The "Sunday Conversations on the Green" could get interesting. Republican Senate candidate Rich Tarrant says he will show up for them whether opponent Bernie Sanders does or not.

Immediately, that generates a picture of Tarrant trying to climb onto a bandstand in the middle of small-town Vermont, while Peter Welch and Mark Shepard are busy talking about health care, trying to pretend that Martha Rainville isn't in the race and that Tarrant isn't standing there. Chaos comes to mind.

Tarrant's campaign said, however, that he will conduct his conversations after the Welch-Shepard discourse. He won't make the first conversation, which is this Sunday in Castleton. He plans to attend the July 23 Bellows Falls event, July 30 in Craftsbury Common and Aug. 6 in Bristol.

- Terri Hallenbeck