Top Stories for Tuesday September 10, 2013

On the Land and Tredding Alternative Educational Journeys: The Walden Experience
By Cookie Steponaitis
“We are all schoolmasters and our schoolhouse is the universe. To attend chiefly to the desk or schoolhouse while we neglect the scenery in which it is placed is absurd.” Henry David Thoreau, Journal, 15 October, 1859

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Connected With The Community And On The Move: Keeping Up With Betty Kipp
By Cookie Steponaitis
Betty and John Kipp first gazed upon the Champlain Valley of Vermont in the early 1950’s when the couple came to vacation at cabins owned by the Kneeshaw family. Their love affair with not only the landscape but the people and way of life made the couple want to call the valley their home. When the opportunity presented itself to purchase a lot directly across the road from their lakeside cabin John drove directly to the farmer’s home and asked what he wanted for the property. The decision sealed the family’s path and brought the Kipp family to the Green Mountains in 1970.

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