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When Richard M. Ketchum, a farmer in Dorset, Vt. (pop. 1,293), rose at his customary 5 a.m. one day this month, he could hear a cow bellowing in pain. Ketchum, who left his job as a Manhattan book editor five years ago, hurried to his barn and minutes later handed his wife a quivering, wobbly-legged newborn calf. Then he went off to care for another recent offspring: Blair & Ketchum's Country Journal, a unique combination of country charm and big-city slickness, which last week won a National Magazine Award...
Country Journal was brought quivering and wobbly into the world one year ago this month by Ketchum, 58, and William S. Blair, 53, former publisher of Harper's magazine, who now has a 250-acre spread of his own in Guilford, Vt. (pop. 1,108). When the two reformed Manhattanites first met in Vermont in 1972, each found that the other was thinking of starting a monthly to capitalize on the growing city interest in rural life. After raising $170,000 from friends and scraping up $35,000 of their own, they founded Country Journal...
...York: the highway went through a cutting, and ragged chunks of stone were littered all along the roadside. Realizing that "granite has to be the cheapest thing in Vermont - the damn state is all granite," he struck a bargain with a stone quarry near his cabin in Winooski, Vt. They sold him waste granite for $6 per ton. "There's a mountain of it - some chunks the size of pebbles, some as big as boxcars." Then he got hold of a surplus U.S. Army ten-wheeler, bolted a gantry on top of it and went to work...
...Harvard ski team finished a dismal eleventh out of a field of twelve in last weekend's Eastern Championships in Middlebury, Vt. The Crimson skiers compiled 121 points, 217 points behind learn-winner Dartmouth...
Though the trappings of high-powered competition were not present at Putney, high-powered racers were. Topranked Bill Koch, who placed third in the 15-km. races at the European Junior Championships last year, won the 15 km., gliding through the familiar terrain near his family farm in Guilford, Vt. In the 50-km. ordeal, Tim Caldwell, a wiry young Olympic hopeful, won going away. And the country's top woman racer, Martha Rockwell, now has 15 individual national titles after winning the women's 5-, 10-and 20-km. contests...