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For the first time, photographers in Windham County will take part in Scott Kelby's annual Worldwide Photo Walk Day, which takes place this year on Oct. 13.
Tom Singleton, who will be leading the photo walk through downtown Brattleboro, says, “All that is needed is a camera and a desire to take photos in Brattleboro.”
According to the event's official website, the free walk, open to those of all ages and abilities, “is a social photography event where photographers get together (usually in a downtown area or trendy section of town) to walk around, shoot photos, and generally have fun with other photographers.”
“Ability doesn't matter. It is just a chance to get together with like minded people to walk in and around Brattleboro and discover photographic opportunities,” Singleton says.
Before Landmark Trust USA took over Scott Farm in 1995, the orchard produced solely Macintosh apples. David Tansey, president and farm manager of Scott Farm, wanted to diversify as much as possible. “The time when Macintoshes taste any good is about three days,” says Tansey. Macintoshes are made viable...
The 11th annual Brattleboro Literary Festival is a three-day celebration of those who read books, those who write books, and of the books themselves. This year's festival, which begins on Friday, Oct. 12, includes readings, panel discussions, and special events, featuring emerging and established authors. All events are free...
Few of the many people who attend the Marlboro Music Festival realize that some of the fine string instruments that they have been listening to were made only a few miles away in the rural Vermont countryside. Since 1981, Doug Cox, one of 16 area artists who will display their work in the Brattleboro-West Arts (BWA) annual open studio tour this weekend, has built more than 600 violins, violas, cellos, and baroque instruments. His instruments have received awards from the...
At this year's Puppets in the Green Mountains Festival, the performers may be coming from around the world, but Eric Bass believes the festival is really about local community. Bass - who with his wife Ines Zeller Bass co-founded Sandglass Theater in Putney, which is producing the event - said, “This festival would be absolutely impossible without the Vermont people.” The festival depends on major funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Clowes Fund, Inc., Marlboro College and...
When people move from a beloved town, they often are filled with regret about what they have to leave behind: their house, a favorite store, or a park. But when Suzanne Rubinstein had to leave Madison, Wis., because her husband was taking a job at Marlboro College in Vermont, she had one overriding thought, “I can't leave Madison without YSP.” So she took it with her. The Young Shakespeare Players (YSP) is a nationally acclaimed youth classical theater that was...
Putting a few final touches on the play Camping with Henry and Tom by Mark St. Germain, Sam Pilo admits he is a little exhausted. He himself has not only directed two of the three fully staged productions this year but, as the artistic director at Actors Theater Playhouse (ATP), he also has had to oversee the technical and artistic aspects of all other productions, including the staged readings that have become such a vital part of the company. However,
Is teenage pregnancy something to sing about? On Aug. 30, Weston Playhouse Theater Company (WPTC) will present the world premiere of Pregnancy Pact, a pop-rock musical with music by Julia Meinwald and book and lyrics by Gordon Leary. Rena Murman, former WPTC education director, said Pregnancy Pact was inspired by the sensationalized news story of an epidemic of teen pregnancies at Gloucester High School in Massachusetts several years ago, and concerns a group of teenage girls who decided to become...
