Idyll banter : weekly excursions to a very small town /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Harmony Books,
[2003]
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
Table of Contents:
- The yellow house on the corner of Quaker Street
- Now that the cows are gone
- Sowing the seeds with a little sprout
- That roof didn't collapse : it's a home improvement project
- Love blooms over the septic tank
- Scenic barn is really a biohazard
- Dead cluster flies serve as window insulation for the inept
- City slicker gets a taste of country marketing
- Theater, on stage and off, inspires young actress
- Two types of writing
- The center of town
- Losing the library
- Walk the postal route with a mailman to get to know the town
- It's the cream cheese brownies that bring out the vote
- The slowest driver in Vermont
- Vermont has changed-but not its people X
- Life, liberty and plenty of Charmin
- Meetings messy by necessity
- Village's center starts in aisle one
- The school-playgrounds and classrooms
- Drama lives in preschool Oz odyssey
- It's not easy to be a kid
- The thrill, the stress, the joy of the race
- Isaac and Gus survive girl world
- Inspiring teachers make education worth every penny
- Will sleeping beauty wake for school?
- A crush on your teacher is no excuse to act like a geek
- Don't believe all you read : the kids are all right
- A person can learn a lot from Ian Freeman
- The local wildlife
- Surly cow displays no remorse
- Dead bat duty draws the line
- Town's all atwitter about Rosie
- It's not mind over matter-it's mind over manure
- The case of the curious crustacean
- An old cat's name alone conjured wondrous memories
- The green-and then spectacularly yellow and red-mountains
- Why the Green Mountains turn red
- Vermont ready to be mired in spring
- Spirits live at Bartlett's swimming hole
- The Vermont woods look different without any leaves
- Snow colors Vermont in beauty
- Cheating death in the ap-gap
- Sugarers signal end of winter
- Select numbers show a changing Vermont
- A church with a weathervane atop the steeple
- A fender bender with baby Jesus?
- Clouds can't hide the sun on a spiritually bright Easter morning
- Faith gives a child serenity
- Marriage weds love to laughter
- - Thank you, friend, for guiding me deeper into my faith
- The cemetery
- Of memory and hope
- A passing of history and hospitality
- An elegy for the state's finest Red Sox fan
- How a family copes with loss : building love on little white lies
- Farmers Fletcher and Don Brown knew how to grow community
- A family's farewell to tiger
- Brief excursions away from Lincoln
- Untethered in Spain, set free on Route
- Flirtatious Minnie pulls up her hem
- Midlife crisis results in taking part in the weenie triathlon
- Rice pudding and French editor help novice cyclist survive
- A gardener can take pride in those $17 carrots
- Before books on tape there was mom
- At Denver's Gate B52 when the world was transformed
- Talking then, talking now
- Candy hearts would have bewildered Armenian grandparents
- - On Mother's Day, grandmother briefly returned
- The ladies' room just inside Tomorrowland : a short story.