Tom Slayton
CommentatorTom Slayton is a longtime journalist, editor and author who lives in Montpelier.
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I've been reading Robert Caro's latest book, Working, detailing how he researched and wrote his magisterial, vividly detailed biographies of Robert Moses… -
The unveiling of a State House exhibit earlier this month celebrating the history of the Abenaki people and their struggle for recognition was both…
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The recent fire that damaged Notre Dame triggered an outpouring of French anguish over the near-destruction of a building they considered a part of…
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The beautiful new statue of Agriculture, better known as Ceres, is finally back atop the dome of the Vermont State House, and she looks just great. She’s…
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At Bear Pond Books recently, in the midst of what passes for a huge crowd in downtown Montpelier, Ed Koren, the New Yorker cartoonist who has lived in…
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Bennington Museum’s current exhibition of New Deal art is a fine collection of prints, photographs and paintings from the 1930s – including several…
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Mount Philo in North Ferrisburgh was formed about five hundred million years ago, and ever since humans came along some millennia later, its summit has…
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We like to think of Vermont as an honest, open-hearted place. Would national politics ever cloud or distort that? Perish the thought!But despite our…
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Like many Vermonters, one of the state’s most important artworks spent last winter in Florida.It’s home now, and the spectacular wall-sized painting,…
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As I walked out onto the boardwalk that crosses Eshqua Bog in Hartland, the trees opened out above me, a broad sky appeared, and the idea of trolls…
