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Who needs skis? When you're a mountain goat hell-bent on getting to the bottom of the mountain, that is.“In the womb…we looked less like people and more like rainbow trout.” That’s writer Lauren Silverman, submerging us with one of the most mysterious fish in the world. Silverman pens a beautiful piece—part popular science, part confessional—about how much the rainbow trout’s migration and spawning habits mirror our own impulses to move from one place to another. Only a tiny percentage of these fish swim from their freshwater home to a salty, perilous sea, and back again. Her partner Paulo left his home in Argentina and yearns to go back. The ocean transforms the fish; some never return."Woodstock is Vermont's Hellmouth." And hey, that's a guy who would know: renowned author and folklorist of the spooky, Joe Citro. For Episode 666 of "Stuck in Vermont," Seven Days' Eva Sollberger headed to Woodstock to meet up with Citro and get a tour of the town where "so many weird things go on...and have gone on," as Citro says. They swing by the Norman Williams Public Library, F.H. Gillingham & Sons (to check in on its friendly ghost), and other spots in town, and Citro reminisces... including about the teacher who told him he'd never be a writer because he couldn't spell.The Thursday Vordle. With a word from the news.Music for a Thursday morning. When he was in his 50s, Canadian folk performer Tom Wilson discovered that, instead of being the "big, sweaty Irish guy" he'd always thought, he was actually adopted and his birth parents were Mohawk. That led him in new directions, which is how he wound up at an Indigenous awards ceremony sharing a stage with iskwē, a singer-songwriter of Cree, Dené and Irish heritage. They'd never collaborated before but they hit it off, and went on to release a redo of an earlier Wilson song, bringing in Ojibwe jazz trumpeter Chuck Copenace to add to the extremely cool vibe on "Blue Moon Drive."See you tomorrow.
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