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Greg Dennis: A romantic life in song lyrics

Posted on December 11, 2013 |
By Greg Dennis



Step into this house, girl, and I’ll sing for you a song. I’ll tell you all about where I’ve been. It shouldn’t take too long.

I lived with the decent folks in the hills of old Vermont. Where what you do all day depends on what you want.

I took up with a woman there when I was just a kid, and I smile like the sun to think of the loving that we did. Yankee lady so good to me, Yankee lady, just a memory.

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Greg Dennis: Turning up the 'Summer Heat' on coal

Posted on August 8, 2013 |
By Greg Dennis



It’s an impossibly beautiful summer morning in Vermont — and I’m leaving the state on the last Saturday of July to go sit in a dirty church basement in Providence, R.I.

My travel takes me south through the mountain towns of Jamaica and Townshend along Route 30. There’s a farmer’s market along the way, and in another town they’re getting ready for a parade.

On the shortcut through Brattleboro I pass the old ski jump on the edge of town, near signs protesting a skateboard park.

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Between the Lines: Bob Dylan hiding in plain sight

Posted on July 25, 2013 |
By Greg Dennis



The Dylan tickets arrived in the mail a couple weeks before last Sunday’s show at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center. I’d spent a ridiculous amount of money to get the best seats.

Dylan is 72 and he’s been a smoker forever and survived a weird heart ailment. So if you’re a fan, you always have to wonder if the next Dylan show you see will be the last one.

And having seen him perform in hayfields, outdoor venues, and cavernous basketball arenas, I wanted just once to see him up close.

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Greg Dennis talks about cars: From Bug to C-Max

Posted on June 13, 2013 |
By Greg Dennis



We all remember that first car.

Mine was a 1970 VW Bug, bought at Weybridge Garage in 1974. The yellow paint was fading, and it already had 90,000 miles and several pounds of Vermont rust on it.

But it was a Bug for sale at a time when Bugs were so cool as to seem nearly a legal mandate for a young man in his early 20s.

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Between the Lines: Death, drugs dominated legislative debates

Posted on May 30, 2013 |
By Greg Dennis



Memories of the recently ended session of the Vermont Legislature have, for all but the politically addicted, faded with the late spring heat.

But it’s worth taking a quick look back at the session, which will be remembered for two landmark pieces of legislation that will touch many Vermonters.

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Between the Lines: When a man's fancy turns to lawn mowing

Posted on May 16, 2013 |
By Greg Dennis



Is it just me, or can springtime seem a little overwhelming?

I get the part about how green and warm and wonderful it is. I’m reveling in it.

Even my cat is juiced about spring.

When I wouldn’t let him out one recent morning, he launched himself from an open second-story window and landed on the stone patio, 15 feet below. I found him down there, no worse the wear for his Superman imitation, licking his paws and purring.

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Between the Lines: Farming Vermont for wind power

Posted on April 18, 2013 |
By Greg Dennis



Sometimes it seems like environmentalists have put themselves on such a state of red alert that we can’t see a good thing when it’s right in front of us.

We’re so used to fighting every inappropriate intrusion upon Mother Earth, that even the idea of using wind to provide electrical power can seem like a threat.

So when they could be organizing to support alternative energy sources such as wind farms, a few environmentalists have decided that because wind power, like any energy source, has some small drawbacks, wind is a bad idea altogether.

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Greg Dennis: In quary photos, Vermont rediscovered

Posted on April 4, 2013 |
By Greg Dennis



We are surrounded by marble and granite, so much so that we rarely give it a thought. Much of the state is made of the stuff, our mountains and courthouses and old inns.

Marble and granite are among our most famous exports. When we see TV images of the U.S. Supreme Court and the Lincoln and Jefferson memorials, we are looking at pieces of Vermont.

What happens, though, when we see the stone itself as art?

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Greg Dennis: Of pipelines and pie at town meeting

Posted on March 7, 2013 |
By Greg Dennis



Winston Churchill said of democracy that it is “the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.” That may also be a good description of Vermont town meeting.

Voters at town meeting are asked to make decisions through a process that can be imprecise, contentious, confusing and ill informed.

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Between the Lines: In D.C., climate voices for the future

Posted on February 21, 2013 |
By Greg Dennis



Most Americans have never joined a political demonstration.

That’s too bad. Because as I was reminded again last Sunday while joining yet another demonstration, it can be tons of fun.

The rally this time was “Forward on Climate,” a boisterous gathering in Washington, D.C., of 35,000 people, who called on President Obama to block the Keystone XL oil pipeline.

The future of the pipeline is up to Obama because it would cross the Canada-U.S. border to bring the dirtiest oil on the planet from Alberta to refineries in the southern U.S.

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