This illustration from the British Library’s collection of Western Drawings shows Lord Macartney’s first meeting with the Qianlong Emperor in 1793. (Wikimedia Commons) Probably the worst decision in ...

The new year is upon us, and with it comes a new crop of material entering the public domain. For 2026, that’s the sound recordings of 1925 and all the other media of 1930. I wanted to continue my ...

Early summer 1971, a visitor to the White River Valley left a mark on the landscape, the lore of which outlasted its permanence. That was the year that Ward McCain, a sculptor and student at ...

What started out as a onetime visit to West Hill in Granville to satisfy a need to see Rob Ford’s meadow in the Green Mountain National Forest has led to our more-than-a-decade-long late summer ritual ...

After more than 30 years of developing and managing affordable housing and community initiatives in the Randolph area, the Randolph Area Community Development Corporation (RACDC) has announced that it ...

Strafford residents honored native son, singer/ songwriter Noah Kahan by giving him and his bride, Brenna Nolan, the privacy they desired for their wedding on Saturday, Aug. 23 in the Strafford Town ...

They’re not architectural wonders, grand or stately; some of them are very plain, but in small Vermont towns the old one-room schoolhouses’ ties to history are perhaps among the most engaging. They ...

Like two siblings reared apart influenced by completely different environmental and social factors, Vermont in its formative years experienced a similar upbringing according to Leigh Wright’s ...

Baruch Spinoza was one of the most hated and reviled people of his time. Yet he was an unassuming, homely, polite, gentle, shy young man who earned a meager living as a lens grinder and lived a ...

The Strafford Developmental Review Board, in an unprecedented action, has scheduled moving their February 19 meeting from being held in the town office to being held at 6 p.m. at the Newton Elementary ...

The “Dream Dozen” has been changed to “Outstanding Underclassmen.” The VBCA Executive Board voted to change that this year so more student-athletes could be recognized. There are now eight boys and ...