Green Mountain Meandering Missives

Am wondering about, now that certain Vermont hotels and motels had exited unhoused guests from their properties to free up rooms for higher paying guests who were visiting the state to view the total solar eclipse, how many hotels and motels might opt to no longer participate in the hotel/motel program in order to rent rooms to tourists and the like for the Spring as well as coming Summer and Autumn seasons instead? Likewise, how many hotels  and motels might take unhoused guests back in until the end of June? Posed rhetorically, however, these are among the top concerns and questions that have been keeping up at night of late. Photo: Vermont State House in Springtime (taken by Morgan W. Brown;  Saturday, May 6, 2023).

  Screenshot: Vermont total solar eclipse path map Vermont Total Solar Eclipse Naked Watch Party Among the various watch parties being held on Monday, April 8th in communities across the entire path of the total solar eclipse within Vermont, will be ones where residents and visitors would be gathering outdoors in order to view the celestial event wearing nothing except their solar eclipse viewing glasses. For those not already in the know, although disrobing in public is not legal, nor is lewd or lascivious behavior, as long as one disrobes in the privacy of one’s home, lodging or other indoor establishment or facility before exiting, it is legal in Vermont to go around bare naked in public. Since for many, this is a once in a lifetime event, there are those who are planning on making it an even more memorable one by being naked during it. Besides, except for before as well as afterwards, while wearing their solar eclipse viewing glasses during the event, it is not like anyone will be

Monday, April 1, 2024 Media Release  April Proclaimed National Public Official Appreciation Month In honor of hard working as well as, far too often, underappreciated and undervalued public officials serving at the municipal, state and federal level across the nation, President Joe Biden has proclaimed April to be National Public Official Appreciation Month. Accordingly, in the month of April, any person eighteen (18) years of age or older who desires to better appreciate, understand and value what public officials at the municipal, state and federal level do on behalf of their municipal, state and federal governments are hereby invited to show up at either city halls or state houses across the nation promptly at the start of business during any given weekday, not including weekends, to experience what it is like to lead.  Those who show up to participate will be welcomed to experience for themselves what it is like to be a municipal or state official for a day on an unpaid ceremonial