Wet Weather Dampens Weekend Festivities
Sunday, May 26, 2013
Thetford — Under one of many tents on the Thetford green, a procession of children and adults circled a table, systematically lowering a wick into a can of hot wax, forming candles layer by layer. “Down; up,” said Jennifer Manwell, who was running the station, to a nascent candle maker. “Let it drip.” Rain dropped just outside, catching on all …
Friday, May 17, 2013
To the Editor: Dartmouth College’s recent actions on sexual assaults, gender discrimination and homophobia follow a longstanding strategy: See evil, hear evil, speak evil, but don’t actually do anything about it. It is doomed again to failure. We have long read about the usual suspects gathering, speaking out, declaiming on Dartmouth’s need to face up to these issues. Those demanding action — such …
Friday, May 17, 2013
To the Editor: I’ve come to expect a healthy dose of self-loathing in Jim Kenyon’s columns. After all, living in one of Vermont’s most affluent towns and sending his kids to well-funded schools is obviously something that he needs to atone for. And what better way to demonstrate that he is not one of those Norwichites than by constantly writing about how awful …