BRATTLEBORO-Albert Mikuski, now 88 years old, recalls an extraordinary story of how he and his...
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PUTNEY-Ars longa, vita brevis. One translation of the Latin phrase is that craft takes a...
Good day to you, hearty humans in the land where winter won't seem to quit! Admittedly, I did not see the recent Sunday and Monday snow threats looming when I wrote last week's column. It's amazing how small changes in the atmosphere 3,000 miles away can bloom into completely different atmospheric setups days later. The Butterfly Effect is certainly a real phenomenon, in my experience. And while these late-season snowfalls in the hills of Windham County melted almost as soon...
This has been an incredible year, a year no one will forget. Beginning in January and February, we started to live in anticipation and doubt about COVID-19. In March, the reality of the pandemic hit us hard. And, since then, life has been unusual, unexpected, unbelievable. The balance at the end of the year stands in stark contrast to what we used to consider normal - in all aspects of life. There are significant minuses to this pandemic that go...
Under Mary Westbrook-Geha's direction, the Blanche Moyse Chorale, the Strathmere Festival Orchestra and a quartet of vocal soloists will perform Bach's Mass in B-minor on Friday, April 26, at the Bellows Falls Opera House, and Saturday, April 27, at the First Baptist Church in Brattleboro. Soloists include Brattleboro Music Center's New England Bach Festival (NEBF) veterans Hyunah Yu (soprano) and Steven Paul Spears (tenor), as well as Katherine Maysek (mezzo-soprano) and David Tinervia (bass), both students of baritone Sanford Sylvan,
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