sports column
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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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Matthew Dickerson: A reflection on writing and place
When it comes to films and works of fiction, we often think in terms of character development. Did the main characters change? If so, how and why? We…
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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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Matthew Dickerson: With an uncle on the family farm
I sat on a wide chair atop a tall ladder, leaning against a pine tree with a mature oak growing around the back side of the tree, its…
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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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Matthew Dickerson: Clouds clear off Ascutney
This was our seventh new Vermont state park of 2022 — far and away the most Vermont state parks to which we have made a first-time visit in…
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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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Matthew Dickerson: Salt chucks & silver salmon: Alaska, part 2
So what exactly is a salt chuck? That was one of the questions I had when I arrived at Ernest Gruening State Historic Park.
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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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Matthew Dickerson: Of rain and glaciers: An Alaskan residency, part 1
The history of the place was inspiring, and I soaked in as much as I could. But it was the surrounding scenery and landscape that moved me 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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Matthew Dickerson: Rainbow trout out of the pockets
I’d only been out on the river once all month. So after dinner, when the river calls my name, I heed the call.
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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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Matthew Dickerson: Sockeye tipping: Abundance, resilience and diversity, Part 2
A lone sockeye salmon sits in the stream in front of me under a low canopy of alder. The stream is wide, gravelly and shallow: only two to…
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Matthew Dickerson: Sockeye in the Wood River system: Abundance, resilience, diversity; Part 1
For five days and nights I resided in a shoreline cabin partway up the Wood River system in Alaska’s Wood-Tikchik State Park. Officially, I was serving as artist-in-residence…