Brooks Cole News Today

MANCHESTER — More than 600 girls from across Southern Vermont converged at Manchester’s Dana L. Thompson Memorial Park on Saturday morning with parents, coaches and supporters to celebrate their completion

"The sun is a mass of incandescent gas A gigantic nuclear furnace Where hydrogen is built into helium At a temperature of millions of degrees" -They Might Be Giants It's so ingrained in us that the Sun is a nuclear furnace powered by hydrogen atoms fusing into heavier elements that it's difficult to remember that, just 100 years ago, we didn't even know what the Sun was made out of!