BRATTLEBORO-Inspired by the natural world, artists have long contemplated diverse themes such as history, science,
BRATTLEBORO-Samirah Evans of Brattleboro (samirahevans.com) will be a special guest soloist joining the Brattleboro Women's...
BRATTLEBORO-The Commons met Brattleboro Women's Chorus Director Becky Graber at her home recently to talk...
BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Women's Chorus spring concert, "Better Days," will showcase powerful and poignant songs by...
The state has formally appealed the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) decision to deny public assistance for the full cost of replacing a culvert in Townshend that was demolished during Tropical Storm Irene. “FEMA has taken a shortsighted and unjustifiably stringent interpretation of its responsibility to fund upgrades to functionally obsolete culverts and bridges wiped out by floodwaters,” the state asserts in its appeal. The state calls the federal agency's denial of funds “contrary to state and federal law” and...
In 1930, in Marion, Indiana, two lifeless black bodies in ragged and tattered clothes hung from separate tree branches, their faces and bodies beaten and bloody. Below them, a separate crowd of well-dressed white men and women stood smiling and looking at the corpses. Not one person had an expression of sorrow or remorse - not a single hint of regret. Such racism, the blatant disregard for human dignity, persists because one group holds tight to its power, refusing another...
The painting and gourds of Colleen Grout and Kim Grall will combine in a display at Main Street Arts from now through February in a show they have titled “Where Would We Bee?” An opening reception will be held Thursday, Jan. 10, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. According to a news release, the show brings together Grout's encaustic painting and Grall's crafting of gourds as inspired by nature and the singular entity that connects their very different media: the honeybee.
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