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Please tell me — and probably hundreds of others — why? Why in the world did the “Ursa Major” [Last 7, “Facing Facts,” January 14] get a “sad face” icon? Tell me, make me understand what is “sad” about responsible wildlife management?

Doing that was wrong. Plain and simple.

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Nice to see so many Seven Days letters lately regarding the impending land sale at Burlington College [Feedback: “A Matter of Priorities,” January 7]. And it’s great to have seen so many turn out for the Save Open Spaces meeting, literally almost all in attendance speaking out against the project [Off Message: “Land Lovers Speak Out Against Burlington College Development Deal,” January 22].

In last week’s issue a letter from Marianne Ward spelled out one of the most telling of problems we encounter, however [Feedback: “Listen to Goodkind,” January 21]: a mayor whose ideas of development are simply not meshing with those of us who have to live with them. After all the emotional debate at the SOS meeting last week, Weinberger still expresses the desire to see housing built down there.

Why, why, why? The mayor and the local

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The story “Single Provider?” and an accompanying graphic in last week’s issue reported inaccurate staff figures for the University of Vermont Medical Center. Its staff totaled 7,360 as of last week, including more than 500 physicians and dentists.

That number climbs to roughly 778 when additional ones credentialed to work at the hospital’s facilities are counted.

Side Dishes: “Entreés and Exits,” Janurary 14, stated that Burlington café Scout & Company buys pastries and doughnuts from former Misery Loves Co. pastry chef Ren Weiner.

While Scout & Company does sell treats from Weiner’s company, Miss Weinerz, it also sells baked goods from Misery Loves Co. developers seem to be playing a game of seeing how many single-family lots can be turned into multiple-unit apartment complexes that simply don’t fit into the landscape. His concern for moving people into town over preservation of such spaces as Burlington College, and the inherent quality-of-life issues, is disturbing, to say the least.

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It’s amazing to see Rick Kisonak giving four stars for a movie about a professional assassin, above Margot Harrison’s review about a sniper’s victim — a champion of civil rights and justice who was gunned down for being just that [Movie Reviews, American Sniper and Selma, January 14].

People who bother to look past the popular history of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination and into the civil trial that revealed the deeper truth know that King was killed by professional,

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Chris Kyle killed a lot of people. He was a good shot — something Clint Eastwood admires. Ironically, he was shot by his buddy at the shooting range.

Lived and died by the gun.

The last couple of paragraphs of Kisonak’s review are easily disputed — “batshit fabrications,” like that Dave Parker Jesse Ventura won his lawsuit against burlingTOn Kyle’s estate for lying about him, for instance.

You will hear, right here, my single thE ZEN of BicYclE word suggesting Kyle was not a hero: Not! mAiNtENANcE As for Selma, maybe I’ll see it, to see In “New Folks Buy Old Spokes,” how it portrays King’s anti-Vietnam po[January 14], Glenn Eames stated: sition, which precipitated his assassina“You only have one tank of gas. You tion. I suspect it will justify Spielberg’s burn a third of it figuring out what dark vision of universal war, while manipulating our emotions and rewriting history.

Today we have no antiwar movement, and civil rights has been diluted into whining about every conceivable beef based on the fact that all people are not the same.

Racism is coming back in style, and political polarization is stronger than Dan Hock, Glenn Eames and ever. Hollywood’s Christine Hill at Old Spokes Home mass manipulation keeps us divided, you’re going to be when you’re grown. and the war machine grinds along.

The second third is trying to make Mission accomplished! that happen, and the final third is figGordon clark uring out what you’re going to be is brainTree — dead.” I see this quote as a positive.

Remembering the last line helps us reevaluate the first two and live the third triAlS AND ErrorS as a most precious use of our time and [Re “A Distant War Haunts Accused abilities. It’s the time to be what we Vermont Refugee,” January 21; trial coverage on Off Message, January 13-23]: really want to be.

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Last Rights: Putney Woman Becomes the Third Vermonter to End Her Life Using New Law

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New ‘Don’ for Vermont Gas: Can Rendall Win the Pipeline Battle?

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Not Alone: UVM Music and Dance Faculty Pair Up for ‘Solos’

Burlington Telecom: From a Cloud of Litigation to a Campaign Storm

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Bluegrass, folk and country find common ground when Cabinet performs. Formed in 2006, the Pennsylvania-based group fiddles, strums and plucks through a repertoire steeped in old-time Americana. Ripe with soaring harmonies, catchy lyrics and rousing rhythms, the band heads to Higher Ground for a foot-stomping show.

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Second Time Around In 1996, Joel and Ethan Coen’s dark comedy Fargo became a cult classic. A midwestern maelstrom of murder and mayhem, the Academy Award-winning film resurfaces in the 2014 drama Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (pictured). The festival favorite revolves around a Japanese woman who’s convinced that the Coen brothers’ movie is a cinematic treasure map.

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Spoken Word Given late writer Maya Angelou’s legendary literary career, it’s hard to believe that she once was mute.

A childhood trauma literally left her without words for five years. University of Vermont professor Emily Bernard explores how poetry helped Angelou regain her voice and, ultimately, leave an indelible mark on the world.

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Page Turner Have a question about the publishing industry?

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A writer first and publisher second, the wordsmith heads Publishing Genius, an award-winning small press in Atlanta. He travels north to chat about the industry and read selected works.

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An Eye for Detail Founded in 1984, the Vermont Folklife Center celebrates the state’s vibrant cultural traditions with an array of disciplines, ranging from ethnographic research to visual art. Photographer Susan Alancraig’s current exhibit, “Unexpected Journeys: Life, Illness and Loss,” reflects this philosophy with a mix of intimate portraits, written interviews and audio from cancer patients and their caregivers.

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It may be cold outside, but the Ice Fishing Festival beckons anglers to Malletts Bay, where the ice is thick and the opportunities to catch fish are plenty. Hosted by the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department, this family-friendly fête offers knot-tying demonstrations, an underwater fish-viewing station and, of course, warming huts.

Memphis blues takes a northern turn when the Daddy Mack Blues Band visits Vermont. Led by guitarist Mack Orr, the five-piece group channels the juke-joint sounds of the South with a no-frills approach to music making. A mix of covers and original tunes brings grit, passion and plenty of soul to the stage.

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ince the Senate gaveled into session three weeks ago, two of its top committee chairs have been pushing to pass Vermont’s most expansive child protection legislation in years.

Their goal? To put the blockbuster bill on Gov. PETER SHUMLIN’s desk before the legislature’s Town Meeting Day recess in early March.

But their work hit a significant snag last week when an array of advocates — representing children, domestic violence victims, civil libertarians and even the administration — said provisions in the bill went too far. They worry that a proposed new “failure to protect a child” felony could send innocent bystanders to jail for 10 years and discourage drug users and victims of violence from seeking help.

Now the bill’s two chief sponsors — Senate Health and Welfare Committee chair CLAIRE AYER (D-Addison) and Senate Judiciary Committee chair DICK SEARS (D-Bennington) — say they plan to scale back the bill.

“We expected this was going to freak people out,” Ayer says. “We are firm in our conviction that this is a crime, but we just need to make sure we define it properly.”

The legislation came out of months of hearings last year that were hosted

by Ayer, Sears and a panel of legislators charged with investigating Vermont’s child protection system. The special committee was formed last February following the death of 2-year-old DEZIRAE SHELDON of Poultney; its mission expanded after the April death of 15-month-old PEIGHTON GERAW of Winooski.

The Vermont Department for Children and Families was working with both children’s families when they died of blunt force trauma.

Ayer and Sears say their bill, cosponsored by a bipartisan group of four other panel members, is intended to address “glaring problems” at DCF and elsewhere in the system. External reports produced in the wake of the 2014 deaths found that the state agency was underfunded, overworked and overly inclined to return children to their parents.

“To me, protecting kids is paramount,” Sears says. “I think this is the most important bill the Senate has right now.”

Among the changes it proposes: barring the state from sending a child back home if it would be “contrary to [his or her] best interests”; requiring DCF to improve its internal policies; creating a new office of the child protection advocate; and easing confidentiality requirements to facilitate communication between agencies.

While advocates largely agree with the overall intent of the bill, two provisions in particular have drawn scrutiny.

One would redefine “harm” to a child to include “exposure to the unlawful possession, use, manufacture, cultivation or sale” of everything from heroin to ecstasy to marijuana.

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The other would criminalize the so-called “failure to protect.” The new felony would target not only those who directly hurt a child, but also anyone who “knows, or reasonably should have known” that a child is in danger “and fails to act to prevent” it.

The penalty? Up to 10 years in jail and a fine of $20,000.

Ayer and Sears say those provisions were recommended by state prosecutors, who told them they’re often unable to remove children from their homes even when they suspect abuse or are aware of drug use.

“Unless somebody goes in and there’s needles within grab-able reach of the kids, it’s sometimes difficult to prove neglect,” says Windsor County State’s Attorney MICHAEL KAINEN, who has witnessed a surge of abuse cases stemming from opiate addiction.

Often, says Attorney General BILL SORRELL, it’s tough to prove that a primary caregiver committed abuse, but it’s clear he or she was aware of it.

“The reality is we’ve had a number of cases in Vermont, and not just the ones that have been in the news, where, from a criminal standpoint, our hands have been tied,” he says.

In order to speed their bill through the legislative process, Ayer and Sears have been holding joint hearings with four House and Senate committees each Wednesday.

During last week’s session, DCF Commissioner KEN SCHATZ raised reservations about the “failure to protect” provision, calling it overly broad.

That prompted the ever-dramatic Sears to walk out of his own hearing, complaining that Schatz should have warned him the administration wasn’t on board.

Sears has been complaining ever since to any reporter who will listen.

“We heard nothing until last week,” he grumbles. “It would’ve been helpful had he brought his thoughts to us.”

To that, Schatz, who took over the department in September, says, “I take responsibility. I didn’t talk to him. I should have. Lesson learned.”

But Schatz, who supports many provisions in the bill, is far from alone in worrying about the unintended consequences of the “failure to protect” language.

KidSafe Collaborative executive director SALLY BORDEN, who cochaired a Vermont Citizens Advisory Panel investigation into last year’s deaths, says she, too, thinks the state should “tread carefully.”

Borden fears the threat of criminal prosecution of those who expose children to drugs could reverse the state’s progress in encouraging mothers to seek substance abuse treatment.

“I am concerned that this could have a chilling effect, particularly on pregnant women coming in for care,” she says.

Likewise, Vermont Network Against Domestic & Sexual Violence lobbyist AUBURN WATERSONG says she believes the proposal could “criminalize” those who are themselves victims of abuse but do not feel safe enough to report the abuse of a child to authorities.

“I want to give the legislators the benefit of the doubt that their idea was not to sweep up victims in this ‘failure to protect,’ but as the bill is written right now, it does,” Watersong says.

Victims aren’t the only ones who could face prosecution. ALLEN GILBERT, executive director of Vermont’s American Civil Liberties Union chapter, says even a 16-year-old babysitter could be prosecuted.

“The problem with this provision is that it essentially deputizes every person in the state, regardless of age, gender or knowledge,” he says, noting that Vermont already requires trained professionals, such as teachers and doctors, to report abuse.

The bill’s expanded definition of harm, he says, could be applied to any number of non-abusers, including parents who illegally obtain pain medication or smoke pot.

“What do you do with parents who choose not have their children vaccinated, who in many people’s eyes are putting those children in harm’s way because they could contract illness?” he wonders. “Are we going to charge each of those parents? Or what about the school nurse who has a list of children whose vaccinations are not current?”

Ayer and Sears say they hear their critics loud and clear.

“We don’t want everyone who smokes a joint to think they’re going to go to jail,” Ayer says. “We want there to be a responsibility for parents to have their wits about them — to be responsible.”

Both claim they included the “failure to protect” language at Sorrell’s behest — and are perfectly willing to soften it.

“He came in July and proposed we do this, and I will admit what we put in the bill is very broad and needs to be narrowed down,” Sears says.

While he’s not sure precisely what changes he’ll make, Sears says one thing’s for sure: “Things never go as fast as you hope, and maybe that’s a good thing.”

Campaign Creatures If Sen. BERNIE SANDERS (I-Vt.) finally decides to run for president, he won’t be the only Vermonter playing an important role in the 2016 campaigns.

Norwich native ROBBY MOOK is all but certain to serve as HILLARY CLINTON’s campaign manager for her all-but-certain second run for the White House, according to recent reports in POLITICO, the Hill and the Washington Post.

As we noted in a September 2013 profile, Mook got his start working for the Vermont Democratic House Campaign and then ran the 2002 Democratic coordinated campaign back when DOUG RACINE faced off against JIM DOUGLAS for

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Digital First Media is closing in on a sale of its 76 daily and 160 weekly newspapers, industry analyst Ken DocTor wrote in Capital New York last weekend. Among the final bidders, he says: private equity firms Cerberus Capital Management and Apollo Global Management.

Here’s why you should care: DFM’s properties include Vermont’s most southerly daily newspapers, the Brattleboro Reformer and the

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It’s unclear what a change in ownership will mean for the papers, which have been cut to the bone in recent years by a series of corporate owners. Just last week, when the company promoted Reformer executive editor ToM D’errico to a new content marketing position within its New England Newspapers, Inc. division, it put the Banner’s managing editor, MicHelle KArAs, in charge of both papers.

Both Karas and D’Errico say they’re confident a single editor can run two newsrooms 40 miles and one mountain range apart.

“I’m hoping so,” Karas says.

Speaking of corporate media, the Burlington Free Press has actually hired a new reporter. Last fall, the Gannett daily lost at least six editorial staffers to layoffs, voluntary departures and a retirement. But last week, according to a tweet by associate editor ADAM silverMAn, it hired Lafayette Journal & Courier reporter and recent University of Nebraska-Lincoln grad HAley Dover to cover Chittenden County.

“It’s a beautiful state and seems like a great place to work and live,” Dover says. “I look forward to covering a widerange of stories and getting to know my new colleagues.”

Lastly, an attempt by Montpelier’s twice-monthly newspaper to secure a $27,254 city appropriation failed last week after the city council voted against putting the question on the Town Meeting Day ballot.

As we reported online last week, the Bridge’s editor and publisher, nAT froTHinGHAM, turned in a petition with close to 700 signatures Thursday requesting a one-time cash injection to keep the 21-year-old independent paper in business. But citing advice from city attorney PAul GiuliAni, councilors said it would be inappropriate for the capital city to direct money to a for-profit entity — and they unanimously rejected the request. m

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governor. More recently, the 35-yearold helmed Clinton’s successful efforts in Nevada, Ohio and Indiana during her 2008 campaign and managed Clinton pal Terry McAuliffe’s 2013 bid for governor.

Mook, not surprisingly, did not respond to a request for comment and has not confirmed his new gig to other news outlets.

In other Vermont political alumni news, Sen. rob PorTMAn (R-Ohio) announced last week that he’s hired Republican operative corry bliss to run his reelection campaign.

Local politicos will remember Bliss for the hard-charging tactics he employed running then-lieutenant governor briAn Dubie’s unsuccessful 2010 gubernatorial campaign. Bliss has lost a couple of high-profile races since, but he was credited with helping to salvage Sen. PAT roberTs’ (R-Kansas) imperiled campaign last fall.

Chronicling it all will be POLITICO Magazine’s newly named top editor: GArreTT GrAff. The Montpelier native famously created HowArD DeAn’s first website back when he was still in high school. He took over Washingtonian magazine at the ripe young age of 28 and spent five years in that role before joining POLITICO last summer as a senior writer.

Graff’s most important biographical detail? He’s the son of cHris GrAff — the Associated Press’ longtime Montpelier bureau chief and now vice president for communications up the hill at National Life.

“I’m thrilled to be taking over the magazine,” Graff the younger says. “I don’t think there’s a more exciting or ambitious newsroom in the country right now than POLITICO. The chance to be part of that and helping lead the magazine into just its second full year is as great a job in journalism as I could imagine.”

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Last Rights: Putney Woman Becomes the Third Vermonter to End Her Life Using New Law B y T err i H alle n bec k

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Dying the Way She Lived

Twenty years ago, the people of Oregon voted for its seminal Death with Dignity Act. In the decades since, only Washington and Vermont have followed its lead — and only Vermont has done so legislatively.

Left to right: sisters Joanne, Maggie, Maggie planting peas in her garden Elizabeth and Katy Lesser in 1974

Courts in Montana and New Mexico have deeply uncomfortable with the idea of hasalso protected the practice. tening death when their mission is to keep But the debate over Vermont’s law is far people alive. But since the Vermont law took from over. Advocates plan to seek changes effect May 20, 2013, doctors have prescribed this legislative session to ensure that state lethal doses to five people, according to regulations surrounding its use remain in Vermont Department of Health spokesman effect. They believe the measures guard Robert Stirewalt. Two of them didn’t end up against abuse, evidence of which would using the drugs, according to Waite-Simpson, likely lead to the law’s undoing. Some of a former state representative from Essex. the regulations, including a mandatory Doctors are required to inform the waiting period and state each time they second opinion, are write such a prescripdue to expire in July tion, affirming that because of a lastthey followed certain minute compromise criteria, but the law struck to pass the bill does not require them two years ago. to report whether a “It’s working expatient uses the drugs. actly as we intended,” Waite-Simpson’s said Sen. Claire Ayer group has collected Kat y L esser (D-Addison), a leading that information from advocate. “We have a friends and family responsibility to make sure it’s under cir- members of those who have sought to cumstances that give us some safeguards.” hasten their deaths, and from caregivers Opponents, meanwhile, hope to repeal who have sought the organization’s advice. the Patient Choice and Control at End of Jason Saltman, a 47-year-old Middlebury Life Act, which was approved by a narrow man with stomach cancer, was the first margin in 2013.

Vermonter to obtain a lethal prescription “We never should have passed it,” said in November 2013. He died hours before he Sen. Peg Flory (R-Rutland). “I think it planned to pick up the drugs, according to sends a horrible, horrible message to kids his sister, Laura Saltman. and the disability groups.”

Waite-Simpson said others were unMany local medical professionals remain willing to speak publicly.

The day she died, she said,

‘Yesterday was too soon. Tomorrow’s too late. Today’s the day.’

Lake was diagnosed with nonHodgkin’s mantle cell lymphoma in 2006. She enjoyed relatively good health for six of the next nine years, according to her sister.

In the course of her treatment, she endured stem-cell transplants, radiation and numerous hospital visits.

Before she knew that a second transplant was possible, Lake started looking into obtaining a lethal prescription. That was before Vermont’s law passed, her sister said. “No one wanted to help her, because it was illegal,” Lesser said.

When the second transplant became a reality, about a year and a half ago, she turned her focus to getting better, her sister said. It worked — for a time.

“She seemed to be getting better for a while, and then she wasn’t getting better,” Lesser said.

Lake’s health then quickly deteriorated.

“She started to see her whole selfhood disintegrate,” Lesser said. “She was in pain all the time. She was having trouble breathing because the cancer spread to her lungs.”

That’s when Lake began thinking about the new legal option available to her. She talked about it freely with family, her sister said, but the conversations and the decision were difficult. They all would have preferred for her to get better and live, Lesser said, but they were all on board with her decision.

“For a long time she really felt there was always hope. Then she really felt like there was no hope,” Lesser said. “In the end she wanted to die the way she lived: with those she loved, in her home, her wits about her, and with purpose and determination. And that is what she made happen.”

Lake was the third of four girls in the family, six years younger than Lesser.

“Maggie was a diminutive little girl, but she was a powerhouse,” Lesser said. “She was one of the most alive people I’ve ever met.”

Lesser said she appreciates that her sister took charge of her death, just as she took charge of her life. Without the law, the end might have looked different.

“She probably would’ve toughed it out and died a miserable, painful death that would have not included any of us because she would have just been out of her mind Courtesy of Katy Lesser

aggie Lake spent January 15 autographing copies of her artwork, signing over her car registration and talking quietly with family.

“Then at some point she just said, ‘It’s time,’” according to her oldest sister, Katy Lesser of Underhill.

After nine years of battling cancer — including two stem-cell transplants, chemotherapy and radiation — Lake had come to the end of her fight.

Lying in bed at her Putney home as day turned to evening, the 60-year-old took the lethal dose of drugs she’d been prescribed weeks earlier. She urged her family to coach her through it as she swallowed the combination of pills and liquids.

“We sat with her. We talked to her. We talked to each other.

We reminisced. We laughed. We cried,” Lesser said.

Within 10 minutes, Lake slipped into a coma. She lay quietly for eight hours before dying in the early morning of January 16.

“It was very, very peaceful,” Lesser said.

“It was pretty awesome.”

Lake lived an amazing life, her sister recalled.

“She was really good at a lot of things,” Lesser said. “She had two kids she adored, she was a gifted artist, a family nurse practitioner who treated hundreds of patients, a gardener, a cook and baker who grew all her own food. She kept bees, she raised meat and vegetables.”

Just days before Lake died, her latest art exhibit opened in downtown Brattleboro.

Those are the things Lesser wants her sister to be remembered for.

But Lake also had a remarkable death.

She is believed to be the third terminally ill Vermonter to end her life with a lethal prescription since the state legalized the option in 2013, according to Compassion & Choices state director Linda Waite-Simpson, whose organization advocated for the law, helps families navigate it and has tracked its use.

Lake’s family is the first in Vermont to step forward to share its story.

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with pain, drugs, drowning in her own lungs,” Lesser said. “We all have that memory of her going out the way she lived.”

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Vermont, who has spent more than a decade advocating for the law.

Diagnosed with lung cancer in April, Walters now finds the law personally reassuring. “There’s tremendous peace of mind knowing that you’re in control,” he said.

The process of obtaining a life-ending prescription is detailed, which advocates of the law intended as a way of allaying Oregon Trail fears that it could be abused.

The number of patients ending their lives In Lake’s case, that process took time. has gradually risen in Oregon, where the According to her sister, she spent more practice has been legal since 1998. In than a month trying to find a doctor will- 2013, 122 Oregon residents received a ing to write her a prescription. prescription and 71 used it, according to Lesser said her sister’s experience led the Oregon Public Health Division. The her to believe the requirements are appro- Beaver State’s population is more than six priate. “The longer she went through that times Vermont’s. process, the more doctors, the more meetThe Oregon law also requires much ings — she became more rooted in know- more detailed reporting of information ing she might want to do this,” Lesser said. on each patient. Records indicate that, in Vermont’s law requires 2013, the median amount lo ca l, f re s h , o rig in a l a patient to: of time between ingestion • Be a Vermont resident. and death was 15 minutes, • Have a terminal diagwith a range from five nosis with less than minutes to 5.6 hours. Since six months to live, cor1998, the longest time span roborated by a second reported between ingesM-Sa 10-8, Su 11-6 1076 Williston Road, S. Burlington opinion. tion and death in Oregon 4 0                     862.6585 • Have the capacity was 104 hours.

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“This helps a society that might not Some Vermont hospitals and other value us say, ‘Here’s a solution.’ Our needs health care facilities have opted for ex- are expensive. Our care is expensive,” emptions that prevent patients from using Vitzthum said. “For some populations, the law within their facilities. it’s not very difficult to socially engineer But supporters of the law say it is work- the will to die, where it looks like they’re ing. They never expected large numbers of making the choice.” people to exercise the right it gives them, Vitzthum also argued that the law itself Reception immediately following in the Fireplace Lounge and say they knew that some might seek has numerous flaws, many of which came prescriptions they would never use. as a result of last-minute changes during Hosted by the Writing in the Disciplines Program, Vermont Experimental Program “I’ve received countless messages from the legislative process. Many of the regulato Stimulate Competitive Research, and Office of Vice President for Research all over the state from people grateful tions and reporting requirements, modeled they have the choice,” said Dick Walters For more information email Dan Harvey at Dan.Harvey@uvm.edu of Shelburne, president of Patient Choices LAST RighTS » p.22

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New ‘Don’ for Vermont Gas: Can Rendall Win the Pipeline Battle?

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hen Don Rendall assumed the top spot at Vermont Gas Systems on the first workday of 2015, the former Green Mountain Power executive promised a fresh start for the embattled company.

Since Vermont Gas announced its threepart plan to build a pipeline along the west side of the state, the Canadian-owned utility has faced stiff opposition, including protesters who occupied its corporate offices and the private home of its former CEO. Rendall, who replaced Don Gilbert, isn’t alone in seeking a fresh start. Last week, the Vermont Public Service Board decided to reopen deliberations on Phase I of the pipeline project, which that board initially green-lighted with a Certificate of Public Good in late 2013. The decision came after Vermont Gas announced the latest in a series of cost increases for Phase I, which would carry gas to Middlebury. (Eventually the company intends to build pipelines to Ticonderoga, N.Y., and Rutland.)

The current Phase I estimate is nearly 80 percent higher than originally projected. The new $154 million price tag motivated opponents of the pipeline and the Vermont Public Service Department, which advocates on behalf of ratepayers, to ask the PSB to revisit the case.

In reopening deliberations, the board could decide to revoke, alter or leave alone the company’s permit.

The reassessment comes at a time of flux for Vermont Gas: Rendall isn’t the company’s only new face. Two new communications execs are handling PR and public outreach, replacing former spokesman Steve Wark. Vermont Gas ditched its former engineering firm in favor of another company, and last fall tapped vice president Jim Sinclair to lead the project internally. It hired a new rights-of-way manager and, of course, reestimated the cost of Phase I “from the ground up.”

With Vermont Gas in transition, and with many pipeline opponents firmly entrenched in their disapproval, will a new leader make any difference?

Many longtime critics of the project — including landowners along the route and environmentalists generally concerned about the construction of fossil-fuel infrastructure and fracking — are reserving judgment.

“Actions speak louder than words, and they have to understand that we’re not just going to trust again,” said Maren Vasatka, a landowner in Monkton who has juggled full-time work, care of an elderly parent and the time-consuming job of learning about the pipeline for more than two years.

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“They are claiming, ‘We’re going to start GMP CEO Mary Powell said the fact over and reset.’ We don’t get to reset.” that the wind project came in on time, To the assertion that actions speak and under budget, speaks volumes about louder than words, Rendall’s response was Rendall’s ability to shepherd a utility simple: “I agree. We will be judged by what build-out that, like the pipeline, sparked we do, not what we say.” concern from neighbors Rendall, who turns and environmentalists.

59 this week, moved to “I confess I had more Vermont with his wife, than one sleepless night Sandy, a native of Norwich, over that project,” Rendall in the 1980s. They landed recollected with a slight in Rutland, where he smile. He noted that his worked as an assistant challenge at Vermont Gas U.S. attorney, and moved — to find common ground D on R endall to Burlington three years “wherever we can” — is later. Rendall settled in at not dissimilar to the one the private law practice of Sheehey Furlong he faced when dealing with opponents to & Behm, where he got his first introduction the Lowell wind project. to the utility world while representing “While our disagreements sometimes Green Mountain Power. In 2002, he left the were sharp, and the opposition was fierce, firm to become GMP’s in-house counsel.

I hope that most felt that Green Mountain Rendall’s role at GMP expanded over Power had treated them respectfully and time, and he was no stranger to controver- had listened to them,” said Rendall. “That’s sial projects. By the time he left, Rendall certainly my goal for this company, and for was a senior vice president overseeing the communities that we hope to serve.” strategy, finances and legal matters at the When Rendall set up shop at Vermont utility. He played a key role in the com- Gas earlier this month, he brought some pany’s 2012 merger with Central Vermont of GMP’s office culture with him in esPublic Service and headed up the utility’s chewing a cushy, private office in favor Kingdom Community Wind development of an open and accessible work space. In in Lowell. practice, that meant converting an alcove

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on the second floor, perched above the main entrance to the office, into Rendall’s makeshift office. His somewhat battered office furniture is wedged between the restrooms and a loud, clanking door that leads to a stairwell.

“I want to be accessible,” said Rendall, over the sound of a toilet flushing on the other side of a thin wall.

“What you see is what you get,” said Tom Torti, president of the Lake Champlain Regional Chamber of Commerce, of Rendall. “He’s a nice guy. It’s not a facade.”

Rendall serves on the chamber’s board of directors. Torti recalled that when the chamber had to weigh in on public policy issues, Rendall, as a member of the board’s executive committee, had to navigate strong and sometimes opposing views.

That required flexibility and respect, according to Torti. When he heard Rendall had been tapped for the Vermont Gas job, he said he thought the company had found the “right person.”

That’s in part because the pipeline project got off to a “very bad start,” as Torti put it. Choosing his words carefully, Torti said Vermont Gas made some enemies early on — unnecessarily — and turned potential allies against the pipeline “because of how they felt they were treated.”

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“His challenge is to step back, lower Rendall also said the company is getthe level of rhetoric … and let people calm ting a better handle on the project itself. down and start a discussion process over He made the decision last fall, as he began again,” said Torti. “That’s going to require the transition into his new job, to push building trust with those with whom trust the pause button on Phase II of the pipehas been perhaps broken. That’s a heavy line’s permitting process, which would lift.” shuttle gas from Middlebury, under Lake Opposition to the project runs deep. Champlain, to the International Paper Detractors have long complained about plant in Ticonderoga. He didn’t want to how Vermont Gas representatives al- repeat the mistakes of Phase I and move legedly bullied landowners, trespassed ahead with estimates that might not be acon private property and were generally curate or up-to-date. incompetent. Some have reported waiting “We are under the microscope, and weeks or months for the company to pro- we should be,” said Rendall. Internally, he vide responses to simple questions. Others said, he wants to cultivate a “culture of the felt land agents, tasked with negotiating highest standards,” of “asking hard questhe easements necessary for completing tions” and of accountability. the project, weren’t totally honest with But Rendall stressed that there’s more impacted communities. to Vermont Gas than the While Vermont Gas pipeline projects. Looking could theoretically make ahead, he said he wants to amends on some of those find more ways to incorfronts, there’s another, porate renewable sources thornier issue — the enviof gas, such as methane dironmental one. gesters, into the company’s “This pipeline has no portfolio. He’s interested place in Vermont,” said in partnerships to increase Cornwall resident Bethany reliability for some of the Barrie. She isn’t a landcompany’s biggest customowner on the route, but ers and is thinking about opposes the additional new ways to deliver natural build-out of fossil fuel ingas beyond pipelines — infrastructure and the use of cluding “gas islands,” like BET hAny BARRiE fracked natural gas. “There the one Vermont Gas and is not one redeeming qualNG Advantage kicked off ity, no redeeming factor in this proposal,” last month in Middlebury that allows for said Barrie. In her mind, a change of lead- natural gas delivery without a major pipeership is “completely irrelevant.” line in place.

“It’s like saying, ‘Would ExxonMobil Natural gas, he said, “gets us to our be better if it had a different CEO?’” Barrie goal in Vermont of 90 percent renewable asked. Her answer: “No.” by 2050,” said Rendall. “We all recognize Rendall, like Torti, is careful not to that there will be a place for nonrenewpoint fingers or cast aspersions on how able fuels in that energy future, and we Vermont Gas operated prior to hiring him. want the nonrenewable energy fuel to be Pressed to elaborate on how the company the cleanest source, the lowest greenhouse could have better handled the rollout of gas-emitting source that we can use. the pipeline project, Rendall redirected Natural gas wins.” the question. “It’s just too easy to secondBut he’s realistic about winning hearts guess when you weren’t in the moment, and minds — particularly when it comes having to make the decisions yourself,” to the pipeline. “We have rebuilding to do. said Rendall. “I just don’t think that’s a That won’t happen overnight,” Rendall productive exercise.” said. “I’m optimistic that people will give Rendall prefers the rephrased ques- us the chance to demonstrate that we’re tion: Where could outcomes have been on the right track.” better? Atop Rendall’s list is the issue of Before he takes on the public, though, building respectful relationships with Rendall may have to convince the Public communities and families. He acknowl- Service Board. The permit for Phase I of edged that Vermont Gas didn’t do that the pipeline project is currently before the successfully in the early stages of the Vermont Supreme Court; last week the pipeline project. The company also didn’t PSB asked the high court to send it back to have a firm grasp of the challenges and the board for reconsideration. costs associated with building a project of “There’s no doubt that the benefits are this magnitude, Rendall said. less than they were at the original numHe believes Vermont Gas is making bers,” Rendall conceded. That said, “We headway on both fronts. “It starts with lis- remain confident that the project has real, tening,” he said, of repairing community significant benefits for Vermont.” m relationships. “It starts with building a relationship that’s based on mutual respect Contact: kathryn@sevendaysvt.com and understanding.”

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t a news conference held January 21 to unveil Burlington Telecom’s new look, Mayor Miro Weinberger drove home his point: Troubles at the telecom shop are over.

“Now that the litigation is done, is over with, is gone, is dismissed,” he began, “we are here to start a new conversation.”

His point: The $33.5 million legal imbroglio with Citibank is resolved, and serious financial problems have been put to rest.

But one thing hasn’t changed.

Burlington Telecom remains caught in the political cross fire. The “new conversation” Weinberger wanted to start has turned into something that sounds an awful lot like a campaign debate.

On the morning of the mayor’s triumphant pronouncement, Steve Goodkind, a Progressive running for mayor, slammed Weinberger’s handling of BT during an interview with Vermont Public Radio. Later in the day, in an interview with Seven Days, Goodkind again panned him for “throwing out the baby with the bathwater,” because Weinberger’s settlement entails eventually selling BT. To Goodkind, a former public works director, BT represents one of his political opponent’s biggest blunders. It’s a primary reason he’s challenging the first-term Democrat, under whom he briefly served.

Greg Guma, a liberal activist and a late addition to the race as an independent, also identified BT as a main concern, saying he wants to prevent its “corporate buyout.”

Weinberger considers the BT legal settlement the crown jewel of his first term — proof that he’s made good on his pledge to clean up the fiscal mess left behind by his Progressive predecessor, Bob Kiss.

Normally prone to technical, detailladen explanations, the mayor describes the predicament BT was in — and his work to resolve it — in uncharacteristically stark terms. “The bank was saying ‘Rip up the fiber from the ground’ … They were trying to destroy Burlington Telecom,” he said recently. “We have saved Burlington Telecom with the settlement agreement.”

His administration resolved the $33.5 million lawsuit Citibank brought against Burlington for failing to repay money the bank spent on building out the fiber-optic network. The parties finalized a $10.5 million settlement agreement on January 2.

To pay for a large chunk of it, the city is relying on a $6 million bridge loan from ferry magnate Trey Pecor. Under the loan arrangement, Pecor’s newly created company, Bluewater Holdings, owns the BT equipment and leases it back to Burlington.

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Politics than three years, and the sooner it sells During an interview January 25 at his after that, the better for Burlington. Its sparsely furnished campaign headquarters share of the sale proceeds diminishes over on College Street, Weinberger was exastime, and after four years, the city loses any perated. “We have worked on this harder say in selecting the buyer. than anything else that we’ve worked on in Weinberger has repeatedly emphasized my first three years. I hope you take that at that the settlement eliminated a huge lia- face value.” bility. He’s also predicted that it will “keep He stands by the result. “It’s an agreetens of millions of dollars in the pockets of ment that I think is better than anyone Burlingtonians” by eventually prompting thought we were going to be able to an upgrade in the city’s credit rating. secure,” Weinberger said, pointing out In a typed, three-page document pro- that the bridge loan saves taxpayers from vided to Seven Days, Goodkind wrote that footing the bill, and it gives the city some the Bluewater bridge loan contains six control over who will ultimately own BT. drawbacks — he later The settlement referred to them as “the and the bridge loan mayor’s six deadly sins” did win unanimous — for Burlington. Chief approval — after among them: It puts the rigorous scrutiny — city “under the gun” to from the Vermont sell BT and will leave it Public Service Board with only a fraction of and the Burlington the proceeds.

City Council, Provided with which includes five Goodkind’s document, Progressives.

Weinberger staffers “I scratch my head penned a response when I see that,” nearly three times as Goodkind said. “I long, disputing practidon’t know what to Ja n e Kn o dell cally every point. make of that.”

This is all water under the bridge. I think the

average citizen is very happy to have the Citibank settlement behind them.

One of the five Progs was Jane Knodell, an economist at the University of Vermont who nominated Goodkind for mayor at the Progressives’ December caucus.

During an interview, Knodell didn’t seem rankled by the candidate’s implication that the council signed off on a raw deal. She said she wished that the administration had presented members with more than two financing proposals, and, in retrospect, “I felt like we should have asked harder questions.”

But she didn’t support Goodkind’s view that the bridge loan is a “terrible” deal for the city. “It’s not perfect, but it’s pretty good,” Knodell said. “This is all water under the bridge. I think the average citizen is very happy to have the Citibank settlement behind them, and I think the real issue is how to create the best possible future.”

Guma, who serves on the Burlington Telecom Cable Advisory Council, echoed her assessment: “One can quibble about whether it was the best deal possible, but that part of it is done.”

Goodkind is calling for an audit of all the money that’s been spent on BT — something, he said, that has never been done. “We’re going to find out what actually happened, not just sweep it under the rug,” he said.

Weinberger contends that BT has already undergone multiple audits and criminal investigations and completing another one “would waste hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars” and “distract BT from attempts to grow its customers and taxpayer value.”

Goodkind had been a city employee for three decades — and worked under five mayors — when he retired almost two years ago as director of public works. He compares his last boss to Kiss, accusing Weinberger of continuing to “maintain a veil of secrecy, shielding the public from the details of the operations of BT.” He brought up the minimum sale price for BT — a sealed figure that the city and Pecor have agreed upon. Goodkind thinks the number should be disclosed.

For the mayor, who’s always fashioned himself as the anti-Kiss, it’s an especially galling allegation — one that he rejects as “just completely groundless.”

“Here we are at the campaign, and you’ve got a former leader of the Kiss administration … coming back, trying to rewrite history,” said Weinberger. “He is trying to turn day into night, and I think it’s outrageous.”

As evidence that he’s made good on his pledge of transparency, Weinberger pointed out that the city now posts its daily financial transactions online. He said that BT releases all of its operating data except for “a small amount of proprietary information that would benefit competitors and

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As for all of the BT-related, closed-door discussions during the last three years, the mayor insisted that they were necessary because they involved a lawsuit and business negotiations.

Several people who’ve kept close tabs on the deal are inclined to agree. “Clearly, discussion of pending legal settlements all comes within the purview of executive session,” Knodell said. “So were there things discussed in executive session that should have been discussed in open session? I would say no.”

“Yes, it would have been nice if those [Burlington Telecom Advisory Board] meetings were not in executive session, but I think the city has come up with the best deal,” said Lauren-Glenn Davitian, executive director of the Center for Media & Democracy and a staunch advocate for preserving local ownership of BT. “Really the question is about BT’s future. That’s

what the conversation should be.”

On that, the candidates also disagree.

Weinberger has said the city would likely remain a “partner” with any future Greg Guma owner, and that he’s open to a “creative ownership” model such as a co-op. But he’s also made it clear that “it is quite likely that the city will no longer be the majority owner the way we essentially are now.”

City ownership is exactly what Goodkind wants. He’s proposing that Burlington use public financing to buy BT back from Bluewater, and then operate it as a public utility. He says he’d devote profits from the operation to eventually pay off the $17 million in city funds that were improperly diverted to BT when Kiss was mayor.

“We’ve taken all the pain for it. Why would we unload it now and not get any of the benefit?” he asked.

Davitian supports Goodkind’s approach, while acknowledging that it relies on a big unknown: “Is the public willing to pony up?”

Andy Montroll is a lawyer and chair of Keep BT Local, a group that has been trying to purchase BT and make it a co-op. Before he launched his campaign, Goodkind served on the board. “From my own perspective, if the city can find a way to keep it, that would be fine,” Montroll said. But the group he leads has been “moving on the assumption that the city is going to have to divest itself either all or in part of Burlington Telecom.”

Weinberger has said that keeping BT in the city’s hands “would require an enormous level of change in terms of the charter, state law, the city’s license, and, maybe more importantly, I think there would need to be a dramatic shift in public opinion about what we want for the future of Burlington Telecom.”

Guma also questioned the feasibility of Goodkind’s buyout proposal. But he argued that Weinberger should be doing more to bring together key players, including the city, Pecor and Keep BT Local, to ensure that the telecom doesn’t end up in corporate hands. “There’s really no proactive movement to have any outcome other than privatization.”

In some ways, BT is a proxy for a bigger debate.

Goodkind calls it a “classic example of the philosophy and management style of the city administration” — to which his rebuttal is, “Burlington is not for sale.”

Weinberger suggests that Goodkind’s recommendations are fiscally reckless and “would drag Burlington and BT back to the failed policies of the past.”

Said Davitian, “Burlington Telecom is a kind of a battlefield — no, not a battlefield, an arena — where this debate about community values can be talked about.”

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On last week’s fifth anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) filed a constitutional amendment to limit the role of money in politics.

But he also used the occasion to build out his own email lists and lay the groundwork for a fundraising pitch, according to an email chain inadvertently sent to Seven Days. And in an exchange with campaign and Senate staff members planning for the Citizens United anniversary, Sanders appeared focused on raising money from Washington, D.C., political action committees.

“YES. Let’s do it,” the senator wrote to his advisers, referring to a Citizens United-focused fundraising pitch. “How are you doing on the DC PAC fundraiser? Thanks. B.” In the emails, campaign aide Nick Carter asked his boss to approve a collaboration

between the Sanders campaign and Progressives United, a political action committee founded by former Wisconsin senator Russ Feingold.

Together, Carter explained, the two entities would send an email on the anniversary of Citizens United asking supporters to sign a petition saying “Democracy’s Not for Sale.”

Doing so, Carter wrote, would help “to grow our lists and send a message to legislative leadership to stand strong for progressive values.”

Later, Carter suggested, the Sanders campaign

would return to those who signed the petition to ask for campaign cash.

“After Action: small $$ donation to support groups/candidates that are fighting hard for progressive values in the face of corporate influence,” Carter wrote in the January 7 email.

Sanders responded less than an hour later, signing off on the idea and asking about a separate “DC PAC fundraiser.” According to spokesman Michael Briggs, Sanders was referring to “a small breakfast gathering on Thursday with longtime trade union supporters.”

What’s Sanders doing holding a fundraiser with PAC representatives, given his outspoken opposition to such entities?

“Like every other member of Congress, Bernie holds fundraising events, which is what he will be doing tomorrow in Washington,” Briggs said last Wednesday. “As a senator who does not accept

money from corporate PACs, he depends as he always has on the support of trade unions, environmental groups, women’s groups and seniors’ organizations to support their political efforts.”

Isn’t it a little cynical to use the Citizens United anniversary as a fundraising tool?

Not so, Briggs said.

“At a time when the Koch brothers and other billionaires are pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into the political process, it should not surprise anyone that Bernie and other progressives need to raise campaign funds. Until we move to public funding of elections, which Bernie supports, that is an unfortunate fact of today’s political life,” he said.

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Bosnian Refugee Convicted A Burlington man accused of rape during the Bosnian war faces deportation after a jury convicted him on January 23 of lying to immigration officials in order to gain U.S. citizenship.

Edin Sakoc sat stone-faced as the verdict was read in U.S. District Court in Burlington on Friday, just as he had throughout his twoweek trial. After jurors left the courtroom, he exchanged handshakes and hugs with his attorneys and shrugged his shoulders.

Afterward, prosecutors said they will seek to deport Sakoc, 55, who does not have a prior criminal record. His conviction for unlawful

procurement of naturalization can also carry a 10-year prison sentence. Judge William Sessions III released Sakoc to live with friends in Essex Junction while awaiting sentencing.

Sakoc told his lawyers he hasn’t committed any crime, and his family and those who know him believe in him, defense attorney Steven Barth said. Sakoc’s attorneys said they will appeal.

“It would be a tragedy for him to be deported,” attorney

“Basically two-leggeds always win out over the four-leggeds, the winged ones, the finned ones, the creepy crawlies,” said Patrice Haverluk Lawyer, another panelist of Abenaki

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David McColgin said. “It would have a terrible impact on him and his family.” Sakoc has a wife and 7-year-old daughter in Vermont.

He also has an adult son and a grandchild in Bosnia.

Sakoc had been accused of kidnapping and raping one woman and assisting a soldier who murdered two other women in the Bosnian War, during which Sakoc was in a military unit that battled ethnic Serbs. Sakoc is a Muslim, and the women he is accused of

Liberal Activist Enters Mayoral Race Greg Guma is running for mayor of Burlington as an independent.

The local writer and activist started testing the waters publicly in November, but appeared to back off. Then, last Friday, he told supporters that he had “finally reached the conclusion that my presence in the race was needed, and also that a successful campaign is possible.”

Guma, whose decision came just ahead

of the January 26 filing deadline for candidates, said he’s collected more than the 150 signatures required.

The candidate count stood at four: Democratic incumbent Miro Weinberger, Progressive Steve Goodkind, Libertarian Loyal Ploof and Guma.

Guma dismissed the suggestion that as another Progressive-minded candidate, he risked taking votes away from

descent. “We’re the keepers of the land, but we don’t want to be the only keepers of the land.”

Farrell sat in the second row but did not speak publicly. He has to obtain city zoning permits and participate in the state’s environmental review — potentially lengthy procedures — to advance his development plans. City officials, including Mayor Miro Weinberger, have been meeting with Farrell to discuss preserving parts of the property, including access to the beach and the bike path. Weinberger did not attend the event, but his parks director, Jesse Bridges, did.

Many attendees pledged to try to stop the project, though no one proposed a specific strategy.

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struggling institution would likely shut down within a year.

The school set a 60-day deadline for any conservation group to buy the development rights for $7 million. None did. Farrell’s closing on the property is set for February, according to the college.

Abenaki panelists argued that any further development of the property would be unforgivable.

Dee Brightstar, who wore a shawl and a turquoise earrings, necklace and rings, described the land surrounding Lake Champlain as “arms” that protect the water. If Farrell succeeds in building hundreds of units of housing there, she continued, “Those arms will be ripped out of their sockets.”

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Roughly 200 people came out for a panel presentation and public forum last Wednesday organized by residents who want to preserve the lakeside land behind Burlington College.

Vermonters have roamed that meadow and forest for decades as if it were public.

Panelist Alicia Daniel, who also lectures at the University of Vermont, asked how many people in the Burlington City Hall audience had explored the land. Virtually everyone — from high school students to senior citizens — raised their hands.

Three months ago, Mike Smith, then the college’s interim president, announced a plan to sell most of the school’s 33-acre campus to developer Eric Farrell for roughly $7.5 million. If not for the sale, Smith said, the

targeting were Serbs. He denied the 1992 rape and said he participated in legitimate wartime actions.

Jurors did not find Sakoc guilty of lying about whether he had “committed any crime,” or “persecuted any person” despite testimony about the rape and murders. Rather, they indicated he was guilty simply of giving “false or misleading information” to immigration officials.

A Vermont resident since 2001, Sakoc has led a quiet life, according to court documents. He once worked for a custodial services company, but has recently cared for his young daughter while his wife worked.

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Goodkind, à la Ralph Nader. “I don’t think those kinds of labels make as much sense as they used to ... You can argue that Miro is the Republicrat candidate.”

His campaign slogan is “Preservation and Change,” and his platform includes stopping “fast-track development,” preserving local ownership of Burlington Telecom and opposing the F-35.

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The governor, who recently shelved ambitious plans for single-payer care because he deemed it too expensive, declared 2015 the year to start fixing this problem.

But Shumlin’s remedy would address only Medicaid’s underpayment, not Medicare’s, and be limited to outpatient hospital expenses and professional medical services only. It would increase Medicaid reimbursements only to levels close to those of Medicare, which are still less than what private insurers pay.

And it would cost — a lot. To fund it, Shumlin is proposing a 0.7 percent payroll tax that businesses would start paying in December. The tax would raise $41 million in the first six months of 2016 — the second half of the state’s next budget year and the one that lawmakers and the administration are planning now.

In his speech, Shumlin trumpeted the fact that the state could use the $41 million as leverage to draw down roughly the same amount in matching federal funds to help pay for his total health care initiative. His six-month plan calls for spending $55 million for Medicaid, with $25 million going to raise reimbursement rates and $30 million to cover 20,000 new Medicaid enrollees.

From the remaining dollars, Shumlin wants to earmark $5.7 million to boost reimbursement for providers participating in the Blueprint for Health, a program that uses a new pay structure to promote preventive care and disease management.

He’d also designate $5.6 million for mental health agencies such as the Howard Center, $2 million to help more people cover their out-of-pocket insurance costs, and the balance to nursing homes, home health services, and to the Green Mountain Care Board and the tax department for some expanded responsibilities.

tax exemptions, but wasn’t ready to get specific.

Darcie Johnston, a Republican political operative and founder of Vermonters for Health Care Freedom, worries about Vermont becoming unattractive to new businesses as the only state with a payroll tax for health care. “We talk about the economic harm the cost shift causes, but what about the economic harm of a payroll tax?”

Johnston asked.

House Speaker Shap Smith (D-Morristown) dismissed some of the criticism, noting that the cost shift has been a priority for Republicans and business leaders for years. “Do they really want to do something or just complain?” Smith said.

Still, the Democrat-led House and Senate are expected to ask plenty of quesRep. Adam Greshin organizing tions about the Democratic governor’s the lift line at Sugarbush Resort cost-shift plan.

Smith offered a couple of his questions, starting with determining the impact of Shumlin — and the staff he has busily the cost shift on insurance premiums promoting the plan — stresses that busi- now. “What does it mean to a family of ness’ tax bills would be offset by decreases four? Five hundred dollars? One thousand in insurance premiums for companies that dollars?” Smith asked. He also wants to know how the legislature will know that offer insurance to their workers.

When Rep. Doug Gage (R-Rutland) the money put into the Medicaid side of suggested the payroll tax would require the equation will reduce insurance costs the City of Rutland to cut at least one em- on the other side, a question that Senate ployee, Shumlin’s health reform director President Pro Tempore John Cambell Lawrence Miller countered, “That is only (D-Windsor) echoed. “If we can’t get solid looking at one side of the equation. You assurance that will happen, I don’t see how would see a corresponding reduction in you raise the money,” Smith said.

The House Ways and Means Committee premiums.”

Despite these assurances, Cathy Davis, spent a recent day trying to follow the vice president for strategy and public affairs new payroll tax-generated money to its proposed destination: personal and business bank accounts.

“We have agreed that we aren’t expecting it to be a net increase to hospitals,” Bea Grause, president of the Vermont Association of R ep. D o u g las Ga g e (R- Ru tland ) Hospitals and Health Systems, told the group. at the Lake Champlain Regional Chamber “How are people reassured there will be of Commerce, voiced the split feelings no net increase in hospital budgets?” Ways many businesses have about the governor’s and Means Chair Janet Ancel (D-Calais) plan. “We obviously believe it addresses the pressed. cost shift,” Davis said. “We just aren’t sure “I feel confident we would be able to the payroll tax is the way to do it.” demonstrate that,” Grause replied.

The proposed tax makes many in the The Shumlin administration argues that business sector nervous because it would the Green Mountain Care Board has the open a new funding door. Even a small legal authority to make sure hospitals pass rate generates millions, which might tempt along to insurers any uptick in revenues lawmakers to increase the amount in the they see from higher Medicaid payments. future, Davis said.

Susan Gretkowski, senior government “It is the proverbial camel’s nose under affairs strategist with MVP Health Care, the tent,” agreed Greshin. He argued the 0.7 acknowledged the board’s jurisdiction over percent rate “is just too tempting to raise.” hospital budgets. Still, she questioned the For Sugarbush, which Greshin de- board’s ability to ensure that private physiscribed as a midsize company, the proposed cian practices also pass along the benefit to tax would cost about $77,000 a year. insurers.

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Suppose, he said, you are between 19 and 65 years old and want to ski there on a Saturday. How much will you dole out for a lift ticket? Ninety-one dollars. But if you are a child 6 or under, you ski for free.

Someone is paying for those “free” tickets for kids — who ride the lifts and benefit from snowmaking just as paying customers do. It’s the adults paying $91 to ride.

You could call it a cost shift, and it has a purpose in the ski industry, Greshin noted.

Letting young kids ski free — and offering adolescents a $20 discount — is a strategy to get the next generation hooked on the slopes.

A similar cost shift happens in the health care arena — and Gov. Peter Shumlin aims to correct it. Who’s skiing for less on that mountain? Government.

Medicaid, a health program for lowincome people jointly funded with state and federal dollars, currently pays less than what private insurers do for medical services. And Medicare, the federal program covering health care for the 65 and above set, also skis on the cheap.

The Green Mountain Care Board computes the extent of the cost shift annually.

For 2015, the board pegs Medicaid underpayments to hospitals and doctors at $150 million. For Medicare, the number is $175 million.

The first tricky maneuver on the costshift trail comes when hospitals look to Blue Cross Blue Shield, MVP Health Care and other insurers to make up the difference.

At Rutland Regional Medical Center, for example, 70 percent of the patients are on Medicaid or Medicare, CEO Tom Huebner said. “Both pay us less than it costs us to serve our patients,” he said. “That causes us to charge our patients who do have insurance more than it costs,” Huebner said. If Medicare and Medicaid paid what the care cost, he said, “We could reduce our price to everyone else by one-third.”

Doctors in private practice have little leverage to negotiate fees with insurers, Paul Harrington, executive vice president of the Vermont Medical Society, told the House Ways and Means Committee. They often have to swallow the loss or limit how many patients on government programs they see.

Back on the slippery slope: Private insurance companies pass higher costs along to their customers — businesses and individuals.

In his January 15 budget address, Shumlin called the cost shift a hidden tax that was increasing at an astonishing rate.

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It was with extreme disappointment that I discovered an insert in last week’s Seven Days that perpetuates both dangerous misinformation and radical misrepresentations of facts. The Vermont Right to Life Committee has every right to explore its options for getting the word out about their beliefs and services; however, as a privately owned publication, the advertising you choose to include is at your discretion.

I am dismayed to see that you chose to include this insert. VRLC’s “scientific facts” on page one are far from accurate, as any exploration of the National Institutes of Health information page on embryonic development will demonstrate. For example, all organs are not functioning at week eight; it is not until week 23 that the nervous system is developed enough to even provide minimal control of body functions, let alone “feel pain.”

Furthermore, VRLC’s statistics do not account for the greatly decreased rate of unintended pregnancies in the state of Vermont as a result of greater access to health care, birth control and sexual education.

Finally, their personal narratives, while wrought with emotions I can only imagine, paint an extremely narrow picture of the state of pregnancy counseling, abortion services and post-abortion care readily available in our state. Such inflammatory, inaccurate and one-sided advertising is an affront to the respectful journalism Seven Days was recently recognized for providing.

Sarah e. Mell Burlington

I was very surprised to find a Vermont Right to Life flier in the January 21 issue of Seven Days. As someone who values access to abortion and believes we shouldn’t return to all of the fatalities associated with abortion, I find your position on abortion to be both irresponsible and misogynist.

Further, there are many species with less and less access to viable habitats because of the vast overpopulation of humans on Earth. Even if you think this is fine, you are hastening the end of all life as you promote a minor species over all others and make the environment untenable.

For the women in your organization, I would ask you to acquaint yourselves with the pre-Roe-v.-Wade death rate of women without access to legal abortion. If you support “life,” then you need to deal with the reality of an abortion ban. For the men in your organization: When you give birth you will have a right to have an opinion on this issue. naomi Winterfalcon

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Editor’s note: Last week’s insert was a paid advertisement, which is not to be confused with the fact-checked editorial content in Seven Days. Censoring ad content is a slippery slope, so we don’t do it unless the client is promoting violence, hate or an illegal product. Seven Days is a forum for free speech — in our advertisements, letters to the editor and personal ads — and a reflection of the wide range of desires and beliefs in our diverse community. Sometimes that means being tolerant of views we might not personally share. Remember Paris?

Edin Sakoc’s guilt or innocence aside, I feel that it is worthwhile to point out that if every German who witnessed, participated, saw, understood and did nothing about the atrocities committed by the Nazis went on trial, virtually every one of them would have been justly imprisoned or swung from the end of a rope.

For the occupation authorities, a series of show trials of prominent perpetrators — that left a vast array of collaborators in civil administration safely in place — seemed a practical solution. In the case of Yugoslavia show trials, by far the most interesting aspect of Sakoc’s case for Seven Days readers

would have been his defense — not just the testimony of a social anthologist to explain ethnic tensions but a lesson in how the “globalizing” impositions of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank wrecked the political consensus so carefully constructed by Josip Broz Tito.

Needless to say, this analysis, best represented in Susan Woodward’s book Balkan Tragedy: Chaos and Dissolution After the Cold War, has much to instruct us about contemporary policy. Too bad it was given such short shrift in Mark Davis’ reports.

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on Oregon’s law, were stripped away to win the votes of two senators, Peter Galbraith, a Windham Democrat, and Bob Hartwell, a Bennington Democrat. They insisted the few remaining regulations should sunset in 2016 because they were against any government involvement in the process.

Galbraith and Hartwell both retired from the legislature last year.

Ayer said she hopes to keep this year’s vote focused solely on whether to reinstate the regulations, such as the waiting period and requirement for multiple requests, rather than revisiting the merits of the law itself.

Vitzthum argues that its regulations are too vague, including the definition of a Vermont resident, which is left up to a doctor. She also notes that while the law requires a patient to be capable of voluntarily requesting a prescription, there is no guarantee of a patient’s ability to make decisions when it comes time to take the medicine.

Other groups plan to join Vitzthum in seeking repeal of the law, including the Vermont Alliance for Ethical Healthcare and the Vermont Right to Life Committee.

Ayer said she does not believe the law will be repealed.

“They don’t have the votes,” she said.

“And the governor would veto it.”

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Lake got her lethal prescription filled weeks before taking it, according to her sister. She was waiting until just the right time, without knowing for sure whether it would arrive, depending on what direction her health took.

“The day she died, she said, ‘Yesterday was too soon. Tomorrow’s too late. Today’s the day,’” Lesser said.

Her two adult children, partner and three sisters were by her bedside as Lake took the drugs and went into a coma.

Lesser said they started to worry as the hours passed. “We started thinking, ‘My God, is the dose right?’” Lesser said.

In the end, her sister died peacefully. A celebration of her life is planned for June in an orchard in Putney.

“I can assure you there will be a thousand people,” Lesser said.

Just before her death, Lake rallied to finish work for her last art show and traveled to Brattleboro, with the help of a wheelchair, to see the exhibit, of botanical prints, just before it opened at Mitchell Giddings Fine Arts.

On the gallery’s website, Lake wrote about seeing the withering flora in late fall on one of her last hikes through the woods.

“What a metaphor for life, for my life, as I struggle with terminal cancer, birth, death and rebirth,” she wrote.

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Gage, a member of the House Health Care Committee, remains a skeptic about the proposal. “There is no saying the rate would come down to the proper amount,” he said. “I don’t see a mechanism that would truly do that. I know the taxes are real. I don’t know the savings are real.”

House Health Care Chair Bill Lippert (D-Hinesburg) plans a thorough vetting of the governor’s plan, but also wants the committee to weigh options. He has scheduled a joint meeting with the Senate Health and Welfare Committee on January 29 to hear alternative ways the state could move forward with health reform now that the governor has shelved single-payer.

Dr. Deb Richter, an advocate for a government-financed health care system, will pitch her idea to give all Vermonters free primary care. “Back of the napkin, we would need about $180 million,” she said. “You could do this for a less-than-1.5 percent payroll tax.” Health insurance premiums would decrease, she contends, because no one would need coverage for primary care.

Peter Sterling, executive director of the Vermont Campaign for Health Care Security, wants to help more middleincome Vermonters cover their out-ofpocket health insurance costs. He argues that the governor’s $2 million cost-sharing plan would still mean a person with a $35,000 annual income could spend as much as $5,100 on health care costs in a year. “That’s insanely high,” Sterling said.

Sterling will also push a plan to fast-track enrollment of 6,400 Vermonters who are without insurance but eligible for Medicaid, and he has a strategy to find them.

Rep. Paul Poirier (I-Barre) has two ideas he will share with the House Health Care Committee. Like Sterling, he wants to help more people pay for their health insurance. He would use money raised by a new tax on sugary beverages to boost assistance. He also wants to revive a 2009 proposal to authorize the state to set up an insurance plan — a public option — to compete with private companies on the internet-based marketplace known as Vermont Health Connect. It would cover public employees such as state workers and teachers. Cost-sharing subsidies funded by the state would be offered only through the state plan.

Legislative leaders say health reform remains a priority even though the governor pulled the plug on single-payer. And they agree with Shumlin’s former secretary of administration Jeb Spaulding, who declared the cost-shift proposal “a big deal.”

“It is,” Lippert said. And given the chronic cries about the need for state government to do something about the cost shift — to even out those lift-ticket prices, so to speak — he added, “If there is a decision not to do it, that is a big deal, too.” m

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pets, Miss Kitty and Chester.

A memorial service is planned for March 21 at the All Souls Interfaith Gathering center at 291 Bostwick Farm Road in Shelburne. The time of the service will be announced.

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1945-2015, WINOOSKI/ST. ALBANS, VT. The world lost a beautiful soul today when the Lord came looking for an angel. Maureen Tew Pelkey, born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on August 30, 1945, passed away peacefully the morning of January 21, 2015, surrounded by the love of her family. Maureen is predeceased by her loving husband of 34 years, Frank E. Pelky III. They were longtime residents of Winooski.

She is survived by her son, Frank E. Pelkey IV, and his wife, Carolyn Pelkey; and her grandchildren and great-granddaughter; Veronica Mattison and husband Edward Mattison Jr. and their daughter, Chloe Mattison; Steven Pelkey, Lucia Pelkey, Elizabeth Pelkey, and Frank Pelkey V. Maureen is survived by her family, Kenneth Tew, Arlene Stathakis, Lorraine Ashby, Deloris and Buck Ashby, Sharron and Lenord Bassuk, and Shirley and Richard Cruger.

Maureen was predeceased by her parents, Harry Tew Sr.

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1927-2015, COLCHESTER, VT. James L. Fitzgerald, 87, beloved husband, father and grandfather, passed away on January 15, 2015, after a period of declining health. He was born on November 1, 1927, on the family farm at Pine Island, Colchester, to Charles and Madlyn (Tatro) Fitzgerald.

Jim served in the Army in the Philippines during World War II and upon return attended and graduated from UVM with a degree in mechanical engineering. During his last year at UVM he was hired by General Electric. He retired after 33 years having worked in several departments, the last as a program manager.

After retirement he started a part-time business doing home maintenance and repair projects.

Left to cherish his memory are his wife, Ruth; children Karen and Bradley Badger, Pamela Fitzgerald and Peter Bonaccorsi, James M. Fitzgerald and Kim Maskall, David and Lori Fitzgerald, Linda and Clay Barrows, and Robert Fitzgerald; 20 grandchildren; 11 greatgrandchildren; step-daughters Lisa Brown, Lory Cristoforo, Lesli Ritchie and Lynn Brigan; extended family; and countless friends.

Jim was predeceased by his first wife Jean (Dunn) Fitzgerald in 1984. He met Jean through his first cousin Charlie, who married Jean’s identical twin sister, Joan. He was also predeceased by his parents, brother Hugh and sisters Corrine, Catherine, Mary Lou and Joan.

and Ruth Tew of Long Island, N.Y.; her sisters and brothers, Jaqueline Reynolds, Rose Riley, Joanne Tew, Edward Tew, Harry Tew Jr., Pat Tew and Danny Tew; and her in-laws, Frank Pelkey Jr. and Lucia Pelkey of Essex/Colchester.

Maureen kept a spot in her heart for many, many nieces and nephews, and all her sisters- and brothers-in-law, whom she loved and cared for very much. She saved a special spot in her heart for her great-niece Victoria Bassuk.

She had a special relationship with her friend Stacy Gaudette.

Maureen was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., the daughter of Harry and Ruth Tew Jr., on August 30, 1945; she lived on the island with her family until she met the love of her life, Frank Pelkey III. They were married on June 27, 1964, and gave birth to a son, Frank Pelkey IV, in 1966. Marriage brought Maureen to Vermont and the Pelkey family, whom she loved deeply. Maureen made a career and some great friends for herself at the University of Vermont. She was there for 30-plus years, rising up through the ranks to become the assistant director of physical plant.

After retirement, she made it her job to spread her love to everyone she knew.

Her favorite hobby was her grandchildren. She will always be remembered for her big heart and generosity, her sense of humor, and her love for cooking and a good family party. Her love had no bounds and her door was open to everyone. She was everyone’s grandma; she truly enriched every life she touched.

Though the Lord has found it fit to come and take her home, we know she lives on in our hearts and in our stories and memories. She will forever be looking down and watching over us. We also know she is finally home with the love of her life, Frank Pelkey III. A Mass of Christian Burial was held on Tuesday, January 27, at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Winooski. Visitation was on Monday, January 26, at the LaVigne Funeral Home and Cremation Service. Donations in her memory may be made to a charity of one’s choice.

Condolences may be shared with the family online at lavignefuneralhome.com.

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1961-2015, BURLINGTON, VT. Donny Roy Clark Sr., 53, of Burlington died unexpectedly in his home on Sunday, January 18, 2015.

He was born in Burlington on March 30, 1961, to Eugene Clark Sr. and Beatrice (Rouille) Clark.

Donny was proud to be an employee of Lane Press from 1983 to 2009.

He loved to be outdoors, fishing and spending time with family. He was an avid animal lover also. He was a great friend to many and would give the shirt off his back to anyone in need. Most would remember him whistling or singing to himself as he went about his day.

He is survived by his son, Donny Clark Jr., and grandson Ayden Clark of Sheldon; daughter Crystal Billado and her husband, John Billado, of Sheldon; and ex-wives Kristy Armell of Hyde Park and Susan Dudley of Sheldon.

Siblings included Ricky and Pat Clark of Winooski, Brenda Clark of Essex, Melody Soule of St. Albans, Janet and Jerry Bushey of Colchester, Penny Clark of St. Albans, and twin brother Danny Clark of Northfield. He was predeceased by his father and mother, Eugene and Beatrice Clark, brother Eugene “Butch” Clark Jr. and sister Cindy Lou Bushey.

A special thanks goes out to a close friend of Donny’s, Kim Leveillee of Bakersfield, for including him in her family.

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Jim built a camp on Broadlake Road about 50 years ago and so enjoyed being able to be out on the lake either sailing, fishing or boating of any kind. He also had a love of scuba diving and looking for gold in the streams of Vermont.

He will be missed.

A Mass of Christian Burial was held on Monday, January 26, at Holy Cross Catholic Church, Church Road, Colchester. Visitation was Sunday, January 25, at LaVigne Funeral Home and Cremation Service, 132 Main St, Winooski. In lieu of flowers, the family would appreciate donations to VNA Hospice Program, 1110 Prim Rd., Colchester, VT 05446. The family would like to extend a special thank you to Ellen.

Condolences may be shared with the family online at lavignefuneralhome.com.

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work at Joseph Papp’s New York Shakespeare Festival. She built props and wrote one-act plays for Off-Off Broadway theaters, taking jobs at the Actor’s Studio, the Screen Actors Guild and Paramount Pictures.

After studying with master wood-engraver John Depol, she abandoned theater and returned to Vermont to make prints. Her first book-illustrating contract, for Joseph Citro’s Green Mountain Ghosts, Ghouls and Unsolved Mysteries (Chapters Publishing), came in 1994.

A year later she began teaching art at Saint Michael’s College. She exhibited in local galleries, made frequent school visits, and worked on the nearby sets of two Hollywood films, Sweetheart’s Dance and The Spitfire Grill.

In 2008, lured by warm temperatures and a beckoning artistic community that included whirligig-builder Vollis Simpson, she moved to Wilson, N.C. While renovating her arts & crafts bungalow there in 2013, she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer.

Though undergoing treatment, she traveled twice yearly to Montpelier to meet with students at the Vermont College of Fine Arts, where in 2010 she had joined the faculty of the low-residency children’s writing program.

During her final visit in July, she won a standing ovation after delivering a speech in which she revealed that she was battling cancer.

She excelled at whatever she did. Whether painting frescos or plumbing her house, she did it with panache and a playful irreverence. Fiercely self-disciplined, she went underground for days and even weeks when deadlines loomed, and always welcomed challenges. She taught herself Italian and tackled the violin while in her fifties.

She will be remembered most for her wit. She wore a pink wig to her final medical consultation, jolting her doctors, and her self-illustrated blog, Chemo Chick, dripped with black humor.

Survivors include a daughter, Emily Herder, Emily’s partner, Bren Gaesser, a sister, Tina Christensen, Tina’s husband, Michael Sevy, numerous cousins, and her beloved

A celebration of life was held on Sunday, January 25, at the LaVigne Funeral Home and Cremation Service in Winooski. Following the service there was a dinner at the American Legion in St. Albans. Condolences may be shared with the family online at lavignefuneralhome.com.

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1951-2015, BURLINGTON, VT. Bonnie Christensen, a Burlington author and illustrator whose award-winning children’s books illuminated the lives of such cultural icons as Elvis Presley, Andy Warhol and Woody Guthrie for young readers, died on January 12 at the Vermont Respite House in Williston. She was 63.

Of her more than 20 titles, the most acclaimed was Woodie Guthrie: Poet of the People (Alfred A. Knopf), whose images Booklist described as “sinewy and emotionally compelling.” It won the Boston Globe Horn Book Honor Award and was named a Publishers Weekly’s Best Book of 2001 and a New York Times Notable Book.

Neal Porter, her editor at Macmillan, said she “infused all her books with wit, a keen intelligence, and unbridled beauty.”

Besides biographies, she produced vividly hued picture books on such topics as medieval bookmaking, grandmothers and the invention of the printing press, as well as a light-hearted tome on borscht, and in 1998, a Folio collector’s edition of John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. Paintings from Fabulous!, her portrait of Andy Warhol, were purchased by the Library of Congress. Her book on the life of Elvis Presley was still in production at the time of her death.

She was born in 1951 in Saranac Lake, N.Y., the older of two daughters of forest economist Wallace Christensen and his wife, Theo (Cole) Christensen, a grocer’s daughter. The family moved seven times before she was 16. In Burlington, Bonnie studied theater and film at the University of Vermont, then moved to Manhattan to

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n a back room at Burlington’s Regional Educational Television Network, a yoga class is getting out of hand. The flexible folk can’t stop one-upping each other with tales of their rigorous personal practices: bizarre retreats, pricy gear, lives scheduled around the yoga mat.

“Yoga is my life’s purpose!” bawls one.

“Yoga is my soul mate!” another ripostes.

And, just like that, they launch into a slow-motion brawl in which yoga poses double as wrestling holds. So much for inner peace.

While this “Yoga Match” is actually a sketch being rehearsed by Burlington comedy troupe STEALING FROM WORK, some would argue that it’s also a comically heightened version of real life in the Queen City. MARIANNE DIMASCIO, the founding troupe member who writes SFW’s material with ANGELA ALBECK, says her own experiences “taking yoga classes with some outlandish people” inspired the sketch.

Like the IFC show “Portlandia,” SFW aims for the sweet spot between cultural satire and silliness — and usually hits the mark. Formed in 2011, the troupe is back with new cast members and a new director for its third full production, which will premiere on February 4 at Burlington’s OFF CENTER FOR THE DRAMATIC ARTS. The very Burlington title? A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Front Porch Forum.

SFW’s players remain three-quarters female, with local actors CAEL BARKMAN, SARAH VENOOKER and JORY RAPHAEL replacing original cast members CHRIS CASWELL, KEVIN CHRISTOPHER and GEEDA SEARFOORCE. All four actors play both sexes at the drop of a hat, but a fair number of the sketches are female-centric — and frank to the point of raunchiness. In one number, ladies compete for the title of “Miss Fur-bruary” in the female equivalent of a hipster beard-growing contest. In another, DiMascio plays a magical prankster called the Period Pixie. (“Psych!” she trills after a pregnancy scare.)

“I love the focus they have on women,” says SETH JARVIS, who’s directing SFW for the first time this year. “But it’s never pedantic; it’s never righteous. They’re willing to skewer or at least poke at all sides of the spectrum and political and cultural sensibilities.”

Jarvis warms up the players at each rehearsal with a bit of improv: On this

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evening, he instructs them to act out an impromptu “trailer” for the show.

That show itself, however, is thoroughly scripted by longtime collaborators DiMascio and Albeck, who both have day jobs at the Community College of Vermont. (Yes, they say, their boss knows the name of the troupe. And gets a kick out of it.)

Each Thursday, says DiMascio, the two women meet to discuss sketch ideas they’ve recorded in a shared spreadsheet. “Angie is a real writer, and she writes outlines. I sort of have the characters talk to each other,” she explains.

From there, they trade drafts and start painstakingly polishing each sketch. “By the time we’re bringing it to actors, it will be on the eighth or ninth version,” Albeck says. “We’ll hear it and get a sense of the pacing and the flow, and then have eight

COMEDY drafts after that” — some incorporating lines added by the performers.

The result is thoughtful, highly verbal comedy, enlivened by physical clowning and sound designer JESS WILSON’s musical cues. It’s also hyperlocal — but not in a purely celebratory way. (A sketch in a past show, for instance, mocked some of the typical attitudes on display at City Market.)

“I love the way they collaborate together,” says Jarvis of DiMascio and Albeck. “As a writing team, they both push each other in great directions, but then they provide the checks and balances for each other.”

Asked about the inevitable “Portlandia” comparison, DiMascio says she’s heard that a couple of times: “Where it’s set is one of the characters.”

Albeck agrees: “It is really grounded

in place. We try to connect with ourselves and our own lives, poking fun at ourselves.”

A big part of that is creating vivid characters grounded in their environment. For actors, sketch comedy can be a “tricky medium,” says Venooker.

“Sometimes you have 30 seconds, and that’s your chance to present that funny moment.”

In the process, a man might play a woman or vice versa, but the switch itself isn’t the joke. “We just write characters,” Albeck says — then let the director cast “the best person for the role. We know it’s pretend; let’s play with it. Gender is something we want to play with.”

In theory, that playfulness is accessible to all kinds of audiences — including ones that don’t typically show up for live comedy. SFW’s last show, supported by a grant from the Vermont Community Foundation, was “pay-what-you-can.”

DiMascio recalls seeing senior citizens in the audience, “and I loved it,” she says.

“And college students,” Albeck adds.

Hoping for a similarly diverse crowd, they’re returning to the pay-what-youcan model for their first performance of Forum.

When the troupe has run through three sketches — with pauses to adjust blocking and giggle at DiMascio’s ninja moves as the Period Pixie — everybody takes a break.

Sketch comedy poses its own special challenges, says Barkman, a veteran of local stage and film productions. “You’re creating something fresh — being flexible and creative.”

“You get to be silly,” notes Raphael.

Jarvis, who’s familiar to local theatergoers as an actor, director, playwright and spoken-word artist, says he came to SFW “as a fan. It’s a sweet gig,” he notes with a wink. “A lot of my job is just giving them room to play and then staying out of their way.”

INFO A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Front Porch Forum, Stealing From Work, directed by Seth Jarvis, Wednesday through Sunday, February 4 to 8, at 7:30 p.m.; and Saturday and Sunday, February 7 and 8, at 4 p.m., at Off Center for the Dramatic Arts in Burlington. $15; for the February 4 performance, “pay-what-you-can” tickets are available only at the door. The show contains material not suitable for children. flynntix. org; facebook.com/stealingfromwork

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continues. “There’s lots of solo stuff in there, but the pairs kind of defied that right away.”

Assigned Allies opens with “Malacarne,” in which dancer Paula Higa and composer YuTaka kono team up with Burlington visual artist winnie looBY for a dramatic piece inspired by the life of sculptor Camille Claudel. Looby created branches swathed in white cloth that the performers carry, and Kono plays tuba against an electronic soundtrack he composed.

Next, Besaw and harpist Heidi soons present “A thousand times together,” an abstract contemporary dance that transforms the stage into a “mini-apartment” with tables, chairs and food. The pair alternates between highly abstract, dreamlike sequences and stylized pedestrian passages in which they eat, drink and wait. Besaw even strums the harp.

In Paul asBell and Clare BYrne’s “SideSlippin’ and Backslidin’” piece, audience members are treated to “bluesy, jukejoint” music that “evokes dark, Southerntinged themes of spirit possession and tent revivals,” accord to a press statement.

(The description also — be warned — alludes to audience involvement.) That’s followed by an airy piece with jazz flute music composed by PaTriCia Julien and dance by lYnn ellen sCHimoler that “explore[s] beginnings and moments that are intimate yet formalized,” the statement says. Finally, composer/pianist Tom

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his weekend, the Solo Workshop, an experimental performance project dreamed up by University of Vermont dance professor Paul Besaw, will give its fourth annual performance — and the first one at UVM’s Recital Hall. Titled Assigned Allies, the production teams five composers on the music faculty with five members of the dance faculty.

The result? An evening of five contemporary dances choreographed to original compositions on solo instruments: tuba, flute, harp, piano and guitar.

This year’s show, Besaw says, is the biggest yet. Aside from dancers and the instrumentalists, each piece has set, costume and theatrical elements. Several of the dancers also sing. And, yes, the artists know the project’s name is a misnomer.

In fact, the Solo Workshop has always been a collaborative pursuit. It began when Besaw, frustrated by his attempts to create an actual solo dance, invited four fellow performers to meet regularly and give one another feedback as they developed their own pieces. He soon began inviting artists and UVM colleagues working in a variety of art forms, including music, film, theater, visual art, poetry and even bookmaking.

“The whole premise of this was me wanting to do a dance solo, but really not wanting to do a solo,” Besaw admits with a laugh. “And now it’s like, I’m over it. I want to drag everyone else into this quagmire.

“When you hear ‘solo,’ usually you’re talking about one piece,” Besaw

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Knowing the Score: UVM’s Yutaka Kono Is the BCO’s New Artistic Director B y a my li lly

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niversity of Vermont music professor Yutaka Kono’s office is fairly utilitarian, but on a sunny day, it’s lit up by two enormous tubas resting on their bells and glinting in the sun. Kono, an accomplished tuba player with a ponytail and a ready smile, earned a doctorate in tuba performance. He has garnered awards performing as a soloist, in a quintet, and in orchestras and bands in several states, as well as in his native Tokyo.

Kono also composes for his instrument, among others, and has seen two of his pieces performed at FlynnSpace since he moved to Burlington four years ago.

Lately, though, the 43-year-old musician-composer has been gaining recognition for a third interest: conducting. Kono’s duties at UVM include conducting the college orchestra; based on a video of his work at one of its 2013 concerts, he was named a finalist for the American Prize in Conducting (college and university orchestra division).

He’s in his third year of conducting the Vermont Youth Philharmonia, the intermediate-level ensemble of the Vermont Youth Orchestra Association. And last summer, Kono was selected to attend the Eastman School of Music Summer Conducting Institute, where he led the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra.

All those distinctions made Kono a strong choice for his new position as the artistic director of Burlington Chamber Orchestra, Chittenden County’s only professional chamber orchestra. In that role, he will conduct at least one of BCO’s three concerts per year.

The 34-member BCO is now in its eighth season. Perhaps fittingly, the group’s founding conductor was Kono’s predecessor on the UVM Orchestra podium, Michael Hopkins. (Another parallel: Kono’s wife, Kathleen Kono, plays in BCO’s violin section, as did Hopkins’ wife.) Since Hopkins left for a job in the Midwest four years ago, the BCO has opted to bring in guest conductors; Kono conducted one concert last year in that capacity. Meanwhile, two committees made up of BCO members have been making artistic decisions. They will continue to bring in some guest conductors and collaborate with Kono on programming.

“But there were advantages, musically, to having some consistency of leadership,” explains BCO violinist Sofia Hirsch, who chairs the musicians’

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is extremely knowledgeable about music and is willing to work with us collaboratively.

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Classical Music committee. “And Yutaka has a great personality, is extremely knowledgeable about music and is willing to work with us collaboratively — which is key for a group coming off four years of having musicians make all the decisions.”

Kono comes from a country far more oriented toward classical music than the U.S. When he was growing up, Japan’s main television stations would pause their programming once a day to broadcast an “A” note so that musicians could tune their instruments, he recalls.

Tokyo supports 12 full-time orchestras, and music instruction is required from elementary through high school.

While an elementary student, Kono — who was already playing the piano — heard a Mozart horn concerto and joined his school band so he could learn the notoriously difficult brass instrument. “But I just couldn’t get that result,” he says with a laugh, “so my band director said, ‘Why don’t you play

that tuba over there?’” Kono obliged. He stuck with tuba through the beginning of high school, though his musical tastes were shifting to heavy metal and rock.

When he was 16, Kono moved to the U.S. as an exchange student in New Mexico — and never returned to Japan, except for visits. During his two years of American high school and two at Eastern New Mexico University, he began listening to avant-garde music by Henry Cowell, Krzysztof Penderecki and John Cage, composers who left elements of their works to chance. “I realized there’s a lot more to music than power chords,” Kono recalls with a chuckle.

Kono left NMU for a tuba scholarship to Bowling Green State University in Ohio. There he wrote an experimental work for a synthesizer tuned to a gamelan, a percussive Indonesian ensemble instrument. This early composition “sounds like an out-of-tune instrument being played,” says Kono. He

now teaches both electronic music and traditional orchestral works — what he calls “the polar ends of music.”

Kono continued to focus on the tuba while earning a master’s at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities and then as the University of Texas at Austin’s first doctoral candidate in tuba performance. Discovering an interest in conducting — which he calls “the pinnacle of music” because “you have to know the score better than anybody” — Kono viewed his musicianship as his entrée. “I knew I had to become a better performer first” before launching into conducting, he recalls.

In fact, according to Tom Toner, who chairs UVM’s Department of Music and Dance, the primary qualification for strong conducting is “being a good musician.” In that background, Kono resembles Vermont Symphony Orchestra conductor Jaime Laredo, a highly accomplished violinist who never trained academically in conducting. Toner, who has played percussion with the VSO for 25 years, says “the orchestra sounds so much better than it used to” as a result of playing under the musician’s baton.

Kono honed his conducting skills by starting an orchestra with his colleagues at Texas A&M University-Kingsville, where he taught after earning his degrees. The endeavor afforded him a five-year position as assistant conductor and artistic director. That’s no small thing; conducting positions are so few in the U.S. that the rare opening draws hundreds of applicants.

When Kono applied for the UVM position, Toner, then on sabbatical, watched each of the final candidates conduct. “It was pretty clear we got the right person,” he recalls. “Kono is very easy to follow and very good at interacting with people, which is hard to find.”

“He’s not an autocrat,” says BCO violinist Ana Ruesink, noting that Kono takes into account the professional musicians’ many “opinions on how things should sound.”

Ruesink describes Kono’s conducting style as “quite energetic and forceful, I would say. He has a real power on the podium. My family has commented that he’s fun to watch.”

Kono first learned of the BCO after applying for the UVM job: An internet search of “Burlington” brought up the ensemble’s performances on YouTube. The

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Not Alone « p.25 and dancer lois Trombley present “I Didn’t Know It Was Time,” a lively, theatrical piece about “the solo/accompanist dynamic” and the conflicts that can arise in collaborative work.

Besides yielding an evening of eclectic performance, Assigned Allies has been a meeting of minds for faculty in UVM’s music and dance departments.

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quality of the group, particularly the “unified tone of the strings,” impressed him. So did its very existence. For a city of its size, Kono remarks, Burlington “has a lot going on — so many concerts and festivals.”

Speaking at a BCO reception held last week in his honor, Kono said he plans to increase the group’s number of annual concerts and “bring the BCO back to UVM” — that is, move performances from Saint Michael’s College, where BCO has performed since Hopkins’ departure, to the UVM Recital Hall. Kono also envisions collaborative projects with his academic department, such as professional recording in its studio, which was recently established to support the new music technology and business concentration and minor.

The move will highlight the many ties BCO already has to UVM — including about a dozen faculty and alumni

who play in the ensemble, says Hirsch.

“We’re homegrown,” she points out, and adds that “a lot of us grew up playing in the VYO — that list is ridiculous.”

The choice of Kono as artistic director reflects the local flavor, Hirsch says, and it reinforces a message: “I think people should know, ‘Hey, you can make a musical life here in Vermont.’”

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The show features exclusively artists who are affiliated with the university and, for the first time, is copresented by the lane series.

The Solo Workshop, says Lane Series director naTalie neuerT, “brings this great chance for Lane Series audiences to see music and dance that’s being created collaboratively in our community.” Plus,

she adds, it’s a rare opportunity for her series’ regulars to see 10 highly talented artists in a single night.

“They’re getting a lot of different, stimulating work in one evening of performance,” Neuert notes.

This year marks the first performance of the Solo Workshop outside FlynnspaCe in downtown Burlington. Besaw and Julien say it feels like a homecoming.

“We wanted to make this something of a UVM family event, because we are all on the same faculty together, and a lot of us have not crossed paths,” Julien says.

“It’s been an opportunity to look at how music and dance work together and to experiment with that,” Besaw says.

“My dance colleagues and plenty of the music faculty are just really interested in seeing the ways that music and dance can come together.” m Contact: xian@sevendaysvt.com

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“Is this a result of BTV’s use as Burlington International’s airport code, or was BTV in use before that?” the query read. “And why not BVT?” WTF? First, the easy part. The Queen City’s unofficial moniker does derive from the airport’s three-letter location identifier, assigned years ago by the Federal Aviation Administration. To be precise, every publicly accessible airport in the world has a four-character alphanumeric identifier called its International Civil Aviation Organization, or ICAO, airport code. However, because all U.S. civilian ICAO airport codes start with the letter K, that letter is generally left off your boarding pass and baggage-claim tickets.

So why was Burlington International, Vermont’s largest and busiest airport (which is owned by the City of Burlington but located in South Burlington), assigned the code BTV and not BVT, as logic would suggest? This is especially puzzling, as BVT isn’t already used by another airport. Suffice it to say, anyone looking for logic in a bureaucratic decision should brace for an arduous search — and in this case, a fruitless one.

Here’s a little history. According to an oft-cited article by pilot Dave English published in the December

1994 issue of Air Line Pilot magazine, airport codes first arose in the 1930s. The early ones simply copied the two-letter designations used by the National Weather Service, which typically sets up weather-data stations at airfields.

But as commercial aviation expanded in the 1930s, the federal government switched to the three-letter system, which offered thousands more possible combinations. To prevent confusion with the old, twoletter monikers, some airports simply added an X to their original two-letter abbreviations, and those codes stuck. Hence LAX (Los Angeles International), PDX (Portland International) and PHX (Phoenix International).

Today, many of the three-letter codes still make sense. They include Boston (BOS), Atlanta (ATL), DFW (Dallas-Fort Worth), Salt Lake City (SLC), New York’s LaGuardia (LGA) and Miami International (MIA).

Others, such as Chicago’s O’Hare (ORD), are puzzling until you learn the airport’s history: Prior to 1949, O’Hare was named Orchard Field. A similar explanation underlies Orlando, Fla.’s airport, MCO, which was McCoy Air Force Base until it was converted to civilian use.

By all reports, Burlington International’s three-letter code has always been BTV — leaving the placement of “V” a mystery. But what explains some of the threeletter location identifiers at Vermont’s other publicly accessible airports? Jim Thompson, the state aviation

operations manager for Vermont’s 10 state-owned airports, can only wish us good luck trying to suss out an explanation.

Some of Vermont’s small airport codes are logical, including the Morrisville-Stowe State Airport (MVL), the Franklin County State Airport in Highgate (FSO), and Caledonia County Airport in Lyndnville (CDA).

But what’s the deal with the Newport State Airport (EFK), Middlebury State Airport (6B0) or the William H. Morse State Airport in Bennington (DDH)? The last one might as well stand for “Dunno. Don’t have a clue.”

“I don’t know why they came about that way,” Thompson admits. “There’s really no rhyme or reason behind how [FAA officials] do these things.”

Besides BTV, the Southern Vermont Regional Airport in Rutland is the state’s only other airfield offering commercial passenger service — three flights daily to Boston. While its three-letter code — RUT — makes sense, it isn’t doing much to bolster that city’s once-rough-and-tumble public image. City planners aren’t likely to unveil a “planRUT” any time soon.

And don’t even think about trying to alter a city’s three-letter airport code to something more logical, flattering or tourism-friendly.

“At one point we petitioned the FAA to change Newport’s code to NEK, for Northeast Kingdom. They basically said no,” says Thompson, pointing out that the designator wasn’t even in use. “But we tried.”

Things could be worse for Rutland. Its moniker is far preferable to that of the Sioux Gateway Airport in Sioux City, Iowa (SUX), Brazil’s Poços de Caldas Airport (POO), Perm International Airport in Russia (PEE) or Butler Memorial Airport in Missouri (BUM).

Like Vermont’s 802 area code, Burlington’s BTV abbreviation has taken on an identity all its own. As former Seven Days employee Tyler Machado reported back in 2011, members of Burlington’s Twitterati got into a 140-character snit with state-run television stations in Bahrain, Botswana and other countries that start with the letter B when those parties usurped the Twitter hashtag #BTV. Then, about a year later, Burlington’s #BTV got hijacked (hashjacked?) by Bloomberg TV’s social-media crew, causing much noise, confusion and gnashing of tweets. Twitter-savvy Rutlanders, for their part, should tread lightly with the #RUT moniker for fear of pissing off deer, moose and elk hunters who currently use the #RUT hashtag.

If Rutlanders ever get serious about asking the FAA to drop RUT for something more uplifting, they should keep in mind that the RVT code is already taken — by Ravensthorpe Airport in Australia. However, RVG — for Rut Vegas! — is still up for grabs. m Contact: ken@sevendaysvt.com

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Dear Cecil,

My wife read on Facebook about businesses still testing their products on animals. She tried to find out through Google how true this is, but she couldn’t get any really clear idea of who was doing what. Is animal testing still prevalent, or are most companies trying to go a different route?

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receive protection from psychological damage, courtesy of the CHIMP Act of 2000. The minimal standards for their housing, feeding, handling and veterinary care are enforced with $10,000 maximum fines — but considering it costs around $15,000 a year to feed and house a chimp, that’s a pretty negligible sum.

So, yes, animal testing is, unlike the animals themselves, alive and well. If your wife couldn’t track down any good, comprehensive numbers for how many animals are involved altogether, that’s because they’re not out there. We do know, though, that in 2013 about 900,000 animals covered under the Animal Welfare Act were killed in research and testing in the U.S., including 170,000 rabbits, 68,000 dogs and 64,000 nonhuman primates. That’s just the fatalities, and it doesn’t include the mice and rats, which make up the great bulk of lab animals. Noting the growing role of genetically modified animals in research, one independent estimate from 2004

put the total number of animals used annually in the U.S. at 80 million.

It’s not that there’s been no progress. Since the late 1950s the animal welfare movement has been advocating the principles of “replacement, reduction and refinement”: i.e., (1) using insentient materials — which now include computer simulations as well as things like cell cultures — for testing rather than conscious living creatures; (2) minimizing the number of animal subjects needed to get useful results, via better experiment design, data sharing, etc.; and (3) limiting the amount of actual pain and harm the animals experience. Which all basically makes sense, even leaving ethics aside — for one thing, animal stress can alter test results. And to some extent it’s happening: Computer modeling has in fact decreased the need for living subjects in toxicity research. Modeling and

and industrial chemicals. The EU’s chemical evaluation program, called REACH, will likely require the death of around 2 million animals in its current phase of testing. For the animals this may not be any more pleasant than cosmetics testing, but at least it’s a weightier cause.

There are some research subjects where animal testing may not be pulling its weight: carcinogens, for instance.

Multiple animal studies show possible weak links between substances like (e.g.) saccharine and cancer, but no major epidemiological data has been found to indicate clear danger to humans. Comprehensive animal-based cancer studies are time-consuming and expensive, with very high false-positive rates — it’s been estimated 90 percent of clinical drug trials fail because animal trials can’t accurately predict how humans will respond.

At a certain level, I think most people would still agree, better one human in a clinical trial than humans generally, and better a dog than a human. It’s not a perfect system ( judging from the number of lawsuits, anyway), but I, for one, would have more trouble sleeping at night without the sacrificial bunnies standing between the diseases and us.

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f visions of scientifically tortured baby bunnies keep you up at night, stop reading right now. Antitesting activist groups may not be in the news, but it’s only because we have so many other things to complain about these days. It still exists, and in full force. There have been no major U.S. federal restrictions on animal testing since the 1966 Animal Welfare Act, passed back when everyone was more concerned with the commies and nuclear war than with the well-being of test monkeys (some of whom were rocketed into space in competition with said commies and didn’t do so well on the return journey).

Perhaps unsurprisingly, then, it’s not a very stringent law: Its guidelines don’t apply to mice, rats, birds, farm animals raised for food and agricultural research, or reptiles and amphibians. It does cover treatment of the cutest 10 percent of lab animals — dogs, cats, hamsters, etc. — who presumably have a stronger congressional lobby. Only chimpanzees

in vitro testing still have their limits, though, so 100 percent replacement doesn’t look imminent. Some higherorder test animals (mice, guinea pigs) can be swapped out for lower-order ones (zebra fish, fruit flies); purists take issue, but you can’t please everyone.

The goals of animal testing have changed as well.

Activists may still invoke the specter of cosmetics testing to call attention to the animal welfare cause (it’s certainly simpler than firebombing researchers’ houses), but that’s a battle the good guys seem to be winning, however slowly. In 2013 the European Union banned all trade in animal-tested cosmetics; meanwhile, last year China stopped requiring animal testing for certain cosmetic products. Such moves are possible largely because the cosmetics industry has plenty of existing data on skin irritants, and their analyses can be run accurately using test-tube simulations.

Instead, the vast majority of animals are now used for medical and toxicological research — an area that has grown with our increased interest in the health and safety of everyday

Is there something you need to get straight? Cecil Adams can deliver the Straight Dope on any topic. Write Cecil Adams at the Chicago Reader, 11 E. Illinois, Chicago, IL 60611, or cecil@chireader.com.

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s President Obama touts programs for the poor that he knows he won’t get, and Gov. Shumlin proposes program cuts that he must know will hurt the poor, Vermont’s legislature has introduced a bill implementing a centuries-old means of “helping” the children of the poor.

It dictates removing them from their families and punishing their parents.

Senate Bill 9 (S0009), sponsored by four Democrats and two Republicans, makes it a felony for any “person having the custody, charge or care of a child” who “knows, or reasonably should have known, that the child is in danger” of physical or sexual harm, to fail to prevent said harm.

Conviction carries a penalty of up to 10 years in prison, a fine of up to $20,000, or both.

The legislation, a response to the deaths of two toddlers last year under the surveillance of the Vermont Department for Children and Families, also gives caseworkers the authority to take kids preemptively from their homes — something only police used to do. The law appears to ease adoption. And it sets up numerous systems and committees to increase oversight not only of the agency, but of the people under the agency’s scrutiny and control.

All of the above are problematic. For instance, critics have pointed out that the bill could hold almost anyone criminally accountable for a child’s death, from a caseworker to a neighbor looking after the kids while their mother is at her job.

The most likely to be prosecuted, though, are parents. And if the experience of other states is any indication, most punished of all will be mothers, including pregnant women.

More women will lose their kids and end up behind bars. And that will hurt, not help, their children.

Probably the most dangerous part of S.9 is that it adds a new category of harm, beyond neglect, bodily injury and sexual abuse: “exposure to the unlawful possession, use, manufacture, cultivation or sale” of regulated drugs. Those include methamphetamine, ecstasy and two or more ounces of marijuana.

“Exposure” doesn’t mean use of the drug, by family member or child.

It doesn’t mean addiction. It doesn’t even mean neglecting or hurting a child under the influence of drugs. It simply means having illegal drugs in the house.

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“If there are kids who need protection, and this system leads to protecting kids, what’s the problem?”

Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Sears (D-Bennington) asked VTDigger. org’s Laura Krantz about the bill.

The answer: plenty.

“It’s a well-established pattern,” Lynn Paltrow, executive director of National Advocates for Pregnant Women, told me. NAPW promotes the rights both of women who choose abortion and those who want to have their children. “There is a severe overreaction to the tragic, and fortunately rare, cases in which children die [from neglect or abuse]. That overreaction almost always involves a significant increase in surveillance of parents and removal of children.”

Such actions, Paltrow continued, “undermine families and do not protect children, who are traumatized by the removal and typically sent into stranger foster care, where they may even be abused.”

Policies such as those proposed in S.9 have arisen at the intersection of the War on Drugs and the long-held distrust of poor mothers and mothers of color, whose use of public services places them under the close scrutiny of the state. Those suspicions were fueled in the 1980s, when stories began to surface about “crack babies” born addicted to drugs. Although extensive studies later discredited the notion of an addicted baby, the powerful myth led to excessive penalties for possessing crack cocaine.

Those same fears have been rekindled in today’s hysteria over opiate addiction.

In testifying to the legislative committee whose report spurred S.9, Attorney General Bill Sorrell pressed for a statute specifically addressing the “risks to a child from an opiate-addicted caregiver.” The Senate has given him more than he asked for.

Science finds no long-term adverse effects of gestating in the womb of a drug-using mother, and doctors now know how to treat infants born with drugs in their systems. The cure can be as simple as lots of skin-to-skin intimacy with their moms.

Still, mothers who show up in obstetrics wards with traces of drugs in their blood have been hauled from

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even kill their kids. Those children need to live with someone else.

But just as spanking a child does not improve her behavior, punishing a mother does not make her a better parent. Nor is increasing the number of unannounced home visits a caseworker makes — another mandate of S.9 — the best way to safeguard a child from abuse.

The best way is to reduce her family’s poverty.

The governor’s budget shaves $22 million from programs benefiting the poor and disabled — a loss of $29.5 million when federal funds are included.

Yet, as Shumlin declared proudly in his budget address, it “does not cut one dime from child protection services.” In other words, it flips the child-protective formula upside-down.

If S.9 passes, however, DCF will need all the funding it can get. Because having a parent in prison renders a child more vulnerable to depression and drug use, to dropping out of school, to getting pregnant and committing crimes. The trauma of losing a parent to incarceration is akin to the death of that parent — except that in the former case the child is stigmatized and abandoned, while in the latter she is embraced.

A recent survey estimates that the parents of 7,767 Vermont children were incarcerated in 2013. Eighty percent of the women in Vermont prisons are mothers, and the majority of them are primary parents of their kids. Most of the women are in for nonviolent infractions, such as drug offenses. The state has made considerable efforts to ease the way for these children and buttress relationships with their parents, including Act 168, passed in 2014, which directs several government agencies to develop plans with this aim.

S.9 marches the state backward from these rational and compassionate efforts. In sending parents to prison for neglecting to turn in an addicted spouse or weed-growing son — or for keeping quiet about a drug problem of their own that might lead to the loss of their children — the law would only spread more sadness among Vermont’s children, and make them not a whit safer. m

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the hospital to jail, where they’ve given birth in shackles.

Are drug-using caregivers so dangerous? Some can be, Vermont attorney Sarah Star, who has represented parents involved in DCF proceedings, told me on the phone. But “not every parent who struggles with addiction is a bad parent. A statute that says the family is harmful because of drug use per se — the only word for it is outrageous.”

Star predicts that, if it’s enacted, the law “would be a hugely coercive tool for the state to use against parents who are struggling to keep their families together and get treatment” for addiction.

It’s demoralizing that this bill comes along just as the War on Drugs is showing signs of de-escalation — progress mobilized in part by the devastating effects of incarceration on the families and communities of people convicted of drug-related crimes.

S.9 is almost certain to cause devastation of its own.

The bill adds a new hurdle to sending a kid home from foster care: Everyone who lives in the house or might have responsibility for childcare must “be assessed for criminal history and potential safety risks.”

That almost automatically smashes the chances of family reunification.

The report to the authorities of the presence of drugs in the household would catalyze drug charges against the offending household member. That person might then have a drug conviction. Under the law DCF would have to consider any relationship to drugs a safety risk terrible enough to impel immediate seizure of the child’s custody. Is this agency going to send a kid back into the clutches of a drug felon — that is, her father, sibling or mother?

S.9 purports “to address the increasing burden of drug abuse and other factors that are ripping families apart.” Whether it addresses drug use, burdensome or not, is unclear. But the purpose of a child welfare agency is not to police drug use; it is to protect children from actual neglect or abuse.

As for those other factors ripping families apart, the legislation does nothing.

There are parents whose mental illness or substance use prevents them from caring adequately for their children — or so robs them of patience and self-control that they beat up or

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Rock shows happened on most weekend nights, often featuring local bands such as Screaming Broccoli and the Hollywood Indians. Occasionally bigger bands would drop by, too, including punk legends Operation Ivy and Fugazi.

During the week, the space served a greater variety of purposes. It hosted daily after-school programs for Edmunds Middle School kids staffed by area high

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orting out a precise history of 242 Main is tricky at best — and a fool’s errand at worst. Very little about the club has been physically documented or catalogued over the years, so its stories exist mostly in the memories of those who were there. And their recollections vary, sometimes wildly.

For example, popular wisdom holds that 242 Main opened its doors as a teen center in 1985, which would make 2015 the club’s 30th anniversary. Indeed, programming in the name of that milestone has been ongoing since October 2014, when famed hardcore punk band Bane played the club to celebrate the birthday.

The problem?

“242 Main opened in March of 1986,” says Jane Sanders in a recent phone call.

So there’s that.

Everyone agrees on one point regarding the origins of 242 Main, though: that Sanders (then Jane Driscoll), along with Kathy Lawrence, was instrumental in the club’s formation and in the vibrancy of its earliest incarnation. Sanders is now the wife of Vermont’s junior United States senator, Bernie Sanders, who was mayor of Burlington from 1981 to 1989. As Jane Driscoll, she directed the Mayor’s Youth Office, a now-defunct council created in 1984 to give local youth a voice in city politics. While it was nice for the kids to have a guest room in city hall, Jane Sanders says now that what they really wanted was a place to call their own.

“We all agreed we needed to find a fresh space for them,” she recalls, noting that teens would frequently climb in through the window of her city hall office seeking an audience.

An interesting side note: In the summer of 1981, at the beginning of Sanders’ administration, Driscoll and Lawrence had tried to present a rock concert at Battery Park in Burlington. They discovered the city had an ordinance prohibiting the performance of rock music on public property, enacted under previous mayor Gordon Paquette.

So Driscoll and Lawrence petitioned the city to have the ban lifted, and Bernie obliged on a temporary, provisional basis.

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Seeing that Queen City children had not turned into devil-worshipping hellions after the concert, Sanders permanently removed the ordinance in time for a battle of the bands at Memorial Auditorium that November. “It was funny, because Bernie is not a great fan of rock music,” says Jane Sanders.

Maybe not, but he may just be Burlington’s rock-and-roll savior. 242 Main couldn’t have existed without the removal of that Footloose-style ban.

Around the same time the youth office was born, the city’s water department vacated its offices in the southwest corner of Memorial Auditorium’s basement. Driscoll identified the space as an ideal spot for a teen center.

“It didn’t seem big enough for the city to use otherwise,” Sanders says now. She approached the board of aldermen — a precursor to the current city council — on behalf of the Mayor’s Youth Office, starting the process of gaining city approval to retrofit and repurpose the space. With a $60,000 Community Development Block Grant in hand, Driscoll began the work of building 242 Main as a city-run teen center in 1985.

“We relied on a lot of support within the community,” Sanders says. She credits Vermont architect David Sellers and designer Ed Owre in particular with helping to shape the physical space — with significant input from local kids themselves.

Some teens actually helped construct the club as part of a building class.

“It was extraordinary how they rebuilt this dark, dank space into a fantastic place,” Sanders says.

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owned and operated municipally; 242 is owned by the City of Burlington and operated by the Department of Parks and Recreation.

Even locals who don’t know 242 Main has those national distinctions know it as the epicenter of hardcore punk culture in Vermont. Since the Reagan administration, it has served as a safe haven for youth who might not otherwise have had one. It’s been a musical breeding ground, a starting point for generations of Vermont rockers, punk and otherwise. Many of them have gone on to make music their lives — and livelihoods.

But 242 Main didn’t always smell like sweaty punks. In fact, when it first opened, it usually smelled like hazelnut coffee and chocolate-chip cookies.

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For example, there was the time a Canadian band asked to ship merch to Burlington ahead of their tour stop at 242. school students. There was a weekly Lawrence suggested the band send it to her house in case lecture series for high schoolers on no one was at the teen center to receive it. The package civic responsibility, featuring guest arrived safe and sound on her doorstep … accompanied by speakers from the community. 242 an FBI agent.

“There were drugs in with the T-shirts,” she recalls, was a rehearsal space for plays. It was chuckling. a production space for a biweekly Then there was the storied night she escorted GG newspaper produced by local kids, the Queen City Special. A triweekly local- Allin out of the club for, well, being GG Allin. The access TV show called “242 Presents” notorious punk singer, who grew up in Vermont and was filmed there. The place had a full- is now deceased, showed up and reportedly hurled a service lunch counter staffed by teens contraband bottle of Jack Daniel’s at the Wards during their set. slinging burgers and fries.

“Oh, yeah. I kind of remember that,” says Lawrence.

For a time, 242 Main even offered But by and large, she says, the kids who hung out at an acoustic-music 242 Main treated her, and the space, brunch on Sunday with respect. That’s probably bemornings.

And cause she showed them the same. most afternoons, “We all loved Kathy,” says the smell of freshRichard Bailey, who started going to baked cookies and 242 Main in 1986. A local musician hazelnut coffee best known for his time in the 1990s filled the space funk-rock band DysFunkShun, he between walls currently plays in the punkabilly adorned with artwork band Swillbillie. Bailey helped run and colorful murals.

RYAN K R US H EN I C K , 242 Main for several years in the Sanders says the UNR E S TR A I N ED early to mid-2000s and now manheart and soul of 242 ages Memorial Auditorium. In that Main in the 1980s and early ’90s wasn’t burgers or art proj- role, he still helps oversee the club, albeit in a less ects. It wasn’t even punk rock. It was that hands-on fashion.

Lawrence says she gradually began extricating herself the space belonged to the kids who used it, and they — not parents or politicians from 242 Main in the early 1990s. Around that time, the — could make of it anything they wished. Mayor’s Youth Office was dissolved by Bernie Sanders’ “There was a sense of community. The successor, Mayor Peter Clavelle, and the vitality of the younger kids learned from the older kids. teen center subsequently waned.

Burlington City Arts absorbed 242 Main, but Bailey The older kids took responsibility and says it was never an ideal fit. Much like the population of learned to be role models and mentors,” Sanders explains. “There was a sense of kids it served — by then mostly punk rockers — 242 Main purpose among the kids, and they deter- became something of a misfit within city government.

“BCA tried things like photography classes,” Bailey mined what that purpose was. says, speaking from his Memorial Auditorium office. “But “At the time, it seemed people were always saying, ‘We have to deal with tru- 242 isn’t a darkroom, it’s just a dark room.”

And then it just went dark. ancy, drug abuse, problems with kids,’” she continues. “We were adamant that n 1998, during his second stint as Burlington’s mayor, we wanted to deal with the whole person Clavelle briefly closed 242 Main. After an outcry of and provide an outlet for their interests public support convinced him to reconsider, management and abilities that was not about what was wrong with them, but what was unique of the club was transferred to the Department of Parks and Recreation. Simon Brody, who had been helping book about them.”

Lawrence, who worked in local correc- shows at the club since the early ’90s, assumed a larger tional centers before she began managing role in funneling bands to the space.

“When I came in, there was minimal funding or effort 242 Main, agrees. devoted to 242,” Brody says by phone. Once the lead singer “Prevention has more to do with develof famed Burlington hardcore band Drowningman, he is oping and encouraging people’s passion now a lawyer in Kansas. “The occasional punk band would play there on the weekend, but there really wasn’t much early on,” she says.

That, and check- going on.”

Brody says he made a concerted effort to tap into ing the mail. and nurture the club’s punk roots. It worked. 242 Main Lawrence, resurged, and some of the club’s most memorable shows speaking from the happened during Brody’s tenure — including Black Flag, Burlington clothing boutique Common Converge, Dillinger Escape Plan and Piebald. The late ’90s Threads, which she were also a particularly fertile era for local hardcore and owns, says she almost punk bands.

Another factor in 242 Main’s renaissance was never encountered bethe closure of Burlington nightspot Club Toast on havioral problems with December 31, 1998. Brody had worked at that club and the kids at 242 Main.

Visitors Visitors, however, could leaned on its owners, Dennis and Justin Wygmans, for booking connections with bigger hardcore, punk and be a different story. ska bands.

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started by local musician Greg Matses.

Matses had run the day camp previously in other locations before it found a home at 242 Main in 2002. It continues to flourish there.

In the years since, the club’s popularity has ebbed and flowed — much as it always has. Following Brody and Bailey, a string of staffers have overseen the place, few lasting more than a year or two.

“It’s probably in a bit of a down cycle right now,” concedes Justin Gonyea, speaking about the current state of 242 Main by phone. Gonyea is the club’s current booking agent, a role he inherited this year from local musician Tyler Daniel Bean, who held the post for two years. He works hand in hand with Jen Cotton, the site director for both 242 Main and Memorial Auditorium under Parks and Rec. Gonyea grew up in New Hampshire and moved to Burlington in 2010. Immediately drawn to 242 Main, he became involved in its music scene (he’s a member of Doom Service) while helping to book shows through his connections as the owner of

it has troubling implications. After all, even the great CBGB closed. Given the uncertainty surrounding the future of Memorial Auditorium, some locals wonder how many anniversaries 242 Main has left.

“That’s the big question,” says Bailey.

He cites a laundry list of renovations the nearly 90-year-old building requires to remain viable — everything from cosmetic face-lifts to a new heating system. “And no one really knows,” he adds.

Jesse Bridges, director of Burlington Parks and Rec, can’t say what the future of Memorial Auditorium might be.

He does reveal that the city recently completed an assessment of that facility and others around town, whose findings will be released in time for Town Meeting Day in March. Bridges describes the building generally as “multipurpose without a purpose,” adding that it “doesn’t make enough money to pay the bills.”

He notes that Parks and Rec does see value in the niche 242 Main fills, particularly in the relation to the city’s other youth-directed efforts.

“It’s an evolving and fluid program,” Bridges says. “We’re trying to have more conversations around that and talk about what are the needs for the community, specifically teen programming. That will be important in determining what needs to happen going forward.”

Then Bridges poses a question that might be difficult for some veterans of 242 to consider.

“Is 242 tied to 242 Main, or is it tied to the idea and concept around a kind of open space that can be whatever?” he asks.

“Because if it’s just music, there are lots of other places that could go.”

But many would argue that 242 Main is about more than just music.

“It would be hard to imagine what my life would be like without 242,” says Krushenick. “The most important people in my life, I met at 242.”

He credits Bailey with saving the club from “kids playing Ping-Pong after school,” and with preserving the space as a punk haven through dark times. For his part, Bailey acknowledges the uncertainty surrounding Memorial and 242 Main. But he suggests its spirit could live on, even in another venue.

“It might be that someday 242 Main will have to reappear in some other form somewhere else,” he says. “But that doesn’t necessarily have to be a bad thing.” Bailey adds that, if the club has to move, the city might do well to take a cue from Jane Sanders.

“It might be an opportunity for kids themselves to decide what they really want out of a space like that,” he says, “which is really what it was always meant to be.” m

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“There really wasn’t another place in town to have those kinds of shows,” explains Brody. He notes that the Wygmans brothers donated the Club Toast sound system to 242 Main. It’s still in use to this day.

By his own admission, Brody’s time at 242 Main, which ended in 2002, was often uneasy.

“I say things, which isn’t always in my best interest,” he concedes, and explains that he and the city didn’t always see eye to eye on how best to use the space.

“The city wanted to run more programs there,” says Brody, who himself took classes at 242 during Lawrence’s tenure.

“But I didn’t think it should be this mainstream kind of place. To me it was always kind of counterculture.”

In 2000, Bailey assumed the role of dealing with the city on a part-time basis, while Brody focused primarily on booking bands. Among the most successful programs birthed under Bailey, who became a full-time employee in 2001, was the weeklong Summer Rock Music Camp

independent punk and hardcore label Get Stoked! Records.

“I wish I’d had a space like 242 Main growing up,” Gonyea says. “I lived in Boston for 10 years, too, and I think people there would kill for an all-ages space like 242. I think people who grew up here with it take for granted how awesome a space it really is, and how incredible it is that it’s lasted this long. Because a lot of these kinds of places don’t.”

Ryan Krushenick grew up in Vermont, but he doesn’t take 242 for granted. The club prepared him for his former role as lead singer of the hardcore punk band Unrestrained, one of the most notable Vermont bands to call 242 Main home in recent years.

Now 29, Krushenick has been going to the teen center since he was in eighth grade, when a school guidance counselor turned him on to the Wards — generally regarded as the first Vermont punk band.

That discovery led him to message boards at the Big Heavy World website, where he found postings about punk shows at the club. And he went.

“Up until that point, my outlook on my community was that I was an outsider that didn’t belong anywhere,” Krushenick says. “I had a pink Mohawk; I wore crazy clothes. I was viewed as a freak. It was the first time I walked into a room full of people I didn’t know and I wasn’t a social leper. I was hooked.”

He started playing drums shortly thereafter and began hanging out at 242 Main.

“It didn’t matter if we’d even heard of the band,” he says. “If it was a punk, hardcore or ska show, we got there however we could.”

Krushenick believes he’s played as many shows at 242 Main in the past 12 years as anyone in Vermont, if not more — whether with his first band, Cheat to Win, or his later groups, My Revenge and Unrestrained.

“That was and is the place to play,” he says. “It felt both punk rock and underground, but real-world and professional.

To be able to do that as a 15-year-old changed my life.”

With My Revenge and Unrestrained, Krushenick has toured all over North America, Central America and Europe, and has seen his records distributed just as widely. But 242 remains home.

“We could play anywhere in the world, but playing 242 Main was always special,” he says. “242 Main is the CBGB of Vermont.”

He’s not the only one to suggest that.

Jane Sanders draws the same parallel to the iconic New York City punk club when asked about the teen center’s direction since she left.

“It’s really more like CBGB for young people,” she concedes.

Though CBGB was a bar and most decidedly not an all-ages teen center, the comparison isn’t entirely inaccurate. And

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achel Whitebear can empathize with the people who call her at any hour of the day or night when they have nowhere else to turn. Years ago, she found herself on a literal precipice, contemplating suicide. What pulled her back from the brink, she says, was the spiritual guidance she received from her Abenaki ancestors — that and the smell of French fries.

Whitebear, 60, describes herself as a “traditional spiritual elder” who uses ancient Abenaki “medicine” to help others in crisis. From her modest townhouse in Alburgh, she singlehandedly staffs a 24-hour hotline for people who are struggling with divorce, homelessness, drug and alcohol addiction, domestic abuse, sexual violence or suicidal thoughts.

Nearly all of her callers are members of the Abenaki community. Still, Whitebear never asks anyone for proof of tribal membership, and she extends her help to anyone who requests it.

People get her number on the Missisquoi Abenaki Tribal Council website or through word of mouth. Most of her calls — she received 686 in 2014 alone — come from Vermont or New Hampshire, she says, but people have contacted her from as far away as Hawaii.

In dealing with callers, Whitebear says, she often draws strength from her own near-death experience and spiritual awakening many years ago.

That transformation began on a warm summer day when, at the age of 15, Whitebear ran away from her St. Johnsbury home. She was escaping from an abusive, alcoholic father who routinely “beat us bloody,” she says.

After hearing about a commune called Earth Peoples Park in Essex County, Whitebear recalls, she naively accepted a ride in a truck from an older man who claimed he could take her there.

He drove Whitebear down a secluded dirt road, raped her at knifepoint, and left her bloodied, bruised and in shock.

Whitebear spent the next four days wandering alone in the woods without food or water, sleeping on boulders.

Eventually she made her way to a rocky ledge on Mount Pisgah overlooking Lake Willoughby in Westmore. Standing on the cliff ’s

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edge, Whitebear says, she prepared to take her life. That’s when she caught a whiff of French fries.

“I thought I was hallucinating,” Whitebear recalls with a laugh. (Later, she discovered there was a snack bar below the spot.) After the days she’d spent alone in the woods, that greasy aroma made her hungry and aroused her yearning for human company.

At the time, Whitebear admits, she was unaware of her native heritage or its customs. (Like many Abenaki, her family, which originated in Québec,

had been converted to Catholicism by Jesuit missionaries.) She had no idea that traditional spiritual elders routinely go into the woods by themselves for several-day fasts to receive a sacred prayer, ritual or healing medicine from the Creator.

“That was the beginning of my spiritual self,” Whitebear says about her transformational ordeal. “I wanted to die but ended up coming out of there stronger than ever.”

In the early 1970s, Whitebear ventured out west to join the American

Indian Movement in Wounded Knee, S.D., site of the 1890 Lakota Indian massacre at the hands of the U.S. military.

When things began “getting more wild than I expected” — AIM members later staged an armed insurrection against the federal government — Whitebear returned home, but she continued searching for her native roots. It took her more than 30 years to learn the sacred rituals, prayers and ceremonies she now uses.

Whitebear moved to Franklin County about nine years ago. There, she offers her spiritual guidance on a strictly volunteer basis. Besides declining payment for her services, she receives no financial support from the state, the Abenaki tribe or any nonprofit agencies.

In fact, Whitebear says she’s disturbed to see a growing number of newspaper classified ads from individuals offering to host traditional sweat lodges, talking ceremonies or other Native American rituals for a fee. She considers that practice anathema to her culture.

“If you have to pay for their medicine,” she cautions, “you don’t want what they’re selling.”

Whitebear reports that substance abuse underlies many of the calls she receives. A former drug and alcohol counselor and nurse, she worked for many years at the now-defunct Dawnland Center in Montpelier. That program used a Native American approach to substance-abuse treatment called the Red Road to Recovery. Though Whitebear is now disabled and unable to work, she can still perform traditional rituals, offer spiritual education and even offer people a place in her home to stay until they can get back on their feet or into rehab.

Last year, Whitebear expanded her operation by setting up a room in her basement where someone in crisis can stay on a short-term basis to sober up, escape an abusive partner or stay clean until a bed opens up in a drug-treatment facility. It has a bed, a stereo and lots of books, but no television. Recently, Whitebear took in a woman in her early twenties who couldn’t live at home because her mother was using.

“I’ve also had young guys who can’t stay in their apartment because their buddies are drugging all around them,

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so they have to be removed from that Commission on Native American situation,” she says. “Where else can Affairs. Though not Abenaki himself, they go?”

Benay has worked with Vermont’s Despite her past experience in native community for more than 32 treating addiction, Whitebear empha- years and has known Whitebear for sizes that she does not run a licensed about nine years, he says. facility, nor is she equipped to handle As Benay explains, Vermonters who someone in full-blown don’t belong to that commuwithdrawal or psychiatric nity may have trouble apprecrisis. In those more exciating the level of mistrust treme circumstances, she’ll of mainstream culture that’s typically refer the indiengrained in the Abenaki vidual to a more qualified agency — or, people. That leeriness dates back to the if necessary, call 911.

1920s and the legacy of Vermont’s eu“I know my limits,” she says. “If genics movement, which was devastatsomebody’s really strung out, it’s not ing to the native population. As a result, like I can just sit down and do a cer- Benay says, even Abenaki who work at emony, because half the time they don’t local mental-health agencies might be even recognize what you’re saying.” reluctant to “make that call” to a facility Unfortunately, Whitebear says, she run by mainstream white culture. sometimes hears about someone’s disInstead, he says, community memtress only from their family members, bers typically seek out Whitebear or after that person has find themselves dicommitted suicide. rected to her. Benay In those circumpersonally knows of stances, a parent one young girl who’s or sibling may call been in “crisis upon her seeking spiricrisis upon crisis,” tual guidance, or an having lost brothers interpretation of to cancer and suicide. a recurring dream He says she reached about the loved one. out to Whitebear, The Abenaki, she who instantly made explains, believe that herself available.

RAchE l WhItEb E AR the spirit of some“Rachel lives this. one who has taken She walks this and his or her own life breathes this,” Benay is trapped between says. “And once you two worlds and must ask the Creator’s meet her, you realize she’s the real deal.” forgiveness before moving on. In those For her part, Whitebear is happy to cases, Whitebear says, families ask her help however she can. And, she notes, for help, even when they have no idea not all her calls come from people in how she’ll address the problem. crisis. Sometimes she’s asked to of“This is all new to them. They’ve lost ficiate at a baby-naming ceremony their ways,” Whitebear says. “I don’t along the Missisquoi River or to say a mean that in a bad way. They are so as- prayer at the bedside of a dying relasimilated in white society. They know tive. Recently, she even heard from a something should be done in their cul- woman who was freaked about a mouse ture, but they don’t know what.” infestation in her home. Regardless of Why would someone in crisis who callers’ needs, Whitebear says, she knows nothing about his or her Native tries to be there for them and not make American heritage call Whitebear, it about herself. rather than a mental-health or drug“I don’t want to hold myself out as treatment agency?

‘Rachel Whitebear, Medicine Woman,’ “We’re taught to not air our dirty she says. “I’m not going to write books laundry,” suggests Brenda Gagne, an or stand on a mountain shouting out my Abenaki tribal member who runs the name. I’m very innocuous. I blend in Circle of Courage, an after-school pro- with everybody. But I have knowledge, gram in Swanton that teaches children and I’m willing to share it if people need about Abenaki traditions. “Rachel does me, because I needed it when I was great work. She always gives back to younger.” m the Creator and has always been there Contact: ken@sevendaysvt.com when I needed her.”

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t’s a frigid, seemingly desolate evening in the big-box cluster at the mouth of Susie Wilson Road in Essex.

But inside one of those nondescript buildings, disco balls shimmer and colored lights wink to the electrofunk pulse of the Gap Band’s “You Dropped a Bomb on Me.” Speckled by those lights, five adults on roller skates circle the rink in neat formation, doing a synchronized shuffle.

It’s the “Vermont Shuffle,” specifies Gordon Vincent of Milton, a shuffler who’s glided to the center of the rink to speak to a reporter. He’s teaching the steps to his teenage daughter, Savannah Billado-Vincent, who has accompanied him to Skateland Vermont this Thursday evening. On weekends, Vincent says, the line of shufflers can swell to 30 or 40 — many of them friends from way back.

Asked who invented the Vermont Shuffle, Vincent shrugs. “It’s traditional. Kids taught each other.”

Tradition means something at Skateland Vermont, a brand-new roller rink — it opened on December 26 — with an old-school ethos. Many of the experienced skaters who whip around the 80-by-180-foot cement floor on quads — four-wheeled skates — are middle-aged parents and professionals. They have vivid memories of skating, dating and recreating on roller rinks during their 1980s heyday, and now they’re eager to share the experience with their kids.

Many of these Gen Xers mention the 2000 closing of Vermont’s last rink — Williston’s Skateland — as a sad day in their lives. They talk about traveling to New York and New Hampshire for a smooth floor to spin their wheels.

And they express gratitude to Scott Perren, Skateland Vermont’s owner, for getting them rolling again.

Though Perren has a family connection to the original Skateland’s owners, the new business is a separate entity.

Like the old one, it’s a family affair. Perren’s wife, Jennifer, and his daughter, Kristina Hermanson, manage the place.

Scott and Jennifer’s 8-year-old son, Aiden, started skating when the rink floor was laid and hasn’t stopped.

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“I love it,” he says, demonstrating rapid footwork typical of “roller jam” — essentially break dancing on skates — in the snack bar. “I like how you can dance and do whatever you want.”

The soft-spoken Perren père seems to be everywhere in the rink at once — in the rental shop selling quads to a customer, in the DJ booth or zipping across the rink floor with élan. (He has a competitive background in artistic skating, the rolling equivalent of figure skating.)

Hermanson says opening the rink was her dad’s dream: “He’s had this vision for a long time. We all thought that he was crazy, but he’s seen it through.”

Permitting and building of the new structure took three years. While the multipart development met some opposition, according to the Essex Reporter, Skateland’s Facebook page — currently above 10,000 likes — reflected the community’s support and anticipation.

During Skateland’s first week, Hermanson says, about 4,000 people came through its doors, and weekends still sell out. The rink has a capacity of 642, but the Perrens cap the number of skaters at 450, with one “skate guard” to oversee every 150 patrons. Theme nights, 18-plus nights, skating lessons and birthday parties are all in the works.

In the fluorescent-bright snack bar, which contrasts with the disco atmosphere of the rink proper, AmyBeth Fredricksen of Essex and her two daughters are preparing for their skate. “Roller-skating was a big part of my social life back in the ’80s,” Fredricksen says. Now she has a “goal to skate backwards by the time I’m 50. I’m 44, but I think I can do it!”

Fredricksen’s teenage daughter has special needs, she says, adding, “This is a godsend for us. It’s a place where the whole family can go. Everyone’s having fun, everyone’s together.”

That’s an oft-heard refrain at Skateland. Melissa Whitney, taking a break from skating with her friend, Emilee Barron, remembers the role that Williston Skateland played in her younger years. “It kept me out of trouble as a kid,” she says.

“Everybody else was partying; I was there.”

After the rink closed, Whitney traveled out of state to skate and joined the now-defunct Burlington Bombers roller-derby league. She’s been going to Skateland Vermont four nights a week since it opened — and claims she’s lost 15 pounds in the process. “Now my kids are getting the same experience [I did],” Whitney says.

“We can see where they are and what they’re doing,” notes Barron, who’s new to skating and feels safer on inlines. (Skateland rents both types of skate.)

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Clint Wheeler, a former Green Mountain Derby Dames coach, recalls why he learned to skate as a kid: “I realized it’s a really good way to get girls.”

If that’s true, Wheeler’s son, Shane, should do well in that department. A veteran of jam skating competitions, he circles the floor rapidly, deftly crossstepping past the cautious, heavy-footed beginners.

Before Skateland, “I used to skate on the wood floor,” Shane says. “I’d push all the furniture out.” Growing up in a state without a rink, how’d he learn his jam moves? YouTube, of course.

Kyle Elliott is a different kind of “jammer” — he skates for the Mean Mountain Boys, the local men’s rollerderby team. Derby dames and dudes have a significant presence at Skateland, coexisting with shufflers, roller jammers and newcomers who are just struggling to get around the rink. (The beginner’s secret to not falling over backward on quads?

Bend your knees and skate like a penguin, say the experienced skaters.)

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Tonia Bouchard of Hinesburg, one of the Vermont Shufflers, met her husband, David, at the first Skateland when she was 16. Now they’re here with their 17-yearold son, Cooper. When the Williston rink closed, “it gave us nowhere to hang out,” says Tonia, who’s wearing her vintage, 30-year-old quads.

Vincent likewise says he “grew up” at Skateland; now he brings his daughter to the Essex rink. Virtually all the parents Seven Days talks to note with approval that Skateland is a screen-free oasis, thanks to its no-cellphones policy.

The kids don’t seem to mind. “I bring a lot of friends here,” Savannah BilladoVincent says. “They put down their phones and make new friends.” Cooper Bouchard says he likes getting a calf workout and listening to “older music.”

“He’s already met quite a few girls here!” his mom teases.

Indeed, given the roller rink’s classic combination of disco, sport and dangerinduced adrenaline infusion — particularly for skaters who haven’t yet figured out how to stop — its role as community

While some derby veterans say they got involved in the rough-and-tumble sport mainly to keep roller-skating, Elliott has a different background — ice hockey. He comes to Skateland to practice, he says, but also “to get away from everything. I just shut everything out.”

Helping to maintain that hermetic ambiance is Mike Wilhide in the DJ booth.

It’s his job to instruct the skaters to reverse direction once a night — and then, after a few songs, to send them back in the usual counterclockwise circuit.

When it comes to requests, “everybody loves the ’80s,” says Wilhide, whose résumé includes a long list of local radio stations. “That’s one of our biggest things.”

Young Cooper Bouchard glides up to the window to request Stevie Wonder.

“You need to change songs,” says Wilhide, shaking his head in mock disapproval.

“That’s the only song you want to skate to!” Granted, not everybody has retro tastes: The current No. 1 requested song at Skateland, says Wilhide, is “Uptown Funk”

by Mark Ronson.

When 10 p.m. rolls around, the snack bar stops grilling, and glaring lights snap on over the rink floor. The mirror balls still dangle from the ceiling, but gone are the hypnotic light patterns that make Skateland feel like an eternal prom circa 1985. The Vermont Shuffle is just a memory until the next session, when Vincent will once again work with his daughter on mastering the tricky crossover.

Roller disco may seem like an unlikely common ground for adults who remember when “1999” was on the charts and kids who barely remember the 20th century.

But at Skateland, it works. “He’s sharing his childhood with me,” says BilladoVincent of her dad, “and I’m sharing my memories with him.” m

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fter a recent weekend in Boston, Eva Gumprecht decided to return home to Adamant early to avoid an encroaching storm. When she hit the road, though, she found it covered in black ice. “I was utterly exhausted,” she recalls of the drive. “I had a cat that was going insane in the car, and I actually pulled over to call Rickie’s.

I thought somehow this hell of a day might be reprieved if I could actually get some.”

Some Indian food, that is. The “Rickie’s” from which Gumprecht sought deliverance is Rickie’s Indian Restaurant in South Barre, an establishment hidden inside Rickie’s Shell & Deli on Route 14. The only exterior hint of

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the fragrant fare within is a handwritten sign beneath a neon advertisement for Bud Light. “Serving Indian food everyday!” it announces in pink, orange and green print. “Tandoori fresh naan bread!”

The first statement isn’t quite true.

Owners Gary and Kelly Singh actually take Sunday off from preparing their Punjabi menu. But their schedule didn’t stop them from fixing something up for Gumprecht on her stressful Sunday — and she’s not the only local taking notice of the couple’s kindness and their arresting cuisine.

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with their three daughters and one son (Rickie is the youngest daughter) to be closer to Kelly’s siblings who live in Winooski. After they bought the gas station, it wasn’t long before customers began asking if the couple would consider adding Indian dishes to the Shell’s basic deli offerings. “A lot of people were requesting it in the beginning, so we said, ‘Let’s start with once a week,’” Gary recalls.

Unlikely as it may sound, Rickie’s is actually not the first gas-station-based Indian restaurant in Vermont. Jia Indian Restaurant has plied Rutland diners

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The Singhs’ new venture prospered, too. What started as a few dishes every Thursday quickly expanded to service on Tuesday and Thursday. And demand kept growing. Gary says he realized that to offer the kind of full-scale Indian menu regulars were hoping for, he’d need a kitchen to match. That meant adding a tandoor, the 900degree clay oven central to his family’s native Punjabi cuisine. In August, the kitchen passed state inspection, and

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There’s a new slice coming to Lamoille County. When it opens next month at 53 Lower Main Street in Morrisville, pizzA oN mAiN will sling traditional New York-style pies (whole or by the slice), entrées, subs and other snacks.

Co-owners michAEl JANSEN and mAriSA mENENDEz grew up in Westchester County, N.Y., a stone’s throw north of the Bronx, which is one of the city’s last remaining Italian strongholds. After 9/11, Menendez headed north and settled in Stowe. She says she always missed the small-town pizzerias she grew up with. “My favorite food in the whole wide world is pizza,” she tells Seven Days via phone.

Though the area is home to other pizza shops, Menendez wasn’t finding what she craved. “I can’t tell you how many times I’d be shopping in Morrisville and I’d want to grab a quick slice, and it just wasn’t there.” When she started exploring the idea of opening a pizzeria, she realized she wasn’t alone. “I think it’s something that the community really wants,” she says. When Jansen moved

to Vermont a couple of years ago, the two began crafting their business model.

A year ago, Menendez started making regular trips to New York, where she apprenticed at a friend’s restaurant. Both she and Jansen learned how to make traditional fresh, New Yorkstyle crust from scratch, as well as calzone, Stromboli, salads, sandwiches and pastas.

Besides the obvious, Pizza on Main will serve entrées such as baked ziti, stuffed shells and penne alla vodka, and a selection of subs called “wedges,” in the standard Westchester parlance, on bread shipped up from Arthur Avenue in the Bronx. Stromboli and calzone will be available with the usual pepperoni or sausage, as well as with nontraditional fillings such as Buffalo chicken and chicken Parm. Jansen and Menendez will make it all from scratch, and say they plan to buy as local as possible.

The two hope their 25-seat restaurant — with delivery service — will become a vital part of their adopted community.

“It’s not Marisa’s Pizza or Michael’s Pizza,” Menendez says. “It’s Pizza on Main.”

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Store, which closed in 2010 after nearly 40 years in business. Though the new business will in no way resemble the old, Jansen says he’s looking to keep alive the spirit of that town anchor. “The last week Arthur’s was open, we saw this video [looking back at its history]. That video, it just tugged on my heart,” he says. “People need a place like Arthur’s, and we’re looking to bring that back.”

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The Singhs have yet to buy a single ad for their tiny restaurant, yet Gary says the Indian food now accounts for about half of his food sales. The rest of that revenue comes from the sandwiches, mozzarella sticks and other American staples left over from the gas station’s former life as D&D Smokehouse Deli. Meat products from Vermont Smoke and Cure, which had its headquarters right in back of the Shell station until the company moved to Hinesburg in 2012, also attract those looking for American fare.

The Granite City has a long history of welcoming immigrants and embracing their cultures. At Rickie’s, one sees that attitude in action. On a recent Wednesday, an older man with a rough, rural look pats Gary on the chest as he waits for his food at one of the long tables facing a TV tuned to CNN. “I’m a good man, but you’re the best man I know,” he tells the gas-station owner.

Gumprecht, a former New Yorker and Bostonian, has noted the local support for the Singhs. “I’m sure a lot of people there haven’t even had Indian food before,” she says. “The farmers are sitting there eating their ‘weird’ food. It’s definitely not red-flannel hash, thank God.”

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The couple’s personalities may help them win over diners — whether experienced with Indian food or not — but their way with flavors seals the deal.

While eldest daughter Shilpa staffs the deli counter, Kelly spends her hours in the back kitchen when she’s not running the Shell register.

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Back in northern India, Kelly recalls, her mother taught her to make vegetarian dishes. “I learned all the vegetables from her,” she says. “Back then, most women didn’t eat meat.”

Kelly and Gary grew up Hindu, in a culture where meat was traditionally taboo but rapidly becoming less so. “From my generation, we started eating it, but my grandmother’s generation, they were all vegetarians,” explains Gary. Kelly learned to prepare lamb and chicken from her father, who ate flesh freely.

Both parents taught her well. On the vegetarian side, Kelly makes the farmer cheese for her saag paneer from scratch.

While many versions of the puréed spinach stew turn gray from overcooking, hers is a deep emerald. By turns soft and chewy, the paneer accounts for as much of the dish, served in a black plastic container, as the spinach. No skimping on protein here. The only thing that breaks up the patchwork of green and white is an occasional red chunk of chile, which generates lip-tingling heat.

On the omnivorous side, Kelly’s father would be proud of her lamb curry.

Vermonters should take note: This is the real deal. In a thick, brick-red stew, nubs of garlic and green chile bob around chunks of supple lamb. On top, sprigs of cilantro lighten up the rich, spicy concoction.

Spicy, indeed. While the curry may leave only diners with the most sensitive palates gasping for water, even those with a yen for heat won’t complain.

Gary admits that he keeps the spice level milder than his family would prefer, but he’s happy to up the ante for guests who can handle it.

Not surprisingly, the eminently approachable-sounding butter chicken is the top seller among Rickie’s customers who are still learning the basics of wellspiced Indian cuisine. “It’s not too much spicy,” Gary reasons. “It’s sweet with a little kick in there.”

For a real slap of spice, the Singhs will cook up a chicken vindaloo. That and several other dishes, including aloo

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requisite talents but has failed to attract one to Vermont, he says. He’s loath to teach an American the skills, fearing that he’ll have to start from scratch. “When you grow up with the spices, you know what they are. Some things you just can’t teach, especially the taste,� he argues.

When Rickie’s is finally able to hire another cook, the increased labor force may mean even better news for lovers of Indian grub. Besides the gas station, the Singhs own the adjacent space that was once Vermont Smoke and Cure. Gary says that if Rickie’s proves to be popular enough, he’ll expand the restaurant into that additional area. “We’ll see how the demand is,� he says with a hopeful rise in his voice.

As the people behind some of central Vermont’s biggest flavors, the Singhs have every reason to be confident. And for travelers like Gumprecht, to whom flavorful road food can mean the difference between a good day and a bad one, an expanded Rickie’s might just be a lifesaver. m

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gobi and the mashed-eggplant classic baingan bharta, can be served with an hour’s notice. Most of the menu is available ready to go for $8.99 until 2 p.m.

After that, entrÊes such as paneer tikka masala or aloo chole cost $10.99 — and all are accompanied by homemade mint raita and tangy, raisin-flecked tamarind chutney.

A skillful home cook might be able to make an excellent Indian stew with enough practice and the right spices, but most lack the secret ingredient: a tandoor.

The Singhs use theirs to their advantage to produce the flakiest, most tender naan this reporter has had in years. The gheebrushed bread alone is worth the trip, but why not pair it with an order of chicken tikka? The chunks of gingery, yogurtmarinated chicken are edged with char from the tandoor, the taste of fire lending them a hint of danger.

The Singhs admit there’s a measure of risk to their business. Besides having made the major investment of the tandoor, they must take frequent trips to New York for hard-to-find spices. For now, Kelly bears the brunt of the cooking because the family hasn’t found a worthy cook to share her labors.

Gary has searched in New York for a young Indian immigrant with the

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ike poetry, dance or visual art, food has a story to tell. But unlike other forms of expression, food reveals a vernacular tale — a living history. A plate of food reflects the economic and social status of those making it: their habits, the ways they celebrate and the ways they mourn.

In late December 2014, the Cambridge Historical Society teamed up with J U STIN Shelburne’s Wind Ridge Books of Vermont to publish Tasteful Traditions: A Collection of Cambridge History, Memories and Family Recipes. The hefty, well-designed hardcover is filled with recipes and stories submitted by residents and compiled from newspapers, personal collections and community cookbooks.

It’s an ode to one working-class town’s gustatory tendencies — part cookbook, part scrapbook. And even to someone not from Cambridge, its recipes and photos — turn-of-the-century shots of Holsteins pulling wagons or babies wrapped in feather boas — are fascinating.

After finding some deteriorating community cookbooks, coeditor and CHS board member MARSH Justin Marsh said he wanted to document his hometown’s heritage. “These books were barely hanging on for dear life,” he told Seven Days via phone last week. “And they were filled with these recipes from the early 1900s. We wanted to preserve them so they could live on for another generation.”

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In Tasteful Traditions, the recipes aren’t limited to things you can eat. The end of the book contains formulas for cold remedies, poultices and other first aid, as well as saltpeter pesticides and other “things worth knowing.” These things include a 1913 “Recipe for Scandal,” sourced from an old publication by the Jeffersonville Cemetery Association. It would be a shame not to share it.

“We got stories from people we had no idea even existed,” Marsh said. Folks from as far as Florida and the Carolinas — with roots or family in Cambridge — sent along old scraps of paper. “The stuff we collected ranged from really faded old photographs to copies of really old faded photographs, newspaper scraps,” Marsh said. “Lots of the [newspaper articles] were cutouts, and we didn’t know the dates or even what newspaper they were in.”

For months, the editors sleuthed out sources for each piece. “There was an element of guessing,” Marsh conceded, “and process of elimination. Like, that was in the Burlington Free Press, and this is in the exact same typeface. We were working as librarians and archivists. It was definitely a new process for us.”

Marsh’s grandmother, Roberta Marsh, is a retired CHS board member who has lived in Cambridge since 1952.

She said she enjoyed stringing history together, connecting the dots between a dish gleaned from a primary source and something obtained from a secondary source, such as a newspaper or cookbook.

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Marsh and coeditor Tamra Higgins, who has lived in Jeffersonville for nearly three decades, posted submission requests in Lamoille County’s News & Citizen, on Front Porch Forum and on Facebook.

At first, the community was lukewarm, Marsh said: “Another cookbook?” some residents asked when he told them about the project. “I have dozens of cookbooks. I don’t need another,” they told him. But when word got out that people’s stories would appear alongside the recipes, contributions began to flood in.

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Most of them came through word of mouth. “[Since] we’re a historical society,” Marsh said, “we have some members who are not as techy. For them, it was having phone conversations with their friends. It’s that old-school phonetrain network.” The responses spanned far beyond the town’s borders, which encompass the villages of Cambridge and Jeffersonville.

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At one point, the elder Marsh said she was digging through a cache of 100-year-old newspapers at the library, looking for something on the Hotel Melendy (now the Smugglers Notch Inn in Jeffersonville). “People would stay at the hotel,” she said, “and there was this really crude road up through the notch, and people would go by horse and buggy to the top of the mountain.

Mrs. Melendy would pack them lunch, and one of her favorite things to make was this sunshine cake. Then, we were going through this old cookbook and there it was! This recipe for sunshine cake. That kind of thing happened more than once.”

Roberta Marsh said that back in the day, the threshold for local news was different than it is now: “It was sort of like people were writing in their diary.

Someone got intoxicated and fell down and broke their leg, and it would be in the paper.” And that’s a good thing since, at 83 years of age, Roberta Marsh has only recently realized that she’s an elder — and that members of her dwindling generation are the last people on Earth who would remember some of these stories.

As the unofficial Cambridge town historian, Roberta Marsh said she gets calls from people all the time asking various things. Sometimes she knows the answer, sometimes she doesn’t.

“There are just so many times when I think, Who would know the answer to this or that question?” she said. “And the [person who would know is] gone. So if you don’t put it down on paper, you lose all that information.”

To illuminate and preserve the culinary past, here are a few recipes annotated as they appear in Tasteful Traditions.

Doughnuts This recipe came from Lucy Brewster.

Lucy and Marion Brewster would have used sour milk for the buttermilk and lard to fry the doughnuts in.

1 cup sugar 1 teaspoon nutmeg or cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon ginger 1/2 teaspoon salt 2 eggs 2 tablespoons oil 1 cup buttermilk 1 teaspoon baking soda 3 cups bread flour, more if needed to handle dough Canola oil Use cast-iron or electric frying pan (375-400-degree setting) with about 2-3 inches of canola oil.

Combine sugar, nutmeg or cinnamon, ginger, and salt. Add eggs and stir well. Add oil and mix. Holding cup of buttermilk over bowl, add baking soda to buttermilk and stir. Add to bowl and mix. Add flour 1 cup at a time, mixing after each addition. Dough should be thick enough to handle.

Spread about one-third of the dough on floured surface and cut with doughnut cutter. Fry in oil until golden brown, remove and drain on paper towels.

Repeat with remaining two-thirds of the dough, until all the doughnuts are cooked.

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The cambridge historical society, along with Tasteful Traditions editors and contributors, will host a reading, signing and tasting of select recipes from the book on saturday, January 31, 1-3 p.m., at smugglers Notch inn, 55 church street in Jeffersonville. cambridgehistory.org

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agriculture

Vermont Farm Show: From barnyard animals to giant tractors, the annual showcase celebrates the state's agricultural industry. See vtfarmshow. com for details. Champlain Valley Exposition, Essex Junction, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3579.

community

Peer Support Circle: A confidential, welcoming space allows participants to converse freely without giving advice or solving problems. The Wellness Co-op, Burlington, 5-6 p.m. Free. Info, 777-8602.

Swanton Community Visit: The Vermont Council on Rural Development welcomes federal, state, regional and nonprofit leaders to help frame a dynamic future for the town and its the region.

Missisquoi Valley Union Middle & High School, Swanton, 2:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 868-7200.

crafts

Knitters & Needleworkers: Crafters convene for creative fun. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660.

Valley Night Featuring Patrick Fitzsimmons: Locals gather for this weekly bash of craft ales, movies and live music. Big Picture Theater and Café, Waitsfield, 8 p.m. $5 suggested donation; $2 drafts. Info, 496-8994.

film

Banff Mountain Film Festival: SOLD OUT. Mountaineering buffs and outdoor enthusiasts tap into the spirit of adventure with short films and documentaries. Lebanon Opera House, N.H., 7 p.m. $19-22. Info, 603-448-0400.

'The Internet's Own Boy': The tenuous relationship between technology and civil liberties drives Brian Knappenberger's 2014 documentary about programming prodigy Aaron Swartz. A panel discussion follows. Vermont Commons School, South Burlington, 6-9 p.m. Free. Info, 865-8084.

'Nebraska': A father-son road trip through the Midwest takes unexpected turns in this comedy starring Bruce Dern, Will Forte and June Squibb.

Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. Free.

Info, 748-2600.

Benefit Bake: Pizza lovers dine on slices in support of Wren’s Nest forest preschool program.

Partial proceeds from each flatbread sold are donated. American Flatbread, Middlebury Hearth, 5-9 p.m. Prices vary. Info, 388-3300.

Coffee Tasting: Sips of Culture Coffee inspire side-by-side comparisons of different regional blends.

Maglianero Café, Burlington, noon. Free. Info, 617-3311276, corey@maglianero.com.

Gluten-Free Pizza: Foodies make traditional Italian pies without sacrificing flavor and texture in this hands-on class. Edmunds Middle School, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. $5-10; preregister; limited space. Info, 861-9700.

Wednesday Wine Down: Oenophiles get over the midweek hump with four different varietals and samples from Lake Champlain Chocolates, Cabot Creamery and other local food producers. Drink, Burlington, 4:30 p.m. $12. Info, 860-9463, melissashahady@vtdrink.com.

games

Bridge Club: Strategic thinkers have fun with the popular card game. Burlington Bridge Club, Williston, 9:15 a.m. $6 includes refreshments. Info, 651-0700.

Game Night: Players challenge each other to an evening of friendly competition. The Wellness Coop, Burlington, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 777-8602.

health & fitness

Eating Well on a Budget: A weekly workshop with Frances Fleming of UVM Extension highlights ways to save and get healthy. Community Room, Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 5:30-7 p.m.

Free; preregister. Info, 223-8000, ext. 202.

Common Language While Helen Keller’s story has taken many incarnations, dance is a fitting medium for portraying the blind and deaf woman who communicated with physical gestures. Thodos Dance Chicago explores Keller’s relationship with her longtime teacher, Anne Sullivan, in A Light in the Dark. Created by awardwinning choreographers Ann Reinking and Melissa Thodos, the piece evokes “an old-fashioned storytelling art not often seen in choreography today,” according to the Chicago Tribune. As the story unfolds onstage, Keller transforms from a disconnected child into one able to participate in the world around her, an emotional journey exquisitely expressed through dance.

Thodos Dance Chicago Tuesday, February 3, 7 p.m., at Casella Theater, Castleton State College. $10-15. Info, 468-1119. castleton.edu

Every Artist Insured: MusiCares and the Community Health Centers of Burlington offer key information about obtaining health insurance through Vermont Health Connect. Community Health Center of Burlington, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 212-245-7840.

Fitness Boot Camp: Participants improve strength, agility, endurance and cardiovascular fitness with interval training. Holley Hall, Bristol, 6:15-7:15 p.m. $10. Info, ginger54@sover.net.

Insight Meditation: A supportive environment allows for a deeper understanding of Buddhist principles and practices. Wellspring Mental Health and Wellness Center, Hardwick, 5:30-7 p.m. Free.

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Drones 101 Presentation & 'Wounds of Waziristan' Screening: An examination of the political and moral repercussions of drones includes their use on the tribal regions of Pakistan.

Kimball Public Library, Randolph, 6:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 862-2345.

'The Resilient Ones': High school students tackle big questions of climate change in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Irene in this eye-opening documentary. A Q&A follows. Charlotte Senior Center, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, vic@brightbluemedia.org.

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To say Terri Lyne Carrington has rhythm is an understatement. Born into a musical family, the Grammy Award-winning jazz drummer nabbed a full scholarship to the Berklee College of Music when she was just 11 years old. At 18, Carrington headed to New York City, honing her craft alongside Pharoah Sanders, David Sanborn and other jazz greats. Later gigs included a stint on “The Arsenio Hall Show” and appearances with Herbie Hancock and Dizzie Gillespie.

The percussionist anchors a tribute to Duke Ellington that reimagines his 1963 album, Money Jungle, by interweaving improvisation with blues, jazz and Afro-Cuban arrangements.

Terri Lyne Carrington Quartet Friday, January 30, 8 p.m., at Flynn MainStage in Burlington. $15-40.

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n Zimbabwe, Oliver Mtukudzi is a cultural icon. “Tuku,” as he’s known to fans, has more than 50 albums and dozens of awards to his name, along with a reputation for redefining the country’s music.

Backed by his band the Black Spirits, 62-year-old Mtukudzi defies his age with hard-hitting guitar licks and infectious dance moves. Singing in English as well as Zimbabwean languages Shona and Ndebele, the energetic performer relays powerful sociopolitical messages, capturing the struggles of his people in insightful lyrics. Equal parts entertaining and educational, the cross-cultural star continues to wow audiences the world over.

OLIVER MTUKUDZI AND THE BLACK SPIRITS Friday, January 30, 8 p.m., at Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, in Hanover, N.H. $17-30. Info, 603-646-2422. hop.dartmouth.edu

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Singer-songwriter Ashley Sofia has “big-time star” written all over her. The 23-year-old native of Ticonderoga, N.Y., grew up on a steady diet of Joni Mitchell, Neil Young and Johnny Cash, and it shows in her songwriting. Heralded as a “reincarnation of the Laurel Canyon folk-rock sound” by No Depression, Sofia channels the 1960s and ’70s on her debut album, Love and Fury.

Graced with vocals and stage presence beyond her years, the timeless talent belts out what she describes as “poems set to music” alongside her mentor, Bryan Kennedy.

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Prenatal Yoga & Barre: Moms-to-be prepare their bodies for labor and birth. Prenatal Method Studio, Burlington, 12:15-1:15 & 5-6 p.m. $15. Info, 829-0211. r.I.P.P.e.D.: Resistance, intervals, power, plyometrics, endurance and diet define this high-intensity physical-fitness program. North End Studio A, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. $10. Info, 578-9243. tangoFlow!: Creator Cathy Salmons leads students in a customized blend of Argentine tango, ballet, modern dance and body awareness.

North End Studio A, Burlington, 7 p.m. $15. Info, 345-6687.

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HIgHgate StorY Hour: Budding bookworms share read-aloud tales, wiggles and giggles with Mrs. Liza. Highgate Public Library, 10 a.m. Free.

Info, 868-3970.

MaY’S MuSIc & MoveMent: Energetic children engage in social learning with May Poduschnick.

Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10:30-11:15 a.m.

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Meet rockIn' ron tHe FrIenDlY PIrate: Aargh, matey! Youngsters channel the hooligans of the sea during music, games and activities. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 10-10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 764-1810.

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Bruce MacPHerSon: The lecturer outlines the ecology of black-legged ticks in "Lyme Disease: An Occupational Hazard for Birders." Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. grace & katIe greene: Stories and photographs from the pair's 2014 trip to Tanzania inform "An African Safari: Lions, Elephants and Giraffes."

Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free.

Info, 223-3338. grace weBer: In "Sicily Today: Standing Together Against the Mafia," the Weybridge resident references images from her recent service trip to Italy.

Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 488-3095.

theater

'or,': Vermont Stage Company transports audience members back to the 1660s in a fast-paced romp about poet, playwright and spy Aphra Behn.

FlynnSpace, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $28.80-37.50.

Info, 863-5966.

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leaH careY: Ten women relay instances of harassment and hope in You Are Not Alone: Stories From the Front Lines of Womanhood. Bradford Public Library, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 222-4536.

SlaM!: SPoken worD PoetrY: An open mic paves the way for a juried set at this word fest featuring DJ Loupo and Eric George. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 540-0406.

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create For a cauSe: Artist Carolyn Crotty hosts a painting party benefiting ANEW Place. New Moon Café, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. $20. Info, 781-771-6119. wIne & watercolor: Painters loosen up with sips of vino, then capture a still life on canvas. ONE Arts Center, Burlington, 6-9 p.m. $25-30; $45 per pair. Info, oneartscollective@gmail.com.

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ItalIan converSatIon grouP: Parla Italiano?

A native speaker leads a language practice for all ages and abilities. Room 101, St. Edmund's Hall, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 899-3869.

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DIgItal MarketIng workSHoP: Media consultant Steve Larose details ways to use online videos to market products and services. Milne Community Room, Aldrich Public Library, Barre, 5:30-7 p.m.

Free; preregister. Info, 828-4422.

'are we tHere Yet?': Award-winning storytellers Cindy Pierce, Kevin Gallagher and Sue Schmidt dish out anecdotes from life's bumpy — and often hilarious — roads. Middlebury Town Hall Theater, 7 p.m. $20-30. Info, 382-9222.

sports

community

PreMIer Floor HockeY league: Experienced players take shots in a competitive game. The Edge Sports & Fitness, Essex, 7-10 p.m. $80; preregister.

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education

woMen'S PIckuP BaSketBall: Drive to the hoop! Ladies hit the court for a weekly game. Hunt Middle School, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free; limited space. Info, carmengeorgevt@gmail.com.

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arMcHaIr travel SerIeS: arIzona: An informative lecture references photographs from the Montpelier Senior Activity Center's trip to Sedona and the Grand Canyon. Montpelier Senior Activity Center, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 223-2518.

StrategY For SucceSS SerIeS: 'Your SMartPHone IS SMart BuSIneSS': Dave Southwick doles out tech-savvy tips for increasing efficiency at work. St. Albans Free Library, 4-5:30 p.m. $10; free for Franklin County Chamber of Commerce members; preregister; limited space.

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nIgHt rIDer SerIeS: Skiers and riders compete for prizes in illuminated terrain parks. Bolton Valley Ski Resort, 5:30-8 p.m. $15; lift ticket required. Info, 434-6804.

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MIlton route 7 tranSPortatIon StuDY: Area residents identify ways to improve walking, biking, traffic and overall safety along the major roadway.

Milton Municipal Building, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 865-1794.

eSSex HIgH ScHool orIentatIon: Incoming freshmen get familiar with the 2015-16 academic year. Call for details. Essex High School, 8:30-10:30 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 879-5515.

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BaCon thuRsday: Jim Thompson entertains costumed attendees, who nosh on bacon and creative dipping sauces at this weekly gathering. Nutty Steph's, Middlesex, 6 p.m.-midnight. Cost of food; cash bar. Info, 229-2090.

film

'appRoaChing the elephant': Amanda Wilder's award-winning documentary chronicles the first year of the Teddy McArdle Free School, a New Jersey-based institution that shunned conventional educational models. A panel discussion follows. Latchis Hotel & Theater, Brattleboro, 7 p.m. $8-10; free for students. Info, 748-2600.

Community Cinema: 'the opiate effeCt': Fueled by the death of his son from a heroin overdose, Skip Gates' documentary sheds light on drug addiction in Vermont and New England.

A discussion follows. Milton Middle/High School, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 893-1009.

'KumiKo, the tReasuRe hunteR': When a Japanese woman discovers a VHS tape of Fargo, she believes the film doubles as a treasure map in David Zellner's celebrated 2014 drama. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7 p.m. $5-8. Info, 660–2600. 'little JeRusalem': Archival images and interviews with their descendants tell the story of Lithuanian Jews who settled in Burlington during the late 19th century. A discussion follows.

Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free.

Info, 223-3338. thRowBaCK movie: 'one flew oveR the CuCKoo's nest': Jack Nicholson stars in the 1975 Academy Award-winning drama about an eccentric man who feigns insanity to avoid prison work and lands himself in a mental hospital. Woodstock Town Hall Theatre, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Free. Info, 457-3981.

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foRza: the samuRai swoRd woRKout: Students sculpt lean muscles and gain mental focus when performing basic strikes with wooden replicas of the weapon. North End Studio A, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. $10. Info, 578-9243.

JazzeRCise lite: Adults ages 50 and up break a sweat in a supportive environment. Essex Junction Senior Center, 11 a.m.-noon. $3-3.50. Info, 876-5087.

pRenatal yoga & BaRRe: See WED.28, 12:15-1:15 & 4:30-5:30 p.m. 'sneezes to sKi Jumps: top 12 heRBs foR winteR suRvival': Herbalist Heather Irvine presents natural remedies for immunity, healthy skin, sports recovery and more. Tulsi Tea Room, Montpelier, 6:30-8 p.m. $8-10. Info, 223-1431.

musiC with deReK: Kiddos up to age 8 shake out their sillies to toe-tapping tunes. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

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Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. $1624. Info, 748-2600. 'oR,': See WED.28, 7:30 p.m.

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masteRs national CRoss-CountRy sKi Championships: Racers glide across the snow in a 10K freestyle in preparation for Saturday's 25K and 50K marathons. Craftsbury Outdoor Center, 2:30 p.m. $20-120; preregister. Info, 586-7767.

m.a.g.i.C.: masCulinity and gendeR identity ConveRsation: Open sharing encourages attendees to find common ground. The Wellness Co-op, Burlington, 2-3 p.m. Free. Info, 888-492-8218.

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sound Bath: eaRth gong, didgeRidoo & singing Bowls: Participants tap into the healing properties of soundscapes. Sacred Mountain Studio, Burlington, 7-8 p.m. $5-10 suggested donation; preregister. Info, stevescuderi@gmail.com.

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Rani aRBo & daisy mayhem: The foursome leaves no musical stone unturned in an Americana jam session that reflects influences from the 1800s to the present. Casella Theater, Castleton State College, 7 p.m. $10-15. Info, 468-1119.

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yoga with danielle: Toddlers and preschoolers strike a pose, then share stories and songs.

Buttered Noodles, Williston, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 764-1810.

adiRondaCK wind ensemBle: A percussion-centric concert honors benefactor and percussionist Eleanor Marcus. E. Glenn Giltz Auditorium, Hawkins Hall, SUNY Plattsburgh, N.Y., 4 & 6 p.m. $10; free for students with ID. Info, 518-564-2470.

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winteR adult yoga: YogaFit instructor Jessica Frost leads a series of postures aimed at aligning the body and mind. Cafeteria, Highgate Elementary School, 6 p.m. $7; preregister. Info, 868-3970.

middleBuRy pResChool stoRy time: Little learners master early-literacy skills through tales, rhymes and songs. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10:30-11:15 a.m. Free. Info, 388-4095.

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postnatal CoRe: Babies are welcome at a class for new moms aimed at strengthening glutes, abdominals and the pelvic floor. Prenatal Method Studio, Burlington, 10:30-11:30 a.m. $15. Info, 829-0211.

littleBits CluB: Tinkerers in grades 3 through 5 learn about circuitry with electronics modules and recycled materials. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 4-5 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 878-4918.

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intRo to ayuRveda: Anna Wiens outlines the basic principles of this ancient alternative medicine, including individual doshas based on body type. City Market/Onion River Co-op, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. $5-10; preregister; limited space. Info, 861-9700.

lego CluB: Brightly colored interlocking blocks inspire budding builders. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660.

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wine tasting: Cheers! Sips of newly released California syrahs inspire conversation among oenophiles. Trapp Family Lodge, Stowe, 4-6 p.m. $20; preregister. Info, 253-5742.

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Climate Change Reading & disCussion gRoup: Naomi Klein's This Changes Everything sparks an environmentally focused discourse.

Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.

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'deAth And tAxes': Whodunit? The Green Mountain Players seek out clues in Pat Cook's comedy about a murder in a small town. First Universalist Church and Society, Barnard, 7 p.m. $10-15. Info, 234-1645. 'oR,': See WED.28, 7:30 p.m.

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eARly bIRd mAth: One plus one equals fun! Youngsters and their caregivers gain exposure to mathematics through books, songs and games. Richmond Free Library, 11 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 434-3036.

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ARt & AuthoR nIght: Ink, waterF BA T color and mixed media from W. Ward's PIzzA & movIe nIght: Fairy tales take RN AR E AR "Tiny Mighty" complement a reading TH TS C center stage when Salman Rushdie's EN TER FO R by playwright Tom Blachly. Jaquith Public Haroun and the Sea of Stories gives way to a Library, Marshfield, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581. screening of The Princess Bride. For ages 12 and up.

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FRIends oF the AldRIch PublIc lIbRARy WInteR bAnquet & AuctIon: Cocktails, hors d'oeuvres and a beef tenderloin dinner set the stage for a lively auction hosted by David Sanguinetti. Proceeds benefit the library. Barre Elks Club, 5:30-9 p.m. $25; cash bar. Info, 476-7550.

yogA consult: Yogis looking to refine their practice get helpful tips. Fusion Studio Yoga & Body Therapy, Montpelier, 11 a.m. Free; preregister.

Info, 272-8923.

sPIn youR oWn yARns on dRoP sPIndles: Guided by Carol Collins of Singing Spindle Spinnery, folks transform prepared wools into usable yarn.

Community Room, Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 5:30-7:30 p.m. $10-12; preregister. Info, 223-8000, ext. 202.

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the solo WoRkshoP: 'AssIgned AllIes': Five composers/musicians collaborate with five choreographers in an awe-inspiring performance of original music and dance. UVM Recital Hall, Redstone Campus, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $5-15. Info, 863-5966.

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snoW FARm WIne doWn: Live music and local beer and wine served up in a pastoral setting make for an ideal end to the workweek. See snowfarm. com for details. Snow Farm Vineyard, South Hero, 6 p.m. Cost of drinks. Info, 372-9463.

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SAT 7 STORIES OF MY LIFE: 11am KATHERINE PATERSON

Join this legendary children’s author for a discussion of her new memoir. Tickets are $2, and can be purchased at either Phoenix Books location.

bRAdFoRd WInteR cARnIvAl: Community members fête the frigid festival's 250th year with skating, snowshoeing, sleigh rides, snow sculpting, broom hockey, bonfires and more. Various Bradford locations, 5-9 p.m. Prices vary. Info, 222-4536.

WAteRbuRy WInteRFest: Folks revel in all that winter has to offer with snowshoeing, broomball, bonfires and much more. See waterburywinterfest. com for details. Various Waterbury locations, Prices vary. Info, 244-7174.

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'go West': Cinephiles screen preserved 16mm footage of the 1940 comedy starring the Marx Brothers in a hilarious romp through the Wild West.

Newman Center, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7 p.m. Free. Info, serious_61@yahoo.com.

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THU 12 FOOD, FARMS, & COMMUNITY: 6:30pm LISA CHASE THU 19 MOSES ROBINSON & THE 6:30pm FOUNDING OF VT: ROBERT MELLO

Join Debbie Bookchin for the Vermont book launch!

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bRIdge club: See WED.28, 10 a.m.

health & fitness

AvoId FAlls WIth ImPRoved stAbIlIty: A personal trainer demonstrates daily exercises for seniors concerned about their balance. Pines Senior Living Community, South Burlington, 10-11 a.m. $5-6. Info, 658-7477.

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skI veRmont sPecIAlty Food touR: Skiers and riders take a break from the slopes and sample products from local food producers. Jay Peak Resort, 9 a.m. Cost of lift tickets. Info, 223-2439.

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FeAst togetheR oR FeAst to go: Senior citizens and their guests catch up over a shared meal.

Montpelier Senior Activity Center, noon-1 p.m. $7-9; preregister. Info, 262-6288.

communIty vInyAsA WIth cAndAce: Students of all skill levels deepen the body-mind-breath connection. South End Studio, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. $6. Info, 683-4918. lAughteR yogA: Breathe, clap, chant and giggle!

Participants reduce stress with this playful practice. Bring personal water. The Wellness Co-op, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 999-7373.

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Fairfax Community Library, 6-9 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 849-2420.

montréal

IglooFest: Electronic music from top DJs draws thousands of revelers to an igloo village at this popular outdoor festival. Jacques-Cartier Quay, Old Port, Montréal Québec, . $20-25; $45 weekend pass. Info, 514-904-1247.

music

Joe dRIscoll & sekou kouyAte: A melting pot of funk, rock, hip-hop, spoken word and Afrobeat grooves reflects the pair's multicultural roots. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $12-14. Info, 540-0406. olIveR mtukudzI And the blAck sPIRIts: Intricate melodies, infectious guitar licks and original dance moves propel a showcase of African music. A discussion follows. See calendar spotlight. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 8 p.m. $17-30.

Info, 603-646-2422. teRRI lyne cARRIngton quARtet: A jazzfilled evening of improvisation and imaginative arrangements pays tribute to Duke Ellington's 1963 album Money Jungle. See calendar spotlight.

Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 8 p.m. $15-40. Info, 863-5966.

outdoors

Full moon snoWshoe hIke: Nature lovers explore Montpelier's hillsides by lunar light.

Snowshoes and hot chocolate provided. North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, 7-8:30 p.m. $510; preregister. Info, 229-6206.

seminars

ARchetyPes As InneR AllIes: Participants gain tools to strengthen life decisions, deepen relationships and create abundance. Rainbow Institute, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. $15. Info, 999-2253. desIgnIng FlIeRs In gImP: An IntRoductIon: Step-by-step instruction in the GNU Image Manipulation Program helps attendees create DIY publicity. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

FInAl PlAnnIng WoRkshoP: Representatives from the Funeral Consumers Alliance of Vermont host an informative workshop about preparing for end-of-life decisions. Montpelier Senior Activity Center, 1-2:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-8140.

sports

RAIls FoR RyAn: Winter athletes showcase their skills at a rail jam under the lights. Proceeds benefit the Flyin' Ryan Hawks Foundation. Smugglers' Notch Resort, Jeffersonville, registration, 4 p.m.; rail jam, 6-8 p.m. $5 suggested donation. Info, 800-419-4615.

talks

FRed WIsemAn: The researcher discusses the Seeds of Renewal Project, an extensive effort to recover ancient Abenaki crops, seeds and indigenous culinary practices. Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge, Swanton, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 868-4781.

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the extemPo 'tell oFF': Storytellers share true tales and vie for prizes in this tournament of champions. American Legion Post 59, Waterbury, 7 p.m. $10. Info, 244-7174.

WoRd!cRAFt: exPeRImentAl ARt Rhymes: Wordsmiths sound off to beats by DJ Crunchee at this mashup of hip-hop and original verse inspired by "Imagine." WGDR Radio Station, Goddard College, Plainfield, registration, 6:30-7 p.m.; spoken word, 7-8 p.m.; hip-hop, 8-9 p.m.; dance party, 9-10 p.m.

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soIl 101: Dig in! Mike Ather shares strategies for creating and maintaining productive garden plots.

Gardener’s Supply Company, Burlington, 9:30-11 a.m. $12.50. Info, 658-2433.

art

bRAdFoRd yeAR In Photos: Photogs set out around town to capture images for the 250th annual winter carnival. Bradford Public Library, 9:30 a.m. Free. Info, 222-4536.

bazaars

cRAFteRs’ sAle: Arts and crafts supplies find new homes at this gathering of creative minds.

Compass Music and Arts Center, Brandon, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 247-4295.

community

veRmont 50-Plus & bAby boomeRs exPo: More than 90 exhibitors enliven a celebration of the golden years that includes seminars, workshops, wellness demos and more. Sheraton Hotel & Conference Center, South Burlington, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. $4-5. Info, 872-9000.

dance

stAte bAllet theAtRe oF RussIA: Tchaikovsky's epic score propels a battle between two birds in Swan Lake, starring 50 of Russia's top dancers. Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort, 7 p.m. $20-75; limited space. Info, 760-4634.

fairs & festivals

bRAdFoRd WInteR cARnIvAl: See FRI.30, 9 a.m.10 p.m. sheldon elementARy school WInteR FestIvAl: Families bond over nature walks, sledding, snowshoeing, stories and a giant bonfire.

Sheldon Elementary School, 2-5 p.m. Free. Info, 933-2363.

WAteRbuRy WInteRFest: See FRI.30.

food & drink

buRlIngton WInteR FARmeRs mARket: Farmers, artisans and producers offer fresh and prepared foods, crafts, and more in a bustling indoor marketplace with live music, lunch seating and face painting. Burlington Memorial Auditorium, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 310-5172.

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ChoColate tasting: Chocoholics sample confections and discover the six steps involved in evaluating flavor profiles. Lake Champlain Chocolates Factory Store & Café, Burlington, 3 p.m. Free. Info, 448-5507.

sleigh Rides: Giddyap! Horses trot folks over snow-covered open fields. Rides leave every half hour; seats are first come, first served. Call to confirm. Shelburne Farms, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. $8-10; free for kids 2 and under. Info, 985-8442.

Middlesex ChoColate tasting: Sweets lovers snack on treats while learning how cocoa is grown and produced. Nutty Steph's, Middlesex, 2-3 p.m.

Free. Info, 229-2090.

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Rutland WinteR FaRMeRs MaRket: More than 50 vendors offer produce, cheese, homemade bread and other made-in-Vermont products at the bustling indoor venue. Vermont Farmers Food Center, Rutland, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 753-7269.

Wine tasting: Vino lovers uncork recently released Sicilian reds. Trapp Family Lodge, Stowe, 4-6 p.m. $20; preregister. Info, 253-5742.

health & fitness

PRenatal Yoga & BaRRe: See WED.28, 10:3011:30 a.m.

R.i.P.P.e.d.: See WED.28, 9-10 a.m.

kids

dRoP-in stoRY tiMe: Music and books inspire a love of the arts in youngsters. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 10-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 264-5660. one-on-one tutoRing: See WED.28, 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m. satuRdaY stoRY tiMe: Captivating narratives entertain little ones. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 388-4095. sPanish MusiCal PlaYgRouP: Tykes up to age 5 join Constancia Gómez for stories, rhymes and songs en español. Crafts and snacks with Natasha round out the fun. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. stoRY exPloReRs: WinteR BeaRs: How do these predators snooze through the snow and cold? A themed tale gives kiddos the answers.

ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 10:30 a.m. Free with admission, $9.50-12.50.

Info, 877-324-6386.

CRaFtsBuRY CRoss-CountRY ski MaRathon: Nordic skiers go the distance on 25K and 50K courses. Craftsbury Outdoor Center, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. $5-120. Info, 586-7767.

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gMdgC iCe BoWl: iCe BuCket ix: Participants aim for targets in the snow at this benefit for local food shelves hosted by the Green Mountain Disc Golf Club. Center Chains Disc Golf Course, Waterbury Center, check-in, 8 a.m.; tournament, 9 a.m. $20; preregister. Info, 881-3467.

MasteRs national CRoss-CountRY ski ChaMPionshiPs: See THU.29, 9 a.m.

talks

hoW to talk to kids aBout RaCisM: A facilitated discussion group examines the far-reaching effects of racism and/or white privilege on children and adults. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 3:30-5 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 863-2345, ext. 9.

'death and taxes': See FRI.30.

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'henRY iv, PaRt i' audition: Actors ages 18 and up vie for spots in Shakespeare on Main Street's summer production of the Bard's tale ES of romance, music and high political YO R FS AND AT E intrigue. Brandon Town Hall, 10 a.m.GL AS S TH E noon. Free. Info, 282-2581.

music

ashleY soFia: Accompanied by her mentor, Bryan Kennedy, the rising talent showcases a knack for penning folk-rock tunes. Vergennes Opera House, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $10-12; cash bar. Info, 877-6737. lC Jazz: The 17-piece ensemble brings Big Band hits of the 1930s and ’40 to the stage. Holley Hall, Bristol, 8-10 p.m. $8. Info, 453-5885.

PuRe CountRY Band: Music lovers dance the afternoon away to toe-tapping tunes. VFW Post 309, Peru, N.Y., 1-4 p.m. Donations. Info, 518-643-2309.

'oR,': See WED.28, 2 & 7:30 p.m.

words

Book sale: Bookworms add gently used titles to their collections. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 9 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581. league oF veRMont WRiteRs WinteR PRogRaM: Journalist Stephen Kiernan and New York Times book review editor Christopher Lehmann-Haupt consider word choice, publishing and the writer in the digital age. Doubletree Hotel, South Burlington, 8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. $48-55; preregister. Info, lvw@leagueofvermontwriters.org.

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iCe Fishing Festival: Anglers of all ages lure fish through holes in the ice at this second annual winter gathering. Malletts Bay Access Area, Colchester, 1-5 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 318-1347.

the Met live in hd seRies: Tenor Vittorio Grigolo stars opposite soprano Hibla Gerzmava in a broadcast production of Jacques Offenbach's operatic masterpiece Les Contes D'Hoffmann. Middlebury Town Hall Theater, 1 p.m. $10-24. Info, 382-9222.

Palace 9 Cinemas, South Burlington, 12:55 p.m. $22-24. Info, 660-9300. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 12:55 p.m. $16-24. Info, 748-2600.

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MidWinteR Ceilidh: Pan-CeltiC MusiC & danCe: Traditional Irish, Scottish, Québécois and Appalachian melodies enliven a multicultural medley featuring the Heather Morris Dancers. Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, Jericho, 7-8:30 p.m. $8-10; free for kids 12 and under. Info, 899-3932.

'i got this voiCe, FRoM silenCe to song': Song, dance and spoken word combine to explore themes of body image, sex, eating disorders and silence. North End Studio A, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. $8-10. Info, 863-6713.

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outdoors

Bolton aFteR daRk: When the sun sets, skiers and riders explore Vermont's most extensive night-skiing terrain, then unwind with ski and snowboard films. Bolton Valley Ski Resort, 4 p.m. $19 lift tickets; cash bar. Info, 434-3444.

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Sandglass Theater, Putney, 1-2 & 3-4 p.m. $8; preregister; limited space. Info, 387-4051.

intRoduCtion to MiCRosoFt WindoWs: An overview of relevant software helps participants improve their computer skills and become more tech savvy. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister. Info, 865-7217.

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New Voices 2015: Six promising writers discuss their work as part of Misty Valley Books' nationally recognized literary program, now in its 21st year.

First Universalist Parish, Chester, 2 p.m. $10; limited seating. Info, 857-3400.

'TasTeful TradiTioNs' Book release ParTy: Local history comes alive through food in the Cambridge Historical Society's new publication.

Recipe samples round out the event. Smugglers' Notch Inn, Jeffersonville, 1-3 p.m. Free; limited space. Info, 730-2383.

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seed sTarTiNg: Master gardener Peter Burke helps green thumbs navigate the first stage of planting. City Market/Onion River Co-op, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. $5-10; preregister; limited space. Info, 861-9700.

community

ok aBc PracTice: A: Who am I? B: What do I want to be? C: How can I change the world? An open meeting explores these inquiries. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4:45-6 p.m. Free. Info, 989-9684.

dance

israeli folk daNciNg: All ages and skill levels convene for circle and line dances, which are taught, reviewed and prompted. No partner necessary, but clean, soft-soled shoes are required.

Socials Room, Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $2; free first session. Info, 730-2174.

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americaN red cross Blood driVe: Healthy humans part with life-sustaining pints. See redcrossblood.org for details. Various locations statewide.

Free. Info, 800-733-2767.

fairs & festivals

Bradford wiNTer carNiVal: See FRI.30, 7 a.m.4:30 p.m. waTerBury wiNTerfesT: See FRI.30.

film

Now PlayiNg NewPorT: chaPliN films: Cinephiles screen three short comedies featuring iconic silent-film star Charlie Chaplin. St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Newport, 4-6 p.m. $2.50-5. Info, 334-7365.

food & drink

commuNiTy BreakfasT: The Ladies Auxiliary hosts a hearty start to the day for members and nonmembers alike. Essex Junction VFW Post, 9-11 a.m. $3-7. Info, 878-0700. dumPliNgs for The New year: Foodies join Chinese teacher Ben Wang to usher in the Year of the Sheep with traditional fare. McClure Multigenerational Center, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. $5-10; preregister; limited space. Info, 861-9700.

games

shriNers suPer BiNgo: Players with five in a row win big at this monthly meet-up. Champlain Valley Exposition, Essex Junction, 12:30-5 p.m. $30 for 12 cards. Info, 434-2055.

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suNday saNgha: commuNiTy ashTaNga yoga: Students of all ages and skill levels hit the mat to breathe through a series of poses. Grateful Yoga, Montpelier, 5:40-7 p.m. $1-20 suggested donation.

Info, 224-6183.

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Nia wiTh suzy: Drawing from martial arts, dance arts and healing arts, sensory-based movements inspire participants to explore their potential.

South End Studio, Burlington, 9-10 a.m. $14. Info, 522-3691.

kids

childlighT yoga for kids: Little ones ages 4 through 8 hit the mat and learn a sequence of stretches. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 1-1:45 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. kids yoga: Yogis ages 3 through 7 gain strength and balance while learning how to focus and relax.

Grateful Yoga, Montpelier, 4:15-5:15 p.m. $12. Info, 224-6183. russiaN PlayTime wiTh NaTasha: Youngsters up to age 8 learn new words via rhymes, games, music, dance and a puppet show. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 11-11:45 a.m. Free. Info, 764-1810. 'sPoT': Eric Hill's beloved children's book series comes to the stage via large-scale puppets in this production from Dutch theater company terra.

For ages 3 and up. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 3 p.m. $13-23. Info, 603-646-2422.

language

dimaNches freNch coNVersaTioN: Parlez-vous français? Speakers practice the tongue at a casual drop-in chat. Local History Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 363-2431.

'foreVer Plaid': Directed by Roger Peace, thespians meld humor and harmonies in a musical of classic hits from the 1950s. See segalcentre.org for details. Segal Centre for Performing Arts, Montréal. $32-50. Info, 514-739-7944.

music

deB flaNders: Accompanied by an all-star lineup of local musicians, the vocalist performs selections from the Helen Hartness Flanders Ballad Collection.

Main Reading Room, Deborah Rawson Memorial Library, Jericho, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 899-4962.

NorTheasT fiddlers associaTioN meeTiNg: Lovers of this spirited art form gather to catch up and jam. Montpelier VFW Post, noon-5 p.m.

Donations of nonperishable food items accepted.

Info, 728-5188.

outdoors

caTamouNT Trail day: Skiers get off the beaten path when learning point-to-point backcountry touring along the Catamount trail. See catamounttrail.org for details. Nordic Center, Bolton Valley Ski Resort, 9:15 a.m.-2 p.m. Prices vary. Info, 864-5794. lake maNsfield hike: A snowshoe up Nebraska Notch to taylor Lodge maintains a moderate pace while gaining 1,600 feet in elevation. Contact trip leader for details. Mount Mansfield State Forest, Stowe, 9 a.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 899-9982.

NewPorT PeNguiN PluNge: Participants brave the icy waters of Lake Memphremagog to raise funds for Special Olympics Vermont. Gateway Center, Newport, 1 p.m. $25 plus $50-75 in funds raised. Info, 863-5222. sleigh rides: See SAt.31.

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greening Our religiOns: Lecturers offer an interfaith response to the environmental crisis in an eye-opening discussion. See burlington.shambhala.org for details. Ascension Lutheran Church, South Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. Free; preregister.

Info, 862-8866.

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aMerican reD crOss BlOOD Drive: See SUN.1.

fairs & festivals

WaterBury Winterfest: See FRI.30.

games

BriDge cluB: See WED.28, 7 p.m. trivia night: Teams of quick thinkers gather for a meeting of the minds. Lobby, Hotel Vermont, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 651-5012.

health & fitness

avOiD falls With iMprOveD staBility: See FRI.30.

herBal cOnsultatiOns: Betzy Bancroft, Larken Bunce, Guido Masé and students from the Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism evaluate individual constitutions and health conditions.

City Market/Onion River Co-op, Burlington, 4-8 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, info@ vtherbcenter.org. neurOscience Of MinDfulness: Led by Matthew Williams, a study of mindfulness touches on biological and emotional aspects of the brainbody relationship. Living Room: Center of positivity, Essex Junction, 4:30-5:30 p.m. $8-10. Info, 9996131, triumstudio@gmail.com. prenatal yOga & Barre: See WED.28. r.i.p.p.e.D.: See WED.28.

'the little engine that cOulD earns her Whistle': preschoolers through second graders learn about the power of hard work, determination and friendship in Artspower's adaptation of Watty piper's timeless tale. Chandler Music Hall, Randolph, 10 a.m. $6. Info, 729-6464.

seminars

Music With peter: preschoolers up to age 5 bust out song-and-dance moves to traditional and original folk tunes. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 11 a.m. Free; limited to one session per week per family. Info, 878-4918.

sports

reaD tO van gOgh the cat: Lit lovers share stories with the registered therapy feline. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 3:30 p.m. Free; preregister for a 10-minute time slot. Info, 878-4918.

Winter Wellness With shOna richter MacDOugall: An overview of plant-based products highlights herbal remedies for the cold-and-flu season. Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, Montpelier, 6-8 p.m. $10-12; preregister. Info, 224-7100.

stOries With Megan: Captivating tales entertain good listeners ages 2 through 5. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

kids

'fOrever plaiD': See SUN.1.

alice in nOODlelanD: Tykes get acquainted over crafts and play while new parents and expectant mothers chat with maternity nurse and lactation consultant Alice Gonyar. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 764-1810. cOunt Me in! explOring Math With yOur preschOOler: Hands-on activities introduce mathematic concepts to little ones and help them develop a love of learning. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 6-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-4918.

KiDs yOga: A fun-filled class for students ages 8 through 12 encourages focus, creativity and teamwork. Grateful Yoga, Montpelier, 4:15-5:15 p.m. $12.

Info, 224-6183.

tODDler tiMe: See WED.28.

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DruM circle: Feel the beat! Folks find rhythm at this informal percussion session. The Wellness Co-op, Burlington, 4-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 888-492-8218.

MaD river chOrale Open rehearsal: The community chorus welcomes new members in preparation for its June concert, "I Hear America Singing."

Chorus Room, Harwood Union High School, South Duxbury, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 496-4781. saMBatucaDa! Open rehearsal: New faces are invited to pitch in as Burlington's samba streetpercussion band sharpens its tunes. Experience and instruments are not required. 8 Space Studio Collective, Burlington, 6-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 862-5017.

speaKing yOur truth: participants focus on setting boundaries, conscious communication and other relevant topics. Rainbow Institute, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. $15. Info, 999-2253.

cOeD flOOr hOcKey: Men and women aim for the goal in a friendly league setting. The Edge Sports & Fitness, Essex, 7-9 p.m. $5; equipment provided; preregister; limited space. Info, gbfloorhockey@ gmail.com.

talks

alan alDa: The actor, director and writer of "M*A*S*H" fame shows his scientific side in "Helping the public Get Beyond a Blind Date With Science."

A reception follows. Silver Maple Ballroom, Davis Center, UVM, Burlington, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 578-8830.

theater

'nice WOrK if yOu can get it': The Roaring Twenties come alive in the Broadway National Tour of the Tony-winning musical comedy about the failed nuptials of a wealthy playboy. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $25-75. Info, 863-5966.

words

creative Writing WOrKshOp: Lit lovers analyze works-in-progress penned by Burlington Writers Workshop members. Studio 266, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free; preregister at burlingtonwritersworkshop.com. Info, 383-8104.

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tHe practice series: BookBinding: Artist Kristen Watson facilitates the creation of one-of-akind handmade books for journaling, sketching and more. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. $20-24. Info, 540-0406.

intro to triBal Belly dance: Ancient traditions define this moving meditation that celebrates creative energy. Comfortable clothing required. Sacred Mountain Studio, Burlington, 6:45 p.m. $13. Info, piper.c.emily@gmail.com.

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'swan lake': The Bolshoi Ballet interprets good versus evil in this broadcast production of Tchaikvosky's masterpiece. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. $6-18. Info, 748-2600. swing dance practice session: Twinkle-toed dancers get familiar with the lindy hop, Charleston and balboa. Indoor shoes required. Champlain Club, Burlington, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $5. Info, 448-2930. tango practice session: Dancers looking to master the Argentine tradition focus on their footwork in a weekly class. New City Galerie, Burlington, 7-10 p.m. $5 suggested donation. Info, 617-7807701, maya@newcitygalerie.org. tHodos dance cHicago: The renowned dance company interprets the story of Helen Keller and her teacher, Annie Sullivan, in A Light in the Dark.

See calendar spotlight. Casella Theater, Castleton State College, 7 p.m. $10-15. Info, 468-1119.

education

essex HigH scHool orientation: See THU.29, 6:30 p.m.

etc.

american red cross Blood driVe: See SUN.1. personal care attendant information session: Those interested in working in the field of health care learn about the Visiting Nurse Association's training program. Visiting Nurse Association of Chittenden and Grand Isle Counties, Colchester, 9:30 a.m. Free. Info, 860-4449.

fairs & festivals

waterBury winterfest: See FRI.30.

games

cHess cluB: Checkmate! Players of all ages and abilities apply expert advice from a skilled instructor to games with others. Fairfax Community Library, 3-4:15 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 849-2420.

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tuesday Volunteer nigHts: Folks pitch in around the shop by organizing parts, moving bikes and tackling other projects. Children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult. Bike Recycle Vermont, Burlington, 5-8 p.m. Free. Info, 264-9687.

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gaming for teens & adults: Tabletop games entertain players of all skill levels. Kids 13 and under require a legal guardian or parental permission to attend. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 5-7:45 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

health & fitness

fitness Boot camp: See WED.28, Vergennes Opera House, 5:30-6:30 p.m. $10. Info, ginger54@ sover.net. intro to yoga: Newcomers discover the benefits of aligning breath and body. Fusion Studio Yoga & Body Therapy, Montpelier, 4-5 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 272-8923.

Jazzercise lite: See THU.29, 8-9 a.m. nia witH suzy: See SUN.1, North End Studio B, Burlington, 7-8 a.m. $13. Info, 522-3691. pee-wee pilates: Moms bond with their babies in a whole-body workout. Prenatal Method Studio, Burlington, 10:30-11:30 a.m. $15. Info, 829-0211. prenatal yoga & Barre: See WED.28, 12:15-1:15 & 4:30-5:30 p.m. self care for lympHatic HealtH: Massage therapist Hannah Rohloff demonstrates noninvasive techniques that encourage lymph flow and improve immunity. Community Room, Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 6-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 223-8000, ext. 202.

kids

BaBy & toddler story time: A Mother Goosebased morning features rhymes, songs and stories.

Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10:15-10:45 a.m.

Free. Info, 388-4095. creatiVe tuesdays: Artists exercise their imaginations with recycled crafts. Kids under 8 must be accompanied by an adult. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3-5 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. fairfax story Hour: 'snowmen': Good listeners up to age 6 are rewarded with tales, songs, crafts and activities. Fairfax Community Library, 9:30-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 849-2420.

HigHgate story Hour: See WED.28. music witH mr. cHris: Singer, storyteller and puppeteer Chris Dorman entertains tykes and their parents. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 10-10:30 a.m.

Free. Info, 764-1810. taBletop game nigHt: Players ages 5 and up and their parents bond over board games. Fairfax Community Library, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 849-2420. tecH tuesdays: Youngsters tackle e-crafts, circuits and programming after school gets out.

Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-4665. youtH media laB: Aspiring Spielbergs learn about moviemaking with television experts. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 388-4095.

language

pause-café frencH conVersation: French students of varying levels engage in dialogue en français. Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 363-2431.

montréal

'foreVer plaid': See SUN.1.

talks

cHamplain Valley score roundtaBle series: Rick Royer of North Star Leasing Company imparts his knowledge in "The Art of Selling." New England Federal Credit Union, Williston, 5:30-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 951-6762.

words

creatiVe nonfiction worksHop: Readers give feedback on essays, poetry and journalism written

by Burlington Writers Workshop members. Studio 266, Burlington, 10:30 a.m. Free; preregister at burlingtonwritersworkshop.com. Info, 383-8104. melissa falcon field & gary lee miller: The wordsmiths delight lit lovers with excerpts of What Burns Away and Museum of the Americas, respectively. Karma Bird House Gallery, Burlington, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, angelacathleen@gmail.com.

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PEEr SuPPort CirClE: See WED.28.

gErman-EngliSh ConVErSation grouP: Community members practice conversing auf Deutsch. Local History Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.

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EffiCiEnCy VErmont BEttEr BuilDingS By DESign: "Trends in Cold Climate Construction" inspires the region's premier design/build conference.

See efficiencyvermont.com for details. Sheraton Hotel & Conference Center, South Burlington, 10:15 a.m.-4:45 p.m. $100-340. Info, 860-4095.

education

2015 gaP yEar fair: High school students interested in taking time off before starting college discover international service-learning opportunities. South Burlington High School, 6-8:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 652-7064.

EngliSh aS a SEConD languagE ClaSS: See WED.28.

intErmEDiatE/aDVanCED EngliSh aS a SEConD languagE ClaSS: See WED.28.

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'forEVEr PlaiD': See SUN.1.

music

DaDDy maCK BluES BanD: The sounds of Memphis travel north, courtesy of the seasoned rockers. Dibden Center for the Arts, Johnson State College, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 635-1476.

etc.

amEriCan rED CroSS BlooD DriVE: See SUN.1.

Song CirClE: Singers and musicians convene for an acoustic session of popular folk tunes. Godnick Adult Center, Rutland, 7:15-9:15 p.m. Free; donations accepted. Info, 775-1182.

PErSonal CarE attEnDant information SESSion: See TUE. 3.

seminars

fairs & festivals

WatErBury WintErfESt: See FRI.30.

film

Digital marKEting WorKShoP: Anahi Costa presents ways to utilize social media for professional purposes. Milne Community Room, Aldrich Public Library, Barre, 5:30-7 p.m. Free; preregister.

Info, 828-4422.

Community CinEma: 'amEriCan DEnial': Llewellyn Smith's documentary examines the impact of Nobel Laureate Gunnar Myrdal's 1944 race-relations study, An American Dilemma. A panel discussion follows. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

sports

food & drink

antonia loSano: In "Victoria’s Secrets," the Middlebury College professor reveals the darker side of the Victorian era's propriety. Norwich Congregational Church, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 649-1184.

CoffEE taSting: See WED.28. nutrition KitChEn: all aBout CoD: Inspired by her recent trip to Labrador, a gourmet meal prepared by health coach Marie Frohlich highlights the benefits of the essential fatty acids found in the fish. Edmunds Middle School, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. $5-10; preregister; limited space. Info, 861-9700.

WEDnESDay WinE DoWn: See WED.28.

WinE taSting: John Fagan of Calmont Beverage hosts a sipping session of new California chardonnays. Trapp Family Lodge, Stowe, 4-6 p.m. $20; preregister. Info, 253-5742.

BriDgE CluB: See WED.28.

health & fitness

Eating WEll on a BuDgEt: See WED.28. fitnESS Boot CamP: See WED.28. inSight mEDitation: See WED.28.

PrEnatal yoga & BarrE: See WED.28. r.i.P.P.E.D.: See WED.28.

kids

CElEBration of thE nEW yEar for trEES: An enrichment program aimed at ages 2 through 5 teaches little ones about Tu B'Shevat, the Jewish Arbor Day. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11 a.m.noon. Free. Info, 865-7216.

highgatE Story hour: See WED.28. mEEt roCKin' ron thE friEnDly PiratE: See WED.28.

Story timE & PlaygrouP: See WED.28. toDDlEr timE: See WED.28.

WomEn'S PiCKuP BaSKEtBall: See WED.28.

talks

BESS o'BriEn: Excerpts of the local filmmaker's award-winning documentary, The Hungry Heart, inspire a discussion of prescription-drug addiction in Vermont. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 7 p.m.

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Emily BErnarD: In "Delicious to the Ear: The Inspiring Voice of Maya Angelou," the UVM professor examines how poetry gave voice to the beloved bard, who was mute for five years as a child. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955. 'thE ExPEriEnCE of DronE PilotS': Michaela Herrmann leads a presentation and discussion about post-traumatic stress disorder among operators of unmanned aerial vehicles. Bradford Public Library, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 863-2345, ext. 6.

JanE Carroll: Checkmate! The Dartmouth College professor considers how the game of chess served as a vehicle for courtship in the Middle Ages.

Rutland Free Library, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 773-1860. manSour farhang: The former Iranian ambassador to the UN analyzes 1,300 years of religious strife in "The Shia-Sunni Divide in Islam." St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-8291. nanCy Jay CrumBinE: From essays in The New Yorker to the children's classic Charlotte's Web, the Dartmouth College professor pays homage to the legacy of E.B. White. Goodrich Memorial Library, Newport, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 334-7902.

theater

thE mEt liVE in hD SEriES: See SAT.31, Palace 9 Cinemas, South Burlington, 6:30 p.m. $18. Info, 660-9300. 'or,': See WED.28, 7:30 p.m.

StEaling from WorK: Local actors poke fun at popular culture in Angie Albeck and Marianne DiMascio's in original sketch comedy A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Front Porch Forum. Show contains mature material; for adults only. Off Center for the Dramatic Arts, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 863-5966.

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Fairfax Community Library, 3:15-4:15 p.m. Free; preregister for a time slot. Info, 849-2420.

PrEmiEr floor hoCKEy lEaguE: See WED.28.

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Oils & Hand Building, Thu. p.m. Drawing. Workshops: Teapots, On & Off the Wheel, Decorative Effects. Kids: Mon & Wed. Pottery on the Wheel, Tue. Clay Music Makers, Thu. Hand Building, Wed. Leonardo’s Workshop, Vacation Art Class.

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PHOTO: MIXED LEVEL DARKROOM: Take your work to the next level in this eight-week class! Improve your printing and film processing techniques and discuss the technical, aesthetic and conceptual aspects of your work. Cost includes a darkroom membership for the duration of the class for outside-ofclass printing and processing.

Prerequisite: Intro to Black and White Film and the Darkroom or equivalent experience.

Instructor: Mary Zompetti.

Weekly on Wed., Feb. 4-Apr. 1 (no class Mar. 11), 6-9 p.m. Cost: $295

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PHOTO: PHOTOGRAPHING THE WINTER LANDSCAPE: Learn how to create stunning winter landscape images in this threesession workshop. Techniques for properly exposing snow and ice, using available light and composing creatively using shadows and texture will be covered. Prerequisite: Digital SLR Camera or equivalent experience. Instructor: Dan Lovell. Thu., Feb. 19 & 26, 6-9 p.m. & Sat., Feb. 22, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Cost: $180 / person; $162/BCA members.

Location: BCA Center, Burlington.

PREPARING YOUR WORK FOR EXHIBITION AND SALES: Are you ready to hang your work in an exhibition but unsure of how to prepare it for installation and sales? Learn the basics of professionally presenting your work with curator and editor Jessica Dyer. Matting, framing, glass choices, wiring, pricing and other professional presentation concerns will be covered. Mon., Mar. 10, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $25 /person; $22.50/BCA members.

Location: BCA Center, Burlington.

SCHOOL BREAK: LEGO ANIMATION: Create stopmotion animations using Legos!

Students will create pieces from start to finish, creating storyboards, photographing frames and editing in iMovie.

Films will be screened at the end of class. All materials provided.

Registration required. Ages 8-12.

Instructor: Kristen Watson. Wed., Feb. 25, 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Cost: $85 /person; $76.50/BCA members.

Location: BCA Center, Burlington.

SELLING YOUR WORK WITH ETSY: Etsy seller Laura Hale, owner of Found Beauty Studio, will walk you through opening a

shop, setting up policies, listing items and filling sold orders, as well as looking at various marketing tricks. You can bring your laptop, use our computers, or come tech-free and watch Laura lead you step by step. Tue., Feb. 10, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $25 /person; 22.50/BCA members.

Location: BCA Center, Burlington.

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YOUTH: PAINTING: Spend an afternoon painting at BCA! Learn many techniques including splatter painting, watercolor, bubble painting, collage and more. All materials provided.

Registration required. Instructor: Kim Desjardins. Ages 6-12. Sat., Feb. 7, 1:30-3:30 p.m. Cost: $25 / person; $22.50/BCA members.

Location: BCA Center, Burlington.

YOUTH: POTTERY WHEEL: Come play with clay on the potter’s wheel and learn how to make cups, bowls and more in our BCA clay studio. Price includes one fired and glazed piece per participant. All materials provided.

Registration required. Ages 6-12.

Instructor: Kim O’Brien. Sat., Mar. 7, 1:30-3:30 p.m. Cost: $25 / person; $22.50/BCA members.

Location: BCA Clay Studio, Burlington.

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CLAY: HANDLES: The right handle can make or break a mug. Is it comfortable? Is it functional?

In this class, Jeremy will explore the intersection of function and form through handles using lecture and demonstration.

Students will learn how to make and attach handles using several methods. Instructor: Jeremy Ayers. Sun., Feb. 15, 1:30-3 p.m.

Cost: $25 /person; $22.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington.

PHOTO: DIGITAL SLR CAMERA: Explore the basic workings of the digital SLR camera to learn how to take the photographs you envision. Demystify f-stops, shutter speeds, sensitivity ratings and exposure, and learn the basics of composition. Bring your camera and owner’s manual to class. Pair this class with Adobe Lightroom 4 for a 12-week experience, and learn the ins and outs of photo editing and printing. Instructor: Dan Lovell. No experience necessary. Weekly on Wed., Feb. 4-Mar. 11, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $170 / person; $153/BCA members.

Location: BCA Center, Burlington.

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PAINTING WORKSHOPS: Painting workshops, offered by organizers of the Jericho Plein Air Festival. Instructor: Annelein Beukenkamp (abwatercolors. com): Painting floral watercolors using bright pigments and loose brushstrokes. Mar. 7, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Instructor: Mark Boedges (markboedges.com): Creating a representational landscape

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JEWELRY: STONE SETTING: BEYOND THE BASIC BEZEL: Want to know how to make different kinds of settings for your gemstones? This class will cover a variety of stone setting techniques for your cabochons and faceted stones. Basic metalsmithing skills are strongly recommended. Basic tools and materials provided. Additional material fees will depend on individual projects. Limited supply of stones available for purchase.

Pair with Bangles or Chasing and Repousee. Prerequisite: Intro to Jewelry or relevant experience.

Instructor: Rebecca Macomber.

Weekly on Thu., Feb. 5-Mar. 12, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $210 / person; $189/BCA members.

Location: Generator, 250 Main

St., Memorial Auditorium, Burlington.

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CHEER UP W/ WATERCOLOR: Banish winter blues! This threeweek class focuses on the basics of watercolor, with lots of room for creativity, finding inspiration in tropical landscapes, foods, decor and other fun subjects.

No previous art experience required! Materials provided for first class. Contact us for additional supply list. Taught by Jacquelyn Heloise. 3 Thu., Feb. 5, 12 & 19, 6:30-9 p.m. Cost: $80 /3 2.5-hour classes. Location: ONE Arts Center, 72 N. Champlain St., Burlington. Info: Becca McHale, 338-0028, oneartscollective@ gmail.com, oneartscenter.com.

WINE & WATERCOLOR: Curious about painting? Love wine? This class bringd them both together in a fun, one-night workshop.

We’ll begin with painting basics and a small wine tasting, then create still life paintings from elegant wines and cuisine. Taught

by Jacquelyn Heloise. Materials provided. All levels of ability welcome. Tickets at Eventbrite.com.

Thu., Jan. 29, 6-9 p.m. Cost: $25 /3-hour class in advance & for members; $30 at the door; $45 for 2; incl. materials & 2 drinks.

Location: ONE Arts Center, 72 N. Champlain St., Burlington.

Info: Becca McHale, 338-0028, oneartscollective@gmail.com, oneartscenter.com.

DIY DESIGN: LEATHER CUFFS AND EARRINGS: Join co-owner of New Duds and advanced crafter Tessa Valyou at this onenight class where you’ll create your own leather earrings and bracelets. Learn simple ways to make one-of-a kind jewelry that you’ll want to wear and give as gifts, like snap bracelets, cuffs and earrings. All materials provided. Registration is required.

Thu., Feb. 12, 6-8 p.m. Cost: $28 / person; $25.20/BCA members.

Location: BCA Center, Burlington.

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Info: 482-7194, cvuweb.cvuhs. org/access/

painting in oils based on a photograph. Waiting list. Apr. 11, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Instructor: Steven P. Goodman (spgoodman.com): Interpreting a landscape photograph loosely in oils or acrylics.

Apr. 18, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Instructor: Aline Ordman (alineordman. com): Creating a colorful landscape using bright, bold pastels.

May 9, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Instructor: Gary Eckhart (moosewalkstudios.com): Using watercolor, exploring all the colors of white.

May 16, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Cost: $55 /5-hour class. Location: Community Center in Jericho, Browns Trace, Jericho Center.

Info: Jane Morgan, 893-4447, janesmorgan@comcast.net.

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computers COMPUTER CLASSES IN HINESBURG AT CVU HIGH SCHOOL: Computer & Internet Basics, Cloud Control, Improve your Internet Experience, Windows Security: File and Control Panels, Picassa and iCloud, Web Album, iSync: iPads/iPods/iPhones, Twitter Essentials, Google Sketchup, MS Word Basics and More, Smart Phone Use, Google Smarts, MS Excel Basics, Excel Up: The Next Steps, Excel Data Analysis, Website Design Fundamentals, Dreamweaver: Web Essentials, personalized lessons. Full

descriptions online. Senior discount. 200 offerings for all ages. Location: CVU High School, 369 CVU Rd., 10 min. from Exit 12, Hinesburg. Info: 482-7194, cvuweb.cvuhs.org/access.

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CHOCOLATE SPONGE CAKE W/ CHOCOLATE GANACHE: Learn the secret, make a delicious chocolate sponge cake with a chocolate ganache. Decorate with chocolate cut-out, brush on gold luster dust to dazzle with elegance. Perfect Valentine’s Day dessert. Leave with an 8-inch cake to enjoy. Instructor: Carol Fox. Limited to 8 participants.

Senior discount. Thu., Feb. 12, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $35 /person.

Location: CVU High School, 369 CVU Rd., 10 min. from Exit 12, Hinesburg. Info: 4827194, cvuweb.cvuhs.org/ access.

CRAFT CLASSES IN HINESBURG AT CVU HIGH SCHOOL: Pottery, Bowl Turning, Woodworking, Welding, Carving a Spoon, Hems, Sewing for Teens, Rug Hooking, Punch Needle, Wool Dyeing, 3-Bag Sewing, Pillows, Needle Felting, Weaving, Embroidering, Quilting, Cake Decorating and Knitting. Full descriptions online.

Senior discount. 200 offerings for all ages. Location: CVU High

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TAIKO DRUMMING IN BURLINGTON!: Come study Japanese drumming with Stuart Paton of Burlington Taiko!

Beginner/Recreational Class on Tue., 5:30-6:20 p.m. Accelerated Taiko Program for Beginners on Mon., 7-8:20 p.m. Taiko Training Class for Beginners on Wed., 5:30-6:50 p.m. Kids and Parents Class on Tue., 4:30-5:20 p.m. New sessions start in Jan. Register online or come directly to the first class! Location: Taiko Space, 208 Flynn Ave., suite 3G, Burlington. Info: 999-4255, classes@burlingtontaiko.org, burlingtontaiko.org.

TAIKO DRUMMING IN MONTPELIER: Learn Taiko in Montpelier! Weekly on Thu., Montpelier Beginning Taiko class, 5:30-6:50 p.m., $72/4 weeks, and Montpelier Kids and Parents’ Taiko class, 4:30-5:20 p.m., $48/4 weeks; $90/parent + child. New sessions start in Jan. Please register online or come directly to the first class!

Location: Capital City Grange, 6612 Route 12, Berlin. Info: 9994255, classes@burlingtontaiko. org, burlingtontaiko.org.

empowerment EMPOWERMENT CLASSES IN HINESBURG AT CVU HIGH SCHOOL: Beekeeping, Birding, Pollinators, SAT Bootcamp, Memoir Writing, Children’s Nature Books, Conscious Walking. Talks on: Lake Ice, Famous Dogs, Donner Party, Wildlife Rehab, Lake Champlain, Amazing Survival. Also, Solar Energy 101, Bridge, Mah Jongg, Flower Arranging, Growing Mushrooms, Suburban Homesteading 101, Birding, Home Exchange, Motorcycle Awareness, Shoulder Massage, Cat Behavior, Reiki, Herbals, Body Butters, Herbal Facial.

Guaranteed. Full descriptions online. Senior discount. 200 offerings for all ages. Location: CVU High School, 369 CVU Rd., 10 min. from Exit 12, Hinesburg.

Info: 482-7194, cvuweb.cvuhs. org/access.

gardening SEED STARTING: Learn the basic science and techniques for seed starting success from the get-go, and do it right the first time! Instructor: David Boucher.

Feb. 7, 9:30-11 a.m. Cost: $12.50 /person. Location: Gardener’s Supply Burlington, 128 Intervale Rd., Burlington. Info: 660-3505, gardeners.com.

SOIL 101: Healthy and vibrant plants start with healthy soil.

This one’s a must for all gardeners, from beginner to more experienced grower. Please call to register. Instructor: Mike Ather.

Jan. 31, 9:30-11 a.m. Cost: $12.50 /person. Location: Gardener’s Supply Burlington, 128 Intervale Rd., Burlington. Info: 660-3505, gardeners.com.

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FAIRY TALES OF HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN AND THEIR DEEPER MEANING: This course explores the depth of wisdom in the archetypes, symbols, characters and plots of seemingly simple stories drawn from the works of Hans

Christian Andersen. Led by Sue Mehrtens. Feb. 5, 12, 19 & 26, 7-9 p.m. Cost: $60 /person; register & get a copy of the tale we will discuss in our 1st session.

Location: Jungian Center for the Spiritual Sciences, 55 Clover La., Waterbury. Info: Sue, 244-7909.

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DJEMBE IN BURLINGTON AND MONTPELIER!: Learn drumming technique and music on West African drums! Burlington Beginners Djembe class is on Wed., 7-8:20 p.m. Djembes are provided. Montpelier Beginners Djembe class is on Thu., 7-8:20 p.m. $22/drop-in (no class Nov. 27). New session starts in Jan. Please register online or come directly to the first class!

Location: Taiko Space & Capitol City Grange, 208 Flynn Ave., suite 3G, & 6612 Route 12, Burlington & Montpelier. Info: 999-4255, classes@burlingtontaiko.org, burlingtontaiko.org.

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DSANTOS VT SALSA: Experience the fun and excitement of Burlington’s eclectic dance community by learning salsa. Trained by world famous dancer Manuel Dos Santos, we teach you how to dance to the music and how to have a great time on the dance floor! There is no better time to start than now!

Mon. evenings: beginner class, 7-8 p.m.; intermediate, 8:15-9:15 p.m. Cost: $10 /1-hr. class. Location: North End Studios, 294 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington.

Info: Tyler Crandall, 5989204, crandalltyler@ hotmail.com, dsantosvt. com.

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DANCE STUDIO SALSALINA: Salsa classes, nightclub-style, on-one and on-two, group and private, four levels.

Beginner walk-in classes, Wednesdays, 6 p.m. $13/ person for one-hour class.

No dance experience, partner or preregistration required, just the desire to have fun! Drop in any time and prepare for an enjoyable workout. Location: 266 Pine St., Burlington.

Info: Victoria, 598-1077, info@salsalina.com.

learn to dance! Beginning classes repeat each month, but intermediate classes vary from month to month. As with all of our programs, everyone is encouraged to attend, and no partner is necessary. Private lessons also available. Cost: $50 /4-week class. Location: Champlain Club, 20 Crowley St., Burlington. Info: First Step Dance, 598-6757, kevin@firststepdance.com, firststepdance.com.

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WATERCOLOR: PAINTING DOORS & WINDOWS W/ ROBERT O’BRIEN: Learn composition, painting light and shadow, and how to render the unique beauty of doors and windows in a realistic manner. This class is for all levels of painting ability, with some drawing experience. Sat., Feb. 21, 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Cost: $100 /person; $75/members.

Location: Helen Day Art Center, Stowe. Info: 253-8358, education@helenday.com, helenday.com.

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herbs COMMUNITY HERBALISM WORKSHOPS: Winter Wellness with Shona Richter MacDougall: Mon., Feb. 2, 6-8 p.m.; $12.

Make Your Own ImmuneBoosting Cough Syrup with Juliette Abigail Carr, Old Ways Herbal: Wed., Feb. 11, 6-8 p.m.; $17. Luxuriously Healthy Hair: Simple Hair Care Recipes with Joann Darling, Green Sylk Soap: Wed., Feb. 25, 6-8 p.m.; $17.

Location: Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, 252 Main St., Montpelier. Info: Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, 224-7100, info@vtherbcenter.org, vtherbcenter.org.

VERMONT SCHOOL OF HERBAL STUDIES: Foundations of Herbalism Apprenticeship 2015 offers plant identification, wildcrafting, herb walks, tea formulation, aromatherapy, tinctures, herbal oils and salves, first aid, materia medica, elixirs and much more. Space limited.

Gift certificates available. 7 Sun., Apr. to Oct. Cost: $825 /person.

Location: Vermont School of Herbal Studies, Greensboro. Info: 533-2344.

WISDOM OF THE HERBS SCHOOL: Now interviewing for our eight-month Wisdom of the Herbs 2015, a unique experiential program embracing the local herbaceous plants, trees and shrubs, holistic health, and sustainable living skills, valuable tools for living on the Earth in these changing times. Apr. 2526, May 23-24, Jun. 27-28, Jul. 25-26, Aug. 22-23, Sep. 26-27, Oct. 24-25 and Nov. 7-8, 2015.

Tuition $1,750. VSAC nondegree grants available, please apply soon. Location: Wisdom of the Herbs School, Woodbury. Info: 456-8122, annie@ wisdomoftheherbsschool.com, wisdomoftheherbsschool.com.

language LEARN SPANISH & OPEN NEW DOORS: Connect with a new world. We provide high-quality affordable instruction in the Spanish language for adults, students and children. Travelers’ lesson package. Our ninth year.

Personal instruction from a native speaker. Small classes, private lessons and online instruction. See our website for complete information or contact us for details. Location: Spanish in Waterbury Center, Waterbury Center. Info: 585-1025, spanishparavos@gmail.com, spanishwaterburycenter.com.

LANGUAGE CLASSES IN HINESBURG AT CVU HIGH SCHOOL: French: 4 levels, Beginning Spanish: 2 levels, Intermediate Spanish: 2 levels, Italian for Travelers: 2 levels, Beginning Mandarin: 2 levels, German 1 & 2, Ancient Greek! Low cost, hands-on, excellent instructors, limited class size, guaranteed. Materials included with few exceptions. Full descriptions online. Senior discount. 200 offerings for all ages. Location: CVU High School, 369 CVU Rd., 10 min. from Exit 12, Hinesburg.

Info: 482-7194, cvuweb.cvuhs. org/access.

martial arts VERMONT BRAZILIAN JIUJITSU: Classes for men, women and children. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu enhances strength, flexibility, balance, coordination and cardio-respiratory fitness. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu training builds and helps to instill courage and selfconfidence. We offer a legitimate Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu martial arts program in a friendly, safe and positive environment. Accept no imitations. Learn from one of the world’s best, Julio “Foca” Fernandez, CBJJ and IBJJF certified 6th Degree Black Belt, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu instructor under Carlson Gracie Sr., teaching in Vermont, born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil! A 5-time Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu National Featherweight Champion and 3-time Rio de Janeiro State Champion, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Mon.-Fri., 6-9 p.m., & Sat., 10

a.m. 1st class is free. Location: Vermont Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, 55 Leroy Rd., Williston. Info: 660-4072, julio@bjjusa.com, vermontbjj.com.

meditation LEARN TO MEDITATE: Through the practice of sitting still and following your breath as it goes out and dissolves, you are connecting with your heart. By simply letting yourself be, as you are, you develop genuine sympathy toward yourself. The Burlington Shambhala Center offers meditation as a path to discovering gentleness and wisdom. Shambhala Café (meditation and discussions) meets the first Saturday of each month, 9 a.m.-noon. An open house (intro to the center, short dharma talk and socializing) is held on the third Friday of each month, 7-9 p.m. Instruction: Sun. mornings, 9 a.m.-noon, or by appt.

Sessions: Tue. & Thu., noon-1 p.m., & Mon.-Thu., 6-7 p.m.

Location: Burlington Shambhala Center, 187 S. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 658-6795, burlingtonshambhalactr.org.

MAKE 2015 MORE MINDFUL!: Aspiring to be more peaceful, less stressed and more present in 2015? Come to Exquisite Mind!

Start this year right. Learn a new mindfulness technique or get support maintaining your current practice. Enlightenment is a team sport! Join our friendly community at an upcoming class, retreat, or group sitting.

Instruction: Thu., 7-8:15 p.m.

Lunchtime group sits: Tue. & Fri., 12:15-1 p.m. Daylong retreats & open studio: see calendar.

By donation. See website for details. Location: Exquisite Mind Studio, 88 King St., suite 101, Burlington. Info: Nina La Rosa, 735-2265, nina@ninalarosa.com, ninalarosa.com/schedule.

performing arts PLAYBACK THEATER: STORYTELLING IN ACTION: Stories are how we understand our world, who we are, where we have come from and what we may have come through. These moments of our lives can be touchstones, full of power and significance. They are the glue that holds families, communities and cultures together. Join us for a day devoted to enhancing our creativity and play as we form a community of storytellers in action. Feb. 21, 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Cost: $50 /person. Location: SEABA, 404 Pine St., Burlington.

Info: JourneyWorks, 860-6203, jkristel61@hotmail.com, journeyworksvt.com.

photography CAMERA CLASSES IN HINESBURG AT CVU HIGH SCHOOL: Photoshop Basics, Digital Camera: Buttons/Menus, DSLR Foundations, Digital Action Photography, Picasa Workshop, Aperture Info, Shutter Speed Skills, Photoshop Basics, Digital Spectrum, Next Layers of Photoshop, Advanced Digital Photography: Blending/Filters, InDesign. Full descriptions online. Senior discount. 200 offerings for all ages. Location: CVU High School, 369 CVU Rd., 10 min. from Exit 12, Hinesburg.

Info: 482-7194, cvuweb.cvuhs. org/access.

pregnancy/ childbirth PRENATAL METHOD STUDIO: Prenatal and postnatal yoga and fitness classes blending Yoga, Barre and Pilates.

Childbirth Education class series and weekend intensives. Yoga Alliance Registered Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training Program.

Book groups, new mom playgroups, pregnancy circle teas.

Supporting women and their partners in the management and journey of pregnancy and childbirth. Every day: lunchtimes, evenings & weekends.

Cost: $15 /1-hour prenatal or postnatal yoga class. Location: Prenatal Method Studio, 1 Mill St., suite 236, at the Chace Mill, Burlington. Info: 829-0211, beth@prenatalmethod.com, prenatalmethod.com.

tai chi 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. Call to view a class. Location: Bao Tak Fai Tai Chi Institute, 100 Church St., Burlington. Info: 864-7902, ipfamilytaichi.org.

well-being BODY AND MIND CLASSES IN HINESBURG AT CVU HIGH SCHOOL: Core Strength, Weight Training, Weight Bearing and Resistance Training, Ski & Snowboard Fitness, Tai Chi, Yoga,

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yoga Burlington Hot Yoga: trY sometHing different!: Offering creative, vinyasa-style yoga classes featuring practice in the Barkan and Prana Flow Method Hot Yoga in a 95-degree studio accompanied by eclectic music. ahh, the heat on a cold day, a flowing practice, the cool stone meditation, a chilled orange scented towel to complete your spa yoga experience. Get hot: 2-for-1 offer. $15.

Go to hotyogaburlingtonvt.com.

Location: North End Studio B,

294 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington.

Info: 999-9963. evolution Yoga: evolution Yoga and Physical Therapy offers a variety of classes in a supportive atmosphere: Beginner, advanced, kids, babies, post- and pre-natal, community classes and workshops. Vinyasa, Kripalu, core, Therapeutics and alignment classes. Become part of our yoga community. You are welcome here. Cost: $15 /class, $130/class card, $5-10/community classes. Location: Evolution Yoga, 20 Kilburn St., Burlington.

Info: 864-9642, evolutionvt.com.

Honest Yoga, tHe onlY dedicated Hot Yoga flow center: Honest Yoga offers practice for all levels. Brand new beginners’ courses include two specialty classes per week for four weeks plus unlimited access to all classes. We have daily classes in essentials, Flow and core Flow with alignment constancy. We hold teacher trainings at the 200- and 500-hour levels. Daily classes & workshops. $25/new student 1st week unlimited, $15/class

or $130/10-class card, $12/ class for student or senior or $100/10-class punch card.

Location: Honest Yoga Center, 150 Dorset St., Blue Mall, next to Sport Shoe Center, S. Burlington.

Info: 497-0136, honestyogastudio@gmail.com, honestyogacenter.com. laugHing river Yoga: Highly trained and dedicated teachers offer yoga classes, workshops and retreats in a beautiful setting overlooking the Winooski River. class types include Kripalu, Vinyasa, Jivamukti, Kundalini, Yin, Restorative and more. 300hour teacher training begins in January. Join us in costa Rica Feb. 28-Mar. 7. all bodies and abilities welcome. Classes 7 days a week. $5-14/single yoga class; $120/10-class card; $130/monthly unlimited. Location: Laughing River Yoga, Chace Mill, suite 126, Burlington. Info: 343-8119, laughingriveryoga.com.

ignite your joyful spirit through classes such as Prenatal Yoga, Gentle Yoga, anusura-inspired all levels, Restorative and Heated Vinyasa Flow! New on our winter schedule: sacred space w/ Pam, sun., 7:45-9 a.m., and Therapeutic Restorative yoga w/ Heidi, Mon., 10:30-11:45 a.m.

Winter series: Kundalini, Men’s Yoga, Yoga for Teens. living, loving and lighting Up w/ Dr. Maria sirois, Feb. 6 & 7; chakra Workshop, Feb. 14, noon-5 p.m. w/ Heidi Bock & laura lomas.

Preregistration recommended.

Location: Yoga Roots, 120 Graham Way, Shelburne Green Business Park behind Folino’s.

Info: 985-0090, yogarootsvt. com.

Yoga roots: Yoga Roots provides a daily schedule of yoga classes for all ages and abilities. We aim to clarify your mind, strengthen your body and

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Making Peace with Food, swing or Ballroom, Jazzercise, VoiceOvers, Guitar, Banjo, string Band, Ukelele, songwriting, Musical Improv., Mindful Meditation, soap Making & Juggling. low cost, excellent instructors, guaranteed. Materials included.

Full descriptions online. senior discount. 200 offerings for all ages. Location: CVU High School, 369 CVU Rd., 10 min. from Exit 12, Hinesburg. Info: 482-7194, cvuweb.cvuhs.org/access.

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f you’re the kind of music lover who routinely stalks high-profile national acts at Higher Ground, or even if you favor smaller singer-songwriter spotlights at Radio Bean, you might think the musical fabric of the Green Mountain State is one cut from purely American cloth. Yet tucked away in Charlotte you’ll find Cumbancha, a record label, publisher and booking agency focused almost entirely on world music.

Founded by ethnomusicologist and cultural historian Jacob Edgar, Cumbancha’s mission is to expose international artists to American audiences. To do so, Edgar looks for artists who, he says, “have a cultural connection but a global appeal; who have a certain heritage, but a sound and vibe that is appealing across borders and generations.”

Two of the latest Cumbancha finds fitting that profile are Joe Driscoll, 36, and Sekou Kouyate, 30. As musicians from utterly different upbringings, they make an unlikely pair, but their shared musical palette makes them a dynamic and complementary duo.

Kouyate was raised in a musical family in Conakry, Guinea, where he was trained in kora, a 21-stringed traditional African instrument similar to a harp. Kouyate also tours with the band Ba Cissoko, a quintet composed of his cousins and brothers.

Kouyate brings the ancient kora into modern times by running it through a distortion device and creating a sound comparable to that of an electric guitar. “African music has continued to evolve,” Edgar says, “and Sekou is the perfect example of that.”

Driscoll approached African musical forms out of growing interest, not family ties. Growing up in Syracuse, N.Y., he developed an appreciation for American hip-hop and rap and began performing and recording. Prior to teaming up with Kouyate, Driscoll operated as a one-man band, using live looping and beat boxing while also playing guitar, harmonica, tambourine and various percussion instruments.

Kouyate and Driscoll met in the summer of 2010 at the Nuits Métis (Mixed Night) music festival in Miramas, France. At the festival, individual musicians are paired together, often not knowing one another beforehand, and given a week to produce a concert.

Kouyate and Driscoll were matched but did not share a common language; Driscoll speaks only English, while Kouyate speaks French and his native Susu.

Instead, they let the music speak for them. Their combined talents produced a mélange of hip-hop, funk, traditional African beats and reggae that startled them both.

“It’s like putting baking soda and vinegar together.

Our styles were totally different but complementary,” Driscoll explains by phone.

Driscoll knew that Kouyate was a rare talent and proposed continuing the partnership beyond the festival.

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“I met Sekou, and I said, ‘Hey, man, let’s work on this for a while.’ It was kind of one of those ‘follow the river’ things, and I went with it,” Driscoll remembers.

“Sometimes life just hands you something.”

The impromptu collaboration and subsequent follow-up work eventually culminated in a statesiderecorded album, Faya, released in February 2014.

The record caught Edgar’s ear, and he reached out to Driscoll and Kouyate to gauge their interest in becoming part of the Cumbancha Discovery series. That’s a sub-label Edgar uses to introduce cutting-edge new artists or, as he puts it, “people who are not broadly known but I think are special talents.”

Driscoll and Kouyate fit the bill, and soon the pair was promoting Faya through Cumbancha. After the album’s release, the musicians toured throughout 2014, racking up 200 shows in Europe in addition to gigs in New York, Chicago and Vermont.

Addressing themes of poverty, cultural differences, and the literal and figurative borders between people, Faya presents a powerful social statement. It’s also

a thoroughly listenable and catchy album. The opening track, “Tanama,” is a lightning-fast number that showcases Kouyate’s kora talent, while the title track highlights Driscoll’s rap abilities against a backdrop of rough guitar and Kouyate’s harmonies.

“Birnakely” blends reggae and hip-hop with moments of blazing kora. As Edgar describes it, the album “reflects elements of both of their styles, but brings them together in a compelling and accessible way.”

“This is hip-hop that my grandmother can listen to,” he says.

Considering the language barrier, crafting songs for Faya was a challenge. Driscoll and Kouyate wrote their own songs, and then used friends who spoke the other’s language to translate.

“We wrote them and then found out what the other was saying afterwards,” Driscoll recalls.

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Right about now many of you are probably saying, “Cool! But who the hell are Heavy Plains?”

Glad you asked!

Not only is the band making its firstever public appearance at Buch Spieler on Thursday, it’s also unveiling a debut self-titled record that very night. Neat move, no?

Fr WIZN WELCOMES Most bands grind away for months 30 and sometimes years before cutting a SCAN THIS THE PAGE MACHINE YOUR record. But HP are not most bands. In WITHPERFORMS TEXT LAYAR PINK FLOYD fact, they’re something of a local indie- SEE PAGE 9 HERE rock supergroup. The band features JANUARY lukE AwtrY (VEticA) on guitar, chriS SimArD (chuck thE PlAiNS, the ProPEr) on We bass, tYSoN VAlYou (Chuck the Plains, 28 the Proper, huSbANDS AkA, PrEttY & NicE) on drums and occasional Seven Days Sa contributor JohN FlANAGAN (Chuck the 31 Plains, iN mEmorY oF Pluto) on vocals and IRON EYES CODY guitar. That’s some serious local rock pedigree. And based on what I’ve heard Sa 31 of the record, it shows.

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If you’re unfamiliar, the annual Rock Lotto is a benefit for Girls Rock Vermont, a summer day camp aimed at encouraging young girls looking to

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venue and have been waiting for an opportunity to do so. Good news! I’ve got one. This Thursday, January 29, new local band hEAVY PlAiNS will play their debut show at BS. Serendipity.

I was genuinely enamored with the record-store-turned-rock-venue. I’ll confess that space is a little tight, even with the stacks of wax pushed to the edges of the room. But it’s cozy and friendly. Furthermore, it’s hard not to feel just a little bit cooler hanging out there. There’s an underground, inthe-know quality to seeing a show at the store that I found gave the whole night an air of mystique. Granted, Ries’ music is much softer and more intimate than than what I’d expect from Heavy Plains. But still, catching a show at Buch Spieler was a delightful change of pace from bars, coffee shops and rock clubs. I recommend it.

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I’m not gonna lie, folks. Your friendly neighborhood music editor is all kinds of frazzled this week. Mostly, it’s the anticipation of the impending Super Bowl matchup between my beloved New England Patriots and the defending champions, the Seattle Seahawks, this Sunday, February 1, that has me on edge. But also it’s because last week Higher Ground announced that “wEirD Al” YANkoVic will be returning to the Flynn MainStage in July. I’m geeked out on so many levels right now, I hardly know what to do with myself. You know what that calls for? A thoroughly random, rapid-fire edition of Soundbites, that’s what. Buckle up.

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surprising similarities. Driscoll cites a song he wrote called “Lady.” Kouyate had picked up a few English words, including “lady.” As a touring musician, he understood the trials and tribulations of maintaining a relationship on the road, which was the focus of Driscoll’s song.

The two went back and forth in separate versions, contributing lyrics in their respective languages, to eventually create the bilingual album track.

Next month, Driscoll and Kouyate return to Vermont to record a new album on the Cumbancha sub-label.

Now that the two have worked together for a few years, can fans expect to hear Driscoll rapping in French and Kouyate serenading in English? Not exactly. While Driscoll is slowly learning French, he says they mostly still communicate through, “caveman talk and sign language.”

Perhaps this is as it should be. The musicians’ combination is exceptional and electric not because of what they have in common but because of their unique contributions and experiences.

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instrumental skills are the tools that define their sound and their partnership. As Edgar says, the duo represents “part of our cosmopolitan, globalized world.”

INFO Joe Driscoll and Sekou Kouyate were scheduled to perform at ArtsRiot in Burlington this Friday, January 30. But just prior to press time, the show was canceled. Cumbancha founder Jacob Edgar deeply regrets the cancelation and plans to reschedule the performance.

Faya is available at joeandsekou.com and on iTunes.

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To refresh your memory, newcomer GRANT ROBIN won the VFC and, in doing so, bested some top-notch local talent, including BITSY BIRON, MIKE THOMAS, KENDALL FARRELL and KYLE GAGNON. I’ve yet to see Robin, but I’ve seen the other four, and I’ll tell you that topping those folks is no small task. It should be a funny night at the city’s swankiest hotel.

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If you missed the 2014 Vermont’s Funniest Comedian contest in November, fret not!

This Saturday, January 31, the top five comics from that competition will again take to the stage — this time under noncombative circumstances — for two shows at Hotel

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all-new bands. Said bands are given the day to prepare a set, which each will play at the club later that night. Sound cool? It is. No one, bands included, can ever be sure how the performances will turn out. They could be transcendent.

They could be total train wrecks. And that’s part of fun.

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Here’s how the Rock Lotto works. A slew of local musicians show up at Club Metronome on the morning of Saturday, January 31. Their names are tossed into a hat and then drawn at random to form

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based bluegrass outfit. However, vocalist and banjo player Pappy Biondo recently settled in central Vermont. The band’s latest live album, This Is Cabinet: Set II, was partially recorded at Club Metronome in Burlington. We’re not sure that makes them local.

But there’s little doubt that Vermont audiences will dig the band’s genre-hopping take on mountain music, Green, Blue, Appalachian or otherwise. Cabinet play the Higher Ground Showcase Lounge in South Burlington on Saturday, January 31, with iroN EYES

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JUNIPER: ray Vega Quintet (jazz), 8 p.m., free.

LEUNIG'S BISTRO & CAFÉ: Paul Asbell trio (jazz), 7 p.m., free.

NECTAR'S: Vt comedy club Presents: What a Joke! comedy open mic (standup comedy), 7 p.m., free. Abbie morin, Joe Adler, Grundlefunk (indie soul, foxy folk), 9:30 p.m., $5/10. 18+.

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THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Josh Panda and the Halverson Boys (soul), 8 p.m., $5-10 donation.

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THE MONKEY HOUSE: Brian Dolzani, Specer Goddard (rock), 8:30 p.m., donation.

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THE SKINNY PANCAKE (MONTPELIER): cajun Jam with Jay Ekis, Lee Blackwell, Alec Ellsworth & Katie trautz, 6 p.m., $5-10 donation.

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Since 1995, Ryan Fauber has written more than 300 songs. A good number of those were penned during his years living in Burlington. Fauber recently left the Queen City, moving to Portland, Ore., in December. Before he did so, the mercurial songwriter recorded one last batch of songs, Then Came the Thunder, released in January under the Jenke Records banner, as something of a parting gift for his Burlington friends.

As a songwriter, Fauber is a true enigma, and that quality is reflected in his recorded output. His 2012 debut, The Believer, was a challenging and sometimes unsettling work. A 2013 record, The Milton Tape, was pulled kicking and screaming from the womb of Fauber’s deep songwriting reserves. It was virtually no-fi, and some listeners may have wished it had stayed there.

Interestingly, the songwriter’s best collection of material came on a record on which he did not appear. In 2012, local singer Greg Alexander recorded an

album of Fauber’s music, Any Day: Greg Alexander Sings the Songs of Ryan Fauber.

Given a voice other than Fauber’s own intense, gravelly rasp, his songs took on a new life. The record offered a perspective on Fauber as a songwriter in a way he’d been unable to achieve himself. Until now.

Then Came the Thunder is by far Fauber’s strongest and most revealing work to date. Some may still prefer Alexander’s pretty croon to Fauber’s deep, brooding tones. But plenty would take Leonard Cohen’s brusque, original version of “Hallelujah” over Jeff Buckley’s virtuosic adaptation, too.

Cohen would seem an obvious inspiration to Fauber. Beyond sharing a similar vocal timbre, Fauber writes in a plainspoken manner akin to Cohen’s.

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mellower moments. But midway through, the band shifts gears into something that resembles French exotica by way of beachy indie rockers Real Estate.

“Slow Repeat” is a slinky, winking slow jam with Barton singing, “Just as we are turning blue / I find myself all the more in love with you / And if you want me to / I can put on some Erykah Badu and say adieu to you, too.” It’s kinda goofy, but endearing and likeable, especially when the band breaks the song open at the chorus with melodic coloring that recalls Talking Book-era Stevie Wonder.

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“Cheeryohs” closes the EP and proves to be its most ambitious cut. It’s also the longest one, so it’s surprising how comparatively straight the band plays it. The song is the most fully formed of the bunch, relying not on arrangement trickery but solid songcraft and sticky melodies. It’s an impressive, if understated, song that builds to a dynamic and satisfying finish — much like the EP itself.

Holy Smokes play Club Metronome in Burlington on Thursday, January 29. Their FREE SHUTTLE SERVICE: debut EP is available at holy-smokes. bandcamp.com.

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Holy Smokes is a quartet of University of Vermont seniors that essentially grew out of screwing around jamming on classic hip-hop songs — perhaps in some dingy basement in Burlington’s college ghetto.

One of the band’s founding members, Justin Barton, was formerly a member of Squimley and the Woolens, a talented local jam band that most certainly evolved from primordial bongwater. But to dismiss Holy Smokes as just another groovyUVee college band would be a mistake.

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RADIO BEAN COFFEEHOUSE: Jazz Sessions with Julian chobot, 6:30 p.m., free. Shane Hardiman trio (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free. Kat Wright & the Indomitable Soul Band (soul), 11:30 p.m., $5.

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nUTTY STEPH'S: Latin Friday with Rauli Fernandez & Friends, 7 p.m., free.

SWEET MELISSA'S: Honky tonk Happy Hour with mark LeGrand, 5 p.m., free. A Fly Allusion (hip-hop), 9 p.m., $5.

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PIZZA BARRIO: Wallace Kenyon (jazz), 6 p.m., free.

RED SQUARE: Big Leg Emma (rock), 7 p.m., $5. Mashtodon (hip-hop), 11 p.m., $5.

RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ Raul (salsa), 6 p.m., free. DJ Reign One (EDM), 11 p.m., $5.

RUBEN JAMES: Craig Mitchell (house), 10 p.m., free.

SIGNAL KITCHEN: Nick Hakim, Big Thief, Henry Jamison (folk, soul), 8 p.m., free.

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BACKSTAGE PUB: Sideshow Bob (rock), 9 p.m., free.

GOOD TIMES CAFÉ: Cooie DeFrancesco & Keith Williams (folk, blues), 8:30 p.m., $10.

HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: GLXW feat. Alex Young, ALXO, CoopDaville, Hobbz, Jakels (house, hip-hop), 8:30 p.m., $18/20. AA. HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Cabinet, Iron Eyes Cody (bluegrass), 9 p.m., $10/12.

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THE MONKEY HOUSE: Sun Lions, Carton, Heavy Plains (rock), 9 p.m., $3.

ON TAP BAR & GRILL: John Daly Trio (folk rock), 5 p.m., free.

Tymes Up (rock), 9 p.m., free.

VENUE NIGHTCLUB: Saturday Night Mixdown with DJ Dakota & Jon Demus, 10 p.m., $5. 18+.

barre/montpelier

BAGITOS BAGEL & BURRITO CAFÉ: Irish Session, 2 p.m., donation. Rehab Aged Cheese (jam, blues), 6 p.m., free.

CHARLIE-O'S WORLD FAMOUS: Wes Hamilton (folk), 7 p.m., free.

Amadis (metal), 10 p.m., free.

NORTH BRANCH CAFÉ: Cygne (blues), 7:30 p.m., free.

NUTTY STEPH'S: Gabriel Presents: A Stringed Affair (violin), 8 p.m., free.

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MATTERHORN: Primate Fiasco (jam), 3 p.m., $3. Primate Fiasco (jam), 9 p.m., $5.

RUSTY NAIL: Aprés Ski: the Whiskey Dicks (rock), 4 p.m., free. Rusted Root, Quincy Mumford & the Reason Why (rock), 9 p.m., $25/30. 18+.

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FRANNY O'S: Standup Comedy Cage Match, 8 p.m., free.

CITY LIMITS: City Limits Dance Party with DJ Earl (top 40), 9:30 p.m., free.

HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: Family Night (rock), 10:30 p.m., free.

TWO BROTHERS TAVERN LOUNGE & STAGE: Zach Rhoads Trio (funk), 9 p.m., $3.

JP'S PUB: Dance Video Request Night with Melody, 10 p.m., free.

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PICKLE BARREL NIGHTCLUB: Burnt Sienna (rock), 9 p.m., NA.

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Alan Greenleaf and the Doctor (folk, blues), 8 p.m., free.

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JUNIPER: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

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NECTAR'S: Live Music, 9 p.m., free/$5. 18+.

RADIO BEAN COFFEEHOUSE: Ver Sacrum (avant singersongwriter), 7 p.m., free. Hannah Fair (folk), 8:30 p.m., free.

Latin Sessions with Mal Maiz (cumbia), 10 p.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Kidz Music with Raphael, 11:30 a.m., $3 donation.

MONOPOLE: Grundlefunk (funk), 10 p.m., free.

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FRANNY O'S: Kyle Stevens' Happiest Hour of Music (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., free.

Vermont's Next Star, 8 p.m., free.

MOOG'S PLACE: Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., free.

burlington

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Live Music, 8 p.m., free.

NECTAR'S: MI YARD Reggae Night with DJs Big Dog and Demus, 9 p.m., free.

OLDE NORTHENDER PUB: Open Mic, 7 p.m., free.

RADIO BEAN COFFEEHOUSE: Jazz Brunch with Bob Gagnon, 11 a.m., free. Pete Sutherland & Tim Stickle's Old Time Session, 1 p.m., free. Andy Moroz (jazz), 7 p.m., free. Maryse Smith (indie folk), 9 p.m., free. Thunder Kittens (groove rock), 10:30 p.m., free.

THE MONKEY HOUSE: Open Mic, 8 p.m., free.

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CLUB METRONOME: Dead Set with Cats Under the Stars (Grateful Dead tribute), 9 p.m., free/$5.

FRANNY O'S: John Smyth (folk), 8 p.m., free.

HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: DJ Tricky Pat & Guests (D&B), 10 p.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Bluegrass Brunch Scramble, noon, $5-10 donation. Spark Open Improv Jam & Standup Comedy, 7 p.m., $5-10 donation.

JP'S PUB: Open Mic with Kyle, 9 p.m., free.

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NECTAR'S: Gubbulidis (jam), 8 p.m., free/$5. 18+. Live Music, 9 p.m., free/$5. 18+.

BACKSTAGE PUB: Karaoke/ Open Mic, 8 p.m., free.

PENALTY BOX: Trivia With a Twist, 4 p.m., free.

LEUNIG'S BISTRO & CAFÉ: Dayve Huckett (jazz), 9:30 p.m., free.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Tom P (jazz), 8 p.m., free.

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RADIO BEAN COFFEEHOUSE: Acoustic Brunch with D. Davis, noon, free. Bad Accent (world folk rock), 6 p.m., free. Zack Silk and Helen (old time), 8 p.m., free.

Muddy Ruckus (gypsy swing, punk), 9 p.m., free. Carraway (rock), 10:30 p.m., free. Great Blue (reggae, funk), 12:30 a.m., free. Weak Signal Broadcast Service (strange rock), 12:30 a.m., free.

MOOG'S PLACE: Fillside Rounders (bluegrass), 9 p.m., free.

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6:30 p.m., free. Kosi (jazz, singer-songwriter), 9 p.m., free.

Honky Tonk Tuesday with Brett Hughes & Friends, 10 p.m., $3.

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RED SQUARE: Craig Mitchell (house), 10 p.m., free.

HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: Wildlife Wednesday (trap, house), 9:30 p.m.

ZEN LOUNGE: Killed It! Karaoke, 9 p.m., free.

chittenden county

HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Ani DiFranco, Anaïs Mitchell (alt folk), 8 p.m., $32/35. AA. THE MONKEY HOUSE: Storytelling VT, 7:30 p.m., free/$5. 18+.

ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

barre/montpelier

CHARLIE-O'S WORLD FAMOUS: Karaoke, 8 p.m., free.

SOUTH SIDE TAVERN: Open Mic with John Lackard, 9 p.m., free.

stowe/smuggs area THE BEE'S KNEES: Children's Sing-Along with Lesley Grant, 10:30 a.m., donation.

MOOG'S PLACE: The Jason Wedlock Show (rock), 7:30 p.m., free.

middlebury area

TWO BROTHERS TAVERN LOUNGE & STAGE: Karaoke with Roots Entertainment, 9 p.m., free.

burlington

JP'S PUB: Pub Quiz with Dave, 7 p.m., free. Karaoke with Melody, 10 p.m., free.

JUNIPER: Eight 02 (jazz), 8 p.m., free.

LEUNIG'S BISTRO & CAFÉ: Paul Asbell Trio (jazz), 7 p.m., free.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Dwight Richter (blues), 7 p.m., free.

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Open Mic with Andy Lugo, 9 p.m., free.

NECTAR'S: VT Comedy Club Presents: What a Joke! Comedy Open Mic (standup comedy), 7 p.m., free. Kalob Griffin Band (roots, rock), 9:30 p.m., $5/10.

18+.

RADIO BEAN COFFEEHOUSE: Ensemble V (jazz), 7 p.m., free.

Irish Sessions, 9 p.m., free.

barre/montpelier

BAGITOS BAGEL & BURRITO CAFÉ: Karl Miller (solo guitar), 6 p.m., donation.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (MONTPELIER): Cajun Jam with Jay Ekis, Lee Blackwell, Alec Ellsworth & Katie Trautz, 6 p.m., $5-10 donation.

SWEET MELISSA'S: Wine Down with D. Davis (acoustic), 5 p.m., free.

stowe/smuggs area

THE BEE'S KNEES: Heady Topper Happy Hour with David Langevin (piano), 5 p.m., free.

PIECASSO PIZZERIA & LOUNGE: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

middlebury area

CITY LIMITS: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free.

TWO BROTHERS TAVERN LOUNGE & STAGE: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

northeast kingdom

RED SQUARE: DJ Jack Bandit (hip-hop), 11 p.m., free.

THE PARKER PIE CO.: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Josh Panda's Acoustic Soul Night, 8 p.m., $5-10 donation.

outside vermont

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THE STAGE: Open Mic, 6 p.m., free.

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rovocative and topical images of migrant workers, semiprofessional wrestlers and cancer patients are not the first things you’d expect to find on the walls of a rural gallery. Vermont Folklife Center’s development coordinator, Ned Castle, concedes that the Middlebury nonprofit’s very name “evokes a certain old-timeyness.”

And yet, he adds, “fundamentally, folklife is about the knowledge of everyday life.”

Undocumented farmhands, athletes and women with metastatic cancer included.

Castle and Gregory Sharrow, VFC’s codirector and director of education, manage programming for the center’s Vision & Voice Documentary Workspace.

Since 2007, its two airy, high-ceilinged rooms have been dedicated to exhibitions of documentary photography, often paired with audio, video or other mediums.

Motivated by VFC’s mission of “preserving and presenting the cultural traditions of Vermont and the surrounding region,” Castle and Sharrow seek out documentary artists who are “inherently curious” about their subjects and who exhibit a willingness to “get from behind the lens and into a person’s shoes,” as Castle puts it.

Though the photography must be visually compelling, and the photographers chosen tend to be highly skilled, the ethnographic aim of the organization means that aesthetic merits alone don’t qualify work for the Vision & Voice space. VFC isn’t sales-driven — though works do occasionally sell. To Castle and Sharrow, the artists’ methods of approaching their subjects matter. “There’s an inherent power dynamic in storytelling and in photography in particular,” Castle says. “Truth in photography, or in any type of storytelling, is a really tricky, gradual thing … You just don’t know how someone interacted with a subject in order to take a picture.”

The directors also look for nontraditional stories; besides the aforementioned groups, past exhibits have focused on rural drag queens, back-to-the-landers and other subcultures. Those all jibe with VFC’s aim to give a more complete picture of life in Vermont and the nearby region, past and present, according to Castle.

“A lot of the structures that exist in our society are built in such a way, or function in such a way, that the voices of the majority experience are the things that become truth,” he says.

But “there are other experiences and other truths out there, and a lot of our work ends up being about finding those

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truths and letting those experiences come forward.”

In addition to ethnography, VFC gives traditional Vermont folk art its due: It displays quilts, baskets and other locally made crafts, such as Russell Snow’s fanciful wooden whirligigs, in its Sales Gallery.

And, to be sure, the Vision & Voice gallery has hosted some documentary photography exhibits on familiar local subjects, including a series on one-room schoolhouses

by photojournalist Diana Mara Henry; and iconic images of rural Vermont people and places by Peter Miller, John Miller and Richard Brown.

More often than not, however, Castle

and Sharrow choose exhibits for the Vision & Voice gallery that focus on marginal Vermont populations. “We think of this space as a way for people to become visible to each other,” Castle says.

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f Julie A. Davis: “A New World,” a series of 18 oil paintings that reflect the frenetic energy and obsessive work that sometimes follow a period of trauma, by the Burlington artist. Reception: Friday, February 6, 5-8 p.m. February 1-28. Info, 859-9222.

SEABA Center in Burlington. f Katlin Parenteau: “Rouge Authenticity,” acrylic paintings by the Northeast Kingdom artist.

Reception: Friday, February 6, 5-8 p.m. February 1-28.

Info, 859-8909. Red Square in Burlington. f Nancy H. Taplin & Ethan Bond-Watts: “In Motion,” abstract paintings by Taplin and glass sculptures by Bond-Watts that capture the “kinetic energy of color and light.” Reception: Friday, January 30, 5-8 p.m. January 30-March 7. Info, 865-5355.

Vermont Metro Gallery, BCA Center, in Burlington. f Sally Linder: “Within the Circle,” paintings created from the Burlington artist’s experiences in Greenland, Svalbard, Iceland and Nunavut, Canada.

Open weekdays by appointment. Reception: Wednesday, January 28, 5-7 p.m. January 28-March 16. Info, 860-2733. Freeman Hall Conference Room, Champlain College, in Burlington. f ‘Staring Back: The Creation and Legacy of Picasso’s Demoiselles d’Avignon’: An exhibit that explores the legacy of Picasso’s painting that launched cubism, with a collection of American, African and European contemporary art, as well as new technologies. Reception: Tuesday, February 10, 5:30-7 p.m. February 3-June 21. Info, 656-0750.

Fleming Museum, UVM, in Burlington. f ‘Taking Pictures’: And exhibit of works past

and present from artists in the Pictures Generation of the 1970s that explores appropriation and the influence of mass media. Reception: Friday, January 30, 5-8 p.m. January 30-April 4. Info, 865-5355. BCA Center in Burlington.

f Winnie Looby: Art created on an iPad during sleepless nights by the Burlington artist. Reception: Friday, February 6, 5-7 p.m. February 1-28. Info, 863-6713. North End Studio A in Burlington.

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f ‘Chronograph: A Photo Exhibition’: A group show with images that represent the facets and dichotomies of time. Juried by Johan HallbergCampbell. Closing reception: Sunday, February 22, 4:30-6:30 p.m. January 29-February 22. Info, 777-3686. Darkroom Gallery in Essex Junction. f ‘Thirty Darkroom Students’: Photographs

by Mount Mansfield Union High School students.

Reception: Sunday, February 1, 2-4 p.m. February 1-28.

Info, 899-3211. Emile A. Gruppe Gallery in Jericho.

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f Nikki Eddy: “You and the Night,” abstract acrylic paintings by the Vermont artist. Reception: Saturday, January 31, 7-9 p.m. January 31-February 28. Info, 479-0896. Espresso Bueno in Barre.

VCFA Graduating and Continuing Student Exhibition: An exhibit of works in a variety of mediums by MFA program students. January 28-31.

Info, 828-8600. College Hall Gallery in Montpelier.

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f Arthur Zorn: “Line Dances,” abstractimpressionist paintings by the Barre artist and musician. Piano and organ concert: Saturday, visual art in seven days:

Exposed 2015: Annual Outdoor Sculpture Show: Helen Day Art Center is accepting submissions for its 24th annual outdoor sculpture exhibition from artists working in sculpture, public art, participatory and social practice. The exhibition is July 11 to October 14. Jurors are Lucas Cowen, curator at Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway Conservancy, and Sarah McCutcheon Greiche, public art consultant and curator. Deadline: February 28.

More info at helenday.com/ exhibitions/exposed-exhibit.

Helen Day Art Center, Stowe.

Info, 253-8358.

Sacred or Faith-Inspired Artwork: Seeking artwork in any medium or mixed media, including fiber, paint, drawing, sculpture, pottery, photography or other 2D or

‘Still Life/Life Still’: Darkroom Gallery calls for photographs that contextually explore purposefully arranged “still life” images or “life stills” captured on the fly. $24 for four submissions, $5 each additional image. Info, info@darkroomgallery.com. Deadline: February 18. Darkroom Gallery, Essex Junction. Info, 777-3686.

Sock Monkeys: Artists of all ages are invited to create sock monkeys or sock creations for a benefit art show opening on Sunday, March 1, 3-5pm. The opening event will be playful and family friendly, with all proceeds going to a scholarship fund to make the ONE Arts Center’s programs more accessible to low-income families. We’re also looking for musicians willing to play during the event. ONE Arts Center, Burlington. Info, 206-718-8561, margot.reilly@ gmail.com.

Creative Competition: For this artist competition and exhibit during monthly First Friday, artists may drop off one display-ready piece in any medium and size to Backspace Gallery, 266 Pine Street in Burlington, between noon and 6 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Friday. Entry $8. During the First Friday reception, 5-9 p.m., viewers can vote on their favorite work; the winning artist takes home the collective entry money. The work remains on view for the duration of the exhibit. More info at spacegalleryvt.com.

February 7, 7 p.m. February 1-22. Info, 244-8581.

Waterbury Congregational Church.

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Winter Term Studio Art Exhibition: Students exhibit work they produced during winter term, including photography, drawing and painting.

January 30-February 10, 1-5 p.m. Info, 443-3168.

Johnson Memorial Building, Middlebury College.

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f Jason Brunault & Michael Perron: Wood creations by the two local artists. Reception: Sunday, February 1, 1-3 p.m. February 1-28. Info, 933-2545. Artist in Residence Cooperative Gallery in Enosburg Falls.

art events ‘The ROUNDUP Ready Art Parade’: Visit an art space of works dedicated to “genetically modified organisms, their labeling and a broken food system.” Village Square, Waitsfield, Through February 14. Info, 518-577-1245.

Capstone Family Literacy Center Student Show: Paintings, sketches, sculpture and photography created by pregnant and parenting teens under the instruction of Burlington artist Joanna Elliott, plus a collaborative mural. Brook Street School, Barre, Thursday, January 29, 11 a.m.-noon. Info, 477-5206.

‘Create for a Cause’: Eat cupcakes and learn to paint while raising money for a good cause! Art therapist Carolyn Crotty of Whirled Tree Arts will lead participants in how to paint a communityinspired scene in support of ANEW Place. Cupcakes, coffee and tea provided, dinner available for purchase. New Moon Café, Burlington, Thursday, January 29, 6-8 p.m. $20. Info, 781-771-6119.

Friends of Art Luncheon With Amy Cheng: The artist discusses her work in conjunction with her current exhibit, “Breathing Lessons.” The free talk is followed by a lunch, $18. Burke Gallery, Plattsburgh State Art Museum, N.Y., Thursday, January 29, 12:15 p.m. Info, 518-564-2474.

art listings and spotlights are written by pamela polston and xian chiang-waren. Listings are restricted to art shows in truly public places.

Vermont College of Fine Arts Program Symposium: Toronto activists and photographers Karl Beveridge and Carole Condé, along with New York writer and artist Emma Hedditch, discuss the topic of solidarity. College Hall Chapel, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, Thursday, January 29, 1-4 p.m. Info, 828-8600.

Meet the Artist Groundhog Day Gala: Enjoy hors d’oeuvres, meet local artists and win prizes at the gallery’s fourth annual Groundhog Day mixer.

Grand Isle Art Works, Saturday, January 31, 5:30-9 p.m. $18-20. Info, 378-4591.

Nick Neddo Talk & Book Signing: The author of The Organic Artist demonstrates how to make paint, paper, pigments, prints and more from nature. Studio Place Arts, Barre, Saturday, January 31, 3:30-5 p.m. Info, 479-7069.

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‘Animal Power’: Paintings of horse-powered transportation and agriculture in Vermont by multiple artists. Through February 28. Info, 652-4500. Amy E. Tarrant Gallery, Flynn Center, in Burlington.

Ann Clayton Barlow: “Alternative Landscapes,” photographs by the Vermont artist. Through February 14. Info, 923-3088. Hinge in Burlington.

Ann Young: “And They Shall Inherit,” two groups of paintings, subtitled “In a Dangerous Time” and “Microcosm,” express the artist’s views of the “mess” left by previous generations, and the joys in the natural world that still exist, respectively. Through February 6. Info, 656-7787. Living/Learning Center, UVM, in Burlington.

f Art’s Alive 2nd Annual Open Photography Exhibition: Thirty-six Vermont photographers who answered an open call to artists show more than 100 photographs. Reception: Friday, February 6, 5-8 p.m. Through March 29. Info, 660-9005. Art’s Alive Gallery in Burlington. burlington shows

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“Unexpected Journeys: Life, Illness and Loss”

by Susan Alancraig, through May 5 at the Vision & Voice Documentary Workspace, Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury. Info, 388-4964. vermontfolklifecenter.org

f HowardCenter Arts Collective: Vibrant works by local artists who receive and provide services through the Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services Branch of the HowardCenter.

Reception: Thursday, February 5, 5-8 p.m. February 1-28. Info, 363-4746. Flynndog Gallery in Burlington.

3D media for exhibit during the 2015 Vermont Festival of Arts. Up to 20 works can be accommodated. Submit résumé, artist statement and sample images to karen@ vermontartfest.com, or email for more info. Deadline: February 20. Waitsfield United Church of Christ. Info, 496-6682.

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Those exhibits have sometimes spilled over into other spaces at the center. For example, a 2013 multimedia show about the effects of Tropical Storm Irene on Vermont’s waterways made use of just about every room in the building.

The pairing of images with recorded interviews — written and oral — dates back to the center’s origins in 1984. Castle’s 2008 exhibit “In Their Own Words” featured portraits of and written excerpts from interviews with members of Vermont’s refugee population. Later that year, “The Golden Cage” paired audio interviews by Chris Urban and photography by Caleb Kenna to tell the stories of migrant farmworkers and dairy farmers in Addison County. Like many VFC exhibits, both traveled to other venues around the state.

The Vision & Voice gallery’s current exhibit, “Unexpected Journeys: Life, Illness and Loss” by Cambridge, N.Y.-based photographer Susan Alancraig, focuses on terminal illness and caregiving. For Alancraig, the subject is personal: She was the primary caregiver for both her parents. “To become a caregiver for someone you love is to step into another world,” she writes in her artist statement. “It means learning to live with impending death, losing a sense of your own life, and experiencing the intensity of emotions — sadness, joy, anger, pleasure, resentment and consequent guilt — that can occur while caring for someone whose life is ending.”

The result of Alancraig’s unexpected journeys is a collection of haunting, exquisite portraits, accompanied by snippets from hours of conversations between the artist and her subjects. Images of women from Vermont or upstate New York with metastatic cancer and their family caregivers adorn the walls, alongside interview transcriptions. Visitors can dial a toll-free number to hear a clip of the women speaking.

“It just brings you right there,” Castle says of the auditory addition.

Though Castle allows that visual mediums can speak for themselves, VFC makes a point of commingling audio, video and written interviews with images on the walls. That practice gives marginal populations a chance to be heard as well as seen, and enhances the viewer’s experience.

“Think about the power of a person’s voice,” Castle says. “Someone’s accent, the inflection they use, the way they pause.

The energy or the excitement in their voice or the sadness or, you know, the way that they are searching for their words. It brings you closer to who they are.” m

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Susan Norton: “We Are Love, Eternal,” works in paper and fabric. Through February 6. Info, 860-9463. Drink in Burlington.

Charles Lysogorski: Paintings, prints and drawings by the Vermont artist. Through January 31. Info, 318-2438. Red Square in Burlington.

UVM Medical Center Group Show: Art by Michael Sipe, Cameron Schmitz, David Griggs, Michael Farnsworth, Phil Laughlin and Jane Ann Kantor. Curated by Burlington City Arts. Through April 30. Info, 865-7166. UVM Medical Center in Burlington.

‘Civil War Objects From the UVM Collections’: Heirloom items donated to the museum from America’s Civil War period include correspondence and ephemera, quilts, medical items, fine and decorative art and more. Wilbur Room. Through May 17. f ‘Travelers in Postwar Europe’: Black-and-white photographs of Germany, Paris, London and Venice by Burlington doctor H.A. Durfee Jr. between 1951 and 1953. Reception: Tuesday, February 10, 5:30-7 p.m. Through June 28. Info, 656-8582. Fleming Museum, UVM, in Burlington.

Vermont Artisans: Frame shop owners Alex and Jeremy Dostie have been collecting artwork since opening in 2011. A selection of those pieces is on view, featuring some 20 Vermont artists. Through March 30. Info, 660-9005. Dostie Bros. Frame Shop in Burlington.

‘We Are the South End’: A group exhibit by local artists and business owners, celebrating the creative vitality of the neighborhood. Through January 31.

Info, 859-9222. SEABA Center in Burlington.

DJ Barry: “Project Stencil,” graffiti-inspired paintings by the local artist. Through January 31. Info, 660-9346. Radio Bean Coffeehouse in Burlington.

Zoe Bishop & Adam Forguites: New works in oil by the local artists. Through March 29. Info, 861-2067. Nunyuns Bakery & Café in Burlington.

Innovation Center Group Show: Works by Ashley Veselis, James Vogler, Jamie Townsend, Kathryn Jarvis, Longina Smolinski, Lori Arner, Robert Green, and Scott Nelson on the first floor; Jean Cherouny, Jeanne Amato, Laurel Waters, Lyna Lou Nordstrom, Michael Pitts and Tom Merwin on the second floor; and Camilla Roberts, Chance McNiff, Janet Bonneau, Krista Cheney, Laura Winn Kane and Wendy James on the third floor. Curated by SEABA. Through February 28.

Info, 859-9222. The Innovation Center of Vermont in Burlington.

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Michelle Ennis Jackson: Watercolor paintings of nature and the changing seasons by the Essex Junction artist. Through February 28. Info, 985-8222. Shelburne Vineyard.

Inty Muenala: “Mishky Way, Vía Dulce, Sweet Path,” an exhibit of new contemporary paintings that reflect traditional values of the Kichwa (Quechua) people of the Ecuadorian Andes, which the artist also finds in Vermont culture. Through January 31. Info, 363-4746. Flynndog Gallery in Burlington.

‘Natural Beauties: Jewelry From Art Nouveau to Now’: Nearly 300 works from the likes of Tiffany & Co., Harry Winston, Cartier and others illustrate the fascination with nature, and our evolving relationship to it, in jewelry design. Through March 8. Nathan Benn: “Kodachrome Memory: American Pictures 1972-1990,” featuring evocative color images by the acclaimed National Geographic photographer.

Through May 25. Info, 985-3346. Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education, Shelburne Museum.

James Vogler & Carolyn Crotty: Abstract paintings by Vogler and mixed-media by Crotty.

Curated by SEABA. Through February 28. Info, 859-9222. VCAM Studio in Burlington.

‘Nine Artists: Mary Reed & Students’: A collection of oil paintings by Milton Artists Guild instructor Mary Reed and her students. Through January 31. Info, 862-5724. LCATV in Colchester.

Leah Van Rees: Paintings inspired by the natural world. Curated by Burlington City Arts. Through February 28. Info, 865-7166. Courtyard Marriott Burlington Harbor.

‘Reverence and Risk: Surveying the Past and Mapping a Future’: Paintings of the gritty side of Vermont by the late Northeast Kingdom artist Robert Klein, plus works by 18 other artists.

Through January 31. Info, 985-3848. Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery in Shelburne.

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Linda Smith: Storybook-style paintings by the former elementary-school teacher. Curated by SEABA. Through February 28. Info, 859-9222.

Speeder & Earl’s: Pine Street in Burlington.

Lyna Lou Nordstrom: Painterly monoprints by the Vermont artist. Through January 31. Info, 863-6713. North End Studio A in Burlington.

Lynne Reed: “EdgeWalker Paintings,” an exhibit of Japanese Enso-inspired paintings by the Burlington artist. Through March 6. Info, 233-6811.

Revolution Kitchen in Burlington.

Maltex Group Show: Art by Steve Diffenderfer, Nissa Kauppila, Carol Boucher, John Snell, Tracy Vartenigian Burhans, Krista Cheney, Amy Hannum and Kimberly Bombard. Curated by Burlington City Arts. Through April 30. Info, 865-7166. The Maltex Building in Burlington.

‘Endless Beginnings: Non-representational Art Today’

“There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn’t have any beginning or any end,” famed abstract-expressionist painter Jackson Pollock told a New Yorker writer in 1950. “He didn’t mean it as a compliment, but it was. It was a fine

Marla McQuiston: Pastel renderings of light on the Earth by the Williston artist. Through January 31. Info, 651-8834. Penny Cluse Café in Burlington.

compliment.” “Endless Beginnings: Non-representational Art Today,” at West Branch

Martin Bock: “Healing Art,” sculptures and paintings of shamanic objects by the Burlington author and artist. Through January 31. Info, 865-7211.

Fletcher Free Library in Burlington.

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Nancy Tomczak: Watercolor paintings of birds and watercolor collages in the dining room.

Through February 28. Info, 862-9647. The Daily Planet in Burlington.

f ‘Our Favorite Things’: Plein-air water-

color paintings by friends Sally Hughes and Carol Shallow. Reception: Friday, February 6, 5-8 p.m.

Through March 29. Info, 660-9005. The Gallery at Main Street Landing in Burlington.

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‘Visions of the Seasons’: New paintings by Carolyn Walton; pastels by Athenia Schinto; jewelry

by Tineke Russell; landscapes by Betty Ball, Helen Nagel and Gail Bessette. Through January 31. Info, 985-8223. Luxton-Jones Gallery in Shelburne.

‘SEABA Folio 2003 Project’: Original prints by 22 of Vermont’s finest artists. Through February 28.

Info, 859-9222. The Pine Street Deli in Burlington.

Gallery & Sculpture Park in Stowe, takes its title from Pollock’s remark. In the group concepts and emotions to the viewer. Anchored by Tom Cullins’ abstract paintings of a Barre granite quarry, the exhibit also features works by Duncan Johnson, Charles Orme, Giovanna Cecchetti, Idoline Duke, Lois Eby, Richard Cloutier, Val Rossman, Christopher Curtis, Clark Derbes and Sarah Horne. “Unlike art that is about people, places and things — moments fixed in time — these artworks don’t necessarily have a beginning or an end,” write the gallerists. “Instead, they possess endless possible ways to approach art and develop a relationship to it.” Through April 19, with a reception on Friday, February 28, 6-8:30 p.m. Pictured: “Quarry Series 10” by Cullins.

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‘1865, Out of the Ashes: Assassination, Reconstruction & Healing the Nation’: Historical artifacts that commemorate the Civil War’s 150th anniversary. Through July 31. Info, 485-2886. Sullivan Museum & History Center, Norwich University, in Northfield.

f ‘Amoré’: More than 20 local artists interpret themes of love and passion with paintings, sculptures, prints and assemblages. Main Floor Gallery. Love and Art Special Event: Chocolate, art and music from DJ Fred Wilber benefit SPA programs. Thursday, February 12, 7-8:30 p.m. $15-25. Ann Young: “Autumn Pond Abstract,” paintings. Cecelia Kane: “How Am I Feeling Today?” portraits of vintage hankies. Second Floor Gallery. Through February 21. Info, 479-7069. Studio Place Arts in Barre.

‘Art of Place’: A group exhibit of works inspired by the artists’ interactions with the spaces they inhabit. Through March 8. John Snell: “This Is Why I Live Here,” photographs of central Vermont by the Montpelier artist. Lower Gallery. Through March 7. Info, 728-6464. Chandler Gallery in Randolph.

August Burns: “The Eyes Have It: Portraits and Figures,” an expressive collection of paintings and drawings of men and women by the accomplished portraitist. Through March 31. Info, 828-3131.

Vermont Supreme Court Lobby in Montpelier.

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attempts to capture time in a single moment range from realistic pictures of a father’s funeral or an abandoned courtyard to abstracted images that evoke the rings of a tree, lapping waves or shattered glass. Closing reception on Sunday, February 22, 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Pictured: “Funeral of Father” by Adrienne Norman of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Daniel Barlow & Scott Baer: “Green mountain Graveyards,” a photography exhibit that explores the evolution of historic gravestones and funerary art in vermont. Through April 1. info, 479-8519. vermont history museum in montpelier.

Ken leSlie: “Top of the world,” paintings and artist books about the Arctic. Through February 13. info, 371-4375. Central vermont medical Center in barre.

nicK neDDo: “digging for Roots,” wild-crafted drawings by the montpelier artist, who creates his own mediums with foraged berries, mud and sticks. Through February 28. info, 828-3291. spotlight Gallery in montpelier.

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alexiS KyriaK: paintings by the local artist.

Through February 17. info, 635-7423. The lovin’ Cup in Johnson.

MarieluiSe hutchinSon: New landscape paintings by the regional artist. Through march 31. info, 253-1818. Green mountain Fine Art Gallery in stowe. ‘play’: National and regional artists display work in various mediums inspired by “play.” Also, an ongoing collaborative art project by hundreds of local elementary school students. Through April 12. w. DaviD powell & peter thoMaShow: mixedmedia collages and sculptures by the vermont artists. Through February 22. info, 253-8358. helen day Art Center in stowe.

‘Slope Style’: Thirty-five fully accessorized vintage ski outfits, with a special section of the exhibit dedicated to vermont ski brands. Through october 31. info, 253-9911. vermont ski and snowboard museum in stowe. virginia crawforD pierrepont: “outside inside: Concepts of Transformation,” paintings that explore an “abstraction of energy, spirit and personal transformation” through landscape.

Through February 12. info, 516-316-0917. mason Green Gallery, vermont studio Center, in Johnson.

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Ben franK MoSS & varuJan BoghoSian: “Collage, drawing, painting,” works by the abstract and collage artists. Through march 31. info, 767-9670. bigTown Gallery in Rochester.

Bonnie BarneS: “blanc et Noir,” new photography inspired by rural life and frontiers by the waitsfield artist. Through February 28. info, 244-7801. Axel’s Gallery & Frameshop in waterbury.

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f JuDith wrenD & paul gruhler: “harmonics,” painted-aluminum sculptures and minimalist paintings, respectively. Gallery talk: Thursday, January 29, 3 p.m. Through February 14. info, 635-1469. Julian scott memorial Gallery, Johnson state College.

‘through our lenS’: photographs by young adults participating in the big picture project.

Through march 2. Maria anghelache: “Tropical Abstract/Abstractions,” colorful paintings by the Romanian-born vermont artist. Through march 2. info, 888-1261. River Arts in morrisville.

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f ‘HOOKed in the Valley’: Thirteen area artists display 36 hooked-rug pieces in a variety of styles.

Reception: Sunday, February 8, 4-6 p.m. Through March 28. Info, 496-6682. Festival Gallery in Waitsfield.

middlebury area

Caleb Kenna: “Elemental Vermont,” photographs in the natural world by the Brandon artist. Through April 1. Info, 388-3300. American Flatbread (Middlebury Hearth).

Joe Bolger: Plein-air impressionist landscapes by the Shoreham artist. Through February 28. Info, 388-1436.

Jackson Gallery, Town Hall Theater, in Middlebury.

‘Andy Warhol Prints’: “Recent Gifts From the Andy Warhol Foundation:” Ten vivid prints by the late pop artist including portraits of Chairman Mao, Goethe, Sitting Bull, Ingrid Bergman and Queen Ntombi of Swaziland. Through April 19. Info, 443-3168. Middlebury College Museum of Art. Susan Alancraig: “Unexpected Journeys: Life, Illness, and Loss,” photographic portraits, accompanied by audio and written excerpts of interviews given by women with metastatic cancer and their family caregivers. Through May 9. Info, 388-4964. Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury.

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Bill Ramage: An 11.5-by-43-foot photo illustration of downtown Rutland by the local artist and Castleton professor is on view by appointment.

Through February 28. Info, 468-6052. 104 Merchants Row in Rutland.

RICHARD WEIS: CASTLETON DOWNTOWN: “ArtIfact: Fifty Years in Art,” a multi-gallery exhibit featuring more than 80 paintings, drawings and combined works that span five decades. Through February 14. This exhibit is also on display at the Christine Price Gallery in Castleton through February 13. Info, 468-6052. Castleton Downtown Gallery in Rutland.

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f Richard Weis: Chaffee Downtown: “ArtIfact: Fifty Years in Art,” a multi-gallery exhibit featuring more than 80 paintings, drawings and combined works that span five decades. This exhibit is also on display at the Christine Price and Castleton Downtown galleries. Artist Talk: Friday, January 30, 6-7:30 p.m. Through February 14.

Info, 468-6052. Chaffee Downtown Art Center in Rutland.

Winter Art Mart: Winter-inspired art in many mediums by local artists including Gayl M. Braisted, Andrew David Christie, Lyn DuMoulin, Stu Hall, Maurie Harrington, Tom Merwin, Jim Samler and Judith Reilly. Through March 29. Info, 247-4295.

Compass Music and Arts Center in Brandon.

champlain islands/northwest Jan Brosky, Elizabeth Martin & Rebecca Wright: The month’s featured artists exhibit fiber works, pottery and mixed media, respectively.

Through January 31. Info, 933-6403. Artist in Residence Cooperative Gallery in Enosburg Falls.

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‘Farmers Warriors Builders: The Hidden Life of Ants’: A traveling Smithsonian Institution exhibition featuring macro-photographs by ant expert and photographer Mark Moffett along with interactive models that teach us about the complex lives of ants. Through April 5. ‘The Light Around Us’: An exhibit that explores the physics of light and color. Through May 10. Info, 649-2200.

Montshire Museum of Science in Norwich.

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‘Fibrations!’: Fiber creations by more than a dozen renowned New England artists. Through March 30.

Info, 885-3061. The Great Hall in Springfield.

‘Frederick Douglass’: Born a slave in Maryland, Douglass escaped to New York City in 1838 and became a champion of civil rights. This exhibit explores his early life through images, broadsides and letters. Saturdays and Sundays. . Info, 4572355. Billings Farm & Museum in Woodstock.

‘Taking Pictures’ Appropriation is the theme of the BCA Center’s first major exhibition of the year. “Taking Pictures” features works by 10 artists who were among the Pictures Generation of the 1970s. So called because of the influence of

media and then-new technology on their art, they came of age in a time of social and political disillusionment. Seminal early works by artists including University of Vermont professor Nancy Dwyer are displayed alongside their more recent creations, and the exhibit considers their enduring influence on contemporary art. “The internet and social media have opened entirely different networks for the dissemination and consumption of images,” writes communication director Eric Ford in a statement. “In their recent work, the artists of the Pictures Generation have turned their critical attention to these networks.” The exhibit opens with a reception on Friday, January 30, 5-8 p.m., and is on view through April 4. Pictured: “Arches” by James Casebere.

Jeanette Fournier: Watercolor paintings inspired by wildlife and nature. Through March 31.

Info, 359-5001. VINS Nature Center in Hartford.

Jo Levasseur: Landscapes in chalk pastel, colored pencil, acrylic and pencil by the local artist. Through January 31. Info, 763-7094. Royalton Memorial Library in South Royalton.

‘Kunstkamera: The Tricentennial Anniversary of the Peter the Great Museum’: Artworks and artifacts in a variety of media that celebrate the great Russian institution.

Through January 31. Info, 356-2776. Main Street Museum in White River Junction.

Liz Guth & Gisèle McHarg: Hooked rugs by the local artists. Through March 15. Info, 889-9404.

Tunbridge Public Library in Tunbridge Village.

Tom Schulten: Vivid works by the renowned Dutch painter of consensusism. Through December 31. Info, 457-7199. Artemis Global Art in Woodstock.

TRPS Members’ Show: A selection of prints in several techniques and styles by resident artists.

Through January 31. Info, 295-5901. Two Rivers Printmaking Studio in White River Junction.

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f James Frase-White: “Flights of Fancy,” stained

glass and paper art inspired by nature and fantasy.

Reception: Saturday, February 7, 3-5 p.m. Through February 28. Info, 748-0158. Northeast Kingdom Artisans Guild Backroom Gallery in St. Johnsbury.

Kent Shaw: Photographs of the northern Vermont landscape. Through February 23. Info, 525-3366.

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Elizabeth Nagle: “Other Worlds,” new abstract paintings and mixed-media works by the Dorset artist. Through February 16. Info, 362-4061. The Gallery at Equinox Village in Manchester Center.

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‘Poseidon and the Sea: Myth, Cult & Daily Life’: Art and artifacts that illustrate how ancient societies in the Mediterranean world worshipped the powerful Greek god. Through March 15. Info, 603-646-2095. Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, in Hanover, N.H.

f Amy Cheng: “Breathing Lessons,” intricate mandala paintings by the nationally acclaimed artist. Reception: Friday, January 30, 5-7 p.m. Through February 18. Info, 518-564-2474. Plattsburgh State Art Museum, N.Y. Larry Poole, Peter Shrope & Denise Duprey: Intaglio prints by Poole and ceramic works by Shrope in the Main Gallery; photography by Duprey in the Community Gallery. Through February 6. Info, 518-563-1604. Strand Center for the Performing Arts in Plattsburgh, N.Y. ‘Stone Palette’: Thirty-one lithograph prints from 19th-century France. Through March 15. ‘Wild Nature: Masterworks from the Adirondack Museum’: Sixty-two paintings, photographs and prints from the permanent collection of the Adirondack Museum, dating from 1821 to 2001, including work by Hudson River School masters.

Through April 19. Info, 518-792-1761. The Hyde Museum in Glens Falls, N.Y. ‘Warhol Mania’: Fifty posters and a selection of magazine illustrations by Andy Warhol offer a brand-new look at his commercial-art background.

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Mr. Turner ★★★★★

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’m prompted by writer-director Mike Leigh’s sublime portrait of the 19thcentury painter J.M.W. Turner to offer an observation or two concerning critics as much as film artists. The first observation is that we’ve heard a lot lately about how this or that historical drama strayed from the facts to fit its story into the conventional format of a Hollywood awards contender.

How many reviews have we read in which the writer appears more concerned about what got left out of a given picture — or reimagined, compressed or otherwise tweaked — than what wound up on the screen? Selma is the greatest victim of this narrative nitpicking at the moment, but hardly the only one.

So here’s Leigh’s challenge: Spend two and a half hours watching a biographical drama in which nothing has been goosed or jazzed up. See the film he made about an English Romantic painter without romanticizing said artist in the least. Give your attention to this uncomely curmudgeon whose own biographer complained, “Turner is a very uninteresting man to write about.” And then see how you like it when a filmmaker sticks to the facts.

I, for one, loved it. The experience won’t be everyone’s cup of tea, but I found it illu-

minating, moving and masterful. Frequent Leigh collaborator Timothy Spall creates an unforgettable character, a grunting, snorting frog of a man. His Turner might be mistaken on a London street for a middle-aged clerk, yet he just happens to be the most visionary painter of his age. Forget every cliché in the tortured-artist book. Turner is neither starving (quite the contrary) nor misunderstood.

He’s a rock star of the art world, rubs elbows with the aristocracy and is acknowledged by his peers as a wizard able to transform pigment into light.

The masterstroke of Leigh’s movie is letting us into its subject’s head. Dick Pope’s inspired cinematography suggests not merely the world Turner saw but the way he saw it.

Scene after scene opens with a long shot of the sun and clouds working their magic on sky and sea before panning to a solitary figure who is jotting it all down in his notebook.

In conveying the atmospherics of, for example, a stroll on the shore at Margate, Pope foreshadows the astonishing leaps in form and color that Turner makes a scene or two later. The artist’s work anticipated abstract expressionism a century before anyone would use those words. One can portray Turner as a genius without pretending that he wasn’t a complicated person capable of

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The other comment I want to make concerns the New York Observer critic Rex Reed.

You may recall the furor he caused by calling Melissa McCarthy “tractor-sized” and a “hippo” in his review of 2013’s Identity Thief.

It wasn’t the first time he’d gotten personal when he should’ve been professional. Well, Reed evidently learned little from that episode, because he’s put his foot in his mouth again, closing his Mr. Turner review with the offensive assertion that its star is “too repulsive to watch for 150 minutes.”

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The 2015 Oscar-Nominated Shorts

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hen awards season rolls around, everyone spends two months debating the merits of those big, sometimes bloated Best Picture nominees. The 15 short films nominated for Academy Awards — in Documentary, Animated and Live Action categories — tend to fly under the radar.

Luckily for anyone looking to win his or her office Oscar pool — or just to enjoy acclaimed work by up-and-coming directors and animators — you can see the roster of Oscar-nominated shorts starting this Friday, January 30, at Merrill’s Roxy Cinemas in Burlington. (There are several separate programs, so check the theater’s schedules carefully.) Here’s a partial preview of the offerings.

If you’re after indelible, real-life imagery, nothing is quite like “The Reaper,” a 29-minute documentary by Gabriel Serra Arguello that takes us into a Mexican slaughterhouse.

Narrated by a worker who kills 500 bulls daily, it’s alternately beautiful — in an abstractexpressionist way — and hideous, and definitely not for the squeamish.

That doc screens with “White Earth,” J. Christian Jensen’s 20-minute exploration of the recent oil boom in North Dakota through the unexpected viewpoint of preadolescents.

It’s another film that finds beauty in ugly places, as Jensen eschews messaging and talking heads in favor of simply immersing

PICTURE IMPERFECT A Tibetan family poses before the likeness of an urbanscape they may never see in “Butter Lamp.”

us in a once-tiny town swelled with migrant oil workers.

The most exciting thing about this year’s slate of live-action shorts is its international flavor. While these films whisk viewers away to Israel, Switzerland, Belfast, London and Tibet, their content isn’t so adventurous.

A likely front-runner for the statuette is Mat Kirkby’s 20-minute “The Phone Call,” in which a crisis helpline worker (Sally Hawkins of Blue Jasmine) takes a call from an elderly man (Jim Broadbent). Both actors do heartbreaking work that elevates borderline-mawkish material.

Also on the cornier side is Michael Lennox’s 14-minute “Boogaloo and Graham,” about two young Belfast brothers and their

unusual pets. But it’s undeniably a cute crowd pleaser. “Parvaneh” (25 minutes, directed by Talkhon Hamzavi) is a more substantial coming-of-age tale about a teenage Afghan immigrant (Nissa Kashani) struggling to adjust to life in Switzerland. “Aya” (40 minutes, Oded Binnun and Mihal Brezis) is a haunting, if overstretched, film about an offbeat encounter between two strangers that begins at an airport.

But my favorite live-action nominee is writer-director Wei Hu’s “Butter Lamp.” In 15 minutes, without moving the camera, the filmmaker introduces us to a Tibetan village using the device of an itinerant photographer who snaps portraits of local families in front of iconic backdrops. It’s an ingeniously

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Now, I realize Reed has a right to his opinion. Freedom of expression is much in the news lately, whether the medium is a movie or a magazine. So I support his right to say any stupid thing he wants. I just don’t support him and am frankly ashamed to be in the same profession.

Performers are human beings with feelings. Reed’s insulting remarks serve no purpose in the critical analysis of their work.

They’re completely uncalled for. Reed’s dismissal would not be.

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“Vivid” is, as always, a good way to describe the animated shorts program. (Since nominees in this category tend to be really short, four additional films supplement them at the Roxy.) I wasn’t able to see Disney’s “Feast,” a likely winner — but anyone who caught last year’s feature Big Hero 6 has.

The other nominees are a whirlwind of styles. Daisy Jacobs’ “The Bigger Picture” (eight minutes) alternates strikingly between animation in two and three dimensions. Torill Kove’s “Me and My Moulton” (14 minutes) is an autobiographical tale of being raised by Scandinavian modernist architects in a world they might have designed.

Joris Oprins’ “A Single Life” unfolds a clever conceit in just three minutes. And my personal pick in this category, “The Dam Keeper” (18 minutes, Robert Kondo and Daisuke “Dice” Tsutsumi), tells a simple, kid-friendly fable about bullying in a succession of luminous images that linger long after it’s over.

The three-hour epics may get all the glory, but this year it’s definitely worth giving the Oscar shorts a look.

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BlAck oR WHitE: a widower (Kevin costner) finds himself in a custody battle for his granddaughter with her maternal grandmother (Octavia Spencer) in this drama from Mike binder (Reign Over Me). with gillian Jacobs and anthony Mackie. (121 min, Pg-13. Essex, Majestic, Palace) tHE loFt: four married guys’ dream of having an urban pied-à-terre for their cheating activities turns into a nightmare when the place suddenly acquires a new inhabitant: a corpse. Erik Van looy directed this remake of his belgian thriller. with Karl urban, James Marsden and wentworth Miller.

(108 min, R. Essex, Majestic, Palace)

cAkEHH1/2 a de-glammed Jennifer aniston plays a woman struggling with painful memories while attending a chronic-pain support group in this indie from director daniel barnz (Won’t Back Down). with anna Kendrick and Sam worthington.

(102 min, R) FoXcAtcHERHH1/2 Eccentric multimillionaire John E. du Pont (Steve carell) hires two wrestler brothers (channing tatum and Mark Ruffalo) to coach a winning Olympic team in his mansion in this fact-based drama from director bennett Miller (Capote). (129 min, R; reviewed by R.K. 1/21) tHE HoBBit: tHE BAttlE oF tHE FiVE ARmiESHHH bilbo and his companions go to war to stop the dragon Smaug from destroying Middle-earth in (we think) the last installment in this tolkien-based series. with Martin freeman, Ian McKellen and benedict cumberbatch. Peter Jackson directed. (144 min, Pg-13)

mR. tURNERHHHHH timothy Spall plays renowned English landscape artist J.M.w. turner (1775-1851) in this biopic from director Mike leigh (Topsy-Turvy), a four-category Oscar nominee. (150 min, R. Savoy; reviewed by R.K. 1/28)

tHE imitAtioN gAmEHHH1/2 This biopic chronicles the world war II decoding efforts of british mathematician alan turing (benedict cumberbatch) and his struggles with social norms. with Keira Knightley and Matthew goode. Morten tyldum (Headhunters) directed. (114 min, Pg-13)

A moSt ViolENt YEAR: That year is 1981, when an immigrant businessman (Oscar Isaac) stakes everything on a new hQ for his new york heating business. with Jessica chastain and david Oyelowo. J.c. chandor (All Is Lost) directed. (125 min, R. Roxy)

iNHERENt VicEHHHH Paul Thomas anderson (The Master) directed this adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s novel about a dope-addled private eye (Joaquin Phoenix) trying to find his ex-girlfriend in 1970 la. with Josh brolin, Owen wilson and Joanna newsom. (148 min, R)

pRoJEct AlmANAc: teenagers with poor impulse control discover a time machine, and the rest is history in this Sf thriller. with amy landecker and Sofia black-d’Elia. dean Israelite makes his feature directorial debut. (106 min, Pg-13. bijou, capitol, Essex, Majestic, Palace, welden)

iNto tHE WooDSHHH1/2 Rob Marshall (Chicago) directed this film version of Stephen Sondheim’s dark musical take on the fairy tales of the brothers grimm. with anna Kendrick as cinderella, Meryl Streep as the witch, chris Pine, Johnny depp, Emily blunt and many more. (124 min, Pg)

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now playing AmERicAN SNipERHHHH bradley cooper plays renowned navy SEal sniper chris Kyle, during and after his tours in Iraq, in this drama from director clint Eastwood. with Sienna Miller and Kyle gallner. (132 min, R; reviewed by R.K. 1/14)

BlAckHAtHH1/2 a jailed hacker (chris hemsworth) is recruited by an international task force to take down a cyberterrorist in this thriller from action auteur Michael Mann (Public Enemies). with Viola davis and wei tang. (135 min, R; reviewed by M.h. 1/21)

moRtDEcAiH1/2 a roguish art dealer (Johnny depp) endeavors to recover a stolen painting in this caper comedy from director david Koepp (Premium Rush). with gwyneth Paltrow and Ewan Mcgregor. (106 min, R) pADDiNgtoNHHHH Michael bond’s classic children’s books come to the screen in this family flick about an anglophile Peruvian bear who seeks a new home in london. with the voices of ben whishaw, hugh bonneville and Sally hawkins. Paul King directed. (95 min, Pg) SElmAHHHH1/2 david Oyelowo plays Martin luther King Jr. in this account of the groundbreaking 1965 voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, ala. with Oprah winfrey, tom wilkinson, tim Roth and carmen Ejogo. ava duVernay (Middle of Nowhere) directed. (127 min, Pg-13) StRANgE mAgicH1/2 george lucas wrote the story for this fantasy inspired by A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and lucasfilm animation brought it to life as a family musical featuring popular standards. with the voices of Evan Rachel wood, Elijah Kelly and Kristin chenoweth. gary Rydstrom directed. (99 min, Pg)

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tHE tHEoRY oF EVERYtHiNgHHHH1/2 Eddie Redmayne and felicity Jones play physicist Stephen hawking and his wife, Jane, in this adaptation of the latter’s memoir of their marriage.

James Marsh (Man on Wire) directed. (123 min, Pg-13)

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UNBRokENHHH angelina Jolie directed this adaptation of laura hillenbrand’s bestseller about Olympian louis Zamperini (Jack O’connell) and his hellish travails in a Japanese prison camp during world war II. with domhnall gleeson and Jai courtney. (137 min, Pg-13)

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BoYHooDHHHHH Richard linklater (Before Midnight) filmed one boy (Ellar coltrane) over 12 years to create a one-of-a-kind real-time portrait of coming of age. Ethan hawke and Patricia arquette play his parents. (165 min, R; reviewed by R.K. 8/6)

tAkEN 3H1/2 liam neeson returns once again as the guy with the “particular set of skills.” This time around, he has to use them to beat an unjust murder rap. and we’re guessing his daughter (Maggie grace) hasn’t figured out how to save herself yet. Olivier Megaton (Taken 2) directed.

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Police said Eric Frey, 29, handed a pizza shop employee in Uniontown, Pa., a note written on toilet paper. “I have a gun,” it read. “Give me $300.” The worker hit the silent alarm, summoning police before Frey could leave. He explained that a bearded man had confronted him in a nearby alley and forced his action, but officers who searched Frey’s apartment found a newly opened roll of toilet paper with a pen impression from Frey’s note on the top sheet. (Associated Press) A masked man tried to rob a convenience store in New Haven, Conn., by pointing a finger at the clerk to “simulate” that he had a gun, police officer David Hartman reported, noting, “But he didn’t have his hand in his pocket.” The clerk “grabbed the man’s finger and told him he’d break it if he didn’t get out of his shop,” Hartman said after the would-be robber fled.

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The Central Intelligence Agency admitted that at least half of the reported UFO sightings in the 1950s and 1960s were actually test flights of its super-secret U-2 spy plane. (United Press International)

Second-Amendment Follies Veronica J. Rutledge, 29, died after her 2-year-old son reached into her purse, grabbed her concealed gun and shot her in the head at a Wal-Mart store in Hayden, Idaho. (Associated Press)

Tony Roe, 23, was shot in the chest at a home in Largo, Fla., while he and Dylan Harvey, 19, were playing a game with a loaded revolver. It involved rolling the chamber and then taking turns pointing the gun at each other, according to the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies said Harvey was holding the weapon when it fired. (Tampa Bay Times) Authorities said that Michael Foster, 43, saw Clarence Daniels, 62, getting out of his vehicle in the parking lot of a Wal-Mart store in Brandon, Fla., and noticed he had a gun in a hip holster under his coat. Foster followed Daniels inside, put him in a chokehold and yelled that Daniels had a gun. Daniels shouted that he had a permit. Sheriff’s deputies arrested Foster and charged him with battery.

“We understand it’s alarming for people to see other people with guns, sheriff’s official Larry McKinnon said, “but Florida has a large population of concealed weapons permit holders.”

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lobsters and then, in an animal-rights gesture, asking their waiters to throw the shellfish overboard. Local fishermen have even found some of the lobsters with rubber bands around their claws.

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An Alabama middle school principal asked students to bring canned food to school to throw at possible intruders. In a letter to parents, Priscilla Holley of W.F. Burns Middle School in Valley said an 8-ounce can of peas or corn “could stun the intruder or even knock him out until the police arrive. The canned food item will give the students a sense of empowerment to protect themselves.”

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Police arrested Jeremiah Genesis Taylor, 25, after he argued with his pregnant girlfriend in Millington, Tenn., and hit her in the face and chest with some steaks.

(Memphis’s WHBQ-TV) Workers at a reptile pet shop in Delray Beach, Fla., accused owner Benjamin Siegel, 40, of slapping them with a bearded dragon lizard. The victims said Siegel placed the lizard in his mouth and began hitting them with it. He also threw Gatorade at them, and tossed the large lizard into the air and swung it around.

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Oklahoma lawmakers are at odds over the state’s produce. Sen. Nathan Dahm introduced a measure to repeal watermelon’s title as Oklahoma’s official vegetable, an honor lawmakers bestowed in 2007. Dahm pointed out watermelon is a fruit, not a vegetable, but the state fruit title isn’t available because it was awarded to the strawberry. Dahm said watermelon could be named the state’s seasonal fruit or the state’s melon, but Rep. Scooter Park denounced such a move, declaring, “We will defend, support and make sure it is upheld as the state vegetable for Oklahoma.” (Tulsa World)

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In 1899, the King of the African nation of Swaziland died while dancing. His only son, Sobhuza, was soon crowned as his successor, despite being just 4 months old. It took a while for the new King to carry out his duties with aplomb, and he needed major guidance from his grandmother and uncle. Eventually he showed great aptitude for the job, though, and ruled until his death at age 83. I’m getting a Sobhuza-type vibe as I meditate on you, Aquarius. New power may come to you before you’re fully ready to wield it. But I have confidence you will grow into it, especially if you’re not shy about seeking help.

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(June 21-July 22): “somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you,” writes poet John Ashbery, “at incredible speed, traveling day and night, through blizzards and desert heat, across torrents, through narrow passes. but will he know where to find you, recognize you when he sees you, give you the thing he has for you?” This passage might not be literally true, Cancerian. There may be no special person who is headed your way from a great distance, driven by a rapt intention to offer you a blessing. but I think Ashbery’s scenario is accurate in a metaphorical way. Life is in fact working overtime to bring you gifts and help. Make sure you cooperate! Heighten your receptivity. Have a nice long talk with yourself, explaining why you deserve such beneficence.

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(July 23-Aug. 22): In 1768, britain’s royal society commissioned navigator James Cook to lead a long naval voyage west to tahiti, where he and his team were supposed to study the planet Venus as it made a rare transit across the face of the sun. but it turned out that task was a prelude.

(Aug. 23-sept. 22): According to computer security company symantec, you’re not in major danger of contracting an online virus from a porn website. The risk is much greater when you visit religious websites.

Why? They’re often built by inexperienced programmers, and as a result are more susceptible to hackers’ attacks. In the coming weeks, Virgo, there may be a similar principle at work in your life. I suspect you’re more likely to be undermined by nice, polite people than raw, rowdy folks. I’m not advising you to avoid the do-gooders and sweet faces. Just be careful that their naïveté doesn’t cause problems.

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libRa (sept. 23-oct. 22): Life has a big, tough assignment for you. Let’s hope you’re up for the challenge. There’s not much wiggle room, I’m afraid. Here it is: you must agree to experience more joy and pleasure.

The quest for delight and enchantment has to rise to the top of your priority list. to be mildly entertained isn’t enough. to be satisfied with lukewarm arousal is forbidden.

It’s your sacred duty to overflow with sweet fulfillment and interesting bliss. find ways to make it happen! scoRPio (oct. 23-nov. 21): you may have

never sampled the southeast Asian fruit called durian. It’s controversial. some people regard it as the “king of fruits,” and describe its taste as sweet and delicious. naturalist Alfred russel Wallace said it was like “a rich custard highly flavored with almonds.” but other people find the durian unlikable, comparing its aroma to turpentine or decaying onions. tV chef Anthony bourdain asserts

sagittaRius (nov. 22-Dec. 21): talking will be your art form in the coming week.

It’ll be healing and catalytic. you could set personal records for most engaging phone conversations, emails, text messages, and face-to-face dialogs. The sheer intensity of your self-expression could intimidate some people, excite others, and generate shifts in your social life. Here are a few tips to ensure the best results. first, listen as passionately as you speak. second, make it your intention to communicate, not just unload your thoughts. tailor your messages for your specific audience. Third, reflect on the sometimes surprising revelations that emerge from you.

They’ll give you new insights into yourself. caPRicoRn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Let’s say you want to buy an 18-karat gold ring. to get that much gold, miners had to excavate and move six tons of rock. Then they doused the rock with poisonous cyanide, a chemical that’s necessary to extract the good stuff. In the process, they created toxic waste. Is the gold ring worth that much trouble? While you ponder that, let me ask you a different question. What if I told you that over the course of the next five months, you could do what’s necessary to obtain a metaphorical version of a gold ring? And although you would have to process the equivalent of six tons of raw material to get it, you wouldn’t have to use poison or make a mess. Would you do it?

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mated movie version of Alice in Wonderland, Alice says to herself, “I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it.” I hope you won’t be like her, Pisces. It’s an excellent time for you to heed your own good advice. In fact, I suspect that doing so will be crucial to your ability to make smart decisions and solve a knotty problem. This is one of those turning points when you really have to practice what you preach. you’ve got to walk your talk.

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gemini (May 21-June 20): When I attended the university of California at santa Cruz, my smartest friend was Gemini writer Clare Cavanagh. she headed off to Harvard for her graduate studies, and later became a preeminent translator of Polish poetry. Her work has been so skillful that nobel Prize-winning Polish poet Czselaw Milosz selected her as his authorized biographer. Interviewing Milosz was a tough job, Clare told blogger Cynthia Haven. He was demanding. He insisted that she come up with “questions no one’s asked me yet.” And she did just that, of course. formulating evocative questions is a Gemini specialty. I invite you to exercise that talent to the hilt in the coming week. It’s prime time for you to celebrate a Curiosity festival.

once the transit was done, Cook opened the sealed orders he had been given before leaving england. They revealed a second, bigger assignment, kept secret until then: to reconnoiter the rumored continent that lay west of tahiti. In the coming months, he became the first european to visit the east coast of Australia. I foresee a comparable progression for you, Leo. The task you’ve been working on lately has been a prelude. soon you’ll receive your “sealed orders” for the next leg of your journey.

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If this is the first time you’re sexually attracted to someone of the same gender, it doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re gay. Perhaps this person has qualities you’ve never found in another person, and his or her gender — or physical appeal — is secondary. Or maybe you’re confusing admiration with attraction.

You don’t have to be sexually active with someone to determine your sexuality. Nor do one or two sexual encounters with someone of the same gender mean that you’re gay or bisexual — those can be isolated experiences based on a connection you have with that specific person.

Everyone realizes their gender identity or sexual orientation in their own time. I have friends who knew they were gay when they were children, and others who only discovered their true orientation as adults. It’s not my place — or anyone else’s — to label you as gay, straight, bi or anything in between. It’s up to you to discover and develop.

How would you feel about experimenting with these feelings? Exploring and taking chances can help you better understand and recognize your sexual orientation, even if it’s something you thought you had all figured out. Next time you meet someone you’re attracted to who is transgendered, ask him or her out and see where it goes.

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