The headline of Elayne Clift's column [“Recipe for pandemic,” Oct. 2] was very obviously wrong. As was clear in the text of the column, one third of the world's population in 1918 and 1919 was infected by the avian flu virus. However bad that was, your editor apologizes for inadvertently claiming that all those people died from it.
Good day to you, hearty dwellers of southern Vermont! We're currently caught in an ongoing up-and-down pattern which will produce inclement weather followed by periods of fair weather over the next week. For Wednesday, we'll start off with a few early morning showers and transition to a partly to mostly sunny day that will last through Thursday. By Friday morning, rainfall will track back into the region as northern and southern stream systems merge over our region. Our storm departs,
Thank you to Mindy Haskins Rogers for writing this. Sexual abuse happens on so many levels - even today, it is confusing whether an action is abuse or not. Abusers mess with our minds, leaving us wondering if we've encouraged them, if we're being too sensitive, if this is normal behavior. However, if we are uncomfortable, that is enough information. Get out. Let others know. The Women's Freedom Center is a powerful resource, and we are fortunate to have it.
Bricolage is the construction or creation from a diverse range of available things - something constructed or created from what is at hand. The word suggests collage, the medium of Jim Tober's artwork, while Claude Lévi-Strauss introduced the word in anthropology, the disciplinary background of Carol Hendrickson. The Crowell Gallery, 23 West St., is showing the work of these two educators, whose love of creative reconstruction has coexisted with a life in academia and comes to the fore in their...
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