Reblog: Songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer Lutalo builds music career and home in rural Vermont

by Rachel Shields Ebersole | Dec 5, 2024 | Arts and Culture, BIPOC Vermonters, LGBTQ, Relocate

Above: Musician Lutalo Jones in Middlebury. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger Living in Vermont has taught Lutalo — both in life and in writing music — to keep it simple and “create space for silence.” The Minnesota-born songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer...

In Vermont, “rural” no longer means “isolation”

by Rachel Shields Ebersole | Nov 18, 2024 | Community, Relocate

Reflections from Southern Vermont Emerging Leader Katie Allaway As a high school student in Wyoming, I wanted to study linguistics at Middlebury College. I made a collage from their enrollment packet of the fall-colored trees, picturesque farms, and roads-less-taken...

That Classic “Gilmore Girls” Vibe

by Rachel Shields Ebersole | Oct 7, 2024 | Arts and Culture, Community, Relocate

Above: The gazebo on the Brattleboro town green. Longing for that cozy Stars Hollow life as we slide into fall? Now, we know we’re biased, but we actually think Vermont is the best place to find a quaint, close-knit, quirky New England town whose citizens...

Take a stroll around Newfane Vermont

by Rachel Shields Ebersole | Aug 23, 2024 | Community, Relocate

Imagine a picturesque small Vermont town, with graceful white wooden Colonial buildings gathered around a village green. There’s the church, the town hall, the library, an inn and a general store … and, of course, a few sophisticatedly jumbled antique stores. The...

“Living in a Postcard”

by Rachel Shields Ebersole | Jul 23, 2024 | Community, Relocate

Reflections from 2024 Southern Vermont Emerging Leader Kris Plante My preconceptions of Vermont were accurate My partner and I moved to Southern Vermont in 2015 after graduating from college, even though neither of us had ever spent much time here and we didn’t have...

Dream Education Administration Jobs in Vermont

by Rachel Shields Ebersole | Jul 5, 2024 | Education, Jobs, Relocate, Schools, Teaching & Education

Nurture the future as an education administrator while enjoying the amazing quality of life in small-town Vermont! Community College of Vermont Helping Vermonters achieve educational and professional equity since 1970. Work in a beautifully restored historic downtown...