Monthly Archives: November 2022

Nov
25
2022

The Brooks Brook Conundrum

by Gary Sanderson

A new player recently entered my orbit, temporarily reorienting my focus about 10 miles north. Her name is Andrea Liebenow Varney, daughter of my late neighbor and friend, Sylvia Smead Gallagher. Three years younger than me, Varney grew up and graduated from high school in Greenfield, and has lived for decades in Proctor, Vermont. She […]

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Nov
15
2022

Colonial Roots Are Shallow Indeed

by Gary Sanderson

What does it mean to be connected to a place, to have a sense of a place… and how does it change over time? I pondered that question during a recent daybreak walk along the shoulder of a lonely, gray, Upper Meadows road in Greenfield. Since then the thought has reappeared, darting through my consciousness […]

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Nov
01
2022

Hunter’s Moon Daybreak Buck

by Gary Sanderson

Born a Cancer moon child on the last day of June, I am deeply influenced by full moons. How many times have I, on my way home from an eventful night – be they good, bad or just, plain peculiar – noticed a bright full moon illuminating the after-midnight sky and thought, “Why, of course, […]

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