Vermont history is rich with writings about mountain lions living in the wilderness of Vermont. There are recorded accounts of early settlers and trappers never traveling without their black powder guns. Not so much for protection against the infrequent attacks by natives, but more to defend against the abundance of mountain lions.
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Flying may or may not have started with the Wright Brothers in 1903, depending on what book you’re reading. What the Wright Brothers did however was document on glass negatives every attempt and every failure, until they got it right. The proof was on the glass and in moving pictures. These photographs circulated around the […]

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Four Governors have had input into the Abenaki Nation’s quest for sovereignty in Vermont.
In 1976 Gov. Thomas Salmon signed a document granting recognition to the Abenaki Nation. It was revoked in 1977 by Gov. Richard Snelling although later Gov. Howard Dean appointed a Native American “Advisory” Committee. One year ago (May 2006) the present Governor, […]

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Click here for Part 2: Defending the Church

It was a warm and sunny day in California in 1991 when a much younger Jerome O’Neill found himself sitting down with a woman who revealed to him that she had been abused by a Vermont Roman Catholic Priest. Work on another case had brought him […]

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Click here for Part 1: Taking on the Church
As a child growing up in Rochester, New York, probably one of the last things David Cleary ever saw himself doing later in life was representing the Catholic Church in litigation proceedings dealing with sexual abuse. If anything, it is more likely he pictured himself “working” […]

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