Karl Lindholm
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Karl Lindholm: ‘Candlesticks always make a nice gift’
I love watching movies with my kids, now adults. These days, that usually means watching from home in a darkened living room on the big TV, without phones…
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Karl Lindholm: ‘Is this heaven?’ ‘No, it’s Pepin’
If I were the impresario of the Middlebury Men’s Alumni Basketball Weekend, I would have done it up right, with great hoopla.
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Karl Lindholm: Warming up to the college’s sports hall of fame
About 10 years ago, I got wind of a plan to initiate a Middlebury College Athletics Hall of Fame to coincide with the construction of the new field…
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Karl Lindholm: The Castigliones of Middlebury — and Joe!
Now, dear readers, what you may not know is “Voice of the Red Sox” Joe’s relationship to Middlebury and Middlebury College.
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Karl Lindholm: ‘Señor Coach’ — Panther Hall of Famer and renaissance man Sam Guarnaccia
It seemed Sam knew everybody. He was a visible presence on campus: a robust man physically, warm and expressive. He loved teaching, he loved coaching football, and above…
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Karl Lindholm: A volleyball adventure at MUHS
Next fall, a year from now, Middlebury Union High School will add a varsity sport and have a girls’ varsity volleyball team, not a club but a fully…
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Karl Lindholm: Be careful of pickleball — it’s addictive!
Every time I read a reference to “pickleball,” the next words are “the fastest growing sport in America.”
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Hawley writes a vibrant chronicle of mortality & decline
Richard Hawley, a Ripton resident, has been writing his “diary” for more than a decade — and he will no doubt get to a million words.
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Karl Lindholm: Sox-Yanks and Bill Carrigan’s house
In 1972, Peter Gammons started writing baseball “notes” in the Sunday Boston Globe, a whole page of baseball news in which the baseball beat writer “empties out the…
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Karl Lindholm: Middlebury’s first family of golf
Paul Politano hardly played golf at all growing up in southern Vermont. “My dad never let me play,” he said in a conversation last week outside the golf…
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Karl Lindholm: A genuine love of the game
It could hardly have been more exciting: in the championship winner-take-all game at Centennial Field, the Vermont Lake Monsters, defending champs in the Future College Baseball League, were…
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Karl Lindholm: Matty and Me: A story of baseball and writing
William Clarence Matthews and I are very close, though he was born in Selma, Alabama, in 1877 and died in Washington, D.C., in 1928. My home is festooned…
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Karl Lindholm: ‘Spontaneous Bedlam’: The Demo Derby of 1972
I relate today, loyal readers, the story of the Demolition Derby on the campus of Middlebury College in the spring of 1972, at a time in the life…
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Karl Lindholm: Resilience: Pandemic perspectives from area coaches
Recently I wrote to a number of area coaches, both in the high schools and at the college, asking them to reflect on their experience coaching during the…
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Karl Lindholm: The old man and the puppies
In May, I helped my daughter Jane coach the Monkton Little League farm team — true beginners, five- to eight-year-olds.
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Karl Lindholm: Middlebury College’s three generations of Smith Family Baseball
Sammy Smith found out five minutes before the first pitch that he was in the starting line-up last Friday in the first game of the NCAA regional baseball…