Stephanie Greene
CommentatorStephanie Greene is a free-lance writer now living with her husband and sons on the family farm in Windham County.
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I grew up VT style, where the virtues of patience were constantly extolled. We waited for recess, we waited for snow, we waited Santa, and we waited for… -
Time was that first year college students arrived on campus with their milk crates and graduated four years later. My parents were mortified that I took…
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Decades ago, my kindergarten class memorized Robert Frost's Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening. I recall that we performed it several times,…
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With the senate passing a bill (S84) exempting almost a quarter of Vermont vehicles from emissions testing, we have to tighten up other sources of…
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Thirty years ago Mary Hepburn saw the need for a town arts center in Saxtons River. And her vision was comprehensive. The arts building would include…
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I was dismayed but not surprised to see the third Women’s March on Washington fracture over political differences. With accusations of anti-Semitism and…
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Stories, as much as anything, root us to place. We’re narrative creatures, after all. So when The Brattleboro Words Project came to my attention more than…
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A Yankee Swap can bring out the worst in people. Tact and generosity go out the window; bald greed and selfishness climb gleefully in.For the uninitiated,…
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Over the past few years, I’ve been joining a group of friends for a holiday craft afternoon during which each person brings a project to share and sets up…
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I’ve been talking to some people who didn’t vote in the 2016 election. One young man summed up his disinterest by saying he didn’t feel the two party…
