sports column
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Matthew Dickerson: Take a walk in Green Mountains or the fire-scarred California hills
Living in Vermont, I take for granted that I can go on a walk among trees and fields any time I want. For the past dozen-plus years, our…
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Matthew Dickerson: Thanh and I seek steelhead in Trinity River
Standing at the edge of the Trinity River by the Rush Creek boat ramp, I watched the recently risen sun struggle to push a few beams of pale…
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Matthew Dickerson: Contemplating Mt. Rainier, Douglas firs and the wonder of Christmas
Stepping out the front door of the National Park Inn, our eyes were drawn at once to the impressive peak of Mount Rainier straight in front of us.
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Matthew Dickerson: Of dams, mussels and native fish
I’ve been thinking about dams lately. I especially been thinking about their removal.
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Karl Lindholm: Les Streeter was the Skimeister!
Some time ago, at a Reunion event at Middlebury College, I saw an older fellow sitting by himself. His badge said he was in the class of 1957.…
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Matthew Dickerson: What I saw in the woods
It was the third and final morning to hunt with my uncle Jerry during New Hampshire’s muzzleloader season. We were working the hardwood forests on and around his…
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Karl Lindholm: ‘Any baseball is beautiful,’ especially this one!
The baseball, this magical orb, the actual baseball, Angell’s small miracle of design and utility, has not essentially changed in nearly a century.
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Matthew Dickerson: Dead Creek offers great wildlife right now
It was one of those 2024 autumn afternoons in Vermont that has been so common this October. Bright foliage. Beautiful blue skies: not pale winter blue, or grayish…
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Karl Lindholm: From Patty to Keegan to Lucas — Vermont golfers prevail
I must begin this column with a correction, a mea culpa. In my last column, about golfer Keegan Bradley who was born in Woodstock and spent his early…
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Matthew Dickerson: Of fall foliage and alpine ponds
Sugar Hill Reservoir in Goshen — more commonly referred to by the name of the structure that created it, Goshen Dam — has always been one of my…
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Matthew Dickerson: Fishing into autumn
It was my garden and yard that kept me off the local trout streams the past few weeks, along with several trees that came down on our property…
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Karl Lindholm: Keegan Bradley is Captain America!
Who is the most prominent and accomplished athlete or sports figure from Vermont on the national or international stage? I have my own candidate.
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Matthew Dickerson: Natural beauty abounds in Glacier Bay National Park
The boat hadn’t even left the dock for our 7 a.m., eight-hour tour of Glacier Bay in Alaska when we began to spot the sea otters. Not just…
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Karl Lindholm: Barnes Boffey was a real person
My second night at Middlebury in the fall of 1963, I was roused from my bed after midnight and dispatched with the other freshman men to serenade the…
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Matthew Dickerson: Adventures in Alaska’s Gruening Park
It’s 5 a.m. on Aug. 2 — my second morning at Eaglerock Cabin in Alaska’s Ernest Gruening State Historic Park.
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Karl Lindholm: Not Cooper Flagg maybe, but these Vermonters were special
If you are a basketball fan, you probably know the name “Cooper Flagg.” This past basketball season, he was the best high school player in the country.