IT'S A PLEASURE, UPPER VALLEY!
You know how two days of gloom make you feel like it'll never get sunny? I'm happy to say that's wrong. For the first part of today, anyway. A surface high moves in from the west, temps will be mild and the sun will be out and there'll be a spring in our steps... Highs in the mid-30s. Of course, then the clouds move in and there's tonight: snow after midnight, an inch or so by morning.Well, that's over... But before we all move on from the NH primary, the VN's got town-by-town results at the link. Of note: Buttigieg carried the Upper Valley, easily winning Hanover and New London, trailing Sanders narrowly in Lebanon and Claremont, and edging Klobuchar in Lyme by just one vote. Enfield numbers not in yet. Also: The VN reports the new voting laws didn't seem to trouble Dartmouth students, though turnout was down from 2016 in Hanover (and way down in New London, possibly due to weather and the crash below). Beer truck rolls over on I-89 in New London, loses kegs. The truck, which is owned by Hooksett-based alcohol distributer Bellavance Beverage Company, slid into a pickup near Exit 12A in mixed rain and snow yesterday morning, sending both vehicles into the median, then rolling over and spilling its contents. The northbound left lane remained closed into the afternoon as crews mopped up. "We don’t normally respond to incidents where box trucks dump beer into the median,” Trooper Irwin Malilay told the Boston Globe.That deer on the ice? It swam to safety. Or at least, a Fish & Game officer yesterday morning saw tracks leading from the Sugar River up onto the riverbank. And the deer was nowhere to be seen. “I don’t think people are aware that deer are pretty good swimmers,” Col. Kevin Jordan told the AP.An unreal sunrise shot, looking down the Connecticut toward Mt. Ascutney. Five stills from a drone, stitched together into a panorama by Reddit user RockCrawl. The clouds pink and orange, every fold of the mountain clear and crisp, the snow-covered fields and the river stretching off into the distance... As always, click on the photo to get the full impact.Joyce Maynard pens a little love letter to the Lake Morey skating trail. In a long essay in the NYT, Maynard writes about re-discovering the joy of skating after her husband died, and her even greater joy at discovering the Lake Morey trail. "When you’re skating a four-and-a-half mile long trail, you don’t need to worry about crowds," she writes. "Nobody’s coming along behind you, or hotdogging alongside... All my life I had wished I had a river I could skate away on. That night, I discovered, a lake would do." (Thanks for the tip, JT!)And LL Bean films a little love letter to Whaleback Mountain. The outdoor apparel/equipment company is just up with a five-minute, professionally produced video on "The Little Mountain That Could." It recounts Whaleback's struggles and its comeback from bankruptcy thanks to a whole lot of community effort. "The best part is that it's your home mountain, and that everybody feels it's their home mountain," says Rebecca Reed, the ski area's general manager, who first got involved as a volunteer. There aren't many community ski hills left; this is what one looks like. (Thanks for the tip, BS!)Dartmouth football sends another coach to the NFL — the league's first black woman. Jennifer King, who coached basketball for Johnson & Wales in 2018 and then spent last fall as an offensive assistant for Dartmouth's football team, was announced Monday as the Washington Redskins' first female coach. She's a "coaching intern," with the responsibilities of a full-time assistant coach, working mostly with the team's running backs. Norwich's next big listserv topic? In April, Norwich Police Chief Jen Frank plans to host a school safety training focused on "learning to detect threat potential and security weaknesses both day and night on and around a school campus." The issue? Norwich Observer blogger Chris Katucki notes a letter to the SB pointing out that the training will be done by NRA instructors, in part using the Marion Cross School: "We are concerned that the NRA – well known as a major lobbyist on behalf of the US gun industry – will be controversial in Norwich," the letter says.One last take on VT's failed family leave override. VTDigger's John Walters is up with an analysis of its many echoes for this political year. For starters, Democratic leaders are pinning blame for the vote that would have made the difference on Linda Sullivan, of Dorset. Who happens to be challenging state auditor Doug Hoffer in a primary. Want to guess how that'll go now? There are more showdowns coming with the governor: minimum wage for sure, and probably gun regs and climate change. And all this will no doubt play into the fall's gubernatorial race. Farms in winter. It's true, they slow down. It's a time for repairs and maintenance and preparation. But they don't stop. Seven Days is up with a slideshow and essay (photos by Luke Awtry, text by Melissa Pasanen) of Bread & Butter Farm in Shelburne and S. Burlington; Does' Leap Farm in Bakersfield (goat alert!); and the Yates Family Orchard in Monkton (pruning in snow alert!). No spin, just news that connects you. If you like Daybreak and want to help it keep going, here's how:
IT'S A SURPRISINGLY LIBRARY EVENING...
That's "small press" as in smaller publishers that put out forgotten, ignored, emerging, experimental, unconventional writers — or sometimes, just work in translation. Dartmouth's Book Arts Program hosts Matvei Yankelevich, an editor and one of the co-founders of Brooklyn-based Ugly Duckling Presse, which specializes not just in books, but in chapbooks, artist’s books, broadsides, and periodicals. 5 pm, Baker Library's East Reading Room.
Local historian Larry Coffin will be talking about the final year of WWII, using LIFE Mag's coverage of those months to talk about the social, economic, and military aspects of that time. 6:30 pm.
It's pretty simple: Bring a chocolate dish to share and, ideally, a copy of your recipe. Come on, you've got
all day
to prepare. And odds are good you'll get so much more than you give. Starts at 7.
Tonight's the first of four Cabin Fever Coffee Houses in Lyme Center. The Dinosaurs will run for about an hour, covering bluegrass, classic country, and Western swing, and then anyone who's brought along an acoustic instrument can join in for an evening's jam. Starts at 6 at the Lyme Center Academy Building.
"Three Canadians lost in the weird and wonderful traditional country music of the American South" — including two Torontonians and a bass player from Horsefly, British Columbia. They're renowned on the bluegrass circuit to the north for their powerful vocals and flights of musicianship that are by turns rampaging and lyrical. "Everything that makes bluegrass such a euphoric live experience," a reviewer wrote last year. Starts at 8, room opens at 6, you'll need reservations: 603.526.6899.
Don't believe it? Here's the Lonesome Ace Stringband in Germany a couple of years ago with
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