BRATTLEBORO — Tom Ragle discusses the future of liberal thinking as we lose liberal institutions such as Marlboro College. Twice, he leaps over 1,700 years of Western civilization as he indicates large-scale cultural change from paganism to Christianity.
I feel astonished. What about Judaism?
Judaism may not be important to Mr. Ragle personally, but it is important in liberal education. And it is especially important during a time when anti-Semitism is on the rise.
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A mandatory test for polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) revealed the presence of the toxic carcinogen at Bellows Falls Union High School. The building's gym and auditorium tested highest for contamination and have limited use at this point. The state law enacted in 2021 - the first in the nation - requires indoor air quality tests for PCBs for all schools built or renovated in the decades prior to 1980 in Vermont. PCBs - a group of organic compounds made from carbon,
In a 1916 letter, Robert Frost described his vision of a complete poem as "one where an emotion finds the thought and the thought finds the words." It is impossible not to be affected by raw emotion and grief when contemplating the sheer scope of death and destruction in this latest chapter of many years of conflict and contradiction: In the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel, Hamas took the lives of 1,200 people and took 240 people hostage. By Nov.
On Saturday, Nov. 13, Epsilon Spires will host an evening of Indian film, food, and crafts downtown, featuring a screening of the epic Bollywood classic Sholay, with an introduction by Vidhi Salla of the radio show Vidhi's Bollywood Jukebox. Filmed in rural Bangalore in the 1970s, Sholay combines the aesthetic of “spaghetti westerns” of the period with inspiration from films like Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai to create one of the most popular action-adventure musicals that the world has ever seen.
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