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Voices

An unreasonable, but terribly powerful, fear

By
Maggie Brown Cassidy
Wednesday, October 21, 2015 — Issue 328

PUTNEY — I am so grateful for this commentary, which names the unreasonable, but terribly powerful, fear - of a tyrannical government actually disarming citizens - behind so many opponents of gun-safety laws.

Voices

Planet Hank is at our door

By
Anne Henshaw

Anne Henshaw is an independent educational consultant and advocate for disability rights. CHESTER-On Oct. 18,

Danger to the Constitution

By
Laurie Goldman

TRENTON, MAINE-Jo Schneiderman's piece on self-censorship is one of the most important and precise framings...

We must do more to stop U.S. complicity in Gaza

By
Steve Wangh

BRATTLEBORO-Our senators, Peter Welch and Bernie Sanders, and our Representative, Becca Balint, have been in...

Sweat and ash: the spirit of community in Windham

By
Michael Pelton

Michael Pelton, a farm owner and operator and engaged community member, serves on the Windham...

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Family business

By
Fran Lynggaard Hansen
Tuesday, January 23, 2024 — Issue 749

Barry Stockwell remembers his father, Raymond Stockwell, returning from work in the Putney Paper Mill in the 1960s. Each day, Raymond, a supervisor in charge of maintenance, would "grab a little whisk broom he kept on the top of the refrigerator and whisk the paper off the top of his hat. Then he'd sit down in a kitchen chair to unwind and tell us about his day," he reminisced. Until its current owner, Soundview Vermont, closed the paper mill at...

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Voices

Noble thoughts from a Supreme Court justice of yore

By
Richard Evers
Wednesday, May 17, 2023 — Issue 715

Thanks to the wonders of interlibrary loan, I'm reading The Place No One Knew, a 1963 Sierra Club book by photographer Eliot Porter, about the incomparable Glen Canyon in Utah just before it was flooded and lost forever, thanks to U.S. Department of the Interior and the thirst of white people in the southwest and California. The book is a series of magnificent photographs opposite memorable quotations. One of these, by famed Supreme Court justice William O. Douglas, particularly struck...

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Arts

Photos of farm work on display at Putney Library

Wednesday, August 21, 2019 — Issue 524

The Putney Public Library invites everyone to view photographs by Brent Seabrook on exhibit through Sept. 28, during library hours and special events, free and open to the public. The focus of the exhibition is farm work, farm workers, and the workplace itself. Brent Seabrook says he “wants to make a photograph that shows the viewer both a recognizable activity or scene and the psychological depth of the relationship between the subject and the setting.” His large color photographs depict...

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