Falling in love with strangers

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Erica Heilman of Rumble Strip podcast delights membership with big questions A correction to our last issue: Erica Heilman is not from Calais. She’s from East Calais. Electricity–and now broadband–both reached neighboring Maple Corner first, she reminded WEC members; East Calais residents wait a little longer. She was joking, sort of. Heilman claimed to have a deep need to be …

Good conversation: Erica Heilman of Rumble Strip to speak at Annual Meeting

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Erica Heilman thinks you should go to WEC’s Annual Meeting. It’s not just because she’s the featured speaker, or because she’s a member. It’s because she thinks our best work happens in spaces full of other human beings, figuring things out together, with snacks. “The fastest democracies are the longest, slowest, most boring meetings,” she said. Vermonters are proud of …