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Arts

MSA gallery hosts show by members of the Vermont Watercolor Society

Wednesday, August 10, 2022 — Issue 676

SAXTONS RIVER — The Connecticut River Chapter of The Vermont Watercolor Society will present their upcoming watercolor show at Main Street Arts, 39 Main Street, Saxtons River, from Aug. 14 to Sept.10.

With 72 members from the Tunbridge area to the southern Vermont border, and including New Hampshire members, there will be approximately 35 original and diverse watercolor pieces exhibited in the gallery.

An opening reception is scheduled for Friday, Aug. 19, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Regular gallery hours are Fridays and Saturdays, from noon to 5 p.m. For more information, contact Main Street Arts at 802-869-2960 or info@mainstreetarts.org, or visit vtwatercolor.org.

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‘Recycling before recycling was popular’

By
Fran Lynggaard Hansen
Wednesday, November 2, 2022 — Issue 688

Just off the common, in a gray house with hundreds of consignment items tucked into seven rooms, the Second Chance Shoppe is celebrating 40 years in business. On a recent day, new Vermonters Grace and Brayden recently moved from Buffalo, New York, to Stratton. They arrived at Second Chance Shoppe because they were spending their Saturday “going around to some thrift shops because it's a fun hobby, and it saves money,” says Grace. “And look,” Brayden says, pointing to an...

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Voices

Tolerance is not a threat

By
Kurt Daims
Tuesday, November 19, 2024 — Issue 791

BRATTLEBORO-Tom Nolan objects angrily to Brattleboro Common Sense's remarks about the banners in the Dummerston School. Please ignore the irrelevant details about the climate committee which he chaired. BCS has just as much authority, since we started the committee and had two associates on it. We did not draw attention to either of them, as Mr. Nolan does. We only mentioned the illegal ejection of a member from the committee as an example of censorship, which is relevant to the...

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Arts

Good-feeling music never goes out of fashion

By
Eugene Uman
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 — Issue 784

BRATTLEBORO-The name "Somethin' Else" refers to the 1958, desert-island-worthy recording by saxophonist Cannonball Adderley that enticingly featured trumpeter Miles Davis. The band "Something Else" - performing at the Vermont Jazz Center on Oct. 5 at 7:30 p.m. - is a seven-piece, three-horn band organized by alto saxophonist Vincent Herring that draws on the rich repertoire of soul jazz, a music that came to fruition in the early 1960s. Soul jazz successfully combined the sophistication of jazz improvisation with the danceable...

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