Article Title: The Writers Circle

Edition: March 2001
Category: Bridge Works (Editor Comments)
Author: Nat Frothingham
Article:

Beginning in March we'll be reviving a tradition at the paper when we launch a monthly meeting of a group we are calling "The Writers Circle." We'll hold our first meeting on Thursday, March 8 at 11:30 a.m. at The Bridge office at 104 Main Street over Miller Sports in Montpelier.

If you're interested in writing and if you'd like to meet with other writers in an easy, informal setting once a month, join us. We'll talk in a friendly way about writing and newspapers.

We plan to open each session with a short discussion on a single journalistic topic, "How to Write a Good Lead" or "How to Report a Straight News Story." Often, we'll run the sessions ourselves. Sometimes we'll invite a guest to join us. We'll criticize the last issue. We'll assign stories for the next. And we'll celebrate good writing.

Stories We Have Not Written
Because we publish once a month, sometimes we miss a story: it's here and gone by the time we're ready to publish again.

One such story records the sad death of Levi Leonard Drew, known in Montpelier as Lenny Drew, or just as affectionately as "Coach." Drew died on February 14 at the age of 71. He came to Montpelier in 1968 and taught and coached at Montpelier High School where he became a basketball legend.

From time to time, the pull of a story outside of our news beat is so strong that we feel a need to acknowledge its impact. Most people who follow the news are aware that two teenage boys from nearby Chelsea, Vermont have been arrested and charged in the stabbing deaths of Dartmouth professors Half and Susanne Zantop. These boys are innocent until proven guilty. But as the story unfolds its implications could force us to confront some of the more comfortable assumptions about life in Vermont and northern New England.

Notes from Past Stories
Here is both a good source and a more complete quote from our February centerspread story on "Hawks, Highways and Habitats." This quote is from an article entitled "Early Visits to the Mountain," page 19 of the Hawk Mountain News, September 1984, "The shooting was a sickening sight, but I must say it was exciting. On a good day there must have been more than a hundred guns. When a sharpshin came in range, a salvo of 20 guns would go off, and the bird disappeared in a puff of feathers."

In another note, the statue on top of the Vermont State House is of Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture. We inadvertently misspelled Ceres in the answer to Question 1 that we provided to our Trivia Quiz in our January 2001 issue. Here, it is spelled correctly!

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