RE: “Coming home” [Arts, June 13].
Grants Ferry is a very good read. I especially liked David Chase's sneaky sense of humor.
MacLean Gander is retired from a long career as a professor and administrator at Landmark...
Deborah Lee Luskin , one of this newspaper's original columnists, blogs at deborahleeluskin.com. WILLIAMSVILLE-I have...
Meg Donahue is cofounder and chief creative officer of MamaSezz.com, an online enterprise that works...
Emily Carris Duncan (ecarrisduncan.com) represents the Windham-6 district (Wilmington, Whitingham, and Halifax) in the Vermont...
BELLOWS FALLS-In May, a community group will begin unveiling its work on a $37,000 study of the Native rock carvings next to the Vilas Bridge on the Vermont side of the Connecticut River. The Kchi Pôntegok Project (kit-see pohn-tuh-guk), named after the Abenaki expression for "at the Great Falls," which refers to the location of the petroglyphs. The group is at the point of wrapping up the project and members are planning public presentations of their findings. The group will...
I grew up in a middle-class family. We could pay for necessities as well as luxuries. If a washing machine broke, we ordered a new one. If an appliance needed repairs, we paid for it. We had two cars and could afford gas and repairs. We took a family vacation once a year. We had three solid meals a day. In 2014, in this difficult economy, being middle class is no longer a certainty for anyone. Middle-class families cannot pay...
The UMass Percussion Group presents a program of contemporary music for percussion ensemble at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) on Saturday, Feb. 28, at 7 p.m. Other than J.S. Bach's “Lute Suite in E Minor,” an excerpt of which will be performed on marimba, the oldest work on the program is composer Steve Reich's “Drumming” from 1971. Reich was heralded by The New Yorker as “the most original musical thinker of our time.” Other works to be performed...
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