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Matt Dickerson: On film, fanatics and freezing fish; opening day!

Posted on April 9, 2014 |
By Matt Dickerson



I have a confession. I will make it in print (though out of shame I hope nobody actually reads my column this week): Now that I am older, every once in a while a thought crosses my mind that perhaps I won’t go fishing on opening day of trout season.

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Opening Day on the Champs Elysees; a poem for Karl Lindholm

Posted on April 3, 2014 |
By Gary Margolis



My friend, Karl, writes he’s sitting outside

with a jacket on at a cafe on the Champs

Elysees. Thinking of himself as Hemingway.

Imagining the words that strolled that street,

that Victory walked through its arches.

Karl speaks a Maine French that goes a long way

wherever he is. Which is everywhere

a city needs a friend to stop one of its citizens

to chat. Karl is well-known at home for chatting

all morning and afternoon, standing in front

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Sports column by Matt Dickerson: Appreciating baseball and the warmth of Arizona

Posted on March 26, 2014 |
By Matt Dickerson



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I am writing my column this week from Tucson, Ariz. I am here watching my son play baseball with the Middlebury College Panthers on their annual spring break trip. Ten games in eight days, with the final three against archrival Williams.

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Andy Kirkaldy: Baseball season is proof that spring is here

Posted on March 19, 2014 |
By Andy Kirkaldy



Although we in the Great White North are all still suffering through snow, ice and temperatures colder than an NFL owner’s heart, rumor has it that the first day of spring coincides with the publication date for this issue of the Independent.

My dogs, who these days often dig in their heels at the doorway in protest when asked to venture out into the frozen tundra, certainly don’t trust the calendar.

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Karl Lindholm: Checking in — Life in the rainforest, kids playing sports

Posted on March 12, 2014 |
By Karl Lindholm



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Editor’s note: Independent sports columnist Karl Lindholm is filing his reports this year from Yaounde, Cameroon, West Africa.

There I was, last Saturday morning, sitting in a small grove at the Rain Forest International School (RFIS), at an all-day girls’ soccer and boys’ basketball tournament. The day was hot and muggy, and I was glad to be in the shade.

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Matt Dickerson: Growing up Nordic

Posted on March 5, 2014 |
By Matt Dickerson



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Matt Dickerson: Gliding through a snowy wood

Posted on February 19, 2014 |
By Matt Dickerson



There is something about evergreens bent and laden under a thick quilt of fresh snow. Especially spruces and firs and hemlocks. To say it was a feeling of waiting would not be quite right. Waiting so often implies impatience. But the woods were not impatient. Rather it was a feeling of tranquility.

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Sports column by Peter Lindholm: Growing up with Middlebury hoops: Tigers, Panthers

Posted on February 12, 2014 |
By Peter Lindholm



Editor’s note: This week’s sports columnist is Peter Lindholm, whose dad, Karl, usually occupies this space. Peter spent this fall with his family in Cameroon, West Africa, and is now in his first week of classes at Middlebury College. He graduated from Middlebury Union High School last spring.

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Outdoor column by Matt Dickerson: Nostalgia and the power of fishing

Posted on February 6, 2014 |
By Matt Dickerson



I’ve recently been digging up old outdoor memories.

Some of it has to do with this pathetic winter. Pathetic in the amount of snow, that is. We’ve done fine with cold. Well enough with the cold, in fact, that news media are acting like it’s the coldest winter since Vermont was buried under a mile of glacier. Well enough that my wood supply is looking frighteningly low. Well enough that people are proclaiming an end to global warming, apparently forgetting that it was only two decades ago that sub-zero temperatures were routine in Vermont winters.

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Sports column by Andy Kirkaldy: The greatest Red Sox ever – here's one view

Posted on January 30, 2014 |
By Andy Kirkaldy



Recently, my eldest and I presented on the Boston Red Sox for the National Bank of Middlebury’s New Horizons club.

Kaitlyn handled two key jobs: the PowerPoint technology (with last-minute help from her mom and her sister when it turned out her laptop was not compatible with the bank’s technology and we called for the cavalry) and reminding me when I forgot to mention stuff during the presentation.

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