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• True believers: Stories of Vermonters who act on hope

  24-12-2017 16:16 via vtdigger.org
  Vermonter Nancy Heydinger and her daughter Caroline after running in the 2013 Boston Marathon. Provided photo
  Most days, VTDigger, as a news organization, is obliged to tell readers what is going wrong in our little corner of the world here in Vermont.But we also write about Vermonters who, against the odds, have achieved success, overcoming ridicule, illness and discrimination to make the world a better place.Kevin O’Connor, a freelance reporter based in Brattleboro, tells the stories of
  
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• The kindness of strangers: A Christmas story

  24-12-2017 16:00 via vtdigger.org
  Vermonters Charles and Helen Robb and their son, Charles Jr., pose with a sign advertising their family farm in Brattleboro. Photo by Kevin O’Connor/VTDigger
  BRATTLEBORO — At first, the folks at Vermont’s Robb Family Farm figured the package that arrived recently was just another delivery.
  “Then I got to think about it,” matriarch Helen Robb recalls. “I didn’t order anything that big. I didn’t order anything that tall.”
  And so, with help from
  
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• Then Again: A wintry ordeal in the back country

  24-12-2017 15:14 via vtdigger.org
  Lucy Blake’s final act as a mother was immortalized in a ballad during the 1840s. This artwork is from the sheet music. Photo courtesy of Vermont Historical SocietyEditor’s note: Then Again is a column by Mark Bushnell about Vermont history.
  If not for a bit of bad information, Lucy Goodell Blake might have lived past the age of 28. But she and her husband, Harrison, believed the information and ran into deep snow as they crossed the mountains at night. Such were the vagaries of life
  
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• ‘Words Project’ promotes history of Windham County

  24-12-2017 14:53 via vtdigger.org
  Words Project Lead Academic and Philosophy Prof. William Edelglass and Political Science Prof. Meg Mott with L. Minks portrait of Lucy Terry Prince.Editor’s note: This story by Harmony Birch first appeared in the Brattleboro Reformer on Dec. 20, 2017.
  BRATTLEBORO — Did you know that the first United States edition of “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” was printed in Brattleboro? Or that the author of the first known poem by an African-American lived in Bratt
  
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• Help bring Vermonters together on tough issues.

  24-12-2017 13:46 via vtdigger.org
  Julie Moore, Chris Kilian and David Mears discussed Lake Champlain cleanup at a VTDigger panel in December.Theresa Murray-Clasen, our director of underwriting, understands the power of bringing people together to talk, in person, about politics and current events.This year Theresa organized VTDigger’s community forums, which connected readers with experts and VTDigger reporters to talk about the challenge of cleaning up Lake Champlain, the impact of Amazon on local businesses, and how Amer
  
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