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Cindy Howland, of Thetford, Vt., walks through her front yard on July 12, 2018. Howland is the author of the novels "Legacy of a Wallflower" and "My Mother Grows Wallflowers." (Valley News - Jennifer Hauck) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

Thetford Author Bases Her Novels on Her Experiences and ‘Everyday People’

by Nicola Smith Valley News correspondentSeptember 6, 2018

Lawyer and composer Derrick Wang will talk with the audience after Opera North's Oct. 12 staging of "Scalia/Ginsburg," Wang's opera about the ideologically opposed Supreme Court justices who found common ground in their shared love for opera. (Courtesy photograph)

Opera North Schedules a Sharp-Edged, Contemporary Production

by Nicola Smith Valley News CorrespondentSeptember 5, 2018

Hugh Jackman portrays U.S. Sen. Gary Hart during his ill-fated run for the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination in The Front Runner, one of seven films on the Telluride at Dartmouth slate in September. (Courtesy photograph)

Telluride Comes to Hanover: Slate of Films Expands to Seven

by Nicola Smith Valley News correspondentAugust 31, 2018

Daniel Maryland, of Duluth, Minn., stands with the miniature version of the Strafford Town House he built and presented to the Strafford Historical Society in Strafford, Vt. Maryland used photographs from his daughter to make the structure and its interior. (Photograph courtesy Strafford Historical Society)

Minnesota Man Builds a Replica of Strafford’s Town House

by Nicola Smith Valley News CorrespondentAugust 10, 2018

Le Lieu Browne, of Thetford, Vt., has written a self-published memoir, "Bend the Willow," about her life in Vietnam and journalistic work with her late husband Malcolm Browne. She sells copies her book at Bookstock in Woodstock, Vt., on July 27, 2018. (Valley News - Geoff Hansen) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

Thetford Resident Recalls Her Life in Vietnam and Years of Travel

by Nicola Smith Valley News CorrespondentAugust 6, 2018

Gardener Jim Daigle moves a hosta that was receiving too much sun in one of the many gardens at his home in Plainfield, N.H., on July 11, 2018. (Valley News - Jennifer Hauck) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

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Plainfield Gardener Revels in Peace and Quiet, and Hostas

by Nicola Smith Valley News CorrespondentJuly 18, 2018

Aerial circus artist Ashlee Montague, of New York City, rehearses Skyfall with Opera North singer Blake Jennings, of Boston, left, as Assistant Director Antoinette De Pietropolo, back left, and Director Mark Lonergan, back right, look on at Blow-Me-Down Farm in Cornish, N.H., Monday, July 10, 2018. The opera company is in collaboration with the National Park Service to turn the farm into a home for the visual and performing arts. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

Opera North Combines Aerialists, Arias and Ambition

by Nicola Smith Valley News CorrespondentJuly 11, 2018

At their home in Newbury, Vt., on July 3, 2018 Kim and Bob Gray along with their daughter Molly Gray toast Mariska De Keersmaecker during lunch with their homemade hard cider. A friend of Molly's, De Keersmaecker is from Belgium. Also at the table is Colter Bengston, who is at the farm with his mother working for the summer, they are from Montana. (Valley News - Jennifer Hauck) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

Newbury’s 4 Corners Farm Undertakes the Tricky Transfer Between Generations

by Nicola Smith Valley News Staff WriterJuly 6, 2018

Elephant Rock is a glacial erratic in Newport, N.H., June 21, 2018. Jan and Christy Butler write about the boulder in their book "Erratic Wandering: An Explorer's Hiking Guide to Astonishing Boulders in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont," as follows. "At 30 feet in length and 20 feet tall, standing atop the rock gave a commanding view over the town of Newport, until the reforestation of the woodlands enshrouded the hill top obscuring the view." (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

Book Identifies Region’s Many Glacial Erratics

by Nicola Smith Valley News CorrespondentJune 25, 2018

Owen Daniel-McCarter, left, and Jesse Plotsky, right, plan to open Babes Bar in the former train depot in Bethel on Friday. The Chicago transplants have been remodeling the space, previously occupied by the Depot bar and a barber shop before that, in the hope that it will be a welcoming community place. "We want to honor how beautiful and historic this building is and bring it back to life," said Daniel-McCarter. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

A Bar Is Born: Couple Refreshes a Bethel Landmark

by Nicola Smith Valley News CorrespondentJune 12, 2018