Traversing Ball Mountain Dam on the West River in southeastern Vermont is a serious workout. Carrying a canoe or kayak doubles the fun. Starting at a parking area below the massive dirt and gravel gravity dam, paddlers load boats on their shoulders and ascend abruptly for several hundred… Read More
Joanne Santee was diagnosed with a chronic lung condition 25 years ago. She knew that someday she'd need to be hooked up to an oxygen tank in order to breathe. That day arrived, but it hasn't stopped her from enjoying life. At 78, Joanne has a lot of wisdom and humor to share. Read More
Hillary Clinton conspiracy theories. Read More
I continued exploring recent releases from Angel Olsen, (Sandy) Alex G and Sturgill Simpson on the show this week, while the retro alternative set took Pitchfork's new 200 Best Songs of the 2010s list as inspiration for a look back at the last decade in music. Read More
We are human, we are going to have good days, we are going to have bad days. The true measure of success is showing up, being consistent, and treating your body right. You will go farther by focusing on the basics. Read More
I think I was 13 when I started hunting pheasants with my Dad. Dad’s sportsman’s club in Wayne would grow the pheasants and distribute them around the area. The first pheasant I shot was in a cornfield at the north end of Maranacook Lake. Read More
Named after a car can be interesting especially if its a Corvette Sting Ray! Meet the young man with one of the most recognizable names in motorsports. Read More
“Witch hunt.”… Read More
I see myself in every addict of every kind. When I say, “There but for the grace of God go I”, I am relating and identifying. I do so with compassion, but more importantly, with empathy. Compassion is feeling for someone. Empathy is feeling with someone. Read More
When I saw the cover of the book, Moe Pea The Moose Grows Up, published by North Country Press and written by Steven Powell, I knew my granddaughter, 5-year old Ada, would love it. Because the cover features a drawing of a moose, and Ada loves moose. Read More
Making political assertions without substance has created myths often mistaken for political truth. Time for some myth-busting. Read More
Want to get stronger? Try doing some planks. We've got a quick video demo for you. And while you're down on the floor, why not do a few push-ups, too. Read More
Historic spacewalk. Read More
“All of us are better when we’re loved.” By the time I came upon those words at the end of Alistair MacLeod’s 1999 novel, No Great Mischief, I was changed, altered as a reader. I found this work by sheer accident. I was not looking for… Read More
Franco-Americans are generally familiar with their genealogy because family reunions are celebrated during multiple generations, so it’s fairly easy to keep track of the current data. For example, our L’Heureux family genealogy is well known going back four generations. Moreover, many of the ancestors’ names have been hand… Read More
The College Republicans in Orono and their philosophically-aligned groups are not strangers to boundary-pushing. Read More
This is the second in my series of columns of my favorite deer hunting stories. Let’s start with the story about my son Joshua’s deer that he shot when he was 16 years old. Josh and I were sitting in… Read More
The presidential debates and the way we pick our candidates seems somewhat problematic to me. Read More
Leaves are falling, temperatures, too. Autumn in Maine heralds the beginning of flu season. Are you planning to get a flu shot? Read More
The recent public relations dilemma faced by the National Basketball Association (NBA) after Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey’s pro-democracy tweet, earlier in October, revealed the internal conflict currently experienced by the NBA as it transitions from a local to a global product. Basketball games, the epicenter of… Read More
