RE: “Having his back” [News, March 13]:
An amazing write up about amazing people. Keep it coming!
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• || Readers Respond || Thoughts of Fall • Why do leaves change color? A forester explains the science behind the autumn magic. Sidebar: Color varies this season • Fall events take place around the region • Dummerston Apple Pie Festival celebrates apples, community • Keep warm this heating season without blowing your budget • || Editor's Notebook || Holding tight to fall: Every single great and glorious fall day could well be the last. We just don't know for...
Seven years ago, my father, Tim O'Connor, decided that the town needed a little more red, white, and blue during Brattleboro's Fourth of July festivities. So on his own, he bought 125 U.S. flags and put them in the flower buckets throughout downtown, around the traffic island across from Brattleboro Savings & Loan, and around Wells Fountain. He did so quietly, not wanting any credit for his efforts. My father passed away last year, but the flags were a tradition...
As an undergraduate at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, John Steven Gurney discovered his love for children's books. He has illustrated more than 100 children's books over the years. But there, he found that “children's books were only some of the things I wanted to illustrate,” said the artist, who has also has worked on fiction book covers, editorial illustrations for magazines, puzzles, and advertising posters. His journey from Brooklyn to Brattleboro came after living in Brooklyn for 17...
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