Tens
of thousands descended on Washington
over the weekend for the inauguration of Barack Obama as president. Molly
Davies of Stowe is among them. This will be the second time she’s witnessed a
new president sworn in.
A group of young
people charged in a December incident in which a former home of poet Robert
Frost was vandalized are getting a lesson in Frost as part of their punishment.
Progressive Anthony Pollina is hoping to unseat Governor Jim
Douglas in November. We talk with him about his gubernatorial campaign. Also,
we visit the Saranac Lake
lab where E.L. Trudeau conducted his pioneering research on tuberculosis, and
learn why Trudeau is being honored with a postage stamp. And a trip to the Robert
Frost Stone House
Museum in Shaftsbury.
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Vermont’s prime student loan agency says it has avoided that upheaval
because it’s struck a deal with a bank for $390 million in financing.
This
weekend at Mill River Union High
School,
middle school students will be presenting Robert Frost’s work on stage in an original,
multimedia adaptation called "Frost Rimes.”
Most students, at some point in their
academic lives, study the poetry of Robert Frost. This
weekend at Mill River Union High
School,
middle school students will be presenting the poets’ work on stage in an original,
multimedia adaptation called "Frost Rimes.”
VPR’s
Nina Keck has more.
More than two
dozen young people were in court yesterday to face charges that, in a rampage
fueled by beer and marijuana, they vandalized a farmhouse where poet Robert
Frost spent 20 of his summers.