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Rural Route
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First person: Mike Mulhern
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Party pix: The Stowe scene
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Trail journal: Sterling Forest
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Stowe people: Stowe bike patrol
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Cool things: Pedal power
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Born & raised: Callagy Ross
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Trail journal: 3 days, 3 summits
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Fish story: Small streams
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History lesson: Chester Arthur
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Made in Vermont: Stowe Basketry Festival
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On exhibit: Master class
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Found in Vermont: Shopping list
Contributors
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From the editor
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Goings on
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Rural route
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Getting outdoors
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Outdoor primer Golfing • Biking • Paddle sports On the mountain • Recreation Path
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Galleries, arts, & entertainment Helen Day Art Center • Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center • Guides to exhibits, music, and mixed media
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Edibles: Local food & bar scene
GETTING AROUND
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GETTING OUTDOORS
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SHOPPING & GALLERIES
138
RESTAURANTS & LODGING
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REAL ESTATE & LIFESTYLE
226
BUSINESSES & SERVICES
Frank Mason
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ON OUR COVER
essentials 8
FROM LEFT: KENT SHAW; GLENN CALLAHAN; COURTESY PHOTO
departments
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Stowe Performing Arts
Our cover this summer is “Cloudy Afternoon,” an original oil on canvas, 21"x25", by New Zealand artist Mark Thomas. This stunning view of Mount Mansfield perfectly displays Thomas’s ambition that “people feel his paintings, that viewers see his art with their spiritual eyes.” He conveys emotion on canvas through color, form, and texture. Despite his father’s desire for him to pursue a career in carpentry, Thomas’s talent manifested itself at an early age—he sold his first painting at age 15, over 40 years ago. “I did go to art school for about two hours. I was sitting there, in the lecture with the class, and I felt a buzzing up my trousers, so I ripped them off, in front of everyone, and a bee flew out. I ran out the room and never went back in ... I’d had enough of sitting and talking about art anyway, I just wanted to go do it,” Thomas once told an interviewer. Inspired early on by impressionist painters such as Pissarro, Renoir, and Monet, Thomas “visualizes a lifetime of painting in this medium, capturing on canvas the play of light on the everchanging landscape.” While mostly inspired by nature around his home in the Wakatipu Basin, and the South Island lakes region of New Zealand, Thomas loves to travel and captures the beauty of the world around him, no matter the locale. See Thomas’s work at Robert Paul Galleries in Stowe.