Daily Archives: November 7, 2012

Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf is beneficiary Shelburne Vineyard’s 4th Annual Autumn Wine and Food Festival is slated for Saturday, Nov. 10 at the Shelburne Winery and Tasting Room. This year’s Festival is co-sponsored by Vermont Tent Company. This widely anticipated annual event emerged as a way both to celebrate the bounty of Vermont’s specialty wine… Read More

Rug hookers that is. Hooked in the Mountains XVI, a Hooked Rug and Fiber Art exhibit, will be held at the beautiful Shelburne Museum Round Barn Nov. 10-17.  Featuring three floors of exhibit space and over 450 works of art, the exhibit theme, “Time and Motion,” will delight visitors of all ages. These amazing textiles,… Read More

Bobby Flay would be proud. Chefs from Fletcher Allen, Wake Robin, and Central Vermont Medical Center went head-to-head in a fun cooking throwdown to promote local and sustainable food as part of National Food Day in the McClure Lobby Conference Room at Fletcher Allen Health Care Wednesday, Oct. 24. The cooking competition required that the… Read More

“From Steamboats to Subchasers, A History of the Shelburne Shipyard” by Lin Stone Save for his first decade, the late Jerry Aske, Jr. was nearly a lifelong resident of Shelburne Point. He harbored a boy-to-man’s irrevocable love for his childhood playground—Lake Champlain––and for his family’s marina and life’s work: boatbuilding. Aske’s father assumed management of… Read More

When was the last time you felt the gnawing pangs of hunger and didn’t know when your next meal would come? For most of us, this has never happened, especially during the holidays. At this time of year that is supposed to be a celebration of plenty, many coffee farmers call it The Thin Months.… Read More