BRATTLEBORO — RE: “The artisan-cheese revolution” [Food & Drink, June 5]:
There is little in life that can't be helped by cheese.
BRATTLEBORO-We are living in a moment of deep crisis for our democracy. Billionaires and political...
Tim Kipp, a political activist since the 1960s, is a retired history and political science...
WESTMINSTER-A few days ago, I texted some of my family members to call their representatives...
BRATTLEBORO-There has been an unrelenting assault on our culture and our country since the inauguration...
The two bridges that connect Hinsdale, N.H. and Brattleboro safely convey traffic. But this truth does not mean the structures - built the same year that Babe Ruth debuted with the New York Yankees, that Prohibition took effect, and when half the cars on the American road were Model Ts - are functional for today's mega-18-wheelers and SUVs. Hinsdale town officials, state legislators, and members of the New Hampshire Department of Transportation (DOT) met last week to discuss replacing the...
Wild Goose Players will present Claire in the Chair in the Cimetière, a new play written by Sean Hurley and directed by David Stern at Next Stage Arts in Putney, 15 Kimball Hill, on Fridays through Sundays, Nov. 10–12 and 17–19. As described in a news release, this play is "a whimsical comedy about life and death and finding one's purpose in the unlikeliest of places." 27-year-old Claire, a twin, moves into the local cemetery, where she believes her real...
I have listened with great interest to the rhetoric concerning the removal of Confederate monuments and the demonstrations about such actions. The problem is that all this just does not go far enough. We must not just destroy in order to save, we must address the hearts and minds of the Philistines. We are ignoring the greatest danger of all, especially to our children: books and, to some extent, film. Take Gone with the Wind as an example of a...
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