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Volume 52 Number 23
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June 8, 2023
Shelburne welcomes new town manager
Standing at the Crossroads
LIBERTY DARR STAFF WRITER
Shelburne residents filled the Pierson Library community room on Monday evening to welcome the new town manager, Matt Lawless, to his first day on the job. “We saw a lot of great qualities in Matt,” selectboard chair and member of the town manager
search committee, Mike Ashooh. “He’s very community oriented. That was one of the things that stuck out. And those of you who were paying attention to the process know that Matt did his homework on Shelburne, and presented a vision of Shelburne See TOWN MANAGER on page 16
Fine art photographer releases first film
Documentary stands as call to preserve rural history COREY MCDONALD STAFF WRITER
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Killeen Crossroads Farm owners Kieran and Breana Killeen, with flower manager Zoe Nicholson and farm manager Kara Winslow, serve adventurous ag-centric dinners at the Shelburne spread. See story on page 2.
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Jim Westphalen is up on a wintry Saturday morning, driving through Sheldon, Vermont to photograph an old 19th-century cow barn — all that’s left of a once-thriving farmland built along the old Missisquoi railroad line that was destroyed by a fire. The camera pans over him as he sets his tripod up in the middle of a snowy expanse to capture a still image of the weather-worn building. In the freezing cold, he takes as much time gazing at the structure as he does staring through his camera lens. This is what Westphalen has been doing for the past four years: driving endlessly to find the old
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prairie churches, the paint-peeled barns, the old ranch homes with sagging porches and concaving, weather-battered roofs, and the one-room schoolhouses. “It’s impossible not to see the beauty in decay,” he said. Now, in his first foray into filmmaking, Westphalen, a Shelburne resident since 1996, has taken what began as a curiosity — photographing those old rural structures just off in the distance — and turned it into a call to action. His film — “Vanish: Disappearing Icons of a Rural America” — chronicles his journey of discovery and reportage on See FILM on page 11
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