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I found the cartoon by Tim Newcomb in your August 28 issue appalling and deeply offensive. It depicts a priest praying with a young child with the caption, “Please let him mean pray with an ‘a’ and not an ‘e.’” As a Catholic, I have painfully watched the damage that this priest scandal has caused to so many victims of evil, pedophile priests. I have also seen the leadership that Bishop Christopher Coyne has shown in bringing about transparency to expose these priests. Bishop Coyne has gone above and beyond to reach out to the victims, apologize for the hurt, and bring about justice and healing for them. Positive change has begun so that we may move forward to ensure that this never happens again. This cartoon, however, pushes us backward again. It suggests that all priests are pedophiles and we should be suspicious of them, which I believe is just pure ignorance and hatefulness. That cartoon was, to say the least, in very poor taste and a direct insult to the many good and honorable priests that we have been so blessed to have here in the diocese of Burlington. Moving forward, I hope we can be sure to condemn only the guilty and not the innocent. Laura McHugh
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[Re Last 7: “Donovan vs. George,” September 18]: Aita Gurung is accused of hacking his wife to death and attacking his mother-in-law with a meat cleaver. As violence against women goes, you can’t get much more egregious than that. As violence against journalistic sensibility goes, you can’t get much more egregious than illustrating an update to this story with a photo montage of Attorney General T.J. Donovan raising his fist toward the face of Chittenden County State’s Attorney Sarah George. Dave Gram
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In response to Mr. Prindiville’s “Porn Problem” letter [Feedback, September 11] blaming porn for creating oversexed individuals who rape, traffic women and girls, molest children, and engage in sexual harassment: Sexual violence and harassment is about exercising power and control over another person. It is not the result of an overstimulated sex drive. Rape is not sex; it is an act of violence. Sharon Snow
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[Re “Future Reference,” September 18]: I work at the Fletcher Free Library. I have worked in libraries the last 35 years. Over that time, the issues regarding patrons without homes have not gone away. The issues don’t exist because those patrons decide to abuse the welcoming atmosphere of the library. No, they exist because much of the rest of society, especially those in government, have decided to defund programs designed to help those without homes in favor of tax breaks for the wealthy, bailouts for the banks, and never-ending handouts for wars and the criminalization of immigrants. Meanwhile, the ongoing trend of using housing as an investment instead of as places for people to live their lives in has diminished the number of truly affordable units. Politicians locally and nationally won’t institute rent control because they serve the real estate industry and are often landlords themselves.
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[Re Off Message: “GMT Driver Who Ordered Students Off Bus Is Reinstated,” September 17]: I believe that the parents should make clear what kind of behavior is acceptable on the bus. Kids should know that the driver is “the captain of the ship.” He or she is in charge of safe driving and should not be distracted by unruliness. Teachers can reinforce good behavior expectations, but parents must be the prime molders of character. Jean Rook
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[Re Off Message: “As Hundreds Protect ICE, Border Patrol Runs a Checkpoint,” July 28]: The Trump administration
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Smashing Pumpkins Inventive competitors put their engineering skills to the test in the Vermont Pumpkin Chuckin’ Festival. Using DIY gravity-powered catapults known as trebuchets, participants send squash flying, vying for greatest distance. Last year’s winner sent a pumpkin sailing 780 feet. Music, kids’ activities and a chili cook-off round out this 11th annual event at Stoweflake Mountain Resort & Spa. SEE CALENDAR LISTING ON PAGE 58
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MOVING STORIES In 2018, Sankofa Danzafro founder Rafael Palacios spoke with Fjord Review about a hard-hitting work by the Colombian dance company. “The City of Others is based on my own experiences and the dancers’ experiences with regard to racism in Colombia and the struggles to resist and therefore debilitate it.” Elements of hip-hop, capoeira and African styles thread through the piece performed at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H. SEE CALENDAR LISTING ON PAGE 52
With leashed pets tagging along, humans stroll through downtown Burlington to show their support for all living species. For the ninth year, the Green Mountain Animal Defenders host the Walk for All Animals to promote compassion toward Earth’s critters, be they wildlife, livestock or companion animals. Costumes are encouraged for this family-friendly assembly. SEE CALENDAR LISTING ON PAGE 55
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On the Run After losing seven friends to opioid addiction in three years, West Bolton ultra-runner Phil LaCroix set out to run the entire Long Trail to raise money for and awareness of Vermont’s opioid crisis. The short documentary No Easy Mile follows LaCroix as he attempts to cover 274 miles in no more than 10 days. The debut screening at Burlington’s ArtsRiot benefits sober housing and treatment centers. SEE SOUNDBITES ON PAGE 67
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Up in Smoke Many are familiar with the gustatory wonders of smoked meats and cheeses, but what about smoked beers? Suds lovers sip from a variety of smoked beverages during Switchback Brewing’s Flynn on Fire Festival. The second annual celebration of all things smoked and fired also features themed art, live music and entertainment by fire performance troupe Cirque de Fuego at the Burlington brewery.
Haven’t quite gotten festivals out of your system this year? Upper Valley collective What Doth Life offers music fans an early-autumn party complete with games, vendors, raffles and, of course, live music. Moxley Union, Faux in Love and Maiden Voyage are among the acts to play the What Doth Life DIY Music Festival, held at the Windsor Farmers’ Exchange. SEE STORY ON PAGE 66
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Putting the Pieces Together “I want to trigger a viewer’s memory, for I believe that vision is shaped by thousands of remembered moments,” writes Hannah Morris in her artist statement. To that end, the Barre artist arranges and riffs on found images, creating collages composed of magazine photos and paper debris. Pamela Polston reviews “Waiting to Happen,” Morris’ solo exhibition at Northern Daughters gallery in Vergennes. SEE REVIEW ON PAGE 74
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Paul Bruhn, the preservationist who spent four decades working to maintain Vermont’s cities, towns and villages, died last Thursday. The first and only executive director of the Preservation Trust of Vermont, Bruhn, 72, had battled poor health in recent years. “It was his heart that finally couldn’t keep up with him,” his obituary reads. “I can’t think of anybody who’s been more important to the fabric of life in Vermont over the last 40 years than Paul,” said Candace Page, a journalist and a consulting editor at Seven Days who attended Burlington High School with Bruhn in the 1960s. The two remained close friends until Bruhn’s death.
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ACCUSED EDMUNDITES Laurence A. Boucher John A. Lanoue Edward A. Leary Charles G. Many* (living) Paul A. Pinard* Paul I. Plouffe John A. Stankiewicz* Edward J. Stapleton Aime J. Trahan Nelson B. Ziter*
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Edmund, as the order is formally known, published its findings in early August. The list is available to those who navigate the society’s website to a page labeled “Safe Environments.” It had been viewed about 100 times when a Seven Days reporter discovered it on September 16, according to a counter on the site. St. Michael’s did not publicize the list through its channels. Nor did the Burlington diocese mention it upon release of its highly anticipated report on August 22. Cray said the Vermont Attorney General’s Office, which is investigating abuse claims involving the Burlington diocese, asked Cray how to access the list Tuesday shortly after Sev en Days requested comment from the state. The Attorney General’s Office declined to comment. SINS OF THE FATHERS
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With his well-reasoned, matter-offact manner and professorial, friendly countenance, Bruhn was beloved by those fighting to maintain Vermont’s small-town charm. He was respected and feared by the developers who sought to alter it. He crisscrossed the state helping communities maintain their historic features. He saved general stores, churches and grange halls “You cannot drive through Vermont without seeing and experiencing Paul’s handiwork,” said Neale Lunderville, Preservation Trust’s board president. “Paul believed that Vermont was this truly special place and a place that was worth protecting and saving for future generations.” Bruhn led fundraising efforts to buy land to stop a project planned at the Interstate 89 Exit 4 in Randolph. “It was on a very tight timeline, which was sort of a Paul trademark: ‘We have to raise $1 million, and we have 30 days,’ something completely outlandish,” Lunderville said with a laugh. “He did it!” In July, Bruhn attended the unveiling of a whale tails sculpture on the site that he’d helped preserve. “Most days, I have the best job in Vermont,” Bruhn told Seven Days at the event. “And today is a great example of why.” Contact: sasha@sevendaysvt.com SEE OBITUARY, P.20
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news Sins of the Fathers « P.12 Zach Hiner, executive director of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, or SNAP, said failing to actively disseminate names of the accused defeats a key purpose of such lists: helping victims heal. “To not do that is, I think, a cop-out,” he said. “The point is not to have the public accounting on your own website so you can say that you’ve done it.” St. Michael’s officials declined to make president Lorraine Sterritt or lay trustees available for an interview, but they provided a statement expressing full support for the “transparency and accountability expressed by the Society of Saint Edmund.” “The College has been in close conversation with the Edmundites as they have conducted their research of past cases,” the statement continued. “While this research has not uncovered cases of abuse that occurred on campus, nor any cases since the 1980s, the College recognizes the wounds of abuse are deep — no matter where or when they occurred.” In response to written questions, a St. Michael’s spokesperson said it was “appropriate” for the Edmundites, not the college, to publicize the list. The morning after the list was posted, college officials removed a plaque honoring Stankiewicz from the Athletic Hall of Fame, director of athletic communications Josh Kessler acknowledged. The Society of St. Edmund formed in France but left for Québec in the late 19th century. The group expanded southward to Vermont and founded St. Michael’s in 1904. Edmundites have served as college presidents, administrators, dorm supervisors and faculty members. About half of the order’s 22 remaining priests still reside at its garden-lined campus headquarters. Two members teach, and others run the campus ministry. Edmundites control nine of the seats on the college’s 25-member board of trustees. In interviews last week, Cray sought to distance the priests’ sins from the college. “This had nothing to do with St. Mike’s at all,” he said. Still, several of the named priests lived and taught on campus, and two resided there in retirement after being accused. And one allegation resulted in a lawsuit against St. Michael’s. The suit, filed in 1997 by an alleged victim and obtained by Seven Days late Tuesday, involved the late reverend John A. Lanoue, who taught history at St. Michael’s. During his career, he also assisted at a local church, according to Cray. The suit alleged that Lanoue abused a boy who was a parishioner at Holy Family Church in Essex Junction in 1955. 14
The suit further alleged that the abuse stopped only after the victim’s father confronted Lanoue in the presence of thencollege president, the late reverend Francis Moriarty. Lanoue admitted the abuse during the meeting, the lawsuit alleged. “Reverend Moriarity [sic] then assured Plaintiff’s father that the matter would be taken care of, but it never was,” the complaint alleged. Lanoue taught at St. Michael’s until 1975, according to his obituary. The Edmundites’ list states that the order only learned of allegations against Lanoue in 1996, after the priest’s death. Cray told Seven Days he didn’t know a victim claimed to have reported Lanoue’s abuse decades earlier. “By agreement of the parties named in the suit, the College can only comment that all disputes were resolved to the mutual satisfaction of the parties,” a St. Michael’s
In each case, he said, the order acted appropriately upon learning of potential abuse. Journalist Mike Donoghue, a member of the diocesan committee and former longtime adjunct professor at St. Michael’s, met with Cray as both reports were being compiled. Donoghue said he requested information about “one or more” Edmundite priests the diocesan committee was looking into, but he didn’t seek to examine all of the order’s personnel files. “We knew they were issuing their own report,” he said, declining to comment on Cray’s work or how it was disseminated. The diocesan committee never discussed whether to note the Edmundite list in its report, Donoghue said. Only one priest, Charles G. Many, appeared on both lists. Two of the priests the Edmundites named were prominent at St. Michael’s.
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spokesperson said. The college did not respond late Tuesday to a follow-up request about the specific allegations contained in the civil complaint. The Edmundites’ approach to naming priests contrasts with that of the diocese, which issued a press release and highlighted its findings and a victim hotline on its website. Bishop Christopher Coyne also fielded questions at a press conference. The seven-person lay committee that compiled its 40-priest list believed disseminating it would help more abuse victims “come out,” member John Mahoney, himself a victim, said. “Publication of names of the accused says to those quiet victims you are no longer alone — we recognize your pain,” committee members wrote. Cray, who knew some of the accused Edmundites personally, compiled the order’s list himself. Rather than limit the list to allegations deemed “credible,” as the diocesan committee did, Cray said he included any member who had been accused of abuse. “We prefer to err on the side of transparency,” he explained. He listed four of the allegations as “substantiated.” Unlike the diocese, Cray did not report where the accused lived, worked or preached, believing it to be less relevant — but he did include the year and state of the alleged abuse.
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From 1961 to 1967, Ziter was the director of spiritual affairs at the college, where he earned the nickname “Zippy” for his “restless energy,” according to his obituary. He also served at Nativity parish in Swanton and Immaculate Heart of Mary in Williston. Ziter was accused of abuse while serving at the Edmundite mission in Selma, Ala., in the 1970s. He had founded a Boys & Girls Club there that served underprivileged black children. U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell (D-Ala.) praised his work in 2017 on the floor of Congress, saying her father credited Ziter with changing the trajectory of his life. Ziter’s Alabama accuser sued the Edmundites in 1994, but the case was thrown out because the statute of limitations had passed. Last year, the Mobile diocese listed Ziter, who died in 2000, as credibly accused of abuse. Stankiewicz held numerous posts at St. Michael’s, including vice president of student affairs, dean of men and moderator of athletics, according to his obituary. He coached sports teams and, according to an alumni account on the college’s website, lived for a time in the dorms with students. The Edmundites paid for counseling for two victims who approached the order about Stankiewicz in 1992, three years after he retired. The priest lived on campus upon his retirement and was inducted to the college’s Athletic Hall of Fame in 1994.
Neither the Edmundites nor St. Michael’s could say whether the college knew of the allegations against Stankiewicz at the time. “In that case, the whole thing was done very quietly,” Cray said, in accordance with the victims’ wishes. Stankiewicz died in 2000. The Edmundites typically kept their accused brethren within the fold. Members of the tight-knit order hold all possessions in common, and leaders believe in removing abusive priests from direct ministry, then treating and supervising them. “We’re not going to risk this compulsive behavior taking place again, but we understand that you probably couldn’t help it,” Cray said. The late Paul A. Pinard, a former St. Michael’s board member from 1984 to ’88, was accused of molesting children in the ’80s. He was removed from ministry but continued to live and work with the order after being accused in 1991. The Diocese of Norwich, Conn., expelled Pinard from the Edmundite-staffed retreat at nearby Enders Island after learning of the allegations in 2005. The Edmundites were displeased, according to reports from the time. Pinard returned to live at the Edmundites’ residence at St. Michael’s in 2016, a year before his death. In the case of Many, the Edmundites’ most notorious abuser, the disgraced priest decided to renounce his vows in 1994, the same year an alleged victim, John Waddington of Connecticut, began searching for other victims by placing advertisements in newspapers across the Northeast. Many, who lives in Williston, has not responded to recent messages from Seven Days but has previously denied all allegations. Last year, the Edmundites paid $475,000 of a $900,000 settlement with another Connecticut victim of Many’s, according to the Colchester Sun. Cray told Seven Days the order’s insurer covered the cost. The victim’s attorney, Kelly Reardon, said she’d found evidence that the Edmundites were likely aware of “warning signs” before Many groomed and molested her client from 1978 to 1981. Waddington initially won an $850,000 federal judgment against the Edmundites in 2001, but a federal judge ordered a new trial over a legal error. He never got any money and remained bitter, according to reporting by the Day, a New London, Conn., newspaper. In 2007, the Day reported, Waddington drove to Colchester to confront the Edmundites at St. Michael’s. Police arrested him for trespass when he reached the college’s property. After the incident, Cray recalled, the order installed locks on the front doors. m Contact: derek@sevendaysvt.com
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For more than a decade, Chief Master Sgt. Dwight Rolston has been helping prepare the Vermont Air National Guard base and its members for the arrival of the F-35 Lightning II fighter jet. Last Thursday afternoon, he was the first to confirm that the long wait was over. “There they are!” Rolston called out across the bright tarmac crowded with media and guard officials. He pointed south across the runway to a spot on the horizon between Camel’s Hump and the control tower at Burlington International Airport. First just two specks, the shapes grew steadily larger and more distinct as the angular profile of the most sophisticated, expensive and — for Vermont — controversial weapons system in the nation’s military arsenal came into view. Cheers and whistles erupted from the crowd, but the piercing roar of the powerful fighters soon drowned them out. Lt. Col. Tony Marek and Lt. Col. Nathan Graber,
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the pilots, flew directly overhead and then banked right. After several low passes and sharp turns to demonstrate the agility of the $85 million aircraft, each headed over Winooski, turned left and landed at a base that welcomed them with relief and pride. “What a proud and exciting moment this is for all of us,” Col. David Smith said after the planes taxied in and grounds crews covered components considered secret. “I just want to make sure it sinks in and remind everyone of something: You are all the first F-35 wing in the Air National Guard. The very first.” The day began with the pilots picking up the aircraft at the Lockheed Martin
manufacturing plant in Fort Worth, Texas. They took off around 10:30 a.m. and had an uneventful three-hour trip to Vermont, Marek explained. The planes had only been flown a few times, so Marek said his “still had that new car smell.” The pair headed north, toward Indiana, at about 500 miles per hour, refueled in midair and touched down in Vermont around 1:36 p.m., Marek said. Another 18 F-35s will arrive at Burlington International Airport over the next 10 months. It’s not clear when they’ll take off again. For the first few weeks, anyway, the focus will be more on familiarizing the maintenance crews with the planes than flight training, Marek said.
When they do begin regular flights, Smith pledged during an earlier interview, the use of afterburners will be limited to approximately 5 percent of takeoffs. Critics have seized on higher afterburner usage at other bases as evidence that Burlington, which has a shorter runway than many other bases, would likely see higher afterburner usage here than the U.S. Air Force and the guard have predicted and studied. But Smith explained that while the F-35 is heavier, it also has a far more powerful engine, which has no problem taking off in regular power, known as military power. The lighter F-16, when fully loaded, needed more than half of the 8,319-foot runway when taking off in military power, so safety regulations required the planes to use afterburners, he said. In warm weather, the F-35 can take off in just 3,310 feet, Smith said. Last Thursday’s pomp and circumstance wasn’t focused on all that. Allison Crowley, a lobbyist from Burlington whose father served in the Air National Guard and whose teenage son is training to be a Marine aviator, said it was an honor to witness the plane’s arrival and for the base to have been the first selected for such a mission. “I think this is a proud day for the state of Vermont,” she said. m Contact: kevin@sevendaysvt.com
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ANEW Place, a transitional housing organization based on North Street, will run Burlington’s only low-barrier shelter this winter. The 37-bed facility on the corner of King Street and South Winooski Avenue is open from November 1 to April 15 each year and is available to anyone. Other Queen City shelters allow only sober people to drop in, except in emergencies. The nonprofit is taking over from the Community Health Centers of Burlington, which ran the shelter for the last three years. ANEW Place’s board of directors approved the decision earlier this month. Executive director Kevin Pounds said his organization focuses on helping the homeless find permanent housing but also recognizes that a warming shelter is “a means to an end.” “We do feel compelled to do something and not just sit by,” he said, adding, “If there isn’t a low-barrier shelter in town, it’s very difficult for somebody to survive on the streets here through the winter.” CHCB staff approached ANEW Place in August about taking the reins, Pounds said. CHCB runs a homeless health care program that serves 1,500 people every year, but it couldn’t manage the shelter without compromising its core health care services, according to Kim Anderson, CHCB’s director of communications. Complicating matters, the state denied CHCB’s request for additional funding for another shelter staffer, and its shelter coordinator recently left the state, Anderson said. The effort is primarily paid for with a $300,000 state grant. This spring, the City of Burlington pitched in $60,000 to keep the shelter open until June. More than 200 homeless people used the shelter each season, according to Anderson, but she admitted to “a certain amount of burnout” that comes from operating it. “These are really complex folks that need a lot of help, and our community certainly can help,” she said. “It’s just not one organization’s [burden] to shoulder.” Pounds said not much will change once ANEW Place assumes leadership. His goal is to create a “safe, supportive environment” for the people who need services. m Contact: courtney@sevendaysvt.com
One Campus, As Is « P.13 can take more than a year, for example. And while the handsome brick buildings and green lawns photograph well in admissions catalogs, the sheer size of the campus, 155 acres, is daunting to prospective buyers. “It would almost be better if it were smaller,” Bailey said. He has also been working closely with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which could end up as the de facto owner of the college. It loaned Green Mountain College almost $20 million in 2018 under its USDA Rural Development Community Facilities Programs, with the entire campus as collateral. The college also owes about $1.5 million on a private bank loan. Both creditors “want to get their money back,” Bailey said. State officials have offered advice on redevelopment, he added, as have town officials and residents. “We are acutely aware of the impact” of the closing on the town, Bailey said. “Poultney is Green Mountain; Green Mountain College is Poultney.” The closure of the college dealt Poultney a major blow. Even before it closed, empty storefronts dotted Main Street, and now locals fear there will be more. “For sale” signs have sprouted in front yards, and some former college employees have already moved away. Desna Jenkins, a teacher at Poultney High School, previewed auction items last Thursday after school. “It just feels really sad here. I just almost want to cry,” she said. The grounds were eerily quiet, with no students going in and out of the
dorms or chatting on the benches scattered around the campus. It isn’t just the undergraduates she misses. Students at the high school attended many events and often used the facilities at the college, and now the resource is gone, Jenkins said. Parents who moved as a result of the college’s closure took their kids out of the local schools, forcing friends to say goodbye. “It’s a great loss all around,” Jenkins said. She ventured that perhaps the campus could be turned into a magnet school or get picked up by nearby Castleton University. “I hope it doesn’t just sit empty, because that’s going to cause decay,” she said. Others share those sentiments. “It’s very devastating to see it close,” said Poultney resident Cassie Kerber, as she walked with her husband, the Rev. Derik Kerber, pastor of the local Revive Church, and their three young children on Main Street last Thursday evening. Though the student population had dwindled to about 430 kids by the time the college closed, Derik said September is not the same without them. “It was nice to see fresh faces every fall,” said Derik, adding that the students seemed to “fill up Main Street.” It was sad to see friends lose their jobs and some move away, the couple added. But they love the sense of community in Poultney, its small-town friendliness and the fact that it has affordable housing. Several of the many listings in the window of a real estate agent’s office on Main Street showed attractive historic homes under $150,000. “I’m optimistic about the future and what a potential buyer could bring to Poultney … It’s just a matter of who,” Derik said.
Annie Gorin is also optimistic about Poultney. She moved to town from Connecticut in 1999 to attend Green Mountain College and stayed after graduation. Along with working as a designer at light maker Hubbardton Forge in Castleton, she recently joined three partners to open a restaurant called Taco Experiment on Poultney’s Main Street. Last Thursday night, a dozen people ate taco bowls, sipped beer and chatted in the brightly painted space. The partners didn’t hesitate to open after they learned Green Mountain College was closing, and since July they’ve sold more than 10,000 tacos, Gorin said. The restaurant has attracted students from Castleton University eight miles away, as well as locals and tourists. It’s going well, Gorin said, and she believes something will spring up at the college. “I just want to see some life back in it, the lights on,” she said. Town, state and regional leaders held a series of public meetings this spring in the wake of the announcement that the college was closing. Russ Hoffman, who moved to Poultney from Colorado a year ago, was impressed to see several hundred people turn out at
one of the meetings. Granted, many were saddened and nervous. “It’s been one of the pillars,” Hoffman said about the college. “It hasn’t been the solitary source, but it’s been one of the pillars of the community for, you know, generations.” But people aren’t just grieving; they are trying to spark new life into the economy, Hoffman said. He serves on the town planning commission and has been actively involved in Poultney Comes Together, a revitalization effort hatched to respond to the closing. In August, the boosters issued a report recommending specific strategies to help the town improve broadband access, create coworking spaces, bring a bank back to Main Street, expand recreational trails and recruit small businesses. “I personally feel like we’re in a transition, not a decline,” Hoffman said. Still, a sad sense of finality permeated the auction as the college’s possessions were sold, one after the other. Ethan Merrill and his father, Duane, of Williston-based Duane Merrill & Company, took turns as auctioneers, speaking in rapid-fire to sell 475 lots — including a 10-volume set of The Writings
of Benjamin Franklin, a 30-piece set of Syracuse china, several pianos, a Jens Risom executive desk and an anatomical skeleton model wearing a Green Mountain College cap. Buyers from as far as Los Angeles phoned in bids, and a few items went for relatively large sums. A 1958 surrealist painting by Enrico Donati fetched $7,500. There were deals, too. A Han dynasty clay vessel was scooped up for a mere $300. The changing whims of taste also were on display. A pair of gold midcentury-modern swan chairs that might have seemed dated to the undergraduates who used them in the college library were purchased by an internet buyer for $1,600. When a Stickley waste basket came up for bidding, the alums joked about making an offer but then decided against making a trash can a souvenir of their college days. They’d eaten hundreds of meals in the dining hall where the auction was held, and now a place that had played a formative role in their young lives was being dismantled, perhaps because the broad ,·� .'•• education it offered no longer seemed practical, suggested Stone, who said he
spent 10 years teaching in Texas and is now on an extended road trip with an uncertain final destination. Even when he was attending Green Mountain College, the education options it offered seemed somewhat impractical, he said, and by today’s standards it seemed even more out of step with the marketplace. “The idea of coming to a liberal arts school and majoring in thinking doesn’t really play anymore,” Stone said. Usinowicz, the 2007 grad from Woodbury, was happy to win an 1807 political treatise for $250 — with help from Stone, who handed over half the cash and planned to share the old document with him. It was a small victory for Usinowicz, an agriculture consultant who said he’d been through stages of grieving over the closure and continues to feel alumni were not tapped enough to help try to save the school. But the time for “what ifs” and “maybes” was done, he concluded, as the auctioneer’s voice rattled in the background. “At this point,” he said, “it is what it is.” m Contact: molly@sevendaysvt.com
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asha was a little shy. The 6-monthold border collie mix stood as far back as her red leash would allow, her ears slightly folded back. Her eyes darted between two people crouched nearby, on alert each time they patted her soft black head. Sasha had just arrived at A Canine Gem animal rescue organization in Winooski from Puerto Rico, where she’d been found living on the streets. The pooch had been in Vermont just a week when Craig and Alexis Roberts, a couple from West Chazy, N.Y., saw her on Petfinder, an online adoption site. It would be another hour — after two walks and lots of treats — before the pup warmed up to her new owners. While A Canine Gem wins praise for finding homes for more than 300 dogs like Sasha every year, it is also one of several Vermont animal shelters accused in the past of inadequately caring for rescued pets. Vermont provides almost no oversight of animal shelters and rescue groups. There’s not even an official tally of how many such organizations operate in the state. So this fall, an advisory board plans to present state lawmakers with a set of oversight measures that members say will protect pets — and their adopters. Today, animal shelters and rescue organizations don’t have to register with the state. Unlike restaurants and daycare centers, they aren’t subject to regular inspections. Short of citing an owner for animal cruelty, there aren’t many remedies to address problems with poorly run shelters. Animal advocates in Vermont worry that the state’s lax laws open the doggy door for trouble.
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“Whenever you allow something to go unseen and exist in the dark, you’re very likely to have … some very big problems,” said Barry Londeree, Vermont director for the Humane Society of the United States. “It makes sense to have eyes on those types of operations preventatively, rather than waiting for something bad to happen.” The 10 members of the Animal Cruelty Investigation Advisory Board would agree. Formed in 2016, the panel is tasked with identifying ways to improve enforcement of laws against animal cruelty and neglect. At the state police barracks in Williston last week, the board — including two veterinarians, two humane society representatives, a state trooper, a game warden, a deputy state’s attorney, a dog breeder and others — brainstormed what new laws
would be most palatable to lawmakers when they reconvene in January. The first idea: Add animal rescue operators to the list of 50-plus professions that are licensed by the Vermont Secretary of State’s Office of Professional Regulation. And the second: Clearly define who can investigate allegations of animal abuse. “Most people would be surprised that there really is no state support for shelters, rescues, anyone,” said Londeree, who will lobby for the board’s proposals in Montpelier. “It’s going to take some effort to convince the legislature that the state needs to take some responsibility for this.” The advisory board sees the Office of Professional Regulation as a natural fit, since it already licenses workers ranging from auctioneers to acupuncturists. The office
can investigate complaints and penalize licensees for unprofessional conduct. Jessica Danyow, the advisory board’s chair and the executive director of Addison County’s Homeward Bound humane society, thinks rescue organizations and shelters like hers should be subject to at least that much scrutiny. Many animal welfare organizations are nonprofits, which lends them some credibility, but Danyow says that “just relying on a tax classification has no bearing on how the animals in that rescue are cared for.” Until 2016, the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets maintained a registry of all rescue organizations. But the agency found its inspection protocol “didn’t really accomplish very much” since staff didn’t have enforcement authority, said state veterinarian Kristin Haas, a member of the advisory board. The legislature nixed the registry and never made another agency the list-keeper, leaving a Great Dane-size hole in the state’s animal welfare laws. Rep. Barbara Rachelson (D-Burlington) said consumers assume that pet care facilities are regulated. She introduced a bill during the last legislative session that would have accomplished much of what the advisory board is now pushing, but it did not advance. “You could open [a rescue] up in your house and abuse the animals, and no one would know,” Rachelson said. “We’re the outlier.” In Danyow’s view, all animal care facilities should have to adopt certain protocols before they can earn a seal of approval. She suggested that the state legislate minimum kennel sizes, require that rescue groups place only healthy animals for adoption and make sure shelters have a return policy in case the new pet owners change their minds. Danyow says she’s heard too many horror stories. In testimony to the legislature earlier this year, Danyow referenced, among others, A Canine Gem. In May 2018, police in Williston cited Hilary Davis, its operator,
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for cruelty to animals after authorities observed urine and feces in the animals’ food storage area and multiple dogs kept in a single kennel. A staffer told officers that dogfights were commonplace and that he once had to “punch a dog in the head to stun him” to break one up, according to a police report. But the state’s attorney declined to prosecute the case due to lack of probable cause, Williston Police Chief Patrick Foley said. Davis agreed to find new homes for some of the dogs and to make their cages more secure to address officers’ concerns, Foley said. He also urged Davis to increase supervision at the shelter. “Everyone agreed that was the way to go,” Foley said.
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Davis defended her handling of the animals in her care and blamed any past problems on a former employee. She has been rescuing cats and dogs for 29 years, many from the South, where spay-neuter programs aren’t social norms, she said. A licensed veterinarian signs off before they can travel north, and A Canine Gem discloses any known health issues, Davis said. Since Davis moved her shelter to Winooski this year, local police have visited seven times and found nothing out of order, according to Winooski Lt. James Charkalis. Still, he admitted that police have limited expertise in investigating animal cruelty. “To prove there’s overt neglect going on, it’s just really hard,” Charkalis said. Vermont State Police Lt. Robert Lucas said that’s exactly why the state needs to refine who can investigate these claims. As it stands, Vermont law deputizes “humane officers” for the task. These include cops, game wardens, and selectboard-appointed animal control or health officers, none of whom have training specific to animal welfare. Chittenden County deputy state’s attorney Sally Adams, who also serves on the advisory board, said that makes animal cruelty cases especially difficult to prosecute. Lori Berger, an equine studies instructor at Vermont Technical College, said she saw Vermont’s “appalling lack of oversight” firsthand when the state found a new home
for already malnourished horses at what turned out to be a “bogus rescue” in her neighborhood. In a letter to the advisory board, Berger wrote that the horses were “walking skeletons” wading in knee-deep manure. She was shocked to learn that rescue operations are not regulated in Vermont. “It is an open invitation to animal hoarders. All that is required is to start collecting animals and hang up a sign,” Berger wrote. Other states have tackled this problem well, according to Danyow. Colorado’s Department of Agriculture promotes its animal welfare program as a model for other states. The state has authority to license and inspect any operation that adopts, breeds, boards, grooms, rescues or otherwise sells pets to the public. A 41-page rule book spells out exacting standards for indoor and outdoor facilities, including lighting, ventilation and temperature. Colorado’s law also mandates minimum sizes for animal enclosures for everything from dogs and cats to guinea pigs, rats, lizards, hopping and tree frogs, and snakes. The state can inspect foster homes for rescued animals upon request. Berger thinks Vermont should adopt similar rules but recognizes new regulations might face opposition. “There’s a culture of, ‘You don’t tell me how to take care of my animals,’” she said. “That’s a hard culture to buck.” Davis at A Canine Gem fits squarely into that category. She said she’s open to hearing the advisory board’s proposals but worries that more rules will make it costlier to run her business. The more burdens the state puts on rescue organizations, the harder it is to save dogs from shelters where they would be killed, she said. “I’m definitely not for rules for everything,” Davis added. “I don’t need the government in my life everywhere.” Londeree, of the Humane Society, thinks most operators would actually welcome some oversight, because they don’t want people cutting corners, endangering pets and giving the animal rescue business a bad name. And without some form of oversight, pet shoppers can only rely on word of mouth and social media reviews to find a reputable shelter. Even then, “a lot of the places that I know and have concerns about, you can go online and find people saying great things about them,” he said. Londeree and Danyow, the advisory board chair, think most rescue operators in Vermont are well-intentioned but may lack the resources or knowledge to take care of animals responsibly. That’s why they think the state should step in: Even one bad rescue organization, Danyow said, “is too many.” m Contact: courtney@sevendaysvt.com
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Paul Alan Bruhn 1947-2019 SOUTH BURLINGTON, VT.
On September 19, 2019, Paul Alan Bruhn of South Burlington died of having too much fun. It was his heart that finally couldn’t keep up with him. He was born March 27, 1947, in Burlington, the son of Marion and Elmer Bruhn. His father died when Paul was just 5 months old, and his mother was left to run the family business, Bruhn Office Equipment on Church Street in downtown Burlington, as well as raise three young children. The first two were probably easier than the last one. Paul is survived by his very special friend Colleen
O’Neill of Cornish, N.H.; his former partner Christine Graham of Burlington and North Bennington and her two sons, Finnegan Calabro and his wife, Clare Beams, and their daughters Tess and Joanna of Pittsburgh, Pa., and Max Calabro of Portland, Ore.; his sisters Janet Lum of Orcas, Wash., and Beverly Major and her husband, Randolph, of Westminster West, Vt.; his former wife Kathleen Stankevich of Springfield; numerous nieces and nephews; his “brother” Pat Robins and Lisa Schamberg, who didn’t know she was getting a package deal; his colleagues and board members at the Preservation Trust of Vermont; and lots of special friends. The high point of his academic career was at the Tom Thumb Nursery School. He later graduated (barely) from Burlington High School in 1965, where playing basketball was his biggest interest, and he briefly attended the University of Vermont. In spite of an uninspiring academic record, he was lucky enough to have three
very special careers. In 1966, Proctor and Ruth Page took him under their wings and provided him with an education in journalism and the newspaper business. Later they supported his effort to edit and publish a monthly magazine for Chittenden County. Chittenden Magazine operated for four years, ending publication in 1973. Paul often said those years working for Proc and Ruth were his “college” education. After a brief stint in the Chittenden County State’s Attorney’s Office, he ran Patrick Leahy’s first campaign for the U.S. Senate in 1974. He then served as Sen. Leahy’s chief of staff in Washington, D.C., until returning to Vermont in 1978. (That was his second college education.) He operated a consulting business for several years and became the first executive director of the Preservation Trust of Vermont in 1980, a position he held until his death. He had great passion for his work with the Preservation Trust and the people in virtually every community in Vermont who work hard every day to save and use their historic places, and who value and support their downtowns and village centers. It would be hard to
overstate how much he cared about Vermont. He received a number of honors and awards, including an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Vermont; an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Green Mountain College; the President’s Award from Richard Moe, president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation; the Hildene Award; the Richard Carbin Award for Community Service from the Vermont Land Trust; the Cowbird Award from the Vermont Land Trust; the Arthur Gibb Award for Individual Leadership from Smart Growth Vermont; the Franklin Fairbanks Award from the Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium in St. Johnsbury; the Bernice Murray Award from the Vermont Community Development Association; the Nate Harris Award from the Downtown Burlington Business Association; the Pizzagalli Excellence Award; the Vermont Council on Rural Development Lifetime Leadership Award; and the Vermont Economic Advancement Award from the Agency of Commerce and Community Development. During his tenure as executive director, the Preservation Trust received the Trustees’ Award for Organizational Excellence from the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Paul served on the boards of many organizations, including the Visiting
Nurse Association, Howard Mental Health, the Vermont Community Foundation, Smart Growth Vermont, the Vermont Council on Rural Development, the Vermont Housing and Conservation Board, Vermont Life Advisory Board, the Vermont Symphony Orchestra Board, the Vermont Natural Resources Council, Local First Vermont, Vermont Public Television, the Lake Champlain Islands Chamber of Commerce, and the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s Board of Advisors. Special thanks to heart surgeon Frank Ittleman; doctors Henry Tufo, Dan Lustgarten, Claudia Berger, Stephen Ades, Grace Johnstone and “Stephen” Robins; and massage therapist Laura Emerson, whose care and skill provided Paul with many bonus years. Memorial gifts may be made to the Preservation Trust of Vermont, 104 Church St., Burlington, VT 05401. There will be a celebration of Paul’s life on Friday, October 11, 1 p.m., at the Breeding Barn at Shelburne Farms, Shelburne, VT. Arrangements have been
entrusted to the care of the Cremation Society of Chittenden County, a division of the Ready Funeral Home, 261 Shelburne Rd., Burlington, VT. Please visit cremationsocietycc.com to place online condolences.
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Hazel Cassinell 1984-2019
Hazel, September 28 would have been your 35th birthday. You may be gone from this life, but you will live forever in my heart. Love, Uncle Lee
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The Quarry Project’s final development phase
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Pina, a tribute to the late German choreographer Pina Bausch, at the Shelburne Farms Breeding Barn in 2012. A master at working with both trained and untrained dancers, Dennison builds collaborations with unexpected partners to perform works in arresting places. The Wells Lamson Quarry is approximately 700 feet long, 400 feet wide and nearly 500 feet deep. One of the oldest and deepest quarries in the country, it was central to the Vermont granite industry until 1986, when it was retired, and the pumps that kept seeping water at bay were turned off. Within months, it filled with millions of gallons of water. For locals, the quarry has, in the ensuing years, come to represent hard work and pride, reverence and awe, heartache and loss. In 2016, while seeking permission to use the quarry from its owner, Québecbased Polycor, Dennison sat for hours at the water’s edge and often felt “overwhelmed with these feelings that were coming out of the quarry,” she recalled. Her own “state of being” surely influenced her experience, she noted. But then, “Every summer I’d run into people who said, ‘I watched some guy get thrown into
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the quarry by his angry wife’ or ‘Some little kid threw their ball in and then fell in,’” she added. Through The Quarry Project, Dennison aims both to reflect the intensity of the site and to provide “a new way of looking at the quarry” for locals. “It’s in their backyard. It’s a liability … Their uncle died in there — all these hard memories,” Dennison said. Her project “doesn’t erase the old memories, but it gives them a more magical look at something that is so familiar.” During the August preview, the 25 dancers and five musicians on the floating stage, powered by a small outboard motor, arrived at a collection of stages secured about 75 feet from the audience, which was seated on another floating platform at the shore. The performers disembarked and fanned out onto the seven stages, and then the stages themselves spread apart. On one stage, an older couple wearing white and black sat contentedly, one reading a book and the other making origami. A window frame was suspended on two-by-fours behind them. On a larger stage, six men and women clad in orange and pink ran around at top speed and clattered metal cups on a picnic table like
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a boisterous family. A woman in yellow danced languidly around a bed frame on her own stage; six women in red gathered at one corner of a fourth stage, submerging it perilously in the water. Watching the piece unfold was like being in a dream state, not only because the dance vocabulary was sometimes slow or even still, but also because there were so many stimuli to take in at once. This reporter’s attention was riveted by a green-costumed couple for a time, then drawn to women dancing around chair frames, then focused on the musicians’ stage, which by this point had motored far out in the quarry. Another glance at the couple moments later revealed that everything in their dance had changed, inspiring thoughts such as How did that happen? What did I miss? Am I sure about what I saw before? To say that the sensation was deliciously disorienting would be an understatement. Time slowed and nearly disappeared. The gestural dance vocabulary — which Dennison created in collaboration with Montpelier-based yoga and somatics professional AMY LEPAGE — and minimal set design invited viewers to “find their own way through it,” Dennison said. Rather than emphasize a particular story or narrative, she crafted a work in which “the house is just a skeleton of a house, and the chairs are not functional as chairs … and the bed is just the remains of the bed. But each of those set elements has a resonance for those who see them and have their own story connected with home or table or bed.” The “sonic environment,” as Dennison called it, was equally subtle yet evocative. Composed for The Quarry Project by bandleader ANDRIC SEVERANCE, the music combined spare percussion with major-chord melodies and minor-chord dissonance for solo and ensemble voice, accordion and flute. The occasional chirp from a nearby bird added serendipitous counterpoint, while echoes within the quarry amplified the music — and posed challenges for the musicians. In one sequence, for example, a percussionist relied on visual cues from Burlington dancer HANNA SATTERLEE to establish and maintain a steady tempo. THE QUARRY PROJECT
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super supportive and has really become a friend. SD: What can you tell me about the album? EG: It’s not out yet, but it’s finished. It has a little bit more of a jazz influence, perhaps? MH: Yeah. Genres are kind of marketing tools, and we really fall between the cracks with so many things. Folky jazz? Jazzy folk? We mix it up and come up with a really unique blend of things.
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or about a decade, guitarist Max Hatt and vocalist Edda Glass plied their trade as “the only bossa nova band in Montana.” As the duo traversed Big Sky Country, often driving hours from gig to gig, they penned original material inspired by both Brazilian jazz and the vast American landscape beyond their windshield. In 2014, those car tunes took the grand prize at the prestigious NewSong Music Competition at Lincoln Center in New York City. The surprise win resulted in Hatt and Glass recording an album with Wilco’s Pat Sansone. The record, Ocean of Birds, is a stirring hybrid of intimate jazz and pastoral Americana that Sansone’s Wilco bandmate Nels Cline has called “subtly poignant, elegantly funky and haunting without trying to be.” He added, “Edda Glass’ voice must be heard to be believed.” Hatt and Glass kick off the 2019/20 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT LANE SERIES on Friday, September 27, at the UVM RECITAL HALL in Burlington. Seven Days recently spoke with the duo by phone. SEVEN DAYS: So tell me about being “the only bossa nova band in Montana.” EDDA GLASS: We worked quite a bit, given we were a bossa nova band in Montana. It’s a long distance between bossa nova gigs in Montana, so we ended up getting a lot of original writing done in the car. So, in an odd way, it led to our original music. And the landscapes along the way kind of found their way into our songs, as well. The conversationalism that is the bossa nova style is also a big part of our original music. MAX HATT: Montana is a lot like
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Vermont in that it’s a rural state, but you have these pockets of culture where educated and artistic people end up. So we found audiences that really dug Brazilian music. SD: Your music exists at this crossroads of Brazilian jazz and Americana. Why is that such fertile ground for you? MH: Our original music is very much an extension of some of that Brazilian bossa nova jazz. But, like you are what you eat, you are what you listen to. And we both listen to rock and folk and jazz and Brazilian music. So, for us, our original stuff is a similar aesthetic. It might not be in Portuguese, but it has the same feel, coupled with a sense of place and space. EG: The intimate nature of our material
Meanwhile, the two-story addition will improve instructional space for the music department — the Recital Hall’s most frequent user. The stage-level floor will have a room for storing the pianos that will double as a classroom, as well as storage spaces and the much-needed green room with kitchen, bathroom and showers. The second floor will offer two big rehearsal rooms. Scott’s firm — responsible for designing Dealer.com’s Burlington headquarters and Jay Peak’s indoor climbing center and theater, among other Vermont sites — is currently completing renovations on
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might seem like a juxtaposition with the American West, which is so grand and majestic and big. But when you’re out there in it, there’s something about the bigness of the space that makes you want to pay attention to the people next to you. And, if you don’t have them next to you, you’re thinking about them across these vast distances. So there is a certain intimacy to being small in a big place. MH: There’s a lot of room for the imagination. SD: What was it like working with Pat Sansone? EG: Pat is just the greatest. We just recorded a new album and he mixed it for us. MH: He’s got big ears, listens to a lot of stuff and is very artistic. He really got what we were doing right from the get-go. He’s been
another arts building on campus: Michele and Martin Cohen Hall for the Integrative Creative Arts on South Williams Street. A former elementary school owned by the City of Burlington, it has been leased longterm by UVM to accommodate art, dance, music, theater, and film and television programs. As with the Recital Hall, Cohen Hall’s renovations were made possible by donors. That helps explain why, despite a decade of budgetary shortfalls and teaching-staff reductions as enrollment has declined, the university continues to build and renovate its physical structures.
SD: Edda, you wrote lyrics to a John Coltrane song for the new record? How do you approach writing words to an existing song? EG: You know, that famous old song “Stardust” didn’t get lyrics for many years after it was out and circulating. So that’s not unusual. But for me, it’s the same thing we do for Max’s songs. I like doing it in the car, so I’ll put the track on, look out the window, and it’ll be like a soundtrack to a movie and I’ll just feel a story coming on. Music is very much like speech, so you’ll just naturally hear little snippets of dialogue — the melody rises and falls like questions and answers — and things just occur to you. m This interview has been edited and condensed for space and clarity. Contact: dan@sevendaysvt.com
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As KELLEY HELMSTUTLER DI DIO, associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, points out, “Donors tend to give money for buildings, not for faculty positions.” Di Dio is nevertheless thrilled about the Recital Hall, as is Neuert. It “has stayed in very good shape — it was built to last,” notes the director, but the update “will make our lives a lot easier in terms of production.” m Contact: lilly@sevendaysvt.com
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The Quarry Project « P.22 Creating a performance piece on water in a quarry has been anything but simple, Dennison emphasized. First, she tackled the legalities of the project, including taking out “a honking-big liability insurance policy,” she lamented, and convincing Polycor president Patrick Perus to allow her to use the quarry. “It’s very original and creative, and it puts the quarry in a great light,” Perus said of the project. “Hannah is persistent, so it was the easiest path to allow her to do it!” The second challenge was technical: how to build and manage floating stages. A posse of carpenters, stage designers and local volunteers helped build the stages out of wood, plywood, wire and empty plastic buckets. Then they strung cables and pull ropes across the width of the quarry and attached small electric outboard motors to some stages. The third challenge centered on emotion and safety. Dennison had originally planned to incorporate a lot of swimming in the piece. But she awoke from a dream of swimming halfway
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across the quarry with the realization that “I could have a panic attack and die,” she recalled. “That’s when the caution about how much we put our bodies in the water came into play. I had to pay attention to it because it’s a force to be reckoned with.” In addition to fundraising for the project and making revisions over the next year, Dennison is seeking a large space in which to rehearse: about 70 by 100 feet. She has some leads but feels little urgency. The water has taught her patience, she said, recalling words spoken by the narrator at The Quarry Project preview: “The soft water changes the hard rock, slowly, in geologic time.” m Contact: elizabeth@sevendaysvt.com
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Who’s Behind the Artwork on South Burlington’s Utility Boxes?
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ome aspects of the built environment are so drab and uninteresting that after a while we stop noticing them. Utility boxes, those refrigerator-size metal cabinets found on the corner of virtually every intersection with a traffic signal, fall into this category of invisible infrastructure — that is, until their paint starts to peel and they get covered with stickers, flyers and graffiti. Then they become community eyesores. But in the last month or so, utility boxes along Route 7 and elsewhere in South Burlington have begun catching motorists’ eyes for a different reason. Seemingly overnight, they’ve become canvases for bright and colorful paintings: of purple cephalopods at Swift Street, a bouquet of flowers at Allen Hill Road, a snowboarding rooster at Laurel Hill Drive, and an Andy Warhol-esque foursome of cows at IDX Drive. Who are the roadside Rembrandts responsible for this beautification campaign? Actually, artwork on utility boxes in Chittenden County is nothing new. About a decade ago, Bruce Wilson, a Burlingtonbased youth activist who helps set up restorative justice programs and teen drop-in centers around the state, launched a graffiti-abatement program called Arts So Wonderful. Working with youth who had been referred to his program by the courts and the Burlington Community Justice Center, Wilson offered community service opportunities to youthful offenders, many of whom had been caught tagging property with graffiti. He then “commissioned” them to paint murals and utility boxes throughout the Queen City — for free, of course. The benefits, Wilson explained, were many: The youth made restitution by beautifying their neighborhoods while also learning how to apply their artistic skills in more community-minded ways. Wilson, a native of Chicago’s South Side who’s worked for years with at-risk kids, also found that if you paint murals over graffiti, vandals tend to leave them alone. Why? It’s like there’s an “honor code” to respect someone else’s work, he explained. Nobody tags his murals or painted utility boxes until they get old and dirty. The South Burlington boxes are an unrelated project. Those creations were inspired and organized by Katie O’Brien Barritt, a former art teacher from South Burlington. After 30 years of teaching at the Hinesburg Community School, she explained, “I knew that anything I did after retirement would include art.” About two years ago, O’Brien Barritt
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and her daughter noticed a utility box on Kennedy Drive that was covered with graffiti. So she approached Tom Hubbard, South Burlington’s deputy city manager and treasurer, and asked for permission to repaint that box, along with two other shabby-looking ones in high-traffic areas. She then solicited the help of other community members. The first one was an owl her daughter painted on Kennedy Drive. “It took basically no time at all to get the community excited about doing this,” O’Brien Barritt said. “People were pulling off the road all excited to see this.” After the initial three, South Burlington’s Department of Public Works gave O’Brien Barritt’s group permission to repaint signal boxes throughout the city.
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“It has been incredibly well received,” said Justin Rabidoux, public works director and city engineer. “Probably every two to three weeks I have random people emailing me wanting to get in on the effort and asking how they can contribute.” But O’Brien Barritt didn’t stop there. After demonstrating the value of their efforts, her group got permission from the telecom utility Consolidated Communications to repaint one of its utility boxes. Then the Vermont Agency of Transportation OK’d the decoration of some of its boxes, including the ones done along Shelburne Road in the last month. “Once they gave us permission, I was so afraid they might rescind it,” she said about VTrans, “so I got my artist group to jump right on them.”
To date, the group has painted 50 utility boxes as well as two underpasses. Currently, 12 more boxes are in the works, with another 20 coming in the future. The group also painted a mural under Interstate 89 on Dorset Street where kids walk home from school. “It was kind of an icky, scary area,” she explained, “so we painted something bright and colorful there.” Thus far, nearly all the funding and supplies have come from private donations. O’Brien Barritt started a GoFundMe page but had to close it out when she needed to buy more paint. “The more boxes get painted, the more the enthusiasm grows,” she added. “Then I get this rush of people who want to keep painting.” Neither the city nor the state have put restrictions on what the artwork looks like, other than prohibiting political, commercial or “edgy” imagery. As Rabidoux put it, the city doesn’t want to “censor or bless” the art by requiring designs to be reviewed in advance. And the only “contribution” from his department, other than its permission, was the provision of construction signs and safety vests for the artists to use while they work. “We’re fortunate to have someone of that community mind-set,” he added, “who is willing to give of her own time to make our community a better place.” m Contact: ken@sevendaysvt.com
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Evangelicals are “planting” dozens of churches in the rocky soil of Vermont BY C H E L S E A E D GAR
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iarra Raymond is 21 and deeply Christian, with short pinkand-gold ombré hair and an almost inaudible voice. She recently moved to South Royalton from Denton, Texas, in the Dallas-Fort Worth megalopolis, to start her first year at Vermont Law School. Before Raymond left Texas, she did what any devout Christian would do: She prayed about which church she should attend in her new home state. One day, as she was singing in her choir in Denton, a word in the hymn made her pause: “cornerstone.” She did some internet sleuthing, and lo and behold, there was a Cornerstone Church in South Royalton, just a few miles from the law school. Why might a devout Christian from Texas choose to attend Vermont Law School? Funny you should ask: One day in October 2018, a month before she
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took the LSAT, Raymond was sitting in a backup school in case she didn’t get her room at Texas Woman’s University in, but Raymond didn’t apply anywhere when, unbidden, the phrase “Vermont else: “It was as if God was telling me Law School” bubbled up in that whole time, her brain. ‘Is it really so Raymond knew the Holy bad to put all Spirit was speaking to her. your eggs in one “I had never even heard of basket if it’s my Vermont Law School, so I basket?’” looked it up online to make The Jesus sure it was a real place,” who cares about she said. “And then I was where you go like, ‘OK, God, I guess that’s to law school where you want me to go.’” is the Jesus Over the next six months, that CornerRaymond grappled with stone Church bouts of uncertainty, which wants people were always soothed by to know. From LYA NDON WA RRE N apparent gestures of cosmic the outside, reassurance — a random mention of Cornerstone doesn’t look remotely Vermont, a stumbled-upon Bible verse churchy, at least not in the traditional, reminding her to surrender her anxiet- white-steepled New England sense. The ies to God. Her family urged her to have building, located on a mostly commercial
There are 251 towns in Vermont. We’d like to see a church in every one of them.
stretch of Route 107, formerly housed a power and telephone supply company; it could be anywhere or nowhere. The logo isn’t a cross, or a fish, or any of the symbols associated with Christianity, but the shape of Vermont. The visual messaging is subtle, but the subliminal effect is profound: This is a place that wants you to forget everything you thought you knew about what going to church is like. Eighty-two-year-old Neal Fox, who lives in Bethel, has been going to Cornerstone every Sunday since it opened on Easter 2017. He’d sort of gone to church before, in the way that a lot of people sort of floss, but he found those churches lifeless and uninspiring, more preoccupied with the correct preparation of squash for potluck dinners than the ultimate meaning of life. At Cornerstone, Fox said, he felt a genuine warmth and openness he hadn’t encountered anywhere else, which he attributes
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to Marty Bascom, Cornerstone’s pastor. Bascom grew up in Springfield, the son of a dairy farmer from New Hampshire and a coal miner’s daughter from central Kentucky. A boyish-looking 46, he delivers his sermons in khakis and plaid button-downs. He’s an everyman, the kind of guy who spent his teenage years carousing on back roads in a pickup truck. He likes Jim Gaffigan and Chris Farley; he sometimes watches wrestling videos on YouTube late at night. Bascom loves Vermont, and it breaks his heart to see so many people living without the hope that, he believes, only Jesus can offer. “We’re all looking for refuge and hope,” he said. “I’m not trying to be doom and gloom, but hopelessness is more pervasive than ever. I think the church has the greatest message, which is that hope is found in Christ. I know not everybody believes that, but that’s what I want to give my life to, and I want to share it with as many people as possible.” Cornerstone is one of a growing number of new evangelical churches in Vermont seeking to reach the state’s spiritually homeless multitudes. “Evangelical” stems from the Greek word euangelion, meaning “good news” — a reference to the belief that the death of Jesus Christ offered humanity a means of salvation from sin. Evangelicals are by no means a monolithic group, but those who profess to be evangelical — about a quarter of the U.S. population, according to the Pew Research Center’s 2014 Religious Landscape Study — tend to believe that the Bible is the literal word of God, and that only those who follow Jesus can be saved from eternal punishment. That same Pew study found that 11 percent of Vermonters attend evangelical churches, a category that includes more than 10 Protestant denominations. Of these sects, Southern Baptists, in particular, have been quietly establishing, or “planting,” new churches throughout Vermont — a practice that exists at the peculiar intersection of analytics-driven entrepreneurship and low-tech disciple-making.
Church planting is as old as Christianity itself; in the first century AD, the Apostle Paul traveled from city to city, preaching in public squares and assembling makeshift congregations in people’s homes. In the two millennia since, evangelical church planting, especially in the Southern Baptist world, has evolved into a sophisticated apparatus, with a well-heeled bureaucracy and a vast network of spiritual and financial support in the form of the Southern Baptist Convention, which includes some 47,000 churches worldwide. Over the past two decades, Southern evangelicals have become increasingly freaked out by the godlessness of New England, spawning a movement so big that parallel organizations have sprung up along its periphery. Phil Waldrep Ministries, a nonprofit based in Decatur, Ala., holds two all-expenses-paid retreats each year for pastors and their wives at luxury hotels around New England. Thomas Schwindling, the nonprofit’s creative director, told me that the retreats are designed as vacations from the hardships of ministering in a gospel-resistant region: “We want to put them in hotels they dream of going to,” he said. The most recent retreat, in early September, took place at the Equinox in Manchester; the program included a game show with a $5,000 jackpot. At one of last year’s retreats, every attendee received a pair of L.L.Bean boots. If New England as a whole needs religious defibrillation, Vermont would seem to represent the extreme case. The state has earned the distinction of being the least religious in the country almost every year since Gallup began conducting its annual religious attitudes survey in 2008. (The one exception was 2015, when New Hampshire claimed victory by two points.) A 2018 article in the Biblical Recorder, a North Carolina evangelical newspaper, offered this bleak synopsis of Vermont’s Jesus situation: “The state has proportionately fewer Bible-believing churches and Christians than any other state. Scores of villages in Vermont have had no Bible-believing [evangelical or fundamentalist] church for GOOD NEWS?
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decades. Thousands of families have had no Christian members in five generations. Vermont is not just lost; it is hardcore lost and gospel-resistant.” Through a plexus of national and regional organizations, mission-minded evangelicals have been coming to Vermont to search for the chinks in its gospelproof armor. According to the Baptist Convention of New England, one of the major evangelical Christian networks in the region, at least 28 Baptist-affiliated churches have launched in Vermont since 2011, more than double the number of churches planted in New Hampshire over that same period. Twenty-eight new churches might not seem extraordinary, but in Vermont’s religious landscape, even modest expansion is an anomaly: Many other major denominations in the state have seen worship spaces close and attendance decline or stagnate in recent years. The rate at which many of these newly planted churches have grown is equally atypical. Riverbank Church in White River Junction, which started in 2010, now has more than 1,000 members between two campuses. Cornerstone routinely brings in as many as 70 worshippers each week; less than three miles away, the more theologically liberal United Church of Bethel averages just 35 people on any given Sunday. David Jackson, who oversees church planting strategy for the Baptist Convention of New England, thinks these numbers signal a major shift in the state’s spiritual constitution. “There seems to be something happening in Vermont, and I can’t describe it just in physical terms,” he said. “I think it’s the work of God.”
THE PLANTER
In 2009, the Baptist Press, the official news service of the Southern Baptist Convention, ran a story titled “Vermont’s ‘Quiet Revival.’” The author, Terry Dorsett, now the executive director of the Baptist Convention of New England, trumpeted the slow but steady progress of the churchplanting movement in his state: “In 1999 less than 600 people worshipped in a Vermont Southern Baptist church … In 2008 that number had grown to nearly 1,900 ... Even many Vermonters don’t realize just how rapid the growth of evangelicalism is escalating.” Dorsett is correct: The spread of evangelicalism in Vermont has attracted little attention outside Christian circles, which seems symptomatic of the state’s general indifference to religion. But it hasn’t gone entirely unnoticed. In 2012, Emily Heath, 30
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They’ve sent you, and a bunch of money, and told you to start new “evangelical churches.” ... You quote statistics about the very few (usually only a few percentage points of the population) who are ‘real Christians’ here, and you bemoan our embrace of all people. And you will save us. You are going to save our souls and bring us Jesus. Except here’s the thing: Jesus is already here. He has been for a very long time, and we already knew him, long before you came. Despite these pockets of resistance, the missionaries have been going about their work. Among them is Lyandon Warren, who started coming to Vermont in 2003 on summer trips through his Southern Baptist church in Rutherfordton, N.C. Around that time, Warren attended a talk at Fruitland Baptist Bible Institute in Hendersonville, N.C., in which Dorsett made the case for ministering in Vermont. Warren was sold. In 2006, he and his family moved to West Pawlet to start Mettowee Valley Church in the former United Church of West Pawlet, which had closed, like many of the state’s small-town religious institutions, because of declining attendance. Church planting is a bit like dating, except the goal is to woo the soul of an entire town. When Warren arrived, he immediately started “blessing the community,” his evangelical way of saying that he became one of West Pawlet’s most engaged citizens. He led afterschool homework and Bible study sessions for youth, spruced up local playgrounds, and served as a chaplain and volunteer for the town fire department. When Mettowee Valley held its first service, in spring 2007, 35 people showed up; within a few years, its pews were filled with 50 to 80 people each Sunday. Five years later, Warren installed new leadership and left to plant another church, in Poultney. When the Poultney congregation reached the 100-member mark, Warren sent a contingent from that church to help shore up a plant in Castleton. In 2016, the Poultney and Castleton congregations merged into what is now Mission City Church in Rutland, which has 350 members and a satellite location in Bennington. In 2012, Warren founded Vermont Church Planting, a support network for evangelical pastors seeking to put down
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roots in Vermont. A six-minute video on the organization’s website opens with a “Game of Thrones”-esque shot of an old Vermont map, dotted with green-roofed Monopoly houses representing churches. The next frame shows a godless youth on a bicycle, hanging out in front of Ridin’ High in Burlington. (He’s wearing a backwards baseball cap, so you know he must be godless.) The message: If you feel the slightest inkling that Jesus might be calling you to start a church in Vermont, just do it. Warren has a languorous drawl and a habit of speaking in gospel sound bites, peppered with the occasional MBA catchphrase. In early-stage church plants, he explained, pastors often work “bivocationally, because they gotta diversify their portfolio.” Warren, who was a tool-and-die maker in a factory in Asheville, N.C., before he came to Vermont, has been filling in on dairy farms and making fly-fishing rods for Orvis to supplement his pastoral income. From 2012 until the end of last month, when he took a job as an associate pastor in Whitehall, N.Y., Warren was also a “church-planting catalyst” — essentially, the man on the ground in Vermont for the Baptist Convention of New England. Part of his role entailed scouting a territory of 16 towns for signs that a community might be ripe for an evangelical church; the other
part involved soliciting sponsorship for fledgling Vermont congregations from well-established evangelical churches, generally located in the Bible Belt. The scouting part came easily to Warren. “I go into a store, and right away, I’ll usually get some questions about my accent, where I’m from, what I’m doing here,” he said. “I just tell people that I’ve come to New England to help people find hope, purpose and meaning in their lives through Jesus. I know it sounds strange, but I don’t shy away from sharing that right out of the gate. I’ve been given a command from my Lord that I’m to make disciples of all people. That’s why I live and breathe.” Warren’s scouting approach is less random than it sounds. The 16-town focus area is at least partially determined by demographic studies, according to David Jackson at the Baptist Convention of New England, who declined to share the name of the market research company that conducts those surveys or the precise data points it collects. This year, Warren’s turf included Poultney, Fair Haven, Fairfax, Newport, Derby, Morrisville and Richford. Four other towns in Warren’s survey area this year — Topsham, Waitsfield, Plainfield and Williamstown — currently have church plants under way. The goal is always to multiply — churches, followers,
pastoral leadership — so that each plant can effectively seed itself. In the near future, Warren said, the Baptist Convention of New England aims to develop more churches in the greater Burlington area by cultivating a “leadership pipeline” of pastors in established plants, including Crosspoint Church and Christ Memorial Church in Williston and New King Church in South Burlington. What’s Warren’s endgame? “Well, there are 251 towns in Vermont,” he said. “We’d like to see a church in every one of them.”
THE CONVERT
Any pastor at a new evangelical church will tell you that Sunday attendance is nice, but baptisms are the real currency of commitment. The baptismal apparatus at New King Church in South Burlington is a hot tub discreetly concealed beneath the stage floor. Somehow, this conveys the entire vibe of the place, which is equal parts young, fun and tasteful. Each service begins with music — not traditional hymns, but rock ballads that sound like something you might hear at a decent openmic night, if you ignore the fact that the lyrics are about freedom from condemnation. New King’s performers look like hipsters in an indieLUCY folk band; the Sunday I visited in early September, the guy playing guitar wore a beanie and skinny pants of indeterminate but very alt genus, and the girl on percussion sported ripped jeans and Birkenstocks. About 140 people attend New King Church, and a shocking number of them, based on my quick eyeball survey, are years away from collecting Social Security. This statistical aberration — people under 40 are the least likely demographic to belong to a church, according to Pew — is at least partly due to Ben Presten, New King’s pastor and de facto brand ambassador. Presten, 36, is from Atlanta, and he has the blond coiffure of a Southern gentleman who knows exactly what you’re supposed to do with pomade. His skin is poreless; his teeth are disconcertingly white. His sermons frequently use a biblical lens to address topics of millennial concern — burnout, technology-induced isolation, the virtues of software that limits your social media use. Sometimes,
when he talks about these things, he wears chambray, which only enhances the message. It was Presten’s impeccable style that first caught Lucy Clark’s eye. In October 2017, they happened to be seated side by side on a plane from Burlington to Philadelphia. Clark, who works at Charlottebased EatingWell, was on her way to report a story on a farmer; Presten was heading to India for a church-planting conference. Clark complimented Presten on his leather wallet. The two started talking about Chip and Joanna Gaines, the Christian duo behind HGTV’s enormously popular “Fixer Upper,” whose white-shiplap-and-distressed-wood aesthetic has lately crept into practically every dish towel in Target’s inventory. At some point, Presten mentioned that he was the pastor of New King Church and asked Clark if she believed in God. Clark told him she did. When I met Clark for our interview at Village Wine and Coffee in Shelburne, she gave me a giant hug, which, as I discovered while reporting this piece, is a thing that people who feel personally connected to Jesus often do. She told me she had always vaguely thought of herself as a Christian, but the label didn’t mean much to her. She grew up in Northampton, Mass., where she and her CL ARK family haphazardly attended various churches, mostly Episcopalian and Congregational. She doodled on a lot of worship bulletins. The most devout thing she did as a child was to pray for her stuffed animals before she went to bed. After she graduated from college in 2013, Clark bounced around different publishing-industry jobs and internships before moving to Vermont, in 2015, to work for EatingWell. The transition was hard: She lived by herself in a room in North Ferrisburgh, and she didn’t know anyone. When a coworker invited her to the Church at the Well, an evangelical congregation in Burlington, she figured she might make some friends. But things didn’t quite pan out that way. “I started going to find community, but I would always show up late and then leave right before social hour,” Clark said. “It was weird.” Something wasn’t clicking. In hindsight, she now believes
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Good News? « P.31 she was just going through the motions, waiting for something to jolt her out of complacency. When she met Presten on the plane, a couple of years later, their encounter didn’t register as especially portentous. Then, the shit started hitting the fan. Around the time of the Philadelphia trip, Clark bought a condo in foreclosure in Hinesburg, high on Pinterest daydreams of “making it all Joanna Gaines.” One night in January 2018, she returned home to find her boiler kaput. That same week, she got unsettling medical news, and her iPhone mysteriously stopped working. Phoneless, heatless and potentially facing a daunting health issue, Clark collapsed on the floor and sobbed, asking Jesus to help her. What happened next might sound familiar, crazy, totally unremarkable or all of the above, depending on your degree of cynicism and how many recently professed Christians you know. After Clark spent three weeks surviving on space heaters and showering at Planet Fitness, a neighbor installed a new boiler for her on the cheap. Nationwide reimbursed her for the replacement boiler; on top of that, Vermont Gas gave her an energy-efficiency rebate, which she used to buy a new iPhone. Minutes after she activated the phone at the Verizon store, it rang with a call from her doctor, who had her test results: She was in the clear. None of these occurrences felt remotely random to Clark. “I was like, Whoa. God is real. You can’t tell me that wasn’t God.” In the days that followed, she recalled, she thought of her conversation with Presten on the plane. A month later, she decided to check out New King Church. Back then, New King was meeting in a classroom at St. Joseph School in the Old North End, a former Catholic school that closed in 2010. The first Sunday that Clark attended a service, she was astounded, even perplexed, by how genuinely kind everyone seemed. “That’s the thing about real Christians — they’re so friendly!” she said. “It hurt my face to smile that much.” On a deeper level, she was beginning to feel something she’d never experienced before — a real, almost tangible connection with God. For her whole life, God had been an abstraction, an impersonal entity whose existence she’d assumed rather than perceived. Suddenly Clark found herself wanting to talk to him, to learn everything about him, as if he were a middle-school heartthrob who’d finally added her on instant messenger. “When you’re romantically interested in someone, you’re so curious about them 32
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and ask them so many questions,” she said. “I felt that way with God.” And God would answer. Once, while Clark was driving, she asked him why things happened in threes. She turned on the radio, and a pastor was on the air, explaining the phenomenon of things happening in threes. Another morning, when she woke up feeling unmotivated to go to work, she opened the Bible to a random page and lighted on Proverbs 26:13: “The lazy man says, ‘There is a lion in the road! A fierce lion is in the streets!’” She started going to church every single week, filled with a new, strange energy. Slowly, she began to change in bigger ways. Clark had been dating someone before she joined New King Church, but as her connection with God deepened, she and her partner, who wasn’t a Christian, started to grow apart. The rift between what Clark felt Jesus was calling her to do and what she was actually doing became too much for her to bear. Finally, after three consecutive sermons in which Presten referred to ending a relationship — Clark insists he had no idea what was happening in her personal life — she broke up with her boyfriend. “I was devastated,” she said. “But I wanted to choose Jesus, because he’d saved me before.” The night she called
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off her relationship — July 3, 2018 — she emailed Presten: “I’ve just given my life to Jesus. What do I do now?” A few weeks later, she wrote in her prayer journal that she wanted to be engaged by that time the following year. That December, after New King moved into its current South Burlington location, Clark took the hot-tub plunge for Christ. (The water heater wasn’t working on the day of her ceremony, so it was more of a tepid immersion.) Not long afterward, she started dating Luke Clark, who had moved up from Georgia to help out at New King. This past August, they got married. Presten, of course, officiated the ceremony.
THE OUTSIDER
There are probably a million levels to the experience of attending a worship service at an evangelical church plant as an outsider, but for simplicity’s sake, I’ll limit my analysis to two. The first layer is a baffling warm fuzziness, a disorienting feeling that everyone has been expecting you, and they’re just so thrilled you came. People clasp your hand and look you in the eye, remember your name and use it frequently. If you’re wired the way I am, you will start to feel a creeping sense of guilt, which will metastasize into a
feature-length documentary of every single instance in your life when you were unfriendly to anyone, from stealing a crayon in kindergarten to forgetting to tip the barista the day before. When the sermon starts, that guilt will deliver you to the second tier of the experience: a vertiginous sense of human fucked-upness, brought on by the relentless theological emphasis on sin. We are all very bad people in the eyes of the evangelical church, debased and debauched and irredeemable by any means except complete surrender to Jesus Christ, through whom we can attain the salvation we don’t deserve. Then we have to follow a bunch of rules, or else we go to that supremely unfun place, hell. Some of what the church considers sinful — say, premarital sex and using the Lord’s name in vain — is mere dayto-day living for most people in modern America; to give up those things seems like a matter of willpower rather than a soul metamorphosis. Other sins feel more deeply inscribed. The evangelical belief in the incontrovertible authority of the Bible means that no matter how welcoming the people in church are, no matter how much they profess to embrace the broken and imperfect, as Jesus did, there are certain things that God can’t abide. Being gay, or
gender-nonconforming, is still one of albeit deferred, relief from the human them. condition. To people who feel adrift, I grew up in a liberal Protestant church, captive to the worst versions of themthe kind of institution that would be selves, that can sound like a pretty great broadly considered “not Bible-believing” deal. by southern evangelicals. Two of my Jay Parini, a professor of English congregation’s pastors were lesbian. The and creative writing at Middlebury first time I went to Catholic mass with a College and an expert on Christianity, friend in elementary school, I remember affirms that the appeal of the evangelibeing confused about why there were no cal tradition lies partly in its absolutism. women with short gray hair in clerical “If anyone is drawn to this, it’s probrobes. (I also identify as queer, and being ably because their life is chaotic, and around a bunch of happy, nice Christians they’re looking for an organizing prinwhose belief system precludes me from ciple,” he said. “The downside is that entering their idea of heaven made for it’s very literal and safe. It reassures some existentially bizarre moments.) you that you’re going to have eternal Even in a place as progressive as Burl- life — sign on the dotted line, and bingo, ington, Presten holds fast to the notion you’re in heaven. But the upside is that that to follow Jesus and avoid damnation, they’re good people, and a real sense of we must give up every community evolves. We kind of sin, including are a very secular state, the alleged sin of engagand I think people are ing in relationships that desperate for a spiritual aren’t strictly, binarily experience of some kind heterosexual. — and for community.” The Bible, in Presten’s Before 23-year-old view, accords nonheteroCaroline Trevarrow sexuality the same weight became a member of New as watching pornography, King Church in February committing adultery or 2018, she went through a any other carnal transperiod of what the evangression. That people gelical church would call generally experience “acute lostness.” Trevartheir sexual and gender row grew up attending a orientation as intrinsic to United Church of Christ their identity, as opposed church in Ipswich, Mass., to a behavioral tendency but religion wasn’t a or an addiction, doesn’t significant part of her change his view of the life. Then she went to the BEN P RESTEN University of Vermont, issue. He believes the things we view as integral where she did what a lot to our sense of self are, in fact, constructs of UVM students do: smoke weed, drink, that alienate us from God. party, smoke more weed. She dated “The message of the Bible is at odds women and practiced yoga. She was, in with all of our identities,” Presten said. sum, maybe the least likely candidate to “I don’t look at people in a liberal city join an evangelical Christian church. and think that they’re going to be more But underneath it all, Trevarrow at odds with the Bible. I think that helps struggled with intense depression and make New King hospitable — every anxiety, and the weed was a coping person here knows that we’re all at odds mechanism. In the fall of her senior year, with the Bible. I don’t look at anybody she decided to take a hiatus from sex, and think it’s ‘us and them,’ because we’re because she felt it was destroying her all sinners. We all have identities that relationships. One night not long after we’ve created for ourselves apart from she made that vow to herself, she went God, and if we’re not willing to lay those home, drunk, with a woman she knew. down in order to take up the identity he The woman became sexually aggressive gives us as his child — whether you’re a and ignored Trevarrow’s pleas for her to successful businessperson, or whatever stop; the next day, Trevarrow said, her that identity is — we will not enter the face was so swollen and covered in bite kingdom of heaven. marks that she couldn’t go out in public. “Jesus asks us to give up really hard The assault plunged her even deeper things,” he continued. “The call to follow into depression. Trevarrow began recithim is basically the call to die. And dying ing the Lord’s Prayer several times a is never easy.” week, grasping for anything that might In this particular brand of Christi- bring her solace. Over winter break anity, the metaphorical death of your earthly self is the price of guaranteed, GOOD NEWS? » P.34
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Good News? « P.33 that year, a friend invited her along on an InterVarsity Christian Fellowship hurricane relief trip to Texas. Trevarrow went, mainly because she wanted to hang out with her friend. The experience wasn’t entirely comfortable: “It was anxiety-provoking for me to spend that much time with Christians,” she said. On that trip, she met Luke Clark’s brother, Aaron, who serves on the leadership team at New King Church. The two kept in touch, and he eventually suggested that Trevarrow attend a worship service. Trevarrow agreed, but the night before, she got cold feet and canceled. The next morning, Aaron showed up at her house and offered her a ride to New King. Reluctantly, she got into his car. At first, Trevarrow felt out of her element. “But in reality,” she said, “people were kind and wanted to know me.” She spent the next few months going to New King on Sundays, studying the Bible on her own and wrestling with the idea of being a Christian. The Prestens lived down the street from her in the Old North End, and Trevarrow sometimes hung out at the neighborhood park with Ben’s wife, Tiffany. The two would have long, intense conversations about faith and God and what it all meant. Trevarrow thought it was weird. She said her friends thought it was weird, too; as Trevarrow put it, “I was a 21-year-old stoner, hanging out with a pastor’s wife. I guess you could say I was having an identity crisis.” In June 2018, she decided to get baptized. Since then, she hasn’t dated women — “but my dating life in general looks different,” she said. “Do I think that you can have a same-sex relationship and love God? Yes. Is that what the Bible says? No. But a relationship with God is so much bigger than any romantic relationship. I am so relieved that sex is not an important part of my life anymore, because I can have deep connections with people without complicating them.” Trevarrow acknowledged that her friends have had a hard time understanding her transformation. “They feel like I’m killing a part of myself,” she said. “But I don’t feel like I’m killing a part of myself.”
THE NEW CHURCH IN TOWN
Even in a town as small as Chelsea, a new church can hide in plain sight. Tracy Penfield, founder and director of the nonprofit SafeArt, looked a bit stunned when I told her there was an evangelical church across the street from her office, led 34
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by a couple who had moved up to Chelsea from Texas. That church, New Creation Fellowship, took up residence in 2016 in what used to be the Chelsea Country Store, across the town green from the 200-yearold United Church of Chelsea, designed by Asher Benjamin. “I’m not a church person at all, so I haven’t really been paying attention,” Penfield said. “But I guess it’s better for the town to have something there than nothing at all.” Penfield told me she also hasn’t had anything to do with the United Church
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of Chelsea, which is a stone’s throw from SafeArt — not for any particular reason, but because she doesn’t go to church, and it’s easier to keep not going to church. Penfield’s attitude represents precisely the kind of firewall against religion that Bill and Jan Smith, the founders of New Creation Fellowship, seek to dismantle. The couple came to Vermont from Breckenridge, Texas, where Bill was an associate pastor at a Southern Baptist church. The Smiths, who are both in their early sixties and, it must be said, would make a superb Santa and Mrs. Claus, were aware of the evangelical focus on New England. They had been to Vermont several times on mission trips, but they never thought they’d plant a church of their own until Bill attended a 2013 conference at Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, Texas. (Prestonwood’s pastor, Jack Graham, was a member of Donald Trump’s Evangelical Executive Advisory Board during his 2016 campaign for president.) At the conference, Smith said, he knew that God was calling him to New England, and Vermont was percolating in his mind. Later that year, the Smiths went north for a location-scouting trip. During that visit, they met with Lyandon Warren at a Ninety Nine Restaurant & Pub in West Lebanon, N.H. Warren, in typical fashion, asked their waiter if he needed prayer; over the course of their conversation, the
waiter mentioned that he had gone to high school in Chelsea. That afternoon, Smith said, the couple’s GPS routed them through Chelsea on the way to their host’s place in Washington. (There’s a through-line in most of the stories you hear about how Christians became Christians, or about how church planters ended up where they ended up, which often comes down to a certain reverence for metaphor in real life.) It was a gorgeous late September afternoon, and the Chelsea Farmers Market was happening on the green, and everything was so perfect and Norman Rockwell that the Smiths decided they had to stay. In May 2014, they relocated to Vermont, sponsored by funds from their church in Texas and the North American Mission Board, which works with the Baptist Convention of New England to aid regional missionary efforts. Smith said those donations amounted to about $36,000, or roughly half of what they needed to get going. To support themselves, the Smiths got jobs in the Chelsea school system — Bill as a bus driver and substitute middle and high school teacher, Jan as a substitute in the elementary school. Bill organized a Bible study group, which met weekly in a one-bedroom efficiency above the nowshuttered Dixie’s II restaurant. Gradually, they gathered enough interest to hold Sunday evening services in the diner.
In 2016, the Smiths began renting the “I think Vermont is a little more former Chelsea Country Store, which had conservative than people let on,” Hinton closed two years before. Now the church said. “We have a Republican governor not owns the building; on Sundays, the Smiths because he’s a Republican, but because usually see 30 to 40 people, although atten- he’s honest and consistent.” And consisdance sometimes spikes above 50. tency, he believes, is what draws people to New Creation Fellowship isn’t the only a theologically conservative, fundamenreligious body in Chelsea that has grown talist church. over the past few years. Errol Hinton, who Like all of the church planters I interpreaches both a United Church of Christ viewed, Smith said he doesn’t use his and a Pentecostal service — odd theologi- pulpit as a soapbox for discussing politics. cal bedfellows, he admits — in the historic That seems like good business sense in Chelsea church, said attendance has risen Vermont, where Trump captured less at both of his congregations since the than a third of the vote. On the national Smiths arrived. level, evangelism and Trump support “It’s crazy, really,” Hinton said. “Two have become inextricably linked: In the of the most conservative churches in 2016 presidential election, according America” — meaning to the Public Religion the Pentecostal church, Research Institute, four another evangelical out of five white evandenomination, and the gelical voters cast their Southern Baptist Church ballots for Trump. — “seem to be doing as Smith noted that well as, if not better than, even as he’s witnessed the more liberal churches g r ow i n g r e c e p t i vin the Chelsea area.” ity to the evangelical Before Hinton assumed message, he’s also seen the pastorship at the mounting backlash, United Church of Chelspecifically around sea last year, he said, the doctrinal beliefs regardtypical Sunday turnout ing abortion. He cited was often fewer than 10 the presence of propeople. Now, he gets 30 choice protesters at the to 40 worshippers each Rally for Life in Montweek at both services. pelier last January, Could this be an when several hundred example of the risinganti-abortion activists tide-lifts-all-boats marched in opposition phenomenon? Hinton to the Vermont legisthinks yes, probably. But lature’s introduction JAY PARINI in Chelsea, the increase of a bill that would in church attendance recognize reproductive might also be a manifestation of a differ- choice as a fundamental right. ent, but related, phenomenon — an acute “People have the right to protest, need for a community gathering place, but we also have the right to express which is itself a spiritual hunger. what we believe the scripture says In the years since the Smiths arrived, when Psalm 139 tells us about how God Chelsea lost both its local high school, created us uniquely and formed us in where people once came out for athletic the womb, from the very beginning, events, and its country store, a sort of with a purpose and with a plan,” Smith railway depot for the spontaneous inter- said. “And so when man chooses to end actions that offer an antidote to isolation. that purpose and that plan, we feel very In the absence of those touchstones, a strongly about that.” church can provide a reliable, consistent It’s funny, Penfield told me, but she backdrop for human connection. When just can’t see herself going across the the message is about love and salvation, street to knock on New Creation Fellowthere seems to be little downside to show- ship’s door. ing up. “Many people in this town have differHinton has another theory about ent political views than I do. How many the appeal of evangelical churches: a conservatives have I sought out? None. long-standing schism in the state’s iden- That’s what we’re supposed to be doing, tity. He sees tendencies that undercut as a country, and I haven’t done it,” she Vermont’s hyper-mediated public image said. “I believe what I believe. I guess as a uniformly liberal place — the home I just don’t want anyone telling me to of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and the first change.” state in the union to legalize gay marriage through its legislature. GOOD NEWS? » P.36
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Patricia Hart, the new interim minister of the First Unitarian Universalist Society of Burlington, thinks the evangelicals are on to something. Hart has been in Vermont only a few months, but she wasn’t surprised to learn that church planters have been finding an audience here, particularly among the millennial and Gen Z crowd. “If you walk into a religious community where people are really happy to see you, and they’re filled with peace and joy and love, why would you not want to spend time there?” she said. “Younger people care more about the authenticity of the experience than about all the specific ideas. And since religion hasn’t already been a powerful force in this state, that makes their job easier.” The less ecclesiastical baggage people carry, in other words, the easier it is to get them into a church. As technology has flooded even the most private corners of our psyches with a barrage of dead-end stimuli and upsetting news, religion can offer both a sanctuary and a sense of permanence, no more or less unreal than the countless virtually mapped spaces we already inhabit. In its best iteration, a church can also provide a conduit for moral outrage, a structure to effect change. The Unitarian Universalist congregation that Hart previously led, in an affluent, predominantly white Cleveland suburb, grew by almost 60 people after the 2016 election. But, while political realities might move certain liberal subsets of the population to join progressive, action-oriented faith groups, those denominations don’t typically go out and canvass for new members. “We’ve been working for many years to hide our light under a bushel, which makes it really hard for people to find us,” Hart said, borrowing a phrase from the Sermon on the Mount, in which Jesus instructed his disciples not to conceal their faith. Evangelical Christians, by definition, want the world to know what they stand for. Most missionaries go about it fairly quietly, proselytizing one-on-one in chance encounters at coffee shops and other equalizing spaces. Riverbank Church in White River Junction, on the other hand, announces itself by means of a 20-foot-tall orange air puppet on the side of the road. Riverbank, which launched less than 10 years ago, has more than 800 regular attendees. Every aspect of its existence is engineered to circumvent any potentially negative associations with church: The worship services have been rebranded 36
as “experiences,” the congregation as “community.” The building, a former Holiday Inn, has a light gray façade with Creamsiclecolored accents; according to Riverbank’s pastor, Chris Goeppner, a marketing team picked that shade of orange to convey fun, excitement and warmth. The pavilion by the entrance is strung with festive outdoor lights, like a cool microbrewery or the office of a tech startup with a free kombucha happy hour. These aesthetic choices, Goeppner explained, are merely good financial stewardship: “What if, in 10 years, we grow to the point we have to sell? Anybody can buy it — a car dealership, a bank.” Riverbank is fundraising to build an addition for a larger auditorium, he noted, because current attendance levels are pushing the limits of the 400-seat space. He wouldn’t say how much that project might cost, except that it’s “over a million dollars” and will be funded entirely by donations from church members. When I pulled up to Riverbank one Sunday morning in early September, the main lot was already full, even though the service — excuse me, experience — wasn’t starting for another half hour. An attendant in a Creamsicle T-shirt waved me into an overflow parking area near a fabric store. I attached myself to a small throng walking toward the front doors, hoping to slip unnoticed past the greeters. No dice. If anyone deserves a free kombucha, it’s the dude who somehow identified me as a newcomer, despite the literally 800 people who go to this church. The greeter directed me to the firsttime visitor tent, where a torrentially nice man named Bob Partridge offered me a choice of two welcome gifts: an orange ceramic Riverbank-branded mug or a beige canvas Riverbank-branded tote. I opted for the mug, which came with a bonus giveaway: earplugs. “People don’t realize it can get pretty loud in there,” Partridge said with a chuckle. Swag in hand, I meandered into the café-slash-bookshop off the foyer, where I perused the titles available for purchase: Vice Grip: A Woman’s Look at the Seven Deadly Sins, The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness, The Battle for Eve: Biblical Combat Training for Women in Spiritual Warfare. At some point, I realized that I was being filmed by a bearded millennial with a handheld camera. When I asked him, nicely, what the hell he was doing, he informed me that he was Riverbank’s staff videographer, on the prowl for future promotional content. I could feel the experience vibrating through the floor before I even entered the auditorium. Inside, an actual rock concert was happening. People of all ages bobbed up and down, eyes closed, hands
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raised heavenward. Onstage, a woman with long red hair pranced around, belting out lyrics that rhymed words like “celebration” and “condemnation” over orgasmically intense guitar riffs. It was 9:07 a.m. I felt inexplicably hungover. That morning, I planned to be in Chelsea to attend a service at New Creation Fellowship, so I snuck out a few minutes before the start of the “message,” not to be confused with a sermon. I’d exited the church and made it halfway across the parking lot when another guy in a Creamsicle T-shirt flagged me down. “Hey!” he called, jogging in my direction. “Is everything OK? Do you need to talk?” I told him that everything was fine, but I had somewhere else to be. “OK, just making sure,” he said. “I know it can get pretty intense in there. If you’re going through a rough time, it can be kind of emotional.” I thanked him for his concern and walked back to my car. As I drove away, I caught one final glimpse of that big-ass air puppet, flailing in ecstasy. m
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on Saturday, September 21, ranging in size from a large beach ball to a boulder. The winner was longtime grower Kevin Companion, who grew a 1,727-pound pumpkin, his personal best. But each grower received cheers, especially those who grew their own personal biggest pumpkins. Gates learned to grow pumpkins under the tutelage of her neighbors, Dan and Holly Boyce. Sixteen years ago, Dan Boyce impulsively bought a giant pumpkin seed for $12.95 and grew it to 456 pounds. Today, he and Holly are a Vermont pumpkin-growing institution. They hold the state record and grew Vermont’s first and only one-ton pumpkin last summer. To be exact, it weighed 2,017.5 pounds. Growing a pumpkin that large requires an incredible amount of calculation. It starts with picking the seed. Serious pumpkin growers keep detailed family trees of all their pumpkins, and growers trade or sell seeds. Boyce said he’s seen seeds go at auction for up to $500. In 2016, a British horticulture company paid £1,250
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(then nearly $2,000) for a single seed. News organizations touted it as the most expensive pumpkin seed ever sold. Once the seed is started, growers pollinate the pumpkins by hand, delicately transferring pollen from a male flower to a female flower. The Boyces pollinate three pumpkins on each plant, but once the fruits are about soccer-ball size, all but the most promising one are cut. That single pumpkin grows on the plant’s main vine, and side vines are trimmed and buried in the dirt. It’s recommended that a single giant pumpkin have 1,000 square feet in which to grow. Many growers cover their pumpkins with sheds to protect them from the sun, feeding the soil with the required nutrients. The Boyces send soil and leaf samples from the plant to a lab in Idaho for a detailed report on their nutritional content. At the peak of its growth around midsummer, a giant pumpkin might gain between 40 and 50 pounds per day and drink up to 100 gallons of water. Growers say it’s incredible to watch. “I get my coffee, and I walk down there
every morning, and I’m like, ‘Whoa,’” Gates said. Pumpkins around the world are getting bigger, and fast. The last time Seven Days wrote about giant pumpkins, in 2002, growers were still striving for the 1,500pound mark. Ron Wallace of Rhode Island bested that goal in 2006; just six years later, he was the first grower in the world to achieve a 2,000-pound pumpkin. A Belgian gardener holds the current global record: 2,624 pounds. “It’s because of the internet,” Boyce said of the giant pumpkin’s growth acceleration. “We know growers from all over the world, and they know us … Facebook is crazy with it.” While growers may have, and share, the techniques they need to push pumpkins further, growing them still involves a fair amount of risk. If a pumpkin grows too fast, it might burst its skin. Boyce said other growers told him he could push his 2,017-pound pumpkin to 2,500, but he was cautious. Though spread across the world, the giant pumpkin community is tight-knit. It was a seed from one of Wallace’s pumpkins STEPHEN MEASE
t was 78 degrees as the sun sank over Sam Mazza’s Farm Market in Colchester, yet Lisa Gates was rubbing her forearms. “I have goosebumps,” she said. The pumpkin Gates had nurtured for months was being lifted with a skid-steer loader to be weighed at the Vermont Giant Pumpkin Weigh-In, and Gates was waiting to see if it would be her first to break 1,000 pounds. The weight of a giant pumpkin can be predicted by measuring its circumference and height, but the moment of truth comes when the Cucurbita maxima is strapped in and lowered by tractor onto a large industrial scale. “The suspense is killing me,” Gates said earlier in the day as she waited for her turn at the scale. “I walked away when they measured it, because I didn’t want to know. I want to be surprised.” “Betty” is Gates’ only giant pumpkin. She named it after her late mother, who introduced her to gardening. Betty represents an entire summer of coddling, covering, feeding and grooming — all of which came down to a single moment on the scale. Gates, who is 55 and lives in Benson, conceded that it’s a lot of pressure. Every grower wants to beat his or her own personal best record. But certain milestones — like 1,000 pounds — are especially significant. Last year, Gates won the Rookie of the Year prize at the Vermont weigh-in with an 821-pound pumpkin — the first giant pumpkin she ever grew. “It’s been so fun learning, and, I’m not going to lie, it’s been so nerve-racking,” Gates said a few days before the weigh-in, which is organized by the Vermont Giant Pumpkin Growers Association. If a giant pumpkin gets even the smallest crack in its skin, it’s disqualified. The giant pumpkin variety, officially known as Dill’s Atlantic Giant Pumpkin, is a far cry from the typical jack-o’-lantern or pie pumpkin you can buy at the grocery store. It is, frankly, not nearly as pretty. The giant version looks like a pumpkin someone carved out of clay and then accidentally dropped on the floor. It can vary in color from bright orange to pale yellow. Luckily, looks are not the first priority here. Members of the VGPGA brought 33 pumpkins to the 12th annual weigh-in
Lisa Gates at Sam Mazza’s Giant Pumpkin Weigh-In
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that the Boyces grew into Vermont’s first one-tonner last summer. Canadians are particularly interested in the couple’s pumpkins, Boyce said, because no one in that country has yet produced a one-ton pumpkin. But if it’s possible in Vermont, why not a little farther north? How big can pumpkins get? When first interviewed in late July, Boyce was optimistic. “We don’t know yet,” he said. “We may see a 3,000-pound pumpkin this year.” He also noted a grower in New Hampshire who may beat the world record in 2019. The Boyces didn’t end up bringing a pumpkin to the Vermont weigh-in this year, because the one they’d DAN planned to enter had a soft spot that rotted through a few weeks ago. They have two others still on the vine on their farm, which they’ve decided to let grow a few more weeks and take to later weigh-ins around New England. But the Boyces did have two “granddaughters” present at the weigh-in, meaning pumpkins that someone else grew from the seeds of previous Boyce pumpkins. Those pumpkins placed fourth and ninth this year. The weigh-in on Saturday began with the smaller pumpkins. It takes a while to load 33 ginormous pumpkins, one at a time, onto a scale, but the crowd of growers remained jolly, cheering for and occasionally heckling one another. Most growers got a chance to sit in the “leader chair,” a folding chair of honor, until another pumpkin bested theirs and its grower took their place. Some growers start very young, such as Ben Messier of Randolph, who said he’s “basically 11” and whose pumpkin weighed in at 953 pounds. The weigh-in attracted spectators from around New England and Québec. Norm Gansert has driven up from Rhode Island for the past four or five years and said he wouldn’t miss it. “These people are probably the nicest people you could meet anywhere,” he said. Everybody knows everybody in the pumpkin-growing community. When a Canadian grower named Mike Strange died last year, Vermonters traveled
north to attend his funeral. On Saturday, Strange’s wife, Gail, was one of the weigh-in announcers, cracking jokes in an orange knit cap. The VGPGA has traditionally offered prizes for the top 20 pumpkins, but now a $50 Mike Strange award is given to the person who grew the 21st-largest. The organization also confers the Howard Dill award, named for the man who developed the Atlantic Giant variety, to the pumpkin that best combines size, symmetry and bright-orange color. When Gates’ pumpkin was lowered onto the scale, no fewer than three other growers made sure this reporter knew it B OYCE was named after Gates’ mother. Boyce predicted the pumpkin would be a heavy one, because Gates’ brother’s tractor couldn’t lift it. “I’m just grateful I got it here in one piece,” the grower said. “I’m grateful, no matter what.” When the number was read, a cheer went up. Gates’ pumpkin weighed 1,087 pounds. “I told you I was going to cry,” she said, posing for a picture and wiping tears from her face. She patted the side of the pumpkin, saying, “Good job, Betty!” Watching her, grower Aaron Messier observed, “A lot of work and a lot of emotions go into these things.” Messier (Ben’s father) also weighed in his first 1,000-pound pumpkin this year. Gates, who works nights at General Electric, described herself as “not much of a conversationalist.” She has focused primarily on her job for most of her life, but growing pumpkins has given her a community. “It’s the first time in my life that I’ve had a hobby,” Gates said. “I’m honored to be a part of this … When it comes to pumpkins, all of the sudden I have something to talk about.” m
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Marriage License Theater review: A Doll’s House, Part 2, Northern Stage B Y A L E X BROW N
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says that whatever problems a marriage may have, running away from it won’t solve them. Director Peter Hackett lets Hnath’s humor percolate up just often enough to spice the seriousness of the situation. The characters’ conflicts are intellectual, but Hackett emphasizes their emotional impact. It’s a play of speeches, and they come alive because the actors listen closely enough to let them sting. As Nora, Robynn Rodriguez creates a character with some of the original Nora’s charm peeking through. Ibsen’s Nora starts out silly and flirtatious, infantilized by her husband as his “little squirrel.” In the end, Nora rejects the role, but it’s based on a warmth that Rodriguez now confidently radiates, with a soothing voice and a gaze that imparts her interest in others. She is bursting with certainty about her rejection of marriage, and
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he audience arrives to find a commanding set. A large, carved wooden door stands in a tall, blank wall. Above, an artificial skylight bathes the stage in silky, shadowless light. Below, a wood-plank floor the width of the stage narrows toward the back wall, suggesting receding perspective. It looks like a museum, and the art on display will be the characters of Henrik Ibsen as reimagined by playwright Lucas Hnath in A Doll’s House, Part 2. Northern Stage opens its season with an exceptionally well-acted production of Hnath’s 2017 play, which takes up Nora’s story 15 years after she left her husband and children. When A Doll’s House premiered in 1879, it provoked immediate controversy. At a time when women were supposed to be entirely subservient to husbands or fathers, Ibsen created a character who repudiated the limitations of that role. In Hnath’s play, Nora knocks on the door she once slammed shut. Her return home is a complicated reunion that revisits the challenges of marriage. Written in sharp, contemporary language but performed in period dress, the play pits Nora against the gender obstacles of the 19th century for an audience with today’s notions of male-female dynamics. Since she left her family, Nora has been advocating that women throw off the constraints of marriage. Soon, she believes, society will evolve past husbands ruling wives. And she has her followers. But now she’s come home with an urgent problem. Torvald, the husband she left, never obtained a divorce, which means she’s been committing fraud by handling financial affairs on her own. Nora’s future is at stake, legally and philosophically. In five confrontational scenes, she attempts to convince her old nanny, her 19-year-old daughter and Torvald that she should be free of marriage. All four characters make compelling arguments about gender roles, and the play’s beauty is the equal weight Hnath gives each point of view. Nora’s daughter, Emmy, is looking forward to being wed. The aging nanny, Anne Marie, believes children are worth the sacrifice, including the children Nora left behind for her to raise. And Torvald
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Rodriguez makes Nora a crusader at ease with herself. Making Nora warm is an acting choice that shifts the play from an abstract diatribe to a compassionate search for meaning in human relationships. Nora has a powerful argument to make about the need for society to reject marriage and allow women independence. Rodriguez makes it with all due fire but adds the crucial touch of caring how her listeners react. Her ideology sustains her, but the contrary opinions of people she loved can still wound her. As Torvald, Stephen Lee Anderson moves and speaks with measured clarity. Hackett stages the action so that Torvald first recognizes Nora with his back to the audience. Anderson’s startled stillness conveys his reaction better than a facial expression. He appears meek at first, nursing arthritic pain in his knee and standing speechless more than once. As he slowly sheds his armor of silence and rectitude,
however, Torvald shows the pain he’s buried. Anderson makes Torvald a frail figure gripped with quiet fury. Patti Perkins, as Anne Marie, enters with a stiff walk. She won’t be hurried by anyone and has earned the right to surrender to the demands of age. Perkins gives the character a no-nonsense demeanor that’s feisty but never cute. She listens to Nora, suspends judgment for a while, and then holds nothing back. When Anne Marie remembers the trade she had to make between raising Nora’s children and her own child, Perkins lets some tears form but maintains a steely edge. Anne Marie may have a bad hip, but she’s still strong in all the ways that matter. As Emmy, Monique St. Cyr has the fire of youth. She moves earnestly, even letting her knees knock as she sits, showing how close she still is to childhood. But her forceful speech demonstrates her maturity. St. Cyr’s Emmy is bold enough to lock eyes with Nora and shake
her head lightly to show she won’t be intimidated — and won’t admit that her mother’s abandonment hurt her. Emmy’s calm defiance is riveting as mother and daughter decide how they want to appear to each other. Splendid as David L. Arsenault’s set design is, Hackett’s decision to suggest a museum adds little except a cool visual tone. The emotional strength of the performances engages viewers, while a museum implies distant contemplation. Perhaps Hackett was after that kind of
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contrast. Arsenault and lighting designer Harold F. Burgess delivered the mood impeccably, but pulling the audience toward critical judgment pushes it away from the play’s psychological core. Ibsen’s play presents a marriage made intolerable by 19th-century norms that now seem quaintly wrong, but also by gender standards that still appear almost unassailable. Hnath lets us see how far we’ve come and how intractable gender roles in child-rearing and marriage remain. The play is stuffed with ideas, but this production elevates it past polemics. Powerful acting shows the emotional need from which all four characters’ grand ideas spring. m Contact: alex@sevendaysvt.com
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obin Orr has a least favorite fork. She can pick it out from a bundle of 13 disposable forks, which she keeps in her office at the Chittenden Solid Waste District. On a recent afternoon, Orr lined them up on a table in front of her like a dealer laying out cards. She can sort, from memory, the compostable forks from the plastic. “You would be astonished at how many forks there are,” she said. Her least favorite fork is a trickster. Compostable forks are usually labeled as such on the handle. They feel a little different from the plastic forks, but only if you’re paying attention. This fork is labeled, too: A company called Eco-Products makes it. That brand is printed on the front of the fork handle, and on the back are the words “Non-compostable.” Orr’s job as event outreach coordinator at CSWD means she spends a lot of time thinking about how to get people at public events to recycle and compost properly. The biggest part of that, she said, is making sure that people can clearly distinguish between products. With this fork, holding her thumb in the wrong position covers the word “non-,” and people could be confused. Plus, she said, Eco-Products also makes a fork that is compostable — and that fork is nearly identical. Orr collects forks not just to prove a point about design but to educate her volunteers. She leads the Waste Warriors program, which started at CSWD in 2015. You know the folks — you’ve probably seen them hanging out near the trash receptacles at festivals, concerts and events, making sure attendees know which bin their waste goes in. For CSWD, the Waste Warriors program checks several boxes. It helps events streamline their waste systems and eases the burden on CSWD facilities that compost and sort recycling. Plus, it provides CSWD with something of a captive audience for spreading the word about which products are recyclable, compostable or just trash. “Public spaces have always been the final frontier of educating,” Orr said. “Just setting two buckets out there isn’t enough.” CSWD’s strategy is all about making which refuse is which as clear as possible
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for Vermonters. In some places, this is mostly about labeling. Michele Morris, CSWD’s director of outreach and communications, said the state requires public spaces, including events, to provide an equal number of recycling bins as trash cans, though it isn’t strictly enforced at this point. One strategy is what Morris called “choice architecture,” which is design that encourages people to make certain decisions. If a waste receptacle is just a big open bin, people can toss their waste in easily without stopping to think about it. But if a receptacle encourages or even demands some kind of interaction from people — with color coordination and signage, for example, or a bin that has to be opened like a mailbox — people are more likely to slow down and consider where their waste goes. The Waste Warriors program takes this a step further by placing actual human beings by waste receptacles, turning trash
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tossing into a conversation. Orr has about 50 semi-regular volunteers, all of whom have been trained in how to interact with the public positively. Orr said they want to educate, not be the “trash police.” “When you meet people right at the moment they’re making the decision … it seems to have much more of a lasting impact,” Orr said. “We hope that we’re interacting with folks that we might not cross paths with in other settings.” But Orr puts in work with event organizers that goes well beyond the event itself. At a concert such as the Ben & Jerry’s Concerts on the Green at Shelburne Museum or a festival like Grand Point North at Burlington’s Waterfront Park, where there might be a dozen food vendors, Orr typically shows up an hour and a half early. She walks around to all the vendors and collects a sample of every single dish, cup or utensil the vendor uses. Then she marks them all as compostable, recyclable or trash. The process can take
a bit of sleuthing, as not all the items are clearly labeled. Orr also records which vendor each item came from, so she knows whom to work with if improvements can be made. Then she goes over each item with her volunteers before the event starts, so they also know where everything goes. At this point, Orr knows many of the food vendors by name and probably could spot a plastic plate at 20 yards. At the last Concert on the Green on a sunny September evening, her job was simplified. The event featured the same vendors she’d been working with all summer, so all she had to do was make a lap and make sure everyone was still using the same utensils as before. Then she walked back to her supplies, set up at the edge of the lawn. Orr had three white gallon buckets full of plastic gloves, sunscreen, bug spray, rain ponchos and a sample of every piece of foodware used at the event, all neatly labeled in Sharpie.
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“This is my office,” she said, sitting down on one of the buckets for emphasis. Orr also coordinates with event organizers ahead of time. Sometimes they’ll actually require that vendors use compostable products. It’s important to Orr to get all the vendors on board. If one food truck invests in compostable ware, that could be offset by another food truck using plastic — because Waste Warriors, if they can’t tell the difference, will err on the side of trash. Orr credits Higher Ground’s assistant general manager, Mark Balderston, with doing a lot of the work to make Concerts on the Green so simple. He started at Higher Ground as an intern in 2016, which is when the concert producers began working with CSWD. Since then, Balderston said, he’s seen a huge reduction in the trash produced at Higher Ground-presented events.
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“The music industry writ large is not a particularly environmentally friendly thing, typically,” he noted. “So we wanted to try to do our part to step up.” The system isn’t perfect yet. Nearly all of the dishes and utensils at the Concert on the Green were recyclable, but the exceptions were the cups used for beer and wine, some of which were printed with the Higher Ground logo. Balderston has a couple of explanations for this. Higher Ground doesn’t have climate-controlled storage for the 60,000 cups he has to order every summer, and compostable materials are susceptible to heat. Balderston said the cups would melt together and become unusable if they were stored in a warm environment. He was also worried about the impact of putting 60,000 compostable cups into the waste stream. Orr confirmed that compostable tableware is not actually a desirable material for composters, and
many don’t even accept it. It has little nutritional content, and compost that includes it can’t be labeled as organic. Orr said Green Mountain Compost, CSWD’s composting operation, accepts it regardless, because it’s a service to the community. Waste Warriors volunteers also benefit from the program, because they get free tickets to sometimes expensive shows and festivals — including ones with serious free-sample perks, such as the Vermont Cheesemakers Festival at Shelburne Farms. But most of the volunteers are simply passionate about waste. “Last year for Halloween, I dressed as a composting toilet,” said Jules Lees, who uses they and them pronouns. Lees is a student teacher and said they often act as an unofficial Waste Warrior at their school. Another volunteer, Jim Rudolph, works at Seventh Generation doing market research. He said he learns a lot about people’s perceptions of waste while volunteering, and that translates back to his job. At a recent festival, he noticed that some vendors were giving attendees a foldable cardboard spoon. It was compostable, but it had a waxy coating that gave it a plastic sheen, and that caused people to think it went in the trash. “The general cues of the product made it confusing and sent it to the wrong place,” Rudolph said. “My time as a Waste Warrior is actually incredibly illuminating.” The Warriors volunteered at 25 events this summer. And though festival season is pretty much over, for Orr and many of her coworkers and volunteers, once they start paying attention to waste, it’s hard to switch that off. Orr said she can’t help but observe how people handle their trash. “Whenever I go out to dinner with my partner,” Orr said, “he’s like, ‘Just this once, can we not look into the dumpster?’” m Contact: margaret@sevendaysvt.com
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ne of the final steps in the process of moving cheese from barn to cave to store belongs, at Jasper Hill Farm in Greensboro, to Alex Armstrong: He writes the farm’s newsletter. In mid-September, he was preparing to spread the word about Bridgman Blue — cheese made from a mixture of goat’s milk and cow’s milk. The natural-rind blue cheese, part of Jasper Hill’s entry into the goat-cheese market, is about to make its debut. But before writing, Armstrong said, “I have to have a good sit-down with myself and the cheese.” If Bridgman Blue could express itself beyond taste and texture, it would have an interesting story to tell. It begins six years ago, when husband-and-wife goat farmers Ryan Andrus, 38, and Annie Rowden, 31, traveled from northern California to visit Vermont Creamery, a goat-cheese operation in Websterville. As part of their trip, the couple also went to Oak Knoll Dairy, a goat farm in Windsor that produces bottled milk and supplies milk to Vermont Creamery. Married partners George Redick and Karen Lindbo had established Oak Knoll along the Connecticut River in 1988. They started with four pet goats, then grew the herd and built a commercial operation. A decade in, the couple conserved their land with the Upper Valley Land Trust, using money from the sale of the development rights to buy milk-processing and bottling equipment. When Andrus and Rowden visited, they were impressed by the herd, then about 700 goats. “This could be yours!” Redick told them that November day in 2013. Now, much of it is. Andrus and Rowden are acquiring the herd and equipment in an arrangement that comprises an agricultural triumvirate: a succession plan for Oak Knoll’s founders;
a Vermont startup for Andrus and Rowden; and a new venture for Jasper Hill, whose cow’s-milk cheeses have won national and international first-place prizes. “For us, this is all about people,” Jasper Hill cofounder Mateo Kehler, 49, said. “I don’t know anything about goats. There’s no way we would be doing any of this if Ryan and Annie hadn’t reached out to us.” Kehler and Andrus met two years ago at a cheese conference in Denver: Andrus attended Kehler’s talk about cheese as a tool for community and economic development; Kehler listened to Andrus talk about goat herd management and genetics. When he was back in California, Andrus sent Kehler an email that started a discussion about possible collaboration. “We were looking for a way to integrate with a smaller company that had an emphasis on showcasing quality cheese through quality milk,” Andrus said. In the fall of 2018, Andrus and Rowden left the 1,300-goat herd they managed at acclaimed Cypress Grove creamery in McKinleyville, Calif., and moved to Hardwick. In partnership with Jasper Hill Farm, the couple bought a former cow dairy in Hardwick and named it Bridgman Hill Farm. (The deal involved the sale of a conservation easement to the Vermont Land Trust.) The business partners then purchased a herd of goats and milk-processing equipment from Oak Knoll. Now, Andrus and Rowden produce goat’s milk for Jasper Hill cheese, including Bridgman Blue, and later this fall will bottle liquid milk on-site. The project represents a new direction for Jasper Hill, which has been making cow’s-milk cheese since Kehler and his brother, Andy, started it in 2003. Graduates of Woodstock Union High School, they
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they’re like, ‘Oh, you’re here!’” Andrus said. Redick, 69, and Lindbo, 65, are keeping some goats to milk for the wholesale market. The sale of the majority of the herd ensures that the animals are in capable hands and the Oak Knoll brand will
On a mid-September morning, with the temperature hovering at freezing, Nat Bacon, the creamery and quality-assurance manager at Jasper Hill, arrived at work at 2:30 a.m. He was there to receive a truckload of goat’s milk from Bridgman Hill. Half an hour later, he was mixing it with Jasper
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carry on. It also allows the pair to lessen their workload, Redick said. “It really is nice to know that the goats have gone to a really good operation,” he added. “Ryan is dedicated to animal husbandry. He’s studied the goat. He knows the goat. We’ve met a lot of people over the years, and we can’t place anyone who could be better.” In November, the Hardwick dairy will start bottling and selling goat’s milk, about 1,000 gallons a week, under the Oak Knoll name. Three cheeses made with a mixture of goat’s milk and cow’s milk are in development or production at Jasper Hill, and a drinkable yogurt is a future possibility. “My responsibility has always ended at the milk tank,” said Andrus. “Now it’s all the way through, until it hits the mouths of the customers.”
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Hill cow’s milk in the initial steps of making Bridgman Blue. Cultures were added to start the ripening process soon after the milk — roughly 600 gallons — was pumped into a stainless-steel vat in the cheesemaking room. When the fermenting milk contained sufficient acid, Bacon added rennet for that “magic moment” of coagulation. By 8:15 a.m., other cheesemakers had arrived to assist him in placing the curds into about 100 cheese molds. These were turned through the day and into the night. Kehler’s teenage son handled the final turning before bedtime. The next morning, the Bridgman Blue was moved across the dirt road to the cellars, where it will age for about three months. “Cheesemaking is a long day; you can’t
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spent childhood summers at their family’s camp on Caspian Lake in Greensboro. The Kehlers’ initial business plan was to generate about $550,000 in annual sales, according to Mateo Kehler. With the opening of the cheese cellars — an underground facility of seven aging caves — a decade ago, the business plans and projections grew. (Prior to building the cellars, Jasper Hill aged its cheese in the basement of Kehler’s farmhouse.) Last year, farming about 1,200 acres and producing cheese at both the home farm and the Vermont Food Venture Center in Hardwick, Jasper Hill’s sales revenue totaled $15.3 million, Kehler said. “Our whole MO is to build pipelines to markets where there’s disposable income and we suck cash out where there’s plenty of it,” he noted. In late June of this year, the first goats moved north from the relative warmth of Windsor to the 247-acre Bridgman Hill Farm in Hardwick, which Kehler called “the God-awfulest, coldest, windiest place in Vermont.” (But it has a beautiful view due west to Mount Mansfield.) The goats have arrived in lots of 30 to ease their, and the farmers’, acclimation. For example, Redick and Lindbo milk goats from the side while Andrus and Rowden milk from behind — an adjustment for the animals. The incremental herd buildup is on pace with the establishment of the farm, some of which is still under construction. “If you took all 400 goats at once, you’d probably want to take a trip to a sanitarium for a while,” Redick quipped. About half of the goats — a three-breed herd of Lamancha, Alpine and Saanen — are now in place at Bridgman Hill, where Andrus and Rowden milk in a retrofitted cow parlor. A 23,000-square-foot barn, equipped with access to the outdoors and lighting to maintain year-round milk production, is expected to be finished in mid-October. “We’re in startup mode,” said Andrus on a recent afternoon at his farm. “There’s a lot of goats and work coming. We’d like to have 700 goats milking within the next three to four years.” The Oak Knoll herd is healthy and “exceptionally friendly” because of the manner in which the goats have been handled, according to Andrus. The animals were a “big attraction” of pursuing the venture, he said, calling the Oak Knoll farmers “goat whisperers.” When new goats arrive at Bridgman Hill, they recognize their former farmmates from Windsor. “They get off the trailer and they see the other goats and
rush it,” Bacon said, some five hours after he started work. “It’s a labor of love.” A similar process took place in late June, when Jasper Hill made its first batch of Bridgman Blue. This week — after months of aging and another round of tasting — that blue could be deemed ready for release. “It’s all an adventure,” Bacon said. “You have to listen to what the cheese is telling you.” m Contact: sally@sevendaysvt.com
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food+drink opened Kestrel’s first sit-down café in South Burlington’s Technology Park in 2018. That location will continue to operate as usual, in addition to roasting the coffee and preparing the food to be sold on Maple Street. The Steversons met Maglianero owner and cofounder MICHAEL JAGER in a moment of coffee-fueled serendipity at the café in 2017. Later, they worked with Jager at SOLIDARITY OF UNBRIDLED LABOUR
(formerly JDK Design) to establish Kestrel’s branding and design. An expansion in year two wasn’t in Kestrel’s original business plan, but the established relationship with Jager and the deep understanding that came from working together to develop the company’s branding made the Steversons feel ready to take this plunge. “We thought we were just getting great branding,” Johnny said. “If anyone else had asked, we wouldn’t have entertained the idea [of opening a second café].” “We’re grateful to have the opportunity for
a little bit of disruption to the plan so early on in our business,” Charlotte said. The café will serve Kestrel’s own specialty coffee and offer a “very similar” drink menu to Maglianero’s, while the new space will allow the Steversons to experiment with food offerings, Charlotte said. The café will be closed Saturday through Monday, September 28 to 30, for training and minor renovations. It will reopen under the Kestrel banner with the Steversons at the helm on Tuesday, October 1. For Jager and his wife, GIOVANNA, Maglianero cofounder and director of the Karma Bird House, the transformation is an opportunity to simplify and spend time with their elderly parents, while giving young entrepreneurs the chance to create a culture of new ideas
— something Jager said the state needs. Transformation is nothing new for Maglianero. The café opened in the basement of 47 Maple Street in 2011 as a sort of “anti-Starbucks,” according to Jager, who said he was inspired by the way that underground spaces have shaped culture. It moved upstairs to the front gallery space in December 2013. The accommodations for cyclists — Maglianero is Italian for “black jersey,” which was given as a symbolic cycling prize — will not change. “Charlotte and Johnny are bringing youthful, passionate, community-based and quality-based energy for another blossoming of this living idea,” Jager said. “The river of culture rages 24 hours a day and never stops. If you don’t keep up, you’ll be underwater.”
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Pearl Street to a new spot at Five Corners, is one of the few restaurants that call me to breakfast. It’s like my personal siren, luring me to something deliciously indulgent. In particular, it is the Firebird pork carnitas omelette that sings to me. I succumb only every so often, but I dream about it frequently. Meltingly tender, perfectly seasoned pork is partnered with caramelized
mushrooms and red onions, and cool slices of avocado. A judicious amount of shredded cheddar and Jack cheese pulls it all together inside a puffy egg envelope. The whole thing is anointed with a fire-roasted tomatillo-and-cilantro salsa, bringing acidic balance to each rich bite. The crowning touches are a side of justright, crusty home fries and fresh, housemade pico de gallo.
I do not think I am exaggerating when I call the café’s chef-owner, Jake Tran, a genius for bringing carnitas to breakfast. In the U.S., the traditional Mexican slowcooked pork shows up mostly in tacos. If you think of the half-moon of omelette as a tortilla, it isn’t a huge leap, but it’s still genius in my book. Tran doesn’t remember the omelette’s inspiration. “I just did it,” he said with a GLENN RUSSELL
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food+drink shrug, sitting at a high-top table in his new space the week after it opened. “It’s like fusing breakfast and fast food.” When he launched the original Firebird in 2009, Tran had to come up with a number of omelettes, he recalled. He was influenced by the food he encountered after his family moved to the U.S. from Vietnam in the 1970s, first to Oregon and then to California. He describes his approach as California-influenced, or Cali-fusion. The menu, which includes huevos rancheros, burritos and chorizo in various dishes, reflects Tran’s experience as a young adult navigating downtown San Jose. “Everywhere you turned, there was Mexican food. Every side street had these little grocery stores. You’d go in, and the shelves would be overflowing,” he said. “Up near the counter, there’d be steamers with four kinds of meat to put in tortillas. They were classic taquerias.” At Firebird, Tran starts his carnitas with pork shoulder or Boston butt “cooked in lard for a long time, until we pick it up with tongs and it falls apart. It’s so tender, we don’t have to shred it,” he said with a smile. The meat is finished with salt and generous splashes of lime juice. Firebird’s Mexican influence is also evident in the peppers and tomatillos sprinkled throughout the menu, adding mellow heat and layers of flavor. The Benedicts all come with a poblano cream sauce, which also tops some of the omelettes; others have a chipotle or tomatillo sauce, depending on the filling. All the sauces are made from scratch in-house. Most restaurants don’t sauce omelettes, but Tran considers each aspect of his dishes carefully. Where omelettes are concerned, he said, “I always felt like something was missing. You gotta have another dimension.” The sauces are an example of the extra touches that have earned Tran a devoted following, both at Firebird and his Nest Coffee & Bakery. The coffeehouse opened on Main Street in Essex Junction in 2016, just around the corner from the new Firebird location. Tran, 56, came to the restaurant business by “happenstance,” he said. Back in 2004, he was at a life and career crossroads when he got the opportunity to operate a small sandwich café in South Burlington. He had a computer repair and website design business but was casting about for a new career. “It wasn’t something I aspired to do,” Tran said, “but it came at a time when I needed to do something different.” He ran Café Demeter for five years before responding to a Craigslist ad that offered the original Firebird location for lease. Having learned the ropes of the
food business, Tran was ready to develop his own style. “Firebird was my real-food restaurant,” he said. While he came to the business late, “I always appreciated good food,” Tran said. “I grew up with my grandmother and mother in Vietnam. They were great cooks, and I ate a lot of great food.” As a treat, he recalled, the family would go see a Hollywood movie and then eat street food. A favorite was shredded green papaya salad topped with snipped dried beef jerky and a spicy lime fish sauce. One style of food he will never offer at his restaurant, however, is Vietnamese. “I can’t live up to their cooking,” Tran said with a chuckle. Like the Firebird menu, the warm community atmosphere that the restaurateur cultivates at both of his establishments owes something to his California years. In his twenties, Tran frequented a breakfast spot in the coastal city of Capitola. “It was very simple,” he recalled. “The owner cooked, and there was one waitress. I’d go and get breakfast and read the paper and drink my coffee. It makes me so happy to go to a place like that.” Tran joked that he needs to do something new every five years, but he’s got plenty to keep him busy for a while. His Five Corners space doubles Firebird’s seats to just over 30; he plans to update the menu as soon as the team members, who include his 22-year-old son, Bo, have hit their stride. In December, Tran will start offering a small-plates dinner menu three nights a week. Over the past decade, “I’ve gotten to know the community really well,” he said. “They bring me apples. They bring me flowers.” They even bring him homegrown kaffir lime leaves, which he’ll use in his Thai-style tom kha soup once the weather cools down. At this point in our conversation, as if on cue, Alice Rutkowski arrived with a vase of white tulips arranged by her wife, Susan Herrick. The couple lives on the top floor of the building across from Firebird’s new spot. “We watched the whole thing happen,” Rutkowski said, referring to the renovation of the 1940s-era gas station. They are big fans of Firebird’s French toast and Blackstone Benedict with bacon, grilled tomatoes and cheese. Unlike some people, Rutkowski said, “We love breakfast.” m Contact: pasanen@sevendaysvt.com
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BUSINESS AFTER HOURS RECEPTION: Area professionals rub elbows over refreshments. Rock of Ages Quarry, Graniteville, 5-7 p.m. $10-15; preregister. Info, 229-5711. BUSINESS PLANNING COURSE: In a 10-week class presented by the Center for Women & Enterprise, aspiring entrepreneurs gain the confidence and knowledge to launch a small business. Rutland Economic Development Corp., 5:30-8:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 391-4870. KELLEY MARKETING GROUP BREAKFAST MEETING: Professionals in marketing, advertising, communications and social media brainstorm ideas for nonprofit organizations. Room 217, Ireland Building, Champlain College, Burlington, 7:45-9 a.m. Free. Info, 864-4067. VERMONT INVESTORS SUMMIT: Speakers, workshops, networking opportunities and company speed dating fill two days dedicated to local enterprises. Various Burlington locations, 8 a.m.-6:30 p.m. Prices vary. Info, info@ vtinnovationcommons.com.
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EDIBLE WELLNESS: A Q&A demystifies the benefits of consuming cannabidiol. Attendees treat themselves to sweet CBD delights. RabbleRouser Chocolate & Craft Co., Middlesex, 5-6 p.m. Free. Info, 229-2090.
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FIBER RIOT!: Creative types get hooked on knitting, crocheting, spinning and more at an informal weekly gathering. Mad River Fiber Arts & Mill, Waitsfield, 5-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 496-7746. KNITTER’S GROUP: Needles in tow, crafters share their latest projects and get help with challenging patterns. All skill levels are welcome. South Burlington Community Library, University Mall, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.
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SQUARE DANCING: Swing your partner! Dancers foster friendships while exercising their minds and bodies. Barre Area Senior Center, 1-3 p.m. Donations; preregister. Info, 479-9512.
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DEATH CAFÉ: Folks meet for a thought-provoking and respectful conversation about death, aimed at accessing a fuller life. Pyramid Holistic Wellness Center, Rutland, 7-9 p.m. Free; donations accepted. Info, 353-6991. NURSING BEYOND A YEAR MEET-UP: Breastfeeding parents connect over toddler topics such as weaning and healthy eating habits. Aikido of Champlain Valley, Burlington, 9:30 a.m. Free. Info, 985-8228.
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JOBSINVT CAREER FAIR: Employment seekers come face-to-face with recruiters from Green Mountain State companies including Hannaford, Heritage Family Credit Union, Pete’s Tire Barns
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See what’s playing at local theaters in the movies section. ‘AFTER THE FIRE: A TRUE STORY OF HEROES AND COWARDS’: Shawn Simmons and Alvaro Llanos, two men who were critically burned in a 2000 dorm fire at Seton Hall University, answer questions after a screening of a documentary about their experiences. Angell College Center, SUNY Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7 p.m. Free. Info, 518-564-4950.
Friday, September 27, 8-10 p.m., at Robison Hall, Mahaney Arts Center, Middlebury College. $6-15. Info, 443-3168, middlebury.edu.
‘ANTHROPOCENE: THE HUMAN EPOCH’: Released in 2018, this hard-hitting documentary is a meditation on humanity’s massive reengineering of the planet. Woodstock Town Hall Theatre, 6-8 p.m. Donations; preregister. Info, 457-3981. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7 p.m. $5-8; free for Vermont International Film Festival members. Info, 660-2600.
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‘BROOKLYN’: Cinephiles gather to watch the 2015 film starring Saoirse Ronan as an Irish immigrant torn between two worlds. Highland Center for the Arts, Greensboro, 7-9 p.m. $5. Info, 533-2000. ‘HIDDEN PACIFIC 3D’: Some of the Pacific Ocean’s most beautiful islands and marine national monuments grace the screen. Northfield Savings Bank 3D Theater: A National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 11:30 a.m., 1:30 & 3:30 p.m. WED.25
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Community members pull — literally — for the state’s LGBTQ youth in Outright Vermont’s annual Fire Truck Pull. Teams of 12 use all of their strength to haul a fully loaded fire truck in a race up Burlington’s Church Street Marketplace. The Queen City-based nonprofit, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year, supports LGBTQ youngsters and their families and communities. Want to pitch in without straining a muscle? Advocates can donate through a team or individual’s fundraising page, or start their own. Spectators are encouraged to take to the street to cheer on competitors and show their support for the organization and its beneficiaries.
FIRE TRUCK PULL Saturday, September 28, registration, 11 a.m.; event, noon-2 p.m., at Church Street Marketplace in Burlington. Minimum $3,000 in funds raised per team of 12; free for spectators. Info, 865-9677, outrightvt.org.
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“Many stories matter,” said author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in a 2009 TED Talk. “Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign, but stories can also be used to empower and to humanize.” Inspired by the popular series “The Moth,” the Mahaney Arts Center and Middlebury College’s student storytelling organization the Middlebury MothUP handpick local raconteurs to share anecdotes on a given theme. This year, participants riff on the topic of resilience. Middlebury students Sabian Edouard and Hawa Abdullaahi Adam, alumna Tania Flores, professor Tara Affolter, and community members Jack Mayer and Pierre Vachon step up to the mic with real-life tales, all told by heart.
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After more than 25 years as a band, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy remain on a mission to celebrate jazz and swing music. Formed in Ventura, Calif., in the early ’90s, the vintage-inspired ensemble first reached a national audience through an appearance in the 1996 comedy flick Swingers, serving up a high-octane performance of “Go Daddy-O” while Jon Favreau’s character burns up the dance floor. Most recently, the “You & Me & the Bottle Makes 3 Tonight (Baby)” hitmakers released the 2017 album Louie Louie Louie, on which they cover Louis Armstrong, Louis Jordan and Louis Prima. The band’s original core lineup sparks excitement for their favorite genres with a high-energy horn-driven concert kicking off the 2019-20 TD Bank Celebration Series.
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Saturday, September 28, 8 p.m., at Barre Opera House. $24-46.50. Info, 476-8188, barreoperahouse.org.
SOUND Bibliophile’s Delight Many literature-loving Vermonters mark their calendars each year for the Burlington Book Festival. Billed as an “annual celebration of the written word featuring literary luminaries from around the world and just around the corner,” this 15th annual fest offers four days of workshops, panels, readings and special events for self-proclaimed bookworms. Among the noteworthy guests is English author, journalist and political commentator Will Self (pictured). A prolific writer with 11 novels and numerous nonfiction collections to his name, Self is known to delve into topics such as mental illness, drug abuse and psychiatry in his work. The New York Times contributor speaks to attendees via Skype.
BURLINGTON BOOK FESTIVAL Thursday, September 26, through Sunday, September 29, at various Burlington locations. Prices vary; most events are free. Info, 658-3328, burlingtonbookfestival.com.
WILL SELF Saturday, September 28, 1 p.m., via Skype at Fletcher Free Library in Burlington. Free. Info, 658-3328, burlingtonbookfestival.com.
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$3-5 plus regular admission, $11.50-14.50; admission free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848. ‘INCREDIBLE PREDATORS 3D’: Advanced filming techniques expose the planet’s top hunters on land, under the sea and in the air. Northfield Savings Bank 3D Theater: A National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 11 a.m., 1 & 3 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $11.50-14.50; admission free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848. ‘MIES ON SCENE’: Shown as part of the Architecture + Design Film Series, the film tells the story of a Barcelona building that changed the history of architecture. Burlington City Hall Auditorium, reception, 6 p.m.; screening, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7166. MOVIE: Snacks are provided at a showing of a popular film. Call for details. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. ‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: Actor Kate Winslet narrates a virtual odyssey into the largest and least-explored habitat on Earth. Northfield Savings Bank 3D Theater: A National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, noon, 2 & 4 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $11.50-14.50; admission free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848. TELLURIDE AT DARTMOUTH: Cinephiles get a sneak peek at flicks from this year’s famed Colorado film festival. See hop.dartmouth.edu for details. Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H. $15 for single tickets. Info, 603-646-2422. ‘TINTORETTO: A REBEL IN VENICE’: Helena Bonham Carter narrates a 2019 documentary celebrating the 500th anniversary of the birth of the Italian Renaissance painter born Jacopo Comin. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. $6-15. Info, 748-2600. ‘TINY GIANTS 3D’: An immersive film reveals the astonishing lives of the smallest of animals — think chipmunks and grasshopper mice. Northfield Savings Bank 3D Theater: A National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 10:30 a.m., 12:30, 2:30 & 4:30 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $11.50-14.50; admission free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848.
games
BEGINNERS’ BRIDGE: Those looking to get in on the card game learn the basics from longtime player Grace Sweet. Waterbury Public Library, 6-8 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 244-7036. BRIDGE CLUB: Players have fun with the popular card game. Burlington Bridge Club, Williston, 9:15 a.m. & 1:30 p.m. $6. Info, 872-5722.
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eclectic concert by 10 young Green Mountain State vocalists. Christ Episcopal Church, Montpelier, 7 p.m. $5-15. Info, 426-3210.
MAH JONGG IN WILLISTON: Participants of all levels enjoy friendly bouts of this tile-based game. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 1-3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.
OLD NORTH END NEIGHBORHOOD BAND TEEN MUSIC JAM: Be they accomplished or beginner musicians, young players find harmony in the traditional music of Burlington’s past and present immigrant groups. Boys & Girls Club, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 881-8500.
health & fitness
ALL-LEVELS ACROYOGA CLASS: The mindfulness and breath of yoga meet the playful aspects of acrobatics in a partner practice. No partners or experience required. Sangha Studio — Pine, Burlington, 7-8 p.m. Donations. Info, 798-2651. CHAIR YOGA: Whether experiencing balance issues or recovering from illness or injury, health-conscious community members drop in for a weekly low-stress class. Waterbury Public Library, 10:15-11:15 a.m. Free. Info, 244-7036. RESILIENCE FLOW: Individuals affected by traumatic brain injuries engage in a gentle yoga practice. Sangha Studio — Pine, Burlington, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 448-4262. YOGA4CANCER: Meant for anyone affected by the illness, this class aims to help participants manage treatment side effects and recovery. Sangha Studio — North, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. Donations. Info, 448-4262.
language
BEGINNER & INTERMEDIATE/ ADVANCED ENGLISH LANGUAGE CLASSES: Learners take communication to the next level. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211. FOURTH WEDNESDAY CONVERSATION GROUP: Frenchlanguage conversation flows at a monthly gathering. Alburgh Public Library, 5:15-6 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, ajp4561@gmail.com. FRENCH CLUB AT HOWE LIBRARY: Bearing bagged lunches, francophones chat and chew with facilitator Madame G. Rotary Room, Howe Library, Hanover, N.H., noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 603-643-4120. LUNCH IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE: SPANISH: ¡Hola! Language lovers perfect their fluency. KelloggHubbard Library, Montpelier, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.
montréal
‘THE PIANIST OF WILLESDEN LANE’: Grammy Award-winning pianist Mona Golabek performs a stirring classical music concert inspired by her own mother’s story of survival during World War II in this Hershey Felder Presents production. Sylvan Adams Theatre, Segal Centre for Performing Arts, Montréal, 1 & 8 p.m. $30-67. Info, 514-739-7944.
music
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NORTHERN HARMONY: Global singing styles merge in an SEVEN DAYS SEPTEMBER 25-OCTOBER 2, 2019
TINARIWEN: The Grammy Award-winning band of Tuareg musicians brings its hypnotic, gritty blend of Western blues and desert psychedelia to Burlington. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $15-45. Info, 863-5966.
outdoors
SUNFLOWER HOUSE: Families find their way through a half acre of rooms and hallways made of several thousand towering blossoms. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Regular admission, $4-16; free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 457-2355.
seminars
DEALING WITH DIFFICULT PEOPLE: Venerable Amy Miller, a Buddhist nun, bestows practical exercises for transforming negative experiences with certain individuals into more positive interactions. Presented by the Milarepa Center. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 6-7:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 633-4136.
talks
DAVID ALLEN: The 25th annual Current Topics in Science Speaker Series continues with “What Drives Lyme Disease Risk in Vermont,” delivered by the Middlebury College assistant professor in biology. Room 207, Bentley Hall, Northern Vermont University-Johnson, 4-5:15 p.m. Free. Info, les.kanat@ northernvermont.edu. DAVID JENEMANN: “From Baseball Gloves to Fascism: Knowledge and the Social Order” stimulates mental muscles. Billings-Ira Allen Lecture Hall, University of Vermont, Burlington, 5-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-1297. KORY ROGERS: The Shelburne Museum Francie and John Downing Curator of American Art looks at nature-inspired furniture design in a Yestermorrow Speaker Series lecture. Yestermorrow Design/Build School, Waitsfield, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 496-5545. MAYA CHRISTOBEL: “The Epidemic of Teen Suicide and Depression: What We Can Do” examines potential causes and solutions. Rock Point School, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 863-1104. STELLE LARSEN & MICHELLE THOMPSON: “Uranium in Water, Radon in Air” elucidates household risks. The first 30 registrants receive a free water testing kit. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, ahs.vdhprivatewelltestresults@ vermont.gov.
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TECH HELP WITH CLIF: Electronics novices develop skill sets applicable to smartphones, tablets and other gadgets. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, noon & 1 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-6955.
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GOOGLE DRIVE: Folks who are familiar with using the internet get dialed in to the basics of Google Chrome, Gmail and Google Docs. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 865-7217.
theater
‘A DOLL’S HOUSE, PART 2’: Lucas Hnath’s witty sequel to Henrik Isben’s classic drama, presented by Northern Stage, offers a complex exploration of traditional gender roles and the struggles within human relationships. Byrne Theater, Barrette Center for the Arts, White River Junction, 7-8:30 p.m. $17.75-57.75. Info, 296-7000. ‘A FEW GOOD MEN’: You can’t handle the truth! But we think you can handle the Stowe Theatre Guild production of the Aaron Sorkin military courtroom drama that inspired the 1992 film of the same name starring Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson. Stowe Town Hall Theatre, 7:30 p.m. $14-20. Info, tickets@stowetheatre.com. ‘TINTYPES: A MUSICAL CELEBRATION OF AMERICA’: The Great American Songbook comes to life in a Tony Award-nominated musical revue brought to the stage by ArtisTree’s Music Theatre Festival. The Grange Theatre, South Pomfret, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $28-35. Info, 457-3500.
words
MILITARY WRITERS’ SYMPOSIUM: Author presentations, book signings and a panel discussion salute influential writers on current affairs and military history. Norwich University, Northfield, 9 a.m. Free; additional cost for Meet the Authors dinner; preregister for dinner. Info, 485-2080. WRITING CIRCLE: Words pour out when participants explore creative expression in a low-pressure environment. The Pathways Vermont Community Center, Burlington, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 888-492-8218, ext. 303.
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NETWORKING SOIRÉE: What are your big goals? How do you track your progress? A panel of businesswomen considers these and other questions during an energizing discussion hosted by the Savvy Professional Women Network. The Essex Resort & Spa, 6-8 p.m. $30; includes food and a drink ticket; preregister. Info, 310-5823. VERMONT INVESTORS SUMMIT: See WED.25, 1-8 p.m.
BURLINGTON WALK/BIKE COUNCIL MONTHLY MEETING: Two-wheeled travelers get in gear to discuss ways to improve conditions for cyclists and pedestrians. Room 12, Burlington City Hall, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 430-4652.
SANKOFA DANZAFRO: Through a series of vignettes titled The City of Others, the dance company sheds light on the urban experience of black Colombians. Moore Theater, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7:30-8:30 p.m. $15-45. Info, 603-646-2422.
environment
RECYCLING FACILITY TOUR: Recyclers see in real time how blue-bin items transform into marketable commodities. Materials Recovery Facility, Williston, 8-9:30 a.m. Free. Info, 872-8111.
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BIRDS & BEERS VERMONT: Fans of feathered friends flock to an informal gathering with “Bird Diva” Bridget Butler. Stone Corral Brewery, Richmond, 6-9 p.m. Free. Info, 434-2167. FEAST & FIELD MARKET: Prepared foods and an open-mic session hosted by local folk trio Trifolium are on the menu at a pastoral party. Feast and Field, Barnard, 5-9 p.m. $5-10. Info, feastandfield@gmail.com. MEMORY CAFÉ: People experiencing memory loss and their caregivers connect in a relaxed atmosphere. American Legion Post 20, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 1-3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 518-564-3369.
fairs & festivals
BURLINGTON BOOK FESTIVAL: Lit lovers celebrate the written word with several days of workshops, panels, readings and special events. See calendar spotlight and burlingtonbookfestival.com for details. Various Burlington locations, 6 p.m. Prices vary; most events are free. Info, 658-3328.
film
See what’s playing at local theaters in the movies section. ‘HIDDEN PACIFIC 3D’: See WED.25. ‘INCREDIBLE PREDATORS 3D’: See WED.25. ‘THE MAN WHO SAVED THE WORLD’: Part documentary and part reenacted footage, this 2014 film trains the lens on Russian missile officer Stanislav Petrov, who disobeyed protocol to prevent a nuclear holocaust. O’Brien Community Center, Winooski, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 863-6713. ‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: See WED.25. ‘SCOOTER’: A trio of YouTubers documenting a cross-country scooter trip encounters a killer in this new thriller written and directed by Vermont native Matt Wohl. Merrill’s Roxy Cinemas, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. $15. Info, 598-2469.
‘SUICIDE: THE RIPPLE EFFECT’: The Marna and Stephen Wise Tulin 2019 Fall Community Education Series continues with a film shedding light on suicide rates, as well as stories of survival and recovery. A Q&A with the Howard Center’s Charlotte McCorkell follows. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 6-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 488-6912. TELLURIDE AT DARTMOUTH: See WED.25. ‘TINY GIANTS 3D’: See WED.25. ‘WORLDS OF URSULA K. LE GUIN’: Fantasy and science fiction fanatics get a glimpse of the groundbreaking author’s life and work through this 2018 documentary. Alumni Auditorium, Champlain College, Burlington, 6 p.m. $5-15; free for Champlain College students. Info, 660-2600.
food & drink
BEER & CHOCOLATE PAIRING: Lake Champlain Chocolates and Zero Gravity Craft Brewery join forces for a guided gustatory extravaganza with brewmaster Paul Saylor. Lake Champlain Chocolates Factory Store & Café, Burlington, 6 p.m. $35. Info, 864-1807. BURLINGTON EDIBLE HISTORY TOUR: Foodies sample local eats on a scrumptious stroll dedicated to the Queen City’s culinary past. Awning behind ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 1 p.m. $55. Info, eliseandgail@ burlingtonediblehistory.com. COMMUNITY LUNCH: Gardengrown fare makes for a delicious and nutritious midday meal. The Pathways Vermont Community Center, Burlington, 1-2 p.m. Free. Info, 888-492-8218, ext. 309. FOOD — FIRE — FOAM: Wood-fired pizza and other palate-pleasing provisions fill bellies as Sabrina Comellas provides the musical backdrop. Terrace, Hotel Vermont, Burlington, 5-9 p.m. Free. Info, 855-650-0080. IN OUR OWN BACKYARD: RUNAMOCK MAPLE: Fans of Vermont’s famous flavor savor samples from an industry innovator. Stowe Free Library, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 253-6145. IN-STORE TASTING & DEMO: Foodies drop in for samples of paleo chocolate chip cookies. Kiss the Cook, Middlebury, 11:30 a.m.1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 349-8803. VERGENNES FARMERS MARKET: Local food and crafts, live music, and hot eats add flavor to autumn evenings. Vergennes City Park, 3-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 233-9180. WORCESTER COMMUNITY MARKET: Fresh organic produce, live bands and kids’ activities bring neighbors together. 66 Elmore Rd., Worcester, 5-8 p.m. Free. Info, thelandingvt@gmail.com. ZERO GRAVITY BREWING BEER DINNER: Foodies indulge in four courses paired with craft beverages. Philo Ridge Farm, Charlotte, 6-9 p.m. $100. Info, 539-2912.
games
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thinkers make calculated moves as they vie for their opponents’ kings. Shaw’s, Shelburne Rd., South Burlington, 7-9:30 p.m. Free. Info, 863-5403. CRIBBAGE: Friends connect over a fun-spirited card game. Barre Area Senior Center, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 479-9512.
health & fitness
ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION EXERCISE PROGRAM: Seniors rise and shine with an exercise program meant to increase bone density and muscle strength. Barre Area Senior Center, 8:309:45 a.m. Free. Info, 479-9512. CHAIR YOGA: Comfortable clothing is recommended for this class focused on balance, breath, flexibility and meditation. Barre Area Senior Center, 1-2 p.m. Free. Info, 479-9512. CHAIR YOGA WITH SANGHA STUDIO: Supported poses promote health and wellbeing. Champlain Senior Center, Burlington, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 448-4262. COMMUNITY MINDFULNESS: A 20-minute guided practice with Andrea O’Connor alleviates stress and tension. Tea and a discussion follow. Winooski Senior Center, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 233-1161. FALLS PREVENTION TAI CHI I & II: Students improve their ability to stay steady on their feet. Barre Area Senior Center, 3:45-4:45 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 479-9512. NAMI VERMONT ‘IN OUR OWN VOICE’: Trained presenters draw on their own experiences to provide practical information about mental illness. Charlotte Library, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 876-7949. YANG 24 TAI CHI: Slow, graceful, expansive movements promote wide-ranging health and fitness benefits. Shelburne Farms, 4-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 735-5467.
FOMO? Find even more local events in this newspaper and online:
art Find visual art exhibits and events in the art section and at sevendaysvt.com/art.
film See what’s playing at local theaters in the movies section and at sevendayst.com/movies.
music + comedy Find club dates at local venues in the music + nighlife section and at sevendaysvt.com/music. All family-oriented events are now published in Kids VT, our free parenting monthly. Look for it on newsstands and check out the online calendar at kidsvt.com. Learn more about highlighted listings in the Magnificent 7 on page 11.
YOGA: A Sangha Studio instructor guides students who are in recovery toward achieving inner tranquility. Turning Point Center, Burlington, 5-6 p.m. Free. Info, 448-4262.
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music
Find club dates in the music section. HUNGER MOUNTAIN CO-OP BROWN BAG SUMMER CONCERT SERIES: This weekly series concludes with Capital City blues artist Dave Keller. City Hall Plaza, Montpelier, noon. Free. Info, 223-9604. VERMONT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: MADE IN VERMONT STATEWIDE TOUR: A musical celebration of autumn includes compositions by Haydn, Bartók and Matthew Evan Taylor. Fine Arts Center, Castleton University, 7 p.m. $10-25; free for kids 5 and under with adult ticket. Info, 863-5966.
outdoors
SLOW & EASY HIKING: Walkers enjoy the sights, sounds and smells of the forest while moving at a gentle pace. Ilene Elliott leads this public Barre Area Senior Center outing. Barre Town Forest, Websterville, 10:10 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 479-9512. SUNFLOWER HOUSE: See WED.25.
politics
VERMONT LIBERTARIAN PARTY TOWN CAUCUS IN ESSEX JUNCTION: Essex Junction voters who have not yet participated in a caucus this year convene to discuss local issues. 1st Republic Brewing Company, Essex Junction, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, vkchase@gmail.com.
seminars
WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND: HOW KARMA WORKS: A lively workshop with Buddhist nun Amy Miller reveals small adjustments that can lead to big changes for a more peaceful existence. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 6 a.m.-8 p.m. Donations. Info, 633-4136.
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ARI PRESTON: Using photos and weather maps, the assistant professor and students discuss their experiences in a spring storm forecasting program. Room 100, Academic and Student Activity Center, Northern Vermont UniversityLyndon, 5 p.m. Free. Info, aaron. preston@northernvermont.edu. BILL KEETON: Delivering this year’s Seward Weber Lecture, the University of Vermont professor of forest ecology and forestry delves into carbon-friendly woodlands. Unitarian Church of Montpelier, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 434-3068. JOE MANNING: In “The Lewis Hine Project: Tracking the Lives
of Child Laborers,” the speaker shares some of his most compelling stories from his work identifying children photographed in the early 1900s. St. Edmund’s Hall, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 4:30-6 p.m. Free. Info, 355-9937.
FREE CLASSES — FALL REGISTRATION NOW OPEN HealthSource education programs and healthy lifestyle classes are offered by the Frymoyer Community Health Resource Center, a consumer health library at the University of Vermont Medical Center.
RAFAEL PALACIOS: The Sankofa Danzafro director and choreographer discusses present-day Colombia and the development of the dance company’s piece The City of Others. Top of the Hop, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 603-646-2422.
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TECH SUPPORT: Need an email account? Want to enjoy ebooks? Bring your phone, tablet or laptop to a weekly help session. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 5-7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-8291.
theater
‘A DOLL’S HOUSE, PART 2’: See WED.25. ‘A FEW GOOD MEN’: See WED.25. NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: ‘ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS’: Latenight host James Corden won a Tony Award for his performance in this Broadway hit, presented on the big screen to celebrate the 10th anniversary of National Theatre Live. Palace 9 Cinemas, South Burlington, 2 & 7 p.m. $18. Info, 863-5966. Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort, 3-5 p.m. $13.60-17. Info, 760-4634. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. $16-25. Info, 748-2600.
Thursday, October 3, 6 - 7 pm | UVM Medical Center, Davis Auditorium New England Federal Credit Union Did you know that a higher credit score could save you money? Your credit score affects everything from your interest rate on a loan to better car insurance rates. Join us to find out why your credit score matters and how to maximize it to save you money.
Monday, October 14, 6 - 7:30 pm | UVM Medical Center, Davis Auditorium Dave Keefe, Energy Consultant, Vermont Energy Investment Corporation (VEIC) for Efficiency Vermont
This engaging workshop will cover the eight principles of healthy homes and simple steps you can take to improve indoor air quality and reduce common home health hazards while saving energy. Learn about available incentives, rebates, technical support and other resources. View all our classes online at UVMHealth.org/MedCenterHealthsource. Pre-registration is required by calling (802) 847-7222 or by registering online. FREE parking is available onsite for all classes.
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‘SPINNING INTO BUTTER’: Based on true events that took place at Middlebury College in the 1980s, Rebecca Gilman’s searing play brings white privilege and latent racism into focus. Presented by the Parish players. Eclipse Grange Theater, Thetford, 7:30 p.m. $10-20. Info, 785-4344. ‘TINTYPES: A MUSICAL CELEBRATION OF AMERICA’: See WED.25.
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EVENING BOOK DISCUSSION: Washington Black by Esi Edugyan inspires conversation among readers. South Burlington Community Library, University Mall, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140. GLYNNIS FAWKES & JASON LUTES: The graphic novelists open the covers of their respective new books, Charlotte Brontë Before Jane Eyre and Houdini: The Handcuff King. Phoenix Books, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 448-3350. POETRY/SPOKEN WORD OPEN MIC: Poets gather to share new material in a supportive setting. Chandler Center for the Arts, Randolph, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 728-9878. RICK PRASHAW: The Canadian author shares from Soar, Adam, Soar, his memoir on his late son’s THU.26
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WEEKEND AT BERNIE’S: Activists gather outside Sen. Bernie Sanders’ office to protest his support of bringing F-35 fighter jets to Burlington International Airport. Please bring signs. Senator Bernie Sanders’ Office — Burlington, 5-6 p.m. Free. Info, 786-423-1403.
community
DROP-IN JAMBOREE: Pride Center of Vermont, Spectrum Youth & Family Services, and the Pathways Vermont Community Center invite area residents to learn about available services while gobbling up American Flatbread pizza and Ben & Jerry’s ice cream. Pomeroy Park, Burlington, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 777-8602. OPEN HOUSE: With local eats and live entertainment by A2VT and Brett Hughes, this rain-orshine gathering gives locals a chance to scope out community center programming. O’Brien Community Center, Winooski, 5-8 p.m. Free. Info, 863-6713.
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BALLROOM & LATIN DANCING: Singles, couples and beginners are welcome to join in a dance social featuring waltz, tango and more. Williston Jazzercise Fitness Center, 8-9:30 p.m. $10. Info, 862-2269. ECSTATIC DANCE VERMONT: Inspired by the 5Rhythms dance practice, attendees move, groove, release and open their hearts to life in a safe and sacred space. Christ Episcopal Church, Montpelier, 7-9 p.m. $10. Info, fearnessence@gmail.com. ENGLISH COUNTRY DANCE: Pat MacPherson, Margaret Smith and Sarah Babbitt Spaeth provide music for newcomers and experienced movers alike. Martha Kent calls. Elley-Long Music Center, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 7-9:30 p.m. $10-15; $20 for groups of three or more; free for ages 35 and under. Info, 881-9732. SANKOFA DANZAFRO: See THU.26.
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performances. Piecemeal Pies brings Southern home cooking — think buttermilk biscuits with gravy and fried chicken with waffles. Briggs Opera House, White River Junction, 7 p.m. $150-175. Info, 332-3270. QUEEN CITY GHOSTWALK DARKNESS FALLS TOUR: Local historian Thea Lewis treats pedestrians to tales of madmen, smugglers, pub spirits and, of course, ghosts. Arrive 10 minutes early. Democracy sculpture, 199 Main St., Burlington, 7 p.m. $20. Info, 324-5467.
fairs & festivals
BURLINGTON BOOK FESTIVAL: See THU.26, 7 p.m. KILLINGTON BREWFEST: Suds lovers wet their whistles at Friday’s beer-inspired golf tournament and Saturday’s tasting sessions. Killington Resort, 3 p.m. $10-75. Info, 800-734-9435.
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See what’s playing at local theaters in the movies section. CLASSIC MOVIE NIGHT: ‘CAPTAIN BLOOD’: Action, adventure and romance ensue in this 1935 picture featuring swashbuckling pirates and a beautiful heroine. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 745-1392. ‘HIDDEN PACIFIC 3D’: See WED.25. ‘INCREDIBLE PREDATORS 3D’: See WED.25. ‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: See WED.25. ‘TINY GIANTS 3D’: See WED.25.
food & drink
CHICKEN PIE SUPPER: Neighbors rub elbows over a shared meal of this cold-weather comfort food. Takeout is available. The Old Meeting House, East Montpelier, 6:30 p.m. $8-22; preregister. Info, 223-6934.
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HARDWICK FARMERS MARKET: A burgeoning culinary community celebrates local ag with garden-fresh fare and handcrafted goods. Atkins Field, Hardwick, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 498-4734. PUBLIC CUPPING: Coffee connoisseurs and beginners alike explore the flavor notes and aromas of the roaster’s current offerings and new releases. Brio Coffeeworks, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 777-6641. RICHMOND FARMERS MARKET: An open-air marketplace featuring live music connects cultivators and fresh-food browsers. Volunteers Green, Richmond, 3-7 p.m. Free. Info, info@ richmondfarmersmarketvt.org. SPINNING PLATES: The alleyway next to the theater is transformed into an outdoor dining room with food truck fare and a beer and wine garden. See townhalltheater.org for restaurant information. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 5-10 p.m. Cost of food and drink. Info, 388-1436. SUN TO CHEESE TOUR: Fromage fans go behind the scenes and follow award-winning farmstead cheddar from raw milk to finished product. Shelburne Farms, 1:45-3:45 p.m. $20 includes a block of cheddar; preregister. Info, registration@shelburne farms.org.
games
BRIDGE CLUB: See WED.25, 9:15 a.m. DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: Imaginative teens and adults exercise their problem-solving skills in battles and adventures. Arrive early for help with character design. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 5:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955.
health & fitness
CHAIR YOGA: Students with limited mobility limber up with modified poses. Sangha Studio — North, Burlington, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 448-4262. GONG MEDITATION: Sonic vibrations lead to healing and deep relaxation. Yoga Roots, Williston, 7:30-8:30 p.m. $18. Info, 318-6050. SLOW FLOW YOGA: Trish DeRocher leads a gentle all-levels lunchtime lesson complete with herbal recommendations. Railyard Apothecary, Burlington, 1-2 p.m. Free. Info, 540-0595.
lgbtq
OUT IN THE OPEN SUMMIT: SOLD OUT. A weekend of field trips, discussions and presentations gets to the heart of the rural and small-town LGBTQ experience. See weareoutintheopen.org for details. Green Mountain Camp, Dummerston, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. $50-75. Info, info@ weareoutintheopen.org.
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Find club dates in the music section. ‘BARBRA & FRANK’: Backed by the Adirondack Jazz Orchestra, impersonators Sharon Owens
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and Robbie Howard channel Barbra Streisand and Frank Sinatra. Strand Center Theatre, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 8 p.m. $20-54. Info, 518-563-1604, ext. 105. FOUR SHILLINGS SHORT: Hailing from Ireland and California, respectively, husband and wife Aodh Og O’Tuama and Christy Martin have 12 independent folk recordings to their names. The Old Meeting House, East Montpelier, 7:30-9 p.m. $15; free for kids 12 and under. Info, 249-0404. FRIDAY NIGHT FIRES SUMMER MUSIC SERIES: Boot-stomping Western swing, country and Cajun tunes carry through the air while local food and wine please palates. Fresh Tracks Farm Vineyard & Winery, Berlin, wine service, 5 p.m.; music, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 223-1151. MAX HATT & EDDA GLASS: Nuanced and haunting jazz and Americana sounds performed as part of the UVM Lane Series get under listeners’ skin. University of Vermont Recital Hall, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $5-30. Info, 656-4455. PATTI CASEY & THE WICKED FINE PLAYERS: The local singersongwriter joins forces with her longtime collaborator Colin McCaffrey and former Bluegrass Gospel Project bandmates. Highland Center for the Arts, Greensboro, 7 p.m. $10-25. Info, 533-2000. RED BRICK COFFEE HOUSE: Hot beverages are provided at an open mic and jam session, where community members connect over music, cards and board games. Red Brick Meeting House, Westford, 7-10 p.m. Donations. Info, mpk802vt@gmail.com.
outdoors
SUNFLOWER HOUSE: See WED.25.
seminars
GENEALOGY: Using their memories, the internet and a library card, folks work with Carl Williams to record their own family history. Barre Area Senior Center, noon-1:30 p.m. Donations; preregister. Info, 479-9512.
talks
AMBER ARNOLD: Sound healing traditions from several cultures resonate during a talk and demo by the artist-in-residence and Sacred Foundations Sound Healing founder. Clemmons Family Farm, Charlotte, 6-7 p.m. Donations; preregister at clemmonsfamilyfarm.org. Info, 765-560-5445. EDUCATION & ENRICHMENT FOR EVERYONE: University of Vermont associate professor of geography shares his knowledge in “Migration, Money and Memory: The Importance of Global Cities in the World Economy — From London and New York to Delhi and Dubai.” Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 2-3 p.m. $5; $45 for the series. Info, 658-6554.
MASHROU’ LEILA TALK: Middle Eastern studies professor Tarek El-Ariss moderates a chat with members of the Lebanese rock band ahead of their September 28 concert. Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 603-646-2422. SCIENCE NIGHT: ORIGINS: Experts from different backgrounds and disciplines come together to discuss a common theme: how the world and human society came to be. Windsor Farmers’ Exchange, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, james.a.reed. iii@dartmouth.edu.
theater
‘A DOLL’S HOUSE, PART 2’: See WED.25. ‘A FEW GOOD MEN’: See WED.25. ‘INDECENT’: Playwright Paula Vogel’s Tony Award-winning tale recounts the true story of the cast of the 1923 Broadway play God of Vengeance, who were arrested on opening night on obscenity charges. Weston Playhouse Second Stage at Walker Farm, 7:30 p.m. $45-60. Info, 824-5288. NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: ‘FLEABAG’: Fans view a broadcast production of Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s acclaimed one-person show that inspired the BBC TV series about a selfobsessed, emotionally fractured thirtysomething seeking redemption through heartbreak — and a guinea pig. Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7:30 p.m. $10-15. Info, 603-646-2422. ‘SPINNING INTO BUTTER’: See THU.26. STRANGER PLAY FESTIVAL: Four short plays about strangers and strangeness highlight stories by and about women. Grange Hall Cultural Center, Waterbury Center, 7:30 p.m. $20. Info, 244-4168. ‘TINTYPES: A MUSICAL CELEBRATION OF AMERICA’: See WED.25. ‘TRUMPILTON: AN AMERICAN MUSICAL PARODY’: A lighthearted and tastefully irreverent musical parody presented by Klami/Holmes Productions takes a look at Donald Trump’s life and presidency. Not recommended for kids under 12. Slate Valley Arts at Fox Hill, Poultney, 7:30 p.m. $9-12. Info, 922-8662.
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COCOON: Inspired by the storytelling series “The Moth,” raconteurs approach the mic with true tales. A reception follows. See calendar spotlight. Robison Hall, Mahaney Arts Center, Middlebury College, 8-10 p.m. $6-15. Info, 443-3168. FRIDAY NIGHT READING SERIES: Faculty members Miciah Bay Gault, Erin Stalcup and Janaka Stucky excerpt original works. Café Anna, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 866-934-8232. WRITER’S BLOCK: Scribes bring essays, short stories, one-act
plays and poems to be critiqued by a supportive audience. Barre Area Senior Center, 10-11:30 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 479-9512.
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WALK FOR ALL ANIMALS: Green Mountain Animal Defenders invites costumed pedestrians to take steps to support animal protection and rescue programs. Leashed dogs are welcome. Burlington City Hall, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. $5; free for kids 12 and under. Info, walk@gmad.info.
bazaars
FLEA MARKET: Bargain shoppers browse a wide array of gently used items. Pittsford Village Farm, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 345-0970. SKI & BOARD SWAP: New and lightly used gear changes hands in preparation for winter sports. South Burlington High School, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, sbhsboosters@gmail.com.
cannabis
HARVEST FARM JAM: Heady Vermont releases The New England Cannabis Guide with a full day of workshops, exhibits, food trucks, live music and a beer tent. Bordertown Farm, Brattleboro, noon-6 p.m. $10-20. Info, info@headyvermont.com.
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LOCAL HISTORY ENGAGEMENT SESSIONS: Folks chat about the role of local historical societies and museums, the obstacles they face, and how Vermonters can work together to build a stronger history community. Waterbury Historical Society, noon-2 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, eileen.corcoran@vermont history.org. TOURS: Area residents stop in to explore the community center and experience program demonstrations by North End Studios, Winooski Partners in Prevention and Winooski Recreation and Parks Department. O’Brien Community Center, Winooski, 9 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 863-6713.
education
NORWICH UNIVERSITY FOUNDER’S DAY CELEBRATION: The military college marks its 200th anniversary with special events including an ice cream social, a drill team demonstration and a regimental band performance. Norwich Green, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 485-2080.
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ARCHAEOLOGY DAY: From artifact-examining to atlatlthrowing, hands-on activities help families discover clues to the past. Montshire Museum of Science, Norwich, 11 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Regular admission, $3-16; free for members and kids under 2. Info, 649-2200. SAT.28
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E-BIKE & BREW TOUR: Electric bicycles transport suds lovers to three local beer producers via scenic routes. Lamoille Valley Bike Tours, Johnson, noon-4:30 p.m. $75 includes an appetizer and two souvenir pint glasses. Info, 730-0161. GRAND OPENING: Mountain Road Outfitters opens its doors to customers who explore Maloja bike, ski and outdoor apparel; meet members of the U.S. biathlon team; and sip von Trapp Brewing suds. Mountain Road Outfitters, Stowe, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, 760-6605.
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THE GUARDIAN LEGION: Members of the Vermont-based cosplay and charity group descend upon the bookstore for a meet and greet. Phoenix Books, Burlington, noon-2 p.m. Free. Info, 448-3350. LEGAL CLINIC: Attorneys offer complimentary consultations on a first-come, first-served basis. 274 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 383-2118. QUEEN CITY GHOSTWALK DARKNESS FALLS TOUR: See FRI.27. SNEAKER SOIRÉE: Partygoers help Girls on the Run make strides at an annual fundraiser featuring a silent auction, wine pull, photo booth and music from DJ Love Doctor. The Essex Resort & Spa, 6:30 p.m. $35. Info, richele@ girlsontherunvermont.org. STUNT KITE FLIERS & ARCHERY HOBBYISTS MEETING: Open to beginning and experienced hobbyists alike, a weekly gathering allows folks to share information and suggestions for equipment, sporting locations and more. Presto Music Store, South Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 658-0030.
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TO BID OR NOT TO BID: Friends of the library nosh on light bites and libations, then vie for a wide array of items in silent and noisy auctions. Bent Northrop Memorial Library, Fairfield, 6-9 p.m. $20. Info, 827-3945.
‘THE MAN WHO SAVED THE WORLD’: See THU.26, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, mariah@mainstreetlanding.com.
TOURS OF THE HISTORIC BARN HOUSE & EXHIBITS: Attendees view authentic African art, impressive architecture and antique fixtures during a stroll through historic buildings. Clemmons Family Farm, Charlotte, 10-11:30 a.m. $10; preregister at clemmonsfamilyfarm. org. Info, clemmonsfamilyfarm@ gmail.com.
‘TINY GIANTS 3D’: See WED.25.
fairs & festivals
BRISTOL HARVEST FESTIVAL: Crafters display their wares at this seasonal shindig featuring bandstand music, vendors and demonstrations. Bristol Town Green, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 388-7951. BURLINGTON BOOK FESTIVAL: See THU.26, 10 a.m. FEAST OF FOOLS MINI FESTIVAL: Downtown Montpelier comes to life with an evening jamboree offering food trucks, live music, local libations and street performances. A launch party follows at the Skinny Pancake from 7-9 p.m. Montpelier City Hall, 5-7 p.m. Free. Info, 318-5521. FLYNN ON FIRE FESTIVAL: Suds lovers sip from a full lineup of smoked beers while enjoying smoke- and fire-themed art, food and music. Switchback Brewing Co., Burlington, 3-8 p.m. $10-12; free for kids 12 and under. Info, 651-4114. KILLINGTON BREWFEST: See FRI.27, noon-5 p.m. PITTSFORD HARVEST FAIR: Artisans offer handmade items ranging from jewelry to soap to maple products. Pittsford Congregational Church, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 773-2843. WHAT DOTH LIFE DIY MUSIC FESTIVAL: Vendors, games, food, raffles, and live music by the Pilgrims, Moxley Union and others make for a memorable early-fall fest. Windsor Farmers’ Exchange, 2-10 p.m. Donations. Info, info@whatdothlife.com.
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See what’s playing at local theaters in the movies section. ‘FIRST MAN INTO SPACE’: The first human to leave Earth’s atmosphere vanishes in this 1959 sci-fi flick shown on reelto-reel 16mm film. Newman Center, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7 p.m. Donations. Info, serious_61@ yahoo.com. ‘GIVEN YOUR POSITION’: Artist Kate Donnelly premieres a 15-minute video about the weight and cost of love’s labor. A Q&A follows. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600. ‘HIDDEN PACIFIC 3D’: See WED.25. ‘INCREDIBLE PREDATORS 3D’: See WED.25.
‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: See WED.25.
food & drink
BURLINGTON EDIBLE HISTORY TOUR: See THU.26. BURLINGTON FARMERS MARKET: More than 90 stands overflow with seasonal produce, flowers, artisan wares and prepared foods. 345 Pine St., Burlington, 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, burlingtonfarmersmarket. org@gmail.com. CAPITAL CITY FARMERS MARKET: Meats and cheeses join farm-fresh produce, baked goods, locally made arts and crafts, and live music. 60 State Street, Montpelier, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, manager@ montpelierfarmersmarket.com. CHICKEN PIE SUPPER: See FRI.27, noon & 6:30 p.m. CHOCOLATE TASTING: Candy fanatics get an education on a variety of sweets made onsite. Nutty Steph’s Granola & Chocolate Factory, Middlesex, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. Info, 229-2090. NORTHWEST FARMERS MARKET: Locavores stock up on produce, preserves, baked goods, and arts and crafts. Taylor Park, St. Albans, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, alavista@myfairpoint.net. SHELBURNE FARMERS MARKET: Harvested fruits and greens, artisan cheeses, and local novelties grace outdoor tables. Shelburne Parade Ground, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 482-4279. SPINNING PLATES: See FRI.27, 5-9:30 p.m. SUMMIT SERIES DINNER: A gondola transports diners to the Mount Mansfield eatery for a celebrity chef-inspired meal. Cliff House Restaurant, Stowe. Cost of food and drink; preregister. Info, 253-3665. VERMONT CIDER CLASSIC: Imbibers sip fermented beverages from local makers at this fifth annual event. Cold Hollow Cider Mill, Waterbury Center, 2 p.m. $10. Info, 398-6946.
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BOARD & TABLETOP GAMES: By thinking, reasoning, strategizing and playing together, teen and adult gamers build a sense of community. Waterbury Public Library, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 244-7036.
health & fitness
COMMUNITY YOGA: Active bodies get their stretch on with Carolyn Hannan and Marger Maldonado, increasing balance and flexibility. Namaste! Old Stone House Museum, Brownington, 10-11 a.m. Donations. Info, 754-2022. OPEN HOUSE: Individuals and families affected by addiction meet staff members and learn about the center’s programming. North Central Vermont Recovery
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Center, Morrisville, noon-4 p.m. Free. Info, 851-8120. YOGA & CONVERSATION FOR WOMEN IN BUSINESS: Vermont Womenpreneurs cofounder Bethany Andrews-Nichols leads a wellness chat following a complimentary class. Athleta, Burlington, 8:30-10 a.m. Free. Info, emcook@stores.gap.net.
lgbtq
FIRE TRUCK PULL: Teams of 12 or more use all their strength to haul a fully loaded fire truck up Church Street. Funds raised support Outright Vermont. See calendar spotlight. Church Street Marketplace, Burlington, registration, 11 a.m.; event, noon-2 p.m. Minimum $3,000 in funds raised per team of 12; free for spectators. Info, 865-9677. OUT IN THE OPEN SUMMIT: See FRI.27, 8:30 a.m. PRIDE YOGA: LGBTQ individuals and allies hit the mat for a stretching session suited to all levels. Sangha Studio — Pine, Burlington, 5-6 p.m. Donations. Info, 448-4262.
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‘THE PIANIST OF WILLESDEN LANE’: See WED.25, 8 p.m.
music
Find club dates in the music section. BIG BAD VOODOO DADDY: Clad in pinstripes and fedoras, the longtime band behind highenergy songs such as “You & Me & the Bottle Makes 3 Tonight (Baby)” honors the musical styles of jazz and swing. See calendar spotlight. Barre Opera House, 8 p.m. $24-46.50. Info, 476-8188. CHEAP TRICK: Power-pop classics such as “I Want You to Want Me” and “Surrender” have longtime listeners on their feet. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 8 p.m. $79-99. Info, 775-0903. COUNTRY ROYALTY: Country music fans don their dancing boots for Jason Petty and Katie Deal’s musical tribute to Hank Williams and Patsy Cline. Strand Center Theatre, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 8 p.m. $25-54. Info, 518-5631604, ext. 105. JOHN FUNKHOUSER TRIO: Piano, bass and drums converge in a groove-oriented blend of modern jazz, funk, blues and international folk music. Brandon Music, 7:30 p.m. $20; $45 includes preshow dinner; preregister; BYOB. Info, 247-4295. MASHROU’ LEILA: The Lebanese rockers — whose name roughly translates to Overnight Project — challenge perceptions of ethnicity, religion and sexuality through a smoldering fusion of electro-pop and Arabic music. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7:30 p.m. $12-45. Info, 603-646-2422. ROOSEVELT COLLIER: Luis Guzmán, Tim Kavanagh and friends present a New Moon Concert Series performance by the Miami-based blues, funk and soul artist. Backline Collective
and the Lemon Flyers also play. Haybarn Theatre, Goddard College, Plainfield, 8 p.m. $15-17. Info, 535-0994.
mental health issues. First Unitarian Universalist Society of Burlington, noon-3 p.m. Free. Info, 800-639-6480.
ROY BOOK BINDER: The renowned blues and folk songwriter presents an eclectic selection of tunes from throughout his decades-long career. Chandler Center for the Arts, Randolph, 7:30 p.m. $19. Info, 728-9878.
RIDE FOR CHILDREN’S MENTAL HEALTH: Cyclists spin their wheels to support Washington County Mental Health Services. A kids’ zone offers bouncy castles, a bike park, pool access and more. Bolton Valley Resort, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. $10-35. Info, 229-1399.
STUDIO TWO: A Beatles tribute band re-creates the sounds of the Fab Four’s early years. Brandon Town Hall, 7-9:30 p.m. $25. Info, 247-6722. VERMONT SYMPHONIC WINDS: Student musicians from Essex High School, Mount Mansfield Union High School and the Vermont Youth Orchestra lend their talents to a program of works by Bach, Smetana and others. Elley-Long Music Center, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 7:30-9 p.m. $5-10; free for kids under 12. Info, 380-0621. VERMONT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: MADE IN VERMONT STATEWIDE TOUR: See THU.26, Mahaney Arts Center, Middlebury College, 7:30 p.m. WEEKEND TOWER BELL RECITALS: Notes ring out from giant bronze instruments during 30-minute concerts. Trinity United Methodist Church, Montpelier, 3:58 p.m. Free. Info, 229-9158.
outdoors
BIRD MONITORING WALK: Adults and older children don binoculars and keep an eye out for winged wonders. Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington, 8-9 a.m. Donations; preregister. Info, 434-2167. CORN MAZE: Twists and turns challenge families’ directional skills. Funds raised support low-income campers. River of Life Camp, Irasburg, 1-5 p.m. $5; free for kids 5 and under. Info, 754-9600. SILVER LAKE BIRD WALK: Outdoor enthusiasts mark National Public Lands Day by seeking migrating songbirds. Meet at the parking lot on Lake Dunmore Rd., Silver Lake Trail, Salisbury, 8-10 a.m. Free. Info, 989-6980. SMUGGLERS NOTCH TO ROUTE 15 HIKE: Outdoor adventurers join the Green Mountain Club Burlington section for a difficult 12.5-mile excursion. Contact trip leader for details. Free; preregister. Info, 899-9982. SUNFLOWER HOUSE: See WED.25.
seminars
ADVENTURING WITH KIDS: Staff members share tips for experiencing the great outdoors with the next generation. L.L.Bean, Burlington, 11 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 888-615-9973.
sports
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VERMONT MILK BOWL: Stockcar racers take the wheel in this 57th annual two-day tourney. Thunder Road Speed Bowl, Barre, 3-8 p.m. $20-45; free for kids 12 and under; $45 for camping. Info, 244-6963.
talks
TAREK EL-ARISS: The Middle Eastern studies professor highlights Lebanese rock band Mashrou’ Leila’s activism and profile in the Arab world. Hood Untitled-19 1 Museum, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 603-646-2422.
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‘A FEW GOOD MEN’: See WED.25. GREEN MOUNTAIN CABARET: The local burlesque company brings “sass, class and astronomically talented New England performers” to the stage in this body-positive variety show. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 8 p.m. $20-30; for ages 18 and up. Info, 863-5966. ‘INDECENT’: See FRI.27, 2 & 7:30 p.m. ‘SPINNING INTO BUTTER’: See THU.26. STRANGER PLAY FESTIVAL: See FRI.27. ‘TINTYPES: A MUSICAL CELEBRATION OF AMERICA’: See WED.25. ‘TRUMPILTON: AN AMERICAN MUSICAL PARODY’: See FRI.27.
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BILL TORREY: In “Cutting Remarks,” the Vermont raconteur weaves true tales from his life. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 7:30 p.m. $10. Info, 388-9222.
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COMMUNITY MINDFULNESS PRACTICE: Sessions in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh include sitting and walking meditation, a short reading, and open sharing. Evolution Physical Therapy & Yoga, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, newleafsangha@gmail. com.
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PORTRAITS OF INDEPENDENCE: THE FACES OF MOUNT INDEPENDENCE: This illustrated symposium examines the story of Mount Independence through renderings of historic people. Mount Independence State Historic Site, Orwell, 1-3 p.m. $5; free for kids under 15. Info, 948-2000.
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BURLINGTON BOOK FESTIVAL: See THU.26, noon-3 p.m. MARSHFIELD HARVEST FESTIVAL: ’Tis the season for cider pressing, live music, wagon rides, a chili cook-off and more. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581. VERMONT PUMPKIN CHUCKIN’ FESTIVAL: Soaring squash reach new heights thanks to handmade trebuchets at this benefit for the Clarina Howard Nichols Center. Live music and a chili cook-off round out the day. Stoweflake Mountain Resort & Spa, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. $10. Info, djordan@gmavt.net.
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See what’s playing at local theaters in the movies section. ‘HIDDEN PACIFIC 3D’: See WED.25. ‘INCREDIBLE PREDATORS 3D’: See WED.25. ‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: See WED.25. ‘THE SECRET WORLD OF ARRIETTY’: Life changes for a family of four-inch-tall people when their teenage daughter is discovered. Shown Sunday with English dubbing and Monday with English subtitles. Essex Cinemas & T-Rex Theater, 12:55 p.m. $10-12.50. Info, 878-7231. Cumberland 12 Cinemas, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 12:55 p.m. $12.50. Info, 518-3243888. Palace 9 Cinemas, South Burlington, 12:55 p.m. $12.50. Info, 660-9300. ‘TINY GIANTS 3D’: See WED.25.
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CHOCOLATE TASTING: See SAT.28. COFFEE TASTING: Vermontroasted varieties delight java lovers on International Coffee Day. Caffeine-free activities occupy kiddos. Top of Church Street, Burlington, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 876-7835. STOWE FARMERS MARKET: An appetizing assortment of fresh veggies, meats, milk, berries, herbs, beverages and crafts tempts shoppers. Red Barn Shops Field, Stowe, 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, stowefarmers market@gmail.com. WATERBURY BREAKFAST CLUB: Foodies bring picnic blankets and their appetites for a pop-up meal and community gathering complete with live music by Kick ’Em Jenny. 18 Elm, Waterbury, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, georgiayers@gmail.com. WINOOSKI FARMERS MARKET: Families shop for fresh produce, honey, meats, baked goods and prepared foods from vendors at an outdoor marketplace. Champlain Mill, Winooski, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, farmers market@downtownwinooski.org.
language
‘DIMANCHES’ FRENCH CONVERSATION: Parlez-vous français? Speakers practice the tongue at a casual drop-in chat. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, steven orman@fastmail.fm.
lgbtq
OUT IN THE OPEN SUMMIT: See FRI.27, 7:30 a.m.
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‘THE PIANIST OF WILLESDEN LANE’: See WED.25, 2 p.m. PIKNIC ÉLECTRONIK MONTRÉAL: DJ sets and beat-driven music
FOMO? Find even more local events in this newspaper and online:
art Find visual art exhibits and events in the art section and at sevendaysvt.com/art.
film See what’s playing at local theaters in the movies section and at sevendayst.com/movies.
music + comedy Find club dates at local venues in the music + nighlife section and at sevendaysvt.com/music. All family-oriented events are now published in Kids VT, our free parenting monthly. Look for it on newsstands and check out the online calendar at kidsvt.com. Learn more about highlighted listings in the Magnificent 7 on page 11.
propel a dance party of epic proportions. See piknicelectronik. com for details. Plaine des jeux, Montréal, 2-9:30 p.m. $16-119. Info, 514-904-1247.
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Find club dates in the music section. BREAD & BONES: Vocal harmonies drive original roots tunes by the trio of Richard Ruane, Mitch Barron and Beth Duquette. United Church of Westford, 4-5 p.m. Donations. Info, 879-4028. BURLINGTON FRIENDS OF OPERA: Genre devotees gather for dessert and discussion. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3:30-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 657-4219. RHIANNON GIDDENS: The Grammy Award-winning cofounder of the Carolina Chocolate Drops performs songs from There Is No Other, her genre-bending 2019 collaboration with Italian multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 7 p.m. $25-55. Info, 863-5966. VERMONT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: MADE IN VERMONT STATEWIDE TOUR: See THU.26, Haskell Free Library & Opera House, Derby Line, 3 p.m. WEEKEND TOWER BELL RECITALS: See SAT.28. WILLIAM TORTOLANO: Sitting down to a historic pipe organ, the Saint Michael’s College organist emeritus hits all the right notes in featured works by Buxtehude and others. Shelburne Saint Catherine of Siena Church, 3-4 p.m. Donations. Info, 985-2373.
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BIRDING HIKE: L.L.Bean instructors provide interpretive information as folks seek feathered friends on an easy excursion. Colchester Pond, 7-10 a.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 888-615-9973. CORN MAZE: See SAT.28. STOWE PINNACLE HIKE: A picturesque view rewards trekkers on a short but steep 2.8-mile walk. Contact trip leader for details. Free; preregister. Info, ted@ted-albers.net. SUNFLOWER HOUSE: See WED.25.
politics
VERMONT LIBERTARIAN PARTY TOWN CAUCUS IN WESTFORD: Westford voters who have not yet participated in a caucus this year convene to discuss local issues. Private residence, 201 Rollin Irish Rd., Westford, 11 a.m.noon. Free. Info, 578-0791.
sports
VERMONT MILK BOWL: See SAT.28, 1-5:30 p.m.
theater
‘A DOLL’S HOUSE, PART 2’: See WED.25. ‘INDECENT’: See FRI.27, 3 p.m. POLITICAL LEAF PEEPING: Performers fête fall foliage with
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music and puppetry. Bread and Puppet Theater, Glover, 2 p.m. $10-20. Info, 525-3031. ‘SPINNING INTO BUTTER’: See THU.26, 3 p.m. STRANGER PLAY FESTIVAL: See FRI.27, 2 p.m. ‘TINTYPES: A MUSICAL CELEBRATION OF AMERICA’: See WED.25, 2-4 p.m. ‘TRUMPILTON: AN AMERICAN MUSICAL PARODY’: See FRI.27, 2 p.m.
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WORDS OUT LOUD: Poet Daniel Lusk and nonfiction author Janet Pocorobba excerpt original work as part of a series highlighting Vermont writers. A reception at the Kent Museum follows. Old West Church, Calais, 3-5 p.m. Free. Info, 223-6613.
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HANDWORK CIRCLE: Friends and neighbors make progress on works of knitting, crocheting, cross-stitch and other creative endeavors. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.
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See what’s playing at local theaters in the movies section. ‘THE GREAT GATSBY’: Baz Luhrmann directs a 2013 cinematic interpretation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece about wealth, decadence and the perilous pursuit of the American dream. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600. ‘HIDDEN PACIFIC 3D’: See WED.25. ‘INCREDIBLE PREDATORS 3D’: See WED.25.
‘TINY GIANTS 3D’: See WED.25.
games
BRIDGE CLUB: See WED.25, 6:30 p.m. MAGIC: THE GATHERING — MONDAY NIGHT MODERN: Tarmogoyf-slinging madness ensues when competitors battle for prizes in a weekly game. Brap’s Magic, Burlington, 7-11 p.m. $8. Info, 540-0498. PITCH: Players compete in a trick-taking card game. Barre Area Senior Center, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 479-9512.
GUIDED GROUP MEDITATION: In keeping with the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh, folks practice mindfulness through sitting, walking, reading and discussion. Zenbarn Studio, Waterbury, 7:158 p.m. Free. Info, 505-1688.
language
ENGLISH CONVERSATION CIRCLE: Language learners make strides — and new friends — in an ongoing discussion group. South Burlington Community Library, University Mall, noon-1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.
BUSINESS PLANNING COURSE: In a 10-week class presented by the Center for Women & Enterprise, aspiring entrepreneurs gain the confidence and knowledge to launch a small business. Center for Agricultural Economy, Hardwick, 5:30-8:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 391-4870.
COMMUNITY DROP-IN CENTER HOURS: Wi-Fi, games and art materials are on hand at an open meeting space where folks forge social connections. GRACE, Hardwick, 9 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 472-6857.
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DAMIAN COSTELLO: A historical lecture explores the life and legacy of Lakota holy man Nicholas Black Elk. Deborah Rawson Memorial Library, Jericho, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 899-4962.
FALL FOLIAGE FESTIVAL: Changing leaves give locals reason to celebrate autumn with food, crafts, entertainment and THE local tours. Various Cabot locations, 10 a.m. Prices vary. Info, 563-3338.
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REASONABLE ACCOMMODATIONS/ MODIFICATIONS 101: Vermont Center for Independent Living organizer Ericka Reil provides an overview of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Fair Housing Act, as well as making requests for housing, employment and public accommodations. Burlington City Hall Auditorium, 2-4 p.m. Free. Info, 861-3092.
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COMMUNITY CRAFT NIGHT: Makers stitch, spin, knit and crochet their way through projects while enjoying each other’s company. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.
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SWING DANCING: Quick-footed participants experiment with different forms, including the Lindy Hop, Charleston and balboa. Beginners are welcome. Champlain Club, Burlington, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $5. Info, 448-2930.
SAMBATUCADA OPEN REHEARSAL: Burlington’s own samba street percussion band welcomes new members. No experience or instruments required. 8 Space Studio Collective, Burlington, 6-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 862-5017.
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PLATTSBURGH CONVERSATION GROUP: French speakers maintain their conversational skills in a weekly meetup. Plattsburgh Public Library, N.Y., 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, ajobin-picard@ cefls.org.
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COMMUNITY HERBAL CLINIC: Supervised clinical interns offer guidance and support to those looking to care for themselves using natural remedies. By appointment only. Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, Montpelier, and Railyard Apothecary, Burlington, 4-8 p.m. $10-30; additional cost for herbs; preregister. Info, 224-7100.
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CHAIR YOGA WITH SANGHA STUDIO: Supported poses promote health and wellbeing. Heineberg Senior Center, Burlington, 10:45-11:45 a.m. Free. Info, 448-4262.
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OLD NORTH END FARMERS MARKET: Locavores score breads, juices, ethnic foods and more from neighborhood vendors. Dewey Park, Burlington, 3-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, oldnorthendfarmersmarket@ gmail.com.
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TUESDAY LUNCH: An in-house chef whips up a well-balanced hot meal with dessert. See barreseniors.org for menu. Barre Area Senior Center, noon. $6; preregister. Info, 479-9512.
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health & fitness ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION EXERCISE PROGRAM: See THU.26.
BEGINNER/INTERMEDIATE TAI CHI: Whether they’re new to Sun-style practice or wish to review core moves, students join Elizabeth Wirls for some gentle exercise. Homestead Gardens, Wheeler House, South Burlington, 9:30-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 735-5467. COMMUNITY HERBAL CLINIC: See MON.30, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED TAI CHI: Time for individual questions and mentoring augments an hour of instruction. Homestead Gardens. Wheeler House, South Burlington, 10:3011:30 a.m. Free. Info, 735-5467. REIKI CLINIC: Thirty-minute treatments foster physical, emotional and spiritual wellness. JourneyWorks, Burlington, 3-5:30 p.m. $10-30; preregister. Info, 860-6203. TUESDAY GUIDED MEDITATION: Participants learn to relax and let go. Stillpoint Center, Burlington, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 318-8605.
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ITALIAN CONVERSATION GROUP: Parla Italiano? Language learners practice pronunciation and more in an informal gathering. Hartland Public Library, 12:30-2:30 p.m. Free. Info, 436-2473. ‘LA CAUSERIE’ FRENCH CONVERSATION: Native speakers and learners say it all in French at a social conversational practice. Red Onion Café, Burlington, 4:30-6 p.m. Free. Info, 540-0195. LUNCH IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE: ITALIAN: Speakers hone their skills in the Romance language over a bag lunch. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338. PAUSE-CAFÉ FRENCH CONVERSATION: Frenchlanguage fanatics meet pour parler la belle langue. Burlington Bay Market & Café, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 430-4652.
music
Find club dates in the music section. FALL FOLIAGE FESTIVAL VARIETY SHOW: Local acts such as folksters Dana and Susan Robinson and old-time string band the Outerburgs entertain onlookers. Cabot Town Hall, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 793-3016.
outdoors
BIRDING WALK: Joel Tilley of the Rutland County Audubon Society leads ornithology enthusiasts on a search for fall warblers and other migrating birds. Bring Water, bug spray and binoculars. Endless Brook Trails, Poultney, 7:30-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, jptilley50@gmail.com. SLOW & EASY HIKING: See THU.26.
seminars
FLY CASTING BASICS: Anglers learn how the fly rod, line and leader all work together. L.L.Bean, Burlington, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 888-615-9973.
sports
FREE AIKIDO CLASS: A one-time complimentary introduction to the Japanese martial art focuses on centering and finding freedom while under attack. Open to prospective students. Aikido of Champlain Valley, Burlington, 6:15-7:15 p.m. Free. Info, 951-8900.
tech
INTERMEDIATE MICROSOFT WORD: Students work with the word processor’s advanced features and customization options. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 865-7217.
theater
CABARET PERFORMANCE: Actors from ArtistTree Music Theatre Festival productions of Forever Plaid and TINTYPES: A Musical Celebration of America step into the spotlight to support the Norman Williams Public Library. The Grange Theatre, South Pomfret, wine and cheese reception, 5 p.m.; cabaret, 6 p.m. $50; limited space. Info, 457-2295, ext. 126.
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ARCHER MAYOR: Detective Joe Gunther faces new challenges in Bomber’s Moon, the latest novel in the local author’s best-selling Vermont-based mystery series. Bear Pond Books, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 229-0774. BURLINGTON FREE WRITE: Aspiring writers respond to prompts in a welcoming atmosphere. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 999-1664. MAJOR JACKSON: Joined by writers including Didi Jackson and Camille Guthrie, the nationally renowned Vermont wordsmith and guest editor of The Best American Poetry 2019 presents the new published
annual collection. A book signing follows. The Vermont Book Shop, Middlebury, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 388-2061. STORYTELLING VT: Locals tell true tales before a live audience. Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 7:30-9 p.m. Free. Info, deena stories@gmail.com.
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BUSINESS PLANNING COURSE: See WED.25.
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TALKING TAX & REGULATE: A DEEP DIVE ON S.54: Locals listen in on a lively Heady Vermont and Vermont Cannabis Solutions panel discussion on tax and regulate bill S.54 ahead of the upcoming legislative session in January. Burlington City Hall Auditorium, noon-2 p.m. Free. Info, info@headyvermont.com.
crafts
FIBER RIOT!: See WED.25. GREEN MOUNTAIN CHAPTER OF THE EMBROIDERERS’ GUILD OF AMERICA MEETING: Needle-andthread enthusiasts fine-tune their techniques. Bring a bag lunch. Ascension Lutheran Church, South Burlington, 9:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Free for first-timers. Info, gmc.vt.ega@gmail.com. KNITTER’S GROUP: See WED.25.
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CHITTENDEN COUNTY STAMP CLUB MEETING: First-class collectibles provide a glimpse into the postal past at this monthly gathering. Williston Fire Station, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 660-4817.
FOMO? Find even more local events in this newspaper and online:
art Find visual art exhibits and events in the art section and at sevendaysvt.com/art.
film See what’s playing at local theaters in the movies section and at sevendayst.com/movies.
music + comedy Find club dates at local venues in the music + nighlife section and at sevendaysvt.com/music. All family-oriented events are now published in Kids VT, our free parenting monthly. Look for it on newsstands and check out the online calendar at kidsvt.com. Learn more about highlighted listings in the Magnificent 7 on page 11.
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GRADUATE & PROFESSIONAL FAIR: Students and community members discover a wide range of professional and educational opportunities while networking with area employers and graduate school representatives. Angell College Center, SUNY Plattsburgh, N.Y., 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 518-564-2071.
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See what’s playing at local theaters in the movies section. ‘HIDDEN PACIFIC 3D’: See WED.25. ‘INCREDIBLE PREDATORS 3D’: See WED.25. ‘NO EASY MILE’: A Q&A completes the debut screening of a short documentary following West Bolton resident Phil LaCroix on a long-distance run on the Long Trail meant to raise funds for Vermont sober housing. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 7-10 p.m. $10-12. Info, 540-0406. ‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: See WED.25. ‘ROGER WATERS US + THEM’: Fans revel in footage from the Pink Floyd cofounder’s 2017-18 tour on which he performed songs from The Dark Side of the Moon, The Wall and his solo album Is This the Life We Really Want? Double E Performance Center’s T-Rex Theater, Essex Junction, 7 p.m. $12. Info, 878-7231. ‘TINY GIANTS 3D’: See WED.25.
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BENEFIT DINNER: A sevencourse meal supports the Vermont International Film Festival. A Single Pebble, Burlington, 6 p.m. $90. Info, 660-2600. CHICKEN PIE SUPPER: An old-fashioned feast satisfies diners during three seatings. Takeout is available. Richmond Congregational Church, 5, 6 & 7 p.m. $6-13; free for preschoolers; preregister. Info, 434-2053. PENNYWISE PANTRY TOUR: On a guided exploration of the store, shoppers create a custom template for keeping the kitchen stocked with affordable, nutritious eats. City Market, Onion River Co-op, downtown Burlington, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 861-9753.
games
BEGINNERS’ BRIDGE: See WED.25. BRIDGE CLUB: See WED.25. MAH JONGG IN BARRE: See WED.25.
health & fitness
ALL-LEVELS ACROYOGA CLASS: See WED.25. CHAIR YOGA: See WED.25. RESILIENCE FLOW: See WED.25. YOGA4CANCER: See WED.25.
language
BEGINNER & INTERMEDIATE/ ADVANCED ENGLISH LANGUAGE CLASSES: See WED.25. GERMAN CONVERSATION GROUP: Community members practice conversing auf Deutsch. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211. LUNCH IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE: SPANISH: See WED.25.
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Find club dates in the music section. ARLO GUTHRIE: You can get anything you want (exceptin’ Alice) when the iconic folk songwriter stops in Burlington to perform beloved tunes spanning his half-century career — and maybe a few by his dad, Woody. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 7 p.m. $40-70. Info, 775-0903. LAKE STREET DIVE: SOLD OUT. The four-piece, Brooklyn-based band delivers its signature mix of soul, R&B and rock-androll. Lebanon Opera House, N.H., 7:30 p.m. $38-48. Info, 603-448-0400. OLD NORTH END NEIGHBORHOOD BAND TEEN MUSIC JAM: See WED.25. SONG CIRCLE: Singers and musicians congregate for an acoustic session of popular folk tunes. Godnick Adult Center, Rutland, 7:15-9:15 p.m. Donations. Info, 775-1182.
seminars
REAL ESTATE INVESTING WORKSHOPS: Local professionals provide resources and up-to-date information when sharing their experiences with investment properties. Preferred Properties, Williston, 6-7:15 p.m. Free. Info, 862-9106.
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ALISON BECHDEL: Fans of the genre are drawn to “Graphic Novels to Watch Out For,” a lecture by the author of the 2006 graphic memoir Fun Home: A Family Tragicomedy. Livak Ballroom, Dudley H. Davis Center, University of Vermont, Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955, wendyh@brownell library.org. BARRY DEITZ: The scholar looks at the life and times of Sherlock Holmes creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in “The Game’s Afoot.” Goodrich Memorial Library, Newport, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 334-7902. BRYAN TERRELL CLARK: Drawing on real-life lessons, the professional performer captivates listeners with “Finding Your Purpose: From Baltimore to Broadway’s Hamilton.” Wilson Hall, McCullough Student Center, Middlebury College, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4095. CURRENT EVENTS CONVERSATION: Newsworthy subjects take the spotlight in this informal discussion. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library,
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JOHN CRYAN: A leading expert in the gut-brain connection, the Build Your Brain Series speaker focuses on the interaction between brain, gut and microbiome. Davis Center, University of Vermont, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 656-9819. JOSIE LEAVITT: In “So This Happened: A Comic Confronts Cancer,” the Green Mountain State storyteller walks audience members through her journey of illness and treatment. Rutland Free Library, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 773-1860. LIZ JOHNDROW: The TERRA Collaborative program director shares examples of the organization’s work in the Yestermorrow Speaker Series talk “Place-Based Natural Building in Central America.” Yestermorrow Design/ Build School, Waitsfield, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 496-5545. MARK A. STOLER: History buffs broaden their perspective on two world leaders with “Churchill and Roosevelt: The Personal Element in Their Partnership.” Norwich Congregational Church, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 649-1184. MICHELE BARALE: “Willa Cather’s Prairie Landscapes” reads into the relationship between the My Antonia author’s art and Earth. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 748-8291.
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‘BEAUTIFUL: THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL’: This jukebox musical won Grammy and Tony awards with its theatrical renditions of King classics such as “I Feel the Earth Move,” “Will You Love Me Tomorrow” and “You’ve Got a Friend.” Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $25-95. Info, 863-5966. ‘A DOLL’S HOUSE, PART 2’: See WED.25. ‘A FEW GOOD MEN’: See WED.25. ‘THE LAST WIDE OPEN’: Jamien Forrest directs a cast of two in a romantic play portraying three alternate realities for a young waitress and an Italian immigrant. Presented by Vermont Stage. Black Box Theater, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $29.70-38.50. Info, 862-1497. ‘TINTYPES: A MUSICAL CELEBRATION OF AMERICA’: See WED.25.
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225+ Classes for Everyone. CVUHS Campus HINESBURG. Full descriptions at access.cvuhs.org. ACCESS ART: Part of 225+ classes for all ages. Watercolor with Ginny Joyner (three levels), Drawing, Ink Art, Acrylic landscape, Charcoal, Oil Painting, Beginner Calligraphy, Macrame, Terrarium Design, Flower Arranging, Wreaths, Fly Tying. Full descriptions online. Senior discount. 10 minutes from Exit 12. Location: CVUHS, 369 CVU Rd., Hinesburg. Info: Access CVU, 482-7194, access@cvsdvt.org, cvsdvt.ce.eleyo.com. ACCESS CLASSES FOR KIDS : Part of 225+ classes for all ages. These classes designed specifically for younger learners. Hair Care, Macrame, Wood Slice Art, Sewing, Soap Carving, Whittling, Earthenware, Hip-Hop. Check website for appropriate ages for each of these great classes. Guaranteed. Full descriptions online. Senior discount. 10 minutes from Exit 12. Location: CVUHS, 369 CVU Rd., Hinesburg. Info: Access CVU, 482-7194, access@ cvsdvt.org, cvsdvt.ce.eleyo.com. ACCESS CRAFT: Part of 225+ classes for all ages. Ceramics (seven choices), Bowl Turning, Woodworking Workshop, Welding, Machining, Chainsaw Maintenance, Snowboard Building, Carving a Spoon, Rug Hooking, Collage, Spindle Making, Bracelets, Basket-Making with Alexa Rivera, Sewing, Clothing, Knitting, Pillows, Needle Felting, Quilting, Embroidery, Terrarium Design, Holiday Centerpiece, Women and Tool Use (four options). Full descriptions online. Senior Discount. 10 minutes from Exit 12. Location: CVUHS, 369 CVU Rd., Hinesburg. Info: Access CVU, 482-7194, access@cvsdvt.org, cvsdvt.ce.eleyo.com. ACCESS CULINARY: Part of 225+ classes for all ages. Great eating in one-night, hands-on classes! Chinese Feast, Thai Feast and Spanish Specialties, Vietnamese, German, Middle Eastern, Vegetarian, Risotto, Pasta, Gnocchi, Apple Pie,
Chocolate, Mediterranean, Vegetarian, Pierogi with Luiza, Pickling, Fermented Foods, four different Ethiopian/Eritrean with Alganesh, Pierogi, Gravlox, Bubble Tea, Italian cookies, Cheese Making, Cake Decorating, YUM! Full descriptions online. Senior discount. 10 minutes from Exit 12. Location: CVUHS, 369 CVU Rd., Hinesburg. Info: Access CVU, 4827194, access@cvsdvt.org, cvsdvt. ce.eleyo.com. ACCESS EMPOWERMENT : Part of 225+ classes for all ages. Basketball Coaching With Ute Otley, SAT Bootcamp, CPR and AED Training, First Aid Training, Women’s Self-Defense, Mindful Meditation, Self-Hypnosis, Massage, Mind-Body Practice, Reflexology, Biofield Tuning, and Juggling. Writing Workshops, Personal Finance for Women, Knowledge with Girlington Garage, Primitive Fire Building, Resumes. Talks on: Unsung Heroes of History, Lake Champlain Maritime, VT Architecture, Life in a Jar-book talk, Malta, Alzheimer’s, End-of-Life Doula. Also, Solar Energy 101, Bridge (two levels), Mah Jongg, Astrology, Feng Shui, Reiki, Herbals (three choices), Soap Making, and Tarot Reading. Full descriptions online. Senior discount. 10 minutes from Exit 12. Location: CVUHS, 369 CVU Rd., Hinesburg. Info: Access CVU, 482-7194, access@cvsdvt.org, cvsdvt.ce.eleyo.com.
Excel (three levels), Smart Phone Photography, Digital Photography (three choices), Intro to Digital Darkroom, Photoshop. Full descriptions online. Senior discount. 10 minutes from Exit 12. Location: CVUHS, 369 CVU Rd., Hinesburg. Info: Access CVU, 482-7194, access@cvsdvt.org, cvsdvt. ce.eleyo.com. MUSIC, FITNESS AND DANCE: Part of 200+ classes for all ages. Core Strength, Weight Training for Women, Weight Training for Seniors, Zumba, Yoga (four choices), Tai Chi, Swing or Ballroom with Terry Bouricius, Line Dancing, Highland Dance, Hip Hop for Kids, Hip Hop for Adults, Guitar (two levels), Banjo, Harmonica, Mandolin, Ukelele, Fiddling, Circle Singing. Low cost, excellent instructors, guaranteed. Full descriptions online. Senior discount. 10 minutes from Exit 12. Location: CVUHS, 369 CVU Rd., Hinesburg. Info: Access CVU, 4827194, access@cvsdvt.org, cvsdvt. ce.eleyo.com. VISUAL ART JOURNALING CLASSES: We are all familiar with written diaries, but visual art journals go a step further by using images to tell a story. Visual art journals are made up of drawings, paintings, collaged images, old photographs & all manner of mementos. Come create your own beautiful, one-of-a-kind art journal. Tue., starts Oct. 15, 6-7:30 p.m. Cost: $125/6-week class. Location: Champlain Valley Union High School, 369 CVU Rd., Hinesburg. Info: Access CVU, Access CVU, 482-7194, access@ cvsdvt.org, cvsdvt.ce.eleyo.com.
ACCESS LANGUAGE: Part of 225+ classes for all ages. Intro to ASL, French (three levels), Spanish (four levels), Italian for Travelers, Bosnian, German (two levels)! Low cost, hands-on, excellent instructors, limited class size, guaranteed. Materials included with few exceptions. Full descriptions online. Senior discount. 10 minutes from Exit 12. Location: CVUHS, 369 CVU Rd., Hinesburg. Info: Access CVU, 482-7194, access@cvsdvt.org, cvsdvt. ce.eleyo.com. ACCESS NATURE: Part of 225+ classes for all ages. Beekeeping, Birding, Winter Tree ID, Woodlot Management, Edible/Medicinal Plants, Growing Mushrooms, Dog Body Language, Feline Behavior, Tree ID, Reptiles, Herbals (three choices), Soap Making. Guaranteed. Full descriptions online. Senior discount. 10 minutes from Exit 12. Location: CVUHS, 369 CVU Rd., Hinesburg. Info: Access CVU, 482-7194, access@ cvsdvt.org, cvsdvt.ce.eleyo.com. COMPUTER CLASSES: Part of 200+ classes for all ages. Cybersecurity: Personal Info, Tech Tutorial, Webpage program,
art ART WORKSHOP: WINGSPAN STUDIO: A special one-day class utilizing the “still-life.” Group exercises, drawing, painting, individual input and demos comprise this workshop. Open to all levels. Learn techniques, practice in supportive studio with professional artist. Focus on color, line, shape, composition and value. Plein air opportunities, weather permitting. Sign up today! Limited to eight. Sat., Sep. 28, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
covered, tailored to individual student interests. Class price includes darkroom and digital lab access during open lab hours. Find more information and register at burlingtoncityarts. org. Mon., Nov. 4-Dec. 16, 6-9 p.m. Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: BCA Studios, Kiersten Williams, 865-7157, kwilliams@burlingtoncityarts.org, burlingtoncityarts.org.
Cost: $180/6-hour class. Location: Wingspan Studio, 4A Howard St., Burlington. Info: Maggie Standley, 233-7676, maggiestandley@ gmail.com, wingspanstudioeduc. com. HAITIAN PAINTING & CULTURE: Chill with Julio Desmont, the Clemmons Family Farm’s artist-inresidence. Paint to your heart’s content, learn about Haitian culture and pick up a few words of patois at his “Art That Binds” community-building painting classes. Learn more at bit.ly/CFFArtBinds. Sun., 3 p.m., multiple dates. Cost: $35/2 hours. Location: Clemmons Family Farm Authentica Art Gallery, 2190 Greenbush Rd., Charlotte. Info: Clemmons Family Farm, 765-560-5445, clemmons familyfarm@gmail.com, clemmonsfamilyfarm.org.
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Burlington City Arts Fall Class Registration is now open! Find these classes and many more at burlingtoncityarts.org. ACRYLIC PAINTING: This class introduces students to the tools and techniques artists use to create successful works of art in one of the most versatile mediums available: acrylic paint. Learn the basics of mixing colors, blending and a variety of acrylic painting techniques. No experience necessary. Price includes all basic materials, as well as open studio access during the weeks of your class. Find more information and register at burlingtoncityarts. org. Tue., Oct. 1-Nov. 5, 6-8:30 p.m. Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: BCA Studios, Kiersten Williams, 865-7157, kwilliams@burlingtoncity arts.org, burlingtoncity arts.org. ARTIST BOOKS + ZINES: Ages 18 & up. Prerequisite: Basic digital editing skills. Have you wanted to make a book or zine but don’t know where to start? Bring your project ideas and create unique artist books and zines from start to finish in this eight-week hands-on class. Sequencing choices, layout in Adobe InDesign, digital printing and hand-binding techniques will be covered. Class price includes darkroom and digital lab access during open lab hours. Find more information and register at burlingtoncityarts.org. Thu., Oct. 17-Dec. 12, 6-8 p.m. (no class Nov. 28). Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: BCA Studios, Kiersten Williams, 8657157, kwilliams@burlingtoncity arts.org, burlingtoncityarts.org. DARKROOM CRASH COURSE: Ages 18 & up. No experience necessary. Explore the traditional,
analog, black-and-white darkroom! Learn how to properly expose black-and-white film, process film into negatives, and make silver gelatin prints. Students will leave with the skills and confidence to join the darkroom as a member. All 35mm film, paper and darkroom supplies included. Bring your manual 35mm or medium format film camera to the first class. Find more information and register at burlingtoncityarts.org. Mon., Nov. 18-Dec. 9, 6-9 p.m. Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: BCA Studios, Kiersten Williams, 865-7157, kwilliams@ burlingtoncityarts.org, burlingtoncityarts.org. DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY: Learn the basics of making a great photograph from initial exposure to editing and printing in this comprehensive class. Organizing and editing files in Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop will also be covered, and students will leave with a selection of high-quality prints made on our archival Epson printer. A DSLR or digital Mirrorless Rangefinder and a Mac-compatible portable hard drive or flash drive required. Find more information and register at burlingtoncityarts.org. Mon., Sep. 16-Oct. 28, 6-9 p.m. Cost: $240/ person; $216 for BCA members. Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: BCA Studios, Kiersten Williams, 865-7157, kwilliams@burlingtoncityarts.org, burlingtoncityarts.org. DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY PROJECTS : Ages 18 & up. Prerequisite: Basic proficiency with manual camera settings and Adobe Lightroom. Do you shoot digital images or scan color film and have a project idea to explore? This eight-week class will challenge you to edit and refine your photographs to create the portfolio of work you envision. Organizing and editing techniques in Adobe Lightroom, printing on our Epson large format printers and more will be
FRIDAY ADULT WHEEL: Ages 18 & up. Curious about the pottery wheel? Spend a Friday night with our pottery instructors at the BCA Clay Studio. A ticket includes a wheel-throwing demonstration at the beginning of class, access to a wheel, and time to try making a bowl or cup. There is a $5 additional fee per clay piece to be fired and glazed by the studio. Ticket purchases for this class are nonrefundable. Find more information and register at burlingtoncityarts.org. Fri., 7:30-9 p.m., starting Sep. 20. Cost: $10/ person; $9 for BCA members. Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: BCA Studios, Kiersten Williams, 865-7157, kwilliams@burlingtoncityarts.org, burlingtoncityarts.org. FRIDAY FAMILY CLAY: Spend a Friday night with your family at the BCA Clay Studio. A ticket provides a wheel demonstration at the beginning of class, wheel access (for ages 6+), hand building for any age, unlimited clay, and time to create. Youth must be accompanied by an adult. Adults may assist their child(ren) free of charge. Additional tickets are required for adults who would like to join the fun and either hand build or use a wheel of their own. If you’d like your work to be fired and glazed by the studio, there is a $5 fee per piece. Finished pottery will be available for pickup three weeks after visit. Class ticket purchases are nonrefundable. Find more information and register at burlingtoncityarts. org. Fri., 5-7 p.m., starting Sep. 20. Cost: $10/person; $9 for BCA members. Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: BCA Studios, Kiersten Williams, 8657157, kwilliams@burlingtoncity arts.org, burlingtoncityarts.org. JEWELRY: Ages 18 & up. Learn the basics of creating metal jewelry. Techniques covered will include sawing, piercing, filing, annealing, soldering, texturing, cold connections, basic hollow construction, ring sizing and more, so that students can create at least two completed pieces. The class includes copper and brass and use of all basic tools, as well as studio access during the weeks of your class. Find more information and register at burlingtoncityarts.org. Tue., Sep. 24-Oct. 29, 5:30-8 p.m. Cost: $255/person; $229.50 for BCA members Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: BCA Studios, Kiersten Williams, 8657157, kwilliams@burlingtoncity arts.org, burlingtoncityarts.org. LIFE DRAWING: Ages 18 & Up. Spend the evening with other BCA STUDIOS
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local artists drawing from one of our experienced models. Please bring your drawing materials and paper. Purchase a ticket to hold your spot; drop-ins are welcome if space is available. Ticket purchases for this class are nonrefundable. Find more information and register at burlingtoncityarts. org. Fri., 7:30-9 p.m., starting Sep. 20. Cost: $10/person; $9 for BCA members. Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: BCA Studios, Kiersten Williams, 8657157, kwilliams@burlingtoncity arts.org, burlingtoncityarts.org. PRINTMAKING: Ages 18 & up. This class will show you a whole range of printing techniques that can be used on their own or in combination to create unique artwork. Through demonstrations and hands-on learning, you’ll be introduced to the studio’s equipment and materials. Students will also be encouraged to explore these techniques and have fun experimenting. Class price includes basic supplies and open studio access during the weeks of your class. No previous experience needed. Find more information and register at burlingtoncity arts.org. Tue., Sep. 24-Oct. 22, 9:30 a.m.-noon. Cost: $212.50/ nonmembers; $191.25 for BCA members. Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: BCA Studios, Kiersten Williams, 8657157, kwilliams@burlingtoncity arts.org, burlingtoncityarts.org.
dance DANCE STUDIO SALSALINA: Salsa classes: nightclub-style, group and private, four levels. Beginner walk-in classes, Wed., 6 p.m. $15/person for one-hour class. No dance experience, partner or preregistration required, just the desire to have fun! Drop in anytime and prepare for an enjoyable workout. Location: 266 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Victoria, 598-1077, info@salsalina.com,
empowerment GIFTS OF THE GRANDMOTHERS: Our ancestors live in our DNA. The grandmothers have lessons to teach, tales to tell, joys to share and wounds to heal.This workshop offers: a chance to pause/ breathe/reflect, guided visualizations, mixed-media materials for collaging up to three cards, ritual for Dia de los Muertos. No prior experience/talent needed! RSVP required. Sun., Oct. 13, 20 & 27, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Cost: $120/person; $90 if paid by Oct. 1. Location: Expressive Arts Burlington, 200 Main St., Suite #9, Burlington. Info: Topaz Weis, 343-8172, topazweis@gmx.net, expressiveartsburlington.com/ workshops.
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AFRO-FUSION JAM CLASS: All ages. Instructor: Bonisiwe Green. Sun., Oct. 27-Dec. 8 (no class Nov. 24), 10:30 a.m.-noon. Cost: $150/6 weeks; $22.50/class to drop in. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: FlynnArts, Sarah Caliendo, 652-4537, scaliendo@ flynncenter.org, flynncenter.org. BALLET LEVELS I & II: Teen & Adult. Instructor: Elizabeth Brody. Drop-ins welcome! Level I: 5:306:30 p.m. Level II: 6:35-7:35 p.m. Mon., Sep. 9-Dec. 2 (no class Nov. 25). Cost: $170/12 weeks; $15/ class to drop in. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: FlynnArts, Sarah Caliendo, 6524537, scaliendo@flynncenter.org, flynncenter.org.
Caliendo, 652-4537, scaliendo@ flynncenter.org, flynncenter.org. HIP-HOP FOR KIDS: Ages 8-12. Instructor: Rose Bedard. Thu., Oct. 10-Dec, 5 (no class Nov. 28), 4:20-5:20 p.m. Cost: $130/8 weeks. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: FlynnArts, Sarah Caliendo, 652-4537, scaliendo@ flynncenter.org, flynncenter.org. I AM MY ANCESTORS’ WILDEST DREAMS: Voices of People of Color Through Moth-Style Storytelling. Cost includes ticket to ArtsRiot Moth Story Slam on Nov. 12! Instructors: Ferene Paris Meyer and Susanne Schmidt. Thu., Oct. 24-Nov. 14 (no class Oct. 31), 5:30-7 p.m. Cost: $75/ three-week course. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: FlynnArts, Sarah Caliendo, 652-4537, scaliendo@flynncenter. org, flynncenter.org.
BURLESQUE TECHNIQUE LEVEL I & II, AND BURLESQUE ACT DEVELOPMENT: Ages 18+. Instructor: Doctor Vu. Drop-ins welcome! Level I: 5:30-6:30 p.m. Level II: 6:35-7:35 p.m. Mon., Sep. 9-Dec. 2 (no class Nov. 25). Cost: $170/12 weeks; $15/class to drop in. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: FlynnArts, Sarah Caliendo, 652-4537, scaliendo@ flynncenter.org, flynncenter.org. DANCE FLOOR MOVES: FRIDAY NIGHT SOCIAL: Ages 55+. Instructors: Sara McMahon, Rose Bedard and special guest instructor Jena Necrason. Fri., Sep. 27-Dec. 6 (no class Nov. 29), 7:35-8:35 p.m. Cost: $150/10 weeks. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: FlynnArts, Sarah Caliendo, 652-4537, scaliendo@ flynncenter.org, flynncenter.org. FILMMAKING: Grades 5-8. Instructor: Jamie Watkins. Wed., Sep. 25-Nov. 20, 4-6 p.m. Cost: $275/10 weeks. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: FlynnArts, Sarah Caliendo, 6524537, scaliendo@flynncenter.org, flynncenter.org. HEY MASTER DJ!: Adults & teens 16+. Instructor: DJ cRAIG mITCHELL. This course is a pre-requisite for small group, hands-on DJ instruction with cRAIG offered in the spring. Tue., Oct. 22-Dec. 3 (no class Nov. 26), 5:30-7 p.m. Cost: $150/6 weeks. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: FlynnArts, Sarah Caliendo, 6524537, scaliendo@flynncenter.org, flynncenter.org. HIP-HOP: Teen & Adult. Instructor: Rose Bedard. Drop ins welcome. Thu., Sep. 12-Dec. 5 (no class Nov. 28), 5:25-6:25 p.m. Cost: $170/12 weeks; $15/class to drop in. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: FlynnArts, Sarah
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2-6: Thursdays, 9/12-12/5 (no class 11/28), 3:45-5 p.m., instructor Jamie Watkins, Hoehl Studio. Sprouts, age 4-grade 2: Wednesdays, 9/18-12/11 (no class 11/27), 4-5 p.m., instructor Tracy Martin, Chase Studio. Students host a final performance for family and friends 12/4 in the FlynnSpace Theater. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: FlynnArts, Sarah Caliendo, 652-4537, scaliendo@flynncenter. org, flynncenter.org.
gardening FAIRY GARDENS: Join artist and GSC employee Susan Lepple in creating an indoor fairy house garden. She will guide you in the construction of a natural-material fairy house that will be nestled in a circular garden with mosses and miniature tropical plants. Register at gardenerssupplystore. com. Oct. 6, 2-4 p.m. Cost: $55/ class. Location: Gardener’s Supply, 128 Intervale Rd., Burlington. Info: Gardener’s Supply Company, Meredith White, 876-5520, meredithw@gardeners.com, gardenerssupplystore.com. TREE & SHRUB PLANTING 101: Learn the best planting techniques, soils, fertilizers and proper watering to give your new plants their best start. Register at gardenerssupplystore.com. Oct. 6, 2-3:30 p.m. Cost: $15/class. Location: Gardener’s Supply, 472 Marshall Ave., Williston. Info: Gardener’s Supply Company, Meredith White, 658-2433, meredithw@gardeners.com, gardenerssupplystore.com.
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JAZZ & CONTEMPORARY COMBO DANCE CLASS: Teen & Adult. Instructor: Rose Bedard. Drop-ins welcome! Thu., Sep. 12-Dec. 5 (no class Nov. 28), 6:30-8 p.m. Cost: $170/12 weeks; $22.50/class to drop in. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: FlynnArts, Sarah Caliendo, 652-4537, scaliendo@ flynncenter.org, flynncenter.org. MOTH-STYLE STORYTELLING: Class fee includes ticket to ArtsRiot Moth Story Slam! Instructor: Susanne Schmidt. Tue., Sep. 17-Oct. 22, 5:30-7 p.m. Cost: $165/6 weeks Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: FlynnArts, Sarah Caliendo, 652-4537, scaliendo@flynncenter. org, flynncenter.org. YOUTH DANCES: Ages 5-7. Instructor: Rose Bedard. Fri., Oct. 11-Dec. 6 (no class Nov. 29), 4:20-5:20 p.m. Cost: $130/8 weeks. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: FlynnArts, Sarah Caliendo, 652-4537, scaliendo@ flynncenter.org, flynncenter.org. YOUTH THEATER: While the start date has passed, it’s not too late to join! Juniors, grades
SOMATIC MOVEMENT WORKSHOP: Amber Arnold is a sound healer of a somatic movement practice that calms the nervous system and helps to release patterns of stress, stagnant energy and imbalance in the body. Participants finish with a vibrational sound bath to realign and bring vibrational balance back into the body. Sat., Sep. 28, 1-2:30 p.m. Cost: $25/person. Location: Clemmons Family Farm , 2190 Greenbush Rd., Charlotte. Info: Clemmons Family Farm, 765560-5445, clemmonsfamilyfarm@ gmail.com, clemmonsfamilyfarm. org. SOUND BATH & MEDICINE MAKING: Join sound healer Amber Arnold of Sacred Vibrations for an afternoon of herbal medicine making, somatic alignment and sound healing. Participants will journey into plant spirit medicine, engage in a nourishing somatic practice to release stagnant energy, make healing tinctures and elixirs, and end with a healing sound bath. Sun., Sep. 29, 1-4 p.m. Cost: $40/ person. Location: Clemmons Family Farm , 2190 Greenbush Rd., Charlotte. Info: Clemmons Family Farm, 765-560-5445, clemmonsfamilyfarm@gmail.com, clemmonsfamilyfarm.org.
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FRENCH AT WINGSPAN STUDIO: Adult, kid and pre-K classes. Get your brain whirring and you speaking French in no time! Eight-week sessions held in beautiful atelier, off of Shelburne Road, South End Arts & Industry District. Led by fluent speaker, longtime French teacher. Supportive, fun, structured. Allons-y! Adults: Tue., Sep. 24Nov. 5; Beg 5:30-7 p.m.; Interm 7-8:30 p.m. Kids Afterschool FRArt: Tue., Sep. 24-Nov. 5, 3:455:15 p.m. Pre-K FRArt: Thu., Sep. 26-Nov. 7, 10-11 a.m. Cost: $240/ person for adults & kids afterschool FRArt; $175/kid for pre-K FRArt. Location: Wingspan Studio, 4A Howard Street, Burlington. Info: Maggie Standley, 233-7676, maggiestandley@gmail.com, wingspanstudioeduc.com.
EDIT SUITE CERTIFICATION: Get certified to use the Media Factory edit suites, which include access to Premiere, After Effects, Final Cut Pro and more. You will get a unique login and a volume on our EVO, which is a super-fast storage network designed for editing video. Sat., Sep. 28, 6 p.m. Location: Media Factory, 208 Flynn Ave., Suite 2G + 2K, Burlington. Info: Media Factory , Gin Ferrara, 651-9692, ginf@retn. org, bit.ly/btvmediafactory.
martial arts AIKIDO CLASSES: Discover the dynamic, flowing martial art of aikido. Learn how to relax under pressure and how aikido cultivates core power, fitness and flexibility. Aikido emphasizes throws and pinning techniques rather than strikes. The philosophy and movements cultivate the harmonious resolution of conflict. Classes for adults, families and youth. Visitors are always welcome! Free workshops Sat., Sep. 7: Youth (ages 7-12), 10 a.m.; Adult, 11 a.m. Adult classes begin Oct. 1, 6:15 p.m.; youth classes ongoing. Membership rates incl. unlimited classes. Contact us for info about membership rates for adults, youth & families. Location: Aikido of Champlain Valley, 257 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Benjamin Pincus, 951-8900, bpincus@burlington aikido.org, burlingtonaikido.org. VERMONT BRAZILIAN JIU-JITSU: Brazilian jiujitsu is a martial arts combat style based entirely on leverage and technique. Brazilian jiujitsu self-defense curriculum is taught to Navy SEALs, CIA, FBI, military police and special forces. No training experience required. Easy-to-learn techniques that could save your life! Classes for men, women and children. Students will learn realistic bully-proofing and self-defense life skills to avoid becoming victims and help them feel safe and secure. Our sole purpose is to help empower people by giving them realistic martial arts training practices they can carry with them throughout life. IBJJF and CBJJ certified black belt sixthdegree instructor under Carlson Gracie Sr.: teaching in Vermont, born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. A five-time Brazilian National Champion; International World Masters Champion and IBJJF World Masters Champion. Accept no Iimitations! Location: Vermont Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, 55 Leroy Rd., Williston. Info: 598-2839, julio@bjjusa.com, vermontbjj.com.
IMOVIE ON COMPUTERS: Create a powerful story with this easy-touse editor. You will learn and practice essential iMovie editing skills, including creating and managing new projects; importing videos and photos; inserting and trimming clips; and adding music, text and graphics. We will supply iMac computers for your use during this workshop. Wed., Sep. 25, 6 p.m. Cost: $25/suggested donation. Location: Media Factory, 208 Flynn Ave., Suite 2G + 2K, Burlington . Info: Media Factory , Gin Ferrara, 651-9692, ginf@retn. org, bit.ly/btvmediafactory. WBTV-LP PROGRAMMER GATHERING: Join us for an informal WBTV-LP programmer gathering to connect and learn from each other. Have a snack; ask questions; chat with DJs, podcasters and lovers of community radio! Thu., Sep. 26, 6 p.m. Location: Media Factory, 208 Flynn Ave., Suite 2G + 2K, Burlington . Info: Media Factory , Gin Ferrara, 651-9692, ginf@retn. org, bit.ly/btvmediafactory.
meditation LEARN TO MEDITATE: Taught by qualified meditation instructors at the Burlington Shambhala Meditation Center: Wed., 6-7 p.m.; Sun., 9 a.m.-noon. Free and open to anyone. Free public meditation: weeknights, 6-7 p.m.; Tue. and Thu., noon-1 p.m.; Sun., 9 a.m.-noon. Classes and retreats also offered. See our website at burlington.shambhala.org. Location: Burlington Shambhala Center, 187 S. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 658-6795.
photography HIGH SCHOOL PHOTOGRAPHY: No experience required. Tell your story with photographs in this eight-week session for high school students! Students will explore their individual ideas, go on group photo shoots, process and print digital photos and zines in our digital lab, experiment with film photography in our darkroom, and participate in supportive discussions and critiques. All supplies and cameras provided. Scholarships available. For ages 14 to 18. Fri., Oct. 18-Dec. 13, 5-7:30
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p.m. (No class Nov. 29.) Cost: $240/nonmembers; $216/BCA members. Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: BCA Studios, John Flanagan, 865-7166, jflanagan@burlingtoncityarts.org, burlingtoncityarts.org.
pregnancy/ childbirth INDIGENOUS MIDWIFERY & HERBS: With Dr. Jus Crea Giammarino. In a holistic, spiritual and cultural paradigm, this workshop will blend naturopathic medical herbalism and obstetrics with traditional Wabanaki plant medicine and ancient midwifery practices. Sun., Oct. 6, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Cost: $30/3-hour class. Location: Railyard Apothecary, 270 Battery Street, Burlington. Info: Railyard Apothecary, 5400595, emma@railyardapothecary. com, railyardapothecary.com.
psychology PAST LIVES JOURNEY OF THE SOUL: This course examines topics including life after life, reincarnation, the Bardo and karma in an experiential format. Learn several techniques for accessing your past lives in this workshop that provides hands-on ways of drawing on past-life memories. Registration required; to register, call Sue: 244-7909. Oct.
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2, 9, 16, 23 & special workshop 10/26, 7-9 p.m. Cost: $80/class. Location: Jungian Center for the Spiritual Sciences, 55 Clover Ln., Waterbury. Info: Jungian Center for the Spiritual Sciences, Sue Mehrtens, 244-7909, info@jung iancenter.org, jungiancenter.org.
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tai chi
instructor at LRTTC in Vermont and New Hampshire. Starts Nov. 6, 8-9 a.m.; open registration Nov. 27. Cost: $65/mo. Location: North End Studios, 294 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: Long River Tai Chi Circle, Patrick Cavanaugh, 490-6405, patrick@longriver taichi.org, longrivertaichi.org.
200-HOUR AYURVEDA INTEGRATION PROGRAM: Join us in learning and immerse yourself in the oldest surviving preventative health care system. This program is ideal for yoga teachers, counselors, therapists, bodyworkers, nurses, doctors, wellness coaches, herbalists, etc. VSAC approved and payment plans available. Can transfer hours to Kripalu’s Ayurveda Health Counselor program. More information at ayurvedavermont. com/classes. 2020 schedule: Feb. 8-9, Mar. 7-8, Apr. 4-5, May 2-3, Jun. 6-7, Jul. 11-12, Aug. 15-16, Sep. 12-13, Oct. 17-18, Nov. 14-15. Cost: $2,795/person. Location: The Ayurvedic Center of Vermont, 34 Oak Hill Rd., Williston. Info: Allison Morse, 872-8898, ayurvedavt@ comcast.net,
NEW BEGINNER TAI CHI CLASS IN BURLINGTON: We practice Cheng Man-ch’ing’s “simplified” 37-posture Yang-style form. The course will be taught by Patrick Cavanaugh, longtime student and assistant to Wolfe Lowenthal, student of Cheng Man-ching and founder of Long River Tai Chi Circle. Patrick is a senior
SNAKE-STYLE TAI CHI CHUAN: The Yang Snake Style is a dynamic tai chi method that mobilizes the spine while stretching and strengthening the core body muscles. Practicing this ancient martial art increases strength, flexibility, vitality, peace of mind and martial skill. Beginner classes Sat. mornings & Wed. evenings.
GOOD GRIEF: THE ART OF GRIEVING: Have you experienced loss of a loved one, relationship, life transition or cultural/ ancestral grief? Talking isn’t enough? Art-making provides color and texture in a time when life feels heavy/dull. Explore the art of grieving though music, art, movement, writing, and notice
PAST LIVES JOURNEY OF THE SOUL: This course examines topics including life after life, reincarnation, the Bardo, and karma in an experiential format. Learn several techniques for accessing your past lives in this workshop that provides hands-on ways of drawing on past-life memories. To register, call Sue 244-7909. Wed., Oct. 2, 9, 16, 23 & special workshop, Sat., Oct. 26; 7-9 p.m. Cost: $80 Location: The Jungian Center For The Spiritual Sciences, 55 Clover Ln., Waterbury. Info: Jungian Center for the Spiritual Sciences, Sue Mehrtens, 2447909, info@jungiancenter.org, jungiancenter.org.
the shift that happens. No prior art experience required. Oct. 12, 19 & 26, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Cost: $240/ person; $200/person if paid by Oct. 1; all materials incl. Location: Expressive Arts Burlington, 200 Main St., #9, Burlington. Info: Topaz Weis, 343-8172, topazweis@gmx.net, expressiveartsburlington.com/ workshops.
yoga EVOLUTION YOGA: Practice yoga in a down-to-earth atmosphere with some of the most experienced teachers and therapeutic professionals in Burlington. All are welcome. New this Fall: Heated Flow, Pilates Flow, Community Y12SR and more! Daily drop-in classes including $10 community classes, Yoga Wall and Yoga Therapeutics classes led by physical therapists. Dive deeper into your practice or register for our Yoga Teacher Training for Healthcare Providers. $10-15/ class; $140/10-class card; $10/ community class. New students $100/10-class card. New! Student Monthly Unlimited just $55/ mo. Location: Evolution Yoga, 20 Kilburn St., Burlington. Info: 8649642, evolutionvt.com.
trainings taught by experienced teachers who honor the beauty and wisdom of the yogic tradition. Check our website to learn more about trainings and workshops, including Katonah Yoga, October 4-6. All bodies and abilities welcome. Daily classes, workshops, 200- and 300-hour yoga teacher training. Cost: $65/first month of unlimited classes; workshop & training prices vary. Location: Laughing River Yoga, Chace Mill, Suite 126, Burlington. Info: 3438119, laughingriveryoga.com. SANGHA STUDIO |: NONPROFIT, DONATION-BASED YOGA: Sangha Studio builds an empowered community through the shared practice of yoga. Free yoga service initiatives and outreach programs are offered at 17 local organizations working with all ages. Join Sangha in both downtown Burlington and the Old North End for one of their roughly 60 weekly classes and workshops. Become a Sustaining Member for $60/ month and practice as often as you like! Daily classes. Location: Sangha Studio, 120 Pine St. & 237 North Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 448-4262, info@sangha studio.org, sanghastudio.org.
LAUGHING RIVER YOGA: Located in a beautiful setting overlooking the Winooski River. We offer highquality classes, workshops and
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or the past decade, Windsor’s What Doth Life has championed independent music along the border of Vermont and New Hampshire in a distinctively low-key way. Self-described as a “brand with nothing to sell,” the musicians’ cooperative has served as a support system and DIY record label for scads of artists and bands who might not otherwise have had the means or, in some cases, the motivation to get their music heard beyond the insular Upper Valley. Through a raft of EPs, LPs, compilations and live shows, What Doth Life has built a community of musicians and artists who, as the co-op states on its website, “adhere to the ethics of freedom, sharing and rock n’ roll.” Those ethics will be on full display this Saturday, September 28, at the inaugural
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What Doth Life DIY Music Festival at the Windsor Farmers’ Exchange. A de facto birthday celebration for the co-op, the fest features 11 Upper Valley-area bands, including Windsor indie-rockers the Pilgrims; Claremont, N.H., trio Chodus; and rising Vermont hip-hop act Maiden Voyage, among others. All told, the fest offers more than eight hours of music and entertainment, as well as several food and business vendors. An after-party at nearby Windsor Station Restaurant & Barroom features a set by blues-rockers Moxley Union. For a label founded on a spunky underground ethos, the festival is quite the to-do. “Originally, we were just going to do another What Doth Life sort of party,” says cofounder Kiel Alarcon. “I just kept getting bigger and bigger ideas and bringing more
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and more people in. And then all these people wanted to play, so it was, like, You know what? … This is going to be a festival.” Tall and rangy, Alarcon, 35, has the look of someone whose life revolves around music, from the dark hair falling to his shoulders to the black sunglasses he wears even over tea at a Montpelier coffee shop. He walks with the assistance of a cane, a result of nerve damage following the removal of a tumor on his spine five years ago. Still, it’s impossible to ignore his energy — underscored by the fact that Alarcon will play in four of the bands on the festival bill. He’ll also run sound and record the whole thing. Much like Montpelier’s State and Main Records and Plattsburgh’s Third Eye Industries, What Doth Life has been a curator of hyper-local music since its 2010 founding.
It helps cultivate Upper Valley talent that might otherwise slip under the radar. “What Doth Life is kind of a guestbook of musicians that have come in and out of the area over the last 10 years,” explains cofounder Brendan Dangelo, also a member of the band Derek and the Demons. “It is pretty much exactly what I had hoped for: a label that provides more leeway to play exhaustively and be creative with people I enjoy.” According to Alarcon, the collective came together more out of necessity than anything else. “We had bands that would come together and fall apart, as bands do,” he says of the then-nascent Upper Valley music scene. “But after a few years of doing that, we decided that we should just have one common thread that runs through everything.” So he and childhood friends Dangelo, Tim Knapp (the Jobz) and Ryan Hebert (Carton) founded What Doth Life with the credo of musicians helping musicians in and around Windsor. The label has since released 68 albums. These range from the high-octane rock of Carton and the Pilgrims to the more experimental works of prolific lo-fi auteur Luke Chrisinger to numerous compilations, including a 2014 benefit comp for Alarcon, We Sold Out for Kiel. “This town doesn’t always have the best reputation in some ways,” Alarcon admits. “But I really like Windsor. I’ve been here my whole life, essentially, and it’s very cool to be fostering this sort of community. “I mean, we’re obviously not in it for the money,” he continues. “We’re just trying to highlight the talent here.” The What Doth Life DIY Music Festival is undoubtedly the highest-profile example of those efforts. “I think the fest is a macrocosm of what we’ve been doing over the years: creating a means that we can all have to dig a little less deep to make the music we want to,” says Dangelo. “In rural Vermont, there are fewer and fewer places that are open to the live, original and bizarre,” he continues. “We’re all cut from the same cloth and all know the struggle to find an outlet for your creativity.” Bob Haight is an architect and Windsor native who works with the town as a zoning administrator. He’s also the owner of the Windsor Farmers’ Exchange, a 2,000-square-foot community event and performance space in a downtown COMMUNITY ROCKS
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Phil LaCroix in No Easy Mile
FRI 9.27
S UNDbites
Roosevelt Collier
Luis Guzman, Tim Kavanaugh, Backline Collective, The Lemon Flyers
SAT 9.28
Injury Reserve
SUN 9.29
Whitney
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Magic City Hippies
WED 10.2
Dynohunter
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Charlie Parr
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First Friday: Flannel
Slauson Malone, Body Meat
News and views on the local music + nightlife scene B Y JO R D A N A D A MS
Running Man
If Vermont’s opioid crisis hasn’t directly affected you, consider yourself lucky. Those who’ve lost family members and friends to drug overdoses have been speaking out in a variety of ways. From fundraisers to brutally honest obituaries — like that of MADELYN LINSENMEIR, penned by her sister and Seven Days writer KATE O’NEILL — people are speaking up and fighting back against the epidemic. Take West Bolton-based auto mechanic and long-distance runner PHIL LACROIX, for instance. After losing many loved ones to opioids, he recently trekked Vermont’s Long Trail — all 273 miles of it — in only 10 days to raise money for the nonprofits Vermont Foundation of Recovery and Vermont Recovery Network. His story is chronicled in the soon-to-be-released documentary feature No Easy Mile, which debuts on Wednesday, October 2, at ArtsRiot in Burlington. (See the Magnificent 7 spotlight on page 11.) The film’s soundtrack features material from a few Vermont artists: instrumental funk-hop outfit JAPHY RYDER, plus solo material from the group’s guitarist, ZACK DUPONT, and its trumpeter, WILL ANDREWS, who makes electro-R&B as WILLVERINE. BRAD BARR of Montréal’s the BARR BROTHERS also contributes tunes from his 2008 record The Fall Apartment: Instrumental Guitar. To reiterate: LaCroix ran more than 27 miles per day during his journey — aka more than a freaking marathon
per day. Directed and produced by Rupplebon — the production trio of NATE STEINBAUER, AL TEODOSIO and BOB WAGNER — the film combines dramatic, scenic footage of the Green Mountains and interviews with LaCroix as he completed his passage. The film is the first of its kind for the small production company. Wagner, who some may know as KAT WRIGHT’s guitarist, says his team, which had exclusively produced commercial video, wanted to tell “real stories” that are more “personally fulfilling.” After the screening, LaCroix, members of the local recovery community and the film’s production team will hold a Q&A.
Keep NY Weird
This is a bit beyond the normal Seven Days music beat. But when you come across something as amazingly strange as the annual Sasquatch Calling Festival in Whitehall, N.Y., you just have to share. The free shindig takes place on Saturday, September 28, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., just over the Vermont state line in Whitehall’s Skenesborough Park. To be clear: The impetus for this music, food and craft fair is the elusive, mythical Sasquatch. Apparently, Whitehall is known for a spate of woodland ape sightings over the last 40 to 50 years. ESPN even covered the phenomenon earlier this year. (Clearly it’s no coincidence that Bigfoot Wine & Liquor is nearby.) A YouTube video from travel channel NYup shows a map of the town covered in multicolored pushpins, each denoting a close encounter of the Bigfoot kind. The colors indicate the type of interaction: blue for vocalizations, pink for rockthrowing, red for tracks found and black for visual sightings. The majority of pins appear to be black. The main event — aside from tons of vendors and musical performances from singer-songwriter JASON IRWIN and rock outfit DIRT CHEAP DUO — is a Sasquatch-calling contest. Contestants have the chance to show off their finest guttural yowl in hopes of SOUNDBITES
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Hand Habits
Sego
DJ Scott Carlson
Zack Dupont & Matt Deluca
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Belizbeha
Purple: The Prince Hits Unplugged & Stripped
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Lee DeWyze
WED 10.9
MEUTE
Troy Millette
10.24 Running Down A Dream: A Tribute to Tom Petty 10.27 Lil Tjay 11.3 Michael Franti & Spearhead 11.13 Jimmy Eat World 1214 Williston Road, South Burlington 802-652-0777 @higherground
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CLUB DATES NA: NOT AVAILABLE. AA: ALL AGES.
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FOAM BREWERS: Familiar Faces (jam, eclectic), 6:30 p.m., free.
CLUB METRONOME: Mi Yard Reggae Night with DJs Big Dog and Jahson, 9 p.m., free/$5. 18+.
burlington
HALF LOUNGE: Chromatic (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free. JP’S PUB: Karaoke, 10 p.m., free. JUNIPER: The Ray Vega Latin Jazz Sextet, 8:30 p.m., free. LEUNIG’S BISTRO & CAFÉ: Cody Sargent Trio (jazz), 7 p.m., free. LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Irish Sessions (traditional), 7 p.m., free. Giovanina Bucci (singersongwriter), 9 p.m., free. MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Open Mic with Andy Lugo, 9:30 p.m., free. NECTAR’S: The Tsunamibots, the Donner Beach Party, the Wet Ones (surf, punk), 8 p.m., free/$5. 18+. RADIO BEAN: Brittany Karlson, Mel Weikart (singer-songwriter, experimental), 8 p.m., free. Mosaic featuring members of Kat Wright and the Welterweights (jam), 10 p.m., $5. RED SQUARE: John Lackard Blues Band, 7 p.m., free. DJ Cre8 (open format), 11 p.m., free. RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB & WHISKEY ROOM: RambleTree with Special Guests (Irish, folk), 7-10 p.m., free. SIDEBAR: Godfather Karaoke, 10 p.m., free. VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Marcella Arguello (standup), 7 p.m., $10. Improv Class Show, 8:30 p.m., free.
chittenden county
CITY SPORTS GRILLE: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free. THE DOUBLE E LOUNGE AT ESSEX EXPERIENCE: Craig Anderson and Jericho Road Crew (singersongwriter), 6:30 p.m., free. HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Brick + Mortar, Dentist (pop, electronic), 8 p.m., $12/15. MONKEY HOUSE: Alpenglow, Paper Castles, the Dead Shakers (indie), 8 p.m., $5/10. 18+. THE OLD POST: Karaoke with D Jay Baron, 8 p.m., free.
stowe/smuggs
MOOGS PLACE: Trivia Night, 6:30 p.m., free. Jim Charanko (Americana), 8 p.m., free.
middlebury area
CITY LIMITS NIGHT CLUB: Karaoke with DJ Amanda Rock, 9 p.m., free.
northeast kingdom PARKER PIE CO.: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.
outside vermont
MONOPOLE: Open Mic with Lucid, 10 p.m., free.
REVELRY THEATER: Weird & Niche: A Comedy Showcase, 9:30 p.m., $7/8.
burlington
RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB & WHISKEY ROOM: DJ Rekkon (hits), 10 p.m., free. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Pete Francis of Dispatch (singer-songwriter), 9 p.m., free.
DRINK: Downstairs Comedy Open Mic, 8 p.m., free. FINNIGAN’S PUB: DJ Disco Phantom (open format), 10 p.m., free.
THE TAP ROOM AT SWITCHBACK BREWING CO.: The Rough Suspects (rock), 6 p.m., free.
FLYNN MAINSTAGE: Nick Kroll (standup), 8 p.m., $37.75.
VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Jo Firestone (standup), 7 & 9:30 p.m., $20/27.
FOAM BREWERS: Paul Asbell Quartet (jazz), 7 p.m., free. JP’S PUB: Karaoke, 10 p.m., free.
chittenden county
LEUNIG’S BISTRO & CAFÉ: Chris Peterman Trio (jazz), 7 p.m., free.
HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Dead Sessions (Grateful Dead tribute), 9 p.m., $7/12.
LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Light Club Jazz Sessions and Showcase, 10:30 p.m., free.
HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Roosevelt Collier with Luis Guzman, Tim Kavanagh, Backline Collective, the Lemon Flyers (rock, folk), 8 p.m., $15/17.
MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: DJ Pilaf (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free. NECTAR’S: Trivia Mania, 7 p.m., free. Magic Beans, Cycles (jam), 9:30 p.m., $7.
JERICHO CAFÉ & TAVERN: Shellhouse (rock), 6 p.m., free.
ORLANDO’S BAR & LOUNGE: Open Stage Night with Matt Blair, 8 p.m., free.
MAGIC HAT ARTIFACTORY: Erin Cassels-Brown (indie folk), 7 p.m., free.
RADIO BEAN: Cole Hinman Guerrier (folk), 7 p.m., free. Jeff Kelly and the Graveyard Shift (Americana), 8:30 p.m., free. Squaring the Circle (jam), 10:30 p.m., free. RED SQUARE: Gold Tooth Gator (blues), 6 p.m., free. D Jay Baron (open format), 10 p.m., free. RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ Cre8 (open format), 11 p.m., free. SIDEBAR: Adventure Dog, the Schroons (rock), 9 p.m., $3. VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Tracie Spencer: 60 First Dates (standup), 7 p.m., $15. The Mainstage Show (improv), 9 p.m., $5.
chittenden county
THE DOUBLE E LOUNGE AT ESSEX EXPERIENCE: Jam Nation (open jam), 7:30 p.m., free. MONKEY HOUSE: Another Sexless Weekend, Permanent Vacation (indie), 8:45 p.m., $3/8. 18+. THE OLD POST: Salsa Night with DJ JP, 7 p.m., free. ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Tom Caswell Blues Band, 7 p.m., free.
barre/montpelier
CHARLIE-O’S WORLD FAMOUS: Blue Dream (blues-rock, reggae), 9 p.m., free. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (MONTPELIER): D. Davis and Django Soulo (folk-rock), 7 p.m., free. SWEET MELISSA’S: Italian Jam Session, 7 p.m., free. WHAMMY BAR: Open Mic, 7 p.m., free.
stowe/smuggs
EDSON HILL DINING ROOM & TAVERN: Blackwolf (blues, roots), 6:30 p.m., free. MOOGS PLACE: Open Mic Night, 8:30 p.m., free.
MONKEY HOUSE: The Get Messy (funk), 5 p.m., free. DJ Disco Phantom (open format), 9:30 p.m., free. ON TAP BAR & GRILL: King Me (acoustic), 5 p.m., free. Shane Murley Band (folk-rock), 9 p.m., free. STONE CORRAL BREWERY: Justin LaPoint (folk), 8 p.m., free.
FRI.27 & SAT.28 // JO FIRESTONE [STANDUP]
Pun and Games Standup comedian
barre/montpelier JO FIRESTONE
loves puns. The
Brooklyn-based comic adores wordplay so much that she cocreated an Apples to Apples-style card game called Punderdome: A Card Game for Pun Lovers. Onstage, the former “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” writer performs with awkward, nervous energy. This often enhances her deadpan punch lines. And even though she sounds like she’s about to cry, as she tells audiences, she’s actually about to laugh. Firestone performs on Friday and Saturday, September 27 and 28, at the Vermont Comedy Club in Burlington.
mad river valley/ waterbury
LOCALFOLK SMOKEHOUSE: Open Mic with Alex Budney, 8:30 p.m., free.
northeast kingdom HIGHLAND LODGE: Trivia Night, 6:30 p.m., free. PARKER PIE CO.: Lefty Yunger Blues Band, 7 p.m., free.
outside vermont
OLIVE RIDLEY’S: Karaoke with DJ Jon Berry & DJ Coco, 9 p.m., free.
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burlington
ARTSRIOT: Methyl Ethel, Ada Lea, Nodrums (indie), 8 p.m., $13.
BLEU NORTHEAST SEAFOOD: Conor Elmes Trio (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free. BURLINGTON ST. JOHN’S CLUB: Karaoke, 8:30 p.m., free. CLUB METRONOME: The Weeks, Spendtime Palace, the Vernes (indie), 7:30 p.m., $12/14. No Scrubs: ’90s Night with DJ Two Sev, 11 p.m., free. FOAM BREWERS: The Discussions (classical, jazz), 9 p.m., free. HALF LOUNGE: Jack Bandit (hiphop), 8 p.m., free. Ron Stoppable (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free. JP’S PUB: Karaoke, 10 p.m., free. JUNIPER: Lowell Thompson, 8:30 p.m., free. LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Strangled Darlings (indie folk), 7:30 p.m., $5. Justin Panigutti Blues Trio, 9 p.m., $5. DJ Taka (eclectic vinyl), 11 p.m., $5.
BAGITOS BAGEL AND BURRITO CAFÉ: Latin Dance Party, 7 p.m., free. CHARLIE-O’S WORLD FAMOUS: Shokazoba (funk), 9 p.m., free. ESPRESSO BUENO: Michael Stridsberg (singer-songwriter), 7:30 p.m., free. Kathleen Kanz Comedy Hour (standup), 8:30 p.m., free. GUSTO’S: Jason Baker (singersongwriter), 5 p.m., free. DJ Bay 6 (hits), 9 p.m., free. SWEET MELISSA’S: Honky Tonk Happy Hour with Mark LeGrand, 5:30 p.m., free.
MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: DJ Cre8 (open format), 10 p.m., free. NECTAR’S: Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., free. Weird Phishes does Radiohead’s ‘OK Computer’, 9 p.m., $5. ORLANDO’S BAR & LOUNGE: AC Unit featuring Chris and Adrian of Kung Fu (jam), 10:30 p.m., free. RADIO BEAN: Friday Morning Sing-Along with Linda Bassick & Friends (kids’ music), 11 a.m., free. J. Schnitt (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., free. Especially Cowboys (Americana), 8:30 p.m., free. Jesse Taylor Band (rock), 10 p.m., $5. Happy Spangler (rock), 11:30 p.m., $5. RED SQUARE: Dave Mitchell’s Blues Revue (open jam), 3 p.m., free. Mal Maiz (cumbia), 7 p.m., $5. DJ Craig Mitchell (open format), 11 p.m., $5.
THE DEN AT HARRY’S HARDWARE: The Groovebirds Duo (rock), 7 p.m., free. WHAMMY BAR: Cowboys & Angels (country), 7 p.m., free.
stowe/smuggs
EL TORO: Carol Hausner and Jonathan ‘Doc’ Kaplan (bluegrass), 7 p.m., free. MOOGS PLACE: Blue Fox (blues), 7 p.m., free.
mad river valley/ waterbury
ZENBARN: Golden Oak, Zack DuPont (soul, funk), 9 p.m., free.
middlebury area
CITY LIMITS NIGHT CLUB: Toast (rock), 9:30 p.m., free.
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Also on Saturday, the Flynn on Fire Festival returns to Switchback Brewing in Burlington’s South End. A convergence of street food, live music, art demos, maker wares and fire spinning, the festival’s raison d’être is the brewery’s line of smoked beers. Performers include fire artisans CIRQUE DE FUEGO, plus singer-songwriter JACOB GREEN, bluegrass band the WORMDOGS, and LED ZEPPELIN enthusiasts NICO SUAVE & THE BODACIOUS SUPREME. Additionally on Saturday — hey, it’s a popular day of the week for entertainment — DWIGHT & NICOLE return to ArtsRiot. The bluesy trio of DWIGHT RITCHER, NICOLE NELSON and EZRA OKLAN celebrate the release of the group’s new single, “Wasting All My Time.” The song precedes a new full-length album, due out in spring 2020. Technically, you won’t be able to hear the recorded version of “Wasting All My Time” until Thursday, October 3, when it hits all major streamers. But you can hear it live on Saturday. Speaking of Oklan, his new rock band, MATTHEW MERCURY, begins a monthlong residency on Wednesday, October 2, at Orlando’s Bar & Lounge. The longtime sideman fronts the pop-rock outfit, whose self-titled debut album came out
in June. Revisit Seven Days’ coverage on our website. Are you a star in the making? Do you have a secret hidden talent? On Monday, September 30, the crew at the LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP hosts the next installment of BVT Star Search. In the last year, the club overhauled its open mic format, offering a different theme on any given Monday. And when a month has five Mondays, the fifth is an elimination-style talent show. Are you secretly an amazing juggler? Were you born to yodel? The contest is open format, so anything goes.
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NORTH HERO HOUSE INN & RESTAURANT: The Hubcats (Americana), 5:30 p.m., free.
THE OLD FOUNDRY AT ONE FEDERAL RESTAURANT & LOUNGE: Chris and Erica (pop, rock), 7 p.m., free. TWIGGS — AN AMERICAN GASTROPUB: Leadfoot Louise (Americana), 7 p.m., free.
upper valley
THE ENGINE ROOM: Found Down (rock covers), 8 p.m., free.
northeast kingdom
NORTHERN VERMONT UNIVERSITYLYNDON: Samuel J. Comroe (standup), 8 p.m., free.
randolph/royalton
BABES BAR: Hip-Hop Dance Party with Hustle & Loyalty, 8 p.m., $5.
outside vermont
MONOPOLE: Cash Journey (Johnny Cash tribute), 10 p.m., free. MONOPOLE DOWNSTAIRS: Happy Hour Tunes & Trivia with Gary Peacock, 5 p.m., free. OLIVE RIDLEY’S: Neil Gillespie (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., free.
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ARTSRIOT: Dwight & Nicole, (blues, pop), 8 p.m., $15. BLEU NORTHEAST SEAFOOD: Anthony Santor Trio (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free. CLUB METRONOME: Move B*tch (2000s hip-hop), 10 p.m., free. DELI 126: Maple Street Six (jazz), 9 p.m., free. FOAM BREWERS: Willverine (electropop), 9 p.m., free. HALF LOUNGE: OD3 and Friends (house, techno), 10 p.m., free. JP’S PUB: Karaoke, 10 p.m., free. LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Blackmer (folk), 7:30 p.m., free. Ezra Bell (folk-pop), 9 p.m., $5. DJ Taka (eclectic vinyl), 11 p.m., $5.
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front person Jake Webb’s early 2010s bedroom recordings to the glossy pop heard on 2019’s Triage, the group has developed a slick and edgy style. The new album’s nine tunes blend glam-rock and synth-pop with a heightened theatrical flair — especially Webb’s vocals, which border on operatic at times. Methyl Ethel perform on Friday, September 27, at ArtsRiot in Burlington. ADA LEA and locals NODRUMS add support. REVELRY THEATER: Butterfly (storytelling, improv), 8 p.m., $7/8. Sex w/Jenna (improv), 9:30 p.m., $10. RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB & WHISKEY ROOM: DJ KermiTT (open format), 10 p.m., free. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Trae Sheehan (singersongwriter), 7 p.m., free. SMITTY’S PUB: Sean & Gerry (rock), 8 p.m., free. VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Jo Firestone (standup), 7 & 9:30 p.m., $20/27.
ORLANDO’S BAR & LOUNGE: Night Protocol (synthwave, ’80s covers), 9:30 p.m., free.
chittenden county
RED SQUARE: Left Eye Jump (blues), 3 p.m., free. DJ A-RA$ (open format), 11 p.m., $5. RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ Raul (Latin), 6 p.m., free. DJ ATAK (house), 11 p.m., $5.
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sharp and highly stylized sound has grown considerably in a relatively short amount of time. From
NECTAR’S: Reid Parsons (Americana), 7 p.m., free. Zach Deputy (hip-hop, funk), 9 p.m., $15.
RADIO BEAN: DJ Vox (electro-swing, hip-hop), noon, free. Steph Pappas Experience (Americana), 6:30 p.m., free. The Zeichner Trio (Irish, Americana), 8:30 p.m., free. James Harvey’s Shadowland (jazz), 10 p.m., $5. Grant Farm (Americana), 11:30 p.m., $5.
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PARK PLACE TAVERN: Karaoke, 9:30 p.m., free.
ZENBARN: Grain Thief, Cowboys & Angels (Americana), 9 p.m., free.
STONE CORRAL BREWERY: Southtown Bluegrass, 8 p.m., free.
middlebury area
WATERWORKS FOOD + DRINK: DJ Dakota (open format), 9 p.m., free.
CITY LIMITS NIGHT CLUB: DJ Earl (hits), 9 p.m., free.
barre/montpelier
champlain islands/ northwest
BAGITOS BAGEL AND BURRITO CAFÉ: Irish Session, 2 p.m., donation. CHARLIE-O’S WORLD FAMOUS: The Screwtape Letters (punk), 9 p.m., free. GUSTO’S: Eric DeRed (rock covers), 6 p.m., free. Scarab: The Journey Experience, 9 p.m., $10.
THE OLD FOUNDRY AT ONE FEDERAL RESTAURANT & LOUNGE: Carol Hausner and Jonathan ‘Doc’ Kaplan (bluegrass), 7 p.m., free. TWIGGS — AN AMERICAN GASTROPUB: Aardvark 2.0 (rock covers), 7 p.m., free.
HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Reggae for Kids, noon, $15.
THE SKINNY PANCAKE (MONTPELIER): The Hokum Bros. (Americana), 7 p.m., free.
HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Injury Reserve, Slauson Malone, Body Meat (hip-hop), 8:30 p.m., $15/18.
THE DEN AT HARRY’S HARDWARE: The Burds Brothers (Americana), 7 p.m., free.
THE ENGINE ROOM: The Conniption Fits, Off the List (rock covers), 7:30 p.m., $15/20.
WHAMMY BAR: Footworks (dance), 7 p.m., free.
randolph/royalton
JERICHO CAFÉ & TAVERN: Roy and the Wrecks (rock), 6 p.m., free. MONKEY HOUSE: Suburban Samurai, Nine Votes Short, the Silent Mile (punk), 9 p.m., $3/8. 18+. THE OLD POST: Saturday Night Mega Mix featuring DJ Colby Stiltz (open format), 9 p.m., free. ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Chris and Erica (rock, country), 5 p.m., free. Lazer Dad (’90s covers), 9 p.m., free.
stowe/smuggs
EL TORO: Wylie Shipman (Americana), 7 p.m., free. MOOGS PLACE: Some Hollow (folk-rock), 9 p.m., free.
mad river valley/ waterbury
HOSTEL TEVERE: Hostel House Band (funk, rock), 9 p.m., free.
upper valley
BABES BAR: Sarah King (singersongwriter), 7 p.m., free.
outside vermont
MONOPOLE: Doomfuck, the Shameless Stranger (rock), 10 p.m., free. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (HANOVER): Pete Francis of Dispatch (singersongwriter), 9 p.m., free.
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REVIEW this Will Stamp, Will Stamp (SELF-RELEASED, DIGITAL)
In 2017, Burlington singer-songwriter Will Stamp released his debut EP, That Old Familiar Heartbreak. Its six songs were graceful, understated alt-country meditations on loss. On his first full-length effort, released September 6, Stamp’s approach seems to be “go big or go home.” At its best, the self-titled record is bold; at its worst, busy. “It may feel like a tiny drop in a vaaaast ocean of music, but boy did I bust my butt writing, recording and mixing this record,” Stamp wrote in a Facebook post on the album’s release day. The labor, which Stamp says took two years, is certainly impressive. Where he fell short is in editing. There’s a lot going on in most of the 11 songs. On “Life Is Beautiful,” for
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example, he stacks handclaps, squealing electric guitar and soaring, Queen-style background vocals. I wish he had instead focused on one standout detail. Musically, Stamp mainly cruises in the pop-rock lane while pulling in elements of country, gospel and R&B. He showcases his multi-instrumental chops by performing all parts himself, aside from live drums played by J Bengoy’s Ryan Jory. On That Old Familiar Heartbreak, Stamp’s singing was beautifully restrained. Here, it’s fun to hear him experiment with his voice. He achieves a playful Elvis Presley vocal styling in the chorus of “Not Good Enough,” a high falsetto on “Hard to Please” and an aching wail on “A Message.” There’s even a Michael Jackson-esque “Hee! Hee!” on “Something to Say,” an ominous-sounding song from the viewpoint of a suspicious lover. Stamp’s lyrics are confessional, and
sometimes he overshares: “‘We just can’t do this anymore’ is what she said to me / Clothes still strewn across the floor as she got up to pee.” Postcoital urination? TMI, dude. But in other instances, the details he offers draw the listener into an intense emotional world. In “Summit St.,” one of two holdovers from his previous release, Stamp sings about a cold-weather stroll with a new squeeze. He notes “An inch of ice on the car-top case / Breaking into a frozen safe.” If, by chance, a reviewer were to hear this lyric as her own personal winter of the heart had started to thaw, the image could bring a tear to her eye. Or so I’m guessing. “I haven’t always been subtle, but I’ve told the truth,” Stamp sings in “A Message.” If one line could capture the album’s essence, it would be this. Even if Will Stamp is slightly askew, it feels fearless. The thing about fearlessness is that it begets new beginnings. So go big, Will, go big. Will Stamp is available on all major streaming services.
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After several listens through the latest Ghastly Sound project, Have a Nice Day, I’m almost beginning to wonder if the album title was intended sarcastically. You can never tell with these heavy metal types, a secretive subculture of “doom sludge” and “mosh pits” and “djent riffs.” And sweet, sweet cover art with skulls. In a world of a million aspiring metal bands, though, you need something different to stand out. Ghastly Sound have a pretty good angle: They are a crushing wall of sound, churning out creative and adventurous work — and they are a trio with no guitarist. Just bass, drums and some operatically unhinged lead vocals. Obviously, that puts the heavy lifting squarely on the shoulders of bassist TJ Maynard and drummer Ryan Lewis. Good
news: They are both powerhouse players, equal to the task. Song after song, the duo delivers lush, huge backdrops for vocalist Tyler Gurwicz. Maynard’s riffs make the most of his instrument’s melodic reach, veering from lead lines to low-end squalls, often in the same heartbeat. Have a Nice Day marks the first fulllength album from Ghastly Sound, who churned out two EPs in 2017, both highly polished and mature projects in their own right. Then the band went ominously quiet in 2018, dropping only a single, “Crippler Crossface.” Still, that was more than enough to attract some national attention, earning the band rave reviews on genre blogs and an appearance at the prestigious Psycho Las Vegas festival. (The band also played the lower-profile, but wonderfully named, New England Stoner and Doom Fest in Jewett City, Conn.) Rather than rest on their laurels, Ghastly Sound up the ante across the board on the new album. The songwriting
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is still a primal howl, but Gurwicz is in total control of his pipes, and the album is full of personal reflections and politicized metaphors. The riffs are also tighter than ever — and catchier, too. The album marks a huge progression for the band’s overall production and sound, as well. Its earlier work, much of it produced by Ryan Power at Robot Dog Studio in Williston, sounds clean and strong. But here the band partners with engineer Dave Parker, known for his boundary-pushing work with progrock outfit Coheed and Cambria. It’s also mastered by Grammy Award winner Alan Douches. The result, no surprise, is Ghastly Sound’s best-sounding release to date. Have a Nice Day represents a strong regional act making the right moves to reach the next level. To say this music is not for everyone is more of a joke than an understatement, but for genre faithful, this is top-shelf stuff. The band has monster riffs and killer chops, and Gurwicz has the right mix of charisma and insanity to really turn some heads. Have a Nice Day by Ghastly Sound is available at ghastlysound.bandcamp.com.
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THE FARMHOUSE TAP & GRILL: Al’s Pals (funk, jam), 5:30 p.m., free.
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HALF LOUNGE: Open Decks, 10 p.m., free. LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Alexander Stewart Quartet (jazz), 7:30 p.m., $5. RADIO BEAN: Carole J. Bufford & Arthur Migliazza (jazz, blues), 5 p.m., free. The Groovebirds (rock), 7 p.m., free. Cup of Comedy: A Standup Showcase, 9 p.m., free. DASH (electrosoul), 11 p.m., free. RED SQUARE: Andriana Chobot (singer-songwriter), 4 p.m., free. Bob MacKenzie Blues Band, 7 p.m., free. RUBEN JAMES: Karaoke, 10 p.m., free. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Bluegrass Brunch, noon, free. VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Standup
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HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Whitney, Hand Habits (rock, soul), 8:30 p.m., $23.
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smooth, almost nostalgic-sounding tunes. Front person and drummer Julien Ehrlich sings in a
MISERY LOVES CO.: Disco Brunch with DJ Craig Mitchell, 11 a.m., free.
momentum with their 2016 debut, Light Upon the Lake, the band unveiled its sophomore effort,
MONKEY HOUSE: The Palmer Squares, Jarv, Mister Burns (hip-hop), 8 p.m., $8.
album and, at times, delivers bigger, fuller songs than previously released. Catch Whitney on Sunday,
SWEET MELISSA’S: Live Band Karaoke, 8 p.m., donation.
soft falsetto, enveloped by warm strains of organ and acoustic guitar. After gaining considerable Forever Turned Around, in 2019. The new LP continues the sun-bleached vibes heard on the first September 29, at the Higher Ground Ballroom in South Burlington. HAND HABITS open.
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ARTSRIOT: Little Wings, Father Figuer (folk-rock), 8:30 p.m., $10. THE FARMHOUSE TAP & GRILL: Southtown Bluegrass, 5:30 p.m., free. HALF LOUNGE: Jack Bandit and Friends (EDM), 10 p.m., free. LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Lamp Shop Lit Club (open reading), 7 p.m., free. Open Circuit: BVT Star Search, 9 p.m., free. MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Karaoke, 9:30 p.m., free. RADIO BEAN: Hannah Judson (folk-rock), 7 p.m., free. Chris Spodick (Americana), 8:30 p.m., free. Duke Aeroplane & the Ampersand Band (blues, rock), 10 p.m., free.
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RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB & WHISKEY ROOM: ‘Star Wars’ Trivia, 6:30 p.m., free. SIDEBAR: Open Mic, 7 p.m., free. Family Night (open jam), 9 p.m., free. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Comedy & Crêpes: Gabe Pacheco and Sameer Naseem (standup), 8 p.m., free.
chittenden county
MONKEY HOUSE: Erin Cassels-Brown (indie folk), 6 p.m., free. Birds (psychrock), 9 p.m., $3/8. 18+.
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HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Magic City Hippies, Sego (funk, pop), 8 p.m., $15/20.
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ARTSRIOT: Les Filles de Illighadad (global), 8 p.m., $15. DELI 126: The Laugh Easy (standup), 8 p.m., free. LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Maple Run (Americana), 9:30 p.m., free. LINCOLNS: Laugh Shack with Gabe Pacheco, 8:30 p.m., free. NECTAR’S: Dead Set (Grateful Dead tribute), 9 p.m., $5/8. 18+. RADIO BEAN: Gua Gua (psychotropical jazz), 6:30 p.m., free. Justin LaPoint (folk-rock), 8:30 p.m., free. Honky-Tonk Tuesdays with Pony Hustle, 10 p.m., $5. RED SQUARE: CRWD CTRL (house, techno), 7 p.m., free.
middlebury area
HATCH 31: Lowell Thompson (rootsrock), 7 p.m., free.
champlain islands/ northwest
14TH STAR BREWING CO.: Troy Millette (singer-songwriter), 6 p.m., free.
outside vermont
THE SKINNY PANCAKE (HANOVER): Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.
VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Indie Rumble (improv), 7 p.m., $5. Open Mic, 8:30 p.m., free.
chittenden county
CITY SPORTS GRILLE: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free. HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Dynohunter, DJ Scott Carlson (EDM), 8:30 p.m., $10. MONKEY HOUSE: ZONES, Roost (psychedelic, electronic), 8:30 p.m., $5/10. 18+.
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THE OLD POST: Karaoke with D Jay Baron, 8 p.m., free.
HALF LOUNGE: DJ Ianu (open format), 10 p.m., free.
MOOGS PLACE: Trivia Night, 6:30 p.m., free.
burlington
JP’S PUB: Karaoke, 10 p.m., free. JUNIPER: The Ray Vega Quartet (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free.
THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Ukulele Kids with Joe Beaird, 9:30 a.m., free.
LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Irish Sessions (traditional), 7 p.m., free. Giovanina Bucci (singer-songwriter), 9 p.m., free.
chittenden county
MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Open Mic with Andy Lugo, 9:30 p.m., free.
ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Trivia with Top Hat Entertainment, 7 p.m., free.
NECTAR’S: Brickdrop (album release), Juicebox (funk), 8 p.m., free/$5. 18+.
WATERWORKS FOOD + DRINK: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.
ORLANDO’S BAR & LOUNGE: Matthew Mercury (rock), 7 p.m., free.
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RADIO BEAN: John Fealy (folk), 5:30 p.m., free. Ensemble V (jazz), 7 p.m., free. Mosaic featuring members of Kat Wright and the Welterweights (jam), 10 p.m., $5.
CHARLIE-O’S WORLD FAMOUS: Karaoke with DJ Molotov, 9:30 p.m., free.
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neighborhood known as the Railyards. The building was once a freight warehouse but for decades had stood empty and derelict — a “sketchy place where transients used to sleep,” according to Alarcon. Haight saw potential, though. “I love going out to listen to music,” he explains. “We have the Windsor Station here, and I’m there all the time. But sometimes I’m too old for, y’know, the loud and crazy nights.” So, with the help of a friend who used to run sound at the Newport Folk Festival, Haight built his own venue. He gutted the building, installed high-quality sound and lighting systems, and built a stage. “Now it’s this great place to just come in, plug in and play,” he says. Haight began booking occasional shows at the Farmers’ Exchange a couple of years ago. But this summer, with help from Alarcon, Dangelo and the rest of the What Doth Life crew, he started to realize the venue’s potential. He estimates the space has hosted 24 events since May, many in collaboration with What Doth Life.
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“We’ve run everything from dance parties, film screenings, rural pride events, science talks and live bands this year,” says Dangelo. “The Farmers’ Exchange has [had] an immeasurable positive impact for the people of Windsor.” In booking the festival, Alarcon says, he drew some inspiration from another Vermont indie-music fest: Waking Windows. Alarcon had played the Winooski festival a few times over the years with his bands Carton and the Pilgrims. “There aren’t a lot of festivals that service indie-rock up here, other than
Waking Windows,” Alarcon says. “And there’s been nothing in southern Vermont, so we wanted to really put our indie-rock out there.” It’s probably not fair to expect the What Doth Life festival to reach Waking Windows’ epic proportions. But if it proves successful, Alarcon envisions the fest growing more eclectic in the future. For now, he’s happy to showcase the area scene’s rock bands. In fact, the often thankless behind-the-scenes work of coordinating a music festival has been something close to a lifesaver for him. Pre-tumor, Alarcon had been quite
active, often biking three hours a day to and from work in New Hampshire. “After I had to go on disability, I was just going crazy,” he says with a laugh. “I’m someone who always needs to be busy, which is why I do all the audio work and play in four bands and What Doth Life and all that. I have to, man! “I’m definitely pushing myself,” Alarcon continues, admitting that he now tires easily. “But I love the challenge, and I love the mission. What Doth Life is all about growing the DIY scene, and this festival is the logical extension of that.” “In a way, it feels like we’ve come to accept that our flavor isn’t the flavor that a lot of people gravitate toward, which is awesome,” says Dangelo. “So it’s nice when we find like-minded folks that get it.” Alarcon concurs: “The beauty of embracing DIY is doing exactly what you want.” Contact: farnsworth@sevendaysvt.com
INFO What Doth Life DIY Music Festival, Saturday, September 28, 2-10 p.m., Windsor Farmers’ Exchange in Windsor. Donations. whatdothlife.com
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not realistic. That is, unless a viewer chooses to believe that a human body can have a bird’s head. In her current solo exhibition, “Waiting to Happen,” at Northern Daughters gallery in Vergennes, Morris also asks viewers to accept that the ground we walk on can be salmonpink; that figures can appear in both color and black-and-white in the same scene; that dimensionality doesn’t have
to play by the rules. Logic is in scant supply here. These dozen or so gouache-andcollage works on board charm us in the way of the magic realism we remember from children’s books. Yet they seem to impart secrets, social codes and states of being that only adults can grasp. In other words, a Morris creation invites viewers to see and feel whatever they want to see and feel. She essentially
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Other images offer no hint of place at all, just groups of people in ambiguous settings. In the somber-hued piece “In 6h-ferro051618.indd 1 5/10/18 11:06 AM the Queue,” lines of people file between CELEBRATION SERIES presents guard ropes like those at airports and large concert venues. All these figures face the viewer; they are literally waiting for something to happen — but what? The narrative is mysterious. The sense of interminable delay, familiar to all of us, is profound, yet these patrons look calmly resigned. The figures fill the entire picture plane of “In the Queue”; what we can see of the background is deep blue. The only other color appears on the faces and drab clothing of individuals in the lower left of the square image. A viewer is left to scan this sea of faces closely. Who are these sponsored by people, where are they going and Leahy Press and Hanson & Doremus Investment Management what are they looking at? Individuals in Morris’ works “a virtual deity -- a living legend.” seldom seem to interact; even the sunniest scenes are overGuitar Player magazine laid with a lonely-in-a-crowd poignancy. The promise of togetherness is tainted by otherness. In “Latecomer,” a group of people — some visually united by black-and-white-striped clothing — stands or sits around or on an outdoor table. The painting’s title suggests that they, too, are waiting. In the upper-left quadrant, a woman peers out a window at this sponsored by ensemble, both her hands against the sponsors: PL Meriam Fine Arts, Trow & Holden, Central Vermont Medical Center glass in an unreadable gesture. Is she the latecomer? Is she unable to join the group? A Morris painting raises enticing questions and withholds easy answers. In “High Speed Rail to Your Future,” a crowd of people mills about a peach-colored platform before a sleek, monstrously huge train. It’s not clear whether these travelers have
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spent three years in New York City working as a graphic artist for Whole Foods Market. Morris’ artist residencies over those years included one in Bahia, Brazil, which may have influenced the sun-drenched palette of some of her works. Exposure to the life and climates of other continents leaves a strong visual impression, to say the least. Morris infuses a vague sense of tropicality, of not-American locales, into her work, such as the bright urban street scene “Late Afternoon” or the turquoise water in the quadriptych “Enclave.” But nothing is explicit.
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f ‘BE STRONG AND DO NOT BETRAY YOUR SOUL’: Photographs by 47 artists from the collection of Light Work, a nonprofit based in Syracuse, N.Y., that explore topics of politics, social justice, identity and visibility. f ‘RESIST! INSIST! PERSIST!’: Curated by UVM students in a fall 2018 art history class, the exhibit draws works primarily from the museum’s collection to explore how historical and contemporary artists have countered adversity and hardship with empowerment and expression. Reception: Friday, September 27, 5:30-7 p.m. September 27-December 13. Info, 656-0750. Fleming Museum of Art, University of Vermont, in Burlington.
58TH ANNUAL ART IN THE PARK FESTIVALS: Vermont artists and artisans are invited to participate in the festival at Main Street Park in Rutland, October 12 and 13. Deadline: October 10. Chaffee Art Center, Rutland. Info, artinthepark@ chaffeeartcenter.org, 775-0356. ANEW CALL TO ARTISTS: Inclusive Arts Vermont invites established and emerging artists to participate in a showcase of work by artists with disabilities, which will tour the state in 2020. Submit work interpreting the themes of beginnings, openings, doorways and new starts. Download application at inclusiveartsvermont.org. Deadline: September 30. Amy E. Tarrant Gallery, Burlington. Info, 871-5002.
f DAVID HOLUB: Digital illustrations that combine words, images, whimsy, heartbreak and humor. Reception: Sunday, September 29, 3-4 p.m. September 29-November 30. Info, 862-9647. The Daily Planet in Burlington.
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‘POLLINATE THIS!’: How can art explore, examine, and express pollination — metaphorical and otherwise? Experience how Vermont artists and photographers view pollination. October 1-31. Info, 434-2167. Birds of Vermont Museum in Huntington.
CALL FOR MURALISTS: If you’re an artist looking to display your work in a public location, Arts So Wonderful has locations. No funding, but supplies provided. Deadline: September 25. Various Burlington locations. Info, artssowonderful2@gmail.com.
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f NORTHERN VERMONT ARTIST ASSOCIATION: A group show featuring works by members of the longtime artists’ organization. Reception: Thursday, October 3, 5-7 p.m. October 1-November 1. Info, 262-6035. T.W. Wood Gallery in Montpelier. f SUSAN WAHLRAB AND CHRIS MILLER: ‘UNCHARTED’: After a lifetime of artistic investigations, the central Vermont artists leap into uncharted waters with challenging materials, subject matter and presentation. Reception: Friday, September 27, 4-7 p.m. September 27-November 22. Info, 738-3667. The Garage Cultural Center in Montpelier.
CALL TO ARTISTS FOR ‘CHILDHOOD’: We are interested in seeing images that reflect memories of childhood, whether through allusion to your own experience or your current experience with a child. All capture and processing methods are welcome. Deadline: October 14. PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury. $39 for up to 5 images; $6 per each additional image. Info,
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f ‘’90S REIGN’: Work by students in the animation and illustration program. Reception: Tuesday, October 1, 6 p.m. October 2-November 14. Info, 626-6487. Quimby Gallery, Northern Vermont University-Lyndon, in Lyndonville.
ART EVENTS 44TH ANNUAL BESSIE DRENNAN EXHIBIT: A community celebration of the late folk artist, with samples of her work from private collections, contemporary pottery, rugs, jewelry, paintings, quilts, cards and books, and more. Proceeds support fire department’s college and conservation camp scholarships. Lunch served all day. South Woodbury Church, Thursday through Saturday, September 26, through 28, 10:30 a.m.-4 p.m., and Sunday, September 29, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Info, 456-8108. ANNUAL SILENT AUCTION: Arts, crafts, local goods and services are available under the tent at the Bristol Harvest Fest. Art on Main, Bristol, Saturday, September 28, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Info, 453-4032. ART AT HAND: ‘JOEL BARBER & THE MODERN DECOY’: Visitors who are blind or visually impaired tour the exhibit with a specially trained guide. Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education, Shelburne Museum, Friday, September 27, 9:30-11 a.m. Free. Preregister: mandrews@shelburnemuseum.org or 985-3346, ext. 3394. ARTIST TALK: MARY ADMASIAN AND ROB HITZIG: “Contrast and Connections,” an open discussion about how both artists strive to create art with a sense of personal connection through abstraction. AVA Gallery and Art Center, Lebanon N.H., Thursday, September 26, 6:45-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 603-448-3117.
CALL TO ARTISTS: BOTANICAL BLITZ: During the coldest months of winter, the gallery will turn into a botanical refuge with paintings and drawings, sculptural works and installations that depict the plant, insect and animal worlds. We are looking for new work, in traditional and nontraditional media, for an exhibition January 21 to March 7. Deadline: November 15. Studio Place Arts, Barre. $10; free for SPA members. Info, 479-7069, studioplacearts.com. CELEBRATE! SPA ANNUAL MEMBERS SHOW: SPA invites its members to share new work in a major show during the holiday gift-giving season, displayed on all three floors. Deadline: October 11. Exhibit dates: November 13 to December 28. Studio Place Arts, Barre. Free for SPA members. Info, 479-7069, studioplacearts.com. ‘DARK MATTER’: This 11th annual juried group exhibition invites artists to interpret the unknown, or perhaps the known, world in this time of political, social and climatological distress. Artists may submit up to six pieces of work. Application at spacegalleryvt. com. Deadline: October 6. The S.P.A.C.E. Gallery, Burlington. Info, 578-2512. ECOSYSTEM SERVICES THROUGH AN ARTIST’S EYE: The Orleans County Natural Resources Conservation District and the Memphremagog Arts Collective are looking for artists of all types to submit work
Justin Squizzero wrestles with that question and what it means to be relevant today while working within a centuries-old craft tradition. Studio Place Arts, Barre, Thursday, September 26, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 479-7069. ARTIST TALK: DOUBLEWEAVE ISN’T JUST DOUBLE: Doubleweave is a process that allows for two separate layers to be woven simultaneously, for weaving double-width cloth, for tubular weaving and variations. Exhibiting artist Susan Rockwell will speak about the challenges of this structure and show examples. Studio Place Arts, Barre, Saturday, September 28, 2:30-3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 479-7069. BCA SUMMER ARTIST MARKET: A contemporary outdoor market that offers unique handmade items by Vermont artists including ceramics, woodworking, jewelry, games, clothing, accessories and more. Burlington City Hall, Saturday, September 28, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Free to browse. Info, 865-7166. CHELSEA ART WALK: The Chelsea and Tunbridge communities host exhibitions at the Orange County Parent Child Center, SafeArt, Chelsea Public Library and North Common Arts. Refreshments and snacks served. Various locations in Chelsea, Friday, September 27, 5:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 685-4699, chelseavt-arts.com.
ARTIST TALK: ROLE OF HANDCRAFT IN POSTINDUSTRIAL SOCIETY: How does one make a living using technology that’s been obsolete for 200 years?
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on the themes of ecosystem services and agriculture. The juried exhibition will open on April 3 at the MAC Center for the Arts in downtown Newport. Deadline: December 31. Memphremagog Arts Collaborative, Newport. Free. Info, 624-7022, vacd. org/conservation-districts/ orleans-county, emily.irwin@ vt.nacdnet.net.
KATE DONNELLY: ‘GIVEN YOUR POSITION’: The Burlington artist, who works with performance, installation, sound and video, shows her latest video, which highlights reproduction and the role of women as caregivers, and discusses the work afterward. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, Saturday, September 28, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Info, 748-2600.
PHOTO CONTEST: Photographers are invited to enter up to three submissions of photos taken in Vermont between January 1 and November 22, the deadline date. Must attend at least one meeting of River Arts Photo Co-op to qualify. Winning images will be in an exhibit; prizes given. River Arts, Morrisville. Free. Info, riverartsvt.org, info@ riverartsvt.org.
‘MIES EN SCENE: BARCELONA IN TWO ACTS’: The Architecture + Design Film Series presents a documentary about an iconic building in the Spanish city designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Burlington City Hall Auditorium, Wednesday, September 25, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7166.
VERMONT STUDIO CENTER RESIDENCY FELLOWSHIPS: VSC announces more than 50 new residency fellowships, which are merit-based and open to all artists and writers living and working anywhere in the world. A list of awards and eligibility requirements is at vermontstudiocenter.org/ fellowships. Deadline: October 1. Vermont Studio Center, Johnson. $25. Info, 635-2727.
OPEN STUDIO FIGURE DRAWING: Sessions featuring a variety of approaches to working from the figure are suited to all levels of drawing, painting and sculpture backgrounds and expertise. Easels and tables available. River Arts, Morrisville, Tuesday, October 1, 3-5:30 p.m. $10. Info, 888-1261.
WILMINGTON PUBLIC ART PROJECT: Seeking artist or artist team to create a site-specific mural on a downtown retaining wall 137 feet long. Deadline: September 30. Wilmington Works. Info, wilmingtonworks@gmail.com, beaverstreetart.com.
DEMO: BEYOND CAMEL GIRTHS BY REBECCA JENSEN: The exhibiting artist demonstrates ply-split braiding, a fiber braiding technique that originated in the Middle East for making camel girths; she uses it to create sculptural baskets. Studio Place Arts, Barre, Saturday, September 28, 1-2 p.m. Free. Info, 479-7069. FAMILY ART SATURDAY: Families are invited to drop in and enjoy an art activity inspired by the current exhibition. BCA Center, Burlington, Saturday, September 28, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7166. FAMILY ART SATURDAY: Families can make artwork inspired by current exhibitions. Each Saturday offers a different art-making project. Burlington City Arts, Saturday, September 28, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7166. ‘GRAPHIC NOVELS TO WATCH OUT FOR’: Vermont cartoonist Alison Bechdel, author of best-selling memoir Fun Home: A Family Tragicomedy, talks about what makes comics a powerful medium for addressing and challenging oppression. Presented by the Fleming Museum of Art. Livak Ballroom, Dudley H. Davis Center, University of Vermont, Burlington, Wednesday, October 2, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 656-0750.
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JANET VAN FLEET: An opening reception for the Vermont artist’s solo exhibition, “Hanging Around,” featuring her figures using found materials. Part of Chelsea/Tunbridge art walks. North Common Arts, Chelsea, Friday, September 27, 6-8 p.m. Info, 685-4699.
‘OFFSITEONTIME SCENE 8: BURNING’: The final performance-installation in a series based on the cordwood creation process. Performers are Holly Chagnon, Mireya Guerra, Lydia Kern, Erika Senft Miller and Navah Stein. Viewers may come and go during the 90-minute event. Karma Bird House Gallery, Burlington, Wednesday, September 25, 5-6:30 p.m. Info, holt.kelly@gmail.com.
OPEN WEAVING WORKSHOPS: Pop-up weaving sessions in partnership with the Vermont Weavers Guild. Families, students and curious beginners of all ages are invited to try their hands. Materials provided. Studio Place Arts, Barre, Wednesday, September 25, and Thursday, September 26, 3:30-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 479-7069. PIERREVY POLYTE: Paintings by the Haitian artist, presented during the Harvest Art Show. Holy Family Parish Hall, Essex Junction, Sunday, September 29, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Info, gillian.compo@mmuusd.org. RECEPTION AND FILM: ‘MY WORKING IS THE WORK’: Screening made of Kristen Mills’ ongoing exhibition, which reflects the space (or lack thereof) between one’s daily living, working requisites, studio endeavors, and other expectations. Red Mill Gallery at Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Thursday, September 26, 7-9 p.m. TALK: JOHN DOUGLAS: The artist and filmmaker discusses his early career and shows clips from his films made during the Vietnam War (with late Vermont state poet Grace Paley) and the black freedom movement in Mississippi, in conjunction with a current exhibit. Chaffee Art Center, Rutland, Friday, September 27, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 775-0356. TALK: ‘KOREN ON PAPER’: For the Fairbanks Museum’s William Eddy Lecture Series, Vermontbased New Yorker cartoonist Edward Koren gives a visual tour of his gently satirical work. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, Friday, September 27, 7 p.m. Info, 748-2372. TALK: SABRA FIELD: The renowned Vermont printmaker discusses her work in conjunction with a current exhibit. Fleming Museum of Art, University of Vermont, Burlington, Friday, September 27, 4:30 p.m. Free with museum admission. Info, 656-0750. TOURS OF THE HISTORIC BARN HOUSE: The Barn House consists of a granary and a cow barn, built around the turn of the 19th century and now conjoined. The tour features a special exhibit: “Travels of the Intrepid Couple: Stories, Art and Adventures of Lydia and Jack Clemmons.” Clemmons Family Farm, Charlotte, Saturday, September 28, 10-11:30 a.m. $10. Info, 765-560-5445.
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‘IT’S ABOUT TIME’: Original watercolor paintings by Shelburne artist Katra Kindar. Through September 30. Info, 985-8922. Village Wine and Coffee in Shelburne.
ALISA DWORSKY & BILL FEREHAWK: “Job Site,” a room-size installation that explores the drawing and choreography inherent in architecture and incorporates paper, graphite, wood and video projection. SARAH AMOS: “Unique Multiples,” innovative prints employing multiple techniques by the Australian artist, who spends part of her time in northern Vermont. Through October 6. Info, 865-7166. BCA Center in Burlington. ART HOP JURIED SHOW: A group exhibition of works selected by a guest juror, with first, second and third prize winners. Open during Flynn performances or by appointment. Through November 30. Info, 652-4500. Amy E. Tarrant Gallery in Burlington. BEATRIX REINHARDT: “Whispers: Can You Hear the Enemy?” the culminating exhibition by the German artist-in-residence of works that explore the relationship of space, memory and history. Through October 2. Info, dheffern@champlain.edu. Champlain College Art Gallery in Burlington. BEN BALCOM: A short film, “The Sequence of Years,” that investigates the relationship between cinematic artifice and experiences of everyday life. KARA TORRES: “Myopia,” artwork in variety of materials, including cloth, paint and PVC, that plays with visual perception, hidden imagery, subversive ideologies and metaphorical and literal myopia. Through September 30. Info, 391-4083. The Gallery at Main Street Landing in Burlington. GARRETT MORIN: “Crowd Sorcery,” new works in pastel by the New York-based artist inspired by Neolithic monuments to the dead. Through November 16. Info, 233-2943. Safe and Sound Gallery in Burlington. GAV’OM & LITTLESTPENGUIN PHOTOGRAPHY: Abstract paintings and photography, a collaboration of 9-year-old Gavin and his mom. Through September 30. Info, 391-4083. Union Station in Burlington. JOHN BRICKELS: New sculptures in red clay in combination with his signature mocha-colored clay, influenced by old mill buildings in his new hood of Lowell, Mass. Through October 1. Info, 338-7441. Thirty-odd in Burlington. JOSH KERMAN: “Disc Jockeys in Vermont,” nearly 100 photographs of DJs by the founder of Church Street DJs, aka KermiTT. Through September 30. Info, info@churchstreetdjs.com. Half Lounge in Burlington. KEN RUSSACK: “Another Roadside Attraction,” recent paintings by the Burlington artist. Through September 30. Info, 863-6458. Frog Hollow Vermont Craft Gallery in Burlington. MERCHE BAUTISTA: “Of Joy and Other Acts of Resistance,” mixed-media installations that represent female identity by the Spanish-Mexican artist. Through October 30. Flynndog Gallery in Burlington. MICHAEL METZ: “What Do You See?,” recent color photographs of people looking at art. Through October 1. Info, michaelmetz100@gmail.com. Mirabelles Café & Bakery in Burlington. SCOTT ANDRÉ CAMPBELL: “Distribution,” mixedmedia geometric abstractions that create order from chaos. Through October 31. Info, 324-0014. Soapbox Arts in Burlington.
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‘CITY OF HOPE’: Twenty posters, videos and audio collections that document the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign, a grassroots, multiracial movement that drew thousands of people to Washington, D.C., for 43 days. Part of the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service poster series. Advance registration required. Info, 765-560-5445. Authentica Art Gallery in Charlotte. ‘IN THEIR ELEMENT’: An installation of sculptures on the museum grounds by contemporary artists Rodrigo Nava, Jonathan D. Ebinger and Dan Snow.
‘JOEL BARBER & THE MODERN DECOY’: The first major exhibition to explore the life, collections and artwork of Barber (1876-1952), with objects including decoys, drawings, photographs and watercolor paintings from the museum’s collection. Through January 12. ‘WILLIAM WEGMAN: OUTSIDE IN’: More than 60 works from the renowned artist’s collection, including Polaroid photos of his Weimeraners, pages from his handmade book Field Guide to North America and to Other Regions, drawing and postcard paintings. Through October 20. Info, 985-3346. Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education, Shelburne Museum. MYLISSA KOWALSKI DAVIS AND FIONA COOPER FENWICK: Vermont landscape paintings. Through October 13. Info, 899-3211. Emile A. Gruppe Gallery in Jericho. VALERIE HIRD: “We’re Not in Kansas Anymore,” new paintings by the Burlington artist that explore cultural mythologies and the roles they play in our perceptions of each other. Through October 15. Info, 985-3848. Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery in Shelburne. ‘WE ARE ART & DESIGN: AN EXHIBITION OF FACULTY WORK’: Works in a variety of mediums by Mallory Breiner, Brian Collier, Jordan Douglas, Gordon Glover, Valerie Hird, Deborah Kehoe and Will Mentor. Through September 27. Info, 654-2851. McCarthy Art Gallery, Saint Michael’s College, in Colchester.
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‘200 YEARS—200 OBJECTS’: In the final celebratory year of the university’s bicentennial, the museum exhibits a curated selection of artifacts, documents and images from the school’s collections. Through December 21. Info, 485-2886. Sullivan Museum & History Center, Norwich University, in Northfield.
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AMY DAVENPORT: “Visual Splendor: Travels in Northern India,” photographs of architecture, street life, the Taj Mahal and women. Through October 20. Info, moetown52@comcast.net. Central Vermont Medical Center in Berlin. ‘CONDUITS’: Painters Liz Hawkes deNiord and Richard Heller and collodion print photographer Rachel Portesi explore underlying realities in their artworks. Through October 31. Info, 828-3291. Spotlight Gallery in Montpelier. DAMARISCOTTA ROUELLE: “Humanity – No Fear of the Other and the Good Life,” recent paintings. Third floor gallery. Through November 2. ‘ROCK SOLID XIX’: An annual, since 2000, showcase of stone sculptures and assemblages by area artists, and other work that depicts the beautiful qualities of stone. Through November 2. TUYEN MY NGUYEN: “Perspective,” installations made from tautly strung thread and string that explore scale differences in small and large configurations. Second floor gallery. Through November 2. VERMONT WEAVERS GUILD: “Weaving Community,” new work by contemporary Vermont weavers, a “pop-up weaving studio,” talks and other educational activities. Through September 28. Info, 479-7069. Studio Place Arts in Barre.
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ELEANOR OTT: “Spirit Beings,” fantastical works by the local artist. Through September 29. Info, 595-4866. The Hive in Middlesex. GALEN CHENEY & TESSA O’BRIEN: Mixed-media paintings. Through November 1. VERMONT PASTEL SOCIETY: A selection of works by members of the statewide arts organization. Through September 27. Info, 262-6035. T.W. Wood Gallery in Montpelier. GUILD OF VERMONT FURNITURE MAKERS: Fine furniture by master craftsmen George Ainley, James Becker, Chris Ericson, Bob Gasperetti, Dale Helms, Dave Hurwitz, David Lewis, Matthew Ogelby and George Sawyer. Through October 8. Info, 279-5558. Vermont Statehouse in Montpelier. BARRE/MONTPELIER SHOWS
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JANE EDWARDS & LINDA HOGAN: Ceramic works and photographs, respectively, by the local artists. Through September 30. Info, 223-1981. The Cheshire Cat in Montpelier. LINDA MANEY: “Plane Geometry,” paintings that explore, and sometimes complicate, common geometric shapes. Through September 28. Info, 479-7069. Morse Block Deli & Taps in Barre. LOIS EBY: “Studies in Rhythmic Vitality,” abstract paintings by the Vermont artist. Through September 27. Info, leby@loiseby.com. Vermont Supreme Court Gallery in Montpelier. ‘MONKEYS, MISSILES AND MUSHROOMS’: Paintings and drawings by Marina Epstein that reflect the artist’s life in Vermont and exotic tropical influences from living in the Yucatan. Through October 30. Info, 229-6297. Capitol Region Visitors Center in Montpelier. NITYA BRIGHENTI: “Why Painting?” watercolors and oils, cityscapes and portraits. Through September 30. Info, 808-358-8185. Capitol Grounds Café in Montpelier. ‘NORMAN ROCKWELL’S ARLINGTON: AMERICA’S HOME TOWN’: An exhibit chronicling Rockwell and other artists who lived in Arlington, as well as many local residents who posed for the scenes of everyday life they portrayed. A collaborative effort of the Canfield Gallery and the Russell Collection of Vermontiana. Through January 31. Info, 479-8500. Vermont History Museum in Montpelier.
Art Hop Juried Show
Burlington’s annual South End Art Hop ended two weeks ago, but its traditional juried show didn’t — you can see it, at least during limited occasions, through November 30. What’s not traditional is the venue: the Amy E. Tarrant Gallery at the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts. That’s why the hours are limited; the Tarrant does not have a full-time gallery staff. Though the exhibit was open for the three days of the Hop, September 6 to 8, now viewers can see it only prior to MainStage shows or by appointment. Here’s a tip: It’s worth making an appointment. Juried by Brent Beamon of the Flowers Gallery in New York City, the exhibit includes some strong work and is quite diverse in mediums and styles. It’s clear that Beamon favored artworks that make a statement. Or, as
‘REVISION’: A group exhibition of more than 20 artists who cut, edit, stitch, forge, sculpt and assemble alternate views of the world through a variety of materials and styles, stretching the limits of ordinary perception. Through October 6. Info, 223-6613. The Kent Museum in Calais.
he puts it, “[I’m] drawn not only to an artist’s
SHOW 34: An exhibition of the latest work by gallery members. Through September 29. Info, 552-0877. The Front in Montpelier.
“Myopia: Harming in Order to Heal #8,” in
SUSAN SAWYER: Botanical artworks. Through September 30. Info, 229-6206. North Branch Nature Center in Montpelier.
medical debris (pictured). Vanessa Compton’s
VCFA EXHIBITION: Alums, students and faculty show work on the subject of gender, juried by artist Sheila Pepe. Through October 1. Info, 828-8636. College Hall Gallery, Vermont College of Fine Arts, in Montpelier. ‘THE WAR OF IDEAS’: Propaganda posters from the collections, spanning the Civil War to World War II and illustrating everything from recruitment to support on the home front. Through October 25. Info, 479-8500. Vermont History Center in Barre.
stowe/smuggs
2019 SMALL WORKS SHOW: An annual exhibition that celebrates the little things, in 2D and 3D pieces 24 inches or less. Through November 9. DUNCAN JOHNSON: “Horizons,” a new body of work using reclaimed wood, assembled into abstract, 2D compositions. Through October 13. Info, 253-8943. West Branch Gallery & Sculpture Park in Stowe. BRIAN FEKETE: “Quixotica,” an exhibition of five large-scale oil paintings on canvas that explore abstraction, gesture and color. Through December 20. Info, 881-0418. 571 Projects in Stowe. ‘EXPOSED!’: The 28th annual outdoor sculpture exhibition, featuring works on the gallery lawn. Through October 19. ‘STUDIO OF ARCHEO-VIRTUAL SPIRITINGS’: Oil paintings on paper by Greek artist Vasilis Zografos that reveal the medium’s enduring relevance in today’s digital-image culture. Through November 9. ‘UNBROKEN CURRENT’: Works by Mildred Beltre, Sanford Biggers, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Rashid Johnson, Harlan Mack, and Carrie Mae Weems that investigates cultural and personal identity, social justice and history through photography, painting, sculpture and mixed media. Through November 9. VASILIS ZOGRAFOS: “Studio of Archeo-virtual Spiritings,” contemporary paintings by the Greek artist that borrow from archaeological traditions and aesthetics. Through November 9. Info, 253-8358. Helen Day Art Center in Stowe.
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technical ability but also to their point of view.” The first-place winner is a photograph by Emmanuel Christian Tedjasukmana, titled which an older woman is lying amid a jumble of second-place collage painting, “A Night at the Garden,” depicts what appears to be a Nazi/ white supremacist rally. And though the thirdplace winner, a black-and-white photograph by Orah Moore, is far more benign, the image of Vermont dairy farmer George Woodard putting out hay for “the girls” certainly speaks to hard work and devotion. According to Christy Mitchell, executive director of the South End Arts and Business Association, the people’s choice votes have been tallied — and resulted in a tie. Viewers went for a moody watercolor-and-gouache piece titled “Emergence,” by Sam Wyatt; and “Auto-Warming,” an apocalyptic CGI print by John Douglas.
f JANET VAN FLEET: “Long Thoughts,” mixed-media work by the Cabot artist. Reception: Thursday, September 26, 3-5 p.m. Through October 11. Info, 635-1469. Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Northern Vermont University-Johnson. ‘MORRISVILLE MOSAICS’: Multiple artistic interpretations of a sense of place, in a variety of mediums, originating from a community photographic project. Through September 25. Info, 888-1261. River Arts in Morrisville. ‘PEAK TO PEAK: 10TH MOUNTAIN DIVISION THEN AND NOW’: An exhibition of photographs and artifacts to highlight the evolution of the division’s equipment and training since its beginning in 1943. Through October 31. Info, 253-9911. Vermont Ski and Snowboard Museum in Stowe.
mad river valley/waterbury
‘BODY BEAUTIFUL’: Two-dimensional artwork appreciating the diversity of the human form. Viewing SEVEN DAYS SEPTEMBER 25-OCTOBER 2, 2019
hours by chance or appointment. Through October 12. Info, 244-4168. Grange Hall Cultural Center in Waterbury Center.
Reception: Friday, September 27, 6-8 p.m. Through October 26. Info, 244-7801. Axel’s Gallery & Frame Shop in Waterbury.
CAROL EBERLEIN: New pastel paintings by the Waitsfield artist. Through October 19. Info, 244-7036. Waterbury Public Library.
middlebury area
GREEN MOUNTAIN PHOTO SHOW: An annual group exhibition of color and black-and-white photography by amateurs and professionals alike. Through October 6. Info, 496-6682. Big Red Barn Gallery at Lareau Farm in Waitsfield. ‘HUMAN NATURE/NATURE HUMAN’: Paintings by Deborah Brown that focus on a lone female character; and paintings by Mark Barry that provide poignant recognition of the humor, warmth and universality of everyday experience. Through October 13. Info, 583-5832. Bundy Modern in Waitsfield.
f JOHN MATUSZ: Collage sculptures made
from cardboard and ranging in size from 27 to 60 inches tall, as well as large-scale abstract drawings.
‘AMASSED AND UP-ENDED: DECODING THE LEGACY OF STUFF’: Objects, photographs and documents representing four generations of the Robinson family, and exploring how what we save over a lifetime helps to tell our stories. ‘STRUCTURES’: An exhibition repurposing the museum’s historic spaces as settings for contemporary art features work by Meg Walker, Axel Stohlberg, Dennis Versweyveld, Judith Rey, Steve Hadeka, Rob Hitzig and Yoko Ono. An international exhibition of mail art is in the Tourist Cabin. Through October 27. Info, 877-3406. Rokeby Museum in Ferrisburgh. ‘CONJURING THE DEAD: SPIRIT ART IN THE AGE OF RADICAL REFORM’: Photographs and original drawings acquired by Solomon Wright Jewett (1808-94), a Vermont farmer, legislator and spiritualist who
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claimed supernatural powers, including bringing back the deceased. f DANA SIMSON: “The animals are innocent,” mixed-media/ceramic sculptures and paintings featuring animals that address loss of habitat and food sources, among other perils. Reception: Friday, September 27, 5-7 p.m. Through January 11. Info, 388-2117. Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History in Middlebury. HANNAH MORRIS: “Waiting to Happen,” a solo exhibition of new collages, composed of magazine photos and paper detritus, by the Barre artist. Through October 31. Info, 877-2173. Northern Daughters in Vergennes. MUSEUMLAB: A diverse array of pieces from the museum’s collection selected by professors from a variety of disciplines; visitors are invited to observe the reactions sparked when this “teaching laboratory” displays art supporting various college courses. Through December 8. Info, 443-5258. Middlebury College Museum of Art. ‘THESE LAST WARM DAYS’: Works by Joe Bolger, Woody Jackson and Kay Flierl that express nostalgia for the waning days of summer. Through September 30. Info, 989-7419. Edgewater Gallery at Middlebury Falls. ‘THESE LAST WARM DAYS’: Works by William Hoyt, Molly Doe Wensberg and Lori Mehta that express nostalgia for the waning days of summer. Through September 30. Info, 989-7419. Edgewater Gallery on the Green in Middlebury. ‘VOTES … FOR WOMEN?’: An exhibition of vintage photographs, banners and memorabilia that coincides with the 100th anniversary of the campaign to ratify the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1920. Through December 8. Info, 443-6433. Johnson Memorial Building, Middlebury College.
rutland/killington
‘ART OF FIRE’: An all-media exhibit by members. Through November 5. Info, 247-4956. Brandon Artists Guild. ‘GOING UP THE COUNTRY’: Juried works by member artists including woodcuts by Mary Azarian, oil paintings by Kathleen Kolb, paintings and sculptures by Susan and Patrick Farrow, Yvonne Daly’s painted, embroidered and silk-screened clothing, and much more. Through November 1. Info, 775-0356. Chaffee Art Center in Rutland. ‘THE PHOTO SHOW’: A group exhibition of images by local artists. Through September 28. Info, info.77art@ gmail.com. B&G Gallery in Rutland. SCULPTFEST2019: Site-specific sculptures by nearly a dozen artists, guest-curated by Bill Wolff. Through October 20. Info, 438-2097. The Carving Studio & Sculpture Center in West Rutland. WILDLIFE ART SHOW: Rutland County Audubon presents works in various media of some of the flora and fauna that members appreciate and work to protect. Through September 29. Info, 325-2603. Slate Valley Arts at Fox Hill in Poultney.
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disembarked or are about to get on, but again there is that sense of waiting. In “Tree Huggers” — where the avianheaded humans appear — people have definitely arrived … somewhere. The surreality of the place, with its mishmash of botanical forms and an incongruous swimming pool appears to strike the visitors as more wondrous than frightening.
champlain islands/northwest
BARBARA WATERS & TUYEN MY NGUYEN: “Where Do You Draw the Line?” an exhibition of paintings and installation that explores how borders affect habitat. Through October 6. Info, greentaraspace@gmail.com. GreenTARA Space in North Hero.
upper valley
‘ELEMENTS OF GLASS: FROM THE WORKSHOP OF SIMON PEARCE’: A collaborative exhibition with the renowned Vermont glassmaker explores the transformation from sand to glass, from design to finished product. Through March 31. Info, 649-2200. Montshire Museum of Science in Norwich. RACHEL GROSS: “Through the Curve,” new prints. Through October 28. Info, 295-5901. Two Rivers Printmaking Studio in White River Junction. SAMUEL NEUSTADT: “Faces and Places,” digital paintings of local people and architecture by the longtime Pomfret artist. Through September 28. Info, 457-3500. ArtisTree Community Arts Center & Gallery in South Pomfret.
northeast kingdom
f CAROLYN MECKLOSKY: “Dream Portraits,” expressionist paintings celebrating the former Dream Café community in Johnson. Closing reception: Friday, October 4, 5-7 p.m. Through October 5. Info, carolynmecklosky@gmail.com. 3rd Floor Gallery in Hardwick. DIANNE SHULLENBERGER: “Outdoor Influences,” works in fabric, thread, grasses, twigs and bark that capture the essence of the natural world. Through October 27. Info, 533-2000. Highland Center for the Arts in Greensboro. ELIZABETH ROBBINS: “We Will Always Be One,” works in stained glass. Through October 5. Info, 748-0158. Northeast Kingdom Artisans Guild Backroom Gallery in St. Johnsbury. ‘FROM GRANITE TO GOLD’: An exhibit examining the life of Burdean Sebert (1900-95), the daughter of a local stonecutter who became an performer in a touring company, an Emmy winner for a TV show in Ohio, and then an instructor of drama and public speaking in Montpelier. Through October 17. Info, 472-8555. Hardwick Historical Society. ‘HANK JENSEN: FIGURE AND SPACE’: An exhibition in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the installation of the steel sculpture “Etruscan Stripes” on campus, and other work by the late artist. Through September 27. Info, 626-6487. Quimby Gallery, Northern Vermont University-Lyndon. ‘ICELAND’: Eight large paintings regarding Iceland by Elizabeth Nelson. Through October 19. Info, 535-3031. Bread and Puppet Theater in Glover. ‘THE PIVOT AND THE BLADE: AN INTIMATE GLANCE AT SCISSORS’: A collection of objects that convey the long human relationship to scissors, their design and explore myriad professional, creative, superstitious, violent and domestic uses. Through December 31. Info, 626-4409. The Museum of Everyday Life in Glover.
It’s like a theme park where one suspends disbelief in the spirit of adventure. Morris’ training in graphic design and illustration strongly informs her work. Figures are flat, almost like paper dolls. Perspective is, too: Images are stacked, while ground and sky are often expanses of opaque color. A straight line separates beach from sea or pool. Along with this linearity, Morris sometimes subverts expected dimensions. In “Horseback Vacation,” for
brattleboro/okemo valley
‘ALCHEMY: METAL, MYSTERY AND MAGIC’: A group show featuring sculptures and painting by Jeanne Carbonetti, Sabrina Fadial, Alexandra Heller, Peter Heller, Pat Musick, Dan O’Donnell, Gerald Stoner and Johny Swing. Through February 29, 2020. Info, 258-3992. The Great Hall in Springfield. ‘MADE IN VERMONT’: A group exhibition of new and recently completed work by Vermont artists, including paintings, works on paper and sculpture by Arista Alanis, Steve Budington, Clark Derbes, Jason Galligan-Baldwin and Sarah Letteney. MALCOLM MORLEY: Approximately 40 paintings, sculptures and works on paper created between 1964 and 2016 by the British-born American artist and founder of super-realism. RICHARD ARTSCHWAGER: Some 40 paintings, sculptures and works on paper that reference everyday objects, symbols, people and places, often made from unconventional and industrial materials. The American painter, sculptor and draftsman died in 2011. Through December 1. Info, 952-1056. Hall Art Foundation in Reading.
canon. Through October 13. Info, 442-5401. Suzanne Lemberg Usdan Gallery in Bennington.
randolph/royalton
‘AN ARCHIVE OF FEELING’: A group exhibition of photography, sculpture, painting, textiles and installation that ask what we hold and what materials are able to hold us. Artists include Lydia Kern, Caitlin LaDolce, Rachel Elizabeth Jones, Wylie Garcia, Janie Cohen, Josh Urban Davis, Morris Fox and Marina Leybishkis. Curated by J. Turk. Through November 3. Info, seth@chandler-arts.org. Chandler Center for the Arts in Randolph.
f ‘COLORS IN LIFE’: More than 30 paintings by the Connecticut River Chapter of the Vermont Watercolor Society. Reception: Sunday, September 29, 2-4 p.m. Through November 10. Info, 889-9404. Tunbridge Public Library. f DEBORAH SACKS: “Cats, Landscapes & Figures,” mixed-media prints by the local artist. Reception: Friday, October 25, 6 p.m. Through October 31. Info, 685-2188. Chelsea Public Library.
NATALJA KENT: ‘Movement Artifact,” large-scale, camera-less “photographs” created with direct application of light to paper in the darkroom. Through November 1. Info, 251-5130. Epsilon Spires in Brattleboro.
‘EAST TO WEST: A CERAMIC DIALOGUE’: Idiosyncratic works in clay by Mark Pharis, Liz Quackenbush and Cappy Thompson. Through September 28. Info, 767-9670. BigTown Gallery in Rochester.
manchester/bennington
f JANET VAN FLEET: “Hanging Around,” mixedmedia constructions of found materials. Reception: Friday, September 27, 6-8 p.m. Through November 9. Info, 685-4699. North Common Arts in Chelsea.
22ND ANNUAL NORTH BENNINGTON OUTDOOR SCULPTURE SHOW: Outdoor sculptures and gallery exhibits featuring 41 artists throughout the historic village. Through November 3. Info, 430-9715. Various locations around North Bennington. ‘CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN REGIONALISM: VERMONT PERSPECTIVES’: Using works from the center’s permanent collection, the exhibition invites viewers to consider the framework of regionalism and the role art plays in society; guest-curated by Ric Kasini Kadour. Through October 20. RON ROSENSTOCK: “Sacred Places,” photographs of locations around the world where people have gathered to pray or be inspired. Through October 20. STEPHANIE KOSSMANN: “The 3:30 Project,” a solo exhibition of 30 abstract portraits developed from an appreciative inquiry with trauma survivors. More info at stephaniekossman.art. Through October 6. Info, 782-9426. Southern Vermont Arts Center in Manchester.
f ‘VISIBLE IN VERMONT: OUR STORIES, OUR VOICES’: A multigenerational photo and story exhibition highlighting the experiences of people of color living in or attending school in Vermont. Reception and panel discussion: Saturday, September 28, 10-11:30 a.m. Through December 30. JANE STICKLE QUILT: The annual exhibition of the fragile 1893 sampler quilt created by the 19th-century Vermont stitcher. Through October 14. Info, 447-1571. Bennington Museum. KATARINA BURIN: “Authorship, Architecture, Anonymity: The Impossible Career of Petra Andrejova-Molnàr,” an installation exploring the career of the fictional 20th-century modernist designer, addressing the erasure of women from the
instance, a roan horse dwarfs a tiny ensemble of humans in grayscale; other humans and animals in the same picture are proportionally correct, while one couple, holding hands, towers over the others. Morris’ vignettes suggest a psychological tension between anticipation and simply being in the moment; that condition parallels her endlessly fecund process of finding and building on found images. Some viewers might find her
outside vermont
‘THE 99 FACES PROJECT’: A nationally traveling exhibit designed, by Boston-based visual artist Lynda Michaud Cutrell, to reduce the stigma of mental illness. Photographs, videos, paintings and sculptures present true-to-life images to challenge assumptions about what living with mental illness looks like. Through September 30. Info, 603-4942179. Dartmouth-Hitchcock in Lebanon, N.H. BILL CROSBY: “Land, Water & Sky,” abstracted, gestural paintings of the natural landscape by the longtime North Country artist. Through September 27. Info, 518-563-1604. Strand Center for the Arts in Plattsburgh, N.Y. LAURA BOYAJIAN: “Body of Work,” expressive drawings and paintings; sales to benefit AVA. Through October 12. MARY ADMASIAN: “Marked,” mixedmedia sculptural works that symbolize the tension between outer and inner lives. Through October 2. PAMELA TARBELL: “What Is on Your Balcony?” oil paintings inspired by Spanish architecture. Through October 2. ROB HITZIG: “Rough/Polished,” paintings and painted sculpture that use contrasting textures to express emotions, feelings and experiences that are beyond words. Through October 2. ROSEMARY CONROY: “Love at First Sight,” colorful paintings that celebrate the natural world and wildlife. Through October 2. Info, 603-448-3117. AVA Gallery and Art Center in Lebanon, N.H. m
works static, bleak or unsettling; for others they may suggest promise, even liberation. It all depends, as Morris posits, on one’s own archive of remembered moments. m Contact: pamela@sevendaysvt.com
INFO “Waiting to Happen: Hannah Morris,” through October 31 at Northern Daughters in Vergennes. northerndaughters.com
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movies Ad Astra ★★★★★
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hile careering through the void in James Gray’s marvelous, masterful new space odyssey, Brad Pitt’s character ruminates: “In the end the son suffers the sins of the father.” It’s a nice touch, linking the biblical with the futuristic, and the words carry more than metaphorical meaning. The actor plays an astronaut named Roy McBride who journeys to the depths of the galaxy in search of an astronaut named Clifford McBride (Tommy Lee Jones). The son’s on a mission to stop his father from destroying the world. It’s complicated. Also, it’s not really what Ad Astra is about. The story, which Gray (The Immigrant) cowrote with Ethan Gross, is set in the relatively near future. Pitt’s character is a major in the U.S. Space Command, a veteran of conflict “over the arctic” and, most significantly, lousy at relationships. His significant other (Liv Tyler) has left him. This must be speculative filmmaking if someone bails on Brad. The thing is, Roy has inherited more than his father’s love of space. Like the old man, who pioneered interplanetary exploration, Roy is about tuning out the extraneous. “I am focused on the es-
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sential to the exclusion of all else,” he repeats like a moon-man mantra. Everyone on Earth is somehow cognizant that his pulse has never topped 80. He’s a private universe in a space suit, hates being touched and, regarding his coworkers, muses, “They seem at ease with themselves. What must that be like?” The character’s self-control initially appears to come in handy. Like when he’s knocked off the International Space Antenna by a mysterious antimatter surge. Soon afterward, he meets with Space Command brass, who deliver the shocking news that his dad — presumed dead since disappearing on a voyage to Neptune years before — is both alive and behind those deadly electromagnetic blasts. Roy embarks on a mission to meet with his father and relay a request to cease and desist. This entails a breathtaking car (well, lunar rover) chase and shoot-out on the moon, a zero-gravity knife fight en route to Neptune, and an encounter with the last life form Roy expects to bump into aboard a vessel whose distress call he and his crew answer. Which raises the eternal question: When will space travelers learn it’s bad luck to answer distress calls? Seen Alien, anyone? Though, as I say, all that isn’t really what Ad Astra is about. Gray has made one of movie history’s most visually mesmerizing, sonically
STARMAN Pitt delivers perhaps the most nuanced and inventive performance of his career in the latest from director Gray.
hypnotic and subtly acted sci-fi epics. The DNA of genre classics is detectable throughout but never distracting. Solaris, Interstellar, Gravity, 2001: A Space Odyssey — Gray pays homage to each and more, along with another, more earthbound, masterwork: Apocalypse Now. The filmmakers repurpose that picture’s elements — in particular, Martin Sheen’s voice-over as Captain Willard. Pitt channels the character’s paranoia on his journey to the heart of a more distant darkness. Jones doesn’t match the charismatic madness that Marlon Brando emanated as the power-crazed Kurtz, but no matter. It’s not about that, either.
In the end, Ad Astra proves to be less about searching for intelligent life than searching for a way to live life more intelligently. The son may suffer the sins of the father, but enlightenment — course correction — is still within reach. Some may quibble about a last-act pivot to the virtues of introspection and self-improvement, but this isn’t some sort of Stanley Kubrick-Oprah Winfrey presentation. It’s the story of a man on the most important mission of all: discovering what it means to be human. RI C K KI S O N AK
Brittany Runs a Marathon ★★★★
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hat does a secular inspirational film for millennials look like? Probably a lot like Brittany Runs a Marathon. Writer and first-time director Paul Downs Colaizzo crafted this feel-good indie comedy from the true story of a roommate who transformed herself from couch potato to serious runner. Although the title spoils the upbeat ending — yes, Brittany will run a marathon — her journey sometimes shows a surprisingly dark side. Twenty-eight-year-old Brittany (Jillian Bell) has a wide, goofy smile and nervous, close-set eyes. Underemployed at a New York City theater company, she cracks jokes compulsively, punctuating her patter with forays into a broad Cockney accent. To her friends, especially her sleek Instagram influencer roommate (Alice Lee), she’s the party girl, the JOG DAYS Bell plays a millennial struggling to fun girl. And that role is inextricable from be- change her life in Colaizzo’s inspirational indie. ing “the fat girl.” If the movie were primarily about Brittany dropping 40 pounds, it would be derided tion until she gets her life in order. An athletic as retro in today’s mediascape, and rightly so. neighbor (Michaela Watkins) coaxes her to Colaizzo steers clear of the body shaming of so join a running group. Soon Brittany has a new many comedies past, focusing instead on Britta- goal of finishing the New York City Marathon, ny’s mental and physical well-being. The doctor and she ditches her toxic friends, sheds pounds (Patch Darragh) who gives her a wake-up call is and starts looking for love. Colaizzo wrings careful to note that people at her BMI can be ac- rom-com laughs from a scenario in which she takes dating lessons from an impish man-child tive and healthy. She just isn’t one of them. As for Brittany’s inner landscape, we don’t (Utkarsh Ambudkar) whom she meets in the see past her hard shell of comic self-depreca- course of an unlikely house-sitting gig. 80 SEVEN DAYS SEPTEMBER 25-OCTOBER 2, 2019
But the movie gets less cutesy as Brittany’s long-standing insecurities creep into the daylight. Setbacks in her progress unleash the hostility — toward others and herself — that hides behind her happy-go-lucky persona. “People love fat people when we’re being funny,” she notes caustically. It’s one of several raw moments that show us Brittany hasn’t vanquished her real enemy: self-hatred. While that’s partly a function of how others
have treated her, it doesn’t vanish when they begin treating her differently. Despite its title, Brittany Runs a Marathon doesn’t devote much screen time to running. Mercifully, it features no Chariots of Fire-style montages of either the serious or the parodic variety. Taking place mostly in cramped apartment interiors, this is a new-style rom-com, complete with a few creaky contrivances. (The shallow roommate, for instance, is supposedly Brittany’s best friend, yet they lack a natural rapport.) For the most part, though, Colaizzo delivers a solid low-key comedy of manners in the naturalistic vein of The Big Sick, with the characters bonding over their dysfunctional family histories and general unfitness for adulting. Bell’s performance holds it all together. If she’s sometimes borderline obnoxious as a ditzy smartmouth, the layers she reveals put Brittany’s attention-seeking in a new light. Watkins is also affecting as the older running mentor who isn’t as perfect as she initially seems. Where Christian inspirational flicks offer the prescription of prayer, this one offers familiar life hacks such as “one tiny step at a time.” Brittany’s first, flailing run around the block makes it possible for her to complete a marathon, and the marathon itself is just a first step. While the ending may strike a slightly too triumphant note, most of the movie’s good feelings are earned. MARGO T HARRI S O N
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FAST & FURIOUS PRESENTS: HOBBS & SHAWHHH Two former antagonists from the Fast & Furious franchise (Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham) team up to defeat a “cyber-genetically enhanced” Idris Elba in this over-the-top action flick from director David Leitch (Atomic Blonde). With Helen Mirren and Vanessa Kirby. (135 min, PG-13) Official Secrets
ABOMINABLE: Lost in Shanghai, a young yeti needs the help of two teens to return to his Everest home in this DreamWorks animated adventure. Jill Culton (Open Season) and Todd Wilderman directed. With the voices of Chloe Bennet, Albert Tsai and Eddie Izzard. (97 min, PG. Bijou, Essex, Majestic, Palace, Paramount, Sunset, Welden) THE DAY SHALL COME: A preacher (Marchánt Davis) with revolutionary aspirations becomes the target of FBI entrapment in this satirical comedy from director Chris Morris (Four Lions). With Anna Kendrick and Denis O’Hare. (87 min, R. Roxy) MANHATTAN SHORT FILM FESTIVAL: At this annual event, audiences view 10 short films from around the world — subjects this year include driving lessons in Iran, a vengeful restaurant server and a dystopian romance — and vote for their favorite to win. (Approximately 148 min, NR. Marquis, Roxy) MILES DAVIS: BIRTH OF THE COOL: The jazz icon’s manuscripts, paintings and home movies are among the resources that director Stanley Nelson (Rise Up: The Movement That Changed America) draws on in this bio-documentary. (115 min, NR. Savoy)
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ITH1/2 Half of Stephen King’s horror novel, about a gang of misfit kids fighting a monster that takes on the likeness of a creepy clown, comes to the big screen. Jaeden Lieberher, Jeremy Ray Taylor and Bill Skarsgård star. Andy Muschietti (Mama) directed. (135 min, R; reviewed by R.K. 9/13/17)
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LINDA RONSTADT: THE SOUND OF MY VOICEHHHH This documentary from directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman (Lovelace, Howl) traces the rise of the pop-rock songstress from the 1960s folk music scene. (95 min, PG-13; reviewed by R.K. 9/18)
BRITTANY RUNS A MARATHONHHHH Jillian Bell plays a New York millennial who decides to change her unhealthy lifestyle one mile at a time in this comedy from first-time writer-director Paul Downs Colaizzo. (104 min, R; reviewed by M.H. 9/25)
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HUSTLERSHHHH Strip club workers figure out a not-so-legal way to make more money off their wealthy clients in this comic crime drama from director Lorene Scafaria (The Meddler). With Constance Wu, Jennifer Lopez and Julia Stiles. (109 min, R)
THE SOUND OF SILENCE: Peter Sarsgaard plays a “house tuner” who calibrates clients’ sonic environments in this drama from first-time feature director Michael Tyburski. With Rashida Jones and Tony Revolori. (85 min, NR. Roxy)
ANGEL HAS FALLENHH1/2 Gerard Butler returns as a heroic Secret Service agent, now being framed for the attempted assassination of President Morgan Freeman, in the third installment of the action franchise, directed by Ric Roman Waugh (Snitch). With Piper Perabo. (120 min, R)
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GOOD BOYSHH Seth Rogen produced this pint-size version of Superbad about three sixth graders having a very eventful, R-rated day. With Jacob Tremblay and Keith L. Williams. Gene Stupnitsky makes his directorial debut. (89 min, R; reviewed by R.K. 8/21)
OFFICIAL SECRETS: Keira Knightley plays British whistleblower Katharine Gun, who exposed NSA manipulation of the UN Security Council, in this biopic directed by Gavin Hood (Eye in the Sky). With Matthew Goode and Indira Varma. (112 min, R. Roxy, Savoy)
AD ASTRAHHHHH Brad Pitt plays an astronaut sent across the solar system on a mission to find his father (Tommy Lee Jones), who disappeared on a mysterious expedition, in this sci-fi film from director James Gray (The Immigrant). With Liv Tyler and Ruth Negga. (122 min, PG-13; reviewed by R.K. 9/25)
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THE GOLDFINCHHH After his mother dies in a bombing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a young man (Ansel Elgort) wanders through a string of strange adventures in this adaptation of Donna Tartt’s novel. With Nicole Kidman, Finn Wolfhard and Sarah Paulson. John Crowley (Brooklyn) directed. (149 min, R)
IT: CHAPTER TWOHHH Pennywise the demonic clown (Bill Skårsgard) returns to his old tricks as the adaptation of Stephen King’s door-stop horror novel wraps up with this sequel set 27 years later. Starring Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy, Bill Hader and Isaiah Mustafa. Andy Muschietti returns as director. (169 min, R; reviewed by M.H. 9/11)
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ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOODHHHHH The Manson murders of 1969 are the background for this story of a TV star (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his stunt double (Brad Pitt) in the latest from writer-director Quentin Tarantino. (161 min, R; reviewed by R.K. 7/31)
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OVERCOMERHH A high school coach faces challenges and finds new inspiration when he’s forced to change gears in this faith-based film from director Alex Kendrick (Fireproof), starring Kendrick and Shari Rigby. (119 min, PG)
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THE PEANUT BUTTER FALCONHHH A young man with Down syndrome (Zack Gottsagen) flees an institution and teams up with a small-time crook (Shia LaBeouf) in the feature debut of writerdirectors Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz. (93 min, PG-13; reviewed by M.H. 8/28) RAMBO: LAST BLOODH1/2 Who still remembers that the very first Rambo movie was called simply First Blood (1982)? Anyway, the Vietnam vet (Sylvester Stallone) gets one last revenge mission in this action flick directed by Adrian Grunberg (Get the Gringo). With Paz Vega and Yvette Monreal. (89 min, R) YESTERDAY 1/2H A young musician (Himesh Patel) wakes up in an alternate timeline where the Beatles never existed and only he remembers them in this comedy from director Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire). With Lily James and Sophia Di Martino. (116 min, PG-13; reviewed by R.K. 7/3)
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adventures could test your poise and wit. They may activate your uncertainties and stir you to ask provocative questions. That’s cause for celebration, in my opinion. I think you’ll benefit from having your poise and wit tested. You’ll generate good fortune for yourself by exploring your uncertainties and asking provocative questions. You may even thrive and exult and glow like a miniature sun. Why? Because you need life to kick your ass in just the right gentle way so you will become alert to possibilities you have ignored or been blind to.
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(SEPT. 23-OCT. 22):
“I just cut my bangs in a gas station bathroom,” confesses a Libran blogger who calls herself MagicLipstick. “An hour ago I shocked myself by making an impulse buy of a perfect cashmere trench coat from a stranger loitering in a parking lot,” testifies another Libran blogger who refers to himself as MaybeMaybeNot. “Today I had the sudden realization that I needed to become a watercolor painter, then signed up for a watercolor class that starts tomorrow,” writes a Libran blogger named UsuallyPrettyCareful. In normal times, I wouldn’t recommend that you Libras engage in actions that are so heedlessly and delightfully spontaneous. But I do now.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Comedian John Cleese speaks of two different modes toward which we humans gravitate. The closed style is tight, guarded, rigid, controlling, hierarchical and tunnel-visioned. The open is more relaxed, receptive, exploratory, democratic, playful and humorous. I’m pleased to inform you that you’re in a phase when spending luxurious amounts of time in the open mode would be dramatically healing to your mental health. Luckily, you’re more predisposed than usual to operate in that mode. I encourage you to experiment with the possibilities.
Irving asked, “Who can distinguish between falling in love and imagining falling in love? Even genuinely falling in love is an act of the imagination.” That will be a helpful idea for you to contemplate in the coming weeks. Why? Because you’re more likely than usual to fall in love or imagine falling in love — or both. And even if you don’t literally develop a crush on an attractive person or deepen your intimacy with a person you already care for, I suspect you will be inflamed with an elevated lust for life that will enhance the attractiveness of everything and everyone you behold.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): You know your
body is made of atoms, but you may not realize that every one of your atoms is mostly empty space. Each nucleus contains 99 percent of the atom’s mass but is as small in comparison to the rest of the atom as a pea is to a cathedral. The tiny electrons, which comprise the rest of the basic unit, fly around in a vast, deserted area. So we can rightfully conclude that you are mostly made of nothing. That’s a good meditation right now. The coming weeks will be a fine time to enjoy the refreshing pleasures of emptiness. The less frenzy you stir up, the healthier you’ll be. The more spacious you allow your mind to be, the smarter you’ll become. “Roomy” and “capacious” will be your words of power.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “We don’t always have a choice about how we get to know one another,” wrote novelist John Irving. “Sometimes, people fall into our lives cleanly — as if out of the sky, or as if there were a direct flight
from Heaven to Earth.” This principle could be in full play for you during the coming weeks. For best results, be alert for the arrival of new allies, future colleagues, unlikely matches and surprise helpers.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In North America, people call the phone number 911 to report an emergency. In much of the EU, the equivalent is 112. As you might imagine, worrywarts sometimes use these numbers even though they’re not experiencing a legitimate crisis. For example, a Florida woman sought urgent aid when her local McDonald’s ran out of Chicken McNuggets. In another case, a man walking outdoors just after dawn spied a blaze of dry vegetation in the distance and notified authorities. But it turned out to be the rising sun. I’m wondering if you and yours might be prone to false alarms like these in the coming days, Virgo. Be aware of that possibility. You’ll have substantial power if you marshal your energy for real dilemmas and worthy riddles, which will probably be subtle. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You could call the assignment I have for you as “taking a moral inventory,” or you could refer to it as “going to confession.” I think of it as “flushing out your worn-out problems so as to clear a space for better, bigger, more interesting problems.” Ready? Take a pen and piece of paper or open a file on your computer and write about your raw remorse, festering secrets, unspeakable apologies, inconsolable guilt and desperate mortifications. Deliver the mess to me at truthrooster@gmail.com. I’ll print out your testimony and conduct a ritual of purgation. As I burn your confessions in my bonfire at the beach, I’ll call on the Goddess to purify your heart and release you from your angst. (P.S. I’ll keep everything confidential.) SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Two
hundred years ago, Sagittarian genius Ludwig Beethoven created stirring music that’s often played today. He’s regarded as one of history’s greatest classical composers. And yet he couldn’t multiply or divide numbers. That inability made it hard for him to organize his finances. He once wrote about himself that he was “an incompetent business man who
is bad at arithmetic.” Personally, I’m willing to forgive those flaws and focus on praising him for his soul-inspiring music. I encourage you to practice a similar approach with yourself in the next two weeks. Be extra lenient and merciful and magnanimous as you evaluate the current state of your life. In this phase of your cycle, you need to concentrate on what works instead of on what doesn’t work.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “When you hit a wall — of your own imagined limitations — just kick it in,” wrote playwright Sam Shepard. That seems like a faulty metaphor to me. Have you ever tried to literally kick in a wall? I just tried it, and it didn’t work. I put on a steel-toe work boot and launched it at a closet door in my basement, and it didn’t make a dent. Plus, now my foot hurts. So what might be a better symbol for breaking through your imagined limitations? How about this: Use a metaphorical sledgehammer or medieval battering ram or backhoe. (P.S. Now is a great time to attend to this matter.) AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In 1965,
Chinese archaeologists found an untarnished 2,400-year-old royal bronze sword that was still sharp and shiny. It was intricately accessorized with turquoise and blue crystals, precision designs, and a silk-wrapped grip. I propose we make the Sword of Goujian one of your symbolic power objects for the coming months. May it inspire you to build your power and authority by calling on the spirits of your ancestors and your best memories. May it remind you that the past has gifts to offer your future. May it mobilize you to invoke beauty and grace as you fight for what’s good and true and just.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret,” wrote Piscean novelist Gabriel García Márquez. I will add that during different phases of our lives, one or the other of these three lives might take precedence, may need more care than usual. According to my analysis, your life in the coming weeks will offer an abundance of vitality and blessings in the third area: your secret life. For best results, give devoted attention to your hidden depths. Be a brave explorer of your mysterious riddles.
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MICHELLE, WATERFRONT BIKE PATH Always nice to see you! OK, so you didn’t go to UVM! Can we meet to continue the conversation? Perhaps grab an app at Shanty on the Shore? You are in my thoughts, and I think we would click very well. Guy on bike! A. When: Sunday, September 22, 2019. Where: BTV waterfront. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914868 WALMART Urusala, I saw you Thursday afternoon at work in Walmart and didn’t feel comfortable approaching you at work. I was all in blue work clothes, and I think you’re really cute and would like to get to know you better. Coffee or something? When: Friday, September 20, 2019. Where: Walmart. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914866 HANNAFORD, ST. ALBANS, THU., 9/19 You: red hair, white top, brown pants. We saw each other as I walked in, said hello a few rows later, and I was behind you at checkout. Me: short-sleeve button-up, T-shirt and shorts. Hope you see this! When: Thursday, September 19, 2019. Where: Hannaford, St. Albans. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914865 TACOS AND BLOND DREADLOCKS You were with a friend(?). I was at the bar, mostly successfully reading and ignoring everyone. I saw you out of the corner of my eye. I then pretended to ignore everyone but couldn’t help but notice your contagious smile from across the way. You seem like a lovely human. Maybe I’ll bump into you in the taco line sometime. When: Monday, September 16, 2019. Where: Taco Gordo. You: Woman. Me: Woman. #914864
GATHERING BOOKS AT THE FLETCHER You were collecting a load of books in your arms. I recommended Dinesen, and you gave me your Stegner novel, which I’m reading! You are clearly a woman of curiosity, consideration and intelligence who possesses an independent mind. Would you like to meet for coffee to talk further of literature (and other subjects)? The basis for a potential friendship exists! When: Wednesday, September 11, 2019. Where: Fletcher Free Library. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914863
BEAUTIFUL BLONDE, STARBUCKS, WILLISTON About 2:30 p.m. You: beautiful blonde just leaving. I smiled and said goodbye. You returned the smile and goodbye. Interested in the gorgeous smile and stunningly beautiful you saying hello over coffee and conversation? I’ve never seen such stunning beauty as yourself. When: Tuesday, September 10, 2019. Where: Starbucks, Williston. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914858 OPEN DOOR AT KOHL’S Held the door open for you. You are a handsome African American man. I am a short blond woman and was wearing a black dress with blue jacket. We briefly exchanged pleasantries. I was a little distracted in the moment and am interested in knowing more. You? When: Tuesday, September 10, 2019. Where: Kohl’s. You: Man. Me: Woman. #914857
NIC AT NITE You were my night nurse (LN) getting vitals whilst I got an inpatient DHE infusion first week of September. You asked me what my pain level was, and I said it was higher from drinking that stupid soda, and we commiserated over sugar headaches. I then admired your sleeves and felt like a total ham. Less sugary beverages sometime? When: Monday, September 2, 2019. Where: McClure 630, UVM Med Center. You: Man. Me: Woman. #914853 JOHNSON LAUNDROMAT, 9/4, 6:30 You were folding your clothes, and I was seated directly in front of you reading Seven Days. We exchanged a few glances, and when you left, you said, “Have a nice night.” I replied in the affirmative. I would like to meet you. When: Wednesday, September 4, 2019. Where: Johnson Laundromat. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914852
ORANGE CAR, ANGRY WOMAN You have every right to be mad at me. The cigarette I tossed out the window was not a cigarette, though. It was a blend of herbs rolled up with no filter to help me quit. I would never litter. This was organic and fully biodegradable. I like your enthusiasm for our planet. Maybe we could get coffee sometime. When: Tuesday, September 10, 2019. Where: Five Corners. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914856
CV FAIR — LONG SHOT You: working the fair, tending refuse receptacles. Petite, short dark hair, really cute. You said last night of the fair was bittersweet. You seemed like a nice girl. Pleasant personality, intelligent, hardworking and real cute. Me: guarding the gate. I think you’re really cute. Did I mention that? And I’d like to get to know you better. Coffee, drinks, lunch? When: Sunday, September 1, 2019. Where: CV Fair. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914851
SO, WHAT ARE YOU READING? It was nice to see a new face at the bookstore, even though I had to cancel my credit card afterward. I’m sure I’ll be back for more reading material soon. Lucky for you, I buy books at a much faster rate than I could ever possibly read them. When: Tuesday, September 10, 2019. Where: Monroe Street. You: Man. Me: Woman. #914861
BERLIN SHAW’S, NO BASKET As I entered Shaw’s Friday evening, I spied you holding an armful of goods while you were picking up some produce. I approached you and offered my empty basket, which you happily accepted with a smile. We passed again (you without a basket again and goods in arms) and commented. Wish I had also given you my number. Second chance? When: Friday, September 6, 2019. Where: Shaw’s supermarket, Berlin. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914855
NEW YORK SPORTS FAN You took my breath away. You were walking into Shaw’s, pickup truck with New York sports memorabilia on license plate and on dashboard. Probably a month ago after dinner. Wish I had stopped and at least waved hello. —goldenmoments329. When: Saturday, August 3, 2019. Where: Colchester Shaw’s parking area. You: Man. Me: Woman. #914850
VERMONT PUB & BREWERY You came in around 4:30 on Tuesday and set your bag down next to me and asked if you could sit with me. I had paid my bill, and I really had to leave. I said I was sorry but I was leaving. I liked the way you asked. Adventurous. I’ll come back 4:30 Tuesday for a couple of weeks. When: Tuesday, September 10, 2019. Where: Burlington. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914859
WOW CUTIE, BEST BUY, 9/7 MMORPG man in the peripherals aisle, level 120 mouse-clicker hottie. We compared hand sizes, and you pointed me in the right direction. Wish we had exchanged battle net IDs. Games and dinner? —PUBG Princess. When: Saturday, September 7, 2019. Where: Best Buy. You: Man. Me: Woman. #914854
EYE TO EYE CONTACT While on vacay in Vermont taking an exercise class, we made eye contact and spoke briefly about how great you looked. You liked my New York accent. Bumped into you again at City Market looking even better in your jeans. Regret not asking for your number, and wondering, Who’s that lady? Please get in touch. Thinking we’d be good together. When: Monday, September 2, 2019. Where: City Market, Flynn Ave. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914862
Ask REVEREND Dear Ready and Willing,
EVERYONE READS THE I-SPYS A year ago, you sat across my desk while I feigned competence and tried to convince myself that you weren’t that cute, your jokes weren’t that funny, and it wasn’t that cool you grew vegetables for a living. I hope things get easier for you. If it helps, remember: I’m frequently thinking of you and always rooting for you. When: Wednesday, August 29, 2018. Where: not Chittenden County. You: Man. Me: Woman. #914847
Irreverent counsel on life’s conundrums
Dear Reverend,
I’ve been on a few dates with this guy. We rolled around in bed the other night but didn’t have sex. In the morning, he told me that he has genital herpes. I really like him and am willing to try and work around it, but how do you have sex with someone who has herpes and not contract the disease?
Ready and Willing,
(FEMALE, 29)
The short answer is very, very carefully … but it’s not impossible. Genital herpes is more common than you might think. According to the World Health Organization, 67 percent of the global population under the age of 50 has herpes simplex type 1. (Mainly transmitted orally, this type is best known for cold sores but can also cause genital herpes.) Another 11 percent between the ages of 15 and 49 has herpes simplex type 2 (which is transmitted sexually and causes genital herpes). Oddly enough, many people who have genital herpes never experience symptoms but can still spread the virus. So, let’s look on the bright side and consider it a good thing that your partner knows he has it and has been up-front with you about it.
BUMPING INTO BEVIE Don’t know you, but we kept “bumping into each other.” Sure would like to accidentally bump into you again, if you see this. When: Friday, August 30, 2019. Where: Bevie Warehouse. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914849 IN LINE AT WILLISTON WALMART You were standing in line buying a tent. You turned around to smile at someone in a wheelchair directly behind you in line, then looked up to catch my smile as I stood there admiring your beautiful energy. I had long blond curly hair. Wish I knew how to cross paths with you again. When: Friday, August 30, 2019. Where: Williston Walmart. You: Man. Me: Woman. #914848 ARREST ME! Me: pumping gas at the Georgia Mobil. You were babysitting traffic, early evening. Couple glances, and then you were gone. You: in your sheriff’s truck; me: in a blue Fusion. I can’t get your smile out of my head. Would love to buy you a coffee and watch traffic together! When: Tuesday, August 27, 2019. Where: Georgia Mobil. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914846 A DREAM WORTH WAITING FOR You are special to me beyond words — not a day goes by that I don’t think of you. The sparks between us were obvious the moment your eyes first met mine. We’ve spent most of our waking lives on our feet, but not enough time in each other’s arms. Let’s fix that first and figure out the rest in time. When: Monday, August 26, 2019. Where: Antarctica. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914845 BLEW EACH OTHER KISSES Merging onto Rte. 15 in Essex Monday at 5:20 p.m. from I-289. Long line of traffic at the red light by McDonald’s, but you waved my little car in ahead of your tan pickup. I thanked you with a very impromptu “kiss” which you returned. You made my day. Single? Coffee sometime? When: Monday, August 19, 2019. Where: Rte. 15 and I-289, Essex. You: Woman. Me: Woman. #914838 WAS THAT YOU? Was that you at the Radio Bean? You were looking me down. I did not say anything because I thought you would think I’m too old. I’m 59 and male. If this is you, contact me. When: Saturday, August 17, 2019. Where: Radio Bean. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914833
Hopefully he’s already taking a daily anti-herpes medication; if not, he should discuss that with his doctor ASAP. You should never have sex — vaginal, anal or oral — when he’s experiencing symptoms (aka “having an outbreak”). Between outbreaks, make sure everything is wrapped up tight. Dental dams and latex condoms all around! While they are no guarantee against infection, they do provide some protection. Even though treatment is available and the disease is fairly easy to manage, herpes is incurable. It’s called “the gift that keeps on giving” because you have it and can spread it forever. Before you go all the way with this fella, do some research — on the disease and him. You need to be certain he’s worth the risk. Good luck and God bless,
The Reverend
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DID YOU KNOW? Shedding is normal for cats year-round but can be more pronounced in the spring and fall. Cats are usually good self-groomers, but regular brushing will help your kitty companion to have less mats and hairballs, while also reducing hair buildup around your home. We do believe that an outfit isn’t complete without a little pet hair on it, though!
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EXECUTIVE RANCH Executive ranch on 12 acres. Four bedrooms, two-car attached garage. New 30’x40’ out building with heat and hot water, with a 14’x11’ overhead door. $328,500 Tony: 802-6739768
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ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION #4C1072410 V.S.A. §§ 6001 - 6093 On September 17, 2019, Milton Commons, LLC, P.O. Box 21, Colchester, VT 05446 and Bartlett Road, LLC, P.O. Box 21, Milton, VT 05468 filed application #4C1072-4 for a project generally described as the subdivision of an existing 107 acre parcel into three lots. Lot 1 is 6.24 acres; Lot 2 is 9.82 acres; and
ment of Lot 1 with a 5,760 square foot building with four 16 ft. x 40 ft. open bays for truck access on the western end of the building and five 16 ft. x 40 ft. enclosed bays on the eastern end of the building. The Project includes a 0.60 acre tank farm on the western portion of Lot 1. Lots 2 and 3 are not approved for construction at this time. The Project is located at the intersection of Bartlett Road and Route 7 in Milton, Vermont. The District #4 Environmental Commission is reviewing this application under Act 250 Rule 51 — Minor Applications. A copy of the application
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stephanie.monaghan@ vermont.gov BURLINGTON DEVELOPMENT REVIEW BOARD TUESDAY OCTOBER 15TH, 2019, 5:00 PM PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE The Burlington Development Review Board will hold a meeting on Tuesday October 15th, 2019, at 5:00 PM in Contois Auditorium, City Hall. 1. 20-0332CU; 336 North Winooski Ave (NMU, Ward 2C) Gorilla Bars Change of use to food/ beverage processing 2. 20-0317CU; 702 Lake St (UR, Ward 4N/3C) City of Burlington Renewal of snow storage on urban reserve parcel 3. 20-0254CA/CU; 34 Henderson Terr (RL, Ward 6S) Mark and Valarie Hamlin Demolition of garage and construction of new garage extended an additional 4’ to the south Plans may be viewed in the Zoning Division Office, (City Hall, 149 Church Street, Burlington), between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Participation in the DRB proceeding is a prerequisite to the right to take any subsequent appeal. Please note that ANYTHING submitted to the Zoning Division office is considered public and cannot be kept confidential. This may not be the final order in which items will be heard. Please view final Agenda, at www.burlingtonvt.gov/pz/ drb/agendas or the office notice board, one week before the hearing for the order in which items will be heard. The City of Burlington will not tolerate unlawful harassment or discrimination on the basis of political or religious affiliation, race, color, national origin, place of birth, ancestry, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, veteran status, disability, HIV positive
status, crime victim status 9/23/19 2:06 PM or genetic information. The City is also committed to providing proper access to services, facilities, and employment opportunities. For accessibility information or alternative formats, please contact Human Resources Department at (802) 540-2505. NOTICE OF LEGAL SALE View Date 10/05/2019 Sale Date 10/06/2019 Robert Linto Unit 167 Scott Friedman Unit 169 Victoria Wilson Unit 114 Easy Self Storage 46 SWIFT SOUTH BURLINGTON VT 05403 (802) 863-8300 NOTICE OF SELF STORAGE LIEN SALE MALLETTS BAY SELF STORAGE, LLC 115 HEINEBERG DRIVE COLCHESTER, VT 05446 Notice is hereby given that the contents of the self storage units listed below will be sold at public auction by sealed bid. Name of Occupant Storage Unit Mary Lou DeCosta #99 Said sales will take place on 10/04/19, beginning at 10:00am at Malletts Bay Self Storage, LLC, (MBSS, LLC)115 Heineberg Dr, Colchester, VT 05446. Units will be opened for viewing immediately prior to auction. Sale shall be by sealed bid to the highest bidder. Contents of entire storage unit will be sold as one lot. The winning bid must remove all contents from the facility at no cost to MBSS, LLC on the day of auction. MBSS, LLC reserves the right to reject any bid lower that the amount owed by the occupant or that is not commercially reasonable as defined by statute. NOTICE OF TAX SALE The residents and non-resident owners, lien holders, and mortgagees of lands in the Town of Huntington,
County of Chittenden and State of Vermont, are hereby notified that a levy upon the following described parcels of land has been asserted by the Town of Huntington through its Delinquent Tax Collector for taxes unpaid for the 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 tax years. Included with each description is the tax bill, which has been committed to the collector for collection as relates to the tax against each individual delinquent taxpayer. Said lands will be sold at public auction at the Town Clerk’s office in the Town of Huntington, on Wednesday, October 30, 2019 at eleven o’clock in the forenoon, as shall be required to discharge such property taxes, with costs and fees, unless previously paid. By virtue of the Tax Warrant and Levy and the tax bills committed to Brent Lamoureux, Delinquent Tax Collector for the Town of Huntington said Delinquent Tax Collector hereby levies against the parcels described below. Dated at Richmond, Vermont this 23rd day of September, 2019. LAURA E. GORSKY, ESQ., Laura E. Gorsky PLLC 13 East Main Street, P.O. Box 471 Richmond, VT 05477, Attorney for Brent Lamoureux, Delinquent Tax Collector, Town of Huntington, Vermont DESCRIPTION OF PARCELS
Parcel #1 Being a parcel of land with dwelling located thereon said to contain 25.4 acres, more or less, and located at 1925 Happy Hollow Road, Huntington. Being all and the same lands and premises as acquired by Freedom Mortgage Corporation by Confirmation Order In re: Freedom Mortgage Corporation v. Scott A. Ford and Occupants of 1925 Happy Hollow Road, Huntington and Bolton, VT (Vermont Superior Court, Civil Division, Chittenden Unit Docket #685-7-17 Cncv) dated July 19, 2019 and recorded in Volume 112 at Page 573 of the Land Records of the Town of Huntington. Being Tax Parcel No.: 007150. Parcel #2 Being a parcel of land with dwellings located thereon said to contain 11.2 acres, more or less, and located at 150 Happy Hollow Road, Huntington. Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Michael Allen Van Horn and Michelle Lynn Van Horn by Warranty Deed of Weldon M. Van Horn and Christine M. Van Horn reserving a “rent free” life lease dated March 30, 2004 and recorded in Volume 81 at Page 611 of the Land Records of the Town of Huntington.
Being Tax Parcel No.: 007010. STATE OF VERMONT VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT RUTLAND UNIT, CIVIL DIVISION DOCKET NO: 511-8-18 RDCV U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT SOLELY AS OWNER TRUSTEE FOR REO TRUST 2017-RPL1 v. JOHN MARKOWSKI AND JILL MARKOWSKI OCCUPANTS OF: 77 Carver Street, Brandon VT MORTGAGEE’S NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY UNDER 12 V.S.A. sec 4952 et seq. In accordance with the Judgment Order and Decree of Foreclosure entered February 7, 2019, in the above captioned action brought to foreclose that certain mortgage given by John Markowski and Jill Markowski to Beneficial Homeowner Service Corporation, dated June 26, 2006 and recorded in Book 183 Page 172 of the land records of the Town of Brandon, of which mortgage the Plaintiff is the present holder, by virtue of the following Assignments of Mortgage: (1) Assignment of Mortgage from Beneficial Homeowner Service Corporation to MTGLQ Investors, L.P. dated April 26, 2017 and recorded in Book 235 Page 217; (2)
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Assignment of Mortgage from MTGLQ Investors, L.P. to Loan Acquisition Trust 2017-RPL1 dated August 10, 2017 and recorded in Book 237 Page 429; (3) Assignment of Mortgage from Loan Acquisition Trust 2017-RPL1 to REO Trust 2017-RPL1 dated January 9, 2018 and recorded in Book 238 Page 410; and (4) Assignment of Mortgage from REO Trust 2017-RPL1 to U.S. Bank Trust National Association, not in its individually capacity but solely as Owner Trustee for REO Trust 2017-RPL1 dated May 2, 2018 and recorded in Book 240 Page 22, all of the land records of the Town of Brandon for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 77 Carver Street, Brandon, Vermont on October 10, 2019 at 10:00 AM all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, To wit: Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to John Markowski and Jill Markowski, husband and wife as tenants by the entirety by Limited Warranty Deed of Federal National Mortgage Association, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the United States having its principal office in the City of Washington, District of Columbia, and an office for the conduct of business
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at 13455 Noel Road, Suite 600, Galleria Tower II, Dallas, Texas 75240-5003 dated October 21, 1997 and recorded October 27, 1997 in Book 129, Pages 418420 of the Land Records of the Town of Brandon, Vermont, being more particularly described as follows: “The property is commonly known as 77 Carver Street, Brandon, Vermont and is more particularly described as follows: Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to M & T Mortgage Corporation by Certificate of Non-Redemption and Writ of Possession and certified copy of the First Amended Judgment Order and Decree of Foreclosure in a cause entitled: M & T Mortgage Corporation v. Normand Croteau, et al., Rutland Superior Court Docket No. S0412-96 RcC, which Certificate is dated April 3, 1997 and was recorded on April 9, 1997 in Volume 127, Page 462 of the Land Records of the Town of Brandon, and being further described as follows: Being all and the same lands and premises as conveyed to Normand and Susan Crouteau by Warranty Deed of Salvatore Tartamella and Mary Bramlette dated January 10, 1994 and recorded on January 12, 1994 in Volume 117, Pages 106 of the Brandon Land Records and
being further described therein as follows: Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to John S. Stark and Susan J. Stark, husband and wife, by Warranty Deed of Alan H. Willis and Heather J. Willis, husband and wife, dated the 6th day of March, 1985 and recorded at Book 89, Page 374 of the Brandon Land Records, and therein bounded and described as follows: Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Alan H. Willis and Heather J. Willis, husband and wife, by Warranty Deed of Beulah N. Tierney, which Warranty Deed is dated May 22, 1974 and is recorded in Book 82, Page 184 of the Brandon Land Records, and therein more fully described as follows: `A portion of all and the same lands and premises conveyed to James G. and Beulah J. Tierney, husband and wife, by Quit Claim Deed of Donald G. Papineau dated June 7, 1963, and recorded in Book 76, Page 367 of the Brandon Land Records, and being parcel number one as described in a Warranty Deed from James G. and Beulah N. Tierney to the said Donald G. Paipineau dated 7 June 1963 and recorded in Book 76, Page 365 of the Brandon Land Records, the lands and premises herein conveyed being more particularly described in said deed
from Donald G. Papineau to Jam (c.g.) G. and Beulah N. Tierney as follows: `That part of the so-called Lamphere Place that lies next to and on the westerly side of Carver Street, being bounded on the north or northerly by lands formerly of Backus Foundry, Inc.; on the east or easterly by the said Carver Street; on the south or southerly by lands formerly of Martin, now supposed to be owned by Baker, and the west or westerly by lands of the Rutland Railroad Company, containing three (3) acres of land, more or less, and being all and singular the same lands and premises conveyed to Joseph C. Tierney and Mary H. Tierney, his wife, by Catherine E. Dever by deed dated January 6, 1928, and recorded in Book 62, Page 227 of the Brandon Land Records.”
and conveyed subject to all liens, encumbrances, unpaid taxes, tax titles, municipal liens and assessments, if any, which take precedence over the said mortgage above described. TEN THOUSAND ($10,000.00) Dollars of the purchase price must be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check at the time and place of the sale by the purchaser. The balance of the purchase price shall be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check within sixty (60) days after the date of sale. The mortgagor is entitled to redeem the premises at any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage, including the costs and expenses of the sale. Other terms to be announced at the sale.
Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Grantor herein by special limited warranty deed of M & T Mortgage Corporation dated October 9, 1997 and recorded October 27, 1997 in Book 129, Pages 416-417 of the Town of Brandon Land Records.
DATED : September 3, 2019 By: /s/ Rachel K. Ljunggren Rachel K. Ljunggren, Esq. Bendett and McHugh, PC 270 Farmington Ave., Ste. 151 Farmington, CT 06032
Reference is hereby made to the above instruments and to the records and references contained therein in further aid of this description.
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line of 63 feet, more or less, and a westerly line of 100 feet, more or less. Said Lot is #37 on a plan recorded in Volume 140, Page 640 of the City of Burlington Land Records. Said Property is subject to Protective Covenants recorded in Volume 140, Page 497 of the City of Burlington Land Records. For title reference, see deed recorded in the City of Burlington Land Records in Volume 685, Page 400. Reference is hereby made to the above instruments and to the records and references contained therein in further aid of this description. Terms of sale: Said premises will be sold and conveyed subject to all liens, encumbrances, unpaid taxes, tax titles, municipal liens and assessments, if any, which take precedence over the said mortgage above described. TEN THOUSAND ($10,000.00) Dollars of the purchase price must be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check at the time and place of the sale by the purchaser. The balance of the purchase price shall be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check within sixty (60) days after the date of sale.
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ERIC R. SWARKOWSKI, CELESTE A. PEPPER, GREEN MOUNTAIN CREDIT UNION AND DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY-INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE OCCUPANTS OF: 18 Marshall Drive, Burlington VT
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FORECLOSURE SALE OF 1 Series 2005-AR1 dated Homeshare-temp2.indd REAL PROPERTY UNDER October 16, 2008 and 12 V.S.A. sec 4952 et seq. recorded in Book 1048 Page 116 of the land In accordance with the records of the City of BurJudgment Order and lington for breach of the Decree of Foreclosure conditions of said mortentered February 8, 2019, gage and for the purpose in the above captioned of foreclosing the same action brought to will be sold at Public Aucforeclose that certain tion at 18 Marshall Drive, mortgage given by Eric R. Burlington, Vermont on Swarkowski and Celeste October 15, 2019 at 10:00 A. Pepper to Argent AM all and singular the Mortgage Company, LLC, premises described in dated June 17, 2005 said mortgage, and recorded in Book 921 Page 118 of the land To wit: records of the City of Burlington, of which A parcel of land with mortgage the Plaintiff all buildings thereon, is the present holder, by situated on the southerly virtue of an Assignment side of Marshall Drive, of Mortgage from Argent known and designated as Mortgage Company, LLC #18 Marshall Drive. Said to U.S. Bank National parcel has a frontage of Association, as Trustee 63 feet, more or less, an for the Structured Asset easterly line of 100 feet, Securities Corporation, more or less, a southerly
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TO: Simone Krieger, mother of E.M., you are hereby notified that a hearing to consider the termination of all your parental rights to E.M. will be held on Thursday, October 31, 2019 at 1:00 p.m. and on Friday, November 1, 2019 at 1:00 p.m., at the Superior Court of Vermont, Family Division, Chittenden County, Costello Courthouse, 32 Cherry St. Burlington, Vermont. You are notified to appear in this case. Failure to appear may result in the termination of your parental rights to E.M.
TO: Cody Burrows, Father of W.B., you are hereby notified that the State of Vermont has filed a petition to terminate your residual parental rights to W.B. and that the hearing to consider the termination of all residual parental rights to W.B. will be held on November 4, 2019 at 10:30 a.m. at the Vermont Superior Court, Chittenden Family Division, at 32 Cherry Street, Burlington, Vermont. You are notified to appear in connection with this case. Failure to appear at this hearing may result in the termination of all of your parental rights to W.B. The State is represented by the Attorney General’s Office, HC 2 North, 280 State Drive, Waterbury, VT 05671-2080. A copy of this order shall be mailed to Cody Burrows is an address for him is known.
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State of Vermont has filed a petition to terminate your residual parental rights to I.M. & A.M and that the hearing to consider the termination of all residual parental rights to I.M. & A.M will be held on October 10, 2019 at 8:30 a.m. at the Vermont Superior Court, Chittenden Family Division, at 32 Cherry Street, Burlington, Vermont. You are notified to appear in connection with this case. Failure to appear at this hearing may result in the termination of all of your parental rights to I.M. & A.M The State is represented by the Attorney General’s Office, HC 2 North, 280 State Drive, Waterbury, VT 05671-2080. A copy of this order shall be mailed to Taylor Senna if an address for her is known.
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DATED : August 2019 9/13/19 20, 4:59 PM By: /s/ Rachel K. Ljunggren Rachel K. Ljunggren, Esq. Bendett and McHugh, PC 270 Farmington Ave., Ste. 151 Farmington, CT 06032 THE CONTENTS OF STORAGE UNIT 01-02826,01-02712,0200343 LOCATED AT 28 ADAMS DRIVE, 48 INDUSTRIAL DR OR WINTER SPORT LANE. WILLISTON VT, WILL BE SOLD ON OR ABOUT THE 3TH OF OCTOBER 2019 TO SATISFY THE DEBT OF TRADER DUKES. Any person claiming a right to the goods may pay the amount claimed due and reasonable expenses before the sale, in which case the sale may not occur. THE CONTENTS OF STORAGE UNIT 0200225 LOCATED AT 28 ADAMS DRIVE, 48 INDUSTRIAL DR OR WINTER SPORT LANE, WILLISTON, VT, WILL BE SOLD ON OR ABOUT THE 3TH OF OCTOBER 2019 TO SATISFY THE DEBT OF EDWARD BROWN. Any person claiming a right to the goods may pay the amount claimed due and reasonable expenses before the sale, in which case the sale may not occur. TOWN OF COLCHESTER REQUEST OF PROPOSALS This Request for Proposal is for the design, cost estimation, permitting, developing a construction RFP package and oversight of construction of a park on the Bayside/ Hazelett property. Proposals Due: October 18, 2019
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Morrisville, VT 05661 communication, and organizational skills, a proven ability to work with We're looking for an msivt.com and convene stakeholders with diverse perspectives, and experience energetic and enthusiastic Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Profit Sharing, 401k building effective networks. Strong knowledge of climate and energy leader to work with our Plan, Paid Holidays/Vacation Time and much more! issues in Vermont and New England, as well as lobbying laws, dedicated staff to ensure Access to on-site gym for employees and their families. regulations, and practice, is preferred. that children experience the strongest start possible, The Nature Conservancy is a global organization that has been working CURRENT OPEN POSITIONS families are supported, and in Vermont for nearly 60 years to protect the land and waters on Assemblers —1st and 2nd Shift our community thrives. which all life depends. We value collaborative approaches, diverse Class A CDL Driver The right person has a backgrounds, and innovative thinking. For a complete description and strong background in Facilities Cleaner to apply, visit nature.org/careers and search for Job #48001, or follow early childhood education tinyurl.com/y45l8q7u. Posting closes 10/6/19. Doughnuts and cider to all who attend! and meets the Vermont Childcare Licensing Regulations including at least: a BA or BS with a 5v-NatureConservancy091119.indd 1 9/9/195v-MSIvt092519.indd 6:15 PM 1 9/23/19 5:48 PM concentration in ECE, Child or Human Development, Providing Innovative Mental Health and Educational Seve Services to Vermont’s Children & Families. Elementary Education or Issu Special Education with a “Make a difference in the life of a child!”- NFI Vermont, a leader Engaging minds that change the world birth to 8 years of age focus; Due in specialized trauma and adolescent development, is looking to Seeking a position with a quality employer? Consider The University of Vermont, a Vermont Early Childhood a stimulating and diverse workplace. We offer a comprehensive benefi t package Size expand our team of innovators. Full time and part time positions & Afterschool Director Step including tuition remission for on-going, full-time positions. available. Competitive wages, training opportunities, flexible work 2 or Step 3 certification, Cost Front Office Assistant (Counseling and Psychiatry Services) - Center 24 months’ experience schedules and family oriented culture. Excellent benefits with tuition for Health and Wellbeing (CHWB) - #S2242PO - We are looking for an working with children reimbursement offered for 30 or more hour employees. Visit our organized, energetic, and friendly person to provide front office administrative grade 3 and younger, support in our Counseling and Psychiatry Services (CAPS) in the Center for career page at nfivermont.org to learn more! Health and Wellbeing. This position is responsible for scheduling appointments successful completion of a and providing information to students, staff, and the public on the telephone and in 3 credit college course in RESIDENTIAL COUNSELORS person in a professional and respectful manner. Responsibilities include checking program managemnt, staff students in and out of appointments, utilizing our electronic health record system, Allenbrook Program communicating with providers and providing administrative support. supervision, administration, NFI Vermont's Allenbrook program in South Burlington is currently or human resource Qualifications: hiring full time residential counselors for both day and overnight • Ability to communicate clearly and professionally in person, via phone and in management. writing. positions. Overnight position includes a $500 sign on bonus. Please The position offers • Well organized and efficient in completion of tasks. apply online or call 802-497-8868 for more information. • Computer skills sufficient to perform scheduling and administrative tasks. a competitive salary • Ability to interact in a non-judgmental manner with a diverse populations. ($43,000-$48,000) with Commitment to Diversity and Inclusiveness. COMMUNITY INTEGRATION SPECIALIST: $300 SIGN ON BONUS benefits. Close access to Minimum qualifications: Associate’s degree with one to three years of related Community Based Services Jay Peak, hiking trails and experience, working knowledge of software applications used to support office easy access to the interstate, functions, and familiarity with internet resources required. CBS is seeking full time community integration specialists to join our the program's location talented team of mental health professionals. Responsibilities include This is an 11 month full-time position. Salary is commensurate with experience offers a Vermont lifestyle and includes a full benefit package. For more information about CHWB, please working individually with children and adolescents with mental visit our website at www.uvm.edu/health. for someone who wants to health challenges both in the community and in their homes. The Cover letter should include a statement of experience/commitment to working make an impact for young opportunity to bring personal interests/hobbies to share with youth is with issues of diversity. children. Send cover letter encouraged. Ideal candidates will have a bachelor’s degree, be able For further information on this position and others currently available, or to apply and resume to Michaela online, please visit www.uvmjobs.com. Applicants must apply for positions to work afternoon and evening hours, have a valid driver’s license, Green at michaela.green@ electronically. Paper resumes are not accepted. Open positions are updated neklsvt.org or Ready, Set, and reliable transportation. daily. Please call 802-656-3150 or email employment@uvm.edu for technical Grow Childcare, 34 Farrant support with the online application. Please apply online at nfivermont.org/careers. 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WE’RE HIRING We offer competitive salary & awesome benefits!
Mission-driven Burlington law firm seeks an associate attorney with 3-5 years of litigation experience to practice civil and administrative litigation in its Burlington office. We are one of Vermont’s 2019 Best Places to Work, and we are committed to making a positive difference in the world and enjoying what we do. Our civil litigation practice consists of general commercial litigation in state and federal courts, often for clients promoting renewable energy, affordable housing, health care and downtown revitalization. We conduct administrative litigation before the Vermont Public Utility Commission, Act 250 District Commissions, and other administrative tribunals at the federal, state and local levels. Our litigation associate will assist in both types of litigation, with experience in one or both of them and a demonstrated desire to grow and excel as a litigator. We are an equal opportunity employer and we seek to increase the diversity within our firm. Please send a cover letter and resume to applications@ dunkielsaunders.com.
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Dishwashers and EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR We offer competitive & awesome be Catering salary Professionals UVM Dining, as managed by Sodexo is a proud dining partner of the University of Vermont. Nestled in-between Lake Champlain and the Green Mountains, our talented culinary team is dedicated to serving up fresh ingredients and healthy options to a diverse campus community. With a strong commitment to sustainability and social responsibility, we source from an ever growing network of local farms.
Burlington's Generator Maker Space is looking for a strategic and operational leader to empower the next generation of makers, artists and entrepreneurs. Our ideal candidate will be able to operationalize Generator’s scheduling UVM Dining, as managed• byFlexible Sodexo is a proud dining partner of the mission by leading a team to develop community of Vermont. Nestled in-between Lake Champlain and the Green Moun meals provided our talented dedicated to serving up fresh ingredient partnerships, implement innovative programs and events,culinary team•isShift healthy options to a diverse campus community. With a strong comm achieve fundraising goals, and ensure our operations are to sustainability and social source from an ever grow • responsibility, Employee we Assistance network of local farms. strong and stable. If you are passionate about helping our Programs community bring their visions to life and if you have proven Join our team; discover our unique dining spaces and experience the experience leading and inspiring a team, pleaseVermont send your all the while enjoying some awesome benefits! • Career development • Competitive salary resume and cover letter to generatorjob@gmail.com. opportunities
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Join our team; discover our unique dining spaces and experience the taste of Vermont all the while enjoying some awesome benefits! • Competitive salary
• Generous accrued paid time off
• 401(K) - 1% automatic enrollment with a 6% max match • Free meal during your shift!
• Home for the holidays! (except for catering)
• Career growth opportunities including, culinary training, mentoring and job shadowing • Company discounts: Theme Parks | Cellphones | Tuition Reimbursement Clothing/Accessories | Computers | Home Goods Financial Establishment | Vehicle Rental and Purchase Health & Wellness | Sporting Events etc.
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ADMISSIONS SCREENER Are you looking to be part of a superior team in a growing and dynamic healthcare organization? If so, this just might be the right opportunity for you! Elderwood of Burlington at 98 Starr Farm Road is looking to add an energetic Admissions Screener to our growing team! Our Excellent, Competitive Compensation and Full Benefit Package includes: • Competitive wages and opportunities for advancement • Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance • Life insurance • 401(k) with matching • Paid Holidays • Generous Paid Time Off Responsibilities: Elderwood Admissions Screeners establish a presence by representing Elderwood to all area hospital discharge planning teams for the purpose of screening, evaluating and recommending patients for long term or sub-acute care at one of Elderwood’s premier healthcare facilities. Successful Screeners develop strong relationships with hospital personnel in an effort to sell Elderwood’s capabilities and build census within our various facilities. Qualifications: • Bachelor’s degree in Social Work, Nursing, or health related field from an accredited institution. • Minimum of two (2) years’ clinical experience. • Long Term Care and hospital discharge planning experience required. • Demonstrated clinical assessment skills and working knowledge of medical charts and terminology. • Sales and marketing background preferred as well. Apply by visiting: elderwoodcareers.com
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• Company discounts: Theme Parks | Cellphones Tuition Reimbursement pay |for working Clothing/Accessories | Computers | Home Goods weekends Financial Establishment | Vehicle Rental and Purchase Health & Wellness | Sporting Events etc.
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Custodian FULL TIME
This service position performs a variety of custodial, floor maintenance, light maintenance and repair duties under general supervision throughout the Wake Robin campus, common areas, independent living units, and health center. A minimum of one year of hands-on experience as custodian/housekeeper or an equivalent combination of education and experience is required. Wake Robin offers an excellent compensation and benefits package and an opportunity to build strong relationships with staff and residents in a dynamic community setting. Interested candidates can send their resumes to hr@wakerobin.com or fill out an application at www.wakerobin.com/employment.
a person to provide familycentered information, referrals, and assistance to families of children with disabilities, individuals, and professionals on topics relating to health and disabilities, including healthcare finance and access to services. Special projects include SibShops for siblings and Parent to Parent matching. Must have experience parenting a child with special needs. Email resume and cover letter to HR@vtfn.org or mail to HR,Vermont Family Network, 600 Blair Park Rd., Suite 240, Williston,VT 05495. E.O.E.
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SHARED LIVING PROVIDERS Have you considered a lifestyle change? Are you interested in making a difference in someone’s life? You may be just who we are looking for! Vermont Comforts of Home is searching for Shared Living Providers to join our team. Share your Vermont home with a fellow Vermonter who can no longer live alone. For more information please visit us at vtcomfortsofhome.org or contact Kelley at 802-222-9235 or email kwright@uvs-vt.org
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Champlain Community Services is a growing developmental services provider agency with a strong emphasis on self-determination values and employee and consumer satisfaction.
The Flynn has a new part-time opportunity to join our team:
FACILITIES ASSISTANT
The part-time Facilities Assistant will provide janitorial support, perform general maintenance task, and provide light carpentry 20-25 hours per week. Must be able to lift and carry up to 50 pounds, frequently climb ladders, and work independently and efficiently. Some evenings and weekends required. $17/hour, paid time off, and fun perks! Willing to train a highly motivated candidate. Please submit application materials to: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts Human Resources Department 153 Main Street, Burlington, VT 05401 or email HResources@flynncenter.org.
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Join the Gardener’s Supply Company Retail team! Our Garden Centers reflect the local face of our company and its employee-owners. This position has the fun of working with all of our stores on a fast-paced and dynamic team!
BUYER ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT
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No phone calls, please. EOE.
Please contact Dorothy Micklas at 802-985-2472 or email vt.terraces@myfairpoint.net.
Bakers and Retail staff in our busy Shelburne store. Experience preferred, but we can train the right candidates. Apply in person: 5597 Route 7 Shelburne, VT
Open your accessible home to someone with an intellectual disability or autism and make a positive impact on their life and yours! A generous stipend, paid time off (respite), comprehensive training & supports are provided. CCS is currently offering a variety of opportunities that could be the perfect match for your household and lifestyle. Contact Jennifer Wolcott, jwolcott@ccs-vt.org or 655-0511 ext. 118 for more information.
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The Flynn Center is an employer committed to hiring a breadth of professionals, and therefore will interview a qualified group The Terraces Independent of diverse candidates; we particularly encourage applications Retirement Community from women and people of color. is hiring a P/T Facilities Maintenance person. The responsibilities include light house cleaning, trash removal, painting, mowing, 5v-FlynnCenter092519.indd 1 9/20/19 shoveling and supporting residents with minor repairs. Competitive compensation, flexible hours Mon-Fri and • Full Time Lead Front Desk great work environment.
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The Buyer Admin Assistant plays a key support role on our Retail Buying team. The BAA has primary responsibility for administrative and data management tasks within the buying group across all three garden center locations. Our ideal candidate will have 3+ yrs of retail inventory management and/or 3+ yrs admin experience; strong knowledge of MS windows specifically Excel; knowledge of POS computer programs; and strong attention to detail. While primarily based in the Williston store, the BAA must be present and available at multiple locations on a regular basis to effectively support staff (travel required). This is a full-time, year-round position with benefits. We are a 100% employee-owned company and an award winning and nationally recognized socially responsible business. Interested? Please send your cover letter & resume to Gardener’s Supply Company, 128 Intervale Rd., Burlington, VT 05401 or to jobs@gardeners.com.
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SCHOOL CUSTODIAN 2nd Shift HARWOOD UNIFIED UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT
Join the VLT team and help protect the land that makes Vermont special.
ACCOUNTANT, 24 HOURS/WEEK Work with the CFO to ensure the accuracy and integrity of the accounting system and all financial operations of our nonprofit land conservation organization according to GAAP, and coordinate and carry out our payroll and employee benefits program. We’re looking for a professional with relevant education and 5-7 years of finance experience, as well as experience in non-profit finance and QuickBooks.
LEGAL ASSISTANT, FULL-TIME Working closely with a six-person legal team, draft legal documents, send and track real estate closing documents, maintain accurate records and provide overall support to the legal team. Bring your strong organizational skills, attention to detail, comfort with a digital work environment, and an interest in land conservation to VLT! We welcome a desire to improve existing systems and practices; the new Legal Assistant should plan to learn and grow as a valued member of a dynamic organization. Both positions are in Montpelier. Learn more about them, about VLT, and how to apply at vlt.org/jobs.
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CITY OF BURLINGTON RECYCLE TRUCK DRIVER The Recycle Truck Driver position is responsible for the collection of recyclables from Burlington residents and transportation of recyclables to the appropriate center. Requirements include a High School Diploma or equivalent, 2 years’ urban truck driving experience in timed delivery or solid waste collection, and candidate must possess and maintain a valid Class B CDL license. The position is considered Regular Full Time.
Harwood Union High is seeking a school custodian for the 2nd shift, beginning immediately. Experience is preferred, but not required. Competitive rate of pay and benefits are For a complete description, or to apply online, visit: offered. Please submit a governmentjobs.com/careers/burlingtonvt. letter of interest, resume and WOMEN, MINORITIES AND PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES ARE HIGHLY ENCOURAGED TO APPLY. EOE. 3 letters of reference to: Ray Daigle Harwood Unified Union 4t-CityofBurlingtonRECYCLE091819.indd 1 School District 340 Mad River Park, Suite 7 Waitsfield, VT 05673 rdaigle@huusd.org Positions open until filled. EOE
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Our Behavioral Health Division is seeking a Leader to our Crisis and Outpatient Teams that consist of a wide range of roles and providers engaged in challenging and meaningful work. In addition to supporting the teams with daily operations, the Program Manager also provides support to agency and divisional teams while responding to unmet community needs.
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CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP REPRESENTATIVE (CRR) Waitsfield, VT Office This full-time hourly position will work out of our Waitsfield Administrative Office building. It provides an excellent opportunity to learn our business by interacting with and supporting multiple business areas, to include sales, marketing, accounting, transportation, and dispatch. Responsibilities will include interacting with customers on all aspects of fulfilling orders and providing assistance regarding inventory, logistics and reporting needs. The selected individual will work directly with our sales team and brokers regarding orders and pricing, with our planning team to communicate promotional information and to allocate inventory, and with our transportation department to ensure that orders are coordinated for efficiency. Bachelor’s degree with supply chain and/or customer service experience is required. If you have effective communication skills, solid attention to detail and follow-through, a positive “can do” attitude, and the ability to multitask, problem-solve and prioritize under tight time constraints, you should excel in this position. Computer competency working with multiple screens and systems at the same time is a plus (AS400, e-Commerce, Outlook, Excel, etc.), as well as strong analytical, problem solving and processing skills. Cabot offers a competitive wage and comprehensive benefits package, to include a pension plan. Apply in person at our Waitsfield Administrative Office, online to jobs@cabotcheese.com, or send your resume to: Cabot Creamery, Attn: Human Resources, 193 Home Farm Way, Waitsfield, VT 05673. EOE: M/F/D/V - We are an e-Verify employer 6t-Agrimark/CabotCreamery092519.indd 1
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Ideal candidates will have: • A Master’s degree and VT State Clinical License • Experience with both crisis and outpatient team-based care • Clinical and administrative supervision experience • Background in team and program development • Experience with evidence-based practices, electronic health record utilization, and provision of services for individuals involved with the legal system a plus! NCSS views its employees as our greatest asset, and invests in them accordingly. As one of the largest employers in Franklin and Grand Isle Counties, we offer you the opportunity to make a difference in people’s lives. If you want to work for an organization with high expectations that nurtures growth and development, and provide opportunities to fuel your passion, we invite you to apply now at ncssinc. org/careers or send your cover letter and resume to careers@ncssinc. org. NCSS provides a comprehensive benefits package and is a short 25 minute commute from Burlington, VT.
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EMPLOYMENT SPECIALIST Way2Work, a leading developmental service supported employment program, is seeking a creative and outgoing individual to join their dynamic team. The successful candidate will be responsible for supporting individuals in developing career goals, job-seeking skills, securing employment, and on-thejob training. In addition, the candidate will collaborate with businesses to build partnerships for long-term community-based employment. Must demonstrate reliability, strong communication skills, and the ability to solve problems effectively and professionally.
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GIS TECHNICIAN
Vermont Gas Systems is seeking a qualified Geographic Information Systems Technician to join a growing GIS team and user base. Primary job function will be to assist in a multitude of GIS, Engineering and Construction projects. The right candidate will have had coursework or relevant experience in GIS, Geography or a closely related field. Technical experience in engineering, mapping, drafting, construction supervision, math and knowledge of general construction principles desired. Experience in the gas, utility and/or construction industry preferred. Must possess a valid driver’s license.
This full-time position offers a comprehensive benefits package, a great work environment, and the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others. Submit resume and cover letter to Michelle Paya, mpaya@ccs-vt.org. ccs-vt.org
CUSTOMER CARE SPECIALIST The Customer Care Specialist provides VGS customers with high quality, effective and efficient service regarding their natural gas service. This position primarily answers incoming phone calls but also responds in writing, proactively reaches out to customers, or works on projects to improve the customer experience. The best Customer Care Specialists are genuinely excited to help customers. They are patient, empathetic and passionately communicative. They can put themselves in their customers’ shoes and advocate for them when necessary. Problem-solving comes naturally to them and they are confident at troubleshooting or investigating if they don’t have enough information. They ensure excellent service standards, solicit customer feedback and work to maintain high customer satisfaction. Diversity & Inclusion Statement:
We are committed to building a work community that is inclusive and represents a vibrant diversity of background, experience, perspective, and thought. Candidates across all markers of identity (age, race, gender, ability, communication style, etc.) are highly encouraged to apply. Please go to vermontgas.com to view the full job descriptions and apply today!
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BEHAVIOR INTERVENTIONISTS ESSEX HIGH SCHOOL We are seeking skilled individuals to work with students with significant emotional challenges and mental health issues and/or to provide discrete trial instruction and specialized supports to a student(s) at Essex High School beginning with the 2019-20 school year. We are seeking candidates with the following qualifications: • 1 to 2 years of directly related experience or training working with children on the autism spectrum and/or with severe emotional disturbances preferred. • Able to implement behavioral modification plans, provide crisis intervention, manage aggressive behaviors and work on a multidisciplinary team. • Ability to use adaptive technology. • Working knowledge of autism spectrum disorders and severe emotional disturbances including teaching methods, theories and laws. • Understanding of standard classroom operations and teaching methods. • Willingness and ability to be trained in restrictive behavioral intervention. • Ability to read and interpret documents such as educational plans and behavioral data. • Ability to attend an evening course on direct instruction and after-school training sessions. • Must be committed to working effectively with diverse community populations and expected to strengthen such capacity if hired. • Bachelor’s degree in psychology, mental health, education or other appropriate discipline desired. EWSD is committed to building a culturally diverse and inclusive environment. Successful candidates must be committed to working effectively with diverse community populations and expected to strengthen such capacity if hired. If you are committed to the success of all students but do not meet all qualifications listed above, you are still encouraged to apply. Positions pay $19.50/hour for up to 6.5 hours/day during the school year. Additional hours may also be needed for attendance at special meetings or training before or after school. Excellent benefits package available including family medical and dental insurance, life insurance, tuition reimbursement, retirement plan with up to 6% employer contribution, and paid sick and personal leave. For consideration, please apply electronically through schoolspring.com (Job ID 3160778). If you do not have access to a computer and/or are having difficulty completing the Schoolspring application, please call 802-857-7038 for assistance or to make alternative arrangements to have your application considered. 9t EssexWestfordSD092519.indd 1
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Monkey Do! Indoor Playgrounds is looking for full and part time staff for its new 12,000 square foot indoor playground in Williston. Duties include café help, front desk staff, and playground monitors. Please contact Jade@monkeydoplaygrounds.com with a resume and letter of interest.
PROCESSING ASSISTANT Interested in working in the cannabis industry? VPA in Montpelier is looking for help and we are excited to have you come join the team! Open position/s are currently posted at vpavt.com/employment.
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Application Deadline: October 4, 2019 — Start Date: Immediately
Candidates must have an understanding of school district operations along with strong interpersonal skills. The ideal candidate will be able to work both independently and collaboratively, have knowledge of financial processes, excellent organizational and analytical skills to ensure accuracy, efficiency and legal compliance.
Position Requirements:
• Bachelor’s Degree preferred • 3-5 years’ experience in a school district (or equivalent organization) • Demonstrated ability to maintain confidentiality related to student, family and personnel matters • Demonstrated proficiency in Excel, MS Office Suite, Google applications, various database platforms • Citizenship, residency or work visa
The Sara M. Holbrook Community Center currently serves 1100 children and youth at four different sites in a variety of licensed and unlicensed programs. The position of Executive Director provides leadership, direction, administrative management, and oversight of the Center’s programs, operations, and services provided on behalf of low income children and families including policy development, staffing, budget and community outreach. QUALIFICATIONS Education: B.S. degree in social services or a related field required. M.A. or M.S. preferred.
Position Responsibilities:
EXPERIENCE
1. Communicate effectively with all stakeholders as applicable. 2. Implement district policies; follow school practices/procedures. 3. Demonstrate a commitment to continuous professional development. 4. Model professional behavior at all times. 5. Collaborate with other school and district staff members to achieve the district’s mission and school’s annual goals. 6. Perform other responsibilities as assigned by the Superintendent or designee. 7. Provide direct support to the Business Manager in areas related to purchasing, budget oversight, special projects, etc. 8. Provide financial and program support for grants overseen by the office of Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment 9. Attend to all MTSD Board of Trustees business—work in collaboration with the district superintendent to prepare agendas and board packets, attend scheduled board meetings, take minutes, review and update district policies and procedures.
Five or more years of supervisory or managerial experience in all aspects of non-profit management and administration. Experiences will include program development; fundraising; finances, personnel and resource management; budget development; working with a board of directors; public relations, and advocacy. Experience in program development or direct experience with children, youth, and families is ideal. Experience in social services or a related field preferred. TIMELINE Projected start date: 12/01/2019 Application deadline: 10/09/2019
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In a busy office environment with diverse responsibilities, describe how you manage your workload to make progress on all assignments? Submit all application materials that include your cover letter, resume, transcripts, three letters of reference, along with your answer to the application question electronically via SchoolSpring #3176388 or mail to:
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The Sara M. Holbrook Community Center is seeking an Executive Director who is visionary, energetic and committed to leading the agency through a period of expansion and transition.
Milton Town School District is seeking a dynamic, detail oriented Administrative Assistant to District Operations responsible for supporting the Business Manager, Director of Curriculum and Instruction, and the MTSD Board of Trustees.
Milton Town School District Terry Mazza, Human Resources Director 42 Herrick Avenue, Milton, VT 05468 802-893-5304 FAX: 802-893-3213
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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
MILTON TOWN SCHOOL DISTRICT ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT TO DISTRICT OPERATIONS
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Interested applicants, please send resume with a cover letter and three references to: ED Search Committee, PO BOX 3039, Burlington, VT 05408 Email: info@saraholbrookcc.org No phone calls, please. * The Sara M. Holbrook Community Center is an EOE. Our mission is to develop responsible and productive children, youth and families through social development, educational and recreational opportunities.
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DIRECTOR OF CREATIVE MINISTRIES First Congregational Church UCC of Burlington, VT, is seeking a creative selfstarter to bring to life a progressive church’s vision of faith, community, and service that is relevant for today. Passion for relationshipbuilding, creativity, and faith in action is needed to transform our congregation and our ministries. firstchurchburlington.usmblogs.com/files/2019/09/Dirof-Creative-Ministries-Job-Description-Sept-2019-1.pdf
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Medical Front End Administrator 32 hour/week, future option for 40 hours position in a beautiful naturopathic primary care clinic. Salary depends on experience. Paid vacation, retirement and partial health benefits offered. Send inquiries, resume and cover letter to: kk@mountainviewnaturalmedicine.com. mountainviewnaturalmedicine.com
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Ascension Technology Corporation (an NDI company), a leading global innovator and manufacturer of advanced 3D electromagnetic motion tracking systems, is looking for a creative and versatile Mechanical Design Engineer to join our R&D team in the development of embedded systems for use in consumer electronics, medical devices and simulations. As a member of a dynamic team of engineers, you will research, plan, design and develop prototype systems and products that are both robust and highly manufacturable. The Mechanical Engineer will develop parts, assemblies and enclosures for electronics, medical devices, test fixtures and adapters, and manufacturing tooling. This person will drive designs from concept development through engineering, prototyping, testing, and transfer to production. The selected candidate will also have responsibility and ownership for continuous improvement efforts for existing designs, processes, and tooling.
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Lund’s mission is to help children thrive by empowering families to break cycles of poverty, addiction and abuse. Lund offers hope and opportunity to families through education, treatment, family support and adoption.
NURSING COORDINATOR About the Position: · Coordinator oversees all medical care to clients and their children living in residential treatment facility and supervises Nurse and Medical Case Manager in all aspects of health care and medication administration. · Responsibilities include assessment of health care needs of residents, connection of clients to community healthcare providers, oversight of medication administration, referrals, and support to clients including transportation to appointments. · Provides educational opportunities for prenatal care, childbirth education, making healthy lifestyle choices, teaching the client to become an advocate for self and child in health care, newborn care, developmental and cognitive growth of children. · Provides supervision to med team members. · Provides ongoing education to staff related to health care of clients, bloodborne pathogens, labor support, and infant safety issues.
WHAT YOU WILL BRING TO THIS ROLE:
What We Look For:
• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering
· Must be a Licensed Registered Nurse with the State of Vermont.
• Able to create complex but robust surface, solid, and assembly models.
· Experience in working with women and children in hospital and community settings, use of women centered recovery model, family centered nursing care, and experience in psychotropic medications.
• Able to create detail design drawings from models, which show engineering intent through proper dimensioning, tolerancing, and layout.
· Ability to work and collaborate with multiple disciplines in providing nursing care to this population.
• Experienced with the design of precision metal and plastic components • Strong communication skills, including written and spoken English • Thorough understanding and practical application of Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (ANSI 14.5Y 2009 & 1994) • Demonstrated use of engineering thought/principles in the planning, execution, and documentation of mechanical designs APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: If you’re interested in furthering your career in a dynamic and innovative organization, please visit ndigital.com/careers where you can apply online! Equal Opportunity Employer Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
· Valid VT Driver’s License and access to reliable transportation required.
Why Join Our Team at Lund: · We honor and celebrate the distinctive strengths and talents of our clients and staff. · Our work encompasses collaboration with a strong team of professionals and a strengths-based approach to providing services to families. · Lund’s adoption program provides life-long services to families brought together through adoption. · Lund’s residential and community treatment programs are distinctive, as our work focuses on both treatment and parenting. · Lund’s educators believe in laughter, the importance of fun, community-oriented activities, and nonstop learning. · Ongoing training opportunities are available. · Lund offers competitive pay and paid training, as well as a comprehensive and very generous benefit package including health, dental, life, disability, retirement, extensive time off accrual, 11 paid holidays, and wellness reimbursement. EEO/AA
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It is our mission to provide opportunities for children and families to recognize their individual strengths while supporting them to grow and contribute within our communities. We offer highly specialized educational, therapeutic and behavioral support programs designed to meet the distinctive needs of the children, youth and families we serve.
LARAWAY SCHOOL PROGRAM Laraway School is located on an old farm site of 39 acres and is a strengths-based special education/mental health day treatment program with a focus on experiential and hands-on learning opportunities. Staff and students engage in active learning partnerships. Laraway School has strong programming in Outdoor Education, the Arts, and land based activities. • Behavior Interventionists (Life Skills & Adventure Ed Focus) The person in this position will provide daily educational and behavioral support to individual students struggling to find success in the educational setting. Candidates will also support individualized academic plans, classroom based activities, community based service learning and school to work initiatives. Time will also be spent in the outdoor learning environment. Bachelor’s Degree, or pursuing Bachelor’s Degree, preferably in human services, is required. We are seeking both part-time and full-time candidates. • Special Education Case The Special Educator / Case Manager will case manage all aspects of a student’s services both special education and mental health while adhering to all state and federal regulations. This position supports the student, team, teachers and family in carrying out education and treatment goals. Special Education Licensure is required for this position and prior experience working with emotional and behavior disorders is preferred. • Academic Instructor – Social Studies This teacher will serve in the capacity of Social Studies Academic Instructor for our Individualized Program at Laraway School. The Academic Instructor is responsible for the development of curriculum delivered to students and working in collaboration with the school academic team. The Academic Instructor is a key person in supporting the students throughout the day in the various activities of the school. The position requires using experiential education to provide opportunities for youth to make positive choices, gain self-confidence and learn skills that are critical to their lifelong development. A strong sense of professionalism is required. The person shall present themselves as a strong role model for adolescents and demonstrate management and supervision of students in accordance with program policies, philosophies and mission. Requirements: Candidate must possess current Vermont Teaching License, or nearing completion of licensure with the state of Vermont. Unlicensed individuals with a degree in associated field with supporting coursework in specified field will be given consideration. Experience in Human Services or related field is a plus. Additional on-the-job training is provided. • Academic Instructor – Elementary Program This teacher will provide instruction in one or more content areas, utilizing best practices in curriculum development, instruction and assessment. They will develop and deliver classroom and field-based curriculums, reflecting current best practices and utilizing a variety of mediums including technology, handson and project based learning, differentiated instruction and the concepts of universal designs for learning. The instructor will also provide daily leadership, support and direction to homeroom students and staff, collaborate and team teach, evaluate student progress, and support students throughout the day with academic tasks and behavioral situations both on and off campus. Requirements: Candidate must possess current Vermont Teaching License, or the intent to pursue licensing in the area of Elementary Education and/or Literacy or Reading Specialist. Unlicensed individuals with experience teaching at an elementary grade level or literacy support will be given consideration. Experience in Human Services or related field is a plus. • Language Arts Instructor – Individualized Program This classroom teacher is responsible for the development of curriculum delivered to students and supporting the teaching team. This teacher is also a key person in supporting the students throughout the day in the various activities of the school. The position requires using experiential education to provide opportunities for youth to make positive choices, gain self-confidence and learn skills that are critical to their lifelong development. A strong sense of professionalism is required. The person shall present themselves as a strong role model for adolescents and demonstrate management and supervision of students in accordance with program policies, philosophies and mission. Requirements: Valid Vermont teaching license preferred, but eligibility for licensure will be considered. Experience in Human Services or related field is a plus. Additional training is provided. • Clinical Case Manager The Clinical Case Manager works in concert with a multidiscipline treatment team consisting of behavioral staff, special educators and teachers to provide trauma informed care for our students and support for staff. The Clinical Case Manager works in a therapeutic milieu to provide treatment planning, behavior planning and clinical supervision for staff. The Clinical Case Manager is the representative for treatment team meetings and other team meetings. The position requires close collaboration with school staff and partners from outside of the agency. Good communication skills and flexibility is a must for this position. Requirements: Master’s Degree in counseling or social work, licensure preferred (rostered or eligible to be rostered), and prior experience involving direct service work in a clinical setting for youth. • Nurse – Part Time The Laraway School is currently seeking a part time School Nurse, working about 2-4 hours per week, or approximately 8 hours per month. Hours are flexible. Qualified candidates must hold a valid license as a Professional Registered Nurse (RN) in the state of Vermont and have a minimum of one full year of clinical experience as a Professional Registered Nurse (RN). A strong sense of professionalism is required. The person shall present themselves as a strong role model for adolescents and demonstrate management and supervision of students. Successful candidates will be required to complete a full background check and must possess strong verbal and written communication skills with the capacity to effectively engage at-risk youth. 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BACKPACK PROGRAM
• Behavior Interventionists (Public School Based)
Administrative Coordinator
Seeking skilled and motivated individuals to join our team. The interventionist will provide individualized support to a child or youth struggling to find success in the public school due to social-emotional and behavioral challenges. Successful candidates will have enthusiasm and talent in implementing and engaging students in behavioral programming. Some flexibility and travel may be required. Bachelor’s Degree, or pursuing Bachelor’s Degree, preferably in human services, is required. Relevant experience is preferred. We are seeking both part-time and full-time candidates. Seeking candidates to work in the Lamoille County area as well as candidates interested in working in the Sheffield (Caledonia County) area.
Provide administrative support for the executive director and general operations of the organization. Support resource development functions and events, and organize community lunches. Ideal candidate possesses strong attention to detail, is a multi-tasker, with excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and wants to make a difference in the world. The position is 32 hours/week. EOE.
SUBSTITUTE CARE PROGRAM
mercyconnections.org/about-us/employment for full job description. To apply, send resume to: ashaw@mercyconnections.org
• Community & Residential Support Staff
Full & Part Time Positions
We are seeking individuals to fill roles who can provide support to clients in a community and/or residential setting. Actual shifts will vary by position, most requiring afternoon, evening and/or weekend work. Candidates must be flexible and patient, enthusiastic about working with youth and enjoy physical activity. The role provides one-on-one supports in social, recreational, and educational settings. Positions require the ability to engage in physical activities, some strenuous, including hiking, biking, fishing, canoeing, swimming, etc. Prior experience working with youth that have emotional behavioral disorders is a plus. High School Diploma is required.
• Case Manager
The Case Manager role provides coordination of ongoing supports and services in any of the Substitute Care Programs. The Case Manager will provide management supports for children, youth and families while actively working in collaboration with other agencies. Provide support and supervision to therapeutic foster care providers. Supports serving children, youth and families. Train, mentor, schedule, coach and supervise Community Support Staff. Good communication skills and flexibility is a must for this position. A Bachelor’s Degree in human services with relevant experience is preferred but pursuit of a degree with relevant experience will be considered.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION All candidates must be at least 21 years of age, pass a criminal record check, have a safe driving record, and access to a reliable, registered and insured vehicle. If you are interested in being a part of a dynamic organization that encourages creativity, growth and collaboration, come join our team! A comprehensive compensation and benefits package is offered to all full-time employees. Submit resume and three references to: Laraway Youth & Family Services – Attn: Hannah Blood Recruiter P.O. Box 621, Johnson, VT 05656 Phone: 802-635-2805 Fax: 802-635-7273 Email: apply@laraway.org LYFS is an E.O.E.
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The Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA-VT) is seeking a part-time Farm Business Advisor. This person provides high quality, responsive services to support farmers at all levels of development to enhance the viability of their businesses while meeting their quality of life goals and works one-on-one with both beginning and established farmers to address a diversity of business and production issues. To learn more about NOFA-VT and see the full job description, please visit our website: nofavt.org/jobs
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The Shelburne Meat Market is currently hiring full and part-time staff at its Shelburne location. We are looking for energetic, friendly, organized individuals to join our team. Staff will prep meat and seafood cases, organize grocery items and help customers. This is a great opportunity to join a great, well-run Vermont family business and make it a career. Send information to: blcklab133@aol.com. 9/18/192v-ShelburneMeatMarket091819.indd 2:41 PM 1
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Are you a sandwich aficionado? RED HEN BAKING COMPANY is looking for a few fine folks to join our sandwich line in our brand new kitchen. The ideal candidate takes pride in making excellent food, works cleanly and efficiently, and works well independently and in a team. We offer competitive pay, a four day work week, and excellent benefits including health coverage, retirement options, and paid time off. Please send a resume and cover letter to Rob at rob@redhenbaking.com. 3h-RedHenBaking092519.indd 1
THE CO-OP IS HIRING!
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We are seeking enthusiastic, customer-oriented people who are passionate about good food and local community. If you enjoy helping others in a dynamic retail environment, we want you to be part of our team. Our job openings are always changing. In addition to jobs for substitutes, we are now seeking:
MULTIPLE MANUFACTURING POSITONS OPEN MACHINE OPERATORS – Essex & Williston, VT
• Sous Chef/Assistant Food Services Manager • Community Relations Assistant Manager • Co-Maintenance Coordinator
• The Machine Operator is responsible for monitoring Keurig Dr Pepper’s production processes; including operating manufacturing equipment and maintaining compliance with Keurig Dr Pepper’s high standards for safety and quality. This role will be engaged and understand initiatives to improve safety, quality, delivery, cost and culture. • Full Description: http://bit.ly/2mc8KYy
For additional information or to apply, please visit our website at hungermountain.coop/employment.
MATERIAL HANDLER
• As a Material Handler you will execute storage, material handling, replenish and fulfillment functions within the Plant while meeting our World Class Manufacturing and Distribution standards. • Full Description: http://bit.ly/2kotnjU
• SHIFTS, SIGN-ON BONUS, WAGES:
Willing to work as needed? Be part of a thriving natural foods community, earn good pay, a store discount and more! The Co-op needs substitute stockers, cashiers, and food services workers. Schedules vary. Typical shifts are 6-2 and 12:30-8:30, 7 days a week.
Hunger Mountain Co-op is an equal opportunity employer. Women, minorities, people with disabilities, veterans, and members of the LGBTQ community are encouraged to apply. Hourly employees are represented by UE Local 255.
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Positions available on all shifts at both Essex and Williston sites. Shifts work approximately 14 days/month with regular overtime opportunities available! Shifts schedules are: • D1 Monday-Wednesday, alternating Thursday 6:00am-6:15pm • D2 Friday-Sunday, alternating Thursday 6:00am-6:15pm • N1 Monday-Wednesday, alternating Thursday 6:00pm-6:15am • N2 Friday-Sunday, alternating Thursday 6:00pm-6:15am
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Great opportunity to be part of a growing team as an Early Education Teacher at Ready, Set, Grow, a new child care program in Vermont's beautiful Northeast Kingdom!
• $1,000 SIGN-ON BONUS FOR WILLISTON & ESSEX MANUFACTURING OPPORTUNITIES Machine Operator wages range from $17-19 per hour including shift differential. Experienced operators eligible for competitive hourly rate. $5,250 education tuition assistance available for employees with 6 month of service that are enrolled in graduate and undergraduate degrees in related fields. Keurig Dr Pepper (KDP) is a leading coffee and beverage company in North America with dual headquarters in Burlington, MA, and Plano, TX, with annual revenue in excess of $11 billion. KDP holds leadership positions in soft drinks, specialty coffee and tea, water, juice, and juice drinks and mixers, and markets the #1 single serve coffee brewing system in the U.S. The Company maintains an unrivaled distribution system that enables its portfolio of more than 125 owned, licensed and partner brands to be available nearly everywhere people shop and consume beverages. With a wide range of hot and cold beverages that meet virtually any consumer need, KDP key brands include Keurig®, Dr Pepper®, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters®, Canada Dry®, Snapple®, Bai®, Mott’s® and The Original Donut Shop®. The Company employs more than 25,000 employees and operates more than 120 offices, manufacturing plants, warehouses and distribution centers across North America. Benefits built for you: Our people are the heart of our business, which is why we offer robust benefits to support your health and wellness as well as your personal and financial well-being. We also provide employee programs designed to enhance your professional growth and development while ensuring you feel valued, inspired and appreciated at work. Keurig Dr Pepper Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and affirmatively seeks diversity in its workforce. Keurig Dr Pepper Inc. recruits qualified applicants and advances in employment its employees without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, disability, genetic information, ethnic or national origin, marital status, veteran status, or any other status protected by law. EOE Minorities/Females/Protected Veterans/ Disabled. Candidates must be able to pass a background check and drug test, as applicable for the role.
Are you interested in: • Supporting children in an enriching play-based environment? • Engaging in open, strength-based communication with families and other professionals? • Encouraging the social and emotional well-being of children? • Ensuring the social and emotional well-being of children? • Working in a beautiful location? If yes, this job might be perfect for you. Our ideal candidate meets the following qualifications: At least a BA or BS with a concentration in ECE, Child or Human Development, Elementary Education or Special Education with a birth to 8 years of age focus; a Vermont Early Childhood & Afterschool Career Ladder 4 or 4A certification, 12 months' experience working with children grade 3 and younger, successful completion of a 3 credit college course in program management, staff supervision, administration, or human resource management; or BA degree with at least 30 college credits in early childhood or school-age focus and 12 months' experience working with groups of children grade 3 and under. Please send your cover letter and resume to Michaela Green at michaela.green@neklsvt.org or Ready, Set, Grow Childcare, 34 Farrant Street, Newport, VT 05855 by October 8, 2019.
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TRUANCY SOCIAL WORKER Do you have a passion for working with students and families? Do you have case management experience? Do you want to help enhance the home to school connection?
Copley Hospital is currently seeking qualified candidates for the following positions:
LRC is a team-oriented, nonprofit agency based in Hyde Park. This is a full-time position for someone who possesses strong communication skills, a clear sense of boundaries, brings a human services background, and believes in restorative practices. Responsibilities include facilitating communication between school and home to assist students and their families to address and resolve school attendance barriers. A bachelor’s degree and experience in a related field is required. Interested individuals can apply by sending a cover letter and resume to the following email address: info@lrcvt.org. Applications accepted until position is filled. LRC is an E.O.E. More information about LRC is available at: lrcvt.org. 5h-LamoilleRestorativeCenter092519.indd 1
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MAINTENANCE TECH III ELECTRICIAN - FULL-TIME Must have 5 years of experience & Journeyman Electrician License (Master Electrician preferred). Full job descriptions and application instructions may be found at: copleyvt.org/careers Email: humanresources@chsi.org Phone: 802-888-8328
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HVAC SPECIALIST – MONTPELIER
The Department of Buildings and General Services is seeking an HVAC Specialist. A vehicle for daily travel and tools will be provided. This position performs maintenance for assigned HVAC systems, works with and trains maintenance staff to make necessary minor repairs. Duties include preventive maintenance and major maintenance while maintaining concise maintenance records. The hours are 7am to 3:30pm, Monday through Friday. Starting salary may be negotiable based on experience and education. For more information, contact Jonathan Rutledge at jonathan. rutledge@vermont.gov. Status: Full Time. Job ID # 2176. Application Deadline: Open until filed.
CUSTODIAL SUPERVISOR – MONTPELIER Seeking an organized leader for a Custodial Supervisor position. The hours are 12pm to 8:30pm, Monday through Friday. This position is responsible for supervisory work involving the custodial care of buildings and grounds in State office buildings. Incumbent will be responsible for assisting in hiring and training custodial staff, in addition to planning and organizing work for the staff. May order supplies and maintain inventory. Supervisory experience required. For more information, contact Jonathan Rutledge at jonathan.rutledge@vermont.gov. Department: Buildings and General Service. Status: Full Time. Job ID # 1685. Application Deadline: Open until filed.
EDUCATION PROGRAMS COORDIN ATOR I – BARRE This position administers the Federal grants that provide supplemental funds to school systems to promote well-rounded educational opportunities, safe and healthy school environments and the effective use of technology in teaching and learning. Additionally, this position supports school systems in identifying, enrolling and serving students experiencing homelessness, including through the management of a competitive grant. AOE is moving to Montpelier in Fall 2019. For more information, contact Jesse Roy at jesse.roy@vermont.gov. Department: Agency of Education. Status: Full Time. Job ID # 2138. Application Deadline: October 3, 2019.
PUBLIC GUARDIAN – SPRINGFIELD Are you looking for a challenging opportunity in the human services field? The Department of Disabilities, Aging and Independent Living seeks a passionate person to protect and monitor the legal and human rights of individuals under court-ordered guardianship. You will cover a caseload of individuals with developmental disabilities or age-related cognitive impairments who require assistance with critical decision making in several life domains. For more information, contact Nathalie Lindgren at nathalie.lindgren@vermont.gov or 802.289-0079. Full Time. Job ID # 2492. Application Deadline: October 3, 2019.
BUILDINGS PROJECT MANAGER II: ENERGY – MONTPELIER
Seeking a highly motivated self-starter to join our Energy Office team. The incumbent will be responsible for all aspects of energy efficiency, energy conservation and renewable energy project management. Strong candidates will have project management experience and working knowledge in the energy industry. This is a great opportunity to become part of an exciting group, dedicated to helping Vermont lead by example by meeting our energy goals. For more information, contact Daniel Edson at daniel.edson@vermont.gov. Department: Buildings and General Services. Status: Full Time. Job ID # 2761. Application Deadline: October 10, 2019.
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When you work for the State of Vermont, you and your work matter. A career with the State puts you on a rich and rewarding professional path. You’ll find jobs in dozens of fields – not to mention an outstanding total compensation package. I N S U R A N C E R A T E & F O R M A N A LY S T I V – M O N T P E L I E R At the Department of Financial Regulation, our mission is to protect Vermont consumers and ensure they are purchasing compliant products. The Rates and Forms Analyst IV will primarily be tasked with reviewing property and casualty rate and form filings. This is a great opportunity for individuals who are detail oriented and have a comprehensive knowledge of property and casualty coverages. For more information, contact Rosemary Raszka a rosemary.raszka@vermont.gov. Department: Financial Regulation. Status: Full Time. Job ID # 2543. Application Deadline: October 8, 2019.
VR COUNSELOR/ASSOCIATE – NEWPOR T
Voc Rehab is recruiting for a rehabilitation/career counselor with the ability to support consumers with physical, psychological or cognitive disabilities in their efforts to gain employment. Job duties include assessment, guidance and counseling, working with employment staff to secure employment and work experiences, case management, documentation, and collaboration with community providers. Please Note: This position is being recruited at multiple levels. If you would like to be considered for more than one level, you MUST apply to the specific Job Requisition. For more information, contact Hib Doe at 802527-5443 or hibbard.doe@vermont.gov. Department: Disabilities Aging & Independent Living. Status: Full Time. Job ID # 2866 for VR Associate, ID #2381 for VR Counselor I, ID # 2393 for VR Counselor II. Application Deadline: October 9, 2019.
TRANSPOR TATION MAN AGEMENT CENTER OPERATOR – BERLIN
This is a front-line position that is responsible for disseminating real-time situational awareness of state-wide travel conditions, facilitating traffic operations, coordination resource sharing amongst districts, and serving as a communications hub for the Agency and external partners. This position operates and administers VT-511 and VT Alert programs, in addition to monitoring and reporting road weather conditions and mobility restrictions. GIS experience is a plus. For more information, contact Ryan Knapp at ryan.knapp@vermont.gov. Department: Transportation Agency. Status: Full Time. Job ID # 2066. Application Deadline: October 6, 2019.
P U B L I C H E A LT H S E R V I C E S D I S T R I C T D I R E C T O R – S T. A L B A N S
Do you want to be part of a team that is building a culture of health in VT communities? We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced, motivated leader who wants to guide a dedicated and caring interdisciplinary team with diverse expertise in the St. Alban’s Office. District Directors mobilize staff and partners to create healthy communities by assessing needs, capacity building, planning, implementing programs and evaluating outcomes to improve the health and well-being of Vermonters. For more information, contact Allison Reagan at Allison.reagan@vermont.gov or 802.652.4190. Department: Health. Status: Full Time. Job ID # 2294. Application Deadline: October 10, 2019.
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Do you desire to work with your guests in a beautiful, clean & healthy work environment? If you answered YES to these questions, read on to see what we can offer you. • Paid vacations and sick time! • Commission on service dollars & a livable hourly rate! • Commission on retail dollars! • A fabulous, full-time front of the house staff to support you & your guests!
• Ongoing, free in-house education! • A team of friendly, amazing professionals! • FUN & lots of laughter! Send resumes to: orbitvtchampions@gmail.com
The Town of Essex Public Works Department is seeking temporary help to assist with plowing operations this winter. The positions are open now and will extend through midApril of 2020. Applicants must be at least 18 years old, have a valid VT Driver’s License with a clean driving record, and possess an excellent work ethic. The starting salary will be in the range of $14-$16 per hour with the actual starting salary being dependent on relevant experience and qualifications. Candidates can submit applications to Travis Sabataso, HR Director in person at 81 Main Street, Essex Junction, VT 05452, or via email to tsabataso@essex.org. Positions are open until filled. E.O.E.
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HUMAN RESOURCES GENERALIST Saint Michael's College has three temporary openings in the Human Resources office: • Full-Time Human Resources Generalist (Temporary) • Part-Time Benefits Specialist (Temporary) • Part-Time Payroll Assistant (Temporary) For full job description and to apply online go to: smcvt.interviewexchange.com.
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in Essex Junction, VT. This position requires familiarity with real estate transactional work. The ideal candidate will have real estate experience, excellent communication skills, and the ability to work independently with attention to detail. Please send resumes to Robin Beane: rbeane@bpflegal.com PO Box 174, Essex Jct., VT 05453-0174
Dental Assistant Full Time
Friendly, fun dental office in beautiful Bristol,Vermont looking for upbeat, organized and reliable dental assistant. Family-owned and managed office with low stress and great patients. Must have x-ray certification. Must be willing to work at the front desk occasionally. Knowledge of Eaglesoft a plus. Wages and benefits dependent on experience. Send resumes to: debkc@bristolparkdental.com.
Dental Hygienist
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Full/Part Time
LIBRARY WEEKEND CIRCULATION SUPERVISOR (PART-TIME)
Saint Michael’s College seeks applicants for Library Weekend Circulation Supervisor Part-time. This year round position provides weekend supervision of library student assistants and the facility. The individual selected will support use of library services by students, faculty, and staff, including circulation and research. This individual will consult with other staff to develop flexible work schedules to cover weekend hours of service. The typical schedule for this position is 12 hours every other weekend, with extended hours during final exams and reduced hours during the summer. Limited Monday-Friday hours may also be available. Benefits: Eligible for paid-time-off accrual as outlined in the employee handbook. This hourly part-time position is not eligible for regular College provided fringe benefits. For full job description and to apply online go to: smcvt.interviewexchange.com.
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FULL OR PART-TIME EXPERIENCED LEGAL ASSISTANT
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Upper Valley Services has a long-standing history of providing high quality, person centered care to Vermonters in need. We are searching for the right person to join our efforts of keeping Vermonters, who require nursing home level of support, in the community. As a Care Coordinator, the person will be responsible for, interfacing with local hospitals, nursing homes and other care partners, coordination of intake and placement process. The ideal candidate will share our values of community-based care, hold a Bachelors’ Degree in a related field, have a strong background in care management. This is a great opportunity for someone looking to grow with a rapidly expanding program. We offer an excellent salary and benefit package. Interested candidates, this position is based out of our Essex Vermont office. Please send résumé and letter of interest to: Kelley Wright at kwright@uvs-vt.org or call for questions: 802-222-9235 ext 120.
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Bergeron Paradis & Fitzpatrick seeks a
STAFF PSYCHOLOGIST The UVM Medical Center is seeking a clinical psychology with a strong interest and background in medical psychology, health psychology and behavioral medicine. LEARN MORE & APPLY: uvmmed.hn/sevendays
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Full or part-time registered dental hygienist needed for our thriving, patientfocused dental office in beautiful Bristol,Vermont. Family owned and managed, low-stress office. We offer wonderful support, autonomy, no rushing. Looking for professional, organized and upbeat dental hygienist. Competitive wages and benefits offered. Send resumes to: debkc@bristolparkdental.com.
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