Andrew

The Way I See It: From Fields to Road and Riversides, Vermont’s Native Landscape is Under Siege

August 20, 2025

For more than 40 years I have been conducting a field experiment in my Washington County home town of Calais. Literally, as in the 10-acre field that came with the old farmhouse…

The Way I See It: For Many Vermonters, a Sad Difficult Trip Lies Ahead

March 20, 2025

by Andrew

Imagine discovering you have signed up for a multi-year journey you never expected to take and didn’t want to go on. Then you look…

The Way I See It: Unexpected Art — A Feast for the Eyes, and the Stomach

November 9, 2024

by Andrew

I recently texted friends a colorful piece of art I composed. Now you should know that “art” is not in my usual wheelhouse, but then…

The Way I See It: All This Stuff is Driving Me Crazy

May 7, 2024

by Andrew

I’ve been thinking about a lot of stuff lately. Your stuff. My stuff. Everyone’s stuff. Stuff we don’t want anymore. Stuff we don’t need.…

The Way I See It: For This Gardener, 2023 Yields a Growing Harvest of Concerns

November 16, 2023

by Andrew

Just a few days before the witches, Barbies, and Spidermen (Taylor Swifties and Travis Kelces?) descended on College Street and other noteworthy candy collection…

The Way I See It: A Deluge for the Ages Needs a Flood of New Ideas

August 8, 2023

by Andrew

We are now a month into the grand reckoning delivered by Biblical-level rains that swept away life as we knew it in downtown Montpelier.…

The Way I See It: Easter Underwear Now Ready

March 21, 2023

by Andrew

Saying something is “old news” usually represents a dismissive snark, but old news can actually be new and interesting. That is what I was…

The Way I See It: Whatever Happened to Simplicity?

December 6, 2022

by Andrew

It may sound odd, but I am looking back fondly on the days of … dials. Yes, dials. You know, those small metal or…

The Way I See It: Here’s to the Hardy Culinary Survivors

August 16, 2022

by Andrew

I recently happened to be passing through Waitsfield in late afternoon with a friend when hunger pangs set in. The Valley was my home back…

The Way I See It: Cutting the Cord: You Could Say My Days Were Numbered

April 26, 2022

by Andrew

A longtime companion of mine recently passed on. My landline. After 38 years, it is finito. Kaput. Gone. My number, 802-223-5801, has been put…

The Way I See It: I’ve Joined The Suckers Club — You Can Too

January 26, 2022

by Andrew

There’s a famous saying that “there’s a sucker born every minute.” This is commonly attributed to P.T. Barnum, the famed carnival barker, though like…

The Way I See It: From Paul’s Home Bake Shop to the Lobster Pot: Montpelier Circa 1978

August 31, 2021

by Andrew

By Andrew Nemethy Rushing to get to work, I swing into Paul’s Home Bake Shop and grab a couple of fresh glazed doughnuts, get…

The Way I See It: For this Springtime Prisoner, It’s not the Merry Month of May

May 18, 2021

by Andrew

For most Vermonters, mid-May is a time that brings the joyful realization that spring is finally here. For me, though, it’s a time of…

The Way I See It: Who Says Nothing in Life is Free?

October 14, 2020

by Andrew

“Free” signs, on cardboard and plywood or even flimsy paper, seem to sprout these days along our roadsides — sort of like burdocks, except…

The Way I See It: Thoughts on Silver Linings and Ill Winds

June 17, 2020

by Andrew

Deep in the cranial recesses lies a list of ancient aphorisms and maxims that sometimes emerge, unbidden, to remind me of some general or…

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