Muddy Onion 2022
Catching up with the 2022 Muddy Onion, a local dirt-road ride that happened back on April 23rd. Up to about 40 miles through Montpelier, East Montpelier and Calais. The first…
Alexander Twilight at the State House
Vermont welcomed the first portrait of a person of color onto the Vermont State House's walls on May 5. The portrait of Alexander Twilight (1795–1857), the first person of color…
Farewell, Tony Clark
Tony Clark, the founder of Blueberry Hill Ski Touring Center and one of the founders of the 1970s nordic ski boom in Vermont, has died, in Goshen, VT, where he…
Return of the Mud
A Mud Season to remember. Or maybe to forget as soon as possible. Maybe it was three weeks of cold temperatures without much snow, which, as the saying goes, drove…
Vermonters Demonstrate for Ukraine
Two demonstrations at the Vermont State House in Montpelier last week expressed outrage over the Russian invasion of Ukraine. On Sunday, the first, sponsored by U.S. Rep. Peter Welch, D-VT,…
Snows of March
It snowed about a foot last week. It's pretty much all turned to mud now, but it was beautiful while it fell and beautiful while it lasted.
Chilling at the Lake Memphremagog Winter Swim
The world may be falling apart, but the Lake Memphremagog Winter Swim went as scheduled last weekend in Newport, VT. Things started off on a sunny Saturday morning with temperatures…
Harris Hill Ski Jump Celebrates Its 100th
The 100th anniversary of Brattleboro, VT's, Harris Hill ski jump tournament was this past weekend, and the hill's history was on full display. Through a squally snowstorm on Saturday and…
Ryan Cochran-Siegle: Home from Beijing
Ryan Cochran-Siegle came home Saturday afternoon to a big parade in the tiny town of Richmond, and I have never been to a more pure Vermont event. Lifting the silver…
Pictures of the Year, Montpelier, VT
Because I was taking photos last year for the local newspaper, the Montpelier Bridge, I was able to chronicle some of the good, the bad and the crazy that 2021…
Ski Racing is Back in British Columbia
Last season, there was basically no high-level cross-country ski racing in Canada due to COVID restrictions, so when Western Canada Cup #1 was held this past December 4–5 in Sovereign…
The World of Yousuf Karsh
The difference between looking at fine black-and-white photo prints in person—not online, not in a book, but on the wall in front of you— is something like the difference between…
NENSA Invitational Roller Ski Race
The New England Nordic Ski Association held its last roller ski race of the season on November 13: 10 kilometers (6.2 miles), mainly uphill to the Trapp Family Lodge touring…
Veterans Day, Barre, VT
Montpelier's Veteran's Day parade was canceled due to COVID, so Barre, VT, a few miles away, carried the flags.
MHS Boys Soccer in the Playoffs
I photographed a couple Montpelier High School soccer games during the end-of-the-season playoffs. They made it to the finals, but lost to Milton High School.
Montreal Again
Montreal is always interesting, and especially when you haven't been able to go for more than a year. It took us three COVID tests to get there back in mid-October…