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Chelsea Edgar
Chelsea Edgar is a staff writer for Seven Days, and has written for BuzzFeed and Philadelphia magazine.
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Tillie Walden's Forthcoming Graphic Novel Celebrates One of the Earliest Documented Lesbian Couples in America
More than two centuries before the U.S. Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage, at a time when women couldn't vote or own property, Charity Bryant…
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Backstory: A Very Weird Week on Capitol Hill With Rookie Rep. Becca Balint
On January 2, I flew to Washington, D.C., to document a momentous occasion — U.S. Rep. Becca Balint's (D-Vt.) first week in the House of Representatives as the first woman elected to serve Vermont in Congress. I assumed that it would be an overwhelming experience, that I would get lost in many tunnels and be plagued by the fear that I was failing at my one task, which was to observe Balint doing important, congressional things. It did not occur to me that she might not officially become a congresswoman in that first week.
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Backstory: The Takeaway From a Month in the Life of Bread and Puppet Theater
Since I attended my first Bread and Puppet show a few years ago, I've been curious about the little society of performers that flourishes each summer at the theater's 200-acre farm. I love immersive reporting assignments, and I figured that the only way to understand Bread and Puppet — a quasi-commune, led by a visionary artist and sustained by mostly unpaid labor — was to spend a lot of time there.
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Remembering Maple Corner's Eleanor Kokar Ott: 'She Was Completely Curious and Open to Everything'
Eleanor Ott had a genius for bringing people together. In the book-lined dining room of her 19th-century farmhouse in Maple Corner, she ran an eclectic backwoods salon, hosting women's discussion groups and rune feasts to fête the solstices. At her table, you might find yourself elbow-to-elbow with a close friend of the crown prince of England, a psychic healer from Iceland, or a photographer who had documented the Civil Rights movement.
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What Louise Glück Wanted 'Was to Be Understood'
From a young age, Louise Glück (April 22, 1943-October 13, 2023 ) aspired to be a great poet — but not in the…
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Book Review: 'UFO: The Inside Story of the US Government's Search for Alien Life Here — and Out There,' Garrett Graff
In 1947, a pilot spotted a fleet of strange objects traveling in the skies over Mount Rainier at speeds between 1,200 and 1,700 miles…
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UVM Philosophy Professor Randall Harp on the Moral Dilemmas of AI
Each day, artificial intelligence gets a little better at impersonating us. It can express fears and hopes, write a novel about cats in the…
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Former Vermont Poet Laureate and Nobel Prize Winner Louise Glück Dies at 80
Former Vermont poet laureate Louise Glück, whose gift for suffusing the mundane with the sublime won her virtually every honor available to a writer…
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