Pictures tell the story of fall sports

Words can also only capture so much of what happens on the field and the trails and in the gym. That’s why we send Steve James and his cameras and lenses along.

Pictures can be painted with words. Emotions can be captured. Drama can be described. That said, there is nothing like a visual image to make some messages hit home.

During the course of the high school season, I collected my favorites of Steve James’s work. For sure, they all demonstrate graphic quality, but they also resonated in other ways.

Beaver expert Skip Lisle of Grafton last Thursday constructed a flow device at a culvert under Route 125 near the Robert Frost Interpretive Trail in Ripton.

A fire consumed Tarkey’s Lodge near Lake Dunmore in Salisbury on Monday afternoon. No one was hurt in the five-alarm fire.

EAST MIDDLEBURY — Early Wednesday morning, a trio of East Middlebury residents gathered at their village’s Sarah Partridge Community House and Library to raise a special flag on a special day. Henry Haskell (who technically resides in Salisbury but really … (read more)

MIDDLEBURY — More than 60 hopeful souls dragged in their broken small appliances, kitchen tools, bicycles, jewelry, torn or worn clothing and even a busted doorbell to The Makery at the Hannaford Career Center in Middlebury this past Thursday evening for … (read more)

SUDBURY — Dry stone walls are a familiar tradition in New England, but who builds and repairs them nowadays?  Jamie Masefield, for one!  The mason from Monkton was working on Monday at rebuilding a stone wall at Miller Hill Farm nursery and gardens off Ro … (read more)