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This is RumbleStrip America Heilman.

Halloween is this weekend, so I'm pulling out a story that I made for Vermont Public a few years ago about a haunted house up in Danville, which is also a cornfield and a bunch of outbuildings.

It's huge, and it's called Dead North.

There's a lot of screaming and there's some swearing in this show, which feels totally fair to me.

It's really nice to think that in the small little town, little corner of Vermont, where you might expect maybe somebody in a sheet to say boo, we've created something that people can be really proud of, knowing that they've all been out in the dark, in the rain, or the moonlight, or in the dirt, screaming, yelling at people.

Happy Halloween to everyone who likes that kind of thing.

And thank you, Vermont public, for letting me air the story here.

This is Rumble Strip.

So I want to get your reaction.

This is in a story about you by Vermont Public.

So I'm sure you've seen it because it's – And this is a quote from, because they got, they obviously, when they do a story like this, they get a lot of quotes from you and your people and your supporters.

And then they do the little bit on the other side too.

In small-town Vermont, making apple cider is a community endeavor.

Recently, Vermont public reporter Erica Hellman had the chance to visit Lunger Engine Cider Press Party in the town of Johnson.

One Lunger is an antique single-cylinder gas engine that's used to produce prevalent on Vermont farms back at the turn of the century.

And it sounds like this.

I mean, that's a lot of unpasteurized cider going down the hatch.

This is Erica Heilman with

Vermont Public.

Training is underway for a new class of recruits at the Massachusetts State Police Academy.

Next week, the Seven Sisters return to the skies as does standard time on Night Sky.

Night Sky is a production of Vermont Public and the Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium.

That started to change, Linda said, when she and some friends started Renaissance Cafe with a mission that reminded me of what Rose was talking about at the Civic Standard.

Here she is being interviewed by a Vermont public PBS show in 1995.

Hardwick, Vermont.

Situated at the edge of Vermont's fabled Northeast Kingdom, it's a cozy community of about 3,000.

And Junjie Ren, senior communications manager in the Global Economy and Development Program at Brookings.

Thank you to Rose Friedman, Opie Upson, Ashton Allen, Reeve Bassam, Senator Peter Welch, Kristen Leahy, Linda Fox, and Brian Palalonis for talking with us for this story.

Special thanks to Points North and Vermont Public for that great clip of Linda Fox from 1995.

And thank you to Erica Heilman, who let us use sound from her Peabody Award-winning radio show, Rumble Strip.

Halloween is just one celebration of these seasonal midpoints, as we'll explain Thursday on Night Sky.

Night Sky is a production of Vermont Public and the Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium.

Unless you've actually been convicted of voter fraud, you're eligible.

In 2022, Vermont Public interviewed Jason Trombley, who had been recently released from the Northern State Correctional Facility.

It was kind of a pain to the way they do it.

They just had our caseworker give us an absentee ballot and we had to fill it out and mail it.