...here. Accompanying Linda Galvan on the cello pieces was a delight, and I posted them easily and cheerfully, without the common cringing at things I should have done better.
The “local color” on the Camp Fire Girls was already taking the concert review pretty far afield, so I didn’t see fit to also include this, but I will here. Just days before the concert, I came across the following news item. It was helpful; as a result of the article I decided this was not the trip for scouting out other locations in the area via back roads:
Flat tire spike in Thetford blamed on sharp rocks meant to mitigate mud season
According to the Town Manager quoted in the article, the road crew had “wanted to try a different material that would provide traction, but hopefully not contribute to the degradation of our gravel roads.” The change was prompted by last year’s mud season, which many Vermont residents said was the worst they could remember—a consequence of climate change.
But what the article didn’t say was that this probably wouldn’t have been a winter story—that is, people would not have been encountering so much free rock to get in their tires—if January had not also been one of the warmest on record.
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