Marlboro College's undergraduate and graduate campuses are only about a dozen miles apart. But when college President Kevin Quigley was interviewing for that job in early 2015, he noticed a much greater divide. “It was quite striking to me to think of two programs, part of the same institution, but there seemed to be this enormous cultural gap,” Quigley recalled. Marlboro administrators hope that's about to change, as the two campuses are scheduled to officially unite this weekend. They say...
I was impressed by the turnout and the energy of the recent Brattleboro Selectboard Candidates forum to which I was lucky enough to have been invited. The grassroots energy that has been ignited by recent turns in national politics is clearly being seen locally with an increase in protests, vocal support for historically underrepresented populations, and initiatives for ballot questions put before the voters. At the forum, that energy resulted in some questions that were difficult for me to answer,
The Brattleboro Literary Festival invites everyone to join them online on Friday, Aug 12, at 5 p.m., when the August edition of the Literary Cocktail Hour presents Colleen Kinder, Jacquelyn Mitchard, and Peter Orner with Letter to a Stranger: Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us, the book in which 65 extraordinary writers grapple with this mystery: How can an ephemeral encounter with a stranger leave such an eternal mark? When Kinder put out a call for authors to write...
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