Commentary Series
Commentary Series
Slayton: From Luminous Shade
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Tom Slayton recently attended a gallery exhibit featuring the work of two Vermont artists who collaborated on a project reflecting their personal journeys from loss to acceptance – from darkness to light.Commentary Series
Slayton: Sydney Lea’s Poetry
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Vermont Poet Laureate Sydney Lea is now touring Vermont, giving readings at local libraries throughout the state. Tom Slayton attended a recent reading by the poet at the Vermont State House in Montpelier.Commentary Series
Slayton: Persian Visions
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We often think of Iran as a society of monolithic religious fundamentalism – and as The Enemy. But according to Tom Slayton, an exhibition of Iranian photographs at the Fleming Museum in Burlington through May 20 shows us otherwise.Commentary Series
Slayton: Invisible Odysseys
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An exhibition of artworks created by some of the roughly 1,500 Mexicans working on Vermont dairy farms is now on display at the Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury. Commentator Tom Slayton – long time journalist and observer of all things Vermont – visited the show and has the following observations.Commentary Series
Slayton: Winter Birds
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While watching the birds at his backyard feeder this year, commentator Tom Slayton has been thinking about the pleasures of birding in the wintertime.Commentary Series
Slayton: Lessons from Lowell
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Commentator Tom Slayton has been thinking about how the controversy over Green Mountain Power’s plans to build a series of industrial-sized wind towers along the summit of the Lowell Mountains has sharply divided the Vermont environmental community.Commentary Series
Slayton: Still Working
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To conclude our encore presentation of last summer’s joint project with the Billings Farm and Museum on Vermont’s General Stores, commentator Tom Slayton looks at their survival – and their relevance – in today’s Vermont.Commentary Series
Slayton: Surviving Change
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All this week, we’re revisiting last summer’s tour of Vermont’s General Stores, produced in partnership with the Billings Farm and Museum. Today, commentator Tom Slayton considers why general stores, once the center of village life in Vermont, eventually began to change and assume the mostly subsidiary role they play today.Commentary Series
