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Book Spotlight: ‘The Forest Year,’ Ethan Tapper | Seven Days (opens the original)
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When Ethan Tapper began his first book, How to Love a Forest: The Bittersweet Work of Tending a Changing World, the Bolton naturalist arose each morning to write from 5 to 6 a.m. before starting his day job as a forester. The book, which won the 2025 New England Book Award for nonfiction, examines Tapper’s efforts to heal Bear Island, the 175-acre forest in Bolton he purchased in 2017, which had been degraded by unsustainable logging, invasive species, soil erosion and overbrowsing by deer. Tapp
Alvarez’s Award-Winning Book Adapted Into Graphic Novel | Seven Days (opens the original)
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When Julia Alvarez’s publisher pitched to her the idea of publishing a graphic novel of her 1994 book, In the Time of the Butterflies, she had some misgivings. The internationally acclaimed bestseller, which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, had already been made into a 2001 feature film starring Salma Hayek and Edward James Olmos. Yet another adaptation might be overkill, she thought at the time. But the famed Middlebury author and poet also knew that a graphic novel would
New ‘Disaster Comic’ Depicts the Roots of Mass Extermination | Seven Days (opens the original)
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Humans are not genetically hardwired to kill other humans, despite centuries of seemingly overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Rather, our innate biological aversion to taking another human life, reinforced by religious and social mores, has to be deliberately overridden in order to get people to commit murder en masse. Military trainers have known this for decades, as have perpetrators of genocide. It’s why the latter systematically portray their enemies as less than human and thus undeservin
Plasticiens Volants Brings Its Inflatable Puppets to Vermont | Seven Days (opens the original)
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Nearly a dozen schoolyards, soccer pitches, football fields and city parks across Vermont will transform into performance spaces next month as Burlington’s Flynn theater presents its fifth annual installment of Playing Fields. The free, family-friendly community spectacle combines art, theater, dance and puppetry. This year’s shows feature Plasticiens Volants, a French company of street performers who use inflatable puppets to tell their stories. Sea Fantasy: The Pearl plunges audience members i
Sunset Lake Cannabis Goes Green by Farming Only Outdoors | Seven Days (opens the original)
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A few basic principles apply to virtually all forms of farming: Rotate your crops. Enrich and protect the soil. Manage pests, weeds and water efficiently. And don’t make your work harder than it needs to be. Sam Bellavance, founder and CEO of Sunset Lake Cannabis and its dispensary, Lake Effect Vermont, both in South Hero, abides by the first three rules but deliberately ignores the last: He makes his job more difficult by growing all of his weed outdoors. That’s a major challenge in Vermont’s s
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