Jill Vaughan

(01/23/09) The tumbling economy is forcing more people to learn what it means to be poor. But there are many North Country residents who live in perpetual poverty. Commentator Jill Vaughan has spent a career working closely, intimately, with those people. But she doesn't see them much anymore. more

(10/16/08) Sometimes things just don't turn out the way you planned. And sometimes that's not a bad thing. Jill Vaughan finds beauty in a far corner of the farm.

(06/23/06) Commentator Jill Vaughan didn't know whether she was an undocumented alien, or an illegal immigrant. What she did know was that she didn't have proof of citizenship. And the consequences echoed through the small and large passages of her life. This spring, chance allowed her to claim citizenship, and identity.

(07/07/05) Commentator Jill Vaughan is stretching out - literally and figuratively.

(06/14/05) No traffic jam...but a crowd of cows. It makes for a peaceful drive for commentator Jill Vaughan.

(05/06/05) Amish quilts are geometric pefecton...most of them. Commentator Jill Vaughan has an appreciation for one that doesn't quite measure up.

(01/25/05) This summer, our commentator Jill Vaughan was invited to a month-long residency for writers and artists. She says most of her colleagues there thought of themselves as poor or middle class. But to her, they were representatives of a faraway, big city culture.

(01/11/05) A story of commitment and renewal in the barnyard from commentator Jill Vaughan.

(05/24/04) We get up in the morning, know where the coffee cups are, shrug into a robe, and find our favorite chair to wake up in. We have a routine...and security. There's a whole group of North Country citizens who don't experience life that way. They're on the edge of homelessness. This week we're exploring what homelessness means in the North Country, how pervasive it is, and how more people can find stable places to call home. Our regular commentator Jill Vaughan knows first hand what it's like to live on the margins. She's experienced some of the problems associated with near-homelessness in her own life. And she works every day with some of the hardest cases of chronic homelessness in Franklin County. She shares her observations.

(04/12/04) Commentator Jill Vaughan acknowledges that we all hunger for closure and disclosure. She just wants to look forward as well as back.