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| Mug and Donut winning sculpture by the Peacham Library staff and friends |
Dearest
Readers,
I love
the community spirit of this village! Population 700-ish in the summer, maybe
500 now. This weekend many neighbors rolled up their sleeves, and put together
a unique home-made
Winter Carnival as an antidote to the cabin fever of deep
winter in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont.
It was great! There was a snow sculpture
contest, an oxen team snow roller demo, a lumberjack exhibition with axes and
chainsaws, chili and hot chocolate, sugar on snow, a contra dance, pancake
breakfast, guided nature hike on snowshoes, crafts for sale, a singer in the
local café, and snowmen throughout the town.
Put on your coats and hats...
Here’s
my photo gallery of cool people and winter events:
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| Contra Dance Friday Night at the Town Hall |
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| Saturday morning: VT State Senator Jane Kitchel left, and her sister VT State Representative KittyKitchel at the Pancake breakfast, Saturday at the Congregational Church. Real maple syrup! |
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Saturday morning: Charlie Browne, naturalist on left, Dina Danielson, Carnival organizer on right-Getting ready for the snowshoe nature hike.
Dina's teenage daughter is in the middle |
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| The nature hike on snowshoes begins at the elementary school. Here Charlie vocalizes various owl calls |
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| Saturday morning: Peacham School basketball court becomes an ice rink. No one here yet. |
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| Saturday: Kid made snowman on Church Street. Others throughout town. |
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| Sunday afternoon: Boy eats the last sugar on snow at Kempton Village Farm on Church Street just before I arrived. It's made of heated maple syrup poured over snow. He told me his name, but I forget. |
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Saturday: Library team creating the winning mug and donut sculpture with shovels, pickax and chain saw
from a pile of municipal road removed snow |
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| Saturday: Assistant Town Clerk sawing away at the coffee mug sculpture and sweating bullets |
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| Sunday: Calvin Willard setting up logs, axes, and chain saws for the lumberjack demonstration |
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| Sunday: Oxen team ready for the snow roller demo with Mike Low and Dick Hovey |
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| Sunday: Before snow plows, oxen flattened the snow with heavy rollers |
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| Sunday afternoon: kids climb up and tumble down the piles of municipal snow plow snow |
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| Sunday afternoon: Last bowl of veggie chili and cornbread at the Vol. Fire Station-and I get it for free! |
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