PUTNEY-Emma Paris is a creative force. The 19-year-old from Putney has been named Youth Poet...
They threw her in Yellowstone to save it– to control the deer, work unpaid, change...
WEST CHESTERFIELD, N.H.-In Donald Margulies's Collected Stories - the latest production of Actors Theatre Playhouse...
MARLBORO-Chilean vocalist Natalia Bernal and guitarist Jason Ennis present a selection of music from the...
Dave Shapiro, a versatile and beloved jazz musician and educator, was found dead in his West Townshend home on Feb. 17. He was 58. Shapiro was born April 22, 1952, in Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduated from Brooklyn College in 1973 with a B.A. in music. A gifted be-bop bassist, Shapiro was a busy freelancer in the New York City jazz scene in the 1970s and 1980s. He played regularly with such jazz legends as Woody Herman, Chet Baker, Lee Konitz,
BRATTLEBORO-Imaginary creatures dreamed up by children are brought to three-dimensional life by professional glass artists in GLASSTASTIC, a biennial celebration of youthful creativity and artistic ingenuity at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC). BMAC invites children in grades K–6 to submit drawings of imaginary creatures, a selection of which will be turned into sculptures by glass artists for the museum's exhibition, Glasstastic 2025. Glass artists from around New England pore over the submissions and choose the drawings that will...
Thank you for printing Richard Morton's forthright description of his political and social beliefs and his journey through the recent electoral extravaganza. It might be the longest such piece The Commons has ever accepted, but it succeeds marvelously in painting a picture of what must be no insignificant swath of Republican voters. It's a pleasure to encounter a Republican who needs and is capable of using more than 140 characters to express a full and complex train of thought. Mr.
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