October 23, 2005
First snow ::
narrative, personal — No Tags
10:36 am
So, I woke up to snow this morning, which was a little surprising. Although I’ve experienced early snowfalls in my three years in Vermont, this by far was the earliest by at least a week. (The previous record for me was set on November 1, 2002. On that day, I seem to remember waking up to a light dusting of snow). And while I’ve intellectually come to expect an early change in the seasons, emotionally speaking I still must contend with the experience every year. It gets easier as time passes, though.
October 16, 2005
What happens when protests turn fun in Vemont ::
vermont — tagged politics, vermont and weird
10:31 pm
Up in the town of Derby Line, Vermont today, demonstrators on both the Vermont and Canadian sides of the border turned out to protest the presence of the Minutemen, that group of anti-immigrant do-gooders who patrol US borders for “illegal activity.” Apparently, the Minutemen stopped in town to make sure our Canadian neighbors weren’t trying anything funny. The police were there, of course, to be sure the protest stayed orderly. Then this happened:
The groups began kicking a ball back and forth across the border, a game that concluded when a Vermont state trooper took the ball away.
Who knows if people just went home after the police seized that ball. But the article implies that they did.
