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11/27/09: On the day after Thanksgiving, the American Red Cross Burlington Blood Donor Center was hopping with people happy to give back.
Looking for the perfect gift this holiday season?
Head to your nearest Blood Donor Center and donate 1 pint of blood which has the potential to save 3 lives.
You can learn more about Lucy's story here.
Music: Syd, The Way We Found It, "Interlude"
11/8/09: The Green Mountain Hounds carry on the illustrious tradition of fox hunting with a modern day twist - instead of hunting actual foxes, the hounds trail the scent of anise.
Music:
Renaissonics, Carols for Dancing, "Gaytas," "Fum, Fum, Fum"
Location: Charlotte, Richmond, VT
10/24/09: Triptych Creations is the handiwork of special make-up FX artists Rebecca Reil and Sara Glasgow. Eva visits Triptych HQ to get shot through the face for the 4th Annual Burlington Zombie Walk. Get ready for a hefty serving of blood, guts and brainz.
Music: Aaron Reil, "Scratch Me"
Locations: Triptych HQ, Church ST, Burlington VT
10/5/09: Don Eggert, Creative Director of Seven Days, talks about the new magazine-style format Vermont's alt weekly is switching to October 7th, this Wednesday.
Music: Missy Bly, Clean Bee, "She N' Me"
La Strada, "Flying"
Location: Burlington, VT to North Haverhill, NH
9/12/09: September 1st it became legal for same sex couples to wed in Vermont. Dana & Katie said their vows in front of a large crowd of supportive family and friends at Trapp Family Lodge Saturday.
Music:
The Smittens, A Little Revolution, "Jeans and Mittens" The Coolest Thing About Love, "One Hundred Roses," "One for Me," Dana Julie Kaplan, "Year of the Lake"
7/4/09: Lake Champlain Walleye Association and Vermont Fish & Wildlife have been working for decades to increase the population of walleyes in the lake and its surrounding rivers.
Thursday they harvested a St Albans pond of 12,500 walleye fingerlings which will be making their way into the Winooski River.
Editor's Note: My good friend and fellow filmmaker Keith Wilson of Walleye Productions makes a brief appearance in this video.
6/23/09: Pete's Greens is a four season organic vegetable farm in Craftsbury. Eva talks to Pete and Meg about the current farming trend, local food as the new growth industry in rural areas and the idea that VT could one day feed itself.
Music: The Jazz Guys, A Blessing in Disguise, "The $6,000 Million Dollar Man"
Greg Davis, Curling Pond Woods, "Brocade (Rewoven)"
Location: Pete's Greens Four Season Organic Vegetable Farm, Craftsbury, VT
Editor's Note: For the record, I've been a member of Pete's Greens' Good Eats CSA since the winter of 08.
4/28/09 Disc golf, a harmless pastime or a public nuisance? A debate has been raging in Burlington (pro and con) about a proposed 18-hole disc golf course at Leddy Park.
Eva travels to the Johnson State College disc golf course and proposed holes at Leddy Park to see what all the fuss is about.
Note: Read Shay Totten's Going in Circles about this debate:
4/17/09: Every Friday, a group of 6th-8th graders air a news broadcast called SBNN, the South Burlington Network News, for the student body at Tuttle Middle School.
They recently won two spots in a national C-SPAN StudentCam video contest for their work.
In the ever changing media landscape, are these tech saavy students our future?
Note: UVM graduate and former Seven Days Video Correspondent, Louis Armistead, mentored the SBNN students who credited him for their recent injections of humor. Thanks Lou, we miss you.
3/21/09: COTS, The Committee on Temporary Shelter, has been unable to house the growing population of homeless Vermont residents.
Champlain College is in the process of transforming the former Eagle's Club into student housing. In the interim, they have donated the space to COTS as a temporary shelter which will house 10 families and 16 individuals.
The community came together to transform this empty building into a warm, colorful place where children will be living.
Music: Silent Mind, 2012 Here We Come, "I Want to Go Home"
11/14/08: So you want to be on TV? In Burlington Vermont VCAM, Vermont Community Access Media, has been providing media tools and education to the general community for years.
Eva, a former producer of The Deadbeat Club, talks to other cable access producers about the magic of television and the freedom of self-expression.
2/7/09: Lubiana's Bridal is a 30 year old multi-generational family business in Barre Vermont. Lubiana and her sister Anna came to Barre from Italy when their father got a gig sculpting granite.
Now Lubiana's daughter Tania helps run the joint and brides to be come from all over the region to try on the taffeta, ruffles and bows and make their bridal dreams come true.
Music: The Smittens, The Coolest Thing About Love, "The One for Me"
Location: Lubiana's Bridal, Barre Vermont
Also, check out this 7Dtv recap of the Burlington Mayoral Debate last week (you can read the Blurt recap here):
12/13/08: Vermont-based cartoonist Alison Bechdel talks about fame, her 25-year old comic Dykes to Watch Out For and her celebrated graphic novel Fun Home.
Alison demonstrates impressive physical strength and explains why the personal has always been political for her.
Music: Antara, Harbor All The Strays, "Paint"
Location: Bolton, Vermont
11/29/08: The Moffatts have been growing Christmas trees since the 1930s. For three generations they have been patiently cultivating their 700+ acres of land and shipping their trees across New England.
Organizations like Vermont Land Trust and
Vermont’s
Use Value Appraisal Program, also called “Current Use,” help family farmers like the Moffatts keep their land undeveloped and au natural for years to come.
Music:
Pariah Beat
Pariah Beat Radio
"Don't You Think About Me Anymore"
Greg Davis
Curling Pond Woods
"Curling Pond Woods"
Location: Moffatt's Tree Farm, Craftsbury, Vermont
11/17/08: The tiny house movement is getting HUGE as Americans shrink their budgets and look for affordable alternatives to their Stuff Nation.
Peter King has been building tiny houses for years and hopes to teach others the basics of simple living.
Music:
Silent Mind, 2012 Here We Come, "I Want to Go Home"
LOCATION:
East Johnson, Vermont
10/11/08: Eva and friends celebrate 100 episodes of her arts and culture vlog, "Stuck in Vermont."
We examine why it is a good thing to be stuck in VT and say the words "stuck" and "Vermont" about one million times.
Music: The Smittens
Location: Johnson, Montpelier, Burlington Vermont
10/3/08: The preschool-age kids of Burlington Children's Space grill Mayor Bob Kiss over pancakes.
Just what exactly does the mayor do every day - besides climbing mountains and jumping in puddles?
Music: Ryan Power, Is It Happening?, "Is It Happening?"
Location: McClure Multi-Generational Center, Burlington Vermont
8/3/08: Love him or hate him, Peter Freyne has been Vermont's most renowned political journalist for over 20 years.
Freyne
recently retired his Seven Days column, "Inside Track" and Eva caught
up with him to have a look back at his legacy with some old friends.
Watch video on YouTube here.
7/12/08: "The Dark Knight" premiered in Montpelier Saturday, days before it's general release.
We have Vermont's own Dark Knight to thank for this rare event - US Senator Patrick Leahy who has a cameo in the film (watch clip).
Patrick Leahy grew up in Montpelier Vermont. Blind in one eye, he spent much of his free time reading comics at the Kellogg-Hubbard Library.
Years later, he is the library's favorite Superhero, donating proceeds from his Batman film appearances and this recent screening of The Dark Knight.
Leahy sits down with the library's Comics Clubs to talk about Batman, "The Dark Knight," and why he loves reading.
Music: Space Tiger, Lapping Up the Milky Way
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