Taking Garlic for Tax Time Stress

Garlic can help you pay your taxes. Really. Tax time can be stressful, even in Vermont in April when spring is just becoming believable. Some of us rely on accountants, alcohol, and/or denial to get through April 15th. But it doesn’t have to be that way. We...

Monkton Vermont has its own flag

Monkton Vermont was chartered on June 24th, 1762. There are not many monks here, that we know of, instead the town is named after General Robert Monckton (1726-1782). A British Army officer and colonial administrator, Monckton’s distinguished military career in...

National Poetry Month in Vermont

Any Vermonter lulled into a false sense of Spring by the unseasonably warm weather in March will agree with T.S. Eliot that ‘April is the cruelest month.’ That Vermonter might also agree that this month’s cruelty lead directly to the invention of...