After learning the woodworking trade in the Army during the 1960s, Jeffersonville native Robert Fletcher came home to Vermont and started an antique furniture restoration business. Soon he began designing and building custom furniture and over the last 35 years has become a well-known and respected master furniture maker.

Over the years, Bob also became […]

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Last month Livin’ Magazine began a two-piece series on the inns and bed & breakfasts of the Green Mountain State. In this segment, we focus on the life of an innkeeper, what goes on behind the scenes, and the specific type of person it takes to maintain a thriving business in 21st-century Vermont.

It’s funny […]

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This year marks the 15th anniversary of the inception of Project Linus, a national organization that provides comfort to children by giving them homemade blankets. In Vermont, needles flash and sewing machines whir as a growing number of volunteers create these soothing covers.

Three chapters, headed by dedicated women, coordinate the construction and donation of […]

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“Trappers.” You mean those folks who use those awful leghold traps that injure animals?
That often is the reaction when “trapping” is mentioned. The sometimes careless actions and the ignoring of the strict regulations set up by the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department have given the trapping of animals and the trappers a bad name. […]

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