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.
PUTNEY-Beloved children's book author and illustrator Eileen Christelow told The Commons she saved her illustrations...
BRATTLEBORO-Class, a play by Irish playwrights Iseult Golden and David Horan, gets its U.S. premiere...
BRATTLEBORO-118 Elliot presents a special showing and conversation with the artists of "Fueled by Love:
BRATTLEBORO-Windham World Affairs Council (WWAC) and the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) will host...
For almost as long as human beings have walked the Earth, they have been making baskets, as evidenced by some found in the pyramids of Egypt to artifacts dating back thousands of years old and preserved in the museums of China. Here in southern Vermont, baskets have been made of strips of oak and ash for centuries, first by Indigenous peoples and then brought by those who colonized the region in the 1700s. Greg Wilson is the seventh family member...
Nicholas Boke is a freelance writer and international educational consultant. CHESTER-It took less than a week to do so much damage. Less than a week for me to receive André's email with the subject line "Le pire est arrivé" - the worst has arrived. Less than a week to, among other things, shut down America's longstanding commitment to help impoverished people around the world try to improve their lives thanks to people like André and Belai and George Ali who...
Sponsored by the Kopkind Colony, founded in memory of celebrated political journalist Andrew Kopkind, CineSlam returns to the Latchis Theatre in downtown Brattleboro with a Pride Film Festival of Shorts on Saturday, June 24, at 4 p.m. CineSlam is Vermont's first LGBTQ film festival. “During these turbulent times for our LGBTQ+ community, when anti-LGBT laws are being passed by right-wing legislatures and LGBT Pride Events are being threatened and even canceled, it is vital for the New England community to...
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