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« on: November 02, 2010, 11:11:16 PM »
Wednesday November 3, 2010
Picture of the Day Well, now that the election is over, might as well get ready for Christmas.Now that the election is over, all I can say is:
TAKE DOWN YOUR SIGNS!!!
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« on: November 02, 2010, 01:08:40 PM »
Shawn Corrow will again be covering both Fairfax games on Twitter.
Follow along at:
www.twitter.com/scorrow
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« on: November 02, 2010, 10:53:42 AM »
This Date in Fairfax History
November 1, 1990
Fairfax Pharmacy opened for business.
How did we get along before Rick and Alana came along.
Thank you for being here!
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« on: October 31, 2010, 11:03:24 PM »
Monday November 1, 2010
Picture of the Day Jack o'Lantern at Foothills BakeryA rather yucky Halloween. More trick than treat from Mother Nature. Kept getting these light snow showers. Didn't keep the kids home. Margie figures we had 160 on our little street.
I put up a slideshow of 17 pictures I took from around the village before I froze and gave up.
http://www.vtgrandpa.com/photos/slideshow.php?set_albumName=halloween2010
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« on: October 31, 2010, 09:15:36 AM »
This was originally published in the February 1983 issue of the Fairfax News. Cathy Howell was the editor of the paper.
(Editor's Note: I received this story unexpectedly in the mail recently. The accompanying note said it had been told to the author "by a long-time dweller in the Hollow" and promised more "hauntings, ghost stories, etc." if readers of The Faifax News found them interesting reading. We hope we will see more "Fairfax legends" from our new mysterious friend!)
On a frost-whiskered horripilating January afternoon in 1845, the funeral of Lazarus Wraith was held in the front taproom of George Buck's temperance public house in Buck Hollow. After the sin eater had absorbed the bread and coin in the candle-lit inn, and the holy Euchrist was given to the Hollow mourners, the dour farmers, the middle-aged pallbearers, and the ox-drawn hay-wagon hearse began the mile and a half journey across the intervale in a snow storm to Carroll Hill cemetary carrying Wraith in his rough pine board coffin.
The northeaster howled so terrifyingly that the iciness of the pallbearers' staring could have frozen the bleating snowflakes into stillness before flooding the freezing freshlet of Mill Brook. So horror-striking and thought numbing was this winter storm on the feast day of St. Wulfstan that the vicar suggested that they deposit Lazarus Wraith and his coffin in a snowbank blanket to wait out the duration of the hellish storm. They could return to Buck's hostel and tomorrow they could finish their trek to the cedar-rimmed burial ground. So the coffin was reposed in a snow-bed, covered with a snow robe, at the Four Corners at the bottom of the Hollow by Douglas Buck's new wooden framed house, to sleep out the raw Vermont snowstorm.
The next sunny mid-morning when the funeral party dug out Lazarus Wraith and his coffin, they found the casket, but no Lazarus Wraith, the Hollow copper.
Where had the corpse gone? No wolf or catamount tracks were leading away from the bone box. Yet the coffin's pine lid was open and there was no snow within the box. Was Wraith dead?
Hauntings have been known at the Four Corners since that time-the shimmering spector of a large hairy man surrounded by cawing crows. Many hunters and hikers have told of
seeing strange fire-blood slanted eyes, demon eyes, burning in the night scene on many side roads leading into the dark woods that entomb Buck Hollow.
Phinias Butwhile
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« on: October 31, 2010, 08:27:20 AM »
This Date in Fairfax History
October 31, 1980
The BFA Boys Cross Country team won it's first Vermont State Class "M" championship. As an added bonus, Fairfax runner Jeff Shedd won the race. Other top BFA runners were Norman Senna, Mike Forsey, and Doug Shepardson.
Amazing how 30 years, minus one day, later, a Fairfax runner wins the state race. Cam Weber's victory in yesterday's D3 race is only the second time a Fairfax runner won the individual race.
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« on: October 30, 2010, 10:08:42 PM »
Sunday October 31, 2010
Picture of the Day Happy Halloween!!!
Margie carved the pumpkin.
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« on: October 29, 2010, 10:51:05 PM »
Saturday October 30, 2010
Cabbage Night
Picture of the Day I can see you
Your brown skin shining in the sun
You got your hair pulled back
Sunglasses on, baby
I can tell you
My love for you will still be strong
After The Boys of Summer have gone....
"The Boys of Summer"-Don HenleyKNEE PROBLEM AGAIN!!Sorry I haven't posted anything for a couple of days. I tweaked my knee Monday. Feels the same as before when I ended up having surgery on it. Same knee. Left one. Sigh. Tired of doctors. Doctor's offices. Hospitals. I have an appointment in a week or so. I know there's arthritis in the knee. And the back of the knee bulges out instead of being in. So when I get home, I usually just crash on the couch and put my leg up, and catch the end of the ballgame. I'll try to catch up on things this weekend.
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« on: October 29, 2010, 12:34:54 PM »
This Date in Fairfax History
October 29, 1979
BFA-Fairfax won it's first girls sports championship when the Varsity Field Hockey team tied Thetford 1-1, for a share of the Class "M" State Championship. The game was scheduled to be played Saturday the 27th, but was rained out and played the following Monday. Dianna Gates scored BFA's goal. In June of 1980, the girls got theor first outright championship when the Varisty Softball team were State Champs.
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« on: October 29, 2010, 07:55:41 AM »
Big Fairfax v. Winooski doubleheader today. Boys Soccer quarterfinal at 3 then the Battle for the Bonnet Varsity Football at 7. Shaun Corrow will be at both games for the Free Press and Messenger, and will be tweeting from the games. You can follow the action at: www.twitter.com/scorrow
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« on: October 26, 2010, 10:36:22 PM »
Wednesday October 27, 2010
Picture of the Day Excuse me as I get my Nerd Hat on. Barb Murphy was in Chicago and saw this mailbox outside the Museum of Science and Industry, so she took a picture of it and sent it to me. Made my day. Thanks Barb!!
Wonder if when people put a letter in, they say to themselves, "Help my Obi-Wan Kenobi! You're my only hope!". I know I would.
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« on: October 25, 2010, 10:45:33 PM »
Tuesday October 26, 2010
Picture of the Day St. Luke's Annual Turkey Dinner is Nov. 7th this year. It will be AFTER the election. I have done building coverage for the dinner in years past, and whenever it was election year, I always referred to it as "The Liar's Luncheon", because ALL the politicians arrived. Statewide races to local races, everyone from Dick Snelling to Bernie Sanders to Jim Douglas showed up. Stickers and banners everywhere. I do remember them having it on Halloween Sunday one year because it was an election year, but not this year.
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« on: October 25, 2010, 10:28:58 PM »
Oops!
Many, many apologies for not keeping this updated. I missed an important one and thought I'd combine it with two others because they are close in dates.
October 15, 1973 The Fairfax Community Library opened it's doors for the first time. The library was a combination town and school library, and the first of it's kind in the state.
October 25, 2008 The last football game was played at McNall Field, located on McNall Road. All youth football Patriots games and high school Bullets games are now played on the Rec Field.
Speaking of Patriots......
October 26, 2002 The Fairfax Patriots Youth Football was organized.
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« on: October 24, 2010, 10:08:36 PM »
Monday October 25, 2010
"Borrowed" Picture of the Day Carol Lavallee Graves let me borrow this picture she took of a NASA rig that she posted on Facebook. The rig was travelling south on I-89 and stopped at a rest area. Not sure where it was coming from, or heading to, or what was in the rig. Looks like the sides come out. Maybe a travelling mini-museum? All I know....that....looks....sharp. Must have been impressive in person.
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