Former Vermont Gov. Madeleine Kunin says she has been talking about the need for women to assuming a greater role in governance since the 1970s. “We really need to be there when issues are talked about,” she said at a Sept. 19 fundraising event at the Catherine Dianich Gallery. Having women be there at every level of government is the mission of EmergeVT, the local chapter of Emerge America, a nonprofit that trains female Democratic Party candidates in 16 states...
BRATTLEBORO-Beauty in decay - discovering it and capturing it - has been Jim Westphalen's quest for more than a couple decades as a fine art photographer and through the making of his first film, Vanish: Disappearing Icons of a Rural America. The 2023 documentary, which he calls a "self-funded labor of love," will be screened at the Latchis Theater on Saturday, Sept. 21. Originally from Long Island, New York, Westphalen would often spend time with his grandmother in the Poconos...
As protests rage across American cities against the heartless and sadistic murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, I think how impossible it is for anyone with white skin to know what it is like to have brown skin in the United States. There's no way to keep up with the news right now. All I can do is worry about friends in some of the cities that are on fire. The United States was on tenuous ground long before the...
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