sports column
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Matthew Dickerson: The summer of the mosquito
My wife recently pointed out to me that there are 45 known species of mosquitos in Vermont. This summer I think I have interacted with all of them.
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Matthew Dickerson: Visiting angler finds trout and clear water
River after river, stream after stream was running high and muddy. Unfishably muddy.
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Karl Lindholm: Nuf Ced, Tessie, Honey Fitz and the Royal Rooters
The timing was right, and ripe, for those first-generation Irish boys to be swept up by the baseball fever that had overtaken America after the Civil War —…
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Matthew Dickerson: Vermont’s Habitat Stamp has significant impact
Thanks in large part to the public’s purchases of Vermont Habitat Stamps, the Blake Higgins Dam on Vermont’s Saxtons River — a tributary of the Connecticut River in…
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Karl Lindholm: Another woman in the Baseball Hall of Fame?
A long time ago, Dec. 9, 1999 to be exact, in my first year offering these pearls of wisdom in the Independent, I started a column with “Fenway…
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Matthew Dickerson: Dappled light on dappled fish
On such a hot day, my daughter-in-law McKenna and I figured that if we wanted both to enjoy the fishing and to catch fish, we’d need to get…
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Karl Lindholm: The third front of baseball’s integration: Trois Rivières, 1946
Road trip to Trois Rivières, Quebec, for a ballgame. At least that was the plan.
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Matthew Dickerson: Of salmon, sturgeon and glimmers of hope
Late on a Wednesday afternoon, four huge Atlantic salmon finned in the current at the tail end of a long, deep pool on a small Maine river.
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Karl Lindholm: Local boy makes good — in golf!
Hogan Beazley, a 2019 graduate of Middlebury Union High School, and now Middlebury College as well, has done his namesake proud.
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Matthew Dickerson: One more trout in the Upper Dam Pool
An hour or so earlier, a hefty trout had chased my imitation stonefly nymph up from the deep water in front me to within a foot of the…
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Karl Lindholm: Vic Power & Piper Davis: Should have been first!
One thing the Red Sox and Yankees had in common, historically, was a reluctance to sign dark-skinned players after the historic breakthrough in 1947 of Jackie Robinson with…
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Matthew Dickerson: Green River State Park is a find
The haunting and beautiful duet of a pair of loons cut through the thin fabric sides of our tent. So did the chill evening air.
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Matthew Dickerson: Quiet evening. But a loud splash.
The reaction was instant. At the sound of the splash, my heart began to race. I could feel the rush of adrenaline as my head whipped around toward…
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Karl Lindholm: Yoshida, Koji, Ohtani — and Horace Wilson
Who is that fellow playing left field for the Red Sox this season? He bats left-handed and throws right-handed and is hitting .327 with six homers and 22…
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Matthew Dickerson: Whitewater rafting in New River Gorge National Park
The first rapids we hit is known as Surprise. “Because,” as our raft guide Linc told us, “when you come into it, it catches you by surprise.”
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Karl Lindholm: Angus Barstow is a golf pro & elementary school teacher
When Middlebury’s Angus Barstow won the “Hills are Alive” Tournament in Stowe last September he took home the top prize: $297.00.