JACKSONVILLE — Thanks, Meredith Anton, for writing such an honest and courageous essay describing things that I, too, struggle with daily.
It seems ever more confusing when trying to explain to growing children these things, the inexplicable - what to say and how to phrase it so as not to judge.
Up near my kitchen sink is the poem “The Peace of Wild Things” by Wendell Berry, and it does my heart some good.
I thank you for putting your voice out here. All the best to you in the new year.
Mary McCallum used to contribute regularly to the commentary series that used to air on...
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The Selectboard has unanimously approved an option agreement that will take property, now occupied by the Brattleboro Reformer, off the real estate market while the town explores moving the police station there. The town is not purchasing the property outright at this time. Purchasing the property at 62 Black Mountain Rd. and moving the police station there will still require approval by both the Selectboard and Representative Town Meeting. This option agreement only keeps the property out of reach from...
A few years ago, we wrote a satirical column on “toppling the patriarchy in eight easy steps.” (It's still online, if you're curious.) Since then, who could've imagined either the progress or the backlash we've seen just in this past year alone? Even as bits of scaffold come tumbling down, it's worth revisiting the last step we offered, as a beacon beyond the whole Love Boat theme of February: “Resist media-hyped consciousness. Support everyone's birthright to define themselves, and start...
The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) presents “Lollapalooza Nation: The Rise of Alternative Rock in the 1990s,” a free online talk by music historian Theo Cateforis, on Thursday, Sept. 16, at 7:30 p.m. Register at brattleboromuseum.org. Painter John Newsom, who curated the current BMAC exhibit “Expedition,” has cited Lollapalooza as one source of inspiration for the group shows he organizes. The groundbreaking festival transformed the music scene in the 1990s, when Newsom was a student at Rhode Island School...
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