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Joan Finnegan unloads apples on the loading dock.  Five families collected a range of apple varieties, including Cortland, Haralson, and Fireside, making for a complex tasty cider.   (Photo by Lori Slindee)

Essay | Cider: An Annual Tradition

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At Home In The Big Woods

(Original artwork by Diane Knight)

Poetry | Rearrange, Begin Again

Snowfall creates beauty on ordinary structures as witnessed by this bucolic winter photo.  The sheep fence creates a vantage point from which to view the valley with its flocked trees in the distance. (Photo by Renee Bergstrom) 

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