Listen to five performances and interviews from outstanding young musicians in this episode of From The Top

Listen to this phenomenal young guitar player and hear his story about volunteering at his local VA center where he teaches guitar to Vets battling addiction.

The restaurant world is male-dominated, but in Vermont's slice of the professional cooking scene, women are making their mark and speaking out about how the industry needs change.

Most of us associate nitrous oxide with dental work, but it can also be used to relieve the pain of childbirth. While four hospitals in Vermont offer nitrous oxide in their birthing center, and others are contemplating it, the University of Vermont Medical Center is not on board.

If you hire someone to tune your piano in Vermont, chances are good that it will be a man who shows up to do it. In the Vermont chapter of the Piano Technicians Guild, only four of the 20 members are women.

Technology has made communication easier for many of us – we can communicate with cell phones and on computers in ways never imagined a few decades ago. But what about a subset of people for whom even the most basic communication has been a struggle? How has technology helped them?

There is a new trend among educated professionals of Generation X, those born in the late 1960's to early 1980's, shifting gears and leaving big cities to settle down and raise their children in smaller places and towns like Burlington, Vermont. The desire is to leave the stress, high cost of living and sense of competition that big cities engender. But more and more, it is the shift of focus to that of lifestyle. With the ability to work remotely,many people can now choose to live where they want to live, based on their values.

Turns out, Burlington, Vermont is on the radar for many families in big cities around the country looking for a different pace of life.

Forty years ago 28-year-old Catherine "Kitty" Genovese was raped and murdered outside a Queens, N.Y., apartment building. Thirty-eight witnesses reportedly either heard or saw the attack but did nothing to stop it, a fact that sparked national soul-searching about bystander apathy.