Woodstock Magazine - Winter 2019

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WINTER 2019–2020

Fun for All Ages at ArtisTree Holiday Wine Picks Quilt Artist Susan Damone Balch

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52 36 A Joyful Experience Epic Skiing at Park City, Utah 44 52 A Thread Runs Through It

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by Katy Savage

ArtisTree invites the community to be creative.

by Lisa Ballard

Lots for lovers of snow—and history—to enjoy.

by Stephen D’Agostino

From quilting to fly-fishing and back, Susan Damone Balch has turned her passions into art.

Cover photo: Dreamstime.com by Famveldman

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CONTENTS

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In Every Issue

Departments

13 Editor’s Note 14 Contributors 16 Online Exclusives &

18 Everyday Essentials

72 Happenings 79 Advertisers Index 80 Last Glance

Business Directory

Tips for healthy living.

22 Around & About

by Cassie Horner

28 Season’s Best

Make a holiday wreath.

30 Wine Watch

by Corey Burdick

A toast to the holidays.

63 Seasonal Foods

by Susan Nye

Sunday night supper.

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67 Bright Ideas

by Mary Gow

Innovative housing solutions.

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Shop, Stay & Play In & Around Quechee This Winter

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Unique Shopping, Dining & Services In & Around Woodstock

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E D I TO R ’ S N OT E

JACK ROWELL

Festive Is Fantastic The pages of our calendars keep turning too quickly, and before we know it, winter is here again. Ski resorts are open, shoppers are selecting gifts, and bakers are mixing up batches of Christmas cookies. There’s so much to do, so head outdoors for a day on the slopes, bring out the wrappings and tags, and mix up the cookie batter. It’s holiday time!

When you’re ready to decorate, tap into your creative side by making our pine wreath (page 28). It will add beauty and fragrance to any room in your home, and friends are sure to be impressed by your skills. Misting with water every day will help keep it fresh.

Add to the celebratory atmosphere by dropping in to see Clay Hillgrove at Woodstock Beverage (page 30). Whether you prefer reds, whites, or sparkling wines, Clay is sharing his favorite holiday picks. We’re also highlighting exquisite wine accessories from Simon Pearce. Here’s to you!

Susan Nye is cooking up some delicious winter recipes in her article “Sunday Night Supper,” so gather the family around the table and savor the food—and each other’s company (page 63).

After the holidays, chase away boredom by taking a few art classes at ArtisTree (page 36). All ages are welcome, so check the schedule and consider participating in one of their family classes.

In this issue, we’re happy to report on the progress being made by Woodstock Trust, an organization working to make affordable homes available to local families. Read about their first success story and future ones beginning on page 67.

Be festive! Bring out grandmother’s fine china, polish the silver, and dress up in silk and satin. Deck the halls, sing your favorite carols, and bring loved ones near. The staff and I wish you and your family a blessed holiday season. Enjoy!

Deborah Thompson Executive Editor dthompson@mountainviewpublishing.com

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A full-time freelance writer and photographer, Lisa is the author of 10 books, including Ski Faster! Guide to Ski Racing and High-Performance Skiing, Hiking the White Mountains, and Hiking the Green Mountains. When she’s not skiing or hiking, she covers other types of outdoor recreation, travel, and conservation topics for more than 25 magazines.

Lisa Ballard

Corey is a writer who has spent the past 10 years pursuing her passion for all things food and wine. She is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College who has worked as a fine wine account manager and received her WSET Level 2 certification from the Vermont Wine School. When she isn’t writing or cooking up something delicious with locally sourced foods, you can find her vintage treasure hunting or roller skating.

Corey Burdick

Stephen D’Agostino

Stephen is a freelance writer living in Reading, Vermont.

Though he specializes in marketing writing and brand promotion, he loves writing about people, especially artists.

His work has appeared in local publications in Boston and New York City, museum catalogs, Night Sky magazine, and weekly in the Vermont Standard. He’s always writing a novel and is working with an agent to get his first book published.

When he’s not writing, he’s knitting, gardening, baking, or struggling with his ukulele.

Mary holds the middle place in a family with three generations of women writers. Best known for her awardwinning history of science books for middle school students, she is also a regular contributor to regional magazines. She lives in Warren, Vermont.

Mary Gow

Katy is an award-winning reporter and freelance writer for both print and digital publications. She’s a lifelong Vermonter who enjoys all things outdoors, from running and hiking to cross-country skiing and snowboarding. She loves finding interesting people and places to write about.

Katy Savage

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E V E RY DAY E S S E N T I A L S Tips for Healthy Living

Reading to Kids Helps Them Thrive

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esearch shows that reading to kids encourages their cognitive development, improves language skills and academic performance, and aids in healthy emotional development.

Even babies benefit from being read to, and the benefits continue throughout childhood. If you’re seeking quality reading time with your toddler, choose a printed book over a tablet. A new study finds that parents and kids have a better shared experience when they’re reading a book together than when they read with an e-reader. In the study, parents and toddlers talked more when reading printed books and were more likely to hold and turn the pages together, while toddlers presented with a tablet focused more on swiping the screen and didn’t pay as much attention to the story or the parent reading to them.

In addition to reading for at least 20 minutes a day at home, take your three- to five-year-old to Preschool Story Time at Norman Williams Public Library every Tuesday from 10:30 to 11:30am. Each session features three thematically related stories and a tie-in craft or activity. It’s fun and engaging for children and parents alike!

Cold, Flu, or Allergy?

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f you’re sneezing and your throat is sore, determining whether you have a cold, the flu, or an allergy can be difficult. While all three conditions affect the upper respiratory system and can cause congestion, a sore throat, sneezing, and a cough, the flu’s symptoms are unique. These can include a high fever, headache, fatigue, and body aches. On the other hand, if you’re experiencing itchy, watery eyes along with congestion and a sore throat, then allergies are the likely cause, and symptoms will last only as long as you’re exposed to the trigger. If you have upper respiratory symptoms only, then it’s probably a cold.

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Enjoy a Winter Wonderland on Snowshoes

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f you’re looking for a challenging—and fun—workout this winter, bundle up and head to the Woodstock Inn & Resort’s Nordic Center to rent some snowshoes and poles. Snowshoeing is an excellent cardiovascular workout that tests your strength, agility, balance, and endurance. Best of all, you can go at your own pace, making it fun for beginners, experts, and everyone in between. In addition to renting equipment, the Woodstock Inn & Resort can arrange expert-led tours, group team-building exercises, and family-friendly adventures.

Visit woodstockinn.com for more information.

Did You Know?

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moking, caffeine, sugar, spicy foods, alcohol, and stress are common triggers for hot flashes during menopause. If you’re experiencing menopause or perimenopause, avoiding these may help relieve hot flashes naturally.

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Feeling Queasy?

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o you feel sick to your stomach after eating? Feelings of nausea after you eat may be linked to problems in the gastrointestinal tract or a neurological or hormonal issue, according to the Cleveland Clinic. Other possible causes could be: • Diabetes or gallbladder disease • Medication • A stomach bug or food poisoning • Overeating.

If you often feel ill after eating, it’s time to make a doctor’s appointment.

And be sure to tell your doctor about your health history.

Keep Cholesterol in Check

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fter indulging in big, rich, holiday meals, cholesterol levels tend to go through the roof. In one study, cholesterol levels spiked 20 percent from summer levels after the holidays among 25,000 people. Your risk of having high cholesterol increases sixfold after the holiday break.

High cholesterol is linked to a greater risk for heart attack and stroke. If your cholesterol is already high, be mindful of what you eat around the holidays. Drink lots of water—the more water you drink, the less you’re going to eat. Load up on veggies and enjoy meat, gravy, rich casseroles, and desserts (in other words, the really good stuff) in moderation. Finally, take a walk with your family after dinner and continue to stay active throughout the holiday season and beyond to support healthy cholesterol.

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A RO U N D & A B O U T

By Cassie Horner

Gingerbread House Ă la Dr. Seuss

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magine a beautiful gingerbread house, not the size fit for a tabletop but large enough to fill the corner of a room, with space enough for a person to walk into. This is the annual creation of the pastry team at the Woodstock Inn & Resort, displayed in the lobby for public enjoyment from December 3 or 4 into the first days of the New Year.

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Above: It takes a team! Last year’s gingerbread house was six feet tall, five feet long, and four feet wide. Photo by Jessica Notargiacomo.

Below: A baking sheet holds the shingles used for the roof and sides of the house. The team plans and creates a new look every year.

For the 2019 extravaganza, the theme is Dr. Seuss, a change from the more classic houses of past years. “We are four people working in the pastry department, and we have a conversation and make a decision together,” says head pastry chef Philippe Niez. “We start baking the shingles for the side and roof by the beginning of November and continue until we put it up.

The house is a wood structure built

by the inn’s carpenter. We stick the shingles onto the wood with a mixture of egg whites and powdered sugar. We use extra spices so people can smell the ginger and cinnamon. It smells like Christmas.”

To make enough gingerbread to transform the house that is five feet long by four feet wide and six feet tall calls for a lot of ingredients. Chef Niez shares the list: 150 pounds of flour, 2 pounds of

baking powder, 1 pound of salt, 6 pounds of cinnamon, 6 pounds of ginger, 40 pounds of shortening, 51 pounds of molasses, a lot of eggs, and 15 pounds of candy for the trimming.

Add a visit to this magical creation to your holiday list. “It is fun to create, especially when you do it as a team,” says Chef Niez. “It is great to see your vision that you had the month before coming to life.”

“It is fun to create, especially when you do it as a team. It is great to see your vision that you had the month before coming to life.”

— Philippe Niez, head pastry chef

Above: A carpenter works to assemble the frame.

Left: Maya Hayes, pastry assistant, adds finishing touches.

Below: Shingles are added to the frame.

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Billings Farm Partners with Norwich Creamery

Billings Farm & Museum in Woodstock has a long history with its Jersey dairy cows. Raised on a grass-fed and supplemental grain diet, the herd is one of the finest in the country, with a history of excellence spanning nearly 150 years. Late in 2018, the naturally high in butterfat milk from Billings Farm became the source for a line of products produced by Norwich Creamery on Turnpike Road in Norwich, Vermont. Items include creamline and chocolate milk, yogurt, fresh ricotta cheese, ice cream, and rice pudding made with Vermont rice. “We make everyday dairy products with extraordinary milk, which is why we got together with Billings Farm,� says Chris Gray, co-owner of Norwich Creamery with his

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Opposite: Billings Farm’s famous Jersey cows graze on fresh summer pasture.

Above: Cheese maker Chris Gray gently stirs the curds as he makes Norwich Creamery’s Basket Ricotta cheese.

“A grass-fed diet enhances the flavor and nutritional value of the milk.”

— Chris Gray, Norwich Creamery

wife Laura Brown. “We moved to Norwich for the opportunity of doing something different. We have a state of the art facility in a great location.”

David Simmons, executive director at Billings Farm & Museum, says, “We are proud and delighted to partner with Norwich Creamery to bring to market a spectacular array of high-quality artisanal dairy products.”

The Norwich Creamery team brings about 15 years of working in cheese and dairy in Vermont. “We were looking for Jersey milk from grass-fed cows when I met Chuck Deome, farm manager at Billings Farm,” says Chris. “The cows are beautiful and so well cared for. A grass-fed diet enhances the flavor and nutritional value of the milk.”

Chris hauls the raw milk weekly from the bulk tank at Billings Farm to the creamery where he processes it. The milk is pasteurized but not homogenized. The butterfat content is not changed. “Jersey milk is naturally high in butterfat and protein,” he says. “The milk is rich and delicious.” It is served at the Woodstock Inn & Resort.

The milk and some other products are

available at Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock Farmers’ Market, Mac’s Woodstock Market, Abracadabra Coffee (Woodstock), the Coop Food Stores, King Arthur Flour, and Dan & Whit’s in Norwich. Ice cream is available only at the Norwich Creamery farm store.

“People say our milk tastes just like milk used to taste,” says Chris. “We try to keep things simple for the best flavor and health benefit.”

Small pints, big flavor: Norwich Creamery’s Creamline Milk.

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Trees and Seeds

Above: Mkanda villagers, together with the Malawi team, walk to plant fruit trees in a fertile area.

Clockwise from below left: Kelly Jackson, wearing the Trees and Seeds shirt, shares a picture with her new friends in Chilinza village. In Chipampha village, team leader Keri Bristow helps dig a hole for tree planting. Back in the village, boys enjoy posing for a picture. Photos by Kelly Jackson.

Kelly Jackson, a tenth grader at Woodstock Union High School, loves to travel and to work with kids. Last summer she had the opportunity to do both as part of a trip to Malawi in East Africa. The group visited four villages and two orphanages.

“I really want to go back,” Kelly says.

“It was such an amazing experience going into villages and seeing how people have so little compared to us but are so happy and welcome us with open arms.”

Harder to experience was her time in the orphanage holding children and hearing their stories. Many were abandoned, dropped by the side of the road. The group also spent time planting trees in a country stricken by drought, where existing trees are often used for firewood.

The trip was organized by the local nonprofit Trees and Seeds, whose motto is “cultivating hearts and soil.” It was founded partly as a result of WUHS horticulture teacher John Hier’s expressed

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desire to join the Peace Corps when he retired. “My wife said, ‘Why not start a nonprofit to give people short-term opportunities to be involved?’” he recalls.

With Spanish teacher Keri Bristow (now retired from WUHS) handling the education piece and John the horticulture piece, the structure for Trees and Seeds fell into place. “We will keep the organization small and not try to compete with larger agencies,” Keri explains.

They have lots of experience over many years leading school trips to places such as Peru and Senegal, where a key part of the itinerary was working on a humanitarian project such as building a school.

“Students work on something very important in the long view,” John says.

In planning the 2019 trip to Malawi, John traveled there first to meet with local leaders. Challenges in that country include growing three crops (corn, beans, and one other) to rotate so it will be possible to grow three crops a year

to increase the food supply. Another challenge is working to develop alternative fuel sources to wood such as cornstalks and bamboo formed into fuel pellets. His students are working on inventions to grind cornstalks down for fuel.

“The success of the trip laid the groundwork for this next trip,” John says. “There will be more focus on deforestation and the big picture. We try to model for the villages the strategy of not cutting trees because of erosion issues and the need for shade.” The group’s plan includes building a greenhouse for the villagers to grow trees.

Each village has a population of about 800 to 1,000 and is headed by a tribal chief. It is like stepping back in time with no electricity, one well per village, grass huts, and a community latrine.

“It is a very traditional society in the village. We don’t want to change them but want to show some options,” says Keri. “The tribal language is Chichewa.

Some English is taught, and it is the language of the country, but children have to go to school to learn it. Our group is accompanied by college students from Malawi who speak English.

“Malawi is very safe, very beautiful, and people value friendship,” Keri says. “The country’s motto is ‘the warm heart of Africa.’ Our experience bore that out. One of the things I hope to work on is the empowerment of women in conversation to see how we can help. Children are their treasure.”

Trees and Seeds is planning a second trip to Malawi on July 6 to 25, 2020.

There will be 23 slots and four chaperones. The trips will be multiage. The application form can be found on the website, treesandseeds.org, Instagram, and Facebook. There is a payment plan option, and also a waiting list.

Part of the cost of the trip is making a donation to help purchase trees and supplies. For more information, visit treesandseeds.org.

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Make a Holiday Wreath It’s easy and fun!

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elcome friends and family to your home this season with a beautiful handmade wreath. Hiking through the woods and gathering your own materials makes the project even more special, but if that’s not possible, purchase a wreath form at a garden center or craft store, along with a spool of green wire. Add fragrant greens, pine cones, sprigs of red berries—anything you want—and enjoy your lovely creation.

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Gather materials: a wreath form, fresh pine and other greens, pine cones (tie a piece of wire around the bottom for attaching to the form), small ornaments, and wheat or dried flowers.

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Select pieces of pine so that there are five or six tips per bunch. Begin placing bunches of pine on the form, wrapping wire around the stems three or four times. Pull it tight. Do not cut the wire.

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Place the next bunch of pine on the form so that the tips cover the stem ends of the first piece. Wrap with wire. As you work your way around the form, stick sprigs of berries and other materials between the bunches of pine, also securing them in the wire as you continue wrapping all the way around.

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Finish by cutting the wire, leaving a couple of inches for tying. Tie it off by twisting several times around a nearby area of wire. Hang with a loop of wire at the top or use a wreath hanger.

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A Toastto the Holidays

Celebrate with wines from Woodstock Beverage

By Corey Burdick

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he holiday season has arrived once again. As the list of party and familygathering invitations mounts, it can become stressful to choose just the right gift to bring to festivities or to offer your guests if you’re hosting.

Luckily, Woodstock Beverage has you covered with their vast and ever-evolving wine selection.

This year, the wine recommendations come from new owner Clay Hillgrove, who took over from longtime (20 years) owner Mike McCarthy on June 24, 2019. Clay’s background spans the gamut from farming to managing an estate to bartending and buying for the Quechee Club, where he implemented the first in the state private wine locker program.

Clay has been working at Woodstock Beverage for three years and reports that his new role is going “very well! New customers and old are happy with the new energy. We have been expanding the wine and beer selections and have installed a new sound system for music to enhance everyone’s shopping experience. Staff members are all being trained in our products, and we sell no wine or beer unless we have tasted it and have personal knowledge.” With that in mind, here are Clay’s top picks.

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For the white wine lovers out there, the options are truly limitless. Whether a bone-dry pinot grigio is your preference or branching out into the realm of blends and natural wines is more to your taste, the options abound. For a solid blend, Clay recommends the Famille Perrin Réserve Côtes du Rhône Blanc ($9.99), which has been using organic and biodynamic practices dating back to 1700! This white is a blend of Grenache blanc, marsanne, roussanne, and viognier. The result is a flavorful dance of honeysuckle along the palate.

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Elegant Holiday Gifts from Simon Pearce

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imon Pearce in Quechee is a cornerstone of the village. In the workshop, glassblowing demonstrations awe onlookers, and the dining room views are stunning throughout the seasons. A walk around the building showcases gorgeous, glass-hewn creations. Whether dropping in to shop for an enhancement to one’s own wine accessories or searching for a gift for the oenophile in your life, Simon Pearce’s Vintner Collection has you covered.

According to James Murray, senior vice president of design and development at Simon Pearce, “All of Simon Pearce’s wine and barware pieces are designed to be beautiful, yes, but more than that, they are intended to be used every day. A lot of thought goes into making sure that all drinking vessels feel good in the hand, that carafes and decanters do their job of aerating their contents, that chilled beverages can be served cold and stay cold.

In the case of the Vintner series, we took this a step further, interviewing winemakers and wine lovers alike about what they looked for in a wine glass and what was missing in the market.”

Get ready to be inspired by this outstanding collection.

Simon Pearce 1760 Quechee Main Street Quechee, VT (802) 295-2711 simonpearce.com

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1. The Vintner Red Wine Glass and White Wine Glass ($75) The Simon Pearce design team consulted Napa Valley winemakers to ensure the line would work for serious wine tasters. With a silhouette that’s a modern take on the classic goblet, the glasses were designed specifically to enhance the tasting experience. Glassblowers use a pulled-stem technique, which results in a thinner, more lightweight stem and bowl.

of movement—not unlike the rushing rivers of Glen Falls in its namesake town of Waterbury, Vermont.

3. Alpine Wine Chiller ($95)

2. The Waterbury Carafe ($165)

Designed to fit any standard wine bottle, this smooth Carelian soapstone chiller goes from freezer to table to keep whites and rosés cool. Handmade by stonecutters, this ancient material, two billion years old, was used to build fireplaces because of its superior insulation properties. Today, it is a brilliant addition to your table.

Featuring an optic layered effect that occurs during the glassblowing process, this double-gathered design has an artistic overlapped effect with the feeling

Frozen in winter, flowing in summer, the Echo Lake Collection is inspired by the

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4. Echo Lake Wine Coaster ($95)

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Feeling overwhelmed by the prospect of holiday entertaining or wine gift giving? Clay recommends keeping things simple. “Just because a champagne costs over 100 dollars doesn’t make it the best,” he says.

constantly changing rivers, streams, and waterways of Vermont. In a bold interpretation of the craft, master glassblowers nimbly wrap fine strands of glass around the bottom third of a cylindrical silhouette to form the unique, natural texture of this wine coaster.

5. Woodbury Cocktail Carafe ($130) A Simon Pearce signature, contemporary angles and brilliant flat panes are the cornerstones of Woodbury’s DNA. This slim carafe was created to align with the simplicity of its sister silhouettes. Perfect for drinks for two or as an angular vessel for flowers or fronds.

Into single varietals? Head to the Pacific Northwest for a wine like the Illahe Pinot Gris ($16.99). Family owned and made with grapes that are handpicked and delivered by horse-drawn carriage to the winery, quality is guaranteed.

The wine itself has Granny Smith apple notes and flavors of creamy almond butter thanks to its aging in neutral oak.

For chardonnay lovers, check out Charles Smith, a well-known name in Washington for his innovative wines with unique names and bold label imagery.

The Smith SIXTO Uncovered Chardonnay ($34.99) is no exception to his great lineup of regular offerings. This mediumbodied chardonnay is surprisingly light on the oak, given the 18 months it spends in barrels. This will be a surprise to those who have eschewed chardonnay in the past and may even convert them.

Kermit Lynch. Need I say more? If you have experienced any of the wines under this wine merchant’s label, you know they always impress. The Domaine de la Prébende Beaujolais ($19.99) delights at first sip. The minerality of this Beaujolais is exquisite due to its grapes’ origins in

clay and limestone soils. In addition, the grapes are harvested manually, the wine is not filtered, and only natural yeasts are used in fermentation, making this white a true expression of the region.

REDS

Cooler weather and simmering stews might have you reaching for the reds.

Whether a lighter pinot noir or a big bold cabernet is your style, Clay has you covered. The Cantina Zaccagnini ($19.99), with 12.5 percent alcohol, from the Abruzzo region of Italy is his pick for those who want the robust dark fruit and oak notes without the “forest floor” characteristics that can be off-putting to some.

Continuing with the theme of lighterstyle reds, pinot noir can be a great choice. When one considers New Zealand wines in particular, sauvignon blanc often comes to mind, with its telltale bright grapefruit aromas and flavors, but the pinot noirs from this region are equally memorable. The Kim Crawford Pinot Noir ($18.99) out of Marlborough with its dark cherry with

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W I N E WATC H oak undertones shines aside wild mushroom risotto.

For fans of the heartier wines, the Ridge Estate Cabernet represents quintessential California dry, full-bodied, oaked red. Another option is the Round Pond Estate Cabernet ($102.99).

Clay notes, “With neighbors in Rutherford like Caymus, Frog’s Leap, and Cakebread, you know this wine is going to be gorgeous! Characterized by its flavors of blackberries and plums, this wine has limited production.”

FESTIVE SPARKLERS

Finally, if your plans include special celebrations like an anniversary or a festive party to ring in the New Year, you can’t go wrong with Zardetto Prosecco ($13.99) or La Marca Prosecco ($16.99 for 750 ml, $33.99 for 1.5 liter, or $16.99 for a 187 ml three-pack). These Italian sparklers are slightly sweet and bring the bubbles at a price point ideal for larger gatherings. However, if you’re looking for a true champagne, the Moet & Chandon Nectar Imperial ($63.99) is a great choice. It has fine bubbles with ripe apricot and honey flavors, and when guests enter your home, greeting them with a glass guarantees hosting accolades for years to come.

Feeling overwhelmed by the prospect of holiday entertaining or wine gift giving? Clay recommends keeping things simple. “Just because a champagne costs over 100 dollars doesn’t make it the best,” he says. Woodstock Beverage is open Monday through Saturday, 9am to 7pm, and Sunday 11:30am to 4pm for all your holiday needs. Cheers to the season!

Woodstock Beverage 512 East Woodstock Road Woodstock, VT (802) 457-1326

Online Extra Serve your guests delicious appetizers. Find recipes at www.woodstockmagazine.com.

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A Joyful

Experience ArtisTree invites the community to be creative

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s Jane Holloway walked through the door, her sevenyear-old son ran to her in excitement, carrying an armful of crafts he spent two hours creating one afternoon at ArtisTree. “Mom, look how many I made,” he said, showing Jane the Halloween mask, ghost, and balloons he made during Woodstock Elementary School’s after-school program at ArtisTree.

Left: A ceramic wreath from the holiday gift workshops.

Below: The ArtisTree Gallery and Barn located in beautiful South Pomfret, Vermont.

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Daisies from one of the adult watercolor classes.

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“I noticed there was no gathering place for new mothers,” says Kathleen, who was a new mom herself and new to Vermont at the time. “This [area] is so rural. Part of it was wanting to create a space where people with little kids could get to know each other.”

The Holloways, who live in Woodstock, frequently participate in ArtisTree’s art classes. Jane’s two-yearold daughter takes a music class Friday mornings, while the entire family takes clay classes and various workshops together. Jane says walking into ArtisTree is like walking into a family. “They all know the kids’ names—the kids feel welcome,” she says.

ArtisTree, a nonprofit arts center, began in Woodstock in 2003 before it grew and moved to Pomfret in 2013. It’s become a hub in the center of this small town of 900 where all art forms merge, and all ages, from newborns to the elderly, are invited to participate.

BRINGING PEOPLE TOGETHER

Workshops and classes constantly change, ranging from cooking to painting and paper crafts, sewing, dancing, music, theater, and woodworking. Classes take place in a renovated dairy barn that dates back to the 1800s. Here, children shout and laugh during an acrobatics class in what was the former hayloft next door to the music room, while adults throw clay in a room on the floor below.

Top: Joan Hoffman teaches an adult painting class.

Above: Ceramic creations come to life in the homeschool clay program.

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Clockwise from top: Ceramics Director Fiona Davis leads a holiday gift workshop creating ceramic wreaths. Toddlers are encouraged to use fingers, tools, toys, shells, and more to make shapes and patterns. After-school enrichment classes are offered throughout the school year.

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The founder, Kathleen Dolan, started the facility as a way to get to know other people. “I noticed there was no gathering place for new mothers,” says Kathleen, who was a new mom herself and new to Vermont at the time. “This [area] is so rural. Part of it was wanting to create a space where people with little kids could get to know each other.”

Back then it was called Purple Crayon and was an art and music center for children. Kathleen changed the name to ArtisTree in 2008 to attract older kids and adults. In 2013, ArtisTree moved to its current location in Pomfret and has since quickly

expanded. ArtisTree bought the former Grange Hall across the street in 2015 and renovated it into a theater.

“Theater has a way of taking all the art forms and bringing them together into one,” Kathleen states.

In addition to teaching art and music classes at ArtisTree, Kathleen is a licensed clinical mental health counselor (LCMHC) offering counseling services with a focus on children and the arts in her private practice. She believes in the arts’ ability to heal as well as inspire. “It’s a mode of expression that taps into places in our hearts and minds that everyday life doesn’t necessarily tap into,” she says.

OFFERING A SENSE OF BELONGING

Arts have always been part of Kathleen’s life. As a young adult, she spent 10 years traveling to different schools in Boston and teaching art classes.

She then moved to New York City and spent four years working on a television show that facilitated learning through storytelling and music. Kathleen decided to move to Vermont to raise a family after attending summer adult art camps in Johnson.

The Annual Music Theatre Festival presents three professional musicals each year at the Grange Theatre. Collen Doyle, Ken Prymus, and Scott Moreau from The Fantasticks.

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ArtisTree is enjoyed by families, children, and various organizations, including the Thompson Senior Center and Zack’s Place. Participants from Zack’s Place, the enrichment center for people with disabilities in Woodstock, take ceramics classes and music classes with ArtisTree every week. Zack’s Place Executive Director Dail Frates says the arts offer participants a sense of belonging. “They love the sense of accomplishment and the feeling that they’ve done something that’s important,” Dail says.

Various performers and teachers in the community also use ArtisTree for lessons and rehearsals. “It’s used regularly for so many different things,” Kathleen says. “The way it’s become integrated into the community is probably what I’m most proud of.”

As soon as Kathleen finished teaching an art class one evening, she and art teacher Ben Fox scrambled to clean the room, wipe the tables free of glitter, and prepare for the next class. The Spectrum Teen Center was about to use the room for a monthly workshop called BRANCH OUT. “It’s having a place where people can try new techniques or see themselves as an artist because they took a class or they learned something,” Kathleen says. “I think that adds to the overall spirit of a community, and it rounds out a community.

There’s a light side to art—it’s outside our daily lives of survival and just making ends meet. It’s a diversion from that, which I think is healthy.”

ArtisTree Community Arts Center 2095 Pomfret Road South Pomfret, VT (802) 457-3500 artistreevt.org Holiday Gift Workshops for all ages and abilities will run from December 7-19.

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Shop, Stay, & Play In & Around Quechee this Winter

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Story and Photos by Lisa Ballard

Epic Skiing at Park City, Utah

Lots for lovers of snow – and history – to enjoy

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vernight, a foot of snow blanketed the Park City Mountain Resort. By morning, the storm drifted north, leaving the sky a stunning sapphire blue. One can’t be too early in the lift line on such a day, even in Utah, where powder and blue skies reign. It took about a half hour to get to the top of Jupiter Bowl, Park City’s highest point at 10,026 feet. A handful of other enthusiastic powder hounds had gotten there first, but there was still plenty of untracked snow on Main Bowl, our destination.

“No friends on a powder day!” shouted my friend, Edie, as she launched into the fluff. I followed, matching her turns a few feet to her right. The snow brushed my knees at the apex of each arc. It was featherlight. What a delight!

After a couple of dozen turns, Edie and I stopped to catch our breath. Was it the elevation or because we were laughing from the pleasure of the moment? “How do you like Park City?” asked Edie, who had moved from Vermont to Park City a few years earlier. “Epic!” I exclaimed.

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Clockwise from left: A skier enjoys a classic powder day at Park City Mountain Resort.

The Legacy Lodge at the base of the mountain near the PayDay high-speed lift.

A young snowboarder learns the basics.

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Where Can You Ski with an Epic Pass?

With Vail Resorts’ acquisition in September of Peak Resorts’ 17 ski areas, an Epic Pass is now good at 37 resorts this winter including the following in Vermont and New Hampshire: • Attitash, NH • Crotched Mountain, NH • Okemo, VT • Mount Snow, VT • Mount Sunapee, NH • Stowe, VT • Wildcat, NH

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Above: A first-time visitor gets a taste of "Epic" in more than one way.

Opposite, clockwise from top: Skiers come and go from the base area on a typical day.

A boy takes a break from skiing to try iceskating in the ski area's plaza. Two kids play crack-the-whip with a ski pole.

For expert skiers, some runs are indeed epic for the sheer joy of their steepness and deep snow. Main Bowl was one of them, a long, broad, double-black diamond. Standing at the top of it, the view of the Wasatch Mountains makes one pause in antic-

ipation of gravity’s pull. Then it’s all downhill, literally, left and right, turn after turn, grins and giggles.

EPIC WORDPLAY

In the early 2000s, my skiing friends and I had come to use the word “epic” to describe those moments of nirvana on the ski slopes, like Edie’s and my run down Main Bowl. It was universal mountain slang equivalent to “awesome” and similarly overused.

According to The Merriam-Webster Dictionary, the adjective “epic” means “of, or relating to, having the charac-

teristics of an epic poem,” the kind that usually involves heroic characters on a legendary adventure, such as Hector or Achilles in The Iliad and Odysseus in The Odyssey. By the time Edie and I made tracks at Park City, “epic” had clichéd to the point that it mainly meant “awesome.” Little did I know what “epic” would come to denote in another decade.

EPIC VAIL RESORTS

Nowadays, among skiers, “epic” has taken on a whole new significance as the branded name of a season’s pass

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Park City is as much for families as for powder hounds, as these two happy young skiers demonstrate.

Below: A skier gives a thumbs-up after a powder day at Park City.

Travel Planner (For more info: ParkCityMountain.com) • The Park City area draws more than 850,000 skiers each winter.

It’s a busy place. Arrive by 8am to get a convenient parking spot in Park City Mountain Resorts’ expansive parking lots.

• Bring layers for both mild and cold weather skiing. The daytime highs often hover comfortably in the 30s, but mornings can be cold.

• Not all the action is on the ski slopes. It’s fun to watch the ski jumpers and freestyle aerialists take to the air at nearby Utah Olympic Park. The main street of Park City is also a lively place, with hip restaurants, galleries, and boutiques.

• Compared to most ski resorts, Park City is easy to get to. Fly to Salt Lake City, then drive or take a shuttle just 35 minutes to the resort.

• Like many destination ski resorts, Park City is busy during holiday periods and over spring break. Avoid the Sundance Film Festival too, when half of Hollywood visits Utah, and there’s little hope of a seat in a restaurant. Late February (after Presidents’ Week) through early March typically has nice weather and good snow without as many people.

• No need to bring your skis. Reserve high-performance skis at any of the local ski shops and save on luggage fees.

• For less expensive lodging within 15 minutes of the ski slopes, look for condos through VRBO or Airbnb near Kendall Junction and Utah Olympic Park, which is closer to I-70 and convenient to the area’s larger grocery stores and shopping centers.

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Vail Resorts then connected Park City to The Canyons,

creating the largest ski resort in America with more than 7,000 skiable acres.

Online Extra Find more photos online at www.woodstockmagazine.com.

Skiers and snowboarders relax by the fire pits on the plaza at the base of the mountain.

issued by Vail Resorts. As Vail Resorts started adding other ski areas to its portfolio a dozen years ago, it introduced the Epic Pass, good at all of its resorts. For the last five years, Park City has been one of those resorts, the result of a corporate misstep.

When the news broke in September 2014, skiers across the nation were dumbfounded. There was a good chance that Park City Mountain Resort, one of Utah’s most popular

ski areas, a world-renowned destination, and a venue for some of the snowsports events during the 2002 Winter Olympics, might close, and its owner might sell its lifts. The reason had nothing to do with lack of profitability.

In 2011, Powdr Corporation, which owned the infrastructure but leased the land on which the ski lifts and trails were built, accidentally allowed its lease to lapse by a few days. In the interim, Vail Resorts offered to compensate the landowner, a Canadian company named Tal-

isker, $25 million per year, a huge increase over the $155,000 a year that Powdr paid. At the same time, Vail had taken over The Canyons, another ski resort just down the road. After a three-year court battle and in an effort to keep Park City viable, Powdr sold the ski area to Vail Resorts for $182.5 million. Vail Resorts then connected Park City to The Canyons, creating the largest ski resort in America with more than 7,000 skiable acres. Epic for the sheer size of it! And epic for the backstory of how it all happened!

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MORE EPIC TIMES

That powder day with Edie was not my only day at Park City Mountain Resort. I seem to end up there every few years. If there’s only blue skies and no new snow, I love to carve turns on the mountain’s manicured groomers like a World Cup racer warming up for a giant slalom. The odds are high a real World Cupper might pass me. Park City is the home of US Ski and Snowboard, the sports’ national governing body, and many top ski racers train there.

One time while skiing the groomed slopes, I noticed an odd, abandoned structure beside the trail, the entrance to an old mine shaft. Afterward, I began to notice these old mining ruins here and there around the mountain. “Park City is basically hollow,” explained the local who randomly got on a chairlift with me. “There are miles and miles of mine shafts under the ski area.”

Park City’s history as a mining town before it became a ski town intrigued me. In 1868, soldiers stationed in Salt Lake City discovered silver there. Two years later, when the railroad came through, hordes of prospectors flocked to Park City, including George Hearst, father of media tycoon William Randolph Hearst. The senior Hearst purchased the Ontario Mine for $30,000, and then made over $50 million from it before the silver ran out. Epic!

The first ski lift in the area was installed in 1946 at Snow Park, which is now Deer Valley, just as many of the mines were shutting down.

However, skiing was not yet an economic driver in the West. Through the 1950s, the town of Park City scraped by, nearly becoming a ghost town. Then, in 1963, relief came in the form of a loan from the Federal 5 0 F I N D WO O D S TO C K M AGA Z I N E AT W W W. WO O D S TO C K M AGA Z I N E . C O M

A snowboarder dives into deep, fresh snow.

“Park City is basically hollow,” explained the local who randomly got on a chairlift with me.

“There are miles and miles of mine shafts under the ski area.”

Area Redevelopment Agency. The money helped establish a new destination ski area, Treasure Mountain Resort, that would become Park City Mountain Resort.

Treasure Mountain opened with a gondola, a chairlift, and two J-bars.

Three years later, Sports Illustrated called Treasure’s PayDay trail one of the best in the country. It’s still one of the best for making graceful turns on snow the texture of corduroy.

I’ve skied PayDay since the 1970s, an era when skis towered over my head and were as skinny as my wrist. Last spring, I skied it on skis half as long and three times as wide.

Despite radically different gear and technique, PayDay’s perfect pitch makes me feel like a hero. Now that’s epic!

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Rising to a Fly. Photo by John Polak.

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Susan Damone Balch on her home river. Photo by Bill Cairns.

A Thread Runs Through It

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ast summer, Reading’s Susan Damone Balch was awarded a Juror’s Choice Award at the annual Billing’s Farm Quilt Exhibition for her entry In the Direction of Life. The art quilt depicts the movement of water downstream, an effect Susan created with a fabric shape of her own design that draws the viewer’s eye in one direction. Imposed atop are the forms of salmon made of black organza swimming against the current. The fish are moving in the direction of life to the place they were hatched so they can spawn and begin the process anew.

From quilting to fly-fishing and back, Susan Damone Balch has turned her passions into art

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Above: Trees.

Life has offered Susan many Right: Fins and Feathers. different directions. While she Below right: Apache Trout. experienced them, they may have Photo by John Polak. seemed like distributaries in a river. But they were actually more like detours, giving her the rare opportunity to meld two subjects she was passionate about into life-affirming works of art.

FIRST DIRECTION: QUILTING

When Susan was five, she learned to sew. By the time she was 19, she realized she wasn’t excited about making clothes. She bought a sewing machine anyway and a book about quilting.

Over the years, she taught herself this intricate art form. As she became more experienced, Susan strayed from patterns she had found and began to make quilts from designs she had created.

In 1983, five years into her quilting adventure, Susan had developed the courage to present her work to the Maple Leaf Quilters, a guild in Rutland. “I didn’t know how my quilts would compare to other people’s,” she says.

The answer, to her surprise, was quite well. Shortly after, she started showing quilts at the Vermont Quilt Festival. Over the years, she has twice won the Governor’s Award for the best quilt made by a Vermonter. A few years ago, she presented a retrospective of her work featuring 20 of her quilts, which hung in the lobby of the Champlain Exposition Center during the show.

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Kiss a Rainbow.

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Above: Orchid.

Left: Salmon River Maple. Photo by John Polak.

Below left: Susan in her studio.

SECOND DIRECTION: FLY-FISHING

Meanwhile, Susan’s husband John had a passion of his own, fly-fishing. In 1984, they vacationed on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia. There she watched John catch an Atlantic salmon, and the sight inspired her.

“I decided I wanted to learn how to flyfish,” she says, “so I could catch an Atlantic salmon.”

Fly-fishing, like quilting, is not easy to master. “It takes a lot of patience and practice,” Susan says. Like experimenting with different shapes and colors at the sewing machine, fly-fishing offers challenges and opportunities. “Every time you step into a river,” she says, “it’s different. The conditions are different, the water levels are different, the fish are different.”

Susan also notes another similarity between these two passions. For both, she says, “I knew I could do them for the rest of my life and not get sick of them.” At some point, her two passions merged as salmon, steelhead, and trout found their ways into her quilts.

Salmon River Maple exemplifies the painterly quality of her creations. It depicts a scene with fabric and thread the way an artist does with paint and a canvas. The top twothirds of the quilt show the titular tree at the water’s edge.

The bottom third shows the river with elusive fish blending

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In the Direction of Life.

into the background. Susan laughed when she explained that the quilt was an inside joke she shared with her husband. Often when they fished, he could see the trout in the water, and she could not. Viewing this quilt, their roles were reversed.

Susan’s reputation as a fly-fisher caught the attention of the folks at the Orvis shop in Manchester. A River Runs Through It, the beautiful film in which fly-fishing takes center stage, had recently been released, Susan explains, and the interest in the sport had skyrocketed.

Wanting to capitalize on this newfound popularity, Orvis expanded their lessons to include a class specifically for women, and they hired Susan to be an instructor.

Incidentally, the trips to Cape Breton Island turned into annual experiences.

In her fourth year of trying to meet her original goal, Susan caught her first Atlantic salmon.

THIRD DIRECTION: CASTING FOR RECOVERY

In 1996, Susan began volunteering at a nonprofit called Casting for Recovery, founded by Gwenn Perkins, a woman Susan knew from Orvis, and surgeon and breast cancer survivor Dr. Benita

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Walton. The organization, according to its website, provides “healing outdoor retreats for women with breast cancer.”

Not only is the physical activity good for women who have had surgery, but connecting with nature provides emotional benefits. Susan also notes, “When you are fly-fishing, you don’t think of anything else. It’s a good way to forget about all your problems.” These retreats became therapy for her as she fished with these women who were facing their mortality.

Casting for Recovery caught on, and in 2001, Susan took the full-time position of program director as well as continuing to lead tours in Vermont, other parts of the United States, and Canada.

Not surprisingly, she notes, she had much less time to devote to quilting.

FOURTH DIRECTION: ILLNESS

Seven years into the job, Susan began to reconsider her role at Casting for Recovery. “I thought it was time for someone else to take the organization to the next level.” Something else was also playing into her decision. Around the same time, she began to feel ill.

She also experienced an increase in anxiety, a feeling with which she was

not familiar. Her health over the next year and a half did not improve, and in 2009, she was diagnosed with Lyme disease. For the first time in 25 years, she and John did not return to Cape Breton Island.

In her time of illness, like the women with breast cancer she had met through Casting for Recovery, she needed something to take her mind off it. “Quilting was therapeutic to me,” she says. “I got back to my art.”

It was during her illness that she started working on a series of quilts she dubbed the “shadow fish series,” which led to In the Direction of Life.

“With Lyme disease, I wasn’t able to fish as much. I wasn’t able to quilt as much. For 25 years, we had gone up to Canada. I couldn’t do that anymore.”

This descriptor for her art seemed apt in her time of despair.

Though the journey has been long, after 10 years, she is finally beginning to feel like herself. She also started considering what to do next.

FUTURE DIRECTION

Susan joined the board of directors at the Fletcher Farm School for the Arts & Crafts in Ludlow in 2016 and became its chair in 2018. She recently left a part-time job and is now devoting all her time to the school and quilting. Susan is dabbling with the idea of putting her quilts in a gallery or selling them online, but she hasn’t found the right fit or figured out the technology.

Maybe it’s something she can ponder when she’s up to her elbows in fabrics or knee-deep in a river. That is, if she can let her mind go in a different direction.

For More Information To see more of Susan’s quilts, visit fishnquilt.com.

Susan teaches quilting at the Fletcher Farm School. To learn more or enroll in a class, visit fletcherfarm.org.

To learn more about Casting for Recovery, visit castingforrecovery.org.

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Unique Shopping, Dining, and Services

The Village Butcher

Biscuit Hill

FH Gillingham & Sons

18 Elm Street Woodstock, VT (802) 457-2756

512 East Woodstock Road Woodstock, VT (802) 457-4525 www.biscuithillpilates.com

16 Elm Street Woodstock, VT (802) 457-2100 www.gillinghams.com

Hours by appointment

Mon–Sat 8:30am–6:30pm Sun 10am–5pm

Clover Gift Shop

Deerbrook Inn

Fox Gallery

10 Elm Street Woodstock, VT (802) 457-2527 pj@clovergiftshop.com

4548 West Woodstock Road Woodstock, VT (802) 672-3713 www.deerbrookinn.com

5 The Green Woodstock, VT (802) 457-3944 www.thefoxgallery.com

Open daily

Open daily 10am–6pm

The Barnard Inn Restaurant & Max’s Tavern 5518 Vermont Route 12 Barnard, VT (802) 234-9961 www.barnardinn.com Tue–Sat 5–9pm

Open daily 11am–4pm or by appointment anytime

Mon Vert Cafe

506 On The River Inn

28 Central Street Woodstock, VT (802) 457-7143 monvertcafe.com

1653 West Woodstock Road Woodstock, VT (802) 457-5000 www.ontheriverwoodstock.com

Mon & Wed 7:30am–5:30pm Fri & Sat 7:30am–6:30pm Sun 8am–5:30pm

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In and Around Woodstock, Vermont

Collective–The Art of Craft

Cloudland Farm

Unicorn

47 Central Street Woodstock, VT (802) 457-1298 www.collective-theartofcraft.com

1101 Cloudland Road Woodstock, VT (802) 457-2599 www.cloudlandfarm.com

15 Central Street Woodstock, VT (802) 457-2480 www.unicornvt.com

Mon–Sat 10am–5pm Sun 11am–4pm

Farm to table dining Fri & Sat by reservation

Mon–Fri 9:30am–5:30pm Sat 9:30am–6pm Sun 10:30am–5pm

The Vermont Horse Country Store

The Blue Horse Inn

37 Central Clothiers

5331 South Road, Route 106 South Woodstock, VT 20 Central Street Woodstock Village, Vermont (802) 457-HORS (4677) TheStore@vthorseco.com www.vermonthorsecountry.com Open year-round

3 Church Street Woodstock, VT (802) 457-9999

37 Central Street Woodstock, VT 43 South Main Street Hanover, NH @37centralclothiers @37central_hanover

NT Ferro Jewelers

Teago

Red Wagon Toy Co.

11 Central Street Woodstock, VT (802) 457-1901 www.ferrojewelers.com

2035 Pomfret Road Pomfret, VT (802) 457-1626

41 Central Street Woodstock, VT (802) 457-9300 www.redwagontoy.com @redwagontoyco

Mon–Sat 10am–5pm Sun 11am–4pm

Mon–Sat 7am–6pm Sun 8am–4pm

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Winter Fun Around Woodstock, Vermont!

The Village Inn of Woodstock

Woodstock Hops N’ Barley

The Prince and The Pauper

41 Pleasant Street Woodstock, VT (802) 457-1255 www.villageinnofwoodstock.com

446 Woodstock Road Woodstock, VT (802) 457-2472 www.woodstockhopsnbarley.com

24 Elm Street Woodstock, VT (802) 457-1818 www.princeandpauper.com

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Open daily

Cocktails in the Tavern at 5pm Dinner served 7 nights a week starting at 5:30pm

Union Arena

Gallery on the Green

Pizza Chef

80 Amsden Way Woodstock, VT (802) 457-2500 www.unionarena.org On Facebook @unionarenacc

1 The Green Woodstock, VT (802) 457-4956 www.galleryonthegreen.com

Route 4 Woodstock, VT (802) 457-1444

Frameworks Studio of Woodstock 63 Pleasant Street Barn Woodstock, VT (802) 356-5235 Tue–Fri 10am–4pm Sat 10am–noon or by appointment anytime

Mon–Fri 11am–5pm Sat 10am–5pm Sun 11am–4pm

Sun–Thu 11am–9pm Fri & Sat 11am–10pm

Sleep Woodstock Motel

The Yankee Bookshop

Woodstock’s Budget-Friendly Motel 4324 West Woodstock Road Woodstock, VT (802) 332-6336 reservations@sleepwoodstock.com www.sleepwoodstock.com

12 Central Street Woodstock, VT (802) 457-2411 www.yankeebookshop.com @yankeebookshop

Just 8 minutes from Downtown Woodstock

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SEASONAL FOODS

Sunday Night Supper

By Susan Nye

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Three One-Dish Sunday Suppers

Take time to pause, regroup, and relax with family and friends

eople of a certain age remember Sunday dinner. Right after church, it was when family and, more often than not, extended family gathered in the dining room for a special meal. Women and girls wore their best dresses and men and boys donned ties. A roast of some sort graced the table along with two vegetables and potatoes of some variety or another. The leftovers were good for another meal or two.

Slowly but surely, Sunday dinner went from a weekly to a monthly to a holiday affair. How did it happen? In summer, sailing got in the way or softball, tennis, or whatever sport your family played. In the winter, it was skiing, snowshoeing, or basketball. Then of course, there was studying for exams and all sorts of school activities; they put a damper on family time as did conference calls and business trips. More than anything, a lifestyle that combined busy and casual got in the way of many families’ sit-down meals.

Perfect for a cold winter night, these cozy dishes take their inspiration from the country kitchens of France and the shores of the Mediterranean Sea.

Fish Stew Provençal Mediterranean Braised Chicken Pot Roast Bourguignon

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Fish Stew Provençal Ser v e s 8 Olive oil 2–3 shallots, finely chopped 2 carrots, finely chopped 3 stalks celery, finely chopped 1–2 leeks (white and pale green parts only), finely chopped 1 large fennel bulb, thinly sliced

It’s time to bring them back. Not the stuffy, too-tight shoes and collar Sunday dinner—we’ve come too far to go back to that. No, it’s time for a more relaxed gathering—a Sunday night supper that will give you plenty of time for skiing and snowshoeing or homework. Some, if not all, of the preparations can be done in advance.

One-dish stews and braises are perfect for a cold winter night. Add a salad and some leftover Christmas cookies or a batch of brownies. You’ll have a meal fit for the remarkable people you are.

This winter, once a week or once a month, connect with family around the table. Of course, not all families are together under one roof or in one town or even close by. That’s okay, bring friends together. If they aren’t already, before you know it, they’ll be like family.

1½ tsp Herbes de Provence ½ tsp or to taste crushed red pepper flakes Sea salt and freshly ground pepper to taste 3 cloves garlic, minced 1 Tbsp anchovy paste 2–3 cups each fish and chicken stock 1 (14 oz) can crushed tomatoes 1 cup dry white wine Grated zest of 1 orange 1 bay leaf 3 lb skinless cod fillets, cut into 2-inch chunks

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Lightly coat a soup kettle with olive oil and heat over medium. Add the shallots, carrots, celery, leeks, and fennel. Season with the herbs, red pepper flakes, salt, and pepper, and sauté until the shallot is translucent. Add the garlic and anchovy paste and cook for 2 to 3 minutes more.

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Add the stock, crushed tomatoes, wine, orange zest, and bay leaf and bring to a simmer. Reduce the heat to low, cover, and simmer for about 30 minutes.

Best if made ahead to this point. Cool, cover, and refrigerate overnight. Bring to a simmer and continue with the recipe.

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Increase the heat to medium-high and bring to a rapid simmer, add the fish, and simmer until opaque and cooked through, about 5 minutes.

Ladle the stew into bowls and serve.

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Mediterranean Braised Chicken Serves 8 8 skin-on, bone-in chicken thighs Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper to taste Olive oil 1 large onion, finely chopped 2 carrots, finely chopped 2 Tbsp or to taste harissa 2 tsp cumin 1 tsp coriander 1 tsp cinnamon 4 cloves garlic, minced 1 cup or more dry white wine 2 (28 oz) cans crushed tomatoes 1 cup or more chicken stock or broth 1 bay leaf 2 tsp chopped fresh oregano 2–3 sprigs fresh thyme 2 cups Israeli couscous

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Preheat the oven to 375°. Season the chicken with salt and pepper.

Heat a little oil in a large, heavy skillet over medium-high heat. Starting skinside down, sear the chicken for about 2 minutes per side. Transfer to a roasting pan or large casserole and reserve.

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Add the onion, carrot, and harissa to the skillet. Sprinkle with the spices and season with salt and pepper. Sauté until the onion is translucent, add the garlic, and sauté 2 to 3 minutes more.

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Add the wine and simmer until reduced by half. Stir in the crushed tomatoes, stock, and herbs and bring to a simmer. Pour the sauce over and around the chicken.

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Bake uncovered for 15 minutes.

Reduce the oven temperature to 350° and continue cooking, adding more wine and broth if necessary, until the chicken is tender, 45 to 60 minutes.

This dish can be made a day or two ahead. Reheat in a 350° oven until the sauce is bubbling and the chicken is piping hot.

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Prepare the couscous according to package directions.

Serve the chicken with a spoonful of couscous and pass the sauce.

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1

Preheat the oven to 350°. Cook the bacon in a heavy casserole over medium heat until crisp and brown. Remove the bacon and reserve.

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Season the beef with salt and pepper, and brown on all sides in the bacon fat over medium-high heat. Add the beef to the reserved bacon.

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Reduce heat to medium. Drain any excess fat from the pan, leaving just enough to lightly coat.

Add the onion, carrot, and celery.

Season with paprika, salt, and pepper, and sauté until the onion is translucent. Add the garlic and sauté 1 to 2 minutes more.

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Stir the mustard and tomatoes into the vegetables. Slowly add 2 cups each wine and chicken stock, stirring to combine. Add the herbs, return the beef and bacon to the pot, and bring to a simmer over mediumhigh heat.

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Cover the pot and transfer to the oven. Cook at 350°, turning the roast 2 or 3 times, for an hour.

Pot Roast Bourguignon Serves 8 4 oz slab or thick-cut bacon, roughly chopped 3 lb chuck roast Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper 1 onion, finely chopped 4 carrots, finely chopped 4 stalks celery, finely chopped ½ tsp smoked paprika 4 cloves garlic, minced 1 Tbsp Dijon mustard 2 cups crushed tomatoes 2–3 sprigs fresh thyme 2 tsp fresh rosemary, finely chopped 1 bay leaf

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Sauté the mushrooms in a little olive oil over medium-high heat until lightly browned. Add the mushrooms and pearl onions to the pot roast and, adding more wine and/or broth if necessary, continue cooking, covered, until beef is very tender, about an hour more.

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Remove the beef from the casserole and let rest on a cutting board for 10 to 15 minutes. Stir the vinegar into the vegetables and sauce. Cut the beef across the grain in thick slices and serve with generous spoonfuls of vegetables and sauce.

This dish can be made a day or two ahead. Bring to a simmer on top of the stove, and then transfer to a 350° oven and cook until the beef is warmed through.

2–3 cups dry red wine 2–3 cups chicken stock 1½ lb mushrooms, trimmed and sliced Olive oil 1 lb fresh or frozen pearl onions 2 Tbsp balsamic vinegar

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Online Extra Find delicious dessert recipes at www.woodstockmagazine.com.

BRIGHT IDEAS

By Mary Gow

Innovative Housing Solutions Woodstock Community Trust makes owning a home more attainable “It was like something from The Andy Griffith Show. It was the week after we moved in. All the neighbors were there. They had tables set up and they had food. They had Vermont cheese!” says Jennifer Rivers about the housewarming party that greeted her family to Maple Street last August. “I recognized the last name of one woman, and it turns out she is the wife of my seventh-grade teacher in Reading.”

Michael Pearsall, Jennifer’s husband, adds, “We learned about the history of the house. We learned about the mechanics of the house from the guy who did most of the repairs. It was all so helpful. We were over the moon.” Jennifer sums up their enthusiasm: “We feel so fortunate to be here, so close to everything and with other people raising their kids.”

The first Woodstock house sold through the Woodstock Community Trust.

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BRIGHT IDEAS

Top: Jennifer, Michael, and their son Owen on the front porch of their house.

Above: Jill Davies, trustee of the Woodstock Community Trust.

Right: Woodstock Community Trust’s newest project on Rose Hill Road.

On that summer day, Jennifer, Michael, and their nine-year-old son Owen began forming friendships and bonds in the community where they expect to live, work, shop, and be involved for many years to come.

A “ONE HOUSE AT A TIME” INITIATIVE

Jennifer and Michael are the first homeowners in a new Woodstock Community Trust program that was designed to strengthen Woodstock by making housing more accessible for moderate income

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year-round residents. This “one house at a time” initiative is intended to sustainably preserve some of Woodstock’s primary housing stock and make homes available at attainable prices to qualifying people living in the community full time.

“Woodstock is a lovely place to visit and live, and that charm and appeal contribute to our housing challenges, a situation that occurs in many places that attract second-home buyers and investment property owners,” says Jill Davies, a Woodstock Community Trust board member who has had a key role in launching the program.

To better understand the local situation, in 2018, the Woodstock Housing Study was commissioned by the Town and Village of Woodstock and the Woodstock Economic Development Commission. Released in December 2018, the study includes extensive data about housing inventory and financial and household characteristics, offering a detailed profile of recent trends and current housing in the town and surrounding area. It also identifies issues including the high demand but very low supply of moderately priced housing, defined as $375,000 to $450,000, and that the growth trend of second-home ownership results in a decrease in primaryhome ownership.

THE SHARED-EQUITY MODEL

After reviewing the data and trends, Jill and others agreed it was time to re-energize the Woodstock Community Trust, a nonprofit organization founded in 1997. The reactivated group looked to other communities with similar issues and innovative solutions—Martha’s Vineyard among them. They felt some urgency. At present, about 59 percent of Woodstock’s homes are vacation and rental properties occupied half the year or less, and the average cost of a house is $595,000.

The Trust decided to take a houseby-house approach, envisioning the program as one piece of a larger mosaic. Their goal is for homes in the $200,000 to $350,000 price range to be available to qualified middle income full-time residents. The target is

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The home on Rose Hill Road will be converted to a duplex.

“Housing is a very big issue here.

The Woodstock Community Trust isn’t going to solve the whole issue, but we’re going to improve it one house at a time.”

— Jill Davies, Woodstock Community Trust board member to add two homes in or very close to the village each year. Their solution, with financial support from donors and partnering with the Twin Pines Housing Trust, is to create shared-equity homes, a widely used model.

“What we’re saying to the homeowner is, this is your home, live in it for as long as you like. When you sell it, you get back all the capital that you’ve put into it, and you get a share of any appreciation. The homeowner gets 25 percent of the appreciation, and the rest stays in the house. What we’re trying to create is a permanently reasonably priced home,” explains Jill.

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BUILDING AN ENDURING COMMUNITY

Jill describes the Trust’s three-step approach—invest, refresh, and fund.

“We invest in homes that already exist here. Then we take each home and refresh it; we repair anything that needs to be repaired. We enhance it in terms of energy efficiency. We concentrate on making the monthly housing cost affordable. The third part is to assist with the mortgage down payment.”

Jennifer and Michael’s timing and circumstances were a great fit for this inaugural property. Jennifer lived in Reading, Vermont, when she was young.

The couple has been living in Pennsylvania for over a decade, returning to Vermont often. Since Owen was born, they have been hoping to move back to her childhood area and have been looking for the right home.

“We wanted to be within a mile of a village so we could walk to school and shopping. We wanted to be in a neighborhood so he could go outside and play with other kids,” she says.

Jennifer’s career with her holistic healing business and Michael’s as a training manager with an insurance company afforded them the flexibility to relocate. Not only was the Maple Street house a match; the sharedequity structure appealed to them in making the property available at a reasonable monthly cost and with its focus on sustainability.

As they have settled in, the Trust has already moved ahead with its next project, a duplex with two-bedroom apartments. Repairs and energy-efficiency upgrades are scheduled; the two homes will be for sale as condominiums in 2020. The Trust has criteria for qualifying and prioritizing potential homeowners. Among homeowner qualifications, potential owners must plan to live in Woodstock as full-time residents (11-plus months each year), have an annual household income of $150,000 or less, and be approved for mortgage financing.

Preference is given to buyers who live in the Hartland, Quechee, or Woodstock school districts; employees and business owners in Woodstock; buyers with children who attend or will attend Woodstock public schools; and to buyers with higher credit scores and lower income.

“Housing is a very big issue here.

The Woodstock Community Trust isn’t going to solve the whole issue, but we’re going to improve it one house at a time,” says Jill.

Woodstock Community Trust woodstockcommunitytrust.com

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HAPPENINGS

Winter 2019/2020

DECEMBER | JANUARY | FEBRUARY

December 7–8, 21–January 1 (except Christmas day)

Christmas at the Farm Billings Farm & Museum, 10am–4pm BILLINGSFARM.ORG

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35th Annual Wassail Weekend Woodstock Chamber of Commerce WWW.WOODSTOCKVT.COM

December 13 Artisan Market Location pending! 10am–5pm Fri & Sat; 10am–4pm Sun

Wassail Celebration Feast

A Holiday Tale by Peter Mendes Norman Williams Public Library, 4pm

Woodstock Inn & Resort, 5–9pm

Eugene Friesen & Elizabeth Rogers

The Whiffenpoofs

North Chapel, 7:30pm

Town Hall Theatre, 7:30pm

Còig

December 14

Town Hall Theatre, 8pm

Breakfast with Santa Little Theatre, 8–11am

December 15 Cookies with Santa & The Grinch

18th Annual Holiday House Tour

Town Hall Theatre, 3pm

Start at Town Hall Theatre, 9:30am–2pm

Community Messiah Sing Our Lady of the Snows Roman Catholic Church, 4pm

Tour & Refreshments St. James Church, 10am–12pm

Woodstock Wassail Holiday Fair Masonic Lodge, 10am–4pm Sat; 10am–2pm Sun

Wassail Café Green, 11am–3pm

Ham Gillett Reads A Child’s Christmas in Wales Norman Williams Public Library, 12 & 1pm

35th Annual Wassail Parade Starts at the Green, 2pm

Yule Log & Memory Tree Lighting Green, 3pm

Ten-A Cappella First Congregational Church, 3pm

Wren Song Performance Norman Williams Public Library, 3pm

Lighting of the Luminaries Green, 4pm

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HAPPENINGS December 3 Recite!

Norman Williams Public Library, 5:30pm NORMANWILLIAMS.ORG

December 8 Creative Holiday Cards

December 5, January 2, February 6 Juvenile Book Club

ArtisTree, 2:30pm

Norman Williams Public Library, 3pm

ARTISTREEVT.ORG

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December 7–8 Freelance Family Singers Holiday Concerts Free; donations of items for the Community Food Shelf suggested.

First Congregational Church of Woodstock, 7pm Sat; 3pm Sun

December 5, 12, January 2, 9, February 6, 13 Pages Club

December 7 Woodstock Vermont Film Series: The Biggest Little Farm

Norman Williams Public Library, 3:45pm

Billings Farm & Museum, 3 & 5:30pm

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December 6, January 17, February 28 Branch Out: Creative Events for ALL Teens!

ArtisTree, 6pm ARTISTREEVT.ORG

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December 9, 16 Handmade Pottery Trays ArtisTree, 6pm ARTISTREEVT.ORG

Pentangle Council on the Arts

December 14 Còig Holiday Concert

31 The Green, Woodstock, VT (802) 457-3981

Town Hall Theatre, 8pm

WWW.PENTANGLEARTS.ORG

December 13 The Whiffenpoofs Town Hall Theatre, 7:30–9pm

December 14 18th Annual Holiday House Tour 9:30am–2pm

December 17 Virunga Town Hall Theatre, 6pm

December 15 Cookies with Santa and The Grinch Movie

January 23 Warriors Town Hall Theatre, 12pm

Town Hall Theatre, 2pm

December 15 Community Messiah Sing

February 8 Mister Chris and Friends Town Hall Theatre, 11am

Our Lady of the Snows Roman Catholic Church, 4pm

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HAPPENINGS December 6 Timeless Ephemera Jewelry

December 12 Culinary Kids

ArtisTree, 6pm

Norman Williams Public Library, 3:15pm

ARTISTREEVT.ORG

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December 13–15 Wassail Weekend Billings Farm & Museum, 10am–4pm

December 10 Luxurious Handmade Soaps

BILLINGSFARM.ORG

ArtisTree, 6:30pm ARTISTREEVT.ORG

December 11 Needle-Felted Christmas Trees ArtisTree, 9am

December 12 Birds & Bees & Birch Trees: Fiber Art Ornaments ArtisTree, 9am ARTISTREEVT.ORG

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December 11, 18 Holiday Woodblock Printing

December 12, January 9, February 13 YA Book Club

December 14 Explosion Books

ArtisTree, 6:30pm

Norman Williams Public Library, 3pm

ArtisTree, 1pm

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December 15 The Grinch The Grange Theatre, 3pm ARTISTREEVT.ORG

December 17 Silver Clay Workshop ArtisTree, 6pm ARTISTREEVT.ORG

December 18 Vermont Symphony Orchestra The Grange Theatre, 7:30pm ARTISTREEVT.ORG

December 19 Wooden Star Carving

December 21 Woodstock Vermont Film Series: A Tuba to Cuba

ArtisTree, 9am

Billings Farm & Museum, 3 & 5:30pm

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BILLINGSFARM.ORG

January 18 Woodstock Vermont Film Series: Honeyland Billings Farm & Museum, 3 & 5:30pm BILLINGSFARM.ORG

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HAPPENINGS December 28 Woodstock Vermont Film Series: Maiden

January 11 Woodstock Vermont Film Series: Monrovia, Indiana

Billings Farm & Museum, 3 & 5:30pm

Billings Farm & Museum, 3 & 5:30pm

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January 4–5, 18–20, 25–27 January Weekends Billings Farm & Museum, 10am–4pm BILLINGSFARM.ORG

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January 14, February 11 What’s on Your Nightstand? The Not-a-Book-Club Book Club Norman Williams Public Library, 10am NORMANWILLIAMS.ORG

February 22 Woodstock Vermont Film Series: Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am Billings Farm & Museum, 3 & 5:30pm BILLINGSFARM.ORG

January 25 Woodstock Vermont Film Series: David Crosby: Remember My Name Billings Farm & Museum, 3 & 5:30pm BILLINGSFARM.ORG

February 1, 8–9 February Weekends Billings Farm & Museum, 10am–4pm BILLINGSFARM.ORG

February 8 Woodstock Vermont Film Series: The Dog Doc Billings Farm & Museum, 3 & 5:30pm BILLINGSFARM.ORG

February 15–29 Vacation Weeks Billings Farm & Museum, 10am–4pm BILLINGSFARM.ORG

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ADVERTISERS INDEX 37 Central Clothiers................................................. 61 506 on the River Inn................................................ 60 APD Lifecare/The Woodlands................................. 19 Andrew Pearce Bowls.....................................43 & 51 Anichini...................................................................... 6 Antiques Collaborative........................................... 43 Artifactory............................................................... 43 ArtisTree................................................................... 27 Billings Farm & Museum......................................... 14 Biscuit Hill Pilates.................................................... 60 Brown Furniture...................................................... 15 Carolyn Egeli Fine Art............................................... 9 Carpet King & Tile................................................... 71 Cloudland Farm....................................................... 61 Clover Gift Shop..............................................39 & 60 Collective—The Art of Craft................................... 61 Crown Point............................................................... 4 Crown Point Select.................................................. 35 DHMC Dermatology.................................................. 7 Deerbrook Inn......................................................... 60 Elevation Clothing................................................... 20 Ennis Construction..........................Inside back cover F.H. Gillingham & Sons............................................ 60 First Impressions Salon & Spa................................. 50 Fox Gallery............................................................... 60 Frameworks Studio of Woodstock......................... 62 G.R. Porter & Sons................................................... 78 Gallery on the Green............................................... 62 GeoBarns.................................................... Back cover Gilberte Interiors....................................................... 5

Hull Maynard Hersey Insurance.............................. 13 Jackson House Inn................................................... 69 Jake’s Quechee Market........................................... 43 Jancewicz & Son...................................................... 21 Jeff Wilmot Painting............................................... 59 KW Real Estate........................................................ 42 Kedron Valley Inn.................................................... 75 Kendal at Hanover.................................................. 34 Kimball Union Academy......................................... 77 Little Istanbul........................................................... 27 Mertens House........................................................ 71 Mon Vert Café......................................................... 60 N.T. Ferro Estate & Custom Jewelers..............59 & 61 Perfect Fur Salon..................................................... 43 Piecemeal Pies......................................................... 78 Pizza Chef ............................................................... 62 Quality Inn............................................................... 43 Quechee Home, Porch & Closet.............................. 43 Radiant Wellness..................................................... 43 Rain or Shine Tent and Events................................ 65 Ramunto’s Brick & Brew Pizza................................ 74 Red Wagon Toy Co.................................................. 61 Silver Lake Getaway................................................ 34 Sleep Woodstock Motel.......................................... 62 Snyder Donegan Real Estate Group........................Inside front cover Splendid Chaos........................................................ 69 Squechee Clean ...................................................... 12 Teago General Store............................................... 61 Terrigenous Landscape........................................... 17

The Barnard Inn Restaurant & Max’s Tavern......... 60 The Blue Horse Inn.................................................. 61 The Braeside Lodging............................................. 66 The Carriage Shed..................................................... 2 The Daily Catch........................................................ 65 The Gilded Edge...................................................... 66 The Lincoln Inn.......................................................... 3 The Prince and The Pauper..................................... 62 The Public House..................................................... 70 The Quechee Club..................................................... 1 The Quechee Inn at Marshland Farm..................... 51 The Vermont Horse Country Store......................... 61 The Vermont Spot................................................... 43 The Village Butcher................................................. 60 The Village Inn of Woodstock................................ 62 The Village at White River Junction....................... 11 The Williamson Group............................................ 50 The Yankee Bookshop............................................ 62 Tuckerbox................................................................ 76 Unicorn.................................................................... 61 Union Arena............................................................ 62 Upper Valley Haven................................................ 71 VINS.......................................................................... 73 WISE......................................................................... 58 Woodstock Chamber of Commerce....................... 17 Woodstock Farmers’ Market.................................. 12 Woodstock Hops N’ Barley..................................... 62 Woodstock Beverage.............................................. 19 Woodstock Inn/Suicide Six...................................... 42

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LAST GLANCE

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball. — Doug Larson

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