RE: “Having his back” [News, March 13]:
An amazing write up about amazing people. Keep it coming!
BRATTLEBORO-Big thanks to Joyce Marcel for an excellent article/interview with Becca Balint, and big thanks...
BRATTLEBORO-As I listen to all the reports of what's happening in the Texas Legislature, I...
SAXTONS RIVER-An open letter to Gov. Phil Scott: On Aug. 10, I received an email...
GUILFORD-In the subheading referring to "the 'cruelty' of the budget bill," I understand why you...
BRATTLEBORO-It seems as if President Donald Trump is not popular in Windham County, either. On June 14, which was Flag Day, Brattleboro joined an estimated 2,100 protest marches across the nation and held its own "No Kings" march. Nearly 3,000 people marched from the Centre Congregational Church on Main Street to the common, where they listened to protest songs sung by the 50-voice strong Good Trouble Street Choir backed by the Peoples Resistance Marching Band, and to speeches about democracy...
I had assumed that if I got to Vietnam as an intelligence officer with the ability to speak and write Vietnamese, I would be assigned some peaceful work at the army headquarters in Saigon, a city still reflecting the Indochinese culture, the residual French colonial influence, the colorful and attractive Vietnamese civilians, women in áo dàis floating by on bicycles, favoring me with a smile. I thought that the language and the rank would afford me far more interesting jobs...
PUTNEY-Considered one of the finest pianists in Europe until her brother Wolfgang came along, Maria Anna Mozart, nicknamed "Nannerl," was born in 1751 in Salzburg, Austria. She was nearly five years older than her brother, and they were both considered musical geniuses. Her father, Leopold, started her on the piano at age 8. She and her brother performed all over Europe until she was 16, when she stopped performing in public because she was a woman. To date, all of...
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