Willis Backus stands solitary, encompassed by four glass cases of colorful jewelry. This is his counter– he’s earned the right to call it that. The only vacation he’s ever taken was in 1975, when he had a heart attack. “I…
Day: February 12, 2018
Fred Harris and The Brattleboro Winter Carnival
On January 12th, 1922, two feet of fresh snow covered Brattleboro, Vermont (1). Thousands of people gathered on the town rink for the first annual Brattleboro Winter Carnival (2). A 25 piece band huddled around an oil heater to keep…
Why Are Organic Milk Prices Dropping?
It’s 3am, 30 degrees, and the lights switch on in the barn. Twenty cows are herded into the milking parlor above the operating pit. As milk is pumped from the Holsteins, it travels through tubes into two stainless steel bulk…