enjoy a full schedule of exciting living history and entertainment. The event honors the battle that waged July 7, 1777.
See REENACTMENT, page 11
ORWELL—When I was a kid growing up in the suburbs of southeastern Pennsylvania, my family’s neighbor, Mr. Crownover, was the hippest adult residing in our cluster of ranch houses; the house was a menagerie of Populux gadgets and gizmos. He was the living, breathing embodiment of Popular Mechanics magazine—at least to my younger self during that far away summer of 1963. Sadly, Mr. Crownover, a hardworking electrical contractor and union man, passed away in April 2000. But I’ll always remember him for his passion for the gewgaws that made living in suburbia so cool during the early 1960s. Mr. Crownover, or simply ‘Glen’—he dispensed with formalities and encouraged us to call him by his first name—loved the neighborhood kids. He engaged us with projects and special events: restoring junk VW and MG autos in his garage, helping assemble a twin-lens reflex camera kit, watching an eclipse of the Sun through welder ’s goggles, gazing at Saturn’s rings through a homebuilt 12-inch reflecting telescope, and listening to jazz records in the basement played via the latest in ‘60s home gadgetry—a homebuilt stereo hi-fi system. Glen owned and operated his own ham radio station, too; his operation included a futuristic-looking radio transmitter, a microphone, headphones, and a tall, official looking backyard antenna. This was how Glen and his wife Nancy—and the surviving neighbors, I suppose—would have communicated with the outside world had an enemy atomic bomb demolished our little corner of a Pleasant Valley Sunday. (Glen started, but never completed, a basement fallout shelter—the ultimate 1960s do-it-yourself projects.)
See HAM RADIO, page 12
Ham radio operators Teresa Dall and John Cavanaugh, work on turning the crank to raise an amateur radio tower near the Canadian border. You can learn more about getting into ham and starting your own radio station this weekend at Mt. Independence in Orwell. Photo courtesy of Paul M. Walsh
Sewer work to delay downtown traffic VSO and fireworks, July 1 By Lou Varricchio newmarketpress@denpubs.com MIDDLEBURY—Starting this week, realignment of the intersection of South and Main streets and replacement of a nearby underground sewer component, in downtown Middlebury will cause traffic delays. The work is being done in preparation for the roadway approaches to the new Cross Street Bridge across Otter Creek. The one-way traffic pattern, now established on College Street, Academy Street and south Main Street, will remain in effect into July and possibly early August.
MIDDLEBURY—The Sheldon Museum invites you to celebrate the Fourth of July a little early this year with a VSO Pops Concert, “The Birds and the Bees,” and fabulous fireworks on Thursday, July 1. The concert will take place on the grounds behind the Mahaney Center for the Arts at Middlebury College (rain site: Kenyon Arena). The grounds open at 5:30 for picnicking. Concert begins at 7:30. Bring A picnic basket, lawn chairs and blankets. Ticket prices: Adult $25, Youth $10; children under 12 admitted free. Tickets may be purchased by calling the museum at 388-2117.
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