April Whatley, 37, and her children - Mariah Towns, 18; Reginald J. White, 5; and Rosalyn White, 2 - all died in the crash near Birmingham on Saturday night.
Grounded In Love: Man Finds 2.2-Carat Diamond For Engagement Ring - Across America, US - Since before he was old enough to shave, Christian Liden dreamed of creating a one-of-a-kind engagement ring from gold and gems he mined.
Do Vermont authors have a story to tell or what?
This little state is known for a large number of writers with seemingly endless supplies of stories to tell. Vermont also has a lot of interesting stories to be told about it, as the number of books giving the state a mention is pretty impressive as well.
With the summer-reading season within reach, let’s go over some of the books by Vermont authors or about Vermont that have come out in recent weeks or will be out before summer is over. As we all know, summer ends quickly around here, so grab a book, sit under a shady tree and dive in.
It’s thrilling when hard work pays off. For years, 26-year-old Christian Liden, of Poulsbo, Wash., has wanted to find the raw materials to make his own engagement ring. He started by panning for gold around his home state. After five years, he had accumulated enough for the ring. Liden recently embarked on a mining excursion that led him across the country to Arkansas’s Crater of Diamonds State Park to collect gemstones for his creation.
Liden and a longtime friend left Washington on May 1. They built their own mining equipment to search with and tested it at a Montana sapphire mine along the way. The friends arrived at Arkansas’s diamond site late on Friday, May 7. “We spent about an hour in the field that afternoon and returned early the next morning to mine all day,” Liden said.
John Huddleston PHOTOGRAPHER JOHN HUDDLESTON recently published “At Home in the Northern Forest,” A book project that has taken him out into the woods of Snake Mountain behind his Weybridge home for the past decade.
Independent photo / Steve James 01/28/2021 Did you know that in the mid-1800s Vermont was nearly 80% deforested?
“There were no bear, no beavers, no turkeys… they were just gone because we had cut down all the trees,” said John Huddleston, a Weybridge photographer of 50 years who recently published his latest photography book, “At Home in the Northern Forest.”
Why did we cut down all the trees? Good question.