Real VT: Bartering for syrup

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Thursday, April 6, 2006

Real VT: Bartering for syrup

Posted By Cathy Resmer on Thu, Apr 6, 2006 at 8:17 PM

Greg from Pages Within bartered MP3s for syrup.

So, last week marked the height of sugaring season here in Vermont, andthat meant that everywhere you drove in the state you could find smokebillowing from the sides of mountains, where it before seemd impossiblethat houses even existed. As I rode my bike to school last week, Icould swear I could smell cooking sap mixed with woodsmoke everywhere.

Ah, Vermont.

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Seven Days’ deputy publisher and co-owner Cathy Resmer is a writer, editor and advocate for local journalism. She works in the paper’s Burlington office and lives vicariously through the reporters while raising money to pay them. Cathy started at Seven Days as a freelance writer in 2001 and still has the Rolodex...