New Post on Carding Chronicle Blog Will Carding Academy Live or Die? by Little Crow Everyone in Carding, Vermont is abuzz about our town meeting and the vote on our ancient roads. It's no exaggeration to say that your aye or nay will be the most important in the town's whole history. Depending on how the vote goes, it could change our town forever. Will Edie Wolfe, the executive director of the Carding Academy of Traditional Arts, save the most renowned school of its kind in the country, the place that draws artists from all over the world to the Corvus River Valley? Or will Harry Brown with...

In the latest installment of the chronicles of Carding, Vermont, Edie Wolfe comes to appreciate the truth in one of her father's favorite sayings: "Old sins cast long shadows." As the green of a Vermont summer deepens and the cool waters of Half Moon Lake beckon, Edie and her friends uncover more questions than answers when they start digging into the town's past. Why did Carding's most famous son, the renowned painter Joseph Stillman Croft, leave town so suddenly in 1929? Why does his strange will mandate that his masterpiece, Thieves of Fire, always hang on the wall of the Carding Academy...

Often, it's the small details of an event that we remember most-the warm melting of a cookie on the tongue, how the early morning sun shimmers through the leaves of a maple tree or the piercing look of a hawk's eye as she wings her way to the sky. Sometimes, however, it's the small events that turn the great tides of life in unexpected directions, events such as this year's school board election in Carding, Vermont. All four candidates are running unopposed, and that bothers Stephen Bennett. So he throws his hat into the ring, asking the good folks of his home town to write his name on the...