Karl Lindholm
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Karl Lindholm: What’s in a name? Hampus Lindholm!
I remember walking into Farrell’s Men’s Store in Middlebury my freshman year in college. Jimmy Farrell, the proprietor, shook my hand and asked my name. I told him…
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Karl Lindholm: One play: A steal of home!
On Friday, April 15, the Middlebury College baseball team took on NESCAC archrival Williams in the first game of a big three-game weekend series.
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Karl Lindholm: Jackie Robinson’s barrier-breaking opening days
It’s a good thing the baseball bigwigs ended their bickering this spring when they did.
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Karl Lindholm: Local baseball, once again!
Understand there was always going to be baseball, even if the Big Boys had not ended their acrimonious standoff.
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Karl Lindholm: Of jump shots and heroes
I’m so old, I predate the jump shot.
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Karl Lindholm: Le nouveau directeur général du Canadiens: Kent Hughes!
The storied Montreal Canadiens have hired a new general manager, Kent Hughes — a member of the Middlebury College Athletics Hall of Fame.
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Clippings: Taming the Cornwall bear
Over the last year or two, there have been a number of Cornwall Bear sightings reported on Front Porch Forum and elsewhere. I myself saw the Cornwall Bear.
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Karl Lindholm: Who is Art Pepin — to me?
Art Pepin had a big personality, was affable in the extreme: a raconteur; a crooner — he loved to sing and recite whole poems from memory (Frost’s “Birches,”…
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Karl Lindholm: Kitty, Tony, Minnie, Gil, Bud & Buck: About time!
We now have a Vermonter in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.
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Karl Lindholm: Midd hoop: Here we go again
When the note came across my computer that the college was shutting down early for the holiday break, the Thursday before the last day of classes and the…
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Karl Lindholm: Remember me now: Ken Burton
There have been many great athletes from Middlebury Union High School over the decades, and Ken Burton has to be in the very top tier.
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Karl Lindholm: Caroline Leary Dowd – a free spirit and fierce competitor
Heart. Determination. Relentlessness. Effort. Caroline Leary Dowd, class of 1992 at Middlebury College, had all these capabilities in abundance.
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Karl Lindholm: Saward’s remarkable ‘coaching tree’
What is perhaps most striking about Dave Saward’s soccer career is his “coaching tree,” that is, the extraordinary number of his players who have decided to pursue a…
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Karl Lindholm: Dave Morey: ‘Middlebury’s Miracle Mentor’
Nine years before his crowning achievement at Bates, Dave Morey’s Middlebury team “defeated” the other national powerhouse, Harvard, 6-6, before 25,000 fans in Harvard Stadium.
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‘It gives us hope’: Alaskan Nets
In its premiere showing at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival last April, “Alaskan Nets” won the Audience Choice Award, the festival’s top overall prize. Here in Middlebury,…
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Karl Lindholm: An exhilarating return: Bates-Middlebury
Last Saturday, I ventured to the Middlebury-Bates football game, the first athletic event at the college I have attended in more than year and a half.