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.
Nicholas Boke is a freelance writer and international educational consultant. CHESTER-Vermont GOP Chair Paul Dame...
Nancy Braus , a retired independent bookseller, is a longtime activist. GUILFORD-Vermont Yankee, a nuclear...
Also signing this letter were Ellen Martyn, Sara Longsmith, Emilie Kornheiser, Elizabeth Tannenbaum, Peter Fallon,
BRATTLEBORO-Like many of you, I have been outraged by the actions of the Trump administration,
President-elect Jimmy Carter was preparing for his 1977 inauguration when Brattleboro Union High School drama director Robert Kramsky stumbled into the opening challenge of his own debut: How to get the shortest boy in a gaggle of first-time actors to shed his glasses and blindly lead classmates to their Act 1 marks on stage. The show was Oliver! Kramsky, once an aspiring actor, had come to town to follow in the professional footsteps of his mother, a longtime English and...
Next Stage Arts Project and Twilight Music present a socially distanced lawn concert by Americana music band StompBoxTrio on Saturday, Aug. 22 at 6:30 p.m. at Cooper Field on Sand Hill Road. Bring lawn chairs or blankets for outdoor seating in distanced pods on the ballfield, and face masks to wear whenever you leave your pod. Rain date for the concert is Sunday, Aug. 23. StompBoxTrio is a western Massachusetts–based band that features Evelyn Harris (vocals, percussion), John Cabán (“Dobro”
My knowledge of the Israel/Hamas situation is superficial at best. While I know some about the history and some about the current situation, I have never studied it in any depth. My own DNA has no Jewish or Palestinian percentages. Over 18 years ago I did marry into a secular Jewish family, and I have certainly come to know their stories of escape from Nazi Germany and Nazi Austria in the late 1930s. Regarding the history of violent conflict in...
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