It’s Monday morning on Lake Champlain and a handful of strangers converge for the first day of the Women In Wind Club, a week-long sailing course taught by Janice Lange at the Community Sailing Center in Burlington.
Like so many rescue squads in Vermont, Wallingford relies on volunteers to fill the ranks. And at just a month shy of 79, Ed Dias is the oldest to go out on calls.
In the Northeast Kingdom town of Brighton, 97-year-old Frank Allard is a rare breed -- one of the few survivors of the 260 honored local war heroes who returned home.
Every Tuesday, rain or shine, Anne Ferguson leads a group of mostly seniors to pick up garbage around downtown Montpelier. The group’s moniker? Trash Tramps.
Seventy-four-year-old David Pratt has a class full of young admirers at the Franklin Central School, a mostly farming community next to the Canadian border.
Eighty-eight-year-old Paul LaRose knows his craft. He started high-end custom woodworking back in the ‘50s. Now retired, he is training his grandson to maybe one day carry on the family business.
Super Senior Janie Feinberg first came to teach in the Green Mountains in the summer of ‘69. After decades away, she later returned full circle to where she started.
Mary and Douglas Grant have been running Grants Maple Products as a mom-and-pop operation for 52 years. But lately, they’re taking on a tough opponent.
Eighty-five-year-old Barb Hyde, a former school principal, started the idea to form a local chapter of the grocery giveaway called Food4Kids in the Dover area.
Super Senior Al Perry served on a Navy submarine during the Cuban missile crisis. The family's four sons have followed in their dad's footsteps in service to their country.
Every Wednesday, Sandy Kish holds court. He leads a group that calls themselves “The Hit Squad,” helping people cope with Parkinson’s Disease by playing tennis.
Joe Devall is a man-about-town in Bristol, but he doesn't like the praise. That didn't stop our Joe Carroll from listing this Vermont Super Senior's accomplishments.
In 1967, Alan Rubel traveled from his home in Barre to Montreal to visit a cousin. While there, he spotted a dark-haired beauty who changed his life forever.
Paul Stone has walked just about every inch of his 800-acre farm in Orwell. This week, he’s putting in a few more steps. Thirty-eight thousand gobblers at Stonewood Farm will soon become the centerpiece of Thanksgiving meals all over the Northeast.
The colors of Stowe in October -- green grass, amber leaves, and above the clouds, there’s a sprinkle of the white stuff. Snow is what cross-country skier Trina Hosmer and her crew of masters are training for.
In downtown Morrisville, there’s a landmark. Once a church, in more recent times it has served as a senior center. And a few weeks ago it was renamed in honor of Super Senior Gloria Wing.
This Vermont Super Senior says she's going to bike to heaven, but she's got a long road ahead of her before then. Our Joe Carroll takes you along as he tries to keep up with Lindy Millington.
Addison County attorney Peter Langrock loves his land and the animals on the farm he shares with his wife in Salisbury. And at 85, he still runs an active law practice out of his Middlebury office.
What’s a fair without food? Seventy-year-old Pat Brennan and his dad Tom started The Bloomin’ Onion in 1993. It’s an easy menu remember - just a deep-fried whole onion with a side of special sauce.
A few years ago, it would have been unthinkable for this Vermont Super Senior to be in the business he's in now. He rarely speaks about it, but he did with our Joe Carroll.
There’s a bit of racket happening on a normally quiet street in Colchester as a group of Super Seniors with Habitat for Humanity are building a new home.