Orwell kicks off summer with a picnic

The Orwell Store Community Trust on Saturday held a “Picnic Palooza” to bring attention to their efforts to fill the void left by the closing of Buxton’s Store.

After battling food, weight, and self-esteem issues for years, Trish Dougherty, a poet, mother, and graduate student at the Bread Loaf School of English in Middlebury, decided to employ her strengths of self-perception, humor, and the written word to wres … (read more)

Driving home in the dark at 4:30 in the afternoon I treasure every scrap of light. Electric candles perched on windowsills, like the kernel of an idea dawning in the dark, flat glass.