Winter’s Bone,” Debra Granik’s 2010 four-time Academy Award-nominated rural film noir, won multiple awards and it introduced the larger world to fast-rising star, Jennifer Lawrence, who plays teenage, poverty-stricken Ree Dolly in the neglected rural Ozarks of Missouri.
When federal agents descended on a dairy farm in Franklin County this Monday, they arrested eight migrant workers. Vermont farms employs about 850 year-round migrant farmworkers — all crucial to the state’s dairy industry.
I implore you — my neighbors — to show up for each other in whatever way you can and to avoid judging others because they may not choose to engage the way that you do right now.
Vermonters love to talk about supporting local businesses. We love to talk about how we are leaders in human services. Reality for the people providers serve differs greatly from what we allow ourselves to see
I smiled as I began reading, wondering what amusing foibles of modern life Jessie and her chickens would reveal to me this week… Wait a minute. This can’t mean….? Can it??
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