2005, SPRING - Vermont Heroes; portfolio of scenic spring photos; Emily Wilson and her steers; Vermont’s wetlands; St. Johnsbury on the rise; Emily Marshia’s essay on sugarmaking; Thurman Knight of Glover makes fine violins; a farewell to Noel Perrin; The Springfield Royal Diner; Adamant Black Fly Festival; Herrick’s Cove Wildlife Festival; Don Fields and the Pony Boys — the era of Vermont’s cowboy bands; books of Vermont interest: Waiting for Teddy Williams by Howard Frank Mosher; The Essential Aiken: A Life in PublicService by Samuel B. Hand and Stephen C. Terry; In Sight by Sabra Field; Harvest, A Year in the Life of an Organic Farm by Nicola Smith, photos by Geoff Hansen; in the Post Boy news section: bringing back the American Chestnut; restoring Robinson’s sawmill in Calais; awards for Vermont cheese makers: Willow Hill Farm, Cabot Creamery, and Vermont Shepherd; photo of East Corinth at Chengdu Airport, China; plugged-in sugar maple at UVM’s Proctor Maple Research Center in Underhill; Purple Loosestrife Biocontrol Program; Dena Simmons of Middlebury College receives 2004 Vermont Student Citizen Award . Buy this issue.

Summer 2005 – Lake Champlain Paddlers’ Trail; Camp Aloha on Lake Morey & Camp Billings on Lake Fairlee; The Old West Church in Calais; portfolio of scenic summer photos; 10 great bicycle rides; North Bennington; roadside springs; landscape painter, Eric Aho; Vermont River Conservancy; three Vergennes restaurants: The Black Sheep Bistro, Christophe’s on the Green and Eat Good Food; the Benson Burdock Festival; the Goshen Gallop, an annual 10-k run; Burlington’s Forever Young Treehouses; Woodstock sculptor Hiram Powers, creator of “The Greek Slave”; books of Vermont interest: Harvest: A Year in the Life of an Organic Farm by Nicola Smith with photos by Geoff Hansen; All Those in Favor: Rediscovering the Secrets of Town Meeting and Community by Susan Clark and Frank Bryan; picture postscript photo by Jon Gilbert Fox from his new book, Intimate Vermont; in the Post Boy news section: West Arlington Chapel on the Green; trout decline on the Batten Kill River; town meeting in Cabot: Caleb Pitkin brings up an interesting point regarding ambulance vs. cemetery funding; Grammy winner Will Ackerman of Dummerston; cow power at Blue Spruce Farm in Bridport; rebuilding the Ferrisburgh Grange Hall; replica of General John Stark’s flag will wave over Bennington; growing wheat in the Champlain Valley; Kingdom County Productions’ new film is based on Howard Frank Mosher’s novel, Disappearances. Buy this issue.

Autumn 2005 — 29 ways to experience fall; glider flights in Stowe and Warren; portfolio of scenic autumn photos; Fair Winds Farm’s Draft Horse School in Brattleboro; Brandon’s Moosalamoo region; the foxless fox hunt with the Guilford Hounds; The Cat and the Community by Castle Freeman Jr.; Calais’s culinary journalist, Marialisa Calta; encounters with Robert Frost; the Jericho-Underhill Barn Tour; the 2005 Ralph Nading Hill Literary Prize essay by Caleb Daniloff; Proctor’s ‘Our Yard’ Festival; three Bradford restaurants: The Perfect Pear Café, The Colatina Exit and the Middle Earth Music Hall; Burlington’s South End Art Hop; the Cilley Hill Pumpkin Festival in Jericho; the Southern Vermont Garlic and Herb Festival in Wilmington; books of Vermont interest: Messages from a Small Town: Photographs Inside Pawlet, Vermont by Neil Rappaport; Vermont Writers: A State of Mind by Yvonne Daley; The Long Light of Those Days, Recollections of a Vermont Village at Mid-Century by Bruce Coffin; Guns Over the Champlain Valley: A Guide toMilitary Sites and Battlefields by Howard Coffin, Will Curtis and Jane Curtis; picture postscript by Glenn Story; Green Mountain Post Boy section: Dummerston’s Apple Pie Festival; Middlebury’s Great Bell; The Stonebridge in Poultney; the Cornish Colony Museum in Windsor; Coal, a miniature belted Galloway calf from Randolph; the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction. Buy this issue.

Winter 2005–2006 — Extreme sledding; dog sled holiday; Susan Sargent; portfolio of scenic winter photos; the Vermont Farm Show in Barre; true Vermonter quiz; Farmers’ Night at the State House; “A Visit to Winter’s Church,” an essay by Deborah Lee Luskin; David “Stoney” Mason and Lawrence L. Coffin, winners of the 2005 Governor’s Heritage Awards; the Inn at Sawmill Farm in West Dover; Readsboro’s Dion Snowshoes; “February,” a poem by Julia Alvarez from The Twelve Seasons of Vermont, a Vermont Life book; Strafford’s old-fashioned rope tow; picture postscript by Ethan Hubbard. Green Mountain Post Boy section: the voyage of the Lois McClure, the Connecticut River Byway is Vermont’s first National Scenic Byway, Vermonters help Hurricane Katrina victims, Sharon rest stop is veteran’s memorial and environmental showcase, historic Maidstone metal truss bridge reopens, five Vermont nordic skiers inducted into Vermont Ski Museum’s Hall of Fame: Fred Harris, Warren Chivers, John Caldwell, Martha Rockwell, Tim Caldwell and Bill Koch; band leader Sterling Weed dies at 104. Buy this issue.

Spring 2006 — Eight sugarhouses to visit: Green’s Sugarhouse, Poultney; Carman Brook Maple & Dairy Farm, Highgate Springs; Couture’s Maple Shop, Westfield; Dutton Berry Farm, Manchester; Morse Farm Maple Sugarworks, E. Montpelier; Bragg Farm, E. Montpelier; Green Mountain Sugar House, Ludlow; Harlow’s Sugar House, Putney. Kit and Mickie Davidson’s land in Hubbardton; The Orvis Company in Manchester; WDEV, Waterbury; Matthew Lyon; The Quechee Inn at Marshland Farm; Answers to the True Vermonter Quiz; essay on using draft horses to pull phone lines by Linda M. Bland of Cambridge; Ludlow Mountain hike; Chelsea Royal Diner in West Brattleboro and owner Todd Darrah; the cover story: Spring 1947, Summer 1952. Vermont Gathering Places photographs by Peter Miller; Knee-Deep in Blazing Snow, poems by James Hayford; The Vermont Book of Days by Michael Thurston and Missie Thurston with John C. Wriston Jr.; Picture Postscript by Bryan Pfeiffer. Green Mountain Post Boy section: Sterling’s bicentennial; A Guide to Fiction Set in Vermont by Ann McKinstry Micou, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals; “Palettes of Vermont,” a statewide art project; Howard Frank Mosher; brown trout in Battenkill River; Vermont Student Citizen Award winner, Sarah Jackson of Shoreham; Vermont is the smartest state per Quitno Press of Lawrence, Kansas; Roderick MacClay, owner of Strafford’s community ski area. Buy this issue.

Summer 2006 — Bests and favorites; Hildene, the house that Robert Todd Lincoln built; antique tractors; The Northwoods Center in East Charleston; Burlington’s community gardens; George Woodard of Waterbury; essay on the second republic issue; Old Petunia, Wells River’s 1923 Reo Speed Wagon; Isle La Motte’s Chazy Reef Formation; Goodsell Ridge Outdoor Museum and Fossil Preserve; Fisk Quarry Preserve; Fisk Farm; the cover story: Spring 1969 and Summer 1970; Bristol’s Fourth of July celebration and outhouse races; fly fishing in Vermont by W.D. Wetherell; Bald Mountain hike in Westmore; The Jungle Law by Victoria Vinton; Kittyand Mr. Kipling by Lenore Blegvad, illustrated by Erik Blegvad; The FifthSeason by Don Bredes; The Vermont Composers’ Project CD; Picture Postscipt by Alex Cawley; Green Mountain Post Boy section: Champ Week at ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center in Burlington, Burlington’s Dragon Boat Festival, Randall Lineback cattle are Vermont’s first official state heritage breed, Gesine, Montpelier’s bakery and gourmet grocery, Windsor-Cornish bridge on U.S. stamp; Middlesex in the Making by Patty Wiley and Sarah Seidman. Buy this issue.

Autumn 2006 — Northern Forest Canoe Trail; Lost Vermont Images at the Weston Antiques Show; autumn walks; Jamaican apple pickers gather at Shoreham Congregational Church for a hymn sing; fall foliage scenic photos; Brattleboro’s Literary Festival; September Swims, an essay by Ann S. Brandon; covers from Summer 1985 and Spring 1993 by Paul O. Boisvert; a tour of Old Bennington; Adams Farm in Wilmington; 2006 Ralph Nading Hill Literary Prize winner; Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Park in Woodstock; Bests & Favorites by our readers; Cabot’s Apple Pie Festival; reviews of Best Person Rural by Noel Perrin, The Inquest by Jeffrey D. Marshall, Conversations with a Prince: A Year of Riding at East Hill Farm by Helen Husher, and The Simple Life by Ruth Porter; Green Mountain Post Boy section: the end of the demolition derbys at the Tunbridge World’s Fair, new life for the old Tunbridge general store, Margaret MacArthur dies, historic Morgan horse race, Vermonters travel to Day of Remembrance in Washington D.C., Abenaki tribe receive state recognition, Vermont Life founder Earle Newton dies. Buy this issue.

Winter 2006-2007 — Vermont: The Once (And Future?) Republic by Rob Williams, illustration by Jeff Danziger; Olympic medalist, Hannah Teter from Belmont written and photographed by Chuck Clarino and Yvonne Daley; five backcountry skiing spots (Mount Mansfield and Ranch Valley, Camel’s Hump, Stratton Pond, Mount Hor/Lake Willoughby, Breadloaf Wilderness) by Brian Mohr, photographs by Brian Mohr and Emily Johnson; the Catamount Trail by Laura Arnesen, photography by Dennis Curran; Mad River Glen of Fayston and its single-chair lift by Mark Bushnell, photographed by Corey Hendrickson; portfolio of scenic winter photos (photographed by John Knox, Alan L. Graham, Todd Cantwell, Allen Karsh); White River Junction by Nicola Smith, photography by Jon Gilbert Fox; Ascutney’s Antique Ski Race by Richard Andrews, photography by Jon Gilbert Fox; “Stories of Ranch Camp” CD from Ranch Valley in Stowe; a mandolin for Jim Abbott of Royalton by M.D. Drysdale, photographed by Jon Gilbert Fox; Seventh Generation of Burlington, by Melissa Pasanen, photography by Natalie Stultz; when the Johnson Fire Station burned by Robert Kiener; photographed  by Alden Pellett; winter farmers’ markets in Manchester (and also Dorset, Norwich, Pete’s Greens in Craftsbury, Northeast Organic Farming Association); by Ellen Ecker Ogden, photographed by S. Michael Bisceglie, snowshoeing Bald Mountain in Woodford by Richard Andrews, photography by S. Michael Bisceglie; book review of In the Land of the Wild Onion by Charles Fish; Palette Project mirror by Bonnie Pelkey of St. Albans, photo by Caleb Kenna; Vermont Life snowboarding covers from Winter 1982 by Richard Howard and Winter 2004-05 by Dennis Curran; 2006 Governor’s Heritage Awards given to Maureen Dobart, teacher from Proctor and Robert Spear, bird carver at the Birds of Vermont Museum in Huntington; in the Green Mountain Post Boy section: Robert Frost’s apple trees at Robert Frost Stone House Museum in Shaftsbury; Vermont Frost Heaves professional basketball team; Phil Scott and his Wheels for Warmth tire swap and drop program; David Macaulay of Norwich receives MacArthur Foundation Genius Award; Barre’s David Ball breaks college-career touchdown record;  Malian’s Song, Abenaki tale of Rogers’ Rangers’ raid in 1759; moose lottery; joys of snowshoeing by Robert Kiener. Buy this issue.

Spring 2007 — Discover Vermont Music! 14 Essential Vermont CDs; Music for Every Taste by Brent Hallenbeck, illustrated by Bob Selby; 16 Great Places to Hear Vermont Music, from the Barre Opera House to the Bees Knees; 11 Vermonters Who Make Music Happen: Larry Gordon of Marshfield, Karen Kevra of Montpelier, Howard Brofsky and Eugene Uman of Brattleboro, Mark Sustic of Fletcher, Jaime Laredo of Guilford, Mary Cay Brass of Saxtons River, Nan Nall and Lise Messier of Weston Donald Knaack of Manchester, Jim Lockridge of Burlington by Susan Keese, photos by Natalie Stultz; On the Good Red Road: Vermonters Work to Preserve the Colonial Spanish Horse on John Fusco’s farm in Morristown by Nancy Humphrey Case, photographed by Orah Moore; BIG Trees and the People Who Track Them Down by Elinor Osborn; a portfolio of scenic spring photos by Jonathan Wind, Alan L. Graham, Allen Karsh; What’s a Flatchuck? essay by Burr Morse of East Montpelier; Billings Farm Plowing Match by Lou Ann Dean, photographed by Jon Gilbert Fox; Stowe’s Weekend of Hope Welcomes Cancer Patients and their Families by Robert Kiener, photographed by Craig Line; The Wayside Restaurant by Dirk Van Susteren, photographed by Jeb Wallace-Brodeur; Waitsfield and Champlain Valley Telecom by Michael Levine; Bests & Favorites: More Readers Picks including places and things to do in Putney, Dummerston, Burlington, Warren, Brattleboro, Harriman Reservoir; Orleans; (rainbow trout, Willoughby Falls, Penny Cluse Café, Warren timber crib dam, maple cheesecake recipe, Lake Whitingham, Brattleboro Retreat Meadows, Green Mountain Spinnery); Books of Vermont Interest: Dateline Vermont by Chris Graff, The Outside Story edited by Chuck Wooster, Hackie 2: Perfect Autumn by Jernigan Pontiac, The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian, The West Window by John S. Hall, The Story of Modern Skiing by John Fry; Green Mountain Post Boy section: Earth Inc., nonprofit corporation started by UVM and Vermont Law School students; Howard Coffin and Vermont in the Civil War, butternut trees, Vermont Milk Co. in Hardwick, Lake Champlain Dragon Boat Festival update, Anson Tebbetts, Kate Beattie of Danville’s Creamery restaurant reveals her Maple Cream Pie recipe, Lyndon State College student wins 2006 Vermont Student Citizen of the Year Award, Common Ground Restaurant of Brattleboro reopens, Moosalamoo National Recreation Area; Picture Postscript: It’s Spring! Take the Plunge! A dog named Boone Litchfield goes after a Frisbee cast upon the waters of an East Warren pond, photo by Corey Hendrickson. Buy this issue.

Summer 2007 — The steamboat Ticonderoga Lives On at Shelburne Museum by Mark Bushnell; Stellafane, annual gathering of amateur astronomers in Springfield by Chris Granstrom, photographed by Jon Olender; portfolio of summer photos by Caleb Kenna, Mitch Moraski, Todd Cantwell, Bob Malbon, Paul O. Boisvert, Natalie Stultz, Jean Carlson Masseau, Brian Mohr, Anthony Reczek; Cedar Oil Man, John Gile of South Albany by Steven G. Herbert, photographed by Alden Pellett; Saving Rutland’s Pine Hill Park by Yvonne Daley, photographed by Vyto Starinskas; Wildflowering: Ten Places to See Vermont’s Best Blooms by Kate Carter; essay on Lake Champlain by Jay Parini; Vermont Festival of the Arts in the Mad River Valley towns of Warren, Waitsfield and Fayston by Melissa Pasanen, photographed by Dennis Curran; Marialisa Calta’s food column: farmers’ markets, localvores, creemees, bbq; SolarFest, the alternative energy fair at Forget-Me-Knot Farm in Tinmouth by Jane Roy Brown, photographed by Caleb Kenna; Perennial Pleasures Nursery in East Hardwick by Steve Dryden, photographed by Jeb Wallace-Brodeur; Hemingway’s Restaurant in Killington by Marialisa Calta, photographed by Jon Gilbert Fox; Northeast Kingdom: nine attractions, two scenic tours and a geotourism map from National Geographic; five short hikes with great views by Lisa Densmore; Picture Postscript by Alex Cawley-Edwards; Green Mountain Postboy section: Baron Von Trapp; lynx in Vermont; steamboating on Otter Creek by Tom Henry; Captain Thunderbolt and the Brookline round schoolhouse; Burlington named America’s most eco-friendly place; Vermont’s new pro basketball team, the Frost Heaves; Efficiency Vermont; Finding Vermont and maple syrup go to Afghanistan and Iraq troops. Buy this issue.

Autumn 2007 — Cover photograph: John and Gladys Somers of West Barnet, photographed by Richard W. Brown, inset photograph by Natalie Stultz. Up & Over: six memorable drives through the state’s most impressive notches and gaps including Smugglers Notch, Kelly Stand Road, Appalachian Gap, Big Branch, Lincoln Gap, Hazens Notch by Pierre Home-Douglas, photographed by Alden Pellett; Brown in Black & White: hill farm photos by Richard W. Brown; Autumn by the Moment: scenic portfolio by Vermont Life contributing photographers including Natalie Stultz, Dennis Curran, Jon Gilbert Fox, Kurt Budliger, Caleb Kenna and Alan L. Graham and David A. Juaire; Farmhouse Revelry: music at an old-time tunk in Alburgh Springs by; In Love with Heirloom Apples: Scott Farm’s Ezekial Goodband is the season’s best guide to everything apple by Joyce Marcel, photographed by S. Michael Bisceglie; International Arrivals: immigrants seek refuge in Vermont by Susan Keese, photographed by Natalie Stultz; My Vermont: Four Maples, an essay by Castle Freeman Jr.; Vermont’s best cider, pies and fair food by Marialisa Calta; Addison’s Dead Creek Wildlife Day by Melanie Menagh, photographed by Natalie Stultz; the Alburgh Auction by Deborah Straw, photographed by Natalie Stultz; Northfield’s WallGoldfinger brings high-tech beauty to corporate America by Melanie Menagh, photographed by Jeb Wallace-Brodeur; Ralph Nading Hill Literary Prize winner: Hercules, an essay by Kendall Chamberlin;  The Pies That Bind: Communities Reunite at Chicken Pie Suppers by Candice White, photographed by Jeb Wallace-Brodeur; Bring the Kids: At Lyndonville’s Wildflower Inn, the Focus Is on Family Fun by Pierre Home-Douglas, photographed by Alden Pellett; Picture Postscript: fairs and boys — a match made in heaven, photograph by Jeb Wallace-Brodeur; 802 News & Connections section: Springfield hosts “The Simpson’s Movie”; Barre’s historic weathervane is not for sale; Jay Hathaway convinces the legislature to designate October 13 Vermont Pumpkin Carving Day; Waitsfield’s Grace Potter in Austin City Limits concert; Montpelier High School seniors create “802,” a rap video about Montpelier and Vermont; Pawlet’s Olden Days celebration, Vermont downtowns named finalist in Destination Award category during annual Tourism for Tomorrow Awards. Buy this issue.