Serving the Community College of Vermont & Vermont State University
Serving the Community College of Vermont & Vermont State University
“Without ice cream, there would be darkness and chaos.”
– Don Kardong
July is National Ice Cream Month. In honor of this, the libraries are dedicating our July Virtual Display to materials about Ice Cream and other Summery topics (beach reads, outdoor recreation, barbecue, etc.) Enjoy your summer!
A sampling of recent books on ice cream and other summer reads. All electronic titles are available to read online and our physical titles may be requested for pick-up at a VSCS library or sent to your home.
From gentle nature trails to rugged peak climbs, from remote fishing holes to historic ghost towns, from rushing waterfalls to rare peregrine falcon habitat, the Green Mountain State has much to offer hikers.
Published by the Green Mountain Club this new guide to Vermont's twelve remaining fire towers and five observation towers will take you above the trees to some of the best panoramic views in the Green Mountains. Whether you are looking for a short walk or a 22 mile backpacking trip you will find driving directions to the trailheads, parking information, trail descriptions and mileages, maps and estimated hiking times.
A richly textured, heartrending portrait of love and death in Chicago's most turbulent neighborhoods.
Vermont is bigger than it looks. This may be one of the country's smallest states but the more you drive here, the more beauty you uncover. While these drives do include popular resort towns, the focus is on getting away from tourist hubs.
A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters.
Yes, you can make Ben & Jerry's ice cream at home! In this classic ice cream cookbook, Ben and Jerry share all the recipes and techniques that have made them nationwide heroes.
Visit Vermont's high peaks, lakes and ponds, natural and historical areas, and state forests. The Day Hiker's Guide includes hikes in every region of the state, as well as an extensive selection of day hikes on the Long Trail System. Suggested loop hikes are also featured.
rom beach peas to serviceberries, hen of the woods to Indian cucumber, ostrich ferns to sea rocket, Foraging New England guides the reader to the edible wild foods and healthful herbs of the Northeast.
An award-winning barbecue cook boldly asserts that southern barbecuing is a unique American tradition that was not imported. The origin story of barbecue is a popular topic with a ravenous audience, but commonly held understandings of barbecue are often plagued by half-truths and misconceptions.
This handbook presents information on both-theoretical and practical issues on milk and dairy products like milk, cream, butter, cheese, caesin, yogurt, clabber, gelato, ice-cream, khoya, milk powder proteins, ghee and probiotic dairy beverages.
In this delicious story of ice cream, we are taken on an exotic journey from the old world to the new, from ice harvesting in ancient China, to birthday celebrations in the age of Louis XIV, and even to otherworldly Pop-art to ice cream cones painted by Andy Warhol in the twentieth century.
Ben & Jerry's has always been committed to an insanely ambitious three-part mission- making the world's best ice cream, supporting progressive causes, and sharing the company's success with all stakeholders- employees, suppliers, distributors, customers, cows, everybody. But it hasn't been easy. This is the first book to tell the full, inside story of the inspiring rise, tragic mistakes, devastating fall, determined recovery, and ongoing renewal of one of the most iconic mission-driven companies in the world.
Invaluable reference for planning a thru-hike on Vermont’s long-distance footpath. Details on road access, shelters, stores, restaurants etc.
Why is chocolate melting on the tongue such a decadent sensation? Why do we love crunching on bacon? Why is fizz-less soda such a disappointment to drink, and why is flat beer so unappealing to the palate? Our sense of taste produces physical and emotional reactions that cannot be explained by chemical components alone.
This guidebook describes over 200 waterfalls according to location, trail length and difficulty, waterfall type, height, water source and when to visit.
With Leda Meredith as your trusted guide you will learn how to safely find and identify an abundance of delicious wild plants. The plant profiles in Northeast Foraging include clear, color photographs, identification tips, guidance on how to ethically harvest, and suggestions for eating and preserving. A handy seasonal planner details which plants are available during every season.
When Katy's mother dies, she is left reeling. Carol wasn't just Katy's mom, but her best friend and first phone call. She had all the answers and now, when Katy needs her the most, she is gone. To make matters worse, their planned mother-daughter trip of a lifetime looms: to Positano, the magical town where Carol spent the summer right before she met Katy's father. Katy has been waiting years for Carol to take her, and now she is faced with embarking on the adventure alone.
After her grandmother's death, Reeda Summer decides to try to solve a family mystery and run from her troubled marriage; following the clues in her grandmother's journals to Italy.
Enjoy days of exploring the flat-water lakes, ponds, and rivers of New Hampshire and Vermont with this new guide from AMC's Quiet Water series. Great for families, anglers, and canoeists and kayakers of all abilities, this updated guide features 90 trips, covering the best calm water paddling in New Hampshire and Vermont.
Explore 60 of the best rail-trails and multiuse pathways across three states with this official guide.
Seventeen-year-old Amelia has looked forward to her last summer before college working at the Meade Creamery, but when the owner of the local landmark passes away her nephew has big changes in mind.
In the exclusive black beach community of Oak Bluffs on Martha's Vineyard, the three unofficial "goddaughters" of Amelia Vaux Tanner, successful women from different backgrounds, gather for one last summer together before Amelia moves to the south of France and gives her home to one of them.
A new volume of poetry from Robert Hass is always an event. Hass's trademark careful attention to the natural world, his subtle humor, and the delicate but wide-ranging eye he casts on the human experience are fully on display in his masterful collection.
Take the Plunge is an explorer’s guide to 38 unique swimming holes across Vermont. Crisp vignettes provide delightful, vivid details of each place and are accompanied by accurate directions, GPS coordinates and a beautiful color photograph.
Every summer, Rose goes with her mom and dad to a lake house in Awago Beach. It's their getaway, their refuge. Rosie's friend Windy is always there, too, like the little sister she never had. But this summer is different. Rose's mom and dad won't stop fighting, and when Rose and Windy seek a distraction from the drama, they find themselves with a whole new set of problems.
The Vermont Gardener's Companion tells how to get the most out of Vermont's short gardening season and details how readers can use organic methods to improve soil, deal with diseases and pests, and get better results with their plants in a state where "winter temperatures plunge far below zero and rocks left by the glaciers pop out of the ground each spring like bread from hyperactive toasters."
This updated edition of a beloved classic is an essential handbook for climate scientists and ocean activists, providing clear explanations and detailed resources for the constant battle to preserve the shore.
For more than 70 years, Gifford's Ice Cream and Candy Company was associated with nothing but pleasure for native Washingtonians and visitors to the nation's capital. Few knew the dark truth... Behind the iconic business's happy facade lay elaborate schemes, a crushing bankruptcy, two million dollars of missing cash, and a tragic suicide.
A selection of documentaries on ice cream and other summertime films. DVDs can be requested for pick-up at a VSCS library or sent to your home. Electronic titles can be streamed from the library streaming video databases: Kanopy and Films on Demand.
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1999 1 hr. 30 min.
Starring Kate Hudson, Christina Ricci and Casey Affleck, Desert Blue is a comedy-drama following an academic obsessed with "roadside attractions" and his TV-star daughter as they finally discover the world's largest ice cream cone -- the centerpiece for an old gold-rush town struggling to stay on the map.
1994 30 min.
This program examines how luxury ice cream companies are vying for their European market shares. A variety of strategies used by Häagen-Dazs are discussed. In Britain, a Häagen-Dazs executive explains how the company appealed to adult consumers by presenting ice cream as a sensual gourmet specialty, rather than a child’s treat.
1969 1 hr. 29 min.
The distinguished German writer Uwe Johnson (1934-1984) lived for several years in the 1960s on Manhattan’s Upper Westside. His publisher, Harcourt Brace, had hired him as a textbook editor for their German-language school book editions, which allowed him to stay in New York and also tend to his own writing. In his spare time he got to know his neighborhood very well, observing the goings on in the streets, cafeterias, and parks.
2020 1 hr. 30 min.
Over the course of a hot summer day in Los Angeles, the lives of 25 young Angelenos intersect. A skating guitarist, a tagger, two wannabe rappers, an exasperated fast-food worker, a limo driver- they all weave in and out of eachother's stories. Through poetry they express life, love, heartache, family, home and fear. One of them just wants to find someplace that still serves good cheeseburgers.
2016 1 hr. 37. min
This delightful family adventure film follows four children who dream of escaping from the tedium of a summer holiday. When finally given permission to camp on their own on a remote island in the middle of a vast lake, they are overjoyed. But when they arrive, they discover they may not be alone and a desperate yet whimsical battle for ownership of the island ensues, where both skill and luck play a hand.
2016 1 hr. 30 min.
Kenny (Chris Messina, The Mindy Project) is a disillusioned and apathetic ice cream vendor. He meets Lolita (Abigail Spencer, True Detective), a quick-witted, downtrodden insurance actuary, on a Chicago bridge. Lolita invites Kenny to travel with her to San Francisco, where they will jump off the Golden Gate Bridge. Along the way, they meet a host of characters, and as their relationship deepens, they begin, reluctantly, to fall in love.
1975 58 min.
In the summer of 1975 John Marshall and Roger Hart documented the outdoor play activities of the children in a small Vermont town. Roger had just completed his dissertation from Clark University on the geography of children. John's 13 hours of 16mm footage comprised part of his detailed research on children's outdoor lives, studying the role of play in children's psychological development as well as its relationship to their understanding of nature and their surroundings. The long takes of children completely absorbed in their own private worlds provide a rare document of the complexity, creativity, and spontaneity of children at play.
2003 1 hr. 45 min.
Ben Quick, an industrious con artist who's known throughout the country as a barn burner, gets run out of a Mississippi town. He meets up with Clara Varner, whose father is pressuring her to get married and provide him with grandchildren. It isn't long before he decides Ben and Clara should marry, and when she resists, it sets up a dramatically escalating clash of wills.
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