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Strolling right by the Farmers’ Market

By
Lee Stookey
Wednesday, June 19, 2019 — Issue 515

BRATTLEBORO — Orly Munzing, founder of Strolling of the Heifers, is quoted [Brattleboro Reformer, June 11] as saying that Strolling of the Heifers is intended to be “a tribute to the area's agricultural heritage.”

Why, then, I wonder, does the Stroll make no connection to the Saturday Farmers' Market - surely the iconic local manifestation of our living “agricultural heritage”?

Not a single mention of it in the Stroll supplement in the Commons - not even encouragement to use the shuttle bus, which goes right by the market.

Nothing. Zero. Why?

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By
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By
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Election results: obvious, but still shocking

By
M.N. Scherbatskoy

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