All Entries in the "Community and Arts Life" Category
Fund match offered in MacLaury event; 11th Annual Blue Flames concert, picnic in Weston
Donor offers to match at Open Garden Fundraiser An anonymous donor has offered to give $1,000 to the charitable efforts of Carol and Steve MacLaury should they reach $2,500 in donations at their event Sunday, Aug. 18. The event — an Open Garden Fundraiser to help fight cancer — will be held 3 to 7 […]
Left in Andover: A job stopped on a dime
By Susan Leader ©2019 Telegraph Publishing LLC In 1957 and 1958, I attended school up in Burlington for part of each school year. My dad had scored a job as an assistant librarian at the University of Vermont in late 1957, shortly after he recovered from his operation for a brain tumor. This was the […]
Community & Arts events: Aug. 17 – Aug. 21
For a full listing of upcoming events, click here for The Chester Telegraph Calendar. To find out how to become a Calendar Partner, email or call Cynthia Prairie at cprairie@chestertelegraph.org or 802-875-2703. To be included in events briefs, email Susan Lampe-Wilson at calendar@chestertelegraph.org. Photos welcome. No PDFs, please. Notices must be received by noon on […]
Chester Chatter: Our magical mystery tours
By Ruthie Douglas ©2019 Telegraph Publishing LLC When my daughter Jeanie was a little girl, she did not care to go shunpiking with me on the backroads of Vermont and New Hampshire. She was afraid that we would get lost and be unable to find our way back home. Now, as an adult, all that […]
Henry Homeyer: How to plant a tree
By Henry Homeyer ©2019 Telegraph Publishing LLC I recently planted a couple of blue spruce trees on a nice cloudy day, and want to share with you what I did. First, and most important, I checked the position of the trunk of the tree in the pot. In the wild you will notice that trees […]
Weston beekeepers open gardens to cancer cure fund-raiser More than 400 attend Chocolate, Cheese Fest in Chester
MacLaury fund-raiser in honor of grandson, brain cancer survivor Community members are invited to an Open Garden Fundraiser to help fight cancer from 3 to 7 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 18 at the MacLaury residence, 21 Turner Road in Weston. Carol and Steve MacLaury of Peabody Mountain Apiaries are known for their beekeeping prowess and […]
‘Always … Patsy Cline’ fine musical entertainment Seibert as Cline delivers amazing and effortless singing
By David Lampe-Wilson ©2019 Telegraph Publishing LLC Weston Playhouse at Walker Farm goes Country with Always … Patsy Cline, not so much a play as a two-volume tribute album of greatest hits. While the music is great and the vocals are stellar, Ted Swindley’s book for this jukebox jamboree is as emotionally empty as the […]
Community & Arts events: Aug. 9 – Aug. 14
For a full listing of upcoming events, click here for The Chester Telegraph Calendar. To find out how to become a Calendar Partner, email or call Cynthia Prairie at cprairie@chestertelegraph.org or 802-875-2703. To be included in events briefs, email Susan Lampe-Wilson at calendar@chestertelegraph.org. Photos welcome. No PDFs, please. Notices must be received by noon on […]
Left in Andover: Getting in touch with the earth
By Susan Leader ©2019 Telegraph Publishing LLC For me, summer on Popplewood Farm in 1958 meant forced labor. I detested the endless hoeing of weeds in my family’s large vegetable garden. There were, however, several limited compensations. When no one was watching, I dallied, catching grasshoppers to feed my kitty, who lolled in the grass, […]
Chester Chatter: When neighbors are like family
By Ruthie Douglas ©2019 Telegraph Publishing LLC Moving to the farm on Green Mountain Turnpike in 1957, I was surprised to learn that our nearest neighbors lived three-quarters of a mile away. They were John and Elise Edwards. Nicer neighbors there never were. Our families blended. Many people thought we were related. We spent a […]
Henry Homeyer: some of my favorite picks for pots
By Henry Homeyer ©2019 Telegraph Publishing LLC Each summer I fill a big window box with annual flowers and vines to welcome all who approach the house. Some years it is bodacious, other years it verges on ho-hum. This year it is a delight: in the center is a black-leafed sweet potato vine that is […]
Left in Andover: Bewitching water in the 1980s
By Susan Leader ©2019 Telegraph Publishing LLC Hard by the original cellar hole on the West Place – as our deed identifies the southern section of my family’s Popplewood Farm – is where my husband John Specker and I decided to build a “real” house, in 1988. We had dithered through the decade living in […]
Chester Chatter: Taking the roads less traveled
By Ruthie Douglas ©2019 Telegraph Publishing LLC In the sweet old Vermont countryside, it is time for shunpiking — a time to hit the back roads of rural Vermont, a time to kick up dust, gravel, stones and some rocks all to take in the beauty of the green, very green foliage, the hillside views […]
4-year-old coloring whiz donates winnings to Chester Recreation Dept.
Four-year-old Zander Hamilton of Chester has won a coloring contest held in June and sponsored by the Savings Bank of Walpole. For his efforts, Zander was recently awarded a check for $250 that he could donate to any non-profit organization that he wished. His choice? The Chester Recreation Dept. Danielle Ruffo, Walpole Bank’s community engagement […]
Community & Arts events: Aug. 3 – Aug. 7, 2019
For a full listing of upcoming events, click here for The Chester Telegraph Calendar. To find out how to become a Calendar Partner, email or call Cynthia Prairie at cprairie@chestertelegraph.org or 802-875-2703. To be included in events briefs, email Susan Lampe-Wilson at calendar@chestertelegraph.org. Photos welcome. No PDFs, please. Notices must be received by noon on […]
Henry Homeyer: July beauties in bloom
By Henry Homeyer ©2019 Telegraph Publishing LLC Every day in the warm months I take time to wander through my garden, often with camera in hand. I am always greeted by flowers in bloom that make my heart sing. Here are some blooming for me now, including a few you might not grow – or […]
Sicilian caponata elevates burgers
By Jim Bailey theyankeechef.blogspot.com Here is a great summertime burger I believe you will be making over and over again. Sicilian caponata is generally prepared with what culinary experts call Sicilian aubergine. But being a Yankee, it is simply eggplant. Sicilian preparation methods introduce a sweet and sour sauce as well, but I think that […]
Community & Arts events: July 26-July 28, 2019
For a full listing of upcoming events, click here for The Chester Telegraph Calendar. To find out how to become a Calendar Partner, email or call Cynthia Prairie at cprairie@chestertelegraph.org or 802-875-2703. To be included in events briefs, email Susan Lampe-Wilson at calendar@chestertelegraph.org. Photos welcome. No PDFs, please. Notices must be received by noon on […]
New ‘Oklahoma!’ saved from quaint old self
By David Lampe-Wilson ©2019 Telegraph Publishing LLC Rodgers and Hammerstein’s first musical together was Oklahoma!, a celebration of America as seen through the transformation of the Oklahoma Territory into our 46th state. As staged at Weston Playhouse, Oklahoma!, is less an historic marker than a call for inclusion in our current socially fractured times. This […]
Left in Andover: Big house, little house, book barn
By Susan Leader ©2019 Telegraph Publishing LLC Until I came across Thomas C. Hubka’s transformational book Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn, I assumed that the purpose of our Popplewood Farm “little house,” as we called the honey room, and breezeway was just to make it easy to get to the barn in the […]
