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One part of Vermont’s rich and varied cultural history is owed to its hippie generation of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Vermont was a veritable Utopia for all who followed the era’s back-to-the-land movement and decided to come to Vermont to live organically on communes and self-made farms.
Rebecca Lepkoff and Peter Simon, two famous photographers whose work captured the spirit, people and endeavors of the time, will be featured at the Vermont Center for Photography this week at Gallery Walk.
“The subjects [of my photography] are the hippies in Pike Falls Road, Jamaica, Vermont, 1970, mostly in the summer/early fall,” Lepkoff said. “Some were friends of mine and some I got to know while they were living there.”
Lepkoff had many positive things to say about the people she knew in Pike Falls and the back-to-nature lifestyle that they chose.
On June 2, 28 fourth- through sixth-graders of Oak Grove School had a unique field trip. They, along with 20 older volunteers, toured three schools in one afternoon with a stop at the River Garden in Brattleboro for their final performance. The multi-generational group of 47 sang two sea...
Although businesses and people have come and gone, streets have changed, and buildings have been erected and torn down, Fran Lynggaard-Hansen's new book, Brattleboro: Historically Speaking gives plentiful evidence that the town has always attracted unusual characters and has never been a dull place to live or visit. The...
When Castle Freeman Jr. recently held an open reading and discussion of his new book, All That I Have, at the Brooks Memorial Library in Brattleboro, he read the first three chapters in a quiet, measured tone that allowed for much of the humor in the story to show through, leaving the audience laughing out loud at several points. The wry narration of his fourth novel came through mostly in the character of Lucian Wing, a local sheriff in the...
