




From top to bottom are profile subjects Jason Johns, a newspaper photographer at the Valley News, shown in downtown White River Junction, Vt.; Inn at Idlewood owners Alexandre Michel Bird and Marcy Marceau, photographed at their Sharon, Vt., restaurant with their children JAMR, 9, and TOJ, 6; Director Mary Ellen Otis with a few of her charges at the Orange County Parent Child Center in Chelsea, Vt.; Tip Top Pottery owner Amy Robb at her White River Junction, Vt., business; Hypertherm's Ron Aubin, who teaches classes at the company's lab space in Lebanon, N.H.; and Sean Ross, who is the Forestry Operations Manager for The Lyme Timber Company, photographed at Boston Lot Lake in West Lebanon, N.H.