BRATTLEBORO — RE: “Our nuclear spring” [Editorial, March 14].
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MacLean Gander is retired from a long career as a professor and administrator at Landmark...
Deborah Lee Luskin , one of this newspaper's original columnists, blogs at deborahleeluskin.com. WILLIAMSVILLE-I have...
Meg Donahue is cofounder and chief creative officer of MamaSezz.com, an online enterprise that works...
Emily Carris Duncan (ecarrisduncan.com) represents the Windham-6 district (Wilmington, Whitingham, and Halifax) in the Vermont...
In our culture, it is common for people to avoid talking about death - our own or that of someone we love. Sometimes people need help starting those conversations. Kasey March is a death doula - a person who helps guide and console a dying person, and their family and friends, during the end-of-life period. It is challenging, demanding, and unusual work, but it is nothing new. Doula is a Greek word that goes back centuries. It historically means “a...
HINSDALE, N.H.-Woody Bernhard correctly points out that during Covid lockdowns, skies cleared, waters cleared, and it was like a miracle. All we need to do is receive everything for free, and we can all stay home forever! We need food to magically appear on shelves or in our pantries. We need to have homes without rent or a mortgage, which will just magically appear without construction workers or vehicles. (Remember, we are all staying home.) We need health care at...
Artist Brent Birnbaum's new body of work will be on view at Epsilon Spires with a socially-distanced opening reception on Friday, Sept. 18 and by appointment until Friday, Nov. 6. Birnbaum's latest series of assemblages is composed of board games that the artist systematically deconstructed into hundreds of smaller “spaces,” which he then recombined in collage. He began by cutting the pathways and territories out from existing games to break the set logic of the boards and then created the...
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