RE: “Remembering Kate” [Memoir, April 25].
A courageous and touching personal story, beautifully told. Thank you, Mary Ellen Copeland!
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Good day to you, southern Vermonters! Aside from a few chilly mornings, spring continues to settle into our region. Leaf-out is underway, lawns are greening up, and Old Man Winter (stubborn as he's been) is finally ambling off well to our north. While he sleeps it off for the next six months, we can finally enjoy the 2018 warm season. We've got a mix of fair and inclement weather to move through during the upcoming week, so let's jump into...
The Brattleboro Music Center is celebrating the holidays a little early this year, thanks to a $500,000 gift from an anonymous donor. The money supports the Center's ongoing capital campaign. Work has begun on the Guilford Street property that will be the Center's new home next summer. “All of us at the BMC are deeply grateful to the donor for believing wholeheartedly in this project and for helping make our new music center a reality,” BMC Managing Director Mary Greene...
In 1966, Martin Luther King Jr. stated, “For years I labored with the idea of reforming existing institutions of society [through] a little change here, a little change there. Now I feel quite differently. I think you've got to have to have a reconstruction of the entire society, a revolution of values.” By the 1960s, his political analysis was evolving; his conceptions of racial justice would now embrace political democracy and economic democracy. Questioning capitalism and its partner, imperialism, would...
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