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Connecting Montpelier and nearby communities since 1993 | JUNE 26JULY 16, 2014
TAYLOR STREET HOTEL
PLANS ABANDONED
INSIDE THE
NORTHFIELD
GENERAL STORE
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RIDERSHIP RISING u y u
Dr. Henry Janes: A Waterbury Icon by C. B. Hall
D
r. Henry Janes was a physician, public servant and
man of uncommon achievement. And he may be the
most revered citizen of a townWaterburythat
can also claim three Vermont governors and two winners of
the Congressional Medal of Honor as native sons.
Born in Waterbury in 1832, Janes was educated at the Mor-
risville and St. Johnsbury academies. He commenced medi-
cal training in 1852 and completed it three years later. He
returned to Waterbury in 1857 and opened a medical practice
in a house next door to his family home. Over the ensuing
decades, in addition to the routine of treating patients, he
published numerous scientific articles and served as surgeon
general of Vermont, University of Vermont trustee, and repre-
sentative to the state legislature, among other duties.
His most salient accomplishments, however, grew from the
bloodied soil of the Civil War. As an army field surgeon,
he tended the wounded after the Battle of Antietam, the
Second Bat-
tle of Fred-
e r i c k s bur g
and, most
notably, the
three days at
Gettysburg.
He lacked
neither de-
cency nor
det er mi na-
tion in dis-
charging his
duties. After
surgeries on
all the other
w o u n d e d
Union sol-
diers from
the Fred-
e r i c k s bur g
battleground had been completed, according to the Revised
Roster of Vermont Volunteers (1892), Janes went with a
flag of truce into the Confederate lines for the purposes
of attending the wounded prisoners of the [Union's] Sixth
Corps, and bringing them back into the Union lines.
The Roster goes on to note that between 49,000 and 50,000
men were treated during the war in hospitals under his
charge. His defining moment may have come at Gettysburg,
where, in the battle's aftermath, he supervised hospitals treat-
ing 20,000 wounded soldiersUnion and Confederate
gathered from the killing fields of the war's bloodiest engage-
ment. The Roster notes that a special hospital of about 2000
beds was established ... for the purpose of treating to termina-
tion the most dangerously wounded. There, under Janes's su-
pervision, 449 leg amputations were performed, but even more
cases of leg trauma were treated without amputation---a testa-
ment to the skill and judgment of Janes and his colleagues.
In the Civil War, particularly after a great battle, if you
were dealing with a badly wounded arm or leg, the stan-
dard thing was to amputate it, says Montpelier historian
Howard Coffin. Janess reluctance to do that saved many
a man an arm or a leg.
In 1864 Janes took charge of the army hospital in Philadel-
phia, and then returned to field duty with the Army of the
Potomac. That autumn, after a stint commanding a hospital
steamer, he returned to Vermont, having been assigned to
run Montpelier's newly established Sloan United States Army
General Hospital [sidebar, p.8].
Janes directed the Sloan Hospital until it closed in late 1865.
He mustered out of the army early in 1866 and returned to
private practice in Waterbury in 1867. Over the years, he both
studied and published scientific papers on gunshot wounds
and amputations. He kept meticulous records of his patients
and their outcomes, records which served his own and others'
research. The Waterbury Public Library retains many of his
notes, including some on patients at Gettysburg.
Janes married only at age 50, relinquishing his status as Wa-
terbury's most eligible bachelor. In The Waterbury Record:
More Vermont Memoirs, R.L. Duffus describes him as a man
of extraordinary attraction for women. Such attributes may
not have been lost on a woman from the town's Kneeland
Flats area, who, local lore informs us, summoned him to her
home repeatedly to treat ailments which as repeatedly proved
undetectable to the clinician. One winter's day, the woman
finally summoned him once too often. Arriving, Janes went to
the sick woman's room and took off his coat. He then began
taking off his suspenders, too. The woman screamed. Janes
left. She never sent for him again.
His philanthropy generated more local lore. Filling a prescrip-
tion for an impoverished local family, he sent off the medicine
wrapped in some money. He also managed to maintain a herd
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Photo by C.B. Hall.
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s there any other time of year when I want to sit on a rock in the middle of, say, the
Shady Rill, at 5 p.m.water sounds all around me, the sun making its last visit to the
brookand space out? No, there is not. But today, returning from a sad visit to the
veterinarian, we stopped, water sandals in hand, and let the sounds and the light dancing
on the little brook soothe us. There is nothing like it. As my sister Carola always says,
"Nature never disappoints." And on some level, it's true. The leaves are heavy on the trees,
as full of pumped-up liquid as they will ever be. Never mind the white pine needle-drop
about to sweep through our forests....it will heal, new needles will grow, for just now, all is
well, summer is here.Nona Estrin
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Roxy Smith Art: Found
Objects, Cows, and the
Heavens
A
s part of a Friday, June 6, Montpe-
lier Art Walk, Montpelier resident
Roxy Smith exhibited her art at the Ver-
mont Center for Independent Living.
The art that Smith has been creating out of her own imagination consists of found objects
such as stones and shells that she sets forth and often paints on wooden panels. As part of the
art walk event she was asked to sell three of her pieces. One of her pieces showed the Cow
that Jumped Over the Moon. Another of her pieces showed an American Indian settlement
with teepees. Finding out that people wanted to buy her art ...was a total shock to me, she
said. So far, Smith has made $65 in total from the sale of her work.
Smith welcomes the encouragement she has found at Another Way, a community center on
Barre Street in Montpelier. She has high praise for Walter Adams, who described himself
modestly not as a staff member at Another Way, but as a visitor. As a visitor, Adams has
cleared an upstairs space for making art. He has also taken photographs of Roxy Smiths art.
Just past the front door of Another Way is a room where some of Roxy Smiths art is currently
on display. One of her pieces is from the Monopoly board game. Another of her pieces shows
the sun and brightly painted comets and planets against a black background. That representa-
tion of the heavenly universe provoked one person who saw it to say, I just have to have it.
Staff member Lauren Sales, who has worked at Another Way for two years, contacted The
Bridge about Roxy Smiths art. In a remark that is posted on the Another Way website, Sales
said, I really believe that people have the answers to most problems within themselves. Our
job as helpers is primarily to create a space for people to be in community together, so our col-
lective wisdom can manifest, and individuals can discover their own strengths and talents.
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Howard Coffin to Speak at Gettysburg
O
n July 4, Montpelier historian Howard Coffin will give an address, titled Gettysburg
in Vermont: Sites in Vermont Associated with Gettysburg, as part of the annual Sacred
Trust Talks and Book Signings at Gettysburg, PA, in commemoration of the battle there
that marked the turning point in the Civil War. Coffin, who has authored several books on
the Civil War, will join some two dozen other historians, authors and National Park Service
experts for the three-day program (July 4, 5, and 6) on the occasion of the battle's 151st an-
niversary. The Sacred Trust event is sponsored by the Gettysburg Foundation.
Farmers Market Seeking New Winter Home
F
or the past eight years, the Capital City Farmers Market has held its (December through
April) winter markets at the Alumni Gym at Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA) in
Montpelier. But because the college has plans to renovate the gym, the Capital City Farm-
ers Market is looking for a new market space next winter. The Alumni Gym at the college
provides approximately 7,600 square feet of space and is located next to the VCFA green at a
location not far from downtown Montpelier.
Farmers Market manager Carolyn Grodinsky reflects on the college market site as a beautiful
Saturday gathering spacea sunny space thats brought together farmers, food makers, crafts-
people and musicians and the general public to create a very popular and vibrant marketplace.
The market is currently evaluating other Montpelier options. Please contact Carolyn Gro-
dinsky with suggestions and leads for a new winter market space at manager@montpelier-
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Methodist Church Welcoming New Pastor
D
owntown Montpelier's Trinity United Methodist Church will welcome a new pastor to
its pulpit June 29. Rev. Yunki Kim is a native of Korea, but has spent a third of his life
in Cairo, Egypt, with the balance spent in the United States and Korea. He graduated from
Boston University's School of Theology in 2011 and has served a Massachusetts church as
assistant pastor these past two years. He is married to a linguist; they have a one-year-old son.
I
n a first conversation with The Bridge,
Montpelier Alives new executive direc-
tor, Ashley Witzenberger, talked about a
range of downtown issues and was, by turns,
thoughtful and inventiveoften intensein
thinking through ways to make Montpeliers
downtown more business-smart, more busi-
ness-friendly, and even livelier and more at-
tractive than it is today.
As June gives way to July, coming right up is
Montpeliers traditional July 3 Independence
Day celebration. In pulling together the pa-
rade, the floats, the music, the food vendors
and the fireworks display, as well as enlisting
the aid of parade marshals and volunteers, and
putting an effective Zero Waste campaign in
place, Ashley has leaned on a July 3 Organiz-
ing Committee.
Talking about that committeeand its a
committee that includes Christine Hartman
(parade coordinator), Jessica Ball (volunteer
coordinator), Lin Syz (program coordinator)
and Pinky & Loraine Clark (vendor coordi-
nators)Ashley said, I have an incredible
committee. Its a well-oiled machine. Theyre
veterans at everything they do. And they have
a deep love for Montpelier.
Ashley, who is originally from Longmeadow,
Massachusetts, moved to Montpelier from
Manhattan six years ago and has had an im-
pressive career in marketing, branding, public
relations and events planning.
One of the highlights from Ashleys time in
Manhattan was her work in public relations
and celebrity dressing for red-carpet events for
the famous wedding dress and evening gown
designer Vera Wang.
She was my idol before I worked for her, Ash-
ley said. Her taste level was amazing to me.
Vera Wangs design brilliance made a deep im-
pression on Ashley. Her wedding dresses stood
out in sharp contrast to the sometimes almost
forgettable dresses that were worse than ordi-
nary, almost on the cheap and cheesy side.
But Wangs dresses were not inexpensive. Said
Ashley, To come into the corporate office
and meet with usthese dresses started at
$25,000. But Vera Wang also had a store,
and dresses there started at $2,500. And now
Wangs dresses are at places like Kohls for the
average person.
Ashleys life has certainly not been all glamour
and glitter. About six years ago things changed
dramatically when she was told by her grand-
mother, whom Ashley describes as her best
friend, that her grandmothers husbandher
grandfatherhad been diagnosed with an
advanced case of Alzheimer's disease. Ashley
decided to move to Vermont to help.
Her first job in Vermont was working for the
Alzheimers Association as an events organizer.
It was my first job here and it was wonderful,
Ashley said.
I love a party. I love things that are celebra-
tory, she said. And partly because she had
worked for Vera Wang, Ashley (to use her
words) got bit by the wedding bug. Eventu-
ally she started W Creative Services, her own
business run out of her East Montpelier home,
and this business that is still up and running
today focuses on wedding and event planning.
This past January, Ashley was hired by Mont-
pelier Alive to plan Montpeliers mid-winter
Frostival festival. Then she applied to run
Montpeliers July 3 Independence Day cvel-
ebration and was soon at work with the very
effective July 3 Organizing Committee. As
part of her work with the committee, she par-
ticipated in a review of last years July 3 event.
Based on that review and negotiations that
followed, there will be two major changes
for this years July 3 event. The first change
is that the fireworks display this year, tradi-
tionally launched from National Life, will be
launched from the upper deck of National
Lifes parking garage structure. Launching
from the parking deck puts the display 500
feet higher and will mean an increase of
600 shots into the aira bigger and better
fireworks display this year compared to last.
The other change is that the parade route
will once again follow State Street, past the
State House, but will end at Bailey Avenue,
an improvement over last years end-of-parade
location on Taylor Street.
In those first few years after moving from
Manhattan to the Montpelier area, Ashley
worked for a time in Shelburne and she also
worked in New Hampshire. Afterwards she
would drive back home through Montpelier.
She recalled, I would drive through here at
night and I didnt think of it as home.
Manhattan, a world-class urban center with
its driving energy, had been home for Ashley
and surely Montpelier was not Manhattan.
But despite the sharp differences between the
bright lights and throbbing pulse of Manhat-
tan, this small-town Vermont capital city has
taken hold of Ashleys imagination.
I think we have amazing talent here, amaz-
ing artists, Ashley said. I think our restau-
rants are stellar and we have special shops and
boutiques. We have a balance here between
a real community feel and the grandeur and
elegance of the State House. And the vibrancy
and energy of Montpeliers downtownits
palpable. To be part of it, she went on, Im
proud. And now Montpelier is home for me.
And when I asked Ashley to explain the idea of
branding to me, she said, I think branding is
very important for everyone: for stores, for res-
taurants and our city. You should know who
you are, what you represent and your target
audience. We need a cohesive way of showing
off our downtown, saying who we are, what we
do, what we do best and where we stand out
from the rest.
In the days that followed that first meeting
with Ashley, when I was downtown, I kept see-
ing her talking with someone on the street or
huddled in a conversation with a shop owner
or merchant. And in a follow-up email note to
me, Ashley asked me to put out an invitation
to anyone who cares about downtown or is
involved in downtown to be in touch with her
with their ideas. Listeningthis is an impor-
tant goal of mine, she said.
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I
recently interviewed Andrew Brewer,
owner of Onion River Sports, on the occa-
sion of ORSs 40th anniversary. Brewer is
enthusiastic and passionate about bicycles and
his business, fiercely community-minded and
unafraid of the changes he thinks will benefit
Montpelier.
A bit about his background: Brewer is
homegrown. He attended Berlin Elemen-
tary, graduated U-32 in 1984, and then
UVM. During high school, a knee injury
caused him to ride a bike for therapy, and
he discovered he liked it. He soon began
hanging around Onion River Sports, where
Jack Nash, a bike racer who had started
the store with Warren Kitzmiller, mentored
him and let him tag along on rides. He
then pestered Nash for jobs and worked
literally from the ground upsweeping up
and building bicycles in the basementand
continued working there throughout col-
lege during summers and holidays. By 1991,
Kitzmiller had bought out Nash after a
20-year partnership. By 1995, Kitzmiller
desperately needed a manager and made a
proposal to Brewer, then living in Salt Lake
City and racing for a living, with an agree-
ment to eventually sell him the business.
So Brewer moved home, and in 2000 he
bought the business from Kitzmiller. The
opening of The Shoe Horn followed in 2001,
along with an e-commerce business. ORS
Racks Direct, with its warehouse on Granger
Road, is a nationwide business, so is not ad-
vertised locally. About 50 percent of ORSs
business is online and consists of three sites:
one for car racks, one for snowshoes and one
for cross-country skis. ORSs total payroll is
45, with 25 full-time and 20 part-time em-
ployees. Not one to sit still for long, in 2008
Brewer renovated and doubled the size of The
Shoe Horn and opened Onion River Kids.
Brewer on Warren Kitzmiller:
Warren did a wonderful thing. I have no
doubt that Warren probably could have sold
Onion River to somebody from away for a
lot more than he sold it to me for; but he did
two things. I was working for peanuts for
him and he told me he would make up for it
in sweat equity when I bought the business,
and he did. The second thing was he was re-
ally determined that he would keep it going
the same way that it had been going for years.
I admire that and hope I can do that myself.
Im keenly aware of ORSs history and stand-
ing and what people think about it.
Even though I own Onion River, I feel like
the caretaker until the next person comes
along. We try to make sure our staff knows
the history and legend, and that we continue
in that vein.
Brewer on buying a bike from Jack Nash:
The experience of buying a road bike has
really changed. I bought my first one in 83,
and I still remember the experience. It was
at the very beginning of mountain biking.
There were people who thought this was
going to be a fad. It was all about road bikes
back then. For six or seven hundred dollars,
they were all custom. They were exotic, Ital-
ian. I bought my first one from Jack Nash.
He had a wonderful reputation all over New
England for racing bikes. Jack would size
you up for measurements, hed pull a frame
down and put it in your hands, and then
youd pick the components individually you
wanted. It was magical! My first one was a
Basso-Italian. It was blue. I loved that bike.
Every time I rode it, Id polish it. It was a
handcrafted steel frame.
Brewer on the success of ORS:
It certainly is customer service. We built a
reputation over 40 years and have to keep
it there. You cant ever relax. We work very,
very hard to keep customers for life. We have
a lot of people who would never dream of
going anywhere else. But we are constantly
working hard to bring in new customers all
the time. We think of our customer base
as Washington County, 60,000 people. Of
that, half are from zip code 602. Its not a
changing population with an influx of new
students every year. The shops in Burlington
have that luxury. We try to do it one transac-
tion at a time.
It is also our staff. Im really proud that we
have very low turnover here. Many employees
have been here ten years or more. Im very
proud that many employees are having fami-
lies, buying homes and am hoping theyll
be here for a long time. Were paying much
better than normal wages for retail now. We
have health care, We have a retirement plan.
Health care is very unusual for a business our
size, but I believe in it. I sit on the governors
advisory committee on health care.
Brewer on putting Montpelier on the map
for biking:
The mayor has as one of his goals to make
Montpelier a bike-friendly destination,
whether its a better network of mountain
bike trails in the area, or bike lanes, or better
street signage for cyclists. We have seen some
great trail systems in the past 10 years. We
rely heavily on partnerships with landowners,
villages and towns. In general, Vermont has
huge opportunities because of its great trail
systems. There are three mountain biking
groups: the Stowe Mountain Bike Club, the
Chittenden County Fellowship of the Wheel,
and the local MAMBA [Montpelier Area
Mountain Bike Association].
Brewer spoke passionately about how he would
like Montpelier to emulate Burlingtons Church
Street model in which a tax on businesses would
provide a reliable pool of money to pay for the
branding and promoting of Montpelier. He
noted that there is not agreement within the
business community about this and other ideas
that he considers positive, such as parklets and
using parking spaces for bike racks. He com-
mented, People are afraid of change. Its the
kind of thing that puts you on the map.
Brewer on what hed like to see in Montpe-
lier if he were its czar:
- Continue that good work of promoting
Montpelier. We want to bottle that quintes-
sential New England small town that tourists
mean when they say they love Montpelier.
- Continue promoting Montpelier as a bike
town and take advantage of the huge asset we
have of having the state capitol here.
- Prevent humungous trucks from rumbling
down State Street in the middle of the day.
- Close Main Street to traffic on a Saturday
afternoon. When I come into town, I want to
see people, not cars.
- Have benches, tables and chairs sprinkled
around town.
Brewer on Montpelier as a place to do
business:
Im one of Montpeliers biggest fans and
promoters. Theres no place like Montpelier.
I havent lived all over the world, but there is
no place like this town. You have crazy com-
mitted customers who go out of their way to
shop local, and all my fellow merchants feel
the same way.
The interview closed with Brewer hinting
that he is ready to take on a new project.
Stay tuned.
Onion River Sports
Turns 40: An Interview
with Andrew Brewer by Joyce Kahn
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Andrew Brewer stands in front of Onion River Sports in Montpelier.
Falls General Store: Something Old, Something New
by C.B. Hall
T
he Falls General Store in Northfield
Falls will reopen under new ownership
on July 5. The new proprietors, Vin-
cent and Norma Rooney, are poised to offer
Northfield residents a grocery of a sort the
town has never before seen.
After 26 years in the technology sector, the Pa-
tchogue, Long Island, couple decided in 2010
to live out our dreams, Norma told The
Bridge. We're both foodies. Big foodies. The
couple purchased the ramshackle building at
the corner of Route 12 and Cox Brook Road in
September of that year, five months after the
prior owners had closed the doors.
First on the Rooneys' agenda was the structure
per se. The building was collapsing in on
itself, Vince recalled. The floor was wavy.
The engineers were afraid of walking on the
second floor. Fifty-two lolly posts in the base-
ment remedied the instability. Other upgrades
ranged from a new septic system and a res-
taurant-standard kitchen, to the restoration
of the consoles on the big rectangular struc-
ture's false-front facade, providing a touch of
country-village elegance.
The renovation began in June, 2011, and was
not substantially complete until the end of last
year. Norma declined to specify how much
money she and her husband had put into the
project, describing the sum simply as a lot.
The couple used local sources and local con-
tractors as much as possible in restoring the
building, they said, and that orientation will
carry over into the enterprise's operations.
Natural as much as possible, local as much
as possible, non-GMO as much as possible,
Norma said, summarizing the couple's mar-
keting approach.
The couple clearly envision something a large
step beyond the general stores of yesteryear.
While the carpenters were pounding their
building back together, the Rooneys were
studying at New York's International Culinary
Center, honing their expertise in such things
as French pastry making, culinary chocolate
and Italian cuisine. Norma said that a part
of the business will be coming straight from
the kitchen, featuring breakfast, lunches and
take-out dinners with an international flavor.
The establishment will also carry groceries, of
course. It'll be like a small co-op, she put it.
We're looking for food items that have as
little ingredients as possiblenot overly pro-
cessed, more local, more organic or natural.
We're not going to be able to fill the store
with just that and be able to sustain ourselves,
but our primary mission is to provide good,
healthy products, the kind of products that
we would use in our own cooking, like a good
selection of fine condiments, good cheeses,
good grains and cereals, environment-safe
soaps, Norma explained.
She said that she and her husband, in planning
their store's launch, had conferred with staff at
both Hunger Mountain Coop and Burling-
ton's City Market cooperative, all of whom
expressed support for the couple's venture.
The Rooneys are the ninth party to own the
store since one Albert Cross erected the build-
ing in 1892. The ownership changes have been
especially frequent in recent decades, as the
store has suffered the slings and arrows that
have beset many a village store across the state
and country.
The ailments that afflict general storeswhich
is to say, that afflict the culture of the local
need not be fatal however, and both affected
communities and entrepreneurs have in recent
years proffered creative solutions when village
stores are shuttered. In Peacham, a commu-
nity effort, according to the project's website,
is seeking to create a financially sustainable,
community-supported caf and store . . . that
meets the communitys needs for a local eat-
ery, gathering place, and staple grocery in a
building donated by the town. In 2013, having
cobbled together a half-million dollars, com-
munity members in Barnard purchased that
town's general store, which had gone out of
business. The community maintained a caf
and gathering place, staffed initially by volun-
teers, in the store until bonafide operators were
found to lease the 180-year-old building and
run a full-service grocery in it. Today, a year
later, the operators are doing very well, says
Tom Platner, secretary of the Barnard Com-
munity Trust, the building's owner. They're
making a profit.
Platner cautions, however, against orienting a
store towards a niche market, such as natural
or gourmet foods.
It's too easy to focus on your own tastes in
food. You'll be cutting out a reasonable per-
centage of the town. You have to cater to the
general public in a general store. Tree huggers
and loggerswe all gotta get along.
In other words, it's a tough business. Accord-
ing to the Vermont Retail & Grocers Asso-
ciation, 18 Vermont general stores closed their
doors between 2008 and 2013, while another
seven were repurposed as other businesses. The
dismal trend may be turning around, however.
Within the last year, stores in West Topsham
and West Hartford have served their last pa-
trons, but stores in Guilford and Peru, as well
as the Barnard establishment, have reopened,
association president Jim Harrison reported.
We're a very mobile society, Harrison ex-
plained the tribulations that village stores
have endured, or succumbed to. Years ago we
shopped and did all our business locally, at the
village store, and every year we're getting more
and more mobile.
Notwithstanding Platner's admonition, a care-
fully calibrated market niche seems a typi-
cal attribute of revived village stores, as does
community initiative. While the Falls General
Store presents an exception to the community-
driven model, it epitomizes the former feature,
embracing new marketing styles and empha-
ses. Hardware, overalls and white bread, at the
Falls store as elsewhere, are yielding to craft
beers, espresso and the latest in grab-and-go
cuisine. Whether in Northfield Falls, Barnard
or Peacham, the new generation of country
stores will bear only limited resemblance to
their antecedents from the 19th or even 20th
century. As novelist Thomas Wolfe put it, you
can't go home again, for home has changed.
The Northfield Falls store as it appeared around 1900.
Courtesy of Northfield Historical Society.
The Falls General Store in a recent
photo. Courtesy of Vincent and Norma Rooney.
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Developer Redstone Commercial Properties' increasingly controversial proposal to build a hotel
on the upper stories of the transit terminal to be developed at 1 Taylor Street has died under
the terms an agreement between Redstone and the Capitol Plaza Hotel, adjacent to which the
new hotel would have risen.
Redstone announced Tuesday that it and the hotel, owned by the Bashara family, had on Mon-
day reached an accord under which the Capitol Plaza will work with the city of Montpelier
to provide the easement necessary across the Capitol Plaza property to complete the bike path
portion of the [transit center] project. Redstone, in turn, has decided not to pursue a hotel or
other lodging establishment on the 1 Taylor Street property.
The need for a sliver of the hotel's property for the bike path's route appeared to have given the
hotel owners some leverage in seeking relief from the prospect of a competing hotel next door.
I don't think that this town can support two hotels, owner Fred Bashara explained his position
to The Bridge, shortly before the rapprochement with Redstone was reached.
According to data released by the city June 19, the hotel offered the fastest means for the city
to recoup its $1.7 million investment in the project through tax revenues. That confirmed
Redstone's arguments for the hotel, which had nonetheless encountered stiff opposition from
concerned citizens at recent public forums. Objections focused on both the lack of demand for
additional hotel rooms and a perceived injustice towards the Basharas.
Mayor John Hollar expressed satisfaction with the announcement. The decision by Redstone
not to pursue the hotel resolves a very contentious issue, he told The Bridge late Tuesday, so
that we can move forward with the development.
The city council is expected to make a final decision on the upper-story question at its
July 9th meeting.
I
n a report to the Montpelier City Council
on June 11, Tawnya Kristen, community
relations manager for the Green Moun-
tain Transit Agency, provided detailed num-
bers to describe the rising passenger use of
the agencys free Montpelier circulator bus.
According to Kristen the free Montpelier
circulator bus has seen a 67 percent rise in
passenger use from the year ending June 30,
2013, over the year ending June 30, 2012.
Commenting on this 67 percent gain in rid-
ership, Kristen said, From a transportation
perspective thats impressive.
And thats not all. In the last six months of
2013 (July through December) passenger
numbers for the circulator bus have risen
another 4 percent over the year before.
Kristen said that about 2,000 passengers a
month are using the circulator bus this year.
The total this year, from January through
May, is 20,482 riders. The total last year
during that five-month period was 19,686.
So the circulator bus is continuing to at-
tract more passengers but not at the same
dramatic rate as in 2012 and 2013.
Summing up the rise in passenger numbers,
Kristen said, In our third year, we are be-
ginning to level off. In short, the circulator
bus has captured its core group of riders.
And the fact that the growth rate is slow-
ing thats not a source of concern, she said.
Another measure of the effectiveness of the
circulator bus is the per passenger cost per
ride. Kristen said that what the state of
Vermont finds acceptable as the cost per
ride is a little over $16 per passenger. With
the gains in ridership the cost per passenger
right now is down to $8.40 per ride.
Yes, I do think thats defensible, Kristen
said. Absolutely. She went on the say that
the circulator bus is saving wear and tear on
roads, cutting down on traffic and address-
ing environmental issues.
Now that the passenger numbers have lev-
eled off, the GMTA is suggesting a possible
change of service. Kristen reported that only
14 people are using the bus on Saturday while
87 riders are using the bus on weekdays.
These numbers, Kristen said, suggest a pos-
sible service shift that would take away some
of the service on Saturdays and extend the
morning and end-of-the-day hours on week-
days.
But the Green Mountain Transit Agency
is consulting the public. Members of the
public can participate in an online survey
by going to info@gmtaride.org Or they
can attend and participate in a first GMTA
public meeting to be held on Monday eve-
ning, June 30, at 5:30 p.m. at Montpeliers
City Hall.
Taylor Street Debate
Continues by C.B. Hall
GMTA Reports Rising
Passenger Use for
Montpelier Circulator Bus
by Nat Fothingham
GMTA Public Hearings
Green Mountain Transit
Agency (GMTA) will be
holding a public hearing to
discuss and receive public
input on potential Montpe-
lier circulator service modifi-
cations. GMTA is soliciting
input on ridership needs
and, specifically, Saturday
ridership, and whether or
not Saturday service hours
could be better utilized dur-
ing the week.
When: Monday, June 30,
2014 at 5:30 PM -- Where:
Montpelier City Hall, Me-
morial Room, 39 Main St.,
Montpelier, VT.
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he Sloan Hospital occupied about 30 buildings, on and near what became the
green of the Montpelier Seminary, which has since evolved into the Vermont
College of Fine Arts. Prior to the Civil War, the hilltop had been the site of
a fairgrounds, complete with racetrack, in an area that was then quite rural. It also
served as a camp and drill ground for the Sixth Vermont Regiment in September
1861, before the volunteers headed off to the battlefields.
The hospital had a pavilion layout of the sort first proposed by Florence Nightingale,
the Englishwoman who pioneered battlefield nursing in the 185356 Crimean War.
Nightingale perceived a need to avoid the bad air of big, monolithic hospital buildings,
and Sloan's site and construction adhered to her dictum, with excellent outcomes. In
all, Sloan's 496 beds accommodated a total of 1670 patients. The institution tended
only to Union soldiers; the primary conditions treated were malaria, diarrhea and,
of course, gunshot wounds. The hospital returned an exceptionally high 75 percent
of its patients to active duty, in spite of the lack of insulation, plumbing and central
heating, to say nothing of the myriad of medical advances taken for granted today.
According to Walter Davenport's Montpelier Seminary and Its Students (1934), Janes
was accustomed to bear witness to the salubrity of the air, the healthfulness of
Seminary Hill as a location for a hospital. The facility included a chapel, a laundry
and one of the best icehouses in the entire state, Davenport writes. A water supply
was purchased and water was brought from an adjacent hill and kept in an octago-
nal building constructed for a tank located ... about where the Seminary [Vermont
College of Fine Arts' College Hall] now stands. He adds that the water, from a far
distant spring, sufficed to supply all of the seminary's buildings for some 50 years.
The army took care to collect medical specimens for research purposes. An army
communication cited in Janet Bucklew's Dr. Henry Janes: Country Doctor & Civil War
Surgeon (2008) instructed Janes to preserve tumors, morbid growths of every kind,
malformations & congenital anomalies, parasites, calculus & concretions illustrating
diseases of the nervous system.
Not all was gore and gloom, though, whatever the tragedies the patients had endured
and witnessed. A wide verandah circled the wards at their hub, Davenport writes,
and the writer has seen crippled soldiers racing each other on crutches around this
verandah. The locale thus featured a racetrack for the second time.
The hospital closed in late 1865, and on August 7, 1866, the property, with its struc-
tures, was sold to the Newbury Seminary for $15,500. From this raw material, the
seminary proceeded to fashion its new home as the Montpelier Seminary. Hospital
buildings were moved across what is now College Street on rollers and transformed
into the institution's main boarding hall: the recycled structures were jacked up 11
feet, and a new first floor slid under them. The new seminary opened its doors to
students in 1868. The main hall survived until 1957, when it was razed.
Today, only one of the hospital's structuresthe guardhouseremains where it was
built, and essentially as built; it is now a private residence. Many of the older homes
on Seminary Hill were [like the seminary's main boarding hall] fashioned from
lumber or whole buildings from Sloan Hospital ... [and] moved into place on rollers,
William A. Shepard writes in The Hospital that Became a College (1983). Some of the
buildings were moved a goodly distance down College Street, where they continue
to serve their structural functions today.
1864-1865
of cows, whose milk he sold unpasteurized,
Duffus reports. If the doctor had a shortcom-
ing, it was his record in abdominal surgery, in
which he experienced recurrent failures, ap-
parently because his habits of surgical hygiene
had formed under the compromised condi-
tions of the Civil War.
In his seventies, in the course of a 1905 op-
eration, he sliced open his own hand and
developed a case of blood poisoning described
by the Waterbury Record as very serious-
--serious enough to convince him to retire
after a half-century of practice.
Walter Davenport, in his Montpelier Semi-
nary and Its Students (1934), depicts Janes as
a medical man of large learning and wide
professional repute. In his History of Water-
bury, Vermont (1915), T. G. Lewis character-
izes Janes as an affable host, an entertain-
ing conversationalist, cheerful companion
and staunch friend who exhibited a a self-
effacing modesty (although he made no
secret of his having been on the speaker's
platform on the occasion of Lincoln's Get-
tysburg Address).
In 1890 Janes gave his family's house at 28
North Main Street an elegant addition, in
late-Victorian style, with scalloped siding and
flared brick chimneys reaching well above
the ridge line. The house's features included
an organ which the doctor taught himself to
play. Duffus writes, How he learned to play
I don't know. He had enough else to do. Per-
haps this music was the medicine he had pre-
scribed for himself as a cure for what he had
gone through as a surgeon in the Civil War.
Duffus's surmise comports with Janes's own
pacifistic statements. The man hated war as
only a soldier can, and his considerable stature
as a physician gave him something of a plat-
form to tell the world so. In a 1903 address,
Why Is the Profession of Killing More Gen-
erally Honored than That of Saving Life?, he
bared his sentiments: An army marching past
in well aligned platoons, with colors floating,
bands playing ... affords a costly pageant well
calculated to enthuse an unthinking popu-
lace. But help me to receive the wounded
at the field hospital ... as they are brought on
the long lines of stretchers and ambulances.
This man in the deep coma has concussion of
the brain; see the pitiful expression of this boy
with both eyes shot out
His disgust for war also comes out in an
obituary he wrote to honor a fellow Civil
War surgeon, Charles M. Chandler of Mont-
pelier. Janes writes that personal bravery of
the highest kind is needed in the Army Sur-
geon, for he is expected to face, unflinch-
ingly, without the excitement of battle or the
hope of glory, dangers from which the bravest,
so called, fighting officer shrinks appalled
(Transactions of the Vermont Medical Society for
the Year 1889 [1890]).
Janes lived in his stately North Main Street
home until his death in 1915. His wife, Fran-
ces, had passed away in 1909. Dying with-
out children, he bequeathed the house and
its adjoining fields to the town whose most
esteemed citizen, in the opinion of many,
he had become. In his will he described his
testamentary purpose as the establishment of
a library, which would increase intellectual
and moral development among the people of
Waterbury and adjacent towns.
Only six days after his passing, in its issue of
June 16, 1915, the Waterbury Record reported,
When the end came Thursday night last,
after weeks of waning vitality, the people's
grief was in no sense mitigated by reason of
its expectancy.
Coffin, from his historian's perspective, fo-
cuses on the events at Gettysburg as the phy-
sician's crowning, if unsought, achievement.
In his Full Duty: Vermonters in the Civil War
(1995), Coffin writes, The dead were ev-
erywhere, men, horses, mules. But the liv-
ing carnage of the great battle was a more
formidable challenge, for ... [the wounded]
overwhelmed the capabilities of the 2,500
Gettysburg townspeople and the army medi-
cal staff Dr. Henry Janes took charge of
this most awesome medical challenge in the
history of America.
His home in time became the home of the
town library, which, along with the historical
society, continues to occupy the house. His
bequest has been in the news lately, since the
town has voted to build a major extension
onto the building to house municipal offices
that will replace those damaged beyond repair
in tropical storm Irene. The rehabbed Janes
house will encompass the municipal offices
and historical society, with the library moving
into the new extension.
The historical society's collections are being
packed up in preparation for the rehab, and
are not extensively available to the public.
Interested persons may refer to the society's
website at www.waterburyhistoricalsociety.
org for information on when the society's col-
lections might become more accessible.
Janes was buried in Hope Cemetery, Water-
bury, alongside his wife. The gravestone bears
no elaborate epitaph that would hint at the
man's stature: it was left to those who came
after him to make his greatness known.
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Outdoor Public Reading on
July 3 at Montpelier City
Hall: What the Fourth of
July Meant to Escaped Slave
Frederick Douglass by Nat Frothingham
On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass, an
escaped slave who became perhaps the
greatest African-American leader of the
19th century, gave a speech commemorat-
ing the signing of Americas Declaration of
Independence at the Rochester (NY) Co-
rinthian Hall.
At Montpeliers Independence Day celebra-
tion on Thursday, July 3, parts of
that Douglass speech entitled
What to the Negro is the
Fourth of July? will be read
aloud. That read-in of
the Douglass speech will
begin at 12 noon on the
steps of Montpeliers
City Hall.
When Barack Obama
was first elected
United States presi-
dent in November,
2008, many Americans
wanted to believe that
the nation had made a de-
cisive turning away from its
slave history and racist past.
A turning away from its racist
pastperhaps. But not a decisive turning,
some commentators would argue. One of
these commentators is Ohio State Uni-
versity law professor Michelle Alexander,
herself an African-American and a civil lib-
erties champion. In Alexanders 2010 book
entitled The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarcera-
tion in the Age of Colorblindness, she reports
that there are more African-American men
in prison and jail or on probation and pa-
role today than there were slaves in 1850,
before the start of the Civil War.
And African-American writer Ta-Nehisi
Coates in the May 21, 2014, issue of The
Atlantic opens his argument on The Case
for Reparations with this statement:
Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety
years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but
equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing pol-
icy. Until we reckon with our compounding
moral debts, America will never be whole.
Frederick Douglass began his 1852 speech
by honoring the founders of the American
republic for defiance, vision and bravery.
Speaking with both candor and generosity,
Douglass says, The point from which I am
compelled to view them is not, certainly,
the most favorable; and yet I cannot con-
template their great deeds with less than
admiration. They were statesmen, patriots
and heroes, and for the good they did, and
the principles they contended for, I will
unite with you to honor their memory.
But after delivering this grace note,
Douglass pursued the body of his
speecha sweeping attack on
American hypocrisy.
What, to the American
slave, is your 4th of
July? he asks.
I answer, he replies
immediately, a day
that reveals to him,
more than all other
days in the year, the
gross injustice and
cruelty to which he is
the constant victim. To
him, your celebration is
a sham; your boasted lib-
erty, an unholy license; your
national greatness, swelling
vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are
empty and heartless.
And Douglass continues in this vein to-
ward this conclusion: There is not a na-
tion on the earth guilty of practices more
shocking and bloody than are the people of
the United States, at this very hour.
The Frederick Douglass public read-ins
began in Massachusetts and the discussion
guide for the Massachusetts read-ins asks
some of these questions about the Douglass
speech today:
What are the implications of his words
today?
How did the war advance in the 1850s?
Have we moved forward as a country?
What is citizenship?
Why this speech and why now?
In addition to the Montpelier City Hall
read-in of the Frederick Douglass speech
on July 3, there will be additional public
read-ins across Vermonton July 1 in
Brattleboro and St. Johnsbury and on July
8 in Burlington.
Aldrich, Charles K University of Rochester Biology
Aldrich, Flynn K Occidental College Diplomacy & World A.
Aldrich, George K Colgate University Computer Science
Andrews, Rose M Vermont Technical College Vet Tech
Baker, Silas G Champlain College Game Programming
Barrett, Alyssa S. St. Lawrence University Psychology
Bartlett, Shaniah R Champlain College Early Childhood Ed
Basa, Caleb University of Vermont Undecided
Basa, John University of Vermont Undecided
Bashara IV, Frederick G. Concordia University Political Science
Bingham, Reed W George Washington University International Relations
Boner, Adrian Seattle University Undecided
Boyce, Madeleine H Johnson State College Creative Writing
Browning, Ian P University of Vermont Environmental Science
Cain, Brian P. Providence College Business (acct &mgmnt
Caldwell, Jennifer M Community College of Vermont Undecided
Campbell, Emily C Undecided
Cipolla, Catherine Porter Gap year
Connor, Julie P University of Vermont Biology/Neuroscience
Connor, Tomas F University of Vermont Mechanical Engineering
Cossett, Connor F Castleton State College Business
Delcore, Jacob J Vancouver Island University History
Dellipriscoli, Tomas J Temple University Spanish (Ed or business)
Dunn, Madison T Boston College International Studies
Eurich, Ellen V. Ithaca College Math Ed & Psychology
Ferch, Zane W Trinity College Dublin (gap year) Undecided
Field, Benjamin C. Sacred Heart University 5 yr MBA
Flanagan, Brendan Y St. Michaels College Biology
Fontaine, Jacob D Undecided
Foster, Jason Andrew Center for Technology, Essex Plumbing
Glass, Tyler Mount Saint Marys University Computer Science
Gordon, Margaret L Northeastern University International Aairs
Hammer, Luke C Westminster College Aviation
Hancock-Song, Julia University of Kings College (gap year) Undecided
Hanron, KiaRae B University of Vermont Psychology
Hanson, Forest K University of Vermont Undecided
Hersam, Madison R Mass College of Art and Design Film/video
Herz, Ethan J Emerson College Acting
Hughes, Enya K Tufts University Chemical Engineering
Jermyn, Abbey E Emerson College Teater Education
Jermyn, Lucy K Mass College of Art and Design Illustration/Art Education
Johnson, Alexander L Undecided
Kasow, Georgia E SUNY Binghamton Undecided
Kelly, Josephine Collaborative Arts Project 21 (CAP 21) Musical Teatre
Kelly, Julian Rhode Island School of Design Industrial Design
King, Rory C Haverford College Biology
Koch, Amy R Boston University Undecided
LaPorte, Kate E Colby-Sawyer College Nursing
Lawson-Adams, Tess Undecided
Leno, Tabitha-Lee E Undecided
Lumsden, Jordan R Castleton State College Undecided
Machno, Megan Undecided
Maynard, Emily R Undecided
Moccia Jr., John Lyndon State College Atmospheric Science
Morrill, Zachary Lyndon State College Exercise Science
Nowlan, Tomas M University of Pennsylvania Political Science
OMahoney, Eamon A Un-decided
Otter, Gabriel C LIU Brooklyn Campus Undecided
Peterson, Kaleb J Undecided
Poreddy, Mahima R Mt. Holyoke College Neuroscience & behavior
Rider, Faith E Goucher College Biology
Ringer, Samantha Philadelphia University Interior Design
Roberts, Spencer A Undecided
Romeo, Amy Undecided
Russo-Savage, Lillian M Trinity College Undecided
Sarpong, Jerey Community College of Vermont Medical Assistant
Sather, Nell K Middlebury College (gap year) Neuroscience & music
Schlott, Kevin J University of Vermont Undecided
Scott, Duncan M Montserrat College of Art Animation
Sherman, Oliver I Champlain College Video Game Design
Slade, Josephine G James Madison University Dance Education
Solomon, Zivah Emerson College Political Communications
Steele, Fiona University of Vermont Economics (pre-law)
Stroutsos, Nicholas A Undecided
Sweeney, Jennifer L Curry College Business
Swyer, Nathaniel Johns Hopkins University Film & media studies
Terrien, Cody S Undecided
Tetford, Julia A Emmanuel College Psychology/Education
Watkins, Ian T Community College of Vermont Digital Marketing
Wilcox, Joshua P Undecided
Wilson, Winifred Undecided
Wood, Russell U.S. Air Force/College Fire Science/Paramedicine
Yang, Jenny Vermont Technical College Vet Tech
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ncreasingly it seems, people stop me on the street to comment about what a great city we
have. They are usually drawn to different facets of our community (although the Farmers'
Market is definitely a common denominator). Other favorites include our amazing array of
restaurants and bars, our unique shops, the quiet of Hubbard Park, and the simple beauty of
our downtown built environment.
Of course, it's easy to see the beauty of Montpelier under a warm sun in June, rather than the
dark days of February. But I believe what makes Montpelier unique, regardless of the season,
is that it provides us with an abundance of interesting, safe and attractive places to interact with
others, both publicly and semi-publicly.
I believe we can do more to take advantage of our unique downtown area to make it a place
where people want to live, visit and work. If we can make Montpelier an even more vibrant
city, it will help us attract young people, families, and entrepreneurs, as well as tourists to help
support our merchants and hotels.
The City Council has established numerous goals for 2014-15 that reflect our shared com-
mitment to increasing the vitality of our community. We're making good progress on each of
them. Here are some highlights:
Becoming a Bike-Friendly Community.
Great cities are friendly to bicyclists. Our active bike advisory committee recently approved a
grant for the development of a bike and pedestrian master plan. This plan will be completed
this year and will guide the city in creating the infrastructure we need to become a truly
bike- and pedestrian-friendly city.
The extension of the bike path from Granite Street to Gallison Hill Rd. is well underway, with
construction to begin next year.
Finally, the Taylor Street project will include the construction of a new bike and pedestrian
bridge across the North Branch, and a new segment of the bike path from Taylor Street to Main
Street. Construction on that project will begin next year as well.
Investing in Downtown Promotion
Montpelier voters approved last year the creation of the Downtown Improvement District. The
new DID will raise about $75,000 per year from property owners in the downtown area which
will be used to promote downtown through marketing, events and streetscape improvements.
Montpelier Alive, which will administer the DID, has received approval to allocate $75,000 of
DID funds for branding and marketing, community and arts grants, way-finding signs, street
furniture, and seasonal decorations. And Montpelier Alive continues to sponsor many other
events that bring life to downtown, including our amazing July 3rd celebration.
A DID-funded project was on full display downtown last weekend with the Park in the Street
festival. The event was organized by Meg Schultz of Meg's Events. By all accounts (and as
you can see from the photos on this page) the event was a huge success. Thousands of tourists
and residents packed State Street and enjoyed dozens of venues set up by local merchants and
out-of-town artists.
I heard from many people that we should close State Street to car traffic more often (or even
permanently). We will be exploring more ways to draw tourists and shoppers to our core down-
town. The reconstruction of State Street next year gives us an opportunity to rethink how our
street is designed to make it more attractive to pedestrians.
Local property owner Jesse Jacobs is organizing a series of events in July that will build on
the publicly-funded investments in our downtown. ArtsRiot, a Burlington-based community
organizing company, will bring its successful Food Truck rallies to Montpelier for four consecu-
tive Saturdays beginning on July 12.
These events will bring food trucks in mobile kitchens to a block-style party atmosphere in
the parking lot behind Aubuchons Hardware. With live performances, open galleries and art
studios and great food, this event series will bring artists, families, and visitors downtown. The
ArtsRiot event in Burlington has turned the heart of the
South End Arts District into a one-of-kind local gather-
ing place, and it promises to be an amazing experience
in Montpelier.
Developing the Transit Center
The Taylor Street development will transform a
large section of downtown that has long been ig-
nored. Local architectural firm Gossens-Bachman
has been leading a public discussion on how to
design the new Taylor Street transit center and
commercial development so that it incorporates
and builds on what works within our existing down-
town area and reflects our communities' values. We
need to ensure that the Taylor Street development
contributes to the vibrancy of our downtown by creating
public gathering spaces and allowing access to the river, a
long-ignored asset of our community. The new transit
center will make Montpelier much more acces-
sible by alternative transportation.
Alleviating Parking Pressures
While I don't believe that great cities are defined by their friendliness to cars, we do need to
ensure that we provide adequate parking. We are considering a variety of options to propose for
a parking garage. A garage could advance our downtown goals in a number of ways, including
1) alleviating a problem that seems to have grown in recent years, 2) allowing for more of the
Taylor Street property (and perhaps other areas) to be used for green space or other public uses,
and 3) supporting the construction of more downtown housing.
We are in the early stages of evaluating the options for a garage. These options will be presented
in the near future for the city council to consider.
Please do not hesitate to call or email me any time at 223-4651 or jhollar@montpelier-vt.org.
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H
idden behind the traditional veneer
of the brick and mortar of Studio
Place Arts (SPA), off of North Main
Street in Barre, is a place of unabashed expres-
sion. Boasting one of Vermonts only freedom
of expression policies, which guards against
censorship, SPA has a commitment to creating
and fostering an atmosphere that promotes
experimentation.
For this summer Sue Higby, the executive di-
rector of SPA, and the gallery committee have
created a lineup of exhibits that they hope will
force artists out of their comfort zones into
new mediums and new techniques. This past
May, when I visited the main floor gallery,
they were able to do this by limiting artists to
two colors: black and white. The exhibit, titled
plainly, Its Black and White, was a stunning
example of how putting limits on the use of
color can really bring out what Higby call,
some of the elemental aspects of visual art.
It wasnt the first time that SPA had done an
exhibit that was color-specific. Higby said,
It is kind of fun to have something that is
color-specific, because it encourages figura-
tive as well as abstract work, which works
well together. She had hung the art so that
new works brushed elbows with and comple-
mented old vanguards such as a loaned copy
of an op art piece by John Douglas done
in the late 1950s with a new op art piece
by Michael Heffernan. (Op art is short for
optical art, a mid-twentieth-century move-
ment where pattern and color create optical
illusions.) Douglass classic was created using
a Rapidograph pen that combines alternating
boxes of black and white in order to give the
piece alternating depths from different per-
spectives. This now- popular technique was
given a unique spin by Heffernan.
Heffernan has been painting portraits of
food that represent important art history mo-
ments, according to Higby and he looked
down at his plate one day when he ordered a
cinnamon roll and he realized that this was ac-
tually an op art composition, so he painted it.
Creative works like this populated the entire
space, often pushing the boundaries of their
medium, such as a painting by Jason Mallery
of Orange that was hung on a nearby wall that
leapt off of the canvas onto the frame. These
works were only a few of the works on display
throughout the month of May by over thirty
artists from all around Vermont.
Starting on Tuesday, June 10, SPA brings in
three new shows. On the first floor they are
showcasing the MFA in Graphic Design Invi-
tational featuring works by Vermont College
of Fine Arts (VCFA) students. Occupying the
second floor is a unique exhibit called The
Drawing Game. This exhibit presents visitors
with over 60 years of artistic creation from the
talented Hecht Family. On the third floor is
an exhibit featuring the work of Mark Lorah
called Anti-algorithmic.
The first floor show highlights the works of
thirteen VCFA graphic design masters stu-
dents from the last two semesters. Jennifer
Renko, the director of the graphic design
program at VCFA, helped organize the show
with Sue Higby as a way to demonstrate the
fine art quality that a lot of graphic art pos-
sesses. When choosing works to share at the
exhibit, Renko said that they were looking
for successful evidence of visual communica-
tion. The pieces were chosen on their ability
to clearly communicate their message, their
cohesion of concept and fine art look. This
last part was important to Renko and Higby,
because in an age when anyone can download
accessible design software on the computer,
it is sometimes forgotten that graphic design
requires the same amount of skill and commit-
ment of other fine arts. On July 11, there will
be an open reception for prospective VCFA
students at the SPA exhibit.
The second floor exhibit, The Drawing
Game, will appeal to the aspiring graphic de-
signer, the free-time doodler and the practiced
artist. Hung throughout the space are 16 years
worth of drawing game images. The drawing
game, also known as "The Exquisite Corpse,"
is a party game played by the Surrealists in the
1920s, in which each participant begins with
a piece of paper which they start a picture on.
After a given amount of time, they must pass
it on to another person who then has a chance
to continue the picture. This continues until
everyone has had a chance to contribute to
each drawing. Other renditions of the game
involve alternating between a person writing a
sentence, then the next person illustrating the
sentence, and so on, until everyone has con-
tributed. As a pictorial rendition of the game
telephone, this fun game for the whole fam-
ily often produces wacky and creative works
that would not have been possible if they had
been the single work of one person.
Anti-algorithmic on the third floor, by Mark
Lorah, continues to bring visitors further away,
from the often grounded elements of graphic
design that greet them on the first floor, to the
abstract. His multi-media exhibit explores the
relationship between organized structure and
the need for irrational action, said Higby.
Whether it is this exhibit or future ones, visi-
tors can be assured that they are one of a kind.
About curating and organizing the various
shows, Higby said, Putting together a group
show that hangs well is challenging. Every-
thing that we do is an original show. These are
works that will never be linking arms again.
They are here and then they are gone. In
order to get a glimpse of one of these shows,
head on down to SPA in downtown Barre
before it is gone.
S
ummertime is officially upon us and
as temperatures begin to rise, its time
to find that perfect beer to cool your
palate. The picture plastered on the bottle
of Smuttynose IPA may feature two old men
hunkered down in lawn chairs on a perfect
summer day, but IPAs might not be the right
beer for this season.
Scott Kerner of Three Penny Taproom said,
If you are outside, stay away from hoppier
and darker beers this time of year. Darker
beers just because there is too much sweet-
ness that comes out once a beer warms up,
and you get all of the specialty malt sweet-
ness and sometimes adjuncts like coffee and
chocolate. And sometimes hoppy beers de-
hydrate you.
So instead of reaching for your favorite IPA
after a long day of yard work, expand your
palate with some other styles of beer. Kevin
Kerner, also of Three Penny Taproom, sug-
gested trying some of the different pilsners
that are on the market. A great local op-
tion is the Lost Nation Vermont Pilsner.
This refreshing low-alcohol beer offers a
crisp, slightly hoppier finish than a tradi-
tional pilsner. If you have a craving for the
traditional, grab a Pilsner Urquell, which
conveniently comes in a six-pack and can
be found at most liquor stores. Kevin warns
drinkers to keep these beers out of the sun,
because their green glass bottles leave the
beer susceptible to skunking. So if you are
going to the trouble of trekking these down
to the lake or to your favorite water hole,
make sure to stash them deep in the cooler.
Another great option for the summer season
is Allagash White. Made in Maine, this
lower-alcohol beer is great for sipping on the
beach. Forget the fruit platterthis beer is
made with orange peels and coriander and
offers a sweet, crisp, dry finish.
And if you are just not ready to put down
the IPA, Scott suggests trying Otter Creek
Fresh Slice. Fresh Slice is a low-alcohol cit-
rusy IPA that takes a page from Allagash
and features coriander, orange slice and a
little bit of clementine juice to sweeten the
deal. Like the other beers above, it is highly
drinkable and refreshing, a perfect combo
for your next aprs-lawn-mowing session.
If you are lucky enough to get off the home-
stead and into the great outdoors, try grab-
bing a few cans and soaking them in a cool
stream. I just love beer out of a river. It just
tastes better, said Kevin. Whether its the
natural cooling or the sensation of being
closer with nature, any of the above beers
taste great plucked fresh out of a cold Ver-
mont waterway.
Lawn Mower Beer by Jerry Carter
Sparge:
/sprj/ verb. A brewing technique that extracts the
sugar from the grains by exposing the grains to water.
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I
have been offered a lot of advice over
the years. Some of it has been useful
and somenot so much. A cowboy in
Wyoming once told me to never squat with
your spurs on. I am not sure where those
sage words fall on the spectrum, but the
best advice I was ever given was never eat
anything bigger than your head. These are
words I live by to this day with one notable
exception: watermelon.
When the mercury pushes 80 and fireflies
begin to flash in the night, my thoughts turn
to these glorious green orbs. There is no food
that evokes summer more for me than water-
melon, and so I relax the rules about consum-
ing things bigger than my head and indulge
voraciously without concern. Splitting open a
giant striped watermelon to reveal the seed-
speckled, cool red flesh is summer sensory
overloadsweet, musky, quenching.
Watermelons want to be cold. A chill enhances
their refreshing qualities and empowers them
like no other food to extinguish the heat of
a sweltering July afternoon. When I was a
youngster away at summer camp, we would
submerge melons in a stream that fed our
swimming hole. The flow of cold mountain
water over the melons made them icy treats
by midday when the sun began to blister. We
would split them without a knife by dropping
them on a boulder until they ruptured. From
there we would pull them apart with our bare
hands, seeds and juices shooting in all direc-
tions, making us pink and sticky with melon
sugar. Once the feast was complete, a dip the
in stream washed us clean again.
With a melon too big for most home refriger-
ators and without a nearby cooling stream, a
large galvanized tub filled with ice water does
the job nicely. Nestled in with your favorite
beverages, the melon waits patiently. When
the time comes to carve and you find your
kitchen knife insufficient for the task, a clean
carpenters handsaw does the job effectively.
Though you can break them down into dainty
cubes for elegant and civilized consumption,
I get the feeling that watermelons prefer to
be eaten in a robust fashion, free from eti-
quette and manners. I will eat them any way
my company will tolerate, but slap dab in
the middle of the lawn, under a shady tree,
shirtless, spitting seeds and drenched is my
preferred methodology. It isnt a pretty sight, I
grant you, but this is one of the joys of water-
melon. They can transport you back to your
childhood, a time when perhaps we were less
inhibited and concerned with appearances.
Seeds are part of the deal. Those over-hybrid-
ized, seedless melons not only lack the flavor
and visual appeal of their heirloom cousins,
but they have been robbed of half the fun.
Whats better than a seed spitting contest or
finding one stuck to your forehead after div-
ing headlong into a half moon slice? Back at
summer camp, our nave, adolescent minds
wondered if it was really true that girls could
become pregnant by inadvertently swal-
lowing watermelon seeds. I had my doubts,
but the rumor persisted because apparently
Frankie Gs dad had dodged discussing the
realities of the birds and the bees with this
lame explanation.
As I grew older and went off to college in
Boston, watermelon seemed like an ideal
candidate to add variety to fraternity par-
ties. Someone (not I) came up with the silly
idea that if you cut a hole in the melon and
inverted a fifth of vodka into the hole, you
could somehow improve the experience by
soaking the flesh with booze before busting
it open. It never worked, as the watermelon
proved to be too saturated to absorb the
vodka. Jello shots were more practical and so
watermelons were spared further indignity.
Higher education teaches many lessons.
These days I enjoy watermelon straight up
in the manner I described earlier, but from
time to time, I will gussy it up some. One
of my favorite ways to enjoy embellished
watermelon is to serve it in a salad composed
of watermelon cubes, feta cheese and fresh
mint, drizzled with good olive oil and lots of
black pepper. Black pepper is often freshly
ground onto watermelon slices in the South.
They are best friends.
I also enjoy watermelon gazpacho. You can
simply adapt your favorite recipe for gazpa-
cho by adding coarsely-chopped watermelon
to the mix. This sounded like an odd mar-
riage to me until I tried it several years ago,
and now it is a savory-meets-sweet favorite.
Homegrown tomatoes make all the differ-
ence here, as does the addition of basil.
The most fun you can have with a water-
melon and a blender is to make watermelon
milkshakes. Wiz together some soft vanilla
ice cream with cold, cubed watermelon and
insert a straw. Summer in a glass!
Choosing a watermelon is tricky business.
Some like to tap on it to hear its resonant
frequency. Others sniff the spot where it
connected to the vine. Me? I just make sure
that its bigger than my head.
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One Saturday, not too long ago, Kathi Terami
was making waffles. Everytime I make waf-
fles, Kathi told me with a laugh, I burn the
last one. This morning, while pouring the
last of the batter onto the griddle, something
out the kitchen window caught Kathis eye:
There were two large figures on the lawn. I
kind of squinted and said to myself, Those
arent deer. Then I realized, Oh my God,
theyre cows!
Raised in Wisconsin and rooted in Vermont,
Kathi took stock: Two cows. One Holstein.
One Jersey. Not full grown. No udders. Heif-
ers. Whose heifers?
The escapees didnt appear dangerous. They
strolled up to the house and looked in the
windows. They shuffled off.
At this point in the developing situation,
Kathis seven-year-old son, River, reported
for active duty: Mom, Ill go out and follow
them! Kathi headed for the telephone. I
called Kyle and Jen Thygesen because I know
Kyle grazes heifers on the Ordway Road. No
one was home, so I left a message. I called
Jens cell phone and got voice mail. I called
Kyles cell phone and got voice mail. I called
Alan and Pat [Jens parents] and got their
answering machine. Then I remembered that
everybody was at the A-Ball [Little League]
tournament in South Royalton.
Next Kathi called her neighbors, Jacqueline
and George, to alert them that two ungulates
with dubious motives were headed their way.
As it turned out, the Chisholm Trail ran, not
through Jacquelines exquisite gardens, but
past Georges painting studio. The tourists
looked in the windows at the paintings. They
regarded the landscapes with approval. They
found the still lifes delicious.
Now the phone rang. It was Kyle Thygesen.
He asked Kathi to describe the cows. No,
they werent his. Kyle suggested that Kathi
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dons wife, Sue. Sue called Gordon. Gordon
arrived within minutes, and discovered, to
his relief, that the bovines were of the dairy
variety, not beef cattle like his. Those arent
mine. I think theyre Kyles.
Kathi called Kyle back. Kyle asked if the cows
had any identification. Kathi shouted out the
window to River, Do they have ear tags?
River, who looks just like Kathi, and not at
all like Hercule Poirot, investigated: This
one doesnt have a tag. This one has a yellow
tag. It says 21! Eh bien, a clue.
At this point, Kathi remembered, Im in
my pajamas, Ive burnt the last waffle and
I needed to be at the store. Kathi and her
husband, Scott, run the Tunbridge General
Store. As the cows headed for greener pas-
tures, Kathi loaded River into her Ford Ex-
plorer and rolled down to the store with
Scotts breakfasttwo golden waffles plus
the half-golden last waffle. It was perfect
on top and black on the bottom. And do you
know what? Scott ate the burnt waffle first.
Sometimes, it takes a village to solve a mys-
tery. Gordon Barnaby stopped at Rob Howes
dairy farm after leaving the Teramis. Troy,
the cowherd there, thought that the farmer
down the road, Corey Chapman, had a Jer-
sey in his herd of Holsteins. Gordon kept on
truckin to Coreys.
I do have one Jersey, Corey admitted to Gor-
don, And, yes, my Holsteins have yellow ear
tags. Whose cows these are I think we know.
But while ownership had now been estab-
lished, the cows were still on the loose
lawless ruminants looking for cheap thrills.
Corey was pasturing eleven heifers in an iso-
lated dell called the Tucker Bowl, an ancient
field surrounded on all sides by treacherous
slopes covered with encroaching vegetation.
After taking an inventory of his heifers in
the 65-acre Tucker Bowlnine present, two
absentCorey backtracked to Teramis.
Fortuitously, he ran into Dave Farnsworth
on a 4-wheeler. He hopped a ride and headed
for the fence on the rim of the Tucker Bowl.
The searchers soon located the cud-chewing
wayfarers. They were lying down next to
the fenceit looked like they were trying to
get back in with the other heifers. With a
bucket of grain, Corey led the twosome back
through a gate and into the Tucker Bowl.
Case closed. The motive, though, will forever
remain a secret: Why did the Jersey and #21
Holstein leave their friends and everything
familiar? Were they seized by wanderlust or
chased by demons? Something must have
spooked them, reasoned Corey, They went
right through the electric fence.
On his first trip into the Tucker Bowl, Corey
was bushwhacking through the tall grass
when he almost stepped on a wide-eyed fawn.
Holy cow, marveled Corey, It didnt even
move. An hour later, when he was leading
the errant couple back to the herd, #21 Hol-
stein frolicked off, but the repentant Jersey
stayed on the path Corey had made earlier in
the tall grass. And the Jersey, Corey recalled
in disbelief, stepped right over that fawn.
Didnt even see it.
One Saturday morning, two kids from the
sticks escaped the world they knew. They
traveled. They saw art. They tasted nastur-
tiums for the first time. But there were won-
ders at home they never saw, miracles right
under their noses.
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The Barre Beat by Emily Kaminsky
There is so much happening in Barre that The Bridge has decided to devote a column every
issue just to Barre. What better way to launch the Barre Beat than with community gather-
ings and celebrations!
Celebrations start on Friday, June 27 with the Capstone Community Action Block Party
from 3:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Formerly known as Central Vermont Community Action Council,
Capstone invites the community to celebrate its renaming and the completion of a successful
capital campaign that brought them to downtown Barre. Whats in store? Information on pro-
grams and services, activities for kids, free food (hotdogs, hamburgers, veggie burgers) including
Ben & Jerrys ice cream, special guest speaker Senator Leahy, music by local Barre band Cruise
Control, and the unveiling of a donor wall made by local Vermont artist Homer Wells and
Stowe Craft & Design.
On Saturday, June 28, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Barre Elks Lodge, join the Barre Part-
nership and TD Bank Barre for a family-friendly community event launching the Barre
Community Ambassadors program, a volunteer outreach program that will provide the shot
in the arm that our downtown needs to build on its current momentum, according to Barre
Partnership executive director Dan Jones. The event will feature live music by Native Tongue,
food available from local Barre restaurants, drawings for gift certificates from local Barre shops
and restaurants, and information on how to get involved in building a vibrant downtown Barre
community.
The night of the 28th, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., the Old Labor Hall is hosting a special event
honoring former Governor Phil Hoff and his wife Joan. The celebration will feature hors
doeuvres and light fare by Bon Temps Gourmet. There will be a short program at 6 p.m. The
event is open to everyone. There is no admission charge and no reservation requirement, but a
$20 donation is recommended. Proceeds will benefit the Old Labor Hall. For more informa-
tion, visit http://oldlaborhall.com/.
Friday and Saturday, June 2728 is also the the third annual RockFire event, which combines
art, music and fire on a monumental scale in the evocative setting of granite industry ruins
known to locals as Millstone Hill. On Friday evening there is a mountain bike ride, a bonfire
and after-dark disc golf. During the day Saturday there are various tours and tractor rides
throughout the historic quarries. Then, at 7 p.m., there is a concert featuring local artist Bow
Thayer and his band. RockFire kicks into high gear between 9:30 p.m. and midnight with an
opening bagpipe fanfare and a two-mile-long fire walk around water-filled abandoned quar-
ries and evocative quarry ruins. The pathway is lit with thousands of candles and luminaries
and dozens of bonfires. Participants experience a variety of fire-lit art installations, as well as six
live performance stages creating a moving audio-visual experience that culminates with a visit
to the Grand Lookout. For the full schedule of RockFire events, visit www.rockfirevt.com.
Advance tickets are available for purchase at the Millstone Hill Touring Center in Websterville
and the Barre Opera House at 802-476-8188.
Nature walks at the Barre Town Forest are now in full swing. Every Tuesday and Sunday at
9 a.m., join Marianne Kotch and other volunteers for free guided nature walks. Meet at the 44
Brook Street parking area at 9:00 a.m. The walks are one and a half to two hours. On Tuesdays
there are two guides, and each one will lead a group. There will be one group for fast walkers,
and one group for leisurely walkers and walkers with children.
Monday, June 30, Barre City voters will be asked to vote for the fourth time regarding
Barre City Elementary & Middle Schools revised budget proposal. Polls are open
from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Barre Auditorium. Information on the budget proposal is
available at www.bcemsvt.org.
Certified Kripalu yoga instructor Brandy Kolling is starting up a Sunset Yoga at Bear Roots
Farm in South Barre on Tuesday and Thursday evenings, starting July 1st from 6:00 p.m.
to 7:30 p.m. Classes are by donation, and half of the proceeds go to Granite City Grocerys
efforts to organize a co-op grocery store for downtown Barre. Beginners and all levels are
welcome. Bring your own mat or towel. And, come pick up veggies at the market stand too!
Bear Roots Farm is located at 175 Snowbridge Road in South Barre. For more information,
visit www.bearrootsfarm.com.
Barre has a great lineup of recurring events as well. On Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., visit
the newly relocated Barre Farmers Market at the Vermont Granite Museum off of the Barre-
Montpelier Road. Nearly two dozen vendors offer homemade goods, produce, herbs, maple
syrup, local meats and other products. And, on Wednesdays in Barre, meet and learn from
authors at Aldrich Public Librarys Authors at the Aldrich series at 6 pm. Then, head over to
Currier Park for the Barre Partnerships Concerts in the Park series from to 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Theres so much going on in Barre. Do you have news thats fit to print for the Barre Beat? If
so, contact us!
Chandler Center for the Arts presents
July 3rd, 4th & 5th at 7 p.m.
July 6th at 2 p.m.
Presented at Chandler by a cast of more
than 100 area youth
Tickets available at the Box Ofce or by
calling 802-728-6464, weekdays 3-6 p.m.
Presented through special arrangement with
Music Theater International
July 15 Cavatina Duo, the best fute and guitar duo in the world today,
Eugenia Moliner, fute, and Denis Azabagic, guitar, playing Bachs Sonata in E major
for fute and continuo; Ivanovics Caf Pieces, Debussys Syrinx for solo fute, and
Piazzollas Adios Nonino.
July 22 Dmitry Kouzov, cello, with Julia Kouzova, piano,
will perform nineteenth century Romantic music by Schumann, Brahms and Chopin.
Aug. 5 Poulenc Trio, Irina Kaplan, piano, Vladimir Lande, oboe, and Bryan Young,
bassoon, perform works by Glinka, Shostakovich, Rossini and Previn, and conclude
with Poulencs Trio for Piano, Oboe and Bassoon.
Aug. 12 The St. Petersburg String Quartet, will perform
Bartoks Romanian Dances, Borodins String Quartet No. 2 in D major, and
Dvorks String Quintet in E-fat, Op. 97, B. 180, American.
With guest violist Ricardo Cavalcante de Oliveira.
Four Tuesday Evenings: July 15 & 22 and August 5 & 12
8:00 pm in the Greensboro United Church of Christ
Concert-goers are encouraged to bring picnic suppers or purchase locally-produced food as part of the evenings
funSeason ticket holders will enjoy priority seating at this concert and a complimentary boxed picnic supper.
Individual tickets are $20 for adults* $70 for Season Subscriptions
July 29th concert is FREE TO ALL
*All concerts are free to those under 18
FREE. . . on July 29th at 8 pm
Appearing in the Arts Alliance tent
on the Town Green
Lewis Franco and the Missing Cats,
a jazz quartet from the Northeast Kingdom
With local support and in association with the Greensboro Arts Alliance and Catamount Arts of St. Johnsbury,
this concert is FREE and combined with a FAIR featuring local food growers and
producers from 5:30 7:30 p.m.
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WATERBURY
Not Quite Independence Day Celebration
Farrs Field, Main St.
June 27
5:3011 p.m. Carnival, amusements, concerts
June 28
11 a.m. Parade in the village, giant eld sale,
all day carnival after parade.
1:30 p.m. Pie baking contest.
1:305:30 p.m. Photo booth.
2 p.m. Entry deadline for Kids Craft Contest
(vegetable art, cow creation, cupcake decora-
tion) ages 512.
2 p.m. Free Pitching Clinic with Rick Aldrich
2:30 p.m. Lawn Tractor Jousting. $50 entry.
3 p.m. Prizes for Kids Craft Contest
3:30 p.m. Lessons from Step n Time Line
Dancing group.
5:30 p.m. Belt sanding race.
Dusk: Fireworks
Admission: Adults $5; family $20; children 10
and under are free. Admission price is good for
both days. Free parking. waterburynqid.com.
MONTPELIER
Thursday, July 3
Around Town
10 a.m.6 p.m. Explore the Vermont History
Museum: Free Museum Day. Patriotic Craft
Activity: Make your own (non-exploding) festive
reworks at Te Vermont History Museum.
Noon2 p.m. Reading of Frederick Douglass
Te Meaning of the Fourth of July for the Negro on
the steps of Montpelier City Hall
1:304 p.m. Family Fun Day at Montpelier
Rec. Dept. Pool.
6 p.m. Montpelier Mile Road Race
67:15 p.m. Parade (Parade Route: starts at the
Spring St. roundabout, travels down Main St.
and State St. in front of the State House ending
just before Bailey Ave.)
710:45 p.m. Julios Dance Party (lot next to
Julios Cantina)
State House Lawn and State Street
35:30 p.m. Kids Zone
34 p.m. Chris R and his Flying Purple Guitar
(Kids Zone)
34 p.m. Laughing Yoga with Robin Cornell,
certied Laughing Yoga leader. Ages 8+.
35 p.m. Pop Up Science Activities with the
Montshire Museum
35 p.m. Hula Hooping for Fitness with Carol
Becker
35:30 p.m. Read-In Group: Overview of the
Frederick Douglass Speech Te Meaning of the
Fourth of July for the Negro.
4 p.m. Singing of the National Anthem with
Julie Prentice
4:154:45 p.m. Capital City Band
4:505:15 p.m. Seth Warner Mount Indepen-
dence Fife & Drum
7:309:30 p.m. Lowell Tomas & Crown Pilot
9:30 p.m. Fireworks
For more detailed info.:
montpelieralive.org.
CABOT
Friday, July 4
11 a.m. Parade. Main St.
Noon. Chicken BBQ, music, snow cones,
ice cream, dunk tank, activities for kids
and adults. Recreation Field.
Rummage Sale, Main St.
CABOT
Friday, July 4
11 a.m. PARADE. Main St.
Noon: Chicken BBQ, music, snow cones, ice
cream, dunk tank, activities for kids and adults.
Recreation Field, Rummage Sale. Main St.
MORRISTOWN
Friday, July 4
11 a.m. Parade (Starts at Harrel St. and Munson
St., runs through town and ends at Peoples
Academy)
Peoples Academy
After the Parade Live music, vendors, touch-
a-truck, the Duck Race, frog jumping contest,
whie ball contest and more.
Dusk: Fireworks
MAPLE CORNER, CALAIS
Saturday, July 5
4 p.m. Parade (Curtis Pond to Maple
Corner Store and back), kids activities,
bocce-ball tournament
6 p.m. Community potluck
7 p.m. Live dance music
GREENSBORO
Saturday, July 5
9:30 a.m. Parade
After the parade. Music and games, Tour
of the new rehouse, Chicken BBQ until 1
p.m. Reservations: 533-2223
10 a.m.2 p.m. Library Book Sale
Dusk. Fireworks
STOWE
Friday, July 4
10 a.m. Moscow Parade
11 a.m.3 p.m. Live local music, food,
entertainment, bouncy house, dunk tank,
pie eating contest, climbing wall and Art
on Park artisan market. Stowe Village.
1 p.m. Annual Old-Fashioned Fourth of
July Parade
6 p.m. Fireworks and Fun. Mayo Field
WARREN
Friday, July 4
Main St., Brooks Field, Warren Store
10 a.m. Parade (Main St., Warren closes at
8:30 a.m. SHARP).
After the parade. Live music by Dave
Grippo Funk Band and street dance at
Warren Store Food vendors line Main St.,
supervised kids activities with KidVentures,
music by Mad Mountain Scramblers and
beer and wine garden at Brooks Field.
Dusk: Fireworks at Sugarbush Resort.
$1 buddy badge donation: nd your
badge buddy and win a prize.Free
shuttle buses 8 a.m.4 p.m. Shuttle
parking at Yestermorrow on Rte 100
at Waitseld/Warren town line and at
Lincoln Peak at Sugarbush.
WORCESTER
Friday, July 4
17:30 p.m. Worcester Historical Society open.
Closes during the parade.
4 p.m. Parade. Starts on Rte. 12 at 104 Worces-
ter Village Rd.
5:30 p.m. Worcester Voices. Six personalities
from the Civil War era portrayed in period dress
featuring local folks telling their stories. Present-
ed by the Worcester Historical Society. Worcester
Cemetary.Parking at the Village Cemetary.
4th of July Events
4th of July Events
JUNE 26
Magic School Bus Readaloud. Brilliant science
adventures with Miss Frizzle and the gang. Ages
4+. 11 a.m. Kellogg-Hubbard Library. 135 Main
St., Montpelier. Free. 223-3338.
kellogghubbard.org.
Green Mountain Dog Club Monthly Meeting.
Learn about the club and events. All dog lovers
welcome. Fourth Turs., 7:30 p.m. Commodores
Inn, Stowe. 479-9843 or
greenmountaindogclub.org.
Prayer Meeting and Worship Service. Second
and fourth Turs. evening. Jabbok Encounter
Ministries. 8 Daniel Dr., Barre. 479-0302.
JUNE 27
RockFire 2014: June 2728. Family-friendly,
day-long event. Spend the afternoon exploring
the trails and museum, or spend the whole day
taking in all the activities. In the evening, relax
and enjoy a fabulous sunset and live performances.
Once darkness unfolds, experience the signature
RockFire event. See full schedule: rockrevt.com.
Millstone Hill Touring Center. 34 Church Hill
Rd., Websterville. Adults $1025; juniors ages
1017 $512. Advance tickets available at Mill-
stone Hill Touring Center or by calling the Barre
Opera House: 476-8188.
Spanish Musical Kids. With Constancia Gomez.
Learn easy, basic Spanish songs. Ages 36. 10 a.m.
Waterbury Public Library. 28 N. Main St., Water-
bury. Free. 244-7036. waterburypubliclibrary.com.
Reading: Thoughts of an Average Joe by Brian
Daniels. Daniels will read from his recently
published book and perform humorous songs on
his guitar. 12:30 p.m. Montpelier Senior Activity
Center. 58 Barre St., Montpelier. Free. 223-2518.
msac@montpelier-vt.org.
Reminisce Chats. Join MSAC members over 75
years old in informal chats about the good old
days!" 1 p.m. Montpelier Senior Activity Center.
58 Barre St., Montpelier. For transportation, call
Mary Alice a day ahead: 223-8140.
Slime! Foam! Oobleck! Oh, My. Old-school goopy
goodness. Making a royal mess in the name of
science and fun. Ages 4+. 1 p.m. Kellogg-Hubbard
Library. 135 Main St., Montpelier. Free. 223-
3338. kellogghubbard.org.
Capstone Community Actions Block Party.
Free and open to the public. 3:30 p.m. 20 Gable
Pl., Barre. 477-5134. cvcac.org.
Perfect Pairing with Vermont Creamery.
Fresh Tracks Farms hosts a special cheese-tasting
event. Taste Vermont Creamerys four unique and
masterfully aged cheeses. Wine tasting available.
5:308 p.m. Fresh Tracks Farm Vineyard & Win-
ery. 4373 VT Rte. 12, Berlin. Free cheese tasting.
223-1151. freshtracksfarm.com.
Friday Night Group. For youth ages 1322 who
are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or
questioning. Pizza, soft drinks and conversation.
Cofacilitated by two trained, adult volunteers from
Outright VT. Second and fourth Fri., 6:308 p.m.
Unitarian Church, 130 Main St., Montpelier. Free.
223-7035. Micah@OutrightVT.org.
Public Talk: Primordial Knowledge. 78:30 p.m.
Unitarian Church. 130 Main St., Montpelier. Free.
Italian Traditional Village Dance. Learn tradi-
tional Italian village dances from many regions of
Italy. Dances include couple dances, set dances,
line dances and group dances. All levels welcome.
No experience necessary. 710 p.m. Middlesex
Town Hall. Rte. 2 between 100B and Red Hen
Bakery, Middlesex. Free. 229-1490.
JUNE 28
1st Annual Nathan Project 5K Run/Walk for
Recovery. Benets the Nathan Project-VT, a New
England faith-based organization providing hope,
leadership, training and a safe place of recovery for
men and their families struggling in a hyper-sex-
ualized culture. Water station, prizes and snacks.
Run/walk along Brazier Rd. 8:30 a.m. Requested
donation: $20 per person; $35 per family. Registra-
tion forms: nathanproject.net, newsclip@msn.com,
rich.curtis@nathanproject.net or call 223-5421.
Standup Paddleboard Demo Day. Try the latest
boards and join the fun! Beginners welcome. 11
a.m.3 p.m. Blueberry Lake. Warren. Free. Clear-
water Sports: 496-2708.
Kitten Shower. Enjoy games, treats and visiting
the animals. Seeking donations of canned kitten
food, litter, linens and funding to help care for the
hundreds of kittens that come through CVHS
each year. Noon3 p.m. Central Vermont Hu-
mane Society. 1589 VT Rte. 14S., E. Montpelier.
Free. See wish list: cvhumane.com. 476-3811 ext.
110. events@cvhumane.com.
JUNE 29
Young Adventurers Club Outing with Green
Mountain Club. Elmore. Moderate. 3 miles. Hike
and swim at Mt. Elmore. Contact leader, Shawn,
for meeting time and place: 229-0933.
Readings at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Kath-
leen Tibbetts, graduating poet from the MFA in
Writing at VCFA; Barbara Hurd, Distinguished
Visiting Creative Nonction Faculty, author of
Secrets of the Polar Region.7 p.m. College Hall
Chapel, Vermont College of Fine Arts. 36 College
St., Montpelier. Free.
jericho.parms@vcfa.edu. vcfa.edu/writing.
JUNE 30
Summer Sale. June 30July 3, 9 a.m.5 p.m.
Trinity Community Trift Store in the Trinity
Church basement. 137 Main St., Montpelier.
229-9155.
Kids Creating Music. Kids sing and play various
musical instruments with Bob Brookens. Ages 18
months4 years. 10 a.m. Waterbury Public Li-
brary. 28 N. Main St., Waterbury. Free. 244-7036.
waterburypubliclibrary.com.
THEATER,
STORYTELLING & COMEDY
June 25July 12: Unadilla Theatre Presents
HMS Pinafore. Te all-time favorite by Gilbert
& Sullivan. June 27, 28; July 2, 4, 5, 9, 11, 12.
7:30 p.m. Unadilla Teatre. 501 Blachly Rd., E.
Calais. Adults $20; children $10; students Tues.,
Wed., Turs. $10. 456-8968. unadilla.org.
June 26: Kathleen Kanz Comedy Hour. Adult
content. Every fourth Turs., 7 p.m. Capitol
Grounds. 27 State St., Montpelier. $5. 223-7800.
capitolgrounds.com.
Jun. 2628: Magic Tree House: Dinosaurs
Before Dark. While exploring one afternoon,
siblings Jack and Annie discover a tree house full
of books. Jack looks through a book about di-
nosaurs and wishes he could see a real one. Sud-
denly the wind begins to blow and the tree house
starts to spin wildly. June 26-27, 7 p.m.; June 28,
2 p.m. Vermont Childrens Teater. 2283 Darling
Hill Rd., Lyndonville. $5. 626-5358.
vermontchildrenstheater.com.
June 27: Bueno Comedy Showcase: Summer
Sauce! Featuring comedians, Mike Tomas, Kit
Rivers and (NYC) Kenny Deforest. Hosted by
Sean Hunter Williams. 8 p.m. Caf Espresso
Bueno. 248 N. Main St., Barre. $5.
seanhunterwilliams@gmail.com.
espressobueno.com.
June 27: Greg Joly and Robin Lloyd. Greg Joly
will present Plutocratic Patriotism SCOTT
NEARING and Free Speech During the Great
War. Following will be Talking with Our Grand-
mothers, an anti-war performance piece by Robin
Lloyd of Burlington WILPF (Womens Interna-
tional League for Peace and Freedom.) 7:30 p.m.
Bread and Puppet Farm. Rte. 122, Glover. Free;
donations appreciated. breadandpuppet.org.
June 27July 13: The Secret Garden (Musical
Version). Te timeless tale of renewal and for-
giveness turned Broadway hit. June 2729; July
3, 5, 6, 1113. 7:30 p.m.; Sundays 2 p.m. Te
Valley Players Teater. 4254 Main St., Waitseld.
Adults $18; students $14; family of two adults
and two students $55. 583-1674.
valleyplayers@madriver.com. valleyplayers.
com.
Through June 29: Durang Bang. Lost
Nation Teater presents six hilarious shorts
from Christopher Durang, lovingly lam-
pooning the "greats" of the theatrical can-
non. Comedy Gold Recipe: take Durangs
best short comedies, mashing people and
plots from Chekhov, Tennessee Williams,
Noel Coward, add dash of Greek tragedy,
put in blender with a shot of satire and a
pinch of here & now and mix! Rated
PG-13. Montpelier City Hall Arts
Center. 39 Main St., Montpelier. See
prices below for adults; students/seniors $5
discount; youth 11 and under $10. 229-
0492. lostnationtheater.org.
June 26: 7 p.m. $25.
June 27, 28: 8 p.m. $30.
June 29: 2 p.m. $30.
June 29: Nothing-Is-Not-Ready. Te Nothing-
Is-Not-Ready shows take place in the 3/4 eternity
and are about the political and apolitical move-
ment of the not-yet-existing upriser masses
against the economy and its politics that pretend
to serve them but are actually actively preparing
their elimination. Show starts 3 p.m.; museum
tour 2 p.m. Bread and Puppet Farm. Rte. 122,
Glover. $10 suggested donation.
breadandpuppet.org.
June 29Aug. 16: Circus Smirkus 2014 Big Top
Tour. Come see the award-winning, international
traveling youth circus! Kids ages 1018 are stars,
on highwire and trapeze, as clowns, jugglers, ac-
robats and more. Ticket prices and full schedule:
1-877-SMIRKUS or smirkus.org.
June 29: Opening Weekend. 2 shows: 1 p.m.,
6 p.m. Circus Smirkus HQ. 1 Circus Rd.,
Greensboro.
July 23: 2 shows each day: 1 p.m., 6 p.m.
Leonard Field. St. Johnsbury.
July 36: Fiddler on the Roof. A moving story
line, memorable music and the universal theme of
tradition come together in one of the great works
of American musical theatre. An all-star cast
of more than 100 youth presents a fully staged
production of this classic Broadway musical. July
35, 7 p.m.; July 6, 2 p.m. Chandler Music Hall.
7173 Main St., Randolph. Reserved seating:
adults $18; students $12. 6% VT sales tax will be
added. 728-6464. chandler-arts.org.
July 3Aug. 1: Unadilla Theatre Presents
Blithe Spirit. By Noel Coward. July 3, 4, 8, 10,
11, 15, 23, 26, 31; Aug. 1. 7:30 p.m. Unadilla
Teatre. 501 Blachly Rd., E. Calais. Adults $20;
children $10; students Tues., Wed., Turs. $10.
456-8968. unadilla.org.
July 1027: Blues in the Night. Presented by
Lost Nation Teater. 26 smokin torchy tunes
tell the sweet, sexy and sorrowful tales of three
women and one man and the music that gets
them through the night. Te universal language
of jazz and the blues wails out full and strong.
Includes the music of Bessie Smith, Ida Cox,
Duke Ellington, Harold Arlen and many others.
Montpelier City Hall Arts Center. 39 Main St.,
Montpelier. See prices below for adults; students/
seniors $5 discount; youth 11 and under $10.
229-0492. lostnationtheater.org.
July 10: 7 p.m.preview, $15.
July 12: 2 p.m. matinee, $15
July 17, 24: 7 p.m., $25.
July 11, 12, 18, 19, 25, 26: 8 p.m. $30.
July 13, 20: 7 p.m., $30.
July 27: 2 p.m., $30.
July 8Aug. 1: Unadilla Theatre Presents
Table Manners. By Alan Ayckbourn. July 8, 10,
15, 19, 23, 25, 29, 31; Aug. 1. 7:30 p.m. Unadilla
Teatre. 501 Blachly Rd., E. Calais. Adults $20;
children $10; students Tues., Wed., Turs. $10.
456-8968. unadilla.org.
July 1020: 110 in the Shade. Musical. Quar-
ryWorks. Quarry Rd., Adamant. Free; donations
welcome. Reservations: 229-6978.
quarryworks.org.
July 1012, 1719: 7:30 p.m.
July 12, 13, 19, 20: 2 p.m. matinee
July 11: Laugh Local VT Open Mic Comedy
Night. Please help support local comedy by per-
forming or watching those that do. Signups 7:30
p.m.; show starts 8 p.m. Te American Legion
Post #3. 21 Main St., Montpelier. Free; donations
welcome. 793-3884.

July 11, 18: Bread and Puppet Presents
Unready-Ready Show. 7:30 p.m. Paper Mach
Cathedral, Bread and Puppet Farm. Rte. 122,
Glover. $10 suggested donation. 525-3031.
breadandpuppet.org.
July 1827: Vermont Pride Theater at
Chandler Presents the 4th Annual Summer
Pride Festival. Celebrity introducers begin each
evening 30-minutes before the performance.
After each performance, there will be a talkback
between the audience and cast, followed by a
reception in the Gallery. Chandler Music Hall.
7173 Main St., Randolph. Adults $17 advance,
$20 at door; students $12 advance, $15 at door;
purchase any 2 tickets get any 3rd ticket free.
Note free performances. 728-6464.
chandler-arts.org.
Last Summer at Bluefish Cove: July 18, 7:30
p.m.; July 27, 7 p.m.
The Little Dog Laughed: July 19, 7:30 p.m.;
July 25, 7:30 p.m.
Farm Boys: July 20, 7 p.m.; July 26, 7:30 p.m.
Film: The Laramie Project: July 22, 7:30
p.m. Free.
Staged Reading: October Mourning: July 23,
7:30 p.m. Free.
July 19: Extempo. Tell a 57.5-minute, rst-
person, true story from your own life. Sign up
in advance and come prepared without notes.
No theme. 8 p.m. Caf Espresso Bueno. 248 N.
Main St., Barre. $5. 479-0896. storytelling@
extempovt.com. extempovt.com.
Performi ng
Arts
(L-R) Jack Bradt, Michelle Nucci, Ella Holter and Rosemarie Smith perform in the musi-
cal versions of The Secret Garden, June 27th to July 13th at the Valley Players Theater in
Waitsfield. Photo by Erin McIntyre
Wind Power! Te Vermont Energy Education
Program will oer hands-on lessons on how we
can use the wind and sun. Ages 710. 1 p.m.
Kellogg-Hubbard Library. 135 Main St.,
Montpelier. Free. 223-3338. kellogghubbard.org.
Bereavement/Grief Support Group. Open to
anyone who has experienced the death of a loved
one. 6-8pm. Conference Center. 600 Granger
Road, Berlin, VT 05602. Free. 223-1878.
Readings at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Jef-
frey Leong, graduating poet in the MFA in Writ-
ing at VCFA; Alex Myers, visiting alumni ction
writer, author of Revolutionary. 7:15 p.m. College
Hall Chapel, Vermont College of Fine Arts. 36
College St., Montpelier. Free.
JULY 1
ADA Advisory Committee Meeting. First Tues.
City Managers Conference Room, City Hall, 39
Main St., Montpelier. 223-9502.
3rd Annual Where's Waldo In Montpelier Scav-
enger Hunt: July 131. He will be hiding in 20
downtown businesses throughout July, and this
year his dog, Woof, will be hiding in one of the
locations, too. Many Waldo prizes will be raed
o to those who complete the hunt. Sponsored by
Bear Pond Books and Kellogg-Hubbard Library.
For info: 229-0774. jane@bearpondbooks.com.
bearpondbooks.com.
229-9155.
Library Book Delivery Service. First and third
Tues., 1 p.m. See sign-up sheet near oce for
more info. Montpelier Senior Activity Center, 58
Barre St., Montpelier. 223-2518.
Womens Circle. Women and mothers discuss
motherhood, family life and womens health.
Hosted by midwives Chelsea Hastings and
Hannah Allen. First Tues., 68 p.m. Emerge
Midwifery and Family Health,
174 River St., Montpelier.
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright Lynn Not-
tage. Nottage visits Goddard College for the
MFA in Creative Writing residency, and reads
from her work, followed by Q&A and book sign-
ing. Open to the public. 7 p.m. Haybarn Teatre
at Goddard College. 123 Pitkin Rd., Plaineld.
Free. 454-8311. rogelio.martinez@goddard.edu.
Readings at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Paul
Zakrzewski, graduating creative nonction writer
in the MFA in Writing at VCFA; Emily Raboteau,
visiting ction/creative nonction writer, author
of Te Professors Daughter. 7:30 p.m. 36 College
St., Montpelier. Free.
JULY 2
229-9155.
Grandparents Raising Their Childrens Chil-
dren. First Wed., 10 a.m.noon. Barre Presbyte-
rian Church, Summer St. 476-1480.
Story Time at Maple Corner. Kellogg-Hubbard
Library takes Story Time on the road. Ages
birth5. 10:30 a.m. Maple Corner Community
Center. 64 W. County Rd., Calais. Free.
223-3338. kellogghubbard.org.
Cancer Support Group. First Wed., 6 p.m.
Potluck. For location, call Carole Mac-Intyre
229-5931.
Gooey Science with Jacqueline Soule. What
makes rubber bands stretch and balls bounce?
Explore the dierences between ductile and
tensile strength. All ages. 6:30 p.m. Jaquith Public
Library. 122 School St., Marsheld. Free.
426-3581. jaquithpubliclibrary.org.
JULY 3
Montpelier Independence Day Celebration. Pa-
rade, performances, food and more. For a complete
rundown of the days events, see page 18 in this issue
of Te Bridge.
montpelieralive.org/IndependenceDay.
229-9155.
Independence Day Fun. Ben T. Matchstick and
friends present a new kamishibai performance
that will feature the premiere of Storybike. 10:30
a.m. Kellogg-Hubbard Library. 135 Main St.,
Readings at Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Martha Southgate, ction faculty in the MFA in
Writing at VCFA, author of Tird Girl From the
Left; Ron Padgett, visiting poet, author of Col-
lected Poems. 7 p.m. 36 College St., Montpelier.
Free. jericho.parms@vcfa.edu. vcfa.edu/writing.
Diabetes Support Group. First Turs., 78 p.m.
Conference Room 3, Central Vermont Medical
Center. 371-4152.
JULY 4
Hike Elmore with Green Mountain Club. Mod-
erate. 4 miles. New loop trail. Bring lunch and
water. Contact leaders, George and Cynthia, for
meeting time and place: 229-9787.
marlong@myfairpoint.net.
JULY 5
National Federation of the Blind, Montpelier
Chapter. First Sat. Lane Shops Community
Room, 1 Mechanic St., Montpelier. 229-0093.
JULY 6
Hike Eden with Green Mountain Club. Moder-
ate. 45 miles. Devil's Gulch. Long Trail and
Babcock Trail, possible extension to Devil's Perch.
Contact leader, Ken, for meeting time and place:
hertzkj@gmail.com.
JULY 7
Parent Meet-Up. Come meet other parents, share
information and chat over light snacks, coee
and tea. First Mon., 1011:30 a.m. Hayes Room,
Kellogg-Hubbard Library, 135 Main St., Montpe-
lier. Free. mamasayszine@gmail.com.
LEGO Bot Camp. With Paul Wallich. LEGO
Mindstorm Robotics kits on loan from UVM.
Ages 8+. Limited to 12 campers. 10 a.m.1 p.m.
Classic Book Club. New members always wel-
come. Most rst Mon., 68 p.m. Cutler Memo-
rial Library, 151 High St. (Rte. 2), Plaineld. Free.
454-8504. cutlerlibrary.org/resources/bookclub.
JULY 8
Understanding the Dynamics of Domestic
Violence: How Is Your Community Responding?
Meg Kuhner, Co-Director of Circle, discusses
domestic violence and what Circle is doing. 1 p.m.
Montpelier Senior Activity Center. 58 Barre St.,
Montpelier. 223-2518. msac@montpelier-vt.org.
Medicare and You Workshop. New to Medicare?
Have questions? We have answers. Second and
fourth Tues., 34:30 p.m. 59 N. Main St., Ste.
200, Barre. Free, donations gratefully accepted.
479-0531. cvcoa@cvcoa.org. cvcoa.org.
Summer Bug Walks. Our most abundant group
of animals at NBNC are the insects. Teyre fun
to catch, easy to observe, and oer endless oppor-
tunities for new discovery. Bring your net and join
us for a bug walk! Arrive any time between 3:30
and 5 p.m. North Branch Nature Center. 713
Elm St., Montpelier. $3 members; $5 non-mem-
bers. 229-6206. northbranchnaturecenter.org.
Grandparents Raising Their Childrens
Children. Second Tues., 68 p.m. Child care
provided. Wesley Methodist Church, Main St.,
Waterbury. 476-1480.
JULY 9
one. 1011:30 a.m. Conference Center. 600
Granger Road, Berlin, VT 05602. Free. 223-
1878.
Story Time at Rumney Memorial School.
Kellogg-Hubbard Library takes Story Time on the
road. Ages birth5. 10:30 a.m. Rumney Memorial
School. 433 Shady Rill Rd., Montpelier. Free.
223-3338. kellogghubbard.org.
Celiac and Food Allergy Support Group. With
Lisa Mas of Harmonized Cookery. Second Wed.,
4:306 p.m. Conference Room 3, Central
Vermont Medical Center. lisamase@gmail.com.
Quilting Group. Working meeting of the Dog
River Quilters. Second Wed., 5:30 p.m. Com-
munity Room, Brown Public Library. Northeld.
Jean, 585-5078 or jeanjolley@myfairpoint.net.
Bereaved Parents Support Group. Second
Wed., 68 p.m. CVHHH, 600 Granger Rd.,
Berlin. Jeneane Lunn 793-2376.
Jeff Danziger: Exhibit, Presentation and Book
Signing. Political cartoonist featured in publica-
tions nationwide. 6:30 p.m. Kellogg-Hubbard Li-
brary. 135 Main St., Montpelier. Free. 223-3338.
kellogghubbard.org.
Montpelier City Council Meeting. Second and
fourth Wed., 6:30 p.m. City Council Chambers,
Montpelier City Hall. 39 Main St., Montpelier.
montpelier-vt.org.
Episodes from a Popular 1967 Sci-Fi TV Series.
Watch a fun and silly science ction show that
features bad acting, bad writing, unfortunate
uniforms, terrible sets and special eects, and an
excitable overgrown shopvac robot. For show title:
jaquithpubliclibrary.org. 7 p.m. Jaquith Public Li-
brary. 122 School St., Marsheld. Free. 426-3581.
JULY 10
Central VT Self Help Group: Multiple Sclero-
sis. Support group for people living with MS,
their families, friends and caregivers. 67:30
p.m. CVMC Orthopedic & Rehab Center. 244
Granger Rd., Berlin. Amy: 595-0160 or amynste-
ven@yahoo.com. Betty: 476-8205 or
frederickbetty@aol.com.
Reading and Book Signing: Paddling Against
the Tide. Join Sandy Martin who grew up in
Vermont and now owns Lincoln Canoe. 6:30 p.m.
Prayer Meeting and Worship Service. Second
and fourth Turs. evening. Jabbok Encounter
Ministries. 8 Daniel Dr., Barre. 479-0302.
JULY 11
Annual Tie Dye Party. Tie dye the white laundry
in your house. 1 p.m. Kellogg-Hubbard Library.
135 Main St., Montpelier. Free. 223-3338.
kellogghubbard.org.
JULY 12
Hunger Action Day at Capital City Farmers
Market. 9a.m.1p.m. Corner of Elm and State,
Montpelier. 223-2958.
manager@montpelierfarmersmarket.org.
44th Annual Antiques and Uniques Festival.
Over 100 antique and unique vendors, live folk
music, specialty food and bake sale. Owners of
antique cars welcome to drive to event for special
parking and viewing. 10 a.m.4 p.m. Craftsbury
Common. Free; donations welcome. Proceeds
benet towns non-prots. Parking: $5 donation
to Craftsbury Fire Dept.
antiquesanduniquesvt@gmail.com.
Montpelier Memory Caf. Make a sundae, listen
to music. For individuals with Alzheimers or
related disorders and their care providers. 10 a.m.
Montpelier. Free. Lisbeth: 229-9630.
JULY 13
Shape Note/Sacred Harp Sing. No experience
needed. All welcome. Second Sun., 35 p.m.
Plaineld Community Center (above the co-op).
595-9951 or nscottieharrison@gmail.com.
JULY 14
Solar Power! Te Vermont Energy Education
Program will oer hands-on lessons on how we
can use the wind and sun. Ages 69. 14 p.m.
Kellogg-Hubbard Library. 135 Main St., Montpe-
lier. Free. 223-3338. kellogghubbard.org.
Wounds of Waziristan. Movie about drones and
discussion with Madea Benjamin and Peace and
Justice. 67:30 p.m. Aldrich Public Library, 6
Washington St., Barre. Free. 476-7550. aldrichli-
brary@charter.net. aldrichpubliclibrary.org.
one. 6-8pm. Conference Center. 600 Granger
Road, Berlin, VT 05602. Free. 223-1878.
JULY 15
Home Share Now Information Table at MSAC.
Joel Rhodes will discuss the Home Share program
and answer questions. 10:30 a.m.2 p.m. Montpe-
lier Senior Activity Center. 58 Barre St., Montpe-
lier. Free. 223-2518. msac@montpelier-vt.org.
Library Book Delivery Service. First and third
Tues., 1 p.m. See sign-up sheet near oce for
more info. Montpelier Senior Activity Center, 58
Petes Greens CSA 101. Learn more about CSAs,
the advantages for farmers and consumers and
how you can participate. 1 p.m. Montpelier
Senior Activity Center. 58 Barre St., Montpelier.
Free. 223-2518. msac@montpelier-vt.org.
Home Share Now Info Session. Find out what
home sharing is all about and have your questions
answered. Tird Tues., 5:306 p.m. Home Share
Now. 105 N. Main St., Ste. 103, Barre. 479-8544.
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright Lynn
Nottage reads from her work at Goddard
College's Haybarn Theatre. July 1st at 7 p.m.
Music
VENUES
Brown Bag Concert Series. Smoke-free event.
Noon. Christ Church courtyard. 64 State St.,
Montpelier. Free. montpelieralive.org/brownbag.
June 26: Starline Rhythm Boys
July 10: Te Michele Fay Band
July 17: Te Sky Blue Boys
July 24: Dave Keller Band
July 31: Woodchuck Revenge
Adamant Music School: Piano Concerts at
Waterside Hall. Adamant Village. Parking in
the Adamant United Methodist Church lot and
at Waterside Hall. Free for members; $10 guest
admission; $6 guest seniors/students. 223-3347.
adamant.org/index.html.
July 1, 2: Participant concerts for the Master
Classes with Andr Laplante, 7:30 p.m.
July 8, 9: Participant concerts for the Master
Classes with John O'Conor, 7:30 p.m.
July 13: Faculty Concert, 3 p.m.
July 16, 18, 23, 30: Participant concerts for
the Traditional Session, 7:30 p.m.
July 20, 27: Participant concerts for the Tradi-
tional Session, 3 p.m.
Bagitos. 28 Main St., Montpelier. Free. 229-
9212. bagitos.com.
June 26: Tem Travelin Birds (high energy
folk/Americana/bluegrass) 68 p.m.
June 27: Mike Schlemo (singer-songwriter)
68 p.m.
June 28: Emily White, 67 p.m.; Michael
Winters, 78 p.m.
June 29: Eric Friedman (folk ballads) 11
a.m.1 p.m.
July 1: Karl Miller (jazz guitar) 68 p.m.
July 5: Irish Session with Sarah Blair, Hilari
Farrington, Benedict Koehler, Katrina
VanTyne and others, 25 p.m.; Je Lathrop
(contemporary folk/rock) 68 p.m.
July 6: Eric Friedmand, 11 a.m.1 p.m.
July 10: Andy Pitt (blues/folk) 68 p.m.
July 11: An Evening in Greenwich Village
(60s folk songs) 68 p.m.
Farrington, Benedict Koehler, Katrina Van-
Tyne and others, 25 p.m.; Te Barn Band
(folk/Americana) 68 p.m.
July 13: Simon de Voil (piano) 11 a.m.1 p.m.
July 15: Old Time Music Session, 68 p.m.
July 16: Papa GreyBeard (blues/folk) 68 p.m.
July 18: Te Irregulars (folk ddle) 68 p.m.
Farrington, Benedict Koehler, Katrina Van-
Tyne and others, 25 p.m.; Dale Cavanaugh,
Benetting Salvation Farms/Planting Hope
(originals/songs by John Prine) 68 p.m.
July 20: Eric Friedman (folk ballads) 11
a.m.1 p.m.
Charlie Os World Famous. 70 Main St., Mont-
pelier. Free. Call for show times: 223-6820.
Jun. 27: Hot Diggity, Chelsea Grin (rock)
Jun. 28: Pariah Beat (indie)
North Branch Caf. 41 State St., Montpelier.
Free. 552-8105. donia@thenorth-branch.com.
thenorth-branch.com.
Jun. 26: Dave Loughran (classic acoustic
rock) 78:30 p.m.
June 27: Turidae (ute, harp and viola playing
celtic, classical and more) 4:306 p.m.
July 2: Turidae (ute, harp and viola
playing celtic, classical and more) 4:306
p.m.
July 3: Dave Loughran (classic acoustic
rock) 78:30 p.m.
July 4: Gitit Shoval and Tutti Druyan
(Israeli vocal artists/popular contempo-
rary and classic) 7:30 p.m.
July 5: McBride and Lussen (acoustic
folk) 7:309:30 p.m.
p.m.
July 10: Dave Loughran (classic acoustic
rock) 78:30 p.m.
July 11: Simon de Voil (traditional and
original folk) 7:309:30 p.m.
p.m.
July 17: James Secor (kora and acoustic
guitar) 78:30 p.m.
July 19: Stephen Marabito (soft jazz on
guitar and brush drum) 7:309:30 p.m.
Summer Concert Series at the Old
Schoolhouse Common Gazebo. Bring your
chair or blanket and a picnic. Be inspired
to get up and dance. Food available for pur-
chase. All shows: 6:30 p.m. Jaquith Public
Library. 122 School St., Marsheld. Free.
426-3581.
jaquithpubliclibrary.org.
July 10: Diane Tetrault Jazz Quartet
July 17: Green Mountain Playboys with Katie
Trautz (Cajun)
July 24: Michael Arnowitt's ImproVisions Jazz
Quartet
July 31: Cold Country Bluegrass and Kick 'em
Jenny (traditional bluegrass/gospel/contempo-
rary)
Positive Pie. 22 State St., Montpelier. 229-0453.
positivepie.com.
June 27: Toughcats (indie Americana rock)
21+. 10:30 p.m. $5.
July 11: Hot Neon Magic (covers of 80s new
wave) 21+. 10:30 p.m. $5.
July 12: MBolo (mbalax; high energy music
of Senegal) 21+. 10:30 p.m. $5.
July 18: Yee and Friends Showcase (hip-hop)
21+. 10:30 p.m. $5.
July 19: Barika (funk psychedelic) 21+. 10:30
p.m. $5.
Sweet Melissas. 4 Langdon St., Montpelier.
Free unless otherwise noted. 225-6012.
facebook.com/sweetmelissasvt.
Jun. 26: Dale Cavanaugh, 6 p.m.; Bramble-
wood (bluegrass/folk/country) 7:3010:30
p.m.
Jun. 27: Honky Tonk Happy Hour with Mark
LeGrand, 5 p.m.; Hillside Rounders, 9 p.m.
Jun. 28: Andy Pitt, 5 p.m.; Lords of Liechten-
stein, 9 p.m.
July 12: Coco & Lafe with the Summer Band:
Mark Greenberg and Paul Miller (blues)
7:309:30 p.m. $10 advance; $12 at door.
The Whammy Bar. 31 County Rd., Calais. Call
for times if not listed: 229-4329.
whammybar1.com.
June 26: MaryGoRound and Banjo Bob
(eclectic accordian and banjo)
June 27: Voltron (bluegrass)
June 28: Lisa Ann Moroz and Ben Campbel
with Miriam Bernardo
July 2, 9, 16: Open Mic, 6 p.m.
July 11: Lewis Franco & Te Brown Eyed
Girls, 7 p.m.
ARTISTS & SPECIAL
EVENTS
Jun. 2629: Jenny Brook Bluegrass Festival.
Experience Bluegrass Green Mountain Style!
Camping available. 1 Fairground Rd., Tunbridge.
Tickets start at $10, choose from multi-day or
single-day admission. jennybrookbluegrass.com.
Jun. 28: The David Bromberg Band. 8 p.m.
Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center. 122
Hourglass Drive, Stowe. Call for ticket price:
760-4635.
June 29: Patriotic Pipes & Percussion. Ar-
rangements of American songs by Arthur Zorn
(organ) and Doug Little (percussion). 34:30
p.m. Bethany Church. 115 Main St., Montpelier.
Donations accepted; proceeds go to Bethany
Churchs organ restoration fund. 622-0376.
arthurzorn@hotmail.com.
June 29: Bob and the Trubadors. Outdoor
concert. Rain or shine event. Bring a picnic.
Light food available for purchase. 6:308:30 p.m.
Rough Terrain Farm. 634 Bedor Rd., Randoph
Ctr. Adults $15; seniors/families $8 per person;
children ages 15 and under free. Bring own chair
or call to reserve a seat: 461-6197.
roughterrainfarm.com.
June 29: Cast in Bronze Handbell Concert.
Youth handbell ensemble concert. Youth from
Ohio give a moving concert to the Central
Vermont community. 7 p.m. Te Old Meeting
House. 1620 Center Rd., E. Montpelier. Free.
229-9593.
July 4: Friday Night Fires with McKenna and
the Microfixers. Celebrate the 4th with this
rhythm and blues group made up of musicians
from VT and NY. Feel free to bring blankets and
chairs. Weather permitting, show takes place on
lawn. 79 p.m. Fresh Tracks Farm Vineyard &
Winery. 4373 VT Rte. 12, Berlin. Free.
223-1151. freshtracksfarm.com.
July 4: 40th Army Band 4th of July Concert.
Featuring patriotic American tunes and other
musical favorites. Marselis Parsons is Master of
Ceremonies. Fireworks follows. 8 p.m. Village
Green at Smugglers Notch Resort. Jeersonville.
Free. 338-3480. 40th Army Band on Facebook.
July 5,6: Vermont Symphony Orchestra
Presents Lets Dance! Te annual Vermont
Symphony Orchestras TD Bank Summer
Festival Tour. Includes music from the world of
dance: waltzes, swing, polka, salsa. Toe-tapping
melodies by Strauss, Delibes, Borodin, Gershwin,
Benny Goodman and Glenn Miller. Concert
closes with the 1812 Overture, marches and dis-
play of reworks. Concert begins 7:30 p.m.; gates
open 5 p.m. for picnicking. Tickets: 457-3981 or
vso.org.
July 5: Tree Stallion Inn. 665 Stock Farm
Rd., Randolph. Adults $10 advance; $14 at
gate. Under 18 free with advance adult ticket
purchase; $5 at gate.
July 6: Trapp Family Lodge, Concert
Meadow. 700 Trapp Hill Rd., Stowe. Adults:
$30 advance; $35 at gate. Under 18 free with
ticketed adult.
July 5: Diane Huling Plays House Recital of
Mozart and Schubert. Solo piano recital given
at historic home in North Montpelier. Only 50
seats. 4 p.m. 2850 Rte. 14, N. Montpelier. $20.
Reservations: 454-7306.
July 6: Milarepa Center Festival Day. Featur-
ing Grammy nominee and renowned autist
Nawang Khechog. Celebrate the birthday of the
Dalai Lama and World Compassion Day. 15
p.m. Milarepa Center. 1344 US Rte. 5S., Barnet.
Free. 633-4136. milarepa@milarepacenter.org.
milarepacenter.org.
July 17: Liptak/Evans Duo. Clarinetist Dan
Liptak and guitarist Greg Evans perform. Te
evening includes a cocktail hour, 45-minute
concert featuring the music of Django Reinhardt
and other gypsy jazz greats and full dinner fol-
lows. 69 p.m. Moose Meadow Lodge. Duxbury.
$25+ requested donation. elevachamberplayers.
org/events.html. danliptakmusic.com.
gregevansmusic.com.
July 17: Sap Runnin' Contra Dance. All dances
are taught. No experience necessary. Partners
not required. Musicians welcome to sit in with
the band. Tird Turs., 710 p.m. through Oct.
Pierce Hall. 38 Main St., Rochester. Adults $8;
youth (under 25) $5. 617-721-6743.
July 19: Do Good Fest. National Life Group
hosts a day of music, food and family events
benetting the Cancer Patient Fund at Central
Vermont Medical Center. Singer-songwriter
Eric Hutchinson headlines. Also scheduled to
perform: Patrick Fitzimmons Trio, Gordon
Stone Band, PaDulabaum and Pale Cowboy. 19
p.m.; gates open at noon. National Life Group.
1 National Life Dr., Montpelier. Free with $20
parking fee. info@dogoodfest.com; dogoodfest.
com.
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Submit Your Event! Send listings to calendar@montpelierbridge.com
Or use our onlince event submission form by visiting montpelierbridge.com
Clarinetist Dan Liptak
and guitarist Greg Evans
perform gypsy jazz greats
at Moose Meadow Lodge
in Duxbury, July 17th.
Visual Arts
EXHIBITS
Through June 26: Kathrena Ravenhorst-
Adams, Vermont: Pastels and Watercolors.
Open during library hours. Hartness Library
East Gallery, Vermont Technical College.
Randolph Center. 728-1237.
Through June 27: Jamie Cope. Photography ex-
hibit spanning three decades. Montpelier Senior
Activity Center. 58 Barre St., Montpelier.
223-2518. msac@montpelier-vt.org.
Through June 29: Josh Turk, My Month
with Marilyn. Giclee prints of digital illustra-
tions. Green Bean Visual Art Gallery, Capitol
Grounds. 27 State St., Montpelier. curator@
capitolgrounds.com. 'Fans of Green Bean Visual
Arts Gallery' on Facebook.
Through June 29: Robert Hitzig: Paintings
and Paintings on Sculpture. Te majority of
work on display involves 3-dimensional wall art
with painted surfaces, with a few strictly 2-di-
mensional paintings included. Gallery hours:
Mon.Wed. and Fri., 9 a.m.4 p.m.; Turs., 9
a.m.2 p.m. River Arts Center. 74 Pleasant St.,
Morrisville. Free. 888-1261. riverartsvt.org.
Through June 30: Linda Hogan, Photogra-
pher & Lauren Andrews, Aromatherapist.
Photographer Linda Hogan presents her new
work, Te Art of Water; and Aromatherapist
Lauren Andrews will be making individualized
body sprays based on your needs and aromatic
preferences. Te Cheshire Cat. 28 Elm St.,
Montpelier. 223-1981. cheshirecatclothing.com.
Through June 30: What is This Joy? A tribute
to our fellow creatures and their sacred dance.
Photo-based images on reclaimed tiles by
Maayan Kasimov. Mon.Fri., 3:308 p.m.; Sat.
9 a.m.2 p.m. Contemporary Dance & Fitness
Studio. 18 Langdon St., 3F,
Montpelier. visualrites.com.
Through June 30: Dianne Shullenberger, Re-
Envisioned. Fabric collages and colored pencil
works. Te Governors Gallery, Pavilion State
Oce Building. 109 State St., 5F, Montpelier.
Through June 30: Recent Collage by Marcus
Ratliff. Gallery hours: WedFri, 10 a.m.5
p.m.; Sat., Noon5 p.m.; Sun.Tues. by ap-
pointment. Bigtown Gallery. 99 N. Main St.,
Rochester. info@bigtowngallery.com.
Through July 2: Kent Shaw, Night Photogra-
phy. Photographs examine the eects of long
exposure times. Most photographs were cap-
tured at night with street lights or stars provid-
ing illumination, while others were made using
special lters to reduce the amount of available
light. Morrisville Post Oce. 16 Portland St.,
Morrisville. 888-1261. riverartsvt.org.
Through July 9: Amanda Franz, Contours of
the Space Between. A collection of paintings
and sculpture. Closing reception: Jul. 9, 69
p.m.; special event 8 p.m. Exhibit open during
coop hours, 9 a.m.8 p.m. Plaineld Com-
munity Center (above the coop). 153 Main St.,
Plaineld. Free. 426-3233. amandamfranz@
gmail.com.
Through July 12: Postcards From the Keys.
Florida Winter Paintings by David Smith.
Jaquith Public Library. 122 School St., Marsh-
eld. Free. 426-3581. jaquithpubliclibrary.org.
Through July 12: 3 Exhibits. Gallery hours:
Tues.Fri., 10 a.m.5 p.m.; Sat., Noon4 p.m.
Studio Place Arts. 201 N. Main St., Barre. 479-
7069. studioplacearts.com.
VCFA at SPA: MFA in Graphic Design
Invitational. Invited students from the MFA
Program in Graphic Design at Vermont
College of Fine Arts will exhibit recent work.
Main Floor Gallery.
Te Drawing Game by the Hecht Family.
Since the late 1940s, 3 generations of the
Hechts have played a variant of Te Exquisite
Corpse game played by the Surrealists in the
1920s. Second Floor Gallery.
Mark Lorah: Anti-algorithmic. A mixed
media show that explores the relationship
between organized structure and the need for
irrational action. Tird Floor Gallery.
Through July 17: The Object Poems: Trans-
lations from Bark Beetle. An exhibition of
object poems from Jody Gladding's new book,
with photographs by Emma Norman. Open-
ing: June 28, 57 p.m. Main Gallery, Vermont
College of Fine Arts. 36 College St., Montpelier.
gladding@together.net.
June 29July 27: Green Mountain Watercolor
Exhibition. Celebrating the many styles and
techniques of the watercolor medium, this juried
show features outstanding artists from around
across the country with the works of the highest
quality. Red Barn Gallery at Lareau Farm Inn.
Rte. 100, Waitseld. valleyartsfoundation.org.
July 3July 30: Eleanor Kokar Ott, Spirit
Drawings. Stunning colored drawings redis-
covered in a trunk after fteen years. 10 a.m.8
p.m. Kellogg-Hubbard Library. 135 Main St.,
Montpelier. Free. 223-5939. louwcherry@gmail.
com.
Through July 31: Evan Chismark, Artist and
Illustrator. Highly-detailed pen and ink ren-
derings of wildlife and whimsical illustrations of
Vermont culture. Fresh Tracks Farm Vineyard
& Winery. 4373 VT Rte. 12, Berlin. 223-1151.
events@freshtracksfarm.com. freshtracksfarm.
com.
July 131: Marcia Hill and Cindy Griffith. Art
Resource Association, City Center. 89 Main St.,
Montpelier. artresourceassociation.com.
Through Aug. 3: Corinna Thurston, Pets in
Pencil. Tis display brings pet portraits to life
with detailed colored pencil and graphite draw-
ings. Tulsi Tea Room. 34 Elm St., Montpelier.
Through Aug. 9: Distinctions Between Color
and Light. Featuring new works by painters
Craig Mooney and Henry Isaacs. Mooneys
work is imbued with abstract qualities, while
Isaacs paintings deliver an impressionist punch.
Opening reception: June 28, 68:30 p.m.
West Branch Gallery & Sculpture Park. 17
Town Farm Ln., Stowe. 253-8943.
Through Aug. 24: Floral Seductions. Brightly
colored owers in many media. Over 70 works
by sculptors, printmakers, photographers,
painters, jewelry designers and artists working
in miscellaneous media such as graphite and
needlework. Summer gallery hours: Fri.Sat.,
36 p.m.; Sun., noon3 p.m. Chandler Gallery.
7173 Main St., Randolph. 728-9878.
chandler-arts.org.

July 3Aug. 29: Eugenio Leon, Create, Inno-
vate, Inspire, Aspire. Mixed media. Opening
reception: July 3, 57 p.m. Copley Common
Space Gallery. 74 Pleasant St., Morrisville.
July 3Aug. 29: Elvira Piedra, To Earth, From
Heaven. Entwines thirteen years of Piedras
photographic work in three groups of images:
the tree peony, studies of landscape and studies
of water. Opening reception: July 3, 57 p.m.
River Arts Center. 74 Pleasant St., Morrisville.
July 1Aug. 31: Paintings of Sam Seideman.
Waterside Hall, Adamant Music School. Ada-
mant Village. 223-3347.
adamant.org/index.html.
July 4Oct. 13: Book Exhibit: Al-Mutanabbi
Street Starts Here. Traveling exhibit of book
art and poetry created in response to the 2007
car bomb explosion on Al-Mutanabbi Street
in the historic bookselling district of Baghdad,
Iraq. 9 a.m.4 p.m. Eliot D. Pratt Library, God-
dard College. 123 Pitkin Rd., Plaineld. Free.
454-8311. clara.bruns@goddard.edu.
goddard.edu.
Through Dec. 19: 1864: Some Suffer So Much.
Stories of Norwich alumni who served as mili-
tary surgeons during the Civil War and traces
the history of posttraumatic stress disorder.
Sullivan Museum and History Center, Norwich
University, 158 Harmon Dr., Northeld.
485-2183. Norwich.edu/museum.
Through Dec. 19: Art Schaller, Billboard
Buildings: Collage and Mixed Media. Sullivan
Museum & History Center, Norwich Universi-
ty. 158 Harmon Dr., Northeld. Free and open
to the public. RSVP encouraged: 485-2183.
SMHC@norwich.edu. norwich.edu/museum.
SPECIAL EVENTS
June 28: The Gardens of Hollister Hill. Tour
of six private gardens on Hollister Hill in
Marsheld. Enjoy homemade refreshments and
bid on silent auction items donated by local
artists, craftspeople and businesses. All proceeds
benet the Blinking Light Gallery. 10 a.m.4
p.m. Tour begins and ends at 334 Jake Martin
Rd., Marsheld. $25 advance; $30 day of event.
Reservations: 454-7119 or JHRabin@ezcloud.
com.
July 1213: Randolph Garden Club, Art in
Bloom. A oral exhibit inspired by the art in
the Chandler Gallery. Fri.Sat., 36 p.m.; Sun.,
noon3 p.m. Chandler Gallery. 7173 Main St.,
Randolph. 728-9878. chandler-arts.org.
July 13: Art Reception for Sculptor Ellen
Kucera. Kucera is available to talk about her
highly original three-dimensional work, which
resemble beautiful found objects and functional
tools. Light refreshments will be served. 35
p.m. Warren Public Library. 413 Main St., War-
ren. 496-3656. programs@warrenlibrary.com.
warrenlibrary.com/warren/events.asp.
July 1112: 13th Annual Waterbury Arts Fest.
More than 80 regional vendors showcasing ne
art. Specialty food and entertainment for the
whole family. Fri., 610 p.m.; Sat., 10 a.m.4
p.m. Stowe St., Waterbury. Free. Event schedule
and more info.: waterburyartsfest.com.
Family Concert and Storytelling with The
Swing Peepers. Hear this special Vermont blend
of natural history and ecology-themed stories and
songs. Fun for the whole family. 6:307:30 p.m.
Cutler Memorial Library. 151 High St., Plaineld.
454-8504. cutlerlibrary.org.
JULY 16
Story Time at East Montpelier Fire House.
Kellogg-Hubbard Library takes Story Time on the
road. Ages birth5. 10:30 a.m. East Montpelier
Fire House. 365 Templeton Rd., E. Montpelier.
Free. 223-3338. kellogghubbard.org.
Man-to-Man Prostate Cancer Support Group.
Tird Wed., 68 p.m. Conference Room 2,
Central Vermont Medical Center. 872-6308 or
866-466-0626 (press 3).
Folk Dancing. Learn folk dances from around
the world with Sue Morris. All ages and begin-
ners welcome. 7 p.m. Jaquith Public Library. 122
School St., Marsheld. Free. 426-3581.
jaquithpubliclibrary.org.
JULY 17
Magic School Bus Readaloud. Brilliant science
adventures with Miss Frizzle and the gang. Ages
4+. 11 a.m. Kellogg-Hubbard Library. 135 Main
St., Montpelier. Free. 223-3338. kellogghubbard.
org.
Brain Injury Support Group. Open to all survi-
vors, caregivers and adult family members. Tird
Turs., 1:302:30 p.m. Unitarian Church, 130
Diabetes Discussion Group. Focus on self-
management. Open to anyone with diabetes
and their families. Tird Turs., 1:30 p.m. Te
Health Center, Plaineld. Free. Don 322-6600 or
dgrabowski@the-health-center.org.
Survivors of Suicide Loss Support. Monthly
group for people aected by a suicide death. Tird
Turs., 67:30 p.m. Central Vermont Medical
Center, Conference Rm. 1, Fisher Rd., Berlin.
223-0924. calakel@comcast.com.afsp.org.
Grandparents Raising Their Childrens
Children. Tird Turs., 68 p.m. Child care
provided. Trinity United Methodist Church, 137
Songwriters Meeting. Meeting of the Northern
VT/NH chapter of the Nashville Songwriters
Association International. Bring copies of your
work. Tird Turs., 6:45 p.m. Catamount Arts,
St. Johnsbury. Joh: 633-2204.
JULY 18
Central Vermont Council on Aging Assistance.
Sarah Wilhoit answers questions about health
insurance and other senior services. 9 a.m.noon.
Montpelier. Free. By appt. only: 479-4400.
D.I.Y. Robots. Paint, collage, sculpt or all of the
above. Nuts, bolts and fun guaranteed. Ages 38.
1 p.m. Kellogg-Hubbard Library. 135 Main St.,

JULY 19
Hike Mt. Abraham with Green Mountain Club.
Warren. Moderate. 7.2 miles round trip via the
Long Trail. Contact leaders, Eric and Donna, for
meeting time and place: 223-1406.
Additional Recyclables Collection Center. Ac-
cepting scores of hard-to-recycle items. Tird Sat.,
9 a.m.1 p.m. 540 N. Main St. (old Times-Argus
building), Barre. $1 per carload. 229-9383 x106.
For list of accepted items, go to cvswmd.org/arcc-
additional-recyclables-collection-center.html.
To Earth, From Heaven exhibits thirteen years of Elvis Piedra's photographic work.
July 3rd to August 29th at River Arts Center in Morrisville. Shown here, Beholding
Paeinia Rockii, Linwood Gardens.
Weekly
Events
ART & CRAFT
Beaders Group. All levels of beading
experience welcome. Free instruction available.
Come with a project for creativity and
community. Sat., 11 a.m.2 p.m.
Te Bead Hive, Plaineld. 454-1615.
Noontime Knitters. All abilities welcome.
Basics taught. Crocheting, needlepoint and
tatting also welcome. Tues., noon1 p.m.
Waterbury Public Library, 28 N. Main St.,
Waterbury. 244-7036.
BICYCLING
Open Shop Nights. Volunteer-run community
bike shop: bike donations and repairs. Tues., 68
p.m.; other nights. Freeride Montpelier, 89 Barre
St., Montpelier. 552-3521. freeridemontpelier.org.
BOOKS & WORDS
Lunch in a Foreign Language. Bring lunch
and practice your language skills with neighbors.
Noon1 p.m. Mon., Hebrew; Tues., Italian;
Wed., Spanish; Turs., French. Kellogg-Hubbard
Library, 135 Main St., Montpelier. 223-3338.
English Conversation Practice Group. For
students learning English for the rst time.
Tues., 45 p.m. Central Vermont Adult Basic
Education, Montpelier Learning Center, 100
State St. 223-3403.
Author at the Aldrich. Vermont Authors speak
every Wed. night through Aug. 13. 6 p.m. Milne
Room, Aldrich Public Library. 6 Washington St.,
Barre. 476-7550. aldrichpubliclibrary@gmail.
com. aldrichpubliclibrary.com.
July 2: Alec Hastings, author of Otter St. Onge
and the Bootleggers.
July 9: Joe Eck, garden and food writer. Au-
thor of Elements of Garden Design.
July 16: Sandor Katz, author of Te Art of
Fermentation.
Ongoing Reading Group. Improve your
reading and share some good books. Books
chosen by group. Turs., 910 a.m. Central
Vermont Adult Basic Education, Montpelier
Learning Center, 100 State St. 223-3403.
BUSINESS & FINANCE,
COMPUTERS
Computer and Online Help. One-on-one
computer help. Tues. and Fri., 10 a.m.1 p.m.
Waterbury Public Library, 28 N. Main St.,
Waterbury. Free. Registration required:
244-7036.
Personal Financial Management
Workshops. Learn about credit/debit cards,
credit building and repair, budgeting and
identity theft, insurance, investing, retirement.
Tues., 68 p.m. Central Vermont Medical
Center, Conference Room 3. Registration:
371-4191.
FOOD & DRINK
Capital City Farmers Market. 53 vendors.
Trough Oct. 25. Sat., 9 a.m. 1 p.m. Corner of
Elm and State, Montpelier. 223-2958.
manager@montpelierfarmersmarket.org.
Community Meals in Montpelier. All
welcome. Free.
Mon.: Unitarian Church, 130 Main St., 11
a.m.1 p.m.
Tues.: Bethany Church, 115 Main St., 11:30
a.m.1 p.m.
Wed.: Christ Church, 64 State St., 11
a.m.12:30 p.m.
Thurs.: Trinity Church, 137 Main St., 11:30
a.m.1 p.m.
Fri.: St. Augustine Church, 18 Barre St., 11
a.m.12:30 p.m.
Sun.: Last Sunday only, Bethany Church, 115
Main St. (hosted by Beth Jacob Synagogue),
4:305:30 p.m.
Feast Together & To-Go. All proceeds
benet the Feast Senior Meal Program. Tues.
and Fri. Dance/play with the band, 10:30
a.m.; communal/take-out meals, noon1 p.m.
Montpelier. Seniors 60+ free; guests and others
under 60 $7; to-go meals $9 for all. Please make
reservations at least one day in advance:
262-6288.
Wine Down Wednesday. Boost your hump
day with a $4 glass of wine! 18 p.m. Fresh
Tracks Farm Vineyard & Winery. 4373 VT Rte.
12, Berlin. 223-1151. freshtracksfarm.com.
FOR EVERYONE
Bread and Puppet Community Circus
Rehearsal. Sat. through Aug. 23. All ages
welcome. 2 p.m. Bread and Puppet Farm. Rte.
122, Glover. Free. 525-3031.
Bread and Puppet Presents Te Nothing
is Not Ready Circus and Pageant. Sun.
through Aug. 24. Following the circus is a guest
performance in the Paper Mach Cathedral.
Museum tour 1 p.m.; shows begin 2:30 p.m.
Bread and Puppet Farm. Rte. 122, Glover. Free;
donations appreciated..
525-3031. Breadandpuppet.org.
HEALTH & WELLNESS
Turning Point Center. Safe, supportive place
for individuals and their families in or seeking
recovery. Daily, 10 a.m.5 p.m. 489 North Main
St., Barre. 479-7373.
Sun.: Alchoholics Anonymous, 8:30 a.m.
Tues.: Making Recovery Easier workshops,
67:30 p.m.
Wed.: Wits End Parent Support Group, 6 p.m.
Thurs.: Narcotics Anonymous, 6:30 p.m.
Sex Addicts Anonymous. Mon., 6:30 p.m.
Bethany Church, 115 Main St., Montpelier.
552-3483.
Growing Older Discussion Group. Informal,
drop-in group to share experiences, thoughts and
fears about aging. All seniors welcome! Tues., 11
a.m.noon. Montpelier Senior Activity Center.
58 Barre St., Montpelier. 223-2518.
msac@montpelier-vt.org.
Let's Eat 4 Health! Educational nutrition
series. Participants receive workbook and are
entered to win nutrition consultations. Wed.,
July 930, noon1 p.m. Aldrich Public Library.
6 Washington St., Barre. Free. Info and sign-up:
595-0726. tara@happybellies.net.
happybellies.net.
Overeaters Anonymous. Twelve-step program
for physically, emotionally and spiritually
overcoming overeating. 223-3079. Tues.,
5:306:30 p.m. at Episcopal Church of the
Good Shepherd, 39 Washington St., Barre. Fri.,
noon1 p.m. at Bethany Church, 115 Main St.,
HIV Testing. Vermont CARES oers fast oral
testing. Turs., 25 p.m. 58 East State St., Ste. 3
(entrance at back), Montpelier. Free. 371-6222.
vtcares.org.
KIDS & TEENS
Te Basement Teen Center. Cable TV,
PlayStation 3, pool table, free eats and fun events
for teenagers. Mon.Turs., 36 p.m.; Fri.,
311 p.m. Basement Teen Center, 39 Main St.,
Summer Story Time at Kellogg-Hubbard
Library. Stories, songs, silliness and science for
ages birth5. Tues. and Fri. through Aug. 1,
10:30 a.m. Kellogg-Hubbard Library. 135 Main
St., Montpelier. Free. 223-3338. kellogghubbard.
org.

Fizz! Boom! Read! Summer Reading
Program at the Jaquith Public Library.
Free lunch follows. Ages birth7. Wed. through
July 30, 1011:30 a.m. Jaquith Public Library.
122 School St., Marsheld. Free. 426-3581.
See weekly themes: jaquithpubliclibrary.org/
childrens-space.html.
Read to Coco. Share a story with Coco, the
resident licensed reading therapy dog, who loves
to hear kids practice reading aloud. Wed., 3:30
4:30 p.m. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, 135 Main
St., Montpelier. Sign up ahead: 223-4665 or at
the childrens desk. kellogghubbard.org.
Tursday LEGO Trowdowns. Join one or
all of our theme challenges: July 3, animals; July
10, crazy inventions; July 17, outer space; July
24, self-portrait; July 31, super-heroes. Build
your piece at home and bring it labeled with your
name and age. Turs., call for time. Kellogg-
Hubbard Library. 135 Main St., Montpelier.
Free. 223-3338. kellogghubbard.org.
Read with Arlo. Meet reading therapy dog Arlo
and his owner Brenda. Sign up for a 20-minute
block. Turs., 45 p.m. Kellogg-Hubbard
Library, 135 Main St., Montpelier. 223-4665.
kellogghubbard.org.
Dads and Kids Playgroup. Playgroup for
children ages birth5 and their dads. Relaxed
environment. Free dinner. Turs., 67:30 p.m.
through Jun. 30. Family Center of Washington
County. 283 Sherwood Dr., Montpelier.
262-3292 ext.115. familycenter@fcwcvt.org.
Drop-in Kinder Arts Program. Innovative
exploratory arts program with artist/instructor
Kelly Holt. Age 35. Fri., 10:30 a.m.noon.
River Arts Center, 74 Pleasant St., Morrisville.
888-1261. RiverArtsVT.org.
Teen Fridays. Find out about the latest teen
books, use the gym, make art, play games and
if you need to, do your homework. Fri., 35
p.m. Jaquith Public Library, 122 School St.,
Marsheld. 426-3581.
Mad River Valley Youth Group. Sun., 79
p.m. Meets at various area churches. Call 497-
4516 for location and information.
MUSIC & DANCE
Barre-Tones Womens Chorus. Open
rehearsal. Find your voice with 50 other women.
Mon., 7 p.m. Alumni Hall, Barre. 223-2039.
BarretonesVT.com.
Dance or Play with the Swinging over 60
Band. Danceable tunes from the 1930s to the
1960s. Recruiting musicians. Tues., 10:30 a.m.
noon. Montpelier Senior Activity Center, 58
Shape Note Sing at Bread and Puppet.
Early American 4-part hymns. All welcome. No
experience necessary. Tues., July 1Aug. 26., 7:30
p.m. Paper Mach Cathedral, Bread and Puppet
Farm. Rte. 122, Glover. Free. 525-6972.
Monteverdi Young Singers Chorus
Rehearsal. New chorus members welcome.
Wed., 45 p.m. Montpelier. Call 229-9000 for
location and more information.
Capital City Band. Performance on the
Statehouse Lawn. Band instrument players are
welcome to play along. Wed., 7 p.m. through
Aug. 13. Statehouse lawn beside the Pavilion
Building. State St., Montpelier. Free and open to
all. 223-7069.
Ukelele Group. All levels welcome. Turs., 68
p.m. Montpelier Senior Activity Center, 58 Barre
St. 223-2518.
Gamelan Rehearsals. Sun., 79 p.m. Pratt
Center, Goddard College. Free. 426-3498.
steven.light@jsc.edu. light.kathy@gmail.com.
OUTDOORS
Spring Migration Bird Walks. Explore
NBNC and other local birding hot spots for
spring migrants, such as warblers, vireos, thrushes
and waterfowl. Fri., 78:30 a.m. North Branch
Nature Center. 713 Elm St., Montpelier. $10;
free for members. Call for directions to meeting
locations: 229-6206.
northbranchnaturecenter.org.

RECYCLING
Additional Recycling. Te Additional
Recyclables Collection Center accepts scores of
hard-to-recycle items. Tues. and Turs., 12:30
p.m.5:30 p.m. ARCC, 540 North Main St.,
Barre. $1 per carload. 229-9383 x106. For
list of accepted items, go to cvswmd.org/arcc-
additional-recyclables-collection-center.html.
SOLIDARITY/IDENTITY
Womens Group. Women age 40 and older
explore important issues and challenges in their
lives in a warm and supportive environment.
Facilitated by Amy Emler-Shaer and Julia W.
Gresser. Wed. evenings. 41 Elm St., Montpelier.
262-6110.
SPIRITUALITY
Christian Science Reading Room. Audio
chats that help and heal. Subjects: weight issues,
overcoming fears, nances/economy, body image,
astrology and more. Reading room hours: Tues.,
11 a.m.5 p.m.; Wed., 11 a.m.7:15 p.m. Turs.
Sat., 11 a.m.1 p.m. 145 State St., Montpelier.
Free. 223-2477.
Christian Counseling. Tues. and Turs. Daniel
Dr., Barre. Reasonable cost. By appt. only:
479-0302.
Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults. For
those interested in learning about the Catholic
faith, or current Catholics who want to learn
more. Wed., 7 p.m. St. Monica Church, 79
Summer St., Barre. Register: 479-3253.
Deepening Our Jewish Roots. Fun, engaging
text study and discussion on Jewish spirituality.
Sun., 4:456:15 p.m. Yearning for Learning
Center, Montpelier. 223-0583.
info@yearning4learning.org.
SPORTS & GAMES
Roller Derby Open Recruitment and
Recreational Practice. Central Vermonts
Wrecking Doll Society invites quad skaters age
18 and up. No experience necessary. Equipment
provided: rst come, rst served. Sat., 56:30
p.m. Montpelier Recreation Center, Barre St.
First skate free. centralvermontrollerderby.com.
YOGA & MEDITATION
Christian Meditation Group. People of all
faiths welcome. Mon., noon1 p.m. Christ
Church, Montpelier. 223-6043.
Yoga and Meditation. With Katy Leadbetter.
Meditation: Mon., 1 p.m. (unlimited).
Introduction to yoga: Tues., 4 p.m. (four-class
limit). Consultation: Fri., 11 a.m. (one per
person). 56 East State St., Montpelier. Free.
272-8923.
Yoga & Wine Tursday. With Lori Flower. All
levels welcome. Bring your own mat. Wine bar
opens after class. Turs., 5:306:30 p.m. Fresh
Tracks Farm Vineyard & Winery. 4373 VT Rte.
12, Berlin. $10. 223-1151. freshtracksfarm.com.
Zen Meditation. With Zen Aliate of
Vermont. Mon., 6:307:30 p.m. 174 River St.,
Montpelier. Free. Call for orientation: 229-0164.
Meditation Sitting Group. With Sherry
Rhynard, Stress Management Coach. A weekly
meditation group oers ways to nd out more
about meditation and gives support to an existing
or new practice. Turs., 67 p.m. Central
Vermont Medical Center. 130 Fisher Rd., Berlin.
Free. 272-2736. sherry@easeoow.com.
Shambhala Buddhist Meditation. Group
meditation practice. Sun., 10 a.m.noon; Tues.,
78 p.m.; Wed., 67 p.m. Shambhala Meditation
Center, 64 Main St., 3F, Montpelier. Free.
223-5137. montpeliershambala.org.
Class listings and classifieds are 50 words for $25; discounts available. To place an ad, call Carolyn, 223-5112, ext. 11.
Classifieds
CLASSES &
WORKSHOPS:
SUMMER WRITES A six-week Guided Writers'
Workshop, Fridays, July 11 - August 15, 10 a.m.
- Noon, $120, held at Christ Episcopal Church,
64 State Street, Montpelier. Instructor: Maggie
Tompson, MFA, Amherst Writers and Artists
Aliate. Call to register: 454-4635.
MONTPELIER MUD Spend the summer in mud
during a pottery class at the Mud Studio. Wheel
throwing and Handbuilding classes for all skill
levels start July 7th. Come dig in the fun. Visit us
at www.themudstudio.com, call at 224-7000 or
stop in at 961 Route 2 in Middlesex (next to the
Red Hen) for registration information.
WRITING COACH Struggling with beginning,
continuing, nishing? Need tools to start you
up and keep you working from concept to
completion? Art is long, and life short. WRITE
NOW is what we have. Tirty years working in
lm, TV, theater and prose, coaching writers
in all genres. Free initial consultation. Tamar-
cole21@gmail.com 802-225-6415.
SERVICES:
PERSONAL COUNSELING with a Christian per-
spective by appointment every Tuesday and Turs-
day afternoon at 8 Daniel Drive in Barre. Cost is
based on ability to pay. Call 479-0302.
EMPLOYMENT:
GRAPHIC DESIGNER Te Bridge seeks
someone with strong graphic design and computer
skills to assemble the paper, start to nish, includ-
ing high-quality ads to customer specications,
designing covers and laying out feature stories in a
visually intriguing and eective manner.
Position requires design experience, prociency in
Creative Suite, strong interpersonal skills, ability
to perform well under deadlines and pressure,
multi-tasking, and ability to work with our team
and the general public to create eective ads.
Preference given to those with experience in pub-
lication design and production. Interested? Please
send a resume with cover letter to Nat Frothing-
ham: nat@montpelierbridge.com
229-6575
QUALITY REMODELING
& BUILDING
Conscientious contracting
Int./ext. makeovers & paint
Healthy whole-home solutions
Deep energy retrofits
Kitchens, baths, additions
Doors, windows, roofs
David Diamantis
ph: 229-8646 fax: 454-8646
Certified Green Professional
EMP/RRP EcoStar Roof Applicator
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local references.
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Design & Build
Custom Energy-Ecient Homes
Additions Timber Frames
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S
ummer in Vermont provides a multitude
of theater opportunities for performers
and audience members alike, and The
Bridge got a behind-the-scenes look at a few of
the state's companies and productions. This is
by no means a complete list of all the extraor-
dinary summer theater that occurs in Ver-
mont, and should be used as a starting point
for further exploration
Chandler Center for the Arts,
Randolph, VT
On a Wednesday afternoon in Randolph,
something extraordinary is happening. More
than 100 children gather at Chandler Music
Hall for their third rehearsal of Bock and Har-
nick's Fiddler on the Roof. The youngest actors
are seven years old and the oldest are 2014
high school graduates. Despite the sheer num-
ber of kids involved, this rehearsal runs like a
well-oiled machine. Co-directors Charlie Mc-
Meekin and choreographer Kim Nowlan Ha-
thaway work with the principals on the stage,
while music director Marjorie Drysdale takes
the ensemble into a neighboring room to dig
into the large group musical numbers. Strains
of "Tradition" filter into the hall, creating a
fitting atmosphere as McMeekin and Nowlan
Hathaway stage a scene where Perchik (Amos
Byrne) attempts to convince Hodel (Kelty
Edraney) that it's time to change traditional
matchmaking practices.
Managing such a large group of young people
doesn't seem to pose a challenge for this pro-
duction team. "The kids are here because they
want to be here," McMeekin remarks. Behav-
ior issues are rare, in part because the older
kids set an example for the younger ones. In
fact, he and Drysdale considered breaking the
100-plus children into two groups a number of
years agoone production for the young ones
and a separate production for the older ones.
"It turned out that the parents didn't want us
to do that," says McMeekin. Parents of the
younger children liked it that their kids got to
spend time around focused, creative middle-
school and high-school role models.
McMeekin and Drysdale launched these an-
nual youth musicals 16 years ago with a pro-
duction of The Wizard of Oz. They were joined
by Nowlan Hathaway in year three, and the
team's musical theater productions have be-
come a staple of the area's Independence Day
celebration. Fiddler on the Roof runs July 36
at Chandler Music Hall in Randolph. Visit
chandler-arts.org for more information.
QuarryWorks Theater,
Adamant, VT
Quarry Road winds away from the center
of Adamant towards an old granite quarry.
No longer in use, the quarry is now the pic-
turesque site of QuarryWorks Theater. On
a sunny Saturday afternoon, the cast of the
Harvey Schmidt/Tom Jones musical 110 in
the Shade takes a lunch break after a full
morning of rehearsal. This group of actors is
putting in a lot of hours in a short period of
timeall of the QuarryWorks productions
are created from start to finish in about three
weeks. Director Michael Suchomel thinks of
his cast as family, and there's a palpable sense
of camaraderie as actors, crew and production
team share pizza and salad.
After their break, the cast heads back inside the
intimate 50-seat theater for a rehearsal with
choreographer Sarah Venooker. Venooker, Su-
chomel, and music director Mark Violette elicit
remarkable focus from the mixture of theater
veterans and brand new actors. This mix is
no accident, Suchomel says. Part of Quarry
Works's mission is to provide a "mentoring,
supportive, noncompetitive environment for
actors and designers of all experience levels."
The success of this mission is evident even in
rehearsal. Music, stag-
ing and choreography
come together quickly
under the direction of
what's clearly a skilled
production team.
Thanks to sponsor-
ship from the Ada-
mant Community
Cultural Foundation,
all QuarryWorks per-
formances are free. 110
in the Shade opens on
July 10, and the sea-
son continues through
mid-August with Jack
and the Beanstalk and Come Back, Little Sheba.
Visit adamant.org/quarryworks.htm for more
information.
Stowe Theatre Guild, Stowe, VT
Stowe Theatre Guild (STG) has long been an
active force in the Vermont summer theater
scene, with a consistent presence in Stowe's
charming Town Hall Theatre since 1995.
STG's 2014 season launched on June 19 with
a production of [title of show], which is the
actual name of the four-character Hunter Bell/
Jeff Bowen brainchild that nabbed Bell a 2009
Tony nomination for best book of a musical
Director Nicholas Caycedo is a testament to
the powerful effect theater can have on young
people, and he credits his love of theater to
his early years with STG. "Thanks to this
fixture of the Vermont theater community, I
was able to witness some of my very first pre-
cious moments in the theater as a young boy:
Pippin's Grand Finale, Emcee's gorilla ballet,
Eliza Doolittle's first breakthrough." Caycedo
makes his directorial debut with this produc-
tion. [title of show] could not have been a
more suitable work for me to find my stride as
a director," Caycedo says. "I know all of these
characters on a very personal level. I identify
with them. Their story is about dreaming big,
taking chances and ultimately realizing that
sometimes your own story is the one worth
telling."
Stowe Theatre Guild's production of [title of
show] runs through July 5, and Caycedo di-
rects Kyle Bennett as Hunter, Jayden Cho-
quette as Jeff, Kim Anderson as Heidi, and Sa-
brina Sydnor as Susan. STGs season continues
through mid-October with On the Town, The
Secret Garden, and Kiss Me, Kate. Visit stowe-
theatre.com for more information.
Lamoille County Players,
Hyde Park, VT
The Lamoille County Players (LCP) are blessed
with one of the most beautiful, historic venues
in the state. "One of the most unique things
about the Lamoille County Players," says LCP
President Perry Burnell, "is our performance
space. We have a special relationship with the
Hyde Park Opera House." The opera house,
built over 100 years
ago, was falling into
disrepair in the early
1950s when a group
of theater enthusiasts
(which later became
the Lamoille County
Players) put on a show
there. LCP became
stewards of the Opera
House; their mission
is not only to put on
high quality theater
productions but also
to maintain and care
for the crown jewel of
Lamoille County's performance spaces. The
latest improvement is the installation of air
conditioning in the opera house. "Audiences
can enjoy this summer's shows in air-condi-
tioned comfort," boasts Burnell.
Damn Yankees, directed by Dean Burnell,
opens at the Hyde Park Opera House on July
24. The LCP season continues through mid-
November with The Music Man and The
Importance of Being Earnest. Visit lcplayers.
com for more information.
Lost Nation Theater,
Montpelier, VT
Highlights of central Vermont's summer the-
ater scene wouldn't be complete without men-
tion of Lost Nation Theater (LNT), Montpe-
lier's year-round professional theater company.
Durang Bang, the company's current produc-
tion, was custom-designed for Central Ver-
mont audiences from the works of Christo-
pher Durang, says producing artistic director
Kathleen Keenan. The evening of comedic
shorts parodies some of the greatest theater
of all time. "The in joke for us is that we've
done most of the shows that are parodied,"
Keenan remarks. "When you see the spoof of
Hamlet, that's our Hamlet's costume! And our
Gertrude's and our Horatio's!" The actors in
the show all play multiple characters and make
many quick changes, and the designers were
challenged to create a world that serves six dif-
ferent comedies. The cast includes many LNT
favorites, including Maura O'Brien, Emme
Erdossy, and Bob Nuner.
Durang Bang, directed by Margo Whitcomb,
continues through June 29 at Montpelier's
City Hall Arts Center, followed by Blues in the
Night and two musicals for kids by kids: Red!
and Peter Pan, Jr. Visit lostnationtheater.org
for more information.
Portions of this article originally appeared on
BroadwayWorld.com.
Summer Theater Series
by Erin McIntyre
Lizzie (Amy Papineau), Noah (Todd Jones),
and Jimmy (Thomas Gunn) greet Starbuck
(G. Richard Ames) with skepticism in a
rehearsal of QuarryWorks Theater's 110 In
The Shade.
Kim Anderson, Jayden Choquette, Kyle Bennett, and Sabrina Sydnor star in Stowe Theatre
Guild's [TITLE OF SHOW].
Photo courtesy of Karen Pike Photography.
Photo by Erin McIntyre.
H
ear the word co-op and you'll likely
think of a food co-op. That's natu-
ral enough: Washington County
has three active food co-ops, and the state
has 14 of them, with four more forming. But
Vermont also has cooperative creameries, an
energy cooperative, a workers' cooperative,
and cooperative credit unions. It has a co-
operative ski areaMad River Glenand
a cooperative movie house, the Playhouse
Theater in Randolph.
Go further afield and you'll encounter co-ops
from Seattle to Florida, selling everything
from backpacks to orange juice. You'll find
telephone cooperatives, electrical coopera-
tives, co-op mobile home parks, cooperative
grain elevators, cooperative hardware stores,
and mutual insurance companies, which con-
stitute their own family within the co-op
clan. The Associated Press is a cooperative,
as is the New England Produce Center, the
huge wholesale market that serves our part
of the country.
You won't find many newspaper cooperatives,
however. We're aware of only one such crea-
ture, Wisconsin's Inter-County Leader, in the
United States, and one abroad, Berlin's Tag-
eszeitung. We at The Bridge are thus consider-
ing becoming, quite possibly, only the third
member of the species anywhere in the world.
Our motivations are, first, to empower our
local community by inviting readers and
friends to own the paper; second, to guarantee
that The Bridge continues to be a local and
a locally responsive newspaper that is owned
and governed locally and is not sold to a
franchise or someone who is not prepared to
honor the needs and diversity of the commu-
nity; third, to pay off some of the papers debt,
including debt owed to individuals who have
made personal loans to the paper; fourth, to
provide working capital so that the paper can
expand its editorial coverage and geographic
and advertising reach.
Cooperation is as old as human society. It
might be said that the practice of cooperation
predates the idea of cooperation, since cooper-
ative action became imperative before anyone
had a chance to reflect upon it. It is something
inherent in us, and indeed in nature. The Rus-
sian political philosopher Peter Kropotkin, in
his Mutual Aid (1904), wrote that "there is an
immense amount of warfare and extermina-
tion going on amidst various species; there is,
at the same time, as much, or perhaps even
more, of mutual support, mutual aid, and
mutual defense Sociability is as much a law
of nature as mutual struggle.
Consumer co-ops, such as The Bridge coop-
erative would be, began to emerge as the In-
dustrial Revolution created an urban under-
class that needed an alternative to company
stores whose overpriced and adulterated food
embodied the worst instincts of laissez-faire
capitalism. Modern cooperative principles owe
their origins to 28 English workers, known as
the Rochdale Pioneers, who articulated and
applied them in establishing a cooperative gro-
cery in the Lancashire city of the same name
in 1844. The so-called Rochdale principles in-
clude democratic controlone member, one
votethe promotion of education, and the
extension of patronage refunds.
Within ten years of the Rochdale initiative,
England had 1000 cooperatives. The idea
has continued to find fertile soil all over the
world, and no one could hope to count the
manifestations of cooperation in economic life
throughout the world today. The concept has
thrived in times both flush and lean. In the
United States, the Great Depression witnessed
a wave of new food co-ops, including the
Adamant Co-op here in Washington County
and the Hanover (N.H.) Consumer Coop-
erative, which today operates three stores in
the Upper Valley. The 1960s and 70s saw a
new wave of food co-ops in Vermont, born of
a desire to obtain natural and organic foods
at minimal expense, when such foods were
still hard to come by.
Whether to get food more cheaply, provide
telephone service to far-flung ranches or pre-
vent a movie house's consignment to history,
the principle of cooperation has worked time
and again, to the betterment of millions. We
now proposeto youthat The Bridge take
heed of these examples and become what may
be one of the few cooperative newspapers in
the world. Your investment in shares of the
cooperative would stabilize our finances and
allow you to direct our newspaper as an in-
strument of our community's growth.
The Bridge began as a grassroots community
project and in many ways remains precisely
that. When we put out our first paper, in
1993, everyone was a volunteer. No one was
paid. We went door to door in downtown
Montpelier, sold ads, took the ad money and
paid our first printing bill. The Bridge was
launchedas a community effort. Indeed,
our very name depicts that ongoing effort:
building and maintaining bridges that con-
nect us all.
Tell us what you think about The Bridge's
becoming a cooperative. Take our online poll
at www.montpelierbridge.com/co-op. Tell us
whether you like the idea or not. Feel free to
add your comments. Take a first step in creat-
ing a newspaper such as Vermont has never
before seen.
We live in a region that has embraced co-
ops and witnessed their considerable benefits.
We can imagine no soil more fertile for the
cooperative idea's further growth, and for its
adaptation to the purpose of community-
spirited journalism.
Editorial
The Bridge: Mr. Lushin, can you tell us how you got inter-
ested in cooperatives? What got you started? What is there
about cooperatives that you find attractive?
L. Lushin: On moving to Vermont with a law degree and a
CPA certificate, I was looking to apply my education in a so-
cially responsible direction. It was obvious to me that provid-
ing services to cooperatives and nonprofits fit the bill perfectly.
I started out having to research and develop the law applicable
to consumer and worker cooperatives because no one had
ever done this before. I've been providing legal services to
cooperatives and nonprofits on a full-time basis for the last 35
years. I like the work I do--interesting and challenging and
always fulfilling as work that assists people in organizing for
their mutual benefit. And I like the people I work with--not
high-strung or demanding, always trying to do the right thing,
never asking me to do anything I'm uncomfortable with.
The Bridge: Whats the spe-
cial advantage or ad-
vantages of opting for
cooperatives as an or-
ganizational format
for getting things
done? By contrast, do you see disadvantages to cooperatives?
Are there situations in your judgment that would militate
against the cooperative form of organization?
L. Lushin: A cooperative structure has the principal advantage
of being designed to accommodate ownership and control by
the people who use the services of the organization and of hav-
ing a long history of doing just that. It has some important
legal and tax advantages, but no one chooses a cooperative
structure for these reasons, because the organizers must give
up any pretense of owning the organization and exercising any
control over it. And no one would choose a cooperative struc-
ture as an efficient way to get things done because economic
democracy is time-consuming and somewhat inefficient, cer-
tainly as compared to a single-owner structure.
The Bridge: A quick Internet search suggests that there are
a very small number of newspapers that are newspaper coop-
eratives. Newspapers are organized in various ways. Some
papers, particularly small-town papers, are owned by a single
individual. Other papers are family-run, like the New York
Times, but organized as a corporation. Very few are organized
as cooperatives! Why do you think this is the case? If a
newspaper cooperative makes sense then why are there so few
of them up and running and showing us that they can work?
L. Lushin: Cooperatives are not a widespread phenomena in
any sector of business because, as matter of substance, they
are inconsistent with private ownership and control and, as
a practical matter, neither business owners nor their advis-
ers tend to be sufficiently familiar with cooperatives to even
consider this as an organizational vehicle. A newspaper co-
operative, however, has a lot of potential for mitigating and
dealing with the systemic pressures on print media of recent
years. A cooperative seems particularly appropriate for an or-
ganization like The Bridge, that is small, focused on the local,
without even pretenses of profit-making, and having a history
of community support. A cooperative structure also has the
advantages of opening new possibilities for increasing revenue
and raising needed capital funds. The absence of many proto-
types suggests that The Bridge could actually serve as a model
for addressing the crisis affecting print media. Without doubt
it's a fine alternative to the recent pattern of newspapers going
out of business.
The Bridge: I was recently advised by a friend not from a
newspaper cooperative because this person felt that the news-
paper would be nibbled to death by interfering newspaper
cooperative owners. Do you think that a cooperative board
could stand back and let an editor and management team
call things in the air and respond to events as events come
at a newspaper? Or would the paper be hobbled by constant
second-guessing and bickering? Even a small community
newspaper has to figure out whats happening, tell its readers
whats happening, follow a story and keep following it and be
nimble on its feet. Could a newspaper cooperative provide
the overall stewardship but then get out of the way and let an
editorial team do its necessary reporting, writing and editing?
L. Lushin: In this regard a newspaper cooperative is no dif-
ferent from any other business operated by a cooperative. The
manager (here the editor) is responsible for day-to-day opera-
tions, the board is responsible for policy-making and oversight,
and owners are responsible for electing directors and making
certain important organizational decisions. The board and
owners should not be interfering in operations unless there's
clearly a problem that is collectively perceived as needing to be
addressed. And decision-making authority resides collectively
in the board and the ownership group. No director or owner,
or even small group of directors or owners, has any individual
authority. Sometimes one or more individuals need to be
reminded of their proper function, but this is not a common
problem in cooperatives.
Q&A with Laddie Lushin
T
he first gathering of the Christian
Meditation Group at Christ Episcopal
Church on State Street in Montpelier
was on July 10, 1989. Twenty-five years later,
we are still meeting Mondays from 12 noon
until 1 p.m. Many individuals from various
faith visions have graced our gatherings, medi-
tating in silence.
The rediscovery of imageless meditation in
the Christian tradition was the work of Bene-
dictine Monk John Main OSB, whose teach-
ing we follow. We are part of the worldwide
Christian Meditation Group which began in
Montreal (Quebec) in the 1970s. That group
has inspired a worldwide movement that gives
witness to the spirit of love which surrounds
us in recognizing the oneness of the other who
invites us to know.
The format of the group is to gather, listen to a
short reflection, then meditate for 30 minutes
using a mantra, followed by a question and
answer personal reflection.
As one of the members of the group wrote
recently, My Higher Power is Love. Since
I joined the meditation group, it seems my
conscious contacts with my Higher Power
have improved exponentially. Consequently,
my ability to love unconditionally has grown;
though it is only recently that I have felt I
was able to tap into sharing the Love of God
as part of that expression. This enables me
to love unselfishly and not lose my own ca-
pability. I know, this sounds delusional; but
nonetheless I feel it is true. I guess time will
tell. The gift I received is the Present Moment.
Even the minute dies. The best way I have
learned to live it is to keep opening my heart
to Love myself and others. The meditation
group is helping me to do just that!
Meditation
Tradition
Continues at
Christ Church
by Rev. Regis Cummings
Calling Out for Comments:
Should The Bridge Become a News Co-op?
By C.B. Hall
Should The Bridge become a co-op?
Tell us what you think!
Take the poll at www.montpelierbridge.com/co-op.
Should The Bridge become a co-op?
Tell us what you think!
Take the poll at www.montpelierbridge.com/co-op.
Photo courtesy of The Bridge
C
ity Council recently heard a Duane
Wells proposal to enlarge his existing
12-space parking lot. Mr. Wells would
excavate into the tall embankment behind the
Pitkin Building (just left of the police station),
as well as toward East State Street, to create
a large, flat lot that would accommodate 87
cars. The new lot would be bordered on three
sides by embankment-retaining walls similar
to the walls now in place, but up to twice as
high in sections.
Mr. Wells wants to lease one acre of city prop-
erty next to his acre of land behind the Pitkin
Building. His completed lot would occupy
about two acres, extending across his prop-
erty, city-owned/leased property and a sliver of
Blanchard Park (which sits atop the tall knoll
behind the police station). Construction and
land lease costs would be covered by Mr. Wells
leasing parking spaces to the city and others.
Extending Mr. Wells concept, I presented an
alternative that represents a better and higher
use of this site. On the same footprint I suggest
a six-story building with the lower three levels
as a parking garage (approximately 70 cars per
level) and the upper three floors as residential
condo/apartments (3040 units total, depend-
ing on mix and configuration). All six levels
would be served by an elevator; all upper-floor
residences would have on-site, covered parking
within the garage below.
Ground-floor parking would be accessed from
the existing parking lot, the second level by
an East State Street entrance and the third
level via Downing Street, off of Barre Street.
Three separate entrances yield more parking
(no level-to-level ramps within the structure);
traffic is spread to three different streets, mini-
mizing congestion. Third-level parking would
be residents only, so that Downing Street ex-
periences residential traffic only.
City Council displayed little enthusiasm for
Mr. Wells parking lot cut into the hillside,
but supported my vision, as it addresses many
long-standing Montpelier challenges, includ-
ing parking and housing.
Parking: The ground-level parking garage
would absorb many all-day vehicles (city em-
ployees; personal vehicles of fire, police and
other downtown workers). This frees up exist-
ing two-hour spaces for shoppers and other
short-term downtown visitors.
Second-level parking provides more of the
same, plus all-day parking on a monthly basis
to other downtown businesses that need park-
ing. Vacant upper floors of downtown build-
ings (think Dickey Block) become attractive
for development if long-term parking is avail-
able for lease in the new garage.
Building residents parked on the third level
can easily walk everywhere downtown, with
no icy hills to navigate in the winter. Theyd
drive only when leaving downtown; driving
is minimized.
Housing: Montpelier has insufficient next-
step housing for those who want to downsize.
People aged 55+ occupy 50 percent of Mont-
peliers single-family homes. Many want to
move into market-rate condos or apartments
but no such downtown housing exists. My
proposal meets this need. Empty nesters can
downsize, reduce costs, and walk everywhere
downtown (no driving!).
An interesting follow-on benefit: If empty
nesters move downtown, their single-family
homes become available for new, younger
families, families with children. More families
means more kids, which repopulates our un-
derutilized schools.
This proposal generates many positive re-
sults for Montpelier:
- thirty to forty new market-rate units sig-
nificantly increases our grand list. Grand list
growth (currently miniscule) reduces the tax
burden for all taxpayers.
- New downtown market-rate housing in-
creases the viability of all downtown busi-
nesses. Increased downtown density prevents
sprawl elsewhere (build up, not out).
- New housing increases utilization of our
water and wastewater facilities, which have
excess capacity. (We currently use only 25
percent of our water plants total capacity.)
Greater utilization reduces costs for all users.
- These apartments, easily connected to dis-
trict heat, reap all the benefits and savings as-
sociated with district heat. And again, greater
utilization reduces costs for all users.
- Blanchard Park, rarely visited, would be
improved. Imagine picnic tables, playground
equipment, a bocce court. Immediately acces-
sible to building residents, the park could be
made handicap accessible to all via the build-
ings elevator.
- Photovoltaic panels covering the roof would
offset the buildings electrical needs. Or the
roof could become an extension of Blanchard
Park with rooftop picnic tables and fantastic
views across the city. Or both!
Disadvantages: Wed see change in Mont-
pelier.
Will it fly? Thousands of downtown parking
garages work economically, nationwide, as
do countless apartments and condos. This can
work in Montpelier. And the city can encour-
age this projects success. Working with Mr.
Wells, the city can create and circulate a devel-
opers incentive package that includes:
- A conceptually pre-approved project, en-
dorsing three levels of parking, three floors
of market-rate housing and improvements to
Blanchard Park, with standard caveats regard-
ing design, traffic, permitting, etc.
- A long-term land-lease for the underlying
property. This provides long-term cash flow
to the city and Mr. Wells, and eliminates up-
front developer land acquisition costs.
- Additional incentives in the form of utility
connection cost abatement, tax incentives, etc.
This project should be built by a developer,
using their expertise and financing. With the
outline above, developers can assess the proj-
ects viability. The city would likely lease park-
ing within the garage, but the city should not
design, develop, finance, construct or own the
project. Theres the possibility of a public/
private partnership, consisting of a private resi-
dential structure atop a public parking garage.
This is an option to be explored as the project
evolves.
I ask for public support as this project ad-
dresses so many of Montpeliers needs: down-
town housing, next-step market-rate housing
for empty nesters, an increase to our grand
list, increased use of our underutilized, ex-
pensive utilities, lots of new parking, and vast
improvements to Blanchard Park, including
accessibility for all.
Proposed Project a Possible Solution
for Many City Needs by Thierry Guerlain
To the Editor:
I like the parklet in concept, but not in its
execution by the State Street (Rialto) Bridge.
I don't bemoan the loss of parking there so
much. If a public project attracts people to
a town like ours, people will walk a short
distance to available parking. I wish the city
could focus on and fund one well-planned
downtown parking project, which includes
convenient resident winter parking, before
moving on to other things.
Don Grabowski, Montpelier
To the Editor:
You asked for comment on the pilot "parklet"
project on the Rialto Bridge in downtown
Montpelier. I hesitate to criticize anything like
this created by our community's kids. Youth
participation needs to be encouraged and ap-
preciated. However, this structure is in the
wrong place. Not only does it take up valu-
able parking, but it looks downright tacky in
the historic downtown setting. The colors, the
signage and the structure itself do not in any
way blend in with the downtown architecture
or ambience. I recently returned to town after
an extended time away. I love Montpelier and
have worked and/or lived here since the early
1970s. But when I came home this time, the
city struck me as run down and in great need
of a face repair. In my view, the parklet is out
of context and looks hideous where it stands.
Once again I ask, why does our city coun-
cil keep supporting "cutesy" projects and not
focus our community's funds and energy on
our degrading infrastructure?
Dot Helling, Montpelier
To the Editor:
Sustainable. Really?
One way or another, our understanding of sus-
tainability bears on all our choices, large and
small. An accurate definition of the term can
help inform those choices, and thus directly
impact the long-term health of our families,
our communities and our planet. So what is
true sustainability?
Populations in a given politically or geograph-
ically defined region become truly sustain-
able
- when living within the limits of that region's
renewable resources, both in inputs (energy
and materials) and outputs (food, goods, etc.,
and the region's capacity to regenerate when
damaged or depleted).
- when such populations purchase or trade
only with environmentally responsible sources
for those necessities unavailable locally.
- when population density and manner of
living support the health and well-being of all
species and habitats in a given region, for the
present generation, and all those to come.
May we learn to live within our means as wise
stewards to a world that gives us everything.
Neville Berle, Montpelier
To the Editor:
More parklets?
I'm a bit bewildered at the logic behind this
endeavor. Who, exactly, does the city council
have in mind to generate all this extra foot
traffic? Are we assuming that the pedestrians
will be created from residents of Montpelier
who already walk into town to avoid having
to pay for the meters? Commuters from sur-
rounding towns who come into our city to
work and play must necessarily park in town;
they can't be expected to walk from home.
The minimal public transport options via bus
service certainly won't support this concept.
Are more "parklets" resulting in even fewer
parking spots really in the best interest of the
residents/taxpayers of Montpelier?
Maybe we can just cover up all the potholes
with parklets.
Concerned Resident
To the Editor:
On the 15th of May, my wife Claire and I had
the privilege to visit your wonderful town.
We enjoyed the shops, had a nice lunch at
the student cooking school and enjoyed the
sights.
Returning to our car we found a ticket on
our window, put there by one of your law-
enforcers. What did we do wrong? Didn't we
put enough money in the parking meter? No,
it was still green. Reading the ticket, it ap-
peared we had parked the car backwards, and
for some reason that is not allowed?
During our holidays in the States we do
our utmost to adapt to American culture
and American law. As tourists from a far
away country, we don't want any problems.
Your law-enforcer did see that we put enough
money in the meter. He could also have seen
that we drove a rental car and conclude there
were tourists involved.
If this is the way the town of Montpelier
wants to fill up the towns bank account, then
we think its the wrong way. This letter is not
about money (In Amsterdam, we pay 15 dol-
lars for one hour of parking). This is about
how to treat tourists.
What if you were in my country and the same
thing happened to you? You would be disap-
pointed and not feeling welcome.
I hope you can do something about it and
prevent future letters from other tourists.
Rob and Claire Brouwer, The Netherlands
To the Editor:
I believe the "parklet" between Capitol
Grounds and the North Branch Cafe is ill-
placed. It's too big, not an attractive color,
provides no shade for those sitting in this
structure and takes up two parking spaces.
Why not a few tables with umbrellas, located
on an inner side of the sidewalk instead of
right on the curb? It really looks cumbersome
and inappropriate, and likely costs more than
the city should spend. And how is this sup-
posed to increase foot traffic?
Larry Sherwin
To the Editor:
In response to the letter in the June 5 issue of
The Bridge by Nate Smead concerning access
to the Berlin Pond for paddlers (and I assume
those who fish), he remarks that no one could
give him an actual example based on science
that paddling the pond would introduce a
contaminating substance. (Mr. Smeads let-
ter stating that he feels it is a right to have
access to the pond may have also appeared in
other local newspaper publications as well.)
I don't think that is really the issue. The issue
is that a pond which had been a haven of
unspoiled use by species other than humans
is forever changed. Humans are such an ar-
rogant species in thinking that if it's there,
and we can get to it, we should, and even feel
we have the right to stick our big feet in
whatever it is. Untouched by humans? Hey,
let's just get in there and show the world
that we can! A sort of reinventing of the
19th centurys Manifest Destinyit is our
duty to access this pond! (Some might call it
imperialism.)
So, here is this wonderful pond that is very
active with birds, fish and other wildlife, yet
we just cannot allow it to remain as such. We
need to get those canoes, kayaks or any other
craft in there, no matter how benign, and
have our way with this pond! We do this over
and over with wild places. Yes, you may be
a responsible outdoor enthusiast, picking up
your trash (and maybe even other people's)
when you hike or paddle or bicycle, but there
are always those who take advantage of the
situation. People sneaking in a small motor
boat, people over-fishing the pond, people
wanting to get really close to wildlife who
end up disrupting a nest or creating a threat
to that animal. Contaminating substance?
WE are the contaminating substance on the
Berlin Pond. Not the geese, or ducks, or bea-
ver, or deer.
Kay Schlueter, Northfield Falls
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Ott will exhibit her colored drawings in
a show that she calls Spirit Images at the
Kellogg-Hubbard Library in Montpelier from
Thursday, July 3 through Wednesday, July 30
with an opening reception at the library on
Wednesday, July 9 from 4 to 7 p.m.
Ott moved to central Vermont from Penn-
sylvania in 1969 to teach at Goddard Col-
lege in Plainfield. She has a vivid memory of
that teaching experience and of her pleasure
in working at Goddard when the remarkable
founder of Goddard College, Tim Pitkin, was
president.
Because of the colleges educational vision, she
was able to teach with a freedom that was
not confined by traditional academic subject
boundaries. In a January 2013 story in The
Bridge, writer Max Shenk quoted Eleanor Ott
as she described a class that she taught at God-
dard College during the Tim Pitkin era.
Said Ott, One of the classes I taught was
called Everything You Always Wanted to
Know about a Stone Wall but Were Afraid to
Ask. Ott went on to describe the intriguing
range of questions, investigations and subjects
that a stone wall inspiredincluding the his-
tory of the wall itself, the history of the prop-
erty on which the stone wall was built, the
stones themselves, and the plant life and crea-
tures that live on or along the wall. Eleanor
Otts students even conducted research on the
earliest deeds of the property. And, said Ott
as part of the Max Shenk story, One of the
corners of the property was in the middle of
North Montpelier Pond! That was fun!
Otts upcoming exhibit of Spirit Images
arose from a mysterious compulsion to cre-
ate art after a sudden injury to one of her
eyes when she was out in her garden packing
mulch. As she said in her artist statement,
Suddenly, without warning, a thorn scraped
my eye. For three weeks afterwards she wore
a patch over her injured eye. And it was dur-
ing this time that she felt the urge to create
drawingsdrawings that came into her line
of vision, not from her outer eye, but from
her inner eye. Over 19 or so months, Ott pro-
duce some 150 images. Many of these images
she colored. Other images were simply black
ink on white paper. As she said in her artist
statement, The vast majority of my drawings
contain eyes and faces, none distinctly human;
in effect, two dimensional masks, some deco-
rated, some plain, all having arrived from an
unknown place.
About a year ago Ott rediscovered her draw-
ings. She was entertaining friends. They were
discussing one thing or another, and the
talk turned to her drawings which had been
packed away at the very bottom of a blanket
chest so that the drawings could lie flat. The
drawings were taken out of the chest and
rediscovered, really revalued. Eventually that
led to the upcoming July 3 through July 30
exhibit at Kellogg-Hubbard Library. Ott will
be displaying 25 to 30 colored drawings at the
library exhibit.

Eleanor Ott
Exhibits
Spirit Images
at Kellogg-
Hubbard
by Nat Frothingham

The Bridge, June 26, 2014

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