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Chef Joe honors Vermont summer corn with a sweet and savory line up of 100% total cornage.

Oh, plus Farmhouse’s 3rd annual East Side Cornhole Tourney. It’ll be corn-tastic!

Welcome CALEDONIA SPIRITS! Thursday, August 1st 5pm to close

These fine Hardwick distillers have one simple goal: to make spirits out of the best ingredients they can find!

Join us as we celebrate their dedication to the VT land with Caledonia Spirits inspired cocktails. Moscow Mule, Kir Royale, Corpse Reviver #2 & more. The kitchen’s getting in on the festivities, too, with Barr Hill Vodka cured salmon!

Visit our website to see what’s coming up next!

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lawyer said Higbee had “a couple glasses of merlot” shortly before he left the club.

Hours before Higbee was arrested, the Abbey posted a message on its Facebook page that turned out to be weirdly prescient.

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That’s how many employees were laid off from IBM’s Essex Junction plant, according to the Vermont Department of Labor. Last week, IBM dropped its efforts to keep the number a secret.

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he Burlington Police Department’s secondin-command found himself on the wrong side of a sobriety test this week — and it wasn’t the first time.

Just after midnight on Sunday, July 21, state police stopped Deputy Police Chief Andi Higbee in Sheldon after he allegedly failed to use a turn signal. Higbee was off-duty and returning home to Colchester after a Jamie Lee Thurston concert at the Abbey Pub & Restaurant in Enosburg, according to his lawyer, Brooks McArthur.

As reported on the Off Message blog, Higbee was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence and cited to appear in court on August 12. But state police refused to release Higbee’s blood-alcohol content — and, as it turns out, that’s where things get weird.

McArthur says Higbee blew two breath tests.

The first came out at .077, under the legal limit of .08. But for some reason, Higbee blew again, and this time registered a BAC of .083. McArthur says Higbee didn’t have to blow again, but did so at the trooper’s request.

This isn’t Higbee’s first drunk-driving charge.

As the Burlington Free Press reported, Higbee pleaded guilty to DUI in 1999 after crashing into a telephone pole and barn on Spear Street in Charlotte. Higbee told state police he drank too much at a party, according to the Freeps, and registered .148 on the breath tester. As a result, Higbee paid a $300 fine and was briefly demoted.

This time, the 44-year-old deputy chief has been placed on paid administrative leave.

Burlington Police Chief Michael Schirling says he’s hiring an outside investigator to determine whether Higbee’s arrest violates departmental personnel policies.

McArthur, who also represented Winooski cop Jason Nokes in his 2011 DUI case, believes he can show Higbee wasn’t legally drunk at the time he was pulled over. The

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I would like to make a clarification to last week’s “State of the Arts” article entitled “Burlington Ensemble to Bring Summer Serenades to Shelburne Farms and Other Venues.” The Vermont Symphony Orchestra was not “rained out” for the past two years, as stated, but rather “rained in.” We performed for 1500 people at the indoor site associated with the Shelburne Farms venue. This year, the audience was treated to a wonderfully rich program and a special selection of vocal pieces from the Great American Songbook with guest artist Sara Jean Ford. We have been presenting the Summer Festival Tour statewide for well over 50 years, and we perform rain or shine. Our audience is glad we do.

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Thanks for the Cartoon Issue [July 3]!

Great timing, too, right in the middle of the intensive cartooning workshop I teach at the University of Vermont. It gave the class lots to read and talk about. I appreciated the variety of styles and range of subject matter. I hope you’ll publish another one

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next year — or even sooner — maybe even consider having more regular comics reviews and features?

I’d also love to see a more encompassing call for submissions — in your own paper, perhaps? I’ll bet that members of the newly formed Burlington Comics Club would be happy to contribute to the action, as well as other unaffiliated cartoonists who may be lurking across the state.

You know you’re getting quality when your cartoonists are from the Center for Cartoon Studies — and there is a wider world, even in Vermont!

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The indictment of Winooski Police Corporal Jason Nokes is being portrayed as a political gamble for both T.J. Donovan and Bill Sorrell [“Why Prosecutors Asked a Grand Jury Whether to Charge a Winooski Cop,” July 17]. The sad irony is that it is true. This case is not about truth and justice; this case is about two public and political figures trying to jockey themselves into position for the next election. They have no concern for how this course of action affects Cpl. Nokes or any other law enforcement member.

They are not concerned with how this game affects his professional career or even his personal life. They are only concerned with how this case can elevate their hopes for election. I can assure you that they are not gaining any votes from anyone who

wEEk iN rEViEw sees the true meaning of this game. It is truly unfortunate that we can’t rely on our leadership, especially those we elect, to set the correct example. Shame on them for their failed leadership. We need to stand behind the men and women in uniform who protect and serve our communities.

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conduct. They use their gang affiliation to recruit and intimidate others. I think Joe Mollner was correct when he said it doesn’t take large numbers of gang members to cause real problems. I too think we must be careful not to fuel stereotypes, or incite racial profiling, but we cannot ignore the reality of the problem. Just a final point of fact: Many of our “gang bangers” are white and homegrown.

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[Re “Why Prosecutors Asked a Grand Jury Whether to Charge a Winooski Cop,” July 17]: If the attorney general and state’s attorney were willing to call a grand jury to decide whether to bring charges against the Winooski cop who shot and wounded Isaac Sage, why can’t they call a grand jury to investigate the death by Taser of Macadam Mason?

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[Re “Unhappy Endings,” June 5; Feedback, “Burlington or Topeka?” June 26]: Unlike your massage-parlor reporter — too cowardly (or p-whipped) to admit to a shred of titillation — I thoroughly enjoy seeing scantily clad women. I haven’t been to a massage parlor because I don’t like the format, not because I have anything against them. However, Vermont authorities should promptly find out if any kind of coercion was involved at the massage parlors, then promptly send traffickers to the genital guillotine. If no coercion, no punishment.

I have spent more than my fair share of time in strip clubs and know the drill well.

Generally speaking, the dancers rule. The idea that they are submissive, somehow being exploited, is pure do-gooder porn.

They tease cash out of customer’s pockets in prodigious quantities — and not just the beautiful ones, either. Personality is at least as important as looks in this regard.

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Hats off to Seven Days, Andy Bromage, Mary Alice McKenzie and Burlington Police Chief Michael Schirling for speaking out about a very real and growing “serious problem” [“Mary Alice McKenzie Wants to Talk about Gangs. Is Burlington Ready to Listen?” July 17]. The issue is not isolated to Burlington, St. Albans or Rutland. It is a problem that has begun to plague many communities across the state. St. Albans has struggled with this issue for several years now. Chief Schirling, myself and several other police chiefs, sheriffs, corrections officials and drug team leaders participated in a meeting a couple of months ago in Rutland to discuss this phenomenon and try to determine how widespread the problem is. We shared ideas about best law enforcement practices when interacting with these individuals, and we shared ideas about gang prevention and educating our respective communities about this problem.

I think we all came away from that meeting with a clear understanding that Vermont is, in fact, experiencing a growing gang issue that is deeply intertwined with illicit drug activity. Some of the individuals that have come to our communities from out of state quickly connect with locals and existing fringe networks to ply their trade.

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Private Function Space In a totally bizarre coincidence, Burlington Deputy Police Chief ANDI HIGBEE and Newport Mayor PAUL MONETTE Private Group Tastings were both involved in separate alcoholrelated driving incidents early Sunday morning, according to the Vermont State Corporate Events Police. & Workshops Higbee was popped for a DUI on his way back from an Enosburg concert, though his lawyer claims he blew a .077 the first time the staties measured his bloodalcohol content. A second breathalyzer reading found him over the state’s .08 legal driving limit.

Monette, meanwhile, rolled over and wrecked his Toyota Prius on I-91 in Barton.

The cops say alcohol and speed contributed to the one-car crash, which is still 126 College St., Burlington under investigation.

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Lippert says he’d been considering introducing such legislation for years and finally greenlighted it in May after the National Transportation Safety Board issued a nonbinding recommendation for states to lower the limit to .05. The board said at the time that when drivers cross that threshold, most “experience a decline in both cognitive and visual functions which significantly increases the risk of a serious crash.”

According to National Highway Traffic Safety Administration data, 23 of Vermont’s 55 vehicular fatalities in 2011 involved alcohol-impaired drivers. Of those, five involved drivers who blew between .01 and .07 — under the legal limit.

So will Lippert’s bill speed through Montpelier when the legislature reconvenes in January? The chairman says he’s received plenty of positive feedback since WCAX’s KYLE MIDURA first reported on the bill last month.

But a number of high-ranking pols seem disinclined to lower the limit.

“I’m not convinced, and I’d really need to be convinced that this would solve our problem,” says Senate Judiciary Committee chairman DICK SEARS (D-Bennington), who says he’d rather focus on chronic re61 Church Street offenders. “I just think it would end up making more people criminal.” www.aristelle.com The Vermont Department of Health 802-497-3913 has yet to take a position on the proposal,

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according to deputy commissioner BARBARA CIMAGLIO, and Gov. PETER SHUMLIN is cool to the idea. In a statement, Shumlin spokeswoman SUE ALLEN said the gov would “welcome hearing more” about Lippert’s plan, but it “would not be a priority for the governor.”

Even Lippert’s own boss, House Speaker SHAP SMITH, says he “would want to know that it was really going to make a difference before we moved in that direction.”

And just wait for the state’s alcohol and restaurant industries to get involved.

“I’m really sick and tired of the new prohibitionists and what they’re trying to do to vilify alcohol in this country,” says Vermont Brewers Association executive director KURT STAUDTER. “This is a value-added sector in Vermont, and we’re vilifying it.”

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A PROPOSAL TO LOWER THE LEGAL LIMIT FROM .08 TO .05.

But Lippert says he’s not trying to be a narc — or to keep Vermonters from their favorite pastime: drinking.

“I’m not asking people not to drink,” he says. “I’m simply asking people not to be on the highway when they’re impaired.”

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Is Gov. Shumlin, who took on the “welfare state” during the last legislative session, at it again?

In January, you might recall, the gov sought to slash the Earned Income Tax Credit and place new caps on welfare benefits, pissing off liberals left and right.

Okay, mostly left.

So when the Department for Children and Families issued new emergency rules last month that would dramatically reduce the number of homeless Vermonters eligible to stay in motels when shelters fill up, you could be forgiven for assuming Shummy was sticking it to the poor once more.

The proposed policy assigned points to vulnerable Vermonters. For instance, those 65 and older would get one point, those in the third trimester of pregnancy would get two and those with a child under age 6 would get three points. To be eligible for a motel voucher, you’d need to collect 6.

The reaction from advocates for the homeless was swift and fierce. Vermont Affordable Housing Coalition coordinator

ERHARD MAHNKE fired off a quick missive to legislative leaders saying he and his colleagues were “universally stunned and outraged” at what they saw as “an impending disaster.”

To strip away temporary shelter from those who failed to reach six points before new anti-homelessness programs are in place, Committee on Temporary Shelter director RITA MARKLEY said at the time, is like “pulling away the life raft before people know how to swim.”

So what was Shummy thinking?

Well, he was doing what the legislature told him to do!

From 2008 through 2012, state spending on motel stays more than quadrupled, from less than half a million dollars to more than $2.2 million. The next year, it nearly doubled again to $4.1 million.

Irate that many were abusing the program, House appropriators sought to slash funding to just $1 million — half of what Shumlin requested in his budget. The final appropriations bill directed the state to spend $1.5 million on the program, but it also mandated that the administration continue protecting specific groups of people.

To RICHARD GIDDINGS, the DCF deputy commissioner charged with implementing the new spending restrictions, the legislature’s orders were a tad contradictory.

“I think what they gave us was guidance about who we should serve,” he says.

“The challenge, of course, is that with that guidance they also put limitations on how much money we could spend to do that.”

Says Giddings’ boss, DCF commissioner DAVID YACAVONE, “When you go from $4 million to $1.5 million, what do you expect?”

Further complicating the situation was that after a rocky legislative session, Shumlin and the low-income advocates who had railed against his EITC and Reach Up proposals were trying hard to mend fences.

According to both sides, Shumlin sat down with five of his most vocal critics from that community two weeks ago to figure out how to avoid similar feuds in the future.

Subsequently, DCF put the new homeless motel rules on hold and pledged to work with low-income advocates to come up with a better system. On Tuesday, DCF presented a new plan, which guarantees motel access to homeless Vermonters who are elderly, disabled, pregnant or have children under 6.

“Needless to say, it’s a huge improvement,” Vermont Legal Aid attorney CHRISTOPHER CURTIS said Tuesday. “They get big credit for putting the brakes on this and taking the time to listen to advocates who work with these Vermonters.”

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So is everybody happy with Shummy’s spirit of compromise? Not exactly.

Sen. Tim Ashe (D/P-Chittenden), who has crusaded against the motel program for years, says he’s pleased the administration has refined its draft rules. But he says he’s worried the gov will spend more money on a failed program than the legislature directed him to — leaving less money for longer-term solutions to fight homelessness.

“The program has become dysfunctional, and it needs to be changed,” says Ashe, who argues that out-of-staters routinely come to Vermont to take advantage of it. “There is no question in my mind there are systemic problems — not anecdotal problems — that need to be addressed. And in that regard, the doom and gloom projected by some is distracting us from actually making a smart decision.”

So there you have it, doom-and-gloomers. This time it’s lefties like Ashe and his legislative cronies who are dishing out the tough medicine. And this time Shummy seems to be standing with his newfound friends in the low-income advocacy community.

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From the moment JAke Perkinson stepped down as chairman of the Vermont Democratic Party last March, the rumor in Montpelier was that he’d been tapped to run Shumlin’s reelection campaign.

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After all, Shummy’s two top political aides, Alex mACleAn and Bill loFy, moved on to other gigs last winter after the gov waltzed through his first reelection campaign. And none of the top political brass on the 5th floor of the Pavilion Office Building — chief of staff liz miller, legislative liaison louis PorTer and Allen, his spokeswoman and deputy COS — has much in the way of campaign experience.

But Perkinson does. The Burlington attorney and political consultant has spent years on the campaign circuit.

Sure enough, at a meeting of the Democrats’ state committee Saturday in Montpelier, Perkinson was named Shumlin’s representative to the party’s executive committee. That’s a post typically reserved for statewide Dems’ campaign managers, such as CArolyn dwyer and Jon CoPAns, who respectively run Sen. PATriCk leAhy’s and Congressman PeTer welCh’s reelection bids. Shumlin was previously represented on the committee by MacLean, who ran his 2010 and 2012 campaigns.

So does that mean Perkinson’s officially signed on to Shumlin 2014?

“No, I think at this point it means exactly what it is: that I’m the liaison between the Democratic Party and the governor,” Perkinson says, adding, “I don’t even think there is a campaign yet.”

Ah, yes! That old ruse. Though he’d been raising money for months, Shummy waited ’til last June to formally launch his reelection campaign and until September for the campaign kick-off.

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IF I DIDN’T HAVE CONFIDENCE IN JASON NOKES,

HE WOULD NOT HAVE REMAINED AN EMPLOYEE OF THE WINOOSKI POLICE DEPARTMENT. S TE VE M C Q U E E N

The indictment is not Nokes’ first brush with the law. In 2011, state police found the off-duty cop slumped over his steering wheel in the median of Interstate 89 in Colchester with a blood alcohol content five times the legal limit. Nokes pleaded guilty and was sentenced to one year of probation for what the judge described as the most serious case of drunk driving she had ever seen.

But Nokes kept his job, and Winooski Police Chief Steve McQueen refused to discuss the “discipline” he had imposed on his officer. Last week, however, McQueen released the officer’s disciplinary record in response to a public-records request by Seven Days.

The memo, dated October 4, 2011, shows that Nokes received a 14-day suspension, followed by an unspecified period

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of desk duty, for “conduct unbecoming a police officer.” It also notes that Nokes voluntarily participated in an intensive, inpatient treatment program immediately following his arrest. In the report, McQueen wrote that Nokes had “taken full responsibility” for his actions.

Asked about the punishment now, McQueen says, “That was my decision based on his performance, and I guess you could say that I felt he was that good of a police officer that he was worth keeping.”

McQueen says Nokes is a recovering alcoholic who did a “really good job of hiding it” prior to his DUI arrest. “It never interfered with his work. No one ever reported it,” says the chief, adding that Nokes has been sober for 18 months.

It seems as though at least one city official was aware of Nokes’ extracurricular activities, though. Former Winooski city manager Joshua Handverger wrote an email to Nokes in 2008 that became

public as part of a federal lawsuit Handverger filed after he was fired from his job. In the email, Handverger uses sexually graphic language to complain about McQueen and a former city attorney, then writes, “I could use a bender, Nokes style. You? Whadya think?”

McQueen’s attorney, Burlington lawyer Pietro Lynn, introduced the email in the Handverger case, but the chief says he doesn’t recall that it raised a red flag at that time. McQueen says “there was no doubt” Nokes used to go out, but it did not interfere with his job.

Another off-duty incident involving Nokes made headlines in 2007 and left the officer with potentially career-ending injuries. An allegedly abusive man followed his girlfriend to Nokes’ Milton home, where he slashed the cop with a Rambo-style hunting knife.

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hen Winooski Police Corporal Jason Nokes is arraigned on Thursday, a judge will hear about the encounter that led the cop to shoot a mentally ill man — and a grand jury to indict him on charges that include aggravated assault.

But no one in the Burlington courtroom will likely hear about Nokes’ prior criminal record. Lawyers suggest details of a past drunk-driving conviction and another off-duty incident won’t be admissible in court.

On April 25, Nokes shot Isaac Sage, a paranoid schizophrenic, in the leg following a scuffle in downtown Winooski that left the cop with a concussion and a broken nose. Assault charges against Sage were dropped after a state-contracted psychiatrist found him insane at the time of the incident.

On July 10, a Chittenden County grand jury indicted Nokes for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, reckless endangerment and providing false information to police investigators — a rarity in a state where cops are routinely cleared in use-of-force cases.

Meanwhile, Sage has hired a wellknown civil rights attorney, Robert Appel, to pursue a civil lawsuit against the City of Winooski and against Nokes personally.

“This could have been avoided 18 different ways,” says Appel, a former defender general and longtime executive director of the Vermont Human Rights Commission.

“Isaac Sage lived in the community for eight years without incident. The guy has serious mental health issues.”

The confrontation started when Nokes and another officer responded to a report that Sage was harassing women inside the gym of the Woolen Mill apartment complex. When Nokes located Sage walking on West Allen Street, he asked his name. Sage refused to provide it, so Nokes took steps to handcuff him, at which point Sage swung his fist and punched Nokes in the face.

After multiple Taser jolts failed to subdue Sage, Nokes drew his weapon and shot the man in the leg.

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County State’s Attorney T.J. Donovan cut Chamberlin a plea deal that came with no prison time — and no criminal record if he stayed out of trouble for two years — because witnesses contradicted Nokes’ account that the knife attack was unprovoked.

According to a 2008 report from WCAX-TV, Chamberlin had facial injuries consistent with being punched and told police that he slashed Nokes in self-defense after the off-duty officer assaulted him through the window

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of his car. Following the incident, Chamberlin’s girlfriend sought and received a relief-from-abuse order from Chamberlin.

Chamberlin did stay out of trouble for the next two years and his record was expunged as a result, leaving news reports as the only evidence of what transpired that night.

Reached last week, Donovan said that he could not discuss the case. But the WCAX report quotes Donovan saying at the time, “What happened that night we will never know. And if we don’t have facts and we can’t prove our case and there’s a legitimate self-defense claim, we’re not gonna go forward and lose outright. We’d rather go forward and get something.”

Asked about that incident now, Chief McQueen responds that while his department did not investigate the slashing, the evidence against

Chamberlin was strong enough that the judge accepted his guilty plea.

Nokes was never charged.

“If I didn’t have confidence in Jason Nokes, he would not have remained an employee of the Winooski Police Department,” McQueen says.

Likewise, Winooski City Manager Katherine “Deac” Decarreau says no one should rush to judge Nokes.

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The city’s findings won’t have any bearing on the upcoming criminal case — nor, in all likelihood, will Nokes’ past transgressions. His lawyer, Burlington attorney Brooks McArthur, says “prior bad acts aren’t in and of themselves relevant to a future case.” The DUI is in no way germane to the current charge, says McArthur, who represented Nokes in that case. As for the assault in Milton, McArthur comments, “There’s nothing to suggest that what he did was in any way inappropriate. Nothing to suggest he committed an offense.”

McArthur believes Nokes was the victim in the Milton incident, and contends he was in the April scuffle with Sage as well. Three months after the shooting, Nokes still suffers from headaches and has difficulty seeing out of his left eye, according to McArthur.

Appel will likely make a different argument about the relevance of Nokes’ history. He suggests the 2007 fight in Milton might be pertinent to the use of force against his client.

“I’m not in a position to pass judgment, but from what I’ve heard he has significant incidents in his past,” Appel says of the cop. “There may be more out there.”

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hen the Vermont Department of Health announced last week that mosquitoes trapped in Leicester had tested positive for West Nile Virus, Gary Meffe had good reason to feel vindicated.

Meffe chairs the Brandon-LeicesterSalisbury-Goshen (BLSG) Insect Control District, one of three Vermont mosquito districts and the only one that routinely applies a chemical pesticide called malathion. In 2012, an even more serious mosquito-borne disease, Eastern equine encephalitis, killed two Vermonters, one from Sudbury and another from Brandon.

The BLSG mosquito-control program hasn’t generated much controversy in its 20 years. But recently, some Addison County residents have voiced concerns that the mosquito district is spraying pesticide too close to homes, gardens and some bodies of water. Fueling that concern was a June 4 fish die-off in Fern Lake, which some people theorized was caused by malathion exposure. According to the National Pesticide Information Center, malathion is considered “highly toxic” to bees, some fish and other aquatic creatures.

Zak Saxe of Leiceister lives at the north end of Fern Lake and first reported the June 4 fish kill to the Vermont Department of Fish & Wildlife; Vermont Fish & Wildlife later identified eight different species among the dozens of dead fish found floating and washed up on the beach.

But Saxe’s complaints about the mosquito-eradication program go back several years. “For a while they were coming right down my driveway and bombing my garden with pesticides,” says Saxe, who responded by putting his three-acre property on a BLSG “nospray” list.

Against his wishes, his organic vegetable gardens still got sprayed periodically for several months thereafter. The mosquito treatment ceased only after someone at BLSG told him to erect signs along the road directing spray-truck drivers to avoid his property.

Saxes claims that when he confronted the drivers to complain, they couldn’t even tell him what chemical they were

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ENVIRONMENT using. “That stuff would drift inside my windows unless my windows were up,” he says.

Saxe suggests that such blunders are indicative of the “loosey-goosey” nature of BLSG operations. While he believes the people working there are fair and well intentioned, he says the pesticide

bodies of water, and BLSG claims it keeps at least 150 away. But several residents tell Seven Days they’ve seen trucks spraying closer than 100 feet from shore.

Saxe claims he was once standing in Fern Lake when a spray truck drove by, “and you can feel the pesticide touch

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applicators need better oversight from the state. All work part-time and have only limited training in the handling of hazardous chemicals.

The pesticide is applied using a fogger mounted in the bed of a pickup truck, which drives up and down roads and driveways spraying an ultra-fine mist on both public and private property. By law, the truck is required to stay at least 100 feet away from all

your eyeballs. It makes your eyes sting.

And that’s standing in the water!”

Lesley Wright has reported problems on her 100-acre organic farm, Stoney Lonesome Farm in Leicester, where she raises garlic, pumpkin and asparagus, as well as llamas, chickens and sheep.

Wright also put her property on the BLSG no-spray list but still got sprayed, an incident she had to report to her organic-certifying agency. Wright worries

that if the practice persists, she could lose her organic certification.

Wright says the public isn’t alerted before spraying commences, leaving no time to bring pets and livestock inside or to empty their water bowls. She has also had two bee colonies die off in recent years and suspects that malathion — which has a half life in soil and water of up to 17 days — may have been a contributing factor.

Wright says she understands the desire of some neighbors to treat the area, which is known for being one of the worst in Vermont for mosquitoes. But she worries about the “human toll” pesticides are taking. Noting that some international studies have linked malathion to shorter gestational periods in humans, she’d like to see the program “more skewed toward the green” before they “blanket the area” with a toxic chemical.

“If you stand at the fishing access on the night they’re spraying, you hear the trucks going up and down roads and driveways,” she adds. “You just don’t want to go swimming in there the next day.”

Meffe, the mosquito district chairman, acknowledges that pesticide applicators have made errors in the past.

However, since the fish kill occurred, he says, the district has renewed its efforts to keep the trucks well away from any water and the properties of people who don’t want the treatment. Meffe can’t say exactly how many people are on that nospray list but estimates it’s no more than a couple dozen.

“I come into this from the perspective of an environmentalist,” says Meffe, who notes that he was once the editor of the international scientific journal Conservation Biology. “Personally, I’m not out to spray the whole world with pesticides.”

Meffe explains that it would be impractical to alert the public whenever the spray trucks go out in the evening because they’re not on any set schedule.

The BLSG district maintains a mosquito hotline that residents can call to request a treatment. It’s free for any outdoor event, including weddings, barbecues and parades. Lately, Meffe says, the phone has been ringing off the hook.

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“We don’t know and at this point, we may never know,” confirms Matthew Probasco, an environmental analyst with the state Department of Environmental Conservation. “There was a window of opportunity to get a sample, but that window closed.”

Probasco says the Ag Agency analyst who would have tested for malathion was on vacation when the die-off occurred. Upon his return, Probasco says, the analyst was tied up in Rutland County, where a bed bug exterminator had sprayed a banned pesticide.

For his part, Meffe says that while he respects the “minority of residents” who don’t want to get sprayed, the vast majority of residents do want the treatment, as evidenced by the fact that four towns are willing to pay a combined total of $57,000 for it. He notes that after the district suspended spraying for just one night after the recent fish kill, the board got an earful from residents. The mosquito problem is so bad this year, he adds, “Most people here are just begging to be sprayed.” m

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Part of the problem, he says, is that BLSG has had a lot of spray-truck driver turnover. It doesn’t require very rigorous training, he acknowledges — only a half-day course or “taking some books home to study,” then passing a written exam.

“And, it’s not a very attractive gig either,” he adds, noting that drivers typically work from 8:30 p.m. until midnight, driving rural, unpaved roads and spraying a pesticide for $15 an hour.

“It’s more of a community service. No one’s getting rich doing this. And no one says, ‘When I grow up I want to drive a pesticide truck.’”

But Meffe, who’s also a retired fish ecologist and former college professor, downplays the likelihood that malathion played a role in the June 4 die-off.

BLSG has been using malathion-based pesticides for more than two decades without incident, he says, suggesting the fish died from natural causes.

“I’m very confident that that fish kill was due to spawning stress and high temperatures,” he says. Nevertheless, he acknowledges that no tests of the water or dead fish were done to confirm that theory. As a result, he says, “I’d be the first one who’d want to know if we need to change our practices.”

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eunions, especially after they pass the 25-year mark, can conjure equal degrees of anticipation and dread. Phantom Theater’s main stage show this summer, Pure Gold: A Phantom Reunion, on the other hand, promises hilarity along with moments of fantasy, storytelling, music and existential drama. It will celebrate the Warren venue’s past 28 years of experimental theater — bringing back previous performers to do so.

For the show, Phantom artistic director Tracy Martin and founder Cat Carr, who now lives in San Francisco, put out a call to actors and directors who cavorted onstage together from the mid1980s through the ’90s and now are furthering careers around the country. The feedback was instant. “I never dreamed we’d get so many positive responses,” Martin says.

All of the participants have contributed to a script for the reunion show via emails that Martin describes as “brilliant and hilarious.” This design-by-committee method of play construction recalls the process used for Phantom’s second show, Air Brains, in 1987. The brainchild of David Esbjornson, then fresh from an MFA at New York University, the show veered from the first Phantom show — the far more conventional Crimes of the Heart — and set the tone for future productions. Air Brains adapted material from T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land,” the musical South Pacific and Christopher Durang’s one-act “The Actor’s Nightmare.”

The reunion production will contain improvisation, literary references, music and movement. And a lot of humor.

“No one claimed to know what it was about,” Esbjornson says. “What we loved was that it had a freedom in it.”

Now an internationally acclaimed stage director (most recently for a Broadway production of Driving Miss Daisy), Esbjornson is in Warren this week along with an ensemble of old friends, practicing their alchemy to create Pure Gold.

Think of it as a contemporary Canterbury Tales — something like this: “A rag-tag band, drawn together by fate, journey across the country and return to the site of their former glory. Despite their differences and the intervening years, they are able to recapture that elusive and intangible essence that only an ancient art form can create — the delicate glimpse of possibility, on the warm breeze of a summer night.”

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by Jeanne Darst, who showed up at Phantom as an audience member in 1997 and returned over the next few years to perform two solo shows that she wrote — a sizzling “Sally on the Mount” and “Je Regrette Tout,” which was largely about her socialite, alcoholic mother. Darst included bits from the latter show in her well-received 2011 memoir, Fiction Ruined My Family. She’s a regular on

“This American Life” and is currently adapting her memoir as a pilot for HBO. But this week, she’s going for Gold.

In the Phantom tradition launched by Air Brains, the reunion production will contain improvisation, literary references, music and movement. And a lot of humor.

Jeff Carey, who has spent the past decade writing, directing and designing plays at Creede Repertory Theatre in Colorado, is the group-appointed “poobah” of Pure Gold. He’s joined by Ben Schneider, whose parents, Jane and Peter, have a home in Warren and are coproducing the reunion show. Schneider joined Phantom’s summertime production of Marriage Proposals while he was still a college student at the University of Michigan. After earning a theater degree, he worked with Carey at a theater in Chicago and, in 1995, adapted Luigi Pirandello’s The Oil Jar and Other Stories for a stage production at Phantom. Schneider traded theater for the restaurant business when he and his wife opened the Good Fork in Brooklyn, but he’s back this week.

Also on board is David Gammons, an acclaimed stage director in Boston; and Pamela Rickard, a Warren native and transplant to northern California. She

THEATER teaches theater in San Francisco and has employed her acting skills in conflictresolution workshops in prisons.

Actor David Sinaiko has created memorable roles at Phantom, including ones in On the Verge, or the Geography of Yearning and Back Bog Beast Bait, but he originally came to Warren to perform in Crimes of the Heart. One of his fond memories of the place is of meeting his wife, Annie Elias, at Phantom in 1986, when she took an acting class from Carr.

The couple returned to Phantom five years ago to write and act in Baron in the Trees. Elias now directs the theater department at Marin Academy; Sinaiko is a teacher, as well as associate artist at San Francisco’s the Cutting Ball Theater.

Rob Donaldson, also an NYU grad, was another actor who journeyed to Vermont to act in Air Brains. Now living in Cambridge, Vt., he performs occasionally in the Burlington area.

Martin took the reins of Phantom, along with Calais resident Annie Wattles, after Carr left, and has maintained the theater’s priorities: experimentation and education. Carr started Little Phantom Theater in the mid-’80s, and Martin still runs an acting camp for kids each summer. Some veterans of that camp are back this week: Ramsey Brown, 30, who grew up in Fayston, has returned to perform her solo show, “Stop, Drop and Roll,” this weekend. She is also in Pure Gold. Miranda Kahn, 26, is an Elias protégée and graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts; she has a supporting role in the production.

The youngest member of the troupe is 17-year-old Maia Sinaiko, daughter of Elias and Sinaiko. She’ll be performing music for the reunion show — and surely making her own memories in the Phantom family.

Full disclosure: Janet Hubbard is on the Phantom Theater board; Ramsey Brown is her daughter.

“Stop, Drop and Roll” by Ramsey Brown, Friday and Saturday, July 26 and 27; Pure Gold: A Phantom Reunion, Wednesday through Saturday, July 31 through August 3, both 8 p.m., at Phantom Theater, Edgcomb Barn, in Warren. $15. Info and reservations, 496-5997. More summer programming on the website, phantomtheater.info.

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JIM SABATASO, editor of the weekly Harmony Hammond, Artist-in-Residence Saturday, July 27, 9:15 am But if a do-over could be arranged, Rutland Reader, agrees that the moniHarmony Hammond is an artist, art writer, and independent curator who lives and works in branding specialists ker lends itself to Galisteo, New Mexico. Considered a pioneer of the feminist art movement, she lectures, would surely recom“lazy jokes,” but he writes, and publishes extensively on painting, feminist art, lesbian art, and the cultural mend calling the city, acknowledges that representation of “difference.” Hammond has had over 40 solo exhibitions and her work has the town and the “there’s been a hisbeen shown internationally in venues such as the New Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Bronx Museum, MoMA P.S. 1, Museum of Contemporary Art and the Hammer Museum, National county something tory of not loving Museum of Women in the Arts, Walker Art Center, Vancouver Art Gallery, Neue Galerie, other than Land of the name.” Residents Museum of Contemporary Arts (Havana), and Frieze New York. She has received numerous Rut. have occasionally fellowships including the John Simon Guggenheim, Joan Mitchell, Pollock-Krasner FoundaAs an anonymous suggested at comtion, and the National Endowment for the Arts. chatter pointed out munity meetings that Hamza Walker, Guest Speaker Monday, July 29, 4:00 pm in an online forum a rebranding might Since 1994, Hamza Walker has served as Director of Education/Associate Curator for The in 2010, the name help improve the Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, a non-collecting museum devoted to suggests “someplace city’s image, Sabataso contemporary art. Recent exhibitions he has curated include Black Is, Black Ain’t (2008), Several people are stuck in reports.

Silences (2009), Anna Shteynshleyger, a survey (2010), The Age of Aquarius (2011), Local Metrics JI M S A B ATA S O and can’t get out of.

A name change (2012), and John Neff, Photographs 2010-2012 (2013). He was the recipient of the 2005 Walter Hopps Award for curatorial achievement, a 2006 Emily Hall Tremaine Award for the Either that, or horned isn’t likely, however, exhibition Black Is, Black Ain’t, and the 2010 Ordway Prize. He has written for numerous animals having sex in the streets.” so some local boosters have adopted the artists’ monographs in addition to publications such as Artforum and Parkett.

There’s also the Rutles. lemon/lemonade strategy of sweetenFormer Monty Python member Eric ing that which is sour. Rutland musician Sandra de la Loza, Guest Speaker Tuesday, July 30, 4:00 pm Idle created this Beatles parody band RICK REDINGTON is generally credited, Sandra de la Loza is a Los Angeles based artist whose work critically investigates questions of for BBC television in the 1970s. He Sabataso says, with coining the bumperpower and representation within contemporary political, social, and cultural landscapes. She is the founder of the Pocho Research Society (PRS), an on going collaborative project dedicated named the group for England’s small- sticker declaration: “It isn’t a rut. It’s a to the systematic investigation of place and memory through archival and curatorial projects est county — a landlocked, nondescript deep groove.” and public interventions. De la Loza has exhibited in Los Angeles, New York, Madrid, Mexico place viewed by hip Londoners as a sadWhat about “RutVegas”? Where did City, and Cairo. She has collaborated with other artists and activists to generate artist-led arse backwater. Yes, the Rutles came the nickname come from? spaces for community activism and critical dialogue. from Rutland.

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ub crawls tend to be riotous affairs. Poetry readings, not so much. What happens when you combine them?

Some attendees of this fall’s Burlington Book Festival will find out, courtesy of a new business called Renegade Writers’ Collective.

They’ll board the ArtsRiot bus for a “literary pub crawl” with stops at five venues and writing prompts along the way, ending with a performance by PoJazz.

It’s just one of many activities RWC owners Jessica Hendry Nelson and Angela Palm have planned for the area’s “literary citizens” this fall. RWC has many facets: It’s a writing center with headquarters at Burlington’s recently opened Karma Bird House. It’s an editing service. It will run reading series, an annual writers’ retreat — coming up this September in Lincoln — and seminars with writing professionals, including Vermont poet laureate Sydney Lea. Everything kicks off this Saturday with a reading at Burlington’s JDK Gallery, featuring Canadian short-story writer Andrew F. Sullivan and Maine folk duo the High Spirits.

Nelson, 29, and Palm, 31, moved to Vermont in 2011 from New York and Indiana, respectively. They met at the Burlington Writers Workshop, where they discovered they were both “looking for a larger community” of writers, Palm says. Palm has an editing background

and is working on an anthology of writers’ reflections on vintage Vermont library slips. Nelson teaches writing at Johnson State College and has a memoir in essays forthcoming in February from Counterpoint Press.

Many writers, the two women say, seek in vain for instruction that’s more formal than workshop feedback but doesn’t entail the commitment and cost of an MFA program. That’s what they hope to offer with their short seminars — and perhaps, starting in January, longer classes. Their model is Boston’s Grub Street, which offers writers an array of workshops, manuscript assistance and readings. The aim is to have “something for everyone, no matter what sort of writing or what level you’re at,” Palm says.

The 14 fall seminars cover a range of writing issues and genres, with instructors ranging from Lea to young-adult author Rachel Carter to Janice Obuchowski, a member of the New England Review’s editorial board. How did the Renegades snag the laureate? Palm says she got to know Lea as a contributor to her anthology: “He was super-excited and eager to get something going with us.”

So what’s “renegade” about RWC? Nelson says it started as the name she and Palm gave their own small writing group — and stuck. “It suggests fresh, multidisciplinary, a little bit edgy, and not staid and boring,” she says, adding

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with a laugh, “It’s not your grandpa’s writing center.”

Indeed. RWC is partnering with ArtsRiot to hold readings at the latter’s soon-to-open Pine Street gallery-café.

Nelson and Palm plan to shake up the classic podium model with a competitive “reader face-off” and events featuring visual art, music and food (“meatball cook-offs,” Nelson suggests with a grin).

They’ll take the reins of ArtsRiot’s storytelling night and give it a “camp-fire tales” spin with themed refreshments.

And one of the readings they plan for fall is devoted to science fiction, highlighting writers such as Geek Mountain State’s Andrew Liptak, who blogs about SF and more for Kirkus Reviews.

Writing tends to be a solitary activity, but public reading “builds up writers from a craft perspective and builds up an audience,” Palm says. She and Nelson hope to do the same with their other offerings. All in a day’s work for a couple of renegades. m Renegade Reading Series. Saturday, July 27, 6 to 10 p.m. at JDK Gallery in Burlington. $5 suggested donation.

Renegade Writers’ Collective First Annual Writers’ Retreat. Friday through Sunday, September 27 to 29, at Zeno Mountain Farm in Lincoln. $200. Space is limited; more info and registration form at renegadewritersvt.com.

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t was 150 years ago this week in Burlington’s City Hall Park that John Lonergan, commander of Vermont’s “Irish company,” was welcomed home as a Civil War hero.

To mark the occasion, Lonergan’s great-granddaughter, Montréal resident Maureen Slattery, is scheduled on Saturday to unveil a historical marker in the park that describes her ancestor’s valor on the killing fields of Gettysburg.

But the plaque omits mention of another notable, and controversial, aspect of Lonergan’s life. He was the leader of the Vermont branch of the Fenian Brotherhood, a forerunner of the Irish

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Republican Army. Like the IRA, the Fenians waged an armed campaign to end British rule of Ireland.

Following the Civil War, Lonergan helped organize a pair of failed raids into Canada from staging areas in St. Albans. The Fenians’ quixotic aim was to

pressure Britain, which ruled Canada as a colony, to surrender control of Ireland.

William McKone, the organizer of the July 27 ceremony in City Hall Park, details Lonergan’s eventful life in a 2010 biography titled Vermont’s Irish Rebel. The white-bearded McKone recently offered a capsule version between bites of Kilree chicken and sips of Woodchuck cider at Rí Rá Irish Pub on Church Street.

Lonergan (1837-1902) immigrated to Vermont in 1848 as a famine refugee and member of a rebel family on the run from repression as well as from hunger.

He worked with his father in Winooski as a cooper. Seeking military skills to

apply to the cause of Irish freedom, Lonergan in 1862 formed a company of fellow Vermont Irishmen who volunteered to fight the Confederates. Their important contributions to the Union victory at Gettysburg earned Lonergan the Medal of Honor.

McKone said he had no choice but

“Heroes of Gettysburg” Civil War reenactment. Saturday, July 27, 4 p.m. in Burlington City Hall Park; dedication of historical marker at 5 p.m.; program in Burlington City Hall Auditorium from 6 to 8 p.m. Free. Info, 644-2433. 18th-vt.org

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Murray was no Ethan Allen, by the way. “He was a Tory,” Davidson points out. “He was on the wrong side of the American Revolution.”

Rutland may have a lot to live down, but things have been looking up for the city that advertises itself as “Vermont’s Hometown.” With $2.5 million invested downtown in the past two years, 90 percent of the first-floor retail space is now occupied, Coppinger reports. Plus, Rutland is developing a regional reputation for fine dining, he says.

Footnote: When my kids were little and we lived in Orwell, they referred to the nearby city as “Rutty-tut-tut.”

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quitting the NSA because it’s “the best place to live,” he said. McKone does occasional work from his home in Cambridge as a translator of Russian, German, Czech and Slovak. At age 61, he earned a master’s degree in military history from Norwich University.

McKone also takes part in Civil War reenactments, and was pleased to pose in his woolen Union uniform in City Hall Park on a recent 90-degree afternoon.

He’s making his debut as a playwright on the evening of the dedication of the Lonergan marker. Any Chance for Glory, a one-act show developed from McKone’s book, will be staged in Burlington City Hall Auditorium at 7 p.m. on Saturday.

“I’m not the sort to retire and fade away,” McKone remarked at Rí Rá, which he refers to as “my branch office in Burlington.” Indeed, the doughty Irish American might take as his motto the Irish battle cry inscribed on the Lonergan marker in City Hall Park: Faugh a Ballagh — “Clear the way!”

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to acquaint contemporary Vermonters with Lonergan’s exploits. “He reached out of the grave, grabbed my ankle and said, ‘You’ve got to tell my story,’” McKone related. Lonergan is buried in St. Joseph Cemetery in the Old North End. McKone, 76, has an interesting story of his own.

He described himself as “the ultimate flatlander,” who grew up on the dusty plains of south Texas. McKone served in the U.S. Army in the 1950s and later became an intelligence analyst for the National Security Agency, working at a post in Cold War-era West Germany for six years. McKone resigned from the NSA in 1983 in protest, he said, of President Ronald Reagan’s decision to tap Americans’ phone lines.

Asked to spill a few secrets, McKone demurred, drawing a distinction between himself and NSA leaker Edward Snowden. “I signed a lifetime oath not to reveal information” about the NSA, McKone noted. “I’m honoring it.” William McKone He came to Vermont soon after

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Coppinger and Sabataso both suggest it’s based on the Route 7 strip of gas stations, car lots and fast-food drivethroughs. While it may not match the Las Vegas strip in glitter and glamour, RutVegas does inspire more than its fair share of irony.

Could another sort of strip — frequently performed in Vegas — be an inspiration, as well? Sabataso notes that a topless club did business in downtown Rutland at one point in the ’90s.

Warning to Burlington snobs: While it’s OK for homies to refer to their ’hood as RutVegas, outsiders will court trouble if they’re heard using the term, Coppinger and Sabataso advised in separate interviews.

Unlike other places examined in this series, Rutland has no mystery or dispute regarding the origins of its official name. JIM DAVIDSON, a curator for the RUTLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY, explains

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“Green Mountain Coffee. We have some great ideas for getting them on some TV shows.”

“Oh, they are a real Vermont success story. The company’s grown by leaps and bounds. A good friend of mine is basically putting his younger kid through college on his investment in Green Mountain Coffee stock.”

The Bolton Flats were dry as a bone, which made for smooth sailing. I had almost forgotten what a pleasure highway driving can be when it’s not pouring rain.

This young woman’s enthusiasm was energizing, as well.

The 21st-century employment outlook has been brutal for so many, but less so for young folks like Danielle with the skill set demanded by the so-called new economy.

Among those skills, high-tech savvy is requirement No. 1.

As a baby boomer still flummoxed by microwave ovens, let alone smartphones, I wouldn’t stand a chance if I were just now entering the workforce. Thank goodness for my trusty cab, I thought.

We got off at the Waterbury exit and headed north to Stowe. I had to fight the urge to turn into the parking lot as we passed the Ben & Jerry’s factory. I’ve heard a rumor that the company has resurrected the White Russian flavor. I mean, my God, are they trying to kill me?

Recovering from the momentary Ben & Jerry’s fever, I said, “So I gather Chicago

It’s lIke random people pass through my taxI day after day.

Yet somehow it never feels trulY random to me.

isn’t your hometown. Where had you been living?”

“Mostly New York City. I graduated a couple years ago from St. John’s University.”

“That’s an excellent school, I understand. The campus is in Queens, right?”

“Yeah, the main campus is in Queens, but I lived in the school dorm located in Soho, in Manhattan, which, if you don’t know, is, like, one of the coolest neighborhoods in the whole city. We didn’t know how good we had it until we graduated and found out a decent apartment in Soho goes for, like, $3000 a month! My roommate and I quickly relocated to Brooklyn right after graduation.”

“Well, I hear Brooklyn is considered pretty cool itself right now, so I guess that wasn’t too bad.”

“Yes, I enjoyed my time in Brooklyn, but I really love Chicago. It fits my personality so well — the theater, the restaurants. I’m living just outside the Loop. Oh, I just love it all. Hey, does my visor have a mirror? OK if I use it?”

“Sure, be my guest.”

Danielle flipped down the visor, opened the mirror and began readjusting her hair, saying, “I might be walking directly into an important meeting with the client, and I’m a mess.”

I said, “Let me assure you that you’re most definitely not a mess. Your hair is amazing, actually. Is that what they call strawberry blonde?”

“Well, thank you so very much. I’m a 100 percent natural, for-real strawberry blonde.

Beware the imposters out there. There are many variations on blonde that people call ‘strawberry blonde,’ but the genuine article is blonde hair with reddish undertones, and it’s actually a pretty rare thing.”

“I shall be on the lookout for false claimants. Hey, so what happened this morning with your plane? Why’d ya get bumped?”

Danielle chuckled. “Well, I was traveling with my boss, and the flight — you know how it is these days — it was overbooked.

There was only room for one of us, and — well, she’s the boss.”

I chuckled in return and said, “I’ve no doubt that in a few years you’ll be the one bumping underlings off flights.”

Danielle smiled at the thought. “You know what?” she said. “I really didn’t mind.

I believe everything that happens in life has a purpose. I was mad for, like, two minutes, but then I realized I could read, and relax a little in the terminal. I also met a couple of awesome people at some random restaurant. It was, like, a little four-hour mini-vacation.”

“Danielle,” I said, “we are on the same page about all that. It’s like random people pass through my taxi day after day. Yet somehow it never feels truly random to me.

I have this strong sense that I keep meeting the people I’m supposed to meet, if you know what I mean.”

“I know just what you mean,” my random customer replied, smiling.

I glided to a stop in front of the venerable Green Mountain Inn. You don’t have to read the brochure or website to guess that this place has to have been around a long, long time to have dibs on the “Green Mountain” moniker.

“By the way,” I said after Danielle had paid the fare and was poised to step out of the cab, “your hair looks great.”

The young woman puckishly pursed her lips and nodded. “I know it,” she said. m

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I laughed, explaining, “It sure hasn’t been this spring and summer so far. It’s been raining daily, I mean at a recordsetting pace. So this big, sunny sky is a welcome relief. We could use a few weeks of it, particularly the farmers.”

Danielle Gilbert was originally scheduled to arrive in the morning on a flight from Chicago, but she was bumped to an afternoon departure, ultimately getting in just after four. Despite her air-travel woes, she was remarkably upbeat. It helped that she was still in her twenties with a good job that sent her to appealing locales like northern Vermont.

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the length of each winner’s Wikipedia entry, on the possibly debatable two-part theory that (a) long entry = noteworthy life = success, and (b) Wikipedia = vox populi = voice of God. I’ll spare you the byzantine methodology by which the above

an impression. If you can’t parlay that into a comfortable lifestyle, you’re doing something seriously wrong.

Perhaps more interesting is that one in nine became Stars, typically in the Hollywood sense of the term. A sampling:

concept was applied and skip straight to the results ultimately produced: • Meh, 5 percent (3 women).

• Modest, 23 percent (19).

• Successful, 63 percent (55).

• Star, 11 percent (10).

In sum, three-quarters of the Misses America went on to become Successful or better — no surprise, in my opinion. The women were attractive and ambitious and knew how to make

• Bess Myerson, who won the 1945 title, remained in the public eye for decades, first as a TV game-show regular and later as a New York City public official and politician.

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he Miss America title — boy, there’s a muchdevalued commodity.

Once the pageant was one of the biggest events on television, with 85 million viewers in 1960. Today ratings have fallen so low the contest briefly lost its big-time network slot and was consigned to basic cable.

Nonetheless, the fact that Miss America has been strutting her stuff since 1921 gives us a chance for a long-term look at whether being officially declared beautiful (and talented, let’s not forget that) pays off. As usual I delegated the job to my assistant Una, as usual she made a spreadsheet, and as so often we had acrimony and slammed doors.

The point of contention was the criteria for judging success.

Una looked at how the lives of each of the 87 winners from 1921 to 2013 turned out and categorized them as Dismal, Humdrum, Successful and Star. Spreadsheet v1, it seemed to me, betrayed a retrograde notion of what constituted success.

“Una,” I said, “the major lifetime achievement of Norma Smallwood, Miss America 1926, was to marry two millionaires, and you’re categorizing her as a Star. Whereas 1996 winner Shawntel Smith became executive vice president of administration for IT firm PBH Holdings,

and you’re calling that Humdrum.

What kind of message does that send to young women?”

“Shawntel Smith is married to the rich guy who ran PBH Holdings, which went through numerous reorganizations and name changes and lost hundreds of millions of dollars before he was forced out of the company amid accusations of shady dealing,” Una said. “To me the message is things haven’t changed much since the 1920s. She’s lucky I didn’t put her down as Dismal.”

“OK, not the best example,” I said. “Just the same we need a more systematic method of evaluation. Can you give it another go?”

By and by I received spreadsheet v2. This was an improvement. Miss America winners were now scored on a range of criteria, ranging from “married rich” (hey, we’re realists) to impact in politics, activism and showbiz, plus professional and educational attainment.

The scale of achievement also changed. No Miss America, in Una’s estimation, had led a truly Dismal life. Instead, the continuum of accomplishment started at Meh and ran up through Modest and Successful to Star.

The problem was the results didn’t pass the sanity test. The Miss America winners who had been most conspicuously successful didn’t crack the Stellar ranks. I know you specified financial success, Martha, but I thought we should cast a wider net, including fame and professional distinction in addition to fortune. After much angst we came up with a measure of the first two commodities, namely,

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• Lee Meriwether, Miss America 1955, has enjoyed a showbiz career that so far has spanned more than 50 years, appearing as Catwoman in the 1966 movie version of Batman and earning several Golden Globe and Emmy nominations.

• Phyllis George, the 1971 winner, became a network sportscaster and later morning news anchor for CBS. • Vanessa Williams, Miss America 1984, resigned her title under pressure after nude photos of her were published in Penthouse but got past that to become an award-winning actress, model and singer, as detailed in a Wikipedia entry running to more than 5000 words.

• Gretchen Carlson, the 1989 winner, has hosted “Fox & Friends” for years and will get her own show on Fox this fall.

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Looking Up, Looking Down D eath. Danger. Dizziness. Those are key concepts in the optical roller coaster that is “Wyeth Vertigo,” a highly stimulating exhibit at the Shelburne Museum this summer. And if the name “Wyeth” calls to mind only “that painting with the woman crawling up the hill,” you probably haven’t seen it yet. There is so much more to know. Not just about Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009) — whose iconic “Christina’s World” is, in fact, not in the show — but also about his father, Newell Convers (1882-1945), and about his son, Jamie (born 1946).

“Wyeth Vertigo” presents paintings by three generations of a great American art family whose output spans the 20th century and continues in this one. Each painting compels — and rewards — close viewing. But this is not only a selection of interesting artworks. The curatorial thesis itself is singular and fascinating: namely, that all three artists seem obsessed with disorientation, and that is manifested in their paintings as extreme perspectives.

This commonality gives viewers an overarching quest in the exhibit: to find their “You are here” equilibrium in relation to each picture, and then to contemplate, perhaps, why each artist chose such a swoony aspect. In his review of the exhibit, Boston Globe critic Sebastian Smee likens the process to trying to solve a crime, quoting Edgar Degas’ directive that “One must paint a painting as one commits a crime.”

It’s not entirely clear what Degas meant by his simile — perhaps a go-for-broke passion for the task at hand? Whatever. In Smee’s view, the “crime” in “Wyeth Vertigo” is one that can’t be solved. But the clues can be examined — no, experienced — one painting at a time, and the sensation of discovery is oddly satisfying. To recognize the pull of a Wyeth painting is to be more, not less, deeply enthralled. And the disquieting effect is not the lurching stuff of midway rides but a subtler, deeply emotional force.

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he Wyeths don’t achieve their unusual perspectives by sleight of hand or optical illusion but by sheer skill. “To train his son’s imagination and agility of viewpoint, N.C. had Andrew draw a skeleton from every conceivable angle and then took it away, demanding that he draw it from memory,” writes Joyce Hill Stoner in the exhibition catalog. Stoner, the director of the preservation studies doctoral program at the University of Delaware, has been the Wyeth family conservator since 1997. It was her visit to Shelburne a few years ago to examine the museum’s painting “Soaring,” by Andrew Wyeth, that instigated this exhibit.

During that visit, writes museum director Tom Denenberg in the catalog’s foreword, Stoner observed the Wyeths’ “predilection for paintings that look down, up, in, and out of odd spaces. This vertiginous sense of space serves to make the viewer ill at ease — at times literally

dizzy,” Denenberg continues, “and complicates our understanding of paintings that appear conventional on the surface but can be interpreted in a multitude of ways.”

“Soaring,” the 47-by-87-inch tempera painting purchased by museum founder Electra Havemeyer Webb in 1960, is not just the show’s genesis but a stunning example of its theme. First, it has a swirling, bird’s-eyeview perspective. In the foreground, a turkey buzzard spreads its wings high above broad, nearly featureless Pennsylvania fields. Two other buzzards float slightly beneath it. The birds of prey seem to be circling a tiny, vulnerable-looking white farmhouse far below. But the artist’s and viewer’s,vantage point is even higher than that of the highest bird, an impossible perspective unless you’re in a plane or … you’re another bird. And if so, critic Smee quips, “Must we consent to having such a deplorably ugly head?”

Then again, we could interpret this scene metaphorically: think bomber pilot. Andrew Wyeth began “Soaring” during World War II, abandoned it because his father dismissed the painting, and finally finished it in 1950, well into the Cold War. Paranoia and the possibility of danger from the sky were real. The catalog accompanying “Wyeth Vertigo” does not suggest that Andrew wanted us to overlay his picture with geopolitical significance, but it does note that he was “fascinated with height and flight.”

(By the way, the painting was finished two years before Daphne du Maurier’s story “The Birds” was published, and 13 before Alfred Hitchcock’s adaptation seared the menacing avian image into filmgoers’ minds.)

Just as significant is that the turkey buzzard in “Soaring” is beautifully, meticulously painted. As family legend has it, Andrew kept a dead specimen in his studio for more than a week, sketching it repeatedly. Several of

With three Wyeths, the Shelburne Museum invites viewers to shift perspectives B y Pam el a Pol s t on

those framed studies are displayed with the painting in the Shelburne’s exhibit and further demonstrate Andrew’s extraordinary skill as a draftsman. The dry, unforgiving medium of tempera, his palette of dull browns and the almost sinister sense of foreboding are also characteristic of his work. These stand in contrast to the gooshier watercolors and oils, and vivid color preferences, of both N.C. and Jamie.

Not all of Andrew’s perspectives are from on high; in “Winter Fields” (tempera, 17.25 by 41 inches, 1942), the eye level

from the family’s turf in Chadds Ford, Pa., and in dramatic seascapes from their island home off the coast of Maine. Yet one of the most alluring paintings in the exhibit is a 2001 interior by Andrew that could almost be European and medieval. Almost.

Titled “Sparks,” the tempera is large, nearly four feet square, and reiterates Andrew’s earthy palette. The work manipulates perspective in several ways. The subject is ostensibly the enormous, ungrated hearth and the fire burning within it. But the rear of the fireplace is a gaping,

notice that the work is a mirror-image replica of an actual watercolor, “Wolf Moon,” hanging just feet away.

Then, as you are inexorably drawn back to the painted hearth and begin to wonder about the unseen source of illumination from the left, your eye may alight on a small, previously unnoted item: a red-and-white L.L.Bean bag on the floor of the painted room. The casual but jarring detail snaps you back to present time and makes you smile. Andrew Wyeth has tricked you again.

According to Stoner, the Wyeth chal-

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f three generations of Wyeths liked to “throw people off balance,” as Stoner puts it, we might ponder whether the pattern is learned or encoded in the family’s DNA. Nature or nurture? Obviously, each artist could and most likely did learn from the others — both artistically and socially. But perhaps each artist, too, had his own reason for being a provocateur.

For his part, N.C. was a gifted illustrator who achieved a measure of fame with his paintings for such books as Treasure Island, yet he always wanted to be a fine

“Dark Harbor Fishermen” by N.C. Wyeth

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inky hole, like a cave you might fall into. A receding grid of square floor tiles draws the eye toward this central feature, and there’s a palpable sense of needing to duck your head: A dark beam along the low ceiling juts toward the viewer.

Adding to the claustrophobic feel is a dark wood wall in the right foreground, on which hangs a smaller painting. Momentarily distracted by it, a viewer of this exhibit may

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might be that of a worm or insect. A dead crow lies on the ground in the foreground, as black as an oil slick and painted with exacting detail, as are the sepia-colored botanicals surrounding it. A small farmhouse is tucked into the horizon line across a vast, brown field. Everything seems dead … and yet we can’t look away. It is, as Denenberg puts it, a “remarkable” painting.

“Wyeth Vertigo” is rich in landscapes

artist. He was certainly a vicarious adventurer. “N.C. was kind of larger than life,” as Denenberg puts it. He was born too late to belong to the “manly man era” of Theodore Roosevelt, Denenberg says.

Yet the subjects of N.C.’s paintings “From an Upper Snow Platform” and “The Eight Miners” — both from 1906 — depict men struggling heroically against nature. The testosterone seems all but mixed into the pigment.

These paintings also enhance their death-defying scenes with, yes, vertiginous angles. Will the men dig their way through the steep snowbanks, or will an avalanche

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To recognize the pull of a Wyeth painting is to be more, not less, deeply enthralled.

lenge extended from art into social life.

“The Wyeths are always testing you when you visit — it is a bit like Alice in Wonderland or [Through] the Looking Glass,” she writes in an email. “If Andy said, ‘May I refill your drink?’ that meant [his wife] ‘Betsy wants you to leave now.’

“Jamie might put a taxidermy squirrel in the oven and then ask you to check the roast and watch how you react,” Stoner continues. “You are always being quizzed on art or current events, or asked to react to their newest paintings.”

She concludes, “Truth is not always what it seems — in their homes or in their paintings.”

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bury them alive? The perspective alone creates a suspenseful narrative.

The threat of death and actual death recur in N.C.’s work. In one of his most chilling paintings, “The Drowning” (42-by-48-inch oil, 1936), an empty rowboat drifts on waves that lap at a dramatically rendered spit of land — its leaning, abstracted trees show N.C.’s experimentation with modernist styles. A murky shape in the water suggests the grisly fate of the boat’s former occupant.

N.C.’s work for children’s texts is no less unsettling. In “Just as the Baby’s feet cleared the ground,” a 45-by-24-inch oil from 1923, an eagle dangles a small blond child from its claws, wings upswept for takeoff. Simultaneously, a huge wolf leaps up to lock its jaws around the bird’s neck. The viewer/ artist is at ground level, looking up helplessly. The baby may have been saved, but the image is still terrifying.

More satisfying as works of art are N.C.’s genre paintings of fishermen at their quotidian occupation — works that reveal what Denenberg calls the artist’s “infatuation” with Winslow Homer. Particularly gorgeous is N.C.’s “Dark Harbor Fishermen” (35-by-38-inch egg tempera, 1943). Here the viewer has a towering advantage looking in on a close-cropped scene of men and small boats. One man stands knee deep in a dinghy filled with silvery fish, his job apparently to scoop them up with his long-handled net and deposit them in the cauldron-size basket held by another fisherman. All of the men are closely watching this process, and all are wearing hats, which from the viewer’s angle obscure their faces. A cluster of seagulls, too, is riveted by the sight of all those fish. These details render the scene intimate, the viewer somewhat voyeuristic.

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Burlington artist and cartoonist Harry Bliss was such a passionate Andrew Wyeth fan that, back in 2004, he wrote Wyeth a letter to tell him so. “I told Harry Bliss and An him how much his work drew Wyeth meant to me, and sent him a kids’ book I had just finished,” says Bliss, whose cartoons appear in the New Yorker and Seven Days. “He sent me a sweet letter back, saying he had one of my New Yorker cartoons in his studio and, when he was having a bad day, it cheered him up.

“His response gave me some sense of my place in the world,” Bliss adds, still humbled.

Wyeth, then about 87, told Bliss to come by and visit him if he was ever in the Chadds Ford, Pa., area. On a book tour not long after this exchange, Bliss was in the ’hood and stopped by.

“I had an armful of cartoon sketches,” Bliss recalls. “He asked me about Vermont and my family. He and his wife, Betsy, and I just sat and shot the shit. I eventually whipped out about 30 or 40 cartoons, and we laughed and had a great time. Andy really liked my drawing.”

At some point, Betsy had to run out for errands — but gave Bliss a pair of her hand-knitted wrist-warmers and snapped a photo of the two artists before she departed. “As soon as Betsy left, Andy told me what an amazing woman she was,” Bliss remembers. “And he said that when he had first proposed an illustration for the Saturday Evening Post, the editor wanted him to do 10 a year — essentially to become the magazine’s illustrator.”

But, Wyeth told him, “Betsy said, ‘You can’t do that — you are not meant to be an illustrator.’”

“So,” says Bliss, “Andy said no to the Saturday Evening Post. That was turning down a lot of money … [Betsy] took care of the business.”

Why was Bliss so inspired by Andrew Wyeth, whose works were never really au courant?

“I still can’t believe there wasn’t more praise for him,” he replies. “Aside from being remarkably skilled, there’s a somber tone in all his work that just resonates with me. There aren’t always figures [in the paintings], but there’s a jacket, a paint can, as if someone had just left. It’s just emotionally charged.”

His uncle, a fellow artist, Bliss adds, also admired the reclusive Wyeth. “When I told him I’d been to see Andrew Wyeth, he couldn’t believe it! ‘How did you do that?’” Bliss imitates. “‘Andrew Wyeth turned down an invitation to see President Kennedy!’”

Bliss counts himself lucky, indeed. “They were so sweet to me — I couldn’t believe how kind and giving they were,” he says. “Andy showed me this pencil sketch he was working on, this beautiful drawing of just Betsy’s hands while she was knitting.”

In turn, Bliss gave Andrew Wyeth the original of that New Yorker cartoon on his wall. The drawing was based on a classic Norman Rockwell illustration for the Saturday Evening Post depicting an overall-clad farmer seeing his son off to college. Except in Bliss’ version, the characters are rabbits, and the father says to the son: “Your mother wanted you to have this.

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N.C.’s use of tempera here — along with a seemingly luminescent pigment for the fish — makes one wonder: Did he learn about this then-modern paint from his son? Or was it the other way around?

Andrew Wyeth’s 1944 “Night Hauling” is nearly pitch-black, its lobster thief barely illuminated by bioluminescent organisms twinkling in the water. Either way, N.C.’s genre scene has a flat, black sea and richly saturated colors, contrasting with the glowing fish. It was four years before Jackson Pollock painted the seminal “Phosphorescence” in his transition to drip painting.

terrifying than are Jamie’s grandfather’s images of endangered mine workers or babies snatched by eagles.

Perhaps the most “Wyeth-y” of Jamie’s paintings in this exhibit is “Comet,” a 48-by-40-inch oil from 1997. The perspective is that of a seagull resting in the foreground, while a lighthouse dominates the center of the composition, sitting on the horizon line. Clouds squiggle across the early-evening sky and almost obscure the tiny comet. It’s a mere speck in the picture, yet Jamie gives it title status, as if to underscore both the dramatic natural phenomenon and our failure to take notice of it. We humans, in this case, are repreamie Wyeth surely benefits from the sented by the indifferent seagull. family name, yet, like any child of a As with the works of N.C. and Andrew, famous parent, he treads a path lit- Jamie seems to invite viewers to step into tered with great expectations. For an artist his point of view — but not necessarily to of lesser talent, these obstacles would stay. “Wyeth Vertigo,” indeed. be crippling. But the works in “Wyeth When Electra Havemeyer Webb purVertigo” demonstrate how the grandson chased “Soaring” in 1960, Andrew Wyeth of N.C. and son of Andrew has made his was on her short list of artists whose way — and made the Wyeth quirk of odd works she wanted to collect. According perspectives his own. to a previous museum administrator, Born in 1946 — among the first batch Denenberg writes in his foreword, Webb of baby boomers — Jamie shows more regarded Wyeth as “one of the greatcontemporary sensibilities. Like his est, if not the greatest, artist of our time; father, though, he has American, that is.” If eschewed trendiness. that qualifier spoke And like both his to the interests of one artistic forebears, he of the greatest collecembraces the macabre, tors of her time, it also but he has more fun signaled the museum with it. Jamie is also founder’s evolving more self-referential direction — from folk than his elders, but and decorative arts to not directly. Witness modern ones.

“Pumpkinhead-Self Unfortunately, JoY c E Hi l l St o NE r Portrait,” in which Webb died later that he wears a black year and did not get coat from one of the Wyeths’ infamous to pursue the names on her list. But the Halloween parties, his head replaced by a acquisition of “Soaring” proved prescient. jack-o’-lantern.

Not only did her approbation precede a Jamie is fond of portraying animals, shift in critical thinking about Andrew and while he doesn’t anthropomorphize Wyeth’s place in American art history, but, them, exactly, he sort of becomes them. 53 years later, the painting would engenDenenberg is of the opinion that the ram in der a world-class exhibit at her beloved “The Islander” (34-by-44-inch oil, 1975) is museum called “Wyeth Vertigo.” a psychological portrait of the artist, who Finally, Webb’s step toward contempois devoted to the isolated Southern Island rary art will find fresh expression at the he calls home and fiercely protective of his brand-new, year-round Pizzagalli Center privacy. Notorious for painting en plein air for Art and Education, which opens next inside a cardboard box to elude visitors, month on the museum’s campus.

Jamie creates that close-quarters perspecFor now, viewers have a chance to contive in “Winter Pig” (25-by-36-inch water- template the radical difference a change color, 1975). The artist is sitting inside the of perspective can make, artistically, vispigpen, looking — with his pig — out its cerally and psychologically. Asked why door at a snowstorm. The exterior white- people should come to this exhibit — all out makes the pen seem cozy rather than, self-serving reasons aside — Denenberg well, penned in. muses for a moment. Then he points out, Jamie’s deep connection to his island “Not all exhibits have a thesis. But, thanks is evident in numerous coastal paintings. to Joyce, this is a smart show. It adds to the And his respect for the region’s elements is conversation, and that’s what museums nowhere clearer than in “Spindrift (40-by- should do.” m 46-inch oil, 2010). The artist’s perspective surveys the island as if from a high cliff, or “Wyeth Vertigo” is at the Shelburne the viewpoint of a gull. The white house Museum through October 31. Info, at the island’s center seems imperiled by 985-3346. shelburnemuseum.org an angry, roiling sea. The scene is no less

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ocelyn Woods is having a love affair with the divine — and wants to share her spiritual ecstasy with the world through her art.

On the surface, it would be easy to assume that her “lover” has not been particularly kind or generous to her. Woods, 27, was born with a rare degenerative neuromuscular disease that is so “diagnostically anomalous,” she says, her doctors can’t even agree what it is. Unable to walk since the age of 12, Woods can sit upright for only two-hour increments before she has to lie down and regain her strength.

Her compromised immune system and weakened chest muscles leave her vulnerable to frequent respiratory ailments.

Yet, for all her physical limitations, Woods seems to have boundless energy and creativity for producing music, poetry and art. In the past year she’s created a series of art photos, including a project provocatively titled “Ecstasy of a Cripple: The Resurrection of Passion.” In it, she used her own body as her canvas for expressing her visions of spirituality, sexuality and the “malleable” nature of her bodily existence. Now she’s raising money for its sequel, titled “Ecstasy of a Cripple: We Are the Cure.”

I first learned of Woods several months ago, after she placed an employment ad in Seven Days looking for an exercise/wellness assistant to join “Team Jocelyn” — her name for the assistants she depends on to feed, bathe, dress and care for her. Despite her impaired mobility, she wrote, “I bask in the glorious feeling that awakens in the body as a result of empowered living.”

Woods lives in a house in Cambridge she shares with her mother on the edge of a forested hillside. For years, Woods was seldom able to leave her second-floor bedroom. But in 2005, after a story about her aired on Vermont Public Radio, a wealthy listener funded the building of a first-floor addition. For the first time, Woods had her own wheelchair-accessible bathroom, bedroom, front porch and entrance ramp, as well as numerous windows for taking in her surroundings.

On the day I visited, Woods was seated in a straight-back chair with her pale, thin arms resting on a hospital-bed table before her. Dressed in a loose cotton blouse and skirt falling to her toes, she appeared even smaller and more waiflike than her photos

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Woods is deliberate in her choice of words and imagery, even when they have strong or negative connotations.

Chief among such potential provocations is her use of the word “cripple.” suggest. As she spoke, her delicate, spindly fingers danced like a spider weaving its web.

Woods was born in Florida but moved to Vermont at age 10. An only child, she was homeschooled by her mom through high school, which she completed at 16.

Woods traces her spiritual awakening to an existential crisis she had at age 4, when she brought her mother into the bathroom and stood there crying because she didn’t believe the little girl in the mirror reflected her true, infinite nature.

“I felt like I was sitting on the edge of this vast eternity,” she recalls, “and didn’t know how to process that as a child.”

Woods’ creativity also blossomed early. At 3, she asked her mother for piano lessons, and was playing by age 5.

At 15 she was composing and performing

her own classical pieces, and at age 16 Woods recorded a solo album titled A River’s Journey at Charles Eller’s studio in Charlotte. She expected to pursue a career as a concert pianist until her poor health intervened.

A severe bout of influenza when she was 18 robbed Woods of mobility and dexterity, including her ability to play the piano. She was left semi-bedridden and took years to recover. Today, her health has stabilized, but she undergoes daily physical therapy and Pilates sessions to maintain her strength and muscle tone. She also experiments with alternative therapies and takes singing lessons to strengthen her diaphragm.

In June 2012, Woods contracted a severe respiratory illness that nearly claimed her life. This time, it triggered

what she calls a “shamanic experience” that inspired much of her recent work.

“It was quite frightening, and I wasn’t quite sure how I would emerge from that,” she recalls, “because I felt as though I were suspended between the two worlds of life and death, the soul realm and the physical realm.”

Woods, whose self-directed studies were already steeped in mystical and philosophical traditions, no longer saw her physical reality as immutable but as a “living, breathing work” that she could shift according to her own mental focus.

That near-death experience, which she describes as a “resurrection,” inspired Woods to approach Thomas Dodd, a renowned Atlanta-based art photographer whose work she’d been following online.

Dodd seemed like an ideal collaborator.

His post-production digital work creates images that are more like oil paintings than photos. Dodd was also comfortable with mythological and psychological themes, Woods says, and could represent her visions of an “erotic and sexually charged union with the divine.” So she sent him a Facebook message to gauge his interest.

Dodd, 52, recalls receiving Woods’ lengthy note, with its many literary and spiritual references, and immediately recognizing something special in the young woman.

“I get approached by a lot of people who want to model for me,” Dodd says. “But Jocelyn is an artist who has very clearly defined visions about what she wants to create. Her concepts are very unique.”

Because Woods could neither travel to Georgia nor pay Dodd’s way to Vermont, she launched an online fundraiser through Indiegogo.com and raised nearly all of her $5639 goal in a few months.

Dodd arrived in Vermont shortly after Thanksgiving 2012 and spent three days shooting pictures of Woods. Most, he explains, were taken from above to create that sense of ethereal weightlessness.

Woods had already arranged for all the props and wardrobe they needed and had assistants to position her body in the poses she desired.

Though this was Dodd’s first time working with a model who had a severe disability, it was not his first experience with disability. Woods didn’t know it beforehand, but Dodd’s day job until last year was working as an in-home caregiver for people with disabilities. They included a quadriplegic street photographer, who had

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rigged a way of tripping his camera shutter with the heel of his hand.

Both the images and titles in “Ecstasy of a Cripple” — including “Rapture,” “Ascension” and “Maiden of the Apocalypse” — seem heavily influenced by early Christian mystics, as well as by portrayals of crucifixion, resurrection, passion and ecstasy. But Woods insists she doesn’t subscribe to a Judeo-Christian theology and avoids labeling her spirituality. Even her use of the word “apocalypse,” she explains, harks back to its Greek etymology, meaning “to disrobe or unveil that which has been hidden.”

Indeed, Woods is deliberate in her choice of words and imagery, even when they have strong or negative connotations.

That said, Woods dismisses any suggestion that her work is activist. In fact, she’s critical of what she calls “the tribe of gimpism,” which she defines as the marginalized population’s attempt to “reclaim that which has been pitied” and “make disability cool.”

While she understands the desire to move away from being a pitied culture and reclaim the term “gimp,” Woods says, “For me, it’s not about making trends. It’s about bursting through those membranes of belief that have become just as solidified as what we think our bodies are.”

If Woods has riled any feathers in Vermont’s disability community, she hasn’t heard about it yet. Several local advocates

“I saw her work and said, ‘My God! Her work is beautiful!’” Messina says. “Then I read her story and thought, What a fascinating young woman.”

Messina arrived in June for the threeday shoot, which included an image from Shakespeare’s King Lear. Because Woods loves Shakespeare, she asked Messina, 60, to portray Lear while she embodied his daughter, Cordelia. Due to her physical limitations, Messina says, just positioning Woods on his lap was a time- and laborintensive process. Nevertheless, he says it was worth it.

“I have shot many, many people over the years, including [in my time] as a journalist,” Messina says. “But I have to say that photographing Jocelyn was, for me,

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Chief among these potential provocations is her use of the word “cripple.” According to both Woods and Dodd, that word is the only aspect of their work that has received negative feedback.

Woods says her use of the word is “a poetic metaphor” that “presents something to the mind that is hard to grasp and hard to conceive.” Its purpose, she explains, is “basically to bust away the barriers of conception and perception” of human sexuality, spirituality and disability, all of which, she believes, have become too rigid and solidified in our society.

This is particularly true, she says, for those in the disability community who feel disenfranchised from their own sexuality and are viewed by the able-bodied as incapable of experiencing sexual pleasure.

“For me and for my peers with neuromuscular disabilities,” Woods adds, “showing that we are just as sexual as anyone else has been a very groundbreaking and wellsupported effort.”

for disability rights contacted for this story either declined to comment on her work or hadn’t seen it yet.

To some, Woods’ prose, heavily laden with psychospiritual jargon, can seem a bit abstruse and overblown. That’s understandable, given how much time she must spend in her own head and searching her soul for the meaning of life.

“Unhindered by the heavy chains of belief systems which deny and condemn the body as a corrupt condition of sin allows one to enter a rapture beyond the iconic saintly portrayals eulogized in history,” she writes for her latest Indigogo fundraiser. “To realize the body and soul are but inseparable components, facilitates the alchemical recipe of resurrected immortal flesh.”

Woods’ words and images were inspiring enough to another visual artist — Michael V. Messina, an art photographer from Atascadero, Calif. — who traveled to Vermont at his own expense just to photograph her.

one of the most emotionally and spiritually moving experiences I’ve ever had as a photographer.”

Woods is now trying to raise money to begin work on her follow-up collaboration with Dodd. This fundraiser, which ends on July 25, aims to raise $7695 to bring Dodd back to Vermont. Woods even talks about producing and starring in a mixedmedia theater production, also of her own creation.

One might assume that Woods would feel vulnerable after exposing not only her body but her controversial views. Not so, she says.

“I felt far more vulnerable when I was suspended between life and death,” she explains, referring to last year’s illness. “So, compared to that, nothing else feels the least bit daunting.” m

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You Only Live Twice Book review: The Curiosity by Stephen P. Kiernan B Y M AR GOT HA RR ISON

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ublicity copy describes the first novel from Burlington journalist Stephen P. Kiernan as “Michael Crichton meets The Time Traveler’s Wife.” That pitch suggests painfully cynical demographic targeting: science stuff for the gentlemen; tragic romance for the ladies! Given the marketability of the combination, it’s no surprise that 20th Century Fox has already bought film rights.

Happily, The Curiosity is a quieter and better book than its log line suggests.

Neither a technothriller nor (primarily) a romance, it’s more of an accessible novel of ideas, outlining a provocative what if ? and elaborating its conceit in believable directions. The book’s main weakness is that its characters — four of whom take turns narrating the story — tend toward caricature. Still, Kiernan’s brisk, versatile prose style brings readers from broad satire to tearful epiphanies with only occasional jolts. While The Curiosity may not offer a thrill a minute, it easily qualifies as a thinking person’s beach book.

The “curiosity” of the title has many meanings, from scientific inquisitiveness to the public’s insatiable hunger for information. But its primary referent is Jeremiah Rice, a young Massachusetts judge who perished in arctic waters in 1906. When a scientific expedition bankrolled by megalomaniacal genius Erastus Carthage discovers Rice’s corpse in an iceberg, the team knows it has hit potential pay-dirt.

Carthage’s Institute for Cellular Seeking has pioneered a method of reanimating long-dead organisms preserved in “hardice” by arctic flash freezing. So far the scientists have resurrected krill, shrimp and the like. Can they do the same trick with a human being?

Kiernan makes the science detailed and plausible (to a layman, anyway), but his focus is on the experiment’s aftermath.

The reanimation succeeds, and Rice opens his eyes on a new century — a celebrity to some and an abomination to others.

Everyone wants a piece of him, particularly Carthage, who plans to sell the reanimation science to cryogenics companies.

Meanwhile, rapacious reporter Daniel

Dixon, whom Carthage gives exclusive access to the “frozen man,” hopes for a career-making scoop.

The only character who shows genuine, disinterested curiosity about Jeremiah Rice is molecular biologist Kate Philo, a team member who comes to know and love this courtly, well-spoken ambassador from another era. What Kate doesn’t know is that Carthage and his inner circle are working frantically behind the scenes to keep the judge from meeting the fate of the krill: a speedy postresurrection demise.

(No spoiler here: Kiernan tells us in chapter three that resurrected organisms travel an arc leading to eventual “frenzy” and death.)

Kate, Jeremiah, Carthage and Dixon narrate the story in alternating chapters, and their voices are so jarringly disparate that The Curiosity often seems like two novels. One is a rollicking satire of 21st-century media behavior, filled with larger-than-life narcissists and loudmouths. The other is a fine-grained, minor-key tale of two people, born more than a century apart, who recognize each other as kindred spirits.

By the end of the book, each narrator has traveled his or her own transformative arc, bringing Kiernan’s designs to satisfying fruition. But in the earlier going, it’s not always fun spending time with Carthage and Dixon. The scientist is sociopathically arrogant and about as nuanced as Monty Burns; the reporter a self-described “pig” who shifts into ogling mode every time he spots Kate. (“What a niblet,” he enthuses.) It’s easy to imagine character actors scoring comic triumphs with these roles in a film version, but on the page, both figures seem somewhat overdrawn.

Kate is a more sympathetic character, if not complex enough to be a compelling protagonist. She’s painted as both a brilliant and a selfless scientist, but there’s one puzzling gap in her acuity: She doesn’t connect the krill’s eventual fate to Jeremiah’s until late in the novel, remaining in a state of blissful obliviousness while others scramble to prolong his life.

(One also wonders why Carthage, who believes a strict diet is key to the reawakened

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man’s survival, doesn’t clue Kate in or give the pair a chaperone before they traipse all over Boston, encountering culinary temptations.)

Yet it’s easy to like Kate, because we’re rooting for Jeremiah Rice. The “man from the way back of beyond” — as Dixon puts it — is the novelist’s richest creation.

Using a foreigner, a naïf or a time traveler to provide a fresh perspective on our society is a device that goes back to the 18th century. But Kiernan doesn’t reanimate this decorous fellow just to have him preach at us. True, Jeremiah is befuddled and sometimes dismayed by this new age, where workers “sit each apart, staring at a square of light … rarely addressing each other at all.” He’s a full-fledged character, however, with his own desires and conflicts. In a memorable scene at Fenway Park, he reveals himself to be a hard-core baseball fan with a mean pitch. In his quieter moments, Jeremiah struggles with the knowledge that he, too, has felt the “power of curiosity” — a wanderlust that led to his death, far from home and family, back in 1906.

As Jeremiah grasps “[t]he magnitude of what I have lost,” a wistfulness suffuses his narrative. The book becomes less about the dilemmas posed by scientific resurrection and more about one man’s coming to terms with mortality. The judge’s unprecedented opportunity to live twice outrages the religious protestors camped outside Carthage’s institute. But the prospect of dying twice is what weighs on Jeremiah.

This is a tale of scientific hubris told from a distinctly humanist perspective.

Kiernan shows little patience for religious objections to reigniting the spark of life: Jeremiah remembers no afterlife, and doesn’t speculate on one. Readers are left to draw their own conclusions about a world in which, as Kate puts it, “life was being redefined. Or, to be accurate, the old definition discarded but the new one not yet written.”

Yet the novel demonstrates that such a world will remain haunted by death, however cleverly interrupted or postponed — that, in fact, the waiting specter gives life its intensity, its savor. Freed from his imprisonment in a human zoo, Jeremiah rejoices in the world’s beauty, which he experiences as “an excess like vines smothering a building, an ocean of it in every direction.” Carpe diem is a worn-out maxim, but Kiernan uses his sci-fi setup to give it new life.

FROM THE CURIOSITY My name is Jeremiah Rice, and I begin to understand.

They did not expect to succeed. That remains the only plausible explanation for their failure to anticipate the awakening of a human being, with a personality, with attitudes and attributes, with desires. They made no accommodation because they were entirely unready for such a thing. They had no plan beyond ambition.

Perhaps a monkey accepts imprisonment in the zoo as the lot of the ignorant beast, but a man knows in his soul when he is not free. The passage of a century eclipses none of my perception of present realities: I am under constant observation.

I have neither proper clothing nor cash.

I pass my days and sleep my nights in a chamber more laboratory than boudoir.

There is an electronic combination to enter or exit my quarters, and I have not been entrusted with the number. The people of here and now mean me no ill, I believe, but neither does the mule driver to his mule.

Free man that I am by law and Constitution, I have no liberty to speak of. Until my overwhelming experience with Drs. Gerber and Philo about the progress of aviation, no one had bothered much to acquaint me with the brilliant and violent nature of the time in which I again live.

The Curiosity by Stephen P. Kiernan, William Morrow, 432 pages. $25.99.

Kiernan reads with fellow novelist Chris Bohjalian on Wednesday, July 24, 7 p.m., at the Champlain Valley Unitarian Universalist Society in Middlebury. For more info, call Becky Dayton, 989-6719.

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t’s 6 p.m. on a warm, sunny evening on Langdon Street in downtown Montpelier. Inside Buch Spieler Music, record store manager Knayte Lander is adding up the day’s receipts, but his day hasn’t ended yet. It’s the one night a week Buch Spieler stays open after hours — unofficially — for a meeting of the Cheap Thrills Record Club USA #1, a small, informal group of musicians and music fans who meet to listen to and review records.

The idea for the club came to Lander on New Year’s Day 2013, when he and some friends started talking about the isolated nature of music listening.

“So many people are missing out on the social aspect,” Lander says. “In the old days, somebody bought the new record, and everybody went to their house to listen to it. But what I was seeing at Buch Spieler was people buying a record and going home to listen alone.” He decided to remedy that, and Cheap Thrills was born.

As Lander chats about the club’s beginnings, members start to wander in.

By and large, they’re thirtyish, and many

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are associated with Montpelier’s State & Main Records. There’s Jeff Thomson, of the band Lake Superior, and his partner, Hannah Bean, whose vintage shop the Getup Vintage shares space with Buch Spieler. There is Ben Roy, drummer for the Concrete Rivals. There are Pete Rahn, also of Lake Superior, and his wife, Amy Rahn. And there are singer-songwriter Dan Zura and Brad Giresi, who collaborates with Thomson in the experimental band July 26th Movement.

Thomson carries a bag of corn chips and another of pretzels. Random chilled beers, both high end and low, appear from plastic bags and backpacks. A few folks grab rickety chairs, but most sprawl on Buch Spieler’s weathered hardwood floors. Emily Warner’s dog, Butter, reclines contentedly across a handy lap.

At the heart of Cheap Thrills are a few rules. The first rule is simple: vinyl records only.

Why?

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“Even if you’re not obsessed with sound quality, a record is a thing,” Lander says. “A stream is the ghost of a thing. It’s not something that sticks with you.”

The second rule is that all responses to recordings are presented as haiku. This ancient Japanese poetic form, composed of three lines of five syllables, seven syllables and five syllables, respectively, has been employed primarily to reflect on nature. Is it a good fit for responding to records in 2013?

Absolutely, says Thomson, who came up with the haiku concept at the first Cheap Thrills session.

“There are a lot of different ways you can go with haiku,” Thomson says.

“Sometimes a record triggers a memory, or you get very specific about the music itself.

Sometimes the poems get very dreamlike, expressing the feeling of listening to the record itself.”

The third rule of Cheap Thrills Record Club is that all records come from bands no one in the club has ever heard of. When asked why, Giresi doesn’t hesitate.

“Because we’re all in bands that nobody else has ever heard of,” he says.

After the laughter dies down, his wife, Robyn Joy Peirce Giresi, elaborates.

“We want to support the little guy. But we are also interested in what people are doing, and knowing about current music,” she explains. “I’m old. I don’t know how to keep in touch with music right now.

I come into [Buch Spieler] and talk to Knayte, and he recommends things, but Record Club is a better way of doing that.”

only have 17 syllables, you really need to choose wisely.

When people finish their haikus, they fold them up and deposit them in a hat.

Once all are collected, the first haiku is drawn. Its author, Pete Rahn, wins the Oblivians’ record and the chance to have his poem read first.

Trash can trampoline Escaping and on the run Fire on your heels The author of the second haiku drawn, Zura, wins a digital download of the record. The author of the third, Amy Rahn, wins the right to choose next week’s record. After the first three, all haikus are drawn and read in random order. Some capture the mood of the record from the perspective of a character: Greaser says fuck it Guitar blast beehives all night Sing if I want to

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To top off the meeting, the group composes a letter, which is signed by all and popped into an envelope with the original haikus, to be shipped off to the band.

Later, the poems are posted to the Cheap Thrills blog.

“There’s a crowdsourcing aspect,” Lander says. “You have 17 syllables each, but if there are 10 people, you have 170 syllables. When you read all the poems together, it’s like one strangely unbiased but cool review.”

So far, the club has gotten some great responses. The most prominent was coverage in Brooklyn online mag Mass Appeal, which now publishes haiku reviews by Cheap Thrills. But the primary thrill here is social.

“We don’t discuss the music as much as we enjoy each other’s company,” Lander says. “It’s a time right after work to do something together, and it’s what records used to be.” m

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It also doesn’t cost much. Club members chip in a couple bucks each to pay for the week’s record — hence the name “Cheap Thrills.”

Now it’s time to start. Thomson distributes slips of writing paper, and Lander sets the Oblivians’ Desperation (In the Red, 2013) on the turntable and lowers the tone arm. The music that fills the room is a nod to 1990s punk. It’s a reunion album, and less edgy than the band’s previous work, but it still kicks.

Halfway through side one, the casual conversation has been damped down.

Some people hold their pens poised in concentration. Others are writing swiftly, tapping out rhythms with their pens or mouthing words as they count syllables with their fingers. There’s a short break between sides, but no commentary on the music. Haiku is the focus.

According to Emily Warner, there’s a reason for that. “You really need to plug into your creativity to get your point across,” she says. “You could talk for half an hour about the record. But when you

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ean O’Casey’s Juno and the Paycock tackles such a broad range of social and personal passions that any description will sound a bit monumental, but that would be misleading. O’Casey propels his story and characters forward with grace and humor, and we engage with the people long before we notice that we’re gaining a window on every aspect of 1920s Irish society: poverty and labor rights, the IRA and the church, the bonds of family, and the power of alcohol.

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O’Casey can set his stories and characters in motion within a bleak, two-room tenement apartment.

The play is set in 1922, the year British and Irish negotiators produced a treaty that established the Irish Free State and triggered a civil war between treaty supporters and those seeking an independent republic — the Staters and Diehards mentioned in the play. For O’Casey’s Boyle family, conflict is all around. And the war stirs a tendency to take an absolute stand on everything, from religion to love to work. In this play, absolutes can survive only so long before they’re betrayed.

The Boyles’ biggest problem seems to be money. Patriarch Jack Boyle’s heyday — surely more imagined than real — is long past, but he trades on it as the boastful, preening “paycock” of the title. Now he sedulously avoids work, hiding behind false promises and complaints of a bum

leg. As money dwindles away, drinking sustains his male vanity, and braggadocio lets him conceal even from himself his betrayal of family.

Daughter Mary is on strike instead of working because, as she says, “A principle’s a principle.” Son Johnny lost an arm in the Easter Rising of 1916. Six years later, unable to work, he broods by the fire in silent fear.

He may have given a limb for Ireland, but recently he betrayed a comrade, and he knows soldiers on his side can’t allow such a transgression.

Joxer Daly, Jack Boyle’s drinking companion, wouldn’t find himself in Johnny’s dilemma. “Better to be a coward than a corpse,” Joxer crows, and so justifies a life of sponging off the Boyles. His selfish pragmatism allows him to betray anyone for a bite of sausage or bottle of stout.

Only Juno, Boyle’s wife, has little use for the absolutism that lures others to

examination of how Boyle makes a virtue of a moral void.

Still, Connor produces some of the greatest moments of the evening. His exuberance is infectious to other characters and to the audience, and his confrontations with family members are truly searing.

As Juno, Nika Allen is captivating when fully engaged in a scene, but she spent much of opening night struggling to keep her focus. This problem will most likely be solved during the run, and Allen may be able to reveal the Juno who is the pillar the play. Hints of the character emerged in the third act, when Allen’s concentration was complete. She still has some things to discover in the role, primarily Juno’s tireless strength in keeping the family together. Juno doesn’t merely cope, she steers. Allen needs to find that fire burning within her, something much more elemental than busy martyrdom.

The large cast includes solid supporting work from Juan Schwartz, Joe Laston, Martin Castonguay, Mary Scripps, Carl Emmons, Diane Kaganova, Bob Carmody and Emily Flynn.

Director Jeanne Beckwith shows good aptitude for shifting focus and flow through blocking, making the most of a confined space. She is equally capable staging the large, comic, multicharacter scenes and the more harrowing, tightly focused confrontations. Most important, Beckwith blends the happy and sad as O’Casey intended: heading straight down the middle to avoid the mawkish side of tragedy and the superficial distance of farce.

O’Casey keeps the audience committed to the characters by allowing their joys and foibles to make us laugh. But he steadily permits tragedy to chip away at their lives.

In the first act, all the family’s problems are external; by the second, they intrude into the shabby apartment in the form of a mourning neighbor, a war mobilizer and the news neighbors bring. In Act Three, confronting problems head on is unavoidable. The comic perspective persists, but only as a way to handle heartbreak. m

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define themselves through principles. She is purely pragmatic, getting breakfast on the table, fending off creditors and going to work each day. She protects her family and forgives her shiftless husband — not because she’s a paragon but because she faces the world as it is, not as it might be dreamed.

O’Casey portrays these characters and assorted neighbors in largely comic terms, but he descends effortlessly to the darker sorrows these people face, and then rises to the humorous surface again. This deft balance makes the characters real, and consistently more important than the abstract principles they espouse.

Lack of money has beaten the Boyles down, but this intractable obstacle is overcome by a surprise inheritance. The joy they all feel is intoxicating. What will they do with their good fortune?

Mary will fall in love with Charles Bentham, the flashy, self-styled intellectual who brings them the good news. The neighbors will be treated to whiskey and spend pleasant evenings in song and conversation. But the good times will not last; O’Casey isn’t interested in happy endings but in our need to balance hope and despair, and to resort to delusion when all else fails.

Vincent Broderick plays the haunted Johnny with pained solemnity, one hand always at his temple struggling to quiet his brain. Broderick is nicely remote, without too much “explanation” oozing out of him.

When this restraint is finally shattered toward the end of the play, we share Johnny’s terror.

Broderick is a bit stiff on stage and tends to rely on external indicators instead of a character’s inner life, but he conveys Johnny’s intensity well.

Mary is ready to throw off oldfashioned sentimentality for hard-edged politics and alluring intellectuality. Claire Demarais is strong and focused in the role, and gets close to all her character’s edges, but ultimately pulls back just slightly.

Missing from her portrayal is Mary’s desperate need to immerse herself in a brave new world, and her ache for Bentham’s approval. But her engagement with other actors is consistently impressive.

David Connor began opening night without the head of steam needed to make the lay-about blowhard Jack Boyle a dominant force. Connor captures Boyle’s sorrows but lacks his bravado. Boyle’s ability to ward off shame and fear is what makes him a charismatic presence — this is, after all, the quality of a leader. Connor imbues him with humor but goes for more of a sitcom take on a broken wreck than an

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The aesthete: Vin Bar & Shop

Anyone familiar with Burlington’s L’Amante won’t be surprised by the polished, minimalist new space created by owners Kevin and Kathi Cleary for their wine bar. Its scale is surprising at first: To the left of the entrance, a shop is stocked

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he wine bar may be old hat in urban areas, but in Vermont it is still barely charted territory.

Burlington’s pioneering Wine Works, which opened in 1999, was ahead of its time but soon transformed itself into a more conventional bar — and changed its name accordingly, to Drink.

Since then, local restaurants have emerged with “wine bar” in their names, either explicitly, as in Burlington’s Blue Cat Café & Wine Bar; or implicitly, as in White River Junction’s Elixir. Other establishments have sophisticated wineby-the-glass lists (such as Pistou in Burlington and the Pitcher Inn in Warren).

But, until this past year, no establishment in northern Vermont but Wine Works had branded itself solely as a wine bar — that is, a place to sample wines along with complementary small plates.

In Middlebury, former chemist Nancy Weber-Curth led the charge in spring 2012 by opening the aptly named Sparkling, dedicated to Champagne and sparkling wines. This past spring, L’Amante chef Kevin Cleary amped up his passion for wines by transforming an empty space — just two doors down from his College Street restaurant — into Vin Bar & Shop. About a month later, one half of Montpelier’s longempty Chittenden Bank building found new life as the North Branch Café, a wine and tea spot opened by Lauren, Wes and Becky Parker.

None of these places offers full meals; instead, each focuses on the pours, from Barbaresco to sparkling Grüner Veltliner.

The bars diverge mainly in personality, a reflection of their owners’ tastes, which shows in the décor and wine selection.

I recently visited all three to gauge their vibe.

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neatly with wine bottles and a cold case offering cheeses and charcuterie. To the right is a curved, sleek, walnut bar with a cherry-red meat slicer sitting on one end.

Toward the back, behind a glass wall, a wine classroom holds dark wood tables set with sextets of waiting glasses. Light spills in from Vin’s floor-to-ceiling windows, but it doesn’t dilute the dim, sexy ambiance.

Vin Bar & Shop, 126 College Street, Burlington, 497-2165. vinbarvt.com

These tiny tastes can push the casual, curious drinker to full-on wine geekdom.

Ten minutes after I arrived with two friends, our corner of the bar was lined with seven glasses, each filled with samples such as a brisk Bodegas Valdesil Godello and spicy Numanthia Fermes.

Though Cleary’s focus has long been Italian wines — which make up the bulk

NONE OF THESE PLACES OFFERS FULL MEALS;

INSTEAD, EACH FOCUSES ON THE POURS. For much of his cooking life, Kevin Cleary has had a love affair with wine, studying it intently and traveling to Italy’s wine regions every year. In 2011, he opened his own wine school inside L’Amante, where he spends his only day off of the week teaching students (including me) about the finer points of vinification and the Guyot pruning system. That educational component is integral to Vin — hence the classroom — and a spirit of serious experimentation permeates the place, starting with the raft of 2-ounce pours you can order from the wine list.

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presented. Rich Vermont Butter & Cheese Cremont, fennel-spiked finocchio sausage and a hefty pile of paper-thin prosciutto di parma (shaved on that red slicer) came artfully arranged on a plate with quince paste, fig jam and roasted peppers. A basket of crusty Red Hen bread rounded out the course.

If you like what you’re drinking at the bar — and, with seven wines in a suite, there’s a good chance you will — you can pick up a bottle in the shop on your way out. Just don’t try to cross from the bar into the shop with a glass in your hand — that’s a legal no-no.

of L’Amante’s wine list — Vin allows him to draw more heavily from other regions.

Even so, the emphasis is definitely on the Old World: Bottles from France’s up-andcoming Languedoc-Roussillon region, a selection of Champagnes and numerous reds from Spain outnumber wines from Italy. Our bartender was decidedly hands off, but when one of the wines we tasted was faulty (7 to 9 percent of all wines are), he replaced it with no questions asked.

Vin is not a place to come for dinner: Cheeses and meats — and the occasional lobster roll or other special — constitute the entire menu. But they’re exquisitely

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The bohemian: North Branch Café

Everything about North Branch is delicate.

As I took a seat on a soft, patterned cushion, Bon Iver wafted from the speakers, and a ceiling fan twirled slowly overhead. Soon a server delivered a glass of steaming-hot pomegranate oolong tea, a plate of shortbread and a stemless glass of Domaine de Couron rosé.

Just before the North Branch Café opened this past spring, co-owner Lauren Parker described it as “an eclectic, Montpelier kind of thing.” The floor is painted with an undulating river pattern, and an undercurrent of serious oenophilia flows there, as well.

A stainless steel wine chiller dispenses pours from a rotating selection of off-thebeaten-path wines such as Gerard Metz Riesling from Alsace and Michael Pozzan Zinfandel from California. Behind the counter, the barista doles out wines from bottles. On a recent day, those included Good Pinot Grigio and Brotte La Grivelière Côtes du Rhône. My Grenache-based rosé was not quite as chilled as it could be, but it tasted of strawberries, cherries and citrus and, for $7.50, was a generous pour.

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The dinner for 60 people had a Provençal theme and seven courses priced at $60, excluding wine pairings.

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PEtErson QualIty malt will open in Monkton in sync with this fall’s grain harvest.

Founder anDrEw PEtErson is busy renovating a centuryold hay barn on his property for the business and plans to source grains from a variety of Vermont grain growers.

Peterson, who’s also home brewed for decades, says, “I always thought I would end up with a brewery.” He initially considered distinguishing himself via homegrown hops and home-malted grains — then realized malting could be a full-time pursuit. “There’s so many great brewers, I thought that maybe I should just supply them,” he says.

Small-scale, home-based malting was once a colonial New England fixture, a tradition brought over with the first English settlers.

Barley never grew that well in New England, though, and eventually grain growing (and malting) shifted to the Midwest. While many Vermont brewers in search of local malted grain now look to Québec or Valley Malt in Massachusetts, Peterson hopes he and other potential

malters can capture this “golden opportunity.”

But he’s already hit his first speed bump — the dearth of locally grown grain.

When Peterson began his search, “I got such a minimal response, I was shocked,” he says. Now he’s working on grain-testing projects with HEatHEr DarBy of unIVErsIty oF VErmont ExtEnsIon, and says he envisions helping farmers 112 Lake Street • Burlington secure grants to experiment www.sansaivt.com with growing barley. For now, Peterson hopes to source enough wheat, rye and pos1/7/13 2:08 PM sibly oats to reach his capacity12v-SanSai010913.indd 1 of two tons of malted grain per week. He’s informally shared his own malt with home-brewer friends, “and some of those beers have been phenomenal,” he notes.

It’s no secret that the local beer scene is thriving, and Vermont Public Radio’s Join us for Friday “Vermont Edition” is on the Fun Night, every case. Last week, Hale and Friday in July & August Peterson both bore witness to from 5-8 p.m. for hamburgers, the trend as phone-in guests hotdogs, milkshakes and more! on an episode devoted to local suds.

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Vermont’s biggest beer event of the year — the VErmont BrEwErs FEstIVal — may have ended, but the brewcentric news keeps coming.

Burlington and Williston will each gain a new brewery by year’s end, and the state will soon see its first commercial malt house in — oh, centuries.

In the South End, four longtime home brewers plan to open a 15-barrel brewery and tasting room, QuEEn CIty BrEwEry, by the end of the year — they hope. “The problem is, everything takes longer than you want it to,” says Paul HalE, who with his partners — Paul HElD, PHIl KaszuBa, and maartEn Van ryCKEVorsEl — secured a federal brewing permit earlier this month. Now they’re renovating a space at 703 Pine Street, readying it for Minnesota-built equipment and the “beautiful mahogany bar” they scored from the shuttered EtHan allEn CluB. They’re also test brewing batches of beer at home. Hale says the brewery will focus on “half ales and half lagers,” with a Helles lager, Munich dunkel, 1950s-style Pilsner, “very

flavorful” English bitter and an “easy-to-drink” porter among the offerings.

The partners — three of whom are scientists — will also tap some historical German styles, such as a stein beer that draws flavor from stones heated over a beechwood fire and dropped into the boil to “caramelize the malt.” Also on tap will be a rauchbier whose grain has been smoked over beechwood.

Visitors will be able to taste, have a pint or fill a growler on-site — but food is not part of the equation. “We’re hoping to take advantage of the foodtruck thing and have a truck or two in the parking lot,” Hale says.

Meanwhile, JosEPH lEmnaH, owner of BurlIngton BEEr ComPany, has leased a 4700-square-foot space in Williston where he plans to begin brewing this fall. “We’re pushing to have the brewery open by November,” writes Lemnah in an email, and adds that he hopes to launch his beer CSA in earnest in January. Some CSA members have already gotten a taste of Lemnah’s beers — home brewed in Jericho — through a series of informal tasting events.

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The Parkers also bring in pastries and cookies from local bakeries, including delectable pistachio-lavender shortbread dipped in dark chocolate and dusted with pistachio bits; an unusual spicycurry shortbread that tastes of turmeric, pepper and cardamom; and a fennelanise shortbread medallion barely tinged with sweetness. All these come on plates adorned with a bright purple flower.

Don’t try to order coffee with your pastry, though — the Parkers don’t sell any, as they don’t want its overpowering aroma to taint the space. Softer-edged drinks are the draw here, and a powerful one. As soon as I left, I started planning my next visit.

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To open a bar devoted to one drink is a bold move. But such is the singular focus of Nancy Weber-Curth, a petite, elegant woman who left behind her life as a chemist and business consultant to renovate a Victorian home in Middlebury into Sparkling, a Champagne and wine bar.

When I first heard of her plans, I had doubts that Sparkling could last. Who in Vermont even orders Champagne on a daily basis?

But Weber-Curth’s instincts were savvy: It turned out that legions of Champagne lovers were lurking among us, just waiting for a place to get their obsession on.

“On weekends, it’s packed!” said Weber-Curth, who services all the tables herself with a gracious calm.

Sparkling has a Frenchstyled, shabby-chic décor.

The shaded patio is filled with flowerpots; the glassed-in front porch and dining room are effortlessly stylish, finished with distressed doors and tiny wooden tables.

Adding to the bar’s charm is its spare menu: sparkling wine, Champagne, local cheeses and chocolate. That’s it. Six wines are offered by the glass, another two dozen by the bottle. All of them are bubbly.

“I’m dedicated to the grower houses, the winemakers who work hard to make unique wines,” said Weber-Curth, who traveled to the Champagne region of France to track down wines she wanted to carry. Other sparklers originate around

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the world: a Prosecco from northern Italy, a Cava from Spain, a sparkling rosé from R. Stuart & Co. Winery of Oregon.

Of the rosé, Weber-Curth told me, “It’s out there. Some people love it, some people hate it.” I got the sense that she loves it, and ordered some, along with a Champagne.

Weber-Curth returned to the table with a tray holding two bottles and two flutes. She popped both open and dribbled wine incrementally into each glass, letting the bubbles grow and recede and grow again. The act was filled with suspense.

On the nose, the R. Stuart & Co. rosé suggested cognac; the carbonation hovered somewhere between still and sparkling. By contrast, the Champagne from Gaston Chiquet was classically rich, round and biscuity. In their own ways, both wines were excellent foils for the Vermont cheeses we ordered — a crumbly Orb Weaver Farm cave-aged cheese and a creamy cow’s-milk cheese from Scholten Family Farm — and smeared across Carr’s Table Water Crackers.

As we sipped, three more customers trickled in — all women. Each settled in at a table with a book and a flute of bubbly at hand.

Wine sellers can be frustrated by the typical American view that Champagne is exclusively a special-occasion treat. Not so at Sparkling, where we seemed to be witnessing a quiet revolution. m Sparkling, 56 college Street, middlebury, 989-7020. sparklingvt.com

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In its July 8 “Cheap Eats” issue, New York magazine named an unlikely pastry one of this year’s best new doughnut in the Big Apple. Rockville Market Farm’s butternut-squash doughnut, made by baker Barbara Nedd, came in second on the list of eight, which included no less a pastry than Dominique Ansel’s oft-pirated lemon-maple Cronut.

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Tuesday’s event began with an optional raw bar.

Plated courses included brandade de morue, grilled monkfish, bouillabaisse and escabeche of grilled octopus, all served overlooking the lake. As always when Zuliani is involved, wine pairings were part of the fun. The co-owner of DEDalus WInE chose one for each course, at $6 a glass.

To keep the events thoroughly al fresco, the two upcoming dinners will likewise focus on open-fire cooking. The nearly sold-out August 6 dinner includes dishes from the Rhône Valley, such as charcuterie, lamb and rich chocolate cake.

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n 2009, the Massachusetts barbecue team I Que made headlines as one of the first northeastern teams to be named grand champion at the Jack Daniel’s World Championship Invitational Barbecue. That event is the Oscars, Golden Globes, Emmys, Grammys and Tonys of competitive barbecue, all rolled into one extravaganza that takes place each October in Tennessee. I Que’s win caused rejoicing in Vermont, too, since one of the team members is John Delpha, chef-owner of the Belted Cow Bistro in Essex.

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Ever wanted to run away with the carnival? Back in 1994, Pauline Poulin did just that, vending balloons at events across the country. Long after abandoning the call of the road, she keeps moving with her partner, 30-year kitchen veteran David Langhans, as they staff a series of mobile smokers.

For years, Vermont Maple BBQ has parked at Rinker’s Mobil just off I-89’s exit 4. Frequent drivers through Randolph have probably tasted the couple’s ultramoist, tender ribs, crispy chicken thighs or smoky pulled pork.

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These Delaware natives may well be Vermont’s only purveyors of ski-through barbecue. Tump Chiari and Cindy Dilworth sell their chicken, ribs and other specialties on Okemo Mountain in winter; the rest of the year, the couple vends their grub at the Ludlow Country Store.

Team members: Chiari and Dilworth Team age: The couple has been barbecuing for more than 20 years and has competed for the past three years in nationally sanctioned competitions.

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You can do that, but they’re not going to be as good.

Team members: Poulin and Langhans, along with “an entourage” of friends, family and volunteers

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Team age: This Harpoon Championship marks the team’s ninth anniversary.

Signature dish: “Kickin’ Chickin,” with the team’s secret rub, which has twice ribboned at Harpoon.

Signature dish: “All of it,” Poulin says, before settling on the ribs that garnered her team a second-place Harpoon trophy in 2011. Langhans argues that his chicken thighs set the team apart.

Number of annual competitions: Six to eight What’s in a name?: The misspelling of “squeals” is intentional, Dilworth says, adopted to match the double ‘e’s in “wheels.”

Why “squeals”? The team’s logo is a cartoon pig, which also helped inspire the initials: SOW.

Number of annual competitions: Just one: Harpoon. The team is too busy selling ’cue to travel to other contests.

Biggest triumph: It’s a toss-up between the 2011 second-place trophy for ribs and

The best part of competing: “Winning the championship,” Langhans says. Poulin disagrees. “For us, we love everybody who loves barbecue,” she says.

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What’s in a name?: The team was originally called BBQ for You, which Poulin had to change quickly after seeing it on another team’s license plate. After that, it was simply Vermont BBQ until another company began using that moniker. The team added “maple” in recognition of the ingredient that sweetens its meat.

is to figure out your pit’s idiosyncrasies by trial and error.

glories at “the Jack,” teams must qualify for an invitation, which comes from the top governing body of barbecue, the Kansas City Barbeque Society. Vermont teams have just one opportunity to be seen by KCBS judges without traveling out of state: the Harpoon Championships of New England Barbecue in Windsor.

That contest happens this weekend. In preparation, we talked to some of Vermont’s top teams about how they get to the meat of all matters smoky, tender and juicy. Three will compete at Harpoon, along with four other Vermont teams, while another, Sweet Breathe, is taking a break after making its mark out of state this season. Will one of these competitors take the big trophy?

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the 2008 first place for lamb. Poulin says she’s just proud to be invited to Harpoon each year and to have earned a ribbon or trophy each year the team has competed.

Tip for home barbecuers: Find what works for you. Poulin points out that each pit is an individual with its own “personality.” The way to achieve barbecue nirvana

Toughest competition: “They’re all top dogs if you’re at that level,” Dilworth says, and adds that she’s particularly nervous about Hog Heaven BBQ of Brandon.

Biggest triumph: A few second-place trophies have helped encourage the newish team, including one for their pork tenderloin at last year’s Western Maine BBQ Festival.

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Biggest misstep: “Not having enough signage,” says Dilworth, who also vends her food at competitions. “We end up looking a little conservative and humble next to people with big signs and banners who glitz themselves up.”

Chris Sargent and wife Jenn Colby raise pigs at their small East Randolph farm, Howling Wolf Farm, but those porkers don’t go into the ’cue that Howling Hog cooks in competition. “We couldn’t possibly raise that many pigs,” Sargent explains. “You cook two to four butts every time you practice.”

Howling Hog won’t vend its ’cue at Harpoon, but Sargent will still be selling food while he masters meat for the judges: He brings whoopee pies for attendees in flavors including chai and pumpkin.

Team members: Sargent, Colby and friends Rob Hurley and Tara Race Team age: Nine years Signature dish: Land-use planner Sargent says he thinks brisket is his greatest asset, but recently his chicken has outclassed it in competition.

What’s in a name?: Howling Hog matches Sargent and Colby’s farm, Howling Wolf.

Toughest competition: Harpoon isn’t easy for Vermont teams to win; Sargent points out that the last one to do so was

Toughest competition: Belted Cow BBQ and Howling Hog BBQ

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Lost Nation Smoke Company, named grand champion in 2003. He’s leaned on teams from other states, such as I Que, to teach him some of the secrets of success.

Biggest triumph: Last month in Old Orchard Beach, Maine, Howling Hog came just 2.4 points from winning the grand championship at Smokin’ at the Ballpark BBQ Festival.

Biggest misstep: In one competition, Sargent accidentally sprayed half of his four trays of ribs with inedible grill cleaner.

There was a happy ending: The untainted racks won first place.

Tip for home barbecuers: “It’s just practice, practice, practice,” says Sargent. Also, don’t show off a new skill to friends the first time you try it. Sargent recalls one party that ended with “a lot of people grinning and chewing a lot” after he made an early attempt at brisket.

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Not all of Vermont’s top-placing teams will be at Harpoon this year. Eric Gray of Sweet

Breathe BBQ was too busy to make it, amid other KCBS competitions and local cooking contests such as the first annual Queen City Chili Cook-Off, where he reigned victorious last winter. This Sunday, he’ll be cooking a special Americana-themed barbecue dinner at Burlington’s North End Studio A. Gray bears visible evidence of his devotion to his team: The Sweet Breathe logo is tattooed on his leg.

Team members: Pit boss Eric Gray, along with Tony Brown, Chris and Jason Mazur, Bethany Scott and Tawnya Gray Team age: Three years Signature dish: The Green Mountain Sausage Fatty. Gray’s unconventional meat roll-up wows judges with its combination of sausage, Cabot cheddar, Vermont Smoke and Cure bacon, apples, onions, maple syrup and sage. It’s won him numerous ribbons in the grilling segment of competitions. At last year’s I Love Barbeque Festival in Lake Placid, N.Y., the same combination of ingredients on a pizza won Gray a grand championship in grilling against Delpha, whose elegant

Harpoon Championships of New England Barbecue, Saturday, July 27, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.; and Sunday, July 28, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Harpoon Brewery in Windsor. $15. harpoonbrewery.com

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Number of annual competitions: Howling Hog will probably do six festivals this summer, in the team’s busiest year yet.

Number of annual competitions: About 10 What’s in a name?: Sweet Breathe is actually pronounced “Sweet Breath,” but the extra ‘e’ is not a misspelling. A software project manager at Harmony Information Systems, Gray had a distinctly geeky way of choosing a name. He and a teammate fed the words “We are the best” into an anagram creator, et voilà. It doesn’t help competitors pronounce the name, but the team continues to enjoy the private joke.

Tip for home barbecuers: Low and slow.

“A lot of people want to cook up a rack of ribs in half an hour. You can do that, but they’re not going to be as good,” Dilworth says. “That is, of course, one of the secrets to really barbecuing.”

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Paul Simon & Charlie Nardozzi: The landscape architect and master gardener present techniques as featured in their new book Urban Gardening for Dummies. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 6:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 879-7576.

comedy

Improv Night: Fun-loving participants play “Whose Line Is It Anyway?”-style games in an encouraging environment. Spark Arts, Burlington, 8-10 p.m. $7 suggested donation.

Info, 373-4703.

dance

North End Fusion: Swing your partner ‘round and ‘round! The Interlopers provide live music at this monthly, “anything goes” celebration of eclectic dance styles. North End Studio A, Burlington, 8:30-10:30 p.m. $8; $15 per pair.

Info, 863-6713.

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Justin Morrill Homestead Tour: Folks explore grounds featuring a Gothic Revival historic house, formal gardens, interpretive exhibits and walking trails. Justin Morrill Homestead, Strafford, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. $5. Info, 765-4484.

Tech Savvy Wednesday: One-on-one instruction helps attendees get acquainted with their devices and navigate the world of digital video.

Bradford Public Library, 5-6 p.m. & 7-8 p.m. Free.

Info, 222-4536.

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

Wagon Ride Wednesdays: Giddy up! Visitors tour the working dairy farm via this time-tested method of equine transportation. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Regular admission, $3-12; free for kids 2 and under. Info, 457-2355.

fairs & festivals

Vermont Summer Festival Horse Shows: Top New England equestrians compete in various categories. Harold Beebe Farm, East Dorset, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. $3-7. Info, info@vt-summerfestival.com.

film

‘Northern Borders’: Based on Howard Frank Mosher’s eponymous novel, Jay Craven’s latest film tells the story of a young boy sent to live on his grandparents’ Vermont farm during the mid-1950s. Broad Brook Grange Hall, Guilford, 7:30 p.m. $6-12; first come, first served. Info, 357-4616.

food & drink

Champlain Islands Farmers Market: Baked items, preserves, meats and eggs sustain shoppers in search of local goods. St. Rose of Lima Church, South Hero, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 372-3291.

Colchester Farmers Market: Locavores convene for an array of fresh produce, prepared foods, artisan wares, health and wellness products, and live entertainment. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, 879-7576.

Middlebury Farmers Market: Crafts, cheeses, breads and veggies vie for spots in shoppers’ totes. The Marbleworks, Middlebury, 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 989-6012.

South End Farmers Market: Food producers offer one-stop shopping with seasonal produce, grass-fed meats, freshly baked bread and tasty fare. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 3:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 345-7847.

Williston Farmers Market: Shoppers seek prepared foods and unadorned produce at a weekly open-air affair. New England Federal Credit Union, Williston, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, 8798790, info@willistonfarmersmarket.com.

games

Burlington Go Club: Folks gather weekly to play this deceptively simple, highly strategic Asian board game. Uncommon Grounds, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Free; bring a set if you have one. Info, 860-9587, dfelcan@yahoo.com.

health & fitness

Community Yoga Class: Anjali Budreski and Lydia Russell-McDade teach stretching sessions suitable for students of all experience levels. Personal mat required. Old Town Hall, Brookfield, 6:15 p.m. Free to attend; donations accepted. Info, 276-3535, btownhall@aol.com.

Crystal Meditation: Marna Ehrech leads a weekly experiential session. Rainbow Institute, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. $11 suggested donation.

Info, 238-7908.

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SelbyDance Thursday, July 25, 6 p.m., at Helen Day Art Center in Stowe. Donations. Info, 253-8358. helenday.com

Raucous Revival One night in 1973, barstool banter birthed what later became the Killington Trike Race. For 20 years, the famed three-wheeled-vehicle race drew people to the ski town each summer. After a lengthy hiatus, the event returns on the 40th anniversary of its inception. A wacky weekend kicks off with Friday’s Great Gatsby costume party. The fun continues on Saturday when racers hit the pavement to vie for trophies and prizes.

Coordinated canines get in on the action with Foundry Fly Dogs events, followed by a fireworks display. Folks cap off the festivities with the Commodore’s Celebrity Invitational Regatta and the Olde Tyme Golf Classic.

Killington Trike Race Weekend Friday, July 26, 7 p.m.-midnight; Saturday, July 27, 11 a.m.-9:30 p.m.; Sunday, July 28, 11 a.m.-5:30 p.m., at various Killington locations. Prices vary. Info, 422-9561. foundrykillington.com

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Charismatic radio personality Garrison Keillor has delighted listeners for more than 30 years on A “Prairie Home Companion.” Debuted as an oldstyle variety show in a Minnesota theater to a modest audience of 12 people, the program is currently carried by more than 600 public radio stations. The dynamic performer brings his live act to Vermont as part of a 30-city, coastto-coast bus tour. Singer and fiddler Sara Watkins joins him onstage for an evening of duets punctuated by absurd improv, quirky sound effects and program mainstays such as “Guy Noir Private Eye” and “News from Lake Wobegon.”

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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.

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Acorn Club: ‘Sally’s Music Circle’: Rob Zollman of Whole Music Learning leads little ones up to age 5 and their caregivers in energetic songs using various instruments.

St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 748-8291.

An Evening of Music & Dance: Youngsters join their instructors from Young Tradition Vermont’s Trad Camp in spirited songs and choreographed moves. Pete Sutherland, Brian Sustic and others add to the fun. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

Authors at the Aldrich: N. Griffin: The young-adult author speaks the language of teens with The Whole Stupid Way We Are. A concert in Currier Park follows. Aldrich Public Library, Barre, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 476-7550.

Chess for Kids: Checkmate! Students in grades 3 through 8 test their skills in this strategic game. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 3-4 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

Chess? Yes!: Quick thinkers ages 8 and up vie for their opponents’ king during this meeting of the minds. Norman Williams Public Library, Woodstock, 3-4 p.m. Free. Info, 457-2295.

Craftsbury Chamber Players MiniConcerts: Accompanied by their adult caregivers, little listeners gain exposure to classical compositions. UVM Recital Hall, Redstone Campus, Burlington, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 800-639-3443.

Dig Into Roots: Herbalist Angie Barger leads children up to age 8 in a morning of discovery.

A complimentary lunch follows. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.

Fairfield Playgroup: Tykes find entertainment in hands-on activities and snack time.

Bent Northrop Memorial Library, Fairfield, 1011:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

Georgia Summer Playgroup: Youngsters burn off energy on the playground with creative play and crafts. Georgia Beach, 10 a.m.-noon.

Free. Info, 527-5426.

Lake Placid Center for the Arts Young & Fun Series: The Seagle Music Colony’s playful twist on the popular fairy tale “The Three Little Pigs” introduces little ones ages 5 and up to opera. Lake Placid Center for the Arts, N.Y., 10:30 a.m. Free; first come, first served. Info, 518-523-2512.

LeapFrog Read With Me Scout Story Time: Budding bookworms up to age 3 join the talking and singing puppy in an interactive introduction to reading. Barnes & Noble, South Burlington, 11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 864-8001.

Let’s Dig In With Mighty Machines: Toddlers and preschoolers tap into their imaginations with themed activities. Highgate Public Library, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 868-3970.

Snakes Alive!: Reptiles are all the rage at this event for youngsters in grades 3 through 6, who meet a corn snake, then paint a wooden replica to take home. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 7-8 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-6956.

Stop-Motion Animation: Middlebury Community Television leads a four-day workshop for movie lovers entering grades 4 and up, who learn how to transform still images into animated films. For those who have attended Youth Media Lab or Lights, Camera, Action camp. Community Meeting Room and Young

Adult Room, Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 9 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 388-4097 , ilsleypubliclibrary.org.

Summer Preschool Story Time: Good listeners stretch their imaginations with engaging tales, songs, puppets and more. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10-10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

The Buzz on Bees: Explorers ages 3 to 5 and their adult companions learn about the world of these striped hive dwellers with themed activities. Meet at sugarhouse parking area. Green Mountain Audubon Center, Huntington, 10-11 a.m. $8-10 per adult/child pair; $4 per additional child; preregister. Info, 434-3068.

‘There Be Treasure Buried Here’: Sword fighting? A storm at sea? Members of Rutland High School’s Encore Theatre summer extension program present a choose-your-adventure pirate story as part of a statewide tour. Brandon Town Hall, 7 p.m. $4; $12 for family of four. Info, 770-1134.

‘There Be Treasure Buried Here’: Killington: See above listing. Sherburne Memorial Library, Killington, 1 p.m. $4; $12 for family of four. Info, 770-1134.

‘There Be Treasure Buried Here’: Proctor: See above listing. Proctor Public Library, 10:30 a.m. $4; $12 for family of four. Info, 770-1134.

‘There Be Treasure Buried Here’: Wallingford: See above listing. Town Hall Theatre, Wallingford, 4 p.m. $4; $12 for family of four. Info, 770-1134.

Tom Joyce: The magician entertains audience members with mysterious feats. Community Meeting Room, Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 388-4097.

Wacky Wednesday: Amphibian Challenge: Youngsters ages 8 and up dress to resemble critters such as frogs and salamanders, then do their best to complete an obstacle course.

ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 12:30-1 p.m. Free with admission, $9.50-12.50. Info, 877-324-6386.

language

English as a Second Language Class: Those with beginner, intermediate and advanced English improve their vocabulary.

Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Free.

Info, 865-7211.

Spanish-English Conversation Group: Habla español? Locals brush up on their foreign language conversation skills at this informal session. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 5:30-6:45 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211, bshatara@ burlingtonvt.gov.

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LGBTQA Family Playgroup: Like-minded folks bring infants and children up to age 4 together for crafts and physical activities. Leaps and Bounds Child Development Center, South Burlington, 4:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 860-7812, jean@ru12.org.

music

American Flatbread Summer Sessions: Joining forces as Belle Pines, Vermont musicians Lesley Grant, Brett Hughes, Pat Melvin and Sean Preece give an alleyway concert of honky-tonk harmonies. American Flatbread — Burlington Hearth, 6-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 8612999, emily@flatbreadhearth.com.

Bristol Town Band: Neighbors convene for this weekly concert series that celebrates a community-band tradition of nearly 145 years.

Bristol Green, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, mamvermont@gmail.com.

Burlington Ensemble Summer Serenades: ‘Gypsy Night’: Classical music lovers take in Brahms Opus 25 and Béla Bartók’s Piano Quintet in a performance featuring violinist Rachel Lee. Proceeds benefit Vermont FEED. Coach Barn at Shelburne Farms, gates open for picnicking, 5:30 p.m.; indoor concert, 7:30 p.m. $30. Info, 598-9520.

City Hall Park Lunchtime Performances: Local musicians enliven the lunch hour.

Burlington City Hall Park, noon. Free. Info, 865-7166.

Concerts on the Bluff: Rick & the Ramblers: The local western-swing band give an outdoor concert as part of the 2013 “Riding My Guitar Tour” celebrating front man Rick Norcross’ 50 years in music. Clinton Community College, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 518-562-4200 or 802-864-6674.

Craftsbury Chamber Players: Concert II: World-renowned musicians interpret works by Brahms, Handel and Gabriel Fauré. UVM Recital Hall, Redstone Campus, Burlington, 8 p.m. $10-25; free for children ages 12 and under. Info, 800-639-3443.

Hinesburg Concerts in the Park: The father-son duo Ragged Glory gives a Neil Young tribute at this outdoor show. Hinesburg Community School, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 482-2281.

Kick ‘em Jenny String Band: Katie Trautz and Ted Ingham bring old-time southern and cajun music to the Middlesex Bandstand Summer Concert Series. Bring a lawn chair, blanket and picnic fare. Martha Pellerin & Andy Shapiro Memorial Bandstand, Middlesex, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-7525 or 229-0881.

KoSA Music Festival: Internationally renowned percussionists from the music camp — including Memo Acevedo, Sergio Bellotti and Gregg Bissonette — keep the beat with nightly performances. Casella Theater, Castleton State College, 8 p.m. $5-10. Info, 468-1119.

Lyra Summer Music Workshop: Violin Masterclass: A founding member of the acclaimed Harlem Quartet, violinist Melissa White shares her musical knowledge with students.

Conant Auditorium, Vermont Technical College, Randolph, 10 a.m. Free to attend; $10-15 donations accepted. Info, 917-622-0395.

Muzicka: Centered around the cimbál — an instrument prominent in Eastern European folk tradition — the Czech Republic-based ensemble performs a varied repertoire. Collis Center Patio, Hanover, N.H., 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 603-646-3531.

Town of Shelburne Summer Concert Series: The Janice Dompke Duo perform standards, ballads and blues from the 1930s-’50s.

Shelburne Farms, gates open for picnicking, 5:30 p.m.; concert, 6:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 985-9551.

‘Wednesdays on the Marketplace’ Concert Series: A family-friendly evening celebrates Lake Champlain with live music, kids activities, prizes and local organizations dedicated to keeping Vermont’s waters healthy and clean. Top of Church Street, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 656-2514.

outdoors

Nature at Night: Mesmerizing Moths: A nocturnal excursion leads folks to bait stations in search of colorful underwing moths. North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, 8:30-10:30 p.m. $3-5. Info, 229-6206.

Sunset Aquadventure: Stunning scenery welcomes paddlers of all abilities, who explore the Waterbury Reservoir in search of loons and beavers. Meet at the Contact Station at 6:30 p.m.; program begins at 7 p.m. at A-Side Swim Beach. Little River State Park, Waterbury. $2-3; free for kids 3 and under; preregister; call to

confirm. Info, 244-7103, greenwarbler@gmail. com.

sport

Catamount Mountain Bike Series: Riders of all ages and abilities spin their wheels on 2.5K to 20K races in the country’s oldest, largest and longest-running training series. Catamount Outdoor Family Center, Williston, 6 p.m. $4-10; free for children under 6 in unscored races. Info, 879-6001.

Green Mountain Table Tennis Club: Pingpong players swing their paddles in singles and doubles matches. Knights of Columbus, Rutland, 7-10 p.m. Free for first two sessions; $30 annual membership. Info, 247-5913.

talks

‘Peace From Below’: Middle East Panel Discussion: Members of Volunteers for Peace facilitate conversation about the Iraeli/ Palestinian issue. A short film hosted by the Burlington-Bethlehem-Arad Sister City Program follows. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 7:30-9 p.m. Free. Info, 540-3060.

The Wonders of Fungi: Eric Swanson of Vermush explains the processes behind growing mushrooms from cultures. Participants receive spawns to take home. Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 5-7 p.m. $10-12; preregister.

Info, 223-8000, ext. 202.

Yestermorrow Design/Build School Summer Lecture Series: In “Transition PechaKucha: Ideas for a World Without Oil,” 12 presenters share projects and design work related to a lower-energy future. Yestermorrow Design/Build School, Waitsfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 496-5545.

theater

‘Hair’: Codirected by Matt Bacewicz and Sabrina Sydnor, Stowe Theatre Guild stages the acclaimed rock musical about politically active hippies during the Vietnam War. Mature themes and brief, veiled nudity. Town Hall Theatre, Akeley Memorial Building, Stowe, 8 p.m. $20.

Info, 253-3961.

‘Music Man’: Tony Award-nominee Marla Schaffel stars opposite Anthony Wills in this Greensboro Arts Alliance and Residency production of Meredith Wilson’s award-winning 1957 musical. Town Hall Green, Greensboro, 7:30 p.m. $15-30. Info, 553-7487.

‘Next to Normal’: The Weston Playhouse stages Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey’s Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning rock musical about a family’s struggle with mental illness behind the veil of suburban life. For ages 14 and up. Weston Playhouse, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. $35-61.

‘Rumors’: Thomas Ouellette directs members of the St. Michael’s Playhouse in Neil Simon’s comedy about four upper-class couples and a dinner party gone horribly wrong. McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 8 p.m. $40-43. Info, 654-2281.

‘Travels With Franny: A True and Faithful Account of Our Road Trip With Franz Kafka’: Don Gropman presents a theatrical reading from his novel-in-progress in which he rediscovers the famous writer. Phantom Theater, Edgcomb Barn, Warren, 8 p.m. $15. Info, 496-5997.

Walker International Circus: A night at the race track takes on new meaning with this family-friendly big-top show featuring thrills, chills, animal acts and lots of laughter. Devil’s Bowl Speedway, West Haven, 5:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. $12-14; free for children ages 14 and under.

Info, 265-3112.

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Burlington Writers Workshop Meeting: Members read and respond to the poetry and prose of fellow wordsmiths. Participants must join the group to have their work reviewed.

Halflounge, Burlington, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister at meetup.com. Info, 383-8104.

Chris Bohjalian & stephen kiernan: The acclaimed author joins the award-winning journalist on a joint book tour for The Light in the Ruins and The Curiosity, respectively. Main Reading Room, Champlain Valley Unitarian Universalist Society, Middlebury, 7 p.m. Free.

Info, 448-3350 or 865-7211.

ConteMplative Meeting: Reading material inspires discussion about Gnostic principles relative to “Keys to Renewing Life.” Foot of the Hill Building, St. Albans, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 524-9706. gilBert neWBury: In a presentation of Pedal to the Sea, the local author recounts his family’s cross-country bicycle trip on a custom fourseater bike. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. stoWe Free liBrary giant Book sale: Bibliophiles go wild at this annual event featuring thousands of titles up for the choosing.

Porch and lawn, Stowe Free Library, 9 a.m.-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 253-6145, info@stowelibrary.org.

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Fun With CoMposting: Master gardener Laurie DiCesare leads hands-on — and messy — family-friendly activities related to the bioactive material. Fairfax Community Library, 6:308 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 849-2420.

art

introduCtion to art history: Referencing the museum’s collection, SUNY Plattsburgh professor Christopher Fasolino teaches visual arts through the ages. Plattsburgh State Art Museum, N.Y., noon-1:30 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 518-564-2498, sbell008@ plattsburgh.edu.

‘art on park’: Live music entertains attendees and more than 30 local artisans, who sell handcrafted wares, artwork, specialty foods and more. Park Street, Stowe, 5:30-8:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 253-2275.

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BaCon thursday: Duke Aeroplane and the Wrong Numbers entertain attendees at this sweet-and-salty weekly gathering featuring bacon, creative dipping sauces and camaraderie. Nutty Steph’s, Middlesex, 6-midnight. Cost of food; cash bar. Info, 229-2090.

Bats on the FarM: “Barry the Bat Guy” teaches folks about the benefits of these nocturnal hunters before an observation of an evening flight. Shelburne Farms, 7:30-9 p.m. $6-8; preregister. Info, 985-8686. justin Morrill hoMestead tour: See WED.24, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. lake ChaMplain tWilight history Cruises: Jim Bullard, former owner and operator of the Fort Ticonderoga ferry, and Shoreham town historian Susan MacIntire reference visible landmarks on a narrated trip aboard the Carillon. Larabee’s Point, Shoreham, 5:30-7:30 p.m. $30-35; preregister. Info, 388-2117. solar house tour: Folks visit a sustainable, state-of-the-art structure built by architecture and design students for the 2013 Solar Decathlon competition. Middlebury College, 8:30-11:30 a.m. $25-50. Info, 425-6162, info@ aiavt.org. solar house tour: northField: See above listing. Norwich University, Northfield, 1:304:30 p.m. suMMervale: Locavores celebrate farms and farmers at a weekly event centered around food, brews, kids activities and live music.

Intervale Center, Burlington, 5:30-8 p.m. Free to attend; cost of food and drink. Info, 660-0440. the Barnstand ColleCtive: This creative twist on traditional farm stands showcases local produce and food products alongside upcycled, vintage furniture, handmade clothing and more from participating small businesses.

The Barnstand Collective, Marshfield, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Free. Info, 229-2090.

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‘herBie the love Bug’: Locals screen a short documentary about Bristol, then watch the 1968 hit movie about the adventures of a Volkswagen Beetle. Bring lawn chairs or blankets. Rain location: Holley Hall. Town Green, Bristol, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 453-5885.

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Info, 881-9732.

going solar on the FarM: Environmentally minded community members attend a Q&A session on adapting the sun’s energy for agricultural operations. SunCommon Solar Pop-up Art Gallery, Middlebury, 7:30-8:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 236-2199, suncommon.com.

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Burlington Walk/Bike CounCil Meeting: Attendees discuss ways to promote humanpowered transportation, as well as how to improve existing policies and infrastructure.

Room 12, Burlington City Hall, 5:30-7 p.m. Free.

Info, 865-5449.

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soCial Media For sMall Business Workshop: Pat Ripley leads an interactive training session focused on using the online resource for marketing purposes. Pierce Hall Community Center, Rochester, 6-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 223-6091, vtsbdc.centerdynamics.com.

selBydanCe: The Michigan-based company known for abstract and contemplative pieces performs a varied repertoire as part of the site-specific exhibit, “Exposed.” See calendar spotlight. Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, 6-7 p.m.

Donations. Info, 253-8358. solo danCing Workshop: Polly Motley teaches intermediate and advanced dancers, actors and musicians how to focus their intentions and develop a relationship with their environment. Contemporary Dance & Fitness Studio, Montpelier, 5:30-7 p.m. $15. Info, 229-4676.

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Milton Farmers Market: Honey, jams and pies alike tempt seekers of produce, crafts and maple goodies. Milton High School, 4-7 p.m.

Free. Info, 893-1009.

New North End Farmers Market: Eaters stroll through an array of offerings, from sweet treats to farm-grown goods. Elks Lodge, Burlington, 3-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 658-8072, newnorthendmarket@hotmail.com.

Waterbury Farmers Market: Cultivators and their customers swap veggie tales and edible inspirations at a weekly outdoor emporium.

Rusty Parker Memorial Park, Waterbury, 3-7 p.m.

Free. Info, 279-4371, info@waterburyfarmersmarket.com.

Willoughby Lake Farmers & Artisan Market: Performances by local musicians join produce, eggs, gemstone jewelry, wind chimes and more to lure buyers throughout the warm months. 1975 Route 5A, Westmore, 3-7 p.m.

Free. Info, 525-8842.

games

Open Bridge Game: Players of varying experience levels put strategic skills to use in this popular card game. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 5:30-7:45 p.m. Free. Info, 462-3373.

health & fitness

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, 7-8 p.m. $10. Info, 578-9243.

Yoga With Leo Leach: Patrticipants ages 14 and up learn the fundamentals of movement and breath. Personal yoga mat required.

Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 1 p.m.

Free; preregister. Info, 878-4918.

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Crafternoons: Creative youngsters entering grades K through 8 tap into their imaginations with arts and crafts. Sarah Partridge Community Library, East Middlebury, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 388-7588.

Craftsbury Chamber Players MiniConcerts: See WED. 24. Hardwick Town House, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 800-639-3443.

‘Dig Into Reading’: Craft Series: Budding artists in grades 1 through 5 use Zen gardens as inspiration for creative projects. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 2-3 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-6956.

Groovin’ & Diggin’ to Another World: An interactive performance with Jay Cook introduces children to world music via several different instruments. Bradford Public Library, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 222-4536.

Itsy Bitsy Yoga: Toddler-friendly poses with Mikki Raveh meet stories, songs and games in this program for kids 5 and under. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10:30-11:15 a.m. Free. Info, 388-4097.

Montgomery Infant/Toddler Playgroup: Infants to 2-year-olds idle away the hours with stories and songs. Montgomery Town Library, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

Music With Derek: Preschoolers up to age 5 bust out song-and-dance moves to traditional and original folk. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m. Free; limited to one session per week per family. Info, 878-4918.

Music With Mr. Chris: Singer, storyteller and puppeteer Chris Dorman entertains kids and parents alike. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 1010:30 a.m. Free. Info, 764-1810.

Stop-Motion Animation: See WED.24, 9 a.m.-noon.

Summer Book Discussion Group: Readers in grades 5 through 7 share opinions about Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

Fairfax Community Library, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 849-2420.

Summer Story Time: Little ones gather for read-aloud tales, crafts, songs and creative movement. Lawrence Memorial Library, Bristol, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Info, 453-2366.

‘There Be Treasure Buried Here’: See WED.24. Hartford Library, 10 a.m.

‘There Be Treasure Buried Here’: Bristol: See WED.24. Lawrence Memorial Library, Bristol, 2 p.m.

‘There Be Treasure Buried Here’: Thetford: See WED.24. Latham Memorial Library, Thetford, 6:30 p.m.

X-Theater Presents: Participants from the Burlington Parks & Recreation Open Stage performance camp showcase original dramatic works. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11 a.m.noon. Free. Info, 865-7216.

Sattuma Karelian Folk Band: Hailing from northwestern Russia, the family folk group shares the region’s traditional music using 20 different instruments as part of the 2013 Pentangle Brown Bag Concert Series.

Woodstock Village Green, noon-1 p.m. Free to attend; donations accepted. Info, 457-3981.

Snow Farm Vineyard Concert Series: Picnickers enjoy local libations, good eats and live music in a pastoral setting at this weekly gathering. Snow Farm Vineyard, South Hero, grounds open, 5 p.m.; concert, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Free; cost of food and drink. Info, 372-9463.

Thunder Road: Country hits and classic rock from the local band get audience members to their feet at the West Rutland Summer Concert Series. Town Hall Green, West Rutland, 7 p.m.

Free to attend; nonperishable donations accepted.

Info, 438-2263.

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WTF!: Women/Trans/Femme Bike Repair Night: Non-male-identified folks convene to learn about bicycle mechanics in a supportive environment. Bike Recycle Vermont, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. $5-10 suggested donation. Info, 2649687, hannah@bikerecycle.localmotion.org.

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Anything Goes: Mark Greenberg and Ben Koenig perform toe-tapping folk and bluegrass selections at the Montpelier Alive Brown Bag Concert Series. Christ Church, Montpelier, noon1 p.m. Free. Info, 595-0441.

Burlington Ensemble Summer Serenades: ‘Café Night’: Classical music lovers take in piano trios from Chopin, Enescu, Grieg and Schoenfield in a performance featuring violinist Rachel Lee. A percentage of proceeds benefits Vermont FEED. Coach Barn at Shelburne Farms, gates open for picnicking, 5:30 p.m.; indoor concert, 7:30 p.m. $30. Info, 598-9520.

Cold Country Bluegrass & the Zeichner Family Trio: The longtime local band informs southern harmonies with more than 30 years of stage time. A performance of traditional Irish tunes follows. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.

KoSA Music Festival: See WED.24, 8 p.m.

Lyra Summer Music Workshop Faculty Concert: In “Bindings: Music of the Captive,” internationally acclaimed musicians perform works by Dvořák, Edvard Grieg, Olivier Messiaen and others. Chandler Music Hall, Randolph, 7:30 p.m. $10-15 suggested donation. Info, 917-622-0395.

Manchester Music Festival: “Mozart to Morricone” features selected works for strings, woodwinds, piano and horns by the chamber music and film composers, respectively.

Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, 7:30 p.m. $35. Info, 362-1956.

Potluck Dinner Jam: The Summit School Players hold an open jam session of traditional tunes before a shared meal and a musical exploration of various genres. Summit School, Montpelier, 6-8 p.m. Free to attend; donations accepted; bring a dish to share. Info, 917-1186.

Reginald & Olga Pineda: As part of the Music at Moose Meadow concert series, the violinist and pianist interpret works by Mozart, Henryk Wieniawski and others. Proceeds benefit the Eleva Chamber Players. Moose Meadow Lodge, Waterbury, 6 p.m. Donations; preregister; limited space. Info, 244-8354.

Finding Bird By Ear & Eye: Avian enthusiasts locate songbirds on a guided Co ur walk through a young te sy of forest. Binoculars recomTo w n ha ll theater mended. Meet at Waterbury Dam monument. Little River State Park, Waterbury, 10:30 a.m. $2-3; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103.

Making Tracks & Seeing Skins: Outdoorsy types search for signs of fur-bearing animals and make plaster-of-Paris track casts to take home. Nature Center, Little River State Park, Waterbury, 2 p.m. $2-3; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103.

Water Striders: Folks grab nets and don water shoes for an aquatic adventure focused on the critters that inhabit Stevenson Brook.

Meet at the Nature Trail. Little River State Park, Waterbury, 10:30 a.m. $2-3; free for children 3 and under; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103, greenwarbler@gmail.com.

sport

BIC SUP One Design Challenge: Standup paddleboarders hit the water in a bout of friendly competition as part of an international racing series. Equipment is provided. North Beach, Burlington, 6 p.m. $5 plus parking fee.

Info, 651-8760.

talks

Jack Mayer: The author of Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler Project, about the humble Holocaust hero, shares and discusses photographs from a recent trip to Poland. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4095.

theater

‘Annie Get Your Gun’: Thespians hit their targets in this Friends of the Opera House at Enosburg production of Irving Berlin’s 1946 musical about savvy sharpshooter Annie Oakley. Enosburg Opera House, 7 p.m. $10-14.

Info, 933-6171.

‘Hair’: See WED.24, 8 p.m.

‘Juno and the Paycock’: Sean O’Casey’s acclaimed drama about Dublin’s working class during the Irish Civil War comes to the Unadilla Theatre stage. Unadilla Theatre, Marshfield, 7:30 p.m. $10-20. Info, 456-8968.

‘Moby Dick’: Shakespeare in the Barn presents Deb Gwinn’s original stage adaptation of Herman Melville’s great American classic.

Mary’s Restaurant at the Inn at Baldwin Creek, Bristol, 8 p.m. $10; preregister. Info, 989-7226.

‘Music Man’: See WED.24, 7:30 p.m.

‘Next to Normal’: See WED.24, 7:30 p.m.

‘Rumors’: See WED.24, 8 p.m.

‘The Cemetery Club’: Emme Erdossy, Jude Milstein, Maura O’Brien and Bob Nuner star in this Lost Nation Theater production of Ivan Menchell’s comedy about the rituals of three grieving — and competing — Jewish widows.

Montpelier City Hall Auditorium, 7 p.m. $15-30.

Info, 229-0492.

‘The Fantasticks’: As part of the MiddSummer Nights Theater Festival, Peter Boynton directs and stars in this Skinner Barn production of Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones’ musical about two fathers’ efforts to spark a romance between their children. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 8 p.m. $15-20. Info, 382-9222.

‘The School of Lies’: A cast of newcomers and Waterbury Festival Playhouse veterans bring David Ives’ modern spin on Moliere’s The Misanthrope to the stage under the direction of Ethan T. Bowen. Waterbury Festival Playhouse, 7:30 p.m. $25-27. Info, 498-3755.

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Stowe Free Library Giant Book Sale: See WED.24, 9 a.m.-8:30 p.m.

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Burlington Bike Party: Light up the night!

All things that glow rule this themed monthly ride, where pedal pushers make brief stops along an 8- to 15-mile route. South End Truck Stop, Burlington, optional dinner, 7:30 p.m.; ride, 8-10 p.m. Free. Info, 787-233-9815, amy@ localmotion.org.

Friday Night Unplugged: Locals hit the streets in a celebration of the arts featuring an evening of acoustic music. Center Street, Rutland, 6-10 p.m. Free. Info, 773-9380, rutlanddowntown.com.

Tom Sullivan: The acclaimed blind entertainer, author and inspirational speaker performs at the 23rd anniversary celebration of the Americans with Disabilities Act signing. A raffle and VIP reception follow. Black Box Theater, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 6:30-8 p.m. $20; $50 VIP tickets.

Info, 863-5966 or 229-0501.

conferences

Native American Elders Gathering: Venerable members of international native communities explore spiritual consciousness in wisdom seminars, traditional ceremonies and around a sacred fire. Sunray Peace Village, Lincoln, 7 a.m. $85-175; additional fees for camping; free for children under 12; see sunray. org for details. Info, 989-3223 or 347-268-9289, info@sunray.org.

dance

Ballroom & Latin Dancing: Samir Elabd leads an evening of choreographed steps for singles and couples. No partner or experience required. Jazzercize Studio, Williston, introductory lesson, 7-8 p.m.; dance, 8-10 p.m. $14. Info, 862-2269.

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Mad Robin ContRa danCe: Folks in clean, soft-soled shoes move and groove in traditional New England social dances to music by Pete Sutherland and the Trad Camp All Stars. All dances are taught. First Congregational Church, Burlington, introductory lesson, 7:45-8 p.m.; dance. 8-11 p.m. $5-10; $20 per family; bring a dessert to share. Info, 503-1251.

Queen City tango Milonga: No partner is required for welcoming the weekend in the Argentine tradition. Wear clean, soft-soled shoes. North End Studios, Burlington, introductory session, 7-7:45 p.m.; dance, 7:45-10 p.m. $7.

Info, 877-6648.

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adult Movie: Ben Affleck’s award-winning Gone Baby Gone stars Morgan Freeman and Ed Harris as detectives whose personal and professional lives are turned upside down by a kidnapping investigation. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955.

food & drink

bRandon MusiC CaFé suppeR Club: Diners feast on a three-course meal in a pleasant atmosphere. Brandon Music Café, 5-9 p.m. $16.50; preregister; BYOB. Info, 465-4071.

CHelsea FaRMeRs MaRKet: A long-standing town-green tradition supplies shoppers with eggs, cheese, vegetables and fine crafts. North Common, Chelsea, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 6859987, chelseacommunitymarket@gmail.com.

CoMMunity dinneR: Live music provides ambiance for neighbors as they share a meal of homemade lasagna, salad and desserts. United Church of Hinesburg, 5:30-7 p.m. Free to attend; donations accepted to help fight hunger.

Info, 482-3352.

FaiR Haven FaRMeRs MaRKet: Grass-fed meats, homemade canned goods, breads, eggs and cheese delight culinary connoisseurs. Town Green, Fair Haven, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 747-4442.

Five CoRneRs FaRMeRs MaRKet: From natural meats to breads and wines, farmers share the bounty of the growing season at an openair exchange. Lincoln Place, Essex Junction, 3:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 5cornersfarmersmarket@gmail.com.

FoodWays FRidays: Heirloom herbs and vegetables transform into seasonal dishes via historic recipes prepared by visitors in the farmhouse kitchen. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Regular admission, $3-12; free for kids under 3. Info, 457-2355. pasta nigHt: Community members load up on carbs topped with “G-Man’s” famous homemade sauce. Live music by the Working Man Band follows. VFW Post, Essex Junction, 5:30-7 p.m. $7. Info, 878-0700.

WestFoRd FaRMeRs MaRKet: Purveyors of produce and other edibles take a stand at outdoor stalls. Westford Common, 3:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 524-7317, info@westfordfarmersmarketvt.org.

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Duties may include: • Companionship • Respite and support for family caregivers • Reminiscing with patients and families No experience required. We will provide orientation and training.

To volunteer, you must be 18 or older, and have not experienced a significant loss within the past year.

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aCoRn Club stoRy tiMe: Little ones up to age 6 gather for read-aloud tales. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 748-8291. dRop-in stoRy tiMe: Picture books, finger plays and action rhymes captivate kids of all ages. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10-10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956. ellie’s pResCHool paRty: Kiddos ages 1 through 5 complement a guitar sing-along

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‘a CouRse in MiRaCles’ Meet-up: Attendees learn principles that help foster an intuitive, holistic lifestyle. Bring a journal. Rainbow Institute, Burlington, 4:30 p.m. $10 suggested donation. Info, 671-4569. avoid Falls WitH iMpRoved stability: A personal trainer demonstrates daily practices for seniors concerned about their balance.

Pines Senior Living Community, South Burlington, 10 a.m. $5. Info, 658-7477.

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booKstoCK veRMont: Authors Jeanne Theoharis and Joan Wickersham keynote this literary fest featuring regional writers in talks and readings, live music, a poetry jam, and a giant book sale. See calendar spotlight. Various locations, Woodstock, 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Free. Info, 457-3981 or 457-2996. deeRField valley bluebeRRy Festival: Area residents celebrate summer’s perfectly tart berry for 10 days with a Big Blue Parade, a Blueberry Ball, themed eats, live music, pick-your-own blueberries and much more.

Various locations, Mount Snow area, 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Prices vary; see vermontblueberry.com for details. Info, 464-8092. veRMont balloon & CRaFt Festival: Gourmet fare and artisan wares complement hot-air balloon rides at this family-friendly celebration. A balloon glow and “Taste of Shelburne” round out the fun. Shelburne Museum, 10 a.m.5 p.m. $8; free for children ages 12 and under.

Info, 518-798-7888. veRMont suMMeR Festival HoRse sHoWs: See WED.24, 8 a.m.-4 p.m.

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Killington tRiKe RaCe WeeKend: Locals celebrate the return of this beloved event with a Great Gatsby party, the famed tricycle race, fireworks, a regatta, the Olde Tyme Golf Classic and more. See calendar spotlight. Various locations, Killington, 7-midnight. Prices vary; see foundrykillington.com for details. Info, 4229561, kate@karrgroup.net.

Queen City gHostWalK: daRKness Falls touR: Paranormal historian Thea Lewis highlights haunted happenings throughout Burlington. Meet at the steps. Burlington City Hall Park, 8 p.m. $14-18; meet 10 minutes before start time. Info, 863-5966. salsa boat CRuise: DJ Hector brings Latin rhythms aboard the Spirit of Ethan Allen Cruise III. Burlington Community Boathouse, boarding, 10:30 p.m.; cruise 11 p.m.-1 a.m. 10:30-midnight. $5; for ages 21 and up. Info, 862-8300. ‘so long to tHe solaR House’ CelebRation: The Joe Fisher band provide live music at this ice cream social in honor of the Delta T90 — a student designed and built abode destined for the 2013 Solar Decathlon in California. Disney Field, Norwich University, Northfield, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 485-2886, dlarkin@norwich.edu. tHe baRnstand ColleCtive: See THU.25, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. tHRee-day staMpede toWaRd tHe CuRe FoR CystiC FibRosis: Community members raise money and awareness about the genetic disease with a giant lawn sale, a silent auction, a 5K run and 3.5 mile walk-a-thon, good eats and much more. Bristol Recreation Field, 8 a.m.8 p.m. Free. Info, 453-4305.

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and instrument introduction with a parachute activity and bubbles. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m. Free; preregister.

Info, 878-4918.

Enosburg Falls Story Hour: Young ones show up for fables and crafts. Enosburg Public Library, 9-10 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

Groovin’ & Diggin’ to Another World: See THU.25. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 3-4 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-6956.

Magic: The Gathering: Decks of cards determine the arsenal with which participants, or “planeswalkers,” fight others for glory, knowledge and conquest. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6-8 p.m. Free; for grades 6 and up.

Info, 878-6956.

Montgomery Tumble Time: Physical fitness activities help build strong muscles.

Montgomery Recreation Center, 10-11 a.m. Free.

Info, 527-5426.

Music With Derek: Kiddos up to age 8 shake their sillies out to toe-tapping tunes. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 10-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 764-1810.

Stop-Motion Animation: See WED.24, 9 a.m.-noon.

‘There Be Treasure Buried Here’: See WED.24. Waterbury Congregational Church, 10 a.m.

‘There Be Treasure Buried Here’: Grafton: See WED.24. Grafton Public Library, 6 p.m.

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KoSA Music Festival: Student Performance: Select participants from the international percussion workshop culminate their weeklong studies with rousing rhythms.

Casella Theater, Castleton State College, 8 p.m.

Free. Info, 468-1119.

Summer Carillon Series: The melodic sounds of giant bronze bells resonate through the air as Sergei Gratchev performs at this campus concert. Mead Chapel, Middlebury College, 5 p.m. Free. Info, 433-3168.

Summer Sessions: The DuPont Brothers entertain the crowd at this weekly celebration of Vermont music. Magic Hat brews and Skinny Pancake crepes round out the event. Magic Hat Brewing Company, South Burlington, 5-8 p.m.

Free. Info, 658-2739.

The Precipice: Superhuman Happiness, Heloise & the Savoir Faire, Barika and Vermont Joy Parade are among more than 60 musical acts taking the stage at this three-day bash featuring Switchback brews and local fare.

Burlington College, 5 p.m. $10-25; $45-60 threeday pass; free for children ages 12 and under.

Info, 660-4923.

Village Harmony Teen Ensemble II: Suzannah Park, Natalie Nowytski and Gideon Crevoshay direct teenage singers in a program of international choral music. Grange Hall, Bridgewater, 7:30 p.m. $5-10. Info, 672-1797.

Weston-Bessette Band: Pianist and vocalist Helen Weston joins saxophonist Eric Bessette to lead a performance of jazz, swing and folkrock. Salisbury Congregational Church, 7:30-9 p.m. Donations. Info, 352-6671.

outdoors

Archaeological Dig Tour: The Northeast Archaeology Research Center presents two sites reflective of the Missisquoi Delta Region’s rich cultural and natural heritage. Contact trip leader for meeting location. Missisquoi River, Swanton, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 207-8604032, nearc@nearchaeology.com.

Birds By Ear: A wooded excursion features the 35 types of songbirds that inhabit the park.

Little River State Park, Waterbury, 9 a.m. $2-3; free for children ages 3 and under; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103, greenwarbler@gmail.com.

seminars

So, You Wanna Go For a Hike?: Nature lovers get up-to-date information on how to access area trails — including an interactive demonstration on recommended equipment. Nature Center, Little River State Park, Waterbury, 5:30 p.m. $2-3; call to confirm.

theater

‘Annie’: Leapin’ lizards! QNEK Productions stages the Tony Award-winning musical about the adventures of a precocious, lovable orphan who wins the heart of billionaire Oliver Warbucks.

Haskell Free Library & Opera House, Derby Line, 7:30 p.m. $13-15. Info, 334-2216.

‘Annie Get Your Gun’: See THU.25, 7 p.m.

Eleanor Frost & Ruth & Loring Dodd Play Festival: Staged readings of Aaluk Edwardson’s Thaw and Mike McDavid’s Our Fathers kick off a weekend of theater featuring Olivia Scott’s Little Lights and other works.

Warner Bentley Theater, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 8 p.m. $3-4.

Info, 603-646-2422.

‘Hair’: See WED.24, 8 p.m.

‘Heartbreak House’: The Unadilla Theatre interprets George Bernard Shaw’s comedic, yet thought-provoking play about the ways in which middle-and upper-class British citizens reacted to World War I. Festival Theatre stage, Unadilla Theatre, Marshfield, 7:30 p.m. $10-20.

Info, 456-8968.

‘Juno and the Paycock’: See THU.25, 7:30 p.m.

‘Moby Dick’: See THU.25, 8 p.m.

‘Next to Normal’: See WED.24, 7:30 p.m.

‘Our Town’: Len Cariou — Tony Award-winner and star of ABC’s “Blue Bloods” — leads a talented cast in this Greensboro Arts Alliance and Residency production of Thorton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama. Town Hall Green, Greensboro, 7:30 p.m. $15-30. Info, 553-7487.

‘Rumors’: See WED.24, 8 p.m.

‘Stop, Drop and Roll!’: Writer, actor and accomplished storyteller Ramsey Brown premieres her one-woman comedy about what happens when she reaches her thirties — and her boiling point. Phantom Theater, Edgcomb Barn, Warren, 8 p.m. $15. Info, 496-5997.

‘The Cemetery Club’: See THU.25, 8 p.m.

‘The Fantasticks’: See THU.25, 8 p.m.

‘The School of Lies’: See THU.25, 7:30 p.m.

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Stowe Free Library Giant Book Sale: See WED.24, 9 a.m.-8:30 p.m.

Summer Book Sale: Thousands of gently used titles delight bibliophiles of all ages. Lawn, Aldrich Public Library, Barre, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Free.

Info, 476-7550.

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Green Mountain Draft Horse Field Day: These giants of the equine world demonstrate traditional plowing, haying and logging methods synonymous with Vermont’s farming heritage. Shelburne Farms, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Regular admission, $5-8; free for members and children under 3. Info, 985-8686.

Hay Day: Draft horses demonstrate traditional haying techniques during a day of horse-drawn wagon rides and family-friendly activities.

Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 10 a.m.-5

p.m. Regular admission, $3-12; free for kids under 3. Info, 457-2355.

bazaars

Art in Bloom: Local artisans sell their wares at this community gathering featuring live music and tasty fare. Proceeds benefit the Bellows Free Academy ski team. Swanson’s Farm & Nursery, Fairfax, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Free.

Info, 849-6588.

community

Craftsbury Community Care Center Cookout & Auction: Spit-roasted beef and deep-fried turkey with all the fixings fuel attendees for bidding on artwork, concert tickets and much more. Proceeds benefit the nonprofit residence for senior citizens. Craftsbury Community Care Center, noon. $5-10; free for children under 5. Info, 586-2414.

Highgate’s 250th Anniversary Celebration: Locals mark this town milestone with historic-site bus tours, live music, carnival games and a community barbecue. Highgate Sports Arena, 1-7 p.m. Free. Info, 868-3970.

Kitten Shower: Cat lovers celebrate fabulous felines with games, treats and visits with adoptable animals. Central Vermont Humane Society, East Montpelier, noon-3 p.m. Donations; see cvhumane.com for wish list. Info, 476-3811, events@cvhumane.com.

conferences

Native American Elders Gathering: See FRI.26, 7 a.m.

crafts

Dig Into Tie-dye: Cool threads! Folks learn how to transform T-shirts, socks and pillowcases into colorful garments via this user-friendly technique. Fairfax Community Library, 10-11 a.m.

Free. Info, 849-2420.

dance

Swing Dance: Folks move and groove to Big Band hits by the 17-piece ensemble LCJazz, featuring vocalists Liz Cleveland and Tony Panella.

Proceeds benefit town hall restorations and student scholarships. Brandon Town Hall, 8-10 p.m. $8. Info, 247-5420.

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Burlington Waterfront Walking Tour: A stroll along Lake Champlain’s shoreline highlights the city’s industrial and maritime past.

Proceeds benefit Preservation Burlington. Meet at the visitor’s center on the bottom of College Street. Burlington waterfront, 1 p.m. $10; $5 for Preservation Burlington members and students. Info, 522-8259.

Champlain Valley Gem, Mineral & Fossil Show: Sparkling specimens from nature dazzle attendees during a weekend of eye-catching exhibits, lectures, a silent auction and kids activities. Frederick H. Tuttle Middle School, South Burlington, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. $2-3; free for children under 6 with an adult. Info, bgmcvt@ yahoo.com.

Downtown Burlington Walking Tour: Participants step back in time amid the Queen City’s intriguing history and architecture.

Proceeds benefit Preservation Burlington. Meet on Church Street. Burlington City Hall, 11 a.m. $10; $5 for Preservation Burlington members and students. Info, 522-8259.

Heroes of Gettysburg: A Civil War reenactment from the 18th Vermont Regiment honors the Green Mountain State’s role in preserving the Union. A program follows. Burlington City Hall Park, 4-8 p.m. Free. Info, 644-2433.

Historic Tour of UVM: Professor emeritus William Averyt leads a walk through campus, referencing architectural highlights and notable

personalities along the way. Meet at Ira Allen statue. University Green, UVM, Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister at uvm.edu. Info, 578-8830.

Justin Morrill Homestead Tour: See WED.24, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

Killington Trike Race Weekend: See FRI.26, 11 a.m.-9:30 p.m.

Lego Architecture Studio: Adults and teenagers use the brightly colored, interlocking blocks to learn about design, scale, modules and repetition, then assemble their own creations.

Barnes & Noble, South Burlington, 4 p.m. Free.

Info, 864-8001, crm2776@bn.com.

Queen City Ghostwalk: Darkness Falls Tour: See FRI.26, 8 p.m.

Swanton Chamber Car Show: Hot wheels!

Locals peruse more than 150 eye-catching automobiles of various makes and models. Village Green, Swanton, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free for spectators; $15 per car. Info, 868-5409.

The Barnstand Collective: See THU.25, 11 a.m.-7 p.m.

Three-Day Stampede Toward the Cure for Cystic Fibrosis: See FRI.26, 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

fairs & festivals

Bookstock Vermont: See FRI.26, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Cornwall Blueberry Festival & Family Day: The Shader Croft Band entertain festivalgoers, who feast on fare made with summer’s beloved berry. A barbecue, children’s activities and silent auction round out the fun. Town Center, Cornwall, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Free to attend; cost of food and drink. Info, 462-2170.

Deerfield Valley Blueberry Festival: See FRI.26, 9 a.m.-9 p.m.

Vermont Balloon & Craft Festival: See FRI.26, 10 a.m.-10 p.m.

Vermont Summer Festival Horse Shows: See WED.24, 8 a.m.-4 p.m.

Wolfsgart 4.0: The Northeast Air and Water-Cooled Festival: See FRI.26, 9 a.m.

film

‘Barbara’: Christian Petzold’s drama stars Nina Hoss as a Berlin doctor banished to the countryside after seeking an exit visa out of East Germany in the 1980s. Dana Auditorium, Sunderland Language Center, Middlebury College, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168.

Lake Placid Center for the Arts Film Series: Set on the city bus they ride to and from high school, Michel Gondry’s drama The We and The I explores social relationships between Bronx teenagers. Lake Placid Center for the Arts, N.Y., 7:30 p.m. $6. Info, 518-523-2512.

‘Pat Metheny: The Orchestrion Project’: The Grammy Award-winner hits the big screen in a broadcast performance that incorporates a custom-built mini-orchestra mechanically controlled by his guitar playing. Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort, 7:30 p.m. $12. Info, 760-4634.

food & drink

Burlington Farmers Market: More than 90 stands overflow with seasonal produce, flowers, artisan wares and prepared foods. Burlington City Hall Park, 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 3105172, info@burlingtonfarmersmarket.org.

Burlington Food Tour: Locavores take a bite out of the Queen City’s finest cuisine with a scrumptious stroll that includes samples from the Burlington Farmers Market and a dish from an area restaurant. East Shore Vineyard Tasting Room, Burlington, 12:30-3 p.m. $45; preregister.

Info, 277-0180.

Capital City Farmers Market: Meats and cheeses join farm-fresh produce, baked goods

liSt Your EVENt for frEE At SEVENDAYSVT.COM/POSTEVENT and locally made arts and crafts. 60 State Street, Montpelier, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 223-2958.

Champlain islands Farmers market: Baked items, preserves, meats and eggs sustain shoppers in search of local goods. St. Joseph Church Hall, Grand Isle, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Free. Info, 372-3291.

Creating an herbal tea garden: Clinical herbalist Rebecca Dalgin presents several easy-to-grow plants that hold medicinal qualities. Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 1-2 p.m. $5-7; preregister. Info, 223-8000, ext. 202, info@hungermountain.coop. enosburg Falls Farmers market: A morethan-20-year-old bazaar offers herbs, jellies, vegetables and just-baked goodies in the heart of the village. Lincoln Park, Enosburg Falls, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 933-4503. middlebury Farmers market: See WED.24, 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. northwest Farmers market: Stock up on local produce, garden plants, canned goods and handmade crafts. Taylor Park, St. Albans, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 370-6040. rutland County Farmers market: Downtown strollers find high-quality fruits and veggies, fresh-cut flowers, sweet treats, and artisan crafts within arms’ reach. Depot Park, Rutland, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 773-4813. waitsField Farmers market: Local entertainment enlivens a bustling, open-air market boasting extensive seasonal produce, prepared foods and artisan crafts. Mad River Green, Waitsfield, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 472-8027.

health & fitness

kids

Two Concerts:

Saturday August 3 @ 7:30pm • Sunday August 4 @ 7:30pm Alumni Auditorium, S. Willard Street, Burlington.

World class performers on Scottish smallpipes, Border pipes, Uilleann pipes, Northumbrian pipes, Renaissance pipes, fiddle, whistle, and flute.

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arChaeologiCal dig tour: See FRI.26, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. bird banding demonstration: Fans of feathered flyers observe this unique method of studying songbirds. Green Mountain Audubon Center, Huntington, 7-11 a.m. Donations. Info, 434-3068. bird-monitoring walk: Experienced avian seekers lead participants on a morning stroll to locate various species in their natural habitats.

Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington, 7:30 a.m. Free; for adults and older children. Info, 434-2167. hike to theron dean shelter: Folks hit the Long Trail for a moderately paced, four-mile trek up to the shelter named for the former Green Mountain Club member. Contact trip leader for details. Stark Mountain, Camel’s Hump State Forest, Waitsfield, 9 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 318-6281, leewrigley@myfairpoint. net. learn s’more about Camping: Gear gurus from Eastern Mountain Sports join staff from Vermont state parks to teach basic skills ranging from pitching a tent to building a campfire and more. Mt. Philo State Park, Charlotte, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 522-1532. owl prowl & night ghost hike: Brave souls shine flashlights in search of nocturnal creatures on an excursion to 19th-century settlement ruins, where ghost stories are shared.

Little River State Park, Waterbury, 7 p.m. $2-3; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103. we walk stevenson brook: Adventureseekers slip into their water shoes for a guided hike in and along the spring-fed stream. Meet at Stevenson Brook Trailhead. Little River State Park, Waterbury, 10:30 a.m. $2-3; free for children 3 and under; call to confirm. Info, 2447103, greenwarbler@gmail.com.

seminars

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riChFord Farmers market story walk: Little ones take a literary stroll through the market amid an array of local foods. 21 Main Street, Richford, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. russian play time with natasha: Kiddos up to age 8 learn new words with rhymes, games, music, dance and a puppet show.

Buttered Noodles, Williston, 11-11:45 a.m. Free.

Info, 764-1810. saturday story time: Families gather for imaginative tales. Phoenix Books Burlington, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 448-3350. ‘there be treasure buried here’: Sword fighting? A storm at sea? Rutland High School’s Encore Theatre summer extension program culminate their statewide tour of a chooseyour-adventure pirate story. Performance includes audience participation in the Dizzyfeet foundation’s dance. Library. Rutland High School, 10 a.m. & 7 p.m. $4; $12 for family of four. Info, 770-1134.

Lodge, Killington Resort, 7 p.m. $20. Info, 422-1330. kosa musiC Festival grande Finale gala ConCert: Internationally renowned percussionists from the music camp showcase their collective talents in an faculty concert. Casella Theater, Castleton State College, 8 p.m. $5-10.

Info, 468-1119. martin sexton: The famed singer-songwriter and guitarist kicks off the Cooler in the Mountains concert series. Lawn games, barbecue fare and beer tastings round out the afternoon. Roaring Brook Umbrella Bars. Killington Mountain, 3:30-6 p.m. Free. Info, 422-2185. milton Community band: Tim Foley directs 30 local musicians in two sets of traditional and contemporary repertoire, including show tunes, pop, marches and more. Sand Bar State Park, Milton, 3-4:15 p.m. Free with park admission, $3.50 or local library day pass. Info, 893-1398. peter griggs: In “Latin Café,” the internationally acclaimed guitarist explores classical and popular interpretations of tango, bossa nova, samba, Latin jazz and flamenco. Calvary Episcopal Church, Jericho, 7 p.m. Donations.

Info, 899-2326. the preCipiCe: See FRI.26, noon. village harmony teen ensemble ii: See FRI.26. Community Church, Tinmouth, 7:30 p.m. $5-10. Info, 446-2928.

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beginner Forza Class: Those new to the Samurai-sword workout learn the basics of this unique approach to fitness. North End Studio A, Burlington, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 578-9243.

Fit Camp: Folks get a weekend workout with a run and circuit training. Meet at the skate park. Burlington waterfront, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 774-563-8273. r.i.p.p.e.d.: See WED.24. North End Studio B, Burlington, 9-10 a.m. $10. Info, 578-9243. sunday spiritual healing meditation: A supportive environment helps participants access intuition, empowerment and self-healing tools. Rainbow Institute, Burlington, 11 a.m.noon. Suggested $15 donation. Info, 671-4569.

Come hear fantastic jigs, reels, slow airs at the

Adamant Music School Piano Concerts at Waterside Hall July 24 at 7:30 pm July 26 at 7:30 pm July 28 at 3:00 pm July 31 at 7:30 pm August 2 at 7:30 pm

All concerts are free for members Guest admission is $10, Seniors/Students: $6

General Information: 802-223-3347 or adamant.org

QuarryWorks Theater Marko the Magician (Benefit) Magic Show -July 26, 7:30 pm

There will be raffle tickets for numerous terrific prizes.

Aladdin (children’s show) July 27 & 28 • August 3 & 4 Saturdays at 2 & 5 pm Sundays at 2 pm 3 One Act Plays opening August 8 All QuarryWorks performances are free.

Info: quarryworks.org Reservations: 802-229-6978

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I Love BLock-and-RoLL RoLLeR deRBy douBLeheadeR: Rock-and-roll attire is encouraged for this coed showdown, at which Twin City Riot battles the Bay State Brawlers, followed by the Mean Mountain Boys versus the Quadfathers. Proceeds benefit the Barre Heritage Festival. BOR Arena, Barre Civic Center, 4 p.m. & 6 p.m. $10-12; free for children ages 10 and under. Info, 555-8962, twincityriot@gmail. com. kIckBaLL TouRnamenT: Athletes ages 18 and up put their best foot forward at this fundraiser for the Vermont Family Network featuring face painting, raffles and ice cream. Essex Tree Farm Recreational Fields, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. $15-30; preregister; free for spectators. Info, 651-0636. onIon RIveR cenTuRy RIde: Cyclists hit the road and spin their wheels for 35, 68, or 111 miles to benefit the Kellogg-Hubbard Library. A barbecue follows. Registration, 6:30 a.m.; ride, 8:30 a.m. Montpelier Recreation Field, 8:30 a.m. $70; some additional fundraising required. Info, 229-9409 or 223-3338.

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Presents its 2013 Summer Season Celebrating Theater on the Green...

TONY WINNING ACTORS!

Our Town & The Music Man 2013 Summer Season highlights include:

Tony Award-winner Len Cariou to headline benefit concert on August 17 Main stage production, running in repertory July 23-August 4 on the Greensboro Town Green: Thornton Wilder’s OUR TOWN and Meredith Wilson’s THE MUSIC MAN, starring Tony-nominee Marla Schaffel

‘annIe’: See FRI.26, 7:30 p.m. ‘annIe GeT youR Gun’: See THU.25, 7 p.m. eLeanoR FRosT & RuTh & LoRInG dodd PLay FesTIvaL: See FRI.26, 8 p.m. ‘haIR’: See WED.24, 8 p.m. ‘heaRTBReak house’: See FRI.26, 7:30 p.m.

‘Juno and The Paycock’: See THU.25, 7:30 p.m. ‘moBy dIck’: See THU.25, 8 p.m. ‘musIc man’: See WED.24, 7:30 p.m. ‘nexT To noRmaL’: See WED.24, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.

‘RumoRs’: See WED.24, 2 p.m. & 8 p.m. ‘sToP, dRoP and RoLL!’: See FRI.26, 8 p.m.

‘The cemeTeRy cLuB’: See THU.25, 8 p.m.

‘The FanTasTIcks’: See THU.25, 2 p.m. & 8 p.m.

‘The schooL oF LIes’: See THU.25, 7:30 p.m.

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andRew oesch: As part of the site-specific exhibit “Exposed,” the artist presents his piece “A Library for the Architecture of Mistake Making,” which celebrates the art of errors. Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, noon-8 p.m. Donations. Info, 253-8358.

Book LIBeRaTIon weekend: Avid readers take advantage of affordable tomes as they are “set free” from the library’s collection. Community For more info, call 533-7487 or email Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10 a.m.greensboroarts@gmail.com 5 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7212.

Tickets can be bought at Willey’s Store one woRLd, many JouRneys: IsLam: and Greensboro Garage in Greensboro Members of the Islamic Society of Vermont and Connie’s Kitchen in Hardwick participate in an informal Q&A session about all aspects of their religion. Pickering Room, Plus additional special events throughout Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3:30 p.m. Free. the summer in Greensboro, Vt Info, 865-7211.

ReneGade ReadInG seRIes: Emerging writers from Vermont and beyond share their work. Live music by the High Spirits follows. JDK Gallery, Burlington, 6-10 p.m. $5 suggested donation; 8v-greensboro0713.indd 1 7/19/13 11:32 AM cash bar. Info, 303-968-0349. sTowe FRee LIBRaRy GIanT Book saLe: See WED.24, 9 a.m.-8:30 p.m. summeR Book saLe: See FRI.26, 7:30 a.m.-2 p.m.

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oPen sTudIo sessIons: Artists with their own materials take advantage of available space and practice their craft. Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, 1-4 p.m. $10. Info, 253-8358.

conferences

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chamPLaIn vaLLey Gem, mIneRaL & FossIL show: See SAT.27, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

JusTIn moRRILL homesTead TouR: See WED.24, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. kILLInGTon TRIke Race weekend: See FRI.26, 11 a.m.-5:30 p.m.

Queen cITy GhosTwaLk: wIcked waTeRFRonT: Paranormal authority Thea Lewis leads a spooky stroll along the shores of Lake Champlain. Meet at the fountain at the bottom of Pearl Street 10 minutes before start time. Battery Park, Burlington, 8 p.m. $14-18; for ages 9 and up. Info, 863-5966.

The BaRnsTand coLLecTIve: See THU.25, 11 a.m.-7 p.m.

ThRee-day sTamPede TowaRd The cuRe FoR cysTIc FIBRosIs: See FRI.26, 8 a.m.-4 p.m.

fairs & festivals

BooksTock veRmonT: See FRI.26, 11:30 a.m. deeRFIeLd vaLLey BLueBeRRy FesTIvaL: See FRI.26, 9 a.m.-9 p.m. veRmonT BaLLoon & cRaFT FesTIvaL: See FRI.26, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. veRmonT summeR FesTIvaL hoRse shows: See WED.24, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. woLFsGaRT 4.0: The noRTheasT aIR and waTeR-cooLed FesTIvaL: See FRI.26, 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m.

film

‘noRTheRn BoRdeRs’: See WED.24. Town Hall Theatre, Woodstock, 3 p.m. $6-12; first come, first served. Info, 357-4616.

food & drink

InTeRnaTIonaL dInneR: ReGIonaL ameRIcan: Foodies fill their plates with pulled pork, chicken and side dishes prepared by the award-winning team “Sweet Breathe Barbecue.”

Live music by Randal Pierce follows. North End Studio A, Burlington, 5-8 p.m. $15-18; preregister; BYOB for ages 21 and up. Info, 863-6713.

PeRuvIan cookInG cLass: Foodies celebrate Peru’s Independence Day with traditional dishes such as ceviche, picarones (Peruvian fried dough), anticuchos de corazón (beef’s heart kebobs) and more. Private home, Burlington, 5:30 p.m. $20; preregister. Info, 658-5724, gsyaranga@gmail.com. savoR The IsLands desseRT TasTInG: The Lake Champlain Agriculture Network serves up live music and homemade fruit desserts and drinks. Proceeds benefit the Food for Thought summer meal program for at-risk children.

Hackett’s Orchard, South Hero, 1-4 p.m. $5 suggested donation. Info, 372-4848. souTh BuRLInGTon FaRmeRs maRkeT: Farmers, food vendors, artists and crafters set up booths in the parking lot. Kids ages 5 through 12 join the fun with the “Power of Produce” Club. South Burlington High School, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, sbfm.manager@gmail. com. sTowe FaRmeRs maRkeT: Preserves, produce and other provender attract fans of local food.

Red Barn Shops Field, Stowe, 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m.

Free. Info, 472-8027 or 498-4734, info@stowevtfarmersmarket.com. summeR GReek Food FesTIvaL: Authentic pastries and tasty fare fuel folks for traditional music and dancing. Greek Orthodox Church Community Center, Burlington, noon-5 p.m. Free to attend; cost of food. Info, 862-2155. wInooskI FaRmeRs maRkeT: Area growers and bakers offer live music, ethnic eats and a large variety of produce and agricultural products on the green. Good eaters ages 5 through 12 celebrate veggies with the “Power of Produce” Club. Champlain Mill, Winooski, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Free. Info, 413-446-4684, winooskimarket@ gmail.com.

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Peace & JusTIce cenTeR kIds cLuB: BhuTan & nePaL ceLeBRaTIon day: Kiddos ages 5 through 14 honor the cultures with stories, games, music and snacks. Peace and Justice Center, Burlington, 2-4 p.m. Free; preregister.

Info, 863-2345, ext. 6. sundays FoR FLedGLInGs: Junior birders ages 5 through 12 develop observation and research skills in this combination of environmental science and outdoor play. Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington, 2-3 p.m. Free with admission, $3-6; preregister. Info, 434-2167.

Teen cookInG cLass: BLueBeRRIes!: Foodies ages 12 and up utilize the sweet-and-tart berry in sauce for crepes, coconut rice and homemade ice cream. McClure MultiGenerational Center, Burlington, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. $5-10; preregister at citymarket.coop. Info, 861-9700.

language

FRench conveRsaTIon GRouP: dImanches: Parlez-vous français? Speakers practice the tongue at a casual, drop-in chat. Panera Bread, Burlington, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 363-2431.

music

cITIGRass: Banjoist and founder Sandy Israel anchors an all-star lineup of accomplished musicians, who bring the rebellious spirit of rock-and-roll to bluegrass. Trapp Family Lodge Concert Meadow, Stowe, 7 p.m. $12.50-30.25; free for children under 5. Info, 863-5966.

LyRa sTudenT conceRT: Participants of the summer music workshop join faculty in an outdoor performance of solo and chamber works. Town Gazebo, Randolph, 10:30-11:30 a.m.

Donations. Info, 917-622-0395. musIc on The PoRch: Hard Scrabble give an informal, acoustic concert of blues and bluegrass. Waterbury Station, Green Mountain Coffee Visitor Center & Café, Waterbury, 1-3 p.m.

Free; nonperishable food items accepted. Info, 882-2700. sIeRRa maRcy: Pianists Michael Halloran and Mary Jane Austin accompany the soprano in a recital of musical theater selections from The Sound of Music, South Pacific and others.

McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 5 p.m. Free to attend; donations accepted. Info, 324-6047.

The PRecIPIce: See FRI.26, 2 p.m. vILLaGe haRmony Teen ensemBLe II: See FRI.26. Congregational Church, Norwich, 7:30 p.m. $5-10. Info, 333-3531.

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aRchaeoLoGIcaL dIG TouR: See FRI.26, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

BIRds By eaR: See FRI.26, 9 a.m.

LaTe JuLy PLanT waLk: Clinical herbalist Rebecca Dalgin leads a stroll to identify native vegetation of medicinal value. Meet outside the Wild Heart Wellness office. Goddard College, Plainfield, 1-2:30 p.m. $4-10. Info, 552-0727.

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Red Rocks Family NatuRe Walk: Nature lovers of all ages explore the park’s varied landscape on a wooded stroll with naturalist Sophie Mazowita. Red Rocks Park, South Burlington, 2-3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 825-8280, sophie. mazowita@gmail.com.

RockiN’ the little RiveR: Folks meet at the Waterbury Dam viewpoint and monument to explore the reforested remains of Camp Smith and learn how the Civilian Conservation Corps saved the Winooski Valley from flooded ruin.

Little River State Park, Waterbury, 11:30 a.m. $2-3; free for children ages 3 and under; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103, greenwarbler@gmail. com. suNday moRNiNg Bike Rides: Cyclists take a casual 25- to 30-mile road ride that begins at Eastern Mountain Sports and heads south toward Charlotte and Hinesburg. Eastern Mountain Sports, South Burlington, 8-10 a.m.

Free. Info, 864-0473, e0008st@ems.com.

WaR oF the Weeds!: Garden helpers learn about plant identification while removing invasive honeysuckle shrubs. Meet at A-Side Camper’s Beach parking lot. Little River State Park, Waterbury, 10 a.m. $2-3; free for children ages 3 and under; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103, greenwarbler@gmail.com.

with folks over delectable desserts. Town Hall, Brookfield, 7 p.m. Info, 276-9906. stoWe FRee liBRaRy giaNt Book sale: See WED.24, 9 a.m.-8:30 p.m.

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fairs & festivals

theater

Native ameRicaN eldeRs gatheRiNg: See FRI.26, 7 a.m.

dance

adaPtive iNteRNatioNal Folk daNciNg: Creative movers of all ages, abilities and mobility learn international routines. Walkers and wheelchairs are accommodated. North End Studio A, Burlington, 1-2 p.m. $5; free for assistants. Info, 863-6713.

deeRField valley BlueBeRRy Festival: See FRI.26, 9 a.m.-9 p.m.

film

‘NoRtheRN BoRdeRs’: See WED.24. Town Hall Theatre, Akeley Memorial Building, Stowe, 7:30 p.m. $6-12; first come, first served. Info, 357-4616.

food & drink

the FRugal FRidge: Shoppers become savvy savers on an interactive tour of the store featuring healthy, economical choices. City Market, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. Free; preregister at citymarket.coop; limited space. Info, 861-9700.

health & fitness

avoid Falls With imPRoved staBility: See FRI.26, 10 a.m. commuNity teNt yoga With Peggy PiNeiRo: Folks of all ages stretch their bodies and still their minds with poses, breathing exercises and final relaxation. Personal mat required. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6955.

FalliNg aWay: Robert Kest guides a mindful session that explores moving beyond a Western view of self, relationship and psychotherapy.

Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 6-7:30 p.m.

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

FoRza: the samuRai sWoRd WoRkout: See THU.25, 6-7 p.m.

R.i.P.P.e.d.: See WED.24, 7-8 p.m.

WomeN’s iNtuitioN & sPiRitual healiNg class: Cynthia Warwick Seiler leads a weekly seminar focused on energizing holistically and tapping into creativity. Rainbow Institute, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $20; preregister. Info, 671-4569.

kids

alice iN NoodlelaNd: Youngsters 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. ‘dig iNto ReadiNg’: ReadiNg Buddies: Teen mentors foster a love of books in youngsters in grades K through 5. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 2-3 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-6956.

seminars

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Basic comPuteR skills: Those looking to enter the high-tech age gain valuable knowledge.

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sport

5k RuNNiNg seRies: Athletes break a sweat in a weekly bout of friendly competition.

Arrowhead Golf Course, Milton, 6 p.m. $5. Info, 893-0234.

WomeN’s PickuP lacRosse: Players ages 17 and up grab their sticks and pass the ball around in a bout of friendly competition. Virtue Field, UVM Archie Post Athletic Complex, Burlington, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 578-6081.

theater

‘macBeth’: Shakespeare in the Adirondack Park sets one of the playwright’s most iconic works in a 20th-century militaristic society with six actors embodying all the characters. Bring lawn chairs and blankets. Lake Placid Center for the Arts, N.Y., 7 p.m. Free. Info, 518-523-2512.

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stoWe FRee liBRaRy giaNt Book sale: See WED.24, 9 a.m.-8:30 p.m. summeR Book sale: Bookworms get their literary fix with hundreds of tomes in various genres. Rutland Free Library, 4-8 p.m. Free. Info, 773-1860.

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Richmond Free Library, 6:30-8 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 585-6339.

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Book liBeRatioN WeekeNd: See SAT.27, noon-5 p.m.

Paul aNdRisciN: The historian turns back time in an “interview” with Continental Army doctor Jonathan Potts about health and medicine at Mount Independence during the Revolutionary War. Mount Independence State Historic Site, Orwell, 2 p.m. $5; free for children under 15. Info, 759-2412.

Pie & PoetRy: Renowned Vermont poets Phayvanh Luekhamhan, Daniel Lusk and Diane Swan share their work before mingling

conferences

casPiaN moNday music: Cellist Cameron Sawzin joins the Ragazzi/Michelin duo in a performance of works by Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and Schubert. United Church, Hardwick, 8 p.m. $10-18; free for children under 18. Info, 617-282-8605. iNesa siNkevych: The acclaimed pianist makes the ivory keys dance with selected works

by Brahms, Debussy, Sergei Prokofiev and others. Chandler Music Hall, Randolph, 7:30 p.m. $10-15 suggested donation. Info, 917-622-0395.

PoiNt couNteRPoiNt: Pianist Diana Fanning performs with instructors of the music camp in a program of Dvořák and Beethoven selections.

Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 7:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 382-9222.

RecoRdeR-PlayiNg gRouP: Musicians produce early folk, baroque and swing-jazz melodies. New and potential players welcome. Presto Music Store, South Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 658-0030, info@prestomusic.net. samBatucada! oPeN ReheaRsal: New players are welcome to pitch in as Burlington’s samba street-percussion band sharpens its tunes. Experience and instruments are not required. 8 Space Studio Collective, Burlington, 6-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 862-5017. village haRmoNy teeN eNsemBle ii: See FRI.26. College Street Congregational Church, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $5-10. Info, 426-3210.

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WateRFRoNt heRB Walk: Herbalist Guido Masé leads a guided stroll along the shore of Lake Champlain to identify common medicinal plants. Waterfront Park, Burlington, 5-6 p.m. Free; preregister at citymarket.coop. Info, 861-9700.

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‘aNNie’: See FRI.26, 2 p.m. ‘aNNie get youR guN’: See THU.25, 2 p.m. eleaNoR FRost & Ruth & loRiNg dodd Play Festival: See FRI.26, 7 p.m. ‘heaRtBReak house’: See FRI.26, 7:30 p.m. ‘moBy dick’: See THU.25, 8 p.m. ‘ouR toWN’: See FRI.26, 7:30 p.m. ‘the cemeteRy cluB’: See THU.25, 2 p.m. ‘the FaNtasticks’: See THU.25, 7 p.m. ‘the total this & that ciRcus’: Bread and Puppet Theater merges circus and pageant into one event featuring new characters and politically charged scenarios. Bread and Puppet Theater, Glover, 2:30 p.m. Free. Info, 525-3031.

agriculture

dig iNto stoRies With megaN: Little ones expand their imaginations through themed tales, songs and rhymes that “rock.” Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

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stoWe tRail Race seRies: Runners kick off the racing season with 5K or 10K routes at the Ranch Camp Ramble. Proceeds benefit Friends of Stowe Adaptive Sports. Nordic Center, Stowe Mountain Resort, registration, 8:30 a.m.; race, 10 a.m. $10-25. Info, 279-1079, info@stoweadaptive.org. “the Biggest loseR” RuNWalk seRies: Athletes of all ages and abilities join Dan and Jackie Evans, former contestants of the hit NBC series, to promote physical fitness with a kids fun run, 5K and 15K. K1 Base Lodge, Killington Mountain, 9 a.m. $10-65; preregister. Info, 422-2105.

WomeN’s PickuP socceR: Quick-footed ladies of varying skill levels break a sweat while stringing together passes and making runs for the goal. Rain location, Miller Community and Recreation Center. Starr Farm Athletic Field, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. $3; for women ages 18 and up. Info, 864-0123.

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Native American Elders Gathering: See FRI.26, 7 a.m.

dance

Swing Dance Practice Session: Quickfooted participants get moving in different styles, such as the lindy hop, charleston and balboa. Indoor shoes required. Champlain Club, Burlington, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $5. Info, 448-2930.

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Time Travel Tuesdays: Willing workers of all ages step into the past with late-19th-century farm chores and pastimes. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Regular admission, $3-12; free for kids 2 and under. Info, 457-2355.

fairs & festivals

Deerfield Valley Blueberry Festival: See FRI.26, 9 a.m.-9 p.m.

film

‘Northern Borders’: See MON.29, 7:30 p.m.

food & drink

Enosburg Falls Farmers Market: See SAT.27, 3-6:30 p.m.

Rutland County Farmers Market: See SAT.27, 3-6 p.m.

health & fitness

Moderate Kripalu Yoga: Students incorporate breath, posture, meditation and relaxation appropriate to their comfort and skill levels.

Chai Space, Dobrá Tea, Burlington, 7-8 p.m. $10.

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Creative Tuesdays: Artists engage their imaginations with recycled crafts. Kids under 10 must be accompanied by an adult. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3-5 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

‘Dig Into Reading!’: Exordium Adventure: Explorations in nature grant youngsters in grades K and up hands-on experience with their environment. Highgate Municipal Park, 10 a.m. & 11 a.m. Free. Info, 868-3970.

‘Dig Into Reading’: Weekly Garden Visit: Budding green thumbs in grades 1 and up tend the Summit Street School garden and listen to themed stories. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 9-10 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-6956.

Fresh From the Garden, Good Food for Kids: Adventurous eaters in first grade and higher help prepare dishes made with freshly harvested veggies. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 2-3 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-6956.

Garden Storytime: Little ones up to age 5 head to the library’s plot for summertime tales and songs. Indoor program in the event of inclement weather. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10:30-11:15 a.m. Free. Info, 388-4097.

Kids Cooking Class: Mexican Fiesta!: Budding chefs ages 6 through 11 use a Mexican tortilla press to make corn tortillas, then top them with garden veggies, cheese and beans.

King Street Center, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. $5-10; preregister at citymarket.coop. Info, 861-9700.

Lunch Time Read-Aloud: Stories and snacks sate little ones’ appetites for tantalizing tales and tasty treats. Brown Dog Books & Gifts, Hinesburg, noon-1 p.m. Free; bring a bag lunch.

Info, 482-5189.

Story Time With Corey: Read-aloud tales and crafts led by store employee Corey Bushey expand the imaginations of young minds.

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

Summer Story Time Series: Special guest readers delight lit lovers of all ages with tales and themed crafts at this weekly gathering.

Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

Youth Media Lab: Aspiring Spielbergs learn about moviemaking with local television experts. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 3-4:30 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 388-4097.

Wild Edible & Medicinal Plant Walk: Herbalist Annie McCleary and naturalist George Lisi lead a stroll through a diverse landscape, highlighting herbaceous plants, shrubs and trees along the way. Wisdom of the Herbs School, Woodbury, 6-7:30 p.m. Free to attend; $1-10 suggested donation. Info, 456-8122, annie.mccleary@gmail.com .

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Waterbury Community Band: The local ensemble fills the air with spirited marches and concert-band selections. Waterbury Center Park, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 223-2137, info@waterburycommunityband.org.

outdoors

French Conversation Group: Beginnerto-intermediate French speakers brush up on their linguistics — en français. Halvorson’s Upstreet Café, Burlington, 4:30-6 p.m. Free.

Info, 540-0195.

Pause-Café: French speakers of all levels converse en français. Panera Bread, Burlington, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 864-5088.

Catamount Trail Running Series: Runners of all ages and abilities break a sweat in this weekly 5K race. Catamount Outdoor Family Center, Williston, 6-8 p.m. $3-8; free for children 8 and under. Info, 879-6001.

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‘Our Town’: See FRI.26, 7:30 p.m.

Cady/Potter Writers Circle: Literary Burlington Ensemble Summer enthusiasts improve their craft through asSerenades: ‘Phantasy Night’: A perforsignments, journal exercises, reading, sharing mance of woodwinds and strings features and occasional book discussions. Ilsley Public works by Benjamin Britten, R.V. Williams and Library, Middlebury, 10 a.m. noon. Free. Info, Brahms. A percentage of proceeds benefits 349-6970.

Vermont FEED. All Souls Interfaith Gathering, Shelburne, gates open for picnicking, 5:30 p.m.; indoor concert, 7:30 p.m. $30. Info, 598-9520.

Castleton Summer Concerts: Atlantic Crossing perform a varied acoustic repertoire of traditional New England songs. Pavilion, art Castleton State College, 7 p.m. Free. Info, Art in the Alley: Folks explore nooks and 468-6039. crannies along the street at this arts Genticorum: The Québecois fest featuring artisan booths, live group weaves North American music, dance performances, and European folk culture movies and fashion. Stowe into an energetic live Street, Waterbury, show. United Church 5-8 p.m. Free. Info, of Christ, 249-7192.

Greensboro, 8 p.m. $20; free comedy for kids ages 18 Improv Night: and under. Info, Fun-loving partici533-2301. pants play “Whose Local Jam Night Line Is It Anyway?”with Lucid: The style games in an Plattsburgh-based encouraging enviband brings a spirronment. Spark Arts, ited mix of blues, funk Burlington, 8-10 p.m. and rock to the Songs $7 suggested donation. at Mirror Lake Music Info, 373-4703.

Co Series. Mid’s Park, Lake ur t e Placid, N.Y., 7 p.m. Free. Info, sy community of cat 518-523-8925. heri ne Aboumrad Waterbury Historical Society Lyra Summer Music Workshop: Summer Picnic: Locals celebrate 250 years Piano Masterclass: Pianist Inesa Sinkevych of dairy farming with tasty fare and a program shares her musical knowledge with students. by the owners of three longtime operations.

Conant Auditorium, Vermont Technical College, Wallace Farm, Waterbury, picnic, 6 p.m.; meetRandolph, 10 a.m. $10-15 suggested donation. ing, 7 p.m.; presentations, 7:30 p.m. Free; bring Info, 917-622-0395. a dish to share. Info, 244-8089.

‘Music is Medicine’: Lyra Student Concert: Participants of the summer music education workshop perform solo and chamber works as School Open House: Parents of preschoolpart of the Gifford Park Concert Series. Town ers and kindergarteners learn about options Gazebo, Randolph, 6-7:30 p.m. Donations. Info, for alternative early childhood education pro917-622-0395. grams. International Children’s School, South Northeast Kingdom Shape Note Sing: Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister. Info, Locals lend their voices to four-part harmonies 865-3344. at this weekly sing-along of early American music in the “fa-sol-la” tradition. Paper Mache etc.

Cathedral, Bread and Puppet Farm, Glover, 7:30 Justin Morrill Homestead Tour: See p.m. Info, 525-3031.

WED.24, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

Village Harmony Teen Ensemble II: See Pilots Night: Education coordinator Susan FRI.26. East Craftsbury Presbyterian Church, Peden references photographs from the 7:30 p.m. $5-10. Info, 426-3210. museum’s collection in an illustrated lecture

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Public participation and related memorabilia welcomed. Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History, Middlebury, 7 p.m. Free to attend; donations accepted. Info, 388-2117.

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

Wagon Ride Wednesdays: See WED. 24, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

fairs & festivals

Deerfield Valley Blueberry Festival: See TUE.30, 9 a.m.-9 p.m.

Vermont Summer Festival Horse Shows: Top New England equestrians compete in various categories. Harold Beebe Farm, East Dorset, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. $3-7. Info, info@vt-summerfestival.com.

film

‘Northern Borders’: See WED.24. River Arts Center, Morrisville, 7:30 p.m. $6-12; first come, first served. Info, 357-4616.

food & drink

Champlain Islands Farmers Market: See WED.24, 3-6 p.m.

Colchester Farmers Market: See WED.24,, 4-7 p.m.

Eat on the Wild Side: Folks harvest, prepare and eat wild edibles with herbalist Annie McCleary, offering gratitude. Wisdom of the Herbs School, Woodbury, 6-8 p.m. $20; preregister. Info, 456-8122, annie.mccleary@gmail.com .

Middlebury Farmers Market: See WED.24, 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

South End Farmers Market: See WED.24, 3:30-6:30 p.m.

Williston Farmers Market: See WED.24, 4-7 p.m.

games

Burlington Go Club: See WED.24, 7-9 p.m.

health & fitness

Community Yoga Class: See WED.24, 6:15 p.m.

Crystal Meditation: See WED.24, 5:30-7 p.m.

R.I.P.P.E.D.: See WED.24, 6-7 p.m.

kids

Chess for Kids: See WED.24, 3-4 p.m.

Chess? Yes!: See WED.24, 3-4 p.m.

Craftsbury Chamber Players MiniConcerts: See WED.24, 4:30 p.m.

Dig Into Treasure: Children up to age 8 channel their inner pirates during a morning of discovery. A complimentary lunch follows.

Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 10-11:30 a.m.

Free. Info, 426-3581.

Digging Deep Into the Dirt: Members of the Vermont Institute of Natural Science lead a hands-on exploration of the forest floor focused on animals that live above and below ground.

Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 6:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 426-3581.

Fairfield Playgroup: See WED.24, 10-11:30 a.m.

Find Waldo Grand Celebration: Youngsters culminate a monthlong search for the elusive children’s book character at Burlington and Essex businesses. Sweet treats, themed activities and prizes round out the fun. Phoenix Books Burlington, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 448-3350.

Flushed Away: Curious kiddos entering grades 2 through 5 walk to the Essex Junction

liSt Your EVENt for frEE At SEVENDAYSVT.COM/POSTEVENT wastewater treatment facility to learn about what happens to things we flush down the toilet. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 9:30-11 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-6956.

GeorGia Summer PlayGrouP: See WED.24, 10 a.m.-noon. lake Placid center for the artS younG & fun SerieS: A performance of Celtic fairy tales by the Adirondack Shakespeare Company introduces little ones ages 5 and up to magical places such as the Land of Youth, or Tír na nÓg.

Lake Placid Center for the Arts, N.Y., 10:30 a.m.

Free; first come, first served. Info, 518-523-2512. maker day: Science With a tWiSt: Youngsters learn about the forces of nature, then use raw materials to make their own inventions. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 388-4097. murder myStery: Is it the butler, the maid or the houseguest? Middle and high school students use clues to solve the crime. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

PuPPetree: The Vermont-based puppet theater’s stage adaptation of Swimmy brings Leo Leonni’s award-winning picture book about a determined fish to life. Community Meeting Room. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10:3011:30 a.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 388-4097.

Summer PreSchool Story time: See WED.24, 10-10:45 a.m. tom Joyce: See WED.24. Highgate Municipal Park, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 868-3970.

Wacky WedneSday: canoe BuildinG: Youngsters ages 8 and up explore how the Abenaki constructed these versatile boats, then create aluminum foil replicas to test in nature. ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/ Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 12:30-1 p.m. Free with admission, $9.50-12.50.

Info, 877-324-6386.

language

enGliSh aS a Second lanGuaGe claSS: See WED.24, 7-9 p.m.

SPaniSh-enGliSh converSation GrouP: See WED.24, 5:30-6:45 p.m.

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outdoors

SunSet aquadventure: See WED.24, 7 p.m.

sport

catamount mountain Bike SerieS: See WED.24, 6 p.m.

Green mountain taBle tenniS cluB: See WED.24, 7-10 p.m.

talks

alan GieSe: In “New England Ticks and Lyme Disease,” the Lyndon State College biology professor discusses issues related to the tick population explosion. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338. yeStermorroW deSiGn/Build School Summer lecture SerieS: Green roof expert Chris Brunner presents current research and case studies detailing the benefits of transforming a rooftop into a living landscape.

A Q&A follows. Yestermorrow Design/Build School, Waitsfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 496-5545.

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‘hair’: See WED.24, 8 p.m. ‘muSic man’: See WED.24, 7:30 p.m.

‘Pure Gold: a Phantom reunion’: Ten notorious alumni — including Cat Carr, Jeannie Darst, Ben Schneider and David Sanaiko — deliver an all-star evening of off-the-grid, handcrafted theater. Phantom Theater, Edgcomb Barn, Warren, 8 p.m. $15. Info, 496-5997.

‘Shout! the mod muSical’: Keith Andrews directs this St. Michael’s Playhouse production of Phillip George and David Lowenstein’s musical about British revolutions in fashion, hair, music and dance during the iconic “swinging sixties.”

McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 8 p.m. $36-45. Info, 654-2281. ‘the School of lieS’: A cast of newcomers and Waterbury Festival Playhouse veterans bring David Ives’ modern spin on Moliere’s The Misanthrope to the stage under the direction of Ethan T. Bowen. Waterbury Festival Playhouse, 7:30 p.m. $25-27. Info, 498-3755.

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authorS at the aldrich: Acclaimed biologist and nature writer Bernd Heinrich shares Summer World, Winter World and Life Everlasting. A concert in Currier Park follows.

Aldrich Public Library, Barre, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 476-7550.

BurlinGton WriterS WorkShoP meetinG: See WED.24, 6:30-7:30 p.m. ralPh culver: The poet reads and signs his highly praised chapbook Both Distances as part of the Readings in the Gallery series. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 748-8291. m

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Ben & Jerry’S concertS on the Green: GarriSon keillor & Sara WatkinS: As part of the “Prairie Home Companion, Radio Romance Tour 2013,” the acclaimed radio personality pairs up with the vocalist for an evening of duets and absurd improv. See calendar spotlight. Shelburne Museum, gates open, 6:30 p.m.; show, 7:30 p.m. $49-55; free for children 12 and under. Info, 652-0777.

BriStol toWn Band: See WED.24, 7-8:30 p.m.

BurlinGton enSemBle Summer SerenadeS: ‘a midSummer niGht’: A performance of Mendelssohn’s viola quartets delights classical music lovers of all ages. A percentage of proceeds benefits Vermont FEED. All Souls Interfaith Gathering, Shelburne, gates open for picnicking, 5:30 p.m.; indoor concert, 7:30 p.m. $30. Info, 598-9520. city hall Park lunchtime PerformanceS: See WED.24, noon. craftSBury chamBer PlayerS: concert iii: World-renowned musicians interpret works

by Mozart, Sergei Prokofiev and Maurice Ravel.

UVM Recital Hall, Redstone Campus, Burlington, 8 p.m. $10-25; free for children ages 12 and under. Info, 800-639-3443.

Good old WaGon: Folk music veterans Mark Greenberg and Andy Pitt perform blues and rags from the 1920s and beyond at the Middlesex Bandstand Summer Concert Series.

Bring a lawn chair, blanket and picnic fare.

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Bandstand, Middlesex, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 2237525 or 229-0881. hineSBurG concertS in the Park: Rick and some Ramblers bring toe-tapping western swing to an outdoor show. Hinesburg Community School, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 482-2281. toWn of ShelBurne Summer concert SerieS: The Rhythm Rockets get folks dancing with a repertoire of R&B and classic rock. A fireworks display follows. Shelburne Farms, gates open for picnicking, 5:30 p.m.; concert, 6:30 p.m. 6:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 985-9551. villaGe harmony teen enSemBle ii: See FRI.26. Unitarian Church, Montpelier, 7:30 p.m. $5-10. Info, 426-3210.

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ARCHITECTURAL PHOTOGRAPHY AT SHELBURNE FARMS: Visit the historic agricultural buildings at Shelburne Farms and capture beautiful photographic images that reveal structure and architectural form. Class will include lectures discussing historic imagery and technique, field shoots and critique. Students will have access to an archival Epson printer. Thu., Aug. 1 & 8, 6-9 p.m., & Sat., Aug. 3, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Cost: $160/person; $144/BCA members. Location: BCA Center Digital Media Lab, Burlington, & Shelburne Farms, Shelburne.

865-7166.

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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: Movement Studio, 180 Flynn Ave., Burlington. Tyler Crandall, 598-9204, crandalltyler@hotmail.com, dsantosvt.com.

drumming TAIKO, DJEMBE, CONGAS & BATA!: Taiko in Burlington! Tue. Taiko adult classes begin Sep. 10, Oct. 22 and Dec. 3, 5:30-6:20 p.m. $72/6 wks. Kids classes begin the same dates, 4:30-5:20 p.m. $60/6 wks. Conga and Djembe Fri. classes Aug. 2, 5 p.m. & 6 p.m. $15/class. $60/4 wks. Location: Burlington Taiko Space, 208 Flynn Ave., suite 3-G, Burlington. Stuart Paton, 999-4255, spaton55@gmail.com, burlingtontaiko.org.

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. Victoria, 598-1077, info@salsalina.com.

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helen day art center LECTURE SERIES: STEINS’ SALON: How a personal collection influenced the course of Modern Art & the Darling Ladies: Abby Rockefeller, Lillie Bliss, Mary Quinn Sullivan and the founding of MOMA. 1: By inviting the public to see their collection in their modest apartment, Gertrude and Leo Stein helped disseminate a taste for modern art that would eventually become the standard for collectors and museums alike.

Sponsored by Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism and held at Wisdom of the Herbs School. $30 for members of VCIH, $35 for non-members. Earth skills for changing times. Experiential programs embracing local wild edible and medicinal plants, food as first medicine, sustainable living skills and the inner journey.

Annie McCleary, director, and George Lisi, naturalist. Location: Wisdom of the Herbs School, Woodbury. 456-8122, annie@ wisdomoftheherbsschool.com, wisdomoftheherbsschool.com.

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ADVENTURE PHOTOGRAPHY: PHOTOSHOP LAB: Explore the process of getting raw photos from the camera to web and print-ready versions by gaining knowledge of Adobe Photoshop.

Participants will learn the various uses of Photoshop tools and follow non-destructive editing practices to produce polished images. Those new to Photoshop welcome. Instructor: Ryan Bent.

Sat., Aug. 3, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Cost: $80/person. $240/person w/ HDAC’s Adventure Photography on Lake Champlain. Location: Helen Day Art Center, 90 Pond St, Stowe. 253-8358, education@helenday.com, helenday. com.

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VINTAGE PHOTO PRINTING WITH DIGITAL NEGATIVES: Learn how to create large digital negatives from your film or digital files to print on highquality papers and cotton fabric.

Cyanotype and Van Dyke Brown will be the methods used to coat our media, to expose under sunlight or other UV sources. No experience necessary. Thu., Aug. 15, 6-9 p.m., & Sat., Aug. 17, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Cost: $140/person; $126/BCA members. Location: BCA Center Digital Media Lab, Burlington. 865-7166.

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2. This lecture will explore the remarkable shift that occurred when art was moved from the intimate salon setting typical of 19th century, to the white cube architecture of the 20th. Aug. 13 & 15, 10:30 a.m.- noon. Cost: $40/person. Location: Helen Day Art Center, 90 Pond St., Stowe.

253-8358, education@helenday. com, helenday.com.

COMMUNITY HERBALISM WORKSHOPS: Preregistration required. Detailed class descriptions at vtherbcenter. org. Understanding Cancer w/ Brendan Kelly: Wed., Aug. 7, 6-9 p.m.; Herbs and the Menstrual Cycle w/ Sarah Van Hoy: Wed., Aug. 28, 6-8 p.m. Understanding Cancer: $15-17; Herbs and the Menstrual Cycle: $10-12.

Location: Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, 252 Main St., Montpelier. Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, 2247100, info@vtherbcenter.org, vtherbcenter.org.

WISDOM OF THE HERBS SCHOOL: Wild Edibles and Medicinal Plant Walk, Jul. 30, 6-7:30 p.m.Sliding scale $10 to $1. No one turned away.

Pre-register and give us your phone number. Eat on the Wild Side, Jul. 31, 6-8 p.m. Harvest wild edibles from the bountiful land surrounding Wisdom of the Herbs School, prepare several dishes and Eat on the Wild Side. Pre-register. $20.

Re-localizing the Food System: Wild Edibles and Tending the Wild, Aug. 13, 5:30-8:30 p.m.

FOUR-WEEK DETOX W/ YOGA: Mental fog? Sluggishness?

Allergies? Pain? Skin issues?

Digestive issues? Environmental toxins affect you more than you think. This four-week cleanse with food, supplements and yoga will jump-start your body’s healing. You’ll feel better than you have in months! Coaching, yoga, 20% Healthy Living discount, recipes, food samples & more! Every Mon. starting Aug. 5, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Cost: $265/4 group meetings, 8 yoga classes, 2-hr. yoga workshop & coaching. Location: Healthy Living & Laughing River Yoga, 222 Dorset St., S. Burlington.

Transformation One, Morella Devost, 735-1348, mdevost@ transformationone.com, transformationone.com.

Vermont Aikido, 862-9785, vermontaikido.org.

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. 660-4072, julio@bjjusa.com, vermontbjj. com.

martial arts AIKIDO: This circular, flowing Japanese martial art is a great method to get in shape and reduce stress. We also offer classes for children ages 5-12. Classes are taught by Benjamin Pincus Sensei, Vermont’s senior and only fully certified Aikido teacher.

Visitors are always welcome. We offer adult classes 7 days a wk.

Summer special: Join for 2 mos.

by Aug. 6 & receive a free mo. & uniform & save $155. Location: Aikido of Champlain Valley, 257 Pine St. (across from Conant Metal & Light), Burlington. 9518900, burlingtonaikido.org.

AIKIDO CLASSES: Aikido trains body and spirit, promoting flexibility and strong center within flowing movement, martial sensibility with compassionate presence, respect for others, and confidence in oneself. Location: Vermont Aikido, 274 N. Winooski Ave. (2nd floor), Burlington.

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. Meditation instruction avail. Sun. mornings, 9 a.m.noon, or by appt. Meditation sessions on Tue. & Thu., noon-1 p.m. and Mon.-Thu., 6-7 p.m.

The Shambhala Cafe meets 1st Sat. of ea. mo. for meditation & discussions, 9 a.m.-noon. An Open House occurs 3rd Fri. of ea. mo., 7-9 p.m., which incl. an intro to the center, a short dharma talk & socializing. Location: Burlington Shambhala Center, 187 S. Winooski Ave., Burlington.

658-6795, burlingtonshambhalactr.org.

ZEN RENOVATION: Spring cleaning for your mind! Become environ/mentally sound-inside & out. Get Zen! Weekly Meditation Classes, Wed., 7 p.m. $10/person. Free Sunday Bruch, 11:30 a.m. Location: New North End, Burlington. Barry, 343-7265, barry@zenrenovation.com.

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jewelry JEWELRY CLASSES: Learn how to make your own jewelery with German-trained goldsmith (at Alchemy Jewelry Arts) in a fully equipped studio in town. You will learn basic and advanced techniques but also be able to focus on individual projects. Every Tue., 4x/mo. Cost: $140/2.5 hrs.

4x/mo. excl. silver ($3/gramm).

Location: Alchemy, 2 Howard St., A1, Burlington. Jane Frank Jewellery Design, Jane Frank, 999-3242, info@janefrank.de, janefrank.de.

area. Dianne Swafford, 734-1121, swaffordperson@hotmail.com.

massage CLINICAL MASSAGE PROGRAM: BodySoul Massage/Bodywork School is offering a 10-month clinical massage therapy education that blends classroom & online e-learning. Two locations to choose from, Burlington or St Albans. Every Fri. starting Sep. 14, 8 a.m.- 5 p.m. Cost: $7999/10mo. massage/bodywork program. Location: Fiacco Healing Arts, 269 Pearl St., suite 1, Burlington. BodySoul Massage/ Bodywork, Hope Bockus, 5249005, bodysoulmassage@ comcast.net, bodysoulmassageschool.com.

FOCUS ON THE SPINE: In this class we will use Orthobionomy to explore a simple and natural means of working with neuromuscular tension (and pain) patterns that is gentle, effective and transformative. We access the innate, self-corrective reflexes, achieving pain relief and structural balance. We will focus on specific techniques for facilitating release in the neck, thoracic and lumbar vertebrae, sacrum and pelvis. Sat. & Sun., Aug. 24-25. Cost: $245/person; $225 if paid by Aug. 13; call about introductory risk-free fee offer.

Location: TBA , Burlington/Essex

KAYAKING AND PADDLEBOARDING: Interested in learning how to kayak or paddleboard? Perhaps you’d like to improve your paddling technique or prepare for a kayaking trip? Canoe Imports offers the following classes: Introduction to Kayaking, Sea Kayaking Essentials, Kayak Rescue Techniques, Kayak Rolling, and Introduction to Stand-Up Paddleboarding. At your convenience. Call to schedule a class. Cost: $59/59/person for all classes but sea kayaking, which is $99/person. Minimum enrollment of two people.

Location: North Beach/TBD based on weather, Burlington.

Canoe Imports, Brian Jessiman, 651-8760, brianjessiman@gmail. com, canoeimports.com.

pets BOW MEOW PET GROOMING SCHOOL: Is currently enrolling for the next class, which begins Aug. 5. If you have ever thought about a pet-grooming career but don’t want the hassle of being tied to a corporation or a confining contract, then we are the pet-grooming school for you.

Take a closer look at bowmeowpetgrooming.com or give us a call! Location: Bow Meow Pet Grooming School, 26 Susie Wilson Rd., Essex Jct. 878-3647, bowmeowpetgrooming.com.

poetry Poetry WorkshoPs: smallgroup two-day workshops in poetry each with its own theme: Introduction to Poetry on august 9 and 10; Nature Poetry on september 13 and 14; Narrative Poetry on October 4 and 5; Poetry and loss on November 8 and 9. attend any, some or all! Workshops include discussion, writing and revision time, resources, feedback, delicious meals and public reading opportunity. led by experienced teacher and published poet.

For more information go to sundogpoetry.com. Location: Jeffersonville, Vermont. 5980340, sundogpoetry.com.

31 & Sept. 7, 11 a.m.-noon. Cost: $50/person for group lesson, $70/person for private lesson (1-2 people). Location: Perkins Pier, Burlington. WND&WVS, 540-2529, wndnwvs.com/ lessons_tour.

tai chi yang-styLe tai Chi: The slow movements of Tai chi help reduce blood pressure and increase balance and concentration. come breathe with us and experience the joy of movement while increasing your ability to be inwardly still. Wed., 5:30 p.m., Sat., 8:30 a.m. $16/class, $60/mo., $160/3 mo. Location: Vermont Tai Chi Academy & Healing Center, 180 Flynn Ave., Burlington. 735-5465. 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. 864-7902, ipfamilytaichi.org.

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yoga roots: Flexible, inflexible, an athlete, expecting a baby, stressed, recovering from an injury or illness? Yoga Roots has something for you! Our aim is to welcome, nurture and inspire. a peaceful studio offering: Prenatal, Vinyasa Flow, Heated Vinyasa Flow, Iyengar, Jivamukti, Therapeutic Restorative, Gentle, Kundalini, anusara, Tai chi, Qigong & Meditation! Location: Yoga Roots, 6221 Shelburne Rd., Shelburne Business Park, Shelburne. 985-0090, yogarootsvt.com.

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yoga beLiZe yoga retreat: Designed to quiet the mind by connecting with nature and your inner self. early bird price: $999 by sep. 1, excludes airfare and lunch. Daily yoga practice in botanical gardens among the jungle of Belize. Join now-limited space. Visit sacredeyeyogatrips. weebly.com for more information. Feb. 23-Mar. 2, 2014. Cost:

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stand-UP PaddLeboarding Lessons: This basic class teaches you fundamentals of stand-up paddleboarding. after one hour you will get on your board, stand up and stay up.

We’ll give you tips on how to hold your paddle and get the most out of your stroke. No experience necessary. all equipment provided. Jul. 27, Aug. 3, 10, 17, 24,

hot yoga bUrLington: Hot Yoga Burlington offers creative, vinyasa-style yoga featuring practice in the Barkan Method Hot Yoga in a 95-degree studio accompanied by eclectic music.

Try something different! Go to our website for 10 reasons to practice hot yoga in the summer.

Get hot: 2-for-1 ofer. $14. 1-hr. classes on Mon. at 5:30 p.m.; Fri.: 5 p.m.; Sat.: 10:30 a.m.

Location: North End Studio B, 294 N Winooski Ave., Old North End, Burlington. 999-9963, hotyogaburlingtonvt.com.

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stand-UP PaddLeboarding: Get on board for a very fun and simple new way to explore the lake and work your body head to toe. Instruction on paddlehandling and balance skills to get you moving your first time out. learn why people love this Hawaiian-rooted sport the first time they try it. Lessons offered Tue.-Sun. Cost: $30/hourlong private & semiprivates; $20 ea. for groups. Location: Oakledge Park & Beach, end of Flynn Ave., a mile south of downtown along the bike path, Burlington.

Paddlesurf Champlain, 881-4905, jason@paddlesurfchamplain. com, paddlesurfchamplain.com.

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evoLUtion yoga: evolution Yoga offers a variety of classes in a supportive atmosphere: beginner, advanced, kids, babies, post- and prenatal, community classes, and workshops. Vinyasa, Kripalu, core, Breast cancer survivor and alignment classes. certified teachers, massage and PT, too. Join our yoga community and get to know the family you choose. $14/class, $130/ class card, $5-10/community classes. Location: Evolution Yoga, 20 Kilburn St., Burlington.

864-9642, evolutionvt.com.

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UsUi reiki LeveL 1: Introduction to Reiki class suggested, but not required. For more details, please visit blissfulwellnessvt.com.

Please preregister online. Jul. 28, 8:45 a.m.-3 p.m. Cost: $175/person. Incl. all materials. Location: Blissful Wellness Center, 48 Laurel Dr., Essex Jct. 238-9540, blissfulwellnessvt.com.

What’s yoUr story?: In this creative writing class we will explore elements of fiction and memoir, and we will write and share stories of our own. This class will provide basics for beginners, as well as feedback and inspiration for those looking to strengthen their craft. 7 wks., every Thu. Aug. 1-Sep. 12, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $20/15hour class. Location: O’Brien Community Center, 32 Mallets Bay Ave., Winooski. Anne-Marie Lavalette, 922-3985, annemarie. lavalette@goddard.edu.

$999/7-night retreat. Location: duPlooy’s Jungle Lodge, San Ignacio, Belize. Sacred Eye Yoga, Kali Brgant, 585-6203, kbrgant@ gmail.com, sacredeyeyogatrips. weebly.com.

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Over the Precipice Joe Adler, music booker extraordinaire, outdoes himself

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t Radio Bean, one man is responsible for all the sounds bouncing off the walls of the eclectic Burlington venue. He can usually be found craning over the PA system or passing around the tip bowl, an unassuming figure with a fondness for wide-collared shirts and, until recently, a wild black mane.

Joe Adler, 38, has been booking shows at Radio Bean since 2011, but he isn’t content to do just that. He’s about to present his most ambitious event yet — the second annual Precipice: A 3 Day Happening, this weekend at Burlington College. The multiact music festival debuted last year at the Intervale and drew about 500 attendees at its peak. Adler called it a success but cited room for improvement — including earlier promotion. This year, Precipice has its own publicist. In addition, he promises, there will be even more acts, better infrastructure and a larger sound system.

Adler believes the festival’s new location will be a boon, too: The flat, spacious grounds of Burlington College offer four times the space of the Intervale.

“It just looks like a festival ground,” he observes. “You couldn’t plan it better.”

His confidence is justified: Adler has been a purveyor of music for two decades.

Now a staple of the Burlington music scene, he grew up in Washington, D.C., and even as a child was never a stranger to music. “My dad was a Dixieland jazz musician,” Adler says, flashing a smile and trying to make himself heard over a trombonist warming up by the Bean’s tiny stage. “Before I was born, I was going to shows and listening to music.”

By age 16, Adler was a roadie and soundman for several rock bands, working in clubs that his father had played in long before. Adler first visited Vermont while he was attending the University of Maryland as a philosophy major. It was 1995, and he came see the Grateful Dead and Bob Dylan concert in Highgate. Adler’s attraction to the state was instant, he recalls.

“The neat thing was the Vermonters along the drive, helping people out,” he says. “They didn’t capitalize on [the

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concert] like people would in other cities move to — like it was too good to be true.”

— in D.C., neighborhoods around stadiums But in the summer of 2003, Adler finally would charge $30 to park for baseball or did move to Burlington. He found work in football.” the hospitality industry and would later His first experience with Burlington play around town with groups including was a year later, when he passed through Joe Adler & the Rangers of Danger, and the en route to Phish’s Clifford Ball in Wee Folkestra.

Plattsburgh.

In 2009, he became the talent buyer “[Burlington] was a different kind of for Parima, the Thai restaurant and club vibe — it was kind of magical, or make- on Pearl Street. When it closed in 2011, believe,” Adler recounts. “Everyone was Adler met with Radio Bean co-owner Lee just happy to interact and be a part of Anderson about taking over the booking something.” role for his venue. The two hit it off A guitarist and instantly. vocalist, Adler performed “I knew Joe through with various groups in the music world and D.C. but felt that the through mutual friends,” city’s atmosphere didn’t Anderson says. “A lot compare with what he of my decisions are on found in Burlington. the trust level, and I “Down there, the saw I could trust Joe music just didn’t feel — he did a good job at important,” he says. “It Parima. You could see his was in the background, professionalism.”

L E E AND E R S O N even on the main stage.”

What sealed the deal When Higher for Anderson, though, Ground opened its doors in 1999, Adler was Adler’s love of music. found himself visiting Burlington every “When a band is really throwing it few weeks to see shows. “I slowly fell in down, Joe’s the most excited guy in the love with the city,” he says. “But it always room,” he says. “People that work here see seemed like a place that was too obvious to that, and it means a lot.”

JOE IS A WILD MAN WHO WANTS TO SEE WILD IDEAS COME TO FRUITION.

After two years as booking manager, Adler proposed becoming general manager of the Bean. Anderson said yes.

“Joe could see things that were slipping through the cracks,” he says. “He has that drive, that’s obvious.”

But that doesn’t mean Adler is a square business type. Far from it.

“Joe is a wild man, too,” Anderson clarifies. “I don’t want to make him seem like some tie-wearing guy. He’s a wild man who wants to see wild ideas come to fruition.”

The second Precipice festival is Anderson’s most ambitious project to date, as well. He and Adler both credit third co-organizer Sarah Grant for reining in some of their more unrealistic proposals.

Even so, more than 60 bands are on the bill, including Superhuman Happiness, Vermont Joy Parade and Rough Francis.

Accordingly, Adler expects to draw 2000 people this year, and hopes that many will come to see the whole festival rather than just their favorite individual acts.

“The goal is to create a dialogue with the anonymous music fan who we’ve never met,” says Adler, who was the ultimate decision maker on what bands to book and how the festival should look and sound.

Anderson sees his role as more “big picture.”

“I like thinking about the spirit of what it’s going to be,” he says. “But to get the vibe, the duende going — Joe makes that happen.”

Adler remains humble about his role in the festival as well as in the Burlington music scene.

“I love just listening to lots of music,” he says. “My enjoyment in this comes from everyone else’s enjoyment.”

INFO The Precipice: A 3 Day Happening, Friday through Sunday, July 26-28, at Burlington College on North Avenue. Day tickets and weekend passes available. Schedule and other info at theprec.com.

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The big story on the local music front this week is, of course, the second annual incarnation of the Precipice, the three-day locavore music festival slated for the field behind Burlington College this Friday, July 26, through Sunday, July 28. It features 60-plus bands, the vast majority of which are local. It is, without hyperbole, one of the largest Vermont-music-focused festivals in the state’s history. But here’s the thing. I really shouldn’t write about it because, well, I’m playing in it.

And that, friends, is what we in the biz call a conflict of interest.

When writing about music in a closeknit community such as Burlington, conflicts of interest come up pretty often. Usually it’s because I’m friends with or related to musicians who are doing something cool and noteworthy.

On those occasions, I do my best to disclose my relationship with those artists or, in non-column cases such as feature stories or album reviews, will find another writer. It’s not ideal. But, especially in an area with relatively few press outlets, it’s better than penalizing musicians simply for knowing me — I mean, isn’t that penalty enough? But because I’m directly involved, my

writing at length about the Precipice violates the code of journalistic ethics.

So what’s a music editor to do?

Fuck it. (Metaphorically speaking.)

With something as significant as the Precipice, I can’t very well ignore that it’s happening, as it would basically mean ignoring almost every band in town, as well as you, the readers, who are really the important part of the whole equation. So here’s the deal. I won’t tell you when I’m playing, or even with which band. Honestly, I don’t care if you come see us. But I do care that you check out the Precipice. Because it has the potential to be a landmark weekend for Vermont music.

Last year’s inaugural festival was held at the Intervale and was a pretty remarkable weekend of music.

Especially considering that Radio Bean’s Lee Anderson, sArAh GrAnt and Joe AdLer — see the profile of Adler on page 62 — threw the whole thing together in roughly three weeks, it went off with surprisingly few hitches. It could have perhaps been a little better attended, but the crowds that did come were

largely invested in the music and the experience in general. As I wrote at the time, it was kind of like hanging out at Radio Bean, only outside.

The one fly in the ointment — besides the actual bugs, which were fierce — was that the space was simply too small for four stages of music. By necessity, artists overlapped on the schedule, often competing for sonic airspace. That meant the singersongwriter tent was often intruded upon by the sounds of harder-rocking acts on the stage behind the barn a hundred yards away — or an EDM DJ in the barn itself.

This year’s festival also features four stages of entertainment. But with more room to stretch out, I’m guessing the cacophony will be significantly muted.

And taking a look at the schedules for each day, it seems Adler and co. have put more thought into which bands can overlap with as little interference as possible, if at all.

Which reminds me, there are bands at the Precipice. Lots of them. To name a few: heLoise & the sAvoir FAire, BArikA, swALe, LynGuistic civiLiAns, BLue Button, MichAeL chorney & hoLLAr GenerAL and kAt wriGht & the indoMitABLe souL BAnd. And that’s fewer than half the acts on Friday alone.

Saturday’s daylong lineup is even more robust, with an afternoon rock block of indie folk courtesy of ALpenGLow, MAryse sMith, pAper cAstLes and the dupont Brothers. Stick around in the evening for ryAn power, rouGh FrAncis and the de facto festival headliners, Brooklyn’s superhuMAn hAppiness. All of this is happening on one stage. Bouncing around the other three stages, you could catch sets from Grup AnwAr, rusty BeLLe, vedorA, errAnds, hAnA ZArA, duke AeropLAne & the wronG nuMBers or about 20 other bands.

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O'BRIEN'S IRISH PUB: DJ Dominic (hip-hop), 9:30 p.m., Free.

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Open Mic with Andy Lugo, 9:30 p.m., Free.

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NECTAR'S: What a Joke! Comedy Open Mic (standup), 7 p.m., Free.

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Tennessee Jed (country-soul), 7 p.m., Free. Irish Sessions, 8 p.m., Free. Kite Person (electronic), 11 p.m., Free.

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GREEN MOUNTAIN TAVERN: DJ Luca Dance Party & Karaoke (karaoke), 9 p.m., Free.

VERMONT THRUSH RESTAURANT: Abby Jenne (rock), 7 p.m., Free.

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CITY LIMITS: Trivia with Top Hat Entertainment, 7 p.m., Free.

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BEE'S KNEES: Dan Liptak & Greg Evans (jazz), 7:30 p.m., Donations.

THE HUB PIZZERIA & PUB: Dinner Jazz with Fabian Rainville, 6:30 p.m., Free. Open Mic, 9 p.m., Free.

RADIO BEAN: Dave Fugel & Friends (jazz), 6 p.m., Free. Shane Hardiman Trio with Geza Carr & Rob Morse (jazz), 8:30 p.m., Free. Kat Wright & the Indomitable Soul Band (soul), 11 p.m., $3.

MOOG'S PLACE: Open Mic, 8:30 p.m., Free.

RED SQUARE: Bob Wagner Duo (rock), 5 p.m., Free. Panton Flats (rock), 7 p.m., Free. D Jay Baron (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

MONOPOLE DOWNSTAIRS: Gary Peacock (singer-songwriter), 10 p.m., Free.

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RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB: Dan Parks (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

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place at locations all over the ONE. This year there are more than 40 events, including field days at Battery Park, baby races — yes, really — and a ton of music including groups from the neighborhood’s African communities, a second line procession and, cuz it’s the ONE, punk rawk. There will also be a group bike ride to the Precipice, for which, as a Rambler, you’ll get a discounted ticket. Visit theramble.org for full details and a map of the day’s events.

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of Vermont’s underground [music] scenes.” I still believe that. But I would submit that the Precipice, particularly as it continues to grow, will likely be the most representative and reflective of Vermont’s music community. That includes everyone; bands, fans and rock writers clinging to their rapidly waning youth.

But don’t take my word for it. Go check it out for yourself. I’ll see you there.

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of songwriter circles: the first with ANDY LUGO, JOE REDDING and RYAN FAUBER, the second led by AYA INOUE and SARAH STICKLE. And again, that’s just a snippet of the day’s action.

This being a music column, we’ve really only touched on the music end of the Precipice. But there is much, much more in store. From local food and beer to theater groups to a kids tent to, well, probably a whole bunch of other stuff we’ll discover once we get there.

Lee Anderson is nothing if not full of surprises.

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burlington area

Backstage Pub: Trivia with the General, 6 p.m., Free. Karaoke, 9:30 p.m., Free.

Breakwater Café: Mr. French (rock), 6 p.m., Free.

Club Metronome: No Diggity: Return to the ’90s (’90s dance party), 9 p.m., $5.

JP's Pub: Starstruck Karaoke, 10 p.m., Free.

Juniper at Hotel Vermont: The Carnival with DJ Luis Calderin (eclectic), 9 p.m., Free.

Lift: Ladies Night, 9 p.m., Free/$3.

Marriott Harbor Lounge: Swale (rock), 8:30 p.m., Free.

Red Square: Mike Pedersen (singer-songwriter), 5 p.m., Free. The DuPont Brothers Band (indie folk), 8 p.m., $5. DJ Craig Mitchell (house), 11 p.m., $5.

Matterhorn: The Shady Trees (rock), 9 p.m., $5.

JP's Pub: Karaoke with Megan, 10 p.m., Free.

Rocket, King Pedestrian (punk), 10 p.m., Free.

with Big Dog & Demus, 9 p.m., Free.

Moog's Place: Eames Brothers Band (mountain blues), 9 p.m., Free.

Marriott Harbor Lounge: Jeff Wheel and Friends (jazz), 8:30 p.m., Free.

The Reservoir Restaurant & Tap Room: Lynguistic Civilians (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

On Tap Bar & Grill: Zack duPont (singer-songwriter), 11 a.m., Free.

Red Square Blue Room: DJ Mixx (EDM), 9 p.m., $5.

Mountain View Country Club: Brian McCarthy Quartet (jazz), 7 p.m., $10.

Monkey House: Steph Pappas Experience, Ethan Azarian, Secret Heliotropes (rock), 6 p.m., $5.

champlain valley

Radio Bean: Queen City Hot Club (gypsy jazz), 11 a.m., Free.

Saloon Sessions with Brett Hughes (country), 1 p.m., Free.

Jordan Koza (folk), 7 p.m., Free.

Dan Johnson (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., Free. Searching for Daylight (prog-rock), 10:30 p.m., Free.

Ruben James: DJ Cre8 (hip-hop), 10:30 p.m., Free.

Rí Rá Irish Pub: Supersounds DJ (Top 40), 10 p.m., Free.

Signal Kitchen: Booker T. Jones (soul), 7 p.m. & 9:30 p.m., $33/75. AA.

central

Fresh Tracks Farm Vineyard & Winery: Friday Night Fires With The Blue Maddies (folk), 5:30-8 p.m., Free.

Green Mountain Tavern: DJ Jonny P (Top 40), 9 p.m., $2.

Monkey House: The Fire Gods (rock), 9 p.m., $5.

Tupelo Music Hall: Patrick Fitzsimmons, Aaron Flinn (singer-songwriters), 8 p.m., $15.

Mr. Crêpe: Art Herttua and Steve Morabito (jazz), 7 p.m., Free.

Whammy Bar: Bramblewood (Americana), 7 p.m., Free.

Nectar's: Happy Ending Fridays with Jay Burwick (singersongwriter), 5 p.m., Free. Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., Free. Amandla, Toussaint the Liberator, Kina Zore (reggae), 9 p.m., $5.

On Tap Bar & Grill: Nerbak Brothers (blues), 5 p.m., Free.

Sturcrazie (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

Radio Bean: Kid's Music with Linda "Tickle Belly" Bassick, 11 a.m., Free. Ken Yates & Brian Dunn (singer-songwriters), 7 p.m., Free. Sarah Miles (singer-songwriter), 8:30 p.m., Free. Secret Heliotropes (indie folk), 10 p.m., Free. Ragged Glory (Neil Young tribute), 11 p.m., Free. Lord Nathaniel and Friends (experimental), 12:30 a.m., Free.

champlain valley 51 Main: Soule Monde (organ groove), 8 p.m., Free.

City Limits: City Limits Dance Party with Top Hat Entertainment (Top 40), 9 p.m., Free.

On the Rise Bakery: The Beerworth Sisters (folk), 8 p.m., Donations.

Tourterelle: Swing Noire (jazz), 7:30 p.m., $5. Swing Noire (gypsy jazz), 7:30 p.m., Free.

Two Brothers Tavern: DJ D-Ro (reggae), 10 p.m., Free.

northern

Bee's Knees: Soaked Oats (bluegrass), 7:30 p.m., Donations.

Rimrocks Mountain Tavern: Friday Night Frequencies with DJ Rekkon (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

regional

Monopole: Doom and Friends, Jason Kraks Band (rock), 10 p.m., Free.

Naked Turtle: PleasureDome (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

Therapy: Pulse with DJ Nyce (hip-hop), 10 p.m., $5.

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Backstage Pub: Justice (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

Bayview Eats: Dewey Drive Band (rock), 5:30 p.m., Free.

Breakwater Café: Sideshow Bob (rock), 6 p.m., Free.

Church & Main Restaurant: Night Vision (EDM), 9 p.m., Free.

Club Metronome: VT Comedy Club: Keep 'em Laughing (standup), 7 p.m., $3. 18+.

Retronome (’80s dance party), 10 p.m., $5.

Franny O's: Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free.

Higher Ground Showcase Lounge: Girls Rock Vermont Showcase (rock), 12:30 p.m., $5.

AA. Nothern Exposure: This Time Stars Fall, Near North, Seamus the Great, Steelesesque (rock), 8:30 p.m., $6. AA.

Nectar's: Builder of the House (indie folk), 7 p.m., Free. Cabinet, New Orleans Soul Project (bluegrass), 9 p.m., $5.

On Tap Bar & Grill: Mitch Terriciano (acoustic), 11 a.m., Free. The Real Deal (r&b), 9 p.m., Free.

Park Place Tavern: The Hitmen (rock), 9:30 p.m., Free.

Radio Bean: Angel Ocana (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., Free. David Johnston (singersongwriter), 8 p.m., Free. Corey Ross-Jenkinson (singersongwriter), 10 p.m., Free. Alma and the Soul Daggers (soul), 11 p.m., Free.

Red Square: Damn Tall Buildings (folk), 5 p.m., Free. Kina Zoré (world music), 7 p.m., $5.

Mashtodon (mashup), 11 p.m., $5.

Red Square Blue Room: DJ Raul (salsa), 7 p.m., Free. DJ Stavros (EDM), 11 p.m., $5.

Ruben James: Craig Mitchell (house), 10 p.m., Free.

Rí Rá Irish Pub: Slickbitch (rock), 10 p.m., Free.

Splash at the Boathouse: Modern Nature (rock), 5:30 p.m., Free.

Vermont Pub & Brewery: Purple Drank (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

central

Bagitos: Irish Sessions, 2 p.m., Free.

Charlie O's: Vicious Gifts, Yacht

Basin Harbor Club: Hot Neon Magic (’80s New Wave), 10 p.m., Free.

City Limits: Dance Party with DJ Earl (Top 40), 9 p.m., Free.

Two Brothers Tavern: Ethan Keller, 6 p.m., $3. DJ Dizzle (house), 10 p.m., Free.

northern

Rí Rá Irish Pub: Dale and Darcy (acoustic), 5 p.m., Free.

The Hub Pizzeria & Pub: Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free.

Vermont Pub & Brewery: Seth Yacovone (blues), 2 p.m., Free.

Moog's Place: Granite Junction (string band), 9 p.m., Free.

northern

Parker Pie Co.: Urban Invasion Tour (hip-hop), 8 p.m., NA.

Bee's Knees: Cody Michaels (piano), 11 a.m., Donations.

regional

Matterhorn: Chris Tagatac (acoustic rock), 4 p.m., Free.

Monopole: North Funktree (funk), 10 p.m., Free.

Naked Turtle: PleasureDome (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

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Manhattan Pizza & Pub: Karaoke, 9:30 p.m., Free.

Breakwater Café: Phineas Gage Project (folk), 2 p.m., Free.

Nectar's: Metal Monday: Autolay, Infera Bruo, Satan's Satyrs, Musical Manslaughter, 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+.

Franny O's: Vermont's Got Talent Open Mic, 8 p.m., Free.

Halflounge: B-Sides (deep house), 7 p.m., Free.

On Tap Bar & Grill: Open Mic with Wylie, 7 p.m., Free.

Higher Ground Showcase Lounge: The Slackers (ska), 8:30 p.m.

Radio Bean: Open Mic, 9 p.m., Free.

Monkey House: Leftover Cuties (rock), 8:30 p.m., $5.

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Red Square: Wolcot (rock), 7 p.m., Free. Dionysia (rock), 8:30 p.m., Free. Mashtodon (mashup), 10 p.m., Free.

Ruben James: Why Not Monday? with Dakota (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

central

Charlie O's: Trivia Night, 8 p.m., Free.

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Moog's Place: Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 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. 18+.

Franny O's: Dogs From Hell (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

Halflounge: Funkwagon's Tequila Project (funk), 10 p.m., Free.

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Higher Ground Ballroom: Leon Russell (rock), 7:30 p.m., $30/35. AA. Leunig's Bistro & Café: Cody Sargent (jazz), 7 p.m., Free.

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delivery, you’d almost think the song was a send-up of Johnson’s Life Is Good-store aesthetic.

“21” is next and is a departure from the previous song’s bromantic bent. It’s also the album’s strongest cut. Over a lean, punk-ish progression that nods at early Sublime, Kehoe pines for the days before turning legal drinking age, when half the fun of partying was the game of trying get booze. “This old head is fading / This year I’ve just been wasting / I’m dying to be done,” he sings. Then, “What’s the catch for 21? / I remember it was much more fun / Before I was young.” Buoyed by his sleepy (hungover?) delivery, it’s a fun-loving sentiment of which the late Sublime front man Brad Nowell would likely approve.

Following the limp faux-funk of “Carpe Noctem” and the equally white-bread slow jam “A Little Bit,” Kehoe rebounds on the fist-pumping party anthem “Subliminal.” He follows that with another strong, punk-tinged cut, “Maybe It’s Me,” before getting his Holden Caulfield on with the hard-charging “Morons n Phonies.”

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Doghouse is the pseudonym of Burlington-based songwriter Sean Kehoe. On his self-titled debut, recorded in the winter of 2012 and released this spring, Kehoe muses on familiar themes of life, love, sadness and, in that quintessentially Vermont way, lousy weather. Despite his predilection for overcast subject matter, Kehoe couches his melancholy in the decidedly sunny pop trappings of beach-friendly troubadours such as Jack Johnson and G. Love and, in the album’s best moments, late-’90s SoCal punk. The result is an amiable collection of tunes that, while derivative and sometimes rough around the edges, are elevated by Kehoe’s slacker charm.

The album opens on “Going My Own Way,” which, somewhat ironically, finds Kehoe openly aping the breezy campfire lilt of the aforementioned Johnson. But where the surfer-dude-turned-acousticpop-prince is often almost nauseatingly slick, Kehoe is endearingly clumsy. If it weren’t for the earnest quality in his

something, only to stumble upon that sometimes painful, sometimes awesome universal truth: That living is the roads in between, the search and all of those cigarettes. There is no defeat in this revelation, rather the song — and the album as a whole — gives the impression that this futile search is well worth it. This feeling, if you live openly and honestly, is the feeling of livin’.

“Notes Waking Home From Work” is an appropriately fragile acoustic ballad about the day-in-day-out struggles of a Mexican migrant worker. While the nontraditional, somewhat slanted lyrical structure displays hints of early Dylan protest ballads, notably “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll,” there is infinitely more Diaz than Dylan here. It’s a different kind of American story, and maybe not the kind you would expect to find. But it’s as American as any train song, if not more so.

And there’s more. From the dirty roadhouse blues of “Roll On” to the country-tinged loss and self-deception of “Honey, I’ll Be Fine,” and from the stripped-down sorrow of “Notes From a Bedroom Upstairs” to the spiritual confidence of “I Will Not Be Afraid,” Caroline Rose paints a mural of America that is honest and revealing. It is clear that America Religious is a wellresearched project.

With the assistance of Burlington- 16t-RideSafe062613.indd 1 6/24/13 10:42 AM based songwriter Jer Coons, who serves as the album’s coproducer and engineer, songwriter’s Caroline Rose has made one of the most notebook confident and thoughtfully produced sundays > 6:30 pm records to come out of Vermont in some time. Her voice and vision are bigger catalyst - syndey lea thursday > 8 pm and clearer than many you’re likely to slow living encounter in a largely self-contained sunday > 5 pm area such as ours. And Rose’s sense and understanding of the grand thematic Channel 17 scheme of Americana is worth paying watch live@5:25 attention to, and applauding. weeknights on tV and online America Religious by Caroline Rose is available at carolinerosemusic.com. get more info or watch online at

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Returns in Burlington at 9 pm Or ride from Middlebury at 2 pm to Burlington.

After a one hour layover re-board at 4:30 to Middlebury for a 6 pm arrival.

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contemporaries. We’re guessing that’s because their sly melding of first-wave ska and rocksteady grooves with American soul and R&B attitude is timeless. This Sunday, July 28, the Slackers play the Higher Ground Showcase Lounge.

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Monty's old Brick tavern: Open mic, 6 p.m., Free. nectar's: Gubbuldis (acoustic), 7 p.m., Free. The Brothers Yares (Americana), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+. olde northender: Abby Jenne & the Enablers (rock), 9 p.m., Free. on tap Bar & Grill: Trivia with Top Hat Entertainment, 7 p.m., Free. radio Bean: The DuPont Brothers (indie folk), 8:30 p.m., Free. Honky-Tonk sessions, 10 p.m., $3.

charlie o's: Karaoke, 10 p.m., Free.

champlain valley

two Brothers tavern: monster Hits Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free.

northern

Bee's knees: children's sing Along with Lesley Grant, 10 a.m., Donations.

MooG's place: Dale and Darcy (acoustic), 8:30 p.m., Free.

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Franny o's: Karaoke, 9:30 p.m., Free. halFlounGe: scott mangan (experimental), 9 p.m., Free. Wanted Wednesday with DJ craig mitchell, Thelonious X & Guests (house), 10 p.m., Free. hiGher Ground showcase lounGe: Bad Things (rock), 8:30 p.m., $12. AA. Jp's puB: Karaoke with morgan, 10 p.m., Free.

Juniper at hotel verMont: Brian mccarthy Quartet (jazz), 8 p.m., Free.

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take more cues from the early roots of the genre than did most of their pop and punk

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bands still standing from ska’s third wave in the late 1990s and early 2000s. They

red square: seth Yacovone Trio (blues), 7 p.m., Free. craig mitchell (house), 10 p.m., Free.

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leuniG's Bistro & caFé: Will Patton Trio (gypsy jazz), 7 p.m., Free.

Manhattan pizza & puB: Open mic with Andy Lugo, 9:30 p.m., Free.

Monkey house: Le Likes surf club, Tijuana Panthers (surf), 8:30 p.m., $5. 18+. nectar's: What a Joke! comedy Open mic (standup), 7 p.m., Free. Lucid (rock), 9 p.m., Free/$5.

18+. on tap Bar & Grill: Nerbak Brothers (blues), 7:30 p.m., Free. radio Bean: irish sessions, 8 p.m., Free. Doghouse (singer-songwriter), 6 p.m., Free. Peter Janson (celtic), 7 p.m., Free. carraway (rock), 11 p.m., Free. red square: Jake Whitesell Group (jazz), 7 p.m., Free.DJ cre8 (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. skinny pancake: Josh Panda and Brett Lanier (rock), 7 p.m., $5-10 donation.

central

charlie o's: Brian clark (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., Free. whaMMy Bar: Open mic, 6:30 p.m., Free.

champlain valley

city liMits: Karaoke with Let it Rock Entertainment, 9 p.m., Free. on the rise Bakery: Black cat Bone (rock), 8 p.m., Donations. two Brothers tavern: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., Free.

northern

Bee's knees: Al 'n' Pete (folk), 7:30 p.m., Donations. the huB pizzeria & puB: seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., Free.

MooG's place: Joshua Glass (singer-songwriter), 8:30 p.m., Free. parker pie co.: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., Free.

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bEE’S kNEES, 82 Lower Main St., Morrisville, 888-7889 blAck cAP coffEE, 144 Main St., Stowe, 253-2123 broWN’S mArkEt biStro, 1618 Scott Highway, Groton, 584-4124 choW! bEllA, 28 N. Main St., St. Albans, 524-1405 clAirE’S rEStAurANt & bAr, 41 Main St., Hardwick, 472-7053 coSmic bAkErY & cAfé, 30 S. Main St., St. Albans, 524-0800 couNtrY PANtrY DiNEr, 951 Main St., Fairfax, 8490599 croP biStro & brEWErY, 1859 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-4304 grEY fox iNN, 990 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-8921 thE hub PizzEriA & Pub, 21 Lower Main St., Johnson, 635-7626 thE littlE cAbArEt, 34 Main St., Derby, 293-9000 mAttErhorN, 4969 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-8198 thE mEEtiNghouSE, 4323 Rt. 1085, Smugglers’ Notch, 644-8851 moog’S PlAcE, Portland St., Morrisville, 851-8225 muSic box, 147 Creek Rd., Craftsbury, 586-7533 oVErtimE SAlooN, 38 S. Main St., St. Albans, 524-0357 PArkEr PiE co., 161 County Rd., West Glover, 525-3366 PhAt kAtS tAVErN, 101 Depot St., Lyndonville, 626-3064 PiEcASSo, 899 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-4411 rimrockS mouNtAiN tAVErN, 394 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-9593 roADSiDE tAVErN, 216 Rt. 7, Milton, 660-8274 ruStY NAil bAr & grillE, 1190 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-6245 ShootErS SAlooN, 30 Kingman St., St. Albwans, 527-3777 SNoW ShoE loDgE & Pub, 13 Main St., Montgomery Center, 326-4456 SWEEt cruNch bAkEShoP, 246 Main St., Hyde Park, 888-4887 tAmArAck grill At burkE mouNtAiN, 223 Shelburne Lodge Rd., E. Burke, 626-7394 WAtErShED tAVErN, 31 Center St., Brandon, 247-0100.

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In the Zone Gallery Profile: ZoneThree, Middlebury

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Baird knows the pleasures of living amid great artwork. ZoneThree isn’t just a gallery; it’s her home. The spacious, high-ceilinged loft is the only residential unit on the top floor of a Marble Works building that houses, among other offices, the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education and the Orton Family Foundation.

Baird hangs monthly shows — July’s is “Levitation,” mixed-media works by the Swiss-born Whiting artist Graziella Weber-Grassi — on the walls of several rooms in the apartment, including a landing, which is open during regular business hours. The rest is open during Middlebury’s monthly art walk and by appointment.

Baird’s gallery is inspired by intimate art venues such as LHotel, a Montréal hotel whose guest rooms are decked out with works by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Indiana and Marc Chagall. On a recent visit, she says coyly, “I slept with Ellsworth Kelly.”

ZoneThree may not have Kelly and Warhol, but it has impressive regional art and an elegant charm. The first thing visitors might notice is the 1930s grand piano adorned with flowers and positioned catty-corner on glossy wooden floors. Tall windows look out onto the Otter Creek falls. A guitar leans against stacks of books and CDs, as if ready for an impromptu song. A long, rough-hewn wooden shelf serves as a viewing station where visitors can peruse portfolios of exhibiting artists.

The loft is spotless. “My mother — we used to tell her she should date Mr. Clean,” Baird says, explaining how she manages to keep her living space ready at any moment for visitors. Baird inherited her mom’s knack for tidiness, but she also sees ZoneThree as a kind of Zen space. “People should feel balanced in this space,” she says. For Baird, the act of high-glossing the checkerboard floor in the landing before each reception “is like preparing the tea.”

Baird has been involved in the arts community in Middlebury since she moved there about seven years ago. A California

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leep with your art.” That’s the tagline of ZoneThree, Rachel Baird’s salon-style modern art gallery in Middlebury. The implication is twofold: Consuming art should be an intimate experience; and don’t just browse the paintings and other works on display — buy them.

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native in her fifties, she’d been vacationing in Vermont for 20 years. Looking for a change, and an “artist colony,” she picked up and moved east. When Baird relocated to Middlebury, she recalls, she felt the art scene was lacking. “I think we’re just going to have to make one,” she says.

Baird helped start the Middlebury Arts Walk, a town-wide monthly event, in 2008. Then, when she moved into the Marble Works loft, the idea to open a gallery hit her. “Look at these walls,” she recalls thinking at the time. “I didn’t want to hog [the space]; I wanted to open it to the community.”

This past June, Baird held her first monthly salon in the loft, “in the Gertrude Stein tradition,” she explains. She has also been hosting art and poetry “rangas,” collaborative writing and art-making get-togethers, in unusual locations such as the Trail Around Middlebury. “It’s all part of

my grand experiment that’s actually really cohesive,” says Baird, who attended the San Francisco Art Institute and the Academy of Art University, San Francisco.

“She’s an amazing visionary,” says Weber-Grassi. “She has an idea and she goes with it.”

Weber-Grassi’s show features paintings of elaborate — and enormous — midcentury chairs levitating over images of houses she cuts from vintage advertisements. She selects the chair based on what she thinks the people living in the house would like — some are shiny, red Naugahyde; some are plump and frilly like cupcakes. Each has a distinct personality. “We didn’t have these kinds of chairs in Switzerland,” Weber-Grassi says. “Just plain, basic wooden chairs. These are very American.”

Also on display at ZoneThree are Weber-Grassi’s collages of old photo portraits

she found at antique stores spliced together with bits of comic strips. She calls these her “fake ancestors,” and they are dryly funny. “I’m willing to do anything,” reads a speech bubble emitting from a portrait of an older woman with a severe updo, a black, buttoned-to-the-neck top and too much rouge. “I keep myself entertained,” Weber-Grassi says.

When opening the gallery, Baird specifically set genre parameters. She didn’t want to show just any contemporary art, only works that fit into modern styles such as dada, pop art and retro-surrealism.

Baird’s own work hangs in a small back room with cool blue walls. The photographs in her series “Atmospheres” capture the water molecules floating in the air on a summer night. Other photos depict the sunrise from the window of an airplane. “In painting, too, I’m painting the energy of things,” Baird says. “I’m painting what’s just below the surface.”

ZoneThree Gallery, 152 Maple Street, third floor, Middlebury, 800-249-3562. zonethreegallery.com

Art ShowS

ongoing

tAlkS & eventS

burlington area

life-drAWing SeSSion: Artists practice their painting and drawing techniques with a live model. Reservations encouraged. wednesday, July 24, 6-9 p.m.; sunday, July 28, 2-5 p.m.; wednesday, July 31, 6-9 p.m., black horse Fine Art supply, burlington. info, 860-4972.

Ann PeArce & JoAnne ShAPP: An exhibit of quilted works including the “green Mountain Volunteers Quilt,” which the duo made for studio owners ben bergstein and April werner to commemorate their 1985 folk-dance tour of europe. Through July 31 at north end studio A in burlington. info, 863-6713.

'Art educAtorS unite! creAtion & collAborAtion': An exhibition of work by 11 Vermont public-school art educators who meet twice a month to support one another in the pursuit of their own art making. Through July 31 at Flynndog in burlington. info, 863-0093.

'ArtiStic inSightS': The inaugural exhibition of s.p.A.C.e.'s new artist membership program featuring work that highlights each artist's unique creative process and medium. Through August 17 at soda plant in burlington. bonnie bAird: oil landscape paintings of Vermont and scotland. July 31 through october 29 at left bank home & garden in burlington. info, 862-1001. 'city': images of urban life by photographers from around the world. July 25 through August 18 at Darkroom gallery in essex Junction. info, 777-3686. clArk ruSSell: "Mixed Media," high-relief collages and abstracts created from salvaged scrap metals. Through August 24 at Amy e.

Tarrant gallery, Flynn Center, in burlington. info, 652-4500. dok Wright: "Departure," a collection of whimsical and offbeat photographs that the burlington artist took during downtime, on vacation or simply for practice. Through July 28 at Vintage inspired in burlington. info, 488-5766. donnA bourne: "California to Vermont," oil landscape paintings completed over 30 years out west, plus new pieces inspired by the green Mountain state. Through July 30 at studio 266 in burlington. info, 578-2512. eSSex Art leAgue: paintings, photography and mixed-media work by member artists. Through August 31 at phoenix books in essex. info, 849-2172.

hAley biShoP: work by the 2012 winner of the brewery's labels for libation contest. Through July 31 at Magic hat brewing Company in south burlington. info, 658-2739. holly hAuSer: "love letters with oranges," mixed-media prints. Through July 31 at burlington Airport in south burlington. info, 658-6786.

JAckie MAngione: "small City series," watercolors depicting local scenes of the winooski riverfront

grAce AnnuAl SuMMer benefit: guests enjoy an art exhibit, silent auction and door prizes. Catering by Mackin edibles; live music by ira Friedman. Friday, July 26, 6-8 p.m., lakeview inn, greensboro. info, 472-6857. 'toP of the World': Ken leslie's paintings and unique book structures created on or above the Arctic Circle; watercolor paintings by bianca perren; and inuit prints on loan from norwich university's sullivan Museum. Through september 1 at Chandler gallery in Randolph.

Janet Cathey teaches a beginner printmaking workshop for students 13 and older. space is limited; call to register. Tuesday, July 30, 4:30-6 p.m. info, 728-9878. trunk ShoW & SAle: Artwork by gallery artists and their friends. saturday and sunday, July 27-28, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., grand isle Art works. info, 378-4591. ‘froM dAiry to doorSteP: Milk delivery in neW englAnd’: An exhibit that chronicles more than 200 years of dairy history, featuring historic photographs, advertisements, ephemera and artifacts. Through August 4 at sheldon Museum in Middlebury. Museum director bill brooks gives a gallery talk in conjunction with the current exhibit: wednesday, July 17, noon-1 p.m.; wednesday, July 24, noon-1 p.m. info, 388-2117. ric kASini kAdour: "i Keep Myself Together and other solutions to personal problems," recent photography, prints and sculptural objects. Through July 31 at brickels gallery in burlington. "what’s wrong with You & how to Fix it," a talk by the artist in which he discusses his approach to art making and relevance, pertinence and materiality in contemporary art.

Thursday, July 25, 7-8 p.m. info, 825-8214.

and burlington. Through July 31 at American Red Cross in burlington. info, 598-1504.

JAcob MArtin: Digital illustration based on the fantastical world of My little pony. Through July 31 at speaking Volumes in burlington. info, 540-0107.

John ivAn JAMeS: "Rufus in VT," photographs of the artist's west highland terrier. proceeds benefit the bubba Foundation. Through July 31 at Red square in burlington. info, 318-2438.

for the Arts gallery in newport. Reception: Meet the artists and floral designers, enjoy food and wine and catch a performance by the newport Area Community orchestra wind Quartet.

Thursday, July 25, 6-8 p.m. info, 334-1966.

rAMble 2013: local artists exhibit artwork, read poetry, play music, dance, juggle and otherwise share their creativity. saturday, July 27, 12:30-3 p.m., Rose street Co-op gallery, burlington. info, rosestreetgallery@hotmail.com.

'reMeMbering the brAndon trAining School': A permanent exhibit commemorating the 20th anniversary of the school’s closing and the 100th anniversary of the school’s creation.

At Compass Music and Arts Center in brandon.

Reception: saturday, July 27, 5-7 p.m. info, 247-4295.

hArMony hAMMond: The new Mexico-based artist, considered a pioneer of the feminist art movement, discusses painting, feminism, lesbian art and the cultural representation of difference. saturday, July 27, 9:15 a.m., College hall Chapel, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier. info, 828-8600.

MArk dAnnenhAuer: "A is for Ah!, o is for oy!" photographs of the bread and puppet Theater.

Through August 4 at bread and puppet Theater in glover. Reception: sunday, July 28, 5:15-7:15 p.m. info, 525-4515.

hAMzA WAlker: The director of education and associate curator for the Renaissance society at the university of Chicago, a non-collecting museum devoted to contemporary art, gives a lecture. Monday, July 29, 4-5:30 p.m., College hall Chapel, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier. info, 828-8600.

'Six SideS of the cube': work by six young artists from around the world, including Vermonters bianca hildenbrand and whitney Ramage, who each engage the cube in different ways. Through August 24 at Castleton Downtown gallery in Rutland. Reception: Friday, July 26, 6-8 p.m. info, 468-6052.

SAndrA de lA lozA: The los Angeles-based artist whose work investigates questions of power and representation within contemporary political, social and cultural landscapes, gives a lecture. Tuesday, July 30, 4-5:30 p.m., College hall Chapel, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier. info, 828-8600.

Sue oSMond: paintings by the Vermont artist.

July 26 through August 26 at Jacquith public library in Marshfield. Reception: Terry Allen reads a short piece of writing called "From inside a political primary: The sordid story of insipid politics, bad Food and one sleazy, sad Motel."

Friday, July 26, 6-8 p.m. info, 426-3581.

AnnuAl Studio event & SAle: Vermont artist Roselle Abramowitz offers discounts on her handmade "art-to-wear" and accessories. proceeds benefit Music in the Meadows. saturday through sunday, July 27-28, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Roselle Artwear studio, stowe. info, 253-8372.

chAMPlAin iSlAndS ArtiStS’ orgAnizAtion AnnuAl ShoW: work in a variety of media by more than 50 area artists, including featured artist Muriel bohne. July 26 through 28 at north hero Community hall. Reception: Friday, July 26, 4-7 p.m. info, 343-7118.

recePtionS 'unbound, vol. iii': An annual juried show that explores the idea of "the book" and all the ways artists use that format as a stepping-off point. July 26 through september 7 at ArtisTree Community Arts Center & gallery in woodstock. Reception: Friday, July 26, 5:30-7:30 p.m. info, 457-3500.

'Art in blooM': Floral artwork accompanies real flower arrangements in this third annual summer show. July 25 through 27 at MAC Center

kiM boMbArd: still-life paintings by the Vermont artist. Through July 27 at left bank home & garden in burlington. info, 862-1001. 'lArger thAn life: QuiltS by veldA neWMAn': Contemporary fiber art; 'trAilblAzerS: horSePoWered vehicleS': An exhibit that explores connections between 19th-century carriages and today’s automotive culture; 'ogden PleiSSner, lAndScAPe PAinter': watercolor sketches

'neW voiceS, neW viSionS': work in a variety of media by Kathleen Kolb, Judith unger, leslie Koehler, sharon Moffatt, hugo Mesa, brent McCoy, Mags bonham, Maura Clancy, Kristine Deeler and Cathleen glassford. July 27 through August 23 at Miller's Thumb gallery in greensboro. Reception: Food and live music. saturday, July 27, 4-6 p.m. info, 533-2045.

SuMMer Art ShoW: new work by members of the paletteers art club. Through July 27 at Aldrich public library in barre. Reception: wednesday, July 24, 5:30-7:30 p.m. info, 262-6400.

and finished paintings. Through october 31 at shelburne Museum. info, 985-3346.

MArk dAbelStein: “game show,” backgammon, chess and Chinese checkers sets made from salvaged materials, pixel art and video-gameinspired trivets, tables and refrigerator magnets.

Through July 31 at Frog hollow in burlington. info, 863-6458. buRlingTon-AReA shows

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Art on PArk: live music and local food make for a festival atmosphere at this weekly outdoor art and craft show. Thursday, July 25, 5:30-8:30 p.m., park street, stowe.

'the being of huMAn': Jackie brookner, author of Urban Rain: Stormwater as Resource discusses her ecological art practice. sunday, July 28, 7 p.m., haybarn Theater, goddard College, plainfield. info, 800-468-4888.

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pencil drawing. Through July 31 at Storefront Studio Gallery in Montpelier. Info, 839-5349.

MOLLY BOSLEY: "A Thousand Pieces Gone," a 2011 collection of papercuts incorporating found photographs. Through August 1 at Healthy Living Market and Café in South Burlington. Info, 863-2569.

GLORIA KING MERRITT: "Changing Gears," large-scale digital paintings by the Vermont artist.

Through August 23 at the Great Hall in Springfield.

Info, 258-3992.

'NO HANDS': Work by the students and instructors of a four-month printmaking class at Iskra Print Collective. Through July 31 at JDK Gallery in Burlington. Info, iskraprint.com.

GREEN MOUNTAIN WATERCOLOR EXHIBITION: Seventy-two paintings by 37 artists from around the country representing a broad range of styles and techniques. Through July 28 at Big Red Barn Gallery at Lareau Farm in Waitsfield. Info, 496-6682.

NANCY STONE & MELINDA WHITE-BRONSON: "Drawn to Music," translucent accordion books and layered watercolor paintings of musicians by Stone; bronze work, a wood carving and a hand-stitched landscape quilt by White-Bronson. Through August 31 at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul in Burlington.

Info, 860-7183.

'IMAGES': Nicholas Gaffney's photographs of the Vermont Institute of Natural Science; Evan Clayton Horback's collages; and Mary Mead's wood-cut intaglio monoprints. Through August 24 at Nuance Gallery in Windsor. Info, 674-9616.

JANET VAN FLEET: "Disc Course," pieces from the artist’s "Circular Statements" series, in which she employs spray paint, buttons and other circular elements. Through August 30 at Supreme Court Lobby in Montpelier. Info, 828-0749.

PIPER STRONG: Metalwork for the home and garden by the Vermont artist. Through July 31 at Salaam and the Men's Store in Burlington. Info, 658-8822.

'REJUVENATION': Painterly digital prints by Hudson Valley photographer Jeri Lynn Eisenberg exhibited with the work of 17 Vermont artists in the 22nd annual summer group show. Through August 13 at Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery in Shelburne. Info, 985-3848.

'JOURNEY INTO PROCESS': Ink brushwork, etchings, acrylics, oils and works on paper by Carol Cannon, Jane Davies, Tom Merwin, Helen O'Donnell and Carolyn Shattuck. Through September 8 at Vermont Institute of Contemporary Arts in Chester.

Info, 875-1018.

'RESTORATIVE JUSTICE: THE ART OF MAKING AMENDS': Artwork by participants in restorativejustice panels. Through July 31 at Metropolitan Gallery, Burlington City Hall. Info, 865-7166.

JULIA PURINTON: "Wetlands and Woodlands," impressionistic paintings by the Warren artist.

Through July 27 at Festival Gallery in Waitsfield.

Info, 496-6682.

ROBERT WALDO BRUNELLE JR.: "Walking Home," acrylic paintings, old and new. Through July 27 at McCarthy Arts Center Gallery, St. Michael's College, in Colchester. Info, 899-1106.

LARK UPSON: "Structural Integrity," portraits in oil by the Vermont furniture-maker-turned-painter.

Through September 1 at Blinking Light Gallery in Plainfield. Info, 454-0141.

SAM FALLS & SARAH O'DONNELL: Sculpture and painting inspired by photography, and a light-based installation based on Burlington's Moran Plant, respectively, in the Second Floor Gallery. Through September 21 at BCA Center in Burlington. Info, 865-7165.

SARAH RYAN: New paintings and guitar photographs. Through August 31 at Penny Cluse Café in Burlington. Info, 651-8834.

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'SHOW YOUR INDEPENDENCE': Artistic interpretations of independence by David Russell, Jennifer Barr, Johanne Durocher Yordan, Lauren Pricer, Nissa Kauppila, Robert Waldo Brunelle Jr. and Seth Butler; JACQUES BURKE: Digitally enhanced photography. Through July 31 at SEABA Center in Burlington. Info, 859-9222.

is showing the three bodies of work that make up Ric Kasini Kadour’s “I Keep Myself Together & Other Solutions to Personal Problems.” The Montréal-based writer and artist dishes his secrets to sanity in a series of photographs entitled “I Keep Myself Together.” Kadour reimagines violence in “Love Guns & Other Weapons of Affection.”

SOPHIA BERARD: "The Current Rout," an installation composed of embroidery, sculpture and commentary based on observations and notions of our collective experience. Through July 27 at S.P.A.C.E. Gallery in Burlington. Info, spacegalleryvt.com.

Knowledge manifests as a polyester sculpture of a cloud in “All My Knowledge Lives in a

SUMMER SHOW: Paintings by Ed Epstein, Mike Strauss, Nancy Tomzcak, Chelsea Piazza and Lin Warren; photographs by Jim Moore; sumi-ink work

by Aya Itagaki; and collage work by Arthur Penfield Tremblay. Curated by BCA. Through August 31 at Maltex Building in Burlington. Info, 865-7166.

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SUMMER SHOW: Work by Che Schreiner and Ethan Azarian. Curated by SEABA. Through July 31 at the Innovation Center of Vermont in Burlington. Info, 859-9222.

SUSAN ABBOTT: "Vermont Journal: Small Paintings from Four Seasons," plein-air work by the Vermont artist. Through August 31 at Shelburne Vineyard. Info, 985-8222.

SUZANNE DOLLOIS: Photographic work by the Vermont artist. Curated by SEABA. Through August 30 at Pine Street Deli in Burlington. Info, 862-9614.

TESSA HOLMES: Paintings by the Vermont artist.

Curated by SEABA. Through August 30 at Speeder & Earl's (Pine Street) in Burlington. Info, 658-6016.

THE HOWARDCENTER ARTS COLLECTIVE: Artwork by clients and employees of the Burlington nonprofit. Through July 31 at Fletcher Room, Fletcher Free Library, in Burlington. Info, 863-3403.

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'TRACES': Mark Waskow and Jean Cherouny present an exhibit inspired by performance artists who create a "trace," something that is directly

Box” (pictured). But Kadour knows he isn’t the only one with problems — on Thursday, July 25, he’ll tackle the subject of art making in a talk called “What’s Wrong With You

or indirectly related to the performance that will survive the performance. Curated by SEABA. Through August 30 at VCAM Studio in Burlington.

Info, 651-9692.

ALMUTH PALINKAS: A retrospective sampling of textile art and paintings in watercolor, oil and pastel. Through August 31 at Westview Meadows in Montpelier. Info, 479-0051.

TRINE WILSON: Photographs of flowers by the Vermont artist. Through July 31 at April Cornell in Burlington. Info, 355-4834.

'AMERICAN DREAM': In a group multimedia show, artists explore what the American dream means today, Main Floor Gallery; BETH ROBINSON: "The Aviary," in which the artist explores what happens to birds that become comfortable living outside their natural habitats, Second Floor Gallery; 'ART-ARTIFACT': Stories told through "transformed shards and remnants." Through August 31 at Studio Place Arts in Barre. Info, 479-7069.

'VISIONS OF A HOMETOWN': The Milton Artists' Guild's traveling exhibition commemorating the 250th anniversary of the town's founding and the 25th anniversary of the guild. Through July 31 at New Moon Café in Burlington.

'WYETH VERTIGO': Works by three generations of one of the most influential families in modern American art — N.C., Andrew and Jamie Wyeth.

Through October 31 at Shelburne Museum. Info, 985-3346.

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ALEXIS KYRIAK: Sculpture, acrylics, pastels and graphite, displayed in the artist's working studio.

Through July 31 at Dove in the Window Studio in Northfield. Info, 485-6610.

'BEYOND BORDERS': Contemporary works by Japanese artist Kazuo Kadonaga and German-born artist Udo Noger. Through July 31 at Walker Contemporary in Waitsfield.

CASEY BLANCHARD: "Key West Bound," work by the Vermont printmaker. Through August 31 at Spotlight Gallery in Montpelier. Info, 828-5422.

GLEN COBURN HUTCHESON: Paintings, drawings and sculpture by the Montpelier artist. Visitors are invited to drop by Monday through Friday, 3-6 p.m., and be the subject of a "talking portrait," a life-size

'MASTERWORKS': Sculpture and prints by Vermont artist Hugh Townley exhibited alongside a portion of his personal collection, including works by Eugene Atget, Harry Callahan, Salvador Dalí, Jean Dubuffet, Marcel Duchamp, Aaron Siskind, H.C. Westermann and Ossip Zadkine. Through July 28 at BigTown Gallery in Rochester. Info, 767-9670.

NICOLE GRUBMAN: "Moments on the Road," photographs and excerpts from the Vermont artist's new book, I Left My Sole in Vermont. Through July 28 at Green Bean Visual Art Gallery at Capitol Grounds in Montpelier. Info, curator@capitolgrounds.com.

PAT MUSICK: "The Instant of It All," drawings and sculptures exploring the theme of aging inspired by the words of Russian poet Boris Pasternak. Photo ID required for admission. Through September 27 at Governor's Office Gallery in Montpelier. Info, 828-0749.

'PLAYING WITH TIME': An exhibit that incorporates high-speed photography, time-lapse videos and animation to explore science and the everchanging world. Through September 8 at Montshire Museum of Science in Norwich. Info, 649-2200.

RIA BLAAS: New paintings by the Vermont artist.

Through July 31 at Scavenger Gallery in White River Junction. Info, 295-0808.

'ROUND': Circular objects ranging from uniform buttons to oddities such as a foot-powered dentist’s drill; 'THESE HONORED DEAD: PRIVATE AND NATIONAL COMMEMORATION': An exhibit that tells the stories of Norwich alumni from both sides of the Civil War, focusing on the military draft, prisons and mourning rituals. Through December 20 at Sullivan Museum & History Center, Norwich University, in Northfield. Info, 485-2183.

'SERVICE AND SACRIFICE: VERMONT’S CIVIL WAR GENERATION': An exhibit of photographs, flags and artifacts that show how the Civil War dramatically changed the course of life in many villages throughout Vermont. Through November 30 at Vermont History Center in Barre. Info, 479-8500.

SHAWN BRALEY: "Vermonty: Humorous and Heartwarming Illustrated Prints," work by the Wilder, Vt., illustrator. Through August 9 at Tunbridge Public Library. Info, 889-9404.

SHERYL TRAINOR: New equine monotypes using a printmaking technique called pochoir. Through August 5 at the Woodstock Gallery. Info, 457-2012.

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Terry Allen: “Borderlines,” photographs of people and cultures — including Barre's granite quarries — on the edges of society and the cusp of change. Through August 23 at Central Vermont Medical Center in Barre. Info, cvmc.org/art-gallery.

Tom SeArS: Wildlife photographs by the local artist. Through August 31 at VINS Nature Center in Quechee. Info, 359-5001.

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AlTheA BilodeAu & douglAS Biklen: Hand-dyed, felted wool and silk clothing and accessories by Bilodeau; abstract photographs by Biklen. Through September 3 at Brandon Artists Guild. Info, 247-4956.

ClArk derBeS: "4th Dimensional Chainsaw Sculpture," works that are equally inspired by modernism and American-folk and outsider-art traditions. Through July 31 at Edgewater Gallery in Middlebury. Info, 458-0098. 'edwArd hopper in VermonT': The legendary painter's Vermont watercolors on loan from institutions such as the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Neuberger Museum of Art at SUNY Purchase, as well as from private collections around the country, exhibited together for the first time; TAd merriCk: Black-and-white photographs by the Middlebury photographer, who died last year. Through August 11 at Middlebury College Museum of Art. Info, 443-3168. erneST hAAS: "Vanished Vessels Made Visible," historical nautical paintings by the South Burlington artist. Through August 18 at Lake Champlain Maritime Museum in Vergennes. Info, ernesthaas@comcast.net. grAziellA weBer-grASSi: "Levitation," mixed-media works that incorporate vintage ads and furniture with a life of its own. Through July 31 at ZoneThree Gallery in Middlebury. Info, 800-249-3562.

'hidden AwAy: 20Th And 21ST CenTury workS from The permAnenT ColleCTion': An Alexander Calder mobile; sculptures by William Zorach, William King and Harry Bertoia; glass by Louis Comfort Tiffany and Dale Chihuly; watercolors by George Grosz and Luigi Lucioni; and oil paintings by Arthur Davies, Edwin Dickinson, Ivan Albright, John Sloan, Grant Wood, Alice Neel and Rackstraw Downes. Through August 11 at Middlebury College Museum of Art. Info, 443-3168.

Jennifer STeele Cole: "Champlain Valley Scenes and Places," paintings and drawings that capture Vermont's agrarian landscape. Through August 11 at Jackson Gallery, Town Hall Theater, in Middlebury. Info, 382-9222.

JoAn CurTiS: "At One With Nature: New and Revisited," paintings that imagine humans coexisting with climate changes and increasingly dramatic weather events. Through September 2 at Brandon Music. Info, 465-4071.

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Info, 355-8872. mAize BAuSCh: A retrospective of the 88-year-old Charlotte painter. Through August 23 at WalkOver Gallery & Concert Room in Bristol. Info, 453-3188.

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roger Book: "Breaking the Ice," abstractexpressionist paintings by the Vermont artist.

Through August 18 at Compass Music and Arts Center. Info, 247-4295.

STephAnie roCknAk: "The King, the Queen and Others," wood sculptures inspired by Italian Renaissance carving. Through August 11 at Carving Studio and Sculpture Center in West Rutland. Info, 438-2097.

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SunCommon Solar PoP-uP Gallery: Energyand environment-themed artwork by 11 Vermont artists. Through July 30 at 20 Main Street in Middlebury.

'The BreedinG Bird aTlaS: SCienCe and arT': A special exhibit in collaboration with the Vermont Center for Ecostudies features work by 14 artists and photographers and more than 300 citizen scientists; and PeTer Padua: Carved-wood birds by the 90-year-old artist. Through October 31 at Birds of Vermont Museum in Huntington. Info, 434-2167.

'The Farm and Food Show': The group exhibit includes paintings by Betsy Hubner and Amy Mosher, sculpture garden designed by Rick Marsan and Nick Santoro, photos by Green Mountain College students, and more. Through August 11 at Chaffee Downtown Art Center in Rutland. Info, 775-0356.

'The Power oF waTer: reFleCTionS on riverS and leSSonS From irene': An exhibit that explores Vermonters’ relationships with rivers, based on interviews conducted over the last year with more than 140 Vermonters in 14 communities.

Through September 7 at Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury. Info, 388-4964.

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Ben BarneS: New acrylic paintings. Through August 19 at Parker Pie Co. in West Glover. Info, 525-3366.

'BeST oF The norTheaST maSTerS oF Fine arTS 2013 exhiBiTion': The second biennial exhibition offering an introduction to the strongest emerging artists in MFA degree programs in New England, Québec and New York. Through September 8 at Helen Day Art Center in Stowe. Info, 253-8358.

CeCilia leiBoviTz: Hand-sewn and -sculpted hats embellished with haute-couture methods and made from materials such as rabbit-fur felt and silk.

Through July 31 at the Art House Gallery, Studio & School in Craftsbury Common. Info, 586-2545.

CharleS movalli: "In Every Musician..." paintings inspired by well-known operas. Through August 4 at Green Mountain Fine Art Gallery in Stowe. Info, 253-1818. 'draw The line and make your PoinT: The PenCil and The 21ST CenTury': A visual history of the invention and evolution of the pencil, including a display about a pencil artist, unlikely objects made from pencils, an interactive pencil launcher and a smattering of pencils from around the world.

Through December 1 at the Museum of Everyday Life in Glover. Info, 626-4409. eSSex arT leaGue: Work by member artists.

Through August 1 at the Old Red Mill in Jericho.

Info, 849-2172. 'exPoSed': An annual exhibit of sculptures from established and emerging artists displayed in the gallery, as well as throughout Stowe Village and the recreation path. Through October 15 at Helen Day Art Center in Stowe. Info, 253-8358.

Fiery BuTTerFly-Frank vando: "Dreams, Visions & Prophecies," paintings inspired by the ancient wisdom of Native culture, with a contemporary flair.

Through July 31 at Catamount Arts Center in St. Johnsbury. Info, 748-2600.

GaBriel TemPeSTa: "The Bumblebee Series," charcoal drawings inspired by the drastic population decline of bees in Vermont; alySa BenneTT: "Horse Drawn," large-scale charcoal drawings.

Through September 2 at River Arts Center in Morrisville. Info, 888-1261.

Maize Bausch Charlotte artist Maize Bausch has spent the latter half

of her 88 years painting — but she recently decided to stop. To celebrate her decades of creativity, Bristol’s WalkOver Gallery is displaying a vast range of oil-on-canvas works through August 23. Some paintings are hazy and muted, evoking a nostalgic intimacy.

Others are composed of abstract layers, with grounded titles such as “Where Are the

Car Keys?” There’s a sense of a mysterious narrative in her figurative works — who is “Ursula,” the fiery, snub-nosed girl with a furrowed brow? And what shore are the misty figures riding to in “Riding to the Shore?” Pictured: “Valentine” (detail).

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'H2o': Water-themed artwork in a variety of media

by Amanda Weisenfeld, Delsie Hoyt, Jan Edick, Ros Orford, Nancy Schade, Arlene Goldberg, Viiu Niiler, Linda Broadwater, Robin Rothman, Joan Harlowe, Barbara Grey, Claire Van Vliet, Norma St. Germain, Mary Simpson and Naomi Bossom. Through August 5 at Northeast Kingdom Artisans Guild Backroom Gallery in St. Johnsbury. Info, 748-0158.

JEriCHo PlEiN air FEstiVal ExHiBit: Paintings completed during the third-annual festival by more than 80 area artists. Through August 11 at Emile A. Gruppe Gallery in Jericho. Info, 899-3211.

JEssiE PolloCK: "Sensitive Chaos Redux," mixed-media encaustic works inspired by the Institute for Flow founder Theodore Schwenk and his theories about the repetitive patterns in nature caused by the flow of water. Through August 9 at West Branch Gallery & Sculpture Park in Stowe.

Info, 253-8943.

JUlY artists: Works by painter and woodworker Frank Tiralla, multimedia artist Pam Krout-Voss and photographer Joanne Wasny. Through July 26 at Artist in Residence Cooperative Gallery in Enosburg Falls. Info, 933-6403. 'laBor oF loVE': Created by Vermont Works for Women with the Vermont Folklife Center, the touring exhibit features 25 photographs of women with various occupations. Through July 26 at Hebard Office Building in Newport. Info, 655-8922.

MarC CiVitarEsE & sUsaN WaHlraB: Civitarese's paintings explore man's relationship with nature; Wahlrab creates abstracted landscapes with watercolors. Through July 28 at Upstairs at West Branch in Stowe. Info, 253-8943.

Matt CHaNEY: Oil pastels on paper. Through July 28 at Bee's Knees in Morrisville. Info, 888-7889.

MaUriE HarriNGtoN: Watercolors by the founding member of the Killington Arts Guild and art director of Isle La Motte's Fisk Farm. Through August 31 at Snow Farm Vineyard in South Hero.

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PHiliP HaGoPiaN: "In Between Time," oil and mixed-media paintings by the Morrisville artist.

Through July 31 at Island Arts South Hero Gallery.

Info, 489-4023. 'stoWE Vistas: For loVE oF tHE laND': The Stowe Land Trust exhibit features paintings by Vermont artists Elisabeth Wooden, Hunter Eddy,

Meryl Lebowitz, Lisa Angell and Peter Miller.

Through August 31 at Vermont Fine Art Gallery in Stowe. Info, 253-9653. 'sUsPENDED WorlDs': An exhibit celebrating Curtains Without Borders, Vermont’s paintedtheater-curtain project, featuring a restored East Randolph curtain and photographs of several others from around the state. Through August 3 at Haskell Free Library & Opera House in Derby Line. 'traVEls WitH alDEN': The gallery celebrates what would have been the 100th birthday of its founder, Alden Bryan, with an exhibition of his plein-air works painted in 26 countries over 60 years. Through September 2 at Bryan Memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville. Info, 644-5100. triNE WilsoN: Floral photographs by the Vermont artist. Through September 30 at Jeff's Maine Seafood in St. Albans. Info, 355-4834.

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'art oF tHE aNiMal KiNGDoM xViii': More than 65 works of wildlife-based art featuring special guest artist Carel Brest van Kempen. Through August 25 at Bennington Center for the Arts. Info, 442-7158.

DorsEt tHEatEr FEstiVal art sHoW: Watercolors by Gloria Palmer and pastels by Ellen Questel and Penny Viscusi. Through August 31 at Dorset Playhouse. Info, 867-2223.

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loDiza lEPorE: "Circus on Broken Boulevard," photographs of porcelain figurines assembled in tableaux that confront themes such as child abuse, innocence, power and greed. Through September 18 at Bennington Museum. Info, 447-1571.

PEtEr MillEr: "A Lifetime of Vermont People," more than 60 years of imagery by the Vermont photographer, exhibited in anticipation of his forthcoming book of the same name. Through August 14 at Yester House Galleries, Southern Vermont Arts Center. Info, 362-1405. 'rED GrooMs: WHat's tHE rUCKUs': An exhibit spanning the artist's six-decade career and featuring several of his signature, large-scale, interactive sculptures, including a near life-size replica of a New York City bus, replete with a driver and passengers. Through October 20 at Brattleboro Museum & Art Center. Info, 257-0124. m

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MaD riVEr CraFt Fair: Artists are invited to apply to the juried 43rd Annual Craft Fair in Waitsfield, August 31 and September 1 (Labor Day weekend). Info, laura@madriver.com.

Color BliND B&W PHoto sHoW: Calling for submissions exploring the inability to distinguish one or more chromatic colors. Entry fee. Deadline: July 24, midnight. Juror: Matthew Gamber. Info, darkroomgallery.com/ex46.

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Deadline: July 31. 18 or older. Application at magichat.net/walltocanvas. oPEN GroUP sHoW at “CrEatiVE CoMP” First Friday of every month. $8 entry fee; limit one per artist. No rules; any size/media/subject.

Entries accepted Wednesday through first Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Opening reception on first Fridays, 6-9 p.m. People’s choice winner gets cash prize.

Exhibit up for the month. Location: Root Gallery at RL Photo, 27 Sears Lane, Burlington. For info, call 540-3081 or email publicartschool@gmail.com.

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Info and sign-up, theramble.org.

rEal liFE: DoCU-PHoto sHoW: Calling for submissions. Deadline: August 21, midnight. Juror: Saul Robbins. Images that document real life, that capture the truth. Info, darkroomgallery.com/ex47.

Friday, July 26th at 6:30pm.

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sHoW at tHE soDa PlaNt For art HoP: The annual exhibition, “Represent,” is curated by the S.P.A.C.E. Gallery to showcase 1 to 3 pieces of artwork that highlight the talents of each participant. Opening for the South End Art Hop, this three-month show features all media.

Options for membership are included in the form at spacegalleryvt.com.

in this year’s festival should apply to the Main Street Museum, Thursday through Sunday, 1-6 p.m.

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ames Wan’s 2004 breakthrough, Saw, was the definition of torture porn. His latest, on the other hand, is simply torture.

There’s a reason so many of The Conjuring’s reviews have described it as a throwback to horror films of the 1970s. The script

by Chad and Carey Hayes shamelessly appropriates tropes and motifs from a festival’s worth of those movies — and, in the case of one cheeseball chestnut, offers a virtual remake.

Tell me if I’m exaggerating. I’ll give you a rough outline and a few touches from the director’s new movie, and you can see how long it takes you to give me the title of the picture he’s ripping off. Ready? Go. Our story’s “based on actual events” and set in rural New England during the 1970s; it chronicles the terrifying experiences of the Perron family, which has just moved into a home already occupied by malevolent forces.

Be honest; you’ve already guessed it, right?

OK, on the off chance you were born without basic cable, I’ll throw you a few more bones. The family dog senses something sinister and won’t enter the premises.

The new residents discover a room sealed off in the basement. Something strange occurs

every night slightly after 3 a.m. Relations are strained as crazier and crazier shit happens.

The family finds the home has cold spots, objects fly off walls, doors open and slam on their own, the children awake to eerie noises in the night, people constantly smell poop where there isn’t any — and, as if you haven’t already surmised as much, the place was once the scene of a grisly crime. Congratulations, and welcome to The Amityville Horror 2.0. Literally every one of these elements is lifted verbatim from the 1979 hit.

Ron Livingston and Lili Taylor stand in for James Brolin and Margot Kidder. They’re appealing presences and capable actors, but even they can’t sell dialogue this hokey (“Whoa! That’s gonna take a lot of elbow grease!”) or period hairstyles that look like wigs left over from Behind the Candelabra — much less the picture’s derivative plotting.

In perhaps the least convincing performance of her career, Taylor’s forced to do her impression of demonic possession. Demeaning? You bet. Frightening? Not so much.

In time, the parents do what any responsible mother and father would. No, not move, but call in a team of paranormal investigators (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga in what are definitely the least convincing performances

REVIEWS of their careers). As fate — and decades of publicity seeking — would have it, the ghostbusting couple are Ed and Lorraine Warren, the supernatural self-promoters who — you guessed it — certified the Amityville home as haunted.

The authors of numerous books about their extrasensory exploits and the operators of their own Connecticut occult museum, the Warrens spent more than 20 years trying to get a movie deal for this story. Ed died trying, in 2006. Wan’s exercise in old-school chills fails not just because it doesn’t feature a single cheap trick we haven’t seen a hundred times before, but because it’s got too many central characters and too little focus.

PARANORMAL HACKTIVITY Wan recycles every haunted house cliché in the book, not to mention every movie in the genre made over the past 40 years.

Every time the filmmaker gets us halfway interested in what’s happening to the Perrons, the Warrens barge in blithering demonological nonsense. “Look at us,” they practically brag. “We’ve got eight-track machines that can hear ghosts.”

Which might have been super, if anyone living or dead in this movie had something interesting to say. Don’t hold your breath.

As long as he was helping himself to everything in sight, Wan should’ve borrowed Amityville’s tagline too: “For God’s Sake, Get Out!” Even better, do yourself a favor. Don’t go in the first place.

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Much Ado About Nothing ★★★★

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f you yearn for an old-school Hollywood romantic comedy, a new screen version of Much Ado About Nothing is reason to celebrate. When Shakespeare created the fast-talking Benedick and Beatrice, he practically wrote the template for the screwball setup of a gent and a dame who spar playfully (and sometimes angrily) to hide their true feelings for each other.

Recent rom coms have tried to capture that love-hate magic with less verbiage and more wacky setpieces, to no avail.

Granted, fans of the Bard may be leery of a Shakespeare adaptation directed by the creator of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” But, while Joss Whedon may not have a theater pedigree, his fans know he loves wordplay — and classic comedy. The filmmaker is known for gathering his favorite actors for chamber readings of Shakespeare.

Shot in 12 days at Whedon’s Santa Monica home, Much Ado is essentially a more elaborate version of those parties to which the public is invited. Its setting is the present, but its crisp black-and-white photography, sunny locale, music and some of the costumes evoke the screwball era. None of the actors are particularly well known outside Whedon fandom — with the possible exception of Nathan Fillion, star of “Castle” — but most show themselves remarkably capable of taking on Shakespeare’s text.

While that text hasn’t been changed, only abridged, Whedon has used nonver-

COURTING DISASTER Acker and Denisof play lovers who insist they’re not in love in Whedon’s Shakespeare adaptation.

bal choices to interpret and, at times, modernize it. He’s added slapstick and sex: Extreme purists may not be happy with the sight of henchman Conrade (now played by a woman, Riki Lindhome) making out with evil Don John (Sean Maher) while they plot revenge on the latter’s brother, Don Pedro (Reed Diamond).

A similar choice adds another layer to the “merry war” between Beatrice and Benedick (Amy Acker and Alexis Denisof ): They’re shown in bed together before the play proper begins. This time around, in short, Benedick’s oft-proclaimed disdain for mar-

riage is actually a failure to commit. When he returns after his early-a.m. exit to pay court to Beatrice’s uncle Leonato, governor of Messina (Clark Gregg), Beatrice’s mockery has an extra edge.

Acker does full justice to the role, whether she’s playing sparkling hostess, melancholy lover or enraged defender of her cousin, Hero (Jillian Morgese). Her transparent face and intelligent delivery elucidate the text whenever Shakespeare’s verbal ingenuity threatens to lose the viewer. Denisof also acquits himself well, though he’s defter with the physical comedy than the words.

The interpretation of Beatrice and Benedick’s relationship as sexual makes perfect sense in modern terms. But it causes implicit textual problems with the play’s other plot thread, in which Claudio (Fran Kranz) spurns Hero at the altar for the high crime of having (he mistakenly believes) relinquished her virginity to someone else.

This crisis is an awkward moment in modern productions — the point where the comedy curdles into a potential tragedy that, to us, may seem far too avoidable. Kranz saves it by playing Claudio not as a self-righteous prude but as a floundering, insecure lover who feels like he is the spurned one.

Likewise, Gregg manages to make Leonato’s paternal rage at Hero believable without losing the audience’s sympathy.

The broad comic subplot starring malapropism-prone Constable Dogberry — one of fiction’s worst cops — has the potential to get old fast. But the bumptious Fillion and Tom Lenk, as his frustrated sidekick, have a sly chemistry of contrasts that keeps it funny.

The movie brings to life a high-toned summer dreamland of clinking glasses, gauzy dresses, uniformed servants and hired trapeze artists — a place that exists in a dimensional rift between the Renaissance, the era of My Man Godfrey and now. It’s silly and delicious in equal parts, and it shows that Shakespeare’s “paper bullets of the brain” still hit their mark.

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(103 min, Pg-13. Roxy, Savoy) UNFiNisHeD soNg: terence Stamp plays a curmudgeonly widower who joins a local choir to honor his late wife’s love of music in this comedydrama. with Vanessa Redgrave, christopher Eccleston and gemma arterton. Paul andrew williams directed. (93 min, Pg-13. Roxy) tHe WolveRiNe: not to be confused with X-Men Origins: Wolverine! no, now the beclawed mutant superhero (hugh Jackman) is doing his fighty thing in present-day Japan, facing ninjas and the prospect of mortality. with Rila fukushima, will yun lee and famke Janssen. James (Knight and Day) Mangold directed. (136 min, Pg-13. Essex, Majestic, Roxy, Paramount, Palace, Stowe, Sunset.)

BeFoRe miDNigHtHHHHH: In Before Sunrise (1995), two young people played by Julie delpy and Ethan hawke met; in Before Sunset (2004), they got serious. In the final installment of writer-director Richard linklater’s trilogy about love and growing up, they’re committed — but that doesn’t mean the story’s over. with Seamus davey-fitzpatrick. (108 min, R. Roxy, Savoy) tHe coNJURiNgH: Vera farmiga plays a paranormal investigator who encounters a disturbingly powerful presence in a farmhouse in this horror flick based on a real case account. It supposedly scored an R rating for scares alone. with Patrick wilson and lili taylor. James (Insidious) wan directed. (120 min, R)

gRoWN Ups 2HHH: Once again, adam Sandler and his pals — Kevin James, chris Rock, david Spade — engage in not-so-grownup antics while their fictional wives watch in bemusement. In this sequel to the comedy hit, Sandler’s character confronts the past when he moves back to his hometown. dennis dugan again directs. (120 min, Pg-13) tHe HeAtHHHH: an uptight fbI agent is forced to partner with a free-wheeling boston cop in this buddy comedy starring Melissa Mccarthy and Sandra bullock. guess which one plays which? with demián bichir, Marlon wayans and Jane curtin.

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20 Feet FRom stARDomHHHH: background singers darlene love, Merry clayton and lisa fisher, who contributed their powerful vocals to a host of classic tracks, get their due in this documentary from director Morgan neville. (90 min, Pg-13)

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moNsteRs UNiveRsitYHHH: disney/Pixar’s sequel to Monsters, Inc. is actually a prequel: The animated adventure follows career “scarers” Mike and Sulley during their college days. with the voices of Steve buscemi, billy crystal and John goodman. dan Scanlon directed. (115 min, g) mUcH ADo ABoUt NotHiNgHHHH: do you love word play? are you kind of a geek? have you ever wanted to see capt. Malcolm Reynolds play Shakespeare’s dogberry? director Joss whedon obliges you with this version of the bard’s comedy set in modern la and starring amy acker, alexis denisof and nathan fillion. (109 min, Pg-13. Savoy) pAciFic RimHHHH: giant robots piloted by humans fight giant alien monsters in this big, loud, effects-heavy flick from … wait, Pan’s Labyrinth director guillermo del toro? we guess there’s a chance it’s not Transformers Redux. Idris Elba, charlie hunnam and Rinko Kikuchi star. (131 min, Pg-13)

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Pacific Rim 12:50, 3:40, 6:40, 9:20.

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ReD 2HH1/2: Audiences cottoned to the first action flick about retired secret agents kicking ass like folks half their age. So here comes the sequel, in which Bruce Willis gets the team together again to chase a rogue nuclear device. With John Malkovich, Helen Mirren and Anthony Hopkins.

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WHite HoUse DoWNHH1/2: One fictional terrorist attack on the White House wasn’t enough for American moviegoers? In the year’s second action movie on this theme, Channing Tatum is the tough guy protecting President Jamie Foxx from paramilitary baddies. With Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jason Clarke and Richard Jenkins. Roland (2012) Emmerich directed. (131 min, PG-13) WoRlD WAR ZHHH: We guess you already know that stands for “zombie.” Brad Pitt stars in a troubled adaptation of Max Brooks’ apocalyptic novel as a UN employee trying to oppose a worldwide plague. With Mireille Enos and Daniella Kertesz. Marc (Quantum of Solace) Forster directed. (118 min, PG-13)

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Ken Scott directed. (109 min, R) tRANceHHH James McAvoy plays an art auctioneer whose damaged brain holds the key to finding a lost painting, and Rosario Dawson is the hypnotherapist hired by thieves to retrieve it, in this thriller from Danny (127 Hours) Boyle. With Vincent Cassel. (101 min, R)

lfie Hopkins (Jaime Winstone, daughter of Ray) is not a cannibal hunter. Her title appears to have been added to the movie for U.S. video release, perhaps to hook “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” fans.

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She spends her time moping about her mom’s death, pretending to be a detective, and fending off the advances of her cute friend, Dylan (Aneurin Barnard), whom she sneeringly calls a “nerd” for checking police records and other stuff that detectives might actually do.

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Ontario police caught Jorden Morin, 25, driving a stolen vehicle 90 miles to a Toronto-area jail to serve his weekend jail sentence for assault. “It’s clear from the record, you are not getting the message of deterrence,” Judge Kevin Sherwood said after adding time to his sentence for violating probation and possession of stolen property. (Canada’s QMI Agency)

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The House Committee on Science, Space and Technology approved funding for NASA but specifically banned the agency from moving forward with President Obama’s proposed mission to capture an asteroid. It also sharply cut money to research climate change. The asteroid retrieval mission (ARM) would entail using an unmanned spacecraft to use a giant net to haul in an asteroid 20 to 30 feet wide and release it into an orbit around the moon. Astronauts would then examine the asteroid to learn how to develop ways to deflect any larger asteroid headed directly for Earth.

Denying that the party-line vote was an automatic anti-Obama response, Rep. Steven M. Palazzo, R-Miss., insisted that NASA’s priority should be human spaceflight: “launching American astronauts on American rockets from America.” (The Washington Post)

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After a Chinese court overturned prostitution charges against a Foshan hair salon whose staff provided sexual services, Chinese media and law enforcers began a national debate on whether sexual services that don’t involve actual sexual intercourse count as crimes. The Foshan Intermediate People’s Court ruled that oral sex and other types of sexual services facilitated by body parts excluding genitals fall outside the legal definition of prostitution. On its official microblog, however, the court urged the legislature to clarify the matter, noting that, though legal, such services “significantly damage social order and have a certain degree of social harm.”

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A Philadelphia dry cleaner began using a drone to deliver clothes to customers.

“I’m all about technology, and I see a lot of these cleaners, it’s so old school.

You come in and you just pick it up,” Harout Vartanian, 24, the owner of Manayunk Cleaners, said, explaining he converted an unmanned fourbladed DJI Phantom quadracopter, designed for taking aerial photography.

“We fly it to your house, it makes a noise, you pick it up, and that’s that.”

Vartanian said he doesn’t think Federal Aviation Administration guidelines on unmanned aircraft systems apply to him because it’s “just a toy” used to promote his business. (Philadelphia’s WCAU-TV)

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A grand jury in Butler County, Ohio, indicted Edwin Charles Tobergta, 34, after police reported he “stepped out of his back door, naked, and was having sexual relations with a rubber pool float … in front of several children who saw his genitals and his actions with the float.” It was not Tobergta’s first pool-toy encounter. In 2011, he was accused of having sex with a neighbor’s pool float, and in 2002, a woman told police he had sex with an inflatable pumpkin in her yard. (Cincinnati’s WLWT-TV)

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Former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, 94, is hoarding 38,000 menthol cigarettes because he fears the European Union might ban them.

Schmidt, who is allowed to smoke wherever and whenever he pleases, has stockpiled 200 cartons of Reyno, his preferred brand, enabling him to smoke a pack a day until he turns 100, according to Chancellor candidate Peer Steinbrück of Schmidt’s Social Democrats party, who revealed news of Schmidt’s stash while admitting he has his own stash of special French light bulbs that he fears the EU will ban.

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After evacuating flooded High River, Alberta, Royal Canadian Mounted Police seized “a large quantity of firearms” from vacated homes and set up a blockade at a checkpoint to keep out residents. “This,” resident Charles Timpano declared, pointing to the blockade, “is the reason the U.S. has the right to bear arms.” (Canada’s National Post)

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A bill introduced in Congress would create a U.S. national park on the moon. H.R. 2617 — “The Apollo Lunar Legacy Act” — identifies six Apollo landing sites with artifacts that could be pirated away “as spacefaring commercial entities and foreign nations begin to achieve the technical capabilities necessary to land spacecraft on the surface of the moon,” the bill’s cosponsor, Rep. Donna Edwards, D-Md., explained. Among the designated artifacts are the Eagle lunar lander’s descent and ascent stages, lunar exploration vehicles and three golf balls. (Brevard County’s Florida Today)

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be able to say sincerely, “I have tried in my way to be free.”

tauRus (April 20-May 20): “There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm,” wrote the novelist Willa Cather.

According to my reading of the astrological omens, taurus, you’re in a phase of your cycle when storm-learning isn’t your priority. The educational experiences you need most will unfold when you’re exploring the mysteries of peace and serenity. In fact, I suspect that the deeper you relax, the more likely it is that you will attract life-changing teachings — lessons that can transform your life for the better and fuel you for a long time.

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“I was 6 years old when my parents told me that there was a small, dark jewel inside my skull, learning to be me.” So said the Leo science fiction writer Greg Egan in his story “Learning to Be Me.” Let’s pretend that you, too, have a small dark jewel inside your skull that’s learning to be you. It’s a good metaphor for what I believe has been happening all these years: You have been gradually mastering the art of being the best Leo you can be. It hasn’t been easy. You weren’t born knowing how to be your beautiful, radiant, courageous self, but have had to work hard to activate your potentials. Now you’re moving into an especially critical phase of the process: a time when you have the chance to learn how to love yourself with greater ingenuity.

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(May 21-June 20): Is there a message you’ve wanted to deliver for a long time but haven’t been able to? Are you bursting with thoughts or feelings that you’ve been longing to express but can’t find the right way to do so? Have you spent months carrying around a poignant truth that you have felt wasn’t ripe enough to be revealed?

If your answer to any of those questions is yes, I believe the time will soon be at hand to make a move. but it’s important that you’re not impulsive or melodramatic as you initiate your breakthrough communications. for best results, be full of grace and balance.

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(Aug. 23-sept. 22): “Dear Astrology Guy: Please tell me why I have to work so hard — meditate, reflect, read, analyze, poke, prod, investigate — to discover truths about

liBRa (sept. 23-oct. 22): one of the world’s best race-car teams is McLaren. It wins about 25 percent of the events in which it competes.

Its skilled drivers account for much of its success, but its technicians are also pretty sensational. During a pit stop in the middle of a race, they can change all four tires on the car in less than three seconds. Do you have helpers like that, Libra? If you don’t, it’s time to intensify your efforts to get them. And if you do, it’s time to call on them to give you an extra boost. scoRPio (oct. 23-nov. 21): Let’s try an experiment. It’s risky, but I’m hoping you will do it with such flair that there will be no karmic blowback. What I propose, scorpio, is that you have fun expressing more confidence than usual. I invite you to strut a bit, even swagger, as you demonstrate your command over your circumstances. enjoy acting as if the world is your plaything … as if everyone around you secretly needs you to rise up and be a bigger, bolder version of yourself. The trick, of course, will be to avoid getting puffed up with grandiose delusions. your challenge is to be more wildly devoted to embodying your soul’s code without lapsing into arrogance. sagittaRius (nov. 22-Dec. 21): I suspect

that you are longing to take a quantum leap of faith but are also afraid to take that quantum leap of faith. you sense the potential of experiencing a very cool expansion, while at the same time you hesitate to leave your comfort zone and give up your familiar pain.

In light of the conflict, which may not be entirely conscious, I suggest you hold off on making a gigantic quantum leap of faith.

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My studied opinion: hell, no. The chances of you being bitten on the foot by a venomous spider lurking in your shoe are even less than the possibility that you will be abducted by an alien who looks like elvis Presley and forced to sing a karaoke version of beyonce’s “single Ladies” at an extraterrestrial bar. And if you are going around filled with delusional anxieties like that, you will definitely interfere with life’s current predilection, which is to give you a cleansing respite from your fears as well as immunity from harm.

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caNceR (June 21-July 22): bees and other insects can see ultraviolet light, which is invisible to humans. When they look at flowers, they detect designs on the petals that you and I cannot. for example, the evening primrose appears completely yellow to us, but it calls seductively to bees with a flashy star pattern at its center. Many of the secret signs that flowers offer the pollinators are meant to guide them to where the pollen and nectar are. Let’s use this as our metaphor of the week, Cancerian. I am not predicting that you will be able to perceive a broader spectrum of light. but I do believe you will discern cues and clues that are hidden from most people and that have been imperceptible to you in the past.

myself that must be obvious to others. Why is it so hard for me to see where I need healing and where I need to let go? Why is it such an ordeal to grasp what is interfering with my wholeness when I can quickly pinpoint what other people’s issues are? —“overworked Virgo.” Dear overworked: I’m happy to report that you Virgos will soon be offered a gush of revelations about who you are, how you can heal and what strategies will best serve your quest to minimize your anxiety.

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I recently sent my girlfriend a photo of my bulging junk in tight Jockeys. She wasn’t into it, though. She said women aren’t visual when it comes to sexual desire. However, she often compliments my rear end in tight pants — and she watches porn. Other women I know seem to be stimulated visually, at least somewhat. Am I missing something?

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First of all, your girlfriend shouldn’t be making grand statements about what women like and do not like. She’s not every woman, so how could she know? Certainly not every lady gets off on dick pics, but some of us (yours truly, for example) enjoy looking at the male form in all its glory. It would be far more constructive for your girlfriend to own her feelings: “Your crotch photos do nothing for me. Sorry.” Sure, your ego might get bruised, but at least she wouldn’t be blaming her indifference on a sweeping stereotype of women.

That said, I take issue with your comparison of dick pics to watching porn. How are they the same? Porno offers action, sounds, sweat (and sometimes bad dialog and cheesy ’70s music).

For your girlfriend, a static image of your junk in Jockeys simply doesn’t measure up to the excitement of porn.

As for her complimenting your derriere, she’s flirting with you! She obviously enjoys the view, but the interaction is more important to her than the visual — commenting on your posterior and watching your reaction is a turn-on for her.

She’s preparing you for the moment when she’ll slide those trousers off your tight tuckus. Again, it’s not about staring at your body part — her mind is titillated by the tête-à-tête.

My advice? Quit sending her pictures of your johnson and stimulate her mind instead. Be direct and ask her, “Okay, you don’t like pictures of my genitalia, so what could I send that would pique your interest?”

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