Videos
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Video: Our Country Stores
Over the last decade, Vermont has lost many of its small country stores. The Addison Independent visited some that remain to find out what makes them special —…
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Crows flock to downtown Middlebury
If you’ve walked around downtown Middlebury at dusk this winter, you’ve seen them: thousands of crows streaming across the sky, gathering in trees, raucously caw-cawing. What are they…
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Stone Soup
At Quarry Hill School in Middlebury, November is all about Stone Soup. Three- and 4-year-olds spend the weeks leading up to Thanksgiving immersing themselves in the classic tale…
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The Great Apgar Pumpkin
Every October for the last two decades, Jim Apgar has carved a giant pumpkin, hoisted it onto the roof of his truck, strapped it down with rope and…
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When the Oxford Punch Needle went viral
Amy Oxford invented an ergonomic rug-hooking needle in 1995. Since then, she’s been running her business and teaching rug hooking from an old farmhouse in Cornwall, Vermont. But…
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Closing day at Carol’s
Carol’s Hungry Mind closed for good on August 8, 2018. The coffee shop on Middlebury’s Merchant’s Row has served as a bustling gathering place for more than 13…
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Brooms by hand in Middlebury
Janelle Higdon makes brooms on a 19th-century Shaker vice — in a garage out behind a Middlebury law office. An Addison Independent video.
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A sewing circle for change
A group of women who support a proposal to ban single-use plastic bags for retail transactions in Middlebury, Vt., are putting their hands — and sewing machines —…
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Video: Elementary schoolers get ‘Courageous’ with Shakespeare
MIDDLEBURY — Fifth- and sixth-graders from Ripton, Salisbury, Cornwall and Shoreham will take to the Town Hall Theater stage Thursday night to perform Shakespeare’s Henry IV — battling…
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Video: Conversation with a robot, Part 2
This is part two in a three-part video series highlighting my late-January interview with the human-like robot Bina48. Commissioned by futurist and serial entrepreneur Martine Rothblatt, Bina48 is…
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Video: Conversation with a robot, Part 1
Commissioned by futurist and serial entrepreneur Martine Rothblatt, Bina48 is an android physically designed and programmed based on the appearance and personality of Rothblatt’s spouse, Bina Rothblatt (See related…
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Robot blurs biological boundaries
LINCOLN — In the hills of Lincoln exists a robot with a face that moves, eyes that see, ears that hear and a digital mind that enables conversation.…
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Robot is conversant on many topics
What’s it like to interview a robot? I recently got the chance to talk with Bina48, often touted as the world’s most advanced android, or human-like robot. Bina48…