This story was a great read, and it brought back many memories.
I'm looking forward to the Putney Grade School reunion, and seeing all of you. Thank you for all your hard work.
Michael Gigante, the clinician at the Brattleboro AIDS Project (now the AIDS Project of Southern...
Timothy Belknap is a Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting member representing District 9. For more information...
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Hands, wrinkled by time and sun, cradle the tight bundle of white stars against a triangular field of blue. The United States flag, folded like a clenched fist for more than 46 years, opens under the methodical precision of the two elder military color guards. The guards guide four young men from Brattleboro Union High School through raising the flag that once draped the coffin of Petty Officer 3rd Class John Charles Blake. Blake, a Navy Corpsman, died of a...
Epsilon Spires is about to sign a 10-year lease at 190 Main Street in downtown Brattleboro. The restored gothic church space with its historic Estey organ has been home to the nonprofit arts center since the center's founding in 2019. The mission of Epsilon Spires, according to its website, is "to illuminate the relationship between creative arts, natural sciences, equality, and sustainability through innovative performances, art exhibits, film screenings, panel discussions, and educational workshops." With this 10-year lease, the organization...
When Albert Camus published his allegorical story The Plague in 1947 about a deadly contagion sweeping the French city of Oran in 1849, he raised a number of questions about the nature of the human condition. “I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends,” one of his characters says. Later, Camus reflects that “a loveless world is a dead world, and always there comes an hour [...] when all one craves for is...
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