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On July 1 last summer, Didi Pershouse was in the Adirondacks writing a chapter about observing the effects of rain on soil for her book "Understanding Soil Health and Watershed Function" as a rain storm was causing flooding near her home in Thetford Center, Vt. "And I was thinking, gee, I wish I had some good photographs for this," she said. Buzzell Bridge Road, where Pershouse walks her dog near her home, remains a washed out gully five months later, Friday, Dec. 15, 2017. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

Thetford Author Says Soil Is Key To Addressing Effects of Climate Change

by Nicola Smith Valley News CorrespondentDecember 19, 2017

New Hampshire Author Pens New Book About the Struggles of a Former Mill Town

by Nicola Smith Valley News CorrespondentDecember 15, 2017

Artist Peter Brooke is photographed in the studio near his home in North Pomfret, Vt., on Dec. 6, 2017. Brooke's paintings of American landscapes are drawn from memory, "the imagined and the real." (Valley News - Geoff Hansen) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

Art Notes: Pomfret’s Peter Brooke Paints From Memory

by Nicola Smith Valley News CorrespondentDecember 14, 2017

Opera North's 2018 Summerfest will include more events at Blow-Me-Down Farm in Cornish. (Courtesy Opera North)

Opera North to Produce Crowd Favorites, More Dates in Cornish in 2018

by Nicola Smith Valley News CorrespondentDecember 14, 2017

Travis Ramsey, of Etna, N.H., teaches at the Marion Cross School in Norwich, Vt. Ramsey is a composer and has a commissioned composition for Bel Canto Chamber Singers. (Valley News - Jennifer Hauck) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

Bel Canto Chorus to Sing Upper Valley Composer’s ‘Magnificat’

by Nicola Smith Valley News CorrespondentDecember 7, 2017

Felicity Swayze, at her home in Tunbridge, Vt., on Nov. 15, 2017. Swayze has a self-published memoir about being sent as a child from the United Kingdom to the United States during World War II. (Valley News - Jennifer Hauck) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

Tunbridge Woman Authors New Book Based on Her Parents’ Wartime Letters

by Nicola Smith Valley News CorrespondentDecember 4, 2017

Art Notes: Main Street Museum Celebrates the Season and 25th Anniversary

by Nicola Smith Valley News CorrespondentNovember 30, 2017

As his Catamount Cup game against Barbara McGrew, of Burlington, winds down, Ed Liebfried, of Swanzey, N.H., finds an excess of E's on his slate of letters at the Norwich Public Library in Norwich, Vt., Saturday, Nov. 11, 2017. Liebfried was able to use all the characters by making the word "beeper" on the board. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

Vermont Scrabble Tournament Has Its Own Lexicon

by Nicola Smith Valley News CorrespondentNovember 18, 2017

High Horses instructor Molly Fenty watches rider Klarey Black, of Enfield, N.H., go over a jump at the facility on Nov. 3, 2017. in Sharon, Vt. Fenty is a Marine veteran. (Valley News - Jennifer Hauck) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

Veterans Program Grows at High Horses’ New Facility in Sharon

by Nicola Smith Valley News CorrespondentNovember 13, 2017

"Kiss the Cod," a hooked rug by Fern Strong, is among the works on view in a show of handmade rugs at Pompanoosuc Mills in East Thetford.

Art Notes: Hooked Rugs Hold the Expressive Power of Paintings

by Nicola Smith Valley News CorrespondentNovember 9, 2017