The hills of Tunbridge will be alive with the sounds of bleating sheep, whirring spinning wheels, and toe-tapping music when the 37th Annual Vermont Sheep & Wool Festival returns to the Tunbridge ...
At a family farm in central Iowa, a sheep shearer leans over a ram, making smooth, clean strokes through several inches of shaggy wool. For most breeds, this fiber will just keep growing unless it’s ...
Editor's note: J. Kevin Graffagnino is executive director of the Vermont Historical Society. He is one of several guest writers filling in while Mark Bushnell takes a break from this column until July ...