Stowe Guide & Magazine Summer/Fall 2014

SUMMER / FALL

G U I

2014

D E

COMPLIMENTARY

&

M A G A Z I

N

E

A TOWN RALLIES FOR CHRISTOPHER faces of community theater stowe’s office dogs remembering hick pickett’s phoenix rises

DINING • LODGING • SHOPPING • GALLERIES • OUTDOORS • HOMES • INTERIORS

2

Seldom Scene Interiors

Wendy Valliere – Principal Designer All Aspects of Interior Design STOWE

BOSTON

2038 Mountain Road, Stowe 05672 www.seldomsceneinteriors.com

802.253.3770

CONTENTS s u m m e r

/

f a l l

2 0 1 4

features

72

It takes a village

by Robert Kiener

Christopher Grimes always looked after others, so it’s no wonder that when he was diagnosed with cancer his town embraced him and his family right back. With lots and lots of hugs, and so much more.

78

Behind the curtain

by Jasmine Bigelow

Things go right, things go wrong. It’s community theater. For the past 20 years and countless Stowe Theatre Guild productions, things mostly go really well. Meet eight of the guild’s key players... it’s a snap to see why.

88

The exit of eccentricity: Henry Hastings

by Nancy Wolfe Stead

For longtimers, the name Henry Hastings either stirs fear or fandom.

He could be magnetic and inventive or iconoclastic and angry, but there’s one thing everyone can agree upon—Henry was never dull.

94

Stowe artifacts: Tangible links to the past

by Robert Kiener

A hair wreath, a jack jumper, Civil War artifacts. A whatchamacallit?

History can lie flat on the page, but often roars to life when historical artifacts join the conversation. A whatchamacallit?

78

Art of book binding

128

180 4

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: GLENN CALLAHAN; FLASHES OF HOPE; SAWYER SUTTON, JIM WESTPHALEN; KATE CARTER

by Kate Carter

Robin Collins restores antique movable and pop-up books of the last two centuries. You know the kind, with delicate, movable flaps, pull-tabs, pop-outs, and other hidden mechanisms. Robin is one of the best. And, she lives right here in Stowe.

162

Phoenix rising: Dynamic duo back on Stowe restaurant scene

by Marialisa Calta

Ten Acres Lodge. Blue Moon Cafe. Frida’s Taqueria & Grill. A stellar resume, sure, but Jack Pickett’s most impressive culinary coup was his visionary insistence on using fresh, seasonal produce, local meats, fresh pasta, the whole localvore thing—way back in the 1970s. In Vermont!

180

Working like a dog

by Kate Carter

The Dog. The one that gets to go to work every day. Or what’s more accurately called One Very Lucky Human.

192

Pool house: Playground for the Naiades

by Nancy Wolfe Stead

Harmony. Minimalism. Balance. Artful elegance. Stowe pool house.

CONTENTS /

f a l l

2 0 1 4

EXCEPT WHERE NOTED: GLENN CALLAHAN

s u m m e r

departments

28

Rural Route

14 53 54 56 60 62 66 68 110 118 126 140

Vermont voices: So, you want a cow?

Trail journal: Kimmer’s & the Haul Star power: Trickster Joe Kirkwood First Person: SUP, dude?

Sweet spot: Duffers catch some air Stowe people: Joanna Graves’ JoMotion Vermont fly sampler: Smallmouth bass Yacht races: My, she was yar Gallery tour: Jeffersonville village History lesson: Richmond’s round church Road trip: Vermont’s Irish settlements

Stowe Yacht Races

Edibles: Local food scene

ON OUR COVER

essentials 8 12 18 28

Rural route

53

Outdoors

Contributors From the editor Goings on

Four Seasons In Stowe—Summer, oil on canvas, 24" by 30", was painted by former Vermont artist Frank Larson.

Larson was a successful graphic illustrator with some of America’s largest corporations, including General Foods Corporation, Gillette, International Paper, and the Museum of Modern Art, but a trip to the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vt., in the 1980s changed his life, he told American Artist magazine. He soon abandoned corporate American and moved to Vermont “to follow his dream and paint the light.”

In the mountains • Golf • Biking Paddle sports • Hiking

100

Galleries, arts, & entertainment Helen Day Art Center • Stowe Performing Arts • Guides to music, exhibits, and theater

140

What to eat & where to stay Dining out guide, p.176

“Many elements must come together for a painting to work. It must be spontaneous and have the feel of the moment,” says Larson, who always works en plein air. “I don’t like to take a painting back to the studio; once I begin working there, it looks labored and loses its immediacy and naturalness.

GETTING AROUND GETTING OUTDOORS SHOPPING & GALLERIES RESTAURANTS & LODGING REAL ESTATE & LIFESTYLE BUSINESSES & SERVICES INDEX TO ADVERTISERS

120

Spruce Peak Peforming Arts Center 6

COURTESY PHOTO

53 100 140 177 210 224

68

“I paint in bold strokes, trying to get down as much information as I can before putting in a lot of detail. I concentrate on my impressions of the changing light, working all over the canvas to keep the painting unified. ... If I can say something with one stroke, I’ve accomplished my goal.”

Larson now lives in Provincetown, Mass. His work can be seen at Robert Paul Galleries in Stowe.

WHAT’S NEW AT STOWE GEMS!

STOWE GEMS Named Best of Vermont Vermont Magazine February 1998

T

he hottest trend in today's jewelry world is artisan-made handcrafted jewelry! That’s what we, here at Stowe Gems, have been making for the last 30+ years. Much of our jewelry is handmade right here, on site, by our skilled craftspeople. We also cut many of the gems we use in our jewelry.

When you give the gift of jewelry, you want it to have a human connection. Handcrafting allows each piece to be unique, with attention to detail being the foremost consideration. Jewelry that is made by hand is considered by jewelers to be the ultimate expression of the jeweler's art. Most jewelry that is available today is more or less mass produced, with computer design and manufacture increasingly more common. With that degree of separation the human factor can be lost. Most people feel a direct connection to their favorite jewelry, and hand-crafting reinforces that connection. Our skilled bench jewelers produce unique jewels, whose design and execution will stand the test of time. Design has two main ideas: style and fashion. Fashion comes and goes, but style is forever.

Cutting our own gems affords Stowe Gems the ability of bringing to market an array of gemstones not commonly available elsewhere. Rare rough material mined many years ago is one of our specialties. We learned when an exciting new gem strike is located, the time to buy is then and there, no waiting. Currently the strike of new precious opal from Ethiopia is astounding. While most opal producing areas yield one or two types of gems, Ethiopian opal has shown that all types of opal can come from one country. Beautiful flashing crystal, jelly, white multicolor, harlequin and honeycomb all come from there. It is like having the best of Australia, Brazil and Mexico all in one place.

Another trend in the world today is being green! Stowe Gems has always recycled gold and silver to make new jewelry. We have recycled our packing materials for over 25 years! We have low voltage lights on a remote control, so that when the store has no clients about, we turn off the case lights to conserve electricity. Even something as simple as tiny plastic bags are sorted and reused whenever possible.

Connecting with our customers is very important, and to that end our newly revamped website, stowegems.com, has gotten raves from our fans. It features monthly specials and a 50 percent off sale page that you will want to check out, plus the latest Stowe Gems news.

Don't forget to follow us at our new Facebook page!

Gems 70 Pond St., Stowe

(802) 253-7000 www.stowegems.com

CONTRIBUTORS KATE CARTER IN THIS ISSUE: The Art of Bookbinding, p.128, and Stowe Dogs, p.180.

Behind-the-Scenes: When interviewing popup book restorer Robin Collins, I couldn’t help but notice and admire her gorgeous fingernails. It soon became obvious that her nails are as important to her as a hammer is to a carpenter. I got the inside scoop on her favorite nail polish brand, OPI, and color, “Suzi Sells Sushi By The Seashore,” a lovely frosted lacquer in the coral family.

Most inspiring dog you met: Henry. He inspired the story about dogs in this issue. When I went to Keith Geissler for physical therapy, Henry was always there, a quiet and calming presence, sniffing my pockets for treats, which he usually found. It got me thinking about how lucky Henry is to be able to hang out with his person all day, which made me wonder how many other Stowe dogs are that fortunate. Turns out Stowe has quite a few businesses that just wouldn’t be the same without The Dog. Currently: Kate is a freelance writer and photographer, and when she’s not researching stories or sitting at her computer, she’s playing dog agility with her border collies, caring for gardens, hiking, or swimming in Waterbury Reservoir.

ROBERT KIENER IN THIS ISSUE: It Takes a Village, p.72, and Glimpses into Stowe’s Past, p.94.

Provenance: Cleveland, Ohio. After two decades working and living in Asia and Europe, Stowe has been home for the last 15 years.

Behind-the-Scenes: Listening to Kristin and C.J. Grimes explain how the Stowe community, both friends and strangers, supported their multi-year fight to save their son’s life is inspiring.

Their story is a poignant reminder of how this small town is quick to wrap its arms around someone in need.

Most memorable takeaway: In nearly every picture taken of Christopher Grimes while he fought cancer, he had a smile on his face. That’s all you need to know about both him and his family.

Currently: Kiener, who has been an editor and staff writer with Reader’s Digest in Asia and Europe, now writes for the magazine’s international editions and is a contributing writer for Washington, D.C.-based CQ Press.

NANCY WOLFE STEAD IN THIS ISSUE: Henry Hastings, p.88, and Stowe Pool House, p.192.

Behind-the-Scenes: Watching Henry Hastings in his years in Stowe was a great pastime. I loved it when he ruffled the feathers of the establishment. He could be really annoying or very funny: his information “kiosk” on the lawn of Ruth Bashaw’s house was the best. He had undeniably the best male legs in the state and flaunted them in the shortest shorts. He could be wonderful with kids: Kate Stackpole and Kelly Merwin used to dumpster dive and collect bottles with him when they were teens. Kate remembers he scared them so they dared each other to be nice to him, and they became friends. “There was nothing scary about him,” says Kate. “Even in his craziness he was a good guy, safe and parental.”

On Henry’s final act: Sadly, I remember his later days, when drink fueled his rage against authority and he could be very, very mean. He was so bright and so complicated. He was one of a kind, and his spirit at knocking the starch out of the good old boys was marvelous.

ROGER MURPHY IN THIS ISSUE: Kimmer’s & The Haul, p.53.

Behind-the-scenes: Definitely stop in the local shops and spend some time with the folks who make the biking scene thrive in Stowe. They have a ton of info about when and where to ride, and how to join Stowe Mountain Bike Club.

Favorite MTB trail: Between the reroutes and new trails on Cady Hill and the development of the Adams Camp network, Stowe has some of the best riding in the state. It’s hard to pick a favorite but Hardy’s Haul never disappoints. It’s a fantastic trail in both directions, intuitive, flowy, and aesthetic.

On a downhill run, you can pump your bike all the way to the bottom, then turn around and head up for more.

Currently: First, an extended road trip to Idaho with my family, and on the way back to Vermont my 10-year old son Finn and I are going to hit the best mountain biking in every state. I’ll also be coordinating a mountain bike camp for Hosmer Point in Craftsbury.

MARIALISA CALTA IN THIS ISSUE: Phoenix Rising, p.162.

What I love about eating in Vermont: I always joke that when I moved to Montpelier in the 1970s, the only place in town to get a cup of coffee on a Sunday morning was from a vending machine at Bob’s Sunoco. Clearly, the restaurant scene has changed, not just in Montpelier but throughout the state, due to the creative work of chefs like Jack Pickett. He’s one of the people who has really raised the bar.

Behind-the-Scenes: Even though he is assuming a more “executive” role in his new restaurant, Jack Pickett is never above getting his hands dirty, and not always in the kitchen. The day I arrived to interview him, he was crouched on the floor, drill in hand, finishing the facing on the base of the bar.

What surprised you most about Jack Pickett’s new restaurant: It’s named after a breed of chicken, not the mythical bird.

Currently: Marialisa Calta writes a nationally syndicated food column and contributes occasionally to The New York Times, EatingWell, and other publications. This is her second article for Stowe Guide & Magazine.

LISA MCCORMACK IN THIS ISSUE: Edibles, p.140.

JASMINE BIGELOW IN THIS ISSUE: Behind the Curtain, p.78.

Behind-the-scenes: I heart theater people. They are witty and whimsical and genuine.

Interviewing for this story was a poignant joy—we shared laughter and a tear or two.

Everyone allowed me to prod and pry and ask more than I probably should have.

Favorite play and musical: For me, the best part about theater is being there. Being in the moment. Not thinking about anything else. Giving up your mind to the story and the artistry.

So, my favorite show is the one on stage at the moment. Oh, and anything with music by Stephen Sondheim. And Jesus Christ Superstar. Does rock opera count?

Currently: Painting and writing and practicing yoga as much as possible. As always, loving my job as the marketing director for Stowe Area Association. Feeling gratitude. Finding balance.

8

Favorite Vermont food trend: I really appreciate how so many local restaurants grow their own food or use produce and meat from area farms. It’s reassuring to read a menu and know exactly where the eggs, chicken, or beef you’re ordering were raised. And, I’m always up for a sample from one of our great local microbreweries.

Currently: Lisa has been a reporter for the Stowe Reporter for the past nine years. She lives in Morristown with her husband and their three daughters.

G U I D E

M A G A Z I N E

&

expand your collection A.B. Duke

Gregory J. Popa

Gregory J. Popa

Ann Cooke

Ed Brennan, Beth Cleveland, Michael Duran, Lou Kiernan

Lisa Stearns

Glenn Callahan

Katerina Pittanaro and Joslyn Richardson

Kate Carter

1800 Mountain Road / Stowe VT 05672 / 802.253.2661

Stuart Bertland, Kate Carter, Kate Crowe, Don Landwehrle, Gordon Miller, Orah Moore, Roger Murphy, Paul Rogers, Kevin Walsh

vermontenvy.com Mark Aiken, Nathan Burgess, Marialisa Calta, Kate Carter, Nancy Crowe, Willy Dietrich, John Dostal, Elinor Earle, Evelyn Wermer Frey, Robert Kiener, Amanda Kuhnert, Brian Lindner, Lisa McCormack, Roger Murphy, David Rocchio, Julia Shipley, Nancy Wolfe Stead, Molly Triffin, Kevin Walsh

Stowe Guide & Magazine & Stowe-Smugglers’ Guide & Magazine are published twice a year: Winter/Spring

& Summer/Fall Stowe Reporter LLC P.O. Box 489, Stowe VT 05672 Website: stowetoday.com Editorial inquiries: gpopa@myfairpoint.net Ad submission: ads@stowereporter.com Phone: (802) 253-2101 Fax: (802) 253-8332 Copyright: Articles and photographs are protected by copyright and cannot be used without permission.

Editorial submissions are welcome: Stowe Reporter LLC P.O. Box 489, Stowe VT 05672 Publication is not guaranteed.

Enclose SASE for return.

Subscriptions are $12 per year. Check or money order to Stowe Guide, P.O. Box 489, Stowe, 05672 Advertising inquiries are welcome.

Call (802) 253-2101 or (800) 734-2101

Best Niche Publication, New England Newspaper & Press Assocation, 2010, 2011, 2012, & 2013

10

HELEN BECKERHOFF

FROM THE EDITOR

The inimitable Mr. Hastings

H

enry Hastings swaggered into a packed Stowe Board of Selectmen meeting 25 years ago carrying a bottle in a brown paper bag and plopped into a seat. That’s when most of us noticed the lit cigarette, which he made no effort to hide. Vermont had not yet banned smoking in public places, but after reporting from dozens and dozens of town and village meetings, I’d never before seen anyone smoke at one. It seemed no one else had either. “Hello, Henry,” said the late Connie Bull, the longtime clerk of the Stowe selectboard and one of many witnesses to Henry’s antics during the preceeding decades. “You can’t smoke in here.”

A little drama ensued. Henry left. This tiny version of his infamous Smokey Stove incident served as something of a resurfacing for Henry after a long hiatus from public life. For me, after hearing countless stories about him, finally, here he was. He attended a few other meetings over the next months, then went back underground. Each time Henry would disrupt the meeting, and after a skirmish between the parties, everyone, including Henry, knew it was time for him to go. Sadly, Henry looked nothing like this late 1950s version, shown above. Rather, he was haggard and worn out. Lonely.

Connie Bull repeatedly lobbied me to do a story about Henry. He drove her nuts, but with Henry, it was never that simple. A dedicated Stowe Historical Society member, Connie performed the original legwork that complements Nancy Wolfe Stead’s careful and thoughtful analysis of his life in our profile, “The exit of eccentricity: Henry Hastings,” on page 88.

Nancy reminds us that between his many off-the-wall causes and feuds, Henry made some important contributions—the lowering of Stowe electric rates, for instance. She writes, “In 1962, in a feat of prodigious energy, Henry launched The Stowe ReFORMer. In seven weekly issues mailed to every town resident between April 24 and June 9 he wrote passionate, inflammatory, meticulously researched articles ... Henry laid out all the critical issues the town and state would grapple with over the ensuing decades.”

Henry would love that.

12

—Greg Popa

Record Setting A few corrections from our Winter / Spring edition of the Stowe Guide & Magazine: We mistakenly added an “s” on the end of studio in a headline, caption, and photo credit in our story about Gray Cat Studio.

Kim Brown did not crash in the Stowe Derby in February 2013 as we noted in a caption accompanying his column last winter. That hospital-inducing injury took place post-Derby, circa 2008. As Kim noted in his popular ski bum column in the Stowe Reporter at the time, he “threw a shoe” at the knoll while running a course on the Slalom Hill in Stowe, training for a Super G, which landed him in the hospital… again.

In Dawn Patrol, our story about that band of intrepid sexagenarians, septuagenarians, octogenarians, and nonagenarians who ski Mt. Mansfield just about every morning, we incorrectly stated that Dave Siegel was a New Jersey lawyer. He’s a New York lawyer.

Larry Heath, whose family once owned Edson Hill Manor, corrected one of our claims about Stowe’s first Tucker SnoCat. Larry told us that the Manor used it for giving rides to guests, not for grooming, as we reported. Larry also clued our writer, Brian Lindner, into the fact that his uncle, Leo Bartlett, was the SnoCat’s primary driver.

In our popular story Ski Town Jobs, we reported that Sebastian Groskin has type 2 diabetes. In fact, he has type 1 diabetes.

VERMONT VOICES

So, you think you want a family cow...

STORY

/ Julia Shipley

How badly do you want a cow? Answer true or false: 1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

I like the smell of a cow.

I can commit to never being away from home for more than 23 hours.

I know and trust at least one other person who will help me milk this cow.

I hate when flies land on me.

I understand that a lactating cow produces milk 24 hours a day, and while I may default on my mortgage, neglect to visit my mother, skip my daughter’s ballet performance, or forget the appointment to have my oil changed, I simply may never dis Bossie.

6. Despite being swatted with a matted tail, tickled by flies, and discouraged by the planting of a hoof in a brimming pail of milk, I know I can do this again in 12 hours.

7. Cream on strawberries, cream and butter on potatoes, creamy milk poured over granola, yellow butter slathered on toast…. These violate my diet, and I am opposed to them.

If you answered false to numbers 1, 2, 3, 5, and 6, then perhaps pillows, magnets, and T-shirts with bovine imagery will best fulfill your desire to own a cow.

If you answered true to numbers 1, 2, 3, 5, and 6, and false to 4 and 7, then you crave more than Holstein home decor.

Here’s the story of how I fulfilled my craving for a cow.

14

JAMES RICE

Stowe Resort

Homes

LUXURY VACATION HOMES FOR THE SAVVY TRAVELER

Stowe Resort Homes offer: •Many superb homes in Stowe and at Topnotch Resort & Spa Enjoy use of the resort’s world-class facilities: -Luxurious 30,000 sq. ft. spa and sports club -Top-rated tennis facilities and programs -Indoor and outdoor pools, outdoor whirlpool •25 – 50% off all published resort rates •••• I wanted to milk a cow—my cow.

I wanted to milk a cow the way Thoreau wanted to build a house on a pond and live deliberately: not just because, gee, wouldn’t it be nice, but because I wanted to make a pilgrimage without a suitcase, a quest without leaving town. To Milk A Cow became my goal, my dream, my mission. Not just any cow, my cow. I pictured milking chores like vespers, the two of us sequestered in the cob-webbed milking chapel, me with my forehead bowed against her flank, strong streams of milk pinging as they hit the side of the steel pail.

To this end, I picked up a stanchion, a rubber bucket, and a halter at a neighbor’s yard sale. I connected a water pipe to a frost-free hydrant in my barn, to avoid hauling 25 gallons of water a day in buckets from the house. I built a wooden milking platform in the barn and purchased polywire fencing. Then I began helping with Sunday evening chores at a nearby dairy in exchange for a Jersey calf named Penny.

It takes about two years from the time a female calf is born to the moment you can pull up a stool, place your hand on her teat, and expel that magnificent substance: milk.

MILKING PARLOR

The first milking. If you want a family cow, you have to buy calves—these two cost $10 each—or invest in a cow that’s ready to freshen. Inset: Jesus, born just before midnight on Christmas. To get milk your heifer first needs to calf.

I could have purchased a milk cow, ready to go, instead of raising one, but that would have been like Thoreau going online and ordering a pre-fab cabin. I might have perused Agriview for an ad that read, “Family Cow: Jersey, very friendly and calm, hand or machine milk, early lactation, $2,000.� But I wanted to earn my cow’s milk, every drop, through caring for her. And I wanted to know exactly what went into her.

So I spent about $2,000 incrementally over the course of two years to prepare Penny for her first milking: $15 for 50 pounds of organic grain every three weeks; $2.50 a bale for first-cut hay for two winters; $50 for kelp, salt block, and special minerals I call “magic dirt�; $15 to breed her using artificial insemination; $125 in vet fees to vaccinate and preg-check her; and $75 to pay a student to do chores when I was away.

•No Surprises – view photos of your selected vacation home •Resort homes are finely appointed and impeccably maintained •Free nights for frequent guests •Weekend, weekly, monthly and seasonal rentals available

View our luxury homes and book online.

All names and trademarks are property of their respective owners.

l 16

15

VERMONT VOICES After Penny freshened, my fridge became a holding tank for glass truck I had brought her home in two years before. pickle jars and sauce pots filled with milk. Suddenly I had friends and The following day at 4 p.m.—vespers, milking time—I was in the neighbors dropping by, slipping me five dollars, and driving off with a checkout line at Staples in Barre, buying computer paper and Sharpies. full jug. I showed off at potlucks, laden down with fresh mozzarella.

I had committed the equivalent of Thoreau calling a cab and asking the I ate chocolate pudding for breakfast, creamy corn chowder for lunch, driver to drop him off at the Concord Hilton, then ordering room service. and butter with bread for dinner—the most delicious, Dream over. hard-won milk I’d ever ingested.

Sort of. I later One of the author’s later milk cows, In hindsight, though, there were warning signs. taught students at an Irish Dexter named Frannie.

Although Penny was born teeny, she threw the vet Sterling College how attempting to cauterize her emerging horns. It took two to milk Winnie, the men to hold my hundred-pound calf steady. Later, she school’s placid Jersey, would joust at me with her hind leg as I practiced swipand took in a second ing my hand slowly around her teats. And sure enough, family cow at home, after she gave birth to a sleek bull calf, she clocked me Peace, a Dexter calf every day for 75 days whenever I attempted to milk her. who stayed with me “You’ve got to show her some discipline,” one friend until I decided to puradvised me. “Let her know you’re the boss.” “You can sue freelance writing borrow my kicker,” another offered, referring to a thighfulltime, which restraining device. “Tie her leg straight back—did you try required long that?” a third friend advocated. absences from home.

“Cows like a calm, orderly environment,” the cow book As for Penny, she said, so I tuned the barn radio from NPR’s All Things became a semi-docile, Considered to the classical station. “I’ve got nose tongs,” someone volunsemi-bratty cow in a small herd and gives her milk over via machine. If teered. (Reader: I hope you never need to know about nose tongs.) she’s still kicking, at least she’s no longer connecting with flesh.

•••• “You shoulda never let the calf on her to begin with,” the retired farmer-neighbor clucked. “What happened to your jaw?” my friend Julia Shipley is an independent journalist and contributing editor to asked, noting the new bruise.

Yankee Magazine. Her newest book, a collection of essays about farming After 75 days of milking, five temper tantrums, and half a bottle of and writing, Adam’s Mark: Writing From the Ox House was just Dewars, I came into the house, picked up the phone and left two messages—one with a nearby dairy farm, one with the beef broker. The dairy released by Plow Boy Press. Her website is: writingonthefarm.com. called me back first. We loaded my impossible, lovely cow back into the

16

where water lives

and so much more...

COMPETITION-SIZED SWIMMING POOL SWIM LESSONS

GROUP FITNESS

•

•

•

SWIM CLUB

TODDLER & CHILD POOL •

SPINNING CLASSES

MASTERS SWIMMING

•

KRANKING CLASSES

•

•

•

WATER SLIDE

•

DIVING BOARD

PERSONAL TRAINING YOGA

CARDIOVASCULAR & WEIGHT TRAINING AREAS

•

PRIMAL TRAINING

Memberships & Day Passes Available

The Swimming Hole • 75 Weeks Hill Road • Stowe, VT • 802.253.9229 • www.theswimmingholestowe.com Monday - Friday 5:45am - 9:00pm • Saturday 7:00am - 8:00pm • Sunday 8:00am - 8:00pm The Swimming Hole is a non-profit community pool & fitness center that welcomes community support.

TM

PAUL ROGERS

GOINGS ON ONGOING MONDAYS & WEDNESDAYS

Model Sailboat Races On the Commodores Inn private lake. Every Monday and Wednesday, 4:45 p.m., weather permitting. Free. Just south on Route 100, Stowe.

THROUGH OCTOBER 11

Fly Fishing Casting Clinic Learn about knots, entomology, tactics, and gear.

Equipment provided. Free. Wednesdays 4 - 5:30 p.m.; Saturdays 9 - 10:30 a.m. Fly Rod Shop, Stowe. Reserve ahead. 253-7346.

JUNE 21, JULY 17, & AUGUST 16

Stowe Land Trust Monthly Outings June 21, 9 - 11 a.m., Cady Hill Forest hike or ride; July 17, 9 - 11 a.m., Adams Camp hike or ride; and Aug. 16, 9 - 11 a.m., Stowe Pinnacle hike. stowelandtrust.org.

THURSDAYS IN JUNE

Free SUP Demos Standup paddleboard instruction at Waterbury Reservoir day use area, Umiak Outfitters. 6 - 8 p.m. umiak.com.

M O S C OW PA R A D E JUNE 7

STUART BERTLAND

Summer Naturalist Kick-Off Open house at the Mill Trail Cabin, spring trail work, and a sampling of Stowe Land Trust's summer naturalist programming. Notchbrook Road, Stowe. 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. stowelandtrust.org.

JUNE 26 – 29 47th Joe Kirkwood Memorial Golf Tournament Amateur event for two-man teams in honor of Joe Kirkwood, the world-famous trick-shot artist who lived in Stowe. Benefits Stowe Junior Golf. Stowe Country Club, Cape Cod Road. kirkwoodgolftournament.com.

JUNE 7

Center for America’s First Horse Open House Meet the horses and watch a natural horsemanship demo. The Center is one mile past Johnson State College, Clay Hill Road. Noon - 3 p.m. centerforamericasfirsthorse.org.

JUNE 13 – 15

NOMAD USDAA Dog Agility Trials Dogs go over jumps, through tunnels, and more.

All visiting dogs must be leashed. All day. Free.

Topnotch Events Field, Stowe. nomadagility.com.

JUNE 26 – AUGUST 28

Art on Park Series Thursdays 5:30 - 8:30 p.m., throughout the summer. Look for the white tents and a wide variety of artists and artisans—jewelers, potters, painters, fiber artists, specialty food producers, more. Live music and local food every week. Park Street, Stowe Village. facebook.com/artonpark.

JUNE

JUNE 13 – 15

Stowe Wine and Food Classic Wine seminars, cooking demos, gala reception, gala wine-pairing dinner, live/silent auctions, culinary theater sessions, baking classes, more.

Benefits Copley Hospital & Vermont Foodbank.

Trapp Family Lodge. stowewine.com for tickets.

(888) 683-2427.

JUNE 21

MAY 31 – JUNE 1

Stowe Yacht Club: Green Mountain EC-12 Regatta EC-12 meter model sailboat racing. A regional championship regatta. 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Commodores Inn, Route 100, Stowe. Spectators welcome. 253-7131.

JUNE 14

5k Brew Run & Festival 5k road race followed by a local craft beer festival with 20-plus local breweries. Local food vendors, live music. Race at noon, festival from12:30 - 4 p.m. Supports the Stowe Land Trust. Stoweflake Mountain Resort, Mountain Road. craftbrewraces.com.

31st Rattling Brook Bluegrass Festival Great regional bluegrass bands, including The Reunion Band, Bob Amos and Catamount Crossing, Bluegrass Revisited, Big Spike Bluegrass, Modern Grass Quintet, and The Woedoggies, entertain all day. 11 - 8. Rain or shine. $15. Belvidere recreation field, Route 109. 644-1118.

JUNE 21 – 22

Pro Am Mountain Jam Lacrosse tournament featuring top mens and womens players, masters and super masters teams from across the country. Stowe.

JUNE 27 – 28

Waterbury Not Quite Independence Day June 27: carnival rides, music by Still Kickin’ and Grundel Funk. 5 - 11p.m. June 28: parade at 11 a.m., music, carnival rides, tractor jousting, photo booth, more. 1 - 10 p.m. Fireworks at dusk.

Farr’s Field, Route 2W, Waterbury. $5 both days. waterburynqid.com.

JUNE 28

Catamount Ultra Marathon 25k and 50k courses through highland pastures and hardwood forest. Trapp Family Lodge trail system. 7 and 8:30 a.m. starts. catamountultra.com.

JULY JULY 4

Moscow Parade World-famous, world’s shortest 4th of July parade.

Starts promptly at 10 a.m. in Moscow Village.

EXHIBITS: p.100 • • • MUSIC: p.114 • • • MIXED MEDIA: p.120 • • • THEATER: p.124 18

ROCK SHOX • MARZOCCHI • SHREDLY • STRAITLINE • NITE RIDER • CAMELBAK •

Performance Demos • Rec Path Rentals Full Service Tuning

Clothing, Bikes & Accessories

bikestowe.com

All you need to know

about biking in Stowe

TROY LEE DESIGNS • FIVE TEN • POC • INDUSTRY NINE • MAVIC • OSPREY • LEATT • ROYAL RACING • SHIMANO • RACE FACE

HADLEY • BLACKSPIRE • CHRIS KING • FOX

GIANT • INTENSE • ROCKY MOUNTAIN • DAKINE • E*THIRTEEN • SYNERGY • SUGOI • GIRO • SMITH

580 Mtn Rd • Stowe, VT 05672 • 800-996-8398 • www.skiershop.com • www.bikestowe.com

GLENN CALLAHAN

GOINGS ON JULY 4

TERESA MERELMAN

The Stowe World’s Shortest Marathon Join the 1.7 mile fun run. Starts at intersection of Routes 100 & 108. Open to all.

JULY 4

JULY 4

Stowe Independence Day Celebration & Fireworks Starts at 6 p.m. Food and spectacular fireworks at dusk. Face painting, balloons, barbecue, carnival games, ice cream, bouncy house, pedestal joust, hayrides, Touch-a-Truck, old fashioned games, popcorn, cotton candy, more. Free.

Mayo Farm events field, Weeks Hill Road.

JULY 4

Jeffersonville / Smugglers’ Notch Independence Day Celebration Parade at 10 a.m., carnival, food, live entertainment, and world-famous frog jumping contest, Jeffersonville village. Starting at 5 p.m., Smugglers’ Notch Resort hosts firemen’s barbecue, music with Goodtime and the Vermont National Guard 40th Army Band. Fireworks at dusk. 644-8851.

JULY 4

Morrisville 700 Downhill Derby Build the fastest race car for this gravity-powered race down 700-foot Copley Avenue. Takes place right after the 4th of July parade in Morrisville.

Prizes. $15 ($10 in advance) for each driver. facebook.com/Morrisville700/info.

JULY 4 – 6

7 Miles of Sales in Stowe Vermont’s largest townwide sale. Pick up the Stowe Reporter weekly newspaper to see what local businesses have in store. gostowe.com.

JULY 4 – 6

Vermont Morgan Horse Heritage Days Open carriage driving competition, junior and amateur horse show, breeders’ futurity, stallion exhibition, 500-pound stoneboat pull, more.

Tunbridge fairgrounds, Tunbridge, Vt. vtmorganheritagedays.org.

JULY 5

Mountain BBQ & Fireworks Fireworks at dusk at Spruce Peak along with a mountainside barbecue at Spruce Camp starting at 5 p.m. Music with the Funkleberries. Stowe Mountain Resort. 253-3500 or stowe.com.

20

L A M O I L L E C O U N T Y F I E L D D AY S JULY 8 – 27

JULY 12

Stowe Free Library Book Sale Community book sale on the porch of the library.

New stock added daily, specials for children.

9 a.m. to dusk. Stowe Village. stowelibrary.org or 253-6145.

2014 Vermont PGA Junior Golf Jamboree Open to junior golfers of all ages and abilities.

Performance by Divot the Amazing Golfing Clown. New England PGA pros conduct clinics.

Barbecue. 9 a.m. Stowe Country Club. nepga.com.

JULY 11 – 12

12th Waterbury Arts Fest Free event combines over 80 artists, live music, gourmet fare. The Fest starts on pedestrian-only Stowe Street on July 11, with Nimble Arts trapeze artists and Kat Wright and the Indomitable Soul Band, 6 p.m. Saturday, July 12 features more than 80-plus vendors showcasing fine art, food, and live music. waterburyartsfest.com.

JULY 11 – 13

28th Stoweflake Hot Air Balloon Festival Children’s corner, live band, food, beer & wine garden, balloon launches, tethers.

More than 25 balloon experts launch Friday at 6:30 p.m., Saturday at 6:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m., and Sunday at 6:30 a.m. $10.

Stoweflake Mountain Resort & Spa, Mountain Road, Stowe.

253-7355. For ride information, go to stoweballoonfestival.com.

PAUL ROGERS

Old-Fashioned 4th of July in Stowe Live local music, food, entertainment, attractions for all ages, Art on the Park artisan market, and other entertainment—all in Stowe Village. Bouncy house, dunk tank, pie-eating contest, climbing wall, 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. Village festivities start after the Moscow Parade. Stowe Village parade starts at 1 p.m.

JULY 11 – 13

Vermont Mountain Bike Festival Group, kids, and women’s rides, clinics, action workouts. All abilities welcome. Vendors, bike demos, music, movies, barbecue, raffles, and prizes. Ascutney Basin, Brownsville, Vt. vmba.org.

JULY 12

44th Antiques & Uniques Festival 100 booths of antiques, woodcrafts, paintings, sculpture, flowers, garden accessories, quilts, more. Music, baked goods, and lunch.

10 a.m. - 4 p.m. rain or shine. On the Common in Craftsbury, Route 14.

JULY 12

Raid Lamoille 100k bike ride with 6,500 feet of climbing.

Preregister. 9 a.m. start. raidlamoille.com.

JULY 13

Stowe 8-Miler Stowe’s popular foot race, now in its 33rd year. Starts at 9 a.m.

Preregistration. After race party. Events Field, Weeks Hill Road, Stowe. locoraces.com.

JULY 18 – 19

Crossroads Motorcycle Rally Camping, live music, food, mud wrestling, bonfire, games, and more. Farr’s Field, Route 2, Waterbury. crossroadsmotorcyclerally.com.

JULY 19 – 20

Stowe LAX Festival A comprehensive lacrosse event. Great sport, awesome music, special guests, and non-stop fun for the entire family. The weeklong Stowe Lax camp follows the tourney. On fields throughout Stowe. bitterlacrosse.com.

JULY 20

Stowe Trail Race Series: Ranch Camp Ramble 5k and 10k run. First of three races in the series.

Stowe Mountain Resort Nordic Center ski trails.

Prizes, bib raffle, food. 10 a.m. Benefits Stowe Adaptive Sports. Preregister: active.com.

JULY 25 – 26

Kids Adventure Games Adventure race where teams of two tackle archery, ropes, zipline, climbing wall, mud pit, Tarzan swing ,and a giant slip-n-slide. Awards.

Ages 6 to 14. Stowe Mountain Resort. Register ar kidsadventuregames.com.

PAUL ROGERS

GREG POPA

GOINGS ON

JULY 25 – 27

Lamoille County Field Days A traditional agricultural fair. Arts and crafts, produce and agricultural exhibits, horse, pony, and ox pulling, lumberjack roundup, 4-H exhibits, draft horse show, gymkhana, midway, live entertainment. Route 100C, Johnson. $10.

635-7113. lamoillefielddays.com.

JULY 26 – 27

Stowe LAX Festival A comprehensive lacrosse event. Great sport, awesome music, special guests, and non-stop fun for the entire family. The weeklong Stowe Lax camp follows the tourney. On fields throughout Stowe. bitterlacrosse.com.

JULY 27 – AUGUST 10

Phlox Fest Over 80 varieties of phlox displayed in the gardens at Perennial Pleasures. 10 - 5 every day except Monday. Brick House Road, East Hardwick, Vermont. (802) 472-5104. perennialpleasures.net.

AUGUST

AUGUST 10

JCOGS Nearly New Sale New and nearly new items for sale under the tent, rain or shine. Crafts, collectors items, jewelry, housewares, toys, and more. Homemade baked goods.

10:30 a.m. - 3 p.m. Jewish Community of Greater Stowe, 1189 Cape Cod Road.

AUGUST 29 – 30 & SEPTEMBER 1

Lawn Fest Crafts, books, reusable items, more. 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Waterbury Center Community Church.

Route 100. 244-8089.

AUGUST 30 – 31

Jay Peak Trail Running Family Festival Series of trail races for all abilities (ages 4 and up). Three 5k races on Saturday: run one, two, or three races rated in difficulty. 25k and 50k ultra trail race Sunday. All day. Jay Peak Resort, Route 242, Jay.

AUGUST 15 – 17

AUGUST 2 – 3

Stowe Yacht Club: Can/Am Challenge Cup Head over to the Commodores to watch Soling One Meter RC Sailboats. Sailors from Canada compete against the U.S. team. 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Commodores Inn, Stowe. 253-7131.

AUGUST 8 – 10

57th Stowe Antique and Classic Car Meet The summer’s biggest event. Over 800 antique and classic cars. Giant automotive flea market, car corral. Fashion contest, antique car parade. 8 a.m. 5 p.m. Nichols Field, Route 100, Stowe. Fee. 253-7321. vtauto.org.

AUGUST 9

Celebrate Vermont Festival!

Vermont food, farms, forests, and markets. Four-day celebration opens 10 a.m. Aug. 15 with a Noah's Ark parade of farmers, children, and their animals, including floats and antique tractors. Main Street.

Festival at the Stowe Events Field, Weeks Hill Road.

Craft booths, artisan foods and beverages, music, workshops, and more. celebratevermontfestival.com.

AUGUST 16

100 on 100 Relay A 100-mile team-based distance event along scenic Route 100. Fundraiser for Vermont-based youth charities. Starts at Trapp Family Lodge, Stowe. 100on100.org.

AUGUST 16 – 17

Antique & Classic Car Street Dance & Block Party Entertainment on Stowe’s Main Street. A blast into the past. Good time rock n’ roll with antique and classic cars. 7 - 10 p.m. stowevibrancy.com.

AUGUST 9

Jeffersonville Festival of the Arts Dozens of regional artists display on Jeffersonville’s charming Main Street. Live music, children’s activities, and local food. Free. 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. 644-6438 or cambridgeartsvt.org.

AUGUST 9

Fun Run on Spruce Peak Pathways Timed event on new walking/running trails at Spruce Peak. Proceeds benefit Barnes Camp Boardwalk project. 253-3500. stowe.com.

22

STOWE ANTIQUE C AR CL ASSIC

NADAC Dog Agility Trials Dogs perform the sport of agility. North American Dog Agility Council sanctions this trial. Topnotch Events Field, Mountain Road, Stowe. Great for spectators. Outside, both days. nomadagility.com.

AUGUST 17

Stowe Trail Race Series: Cady Hill 5k Town Loops behind Golden Eagle Resort, Mountain Road. Prizes, bib raffle, food. 10 a.m.

Benefits Stowe Adaptive Sports. Preregister: active.com.

AUGUST 24

North Face Race to the Top of Vermont A 4.3-mile hill climb up the famous Mt. Mansfield Toll Road. Run, mountain bike, or hike to the summit—2,564 vertical feet. BBQ picnic, music, prizes. Benefits the Catamount Trail Association.

Mt Mansfield Toll Road, Stowe. rtttovt.com or (802) 864-5794.

AUGUST 31

The Darn Tough Ride 25-, 45-, 65-, and 100-mile routes around Stowe, Johnson, Eden, Smugglers' Notch. The complete route loops from Stowe over to Johnson and Belvidere over Smugglers’ Notch—twice. The total elevation is 8,300 feet including two category 2 climbs. Cycling treasure hunt—just for kids —on the Stowe Recreation Path. Start, finish, après ride party at Commodores Inn, Route 100, Stowe. bikereg.com/23190 to sign up. Benefits Vermont Ski & Snowboard Museum.

SEPTEMBER SEPTEMBER 6

Cambridge Music Festival Local and regional musicians, food, activities, yoga, fun down on the farm. 3 p.m. - midnight.

Porter Farm, 1867 Lower Pleasant Valley Rd., Cambridge. cambridgemusicfestival.com.

23

GOINGS ON SEPTEMBER 7

FARM MARKET S STUART BERTLAND

Stowe Land Trust Celebration Help the Stowe Land Trust celebrate 27 years.

1 - 5 p.m. stowelandtrust.org.

SEPTEMBER 11 – 14

Tunbridge World’s Fair Old-fashioned Vermont country fair. Tractor pulls, midway, food, music, animals. Tunbridge, Vt. tunbridgeworldsfair.com.

SEPTEMBER 13

Chicken Pie Supper Old-fashioned supper in an old-fashioned mountain town. Starts at 5 p.m. until all are served.

Waterville Elementary School, Route 109.

SEPTEMBER 15

Stowe Trail Race Series: Trapp Cabin 10k Trail Race & 5k Fun Run Series race party, prizes, bib raffle, food.

10 a.m. Benefits Stowe Adaptive Sports.

Preregistration at active.com.

Hardwick Farmers Market Atkins field, Granite Street. Fridays 3 - 6 p.m., Through mid-October. hardwickfarmersmarketvt.com

SEPTEMBER 19

SEPTEMBER 19 – 21

British Invasion Car Show North America’s largest British classic sports car and motorcycle event.

Cultural activities, crafts, auto jumble, and the car corral. Over 600 cars on field.

Stowe Events Field, Weeks Hill Road, Stowe. Admission. britishinvasion.com.

SEPTEMBER 20 – 21

Celebration of the Vine Harvest Festival Wine, food, live music, hay rides, face painting, and grape stomping contests. 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Boyden Valley Winery & Spirits, Routes 15 and 104, Cambridge. boydenvalley.com.

SEPTEMBER 27

Stowe Foliage Artisan Market Local artist and artisans as well as musicians along Park Street in Stowe. Local food on the village green. 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. stowevibrancy.com.

24

GLENN CALLAHAN

British Invasion Block Party The British invade Main Street, Stowe. From 6:30 - 9:30 p.m. dance to Joey Leone’s Chop Shop and mingle among beautiful British cars.

Local foods and brews. stowevibrancy.com.

Jeffersonville Farmers Market Route 108 & 15, behind Smugglers' Notch Distillery. Wednesdays 4:30 to dusk, June 11 to October 8. jeffersonvillefarmersandartisanmarket.com.

Johnson Farmers Market Village green, Main Street. Tuesdays 4 - 7 p.m. June 3 - October 7. Find us on Facebook.

Morrisville Farmers Market Fairground Plaza, Hannafords Supermarket.

Saturdays 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. Find us on Facebook.

Stowe Farmers Market Route 108 at Red Barn Shops field. Sundays 10:30 a.m. - 3 p.m., May 18 to October 12. stowefarmersmarket.com.

Spruce Peak Farmers Market July 11, 18, & 25; Aug. 1, 8, 15, 22, & 29.

Agricultural and craft products. Live music, 10:30 a.m. - 3 p.m. Spruce Peak at Stowe Plaza.

Waterbury Farmers Market Rusty Parker Park, Route 2, downtown Waterbury. Thursdays 3 - 7 p.m. Through Oct. 9. Find us on Facebook.

GOINGS ON SEPTEMBER 28

6th Vermont Pumpkin Chuckin’ Festival Individual and team pumpkin chuckin’. Build a trebuchet and send the pumpkins flying. Music, children’s activities, chili cook-off, food. Proceeds benefit Lamoille Family Center. Stoweflake Mountain Resort, Mountain Road, Stowe. vtpumpkinchuckin.blogspot.com.

OCTOBER OCTOBER 2

Chicken Pie Supper Chicken pie supper with all the fixings. Seatings 5 and 6:30 p.m. Waterbury Center Community Church. Reservations: 244-8955.

OCTOBER 3

GLENN CALLAHAN

Rocktoberfest Stowe Oktoberfest party, live music. Free. 7 - 11 p.m., under the big tent, Mayo Events Field, Weeks Hill Road. stoweoktoberfest.com.

OCTOBER 3 – 5

18th Stowe Oktoberfest German-style festival under the Big Tent on the Mayo Events Field. Silent auction, raffles, children’s activities, beer, German food, Oompah bands, music, singing, and dancing. Friday: 7 - 11 p.m., Rocktoberfest party, free live music, dancing, events field. Saturday: Grand parade leads to Stowe Events Field, Weeks Hill Road, 10 a.m.; festivities continue 11 - 8. Sunday: Festivities continue 11 - 5. Admission. stoweoktoberfest.com.

OCTOBER 10 – 12

Stowe Foliage Arts Festival 150 artists—fine art, craft, cuisine. Harvest activities, wine tasting, music, craft demos. Vermont beer and sausage tent. Under heated Camelot-style tents. Daily 10 - 5. Stowe Events Field, Weeks Hill Road. $10, kids free. craftproducers.com.

OCTOBER 11

Chicken Pie Supper OId-fashioned supper. Seatings at 5 p.m., 6 p.m., and 7 p.m. Stowe Community Church, Main Street. 253-7257.

NOVEMBER & DECEMBER NOVEMBER 7 – 8

Santa Workshop Sale Baked goods and cookie sale, homemade crafts, Christmas decorations. 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Waterbury Center Community Church, Route 100. 244-8089.

Stitch Camp Join others who love to cross stitch and needlepoint. Wooden Needle, Stowe Village.

For dates and times, call 253-3086 or email kathy@wooden-needle.com. ■

26

27

RURAL ROUTE

with ED FREY

Lackey’s Variety Store closed its doors Feb. 28, 2014. A venerable institution saw its last customer.

Management left a sign on the front door thanking all of its patrons, especially its early morning newspaper buyers, for their loyalty and friendliness.

As a member of that group, I feel we should thank them for creating and preserving over the years a place of welcome, gentle humor, and bonhomie.

Our early paper crowd congregated, coalesced, and dispersed like fall leaves in the wind—a truly amorphous lot—Marcia, Megan, and Julie from the Stowe Free Library; summer people, Bob and Nina from Illinois, Dave and Penny from Pennsylvania, Jack from Reading, Mass.; full-timers Leighton, Dr. Sam, George, Chooch, Ginny...

Originally we were presided over by the Lackeys—Frank, Ann, Peggy, and Mary Newton, of course—and for the last 10 years by Susan and her crew Ken and Peter.

The hospitality set now uses the word “amenity” to describe Stowe’s new ice rink and, would you believe, the Stowe public safety building. Stowe Mountain Resort refers to its half-billion dollar expansion as an “amenity.”

the whole ambiance was of another time and place—a simpler, less hectic Vermont. Visitors tried to capture the essence of Lackey’s and its bygone New England village charm by taking pictures of each other under its famous, well-worn sign. They never knew they could capture that charm by simply walking in the door.

Dave’s Mobil is also gone. Its tomatoes, along with Susan’s geraniums, a memory. Dave Demeritt GLENN CALLAHAN and his regulars were right out of Norman Rockwell and the Saturday Evening Post. I would like to believe that if our early morning paper group had a cartoonist, it would be Bill Mauldin of Willie and Joe fame.

In any case, thanks to all concerned for a great run on Broadway—that is, Main Street, Stowe. Edward P. Frey is an attorney. He lives in Stowe.

Lackey’s had no such lofty amenities—except a Milk-Bone for its visiting pooches. Lackey’s itself was the amenity—conducive to comfort, warmth, and fellowship.

From about 7:30 - 9 a.m. it was a hotbed of discussion, opinions, grievances (real or imagined), personal exploits, and war stories (also real or imagined). Egos were left at the door while daily newspapers, ranging from the esoteric Investor’s Business Daily to the plebian New York Post, were purchased.

Inside, time stood still. The door handle didn’t work quite right,

LACKEY’S VARIETY STORE FACTS: ■

Lackey’s Variety Store sold penny candy, postcards, comic books, and a myriad of sundries for nearly six decades. The Lackey family still owns the building, and they’re actively looking for a new tenant for this Stowe landmark.

■

Frank Lackey began leasing the space in 1948 and later purchased the building, which has been a variety store ever since.

■

Originally built in 1840 as two-story gable-front building, it was pushed farther back from the sidewalk in 1911 and a mansard roof was added.

■

For several decades, it housed a general store, called the Country Store, and the town post office.

■

George Buzzell operated his undertaker business there from 1908 to 1928.

■

Long a popular hangout for local children and teens, Lackey’s once housed an old-fashioned soda fountain.

TICK, TOCK: STOWE CHURCH CLOCK RUNS AGAIN fter 23 years of trying, Stowe residents in 1904 voted at Town Meeting to accept a clock for the downtown village, to be placed in the church belfry. Ninety years later, the three faces of that clock on the Stowe Community Church all read different times, but at least the side facing Main Street once again tells the correct time.

The north- and south-facing clocks are still only right twice a day.

Efforts to get a clock in the village were made at meetings in 1881, 1889, 1890, and 1892, with W.H.H. Bingham’s gift of a clock rejected at the 1889 Town Meeting.

But, 15 years later voters finally accepted C.R. Churchill’s gift of a large mechanical clock.

For the first 76 years, the clock was operated by the original mechanical motor, an exceedingly heavy collection of gears and pulleys and ropes that still sits in the belfry, covered in plastic.

The clock needed to be wound, via that series of ropes and pulleys and counterweights, at least every eight days. Albert Gottlieb would wind it twice a week, according to Susan Moeck, Stowe’s executive assistant. But Gottlieb died in the late 1970s. (Get to know Susan on page 32.)

In 1980, the town voted at Town Meeting to electrify the clock. It continued to operate smoothly for roughly the next 34 years.

Recently, Moeck learned that at least the street-facing clock had blown a fuse and was stuck at 3:16. She hoped to replace it, but had to wait until precisely 3:16 p.m. to do so. On Tuesday, with

A

28

the help of an iPhone— and a little help from this reporter—the cylindrical glass fuse was put in place (Moeck said the hardware store employee gave her the fuses for free because no one buys them anymore).

One down, two to go.

Moeck is still not sure what’s wrong with the other two clocks.

Only time will tell.

—Tommy Gardner

CLOCKWISE: BRIAN LINDNER, DARRYL SMITH, WENDY PARRISH

RURAL ROUTE

Rock of Terror! unset Rock overlooks Stowe Village, Balanced Rock perches precariously on Mt. Elmore, and Rimrocks sits on the Mountain Road.

Then there’s the Rock of Terror!

Sadly overlooked since its heyday in the early 1900s, this rock of note is located on the summit of Mt. Mansfield, and once struck fear in the minds of many a seasoned hiker. Stowe Historical Society records indicate that beginning in the late 1800s, daredevils defied gravity by climbing up and sitting atop this humongous protrusion to pose for photos intended to scare and impress friends and loved ones.

The aptly named Rock of Terror became a popular scene around 1870, when it began appearing in various documentations of Mt. Mansfield. No one seems to know for sure who named it, but clearly someone’s imagination, and perhaps sense of humor, came into play, and the name stuck.

The gigantic rock became a favorite landmark to photograph in the early days. It appears on many postcards, shot from various angles. One such photo accompanies a passage in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s journal. In an 1868 entry titled “A Day on Mount Mansfield,” Emerson, age 64 at the time, describes hiking up Mansfield from its western flanks with his wife. They enjoyed lunch at the Summit House hotel and ventured across the ridge. Although he does not mention the Rock of Terror, the accompanying photo takes up half the page. At the very least, you’d think Emerson would have included a photo caption!

A booklet issued by the state in 1913, Vermont, The Land of Green Mountains, also mentions the Rock of Terror as a scenic locale. And Herbert Tuttle’s “A Vacation in Vermont,” which appeared in the November 1883 Harper’s Monthly Magazine and details his summer vacation in the Green Mountains, includes the following: “By a brisk walk the visitor can in fifteen minutes reach the Lips.

These are mere accumulations of great bowlders (sic), deposited there by volcanic or glacial movements, and not specially interesting, except, perhaps, the so-called ‘Rock of Terror,’ which, poised precariously on its apex, seems ready on slight provocation to roll down, and the caves, which are formed by series of overlying bowlders, though one of them is of considerable depth.”

This is an accurate description of the Rock of Terror, which, in that era, was easier to find. Today, alpine shrubbery has grown up around it, smothering its base and making it difficult, if not impossible, to reach.

Last summer, intrigued by the name and with an old postcard in hand, Darryl Smith of Huntington climbed Mt. Mansfield in search of the Rock of Terror. He found it, about 70 feet east of the Upper Lip. “Heading north on the Long Trail you can see it, but it doesn’t stand out in any way. You need to continue over the Lip and start scrambling down to the right. I haven’t gotten close to the rock yet, it’s rather precarious as the terrain is a

S

30

BALANCING ACT Inset: Georg von Trapp on Mansfield in the 1940s. Did he hike to the Rock of Terror? An historic postcard of the famous rock, and a present-day photo.

heap of humongous rocks.”

Many of the historical photos were taken from just to the northeast of the rock looking south. In some you can see the Summit House in the background. This angle shows the most dramatic view of the rock, often described as a balanced rock, which is a naturally occurring geological formation featuring a large rock or boulder that appears to be unanchored, balancing in place as if by magic.

Now for the disclaimer: If this article inspires you to go find the Rock of Terror, please use caution. It is situated in rugged and dangerous terrain. An injury could result in a long wait for help—or worse. Do not go alone. Not only is it dangerous, but going alone means no one would be there to take the photo of you standing beside the Rock of Terror.

—Kate Carter

T. rex named Sue at Montshire Museum The most iconic dinosaur that ever lived is on its way to the Montshire Museum of Science in Norwich, Vt. The exhibit, A T. rex Named Sue, features a cast of the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex ever discovered. At 42-feet long, 3,500 pounds, and 12 feet tall at the hips, the skeleton is the keystone piece of this traveling exhibition that includes replicated dinosaur fossils, video footage, free-standing interactive exhibits, and colorful graphics. Visitors will be able to get hands-on with replicas of Sue’s arm bone, tail, rib, and teeth, engage in interactive activities, learn how the T. rex saw, ate, and sniffed out prey, and view footage showing the changing perceptions of T. rex over the past hundred years.

Fossil hunter Sue Hendrickson found the specimen in 1990 in the Hell Creek Formation near Faith, South Dakota.

The Montshire is a hands-on science center on 110 acres with more than 100 interactive exhibits relating to the natural and physical sciences, technology, and more. The exhibit runs through September 7.

MORE INFO: montshire.org. Open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Susan Moeck:

Town of Stowe’s go-to person Susan Moeck is the executive assistant to Stowe’s town manager and the clerk for the select board. She and her husband, Robert, moved from Long Island to Stowe in 1987, with their son, Chris. Two years later their second son, Dan, was born at Copley Hospital. Susan and Robert have two granddaughters, a young Bassett hound named Olive, three cats, four chickens, a rooster, and a horse named Amadeus, who boards at their barn.

Susan has a great sense of humor, is interested in people, and is happy to help anyone who walks through the town office doors at the Akeley Memorial Building on Main Street.

How did you end up in Stowe?

When Robert and I got married we took a honeymoon road trip— Cooperstown, Saratoga, and Stowe. It doesn’t sound that romantic, but we had a lot of fun and we really liked Stowe. Robert worked for an aircraft company on Long Island and in the mid 1980s when their A-10 military contract ended it became obvious that his job was going to end. It seemed like a good time to move to Stowe, so we did.

the INTERVIEW

GLENN CALLAHAN

When did you start your current job with the town?

I’ve been the executive assistant to the town manager and the clerk for the select board since 2000. I started down in planning and zoning in 1997. I say “down” because our office was in the basement. We called it “the basement crew.”

Did you have any specific training for the job?

I went to secretarial school and got a great job at Citicorp in New York, where I gained a lot of experience in administration and customer service. My first position there was in the press information section of the public relations department. We were always in contact with all the executives who ran the corporation, right up to the chairman, obtaining answers to questions from the financial press writers. Financial news might not sound that exciting, but I thought it was. There is always something happening in the banking world, which in turn affects bank stocks and the market.

Do you meet everyone who comes through the front door of Stowe’s town hall?

Well, not everyone, but I do meet a lot of people—residents, second homeowners, and tourists. And I meet a lot of people on the phone.

What are your job responsibilities?

It’s a very long list! I support Town Manager Charles Safford in day-to-day activities. I handle incoming inquiries and issues and answer what I can. If I can’t answer a question I steer people in the right direction for more information. I’m in charge of the building. I work on budgets, coordinate special events, and maintain the town’s website. I prepare the annual report, which is a big job with an important deadline, but I enjoy doing it. It’s interesting to put together and I have the opportunity to be a little creative. I select a cover, write the dedication, select photos from throughout the year, and pull all the pieces together. Also, I recently took on some benefits administration. Overall, my job is always about customer service.

INTERVIEW CONDUCTED & COMPILED BY KATE CARTER

RURAL ROUTE

What is the most challenging part of your job?

Juggling all the different parts and being on top of everything. Sometimes I have to write and I’m not a creative writer, so that can be hard, but fortunately I don’t have to do it that often. If the weather is bad we get a lot of phone calls and I try to connect with the highway department to send them where they need to be. It’s also difficult when someone asks me a question and I give an answer, but it’s not the answer he or she wants to hear.

What are some of the stranger things you’ve been asked?

Well, let’s see. We had a guy who was vacationing in Stowe and he brought his trombone. He needed a place to practice where he wouldn’t disturb anyone, so we let him use the theater upstairs. We couldn’t hear him, but he seemed very happy when he left. Recently I had a visitor ask me to find out the name for the color of paint the Ski Museum was painted. Really?

It’s white! We also get calls about bears at bird feeders and people asking, “When will you pick up the dead skunk on the Mountain Road?”

What is the best thing about being the executive assistant to the town manager?

I think my job is the best job in the town because it is so diversified. But like any job, it’s also what you make it. The thing about this position is you have to want to help people and other employees. You have to be resourceful. Actually, the entire town staff is very good about being customer friendly and caring about what they do. It’s a pleasure to work with Charles Safford. Charles is really dedicated and has put together a great team of people who we are all lucky to have working for Stowe. They really care about doing their jobs well for the people who live here and work here and for the people who visit. ■

) X Q G L Q J

I R U

W K L V

D G Y H U W L V H PH Q W

ZD V

PD G H

S R V V L E O H

L Q

S D U W

ZL W K

D

J U D Q W

I U R P 86'$

5X U D O

'H Y H O R S PH Q W

33

RURAL ROUTE Ralph Heath is back.

Longtime Stowe Reporter cartoonist Ralph Heath, who drew a treasure trove of insightful cartoons over the past 20 years about local politics, community, and social mores, has compiled them all into a new book, Local Color in Black and White, Cartoons from the Stowe Reporter.

Heath pulled together the cartoon book over the past several years, after taking a leave from cartooning for this newspaper to deal with some serious health challenges.

Along with the cartoon book Heath, an immensely creative soul, compiled a book of poems, many of them about Stowe and Vermont and their people and personalities. The book is titled Reflections of a Country Poet.

Both books are filled with Stowe history. The cartoons reflect Heath’s years of observing the Vermont scene: education funding and Act 60, foliage tours, the growth of his hometown, Stowe, as a popular destination, the area’s struggles with growth, community issues, and his love of life in these hills.

Heath’s poems are profoundly and openly personal, as much about living

a life that matters as about old friends. He writes about Stowe Rotary, Riverbank Cemetery, Lefty Lewis and Willie Noyes, Lake Mansfield Trout Club, Kirkwood golf tournament, veterans, and love. And Stowe, of course.

The poems, some accompanied by photographs, are like Heath himself: thoughtful, uncomplicated, sweet, and optimistic. His poems also are on plaques around town, outside the Stowe Area Association, and in Thompson Park on the Stowe Recreation Path.

—Biddle Duke

MORE INFO: Local Color retails for $20, and is available at the Stowe Reporter, on School Street in Stowe Village. Profits will go to cancer research.

At last year’s Opera in the Gallery: Chris Curtis, owner of the West Branch Gallery, Judyth Pendell of Stowe Opera Lovers, Bruce Stasyna, and Bonnie Barnes, chair of the event.

down the lane...

It will have eight lanes, strikes and spares, and perhaps some spin on Big Lebowski’s signature White Russian, but don’t call The Sun and Ski Inn’s latest project a bowling alley.

“It’s a bowling lounge,” says Mark Vandenberg, and it will complement the inn’s “golf in miniature” course. “We’re looking at upscale bowling. Classy is the word.”

The project, which includes a bar and restaurant, will all be underground. The plan also calls for a new two-level building, which will expand the inn from 16 to 41 rooms and add a fitness area.

The bowling lounge should be ready by summer 2015.

Vandenberg says not to expect cheap beer and munchies at the bowling lounge, but rather a fancier experience. He says the restaurant will serve upscale food and wines. “Resort towns like Vail have added posh bowling lounges, as has hipster Mecca, Brooklyn, N.Y.,” he notes.“That’s what we’re tapping into.” —Tommy Gardner 34

OPERA LOVE Stowe Area Opera Lovers are looking for, well, a few good opera lovers! ••• Begun in 2009, Stowe Area Opera Lovers formed to enrich both its members’ appreciation of opera and “to expand the audience base for opera, support local and regional productions, especially the Green Mountain Opera Festival.” ••• The group has two upcoming events in Stowe.

The Emerging Artists Showcase takes place Sunday, June 8, at the Stowe Community Church at 4:30 p.m., and features Bruce Stasyna, artistic director of the Green Mountain Opera Festival, an event co-sponsor, American bass Jeffrey Beruan, and over a dozen emerging artists on the opera scene. This event is free, but donations are requested. ••• Opera in the Gallery takes place Friday, May 30, at 5:30 at West Branch Gallery in Stowe, with a reception and a brief program of song. The cost is $35. More info: stoweareaoperalovers.org

COMPILED BY MOLLY TRIFFIN

Emily and Richard Bland, Lisa Hagerty, George Gay, Jill Boardman, and Ed Izzo.

Tinseltown:

TINSELTOWN PHOTOS / MICHAEL SIPE

Helen Day Art Center benefit at Stowe Mountain Lodge, April 5, 2014 Brookie Kaltsas, Maggie Macdonald, Jess Russell, Alia Macginnis, and Danielle Nichols (seated).

Richarda Ericson, Sarah Teachout, Heidi Groff, and Amy Modum.

Guadalupe and Jeremy Peterman and Lisbeth and Chris Roncarati.

Lance Violette, Luis Calderin, Chris and Martha Mask, and Vanessa Violette. Danielle and Julie Jatlow (foreground).

Riaan and Shari Vermeulen and Monica and Jose Irauzqui.

Chris and Martha Mask.

Andy Vallance and Linda Valentine.

Meg and Seth Frenzen.

Greg Bodnick, Arjun Maini, Gigi Bodnick, Lee-Ann Healy, Philip Healy, and Greg Baracchi.

Graham and Mila Lonetto.

Arnie Kozak and Alexis Ressler.

Robin and Scott Coggins.

Kim Leslie and Jesse Schloff.

Brendan and Tara O’Reilly.

Darlyne and John McEleney and Carrie and Robert McEleney.

Mirjam and Michael McCormack, Brad Durham, Suzan Tobler, and Art Shinners.

NCAL’s Menagerie Goes Preppy Stoweflake Mountain Resort and Spa, Feb. 8, 2014 Meghan Driscoll, Rachael Barr, Sophia Minter, Annika Norden, and Grace Cavender.

Giulia and Erik Eliason.

Rita Fucillo and Tim Montgomery of Art New England.

Eric Daliere and Alison Beckwith.

Michael McCormack, Drew Steele, and Mark MacDonald.

Scott Coggins, Sebastian Sweatman, Alison Beckwith, and Chris Walton.

Brian Leven and Jacquie Mauer.

Denise Cushwa, Lisa Walton, Patti Rubin, Jessica Russell, and emcee George Mallet of WPTZ-TV.

Vintage Hollywood!

Erica Bryan and Elizabeth Daliere.

Alex Zaldastani, Mark Derry, Helen Bias, and Nate and Karen Wagner.

Mark Greenberg and Toni Barr.

James and Marcy Andrus and Derek and Marni Martens.

Karen and Peter Monsen.

MENAGERIE GOES PREPPY PHOTOS / TORI HOUSTON

37

Ladie’s Night at the Museum

Trina Hosmer, Carrie Nourjian, and Carol Van Dyke

Vermont Ski and Snowboard Museum, Nov. 25, 2013 LADIES' NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM PHOTOS / TIANA CROSS

Morgan Klein, Abigail Dunham, Natalie Herwood, Meaghan Driscoll, and Emma Hinkson.

rd Laura Godda hendorf. sc Pu n vo n and Aliso

Zumba Divas!

MJ Crouse, Simone Youkel, Stephanie Justine, and Bonnie Rand Chase.

Pascale Savard.

Vickie Alekson and Kate Carpenter.

Iron Chef Fundraiser: Sushi Yoshi Restaurant, April 9, 2014

Rory Burke.

Johnathon Nelson, DJ Dave Hoffenberg, and Ryan Molymeaus.

William Spanos, Nicole Prada, and Jacob Rosensky.

38

Ryan Molymeaus.

Fauna Hurley.

Emerge VT Waterbury-Stowe Kickoff

EMERGE PHOTOS / BEN SARLE

Cork Wine Bar and Market, Nov. 19, 2013

Liz Schlegel, former Gov, Madeleine Kunin and Emerge VT founder, Emerge Executive Director Sarah McCall, and Sue Minter.

Sarah McCall, Katina Cummings, and Kristi Lovell.

Harley Pecor, Ashley Hill, and Cholena Lotspeich.

Carol Van Dyke and Lyndall Heyer.

Tax Commissioner Mary Peterson, Drusilla Roessle, Laura Gray, Carolyn Wesley, Madeleine Murray-Clausen, and Leah Marvin-Riley.

Phoebe Pelkey, Tamatha ThomasHaase, and Joy Facos.

Toller Alloway, Max Vogel, and Jason Alton.

Kitchen Stadium!

Tim Maher and Al McEdward.

Piquette Scribner, Ashley Airoldi, Jennifer Echarte.

IRON CHEF PHOTOS / MAGGIE KLEIN & DAN VILLAIRE

39

RURAL ROUTE PHIL LINTILHAC

Knowing

NASON ADAMS a true Vermonter Did you ever know a Nason? I knew only one, and will probably never know another.

The scarcity of Google results indicates it is not a mainstream name. This is confirmed by the squiggly red line under the letters, trying to convince me as I type that I made a spelling mistake. It is easy to pronounce, rolling off the tongue without catching, and has a smooth, pleasant resonance. It seems to be left over from an older age and has managed to elude becoming a trend without being totally obscure.

I met Nason in the mid 1970s. I’d heard from a hang gliding friend who lived in Nebraska Valley that Nason Adams might be ready to sell some of his land there. I had entered my roaring 20s and had developed an uncontrollable passion for sugaring. My enthusiasm was well beyond sensible. With a college buddy, I had built a tarpaper sugar shack on his parents’ housing lot. We had a few hundred buckets, most of which were a quarter-mile away, on whose land I never knew. I was bursting at the seams, and the hillsides of Nebraska Valley looked like the perfect place to set up a real sugarhouse. I was young enough not to be bothered by the fact that I only had $680 to my name.

At the time, Nason owned most all of the land surrounding his house, on both sides of the road, in the central part of Nebraska Valley, where it opens to its widest point. Sadly, times were changing and his way of making a living off the land was dying. The net income from selling maple syrup, cider, and firewood was in a freefall, while land taxes were skyrocketing. Nason had been making up the difference by selling land.

My friend and I approached him on a few occasions and quickly discovered that Nason loved to chat and tell stories, but getting him to talk business was beyond our capacity. He indicated he might sell some land (maybe that knoll on the west side), but from there he quickly directed the conversation to more enlightening topics. I’m sure he was concerned we didn’t have the money, but his reluctance to talk price went beyond that. It seemed he considered attaching a price tag to part of his inheritance an indecent waste of time.

In desperation, I asked a fellow who had recently purchased a lot from him on the edge of what used to be his cow pasture how he had managed to do it. He told me to take the time to get to know Nason and the ice would slowly melt.

This advice worked, though it took over two years. At regular intervals we would visit and engage in long conversations, often about his recollections of life in Nebraska Valley. His peaceful manner and dry sense of humor usually curbed my youthful impatience, and I was frequently overwhelmed by his perfect recall of the past.

Dipping into his wealth of memories, he might recall a day 40 years earlier, including the exact time of day, weather, and names of faces he hadn’t seen since, telling it like it was yesterday. He had an uncanny way of putting weird weather patterns or sugar seasons in perspective by comparing them in vivid detail to ones of long ago.

It was, however, his depth of sugaring knowledge that awed me the most. It didn’t matter that he hadn’t embraced the latest technology. His experience and innate sense of making maple syrup always both inspired and humbled me.

Even after having sugared here for 34 years, whenever I was in Nason’s presence, up until the day he died, I was the apprentice.

—Lew Coty •••• Lew Coty is a Stowe native who has been living in Nebraska Valley for 34 years. When he’s not trying to make a living sugaring or woodworking, he can be found exploring and photographing the backcountry on foot or skis. Nason H. Adams, a life-long resident of Nebraska Valley, where he ran a maple sugaring operation, died Oct. 16, 2013, at age 84.

DINING • LODGING • SHOPPING • GALLERIES • REAL ESTATE • COMPLIMENTARY summer / fall 2013

G U I D E

&

M A G A Z I

N E

FOUR YEARS RUNNING! For the fourth year in a row the Stowe Guide & Magazine took first place honors at the New England Newspaper & Press Association’s annual awards in the niche publication category. Judges said, “One of the best visitor’s guides in New England. Fantastic ad support. Solid editorial, and that’s not often found in these types of publications.”

40

YOGA • FARM-TO-FORK • ITHIEL FALLS REVIVAL • GAME WARDENS • IPA HIGHWAY

41

RURAL ROUTE

SMUGGLERS’ NOTCH: STEVEN FACCIO

It’s official. Efforts to reintroduce the fast-flying peregrine, the largest falcon in North America, have worked.

Use of the insecticide DDT, not banned until 1971, led to the eradication of peregrine falcons east of the Mississippi. Peregrines ingested DDT from smaller prey, resulting in thin egg shells and a low survival rate for chicks.

Efforts to reintroduce the bird to the East Coast have been wildly successful. The human-induced effort, called hacking, brought peregrines back to Vermont in 1984, after a 40- to 50-year absence. In addition to relocating orphaned chicks, professional falconers attempted deliberate breeding programs, and Vermont benefitted from those efforts.

Vermont now has 35 to 41 peregrine falcon sites where the birds return every year to nest.

One such site is Smugglers’ Notch.

“Smugglers’ Notch is a classic peregrine nesting site, with its high-elevation sheer rock cliffs. Peregrines have occupied the cliffs for 27 years,” says John Buck, wildlife biologist and nongame bird project leader for the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department. “The Notch is one of the longest-standing sites in Vermont. It’s a natural nesting site, not human induced with hacking birds.”

Peregrines are propelled by the urge to reproduce, so they scout for appropriate nesting sites. They do not mate for life, but they do return to the same site, year after year.

Quite territorial, peregrines will defend their nesting site, which is often just bare rock, with no bedding. Once the laying season begins, typically at the end of March, the female will lay one to four eggs. Both parents tend to the clutch, hunting, feeding, and rearing the young chicks.

Along with the annual return of the birds comes the return of bird spotters, who hope to catch a glimpse of the falcons. Buck says the biggest obstacle to spotting peregrines in Smugglers’ Notch is the amount of rock area. To see the birds, which are the same color as the surrounding rock, you have to wait for them to take flight.

“We rely heavily on local volunteers to spot them,” says Buck. “We have partnered with Audubon Vermont in Huntington to monitor them. We use field glasses and spotting scopes and watch for incubation behavior and the exchange of food. Young ones will soon poke their heads up, waiting to be fed. That’s when we can sometimes get a chick count.”

Smugglers’ Notch is on public land and gets a high volume of visitors. Peregrines are skittish and don’t like intervention, especially from above. To ensure successful reproduction, the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department asks people to stay away from nesting sites. Generally nests are in places most people can’t get to, but occasionally rock climbers come close.

To prevent intrusion the state closes off areas where they believe the falcons are nesting.

Closures begin in March and usually continue through late July. “The falcons are doing well in

I

n just three decades, the Jewish Community of Greater Stowe has evolved from an informal group of Jews gathering in each other’s homes for holiday potluck dinners to an organization with a building, a board, and a budget.

For members of the local Jewish community, the growth of JCOGS has been an exercise in faith—and not just religious faith. The first leap of faith took place a decade ago with the construction of the JCOGS community center on Cape Cod Road in Stowe, a two-story multipurpose building that hosts yearround gatherings, events, and services.

The community this summer will welcome its first full-time rabbi, another significant milestone in the history of this young organization—and a sign of the health and vitality of 42

FULLTIME RABBI COMES ON BOARD AT JCOGS

the local Jewish community. David Fainsilber joined JCOGS as a part-time religious leader last year while completing his fifth year of rabbinical studies at Hebrew College in Newton, Mass. After his ordination this summer, David and his family—wife Alison Link and their two sons, Adar and Yonah—will move to Stowe.

Meaningful relationships and a feeling of connectedness are at the center of any healthy community, and that’s what JCOGS is working hard to foster. Rabbi Fainsilber reminds us that Jews are more integrated in society now than they have ever been in their 3,000year history. “We must capture this unprecedented moment in our history by using the life lessons of our past,” he says. “We are working toward a common purpose—to learn and teach the rich set of values that our tradition has passed on to us so that we might

GLENN CALLAHAN

S t o we ’ s J e w i s h C o m m u n i t y :

Smugglers’ Notch,” Buck says. “Everyone has been very cooperative and helpful.”

Peregrine falcons typically leave the area in August and September, heading down the Atlantic Coast, across the Gulf Coast and Cuba to Chile and Venezuela, returning to breed the following March.

This migration pattern is the longest of all North American birds. —Kate Carter

leave the world a better place than how we received it.”

—Amanda Kuhnert

MORE INFO: Special service to welcome David Fainsilber, Friday, June 27. jcogs.org, (802) 253-1800.

SHOPS Distinctive shopping for all ages 2 miles from the center of Stowe on the left 1799 MOUNTAIN ROAD

t’s Vermon xciting most e re for toy sto ears y 9 3

Once Upon a Time Toys

Come build an R/C dino, then hear it roar!

Lego/Playmobil, Breyer, music boxes, FANTASTIC science and building toys, plus balloons, party and art supplies.

253-8319 • stowetoys.com

MOUNTAIN e

CHEESE & WINE

Vermont and Imported Specialty Food • Over 1,000 wines • Fresh Baguettes • Maple Syrup • Imported & Domestic Cheeses • Coffee Beans

802-253-8606 • www.mtncheesewine.com

Ladies’ Apparel, Accessories, & Lingerie • • • • • •

sportswear sleepwear swimwear scarves handbags jewelry

open daily 253-4183

Stowe’s most irresistible gift shop Fun to functional handcrafted products and a wonderful selection of cards for all occasions.

802-253-8318 www.SamaraCardsandGifts.com

RURAL ROUTE ❶

❷

❸

❺

❹

Want to be a Globetrotter? Send your high-res photo to ads@stowereporter.com. We’ll pick the best one—or two!—and run it in the next edition.

44

<ĂƚŚĞƌŝŶĞ 'ƌĂǀĞƐ͕ Dd͕ ,^ ŽĚLJǁŽƌŬ dŚĞƌĂƉŝƐƚ ^ƚŽǁĞ zŽŐĂ ĞŶƚĞƌ

1. Erol Kadioglu and MaryKate Karnes of Pelham, N.Y., at Sultan Ahmed Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey, May 2013, on a visit to see family. Erol’s family has vacationed at Stowe’s Trapp Family Lodge for over 25 years. “I went with Erol’s family this February during President’s Day weekend to try skiing for the first time,” says MaryKate. 2. WCAX-TV’s Lyn Jarvis and video editor Marco Ayala pose in the foreground of the Taj Mahal in Agra, India. Lyn is the former producer of Across The Fence (now contributing editor) and Marco is the show’s video editor. “We were in India on vacation and will produce a show about the trip,” Marco says. 3. Meg Cossaboon of Clarksboro, N.J., tells us: “Summers are still spent traveling to Stowe, but I am still globetrotting and enjoying every adventure. In the ancient Greek city of Ephesus, we spent some time exploring and took this photo in front of the Library of Celsus. The library was commissioned in the second century and on completion was stocked with more than 12,000 scrolls, but no copy of the Stowe Magazine!” No problem. Meg, a frequent Globetrotter contributor, brought one along. 4. Jim and Chantal Binginot, Allison Tewhill, and Don McDowell (a Stowe High science teacher), all from Morrisville, found Trapp Family Lodge while visiting Monteverde, Costa Rica, in 2013. “We went in and it seems like a nice place. We heard the owners are from Austria,” quips Allison. 5. Dr. Marcy Lorraine O’Neil, who just joined the staff of Dr. Robert C. Bauman & Associates in Stowe, snowboards on the Engelberg glacier in Switzerland at 10,000 feet. “The magazine was a gift from Dr. Bauman’s wife along with a care package of other local treats and snacks” which O’Neil took along on her January honeymoon.

ϱϭϱ DŽƐĐŽǁ ZŽĂĚ ϴϬϮͲϮϱϯͲϴϰϮϳ ŬŐƌĂǀĞƐŵƚΛŐŵĂŝů͘ĐŽŵ ǁǁǁ͘ƐƚŽǁĞLJŽŐĂ͘ĐŽŵ

45

RURAL ROUTE

Eddie, a one-eyed pit bull, knows firsthand the importance of animal rescue organizations. His owner adopted him after he was abandoned, hit by a car, and seriously injured.

Now he’s written a book, Eddie’s Tails: Animal Stories of Rescue and Love. In it, he shares the stories of six of his canine friends who have found families through Justice for Dogs, a Wolcott-based animal rescue organization.

Profits from the self-published book will be donated to Justice for Dogs and used to build an animal sanctuary for abandoned and abused farm animals.

Eddie’s owner, Claudia Stauber of Morristown, decided the book’s message would be best received if it were written from a dog’s point of view “Kids might relate to it a bit better,” says Stauber. “I didn’t want it to be an ego trip for me. I wanted it to be a fundraiser for Justice for Dogs.”

Stauber, who makes a living building and renting out vacation cabins, had never considered writing a book until the idea came up at a women’s group she attends. “They were talking about children’s stories and how touching they are. I thought dog rescue stories would be touching.”

Each story in the book is based on an actual Justice for Dogs rescue.

The late Katherine Washburn of Stowe provided the illustrations for the book, using photos of the actual dogs featured in the stories as inspiration. “I just knew she was the only one I wanted to illustrate the book,” Stauber says. “I love all of the paintings she did for the book.”

Eddie spent his first five years tied up in a backyard. He was later adopted by a kind older woman, but was passed between several homes after she died.

“By the time we found him, he was really emaciated,” Stauber says. “He had been hit by a car. His jaw was broken, his skull was bashed in, and his eye was bulging out of his head.”

Eddie eventually made a full recovery. His eye had to be removed, but other than occasionally running into things, he doesn’t seem to be bothered by it. A pit bull, Stauber calls Eddie “a great ambassador for his breed.”

He’s very friendly with people and quickly becomes the center of attention when he accompanies her at book signings. Stauber is already thinking about her next book, which will also focus on animal rescue with stories about dogs, cats, a horse, and “maybe a chicken.”

—Lisa McCormack

ANIMAL RESCUES: lending a paw

MORE INFO: Visit eddiejustice.com or the Eddie’s Tails Facebook page to learn more about Eddie and his friends.

A mysterious visitor vacationed along Route 100 in Waterbury Center this winter. A year-round Canadian native to the arctic tundra, the northern hawk owl is rarely seen south of the border, but one particular bird ventured south to see Vermont. And, much like a typical tourist, the bird was likely here for the food, the scenery, or both.

Allan Strong, an ornithologist and associate dean of the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Vermont, says the owl most likely enjoyed a steady diet of field mice and other roaming rodents.

Whereas most owls are nocturnal and are only active at night, the hawk owl is a diurnal raptor. This means bird-lovers can see these elusive species in flight, on the hunt, or perched on a branch in broad daylight. Only about 20 hawk owl sightings have been reported in Vermont since the first recorded sighting in 1903, Strong says.

The bird tends to stay put for hours at a time, preferably in a high perch, intently surveying the open land for food. The northern hawk is a medium-sized owl with a long, tapered tail and short, pointed wings.

Piercing yellow eyes peer out from beneath a dark crown speckled with white spots.

“When birds like this end up here, it’s usually a question of food and habitat,” Strong says. “Ultimately, we don’t know what its drive is. It could be a temperature factor as well.” —Miranda Orso

46

ROBERT SALTER

N o r t h e r n H aw k O w l : BIRDERS FLOCK TO SEE RARE VISITOR

hope for vermont’s ash trees?

Vermont’s ash trees could soon face a devastating threat from the emerald ash borer.

While the borer hasn’t reached Vermont yet, the state is surrounded, with sightings in Concord, N.H., Dalton, Mass., New York’s Hudson Valley, and just 30 miles north of the Vermont border in Carignan, Quebec, according to a Vermont forestry Web site.

But hopeful signs are on the horizon. First, woodpeckers and nuthatches are getting to the invasive borers. They can eat between 40 percent to 85 percents of borers in an ash tree.

Second, there are two Asian parasitic wasps that kill emerald ash borers very efficiently. While the federal government is beginning to breed them to send to infested areas, the bad news is that it will be a decade before they are available in sufficient quantity to stop the borers’ spread. Finally, two pesticides, emamectin benzoate and Tree-age, can spare a tree’s life. Both must be applied by a certified pesticide applicator.

When first reported, the suggested defense against the half-inch long Asian beetle and its tunneling larva was to cut down all the ash trees around an infestation. But those efforts, mostly in the Midwest, have proven ineffective. Forest health experts now suggest leaving dead trees to contribute nutrients and provide nesting spots for wildlife and birds—including those woodpeckers and nuthatches. The hope is that some trees will demonstrate immunity, or at least resistance, to the borers.

Not transporting firewood is the most effective way to stop the borer’s spread from infested areas, and state officials urge visitors not to bring firewood into the state, or to move firewood too far from its origins. The state also recommends buying only ash trees that have been certified free of the emerald ash borer, and to regularly inspect your ash trees and to learn to identify the small, bright green adult beetles.

If we can slow the insects down, there may be time to save some of our beautiful ash trees.

—Victoria Weber

6 Free Cider Donuts with every $25 purchase

MORE INFO: Visit vtinvasives.org/tree-pests.

47

COURTESY PHOTOS

RURAL ROUTE

Golf is an ancient sport so why not play it with antique clubs?

That’s just what aficionados of hickory golf do, playing the game with wooden-shafted clubs made prior to 1935, just about the time metal shafts gained popularity.

Hickory golf grew out of a passion to preserve the feel and shotmaking of a bygone era. Hickory tournaments can be played with a variety of wooden clubs, but those made with hickory, because of its strength and durability, are the clear choice of most players.

Events are held around the world and Vermont is no exception. The seventh Vermont Hickory Open will be held this year on Oct. 3 – 5 at the Stowe Country Club.

“Vermont has a strong hickory golf culture. It is one of the leading states in the U.S. for hosting hickory golf events,” says Jay Cooke, tournament director of the Vermont Hickory Golf Association. “The Vermont Hickory Open has been growing by 10 to 12 percent every year since it started. We were stunned to get Stowe Country Club for the first weekend in October, a premiere fall foliage weekend. It’s a beautiful course and good for hickory players.”

The Vermont Hickory Open welcomes any skill level—man, woman, or child. If you don’t own your own set of hickory clubs rental sets are available and VHGA members will provide instruction. “The clubs have a different dynamic, so we’ll talk about the swing and which clubs to use, and we’ll hit a few practice balls before the tournament starts. It usually takes about nine holes to get used to a different set of clubs, whether it’s hickory or iron,” says Cooke. “Once you get used to them you’ll hit just fine.”

Cooke says many people have the idea that hickory golf is much harder to play than modern golf. “Hickory is more about the experience than the intensity of modern tournament golf,” Cooke says. “Modern golf is testosterone driven.

Advertising is aimed mainly at men who care about how far they hit the ball. A good player will hit 240 to 270 yards with a hickory club, and 270 yards or more with a modern club. But playing golf is about so much more than distance.”

Then there’s the clothing. Traditionally, some people play hickory golf in period costume. “It’s a matter of personal taste,” says Cooke. “Some people enjoy dressing in period costume, while some are more interested in the actual play, and playing with hickory clubs. At the Vermont Hickory Open about half dress up and half don’t.”

At this year’s tournament, the Vermont Hickory Golf Association will officially launch the Vermont Golf Museum, an online museum celebrating the history of golf in Vermont and Vermont’s impact on the growth of golf in the U.S. The creation of the Vermont Golf Hall of Fame will also be announced, along with the first inductees. “The hall of fame is not going to be exclusively about setting records, but rather there will be attention paid to the people who impacted the community or helped get young people involved in golf,” says Cooke. “This year’s Hickory Open will be much more global and include a lot about the history of golf in Vermont.”

—Kate Carter

VERMONT HICKORY OPEN: Oct. 4 – 5, with a practice round Oct. 3. • Stowe Country Club, 744 Cape Cod Road • Jay Cooke, stowesigns@gmail.com, or Bob Titterton, bobtitterton@gmail.com • vthickoryopen.org.

48

49

RURAL ROUTE

Art on Park, Stowe’s local artisans market on Park Street in Stowe Village, opens for the season on June 26, from 5:30 - 8:30 p.m., and offers more than 30 artisans and artists—jewelers, potters, artists, photographers, fiber artists, specialty food producers, and more. It’s a favorite Thursday night stop for many locals and visitors, according to Stowe Vibrancy, which puts on the weekly Thursday night gatherings. Art on Park runs through August 28.

Each week features live music and local food. Look for updates on facebook.com/artonpark.

GLENN CALLAHAN

ure, you can take a challenging hike up Mt. Mansfield, the highest peak in Vermont. But should you prefer a more casual, leisurely walk—and still be able to gaze upon the highest peak in Vermont— Spruce Peak Pathways is for you.

This scenic path is just the ticket for walkers and joggers who want a flat and mellow trail near the base of Mt. Mansfield and Spruce Peak.

The 1.7-mile multi-use path meanders alongside a stream, past a waterfall, across bridges, around the Stowe Mountain Club golf course, through Spruce Peak Village, and past Stowe Mountain Lodge. The first section was completed in 2012 and expansions are already in the works.

“The project began as a conversation with Spruce Peak homeowners who wanted a place close by where they could be active and explore the environment,” says Sam Gaines, president of the nonprofit Spruce Peak Resort Association, a group of Spruce Peak businesses and homeowners that funded the project. “The broader plan is to have a network that will connect to other walking trails nearby, and to Bingham Falls and Barnes Camp. We want to make connections and work with the community to extend the network of recreation paths in the area.”

The path, which is mostly crushed stone with some dirt sections, is a perfect surface for running. Last summer the Spruce Peak Resort held a 5k fun run on it as part of a fundraiser for the Green Mountain Club’s restoration of the Barnes Camp, and to raise awareness about the path. It’s also great for snowshoeing, and it’s smooth enough to push a baby stroller. Dogs are allowed, and poop bags

FUN RUN This year’s Fun Run on Spruce Peak Pathways takes place August 9. stowe.com.

and bins are strategically located along the way.

Anyone is welcome on the Spruce Peak Pathway.

It’s easy to find and easy to follow. Just look for pathway signs near the entrance to Spruce Peak and along Spruce Peak Road. Parking is nearby, in the base area parking lot. You can also access the path from the front entrance to Stowe Mountain Lodge.

—Kate Carter

ART ON PARK LIVE MUSIC June 26 Chad Hollister July 3 Abby Sherman/Mike Wilson July 10 Lesley Grant July 17 Funky Crustaceans Lite July 24 Rob Williams of Phineas Gage July 31 TBD August 7 Big Lonesome August 14 Jim Charonko August 21 Seth Yacovone August 28 TBD

SAVE THE DATE: December 5 – 6 • A Traditional Christmas in Stowe Village • Caroling • Tree lighting • Children’s lantern parade • Helen Day Art Center’s Members Art Show and Festival of Lights • Christmas and family festivities • Santa • Alpine Christmas Market.

50

GLENN CALLAHAN; TWO AT LEFT: STUART BERTLAND

s

pathways

./&)$. *# *0- )/"-) /&*) ' 2 -! &))&)$ &)".

-" ( &,0"0-. *0-. *# /%" &)"-4 / ( )! +( "' 3 *) *0- "-- " 2&/% *06 -") % *0-("/7 %""." ' /" "-(*)/ " +'" -5("

*4!") ''"4 &)"-4 &. *)1")&")/'4 '* /"! "/2"") 0-'&)$/*) )! /*2" "-(*)/ &) /%" /*2) *# ( -&!$" / /%" -*..-* !. *# *0/". )!

"1") (&'". #-*( /%" . ")& 42 4 /%-*0$% (0$$'"- . */ %

"-(*)/ *0/" ( -&!$" "-(*)/

222 *4!")1 ''"4 *(

51

VERMONT ICELANDIC ADVENTURES

DISCOVER VERMONTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S UNMATCHED BEAUTY with a riding vacation at the Vermont Icelandic Horse Farm. Explore miles of spectacular trails on the most comfortable riding horse in the world.

Riding in Autumn is truly an unforgettable experience on our gaited horses from Iceland.

TRAIL RIDES Mary Chudzik, PT Phil Sweet, PT Karen Westervelt PT, MS, OCS, ATC, PGDipHSc Jane Eliasson, PT

Expert, personalized care.

With 100 years of combined experience we can help you reach your goals.

802-253-2273 pinnacleptvermont.com

52

OF VARYING LENGTHS ARE OFFERED, including special inn to inn tours featuring some of the finest accommodations in the Mad River Valley. Choice of full-day, half-day, 2 hour, or hour long trail rides. Open all year.

Come ride or just come visit ...

For more information and a color brochure call

802-496-7141

Vermont Icelandic Horse Farm

P.O. Box 577 Waitsfield, Vermont 05673

TRAIL JOURNAL SINGLETRACK Roger Murphy navigates through the woods in Adams Camp. Inset: Kimmer’s Trail.

ADAMS CAMP Kimmer’s and the Haul STORY / Roger Murphy PHOTOGRAPHS / Jake Goss

rom lycra-clad “weight weenies,” who keep their 20-year-old Subarus on the road so they can buy the newest titanium bling for their carbon-fiber steed, to backwoods retro-grouches, who only ride rigid bikes geared with a punishing single speed, mountain bikers can be an eccentric lot.

But they all seek the same thing: ephemeral moments of grace on singletrack.

The mountain bike scene in the Stowe area has evolved from a sport enjoyed on bootleg trails, often without landowner permission, to one supported and embraced by the general public, riders or not. With the recent publication of the Stowe Mountain Bike Club’s Stowe and Waterbury Mountain Bike Trails Map, mountain biking has officially come of age.

Two of the gems in the Stowe Mountain Bike Club’s crown are Kimmer’s Trail and Hardy’s Haul. Designed and built by Hardy Avery, a founder of the Stowe Mountain Bike Club and owner of Sustainable Trailworks, which builds “shared-use trails throughout the Northeast,” these two trails opened to considerable fanfare; Kimmer’s in August 2011 and Hardy’s Haul the following summer. Located in the Adams Camp area of Trapp Family Lodge that was permanently conserved by the Stowe Land Trust in 2006, these two trails constitute a roughly eight-mile loop and are prime examples of everything modern mountain biking trails aspire to be. l 55

F

Stowe Mountain Bike Club plans to spend roughly $60,000 this year on the Cady Hill Trails, according to SMBC President Jay Provencher.

Planned improvements include a new “flow trail” and re-routing existing trails. It costs $2 to $3 per foot to repair a trail and between $6 to $8 a foot to build a new one. Statewide, only 10 percent of riders join their local mountain biking club, which means the overwhelming majority of riders benefit from the participation of a few. That’s why the SMBC is looking to expand its membership. More members means more money for trail building and maintenance, as well as stronger representation for riders when negotiating with landowners and government officials.

53

THE HISTORY OF STOWE COUNTRY CLUB

STAR POWER

TRICK SHOT Joe Kirkwood with one of the oversized drivers he used in trick-shot exhibitions. The trick-shot master and his bag of tricks. Joe Kirkwood.

ON THE LINKS Joe Kirkwood left big impression on golf in Stowe

J

oe Kirkwood is undoubtedly one of the best golfers this country ever produced, but he is better know for his trick-shot exhibitions than his tournament play.

The world-renowned golfer is credited for doing more to popularize the game of golf around the world than anyone in his generation, and he was the first professional at the Stowe Country Club where a tournament in his honor is still played every year.

Joe Kirkwood (1897-1970) was born in Sydney, Australia, and by age 10 he’d left home to work on a sheep ranch in the Outback, where his boss was a golf enthusiast and where Joe developed his love for the game. He made his own clubs from saplings and snakeskin and practiced nightly.

By 1920, Kirkwood had won the Australian Open championship with a record (until 1934) score of 290 for four rounds. At St. Andrews, Scotland, Kirkwood was in contention for the 1921 Open, but faded to tie for sixth place; the next year, he beat the best professionals in Britain by an astonishing 13 strokes in a tournament at Lossiemouth.

54

He again looked certain to win the Open in 1923, but lost by three strokes, finishing fourth.

In 1927, he tied for third. Joe fared well on tour and over these early years won the Canadian Open, North and South Open, Illinois Open, California Open, Texas Open, and was runner-up in the Gleneagles Tournament.

After taking up permanent residence in the U.S., in 1926 Kirkwood became a professional at several leading American golf clubs and toured the world giving trick-shot exhibitions.

He could play superbly both left- and righthanded, drive a ball off prone assistants’ noses or a watch-face—once hitting a hole-in-one while so doing—hit two balls at once in different directions, and hit a ball long distances from under an onlooker’s foot.

He and fellow champion golfer Walter Hagen traveled extensively in Asia, Africa, and the Americas; Kirkwood reckoned that he played on more than 6,000 courses. The pair popularized the use of wooden tees and their life on tour became legendary, combining Hagen’s love of drink and Kirkwood’s love of women.

As the first head professional at Stowe

Country Club, Joe Kirkwood initiated a tournament in 1968 to benefit the local junior golf program. The Joe Kirkwood Memorial Tournament, which still raises money for junior golf, takes place June 26 - 29 at the Stowe Country Club.

Joe Kirkwood is well-remembered in Stowe and is buried here. His grave marker is a large granite boulder with one of his trick-shot clubs carved at the top. The inscription is a little ditty that Joe was fond of using. “Tell your stories of hard-luck shots, of each shot straight and true.

But when you are done, remember, son, that nobody cares but you.”

—Lynn Altadonna ••• Lynn Altadonna is the historian at Stowe Country Club and author of The History of Stowe Country Club.

MORE INFO: This year’s Joe Kirkwood Memorial Golf Tournament is June 26 - 29. To register, go to kirkwoodgolftournament.com.

Vermont’s Best Fly Fishing Retail Shop Perhaps the most remarkable achievement in their design and execution is that both seasoned and novice riders can enjoy them.

Kimmer’s, originally designed as the “downhill” portion of the loop, is full of switchbacks, tight berms, bridges, and rock features, and each of those daunting elements offers a “no shame” bypass.

The trail is unpredictable and flowy; many riders try to see how far they can go without pedaling, and Avery’s vast experience on two wheels clearly informed his trail design.

(Beware of his signature pedal-grabbing trailside rocks, which keep you honest and prevent you from taking turns that are too wide.)

Kimmer’s features fast sections, technical challenges, and air-time opportunities along its length, and while weather and extensive use over the last few seasons has made it less buffed out, the Stowe Mountain Bike Club does a tremendous job of maintaining the trail. The bottom of Kimmer’s connects with the Stowe Derby Trail, which brings you to the bottom of Hardy’s Haul, your loop back to the top.

Hardy’s is a thoroughly pleasurable uphill.

The trail gains elevation gradually, rolling through the Adams Camp property and switching back on itself in steeper sections. It’s gentler than Kimmer’s, wider, and with a longer field of view, making it easy to keep an eye out for downhill bikers. This is important because all of the things that make Hardy’s Haul a great uphill trail make it an even more enjoyable downhill run, which is why it’s not unusual to find bikers riding the loop in the opposite direction than originally intended.

Starting at the top, Hardy’s Haul tops out on an artfully designed bridge-hugging exposed rock. The trail teases riders into staying off the brakes and seeing how far they can go without pedaling or braking. “Pumping the bike,” as it is called, is an advanced skill in building and maintaining speed, and Hardy’s Haul is the perfect trail to work on that technique. The same berms that make the uphill enjoyable return the favor on the way down.

On a busy summer day—busy meaning that you might actually encounter other riders on the trail—it’s not unusual to hear distant whoops from people reveling in the turns arising from Avery’s imaginative trail building.

Before you head out, pick up the map at a local bike shop and see how all the different trail systems in Stowe fit together. Find out when regular shop rides are scheduled for some free guiding and trail advice, and join the Stowe Mountain Bike club to support all of its access and trail-building efforts. ■

ADAMS CAMP

WE OFFER MANY KINDS OF FISHING ADVENTURES! Vermont’s most experienced guide service • DAILY instructional fly fishing stream tours • Drift boat trips on Vermont’s pristine rivers and lakes • One-day fly fishing schools • FREE weekly casting clinics • Live bait • Fishing supplies

VISIT OUR HUNTING DEPARTMENT! • Extreme selection of turkey and deer scents • Camouflage • Decoys • Blinds • Tree Stands • Big Game Weigh-In Station

Route 100 South, Stowe, VT • (802) 253-7346 • OPEN ALL YEAR

W W W. F LY R O D S H O P. C O M

MORE INFO: Pick up a copy of the Stowe Mountain Bike Club trails guide. stowemtnbike.com.

55

GLENN CALLAHAN

FIRST PERSON

SUP, DUDE? Stand up and paddle!

STORY / Dr. Bob Arnot PHOTOGRAPHS / Kate Carter

SUP Marina Knight with her standup paddleboard at the Waterbury Reservoir.

Paddleboarders enjoy a quiet, misty summer morning.

Nicki Houghton works out with her dog on board.

56

I’m a lifelong aerobic sports enthusiast. For me, competition is the 21st-century cocktail party.

I’ve done them all: Ironmen, triathlons, marathons, big wall ice, Himalayan climbs, the Canadian ski marathon, 24-hour bike races, speed skating.

I compete for the fitness and youth these sports give me, but more than anything for the camaraderie and excitement. I love the carnival-like atmosphere of the citizen cross-country races at Trapp Family Lodge, the streaming hordes in the long-distance Vasaloppet crosscountry ski race, the fierce competition at the Stowe Bike Club time trials, the lung-busting climb in the Race to the Top of Vermont on Mt. Mansfield, the thrill of the peleton in the Kelly Brush Century Ride, and the raw fear of plunging down the old Adams Camp chute in the Stowe Derby.

Winning? I’m happy not to be dropped from the pack!

As a lifelong early adapter, I’m always on the lookout for the next big sport and an opportunity to apply everything I’ve learned over the years from other sports and give myself one more shot at a podium.

My motto? Get into sports early, get good, and get out before the really good guys get in.

So you can imagine my enthusiasm when I discovered SUP racing. How hard could it be to beat a surfer?

If you are a cyclist, cross-country skier, canoeist, oarsman or kayaker, stand-up paddle racing may be your next big sport. For Nordic skiers, no summer activity demands more of your heart and lungs or uses more leg, core, arm,

back, abdomen, and leg muscles. It’s the ultimate cross-training sport. For anyone just trying to stay fit, it is the best overall workout—ever.

If you’re a surfer wannabe but didn’t have the balance or couldn’t “pop up” fast enough or are getting old and creaky, SUP is for you.

These are the earliest days of SUP racing on the East Coast. So get in now!

Where to SUP? Right down the road from Stowe, at the Waterbury Reservoir, is one of the best places on earth to train: Staggeringly great scenery, flat water protected on all sides, and when you crash, there’s just a cool, refreshing place to land. It’s easy to find. Take Route 100 South to Waterbury Center village and turn right onto Reservoir Road.

••• Dr. Bob Arnot of Stowe has written more than a dozen books about nutrition and health, and has been a correspondent for NBC Nightly News, Dateline NBC, and The Today Show.

MORE INFO: For more about the Vermont Paddleboard Festival, go to vtpaddlefest.com.

57

OUTDOOR PRIMER

① ①

②

⑤

⑥

③

MOUNTAIN & ROAD BIKE EVENTS JULY 12: Raid Lamoille 9 a.m. start. 100k, 6,500-foot climb, Stowe and environs. raidlamoille.com.

JULY 11-13: Vermont Mountain Bike Festival Sports trails, Ascutney Basin: Group rides. Kids activities. Demos. Food. 50 miles of single track. BBQ. vmba.org AUGUST 31: Darn Tough Ride 100-mile century ride, shorter options. Commodores Inn, Stowe. bikereg.com/23190.

CLOCKWISE FROM ABOVE: PAUL ROGERS; STOWE MOUNTAIN RESORT; JAKE GOSS; PAUL ROGERS, PAUL ROGERS; INSET: CALLAHAN

58

④

Golf More than a dozen courses are within an hour’s drive, but one of the state’s most spectacular is the 6,213-yard, 18-hole Stowe Country Club.

Stoweflake Resort features a 9-hole, par-3 course, professional putting greens, and a 350-yard driving range, while Copley Country Club in Morrisville offers a sweet nine holes. Don’t have time for a full 18? Try Stowe Golf Park, an 18-hole putting course that simulates a real golf course.

A bike in the woods Whether you want a gentle ride along the 5.5-mile award-winning Stowe bike path with its views of Mount Mansfield or a teeth-chattering, lung-burning trip through Cady Hill trails, strap on your helmet and get riding. Varied terrain and hundreds of miles of trails make the region a perfect biking destination. To get started, stop into a local bike shop or go to stowemtnbike.com.

Adventure mountain The Gondola at Stowe Mountain Resort takes skiers up Mt. Mansfield in winter to some of the best ski slopes in the East. In summer, it takes passengers to just below the summit of Mansfield for some of the best views around, and serves as a starting point to the rocky summit of Vermont’s highest peak. Due to some construction projects, the Gondola will not operate until September, just in time for peak foliage season. Instead, try the Auto Toll Road, which winds 3.7 miles through cool, green tunnels of vegetation and past sweeping vistas to the top of Mt. Mansfield. Access the Long Trail and the extensive trail network from the summit area, or just enjoy a relaxing picnic and enjoy the views of Vermont's Green Mountains, the White Mountains of New Hampshire, Lake Champlain, and the Adirondacks.

Paddle sports Local outfitters offer river trips on the Lamoille and Winooski rivers, where you can canoe past dairy farms and through quintessential Vermont villages, all the while soaking in sweeping views. Or if you prefer, launch a kayak on Lake Eden, Lake Elmore, Caspian Lake, Wolcott Pond, or Waterbury Reservoir. Canoes and paddleboards are welcome everywhere, such as Long Pond in Eden, Green River Reservoir in Hyde Park, and Little Elmore Pond.

Path of recreation Stowe’s nationally recognized 5.5-mile walking and hiking greenway starts in the village behind the Stowe Community Church. While never far from civilization, the path offers scenic views of the West Branch River and Mt. Mansfield. Other access points are on Weeks Hill Road, Luce Hill Road, on the Mountain Road next to the Alpenrose Motel, and at the path’s end on Brook Road.

Swimming holes Innumerable mountain streams meander through the Green Mountains, serving up a Vermont-style swimming experience and a unique kind of solitude. Some are a cinch to find: A walk up the Stowe Recreation Path to a spot on the West Branch River, or the well-known Foster’s swimming hole. Better yet, find your own!

59

SWEET SPOT FORE! Disc golf courses offer beautiful scenery, fun family activity, and good exercise, so even duffers can no longer claim that a golf game is a good walk spoiled.

STORY / Kevin Walsh PHOTO ILLUSTRATION / Paul Rogers

The Stowe area is becoming a hot spot for disc golf.

A relatively new sport, disc, or Frisbee golf, is a fastgrowing activity. Combining aspects of golf and Frisbee tossing, disc golf courses employ tees from which players throw discs to a metal basket. As in regular golf, the winner is the player who racks up the fewest number of strokes (i.e. disc throws) to finish the course.

There are at least four disc golf courses in the Stowe area. The Trapp Family Lodge put in a nine-hole course four years ago, with nine more holes in the works. “The course sits on a mountain ridge and offers great views,” says Paul McNeil, who heads up Trapp’s sports division.

Each year, thousands play the course as it winds through the property’s woods and meadows. Anybody, even non-guests, can walk the course for free, but players without their own discs must rent them on-site.

Drive up and over Mt. Mansfield and you’ll find two disc courses at Smugglers’ Notch Resort. Smuggs’ offers a hilly 9-hole course at the resort and an interesting 18hole track through woods and meadows that is accessed from Edwards Road in Jeffersonville. The latter course has differently placed tee boxes for all level players, so golfers of all abilities can enjoy the layout. Jeff Springs, the course designer and Smugglers’ Notch Resort director of disc golf operations says that he “took what the land gave me,” and used existing natural elements for minimal environmental impact when designing this course. A more professional mountainside course is also

FRISBEE GOLF

Duffers catch some air

60

in the planning stages. The Smugglers’ courses charge a fee.

Students at Johnson State College have been playing disc golf on their campus for years. Initially a 12-hole course, the college’s course grew to 18 holes in 2009. This course passes through woods and crosses a mountain ridge, which offers wonderful views of the Lamoille River valley and distant mountains.

The course is free and open to the public.

More serious disc golfers might want to play at the Center Chains Disc Golf Course in Waterbury Center, where big tournaments are held throughout the year. This 18-hole course features rolling terrain and offers great views of the Green Mountains. Much less wooded than the other courses, Center Chains players must deal with trees and a mountain creek.

This course is on town-owned land and play is free and open to all.

A little further afield is Montgomery’s Black Falls Disc Golf Course. Located off Black Falls Road, this 18-hole layout challenges players of all abilities. The course is somewhat hilly and wooded, and includes four ponds. The fee is $5.

MORE INFO: Visit the Green Mountain Disc Golf Club website at gmdgc.org.

Smugglers’ Notch Resort: Behind the Village Green, 4323 Rt. 108 South, Jeffersonville; 800332-6841.

Brewster Ridge Disc Golf Course: 1239 Edwards Road, Jeffersonville.

Johnson State College: 337 College Hill Rd., Johnson; 802-635-2356.

Center Chains Disc Golf Course: Hope Davey Field, Waterbury Center.

Trapp Family Lodge: 700 Trapp Hill Rd., Stowe.

855-318-4641.

Black Falls Disc Golf Course: Black Falls Road, Montgomery. 802-326-2046.

Tours, Lessons, Repairs, Sales & Service

We Go When You Do! Fun & Adventure for Family & Friends!

Local River Tours Paddle down one of our many scenic river trips in the heart of the beautiful Green Mountains while surrounded by forests, pastures, and dairy farms.

Our tours, offered daily, are customized to your schedule, time allotment, paddle style, and water level. They can vary from 1-8 hours or even a two-day overnight.

Our Classic Tours and Specialty Tours can be self guided or guided. They are on easy class I quick water (steady moving flat water) with no portages or rapids.

Bert’s Boats has a big selection of Specialty Tours including favorites such as: The Boyden Valley Winery Tour, Sunset Tour, Ice Cream Tour, Peterson Gorge Tour, and a Two-Day Overnight.

Bert’s Boats also customizes Large Group Tours for your special group of friends, family, or event.

If you can dream it up we can do it.

Bert’s Boats offers professional Repairs on all canoe and kayak styles and materials.

Daily Rentals available for you to take where you want.

Contact us at 802-644-8189 / Call us 24/7 Email: tours@bertsboats.com Web: www.bertsboats.com River Outpost: @ 5399 Vt. Route 15

Let the Adventures Begin!

Solely owned & operated

by Ken “BERT” Roberts

COURTESY PHOTO; BELOW: KATE CARTER

STOWE PEOPLE

IRON ROAD Rope climbing up a waterfall. Rappelling down a cliff. Crossing Bakersfield Gorge via the zip line.

I CAN’T HEAR YOU! JoMotion employs the wall of Stowe Elementary School as exercise yard.

JoMotion’s Joanna Graves in her “office.”

STORY / Kate Carter

Joanna Graves takes a unique approach to fitness.

Rather than teaching her group classes within the constraints of four walls at a fitness center or health club, she holds her sessions outdoors, incorporating the environment, terrain, and any available objects, manmade or otherwise, in her workout routines.

Joanna first taught fitness in 1995, and two years ago she started JoMotion specifically for people looking for an outdoor exercise group in the Stowe and Waterbury areas. “I love working out, I love being outdoors, and I really like to mix things up and not do the same thing over and over,” she explains.

Joanna holds her JoMotion classes at various locations that lend themselves for easy meet-ups with parking. From that starting point the group might run through town, stopping at various locations to do step-ups on park benches, push-ups on a rock wall, lunges up a steep hill, or stair repeats on the front steps of the Akeley Memorial Building on Main Street in Stowe. It’s all about what the environment inspires. “I never write out a plan,” Joanna says. “I might have a general plan and then improvise. I like to see who comes and take it from there. I have a huge mental inventory of exercises to draw from.”

One example of a workout in Stowe goes like this: Meet in front of the elementary school and run to the village green at IC Scoops. Hit

Take it to the streets

JOMOTION

62

the ground for 20 pushups, then hop onto the rock wall for one-legged squats, or lean against it for triceps dips. Run to the trailhead of Sunset Rock and hike or run up to the overlook, where boulders, benches, and other obstacles are used for an assortment of exercise efforts. Then it’s back to the elementary school for stretching and a cool-down. The workouts last an hour.

Once a week JoMotion meets at Hope Davey Field in Waterbury Center. “This is a great place because of the picnic shelter,” Joanna says. “We can do a complete workout and be out of the rain. If it’s a rainy day I will switch a Stowe meeting location to Hope Davey Field.” Another regular meeting place is the Ice Center in Waterbury.

“Everything we do during a workout can be modified to each person’s needs, so I can accommodate any fitness level,” Joanna says.

“The groups are very supportive of newcomers.

Nobody is looking at you or judging you.

Everyone is there for their own benefit and to improve themselves.” Joanna also offers individual assessments and one-on-one training to help people reach their fitness goals. In addition to JoMotion, Joanna is the part-time athletic director at Stowe middle and high schools, a hockey coach for Stowe Youth Hockey, a member of Revolution, a women’s ice hockey team in Waterbury, and the mother of two.

MORE INFO: Go to facebook.com/JoMotionVT. Message Joanna to get on the email list, and get ready to exercise anywhere.

While supplies last.

Coupon cannot be combined with any other offer.

EXPIRES 06.30.15. Not redeemable via phone or online.

HOME OR COMMERCIAL STRENGTH, CARDIO & FLEXIBILITY EQUIPMENT

DELIVERY, INSTALLATION & SERVICE OF TRUSTED BRANDS PRECOR, TRUE, LANDICE, OCTANE & TUFF STUFF

PERSONAL FITNESS INTERIORS 4050 Williston Road, S. Burlington 802-860-1030 • PersonalFitnessVT.com WHERE FITNESS IS NOT A SIDELINE... IT’S OUR ONLY LINE.

63

COURTESY PHOTO

GETTING OUTDOORS

A

s part of its ongoing Spruce Peak development, Stowe Mountain Resort plans a few enhancements: a kid-friendly adventure center and adultfriendly alpine club, an outdoor ice skating pond, an underground parking garage, more retail and dining options, a general store, and some new beginner skier terrain.

The resort and Spruce Peak Realty plan to begin construction on the project later this year and complete it over the course of one winter, opening the new amenities in 2015.

The look of the new alpine club building will blend old and new styles and tie into nature motifs. The new adventure center will have two levels. The connected alpine club will be taller, with a Makeover: pine-cone inspired shape. A smaller structure at the base of the small skating pond will serve as a shelter where people can lace up their skates, and is inspired by the old Civilian Conservation Corps buildings once housed on the site of today’s Spruce Peak development.

Plans call for geothermal energy to operate the mechanical systems.

In addition, the resort also plans to build two 10,193-foot-long parallel ziplines and an aerial adventure course. The proposed ziplines’ first 4,500-foot-long section would begin near the Gondola station on Upper Perry Merrill and end at a landing on the Midway Trail between Nosedive and Goat; the next section would link to a landing just below the pump house on lower Perry Merrill; and the final landing would be located alongside the mountain operations building by the Over Easy gondola.

The aerial adventure park would be located in a wooded area next to the Spruce Peak golf course. Aerial course designer Dave Johnson said the concept is similar to a ropes course, but is meant primarily for fun, as opposed to being a team-building exercise. With five different courses planned for the park—kids and beginners through advanced—the games, or “elements” in the trees, will range from 7 feet to 40 feet above the ground.

Johnson said the course will rely on less invasive rigging methods for the various platforms and implements—rope bridges, cables, cargo nets, rope swings, and slides—than typical ropes courses, which drill through trees. Instead, designers will use a “compression system” that hugs the trees with minimal contact. “We have them disappear into the canopy of the trees,” he says. —Tommy Gardner

LAURA DUNCAN

Sterling Falls Gorge.

SPRUCE PEAK AT STOWE

On fire:

SMUGGLERS’ NOTCH 64

Visitors to Smugglers’ Notch will notice some commotion this summer. The restroom at the top of Route 108 in Smugglers’ Notch State Park burned to the ground in December. No one was injured, but the rest area building, constructed in 2006 for $206,000, was a total loss.

The Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation intends to start rebuilding the structure once Route 108 is open to traffic, with an aim to have it completed in time for foliage season.

“We already built it once, so we already have the plans,” says Regional Manager Susan Bulmer. In the meantime, the department will likely put some portable toilets at the parking area.

—Tommy Gardner

WINTER WONDERLAND Plans for new construction at Spruce Peak includes a new alpine clubhouse, a children’s adventure center, and outdoor skating pond.

Searching for a really cool adventure that’s not too far off the beaten track?

Look no further than Sterling Falls Gorge Natural Area, just seven miles north of Stowe Village, which offers a fun, informative interpretive walk that educates its visitors about Nature Walk: the natural forces that helped to create the gorge, while offering a natural experience in one of Vermont’s most beautiful spots.

Stops along the trail highlight the significant features of the gorge, and it only takes about 45 minutes to walk round trip.

For at least the last 10,000 years, as Sterling Brook has wound its way down the mountainside, water has sculpted the streambed’s bedrock surfaces and walls, resulting in a spectacular natural gorge and a series of moderate-sized falls, cascades, and pools. Stops along the interpretive trail include: • How water creates smooth bedrock surfaces and potholes in the streambed, and what factors contribute to erosion.

• How different types and sizes of rocks end up in the gorge, and how such a small stream moves larger rocks around.

• Overview of the surrounding forest and dominant species.

• Origins of the Sterling Brook and its tributaries.

Exercise caution by staying on trail and closely supervising children and pets. Areas near the trail are steep and can be slippery. Remember, this beautiful area is sensitive to human impacts. Do not litter or throw anything into the gorge.

For the more adventurous, the adjacent Sterling Forest trail network consists of numerous trails of varied lengths. Free trail maps are provided at each of Sterling Forest’s parking sites. —Gar Anderson

STERLING FALLS GORGE

GETTING THERE: Take Route 100 North from Stowe Village. Just past the Foxfire Restaurant, take the fork to the left onto Stagecoach Road. As the road starts uphill, take Sterling Valley Road on the left. Sterling Valley Road ends at the gorge.

65

VERMONT FLY SAMPLER

local waters: a fly sampler for catching smallmouth The Stowe area features a variety of opportunities to fish for smallmouth bass. Whether you wade the Little River, cast from a boat at Waterbury Reservoir, or silently float in a canoe at Green River Reservoir, enjoy the thrill of hooking one of Vermontâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more powerful game fish, armed with just a simple assortment of flies.

light periods such as sunup and sundown, as well as cloudy or rainy days, are prime time for taking bass off the top. Generally, the action of the fly and its profile are the determining factors in choosing a surface fly.

Poppers, deer-hair bugs, and foam-crease flies are all very effective and seem to have their own attractive qualities for smallmouth.

temperatures rise above 75 degrees or drop below 55 degrees. Streamer flies and nymph patterns in natural colors such as black, olive, and brown are consistent producers. Brightly colored streamers and nymphs work well in dirty and stained water conditions. Patterns such as clouser minnows, bunny buggers, and stonefly nymphs all produce.

My favorite method for catching smallmouth bass is hooking them on the surface. Low-

Subsurface fly fishing for smallmouth is most effective on sunny days and when water

Smallmouth bass are not overly particular in food selection. When feeding, smallmouth

WET FLIESo

CLOUSER MINNOW: One of the most innovative and famous bass flies of all time, created by Bob Clouser for the rocky Susquehanna River. The dumbbell eyes incorporated into the hook shank allow the fly to ride inverted in the water, making it less likely to become snagged. They also allow the fly to sink quickly. Size #2 to #8 in chartreuse/white, olive/white, blue/white, and olive/orange.

STONE FLY AND HELLGRAMMITE NYMPH: Great choice for river fishing for neutral to non-aggressive bass. Trout nymphs that translate well to river bass fishing. Fished under a strike indicator with a dead drift.

Size #6 to #12 in black and or brown.

LEFTYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S DECEIVER: Another must-have fly designed by American fly fishing legend Lefty Kreh. The profile of the Deceiver can imitate a wide variety of bait fish.

Equally effective in freshwater as well as saltwater. Size 1/0 to #6 in chartreuse/white, orange/yellow, olive/white, and black.

SNOOK SLIDER: An effective river surface pattern. A creation from Florida Bay and used for chasing snook in the backcountry.

Brightly colored with lots of flash. The body of the fly sits into the surface film and the fly always lands right side up when cast. Incredibly durable and floats well. Size #4 to #8 in chartreuse and white.

CORK/PLASTIC POPPER: Without question my favorite surface fly. The deeper the concave face the better the popping and chugging sound that is emitted. Size #2 to #8 in a variety of colors with chartreuse, black, and frog pattern being the most effective.

DRY FLIESo

CREASE FLY: Excellent choice on fussy fish. Slim profile and dives slightly into the surface film when retrieved. Originally designed for New England saltwater fly fishing. Size #2 to #6 in blue/silver and fire tiger.

66

with WILLY DIETRICH photos GLENN CALLAHAN

can be extremely greedy and willing to eat a wide variety of forage items. The flies I've included here have served me well in 20 years of guiding anglers for smallmouth bass.

••• Willy Dietrich owns and operates Catamount Fishing Adventures and has been guiding Vermont waters since 1994.

Glider rides Starting at $99

Morrisville - Stowe Airport • Rt. 100 • Morrisville, Vermont

802.888.7845 • 1.800.898.7845 www.stowesoaring.com

BUNNY BUGGER: Add water and it comes to life. The combination of the bunny fur and flashabou makes this fly breath in the water. Easy to tie and heavy to cast. A great allpurpose fly for a wide variety of freshwater species.

2/0 to #8 in olive, black, purple, and white.

DEER BUG/DALHBERG DIVER: Pushes a ton of surface water and makes a more subdued surface noise. Can be challenging to cast when wet. Size #2 to #4 in earth-tone colors with flash added.

Vermont’s only Year-round Fishing Guide Service. River, Brook, Lake, Ice and Pond Fishing. River wading, Canoe, Motorboat or Float Tube Fishing Adventures. Guiding Vermont waters since 1994. 1/2 Day and Full Day Trips. All Abilities Welcome. Federation of Fly Fishers Certified. Licensed and Insured.

Willy Dietrich - P.O. Box 82, Stowe VT 05672 • (802) 253-8500 www.catamountfishing.com 67

YAC H T R A C E S

May 31 – June 1: Green Mountain EC-12 Regatta EC-12 Meter model sailboat races. Regional championship regatta. 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Commodores Inn. August 2 – 3: Can/Am Challenge Cup Soling 1 Meter RC Sailboats. Sailors from Canada compete against the U.S. team. 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Commodores Inn.

MY, SHE WAS YAR Stowe yacht races in miniature STORY / Jill D. Wells PHOTOGRAPHS / Glenn Callahan

68

hat could be better than hanging out in the sun near the water’s edge, watching sailboats tack back and forth in a light breeze?

If you live in landlocked Stowe, you might think enjoying such an idyllic scene would not be possible. But you’d be wrong.

There’s a yacht club right in the heart of Stowe, where skippers gather twice a week to compare sails, techniques, and wind conditions before launching their boats for evening races.

It sounds like the scene at any seaside yacht

W

club—except these boats are only a few feet long and a little over four feet high. Stowe Yacht Club holds its races on a 3.5-acre pond behind the Commodores Inn, on Route 100 south of Stowe Village. In the words of Bruce Nourjian, owner of the inn and self-proclaimed “Harbor Master” of the club, this “is the hotbed of model sailing.

“We are all set up for it here,” Nourjian says. “It’s handy to get to, the inn is here, and there is plenty of shopping for the wives.”

The model boats are radio-controlled from shore.

Racers use a remote device that controls the sail and rudder to tack their boats back and forth. The aim is to catch the optimal amount of wind and avoid luffing (sailing straight into the wind, causing the sails to flap) as boat captains maneuver their miniature vessels around the buoys that mark the course.

M I C H A E L'S ON THE HILL Farm to Table Cuisine Vermont's First Certified Green Restaurant Wine Spectator Award of Excellence Best Chefs America "Best Restaurant, Best Steak & Best Wine List in Stowe" –Forbes Traveler

Group Facilities • Catering Cooking Classes 4182 Waterbury-Stowe Road Route 100 North Waterbury Center VT 05677 AHOY, MATEY Clockwise from top left: A lead boat makes the turn around a bouy. Skippers jockey for position on shore while their boats do the same on the water. Adjusting the sail.

Skippers control their yachts from the shoreline. A model lighthouse marks an underwater hazard.

As the speaker counts down the seconds to the start of each race, the sense of competition ramps up. Foremost on every skipper’s mind is beating Bruce or Charlie—that is, Nourjian or Charlie Berry.

Berry, 69, of Stowe, is the club’s secretary and treasurer. As Nourjian puts it, “Charlie is the glue that keeps the club going.”

The club holds several races each time it gets together. First place in a race gives the captain one point, second place gets two points, and so on. The racer with the fewest points at the end of the season is declared champion at an annual banquet.

The racers are predominately men in their mid 40s to late 70s. Most of them are retired and most have experience sailing full-sized boats.

Nourjian, 72, moved to Stowe from Massachusetts in 1961. There was a mini yacht club in Stowe back then, but it gradually died out, he says.

Nourjian built the Commodores Inn in 1985 and revived the club. It has grown considerably over the years, with new members joining all the time.

Nourjian has extensive sailing experience and still owns a full-sized sailboat in Marion, Mass.

But he said racing the radio-controlled mini-

(802) 244-7476 michaelsonthehill.com

boats is a special thrill. “I’ve raced big boats all my life and they’re nothing like having 15 of these boats all lined up and ready to go,” he says.

Oliver Stesar, 49, of Stowe, is another experienced sailor of both varieties. He first sailed mini boats in high school in Central Park, N.Y., and he sails full-sized boats on Lake Champlain. Stesar originally took up the sport as a way to spend time with his 4-year-old son, but it didn’t hold the youngster’s interest as long as it held dad’s.

“It’s the same principle as the big boats, you just have to bring the little ones to shore to adjust them,” Stesar says.

Like many of the other racers at the Commodores Inn, Stesar’s top goal is to beat the club’s two aces, which is no easy feat. “Bruce and Charlie are definitely the ones to beat.

The vessels in these races are Soling One Meter boats, a scale model of the Olympic triple-handed Soling-class keelboat. The boats are a little less than 40 inches long and weigh 10 pounds, with a mast height of 52 inches. It’s the most widely used class of model boats in the U.S. Part of the fun, says racer George Townsend, is putting the model boats together.

“I had so much fun building the Soling One Meter that I built another.” l 69

YAC H T R A C E S Two boats tacking into the wind.

The boats come with kits from the manufacturer, including everything a skipper needs to race: the sail, hull, radio receiver, batteries, steering servo, and more. Though the sail and rudder are radio-controlled, the boat is propelled by the natural action of the wind in the sails and has no engine, motor, or other mechanical propulsion.

Before the end of the races last July, Townsend managed to get the best of both Nourjian and Berry. After placing second and third in earlier racers that night, he got his first-place finish.

But in this sport, success can be fleeting as the wind. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The wind is so fluky, sometimes you end up beating yourself,â&#x20AC;? Townsend says.

MY, SHE WAS YA R

GETTING THERE: The Commodores Inn pond is located on Route 100 South, about a mile south of Stowe Village. stoweyachtclub.org.

159 Catamount Drive Milton, Vermont 05468 Phone: 802-893-1003 Fax: 802-893-0151 www.mansfieldheliflight.com

Helicopter Charter & Air Taxi Aerial Photography Helicopter Sales & Service Overhaul & Maintenance Timber Cruising Line Surveillance / Sightseeing Contractor / Real Estate / Engineering Surveys 70

Visit beautiful Greensboro on Caspian Lake SCENIC 30-MILE DRIVE FROM STOWE

Miller's Thumb Gallery

Shopping • Swimming • Hiking • Sightseeing • Arts • Events

Set in an Historic Gristmill by Caspian Lake

A stunning collection of Vermont Fine Art, Fashion, Jewelry & Contemporary Crafts

14 Breezy Ave, Greensboro VT (802) 533-2045 Open daily at 11 am May 24 – Oct 13 millersthumbgallery.com

Sailing on Caspian Lake Painting by Deborah Holmes “If we don’t have it, then you probably don’t need it.”

THE WILLEY’S STORE ■ ■ ■ ■ ■

Grocery Housewares Clothing Beer & Wine Jasper Hill Cheeses

802-533-2621

Since 1900

■ ■ ■ ■ ■

Hardware Hunting & Fishing Local Meats & Produce Vermont Specialty Foods Capitol Grounds Coffee Bar

855-533-2621

Mon.-Fri. 7-6 / Sat. & Sun. 8-6 • info@willeysstore.com • Like us on Facebook

HAZENDALE ORGANIC FARM Producers & Purveyors of High-quality Organic Produce since 1979 Farmgrown small fruits & vegetables Vermont and International cheeses Local breads, meats, and more Annual flower and vegetable starts Hanging baskets and tubs

Open 7 days a week 9 a.m. – 6 p.m.

May 15 – September 30

Farmstand located 1 mile south of beautiful Caspian Lake 2853 Upper East Hardwick St., Greensboro 802.533.7107

It takes a village When cancer struck four-year-old Christopher Grimes, Stowe wrapped its arms around him and his family STORY:

Robert Kiener |

PORTRAIT:

Glenn Callahan

s his teachers will tell you, Christopher Grimes was that boy; the one who always looked after other students. The one who made sure everyone had someone to play with. On four-year-old Adelaide Kissell’s first day in nursery school, Christopher spotted the shy “new kid” and jumped up from his playgroup, took her hand, and got her to join in. “Christopher Grimes was a very special little boy,” says one of his nursery school teachers. Alissa Kissell, Adelaide’s mother adds, “He was just so thoughtful of others, so gentle. Everyone loved him.”

So it’s not surprising that when his 23 nursery school classmates learned that four-year-old Christopher was “sick and in the hospital” they decided to send him something special. With the help of local quilters the kids put together a colorful quilt made up of squares containing their painted handprints and names, leaving one square blank so Christopher could add his own handprint and name.

As students said, “This will help keep Christopher warm,” and “show him we are thinking of him.” In the center of the quilt was a poem:

A

GLENN CALLAHAN

I have a hand and you have the other.

Put them together and we have each other.

A circle is round; it has no end.

That’s how long I want to be your friend.

72

Several days later in his room at Boston Children’s Hospital Christopher’s bright blue eyes widened when his mother Kristin showed him the quilt, covered with tiny handprints and names. “My friends!” he said as Kristin and her husband C.J. draped the quilt around their son.

Kristin remembers, “It was as if all his nursery school classmates were hugging him, telling them they were missing him.”

Christopher loved the quilt and often Kristin or C.J. would walk into his hospital room and see him lying in bed placing his hands over the handprints of his classmates. Says Kristin, “He’d look up and tell us, ‘This is how I know my friends miss me.’ Then he’d ask us, ‘When can I go back to school?’ ” At moments like this, Kristin, with C.J. at her side, would fight back tears, knowing that it could be a long time before Christopher could return to school in Stowe.

Just a few months earlier he’d been diagnosed with stage-four neuroblastoma, a malignant, aggressive cancer that had spread to his bones.

Survival rates for this rare type of cancer are, as one medical site explains, “heartbreaking,” and are between 25 and 50 percent. And because Christopher’s cancer was diagnosed as stage IV he could never be declared “cured.” The best the family could hope for was NED (No Evidence of Disease) status.

Even worse, relapses are common, occurring in 70 percent of neuroblastoma cases. Few who relapsed survived. As their doctors bluntly told Kristin and C.J., “With this cancer it’s important to be realistic, not optimistic.”

BEADS OF COURAGE C.J. and Kristin Grimes, with a photograph of their son Christopher in their Stowe Hollow home. Each of these beads was given to Christopher after a medical procedure. The more simply-shaped ones represent something as common as a blood transfusion; the more ornate ones represent a more serious procedure, such as a bone marrow transplant, chemotherapy, or radiation treatments. Each bead signifies a different story in Christopherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s long battle against cancer. For more information, go to beadsofcourage.org.

73

PINK FLAMINGOS Next page, clockwise from top: Christopher stands amid a flock of pink flamingos in front of Stowe Elementary School. Over 500 flamingos were sold through the school and the Grimes family donated the money to the Neuroblastoma and Medulloblastoma Translational Research Consortium, which specializes in research and clinical trials in relapsed neuroblastoma. A 2012 portrait of the Grimes family, with Kristin, Daniel, Christopher, C.J., and Gillian. C.J. comforts Christopher during treatment. Inset: A Flashes of Hope portrait of Christopher. The organization photographs kids with cancer and funds research “so they will have the chance to create a lifetime of memories.”

But Christopher and his parents were fighters.

The entire family, C.J., Kristin, and their son Daniel and daughter Gillian, moved temporarily to Boston where Christopher underwent chemotherapy, surgery to remove a tumor, stemcell transplant surgery, and more.

74

us on and giving us strength,” remembers Kristin.

They would need every bit of that strength. In September 2009, Kristin wrote in her online journal, “It goes without saying that we are so afraid of losing Christopher. It’s simply not an option. We are going to fight as hard as we can for as long as it takes.”

••• From the moment of his diagnosis, Christopher’s friends, acquaintances, and even strangers in Stowe who had heard of his story offered to help.

The family had left their home in Stowe for Boston just 24 hours after Christopher’s initial diagnosis at Burlington’s Fletcher Allen Hospital.

••• Over the next months Kristin and C.J. remained at Christopher’s hospital bedside while he underwent surgery to remove a frightening tumor that enveloped his kidney. There were many other, often painful, procedures. Throughout these

“We left the house a mess and someone offered to come over and clean it up, even scrub the toilets!” remembered Kristin. Others called with offers of food. Others did yard work. Some Stowe residents even asked if they could donate stem cells for transplants.

Stowe’s Alissa Kissell opened a website so Kristin could keep friends informed of Christopher’s progress without having to answer individual emails. Stowe residents sent so many games and gifts to Christopher’s hospital room that the family and Christopher began distributing them to other children in the ward. Hundreds of local people sent cards. Many in Stowe, from all faiths, told the Grimes they were praying for Christopher. Another friend sent a T-shirt that Christopher loved wearing in the hospital as Kristin pushed him through the corridors in his wheelchair. On the front, in huge letters, it read, “CANCER SUCKS.” Throughout their ordeal, especially when the quilt from the Stowe Cooperative Nursery School arrived, Kristin and C.J. realized they were not waging this battle for their son’s life alone. “It was as if the entire town was helping us, urging

tough times a steady stream of Stowe residents visited, wrote letters, and sent gifts. The support lifted the entire family’s spirits.

After surgeons removed the tumor Kristin wrote, “We’ll get our boy back, and we’ll keep him for good. There are long roads ahead of us, many of them scary and painful, but we are filled with hope. More importantly, we are surrounded by friends. I thank you all from the bottom of our hearts. I honestly don’t think we’d have been this strong if it wasn’t for the friendship and generosity of all of you.”

Through the ups and downs of Christopher’s ordeal many poignant moments reminded Kristin and C.J. that their son was, as his teachers had noted, “a very special little boy.” One day as the family drove home from one of Christopher’s medical treatments in Burlington, C.J. asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up.

Without missing a beat Christopher answered, “A doctor.”

“Why a doctor?” C.J. asked.

“Because when I grow up I want to help sick children who have cancer,” said Christopher, pausing to add, “No one should get cancer.”

Other times support would come from home, as when a neighbor sent a letter to Christopher and explained how his brave battle with cancer inspired her to finish running the 2010 Boston Marathon. She wrote, “Thinking of you and your strength guided me like a kind hand on a dark night… Without you, I don’t think I would have finished. But I did and they gave me this medal.

It’s not mine, though. It’s yours, kid. Thank you for sharing your strength.” Ellen Dorsey enclosed her marathon medal and Christopher wore it for months.

Support also brought some much-needed laughter to the Grimes household. On a brisk, clear early September morning Kristin looked out her kitchen window and spotted 30 pink plastic flamingos basking in the sun on the lawn of the family’s Gilcrist Road home in Stowe. An attached note read, “We are Christopher’s flock.

We love sneaking onto lawns in the middle of the night.”

Home between hospital treatments, the flock of flamingos thrilled Christopher. “Neat!” he shouted as he peered out the window. The Grimes family didn’t know who originally set up the flamingos, but over the next months the flock mysteriously appeared and reappeared throughout town as a testament to Christopher’s struggle.

The flamingos popped up at the Stowe Reporter office, the Stowe Community Church, the Stowe Police Department, high up on Mt. Mansfield, and elsewhere. After someone stole the flamingos the newspaper ran a story, explaining their significance. They were immediately returned.

Because continued research would hold the key to finding a cure to neuroblastoma, Kristin, C.J., and many others helped raise money by sponsoring bicycle rides, holding bake sales, raffles, and other events. Christopher’s school sold pink plastic flamingos and donated the profits. As Kristin once explained, “We are up against the impossible, but we are people who believe in the impossible.” They were literally racing to save their son’s life.

After an anonymous donor sent in a check for $15,000 Christopher emptied his piggy bank, counted out the entire contents of $21.55, a year’s worth of savings, and handed it to his parents. “I want to help kids like me,” he said.

••• On Jan. 11, 2011, after 17 months of grueling medical treatment, the Grimes’ got the good news they had been waiting, hoping, and praying for. Christopher was officially classified NED. Overjoyed, Kristin wrote, “There were a few times that I thought he wouldn’t live through the night. That he would be gone forever… Thank you all for your prayers, your friendship, your support, and for believing. It worked.”

Christopher reached a milestone but he faced more chemotherapy, more treatments, more tests

75

LARRY ASAM PHOTO

THE SHAVED HEADS CLUB Next page, clockwise from top left: Some of Christopher’s friends shaved their heads in solidarity after he lost his hair for the second time. Kristin, Christopher, and C.J. skiing at Mt. Mansfield. Christopher’s body has long and deep scars from various surgeries and the constant set of tubes hanging from his chest to administer chemotherapy and blood transfusions. Despite the scars he always wore a big smile. Christopher Stephen Grimes, Sr., Christopher Stephen Grimes, Jr., and Christopher Stephen Grimes III, in Florida, 2013. Christopher and his friend, TJ Guffy, of Stowe, enjoy a wild roller-coaster ride. Inset: Classmates and friends surround Christopher on his last visit to Stowe Elementary School.

on his long, bumpy road to recovery. The odds were not in his favor, but the family’s spirits buoyed when they learned of a Stowe teenager who had survived relapsed neuroblastoma.

Kristin soon adopted the motto that had given the girl’s mother strength: NGUNGI: “Never Give Up, Never Give In.” As Christopher’s story spread throughout Stowe, Kristin grew used to hugs from friends and strangers, who had read her online journal, whenever she went into town. “People often

don’t know what to say and they will just give me a hug and a smile and walk away,” said Kristin. “I understand. This is a small New England town and people care. That’s enough.

There’s a closeness here.”

That September the Stowe Community Church held a prayer service for Christopher.

“This was held by people we didn’t even know,” explains Kristin. “We were so touched by that.”

In the spring scores of daffodils popped up on the Grimes’ side lawn. “Someone must have planted them when we were in Boston,” says Kristin. “Other people dropped off fresh bread or a bottle of wine or flowers. No one wanted any thanks or recognition.”

••• “Not good.” On Oct. 11, 2012, Kristin used those two simple words to tell her journal readers the impossible news. “It’s back,” she wrote.

“Christopher’s scans today show a mass on his ribs.” Then, terrified that her seven-year-old son had relapsed, she added, “Please pray for Christopher. This can’t be it. It just can’t be.”

76

But it was. A day later surgery confirmed the return of the neuroblastoma. This was uncharted territory. As Kristin wrote, “Relapsed neuroblastoma is not the smiling bald heads. It's a painful treatment that is done in hopes of keeping you alive until that miracle drug is found. As a parent, it’s nothing short of agony. Well, Christopher is doing too good to sit back and do nothing. So put on your running shoes, Cancer. I’m coming after you.... AGAIN! And this time I won’t take no for an answer! Be afraid. Be very afraid.”

At the top of her journal entry she posted a picture of a shirtless Christopher smiling bravely, perhaps defiantly, into the camera. His small chest was crisscrossed with scars, bruises, and an array of bandages from his recent surgeries.

The race against time was now even more urgent.

If there was one thing that brought a smile to Christopher Grimes’ face it was the chance to go to school and see his friends, most of whom he had known since nursery school. But because of his frequent hospital stays and home confinement, he had few opportunities to go to school.

“I miss my friends,” he would often tell Kristin or C.J. “When can I see them?”

“Soon,” they would answer. “You just need to get a little stronger.”

When chunks of his hair began falling out from chemotherapy Kristin decided to have his head shaved.

“Nooooooooo,” said Christopher. “The kids will laugh at me.”

“Honey, no one will laugh at you,” Kristin reassured him as she tried hard to hold back the tears. “They are your friends.”

After the village barber finished shaving off his hair, Christopher pulled his baseball cap down tightly on his bald head, still terrified that his schoolmates would make fun of him.

As C.J. drove him to school Christopher said, “They’ll laugh at me dad.”

Christopher got out of the car slowly, held his father’s hand tightly and walked hesitantly to the school entrance. “Dad, I’m scared,” he said as he tightened his grip.

Suddenly the front door opened and Christopher spotted his best friend, Evan

Reichelt, rushing out to greet him. He too was completely bald. His mother had shaved off Evan’s thick blond hair to support Christopher.

Christopher ran free from C.J., tore off his cap and shouted, “We’re both bald, Evan! How cool is that? How cool! Bald is cool!”

Five of Christopher’s other classmates also shaved their heads in solidarity. After all, he was their friend, their classmate, and he had come back to them.

When Kristin heard the news she couldn’t stop crying. Tears of joy. “This town,” she told a friend, “is unbelievable.”

••• The cancer was relentless. A new tumor on Christopher’s spine resisted both radiation and chemo. The cancer spread throughout more of his body. His immune system crashed. Despite his weakened condition, Christopher begged Kristin and C.J. to take him to school for a short time each day, “so I can see my friends.” His second grade classmates took turns pushing Christopher in his wheelchair, whooping and hollering.

Surrounded by his classmates, Christopher came alive. His big blue eyes sparkled and he roared his trademark belly laugh when someone would push him roughly around the playground.

But at home, alone with his parents, he was more somber, often frightened. One night in August he told Kristen, “I don’t want to be dead. I’m too young to die.” As Kristen wrote in her journal later that evening, “We hold him as gently as he can tolerate and tell him that we are doing everything to not let that happen.”

••• Christopher Grimes lost his fight against cancer just a little after two in the morning on Sept. 5, 2013. Kristin and C.J. were at his bedside when he died, just as they had been throughout the last four years. Kristin later wrote, “There will be no more pokes, no more chemo, no more hospital stays masked as vacations, no more wheelchairs, no more of his tears, no more scans, no more worrying if he will die.”

In their eight-year-old son’s obituary C.J. and Kristin thanked the citizens of Stowe when they noted, “Christopher was embraced by a very generous and warm community.”

They buried him with the quilt, the one covered with the tiny handprints that his nursery school classmates had made, bundled around him. That way, says Kristin, “He will be wrapped in hugs forever.” ■ ••• The Grimes family, C.J., Kristin, Gillian, 5, and Daniel, 4, continue to honor Christopher’s memory by raising money (more than $75,000 so far) for neuroblastoma cancer research. For information on their fundraising and to read Kristin’s account of Christopher’s story see caringbridge.org/visit/christophergrimes.

77

BEHIND THE As Stowe Theatre Guild marks 20 years, some of its shining stars give us an intimate glimpse behind the scenes

T

he space is small. It’s tight and hot. Women jostle for mirror time. A few actors meditate in a corner. A nervous newbie takes one last look at her script. Someone else rounds up the kids in the cast and escorts them out of the building—to liberate some of their energy—until just moments before they flood the stage. Hairdos are sprayed in place and makeup is liberally applied. There is laughter and the occasional four-letter word. There is anticipation. There is drama.

The backstage drama is the kind of cherished commotion that only families know.

That’s because theater brings people together in a way that almost nothing else can—except, perhaps, cohabitation and shared DNA. It’s the kind of closeness created by the reality of we’re all in this together.

Those who have made Stowe Theatre Guild thrive have done so by spreading their passion to people not born with it. They ask their fathers to build sets or convince their mothers to join the chorus. They volunteer their daughters and sons to walk across the stage—or the family dog. It starts with just being an extra body. Years later, that family member directs a show. Because they love it. Because through the process, they’ve found something in themselves that they can’t live without.

With community theater, the show does not go on without everyone. Each performance is a carefully choreographed collaboration of actors, directors, producers, musicians, stage managers, sound and light designers and operators, choreographers, costume designers, set builders, painters and designers, and propmasters. And, an audience—whose role is critical and completely improvisational. Laugh when it’s funny.

Cry when it’s sad. Be present, and appreciate that live theater is exactly that: alive.

Things go wrong. Actors forget lines. Costumes go on inside out. Accessories fall apart and hurl beads all over the floor just moments before the next dance number.

Shoes fly into the audience. The stage can cave in.

Things go right. The harmonies are suddenly perfect. Lines are delivered with ease.

All the props make it on stage. In the moment, you find yourself exactly where you want to be.

You learn a lot. Like how to pay attention, how to wing it, and how to work with whatever comes your way. You learn how to keep an eye on each other. How to cue each other. You learn to appreciate a moment for what it is, and to accept that it has passed.

Theater is an art of what is and what was will never be again, but the effects of which will remain forever. It’s temporary… and perpetual.

The people behind the scenes and on the stage have spent nearly every day together for weeks and weeks—hours and hours of rehearsals and production planning. It’s been intense and amplified. It’s a significant part of their lives, for a contained amount of time. Then, at the final curtain call, that’s it. It’s over. Backstage, the drama shifts. Now, there are tears, gifts, hugs. Joy and pain. Sure, there will be other performances, other shows, other projects. But, the same exact people will never come together again in the same exact way.

Yet, what they’ve accomplished is illustrious. They’ve nourished each other and the community, creating a stage of self-discovery and a juncture for universal understanding and a common connection. That is the power of theater.

So, whichever side of the curtain you find yourself on this season, break a leg and enjoy the show!

78

Mort Butler & Frank Springer Chorus, producer, past president of the board [Mort] Actor, singer, musician [Frank] ages 60+ > hometown Stowe [they met in Philadelphia somewhere around 40 years ago] // 14 years with STG // 14ish [combined] shows with STG, including Once Upon a Mattress and Forever Plaid [Frank as Smudge] and The Sound of Music [Mort as a nun] // Mort would love to sing with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir // Frank once got to meet Jerry Garcia and play Jerry’s guitar // they have a cat named Molly // they sing together at home while making dinner // Mort’s favorite color is teal // Frank’s is Carolina blue

CURTAIN

TEXT:

Jasmine Bigelow |

PHOTOS:

Glenn Callahan

“At the end of the run, sometimes it’s a huge relief to have your life back and lose the stress. But, it’s often depressing and sad.”

>>Mort Butler

“Opening night is always an adventure.”

>>Frank Springer

“My favorite role was Dolly. It was like being the bride at a wedding.

Great songs, great costumes. Nothing beats it. There is no bigger high… well, for me!”

>>Jane Harissis

Jane Harissis singer, actor, director, set designer, board member emeritus age 54 // hometown Stowe, via Connecticut // 15 years with STG // 16 shows with STG, including Hello Dolly! [as Dolly Levi] and Anything Goes [as Reno Sweeney] // would like to meet Lena Horne [because she is very classy] // settled in Stowe because it has good theater and good schools // prefers musical theater [she is first a singer, then an actor] // has bellows for a voice // if she were nominated for a Tony, her chosen couture would be her gown from Hello Dolly! [it’s bright red and elegant and long and flattering]

80

81

“There is nothing like community theater in the way it brings people together.

It’s immersive. You become totally involved. You expose yourself to the others at depths that are hard to compare or comprehend.” >>John Springer-Miller

John Springer-Miller Actor, singer, director, lighting designer

age: ??? // hometown Stowe // 20 years with STG //12 shows with STG, including Little Shop of Horrors [once as the voice of the plant and once as Orin Scrivello, D.D.S.] and Music Man [as Harold Hill] // almost always sings theater music or something from the 30s and 40s in the shower // likes to be barefoot // once worked as a music and theater critic in NYC // likes both non-musical and musical theater because they are very different [“either people will go away talking about it for days, or people will get into stitches in the theater and remember enjoying themselves, but forget the details—and both are a good thing”]

82

“I auditioned on the spur of the moment because someone dared me. I was petrified and embarrassed. I’m sure I was terrible! For whatever reason, the director let me be in the play. At the time I had little kids, and I was with all these grown-ups and it was so much fun. All I did was have the best time ever!”

>>Amena Smith

Amena Smith actor, director, producer, past treasurer of the board age: really? // hometown Dousman, Wis. [now, Stowe] // 14 years with STG // 18 shows with STG, including Urinetown [as Josephine Strong] and Jekyll & Hyde [as Ms. Bisset] // favorite song to sing changes all the time [“I have a dream that we’ll do a cabaret called Songs I’m Wrong For”] //once lost her voice after driving all the way back from the Midwest listening to Queen // has never forgotten her lines [No, wait... Not true... It happened in Oklahoma!] // upcoming project is co-producing the entire 2014 season, and on stage in Kiss Me Kate

83

“

It’s such a privilege to get to do what I do… and it’s very special to get to do it with friends. Liza Minnelli said this, and it’s true: ‘You get to meet and find your heroes all the time, and it will surprise you where they turn up. It can be anyone.’ ” >>Taryn Noelle

Taryn Noelle actor, singer, director, choreographer age: 36 > hometown Toronto [Canada], moved to Stowe at age 13 // 20 years with STG // 23 shows with STG, including three times in The Sound of Music [as Maria] and Crazy for You [as Irene] // if she were nominated for a Tony, her chosen couture would be a truly vintage gown from the 30s or 40s, form fitting, heavy silk, navy or black and white, and fantastic vintage shoes, topped with simple jewelry and classic makeup // sings The Way I Am [by Ingrid Michaelson] in the shower // would like to sing a duet with Clint Eastwood // upcoming project directing and choreographing Kiss Me Kate in the 2014 STG season

84

“

One of the things I love about community theater is having families on stage together.

One of my favorite moments was doing a ballroom dance with my daughter. Those family moments help tie into the fact that community theater is so much about family.” >>John DeRienzo

John DeRienzo actor, chorus, set-builder, sound, past president of the board age: 51 // hometown Stowe, via New Jersey // 9 years with STG // 9 shows with STG, including The Drowsy Chaperone [as the Superintendent] and Bye Bye Birdie [as Harry MacAfee] // sings nothing [he gets asked not to sing!] // would like to act with Alan Alda [because he seems to be very genuine] // prefers comedies // favorite character costume was an Egyptian stripper in The Full Monty [“it was hilarious and not who I am”!]

85

“One of the things I love the most is seeing these kids who do shows with us go out in the world and be confident people and express themselves, and know that their experience in the community theater has had a part in it.”

>>Jo Sabel Courtney

Jo Sabel Courtney actor, singer, producer, board member emeritus age: YMBH // hometown Stowe, via St. Croix [and other places] // 20 years with STG // 16 shows with STG, including Cabaret [as Emcee] and Pump Boys & Dinettes [as Rhetta Cupp] // if she were nominated for a Tony, her chosen couture would be a beautiful vintage dress that is very Suzy Parker, or something designed for her by a dear friend // prefers musicals with meat to them // would like to sing a duet with Enrique Iglesias [oh, wait, she did that already!] // upcoming projects include voiceovers and voice acting ■

86

87

the exit of eccentricity

HENRY HASTINGS STORY:

Nancy Wolfe Stead

Stowe was a far rougher diamond in the 1950s and 1960s when Mt. Mansfield Company president Sepp Ruschp boldly declared it Ski Capital of the East. The social scions of Boston, New York, and Philadelphia came to ski, adding luster to the town’s growing number of lodges and watering holes, but there were a healthy number of eccentrics to act as leavening agent.

Who can forget Roger Elkins? In his early years here, before maturing into the owner of his late late-night bar Ladies Invited, Roger lived in a tepee on the Marvel property in Stowe Hollow. The nearest neighbor, a nubile and curious young housewife, watched him through binoculars as he tended his crops around the tent site. Roger never wore clothes at home, and after ogling him for a while Linda would call the police to complain and the cop would saunter by to run interference. While no one can say for sure, legend has it that Roger’s great coup was planting pot in the window boxes at the Franklin Lamoille Bank on Main Street. Whoever did the planting, board member Ruschp complained when the “flowers” grew so tall they covered the windows. In those years Elkins went to town in shorts and was barefoot all year round. He was one helluva fisherman.

Sweet Pie wandered village streets and the Mountain Road wearing only a loincloth. Come winter he added a full-length coonskin coat.

It drove town fathers wild to see Sweet Pie relaxing on the steps of the Memorial Building with the lion’s share of his attributes on full display. This, it might be noted, was the era when said town fathers forbade installation of sidewalk benches in the village because they would attract throngs of hippies from “those communes to the north.”

THE SMOKEY STOVE Henry “Hick” Hastings with the car and woodstove he parked in front of the Green Mountain Inn. (Photo by Helen Beckerhoff, from the collection of Vera Beckerhoff Laroe.)

88

89

HELEN BECKERHOFF

Magic, easily spotted by his long black hair, black parka and pants, colorful knit scarf flung around his neck, and awkward gait fractured his skull and spine when falling late in a night of hard drinking. He was expected to either die or suffer permanent paralysis, but he fought back with self-prescribed walking therapy. Magic lurched about town to engage in endless conversations.

Carroll Brothers was a sweet, usually gentle vet who returned from war with injuries he often masked with drink. He spent every holiday and civic event in clown costume, with full face paint and bright red wig, and marched the streets of Stowe and Moscow handing out lollipops to kids. He was special and most were glad to give him odd jobs and rides.

But it was Henry Cornwall Hastings who is uncontested winner of the All-Time-StoweEccentric title. Henry was, depending on time and place, handsome, bright, superbly athletic, ferociously tenacious, nasty, iconoclastic, inventive, tediously indefatigable, consumed by anger. Some people thought he was a homeless drunk who was sweet and gentle with kids. He sauntered into Stowe in 1955, with soon-to-be wife Laura Fellows—his third, as it turns out—and soon-to-be mother of their first child, Scoop, his third, as it also turns out.

Hick, as he called himself, had invented a clever hand-operated bird-call contraption he arranged to have manufactured by the nowdefunct Adams Mill in Moscow. He sold them for a dollar. Hank, as most later called him, left precipitously in 1991 to avoid a warrant for his arrest, according to Stowe police officer Darron Tabor. In between, he waged war with all the local powers, taking on Ma Bell, Stowe Electric, Mt. Mansfield Company, Parker Perry and the Green Mountain Inn, the police, and most elected officials in town.

Hastings struck a colorful note in Stowe.

Tall and good looking, he loved to wear short shorts that emphasized his fabulous long legs.

He usually carried a lacrosse stick; he played for Holderness during his post-graduate year in 1935, and was all-American goalie for Dartmouth (class of 1939). Tennis was his game in adulthood: he was Twin State doubles champion in the early 1950s and he won many Stowe and state titles in the later ’50s and ’60s, even as he was welcomed at fewer and fewer courts.

A gab-artist and no slouch as a hustler, he promoted his bird-call contraptions with yarns about their success. In Hanover for reunion in 1955, he dropped by the Gazette and scored a two-column puff piece about sending a gift of them to Soviet Russia to promote world peace.

“Perhaps if both our citizens use it often enough, it will attract a dove, mankind’s symbol of peace,” he told the paper’s editors. towe had two unofficial but popular morning men’s clubs: the soda fountain at Lackey’s Variety Store, and Dave Demeritt’s gas station across Main Street.

Many issues of the day were aired in both, long before they were placed on some board’s agenda. Frank Lackey remembers, “Hank would come into the soda fountain, and those of influence in Stowe who came into the store, he hated, and they hated him.”

Lackey has always been a listener; he misses nothing and often says less. But he admits that when someone contentious walked in when Hank was there he would slip through the private door to his adjoining home, leaving stalwart assistant Mary Newton in charge. He laughed while recalling Hank’s favorite comment during late-afternoon visits when they watched Gale Shaw, Sr., of Shaw’s General Store, leading Lloyd Dustin, Joyce and Maurice Laferriere, and the other clerks to The Yankee Tavern for an afterwork drink: “There goes the old gray goose with his goslings!”

The year 1958 saw the onset of the Smokey Stove escapade, an escalating battle with various leading citizens that was watched with amusement by many, reported on by newspapers in four states, and is still talked about.

Hick collected various bits of Vermont arts and crafts for resale and attached them to his car. The coup de grâce was a pot-bellied stove fixed to the roof. When his “shop” was open he would park in some strategic place, fire up the stove, put on the coffee pot, and be ready for business and conversation. He became a Sunday fixture at the dump, Sunday being the day shop and lodge owners had time to unload their stuff and the rest of us had the leisure to go pick over it. It was a relaxed social event (and is the origin of Ken Squier’s Music to Go To The Dump By radio program, still on local radio station WDEV).

Come late fall, Hick saw an opportunity for permanent quarters in the Baggy Knees building next to the dump that Nancy Graham and Marie Rizzo were redoing to open as a bar. They agreed to let him use the lower floor for the winter months. Hick moved in, lit the stove, and served free donuts and coffee. Visitors enjoyed it and the regulars gathered daily to chew the fat. Helen Beckerhoff, owner of The Lantern, a ski lodge in the village, recalls, “He got lots of craftspeople to give him stuff on consignment, someone gave him a record player and records, various people lent stuff.” Then in

S

late January, for whatever reason, the women wanted their space back and things went very wrong. Beckerhoff remembers it as a nasty period, mean and childish. “Henry didn’t initiate the confrontation but he responded in kind.” Ultimately, the ladies turned off his electricity and changed the locks.

The business and tourism group of that era, the Stowe-Mansfield Association, had taken new Main Street space that would not be used until summer. Hastings asked to lease it for the remaining winter months and in late January 1958, seven of nine trustees voted to approve his request. Association member Parker Perry, owner of the Green Mountain Inn directly across the street, and, in his own way as bombastic as Hastings was tempestuous, objected and instigated membership opposition. In a special meeting on February 17, five of nine trustees—and two guests, Park Perry and Jim Leahy— voted to deny the lease.

The gauntlet was thrown. n retaliation, Henry parked his car with Smokey Stove fully stoked, stovepipe billowing, directly in front of Parker’s Green Mountain Inn. Sometimes he would march into the lobby and grab handfuls of glossy inn brochures to toss into the stove. More often he would burn tires. Every time a guest opened the front door of the hotel acrid black smoke and the smell of burning poured inside. There were injunctions and fines. Hastings bought a $50 peddler’s license, but village trustees banned his peddling and ordered him to remove his car from the streets. The Vermont State Parks commissioner banned Hastings and his auto from the area around the Mt. Mansfield chairlift. The fracas continued for months.

Smokey Stove seemed to fuel Henry’s combat against perceived injustice. He took on Ma Bell when the company initiated a national tax that would raise the cost of a pay phone call from 10 cents to a quarter. He won, and Vermont kept the 10-cent rate.

Hastings also waged a successful battle “on behalf of the Stowe taxpayer” against the lowering of the Mt. Mansfield Company’s taxes from $42,000 to $25,000. In retaliation, Sepp Ruschp banned him from using the ski area’s tennis courts. They were almost the

I

CLIPPING SERVICE Next page, clockwise from top: The Beaver Falls, Pa., News Tribune (Feb. 27, 1958) wrote about Henry Hastings and his “Sunday Dumpers’ Club headquarters” and craft shop, which was next to the town dump. From the News of Milford, Mass., June 21, 1959. Hastings’ involvement in a plan for a summer music festival headlined by the New York Philharmonic didn’t go well, as this clipping from the Valley News of Lebanon, N.H., shows. Hastings’ Smokey Stove made headlines far beyond the borders of Stowe. Inset: Former Green Mountain Inn owner Parker Perry, who was the target of Hastings’ ire and impetus behind the Smokey Stove era.

90

91

only courts in Stowe and the home of Stowe Tennis Club, whose players and tournaments were dear to Hank. He would sneak on, get tossed off, be naked under an overcoat and flash the audience during significant matches, drive his car around the parking lot with American flags attached to the wipers— swish swish—and play loud music. n 1962, in a feat of prodigious energy, Henry launched The Stowe ReFORMer. In seven weekly issues mailed to every town resident between April 24 and June 9 he wrote passionate, inflammatory, meticulously researched articles against Stowe’s “grossly inequitable property tax” and the arcane, impossible-to-interpret-evaluationformula used by the town listers. He warned against the John Birch Society’s influence locally and promoted the need for a teen center, a high school ski team, and a glamorous new base lodge at the mountain to replace the shabby old log cabin. He plugged Vermont’s first Green Up Day and solicited business support, then turned the $200 raised over to the Stowe School band for a sousaphone. In poring over the town’s grand list he found that the Summit House at Mt. Mansfield had disappeared from the tax rolls and that the Kemp Communication tower and the television towers at the summit were wildly underassessed. He took village and town attorney Clifton Parker to task, alleging he had gross conflicts of interest by having a stake in different aspects of a multitude of issues, and saw improper property assessments changed.

He railed against the meager state aid to education allotment and low teacher pay, which ranked Vermont 36th in the nation. In just seven weeks Henry laid out all the critical issues the town and state would grapple with over the ensuing decades.

Henry’s greatest contribution, for which he was never suitably acknowledged, was in taking on the inequality of rates charged by the Village of Stowe Electric Department.

At that time the town and village were separate political entities and the village-owned electric department, which serviced both entities, was a cozy deal for village residents. In 1963, in a petition for a hearing before the Vermont Public Service Board he noted municipal utilities generally exist to provide rates lower than investor-owned private utilities, yet Stowe Electric rates were 40 percent higher than rates in the nearby towns of Morrisville, Northfield, and Burlington. Furthermore, the village (20

I

92

A SPORTING LIFE Next page, clockwise from top left: Holderness baseball team, 1935. Henry Hastings is in the first row, far left. Hastings’ tennis team at Holderness.

He won the Tennis Cup in 1935; he’s third from the left. Sixth Form, Holderness, 1935; Hastings is in the first row, fourth from the left. Original instructions for Hastings’ Bird Call, which he claimed could produce “a variety of surprisingly realistic bird-like songs and calls.” Inset: Hastings published seven issues of his Stowe ReFORMer between April 24 and June 9, 1962, where he wrote passionate, inflammatory, meticulously researched articles on such diverse topics as Stowe’s inequitable property tax and the dangers of the John Birch Society’s local influence to the need for a teen center and Vermont’s first Green Up Day.

percent of the users) sold power to the town (80 percent of users) at a higher rate.

Company profits, which were 21 percent in 1962, went to the village general fund and provided various services to its residents, thus lowering the taxes of village property owners. A letter circulated by Henry soliciting support for the petition noted that his favorite attorney, Clifton Parker, again was inappropriately legal counsel for the town, the village, and Village Electric Department.

The 10 signers of his petition included members of the town select board and influential businessmen and farmers, and included an addendum by one that read, “We can get the whole town to sign up if necessary.”

The hearing was granted.

The petitioners prevailed and rates were lowered by approximately 30 percent. Of greater significance is that Henry exposed the old-boys network running Stowe and made its citizens aware of who had their hands in how many—and which—pockets.

The process took years, but it paved the way for a successful merger of town and village governments and closer scrutiny of conflictof-interest situations in government.

As the 1960s passed into the ’70s, Henry grew more erratic. Wife Laura decamped to Connecticut with Scoop and younger brother Kit. No one was sure where Henry was living; he might be found sleeping it off on the floor of the Carlson building (Editor’s note: At the time, the author co-owned the Carlson Building and Hastings would tell her it is “my right, public funds were used to restore it.”); or, as Ralph and Janet Larson discovered, passed out in their son’s bed at the other end of the village. Yet longtime tennis pro Adi Barnett remembers arriving in the States in 1967 and being invited to play on the clay court at Topnotch with Henry, Marvin Moriarty, and Ted Ross. “Henry was charming and funny and played a great game of tennis.” Three years later, when she married Lamoille County State’s Attorney Ted Barnett, Henry terrorized their nights with nonstop threatening telephone calls.

Henry had a sense of humor. One summer, in addition to scrounging through trash for redeemable bottles, he started a tourist information stand on the lawn of the Bashaw (now McKechnie) house on the corner of Main Street and the Mountain Road.

He set up three folding wooden chairs in a row with a sign propped on each: “Stowe Info 25 cents,” “Vermont Info 25 cents,” and “Trapp Family Lodge Info $1.00.” Henry would stretch out on the lawn with his bottle of Cucamonga wrapped in brown paper.

When a car stopped and made a request he would slowly unwind, take the money, fold the two unneeded chairs, sit down on the third, take a leisurely slug of wine, and launch on a hilarious riff of fact and blarney.

During the Stowe Open Grand Prix tennis tournaments of 1978 to 1983, the presence of tennis greats like Jimmy Connors, Johan

Kriek, Ilie Nastase, and the Gullikson brothers invigorated Henry. He drove his Subaru Brat, with an immense wicker rocker lashed to the bed, endlessly back and forth past the Topnotch courts, radio blaring, backfiring, and shooting off firecrackers. He famously caught Connors in mid-serve blast and continued on page 208

93

glimpses into stowe’s past

artifacts are tangible links to history STORY:

H

istory books can be boring. Consider the beginning of History of Stowe to 1869, written by Mrs. M.N. Wilkins in 1871: “Stowe is situated in the south part of Lamoille Co. in Lat. 44’ 28’, Long. 4’ 20’, about 60 miles from Canada line, 15 miles N.W. from Montpelier and 25 east from Burlington in a straight line.”

Bit of a snoozer.

Let’s see if she gets any more interesting. “It is bounded N. by Morristown, E. by Worcester, S.

by Waterbury and W. by Underhill and Cambridge. It lies in the valley, between the ‘Hog-back’ range, on the east, and Mansfield Mountain, on the west.”

Not exactly a page-turner.

Robert Kiener |

PHOTOGRAPHS:

Glenn Callahan

That’s a bit unfair to Mrs. Wilkins, whose history of Stowe gets much more engaging once she gets going, and it is an admittedly invaluable record of the town’s origins. There’s even a story of hunters swinging axes to fight off bears, some poetry, and voluminous detail on the town’s citizens who fought in the Civil War. I’m picking on her to make a point.

While history can often lie flat when confined to a printed page, it invariably comes alive when seen through historical artifacts handed down and preserved through the ages. These objects can both transport us back to— and help explain—the past.

Thanks to a devoted band of volunteers, Stowe has a modest but fascinating collection of artifacts from its past. These include everything from farm implements to Civil War artifacts to a 19th-century wedding veil.

Most of the items were donated by generous residents and can be found in the Stowe Historical Society Museum, itself an artifact from Stowe’s past, or at the Akeley Memorial Building.

Here are a few that evoke a simpler time and support Voltaire’s claim that “History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.”

JAIL BARS

l

These jail bars, located in the Akeley Memorial Building, are all that endures of Stowe’s former jail, built in 1902. The long-unused cell remained on the bottom floor of the building until 1991 when an elevator took its place.

“The jail was really just a two-person lockup,” explains Barbara Baraw, president of the Stowe Historical Society. “It was mostly occupied by folks who were sleeping off Saturday night’s hangover.” More serious offenders were usually transported to a more secure jail. The handcuffs and leg shackles once used on these lawbreakers are also on display at the museum.

Given the number of bars and restaurants that now dot Stowe, it’s hard to believe that the town was dry from the late 1800s to the 1950s. Although residents had the chance to legalize drinking in town after the repeal of Prohibition in 1933, they voted at each annual town meeting until the mid 1950s to keep Stowe dry. Nevertheless, it’s rumored that the jail filled with a steady stream of weekend “customers” during its existence.

94

95

JACK JUMPER

l

Why stand to ski down a hill when you can take it easy by sitting down and enjoying the ride? That seemed to be the rationale behind the invention of the jack jumper, which is basically a seat bolted to a ski, like the wood-and-peg one pictured here. Riders simply use their arms and body weight to balance the ski and keep themselves upright.

Although this homemade jack jumper is thought to date from the early 1900s, the earliest versions were made in New England in the mid to late 1800s. Little is known about these decidedly low-tech precursors of today’s high-tech skis and snowboards, but some say loggers developed them as a speedy way to zip down skidder roads after a day’s work. Others claim they were originally built for children as a novel way to enjoy the winter. (Skiing was introduced to Stowe in 1913 by Swedish immigrants and commercial downhill skiing began in 1940.)

Jack jumpers were ideal for use on yesteryear’s roads, packed hard by massive horse-drawn rollers, instead of being completely cleared with snowplows. Also, because of intensive logging, a century ago Vermont featured many more open hills to accommodate jack jumpers.

Jack jumpers have never gone out of fashion and both homemade and more sophisticated manufactured models, including some that boast high-tech shock absorbers, can be seen on hills throughout New England and around the world. Each year Vermont’s Mount Snow sponsors the Jack Jump World Championships. As the motto of one Vermont-based supplier of the skis notes, they are “more funner than sledding and cheaper than skiing.”

CIVIL WAR KNAPSACK

l

Stowe enlistee Chandler Watts carried this battered leather knapsack during the Civil War. Watts enlisted in the 11th Vermont Regiment in 1862 and served for almost three years before returning to Stowe.

It is just one of many items, including a Civil War canteen, rifle, iron spurs, a tin mess kit, a sword, and more in the collection of the historical society that testifies to the huge sacrifice this small town made by sending so many of its sons to fight.

More than 200 men with connections to Stowe served in the Union armed forces and at least 40 Stowe residents died during the war; many others were wounded. Some of those who died at the front and were brought home to be buried in Stowe include Hiram A. Luce, George W. Luce, Henry E. Luce, George W. Pike, and Charles H. Foster.

After his return to Stowe Chandler Watts eventually became a selectman, a lister, and a side judge in the Lamoille County Court. He died on Nov. 29, 1911, and his obituary described him as “one of the town’s leading citizens.” He was buried in Stowe’s Riverbank Cemetery.

96

n HAIR WREATH Although little is known about former Stowe resident Lovisa Raymond beyond the fact that she was both “deaf and mute,” we do know that she created this memorial wreath made of human hair. Like other women during the Victorian era, Raymond fashioned these decorative wreaths as “fancy work,” or craftwork, during her spare time.

“While women learned to knit and crochet for practical reasons, hair weaving was more of an aesthetic or creative choice,” says Barbara Baraw. “It was a way to memorialize friends, especially those who had passed on.” If you look closely at this 1863 wreath you can see the inscribed names of nine people whose hair is included in it.

Most likely a hair wreath such as this would have hung prominently in the Raymond family’s parlor where guests would have been received. The museum features two other examples of hair wreaths, including one that hung for years in the now defunct Stafford Funeral Home.

97

98

n LUCE SLED Stowe’s first settler, Oliver Luce, arrived in town on April 16, 1794, some 30 years after Stowe was chartered. Since Stowe had no roads, Luce left most of his worldly possessions—“a span of horses and a sleigh and a little household furniture,” according to Wilkins—in Waterbury Center and piled a few household necessities, such as blankets and cooking pots, onto this homemade hand-sled. Along with his wife Susannah and their two young daughters he then pulled it through the snow six miles to town.

Some sources claim that Luce was hell-bent on beating another settler, Capt. Clement Moody, to become the first official resident of Stowe. That might explain why Stowe’s version of Paul Bunyan didn’t wait until the snows let up to reach Stowe. Instead, he pulled his small, packed sled over Gregg Hill on a rough horse trail to the one-room log cabin he had built the previous summer on land it appears he bought in 1785.

A day later Moody followed Luce into town, making him an also-ran as Stowe’s second settler. Although Luce sold his farm for $2,200 and moved from Stowe to Sharon, Vt., in 1809, he is still fondly remembered as the town’s first settler. To commemorate Luce, who died at the age of 84, the town erected a stone monument close to where his cabin stood about one mile north of Stowe on Route 100.

While the Luce sled usually hangs on the wall of the Historical Society Museum, it recently took its place of honor at the front of the parade celebrating the town’s 250year anniversary. It was donated to the historical society by Oliver Luce’s great-greatgranddaughter, Mrs. Elsie Alger Page, the society’s first president.

k WHATCHAMACALLIT Also referred to as the Stowe Historical Society Museum’s “whatchamacallit,” this contraption has baffled all the experts who have examined it, leaving them to ask, “What the heck is it?”

“We just don’t know,” explains Barbara Baraw. “And because we don’t know what local family donated it, we can’t track it back to them.”

Most agree that it is homemade, one of a kind, built in the 1800s, and used in a home. A butter churn? A grain or bean thresher? A seed stripper?

Given its design with rotating cylinders that produce a combing action, some have guessed it was used to comb or process some material, perhaps a wool comber or cleaner. “I doubt that because there were two wool carding factories in town at the time and farmers took their wool to

them for carding and combing,” says Baraw. “I think it was used to clean or husk corn or peas; or something that needed husking.”

In an effort to identify the curious artifact, the Stowe Historical Society turned to the Stowe Reporter, which published a picture of it and asked if any readers could help. None could.

Until someone comes forward with a certain answer, this century-old piece will continue to be known as the museum’s “whatchamacallit.” ■

STOWE HISTORICAL SOCIETY Next to Stowe’s village library. Year round, Tuesday and Thursday 2 - 5 p.m.; Saturdays noon 3 p.m. during July, August, and September; and when the flag is flying. 253-1518. stowehistoricalsociety.org.

99

SHOPPING & GALLERIES

t

Brush Park, No. 3, Detroit (2010), watercolor on paper, by New Zealand-based artist Marita Hewitt. See her work at the Red Mill Gallery at the Johnson Studio Center in July.

the Helen Day Art Center occupies a central place in

Stowe’s art scene, both literally and figuratively. Since taking over the top floor of the old Stowe High School building at the head of School Street in 1981, the Helen Day has provided Stowe with world-class exhibits, community programs, art education, and outreach to tens of thousands of schoolchildren. Notable artists such as Pablo Picasso and Wolf Kahn have shared the space with local artists like Stan Marc Wright, Rett Sturman, and Walton Blodgett, and with countless others from throughout Vermont, the region, and the world. For more, turn to page 102.

On the other side of the mountain, the Bryan Memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville is named for Jeffersonville artists Mary and Alden Bryan. Mary Bryan died in 1978 and her husband, also now deceased, built and opened the non-profit gallery in her memory in 1984.

100

EXHIBITS & OPENINGS BREAD & PUPPET MUSEUM Route 122, Glover. 525-3031. Daily through October, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Museum tours, 1 p.m.

Sundays in July and August.

June 8

Museum Open House, 2 p.m. B&P show, Paper Mache Cathedral, 4 p.m.

BRYAN MEMORIAL GALLERY 180 Main Street, Jeffersonville. Through July 1: Thursday – Sunday, 11 - 4; July 2 – Sept. 7: Daily 11 - 5. 644-5100. bryangallery.org.

Through September 7 In the Studio with Mary Bryan: Celebrating 30 Years, Main Gallery. See page 106.

Marian Williams Steele, Middle Room Gallery Legacy 2014 September 12 – December 28 Land & Light and Water & Air

Self portrait,

Marian Williams Steele.

ECHO LAKE AQUARIUM AND SCIENCE CENTER 70 live species, animal demos, interactive experiences, changing exhibits. One College Street, Burlington. echovermont.org or (877) 324-6386.

Through September 1 Keva Planks: The Fusion of Art and Science September 13 – January 4 Coffee: The World in Your Cup: How coffee affects cultures, economies, and environments around the world.

Exhibit calendar continues on page 104

101

H E L E N DAY A RT C E N T E R

TIME PIECE

Clockwise from top: Artist

and choreographer Polly Motley. The End is Always Hoped For, by photographer Matthew Christopher. A work by Jenny Holzer.

Choreographer explores video, music, light, dance Time-based works are coming to the Helen Day Art Center’s East Gallery. This fall marks the first such exhibition—the gallery as working studio, performance, and exhibition space.

In No Time is a retrospective of ideas by choreographer Polly Motley. Motley and a team of regional and national performers, and video and sound artists, will focus on the ideas that have threaded their way through Motley’s 30-plus-year career and that continue to stimulate new work.

In No Time includes open studio processes, cross-media performances, talks with the public, laboratories, and an exhibit of video, costumes, choreographic scores, and contextualizing print. It all illuminates Motley’s work in relation to other contemporary and historical ideas in dance, video, and installation art. The retrospective will elucidate the highly disciplined craft inherent in Motley’s choreography for Count 25 (1987), Drawing From the Body (1999), Dancing the Numbers (2004), and Video Portrait (2013), and examine how these dances relate to her current work. It will expose the thinking and labor of devising maps, scores, and projected video images, and the interplay between them.

The compositional rigor, content, and poetics of the elements of In No Time—video, new music, lighting, dance—will cause viewers to ponder impermanence and the experience of time. Motley and collaborators set their eyes on the “water flowing underground,” on “the beauty of the world is enough,” and on the graceful actions of ordinary life. These are the currents of In No Time.

Exposed 23rd outdoor sculpture exhibit with site-specific installations from national and international artists. Throughout Stowe. Opening reception: July 12, 4 p.m.

The exhibition will coincide with the fall exhibition of artists as activists in the art center’s main galleries.

Activism Work that has immediate political impact. Artists as activists, revolutionaries, and visionaries.

Opening reception: September 19, 6 p.m.

HELEN DAY ART CENTER Exhibitions of national and international artists, as well as rotating exhibitions of Vermont artists. Art classes and workshops, lectures, and children’s programs offered throughout the year. 90 Pond St., Stowe Village. 253-8358. Wednesday - Sunday, Noon - 5 p.m. helenday.org. Free; donations welcome.

June 20 – August 31 The Appearance of Clarity: Works in Black and White Exploring the subtle, double, hidden meanings that the apparent clarity of black and white might obscure. Opening reception: June 20, 6 p.m.

102

July 12 – October 15

September 19 – November 23 October 24 – November 23 Matthew Christopher Photographer explores abandoned America.

Opening reception: October 24, 6 p.m.

September 19 – October 19 Polly Motley: In No Time: A Retrospective of Ideas Dancer and choreographer Polly Motley makes new intermedia performances. For one month, the East Gallery will be occupied by performers within an installation of video projections, changing light and sound, in a working studio setting.

Dancers Diane Madden, Paul Besaw, and John Jasperse, video artist Molly Davies, and musician/composers Sean Clute and John King will join Motley in multidisciplinary collaboration.

Participatory laboratories, performances, discussions, and dance parties accompany the exhibition. Opening reception September 19, 6 p.m.

December 5 – 28 Members’ Art Show and Sale & Festival of Trees and Light A show that celebrates the art center’s membership, paired with community decorated evergreens. Opening reception: December 5, 5 p.m.

103

EXHIBITS & OPENINGS Exhibit calendar continues from page 100

EMILE A. GRUPPE GALLERY 22 Barber Farm Rd., Jericho Center. (802) 899-3211, emilegruppegallery.com.

June 5 – July 13 In Our Element: Expressions in Color and Texture July 19 Jericho Plein Air Art Festival: More than 75 artists paint at various spots around Jericho, capturing scenic vistas, lovely gardens, and historic buildings.

June 5 – July 13 In Our Element: Expressions in Color and Texture July 20 – August 10 Exhibition of Plein Air Festival September 7 – 28 Marcia Reese, visual and audio impressions October 3 – November 9 Lorraine & Kathleen Manley, oils ERIKSSON FINE ART Cold Comfort Farm, 2313 West Hill Rd. Stowe.

Noon to 5:30 p.m., Friday - Monday or by appointment. 253-2597 or (561) 307-5610.

Gallery specializing in 19th- and early 20thcentury paintings, plus period and contemporary prints, sculptures, and photographs.

FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS IN JEFFERSONVILLE cambridgeartsvt.org or 644-6438.

August 9 Celebrating the creativity of local artists. Artists display their work along Jeffersonville’s charming Main Street. Green Mountain Swing Band, children’s activities, local food. 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Music Room, Gayleen Aiken.

SALON & MAKEUP BOUTIQUE NEXT TO WELL HEELED

FEATURING THE FINEST PRODUCTS:

PROVIDING:

Pedis Manis Keratin Waxing Blowouts Weddings Cuts/Color

Blinc Oribe Clarisonic Jane Iredale New! ORGANIC RMS Beauty CALL OR VISIT FOR APPOINTMENT

OWNED BY JAMIE DRAGON MISS VERMONT USA 2012 104

(802) 253-7750 LUSHSTOWE.COM

GRACE OLD FIREHOUSE The art of GRACE, Grass Roots Art & Community Effort. 13 Mill St., Hardwick. 472-6857, Monday Thursday 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. graceart.org.

Ongoing GRACE workshop artists: Old Firehouse Annex, Hardwick; Stoweflake Mountain Resort; Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury.

GREEN MOUNTAIN FINE ART GALLERY 64 S. Main St., Stowe Village. 253-1818.

Traditional and contemporary works by Vermont and regional artists. greenmountainfineart.com.

INSIDE OUT GALLERY 299 Mountain Rd., Stowe. insideoutgallery.com.

253-6945.

Ongoing exhibit of paintings by Vermont artists Robin Nuse, Sue Sweterlitsch, and Fiona Cooper.

LITTLE RIVER HOTGLASS STUDIO 593 Moscow Rd., Moscow. littleriverhotglass.com.

253-0889.

Nationally recognized art glass studio, features Stowe artist Michael Trimpol’s studio.

Exhibit calendar continues on page 108

Alexander Volkov • Oil Terry Gilecki • Oil

Sergio Roffo • Oil

ROBERT PAUL GALLERIES • American & European Paintings •

Thomas Arvid • Oil

CELEBRATING 24 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE

Heralded as one of the countries finest art galleries, we offer a truly outstanding selection of original paintings, sculpture and fine photography by locally, nationally and internationally acclaimed artists. Open every day.

Baggy Knees Shopping Center • 394 Mountain Road P.O. Box 1413, Stowe, VT 05672 • (802) 253-7282 www.robertpaulgalleries.com

Fred Swan • Acrylic

Gerhard Nesvada • Oil

Brian Miller • Mixed Media

Marina Dieul • Oil

Katrina Swanson • Oil

105

B R YA N M E M O R I A L G A L L E R Y

MASTERWORKS Clockwise from top: Canvases by artist Mary Bryan: Jeffersonville Against Purple Mountain, Frog with Lute, and the artist

B

ryan Memorial Gallery celebrates the 30th anniversary of its founding with an exhibition of 100 paintings by Mary Bryan, in whose memory the gallery was founded.

In the Studio with Mary Bryan includes watercolors, oils, collages, and egg tempera paintings painted over a 35-year period in Vermont, Massachusetts, Alaska, the Southwest, England, and the Caribbean, and many are being exhibited for the first time.

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s versatility as an artist was vivid and instantaneous. She explored watercolor, egg tempera, and oil painting in depth, while also working in collage, stitchery, ceramics, and clay, acrylics, and painting on glass. As her medium changed, so did her perspective, ranging from traditional realist landscapes to cubism and abstractions, illustrations, and advertising.

Through it all, she maintained a vibrant sense of color, even in paintings where the darker edge of the color spectrum prevailed. There was always something in her palette to indicate dramatic and stunning light, no matter the season or subject of her work.

While Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s husband Alden worked en plein air (in natural light), Mary painted in the studio. While traveling or sailing, he brought along canvas boards, paints, and brushes, and Mary filled sketchbooks, the inspiration for her subsequent sessions in the studio.

Mary painted day in and day out, and her son remembers she was frequently at the easel in her studio, even before her morning coffee. During the summers, the Bryans would travel to their home on Cape Ann in Massachusetts, where they were proprietors of an art gallery and a restaurant on Rocky Neck in Gloucester. At their gallery, Mary would concentrate on selling her artwork, including small sketches stored in shoeboxes, which she sold for just a few

In Studio with Mary

Retrospective celebrates Cambridge artist

106

in a New York state of mind.

dollars, so tourists could take home an original piece of art.

Winters were spent in Vermont at their farm in Jeffersonville, where Alden ran a dairy farm, restaurant, bakery, and inn. His importance to Jeffersonville includes his preservation of several Main Street buildings, including the 158 Main Bakery and Restaurant and the former Windridge Inn. When Mary died in 1978, Alden decided to build a gallery in her memory. Bryan Memorial Gallery opened in 1984 for the purpose of exhibiting the work of artists who traveled to Vermont to paint in the landscape.

It doubled in size in the 1990s and today welcomes over 5,000 visitors a year to its galleries, exhibitions, workshops, and community events.

MORE INFO: In Studio with Mary Bryan runs through September 7. To get to the Bryan Memorial Gallery, take Route 108 through Smugglersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Notch from Stowe. The gallery is on Main Street in the village of Jeffersonville.

The Landscape Painter

VERMONT PRESERVED... ONE PAINTING AT A TIME

Alden Bryan Nev Logan

TM Nicholas Eric Tobin

Visit us in our beautifully restored 1878 Victorian House, Carriage Barn, and Sugarhouse. Our Galleries feature works of more than a dozen master painters who continue the century old painting tradition in art-rich Jeffersonville.

Karen Winslow

Open 11 to 5 Tuesday through Sunday 802 644-8183 visionsofvermont.com 100 Main St., Jeffersonville, Vt. 05464

Mary Bryan

In the Studio with

May 2 - September 7, 2014

EXHIBITS & OPENINGS Exhibit calendar continues from page 104

GALLERY AT RIVER ARTS & COMMON SPACE GALLERY 74 Pleasant St., Morrisville. Monday – Friday 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. 888-1261. riverartsvt.org.

Through June 29 Through June 29 July 3 – Sept. 2

Robert Hitzig Peoples Academy Student Show, Common Space Gallery Elvira Piedra

RED MILL GALLERY Vermont Studio Center, Pearl Street, Johnson.

635-2727, vermontstudiocenter.org. Rotating schedule of local, international, and American artists.

“Valley Village,” watercolor by Mary Bryan

Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Bryan Memorial Gallery Sponsors: Jack Corse Fuel Services; G.W. Tatro Construction; Union Bank; Artisan Realty; Vermont Arts Council; Vermont Community Foundation

May and June, open Thursday - Sunday, 11 - 4 July 1 - Oct. 12, open daily, 11 - 5 Oct. 13 - Dec. 28, open Thursday - Sunday, 11 - 4 Open by appointment at any time.

180 Main Street, Jeffersonville VT

802-644-5100

www.bryangallery.org

Smugglers’ Notch Antiques

Lori Hinrichsen Lou Hicks Print Show Marita Hewitt Kyle Manzo Dubois Dani Levine G. Todd Haun Becca Johnson-Grozinsky

ROBERT PAUL GALLERIES Baggy Knees Shopping Center, 394 Mountain Rd., Stowe. 253-7282. robertpaulgalleries.com. Original paintings, sculpture, and photography from dozens of noted artists.

July 4 – 18 Alexander Volkov Opening reception: July 5, 4 - 7 p.m.

August 1 – 15 Fred Swan Opening reception: August 2, 4 - 7 p.m.

October 10 – 24 Frank Larson and Mark Boedges Opening reception: October 11, 4 - 7 p.m.

ROCK OF AGES 560 Graniteville Rd., Graniteville. (802) 476-3119. rockofages.com.

Tours of world’s largest granite quarry. History and computer-based exhibits.

ROSELLE ABRAMOWITZ STUDIO Studio visits by appointment. (802) 253-8372. roselle-home.com.

10,000 sq. ft. of fine antique and custom furniture

Atelier: artist designer’s quilts and throws.

STOWE CRAFT DESIGN 55 Mountain Rd., Stowe.

253-4693. stowecraft.com.

Art and craft gallery featuring fine crafts, fine art, sculpture, jewelry, and more.

• Specialize in Farm Tables • Antique Reclaimed Wood Tables • Custom Tiger Maple & Cherry • Windsor Chairs • Custom Paint Finishes • Restoration of Antiques • Wholesale to the Trade • 24 Years in Business Open Thurs - Sun • 10 to 5 906 Route 108 • Smugglers’ Notch

www.smugglersnotchantiques.com

Through June 12 June 15 – July 8 July 9 – 21 July 22 – 29 July 30 – Aug. 20 Aug. 21 – Sept. 12 Oct. 8 – Nov. 4 Nov. 5 – Dec. 9

644-2100

Windblown tree sculpture, Randy Adams.

June 27 – 28 Saundra Messinger Trunk Show Saundra Messinger’s jewelry designs are unexpected, asymmetrical, and quirky, but imbued with a timeless elegance. Artist reception: June 27, 5 - 7 p.m. Show June 28, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

September 13 – October 18 Sculptural Landscape Show Landscapes by woodcarvers, metalsmiths, and fabric artists.

Exhibit calendar continues on page 113

108

Visiting artists: Clockwise from top left: writer Peter Stamm, artist Glenn Goldberg, artist Medrie MacPhee, and artist Irving Petlin. Inset: Willie Cole VERMONT STUDIO CENTER LECTURE SERIES VSC Lecture Hall, Main Street, Johnson. 8 p.m. Free, confirm day of the event, 635-2727. vermontstudiocenter.org.

Visiting Artists & Writers (partial listing) June 12 Antonya Nelson (writer) June 16 Gordon Moore (artist) June 17 Andrea Polli (artist) June 26 Derrick Adams (artist) June 27 Dawn Clements (artist) June 30 Srikanth Reddy (writer) July 10 Sam Lipsyte (writer) July 14 Stephen Westfall (artist) July 15 Jessica J. Hutchins (artist) July 24 Alison Saar (artist) July 25 Sangram Majumdar (artist) July 28 Evie Shockley (writer) August 7 Garrett Hongo (writer) August 11 John Lees (artist) August 12 Amy Yoes (artist) August 19 Prageeta Sharma (writer) August 21 Nari Ward (artist) August 22 Amy Cutler (artist) Sept. 4 Sherwin Bitsui (writer) Sept. 8 Irving Petlin (artist) Sept. 9 Ishmael Randall Weeks (artist) Sept. 18 Senga Nengudi (artist) Sept. 19 Peter Stamm (writer) Sept. 19 Michael Hofman (writer) Sept. 20 Susanna Coffey (artist) Oct. 2 Olga Broumas (writer) Oct. 6 Sharon Horvath (artist) Oct. 7 Judith Shea (artist) Oct. 17 Stanley Lewis (artist) Oct. 20 Thalia Field (writer) Oct. 30 Alice Notley (writer) Nov. 3 Roberto Juarez (artist) Nov. 4 Willie Cole (artist) Nov. 13 Patricia Miranda (artist) Nov. 14 Frances Barth (artist) Nov. 17 Anthony Doerr (writer)

55 Mountain Road, Stowe l 802-253-4693 l www.stowecraft.com 109

GALLERY TOUR PAINTER’S GALLERY Inside artist Alden Bryan’s mobile painter’s studio. Art displayed inside the Visions of Vermont gallery. Bryan’s wagon.

art history Galleries at the center of village historic district

STORY & PHOTOS / Kevin Walsh

Work by well-known Vermont painters fills the walls at the Visions of Vermont art galleries in Jeffersonville, but it’s not just the art that’s worth noting.

The gallery’s buildings—the Victorian House Gallery and Carriage Barn Gallery— are of historic and architectural interest.

Built in 1878, both buildings are on the National Register of Historic Places and have a long history. The first owner and resident of the buildings was Harry Varnum, a talented engineer who later co-founded the Rock of Ages quarry in Barre, and who helped create the passageway through Smugglers’ Notch.

Current owner Jane Shaw faithfully restored these two structures after buying them in the 1980s, and she and her husband, Terry, are just the third owners in 136 years.

Visitors can roam through the 18th-century styled rooms as they view collections of art by such noted painters as Karen and Jack Winslow, Alden Bryan, Eric Sloane, and Thomas Curtin.

110

A couple of surprises await visitors on the grounds of the property. While not on the historic registry, the Sugarhouse Gallery has an interesting past. In 2003, the Shaws bought the building—originally in pieces that filled 17 boxes—for $5,000. The building had been a mobile display house for a woodstove manufacturer; the Shaws turned the building, so named because it resembled an old Vermont sugarhouse, into a third gallery.

Most interesting of all is the Shaw’s landscape painter’s wagon. Designed and built in 1939 by painter Alden Bryan, who founded and built the Bryan Memorial Gallery just down Main Street, this horse-drawn enclosed wagon is nearly all windows and contains a pot-bellied stove for heat. It is a complete mobile painter’s studio. Using horses, Bryan, who painted en plein air, pulled it around Vermont to paint. Jane Shaw enlisted historic preservation experts to restore the wagon after she bought it in 2001.

The Shaws’ older gallery buildings are a part of a larger Jeffersonville historic district, which includes about 79 structures on the National Register of Historic Places.

GETTING THERE: Take Route 108 through Smugglers’ Notch from Stowe. The galleries are on Main Street in the village of Jeffersonville.

STOWE HISTORICAL SOCIETY MUSEUM

Inside the museum, visitors can find the sled that brought the first settlers to Stowe, along with a myriad of other interesting artifacts. Next to Stoweâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s library in the village. Open all history year, Tuesday and Thursday 2 - 5 p.m.; Saturdays noon - 3 p.m. during July, August, and September; and when the flag is flying. 253-1518. stowehistoricalsociety.org.

MUSEUMS

WATERBURY HISTORICAL MUSEUM

The collection includes items from Colby Manufacturing, local families, World War II objects from Waterbury, and Dr. Henry Janes memorabilia.

Located on North Main Street in the Waterbury Public Library. Open Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays 10 a.m. - 8 p.m.; Thursdays and Fridays 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.; and Saturdays 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. 244-7067.

NOYES HOUSE MUSEUM / MORRISVILLE

Noyes House Museum in Morrisville village is a two-story Federal-style brick building built by the Safford family in the early 19th century.

Exhibits of local and regional history, furnishings, toys, farm tools, and artifacts related to industry, home life, and leisure activities in the 19th and 20th centuries. Open Fridays and Saturdays, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m., June to August; Saturdays, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m., September and October. 888-7617.

111

GLENN CALLAHAN

S TOWE FREE LIBRARY

I

t’s a bibliophile’s dream.

Every July, a good half hour before the opening ribbon is cut at 9 a.m. at the Stowe Free Library’s annual book sale, patrons line up to pore over thousands of books of every genre.

This year’s sale starts Tuesday, July 8, and continues daily, dawn to dusk, through July 27. After that date a smaller number of books will still be available for sale on the porch.

After Labor Day, the library’s ongoing indoor book sale continues.

Paperbacks can be had for just $1; hardcovers are $2; $5 buys a beautiful coffee-table book; and youngsters can pick up an entire bag of books for $3. There’s also a large assortment of music CDs, DVDs, and videocassettes.

Money raised from the annual event, sponsored by the Friends of Stowe Free Libary, funds adult and children’s programs, and buys new books, DVDs, and equipment, such as the new projection system in the community meeting room, and an update to the library’s website.

In a typical year, library patrons donate several thousand books for the sale, and the library also sells books that it has taken out of circulation. Books are sorted into more than two dozen categories—art and antiques books, history, travel, cooking, self-help, large-print, biographies, novels, nonfiction, and so on.

“People like cookbooks, history, and biographies,” says Sally Nolan, a Friends of the Library volunteer. “Of course, a lot of people are looking for fun summer reads.”

It’s worth visiting the sale more than once because volunteers don’t put out all books on the first day. “We continuously restock the tables for three weeks,” Nolan says. “If you go back, you’ll constantly find something new.”

112

Libary book sale Who says print is dead!

STOWE FREE LIBRARY SUMMER EVENTS School and Pond streets, Stowe Village. 253-6145 or stowelibrary.org. All programs are free.

Storytimes: Mondays, June 23 and 30, July 14 28, and Aug. 11, 10 a.m., ages 2 - 3 Fridays, June 20 and 27, July 18 and 25, and August 1 and 8, 10 a.m., babies & toddlers.

Preschool music program: Mondays, June 2, July 7, and Aug. 4, 10 a.m.

Preschool puppets and stories: July 30, 10:30 a.m., ages 3 and up.

June 18 – 19: Comic bookmaking workshop with Eric Cram. Learn how to draw and write your own comic book. 2 - 4 p.m., ages 12 & up.

June 19: Lamoille County Nature Center presents Fizz, Boom, Zoom! 10:30, ages 4 & up.

June 25: Magic Show with Tom Joyce. 10:30 a.m., ages 3 & up.

Mondays in July: Drama Club. Fun theatre games for ages 4 - 7. 2 - 3 p.m.

July 2: Exordium Science Program/Mysterious Science. 10:30 a.m., ages 5 & up.

July 8 – 27: Stowe Free Library Book Sale. On the porch of the library.

July 9: Wildthings Nature Program/Nature’s Night Lights. 10:30 a.m. ages 4 & up.

July 17: Dinoman! What do you know about dinosaurs? 10:30 a.m., ages 5 & up.

July 23 – 24: Robot Crafts: Make robots from recycled materials. 1:30 - 3:30 p.m., ages 8 & up.

July 30, August 6 & 13: LEGO Club. 2 - 3 p.m., ages 8 & up.

July 1, 8 & 15: Movies Nights. Pizza, popcorn, cider, and dessert. Tuesdays, 6 p.m. For teens.

EXHIBITS

360 Sweater

Lilla P

Open 10 - 5:30 Daily

■

White+Warren

orla kiely

Exhibit calendar continues from page 108

STOWE GALLERY ALLIANCE stowegalleries.com.

Organization that promotes the town’s fine art and craft galleries.

VISIONS OF VERMONT GALLERY Main Street, Jeffersonville. visionsofvermont.com.

644-8183. Vermont artists Eric Tobin, Jack and Karen Winslow, Alden Bryan, Emile Gruppe, and others, exhibit in three gallery buildings.

Through July 6 Northern Vermont Artist Association 83rd Annual Juried Show

New landscape wing of the West Branch Gallery.

WEST BRANCH GALLERY & SCULPTURE PARK One mile from the Village on the Mountain Road, Stowe. 253-8943. westbranchgallery.com. Indoor gallery and outdoor sculpture park, promoting contemporary art in varied media and styles by regional, national, and international artists.

Ongoing Landscape Traditions with nine new representational artists.

Through June 17 Rebecca Kinkead, Local Color: Joyful energetic oils of children, pets, and Vermont wildlife in spring.

Through June 17 Tom Cullins, Recent Works: Light informed abstractions that reflect the aesthetics of place— crisp light, intense color, cubist composition, and the lure of negative space.

June 28 – August 9 Craig Mooney and Henry Isaacs, Distinctions Between Color and Light: Expressionist oils of Vermont and New England coastline. Reception: June 28, 6 - 8:30 p.m.

June 28 – August 9 Nissa Kauppila: Bird on the Wing: Exploring the delicacy of life, flight, and chaos. Reception: June 28, 6 - 8:30 p.m.

August 16 – October 25 Chris Curtis, Duncan Johnson, and Paul Schwieder: An exhibition rich in texture, color, pattern, and form. Reception: August 16, 6 8:30 p.m.

WOLF KAHN STUDIO GALLERY Vermont Studio Center, Johnson. 635-2727, vermontstudiocenter.org. Rotating schedule of local, international, and American artists.

Through June 12 June 15 – July 8 July 20 – August 15 Aug. 16 – Sept. 12 Oct. 7 – Nov. 4 Nov. 5 – Dec. 9

Tom Cote Lou Hicks Jake Nussbaum Winslow Myers Laura Heijn & Rona Cohen Monica Jane Frisell ■

Noon - 5 Sunday

■

come see what’s in for summer

&

fall.

Tolani Papillon Blanc Margaret O’leary Second Yoga 113

SANDRINE LEE; INSET: BILL JALBERT

S TOWE PERFORMING ARTS

Shemekia Copeland.

M e a d o w M u s i c : Stowe Performing Arts returns to Trapps towe Performing Arts returns to the Trapp Family Lodge concert meadow for another stellar season of music, the only concert producer in these parts that presents a full schedule of outdoor concerts—seven out of 12 this year—most of which are free.

The summer season includes a return to the meadow of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, the blues guitarist Quinn Sullivan, vocal stylist Shemekia Copeland, and the Jazz Knights of West Point Academy.

On July 6 Vermont Symphony Orchestra presents Let’s Dance!—music from the world of dance, from waltzes to swing and polkas to salsa. Toe-tapping melodies by the likes of Strauss and Borodin will put you “in the mood” for dance hits from Goodman and Miller. The 1812 Overture, marches, and fireworks conclude the show.

Quinn Sullivan, whose guitar-slinging skills have been compared to Jimi Hendrix, has had the honor of being the youngest artist to play the world-renowned Montreux Jazz Festival in

S

114

Switzerland. This guitar phenom graces the stage on July 20 Billboard calls Shemekia Copeland “...a vocalist who knows few stylistic limitations. ... a true blues diva.” Rhythm and blues, gospel, blues, city sounds—Copeland presents the music of the world on Aug. 3.

Finally, on Aug. 17, West Point Band’s Jazz Knights present the best in big band favorites, popular music, and original compositions and arrangements for jazz ensemble. Members of

the group are graduates of some of America’s most prestigious music schools This concert is free.

Midsummer also brings hot music on hot summer nights—for free. Tuesday evenings gazebo concerts on the lawn of Stowe Free Library include the Cider House Boys, some of the finest pickers in northern Vermont; singer and songwriter Francesca Blanchard; the everpopular Morrisville Military and Waterbury Community Combined Bands; and Cosa Buena, a jazz, Latin, world music, groove band.

Tuesday evenings gazebo concerts begin at 7 p.m. Just like Stowe Performing Arts’ concert in Trapp meadow, picnics and lawn chairs are welcome. ■

MORE INFO: See our calendar, next page. stoweperformingarts.com.

STOWE PERFORMING ARTS NOON MUSIC Free concerts. Wednesday at noon, Stowe Community Church, Main Street, Stowe.

May 28 Hartt String Quartet STOWE PERFORMING ARTS MUSIC IN THE MEADOW Trapp Family Lodge Concert Meadow, Trapp Hill Road, Stowe. Tickets: $28 to $30; $33/$35 at the gate; Stowe Visitor Center; stoweperformingarts.com.

Meadow opens two hours prior to concert.

July 6 Let’s Dance! with Vermont Symphony Orchestra.

1812 Overture, marches, and fireworks conclude the show. 7:30 p.m.

July 20 Blues guitarist Quinn Sullivan. 7 p.m.

August 3 Shemekia Copeland—“a true blues diva.” 7 p.m.

August 17 West Point Band’s Jazz Knights, 6:30 p.m. Free.

STOWE PERFORMING ARTS GAZEBO CONCERTS Free concerts. Tuesday evening at 7 p.m. On the lawn of the Stowe Free Library / Helen Day Art Center. (Rainsite: Stowe Community Church).

July 22 The Cider House Boys, traditional bluegrass July 29 Francesca Blanchard, singer-songwriter August 5 Morrisville Military and Waterbury Community Combined Bands August 12 Cosa Buena, jazz, Latin, world, groove band

Retail Therapy from Head to Toe J Brand Minnie Rose Magaschoni Chan Luu Frye Coclico Cynthia Vincent Old Gringo &more

ADAMANT MUSIC SCHOOL The schedule varies, and includes several weekday evenings and some Sunday afternoons. $10; $6 for seniors; free for members. adamant.org.

July 17 – August 2 Concerts at Waterside Hall

Jim Charonko.

2 8 5 0 M O U N TA I N R O A D STOWE, VERMONT (802) 253-6077 7 D AY S A W E E K 1 0 A M - 6 P M WELLHEELEDSTOWE.COM

ART ON PARK Park Street, Stowe Village. Thursdays, 5:30 - 8:30 p.m. More than 30 artisans and artists—jewelry, pottery, paintings, drawings, photograhpy, fiber arts, specialty food products and more—show their wares.

Live music, local food. facebook.com/artonpark

June 26 July 3 July 10 July 17 July 24 July 31 August 7 August 14 August 21 August 28

Chad Hollister Abby Sherman/Mike Wilson Lesley Grant Funky Crustaceans Lite Rob Williams of Phineas Gage TBD Big Lonesome Jim Charonko Seth Yacovone TBD

Paint-Your-Own Pottery STUDIO AND ART GALLERY

Fun for All Ages! Perfect for Rainy Days, Birthdays and Gifts!

Decorate Boxes, Bowls, Mugs, Plates, Vases, Figurines and More Open Wednesday-Sunday 802.241.4000 3487 Waterbury-Stowe Road Waterbury Center GreenMountainGlaze.com

GET A FREQUENT PAINTER CARD!

Music calendar continues on page 116

115

MUSIC BERKLEE MUSICIAN SERIES Topnotch Resort, Mountain View Pavillion, Stowe.

253-8585. topnotchresort.com/berkleefest.

July 26 & August 30 Berkleefest: Student talent from the Berklee College of Music. Nikolas Metaxas, The Frotations, Damn Tall Buildings, Arielle Vakni.

Local craft beers, gourmet food. 2 - 5 p.m. (subject to change) BLUEGRASS WITH KENJI BUNCH AND FRIENDS On the Common in Craftsbury. Free, donations welcome. Benefits Craftsbury Chamber Players.

July 13 Violist, fiddler, composer, Bunch is a leading interpreter of new and experimental music. 7 p.m.

CRAFTSBURY CHAMBER PLAYERS Featured artists: Kenji Bunch, viola, and Marcantonio Barone, piano. Music director Mary Anthony Cox. Music by Boccherini, Borodin, Ravel, Beethoven, Schubert, more. $25; $10 students; 12/under free.

At the door or craftsburychamberplayers.org.

July 16, July 23, July 30, August 6, August 13, & August 20 University of Vermont Recital Hall, Burlington, Wednesdays 8 p.m. Free mini concerts for children, 4 p.m.

July 17, July 24, July 31 & August 7, August 14. & August 21 Hardwick Town House, Thursdays 8 p.m.

CRAFTSBURY CHAMBER PLAYERS MINI CONCERTS FOR CHILDREN July 16, July 23, July 30, August 6, August 13, & August 20 University of Vermont Recital Hall, Burlington, Wednesdays, 4 p.m.

July 17 & July 24 Hardwick Town House, 2 p.m.

July 31 & August 7 East Craftsbury Presbyterian Church, 2 p.m.

August 14 & August 21 Greensboro United Church of Christ Fellowship Hall, 2 p.m.

DIBDEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS On the campus of Johnson State College. Box office, 635-1476 or jsc.edu/dibden.

September 19 Made in Vermont, Vermont Symphony Orchestra.

Music by Dittersdorf, Holst, Haydn, and an original composition. 7:30 p.m.

ELEVA CHAMBER PLAYERS Professional string chamber orchestra. Moose Meadow Lodge, Waterbury, unless noted. 244-8354.

RSVP: elevachamberplayers.org.

July 17 Gypsy jazz, Latin and jazz standards with Dan Liptak, clarinet, and Greg Evans, guitar. Reception and dinner buffet. Requested donation $25-$250.

6 p.m.

August 14 Opera sensation Kimberly Moller performs with James Myers, pianist of Boston Lyric Opera. Music

by Strauss, Wolf, and Hoiby. Reception and dinner buffet. Requested donation $25-$250. 6 p.m.

September 18 Michigan cellist Stefan Koh and Detroit Symphony pianist Robert Conway create a magical evening of music by the late Vermont composer Richard Stohr. Reception and dinner buffet. Requested donation $25-$250. 6 p.m.

116

Pianist James Myers performs with soprano Kimberly Moller at Moose Meadow Lodge in a fundraiser for the Eleva Chamber Players.

November 8 & 9 Global Folk: Old-world-Inspired folk music by Vermont composers, plus a rare performance of a string suite by Nigerian composer Fela Sowande.

Nov. 8: Waterbury Congregational Church, 8 N. Main Street, 7:30 p.m. Nov. 9: First Church Universalist of Barre,19 Church Street, 3 p.m. $20/$10 seniors and students.

GREEN MOUNTAIN CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL UVM Recital Hall, Redstone Campus, 384 S. Prospect St., Burlington. gmcmf.org. $25. 7:30 p.m. Pre-concert introductions by pianist Juliana Osinchuk at 6:45 p.m.

Distinguished artist faculty of the Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival.

June 25 June 27 July 2 July 4 July 9 July 11

July 18

Sublime Expressions: Music of Mozart and Schubert Francophone: Music of Saint-Saëns, Dutilleux, Ysaÿe and Ravel Young and Gifted: Early works of great composers Outpourings of the Heart: Music of Rachmaninoff, Smetana and Dvorák Slavic Worlds: Music of Penderecki, Szymanowski, Martin and Arensky Heavenly and Earthy: Cello music of de Falla, Brahms, Strayhorn, with guest artist Matt Haimovitz From the British Isles: Music of Britten, Ireland and Walton

JAY PEAK MUSIC SERIES Jay Peak Resort, Jay. jaypeakresort.com

JJ Grey.

July 3 JJ Grey & Mofro, Foeger Ballroom July 25 – 26 Jeezum Crow Festival, Stateside Amphitheater. July 25: The Aerolites, Bronze Radio Return, Dark Star Orchestra. Starts at 5 p.m. July 26: Lucid, Blind Owl Band, Jay Farrar Duo, Amy Helm & The Handsome Strangers, Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real, Dark Star Orchestra. Noon - 9 p.m.

August 15 An Evening with Lyle Lovett and his Large Band, 7 p.m., Stateside Amphitheater

Big Spike Bluegrass.

RATTLING BROOK BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL Belvidere recreation field, Route 109. 644-1118.

11 - 8. Rain or shine. $15.

June 21 Great regional bluegrass bands, including The Reunion Band, Bob Amos and Catamount Crossing, Bluegrass Revisited, Big Spike Bluegrass, Modern Grass Quintet, and The Woedoggies, entertain all day.

ROCKTOBERFEST Portland Street, downtown Morrisville. 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. rocktoberfestvt.com. Most events free.

October 4 All-day street festival begins with a 5k fun run at Oxbow Park at 9 a.m. Chad Hollister and others perform on the main stage. Chili cook-off, pumpkin bowling, mini golf, face painting, street graffiti, cornhole tournaments, free movies at the Bijou Cineplex, 4 square competitions, bubble stations, No Strings Marionettes, food, craft vendors, and the painted Adirondack chair auction. Beer tent.

RUSTY PARKER PARK CONCERTS Waterbury Rotary Club concerts, Rusty Parker Park, Main Street, Waterbury. Free, Thursdays 6 p.m. (Subject to change, weather dependent)

June 5

June 12 June 21

Big Hat, No Cattle: Tim Brick. western swing Slant Six: classic dance and swing The Bob Mackenzie Blues Band: classic blues, jump, swing

June 26 July 3 July 10 July 17 July 24 July 31 August 7 August 14 August 21

Funky Crustaceans: blues, funk, and dance Retrofit: classic rock The Cop Outs: Celtic rock Tim Brick: country Starline Rhythm Boys: honky-tonk and rockabilly The Real Deal: soulful and funky Donna Thunder: country rock Abraxas: Santana tribute band Prydein: American Celtic rock

Seth Yacovone.

TUESDAY NIGHT LIVE -- DONE Legion field, Johnson village. 6 - 8:30 p.m. Food vendors. Free.

July 8 July 15 July 22 July 29 August 5 August 12 August 19 August 26

Seth Yacovone Blues Trio The Hilltop Rounders The Aerolites Barika Tallgrass Getdown Blues for Breakfast Open Mic Eames Brothers

Starline Rhythm Boys.

WEDNESDAY NIGHT LIVE AT THE OXBOW Oxbow Park, downtown Morrisville, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. Free yoga 6 - 7 p.m.; bring your own mat.

June 18 June 25 July 9 July 16 July 23 July 30 August 6 August 13 August 20

Starline Rhythm Boys, free face painting by Donna Farnham Honeybees Carol Jones Sweet & Lowdown Lesley Grant Soundmind Spider Roulette Open Mic Girls Night Out / MoCo free corn roast—Bounty of the County ■

The Knitting Studio Vermont's friendliest yarn store!

Local Products.

Incredible Service.

Unlimited Inspiration.

112 Main Street Montpelier, Vermont 802-229-2444 www.vtknits.com 117

HIS TORY LESSON

NO DEVILS ALLOWED The Old Round Church in Richmond has been lovingly restored. The interior. An old organ, circa 1840.

IN THE ROUND Old meetinghouse serves as spirit of a town STORY & PHOTOS / Kevin Walsh

The Old Round Church begins its third century as an historic meetinghouse, thanks to the dedicated community of Richmond.

As they step through the front door, visitors understand immediately why the church is a National Historic Landmark. It is not exactly round, but a 16-sided polygon, which makes it seem as if it’s circular in shape. The most common theory to explain the unusual design is that a building without corners removes all the places where the devil might hide. The church, 50 feet in diameter, has two floors.

Original pew boxes, a high pulpit, and a balcony all appear much as they did when it first opened in 1813. There is also an organ dating from 1840.

The church began as a place of worship for five different Protestant denominations. But by 1880, all the religious groups had abandoned it for various reasons, and ownership transferred to the Town of Richmond. The town used the

118

building for community meetings until 1973, when structural concerns caused the church’s closure for eight years.

The Richmond community would not abandon the church and area residents formed the Richmond Historical Society to help save it. The town deeded the Old Round Church to the society, whose members worked hard to obtain funding for many needed repairs.

Today the church remains a central identifying feature of Richmond. According to Frances Thomas, president of the Richmond Historical Society, the Old Round Church is special because “it represents the community spirit of Richmond.” Though still used for weddings and community gatherings, the Round Church’s main purpose is as an historic relic of the town’s past. Handpainted wood designs, old-time pew boxes with their original doors and metal hardware, and twofoot-wide floorboards all convey a time when things were built to last. And, if you really want to put history in perspective, be sure to look for the ancient fossils in the 350 million year-old granite slab steps.

GETTING THERE: The Old Round Church is just off of Route 2 in Richmond, near the intersection of Bridge Street and Cochran Road. Visitors can enjoy free guided tours as follows: Memorial Day to midJune: weekends, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.; Mid-June to Labor Day: daily, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.; Labor Day to midSeptember: weekends, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.; October fall foliage: daily, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. oldroundchurch.com.

119

MIXED MEDIA

Clockwise From top: Co-Lab 1: People Gallery, singer/songwriter Lesley Grant, cast of Stephen Sondheim’s Company, and the Quebe Sisters from Band.top: Mellow Yellow. John Hammond, Golden Dragon Acrobats, Tammy Fletcher, and Bob Marley. Inset: Carol Jones.

Film, music, theater at Spruce Peak arts center SPRUCE PEAK PERFORMING ARTS CENTER The 420-seat arts center hosts a wide spectrum of events—theater, music, dance, comedy, film, lectures, and multimedia presentations. Most events fall into four categories: Peak VT Artists, Peak Films, Peak Pop, and Peak Family. The facility is overseen by the nonprofit Spruce Peak Arts Center Foundation, Inc., 122 Hourglass Dr., Spruce Peak, Mountain Road. See sprucepeakarts.org or stowetoday.com for most up-to-date information.

Box office at (802) 760-4634.

May 31 June 15 June 21 June 28 July 5 July 12 July 19 July 26 Aug. 2 Aug. 9

120

Private Lives (2014), 7:30 p.m., film The Roys, 7 p.m.

New West Guitar Group, 8 p.m.

David Bromberg Quintet, 8 p.m.

Super Duper Alice Cooper (2014), 7:30 p.m., film Patti Casey & Colin McCaffrey, 8 p.m.

Counterpoint Vocal Ensemble, 8 p.m.

Carol Ann Jones Quartet, 8 p.m.

Comedian Bob Marley, 8 p.m.

Downtown Bob Stannard, 8 p.m.

Aug. 16 Aug. 23 Aug. 30 Sept. 6 Sept. 13 Sept. 20 Sept. 27 Oct. 4 Oct. 11 Nov. 7 Nov. 8 Nov. 28 Dec. 6 Dec. 13 Dec. 27 Jan. 31

Tom Murphy in Laugh Til You Die, 7 p.m.

Caesar & Cleopatra, 7:30 p.m., film Mellow Yellow, 8 p.m.

DanceFest Vermont!, 8 p.m.

Northern Third Piano Quartet, 8 p.m.

Blues Legend John Hammond, 8 p.m.

Les Poules à Colin, 7 p.m.

Tammy Fletcher, 8 p.m.

Will Patton Quartet, 8 p.m.

Perlman Music Program Chamber Music Concert, 7:30 p.m.

Perlman Music Program Orchestral & Choral Concert, 7:30 p.m.

Golden Dragon Acrobats, 3 and 7 p.m.

Moulin Rouge – The Ballet (2014), 7:30 p.m., film An Irish Christmas in America, 7 p.m.

Ruckus - A Cirque Spectacular, 7 p.m.

Swan Lake by Rudolf Nureyev, State Ballet Theatre of Russia, 7 p.m.

Mixed media continues on page 122

121

MIXED MEDIA Mixed media continues from page 120

ART ON PARK Thursdays, 5:30 - 8:30 p.m. Artists, artisans, live music, local food. facebook.com/artonpark.

June 26 July 3 July 10 July 17 July 24 July 31 August 7 August 14 August 21 August 28

Chad Hollister Abby Sherman/Mike Wilson Lesley Grant Funky Crustaceans Lite Rob Williams of Phineas Gage TBD Big Lonesome Jim Charonko Seth Yacovone TBD

July 5 - August 9 Professional and student dancers. Selections may include: Don Quixote, Midnight Blue, Pas de Quatre, Les Sylphides, Paquita, more. Saturdays, 8 p.m.

Sunday matinee, August 3, 2 p.m.

STEVE KNIGHT

BURKLYN BALLET THEATRE Dibden Center for the Arts, Johnson State College.

Admission. burklynballet.com.

877-287-5596.

CIRCUS SMIRKUS World Headquarter Circus Barn, Greensboro. smirkus.org. (877) SMIRKUS.

June 29 and August 15 – 16 Big Top Tour: Anchors Away from Atlantis!

June 29, 1 and 6 p.m.; August 15 - 16, Friday at 6 p.m., Saturday at 1 & 6 p.m.

DIBDEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS On the campus of Johnson State College. Box office, 635-1476 or jsc.edu/events.

September 24 Author Tori Murden McClure, who rowed solo across the Atlantic Ocean, discusses her book A Pearl in the Storm. 8 p.m. Free.

Rob Mermin

M. Lewis Antiques Offering a nice variety of antiques and collectibles 10 Stowe Street Historic Downtown Waterbury, VT

802.244.8919 Martha M. Lewis, Owner Mon. - Sat. Sunday 122

10 a.m. - 5 p.m.

11 a.m. - 4 p.m.

GREENSBORO ARTS ALLIANCE Theater on the Town Hall Green, 81 Lauredon Ave., Greensboro. info@greensboroartsalliance.com, (802) 533-7487. gaar.info.

August 18 – 24 Writers' Forum: 15 nationally established writers, including Krissie Ohlrogge, Baron Wormser, Page Stegner, Tina Chen, David Budbill, Howard Mosher, Judith Jones, more. Food, workshops, colloquims. Readings at 7:30 p.m.

July 3 Musical Theater Day Camp campers perform, 7 p.m.

July 4 4th of July Square Dance. Fundraiser for renovation of the Greensboro Grange Building, 7 p.m.

July 6 Rob Mermin in a day-long clown workshop and film presentation. 2 - 8 p.m.

RIVER ARTS YOUTH CAMPS AND CLASSES 74 Pleasant St., Morrisville. Monday – Friday 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. 888-1261. riverartsvt.org.

June 23 – 27 River Arts Rock, ages 9 - 17 June 30 – July 4 Parade of the Dragons, ages 7 - 12 July 7 – 11 Cartooning, ages 8 - 13 July 21 – 25 Young Architects: Fairy Houses & Fortresses, ages 4 - 7 August 4 – 8 Filmmaking, ages 9 - 12 August 11 – 5 Mural Project 2014, ages 5 - 10 August 11 – 15 Sk8 the Arts, ages 7 - 14 (Johnson Skate Park) June 14 – 28 Blacksmithing with James Teuscher. Adults. 9 - noon at his Walden, Vt., forge STOWE DANCE AND MAD RIVER DANCE ACADEMIES Dibden Center for the Arts, Johnson State College.

Tickets at Stowe Dance Academy in Stowe or (802) 253-5151. $20; children$15.

June 6 – 8 The Sound of Music and An Evening of Dance.

June 6 and 7, 6 p.m.; June 8, 1 p.m.

WATERBURY ARTS FEST waterburyartsfest.com. Stowe Street, Waterbury.

July 11 – 12 Free event combines over 80 artists, live music, gourmet fare. The Fest starts on pedestrian-only Stowe Street on Friday, July 11, with Nimble Arts trapeze artists and Kat Wright and the Indomitable Soul Band, 6 p.m. Saturday, July 12 features more than 80-plus vendors showcasing fine art, food.

VERMONT SKI & SNOWBOARD MUSEUM One Main Street, Stowe. Check vtssm.com for new exhibits opening fall 2014. Open daily except Tuesday, 12 - 5 p.m. Handicap accessible. Admission is $5 per person/$10 for a family. 253-9911.

June 18

Annual Meeting, 5 p.m.

August 3

Eastern Fat Tire Association Championship Series, Trapp Family Lodge, 8 a.m.

Hall of Fame Induction, Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, 4:30 p.m.

Ladies Night at the Museum ■

October 19 November 21

Visit our interior design center for unique home decor accessories, furniture, fine art & lighting. Remodeling?

See us for interior design that matches your style.

34 S. Main St. (parking in back) l 802-253-7677 l stowecraft.com 123

SWEENEY TODD Patrick Clow as Sweeney Todd and Margaret Garofalo as Mrs. Lovett sample the “Worst Pies in London” in a recent Stowe Theatre Guild production of Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Inset: The Hyde Park Opera House.

Summer stages make music, madcap adventure, mirth!

STOWE THEATRE GUILD Town Hall Theatre, Main Street, Stowe. Wednesdays through Saturdays, 8 p.m. Adults $20/children $10.

253-3961, stowetheatre.com.

June 19 – 21, June 26 – 28, & July 3 – 5 [title of show] Two struggling writers, with the help of their friends, compete in a musical theatre festival.

July 16 – 19, July 23 – 26, July 30 – 31, & August 1 – 2 On the Town The American musical theater classic, the story of three sailors on leave in New York who sing and dance through the city looking for love.

August 13 – 16, August 20 – 23, & August 27 – 30 The Secret Garden Eleven year-old orphan Mary Lennox finds herself in the care of her uncle, Archibald Craven, a hunchback and a recluse in a crumbling manor on the Yorkshire moors, where Mary discovers a secret garden.

September 25 – 28, October 2 – 5, & October 9 – 12 Kiss Me, Kate A bandwagon of cool jazz, sleek lines, fantastic production numbers, and quippy banter. Music and lyrics by Cole Porter. Sunday matinees, 2 p.m.

124

LAMOILLE COUNTY PLAYERS Hyde Park Opera House, Main Street.

Adults $18, seniors/students $12. Thursday through Saturday, 7 p.m.; Sunday matinees, 2 p.m.

888-4507. lamoillecountyplayers.com.

July 24 – 27 & July 31 – August 3 Damn Yankees Middle-aged baseball fanatic Joe Boyd sells his soul to the devil for the chance to become the greatest ballplayer in the world.

September 25 – 28 and October 2 – 5 The Music Man Meredith Willson's classic musical that follows fast-talking traveling salesman Harold Hill as he cons the people of River City, Iowa.

November 14 – 16 & 21 – 23 The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde’s comedy of manners.

GREENSBORO ARTS ALLIANCE MAIN STAGE Featuring Tony award-winning artists. Theater on the Town Hall Green, 81 Lauredon Ave., Greensboro.

(802) 533-7487, gaar.info.

July 24 – August 16 Rodgers & Hammerstein's Carousel Thursdays and Saturdays, 7:30 p.m. Matinee Saturdays, 2 p.m.

July 25 – August 17 William Gibson's The Miracle Worker Fridays, 7:30 p.m., and Sundays, 2 p.m.

August 10 Get Thee to the Funnery, 7 p.m.

QUARRYWORKS THEATER Quarry Road, Adamant. The Phillips Experimental Theater, seats just 50 people. Unless noted: Thursday, Friday, Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, 2 p.m. Free. 229-6978, quarryworks.org.

July 10 – 13 and July 17 – 20 110 In the Shade July 26 – 27 and August 2 – 3 Jack and the Beanstalk, Saturday, 2 and 5 p.m., Sunday, 2 p.m.

August 7 – 10 and August 14 – 17 Come Back, Little Sheba

JONATHAN COUTURE

S U M M E R T H E AT E R

WATERBURY FESTIVAL PLAYERS 2933 Waterbury-Stowe Road (Route 100). Adults $35/$30/$26/$24/$17.50. Shows at 7:30 p.m.

(802) 498-3755. waterburyfestivalplayhouse.com.

JACK SUMBERG

August 8 – 9, 14 – 16, 21– 23 Sight Unseen An American mega-artist visits the muse he abandoned in his quest for the opulent life which now devours him. “...a smart and sad comedy,” says the New York Times. Preview August 7.

September 26 – 27, October 2 – 4, & October 9 – 11 The Underpants Adapted from the classic German play about Louise and Theo Markes, whose conservative existence is shattered when Louise’s bloomers fall down in public. No scandal ensues, but it does attract two infatuated men, each of whom wants to rent the spare room in the Markes’ home.

Preview Sept. 25.

Bread & Puppet Theater, Sourdough Circus.

BREAD & PUPPET THEATER Route 122, Glover. Donation. (802) 525-3031. breadandpuppet.org.

June 15 – 29 Afternoon performances, Sundays at 3 p.m., TBA. Free, donations are welcome.

July 1 – August 26 Shape Note Sings, Tuesdays at 7:30 p.m.

Shape note singing.

July 11 – August 22 Evening performances, Fridays at 7:30 p.m., TBA. Free, donations welcome.

July 13 – August 24 Nothing is Not Ready Circus and Pageant, Sundays. Outdoor performance for all ages, in the Circus Field. Side Shows and Ding Dongs start at 2 pm.; Circus follows at 3 pm. Free, donations welcome.

September 7 – 21 Sundays performance for all ages. 3 p.m.

Admission is free, donations are welcome.

September 28 Bread & Puppet’s annual Political Leaf Peeping: Small shows, live music, bread and aioli–a family event. 2 p.m. ■

6 Sunset Street, Stowe Village / 802-253-7066 / pret-a-porter vt.com 125

ROAD TRIP

Settling in the Greens Vermont history filled with Irish immigrants STORY & PHOTOS / Kevin Walsh

During 19th-century migrations to America, people of Irish heritage commonly settled in large urban areas. Less common, and less well known, are the many Irish immigrants who put roots down in northern Vermont.

Area historian Vincent Feeney has tracked the travels of the Irish in Vermont, and in the Stowe-Smugglers’ Notch area, pockets of Irish settled in Waterbury, Cambridge, Underhill, and Moretown.

Many Irish left Ireland in the 1800s due to economic and social reasons, and according to Feeney many settled in Canada, later migrating into northern Vermont to grab land abandoned by others who were headed west in search of more productive farmland.

Feeney notes that for the Irish, northern Vermont offered inexpensive land and a piece of the American dream. Other Irish folks arrived to work as laborers in quarries and on the railroad. Once the Irish established their own small communities, word spread and more followed. By 1860, Feeney notes, the Irish comprised Vermont’s largest ethnic group.

Even today, remnants of these original Irish communities exist. In the Cambridge/Underhill area, Irish Settlement Road once housed one such community.

About mid-way down that road, there is a largely Irish cemetery overlooking Pleasant Valley. The Irish influence can also be seen in Cambridge village, according to local historian and author Bill McKone. St. Mary’s Church in Cambridge features a Celtic cross atop its steeple and, according to McKone, one village building contains a brick carved with a memorial to the 1866 and 1870 Fenian raids, where bands of Irish-Americans invaded Canada to pressure the British into leaving Ireland.

McKone’s research also found that the town of Underhill once had so many Irish residents that the Gaelic language filled the air on market days.

In an abandoned community in Waterbury, now part of the Little River State Park, another group of Irish tried to tame the landscape and work the land. Old, overgrown cart paths reveal sign markers with such Irish landmarks as Kelty Corners and Carney Farm, and a long-forgotten cemetery in the woods is filled with headstones of long-dead Irish settlers.

Gravestones are also testimony to a vibrant Irish settlement in Moretown, just east of Waterbury. The Irish once populated tiny St. Patrick Church, and St. Patrick’s Cemetery sits on a nearby mountain ridge, where gravestones reveal rich family history and the native birthplaces of Irish residents.

126

IRISH HISTORY Clockwise from top left: St. Mary’s Church in Cambridge. A headstone from St. Patrick Cemetery, a largely Irish cemetery in Cambridge’s Pleasant Valley. St. Mary’s. A trail marker at the Little River State Park in Waterbury, site of an old Irish settlement. St. Patrick Cemetery.

127

ART OF

BOOK BINDING story:

kate

carter

â?&#x2DC;

photographs:

sawyer

sutton

129

Preceeding pages, clockwise from top left: A section cover from the book Grand Theater Feerique. Some important tools of the trade.

Robin Collins’ most valuable tools: her hands.

In the bindery, Robin works on a movable book

by Lothar Meggendorfer. This photo shows original book cover material (in the foreground), while the paper in the background is a newly dyed piece that will underlay the old on the restored book. At right: The cover of an 1885 German movable book.

R

obin Cooper Collins’ work requires infinite patience, attention to minute detail, a methodical approach, and a love of microscopic things.

She binds books by hand.

You’d think that sort of skill would have faded away with the arrival of the digital era, but hand bookbinders are more prevalent than you’d think, and Robin is one of the best. She takes the craft to a whole other level, working primarily on the restoration of antiquarian children’s books and specializing in movable and pop-up books of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Tools of the trade—colored pencils, a hand-crank press, knives, brushes, reams of assorted papers—are meticulously organized and stored in drawers and on shelves that line one wall in Robin’s studio in the basement of her home in Stowe Hollow, which she shares with her husband, Kevin Collins. It’s

130

ROUTE 15 • JOHNSON, VERMONT (11⁄2 miles west of the village)

Open 7 days a week: 10AM – 7PM

Famous Label, OFF PRICE Clothing for Men, Women & Teens

131

132

Preceeding page, clockwise from top left: A page from The Speaking Picture Book, circa 1880. The internal mechanisms of two speaking picture books. Robin is in demand as this collection of movable books awaiting restoration attests. One of the lifting theater scenes from Theater Bilderbuch. This page: Robin works on a mechanism in Meggendorfer's Gemischte Gesellschaft (1891).

FREE SAMPLES

FACTORY SECONDS (Not Perfect By Our Standards But Perfectly Delicious.)

ROUTE 100. WATERBURY CENTER Located next to sweet shopping like the Cabot Flagship Store and Danforth Pewter. 10 pretty minutes from Stowe Village

802-241-4150 Visit our Burlington Factory Outlet at 750 Pine Street

802-864-1807

Green Mountain

sunny and full of light, with a spectacular view of Mt. Mansfield. A long workbench extends from one end of the room to the other, and reference books are crammed into bookcases. A workflow chart records the progress of each book Robin is repairing. She often has 8 to 10 books going at once, working on some while the glue dries in others. estoring antique books by hand is tedious work, especially when the books are filled with delicate parts engineered to move when you pull a tab or flip a page. “I like tedium, I always have, and the tinier the work, the happier I am,” Robin says. “What I do is a combination of artist and engineer. Even though the artistic end of book restoration isn’t creating something original, I get to work with tools and develop skills. It’s a fine craft that I’ve come to from the old tradition of bookbinder skills.” l

R

Coins & Estate Jewelry Fine Estate Jewelry & Repair Rings • Bracelets • Watches • Pendants • Earrings

Buying Gold, Silver & Coins Guaranteed Highest Price Paid in the Area

9 South Main Street, Waterbury • (802) 777-5550 • John Kirby, Owner 133

Robin attaches a layer connection on a section of Grand Theater Feerique.

The book, Robin says, literally arrived as a box of pieces for restoration.

A completed movable scene from Grand Theater Feerique.

A certified cartographer with a degree in geography from the University of Mary Washington in Virginia, Robin became interested in bookbinding 25 years ago. She received a one-week grant to study with acclaimed bookbinder Bill Streeter in Northampton, Mass., a town with more bookbinders per square mile than anywhere. She later returned to study with Streeter for three more months to hone her skills. She eventually switched from general bookbinding to working solely on childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s books with the pop-up and movable specialty.

Following a divorce and her sonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s departure for boarding school, Robin moved from Virginia to Stowe, a town she had visited often as a child, and set up shop as a fulltime restorer of

134

135

he largest selection of fine artist materials at tremendous savings. Call us or stop by. It’s worth the drive.

635-2203 800-887-2203 2 Lower Main St., Johnson, Vermont Open Tues. - Sat. 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Sun. 12 p.m. - 5 p.m. thestudiostore.com

We’ll put a smile on your face • • • • • • • • • •

Adult Toys & Novelties Lotions & Potions Lingerie Bachelorette & Bachelor Party Gifts Vaporizers Adult DVDs Party Games Tobacco Products Body Jewelry Tapestry Room HOURS: Mon-Sat 11-8 • Sun 12-6 Waterbury

St. Albans

The Resort Store 192 Federal Street 3595 Waterbury-Stowe Rd. (802) 524-6607 (802) 244-0800

Derby, VT 4267 N. Route 5 (802) 487-9315

Rutland, VT: 162 N. Main St. Newport, NH: 51 John Stark Kighway (603) 863-7004

Burlington 21 Church St. (802) 658-6520 HOURS: M-Th 11-9 Fri-Sat 11-10 Sundays 12-6

Whether you’re looking for a gift that is funny, naughty or unique... stop by Good Stuff to take a peek!

CHECK OUT OUR NEW ONLINE SUPERSTORE: goodstuff.xxx 136

antique movable books. “I am not a collector.

My clients are the collectors and some are dealers,” Robin explains. “They come from across North America and I have one in England. I’m most known for my work on Meggendorfer books. Lothar Meggendorfer is the granddaddy of all movable books.” ovable books go back 800 years, beginning with the Volvelle style, where a round disk rotates on a center pivot point, similar to a percentage wheel.

Comprised of a layer of disks, each successively larger, the information on each layer can be lined up in different ways. Next came the Harlequinade-style, with lift-flaps or turnups, where the handler could manually lift the layers to reveal new images. In the early 1800s craftsmen became more skilled and created the popular movable cards of the Biedermeier era. Pages could now actually unfold into complex multi-layer three-dimensional stages, with pull tabs that moved different pieces.

The German artist and illustrator Lothar Meggendorfer (1847 to 1925), whose book repair Robin is best known for, became famous in the late 1800s. He illustrated and engineered over 200 movable books, starting with the one he made as a Christmas present for his son in 1878. In honor of his contributions to the craft, The Movable Book Society, an international organization and forum for movable book aficionados, awards the Meggendorfer Prize to the designer who published the most outstanding pop-up or movable book in the two preceding years. Robin, who has been a presenter at the Movable Book Society’s biennial conferences, will give a talk at its 2014 fall conference in Philadelphia.

Although she can’t say for certain how many books she has restored, Robin thinks it’s close to a thousand. “I will get repeats of the same book from different customers.

Some books I’ve repaired up to 8 or 10 times, often in different languages. In all I’ve repaired books written in 11 different languages. The Japanese and Hebrew books are a challenge because they start at the back and go from right to left. But I’m comfortable with that. I’m left-handed.”

Although Robin has not exactly embraced digital recordkeeping her studio features a computer, scanner, and printer, and she does keep an inventory of her work on a hard drive. More importantly, she makes photocopies and scans of every movable book she works on. If she can’t lay it flat to scan it, she photographs it.

This way, if she gets a repeat book to

M

BOOK BINDING

Client focused.

HAIR MANICURE PEDICURE FACIALS WAXING

Sojourn • REF • Loma • Prive Goldwell color Butter London nail care

Call today for an appointment

802.253.7701 147 south main st. stowe, vermont

Johnson Woolen Mills Factory Store Quality Woolen Garments for the Entire Family SINCE 1842

Quality Woolens Fabrics by the Yard Hudson Bay Point Blankets

Main Street, Johnson, Vermont (15 minutes from Stowe, 40 minutes from Jay) Open Mon-Sat 9-5 & Sun 10-4 • 802-635-2271 • 877-635-WOOL (9665)

www.johnsonwoolenmills.com 137

VERMONT T-SHIRT CO. Largest Selection More than 300 Designs Great Selection of Tie Dyes

Sizes from Infant to 6 XL Vermont or Stowe printed FREE Organic Tees

MADE TO ORDER

T’s and Sweats

“THE BEST PRICES IN TOWN”

Route 100 6.5 miles south of Stowe 244-6240 www.vermonttshirt.com

Women’s Apparel

Ski Wear “Because friends shouldn’t let friends pay retail.”

Established 2001

393 Mountain Rd. Stowe, VT 05672

138

253-8100

Mon-Sat 10-5 Sun 12-5

restore, she has a thorough reference. She even created small flash cards of all the Meggendorfer plates she has worked on.

The two-inch by three-inch cards are snapshots of different parts of every page of a book. When Robin needs to refer to a color, size, shape, articulation point, pull tab, or the like, she can quickly flip through the cards, which are assembled on a chain, similar to color chips in a paint store.

“Children’s books are often not numbered, so I go through them right away, make copies and number them, so I don’t lose track of the order,” she says. If she’s lucky, a customer will give her two of the same book, one in good condition and one in need of repair. “That’s the ideal situation. I can use the one in good condition as a reference.”

feel beautifully cared for

BOOK BINDING

obin even has a small inventory of book parts, but usually she crafts missing pieces by hand, matching the paper’s thickness and then carefully coloring the paper to match the existing colors. Paper thickness is critical. You can’t have moving parts bumping up against other parts of the book. They must glide smoothly over each other or they will eventually wear or cause damage.

When Robin adds a missing part, she skillfully bevels the end of the new piece of paper so that it blends seamlessly with the old.

So that she doesn’t overwork a page she is repairing, Robin will sometimes make a model of the page and problem solve on the model before making the actual repair. If pieces are missing she will fabricate them from her assortment of paper. “It’s all about the paper,” she says.

“Paper is the basic ingredient in all of the books, and the environment has a huge impact on how the paper holds up over the years.”

Glue also presents huge problems. Ever wonder where the term bookworm comes from? These tiny worms eat the glue in old books, essentially devouring the books for their glue content. Robin makes her own wheat paste from powder and water, and also uses a white Elmer’s Glue-type product, depending on what the paper calls for. For repairing tears in a book she will use a wheat paste and different thicknesses of Japanese tissue.

“What I am doing is such an exclusive niche,” Robin says. “What I love most is getting a child’s book that is in desperate need of repair. It brings me pleasure to know that book has been read over and over, and that a child played with it.” ■

R

All Aveda cut, color, styling and spa services

begin and end with at least one of our five,

free Aveda Sensory Rituals – from a Cup of

Comforting Tea to a Stress-Relieving Scalp

Massage. They’re always complimentary, and

part of how we care for the world we live in – we start with you.

Experience the Aveda difference – book your appointment today.

139

EDIBLES

GLENN CALLAHAN

EDIBLES is compiled by Lisa McCormack and photographed by Glenn Callahan.

FRENCH TART Longtime Stowe artist serves up sweet and savory

O

ccasionally while traveling Vermont’s back roads you come across a locally prepared delicacy so amazing that you are faced with a difficult dilemma: Tell the world about it, because it’s just too divine to keep to yourself, or say nothing, because if word gets out, swarms of people will descend on the spot, making it harder to enjoy in the future.

To the latter group, we apologize now for revealing the secret of the French Tart.

The French Tart, aka Carole Drury, was born and raised in Paris before

140

coming to the U.S. with her parents at age 10. She replicates the sweet and savory tarts that are a staple in Paris, selling them out of her artfully decorated 19th-century Greensboro farmhouse and at local farmers’ markets.

“Seventy percent of the ingredients come from my own garden,” Drury says.

Her garden is a wildly colorful mix of herbs, perennials, and vegetables ranging from asparagus to kale and cabbage.

A rooftop greenhouse allows her to jumpstart the growing season each spring. l

141

GLENN CALLAHAN

EDIBLES

Visit an 8th generation sugarhouse using traditional maple sugaring methods!

•

Enjoy FREE daily tours and tastings •

Walk our maple trail

• Large gift shop and maple ice cream parlor •

Farm animals, picnic area and beautiful views!

OPEN DAILY / YEAR ROUND 1005 VT Route 14N East Montpelier, VT 05651 MAIL ORDER 802-223-5757 • 800-376-5757 Near Grandview Winery, Cabot Creamery and the Coburn Covered Bridge

142

Drury, a longtime artist and French tutor who has split her adult life between living in Vermont and France, began making what she calls “sweet pies” several years ago after relocating to Greensboro from Stowe.

“I was intrigued by the local food movement,” Drury says. “With my roots in France, I thought this was a great way to start a market.”

Later, after noticing an absence of pies with savory fillings, she expanded her offerings.

When asked the difference between a pie and a tart, Drury maintains they’re English and French words for the same thing—a pastry crust filled with sweet or savory fillings.

Drury makes the tarts in her farmhouse kitchen, a sun-filled space with pots of herbs on its windowsills and bunches of herbs drying on its walls.

There are over a dozen varieties, each reflective of the produce and herbs Drury grows in her garden and the meats and cheeses supplied by her neighbors. Several are named after Vermont towns where she purchases her meat.

Each 12-inch tart begins with a base of flaky homemade butter-based pastry crust. Several contain mirepoix, a mixture of chopped onions, celery, and carrots used as a base in traditional French soups and pot-au-feu.

La Hardwickaise ($12) features roasted zucchini and carrots on a bed of rice and lentils with seasonal herbs. La Montpelieraise ($14) offers a choice of local lamb, rabbit, or salmon combined

Drury’s kitchen with vegetables, rice, and overflows with dried lentil mirepoix. La Cabot and drying herbs, ($14) is filled with ham grains, and art. and Cabot sharp cheddar Previous page: Carole with apple compote Drury on her rooftop brandy and greens on a greenhouse. The cat bed of rice and lentils. La eyes a jar of Herbes Normandie ($14), filled de Provence. with chicken, cranberry preserves, and seasonal vegetables on a bed of savory rice and lentils, is Drury’s most popular tart.

Additionally, Drury offers several vegetarian tarts ($12-$14) including La Polonaise—sauerkraut, caramelized onions, roasted potatoes, cabbage, and melted Cabot cheddar—and La Greque, with its Kalamata olives, chick peas, spinach, and feta on a bed of rice and lentils.

All tarts are made to order and available without crust, and each variety can be prepared vegan and gluten free.

Her crepes (four to an order, $12-$16) are offered in sweet varieties, including raspberry and dark chocolate, banana, peanuts, and cognac, as well as savory combinations, such as asparagus and crème fraiche, and curried rice and vegetables.

While her tart orders have steadily grown through word of mouth, Drury says, “It’s a hobby more than a fulltime business. My (French) tutoring is how I make my living.”

—Lisa McCormack

MORE INFO: French Tart orders: call (802) 533-2163; or email caroledrurythefrenchtart@yahoo.com.

Pierre Mesa, seen here in the Commodores Inn kitchen, makes specialty jerky in a variety of flavors.

SMOKED JERKY The exotic flavorings of the Lake Elmore Smokehouse ierre Mesa has a problem that most food producers would envy. He can’t keep up with the demand for his product—Lake Elmore Smokehouse jerky.

Right now Mesa sells his jerky through a Facebook page and at Morrisville Lumber locations in Morrisville and Stowe. But seven more stores are lined up to distribute it once he’s able to increase production.

In addition to beef jerky, Mesa sells varieties flavored with exotic spices and seasonings, such as pepper, chipotle, sesame-ginger, and currycoconut.

Jerky customers tend to be enthusiastic and loyal, Mesa says. “If you like jerky, you love jerky. People who buy it buy it religiously.”

Mesa rents space at the Mad River Food Hub in Waitsfield and uses what he calls an “oldschool” jerky recipe that’s similar to how the American Indians prepared it. He hand cuts it from 30-pound slabs of beef, cures it naturally and then smokes it over maple wood harvested from his 10-acre homestead.

While jerky has a reputation as a convenience store snack food, Elmore Smokehouse jerky is high protein, low sodium, and fat free, according

P

144

to Mesa. He points to several features that make his jerky stand out from other brands. “One, I don’t use any weird stuff, no nitrates, no MSG,” Mesa says. “Two, it’s just a little tastier and moister than other brands. Three, I’ve priced it very competitively. And four, it’s a good product.

It sells itself.”

Mesa grew up in Telluride, Colo., and is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America. A former banker, he opened a Winooski restaurant, Don Pedro’s Taqueria, after moving to Vermont four years ago. When the restaurant closed in 2012 he started making jerky. After sharing it

with friends—he estimates he’s given away about 100 pounds—orders poured in. “I decided that for the reminder of my life I’m only going to do what I enjoy,” says Mesa, who still works part time as a bar manager at the Commodores Inn in Stowe. “I never thought of making money from it. I think that it’s because I love it so much that I’m making a go of it.”

He enjoys experimenting with new recipes.

He’s formulated a recipe for artisan dog jerky and says that Pet Food Warehouse has expressed interest in carrying it. Mesa is experimenting with maple-smoked salmon and he’s already created a maple-bacon candy. But for now, he’s streamlined production to concentrate on making jerky.

Mesa worked with the Vermont Food Venture Center to gain ServSafe training and USDA approval and plans to install $10,000 worth of equipment to help boost production. “My plan is to go national, but I don’t want it to grow too fast,” Mesa says. “It’s artisan jerky. I do it all by hand.”

—Lisa McCormack

MORE INFO: Call (802) 888-7487; or visit Lake Elmore Smokehouse on Facebook.

GLENN CALLAHAN

EDIBLES

Not so much a theme, it's an ethos – simply great, handmade, flavorful food.

Flavorfully Created Entrees Handmade Soups, Breads, Salads & Desserts • Craft Beers Thoughtfully Selected Wines Fresh Pressed Cocktails Seafood Special Changes Daily Fireside Lounge • Bar Seating Elegant Dining Rooms • Beautiful Views

OPEN WED-SUN 5-10 P.M.

New horizons at Ten Acres: Stowe couple converts historic lodge, restaurant

S

ince opening The Bistro at Ten Acres just 19 months ago Linda and I stand amazed and humbled by the number of guests who have thoroughly enjoyed their evening with us. Having never been in the restaurant business before, we were living across town, unchallenged by our careers, and looking for an adventure—boy, did we find one! But it’s been far more rewarding than we could have ever imagined.

From an 1820’s farmhouse Ten Acres has been serving the public in one incarnation or another since 1946. We knew we were buying a “landmark” property but we could never have known we were buying a property that is home to so many memories. Nightly, guests arrive for their reservation and tell us about the time they were at Ten Acres for a special occasion or have been coming here 30 years. We will never forget the couple who stopped to stand in front of the fireplace and tell us they were married right there 41 years ago. They had eloped from Connecticut and were 18 years old! To reenergize the building that holds these special memories and enable new ones is very special to Linda and me.

This Summer: Our oldest son Harry will be on the floor and in the kitchen bussing tables this summer. You’ve never seen a kid so tired at the end of a shift. Chef Gary continues to assemble masterfully created dishes that people remember. When I’m bartending and someone asks what I recommend to eat my answer is that I recommend everything, but point out that it’s the depth of flavor Gary develops in his sauces that make his dishes extraordinary. We’re excited about the new summer menu and truly enjoy the creative process of working with Chef Gary to create more memorable meals for our guests.

Private Dining Room: This past winter we launched our new Private Dining Room which seats 10 to 16. For only $59 per person guests enjoy a delicious four-course meal consisting of Chef Gary’s most popular dishes. Guests have their own music, restroom and a dedicated server. It’s been very popular for family gatherings, birthdays, business dinners and wedding rehearsal dinners.

Ten Acres Lodging: Our guests know The Bistro at Ten Acres for the restaurant and bar but not everyone is aware that we have two two bedroom cottages and eight suites with fireplaces, mini-kitchenettes, private bathrooms and balconies available for vacation rentals. We spent the winter and spring of 2013 renovating and restyling the accommodations to create comfortable, convenient and cost-effective options for our guests. Spring 2014 will see us replacing decking and revitalizing the old tennis court into a picnic area with shuffle-board, bocce, horseshoes and firepits.

1 4 B a r ro w s R o a d , S t o w e , Ve r m o n t PAID ADVERTISEMENT

t e n a c re s l o d g e . c o m

(802) 253-6838 145

EDIBLES

M I C A S A, SU CASA Food, spirits, brews, fun!

A RESTAURANT HAS RETURNED TO THE historic Butler House on Stowe’s Main Street.

Paul Biron and his family opened Mi Casa Kitchen & Bar in May in the building formerly occupied by the popular Frida’s Taqueria and Grill, a spot that was also home to the Swisspot Restaurant for more than 30 years.

Biron, who was a business partner in Frida’s, renovated the 19th-century brick building five years ago. Mi Casa includes a bar area, lounge, and outdoor seating. “We’ll offer fresh Mexican fare with a Vermont twist and, of course, fabulous margaritas,” he says.

“We want Mi Casa to become su casa.”

“It’s been an exciting journey for us,” says Biron, who successfully managed several Boston restaurants, “to bring Mi Casa Kitchen & Bar from dream to reality.” Joining Biron in this new venture is his wife, Laura, a registered dietitian and nutritionist, and their daughter, Zoe, who is completing her culinary training at New England Culinary Institute.

Chef Steve Truso, former chef at the Green Mountain Inn, consulted with the Birons to develop the menu and helped with the restaurant’s opening.

The kitchen team will be led by Scott Hostetter, who brings over 30 years of culi148

GLENN CALLAHAN

Laura, Paul, and Zoe Biron.

Mexican sugar skulls on the wall of Mi Casa Kitchen & Bar.

nary experience to the job. He learned to cook at his family’s Cape Cod restaurant, and has worked locally at Partridge Inn, Pie in the Sky, and the Shed.

The reasonably priced menu will offer daily tacos, made-to-order guacamole, and feature locally grown vegetables, maple syrup, Vermont cheeses, and house-made chorizo.

Plenty of vegetarian and gluten-free selections, grilled fish and steak, local draft beers, and seasonal specials will also be available.

Biron says regular customers miss Frida’s, which closed abruptly last fall, and often knock on the restaurant’s front door to ask about its closing. “We hope that it’s as successful as Frida’s and that it will help with the vibrancy of the town,” he says.

The Frida Kahlo art is gone from the walls, replaced with a mural featuring Mexican sugar skulls, but Frida’s popular al fresco deck dining will stay, as will the bocce/petanque court. The circa 1830 Butler House also offers lodging in five upstairs apartments, and the Biron’s plan to add a comfortable street-side lounge area.

Mi Casa Kitchen and Bar will serve lunch and dinner daily.

—Lisa McCormack

After we opened our Irish bar and grill, our kids came to visit and ended up staying! So be served by an O’Grady while you enjoy great music and flat screen TVs. Warm Irish hospitality makes O’Grady’s the family favorite!

Irish and American fare prepared by Executive Chef John Howell. Lamb Shepherd’s Pie, the best corned beef and cabbage this side of Dublin, hand-cut Angus steaks, beer battered fish and chips and much, much more!

Friends will enjoy our 14 beers on tap, huge bottle and can selection kept cold in our antique copperlined bathtub, or any one of our large selection of Irish Whiskeys. Enjoy our signature Moscow Mule for a refreshing treat.

We’re open 7 days a week.

• Vegetarian and gluten-free options • Kid-friendly • Wheelchair accessible • Take-out available

céad mile fáilte!

MORE INFO: 253-5333; micasastowe.com.

149

Guptil Road, Waterbury Center ~ 244-7855

Creative American Cuisine Exceptional Fare served in the Comfort of our Renovated Vermont Barn Tender Hand-Cut Steaks – The Freshest Seafood Chicken – Pastas – Sesame-crusted Tuna in scallion ginger sauce – a local favorite! www.tanglewoodsrestaurant.com

Since 1989 ~ Chef Owners Carl & Diane Huber

COZY FIREPLACE IN WINTER

/

DECK DINING IN SUMMER

Open Tuesday - Sunday 5:30 ~ until close • Guptil Road, Waterbury ~ 1⁄4 mile north of Ben & Jerry’s off Route 100

150

151

GLENN CALLAHAN

EDIBLES

WINE CLASSIC A feast for the ages ONE OF THE AREA’S LARGEST CHARITY events also happens to be one of the tastiest. The Stowe Wine & Food Classic, a three-day epicurian festival, offers altruistic food lovers the opportunity to sample gourmet meals, sip fine wine and beer, and take a cooking course or two.

“Boasting the most food and drink sophistication per capita, Vermont has cultivated a food culture that rivals that of anywhere else in the world,” says Stowe Charities President Donna Cox-Davies. “The classic celebrates this tradition by highlighting chefs, craft brewers, and food vendors who have Rowan Jacobsen. created the ‘New England chic’ culinary movement that is gaining the attention of foodies from around the country.”

The annual classic, which takes place at the Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe from June 13 15, is celebrating its 16th year and raises money for Stowe Charities Inc. Proceeds this year benefit Copley Hospital and the Vermont Food Bank. Last year’s event raised $14,000.

The classic kicks off Friday with Blues, Brews and Food Truck Crews, which pays homage to Vermont’s growing gourmet food truck movement. Award-winning food author Rowan Jacobsen returns for Saturday afternoon’s Culinary Adventure: By Land & By Sea. Jacobsen will lead a wine pairing with local award-winning cheeses, as well as a wine tasting with a bicoastal selection of oysters.

Saturday’s Gala Dinner and Fine Auction takes a tour through Italy with a collaborative fivecourse meal, prepared by five chefs, with wine pairings featuring Italian wines.

The event concludes Sunday with a Grand Tasting held under a cavernous event tent in the resort’s meadow. —Lisa McCormack

MORE INFO: (888) 683-2427; stowewine.com.

152

153

EDIBLES

BOTTLE ART IT’S BEEN SAID NOT TO JUDGE A BOOK BY its cover, but what about a beer?

A new Canadian brewery is matching its small-batch artisan beers with limited-run interactive labels featuring artists from all over the world.

Collective Arts is a Toronto brewery, so one would be hard-pressed to find the beer anywhere around here, or anywhere stateside, for that matter. But all the cutting-edge creativity on the outside of the bottles comes right through Stowe. “We call it the most refreshing art in the world,” says Canadian native and Stowe resident Bob Russell, who co-founded Collective Arts with Matt Johnston.

Every bottle of Collective Arts features a unique label with artwork from relatively new, regional or underground artists. In Matt Johnston and Bob Russell. the initial run, 93 artists are featured, some of them painters or photographers, some musicians or filmmakers.

Each artist label appears on 2,500 bottles.

“You never know what you’re going to get in a six-pack,” Russell says. “The chances of you getting the same one are slim to none.”

The beer is tasty, too. There are currently two brews: Rhyme and Reason, an extra pale ale that received a 94 rating from Beer Advocate, and Saint of Circumstance, a low-alcohol blonde ale infused with citrus fruit zest.

Russell, a graphic design artist with an example of his work on his own beer, says Collective Arts aims to have a different “call for art” every four months or so, to keep things fresh. The first call for art elicited 750 responses..

Russell, whose label features a pop digital art piece titled “Instamatic,” is not the only local artist featured on a Collective Arts beer bottle.

Northeast Kingdom-area photographer Heather Gray also has a label with her photo Cowgirl.

“I didn’t think I’d ever be on a beer bottle,” Gray says. “But I like the concept, for sure. It’s a great way to promote your art.”

—Tommy Gardner

MORE INFO: collectiveartsbrewing.com.

154

GLENN CALLAHAN

Brewery partners with artists

Unique Lodging in the Heart of Stowe Village

Fresh Mexican Fare with a Vermont Twist 11:30 a.m. - 10 p.m. daily.

Deck dining!

Studios, one bedroom, and two bedroom Fully equipped kitchens â&#x2013; HDTV, A/C, and much more Available by the day, weekend, week, or longer

802.253.7422

802.253.5333 MiCasaStowe.com 128 Main Street, Stowe

butlerhousestowe.com 155

CAFE PROVENCE

EDIBLES

FRENCH FLAIR Acclaimed chef opens eatery in Waterbury

Home of the Yacht Club Restaurant & Sports Lounge featuring our Country Buffet with hearty Soup and Salad Bar • Lakeside Outdoor Heated Pool • 72 Fully Air Conditioned Rooms • Jacuzzis, Saunas, Game Room • Remote Controlled Sailboat Races • Tropical Indoor Pool • Fully Stocked Trout Pond

• Canoes, Paddleboats, Kayaks • Kids Stay Free • Popular, Casual, Affordable • Family Owned & Operated • Central to all Stowe Events • Pet Friendly

800-44-STOWE (78693) Rt. 100, Stowe, VT • 802-253-7131 • Fax 802-253-2360 email: reservations@commodoresinn.com website: www.commodoresinn.com

156

A NEW RESTAURANT IN WATERBURY AIMS to bring a taste of southern France to northern Vermont with farm-fresh ingredients and culinary creativity.

Co-owner and executive chef Robert Barral opened his second Café Provence restaurant at the Best Western on Blush Hill, offering an affordable menu bursting with French flair. A native of the Provence/Languedoc region of southern France, Barral co-owns the popular Café Provence flagship location in Brandon, along with wife Line.

Melissa Moore, general manager at the Best Western, helped orchestrate the Waterbury location’s opening. She estimates she’s taken about 50 to 60 cooking classes from Barral in Brandon over nine years. “He loves new adventure and I was looking for a solution to help our poor little restaurant (at the hotel),” she says. Café Provence replaced The Wandering Moose Café.

Barral says adding a Waterbury location sounded like a “splendid idea,” and he’s happy to be back in the area.

“Waterbury is a great town and I lived in Duxbury for eight years,” he told us by phone from his restaurant in Brandon. “There are a

From left: Chef Robert Barral. Moules marinieres. A chocolate bomb. Spinach salad in an Asiago cheese cup.

lot of good restaurants in the area, but I think Café Provence will bring something different.”

The new café features a full dinner menu highlighting some of Barral’s signature dishes, such as Blue Ledge Farm goat cheese cakes salad, steamed mussels, seafood stew, and oven-roasted free-range chicken. Entrées, including some vegetarian options, are priced between $12.95 and $24.95.

Barral says the menu will “offer a variety that will please everybody,” from classic favorites like steak au poivre and duck cassoulet to hand-tossed pizza and a Vermont grass-fed beef burger.

“I love the flavors and the style (of the menu),” he says.

Ittai Azoulay is head chef for the Waterbury location and Jennifer Miscio is banquet manager. Azoulay spent over a year alongside Barral in Brandon, and he will now uphold the same culinary traditions in the kitchen in Waterbury.

Prior to owning his own restaurants, Barral was the executive chef of the New England Culinary Institute in Montpelier for several years.

He regularly cooks up his award-winning cuisine on WCAX and holds his cooking classes every Monday evening at the café in Brandon.

—Miranda Orso

MORE INFO: 244-7822; cafeprovencebh.com.

Stowe, Vermont

855 666 1956

www.trappfamily.com

Rhubarb, elderberry, blueberry, hard cider, fruit wines (not sweet), grape wines, & more.

•

TASTING ROOM / RETAIL SHOP — RTE 100, COLD HOLLOW CIDER MILL WATERBURY CENTER 244-7012

•

WINERY — RTE 14, EAST CALAIS 456-7012

Get Off the Beaten Track!

Tours, tastings/retail shop & spectacular views.

Cabot’s cheese plant & Bragg Maple Farm nearby. (Makes a great half day tour). 11-5 157

EDIBLES

NAIL ROCKS O N! Crop Brewery owner reopens Stowe nightclub

STOWE’S MOST STORIED NIGHTCLUB IS back. The Rusty Nail reopened this winter with taps full of local beer, local and national musical acts, and plenty of pub-style food.

The Nail closed over a year ago after years of financial struggles. Bill Davis, owner of Crop Bistro & Brewery, purchased it for $1.2 million just days before auction.

“It’s a piece of Stowe that’s been missing,” Davis says. “It’s a great location and great building... I think it’s a great project. I’m excited to be able to participate in it.”

Davis, who now lives in Florida and maintains a home in Stowe, grew up in Cabot and frequently attended shows at the Nail. “Stowe has always been my playground, a fun place to come to. We want to bring great entertainment to the Stowe area and are committed to making that happen.”

“We’re ready to bring back Rusty Nail in style,” Davis says.

Longtime Stowe bartenders Dave O’Connor and Dave O’Rourke will co-manage Chris Robinson Band.

The Nail.

O’Connor, who performs with the local band Meat Milk and once was part of 7lbs of Pork, looks forward to recruiting both local and national acts, as well as Canadian musicians.

The Nail can accommodate up to 700 people and is the third-largest music venue in Vermont, according to O’Connor.

O’Connor expects most of the bar’s 24 taps to be filled with local beer. “The closer you are to Stowe, the more likely we are to have your beer on tap,” he says.

The restaurant menu will be simple. During 158

RUSTY NAIL

the warmer months when the outdoor terrace is open, the menu will feature items meant to attract customers who ride and walk along the Stowe Recreation Path. At night, it will offer “late night bites,” a simple menu of woodoven fired pizza, wings, and burgers.

While the sound system will see an upgrade, no major changes are planned for the large barn-like building, which will retain its rustic décor. “We’re cleaning it up; we’re not renovating it,” O’Rourke says.

STEVE SICINSKI, FORMERLY OF TOPNOTCH Resort at Stowe, is the new executive chef and general manager for both the Rusty Nail and Crop Bistro & Brewery. A graduate of Le Cordon Bleu, Sicinski came back east after 10 years at the spa resort Mii amo in Sedona, Ariz. At Topnotch, he helped to design and launch the resort’s new restaurants, Flannel and The Roost.

While Sicinski is trained in French cuisine, his approach toward food is universal.

“I am someone willing to take chances,” Sicinski says. “I extract inspiration and flavor from anything or any idea that may spur me instantaneously, and trust in the basic ideal that creating food and experiences that customers relate to and appreciate is the most important aspect of any restaurant.”

Both Crop and the Rusty Nail will be offering full menus developed by Sicinski for restaurant customers, private parties, and events. Ani Petrolito, interim general manager and events manager at Crop, will also be the events manager for the Rusty Nail.

—Stowe Guide staff

MORE INFO: rustynailvt.com.

t FROZEN YOGURT MAPLE CREAMEES t MILKSHAKES t SUNDAES HOMEMADE ICE CREAM

112 MAIN STREET, STOWE VT WWW.STOWEICECREAM.COM 802.253.0995

STOWE BEVERAGE & LIQUOR STORE

LIQUOR•BEER•WINE Tel. 253-4525 1880 Mountain Road, Stowe. Open 9-9 M-S • 11-6 Sunday

159

Make Your Trip to Vermont Complete!

From our signature Sapling Maple Liqueur to our Maple Bourbon and Maple Rye, we offer the finest and best tasting aged liquors we can possibly produce.

Try our newest offering, Perc Coffee Liqueur, made from fresh ground coffee, brewed here in our Brattleboro facility.

Visit www.saplingliqueur.com Saxtons River Distillery, Brattleboro, VT 30% alc. by vol., 35% alc. by vol.

160

EDIBLES GLENN CALLAHAN

Bob and Kate Neilson.

FOXFIRE TO GO Adapting to the times FOXFIRE INN AND ITALIAN RESTAURANT served its last dinner Nov. 24 after nearly 40 years of continuous operation, but wait… disappointed customers can still order their favorite meals to go!

Bob and Kate Neilson bought the 90-seat restaurant and inn, which specialized in Italian cuisine, in early 1990s from the Segretos, who opened the restaurant in 1975 to offer family-style dinners to their inn guests.

“Most of The Foxfire. our customers have been understanding and are thrilled that we’re not going away completely,” Bob Neilson says.

The last few years have been difficult economically for Foxfire, which had developed a reputation as a “special occasion” restaurant rather than as a place to eat out regularly, Kate says. “We’re trying to make our food much more accessible and to offer it at a different price point. They can take it home, drink their own wine, and not have to leave a tip.”

Longtime Foxfire chef Michael Devitt has returned to the kitchen. “He’s very excited about the whole thing,” Kate says.

Craft beers and wine could be on the horizon, and Kate, a skilled baker, plans to add desserts to the menu.

“Our goal is to start slowly and build so we can see what we can handle,” Kate says.

—Lisa McCormack

GREEN GODDESS CAFE Food You’ll Talk About...

Breakfast • Lunch • Specialty Sandwiches • Wraps • Paninis • Published Soups Custom Salads with 48 Toppings • Smoothies • Raw Juice • Baked Goods Homemade Breads • Catering • Take-out • Artisan Coffee & Tea • Beer & Wine Vegetarian and Gluten Sensitivity Friendly • Open 7 Days

618 S. Main Street, Stowe, Vermont 05672 • 802-253-5255 • Facebook.com/GoddessCafe

Stowe, Vermont

855 666 1956

www.trappfamily.com

MORE INFO: foxfireinn.com.

161

PHOENIX RISING Dynamic duo back on the Stowe restaurant scene

162

Management staff at Phoenix Table & Bar: Josh Bard, Mike Hauser, Jason Michaelides, Hallie Westermann, and Jack Pickett.

163

story: marialisa calta

photographs: glenn callahan

B ❘

efore localvore was a movement, before every restaurant claimed farm-to-table status, before the words sustainable and artisanal were plastered on every menu, there was Jack Pickett.

Pickett arrived in Stowe in the late 1970s to, in his words, “ski all day and cook all night.”

The skiing was excellent. The food scene? Not so much.

“I couldn’t even get unsalted butter,” he says, shaking his head over those culinary dark ages.

Pickett, 61, parks his still-athletic frame at a booth at the Phoenix Table & Bar, his new venture on the Mountain Road, and recalls his start in Stowe as chef at the Ten Acres Lodge. He ticks off more items on the list of then-unattainable foodstuffs: “There were no shallots, I couldn’t get fresh basil, there was no decent fish, and not a lot of good wine. French bread? Zero.”

“Everything came Cryovac-ed, off a truck,” he says. “And I simply refuse to serve food that’s been frozen.”

Undaunted, Pickett went to work. He persuaded a dairy farmer in Morrisville to make unsalted butter. He drove to Barre to buy locally prized “Bud’s” sausage, and fresh pasta made by “old Italian ladies.” Goat cheese? Off to a farm in Irasburg. He found suppliers of turkeys, rabbit, duck, quail, pheasant, venison, and partridge in the Northeast Kingdom. Renowned pianist John Cassel and his wife Becky sold him “incredible lamb” from their East Fairfield farm. O Bread Bakery, in Shelburne, was an oasis. He was an early customer at the pioneering Hardwick Organic Produce, which, he says, “was organic before being organic was even, well, a thing.”

“Then,” he says, “my world changed. Alan LePage walked through the door.”

LePage, an organic farmer, introduced much of Central Vermont to such delicacies as mesclun, arugula, haricot vert, and fava beans. For a chef like Pickett, he was a game-changer, bringing fresh, seasonal produce to the kitchen door.

“Jack changed my life as a farmer,” says LePage, still hard at work growing produce on his Barre farm. “Usually, between a chef and a

164

the food

Clockwise from top left: Root vegetable slaw with carrots, beets, kale, squash, and celery root.

A southern classic: shrimp and grits. Salt cod cakes with a saffron mayonnaise and cornichons. Steamed little neck clams in an herb broth with chorizo and potato.

165

yesterday

166 COURTESY PHOTO

UNLESS NOTED, GLENN CALLAHAN

COURTESY PHOTO

Clockwise from top left: Jack Pickett in a Stowe Reporter publicity shoot for his one-time newspaper column. Zoë Pickett, Jason Michaelides, Jack, and Chelsea Ingraham, Miss Vermont 2012, at the Frida’s food cart at the Stowe craft festival. Jack plays six-wicket croquet in front of his tipi. Photographed for a Stowe Guide & Magazine piece on Blue Moon Cafe. Prior to the 2000 Stowe Derby.

Jack’s family: Jaxon, Julie, and Zoë. Goofing it up with Moira Selleck of Moira’s Hairstyling for some long-forgotten, but no doubt important, Stowe fundraiser.

farmer, the farmer has no power. ‘Parsnip soup!’ says the chef, and the farmer has to produce parsnips, or the chef just buys them from California. Jack was the first chef I met who understood that if it’s July, there are no local parsnips. He would call ME to ask ME what was available—what looked good, what may have gone by—and then he’d design his menu around it. He was brilliant and inspired. Way, way ahead of the curve.”

At one point, Pickett says, he was ordering 200 different kinds of produce from LePage each week. “Jack pushed me a little to try growing interesting things,” says LePage. “I sneered at haricot vert but Jack asked me to grow them.

And then I succumbed; they really are superior.”

“It drove my staff crazy,” recalls Pickett.

“I’d be on the phone for an hour with Alan every Wednesday night at 10 p.m., finding out from Alan what he had. Then I’d turn around and write the menu.”

Pickett grew up cooking. Born and raised in Amherst, Mass., he says that in high school “I never threw beer parties, I threw dinner parties.” When he and high school sweetheart, Julie Schwer (now Pickett) married in their early twenties, they honeymooned in London, where Pickett studied at Le Cordon Bleu, and traveled on the Orient Express to surprise a cousin in Tehran. After stints working in the western U.S., they chose Stowe to be near family and a good ski mountain.

At Ten Acres Lodge, Pickett began refining his cooking and growing his reputation. In a 1986 travel story on Stowe, the New York Times decreed that the inn was “considered by many the finest place to eat” and touted the “local veal and lamb specialties.”

“It was definitely a ‘special occasion’ place,” recalls Stowe attorney Mark Kolter, who was working as a social worker back when Pickett was in the inn’s kitchen. “I remember thinking that I hadn’t seen rabbit on a Vermont menu before.”

The year 1991 brought changes. Pickett, ever the adventurer, was climbing New Hampshire’s Mount Washington with three friends—Jamie Huntsman, Roger Hirt, and Tom Smith, all of Montpelier—when an avalanche swept Smith and Huntsman off the mountain. Huntsman survived, Smith did not. “I wanted to keep climbing, but I realized I just couldn’t do it to Julie and our kids,” Pickett says. “I couldn’t have them thinking, every time I left for climb, that I might not come back.”

By 1992, he had left Ten Acres and bought himself his own restaurant, on School Street in

SMITTEN with Stowe?

TODAY.COM Visit Stowetoday.com to get your Stowe fix from anywhere, at any time.

167

today

Stowe Village. With its cozy atmosphere and sophisticated menu, the Blue Moon Café soon became a favorite of locals and visitors alike, a “destination dining” spot on the Vermont map, reviewed in national food publications like Gourmet and Bon Appétit, as well as garnering a ton of local press. On a given night, Pickett might offer a dish of rabbit braised in coconut milk, Thai shrimp cakes redolent of fish sauce and cilantro, Bud’s sausage on a bed of cabbage, and roast venison accompanied by LePage’s Cape gooseberries, sweet but tangy berries the size of pop beads.

“It was like an Alice Waters experience—if that’s not too overused—in Vermont,” says 168

Kolter. “I loved to go in with my wife, or with friends who like to eat, and sit at the bar and have a beer or whatever, and eat a fantastic appetizer. Or a number of fantastic appetizers.”

He’s watched Pickett—now both a friend and a client—evolve. “I think that with age and experience comes confidence. I feel like Jack is never constrained by formulas.”

By 2001, the chef found himself on the edge of burnout. He sold the Blue Moon, building a five-year non-compete clause into the sale “to keep myself from ever going back into the restaurant business.” He began working on a construction project, building a house for himself, Julie (the longtime children’s librarian at

Stowe Free Library), and the couple’s two children, Zoë (owner of Bikram Yoga Stowe) and Jason (finishing college in Atlanta, and father to the Pickett’s grandchild, Ethan.)

Then, in 2003, his world changed again.

He and a friend, Todd Owens, were in the new house when an undetected propane buildup caused a massive explosion. Pickett and Owens were both gravely injured, airlifted to burn centers in Boston. Both survived, but weeks in a medically induced coma were followed by months of recuperation and years of reconstructive surgery, the last, for Pickett, in 2008.

In addition to a great deal of pain and suffering—and an aversion to open flame that, as

Milford Cushman of Cushman Design in Stowe designed the lighting for Phoenix. “We wanted LED compatible fixtures with a slight industrial feel,” says Jack Pickett. Phoenix rooster art by Stowe artist and muralist Gail Kiesler. Phoenix Table & Bar just days after its opening.

a chef, he’s worked to conquer—the accident gave Pickett time to think. And what he thought about was how so many people in Stowe helped both him and his family. “I realized that I had to try to give back to my community in some way,” he says. “I had to cook for people again.” Frida’s Taqueria & Grill, a “Mexico-Mexican” (as opposed to Tex-Mex) eatery was born of that urge to “give back.”

Homemade tortillas. Guacamole made at tableside in traditional stone mortars. Killer margaritas. The place was always jammed, always hopping, always delicious.

A “legal situation” that Pickett will not discuss led him and Josh Bard, his co-chef and a partner at Frida’s, to leave the taqueria last October and to immediately begin work renovating the classic Greek Revival building that formerly housed Whiskers Restaurant on Stowe’s Mountain Road. A newly built, curved limestone-topped bar offers a friendly come-on to belly up for a drink or a plate of oysters.

Top-of-the-line soundproofing keeps the noise level muted and conversations are easy to hear.

Tiny hanging LED spotlights, suspended from metal grates on the ceiling, give an industrial vibe softened by splashes of color, cozy booths, and vibrant artwork. The oyster sculpture, along with a depiction of a Phoenix rooster—a breed of chicken after which the eatery is named—are the work of Stowe artist Gail Kiesler.

The spacious, gleaming kitchen will give Bard and Pickett plenty of room for invention.

Interviewed for this article just a few weeks before the planned late-April opening, Pickett says the pair was still writing the menu, which he described as “three-tiered.” The first tier is bar snacks and oysters; the second an array of sandwiches (from burger to banh mi), salads, and soups. “Strong soups, full of food,” he says. “Not a bowl full of lawn clippings.” The third tier will include more substantial entrees.

“Still thinking,” says Pickett, after repeated calls. Fried chicken and a dish of chicken and waffles are a certainty. Everything else seems up for grabs. The chefs—Bard will be manning the kitchen, Pickett will act in a more executive capacity—will pull from other cuisines. Both, obviously, have an affinity for Mexican food, and Bard is also drawn to Asian cooking.

“I hate saying ‘farm-to-table’ because that should really be a given at this point,” says Pickett. “I want people to come in and eat good food, honestly cooked.”

Says his friend Kolter: “I can’t wait to see what Jack cooks up next.” ■

harvestatstowe.com

STARVING for Stowe?

TODAY.COM Visit Stowetoday.com and check out what Stowe's hottest restaurants and chefs are cooking up.

MORE INFO: 253-2838; phoenixtableandbar.com 169

CLOCKWISE FROM RIGHT: GLENN CALLAHAN; GLENN CALLAHAN; SANDIWOOD FARM

TIDBITS

Aaron Martin, Jamie Persky, and Mark Rosman.

a new PLATE in town California meets Vermont at new Main Street restaurant towe village’s newest restaurant offers California-inspired cuisine in a hip setting. Plate opened in March with two familiar faces in the Stowe restaurant scene: Owners Jamie Persky and Mark Rosman owned Jamie’s on Main before selling the popular breakfast and lunch place two years ago.

They take an active role in the new restaurant where you’ll likely see Jamie enthusiastically greeting customers and Mark bringing drinks to their tables. Both natives of Los Angeles, Persky and Rosman describe their menu as “California meets Vermont.”

The restaurant’s décor—a palate of charcoal gray, chrome, and white with dark wood and brick accents, and industrial-inspired fixtures—lends a modern feel with rustic touches. Seating is a mix of small built-in booths and custom-built tables that can slide together to accommodate larger parties.

Artwork created by children of the couple’s friends decorates the walls. A large window with counter seating below it allows diners to peer into the open kitchen.

The cozy space suits them perfectly. “We wanted something small enough that we could enjoy it and not run a factory,” Persky says.

“It’s the type of place where you can come with a meat lover and a hard-core vegan and we can offer something for everyone,” Persky says.

“We like the village. It’s a great location. It’s what we’re used to and where people are used to seeing us.”

The menu offers unique combinations of simple ingredients artfully presented in perfectly sized portions. Starters on the spring menu ranged from grilled calamari with frisée, pine nuts, and vanilla to chickpea fritters with crème fraiche. Main dishes included a decadent seared pork

S

170

chop with potatoes, pinot noir, and figs, and vegan selections, such as grilled cauliflower steak with quinoa and roasted vegetables.

Chef Aaron Martin spent last summer in California working with renowned restaurateur, chef, and cookbook author Alice Waters. “We met Aaron once and we knew he was the right guy,” Persky says.

Martin keeps the menu on the smaller side, allowing him to change things easily and preventing customers from being too overwhelmed by the selections. “I want to keep it simple and let the food speak for itself,” Martin says. “I’ll take what I saw in California and try to implement it in the best way here.”

—Lisa McCormack • • • • Food trucks are a common sight along busy city streets, providing quick bites at reasonable prices. Now a new food truck is making a daily stop along a busy stretch of Route 100 in Morrisville.

Sandi Schlosser parks her Vermont Harvest Catering and Concessions truck in the Ryder Brook Golf Club parking lot in Morristown Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Sandi Schlosser.

Schlosser, an New England Culinary Institute graduate, has worked at various Stowe area restaurants and prepares monthly farm-to-table dinners at her parents’ Sandiwood Farm in Wolcott.

The menu offers breakfast burritos, grass-fed burgers, a turkey schnitzel sandwich, homemade doughnuts, as well as more standard food-truck fare.

—Lisa McCormack

JUST LIKE EDIBLES, ONLY SMALLER BITES

• • • • The greater Stowe area is not a bad place to get a brew, according to a top beer website.

Area breweries made a remarkably strong showing in RateBeer’s annual guide to the best beers and brewers in every state in the country.

Lost Nation Brewing in Morrisville, The Alchemist in Waterbury, and Hill Farmstead Brewery in Greensboro all earned 2013 RateBeer Best Awards, which were announced Jan. 30.

The popular website named the “top beer,” “top brewer” and “best new brewer” in all 50 states (although not every state had a winner in the “best new brewer” category).

In Vermont, The Alchemist Brewery’s Heady Topper was named “top beer.” No surprise, given the double IPA’s growing cult-like following among beer enthusiasts around the Northeast.

Hill Farmstead Brewery, which, like The Alchemist, only offers its beers in Vermont, took the honors for “top brewer.” The brewery also got a write-up in the New York Times on Jan. 18.

Lost Nation Brewery, founded by former Trapp Lager Brewery employees Allen Van Anda and Jamie Griffith, was named “best new brewer” in Vermont. Since opening last June at a former brewery space on Wilkins Street, Lost Nation has earned widespread acclaim for its brews, adding to the area’s strong craft beer culture.

For the list of awards, go to ratebeer.com/ RateBeerBest/BestBeers-State2014.asp.

—Stowe Guide staff • • • • Pie in the Sky, known for its wood-oven specialty pizzas, laid-back family vibe, and colorful murals closed abruptly April 13.

The pizzeria and restaurant on Stowe’s Mountain Road was popular with locals and tourists alike, and received largely favorably l

Built to a Standard, not a Price Premium pellet stoves • Wood and coal stoves

STOVE AND FLAG WORKS 1757 Essex Rd., Williston • 802-878-5526

MONTPELIER STOVE WORKS 178 River St., Montpelier • 802-229-0150 • 800-287-0150

stoveandflagworks.com 171

TIDBITS reviews on social media sites such as Urban Spoon and Trip Advisor.

Owners Skip and Susan Verchot could not be reached for comment at press time.

In a message on the restaurant’s Facebook page, they wrote, “To our loyal customers, fans, and friends; to our staff and supporters, thank you for making our time as stewards of Pie in the Sky a wonderful experience. We will miss you. It’s you who have made this the best adventure. It’s been fun!”

—Lisa McCormack

Good Times.

Grey Fox Inn Dining

Join us by the fireplace for a drink in our Pub.We offer a full-service bar, including a selection of domestic and international bottled beer, local microbrews on tap, and a fine selection of wine and champagne.

Our menu features pub appetizers, soups, salads, burgers, traditional pub fare and dinner entrees and delectable desserts (our full menu is available online).We’re open Wednesday through Saturday (in season).

• • • • Café Latina closed in March.

The café, located on the Mountain Road across from the Baggy Knees Shopping Center, opened in December 2012. It served breakfast and lunch, including many Latin specialties. For a time, it served small-plate dinners known as “tapas.”

Owner Karen Neilson did not respond to queries about the restaurant’s demise.

—Lisa McCormack YE OLDE ENGLAND INNE

Great Dining.

990 Mountain Road, Stowe 802-253-5330 • stowegreyfoxinn.com

Black Cap Coffee 144 Main Street, Stowe • Across from the church Open Mon-Sat at 7 a.m. • Sunday at 8 a.m.

(802) 253-2123 • See us on Facebook 172

Ye Olde England Inne and its restaurant, Mr. Pickwick’s, closed in late March.

Chris and Lyn Francis, originally from England, purchased the former Sans Souci property in 1983 while vacationing in Stowe.

They transformed it into a British-themed inn, restaurant, and pub.

Later, Chris Francis was one of the forces behind the British Invasion, the largest British motorcar show in the United States.

The inn and restaurant have fallen into foreclosure and will be sold at an onsite public auction May 22. —Lisa McCormack • • • • Cheese lovers from throughout Vermont and beyond have discovered Sage Farm Goat Dairy in Stowe.

That’s where sisters Molly and Katie Pindell and their herd of 25 alpine goats produce fresh, soft-ripened artisanal cheeses in varieties ranging from herbal and maple-flavored chevre to bloomy-rinded pyramids. They also make feta cheese for local farmers markets and use cows’ milk purchased from Vermont dairy farms to produce hard cheeses.

All told, they make nine varieties of cheese.

You can find their products at specialty l

FAMILY RESTAURANT & SPORTS BAR

Celebrating 25 years!

Stop by for dinner and see why we’re one of Stowe’s favorite spots for more than 24 years!

BBQ • SEAFOOD • BURGERS Lunch • Dinner • Late Night Great children’s menu!

“You can’t beat that flavor!”

Open daily 140 Cottage Club Road, Stowe

802-253-9281 Patio Dining, Horseshoes, Volleyball, and Tiki Bar!

Fresh fish anyone? Andrew Kneale and the rest of the Harrison’s crew invite you to join them for the freshest fish, steaks and more. No catch!

OPEN DAILY

We’ll be glad to see you.

FOR DINING

7 a.m. - 8 p.m.

Sunday through Tuesday 7 a.m. - 9 p.m.

Wednesday - Saturday

THE KNEALE FAMILY & STAFF

Appetizers

Salads

Pa s t a s

Burgers

Steaks

Seafood

Dinner 7 Nights 25 Main Street, Stowe 253-7773 harrisonsstowe.com

Banquet Room for all occasions

PUB HOURS

4 - 9 p.m.

Wednesday through Saturday

DAILY SPECIALS! 116 VT ROUTE 15 WEST MORRISVILLE, VERMONT

888-4242 • 888-8865

• AAA - 10% discount for all members!

• 55 rooms - many with spectacular mtn. views • Free WiFi • Some Pet Friendly Rooms!

• 3 Three Bedroom Houses • Whirlpool Bath, in-room refrigerator • Queen-sized beds • ESPN/HBO w/remote • Bus Tours Welcome - plenty of parking!

• Snowmobile on trails 15 & 100 from your room!

1-800-544-2347 email: sunset@together.net

$3 COUPONS FOR BREAKFAST AT STONEGRILL RESTAURANT NEXT DOOR! Junction of Routes 100 & 15 • Morrisville VT 05661 (802) 888-4956 • Fax (802) 888-3698 173

TIDBITS

DREW BRESSEL

food stores in Vermont and Massachusetts.

French cheesemakers are required by law to name their cheeses after the geographic regions in which they are produced, and Molly and Katie have named several of their cheeses after some of Lamoille County’s most famous peaks: Sterling, Madonna, Worcester, Spruce, and Belvidere.

Sterling is a typical French Valencay-style cheese in a truncated pyramid shape. A light coating of vegetable ash gives it a grayish rind.

It has a dense, rich paste with a spicy bite.

Madonna is a small, soft disk of ripened chèvre. A bit milder in flavor than Sterling, it has a white, bloomy rind and a smooth, creamy paste.

The farm’s only raw milk offering, Worcester, is a rustic, Alpine-style tomme cheese. It’s aged three to six months, giving it time to develop an earthy, natural rind. The paste is mild and nutty, with a slight goaty kick.

Belvidere is a combination of the farm’s goat’s milk enriched with Jersey cream from Butterworks Farm in Westfield. This cheese is decadently creamy with a yeast-ripened rind that imparts a wild, bready aroma and flavor.

Their newest offering, Spruce, is made with pasteurized cow’s milk and wrapped and aged in strips of spruce bark harvested on the farm.

It has a mellow flavor with a tangy zing to it from the tannins in the spruce bark.

—Lisa McCormack

HUNDREDS OF CRAFT BEERS

Growlers I Home Brew Supplies I Classes/Workshops We care about education and customer service as much as we do about the beer in our stores.

Thanks for loving good beer!

3 Elm St. Waterbury

around the corner from Prohibition Pig

802.882.8034

craftbeercellar.com/waterbury Facebook: CBCwaterbury Twitter: @cbc_waterbury

174

VERMONT SUPPER CLUB

Est. 1992

50’s style

Soda Fountain Bellinis with caviar Claire’s Restaurant at the new Vermont & Bar in Hardwick Supper Club on Main closed in early Street in Hardwick.

March, leaving local Inset: Sage Goat foodies wondering Dairy’s Madonna how long the space cheese. Sterling, at the popular Main a typical French Street eatery would Valencay cheese remain empty. with a light coating Not long, it turns of vegetable ash. out. Peter and Jean Marie McLyman opened Vermont Supper Club on Mother’s Day, May 11. Peter was most recently executive chef at the Country Club of Vermont in Waterbury Center.

Vermont Supper Club will serve lunch and dinner Tuesday through Sunday. The restaurant will offer a lighter, bistro-style lunch menu, including fish tacos, gourmet flatbreads, and a range of salads. The dinner menu will expand to include higher-end fare.

—Lisa McCormack

frappes egg cream delicious sundaes ice cream sodas malts

children’s menu burgers salads homemade soups take-out

Ask for fresh vermont beef Open 7 days a week - lunch & dinner

253-4269 • 57 DEPOT STREET One block off main street

• • • • It’s a bit easier to slog through a 5k road race if there’s a craft brew festival at the finish line.

Stowe’s first-ever 5k Brew Run and Fest takes place Saturday, June 14. The start, finish, and festival all take place at Stoweflake Mountain Resort and Spa. The craft beer festival, featuring beer from more than 20 local breweries, will be held immediately following the race. All participants receive a pint glass and there are prizes for top finishers.

Stowe is one of the six New England stops in the 2014 Craft Brew Races series, which combines 5k races and festivals featuring local beer.

—Lisa McCormack

MORE INFO: craftbrewraces.com/stowe. 5k race entry and brewfest tickets: $55 through June 11; $65 onsite. Brewfest only tickets: $45 before June 11; $55 onsite; designated drivers pay $15/$20 for brewfest admittance and nonalcoholic beverages. ■ 175

PHOTOS: GLENN CALLAHAN

RESTAURANT

CUISINE

MEALS

$$$$$

PHONE

Bagel Bistro at Ten Acres Black Cap Coffee Cactus Cafe Cafe Provence at Blush Hill

Breakfast, sandwiches American, European Coffeehouse, sandwiches Southwestern/Mexican American, French

B, L D L, D L, D, LN D, SB

$1 - $10 $12 - $30 $2 - $12 $6 - $21 $7 - $25

253 - 9943 253 - 6838 253 - 2123 253 - 7770 244 - 7822

Commodores Inn Charlie B's Pub & Restaurant Cliff House Crop Bistro & Brewery Depot St. Malt Shop Edelweiss Golden Eagle Colonial Café Gracie’s Restaurant Green Goddess Cafe Harrison's Restaurant Harvest Market Hen of the Wood Hob Knob Inn Kirkwoods Restaurant Maxi’s Restaurant McCarthy's Restaurant Mi Casa Kitchen & Bar Michael's on the Hill O’Grady’s Grill & Bar Phoenix Table & Bar Pie in the Sky Piecasso Pizzeria Prohibition Pig Pub at Grey Fox The Reservoir Rimrocks Mountain Tavern River House at Stowe Inn The Roost & Flannel Rusty Nail Nightclub Solstice Stonegrill Sunset Grille & Taproom Sushi Yoshi Tanglewoods Trapp Family Lodge Trapp DeliBakery Trattoria la Festa Vermont Ale House

Country buffet, sports bar New American, pub fare Regional American American bistro, pub fare Casual American, diner Prepared foods, deli Vermont breakfast American, casual dining Breakfast, lunch, cafe American, bistro Deli, bakery, charcuterie Seasonal American American, seafood, steakhouse Light fare, sandwiches American, breakfast Breakfast and lunch Mexican, American European American, pub American Pizza, pasta, sandwiches Pizza, local, organic American, barbecue Pub, American American American, pub fare Seasonal American American, contemporary Lunch, late night bites Seasonal American American American, bbq, sports bar Asian fusion, hibachi, Chinese American European, American Sandwiches, deli Italian American, pub fare

B, D B, L, D L, D* L, D, LN L, D Takeout B D B,L D B, L, D D D L B, L, D* B, L L,D D L, D, LN L, D, WB L, D L, D L*, D, LN D L*, D, LN L, D, LN D L, D L, D, LN B, D B, L, D, LN L, D, LN L, D, LN D B, L, D B, L, D D D

$8 - $17 $5 - $34 $8 - $22 $4 - $28 $3 - $12 Under $10 $2 - $12 $5 - $25 $3.50 & up $5 - $27 $2 & up $7 - $30 $10 - $35 $5 - $10 $6 - $16 $2 & up $5 - $22 $10 - $40 $5 - $24 $10 - $30 $4 - $15 $2 - $20 $10 - $18 $8 - $25 $7 - $18 $4 - $20 $7 - $26 $8 - $34 $8 - $40 $5 - $24 $5 - $20 $9 - $39 $6 - $26 $8 - $42 $6 - $15 $6 - $25 $10 - $30

253 - 7131 253 - 7355 253 - 3000 253 - 4765 253 - 4269 253 - 4034 253 - 4811 253 - 8741 253 - 5255 253 - 7773 253 - 3800 244 - 7300 253 - 8549 253 - 3693 244 - 0910 253 - 8626 253 - 5333 244 - 7476 253 - 8233 253 - 2838 253 - 5100 253 - 4411 244 - 4120 253 - 8921 244 - 7827 253 - 9593 253 - 4030 253 - 6445 253 - 6245 760 - 4735 888 - 4242 253 - 9281 253 - 4135 244 - 7855 253 - 5733 253 - 8511 253 - 8480 253 - 6253

Whip Bar & Grill

Seasonal American

L, D, SB

$4 - $30

253 - 4400

MEALS GUIDE: B = Breakfast • L = Lunch • SB = Sunday Brunch • WB = Weekend Brunch • D = Dinner • LN = Late night • *Days are limited

176

R E A L E S TAT E & H O M E S Are you searching for the perfect home or vacation getaway? Looking to update your 1970s kitchen, add a great room, or find a stone mason to redo your uneven terrace? Well, the search is over. Our guide to real estate and homes is your one-stop shop to find a new home or connect with the finest architects, interior designers, builders, and other craftsmen and suppliers for everything home-related.

Our websitesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;stowetoday.com, stowereporter.com, and waterburyrecord.comâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; are great real-estate resources.

177

Junction of Routes 15 & 100, Morrisville 802-888-3177 • 800-870-3177 Mon-Fri, 6a.m.-5p.m. & Sat, 6:30a.m.-3p.m. countryhomecenter.net

178

Let Our Designers Help You Create the Room of Your Dreams Consultations & Appointments Kitchen & Bath Design • Paint Color Matching Custom Cabinetry • Hardware, Paint & Tools

179

STORY & PHOTOGRAPHS

/ Kate Carter

STOWE LOVES ITS DOGS.

It’s a dog-lover’s paradise. Just ask the people who live here. Better yet, ask their dogs.

Approximately 700 dogs are registered annually in the town of Stowe, and they are not at a loss for things to do. They can go for walks in dog-friendly Wiessner Woods, Cady Hill Forest, Kirchner Woods, Cotton Brook, and on a multitude of other hiking trails. They can swim in ponds and streams, cross-country ski in Sterling Valley, shop at two pet stores, take obedience and agility classes, and meet and greet on the Quiet Path in the village.

WORKING LIKE A DOG

The luckiest ones get to go to work with their humans.

Dog owners know it’s a luxury to be able to take their best buddies to work. Few have jobs that actually allow dogs, and not all dogs are suited for workplace environments. Office dogs must have an easy-going temperament, adore people of all shapes, sizes and sexes, and put on a good public face, er, muzzle. But then, the same could be said for your coworkers!

Stowe has a pawful of businesses where dogs are, well, the cat’s meow. These places would simply not be the same without The Dog. In some,The Dog is the official greeter and biscuit eater. In others,The Dog is a calming presence. So let’s meet some of Stowe’s preeminent office dogs.

180

k Hazel, a three-year-old Labradoodle with Stowe Land Trust Director Caitlin Maloney, and former Assistant Director Becca Washburn with Marabou and Olson, both black labs.

Read their story on page 190.

181

HENRY TEN-YEAR OLD HENRY IS THE NEARLY invisible dog at Personalized PT. Sometimes he’s in the office, other times he’s lying outside in the shade of a tree or fishing for rocks in a nearby stream.

He comes and goes, sneaking in and out with the clients.

182

“Henry is the third golden retriever I’ve had,” says physical therapist Keith Geissler, who owns both Henry and Personalized PT. “My previous golden, Tucker, also came to the office. I’m partial to goldens. They have such a calm demeanor and are easy to have around.”

Henry’s job as official office dog got off to a slow start. “When I first brought him in he was about seven months old. It was a disaster.

He destroyed a palm tree and stole a patient’s gloves. So I waited a few months before I brought him in again. He has been perfectly polite ever since. Patients expect to see him. They bring baggies of treats and dog toys. If he’s not here they ask about him. Some are even alarmed when he’s not here.”

Henry knows if a patient is not interested in the canine species.

“He can sense it and will walk away,” says Keith. “Of all the years with Tucker and Henry I’ve only had one client who was afraid of dogs. It was Tucker, and I just put him out of the room.”

“It’s all about your health”

• Medical Care for Adults and Children • Work Injuries • Sports Medicine • On-Site X-Ray Lab • Acute Orthopedics • Geriatrics • Women’s Health Keith considers Henry an asset to the practice, and a bit of a comic. “He’s very calm and relaxed. Often he’s asleep on the office floor and will start snoring midway through a session, or on a summer day we can hear him snoring outside an open window. You can’t help but laugh. It’s nice to have that humor during a rehab session.”

Hours: Mon. - Fri. 8am - 5pm Sat. 10am - 4pm

Same Day Appointments - Accepting New Patients

Part of the Community Health Services of Lamoille Valley

1878 Mountain Road, Stowe, VT 05672 802-253-4853 www.chslv.org 183

BEAN LITTLE BEAN WAS A STRAY PUPPY IN ASHEVILLE, N.C., and ended up at Central Vermont Humane Society, where Jarrod Ogden found her.

“I started bringing her to work immediately,” explains Jarrod, a bike mechanic at Iride. “My goal was to have a dog I could take mountain biking with me and bring to the shop.”

It was tough at first. Bean didn’t like riding in the car. But she soon realized that when Jarrod started collecting his bike gear it meant they were headed for the trails. If she had to ride in the car first, well, so be it. “It was a breakthrough for getting her into the car,” Jarrod says. “Now, whenever I get my stuff together, she is there, ready to go.”

184

Bean is now two years old and perfectly comfortable in a busy bike shop with bikes rolling in and out. A lot of riders bring their own dogs when they stop by. “She’s great with all people and fine with other dogs,” Jarrod says. “And she’s perfect with kids. I have a two-year-old daughter. She hangs all over Bean.”

In the summer, with the doors wide open, Jarrod tethers Bean.

The shop is on the Mountain Road and the traffic headed to the Backyard Tavern behind Iride can be a little too close and fast for comfort. “For the most part she’s fine about staying close, but I just can’t take a chance in the summer, when things are busy,” Jarrod says. “And with the bar next door, there are a lot of intriguing smells Bean wants to go check out.”

Besides life as a shop dog, Bean is a trail dog as well. She goes for hour-long rides with Jarrod when he takes his lunch break, and sometimes a friend will stop by and take her riding. Her life has improved immensely since her days as a stray in Asheville.

“Having a dog where you work is good peace of mind,” Jarrod says. “She’s such a good dog and so gentle with people I might train her to be a therapy dog someday.”

J. Graham Goldsmith Architects

Quality Design and Professional Architectural Services tel: 800 862 4053

www.jggarchitects.com

MEMBER OF THE STOWE AREA ASSOCIATION

Stowe Vermont

Residential Commercial

Custom Homes • Remodeling • Additions • Kitchens Tucker Fossiano Office: 802-244-6767 tucker@beaconhillvt.com

Cell: 802-238-0260 www.beaconhillvt.com

185

186

n Inset: A Carroll Jones’ painting of Don Rowe’s four terriers: Dickens I, Starlet, Eliza, Frolic.

DANI ANYONE WHO’S EVER COME INTO Inside Out Gallery (formerly Sleeper House Gallery) has met at least one Norfolk terrier. Owner Don Rowe’s relationship with dogs goes back to raising and showing golden retrievers in the 1960s and 1970s.

He got his first Norfolk terrier in 1980, and trained and showed the breed until 2002.

Don opened Sleeper House Gallery on the Mountain Road in 1995. “We’ve always had dogs in the shop. Some started in an x-pen in the back, and whenever we had puppies we didn’t want to leave them at home, so we brought them in. There were times when we had four Norfolk terriers here at one time.

We’ve always had one for meeting and greeting when customers come in the shop.”

The last Norfolk Don showed was Dickens. He won best of breed numerous times. “He truly was the best. Besides great confirmation he had personality to kill,” says Don. “Dickens was very outgoing.

Customers were always receptive, glad to see him and pet him. Whenever someone hesitated at the front door when they saw Dickens we’d just pick him up and put him in the back room.”

Don had Dickens for 11 years. People still ask about him. “Our regulars remember all the dogs and their names. The first thing they say when they come in is, ‘Are the dogs here today?’ Before they even say hello to us!”

Now Don has eight-year-old Dani, a Norfolk Terrier and former show dog.

After she earned a championship title she became a brood bitch, living in a crate for five years until Don found her and brought her to Stowe.

Don and his partner Brad Highberger have worked diligently to socialize Dani.

They bring her to work every day and she is gradually becoming relaxed and less fearful of her surroundings. “It’s been really good for her,” says Brad. “I might have to bring her out from the back room and carry her around, but she gets to meet people and is becoming more comfortable with strangers.”

Dani might not quite fill Dickens’ shoes, but she has taken to his chair. “Dickens had a special chair,” explains Don. “All we had to do was say ‘chair’ and Dickens would jump up on his wicker chair.” Now Dani sits in the chair, watching the activity around her. Brad is glad to see she’s warming up to the environment. “Dogs add a relaxed and friendly element to the store.”

187

SPENCER “CASH OR CREDIT?” IF DOGS COULD TALK, THAT’S PROBABLY what Spencer would say. When he’s not lying in his main hangout at the top of the stairs at Pinnacle Ski & Sports, he’s behind the cash register, watching carefully as customers pay for their purchases. It’s a job he takes very seriously. He puts his front paws up on the counter and looks them in the eye. “Do come again, and don’t forget the treats!”

“Spencer’s been coming to work since we got him as a puppy,” says Katrine Wolfgang, owner and buyer at the store. “We’ve always had goldens. When I met my husband David, he had a golden who lived to age 12. Then we got Max, who came to the shop with us every day. Now we have Spencer.”

Being able to bring a dog to work requires the dog can be trusted with people. In a busy place like a ski shop, it’s important for a resident dog to be calm and unflappable, and willing to let small children pet him, pull on his ears, and tug on his tail.

188

“We always get our dogs from a breeder so we know what we’re getting from the start,” explains Katrine. “Spencer is good with kids. He’s very calming. Kids will sit down next to him and pet him, and parents love that.” Of course they do. They can get a lot of shopping done while Spencer babysits.

“I kept him at my side all the time when he was a puppy. It helped get him into a routine, which dogs really like,” says Katrine.

Part of Spencer’s routine includes a daily walk with Peg and Bob Wadds, owners of All Paws on Deck, who take him for an hourlong walk every day he’s at the shop. “They come in and yell ‘Spencer.’ He drops whatever he’s doing and heads for the door.”

Occasionally Spencer will let himself out, especially in the summer when doors might be left open. He heads next door to the Mountaineer Inn to see what they’re serving for breakfast.

Sometimes a guest will find him, put him in a hotel room, and call the number on his tag. When that happens Katrine calmy tells the guest to let him out. Then she goes to the back door and yells for him.

“People stop in just to say hi to Spencer,” Katrine says. “Or they stop on their way out of town to say goodbye. He really has quite a following.”

189

OLSON, MARABOU, & HAZEL*

DECORATIVE BATH & HARDWARE SHOWROOM Please stop in for the finest selection of bath faucets, fixtures & hardware Enjoy a complimentary espresso or beverage while you shop!

10 Farrell St., South Burlington, Vt. 05403 (802) 861-3200 • closetohomevt.com

190

THE STOWE LAND TRUST HAS THREE CANINE AMBASSADORS. THE OFFICIAL greeters, they wait at the top of the stairs to welcome visitors. The trio has their own constituents, who bring treats every time they stop by, and even have a presence on the Stowe Land Trust Facebook page.

Hazel is a three-year-old Labradoodle who accompanies Director Caitlin Maloney on days she’s in the office. Assistant Director Becca Washburn brings her two black Labs with her most days: Marabou, six, and eight-month-old Olson.

Marabou and Olson began their office careers as puppies. Both were crated by Becca’s desk until they outgrew the crates. “Crating them teaches quiet time in the office and I don’t have to concentrate on them,” Becca says. “It has worked very well. When they first come in they do laps around the office. Then they’d go in their crate and settle down. Now that the crate is gone they just settle down on their own.” It’s helpful to start bringing them to work as puppies, Becca says, because it carries over to other parts of their lives, with the added bonus that they aren’t left at home alone all day.

When Hazel the Labradoodle heard about Marabou and Olson, she wanted to be an office dog, too. She recently started coming to work with Caitlin, and is learning good office etiquette from the Labs. “They have all learned to greet politely and use an inside voice,” says Becca.

The Labs have built-in clocks and know when it’s time for lunch. They begin to move about and do a bit of pacing. “We always go for a walk at lunch, so they let us know it’s time to take a break and go out,” Becca says. Besides encouraging the occasional break, they can also unintentionally change the office’s atmosphere.

“Even though we have a fun job it can get stressful and intense and then we hear one of the dogs snore or do something funny. We immediately relax and it brings things into perspective.”

Becca often takes Marabou on land trust visits and says it can be a good ice breaker. Once she went to visit Peter and Candy Hall, who own White Pine Forest on Stowe Hollow Road. “I asked about bringing Marabou. Peter said it was fine, he had dogs too. But he failed to mention the goat. The goat walked the entire 40 acres with us and the dogs!”

(Just before press time, Becca Washburn left her job at Stowe Land Trust so Marabou and Olson are gone. Only time will tell if other office dogs are in the land trust’s future.) * Hazel is pictured on page 180

CYNTHIA KNAUF

Westphalen Photography

LANDSCAPE DESIGN INC

BEAUTY

FUNCTION

SUSTAINABILITY

COLLABORATION

cynthiaknauf.com

Beautiful Floors for Everyday Life

FREE Consultations FREE Estimates Professional Installation Solid Warranties Financing Available

We replaced the flooring throughout most of our house with oak hardwood. Your guys are the best craftsmen I have ever met. It's hard work and they never stop for breaks... go, go, go. My really big thanks to Larry and Jesse for being simply the best tradesmen you could ask for in every way.

FLOORING AMERICA —keep these guys!

Sue D., Stowe

Carpet • Hardwood • Tile • Laminate • Vinyl • Rugs • Window Treatments 800 Marshall Avenue, Williston • 802.862.5757 528 Essex Road, Williston • 802.857.5942 Mon-Fri 9-5:30, Sat 10-3, or by appointment www.FlooringAmerica-VT.com 191

Playground for the Naiades

POOL HOU S T O RY:

192

nancy wolfe stead

/ PHOTOS:

jim westphalen photography

SE

193

It isn’t often a design professional wins such trust from a client that license is given to proceed with design based only on the loosest of verbal guidelines: contemporary, minimalist, an appropriate setting for a collection of modern art. But that was the mission statement when Michael Minadeo of Michael Minadeo + Partners was shown “a neglected, stagnant pond” in a tangle of weeds and asked to transform the landscape with a pool and pool house suitable for relaxation and entertaining.

Minadeo’s challenge, as he saw it, was to compose an ordered design that joined the existing home, the new structure, and the landscape in a harmonious way so that the whole was stronger than its components.

Spectacular mountain views to the south and west were an essential asset, and Minadeo says, “Ultimately, we strove to enhance and highlight the inherent beauty of the site through landscape and architectural elements.”

194

His solution, which used the motifs of the original timber-frame house in a simpler, more contemporary manner, is stunning in its originality and restful integrity and won the coveted American Institute of Architects 2009 Honor Award for Excellence. The hilltop property is accessed by climbing a tree-lined drive. Arriving at the

Story continues on page 207, photographs on follwing page

MANSFIELD CUSTOM HOMES, LLC

POOL HOUSE

Build Efficient, Build Green

beautiful... efficient... cost effective SYSTEM-BUILT STRUCTURES We specialize in the construction of high-quality, single-family homes, multi-family structures, and commercial buildings, using the efficiency, speed, and quality that only a panelized company can offer. Save money, build green!

www.mansfieldcustomhomes.com 802.279.2372

195

196

Built on Experience Building fine custom Stowe homes, additions and renovations for over 25 years.

21 Pond Street, Stowe 802.253.4572 www.SteelConstructionvt.com

197

198

stowecountryhomes.com 541 South Main Street U Stowe For Reservations call 1 800 639 1990 or 253 8132

Vacation Rentals Luxury Slopeside Rentals Seasonal Ski Houses Concierge Services

Roselle introduces Roselle HOME, a new, limited edition line of throws for the home from her beautiful mountainside studio in Stowe, Vermont.

Roselle HOME throws provide both warmth and style. Each is entirely hand made: functional enough to stand up to years of use, beautiful enough to serve as an incredible artwork in your HOME.

VISIT STUDIO BY APPOINTMENT

699 Alpine View Road | Stowe, VT (802) 253-8372 roselle@stowe.nu | roselle-home.com 199

200

Let Stowe Red Barn Realty show you the way to your dreams.

Painting by Craig Mooney

Full-Service Real Estate Sales & Rentals 17 Towne Farm Lane on Mountain Road 253-4994 â&#x20AC;˘ stoweredbarnrealty.com

GORDON DIXON C O N S T R U C T I O N, I N C.

FINE HOMES, ADDITIONS & RENOVATIONS FOR 25 YEARS

Stop by our office 626 Mountain Road, Stowe 802.253.9367

www. gordondixonconstruction.com

201

202

Vermont-Made Furniture & Products Beautiful Custom Sofas, Sectionals & Chairs Vermont-Made Dining, Bedroom & Living Room Furniture

Sealy Optimum Cooling Gel Mattresses

Guaranteed Blue Steel Frame

Locally Owned & Operated for Over 120 Years 2931 Waterbury-Stowe Road (Route 100), Waterbury Center • 802-244-4034 856 Barre-Montpelier Road (Route 302), Barre • 802-476-3141 800-639-3176 • Monday-Friday 9-5:30, Saturday 9-4:30 (Waterbury Closed Tuesday) 203

Leighton C. Detora Valsangiacomo, Detora & McQuesten Attorneys at Law 172 North Main Street â&#x20AC;˘ Barre VT 05641 802-476-4181, ext. 309

An Experienced, Full-Service Law Firm email: leighton@vdmlaw.com 204

205

The Finest in Personalized Home and Property Care We Create the Landscape to Fit Your Lifestyle

V E R M O N T HANDMADE

LIGHTING

Your Satisfaction and Trust is Our Highest Priority SM-LT-1-H

AUTHENTIC DESIGNS West Rupert, Vermont • 800 844-9416

Stowe, Vermont • 802.881.8738 • loomispropertyservices.com

www.AuthenticDesigns.com

CERAMIC • GLASS • NATURAL STONE • CARPET HARDWOOD • AREA RUGS • GRANITE COUNTERTOPS Countertops are Manufactured in Our State-of-the-art Facility in South Barre, Vermont sq. ns, E Steve ri, Esq. .

B a ld Haro F. Pellizz 8547 John we - 253 786-9530 6Sto 1-86 yers.com ans aw Orle .stowel www

Harold B. Stevens, Esq. • Civil Litigation • Criminal Defense ~ • DUI • Assault • Family Law ~ • Divorce • Child Custody & Visitation • Modification of Orders • Child Support • Real Estate ~ • Residential and Commercial • Environmental Zoning • Estate Planning • Business Formation & Sales • Collection Banking & Financial Law • Personal Injury

John F. Pellizzari, Esq.

889 South Barre Road - Rt. 14

802.476.0912 • barretile.com 206

• • • •

Personal Injury Auto Accidents Wrongful Death ATV and Snowmobile Accidents • Free Initial Consultation

continued from page 194

home site’s open plateau, one’s eyes are drawn first to the left, to the sweep of alpine beauty beyond the pond, then ahead as the silhouette of the 1980s post-and-beam main house appears in the near distance.

The designer’s solution was to place a low, long structure the entire length of the pool parallel to the drive. Its linear, weather-burnished copper and timber exterior provides both an elegant privacy screen for the pool area and an underlining stroke of emphasis for the distant panorama. An exceptionally large opening at the building’s center is an important visual portal to nearer views. It is also significant structurally as it deflects the force of occasional high winds.

The pool house has three distinct areas. The trellised northern end, the visual bridge to the main house, uses the same building materials: cedar rafters, Douglas fir timbers, and handsome blue stone floors. It is a shaded open area for relaxing, entertaining, and dining. A boardformed concrete fireplace dominates the far wall.

The middle area, behind the fireplace wall, is a copper-clad box with interior space for kitchenette, changing room, and large bath. With the deft conversion of couch into bed, the area becomes a secluded guest room. The third area, at the west end, is a semi-private outdoor shower.

Patterson and Smith Construction of Stowe built the project, and Cleve Patterson clearly enjoyed its uniqueness. His crew and Minadeo used the team approach to explore minimalist solutions to traditional techniques and solve construction ambiguities. “It was so interesting,” says Patterson. “The tolerances were very tight and there was a lot of detail that needed to be done to fulfill Michael’s vision. The pool house is art, really a piece of lawn sculpture.”

Landscape architect H. Keith Wagner of Wagner Hodgson Landscape Architecture in Burlington exhibited shrewd restraint in his choice of design and materials. Working closely with Minadeo and Patterson, he, too, strode to affirm the geometry and unity of the minimalist plan. Patterson gives enormous credit to Wagner’s success in pulling the project together. Rows of ornamental grasses were meticulously placed to delineate outdoor space. A variety of shrubs add color and texture, providing, as appropriate, accent notes or privacy. Select trees were removed to release the panorama of the 180-degree mountain view, and an understated stone walk was laid to connect the pool complex with the main house. Wagner’s design won the 2011 merit award from the Vermont chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects.

No one is telling if, in the depths of a summer evening, water nymphs frolic in the moonlight, enchanting their hosts, luring them to forbidden pleasures. That may be.

One hopes. It would be a crime if the flawless setting were ignored. ■

POOL HOUSE

207

continued from page 93

the audience got an earful of young Jimmy’s obscenities.

His ongoing feud with police was fanned when a select board member, who was also a police officer, voted for himself as police chief, and the torment of latenight phone harassment ensued. When the department asked for an additional parttime officer and the item was up for vigorous debate at March Town Meeting, Henry brought down the house by standing up to point out his shenanigans alone took up the time of a half-time cop. He suggested the voters could save a lot of money by just buying him a plane ticket to Florida for the winter.

Dartmouth was immensely important to Henry. According to the Dartmouth Alumni office, his grandfather, Lemuel S. Hastings, Dartmouth 1870, taught at the college from 1906 through 1920 and retired as Willard Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory. An uncle was class of 1904, and his father, Harold R. Hastings, class of 1900, taught Latin there in 1910 and 1911.

While Henry was born in Utica, N.Y., in 1917, he spent most of his childhood in Baltimore. His notes to the alumni magazine, which are not always reliable, refer to childhood summers spent with family in Hanover and Middlebury, Vt. He married Barbara “Bobbie” Benner Butler of Middlebury in 1940 and settled in the Medford, Mass., area. His letters to Dartmouth refer to a career as “salesman with Gulf Oil,” but it appears he actually was pump jockey at, then manager of, a service station. In 1950 he married Mary Ellison Hastings in a Chestnut Hill, Mass., ceremony that merited a clipping in the New York Herald Tribune. They had two children, Ripley in 1953 and Jeffrey in 1954. Frank and Marion Kellogg were friends to Henry in his early days in Stowe and believe he had returned to Middlebury to work in an apiary before showing up in Moscow with Laura Fellows in 1955.

Hank relished the societal changes brought by the hippies in the 1960s. Never one for ceremony, he slid into the barefoot-and-floral-bracelet motif with ease. A scribbled note in his alumni office file indicates he had hitchhiked to a reunion “with a pigtail and a satin jumper suit.”

Jim Stead, class of 1954, was back for a reunion in the ’70s when Henry appeared at a glee club concert dressed “in a red bandana on his head with a feather stuck in it and a breechcloth, nothing else, including shoes.” Henry climbed on the stage and caused a disturbance until police escorted him off. Walking up the aisle in the firm grasp of two uniforms, Hank spied Jim and leaned over to give him a shoulder squeeze. Jim’s fellow classmate and recently retired Dartmouth president Dave McLaughlin leaned over to quip, “Friend of yours, Jim?” A poignant note in 208

the alumni office file lists various unsuccessful attempts to contact Henry in the 1960s with a final scribble: “put him in ‘Lost’—we might be able to find him but don’t want to. 3/70” (Editor’s note: Jim Stead is the author’s husband.)

That, alas, pretty much sums up Henry’s final years in Stowe. According to former State’s Attorney Ted Barnett, after multiple charges, including public intoxication, breach of the peace, petty larceny, and theft of services, he ordered him in 1971 to 30 days at the state hospital in Waterbury for psychiatric evaluation. It is said he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, but there’s no official record of this diagnosis. He would drop out of sight, often for months, then reemerge to stir the pot again. Citations were lodged, but not acted upon, and Henry would go dormant. In 1991, when finally hauled before the Lamoille County Court for some altercation, he had the bad sense to mimic the judge’s peculiar walk, according to Ted Barnett. A son whisked him off to Connecticut before the jail door slammed.

Henry died of cancer in Windsor, Conn., in 1997, age 79, bringing not only an end to Henry’s never dull life, but an end of an infinitely more colorful era in Stowe. ■

HENRY HASTINGS

PAUL ROBERT ROUSSELLE ARCHITECT 591 SOUTH MAIN STREET • STOWE, VERMONT 05672 802 253 2110

PAUL@PRRARCH.COM

WWW.PAUL ROBERT ROUSSELLE . COM

TIM M EEHAN B UILDERS

“Tim always wanted to do the right thing, use good materials, do it the right way. When problems came up, and they always do, Tim had good ideas on alternative solutions and worked hard to make things come out the right way.”

—Robert M. Smith, Architect

802.777.0283 588 S. Main St. | Stowe, Vermont www.northernnehomes.com

• • • •

Building Excellence Award-winning Builder Exceptional Homes Creative Remodeling 209

S TOWE-SMUGGL ADULT NOVELTIES GOOD STUFF Adult store. Must be over 18 to enter. Glass pipes, adult novelties, tobacco products, body jewelry, gag gifts. Bachelorette and bachelor parties. Route 100, Waterbury Center.

(802) 244-0800. goodstuffxxx.

AIR TAXI MANSFIELD HELIFLIGHT Mansfield Heliflight is an aircraft sales and service center in Milton, offering Part 61 flight training, sightseeing, and air taxi/charter services. We also offer Part 141 flight training through Green Mountain Flight Academy. (802) 893-1003, mansfieldheliflight.com.

ANTIQUES M. LEWIS ANTIQUES At this location since 1998, Martha Lewis Antiques holds an extremely large variety of antiques and collectibles, with inventory changing daily. Daily 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.; Sundays 11 a.m. 4 p.m. 10 Stowe St., Waterbury. (802) 244-8919.

SMUGGLERS’ NOTCH ANTIQUES 10,000 sq. ft. of fine antique and handcrafted 18th-century furniture featuring New England’s premiere cabinet makers; custommade furniture. Route 108, Smugglers’ Notch. Open ThursdaySunday. 10-5. smugglersnotchantiques.com. (802) 644-2100.

ARCHITECTS ANDREW VOLANSKY, ARCHITECT, AIA Architectural services: Creative, intuitive, functional, efficient, design solutions for those who value elegant design, natural materials, and environmental consciousness in their home or business. (802) 253-2169. cushmandesign.com.

BIRDSEYE ARCHITECTURE Award-winning residential design firm that brings a fresh vision to each project. Birdseye creates unique, inspiring homes that integrate sustainable building practices with beautiful design.

3104 Huntington Rd., Richmond. birdseyearchitecture.com.

(802) 434-2112.

HARRY HUNT ARCHITECTS Designing environmentally sustainable buildings and communities that stay true to the spirit of Vermont. Member American Institute of Architects LEED AP. harryhuntarchitects.com.

(802) 253-2374.

J. GRAHAM GOLDSMITH, ARCHITECTS Quality design and professional architectural services specializing in residential, hotel, restaurant, retail, and resort development. Member Stowe Area. (800) 862-4053. jggarchitects.com. Email: VT@jggarchitects.com.

LEE HUNTER ARCHITECT, AIA A Stowe-based architectural firm offering a personal approach to creative, elegant design. Residential, commercial, and renovations. (802) 253-9928. leehunterarchitect.com.

MGA MARCUS GLEYSTEEN ARCHITECTS We look beyond stylistic preferences and are committed to the thoughtful use of clients’ resources. Our designs reflect culture and history in conjunction with the evolving requirements of contemporary life. (617) 542-6060. mgaarchitects.com.

PAUL ROBERT ROUSSELLE, ARCHITECT AIA Professional architectural services offering a comprehensive and creative design approach—responsive to the needs of clients. Projects that are exquisitely detailed, beautifully built, and inspiring to those that use them. (802) 253-2110. paulrobertrousselle.com.

SAM SCOFIELD, ARCHITECT AIA Professional architectural services for all phases of design and construction. Residential and commercial. Carlson Building, Main Street, Stowe. samscofieldarchitect.com. (802) 253-9948.

210

ERS’ BUSINESS DIRECTORY TEKTONIKA STUDIO ARCHITECTS Dedicated to the craft and composition of sustainable, siteinspired design. Emphasis on a collaborative design process to meet our client’s vision and budget. Located in the Stowe Village. (802) 253-2020. tektonikavt.com.

GREEN MOUNTAIN FINE ART GALLERY In the heart of the village. Displaying Stowe’s most diverse collection of traditional and contemporary works by regional artists.

Open daily 11-6. 64 South Main, Stowe. (802) 253-1818. greenmountainfineart.com.

GREEN MOUNTAIN GLAZE TRUEXCULLINS ARCHITECTURE & INTERIORS DESIGN We combine our client’s ideas and desires with TruexCullins’ 40-plus years of experience to design elegant homes that connect beautifully with their surroundings. View TruexCullins’ port-

“Paint-your-own” pottery studio and art gallery. Fun for all ages and perfect for parties or rainy days. Walk-ins welcome. 3487 Waterbury Stowe Road, Waterbury Center. 241-4000. greenmountainglaze.com.

ALAN GUAZZONI DESIGN Combining site concerns, functions, and the understanding of client wishes for well-conceived, pleasing residential and commercial building design. (802) 244-6664. aguazzonidesign.com.

CUSHMAN DESIGN GROUP INC.

Center for contemporary art and art education, established in 1981. Local, national, and international exhibitors. Art classes.

Cultural events. Schedule: Wednesday-Sunday 12-5. 90 Pond Street, Stowe. (802) 253-8358, helenday.com.

INSIDE OUT GALLERY We offer original fine art and crafts by Vermont and American artists in a spectrum of mediums, styles, and price points, from small gifts to major showpieces. 299 Mountain Road, Stowe.

(802) 253-6945, insideoutgallery.com.

Architectural services: Creative, intuitive, functional, efficient design solutions for those who value elegant design, natural materials, and environmental consciousness in their home or business. (802) 253-2169. cushmandesign.com.

ART GALLERIES BRYAN MEMORIAL GALLERY Vermont’s premier gallery for landscape painting features over 200 artists in a year-round exhibition schedule. May/ June, Thurs.-Sun. 11-4; July to mid Oct., daily 11-5. 180 Main Street, Jeffersonville. (802) 644-5100. bryanmemorialgallery.org.

Contemporary fine art and sculpture indoors and outside on the riverside sculpture grounds. Regional, international, and local artists. Tuesday-Sunday 11-4. One mile from Stowe Village on Mountain Road. (802) 253-8943. westbranchgallery.com.

ART SUPPLIES THE ART STORE An artistic boutique for drawing, painting, children’s activities, sculpting, crafting, printmaking, and more. Your local source for quality, sustainable and Made-in-the-USA art supplies and gifts for everyone. (802) 253-ARTS (2787), stoweartstore.com.

HELEN DAY ART CENTER

folio at truexcullins.com. (802) 658-2775.

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNERS

WEST BRANCH GALLERY & SCULPTURE PARK

THE STUDIO STORE The largest selection of fine artist materials at tremendous savings. Call us or stop by; it’s worth a drive. (802) 635-2203, or (800) 887-2203. 2 Lower Main, Johnson. Open TuesdaySaturday, 10-6; Sundays, 12-5. thestudiostore.com.

ATELIER ROSELLE HOME Workshop studio of artist designer Roselle Abramowitz. Quilts and throws to beautify your home and keep you warm. A special luxurious gift from Stowe. (802) 253-8372. roselle-home.com.

ROBERT PAUL GALLERIES One of the country’s finest art galleries, offering an outstanding selection of original paintings, sculpture, and fine photography by locally, nationally, and internationally acclaimed artists.

Celebrating 24 years. Baggy Knees Shopping Center, Stowe. robertpaulgalleries.com. (802) 253-7282.

VISIONS OF VERMONT Located in Jeffersonville. We feature Eric Tobin, the Winslows, Thomas Curtin, Emile Gruppe, and many more. A century of painting history is made on the Jeffersonville side of Smugglers’ Notch. (802) 644-8183. visionsofvermont.org.

BAKERIES HARVEST MARKET Homemade muffins, cookies, tarts, pies, cakes, and other luscious treats. Incredible breads, including our own French country bread baked in traditional wood-fired ovens. Fine coffees and espresso.

Daily 7-7 (in season). (802) 253-3800. harvestatstowe.com.

TRAPP FAMILY LODGE—DELIBAKERY Offering a variety of baked goods, soups, salads, sandwiches, daily specials, and our Trapp lagers. Open daily 7 a.m.-7 p.m.

Hours vary seasonally. (802) 253-5705. trappfamily.com.

Property Management Services We do it all! Here’s some of the services we offer: Spring & Fall Cleanup • Lawn Mowing Landscaping • Gardening • Stone Walls Land Clearing • Brush Chipping Grading • Ditch Digging • Painting Post Hole Digging • Rototilling Electrical Work • Flood Damage Repair House Cleaning • Trash Pick-up House Checks • Moving Furniture Snow Plowing • Snow Removal Roofs & Walkways • Carpentry . . .

Basically Anything!

Todd Shonio PO Box 479 Stowe, VT 05672 (802) 888-7736 Fax: (802) 888-2713 todd@stowehomecaremaintenance.com Year round service Yearly / Seasonal contracts available Fully licensed & insured 211

S TOWE-SMUGGLERS’ BUSINESS DIRECTORY BATH & HARDWARE CLOSE TO HOME Finest selection of quality bath faucets, fixtures, and hardware.

We can outfit your home from bath to kitchen to doors. Door hardware and 6,000 cabinet knobs. Ask for a free espresso. 10 Farrell St., S. Burlington. (802) 861-3200. closetohomevt.com.

BIKES & FITNESS EQUIPMENT AJ’S SKI AND SPORTS Outdoor clothing and footwear. High-quality bike repairs, on the spot repairs. Bike clothing, helmets, tools, parts and accessories. Mountain, road, hybrid, and kid’s bike rentals, and canoe and kayak rentals. Specialized, Kona, and Felt. 350 Mountain Rd., Stowe. 253-4593. stowesports.com.

EARL’S CYCLERY & FITNESS The largest selection of bicycles in Vermont, the best service, and the most experience. 2500 Williston Road, S.Burlington.

(802) 864-9197. Toll-free 866-327-5725. earlsbikes.com.

NORDIC BARN High-quality bikes and the best location guarantee—fun for you and your family. Private and exclusive access to the Stowe Recreation Path across from Topnotch Resort and Spa. Hiking information, trail maps and accessories. Open daily at 9 a.m.

(802) 253-6433. nordicbarnvt.com.

SKIERSHOP Sales, service, and rentals of mountain and hybrid bikes. Large selection of bikes, accessories, and apparel. Best Recreation Path access in Stowe. Premium mountain bike rentals and demos. 580 Mountain Road. (802) 253-7919. skiershop.com, bikestowe.com.

BOOKSTORES BEAR POND BOOKS Complete family bookstore. NY Times bestsellers and new releases. Children and adult hardcovers, paperbacks, books on CD, daily papers, games, greeting cards. Open 7 days. Depot Building, Main Street, Stowe. (802) 253-8236.

BRICKHOUSE BOOKSHOP Books, paintings, and sculptures on display at the Brickhouse Bookshop, Morristown Corners. 37 years in business. Search and mail services. Open daily by chance or appointment, call ahead. (802) 888-4300.

BEACON HILL BUILDERS A family owned and operated custom-home building company.

Over 30+ years of experience building and managing fine custom homes, additions, remodels, and energy efficient upgrades in Stowe and beyond. (802) 244-6767. beaconhillvt.com.

GEOBARNS Geobarns is an environmentally conscious, minimal waste builder, specializing in artistic barns using modified post-andbeam structures with diagonal framing to achieve a combination of strength, versatility, and beauty at reasonable prices.

(802) 295-9687. geobarns.com.

GORDON DIXON CONSTRUCTION, INC. Highly respected for fine craftsmanship, attention to detail, integrity, and dependable workmanship. Over 25 years experience.

Custom homes, additions, renovations, design/build, and project management. 626 Mountain Road, Stowe. (802) 253-9367. gordondixonconstruction.com.

MANSFIELD CUSTOM HOMES Cost effective quality. Specializing in the construction of highquality single-family, multi-family, and commercial structures using the efficiency, speed, and quality that only a panelized company can offer. (802) 279-2373. mansfieldcustomhomes.com.

PATTERSON & SMITH CONSTRUCTION, INC. Custom builder, remodeling firm, and general contractor in Stowe.

Our mission is to provide each customer and their designer/architect with the highest degree of customer service, management, and craftsmanship. pattersonandsmith.com. (802) 253-3757.

SISLER BUILDERS INC. Custom home building and remodeling, home energy audits and retrofits, quality craftsmanship, resource efficient construction, modest additions to multi-million dollar estates. 30 years in Stowe.

References available. sislerbuilders.com. (802) 253-5672.

Steel Construction, Inc., has consistently proven to be one of Vermont’s finest custom homebuilders. We have three decades of proven experience and a long list of satisfied homeowners.

(802) 253-4572. steelconstructionvt.com.

TIM MEEHAN BUILDERS Creative remodeling, building excellence, award-winning construction. Post & beam, vintage barns, historic restoration.

Construction management consultation. 30 years plus in Stowe.

Tim Meehan, (802) 777-0283. northernnehomes.com.

BUILDING MATERIALS

CROP BISTRO & BREWERY PUB

ALLEN LUMBER

MAGIC HAT BREWERY& ARTIFACTORY Where ancient alchemy meets modern-day science to create the best tasting beer on the planet. Visit our brewery for free samples, free tours, and a most unusual shopping experience.

(802) 658-BREW. magichat.net.

Specializing in kitchens, bath, doors, and windows. Locations in Barre, Montpelier, St. Johnsbury, and Waitsfield. (800) 6969663. allenlumbercompany.com.

BUILDERS & CONTRACTORS ADAMS CONSTRUCTION VT LLC Stowe construction company specializing in residential and commercial renovations, custom home building and construction-project management. adamsconstructionvt.com.

(802) 253-7893.

212

Ice cream cakes are ready-to-go or custom ordered. Call (802) 882-2034. Let us bring the euphoria! We cater cups and cones to full sundae bars. Call (802) 882-2052.

CANOES & KAYAKS BERT’S BOATS Daily canoe and kayak tours on the Lamoille and Winooski Rivers. Winery tours, sunset tours and two-day overnight adventures offered daily. Repairs, lessons, leases and sales. Outpost at 5399 VT Route 15, Jeffersonville. (802) 644-8189. “We go when you do.”

UMIAK OUTDOOR OUTFITTERS Vermont’s leading paddlesports’ center. Kayaks, canoes, and standup paddleboards. Daily river trips, lakefront rentals, guided tours, demos and fully stocked outfitting stores. 849 South Main St., Stowe; and 1203 Williston Rd., South Burlington.

(802) 253-2317; umiak.com.

CARRIAGE & WAGON RIDES GENTLE GIANTS New England’s favorite scenic and romantic ride. Go back in time through a covered bridge along a rambling brook in the woods. Spectacular mountain views. Daily. Private couple, family and group rides. Recommended by Yankee Magazine.

(802) 253-2216. gentlegiantsrides.com.

CHOCOLATE LAKE CHAMPLAIN CHOCOLATES What the New York Times calls “some of the best chocolate in the country.” Made from Belgian chocolate, Vermont cream, other natural ingredients. Caramels, truffles, creamy fudge, pralines, factory seconds. 9-6 daily. Cabot Annex.

(802) 241-4150. lakechamplainchocolate.com.

CHURCHES & SYNAGOGUES BLESSED SACRAMENT CATHOLIC Mass schedule: Saturday, 4:30 p.m., Sunday, 8 and 10:30 a.m.; Daily masses: Tuesday, 5:30 p.m., Wednesday, 8:30 a.m.

Thursday, noon, Friday, 8:30 a.m. Confessions Tuesday 6-7 p.m., and Saturday 3:45-4:15 p.m. Rev. Benedict Kiely, pastor.

728 Mountain Road, Stowe. (802) 253-7536.

GRACE BIBLE CHURCH 856 Moscow Road, Moscow. Sunday: Bible Study, 9 a.m., worship service, 10:30 a.m. Prayer meeting Thursday 6:30 p.m.

(802) 253-4731. gracemoscow.org.

HUNGER MOUNTAIN CHRISTIAN ASSEMBLY Route 100, Waterbury Center. Sunday worship service at 10 a.m. (802) 244-5921.

COUNTRY HOME CENTER JEWISH COMMUNITY OF GREATER STOWE Our kitchen and bath department offers many types of custom cabinets, solid surface countertops, custom tile showers, energy efficient fixtures, and green products for today’s Vermont lifestyle. 85 Center Rd., Morrisville. (802) 888-3177. countryhomecenter.net.

TRAPP FAMILY LODGE The Trapp Family Lodge Brewery offers a selection of authentic Austrian lagers. Stop by for a pint and enjoy our mountaintop views in our DeliBakery, lounge, or dining room. (802) 253-5705. trappfamily.com.

BEN & JERRY'S ICE CREAM CAKES

STEEL CONSTRUCTION, INC.

BREWERIES Featuring an array of lagers and ales brewed on site. Enjoy a beer sampler in the pub or relax in our Biergarten. Open 7 days. Mountain Road, Stowe. (802) 253-4765. cropvt.com.

CAKES & CATERING

LOEWEN WINDOW CENTER OF VT & NH Beautifully crafted Douglas fir windows and doors for the discerning homeowner. Double- and triple-glazed options available in aluminum, copper, and bronze clad. Style Inspired By You. loewenvtnh.com, (800) 505-1892, info@loewenvtnh.com.

PARKER & STEARNS, INC. Providing quality building supplies in Johnson and Stowe, we are the contractor’s choice and the homeowner’s advantage.

We sell Integrity by Marvin and Merrilat custom kitchens. A True Value Member. Stowe (802) 253-9757; Johnson (802) 635-2377.

For information regarding services, holiday gatherings, classes, and workshops: JCOGS, P.O. Box 253, Stowe, Vt. 05672.

1189 Cape Cod Road, Stowe. (802) 253-1800 or jcogs.org.

THE MOUNTAIN CHAPEL At the halfway point on the Mt. Mansfield Toll Road. A place for meditation, prayer and praise for skiers, hikers, and tourists.

Seasonal Sunday service 2 p.m. The Rev. Dr. David P. Ransom.

(802) 644-8144.

ST. JOHN’S IN THE MOUNTAINS EPISCOPAL CHURCH At the crossroads of Mountain Road and Luce Hill Road. The Holy Eucharist is celebrated every Sunday at 8 and 10 a.m.

June through October. The Rev. Rick Swanson officiating. St. John’s is wheelchair friendly and visitors and children are welcome. Office open Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. (802) 2537578. stjohnsinthemountains.org.

PERENNIAL PLEASURES

SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST 65 Best Street, Rte. 100 South, Morrisville. (802) 888-7884.

Bible Study at 9:30 a.m. Worship at 11 a.m. Saturday.

Fellowship meal following service. Pastor: Cornel Preda.

Everyone welcome.

NURSERY & TEA GARDEN

STOWE COMMUNITY CHURCH Sunday worship services 9:30 a.m. Sunday School 9:30 a.m.

(Sept.-June), Bible studies: Sundays 8:30 a.m.; Wednesdays (Sept-May) 8:30 a.m.-10 at church, 10:30 a.m. at Copley Woodlands. The Rev. Bruce S. Comiskey: 279-5811, Church: (802) 253-7257.

UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST FELLOWSHIP OF STOWE Services Sundays at 4:30 at St. John’s Episcopal Church, Mountain Road in Stowe, September through June. For information call: (802) 326-2098, visit Facebook at UU Fellowship of Stowe; or sites.google.com/site/uustowe/home.

WATERBURY CENTER COMMUNITY Route 100 next to the Cider Mill. Pastor SangChuri Bae. Sunday worship and Sunday school at 10:30 a.m. Adult class 9:15 a.m. Handicapped accessible. Church is a National Historic Place. We warmly welcome visitors. (802) 244-6286.

CLOTHING & ACCESSORIES BOUTIQUE AT STOWE MERCANTILE Fabulous contemporary fashion for women. From casual to professional, Boutique can make you feel beautiful any time.

Lingerie, dresses, skirts, tops, jeans, sweaters, more. We’ll dress you for any occasion. Depot Building, Main Street, Stowe.

(802) 253-3712.

CREATIVE CONSIGNMENTS

“Come spend a pleasant day!”

Since 1980, specializing in heirloom and unusual flowers and herbs.

Enjoy a stroll through our extensive display gardens.

ENGLISH CREAM TEAS Served in a beautiful garden setting or greenhouse.

Tea served 12-4 daily except Mondays, from Memorial Day to Labor Day. Reservations for tea recommended.

IN OUR GIFT SHOP: A well-chosen collection of useful, unusual and just plain gorgeous items, including stylish jackets, scarves, books and teapots. Summer hats are a specialty!

Daily 10-5 except Mondays, April 26 to Sept. 19 • Free Garden Tours, Sundays at noon.

Join us for our 12th Annual Phlox Fest, July 27 to August 10 www.perennialpleasures.net BRICK HOUSE ROAD, EAST HARDWICK, VT • 1-802-472-5104 A scenic 40 minute drive from Stowe

Women’s apparel and ski wear. “Because friends shouldn’t let friends pay retail.” Established in 2001. Monday through Saturday, 10 - 5. Sunday, noon - 5. 393 Mountain Road, Stowe. (802) 253-8100.

DECISIONS DECISIONS Ladies find what they need to look their best in stylish sportswear, dresses, swimwear, lingerie, hosiery, jewelry, and accessories from NYDJ, Tribal, Joseph Ribkoff, Calvin Klein, Fresh Produce, Flax, Spanx, Wacoal, Hanky Panky. (802) 253-4183.

ESSEX OUTLETS & CINEMA

Extraordinary Interiors from The Biggest Little Tile Shop in New England

PUMA, Under Armour, Polo, Orvis, Brooks Brothers, Van Heusen, Reebok, Carter’s, OshKosh, Pendleton, Snow Drop, Phoenix Books, Sweet Clover Market, more. Stadium-seated, T-Rex RealD 3D, digital movie theater. Routes 15 & VT289, exit 10. (802) 878-2851. Essex Junction. essexoutlets.com, essexcinemas.com.

FORGET-ME-NOT-SHOP Treasure hunt through our huge selection of famous label off price clothing for men, women, and teens at 60%-80% off. Route 15 Johnson, just 1.5 miles west of Johnson Village. Open 10-7.

GREEN ENVY Voted best ladies boutique. Designer apparel and premium denim. Fabulous clothing and accessories for the effortlessly-chic.

Vince, Kate Spade, Longchamp, Theory, AG, Mother, more.

Monday-Friday 10-6, Sundays 10-5. 1800 Mountain Rd., Stowe.

(802) 253-2661. vermontenvy.com, facebook.com/greenenvyvt.

IN COMPANY Come see what’s in at In Company Clothing. Personalized customer service and unique styles for any occasion. 360 Sweater, White+Warren, Yoga Jeans, more. 10-5:30 daily.

Noon-5 Sunday. 344 Mountain Rd., Stowe. (802) 253-4595. incompanyclothing.com.

JOHNSON HARDWARE RENTAL, FARM & GARDEN A big store in a little town, family owned and run for three generations. Rental equipment, plumbing, heating, electrical, Milwaukee tools/repair, toys, clothing, footwear, camping gear, and much more. Route 15, Johnson. (802) 635-7282. jhrvt.com.

Gallery Showroom Featuring a Dazzling Selection from Around the World

CERAMIC AND STONE TILE FOR EVERY APPLICATION EXTENSIVE COLLECTION OF DECORATIVE & HAND-PAINTED TILES HARDWOOD, CORK & CLASSIC RECLAIMED FLOORING GRANITE, MARBLE, SLATE & SOAPSTONE CUSTOM COUNTERTOPS Design Services • Supplies • Estimates 723 SYLVAN PARK RD., OFF RTE. 100, LOWER VILLAGE • STOWE W W W. D O W N E A S T T I L E . C O M

253-7001 •

800-561-9257

More clothing stores l

213

S TOWE-SMUGGLERS’ BUSINESS DIRECTORY JOHNSON WOOLEN MILLS Home of famous Johnson Woolen Outerwear and headquarters for Carhartt, Filson, Pendleton, Woolrich, woolen blankets, fine men’s and ladies sportswear, sweaters, hats, gloves, scarves, socks. Since 1842. Johnson, VT. (802) 635-2271. johnsonwoolenmills.com.

LENNY’S SHOE AND APPAREL Locally owned outfitters with footwear by Merrell, Keen, and Dansko. Clothing by Prana, Lole, and Horny Toad. Darn Tough Vermont Socks and accessories for the whole family. Williston, St. Albans, Barre. lennyshoe.com.

OXYGEN A refreshing boutique and fitness studio catering to your unique lifestyle. Indulge in an array of Yoga and Pilates classes taught

by Vermont's most renowned teachers, then step into our boutique and discover something wonderful for yourself. 512 Mountain Road. (802) 253-5655. oxygenvt.com.

PRET-A-PORTER Pret-a-Porter is a chic consignment boutique that features designer read-to-wear handbags, shoes, and accessories, showing off the designs of Judy Klimek statement jewelry. 6 Sunset St., Stowe Village. (802) 253-7066, pret-a-portervt.com.

EDELWEISS New York-style deli sandwiches. Bakery products baked daily.

Breads, muffins, croissants, pastries, and pies. Beer, wine, soda, grocery items, party and pastry trays, and Vermont products.

Stowe’s #1 deli and convenience store. Daily 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. 2251 Mountain Road. (802) 253-4034.

DENTISTRY JEFFREY R. MCKECHNIE, DMD & CHRISTOPHER P. ALTADONNA, DDS (802) 253-7932. stowedentalassociates.com.

STOWE FAMILY DENTISTRY Chris Pazandak, DDS, Tessa Milnes, DDS, and John Hirce, DMD. Route 100 North. Gentle, quality care. Full range of state-of-the-art dental services including porcelain crowns, complete in one day. New patients welcome. (802) 253-4157. stowefamilydentistry.com.

DOGSLED TOURS

WINTERFELL A gathering place to experience luxury retail in a living-roomlike setting, featuring Bogner, Fire & Ice, Astis, Colmar, ParaJumpers, and more. 1940 Mountain Road, Stowe (above Edgewise). (802) 253-0130. winterfellvt.com.

COFFEE HOUSES THE BAGEL Freshly ground Green Mountain Coffee, plus Nespresso espressos, lattes, and cappuccinos. Breakfast and lunch sandwiches all day plus soups and salads. 394 Mountain Road, 6:30 a.m.4:30 p.m. daily. (802) 253-9943.

BLACK CAP COFFEE Fresh coffee and authentic espresso in a warm inviting atmosphere. House-baked pastries and tasty treats, light breakfast and lunch options. Open Monday-Saturday at 7 a.m., Sunday at 8 a.m. 144 Main Street across from the Stowe Community Church. (802) 253-2123. See us on Facebook.

HARVEST MARKET Homemade muffins, cookies, tarts, pies, cakes, and other luscious treats. Incredible breads, including our French country bread baked in traditional wood-fired ovens. Fine coffees and espresso.

Daily 7-7 (in season). (802) 253-3800. harvestatstowe.com.

COMPUTERS & SOFTWARE FIXPC FixPC is the leader in sales, maintenance, and troubleshooting of business and personal computers and local area networks.

On-site and drop-off service available. Visit 908 South Main Street, Stowe. Call (802) 253-8006.

Educational adventure tours for all ages. Join our one-of-a-kind, “Un-Chained Gang” of friendly huskies for a personalized, handson tour. Snow-sledding in winter, dogsledding-on-wheels spring, summer and fall. (802) 635-9070. edendogsledding.com.

DRY CLEANING & LAUNDRY

Breakfast sandwiches, Nova lox, Reubens, deli sandwiches on breads, English muffins, wraps or NY-style bagels. Salads, soups, baked goods, donuts on the weekends. Baggy Knees, Mountain Road, Stowe. 6:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

(802) 253-9943.

214

Guided fly-fishing, spin-fishing, ice-fishing adventures. River wading, canoe, float tube, motorboat fishing. Guiding Vermont since 1994. Equipment provided. All abilities welcome. Willy, owner/guide, (802) 253-8500. Federation of Fly Fishers certified. Licensed, insured. catamountfishing.com.

FLY ROD SHOP Vermont’s most experienced guide service. Live bait, ice fishing supplies. Drift-boat rips or river wading for fly fishing, spinning.

Family fishing trips. Simms clothing, waders. 10,000 flies. Visit our hunting department. Route 100 South, Stowe. (802) 2537346. flyrodshop.com.

FITNESS EQUIPMENT PERSONAL FITNESS INTERIORS Carrying a wide range of fitness products and equipment from leaders in the industry. Precor, True, Inspire, Landice, Octane, Tuff Stuff, and more. Quality, selection, service. Locally owned for 25 years. (802) 860-1030, personalfitnessvt.com.

FLOORING FLOORING AMERICA Flooring America in Williston provides a leading collection of carpeting and flooring. We specialize in a variety of flooring colors and materials. 800 Marshall Ave #30. (802) 862-5757. flooringamerica-vt.com.

DENOIA’S DRY CLEANERS Perc-free dry cleaning and laundry. Same-day service. Wash, dry, and fold. Free pick-up and delivery. Repairs, suede, leather, storage. Satisfaction guaranteed. Mon.-Fri. 8-6, Sat. 9-1. 638 South Main St., Stoware Common. (802) 253-7861. vermontdrycleaner.com.

STOWE LAUNDRY CO. Full-service Laundromat and dry cleaners. Drop-off wash-anddry and fold, same-day service, and alterations. Professional dry cleaning and shirt service. 44 Park Place, Stowe Village.

Open 7 days. (802) 253-9332.

EDUCATION & COLLEGE COLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE Learn at 11 of the most stunning mountain communities in Colorado. Choose from two-year career training, bachelor's degrees, and transfer degrees. Small classes, dedicated faculty. coloradomtn.edu.

PLANET HARDWOOD Vermont business specializing in green materials, with an emphasis on wood flooring. Our 6,000 sq. ft. showroom is the best place to really see wood as well as fabulous green products. (802) 482-4404. planethardwood.com.

FLORISTS & FLOWERS DESIGNS BY WILDFLOWER Stowe’s leading full-service flower shop. Quality, detail, creativity, and service. 21 years in Stowe, providing the most extraordinary weddings, events, parties, and functions. Others may copy but none compare. Local sending. (802) 253-6303. wildflowerdesignsstowe.com.

FROM MARIA’S GARDEN A fresh floral design studio specialized in English garden, herbal, and wildflower weddings. “Simply beautiful flowers” tailored to your personal style. Exceptional attention to quality, detail, and service. By appointment. (802) 345-3698. maria@frommariasgarden.com.

JOHNSON STATE COLLEGE Johnson State College offers more than 30 bachelor’s and master’s degree programs, including signature programs and education, environmental science, and fine and performing arts, from its scenic hilltop campus. (802) 635-1219. jsc.edu.

ENGINEERS LITTLE RIVER SURVEY COMPANY Engineering, surveying, mapping. Boundary, subdivision and topographic surveys. Septic/water system design, site plans, FEMA elevation certificates and LOMA’s. Large document copying, scanning, reducing. littleriversurveyvt.com. (802) 253-8214.

VERMONT TESTING & CONSULTING CORP. Engineering, structural, geotechnical. Laboratory and field-testing and inspection, consulting. vermonttesting.com.

(802) 244-6131.

DELICATESSEN THE BAGEL

CATAMOUNT FISHING ADVENTURES

EDEN DOGSLEDDING

WELL HEELED Come see what the buzz is all about. A tempting assortment of designer shoes, boots, handbags, belts, clothing, and jewelry presented in a classic 1840s farmhouse. Open 7 days, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

(802) 253-6077. Mountain Road, Stowe. wellheeledstowe.com.

FISHING & HUNTING

EXCAVATING

FORESTRY JONATHAN L. WOOD, C.F. CERTIFIED FORESTER Jonathan L. Wood, CF, Certified Forester providing forest and land management services including forest management plans, use value appraisal plans, wildlife habitat improvement, regulatory compliance, and tree service. 802-777-7114. woodlotwood@gmail.com

FUEL BOURNES ENERGY Local one-stop shop for all your energy needs. Biofuels, propane, solar, bioheat, heating, cooling, plumbing, auto-delivery, remote heat monitoring, expert service. Bourne’s Energy— Fueling the Future. (800) 326-8763. bournesenergy.com.

FURNITURE BURLINGTON FURNITURE COMPANY

DALE E. PERCY, INC. Excavating contractors, commercial and residential. Earth-moving equipment. Site work. trucking, sand, gravel, soil, sewer, water, drainage systems, and supplies. Snow removal, salting, sanding.

Weeks Hill Road. (802) 253-8503. Fax: (802) 253-8520.

Contemporary and modern furniture for your home. Sofas, sectionals, sleepers, recliners. Dining room, bedroom, mattresses, rugs, lighting, fun and unique accessories. Voted Best Furniture Store 2013. 388 Pine St., Burlington. (802) 862-5056. burlingtonfurniturecompany.com.

Visit our Showroom

DESIGN MATTERS A full-service interior-design center and furniture store offering everything from furniture, lighting, area rugs, accessories, fabric, shades and blinds, and more. 358 Dorset St., S. Burlington. (802) 865-2581. designmattersvt.com.

HOOKER’S FURNITURE

• Upholstery • Wall-to-Wall and Area Carpets • Lighting • American Furniture • Window Treatments

Customize your home with beautiful furniture. Vermont-made dining room and bedroom by Lyndon Furniture. Mattresses by Sealy, Stearns & Foster, Tempur-Pedic. Living room by Klaussner, Flexsteel, and La-Z-Boy. Route 100, Waterbury Center. (802) 244-4034. hookersfurniturevt.com.

INSIDE OUT GALLERY Be inspired and refresh your sense of home, inside and out, through vignettes of transcontinental seating, tables, lamps, and mirrors. Our samples are just the beginning; we’ll special order too. 299 Mountain Road, Stowe. (802) 253-6945, insideoutgallery.com.

Interior Design

WENDELL’S FURNITURE & VERMONT BED STORE Best selection for quality, style, price. Copeland, Norwalk, Flexsteel, and more. Bedroom, living and dining rooms, nursery, office, and entertainment. Next to Costco, 697 Hercules Dr., Colchester. (802) 861-7700. wendellsfurniture.com.

GIFT & SPECIALTY SHOPS DANFORTH PEWTER Each piece of Danforth pewter is hand-crafted in Vermont.

Extensive line of jewelry, oil lamps, holiday ornaments, key rings, wedding and baby gifts, kitchen and barware, frames, more. Online shopping and locations: danforthpewter.com.

esign tudio of Stowe

• Concept Development • Floor and Furniture Plans • Paint and Stain Selection • Cabinet Design • Tile Selection • Drapery Design

626 MOUNTAIN ROAD, STOWE DESIGNSTUDIOOFSTOWE.COM 802.253.9600

INSIDE OUT GALLERY Find a full range of gifts and wedding presents, Vermont fine art and crafts, photographs, jewelry, table furnishings, candleholders, picture frames, and outdoor décor. A short walk up from Main Street. 299 Mountain Road, Stowe.

(802) 253-6945, insideoutgallery.com.

RED BARN SHOPS Stowe’s most exciting stores: Decisions, Decisions (ladies apparel); Samara Cards & Gifts; Mountain Cheese & Wine; Yellow Turtle (children’s clothing/outdoor apparel); The Toy Store/Once Upon a Time Toys. 1799 Mountain Rd., 2 miles north of downtown Stowe.

STOWE CRAFT GALLERY Come and discover unique kitchen and home accessories, fascinating jewelry, and gifts. No brand names here. Only beautiful and functional crafts made in Vermont and select art studios across America. 55 Mountain Road, (802) 253-4693. stowecraft.com.

STOWE KITCHEN BATH & LINENS More than just a kitchen store. Two floors of accessories, gifts, and food for the entire home. Gourmet kitchenware, bedding, shower curtains, lotions, gels. Tons of unique clothing and gifts.

1813 Mountain Road. (802) 253-8050. stowekitchen.net.

STOWE MERCANTILE Fabulous old country store, Vermont specialty foods, penny candy, clothing, bath and body, wine, craft beer and cider, gift baskets, and toys. Play a game of checkers or a tune on our piano. Depot Building, Main Street, Stowe.

(802) 253-4554. stowemercantile.com.

STOWE STREET EMPORIUM A distinctive collection of cards, home décor, boutique clothing for women and men, baby, shoes, accessories, Vermont products, jewelry, novelties, and more. Open daily. 23 Stowe Street, Waterbury. (802) 244-5321. stowestreetemporium.com.

TRAPP FAMILY LODGE SPORT & GIFTS Trapp Family Lodge books, music, clothing, and food. Austrian specialty gifts and gourmet products. Vermont-made products and maple syrup. Visit our two locations. Shop online: trappfamily.com. (802) 253-8511.

215

S TOWE-SMUGGLERS’ BUSINESS DIRECTORY GOLF STOWE COUNTRY CLUB 18 holes of championship golf in a pastoral setting with majestic mountain views. Instruction from award-winning professionals through Vermont Golf Academy. Full service shop, practice facility, rentals. Dining at Kirkwood’s Pub. (802) 253-4893, stowe.com.

GOLF — MINIATURE

SWIMMING HOLE Stowe’s premier family fitness and recreation center. 25m lap pool, children’s pool, waterslide, group exercise classes, personal training, aqua aerobics, masters swimming, group lessons, kids fitness programs. State-of-the-art facility. Day passes available. (802) 253-9229. theswimmingholestowe.com.

HOME ENTERTAINMENT & SMART HOMES

STOWE GOLF PARK VERMONT ELECTRONICS On Mountain Road in front of Sun and Ski Inn and Suites.

Miniaturized golf course that strives to simulate a real golf environment. Avoid natural obstacles, fairway hazards, sand traps.

“For young and old.” May through October. 10 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. (802) 253-9951.

GRANITE COUNTERTOPS BURLINGTON MARBLE AND GRANITE We manufacture and install the finest handcrafted stone countertops for Vermont’s premier builders, fine kitchen and bath designers, and discriminating homeowners. Warehouse stocked with over 100 full slabs to view. (802) 860-1221. burlingtonmarbleandgranite.com.

HAIR SALONS LUSH SALON & BOUTIQUE Locally owned by Miss VT USA 2012, Jamie Dragon. Stowe’s premier luxury salon and makeup boutique offering hair, makeup, nails, waxing as well as Oribe, Jane Iredale, Clarisonic, more.

2850 Mountain Road, Stowe. (802) 253-7750. lushstowe.com.

SALON SALON Experience the ultimate. World-class Aveda concept salon for men and women. Haircuts, highlighting, coloring, hair straightening, manicures, pedicures, facials, body waxing, body treatments, massage, complete wedding services. Downer Farm Shops, 232 Mountain Rd. By appt. (802) 253-7378. salonsalonvt.com.

STYLES HAIR SALON A small, clean, client-focused salon. Offering haircuts, coloring, highlighting, straightening, manicures, pedicures, waxing, and facials. Located in a renovated 1840s building at 147 South Main St. Tuesday-Saturday by appointment. (802) 253-7701.

Providing local support for custom design and installation of home theater, whole house audio, lighting control, shade control, thermostat control, home automation, and your security needs. (802) 253-6509. info@vermontelectronics.biz.

HORSEBACK RIDING VERMONT ICELANDIC HORSE FARM Offering trail rides year round. Winter riding is truly an unforgettable experience. 1-hour rides, half-day rides, full-day rides and multiple day packages, including meals and lodging.

802-496-7141. Icelandichorses.com; horses@icelandichorses.com.

HOUSEKEEPING

STOWE HARDWARE & DRY GOODS Unique hardware store providing North Country necessities and quality products such as Craftsman tools, Cabot Stain, Carhartt clothing, a complete selection of fasteners, houseware, homecare products. Open 8-5:30 Mon.-Sat., Sundays 9-3:30. 430 Mountain Road. Established since 1829. (802) 253-7205.

HEALTH CARE COPLEY HOSPITAL A leader in primary care, women’s and children’s services, general surgery and orthopedics. 24-hour emergency services, outpatient services, cardiology and urology, rehabilitation, and wellness programs. Morrisville. (802) 888-8888, copleyvt.org.

Fully bonded, insured, and trained housekeepers available for private homes or rental properties. We use environmentally friendly products and supplies whenever possible. Call and ask for Reggie. reggie@stowecountryhomes.com. (802) 253-8132, ext. 105.

ICE CREAM I.C. SCOOPS We serve homemade ice cream, maple creamees, chocolate and vanilla twist, frozen yogurt, milkshakes, sundaes. 112 Main Street, Stowe. (802) 253-0995. stoweicecream.com.

INNS & RESORTS BUTLER HOUSE, STOWE Unique lodging in the heart of Stowe Village. Light and airy accommodations boast scenic second-floor views and fully equipped kitchens Onsite dining at Mi Casa Kitchen and Bar. (802) 253-7422. butlerhousestowe.com.

Spacious rooms, fireside living room, indoor and outdoor pool, game room, restaurant, popular sports bar, country breakfast and dinner buffet, salad bar. Kids free, pets welcome. Route 100, Lower Village. commodoresinn.com. (802) 253-7131.

GREEN MOUNTAIN INN Classic 1833 resort in Stowe Village. Over 100 rooms, luxury and family suites, apartments and townhouses, many with fireside Jacuzzis. Two restaurants, outdoor heated pool and inground spa, firepits, health club with Jacuzzi, sauna, massage therapy, gameroom. (802) 253-7301. greenmountaininn.com.

HOB KNOB INN & RESTAURANT Family owned and operated, pet friendly, green inn. Spacious accommodations and fireside dining, on Mountain Road, Stowe.

20 rooms and fireplace suites, hot tub, on site restaurant and lounge. (802) 253-8549, (800) 245-8540. hobknobinn.com.

HEALTH CLUBS & SPAS GOLDEN EAGLE RESORT Daily membership gives you access to the indoor pool, hot tub, saunas, and fitness room. Massage also available.

(802) 253-4811 ext. 164; 511 Mountain Road, Stowe. goldeneagleresort.com.

216

STERLING RIDGE & LOG CABINS Secluded on 360 acres of woods and meadows with spectacular views of Mt. Mansfield. Outdoor pool, hot tub, 10-acre secluded pond for boating and fishing, hiking trails.

(800) 347-8266. sterlingridgeresort.com.

STOWEFLAKE MOUNTAIN RESORT & SPA Ideally located in the heart of Stowe, featuring luxurious guestrooms and townhouses, Charlie B’s Pub & Restaurant for fireside deck-dining and live entertainment. Spa at Stoweflake with unique treatments beyond the traditional. (802) 253-7355. stoweflake.com.

STOWE INN Elegant lodging and dining. First on the Mountain Road, sited on 4.5-acre historic estate. AAA 3-diamond rating. Free wi-fi. 123 Mountain Road, Stowe. (800) 546-4030; (802) 253-4030. stoweinn.com.

SUNSET MOTOR INN AAA 55 units and 3 houses, free wi-fi. Located on the VAST trail for snowmobiling. $3 breakfast coupon. 10 miles from Stowe.

(800) 544-2347. sunsetmotorinn.com.

TOPNOTCH RESORT & SPA All new following a multi-million dollar renovation, Topnotch wows with fully-modernized rooms and suites, 2-3 bedroom resort homes, airy lobby bar and restaurant, top-ranked bistro, world-class Tennis Center and Spa, adventure center, indoor/outdoor pools. (802) 253-8585. topnotchresort.com.

TRAPP FAMILY LODGE Mountain resort in the European tradition. 96-rooms and suites with spectacular mountain views. European-style cuisine, musical entertainment, fitness center, outdoor hot tub, indoor pool, climbing wall, yoga, cross-country and backcountry skiing, snowshoeing, von Trapp history tours. (802) 253-8511. trappfamily.com.

VILLAGE GREEN AT STOWE Fully furnished condominiums at the center of all Stowe has to offer. Fireplaces, indoor pool, sauna, Jacuzzi. Affordable.

(802) 253-9705 or (800) 451-3297. vgasstowe.com.

INSURANCE HICKOK & BOARDMAN, INC. Providing superior service and innovative solutions for all your insurance needs. Home, auto, and business insurance since 1821. “Here when you need us.” 618 So. Main Street, Stowe.

(802) 253-9707.

STOWE INSURANCE AGENCY, INC. Stowe’s premier multi-line insurance agency since 1955. Our pricing and service is second to none. Glenn Mink, Teela Leach, Robert Mink, and Renee Davis. (802) 253-4855.

INTERIOR DESIGN

STOWE FAMILY PRACTICE Stowe Family Practice provides routine medical care and treats winter-related and sports injuries. We can cast and splint most types of fractures. Available 24/7 with evening and weekend hours. Call (802) 253-4853. chslv.org.

America’s Family Resort℠, Smugglers’ combines the value today’s families seek with memory-making fun you’ll talk about for years to come. Eight pools and four waterparks, award-winning children’s programs, and more. smuggs.com/sg, (888) 256-7623.

STOWE COUNTRY HOMES

COMMODORES INN

HARDWARE

SMUGGLERS’ NOTCH, VERMONT

INN AT THE MOUNTAIN & CONDOMINIUMS Classic New England inn at the base of the Auto Toll Road.

Spacious rooms and suites, game room, exercise room, library.

Fully equipped 1-4 bedroom condos, great for families.

Complimentary continental breakfast. Specials and packages: (802) 253-3649, stowe.com.

JAY PEAK RESORT Jay Peak offers skiing and riding on the most snow in Eastern North America, Vermont's only aerial tramway, championship golf, an indoor ice arena, and the Pump House—Vermont’s only indoor waterpark. (800) 451-4449. jaypeakresort.com.

CUSTOM COVERS Custom Covers at the Grist Mill is a full-service shop. Designer fabrics, trims, wallpaper, custom-made slipcovers, upholstery, window treatments. By appointment. (802) 324-2123. 92 Stowe Street, Waterbury.

DESIGN MATTERS A full-service interior-design center and furniture store offering everything from furniture, lighting, area rugs, accessories, fabric, shades and blinds, and more. 358 Dorset St., S. Burlington.

(802) 865-2581. designmattersvt.com.

DESIGN STUDIO OF STOWE Specializing in renovations. Creative solutions for interior spaces—residential and light commercial work. Services: Design, specify, order, and install. Showroom at 626 Mountain Road. Allied Member ASID. (802) 253-9600. dsofstowe@stowevt.net, designstudioofstowe.com.

SHEEP THRILLS 134 S. Main St., Stowe. Lessons, inspiration, fun. Wednesday through Sunday: 1-5 p.m. Handspinning, knitting, crocheting, needle felting. See our hand-spun, hand-dried yarns and fiber products, all natural and all handmade in Vermont. (802) 585-2013.

LANDSCAPE DESIGN SELDOM SCENE INTERIORS INC. All aspects of interior design. Stowe and Boston. Full architectural services, design build, and project management. Large comprehensive portfolio. By appointment only. 2038 Mountain Road, Stowe. (802) 253-3770. seldomsceneinteriors.com.

STOWE CRAFT DESIGN CENTER Browse our 1,800-sq. ft. showroom. Discover luxurious, handsome artisan furniture, lighting, wall art, and sculpture.

Remodeling? Talk with us about personal interior design matching your interests and style. Portfolio at stowecraft.com.

34 S. Main St. (802) 253-7677.

WINDOW PRO OF VERMONT, INC. Serving Stowe for over 30 years. Fabrics, custom draperies, shades, window treatments by Hunter Douglas, Kirsch hardware, solar screens. All expertly installed. Custom bedspreads.

(802) 244-7784, (800) 734-7784.

JEWELRY FERRO JEWELERS Stowe’s premier full-service jewelers since 2006. We specialize in estate jewelry, fine diamonds, custom design, jewelry repair, and appraisals. American Gem Society. 91 Main St., Stowe.

(802) 253-3033. ferrojewelers.com. Visit us on Facebook.

AMBLER DESIGN Full-service landscape architecture and construction company in Stowe. Working with plants, water, stone, and earth, we create unique, exceptional, and beautiful outdoor spaces. Recent projects: Piecasso Restaurant entrance and the 2011 HGTV Dream Home. (802) 253-4536. amblerdesign.com.

CYNTHIA KNAUF LANDSCAPE DESIGN Beautiful, functional, and green. Creating memorable outdoor spaces that link buildings and people to the site. Emphasis on sustainability through local materials and craftsmanship, green roofs, and rain gardens. (802) 655-0552. cynthiaknauf.com.

LANDSHAPES Serving Vermont’s residential and commercial landscapes with design, installations, and property maintenance. Projects include unlimited varieties of stonework, gardens, water features, and installation of San Juan pools and spas. (802) 434-3500. landshapes.net.

WAGNER HODGSON LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE The process of uniting program, context, form and materials provides the basis for our work, crafting modern sculptural landscapes expressing the essential inherent beauty of natural materials. (802) 864-0010. wagnerhodgson.com.

GREEN ENVY Expansive collection of contemporary jewelry and accessories.

Hand-crafted from local artists to worldwide. In2 Design, Coralia Leets, Sonja Renee, Baroni, Alex and Ani, Dogeared. MondayFriday 10-6, Sundays to 5. 1800 Mountain Rd., Stowe. (802) 253-2661. facebook.com/greenenvyvt, vermontenvy.com.

WALPOLE WOODWORKERS Walpole suits your outdoor lifestyle, from pergolas, arbors, and fence to planters, lattice panels, outdoor furniture, and more. In natural cedar or low-maintenance cellular vinyl, an advanced material with the look and feel of wood. (800) 343-6948. walpolewoodworkers.com.

GREEN MOUNTAIN COINS & ESTATE JEWELRY Huge selection of fine estate jewelry and high-end numismatic coins, including museum quality U.S. coins from the 1700s to 1960s. We buy gold, silver, coins, estate jewelry. 9 S. Main St., Waterbury. (802) 777-5550, greenmountaincoins.com; Facebook.

INSIDE OUT GALLERY Discover new colorful and creative designs made by American artists. Add inspiration and fun to every day. Easy prices.

Enjoyable shopping. Short walk up from Main Street. 299 Mountain Road, Stowe. (802) 253-6945, insideoutgallery.com.

STOWE GEMS Fine handcrafted gold, platinum, sterling jewelry. Diamonds, engagement rings, wedding bands. Amazing selection of tanzanite, tourmaline, Tahitian pearls, North American diamonds.

Vermont charms, watches, batteries. Named “Best of Vermont.”

Stowe Village. (802) 253-7000. stowegems.com.

KITCHENS & BATHS BARRE TILE Rediscovering elegance in the home-place. Stone Shop is Vermont's source for kitchen countertops, bathroom vanities, thresholds, fireplace hearths, more. Make an appointment and view our extensive stone slab inventory. Over 25 colors. (802) 476-0912. barretile.com.

KNITTING & YARN SHOPS

LAWYERS

Housewares Cabot stains Painting supplies Electrical supplies Ice and snow removal • Cleaning supplies • Minwax stains • Best selection of fasteners

BARR LAJOIE GOLDFINE Member Vermont, New York, Massachusetts bars. 125 Mountain Road, Stowe. Vermont, (802) 253-6272; 100 Park Ave., New York, NY, 212-486-3910.

DARBY STEARNS THORNDIKE KOLTER & WARE, LLP General civil practice, real estate, environmental, estate planning, corporate, litigation, personal injury, and family law.

Stowe: 25 Main St., (802) 253-7165; Waterbury: 89 S. Main St. (802) 244-7352.

OLSON & ASSOCIATES, PLC General law practice: commercial and residential real estate, estate planning and probate administration, business formation and maintenance, general litigation, family law, mediation services. 188 South Main Street, Stowe. (802) 253-7810.

STACKPOLE AND FRENCH Litigation, real estate, corporate, utility, wills, and estate administration. 255 Maple Street, Stowe. (802) 253-7339. stackpolefrench.com.

STEVENS LAW OFFICE Criminal and family law, civil litigation, residential and commercial real estate, personal injury, business formation, estate planning. 30+ years experience. Stowe and Orleans offices. (802) 253-8547 or (866) 786-9530.

KNITTING STUDIO Full-service knitting store specializing in customer service. Our goal is to help you from the beginning of the process to completion of your project. Huge array of yarns and patterns. Knitting classes for every level. 112 Main St., Montpelier. 229-2444. vtknits.com.

• • • • •

VALSANGIACOMO DETORA & MCQUESTEN Personal injury, medical malpractice, employment issues, real estate, and environmental law. 172 North Main Street, Barre.

(802) 476-4181 x309.

430 Mountain Road, Stowe

253-7205 Mon-Sat 8-5:30 • Sun 9-3:30 217

S TOWE-SMUGGLERS’ BUSINESS DIRECTORY LIGHTING AUTHENTIC DESIGNS Hand building quality lighting for over 50 years in rural Vermont. Chandeliers, sconces, lanterns, and custom work. UL listed, built to last in brass, copper, and locally harvested hardwoods. West Rupert, Vt. (800) 844-9416. authenticdesigns.com.

BARRE ELECTRIC & LIGHTING SUPPLY, INC. Indoor and outdoor lighting, fans and home accents. The supplier of choice for area electricians and builders. Come visit our 3,000-square foot showroom featuring working displays for kitchen and bath lighting. Route 302, Barre. (802) 476-0280. barreelectric.com.

CONANT METAL & LIGHT Conant Metal & Light is a creative designer, maker, restorer, and retailer of fine lighting and decorative accessories. We provide bold, energy-efficient solutions for projects that demand that extraordinary custom touch. (800) 832-4482. conantmetalandlight.com.

MARKETS HARVEST MARKET Stowe’s one-stop gourmet store. Delicious salads, entrées, baked goods, and breads—prepared by our own chefs and bakers. Specialty cheeses and meats. Espresso bar. Farm fresh produce. Great wine selection. Daily 7-7 (in season).

(802) 253-3800. harvestatstowe.com.

NURSERIES & GARDEN CENTERS PERENNIAL PLEASURES NURSERY & TEA GARDEN Stroll through beautiful display gardens, shop for flowers and herbs. Enjoy tea or light lunches in the tea room, browse for hats in the gift shop. Free Sunday garden tours at noon. East Hardwick. (802) 472-5104. perennialpleasures.net.

OPTOMETRY DR. ROBERT C. BAUMAN & ASSOCIATES Comprehensive eye exams, immediate treatment of eye injuries/infections. Same-day service on most eyeglasses including bifocals. Area’s largest selection glasses and contact lenses, immediate replacement of lost or damaged contact lenses. Saturday hours available. (802) 253-6322. drrobertbauman.com.

STOWE EYE CARE At Stowe Eye Care, we provide personalized vision services.

We use advanced technology for the most accurate diagnosis, as well as having a frame selection as unique as we are. stoweeyecare.com. (802) 253-7201.

PHARMACY HERITAGE PHARMACY Full-service pharmacy. Compounding available. Over-the-counter remedies, health and beauty aids, first-aid supplies. Conveniently located at 1878 Mountain Road. (802) 253-2544. heritagedrugs.com.

MASSAGE & BODYWORK

PHOTOGRAPHY

GOLDEN EAGLE RESORT

KATE CARTER PHOTOGRAPHY

Transform your state of being through massage. Restore, replenish, rejuvenate naturally with Swedish, sports, Reiki, or neuromuscular therapies. Hot stones or body treatments. Daily by appointment. (802) 253-4811, x164. 511 Mountain Road, Stowe. goldeneagleresort.com.

KATE GRAVES, CMT, BHS Relaxation, deep tissue, moist heat, energy work (Brennan graduate), maternity, Thai. Practicing integrative medicine over 30 years. Competitive rates. Stowe Yoga Center, 515 Moscow Rd. kgravesmt@gmail.com, (802) 253-8427, stoweyoga.com.

STOWE VILLAGE MASSAGE Massage center offers exceptional bodywork services from relaxation to injury recovery. Certified practitioners in a casual atmosphere. 60-minute massages starting from $75. Daily from 9 a.m. 7 p.m. 49 Depot Street, Stowe. Book online at stowevillagemassage.com. (802) 253-6555. info@stowevillagemassage.com.

TRAPP FAMILY LODGE FITNESS CENTER Massage therapists use a blend of techniques to address needs including Swedish, deep tissue, acupressure, and Shiatsu. Other treatments include reflexology, salt glows, and hot stone therapy. Appointments available daily. (802) 253-5722.

Professional digital photography services for weddings, pet and people portraits, interiors, landscapes, products. Memorable images for digital and print publication, and for fine art prints.

(802) 244-5017, wordsandphotosbykate.com.

PAUL ROGERS PHOTOGRAPHY Since 1982, offering quality photographic services to Vermont businesses. Creative images of people, products, and locations.

Photography of artwork. Private photographic instruction. RIT photo graduate. (802) 253-7879, paulrogersphotography.net.

PHYSICAL THERAPY CVMC REHABILITATION SERVICES Physical, occupational, and speech therapies. Specialized service: Parkinson’s disease, urinary incontinence, vertigo, concussions, and more. Clinic in Waterbury. Get evaluated within 48 hours at Rehab ExpressCARE in Berlin. cvmc.org/rehab. 371-4242.

COPLEY REHABILITATION SERVICES Therapies include physical, occupational, hand, speech, aquatic, pediatric, athletic training, orthopedic, cardiac and pulmonary, and other comprehensive rehab services. Clinics in Stowe, Hardwick, Morrisville (Mansfield Orthopaedics and Copley Hospital). (802) 888-8303, copleyvt.org.

PINNACLE PHYSICAL THERAPY, INC.

MOVIE THEATERS STOWE CINEMA 3-PLEX First-run movies, all new 7.1 Digital Surround EX and 5.1 digital sound with silver screens and RealD 3D. Full bar available as you view. Fresh popcorn, real butter, full concession.

Conventional seating too. 454 Mountain Road. Movie phone (802) 253-4678; stowecinema.com; or Facebook.

NEEDLEWORK THE WOODEN NEEDLE Charming needle arts shop in heart of Stowe Village. Counted cross-stitch and needlepoint featured. Specializing in linens, hand-painted canvases, Paternayan wool, Weeks Dye Works, Gentle Art cottons, fun fibers. Park and Pond Streets. (802) 253-3086, wooden-needle.com.

218

Skilled physical therapy for orthopedic and neuromuscular conditions, sports, family wellness, pre- and post-surgery. Personal, professional care. 1878 Mountain Road, Stowe. Appointment within 24 hours, M-F. (802) 253-2273. ppt@pshift.com.

PHYSICIANS ADAM KUNIN, MD — CARDIOLOGIST Personalized cardiac care. Board-certified in cardiology, nuclear cardiology, and internal medicine. Providing general cardiology, advanced cardiac tests, and imaging. Morrisville.

(802) 888-8372, copleyvt.org.

BETSY PEREZ, MD — UROLOGIST Board-certified urologist. Specializing in diagnosis and treatment of problems of the male and female urinary tract and the male reproductive organs. Morrisville. (802) 888-8372, copleyvt.org.

PATRICIA JAQUA, MD — GENERAL SURGEON Providing a wide spectrum of inpatient and outpatient surgical care. Care includes, but not limited to: gallbladder, hernia, trauma, biopsies and minor surgical procedures. Morrisville.

(802) 888-8372, copleyvt.org.

THE WOMEN’S CENTER: OB/GYN Board-certified specialists William Ellis, MD, and Anne Stohrer, MD, and certified-nurse midwives, Kipp Bovey, Jackie Bromley, and Marge Kelso. Comprehensive gynecological care. The Women’s Center, (802) 888-8100, copleyvt.org.

PHYSICIANS–Orthopaedics CENTRAL VERMONT ORTHOPAEDICS Dr. Mahlon Bradley: orthopaedics and sports medicine for active patients of all ages. Berlin. 225-3970. Dr. John Braun: specializing in diseases and conditions of the spine. Berlin.

225-3965. cvmc.org/ortho.

MANSFIELD ORTHOPAEDICS AT COPLEY Brian Aros, MD; Bryan Huber, MD; John Macy, MD; Joseph McLaughlin, MD; and Saul Trevino, MD. On-site radiology and rehabilitation facility. Morrisville. (802) 888-8405, mansfieldorthopaedics.com.

PIZZA PIECASSO PIZZERIA & LOUNGE A recently renovated cosmopolitan restaurant and bar, with game room and entertainment. A local favorite, voted a “Top 11 Slice in the Country” by travelandleisure.com. Creative entrées, craft beers, gluten-free menu, online ordering, takeout, delivery. (802) 253-4411. piecasso.com.

POOLS & SPAS LEISURE WORLD Hot tubs, pools, pool tables, spa-care products, parts and service. 1245 Airport Parkway, S. Burlington, 802-862-1552; 65 Northgate Plaza, Morrisville, (802) 888-9222. Check out our new wine shop in Morrisville location. leisureworldpool.com.

POOL WORLD Whether you're looking for a pool hot tub, billiard table or game table, we’ll take care of you. Quality pool, hot tub, gaming products and services. We service pools. Burlington, (802) 860-7665; Barre, (802) 476-9200. poolworld.com.

PORTABLE TOILET RENTALS HARTIGAN COMPANY SEPTIC SERVICE Special events, construction sites, crowd pleasers, commercial, residential. Locally owned and operated since 1956. (802) 253-0376. 800-696-0761. hartigancompany.com.

PRINTING THE X PRESS Custom business and personal print, copy, and design services.

Brochures, letterhead, envelopes, business cards, forms, labels, invitations, banners, specialty products for over 25 years. Office supplies, shipping, scanning/fax service. (802) 253-7883 (fax).

Stowe Village, M-F, 8-4:30. (802) 253-9788. thexpressink.com.

PROPERTY MANAGEMENT LOOMIS PROPERTY SERVICES Providing all aspects of home and property care. Specializing in project management, landscaping, and year-round maintenance needs. We work hard to gain and maintain your trust.

(802) 881-8738, loomispropertyservices.com.

STOWE COUNTRY HOMES Property management, maintenance, repair, and renovations specialists. Lawn and garden care, landscaping, trash removal, etc.

Renovations large and small. Quality work guaranteed—on budget and schedule. jeanette@stowecountryhomes.com, or (802) 2538132, ext. 102. stowecountryhomes.com/property management.

STOWE HOME CARE MAINTENANCE INC. Full-service property management. Snow plowing/removal, roofs, and walkways, lot and driveway sanding. Land clearing, driveway grading, trash pick-up, furniture moving, brush hogging, tree removal. (802) 888-7736, stowehomecaremaintenance.com, todd@stowehomecaremaintenance.com.

STOWE RESORT HOMES Personalized management for Stowe’s vacation homes. Home checks, personal shopping, remodeling project management, maintenance coordination, more. We also offer marketing and rental agent services for select vacation homes. (802) 760-1157. stoweresorthomes.com.

REAL ESTATE & RENTALS COLDWELL BANKER CARLSON REAL ESTATE Real estate sales and rentals, representing Stowe and surrounding communities. Our talented team leads the industry in technology, innovation, and passion. 25 Main Street, Stowe. (802) 253-7358. stowevermontrealestate.com.

MOUNTAIN ASSOCIATES REALTORS Bigger is not always better. We have chosen to remain small; allowing us to offer experienced representation, personalized service and a team approach to sales and rentals. (802) 2538518. mountainassociates.com.

RESTAURANT & NIGHTCLUBS THE BISTRO AT TEN ACRES Simply great, handmade, flavorful food. Craft beers, delicious wines, fresh-pressed cocktails. 1820s Vermont Farmhouse with bar seating, elegant dining rooms, fireside lounge, and beautiful views. Barrows and Luce Hill Roads, Stowe. tenacreslodge.com.

(802) 253-6838.

CACTUS CAFÉ Chef owned and operated. Great authentic Mexican entrées, in-house smoked specials, and our famous 16 oz. handmade margaritas. Awesome outside seating in our perennial garden.

Dinner nightly from 4:30. Over 34 different tequilas. 2160 Mountain Rd., Stowe. Reservations accepted. Family friendly.

(802) 253-7770.

CLIFF HOUSE RESTAURANT Opening in September, enjoy panoramic views atop Mt. Mansfield (3,625’), award-winning American cuisine with rustic Vermont flair, fresh seasonal, artisanal ingredients. Hand-selected wine list, tantalizing cocktails. Lunch daily, 11:30 a.m. - 3 p.m. Reservations: cliffhouse@stowe.com. stowe.com.

CROP BISTRO & BREWERY NEW ENGLAND LANDMARK REALTY A unique team approach to real estate marketing, sales, and rentals. Harnessing technology to create innovative strategies to maximize exposure for our clients. Offices in Stowe and Waterbury. (866) 324-2427. (802) 253-4711. nelandmark.com.

PALL SPERA COMPANY REALTORS Stowe and Lamoille County’s leading real-estate company serving Central and Northern Vermont from 3 offices and 24 hours a day at pallspera.com. Exclusive affiliate of Christie’s International Real Estate. (802) 253-9771, (802) 253-1806, (802) 888-1102.

SPRUCE PEAK AT STOWE Spruce Peak at Stowe, a year round alpine community that includes world-class skiing, golfing, fine dining, and spa services. Residences from $179,000. (877) 977-7823 or sprucepeak.com.

Bistro and brewery featuring American cuisine utilizing fresh local and regional ingredients, handcrafted ales and lagers made on premise. Innovative cocktails, spirits, wines, and local hard ciders. Mountain Road, Stowe. (802) 253-4765. cropvt.com.

DEPOT ST. MALT SHOP Moderately priced lunches and dinners. Kids’ menu. 1950s soda fountain atmosphere. Thick and creamy malts, frappes, sundaes, ice cream sodas, fresh Vermont beef burgers, sandwiches, homemade soups, take-out. Stowe Village. (802) 253-4269.

GOLDEN EAGLE COLONIAL CAFÉ Delicious breakfasts at reasonable prices in cozy country dining room. Start the day with fresh baked muffins, homemade breads, local eggs and pancakes with Vermont maple syrup.

Daily 7 a.m., 511 Mountain Road. (802) 253-4811. goldeneagleresort.com.

STOWE COUNTRY HOMES Vacation homes and condos for short- or long-term rental.

Professionally and locally managed. Luxury slopeside properties, secluded private homes, affordable condos—we have what you want, meeting all budgets. stowecountryhomes.com.

(802) 253-8132.

STOWE REALTY Stowe Realty is the leader in Stowe vacation rentals. By the season or by the weekend, from trailside condos and fine private homes to quaint cabins, we have the best selection and prices for Stowe rentals. 254 Mountain Road, Stowe. (802) 253-8484. stowerealtyrentals.com.

GRACIE’S RESTAURANT Serving certified black angus steaks, inspired seafood dishes, and great barbecue. Boyden Farm burgers and an array of salads. Gracie’s bakery produces all desserts, breads, and pastries. Children’s menu, reservations recommended, catering available. (802) 253-8741.

GREEN GODDESS CAFÉ Breakfast and lunch meals, sandwiches, paninis, wraps, soups— all made from scratch and in house. Famous custom salads with over 40 options. Homemade breads, baked goodies. Open daily. 618 S. Main St., Lower Village, Stowe. (802) 253-5255.

STOWE RED BARN REALTY A small boutique office of four professionals, each with a unique love of Vermont. 17 Towne Farm Lane on the Mountain Road, Stowe. We look forward to helping you fulfill your real estate sales and rental needs. stoweredbarnrealty.com.

(802) 253-4994.

STOWE RESORT HOMES Luxury vacation homes for the savvy traveler. Book some of Stowe’s best resort homes—online. Well-appointed, tastefully decorated homes at Topnotch, Spruce Peak, and throughout Stowe. (802) 760-1157. stoweresorthomes.com.

THE VILLAS AT TRAPP FAMILY LODGE Luxurious 3 bedroom villas available for purchase as fractional or whole ownership. Over 2,500 sq. ft. include a “lock-off” master suite, full gourmet kitchen, European-style decor and use of the lodge amenities. Nightly and weekly rentals also available. (800) 826-7000 or (802) 253-8511.

HARRISON’S RESTAURANT & BAR Located in historic Stowe Village. Serving seafood, steaks, burgers, and homemade desserts. Dinner nightly. Experience a local favorite in a cozy atmosphere. Reservations accepted.

(802) 253-7773.

HEN OF THE WOOD—WATERBURY Seasonal American food celebrating the farms of Vermont and the Northeast. Serving dinner 5-9 p.m. Tues.-Sat. 92 Stowe St. Waterbury. (802) 244-7300. henofthewood.com.

HOB KNOB RESTAURANT Specializing in certified Angus steaks, duck, and seafood served in an intimate setting. Family owned and operated.

Fireside dining with mountain views. Dinner served Thursday through Saturday. Private parties welcome. Reservations appreciated. (802) 253-8549. hobknobinn.com.

KIRKWOOD’S RESTAURANT AT STOWE COUNTRY CLUB Outdoor and indoor dining with mountain views and Stowe’s renowned golf course. Traditional American fare and a great place to relax, even if you’re not playing golf. Lunch daily, cocktails, and pub fare until dusk. (802) 253-3693. stowe.com.

MCCARTHY’S RESTAURANT / CATERING Delicious breakfasts and lunches. Soups, daily specials. Kids’ menu, low-calorie, low-carb offerings. Homemade muffins, pies etc. Gluten free bread, cappuccino, milkshakes, smoothies.

6:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Mountain Road, Stowe. (802) 253-8626.

MI CASA KITCHEN & BAR Fresh Mexican fare with a Vermont twist served in a fun, friendly atmosphere at the historic Butler House in the heart of Stowe Village. Bar, lounge, deck, group facilities… bocce court. Daily 11:30 a.m. - 10 p.m. 128 Main Street. (802) 253-5333. micasastowe.com.

MICHAEL’S ON THE HILL Farm-to-table European cuisine. Swiss chef owned. Restaurateur & Chef of the Year, Wine Spectator Award of Excellence, Best Chefs America, certified green restaurant. Bar, lounge, groups.

5 minutes from Stowe, Route 100, Waterbury Center.

(802) 244-7476. michaelsonthehill.com.

O’GRADY’S GRILL AND BAR Relax and enjoy Irish warmth, fresh, local comfort food, extensive beer/wine selection, convenient Mountain Road location.

Kids welcome, large parties easily accommodated, catering.

Open 7 days a week. 504 Mountain Road, Stowe.

(802) 253-8233. ogradysgrill.com.

PHOENIX TABLE AND BAR Dinner, lunch, weekend brunch. Seven days a week. Moderate pricing, full bar, vegetarian offerings, full handicap access.

(802) 253-2838, phoenixtableandbar.com.

PIECASSO PIZZERIA & LOUNGE A recently renovated cosmopolitan restaurant and bar, with game room and entertainment. A local favorite, voted a “Top 11 Slice in the Country” by travelandleisure.com. Creative entrées, craft beers, gluten-free menu, online ordering, takeout, delivery. (802) 253-4411. piecasso.com.

PIE IN THE SKY Italian family restaurant—from appetizers to desserts, featuring pasta and hand tossed, custom-made pizzas cooked to perfection in our wood-fired oven. Beer and wine. (802) 253-5100. pieintheskyvt.com.

THE PUB AT GREY FOX INN AND RESORT Join us by the fireplace for a drink. Full-service bar, domestic and international bottled beer, local microbrews, wines.

Appetizers, soups, salads, burgers, pub fare, dinner entrees, delectable desserts. Wed.-Sat. 5-9 p.m. 990 Mountain Rd., Stowe. (802) 253-8921. greyfoxinn.com.

RIMROCK’S MOUNTAIN TAVERN Dinner daily 4 - 10 p.m. Lunch Thurs.-Sun. Burgers, wings, tacos, sandwiches, more. Craft beer, full bar, kids menu, game room.

Stowe’s best sports venue. DJs Thurs.-Sat. 10 p.m. – close. 394 Mountain Road. (802) 253-9593. Events on Facebook. rimrocksmountaintavern.com.

THE ROOST & FLANNEL AT TOPNOTCH RESORT Choose from a new lobby bar and restaurant with awe-inspiring views and après attitude, or a warm, friendly bistro with open kitchen. Topnotch masterfully fuses contemporary fare and casual vibe into two superb gathering spots. (802) 253-6445. topnotchresort.com.

More restaurants l

219

S TOWE-SMUGGLERS’ BUSINESS DIRECTORY RUSTY NAIL NIGHTCLUB Are you ready to rock? Stowe’s favorite nightclub is back.

Area’s best bands and internationally known performers. Tasty pub fare, deck dining in season. Host birthdays, rehearsals, and corporate events. For show schedule and events: rustynailvt.com.

(802) 253-NAIL.

SUNSET GRILLE & TAP ROOM Serving a unique brand of Northern style southern barbecue with a side of sports. Barbecue, seafood, steaks, burgers. 30 TVs, six big screens, satellite system. Just off the beaten path.

Cottage Club Road, Stowe. (802) 253-9281. sunsetgrillevt.com.

RETIREMENT COMMUNITY SOLSTICE Elegant without being stuffy, Solstice features local artisaninspired cuisine made using farm-to-table produce, Vermont cheeses, and all-natural meats. Private wine-tastings and dining room for up to 16 guests are also available. 760-4735. solsticevermont.com. Reservations recommended.

STONEGRILL RESTAURANT & PUB Try our new heart healthy stone grilled meals or enjoy one of your American favorites. Open daily 6-9 p.m. Live entertainment weekly in our pub. Banquet room with wi-fi. Route 15, Morrisville. (802) 888-4242.

SUSHI YOSHI Experience the best in Chinese and Japanese cuisine. Eclectic menu with something for everyone. Have a great time with the entire family at Sushi Yoshi Chinese Gourmet Hibachi Steakhouse. Open daily. Outdoor seating. Call for free shuttle.

1128 Mountain Rd., Stowe. (802) 253-4135. sushistowe.com.

TANGLEWOODS Creative American cuisine featuring seafood and beef served in a renovated Vermont barn. Chef owned and operated since 1989. Dinner 5:30 to close, Tues.-Sun. Fireplace. Reservations.

(802) 244-7855. Guptil Rd., Waterbury. Near Ben & Jerry’s. tanglewoodsrestaurant.com.

TRAPP FAMILY LODGE — LOUNGE & DINING ROOM Seasonal menus reflecting both Austrian and Vermont traditions.

Open daily. Dining room: breakfast 7:30-10:30 a.m.; dinner 5:30-9 p.m. Reservations: (802) 253-5733. Lounge: lunch 11:30 a.m.-3 p.m.; tea 3:30-4:30 p.m.; dinner 5-9 p.m.; bar nightly until 11 p.m.; (802) 253-5734.

TRATTORIA LA FESTA Old-fashioned full-service family-style Italian restaurant. Wine Spectator best wine list. Great place to meet locals and celebrities, great music. Dinner 5 to close; closed on Sundays except on long weekends. Reservations: (802) 253-8480. trattoriastowe.com. trattorialafesta@stoweaccess.com.

VERMONT ALE HOUSE Craft beer bar within walking distance from Stowe Village. Hot roast beef, fried chicken, flatbreads, grilled wings, and salads.

Hand-crafted cocktails. Fireplace and library. 294 Mountain Road. (802) 253-6253. vermontalehouse.com.

WATERBURY DINING We are a village of uncommon flavors. Located ten miles from Stowe. Award-winning chefs, international flavors, and worldrenowned beers make Waterbury restaurants a must stop during your visit to Stowe. waterbury.org/site/page/dining.

WHIP BAR & GRILL Friendly, casual atmosphere with open grill and newly renovated patio dining with fire pit. Fresh seafood, hand-cut steaks, vegetarian specialties, children’s menu. Serving lunch and dinner daily, Sunday brunch. Located at the Green Mountain Inn. (802) 253-4400, ext 615, for reservations. thewhip.com.

RESTAURANTS & SPORTS BARS RIMROCKS Dinner daily 4 - 10 p.m. Lunch Thurs.-Sun. Burgers, wings, tacos, sandwiches, more. Craft beer, full bar, kids menu, game room. Stowe’s best sports venue. DJs Thurs.-Sat. 10 p.m. – close. 394 Mountain Road. (802) 253-9593. Events on Facebook. rimrocksmountaintavern.com.

220

COPLEY WOODLANDS Independent living in a supportive community. Spacious retirement condos with leasing or ownership options available for adults 55+. Copley Woodlands, 125 Thomas Lane, Stowe.

(802) 253-7200. copleywoodlands.com.

CAMBRIDGE ARTS COUNCIL Festival of the Arts: Aug. 9, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m., on Main Street in Jeffersonville. Vermont artists, live music, children’s art activities, food, and drink. Something for everyone. Rain or shine. More info: (802) 644-1960 or cambridgeartsvt.org.

COLD HOLLOW CIDER MILL Watch our old-fashioned rack-and-cloth press at work during a self-guided tour with free cider samples. Fresh bakery, live observation beehive, Vermont maple products. Manufacturing hours change with seasons. Route 100, Waterbury.

(800) 3-APPLES. coldhollow.com.

ECHO LAKE AQUARIUM & SCIENCE CENTER WAKE ROBIN A vibrant non-profit life-care community located on 136 acres just south of Burlington in Shelburne, Vt. Residents enjoy independent living in cottages and apartments and comprehensive, on-site health care for life. wakerobin.com, (802) 264-5100.

SEPTIC SERVICE HARTIGAN COMPANY SEPTIC SERVICE Septic tank pumping, portable toilets, grease trap, and tank pumping. Pump station repair, TV camera inspection, culvert and catch basin cleaning, line jetting, frozen line thawing.

(802) 253-0376, (800) 696-0761. hartigancompany.com.

Discover 70 live species, 100+ interactive experiences, changing and permanent exhibits, and seasonal events—all exploring the ecology, culture, history, and opportunity for stewardship of the Lake Champlain Basin. On the Burlington waterfront.

(877) 324-6386. echovermont.org.

GONDOLA SKYRIDE This fall, take a ride to Vermont’s highest peak—Mt. Mansfield.

Opening in September, the eight-passenger Stowe gondola features incredible foliage views plus access to hiking trails and mountaintop dining at the Cliff House Restaurant. Call (802) 253-3000 or visit stowe.com.

GREENSBORO, VERMONT

SHOE STORES WELL HEELED Come see what the buzz is all about. A tempting assortment of designer shoes, boots, handbags, belts, clothing, and jewelry presented in a classic 1840s farmhouse. Open 7 days, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. (802) 253-6077. Mountain Road, Stowe. wellheeledstowe.com.

SPA THE SPA & WELLNESS CENTER AT STOWE MOUNTAIN LODGE Enjoy a healing lodge with sauna, herbal steam room, Jacuzzi, and cooling rain shower; full-service salon; 18 treatment rooms; full fitness center with heated outdoor pool and classes. 7604782. stowemountainlodge.com.

Visit beautiful Greensboro on Caspian Lake. Scenic 30-mile drive from Stowe, with shopping, swimming, sightseeing, arts, and events. Willey's Store, Miller's Thumb Gallery, Greensboro Arts Alliance, Circus Smirkus, Hazendale Organic Farm.

LITTLE RIVER HOTGLASS STUDIO A nationally recognized art glass studio with glass blowing demonstrations. Adjacent gallery features work of resident artist Michael Trimpol. Call for studio hours. (802) 253-0889. littleriverhotglass.com.

MONTSHIRE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE Award-winning science center know for its interactive exhibits, outstanding programs, Science Park with water features, and Woodland Garden, hosts A T. rex Named Sue, created by the Field Museum, Chicago, now through Sept. 7. Norwich, Vt. Daily 10 - 5. montshire.org.

TOPNOTCH SPA Consistently a top 10 spa, with 120 spa and salon services—for body, skin, fitness, beauty, peace. Treatments include full-day access to our secluded spa sanctuary, fitness center, his and hers spa lounges, indoor/outdoor pools. (802) 253-6463. topnotchresort.com.

SPECIAL ATTRACTIONS ARBORTREK CANOPY ADVENTURES, LLC Family-friendly, year-round treetop adventures including Vermont’s first “world-class” zipline canopy tour, new treetop obstacle course, and climbing program. Adventures from serene to extreme. Ages 4+, good health, max weight: 250 lbs.

Reservations recommended. (802) 644-9300. arbortrek.com.

AUTO TOLL ROAD Drive up Mt. Mansfield’s scenic 4 1/2 mile Toll Road. Park at 3,850-foot elevation and view scenery or hike summit ridge.

Located next to the Inn at the Mountain. Stowe Mountain Resort. (802) 253-3000. stowe.com.

BRAGG FARM SUGARHOUSE & GIFTS 8th generation sugarhouse, using traditional sugaring methods.

Free daily tours, walk through 2,000-acre maple woods.

World’s best maple creemees. Farm animals. Route 14N, East Montpelier. Near Cabot Creamery and Grandview Winery.

(802) 223-5757.

CABOT CREAMERY Come see where the taste of Cabot begins. Sample our awardwinning dairy products. Watch our informative video, take a guided tour. Browse around our store. Stock up on weekly specials. 40 minutes from Stowe. (800) 837-4261.

SPRUCE PEAK FARMERS MARKET Join us at Spruce Peak for our annual farmers market series, taking place each Friday from 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. from July 11 through August 29. Featuring the area’s freshest produce, along with Vermont’s finest artisan craft and food venders. Live music and free activities for the kids. (802) 253-3000, stowe.com.

SPRUCE PEAK PERFORMING ARTS CENTER You will enjoy “Peak Experiences” in this intimate and acoustically superior arts center with the best in music, dance, comedy, theater, film, Vermont artists presented every week, year-round.

(802) 760-4634 or sprucepeakarts.org.

STOWE FARMERS MARKET A central hub for farmers and artists every Sunday from midMay to mid-October. A diverse variety of agricultural products, exquisite handcrafts, music, delicious food. Picnic tables provided. (802) 498-4734, (802) 472-8027.

STOWE HISTORICAL SOCIETY & MUSEUM Preserving Stowe’s rich history. Visit the museum at the West Branch and Bloody Brook Schoolhouses, next to the Stowe Library in the village. Tuesday and Thursday, 2-5 p.m. Saturday 12-3 p.m. in summer, and when the flags are out. (802) 2531518. stowehistoricalsociety.org, info@stowehistoricalsociety.org.

STOWE MOUNTAIN RESORT SUMMER ADVENTURE CAMP Discover the mountains, forests, and streams of Mt. Mansfield, Spruce Peak, and Smugglers’ Notch. Hiking, swimming, rock climbing, extreme streaming, tennis, golf, geo-caching, field games. Ages 3-12. Open Mon.-Sat., rain or shine. 9 a.m. 3:30 p.m., June 15 to Aug. 31. (802) 253-3000 or stowe.com.

STOWE PERFORMING ARTS Founded in 1976, Stowe Performing Arts presents great music— classical, jazz, swing, pop, bluegrass, country, swing—in dramatic settings throughout the community. Noon Music in May, Music in the Meadow, and Gazebo Concerts, most of which are free. (802) 253-7792 or stoweperformingarts.com.

TILE DOWN EAST TILE The biggest little tile shop in New England. Tiles from around the world. Ceramic and stone tile; local artisans; custom natural stone countertops. Decorative tile our specialty. Cork, reclaimed stone flooring. Design services, installation supplies. Sylvan Park Road, Stowe. (802) 253-7001. downeasttile.com.

STOWE ROTARY’S 18TH OKTOBERFEST October 3-5, Mayo Events Field under the Big Tent. Silent auction, raffles, children’s activities, featuring Trapp’s Austrian lager, German food, Oompah bands, music, singing, and dancing. stoweoktoberfest.com.

STOWE SOARING & WHITCOMB AVIATION Imagine an ocean of sky. If you are looking for the ultimate tour of Vermont from the highest vantage point, come fly with us.

Glider rides for one or two. Route 100, Morrisville.

(802) 888-7845.

STOWE THEATRE GUILD Exciting 2014 summer/fall season opens June 19 with title of show, followed by On the Town, The Secret Garden, and ending with Kiss Me Kate. Tickets at stowetheatre.com or (802) 253-3961.

TUNBRIDGE WORLD’S FAIR Dedicated to family farm traditions and current trends all four days, with livestock shows, Antique Hill Museum, midway, entertainment. Located in the beautiful First Branch of the White River valley. Sept. 11-14. Tunbridge, Vt. tunbridgeworldsfair.com.

LEISURE WORLD Hard-to-find wines from around the world. Gift baskets, wine glasses, decanters, cheese trays and more. Open 7 days. Short drive from Stowe. 65 Northgate Plaza, Morrisville, (802) 8889222. leisureworldpool.com.

STOWE BEVERAGE Full-service wine, beer, liquor, mixers, snacks. Stowe’s best wine

TOURS & TOUR OPERATORS

selection. Best price in town on Vermont maple syrup. Cigars.

SOJOURN

Free local paper with wine purchases. 9-9 Monday through

Sojourn specializes in deluxe bicycling vacations in stunning locations throughout the U.S. and Canada. Premiere accommodations, fabulous tour leaders, unfailing attention to detail. the good life, by bike™. gosojourn.com.

Saturday; Sunday 11-6. (802) 253-4525.

WINERIES & DISTILLERIES BOYDEN VALLEY WINERY AND SPIRITS

TOYS & GAMES ONCE UPON A TIME TOYS Ever built an R/C dino, then heard it roar? Heard a singing skirt? Vermont’s most exciting toy store for 39 years.

Lego/Playmobil, Breyer, music boxes, science/building toys, balloons, party/art supplies. 1799 Mountain Rd., Red Barn Shops. (802) 253-8319. stowetoys.com.

Taste our award-winning wines, Vermont ice wines, hard ciders, and cream liqueurs. Free tours (11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m.) Open daily 10 a.m.-5 p.m. (802) 644-8151. boydenvalley.com or find us on Facebook.

FRESH TRACKS FARM VINEYARD & WINERY Award-winning wines from our 14 acres of cold-hardy grapevines. Please check out our website or call for tasting

TRANSPORTATION & TAXIS BLAZER TRANSPORTATION Stowe’s premier taxi service. Now with state-of-the-art GPS, satellite dispatching. Offering the best price in airport transfers.

Licensed and insured. Call anytime (802) 253-0013.

room, directions, and hours. 4373 VT Route 12, Berlin, VT. (802) 223-1151 or freshtracksfarm.com.

GRAND VIEW WINERY Vermont country wines: red/white grape, elderberry, raspberry, blueberry, rhubarb, and Mack Jack hard cider. Tasting/retail rooms at winery at Cold Hollow Cider Complex, Route 100,

VERMONT TEDDY BEAR FACTORY TOURS One of the most popular Vermont activities. Come and experience our store, take a factory tour and make your own bear.

6655 Shelburne Road, just south of Shelburne Village. (802) 985-3001. vermontteddybear.com.

VERMONT T-SHIRT COMPANY Hot off the press. Largest selection of Stowe and Vermont Tshirts or sweats made to order in less than a minute. 6.5 miles south of Stowe, Rt. 100. “Best prices in town.”

(802) 244-6240.

LAKE CHAMPLAIN FERRIES Three crossings on Lake Champlain: Grand Isle, VT, to Plattsburgh, NY, open 24/7; Burlington, VT to Port Kent, NY, open mid June – end of September; Charlotte, VT, to Essex, NY, open year round, ice conditions permitting. ferries.com, (802) 864-9804.

PEG’S PICK UP/STOWE TAXI For all your transportation needs. Airport, bus, train. (Burlington, Boston, Montréal, New York). Errands and deliveries. Daily courier runs to Burlington. Full taxi service. (802) 253-9490, (800) 370-9490, (800) 293-PEGS.

Waterbury Center. (802) 244-7012; winery off Rt. 14 East Calais. grandviewwinery.com.

SAXTONS RIVER DISTILLERY, LLC Sapling Vermont maple liquors are distinctly unique craft-made liquors (liqueur, bourbon, rye). New Perc Coffee Liqueur, made with Vermont roasted organic coffee. Hand-made in Brattleboro, Vt., using select local maple syrup. saplingliqueur.com.

SHELBURNE VINEYARD Taste our award-winning wines and enjoy touring our ecofriendly winery to learn about our adventure growing grapes

SPECIALTY FOODS CABOT ANNEX STORE A taste of Vermont tradition. Nibble our award-winning cheeses. Browse our beer and wine corner. Enjoy Vermont’s best specialty food products. Weekly specials. Awarded “Best Cheddar in the World.” Route 100, Waterbury Center, (802) 244-6334. cabotannex.com.

HARVEST MARKET Stowe’s one-stop gourmet store. Delicious salads, entrées, baked goods and breads—prepared by our own chefs and bakers. Specialty cheeses and meats. Espresso bar. Farm fresh produce. Great wine selection. Daily 7-7 (in season).

(802) 253-3800. harvestatstowe.com.

SPORTING GOODS POWER PLAY SPORTS The authentic small town sporting goods store that has everything. Ski and snowboard sales and service, rentals, backcountry, XC, snowshoes, hockey, bikes, lacrosse, and more. Open 7 days. 64 Portland Street, Morrisville. (802) 888-6557. powerplaysportsvt.com.

OUTDOOR GEAR EXCHANGE & GEARX.COM Locally owned since 1995, offering the area’s best prices, service, and selection of gear and clothing for camping, hiking, climbing, paddling, and a life lived outdoors. Open 7 days.

Burlington. (802) 860-0190.

SNOWFLAKE TAXI Stowe’s favorite taxi. Safe, clean, reliable service. 24 hour, 365 days a year. 4x4. Check out our new luxury 12-passenger van.

Airport shuttle. Local family business. (802) 253-7666. snowflaketaxi.com.

and making wine in Vermont’s northern climate. Open everyday 11-5. (802) 985-8222. shelburnevineyard.com.

SMUGGLERS’ NOTCH DISTILLERY Father/son artisan distillery. Hand-crafting unique award-win-

WEDDING FACILITIES TRAPP FAMILY LODGE

ning spirits: corn and winter wheat vodka, bourbon barrel rum, true-distilled gin, and straight bourbon whiskey. Shop open daily 1-5 p.m. 276 Main St., Jeffersonville. (802) 309-3077.

From intimate ceremonies in our lodge to grand receptions under a tent with spectacular mountain views, we tailor to individual tastes and budgets. European-style cuisine, accommodations. (800) 826-7000, (802) 253-8511. trappfamily.com.

smugglersnotchdistillery.com.

WHISTLEPIG WHISKEY Bon vivants agree: the greatest whiskey in the world is made from

WINE & BEER

100 percent rye, aged for ten years, and bottled by hand on our

CRAFT BEER CELLAR

farm in Shoreham. Ask your bartender. whistlepigwhiskey.com.

Extensive beer selection from all over. Eight rotating taps for Growlers, specializing in local breweries. Full-service home brew section. Weekly classes and tastings. Knowledgeable customer service. Waterbury. 882-8034. craftbeercellar.com/waterbury.

YOGA & PILATES OXYGEN A refreshing boutique and fitness studio catering to your unique

FINE WINE CELLARS Fantastic wine selections from around the world. Great prices.

From the rare to the exceptional value. Under $10-$100+ we’re nuts about wine. Please see our ad on page 2. (802) 253-2630. finewinecellars.us.

HARVEST MARKET Great wine selection from Cabernet to Viognier, California, Italy, Argentina, Australia, and more. Local Vermont beers.

Weekly specials. Daily 7-7 (in season). (802) 253-3800. harvestatstowe.com.

lifestyle. Indulge in an array of yoga and Pilates classes taught

by Vermont’s most renowned teachers, then step into our boutique and discover something wonderful for yourself. 512 Mountain Road. (802) 253-5655. oxygenvt.com.

STOWE YOGA CENTER Gentle multi-level classes include guided meditation. Special series: prenatal, mom-baby, senior chair, couples, chakras. Dropins $15, private $60. Class cards and mats available. Online schedule. 515 Moscow Rd. (802) 253-8427, stoweyoga.com.

221

INDEX

TO

DISPL AY ADVERTISING

AIR TAXI MANSFIELD HELIFLIGHT

CHOCOLATE 70

ADULT NOVELTIES GOOD STUFF

122 108

ARCHITECTS ANDREW VOLANSKY BIRDSEYE ARCHITECTURE HARRY HUNT ARCHITECTS J. GRAHAM GOLDSMITH, ARCHITECTS LEE HUNTER ARCHITECT, AIA MGA MARCUS GLEYSTEEN ARCHITECTS PAUL ROBERT ROUSSELLE, ARCHITECT AIA TEKTONIKA STUDIO ARCHITECTS TRUEXCULLINS ARCHITECTURE & INTERIORS

181 208 210 185 211 189 209 197 199

108 103 115 121 109 71 105 107 101

THE BAGEL BLACK CAP COFFEE HARVEST MARKET

175 172 169

DELICATESSEN THE BAGEL EDELWEISS

175 158

DENTISTRY STOWE FAMILY DENTISTRY

204

DOGSLED TOURS EDEN DOGSLEDDING

67

131 136

EDUCATION & COLLEGE

199

FISHING & HUNTING

COLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE JOHNSON STATE COLLEGE

CATAMOUNT FISHING ADVENTURES FLY ROD SHOP

BAKERIES HARVEST MARKET TRAPP FAMILY LODGE—DELIBAKERY

169 161

67 55

FITNESS EQUIPMENT PERSONAL FITNESS INTERIORS

63

BATH & HARDWARE CLOSE TO HOME

190

FLOORING FLOORING AMERICA PLANET HARDWOOD

BIKES & FITNESS EQUIPMENT AJ’S SKI & SPORTS EARL’S CYCLERY & FITNESS NORDIC BARN SKIERSHOP

13 55 29 19

191 215

BREWERIES 143 150 157

BOURNES ENERGY

207

185 204 201 195 205 197 209

BUILDING MATERIALS ALLEN KITCHEN & BATH COUNTRY HOME CENTER LOEWEN WINDOW CENTER OF VT & NH PARKER & STEARNS

222

17

HOME ENTERTAINMENT & SMART HOMES VERMONT ELECTRONICS

187

VERMONT ICELANDIC HORSE FARM

52

HOUSEKEEPING STOWE COUNTRY HOMES

199

ICE CREAM I.C. SCOOPS

159

HOOKER’S FURNITURE 203 INSIDE OUT GALLERY 109 WENDELL’S FURNITURE & VERMONT BED STORE 179

INSIDE OUT GALLERY RED BARN SHOPS SAMARA CARDS & GIFTS STOWE CRAFT GALLERY STOWE KITCHEN BATH & LINENS STOWE MERCANTILE STOWE STREET EMPORIUM TRAPP FAMILY LODGE SPORT & GIFTS

BUTLER HOUSE, STOWE 155 COMMODORES INN 156 GREEN MOUNTAIN INN 155 HOB KNOB INN & RESTAURANT 148 1 INN AT THE MOUNTAIN AND CONDOS 27 JAY PEAK RESORT 158 SMUGGLERS’ NOTCH RESORT 5 STERLING RIDGE & LOG CABINS INSIDE BACK STOWEFLAKE MOUNTAIN RESORT STOWE INN 156 SUNSET MOTOR INN 173 TOPNOTCH RESORT & SPA 31 TRAPP FAMILY LODGE 157 VILLAGE GREEN AT STOWE BACK COVER

DESIGN STUDIO OF STOWE SELDOM SCENE INTERIORS INC. STOWE CRAFT DESIGN CENTER WINDOW PRO OF VERMONT, INC.

109 43 43 109, 123 123 49 112 157

215 3 109, 123 210

JEWELRY FERRO JEWELERS 2 GREEN ENVY 10, 111 GREEN MOUNTAIN COINS & ESTATE JEWELRY 133 INSIDE OUT GALLERY 109 STOWE GEMS 7

KITCHENS & BATHS 206

KNITTING & YARN SHOPS 117

LANDSCAPE DESIGN CYNTHIA KNAUF LANDSCAPE DESIGN LANDSHAPES WAGNER HODGSON LANDSCAPE ARCH WALPOLE WOODWORKERS

191 205 177 187

LAWYERS LEIGHTON C. DETORA, ATTORNEY STEVENS LAW OFFICE

204 206

LIGHTING AUTHENTIC DESIGNS BARRE ELECTRIC & LIGHTING SUPPLY, INC. CONANT METAL & LIGHT

206 208 203

GOLF - MINIATURE 195 178 207 215

STOWE GOLF PARK

59

GRANITE COUNTERTOPS BURLINGTON MARBLE AND GRANITE

135

HAIR SALONS

CANOES & KAYAKS BERT’S BOATS UMIAK OUTDOOR OUTFITTERS VERMONT CANOE & KAYAK

SWIMMING HOLE

KNITTING STUDIO

GIFT & SPECIALTY SHOPS BUILDERS & CONTRACTORS BEACON HILL BUILDERS GEOBARNS GORDON DIXON CONSTRUCTION, INC. MANSFIELD CUSTOM HOMES SISLER BUILDERS INC. STEEL CONSTRUCTION, INC. TIM MEEHAN BUILDERS

HEALTH CLUBS & SPAS

BARRE TILE

FUEL FURNITURE

CROP BISTRO & BREWERY MAGIC HAT BREWERY & ARTIFACTORY TRAPP FAMILY LODGE

183

INTERIOR DESIGN & DECORATING 65 45

ATELIER ROSELLE HOME

STOWE FAMILY PRACTICE

HORSEBACK RIDING 127 137 125 104 125 115 11 43

ART SUPPLIES THE ART STORE THE STUDIO STORE

217

HEALTH CARE 121 138 43 117 131 10, 111 113

COFFEE HOUSES 181

ART GALLERIES BRYAN MEMORIAL GALLERY GREEN MOUNTAIN FINE ART GALLERY GREEN MOUNTAIN GLAZE HELEN DAY ART CENTER INSIDE OUT GALLERY MILLER’S THUMB GALLERY ROBERT PAUL GALLERIES VISIONS OF VERMONT WEST BRANCH GALLERY & SCULPTURE PARK

BOUTIQUE CREATIVE CONSIGNMENTS DECISIONS DECISIONS ESSEX OUTLETS & CINEMA FORGET ME NOT SHOP GREEN ENVY IN COMPANY JOHNSON HARDWARE RENTAL, FARM & GARDEN JOHNSON WOOLEN MILLS LENNY’S SHOE AND APPAREL OXYGEN PRET-A-PORTER WELL HEELED WINTERFELL YELLOW TURTLE

STOWE HARDWARE & DRY GOODS

INNS & RESORTS

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNERS CUSHMAN DESIGN GROUP INC.

HARDWARE 133

CLOTHING & ACCESSORIES 136

ANTIQUES M. LEWIS ANTIQUES SMUGGLERS’ NOTCH ANTIQUES

LAKE CHAMPLAIN CHOCOLATES

61 51 5

LUSH SALON & BOUTIQUE SALON SALON STYLES HAIR SALON

MARKETS HARVEST MARKET HAZENDALE ORGANIC FARM WILLEY’S STORE

169 71 71

MASSAGE & BODYWORK 104 139 137

KATE GRAVES, CMT, BHS STOWE VILLAGE MASSAGE TRAPP FAMILY LODGE FITNESS CENTER

45 33 157

LOCAL CHURCHES NEEDLEWORK THE WOODEN NEEDLE

SHOE STORES 139

NURSERIES & GARDEN CENTERS PERENNIAL PLEASURES

115

THE SPA & WELLNESS CENTER AT STOWE MOUNTAIN LODGE TOPNOTCH SPA

Cambridge United Church, Main St., 35 31

16

SPECIAL ATTRACTIONS PHOTOGRAPHY PAUL ROGERS PHOTOGRAPHY

10

PHYSICAL THERAPY PINNACLE PHYSICAL THERAPY, INC.

52

PIZZA PIECASSO PIZZERIA & LOUNGE

141

POOLS & SPAS LEISURE WORLD POOL WORLD

189 178

PROPERTY MANAGEMENT LOOMIS PROPERTY SERVICES STOWE COUNTRY HOMES STOWE HOME CARE MAINTENANCE INC. STOWE RESORT HOMES

206 199 211 15

REAL ESTATE & RENTALS COLDWELL BANKER CARLSON REAL ESTATE 209 INSIDE FRONT COVER SPRUCE PEAK AT STOWE STOWE COUNTRY HOMES 199 STOWE REALTY 9 STOWE RED BARN REALTY 201 STOWE RESORT HOMES 15 THE VILLAS AT TRAPP FAMILY LODGE 157

THE BAGEL 175 THE BISTRO AT TEN ACRES 145 CACTUS CAFÉ 154 CAFE PROVENCE AT BLUSH HILL 147 CROP BISTRO & BREWERY 143 DEPOT ST. MALT SHOP 175 GREEN GODDESS CAFÉ 161 HARRISON’S RESTAURANT & BAR 173 HEN OF THE WOOD 146, 152 HOB KNOB RESTAURANT 148 MAXI’S 146 MCCARTHY’S RESTAURANT / CATERING 174 MI CASA KITCHEN & BAR 155 MICHAEL’S ON THE HILL 69, 147 O’GRADY’S GRILL AND BAR 149 PHOENIX TABLE & BAR 152 PIECASSO PIZZERIA & LOUNGE 141 PIE IN THE SKY 148 PROHIBITION PIG 146 PUB AT GREY FOX INN 172 RESERVOIR RESTAURANT & TAP ROOM 147 RIMROCK’S MOUNTAIN TAVERN 171 THE ROOST & FLANNEL AT TOPNOTCH RESORT 31 RUSTY NAIL NIGHTCLUB 151 SOLSTICE 35 STONEGRILL RESTAURANT & PUB 173 SUSHI YOSHI 153 TANGLEWOODS 150 TRAPP FAMILY LODGE — LOUNGE & DINING ROOM 161 VERMONT ALE HOUSE 153 WATERBURY DINING 146, 147 WHIP BAR & GRILL 167

RESTAURANTS & SPORTS BARS 171 173

RETIREMENT COMMUNITY WAKE ROBIN

135

57 25 1 142 47 71 47 26 1 71 71 127 26 25 119 25 65 21 23 67 24 24 63 138

644-5564

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Johnson, 635-2009 Church of Jesus Christ, Johnson, 635-2009 Church of the Nazarene, Johnson, 635-2988

Cornerstone Four Square Church, Morrisville, 888-5683

Elmore United Methodist Church, Elmore, 888-3247

First Congregational Church of Christ, Morrisville, 888-2225

Grace Bible Church, Stowe, 253-4731 Holy Cross Catholic Church, Morrisville, 888-3318

Hunger Mountain Christian Assembly, Waterbury Center, 244-5921

Jehovah’s Witnesses, Jeffersonville, 644-5322; Morrisville, 888-5610

Jewish Community of Greater Stowe, SPECIALTY FOODS CABOT ANNEX HARVEST MARKET

RESTAURANT & NIGHTCLUBS

RIMROCKS SUNSET GRILLE & TAP ROOM

ARBORTREK CANOPY ADVENTURES, LLC ART ON PARK AUTO TOLL ROAD BRAGG FARM SUGARHOUSE CABOT CREAMERY CIRCUS SMIRKUS COLD HOLLOW CIDER MILL ECHO LAKE AQUARIUM & MUSEUM GONDOLA SKYRIDE GREENSBORO ARTS ALLIANCE GREENSBORO, VERMONT LITTLE RIVER HOTGLASS STUDIO MONTSHIRE MUSUEM OF SCIENCE SPRUCE PEAK FARMERS MARKET SPRUCE PEAK PERFORMING ARTS CENTER STOWE FARMERS MARKET STOWE HISTORICAL SOCIETY & MUSEUM STOWE PERFORMING ARTS STOWE ROTARY OKTOBERFEST STOWE SOARING STOWE THEATRE GUILD TUNBRIDGE WORLD’S FAIR VERMONT TEDDY BEAR FACTORY TOURS VERMONT T-SHIRT CO.

Advent Christian, Morrisville, 888-4633 Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church, Stowe, 253-7536

SPA 213

OPTOMETRY DR. ROBERT BAUMAN & ASSOCIATES

WELL HEELED

122 169

SPORTING GOODS OUTDOOR GEAR EXCHANGE

63

Morrisville, 888-4730

TILE DOWN EAST TILE

253-1800

Morrisville Baptist Church, 888-5276 Mountain Chapel, Stowe, 644-8144 New Beginning Miracle Fellowship,

213

Puffer United Methodist Church, Morrisville, 888-2248

TOURS & TOUR OPERATORS SOJOURN

41

Second Congregational Church, Hyde

43

Seventh-Day Adventist, Morrisville,

Park, 888-3636; Jeffersonville, 644-5533 TOYS & GAMES TOY STORE/ONCE UPON A TIME TOYS

888-7884 TRANSPORTATION & TAXIS LAKE CHAMPLAIN FERRIES SNOWFLAKE TAXI

63 52

157

147 174 2 169 189 43 159

644-5073

St. Teresa’s Parish Center, Morrisville, 888-2761

Stowe Community Church, 253-7257 Trinity Assembly of God, Hyde Park, 888-7326

WINERIES & SPIRITS BOYDEN VALLEY WINERY AND SPIRITS FRESH TRACKS FARM VINEYARD & WINERY GRAND VIEW WINERY SAXTON’S RIVER DISTILLERY SHELBURNE VINEYARD SMUGGLERS’ NOTCH DISTILLERY WHISTLEPIG WHISKEY

635-7817

St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Cambridge,

WINE & BEVERAGES ALCHEMIST CRAFT BEER CELLAR FINE WINE CELLARS HARVEST MARKET LEISURE WORLD MOUNTAIN CHEESE & WINE STOWE BEVERAGE

Stowe, 253-7578

St. John’s the Apostles Church, Johnson,

WEDDING FACILITIES TRAPP FAMILY LODGE

St. John’s in the Mountains Episcopal,

51 154 157 160 160 65 160

Unitarian Universalist Fellowhip,

104 45

Waterbury Center Standard Church,

Stowe, 595-0807

United Church of Johnson, 635-7249 Waterbury Alliance Church, 244-6463 Waterbury Center Community Church, 244-6286

YOGA & PILATES OXYGEN STOWE YOGA CENTER

244-6345

Wesley United Methodist Church, Waterbury, 244-6677 223

INDEX 13 AJ’S SKI & SPORTS ALCHEMIST 147 195 ALLEN’S KITCHEN & BATH ARBORTREK CANOPY ADVENTURES 57 25 ART ON PARK IN STOWE ART STORE 131 206 AUTHENTIC DESIGNS BAGEL 175 208 BARRE ELECTRIC & LIGHTING SUPPLY BARRE TILE 206 16 DR. ROBERT C. BAUMAN ASSOCIATES BEACON HILL BUILDERS & ASSOCIATES 185 61 BERT’S BOATS CANOE & KAYAK TOURS BIRDSEYE ARCHITECTURE 208 145 BISTRO AT TEN ACRES BLACK CAP COFFEE 172 207 BOURNE’S ENERGY BOUTIQUE 121 51 BOYDEN VALLEY WINERY BRAGG FARM SUGARHOUSE 142 108 BRYAN MEMORIAL GALLERY BURLINGTON MARBLE & GRANITE 135 155 BUTLER HOUSE CABOT ANNEX STORE 122 47 CABOT CREAMERY VISITORS CENTER CACTUS CAFÉ 154 CAFE PROVENCE ON BLUSH HILL 147 CATAMOUNT FISHING ADVENTURES 67 71 CIRCUS SMIRKUS CLOSE TO HOME 190 COLD HOLLOW CIDER MILL 47 COLDWELL BANKER CARLSON REAL ESTATE 209 COLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE 65 COMMODORES INN 156 CONANT METAL & LIGHT 203 COUNTRY HOME CENTER 178 CRAFT BEER CELLAR 174 CREATIVE CONSIGNMENTS 138 CROP BISTRO & BREWERY 143 CUSHMAN DESIGN GROUP 181 CYNTHIA KNAUF LANDSCAPE DESIGN 191 DECISIONS, DECISIONS 43 DEPOT STREET MALT SHOPPE 175 DESIGN STUDIO OF STOWE 215 DOWN EAST TILE 213 EARL’S CYCLERY & FITNESS 55 ECHO LAKE AQUARIUM & SCIENCE CENTER 26 EDELWEISS MOUNTAIN DELI 158 EDEN DOG SLEDDING 67 ESSEX SHOPPES & CINEMA 117 FERRO ESTATE & CUSTOM JEWELERS 2 FINE WINE CELLARS 2 FLOORING AMERICA 191 FLY ROD SHOP 55 FORGET-ME-NOT-SHOP 131 FRESH TRACKS FARM 154 GEOBARNS 204 GOOD STUFF 136 GORDON DIXON CONSTRUCTION 201 GRAND VIEW WINERY 157 GREEN ENVY BOUTIQUE 10, 111 GREEN GODDESS CAFÉ 161 GREEN MOUNTAIN COIN & JEWELRY 133 GREEN MOUNTAIN FINE ART GALLERY 103 GREEN MOUNTAIN GLAZE 115 GREEN MOUNTAIN INN 155, 167 GREENSBORO ARTS ALLIANCE & RESIDENCY 71 GREENSBORO, VERMONT 71 HARRISON’S RESTAURANT & BAR 173 HARRY HUNT ARCHITECTS 210 HARVEST MARKET 169 HAZENDALE ORGANIC FARM 71 HELEN DAY ART CENTER 121 HEN OF THE WOOD RESTAURANT 146, 152

224

TO

ADVERTISERS

148 HOB KNOB INN & RESTAURANT HOOKER’S FURNITURE 203 159 I.C. SCOOPS IN COMPANY CLOTHING 113 109 INSIDE OUT GALLERY J. GRAHAM GOLDSMITH ARCHITECTS 185 27 JAY PEAK VERMONT JOHNSON HARDWARE RENTAL, FARM & GARDEN 127 45 JOHNSON STATE COLLEGE JOHNSON WOOLEN MILLS 137 45 KATHERINE GRAVES BODYWORK THERAPIST KNITTING STUDIO 117 133 LAKE CHAMPLAIN CHOCOLATES LAKE CHAMPLAIN FERRIES 63 205 LANDSHAPES LEE HUNTER ARCHITECT 211 204 LEIGHTON C. DETORA, ATTORNEY LEISURE WORLD POOLS & SPAS 189 125 LENNY’S SHOE & APPAREL LITTLE RIVER HOTGLASS STUDIO & GALLERY 127 207 LOEWEN WINDOW CENTER OF VT & NH LOOMIS PROPERTY SERVICES 206 104 LUSH SALON & BOUTIQUE M. LEWIS ANTIQUES 122 150 MAGIC HAT BREWERY & ARTIFACTORY MANSFIELD CUSTOM HOMES 195 MANSFIELD HELIFLIGHT 70 MARCUS GLEYSTEEN ARHICTECTS 189 146 MAXI’S MCCARTHY’S RESTAURANT & CATERING 174 MI CASA KITCHEN & BAR 155 MICHAEL’S ON THE HILL 69, 147 MILLER’S THUMB GALLERY 71 MONTSHIRE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE 26 MOUNTAIN CHEESE & WINE 43 MUSIC IN THE MEADOW 21 NORDIC BARN 29 O’GRADY’S GRILL & BAR 149 OUTDOOR GEAR EXCHANGE & GEARX.COM 63 OXYGEN 104 PARKER & STEARNS 215 PAUL ROBERT ROUSSELLE ARCHITECT 209 PAUL ROGERS PHOTOGRAPHY 10 PERENNIAL PLEASURES NURSERY & TEA GARDEN 213 PERSONAL FITNESS INTERIORS 63 PHOENIX TABLE & BAR 152 PIECASSO PIZZERIA & LOUNGE 141 PIE IN THE SKY PIZZA 148 PINNACLE PHYSICAL THERAPY 52 PLANET HARDWOOD 215 POOL WORLD 178 PRET-A-PORTER 125 PROHIBITION PIG 146 PUB AT GREY FOX INN 172 RED BARN SHOPS 43 RESERVOIR RESTAURANT & TAPROOM 147 RIMROCK’S MOUNTAIN TAVERN 171 ROBERT PAUL GALLERIES 105 ROSELLE HOME 199 RUSTY NAIL 151 SALON SALON 139 SAMARA CARD & GIFTS 43 SAXTON’S RIVER DISTILLERY 160 SELDOM SCENE INTERIORS 3 SHELBURNE VINEYARD 160 SISLER BUILDERS 205 SKIERSHOP 19 SMUGGLER’S NOTCH ANTIQUES 108 SMUGGLERS’ NOTCH DISTILLERY 65 SMUGGLERS’ NOTCH RESORT 158 SNOWFLAKE TAXI 52 SOJOURN BICYCLING & ACTIVE VACATIONS 41 SOLSTICE 35 SPRUCE PEAK AT STOWE INSIDE FRONT

25 SPRUCE PEAK FARMERS MARKET 119 SPRUCE PEAK PERFORMING ARTS CENTER STEEL CONSTRUCTION 197 5 STERLING RIDGE RESORT 206 STEVENS LAW OFFICE STONEGRILL RESTAURANT & PUB 173 STOVE & FLAG WORKS 171 159 STOWE BEVERAGE & LIQUOR STORE 199 STOWE COUNTRY HOMES STOWE CRAFT GALLERY & DESIGN CENTER 109, 123 204 STOWE FAMILY DENTISTRY 183 STOWE FAMILY PRACTICE STOWE FARMERS MARKET 25 STOWE GEMS 7 59 STOWE GOLF PARK STOWE HARDWARE & DRY GOODS 217 STOWE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 65 211 STOWE HOME CARE MAINTENANCE 156 STOWE INN STOWE KITCHEN BATH & LINENS 123 STOWE MERCANTILE 49 STOWE MOUNTAIN LODGE 35 1 STOWE MOUNTAIN RESORT STOWE PERFORMING ARTS 21 STOWE REALTY 9 201 STOWE RED BARN REALTY 15 STOWE RESORT HOMES STOWE ROTARY OKTOBERFEST 23 STOWE SOARING & WHITCOMB AVIATION 67 STOWE STREET EMPORIUM 112 STOWE THEATRE GUILD 24 STOWE VILLAGE MASSAGE 33 STOWE YOGA CENTER 45 STOWEFLAKE RESORT INSIDE BACK STUDIO STORE 136 STYLES HAIR SALON 137 SUNSET GRILLE & TAP ROOM 173 SUNSET MOTOR INN 173 SUSHI YOSHI 153 SWIMMING HOLE 17 TANGLEWOODS 150 TEKTONIKA STUDIO ARCHITECTS 197 TIM MEEHAN BUILDERS 209 TOPNOTCH RESORT & SPA 31 TOY STORE/ONCE UPON A TIME 43 TRAPP FAMILY LODGE 157, 161 TRAVEL THE KINGDOM 33 TRUEX CULLINS ARCHITECTURE 199 TUNBRIDGE WORLD’S FAIR 24 UMIAK OUTDOOR OUTFITTERS 51 VERMONT ALE HOUSE 153 VERMONT BED STORE 179 VERMONT CANOE & KAYAK 5 VERMONT ELECTRONICS 187 VERMONT ICELANDIC ADVENTURES 52 VERMONT TEDDY FACTORY 63 VERMONT T-SHIRT CO 138 VILLAGE GREEN AT STOWE BACK COVER VISIONS OF VERMONT 107 WAGNER HODGSON LANDSCAPE ARCH 177 WAKE ROBIN 135 WALPOLE WOODWORKERS 187 WATERBURY RESTAURANTS 146, 147 WELL HEELED 115 WENDELL’S FURNITURE 179 WEST BRANCH GALLERY & SCULPTURE PARK 101 WHIP BAR & GRILL 167 WHISTLEPIG WHISKEY 160 WILLEY’S STORE 71 WINDOW PRO OF VERMONT 210 WINTERFELL 11 WOODEN NEEDLE 139 YELLOW TURTLE 43

THE HEART of Stowe Spa & Wellness Center at Stoweflake

• Vermont’s most awardwinning spa • Over 150 treatments • Aqua Solarium with cascading waterfalls • Full service salon • Private men and women’s sanctuaries • Day access pass available

• 5 fitness studios with daily classes • Indoor and outdoor heated pools • Sauna, steam, jacuzzi • Nine-hole par three golf course • Tennis, squash & racquetball court

Charlie B’s Pub & Restaurant

• Festive, fun atmosphere • Steak & Seafood • Spa cuisine • Vermont farm fresh food • 50 wines by the glass, 10 beers on tap

• Serving breakfast, lunch and dinner • Kid-friendly menu • Fireside dining • Live music in season • Deck dining • Air Conditioned

Stowe’s upscale, four-season resort featuring luxurious accommodations and 1,2, and 3 bedroom townhouses with spectacular mountain or garden views. Select room amenities include wet bar, fireplaces and Jacuzzis.

800-253-2232 802-253-7355 www.stoweflake.com

THE VILLAGE GREEN AT STOWE A Condominium Resort For All Seasons Offering affordable rentals for 2 nights or more

Our Town Homes Provide • Spacious 2 & 3 bedroom accommodations • Fully equipped kitchens • Fireplace • Cable TV • Majestic views from 40 acres of beautiful land, surrounded by the Stowe Country Club and Golf Course and Stowe’s award winning recreation path.

Amenities • 2 Pools (1 indoor) • Whirlpool Spa • Sauna • 2 Outdoor Tennis Courts • Recreation Center • Video Games • Ping Pong, Air Hockey and Pool Tables

1003 CAPE COD ROAD, STOWE, VERMONT 05672

802-253-9705 • 800-451-3297 Visit our website at www.vgasstowe.com for more info and rates