PUTNEY — One of the founders of the Tempestry Project at The Putney School is Asy Connelly. Her name appeared incorrectly in the April 19 issue.
GRAFTON-Among the summer arts happenings gracing green hills with theater, fine art, craft, circus, puppetry,
DUMMERSTON-All are invited to the opening reception of "Watercolors by Linda Rood" at the Dummerston...
GUILFORD-Pride began with rebellion. Kopkind Colony, the living memorial to the late radical journalist Andrew...
MARLBORO-Bard Owl, the duo of T. Breeze Verdant and Annie Landenberger, will perform a benefit...
Scan Jody Williams' credits in her 1968 Brattleboro Union High School yearbook (Choir 1, Usher 2, etc.) and you won't see any clues she'd grow up to be a Nobel Peace Prize–winning Rebel With a Cause. “In high school, I didn't smoke, I didn't drink, I didn't swear, and most definitely, I did not cut classes,” says the Vermonter, who was barefoot in a tank top and jeans during her award announcement. But Williams learned how to upend the establishment...
Annie Landenberger is a freelance writer who contributes regularly to these pages. WILLIAMSVILLE-I marched with my mother in the first Earth Day Parade, on April 22, 1970, just a week before my 16th birthday. Manhattan's Fifth Avenue was all rainbows and flowers, picnics, and Frisbee games: we thronged - 100,000 of us - to march from 59th Street, at the southern edge of Central Park, to Washington Square Park, while fueled vehicles were held at bay. For a teenager who'd...
To honor the memory of Tony Barrand in the first Christmas without him, the remaining members of Nowell Sing We Clear -John Roberts, Andy Davis, and Fred Breunig - will host a community celebration: Sing Nowell: Songs & Carols for Midwinter & Christmastide. On Tuesday, Dec. 6, at 7 p.m., they will welcome to the Latchis Theatre stage the internationally acclaimed vocal ensemble Windborne (Lauren Breunig, Jeremy Carter-Gordon, Lynn Rowan, and Will Rowan) as well as Keith Murphy, Arthur Davis,
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