PUTNEY-Beloved children's book author and illustrator Eileen Christelow told The Commons she saved her illustrations...
BRATTLEBORO-Class, a play by Irish playwrights Iseult Golden and David Horan, gets its U.S. premiere...
BRATTLEBORO-118 Elliot presents a special showing and conversation with the artists of "Fueled by Love:
BRATTLEBORO-Windham World Affairs Council (WWAC) and the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) will host...
Former Vermont Gov. Madeleine Kunin will be the commencement speaker for the 18th Marlboro College Graduate and Professional Studies commencement, taking place on Saturday, August 22. The event celebrating Marlboro's 44 graduating students will take place at Centre Congregational Church, Brattleboro, starting at 10 a.m., and is free and open to the public. “I can imagine no more appropriate or auspicious send-off for our graduates than an address from Governor Kunin,” said Kevin Quigley, incoming president of Marlboro College, in...
Friday, April 5 We gathered on the Middlebury Green, in Vermont, in the Abenaki land of Ndakinna. Each of us arrived in the middle of our own personal story, a piece of the greater story of humans in relation to the Earth. As we gathered, our stories began to intertwine. In the opening ceremony, we honored our power to shape the story that is still unfolding. Bill McKibben spoke the last few words. “We're all going to have to go...
NEWFANE-During December, Crowell Art Gallery at Moore Free Library, 23 West St., will present "Nature's Joy," a show featuring a variety of artwork by Jen Wood. The show includes landscapes and other subjects of nature in watercolor, a medium that Wood says she has been doing seriously only for about three years. "I've been doing oil painting since my early 20s, sporadically in and around kids and life," says Wood. Born in Putney, Wood grew up on a farm, so...
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