BRATTLEBORO-We are living in a moment of deep crisis for our democracy. Billionaires and political...
Tim Kipp, a political activist since the 1960s, is a retired history and political science...
WESTMINSTER-A few days ago, I texted some of my family members to call their representatives...
BRATTLEBORO-There has been an unrelenting assault on our culture and our country since the inauguration...
As morning light drew across Still Wind Farm on a late summer day, a group of Brattleboro community members set about marking a grid in the hay field, gathering soil samples, and preparing for the day's unusual labor: dispersing hundreds of gallons of sanitized human urine on the field to assess its effectiveness as a fertilizer. Rich Earth Institute, a Brattleboro-based nonprofit incorporated in March 2012, lead the initiative. The group is committed to advancing “the use of human manure...
Adults and children alike will have the opportunity to be transported to Neverland through a multimedia presentation of the silent film Peter Pan (1924), featuring a live score by Washington-based harpist Leslie McMichael and theatrical special effects by the Western Massachusetts troupe The Lovelights. The event will take place at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 26 in the sanctuary of Epsilon Spires at 190 Main St. Scottish writer J.M. Barrie created the character of Peter Pan in 1902, and since...
Whenever I become downhearted over man's inhumanity to man, I recognize that man's inhumanity to women is even more frightening. Take, for example, the 2009 documentary Africa Rising, by award-winning filmmaker Paula Heredia, which will be shown in the upcoming Women's Film Festival. This is an anti-female genital mutilation (FGM) film. (Yes, female genital mutilation is so common that there's an acronym. There's also a pro-FGM movement, as well as a movement against male circumcision.) This film left me in...
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