Santa Claus made his annual arrival at the Gibson-Aiken Center on Saturday. He rode in the back of a hay wagon, pulled by a tractor from the Robb Family Farm, and was accompanied by Frosty, the mascot of the Brattleboro Winter Carnival, and elves Alfred Hughes Jr. and Casey Manning. As members of the Brattleboro Union High School band played, the queue quickly formed for pictures with Santa and his elves and to decorate holiday cookies. The event was sponsored...
Troy Wunderle is like that proverbial boy who ran away to join the circus. Only Wunderle wasn't so little when he left. And he's brought his circus home with him. Wunderle is the founder, in 2006, of Wunderle's Big Top Adventures (WBTA), based in Chester. WBTA promotes safe and intriguing world-class circus programming and entertainment for all ages. Its primary programs include circus shows, big top workshops, school residencies, and strolling entertainment. The Women's Community Club of Grafton has arranged...
On March 7, 1970, I took off from the Claremont, N.H. airport in a rented Cessna 175 and headed for Nantucket Island to see the eclipse of the sun. The week before, I learned both of the coming eclipse and that its totality would miss the U.S., with the sole exception of our destination. My passengers - son Chris, my companion Nancy, and John MacArthur, astronomer and science professor at Marlboro College - met at my house in Putney and...
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