Summer on the Islands Ends in Car Crashes and Revelry
Narrator recalls a summer on the islands filled with social chatter, wit, and fashionable crowds, where a string of misadventures unfolds from beach accidents to overdressing, celebrity sightings, and a closing seaside collapse. The piece contrasts island life with the Hamptons and ends with a reader letter urging energy efficiency to avert fuel shortages and economic decline.
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Islands
Hamptons
Simpsons
New Jersey
Eckerts
Jean-Paul Sartre
Bartlebys
Skinner energy plan vs Salmon on efficiency and uranium
Patricia Tripp urges voters to back Skinner in the September 14 primary, arguing his focus on pluging energy waste and efficiency over expanding nuclear plants. The piece contrasts Skinner with Salmon, notes uranium supply concerns after Westinghouse defaulted last winter, and cites AIA findings about retrofitting buildings to save large daily barrels of oil, projecting major future energy gains and local job benefits.
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Banner
Scott Skinner
U.S. Senate
Tom Salmon
Westinghouse
Ford
Salmon
Skinner
American Institute of Architects
Classical radio the key to lemons on wheels
A retired schoolteacher visits a used-car lot and tests radios rather than cars. She explains her rule of thumb: if the radio plays rock or Western, the car has been driven hard. she buys only cars with classical or easy listening stations and has never bought a lemon in 17 years. The remark appears in Readers Digest and reflects early Hoover era humor.
Vermont farmer advocates support for Robert O'Brien
A long letter to The Banner argues agriculture drives Vermont’s economy, facing cost-price pressures and decline in dairy farms since 1945. It endorses Sen. Robert O'Brien as the leader to strengthen farming, curb energy costs, and reduce reliance on out-of-state markets, listing supporters from several towns.
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Vermont
Robert O’brien
Tunbridge
Vermont Yankee
Prayers not votes to the unborn rights
Joseph D. Sullivan asks readers to pray for Senators Leahy and Stafford and for the preservation of unborn life. He argues Medicaid abortion funding would harm the poor and quotes Tennyson. Letter from Burlington urges daily prayer for lawmakers and the unborn.
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Leahy
Stafford
Tennyson
Community notices and historical notes from Bennington area
A Bennington roundup reports on a Sunday service at Chapel of the Meadows and an annual Lady Gosford estate observance delayed by illness. It notes Mothers and Daughters Club activities, birthday anniversaries, and refreshments. Also covered are town dog incidents, alcoholics anonymous meetings, a school flue collapse, and local politics.
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Mothers and Daughters Club
Frank Harwood
Vance Stacy
Glenn Carlisle
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Castleton
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Gisele Litch
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Peacham
Art Krueger
Marshfield
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Cornwall
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Rutland
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Washington
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Robert
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National Taxpayers Union
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