RE: “Remembering Kate” [Memoir, April 25].
A courageous and touching personal story, beautifully told. Thank you, Mary Ellen Copeland!
Rick Holmes, of Marlboro, is a retired newspaper editor and columnist. MARLBORO-Ho Chi Minh City,
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Good day, fine people! If you like sunshine, you're in luck, because there's no shortage of it in the forecast. The only plausible chance for rainy weather occurs Wednesday afternoon and night extending into the first half of Thursday. Beyond that, there is a very, very low chance that a tropical system now down in the Gulf of Mexico skirts the southern New England coastline, bringing the chance for more showers to southern Vermont by early next week, but most...
During the month of April, seventh- and eighth-grade students from The Grammar School in Putney will exhibit works of art at the Hooker-Dunham Gallery in Brattleboro. The pieces are from the art electives program, where students chose between classes in black-and-white photography, color digital photography, short filmmaking, or graffiti arts. Instructors from Insight Photography taught the two photography classes, local photographer Rachel Portesi led the film class, and William Chambers, art teacher and program director from The Grammar School, taught...
They sat in small groups called Story Circles. They told tales of their own wounding behavior and revealed moments of humiliation, admitting the pain of injustice. They listened - really listened - to one another. They were actors, police officers, a theater executive, a board member, and founders of a renowned puppet theater. And they, along with community members, were deeply moved - and changed - by the experience of witnessing stories performed at a local high school. A training...
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