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Voices

Manhattan as epicenter is no surprise

By
Howard Fairman
Wednesday, April 15, 2020 — Issue 557

PUTNEY — An epicenter of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, Manhattan (22.83 square miles), always looming large everywhere, actually is much smaller than Brattleboro (31.83 square miles; U.S. Census Bureau Quick Facts).

Manhattan's population is 1.6 million. Brattleboro has more than enough room for everyone. Imagine!

“Epicenter” is no surprise.

Voices

What has the U.S. done?

By
Kate Kenner

GUILFORD-So Trump has been elected - again. If last time was bad, this time will...

Keeping faith in ‘interesting times’

By
The Beloved Community VT

The writers note that they originally sent this letter to their congregation. "We offer it...

Election results: obvious, but still shocking

By
M.N. Scherbatskoy

WESTMINSTER WEST-Thank you to David Brooks for clearly saying in his Nov. 8 New York...

We’ve become a business with a community problem

By
Hannah Sorila

Hannah Sorila is a writer and community organizer who aims to align intention and impact...

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News

A generational wealth gap

By
Virginia Ray
Wednesday, June 9, 2021 — Issue 616

For people of color, one impediment to farming is lack of access to farmland. It cannot be overlooked that a generational wealth gap exists and has only grown for people of color, preventing them from owning land and other assets that can accrue value over time. By being marginalized for so many generations, people of color have not had the wealth - including farmland - passed down over time that white people have. And, over those generations, the gap has...

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Voices

A musical that speaks to our moment in history

By
David Stern
Wednesday, February 12, 2020 — Issue 548

Cabaret, a landmark musical when it opened in 1966, will reveal its potency once again when it opens Friday, March 13 at the Bellows Falls Opera House. This decadent entertainment depicts the rise of the Third Reich as seen through the veil of a seedy nightclub. As the dancers cavort before us, we become distracted, laughing, titillated by the exuberant depravity. Caught up in the 1920s version of sex, drugs, and rock and roll, we laugh along with the expanding...

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Arts

NXT Gallery presents paintings by Sarah H. Paulson

Wednesday, November 8, 2023 — Issue 739

NXT Gallery, 15 Kimball Hill, hosts the opening reception of "Dragon Land," an exhibition by artist and acupuncturist Sarah H. Paulson. The event will take place on Sunday, Nov. 19, from 4 to 6 p.m. "My art practice is performative," Paulson says in a news release. "I believe that performance, in its sacred form, has the capacity to bring the human being closest to what it means to be human. This sentiment is at the heart of all my work,

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