The town will mark the one-year anniversary of Tropical Storm Irene and the loss of the Lower Bartonsville Covered Bridge with a ceremony and barbecue at the bridge site on Tuesday, Aug. 28. The event, which will also celebrate the next stage of work to replace the bridge, will begin at 4 p.m. If work goes as scheduled, the new bridge will be open by mid-January. The Bartonsville Covered Bridge was built in 1870 and is the main link to...
Alexander P. Gutterman's episodic film The Hunter is a heady, spiritual, sometimes playful expedition - a quest to understand. Originally a three-hour-plus film that was then repackaged into 10 episodes, its maker, Alexander P. Gutterman, isn't your status quo filmmaker. As Katherine Partington of Guilford - the choreographer/dancer in the series - puts it: “Alex is resistant to narrative structure and, in that sense, he has a unique voice.” That resistance is at the core of his labyrinthine work. A...
On behalf of the staff, board, residents, and clients of Groundworks Collaborative, I extend our great and sincere thanks to Elliot Street Fish, Chips & More for selecting our organization to participate as the beneficiary of its inaugural Feeding Frenzy. The restaurant hosted the event on Nov. 4 and attracted a large and generous crowd. Sixty percent of the proceeds from the evening were donated to our organization. Groundworks Collaborative is the agency created from the recent merger of Morningside...
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