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Using two Leicas and a Nikon, Paul Fusco shot nearly 1,000 slides from the train that transported Bobby Kennedy’s body to Washington, D.C. MUST CREDIT: Paul Fusco-Magnum Photos

Essay: American History’s Crooked Path Needs Clear Vision to Guide It

by Nicola Smith Valley News CorrespondentJune 8, 2018

Chris Maggiolo, head distiller at Silo Distillery in Windsor, Vt., opens a cask to taste the progress of a one-year-old single malt whiskey made with apple wood smoked barley Friday, May 25, 2018. Maggiolo plans to release the spirit to coincide with his wedding at the distillery in July. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

Windsor’s SILO Distillery Sticks to Vermont for Ingredients

by Nicola Smith Valley News CorrespondentJune 5, 2018

The grave of Derrick Oxford, a former slave, was marked only by a blank stone until Jane Stephenson, president of the Plainfield Historical Society, researched and found he moved with his owner's family from Stonington, Conn., before serving at Saratoga and the seige of Ticonderoga in the Revolutionary War. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

Research Assembles a Portrait of a Man Brought to the Valley as a Slave

by Nicola Smith Valley News CorrespondentMay 21, 2018

"Working Model for Drop Drop," a 1988 sculpture by Richar Artschwager, is on view in "The Solace of Amnesia," a new exhibition at the Hall Art Foundation in Reading, Vt. (Hall Art Foundation)

Art Review: Depictions of a World Most of Us Forget

by Nicola Smith Valley News CorrespondentMay 16, 2018

Erik Almestica, left, and Garrett Wilson, both of White River Junction, work together in the tight space of their VT Munchies food truck while parked at Colburn Park in Lebanon, N.H., Tuesday, May 8, 2018. Almestica has been a cook at Dartmouth College's Thayer Dining Hall, and Wilson grew up in A.J.'s Restaurant, owned by his aunt. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

Upcoming Festivals in Woodstock and Lebanon Highlight the Growing Traffic of Food Trucks

by Nicola Smith Valley News CorrespondentMay 9, 2018

Photographed on April 13, 2018, one of the dining rooms at Peyton Place Restaurant in Orford, N.H., was originally a tavern in the early 1800s. As part of a nine-week renovation, paint on the fireplace mantle was removed and the room brightened with lighter colors, in part to feature local artists. The restaurant is reopening on April 19, the 25th anniversary of its founding. (Valley News - Geoff Hansen) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

Orford’s Peyton Place Restaurant Celebrates 25th Anniversary with Reopening

by Nicola Smith Valley News CorrespondentApril 18, 2018

"In some cultures, the word nature doesn't even exist," said gardener and filmmaker Stefan van Norden, 64, of Hanover, N.H. He explores the relationship between humans and nature in his new film "Negotiating with Nature," which will screen at the Latchis Theater in Brattleboro, Vt., on April 14 and at the Arsenal Gallery in New York's Central Park on May 3. "We have to start thinking as if we are nature, said van Norden. "We're part of it, not separate from it." Van Norden was photographed at the Dartmouth College Life Sciences Greenhouse in Hanover, N.H., Tuesday, April 3, 2018. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

Hanover Man’s Documentary Explores Humanity’s Lost Connection to Nature

by Nicola Smith Valley News CorrespondentApril 12, 2018

Hanover, N.H., native Katy Murdza is advocacy coordinator of the Dilley Pro Bono Project, which aims to represent immigrant families from varying countries who come to the U.S. in search of asylum. (R. Tomas Gonzalez photograph)

Hanover Native Plays a Role on Front Line of Immigration Conflict

by Nicola Smith Valley News CorrespondentApril 6, 2018

Kathleen “Kiki” Kenyon gets ready to dig in at Middle Branch Grange’s yearly Sugar-on-Snow celebration in East Bethel. (Vermont Folklife Center)

Documentary Assesses Active Grange Chapters’ Role in Community

by Nicola Smith Valley News CorrespondentMarch 29, 2018

Jack Beatty, of West Lebanon, N.H., poses for a photograph outside of his home in West Lebanon on March 22, 2018. Beatty wrote a two-man play, 'The Battle Not Begun,' portraying Adolf Hitler and Neville Chamberlain in 1938. (Valley News - Carly Geraci) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

West Lebanon Author’s Play Reassesses Hitler, Chamberlain and Their Deal

by Nicola Smith Valley News CorrespondentMarch 29, 2018