BELLOWS FALLS — Thank you for writing such a complete piece about our town. Well done.
BRATTLEBORO-Peter Adair's essay is the best piece of writing I have seen in The Commons:
FLORENCE, MASS.-I just read with shock and awe, or just plain enthusiasm, a couple of...
Kris Pavek, a 71-year-old retired midwife and photographer, has often stayed in Brattleboro in summer...
BRATTLEBORO-I have driven down Canal Street in Brattleboro and had a bicycle come flying by...
“We've known for at least a year that this exhibit would open on June 24, but we didn't know it would coincide with the deadliest shooting in American history,” said Danny Lichtenfeld, director of the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC). This Friday, the BMAC opens five new exhibits, and the one occupying the main gallery and a smaller side-gallery is called “Up in Arms: Taking Stock of Guns.” Like many other artistic endeavors, the museum's plan for the exhibit...
Voting in the United States has again become a proprietary right, as equal access to the ballot box is not open to all. The history of voting in our country is one of exclusion, inclusion, and suppression. Initially, the Constitution excluded women, slaves, minorities, Native Americans, and white men who did not own property. It remanded the electoral process to the states, thus creating a complex, confusing, and an unequal system vulnerable to local machinations and prejudices. Throughout U.S. history,
Author Ann Braden shares her experiences and steps leading up to writing The Flight of the Puffin. Braden, who wrote The Benefits of Being an Octopus, said that with the new young adult novel, she set out to use her 11 years of writing to promote kindness, lessons, and hard topics for an audience of a younger age group. This book tells the journey of the protagonist, Libby, and how her past with bullies and hardships evolves into her spreading...
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