• || Readers Respond || Thoughts of Fall
• Why do leaves change color? A forester explains the science behind the autumn magic. Sidebar: Color varies this season
• Fall events take place around the region
• Dummerston Apple Pie Festival celebrates apples, community
• Keep warm this heating season without blowing your budget
• || Editor's Notebook || Holding tight to fall: Every single great and glorious fall day could well be the last. We just don't know for sure until it's too late
Fall Flavor
• Apples: A fall staple that wasn't always in Vermont: English settlers brought first apples here in 1700s, and we've been enjoying them ever since
• Customers press for cider: An autumn standby's time has come - again
• || Six Season Feast || A new fall taste: Winter squash makes for a versatile dish
• || The Cheese Snob || See niche, fill niche: Tucked in seclusion in Jacksonville, two former opera singers and discriminating food lovers craft labor-intensive soft-rind cheeses
• || Fare Well || Getting back to roots: Thirty years later, my mentor's no-recipe method is still my go-to method for cooking carrots - they are that good