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For some time, the staff at the Mount Snow Chamber of Commerce and Vermont Life magazine had kicked around the idea of starting up a new Vermont festival focusing on native food and wine.
Yet, while one lacked the support of a well-known sponsor, the other knew it would need help with the on-the-ground organization and planning.
When they found each other, it wasn’t so much serendipity as it was the result of a long search, but the product of this partnership — this weekend’s Vermont Life Wine & Harvest Festival — could be the perfect combination of the best the state has to offer in food, wine and the arts.
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It was called “Love Letters To Vermont” and it was the first book I’d ever opened in the sole Vermont bookstore I’d ever browsed through during the exploratory trip that my 
family and I made here years ago when we were considering moving to New England.
Insightful, bold, graceful and captivating, author Elayne Clift had put into sharp focus the place I’d heard so much about and that I have since come to cherish. From seasons to cemeteries, people to pastimes, her descriptions of life in Vermont — written from the perspective of a fellow urban refugee — were enticing, endearing and humorously blunt.
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It’s always been important to have knowledge, but given the present state of our economy, nation, and the world, it is perhaps never been more important. Among other definitions of “knowledge,” the following seems to really fit: “clear perception of truth” (Merriam-Webster). In that light, today’s reviewed books add yet again another dimension of what you can discover at your library. Join the circle of knowledge at your library during National Library Week and every week. The “clear perception of truth” should be everyone’s goal.
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Amy Patricia Meade does not yet qualify as a literary heavyweight, and in all likelihood her mysteries will never be best sellers, but the reader may sense that this is of no concern to her. That’s because she’s found a winning formula, one that was responsible for the kind of stories made popular years ago by acclaimed authors such as Dorothy L. Sayers. In fact, it’s probably fair to say that “Shadow Waltz” — the third Meade mystery featuring Marjorie McClelland — is part detective story, part drawing room farce. And both parts blend seamlessly.
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Frank Miller idolized Batman comics artist Neal Adams. So much so that one late-autumn day in the early 1970s, a teenage Miller packed a homemade Batman costume and hitchhiked from his home in Berlin down to Rutland to meet the artist, who was signing comics during the city’s annual Halloween Parade.
Surrounded by other fans in costumes at the comic-themed parade, Miller eagerly thrusted his homemade comics into Adams’ hands for review.
Adams pretty much hated them.
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Paul Krugman and The New York Times — which hired him in 1999 to write a regular column primarily about economics — both seem a little surprised to find that he has become a leading counterbalance to the presidency of George W. Bush.
“The 2000 campaign was a revelatory experience,” Krugman said during a recent telephone interview of the presidential contest that happened soon after he began writing for the paper. The national press was reporting on the election, but not adequately questioning the economic and tax data Bush was presenting, Krugman said.
“It was clearly visible to anyone with a hand calculator and nobody would report it,” he said. “That was a radicalizing experience.”
Paul Krugman will speak at 7 p.m. this Saturday at the Northshire Bookstore, 4869 Main St., Manchester Center. Admission is free.
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Who: Garrison Keillor
Where: Burr & Burton Academy
Date: September 19
Tickets: $35
Garrison Keillor might sing tonight at the Burr and Burton Academy. He might tell stories. Possibly, he’ll read from the new book he’s promoting, “Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon.”
The people at the Northshire Bookstore in Manchester aren’t quite sure what Keillor will do tonight except to know he’ll be entertaining.
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by Annie Lawrence Guyon
On the first day of fifth grade, circa 1972, my classmates and I were instructed to write a one-page essay on what we believed in — no mean feat for a 10-year-old who spent most of the time fretting that her nose was too elfin or with said protuberance buried in Enid Blyton books or Betty and Veronica comics.
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My first brush with a celebrity was not typical. Though I was only 15, it did not involve swooning, squealing or gushing in any way and yet the experience left me in a giddy stupor that remains unmatched. It was better than shaking Sting’s hand after a concert, better than Mikhail Baryshnikov handing me a martini at a bar and better than sitting across the table from Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson at a dinner party.
