A highly anticipated children’s book and the epic history behind a familiar vegetable: fans of illustrator Maurice Sendak eagerly await publication of a newly discovered manuscript by the late author. And speaking of children’s...
The earlier roundup of U.S. belt regions, including the Smile Belt, drew more local examples. Pennsylvania has a Potato Belt for its potato farms, plus a Potato Chip Belt or Snack Belt for its snack-food makers. In southern Vermont and in the...
A caller from Vermont says his Mississippi-born grandfather always called him a pussle-gut and warned him about an unseen wampus cat. The former, also spelled puzzle-gut, means “a fat or pot-bellied person,” with pussle related to pus, as in bodily...