Tom Schiedler shows that one is never too old to learn about and appreciate a new art form. Thank you for making me look in a different way.
Mary McCallum used to contribute regularly to the commentary series that used to air on...
Timothy Belknap describes himself as a "downtown resident and Brattleboro lover." BRATTLEBORO-The yes vote to...
WEST TOWNSHEND-When I learned, as a girl, about the lead-up to Kristallnacht, I had thought...
BRATTLEBORO-The headline made me curious enough to read this one person's opinion of a local...
Gallery Walk returns to the downtown area on Friday, May 7 from 5 to 8 p.m. after two years - and it's all new. Formerly organized by the Arts Council of Windham County and led for years by volunteer Joy Wallens-Penford before her death last year, this year the Downtown Brattleboro Alliance (DBA) has taken the reins. Are organizers excited? “Oh, my God! The thing that's great is we're getting to imagine and manifest the Gallery Walk of our dreams,
A question was posed recently, publicly, from a concerned individual. To paraphrase: Would there be support for a decolonizing initiative - by this person - to change the name of Brattleboro (and its accompanying official seal) to Wantastegok? This type of situation comes up not infrequently. It seems appropriate to make a public reply in kind, by way of making clear the principles of our responses. At the time, Elnu Chief Roger Longtoe Sheehan and citizen Melody Walker offered a...
On Friday and Saturday, July 29 and 30, five artists of color from across the country will meet in southern Vermont for a series of events organized by the nonprofit art space Epsilon Spires. The gathering “Multidisciplinary Artist Salon: Transcendence” will feature an evening of music, poetry, and visual art in the sanctuary, followed the next day by creative workshops and artist talks in and around the idyllic Green River Bridge Inn in Guilford. All events are open to the...
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