Vermont couple uses magic to help refugees around the world
Fri, 18 May 2012 13:42:09 -0700

��Tom Verner performs magic in a refugee camp on the border between Iran and Afghanistan. / Courtesy Tom Verner and Janet Fredericks A fundraiser for Magicians Without Borders will be hosted Sunday in Essex by the Mountain Mamas of Jericho, Underhill and beyond.

Riverboat resumes nostalgic cruises on Mississippi
Tue, 01 May 2012 09:50:53 -0700

The churning red paddlewheel propels the pearl-white steamboat along the wide Mississippi River, like a slow-moving time machine through a slice of Americana that harks back to Mark Twain and the history, culture and commerce of the 19th century.