PUTNEY — Sending love and condolences to Joyce Marcel [“The death of Rose Kagan,” Voices, Jan. 4]. I always loved reading her essays about her mother, Rose, in the paper and in her book, A Thousand Words or Less.
I love that her mom was buried with her red dance shoes. Funerals are for the survivors, and everyone knew Rose for her spunk and as a dancer.
May Rose's memory be for a blessing.
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At this year's Brattleboro Literary Festival, more than 55 authors of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry will delve into the rich - and, sometimes, contentious - theme of identity. “To survive in the world, you need to know who you are and where you come from,” said festival founder Sandy Rouse. Rouse said that at this year's festival - the 18th - the literary works presented will focus on identity, from the personal, to the communal, to the global. The festival...
These are your standards for online comments. I wish that the open letter published today was held to the same standard: “Editor's note: Our terms of service require you to use your real names. We will remove anonymous or pseudonymous comments that come to our attention. We rely on our readers' personal integrity to stand behind what they say; please do not write anything to someone that you wouldn't say to his or her face without your needing to wear...
BRATTLEBORO-CX Silver Gallery, 814 Western Ave., opens a new exhibition with works from Julia Zanes that will be on display through May 27. An opening reception will be held Saturday, April 6, from 1 to 3 p.m. "The work here is a selection from several bodies of work made since 2020," Zanes writes in her artist statement. "The small ones I called 'Household Objects.' They were an offshoot of a large body of work I made around 2016 called 'The...
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