• Acknowledgments
• Foreword
• MUSINGS FROM HOME
• A Hundred Years of This
• Slow But Literate
• Making Pictures, Not Taking Pictures
• Bees and the Tunbridge World’s Fair
• Strike’s Over
• Calm, Quiet, Innocent Recreation
• Hurricane Season
• It Takes More Than Food
• Old Friends, Fresh Interests
• Unity and Joy
• THOUGHTS FROM SLIGHTLY FARTHER AFIELD
• Ike Fishes Vermont
• Irish in the Green Mountains
• A Farewell to Wood
• Wheeler Mountain and Machu Picchu
• The Battle after the War
• Opera in the Green Mountains
• The Stuff to Drink
• Burlington Poet Robert Caswell
• The Life of O.O. Howard
• IDEAS AND IDEALS FROM HERE AND THERE
• Inventing Our Family Truth
• Adventures in Sarajevo
• Self-Deliverance
• A Life-Changing Bet
• Macedonia with the Vermont National Guard
• Curtains
• The Marriage of Muscle and Mind
• Graduation Speech
• Remembering Studs Terkel
• Coffee and Honey in Oaxaca
• OPINIONS AND OBSERVATIONS
• Becoming an Intellectual
• A Commons Without Tragedy
• War Forever
• On Torture and Terror
• Conspiracy and Facts
• The Downside of Ethanol
• Re-set in the Middle East
• Niebuhr and Obama
• Putting a Country in a Corner
• THINKING ABOUT THE PAST LEARNING ABOUT THE FUTURE
• From Sword to Plow
• Remembering Charlie Houston
• Inspired by Thesiger
• Reclaiming the Twin Towers
• Coolidge on Fishing
• Tipping and Turning
• RECONCILING OUR WORLD WITH OUR COMMUNITY
• One Beehive at a Time
• Friends
• How Do We Get the News?
• Getting What We Pay For
• Two Servings of the Same Dish
• Fast Food, Fast Eating
• Teaching about Bees, Learning about Life
• It Pays to be Ignorant
• What’s the Dough Boy Afraid Of?
• Rationing Health Care
• Fair Trade is a Good Step
• Textbooks or Texas-books?
• Who Are We?
• Climate Change and Food Security
