This is a well-written article on Crescent Dragonwagon. I am an alumnus of Fearless Writing and love her honesty when she speaks. She is an outstanding instructor and positive influence.
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...
Emily Carris Duncan (ecarrisduncan.com) represents the Windham-6 district (Wilmington, Whitingham, and Halifax) in the Vermont...
Meg Donahue is cofounder and chief creative officer of MamaSezz.com, an online enterprise that works...
The Brattleboro School of Dance has a new owner, and she spent her first days there as a toddler. “I started dance classes at the school when I was two or three years old,” said Bridget Struthers, who assumed ownership in mid-January. “I grew up dancing there, so it feels somewhat natural,” Struthers said. “But when I think about it, it's a big deal!” Struthers, who is in her early 30s, noted one or two of her childhood dance teachers...
On Saturday, Jan. 23, at 1 and 3 p.m., Sandglass Theater kicks off its Winter Sunshine series for young audiences with shadow puppeteer Jim Napolitano and his show, “Shadows Around the World.” This show will be the first of three family performances spaced throughout the winter. The performance is geared toward young audiences, but promises an entertaining and enjoyable experience for adults as well. Napolitano calls shadow puppetry “the most magical and cinematic” form of puppetry, and considers puppetry a...
Joe Berry is right to point out that Rudyard Kipling was a product of and spokesman for the British Empire, many of the underlying attitudes and assumptions of which we now find - to say the least - extremely objectionable. But if we were to condemn every writer for cultural attitudes we currently consider toxic, we'd have to include Edith Wharton, T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, William Shakespeare, and many, many others. We think it's important to...
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