A great project, and one I am happy and honored to be involved in.
Derrik Jordan has found a new way to get visionary musicians' work seen and heard. He is a consummate host who always seems to ask the right questions.
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...
It stands 14 feet tall and is nearing 200 years old, but it's in remarkable shape considering what it has gone through in its long life. A large stained-glass window illustrating Jesus' parable of the “Sower and the Seed” is, as far as anyone can tell, the last such artifact from the former Methodist church which was built in 1835 and once stood at 66 Atkinson St. That building was demolished in December 2021, but with the blessing of the...
The poet W.H. Auden wrote in his poem “In Memory of W.B. Yeats” that “poetry makes nothing happen.” But it does, one could argue to the contrary, when it moves a person to a greater awareness of the experience of being alive. Many of the poems in Poems in the Time of Covid witness to life in the face of over 688,000 Covid casualties and counting nationwide. They comprise the vital expression of local voices that echo in the streets...
BRATTLEBORO-In "The Lottery," a suspenseful short story by North Bennington resident Shirley Jackson, all the villagers gather every June, as they always have, participating in a ritual to ensure a good harvest, a beneficial year, and remove bad omens. They do this by collectively stoning to death one member of the village, who is chosen by lottery. Then their village carries on, thinking they've done what is needed to improve their lives. Until the following June. Political historian Heather Cox...
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