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Rusty DeWees

Humor Columnist
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Rusty Dewees is best known to Vermonters as "The Logger"—yet he is an accomplished actor of stage and screen having appeared on TV commercials, award-winning television drama and comedy series ("Law and Order" and "Windy Acres") as well as several critically acclaimed motion pictures ( "Disappearances" starring Kris Kristofferson). Rusty's popular rural humor column, "The Logger", appears weekly exclusively in the Addison Eagle and Green Mountain Outlook newspapers.

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Frankly speaking ...

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Use the word frank when describing frankincense, or frankfurters.

Reading the classics

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I’d asked my goddaughter and her hubby to gift me a few of the literary classics for Christmas.

Read it, I did

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I didn’t read books in my teens or twenties, and even through my 32nd year when one of my smart reading friends sent me a Howard Frank Mosher book, “Disappearances”. I read it and liked it.

That’s something else

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Presented a very brief talk to participants, family, friends, organizers, and volunteers, at the start of this spring’s Vermont’s Special Olympics.

To the dump? 

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I’m showered; clean, and shaved up, cept for the stash I’m sporting for a part in a film I shoot this weekend.

BYO washcloth 

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Afine young, not married couple–both teachers–visited me last weekend.

It’s on the menu

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Wednesday, 9:45 a.m.: East of Cumbies, the Lamoille Senior Center and Meals on Wheels dispatch. I pick up 19 meals, one quart of milk and two boxes of groceries. Odometer reading 31,249.

Hold for serenity

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I’m a 51-year-old guy with 51-year-old guy hearing.

Oil abounds

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It’s an overly warm early spring night, and I’m writing, sitting in a freshly teak oiled Smith and Hawken outdoor folding chair that is pulled up to a matching, round, Smith and Hawken table.

Work’s the thing

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The Hyde Park Opera House is 100 years old.

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