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2017.
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An in-depth look at one of the richest collections of American art, assembled by Electra Havemeyer Webb, renowned collector and founder of Shelburne Museum. Electra Havemeyer Webb assembled Shelburne Museum's trove of American paintings in the late 1950s, creating a renowned and rich survey of American portraits, landscapes, marine paintings, sporting art, still lifes, and genre scenes from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries. During an...
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50 different watery paths of adventure divided into eight sections covering the Champlain Islands, the Inland Sea, Missisquoi Bay, Broad Lake North, Malletts Bay, Broad Lake East, Broad Lake West, and South Bay, provide an intimate, cove by cove, island by island exploration of America s other great lake, celebrating the 400th anniversary of Samuel de Champlain s epochal journey of discovery in 1609. The routes are described, paddle stoke by paddle...
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2019
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Writings from Vermont's incarcerated women tell their first-person accounts of addiction and mental illness within the prison setting, thus highlighting the challenges these women face in moving forward with their lives. The book offers discussion guides to encourage community involvement in understanding and acting upon issues raised, thus serving a dual educational and advocacy role.
2172) Ask me anything: a novel
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c2004
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"Rosalie Preston is an advice columnist for Girl Talk magazine with a passion for the stage. When she comes to the attention of Berglan Starker - a theatre underwriter - she finds herself caught up in a very different affair from the ones she so jauntily untangles for teens."--
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2015.
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A unique look at an overlooked element of the American fabric-the ambitious murals that have served as the backdrops for decades of Yankee entertainment In small-town New England, long before television and the internet, the prevailing custom was to provide your own entertainment, often in the form of a performance at the local grange or Town Hall. Since there wasn't much money for costumes or props, the plays relied on all-purpose scenic backdrops-painted...
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2016.
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Set in the remote mountains to the north, Broken Wing is an allegorical tale about a rusty blackbird with a broken wing who can't fly and therefore is trapped in the inhospitable north country for the winter, and a man, known only as The Man Who Lives Alone in the Mountains, who lives a solitary life of nurturing attentiveness, simple kindness, and passionate emotional intensity. Broken Wing is the story of how these two different lives come together....
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c2011
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Burlington : a sense of place is a visual tour through the four seasons in one of the most beautiful and livable cities in the world. Throughout the years, I have photographed the city in many ways: from the air, water, and land. Some of these photographs were taken on assignment for different magazines, but most were taken while roaming around Burlington looking for new angles and perspectives.
The presence of Lake Champlain has a huge influence...
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[1902?]
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Residents are listed alphabetically under each town. In addition to the Burlington street and business directories, this vol. includes lists of courts and other government agencies (p. 62-63). The justices of the peace, newspapers, notaries public, population, post-offices, stage lines, and town officers are under each town.
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2020.
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"George Aiken and his close friend Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield forged a bi-partisan alliance to oppose the expansion of the Vietnam War in their roles as members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. This book tells that story and how the two Senators shared an alliance from 1962 to 1975 that would be impossible in today's highly-partisan Washington, D. C. The author, Stephen C. Terry, was Legislative Assistant for Senator Aiken from...
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1998
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This is a biography of Wilson Alwyn Bentley, the farmer from Jericho, Vermont, who took over five thousand photomicrographs of ice, dew, frost, and -- especially -- snow crystals. Although his photographs were taken between 1885 and 1931, they have never been equalled and are in great demand today. Bentley's story is one of courage and persistence against tremendous odds. He taught himself how to photograph snow crystals through a microscope while...
