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Also on the journey: a Lil’ Bernie doll.

That’s the number of votes Sen. Patrick Leahy (DVt.) has cast to date in the U.S. Senate, making him No. 6 of all time. He’s likely to move up to fourth sometime next year, according to Vermont Public Radio.

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olice body cams are being touted nationwide as a way to shed light on law-enforcement encounters, and Burlington police said last year that officers would use them to record confrontations. They’d add trust and transparency, Chittenden State’s Attorney T.J. Donovan told Seven Days at the time. Yet on Monday, it became apparent that the devices are not foolproof.

Donovan held a news conference to announce that two Burlington officers who shot and wounded a police-threatening Colchester man had been cleared of criminal wrongdoing. There was an added detail, though: During a nighttime standoff outside the man’s trailer, officers turned off their body cams out of concern that the red lights on the devices would give them away in the darkness.

According to authorities, it all started when a family member reported that James Hemingway, 20, said he was going to hang himself. When police arrived, Hemingway threatened officers, and it appeared he had a rifle inside the trailer. He later drove a car toward police, and an officer opened fire. Hemingway stepped out of the vehicle and walked toward officers while reaching into his waistband, and officers again fired. Hemingway was found to have salad tongs in his pants and an air rifle in his car.

Hemingway disputes the police version of events, said his attorney, Ben Luna, adding: “My client had clearly surrendered.”

Meantime, Vermont Public Radio’s Taylor Dobbs checked a user manual for the body cams the Burlington police use and found out that the lights can be turned off — while the cameras operate.

Police released a statement in response, saying that the “department’s eagerness to field body cameras for the sake of increased accountability outpaced officers’ knowledge about how to use them.”

Further, the department’s statement said, “The state’s attorney’s concern that certain members of the department may have given the state police investigators inaccurate information about the capabilities of the camera deserves further review.”

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FIGHTING F-35S

[Re “Mitzvot Accomplished,” October 14]: Your article on Rabbi Chasan and his leadership of Ohavi Zedek Synagogue mentioned the 2013 open letter to U.S. senators Patrick Leahy and Bernie Sanders, Congressman Peter Welch, and Gov. Peter Shumlin, in which Chasan and 15 other area clergy and religious leaders expressed concern over the proposed basing of the F-35 stealth bomber/ fighter jet in Vermont.

These spiritual leaders beseeched our political representatives to advocate on behalf of the thousands of Vermonters who will be negatively affected by the planned F-35 basing, especially middle- and low-income, minority, and refugee populations. They urged the politicians to use their influence to withdraw Burlington from this first selection process and wait until the next round of basing, by which time the F-35s would have developed a track record on their impact on safety, health and property values.

Sadly, the politicians did not listen and they refused to meet with the clergy or any of those who would be impacted by the basing!

Then in February 2015, Rabbi Chasan and 45 other religious leaders again contacted these representatives to ask for a delay in the basing. “Common sense would direct the placement of these planes to airports with far fewer people in the vicinity; far fewer children whose young ears would be blasted, their learning disrupted,” Chasan said.

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And again they were ignored. Shame on our elected officials for refusing to even discuss the clergy’s concerns about the morality and the social justice impacts of the F-35 on the poor and marginalized.

My sincere gratitude and heartfelt appreciation to Rabbi Chasan for repeatedly speaking out about this planned injustice to our residential communities.

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[Re Off Message: “Protesting Exxon, Bill McKibben Arrested at Burlington Gas Station,” October 15; Last 7: “McKibben: Exxon Knew,” October 21]: Bill McKibben’s one-man stand in downtown Burlington, protesting Exxon’s decades-old, milesdeep and Biblical-scale lies about understanding the dynamics of climate change, was beautiful in its simplicity and symbolic in its insistence on an investigation. If we can spend tens of millions, and focus endless talk, on Benghazi and on Hillary Clinton’s emails, when will we spend millions and countless hours on showing Exxon as the venomous corporation that it was, is and will continue to be unless unveiled and taken to the collective slammer of public opinion and indignation?

Exxon’s crime is a robbery of our planet’s future. Let’s investigate.

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We appreciate Kevin J. Kelley’s mention of our efforts to keep Burlington Telecom locally owned and operated [WTF: “What’s Happening With Burlington Telecom?”

October 21]. However, we would like to clarify some points in the article.

In fact, we have not just “200 members who have paid a minimum of $10 to have a say in its construction” but close to 500 members, all of whom have pledged at least $250 each. We haven’t asked for that money because we don’t need it until we have a deal with the City of Burlington.

Until then, all we have asked of our members is the minimum we need in order to put together an offer to present to the city.

Will the pledge money of 500 members buy Burlington Telecom? Of course not.

No more than the pledge money of Onion River Co-op members bought them a new store in downtown Burlington. There will be other financing involved. In the end, we believe that we can demonstrate to the city that co-op ownership of BT will best serve the interests of subscribers, taxpayers and our community.

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I was deeply disappointed to see the Vermont Fish & Wildlife commissioner quoted saying something clearly untrue in order to defend the cruel practice of trapping [“Activists Want Measures to Keep Pets Safe From Traps,” October 21].

According to the story, he said, trapping is not “indiscriminate.” Not only was my sweet dog Foxy caught in a leg-hold trap intended to catch a coyote, the department’s own information documents nontarget animals, including endangered species, caught in these traps.

The very conservative American Veterinary Medical Association opposes the type of leg-hold trap used in Vermont because of its indiscriminate nature. Not to Alan Wagener put too fine a point on it, but even the presiBURLINGTON dent of the Vermont Trappers Association, who was featured in the story, acknowlWagener is a member of the Keep edged: “I’ve caught lots of dogs in traps.”

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A day or two after Foxy was caught, I went back to see if the trap was still there.

It was, and in it was a two-and-a-half REDSTONE CHALLENGE pound raven — not even in the same genus, Eric Farrell blew it [Off Message: “Redstone family, order or class as a coyote, and onePitches Large Apartment Building in Old tenth the size. Unfortunately, a licensed North End,” October 29]. He could have wildlife rehabilitator determined its leg was donated the orphanage land to the city, broken, and the animal had to be euthanized. created another wonderful public park, Enough already. It’s time for an honest preserved it as a teaching resource for dialogue about how to mitigate the negaBurlington College and given his extended tive impacts of trapping in Vermont. family permanent recognition in the Jenny Carter Burlington community. He didn’t.

RANDOLPH CENTER Redstone has a chance to make up for Farrell’s failure of nerve, generosity and CORRECTIONS long-sightedness. Fifty “units” of mostly Due to a production error, the movie unaffordable housing. Nobody needs it, review of The Look of Silence was but there’s a sucker born every minute, paired with a still from the film The and Redstone is positioned to sell him or Assassin. her the moon — and the view.

For Redstone, the real opportunity is to Last week’s “Grave Concerns,” create the beautiful public mini park that misidentified a cemetery damaged this site wants to be. Redstone should give it during a car chase. That cemetery is to the Old North End community in recogin Rutland. nition of all the profits that the community has already generated for them, and out of a sense of pride in what Redstone has done — and plans to do — for the larger Burlington community, permanent and transient.

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A First-Time Drug O˜ ender Gets 10 Years: Is It Racism?

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Trick or Treat?

Sanders Tries Out New Style in N.H.

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Doctor Yes: Vermont Improvises to Attract Physicians Excerpts From O˜ Message

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Former Blue Man Isaac Eddy Takes a New Role at Johnson State College

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Photographer Peter Miller Reinvents Himself as an Airbnb Host

War Comes Home

Books: ˜ e Hummingbird, Stephen P. Kiernan

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Becoming Christine

Business: Transgender Vermont Electric Co-op CEO prepares to walk into work as a woman

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BY DAN BOLLES

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BY ETHAN DE SEIFE

BY TERRI HALLENBECK

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Jayme Stone’s Lomax Project Is an Origin Story for American Popular Music

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Culture: NEK teens who stutter seek connections and understanding

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COVER DESIGN REV. DIANE SULLIVAN

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I witnessed the grace of bounding deer, the speed and backward dart of crawfish, the song of migrating birds, and the crafty silence of a weary turkey. I watched sportsmen bring them home after successful hunts, in awe of the ability to understand and capture these creatures. I sat around the dinner table and heard tales of their demise. I listened to all this, and learned.

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I must have been 8 or 9 years old when my father bought me my first Daisy BB gun. Just holding it made me feel trusted, and more grown-up. Initially, I’d come home from school and spend the evening after dinner in our cellar. Lying prone, plugging a cardboard box with mini-musket balls, I talked to myself and imagined a real hunt. I learned how to exhale and hold it, to steady a shot. I learned to respect the business end of a gun. I learned how to be alone.

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Food for Thought Filmmakers Jen Rustemeyer and Grant Baldwin want Americans to quit trashing food. ° eir 2014 documentary, Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story, exposes the widespread practice of scrapping perfectly edible sustenance for superficial reasons.

A screening at ArtsRiot comes complete with treats from Miss Weinerz and an introduction to local groups committed to revolutionizing consumption.

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Motivated by conversations with his veteran father, Peter Sorensen (pictured), Soren Sorensen’s 2015 documentary My Father’s Vietnam uses rare photos and 8mm video footage to illustrate the effects of armed conflict. ° is Veterans Day, viewers have three chances to see the film, shown in conjunction with the release of Loring M. Bailey Jr.’s book Calm Frenzy: One Man’s Vietnam War.

Fans of the behind-the-scenes-style humor of Tina Fey’s “30 Rock” will love ArtistTree ° eatre’s production of Laughter on the 23rd Floor, written by Neil Simon. Based on the playwright’s time as a staff writer for the 1950s television program “Your Show of Shows,” this semiautobiographical comedic drama has audience members in stitches with reallife observations from the entertainment industry.

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Portrait of the Past ° e Brian McCarthy Nonet examines American history through the lens of jazz music in the program “° e Better Angels of Our Nature.” Titled after a phrase in Abraham Lincoln’s first inaugural address, this collection of songs features popular American Civil War-era tunes and original numbers inspired by the period.

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or months, the union representing state workers has been battling Gov. PETER SHUMLIN’s administration over a new two-year contract.

Next winter, when legislators return to Montpelier — and face an eight-figure budget hole — they’ll surely consider cutting state jobs, as they did last session.

So what’s the Vermont State Employees’ Association doing to protect its 5,500 members? Why, engaging in a bitter, internal leadership fight, of course!

On Friday, a group of VSEA staffers called on the union’s board of trustees to oust executive director STEVE HOWARD. Analyst ADAM NORTON, who represents those staffers in a union within the union, presented the trustees with a letter saying they had decided “overwhelmingly to cast a vote of no confidence in the leadership of VSEA’s executive director.”

The letter, obtained by Seven Days, levels a harsh indictment of Howard’s 16 months on the job. It describes the union boss as “divisive,” “defensive,” “condescending,” and unwilling “to listen, consider and thoughtfully discuss the opinions of his staff.”

The board, which was meeting for the first time since the election of a new president and several new trustees, considered a resolution to dump Howard when his contract expires in June.

Instead, the trustees tabled the discussion until their January meeting.

On Sunday, Howard defended himself in his own letter to the board, arguing that he’s been working to build “a more accountable, transparent and responsive union.” He wrote that he was “surprised” that the board had broken with its usual practice of allowing the accused to hear the allegations of his accuser.

“From my perspective, I am the one who is being disrespected,” Howard wrote.

Both Norton and Howard declined Seven Days’ requests for comment.

VSEA spokesman DOUG GIBSON wouldn’t say much more.

“This is an internal union matter,” Gibson said in a written statement. “All parties are working together to try and resolve any issues or concerns.”

But according to half a dozen people with knowledge of the situation, Friday’s fracas was just the latest flare-up between two competing factions within the organization: those who want a more aggressive,

member-focused union, and those who want to work strategically with political leaders to protect state jobs.

If this sounds familiar, that’s because it’s all happened before. Two years ago, complaints from VSEA employees prompted the board to fire Howard’s predecessor, MARK MITCHELL. Days later, it reinstated him. Mitchell ended up staying on the job for another 10 months before leaving of his own volition.

Here’s the difference: Mitchell, a lifelong union activist, represented the more aggressive wing of the union and enjoyed antagonizing the Shumlin administration and legislative leaders.

Howard, who hails from the strategic faction, is cut from a different cloth. The lifelong Democrat represented Rutland in the Vermont House for 12 years, chaired the Vermont Democratic Party and ran for lieutenant governor in 2010.

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When the administration threatened to cut more than 300 state jobs last session, Howard used his Statehouse relationships to protect most of them, agreeing to an early retirement incentive instead.

According to Howard’s supporters, hard-liners on the board and staff are conspiring to ax him so they can replace him with one of their own: former organizing director KRISTIN WARNER, who resigned from the union last week.

In her own letter to the board last Thursday, Warner wrote that she had been “marginalized and dismissed” by Howard.

“I have chosen to leave VSEA because it has become increasingly clear, under the current staff leadership, that I am no longer able to do the work in this union that I was brought here to do,” she wrote. “The progress made over the last three years stands in great jeopardy.”

Warner also declined to speak to Seven Days, but in a brief written statement, she said, “There is no attempted coup against Steve Howard. My choice to leave VSEA is not newsworthy.”

Maybe not. But it certainly is newsworthy that the union charged with fighting for state workers is expending

so much energy fighting with itself. We’ll see if there’s any left for its members.

He’s Syri-ous PETER GALBRAITH returned to Townshend on Monday after a brief trip to the Syrian towns of Qamishli and Amuda, near the Turkish border. The freelance diplomat had been offering Kurdish leaders “advice and guidance on how to negotiate,” should Syrian President BASHAR AL-ASSAD agree to talks to end his country’s four-year-old civil war.

“Do you know the No. 1 reason people don’t succeed in negotiations? Because they don’t know what they want,” Galbraith observed, adding, “This also applies to the Vermont legislature.”

That insight might come in handy if the former two-term state senator runs for governor next year, as he told VTDigger.org’s MARK JOHNSON last week he was “leaning strongly” toward doing.

Why on earth would he do that?

“I don’t see that many of the issues I think ought to be addressed are being addressed,” he said, citing his desire for tax reform, health care reform and limits on large-scale renewable energy projects.

But surely the former ambassador to Croatia and son of economist JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH has better things to do than slum it in the Statehouse, where many of his ex-colleagues found him to be anything but diplomatic. Halfway through his conversation with Seven Days, another phone rang. It was Al Jazeera, hoping to talk to him about his “friend” AHMED CHALABI, the Iraqi politician who pushed the U.S. to topple SADDAM HUSSEIN. Chalabi died Tuesday.

When Seven Days goaded Galbraith and suggested that he wouldn’t actually challenge former transportation secretary SUE MINTER, former senator MATT DUNNE and House Speaker SHAP SMITH (D-Morristown) for the Democratic nomination, he shot back, “You’re wrong.”

Though he self-funded his previous campaigns, Galbraith said he would limit his personal investment in this one, so long as his opponents declined contributions from corporations, lobbyists and political action committees, which they’ve all said they would not do.

“I’m a practitioner of mutual restraint, not unilateral disarmament,” he said.

Don’t expect a quick decision about Galbraith’s plans.

“I guess I’m old-fashioned, but I somehow don’t see the need for 18-month campaigns for a 24-month job,” he said. “I don’t think people are paying attention.”

Quote Notes Six months into Sen. BERNIE SANDERS’ (IVt.) improbably successful presidential run, Burlingtonians appear to be growing accustomed to the hordes of national reporters searching for the real Bernie Sanders.

So when CBS News’ JIM AXELROD was spotted in the Queen City on Monday, the only surprise was that he was joined

by Sanders, who is an infrequent visitor these days.

Axelrod was just the latest of his breed to descend upon the state, in search of a dateline — and a scoop. There was the New York Observer reporter who tailed Sanders at Brattleboro’s Strolling of the Heifers parade; the Guardian reporter who hunkered down in his mayoral archives at the University of Vermont; and the New York Times reporter who asked for Sanders impersonations in a line for DAVE CHAPPELLE tickets outside the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts.

The countless recent Sanders profiles feature quotations from many of the same characters: brother LARRY SANDERS, longtime friends HUCK GUTMAN and RICHARD SUGARMAN, adversaries PETER DIAMONDSTONE and RICH TARRANT, the occasional ex-alderman, and, of course, the local political scientist.

“I’ve already given, what, 60 friggin’ interviews?” University of Vermont professor GARRISON NELSON exclaims. “Five this week!”

Clearly the national media have learned that Nelson, who has taught at UVM for 48 years and known Sanders for 40 of them, is always good for a colorful quote.

“Bernie’s the last person you’d want to be stuck on a desert island with,” he told the New Yorker’s MARGARET TALBOT. “Two weeks of lectures about health care, and you’d look for a shark and dive in.”

The cantankerous prof says he doesn’t mind fielding calls from the national media but “get[s] tired of the same questions.” He says he’ll no longer answer those concerning Sanders’ gun control record, alleging that he’s been “misrepresented, misquoted.”

“I spent a lot of time with the Washington Post, during which I

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supporter, he says, “My first rule of thumb has been to tell the truth but do no harm.”

Another Sanders chronicler, STEVE ROSENFELD, has been far more reticent.

After serving as the candidate’s press secretary during his 1990 campaign, the former Addison County Independent reporter penned what he calls “the only non-sycophantic book out there about Bernie.”

Rosenfeld declined to rerelease Making History in Vermont this year, he says, in part because the original publisher went out of business and he’s not sure who now owns the copyright. He says he also doesn’t want to “rekindle these old fights.” When the book first came out, in 1992, Sanders and his allies bashed Rosenfeld for violating their trust and getting some facts wrong.

“My book is ancient history. It’s not relevant to today’s campaign,” Rosenfeld says. “And the bottom line is, what Bernie is doing is really good for the country by raising the issues he’s raising, and I don’t want to get in the way of that.”

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The Montpelier native and son of longtime Associated Press bureau chief CHRIS GRAFF made a name for himself in the Beltway as founding editor of FishbowlDC and, at age 28, the ludicrously young editor of Washingtonian magazine. He joined Politico in July 2014 and spent the last 10 months as editor of Politico Magazine.

Last week, Graff announced via social media that he’s leaving the mag — and D.C. — and moving to Burlington, where he and his wife, KATHERINE, have bought a house.

“It’s always been where my heart is, and it’s the place that made me the person that I am today,” he says of his home state. “Plus, of course, Vermont today is the most exciting and vibrant it’s ever been.”

So what exactly does Graff plan to do in his new, old home?

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basically explained how the [National Rifle Association] did not elect Bernie Sanders,” Nelson says. “What’s the headline? ‘How the NRA Elected Bernie Sanders!’”

The next time a Post reporter asked him for an interview, Nelson recalls, “I basically said she can eat shit, as far as I’m concerned.”

Nelson’s been through this all before — when former governor HOWARD DEAN was surging toward the Democratic presidential nomination in late 2003.

Back then, he found himself explaining to national reporters that Dean was actually a moderate-to-conservative governor, not the liberal firebrand into which he’d evolved.

“I said the Howard Dean you saw on the campaign trail is not the Howard Dean who governed Vermont for 11 years, for which your newspaper bashed the shit out of me,” Nelson says, referring to the work of the late Seven Days columnist PETER FREYNE. LAUREN-GLENN DAVITIAN, executive director of CCTV Center for Media & Democracy, remembers well when national Republicans swooped in and bought copies of every Dean tape in Channel 17’s archives. After the Dean campaign and the New York Times followed suit, the Times’ KATHARINE Q. SEELYE wrote a story quoting the gov praising rival GEORGE W. BUSH years earlier and touting his own conservative credentials.

Now that Sanders is running for president, Davitian hasn’t noticed similar interest in the organization’s archive of 880 Sanders tapes dating back to the early ’80s.

“We haven’t had a lot of people coming in to look at the archives,” she says. “There’s nothing to find. I mean, Bernie’s said the same thing since ’82.

There are not skeletons, because that’s just the way he is: consistent.”

Another frequent source for national writers is GREG GUMA, a local journalist and 2015 mayoral candidate who wrote one of the few books in existence about the candidate: The People’s Republic: Vermont and the Sanders Revolution. He says he’s hawked plenty of copies since the campaign began.

Guma claims he’s had “real misgivings” about his many media appearances, which have included two Skype interviews with CNN from his Maple Street apartment. As a Sanders

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hen Shamel Alexander was arrested in Bennington in 2013, he had almost a half ounce of heroin but no criminal record, gang ties or history of violent behavior. His Brooklyn family was supportive, and prison officials had deemed the 25-year-old African American man to be at low risk of reoffending. Had he been charged in the federal court system, based on federal sentencing guidelines, Alexander would have gone to jail for no more than a year.

Instead, a Bennington Superior Court judge sent Alexander to prison for 10 years, with no prospect for early release.

Alexander’s case was barely noted at the time, and it was quickly forgotten, one of hundreds that grind through the courts every year. But in the two years since Alexander was sentenced, concerns about the fairness of the criminal justice system — notably lengthy prison sentences for nonviolent criminals — have gained traction both nationally and in Vermont. This week, U.S. correctional facilities released more than 6,000 federal prisoners earlier than scheduled — the result of a growing consensus that penalties for nonviolent drug crimes have been too harsh.

Last week, the Vermont Supreme Court heard an appeal of Alexander’s case, during which lawyers cited some of the public-policy concerns making national news in hopes of freeing an inmate. That almost never happens in Vermont courtrooms.

Alexander’s lawyers say that he was subjected to racial bias. They are challenging both the legality of the traffic stop that led to his arrest — which they describe as classic racial profiling — and the sentence handed down by Judge Cortland Corsones. During a sentencing hearing, the judge repeatedly warned of the dangers of drug dealers from “Brooklyn and Bed-Stuy,” rhetoric that Vermont Supreme Court Justice Marilyn Skoglund described as potential racial “dog-whistle code words.”

A white Vermonter convicted of a similar offense to Alexander’s, lawyers argued in court papers, would never have received such a sentence.

“It’s a call to the Supreme Court, and by extension the trial bench, to be mindful that we all have implicit biases and to try to keep them in check,” said Robert Appel, a Burlington attorney who

participated in Alexander’s appeal. “It’s wrong in so many ways. It’s not equal justice under the law.”

President Barack Obama has spoken forcefully about the uneven treatment of minorities in criminal cases, and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has called on prosecutors and legislators to eliminate long sentences for “low-level offenders.”

Locally, several recent studies have uncovered evidence of racial bias in the Vermont criminal justice system.

Black people constitute 1.2 percent of Vermont’s population but nearly 11 percent of Vermont’s inmate population, according to the Department of Corrections. Black people in Vermont were 4.36 times more likely to be arrested for marijuana possession or dealing than white people, the American Civil Liberties Union reported in 2013. A 2012 Vermont State Police report found that nonwhite drivers were more likely to get a ticket than white drivers when pulled over. They’re more likely to be searched, too, even though searches of white drivers more often turned up evidence of a crime.

“In Vermont, we think, because there are so few minorities here, that one guy getting stopped and getting a high sentence, we think it’s only one person,” Vermont ACLU executive director Allen Gilbert said. Challenging Vermont’s “sense of exceptionalism,” he said, “There are lots of examples like this, where black people are treated in ways that seem disproportionate to the kinds of sentences white people would get for the same behavior.”

On the night of July 11, 2013, Alexander took a cab from Albany, N.Y., to Bennington, and told the driver to drop him at a Chinese restaurant on Main Street. In Bennington, the cabbie got lost before he reached his destination and, at a red light, asked a driver in the opposite lane for directions.

Unbeknownst to the cabbie, the other driver was an undercover Bennington police officer, Peter Urbanowicz, who worked for the Southern Vermont Drug Task Force.

Urbanowicz gave the cabbie directions to the restaurant, then alerted an on-duty Bennington police officer, Andy Hunt, who happened to be nearby.

The cab, Urbanowicz told Hunt, “would probably be a good traffic stop, if [you] could find him doing something wrong,” according to court records.

Urbanowicz added that the cab was from New York, and there was an “African American male in that vehicle.”

Police would later testify that informants told them that a large black man called “Sizzle” was rumored to be coming to Bennington from out of state to deal drugs. He was traveling with a female companion.

Hunt tailed the cab and pulled it over, telling the driver he had been stopped because he had a GPS device stuck to his windshield, a minor traffic violation.

The officer ran the identities of both the driver and Alexander. He learned that Alexander, who was heavyset and had no outstanding warrants for his arrest, went by “Snacks,” which did not match the nickname of the man they were looking for. Also, he was alone.

Nonetheless, Hunt called for backup, ordered the driver out of the car and began asking him about his fare. The cabbie said there had been nothing remarkable or suspicious about him. Hunt

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en. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) was partway through his 45-minute stump speech in front of an overflow crowd at the Warner Town Hall in New Hampshire on Saturday when three kids in Halloween costumes came trooping in with their parents and slipped into seats that had hurriedly been vacated for them.

A short time later, the presidential candidate introduced the crew as his son, Levi Sanders, daughter-in-law Raine Riggs and grandchildren Sunnee, Ryleigh and Grayson, who live in Claremont, N.H. As he finished his speech, Sanders called them onto the stage for a quick photo op.

Six months into his presidential campaign, the upstart candidate dubbed a “grumpy grampa” is tweaking his image.

In New Hampshire, he was hell-bent on showing people he’s human.

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Sanders is still delivering the impassioned doom-and-gloom stump speech about economic inequality, but he is also fiercely defending himself against criticisms that his solutions are too outlandish and he’s not sufficiently personable.

A Saturday New York Times article described Sanders walking down the street in Manhattan, “talking as little as possible to people.” The reporter went on to note something Vermonters know well: “To Mr. Sanders … political schmoozing is a phony business, and anathema to his total focus on weighty isses.”

For his campaign strategists, such perceptions signal it’s not enough that Sanders is dancing on the “Ellen DeGeneres Show” and dropping in on the “Today” show. He’s also got to let the world see him trick-or-treating with adorable grandkids.

At New Hampshire’s Lebanon High School, Sanders opened his speech to a crowd of more than 1,000 by riffing on

Sen. Bernie Sanders trick-or-treating with his grandchildren in Lebanon, N.H.

comedian Larry David’s “Saturday Night Live” imitation of him. “The media think I do not have a sense of humor,” Sanders suggested. “My name is Larry David, and I am impersonating Bernie Sanders,” he said without changing anything about his delivery. “So there it is. I have a sense of humor, OK?” By the end of the weekend, Sanders had also released his first television ad of the campaign, an upbeat introductory piece that ends with a female narrator intoning: “Bernie Sanders. Husband, father, grandfather. An honest leader building a movement with you, to give us a future to believe in.”

Sanders’ counterpunch to the criticism that he’s just too gruff also came Saturday in the form of the Abominable Snowman, the White Witch and Sonic the Hedgehog — the costumes Levi’s three children were sporting for Halloween.

After the Lebanon speech, Sanders joined them on a trick-or-treating excursion — with Washington Post and ABC reporters in tow. The TV coverage showed him walking alone ahead of the children at one point and handing out

half-hearted waves and handshakes to parents and other passersby. Try as he might, Sanders really is awkward at the real-person thing.

“It’s amazing to see you out here. I was shocked,” one man said, according to a pool report provided by Post reporter John Wagner.

“I’m trick-or-treating, you know,” Sanders replied.

For the 74-year-old candidate, who is just three months from first-in-thenation primary votes, Halloween was also a long day of serious campaigning.

As he made stops in Concord, Warner and Lebanon, Sanders was still vintage Sanders. Riding shotgun in the Ford Fusion owned and piloted by longtime aide Phil Fiermonte, Sanders kept up the same exhausting town-to-town, hall-to-hall pace and pounded out the familiar antiestablishment message that has marked his political career.

“We have seen trillions of dollars go from working families to the top onetenth of 1 percent,” he told the crowd of 400 packed in the Warner Town Hall, while another 300 listened out on the

lawn. “We should not have that kind of wealth inequality.”

But with the stakes growing ever higher on the national stage, Sanders’ campaign also appeared increasingly image-conscious. In Warner, as the audience filed into the town hall, a volunteer approached two twentysomething men. “Can I have you on the stage? I need some more young people,” she told them.

They were among the group that provided a fresh-faced backdrop for Sanders as he delivered his subsequent, televised speech.

The candidate did not, as promised last month, explain Democratic socialism to his Saturday audiences; spokesman Michael Briggs said a speech on that subject is coming in the next few weeks. But along with decrying income inequality, Sanders made time to address related criticisms, emphasizing that his ideas aren’t as out there as some suggest.

“It is not a radical idea to say that instead of cutting Social Security, we’re going to raise Social Security,” he preached in Warner. “It’s not utopian to

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say that in the United States of America, we should join the rest of the industrialized world and guarantee health care as a right, not a privilege.”

When an eighth-grader asked the candidate about school violence, Sanders seized on the chance to discuss gun control — and defend himself against rival Hillary Clinton. He thanked the kid for the question and argued that he stood up to gun lobbyists when he lost his 1988 bid for Congress and didn’t change his position in 1990, the year he won. Then he came out fighting against Clinton’s recent claim that he was sexist for saying she was shouting about gun violence. (“It’s just when women talk, some people think we’re shouting,” Clinton said.)

“Sometimes my words have been mischaracterized,” Sanders told the Warner audience, his own voice rising. “I have said that as a nation, we have got to stop shouting at each other on this issue, that

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I believe there is a broad consensus, not of everybody, but of the vast majority of the American people, for sensible and important gun-show legislation.”

To many in the audience, Sanders was shouting all the right messages, with no need to tweak a word — or his personal style.

Alayna Josz introduced Sanders in Warner. She said politics had never mattered to her — a Champlain College alumna who grew up in in

New Hampshire and returned there after graduation. “No politician seemed to share my views or even use words I understood,” Josz said. “[Sanders] has changed everything for me.”

Vermonters Arwen and Alex Farrell of Norwich crossed the border to hear the candidate in Lebanon, N.H., on Halloween evening. “I’m drowning in debt,” Arwen Farrell said. “We both have multiple degrees. Our jobs don’t pay enough.”

As the young couple slipped out

the door at the end of Sanders’ speech, Farrell said she’s been “amazed” at his campaign’s success. In spite of Clinton’s climb in the polls, she said, she has no sense that Sanders is fading.

Barbara Lurie of White River Junction also liked what she heard. “I believe in everything he believes in,” she said, wearing a Sanders campaign sticker. But Sanders hadn’t quite sealed the deal for Lurie — and it had nothing to do with his sense of humor.

“I’m a little worried whether he would be able to win the election,” she said.

That night, after the crowd dispersed, Sanders zipped back to his home in Burlington’s New North End. That’s where WCAX caught him on camera, this time greeting trick-or-treaters — and a second set of grandchildren — at his own front door.

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hree days a week, Dr. Brent White mends hernias, removes gallbladders, slices out sections of bowel and excises skin lesions at Mt. Ascutney Hospital and Health Center, a 35-bed facility on a hillside outside of Windsor.

The 41-year-old general surgeon is an increasingly rare breed in medicine, one who eschewed a surgical subspecialty in favor of “doing a little bit of everything,” he said. He considered eye surgery while in medical school at Duke University but decided against it: “It is so confining.

You almost lose sight of the rest of the human being.”

White is also unusual in that he chose to work at one of Vermont’s smallest hospitals and in a field — general surgery — in which the number of doctors is declining.

In the hospital’s deserted cafeteria last Wednesday, White said he came to Mt. Ascutney in February 2013 after four years in Cooperstown, N.Y. He is actually an employee of Dartmouth-Hitchcock medical center in New Hampshire, the teaching hospital where he did his residency.

If Mt. Ascutney had tried to recruit him on its own for a general surgical position, White said he would have declined. “It would have limited my ability to take care of sicker people,” he said, noting that he can do more complicated procedures on his patients knowing he has backup at Dartmouth, 20 miles away. He also gets to consult with peers at the larger, more sophisticated hospital and its affiliated medical school, where White is on the faculty.

What is the next generation of doctors looking for? Dressed in a white coat over blue surgical scrubs, White said, “People want collegiality, and it is hard to expect people to carry a pager every night.”

“People” includes some administrators. Mt. Ascutney’s CEO of five years, Kevin Donovan, is also a DartmouthHitchcock employee.

Such arrangements might be what it takes for rural Vermont hospitals to attract the right doctors — and enough of them — in the future. A study released in March by the Association of American Medical Colleges predicted a national shortage of 46,000 to 90,000 physicians by 2025, especially in the areas of primary care and general surgery.

The national trend is confirmed by the Vermont Department of Health, which surveys doctors every two years, when

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they renew their licenses. Its yet-to-be released 2014 report indicates that psychiatry and general surgery have been harder hit than other fields. Since 2010, the state has also experienced reductions in the number of primary-care doctors and those in certain specialties, such as urology.

Explanations for the local shortages range from doctor demographics to fear of health care reform.

Between surgeries on a recent morning, Dr. Mark Plante, chief of urology at the University of Vermont Medical Center, recalled a sharp decline in the number of doctors in his field in Vermont a few years ago. Ten left the state in rapid succession. Suggesting that “You have to have a reason to come to Vermont,” because it means “taking a pay cut,” Plante said, “There’s more money to be made in other states.” He said one urologist doubled his salary by moving to North Dakota.

He added, “I don’t want any of my statements to suggest I’m crying poverty, because I’m not.”

Plante said several of those departing urologists relocated because of worries about the state’s planned move to a government-financed health system — an initiative subsequently abandoned by Gov. Peter Shumlin.

“I’m Canadian. I believe in the universality of access to health care,” said Plante, a Montréal native, who received his medical training at McGill University and came to Vermont to practice and teach in 1996.

But the many unknowns associated with the untried system proposed in Vermont spooked some doctors, he said: “They didn’t want to be caught with seismic change that wasn’t national.”

Plante said he has recruited doctors for all the vacancies at UVM Medical Center, which provides urologists to Central Vermont Medical Center, Porter Medical Center, Northwestern Medical Center and North Country Hospital. But it took time. His most recent recruit replaced an urologist who left three years ago.

The shortage of primary care in Vermont isn’t as dire as it is elsewhere.

That’s in part because the total number of practitioners has increased, if you count advance practice nurses, midwives and physician assistants among them, as does a 2013 report by the Area Health Education Centers Program.

Dr. Charles MacLean, associate dean for primary care at the UVM College of Medicine, characterized the state’s current primary-care workforce as “pretty stable” but acknowledged, “It could be bigger and have everyone be busy.”

Particularly outside of Chittenden County, family doctors are at risk of becoming an endangered species — in part because of their senior status. A quarter of the primary-care workforce in seven of 14 counties was older than age 60 in 2010, according to a physician survey conducted by the health department.

Dr. David Coddaire, a family-medicine physician at Morrisville Family Health Care and president of the Vermont Medical Society, predicted that a wave of retirements could create problems.

“I’m over 60,” he said, “but I remember a time when all the primary-care people here were referred to as kids. I wonder what is going to happen here.”

Data from the soon-to-be released physician survey reveals that percentages of older doctors were even higher for neurologists, ophthalmologists and psychiatrists.

Dr. Mark Schultz, a psychiatrist who has practiced in Chittenden County since completing his residency at UVM in 1984, said patients already struggle to get appointments with psychiatrists.

During the past decade he has turned down about 250 people a year because he was already fully booked.

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LIVE AT THE FLYNN! an email sent while he was vacation — one colleague said it’s exceedingly rare for him to get away. “But there is literally nobody I can identify to refer my patients to,” said Schultz. He sends some stable patients to their primarycare physicians for treatment, and he spends one afternoon a month assisting an internal-medicine practice by treating patients who couldn’t get in to see psychiatrists. “This is clearly a plan-B, stopgap solution,” he said.

There is no clear reason for the shortage of psychiatrists, according to Schultz.

“The state of psychiatric care and practice has never been as sophisticated or as well accepted as it is today,” Schultz said.

He described the climate in Chittenden County for psychiatric practice as excellent, noting the academic programs at UVM and quality of life in the region.

At the same time, Schultz said, meaningfully, “Psychiatrists are among the lower earners within the world of medical practice, so medical students who graduate with loan debt in the hundreds of thousands of dollars feel DR. MARK more of a need to choose specialties that come with higher income guarantees.”

A $400,000 tab isn’t keeping fourthyear medical student Therese Ray from pursuing family medicine in the Green Mountain State. “One of the major needs is for primary-care providers, and my interests luckily align with those needs,” she said. “My goal is to stay in Vermont and to have a rural practice.”

She isn’t put off by the “paperwork,” either — something Coddaire said has increased dramatically for primary-care practices since the advent of electronic health records.

And she rejects the theory, held by some students, that the field requires less talent. “I personally believe the opposite is true,” she said. “We need a lot of talent and vision to continue to transform primary care and meet the needs of Vermonters.”

To accomplish that, Ray argued, “We need to make pursuing primary care more affordable.” The state offers loan

repayment grants to primary-care practitioners — nurses and midwives, as well as doctors — who promise to work in the state for at least two years. The maximum total grant per student is $20,000, and the size of the pot varies depending on the legislature’s generosity.

Donovan sees it differently at Mt. Ascutney Hospital. “For us as an organization and for the state of Vermont, recruitment can’t be done based on financial packages,” he said. There are other tools: for example, hiring full-time “hospitalists” — often family-practice doctors or internists — who handle the hospitalized patients of general practitioners. That has “helped tremendously in recruiting primary-care physicians” who don’t have time to leave their offices to make twicedaily hospital rounds.

Passive recruitment can be effective, too.

Nothing draws docs to Vermont more than to attend the highly regarded medical schools and residency programs at UVM Medical Center and DartmouthHitchcock. “There is a fairly strong correlation between where you went SCHULT Z to school, where you did your residency, where you grew up and where you end up practicing,” MacLean, the primary-care dean, said.

According to the 2010 physician survey, 35 percent of Vermont doctors attended medical school or completed a residency at UVM. To some degree, that means the admissions department can shape what the state’s medical community looks like.

Ultimately, the combined attributes of Dartmouth-Hitchcock and Vermont drew Brent White back to the home of his residency. The Mt. Ascutney surgeon, who resides in Hartland, originally looked for positions outside of big mid-Atlantic cities, close to family.

Cooperstown, N.Y., didn’t work, but the Upper Valley was compelling. It was the best of both worlds. As he put it: “To return to Dartmouth and Mt. Ascutney seemed like a great opportunity to remain in a rural setting while working in a sophisticated medical center.” m

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Opponents of the U.S. Air Force’s decision to base next-generation F-35 fighter planes at Burlington International Airport have taken their case to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Activists have asked the high court to hear their appeal of a March Vermont Supreme Court ruling that the airport did not need to obtain state land-use permits to base the new jets there.

The U.S. Supreme Court accepts about 1 percent of appeals annually. But James Dumont, the Bristol attorney who represents the anti-F-35 activists, said the appeal was worth filing: “We respectfully disagree with the [Vermont] Supreme Court’s opinion, and if possible, we’d like the nine justices of the Supreme Court to disagree.”

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It’s a developer’s dream: open land overlooking Lake Champlain, a short walk from downtown Burlington. And Redstone, which recently bought the parcel at the southern end of Lakeview Terrace, plans to make the most of it.

In a notice left on nearby residents’ doorsteps this week, the Burlington development and real estate company informed neighbors that it plans to construct a six-story apartment building — two levels of parking and four stories of housing — on what is currently a parking lot and a steep forested slope at the top of Depot Street.

“It’s a phenomenal location,” said Redstone partner Erik Hoekstra.

“It’s no secret that Lakeview Terrace is one of the most desirable addresses in the city of Burlington.”

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The residents on the quiet street will likely have more conflicte feelings about another large building going up nearby. Last year, residents raised concerns about the Committee on Temporary Shelter’s planned expansion, which will include a new day station and 12 apartments across the parking lot from the Redstone site. At the other end of the street, the 25-apartment Packard Lofts went up two years ago, but after years of prolonged resistance.

This latest project would likely accommodate between 50 and 60 apartments, ranging from studios to three-bedrooms, according to Hoekstra, who also noted that the building could end up being seven stories.

The land has changed hands recently. Burlington College sold it to developer Eric Farrell, who then sold it to Redstone.

No formal application has been filed with the city. As required by city ordinance, Redstone will first present conceptual plans to the Wards 2 and 3 Neighborhood Planning Assemblies on November 12.

D.C. attorney David Frederick, along with a professor and students at the University of Texas School of Law, drafted the appeal.

Opponents argued that the City of Burlington, which owns the airport, was required to obtain a state Act 250 permit to account for the noise impact of the 18 F-35s, which are scheduled to arrive in 2020. The F-35 is louder than the F-16s currently based at the airport, which is home to the Vermont Air National Guard.

But the Vermont Supreme Court upheld lower court decisions that an Act 250 permit was not required.

It is only one part of the strategy to prevent the F-35s from landing in Vermont. Activists have also sued the Air Force in U.S. District Court in Burlington, saying the Pentagon’s environmental review of the basing decision was flawed. The City of Winooski, where hundreds of residents live directly under the flight path, has also joined that lawsuit after residents voted in March to side with the activists.

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Not next year and perhaps not ever, unless other states enact the same measure.

“Even those who are advocating for a carbon tax know this is a multiyear effort,” said Rep. Tony Klein (D-East Montpelier), chair of the House Committee on Natural Resources and Energy, whose panel would have to approve the bill. “Whatever happens in the future, Vermont can’t go it alone.” No other states have such a tax.

A recent article about the proposed tax on the news website VTDigger.org emphasized that such a tax could raise gas prices by 88 cents a gallon.

Klein said legislative leaders have been clear with advocates of the tax that it would be premature for Vermont to pass the proposed legislation. If they do impose such a tax, the goal will be to lower other taxes by an equal amount, he said, with the intention of reducing people’s use of fossil fuels.

Vermont Republican Party chair David Sunderland emailed supporters: “Vermont Democrats are now rushing to develop a new, highly regressive (would hurt the poor and middle class the most) tax on gasoline that they plan to extend to other forms of energy like home heating fuels.”

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Ginni (Virginia) Reeves died at Vermont Respite House in Burlington after defying cancer for seven years. She was 73.

Ginni grew up in Blue Bell, Pa., graduated from Westtown in 1960 and earned her occupational therapy degree from Tufts in 1965. She enjoyed a 40-year career as an OT, making contributions to her field and helping to shape new rehabilitation programs in Burlington and in Lebanon, N.H. After receiving a rare cancer diagnosis in 2007 and being told she had six months to live, Ginni set about educating herself and her care team on the best treatments. Ž e result was seven additional years in which she watched four grandchildren grow from infancy and took time to enjoy sewing, quilting, cooking and travel with friends.

Ginni was an outstanding mother of two sons. She had a deep love for her boys.

Although she claimed to embrace a “benign neglect” model of parenting, she was a loving and stabilizing force in their lives.

A private ceremony was held in Burlington shortly before her passing, where friends and family met to share anecdotes, memories, photographs and good food.

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he single most important and transformative figure in 20thcentury American music is arguably not a musician at all.

Sure, a case could be made for the likes of Bob Dylan, Hank Williams or James Brown. But without the work of the prodigious folklorist, ethnomusicologist and archivist Alan Lomax (1915-2002), we might never have known the work of such giants as Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, Pete Seeger or Muddy Waters.

These are among the performers of folk traditions that underpin American popular music.

This Friday, the LANE SERIES brings banjoist and roots-music champion Jayme Stone and his Lomax Project to the UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT RECITAL HALL in Burlington. Joined onstage by violinist and singer Sumaia Jackson, bassist Andrew Ryan, and Vermont-born singer and accordionist Moira Smiley, Stone will present a lively musical excursion through Lomax’s vast legacy.

Speaking by phone from his home near Boulder, Colo., Stone explained that the concert will not celebrate Lomax per se, but will use his work as a “portal” through which to enter the rich history of American folk music.

“Our focus is really on the songs, people and traditions that Alan Lomax preserved for us,” Stone said. “We were really careful in the liner notes [to the 2015 album Jayme Stone’s Lomax Project] to actually shine a light on the lives and the stories and the provenances of these amazing songs and these people, who I think are an incredibly significant part of our culture.”

Born and raised in Toronto, Stone was not being disingenuous by saying “our” — he was referencing the American, African and European vernacular music traditions that inspired both him and Lomax. Stone spoke admiringly of the “emotion and personal authenticity” of, for instance, the Piedmont blues songs and Alabamian spirituals that Lomax recorded. But he was quick to point out that “authentic” does not mean “more correct … It’s just that people making music for their own enjoyment, whether then or now, speaks right to me — and through me,” he said.

That spirit guides the group’s performance of the Lomax Project songs.

The repertoire includes such traditional tunes as the old Appalachian stompdown “Lazy John”; “Sheep, Sheep, Don’t

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You Know the Road,” of which Lomax recorded a version by a Sea Islands singer named Bessie Jones; and even the quintessentially American song “Shenandoah.” Stone said the group turned that last one into something “lush and epic.”

The musicians, he noted, are not concerned with by-the-numbers authenticity but with finding melodies, ideas or emotions that allow the song to resonate from the past into the current day.

Independently, Stone and Smiley each offered the same example to illustrate the group’s commitment to creative reinterpretation: the old cowboy-style hootenanny “Hey, Lolly, Lolly.” The musicians reimagine it as a smoldering, jazzy ballad.

Smiley grew up in New Haven and is now a professional singer based in Los Angeles. Though the lineup of the Lomax Project has changed, she’s performed with it since its inception a few years ago.

The singer echoed Stone’s sentiment about the special value of Lomax’s field recordings of nonprofessional musicians, often conducted in kitchens and on front porches. “It’s not just the words that these singers were using,” Smiley said. “It’s the grit and the ornament and

the timbre. The stuff they make happen out of their voices is way beyond just singing words.”

For Stone, the Lomax Project’s mission is as much educational as musical: to inspire people to learn more about the roots of the music that these performers love. They often lead residencies on various scales, from the preshow conversation that will precede the Lane Series show to multiday conversations and master classes with college musicians. These exchanges have led Stone to dub the project a “collaboratory.”

Lomax, too, was committed to using music as a tool for education and for awakening in listeners a sense of “cultural equity” — what we now call multiculturalism. Still, he has been accused of being an opportunist and, worse, of exploiting the musicians he recorded. Stone clearly has nothing but admiration for Lomax’s achievements, yet he does not dismiss such accusations. In forging his own definition of “authenticity,” Stone said, Lomax created a “complex” legacy.

UVM professor of music ALEX STEWART also noted Lomax’s complicated place in music history. A musician and ethnomusicologist, Stewart said that Lomax’s theoretical work is overambitious and flawed, but his achievements in

gathering and archiving folk music are unsurpassed.

“I think it’s pretty obvious that, without his work, a lot of things would have been lost forever,” said Stewart. “And he got it at a time when you could still find [this music]. If you wanted to look for these things today, you’d be really hardpressed to find them at all, so that’s of great importance.”

Regardless of one’s take on Alan Lomax, the value and power of the music he recorded are inarguable. Over the more than 60 years he spent capturing field recordings all over the world, he created an audio legacy second to none.

The Lomax field recordings laid the foundation of what we now know as folk music, and that legacy, above all else, is what the Lomax Project celebrates.

Stone summarized it in words that Lomax would surely have appreciated: “You just have to look backwards sometimes to see where we can go.” m Contact: ethan@sevendaysvt.com

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Though Hunter and the other ROTR organizers are all based in Vermont, this weekend’s train concert is the first he has done here “It’s a bit of an experiment to see how it works in Vermont,” he says.

In addition to the train concert, the ROTR weekend package includes two more conventional concerts — one on Friday, November 6, with Gilmore at MAIN STREET ARTS in Saxtons River; and a post-train show on Saturday with all of the acts at the WINDHAM BALLROOM AT POPOLO in Bellows Falls.

“It’s remarkably symbiotic,” Hunter says of the experience of watching a concert on a train. “American music is so influenced by railroads, as subject matter and just the rhythms and sounds of the music itself. So when you’re onboard a train, you’re feeling the rocking of the rails and hearing the clickety-clack of the cars. And then you’re hearing the music that sprang from that. It’s wonderful.”

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Jimmie Dale Gilmore with Colin Gilmore concert, Friday, November 6, 8 p.m., at Main Street Arts in Saxtons River. $24.

Roots on the Rails, with Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Syd Straw, the Winterpills and the Meadows Brothers, departs from the Bellows Falls Amtrak station on Saturday, November 7, at 9 a.m., with boarding at 8:45 a.m.; it returns at 6 p.m. $289 (currently sold out). All musicians also perform on Saturday, November 7, 8:30 p.m., at Windham Ballroom at Popolo in Bellows Falls. $34. See website for packages including concerts, hotel and dinner. Info, 866-4843669. rootsontherails.com

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titled “Boxcars: Railroad Imagery in Contemporary Realism.” Train imagery has a way of showing up in his own canvases, too.

Another of Hunter’s projects highlights both his train obsession and his similarly deep passion for music. Thats an eight-hour rolling concert dubbed Roots on the Rails, which departs from his hometown of Bellows Falls on the vintage four-car Green Mountain Express to Rutland this Saturday, November 7.

The mobile conce t features Texas songwriter Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Weston-based songwriter SYD STRAW, Northampton, Mass., indie-folk band the Winterpills and Connecticutbased Americana duo the Meadows Brothers.

“I’m kind of nutty on the subject of trains,” says Hunter in a recent phone call with Seven Days.

Hunter’s fusion of concerts and train travel dates back to 2000, when, while working as a concert promoter in Northampton, he organized a train ride from Toronto to Vancouver with 65 musicians headed to a music conference.

“They a l wanted to play guitars and hang out. But the train was busy trying to be a train,” recalls Hunter.

“It was kind of a big mess, but it was a huge amount of fun.”

In 2003, he began chartering his own train cars in Canada to host on-board concerts under the banner of Roots on the Rails. He did

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ctor, director, improv artist and cartoonist ISAAC LITTLEJOHN EDDY has put away his makeup and bald cap — at least for now.

Originally from Randolph, the 36-yearold Renaissance man left Brooklyn to become a visiting professor at Johnson State College, where he teaches Acting I and a class on interpreting contemporary dramatic literature. Before JSC, Eddy’s “job job,” as he puts it, was performing with Blue Man Group, a percussive and visually stimulating performance troupe. For the last three of his 12 years as a Blue Man, he helped write and develop the group’s material.

On the side, Eddy created “Cat, Dog, Stoop,” a series of short, witty animations, and his cartoons have been published in the New Yorker. He also crafted interac- Isaac Littlejohn Eddy tive “subversive theater” pieces as part of his MFA program at City University of New York, Brooklyn College. Clearly, the iteration, I think people thought of it as man likes to stay busy. insider art — that it was commenting on “I feel the most excited and settled if contemporary art and making fun of it, I’m working on multiple different levels and everyone who was in the know would at the same time,” says Eddy from a swing get it. But the original few [Blue Men] on JSC’s campus that overlooks Sterling were outsiders, these actors and artists Mountain. “I really miss the [Blue Man] trying to find their own voice in New York community, and the element of perfor- City like everyone else, and they created mance — the exercise, the sweating and this piece as outsiders, for everybody. engagement, the adrenaline. But what That was kind of I’m doing right now the point from the feels totally where I beginning: How do we need my brain to be.” talk about art from this Eddy and his wife are literal outsider perspecexpecting their second tive, this alien, nonchild any day now; he speaking perspective? says they moved to Having studied a lot of Vermont so their kids art, I love it from the could grow up in a rural perspective of Jasper setting, and because he Johns, Rothko, Yves wanted to teach.

Klein — but it also has Seven Days talked resonance even if you with Eddy about tradaren’t into that [kind ISAAC L IT T LEJOHN E D D Y of ] contemporary art. ing the blue face for the Green Mountains It was like, Wow, they — and about seasons, white privilege come out into the audience, and all this and hair. really kind of crazy stuff for off-Broadway at the time, which is really not crazy now.

SEVEN DAYS: Blue Man group is a It’s really interesting how this more recognizable brand than the nonspeaking, innocent shaman punk other work you’ve done. But is it cool trickster reacts to our culture right now, in 2015? versus our culture in 1991. It’s a complex ISAAC LITTLEJOHN EDDY: The show enough character that, every time we has definitely evolved since 1991, when it move on as a culture, I want to see how opened off-Broadway. In ’91, it was this the Blue Man reacts to it. avant-garde, hip thing that was definitely relatable and translatable to a lot of SD: Vermonters moving to New York, different generations. In that original New Yorkers coming back here — this

is a bit of a thing, right? How is that readjustment? Do you like the darkness here?

ILE: I can handle the darkness. I feel awkward if I don’t have the hard seasons — I need to pay for my summers. I definitely went soft in New York.

SD: New York made you soft?

ILE: New York made me soft in that I want spring to happen in the beginning of March, and I know that that’s not a Vermont thing.

Leaving Vermont, I had a way, way different concept of what “privileged” meant, the concept of white privilege, the concept of space. When I grew up in Vermont, I felt really lucky, but I always thought I came from simple means. I went to a politically progressive college [Wesleyan University], but it wasn’t until living in New York City that I realized, wow, I am an actual race. It’s not just me, nice guy, thinking that everyone should be not racist anymore. It was like, I am a part of it, and where I come from, it’s extremely privileged to have this space, this quiet, this clean air.

I went to a public high school, and I could leave my book bag just sitting around and it wouldn’t get stolen. That allowed a lot of my brain space to not be on guard, and I just never thought about that. I feel like, personally, it’s not OK to not be aware of that now.

SD: Do you find that our students are open to these conversations?

SD: In some ways, the classroom is a much safer, easier environment for these discussions — “Let’s talk about these things we read, or some of our own experiences.” But then, what do you do when you’re out with friends and one of your white friends says something that is racist, homophobic or a microaggression?

ILE: I find that hard still. It’s the Donald Trump thing: I’m just having fun; you misinterpreted me. It can so easily be flipped to being on you for just being uptight. I follow comedy, and this is being talked about a lot right now, and political correctness. [Within today’s social climate,] there’s more room for comedy now than ever before, and if you can’t navigate that, you should be doing something else. The point is to get smarter. With each step of the way, I have to ask, am I promoting these old tropes, or am I helping stories evolve to be more just, more inclusive? That doesn’t mean everything has to be this heavy political doctrine. It can still be art, still be good storytelling.

SD: I notice that you have a sizable beard. Is this new, post-Blue Man? ILE: You do have to be clean-shaven for Blue Man. For 12 and a half years, I’ve been looking forward to this moment.

I didn’t even know that my beard was red. This is a very exciting moment.

It’s gonna go ZZ Top. I’m definitely not cutting it any time soon. m

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his darkroom equipment, Miller pays to have his images printed by a neighbor whose camera shop went under.

Last year, the Pall Spera Company in Stowe gave Miller an informal appraisal of his property’s value should he decide to sell it, taking into account major repairs as well as his mortgage.

Disappointed by the estimate, which was less than half of a previous town evaluation, Miller chose to adapt instead of selling his only asset.

“The fact that someone of Peter’s stature is finding it necessary, and possible, to use Airbnb to maintain his lifestyle, and to keep taking pictures, is a testament to his own inventiveness,” comments ALEX ALDRICH, director of the VERMONT ARTS COUNCIL. He continues, “On one level, it is a very sad commentary that we can’t find a way for artists to support themselves [here] … There’s no readymade system in this country.”

“The business has saved my life,” says Miller of his new B&B. Last March, he hosted some of his first guests, whom he identifies as “beer people” visiting from Costa Rica. Many guests are twentysomething professionals, and he’s had a few “older European families,” as well.

Canadians, Miller observes, like blackand-white photography.

So far, he’s made about $9,600 from hosting visitors, which he says has

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all walls,” according to his invitation. Bins with prints of all sizes line the room. The images range from scenes of a Margaux wine harvest in the 1950s to iconic Vermontiana — such as a milk can or pile of plastic-wrapped hay bales, rendered as contemporary sculpture.

Copies of Miller’s many books are available here, too. The finishing touch is a dirt-encrusted work glove tacked near the doorway at eye level. “I plan to photograph it,” Miller tells a guest.

By “squashing,” Miller has made space for the four bedrooms he lists online through Airbnb, a site where travelers can reserve rooms in private homes and other non-hotel sites around the world.

To prepare, he repainted the walls, got new carpeting and hired a “picker” to find inexpensive furnishings. Guests can choose among the Woodchuck, Margaux, Vermont and Paris rooms, each featuring a thematically curated selection of Miller’s framed archival prints.

The quarters share a kitchen and one bathroom, as well as a small library with a secretary desk and shelves holding the host’s collection of photography books.

These include everything from a multivolume set of Eugène Atget to carnivalstripper shots by Susan Meiselas.

Miller claims that, at the high point of his career, he made up to $85,000 a year with his writing and photography sales, but last year he brought in only $10,000.

Not surprisingly, he attributes his financial difficulties in large part to an art and media landscape vastly altered by technology. “The digital revolution sort of sunk it,” Miller says. While he still has

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hotographer and writer PETER MILLER has a unique press badge pinned to the hallway bulletin board in his 1850s former farmhouse in Waterbury — the town he prefers to call Colbyville. Handwritten in Sharpie on notepad paper, it reads, “Press: Peter Miller, Official Photographer, Woodchuck Times.”

Beside the badge hangs a 2009 BREAD AND PUPPET THEATER broadside, titled “Marx on Money,” that lists such aphorisms as “MONEY forces contraries to embrace.”

These two artifacts could not be more apt representations of Miller’s new business plan: The 81-year-old artist and Burlington Free Press 2005 Vermonter of the Year recently transformed his home and gallery space into Airbnb accommodations. He hopes this embrace of the global sharing economy will enable him to afford to stay in Vermont. It’s where Miller made a career using his camera to capture, and celebrate, the rugged authenticity of the state’s inhabitants. Those images are gathered in his self-published books including Vermont People, Vermont Farm Women and, more recently, A Lifetime of Vermont People. Money, or lack thereof, certainly does force contraries to embrace, and the irony can be brutal.

“I’m still paying off my heat from last year,” laments Miller.

In October, he hosted the grand opening of what he has dubbed the SQUASHED GALLERY. The photographs that once took up the entire first floor of his home and composed his previous gallery have been relocated to a single room, where framed “photographs hang in rough formations on

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allowed him to keep up with house payments, including his mortgage, energy costs and taxes. Miller hopes to expand into offering full photography-centric packages, in which guests would pay for lodging along with personal tours of some of his favorite locations.

Miller aligns his struggles as a photographer and as a Vermonter. “Gentrification has won,” he says, noting the Vermont economy. “There’s no lifeline.” Despite financial hardship, though, he says, “I gotta [take pictures], or I’m gonna go crazy.”

Currently, Miller is at work on his next project, which he refers to as “the nasty book” — a collection of images with the working title The Vanishing Vermonter: An Endangered Species. He writes on his blog that the book will feature portraits of and interviews with approximately 25 Vermonters about “how the change in Vermont’s culture and its high cost of living has affected their lives,” along with his introductory essay.

He is currently accepting donations and preorders, and plans to make the volume available next June.

Strands of cosmopolitanism have enhanced Miller’s lifelong love affair with Vermont, which started when his family moved to the state in 1947, during his teen years. As a student at the University of Toronto, he met the famous portrait photographer Yousuf Karsh and traveled to Europe as his assistant, where he met Pablo Picasso, Albert Camus and other notable figures of the time.

Miller worked for LIFE magazine in New York City as a photographer and reporter in the ’50s and ’60s, then returned to Vermont to raise his children. His website declares that he is “the only American photographer with a daughter who owns a Mexican restaurant in London, England.”

In a September blog post titled “Peter Miller Re-invents Himself,” the photographer is shown clutching bed sheets with a somewhat aghast expression on his face. The caption is “Peter Miller, Chambermaid,” and the last line of the post reads, “I hate washing sheets and making beds!”

Still, it’s possible that Miller’s new persona as a host is more than an economic exigency. “Next time you come,” he says, “you can try my applesauce.” m

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one Rock Point, a mostly wooded peninsula jutting into Lake Champlain two miles north of downtown Burlington, remains unfamiliar to many locals despite its intriguing history. For starters, a couple of the city’s most stately 19th-century buildings stand there. One of them contains a group of stained-glass windows that even most visitors to Rock Point have never seen. That’s a particular pity, since, besides being flat-out beautiful, the windows demand attention as 100-year-old expressions of proto-feminist artistry.

Larry Ribbecke, a Burlington-based designer and restorer of stained glass, ranks the quality of the

windows in the chapel of Bishop Hopkins Hall among the highest of those he’s seen during a 40-year career.

Although the master craftsman has worked on those unsigned windows a number of times, he says he has no idea who made them.

Neither does John Rouleau, a former headmaster of Rock Point School, which is housed in Hopkins Hall ,near the vehicle entrance to North Beach. “I always believed, with no foundation whatsoever, that they were made in New York City and transported here at the time the building was constructed [circa 1888],” says Rouleau, who worked at the school in various capacities from 1971 to 2012.

A Big Apple point of origin might be a good guess, comments Ribbecke. But the stained-glass specialist with a studio on Pine Street speculates that nearby Montréal may be a more likely birthplace for the five windows, which depict the conception, birth, death and afterlife of Jesus Christ. Notable artisans were producing stained glass in Montréal at the time Hopkins Hall was built, Ribbecke notes, but there’s no evidence the windows were actually made there.

Historical documents of the Episcopal Diocese of Vermont, which owns Rock Point’s 146 acres, offer no more help. “There’s nothing in the archives about the windows,” says Elizabeth Allison, the diocese’s historiographer.

So who the heck made them? (Given the windows’ subject matter and setting, perhaps WTH is a more suitable acronym for this week’s column.)

A few clues can be discerned.

The dedications inscribed in gothic lettering at the bottoms of the windows hint at a manufacturing date.

The triptych above the chapel’s altar, with the infant Jesus and his mother Mary dominating the center panel, includes the epigraph, “In Memory of Melusina, Wife of Bishop Hopkins.” John Henry Hopkins

(1792-1868), the first bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Vermont, was married to Melusina Muller, who died in 1884, according to ancestry.com. The couple had 13 children, four of whom are memorialized on the other windows. One of them honors the memory of Caroline Amelia, the couple’s fourth daughter, who died in 1907.

So the windows must have been installed after that date. Bishop Hopkins himself could not have commissioned the stained glass, having died 20 years before the construction of the building.

But Hopkins’ progressive politics may well have influenced the windows’ subject matter, as well as the function of the building named for him. Hopkins Hall was originally home to a girls’ school. Unusually for the pre-women’s suffrage era, females are the main characters in the New Testament scenes depicted on each window. Also notably, the windows are dedicated only to Hopkins’ wife and his four daughters, even though the couple had nine sons.

“There weren’t many places at that time focused on females’ education,” notes C.J. Spirito, current director of Rock Point School — the coed descendant of the institution founded in 1888. “The scenes in the windows are in support of the effort to put women to the fore.”

Maybe the stained-glass pieces in the chapel, seldom visited by outsiders, bear some relation to a window in the bishop’s private residence, which stands a few hundred yards away. That one — an image of the crucified Christ flanked by saints and angels — has a documented maker. An item in the July 1898 edition of the Mountain Echo, a newsletter published by the Episcopal Diocese, reports that the window in the then-recently constructed bishop’s home was “designed and executed by Mr. C.E. Kempe in London, who reproduces the best works of olden days in rich and subdued tones, with exceedingly delicate and accurate drawing.”

Kempe’s name may seem like a promising lead, in that the chapel windows also imitate the artistic style of “olden days” — that of medieval Europe, to be precise, as Ribbecke points out. Online sources say that Kempe was a prominent producer of stained-glass windows whose trademark, affixed to most of his work, was a sheaf of wheat. But alas! No sheaves of wheat are to be seen in the five windows in Hopkins Hall.

Some windows made in the late 19th and early 20th century were left unsigned, especially those in the medieval revival style, Ribbecke notes. “Medieval producers would have thought it presumptuous to include their names,” and modern manufacturers working in that style followed suit.

The artists responsible for the striking designs in the chapel of Hopkins Hall wished to remain anonymous.

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Germs and Steel that this distinction disqualifies certain well-known working animals, notably the draft elephants of South and Southeast Asia — they’re not bred by humans but rather plucked from the wild à la carte and trained. A domesticated animal, as Diamond puts it, is one “selectively bred in captivity and thereby modified from its wild ancestors, for use by humans who control the animal’s breeding and food supply.” (Plants can undergo a similar process, of course — the domestication of cereal crops such as wheat has had a not insignificant effect on human history — but we’ll focus here on fauna.)

As to your question, there’s an easy answer: The last wild animal to be domesticated was the silver fox, and it took a startlingly short time. In the late 1950s a Soviet biologist named Dmitry Belyaev rounded up about 150 of the animals with the goal of, essentially, replicating and observing the process by which, 10,000 years before, some wolves became dogs.

As he bred each successive

generation of kits, Belyaev selected for one trait: how the animals got along with humans.

The results were remarkable: By 1964, Belyaev had produced fourth-generation foxes as friendly as dogs — tails wagging, the whole shebang.

But it wasn’t just their behavior that changed. Belyaev noticed a phenomenon identified earlier by Darwin: Domesticated mammals share certain physiological qualities that set them apart from their wild forebears.

They’re smaller, with smaller brains and teeth; their fur has white spots or patches; their ears are floppier. Between their juvenile morphology and their friendly behavior, it’s as though domesticated animals are wild ones that have been stunted, forever stuck in adolescence.

The ears of Belyaev’s foxes began to droop after just nine generations.

By the time National Geographic checked in on this long-running experiment, in

cats were domesticated is that we never tried to herd them; they’ve only ever been pets.)

So domestication is a highly contingent process by which humans have sometimes manipulated evolution to benefit ourselves. Or animals have, to benefit themselves. One hypothesis has it that the process by which wolves became dogs sprang from their own initiative, whereby the less aggressive among them realized a selective advantage in hanging around people — namely, the buffet possibilities presented by human garbage. Humans subsequently did their part by adopting and breeding the friendliest pups.

Researchers continue to be intrigued by the self-domestication hypothesis. These days they’re looking at it to explain certain traits observed in bonobos, vis-a-vis their violent cousins chimpanzees, from whom they split taxonomically about a million years ago. The bonobos are peaceful and, in line with Darwin’s observations, display those familiar differences in morphology. Have they domesticated themselves, and why? The import of this question is obvious. Certain hominids abandoning aggression, embracing sociality, becoming more ... evolved? Sound familiar?

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First, though, let’s make something clear about domestication. In brief, it’s not the same thing as taming, which is the easy part — what you do when you (e.g.) take a baby tiger from the jungle and hand-feed her through cubhood. By the end of this process, ideally, she’ll be amiable enough to star in your Vegas stage act.

But say that tiger then has cubs of her own. They won’t have inherited any of their mother’s ease around humans.

Taming refers to learned behavior, whereas domestication indicates an actual shift in the animal’s genome that takes generations to come about.

Scientist-author Jared Diamond argues in his blockbuster Guns,

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How long does it take to “officially” domesticate an animal? What is the last wild animal humans have domesticated? If we tried long enough, could we end up with domesticated koalas or beavers?

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2011, researchers had identified two regions of the domesticated foxes’ genomes that differed from those of their wild relatives. It was once thought there might be a single gene responsible for domestication, though it’s beginning to look like it’s actually a far more complex process of genetic change.

The ease with which Belyaev pulled this off makes it sound as if, with a little effort and a healthy research budget, you can domesticate whatever you please. But Diamond believes there are a few prerequisites. Domesticable animals, he thinks, should: • Grow quickly. Nobody wants to wait around 15 years for an elephant to mature.

• Breed in captivity.

(Difficulties on this front apparently thwarted Belyaev’s attempts to domesticate otters.)

• Be efficient eaters, in terms of biomass conversion, and not picky, either. This rules out your koalas.

• Have reasonably decent personalities, which rules out grizzly bears and Dick Cheney.

• Not be too nervous.

• Come from a social structure with a “well-developed dominance hierarchy,” which humans can then insert themselves at the top of. (This would seem to rule out cats, but Diamond suggests the reason

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Clinton was feeling good — and why not? She’d just endured 11 hours of the umpteenth hearing in the three-year-long, $5-million-plus Congressional investigation of the killings of four Americans at the U.S. embassy in Benghazi — and come through unbowed and unscathed.

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In Thirty Ways of Looking at Hillary: Writers, a 2008 Reflections by Women Writers collection of essays, Elizabeth Kolbert “listenrecalls covering Clinton’s “listen ing tour,” during her first New York senatorial campaign. The reporter was bothered by the manipulativeness of the tour, which allowed Clinton to appear concerned about New Yorkers’ issues without taking any positions on them.

“At the same time, I was bothered by the fact that I was bothered,” Kolbert writes.

“Sure, Clinton was disingenuous. [But] so was … every other politician I had ever covered.”

Jane Kramer also couldn’t stop analyzing Clinton the person, and the woman. “Why do I keep thinking about what I think of Hillary?” she asks herself in the same collection. “I take Hillary personally — too personally.” Virtually every contributor confesses to the same obsession, even as she is confounded or embarrassed by it.

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I’m no exception. I’ve written about Clinton in these pages three times — rarely about her positions on issues.

In 2008, I analyzed the meaning of her spontaneous tears, shed in a New Hampshire diner just before that state’s Democratic presidential primary.

But, like almost everyone else — except, unaccountably, Newsweek — I neglected to mention what she was saying through those tears. “Some people think elections are a game: who’s up or who’s down,” the magazine quoted coun Clinton as saying. “It’s about our country. It’s about our kids’ future. It’s about all of us together.” She went on in this impassioned patriotic vein, tears leaking from her eyes all the while.

Commentators hailed it as the “lik moment Hillary Clinton became “likable.” The show of emotion apparently won her the New Hampshire primary.

But she wasn’t likable enough to win the nomination.

This time around, people seem to be judging Clinton on what she’s done and

what she says she’ll do. But the obsession with her personality hasn’t faded.

In fact, it’s hardened into something worse: hatred.

I understand the vitriol from the right. But the left, especially Bernie’s people, seems to despise Clinton almost as much.

Hillary is humorless, they say. And Bernie is a jokester? Hillary is gruff.

And he is a teddy bear? Hillary keeps repeating the same slogans. And Bernie thoughtfully explores new territory?

Her positions have “evolved,” while he hasn’t changed his mind since the Eisenhower era — as if this were a demerit in her column and a plus in his.

I can’t tell you how many have told me they find Clinton so unsavory that they won’t vote for her under any circumstances. She is the lesser of the two evils, they say. Would they prefer the greater of two evils?

I can attribute this madness to two things: enduring sexism, including women’s internalized sexism; and the power of the conservative brainwashing machine.

The thing is, Hillary Clinton is not evil. Far from it. Yeah, she’s a moderate. Yes, (gasp!) a politician. But go to her website and watch her talk about the Charleston massacre at a national mayors’ convention in September.

Listen to her — in clips going back years — praise organized labor.

Or catch her kidding around with Colbert — and smilingly informing him that if she gets her druthers, he’ll pay more taxes.

It is exciting — and important — to root for Bernie, in part because he’s moving Clinton to the left.

It is fun to be thrilled when Supergirl, played by an adorable 27-year-old feminist, blasts a male supervillain into fiery oblivion. It is touching to watch the Girl of Steel soften to tears.

It is harder to support the steely, flawed human woman, the middle-aged, middle-of-the-road politician that is Hillary Rodham Clinton.

But this is the politician who is going to be the Democratic candidate for president.

Will you step aside while an army of real supervillains — led by Marco Rubio or Ben Carson, Paul Ryan, David Koch and John Roberts — musters to destroy everything you hold dear, from racial justice to the polar ice caps?

Supergirl wouldn’t. m

Becoming Transgender Vermont Electric Co-op CEO prepares to walk into work as a woman

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ave Hallquist was dressed in a maroon button-down shirt and black trousers during a tour of the Vermont Electric Cooperative headquarters last month in Johnson. The former engineer wore comfortable shoes and a black leather m men’s en’s watch while showing off a state-ofthe-art control room, noting how technology has helped to shorten the length of power outages in the 74 towns VEC serves.

Hallquist has brought the state’s secondlargest utility back from bankruptcy, and, after a decade as its chief executive officer, has become a knowledgeable ambassador for the 107-employee co-op.

The next day, Hallquist was back on the job, this time staffing a VEC booth at Renewable Energy Vermont’s conference at the Sheraton hotel in South Burlington. But the CEO looked different in pumps and a stylish blackand-white blazer. A delicate pearl bracelet had replaced the watch.

Shoulder-length auburn locks topped off the new look of VEC’s leader.

Affixed to her lapel, the name tag read: Christine Hallquist.

“You probably remember me as David,” she said, reaching out to shake hands with Bob Farnham, an environmental activist from Thetford who was live-streaming the conference.

There was a slight delay before Farnham recovered himself and said, “Sure, congratulations,” before the tradeshow midway reclaimed him.

“My experience is, it’s a five-second delayed reaction,” Hallquist told a reporter after Farnham left. “I need to be active in saying hello to people, because they don’t recognize me.”

Plenty of people did. Rep. Tony Klein came over and joked that Christine must be Hallquist’s sister.

Green Mountain Power spokesman Kristin Carlson gave Christine a hug.

Similarly good-natured was an exchange between Hallquist and VEC lobbyist Andrea Cohen, whom the CEO hired this past spring. Hallquist apologized for not being able to prepare her during the job

interview, noting that Cohen had barely gotten to know Dave before Christine came into the picture.

Hallquist added, “I don’t think you would have liked Dave as much.”

Hallquist was literally on display at the annual energy conference that attracts power people from every corner of Vermont, most of whom were acquainted with Dave. Kerrick Johnson, vice president of Vermont Electric Power, said he noticed some in the crowd doing double takes when they saw Christine. But he described the overall reaction as “intrigue and some fascination” with “zero condemnation.”

The onlookers shouldn’t have been totally surprised. Hallquist, 59, had already revealed her lifelong secret to family and friends when Christine went public in a September WCAX news story about the decision to change gender expression, from male to female. Darren Perron’s piece chronicled Hallquist’s decades-long process of coming to terms with her true identity, and of breaking the news to her loved ones.

Now the VEC chief is figuring out how to make this transition in the professional world. With no textbook to guide her, Hallquist started a gradual process that involves inhabiting Dave one day and Christine the next.

“Here I am, the transgender CEO of one of the most macho businesses,” Hallquist said. Work emails continue to come from Dave Hallquist. The VEC website still indicates the co-op is led by a man.

Switching from one gender presentation to another is a big deal — for her, her family, the co-op and the community, she acknowledged. “I can’t think of a greater change for someone to experience,” Hallquist said. “It’s how we define ourselves.”

Transgender experts say there is no typical experience for people making the transition. But coming out at work is often the last stretch of a long road, said Kim Fountain, executive director of Pride Vermont, a support organization for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people.

Hallquist went into it knowing that, but especially as the CEO — a public figure who is responsible for the co-op’s future — she found there was no road map to follow.

“There’s probably one out there,” Hallquist said. “I just haven’t been able to find it.”

Christine ‘I Like to Be Feminine’ Hallquist always felt like a girl as a child attending Catholic school in suburban Syracuse, N.Y. — but it would be decades before she knew there was a word for it.

“I’ve always known I was different,” Hallquist told radio talk-show host David Goodman on WDEV a week after the WCAX segment. She was dressed as Christine for the live interview, in a tan skirt, a tan-and-white sweater over a white blouse, yet another auburn wig, neatly applied lipstick, and a pearl bracelet. Her tan purse contained a hairbrush, makeup and a woman’s wallet.

“I took time to get that to match,” she said of the purse. “I love to shop, but now that I can do it freely, it’s awesome. I like to be feminine.”

Clothes are not the goal of the transgender experience, but they often take on a significance that goes beyond the fabric, said Kara DeLeonardis Kraus, a licensed clinical social worker in South Burlington who counsels transgender people. “I think the clothes are more of an outer representation of gender,” she said. “Wearing a dress is the most feminine thing a person can do.”

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As a child, Hallquist envied the perfume of a female classmate and was drawn to girls’ clothes. Those unorthodox interests, combined with posing “lots of questions about religion,” got the attention of the monsignor, who recommended an old-fashioned exorcism for young Dave, who was a long way from revealing his secret to anyone. Horrified, the Hallquists pulled all of their children out of the Catholic school.

“At the time, transgender was considered a mental condition, and you could be put in a mental institution,” Hallquist said.

Merriam-Webster defines the term “transgender,” which came into popular use later, as “of, relating to, or being a person who identifies with or expresses a gender identity that differs from the one which corresponds to the person’s sex at birth.”

“My brain believed I was a woman” is how Hallquist put it.

Hallquist said that as a teen she became adept at hiding what she considered her true identity. “By the time I got to ninth grade, I realized I needed to play this game, so I took

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up a couple of sports,” she said. Hallquist skied and ran competitively but kept a secret stash of women’s clothes in the closet.

Over the years, Hallquist kept collecting those items, then throwing them away.

“When you’ve done that seven times … it’s time to just accept the facts,” she said.

Wife Pat learned of her husband’s secret several years into their marriage, and the couple came to an uncomfortable agreement: It was OK for Hallquist to dress up in private and play the piano, for up to two hours a day.

For decades, no one else knew, but it haunted Hallquist that the couple’s two daughters and son were among them. “I started to get in a very dark place because I hadn’t shared probably one of the most important things about myself with my kids,” she said.

At age 48, the Hyde Park resident made a New Year’s resolution to find a transgender support group, get counseling and start the process of coming out.

“They’re quiet, secretive groups,” Hallquist said of the one she found in central Vermont. “All of us had the same incredible fear: being caught out in public … dressed female … and it brought a lot of shame.”

Hallquist finally came out to the kids about five years ago, and they took it well, she said. The daughters call her “Maddy” — a combination of mommy and daddy.

For son Derek, 31, she is simply “mom.”

He is making a movie, titled Denial, comparing Hallquist’s transition with that of the energy industry’s, on the grounds that both make people uncomfortable. The whole family has been in counseling. Hallquist said she and Pat remain together but are unsure what is going to happen to their marriage.

“We’re still sorting it out,” Hallquist said. “No matter what happens, we’re going to continue to really love each other.”

Hallquist broke the news to her mother and siblings — she has four brothers and two sisters — this past summer, around the same time Bruce Jenner appeared as Caitlyn on the cover of Vanity Fair.. Jenner’s very public story “made my job a lot easier,” Hallquist said. “I related entirely to the whole story.

Bruce’s heart was my heart. It was inspiring and supportive.

My confidence today is probably helped by that.”

Hallquist’s 83-year-old mother has accepted Christine.

But Hallquist hasn’t heard from some of her siblings since.

She’s lost some friends, too, who said they had a hard time

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personal to talk about, Westman said, he thought Hallquist’s cancer had returned.

“I’ve got to tell you I was somewhat relieved,” Westman said.

Mark Woodward, a state House member from Johnson who serves on the board, said cancer was also his first thought. “My second thought was, ‘This is a big deal,’” Woodward said. “I was more concerned about the employees’ reaction.”

Westman said he talks to VEC line workers at the local diner. Their reaction has been the same as his. “They know Dave’s done a good job,” said Westman, noting that Hallquist’s people skills have grown in the past decade and employees see their CEO as a fair and trusted negotiator.

“When Dave came, the co-op was nearly bankrupt,” Westman said. “Now it’s

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dealing with her transition. “It would be wrong to say it doesn’t hurt, but you expect that level of pain. It’s disappointing,” Hallquist said.

To complicate things, in 2013 Hallquist was diagnosed with cancer, the origins of which doctors had difficulty tracing.

“I truly thought I was going to die,” Hallquist said. Then one day a few months later, she said, her doctor phoned. “He said, ‘I think your testosterone is killing you,’” she said. The doctor didn’t know at the time that Hallquist was transgender, but the medical diagnosis gave extra weight to the way she had felt for most of her life.

The doctor recommended a bilateral orchiectomy, surgery to remove the testicles and stop testosterone production, which was believed to be fueling the cancer. It happened to be a week before she planned to start testosterone-blocking hormone treatment as part of the gender transition, she said.

The surgery stopped the cancer and made it so Hallquist doesn’t have to take a testosterone blocker, as others making the transition from male to female do. She is taking estrogen, which she said is changing her body. She also cries a lot.

“Most of those have been tears of joy,” she said. “They’re nice emotions.”

transgender people run into trouble at work, Fountain said, including from employers who suddenly crack down on job performance in a way they hadn’t before or aren’t doing with other employees.

“Where there’s a will, there’s a way,” Fountain said.

At least one such case is pending before the Vermont Human Rights Commission, according to plaintiff Lexi Rylant, a 54-year-old Burlington woman who said she was placed on unpaid administrative leave from her job after returning from gender-reassignment surgery.

Some transitioning people choose to change jobs — or even professions. New coworkers or another career can make it easier, social worker Kraus said.

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Co-op employees got the big news about Hallquist in August. Following advice from the human resources department, Hallquist had supervisors inform their employees. In retrospect, she said, it would have been better for all of them to hear it at the same time, because some were offended that they were among the last to know.

But the overall reaction far exceeded Hallquist’s expectations. “I’m overjoyed with the support I’ve received,” she said.

“I’m sure this is a struggle for them, but I really haven’t noticed any change in my interaction with employees.

“People can change, but you have to give them the space to do it,” she continued.

I’M PRETTY SURE I WILL NOT MISS BEING DAVE.

I’M SO MUCH MORE COMFORTABLE.

Working ‘Out’ Last May, Hallquist made the first move toward coming out professionally. She shared her story at a monthly meeting of Vermont business executives who meet privately to discuss job challenges.

“I was visibly scared,” she said. “They saw me shaking as I presented this story.”

By the time she was done explaining, though, “most of them were crying,” Hallquist recalled. Their answer to her first question — whether she should continue to live a double life — was a unanimous and resounding no.

When Hallquist asked for advice on the best way to introduce Christine to colleagues and employees, the group told the CEO to come back with a plan in June.

Though Hallquist has essentially been making this transition for decades, “I will say coming out to my board and employees was another one of my great fears,” she said. “You can imagine I’m thinking, This isn’t going to go over too well,” she said.

Such fears are common among transgender people, said Dot Brauer, who advises students and staff as director of the LGBTQA Center at the University of Vermont. “They don’t want to be shunned. That’s the No. 1 fear, that look that says, ‘Why do I have to occupy the same space?’” she said. “They worry they’ll be fired.”

A 2007 law specifically protects transgender Vermonters from discrimination, including dismissal. Still, some

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Dave at work at Vermont Electric Cooperative

as Christine. When she went back to her business group in June, they offered her advice: Don’t be so apologetic about it.

She took the suggestion to heart.

Using the plan her fellow CEOs helped her develop, Hallquist delivered the news in July to Vermont Electric Co-op’s senior leadership team. At that meeting, she noticed what would later emerge as a trend: Women were quicker to congratulate her.

“Men were pretty much in a state of shock.

I’ve learned with the male population, give them time,” she said.

A short time later, she called all 14 members of the co-op’s board of directors to tell them, one by one.

“I really didn’t expect to be supported across the board,” she said. “My worst fear was that I fully expected a few of them to say they just couldn’t live with this.”

Rich Westman, a Republican state senator who lives in Cambridge, serves on the board and used to work at the co-op.

When Hallquist called with something

in good shape.” Since Hallquist took over 10 years ago, it’s cut back on power outages by 75 percent, and the bond rating has bounced back from just above junk to an A rating.

Employees might have met Christine a year ago — had they noticed a framed photo in plain sight on Hallquist’s desk.

When she marched in Burlington’s 2014 gay pride parade, alongside daughter Kiersten, a picture wound up in the next day’s Burlington Free Press.

“It was very clear it was me and my daughter. I thought I was going to have to ’fess up to my company. But nobody said anything,” Hallquist said.

Kiersten bought a copy of the photo and framed it, and Hallquist brought it to work. “I thought, ‘I’ll use this as the vehicle to come out,’” she said. “But nobody ever asked who it was.”

“I learned this is so far out of people’s thinking, no one could ever imagine it was me,” she added.

Westman’s take: “A lot of people were like, ‘We don’t want a change in leadership, because things are dramatically improved.’”

One co-op customer did complain after the story aired on WCAX. The man called Hallquist to say he thought the CEO had misled the co-op and should have to reapply for the CEO job as Christine. “The point he made was, ‘I can handle this gay stuff, but this transgender stuff is just off the scale,’” said Hallquist.

“Another of his points was, ‘What are we going to call you?’”

Hallquist didn’t get defensive but instead invited the man to her office, gave him a tour and sat down to hear him out. “I said, ‘I’m an honorable person; that’s why I did this. I know how unusual it is. I may come to work in a dress, but you can still call me Dave,’” Hallquist said.

Hallquist didn’t identify the questioner, but David Whitcomb, an Eden resident, acknowledged that it was him. Whitcomb

breasts are developing. She’ll soon start working on voice inflection with a speech pathologist. No additional gender reassignment surgery is planned, however, and she’s leaving her thinning hair alone. “I’ve been screwing around with wigs for a few years now,” Hallquist said. “I think I’m finally getting there.”

Her transition has also afforded Hallquist the rare opportunity to experience life both as a man and as a woman.

Those who don’t buy into the notion that there are emotional differences between the two might not agree with Hallquist’s assessment so far. As Christine, she said, she’s less angry and a better listener.

“I do like what it’s done for my leadership. It’s going to take a few years to figure out how much of it is gender-related or not,” she said. “I love the fact that I can just

Dave,” she continued, “I’m so much more comfortable.”

Challenges remain, of course. By December 1, her name needs to be changed legally — and all of her identification updated. Otherwise, Hallquist risks getting stopped by police and handing over a driver’s license that identifies her as David.

“There’s many states that are not as loving as we are,” she observed.

The biggest test of all could come next year, when Hallquist plans to attend a conference of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, an organization with which she has long been active. Many of the group’s members come from rural areas of the South and Midwest. Being Christine there won’t be as easy as it was at the Renewable Energy Vermont conference.

“They’re very conservative. They start

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Johnson said, “There were people who were taken aback. Eyes opened up a bit. It was not your run-of-the-mill board meeting,” Johnson, who knew already, said it was emotional to watch a roomful of others take the news in as Hallquist eloquently told her story. “Spontaneously, everyone started clapping,” Johnson said. “It was very moving.”

Johnson, who’s known Hallquist since 1987, was among a group of state utility leaders who walked with Christine at the 2015 pride parade as a show of support.

The event was a first for Johnson, but he described it as “enlightening” as he watched his friend and other transgender people celebrate something they’ve hidden most of their lives.

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declined to discuss the situation in detail, but said that after he and Hallquist talked for 45 minutes, he came away “fully satisfied.”

While Hallquist has made clear it won’t bother her if people continue to call her Dave or use male pronouns, that’s not the case for all transgender people, particularly if their wishes are blatantly ignored.

“It’s almost like a slap in the face or a reminder that ‘I don’t see you as you see yourself,’” Kraus said. “For those of us who are not transgender, it’s important to understand those little words, they become bigger.”

Hallquist said both employees and colleagues have asked for clarity on that: Should they use “Dave” or “Christine”?

The pronoun “he” or “she”?

Hallquist announced last week that starting December 1, it will be Christine

told her about Christine, in August, Powell said, it was “one of the most powerful” conversations she’s ever had.

“I was really struck by the courage of Dave and his transition to Christine,” Powell said. “I already was a big fan of Dave Hallquist, and I’m an even bigger fan of Dave as Christine.”

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their meetings with Christian prayers,” Hallquist said. “I’m recognized for my skills and talent at the national level. Will I lose that?”

Not according to the association’s media-relations director, who responded via email to an inquiry from Seven Days.

“Christine has a long history of leadership and professionalism within the electric utility industry and among electric cooperatives,” said Debbie Wing. “She is a respected and appreciated member of the electric cooperative family.”

Like any CEO, Hallquist always has an eye to the future. But the past two months have confirmed how hard it is to plan something so personal and life-changing.

Since Christine went public, Hallquist said, none of her fears of rejection, scorn or dismissal have materialized.

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Dave Hallquist used to lift 90-pound weights for 15 repetitions during regular trips to the gym. Christine limits herself to 30 pounds for 30 reps — partly because she’s lost strength since she switched from testosterone to estrogen. But she also wants to keep from bulking up so as to look and feel more feminine. Her oncestocky 5-foot, 10-inch frame could now be described as matronly.

If she hadn’t gone public, Hallquist said, her body would have started to give her away. Her skin is softening, and her

ask questions and listen and take more of a backseat.” She said she’s become more conscious of how women are treated at business meetings, whether their ideas are taken as seriously as men’s, and will be watching that unfold.

Those around Hallquist have noticed she’s happier. “There’s been a change,” DaVia said. “The last couple years you could tell there was something going on with him. He was less happy, less outgoing.

Now, he seems very much relaxed.”

Through her long transition, Hallquist has had doubts about what she was doing and putting others through. “I do get brief moments of ‘This is insane,’ but they’re brief. The reality is, I know this is the right thing to do,” she said.

“I do really feel at peace as Christine,” Hallquist said. “That was the part I really didn’t know a couple weeks ago. It’s amazing how many people see it. It shows in my face, in my expression.

“I’m pretty sure I will not miss being

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who walks through the office door, visits line workers on the job, testifies on behalf of the company at the legislature and represents Vermont at national rural electric co-op meetings.

Vermont Electric Co-op board members — the people who are essentially Hallquist’s bosses — say they are ready.

“My sense is, it isn’t going to be an issue,” said Michelle DaVia, a co-op board member from Westford, who struggled herself over which name or pronoun to use as she spoke about Hallquist. “Christine — and Dave — has proven herself to be so competent,” DaVia said. “I don’t believe there’s going to be any pushback or resistance or ridicule.”

Hallquist’s colleagues in the Vermont energy industry are also standing by her.

Vermont Electric Power VP Johnson recalled an August meeting of his company’s board in Rutland at which Hallquist asked for some time to speak. When she stood up and announced, “I am transgender,”

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tephen P. Kiernan’s new novel is fashioned of three distinct stories, like three circles in a Venn diagram with the narrator in the overlap. Deborah Birch is a hospice nurse caring vigilantly for a patient in the last stages of dying, a retiredin-disgrace history professor named Barclay Reed. Reed’s never-published final manuscript, which Deborah reads aloud to him, provides the second story.

The third involves Deborah’s husband, Michael, who has returned in torment from three deployments in Iraq, most recently serving as a sniper. The circumstances from which this composite tale is made are timely and important.

Kiernan, who lives in the Burlington area, is a graduate of the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop who has worked for a couple of decades as a journalist. He has won multiple awards in particular for his work on the Freedom of Information Act and the First Amendment. Kiernan is the author of a previous novel and two nonfiction books, the second of which, Last Rights: Rescuing the End of Life From the Medical System, directly connects with the setting and themes of his new novel.

The tripartite structure of The Hummingbird is interesting, involving and not difficult to follow. “Nurse Birch” (as the dying Reed insists on calling her, even after they’ve become intimates) goes back and forth between her patient’s bedside and her own home. There, her husband also comes and goes, in obvious disarray and always on the verge of fury. The excerpts from Reed’s manuscript tell the tale of a Japanese pilot who flew secret bombing runs during World War II from a submarine off the coast of Oregon, not far from where Kiernan’s contemporary story takes place.

Reed was accused of plagiarizing the work of a graduate student and lost his faculty position over this manuscript.

According to Kiernan’s end-of-book note, the pilot’s story is partially based on historical events. After the war, a Japanese pilot evidently did visit Oregon and gave an heirloom sword to the town he had previously attempted to bomb. In Kiernan’s story-within-a-story, fictional pilot Ichiro Soga’s humility leads to gradual forgiveness by the community

accompany him to a target range, where he goes for relief from inexpressible emotions, so she can learn how to fire his rifle. This is a complicated, multilayered scene, where the tensions and themes of the novel are powerfully enacted.

And yet, while Kiernan’s narrative proceeds by moving the characters through predicaments that are grave and consequential, at many moments the tone and manner of his storytelling topple over into melodrama. Reed is extremely belligerent, haughty and contemptuous, forever lecturing. Michael is extremely desperate, sullen and silent, traumatized by memories of the precision killings expected of a sniper. Pilot Soga in the embedded story is extremely dignified, even noble. When Reed’s daughter briefly appears, she is extremely aggrieved, offering little but filial hatred.

And Deborah is extremely sensitive, conscientious, persevering and resilient.

Except for Deborah and Michael’s excursion to the firing range, which is genuinely surprising, rarely do any of these people do anything unexpected.

The novel’s characters seem typecast in exaggerated, prefabricated roles.

Likewise, much of the novel’s dialogue reads like an outline for a “message” the author means to convey:

BOOKS he had attacked — a parable of reconciliation after war. In reading the now-forgotten story aloud, Deborah gains faith that a soldier can come home from battle and lay down the guns and the rage.

Speaking to Reed after a session of reading, she considers her responses to the professor’s fable-like story, which she can’t fully believe is true but doesn’t want to dismiss as fictional: I lowered the blinds. The room felt smaller, but not bleak. More private, protected. “Anyway, that’s what your details do. They’re supposed to convince me, but they might be camouflaging the part that’s made up.”

“Excellent syllogism, Nurse Birch. I can explain one thing, however, before you leave for the day—why those details matter very much.”

I placed the string along the headboard so the Professor could open the blinds later if he chose.

“I’m listening.”

“Because they pertain to your husband. They demonstrate that, in order to understand a warrior, first you must understand his weapons.”

“I don’t know what that means.”

“Whether the warrior is Ichiro Soga or your husband, regardless.”

The Professor shrugged. “First you must understand his weapons.”

Then, peering into the little basket where I’d collected his remotes, he selected one, pointed it at the television, and turned away from me.

After reflecting on this conversation, Deborah asks her husband if she can

“Hi, sweetheart.” I leaned down to kiss his forehead. “How was your day at the shop?”

[Michael] jerked back. “What do you mean?”

I kissed him anyway. “I don’t mean anything. How was your day?”

“That’s not the way you put it.

You said, ‘How was your day at the shop?’”

“OK. And?” “So you’re checking up on me now? What, did you go by and ask Gary where I was or something?”

“Honey, I don’t know what you’re talking about. I just had a rough day with my patient so I was just asking —” “This has nothing to do with any stupid patient.”

I took two steps backward.

“Please don’t disparage the people I care for.”

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plausible neither as the scholarly dissertation FROM THE HUMMINGBIRD it’s alleged to be nor as He cleared his throat. “My prognosis, please. The documentary narrative unvarnished truth.” grounded in historical Barclay Reed had gone to that place right away. I read it to mean that he was prepared to hear everything. events.

“You have kidney cancer with multiple metastases. The Kiernan’s Last Rights, fi e-year survival rate is fi e percent.” his previous book about “I presume the process is irreversible?” end-of-life matters, re“Yes.” I expected a reaction, but the Professor only lates pivotal interactions nodded.

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am King felt paralyzed. His heart was pounding so hard, the junior at Lake Region Union High School in Barton thought he was going to pass out in his psychology class. Sam and two of his classmates had to put on a skit. He had practiced saying his lines during rehearsals: “I’m in class. I can’t check my phone right now.” But the 16-year-old felt the familiar block in his throat. He took a deep breath and tried to force the words out. He eventually ran out of breath and had to start again.

But instead of saying his lines, Sam blurted out: “I have a stuttering problem.

And it makes it hard for me to talk.” He then asked his friend Trent to say both of their lines.

“I was so horrified with myself and the situation,” he later recalled. While his classmates continued with the skit, Sam “blacked out,” he said. Even so, he was glad he had told his classmates and teacher about his stutter. “It felt good as I was sitting down,” he remembered.

“The amount of relief I got outweighed the embarrassment.”

Sam is among more than 70 million people worldwide with a speech disorder characterized by repetitions, prolongations or blocks. That’s about 1 percent of the population, according to the Stuttering Foundation of America.

“Instead of taking the superhighway to get the idea from your brain to your mouth, it might take the slower, country road,” explained Dr. Danra Kazenski, clinical assistant professor of communication sciences and disorders at the University of Vermont.

Despite years of research, no one knows exactly what causes stuttering, though possible factors include genetics, child development, neurophysiology and family dynamics. There’s no cure, either, but there are various treatments, including speech and cognitive behavior therapy and support groups.

Along with Dr. Barry Guitar, Kazenski is the coleader of the Burlington chapter of the National Stuttering Association, which organizes support group meetings for school-age kids and their parents, as well as for teens and adults.

“Of all the ages we’re trying to support, the teenage group is the most likely to rather not address their

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stuttering directly,” said Kazenski. “We have teens who’ve come, but they’re uncomfortable.”

“By the time you’re a teenager, you’ve probably had years of fear and avoidance behavior,” said Guitar, who also stutters.

It’s not unusual for teens to trade speech therapy for sports practice and other after-school activities. But, he added, it’s also “very, very, very common” for them to seek treatment again when they’re about to go to college or enter the job market.

Sam’s parents began to notice that his speech was disfluent when he was a preschooler. They took him to a pediatrician, who told them Sam was just trying to hold their attention. According to the Stuttering Foundation, stuttering is part of normal language development in kids between ages 2 and 5, and 5 percent of all children go through a period of stuttering that lasts at least six months. Threequarters of those will recover by late childhood, but 1 percent will continue to stutter into adulthood.

When Sam was in sixth grade, he wanted to invite a friend over but refused to make the phone call himself — it’s common for people who stutter to avoid using the phone because of the time pressure, and because they can’t see the listener. That was when his parents realized Sam’s stutter hadn’t gone away. Instead, he had developed a bag of tricks to help him get by, such as avoiding words that begin with hard consonants including D, C, T, G and K, and instead using words that were easier for him to say.

“I tried to hide it as much as I could,” Sam said, noting that he was most afraid of stuttering in front of his teachers.

“I’m not sure how they’ll react. They might think I’m not as smart. Or I have a mental issue,” he explained.

“People don’t know what’s going on,” the teen continued. “A lot more comes with stuttering. It’s not just the speech part. Like, worrying all the time, exhaustion from word swapping. Having to do that every day. All day.”

Just talking at all could be draining for Sam. “I lose eye contact. I feel it in my throat. The word wants to come out, but it can’t. It feels there’s a wall in my throat. I lose my breath. After a long break, I run out of breath,” he said, between pauses.

So, for the next two years, Sam met with a New Hampshire-based speech therapist in St. Johnsbury because it was the midpoint for both of them. “I was hoping to be fluent,” Sam confessed.

He was taught to exhale a little bit before speaking to slow down his rate of speech. But Sam felt it was too tiring to keep using the technique. When he entered high school, he got busy with sports practice and stopped going for speech therapy. But his stutter hadn’t gone away, and he continued his avoidance behavior.

The tipping point came when Sam was a sophomore and took English honors. After his first class, he told his mother, Barb Limoge-King, that he

“The trick is, the mi-, minute you change environments, you have to kinda relearn how to do those things in those environments.” Manning added, “I, I, I still feel uncomfortable when I’m caught in a stutter, erhm, because of social and emotional condi-di-di-ditioning from it.”

Meeting Manning was “awesome,” Sam said. “His attitude is just amazing. He tries to laugh about it,” the teen remembered.

“My main thing is try to m-m-m-make it seem OK and, like, cool,” Manning said.

The other teens also helped Sam feel less alone when they shared their experiences and struggles with their stutter.

But the four-hour round-trip commute and Sam’s sports practice prevent the Kings from being able to attend the support group meetings more regularly.

Fifteen-year-old Mary Hoyt from Orleans has also made a connection with peers in the Burlington support group.

“But they live far away,” she said, adding that she would like a group closer to home. Her mentor, also a person who

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Monica Menard is a speech language pathologist at the Orleans Central Supervisory Union, which includes Barton, Glover and Orleans. She has identified seven students in her district who have a stutter, though not all of them choose to get speech services. Menard introduced the Kings to the Burlington teen support group and took Mary to one of the meetings, as well. Menard said participating in the Burlington meetings through Skype is also an option.

But, she added, it’s also important to increase awareness of stuttering among teachers, peers and the larger community. The disorder tends not to receive the attention given to cognitive and physical disabilities. And, suggested Menard, stuttering may not always be diagnosed.

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By eighth grade, Mary had stopped going to speech classes. She doesn’t use the techniques she was taught because her mind goes blank when she stutters. Instead, she’s found new coping methods. For example, when she’s introducing herself, Mary prefers to be brief: “I say, like, erhm, I say like, erhm, ‘Mary, from Orleans.’

Erhm, and ‘I like singing, songwriting and that’s it.’ So I don’t, so I don’t say, so I don’t say, ‘I’m, I’m Mary. And I’m from Orleans.’”

During reading class, the young singer-songwriter listens to music on her phone with one earbud. She told her teachers that doing so allows her to focus less on her classmates, and she doesn’t have to worry about them looking at her.

“They said I could ’cause it helps me as long as I’m pay-, paying attention in class,” she said. Mary’s playlist includes “Let It Go” from the movie Frozen. “It, ehrm, it talks about her, erhm, not, erhm, worrying about herself, and so, and so that helps.”

Now that Mary is a freshman at his school, Lake Region Union, Sam said he feels “less isolated.” Like Mary, he made a class presentation on stuttering, and he talked to some of his friends about his stutter. But he said some people still finish his sentences for him.

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didn’t want to return. He wrote a threepage letter to his parents because he wanted to let them know how he felt.

“The reason I worry, I don’t want people to think I’m different,” he explained later.

“He was worried about the future, thinking about job interviews, meeting his girlfriend’s parents for the first time, saying his wedding vows,” recalled Limoge-King, who is a guidance administrative secretary at Lake Region Union.

“I had no idea he was going through all of this. I burst into tears,” she added. “I had my husband read it. He burst into tears. We thought everything was OK.” Limoge-King credited Sam’s guidance counselor for helping him understand that his stutter didn’t define him as a person and that it shouldn’t prevent him from achieving success. Although Sam was hesitant, both mother and son attended the teen support group meeting in Burlington, two hours from their home in Barton.

“In individual therapy, we will target personalized goals,” Kazenski said, noting that clients “will have structured home practice that we will send home with them.” Support group meetings “address self-acceptance” and are “more informal,” with participants sharing their experiences and making connections.

Kazenski estimated that some 6,000 people in Vermont stutter. But for most participants, attending the support group is the first time they encounter other individuals with the disorder.

A familiar face at the UVM meetings is Ben Manning, 24, who is training to be a speech language pathologist at the university. He’s the student leader for school-age kids, but he attends the meetings for the teen and adult groups, too.

Like Sam, Manning stopped going for speech therapy when he entered high school because he wanted to go to ski practice instead. Manning said that since most kids develop speech normally, “if you do not, then you see yourself as different and not as good as everyone else.”

At college, Manning chose to major in geology because the coursework didn’t require many oral presentations. After graduation, he said he couldn’t even apply for jobs because he was too afraid to talk to employers. That was when he decided to join support groups and resume speech therapy.

Today, Manning doesn’t hide his stutter, and he consistently uses techniques when he talks. One of them is “fake” stuttering, which desensitizes him to his stutter. “I can do speech techniques all day in a therapy session. ’Cause that’s wh-, where, where you start,” he said.

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“He never does anything the car doesn’t need,” Hron said. It was a common theme among McCaffrey’s customers.

Moegelin, who’s worked at McCaffrey’s for 11 years, said that approach is one of the reasons he was drawn there after quitting a job at another Burlington garage.

Hron recalled stopping in to ask McCaffrey if he knew where she could get a truck for a quick hauling job. He lent her his.

Other customers came by to thank McCaffrey for making repairs on credit.

It may not have been the wisest business practice, he conceded, saying, “I should’ve made more money. But no regrets.”

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Moegelin is the person to do that, McCaffrey declared. Already proving he’s adept at social media, the new shop owner posted a comment on Front Porch Forum encouraging customers to come by and wish McCaffrey well, calling his departure the “end of an era.” It worked. The steady stream of visitors last week made it hard to fit in the annual fall ritual of tire changing.

Debi Hron, an artist who lives nearby, figured she’s been a customer for about 18 years. She and McCaffrey reminisced about the cars he nursed through life for her: the now-deceased Dodge Caravan, the Toyota Corolla that awaits her this winter in Florida and her current Volkswagen “clunker.”

McCaffrey objected when people congratulated him on his “retirement.” He’s not yet in a position to retire, he was quick to say, and he expects soon to be busy with other work. He’s also still Moegelin’s landlord, as part owner of the building that houses the garage and Waggy’s Store & Deli — the convenience shop that coowner Clayton Wagner added in 1994.

As McCaffrey stripped the Forester of its summer tires, slipped them off their rims and replaced them with snow tires, the cordless phone was a constant companion. “McCaffrey’s Sunoco,” he has been saying into the receiver for 27 years — always sounding as if he has nothing better to do than chat with callers, whose names, cars and stories he almost always knows.

His calm contrasted with the scene around him on Wednesday afternoon.

Even as they worked in the garage and greeted well-wishers, McCaffrey and Moegelin were immersed in the logistics of changing ownership. McCaffrey was canceling the Yellow Pages ad he’s been running for nearly three decades. Moegelin was on the phone talking to vendors. As the clock ticked past 3 p.m., they worried they wouldn’t get every car done by 5:30.

“I can’t think of a day when we haven’t gotten everything done,” Moegelin commented as McCaffrey listed off what still needed doing.

But a Subaru sedan in the far bay had an unexpected transmission-fluid leak that was hard to reach. On his penultimate day as shop owner, McCaffrey had to decide whether to buy two new tools to complete the job. He picked up the phone and ordered them.

Two days later — the first day in 27 years he hadn’t been in charge of the auto shop — McCaffrey was home in South Burlington, pondering how long it would take him to empty his pickup of all the stuff he’d brought with him. His phone kept ringing.

One of the calls came from his old crew. The heater in the garage bays, which is fueled by waste oil, wasn’t working.

McCaffrey gave the caller the name of the heating guy who’d installed it and said, “He’ll fix you up good.”

McCaffrey will be back at North and North intermittently, probably up on a ladder fixing something as the landlord.

But on this day, it was time to leave the business to Moegelin.

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hen Pat McCaffrey was a boy growing up in South Burlington, he used to go with his father on Saturdays to the local gas stations, where the guys gathered to chew the fat. They would save the soda bottle caps for young Pat, who played with them like a cheap version of Legos. But mostly, he loved listening to the chatter.

A couple of decades later, when McCaffrey was looking for a better way to make a living than selling auto parts, he liked the idea of running his own gas station and auto repair shop. In 1988, he bought what had been Rick’s Sunoco, on the corner of North Avenue and North Street in Burlington, from Rick Vogel.

For the next 27 years, customers at McCaffrey’s Sunoco would stop in for an oil change or a tune-up and to ruminate on the issues of the day. McCaffrey has scared away drug dealers, inched reluctantly into the computer age, delivered last rites on more cars than he can count and collected a following of devoted customers who trust him with one of their most expensive possessions.

“It’s special to me,” he said, “to be able to watch people come in and out and see how life passes out front.”

But last Thursday, McCaffrey gave up his perch, selling the business to longtime trusted mechanic Brian Moegelin. The shop reopened Friday morning as Brian’s North End Automotive. (Too many people butcher his last name, Moegelin said.)

“I think it’s time for other people to have an opportunity without me,” McCaffrey said last Wednesday, dressed in a grime-smeared blue Sunoco T-shirt and shorts, as he changed the tires on a red Subaru Forester.

Technology has changed the car repair business by light-years, as it has so many industries, McCaffrey noted. When he started, it was just him and one mechanic working on cars, the humans doing all the diagnostics. These days, he said, it takes four or five mechanics to keep up with the constant, increasingly complicated changes in the automotive world. “You’ve got to know a lot about a lot of cars,” he said.

McCaffrey has watched hourly repair rates climb accordingly — from $24 an hour toward $80 an hour — to cover the know-how and the equipment.

“You have to upgrade. At 59, I’m not prepared to take it to the next level,” he said.

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rt, nature and culinary passion unite in the work of artisanal knife makers Nick Anger and Moriah Cowles. Both forge carbon steel blades by hand, one at a time, and affix them to elegant wood handles. Anger (pronounced ahn-jay), of Anger Knives, works in a garage behind a Main Street art-supply store in downtown Johnson. Cowles’ shop, Orchard Steel, is in a space behind Feldman’s Bagels on Pine Street in Burlington.

Physically, Anger and Cowles couldn’t be more different. He stands at 6-foot-9, is fully bearded and knit-capped, and concedes that he’s heard plenty of Paul Bunyan comments. She is slight in skinny jeans, dangly earrings and silken dark hair — though her beat-up sneakers, leather apron and eye protection suggest Cowles’ inclination toward heavy machine work.

What the Vermont natives share are a love for the natural beauty of steel, a fascination with the way it transforms under heat and pressure, and the satisfaction of creating useful works of art — knives as handsome as they are effective.

Seven Days visited both knife makers to find out how they meld form and function.

Nick Anger, Anger Knives The stick of steel glows bright orange when Nick Anger pulls it from the forge and clamps it into a vice, then twists it into a spiral as it cools to an ashen charcoal color.

Then the steel goes back into the oven, which sits just outside the open garage door of Anger’s workshop and connects to a propane tank. Gripping tongs around this billet — a piece of parent material — Anger removes it from the fire again and pounds it on an anvil with a hefty hammer.

Next it returns to the forge, which is close to 1,900 degrees Fahrenheit.

Several more times Anger pounds on the anvil. Alternately, under the pneumatic power hammer, the stick starts to flatten and stretch. Anger heats it again to shape the bolster, which holds the blade against the handle, and the short stem of a tang — the steel that extends from the tip to the bottom of the handle.

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Anger works the metal again and again.

Orange-hot under the 24-ton hydraulic forging press, it relents like butter. The press gives Anger another “squeeze” of the tight stack of steel, known as Damascus for its signature wavy patterns.

Damascus is Anger’s forte. He creates custom patterns with as many as 400 layers of steel, which are forged into a cake of various alloys. Each one has a different chemical composition that leaves unique waves in the finished blade.

With the heat, it “gets a little bit loose, and it’s able to accept other things into its matrix,” Anger says. “And for me, that’s supercool.”

After the gauntlet of heat and hammer assaults, a small, rudimentary blade takes shape. It looks primitive, with no hint of the Damascus pattern. A dip into ferric chloride, which reacts with the various

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concentrations of nickel and other elements, brings out the design.

Not until Anger grinds the blade smooth on a belt and polishes it with finer and finer grit does its true character show.

Some designs look like intricate flower petals or butterfly wings.

Anger’s handles are made from native Vermont woods or exotic redwood. He uses no pins to set the tang in the handle but fits the steel stem into a bulb in the bottom of the handle filled with epoxy so strong it can be used to build sailboats.

“There’s a shitload of unrecognized, underappreciated work in this,” he says.

Anger, 35, grew up in Colchester. As a kid, he was fascinated with weapons and knives. “I always liked anything, really, that was shiny and sharp,” he says.

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Northern Vermonters know ADAM RAFTERY as the chef behind South Burlington’s WOODEN SPOON BISTRO and Burlington’s ST. PAUL STREET GASTROGRUB. He still owns those restaurants with sister LIZA O’BRIEN, as well as taco cart the FRONT YARD. But Raftery hasn’t cooked at his eateries since the summer; he’s busy preparing for a new venture.

In December, his cuisine will fly south to Manchester Village with the opening of the COPPER GROUSE. The new restaurant is the centerpiece of the soon-to-open TACONIC HOTEL, Vermont’s first link in the San Francisco-based boutique chain of Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants.

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The developing menu currently includes a take on cheddar-ale soup incorporating GRAFTON VILLAGE CHEESE and Burlington’s SWITCHBACK BREWING ale; pan-roasted lamb sirloin with young carrots and candied beets; and mussels steamed with CITIZEN CIDER and VERMONT SMOKE & CURE bacon. Raftery promises several maplefocused dishes, and he will lead excursions to local sugarhouses. He’ll even offer sugar-on-snow in the hotel lobby, come sap season.

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After earning a bachelor’s degree in anthropology and sociology from Johnson State College, he took a job with Laraway Youth & Family Services in Johnson. In 2007, he started to teach himself knife making through books and the internet.

“When I first hit hot steel, I was instantly smitten with all of it,” Anger says.

Over four years, while still working in mental health, he honed his skills as a blacksmith at IronArt, a custom metalwork shop in Stowe. He crafted railings, fireplace screens and other big items.

“Once you learn how to command the materials, in a sense, you can move that in whatever direction you want,” Anger says.

By 2012, he had saved enough money to make a leap into full-time forge work.

Anger talks about knives and steel with a science-laden philosophy, even spirituality. “What I’m interested in is the redistribution of mass, of hidden potential,” he says.

He eschews reducing his work to a single idea — and certainly not a single product. Anger’s current repertoire includes daggers, cleavers, switchblades and axes. “I can make anything,” he says.

“I don’t think I’m limited. What I seek is complete understanding of the physical world that I want to interact with.”

Anger does not take orders. A select few patrons claim most of his production.

And he will grant requested knives to certain customers, mainly friends, fellow artists and chefs — including Tyler Florence of Food Network fame. On his Instagram page, which has 14,200 followers, Anger features multiple images but rarely lists knives for sale. When he does, the cost is $75 to $100 per cutting inch.

Wannabe Anger knife owners will just have to wait for him to offer one up. “If I’m not feeling it, I can’t do anything,” Anger says. “That’s why I can’t have somebody expecting something from me.”

Moriah Cowles, Orchard Steel When Moriah Cowles launched her knifemaking business in Brooklyn in April 2013, she was getting up to four orders a week and fulfilling them in about two weeks. Then, 17 months later, the Wall Street Journal included her knives in a small shopping feature. Suddenly, Cowles had 40 requests per day, which extended the wait list beyond a year. In March of this year, Cowles had to stop taking orders so she could catch up.

“It was awesome,” she says, “But it was also like, ‘Oh, fuck.’”

Orchard Steel knives boast a sleek design that Cowles continues to tweak and perfect.

The spine is totally straight. The handle creeps up the spine for higher grip. The belly of the blade rocks, but not too much,

because some chefs told her their arms tire with constant up-and-down motion.

Because she makes each knife by hand, Cowles says, she knows how it feels to hold them. “One of the things that’s really important is balance,” she says. “The way that I created the design makes a balanced knife.”

Orchard Steel offers paring, steak and chef knives ranging from five to 11 inches long and priced at $250 to $700. Each blade is etched with her “Mo” logo, and the handle pins are ornate, geometric designs by an artist in Oregon.

Having grown up at Shelburne Orchards, which her family owns, Cowles connects her artistic sensibility to the food produced on that land by creating a tool to slice through it. Many of her knife handles are made from the wood of apple trees from the orchard.

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“Something that was missing from art for me was the feeling of function,” she says. “There was this feeling of making something with my hands and then using it.”

Cowles, 31, took her first blacksmithing class as a student at Colorado College. She immediately took to the fire, the hammer and the hard, inflexible substance that she could manipulate into something curved — almost feminine.

After she graduated and returned home, a farrier friend loaned Cowles an anvil, and her parents paid for half of her forge. She later trained in North Carolina and in Maine with the American Bladesmith Society.

During a trip to Mexico in between those courses, Cowles found her way to a longtime knife maker in Lago de Pátzcuaro and spent six weeks apprenticing in a workshop with a coal-fired forge and bicycle-powered grinder. “It was the first time I got a sense for watching someone take a knife through the whole process,” she says.

Still, Cowles insists she’ll never master the entire process. “There’s so many nuances that change the way the steel performs,” she says, noting the complex science behind it. “It feels like magic to me a little bit.”

Cowles considered filmmaking and farming in addition to forge work, before a friend in Brooklyn told her about a nearby knife maker who was looking for help. “I met him and we were, like, totally nerding out on knives,” she says of Joel Bukiewicz, owner of Cut Brooklyn. So Cowles left Vermont for New York and worked with him for two years.

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“That’s really important to me, that I’m still doing something I love and not trying to crank out as many knives as possible,” she says.

After Cowles left Cut and started her own shop in Brooklyn, she built a customer base slowly — that is, before the Wall Street Journal piece came out. In June, she moved the business to Vermont to be closer to family, her boyfriend, and the woods and ski slopes.

This month, as she’s completing her orders from a year ago, Cowles hopes to make a few knives available for the holiday season. She’s not sure about starting another order list, though, because, like Anger, she wants to enjoy the work without the pressure. “Part of the appeal,” she says, “is that they’re all made one by one.” m

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Bukiewicz’s method is known as stock removal. He draws and cuts his blades from sheets of steel, rather than forging them. Cowles refined her grinding techniques to get a near-perfect edge, down to 0.007 of an inch.

But she remained enamored of the power of fire over a blade. “You can change the molecular structure of the steel by heating it in certain ways,” she notes.

Cowles uses primarily 52100 carbon steel. Once she gets her blades to their desired shape with a 2,000-degree forge and her pneumatic power hammer, she “quenches” them by plunging them in oil that drops the temperature to 400 degrees, locking in the structure so it’s extremely hard and brittle but easily breaks or chips.

Then she has to temper the blade to make it more pliable and durable.

“It’s basically creating the perfect balance of hardness and flexibility and durability,” she explains.

Bukiewicz also gave Cowles some business lessons. While she was working at Cut, kitchen-wares chain WilliamsSonoma offered him a deal that would have required a fast ramp-up of production

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etaka White eyes a field of sunwithered sunflowers rustling in a stiff autumn wind. Even before a harvester mows down the seven-acre crop in Addison, he knows that the yield, which is destined for producing sunflower oil, will be underwhelming. The seeds were planted later than expected owing to a very wet spring, which was followed by an unusually arid summer.

Still, White tries to put a positive spin on the desiccated crop. “We won’t have to dry it,” he says optimistically. “Just think of all the energy we won’t have to use.”

As a 22-foot-wide combine chews through the brittle stalks — its spiked, metal maw resembling a vehicle out of a Mad Max movie — sunflower chaff flies from the rear of the harvester.

By day’s end, several tons of sunflower seeds are bagged and ready to be trucked to Full Sun Company in Middlebury, which opened last year as New England’s first non-GMO-verified oil mill. There, the seeds will be cold-pressed into artisanal sunflower oil.

White, 54, and his business partner, David McManus, 55, founded Full Sun

Company in 2014 with the goal of creating high-quality unrefined food oils from non-GMO seeds grown by local farmers.

In its first year of production, Full Sun pressed only about 700 gallons combined of sunflower and canola oil. But by the end of next year’s harvest, White predicts that the company will be producing about 36,000 gallons of oil annually; and, by 2020, 140,000 gallons.

Full Sun’s 6,000-square-foot processing facility is located on Middlebury’s foodand beverage-intensive Exchange Street, in warehouse space vacated by Vermont Soap after its June 2014 fire. On one side of the warehouse, about 30 one-ton bags of canola and sunflower seeds await processing. On the other side, an automated auger feeds the seeds into a cold-press expeller, whose slow churn results in a dribble of nutty, golden-brown oil. It’s ideal for lowheat sautéing and drizzles, as well as for making sauces, dressings and marinades.

McManus, who’s based in Etna, N.H., has years of experience in the processedfood industry, having helped launch the organic-meat company Applegate. He and White chose the cold-press process

because it yields oils that are healthier and more flavorful than the heavily refined and mass-produced “French fry” oils, he explains. Full Sun’s sunflower oil is low in saturated fat and rich in oleic monounsaturated fatty acids and omega 3, 6 and 9; it’s also a great source of vitamin E. The company’s canola oil is likewise low in saturated fat and contains omega-3 and -6 fatty acids. Both are certified non-GMO products.

The sunflower and canola oils are stable up to about 360 degrees Fahrenheit, McManus adds. Though that smoke point means that neither oil is suitable for deep frying or searing, both provide cooks with a fair bit of versatility and flavor when used as a drizzle, a finishing oil, or a base for dressings and sauces — something McManus often has to explain at in-store demonstrations.

“It’s really an education, because most [chefs] have never tasted anything like it,” McManus says. “It’s very, very different.”

Full Sun’s products are just starting to get discovered by Vermont restaurateurs and grocery buyers, who say they’re impressed with its product and mission.

“We’re delighted to connect with Full Sun Company and share their non-GMO canola oil and sunflower oil with our customers,” notes Allison Weinhagen, director of community engagement at City Market/Onion River Co-op in Burlington.

“These high-quality Vermont and regionally sourced oils are milled in Vermont and fill a long-standing gap that we’ve had in our oil set in terms of local products.”

Because Full Sun’s cold pressing uses no heat or chemicals, the process is exceptionally clean and creates virtually no waste, White says. In fact, the organic material left behind after the pressing isn’t referred to as a byproduct but as a “coproduct” — a high-protein, high-fat meal that the company bags and sells to area farmers as feed for chickens and hogs.

Any off-spec oil gets sold to local biofuel producers.

McManus and White didn’t initially set out to make oil for food, but for fuel.

Back in 1990, in Oregon, White founded a company called Artisan Gear, which made backpacks and other hiking accessories out of hemp canvas. By 2001, when the domestic hemp industry “imploded,” White says, he shifted his focus from hemp as a fiber source to hemp as seed oil. He began helping farmers “green up” their operations by weaning them off diesel fuel and replacing it with biofuels.

For the next decade, White thrived in the biofuel industry, first as cofounder and executive director of the Vermont Biofuels Association, then as cofounder of Acorn Renewable Energy Co-op, and finally as bioenergy program director of the Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund.

“I just fell in love with the whole notion of growing a crop here and turning it into oil,” he says. “Oil has 101 uses. There’s so much you can do with it.”

White and McManus met while the latter was working in Brattleboro on an alternative energy project. Although White initially thought the two would team up to found a biofuel company using Vermont and other regionally grown seed crops, they quickly realized that such a model wasn’t economically viable, because local growers simply couldn’t produce the volume of oilseed needed to support a biofuel-production plant. So McManus suggested that they grow seed crops for culinary oil instead.

One novel component of Full Sun’s business model is that it contracts with farmers to grow the seeds, then provides them with a seed stock best suited for growing in Vermont’s climate and soil to produce food oil. Such an arrangement is advantageous to growers, McManus explains, because the prices they receive for these crops aren’t as volatile as those of other commodities, such as corn and

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Currently, only 2 to 3 percent of Full Sun’s sunflower and canola seeds are grown in Vermont or within a 100-mile radius; much of its non-GMO canola comes from Prince Edward Island and other farms in eastern Canada. However, White and McManus hope that will soon change.

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“Two weeks ago, I wouldn’t have been able to tell you what a truffle oil is,” White admits. “Now I can tell you they’ll be buying our canola oil.”

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“What I like is the nuttiness of the oil,” Jarmusz explains. “It adds another dimension to the flavors of the dishes we’re preparing.”

Even as Full Sun expands the reach of its original products, it has a new one in its oil pipeline. Returning to his roots in the hempproducts industry, White says they expect to begin growing, harvesting and pressing hemp seeds for culinary oil by 2017. starts at “We’re hemp-ready right now,” White says, “but it’s too hard to get the seed in a baklava commercial volume.” To get there, he conmelomakarona tinues, he and McManus have been trying to Kourabiedes grow enough hemp to plant a 100-acre field.

Will a 100-acre hemp field, which dinner starts at 11 a.m.- 7 p.m. bears a striking resemblance to a field of Eat-In • Take-Out marijuana, raise any nosy neighbors’ eyebrows? White isn’t concerned; Full Sun’s growing operation is already registered with the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food & Markets. As he puts it, “I was more concerned that kids would see it includes Rice Pilaf & Greek Salad and start cutting it down, thinking it’s going to get them high, which it can’t possibly do.” m

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“We were in the assessment phase for a long time,” says Laura Kloeti. “We didn’t want to come in, like, We can cook, so we know how to run this place.

We really wanted to watch it and figure things out.”

On Monday, after nearly seven months of incremental changes, the restaurant served its final shift as Crop Bistro & Brewery. When it reopens on November 11, it will do so as IDLETYME BREWING COMPANY. Though Bissell will launch a new autumn/winter menu upon reopening, Kloeti says that’s more about seasonal rotation than sweeping change. Locals can expect the same burgers, chicken, potatoes and other pub-style comfort food they’ve been getting to know since May, with adjustments to showcase seasonal ingredients — and beers.

As for those beers, brewmaster WILL GILSON’s ever-popular brews will remain unchanged. “Will is here, he’s incredible and he’s an artist,” Kloeti says. “[He and the kitchen] work together all the time.” That collaboration has given rise to dishes such as a vanilla porter stickytoffee pudding and an onion tart made with Gilson’s Helles Brook Lager.

To help consumers connect the dots between the two brands, Kloeti says she plans to change the beer labeling slowly. For now, Gilson’s Helles Brook Lager, Fall Bock Lager

and Idletyme IPA will be sold under the Crop Brewery label. Gilson tells Seven Days he hopes to transition to the new labels in early 2016.

The brewery is also adding fermentation tanks to increase production, with an eye toward shipping more kegs to local restaurants and selling more retail bottles. Gilson has begun brewery projects such as aging beers — look for an English-style barley wine aged in rum-soaked oak barrels from MAD RIVER DISTILLERS very, very soon.

Back in the pub, most of the changes are cosmetic: Kloeti says renovations include refinishing the floors, painting and changing the layout to improve the flow. She describes those as just finishing touches in a process that she and her husband hope will return the pub to the laid-back community spot of the Shed Restaurant & Brewery days.

To celebrate that mission, Idletyme Brewing will host a reopening party with snacks, live music and beer tastings — including one very special new brew — on Sunday, November 15. “This property was always the hub of town,” says Kloeti, who has lived in Stowe for 16 years and raised her family there. “That is the most important thing to us, and we want this place to become that.”

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BLOOD DRIVE: Healthy donors give the gift of life.

Vermont State Employees Credit Union, Rutland, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 371-5162.

DANCE-BASED CONDITIONING: Melissa Ham-Ellis guides students through a series of stretching and strengthening movements. No dance experience is required. Fusion 802 Dance, South Burlington, 7:158:15 p.m. $15. Info, 444-0100.

EATING WELL ON A BUDGET FOR FAMILIES: A weekly workshop with Frances Fleming of the UVM Extension highlights ways to save and get healthy. Community Room, Hunger Mountain Coop, Montpelier, 5:30-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 223-8000, ext. 202.

INSIGHT MEDITATION: Attendees deepen their understanding of Buddhist principles and practices.

Wellspring Mental Health and Wellness Center, Hardwick, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 472-6694.

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The Beat Goes On The Queen City is a cultural melting pot during this weekend’s West African Dance and Drum Festival, presented by Burlington’s Jeh Kulu Dance and Drum Theater. For three days, movers and shakers of all ability levels can get into the groove with movement and percussion classes taught by internationally renowned artists from Guinea, Senegal and Mali. Those who are less rhythmically inclined can browse the African marketplace, which boasts clothing, jewelry, instruments and other authentic wares. For the night owls out there, a special Saturday staging at North End Studios gives way to an after-hours dance party featuring live performances by A2VT and DJ MoT.

DANCE AND DRUM FESTIVAL Friday, November 6, 5:30-8:45 p.m., Saturday, November 7, 8:30 a.m.-6 p.m., and Sunday, November 8, 10 a.m.-5:45 p.m., at Burlington City Hall, and Saturday, November 7, 8 p.m.-1 a.m., at North End Studios in Burlington. Prices vary; preregister for classes. Info, 859-1802. jehkulu.org

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Armed with mandolin, fiddle, banjo, bass and voice, the Bluegrass Gospel Project push the parameters of their genre. If its YouTube videos are any indicator, the sixmember ensemble is as comfortable putting a twangy twist to U2’s “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” as picking along to a traditional spiritual number such as “River of Jordan.” “They have this natural onstage camaraderie,” says Vergennes Opera House president Gerianne Smart, “that shows off their incredible musicianship and tight-knit vocal harmonies.” Front man Taylor Armerding of Northern Lights fame leads the group in a program ranging from pop-rock cover tunes to sacred strains.

BLUEGRASS GOSPEL PROJECT Saturday, November 7, 7:30 p.m., at Vergennes Opera House. $18. Info, 877-6737. vergennesoperahouse.org

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Friday, November 6, and Saturday, November 7, 8 p.m., and Sunday, November 8, 2 p.m., at Moore ˜ eater, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, in Hanover, N.H. See website for additional dates. $10-12. Info, 603-6462422. hop.dartmouth.edu

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Friday, November 6, 8 p.m., at Barre Opera House. $27.50. Info, 476-8188. barreoperahouse.org

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Comedian Bob Marley is a Maine-iac and darn proud of it. Throughout his celebrated standup career, the Bangorborn jokester has mined his Pine Tree State roots for knee-slapping material.

Whether touting Tom Brady’s supposed superhuman powers or skewering the northeastern pastime of heading “upta camp,” Marley serves up cheeky wit with a wicked New England twist. His riotous regional observations, doled out with distinctly non-rhotic delivery, fill out more than 20 comedy CDs with titles such as Drop It Haahd! and The Irish Curse.

The funnyman slings sizzling zingers this Friday at the Barre Opera House.

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he fictional character Don Juan is notorious for his womanizing ways. In the play Don Juan Comes Back From the War, the infamous tomcat channels a weightier message, exploring the farreaching effects of military conflict. Early-20th-century playwright Ödön von Horváth paints the lothario as a soldier who returns home after World War I to find that the lives of women he and his brothers-in-arms left behind have been irrevocably altered by the bloodshed. Nine student actors show their chops portraying 35 female characters in this Dartmouth College Department of Theater production, proving that even the most reckless romantic can by hardened by the horrors of war.

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NIA WITH LINDA: World music and movements drawn from martial, dance and healing arts inspire folks to find their own paths to fitness. South En Studio, Burlington, 8:30 a.m. $14. Info, 372-1721.

POSTNATAL REHAB: Babies are welcome at a class aimed at strengthening the areas most compromised during pregnancy. Prenatal Method Studio, Burlington, 10:30-11:30 a.m. $15. Info, 829-0211.

PRENATAL BALLET BARRE: Expectant mothers in all trimesters stay strong and fit. Prenatal Method Studio, Burlington, 5:30-6:30 p.m. $15. Info, 829-0211.

PRENATAL YOGA CLASS: Moms-to-be prepare their bodies for labor and delivery. Prenatal Method Studio, Burlington, 12:15-1:15 p.m. $15. Info, 829-0211.

PUSH-UPS IN THE PARK: Fitness fanatics get a sweat on at a fast and furious workout that benefits local charities. Oakledge Park, Burlington, 6-7 a.m. $5-15. Info, 658-0949.

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kids

BOOK DISCUSSIONS FOR HOMESCHOOLED STUDENTS: Youngsters, grouped by age, chat about their favorite titles. Call for details. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 9-10 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

BUILD IT!: Engineering challenges engage students in grades 3 through 5. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 3-4 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 878-4918.

‘CLIFFORD THE BIG RED DOG LIVE: A BIG FAMILY MUSICAL’: Little ones embark on a journey with the lovable pooch from Norman Bridwell’s children’s book series. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 7 p.m. $21.50. Info, 775-0903.

DOROTHY CANFIELD FISHER BOOK DISCUSSION: Readers ages 8 through 11 weigh in on The Boundless by Kenneth Oppel. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660.

HIGHGATE FALL STORY TIME: Budding bookworms share read-aloud tales, wiggles and giggles with Mrs. Liza. Highgate Public Library, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 868-3970.

language

BEGINNER ENGLISH LANGUAGE CLASS: Students build a foundation in reading, speaking and writing.

Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 863-3403.

GERMAN CONVERSATION GROUP: Community members practice conversing auf Deutsch. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 865-7211.

EVAN THOMAS: Newsweek’s former editor at large puts forth a complex portrait of the scandal-ridden president in “Being Nixon: A Man Divided” in a First Wednesday series lecture. Norwich Congregational Church, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 649-1184.

GENE LUEN YANG: The ca toonist outlines his graphic novel in the talk “The Monkey King and I: The Making of American Born Chinese.”

Room 105, Davis Family Library, Middlebury College, 4:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 443-6433.

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‘BUTCHER’: Staged by the Centaur Theatre Compan , this war-crime drama keeps viewers on the edge of their seats.

Centaur Theatre, Montréal, 8 p.m. $28-50. Info, 514-288-3161.

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Vergennes Opera House, 6-7 p.m. $10. Info, 349-0026.

STORY TIME FOR 3- TO 5-YEAR-OLDS: Preschoolers stretch their reading skills through activities involving puppets and books. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10-10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

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WEDNESDAY NIGHT SOUND MEDITATION: The sacred tones of Tibetan singing bowls, gong, didgeridoo and drum send participants on a journey exploring body, heart and soul. The ellness Collective, Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 540-0186.

THE DISH: A SERIES FOR INQUISITIVE EATERS: Panelists ponder issues of labor and social justice within Vermont’s thriving local food system.

ArtsRiot, Burlington, 5-7 p.m. $5 suggested donation. Info, 540-0406.

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RECOVERY COMMUNITY YOGA: A stretching session for all ability levels builds physical and mental strength to support healing. Turning Point Center, Burlington, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 861-3150.

DAVID MACAULAY: An overview of his current projects and challenges rounds out the author’s First Wednesday series talk “Life in the Studio.”

Unitarian Church of Montpelier, 7-8:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 223-3338.

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R.I.P.P.E.D.: Resistance, intervals, power, plyometrics, endurance and diet define this high-intensi y physical-fitness program. No th End Studio A, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. $10. Info, 578-9243.

STORY TIME & PLAYGROUP: Engrossing plots unfold into projects for kids up to age 6 and their grown-ups. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 10 11:30 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.

‘BUILDING BRIDGES OR NEW COLD WAR? DEMYSTIFYING THE STEREOTYPES OF RUSSIA & HER PEOPLE’: Jan Corderman, a recent visitor to Russia, shares a PowerPoint presentation followed by a panel discussion with area scholars.

Burlington City Arts, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 518-561-3939.

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QUIT SMOKING WITH HERBS!: Puffers examine traditional uses of tobacco and learn key strategies for eliminating or reducing nicotine dependence. Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, Montpelier, 6-8 p.m. $10-12; preregister. Info, 224-7100.

‘SEA MONSTERS: A PREHISTORIC ADVENTURE’: A dolichorhynchops braves history’s most dangerous oceans in a National Geographic Studios 2D and 3D movie. Northfield Savings Bank Theater: A Nationa Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 10:45 a.m. & 12:45 & 2:45 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $10.50-13.50; free for kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848.

talks

HUCK GUTMAN: The Uni ersity of Vermont professor reads between the poet’s lines in “Walt Whitman and the Civil War” as part of the First Wednesday series. Goodrich Memorial Library, Newport, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 334-7902.

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MINDFULNESS CLASS: Dogma-free meditative techniques lead to peace, joy and freedom.

Exquisite Mind Studio, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. $5-20. Info, 735-2265.

ONE-ON-ONE TUTORING: First through sixth graders get extra help in reading, math and science.

Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 3:30-8 p.m.

Free. Info, 264-5660.

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MINDFUL WORKWEEKS: WEDNESDAY NIGHT MEDITATION: Give your brain a break at a midweek “om” session followed by tea and conversation.

Milarepa Center, Barnet, 7-8 p.m. Donations. Info, 633-4136.

KIDS’ OPEN GYM: Physical fitness is disguised as fun for young ‘uns ages 6 to 10. Church of the Nazarene, Williston, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 878-8591.

WOMEN’S PICKUP BASKETBALL: Drive to the hoop! Ladies dribble up and down the court during an evening of friendly competition. See meetup. com for details. Lyman C. Hunt Middle School, Burlington, 8-9:30 p.m. Free. Info, carmengeorgevt@gmail.com.

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MEDITATION & DISCUSSION GROUP: Teacher Barry Weiss encourages participants to quiet the mind for increased energy and decreased stress and anxiety. Spirit Dancer Books & Gifts, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 660-8060.

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HIGHGATE MUSIC & MOVEMENT STORY TIME: Wee ones get the wiggles out with songs and narratives. Highgate Public Library, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 868-3970.

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JAMES MARONEY: The talk “Georgia O’Keeffe: A Critical Look,” part of the First Wednesday series, astounds art hounds with an evaluation of the painter’s best work. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 7-8:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 748-8291.

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MTL À TABLE: Foodies fall into more than 150 participating eateries during Montréal’s restaurant week. See tourisme-montréal.org for details. Various Montréal locations. Prices vary. Info, icyr@mtl.org.

music

SINGERS & PLAYERS OF INSTRUMENTS: Musicians of all levels bring voices and gear to meet and mingle with fellow performers. The ellness Co-op, Burlington, 5-6 p.m. Free. Info, 999-7373.

WORLD MUSIC PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE: Hafiz Shabazz directs a musical tour combining rhythms and melodies from West Africa and South America.

Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $9-10.

Info, 603-646-2422.

politics

MEET & GREET WITH SUE MINTER: Potential voters shake hands with the gubernatorial candidate.

Union Station, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. Free; cash bar; preregister. Info, 488-5245.

seminars

FINANCIAL CAPABILITIES WORKSHOP: Folks from all walks of life bank money-management tips.

NeighborWorks of Western Vermont, West Rutland, 5-9 p.m. $25 refundable deposit; preregister; limited space. Info, 438-2303, ext. 210.

VETERANS TRAINING: Individuals who have served their country take home information on how to make the most of their benefits. No thwestern Medical Center, St. Albans, 8 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister. Info, 527-7531.

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JOHN HOCKENBERRY: As part of the First Wednesday series, the host of “The akeaway” delves into a hot topic in “Climate of Doubt.”

McCarthy Arts Center, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955.

JOHNSON STATE COLLEGE FREE SPEAKER SERIES: Eric Hanson engages ornithology enthusiasts with “The Natural (and Unnatural) Histo y of the Common Loon: From Territorial Takeovers and Sibling Rivalry to Mercury Laziness and Satellite Tracking.” Room 207, Bentley Hall, Johnson State College, 4-5:15 p.m. Free. Info, 635-1327.

MARK A. STOLER: This insta lment of the First Wednesday series examines world leaders with “Churchill and Roosevelt: The Personal Element in Their Pa tnership.” Rutland Free Library, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 773-1860.

RICHARD BLANCO: Cultural identity is central to “Becoming American: An Inaugural Poet’s Journey,” presented as part of the First Wednesdays series.

Mead Memorial Chapel, Middlebury College, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4095.

theater

‘THE BOYS NEXT DOOR’: Johnson State College students stage this drama comprising vignettes about four men facing various disabilities and mental health issues. Dibden Center for the Arts, Johnson State College, 1-3 p.m. Free. Info, 635-1476.

‘INTERSECTIONS’: Letters from inmates inspired this dramatic work that asks the question, “What is broken about the criminal justice system?”

FlynnSpace, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $21-25. Info, 863-5966.

NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: Of Mice and Men, starring James Franco and Chris O’ Dowd, is broadcast to the the big screen. Woodstock Town Hall Theatre, 7:30-10:30 p.m. $12-20. Info, 457-3981

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BOBBY HACKNEY: The punk icon stops y for a talk, Q&A and signing of his new book Rock ’N’ Roll Victims, the Story of a Band Called Death: My Story of Growing Up in Detroit, My Family, and Rock ’N’ Roll. Phoenix Books Burlington, 7 p.m. $3; limited space. Info, 448-3350.

BOOK DISCUSSION: ‘SUSTAINABILITY’: Lit lovers chew the fat over Wendell Berry’s Another Turn of the Crank. Bradford Public Library, 6:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 222-4536.

READING GROUP DISCUSSION: A two-part talk explores poet Tamra Higgins’ book Nothing Saved Us. Craftsbury Public Library, 5-6 p.m. Free. Info, 586-9683.

ROBERT MELLO: The ermont Superior Court judge lets his love of history shine in his book Moses Robinson and the Founding of Vermont.

Milton Historical Museum, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 363-2598.

STORYCRAFT: THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF CREATIVE WRITING: Wordsmiths put pen to paper in this eight-week workshop with Vermont author Keith Morrill. Bixby Memorial Library, Vergennes, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 877-2211, ext. 208.

WEDNESDAY CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP: Lit lovers analyze works-in-progress penned by Burlington Writers Workshop members. 22 Church St., Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free; preregister at meetup.com; limited space. Info, 383-8104.

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FREDERICK DOUGLASS DISCUSSION GROUP: A book-based conversation draws parallels between the experiences of slaves and present-day African Americans. Peace & Justice Center, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 863-2345, ext. 6.

agriculture

VERMONT FARM BUREAU CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION: Trade shows, workshops, a reception, a dinner and a dance lead up to an annual agricultural meeting. Jay Peak Resort, noon-9 p.m.

Prices vary; most events are free. Info, 434-5646.

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FRANKLIN COUNTY REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE MEMBER & FRIENDS SOCIAL: Locals chat with current participants over light fare. Bliss Auditorium. St. Albans Historical Museum, 5:30-8 p.m. Free; preregister; cash bar. Info, 524-2444.

comedy

‘PAVED WITH GOOD INTENTIONS’: The folks of Say It Forward Productions share hysterical tales about the trials of growing up as a Jew, a Catholic and an Atheist in the 1970s. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. $30. Info, 800-800-4005.

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LIFE AFTER DEATH: An open discussion hosted by Eckankar inspires questions about the end of life and beyond. Upper Valley Food Co-op, White River Junction, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 800-772-9390.

M.A.G.I.C.: MASCULINITY AND GENDER IDENTITY CONVERSATION: Folks of any and all gender identities convene for a casual discussion of topics ranging from inequality to language and media to food. The ellness Co-op, Burlington, 2-3 p.m. Free.

Info, 370-5369.

MEET YOUR NEW CIVIC LEADERS: Members of the Burlington Association and the community at large mingle with local authorities who share their visions for the city. Burlington City Hall Auditorium, 4 p.m. $35-50. Info, 863-1175.

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dance

DANCE COMPOSITION LAB: Structured improvisation, chance tactics and spoken word lead to creative and meaningful dance making. Bring a notebook. Swan Dojo, Burlington, 7:30-9 p.m. $15.

Info, 363-5544.

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CIVIL WAR PROGRAM: Martial mavens share knowledge and artifacts surrounding period weaponry, music and clothing. Starksboro Village Meeting House, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 453-2079.

HENRY SHELDON MUSEUM OF VERMONT HISTORY ANNUAL MEETING & DINNER: Friends of the museum gather for a meal and a talk by Middlebury College president Laurie L. Patton. Kirk Alumni Center, Middlebury College, 5:45 p.m. $50; preregister. Info, 388-2117.

TECH TUTOR PROGRAM: Teens answer questions about computers and devices during one-onone sessions. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 4-6 p.m. Free; preregister for a time slot.

Info, 878-4918.

holidays

CHRISTMAS MARKET WITH A DIFFERENCE: Artisans and charitable organizations benefit from the sale of unique handcrafted items from around the world. Church of Christ at Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Free. Info, 603-643-3450.

kids

COLCHESTER PRESCHOOL STORY TIME: Captivating narratives pave the way for crafts and activities for youngsters ages 3 through 6.

Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 10:30-11 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 264-5660.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT LIBRARY VOLUNTEERS: Pizza fuels a teen discussion of books and library projects. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

HARDWICK STORY TIME: Kids up to age 6 sit tight for engaging narratives. Jeudevine Memorial Library, Hardwick, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 472-5948.

PJ STORY HOUR: Little ones dress for bed and wind down with tales and crafts. Fairfax Community Library, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 849-2420.

PLAINFIELD PRESCHOOL STORY TIME: Tykes ages 2 through 5 discover the magic of literature. Cutler Memorial Library, Plainfield, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free.

Info, 454-8504.

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PRESCHOOL MUSIC: Young ‘uns have fun with song and dance. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

‘I AM A GIRL’: Six young women from around the world face diverse challenges in this 2013 documentary. Merrill’s Roxy Cinemas, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $10; preregister. Info, 864-4742.

READ TO ARCHIE THE THERAPY DOG: Budding bookworms join a friendly canine for entertaining tails — er, tales. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 3:15-4 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

BURLINGTON RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB: New and veteran players are welcome to attend a practice to learn about the sport and join the team. Bring cleats and a mouth guard. Jaycee Park, South Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, burlingtonrugbyevents@gmail.com.

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FREE AIKIDO CLASS: An introduction to the Japanese martial art focuses on centering and finding freedom while under attack. Aikido of Champlain Valley, Burlington, 6-7:15 p.m. Free. Info, 951-8900.

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MAD DASHES INDOOR BIKE RACING: Pedal pushers get their heart rates up on stationary bikes in head-to-head 15-to20-second races. Switchback Brewing, Burlington, 4:30 p.m. $5. Info, 508-246-4315.

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Bears.” North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, PLAUDERSTUNDE: Conversationalists with basic 6:30-8 p.m. Donations. Info, 229-6206. knowledge of the German language put their skills JASON SMILEY: Occult enthusiasts are enchanted to use over lunch. Zen Gardens, South Burlington, as the presenter lifts the veil on a mystical Vermont noon. Cost of food. Info, 862-1677. clan in “The Devils Cabinet: The Famous Eddy Family of Spirit Mediums.” Fairfax Community montréal Library, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 849-2420.

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SUSAN ACKERMAN: In “Ancient Near Eastern Art CINEMANIA: Cinema hounds flock to the theater — In New England and in the News,” the Dartmouth for French-language films y seasoned filmmakers college professor discusses the preservation and and rising talents. See festivalcinemania.com for destruction of creative legacies. Mahaney Center details. Centre Cinéma Impérial, Montréal. $8.50for the Arts, Middlebury College, 4:30 p.m. Free.

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‘HANA’S SUITCASE’: A mysterious suitcase arrives VERMONT BACKCOUNTRY FORUM: A community at the Tokyo Holocaust Educational Resource conversation about the future of off-trail skiing Center, raising questions about its owner in this and riding gives way to live music, multimedia Young People’s Theatre production. D.B. Clarke presentations and a potluck dinner. Pierce Hall Theatre, Montréal, 10 a.m. & 12:45 p.m. $14.50 Community Center, Rochester, 6 p.m. Free; bring a 18.50; $14 for groups. Info, 514-845-9810. dish to share. Info, 989-0570.

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ANNE JANSON: The flutist hits l the right notes in a program featuring works by Mozart, Bartók, and Faure. UVM Recital Hall, Redstone Campus, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-3040.

CASTING CROWNS: Contemporary Christian rock gets fans on their feet. Lauren Daigle opens.

Burlington Memorial Auditorium, 7 p.m. $36-80.75; free for kids under 2 in a lap. Info, 863-5966.

DRUM CLASS: Percussion players make rhythmic music in an African-inspired lesson with Ismael Bangoura. Red Cedar School, Bristol, 6-7:15 p.m. $13-15. Info, 859-1802.

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‘BAD JEWS’: A family’s power struggle raises questions of culture, identity and faith in this comedy staged by the Vermont Actors’ Repertory Theatre.

Brick Box Theate , Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 7:30 p.m. $20. Info, 775-0903.

‘THE BOYS NEXT DOOR’: See WED.4, 7-10 p.m.

‘THE CRUCIBLE’: Saint Michael’s College presents Arthur Miller’s tale of a community driven by power, manipulation, lust and greed. McCarthy Arts Center, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2000.

‘OKLAHOMA!’: Songs such as “Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’” delight fans of this spirited musical staged by the State University of New York Plattsburgh Departments of Music and Theatre.

Hartman Theatre, M ers Fine Arts Building, SUNY Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7:30 p.m. $6-15. Info, 518-564-2180.

RUTLAND’S ‘THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW’: Guests artists from New York City and a live band put a fresh twist on this science-fiction frolic through transsexual Transylvania. Merchants Hall, Rutland, 8 p.m. $25-35; BYOB. Info, 800-838-3006.

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ARNIE KOZAK: Mindfulness A to Z: 108 Insights for Awakening Now offers a look at living with intention in a hectic world. Phoenix Books Burlington, 7 p.m. $3; limited space. Info, 448-3350.

GEEK MOUNTAIN STATE BOOK CLUB: Bookworms chat about The Mirror Empire: The orldbreaker Saga by Kameron Hurley. Pierson Library, Shelburne, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 985-5124.

YOUNG ADULT WORKSHOP: Readers swap ideas and opinions about YA stories written by Burlington Writers Workshop members. 22 Church St., Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free; preregister at meet up.com; limited space. Info, 383-8104.

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AN INTRODUCTION TO EDIBLE FOREST GARDENING: Green thumbs put permaculture principles to work with help from Walking Onion’s Aaron Guman. Community Room, Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 5:30-7 p.m. Free; preregister.

Info, 223-8000, ext. 202.

VERMONT FARM BUREAU CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION: See THU.5, 9 a.m.-10 p.m.

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FREE FORM FRIDAY: STUDIO ARTS NIGHT: Specialty cocktails, beer and wine get creative juices flowing as a tistic types complete guided projects. ONE Arts Center, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. $1524 includes two drinks. Info, 518-649-6464.

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VETERAN SMALL BUSINESS SUMMIT: Those who have served their country pick up tips on starting and growing successful companies. 14th Star Brewing, St. Albans, 8:30-11 a.m. Free; preregister.

Info, 828-4422, ext. 215.

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NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: A broadcast production of George Farquhar’s The Beaux’ Stratage follows two fisca ly irresponsible men on a quest to marry for money. Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $10-23. Info, 603-646-2422.

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LYME MAGNETIC PROTOCOL: Opposite forces attract when magnets are placed on the body to eliminate pathogens. Community Room, Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 223-8000, ext. 202.

NAMI VERMONT FAMILY-TO-FAMILY CLASS: The National A liance on Mental Illness builds understanding between individuals struggling with psychological health and their loved ones. Call for details. Various locations statewide, Montpelier, 6-8:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 800-639-6480, ext. 102.

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FORZA: THE SAMURAI SWORD WORKOUT: Students sculpt lean muscles and gain mental focus when using wooden replicas of the weapon.

North End Studio A, Burlington, 6:30-7:30 p.m. $10.

Info, 578-9243.

seminars

‘MARAT/SADE’: Using the French Revolution as a metaphor, this play, presented by the University of Vermont Department of Theatre, addresses issues of class, social turmoil and human frailty. Royall Tyler Theatre, UVM, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $15-22.

Info, 656-2094.

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FITNESS BOOT CAMP: Interval training helps participants improve strength, agility, endurance and cardiovascular fitness. Cornwa l Town Hall, 10-11 a.m. $10. Info, 343-7160.

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FELDENKRAIS AWARENESS THROUGH MOVEMENT: Whether you consider it relaxing exercise or active meditation, this experience can reduce pain and increase mobility. Living Room: Center of Positivity, Essex Junction, 6-7 p.m. $10.

Info, 655-0950.

GIRLS’ RIDE OUT: Female-identifying folks hop on bicycles for a casual excursion around Burlington.

Battery Park, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 863-4475.

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COMMUNITY MINDFULNESS: A 20-minute guided practice led by Andrea O’Connor alleviates stress and tension. Tea and a discussion follow. Winooski Senior Center, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 233-1161.

‘THE GOOD DOCTOR’: The Middlebu y Community Players bring on the laughs in Neil Simon’s hilarious and thought-provoking series of independent scenes. Town Hall Theate , Middlebury, 8 p.m. $1217. Info, 382-9222.

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KNIFE SKILLS & COOKING THEORIES: Home cooks sharpen their kitchen competence with handson cutting practice and new culinary concepts.

McClure Multigenerational Center, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. $5-10; preregister; limited space. Info, 861-9757.

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‘FOOLS’: A teacher arrives in a Russian village to find that its population is cursed with stupidi y in Neil Simon’s comedy presented by the Spaulding Drama Club. Spaulding High School, Barre, 7:309:30 p.m. $5-10. Info, 476-4811.

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CIRCLE OF STARS: A benefit dinner and silent au tion for the Turning Point Center honor governor Peter Shumlin. Sunset Ballroom, Comfort Suites, Shelburne, 5-8 p.m. $75; preregister. Info, 861-3150.

THURSDAY PLAY TIME: Kiddos and their caregivers convene for casual fun. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 11 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 878-4918.

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‘SEA MONSTERS: A PREHISTORIC ADVENTURE’: See WED.4.

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MOUNTAINFILM ON TOUR: Global issues hit the big screen at a night of movies exploring culture and environment. Chase Community Center, Vermont Law School, South Royalton, 7 p.m. $7; free for students. Info, 831-1000.

SHELBURNE VINEYARD FIRST THURSDAY CONCERT SERIES: Yasmin Tayeby serves up acoustic pop-rock strains in an intimate setting. Partial proceeds benefit Relay for Life. Shelburne ineyard, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 985-8222.

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‘LIVING IN THE AGE OF AIRPLANES’: See WED.4.

‘FLARE PATH’: Set during WWII, Terence Rattigan’s dramatic comedy follows a love triangle between a pilot, his actress wife and a famous film sta . Wright Memorial Theate , Middlebury College, 7:30 p.m. $6-12. Info, 443-3168.

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JAZZ RESIDENCY WITH BRUCE SKLAR & JEREMY HILL: The local keyboardist and upright bass pla er serve up syncopated rhythms at a weekly gig. Big Picture Theater and Café, aitsfield, 7-9:30 p.m.

Donations. Info, 496-8994.

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calendar BOB MARLEY: Having graced the stages of latenight television and Comedy Central, New England’s “King of Comedy” returns to the region to deliver big laughs. See calendar spotlight. Barre Opera House, 8 p.m. $27.50. Info, 476-8188.

community

DEVIL’S BOWL SPEEDWAY OPEN FORUM INFORMATIONAL MEETING: Asphalt and dirt-track racers get in gear for a conversation on plans for the coming season. Holiday Inn, Rutland, 7 p.m.

Free. Info, 265-3112.

SANTA’S WORKSHOP SALE: ’Tis the season to get a head start on holiday shopping at this bazaar boasting crafts, baked goods, plants and Christmas items. Waterbury Center Community Church, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Free. Info, 244-8089.

fairs & festivals

DANCE AND DRUM FESTIVAL: Internationally renowned artists from Guinea, Senegal and Mali join Burlington’s Jeh Kulu Dance and Drum Theater for classes and performances. See jehkulu.org for details. See calendar spotlight. Burlington City Hall, 5:30-9 p.m. Prices vary. Info, 859-1802.

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BRATTLEBORO FILM FESTIVAL: See WED.4.

‘LIVING IN THE AGE OF AIRPLANES’: See WED.4.

‘PRECIOUS GURU’: Tryptych Journey artists show the trailer of a documentary inspired by their journey across Asia and discuss the campaign to complete the film. Uni ersity of Vermont Fleming Museum of Art, Burlington, 6 p.m. Regular admission, $3-5; free for members and kids 6 and under.

Info, 656-0750.

food & drink

FIRKIN FRIDAYS: Suds lovers sip unique smallbatch beers fermented without the addition of CO2.

Tap Room, Switchback Brewing, Burlington, noon.

Free. Info, 651-4114.

games

BRIDGE CLUB: See WED.4, 9:15 a.m.

CALIFORNIA GUITAR TRIO: Unique originals and innovative interpretations of jazz, classical, rock and world music propel a dynamic performance.

Robison Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 8 p.m. $6-20. Info, 443-6433.

FAMILY FRIENDLY PICKIN’ & SINGIN’ PARTY: Music lovers ages 12 and up sit in for “Scoundrels, Trains and Tragic Romance,” a program by folksters Tom Akstens and Neil Rossi. Essex Memorial Hall, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 879-0849.

JAYME STONE’S LOMAX PROJECT: From Bahamanian sea chanties to Appalachian ballads, this trio pays tribute to field recorder Alan Lomax.

UVM Recital Hall, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $10-25. Info, 656-4455.

JIMMIE DALE GILMORE: The Lone-Sta -State songwriter takes the stage with special guest Colin Gilmore in conjunction with Roots on the Rails.

Main Street Arts, Saxtons River, 8 p.m. $24. Info, 869-2960.

seminars

AARP SMART DRIVER CLASS: Motorists ages 50 and up learn to safely navigate the road while addressing the physical changes brought on by aging.

Wake Robin Retirement Community, Shelburne, 12:30-5 p.m. $15-20; preregister; limited space.

Info, 264-5107.

KNOW THYSELF: PATHWORK GROUP: Participants in this sixweek series explore the many layers of the self through guided meditation, journaling and the Pathwork teaching. Union Station, Burlington, 6:30-8 p.m.

Free; preregister. Info, 279-9144.

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MIDDLE SCHOOL THEATRE IMPROV GROUP: Thespians in grades 4 through 8 create and act out scenes. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 3-4:15 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space.

Info, 878-4918.

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EDUCATION ENRICHMENT FOR M M CC CO EVERYONE: FALL SERIES: Rebecca UM N O BER T | C O U R T E S Y O F RI P Holcombe of the Vermont Agency of Education schools listeners with “The Stat MUSIC WITH ROBERT: Sing-alongs with of Education in Vermont.” Faith United Methodist Robert Resnik hit all the right notes. Fletcher Free Church, South Burlington, 2-3 p.m. $5. Info, 864-3516.

Library, Burlington, 10:30-11 a.m. Free; groups must preregister. Info, 865-7216.

PUBLIC FORUM: The ermont Commission on International Trade & Sovereignty hosts a backMUSICAL STORY TIME: Melody makers of all ages read and-forth with members of the European parliaand rock out with books, songs and instruments. Essex ment. Aiken Center, UVM, Burlington, 9 a.m.-noon.

Free Library, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 879-0313.

Free. Info, 861-2343.

‘SEA MONSTERS: A PREHISTORIC ADVENTURE’: See WED.4. &

MILAREPA TSOG: All are welcome at an offering ceremony that represents assembling the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas in a sacred dance. Milarepa Center, Barnet, 7-8 p.m. Donations. Info, 633-4136.

ARCHER MAYOR: The ermont writer regales readers with passages from The Company She Kep .

Village Square Booksellers, Bellows Falls, 7 p.m.

Free. Info, 463-9404.

MAGIC: THE GATHERING: Players in grades 6 and up engage in epic duels in this card-based role-playing game. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

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EARLY-BIRD MATH: Books, songs and games put a creative twist on mathematics. Richmond Free Library, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 434-3036.

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SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCING: See WED.4.

BIG SCREEN MOVIE: Kiddos and their parents break out the popcorn and get cozy for an all-ages film. Ca l Burnham Memorial Library for details.

Colchester Meeting House, 6-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 264-5660.

BUSTY & THE BASS: A nine-piece ensemble doles out tight electro-funk tunes. Smooth Antics open.

ArtsRiot, Burlington, 8 p.m. $10-12. Info, 540-0406.

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OPEN-LEVEL IMPROVISATION: Structured prompts, imagery and partnering forge adaptive problemsolving skills in movement. North End Studio B, Burlington, 6:30-8 p.m. $12. Info, 363-5544.

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RUTLAND’S ‘THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW’: See THU.5, 8 & 11:59 p.m.

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FIRST FRIDAY SOUL DANCE: Hoofers explore the rhythms of everyday life through free-form creative expression. The ellness Collective, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. $10. Info, 540-0186.

CHRISTMAS MARKET WITH A DIFFERENCE: See THU.5.

BUDDY GUY: The six-string master hits the stage with selections from Born to Play Guitar.

Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 8 p.m. $59.50-99.50.

Info, 775-0903.

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ENGLISH COUNTRY DANCE: Audrey Budington, Clayton Clemetson and McKinley James provide live music for newcomers and experienced movers alike. Martha Kent and Val Medve call the dances.

Elley-Long Music Center, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 7-9:30 p.m. $10. Info, 899-2378.

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RECOVERY COMMUNITY YOGA: See WED.4.

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ECSTATIC DANCE VERMONT: See WED.4, Auditorium, Christ Church, Montpelier, 7-9 p.m. $10.

Info, 505-8010.

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PRESEASON SNOW WARRIOR SERIES: Yogis get psyched for the season with a three-week series meant to condition the body for snow sports.

Sangha Studio, Burlington, 5:30-6:30 p.m. $10-12; preregister; limited space. Info, 448-4262.

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BURLINGTON WESTIE DANCE: Hoofers hit the dance floor for a themed e ening of blues and west coast swing. Introductory lesson, 6:30 p.m.; workshop, 7 p.m.; dance, 8-11 p.m. North End Studio A, Burlington, 6:30-11 p.m. $7-10. Info, burlingtonwestie@gmail.com.

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LAUGHTER YOGA: Breathe, clap, chant and giggle!

Both new and experienced participants reduce stress with this playful practice. Bring personal water. The ellness Co-op, Burlington, 3-4 p.m.

Free. Info, 999-7373.

FEAST TOGETHER OR FEAST TO GO: Senior citizens and their guests catch up over a shared meal.

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

BALLROOM & LATIN DANCING: WALTZ: Samir Elabd leads choreographed steps for singles and couples. No partner or experience required.

Jazzercize Studio, Williston, introductory lesson, 7-8 p.m.; dance, 8-9:30 p.m. $6-14. Info, 862-2269.

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COMMUNITY HATHA YOGA: Students move at their own pace in a gentle, reflecti e practice. South End Studio, Burlington, 5:15-6:15 p.m. $6. Info, 683-4918.

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SONGS & STORIES WITH MATTHEW: Matthew Witten helps children start the day with tunes and tales of adventure. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10-10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

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FIRST FRIDAY: ´90S SPACE JAM: Edda Belle, Mhisty Knights and Miss Crime Scene host an out-of-thisworld queer dance party. Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, South Burlington, 9 p.m. $5-10. Info, 877-987-6487.

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‘BUTCHER’: See WED.4.

CINEMANIA: See THU.5.

‘HANA’S SUITCASE’: See THU.5.

MTL À TABLE: See WED.4.

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APPALACHIAN MUSIC & JAM: A country and gospel concert by Vicki Moore and Joe Godwin gives way to a back-porch-style picking session. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600.

BRIAN MCCARTHY NONET: Joined by a chamber jazz ensemble, the saxophonist explores popular songs of the American Civil War in the program “The Better Angels of Our Nature.” FlynnSpace, Burlington, 8 p.m. $21-25. Info, 863-5966.

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‘BAD JEWS’: See THU.5.

‘BITTER FRUITS AND COMBAT BOOTS: A HIP HOPERA’: Hand puppeteer Amy Trompetter collaborates with rap poet Not4Prophet for a performance infused with history and song. Sandglass Theate , Putney, 7:30 p.m. $13-26; limited space.

Info, 387-4051.

‘THE BOYS NEXT DOOR’: See WED.4, 7-10 p.m.

‘THE CRUCIBLE’: See THU.5.

‘DON JUAN COMES BACK FROM THE WAR’: The infamous Lothario finds himself in a post-WWI Europe populated by women only in this dark comedy presented by the Dartmouth College Department of Theate . See calendar spotlight.

Moore Theate , Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 8 p.m. $10-12.

Info, 603-646-2422.

‘FLARE PATH’: See THU.5.

‘FOOLS’: See THU.5.

‘THE GOOD DOCTOR’: See THU.5.

‘LAUGHTER ON THE 23RD FLOOR’: In Neil Simon’s play performed by ArtisTree Theatre, the star of a weekly comedy television show battles station executives over his sense of humor. Damon Hall, Hartland, 7:30 p.m. $20. Info, 457-3500.

‘MARAT/SADE’: See THU.5.

‘OKLAHOMA!’: See THU.5.

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FRIDAY MORNING WORKSHOP: Lit lovers analyze creative works-in-progress penned by Burlington Writers Workshop members. 22 Church St., Burlington, 10:30 a.m. Free; preregister at meetup. com; limited space. Info, 383-8104.

WRITING SALON: Wordsmiths employ neuroscientific research to kick out the inner critic who can curb creativity. Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. $20-25. Info, 865-4209.

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FALL BAZAAR: Handcrafted local goods complement homemade jellies, pickles and fudge at this benefit for the United Church of Fai fax. Baptist Building, Fairfax, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 849-6313.

INDOOR YARD SALE: Bargain shoppers check out toys, tools, books, furniture, clothing, household items and more at this benefit for the centers diversified occupations program. Hannaford Career Center, Middlebury, 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 382-1025.

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TALKING BACK: AN INTERGENERATIONAL DISCUSSION: Community members of all ages convene for modified fitness classes and a co ersation on the impact of technology on daily life.

Winooski Senior Center, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 448-0595.

conferences

VERMONT CATHOLIC CONFERENCE: William Kiel is the featured speaker at a day of faith-based presentations and workshops. Barre St. Monica’s Catholic Church, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. $35; preregister.

Info, 233-9603.

crafts

ADULT COLORING: Grown-ups pick up colored pencils for a meditative and creative activity. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 878-4918.

dance

DANCING WITH THE STARS: Professional steppers and notable community members shake a tail feather to benefit local charities. Dinne , cocktails, a silent auction and dance lessons complete the evening. Barre Elks Club, 6 p.m. $40; $75 per couple; preregister. Info, 279-7973.

SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCING: See WED.4.

VABVI’S 90TH ANNIVERSARY ´90S DANCE PARTY: Don your neon spandex and bust a move to celebrate the Vermont Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $10; for ages 21 and up. Info, 540-0406.

environment

COMMUNITY TREE-PLANTING DAY: Environmentally conscious volunteers sow native leaf-and-trunk species to stem runoff and erosion.

Snacks and lunch are provided. Vermont Zen Center, Shelburne, 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, alis@intervale.org.

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BALLADS FOR BIRTH: A benefit for the ermont Midwives Association and Handle With Love comes complete with a raffle, face painting, henna tattoos and live tunes by Mister Chris and Dominique Brooke Dodge. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 3 p.m. $5-10.

Info, 540-0406.

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BENEFIT AUCTION: Catamount Arts Center supporters bid on a wide variety of take-home treasures. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, reception, 5:30 p.m.; auction 7 p.m. $30 includes food and drink. Info, 748-2600.

MAKE YOUR OWN CHOCOLATE BARS: First-time confectioners tie on their aprons to temper, mold and wrap full-size take-home treats. South End Kitchen at Lake Champlain Chocolates, Burlington, 3-4 p.m. $25. Info, 864-0505.

INDEPENDENT COMMUNITY MEETING PLACE: Brainstorming leads to forming activity groups for hobbies such as flying stunt kites and playing music. Presto Music Store, South Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 658-0030.

UNITED WAY BENEFIT SALE: Shoppers bag discount food items to support the social services organization. Rhino Foods, Burlington, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

Free. Info, 862-0252.

OPEN HOUSE: Fueled by light fare, members and nonmembers explore Alliance Française of the Lake Champlain Region’s new location. Alliance Française of the Lake Champlain Region, Burlington, noon-4 p.m. Free. Info, info@aflc .org.

THE REALLY BIG SHOW XX: Amateur talents from the Rutland region stun audience members with feats of song, dance and comedy. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 7 p.m. $20. Info, 775-0903 SWEAT LODGE WORK PARTY & CEREMONY: Volunteers offer their sweat and prayers to erect a new structure for the Green Mountain Druid Order.

Dreamland, Worcester, 10 a.m. Free. Info, ivanwyvan@gmail.com.

fairs & festivals

DANCE AND DRUM FESTIVAL: See FRI.6, 9 a.m.5:30 p.m.

FAMILIES AS PARTNERS FALL CRAFT FAIR: Locals get a jump on holiday shopping as they browse goods from over 100 vendors and specialty food makers. Williston Central School, 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m.

Free. Info, 871-6107.

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‘FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE’: Shown in Mandarin with English subtitles, this 1993 drama follows the decades-long friendship between two men.

Dana Auditorium, Sunderland Language Center, Middlebury College, 3 & 8 p.m. Free. Info, 443-6433.

FILM SPECIAL: TELLURIDE SHORTS SHOWCASE: Cinephiles screen the best mini movies from the Telluride Film Festival. Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 5 & 8 p.m. $5-9. Info, 603-646-2422.

‘THE HOSPITAL’: George C. Scott stars in this 1971 satire on the United States health care system, screened on 16mm film. Newman Cente , Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7 p.m. Donations. Info, serious_61@yahoo.com.

‘MERU’: Three climbers tackle Mount Meru in this 2015 documentary shown as part of the Woodstock Vermont Film Series. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 3 p.m. $5-11. Info, 457-2355.

MOUNTAINFILM ON TOUR: See THU.5, proceeds benefit the aitsfield Childre ’s Center. Big Picture Theater and Café, aitsfield, 7:15-10 p.m. $12-20.

Info, 496-8994.

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CHOCOLATE TASTING: With the help of a tasting guide, chocoholics of all ages discover the fla or profiles of four di ferent confections. Lake Champlain Chocolates Factory Store & Café, Burlington, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 864-1807.

FIRKIN FRIDAYS: Suds lovers sip small-batch beers fermented without the addition of CO2. Tap Room, Switchback Brewing, Burlington. Noon. Free. Info, 651-4114.

PRENATAL YOGA CLASS: See WED.4, 10:30-11:30 a.m.

R.I.P.P.E.D.: See WED.4, 9-10 a.m.

SOUL PARTY YOGA SERIES: Emina Kelestura welcomes students of all levels for a seven-week series focused on finding freedom through vinyasa flo . Sangha Studio, Burlington. 7-8:15 p.m. $5-10.

Info, 448-4262.

holidays

CHRISTMAS BAZAAR: Shoppers stock up on handmade gifts. Essex Junction St. Pius X Parish, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 878-5997.

CHRISTMAS MARKET WITH A DIFFERENCE: See THU.5, 10 a.m.-1 p.m.

SANTA’S WORKSHOP SALE: See FRI.6, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

kids

CELEBRATION OF WRITING YOUTH WRITING CONFERENCE: Vermont Book Award winner Kerrin McCadden keynotes a day of workshops for budding wordsmiths ages 12 though 18. College Hall, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, 8:30 a.m.-5:15 p.m. $25; preregister; limited space. Info, 324-9538.

CHESS CLUB: Checkmate! Players make strategic moves and vie for the opposing king. Adult supervision required for kids 8 and under. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 3-4 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

HANDS-ON GLASSBLOWING PROJECTS & CLASSES: SUNCATCHER: Aspiring artisans ages 7 and up choose natural and nautical designs to create colorful window hangings. Orwell Glass workshop, Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, Vergennes, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. $15-20; preregister for a time slot. Info, 475-2022.

LITTLE EXPLORER PROGRAM: Kiddos ages 3 through 6 and their families embark on a nature adventure with Ms. Liza and Mr. K. Highgate Public Library, 9 a.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 868-3970.

ONE-ON-ONE TUTORING: See WED.4, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

SATURDAY STORY TIME: Families gather for imaginative tales. Phoenix Books Burlington, 11 a.m. Free.

Info, 448-3350.

‘SEA MONSTERS: A PREHISTORIC ADVENTURE’: See WED.4.

TRY HOCKEY FOR FREE: Athletes ages 4 through 12 pick up sticks and give the game a shot. Limited equipment is available. Gordon H. Paquette Ice Arena, Burlington, 5:40-6:50 p.m. Free; preregister.

Info, 318-6201.

WEEKEND ARTWORKS: Potential Picassos explore different artists and creative techniques with themed activities. Chaffee Art Center, Rutland, 1-3 p.m. $10; free for members. Info, 775-0356.

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BLUEGRASS GOSPEL PROJECT: Beautiful vocal harmonies carry through an acoustically rich theater.

See calendar spotlight. Vergennes Opera House, 7:30 p.m. $18. Info, 877-6737.

BRIAN MCCARTHY NONET: See FRI.6.

BURLINGTON CIVIC SYMPHONY FALL CONCERT: Daniel Bruce directs the ensemble’s seasonopening program featuring works by Mozart, Tchaikovsky and Schumann. Elley-Long Music Center, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 7:30 p.m. $5-15. Info, 863-5966.

DARTMOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: Student musicians take audience members on a melodic journey courtesy of Verdi, Mozart and Tchaikovsky.

Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 8 p.m. $10-15.

Info, 603-646-2422.

THE GREEN MOUNTAIN EXPRESS CONCERT: Syd Straw, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Winterpills and the Meadows Brothers band together for a high-energy concert in conjunction with Roots on the Rails.

Windham Ballroom, Popolo, Bellows Falls, 8:30 p.m. $34. Info, 460-7676.

JEH KULU: A PERFORMANCE OF TRADITIONAL WEST AFRICAN MUSIC, DANCE & SONG: International guest artists join the drum and dance troupe for a foot-tapping and hand-clapping good time. An after-party with live performances by A2VT and DJ MoT follows. North End Studios, Burlington, 8 p.m.-1 a.m. $17-20. Info, 859-1802.

LAST TRAIN TO ZINKOV: A range of human emotions shine through folk tunes by the fatherand-son duo. Brandon Music, 7:30 p.m. $20; $40 includes preshow dinner; preregister; BYOB. Info, 247-4295.

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For tix, call 802-476-8188 or order online at barreoperahouse.org

LIVE JAZZ: The A- eam Jazz ensemble serves up a sizzling selection of standards. Christ Episcopal Church, Montpelier, 7-9 p.m. $15. Info, 223-4712.

MOORS & MCCUMBER: Two talented multi-instru- Untitled-18 1 mentalists dole out original numbers as part of the Ripton Community Coffee House series. Ripton Community House, 7:30 p.m. $3-25. Info, 388-9782.

ROOTS ON THE RAILS: A vintage four-car train is the venue for a high-octane lineup of live music by the likes of Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Syd Straw. See rootsontherails.com for details. Bellows Falls Train Depot, boarding, 8:45 a.m.; ride, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. $289; cash bar. Info, charlie@hunter-studio.com.

SOCIAL BAND: The Burlington choral group draws from the human condition for the program “Late and Soon: Songs of the Heedless and the Wise.”

Richmond Free Library, 7:30-9 p.m. $15. Info, 355-4216.

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HAWKS, OWLS & FALCONS!: Fans of feathered fliers meet li e birds of prey and learn about their unique characteristics. McClure Education Center, Shelburne Farms, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. $5-6. Info, 985-8686.

MOUNT MANSFIELD FOREHEAD HIKE: Walkers maintain a strong pace, gaining 2,600 feet in elevation. Contact leader for details. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 878-4036.

WAGON RIDE WEEKENDS: A seasonal celebration comes complete with narrated horse-drawn hay rides and themed activities. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. $4-14; free for kids 2 and under. Info, 457-2355.

seminars

BREASTFEEDING 101: Pregnant mothers and their partners seek advice from lactation consultants.

Good Beginnings of Central Vermont, Montpelier, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 595-7953.

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‘BUTCHER’: See WED.4, 2 & 8 p.m.

CINEMANIA: See THU.5.

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FIVE CORNERS INDOOR FARMERS MARKET: From prepared foods and local produce to handmade gifts, vendors share the fruits of their labor.

Maple Street Park, Essex, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 999-3249.

FITNESS BOOT CAMP: Participants improve strength, agility, endurance and cardiovascular fitness with inte val training. Middlebury Municipal Gym, 8-9 a.m. $10. Info, 343-7160.

Chris Collins & Boulder Canyon

MTL À TABLE: See WED.4.

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BURLINGTON WINTER FARMERS MARKET: A bustling indoor marketplace offers fresh and prepared foods alongside crafts, live music, lunch seating and face painting. Burlington Memorial Auditorium, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 310-5172.

AWAKEN INTUITION: KUNDALINI YOGA & MEDITATION SERIES: Happiness seekers connect with their inner teachers to find strength and cla ity. Sangha Studio, Burlington, 4-5:30 p.m. $7-15.

Info, 448-4262.

A Tribute to John Denver:

‘HANA’S SUITCASE’: See THU.5, 2 p.m.

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AUTUMN WINE & FOOD FESTIVAL: Vino lovers and foodies alike savor sips and samples of specialty fare. Shelburne Vineyard, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Free with a nonperishable food donation. Info, 985-8222.

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‘LIVING IN THE AGE OF AIRPLANES’: See WED.4.

WILD ABOUT VERMONT: Diners dig into the bounty of the state at a special fish-and-game suppe .

Hotel Vermont, Burlington, 7 p.m. $79.50; cash bar.

Info, 863-5966.

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‘BITTER FRUITS AND COMBAT BOOTS: A HIP HOPERA’: See FRI.6.

‘THE BOYS NEXT DOOR’: See WED.4, 7-10 p.m.

‘THE CRUCIBLE’: See THU.5.

community

COMMUNITY MINDFULNESS WITH THE CENTER FOR MINDFUL LEARNING: Peaceful people gather for guided meditation and interactive discussions.

Burlington Friends Meeting House, 5-7 p.m. $10.

Info, 540-0820.

OK: Like-minded individuals plan for the future, contemplate the past and connect with the present. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4:45-6 p.m.

Free. Info, 989-9684.

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dance

BEGINNING ISRAELI DANCING: Participants in this four-part series make new friends when learning the steps to more than fi e dances. Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington, beginner class, 7:30-8:30 p.m.; advanced dancing, 8:30-9:30 p.m. $10 for beginner series; free for advanced dancing. Info, 978-424-7968.

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ANNEMIEKE MCLANE: The pianist charms classical connoisseurs with works by Bach.

Charlotte Congregational Church, 4 p.m. Donations. Info, 425-3176.

‘LIVING IN THE AGE OF AIRPLANES’: See WED.4.

food & drink

CHOCOLATE TASTING: See SAT.7.

VERMONT ITALIAN CLUB PASTA DINNER: Foodies pile their plates with tasty homemade eats.

Proceeds benefit the club. Burlington Elks Lodge, 5 p.m. $10-25; free for kids 5 and under; preregister.

Info, vermontitalianclub@gmail.com.

games

SHRINERS SUPER BINGO: Players with fi e in a row win big at this monthly meet-up. Champlain Valley Exposition, Essex Junction, 10:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. $15-30. Info, 434-2055.

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NIA WITH SUZY: Drawing from martial arts, dance arts and healing arts, sensory-based movements push participants to their full potential. South End Studio, Burlington, 9-10 a.m. $14. Info, 522-3691.

WOMEN’S WELLNESS SERIES: YOGA FOR FERTILITY: Women working towards becoming pregnant hit the mat for a relaxing practice.

Prenatal Method Studio, Burlington, 3:30-5 p.m. $20. Info, 829-0211.

DISCOVERY SUNDAYS: Miss Vermont Alayna Westcom joins inquisitive youngsters for hands-on fun with science, technology, engineering and math. Vermont Institute of Natural Science Nature Center, Quechee, 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. $11.50-13.50; free for kids 3 and under. Info, 359-5001, ext. 228.

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Info, bcso@bcsovt.org.

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BRATTLEBORO FILM FESTIVAL: See WED.4.

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‘HANA’S SUITCASE’: See THU.5, 1 & 4 p.m.

MTL À TABLE: See WED.4.

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BOOK SALE: Oodles of books and media delight avid readers. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4095.

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RUTLAND’S ‘THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW’: See THU.5, 8 & 11:59 p.m.

‘NOISES OFF’ AUDITIONS: Thespians throw their hats into the ring for parts in Michael Frayn’s play-within-a-play. Norman Williams Public Library, Woodstock, 2-4 p.m. Free. Info, 291-4274.

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‘OKLAHOMA!’: See THU.5.

‘MARAT/SADE’: See THU.5, 2 & 7:30 p.m.

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DANCE AND DRUM FESTIVAL: See FRI.6, 10 a.m.6 p.m.

HARVEST BARTER FAIR: My canned tomatoes for your homemade bread? Locavores swap handmade goods at this informal gathering. Lakeview Union School, Greensboro, 2-4 p.m. Free; bring items with an estimated value of $5, or $5 increments, to swap. Info, 755-6336.

‘LAUGHTER ON THE 23RD FLOOR’: See FRI.6.

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SUNDAY COFFEE MIX & MINGLE: Social butterflies bond ver books and beverages at a casual hangout. Barnes & Noble, South Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 860-7812.

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‘THE GOOD DOCTOR’: See THU.5.

CRAFT FAIR: Art, jewelry, ceramics and photography tempt shoppers. Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington, 11:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 864-0218.

FAIR TRADE FAIR: Vendors such as Maya Works, Divine Chocolate and Ten Thousand illages set up shop to promote socially conscious consumerism. Jewish Community of Greater Stowe, 1-5 p.m. Free.

Info, 253-1800.

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WOMEN’S PICKUP SOCCER: Quick-footed ladies of varying skill levels break a sweat while connecting passes and making runs for the goal. For ages 18 and up. Robert Miller Community & Recreation Center, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. $3. Info, carmengeorgevt@gmail.com.

talks

ANN LUTHER: Citizens sit in for “Money in Politics: Whose Democracy Is It?” Memorial Room, Montpelier City Hall, 2:30-4 p.m. Free. Info, 229-4737.

theater

‘BAD JEWS’: See THU.5, 2 p.m.

‘DON JUAN COMES BACK FROM THE WAR’: See FRI.6, 2 p.m.

‘THE GOOD DOCTOR’: See THU.5, 2 p.m.

‘OKLAHOMA!’: See THU.5, 2 p.m.

LGBTQ FIBER ARTS GROUP: A knitting, crocheting and weaving session welcomes all ages, gender identities, sexual orientations and skill levels. Pride Center of Vermont, Burlington, noon-2 p.m. Free.

Info, 860-7812.

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VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF CHITTENDEN & GRAND ISLE COUNTIES HOSPICE MEMORIAL SERVICE: Candles in hand, participants honor the memory of lost loved ones. St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Colchester, 3 p.m. Free. Info, 860-4499, ext.

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MIXED-LEVEL SPANISH GROUP: Language learners brush up on their skills en español. New Moon Café, Burlington, 2:30-4:30 p.m. $15. Info, maigomez1@ hotmail.com.

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OPEN HOUSE: Parents of potential students learn the ABCs of this new independent learning facility.

Vermont Day School, Shelburne, 3-5 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 495-5150.

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RICK NORCROSS & STEPHEN RUSSELL PAYNE: Musical performances by the western-swing guitarist punctuates a presentation about his adventures on the road in “Riding My Guitar: The Rick Norcross Story.” South Burlington Community Library, 2-3 p.m. Free. Info, 652-7080.

DIMANCHES FRENCH CONVERSATION: Parlez-vous français? Speakers practice the tongue at a casual drop-in chat. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 363-2431.

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GRANITE CITY 5K RUN/WALK FOR VETERANS: Athletes make strides for veterans’ services and the city of Barre. Capstone Community Action, Barre, 9 a.m.-noon. $40. Info, 477-2967.

‘SEA MONSTERS: A PREHISTORIC ADVENTURE’: See WED.4.

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UPPER VALLEY INTERNATIONAL FOLK DANCING: Creative movers learn diverse routines rooted in Eastern and Western Europe, Scandinavia and the Mediterranean. Bring clean, soft-soled shoes. Tracy Hall, Norwich, 3-6 p.m. $4-8. Info, 436-2151.

SCHOLAR IN RESIDENCE: Workshops in cartooning, improv, theater, clay, poetry and Israeli dancing expose students of various age groups to creative culture. See ohavizedek.org for details. Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington, 11:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 864-0218.

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VCAM ORIENTATION: Video-production hounds learn basic concepts and nomenclature at an overview of VCAM facilities, policies and procedures. VCAM Studio, Burlington, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 651-9692.

SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCING: See WED.4.

HANDS-ON GLASSBLOWING PROJECTS & CLASSES: SUNCATCHER: See SAT.7.

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INTRODUCTION TO MICROSOFT WORD: Toolbars, menus and icons, oh my! Computer-savvy instructor Annie teaches techniques such as copying, pasting and formatting text and pictures. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister. Info, 865-7217.

‘DIVERGE’: AN INFORMAL PERFORMANCE & CONVERSATION WITH THE ARTIST: Music, dance and visual art converge in a multimedia performance by Carbon Mirage, Bryce Dance Company and the Human Canvas. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 7 p.m. $20. Info, 540-0406.

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CHAMBERWORKS: Dartmouth College faculty members hit all the right notes in Brahms’ late compositions for clarinet. Rollins Chapel, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 1 p.m. Free. Info, 603-646-2422.

LEONARD BERNSTEIN CELEBRATED: Four musicians band together to pay tribute to the West Side Story composer as part of the Music at the Museum series. Bennington Museum, 2 p.m. Free.

Info, 447-1571.

P.M. SUNDAYS: MOLLY TUTTLE: A distinctive voice and virtuosic instrumental skills set this acoustic songstress apart from the rest. Richmond Congregational Church, 4-6 p.m. $17.50-20. Info, 434-4563.

PURE COUNTRY BAND: Music lovers start with food, then dance the afternoon away to toe-tapping tunes. VFW Post 309, Peru, N.Y., meal, noon; band, 1-4 p.m. Donations. Info, 518-643-2309.

SOCIAL BAND: See SAT.7, First Unitarian Universalist Society, Burlington, 3-4:30 p.m. $15.

Info, 355-4216.

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CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE: Costumes and masks are encouraged at a reading of the science-fiction mystery novel Radiance. Phoenix Books Burlington, 2 p.m. $3; limited space. Info, 448-3350.

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LAND ACCESS WORKSHOP FOR FARMERS: From financing options to building assessments, this class sows seeds of knowledge in agriculturalists interested in leasing, purchasing or reclaiming terrain. Yoder Family Farm, Danby, 1-6 p.m. Free. Info, 660-0440.

community

LIFE AFTER DEATH: See THU.5, Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 800-772-9390.

dance

SALSA MONDAYS: Dancers learn the techniques and patterns of the salsa, merengue, bachata and cha-cha. North End Studio A, Burlington, fundamentals, 7 p.m.; intermediate, 8 p.m. $12. Info, 227-2572.

SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCING: See WED.4.

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OPEN HOUSE: Chiropractic adjustments reward folks who bring food donations to the wellness facility’s third anniversary bash. Chiropractic For Kids & Adults, Shelburne, 8 a.m.-6 p.m. Donation of a nonperishable food item; preregister. Info, 985-9500.

TECH HELP WITH CLIF: See WED.4.

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‘LIVING IN THE AGE OF AIRPLANES’: See WED.4.

food & drink

MAMA MANGEZ: Creative families collaborate at a cooking party. Bring an ingredient and containers for leftovers. Tulsi Tea Room, Montpelier, 4-7 p.m.

Free. Info, 223-1431.

THREE-GONG SOUND BATH: Participants tap into the healing properties of intentional soundscapes.

Sacred Mountain Studio, Burlington, 7-8 p.m. $1015; preregister. Info, stevescuderi@gmail.com.

THE PENNYWISE PANTRY: A tour of the store helps shoppers create a custom template for keeping the kitchen stocked with affordable, nutritious eats.

City Market/Onion River Co-op, Burlington, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 861-9757.

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MOUNT MANSFIELD HIKE: Picturesque views reward hikers on a difficult 10-mile trek. Contact trip leader for details. Free; preregister; limited space.

Info, 355-7181.

WAGON RIDE WEEKENDS: See SAT.7.

BRIDGE CLUB: See WED.4, 7 p.m.

TRIVIA NIGHT: Teams of quick thinkers gather for a meeting of the minds. Lobby, Hotel Vermont, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 651-5012.

health & fitnes

DYNAMIC QIGONG: Breathing, stretching and meditative movements enhance health and well-being. 2 Wolves Holistic Center, Vergennes, 6:30-7:45 p.m. $14. Info, 238-2637.

HERBAL CONSULTATIONS: Betzy Bancroft, Larken Bunce, Guido Masé and students from the Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism evaluate individual constitutions and health conditions. City Market/Onion River Co-op, Burlington, 4-8 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, info@vtherbcenter.org.

HERBS FOR CHILDREN & PICKY EATERS: Home cooks work in groups to prepare simple dishes that please even the most selective taste buds.

Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, Montpelier, 6-8 p.m. $10-12; preregister. Info, 224-7100.

KUNDALINI YOGA: An in-depth practice focuses on sound current and meditation. Bring water and a mat. Community Room, Hunger Mountain Coop, Montpelier, 6:30-7:30 p.m. $8-10; preregister.

Info, 223-8000, ext. 202.

NIA WITH SUZY: See SUN.8, 7 p.m.

POSTNATAL REHAB: See WED.4.

PRENATAL BALLET BARRE: See WED.4.

PRENATAL FITNESS: Ladies with babies on board keep their bodies in tip-top shape. Good Beginnings of Central Vermont, Montpelier, 6-8 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 595-7953.

PRENATAL YOGA CLASS: See WED.4.

R.I.P.P.E.D.: See WED.4.

RECOVERY COMMUNITY YOGA: See WED.4.

ZUMBA: See WED.4.

kids

CELEBRATE PUNSTER DAY: You’re so punny!

Language lovers in grades 6 through 8 compete for prizes with creative word play. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

COLCHESTER PRESCHOOL STORY TIME: See THU.5.

CRUISERS’ & CRAWLERS’ PLAY & STAY STORY TIME: Babies and toddlers up to age 2 engage in books, songs and social time with blocks, bubbles and parachute play. Highgate Public Library, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

HANDS-ON GLASSBLOWING PROJECTS & CLASSES: SUNCATCHER: See SAT.7.

ONE-ON-ONE TUTORING: See WED.4, 5-8 p.m.

PRESCHOOL MUSIC: See THU.5, 11 a.m.

ROBIN’S NEST NATURE PLAYGROUP: Naturalistled activities through fields and forests captivate little ones up to age 5 and their parents. North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, 9:30-11:30 a.m.

Donations; preregister. Info, 229-6206.

SPANISH MUSICAL KIDS: Amigos ages 1 to 5 learn Latin American songs and games with Constancia Gómez, a native Argentinian. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

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JAKE SHIMABUKURO: Big sounds resound from a tiny instrument when the ukulele master combines elements of jazz, blues, funk and rock. A discussion follows. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $17-35. Info, 603-646-2422.

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STORIES WITH MEGAN: Budding bookworms ages 2 through 5 open their ears for exciting tales.

Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m.

Free. Info, 865-7216.

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‘SEA MONSTERS: A PREHISTORIC ADVENTURE’: See WED.4.

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DROP-IN STORY TIME: Reading, rhyming and crafting entertain creative kiddos. Essex Free Library, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 879-0313.

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JIM DOUGLAS: The former g vernor shares his expertise as part of the Vermont Politics Speaker Series. Library and Learning Center, Johnson State College, 3-4 p.m. Free. Info, 635-1349.

ROGER MILLAR: Listeners gear up for “The Transportation Transition: Complete Streets.”

Room 108. Lafayette Hall, UVM, Burlington, 4-5:20 p.m. Free. Info, fhall@uvm.edu.

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AUTHOR TALK: RON KRUPP: The master gardener digs into timely growing topics in a conversation on The oodchuck Returns to Gardening. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 264-5660.

CELEBRATE VETERANS BOOK TALK: Author Timothy F. McKay gives an illustrated talk on his book Letters to a War Bride. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

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VETERANS DAY CEREMONY: Cannon fire, rifl volleys and a talk by Brigadier General Gary W. Keefe pay tribute to all who have served the United States. Upper Parade Ground, Norwich University, Northfield, 1-2 p.m. Free. Info, 485-2886

OPEN CRAFT NIGHT: Creative sparks fly in a studio space fi led with snacking, sewing, socializing and sharing. Nido Fabric & Yarn, Burlington, 6-8 p.m.

Free. Info, 881-0068.

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INTERMEDIATE & ADVANCED WEST COAST SWING: Experienced dancers learn smooth transitions and smart stylings. North End Studio A, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. $9-14. Info, burlingtonwestie@gmail.com.

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SWING DANCING: Quick-footed participants experiment with different styles, including the lindy hop, Charleston and balboa. Beginners are welcome.

Champlain Club, Burlington, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $5. Info, 448-2930.

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‘BLACKFISH’: Keeping killer whales in captivity proves to be a dangerous caper in this heartwrenching 2013 documentary. Sugar Maple Ballroom, Davis Center, UVM, Burlington, 7-9 p.m.

Free. Info, 656-2076.

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AIRPORT CELEBRATION: Community members join Gov. Peter Shumlin and the Rutland Region Chamber of Commerce for a high-flying fête marking the completion of runway safety area improvements. Rutland Southern Vermont Regional Airport, North Clarendon, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 800-756-8880.

kids

‘LIVING IN THE AGE OF AIRPLANES’: See WED.4.

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A MOSAIC OF FLAVOR: ERITREAN INJERA, YEMESSER WATT & GOMEN: Mulu Tewelde demonstrates how to prepare these savory dishes from her native region. McClure Multigenerational Center, Burlington, 5:30-7:30 p.m. $5-10. Info, 861-9757.

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BRIDGE CLUB: See WED.4, 7 p.m.

STORY TIME FOR BABIES & TODDLERS: Picture books, songs, rhymes and puppets arrest the attention of children under 3. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 9:10-9:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

TODDLER STORY TIME: Good listeners up to 3 years old have fun with music, rhymes, snacks and captivating tales. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 10:30-11 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 264-5660.

WILLISTON FALL STORY TIME: A wide variety of books and authors jump-starts preschoolers’ early-literacy skills. A craft activity follows. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

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INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED ENGLISH LANGUAGE CLASS: Language learners sharpen communication skills. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

Info, 893-1311.

‘LA CAUSERIE’ FRENCH CONVERSATION: Native speakers are welcome to pipe up at an unstructured conversational practice for students. El Gato Cantina, Burlington, 4:30-6 p.m. Free. Info, 540-0195.

PAUSE-CAFÉ FRENCH CONVERSATION: French students of all levels engage in dialogue en français.

Burlington Bay Market & Café, 6:30-8 p.m. Free.

Info, 881-0550.

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‘BUTCHER’: See WED.4.

CINEMANIA: See THU.5.

CHILDREN’S UNDERGROUND FILM SOCIETY: Monthly movie screenings encourage viewers of all ages to think critically about artful cinema. Big Picture Theater and Café, aitsfield, 5:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 496-8994.

CREATIVE TUESDAYS: Artists exercise their imaginations with recycled crafts. Kids under 8 must be accompanied by an adult. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3-5 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

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‘THE PINK PANTHER’: French police inspector Jacques Clouseau is after a mysterious jewel thief in this 1963 crime comedy. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7 p.m.

Free. Info, 540-3018.

OPEN ART STUDIO: Seasoned creatives and first timers alike convene to paint, knit and craft in a friendly environment. Bring a table covering for messy projects. Swanton Public Library, 4-8 p.m.

Free. Info, swantonartscouncil@gmail.com.

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BEGINNER WEST COAST SWING & BLUES FUSION DANCING: Students get schooled in the fundamentals of partner dance. North End Studio B, Burlington, 8-9 p.m. $9-14. Info, burlingtonwestie@ gmail.com.

KNIGHTS OF THE MYSTIC MOVIE CLUB: Cinema hounds view campy flicks at this ode to o fbeat productions. Main Street Museum, White River Junction, 8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 356-2776.

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SHAPE & SHARE LIFE STORIES: Prompts from Recille Hamrell trigger recollections of specific experiences, which participants craft into narratives. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 12:30-2:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

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ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS CONFERENCE: AARP’s Amy Goyer keynotes a day of discussions on brain-related disorders. Angell College Center, SUNY Plattsburgh, N.Y., 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. $20. Info, 518-564-3364.

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‘A READING WITH THREE VERMONT AUTHORS: CASTLE FREEMAN, JR., KATHRYN KRAMER & REBECCA STARKS’: Green Mountain State writers read from their respective works of fiction, memoir and poetry. 51 Main at the Bridge, Middlebury, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 443-5075.

KICKBOXING CLASS: Music propels this highoctane practice focused on maintaining form and achieving power through movement. North End Studio B, Burlington, 6:30-7:30 p.m. $15. Info, 646-577-7985.

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MUST-READ MONDAYS: A word-loving group covers Kristin Kimball’s The Di ty Life: A Memoir of Farming, Food, and Love. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

conferences

GUIDED PARTNER THAI BODYWORK: Lori Flower of Karmic Connection teaches techniques that create relaxation and personal connection. Community Room, Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 6:307:30 p.m. $8-10; preregister. Info, 223-8000, ext.

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MONDAY CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP: Lit lovers analyze works-in-progress penned by Burlington Writers Workshop members. 22 Church St., Burlington, 7 p.m. Free; preregister at meetup. com; limited space. Info, 383-8104.

VERMONT HOSPICE STUDY REPORT: A presentation reveals the findings of an examination of ho pice utilization. Capitol Plaza Hotel & Conference Center, Montpelier, 2:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 658-1900.

DROP-IN YOGA: Yogis hit the mat for a Hatha class led by Betty Molnar. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 4:30-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660.

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INTENSIVE WRITING WORKSHOP: Intermediate to experienced wordsmiths flesh out long-form projects with Jay Dubberly. Otter Creek Room, Bixby Memorial Library, Vergennes, 6-8 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 877-2211, ext. 208.

TUESDAY VOLUNTEER NIGHTS: Helping hands pitch in around the shop by organizing parts, moving bikes and tackling other projects. Children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult. Bike Recycle Vermont, Burlington, 5-8 p.m. Free. Info, 264-9687.

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EDUCATION ENRICHMENT FOR EVERYONE: FALL SERIES: Architectural historian Britta Tonn builds a foundation of knowledge with “History and Architecture of Burlington’s Hill Section.” Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 2-3 p.m. $5. Info, 864-3516.

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LIFE AFTER DEATH: See THU.5, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 800-772-9390.

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SAMBATUCADA! OPEN REHEARSAL: New faces are invited to pitch in as Burlington’s samba streetpercussion band sharpens its tunes. Experience and instruments are not required. 8 Space Studio Collective, Burlington, 6-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 862-5017.

GAMING FOR TEENS & ADULTS: Tabletop games entertain players of all skill levels. Kids 13 and under require a legal guardian or parental permission to attend. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 5-7:45 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

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MAD RIVER CHORALE OPEN REHEARSAL: The community chorus welcomes newcomers in preparation for its upcoming concert. Chorus Room, Harwood Union High School, South Duxbury, 7 p.m.

Free. Info, 496-2048.

CHAMPLAIN AREA NAACP MEETING: Socially conscious folks focus on current issues. 427A, Waterman Building, UVM, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 863-2345.

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HIGHGATE MUSIC & MOVEMENT STORY TIME: See WED.4.

‘HANA’S SUITCASE’: See THU.5.

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MILTON COMMUNITY BAND REHEARSAL: New musicians are welcome to join the ensemble as they hone their skills in preparation for their holiday concert. Milton High School, 7-8:45 p.m. Free. Info, 893-1398.

OPEN MIC: Musicians, storytellers and poets entertain a live audience at a monthly showcase of local talent. Wallingford Town Hall, 7-9 p.m. Free.

Info, 446-2872.

seminars

MEDICARE & YOU: AN INTRODUCTION TO MEDICARE: Members of the Central Vermont Council on Aging clear up confusion about the application process and plan options. Central Vermont Council on Aging, Barre, 3-5 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 479-0531.

KIDS & FAMILIES BOOK DISCUSSION: Lit lovers from across generations share opinions about Salmon Rushdie’s Haroun and the Sea of Stories.

Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 4-5 p.m.

Free. Info, 264-5660.

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MONTPELIER MUSIC & MOVEMENT: Energetic children up to age 6 engage in songs and silliness with Laurie and Rachel of Active Brain, Active Body.

Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 10:30 a.m.

Free. Info, 223-3338.

ERIC HYNES: Colorado grouse are the stars of the visually impressive presentation “Chasing Chickens.” Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

PRESCHOOL MUSIC: Melody makers ages 3 through 5 sing and dance the morning away.

Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 11:45 a.m.12:15 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660.

PRESCHOOL STORY HOUR: Imaginations blossom when kids up to age 6 engage in themed tales and activities. Fairfax Community Library, 9:30-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 849-2420.

READ TO A DOG: Youngsters share stories with lovable pooches. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free; preregister for a time slot. Info, 878-4918.

READ TO DAISY THE THERAPY DOG: Budding bookworms join a friendly canine for engaging narratives. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 3:15-4 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

‘SEA MONSTERS: A PREHISTORIC ADVENTURE’: See WED.4.

STORY TIME FOR 3- TO 5-YEAR-OLDS: See WED.4.

BURLINGTON RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB: See THU.5.

talks

GREGORY BOTTOMS: The creati e writing professor excerpts his work-in-progress White Kid: A Memoir of Race, Racism, Class and Culture in the 1970s for the University of Vermont College of Arts and Sciences Fall Dean’s Lecture. Memorial Lounge, Waterman Building, UVM, Burlington, 5-6:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 656-3166.

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BOOKS & BITES: Readers nosh on light fare while conversing about Jonas Jonasson’s The 100- earOld Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared. Bayview Eats, Colchester, 6-7 p.m.

Free. Info, 264-5660.

FALL LITERATURE READING SERIES: Ambitious readers discuss pages 209 to 247 of Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend. 22 Church St., Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free; preregister at meetup. com; limited space. Info, 383-8104.

HOWARD FRANK MOSHER: Fans flock to a rea ing, talk and book signing by the author of God’s Kingdom. Bridgeside Books, Waterbury, 6-8 p.m.

Free. Info, 244-1441.

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WRITING CREATIVE NONFICTION: Peers offer feedback on essays, poetry and journalism written

by Burlington Writers Workshop members. 22 Church St., Burlington, 10:30 a.m. Free; preregister at meetup.com; limited space. Info, 383-8104.

LYSANDER PIANO TRIO: “Recovered Voices: Music

by European Composers Displaced by World War II” rings out in honor of Veteran’s Day. Robison Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 7:30 p.m. $6-20. Info, 443-6433.

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VETERAN’S DAY COMMEMORATIVE CEREMONY: All veterans are welcome at a presentation of colors and a brief talk by Castleton University professor Terry Bergen. A complementary lunch follows.

Castleton University, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 468-1231.

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MEN’S GROUP: A supportive environment encourages socializing and involvement in senior center activities. Montpelier Senior Activity Center, 1011:30 a.m. Free. Info, 223-2518.

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KNITTERS & NEEDLEWORKERS: See WED.4.

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AFROLATIN PARTY: See WED.4.

DROP-IN HIP-HOP DANCE: See WED.4.

SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCING: See WED.4.

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GROUP DREAM ENACTMENT: Participants decode their nighttime visions. Nutty Steph’s, Middlesex, 6-8 p.m. Donations. Info, 522-6889.

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HIGHGATE FALL STORY TIME: See WED.4.

HIGHGATE MUSIC & MOVEMENT STORY TIME: See WED.4.

KIDS’ OPEN GYM: See WED.4.

LEGO CLUB: Youngsters ages 6 and up snap together snazzy structures. Fairfax Community Library, 3-4 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 849-2420.

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‘MY FATHER’S VIETNAM’: Rare photos and 8mm footage tell the story of soldiers in this 2015 documentary. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 11 a.m. & 2 & 7:30 p.m. $10. Info, 863-5966.

MAVIS STAPLES & JOAN OSBORNE: The two celebrated songstresses team up for the Solid Soul tour. Lyndon Institute, 7 p.m. $15-64; free for students 18 and under with a paying adult. Info, 748-2600.

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SINGERS & PLAYERS OF INSTRUMENTS: See WED.4.

INSIGHT MEDITATION: See WED.4.

MINDFULNESS CLASS: See WED.4.

NIA WITH LINDA: See WED.4.

POSTNATAL REHAB: See WED.4.

PRENATAL BALLET BARRE: See WED.4.

PRENATAL YOGA CLASS: See WED.4.

PUSH-UPS IN THE PARK: See WED.4.

RECOVERY COMMUNITY YOGA: See WED.4.

WEDNESDAY NIGHT SOUND MEDITATION: See WED.4.

ZUMBA: See WED.4.

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JOHNSON STATE COLLEGE FREE SPEAKER SERIES: University of Vermont’s Kelly Fimlaid captivates listeners with “Bacterial Systems Revealed Using Molecular Genetics Techniques.” Bentley Hall, Johnson State College, 4-5:15 p.m. Free. Info, 635-1327.

TIM ZIMMERMANN: A cowriter of the 2013 documentary Blackfis , the reporter shares an ocean of knowledge. Sugar Maple Ballroom, Davis Center, UVM, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 656-2076.

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NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: Carey Mulligan and Bill Nighy star as old flames attempting to rekindle their romance in a broadcast production of Skylight. Town Hall Theate , Middlebury, 7 p.m. $1017. Info, 382-9222.

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COMMUNITY BOOK DISCUSSION: Salmon Rushdie’s Haroun and the Sea of Stories inspires dialogue among readers. Crossett Brook Middle School, Duxbury, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 244-7036.

READING GROUP DISCUSSION: See WED.4.

STORYCRAFT: THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF CREATIVE WRITING: See WED.4.

NOV. 7TH - FREE DEMOS ALL DAY SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7th 11:00-5:00

THE WEDNESDAY WORKSHOP: CHAPTER FOCUS: Folks give feedback on selections of up to 40 pages penned by Burlington Writers Workshop members.

22 Church St., Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free; preregister at meetup.com; limited space. Info, 383-8104. m

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BILL LIPKE & BILL MARES: A Veteran’s Day talk on Grafting Memory: Essays on War & Commemoration examines how large-scale conflicts inspired practices for honoring the dead as individuals. Phoenix Books Burlington, 7 p.m. $3; limited space. Info, 448-3350.

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EATING WELL ON A BUDGET FOR FAMILIES: See WED.4.

Thursday, November 12 - 7:30 pm Friday, November 13 - 7:30 pm Saturday, November 14 - 2:00 pm & 7:30 pm Sunday, November 15 - 2:00 pm

‘HANA’S SUITCASE’: See THU.5.

‘LIVING IN THE AGE OF AIRPLANES’: See WED.4.

DANCE-BASED CONDITIONING: See WED.4.

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‘BUTCHER’: See WED.4.

THE INDIGO GIRLS: Folk rock fans flock to hear the “Closer to Fine” duo. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 8 p.m. $49.75-59.75. Info, 775-0903.

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BRIDGE CLUB: See WED.4.

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FUN WITH FERMENTS: LEARN THE BASICS OF LACTO FERMENTATION: Clinical intern Beracah Sullivan guides participants in an exploration of good bacteria and its benefits for the bod .

Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, Montpelier, 6-8 p.m. $10-12; preregister. Info, 224-7100.

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‘SEA MONSTERS: A PREHISTORIC ADVENTURE’: See WED.4.

TURNON BURLINGTON: See WED.4.

‘JUST EAT IT: A FOOD WASTE STORY’: Local groups committed to conserving comestibles are on hand at a screening of this 2014 documentary.

ArtsRiot, Burlington, 7 p.m. $5 and a mason jar.

Info, 540-0406.

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classes THE FOLLOWING CLASS LISTINGS ARE PAID ADVERTISEMENTS. ANNOUNCE YOUR CLASS FOR AS LITTLE AS $13.75/WEEK (INCLUDES SIX PHOTOS AND UNLIMITED DESCRIPTION ONLINE). SUBMIT YOUR CLASS AD AT SEVENDAYSVT.COM/POSTCLASS.

art ART & POTTERY IN MIDDLEBURY: Adults: Mon. p.m. Oils, Tue. Beaded Jewelry, Wed. a.m. Int./Adv. Painting, Wed. night Wheel, Thu. a.m.

Clay Hand-Building, Thu. a.m.

Oils, Thu. Drawing, Thu. Mixe Media Pastel, Wed. Small Paper Sculptures. Children: Clay on the Wheel & Hand Building, Mon. Holiday Gifts, Wed. Art of the World, Tue. Gingerbread Fantasy. Location: Middlebury Studio School, 2377 Rte. 7 South, Middlebury. Info: Barbara Nelson, 247-3702, ewaldewald@aol.com, middleburystudioschool.org.

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DIY FACINATORS: Come make a fascinator! Whether your style is elegant and refined or fun and funky, or somewhere in between, a fascinator headpiece will complete your look. This DIY workshop will have everything you need, and you will leave with a finished, wearable piece. A l materials provided. Thu., N v.

12, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $28/ person; $25/BCA members.

Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington.

DIY LEATHER CUFFS AND EARRINGS: Join co-owner of New Duds and advanced crafter Tessa Valyou at this one-night class where you’ll create your own leather earrings and bracelets. Learn simple ways to make one-of-a-kind jewelry that you’ll want to wear and give as gifts.

Make snap bracelets, cuffs and fun earrings. Materials provided.

Thu., Dec. 3, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Cost: $28/person; $25.20/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington.

EARRINGS: Come check out the jewelry and fine metals studio y making your own silver earrings.

Open to all skill levels. Class includes copper and brass, silver ear wire and all basic tools. Silver can be purchased separately.

Thu., Dec. 10, 6:30-9 p.m. Cost: $35/person; $31.50/BCA members. Location: Generator, 250 Main St., Burlington.

ETSY: TAKING IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL: Trying to figure out how to stand out from a million other sellers? Laura Hale will guide you using Etsy’s internal tools and creating your own online marketing methods. We’ll cover treasuries, blog posts and comments, integrating social media, refining listings for top search results, seller shop stats, and more! Mon. Nov. 9, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $25/ person; $22.50/BCA members.

Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington.

FUNDING SOURCES FOR ARTISTS: Learn how to utilize grants, competitions and crowdfunding sources to get your next project off the ground! Discover tips for writing a successful proposal from the budget to the statement of purpose. Resources for national, state and local grants provided. Participants are invited to bring materials to be reviewed. Mon., Nov. 16, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $25/ person; $22.50/BCA members.

Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington.

JEWELRY: MIXED LEVEL: This is a less structured class for students who would like to work on a specific project, brush up on their techniques or learn some new techniques with an instructor there to coach them. Open to all skill levels, but some experience is helpful. Tue., Nov. 10-Dec. 8, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $140/ person; $126/BCA members.

Location: Generator, 250 Main St., Burlington.

PAINTING SEMINAR: COMPOSITION: What one thing do all great paintings have in common? Strong composition!

No matter what artistic style, color, palette or subject matter, composition is the essential glue that pulls it all together. You will be guided through exercises designed to stimulate awareness of dynamic shape, rhythm and movement. Beginners welcome!

Sat., Dec. 5, 11:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Cost: $90/person; $81/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington.

PHOTOGRAPHING YOUR ARTWORK: Professional photographer Dan Lovell will demonstrate lighting techniques for photographing 2D and 3D art. Whether you’re applying to art school, submitting for an exhibition or putting together a

website, you’ll leave this workshop with techniques that will improve your images and enhance your presentations. Basic understanding of your camera required. Mon., Dec. 7, 6-9 p.m.

Cost: $35/person; $31.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington.

YOUTH: COMICS AND CARTOONS: Spend an afternoon with other cartoonists creating your own comic strip. You’ll learn professional techniques to make your story and characters come alive. All materials provided.

Registration required. Ages 6-12. Sat., Nov. 14, 1:30-3:30 p.m.

Cost: $25/person. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington.

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KIDS’ HOLIDAY SEWING WORKSHOP: Looking for a kids’ class full of creativity, making and fun? Nido’s Kids’ Holiday Sewing Workshops offer beginners the basics of sewing while constructing fun projects. Learn how to thread and use a sewing machine and create basic stitches to craft fun holiday gifts. Ages 9-14. Sun., Dec. 6, 10 a.m.-1 p.m or Sun., Dec. 13, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Cost: $58/3-hour workshop; materials incl. Location: Nido Fabric and Yarn, 209 College St., Suite 2E, Burlington. Info: 881-0068, info@ nidovt.com, nidovt.com.

LEARN TO SEW AT NIDO: In nido’s Learn to Sew I class Mon. Dec. 7, learn machine basics and fundamental sewing techniques to make your first tote bag. No experience necessary. Follow up with Learn to Sew II, Mon., Dec. 14, 6-9 p.m., to continue building your sewing repertoire. Register today! Mon., Dec. 7, 6-9 p.m.

Cost: $48/3-hour class; materials incl. Location: Nido Fabric and Yarn, 209 College St., Suite 2E, Burlington. Info: 881-0068, info@nidovt.com, nidovt.com.

dance DANCE STUDIO SALSALINA: Salsa classes, nightclub-style, group and private, four levels.

Beginner walk-in classes, Wednesdays, 6 p.m. $15/person for one-hour class. No dance experience, partner or preregistration required, just the desire to have fun! Drop in any time and prepare for an enjoyable workout. Location: 266 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Victoria, 5981077, info@salsalina.com.

DSANTOS VT SALSA: Experience the fun and excitement of Burlington’s eclectic dance community by learning salsa. Trained by world famous dancer Manuel

required to run most classes; invite friends! Register online or come directly to the first class! Location: Taiko Space, 208 Flynn Ave., Suite 3-G, Burlington. Info: 999-4255, burlingtontaiko.org.

TAIKO IN MONTPELIER: Kids and Parents’ Taiko: Thu., 4:30-5:20 p.m., starting Nov. 5. $60/person; $114/pair.

5-week class. Montpelier Taiko: Thu., 5:30-6:50 p.m., starting Nov. 5. $90/5 weeks; $22/walk-in. Register online or come directly to the first class Location: Capital City Grange, 6612 Rte. 12, Berlin. Info: 9994255, burlingtontaiko.org.

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 t start than now! Mon. evenings: beginner class, 7-8 p.m.; intermediate, 8:15-9:15 p.m.

Cost: $12/1-hour class. Location: Splash (summertime; weather permitting)/North End Studios, 0 College St./294 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: Tyler Crandall, 598-9204, crandalltyler@ hotmail.com, dsantosvt.com.

LEARN TO DANCE W/ A PARTNER!: Come alone or come with friends, but come out and learn to dance! Beginning classes repeat each month, but intermediate classes vary from month to month. As with all of our programs, everyone is encouraged to attend, and no partner is necessary. Private lessons also available. Cost: $50/4week class. Location: Champlain Club, 20 Crowley St., Burlington.

Info: First Step Dance, 598-6757, kevin@firststepdance.com, firststepdance.com

drumming DJEMBE IN BURLINGTON AND MONTPELIER!: Learn drumming technique and music on West African drums! Drums provided!

Burlington Beginners Djembe class: Wed., 5:30-6:20 p.m., starting Nov. 4 & Dec. 9. $36/3 weeks or $15/drop-in. Montpelier Beginners Djembe class: Thu., 7-8:20 p.m., starting, Nov. 5 & Dec. 10. $54/3 weeks or $22/ walk-in. Please register online or come directly to the first class Location: Taiko Space, 208 Flynn Ave., Suite 3-G, Burlington, & Capital City Grange, 6612 Rte. 12, Berlin. Info: 999-4255, burlingtontaiko.org.

TAIKO DRUMMING IN BURLINGTON!: Study with Stuart Paton of Burlington Taiko!

Beginner/Recreational Class: Tue., 5:30-6:20 p.m., starting Nov. 3 (no class Nov. 24). $72/6 weeks. Accelerated Taiko Program for Beginners: Mon. & Wed., 6:30-8:30 p.m., starting Nov. 2 & Nov. 30. $144/3 weeks.

Kids and Parents’ Class: Mon. & Wed., 4:30-5:20 p.m., starting Nov. 2. $60/child; $105/parentchild duo. Five-person minimum

empowerment HOW YOUR JUNGIAN ARCHETYPES ARE THE KEY TO YOUR HAPPINESS AND JOY!: Learn how to employ the power of archetypes to express yourself fully, and create a direct path to happiness. Led by Cornelia Ward, intuitive counselor, spiritual teacher and author. Nov. 10, 6-8 p.m. Location: The Jungian Center for the Spiritual Sciences, 55 Clover La., Waterbury. Info: Sue, 244-7909.

JUNGIAN BIBLE STUDY WORKSHOP II: Discover the hidden wisdom in Jesus’ words in this three-part course that presents a Jungian perspective on key verses in the New Testament. No prior familiarity with either the Bible or Christianity is required. Led

by Sue Mehrtens, teacher and author. Nov. 4, 11 & 18, 7-9 p.m.

Cost: $60/person. Location: The Jungian Center for the Spiritual Sciences, 55 Clover La., Waterbury. Info: Sue, 244-7909.

Feldenkrais UNLOCK THE JAW, TONGUE& THROAT: This five-week series will deliver an engaging and gentle series of Awareness Through Movement lessons designed to reduce muscular tension and promote relaxation and ease throughout the jaw, mouth and throat. People who suffer from TMJ, teeth grinding at night, neck discomfort and tension around their voice box will find this workshop particularly to their benefit Weekly on Sun. starting Nov. 8, 5-6 p.m. Cost: $75/5-week series; single class $20 (space permitted). Location: Otter Creek Yoga, Marbleworks, Middlebury. Info: Uwe Mester, 735-3770, info@vermontfeldenkrais.com, vermontfeldenkrais. com.

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CONTEMPORARY DANCE INTENSIVES: Led by a different guest artist each month, hailing from the teaching staff at Bennington and Middlebury Colleges, these intensives are designed to support and strengthen the skills and community of practicing contemporary dancers and dance-makers in our region. Each intensive will focus on different aspects of the skills at the core of strong and compelling performers and performances. The guest a tist for the October session is Dai Jian. Seasoned teen/adult dancers. Sun., Nov. 8, Dec. 13, Jan. 17, Feb. 21, Mar. 20 & Apr. 17, 1-4 p.m.

Cost: $30/session. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington.

Info: 652-4548, flynna ts.org.

EXPLORING CONNECTIONS: This three-pa t workshop series uses movement and metaphor to explore the expressive body, incorporating movement fundamentals as well as drawing and writing to explore the relationship between movement and personal expression. Our goal will be to facilitate a lively interplay between inner connectivity and outer expressivity to enrich your movement potential, change ineffective neuromuscular movement patterns, and encourage new ways of moving and embodying your inner self.

Instructor: Sara McMahon. Fri., Nov. 6 & Dec. 4, 5:45-7:45 p.m.

Cost: $25/session. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington.

Info: 652-4548, flynna ts.org.

IMPROVISATION LABORATORIES: SKILLS FOR DANCING, CREATING, PERFORMING, AND LIVING: The a t of improvisation will be the focus with longtime dance artist and teacher Hannah Dennison. Learn and polish skills that are the foundation for world-renowned performers! These se en workshop laboratories are set up as a cumulative series to pay close attention to the sense and understanding of movement with self, others, space and time.

Beginners welcome. Please avoid perfume or added scents, as they can interfere with concentration.

Teen/adult dancers. Sun., Nov. 8, Dec. 13, Jan. 17, Feb. 21, Mar. 20 & Apr. 17, 9:30 a.m.-noon. Cost: $25/session. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: 652-4548, flynna ts.org.

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A HOLIDAY TIME GRIEF GROUP: Winter, particularly the holiday season, can be a time of intensified grie . Grief may grow, even in the rush of celebration of the season. This group wi l support participants to address grief, while finding meaning and even comfort in the season and the many holidays that fi l it.

Preregistration required. Some insurance accepted. Led by Jennie Kristel & Michael Watson.

5 Tue., Dec. 1, 8, 15, 22 & 29, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $40/session; sliding fee scale. Location: JourneyWorks, 1205 North Ave., 3rd floo , Burlington. Info: 8606203, jorneyworksvt.com.

LEARN SPANISH & OPEN NEW DOORS: Connect with a new world. We provide high-quality, affordable instruction in the Spanish language for adults, students and children. Traveler’s lesson package. Our ninth year.

Personal instruction from a native speaker. Small classes, private lessons and online instruction. See our website for complete information or contact us for details. Location: Spanish in Waterbury Center, Waterbury Center. Info: 585-1025, spanishparavos@gmail.com, spanishwaterburycenter.com.

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FAMILY ORIGAMI WORKSHOP: Share the joy of Japanese paper folding with your family as you create colorful animals inspired by nature. Sat., Nov. 21, 1-4:30 p.m. Cost: $25/adult/child pair.

Location: Helen Day Art Center, 90 Pond St., Stowe. Info: 2538358, education@helenday.com, helenday.com.

martial arts VERMONT BRAZILIAN JIUJITSU: Classes for men, women and children. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu enhances strength, flexibili y, balance, coordination and cardio-respiratory fitness. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu training builds and helps to instill courage and selfconfidence. e offer a legitimate Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu martial arts program in a friendly, safe and positive environment. Accept

meditation LEARN TO MEDITATE: Through the practice of sitting still and following your breath as it goes out and dissolves, you are connecting with your heart. By simply letting yourself be, as you are, you develop genuine sympathy toward yourself.

The Burlington Shambhala Center offers meditation as a path to discovering gentleness and wisdom. Shambhala Café (meditation and discussions) meets the first Saturday of each month, 9 a.m.-noon. An open house (intro to the center, short dharma talk and socializing) is held on the third Sunday of each month, noon-2 p.m. Instruction: Sun. mornings, 9 a.m.-noon, or by appt. Sessions: Tue. & Thu., noon-1 p.m., & Mon.-Thu. 6-7 p.m. Location: Burlington Shambhala Center, 187 S. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 658-6795, burlingtonshambha lactr.org.

The Graduate Program in Community Mental Health & Mental Health Counseling has a new name! We are now the

movement MOVING THROUGH THE SEASONS: The changing seasons, with less light and shorter days, can affect mood and energy. Using dance and movement to enhance vitality, we will forge a deeper mind/body connection and explore the interplay of thought, feeling, sensation.

Ideal for recovery from depression, anxiety, trauma, addictions. No dance experience required. Please preregister.

6 Wed., Nov. 11-Dec. 16, 5:306:45 p.m. Cost: $125/6-week session. Location: Chace Mill, 1 Mill St., Suite 312, Burlington. Info: Luanne Sberna, 863-9775-2, luannesberna@aol. com.

outdoors BICYCLE MECHANICS 101: Learn to repair and maintain your bike!

Bicycle Mechanics 101 is sevensession introduction to bicycle mechanics. Students receive instruction on the systems and parts of the bicycle and bicycle anatomy, practice common repair,s and work one-on-one with professional mechanics to learn all the basics. Every Thu., 6-8 p.m.; N v. 12-Jan. 14 or every Fri., 10 a.m.-noon, Nov. 13-Jan. 15. Cost: $175/14 hours total instruction. Location: Bike Recycle Vermont, 664 Riverside Ave., Burlington. Info: Burlington Bike Project, Dan Hock, 8634475, dan@bikerecyclevt.org, bikerecyclevermont.org.

FEMMECHANICS: Learn to fix your bike! Female-identifying people learn bicycle maintenance and repair in a supportive environment. Students learn systems and parts of the bicycle

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and practice common repairs and adjustments on their own bikes. Taught by a female mechanic from Old Spokes Home. Scholarships available.

Mon., Nov. 9, 16 & 23, 6:30-9:30 p.m. Cost: $95/3 3-hour classes.

Location: Bike Recycle Vermont, 664 Riverside Ave., Burlington.

Info: Dan Hock, 863-4475, dan@ bikerecyclevt.org, bikerecyclevermont.org.

performing arts PLAYBACK THEATRE: STORYTELLING IN ACTION: Participants will learn how to use Playback Theatre to transform personal stories told by workshop participants into theatre pieces on the spot, using movement, ritual, music and spoken improvisation. Participants will share their stories and learn to bring these stories to life through Playback and other creative theater techniques.

Preregistration required. Mon., Nov. 16 & 30 & Dec. 7 & 14, 6-9 p.m. Cost: $65/person. Location: JourneyWorks, 1205 North Ave., Burlington. Info: 860-6203, journeyworksvt.com.

tai chi ART OF TAI CHI CHUAN: Begin learning this supreme art to cultivate and sustain well-being of body, mind and spirit passed traditionally by four generations of Tung Family Lineage.

Experience the bliss of true nature through practice: Yang Style Long Form Postures & Sequence; Complementary Exercises & Qigong; Yin/Yang Theo y & Guiding Principles; Push Hands Partner Practice; and Mindfulness Meditation. All Level Weekly Classes, Wed. (ongoing), 5:30-7 p.m. 1st Saturday Seminar Series, Saturday, Nov. 7, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Tai Chi for Health, Oct. 8-Dec. 17, Thursdays, 10-11 a.m. Rolling admission.

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PRENATAL METHOD STUDIO: Prenatal and postnatal yoga and barre classes. Yoga for Fertility Class Series. Childbirth Education Series and weekend intensives. Yoga Alliance Registered Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training Program.

Empathy circles, infant massage and new mothers’ groups.

Supporting women and their partners in the management and journey of pregnancy and childbirth. Every day: lunchtimes, evenings & weekends.

Cost: $15/1-hour prenatal or postnatal yoga class. Location: Prenatal Method Studio, 1 Mill St., suite 236, at the Chace Mill, Burlington. Info: 829-0211, beth@ prenatalmethod.com, prenatalmethod.com.

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STAINED GLASS WORKSHOP: Students will explore pattern, design and construction and leave with a unique piece of stained glass to hang. Instructor: Sarah Sprague. Sat., Nov. 14, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Cost: $125/person; $100/members. Location: Helen Day Art Center, 90 Pond St., Stowe. Info: 253-8358, education@helenday.com, helenday.com.

NEW BURLINGTON FRENCH CLASSES: We are excited to offer new French classes starting in November. In this fi e-week session, you can choose from the following: Québécois French and Sip (for intermediate students), Breakfast Club in French (for advanced beginner students) and French Conversation and Sip (for advanced students). For dates and fees, please visit our website or contact Micheline. Location: 43 King St., Burlington. Info: Alliance FranÇaise of the Lake Champlain Region, Micheline Tremblay, michelineatremblay@ gmail.com, aflc .org.

no imitations. Learn from one of the world’s best, Julio “Foca” Fernandez, CBJJ and IBJJF certified 6th Degree Black Belt, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu instructor under Carlson Gracie Sr., teaching in Vermont, born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil! A 5-time Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu National Featherweight Champion and 3-time Rio de Janeiro State Champion, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Mon.-Fri., 6-9 p.m., & Sat., 10 a.m. 1st class is free. Location: Vermont Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, 55 Leroy Rd., Williston. Info: 660-4072, julio@bjjusa.com, vermontbjj.com.

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Location: McClure Center, 241 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: Madeleine Piat-Landolt, 4533690, whitecloudarts@gmail. com, whitecloudarts.org.

SNAKE-STYLE TAI CHI CHUAN: The ang 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, flexibili y, vitality,

peace of mind and martial skill.

Beginner classes Sat. mornings & Wed. evenings. Call to view a class. Location: Bao Tak Fai Tai Chi Institute, 100 Church St., Burlington. Info: 864-7902, ipfamilytaichi.org.

well-being NATURE AS HEALER: We are each Nature. Returning to Nature opens the door to deep healing. The sound of the drum is also a doorway to healing, for it is the heartbeat of the Earth, of the cosmos, of the Self. In this workshop we will deepen the journey into Nature and Self. Preregistration required.

By donation. Sat., Nov. 14, 9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Location: JourneyWorks, 1205 North Ave., 3rd floo , Burlington. Info: 860-6203, journeyworksvt.com.

VT VET TO VET: There wi l be a men’s group and a women’s group. All veterans are invited from any branch of service, any era of service, any combat status, any discharge status.

Groups will focus on recovery, comradeship, Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) building and open discussions. Every 2nd & 4th Mon. starting Nov. 9, 5:306:15 p.m. Location: Turning Point Center, 191 Bank St., Burlington.

Info: Vermont Vet To Vet, Eric Fournier, 877-485-4534, info@ vtvettovet, vtvettovet.org.

women PERMISSION GRANTED: EMPRESS: Working with Tarot’s Empress Archetype with Linda River Valente. Forge your own path, with a “Hell, yes” from your soul’s sweet mandate. Open the gateways of your senses. Receive without guilt, fear, or judgment.

Movement, shamanic journey, sound and more are our tools.

Erotic permissions are guaranteed! Sat., Nov. 14, 1-4 p.m. Cost: $36/3-hour class. Location: Sacred Moutain Studios, 215 College St., Burlington. Info: Charmed, Linda River Valente, 279-2106, charmed.flow@gmail com, lindarivervalente.net.

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REIKI SHARE: Share Reiki, for self and others, by giving and receiving Reiki. Learn from others how they are using Reiki, and have a place to rest and be rejuvenated. Light refreshments. Feel free to invite other Reiki practitioners whom you know! All levels of Reiki are welcome. RSVP required. By donation. Nov. 17, Dec. 10 & Jan. 14, 6:30-9 p.m. Location:

JourneyWorks, 1205 North Ave., 3rd floo , Burlington. Info: Jennie Kristel, 860-6203, journey worksvt.com.

yoga EVOLUTION YOGA: Evolution Yoga and Physical Thera y offers yoga classes for beginners, experts, athletes, desk jockeys, teachers, fitness enthusiasts, people with who think they are inflexible. Choose from a wide variety of classes and workshops in Vinyasa, Kripalu, Core, Gentle, Vigorous, Philosophy, Yoga Wall, Therapeutics and Alignment.

Become part of our yoga community. You are welcome here.

Cost: $15/class; $130/10-class card; $5-10/community classes.

Location: Evolution Yoga, 20 Kilburn St., Burlington. Info: 8649642, evolutionvt.com.

FIND YOURSELF IN “SVAROOPA” YOGA, AN UNCOMMON YOGA: “Svaroopa” Yoga Weekend Workshop, the Delight of an Open Spine and Quiet Mind, with Leading Teacher Addie Alex, Nov. 7-8, Barrett Hall, South Strafford, Vt., $295. Weekly classes taught

by Annie Ross CSYT, E-RYT 500 (Sun., 3 p.m. and Wed., 6:45 p.m.) and three half-day workshops (Sat., 1:30-4:30 p.m., Sep. 19, Oct. 17 and Nov. 21, $60) are held at the Center for Integrative Health, 45 Lyme Rd., Suite 200, Hanover, N.H. “Svaroopa” means “the bliss of your own being,” or your own true form. This s yle is deceptively easy and amazingly powerful, as it releases the core muscles wrapped around your spine, effecting changes in your body, mind and emotions.

Find your strength, inside and outside, with this spinal magic.

Location: South Strafford, Vt., &,

Hanover, N.H. Info: Annie Ross, CSYT, E-RYT 500, 6493544, annie@truepathyoga. today.

HONEST YOGA, THE ONLY DEDICATED HOT YOGA FLOW CENTER: Honest Yoga offers practice for all levels.

Brand new beginners’ courses include two specialty classes per week for four weeks plus unlimited access to all classes. We have daily classes in Essentials, Flow and Core Flow with alignment constancy. We hold teacher trainings at the 200- and 500-hour levels.

Daily classes & workshops. $25/ new student 1st week unlimited; $15/class or $130/10-class card; $12/class for student or senior or $100/10-class punch card.

Location: Honest Yoga Center, 150 Dorset St., Blue Mall, next to Sport Shoe Center, S. Burlington.

Info: 497-0136, honestyogastu dio@gmail.com, honestyoga center.com.

HOT YOGA BURLINGTON: Feeling stuck, overwhelmed, stressed, restless or just bored?

Come try something different!

Yes, it’s yoga, you know, stretching and stuff. But we make it different. How? Come and see. Hot Yoga Burlington is Vermont’s first Far Infrared heated hot yoga studio, experience it! Get hot: 2-for-1 offer. $15. Go to hotyogaburlingtonvt.com. Location: North End Studio B, 294 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 999-9963, hotyogaburlingtonvt.com.

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eated at the picnic tables outside Winooski’s Monkey House, three members of the Full Cleveland shivered a little as they gabbed over beers with Seven Days. It was warm enough in late October to sit outside, but just barely. The imminent winter doesn’t daunt these musicians, though.

Their world is warmed by a gentle ocean breeze and flavored with a kiss of tequila and pineapple. Their world is a smooth world.

So far as the members of the group know, the Full Cleveland are Vermont’s only “yacht rock” band, and they are fully committed to a soft-rockin’ lifestyle of

music 1970s leisure. On the surface, that commitment entails wearing tacky nautical attire and maintaining a gentle sense of self-irony. But, though their set lists are rich in the kind of soft-rock chestnuts that may inspire derision, the Clevelanders are skilled musicians who can appreciate a catchy hook and also nail a complex arrangement.

Local interest in the band is picking up. Guitarist Ean Briere reports that it’s received three offers for New Year’s Eve gigs. The show at the Monkey House was part of a monthlong Tuesday-night residency. At Waterbury’s Reservoir Restaurant & Tap Room, the band’s unofficial home base, the Full Cleveland play on the last Saturday of every month. They’ve also paid their dues in most of the major venues in or near Chittenden County: Nectar’s, Club Metronome, Red Square, the Rusty Nail.

“And we were the last band to play at [Winooski’s recently shuttered] O’Brien’s Pub,” said singer Matt Wright with a laugh. “We’re very proud of that.”

The Full Cleveland’s repertoire is not limited to the songs of a single act but to those of a loosely defined genre. Also known as easy listening, adult contemporary and “AM Gold,” this once-reviled, now-beloved musical form dominated the airwaves from the early ’70s to the mid-’80s. Characterized by slick production, gentle pop hooks and unexpected complexity, the music’s major figures include Michael McDonald and the Doobie Brothers, the Little River Band, Christopher Cross, and such one-hit wonders as Looking Glass, Exile and Player.

“We’re looking at ’72 to ’85,” said Wright, holding up his hands like brackets to demarcate his band’s preferred musical epoch. “We start with early Steely Dan in ’72 … and get all the way to Huey Lewis.”

Why play nothing but yacht rock, though? More than most other genres, this one veers dangerously close to goofy nostalgia and cheesiness.

“It is goofy, but as long as we kill the music, then I don’t care who thinks it’s goofy,” said bassist John Wakefield. But yacht rock offers more than just an opportunity to pull on your uncle’s old Orlon slacks. For musicians, the genre offers the opportunity to master tunes that are not just pleasing to the ear but, often, diabolically difficult to play.

“The hooks you can remember and whistle and hum in the shower, but when you break it down … it’s just layered complexity,” said Briere. “It also has a variety in chords that I just don’t hear in Katy Perry or the ‘Call Me Maybe’ tunes. There are diminished seventh chords, with a B-flat over an A-flat. Being able to play that is very fulfilling.”

Though born of 1970s musical trends, this curious genre acquired the moniker “yacht rock” only a decade ago, when a popular and wildly funny internet series of that name attained meme-dom. That series inspired the look, playlist and sensibilities of the Full Cleveland. Its caricatured characters — including McDonald, Kenny MEN OF LEISURE

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History buffs might recognize the title of the program as an ABRAHAM LINCOLN quote. No, Honest Abe was not a jazz fan, since the genre hadn’t been invented yet. But he did preside over certain fundamental historical events that would pave the way for that to happen.

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It’s kind of hard to believe, but Radio Bean turns 15 this weekend. That’s a significant milestone, especially for a joint that was perilously close to going under as recently as its 10th anniversary. So I’ve been thinking a lot about the Bean in recent days, about just how the hell 15 years have passed and what that really means on scales both large and small.

To the latter, here’s a quick personal story: I moved back to Burlington in 2002 in large part because of Radio Bean. I had been living in Boston, ostensibly to try my hand as a musician in a bigger town — stop me if you’ve heard that story before. But I had a hard time finding other musicians to connect with there. I found it cold and isolating.

I would come home to Vermont fairly regularly and often found myself at the Bean, usually to watch a band called the LAZY SONGWRITER, which featured my siblings and my old friend ARTHUR ADAMS. I loved the band — and still do, on those occasions when its members reunite.

But I was equally enamored of the vibe and sense of community at the Bean itself. It struck me that everything I’d been vainly searching for in Boston was right in that funky, brick-walled room. I soon moved home, commandeered Arthur’s band when he moved away and have never looked back.

For many years after, the Bean was a second home. That little band of mine grew up on its cramped stage. I’ve fallen in love there more times than I can count. I know many others who

fell in love there and are now married.

I learned a bunch of honky-tonk songs along the way, and forgot even more of them. I’ve seen many of my most favorite shows there. I’ve mourned there.

As I get older, I find I don’t hang out at Radio Bean nearly as much as I used to. Yet, when I do, it feels as comfortable and welcoming as ever. The faces have changed and so has the shop. But so much remains blessedly the same. It’s not a stretch to say that my life would be very different if Radio Bean didn’t exist.

And my story is not unique.

Maybe you didn’t move to Burlington explicitly because of the Bean. But you might have come here, or stayed here, because of the scene that’s grown up around it, and because of how that culture has manifested in innumerable ways around Burlington and beyond.

The Bean is a melting pot, an incubator, a petri dish. It’s impossible to count the number of bands that have been born and raised at the Bean, or the personal, professional and artistic connections that have been made there. As a result, the artistic and cultural landscape in Burlington has been vastly changed for the better since LEE ANDERSON poured his first cup of coffee behind that cluttered counter.

It’s said that a rising tide lifts all boats. I’ve been saying for the past several years that the music scene in

Vermont, and Burlington especially, has never been more vibrant, diverse and dynamic. We have more great clubs and great promoters and great artists right now than ever before. To say the quality and quantity of local music has never been stronger is not lip service.

I honestly believe that. I also believe that it’s possible to pinpoint when that musical tide started rushing in. It was 15 years ago, when a quirky dude from Minnesota maxed out a bunch of credit cards to open a funky coffee shop at 8 North Winooski Avenue in Burlington.

This Saturday, November 7, Radio Bean will host its annual daylong birthday bash. As of this moment, Anderson and co. haven’t unveiled all of the specifics of the party. But they don’t really need to. We know what will happen, starting at 8 a.m.: Practically every band in Burlington will appear on that stage at some point during the day or night. If tradition holds, DINO BRAVO will lead things off, quite possibly after partying all night and into the morning.

And then some 80-plus acts will play, either in the Bean or in the adjoining Light Club Lamp Shop. There will be free coffee and pancakes. Someone will fall in love. Someone else will have an idea for a band. I’ll probably have one too many Five Dollar Shakes and then forget my card at the bar. And it will be one of the best days of the year in Burlington.

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shtick, the crowd soon found itself Loggins, Daryl Hall and John Oates — unable to resist grooving to the sounds rest at nothing in their dogged pursuit of of smoothness.

Starting with the Climax Blues the ultimate in musical smoothness.

Band’s irresistible 1976 nugget “Couldn’t “[The show’s creators] are not making Get It Right,” the band then laid down fun of the music,” said Briere. “They’re Boz Scaggs’ “Lowdown” and really just making fun of America’s 1982 comeback the characters … or hit “You Can Do Magic.” of the situation: Like a really good the facial hair, the chocolate-chip cookie, end of the ’70s, the remainder of the kung fu, fondue, first set was studded chardonnay.” with succulent morsels, Inspired by the such as “How Long” by series and by his own Ace, Christopher Cross’ genuine love for the “Sailing” (“probably the yachtimusic, Wakefield posted a craigslist ad for smoothly inclined est tune we have,” said Briere) and an bandmates about three and a half years especially twinkly version of “Moonlight ago. He admits that he was attempting to Feels Right” by one-hit wonder Starbuck.

Seven Days, tired from drink and tap into what he perceived as a burgeoning yacht-rock zeitgeist. “We’re not the overpowered by the sheer smoothness of it all, had to bow out first band doing this before set two, which around the country,” was reported afterward he said, smiling. as rich in Steely Dan. Indeed, a quick The members of the online search turned Full Cleveland know up Richmond, Va.’s their songs may have a Three Sheets to the high cheese quotient, Wind, Atlanta’s Yacht but that’s hardly a Rock Revue and New drawback. As Wright York City’s AM Gold put it, “[Player’s] ‘Baby Yacht Rock Party.

Come Back’ — you Briere was the first know, it’s a Swiffer to respond to the ad. commercial now. But Several other memat the same time, hey, bers — including Jamie it’s a great song. What J OHN WAKEFIELD Levis on keyboards and a great piece of music.” percussion and Charlie OK, but what about MacFadyen on keyboards and vocals — soon climbed aboard, with Wright join- that weird band name? Are there other ing as “captain of the ship” in February Clevelands that are somehow less than 2013. MacFadyen’s son Brian recently complete?

“Everyone thinks it’s a dirty sex move took over as drummer.

— that’s part of the fun,” said Briere.

Don’t expect a Full Cleveland album Actually, he continued, the name anytime soon; the cost of securing the recording rights to the songs in their rep- comes from an obscure tune by yacht ertoire would quickly scuttle this ship. rockers Starbuck. The term refers to a For now, local music heads in search of leisure suit with matching hat, belt and Vermont-grown smoothness can experi- shoes. “If you own a gas station in Akron and you’re taking your wife out for the ence it only at the band’s shows.

That situation highlights a curious night, and if you went to the Arthur irony. The arrangements of some of the Murray Dance School, you throw on the original AM Gold songs are so complex full Cleveland and take her out,” said that their makers were unable to repli- Briere.

And if that ain’t smooth, nothing is. m cate them in concert. The quintessential example is Steely Dan, a band that ceased touring for this reason shortly Contact: ethan@sevendaysvt.com after the release of its third album. To hear yacht rock performed live, then, is INFO something of an anomaly.

If that irony occurred to anyone The Fu l Cleveland play on the fourth Tuesday of every month at the Monkey House in Winother than music-obsessed journalists, ooski and the last Saturday of every month it wasn’t apparent at the first show in at the Reservoir Restaurant & Tap Room the Full Cleveland’s Monkey House in Waterbury. Times and ticket prices vary. residency. Puzzled at first by the band’s facebook.com/thefullclevelandvt

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Coast house, a hybrid of breakbeat, house, dub and techno that he forwarded as a founding member of the Funky Techno Tribe in the early 1990s. But the influential DJ and producer might be better known for his wildly unique remixes for the likes of A Tribe Called Quest, Lady Gaga and Janet Jackson. Earlier this year, Dan unveiled a new volume of killer remixes, dubbed simply The Remix Collection, which has been tearing up electronic dance music charts and rates as some the finest work in his distinguished career. Touring in support of that album, DJ Dan headlines the next installment of Sunday Night Mass at Club Metronome in Burlington on Sunday, November 8. Also on the bill are CRAIG MITCHELL, RANDY DESHAIES, D-LAV and HARDER THEY COME.

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burlington

THE DAILY PLANET: Paul Asbell (jazz), 8 p.m., free.

Loveland with DJ Craig Mitchell, 10 p.m., free/$5. 18+.

chittenden county

THE GRYPHON: Al Tedosio and Tom Frink (jazz), 7 p.m., free.

HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Elephant Revival, the Mike + Ruthy Band (indie folk), 8 p.m., $15/17. AA.

HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: James Bond 007 Trivia & Movie Night, 7 p.m., free. DJ Slim Pnkz (house), 10 p.m., free.

HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Noah Guthrie, Troy MIllette (Americana), 8 p.m., $10/15. AA.

JP’S PUB: Pub Quiz with Dave, 7 p.m., free. Karaoke with Melody, 10 p.m., free.

ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Chad Hollister (rock), 7 p.m., free.

JUNIPER: Ray Vega Quartet (jazz), 8 p.m., free.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Irish Sessions, 8 p.m., free. Film Night: Indie, Abstract, Avant Garde, 10 p.m., free.

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Open Mic with Andy Lugo, 9 p.m., free.

NECTAR’S: VT Comedy Club Presents: What a Joke! Comedy Open Mic (standup comedy), 7 p.m., free.

RADIO BEAN: Ensemble V (jazz), 7 p.m., free. Headphone Jack (hip-hop), 9:15 p.m., free.

Populace (funk), 10:30 p.m., free.

RED SQUARE: Starline Rhythm Boys (rockabilly), 8 p.m., free. DJ Pat (hip-hop), 11 p.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Josh Panda’s Acoustic Soul Night, 8 p.m., $5-10 donation.

SWITCHBACK BREWING: Music Wednesdays in the Tap Room at Switchback: Quest for Unison (rock), 5 p.m., free.

ZEN LOUNGE: Kizomba with Dsantos VT, 7 p.m., free.

barre/montpelier

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (MONTPELIER): Cajun Jam with Jay Ekis, Lee Blackwell, Alec Ellsworth & Katie Trautz, 6 p.m., $5-10 donation.

SWEET MELISSA’S: Wine Down with D. Davis (acoustic), 5 p.m., free. Doozer McDooze (singersongwriter), 5 p.m., free.

stowe/smuggs area THE BEE’S KNEES: Heady Topper Happy Hour with David Langevin (piano), 5 p.m., free.

MOOGS PLACE: Jeremy Harple (folk), 8 p.m., free.

PIECASSO PIZZERIA & LOUNGE: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

RUSTY NAIL: Open Mic, 9:30 p.m., free.

middlebury area

northeast kingdom LE BELVEDERE: Fishhead Unplugged (acoustic rock), 6 p.m., free.

PARKER PIE CO.: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

THE STAGE: Open Mic, 6 p.m., free.

outside vermont

MONOPOLE: Open Mic, 10 p.m., free.

NAKED TURTLE: Jay Lesage (acoustic), 5:30 p.m., free.

OLIVE RIDLEY’S: So You Want to Be a DJ?, 10 p.m., free.

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CHURCH & MAIN: Cody Sargent Trio (jazz), 8 p.m., free.

CLUB METRONOME: ItsiMC Presents: the Old School House Party (hip-hop), 9 p.m., free/$5.

18+.

THE DAILY PLANET: Brett Hughes (honky tonk), 8 p.m., free.

DRINK: BLiNDoG Records Acoustic Sessions, 5 p.m., free.

FINNIGAN’S PUB: Craig Mitchell (funk), 10 p.m., free.

FRANNY O’S: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free.

CITY LIMITS: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free.

THE GRYPHON: Gravel (jazz), 7 p.m., free.

TWO BROTHERS TAVERN LOUNGE & STAGE: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: Half & Half Comedy (standup), 8 p.m., free.

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Last but not least, WAYLON SPEED are opening for FUTUREBIRDS at the Higher Ground Showcase Lounge on Thursday, November 5. That’s pretty cool on its own. But what’s really cool is that the cats from FUTURE FIELDS are recording the show for a live album. What’s really, really cool is that the recording will actually become a double vinyl live album to be released in spring 2016 — presumably pressed at drummer JUSTIN CROWTHER’s Burlington Record Plant.

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VIOLET ULTRAVIOLET set up shop there on Saturday, November 7.

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likely the country’s most significant artistic contribution: jazz.

McCarthy’s program, commissioned by the Vermont Arts Council, Vermont Community Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, consists of popular songs from the Civil War era reinterpreted through a jazz lens, as well as original material based on historical figures and events. A preview track on his website, “Battle Cry of Freedom,” is a good example. McCarthy’s version gives the song’s famous melody a hard bop twist and funky syncopation, transforming the tune into something both oddly familiar and completely new.

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Griffin, Ma yse Smith (indie folk), 8 p.m., free.

NECTAR’S: Trivia Mania, 7 p.m., free. Bluegrass Thursday: the Steamboats, Forlone Strangers, 9 p.m., $2/5. 18+.

NEW MOON CAFÉ: International Trivia Night, 6:30 p.m., free.

RADIO BEAN: Jazz Sessions with Julian Chobot, 6:30 p.m., free. Austin Kopec (indie rock), 7 p.m., free. Shane Hardiman Trio (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free. Soul Sessions: Kat Wright & the Indomitable Soul Band, 10:30 p.m., $5.

RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ Cre8, first Thursday of ery month, 10 p.m., free.

RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB & WHISKEY ROOM: DJ Kermit (top 40), 10 p.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Burgundy Thursda (folk), 8 p.m., free.

ZEN LOUNGE: Nappy Roots, Myra Flynn, the Aztext, S.I.N. siZZle, the Lynguistic Civilians (hip-hop), 9 p.m., $15/20.

chittenden county HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Wild Child, Royal Canoe (rock), 8:30 p.m., $13/15. AA.

HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Futurebirds, Waylon Speed (rock), 8 p.m., $7/10. AA. ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Nobby Reed Project (blues), 7 p.m., free.

PENALTY BOX: Karaoke, 8 p.m., free.

barre/montpelier

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SWEET MELISSA’S: BYOV Thursday , 3 p.m., free. Live Music, 7:30 p.m., free.

WHAMMY BAR: John Smyth (folk), 7 p.m., free.

stowe/smuggs area MOOGS PLACE: Open Mic, 8 p.m., free.

middlebury area

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CITY LIMITS: Throttle Thursday , 9 p.m., free.

northeast kingdom PARKER PIE CO.: Parker Pie Music Night, 7:30 p.m., free.

outside vermont

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MONOPOLE: Funkwagon (funk), 10 p.m., free.

NAKED TURTLE: Ladies’ Night with DJ Skippy, 10 p.m., free.

OLIVE RIDLEY’S: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free.

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ARTSRIOT: Busty & the Bass, Smooth Antics (electro-funk), 8 p.m., $10/12. AA.

CLUB METRONOME: ’90s Night Dance Party with DJ Fattie B, 9 p.m., $5.

FINNIGAN’S PUB: Blue Button, Heavy Plains (rock), 10 p.m., free.

JUNIPER: Dupont Brothers (indie folk), 9 p.m., free.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Doozer McDooze (acoustic punk), 8 p.m., free. Taka (vinyl DJ), 11 p.m., free.

LA PUERTA NEGRA: Sara Grace (rock), 9 p.m., $5.

SWEET MELISSA’S: Honky Tonk Happy Hour with Mark LeGrand, 5 p.m., free. LO 8 (rock), 9 p.m., $5.

WHAMMY BAR: Danny Coane & Matt Schrag (bluegrass), 7:30 p.m., free.

stowe/smuggs area MOOGS PLACE: Abby Sherman (folk), 6 p.m., free. Gary Wade (folk), 9 p.m., free.

NECTAR’S: Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., free.

Rustic Overtones, Yamn (rock), 9 p.m., $5.

RIMROCK’S MOUNTAIN TAVERN: DJ Rekkon #FridayNightFrequencies (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

RADIO BEAN: Friday Morning Sing-Along with Linda Bassick & Friends (kids’ music), 11 a.m., free. Antara (coffee fairy folk), 7 p.m., free. Pocket Vinyl (piano slam rock), 8:30 p.m., free.

Ladies Drink Free (R&B, funk), 10 p.m., free. The Zambonis, the Backyard Committee (hockey rock), 11:30 p.m., NA.

mad river valley/ waterbury

RED SQUARE: Andriana Chobot (jazz), 4 p.m., free. Stone Cold Roosters (western swing), 7 p.m., $5. DJ Craig Mitchell (house), 11 p.m., $5.

RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: D Jay Baron (EDM), 9 p.m., $5.

RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB & WHISKEY ROOM: Supersounds DJ (top 40), 10 p.m., free.

RUBEN JAMES: DJ Cre8 (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

SIGNAL KITCHEN: Raury: the Crystal Express Tour (soul, hip-hop), 9 p.m., $15. AA. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Bison, Karavan (rock), 8 p.m., free.

ZEN LOUNGE: Jah Red (Latin), 8 p.m., $5. Feel Good Friday with D Jay Baron (hip-hop), 11 p.m., $5.

chittenden county

BACKSTAGE PUB: Acoustic Happy Hour, 5 p.m., free.

Karaoke with Jenny Red, 9 p.m., free.

HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: The Revivalists, Gedeon Luke & the People (rock), 8:30 p.m., $12/15. AA. HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: First Friday: ’90s Space Jam (dance party), 9 p.m., $5/10. 18+.

JERICHO CAFÉ & TAVERN: Leno, Cheney & Young (rock), 7 p.m., free.

MONKEY HOUSE: The Willoughbys (folk), 5:30 p.m., free.

ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Woedoggies (Americana), 5 p.m., free. Phil Abair Band (rock), 9 p.m., free.

barre/montpelier

CHARLIE-O’S WORLD FAMOUS: Blue Fox (blues), 6 p.m., free.

Lake Milk, Red Admirial (indie), 8:30 p.m., free.

ESPRESSO BUENO: Red Clover & the Hermit Thrus (cowpunk), 7 p.m., free. The Brevi y Thin (modern old-time), 8 p.m., free.

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RED SQUARE: Joe Moore Band (blues), 6 p.m., free. D Jay Baron (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

BLEU NORTHEAST SEAFOOD: Chris Peterman (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free.

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THE CIDER HOUSE BBQ AND PUB: Tim Kane (piano), 6 p.m., free.

middlebury area

CITY LIMITS: City Limits Dance Party with Top Hat Entertainment (Top 40), 9:30 p.m., free.

northeast kingdom THE STAGE: Karaoke, 8 p.m., free.

outside vermont

MONOPOLE: Near North (rock), 10 p.m., free.

MONOPOLE DOWNSTAIRS: Happy Hour Tunes & Trivia with Gary Peacock, 5 p.m., free.

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burlington

ARTSRIOT: Ballads for Birth: Mister Chris and Dominique Brook Dodge (folk), 3 p.m., $5/10.

AA. VABVI’s 90th Anniversary Dance Party, 7:30 p.m., $10. AA. BLEU NORTHEAST SEAFOOD: Jake Whitesell (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free.

CLUB METRONOME: Retronome With DJ Fattie B (’80s dance party), 9 p.m., free/$5.

FRANNY O’S: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free.

JP’S PUB: Karaoke with Megan, 10 p.m., free.

JUNIPER: Gordon Goldsmith & Friends (rock), 9 p.m., free.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Taka (vinyl DJ), 11 p.m., free.

NECTAR’S: Mikey Sweet (acoustic), 7 p.m., free. Earphunk, Strange Machines (funk), 9 p.m., $7.

RADIO BEAN: Radio Bean Birthday Bash, 8 a.m., free.

RED SQUARE: Chris & Collin (jazz), 4 p.m., free. Erin Harpe & the Delta Swingers (swing, blues), 7 p.m., $5. Mashtodon (hip-hop), 11 p.m., $5.

RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ Raul, 6 p.m., $5. DJ Reign One (EDM), 11 p.m., $5.

RUBEN JAMES: Craig Mitchell (house), 10 p.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Paper Castles,

Time Flies Once More ’Round the Sun, the sixth and latest record from

Grammy-nominated metal band MASTODON, is their most personal yet, touching on the

cyclical nature of time, loss, death and rebirth. That's some heavy stuff. Fortunately, the album’s thematic weight is matched by the band’s typically crushing musical attack.

Their profound lyrical turns are couched in fearsome riffs, earth-shattering grooves and a dense cloak of dark atmospherics that make the record their most bracing and affecting to date. Mastodon play the Higher Ground Ballroom in South Burlington this Sunday, November 8. Local metal heroes BARISHI open.

Violet Ultraviolet, Wren Kitz (indie), 8 p.m., free.

ZEN LOUNGE: The Remed (rock), 8 p.m., $5. Old School Revival (hip-hop), 11 p.m., $5.

chittenden county

HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Paradise Waits (ski film), 8 p.m., $12/15. AA. MONKEY HOUSE: WW Presents: Charlie Parr (roots), 9 p.m., $10/15. 18+.

ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Bootless & Unhorsed (rock), 5 p.m., free.

Radio Flyer (rock), 9 p.m., free.

barre/montpelier BAGITOS BAGEL & BURRITO CAFÉ: Irish Session, 2 p.m., donation.

ESPRESSO BUENO: Espresso Brain-O (trivia), 7 p.m., $5.

Femcom (standup), 9 p.m., free.

LA PUERTA NEGRA: Vinyl Night with DJ Bay 6, 9 p.m., free.

SWEET MELISSA’S: David Langevin (piano), 5 p.m., free.

John Lackard Blues Band, 9 p.m., $5.

WHAMMY BAR: Susannah Blachly & Patti Casey (folk), 7:30 p.m., free.

stowe/smuggs area MOOGS PLACE: LO 8 (rock), 9 p.m., free.

mad river valley/ waterbury

THE CIDER HOUSE BBQ AND PUB: Dan Boomhower (piano), 6 p.m., free.

THE RESERVOIR RESTAURANT & TAP ROOM: Jason Lowe (rock), 10 p.m., free.

middlebury area

CITY LIMITS: City Limits Dance Party with DJ Earl (top 40), 9:30 p.m., free.

outside vermont

MONOPOLE: Trinity Park Radio (rock), 10 p.m., free.

by Robots (jazz rock), 10:30 p.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Bluegrass Brunch Scramble, noon, $5-10 donation. Spark Open Improv Jam & Standup Comedy, 7 p.m., $5-10 donation.

chittenden county BACKSTAGE PUB: Karaoke/ Open Mic, 8 p.m., free.

HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Mastodon, Barishi (metal), 7:30 p.m., $30/33. AA. HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Melissa Ferrick, Mel Hart (folk), 7:30 p.m., $15/20/23.

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MONKEY HOUSE: WW Presents: Dirty Dishes, Stove, Apartment 3, the Multiple Cat (rock), 8 p.m., $5/10. 18+.

CLUB METRONOME: Sunday Night Mass: DJ Dan (house), 9 p.m., $10/15. 18+.

PENALTY BOX: Trivia With a Twist, 4 p.m., free.

burlington

FRANNY O’S: Kyle Stevens’ Happiest Hour of Music (singersongwriter), 7 p.m., free.

THE GRYPHON: Max Bronstein (jazz), 7 p.m., free.

NECTAR’S: Mi Yard Reggae Night with DJs Big Dog and Jahson, 9:30 p.m., $3.

THE OLDE NORTHENDER PUB: Open Mic, 7 p.m., free.

RADIO BEAN: Folk Brunch with Rebecca Padula, 11 a.m., free.

Old Sky (country), 4 p.m., free.

Driftwood Soldier (gutter-folk), 7 p.m., free. Bobby Thompso (folk, rock), 8:30 p.m., free. Made

barre/montpelier

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (MONTPELIER): Ari & Mia (folk), 5:30 p.m., free.

SWEET MELISSA’S: Live Band Rock & Roll Karaoke, 8 p.m., free.

champlain islands/northwest

THE INN: Katie Trautz (Americana), 7 p.m., $5 donation.

northeast kingdom THE STAGE: Open Mic, 5 p.m., free.

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Vermont, say hello to Mystery Points.

Now, say goodbye to Mystery Points.

The Montpelier band recently released its self-titled debut record on the capital city’s State & Main Records. But according to an email from bassist Jeff Thomson, they’ve just as recently broken up owing to some interpersonal struggles within the band. That’s a shame, because the album seriously rocks and suggests that Mystery Points may have been bound for some big things, creatively. Sadly, the band joins the legion of local acts that have released one killer record before calling it quits. But rather than wallow in what might have been, let’s focus on the positives. Because there are many.

First, the record marks the welcome return of vocalist Robyn Joy Pierce. Locals with good memories might recall Pierce as one half of the cuddly Montpelier indiepop duo First Crush — yet another group

that hung up its guitars all too soon after a smattering of promising recordings.

But where First Crush traded in sugary, boy-girl pop with a lovestruck whimsy aided by Pierce’s sweet, girlish croon, here the singer affects a far more aggressive posture. In more ways than one, this is a breakup record.

Mystery Points’ shoegaze is sludgy and shrouded in a gloomy haze. Thomson and drummer Matt Gilbertson form a subtly dynamic rhythmic foundation. On top of that, guitarists Theis Bergstrom and Patrick Clark forge a thunderous wall of fuzzy guitar jangle that swirls hypnotically around Pierce’s PJ Harveyesque howls. But some sharp lead riffs appear throughout. On opener “Hunger,” they tend to lay in wait, puncturing the gray veil of opaque noise with sharp, intermittent attacks.

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her cool, pure-toned alto emerges from that murky sonic ether, it’s almost like a guardian angel floating in to rescue you from the uncertain depths of her stirring compositions.

On “Data Addiction,” Devoid coos in almost indecipherable syllables while chirping electronic percussion and eerie synth sustains swirl around her. What she’s actually singing hardly matters as her voice melts into the sonic canvas.

Things get weirder on the following cut, “Ecto Glider.” A series of effects on her voice renders the typically reassuring words “follow me” to become increasingly menacing. In the background an equally disorienting assortment of digital sounds heightens the effect.

“Strange Lights” is the most conventional song on the album — and the shortest. But even here, working in a

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Como Tapes is a newly local microlabel that exclusively releases music on cassette tapes. The imprint is sort of a spiritual cousin to another local tape label, NNA Tapes, which similarly specializes in obscure and experimental music. Dating back to its 2014 origins in New Jersey, Como Tapes boasts a small but diverse catalog. Since settling down in Burlington this year, the company has begun to set its sights on the local scene. Among its most recent Vermont productions is Wand, a new record from Burlington electronic composer Amelia Devoid.

Devoid’s record makes for an intriguing and comparatively accessible entry point into Como Tapes’ “other music” milieu. She’s a fearlessly inventive composer whose mélange of synthetic and organic noise suggests unique curiosity and creativity. All manner of strange sounds can be heard flitting from speaker to speaker throughout the album’s dense 10 songs. Devoid paints in mood and tone, crafting impressionistic soundscapes that range from the sinister to the serene. On the fleeting moments when

more traditional pop framework, Devoid pokes and prods convention. She sets a pretty vocal melody against an orchestra of yawning electronic sounds that seem to progressively short out, like a child’s toy running low on batteries.

“Super Moon” evokes the vastness and strangeness of the cosmos in a glittering canopy of shimmering sounds.

On “Damned Girl,” Devoid’s featherlight vocals are swallowed in a simmering cacophony of malevolent noise. The album closes on “Child Empress,” which is built on rippling synth and insistent chimes. Over this, Devoid sings, again in barely intelligible words that drift weightlessly amid her placid, airy soundscape.

Wand is the kind of record that you could spend months deconstructing and still only scratch the surface of the sonic trickery at play. But it’s also the kind of record that works if you don’t think so hard about it. Just press play, close your eyes and drift away.

Wand by Amelia Devoid is available on cassette at comotapes.com. It can be streamed at comotapes.bandcamp.com.

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LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Bayland (acoustic), 8 p.m., free.

NECTAR’S: Zach Deputy (soul, funk), 9 p.m., $12/15. 18+.

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Latin Sessions with Mal Maiz (cumbia), 10:30 p.m., free.

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ARTSRIOT: Disco Bingo, 6 p.m., $5.

CLUB METRONOME: Dead Set (Grateful Dead tribute), 9 p.m., free/$5.

CHARLIE-O’S WORLD FAMOUS: Karaoke, 9:30 p.m., free.

SOUTH SIDE TAVERN: Open Mic with John Lackard, 9 p.m., free.

stowe/smuggs area MOOGS PLACE: Jason Wedlock (rock), 7:30 p.m., free.

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THE DAILY PLANET: Sugarhouse Run (bluegrass), 8 p.m., free.

JP’S PUB: Pub Quiz with Dave, 7 p.m., free. Karaoke with Melody, 10 p.m., free.

JUNIPER: Audrey Bernstein (jazz), 8 p.m., free.

LEUNIG’S BISTRO & CAFÉ: Paul Asbell Trio (jazz), 7 p.m., free.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Irish Sessions, 8 p.m., free. Film Night: Indie, Abstract, Avant Garde, 10 p.m., free.

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Open Mic with Andy Lugo, 9 p.m., free.

NECTAR’S: VT Comedy Club Presents: What a Joke! Comedy Open Mic (standup comedy), 7 p.m., free. The Ma lett Brothers, Ghost of Paul Revere (roots rock), 9:30 p.m., free/$5. 18+.

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SIGNAL KITCHEN: Small Black, Painted Palms (indie rock), 8 p.m., $10/12. AA. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Josh Panda’s Acoustic Soul Night, 8 p.m., $5-10 donation.

SWITCHBACK BREWING: Music Wednesday in the Tap Room at Switchback: SuGaR (blues, Americana), 5 p.m., free.

ZEN LOUNGE: Kizomba with Dsantos VT, 7 p.m., free.

Loveland with DJ Craig Mitchell, 10 p.m., free/$5. 18+.

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ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Pine Street Jazz, 7 p.m., free.

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THE SKINNY PANCAKE (MONTPELIER): Cajun Jam with Jay Ekis, Lee Blackwell, Alec Ellsworth & Katie Trautz, 6 p.m., $5-10 donation.

SWEET MELISSA’S: Wine Down with D. Davis (acoustic), 5 p.m., free. Cookie’s Hot Club (gypsy jazz), 8 p.m., free.

stowe/smuggs area THE BEE’S KNEES: Heady Topper Happy Hour with David Langevin (piano), 5 p.m., free.

MOOGS PLACE: Jim Charonko (folk), 8 p.m., free.

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In the Nude

“Naked Truth,” Middlebury College Museum of Art

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t is impossible to view the 50 works on paper in Middlebury College’s “Naked Truth: Approaches to the Body in Early Twentieth-Century GermanAustrian Art” and not think of “Degenerate Art,” the notorious 1937 Munich exhibit devised by Hitler.

Of the 15 artists represented in the Middlebury exhibit, eight were deemed creators of degenerate art by the Nazis: Otto Dix, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Max Beckmann, Erich Heckel, Oskar Kokoschka, Max Pechstein, Otto Mueller and Alfred Kubin. George Grosz escaped the designation only by immigrating to the U.S. early, in 1933. Käthe Kollwitz, the only woman represented in the show, was banned from exhibiting.

Without sharing the Nazis’ judgment on these artists, one can understand it. Many of these drawings, lithographs, etchings and woodblock prints have lost none of the shock they imparted in their day. The nudes in the exhibit aren’t disguised as figures from antiquity or the Bible, as academic convention long required. They are tattooed, grotesque, from the fringes of society: circus performers, whores and their johns, the unbeautiful and the starving. They embody the anxieties of their day and, one can’t help thinking, a sense of foreboding.

The title of “Naked Truth,” however, looks further back in time — to Gustav Klimt’s painting “Nuda Veritas” of 1899. Though not included in the exhibit, “Nuda” is reproduced in the show’s catalog. It presents its red-haired subject in a manner new for its time: facing forward, as if in a standoff with the viewer. She is both erotic and unreachable, given her distant gaze and the hand mirror she holds up to the viewer.

“The mirror,” writes Bettina Matthias in the catalog — the German professor co-curated the show with art history professor Eliza Garrison — “reinforces the sense that this painting is much more about how we look than what we look at.”

Klimt’s pivotal painting opened the floodgates to new ways of representing that old standby of Western art, the (usually female) nude. The exhibit that Matthias, Garrison and their students created spans this shift. Earlier works — the oldest is an 1885 Klimt — include several conventionally beautiful and passively erotic bodies (including some males) by Klimt and Egon Schiele. Klimt’s black-chalk study for a painting, “Standing Nude Girl with Body Bent Forward to the Left,” circa 1900, is characteristic.

The latest work in the group is Kollwitz’s “Death Grabbing at a Group of Children,” from 1934, a lithograph of a long-armed figure in a cape scooping up one dead child and reaching for another whose face shows unmitigated terror.

Most of the work here dates from between 1910 and the late ’20s. Some prewar images reveal artists struggling with academic traditions; two by Grosz fairly tear classical conventions to shreds. His “Adoration” (1912),

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MANY OF THESE DRAWINGS, LITHOGRAPHS, ETCHINGS AND WOODBLOCK PRINTS

HAVE LOST NONE OF THE SHOCK THEY IMPARTED IN THEIR DAY. one of the more disturbing works on display, is a quickly rendered sketch of a male bust, complete with an erect phallus, atop a pedestal. The figure echoes Greek busts of the god Hermes, which often showed him erect — but this one has a leering grin and a disintegrating head. In a kind of surrealist revelation, Grosz adds two nude women worshipping the figure from prostrate positions on the floor, their butts high in the air.

Grosz was parodying another classical tradition in his “Woman Nurses Man” (1913). The drawing sends up the

“Standing Nude Girl with Body Bent Forward to the Left” by Gustav Klimt

Roman figure of Charity, who was said to have suckled her father to keep him alive. But Grosz shows the nursing male with an erection, clearly enjoying his snack.

Works created after World War I often use the body to reference the war’s carnage, the national humiliation resulting from the Treaty of Versailles, and Germany’s failing economy, which was being ravaged by inflation.

As Garrison writes, these nudes are “metaphor[s] for the body politic and capitalist excess.” Dix’s grotesquely big-bosomed women, particularly the prostitute and

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‘THE ACT OF LIVING’: Large-format color photographs of nature and country life in Vermont.

November 6-30. Info, 425-2700. Davis Studio Gallery, SEABA Center, in Burlington.

f ‘BOOKBODY’: Juried group show featuring artists and authors exploring the relationship between the human body and the physical book. Reception: Friday, November 6, 5-8 p.m. November 6-January 26. Info, 355-5440. New City Galerie in Burlington. f BRUCE R. MACDONALD: “Metal, Fire and Color,” work in metal representing various elements in the universe. Reception: Friday, November 6, 5-8 p.m.

November 6-30. Info, 651-4114. Switchback Brewing in Burlington.

CHRIS ALLEY: “The Science of Flaws and Miracles,” works by the Burlington College professor.

November 6-December 31. Info, 860-4972. Vermont Art Supply and Black Horse S.P.G. in Burlington.

f NIKKI LAXAR: “Inktober Challenge,” the 31 ink drawings the Burlington artist produced in as many days. Reception: Friday, November 6, 6-8 p.m. November 6-30. Info, 318-2438. Red Square in Burlington.

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‘CELEBRATE!’: An annual celebration of local arts featuring a wide variety of fine a t and crafts created by SPA member artists. November 11-December 31. Info, 479-7069. Studio Place Arts in Barre.

PHYLLIS CHASE: “Life in Vermont,” oil paintings and framed limited-edition prints by the Montpelierbased artist. November 4-December 15. Info, 223-7800. The Green Bean A t Gallery at Capitol Grounds in Montpelier.

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f FESTIVAL OF WREATHS EXHIBIT: First annual event displays wreaths created by community members, available for sale at a silent auction to benefit the ga lery’s educational programming.

Reception: Sunday, November 8, 2-4 p.m.

November 6-22. Info, 644-5100. Bryan Memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville. f LARRY GOLDEN: “Traditional Painter,” landscapes on canvas and headline-inspired works from the Lyndonville artist. Reception: Thursda , November 5, 5-7 p.m. Artist talk: 6 p.m. f RIVER ARTS PHOTO CO-OP: Images from 18 dedicated participants of the monthly photographers’ meetup. Reception: Thursda , November 5, 5-7 p.m. November 5-January 4. Info, 888-1261.

River Arts in Morrisville.

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f RITA IOANNIDIS: Colorful paintings by the Warren artist. Reception: Friday, November 6, 5-6:30 p.m. November 6-30. Info, 496-5470. Three Mountain Café in Waitsfield f ‘THE ART OF GIVING — THE GIVING OF ART’:

EIGHTH ANNUAL LEGO CONTEST & EXHIBIT: Creators of all ages are invited to design and build original Lego sculptures and display them at the museum at an event November 20-22.

‘H2O’: Photographers are invited to submit images that either illustrate water’s beauty or humans’ increasingly difficult relationship with water — or both. Deadline: November 4, noon. Darkroom Gallery, Essex Junction. Info, 777-3686.

MEMBERS’ ART SHOW: Helen Day Art Center members are invited to contribute up to two ready-to-hang works for this gallery show. Membership,

f ‘FINE ART GIFTS FOR HOLIDAY GIVING’: Exhibition and sale of affordable artwork by guild members. Reception: Friday, November 6, 5-7 p.m.

November 4-December 29. Info, 247-4956. Brandon Artists Guild.

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f ‘THE BOWL, A CELEBRATION’: A collection of special and treasured bowls from the Tunbridge community and beyond, each accompanied by a story about its meaning to the owner. Organized by art teacher and potter Stephanie Loeffle , the show marks the establishment of a bowl lending library with pieces from local artists available for checkout. Reception and Empty Bowl Supper: Sunday, November 8, 2-4 p.m. November 8-December 31. Info, 889-9404. Tunbridge Public Library in Tunbridge Village.

LOIS MASOR BEATTY AND ELIZABETH MAYOR: Prints by the local artists. November 6-30. Info, 295-5901. Two Rivers Printmaking Studio in White River Junction.

f REBECCA LEVI: “Queering the Lines,” embroidery works from the Brooklyn artist that subvert traditional assumptions of handicraft and gender normativity. Reception: Friday, November 6, 6-9 p.m. Artist talk: 7 p.m. November 6-December 2.

Info, 356-2776. Main Street Museum in White River Junction.

Handcrafted, one-of-a-kind artwork, jewelry and other gifts are on sale to art enthusiasts and holiday shoppers alike. Reception: Saturday, December 5, noon-5 p.m. November 6-January 9.

Info, 247-4295. Compass Music and Arts Center in Brandon.

‘SALVAGE’: Chandler Gallery seeks submissions of work made from found and repurposed materials, asking, “How does the reimagining of salvaged parts come together in your work?” Deadline: Wednesday, December 9.

Chandler Gallery, Randolph.

Info, salvage.chandler@gmail. com.

STUDIO RESIDENCY PROGRAM: Seeking local emerging artists to apply for a residency program starting December 1. Selected artists will be granted a small private studio and the opportunity to exhibit at the center. For details and proposal requirements, see studioplacearts. com. Deadline: November 14.

Studio Place Arts, Barre. Info, 479-7069.

‘WINTER AS PRISM OR PRISON’: How do you view winter: as a beautiful prism of light or a prison of epic proportions? Thats the theme of an upcoming juried exhibit. More info at cmacvt.org. Deadline: December 4. Compass Music and Arts Center, Brandon. Info, 247-4295.

ART EVENTS ART UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF RAE HARRELL: The local a tist leads a group “Painting in the NOW” event, exploring letting go of preconceived imagery.

Ticket price includes materials and one drink. Vin Bar & Shop, Burlington, Wednesday, November 4, 6-8 p.m. $36.87. Info, 859-9222.

VERMONT CREATIVE NETWORK SUMMIT: First annual gathering exploring issues, trends and developments informing the launch of this new network for Vermont creatives. Registration required. Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, November 4-5. Info, liz@vermontcreativenetwork. org.

VISITING ARTIST TALK: MICHAEL FLOMEN: The photographer presents a talk, “Higher Ground,” sponsored by the Department of Art & Art History.

Williams Hall, UVM, Burlington, Wednesday, November 4, 5-6 p.m. Info, 656-2014.

‘LOOKING, THINKING AND SPEAKING ABOUT ART’: Montshire Museum of Science executive director Marcos Stafne leads this tour of AVA’s Vermont Glass Guild exhibition employing Visual Thinking Strategies. AVA Gallery and Art Center, Lebanon N.H., Thursda , November 5, 5:30 p.m. Info, 603-448-3117.

MEET THE ARTIST: CALEB KENNA: The photogr pher shares stories, shows samples of his National Geographic portfolio and discusses his work in the current exhibit “Eyes on the Land.” Shelburne Museum, Thursda , November 5, 2-4 p.m. Info, 985-3346.

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DAILY PLANET EXHIBITS: Artists are invited to display their work for a two-month period. Please email art@ dailyplanet15.com with samples and size dimensions.

Deadline: November 13. The Daily Planet, Burlington. Info, 862-9647.

THE FRONT SEEKS NEW MEMBERS: Cooperative gallery in Montpelier seeks new members. Dues are $75 per month, and members are required to staff the gallery for at least three hours per month and to serve on a committee. If interested, send link to online portfolio (preferred) or fi e images less than 1M; state why you think membership would be mutually beneficial.

Submissions due to applications@thefrontvt.com

by November 29. The Front, Montpelier. Info, applications@ thefrontvt.com.

artist application and more information available at helenday.com. Deadline: November 13. Helen Day Art Center, Stowe. Info, 253-8358.

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f MONICA CARROLL: MFA thesis exhibition of landscape paintings inspired by explorations in New Mexico and Vermont. Gallery talk: Thursda , November 12, 3 p.m. November 9-21. Info, 635-1469.

Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Johnson State College.

CREATIVE COMPETITION: For this artist competition and exhibit during monthly First Friday, artists may drop off one display-ready piece in any medium and size to Backspace Gallery, 266 Pine Street in Burlington, between noon and 6 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursda , and 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Friday. Entry $8. During the First Friday reception, 5-9 p.m., viewers can vote on their favorite work; the winning artist takes home the collective entry money. The work remains on view for the duration of the exhibit. More info at spacegalleryvt.com. First Wednesday of every month.

Guidelines and entry forms available online. Works must be delivered to the museum on Wednesday, November 18, 4-6 p.m., with completed entry form and $5 fee. Brattleboro Museum & Art Center. Info, 257-0124, ext. 101.

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her pimp depicted in “Louis and Vohse” (1923), might be understood in this way.

Both figures gaze, self-satisfied, directly at the viewer, who must then accept the challenge of “seeing” Weimar society for what it is.

All these extraordinary works belong to the Serge and Vally Sabarsky Foundation; Serge was a Viennese-born art collector who specialized in German and Austrian Expressionism, had a New York gallery for years, and died in 1996.

The foundation has no website, but, according to Matthias, it holds more than 1,000 works in a warehouse in Queens.

Some appear at the Neue Galerie in Manhattan, which Sabarsky co-conceived with founder Ronald Lauder, the Estée Lauder cosmetics magnate.

Middlebury was invited to submit proposals for exhibits of the Sabarsky Foundation’s little-seen collection of works on paper after the foundation’s director, Michael Lesh, saw the college on a campus visit with his daughter, says museum director Richard Saunders.

“Naked Truth” is the second of three proposed exhibits. The first, “Visual Weimar: 1919-1933,” occurred last year; the third, scheduled for fall 2016, is “Bloom and Doom: Visual Expressions and Reform in Vienna 1900.”

“Naked Truth” is particularly powerful in the way that most artistic challenges to depicting the body are; think of the reaction to photographer Robert Mapplethorpe’s nudes. Indeed, these works on paper arguably have the same draw today that they — or works like them — had in Munich in 1937. There, Hitler exhibited them as evidence of the cultural decay of a society run by Jews. He intended a second, concurrent exhibit, titled the “Great German Art Exhibition,” to direct taste toward the idealized bodies of “racially pure” art.

In the end, viewers chose with their feet. More than two million came to see “Degenerate Art” — twice the viewership of the “Great” exhibit. m

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‘OF LAND & LOCAL 2015’: Stella Marrs, Jeroen Jongeleen, Olga Koumoundouros and Jim Westphalen are four of 14 artists who created work in a variety of mediums inspired by local landscapes. More are on view at Shelburne Farms.

Through N vember 14. Info, 865-7166. BCA Center in Burlington.

‘COMPASSION IN ACTION’ ART BENEFIT: Auction of large print photographs by Jim Hagan, in conjunction with “Caravans to Enlightenment,” to raise money for Thame, Nepal, which was destr yed in last year’s earthquake. Christine Price Gallery, Castleton University, Friday, November 6, 6-8 p.m.

Info, 468-6052.

RILEY: “Pieces of My Mind,” abstract paintings.

Through N vember 15. Info, 448-3657. Revolution Kitchen in Burlington.

FIRST FRIDAY ART: Dozens of galleries and other venues around the city open their doors to pedestrian art viewers in this monthly event.

See Art Map Burlington at participating locations.

Friday, November 6, 5-8 p.m. Info, 264-4839.

f ‘RIO BLANCO RIDERS: FOUR GEEZERS WITH SCISSORS’: Collages and assemblages by Varujan Boghosian, W. David Powell, Marcus Ratliff and Peter Thomasho . Music from Lizzie Bogosian, Joseph Park and Chloe Powell. Reception: Friday, November 6, 5-8 p.m. Through N vember 30. Info, 540-3081. South Gallery in Burlington.

GRAND OPENING: CASTLETON DOWNTOWN GALLERY II: The new ga lery space celebrates with an unveiling of the permanent installation of “Rutland: ‘Ideal City’” by Castleton University art professor Bill Ramage. Castleton Downtown Gallery II, Rutland, Friday, November 6, 5-8 p.m.

Info, 468-6052.

ROBIN KATRICK: Vermont landscape photographs.

Through N vember 30. Info, 865-6227. Uncommon Grounds in Burlington.

‘STRENGTH IN NUMBERS: EXPLORING MATERIAL AND TECHNIQUES’: A group of 18 art teachers exhibit ongoing explorations in multiple media.

Through December 30. Info, 865-7211. Mezzanine Gallery, Fletcher Free Library, in Burlington.

HOLIDAY ART SHOW AND SALE: The Milton Artists’ Guild hosts its 11th annual event, featuring photography, collage, jewelry, wood designs, sculpture, monotypes and painting. Live music by the Gravelin Brothers Band. Milton Grange, Friday, November 6, 6-8 p.m. Info, 578-1600.

VERMONT PHOTO GROUP: Eight photographers exhibit images of landscapes, nature and animals on media including aluminum and cotton rag paper. Through December 28. Info, 434-5503. New Moon Café in Burlington.

JENN AYERS JEWELRY LAUNCH SHOW: Noonday Collection introduces fair-trade jewelry and accessories from around the world. New Moon Café, Burlington, Friday, November 6, 4-6:30 p.m. Info, 207-337-8832.

FALL FIGURE DRAWING MARATHON: Participants choose a one- or two-day session of drawing both nude and clothed models in a variety of poses.

Registration deadline: November 2. For more information and to register, visit riverartsvt.org River Arts, Morrisville, Saturday, November 7, 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Info, 888-1261.

MEET THE ARTIST: SUSAN ABBOTT: The painter answers questions about her year of plein-air painting, sketching and writing in the Northeast Kingdom for the current exhibit “Eyes on the Land.”

Shelburne Museum, Saturday, November 7, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Info, 985-3346.

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SWEET SIPS AND HOLIDAY MARKET OPENING: Enjoy hot beverages in mugs made by local ceramic artist Colin Gray, which are available for purchase.

Ticket price includes two cocktails. ONE Arts Center, Burlington, Saturday, November 7, 7-9 p.m. $10.

Info, 338-0028.

FIBER FESTIVAL: An instructional and informational event about fiber a ts, with spinning demonstrations, weaving exhibitions and other fibe -related activities. Guests are invited to bring their own wheel or fiber tools to join the activi y.

Inn at the Round Barn Farm, Waitsfield, Sunda , November 8, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Info, 496-6251.

‘SUBJECTS/OBJECTS OF PRODUCTION, CONSUMPTION AND DESIRE: THE JAPANESE MANGA COMICS TALE OF GENJI’: Lynn Miyake, professor of Japanese at Pomona College, offers an illustrated lecture on the range of manga interpretations and the ancient tale’s interpretive richness. Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, Monday, November 9, 4:30 p.m. Info, 443-3168.

OLA WLUSEK TALK: The independent curator and public arts professional speaks about her work, in conjunction with Burlington City Arts’ Visiting Critic Series. Burlington City Arts, Wednesday, November 11, 6:30 p.m. Info, 865-7166.

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ART HOP GROUP SHOW: An exhibit organized by SEABA for this year’s South End Art Hop features works by 30 local artists. Through N vember 30.

Info, 651-9692. VCAM Studio in Burlington.

EMILY MITCHELLE: Playful acrylic paintings.

Through N vember 30. Info, 658-6016. Speeder & Earl’s Coffee (Pine Street) in Burlington.

WILLIAM CHANDLER: Photos of Vermont scenes.

Through N vember 30. Info, 658-6400. American Red Cross Blood Donor Center in Burlington.

Rebecca Levi As far as showing in queer-friendly exhibition spaces is

concerned, New York City-based artist Rebecca Levi has a lot of notches in her belt: the University of Vermont’s Center for Cultural Pluralism and, in New York, the Bureau of General Services-Queer Division and the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art. Her newest exhibition, “Queering the Lines,” opens on Friday, November 6, at Main Street Museum in White River Junction, where visitors can delight in embroidered subversions of heteronormativity. Levi combines “domestic” craft, notions of gender performativity, and images found in vintage physique magazines and Tumblr posts to concoct playful depictions of changing norms of sexuality and identity. Through December 2. A reception is Friday, November 6, 6-9 p.m., with an artist talk at 7 p.m.

Pictured: “Flower Beard (Blake),” an embroidered portrait by Levi.

f FRYSCH DUTSON AND EDSEN LUTERS: Works by two painters with different sensibilities striving to find strength in co laboration. Reception: Friday, November 6, 5-6:30 p.m. Through N vember 30.

Info, 863-6713. North End Studios in Burlington.

‘IN GRAIN: CONTEMPORARY WORK IN WOOD’: Contemporary wood sculpture with examples of hand- and machine-carved figurati e, abstract and geometric works and laser-cut biomorphic forms by 10 artists. Through December 18 ‘SEX OBJECTS: PERSPECTIVES ON GENDER AND SEXUALITY’: An exhibition of everyday and ceremonial art and artifacts curated by 40 anthropology and art history students. Throug May 22, 2016. ‘WORLD LEADERS & GLOBAL CITIZENS: PHOTOGRAPHS BY PATRICK LEAHY, U.S. SENATOR’: An exhibit organized on the 40th anniversary of Sen. Patrick Leahy’s first term featuring his view of historical events over the the past few decades. Through December 18. Info 656-0750. University of Vermont Fleming Museum of Art in Burlington.

INNOVATION CENTER GROUP SHOW: First floor: Catherine Ha l, Elizabeth Bunsen, Kasey Prendergast, Matt Gang, Michael Buckley and Michael Pitts. Second floor: Jason B yd, Kathy Hart, Kelly O’Neal, Meryl Lebowitz, Lyna Lou Nordstorm and Billy Bob Green. Third floor: Haley Bishop, Jane

Bonneau, Jessica Drury, Lynn Cummings and Meryl Lebowitz. Through N vember 30. Info, 859-9222.

The Inn vation Center of Vermont in Burlington.

JEREMY LEE MACKENZIE: “Hidden Blueprints,” intricate wood scrollwork by the Champlain College student, who secretly made drawings for his artwork while incarcerated. Through N vember 28.

Info, 652-4500. Amy E. Tarrant Gallery, Flynn Center in Burlington.

JOHN DOUGLAS: “Looking Through the iew Finder,” works including photography and computer-generated imagery. Through N vember 30. Info, 540-8333. Sequoia Salon in Burlington.

JORDAN DOUGLAS: “Images of Havana,” photographs from the streets of Cuba, shot in January 2015. Through N vember 30. Info, 864-2088. The Men’s Room in Burlington.

MICHAEL SMITH: “Old Paintings” by the Burlington artist. Through N vember 30. Info, 660-9005. Art’s Alive Gallery in Burlington.

f ‘NIGHTMARE APOLLO: ADVENTURES IN ASIA’:

New photographs from southern Japan and other destinations in Asia by Robin Katrick. Reception: Friday, November 6, 5-8 p.m. Through December 31. Info, 660-9005. Dostie Bros. Frame Shop in Burlington.

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‘BETWEEN BOTTOMLANDS & THE WORLD’: Ryan Griffis and Sarah Ross use photograph , video and writing to explore the rural town of Beardstown, Ill. Through N vember 6. Info, 654-2795. McCarthy Arts Center Gallery, Saint Michael’s College, in Colchester.

f ‘CURVILINEAR’: A juried exhibition of photographic work that incorporates curves, including images by Vermont artists Peggy Reynolds and David Woolf. Reception: Wednesday, November 4, 4-6 p.m. Through N vember 8. Info, 777-3686.

Darkroom Gallery in Essex Junction.

‘EYES ON THE LAND’: Installations, sculpture, paintings and photographs by 13 artists who were matched with 15 farms and forests conserved by the Vermont Land Trust over one year’s time.

Artists include painters Mark Nielsen, Cameron Davis, Bonnie Acker, Charlie Hunter, Susan Abbott and Neil Riley; sculptors and multimedia artists Brian D. Collier, Dan Snow, Karolina Kawiaka and Gowri Savoor; and photographers Tyler WilkinsonRay, John Willis and Caleb Kenna. Through Janua y 3. Info, 985-3346. Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education, Shelburne Museum.

JOHN W. LONG: Wall-hung sculptural works using reclaimed wood. Through N vember 30. Info, 985-9511. Rustic Roots in Shelburne.

‘JUXTAPOSED SPACES’: Works in a variety of mediums by Shelburne Craft School instructors and staff including Wylie Sofia Garcia, Sarah Ahrens and Sage Tucker-Ketcham. Through December 1. Info, 985-3648. Shelburne Craft School.

MILTON ARTISTS GUILD: Twenty artists share photographs that represent meaningful passageways in life. Through Februa y 5, 2016. Info, lstech@ comcast.net. Milton Municipal Building.

ROBERT CHAPLA: “New Directions in Plein Air Painting,” oil and acrylic landscapes by the Newbury artist. Through N vember 22. Info, 899-3211. Emile A. Gruppe Gallery in Jericho.

‘SHADES OF RED’: Works by more than 30 Vermont artists, including photography, painting, stained glass and collage. Through December 31. Jericho Town Hall.

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‘VISIONS OF LAKE CHAMPLAIN AND BEYOND’: Local landscape paintings by Carolyn Walton, Helen Nagel and Gail Bessette; pastels by Athenia Schinto and Betty Ball; and jewelry by Tineke Russell. Through December 30. Info, 985-8223.

Luxton-Jones Gallery in Shelburne.

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ALMUTH PALINKAS AND JEANNE CARIATI: “Interface,” alabaster sculptures and works in fiber and watercolo . Through December 31. Info, 828-0749. Governor’s Gallery in Montpelier.

JANET WORMSER: Paintings using simple elements of form, color and line. Through N vember 28. Info, 426-3581. Jaquith Public Library in Marshfield JONATHAN VANTASSEL: “Wemosphere,” new abstract oil paintings by the Vermont artist.

Through December 31. Info, 828-5657. ermont Supreme Court Gallery in Montpelier.

MARK LORAH: Blocky abstract artworks. Through November 30. Info, 479-7069. Morse Block Deli in Barre.

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f ‘OUTSIDER ART INSIDE’: Works from nine selftaught artists associated with Grass Roots Art and Community Effort. Reception: Friday, December 4, 4-7 p.m. Through December 31. Info, 828-3291.

Spotlight Gallery in Montpelier.

ROBERT WALDO BRUNELLE JR. AND EDWARD KADUNC: New works in multiple mediums by the Vermont artists. Through N vember 13. Info, 262-6035. T. W. Wood Gallery in Montpelier.

‘SOUND AND FURY’: A group show by 18 artists who attempt to answer life’s unanswerable questions.

Through N vember 8. Info, 728-9878. Chandler Gallery in Randolph.

SYLVIA WALKER: Landscape paintings by the self-taught Vermont artist and teacher. Through November 27. Info, 223-2518. Montpelier Senior Activity Center.

f VICTORIA PATRICK ZOLNOSKI: “Beauty Is Interconnectedness,” photography-based works exploring relationships of humans and nature.

Reception: Friday, November 20, 3-5 p.m. Through November 20. Info, 800-468-4888, ext. 208. Eliot D. Pratt Library, Goddard College, in Plainfield BARRE/MONTPELIER SHOWS

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‘WOMEN OF NORWICH: TRAILBLAZERS AND TORCHBEARERS’: Photographs, documents, uniforms and objects celebrating the women who were “first,” from the first ladies of un ersity presidents to the first women in the Corps of Cadets and so-called nontraditional fields. Throug December 31. Info, 485-2183. Sullivan Museum & History Center, Norwich University, in Northfield

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‘2015 LEGACY COLLECTION’: Landscapes painted by 25 living and 13 now-deceased artists that reflect the legacy of museum namesakes and artists Alden and Mary Bryan. Through December 30. Info, 644-5100. Bryan Memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville.

ELLEN GRANTER: “Lotus Pond,” colorful oil paintings inspired by aquatic life. Through N vember 30.

Info, 253-1818. Green Mountain Fine Art Gallery in Stowe.

‘FRACTURED / WORKS ON PAPER’: Two- and three-dimensional works by 11 artists including Kiki Smith, Leonardo Drew and Olafur Eliasson that deconstruct space as interpreted through architecture, optics and narrative. Through November 22. Info, 253-8358. Helen Day Art Center in Stowe.

GABRIEL TEMPESTA: “Our World, Charcoals & Casein,” highly detailed paintings rendered from photos of the natural world. Through December 31.

Info, 253-8943. Upstairs at West Branch Gallery in Stowe.

GINGER IRISH: MFA thesis exhibition of stopmotion animation from the Burlington artist.

Through N vember 6. Info, 635-1469. Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Johnson State College.

GROUP PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW: Photographs

by Lauren Stagnitti, Chris Crothers, Marie LaPre Grabon, Brenda Gravel, Tammy Parker, Virginia Patterson, Katherine Robinson and Susan Russo.

Through N vember 22. Info, 635-7423. The L vin’ Cup in Johnson.

TOD GUNTER AVIATION ART: Illustrations currently include the F4U Corsair, a WWII fighter and the F-4 Phantom II, a fighte -bomber active in Vietnam.

More drawings and renderings are continually added. Through December 31. Info, 734-9971. Plane Profiles Ga lery in Stowe.

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mad river valley/waterbury AUGUST BURNS: “More Than Meets the E e: Portraits and Figures,” paintings by the former women’s health advocate. Through N vember 21. Info, 244-7801. Axel’s Gallery & Frameshop in Waterbury.

BOB AIKEN: “Vermont Impressionist,” landscapes depicting rural fields, ri ers, mountains and small villages, in acrylic with a palette knife. Through December 31. Info, 496-6682. Festival Gallery in Waitsfield HIVE COLLECTIVE FALL EXHIBIT: Paintings by members Liz Harris, Nancy VanDine and Jessica Churchill-Millard and furniture and decorative objects by Kelly Fekert-McMullen, along with works by 30 local artists. Through N vember 30. Info, sca66@hotmail.com. STEVE FARRAR: “Beneath the Bark,” large-scale portraits and sculptures made with wood and paint by the Richmond artist.

Through N vember 15. Info, 595-4866. The Hi e in Middlesex.

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‘HOT HOUSES, WARM CURVES’: Paintings by Anda Dubinskis, photography by Peter Moriarty and painted shoes by Rick Skogsberg. Through December 12. Info, 767-9670. Big Town Gallery in Rochester.

JOAN CURTIS: “Watchful Guardians,” abstract and figurati e drawings, paintings and wall sculptures incorporating papier-mâché and mixed media.

Through N vember 7. Info, 382-9222. Jackson Gallery, Town Hall Theate , in Middlebury.

Donald Saaf “Folksy” can be an off-putting word for many contemporary artists, but not for Vermont painter Donald

Saaf, whose new works are on view in the solo show “Town and Country” at Castleton Downtown Gallery in Rutland. Saaf describes these multimedia scenes as “a continuance of my pursuit to create a relevant modern-day ‘folk’ painting. Paintings that tell stories and reflect the dreamlike nature of everyday life.” Using paint, fabric and pencils, Saaf creates textured rural landscapes populated by faceless humans. Warm colors and soft edges render the figures unfrightening as they engage with their neighbors, wildlife and natural landscape. Through November 28. A reception is Friday, November 6, at 6 p.m. Pictured: “Apple Orchard,” a painting by Saaf.

‘LINE IN SPACE: JUST A CORNER OF YOUR MEMORY PALACE’: Students of Sanford Mirling’s fall Sculpture I class present works focusing on the limitless, form-making possibilities of welded-steel rod. Through N vember 10. Info, 443-3168. Johnson Memorial Building, Middlebury College.

f ‘PERSPECTIVE’: Photographs of the natural world by Richard Cofrancesco, CJ Hockett, Alistair McCallum and Jon Olsen. Reception: Saturday, November 14, 4-6 p.m. Through N vember 30.

Info, 458-0098. Edgewater Gallery (Mill Street) in Middlebury.

‘NAKED TRUTH: THE BODY IN EARLY TWENTIETHCENTURY GERMAN AND AUSTRIAN ART’: Prints, drawings and watercolors by Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Max Beckmann, Käthe Kollwitz and others whose work addressed the relationship of the nude body and contemporary morality. Through December 13. Info, 443-3168.

Middlebury College Museum of Art.

‘PORTRAIT OF A FOREST: MEN AND MACHINE’: Contemporary images from Weybridge photojournalist George Bellerose presented alongside archival material from the logging industry.

Through Janua y 9. Info, 388-4964. Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury.

STACEY STANHOPE DUNDON: “Back in the Saddle: 25 Years of Horse Play,” oil paintings, dinnerware and decorative, large-scale horse heads. Through November 30. Info, 388-1639. The National Museum of the Morgan Horse in Middlebury.

WARREN KIMBLE: “All-American Artist: An Eclectic Retrospective,” works by the internationally known Brandon artist, along with works from his own folk art collection. Through December 31. Info, 388-2117.

Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History in Middlebury.

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HARALD AKSDAL AND DEBRA KIEL: Featured drawings and new jewelry, respectively, from the local artists. Through November 28. Info, 933-6403. Artist in Residence Cooperative Gallery in Enosburg Falls.

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ADELAIDE TYROL: “The Outside Story,” images of the natural world, many of which have been featured alongside ecology-related articles in regional publications. Through November 29. Info, 649-2200.

Montshire Museum of Science in Norwich.

COLLECTIVE FALL SHOW: Hooked rugs by Janet Avery, jewelry by metalsmith Susan Riach, ornaments and whistles by Mary Stone, and hand-molded beeswax candles by Vermont Honey Lights. Through December 31. Info, 457-1298.

Collective — the Art of Craft in Woodstock.

‘FEATHER & FUR: PORTRAITS OF FIELD, FOREST & FARM’: Portraits celebrating the beauty, intelligence and grace of animals by nine artists.

Through April 30, 2016. Info, 885-3061. The Grea Hall in Springfield KEITH SONNIER: A survey of early neon works, 1968-1989, by the American artist. PETER SAUL: A retrospective exhibit that spans 1959 to 2012 and includes colorful paintings that incorporate humor, pop-culture imagery, irreverence and, occasionally, politically incorrect subject matter.

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Through N vember 29. Info, info@hallart foundation.org. Hall Art Foundation in Reading.

LYNN GRAZNAK: “The Beautiful Light of Burning Bridges,” sculpture, assemblage and installation exploring memory and childhood, folk tales and heartbreak. Through N vember 14. Info, 457-3500.

ArtisTree Gallery in South Pomfret.

MONIQUE VAN DE VEN: “Gleaned Near South Royalton,” ceramics inspired by and incorporating objects found in nature. Through December 5. Info, 763-7094. Royalton Memorial Library in South Royalton.

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f ‘BREWING UP LOCAL ART’: Group show of selected works by Vermont artists Levi Tetreault, Martha Elmes, Jimm Gerstman and Dorian McGowan, including etchings, charcoal drawings, elaborate paper cuts, and assemblages from wood and bike parts. Reception: Thursda , November 5, 5-7 p.m. Through N vember 30. Info, 626-0724.

Grindstone Café in Lyndonville.

GERRY TREVITS: New paintings of the Northeast Kingdom. Through December 7. Info, 525-3366.

Parker Pie Co. in West Glover.

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MERI STILES: “Attractor,” drawings, paintings and constructions by the psychology professor and self-taught artist. Through N vember 21. Info, 748-0158. Northeast Kingdom Artisans Guild Backroom Gallery in St. Johnsbury.

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OTTO: Prints of recent work from “The Book of Wales” by Newport artist Brian McCurley (aka OTTO). Through December 15. Info, 323-7759. Th 99 Gallery and Center in Newport.

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f VICTORIA PATRICK ZOLNOSKI: “Altared,”

new altarpieces and digital and altered method photographs. Reception: Friday, November 6, 5-7 p.m. Through December 26. Info, 472-9933. 3rd Floor Gallery in Hardwick.

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DONA MARA FRIEDMAN: “The Nature of Things, encaustic oil paintings by the regionally recognized artist. Through N vember 16. Info, 362-4061. The Ga lery at Equinox Village in Manchester Center.

‘PEOPLE/PLACE: AMERICAN SOCIAL LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY, 1950-1980’: Photographs exploring the human condition within the public sphere and the social landscape by Jonathan Brand, John Hubbard, Neil Rappaport, Garry Winogrand and Lee Friedlander. Through N vember 8. TOM LEYTHAM: “The Other orking Landscape,” watercolors by the artist and architect depicting the remnants of Vermont’s 19th- and 20th-century industrial structures. Through December 31. Info, 447-1571.

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Through December 10. Info, 603-646-2422. Bake Berry Library, Dartmouth College, in Hanover, N.H. ‘COLLAGES OF COLOR’: Recent works from more than 20 participants of Art Lab, a community art program for adults with special needs. Through November 28.

JOHN MCNALLY: “Recent Work,” oil paintings, watercolors and iPad drawings from the former lawyer and self-taught Thetford artist. Through November 13.

VERMONT GLASS GUILD: 2015 Art Glass Invitational exhibition featuring work from 22 Vermont artists.

Through November 13. Info, 603-448-3117. AVA Gallery and Art Center in Lebanon, N.H. ‘GEORGE S. ZIMBEL: A HUMANIST PHOTOGRAPHER’: Images from collection of the documentary photographer covering 1953 to 1955, which includes his shots of Marilyn Monroe standing over the subway grate during the filming of The Se en Year Itch by director Billy Wilder.

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‘DUST’: Displays include samples of “this most ubiquitous substance” from around the world, and the cosmos, as well as unique moments in the history of dust and a visual history of dust removal.

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he silver linings have been getting fewer and farther between for Bradley Cooper. At first glance, his career might appear to be in great shape. How many actors, after all, can claim Oscar nominations every year since 2012?

Many felt he deserved to win last year for his powerful turn in American Sniper. I did.

On closer examination, however, that picture turns out to be more exception than rule. Factor out the films that Cooper made with Clint Eastwood and David O. Russell over the past half decade, and what’s left?

The A-Team (2010), classics such as Hit and Run and The Words (2012), and 2013’s universally reviled The Hangover Part III. Moviegoers made it clear they’d had their fill.

It got worse. And I’m not talking about the Cameron Crowe-helmed flop that bade Aloha to cineplexes within days of its May release. Did you know that Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence have in fact starred in three movies together, not two?

Against all odds, the power pair followed up their hit Silver Linings Playbook with a drama directed by an Oscar winner and based on a best seller — then watched it languish in post-production limbo for years before going straight to video on demand.

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in 2014, racked up an 18 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes and grossed a domestic total of $176,391. No, I’m not forgetting a bunch of zeroes. It’s virtually unwatchable.

Which, coincidentally, is the critical consensus on Burnt. Producers the Weinsteins originally had big prestige-season plans for this saga of an egomaniacal ex-pat chef who overcomes various addictions and attempts a comeback at the restaurant of an old friend in London. Then the reviews started coming in, and that Oscar campaign was killed in less time than it takes to cancel a dinner reservation.

Cooper plays a culinary rock star named Adam Jones. (A member of his staff actually informs his girlfriend, “To chefs, he’s like the Rolling Stones.”) Having gotten his act together after a spectacular flameout in Paris, he convinces the son of his mentor to let him take over the former’s kitchen. Daniel Brühl gives an appealing performance as the maitre d’ who gambles his family fortune because he’s in love with Jones. That tweak to the formula aside, what ensues couldn’t be more predictable.

Burnt is the boilerplate story of a gifted hothead who embarks on a quest for his third Michelin star and throws tantrums when his crew fails to meet his demanding standards.

FARE ENOUGH Critics may agree that Cooper as a hotheaded chef is a recipe for disaster, but much about the movie is surprisingly appetizing.

After throwing more tantrums — including one directed at his sous-chef/love interest (Sienna Miller) that would have resulted in his dismissal or prosecution if anybody in the kitchen had a cellphone — he learns life lessons, and he isn’t as loathsome a dick by the time the credits roll. For all practical purposes, it’s Steve Jobs with aprons.

The thing is, it’s actually kind of a good time. Predictable, sure, but flawlessly acted, peppered with delectable dialogue (Steven Knight’s script serves up such choice lines as “I want to make food that makes people stop eating”) and more than a little moving.

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LOST CAUSE No one manages to put a convincing spin on this would-be comedy that stars Bullock as a political strategist.

(according to the credits), whose brilliant career as a political strategist ended in disgrace and rehab. In a sequence that plays like an inadvertent parody of every sports comeback saga, Ann Dowd and Anthony Mackie trek to her desolate mountain retreat to beg her to shepherd the ailing campaign of Pedro Castillo (Joaquim de Almeida). Jane couldn’t care less who wins the Bolivian presidency, but when she sees that her old nemesis (Billy Bob Thornton) is guiding the opposition, she wants in.

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n optimist might go to Our Brand Is Crisis expecting a “Veep” or Primary Colors starring Sandra Bullock — a clever, pitch-dark adult comedy about the machinations of political spin doctors. That optimist would be disappointed to find a tepid movie, short on comedy of any kind, that isn’t sure whether it wants to be a statement or a flattering star vehicle.

The expectation has some basis, given that Crisis shares its title and premise with a documentary that followed American strategists-for-hire — including James Carville — as they used every trick in the book to persuade Bolivian voters to elect a presidential candidate who was trailing in the polls. That 2006 film painted an unpretty picture of the political process, inspiring critic Nathan Rabin to describe Jeremy Rosner, its central figure, “a borderline sociopath with ice water running through his veins.”

Now that’s the kind of character who might have stretched Bullock’s range and earned her another Oscar. But screenwriter Peter Straughan and director David Gordon Green have chosen a less bold route, one that allows the actress to smoke, cuss and talk tough while ultimately preserving her likability.

Bullock plays Jane Bodine, a composite character “suggested by” the documentary

Director John Wells (The Company Men) specializes in stories that celebrate human connection without getting sappy about it.

No Oscar nomination will be forthcoming for Cooper’s foray into food porn, but there may yet be a silver lining for him this year.

Slated for Christmas release is a film called Joy, in which he stars. More importantly, the female lead is Jennifer Lawrence and the director is David O. Russell. Something tells me audiences are going to eat it up.

cred, he can triumph only through the fear tactics of a manufactured “crisis” — so Jane manufactures one.

So far, so good, because Jane is our antihero, right? Or is she a battered, past-herprime athlete going back for a rematch? The movie can’t seem to decide whether it’s encouraging us to root for her or not. The script uses the sliminess of Thornton’s character to make Jane look better by comparison, then guiltily reminds us that the people of Bolivia might have more pressing concerns than these two slicksters and their personal vendetta.

We might forgive Crisis its mixed messages — and Green’s undistinguished direc-

tion, which comes to life only in a brief party montage — if only Straughan’s script were smarter, crackling with the verbal rhythms of professionals at the top of their game. But Aaron Sorkin or Armando Iannucci he is not, and Bullock lacks for worthy conversation partners. Fine actors like Dowd and Mackie go to waste, their characters barely sketched, while long scenes focus on the Passion of Jane.

Bullock does fine at conveying the character’s self-hatred and strung-out ambivalence. The problem is that, by the time Jane’s clumsily scripted comeback arc reaches its conclusion, we don’t care — in large part because there are bigger things at stake — like, oh, maybe the fate of a country. For all its overt liberal messaging, Crisis ends up feeling oddly condescending: Its structure suggests that the real purpose of the Bolivian election was to help one white American lift herself out of the political mire and live a more fulfilling life.

That suggestion may be the unintended consequence of transforming a concept best suited to ensemble drama into a star vehicle.

But Crisis leaves an unpleasant taste — not unlike that of a campaign commercial that surrounds a candidate with real-world ugliness, then bathes her alone in beatific light.

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NEW IN THEATERS THE PEANUTS MOVIE: Charles M. Schulz’s beloved comic-strip characters have been updated with computer animation and Top 40 pop by Steve Martino, the director of Ice Age: Continental Drift — not that the target audience of kids is likely to mind. With the voices of Noah Schnapp, Bill Melendez and Hadley Belle Miller. (93 min, G. Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Marquis, Palace, Stowe, Welden) SPECTRE: Daniel Craig returns as James Bond, now on the trail of the sinister organization of the title, which has resurfaced from his past. Ralph Fiennes takes over as M, still beleaguered; Sam Mendes again directs. With Christoph Waltz, Ben Whishaw, Monica Bellucci and Léa Seydoux. (148 min, PG-13.

Bijou, Essex, Majestic, Marquis, Palace, Paramount, Roxy, Stowe, Welden) SUFFRAGETTE: Carey Mulligan plays a workingclass wife who finds herself becoming in olved in the fight to gi e Englishwomen the vote in this historical drama directed by Sarah Gavron (Brick Lane). With Anne-Marie Duff, Helena Bonham Carter and Meryl Streep. (106 min, PG-13. Roxy)

NOW PLAYING BRIDGE OF SPIESHHHHH An ordinary American lawyer (Tom Hanks) finds himself playing a key role in a prisoner exchange between the CIA and KGB in this Cold War drama directed by Steven Spielberg and coscripted by Ethan and Joel Coen. With Mark Rylance and Alan Alda. (142 min, PG-13)

THE INTERNHH1/2 A 70-year-old widower (Robert De Niro) interns for a young whippersnapper of an online fashion mogul (Anne Hathaway), and hilarity ensues — in theory, anyway. With Rene Russo. Nancy Meyers (It’s Complicated) directed.

(121 min, PG-13) JEM AND THE HOLOGRAMSHH Before Hannah Montana, there was Jem, star of her own ’80s animated series, who led a glamorous double life as a regular girl and a rocker. This li e-action adventure from director Jon M. Chu (two Step Up movies) updates her for the YouTube generation.

(118 min, PG) THE LAST WITCH HUNTERH1/2 The next apocalyptic threat to humanity: witches! Vin Diesel plays an immortal who hunts them down in this effects-heavy action fantasy, also starring Rose Leslie and Elijah Wood. Breck Eisner (The Crazie ) directed. (106 min, PG-13) THE MARTIANHHHH Stranded on Mars, the last member of a manned mission (Matt Damon) must survive, contact NASA and help engineer his own rescue in this sci-fi ad enture directed by Ridley Scott and based on the science-savvy novel by Andy Weir. With Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig and Jeff Daniels. (141 min, PG-13) OUR BRAND IS CRISISHH Sandra Bullock plays an American spin doctor called in to help a beleaguered candidate win the Bolivian presidency in this comedy-drama based on the documentary of the same name. With Billy Bob Thornton and Anthony Mackie. David Gordon Green directed. (107 min, R)

BURNTHHH1/2 A star chef (Bradley Cooper) recovering from drug addiction and general diva-ism sets out to redeem himself with a new London restaurant in this comedy-drama from director John Wells (August: Osage County). With Sienna Miller and Daniel Brühl. (100 min, R)

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: THE GHOST DIMENSIONH1/2 A family moves into a new home equipped with a camera that “sees ghosts”; instead of immediately selling the place, they stick around and watch. Gregory Plotkin directed the sixth entry in the waning found-footage franchise. With Chris J. Murray, Brit Shaw and Ivy George. (88 min, R)

CRIMSON PEAKHHHH In this gothic fantasy from Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth), a Victorian maiden (Mia Wasikowska) makes the classic mistake of marrying a handsome stranger and moving to his country estate, which just might be haunted. With Jessica Chastain, Tom Hiddleston and Jim Beaver. (119 min, R)

ROCK THE KASBAHH1/2 Bill Murray plays a washed-up music promoter who discovers a fresh new talent while on a tour of Afghanistan in this comedy from director Barry Levinson. With Leem Lubany, Zooey Deschanel and Kate Hudson. (100 min, R)

GOOSEBUMPSHHH How scary can you get with a PG rating? In this family-oriented meta-take on the tween horror novels of R.L. Stine, the author’s daughter battles his monsters when they turn out to be real. With Jack Black as Stine, Dylan Minnette and Odeya Rush. Rob Letterman (Gulliver’s Travels) directed. (103 min, PG)

STEVE JOBSHHHH1/2 Michael Fassbender plays the Apple wunderkind in this drama that imagines a backstage view of the launches of three of his iconic products. With Kate Winslet, Seth Rogen and Jeff Daniels. Aaron Sorkin wrote; Danny Boyle directed. (122 min, R; reviewed by R.K. 10/28)

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WOODLAWNHHHH1/2 In this inspirational drama about the youth of running back Tony Nathan, the high school football star (Caleb Castille) tries to hold to his faith in the face of Alabama’s racial tensions. With Jon Voight and Sean Astin. Andrew and Jon Erwin (October Baby) directed. (123 min, PG)

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Scorpio (OCT. 23-NOV. 21)

Is it possible to express a benevolent form of vanity? I say yes. In the coming weeks, your boasts may be quite lyrical and therapeutic. They may even uplift and motivate those who hear them. Acts of self-aggrandizement that would normally cast long shadows might instead produce generous results. Thats why I’m giving you a go-ahead to embody the following attitude from Nikki Giovanni’s poem “Ego Tripping (there may be a reason why)”: “I am so perfect so divine so ethereal so surreal / I cannot be comprehended except by my permission.”

TAURUS

(April 20-May 20): Before he helped launch Apple Computer in the 1970s, tech pioneer Steve Wozniak ran a dial-ajoke service. Most of the time, people who

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Small, nondestructive earthquakes are common. Our planet has an average of 1,400 of them every day. This subtle underground mayhem has been going on steadily for millions of years. According to recent research, it has been responsible for creating 80 percent of the world’s gold. I suspect that the next six or seven months will feature a metaphorically analogous process in your life. You will experience deep-seated quivering and grinding that won’t bring major disruptions even as it generates the equivalent of gold deposits. Make it your goal to welcome and even thrive on the subterranean friction!

CANCER

(June 21-July 22): Here’s the process I went through to create your horoscope. First, I drew up a chart of your astrological aspects. Using my analytical skills, I pondered their meaning. Next, I called on my intuitive powers, asking my unconscious mind to provide symbols that would be useful to you. The response I got from my deeper mind was surprising: It informed me that I should go to a new café that had just opened downtown. Ten minutes later, I was there, gazing at a menu packed with exotic treats: Banana Flirty Milk ... Champagne Coconut Mango Slushy ... Honey Dew Jelly Juice ...

Creamy Wild Berry Blitz ... Sweet Dreamy Ginger Snow. I suspect these are metaphors for experiences that are coming your way.

LEO

(July 23-Aug. 22): The Beatles’ song “You Never Give Me Your Money” has this poignant lyric: “Oh, that magic feeling, nowhere to go.” I suggest you make it your motto for now. And if you have not yet begun to feel the allure of that sentiment, initiate the necessary shifts to get yourself in the mood. Why?

Because it’s time to recharge your spiritual battery, and the best way to do that is to immerse yourself in the mystery of having nothing to do and nowhere to go. Put your faith in the pregnant silence, Leo. Let emptiness teach you what you need to know next.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Should a profes-

sional singer be criticized for her lack of skill in laying bricks? Is it reasonable to chide a kindergarten teacher for his ineptitude as an airplane pilot? Does it make sense to complain about a cat’s inability to bark? Of course not. There are many other unwarranted comparisons that are almost as irrational but not as obviously unfair. Is it right for you to wish your current lover or best friend could have the same je ne sais quoi as a previous lover or best friend? Should you try to manipulate the future so that it’s more like the past? Are you justified in demanding that your head and your heart come to identical conclusions? No, no and no. Allow the differences to be differences. And more than that: Celebrate them!

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In the mid-19th century, an American named Cyrus McCormick patented a breakthrough that had the potential to revolutionize agriculture. It was a mechanical reaper that harvested crops with far more ease and efficiency than handheld sickles and scythes. But his innovation didn’t enter into mainstream use for 20 years. In part that was because many farmers were skeptical of trying a new technology and feared it would eliminate jobs. I don’t foresee you having to wait nearly as long for acceptance of your new wrinkles, Libra. But you may have to be patient.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Regard the current tensions and detours as camouflaged gifts from the gods of growth.

You’re being offered a potent opportunity to counteract the effects of a self-sabotage you committed once upon a time. You’re getting an excellent chance to develop the strength of character that can blossom from dealing with soul-bending riddles. In fact, I think you’d be wise to feel a surge of gratitude right now. To do so will empower you to take maximum advantage of the disguised blessings.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You are slipping into a phase when new teachers are likely to appear. Thats excellent news, because the coming weeks will also be a time when you especially need new teachings. Your good fortune doesn’t end there.

I suspect that you will have an enhanced capacity to learn quickly and deeply. With all these factors conspiring in your favor, Capricorn, I predict that by January 1, you will be smarter, humbler, more flexible and better prepared to get what you want in 2016.

AQUARIUS

(Jan. 20-Feb. 18): American author Mark Twain seemed to enjoy his disgust with the novels of Jane Austen, who died 18 years before he was born. “Her books madden me so that I can’t conceal my frenzy,” he said, even as he confessed that he had perused some of her work multiple times. “Every time I read Pride and Prejudice,” he wrote to a friend about Austen’s most famous story, “I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.”

We might ask why he repetitively sought an experience that bothered him. I am posing a similar question to you, Aquarius.

According to my analysis, the coming weeks will be an excellent time to renounce, once and for all, your association with anything or anyone you are addicted to disliking.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The Sahara in

Northern Africa is the largest hot desert on the planet. It’s almost the size of the United States. Cloud cover is rare, the humidity is low and the temperature of the sand can easily exceed 170 degrees Fahrenheit (80 degrees Celcius). Thats why it was so surprising when snow fell there in February of 1979 for the first time in memory. This once-in-a-lifetime visitation happened again 33 years later. I’m expecting a similar anomaly in your world, Pisces. Like the desert snow, your version should be mostly interesting and only slightly inconvenient. It may even have an upside.

Saharan locals testified that the storm helped the palm trees because it killed off the parasites feeding on them.

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called got an automated recording, but now and then Wozniak answered himself. Thats how he met Alice Robertson, the woman who later became his wife. I’m guessing you will have comparable experiences in the coming weeks, Taurus. Future allies may come into your life in unexpected ways. It’s as if mysterious forces will be conspiring to connect you with people you need to know.

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I’m a really religious Christian, and I always thought I would be with another Christian when I fell in love.

But now I am falling in love with someone who doesn’t believe in God at all. I don’t know what to do. I mean, I love her. I know I do. She might even be the love of my life! She doesn’t care that I am a Christian. But how can I deal with these differences in our beliefs? Will I start to fall out of love because of it? What will my parents do when they find out? What if they disown me? I’m freaked out and ecstatic at the same time.

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Dear In Love,

Who says you shouldn’t be in love with her? We don’t choose who we love. What we choose is a relationship.

No point in trying to understand it. Love is complicated and surprising and mysterious — and that’s what makes it so special.

Let’s look at your options. You can let go of your ideas of whom you should love and just love her. Or you can walk away now and hope that your broken heart mends quickly.

To stay and love her would be brave and bold and an adventure. You would be exposing yourself to new ideas and breaking out of your comfort zone. And those are good things.

Who says you have to be with someone who shares your every belief, like and dislike? That person is nearly impossible to find. And guess what? Being with someone who mirrors you in all of those ways might turn out to be boring.

If you try to make this work, you will only grow from the experience. Maybe your differences will eventually get in the way of a “happily ever after.” Or maybe not.

Maybe loving her will be the best thing to ever happen to you. You’ll never know unless you try.

If your parents disapprove of the relationship, that’s certainly unfortunate. I’d like to believe that your family would rather see you happy than not. Maybe they’ll understand. If they don’t, you’ll have to decide what you’re willing to fight fo . Remember, just because she isn’t Christian doesn’t make you any less Christian.

Likewise, loving her doesn’t mean you will lose your faith.

One of the most important aspects of a relationship is mutual respect. Success here will depend on honoring your differences, setting boundaries and simply being together without trying to change one another. Your love may be more untraditional than you imagined. But if you can tick all of those boxes, it sounds like it’s worth holding onto.

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You: Woman. Me: Man. #913232 GOKU AT THE GYM Goku: It’s me, Vegeta. You always lift wearing that orange gi. For the first time esterday we talked to each other. When you were leaving, we looked at each other as if to speak. But I was too shy to ask for your real name. Maybe I’ll see you again soon?

When: Tuesday, November 10, 2015. Where: Twin Oaks Edge. You: Man. Me: Woman. #913231 BLOND FRÄULEIN WER KRAPFEN MAG You’re a just lovely German fräulein new to the area who has a taste for doughnuts but never seems to have correct change. You work on Main Street in a building with many other businesses — but doing what, we never discussed. Odds are you won’t see this, but hey — worth a go.

Auch, ich spreche ein wenig Deutsch. When: Wednesday, September 30, 2015. Where: Main St. You: Woman. Me: Man. #913230 AMAZING EYES AT STONE SOUP 10/30 I tried to help put tables together for you and your also beautiful friend. I felt totally awkward once I realized it was bolted down but still managed to compliment your eyes. Your eyes are so stunning I was compelled to move mountains.

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You shared with me some things I shall not forget.

You ended up being the drummer in the band that played that night. I danced like never before; the beat of your drum put a spell on me. It is my wish that we shall met again someday. When: Saturday, October 24, 2015. Where: RLPhoto Studio. You: Man. Me: Woman. #913225 TEACUP I spy my sexy-pants partner in crime. This ear has been the best adventure with you, from the snow and lights in the north to the sun and sand in the south. You and your pup have a place in my heart. Here’s to many more Book of Meals cooking with you. Xoxo, Your Teacup.

When: Thursda , November 5, 2015. Where: Burlington. You: Woman. Me: Woman. #913223 SEPTEMBER 18, 2014 I still think about you more then you’ll ever know. Be mine already. BTW, that stomach.

When: Wednesday, October 7, 2015. Where: Burlington. You: Woman. Me: Man. #913195

SUPERCUTE IN HINESBURG I was sitting a few stools down from you (black sweater) and saw you glance over. You wore a white sweater/jeans. Saw both of you after in Lantman’s.

You two were giggling all over the store. I thought you were amazingly attractive. Would love to share a seat at the bar with you next time. When: Monday, October 26, 2015. Where: Hinesburg Public House. You: Woman. Me: Man. #913222 STILL ON MY MIND We met in a weird way online and hit it off. Let’s go for another round? I am looking to have fun and not much more. I think we both expected too much too early. How about just having fun?

When: Monday, September 28, 2015. Where: in my truck. You: Woman. Me: Man. #913220 CAMEL’S HUMP LOOKOUT 10/24 I was hiking with my brothers when you came up to the lookout. We talked about different hikes: Mt. Pisgah, Franconia. You had to go rake leaves. Would you be up for a hike? Cup of coffee? When: Saturday, October 24, 2015.

Where: Camel’s Hump lookout from River Road. You: Woman. Me: Man. #913219 MI YARD, GLAMAZON! I had a wonderful time with a beautiful woman!

She had long, dark-brown, curled hair. She wore glasses and had painted fingernails on only one hand. She also happened to be taller than average and extremely pleasant to talk to. I would really like to talk to her again. Maybe we could go on an actual date? When: Sunday, October 18, 2015.

Where: Nectar’s. You: Woman. Me: Man. #913218 FAVORITE PART OF MY DAY Emily, I don’t really know you, and you don’t really know me, but you are beautiful. That is a l. When: Saturday, October 10, 2015. Where: Church Street Tavern. You: Woman. Me: Man. #913205

HAPPEE BIRTHDAE, HARRY Your green eyes are magic; / Your breath is elixir. / You can be Harry Potter, / and I’ll be Ron’s sister. / If you wanted to, / I’d let you ride my dragon. / I would follow you forever / in our flying station wagon. / My Marauder’s Map leads to you, / No matter where I go. / Like Hagrid wrote, “Happee Birthdae” / to my favorite muggle, Arlo. When: Wednesday, November 20, 2013. Where: Muddy Waters. You: Man. Me: Woman. #913214 BANANA REPUBLIC & SAILING! You were the genuinely sweet, naturally beautiful woman with a spectacular smile at the front register when I checked out with my new shirt. I mentioned my adventure from earlier that day.

Don’t know what your situation is, but I’d love to grab a few innocent minutes of your time to see if I’m right about our synergy! When: Wednesday, October 14, 2015. Where: Banana Republic. You: Woman. Me: Man. #913213 OUTSIDE AT 51 MAIN, MIDDLEBURY Gorgeous blonde. I walked by you and your friends on the bridge, then passed you in the alley about 10 minutes later. I wanted to talk to you but figured ou might get freaked out since it was, well, a dark alley! Give me a shout if you would like to grab a drink sometime. When: Saturday, October 17, 2015. Where: 51 Main, Middlebury. You: Woman. Me: Man. #913211 THE EIGHT-HOUR ORGASM So not a thing! After months of being pursued, you still took me by surprise. I hope you keep finishing my sentences, touching my knee and sending me pictures of your latest baking project. But, as life goes, our timing may not have been right. Wishing I’d been ready sooner.

Mostly hoping you know just how awesome you are. When: Friday, October 9, 2015. Where: all over. You: Woman. Me: Woman. #913210 CUTE, CUDDLY BRUNETTE AT ZEN LOUNGE We danced, talked and hugged, and you captivated me. Visiting from out of town? You and your friend went back to your hotel as I found my way home. Would love to see you again.

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