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A Rutland woman lost her legs in a terrible accident in 2018, and endured multiple surgeries and countless hours of rehabilitation to once again become mobile. Vermont Edition talks with Stefanie Schaffer about her new memoir.
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Journalist, author Aarti Shahani reflects on family, immigration and career with Essex High studentsBefore Aarti Shahani became an award-winning journalist and author, she and her family were immigrants trying to make their way in New York City. This hour, Vermont Edition features host Mikaela Lefrak's interview with Shahani, recorded live on Zoom in early February, with an audience of students from Essex High School.
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Mountains hold near-magical places in our imaginations: hulking, immovable and unpredictable in ways human-made structures are not. In her new book Imaginary Peaks, Vermont author Katie Ives tells the story of blank spaces on maps, and the pull to explore and fill them in.
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Sydney Lea, winner of the 2021 Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts, on poetry & the pandemicSydney Lea is among the most celebrated artists in Green Mountain State history. And in 2021, he added another accolade he says is especially close to his heart: winner of the 2021 Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts from the Vermont Arts Council.
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The prolific author, poet, cultural critic, feminist and professor, who wrote more than three dozen wide-ranging books, died Wednesday at her home in Berea, Ky.
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The economic struggles of rural America had been well chronicled, but a new book suggests that a different approach to rural development could better empower the people who live in remote parts of the country.
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Almost half of all marriages in the United States end in divorce or separation. Author Kimberly Harrington deals with this issue head-on with a new collection of essays titled But You Seemed So Happy: A Marriage, in Pieces and Bits.
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Young-adult author Jo Knowles works closely with students at the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction. That may be surprising, given that�
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If you live in Vermont and happen to receive a mysterious letter or postcard with no return address, don't just throw it away. It could be a bit of verse�