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By PATRICK O’GRADY

LEBANON — Martha Solow exemplified the adage: “Democracy is not a spectator sport.”

By MARION UMPLEBY

LEBANON — When Lebanon Opera House Executive Director Joe Clifford thinks of Lauren “Duff” Cummings Jr., he pictures him in the shadowy wings of the city’s downtown theater, headset on and Cherry Coke at hand.

By CLARE SHANAHAN

HANOVER — Marcia Colligan did not let anything stop her from achieving what she wanted or needed to do. She wasn’t boisterous, but she got things done and never looked for credit, and she valued her family above all else.

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

LEBANON — Rebecca “Becky” Luce inspired generations of students to love music and believe in their own potential, even at stages in life when self-confidence seemed in short supply.

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

By PATRICK O’GRADY

LYME — For Allan Newton, teaching was not only a way to earn a living. It was a way of life.For more than 25 years before retiring in 1994 to Lyme — the town where he grew up and where his parents ran the popular Camp Pinnacle from 1946 to 1981 —...

By ALEX HANSON

CORINTH — When she first came to Vermont, in 1972, Suzanne Opton didn’t really know what to expect.She had grown up in Portland, Ore., one of three children of parents who had escaped the Holocaust. She’d gone to Smith College, and had worked as a...

By JOSEPH DEFFNER

THETFORD — Despite a terminal cancer diagnosis, Scott Chapman was determined to do what he loved doing — anything related to track and field.So when his former coaching colleague at Thetford Academy, Emily Silver, visited him in the ICU at Dartmouth...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

HANOVER — Quilter extraordinaire, ski instructor, successful small business owner, business adviser, pig farmer, homemaker.That could be a list of occupations of several people but it was the resume of just one person: Rosalie Cutter.“My mother’s life...

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

CORNISH — On a Friday afternoon in late July, a procession of about 40 fire trucks wended its way through Cornish, Meriden and Plainfield on a route that passed an unassuming machine shop nestled between a two-story residence and the Cornish Flat fire...

By ALEX HANSON

THETFORD — At Smith College in the 1950s, Gillian Lewis majored in visual art and minored in theater. Those studies presaged the direction her life would take after she moved to Thetford in 1960.Art was major, at least at first, as she made woodcuts...

By JIM KENYON

SOUTH ROYALTON — After four years of newspapering in Las Vegas, Warren Johnston was ready for a change of scenery.Scenery being the optimum word. Johnston and his wife, Sandy, had in mind a place with more trees than asphalt and a night sky not lit in...

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

HANOVER — Priscilla Sears noticed things. Whether it was unexpected natural beauty, a sublime musical performance or a quirky piece of jewelry, she was always ready to be astonished.And she noticed people, especially the ones who most needed...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

PLAINFIELD — Craig John Lanzim, or “C.J.” as he was known, was a role model to many for how to treat others. He had a gift for making people feel valued, whether a close friend or a stranger. He accepted others as they were and exhibited patience and...

By ALEX HANSON

Sometimes, a patron would come into the Polka Dot Restaurant and ask, “How much is coffee and a doughnut.”Mary Shatney knew what that question meant and would point to an open seat. Often, she’d make a plate of food — eggs, toast and home fries, maybe...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

LEBANON — Whenever Frances “Fran” Hanchett walked through cemeteries, she’d keep an eye out for neglected stones.“She had a little kit in the back of her trunk all the time,” Hanchett’s daughter, Lisa Wentworth, said in a phone interview. Hanchett...

By ALEX HANSON

BETHEL — Victoria Weber and Davis Dimock first met when they were in college, he at Pomona and she at Pitzer, two small liberal arts colleges in Claremont, Calif., east of Los Angeles. This was in the 1960s.After living in California and performing...

By ALEX HANSON

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Like any creature just getting its legs under it, electronic music had a wobbly start.Composers worked on cumbersome analog machines and recorded music on reel-to-reel tapes. Concerts often consisted of composers placing a reel...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

NEWPORT, N.H. — Bill Rodeschin was born at the Rodeschin family home which was located across Sunapee Street from where LaValley Building Supply is now, in 1926.His brother, Henry Rodeschin, was born in the same house in Newport six years later, in...

By John Lippman

Post Mills — On the afternoon of May 8, Megan Naylor and Nicholas Berry exchanged wedding vows in the living room of their trailer home in Post Mills.That evening, the guests gone and the newlyweds alone, Berry died.They were married six hours.“Nick...