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Town Meeting Day 2018
Town meeting day in Vermont is the first Tuesday in March. Town meeting in my town of Cambridge was better this year than last year, and much of the credit is due to the Community Engagement Team (CET) created by … Continue reading
The Enlightenment Is Working
Steven Pinker had an interesting essay in this past weekend’s Wall Street Journal: The Enlightenment Is Working Dr. Pinker is a professor of psychology at Harvard University. The essay is adapted from his new book out today: Enlightenment Now: The … Continue reading
Holocaust Scholarship
The following recent news release is about Holocaust scholarship at the University of Vermont (UVM): Two UVM scholars earn fellowships at U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum This is good news. Congratulations to UVM, Associate Professor Susanna Schrafstetter, and Professor Alan Steinweis. … Continue reading
Backcountry Recreation, Part 2
Over on my other blog, The Switchel Traveler, I wrote about the growing popularity of backcountry recreation in northern New England, especially in Vermont, and including in my home town of Cambridge. See Backcountry Recreation, Part 1. This growing interest … Continue reading
The Switchel Traveler
Introducing my new blog: The Switchel Traveler OK, it’s really an old blog that I am renaming today. Henceforth my two blogs are: The Switchel Philosopher – this blog The Switchel Traveler “The Switchel Philosopher” is for adventures in the … Continue reading
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Blog Recap 2017
I started this blog in February 2017 after retiring in December 2016. Below is a summary of my 2017 posts here. Posts to introduce the blog: Welcome to The Switchel Philosopher A Word from Mrs. TSP The question in the … Continue reading
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CET Recommendations – Town Administrator
This is the fourth post in a series of four posts about the report of the Community Engagement Team (CET) to the selectboard on November 20. A list of the posts in this series is at the bottom of this … Continue reading
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