RE: “What happens when a library loses its spirit?” [Column, Sept. 25]:
What a beautiful and resonant description of what we love about and get from libraries!
Mary McCallum used to contribute regularly to the commentary series that used to air on...
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Whatever and however you celebrate, I'm wishing you and yours a very happy holiday season this year! It looks like the weather will cooperate and foster fairly uneventful driving conditions this upcoming weekend, save for a few showers of rain or snow. As I'm fond of saying from time to time, no big whoop! We've got a few frontal boundaries moving through the region over the next week, but none of them promises to deliver much in the way of...
One day, during my first pastorate in Vermont, I went to the post office to get the church mail. One envelope with the name of a fake organization on it and no return address was addressed to me, so standing there in the lobby I opened it. For the next five minutes, I read about how gays and women like me were destroying both Christianity and the country, and how I was a “pitiful excuse” for a minister and human...
The next offering of the Windham Orchestra's resident opera ensemble is Verdi's masterpiece, Il Trovatore. Performances are set for Friday, Jan. 20, at 7 p.m. and Sunday, Jan. 22, at 2 p.m. at the Latchis Theatre in Brattleboro. The opera ensemble includes Jenna Rae, Julie Olsson, Cailin Marcel-Manson, Javier Luengo-Garrido, Elizabeth Wohl, and James Anderson. A new friend and star, Ethan Bremner, sings the great tenor role of the Troubadour. “Sibling rivalry, maternal guilt trips, skullduggery, frustrated and misplaced loves,
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