BRATTLEBORO — Whoever painted this graffiti on a rock in the West River estuary, please desist.
Haven't we already done enough to the Abenaki lands?
Painted rocks on the West River.
Voices
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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Melany Kahn knows many people recognize her father, the late acclaimed artist Wolf Kahn, for his blurred, bucolic paintings. But she remembers his delight in searching for the details he left out of his landscapes. “My dad loved to forage for anything you could pluck off a tree or bush or pick off the ground,” Kahn recalled recently at the family's Vermont homestead. Her mother, fellow abstract expressionist Emily Mason, had a special affinity for mushrooms. “If you took a...
Kick off Oscar season at Epsilon Spires with a screening of The Last Command, a groundbreaking 1928 silent drama featuring Emil Jannings, winner of the first Best Actor Academy Award for his performance of a former Czarist general. The screening will take place on Saturday, Feb. 19, at 8 p.m. New Hampshire-based organist Jeff Rapsis will create a live musical score for The Last Command as the movie is shown, improvising on the venue's original Estey pipe organ, built in...
GUILFORD-Our family owes our existence to the United States, not only for taking my parents and grandparents in as refugees, but for the country's heroic involvement in the Second World War. My parents in particular never wavered in their allegiance to this country, even when ensuing wars and political events may not have warranted such loyalty. But that was not a judgment for them to make, and as a first-generation American, I have been inclined to agree. At this critical...
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