The revelers who packed the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center on the night before Gov. Peter Shumlin's inauguration came in droves. They were wearing everything from three-piece suits to Carhartt work pants, cocktail dresses to blue jeans, and their hands held seltzer and wine, canes and infants. They were a teensy bit unruly; so comfortbale with the guest of honor that they shouted out comments in the middle of his welcome speech. That spoke to the familiarity of the guest...
Music • Dixie Bee-Liners play in Putney: Twilight Music presents an evening of bluegrass and roots music from far and near at The United Church of Putney on Saturday, Feb. 12, at 7:30 pm. The Dixie Bee-Liners are a Virginia-based sextet that features soaring vocal harmonies, dynamic instrumental styles and performances filled with jaw-dropping grit, humor and emotion. Vermont/New Hampshire-based Hot Mustard features hard-driving double banjos, close harmonies and old-time fiddle tunes, all hot and spicy. Husband and wife team...
What Elayne Clift describes [“A worrying update,” Column, Jan. 21] is far from a new problem. Many years ago, as a young housewife and mother, I went to a psychiatrist. Within a few minutes of talking to him, I realized the the vast difference between us. I expected information and advice, and he expected me to turn over my life to him and give him unlimited power to label me with a life-altering diagnosis. The only “help” he had was...
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