The Vermont Coyotes have brought professional basketball to the Barre Auditorium. Images from two games in January. Click here for a gallery.
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Coyotes at the Aud
Scott Lampron, foreground, and Malachi Howard in action during the game against the Boston Sharks on Jan. 18. Fans cheer before the start of the Vermont Coyotes game against the Boston Sharks on Jan. 18. Brendan Corriveau returning from the locker room with the team during the Vermont Coyotes game against the New England Lightning at the Barre Auditorium, Barre, VT. The judges from Nelson Ace Hardware in Barre vote during the dunk contest between the halves of the game against the Boston Sharks on Jan. 18. Fans during Vermont Coyotes’ game against the Boston Sharks on Jan. 18. During practice before the Vermont Coyotes game against the Boston Sharks at the Barre Auditorium on Jan. 18. Young fans before the Vermont Coyotes game against the Boston Sharks at the Barre Auditorium on Jan. 18. -
Spring Tour (Bethlehem, Great Allegheny, C&O Canal, etc.)
Central Moravian Church, Bethlehem, PA. You don’t have to get out of Vermont in April, but it’s a good idea. This past April we did some touring in Pennsylvania, Maryland and West Virginia, focusing on rail trail biking but generally just looking around: Bethlehem, PA, and its defunct steel mills, Moravian history and the Delaware & Lehigh Canal bike path; the Great Allegheny Passage rail trail in southwestern PA; the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal rail trail in Maryland; Harpers Ferry, West Virginia; Antietam and Gettysburg battlefields. You don’t have to travel far to see a lot.Click here for a gallery.
The Eastern Continental Divide on the Great Allegheny Passage rail trail. Salisbury Viaduct on the Great Allegheny Passage rail trail. 
Motorcyclist rides at the Antietam National Battlefield, Sharpsburg, MD. 
Abandoned Bethlehem Steel blast furnaces, Bethlehem Steel plant, South Bethlehem, PA., with South Bethlehem houses and cemetery, viewed from Bethlehem, PA. 
Abandoned Bethlehem Steel blast furnaces, Bethlehem Steel plant, South Bethlehem, PA., viewed from Bethlehem, PA. 
Soldier statue, tree, spring at Gettysburg, PA, battlefield, Gettysburg National Military Park. 
Fishing along the C&O Canal near Old Town, MD. 
Chesapeake & Ohio National Histrorical Park, near Shepherdstown, WVA, USA. 
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. 
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Altadena: Reeling and, Perhaps, Rising
I was in Los Angeles in late June-early July. Six months after the Eaton wildfire swooped out of the nearby hills, most of the roughly 6,000 burned homesites in nearby Altadena, next to Pasadena, have been cleared of debris, mainly by the Army Corps of Engineers. Some rebuilding has begun, but most properties await permits to take the next step. As you walk through the area, it looks like a community in suspended animation, reeling from the losses, waiting for the next act.
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Vermont April 5 Hands Off! Rally
The big crowd that filled the Vermont State House lawn for the April 5 Hands Off!/50501 rally. Click here for a gallery.
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Demonstrating for Canada
Demonstrators at the corner of State & Main in Montpelier, VT, including one in a beaver suit, had a thing or two to say Saturday morning, March 22, about Canada, Vermonters’ neighbor, frequent destination and largest trading partner.
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Inching Toward Spring on Lake Champlain
Shards on the shore. Light freezes, wind and wave action made fragments of shattered ice that piled up on North Beach in Burlington last week. They lay in piles on the sand and, frozen in the water, stacked up like playing cards or stood vertically, swirled into frozen vortexes. Spring en route to the big lake.
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A Nod to Planica
I’m happy to say that one of my favorite photos—the leaders of the men’s 50-kilometer classic race skiing the course during the 2023 FIS World Nordic Championships in Planica, Slovenia, with the Julian Alps as a backdrop—made its way into the 2025 Photo Annual issue of Cross Country Skier Magazine.
The backstory to this photo: Slovenia is sort of like Switzerland without the publicity: small, beautiful and alpine. The 50-k is always the last event of the championships. It was a warm, sunny day and I climbed up a huge pile of stored manmade snow to get this view. Planica, just down the road from the ski resort of Kranjska Gora, is a little alpine valley with the race courses, a ski stadium, and huge ski jumps, all of it surrounded by rugged peaks. There’s also a touring trail that runs up the valley to a cabin where you can grab a snack before heading back down. Beautiful skiing through the forests below those big mountains.
If you’re counting, that’s Norway’s Pal Golberg leading, followed by Finland’s Ivo Niskanen and Norway’s Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo. Golberg won, Klaebo was a close second, and Sweden’s William Poromaa (fifth in the photo) was third.
The XC Skier issue, just out, is worth finding for the great photos and the content in general. In addition to XC photos from around the world, the issue includes stories on ski destinations, northern lights, a tour on Norway’s high, windy and white Hardangervidda and more. -
Vermont Trump Protests
Hundreds gathered at the Vermont State House in Montpelier February 5 and on Presidents’ Day, February 17, to protest the policies of the Trump administration as part of the 50 States (50501) demonstrations. Here are a few of the images from those events.
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Another July, Another Catastrophic Flood
Jim and Jenni Belotserkovsky embrace after their house was inundated when torrential rains from the remnants of Hurricane Beryl hit central Vermont, USA, on July 10. Great Brook, a tributary of the Winooski River, undermined the house in the distance behind them.
Last night’s Deja Vu Flood of 2024 mainly spared Montpelier, Vermont, but the area along Great Brook in Plainfield, above, was devastated when the brook destroyed the road along it and roared into the houses next to it. In Barre, many of the same spots that were hit in last year’s July 10 flood were hit again in the July 10 flood of 2024, especially the areas around Second Street, Maple Avenue, and North Main. Water from torrential rains poured off the hills, the Stevens Branch backed up, turned Main Street into a river, and deposited several inches of mud in the same neighborhoods. Residents and city DPW crews were at work all day clearing away mud. Apparently there was somewhat less widespread damage inside homes this time. The sorrow and mess of last year’s flood back on a lesser scale. A new kind of mud season?
A house hangs over Great Brook in Plainfield, VT, USA, on July 11 after torrential rains from the remnants of Hurricane Beryl hit central Vermont.
Mail boxes on their posts are nearly covered by mud in Plainfield. 
A flood-twisted culvert lies in front of houses in Plainfield, VT. 
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Posts from the Road
Rosa Parks statue, seated on a Montgomery, AL, bus at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, TN, at the Lorraine Motel, where Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968. Below, representation of the sanitation workers’ strike that brought King to Memphis.
Rockabilly king Carl Perkins on the wall outside Sun Studio in Memphis.
Fading fossil fuel past with Tony the Tiger on Route 66, Tucumcari, NM.
Ute Mountain from Las Plata, Colorado.
Window, Arches National Park, Moab, Utah.
Two from Capitol Reef National Park, Utah.
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Charging Across the Country
Gassing up the Musk-mobile at the truckstop and Punjabi diner in Foss, Oklahoma. Well, just cleaning the windshield using the water bins at the gas pumps. For the past three weeks we’ve been driving cross country in an EV visiting relatives and stopping at national parks. The short story: It’s easy to charge on the Tesla Supercharger network if you are fairly close to big cities or Interstates. It takes a bit more work when you’re out in country. The NEMA 14-50 adapter (bottom) helps because you can use RV plugins at some camping sites. We can also use non-Tesla chargers, with other adapters. Bottom line: it can be done without that much trouble if you aren’t in a big hurry and you plan. Below, charging up for $5 at a non-Tesla charger in Zion National Park in Utah and camping on Bureau of Land Management land near Zion. I’ll post a gallery when we get home. For now I’ll post this with some photos of the trip to follow here. We’re in Joshua Tree National Park in the California desert today.
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Fresh Rolls for a Nickel at The Manghis’
There’s only one place that I know of where a kid can buy a freshly baked roll for a nickel, and that’s The Manghi’s Bread in Montpelier, VT. Kids have been taking advantage of this deal for decades, walking School Street to and from Union Elementary School or stopping by after Storytime at the next-door Kellogg-Hubbard Library. There are limits though. Kids only, and it’s 50 cents for two. That’s Steve Stoufer, master baker and co-owner, bringing the guastelle rolls out of the oven in the first picture; and co-owner Maria Manghi Stoufer with a happy customer in the second. Click here for the full story at montpelierbridge.org.
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Minneapolis, Day 2; the Day Before
Anticipation built Friday, the day before the World Cup sprints at Wirth Park in Minneapolis. A beautiful sunny day with athletes cruising around the hilly, rolling, curving tracks. The surface is firm and fast and they say it’s going to be fun tomorrow.
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A Couple Awards
I received two regional awards in 2023 in the National Press Photographers Association’s monthly clips contest for New England: First place for spot news in July for a group of photos from the flooding that hit central Vermont on July 10-11; and first for a feature photo in February for the picture below of Case Phinney flying during the blanket toss in the annual winter celebration in Montpelier called Ice on Fire. Above, one of the flood photos: teacher Katie Swick standing in front of her house on Elm Street in Montpelier surrounded by flood-damaged debris pulled from her home. Click here for a gallery of flood photos, and here for flood aftermath photos. I’m working on a gallery of my favorite photos from 2023 and will post it here when I’m done.
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Montpelier’s Halloween Arises from the Flood
Montpelier did Halloween 2023 in a big way, despite last summer’s flood and a fire last week that destroyed a newly repaired restaurant. Click here for a terrifying gallery. 
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Wheels for Warmth 2023
A volunteer carries tires to a buyer’s vehicle during the 2023 Wheels for Warmth event at the Vermont Granite Museum in Barre, VT, Saturday, October 28. Since 2005, Wheels for Warmth has been recycling tires through this annual sale and using the proceeds to fund heating fuel assistance programs statewide.
