2008 Woodie Awards
Who says 'Get Outside Week' comes only once a year? In honor of spring's arrival, The Campus offers you a guide to popular hiking spots around Middlebury to get you out of the classroom and into some fresh air. 1. Cooley Glen/Emily Proctor Located in South Lincoln in the Green Mountatin National Forest, both of these trails are roughly 8.
On April 20, local residents joined College students on the Town Green for an Earth Day Fair, sponsored by the Addison County Relocalization Network (AcoRN) and the Middlebury Area Global Warming Action Committee (MAGWAC). The two-hour event featured an opening drumming circle, a full schedule of musical performances, samples of local food from the Middlebury Natural Food Co-op and American Flatbread, a costumed children's procession, posters and presentations from eco-conscious organizations and a seed and plant exchange in which participants could swap or give away seeds, seedlings and perennials.
Though most of the events sponsored by PowerShift Vermont occurred on campus earlier in the weekend, the environmental conference culminated events that linked the climate change movement on campus to efforts for change in the greater community of Vermont.
The past three Mondays have seen the whir of traffic jams, bicyclists and joggers which mark a typical spring afternoon on Main Street supplemented by a perhaps slightly less congruent sight - Yannig Tanguy leaning against the brick retaining wall in front of Steele's Auto Center, his dented white van parked behind him, a guitar in hand and baskets teeming with loaves of oven-fresh bread, biscuits and pastries spread out on a table in front of him.
Last August, as I was sitting in my hometown Barnes & Noble and fantasizing about my imminent return to Middlebury, I leafed through a sea of Vermont travel guides and compiled a list which, eight months later, reads like a prophetic road map of two semesters' worth of Local News-induced frolicking.
Lilac Wand Hand-Out The Middlebury Garden Club will distribute lilac wands on April 26 from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. in the parking lot behind Ilsley Public Library. What, exactly, is a lilac wand? When in doubt, consult Google - and remain baffled. Local News's best guesses include some manner of flower arrangement or garden implement, or (the most alluring and least probable possibility) an object which is "sacred to Gemini and brings the root energy of expansion and growth," according to the Web site of Johann & Son Wandmakers, which specializes in crafting "handmade magic wands" from traditional Druidic woods.