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During the past several months, the students of Hilltop Montessori School's middle school have been learning about their community and some of the people who help make this town such a vibrant place to live.
Paul Dedell, the middle school director, quotes Wallace Stegner, who in his essay “The Sense of Place,” wrote: “a place is not a place until people have been born in it, have grown up in it, lived in it, known it, died in it.”
Stegner also wrote: “No place is a place until things that have happened in it are remembered in history, ballads, yarns, legends, or monuments.”
Taking Stegner's words to heart, the school's 22 seventh- and eighth-graders selected community members to shadow and interview about their work.
Hugh Keelan has returned to Vermont from Erie, Penn., where he has conducted a performance of The Nutcracker during the cold winter months, and now the Windham Orchestra music director is gearing up to present a musical celebration of spring. At its first concerts of 2014, the orchestra will...
He was born Jerome Solon Felder in Brooklyn in 1925. A son of Jewish immigrants, he contracted polio as a child and was left paralyzed, needing crutches and a wheelchair to get around. He would reinvent himself as a blues singer named Doc Pomus, and then go on to...
The folks from the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) want to coax the sun back toward Earth with song, art, and light. On Saturday, Dec. 21, the BMAC Winter Celebration will include live music, food, and a luminaria display outside the museum. This free event is appropriate for solstice celebrants of all ages. The winter solstice occurs on the day in December with the shortest amount of daylight, when the sun's daily maximum elevation in the sky is the...
Three Brattleboro artists - Mollie S. Burke, Joan Peters, and Jude Roberts Rondeau - recently joined forces to present an exhibition focused on the threat posed to our Vermont winters by rising global temperatures and erratic weather. “Endangered Season: Winter in Vermont,” which runs until Dec. 20, is simultaneously a celebration of the season and an urgent call to consider the impact of climate change on it. Burke, also a member of the Vermont House of Representatives serving District 2...
The members of Brattleboro-West Arts (BWA) will hold the first of what the grassroots arts collective hopes will be a longstanding holiday art and crafts show and sale, which takes place this weekend in downtown Brattleboro at the C.F. Church Building, 80 Flat St., No. 106. The exhibition - “14 Artists, 3 Days” - is timed for holiday shopping and will offer pieces ranging from paintings, photography, and botanical drawings to pottery, textiles, and woven items. Founded in 2009, Brattleboro-West...
Gayle Weitz and Nick Biddle have opened an unusual gallery and store downtown. A portmanteau of the words “art,” “rage,” and “us,” Artrageus 1 is all at the same time a gallery, bookstore, and coffee shop. As described on its still in-progress website, it is “a gallery exhibiting art that makes sense (of the madness), art that makes fun (of the madness), and art that tells a story (of the madness).” But then again, perhaps Artrageus 1 is not so...
The Center for Digital Art (CDA) will present an exhibition and talk by contemporary digital artist Matthew Ostrowski, who will highlight his current work to “re-process” and “re-synthesize” Hollywood films using unique computer algorithms. In these videos, Ostrowski appropriates scenes from Hollywood films and uses computers to distort their narratives to create what he calls “a new order of visual and sonic information.” The talk coincides with a free reception and refreshments to kick off an exhibition of Ostrowski's work...
