RE: “Remembering Kate” [Memoir, April 25].
A courageous and touching personal story, beautifully told. Thank you, Mary Ellen Copeland!
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Vermont is in good shape financially for the time being. The state has socked away $60 million in the stabilization reserve fund and $30 million in the human services caseload reserve. We have $10 million set aside for federal cuts to the Low Income Heating Assistance Program. Revenues are back up 11 percent ahead of last year's tax receipts. And our credit rating is the second highest in the country. Gov. Peter Shumlin and the leadership in the House and...
On Oct. 7, musicians performing an “Afternoon at the Opera” graced the sanctuary of First Baptist Church in an early-20th-century Estey organ and mezzo-soprano concert that was absolutely heaven on earth! Local virtuosi Clark Anderson and Jenna Rae filled the air with Verdi, Wagner, Handel, Massenet, and Mozart. All stops sounded in the “March” from Aida as well as Wagner's “Ride of the Valkyries.” The opening waltzes from Richard Strauss set the tone, and even Johann Strauss II and Jacques...
South, a silent documentary created by Frank Hurley, the cameraman recruited by Ernest Shackleton to record his harrowing 1914–1916 attempt to reach the South Pole, will be screened at Epsilon Spires on Saturday, Aug. 6. The film will be scored live with an improvised soundtrack by the Psychedelic Cinema Orchestra, which accompanied the Super 8 film collages of Ken Brown at the venue last year. Shackleton and his crew were stranded in the Antarctic when their ship, the HMS Endurance,
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