Tim Brookes

(09/08/04) There's new talk about old roads in Vermont. Local officials in Chester called a meeting last week to discuss efforts to find and protect old rights of way. Some of them go back hundreds of years. The new maps have surprised some landowners who had no idea there might be an old byway running through their property. News of the effort to preserve these so-called ancient roads brought to mind a story from commentator Tim Brookes. He lives on a dirt road himself, and regularly does his part to keep more obscure roadways alive - by using them.

(05/28/04) Commentator Tim Brookes' installments of the "Driveway Diaries" have come to an end on our website, but he has a final chapter for listeners: "The Revenge of the Driveway", in which the driveway eats the pond.

(05/09/02) Commentator Tim Brookes on dirt roads--one of the reasons he lives in Vermont.

(03/29/02) Tim Brookes is a radio commentator and a teacher--and a successful travel writer. His latest book, A Hell of a Place to Lose a Cow, is a funny and insightful account of a hitchhiking trip across America. But he doesn't have to go all the way to the Pacific to renew his sense of exploration.

(02/19/02) Finding yourself in front of the TV a lot during the Winter Olympics? Commentator Tim Brookes shares his thoughts on watching television.

(01/23/02) Commentator Tim Brookes on problem driveways in the winter--if it isn't snow, it's the ice.

(01/11/02) Another season of the hit TV series "Survivor" has come and gone, and still nobody has pointed out that the concept was invented in northern New England by a guy called Joe Knowles. Commentator Tim Brookes tells us more.

(01/03/01) Commentator Tim Brookes tells the tale of a late 19th century "free love" commune near Lake Champlain.