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THE SYSTEM AS A WHOLE WILL BENEFIT FROM INCREASED PUBLIC AWARENESS OF THE SCOPE OF CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT IN VERMONT
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I wanted to commend Kathryn Flagg on her kind article about Rising Tide Vermont and their pipeline action camp [“Action! Behind the Scenes of Vermont’s Pipeline Protests,” June 11]. My husband, Mark, and I hosted that camp at our property in Charlotte, and we couldn’t have been more impressed with their kindness, organizational skills and respect for us, the land and each other. We are in the midst of an enormous paradigm shift — or rather, I should say, multiple overlapping paradigm shifts — and that takes an enormous amount of patience and learning as the ways we have known the world to be get disrupted. Certainly, we’re learning about the effort it’s going to take to move away from business-as-usual fossil-fuel infrastructure projects like this natural gas pipeline. But we’re also all learning about how to treat each other and the
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[Re Feedback: “Bike-Unfriendly Burlington,” June 18]: It’s a two-way street, you know, pun intended. How about bikers stay in the bike lanes and not ride two and three abreast in the lanes for cars? And what about following the street signs and lights? How often have I almost hit one of us — yes, I ride a bike, too — when some breeze right through the stop sign, figuring it’s for just the cars? Seriously, you want a bike lane on Shelburne Road — an insane thought to me, considering I hate to drive it surrounded
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We have a candidate in Vermont who stands against fracked gas, against the F-35 and for public banking, agricultural hemp and other popular positions. Paul Heintz ignores her as a viable and important voice in the race for governor [Fair Game, June 11]. Emily Peyton is the only candidate who represents those ideas, and Seven Days does a disservice to the people by abetting those who would keep those ideas silent. Emily has been working at a grassroots level to bring these ideas to the fore. It is irresponsible of Seven Days to ignore independent candidates who bring important proposals to light.
I read with great amusement that the American Apparel CEO, Dov Charney, has been fired for unacceptable acts of sexual misconduct — the most recent of which was a viral video of Charney dancing around naked in front of two AA employees. In 2010 the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in Los Angeles found American Apparel discriminated against women, as a class, on the basis of their female gender, by subjecting them to sexual harassment. Apparently, the numerous complaints to the editor regarding their questionable adverts on the back cover of Seven Days had merit.
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Meow. Tweet. Cluck. We’re not sure what turtles or zebras “say,” but they’re in this annual animal issue, too. A ZEBRA IN VERMONT? Yep, “Zeus” lives in Reading. In other news, we examine the Vermont Supreme Court’s DOG-CUSTODY DECISION in a divorce case, investigate Burlington’s forthcoming URBAN-LIVESTOCK REGS, and report on an international ANTI-MARINE-POACHING group, complete with notorious eco-activist, meeting in Woodstock. You’ll want to know about a guy who tracks elusive WOOD TURTLES in central Vermont, the St. Albans couple who run an AVIAN SHELTER, and, of course, how to TRAIN KITTY TO USE THE TOILET. Not least, we offer a Vermont roundup of everyone’s leastfavorite critters: INSECTS. And finally, Seven Days doggies TASTE-TEST LOCAVORE TREATS. Woof.
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Do Divorcing Vermont Couples Get ‘Ownership’ or ‘Custody’ of the Family Pet? BY KEN PICARD
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Way Out of Africa, a HighContrast Creature Roams in the Green Mountain State BY ALICIA FREESE
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The Boston Globe calls the pairing of Ricardo Lemvo (pictured) and Makina Loca “one of the most potent musical marriages imaginable.” Hailing from Africa, Latin America and Los Angeles, their nine-member ensemble is perfectly primed to deliver an infectious blend of AfroCuban rhythms and pan-African styles. Listeners can expect guitar-and-horn-driven tunes performed in multiple languages.
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Tapping Into Tradition From drumming and dancing to beadwork and basketry, the Abenaki Heritage Weekend offers Vermonters a glimpse into life as a Native American in the Champlain Valley. Local tribe members join scholars Fred Wiseman and Melody Brook to present a comprehensive introduction to indigenous art and culture passed on from generation to generation. SEE CALENDAR LISTING ON PAGE 63
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Testing the Waters What Vermont lacks in big-ocean waves, it makes up for in plenty of fresh water — ideal for the Stand-Up Paddleboard Festival. Fans of this fast-growing recreational sport head to Waterbury Center State Park, where they have access to more than 50 different board models during a day of demos, instructional clinics and races. SEE CALENDAR LISTING ON PAGE 64
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Productive Plots Eric Toensmeier knows a thing or two about gardening. The permaculture expert counts awardwinning writing, urban farming and seed-company management among his many professional accomplishments. At Shelburne Farms, he schools green thumbs about the process of designing foodproducing ecosystems, or “polycultures,” in Edible Forest Gardens and Commercial Food Forestry. SEE CALENDAR LISTING ON PAGE 60
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Palling Around Hosted by pro snowboarders from the Frends Crew, the Frendly Gathering is a music-and-camping festival on a mission to spread positive vibes. Lotus, Delta Spirit and Deer Tick headline an assembly of musical talent at Timber Ridge, a former ski resort in Windham. Outdoor stages host more than 20 acts, including Jatoba, Myra Flynn, and Kat Wright & the Indomitable Soul Band. SEE SOUNDBITES ON PAGE 73
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f any of Vermont’s top political and economic development officials know what lies ahead for IBM’s roughly 4,000 Vermont workers, they’re not saying. But they’re clearly bracing for the possibility that Emirate of Abu Dhabi-owned GlobalFoundries “is nearing a deal” to buy Big Blue’s chip-making business, as Bloomberg reported two weeks ago. And they’re hoping like hell that such a sale won’t imperil the high-paying jobs at IBM’s Essex Junction and Williston plants, which would likely be included in the transaction. “Regardless of what name is on the door of the IBM-Vermont enterprise, we all must act immediately and convincingly to demonstrate our state’s commitment, our region’s commitment to the success and well-being of the IBM enterprise,” Greater Burlington Industrial Corporation president FRANK CIOFFI said Monday afternoon. Cioffi made the remarks at a Burlington press conference he called to propose a slate of state incentives he thinks might keep IBM — or at least its manufacturing Support the culture. and R&D jobs — in Chittenden County. Though the company has slashed its Vermont workforce in the past decade, it 8v-oldspokes062514.indd 1 6/20/14 4:25 PMremains the state’s largest private-sector employer and contributes more than $1 billion to the state’s economy, Cioffi said. What he wouldn’t say was whether the timing of Monday’s press conference signaled an impending announcement from with relaxation & wakefulness the two publicly traded companies. “I can tell you, from my standpoint, it’s June 23 — and earnings reports come out really soon,” he said. “So if you understand public corporations, then actions one way or the other sometimes happen after earnings reports.” IBM is scheduled to announce its second-quarter earnings on July 17. Cioffi’s proposals, which include economic incentives and workforce training programs, were dreamed up by GBIC, but Gov. PETER SHUMLIN said earlier Monday that his administration would “certainly be deploying good chunks” of the plan. Shumlin’s newly minted secretary of comKARMÊ CHÖLING’S merce, PAT MOULTON, attended Cioffi’s press conference and walked up to the podium RELAX, RENEW & AWAKEN RETREAT midway through to add her two cents. July 24-27 “The governor has been in touch JOIN US for a spacious retreat that allows with the leadership of IBM and at time to walk the land, visit our one-acre GlobalFoundries to say, ‘We’re ready for organic vegetable garden, or to follow the a dialogue when you are,’” Moulton said. spontaneous callings of your spirit. “They are very candid that they know the door is open with Gov. Shumlin, with his administration, but that they’re not in a position to talk.” www.karmecholing.org Nor has the governor been eager Barnet, VT • 802-633-2384 to discuss his conversations with two MENTION THIS AD AND GET 20% OFF PROGRAM FEES public companies engaged in high-stakes
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negotiations. But ever since word surfaced last winter that IBM was putting its chip division on the auction block, his administration has been scrambling to show that it’s focused on creating and retaining jobs. Just 11 days after the Wall Street Journal reported in April that GlobalFoundries had “emerged as the leading candidate” to buy the division, Shumlin proposed a $4.5 million Vermont Enterprise Incentive Fund clearly geared toward IBM or its successor. With approval from top legislators, that money can be dispensed to companies considering closing, relocating or shedding jobs. Seemingly every press conference he’s held since has been focused on jobs, jobs, jobs — including Monday’s launch of what his flacks are calling a “Solar Summer Tour,” designed to highlight the job-creating potential of his renewable energy policies. The gov can barely get out a sentence
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without mentioning Vermont’s secondlowest-in-the-nation unemployment rate. Whether all that talk will inoculate him against charges that he presided over the departure of Vermont’s most important business remains to be seen. But you can bet that, with an election nearly four months away, his critics won’t stay quiet. One of them, Vermont Republican Party chairman DAVID SUNDERLAND, says Shumlin’s “lack of attention” to IBM’s transportation infrastructure and the price of electricity has contributed to its potential exit. He also faults Shumlin for heading to Chicago this week for a Democratic Governors Association fundraiser, after which he plans to take a five-day vacation. “What I think is most concerning is that while a good portion of Chittenden County and most of Vermont is on pins and needles waiting for word about what might happen to thousands of jobs, our governor is on his way to a fundraising event for the next two days, followed by time off,” Sunderland says. “We need a governor who will roll up his sleeves and fight for jobs.” Sure, the optics aren’t great, but it’s not like those jobs would be any safer if Shummy spent the week putzing around the fifth floor of the Pavilion State Office Building, rolling up his sleeves and waiting on hold for IBM CEO VIRGINIA ROMETTY. Whether Big Blue sells to GlobalFoundries
will be driven by global market forces and shareholder demands — not by the few million bucks the state can scrounge up from beneath the couch cushions. A better question is what exactly the administration has done — other than open up lines of communication — to prepare for a change in ownership. On that, Moulton’s response was rather squishy. “I mean, there are so many contingencies. It’s almost impossible to put together a plan,” she said. “But we’ve faced plant closings in the past, and we’re ready to respond with appropriate resources for affected people.” Despite dire predictions, Moulton said it’s entirely possible the state “could hear news that’s positive for Vermont.” “I sincerely doubt that 4,000 people are going to get pink slips overnight,” she said. “And so I believe there will be time to prepare if, in fact, there is a decision to close that plant.”
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For much of Saturday’s Republican State Committee meeting, gubernatorial candidate SCOTT MILNE lurked in the back of the Montpelier Elks Country Club, taking in the scene. Before him, party leaders discussed how to bolster the party’s meager fundraising apparatus, support its legislative candidates and reverse what Sunderland repeatedly called a “slide” from relevance. Key to that, the party chairman said, was ending the intramural feuding that has divided and distracted the GOP in recent years. “Already this year, we have seen potential donors turn away from the party due to negativity, exclusion and what one large donor said was ‘a failure of some to see the value of success of others,’” Sunderland said. As the meeting wrapped up, a party member made a motion to hear from the statewide candidates in the room. After Lt. Gov. PHIL SCOTT and fellow gubernatorial candidate STEVE BERRY of Wolcott addressed the crowd of 70, Milne took his turn. “I think there’s an opportunity to win,” he said, launching into a conventional, three-minute stump speech focused on combating the “Democratic supermajority” and restoring balance to Montpelier. Then something strange happened: Milne digressed into a four-minute, hareraising discourse on his youthful adventures buying rabbits in Wolcott and rearing them for sale. “If you’re into making money, I mean, you can make a lot of money if you can figure out how to sell them,” he said to nervous laughter.
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Milne went on to describe how much his out-of-state relatives enjoyed watching his specimens copulate. “One of their favorite activities, my two older aunts, when they came to Vermont, was to sit in front of the mink cages from Wolcott and watch rabbits breed,” he said. After the meeting came to a close, Milne asked a small group of reporters in the parking lot outside, “How do you think the rabbits-having-sex joke went over in there?” “I thought it was, uh, a novel approach,” one reporter ventured. “I saw a couple of people sort of grimacing,” Milne confessed. And then he launched into the story again. “She just loved sitting in front of that cage, watching the rabbits have sex,” Milne said. “It was just so funny.”
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Circulation has plummeted at the Burlington Free Press, but subscription prices are on the rise. Last month, Seven Days reported that weekday print circulation at Vermont’s Gannett-owned daily had dropped nearly 23 percent in the past year. Starting July 1, the price of home delivery will jump just as precipitously for many customers. How much appears to vary from household to household. One subscriber who contacted Seven Days said his daily home delivery was increasing from $19.78 to $29 a month — that’s $237 to $348 a year. Another said his was up from $22.17 to $28 a month, while a third increased just $2, to $22 a month. Those hikes are on top of a 31 percent increase the paper announced two years ago. Unlike back then, when the Freeps announced the price spike alongside a muchballyhooed redesign, nary a word has been printed in Vermont’s paper of record about this increase. Instead, word came by an even more ancient medium: snail mail. “We don’t take this action lightly but believe that this rate for receiving direct delivery of local news in whatever format you prefer is a tremendous value,” Gannett vice president for customer service BarBara SMitH wrote. Burlington Free Press publisher JiM Fogler declined to comment. m
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The Montpelier lobbying firm Sirotkin & Necrason lost its senior partner to the Vermont Senate in January, when Shumlin appointed lobbyist MiCHael Sirotkin to fill a seat vacated by his late wife, Sally Fox. Now the Senate is losing an all-star staffer to Sirotkin’s old firm, the newly renamed Necrason Group. Joining the lobby shop July 1 as a managing senior associate is reBeCCa raMoS, who spent the past two years essentially running the Senate, as President Pro Tem JoHn CaMPBell’s chief of staff.
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Sen. Bernie SanderS’ (I-Vt.) protopresidential campaign continues this weekend with another trip to the distant, first-in-the-nation primary state of New Hampshire. He’s scheduled to speak Saturday at a bookstore in Warner and at the Hillsborough County Democratic Committee’s Grassroots Dinner in Milford. But before Sanders shifts his focus to the Granite State, he might consider touching base with his colleagues in Vermont’s three-man congressional delegation. So far, they sound more inclined to support former secretary of state Hillary Clinton. “I told her if she decided to run I would support her and would be willing to do whatever she likes,” Sen. PatriCk leaHy (D-Vt.) told Vermont Public Radio’s BoB kinzel last week, recounting a conversation he had with Clinton in October 2012. “I’ve made no secret of that ever since then.” And what about Rep. Peter WelCH (D-Vt.)? “Peter said he will wait and see who runs before he decides who he will support,” Welch spokesman ryan niCkel tells Seven Days. “He hopes Secretary Clinton does run and believes Senator Sanders will bring an important and credible voice for working Americans to the campaign should he choose to get in.” Ooof. With friends like these…
“I’ve known Rebecca and observed her career for 20 years,” says firm president adaM neCraSon. “She’s an excellent strategist, communicator, manager and a warm and welcoming person.” The Alabama native and Vermont Law School grad previously served as an attorney and legislative liaison in former governor HoWard dean’s administration and as Welch’s assistant, back when he helmed the Senate. “It’s the best firm in the state, and I’m fortunate to be a part of it,” Ramos says. “The clients they represent, the campaigns they work on and the people that make up the firm are all respected and have integrity and care about Vermont.” Those clients include Renewable Energy Vermont, the Marijuana Policy Project, Comcast and several labor unions. How went the passage through Montpelier’s ever-spinning revolving door? “It is the nature of the business,” Ramos says, noting that she took a month off between leaving the Senate and joining the firm. “Relationships are a part of any business, whether you’re a press person or you own a coffee shop.” For his part, Necrason says he never approached Ramos about a job while the legislature was in session. “Rebecca joining our team is not really dependent on her most recent position,” he says. “Her career and talent is what she brings.”
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a Burlington resident who keeps a small flock of laying hens — more than the city currently allows, he acknowledged, but not enough to bother neighbors. In fact, his neighbors have been so enamored of Goossen’s chickens that one offered to host the flock while Goossen’s home was
Goossen doesn’t believe Burlington’s current four-animal limit makes sense. Even during peak laying times, Goossen says, a quartet of chickens produces a total of two or three eggs a day — not enough for a family. Variables such as lot size, proximity to neighbors and coop
to the natural world, the larger agricultural ecosystem and their rural roots. “To be able to have a taste of Vermont in an urban environment is really important to us,” said Goossen. The proposed rules dive into the nitty-gritty of livestock handling,
size should be considered, he said, noting some people have room for bigger flocks. For Goossen and his wife, who both grew up in Vermont, keeping chickens — as well as growing food in a large backyard garden — is a way to stay connected
tackling manure storage and disposal, the threat of potential predators lured to neighborhoods, and the need for vaccinations or other health requirements. Bill Ward, Burlington’s director of code enforcement, acknowledged that
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ueen City foodies sat up and took notice when Burlington’s code enforcement team busted Will Bennington and his roommates for having too many chickens back in 2010. Was it really so egregious to keep a flock of 10 laying hens in their Old North End backyard? It turned out that there weren’t any rules on the books specifically pertaining to so-called “urban agriculture” within city limits. That left code enforcement to act on a literal interpretation of the one rule in Burlington statute governing limits on animals — an old kennel ordinance that requires residents to get a license to keep more than four animals. “As it is now, there is nothing saying you couldn’t have four cows in your backyard,” said Alison Nihart, the coordinator of Burlington’s Food Council. Conversely, though, the rules have kept some backyard chicken owners from expanding their flocks to provide enough eggs for their families. Nihart’s point? Burlington needs agriculture rules based on common sense and best practices — not arbitrary numbers. Those rules could be coming, and soon. After a years-long effort to draft new ordinances, the Urban Agriculture Task Force is poised to hand off a series of proposed rules to the city council this week. If approved, they would allow Burlington residents to keep more livestock based on the size of their lots, and in some cases slaughter animals on their own property — if they meet criteria designed to protect animals’ welfare, respect neighbors’ rights and ensure public health. “Right now, as it is, I’ve heard people have a lot of confusion,” said Nihart. “‘Am I even allowed to have chickens? Can I do this? Can I do that?’” The goal: Eliminate that ambiguity and encourage quality practices. Under the proposed guidelines, Burlington residents would be allowed to keep chickens, goats, sheep, camelids such as alpacas and llamas, donkeys, and horses — provided owners meet regulations specifying the space and bedding requirements of those animals. The task force sought to strike a delicate balance between sanctioning would-be backyard farmers and respecting the realities of high-density neighborhoods. That’s welcome news to Dan Goossen,
under renovation. Another was inspired to start his own backyard flock. “They escape occasionally,” said Goossen, “and everyone’s very goodnatured about getting them back into our yard.”
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hould pets be considered property — like a house — or a co-creation to be shared like minor children? The case of an 11-yearold German wirehaired pointer has been challenging Vermont’s courts — including its highest — to decide whether “ownership” or “custody” laws apply to divorcing partners fighting over a mutually beloved animal. Court records indicate that Daniel Hament and his ex-wife, Laura Baker, had no minor children and were able to work out the disposition of their other property and financial affairs when their divorce landed in family court last year. The only disagreement was who would get Belle, the couple’s dog. Baker favored a split-custody agreement, an arrangement that was not acceptable to Hament. Chittenden Superior Court Judge Linda Levitt told the pair that the primary factor she’d use in deciding Belle’s fate would be which spouse had been “more active” in caring for the dog during the marriage. Hament, a veterinarian at Richmond Animal Hospital, was used to taking Belle to work every day at the animal clinic. For her part, Baker routinely took the dog for long walks in the woods and was very involved in Belle’s daily care. Levitt informed them that family court would not enforce a shared visitation schedule, “even if the parties agreed to it.” Ultimately, Levitt awarded the dog to the husband. While she found that either person could provide Belle with a happy and healthy life, she gave a slight edge to Hament because the dog had grown accustomed to the routine of going to work with him every day. Notably, Levitt also
determined that the husband “treats the dog like a dog,” whereas the wife is more doting and treats the dog “like a child.” The court concluded that the dog would do better with the husband’s “balanced attitude toward the animal.” Baker appealed the decision to the Vermont Supreme Court. She contended that the court had erred in refusing to consider a permanent joint ownership arrangement, similar to the one the couple had agreed to temporarily during the divorce proceedings. Baker also argued that the basis for awarding the dog to her ex-husband was arbitrary and inconsistent with previous high-court rulings, which had recognized that family pets are property but a “special property” and thus should be
treated differently in divorce proceedings than, say, inanimate objects. In its April ruling, the Vermont Supreme Court disagreed. It upheld the lower court’s decision and also ruled that the state’s family courts shouldn’t wade into the thorny business of enforcing visitation schedules and shared custody arrangements for pets. “Unlike child custody matters,” the high court wrote, “there is no legislative authority for the court to play a continuing role in the supervision of the parties with respect to the care and sharing of a companion animal.” Baker’s attorney, Nanci Smith of Williston, says she was disappointed that the justices weren’t willing to issue a “bright-line rule” clarifying the special
property status of pets. If animals are property but special property, she argues, they ought to be treated specially in the eyes of the law. In short, if the courts are willing to enforce other post-judgment orders on marital property, such as the sale of a house, then they should also consider enforcing joint ownership and care of family pets. “Just because you’re getting divorced, it doesn’t seem the same as giving the piano to somebody,” Smith says. “It’s severing an emotional connection that we all value as a society and the Supreme Court has valued in other contexts.” Hament’s attorney, Matt Buckley, agrees that the Supreme Court didn’t really establish any new case law with this decision. But while other courts
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trauma of seeing him shot and killed. Thus far, no state has recognized family pets and companion animals as anything more than just property, albeit special property. But that could change over time, suggests Linda Ackerman, a Californiabased attorney and mediator whose firm, Pet Custody Solutions, specializes in animal custody disputes. As Ackerman points out, various animal rights activists around the country have advocated for stronger legal rights for companion animals that, in some cases, take into consideration as best as can be determined what the animal itself would want. For example, she points to the case of a Florida man who brought a habeas corpus pleading in New York for primates that were being kept in inhumane conditions. Ackerman likens the issue to gay marriage, which was long and hardfought over decades. As she puts it, “The law will find a way to justify what has achieved some kind of critical mass in public opinion.” If her niche legal practice is any indicator, Ackerman may be on to something. She says animal custody disputes have a lot in common with child custody cases, especially when the couple has no children. Shared pet custody arrangements work well for some couples, she adds, especially when it comes to addressing end-of-life issues, such as shared vet bills and deciding on the right time to euthanize an ailing pet. It’s worth noting that virtually all the animal custody disputes Ackerman has either handled or heard about have involved dogs. As she put it, only halfjokingly, “Cats decide for themselves where they go.”
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around the country have moved in the direction of allowing or even ordering shared ownership arrangements of animals, he says, evidently the Vermont Supreme Court “didn’t want to go there.” While the family pet may be a special form of property, he says, it’s still property nonetheless that must be allocated to one party. “Everybody in the courtroom that day were dog lovers,” Buckley points out. “I bring a dog to my office every day. Judge Levitt has a dog. Nanci Smith brings her dog to the office. So everyone in there appreciated the emotional significance of what was being decided.” There’s some precedent here. In 2009’s Scheele and Scheele v. Dustin, plaintiffs Sarah and Denis Scheele sought to recover more than $3,000 in damages for the severe emotional distress, pain and suffering, and loss of companionship they suffered when Lewis Dustin deliberately shot and killed their dog, Shadow. Though the couple’s unleashed dog had clearly wandered on Dustin’s property, it had displayed no aggressive or threatening behavior that would have justified Dustin’s actions. In its 2009 ruling, the Supreme Court acknowledged that an animal’s worth is not primarily financial but its value “derives from the animal’s relationship with its human companions … Indeed, we have suggested that the emotionless economic calculus of property law may not fully compensate a mourning pet owner.” That said, the high court wasn’t willing to go so far as to grant financial damages to the plaintiffs similar to those awarded to, say, parents who lose a child and then file a wrongful death claim for loss of companionship. Ultimately, the Scheeles won $155 for the financial loss of their pet but nothing extra for the emotional pain and
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Way Out of Africa, a High-Contrast Creature Roams in the Green Mountain State B y A l ic ia F reese
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the door. She’s wearing a cerulean floral sundress, but Osgood assures there are plenty of zebra-print items in her wardrobe. About a decade ago, the Osgoods purchased the land across the road from their house, which gave them about 300 acres. “And I said to my husband, ‘Now I can have my zebra.’” Deborah recalls. Which, she adds, “was a joke at the time.” But as they cleared the land, she began researching zebra breeders and found what looked like a reputable ranch in Ramona, Calif. According to its website, Spots N Stripes’ “main purpose” is zebra research, but it also sells zebras
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very day, when she gets home from work, Deborah Osgood crosses a covered bridge and heads up to the barn to let her livestock out to graze. A pair of white ducks huddle by the pond; two dogs mill around nearby. Two bunnies and six cats are missing in action. Up at the barn, Osgood goes stall to stall, lifting the latches. Out trot two miniature goats, a brown and white donkey, an Appaloosa pony and a black and white … zebra. His vivid stripes look comically incongruent against the green pasture, bucolic barn and covered bridge. Yet he nibbles clover alongside the others, quite at home southeast of Rutland. Osgood and her husband, Kevin, bought their house, off Route 106 in Reading, in 1978. They own a welding company and have three daughters who have settled nearby. What possessed this otherwise seemingly typical Vermont family to buy a wild African beast? It’s normal for children to pester their parents for a kitten or puppy, but in the Osgood household, Deborah was the one pleading — for a much more impractical animal. Sitting at her kitchen table inside the cedar-planked house, she offers the simplest possible explanation. “I’ve always liked zebras.” Zebra stuffed animals line the kitchen windows, zebra-striped rain boots sit by
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and horses and runs training camps for prospective owners. Her husband was agreeable. “He thought I was crazy, but he said, ‘Whatever.’” Osgood’s daughters — the youngest was about 10 at the time — were skeptical at first. After a year and a half on a waiting list, the Osgoods got a call saying the next zebra born would be theirs. “So we decided to get going on building a barn,” Osgood said, and they flew to Ramona to take a three-day course on caring for the African animal. Zeus is a plains zebra, one of three different species. When he was 10 weeks old, one of the ranch owners drove him in a trailer from California — where his parents were born — all the way to Vermont. The Osgoods had just finished his barn stall. Now 7 years old, 14 hands high
and about 500 pounds, Zeus is happy munching on horse fare — hay, grass, grain and apples as a treat. Is it even legal to own a zebra in Vermont? Under state law, zebras are classified as equine — not exotic — animals, which means regulation is the same as for a horse or a mule. Osgood said the state’s only stipulation was that Zeus’ fencing be built at least six feet high. Zebras, apparently, can jump. It’s possible Zeus is the lone zebra in cow-crazed Vermont. State officials within the Fish & Wildlife Department and Agency of Agriculture were not familiar with Zeus and said they didn’t know whether any other zebras live in the state. The Agency of Agriculture does keep a database of imported equine animals,
but according to state veterinarian Kristin Haas, it doesn’t distinguish between a zebra and a horse. Zebras have never been truly domesticated, but Zeus and Osgood have a rapport. She holds up her right hand in front of Zeus’ muzzle and requests a “kiss,” and the zebra complies with a hasty slurp of his tongue. Zeus had learned 10 commands by the time he arrived in Vermont — simple things like “whoa,” “come to” and “back up.” He could have been trained for riding, according to Osgood, but she’s never been interested and so never went that route. She describes Zeus as “docile and sweet” and says, “I classify him more as being like a dog friend to me than a horse friend.”
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But he’s still a wild animal — a fact Osgood readily admits. There was that time Zeus broke three of her ribs. “He flattened me, and it was all my own fault. I spooked him and he had no idea I was behind him and I had a big thing of hay and the hay made a noise and he just back kicked me. He had no idea and was extremely apologetic.” And then there was the time she took him out for a walk when he was six months old and feeling “especially frisky.” Zeus took off, dragging her along until she dropped the rope. Osgood shrugs off the episodes as learning experiences, and she said Zeus has since mellowed. “We had a lot of growing pains together, but he is my best friend.” Zeus doesn’t like winter. The Osgoods outfitted their barn with radiant heat, and he doesn’t venture out during the cold months. He doesn’t like water, either, or the woods. When the Osgoods are home, they let him roam because a forest and a stream — neither of which he’ll venture into — border their property. On this particular day, Zeus paces nervously in his stall, possibly disconcerted by a stranger and the click of a camera. Osgood laughs at his antics, strokes his back and puts her face against his muzzle. But when she pulls
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ast Saturday, more than 100 people — nearly all of them wearing black — sat in the shade of a tent on a sun-drenched estate in South Woodstock watching video footage of de-finned shark carcasses. Parked in front of a nearby barn was an RV emblazoned with a giant Jolly Roger. Landlocked Vermont played host to the first global gathering of a group of hardline anti-marine-poaching activists: the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. The Sea Shepherds, whose brazen tactics were captured on the Animal Planet reality show “Whale Wars,” are best known for using “direct action” to thwart Japanese whaling ships in the Antarctic Ocean. Direct action, in this case, refers to everything from ramming whaling ships to throwing stink bombs on board. There was a lot of hugging on the first morning of the three-day summit. Some attendees had spent months together at sea in but hadn’t seen one other in years. They had come from Texas and Virginia and places farther flung — Canada, South Africa, Brazil, Hong Kong, the United Kingdom, Sweden and the Netherlands. Sea Shepherds’ critics — including one U.S. federal judge — have described them as “pirates,” and some tanned, tattooed men visually fit the bill. But they mingled with a mother from Seattle, a blond flight attendant from Australia, twins in oversize sunglasses, leggings and red lipstick, elderly men, and other ordinary-looking people. Conversation was less ordinary: “He taught me to stargaze during the 1983 seal campaign!” a woman in her sixties said, pointing to Al “Jet” Johnson, a retired American Airlines pilot who looks the part — blue tinted aviators, periwinkle cardigan slung over his shoulder, black polo, creased khakis. Also overheard: “When I was in Malaysia last week doing coral propagation…” Away from the socializing, a portly, white-haired man in a blue shirt sat watching his granddaughter play with a plate of cheerios: Paul Watson — cult hero and celebrity darling — is one of
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the most notorious environmental activists in the world. The 63-year-old landed on INTERPOL’s Red Notice list after Japan and Costa Rica accused him of damaging property and breaking into a vessel. Watson started the Sea Shepherds in the ’70s, after Greenpeace expelled him for being too radical. He said he likes to think of his group as “the ladies of the night of the conservation movement” because “people agree with us, but they don’t want to be seen with us.” The group’s identity remains very much entwined with its “eco-warrior”-in-chief, and members gathered here last weekend because Watson lives in Vermont now. He’s been land-bound since December 2012, when Japan succeeded in bringing an injunction against him and Sea Shepherd USA, preventing both the man and the organization from approaching within 500 feet of their ships. Fifteen months later, the International Court of Justice deemed Japan’s whaling trips illegal, but Watson said he still
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had to cede his spot at the organization’s helm out of legal necessity. In response, the group has been cultivating international offshoots. It’s already active in 40 countries, according to Watson, and Sea Shepherd Australia has become its largest operation. Each affiliate is legally distinct by design — so one lawsuit can’t bring down the whole organization — and the summit was intended to share information and strengthen ties between them. A cluster of tents, where most members were camping, occupied a nearby hillside. The overarching message of the weekend: Sea Shepherd is a movement, not a man or an organization. And that “movement” has an operating budget of roughly $12 million, Watson said in an interview. It also has 2,000 applications from people who want to crew the five Sea Shepherd ships. Total membership? “I have no idea,” Watson said. Other staffers couldn’t provide specific numbers, either. Members spent most of Saturday under the white tent, getting briefed on current Sea Shepherd campaigns: documenting dolphin slaughter in Japan; opposing shark finning in China; working
with the Senegalese government to stop fish poachers. “I can wake up in the morning and hear about a Sea Shepherd campaign I didn’t even know about,” Watson told the crowd. Roger Payne, the biologist who discovered that humpback whales sing, was there. He’s a longtime whale conservationist and adviser to the Sea Shepherds. Johnson, who’s been a Sea Shepherd since the start — he left Greenpeace when Watson was ousted — made the trek from Vancouver. In his younger days, he said, he paint-bombed a Soviet ship, flew recon for seal campaigns and dropped parachutists onto a nuclear power plant. Asked for further detail, he responded, “Oh, you can google the rest of it.” These days, he’s on standby — “Time to step aside for the younger people.” Younger people such as Peter Hammarstedt of Sweden. He joined the Sea Shepherds as a deckhand when he was 18, worked his way up to be Watson’s first mate and then, three years ago, became captain. Now 29, he’s been on all nine of Sea Shepherds’ Antarctic campaigns against Japanese whalers. With his boyish face, glasses and
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sparse facial hair, Hammarstedt looks more like a software engineer than a captain, but he’s proven his skills at sea. During a recent Antarctic campaign, he steered his ship in between a whaling vessel and a tanker, preventing the former from refueling. Dramatic footage shows the Sea Shepherd ship, Bob Barker, colliding repeatedly with the two much larger vessels. Not all the presentations were as harrowing as Hammarstedt’s. Gary Stokes of Hong Kong, who’s leading the campaign against shark hunting in China, spoke about his efforts to persuade companies such as Groupon to stop advertising shark-cartilage supplements. “It’s not zipping around in a Zodiac,” Stokes admitted, referencing the activist organization’s boat brand of choice. Kristen Hall joined the group four months ago as an “on-shore volunteer” in Minneapolis. At her day job, she works in marketing for Ameriprise Financial. Wearing a necklace with a sterling turtle pendant, she admits watching “Whale Wars” makes her anxious. “We evolve in accordance with the imagination of the volunteers,” Watson said during an interview. Today, the Sea Shepherds are partnering with the songwriter and producer Pharrell Williams in what Watson described as “our most ambitious campaign right now.” The Sea Shepherds’ task is to figure out how to extract plastics from the oceans; Williams’ role is to make clothing from it. The group’s whale rescues have always overshadowed the rest of its work, Watson said, but they also help bankroll less compelling campaigns. “We just rescued sea urchins off the coast of Sicily. No one wants to talk about that.” Watson speaks in seamless run-on sentences, blending apocalyptic statements — “The oceans are dying, and
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Guy Mongeon, 89, passed away peacefully on June 19, 2014. He was born September 3, 1924, to August and Alice (Patenaude) Mongeon. He served in the Army Airforce during WWII and was a member of the VFW. Guy enjoyed reading, walking, gardening and especially the senior trips to the casinos. He is survived by his beloved wife, Charlene, daughter Suzanne (Bob) Turner, son Thomas (Patricia) Mongeon, son Robert (Mai) Mongeon, and daughter Mary (Robert) Soutiere, six grandchildren and five greatgrandchildren. He was predeceased by his brothers John and Marcel and brother-inlaws Robert and Thomas Sullivan. The family would like to extended a special thank you to the staff of Green Mountain Nursing Home and Ann Pius and her dog, Miley, who brought many hours of joy to Guy. Funeral Services will be private. Online condolences may be shared with the family at lavignefuneralhome.com. Donations may be made to the Green Montain Nursing Home. Arrangements are under the care of LaVigne Funeral Home and Cremation Service.
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Betty Michaels (born Meyers), the little Energizer bunny, ran out of batteries and left us early in the morning on June 17, 2014. Her uncooperative 91-year-old heart finally overcame her amazing will to live. She was born in Covington, Kentucky, on October 29, 1922, where she spent her first five years. Her parents then moved her to Cincinnati with her brother so she could attend school. As a teenager she enjoyed ice skating, piano playing and roller skating, but her favorite activity was always swimming. She graduated from Edgecliff College and the University of Cincinnati with a master’s degree in French. She then attended Middlebury College and received a master’s in Spanish in 1945. She turned down a scholarship for her doctorate as she felt she had attended enough school. Her early jobs included being a teacher in Miami and secretary to the dean at Xavier University, back in Cincinnati, where she met her husband, Jim. He hung around the dean’s office to flirt with her and went so far as to attend mass to win her approval. Engaged six weeks later, they married on June 10, 1950. Jim predeceased her after 60 years of marriage on August 23, 2010. In their early married years, she followed her husband, the chemistry professor, to New Orleans for two years, then to Vermont when he was offered a position at Saint Michael’s College. Together they raised five children, four of whom survive her. She returned to school one more time to Middlebury to refresh her Spanish, so that she could teach at Mt. Mansfield Union High School for 17 years. She spent her summers either sailing on Lake Champlain or watching her daughters in horse shows. After retirement, she and Jim visited England and started a long second career helping care for their grandchildren: Philip Demas, Anna Demas Keramaty, Alex, Ian and Eric
Corredera, Jeff Case, Laura Michaels Renard, and Jamie Michaels. She also found time to return to her passion for painting. During her eighties, she swam regularly at the Raquet’s Edge and was thrilled when she received a free membership at age 90. We will remember her for her strong sense of family, her easygoing good nature, her sense of humor and her Sunday dinners, and we hope we inherited her classic fashion sense. We know we inherited her love of shopping. Besides her grandchildren, she leaves her daughters: Beth Demas and fiancé Bruce Carr; MaryAnne Michaels and husband Gerry Racette; and Kathleen Michaels and significant other Don McDermott. She also leaves her favorite son, Bill Michaels, and wife Kaja. The family offers deepest thanks to the caregivers at Burlington Health and Rehab and to her special caregiver Donna McGonagle. Donations may be made to the Deborah Rawson Library in Jericho. Visiting hours were held on Sunday, June 22, at the LaVigne Funeral Home and Cremation Service, 132 Main Street, Winooski, with a Mass of Christian Burial on Monday, June 23, at St. Pius Catholic Church in Essex Center. Online condolences may be shared at lavignefuneralhome.com.
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The solutions we find for the problems we’re going to face are really unknowable from here, but these technologies play a big part in what we can work with. K e n H ow el l
“I think the solutions we find for the problems we’re going to face are really unknowable from here, but these technologies play a big part in what we can work with,” says Howell, whose talk at Eco Logic emphasized maker culture’s experimental, DIY ethos as an antidote to runaway consumerism. The Eco Logic forum doubled as one of Vermont Makers’ periodic (though irregular) meet ups and as Generator’s first “social hour” — though attendees milled around for at least three times that long. Christy Mitchell, Generator’s executive director, plans to hold regular
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onversations about solving climate change and ecological destruction are batted around frequently in Vermont, but rarely do they involve the word “play.” Yet when three dozen “makers” — individuals who use new technology to create innovative artistic or practical projects — gathered at an “Eco Logic All” forum last week at Burlington’s Generator, creative play and outside-the-box thinking were at the heart of the matter. Makers, according to Ken Howell, a professor affiliated with the Champlain College Emergent Media Center’s MFA program and a member of Vermont Makers, “take play very seriously, and [believe that it’s] a valuable tool for innovating systems, designs, objects and conceptions of the world.” And while Howell jokes that makers do use emerging technologies such as 3-D printers to create toys, or replicas of toys, the need for creative solutions to thorny societal and ecological problems casts these creative types, and their cutting-edge technologies, in a more serious light.
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social hours on the third Thursday of every month, each featuring a cash bar and a food truck. (Eco Logic attendees feasted on lobster rolls from Wooden Spoon Bistro’s truck; July’s social hour will feature Dolce VT.) Organized by Rebecca Schwarz, a local artist, educator and member of Vermont Makers, last week’s event featured talks on economics, art and maker culture by Champlain College professor Valerie Esposito, Schwarz and Howell. The trio collectively posited that innovations in those areas — through imparting “ecologic” in each field — were necessary in order to avoid ecological devastation. “The urgency of this time right now — with climate change and globalization and wanting to have some ability to affect things in a positive way — is part of why I’m interested in making things,” says Schwarz, who for more than a year had been dreaming up a Vermont Makers’ meet up with an ecological theme. Esposito kicked off the evening with a discussion of “ecological economics,” an emerging field that aims to shift the economic paradigm away from the classic model, which measures success based on profit margins and human-accrued labor alone. Ecological economics, by contrast, considers the interdependence of human systems with the natural ecosystem and its resources. Schwarz presented a slideshow of art from around the world that tapped into
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an understanding of human participation in complex and interdependent systems. These ranged from the participatory performance tactics of Brazilian Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed to Schwarz’s own biomorphic plastic sculptures, made from her accumulated recyclables. Howell’s discussion on maker culture and technology’s potential to create on-demand, local economies — and to find creative solutions to mass-market dependency — completed the evening. In a rural state that still can’t guarantee great cellphone service and highspeed internet in all its pockets, finding cutting-edge machines such as a laser cutter, a 3-D printer, and workstations for 3-D modeling and app development at Generator may seem incongruous at first. But Howell points out that maker culture and Vermont culture are compatible. “The core of this is something that’s very Vermont, which is self-reliance and inventiveness, and making do with what you have, as opposed to what you can go and purchase,” he says. Burlington is quickly becoming a maker’s town. Just three years ago, when a cluster of individuals dubbed themselves the Vermont Makers and began meeting to discuss emerging technologies and their own creative work, few others knew what the word “makers” meant. Now the Queen City is home to not one but two maker spaces: Both Generator and
Champlain College’s MakerLab opened their doors earlier this year. Mitchell, who also owns S.P.A.C.E. and Backspace galleries on Pine Street, suggests the technologies in the lab tap artistic creativity, too. “I’m coming from the arts side, and to come in here and have all of these tools — I can then go to artists every day and say, ‘Why don’t you come over here and play?’” she says. Weekly jewelry-making classes that employ the laser printer are under way, and members can come in and use the technology for projects on their own time. Starting in July, Generator will offer a monthly residency for makers with a specific project to pursue. Mitchell says that the public social hours will evolve based on need; the format will shift according to the event, though incoming and outgoing residents will always give presentations on their work. The idea is to draw in curious members of the public, and to further Generator’s role as an incubator for innovative ideas and conversations in the community. “It will also be an opportunity for people working at different times of the day to get together and meet each other,” Mitchell adds, “and for them to network and show off what they’re making to the public.” m
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of Music, will perform in three concerts. These include the final one with soprano maRy bonhag and bassist evan pRemo, the young Warren couple who promote “community-supported chamber music” through their scRag mountain music series. And the Bach Bash, an annual tradition, is an amateur-professional collaborative concert performed after one intense, four-hour rehearsal. The Bash also closes Rochester’s gReen mountain suzuki institute, a one-week summer camp for students of the Suzuki method. RCMS is a sponsor of the Institute. The latter brings together so many young musicians from around the country and abroad that it takes over the town, says Huard. “Music happens everywhere — on porches, in the B&Bs, outside if it’s a sunny day.” That kind of accessibility is also the point of the summer series. Huard intends it to “introduce to the community that chamber music is not just high classical. It’s not highbrow versus lowbrow; it should be music I like versus music I don’t like.” Free, intimate and located in an adorable town, the Rochester Chamber Music Society offers a chance to listen and opine that shouldn’t be missed. m
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hen the Johannes String Quartet plays Beethoven’s last quartet in the small burg of Rochester, Vt., on Saturday night, second violinist Jessica Lee will be performing the piece for the first time. Not only can anything happen during a performance, she remarks, but the work itself is “really out-there Beethoven. There’s a lot in there and it’s very condensed.” Lee is not worried, though. The quartet’s audience will be the appreciative devotees of RochesteR chambeR music society concerts. Enthusiastic listeners have filled the Rochester Federated Church every year for the free summer series since pianist and artistic director cynthia huaRd began it 20 years ago. “[The audience] has become like a family,” says Lee, a regular performer in the series, both with the Johannes and in a solo Bach concert last year. “They’re so supportive, loving and passionate about the music.” Every musician wishes for such an audience, but RCMS concertgoers have reason to be so attentive. Bristol-based Huard, an affiliate artist at Middlebury College, and her board — particularly Joan hutton Landis, the former longtime chair of the liberal arts department at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia, who summers in Granville — stack the series with excellent musicians. Johannes’ members, for example, most of whom studied with Landis while training at Curtis, formed at Marlboro 17 years ago. Violinist Soovin Kim founded the Lake champLain chambeR music FestivaL, Choong-Jin (C.J.) Chang is the principal violist of the Philadelphia Orchestra and Peter Stumpf is principal cellist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. (Lee, a Concert Artists Guild International Competition winner, joined the group in 2006.) A concert by Kim and another Curtis grad, Lithuanian pianist Ieva Jokubaviciute, opened the RCMS’s 20th season. Other highlights of the season, which runs through August 10, include a picnic-friendly concert by the veRmont symphony oRchestRa bRass Quintet in the Rochester Park Gazebo. “That’s our thanks to the town that we’ve managed to stay there for 20 years,” says Huard. Jokubaviciute, who trained in Austria and at the Indiana University School
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So you’ve written a book — now what? How will you pitch your complicated plot in the standard 250 words? does your labor of love need revisions before you expose it to the harsh light of day? What are literary agents really looking for? The League of Vermont Writers aims to help writers answer those questions with a July 19 conference at the Hampton Inn Burlington called Writers Meet Agents. As the name indicates, seven agents are scheduled to attend, representing companies such as BookEnds, LLC, and Howard Morhaim Literary Agency. Besides attending group sessions with the pros, writers can sign up (for a fee) to pitch their completed books one-on-one. The conference also offers presentations on various aspects of the craft. Vermont YA writer Jo KnoWLes will talk about revising, for instance, while Peter BieLLo, founder of the BurLington Writers WorKshoP, will discuss how writers can get the most out of feedback. Montpelier-based science writer DaViD DoBBs, whose work has appeared in the New York Times, the New Yorker and many other publications, will deliver the keynote address. Find registration info at leagueofvermontwriters.org.
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series to highlight the area’s stellar summering writers since 2006. This year, the gallery is collaborating with Middlebury’s year-round ner reaDing series — sponsored by the New England Review — on a special
event. On July 6, widely published poets Terri Ford and Jamaal May will read their work, followed by a catered reception in the garden. (It’s free, but attendees must RSVP.) As the summer continues, look for readings by novelists henriette PoWer, reBecca maKKai and Tracy Winn, among others.
And starting this Sunday, the Vermont coLLege of fine arts will once again share the wealth of its faculty and alumni in a public reading series accompanying its Summer MFA in Writing Residency. Among the guests is transgender author Alex Myers, whose historical novel Revolutionary tells the story of his ancestor, deborah Samson, who disguised herself as a man to fight in the Continental Army. Earlier this year, the New York Times called it “a bona fide and unforgettable Revolutionary War novel.” Also on the schedule are Barbara Hurd and Emily Raboteau — both honored with Pushcart Prizes and places in prominent anthologies for their creative nonfiction and fiction — and poet and translator Padgett. So go out and get those books signed! Unfortunately, you’ll soon no longer be able to buy them from Rutland’s BooK
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INfo Writers meet Agents Event, Saturday, July 19, at the Hampton Inn Burlington in Colchester. Registration through June 30: $140; $125 for LVW members. After June 30: $160; $140 for LVW members. Pitch sessions: $25 each. leagueofvermontwriters.org Back roads readings, Sunday, July 6, 20 and 27, 3 p.m. (followed by reception and book signing at 4 p.m.), at the Brownington Village Congregational Church. Free. backroadsreadings.com ‘A celebration of the Life in Poetry of Galway kinnell’, Thursday, August 7, 3 p.m., at the Vermont Statehouse in Montpelier. Free. NEr Vermont/Bigtown Gallery reading Sunday, July 6, 5:30 p.m., at BigTown Gallery in Rochester. Free; RSVP to info@ bigtowngallery.com. Register for group transportation from Middlebury (limited seating) at nereview@middlebury.edu. bigtowngallery.com Vermont college of fine Arts Summer mfA in Writing residency readings, Sunday, June 29, to Thursday, July 3, various times, in College Hall Chapel, Vermont College of Fine Arts in Montpelier. Free. vcfa.edu
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daycare center for dogs might not seem like an obvious location for artwork, but the Crate Escape, Too in South Burlington is upending expectations. Soon “Champlain Valley Pawnorama,” by local muralist tara Goreau, will greet canines and their humans along a 140foot wall in the facility’s playroom. It will open for public viewing this Saturday, June 28. “It’s a great wall, and there is so much room to paint in there,” says Goreau. “I was surprised because at first I thought the main audience would be dogs, who are possibly colorblind. But after being there for a while, I noticed that [the mural] might just brighten the space.” The decision to add the artwork came about during a series of updates and renovations at the Crate Escape, Too. “I knew that there could be a lot of growth in this business — especially if you add … beautification projects to a dog facility,” explains facilities manager Colin Dunn. “You know, dogs don’t want to look at cement. Dogs want to look at what we want to look at.” The mural actually spans five walls in the main playroom at the daycare and depicts four seasons of Vermont — somewhat like the mural Goreau painted earlier this year at the entrance of Burlington’s City Market. In this one, of course, plenty of dogs roam the scene. Goreau says this is the biggest mural she’s ever created. It’s painted on a series of 4-by-8-foot wooden boards so that, if the company ever changes locations, the owners can take the mural with them. “Instead of just putting in drywall, [Dunn] installed panels that can be
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easily removed, just in case,” she says. “It is a bit of an investment.” Goreau was paid “around $4,000” for her work. Although the two had only planned for the four-seasons mural, Goreau had some extra time and added a Burlington sunset. “I think my favorite part is the sunset scene and Burlington skyline,” she says. “I usually don’t do sunsets, and I was just kind of having fun.” Goreau normally uses house paint, but to make the work dog-friendly, she added “basically a floor varnish, just to protect it,” she says. Dunn, who is all too familiar with messes dogs can make, is pleased. “You can spray it with whatever you want; it’s super durable,” he notes. Aesthetically, Dunn says he just thought that having some art on the walls would be a good idea — “first of all for the dogs, second of all for everyone that works here, and third, just to get everyone interested in the Crate Escape,” he says. “It’s a great way to show that we are involved in where we live.” m
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In the midst of a below-zero cold spell, my significant other and I were discussing the sources of humidity in our home that resulted in frost on the windows. He said breath. I said farts were also a factor. He said I was crazy. I’m not saying the two contribute equally, but come on. Cecil, how much moisture is in each of these forms of bodily exhalation? Barbara Becker
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K, so maybe I should have held this question until January rather than answering it in June. But some things just can’t wait. The answer proved more challenging than you might think. Human flatus is made up primarily of carbon dioxide, oxygen, nitrogen, methane and hydrogen, with small but often pungent quantities of hydrogen sulfide and other organic compounds in addition. The volume of flatus varies widely based on diet, how much air you swallow and how efficiently your gut bacteria digest what you eat and produce gas. However, while we found many studies detailing the chemical composition of flatulence, none gave a value for water vapor. Sometimes this was due to how the flatus was collected: Bubbling the gas into a flask of displacement solution inevitably means altering its moisture content. No matter — we have other resources. I called in my assistant, Una, a professional engineer. I asked Una to calculate the maximum quantity of water vapor contained in a fart. She gave me the look she always gives me. I said what I always say: “It’s for science.” How she does that thing with her eyebrows, only she and Jack Black know. Nonetheless, she bent to her spreadsheets and prepared the following analysis: 1. The amount of flatus produced daily can be more than four liters, but typically it’s around 0.4 liters per day. 2. We’ll assume that, given how moist we are inside (more on this below), any expelled gases contain water vapor at close to 100 percent relative humidity. Calculating the water fraction, and multiplying the result times two people, we arrive at a total moisture output of about .04 milliliters per day. 3. That’s not much. Assuming an average-size dwelling, well sealed off from the winter air and heated to 70 degrees Fahrenheit with a starting relative humidity of 35 percent, a day’s total flatus from two people will theoretically raise that humidity to 35.001 percent. 4. But flatulence accounts for only part of the human contribution to ambient
water vapor. Our bodies are made up of 50 to 70 percent water, of which 5 to 10 percent is cycled through us every day. A significant amount of water is lost through breathing and “insensible sweating” — that is, the constant lowlevel perspiration you don’t notice. A typical sedentary adult loses about 300 milliliters of water per day through breath and 1,175 milliliters per day via insensible sweating, or close to a liter and a half all told. 5. Exhaling only through your nose reduces moisture loss by more than 40 percent, but let’s assume our two test subjects are mouth-breathing adults who spend the entire day in their house. The total daily water contribution from their breath and sweat will be about three liters per day — about 75,000 times that produced by flatulence. Assuming the house is completely sealed, this will increase the relative humidity from 35 percent to almost 70 percent. So it’s fair to say that, while flatulence makes no appreciable difference, breath plus sweat contributes significantly to the frost on your windows. (Have you thought about getting double-glazed windows? Your house sounds like an energy sieve.) 6. Pets also contribute to indoor humidity. Cats and dogs don’t sweat as much as we do; most of their water loss other than through excretion comes from breathing and (in dogs) panting. A typical indoor cat might lose 45 milliliters of water per day through respiration and minor sweating, whereas a Labrador retriever might lose 360 milliliters through breathing, panting and other sweating. 7. Therefore, a cat will raise the average home’s humidity to 35.4 percent — one cat going about its business is a far bigger factor than two people farting. A large dog in that same situation will increase the
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Twentysomethings and social reasons. Their Spring Street pad was in many ways a continuation of dorm life, though they now all had jobs instead of classes. I quickly developed a genuine affection for the lot of them. When it comes to circles of friends, it’s said that like attracts like, and this group was fun, warm and caring. (Plus, they always tipped well, which goes a long way with me.) When I reached the college and pulled up to the tennis courts, I could see that all was not well with Topher. Even before he took the shotgun seat, I could sense he was fuming. He was a jovial guy — burly and big-hearted — so it was a bit of a shock to witness him visibly angry. Jessica, along with another couple I knew — Max and Eliza — climbed into the backseat. Max said, “Hey, Jernigan, good to see you. This weekend is our first official college reunion. It’s five years now for a bunch of us. God, we’re getting old!” “Yeah, you’re ancient,” I kidded. “Could you drive Topher and Jess home first?” Max continued. “And then me and Eliza to our place? You remember where we live? On Sherry Road off Dorset?” “Sure,” I agreed and, turning to Topher, I asked, “and where’s your new apartment again? It’s up North Street in Winooski, correct? Topher turned to face me, but could barely speak. Jess filled the gap, saying softly, “Yeah, that’s right.” The short ride down the hill into Winooski was tense. When we pulled up to their apartment, Jessica got out immediately and walked into the house. As he paid the fare, Topher said, “Sorry for my lack of conversation. I had to help get my father into a rehab earlier tonight. If that
He was a jovial guy — burly and big-Hearted — so it was
a bit of a shock to witness him visibly angry. wasn’t bad enough, Jess and I got into a really bad fight while we were checking him in.” “Don’t worry about it, man,” I said. “Sorry you had to go through that.” I took Grove Street to Patchen Road into South Burlington. As we crossed the highway overpass, I said to Max, “Boy, Topher was having a rough night. I don’t think I’ve ever seen him so upset.” “Yeah,” Max said, “it’s something Topher and I have in common. Both our dads struggle with alcohol and drug abuse.” “That’s got to suck,” I said. “I mean, your father is supposed to be taking care of you, not the other way around.” “Well, my dad is doing much better now, thank goodness. He had a triple bypass a while back, and that kind of opened his eyes. You know, ‘facing his own mortality’ is how he put it.” “That’s great, I mean for you and your whole family. I hope things get better likewise for Topher and his pops. He seems like a really good person. ‘Honorable’ is the word that comes to mind.” “Yeah, he is a great person. You know what he does for work?” “He might have told me, but I forget.” “He works for the state going around talking to high school students, helping them figure out if college is in their future. Some of these kids come from, like, rough family situations, and he really helps them out. I’ve known Topher many years, and I’ve got to say that he’s a real example to me. The dude has integrity.”
“I know just what you mean. You’re lucky to have friends like that. I have a couple of old friends that I feel the same way about. Even though we’re peers, the same age more or less, they’re like role models to me in many ways. Watching them through the years, I’ve learned something about how to live with some — well, nobility, if that’s not too oldfashioned a concept.” Eliza was asleep on Max’s shoulder when we pulled up to their house. “Wake up, honey — wake up,” he whispered into her ear, chuckling. “It’s been a long day, and a lot of partying,” he told me as he paid the fare. “Hey, you’re old now. You got to pace yourself,” I instructed. “And let me tell you — I know from whence I speak.” The following weekend, I again got a call from Topher and Jessica. They were all smiles — at me and at each other — as they stepped into the cab. “Last weekend was a nightmare,” Topher acknowledged, snuggling with his girlfriend in the backseat. “But we worked things out.” “Well, that’s just what I want to hear,” I said. “You crazy kids.” m All these stories are true, though names and locations may be altered to protect privacy.
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he call came in late Friday night, my generic ringtone mixing with the song on the radio and echoing over the voices of the customers in the backseat. I simultaneously muted the radio and grabbed for my cellphone, which I keep perched on the dashboard. I don’t know what I’m going to do when the “handsfree only” rule comes into effect next fall. Get a Bluetooth? Is that still a thing? I’m always stuck about three years behind the latest technology; that, alas, seems to be my sweet spot. The caller said, “Jernigan — I’m so glad you’re still working. This is Topher. Could you pick up me and Jessica at St. Mike’s? I guess the tennis courts would be the best spot.” I replied, “Yeah, I’ll be clearing in Essex, and I can get you in about 15. Just be ready to roll, OK? ’Cause it’s a busy night.” Topher and Jessica recently moved into their own place after living in a post-college rental in Winooski for several years. They had shared a sprawling, single-family home with any number of housemates, the whole bunch of whom seemed to be tight friends. Despite having driven these kids back and forth on their regular downtown flings for a couple of years, I could never pin down the precise number of tenants. All I know is, the house’s sparse lawn and potholed driveway looked like a downscale usedcar lot; judging by the cars, I’d guess a population of six at minimum. When I first hooked up with these young folks, the appropriateness of their living arrangement was immediately evident. It struck me as a way to ease the transition from college life to more independent, adult living, for both financial
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Big Freedia, named after the rapper from New Orleans, is just 10 months old. She’s a rescue, says Felix, “so they know she is pit bull (mom) and believe that her dad is a French bulldog.” The co-owner of ArtsRiot in Burlington, Felix says Big Freedia is the venue’s mascot, “and I wanted her to win something for her efforts of being cute. And to start her career as a minor Burlington celebrity. Ha! Plus, I love the little pup.”
Wild Card Winner: Mr. Prickles Owner: Aimee Viens, Burlington The aptly named Mr. Prickles is a 1-year-old African pygmy hedgehog. Aimee captured this shot because, she writes, “This was the first time he smiled, and his first time playing outside.” That was enough for our voters!
Winner: Figs Owner: Erika Boyce, South Burlington Figs is a 6-year-old barn cat who “doesn’t like to be left out of anything when Shaun (my husband) and I are playing board games.” Adds Erika, “She’ll often sit at the table and watch, but this time she was, like ‘No way, it’s my turn to play!’”
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Best Dressed Winner: Mason Owner: Susan Bondaryk, Essex Junction In this pic from 2013, 5-year-old Walker hound Mason is celebrating Halloween. But he didn’t always look so classy, writes owner Susan. “In fact, the summer day Mason found his owners, he was hurt and dehydrated — lost in the Maine woods for an unknown amount of time,” she says, adding that the dog might have been owned by bear hunters — “a popular use for Walker hounds in that area.” After searching for those owners for a month, Susan and her partner decided to make Mason a part of their family and take him to their new home in the Green Mountain State. “Now,” Susan says, “Mason enjoys a quiet, distinguished life in Vermont, occasionally chasing a squirrel and always in search of a long belly rub.”
Lady & the Tramp Winner: Zoro and Olive Owner: Ryan McLaren, Burlington
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as we exit his car at one of his regular turtle-spotting locations. Studies have shown that wood turtles can navigate and remember a maze as well as a rat — an intelligence for which exotic animal collectors prize them. Powell theorizes that wood turtles may have developed this ability because they split their time between water and land, and hence require a more sophisticated internal “map” of their habitat than other turtles. As Powell and I walk through the woods, he takes Gracey off her leash and commands, “Find the turtle!” Athletic and lean, the 43-pound canine immediately bolts into the dense, matted brush, her nose aggressively working at ground level, with only a small bell on her collar to tell us her location. As we
wade through waist-deep grasses and ferns with only a light breeze to cool us, it’s readily apparent why anyone needs a canine’s nose to find wood turtles in the summer. In these conditions, I couldn’t find a turtle unless I stumbled over one. For his part, Powell gets real satisfaction from spotting a turtle that 99 percent of people would never notice, like someone who prides himself on finding four-leaf clovers — a skill he also mastered as a kid. As he explains, the wood turtle’s proclivity for sunning itself, well concealed in the weeds, is called “cryptic basking” and protects it from predators. Even Gracey, whose nose is several hundred times stronger than a human nose, generally can’t sniff out a wood turtle unless she’s within 10 feet of one. Courtesy of Ken Picard
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ark Powell can talk wood turtles for as long as you let him: what they eat, when they breed, where they nest, the social tendencies of males versus females, their preferred habitat based on the season and time of day. Powell has an especially keen eye for spotting the elusive Glyptemys insculpta, aka North American wood turtle, in the underbrush. When the vegetation gets too dense for him to find the turtles, as it typically does this time of year, Powell relies on his trusty turtle-tracking dog, Gracey, to sniff out the reptiles, whose shell length is roughly six to eight inches. Powell, 53, is a computer network administrator by day and a self-described “turtle wrangler” in his free time. “Wrangling” may seem like too active a verb to describe the pursuit of a shelled creature that can barely outpace the snails, slugs and earthworms it eats. Still, the work of tracking turtles can be strenuous, exhausting and insect ridden, as I learn on a recent outing with Powell and Gracey, his 2-year-old chocolate Lab/ pointer mix. Powell adopted Gracey in December 2012 and has been training her ever since to find and retrieve this rare and hard-to-find creature. Powell and I meet at his Washington County home, then drive a few miles to a stream that borders 65 acres of privately owned woods and riparian areas. Because the state lists the wood turtle as a “species of special status,” it’s illegal to remove the semi-terrestrial creatures from the wild, a restriction in force throughout New England. For this reason, Powell, who has a permit from the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department to mark and track wood turtles in Washington, Orange and Caledonia counties, is particularly cagey about publicly revealing where he finds them in Vermont. In fact, he’s so protective of wood turtles that he asks we not even disclose the body of water where these particular ones spend half their lives. Powell’s caution makes sense: Wood turtles can sell online for as much as $300 apiece for a mature female, making them a lucrative target for poachers. Why is the species so desired? It’s not for making turtle soup. “They’re thought to be the smartest turtles in the world,” Powell explains
How does one train a dog to hunt turtles? After all, a canine’s hunting instincts are triggered in part by its prey’s rapid, darting movements — the very antithesis of turtle behavior. Powell initially tried to train his pet beagle to track turtles, he says, but she was more interested in flightier critters such as rabbits, squirrels and birds. Powell trains Gracey using turtle feces, source of the animal’s strongest scent. In early spring, he says, when the wood turtle emerges from its hibernation in the river, it emits virtually no scent, as its digestive system has lain dormant for months. By June, however, the turtle has consumed enough mushrooms, insects, berries, worms and even baby mice for Gracey to pick up the trail. Within 10 minutes, Powell has discovered turtle tracks along the shore. To my untrained eye, they look like nothing more than faint lines in the sand. But Powell points out where a wood turtle recently came ashore, a single thin line tracing the movement of its tail. Five minutes later, a clearly excited and rambunctious Gracey alerts us that she’s found one in the bushes 10 yards away.
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owell is not a formally trained wildlife biologist. His fascination with wood turtles began in 2002, after he and his wife bought six acres in Washington County and discovered a turtle population living along their ponds. Powell, who grew up in southeastern Pennsylvania raising boa constrictors — “I was into them way before Alice Cooper came along,” he boasts — suddenly discovered a reptile breed with which he was unfamiliar. Thus was his new obsession born. Initially, Powell approached Fish & Wildlife about establishing a turtle sanctuary and breeding facility on his land. State wildlife biologists “weren’t too keen on that idea,” he admits. But they were amenable to letting Powell track, mark and document the turtles and, later, use a dog and radio tags to follow their progress over time. From early spring to late fall, he goes out two or three times a week searching for them. Powell isn’t paid for his efforts, but he serves as a resource for researchers and other turtle enthusiasts. He also gets occasional alerts from neighbors who discover a nest buried in a sandy driveway.
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In those cases, Powell is authorized to move the eggs to a safer location. Wood turtles, once numerous throughout the Northeast, now face more threats than Vermont’s other turtle species — not only from poachers but from agricultural machinery, lawn mowers, habitat fragmentation and development in general, given that many Vermont roads run along rivers. “Development means roads,” Powell notes, “and roads mean roadkill.” Accordingly, Powell often gets calls from people telling him they discovered a wood turtle crossing the road. His advice: Just carry it across, then let it be. Once Gracey finds the turtle, she paws at it excitedly and flips it upside down with her nose, so she can grip it in her teeth and carry it back to her handler. Though that may seem like a less than ideal way of protecting the species, Powell says concerns about the turtle’s welfare are unwarranted. Gracey has a soft mouth — she’s a retriever, after all — and the turtle’s hard shell and plastron, or rigid underbelly, have evolved to withstand the teeth of predators. “It scares them a little, but this is what turtles have been doing for 60 million years — hiding in their shell and protecting themselves,” Powell says, holding up the turtle, which has fully retracted its head and limbs. “From the turtle’s perspective: ‘Yeah, I’ve been through this before. I know what to do.’” As Powell displays this turtle, we see the reason for its scientific name, Glyptemys insculpta. Insculpta means “engraved,” and the shell looks like it’s been etched with a dozen stepped pyramids. The turtle’s head and limbs are a distinctive orange, which Powell says gets even more vivid in fall when the species is breeding. The flat underbelly indicates that this is a female. She weighs 880 grams and measures 7.25 inches long, which Powell jots in a notebook. He then counts the lines on her plastron, like rings on a tree, to determine her age. This turtle may be 12 or 13, hence not
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Checking in with Vermont’s teeming millions — of insects B y et h an de se i f e
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e depend on 1,000-pound cows for milk and meat, and snuggle up with our 40-pound dogs and eightpound cats. But an inversely proportional relationship governs the ways in which our lives are shaped by the creatures around us: The smallest animals can have the greatest impact. Just ask your friendly neighborhood pathologist. The bacteria and viruses that truly rule the world exist outside the animal kingdom — and hence outside the purview of this issue. But, way bigger than bacteria, unbelievably numerous and generally more reviled than celebrated, insects of all kinds affect us in complex and fascinating ways. Vermont has a rich entomological culture, even if most of it exists on a scale that we don’t often consider. The state’s insects are beautiful (the Canadian tiger swallowtail butterfly, Papilio canadensis); irritating (ants on your kitchen counters); potential disease vectors (the Anopheles mosquito); and essential to our economy and very survival (pollinating bees). In Bug World, something interesting is always going on. Here are some current dispatches from the state officials and researchers who keep their eyes trained on Vermont’s insects — and one indomitable little arachnid.
Mosquitoes
According to a 2008 survey prepared by state entomologist Alan Graham, Vermont is home to at least 45 species of mosquitoes. If that sounds like a lot, consider that more than 3,000 mosquito species exist worldwide. Vermont’s mosquito problem could be much worse. Still, the insect’s population here could represent more than just summertime botheration. Some of them are carriers of the Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) virus, which causes a rare but potentially fatal disease not only in horses but in humans. Two Vermonters died from it a couple of years ago, perhaps after having contracted the virus from mosquitoes. Graham, in a phone conversation with Seven Days, says the state has been monitoring the mosquito population for disease since 2001. At that time, the primary area of research was West Nile
virus; now, with the threat posed by “triple E,” the Agency of Agriculture is stepping up its efforts. “We are concerned,” says Graham, citing reports of EEE cases in New Hampshire, Québec and Clinton County, N.Y., just across Lake Champlain. “We have tried to intensify our trapping to look specifically for this virus, in addition to West Nile virus,” he says. In 2011, several emus in Addison County died from EEE. Native to Australia, these giant birds had no resistance to the virus; Graham likens them to the proverbial canaries in a coal mine. The ag agency decided to ramp up its mosquito study partly in response to those emu deaths. Another recent study, conducted in collaboration with the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station,
revealed that many mosquitoes pick up the EEE virus from feeding on passerine birds, a large group that includes many songbirds. But about 6 percent of those mosquitoes’ diets came from mammals, meaning there’s a risk of the bugs passing EEE along to human hosts. At present, Graham acknowledges that we can’t do much beyond applying insect repellent. The risk of contracting EEE is low, but not zero.
Ticks
Though it’s not exactly breaking news, the latest on ticks is hardly more uplifting. Put simply, Graham says, “There’s been a large increase in Lyme disease and a large increase in deer ticks in pretty much all regions of Vermont.”
What makes this incidence so remarkable is that the deer tick, the primary vector for Lyme, could not be found in Vermont as recently as 40 years ago. The insect’s northward march has been incredible. According to Graham, the quarter-inch-long deer tick is traversing about 50 miles, or roughly 12.6 million times its body length, every year. In human terms, that’s the approximate equivalent of traveling from Paris to Vladivostok annually. Many people consider ticks (which are not insects but arachnids, related to spiders) to be icky, blood-sucking things, but that’s not the worst of it. The northbound trek of the deer tick has put Vermonters at a greater risk for Lyme disease. The first step in mitigating Lyme is to understand all we can about its primary vector, says
Graham. But that’s not so easy in a state with a small tax base, where such government-funded projects are less likely to attract funding. Graham’s agency has therefore teamed up with those of other states (he mentions Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire and New York), as well as with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Lyndon State College associate professor of biology Alan Giese has led a “quantitative surveillance” study of local tick populations, Graham adds. But he admits that a great deal more research must be completed before we can address the damage wrought by this diligent arachnid.
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Creatures such as mosquitoes and ticks make human lives more difficult, but from an insect’s perspective, the human species is the most noisome nuisance. Not only do we go to a great deal of effort to eradicate certain insect species, we also kill off many others without even meaning to do so. The most prominent example of accidental extirpation involves honeybees. In Vermont, as elsewhere, these vitally important insects have had some pretty tough years lately. Colony collapse disorder (CCD) has appeared in many headlines over the past decade, but, says Vermont state apiculturist Steve Parise, “We haven’t documented any cases [of CCD] in Vermont.” That doesn’t mean Vermont has not seen any CCD cases, which seem to stem from a complex system of interlocking problems including mite infestations, weather variations and viruses. Parise, who spends a lot of time inspecting beehives all over the state, has seen many in poor shape, but none that exhibited what he calls the “classic” symptom of CCD: A healthy hive suddenly and mysteriously losing the majority of its adult population. Parise singles out recent changes in local agricultural practice as actions that adversely — although inadvertently — affect insects. More and more Vermont farmers, he says, are depriving bees of a major source of nectar in one of two ways. They’re either clearing
their hayfields before the constituent grasses have a chance to bloom or replacing hayfields with such crops as corn and soybeans, which, Parise notes, “promise little in the way of nectar resources for bees.” Wind, not bees, pollinates corn; soybeans produce little nectar. But these crops are valuable to farmers, either as feed for their livestock or on the open market. According to an online commodity calculator developed by the University of Illinois, the average price of a bushel of corn rose from $1.86 in 2000 to $6.15 in 2013. It’s the very definition of a cash crop, yet its cultivation creates collateral insect damage. Without hayfield crops such as clover, which holds its blooms for a long time and is a major source of nectar, bees don’t get the nutrients they need to sustain their colonies or produce honey. When colonies are thus stressed, says Parise, they become more susceptible to “other factors that, by themselves, might not have been an issue,” such as disease and infestation by the nownotorious varroa mite. Such problems necessarily reduce the state’s honey yield; then again, Parise says, they have also contributed to honey’s current record-high prices. Recent weather has been favorable for honey making, but Parise isn’t making any predictions. Speaking by phone to Seven Days in mid-June, he says, “The next eight weeks will tell the story for [this year’s] honey production.” Another terror that humankind has visited on bees is the class of pesticides known as neonicotinoids (chemically related to nicotine). Often listed as one of the potential causes of CCD, neonicotinoids have the advantage of low toxicity for mammals. For insects, however, it’s another story, as these chemicals attack their nervous systems and affect, among other things, their ability to navigate. Kent McFarland is a conservation biologist with the Vermont Center for Ecostudies in Norwich. He’s led a multiyear project that yielded an alarming result: Nearly a quarter of Vermont’s native bumblebee species has disappeared in the last 20 years. Though he doesn’t have the data to prove it yet,
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he first thing to know about thrips is that the word is never singularized. “Thrips” can refer to a single insect or to many of them. This has a certain logic: You’ll never see just one of these bugs. The little guys are absolutely everywhere. The second thing about thrips is that, though they’re teeny-tiny — just a couple of millimeters long — their enormous numbers guarantee that their appetite for plants can spell devastation for growers. Cultivators of ornamental flowers are at particular risk, as thrips not only prefer to feed on such plants but are a vector for the transmission of viruses. Thrips are, in short, a tiny, winged menace. Though they are prey for some other bugs, there’re so damn many of them, and they reproduce so quickly, that predation barely makes a dent in their destructive capabilities. The carnage wrought by thrips is largely aesthetic; they rarely kill their host plants. A thrips-infested plant can develop discoloration, withered leaves and mottled “scarring,” all of which can render a crop of ornamental flowers completely worthless. With pesticides not generally effective against thrips — not to mention potentially hazardous to humans — what’s a grower to do? The Entomology Research Lab at the University of Vermont has one answer: a diversified program called integrated pest management, or IPM. IPM is an environmentally friendly, multipronged approach to pest control. Its four key tenets are maintenance of sanitary growing areas, early monitoring for pest detection, biological controls and, as a last resort for severely compromised crops, minimal pesticide application. The use of biological controls is the most potentially groundbreaking element; it involves using plants or “good bugs” to control “bad bugs.” In the prepesticide era, all crops were raised in this manner, but pesticide-based pest control is now so entrenched that a
radical change of mindset is required to leave it behind. A greenhouse that uses IPM may cultivate beneficial fungi or nematodes (small roundworms) to control pests’ soil-bound eggs, “banker” plants to draw pests away from valuable crops, and insects that prey on pests without
thrips magnet, luring them away from more valuable plants. It is essentially a sacrificial plant. Possibly the marigold’s color attracts thrips, or its aroma; no one’s really sure, Skinner says. The flower’s ruffles might even appeal to thrips because the insects are, like cockroaches,
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harming plants. Greenhouse operations stand to benefit most from employing IPM; as closed ecosystems, they’re not open to nature’s own system of biological checks and balances. UVM entomologist Margaret Skinner, who has worked for 17 years in the IPM field, enthuses about one of the best defenses against thrips. The humble marigold, she says, is a veritable
thigmotactic: They prefer to hide in places where they are closely physically surrounded. Whatever the reason, “A lot of growers are now using them with great effect,” says Skinner. “It’s been a little bit amazing to me how effective these marigolds have been.” Skinner’s research has found that lacing topsoil with certain fungi is an effective way to destroy thrips’ eggs and larvae that fall from the plant. “The thrips drop down to the soil, become infected and won’t come out
again,” she says. Skinner is also researching the use of “sachets” filled with mites that are benign toward crops but ravenous for thrips. IPM is not a new idea, nor was it invented in Vermont. (It was developed in California in the 1950s, and was a plank of federal agricultural policy in the 1970s.) But the UVM Entomology Research Lab has dedicated itself to promoting the method within the state, and its efforts are paying off. Lori King is the head grower at Claussen’s Florist & Greenhouse in Colchester, where she oversees an operation that includes about 40 greenhouses that comprise nearly half a million square feet of growing space. She has attended UVM’s IPM workshops for each of the last three years, and estimates that Claussen’s has reduced pesticide use by 90 percent in recent years. King uses multiple biological controls to keep pests at bay. She dunks plant plugs in a solution that contains nematodes as well as two fungal agents, RootShield and BotaniGard. Depending on the plant, she’ll also make it accessible to insects in the Orius genus, which prey on thrips. The benefits of an IPM approach are several, says King. Eschewing pesticides means employees don’t have to suit up or seal up the shop to apply hazardous chemicals, and there’s no chemical residue or runoff. An unexpected benefit is that employees’ workdays can end at a reasonable hour. Chemicals must be applied at the end of a business day to settle overnight, requiring employees to stay at work until seven o’clock or later in the longer days of summer. King says that IPM is not only cheaper than pesticides but more effective, having helped her “conquer” not just thrips but the pestilential spider mite. “I have a few aphids still to go, but they’re sneaky,” she says. As farmers everywhere have found, pests will eventually evolve resistance to chemical pesticides, which then have to be tweaked and made more potent. But no bug has evolved 100
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forthcoming [and] much more inclined to share information.” The biggest challenge for IPM strategists, Skinner says, is educating the general public about the benefits of this paradigm-shifting method. For decades, consumers have insisted on pest-free products, which brought about a heavy use of pesticides. Now, to swing the pendulum the other way, Skinner says, consumers must recognize that picture-perfect produce comes at a cost. Even in eco-minded Vermont, she says, that’s not going to be easy. m
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McFarland suspects neonicotinoids might be a root cause. The biologists who conducted the study took a “bumblebee census” across the entire state of Vermont, collecting Butterflies more than 10,000 specimens. Then Not all of McFarland’s news is bad. they compared their data with those He’s recently been surveying the local from the state’s historical records back population of the giant swallowtail to 1900. Their conclusion, McFarland butterfly, and his data suggest that this says, was “pretty alarming. Almost half gargantuan, beautiful, harmless insect is of [Vermont’s] bumbleon the rise in Vermont. bee species are declinWith a wingspan ing or appear to have of up to six inches, the declined. And three or giant swallowtail is the four species have comsingle largest butterfly pletely disappeared.” in North America. And, Historical records so far as McFarland can show only 17 total tell, it never appeared bumblebee species in Vermont until 2010. have ever resided in A number of sightings Vermont. With several by “citizen scientists” previously common (as McFarland calls species, such as the amateur entomologists) rusty patched bumblewas sufficient reason to bee, on the wane, the commence a tracking numbers do not look program in the followgood for these imporStEVE PAriSE ing year. “Now,” he says, tant pollinators. “it’s breeding here all Any tomato grower over the place.” will tell you that a decline in the bumIn such southern states as Florida, blebee population is a serious matter. the caterpillar form of the giant swalThese insects vibrate their wings at lowtail can damage citrus crops. There’s about 400 Hz, which happens to be no such worry in Vermont, where it the frequency at which tomato plants’ feeds primarily on a weedy, native plant pollen is most easily dislodged from called prickly ash, which has little comtheir anthers. “Buzz pollination” is so mercial value. effective that producers of greenhouse What’s driving the Papilio cresphontomatoes commonly set up bumblebee tes north? It may be a gradual warmhives inside their facilities. ing of the local climate … so maybe it’s McFarland says he suspects that it’s true that most insect news is bad news. not just neonicotinoids that have been Insects — by virtue of their size, high “whacking” these bees, but also the in- reproduction rates and environmental creased presence of Old World (that is, sensitivity — tend to be biological bellEuropean) mites and gut parasites that wethers. All the more reason to heed encountered New World bumblebee what they’re telling us. m
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ony and Mysty Olson never intended to open an exotic-bird shelter. They had no business plan, no late-night talks about turning their passion into a job, and they didn’t research applicable regulations. They simply received a steady flow of inquiries once word got around that the Olsons had seven pet birds. “Could you take one more?” people would ask. “How about another?” The Olsons never found a way to say no. Last August, the couple decided that, like it or not, they were in the bird-rescue business. So they officially turned their modest St. Albans home into Feathered Hearts Avian Rescue. They believe it’s the only shelter exclusively for exotic birds in northern New England. “We were considering it and then got poked into it quicker,” Mysty says. “We wanted to make sure all our [pet] birds got the love and attention they needed.” The Olsons determined that their home had room for more. And the birds flew in: Within weeks, they were providing foster care for 10 birds, including parrots, cockatiels and parakeets. Feathered Hearts has housed nearly 50 caged birds at one time, though last week that number was down to just seven — six of their own and one foster pet. Both Olsons work full time and have two children, ages 9 and 14, at home. But tending to their foster flock, and driving across New England to pick up birds that their owners are ready to abandon, has become a second full-time gig. “We don’t go on vacation,” Mysty says. “We don’t have free time. We don’t know what that is.” Though they have subsequently developed a website and Facebook page and taken out a few local advertisements, for months the Olsons received birds simply through word of mouth in their relatively small network of veterinarians, pet-shop owners, animal-control officers and bird owners. They received an unexpected influx when the only avian shelter in New Hampshire closed last year, Mysty says. Maine has no similar shelter, either, she believes. “Word travels fast,” she observes. Tony grew up with birds in his house, and only recently persuaded his wife that it was time for their family to have some of their own. Their oldest bird, Lillie, is 2 years old.
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What is it about birds that inspires the couple to devote so much time and energy to their feathered friends? “You have to earn their love and respect. And once you have it, there’s nothing like bird love,” Mysty explains. “They are very companion oriented. They want to be with their person. They are lovable and caring. They are like toddlers.” Since August, the Olsons say they have “re-homed” more than 100 birds. At their peak, they had 47 birds at once, after a Vermont woman dropped off 30 finches. They found homes for every one, even
with the stipulation that potential owners take at least two, so each bird would have a companion. Shelburne veterinarian Liam Bisson says the Olsons are providing a desperately needed service. People generally know what to expect with a cat or dog. Birds are often a different story, the vet says, and illprepared owners often give up. “They don’t know what they’re getting into,” Bisson says. “They want a bird from the movies, sitting on their shoulder, talking to them. They don’t all do that. It takes training and work.”
Another surprise to some owners is that domesticated birds live longer than most pets — and even some humans. Many survive more than 30 years; some parrots make it to 80 or 90. The Olsons have received pets from overwhelmed family members of bird owners who had passed away and made no provisions for their birds. Surviving relatives often “don’t want the bird or don’t know how to take care of it,” Bisson notes. (The Olsons have made provisions in their will that two of their pets with the longest expected life spans — an African Gray and an Amazon parrot — will go to their children.) It’s true that caring for birds is trickier than many prospective owners anticipate. Their dietary needs are complex, for starters. While many owners feed their birds only seeds, healthier diets include a pricier mix of fruits, vegetables and vitamins. Birds can also be particular about their surroundings: Some don’t like being around other birds, or children. Cats could be a problem. Homes also have to be adequately heated. Some birds do well in cages, but others should be free to roam. And — though it should be obvious — birds can be quite noisy. One woman who donated a parrot to the Olsons worked at home and found that her “obnoxiously loud” bird interfered with her tasks. Hyde Park resident Andrea Vartanian gave up her two cockatiels, Peep and Squeak, in the fall after one of them showed signs of emotional issues — he picked his feathers nonstop and shrieked constantly — and Vartanian struggled to administer proper care. “It broke my heart to surrender them,” she says. “I have never surrendered any animal in all my life, and felt like a failure. Mysty ... talked me through my tears. She was reassuring and shared stories with me that were similar to my situation.” The Olsons took in the pets, and have since found Peep and Squeak a new home. Tony and Mysty Olson declined to divulge how much they have spent on their rescue efforts but they concede they’ve spent several thousand dollars that they don’t ever expect to recoup. They don’t require surrender fees, unlike many humane societies, though the couple sometimes receives donated food and cages from pet stores, vets and fellow animal lovers from Vermont and New Hampshire. But Feathered Hearts will have to find revenue streams in order to stay viable. To
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ed is a meditation on looking and listening. In John Logan’s play, the painter Mark Rothko has a lot to say about looking, and he has someone to listen in the form of his studio assistant, Ken. The Dorset Theatre Festival production begins with the act of looking and, for Tim Daly’s Rothko, it’s no passive gaping but a nearly corrosive attention to the surface and meaning of a painting in progress. Motionless, head tipped to the side, Daly opens the play gazing with hungry intensity at the fourth wall. At us. But he’s looking at the painting he’s working on. And in that powerful, consuming stare, Daly makes clear his character’s need to make art of the highest seriousness. Logan anchors his story in this drive to make art, and he gives Rothko a certain degree of pretentiousness and ego. Without vanity, he couldn’t weather critics and sustain himself through the wrenching process of completing a painting.
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When Ken enters the studio, Rothko asks him, “What do you see?” And so begins an unruly Socratic dialog between the monomaniacal artist and an assistant who progresses from naïve to knowing over the course of the play. As Ken grows in confidence, Red itself matures. If Rothko spits out pronouncements in the early scenes, toward the end he begins to investigate his beliefs as Ken challenges them. Set in his Bowery studio, the play covers two years of Rothko’s life, in the late 1950s. It’s accurate about most events and borrows lines directly from Rothko’s writing and interviews, but it’s
the work of a playwright’s imagination. Rothko has received a large commission for a series of paintings to hang in the Four Seasons restaurant in Manhattan’s newest expression of modernism, the Seagram Building. The money is important to him, but so is showing his work in a space that groundbreaking architects Philip Johnson and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe designed. Logan explores how commercial reward can compromise art, though the story encompasses other themes as well. Red portrays a master and apprentice, with overtones of a father and a son, while telling the story of an artist’s
career from upstart overthrowing a prior artistic movement to prominent master to watching new artists usurp his place. In this sense, it’s a story of growth and mortality. But Rothko’s preoccupations extend to the balance between romanticism and intellect, and much of the dialog between Ken and Rothko investigates this idea, using Nietzsche’s Birth of Tragedy as fuel. Logan always grounds the intellectual observations in the powerful appetites of the two characters. They’re seeking meaning, not with detached, academic musing but with a passion to understand the world. Logan mirrors the triumph of abstract expressionism itself by demonstrating that the abstract can be invested with emotion, and the play is a visceral, exhilarating experience. Nonetheless, Red begins with, arguably, too much deft wordplay in the service of brilliant rants about the art world, the nature of creation and how the artist must honor influences from art to music to philosophy. Daly handles
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and intellectual power of the originals. Rothko’s work is about proportion and the viewer’s human scale beside it. Theater is all about facsimile. The trick isn’t recreating something; it’s creating something strong enough to produce the reactions that reality can. Though the paintings on stage lack the presence and power of Rothko’s art, the play has all the emotional strength necessary to show us, through one man’s life, central problems we all confront. In Red, we witness the heightened truth of theater, not life. But it reaches us, perhaps transforms us, because art operates, as these characters say, on both intellect and emotion. Dorset’s production is impeccable, with nuanced lighting by Michael Giannitti and note-perfect costumes by Charles Schoonmaker. Director Adrienne Campbell-Holt smoothly raises and releases tension in her blocking choices and establishes the foundation for a tight, two-person performance.
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The play tells a true-ish story about the Seagram commission with some apocryphal details. Sticklers for accuracy might claim that a true story means more because there’s proof it can happen, while fiction doesn’t have to follow the rules. But when fiction works, it does follow rules — the deepest rules of human experience. In a world that sets great store by irony, it takes courage for Logan to give his characters pronouncements about art and life. But the emotional current in Red justifies them with eloquence that transcends words. m
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the physical energy wonderfully, but these early near-monologues come off as words he is speaking, not ideas he’s having. He rushes, obscuring the intelligence it takes to have the ideas in the service of getting them said, and depriving us of the chance to reflect on them. When the play’s structure shifts to more interactions between the characters, Daly is able to shine as a character wrestling with his work. “I am here to stop your heart, you understand that?” Rothko tells Ken. “I am not here to make pretty pictures!” Daly lets all that wears on Rothko show up as weight on his body, from a droop as he sits to a voice heavy with care and purged of his normal bright and eager tones. Daly, an Emmy winner known for his roles on “Wings,” “The Sopranos” and “Private Practice,” doesn’t resemble Rothko physically, but he reveals the essence of the character. Daly slumps and slouches but gives Rothko’s words soaring power, As Ken, Charles Socarides has a frank curiosity onstage that draws the viewer in as his ally. His rail-thin body is coiled with energy as he goes about his work making stretchers, running errands and cleaning brushes, but above all adroitly sidestepping the verbal blows that Rothko rains down from time to time. As artist and assistant settle into efficient camaraderie, Socarides quietly shows his character growing stronger and stronger. Ken opens one scene in a phone conversation fretting about his boss’ opinion, and another with the smooth confidence to work on his own, building a stretcher after putting Chet Baker on the stereo to replace Rothko’s beloved Mozart. Throughout, Socarides is an able foil for Daly. Scenic designer John McDermott conveys the play’s tension between lofty intentions and gritty practicalities with a set packed with the clutter of a painter’s priestly tools in a cathedral-like studio. Three facsimile paintings hang on the walls, but they are disturbingly unlike the actual Seagram murals, which can now be seen at the Tate Modern in London. The shapes are reproduced accurately enough, but the color is coarse, without Rothko’s crepuscular mist overlaying it, and the brushwork lacks the nuance of his edges. Still, the facsimiles ought to have more effect on us than they do. They prove a point Rothko makes in the play: “To paint a small picture is to place yourself outside your experience. You paint the larger picture, you are in it.” Because the facsimiles hang high on the wall, they are small and distant to the theater audience. We can’t immerse ourselves, and the paintings lack the emotional
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ere in Vermont, we like to know where our food is coming from. As locavore lingo found its way onto labels and restaurant menus alike, foodie entrepreneurs salivated for a slice of the hyperlocal pie, and small businesses sprang up throughout the state. Gradually, the trend began to wag the dog, too. According to Travis Germain, store manager at Pet
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NAME: Coava OWNER: Cheryl Brownell (business manager) AGE: 3 years WEIGHT: 40 pounds BREED: Border collie mix AMBITION: I’d make a hell of a dowser,
NAME: Dea OWNER: Robyn Birgisson (account executive) AGE: 11 years WEIGHT: 99 pounds BREED: Maremma sheepdog AMBITION: to be with the family all day long IDEAL TREAT: homemade dehydrated chicken
NAME: Sasha Peters OWNER: Aaron Shrewsbury (designer) AGE: 1 year WEIGHT: 60 pounds BREED: Bull terrier mix AMBITIONS: play keep-away with other dogs;
futons with all my dog friends IDEAL TREAT: the stankier the better
particularly if there’s a niche for mud dowsers. IDEAL TREAT: Shelburne Farms Clothbound Cheddar
NAME: Lilly OWNER: Julia Atherton (account executive) AGE: 7 years WEIGHT: big boned BREED: pug AMBITION: to sleep all day and party all night,
NAME: Rufus OWNER: John James (production manager) AGE: 8 years WEIGHT: 15 pounds BREED: West Highland terrier AMBITIONS: World peace; breaking the
NAME: Dutch OWNER: Ethan de Seife (staff writer) AGE: 4.5 years WEIGHT: 18 pounds BREED: probably a Chihuahua/Basenji mix AMBITIONS: achieving maximum belly-rub
NAME: Bean OWNER: Kaitlin Montgomery (Kids VT
aka to snore like a grandpa IDEAL TREAT: found objects
stigma of puppy/pillow love; belly rubs for everyone; helping puppies find good homes IDEAL TREAT: sweet-potato fries
quotient; eating everything in the world, including lemon rinds, dust bunnies and cat poop IDEAL TREAT: a peanut-butter-infused watermelon
sleep on the most comfortable cushion; swim in any large body of water IDEAL TREAT: kibble-size, soft, organic
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At Seven Days, staffers’ canine companions’ eating habits span the gamut, with diets ranging from raw to homemade to grain free. But it didn’t take much convincing to get everyone on board for a tail-wagging taste test of the local fare, aka an office-dog party. Here are the tasting notes, straight from the owners — and the dogs themselves, if we may anthropomorphize.
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account executive) AGE: 14 years WEIGHT: 60 pounds BREED: mixed breed, super smart, almost human AMBITION: to be loyal to Kaitlin, who is her best friend IDEAL TREAT: bacon
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NAME: Scout OWNER: Kaitlin Montgomery AGE: 12 years WEIGHT: 60 pounds BREED: husky AMBITIONS: to explore the world IDEAL TREAT: It’s a tie between ice cream and
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creative director) and partner Shawn Lipenski AGE: 4 years WEIGHT: small BREED: Dachshund AMBITION: to drown out the roar of the F-35s with her own supersonic barking IDEAL TREAT: Pup-Peroni (lean beef recipe, of course)
Montpelier SAMPLE: Wheat-free
Say Cheese biscuit INGREDIENTS: rolled oats,
TASTING NOTES:
YUM. More. Please. Crunchy! —Coava
LABEL NOTES: “These
Heaven. Heaven. Heaven. —Scout
potato — the bigger, the better
biscuits are the perfect, guilt-free treat for spoiling — we mean rewarding —your BFFs (best furry friends)!” TASTING NOTES:
Rufus loved this. He woofed it right down. —John
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INGREDIENTS: dehydrated
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INGREDIENTS: whole wheat
cookies INGREDIENTS: oat/rice flours,
rolled oats, cooked chicken liver, dry milk, garlic, water LABEL NOTES: “Really good
treats for really good dogs!” Cute drawing of mommy and doggie TASTING NOTES:
Smells a little gross. She’ll love it. —Robyn Looks like a weed cookie. —Kaitlin Looks pretty. Obi wanted more. —Michelle
Looks healthy. —Michelle
I like the crunch! Waiting for more... —Scout
Hippie shit good … [Paul] is too cheap to feed me this … I’m thirsty. —Gus
Like a gourmet hippie frosting treat. —Don and Shawn
That biscuit was delicious. Another biscuit, please? —Sasha
Happy. —Trixie
Ho hum. —Dea
LABEL NOTES: “Refrigerate
after opening”; “40-ounce bag = 1-pound chicken” TASTING NOTES:
Looks good, like bacon. Seems natural —Kaitlin Rufus will eat this right up. He’s killed two chickens. —John I love meat! Crunchy. Leathery. Delicious. —Sasha That’s it? Please, can I have another? —Coava Bacon?! Can’t eat it all in one bite. Won’t stop me from trying. —Gus Dutch snarled at the cat for daring to encroach on the eating zone. —Ethan de Seife Obi licked the floor for crumbs. —Michelle
INGREDIENTS: whole oat
flour, whole barley flour, canola oil, white cheddar cheese, extra virgin olive oil, cracked flax seed, dried tomatoes, tomato powder, oregano, garlic, thyme, basil, rosemary oil LABEL NOTES: “Wagatha
co-founder Norman Levits began baking dog biscuits for friends in the late ’70s (while he waited for disco to die).” TASTING NOTES:
These are small and perfect for Rufus’ size. —John Underwhelmed. —Coava
flour, corn meal, wheat germ, water, peanut butter, honey, eggs, canola oil, mint, brewer’s yeast, vitamin E LABEL NOTES: “Breath
busters … Natural dog treats! Cleans teeth.” TASTING NOTES:
Dutch ate it immediately. —Ethan Bean loved it, pawing at me for another. —Kaitlin Yummers! I love it! I want more! —Scout Obi stood up, wagged tail. —Michelle
Why won’t he let me play with Sasha? —Gus
Edna wanted to like it, but it was a dud. —Don and Shawn
I love that it’s organic. —Julia
It’s too hard. Yuck! —Edna
Tastes like Pizza Combos. I could eat a whole bag. —Lilly Ate it. —Robyn FIDO FEAST
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Crunchy, crumbly, yummy. —Obi
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Scout took it into the other room to enjoy it without threat from her sister (and then came back for more). —Kaitlin
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a tennis-ball-throwing machine and infinity lap pool IDEAL TREAT: baby carrots — sweet, crunchy goodness!
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With a growing number of new food festivals on the horizon, why should you choose Eat By Northeast (EXNE)? “It’s a big, giant fundraiser and it’s totally free,” says co-organizer and Skinny Pancake owner Benjy Adler. Despite there being no entry fee, he hopes that, with donations, the event will raise more than $20,000. Those dollars will benefit five charities: Slow Food Vermont, the Intervale Center, Vermont FEED, the Vermont Community Garden Network and local food programs at the ECHO Lake Aquarium & Science Center.
jASoN giNgolD has been training 10 BHS students to transform a simple truck and trailer into their mobile café. After this weekend, the truck will return to Oakledge most Saturdays, with stops along the way at SummErVAlE (Thursdays starting July 3), the Community Sailing Center, BHS, the South END truck StoP and at the wYSiwYg festival in August. For a full schedule, find the Fork in the Road food truck on Facebook. — h. P. E.
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Right now, BriAN StoNE and liAm o’FArrEll are busy building a new craft-beer hub for thirsty Vermonters. “We’re looking to be the premier place to go for craft beers,”
Since there is no fee at the door, Adler hopes to go beyond preaching to the locavore choir. “We’re trying to expand the group of people who participate in the local food movement,” he explains. “So how are we going to do that? Through fun and education. The whole thing is designed to be very populist.” EXNE will be at Oakledge Park in Burlington Friday, September 19, through Sunday, September 21. The event is divided into four categories: Eat, Drink, Listen and Learn. Since his other food fest, grAND PoiNt locAl, is the weekend before, Adler is working to recruit different vendors to sell all-local food and drink on Friday and Saturday at EXNE’s free concerts. Folks willing to cough up a little cash can opt into a sudsy “Brewhaha” beer and cider tasting, while those wanting to pair beer and chocolate can pony up at a beer and chocolate tasting hosted by lead sponsor lAkE chAmPlAiN chocolAtES. On Sunday, the fest features a ticketed Great Harvest Supper featuring dishes from hEN oF thE wooD, miSErY loVES co. and ProhiBitioN Pig, as well as FArmhouSE grouP butcher FrANk PAcE. Each will cook a whole animal, including a steer, a pig, a calf and a goat or lamb. PiNgAlA cAFé & EAtErY will provide vegan alternatives, while the chefs at FlEtchEr AllEN hEAlth cArE will cook healthy, local side dishes. “It’s a big collaboration with some of the area’s best chefs,” Adler says. mEg Schultz, the woman behind the upcoming Bolton valley hoP jAm and Fayston’s SiPtEmBErFESt, will coordinate the beer. For suds, Adler says to expect “the smallest, closest and newest, then, on top of that, the gods of beer.” Those gods will include SEAN lAwSoN of lAwSoN’S FiNESt liquiDS. As for learning, festival director olgA moriArtY is scheduling more than 30 free educational sessions on Saturday and Sunday. Topics include container gardening and how to feed local food to your family for less than $75 per week. — A. l.
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“With a lot of these beers, the only way to get them is in a restaurant,” Stone says. “You go and they pour you a six-ounce glass for $6, and you’re paying a dollar an ounce,” he says. Growler Garage will offer those same beers in 64-ounce portions for a fraction of the price. “There are all these amazing microbreweries popping up around here,” Stone notes. “We want to be there for them, to spread the good word and bring them on. We’re there to move their product.” — H. P. E.
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Peanut butter? I’d eat this. —Paul
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chef: matt sargent Age: a couple of months shy of 50 restaurant: Phantom truck Location: Location: mondays and tuesdays, lunch and dinner behind Bisbee’s Hardware next to the mad river green in Waitsfield; Thursdays, lunch at the cabot creamery offices in Waitsfield; soon-to-be-announced dates and locations in the Burlington area, beginning in July. Age of restaurant: a few weeks, but sargent’s Phantom Dinners have been taking place for nearly four years. Past experience: garde manger, the common man, Warren (December 2011 to may 2013) What’s on the menu?: Three to four dishes, rotating weekly. Last week’s menu: Vermont turkey meatballs served in a bowl with couscous, chickpeas, cabbage, broth and homemade marmalade; vegetarian sloppy joes, made of lentils and farrow; and Vermont smoked ham with green beans, sole (large kernels of corn) and a chickenbroth base thickened with cornmeal, served with mango salsa and a fried egg.
leg of lamb. There were five of us in the family, so we’d each take a turn one day a week, so it took the burden off them. Of course, as a kid, oftentimes that meant I’d open a can and make a grilled cheese, but I was always cooking and testing and tasting. Were you always a foodie? They didn’t call it that back then. You just liked food. As a child, were there any foods you thought were gross? I went through the same phases as a lot of kids. For a while I wouldn’t touch tomatoes,
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I thought they were gross. Now I love them, especially in the summer. For a while I hated anything carbonated. Name three foods that make life worth living. Watermelon has to be one of them — to this day I’m known as a complete watermelon junkie. Häagen-Dazs’ Vanilla Swiss Almond ice cream, and I apologize to Ben & Jerry’s profusely, but I love Häagen-Dazs! I really love a wood-roasted leg of lamb, and I think that may go back to my dad. I love any kind of roast lamb, but especially one that’s been wood roasted.
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have you ever eaten something truly weird? Insects. My folks once, I forget where they went, but they came back with these vacuum-sealed cans of salted grasshoppers and chocolate-covered ants. You had to peel back the lid of the can, and it popped. I remember eating these salted grasshoppers and ants and thinking they weren’t actually horrible. I wouldn’t say they were good, but they were edible.
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how did your family eat when you were growing up? We ate a classic mix. Both my parents worked, so there were times we were eating TV dinners and SpaghettiOs, but my parents loved to cook, as well. So one night we’d be having a TV dinner and the next night my dad would be grilling a
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att Sargent was a construction worker for a quarter century, but about four years ago he “hit the burnout stage” and began setting a career change in motion. The Warren resident knew he wanted to enter the food world — but in a market like the Mad River Valley, which fluctuates dramatically depending on tourist flow, opening a restaurant seemed daunting. So Sargent began cooking up six- to eight-course meals in pop-up locations around the state and dubbed them “Phantom Dinners.” The monthly events were advertised through social media; once 30 people had signed up, he would reveal the location. Over the years, Phantom Dinners have been held in fields, barns and other spots around Vermont. “It was a litmus test,” Sargent says. “Do people like my cooking? Do people respond? And it really took off. People really responded to it.” This summer, Sargent is moving to slightly steadier locations with “Chloe,” a brand-new food truck that’s been showing up in Waitsfield the last several weeks. In July, the Phantom Truck will pull into Burlington locales and elsewhere. So what prompted a self-taught, fortysomething guy to enter the food-truck biz? Seven Days grilled him to find out.
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food butter and marmalade I made a couple nights ago from oranges and Meyer lemons. What foods are always in your pantry? Beans of many types, because I love playing around with beans. I love my pressure cooker, because it makes life easier for that kind of thing. I often have some kind of pork and a half-eaten watermelon in the fridge. In the summer, if I don’t have a watermelon in the fridge, I don’t feel like life is right. Our family is very fruit driven. There are some City Market plums in there, too. If you could have any chef in the world prepare a meal for you, who would it be? David Chang.
What’s the dish you’ll be remembered for? A properly cooked steak.
If money were no object, what kind of restaurant would you open? Small, 40 seats or less, a relatively open kitchen to interact with the guests a little bit. Oh, and a wood-fired or open grill. What’s your favorite beverage? The things I drink are water, coffee, beer, wine and cocktails. My favorite beverage is probably a really nice glass of wine, but a really good beer would be a close second, and a really good cup of coffee would be a close third. What kind of music do you like to listen to in the kitchen? A pretty eclectic mix. The predominant style would be kind of honky-tonk altcountry — I do not like pop country at all — bands like Son Volt. I have a long history with the Grateful Dead, so I play the Dead a lot. And a lot of old-man music like Neil Young and classic rock like that. And if I’m alone, I blast Nine Inch Nails.
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If you weren’t a chef, what would your job be? A traveling food writer. What’s your most embarrassing favorite food? Soft, white bread. I rarely have it in the house, but if someone gives me like, a baloney sandwich on Wonder Bread, I’m gonna love it. Or a close second would be a McDonald’s Filet-O-Fish. I only allow that once a year or something.
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Describe your best meal ever. There’s a restaurant in San Francisco called Nopa, and one of the best meals I’ve ever eaten was sitting at the bar at Nopa, ordering a continuous stream of stuff off their menu. They do things tapas style, which is my favorite way to eat. This is how I’d imagine a little candlelight bistro in Spain — and everything they served to
What’s your favorite cookbook? I really like Ad Hoc at Home by Thomas Keller, the French Laundry chef. A Platter of Figs [and Other Recipes] by David Tanis and Alice Waters. And the Tartine Bakery & Café cookbook. Though most of the time when I look at cookbooks, I’m really just looking at the pictures. I might look at the description, but I mostly just look at the concept and run with it.
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What’s the worst dish you’ve ever created? I did a really not-great version of ramen once. I was trying to teach myself how to make a proper dashi and I just used so much seaweed and kombu. I got all the pork and vegetables and stuff, but I messed up the broth — it was way too salty and seaweed tasting; then I overcooked the ramen and the pork that goes on top of it. So we sat down, and I was really excited by all the work I’d done, and took a few bites, and it was, like, “Wow … that sucks.”
And your worst. Anywhere in Florida! My mother’s going to kill me when she sees that. When we were down [in Orlando] getting the truck, I googled, “Where in the world can you find good food in Florida?” In Orlando it’s all geared toward tourists. But where my mom lives in Sarasota, there are some good restaurants, and Miami is one of my favorite places to eat.
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You’re trying to impress somebody with your culinary prowess. What do you make? I might challenge them a little bit with some grilled baby octopus, which has become something I really love. I [also] think I’d be looking at proteins. I’m kind of known for my wood-grilled or woodroasted meats. I don’t go in to the supertechnical dishes, and that’s in part because I’m still learning, but also because I’m not drawn to them. By and large, I’m just really drawn to high-quality ingredients and not messing them up. I think that might be a product of my age. I didn’t go to culinary school and work my way up through a restaurant. I don’t have an inclination to really impress people; I just want to feed them.
us was great. There were peas and mints in butter sauce, and it was delicious; pork belly in sauce, and it was great. Plus the fact that we were sitting at the bar, having really nice cocktails and chatting with the bartender — it’s just the way my wife and I like to eat out.
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Oxfam Action Corps Meeting: Folks learn about the organization's efforts to end poverty, hunger and injustice, then explore local volunteer opportunities. Muddy Waters, Burlington, 7:308:30 p.m. Free. Info, 732-239-2336, oxfamactioncorps.vermont@gmail.com.
community
Home Share Now Info Session: Locals get upto-date information on home-sharing opportunities in central Vermont. Kimball Public Library, Randolph, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 479-8544. HomeShare Vermont Information Session: Those interested in home-sharing or caregiving programs meet with staff to learn more. HomeShare Vermont, South Burlington, 5-5:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 863-5625.
dance
'ANIMAL' Outdoor Rehearsal Experiment 2: Directed by Hanna Satterlee, Avi Waring, Marly Spieser-Schneider and special guests excerpt the two-year dance project that explores intention, authenticity and movement. Hubbard Park, Montpelier, 1:30-3 p.m. Donations. Info, hannasatt@gmail.com.
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North End Fusion: Tunes from the Steve Goldberg-Lar Duggan Group get folks on the dance floor in this "anything goes" approach to partner dancing. North End Studio A, Burlington, 8:30-10:30 p.m. $8; $15 per pair; BYOB. Info, 863-6713. Sunset Belly Dance: Dancers tap into ancient traditions in an exploration of modern tribal belly dance. All Souls Interfaith Gathering, Shelburne, 7-8 p.m. $13. Info, 985-3819.
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Kingdom Community Wind Tours: Locals learn about alternative energy sources on a visit to the 21-turbine wind farm. Kingdom Community Wind, Lowell, 10 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 744-6664. Valley Night Featuring CCB & Friends: Locals gather for this weekly bash of craft ales, movies and live music. Big Picture Theater and Café, Waitsfield, 8 p.m. $5 suggested donation; $2 drafts. Info, 496-8994.
food & drink
Champlain Islands Farmers Market: Baked items, preserves, meats and eggs sustain seekers of local goods. St. Rose of Lima Church, South Hero, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 434-4122.
Saturday, June 28, 8 p.m., at Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center in Stowe. $2055. Info, 760-4634. sprucepeakarts.org
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Middlebury Farmers Market: Crafts, cheeses, breads, veggies and more vie for spots in shoppers' totes. The Marbleworks, Middlebury, 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 673-4158.
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Newport Farmers Market: Pickles, meats, eggs, fruits, veggies, herbs and baked goods are a small sampling of the fresh fare supplied by area growers and producers. Causeway, Newport, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 274-8206. Wednesday Wine Down: Oenophiles get over the midweek hump by pairing four varietals with samples from Lake Champlain Chocolates, Cabot Creamery and more. Drink, Burlington, 4:30 p.m. $12. Info, 860-9463, melissashahady@vtdrink. com. Williston Farmers Market: An open-air affair showcases prepared foods and unadorned produce. New England Federal Credit Union, Williston, 3:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, willistonfarmersmarket@gmail.com.
games
Bridge Club: Strategic thinkers have fun with the popular card game. Burlington Bridge Club, Williston, 9:15 a.m. $6 includes refreshments. Info, 651-0700.
health & fitness
Montréal-Style Acro Yoga: Using partner and group work, Lori Flower helps participants gain therapeutic benefits from acrobatic poses. Yoga Mountain Center, Montpelier, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 324-1737. R.I.P.P.E.D.: Resistance, intervals, power, plyometrics, endurance and diet define this high-intensity physical-fitness program. North End Studio A, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. $10. Info, 578-9243.
kids
Creative Writing Club: Budding wordsmiths ages 9 and up let their imaginations soar with prompts, games and other exercises. Essex Free Library, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 879-0313. Fizz, Boom, READ!: All About Water: What floats and what sinks? Kiddos up to age 7 make a splash with Liza Earle while exploring scientific concepts. Extra clothes recommended. A lunch follows. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 1011:30 a.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.
Time-Tested Troubadour Jerry Jeff Walker calls David Bromberg “the reason man created string instruments.” Blessed with astounding musical gifts, the singer-songwriter and guitarist floats effortlessly between genres. A musicology major at Columbia University during the 1960s, Bromberg counted Greenwich Village’s thriving folk scene as his other classroom. There, he honed a versatile style, eventually becoming a session player for Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson and others. Bromberg’s 1971 self-titled debut secured his status as an acclaimed musician — one that he maintains to this day, as evidenced by his celebrated 2013 release, Only Slightly Mad. The “Godfather of Americana” takes the stage with his quintet for an evening of eclectic tunes.
Stepping It Up What began in 1977 as four dancers performing in senior centers throughout Chicago has blossomed into Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. One of the most original troupes in contemporary dance, the 18-member ensemble draws from a repertoire that highlights the world’s most innovative choreographers. Nacho Duato’s vibrant, North African-influenced “Gnawa” opens a program that spans decades and dance styles. Shifting gears, Alejandro Cerrudo’s “PACOPEPEPLUTO” pays tribute to the Rat Pack with a suite of male solos set to music by Dean Martin. Rounding out the evening, Steve Reich’s percussive score punctuates Jiří Kylián’s mesmerizing ballet “Falling Angels,” featuring an all-female cast.
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The Lunchbox Summer Meal Program: Youth ages 18 and under fill up on nutritious eats from a funky food truck that doubles as a mobile learning kitchen. St. Paul's Catholic School, Barton, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 334-2044.
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Hubbard Street Dance Chicago Friday, June 27, and Saturday, June 28, 8 p.m., at Moore Theater, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, in Hanover, N.H. $8.50-45. Info, 603-646-2422. hop.dartmouth.edu
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Friday, June 27, and Saturday, June 28, 9 a.m.-6 p.m.; Sunday, June 29, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., at Champlain Valley Exposition in Essex Junction. $12. Info, 872-0034. vqf.org
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Wednesday, July 2, 8 p.m., at Flynn MainStage in Burlington. $20-100. Info, 863-5966. flynntix.org
Crafters take a passion for patchwork to new heights at the Vermont Quilt Festival. New England’s oldest and largest needle-and-thread extravaganza draws top quilt makers from around the region whose imaginative handiwork reflects an unparalleled craftsmanship. Rich in color, design and attention to detail, these award-winning works of art attract thousands of viewers. Hand-picked by top industry curators, hundreds of antique and modern pieces span a wide range of styles — including fiber-art “threadscapes” by local quilter Pamela Druhen. Gallery talks, appraisals and special exhibits complete this celebration of fantastic fabrics.
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olling Stone deems Neko Case “one of America’s best and most ambitious songwriters.” The songstress cut her musical teeth in the 1990s as a drummer in the Pacific Northwest’s punk scene. Eventually swapping her drumsticks for a guitar and lead vocals, Case joined indie-rock powerhouse the New Pornographers. Widely regarded for her fearless approach to Americana, the Vermont resident turned heads with her 2013 Grammy Awardnominated album, The Worse Things Get, the Harder I Fight, the Harder I Fight, the More I Love You. She delights local listeners at a benefit concert for Catamount Arts and the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts.
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Meet Rockin' Ron the FRiendly PiRate: Aargh, matey! Youngsters channel the hooligans of the sea with music, games and activities. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 10-10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 764-1810.
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Read to a dog: Lit lovers ages 5 through 10 take advantage of quality time with a friendly, fuzzy therapy pooch. Fairfax Community Library, 4-5 p.m. Free; preregister for a time slot. Info, 849-2420. Reading Buddies: Eighth-grade mentors foster a love of the written word in kiddos in grades K through 5. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 2-3 p.m. Free; preregister for a time slot; limited space. Info, 878-6956. teen PuPPet WoRkshoP: Budding performers in grades 6 and up create dialogue based on personal experience or content from R.J. Palacio's Wonder. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 3-5 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.
toy hacking: Gently used electronic toys allow tinkerers ages 12 through 18 to experiment with circuit bending and reverse engineering. Craftsbury Public Library, 1-4 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 586-9683. 5/6/14 11:34 AM ya Reads: Lit lovers ages 12 through 18 discuss John Green's The Fault in Our Stars. Teen Room, St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 748-8291.
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MON 7 CLOSE YOUR EYES, HOLD HANDS 7pm ROCK AND ROLL BOOK TOUR
WITH CHRIS BOHJALIAN (OFFSITE) Stephen Kiernan will interview Chris on the Fletcher Free Library stage. Everyone present will have the chance to win book tour t-shirts - and to have a character named after them in Chris’s next novel.
MON 14 JAMES DEWOLF & THE RHODE ISLAND 7pm SLAVE TRADE: CYNTHIA M. JOHNSON THU 17 AN EVENING OF POETRY WITH 7pm DAVID DILLON & JODY GLADDING THU 24 IVY & THE WICKER SUITCASE 7pm A low tech multimedia happening!
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BOTH LOCATIONS Through WHERE’S CHAMP? Aug 5 In the Champlain Valley, of course!
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italian conveRsation gRouP: Parla Italiano? A native speaker leads a language practice for all ages and abilities. Room 101, St. Edmund's Hall, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 899-3869.
music
city hall PaRk lunchtiMe PeRFoRMances: The Starline Rhythm Boys bring toe-tapping honky tonk to an outdoor performance. Burlington City Hall Park, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7166. gRoove is in the heaRt suMMeR Music seRies: An alleyway concert gets folks over the midweek hump. American Flatbread Burlington Hearth, 6-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 920-819-0672. lucinda WilliaMs: Melding rock, country, folk and blues, the Grammy Award-winning singersongwriter takes the stage with the Kenneth Brian Band. Lebanon Opera House, N.H., 7:30 p.m. $35-55. Info, 603-448-0400.
outdoors
Making tRacks, seeing skins & skulls: Outdoorsy types search for signs of fur-bearing animals and make plaster-of-Paris track casts to take home. Call to confirm. Nature Center, Little River State Park, Waterbury, 3:30 p.m. $2-3; free for kids 3 and under; preregister. Info, 244-7103. sunset aquadventuRe: Stunning scenery welcomes paddlers of all abilities, who explore the Waterbury Reservoir in search of local wildlife. Meet at the Contact Station half an hour before start time. A-Side Swim Beach, Little River State Park, Waterbury, 7 p.m. $2-3; free for kids 3 and under; preregister; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103.
Mia schaRPhie: The landscape architect references her research collaborative Proactive Practices in "Public Interest Design as a Catalyst for Environmental and Socioeconomic Change." Yestermorrow Design/Build School, Waitsfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 496-5545.
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tea & FoRMal gaRdens touR: Folks explore the inn and its cottage-style gardens, then sit down to a cup-and-saucer affair complete with sweets and savories. The Inn at Shelburne Farms, 2:30-4:30 p.m. $18; preregister. Info, 985-8442.
theater
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'the thRee little Pigs': Weston Playhouse's Young Company of Broadway puts a new twist on the classic fairy tale for the young and the young at heart. Weston Playhouse, 4 p.m. $8-15. Info, 824-5288.
film
the Met: live in hd seRies: A broadcast production of Puccini's La Rondine stars Angela Gheorghiu and Roberto Alagna as star-crossed lovers. Palace 9 Cinemas, South Burlington, 7 p.m. $12.50. Info, 660-9300.
'young FRankenstein': The St. Michael's Players interpret Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan's stage adaptation of the former's 1974 comedic film. McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 8 p.m. $37-46. Info, 654-2281.
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FRendly gatheRing: Lotus, Delta Spirit and Deer Tick headline a weekend of positive vibes, music and camping hosted by pro snowboarders in the Frends Crew. Timber Ridge, Londonderry, 10 a.m.-11:45 p.m. $135; free for kids 12 and under. Info, 800-881-3138.
'Beyond the hills': A friendship between two young women that began in an orphanage gets tested when they become lovers in Cristian Mungiu's award-winning drama. In Romanian with English subtitles. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7 p.m. $5-8. Info, 355-5418. sunset & a Movie: Picnickers screen Disney's Academy Awardwinning animated adventure Frozen. Burlington College, 8-10 p.m. Free. Info, 862-9616.
authoRs at the aldRich: F Mystery writer Sonja Hakala elicits CO SA EL E thrills and chills with The Road N EI Unsalted. A concert by the Michele Fay Band follows in Currier Park. Milne Community Room, Aldrich Library, Barre, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 476-7550. O
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veRMont council oF WoRld aFFaiRs annual dinneR: Diners honor Bill Stenger and the Jay Peak Resort development team over a shared meal. Dion Family Student Center, St. Michael's College, Colchester, reception, 6 p.m.; dinner, 7 p.m. $100; preregister. Info, gail@vermont.org.
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inteRMediate/advanced english as a second language class: Speakers hone their grammar and conversational skills. Administration Office, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.
Wednesday RoadsPokes 101 Ride: A gentle training ride builds bike-handling skills and increases confidence and comfort on the road. Road bikes recommended. Montpelier High School, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 229-9409.
BuRlington Walk/Bike council Meeting: Locals discuss ways to promote human-powered transportation and how to improve existing policies and infrastructure. Room 12, Burlington City Hall, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 865-5449.
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inteRMediate sPanish lessons: Adults sharpen their grammar skills while exploring different topics. Private residence, Burlington, 6 p.m. $20. Info, 324-1757.
community
gReen Mountain taBle tennis cluB: PingPong players swing their paddles in singles and doubles matches. Knights of Columbus, Rutland, 6-9:30 p.m. Free for first two sessions; $30 annual membership. Info, 247-5913.
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english as a second language class: Those with beginner English work to improve their vocabulary. Pickering Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.
sports
eMeRging voices: Former refugees Rose Twagiramukiza, Som Dhakal and Htun Sein share their stories in celebration of World Refugee Day. Fletcher Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free to attend; donations accepted. Info, 338-4633. WRiteRs FoR RecoveRy WoRkshoP: Led by local author Gary Miller and documentarian Bess O'Brien, attendees put pen to paper and explore addiction, recovery and familial relationships. Turning Point Center, Burlington, pizza, 5:30-6 p.m.; workshop, 6-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 861-3150, writersforrecovery@icloud.com.
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RetiReMent Planning FoR Business oWneRs: William T. Hinman and John Holzscheiter of the Vermont Agency share strategies conducive to a financially secure future. St. Albans Free Library, 3:30-5 p.m. $10; free for Franklin County Chamber of Commerce members; preregister; limited space. Info, 524-2444. veRMont Business FoR social ResPonsiBility Meeting: Like-minded professionals network with members of Aqua Vitea while learning about the company's mission to produce kombucha sustainably. Aqua Vitea, Bristol, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 862-8347.
food & drink
FletcheR allen FaRMeRs MaRket: Locally sourced meats, vegetables, bakery items, breads and maple syrup give hospital employees and visitors the option to eat healthfully. Davis Concourse, Fletcher Allen Hospital, Burlington, 2:30-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 847-0797. JeRicho FaRMeRs MaRket: Passersby graze through locally grown veggies, pasture-raised meats, area wines and handmade crafts. Mills Riverside Park, Jericho, 3-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 343-9778. Milton FaRMeRs MaRket: Honey, jams and pies alike tempt seekers of produce, crafts and maple goodies. Hannaford Supermarket, Milton, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, 893-1009.
health & fitness
FoRza: the saMuRai sWoRd WoRkout: Students sculpt lean muscles and gain mental focus when performing basic strikes with wooden replicas of the weapon. North End Studio A, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. $10. Info, 578-9243. 'staRt the conveRsation' WoRkshoP: Franklin County Home Health Agency staff members present options for end-of-life care. Montgomery Town Library, 5 p.m. Free. Info, 393-6717.
kids
'Booked FoR lunch' seRies: Lit lovers in grades K and up listen to Paul Fleischman's Weslandia and other tales. Bring a bag lunch. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956. BRadFoRd young MakeRs cluB: Kiddos ages 11 through 14 gather for a meeting of the minds. Children's Room, Bradford Public Library, 6-8 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 222-4536.
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Fizz, Boom, READ!: StoRiES thAt WoW US: Local storyteller Peter Burns delivers engaging narratives. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. LUnch At thE LiBRARy: Children ages 18 and under share a healthy meal courtesy of the Burlington School Food Project. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, noon-12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. thE LUnchBox SUmmER mEAL PRogRAm: See WED.25, Gardner Memorial Park, Newport, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 334-2044. 'mAD SciEncE PRojEctS' SERiES: Critical thinkers in grades 1 through 5 explore the science behind food. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 2-3 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956. 'mAgic SchooL BUS' READ ALoUD: The adventures of Miss Frizzle and the gang delight children ages 4 and up. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 223-3338. mUSic With mR. chRiS: Singer, storyteller and puppeteer Chris Dorman entertains tykes and parents alike. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 1010:30 a.m. Free. Info, 764-1810.
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montRéAL intERnAtionAL jAzz FEStivAL: Legendary performers from Diana Ross and Elvis Costello to Pink Martini and Rufus Wainwright deliver jazz, blues and contemporary tunes alongside rising talents. Various Montréal locations, 6 p.m. Prices vary. Info, 514-871-1881.
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FUnky cRUStAcEAnS: The best of the bayou heads north with New Orleans-inspired grooves from the local band. Rusty Parker Memorial Park, Waterbury, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 917-4403. intERPLAy jAzz ALL-StARS: Musicians of all ages explore the art of improvisation in a brown-bag concert. Woodstock Village Green, noon-1 p.m. Free to attend; donations accepted. Info, 457-3981.
gARDEnS in BLoom: Eye-catching landscapes highlight well-considered designs reflective of the 19th-century conservation movement. Meet at the Carriage Barn Visitor Center. MarshBillings-Rockefeller National Historical Park, Woodstock, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 457-3368, ext. 22. thE gooD, thE BAD AnD thE REALLy, REALLy itchy: Hikers learn to identify poison ivy, medicinal jewelweed and other local plants. Call to confirm. Nature Center, Little River State Park, Waterbury, 1:30 p.m. $2-3; free for kids 3 and under; preregister. Info, 244-7103. Rockin' thE LittLE RivER: Visitors explore a reforested encampment and discover how the Civilian Conservation Corps saved the Winooski Valley from flooded ruin. Meet at the top of the Waterbury Dam. Call to confirm. Little River State Park, Waterbury, 7 p.m. $2-3; free for kids 3 and under; preregister. Info, 244-7103. StEvEnSon BRook WALk: Adventure-seekers slip into their water shoes for a guided hike in and along the spring-fed stream. Call to confirm. Little River State Park, Waterbury, 3:30 p.m. $2-3; free for kids 3 and under; preregister. Info, 244-7103.
seminars
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intRo to BRAiLLE: Students learn the history of the tactile writing system, along with an indepth examination of its alphabet, contractions and punctuation. Vermont Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired, South Burlington, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 800-639-5861, ext. 211. Living With ALzhEimER'S FoR miDDLE-StAgE cAREgivERS: Professionals share strategies for safe, effective and comfortable care. Alzheimer’s Association, Vermont Chapter, Williston, 4-6 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 800-272-3900.
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hot toPicS in EnviRonmEntAL LAW LEctURE SERiES: Tom Henry of the Toledo Blade presents "Why I Do What I Do: Environmental Journalism in 2014 and How Real Lives Exist Beyond the Rhetoric." Room 007, Oakes Hall, Vermont Law School, South Royalton, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 831-1228.
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Book Discussion: Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies inspires conversation among readers. Essex Free Library, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 879-0313. creaTive wriTing workshoP: Beginner and advanced wordsmiths polish up their prose in a guided practice led by author Annie Downey and poet Muir Haman. Otter Creek Room, Bixby Memorial Library, Vergennes, 6-8 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 877-2211. Discussion of wonDer: Bookworms chat about R.J. Palacio's Wonder with scholar Francette Cerulli. Westview Meadows, Montpelier, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 223-1068.
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eDiBLe foresT garDens anD commerciaL fooD foresTry: Permaculture expert Eric Toensmeier details ways to create food-producing ecosystems that mimic the structure and function of natural forests. Farm Barn, Shelburne Farms, 6-8 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 985-8686, registration@shelburnefarms.org. inTervaLe cenTer Tour: A pastoral stroll highlights innovative programs and a rich agricultural history. Intervale Center, Burlington, 10-11 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 660-0440, ext. 113.
community
women's circLe: Those who identify as women gather for readings, discussion and activities. The Wellness Co-op, Burlington, 2-3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 888-492-8218, ext. 302.
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BaLLroom & LaTin Dancing: Disco/husTLe: Samir Elabd leads choreographed steps for singles and couples. No partner or experience required. Jazzercize Studio, Williston, introductory lesson, 7-8 p.m.; dance, 8-10 p.m. $6-14. Info, 862-2269. huBBarD sTreeT Dance chicago: Drawing on more than 30 years of stage time, the quick-footed ensemble presents Nacho Duato's “Gnawa,” Jiří Kylián's “Falling Angels” and Alejandro Cerrudo's “PACOPEPEPLUTO.” Contains partial nudity. A discussion follows. See calendar spotlight. Moore Theater, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 8 p.m. $8.50-45. Info, 603-646-2422. iTaLian TraDiTionaL viLLage Dance: Dancers tap into the cultural heritage of Italy's small mountain villages with various steps and styles. Middlesex Town Hall, 7-10 p.m. Free. Info, 229-1490. maD roBin conTra Dance: Folks in clean, softsoled shoes move and groove to music by Tom MacKenzie, April Werner and Dave Carpenter. First Congregational Church, Burlington, 8-11 p.m. $5-10. Info, 503-1251, madrobincc@gmail.com.
Queen ciTy Tango PracTiLonga: Dancers kick off the weekend with improvisation, camaraderie and laughter. No partner necessary, but clean, smooth-soled shoes required. North End Studio B, Burlington, beginner lesson, 7-7:45 p.m.; informal dancing, 7:30-10 p.m. $7. Info, 877-6648.
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fairs & festivals
frenDLy gaThering: See THU.26, 5 a.m.-10:15 p.m. vermonT QuiLT fesTivaL: Passionate about patchwork? Local artisans elevate sewing to an art form with their displayed handiwork. Gallery talks and vendors round out the day. See calendar spotlight. Champlain Valley Exposition, Essex Junction, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. $12; free for kids 14 and under. Info, 872-0034.
film
'The aDDress': In his new documentary, Ken Burns travels to Putney's Greenwood School, where a yearly tradition has students memorize and recite the Gettysburg Address. A discussion follows. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 654-3688.
food & drink
BeLLows faLLs farmers markeT: Music enlivens a fresh-food marketplace with produce, meats, crafts and weekly workshops. Waypoint Center, Bellows Falls, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, 463-2018. BraDforD annuaL sTrawBerry fesTivaL: Locals feast on shortcakes and sundaes until all the berries are gone at this yearly celebration of summer's bounty. A concert follows. Bradford Academy, noon-8 p.m. Free. Info, 222-4423. cheLsea farmers markeT: A long-standing town green tradition supplies shoppers with eggs, cheese, vegetables and fine crafts. North Common, Chelsea, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 685-9987. five corners farmers markeT: From local meats to breads and wines, farmers share the bounty of the growing season. Lincoln Place, Essex Junction, 3:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 999-3249. harDwick farmers markeT: A burgeoning culinary community celebrates local ag with garden-fresh fare and handcrafted goods. Atkins Field, Hardwick, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 755-6349.
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Lyndon Farmers market: More than 20 vendors proffer a rotation of fresh veggies, meats, cheeses and more. Bandstand Park, Lyndonville, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 535-7528. a PerFect Pairing With Vermont creamery: Wine-and-cheese lovers please their palates with samples of locally aged fromage and sips of tasty varietals. Fresh Tracks Farm Vineyard & Winery, Berlin, 5:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 223-1151. richmond Farmers market: An open-air emporium connects farmers and fresh-food browsers. Volunteers Green, Richmond, 3-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 999-7514.
games
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health & fitness
anonymous hiV testing: Locals take advantage of free testing as part of a nationwide event dedicated to preventing the spread of the disease. Vermont CARES, Burlington, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 800-649-2437, christian@ vtcares.org. aVoid FaLLs With imProVed staBiLity: A personal trainer demonstrates daily practices for seniors concerned about their balance. Pines Senior Living Community, South Burlington, 1011 a.m. $5-6. Info, 658-7477. introduction to massage For couPLes: Massage therapist Laura Manfred demonstrates partner-based techniques for reducing muscular tension. Community Room, Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 6-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 223-8000, ext. 202. Laughter yoga: Breathe, clap, chant and ... giggle! Participants decrease stress with this playful practice. Bring personal water. The Wellness Co-op, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 999-7373. yoga consuLt: Yogis looking to refine their practice get helpful tips. Fusion Studio Yoga & Body Therapy, Montpelier, 11 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 272-8923.
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sLime! Foam! ooBLeck! oh, my!: Little ones ages 4 and up get their hands on goopy goodness and make a royal mess in the name of science. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.
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BlueBird: Kim Provost and John Penoyar bring hard-hitting harmonies to an outdoor concert of country and rock-and-roll. Brown Dog Books & Gifts, Hinesburg, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 482-5189.
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soCial Media surgerY WorKshoP: Flummoxed by Facebook? Bewildered by blogs? A hands-on information session demystifies these online tools. BCA Center, Burlington, 4-5 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 223-6091.
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'analog and vinYl': See THU.26. 'durang Bang': See THU.26, 8 p.m. green MounTain CaBareT: The sultry Sugar Shakers entertain audience members ages 18 and up with an tantalizing tribute to video games in Call of Booty. Club Metronome, Burlington, 8-9:30 p.m. $10-15. Info, 585-1388. 'liTTle shoP of horrors': BarnArts Center for the Arts presents Frank Oz's 1986 comedic musical about a socially awkward florist and a giant man-eating plant. Barnard Town Hall, 7:30 p.m. $10-15. Info, 332-6020. 'PluToCraTiC PaTrioTisM: sCoTT nearing and free sPeeCh during The greaT War': Scholar and homesteader Greg Joly celebrates the legacy of the horticulturalist and activist. Robin Lloyd's anti-war performance piece Talking With Our Grandmothers follows. Bread and Puppet Theater, Glover, 7:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 525-3031. PTP/nYC: WorKs-in-Progress: Professional actors from Middlebury College's affiliate theater company join students in David Edgar's award-winning drama Pentecost. Seeler Studio Theatre, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168. 'The seCreT garden': The Valley Players adapt Frances Hodgson Burnett's timeless tale for the stage. Valley Players Theater, Waitsfield, 7:30-10 p.m. $14-18. Info, 583-1674.
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WaTer sTriders: Nature lovers don appropriate footwear for an exploration of water power and the creatures that reside along the Stevenson Brook. Meet at the nature trail. Call to confirm. Little River State Park, Waterbury, 1:30 p.m. $2-3; free for kids 3 and under; preregister. Info, 244-7103.
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BiKeaPalooza!: Bikers in themed environmental attire raise awareness about climate change on a 10K pedal. See world.350.org/vermont for details. Burlington City Hall Park, 7:30-9 p.m. Free. Info, 444-0350, bike@350vt.org. MaKing TraCKs, seeing sKins & sKulls: See WED.25, 11 a.m. Paddle To PrehisTorY: Matt Witten and Ben Mayock share their knowledge of wildlife, ecology and history on an excursion to an ancient Native American village near the confluence of Dead Creek and Otter Creek. Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, Vergennes, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. $1325. Info, 475-2022.
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suMMer BooK sale: Bibliophiles pick up page turners at this benefit for Burnham Memorial Library. Colchester High School, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660. Word!CrafT: exPeriMenTal arT rhYMes: Wordsmiths sound off to beats by DJ Crunchee at this mashup of hip-hop and original verse. Municipal Building, Hardwick, registration, 6:30-7 p.m.; spoken word, 7-8 p.m.; hip-hop, 8-9 p.m. Free. Info, 755-6336, mcmycelium74@gmail.com.
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Garden Basics Workshop: Horticulturalists learn techniques for managing pests and diseases. Tommy Thompson Community Garden, Burlington, 11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m. $10; preregister. Info, 861-4769. Plant Swap: Home gardeners exchange the fruits of their labor. Brown Dog Books & Gifts, Hinesburg, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 482-5189.
comedy
Kamikaze Comedy: Using audience prompts and participation, the improv troupe creates gut-busting sketches, superheroes and more. Memorial Hall, Essex, family-friendly show, 6:30 p.m.; adult show, 8:30 p.m. $5-10. Info, 578-4200.
community
Kitten Shower: Cat lovers fête fabulous felines with games, treats and visits with adoptable animals. See cvhumane.com for a detailed wish list. Central Vermont Humane Society, East Montpelier, noon-3 p.m. Donations. Info, 476-3811, ext. 110. Onion River Sports 40th Anniversary Celebration: In-store raffles and give-aways pave the way for a group bicycle ride and a party on Langdon Street, complete with live music. Onion River Sports, Montpelier, 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Free; cost of food and drink. Info, 793-7920. Phil and Joan Hoff Celebration: Vermont's former governor and his wife are the guests of honor at this benefit for the Old Labor Hall, featuring tasty fare from Bon Temps Gourmet. Old Labor Hall, Barre, 5-7 p.m. $20 suggested donation. Info, 331-0013. Vermont Health Connect Enrollment: Qualified navigators guide attendees through the steps of signing up for health insurance. Fox Room, Rutland Free Library, 11:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Free; preregister for a time slot. Info, 558-5243, samantha.price@ppnne.org.
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Hubbard Street Dance Chicago: See FRI.27.
Intermediate Repertoire Master Class: Kellie Epperheimer of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago shares her expertise with students ages 16 and up, who work on quality, pacing and interpretation. Moore Theater, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., noon. $10. Info, 603-646-2422.
Swing Dance: Quick-footed participants experiment with different styles, including the lindy hop, Charleston and balboa. Indoor shoes required. Champlain Club, Burlington, beginner lesson, 8 p.m.; dance, 8:30 p.m. $5. Info, 448-2930.
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The Ghosts of the Old Post: Locals keep an eye out for the Lady in White while exploring Old Post Cemetery, the final resting place of more than 100 unknown soldiers. The Old Post Cemetery, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 9-10:15 p.m. $5-10. Info, 518-645-1577.
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Hidden Spaces, Unique Places: Architecture buffs tour the park's historic landmarks — including a rarely visited 1960s fallout shelter. Meet at the Carriage Barn Visitor Center. Marsh-BillingsRockefeller National Historical Park, Woodstock, 10:30 a.m.-noon. $4-8 adults; free for kids 15 and under; preregister. Info, 457-3368, ext. 22. Old North End Walking Tour: Folks tap into the area's rich cultural heritage on a stroll led by Gary De Carolis of Burlington History Tours. Snacks from local ethnic markets complete the afternoon. North End Studio A, Burlington, 1-4 p.m. $18; preregister; limited space. Info, 863-6713. Queen City Ghostwalk: Darkness Falls: See FRI.27. Rocket Erotic Boutique Launch Party: From perfume to kinky products, attendees tap into their five senses with a preview of the pop-up store. Soul, funk and reggae grooves round out the evening. Nutty Steph's, Middlesex, 6-11:45 p.m. $5-10 suggested donation. Info, 249-4945. Saundra Messinger Jewelry Show: See FRI.27. The Spirits of SUNY Plattsburgh: From a long-forgotten graveyard to a mournful apparition, thrill seekers delve into spine-tingling mysteries associated with the college campus. Steltzer Road, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7-8:15 p.m. $5-10. Info, 518-645-1577.
fairs & festivals
Abenaki Heritage Weekend: Local tribe members share native culture through traditional song and dance, drumming, wampum readings and crafts. Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, Vergennes, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. $6-10; free for members and children under age 5. Info, 475-2022. Frendly Gathering: See THU.26, 5 a.m.-10:15 p.m. Summer Solstice Circus: Circus performers, carnival rides and kids activities complement vendors and local merchants at this familyfriendly fête. Merchants Row, Rutland, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 773-9380. Vermont Quilt Festival: See FRI.27.
food & drink
Burlington Farmers Market: More than 90 stands overflow with seasonal produce, flowers, artisan wares and prepared foods. Burlington City Hall Park, 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 310-5172. Burlington Food Tour: Locavores sample the Queen City's finest cuisine on a scrumptious stroll that stops at the Burlington Farmers Market and an area restaurant. East Shore Vineyard Tasting Room, Burlington, 12:30-3 p.m. $45. Info, 2770180, burlingtonfoodtours@gmail.com. Caledonia Farmers Market: Growers, crafters and entertainers gather weekly at outdoor stands centered on local eats. Pearl Street, St. Johnsbury, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 592-3088.
Chocolate Tasting: Sweets lovers tap into the nuances of sour, spicy, earthy and fruity flavors. Lake Champlain Chocolates Factory Store & Café, Burlington, 3 p.m. Free. Info, 448-5507. Mount Tom Farmers Market: Purveyors of garden-fresh crops, prepared foods and crafts set up shop for the morning. Parking lot, Mount Tom, Woodstock, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 457-2070. Newport Farmers Market: See WED.25. Northwest Farmers Market: Foodies stock up on local produce, garden plants, canned goods and handmade crafts. Taylor Park, St. Albans, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 827-3157. Norwich Farmers Market: Neighbors discover fruits, veggies and other riches of the land offered alongside baked goods, handmade crafts and live entertainment. Route 5 South, Norwich, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 384-7447. Old-Fashioned Strawberry Festival: Sunkissed berries take center stage at this mouthwatering meet-up. United Church Northfield, noon4:30 p.m. $3-5; takeout available. Info, 229-4351. Pittsford Farmers Market: Homegrown produce complements maple products and artisan wares at this outdoor affair. Pittsford Congregational Church, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 483-2829. Rutland County Farmers Market: Downtown strollers find high-quality produce, fresh-cut flowers and artisan crafts within arms' reach. Depot Park, Rutland, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 773-4813 or 353-0893. Shelburne Farmers Market: Harvested fruits and greens, artisan cheese and local novelties grace outdoor tables. Shelburne Town Center, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 985-2472. Strawberry Fest: Berry lovers fill up on sweet treats at this palate-pleasing party. United Church of Underhill, 5-8 p.m. $5. Info, 899-1722.
Jammin' Divas: Hailing from Ireland, Australia, Israel and the U.S., this foursome of vocalists and instrumentalists perform music from their diverse cultures. Lake Placid Center for the Arts, N.Y., 8 p.m. $10-15. Info, 518-523-2512. Jenny Brook Bluegrass Festival: See THU.26. Killington Music Festival: Pianist Philippe Entremont joins internationally acclaimed chamber musicians in "An Evening With Phillippe," featuring masterworks by Mozart, Beethoven and others. Ramshead Lodge, Killington Resort, 7 p.m. $25. Info, 442-1330. Lucinda Williams: See WED.25, Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 8 p.m. $29.50-75. Info, 863-5966. Rochester Chamber Music Society: The esteemed Johannes String Quartet delights listeners with a program of Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms. Federated Church, Rochester, preperformance lecture, 6:30 p.m.; concert, 7 p.m. Donations. Info, 767-9234. Vermont Symphony Orchestra TD Bank Summer Festival Tour: See THU.26, Suicide Six, South Pomfret, gates open for picnicking, 5:30 p.m.; concert, 7:30 p.m. $12-36; free for kids under 18. Info, 864-5741, ext. 10.
outdoors
Bamforth Ridge Trail Hike: Hikers test their stamina on a challenging trek along the long, rocky spine that climbs the northeast flank of Camel's Hump. Contact trip leader for details. Richmond Park and Ride, 8:30 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 355-4135, wesvolk@gmail.com. Bird Monitoring Walk: Adults and older children don binoculars and keep an eye out for feathered fliers. Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 434-2167. Birds By Ears & Eyes: See THU.26, 7 p.m.
Waitsfield Farmers Market: Local entertainment enlivens a bustling, open-air market boasting extensive seasonal produce, prepared foods and artisan crafts. Mad River Green, Waitsfield, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 472-8027.
Forestry for the Birds: Guided Hike: Avian enthusiasts explore forestry practices designed to improve nesting habitats for local species. Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park, Woodstock, 8:30-10:30 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 457-3368, ext. 22.
health & fitness
The Good, the Bad and the Really, Really Itchy: See THU.26.
R.I.P.P.E.D.: See WED.25, 9-10 a.m. $10. Info, 578-9243. Saturday Morning Run/Walk: Amateur athletes make strides at an informal weekly gettogether. Peak Performance, Williston, 8-9 a.m. Free. Info, 658-0949.
holidays
Waterbury Not Quite Independence Day: See FRI.27, 11 a.m.-10 p.m.
kids
Saturday Story Time: Youngsters and their caregivers listen to entertaining tales. Phoenix Books Burlington, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 448-3350. Wild About Trees: Kiddos ages 3 through 12 and their adult companions explore the historic Mill Trail Cabin on an arboreal adventure. Mill Trail Cabin, Stowe, 1-2 p.m. Free. Info, 253-7221.
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Montréal International Jazz Festival: See THU.26, 11 a.m.-midnight.
House & Garden Tour: Folks step back in time with a visit to a historic working farm and its structures. Proceeds benefit the historical society. Norwich Historical Society and Community Center, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. $20-25. Info, 649-0124. Owl Prowl & Night Ghost Hike: Flashlight holders spy denizens of dusk on a journey to 19thcentury settlement ruins, where spooky Vermont tales await. Meet at the History Hike parking lot. Call to confirm. Little River State Park, Waterbury, 7 p.m. $2-3; free for kids 3 and under; preregister. Info, 244-7103. Stevenson Brook Walk: See THU.26. Time Travels Through Nature: A Guided Walk: An interactive exploration tours the remains of a historic sheep farm, an old saw mill and more. Meet at the trailhead. Mill Trail Cabin, Stowe, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 253-7221.
seminars
3-D Printing, Designing & Scanning With Blu-Bin: Instruction in basic programs teaches attendees how to build digital models of their ideas. Blu-Bin, Burlington, noon-1:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 345-6030. SAT.28
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Champlain Islands Farmers Market: See WED.25, St. Joseph's Church, Grand Isle, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 434-4122.
David Bromberg Quintet: The renowned multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter leads a performance of bluegrass, folk, country and more. See calendar spotlight. Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort, 8 p.m. $20-55. Info, 760-4634.
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Salsa Social: From the cha-cha to reggaeton and everything in between, dancers feel the beat at this monthly celebration of eclectic rhythms. North End Studio A, Burlington, 8 p.m.-midnight. $5. Info, 227-2572, dsantosdancersvt@gmail.com.
Foundry Fly Dogs: Dock-diving canines make a splash at this fundraiser for 4Paws Academy owner Nathan Whitehorne, who was seriously injured in an April car accident. The Foundry at Summit Pond, Killington, registration, 9:30 a.m.; practice jumps, 10 a.m.; event, 11 a.m. $20-30 per dog. Info, 422-5335.
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Intermediate Ballet Master Class: Dancers ages 13 through 18 focus on clarity, precision and musicality with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago's Jessica Tong. Lebanon Ballet School, N.H., 10 a.m. $10. Info, 603-646-2422.
Capital City Farmers Market: Meats and cheeses join farm-fresh produce, baked goods and locally made arts and crafts throughout the growing season. 60 State Street, Montpelier, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 223-2958.
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The Crate Escape Open House: Animal lovers sip local libations, sample snacks and view a giant mural by Tara Goreau while touring the renovated doggy daycare. The Crate Escape, Too, South Burlington, noon-5 p.m. Free. Info, 865-3647.
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Digital Video Editing: Final Cut Pro users get familiar with the most recent version of the editing software. Prerequisite of VCAM Access Orientation or equivalent, or instructor's permission. VCAM Studio, Burlington, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 651-9692, bill@vermontcam.org. Nonviolent Conflict Intervention Skills Training: Peijman Kouretchian and Mica Stumpf of Emergency Conflict Transformation share theories and hands-on techniques for resolving disputes peacefully. Vermont Energy Investment Corporation, Burlington, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Donations. Info, 863-2345, ext. 6.
sports
Huntington Race 4 Sundaes: In the shadow of Camel's Hump, runners make strides in a mile-long fun run, 5K or 10K benefitting Neighbor Helping Neighbor. Community Church, Huntington, registration, 7:45 a.m.; race, 8:30 a.m. $10-20. Info, 610-509-1455. Nathan Project 5K Run/Walk for Recovery: Participants put their best foot forward at this fundraiser for the faith-based organization dedicated to helping men recovery from sex and pornography addictions. Old Meeting House, East Fairfield, 9:30 a.m. $20; $35 per family. Info, 223-5421. SLAMDiabetes Vermont Summer Classic Wiffle Ball Tournament: See FRI.27. Vermont Senior Games Track and Field State Championships: Athletes put their skills to the test in this qualifier for the 2015 National Senior Games. See vermontseniorgames.org for details. South Burlington High School, 8 a.m. $2535; preregister. Info, 658-4486. Women's Road Rides: Casual-to-intermediate pedal pushers team up with Julie Noyes. Road bikes recommended. Onion River Sports, Montpelier, 9 a.m. Free. Info, 229-9409.
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'Analog and Vinyl': See THU.26. 'Durang Bang': See THU.26, 8 p.m.
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'Little Shop of Horrors': See FRI.27, 2 & 7:30 p.m. Opera North Young Artist Showcase: A program of arias and ensembles showcases the talents of vocalists and pianists. A dessert reception follows. West Lebanon Congregational Church, N.H., 7 p.m. $10. Info, 603-448-4141. Royal Shakespeare Company: 'Richard II': A broadcast production of the bard's political tale stars David Tennant as a king blinded by his pursuit of power. Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 2 & 8 p.m. $23. Info, 603-646-2422.
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Ride for the Homeless: Motorcyclists cruise the open road to support ANEW Place. A barbecue, auction and live music from the Kingdom Blues Project follow. Green Mountain HarleyDavidson, Essex Junction, registration, 8:30 a.m.; ride, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 862-9879.
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Queen City Ghostwalk: Wicked Waterfront: Paranormal authority Thea Lewis leads a spooky stroll along the shores of Lake Champlain. Meet at the fountain at the bottom of Pearl Street 10 minutes before start time. Battery Park, Burlington, 8 p.m. $15; preregister. Info, 863-5966. Ruff Ride: Motorcycle enthusiasts rev their engines at this benefit for Homeward Bound: Addison County Humane Society. A barbecue, games and an auction round out the day. CycleWise, New Haven, 8:30 a.m. $25; $5-10 for barbecue only. Info, 388-1443.
fairs & festivals
Abenaki Heritage Weekend: See SAT.28, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Vermont Quilt Festival: See FRI.27.
film
Dartmouth Film Society: 'The Maltese Falcon': A trio of criminals will stop at nothing to obtain a jewel-encrusted statuette in this 1941 film noir starring Humphrey Bogart. Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 4 p.m. $5-8; $20-35 for a DFS pass. Info, 603-646-2422.
food & drink
Cedar Circle Farm Strawberry Festival: Horse-drawn wagon rides, berry picking, kids activities, live entertainment and other lighthearted happenings honor summer's beloved berry. Cedar Circle Farm & Education Center, East Thetford, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. $10 per car; cost of food and drink. Info, 785-4737. Ice Cream Sundays: Sweets lovers make and taste the summer treat, then learn the history of the "great American dessert." Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 12:15 & 2:15 p.m. Regular admission, $4-14; free for kids 2 and under. Info, 457-2355. South Burlington Farmers Market: Farmers, food vendors, artists and crafters set up booths in the parking lot. South Burlington High School, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 207-266-8766.
'Summer Shorts': See THU.26, 2 p.m. & 8 p.m.
Winooski Farmers Market: Area growers and bakers offer ethnic eats, assorted produce and agricultural products. Champlain Mill Green, Winooski, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 413-446-4684.
'The Three Little Pigs': See WED.25, 1 p.m. and 4 p.m.
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Marie Force: The best-selling author signs copies of All You Need Is Love and I Want To Hold Your Hand from her Green Mountain Series. Vermont Country Store, Weston, 1-4 p.m. Free. Info, 362-5950. Summer Book Sale: See FRI.27, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
Community Restorative Yoga: Tisha Shull leads a gentle practice aimed at achieving mindbody harmony. Sangha Studio, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. Donations. Info, 603-973-4163.
Sundays for Fledglings: From feathers and flying to art and zoology, junior birders ages 5 through 9 develop research and observation skills. Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington, 2-3 p.m. Free with museum admission, $3.50-7; free for members; preregister. Info, 434-2167.
language
Dimanches French Conversation: Parlezvous français? Speakers practice the tongue at a casual, drop-in chat. Panera Bread, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 363-2431.
montréal
Montréal International Jazz Festival: See THU.26, 11 a.m.-midnight.
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The Aerolites: The local group brings a mix of rock, folk, funk and Americana to the Westford Summer Concert Series. Brick Meeting House, Westford, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 6asacar@gmail.com. Arthur Zorn & Doug Little: The pipe organist joins the percussionist in a patriotic program of musical fireworks. Bethany Church, Montpelier, 3 p.m. Donations. Info, 622-0376. Bob and the Troubadours: Bob Murray, Jeremiah McLane, Jim Goss and Getty Payson serenade picnickers with selections from their new album Child Inside Be Heard. Rough Terrain Farm, Randolph Center, 6:30-8:30 p.m. $8-15; free for kids 15 and under; preregister. Info, 461-6197. Jenny Brook Bluegrass Festival: See THU.26, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Rochester Chamber Music Society: Vermont Symphony Orchestra Brass Quintet delivers an outdoor concert in celebration of RCMS' 20th season. Rochester Park, rain location: Pierce Hall Community Center, 6 p.m. Donations. Info, 767-9234. 'Songs of Summer': Pianist Mary Jane Austin accompanies soprano Sierra Marcy in a vocal recital of works by Bach, Brahms, Mozart and others. Elley-Long Music Center, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 5-6 p.m. Free. Info, 324-6047. Vyvyan, Thoughtcrime & Super Super Serious Please Don't Laugh Band: An all-ages show marries pop, punk and acoustic comedy. Community Room, North Country Food Co-op, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 6 p.m. $3-10. Info, 518-310-0659.
outdoors
Birds By Ears & Eyes: See THU.26, 9 a.m. Early Birder Morning Walk: Avian enthusiasts search for winged species. Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington, 7-9:30 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 434-2167. Medicinal Plant Walk: Clinical herbalist Rebecca Dalgin helps nature lovers identify the healing properties of local flora. Meet outside the Wild Heart Wellness office. Goddard College, Plainfield, 1 p.m. $12. Info, 552-0727, rebecca. dalgin@gmail.com. Paddle to Prehistory: See FRI.27.
seminars
Community Vinyasa: Rose Bryant helps students align breath, intention and inner balance. Sangha Studio, Burlington, 12:45-1:45 p.m. Donations. Info, 603-973-4163.
Nonviolent Conflict Intervention Skills Training: See SAT.28.
Yogic Science: Pranayama and Meditation: Mindfulness techniques focus the senses and support an asana practice. Proceeds benefit the Center for Mindful Learning. Sangha Studio, Burlington, 2-3 p.m. Donations. Info, 603-973-4163.
Vermont Stand-Up Paddleboard Festival: Fans of this fast-growing recreational sport test the waters with races, demos and instructional clinics. Proceeds benefit Friends of Waterbury Reservoir. Waterbury Center State Park, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. $8 includes park entrance fee. Info, 2532542 or 244-1226.
kids
Russian Play Time With Natasha: Youngsters up to age 8 learn new words via rhymes, games, music, dance and a puppet show. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 11-11:45 a.m. Free. Info, 764-1810.
sports
Women's Pickup Soccer: Quick-footed ladies of varying skill levels break a sweat while stringing together passes and making runs for the goal. For ages 18 and up. Starr Farm Park, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. $3. Info, 864-0123.
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'Analog and Vinyl': See THU.26, 3 p.m. Circus Smirkus Big Top Tour: Dive in! Acrobatic adventures abound when performers ride the wave in "Anchors Away for Atlantis." Circus Smirkus Barn, Greensboro, 1-3 & 6-8 p.m. $14-21. Info, 533-7443. 'Durang Bang': See THU.26, 2 p.m. 'Little Shop of Horrors': See FRI.27, 2 p.m. 'Nothing-Is-Not-Ready': The political and apolitical movements of the not-yet-existing upriser masses come to life in a spirited show. Bread and Puppet Theater, Glover, 3 p.m. $10 suggested donation. Info, 525-3031. 'The Secret Garden': See FRI.27, 2-4:30 p.m. 'Summer Shorts': See THU.26, 7 p.m. 'The Three Little Pigs': See WED.25, 3 p.m.
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Barbara Hurd: The prize-winning poet and author excerpts selected works as part of the Vermont College of Fine Arts Visiting Writers Reading Series. College Hall Chapel, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 828-8599. Marie Force: See SAT.28, Vermont Country Store, Rockingham, 1-4 p.m. Free. Info, 362-5950. Mary Ann Fuller Young: In Plainly & Simply: A Memoir of Alzheimer's, the local author details the trails, tribulations and triumphs of her husband's battle with the disease. Phoenix Books Burlington, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 448-3350. Summer Book Sale: See FRI.27, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.
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What's the Buzz on Pollinators? Habitat Enhancement on Your Land: Green thumbs learn how to boost native populations and increase backyard fruit and berry production. The Farm Between & River Berry Farm, Jeffersonville, 4-7 p.m. $10-20. Info, 262-1241.
community
Penny Pillsbury Farewell Party: Brownell Library patrons bid the longtime director adieu at a daylong fête featuring coffee and doughnuts, an ice cream social and an evening gala reception. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Free; preregister for reception. Info, 878-6955, elisajz@myfairpoint.net.
dance
Shakti Tribal Belly Dance With Susanne: Students get their groove on with this ancient and spirit-inspired improvisational dance form. Soul Fire Studio, Burlington, 5:30-6:45 p.m. $15. Info, 688-4464.
food & drink
Strawberry Festival: The Vergennes City Band entertain locals, who dig into homemade strawberry shortcake at this benefit for the Champlain Valley Christian School. Vergennes City Park, 6-8 p.m. $5. Info, 759-3218.
games
Bridge Club: See WED.25, 7 p.m. Trivia Night: Teams of quick thinkers gather for a meeting of the minds. Lobby, Hotel Vermont, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 651-5012.
health & fitness
Avoid Falls With Improved Stability: See FRI.27. Monday-Night Fun Run: Runners push past personal limits and make strides at this weekly outing. Peak Performance, Williston, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 658-0949.
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FIzz, Boom, READ!: StoRIES WIth mEgAn: Captivating tales entertain good listeners ages 3 through 6. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. mAkE A kAlEIDoScoPE: Youngsters ages 8 and up learn about color and light in a crafting session. Fairfax Community Library, 1:30-3 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 849-2420. thE PhySIcS oF FlIght: Southern Vermont Natural History Museum staff share their knowledge with nature lovers in grades 3 and up. A live bird of prey rounds out the presentation. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 2-3 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956. WInD PoWER!: Vermont Energy Education Program representatives lead budding engineers ages 7 through 10 in a hands-on exploration of turbines and sailboats. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.
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ADvAncED SPAnISh lESSonS: Proficient speakers work on mastering the language. Private residence, Burlington, 5 p.m. $20. Info, 324-1757.
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couRAgEouS convERSAtIonS thRough ARt: 'vAlEntInE RoAD': RU12?'s Northeast Kingdom LGBTQA Community Advisory Group hosts a screening of Marta Cunningham's 2013 documentary about the murder of Larry King, an openly gay eighth grader. A discussion follows. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 860-7812.
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montRéAl IntERnAtIonAl JAzz FEStIvAl: See THU.26, 11 am.-midnight.
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PuBlIc JAm SESSIon: Musicians of all skill levels lift each other's spirits through the process of making music. The Wellness Co-op, Burlington, 5-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 888-4928218, ext. 300. SAmBAtucADA! oPEn REhEARSAl: New faces are invited to pitch in as Burlington's samba street-percussion band sharpens its tunes. Experience and instruments are not required. 8 Space Studio Collective, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 862-5017.
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Intro to Tribal Belly Dance: Ancient traditions from diverse cultures define this moving meditation that celebrates creative energy. Comfortable clothing required. Sacred Mountain Studio, Burlington, 6:45 p.m. $12. Info, piper.c.emily@gmail.com. Swing Dance Practice Session: Twinkle-toed dancers learn steps for the lindy hop, Charleston and balboa. Indoor shoes required. Champlain Club, Burlington, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $5. Info, 448-2930.
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Tea & Formal Gardens Tour: See THU.26.
film
Knights of the Mystic Movie Club: Cinema hounds screen campy flicks at this celebration of offbeat productions. Main Street Museum, White River Junction, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 356-2776.
food & drink
Benefit Bake: Pizza lovers dine on slices in support of 350 Vermont. Partial proceeds from each flatbread sold are donated. American Flatbread Burlington Hearth, 5-10 p.m. Prices vary. Info, 444-0350. Old North End Farmers Market: Locavores snatch up breads, juices, ethnic food and more from neighborhood vendors. Integrated Arts Academy, H.O. Wheeler Elementary School, Burlington, 3-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 324-3073, oldnorthendfarmersmarket@gmail.com. Rutland County Farmers Market: See SAT.28, 2-6 p.m.
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Lunch at the Library: See THU.26. Make a Water Clock: Tinkerers ages 8 and up learn about time and calibration. Fairfax Community Library, 6:30-8 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 849-2420. Messy Science With Ms. Liza: Tykes in grades K and up discover the fun in learning. Highgate Public Library, 10 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 868-3970. Preschool Story Hour: Color Magic!: Kiddos up to age 6 embark on colorful adventures with themed tales and activities. Fairfax Community Library, 9:30-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 849-2420. Summer Story Time: Lit lovers of all ages gather for engaging narratives. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. Summer Story Time: 'Weather Wise': Stories and songs help little ones up to age 5 learn the science behind sun, clouds and rain. KelloggHubbard Library, Montpelier, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.
montréal
Montréal International Jazz Festival: See THU.26, 11 am.-midnight.
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Champlain Islands Farmers Market: See WED.25. Middlebury Farmers Market: See WED.25. Newport Farmers Market: See WED.25. Wednesday Wine Down: See WED.25. Williston Farmers Market: See WED.25.
games
Bridge Club: See WED.25.
Montréal-Style Acro Yoga: See WED.25.
Castleton Summer Concerts: Across the Pond channel the "Fab Four" with a repertoire of the Beatles' most famous material. Pavilion. Castleton State College, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 468-6039.
Creative Writing Club: See WED.25.
seminars
Introduction to Buddhism: Senior student Larry Howe examines meditation, karma, f Je reincarnation and other aspects of ns en the religion. Milarepa Center, Barnet, Han de 7-8:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 633-4136.
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Stand-Up Paddleboard Race Series: Aquatic athletes face off in a friendly competition. North Beach, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. $5. Info, 651-8760. Waterbury Center State Park, 6-8 p.m. $5. Info, 253-2542. Tuesday Mountain Rides: Bicyclists of all skill levels brush up on their technique while pedaling along local trails. Mountain bikes suggested; helmets required. Onion River Sports, Montpelier, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 229-9409. Women's Kingdom Trails Rides: Riders spin their wheels in a supportive environment. Wildflower Inn, Lyndonville, 5:30 p.m. Free with Kingdom Trails day ticket or season pass. Info, 626-8448.
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Fizz, Boom, READ!: Is It Alive?: Pam Quinn leads a morning of scientific inquiry for kiddos up to age 7, who differentiate between living and nonliving things. A lunch follows. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 426-3581. Gooey Science: What makes rubber bands stretch and balls bounce? Kiddos and their parents explore ductile and tensile strength with Jacqueline Soule. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581. 'The Lone Ranger Meets Cherokee Princess': See TUE.1, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, noon. Free. Info, 355-1461. The Lunchbox Summer Meal Program: See WED.25. Meet Rockin' Ron the Friendly Pirate: See WED.25. Music, Movement & Fun With Ellie: Preschoolers burn off energy in a lighthearted environment. Highgate Public Library, 11 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 868-3970. Reading Buddies: See WED.25. Wacky Wednesday: Build a Tall Tower: Using supplied materials, kiddos ages 8 and up engage their brains and bodies while creating unique structures. ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 12:30-1 p.m. Free with admission, $10.50-13.50. Info, 877-324-6386.
Women's Wednesday Mountain Rides: Beginner-to-intermediate pedalers cruise scenic routes. Mountain bikes suggested; helmets required. Onion River Sports, Montpelier, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 229-9409.
Young & Fun Performance Series: Gustafer Yellowgold: Equal parts pop-rock concert and animated storybook, this multimedia romp features a zany spaceman's adventures on Earth. Lake Placid Center for the Arts, N.Y., 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 518-523-2512.
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'Analog and Vinyl': See THU.26. 'The Three Little Pigs': See WED.25.
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Emily Raboteau: As part of the Vermont College of Fine Arts Visiting Writers Reading Series, the author of the acclaimed The Professor's Daughter entertains lit lovers. College Hall Chapel, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 828-8599.
Montréal Cirque Festival: Circus performers light up the stage with awe-inspiring acrobatic feats on indoor and outdoor stages. See montrealcirquefest.com for details. Various Montréal locations, 6:30 p.m. $16-27. Info, 514-285-9175. Montréal International Jazz Festival: See THU.26, 11 am.-midnight.
40th Army Band: Founded in 1907, this iconic group plays traditional patriotic tunes in "An American Celebration." St. Raphael Catholic Church, Poultney, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 338-3480.
J.J. Grey & Mofro: Music lovers groove to a night of southern soul as part of the Songs at Mirror Lake Music Series. Mid's Park, Lake Placid, N.Y., 7 p.m. Free. Info, 518-524-4328.
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'The Lone Ranger Meets Cherokee Princess': The sequel to Very Merry Theatre's Lone Ranger explores the cowboy's adventures with a Native American companion. Deborah Rawson Memorial Library, Jericho, noon. Free. Info, 355-1461.
Pause-Café French Conversation: French students of varying levels engage in dialogue en français. Panera Bread, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 363-2431.
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French Conversation Group: Beginnerto-intermediate speakers brush up on their language skills. Halvorson's Upstreet Café, Burlington, 4:30-6 p.m. Free. Info, 540-0195.
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Nia Class: Drawing from martial arts, dance arts and healing arts, a sensory-based movement practice inspires students to explore their potential. North End Studio A, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. $13. Info, 863-6713.
Beginner Spanish Lessons: Newcomers develop basic competency en español. Private residence, Burlington, 6 p.m. $20. Info, 324-1757.
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Intro to Yoga: Those new to the mat discover the benefits of aligning breath and body. Fusion Studio Yoga & Body Therapy, Montpelier, 4-5 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 272-8923.
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Yoga With Danielle: Toddlers and preschoolers strike a pose, then share stories and songs. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 10-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 764-1810.
English as a Second Language Class: See WED.25. German-English Conversation Group: Community members practice conversing auf Deutsch. Local History Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211. Intermediate Spanish Lessons: See WED.25. Intermediate/Advanced English as a Second Language Class: See WED.25.
40th Army Band: See TUE.1, Baptist Building, Fairfax, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 338-3480. City Hall Park Lunchtime Performances: The Irregulars bring toe-tapping traditional tunes to an outdoor performance. Burlington City Hall Park, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7166. Neko Case: The Grammy Award-nominated indie-rocker belts out Americana tunes. See calendar spotlight. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 8 p.m. $20-100. Info, 863-5966. Vermont Symphony Orchestra TD Bank Summer Festival Tour: See THU.26, Riley Rink, Hunter Park, Manchester Center, gates open for picnicking, 5:30 p.m.; concert, 7:30 p.m. $12-37; free for kids under 18. Info, 863-5966 or 864-5741, ext. 10. Village Harmony Teen Ensemble: Larry Gordon, Suzannah Park and Carlos Jurado direct vocalists in a program of international choral music. Congregational Church of Westminster West, Putney, 7:30 p.m. $5-10. Info, 426-3210.
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Making Tracks, Seeing Skins & Skulls: See WED.25. Sunset Aquadventure: See WED.25.
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Green Mountain Table Tennis Club: See WED.25. Wednesday RoadSpokes 101 Ride: See WED.25.
talks
Shannon Bryant & Shelly Pottorf: The Texas-based green builder and eco-architect present "In the Belly of the Beast: Living Building Challenge and Other Alternative Approaches in the Shadow of Big Oil." Yestermorrow Design/ Build School, Waitsfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 496-5545.
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'Analog and Vinyl': See THU.26, 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Circus Smirkus Big Top Tour: See SAT.29, Leonard Field, St. Johnsbury, 1 & 6 p.m. $12-20. Info, 748-2600. 'The Fox on the Fairway': Kathryn Markey directs this St. Michael's Playhouse production of Ken Ludwig's comedy about a hilarious rivalry between two country clubs. McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 8 p.m. $35-44. Info, 654-2281. 'The Three Little Pigs': See WED.25.
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Authors at the Aldrich: Novelist Alec Hastings delights lit lovers with Otter St. Onge and the Bootleggers: A Tale of Adventure. A concert in Currier Park follows. Milne Community Room, Aldrich Library, Barre, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 476-7550. Writers for Recovery Workshop: See WED.25. m
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to the craft of stone sculpture. Sat. & Sun., Jul. 19 & 20, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Cost: $295/2-day workshop. Location: The Carving Studio and Sculpture Center, 636 Marble St., West Rutland. Info: 438-2097, info@carvingstudio.org, carvingstudio.org.
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art ART & POTTERY IN MIDDLEBURY: Adult: Wed. Wheel, Wed. Int./Adv. Painting, Drawing: Take it Up a Notch, Landscape Painting Workshop, Watercolors, Nature Photography at Dawn. Children: Drawing & Cartooning Workshop, Once Upon a Time, Artists & Their Mediums, Fairy Houses, Young Artists, Bird Brains & Feather Heads, Art Around the World, Crafty Creatures, Art in Nature. Pottery: Multi-age Hand Building & Wheel: Tue., Wed., Thu. Location: Middlebury Studio School, 1 Mill St., lower level, Middlebury. Info: Barbara Nelson, 247-3702, ewaldewald@aol.com, middleburystudioschool.org. BRONZE CASTING: Learn about the wonderful world of molten bronze. Participants will produce three bronzes using a different method for each. Techniques demonstrated will be: Lost wax: make your own wax original the first day of class. Each participant will make a 3 x 5 in. plaque, to be cast using cope and drag green sand casting. Jul. 7-11, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Cost: $625/5-day workshop, incl. materials & evening meals. Location: The Carving Studio and Sculpture Center, 636 Marble St., West Rutland. Info: 438-2097, info@ carvingstudio.org, carvingstudio. org. INTRODUCTORY STONE CARVING: Two days of handcarving technique and stone carving lore introduce the beginner to reductive art-making and three-dimensional thinking. Use of the Studio’s tools and a moderate piece of Vermont marble are included in the fee. Discussions of safe studio practices and stone and tool sourcing help make this two-day course an excellent initiation
MAKE YOUR OWN SUNDIAL: Make your own sundial and synchronize yourself with the predictable constant of time. Participants will make a simple marble and metal gnomen style sundial marked with time indicators. Hand chisels and some power tools will be used. Open to all technical skill levels. Sat. & Sun., Aug. 2 & 3, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Cost: $295/2-day class, all materials incl. Location: The Carving Studio and Sculpture Center, 636 Marble St., West Rutland. Info: 438-2097, info@carvingstudio. org, carvingstudio.org. SLATE LETTERING AND CARVING: We will go over basic Roman V-cut and raised lettering, gilding and Celtic knotwork design. The workshop will concentrate on proper tool usage (traditional and pneumatic), a brief tool-making demonstration, sandblast etching and techniques for translating a drawing or calligraphy onto stone. All levels of skill are encouraged; just bring ideas, text samples, sketches and of course, enthusiasm. Sat. & Sun., Jul. 5 & 6, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Cost: $295/2-day class, everything incl. Location: The Carving Studio and Sculpture Center, 636 Marble St., West Rutland. Info: 438-2097, info@carvingstudio. org, carvingstudio.org.
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Call 865-7166 for info or register online at burlingtoncityarts.org. Teacher bios are also available online. CLAY: SILKSCREEN SLIP TRANSFERS: Explore the possibilities of surface decoration using slip transfers on thrown and slab-built forms. Learn basic silkscreening techniques, as well as printing and applying
silkscreened slip transfers. Includes over 30 hours per week of open studio time, tools and equipment, glazes, firing and a 25-pound bag of clay. Sun., Jul. 20 & 27 & Aug. 3, 2:30-4:30 p.m. Cost: $90/person; $81/BCA members. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. CLAY: WHEEL THROWING MONDAYS: An introduction to clay, pottery and ceramics studio. Work primarily on a potter’s wheel, learning basic throwing and forming techniques, creating functional pieces like mugs, vases and bowls. No experience needed! Includes over 30 hours/ week of open studio time, tools, equipment, glazes, firing and a 25-pound. bag of clay. Weekly on Mon., Jul. 7-Aug. 11, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $230/person; $207/BCA members. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. CLAY: WHEEL THROWING THURSDAYS: An introduction to clay, pottery and ceramics studio. Work primarily on a potter’s wheel, learning basic throwing and forming techniques, creating functional pieces like mugs, vases and bowls. No experience needed! Includes over 30 hours/week of open studio time, tools and equipment, glazes, firing, and a 25-lb. bag of clay. Weekly on Thu., Jul. 10-Aug. 14, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $230/person; $207/BCA members. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. DROP-IN: LIFE DRAWING: This drop-in life-drawing class is open to all levels and facilitated by local painter Glynnis Fawkes. Spend the evening with other artists, drawing one of our experienced models. Please bring your own drawing materials and paper. No registration necessary. Weekly on Mon., Jul. 7-Aug. 11, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $8/person; $7/BCA members. Purchase a drop-in card & get the 6th visit free!. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington. PHOTO: DIGITAL SLR CAMERA: Explore the basic workings of the digital SLR camera to learn how to take the photographs you envision. Demystify f-stops, shutter speeds, sensitivity ratings and exposure, and learn the basics of composition. Bring your camera and owner’s manual to class. No experience necessary. Weekly on Wed., Jul. 9-Aug. 13, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $160/ person; $144/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington. FILMMAKING ART INSTITUTE: Explore digital filmmaking and create a project with a team of fellow student filmmakers and teacher Michael Fisher film maker. Explore camera techniques, scripting, sound mixing, editing and more. All equipment provided. Experience in filmmaking is not required. Offered in partnership with VCAM. Ages 15-18. Jul. 21-25, 8:30 a.m.3:30 p.m. Cost: $350/person; $315/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, Digital Media Lab, Burlington.
SILKSCREENING: Torrey Valyou, local silkscreen legend and owner of New Duds, will show you how to design and print T-shirts, posters, fine art and more! Learn how to apply photo emulsion, use a silkscreen exposure unit, and mix and print images using water-based inks. No experience necessary. Weekly on Thu., Jul. 10-Aug. 14, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $210/person; $189/BCA members. Location: BCA Print Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington.
used to create amazing nighttime photography. Creating light paintings, capturing star trails and beautiful photos of the Milky Way will be the goals for the class. See stars in a whole new way! Aug. 5 & 12, 6:30-8:30 p.m.; Aug. 9, 8-11 p.m. Cost: $105/ person; $94.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington.
SUMMER CAMP: ARTVENTURE: BCA and Burlington Parks & Recreation present Artventure! Spend the morning in BCA’s art studios exploring painting, printmaking, craft and the pottery wheel. In the afternoon, join Parks & Rec for a variety of fun activities and field trips including swimming at North Beach, bowling, berry picking and more. Daily hot lunch included. Ages 6-11. Weeks of Jul. 21 & 28 & Aug. 4 & 11, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Cost: $350/person; $315/BCA members. Location: BCA’s Clay & Print Studio (morning) & Edmunds Elementary School (afternoon), plus field trips, Burlington.
RÉSUMÉ WORKSHOP: Make a first great impression with a powerful, clear, and professional resume that puts you ahead of the crowd. Let your unique self emerge to advertise your greatness! Class taught by highly experienced résumé writer and career coach who is committed to your success in having work you really love! Mon., Jun. 30, 2-4 p.m. Cost: $10/2-hour class. Location: Williston Federated Church, 44 North Williston Rd., Williston. Info: Love Your Work Today, Jim Koehneke, 857-5641, jim@loveyourworktoday.com, loveyourworktoday.com.
SUMMER CAMP: CAMP TADPOLE: Join us for weeklong morning camps in the BCA Clay Studios! Each week explore camp themes: drawing, painting, crafts, clay, collage, and much more. Each camp has two instructors and an assistant with a max of 10 students. Check online for a full listing of all our camps. Scholarships available. Ages 3-5. Jun.-Aug., 8:30-11:30 a.m. Cost: $175/person; $157.50/ BCA members. Location: BCA Clay & Print Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. SUMMER CAMP: DIGITAL FILMMAKING: This camp will explore the basics of digital filmmaking, videography, sound mixing and more! Students will shoot footage in Burlington and will make short projects with professional filmmaker Michael Fisher. Video camera provided. Offered in partnership with VCAM. Check online for a full listing of all our camps. Scholarships available. Ages 12-14. Aug. 11-15, 8:30 a.m.3:30 p.m. Cost: $350/person; $315/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, Digital Media Lab, Burlington. PHOTO: PRINTING BOTANICALS WITH CYANOTYPE: Learn the historic cyanotype photographic process and print beautiful, rich blue botanical images in this fun, hands-on class. Students will print on fabric and various papers and will expose their prints outside in the sunshine. Paper, fabric, chemicals and botanicals will be included, but students are encouraged to bring materials. Instructor: Dan Lovell. Jul. 26, 1-5 p.m. Cost: $65/person; $58.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington. PHOTOGRAPHING THE NIGHT SKY: Learn techniques needed for astrophotography. In this hands-on class, learn camera skills and editing techniques
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computers INTRO 3-D DRAFTING/ SOLIDWORKS: Learn the fundamental skills needed to make useful engineering drawings. Learn the necessary commands, options and menus in the context of completing a design task. Major topics covered: Sketching, basic part modeling, part symmetry, patterning, revolved features, shelling and ribs, editing: repairs, editing: design changes, using assemblies, engineering drawings. Jul. 18, 19 & 20, 9 a.m.4 p.m. Cost: $285/3-day class. Location: Vermont Woodworking School Computer Lab, 148 Main St., Fairfax. Info: Amanda Lass, 849-2013, info@ vermontwoodworkingschool. com, vermontwoodworkingschool. com.
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Jul. 26, 9-4 p.m. Cost: $160/ person; members $144; material list. Location: Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. FUNDAMENTALS OF JEWELRY DESIGN: Instructor: Jean Chute. Learn the fundamental techniques used in making jewelry and create your own unique designs. Explore sawing, drilling, filing, sanding, texturing and soldering. Create basic pieces such as charms, pendants and simple bracelets. Explore the characteristics of metal and gain the skills necessary to ultimately complete a finished, polished piece in fine silver. 6 Wed., 5-7:30 p.m., Jul. 9-Aug. 13. Cost: $250/ person (members $193.50, nonmembers $215, + $35 materials fee). Location: Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. FURNITURE REFINISHING: Instructor: Gered Williams. Have a piece of furniture in your house that needs to be brought back to life? Come learn the principles of furniture refinishing. Learning about different types of finishes and leave with your beloved piece restored back to its original beauty. Minor repairs can also be looked at and fixed. Sat. & Sun., 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Jul. 19-20. Cost: $245/person (members $207, nonmembers $230, shop fee $15, + wood & finishes). Location: Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. LANDSCAPE PAINTING WEEKEND: Working on location at Shelburne Farms and other lakeside locations, discover the joy of creating realistic impressions directly from nature. Using traditional or water-soluble oils, practical approaches to palette preparation and color mixing will be addressed as well as opportunities to combine photo references with firsthand observations. Both impressionist and naturalistic styles of color layering will be covered. No previous experience necessary. 4 weeks, Sat., 9 a.m.-noon, Jul. 19-Aug. 9 Cost: $175/nonmembers; $157.50/members, material list. Location: Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne.
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MAKE A TABLE/ GLASS MOSAIC TOP: Teens: Become a woodworker. In this high-skill building camp you will learn and combine craft disciplines in creating a unique, stylized table. You will power up in the wood shop and be guided through the use of various tools and machines to cut, shape and smooth components for a side table. Mon.-Fri., Jul. 28-Aug. 1, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Cost: $350/nonmembers; $315/members. Location: Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne.
DAY IN VERMONT: WATERCOLOR: Join Vermont artist Peter Huntoon for an exciting one-day watercolor workshop. Peter will review watercolor fundamentals and the all-important building blocks that lead to great paintings. After lunch Peter will share his distinctive artistic approach with a demonstration painting, Q&A and individual painting as time allows. Sat.,
MIX-LEVEL WHEEL-THROWING: Instructor: Rik Rolla. This course is for all skill levels! Beginners will be guided through the fundamentals of basic wheelthrowing techniques. More experienced students will consider elements of form and style and receive individual instruction in functional or sculptural techniques. 7 Mon., 5:30-7:30 p.m., Jul. 14-Aug. 25. Cost: $240/person (members $180,
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Museum, 109 Old Stone House Rd., Browington. Info: 754-2022, edassist@ oldstonehousemuseum.org.
Sketchbook ShenaniganS!: Instructor: Julianna brazill. a sketchbook-based exploration and documentation of individual imagination and the world around us, this class stretches the limits of the definition of art. While this class will challenge students to think outside the box, it is not a strict, skill-based class by any means. The main focus is imaginative play! 6 Thu., 5:30-7:30 p.m., Jul. 10-Aug. 14. Cost: $180/person (members $157.50, nonmembers $175, + $5 materials fee). Location: Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne.
SuMMer Pottery claSSeS: spend the summer in mud during a pottery class at the Mud studio. Wheel throwing and handbuilding classes for all skill levels start July 7. come dig in the fun. Meets weekly. Cost: $195/3-hour class & unlimited studio time. Location: The Mud Studio, 961 Route 2, Middlesex. Info: 224-7000, info@ themudstudio.com, themudstudio.com.
heritage craft Week at old Stone houSe MuSeuM in broWnington: painted Floor cloths, Tin punch, Theorem painting, stencil on slate, Wooden handle Making, rug hooking, handmade paper, stone Wall building, blacksmithing, Vinegar Grain painting. call us or check our website for details and online registration: oldstonehousemuseum.org/event-registration. small classes and skilled instructors, at a beautiful historic site in the Northeast Kingdom. Jul. 7-13. Location: Old Stone House
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culinary ferMentation W/ Sandor katz: learn the complex techniques and flavors of fermented food and drink with renowned fermentation expert sandor Katz. You’ll learn how to make fermented vegetables (kimchi, anyone?), beverages (including a fruit-based wine), dairy products (yogurt, sour cream, etc.), grains, legumes, and starch. program includes lectures, demonstrations and a hands-on element. Tue., Jul. 22, 9 a.m.-Wed., Jul. 23, 5 p.m. Cost: $135/2-day intensive workshop. Location: Shelburne Farms, 1611 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: Shelburne Farms & Chelsea Green, 9858686, registration@
dance dance Studio SalSalina: salsa classes, nightclub-style, on-one and on-two, group and private, four levels. beginner walk-in classes, Wednesdays, 6 p.m. $13/person for one-hour class. No dance experience, partner or preregistration required, just the desire to have fun! Drop in any time and prepare for an enjoyable workout. Location:
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266 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Victoria, 598-1077, 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 Dos santos, we teach you how to dance to the music and how to have a great time on the dance floor! There is no better time to start than now! Mon. evenings: beginner class, 7-8 p.m.: intermediate, 8:159:15 p.m. Cost: $10/1-hr. class. Location: North End Studios, 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: $50/4wk. class. Location: Champlain Club, 20 Crowley St., Burlington. Info: First Step Dance, 598-6757, kevin@firststepdance.com, firststepdance.com.
actors which reinforce negative female stereotypes? This workshop is aimed at learning how to create and develop characters who are complex, dynamic, and memorable women. Instructor: Kathryn blume. adults and teens ages 16+. Tue., Jul. 8 & 15 & Fri., Jul. 11 & 18, 6-8 p.m. Cost: $95/ person. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: 652-4548, flynnarts.org.
Site-SPecific dance coMPoSition and PerforMance: level II/III. Use the tools of improvisation and composition and the inspiration provided by the natural and architectural beauty of shelburne Farms to generate original choreography. Dancers meet at the Flynn and carpool to the Farms, where we learn to develop our creative ideas into performance pieces both as a full ensemble and as smaller groups. Optional performance on location possible, should the group decide on it. Instructor: lida Winfield. Jun. 27-29. Cost: $75/ person. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: 652-4548, flynnarts.org.
herbs WiSdoM of the herbS School: currently interviewing applicants for Wisdom of the herbs 2014 certification program, Jun. 28-29, Jul. 26-27, aug. 23-24, sep. 27-28, Oct. 2526 and Nov. 8-9, 2014. learn to identify wild herbaceous plants and shrubs over three seasons. prepare local wild edibles and herbal home remedies. practice homesteading and primitive skills, food as first medicine, and skillful use of intentionality. experience profound connection and play with Nature. handson curriculum includes herb walks, skill-building, sustainable harvesting and communion with the spirits of the plants. Tuition $1750; payment plan $187.50 each month. Vsac nondegree grants available to qualifying
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meditation INTRODUCTION TO ZEN: This workshop is conducted by an ordained Zen Buddhist teacher. It focuses on the theory and meditation practices of Zen Buddhism. Preregistration required. Call for more info or register online. Jul. 12, 9 a.m.-1:15 p.m.; please arrive at 8:45 a.m. Cost: $30/half-day workshop; limited-time price. Location: Vermont Zen Center, 480 Thomas Rd., Shelburne. Info: Vermont Zen Center, 985-9746, ecross@crosscontext.net, vermontzen.org.
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 Cafe (meditation and discussions) meets the first Saturday of each month, 9 a.m.-noon. An open house (intro to the center, short dharma talk and socializing) is held on the third Friday of each month, 7-9 p.m. Instruction: Sun. mornings, 9 a.m.-noon, or by appt. Sessions: Tue. & Thu., noon-1 p.m., & Mon.-Thu., 6-7 p.m. Location: Burlington Shambhala Center, 187 S. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 658-6795, burlingtonshambhalactr.org. MEDITATIONS ON SIMPLICITY: Affluenza is the painful, contagious condition of overload, debt, anxiety, and waste resulting from the dogged pursuit of more. This workshop introduces participants to meditations on simplicity that relieve affluenza symptoms, offering pointers on how to simplify their lives in discerning and responsible ways.
Mon. beginning Jul. 7. By donation. Location: Bassett House, 173 N. Prospect St., Burlington. Info: Eric Garza, 881-8675, eric@ howericlives.com, howericlives. com/calendar/simplicity.
music TAIKO, DJEMBE & CONGAS!: Stuart Paton, cofounder and artistic director of Burlington Taiko Group, has devoted the past 25 years to performing and teaching taiko to children and adults here in the Burlington area and throughout New England. He is currently the primary instructor at the Burlington Taiko Space, and his teaching style integrates the best of what he experienced as a child growing up in Tokyo with many successful strategies in American education. Call or email for schedule. Location: Burlington Taiko Space, 208 Flynn Ave., suite 3-G, Burlington & Lane Shops Community Room, 13 N. Franklin St., Montpelier. Info: Stuart Paton, 999-4255, spaton55@gmail.com, burlingtontaiko.org.
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SPANISH CLASSES: Experienced native tutor offering Spanish classes! Any level. Any age. Interactive lessons to improve comprehension, pronunciation and achieve fluency. Grammar and vocabulary practice plus audio-visual material is used. Affordable prices. “I feel proud to say that my students have significantly improved their Spanish with my teaching approach.” —Maigualida Gomez Rak. Location: N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 276-0747, maigomez1@hotmail.com.
VERMONT BRAZILIAN JIUJITSU: Classes for men, women and children. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu enhances strength, flexibility, balance, coordination and cardio-respiratory fitness. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu training builds and helps to instill courage and selfconfidence. We offer a legitimate Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu martial arts program in a friendly, safe and positive environment. Accept no imitations. Learn from one of the world’s best, Julio “Foca” Fernandez, CBJJ and IBJJF certified 6th Degree Black Belt, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu instructor under Carlson Gracie Sr., teaching in Vermont, born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil! A 5-time Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu National Featherweight Champion and 3-time Rio de Janeiro State Champion, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Mon.-Fri., 6-9 p.m., & Sat., 10 a.m. 1st class is free. Location: Vermont Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, 55 Leroy Rd., Williston. Info: 660-4072, julio@bjjusa.com, vermontbjj.com.
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HeALING HeARt Of SUmmeR: awaken to the Heart of summer, using shamanic journeying, story, ceremony and, perhaps, a walk in the park. connect to the majesty of the season and the many beings and energies that are now at their most exuberant and potent. Discover new pathways to healing. Sat., Jul. 12, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Cost: $40/4hour workshop. Location: JourneyWorks, 1205 North Ave., Burlington. Info: Michael Watson, 860-6203, mwatsonlcmhc@hotmail.com, journeyworksvt.com.
tai chi SNAke-StyLe tAI CHI CHUAN: The Yang snake style is a dynamic tai chi method that mobilizes the spine while stretching and strengthening the core body muscles. Practicing this ancient martial art increases strength, flexibility, vitality, peace of mind and martial skill. Beginner classes Sat. mornings & Wed. evenings. Call to view a class. Location: Bao Tak Fai Tai Chi Institute, 100 Church St., Burlington. Info: 864-7902, ipfamilytaichi.org.
yANG-StyLe tAI CHI: The slow movements of tai chi help reduce blood pressure and increase balance and concentration. come breathe with us and experience the joy of movement while increasing your ability to be inwardly still. Wed., 5:30 p.m., Sat., 8:30 a.m. $16/class, $60/mo., $160/3 mo. Location: Mindful Breath Tai Chi (formerly Vermont Tai Chi Academy and Healing Center), 180 Flynn Ave., Burlington. Info: 735-5465, janet@mindfulbreathtaichi.com, mindfulbreathtaichi.com.
yoga BURLINGtON HOt yOGA: tRy SOmetHING dIffeReNt!: Offering creative, vinyasa-style yoga classes featuring practice in the Barkan and Prana Flow Method Hot Yoga in a 95-degree studio accompanied by eclectic music. ahh, the heat on a cold day, a flowing practice, the cool stone meditation, a chilled orange scented towel to complete your spa yoga experience. Get hot: 2-for-1 offer. $15. Go to hotyogaburlingtonvt.com. Location: North End Studio B, 294 N Winooski Ave.,Burlington. Info: 999-9963.
evOLUtION yOGA: evolution Yoga and Physical Therapy offers a variety of classes in a supportive atmosphere: Beginner, advanced, kids, babies, post- and pre-natal, community classes and workshops. Vinyasa, Kripalu, core, Therapeutics and alignment classes. Become part of our yoga community. You are welcome here. Cost: $15/class, $130/class card, $5-10/community classes. Location: Evolution Yoga, 20 Kilburn St., Burlington. Info: 864-9642, evolutionvt.com. HONeSt yOGA, tHe ONLy dedICAted HOt yOGA fLOw CeNteR: Honest Yoga offers practice for all levels. Brand
new beginners’ courses include two specialty classes per week for four weeks plus unlimited access to all classes. We have daily classes in essentials, Flow and core Flow with alignment constancy. We hold teacher trainings at the 200- and 500-hour levels. Daily classes & workshops. $25/new student 1st week unlimited, $15/class or $130/10-class card, $12/ class for student or senior or $100/10-class punch card. Location: Honest Yoga Center, 150 Dorset St., Blue Mall, next to Sport Shoe Center, S. Burlington. Info: 497-0136, honestyogastudio@gmail.com, www.honestyogacenter.com. LAUGHING RIveR yOGA: Highly trained and dedicated teachers offer yoga classes, workshops, and retreats in a beautiful setting overlooking the Winooski River. We offer classes in a variety of forms suitable for all levels. Beginners welcome! 200and 300-hour teacher training programs begins in september. Om. $5-14/single yoga class; $120/10-class card; $130/monthly unlimited. Location: Laughing River Yoga, Chace Mill, suite 126, Burlington. Info: 343-8119, laughingriveryoga.com.
yOGA ROOtS: Flexible, inflexible, athletic, pregnant, stressed, or recovering from injury or illness? Yoga Roots has something for you! skillful, dedicated teachers welcome, nurture and inspire you in our calming studio: anusara, Gentle, Kids, Kundalini, Kripalu, Meditation, Prenatal, Postnatal (Baby and Me), Therapeutic Restorative, Vinyasa Flow, Heated Vinyasa, Yin and more! little shamans camp, weekly on Wed., Jun. 11-Jul. 30 for ages 5-8; Transformation through the chakras with Heidi Bock and laura lomas, Jun. 28, 1-5 p.m.; stand-Up Paddleboard Yoga at shelburne Beach begins Jun. 25; Free Yoga at shelburne Beach, Jun. 29, 8-9 a.m.; Yoga in Nature camp begins aug. 18 for ages 5-9. Location: Yoga Roots, 6221 Shelburne Rd., Shelburne Business Park. Info: 985-0090, yogarootsvt.com.
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013 marked the 25th anniversary of the release of Lucinda Williams’ breakthrough eponymous album. For the decade prior to that 1988 record, her music had largely been ignored, aside from some occasional nibbles from mostly minor record labels. But Lucinda Williams, originally released on now-defunct London punk and indie label Rough Trade Records, put the Louisiana-born alt-country songwriter on the map. It was the first break in a career that would birth landmark albums such as 1998’s Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, garner multiple Grammy Awards and see her become one of the most admired songwriters of her generation. In celebration of that anniversary, Lucinda Williams, which has been out of print for a decade, has received the deluxe reissue treatment by Nashville label Thirty Tigers. The reissue, released in January of this year, includes the original record, remastered from the original analog tapes, as well as 20 live cuts. But Williams isn’t simply reliving the past. In September, she’ll release a double album of new material, which she describes as “country-soul.” She’ll follow that up about six months later with a record of what she says is “my kind of country music.” Seven Days recently spoke with Williams by phone, in advance of her show at the Flynn MainStage this Saturday, June 28. SEVEN DAYS: Aside from the obvious tie-in with the anniversary, was there any other reason for rereleasing the record now? LUCINDA WILLIAMS: It was mainly the anniversary. It had been rereleased in the 1990s by Koch Records, but then they went under, and it went out of print again. The main thing was trying to find the original analog tapes, which until now had been in storage somewhere. When Koch rereleased it, they didn’t even have the analog masters. They just made a digital copy. So we went those SHE’S GOT REISSUES
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A hearty welcome home to Mainebased Americana/power-pop trio the touGhcAtS. Newbie readers might find that last sentence confusing since, as of this writing, Maine and Vermont are technically two different states. But those who’ve been following along a bit longer may recall that some years ago I conferred honorary Vermonter status on the group. I did so, one, because they’re really good. And two, because they experienced a decidedly Burlingtonian rite of passage that should be familiar to many local musicians: They got booted from playing on the Church Street Marketplace for daring to busk without being vetted and permitted by Marketplace tastemakers. Anyway, the Toughcats are back in Vermont for a few shows this week, touring behind a new record, Rough Ones. The band’s latest is a slight departure from their earlier works, which tended towards a rootsy sound along the lines of, say, the AVEtt BrothErS. But Rough Ones finds the trio veering into a more strictly popinformed style. There’s still enough twang to sate Americana fans — largely in part to the fine work of banjo player coliN GullEY. But even the dulcet tones of his often languid pickin’ are used more in service to the band’s refined, hook-heavy songwriting than for shades of Appalachia. Honestly, I hear more of a 1970s power-pop influence — think the SmAll FAcES or even BiG StAr — than the alt-country and pseudo-punkgrass of their earlier records. Suffice it to say I really dig the new tunes, and I think many of you will, too. Find out when the Toughcats play Signal Kitchen in Burlington this Thursday, June 26, with songwriter pAtrick SwEANY, and Positive Pie in Montpelier on Friday, June 27.
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Remember last Wednesday when we were basking in the glow of a rare quiet week on the local music front, and recharging our batteries for the summer rocking to come? Yeah, that’s over now. This weekend, festival season kicks into high gear with the first major summerly to-do of a string of outdoor fests and series that will occupy our ears practically every weekend from now until mid-September. I hope you’re rested up. This Friday, June 27, marks the start of the fifth annual Frendly Gathering festival at Timber Ridge in Windham, Vt. The two-day fest is the brainchild of pro snowboarders JAck mitrANi and DANNY DAViS — the latter was on the U.S. Snowboard Team at the 2014 Winter Olympics. The duo originally conceived of the festival simply as a party for about 250 of their closest frends — they spell it that way because “There’s no ‘I’ in frends.” But in the five years since, the festival has grown exponentially, thanks in part to the increasing infusion of big-name musical talent alongside local acts. Past fests have seen the likes of BEAtS ANtiquE, kEllEr williAmS, Dr. DoG and the FElicE BrothErS grace the festival’s stages. The lineup for this year’s FG looks to be the best yet. Savvy music fans will likely recognize artists such as electrorockers lotuS, indie-folk darlings DEltA Spirit, indie rockers DEEr tick, old-time
blues-folk revivalist ShAkEY GrAVES and the ever-ascendent lAkE StrEEt DiVE. But the mark of a great festival is not merely the glitzy names at the top of the marquee. Often the acts on the undercard make for the most memorable festy moments. And in that regard, the Frendly Gathering scores especially high. The backbone of the FG is the wealth of local and regional talent that has long been a fixture at the festival. This year, that includes New England-based newfunk mavens kuNG Fu, Brooklyn “cave music” progenitors mooN hooch and Long Island indie songwriter JAYmAY, among many others. On the strictly locavore front, expect performances from rising jam phenoms twiDDlE, kAt wriGht & thE iNDomitABlE Soul BAND, jamgrass trio JAtoBA, whiskeygrass outfit GolD towN, grass-grass band tAllGrASS GEtDowN, basement soul duo quiEt lioN and prodigal neo-soul songstress mYrA FlYNN. And also DJ DiSco phANtom, because he’s everywhere — though not at his newly minted series Disco Phantom Presents this Friday, June 27, at the Monkey House. This time around he’ll hand the reins off to live solo electronic acts AmEliA DEVoiD, toFuANDShit and priNcipAl DEAN, in addition to a few other acts. For more on the 2014 Frendly
Gathering, including ticket and camping info — and the fest’s “10 Anchors of Frendship” manifesto — check out frendlygathering.com.
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THE BEE'S KNEES: Sun Day Brown (singer-songwriter), 7:30 p.m., donation. MOOG'S PLACE: Seth Eames & Miriam Bernardo (singersongwriters), 7:30 p.m., free. PIECASSO PIZZERIA & LOUNGE: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free. COURTESY OF RICARDO LEMVO
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CITY LIMITS: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free.
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THE PARKER PIE CO.: Night, 7 p.m., free. Trivia Night THE STAGE: Ashley Miles (singer-songwriter), 6:30 p.m., free.
RED SQUARE: Duke Aeroplane & the Wrong Numbers (swamp blues), 7 p.m., free. D Jay Baron (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free. RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ Cre8 (EDM), 10 p.m., free. SIGNAL KITCHEN: Patrick Sweany, the Toughcats (folk, rock), 8:30 p.m., $10. 18+. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Zach Nugent (rock), 8 p.m., $5-10 donation.
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HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Jolie Holland, Shy Hunters (rock), 8:30 p.m., $13/16. AA. THE MONKEY HOUSE: The Brothers Karamazov, Hoochie Coochie Men YOUR SCAN (blues rock), 8:30 p.m., $5/10. 18+.
THIS ON THE RISE BAKERY: Open IrishWITH LAYA TEXT Session, 7:30 p.m., free. HERE SEE PAGE PENALTY BOX: Karaoke, 8 p.m., free. VENUE: Noches de Sabor with DJs Jah Red, Rau, Papi Javi, 8 p.m., free.
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BAGITOS: Them Travelin' Birds (Americana), 6 p.m., donation. NORTH BRANCH CAFÉ: Dave Loughran (acoustic rock), 7 p.m., free. NUTTY STEPH'S: Bacon Thursday: Theo Blair (acoustic), 6 p.m., free. WHAMMY BAR: MaryGoRound and Banjo Bob (eclectic), 7:30 p.m., free.
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CITY LIMITS: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.
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BREAKWATER CAFÉ: Canopy (rock), 6 p.m., free.
ZEN LOUNGE: DJ Kyle Proman (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.
OLIVE RIDLEY'S: DJ Skippy All Request Live (top 40), 10 p.m., free.
NAKED TURTLE: Turtle Thursdays with 95 XXX (top 40), 10 p.m., free.
HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: Josh Dobbs & Friends (jazz), 7 p.m., free. Wild Life Wednesday (EDM), 9:30 p.m., free.
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HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Mother Falcon, the Family Crest (indie rock), 8:30 p.m., $12. AA.
BREAKWATER CAFÉ: The House Rockers (rock), 6 p.m., free.
ARTSRIOT: Ricardo Lemvo & Makina Loca, DJ Hector (world music), 8 p.m., $10/12. AA.
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LEUNIG'S BISTRO & CAFÉ: Paul Asbell Trio (jazz), 7 p.m., free. MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Open Mic with Andy Lugo, 9 p.m., free. NECTAR'S: VT Comedy Club Presents: What a Joke! Comedy Open Mic (standup comedy), 7 p.m., free. David Pollack, Abbie Morin (singer-songwriters), 9 p.m., free/$5. 18+. RADIO BEAN: Hoochie Coochie Men (jam), 3 p.m., free. Lotango (tango), 6:30 p.m., free. Jeanne Jolly (folk), 8 p.m., free. Irish Sessions, 9 p.m., free.
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THE BEE'S KNEES: Keith Williams (folk), 7:30 p.m., donation.
RED SQUARE: Shane Hardiman Trio (jazz), 7 p.m., free. DJ Cre8 (hip-hop), 11 p.m., free.
BACKSTAGE PUB: Talent Quest 2014 Qualifications, 9 p.m., free.
THE MONKEY HOUSE: Daniel Amedee (singer-songwriter), 8:30 p.m., free/$5. 18+. ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Nerbak Brothers (blues), 7:30 p.m. ON THE RISE BAKERY: Open Bluegrass Session, 7:30 p.m., free.
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BAGITOS: Myra Flynn (neo-soul), 6 p.m., donation. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (MONTPELIER): Cajun Jam with Jay Ekis, Lee Blackwell, Alec Ellsworth and Katie Trautz, 6 p.m., $5-10 donation. SWEET MELISSA'S: Wine Down
MONOPOLE: Open Mic, 10 p.m., free.
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FINNIGAN'S PUB: Craig Mitchell (funk), 10 p.m., free. FRANNY O'S: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free. HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: Half & Half Comedy (standup), 8 p.m., free. Disco Phantom & Friends (house), 10:30 p.m., free. NECTAR'S: Trivia Mania, 7 p.m., free. Bluegrass Thursday: Matt Schrag & Friends, 9:30 p.m., $2/5. 18+. PIZZA BARRIO: Jamie Bright (singersongwriter), 6 p.m., free. RADIO BEAN: Cody Sargent & Friends (jazz), 6:30 p.m., free. Shane Hardiman Trio (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free. Kat Wright & the Indomitable Soul Band (soul), 11:30 p.m., $5.
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BREAKWATER CAFÉ: Funkwagon (funk), 6 p.m., free. CLUB METRONOME: "No Diggity" ’90s Night, 9 p.m., free/$5. HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: Jaw Gems, Altered Gee (experimental pop), 7 p.m., free. Bonjour Hi (trap), 10 p.m., free. THE LAUGH BAR AT DRINK: Comedy Showcase (standup comedy), 7 p.m., $7. NECTAR'S: Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., free. Richard
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Speaking of homecomings, welcome back, ANDY BROMAGE, who for several years was a reporter, political columnist and news editor for this esteemed rag. But I mention that only because, in addition to his fine reportorial skills, Bromage is quite the banjo player. He played with several local bluegrass bands during his Vermont stint, and even gave lessons to lighting wizard Jason “Liggy” Liggett’s wife and former 7D staffer Jessica Liggett. But Bromage’s local roots actually run a bit deeper. Many years ago, Bromage was a member of a local bluegrass band called LIMBERJACK COUNTY. Though short-lived, the group featured some players who should be recognizable to local grass fans, including guitarist BRIAN BURNS
(the CLEARY BROTHERS), mandolinist BEAU STAPLETON (Cleary Bros., BREAKAWAY, BLUE MERLE) and bassist ROB LAMB. In a recent email, Bromage writes that the group will reunite for a show at the Whammy Bar in Calais this Friday, June 27 — some 14 years after their last gig at Manhattan Pizza in Burlington. However, the band will convene under a different name. No, not to deke out the hordes of Limberjackheads who might descend upon sleepy Calais. But because, as Bromage puts it, Limberjack County is “a terrible band name.” The new moniker? VÖLTRON, after the 1980s cartoon about five robot lions who converge to form one larger, more badass robot. Oddly appropriate, no? In tribute news, local keyboardist DAN MUNZING (ERRANDS, RYAN POWER) is
spearheading an intriguing project called ONE MORE ROBOT LEARNS TO FEEL. It tackles a reimagining of the FLAMING LIPS’ landmark 2002 album Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, at the Monkey House this Saturday, June 28. The band also includes JAPHY RYDER’s PAT ORMISTON, PULSE PROPHETS’ JOSH PFEIL, INVISIBLE HOMES’ SEAN WITTERS and the FAMILY NIGHT BAND’s SEAN PREECE. Munzing writes that the group is attempting to “recreate all the elaborately weird sonic layers” of the record in a live setting — something he notes the Lips themselves often struggle to do. He adds that faithfully recreating the record would take a mini-orchestra, but that they’re getting “surprisingly close” with the five-piece ensemble. That’s a challenging endeavor, to be sure. But Munzing notes, “any Flaming Lips fans in town will feel we’re doing such a classic album justice.”
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There’s a Blue Bird in My Heart is Anders Parker’s first recording in four years with his Cloud Badge compatriots Creston Lea and Steve Hadeka — the latter of whom is a Seven Days employee. Borrowing its title from a line in a Charles Bukowski poem, the album opens with a faintly familiar guitar riff that might lie somewhere between Led Zeppelin and the Beatles’ White Album. It’s a classic sound. And yet, despite his roots in timeless, guitar-centric rock and roll, Parker does not confine himself to any specific musical criteria. That quickly becomes apparent. Over eight-plus minutes, the record’s opening track “The Road” shifts and changes countless times. No refrain or structure holds the song in place; rather, it meanders forward naturally and seemingly of its own accord. And then, as all roads must, it ends.
With “Animals,” Parker moves into more structured territory yet maintains the looseness established on the opener. The song is built around a heavy, bluesinfluenced guitar riff that wouldn’t sound out of place on an early White Stripes record. Never mind the traditional rigidity of blues; Parker’s take, executed with energy, is no lazy homage. Parker’s rock chops cannot be denied, but his gentler ballads really bring Blue Bird to life. On songs such as “Don’t Let the Darkness In” and “Unspoken,” he evokes a Wildflowers-era Tom Petty while employing his signature time and key changes. Even when he slows things down, Parker never succumbs to sluggishness, and his softer side is heartbreakingly genuine.
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This ideology informs the band’s sonic aesthetic. Raw and unpretentious concrete is used in brutalist architecture. In a similarly honest and unveiled fashion, Carlton features chunky, abrasive guitar tones and hammer-and-tongs vocals from Hebert and drummer Bruce Black. The opening track, “Red Dress,” presages the rest of the album. Its midsong breakdown is full of fuzz and janky guitar jabs in lieu of a proper solo, and unadorned, punky angst fills a refrain that confesses, “I’m just a sucker waiting for something to go wrong.” Matt Cox trades expertly scrappy guitar riffs with Hebert on songs like
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Carlton,, by Carton, is the latest album out of an unlikely locale for great rock and roll: Windsor, Vt. The small town is home to the music collective What Doth Life. This grassroots society for the well-being of independent rock is effectively a co-op for music — “a brand with nothing to sell,” in the group’s own words. Carton certainly fit the bill. Their sound is equally informed by ’90s pop-rock, lo-fi indie and punk. But that list of genres doesn’t quite capture the band’s musical approach. Unable to fit any of rock’s previous prescriptions, Carton adopted the term “neubrutalism” to describe themselves. Ryan Hebert (guitars, vocals) defines the word like this: “Neubrutalism is a play off the architectural term of a similar name, where the rough ends are unapologetically exposed, all big and sloppy-like, which I feel is important in art and in life.”
“It’s Always Almost Christmas” and “The 96 Church St. (downstairs) Vatican Industrial Complex.” The latter Burlington • 865-1754 is the album’s most compositionally complex song yet avoids over-polishing Carton’s characteristic “rough ends.” In 12v-bellaboutique062514.indd 1 6/24/14 similar fashion, Cox and Hebert compete YOUR for supreme guitar grittiness on “I Don’t SCAN THIS PAGE TEXT WITH LAYAR Know, Actually,” a song that finds the band HERE SEE PAGE 5 at its heaviest. Overall, these songs are simple and straightforward. According to Hebert, their lyrics concern themselves with “the pressures of work, growing bored with existentialism, needing to mow the lawn, and anxieties about becoming a father.” Thus it is beneath the weight and urgency of everyday life that the album’s garage sound is born. Think Pavement with a handle of whiskey onstage in a barn. That is what you get on Carlton. Carlton by Carton is available at cartonvt.bandcamp.com.
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She’s Got Reissues « p.72 extra steps. But we wanted to tie it in to the anniversary. SD: Going back through that album, were you struck by any differences in the person or artist you were when you originally made it? LW: Oddly enough, the songs on that album have really stood the test of time. I do have some older songs from my early career that I don’t really like now. But I still do a lot of the songs from that record in my shows. But there are some that I don’t feel comfortable doing now.
SD: How did you arrive at that revelation? LW: I looked a lot at Bob Dylan’s career, how his earlier albums were so metaphorical and deep and crazy, and nobody understood ’em. But right before I made Essence, he put out that album with Daniel Lanois, Time Out of Mind, which I thought was brilliantly simple and eloquent and just beautiful. I saw him kind of go to that place where he had already painted his masterpiece and he was just writing what he wanted to write. And not everybody liked it. He got a lot of criticism. But over the years I’ve given myself permission to do different kinds of songs and different kinds of things. It’s just a matter of growing and being more mature.
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SD: You have a double album due out in September and then another record possibly six months later. one of the things people like me often say about you is that you take SD: So was the latest batch of songs your time writing, almost to a fault. written all at once? What spurred the sudden burst of LW: Not really. I’ll start songs and it writing? might take a while for me to finally finish LW: It was pretty unprecedented. But them. In fact, a couple of songs on the I think that’s gotten better over the new records are several years old. I just years. Back when I started, I wasn’t hadn’t recorded them yet. One of them used to the process: was a song I wrote writing, recording, years and years ago touring, writing, that I didn’t think recording, touring. was good enough You’re expected to to record. And put out an album [husband Tom every year. And I Overby] found it on hadn’t recorded an old cassette-tape that much. When demo and he said, the Rough Trade “Wow, this is great. version of [Lucinda LU CinDa WiLLiamS We’ve got to cut Williams] came this.” And I said, out, I’d had so “Really?” So I cleaned it up a bit and we much time to write, because I hadn’t recorded that. been signed to a label and wasn’t in that process. I already had all the songs. All of SD: So you really are your own worst a sudden, I had to come up with a whole critic, huh? bunch more songs, at least as good as LW: [Laughs] I really am. But the new those, for the next album. And I had a material was really a combination of problem with that, too. It was too soon. resurrecting old material I had almost I was my own worst critic. I went and forgotten about and writing new stuff. said, “Well, I don’t have enough good SD: You worked with a friend of songs. I can’t put an album out yet.” When I went to record Sweet Old mine, Jim Rooney, on John Prine’s World, I pulled the plug and went back duets album In Spite of Ourselves. and wrote more songs, one of which was How did you find working with Jim? the title song. I didn’t want to just put LW: Oh, yeah! The thing I remember out anything. In that regard, people call about Jim is that he likes to work me a perfectionist. But it wasn’t really quickly. I remember sitting with John and I think we did a few takes and he that. I was just nervous. that’s a wrap!” He likes The real change came after Car was, like, SCAN“OK, THIS PAGE YOUR LAYARand get it done. But he in there Wheels on a Gravel Road. There was to getWITH TEXT TO WATCH A VIDEO easy to work with and all this pressure because it had done so was real HEREsuper SEEm PAGE 9 well and I didn’t know how I was going friendly. to follow it up. I just had to get to a point where I just said I wasn’t going to try to copy Car Wheels. And you can see that. inFo I started giving myself more freedom to Lucinda Williams Band, Kenneth Brian write songs like “Are You Down.” I had Band, Saturday, June 28, at 8 p.m. to tell myself that not everything had to at Flynn MainStage in Burlington. $9.50/39.50/46.50/79.50. be this narrative masterpiece.
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Zincfence Redemption, DJs Big Dog and Jahson (roots reggae), 9 p.m., $20. 18+. HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: Josh Dobbs & Friends (jazz), 7 p.m., free. DJ craig mitchell (house), 9:30 p.m., free. JP'S PUB: Pub Quiz with Dave, 7 p.m., free. Karaoke with melody, 10 p.m., free. MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: open mic with Andy Lugo, 9 p.m., free.
ZEN LOUNGE: Karaoke with Emcee callanova, 9 p.m., free.
NECTAR'S: Vt comedy club Presents: What a Joke! comedy open mic (standup comedy), 7 p.m., free. Acoustics Anonymous with cricket Blue (acoustic jamgrass), 9:30 p.m., free/$5. 18+.
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RADIO BEAN: Dear creek (folk), 5:30 p.m., free. Ensemble V (jazz), 7 p.m., free. Irish Sessions, 9 p.m., free.
CHARLIE O'S: Karaoke, 8 p.m., free.
SOUTH SIDE TAVERN: open mic with John Lackard, 9 p.m., free.
RED SQUARE: DJ cre8 (hip-hop), 11 p.m., free.
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NORTH BRANCH CAFÉ: turidae (celtic, classical), 4:30 p.m., free. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (MONTPELIER): cajun Jam with Jay Ekis, Lee Blackwell, Alec Ellsworth and Katie trautz, 6 p.m., $5-10 donation. SWEET MELISSA'S: Wine Down with D. Davis (acoustic), 5 p.m., free.
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RED SQUARE: Zach Nugent & co. (rock), 7 p.m., free. SIGNAL KITCHEN: Ben Sollee, the DuPont Brothers (indie folk), 7:30 p.m., $15. AA. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Kidz music with Raphael, 11 a.m., $3 donation.
chittenden county HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Boy and Bear (rock), 8:30 p.m., $15. AA.
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CLUB METRONOME: Dead Set with cats Under the Stars (Grateful Dead tribute), 9 p.m., free/$5. HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: Funkwagon's tequila Project (funk), 10 p.m., free. Sasquatch
stowe/smuggs area MOOG'S PLACE: The Jason Wedlock Show (rock), 7:30 p.m., free.
middlebury area
TWO BROTHERS TAVERN LOUNGE & STAGE: Karaoke with Roots Entertainment, 9 p.m., free.
THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Josh Panda's Acoustic Soul Night, 8 p.m., $5-10 donation.
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ZEN LOUNGE: Zensday with DJ Atak (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.
THE STAGE: Ricky Golden (singer-songwriter), 6:30 p.m., free.
chittenden county HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Drive-By truckers, Anders Parker & cloud Badge (rock), 8:30 p.m., $20/23. AA.
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THE MONKEY HOUSE: Devil in the Woods (rock), 8:30 p.m., free/$5. 18+.
BREAKWATER CAFÉ: 4Wins (rock), 6 p.m., free.
ON TAP BAR & GRILL: chad Hollister (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., free.
burlington
THE PARKER PIE CO.: trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.
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“In a New Light: French Impressionism Arrives in America,” Pizzagalli Center, Shelburne Museum
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f it weren’t for Mary Cassatt, the Shelburne Museum’s current exhibit “In a New Light: French Impressionism Arrives in America” might very well not exist. The painter (1844-1926) was born in Pittsburgh but found what she called her “spiritual home” in Paris. There, she fell in with Edgar Degas and a group of outlier painters who came to be known as impressionists. And her friendship with Louisine Havemeyer, mother of Shelburne Museum founder Electra Havemeyer Webb, connected the American artcollecting family and those particular French artists. One result: The Claude Monet painting “Le Pont, Amsterdam” (1870-71) was his first work acquired by an American and brought to the United States. In the Pizzagalli Center, that painting gets pride of place: on the wall facing viewers as they enter the gallery. Its striking composition — the dark span of a gently arching drawbridge bisects the canvas horizontally, as a spire-topped tower pierces the sky behind it — is echoed in a large-scale photograph of the same scene. This is hung on a panel to the left and further back in the room. The interesting juxtaposition subtly underscores what the impressionists were all about. Monet depicted an ordinary city scene but did so with short, active brushstrokes that render it an impression, rather than faithful, hard-edged realism; and he was much more interested in the atmospherics. This latter obsession would result in the impressionists’ habit of painting en plein air in order to better see and capture the elusive effects of light. (And, points out Shelburne Museum director Tom Denenberg, technological improvements in paint itself facilitated working outdoors, while rail transportation could whisk artists out of the city and into the countryside to paint.) It’s easy to forget, more than a century later, that all of this was groundbreaking in its day. Rejected by the academic art establishment, the impressionists formed their own group — into which
“Le Pont, Amsterdam” by Claude Monet
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an American female painter was accepted. This coterie alone offers art historians a rich trove of material, but for the Shelburne’s exhibit, it’s the Havemeyer connection that matters, and that relationship is the underlying theme of “In a New Light.” Collecting impressionist paintings in the latter 19th century was also fairly radical — but perhaps perfectly logical if one of your besties was Mary Cassatt. Louisine and her husband, Henry O. Havemeyer, were avid art collectors whose tastes extended to the unconventional. The family ultimately donated some 4,500 artworks to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City (an exhibition of the collection in 1993 engendered a 412-page catalog). As
Denenberg notes, the paintings that ended up at the Shelburne Museum are “the ones Electra inherited and kept.” “In a New Light,” guest curated by Margaret Burgess, presents nearly 20 works (not all of them strictly impressionist) including two borrowed paintings — from the National Gallery of Art and from a private collection. Monet is well represented, with a half dozen paintings both urban — such as the foggy London scene “The Thames at Charing Cross Bridge” (1899) — and rural. Among the latter is “Meules, effet de neige” (1891), depicting a pair of yurtshaped haystacks in the snow; and the supremely gauzy “L’Eglise de Vernon,” featuring a church not far from Monet’s Giverny home. On view also are two works by Degas picturing his beloved dancers; four by Edouard Manet, including the spectacularly composed and painted “The Grand Canal of Venice” (1875); and five by Cassatt. Though she is best known for oil portraits of women and children — including one here of Louisine and her young daughter Electra — two pieces in this exhibit are a revelation, at least to this viewer. The vertical drypoint-and-aquatint prints (c. 1890) reveal the japonais influence on Cassatt’s work — minimal, delicate lines, subdued palette, multiple patterns. In “The Coiffure,” a woman, who is nude above the waist, sits on a striped, upholstered chair in front of a long mirror and adjusts her bun. We see her from the side, but the mirror shows us her breasts and her down-turned face. “The Fitting,” another intimate but less voyeuristic image, depicts a woman standing fully clothed before a mirror as a crouching seamstress adjusts the skirt’s hem. While her male peers rendered primarily outdoor city and country scenes, wrangling the diaspora of sunlight, Cassatt chose to paint everyday private moments, indoors, in the lives of women. She defied convention in her own way. One luscious, richly hued painting by Gustave Courbet in this exhibit, “Still Life: Fruit” (1871), is a bridge to an artistic movement that preceded
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f Julia Luckett: Black-and-white photographs that capture the daily lives and struggles of Nicaraguan coffee farmers. Reception: Friday, July 18, 5-7 p.m. June 28-July 31. Info, 861-3155. Karma Birdhouse in Burlington.
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“Dancer in Green” by Edgar Degas
38th Annual Vermont Quilt Festival: New England’s oldest quilting event features new and antique quilts, lectures and classes, appraisal services, free gallery talks and demos. Times vary each day; visit vqf.org for more info. June 26-29. Info, 872-0034. Champlain Valley Exposition in Essex Junction.
f Lorraine C. Manley: “Summer in Vermont,” a collection of acrylic paintings by the Milton artist. Reception: Friday, June 27, 5:30-7:30 p.m. June 27-July 31. Info, 862-5724. Lake Champlain Access Television in Colchester. f ‘Renascence’: Works by featured artist Barbara
Wagner and 17 others who explore the revival of something that has been dormant. Reception: Saturday, June 28, 5-7 p.m. June 28-August 5. Info, 985-3848. Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery in Shelburne.
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f Evan Chismark: Detailed pen-and-ink renderings of wildlife and whimsical illustrations of Vermont culture by the Stowe artist. Reception: Wednesday, June 25, 6-8 p.m. June 25-July 31. Info, 223-1151. Fresh Tracks Farm Vineyard & Winery in Berlin.
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f Craig Mooney & Henry Isaacs: “Distinctions Between Color and Light,” paintings of New England landscapes by the accomplished Vermont artists. Reception: Saturday, June 28, 6-8:30 p.m. June 28-August 9. Info, 253-8943. West Branch Gallery & Sculpture Park in Stowe.
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Cold Hollow Sculpture Park Opening: Sculptor David Stromeyer opens to the public his property on which 50 large-scale outdoor metal sculptures are sited. Free, self-guided tours Wednesdays through Saturdays, noon to 6 p.m. Visit website for directions. June 25-October 11. Info, 512-333-2119. Cold Hollow Sculpture Park in Enosburg Falls.
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f ‘New Voices, New Visions: Celebrating a Sweet 16’: Fine art and contemporary craft including paintings by Terry Ekasala, Maurie Harrington, Ben Barnes and Maureen Russell; sculptures by Gampo Wickenheiser; collage by Ben Peberdy; jewelry by Christina Lamb; pottery by Barbara Lane; metal work by Lucian Avery; wood visual art in seven days:
BCA Summer Artist Market: A juried market featuring handcrafted, original fine art and crafts by local artists. Burlington City Hall Park, Saturdays, 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Info, 865-7166. Native American Art Market: The Vermont Abenaki Artists Association hosts its first annual market at the Abenaki Heritage Celebration, featuring wampum jewelry, carvings, drums, rattles, gourd containers and baskets. Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, Vergennes, Saturday, June 28, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. $3-5. Info, 579-0049. John Paul Caponigro: The master landscape photographer presents a lecture titled “Mastering Black and White, Color Theory, Color Strategies and Drawing With Light.” Limited seats. Register at bit. ly/1iDDR3x. Hotel Vermont, Burlington, Sunday, June 29, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. $99 includes lunch. Info, 238-4213.
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Alexander Alexeieff: Original 1929 signed lithographs by the Russian artist Alexander Alexeieff, exhibited with a looped screening of his 1930s animated pinboard films. Co-curated by Cecile Starr and Susan Smereka. Through August 26. Info, 735-2542. New City Galerie in Burlington. Andy Meyer: The Burlington multimedia artist explores the first decade of rock and roll and its impact on the Far East. Through June 28. Info, spacegalleryvt@gmail.com. The S.P.A.C.E. Gallery in Burlington. Ann Laberge: “Have a Seat,” photographs and sculpture focusing on chairs by the local artist. Through July 31. Info, 861-2340. CarShare Vermont in Burlington. ‘Art + Soul Vermont’: An annual show that celebrates the creative spirit of the Burlington community. Sales are split between the artists and a featured nonprofit — this year, the Champlain Housing Trust. Through June 28. Info, 860-1003. Dunkiel Saunders Elliott Raubvogel & Hand in Burlington. ‘Beyond Measure’: A group show curated by Carleen Zimbalatti features more than a dozen artists who explore the role of geometry in their artistic processes. Through August 31. Info, 859-9222. SEABA Center in Burlington. ‘Emergence2’: A contemporary, multimedia art exhibit featuring students, alumni and staff from the Champlain College Emergent Media Center: Erin Barnaby, Rachel Hooper, Ken Howell, Robin Perlah and Sarah Webb. Björn Schülke: “Traveling Spy,” 3-D sculptures activated by motion sensors, with video surveillance and sound components, by the German multimedia artist. Through July 19. Info, 865-7166. BCA Center in Burlington.
art listings and spotlights are written by pamela polston and xian chiang-waren. Listings are restricted to art shows in truly public places.
David Hurwitz & Joshua Primmer: “Arc,” functional contemporary designs in wood and clay, respectively, by the Vermont fine artisans. Through June 30. Info, 863-6458. Frog Hollow in Burlington. Denis Versweyveld: Paintings and sculpture focused on the interplay of shape, composition and texture in common still-life objects. Through July 31. Info, 862-1001. Left Bank Home & Garden in Burlington. Festival of Fine Arts 2014: This annual celebration features a juried show in the gallery as well as artwork in the windows of participating downtown businesses. Through June 30. Info, 660-9005. Art’s Alive Gallery @Main Street Landing’s Union Station in Burlington. ‘From Our Hearts and Minds’: A group exhibit of local artists in a variety of mediums. Through August 29. Info, 862-4584. St. Paul’s Cathedral in Burlington. ‘Impressions’: Fran Bull, Jordan Douglas and Cameron Schmitz explore in multiple media the markings of humankind, from the ridge patterns on fingers to trails on the landscape. Through July 20. Info, 865-7166. Vermont Metro Gallery, BCA Center, in Burlington. Innovation Center Group Show: Works by Brian Sylvester, James Vogler, Kari Meyer, Kim Senior, Longina Smolinski, Lyna Lou Nordstorm and Gabe Tempesta on the first floor; Holly Hauser, Jacques Burke, Jason Durocher, Cindy Griffith, Teresa Davis and Tom Merwin on the second floor. Curated by SEABA. Through August 31. Info, 859-9222. The Innovation Center of Vermont in Burlington. JB Woods: “Walking in Vermont,” colorful photographs curated by SEABA. Through August 31. Info, 658-6016. Speeder & Earl’s: Pine Street in Burlington. Maltex Exhibits: Curated by Burlington City Arts, all four floors are filled with artwork in a variety of media by the following local artists: Terry Ekasala, Jessa Gilbert, Gabrielle Tsounis, Katie Loesel, Sam Talbot-Kelly, Kate Longmaid, Alexis Doshas, Tyler Vendituoli and Elaine Ittleman. Through June 30. Info, 865-7166. Maltex Building in Burlington. Mareva Millarc: Abstract paintings in oil, acrylic, ink and mixed media. Curated by SEABA. Through August 31. Info, 651-9692. VCAM Studio in Burlington. Marie Angelache: Expressionist pastel paintings that incorporate collage. Through June 30. Info, 865-7165. City Hall Gallery in Burlington. Matthew Thorsen: 50 new photos by the Burlington artist. Through June 30. Info, 318-2438. Red Square in Burlington. Nyame Nti Aya Fawohodie: “Restored to Beauty and Grace,” paintings by an experimental Burlington artist. Through June 30. Info, 863-6713. North End Studio A in Burlington. Paul Hagar: “On the Street and Across the Lake,” black-and-white photographs of cityscapes and architecture. Through June 30. Info, 864-2088. The Men’s Room in Burlington. burlington shows
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“In a New Light: French Impressionism Arrives in America,” Pizzagalli Center for Arts and Education, Shelburne Museum. Through September 1.
f Rebecca Kinkead: A new collection of colorful oils, inspired by childhood summers in the great outdoors, from the Ferrisburgh painter. Reception: Friday, July 11, 5-7 p.m. July 1-31. Info, 458-0098. Edgewater Gallery in Middlebury.
Joanna Sokolowska: A digital presentation by the artist-in-residence, a classically trained sculptor from Poland. The Carving Studio & Sculpture Center Gallery, West Rutland, Wednesday, June 25, 7 p.m. Info, 438-2097.
Carolyn Crotty: Artwork in a variety of mediums inspired by nature. Curated by SEABA. Through August 31. Info, 862-9614. The Pine Street Deli in Burlington.
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Cameron Schmitz: Drawings and paintings by the Vermont artist. Through October 31. Info, 865-7166. Courtyard Marriott Burlington Harbor.
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f Green Mountain Watercolor Exhibition: A juried show featuring area artists whose paintings range from abstract to photorealist. Reception: Sunday, June 29, 3-5 p.m. June 29-July 27. Info, 496-6682. Big Red Barn Gallery in Waitsfield.
f ‘The Golden Cage’: Photographs with audio interviews of Vermont migrant workers and dairy farmers. Reception: Thursday, June 26, 5-7 p.m. June 27-September 6. Info, 334-1966. MAC Center for the Arts Gallery in Newport.
Bruce R. MacDonald: “The Visible Indivisibles Project,” brushed and polished 23-inch squares of stainless steel, each representing an element in the periodic table. On view Thursdays, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., and First Fridays. Through June 30. Info, 800-6391868. The Havoc Gallery in Burlington.
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the impressionists, and which they rejected: realism. The show’s title “In a New Light” is a double entendre, referring not only to the impressionists’ innovations on canvas but to the fact that these paintings were taken from the dimmer quarters of the Memorial Building into the illuminated Pizzagalli Center. “We wanted to put these in better light,” says Denenberg. “LED light.” It was a smart move. Only three of these artists saw the light of the 20th century: Degas died in 1917; Cassatt and Monet in 1926. And though their paintings are no longer seen as radical, they continue to make a very good impression.
works by Federico Viconi; and more. Reception and party: Saturday, June 28, 4-6 p.m., with live music by Porter Brook Trio, refreshments and artist talks. June 28-July 20. Info, 533-2045. Miller’s Thumb Gallery in Greensboro.
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MFA program in graphic design at Vermont College of Fine Arts exhibit recent work. Main Floor Gallery. Mark Lorah: A mixed-media show exploring the relationship between organized structure and the need for irrational action. Third Floor Gallery. Through July 12. Info, 479-7069. Studio Place Arts in Barre.
‘Play’: One hundred artists exhibit works that variously interpret the word “play.” Through July 15. Info, 651-8834. Penny Cluse Café in Burlington. Sara Bridgman: A retrospective of works by the Vermont artist. Through August 2. Info, 652-4500. Amy E. Tarrant Gallery, Flynn Center, in Burlington.
Josh Turk: “My Month With Marilyn,” giclée prints of digital illustrations that play with concepts of sexuality. Through June 29. Info, curator@ capitolgrounds.com. Info, 223-7800. The Green Bean Art Gallery at Capitol Grounds in Montpelier.
Sara Katz: Abstract, mixed-media paintings by the Vermont artist, inspired by landscapes in transition. Through June 30. Info, 355-5418. Vintage Inspired in Burlington.
Judith Vivell: Monumental and arresting oil portraits of wild birds. Through June 27. Info, 8280749. Vermont Supreme Court Lobby in Montpelier.
Shelley Vermilya: “Up Close,” photographs by the University of Vermont professor. Through July 17. Info, 862-8261. Flying Cloud at KSV in Burlington.
Kathrena Ravenhorst-Adams: Pastels and watercolors by the Northfield artist. Through June 26. Info, 728-1237. Hartness Gallery, Vermont Technical College, in Randolph Center.
Studio 266 Group Exhibition: The 14 working artists in this shared space show their work in various media. Through June 28. Info, 266studios@ gmail.com. Info, 578-2512. Studio 266 in Burlington.
Katie Grauer and Nicole Mandeville: Paintings by the two artists in the gallery’s first post-renovation exhibit. Through July 18. Info, 839-5349. gallery SIX in Montpelier.
‘Telephone’: Like the childhood game, one artist brings a piece of work; then they, in turn, invite another artist to do the same, and so on. This began in February; the result is a visual conversation about who is making work in Vermont, who they look to and how the work interacts. Through June 28. Info, 578-2512. The Soda Plant in Burlington.
f ‘Unless’: “An exhibit of new work and tenuous linkage” includes drawings by Lisa Kippen, sculpture and painting by Ria Blass and mixedmedia wall installation and sculpture by Susan Smereka. Closing reception: Thursday, June 26, 5-8 p.m. Through June 30. Info, 363-4746. Flynndog in Burlington. Vermont Artists Group Show: Nearly 60 artworks in paintings, sculpture, stained glass, jewelry and functional wood pieces. Private viewings by appointment. Through June 30. Info, 489-4960. Silver Image Studio in Burlington.
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Lyal Michel and Abel Fillion: Figurative, narrative oil paintings and woodblock prints, respectively. Through July 25. Info, 889-9404. Tunbridge Public Library. Michael T. Jermyn: Black-and-white images from the artist’s new photography book, Discovering the Secret Language of Trees. Through July 8. Info, 223-2090. Nutty Steph’s in Middlesex.
Arthur Schaller In “Billboard Buildings,” the first solo show by a
Norwich University professor at the school’s Sullivan Museum, Arthur Schaller shows 24 original collages on wood. Schaller, who’s taught architecture and design for 40 years (16 of them at Norwich), has made richly textured, colorful, mixed-media pieces that
Airport Exhibits: Oil paintings reflecting her travels by Donna Bourne, Gates; and paintings by Brooke Monte, Skyway. Through June 30. Info, 865-7166. Burlington International Airport in South Burlington.
depict frontal views of buildings and three-dimensional sculptures. All of those pieces
Carol Norton: “Turning In/Turning Out,” multilayered, atmospheric oil paintings depicting natural scenes. Through August 30. Info, 985-8222. Shelburne Vineyard.
ripped and cut his way through countless printed publications, sorting the scraps by
Charlotte Hardie: Oil pantings of horses. Through June 30. Info, 803-658-0949. Peak Performance in Williston. Evelyn McFarlane & Students: Oil paintings by the craft-school instructor and her students. Through August 28. Info, 985-3648. Shelburne Craft School. ‘In a New Light: French Impressionism Arrives in America’: Paintings by Monet, Manet, Degas and other French impressionist masters from the museum’s permanent collection. Through September 1. Info, 985-3346. Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education, Shelburne Museum. ‘In Our Element: Expressions of Color and Texture’: Fifteen artists from the Vermont chapter of the Surface Design Association exhibit contemporary textile works. Through July 13. Info, 899-3211. Emile A. Gruppe Gallery in Jericho. Jason Durocher: Five paintings from the Vermont artist’s “12 Months” series exploring the forests of the Northern Hemisphere. Through June 30. Info, 324-2772. Comfort Inn & Suites in South Burlington. Libby Davidson: Fifty plein air watercolor paintings the artist completed in a year for her 50th birthday. Monochromatic Exhibit: A group exhibit of local artists with a one-color focus. Through July 31. Info, 879-1236. Artists’ Mediums in Williston. ‘Lock, Stock and Barrel’: The Terry Tyler collection of Vermont firearms includes 107 rare examples made between 1790 and 1900. Beach Gallery. ‘Painting a Nation’: A showcase of the museum’s best 19th-century American paintings.
are created from printed materials glued to board. Schaller characterizes his approach to the process as “obsessive,” particularly when it comes to the collage materials. The artist color, texture or image fragment, then produced a series, “exploring a guiding theme or concept until it was exhausted, making room for a new influence.” Through December 19. Pictured: “Billboard Building #15.” Webb Gallery. ‘Trail Blazers: Horse-Powered Vehicles’: An exhibit of 19th-century carriages from the permanent collection that draws parallels to contemporary automotive culture. Round Barn. Nancy Crow: “Seeking Beauty: Riffs on Repetition,” quilts by the acclaimed textile artist, who incorporates printmaking into her work. Hat and Fragrance Textile Gallery. Patty Yoder: “The Alphabet of Sheep,” whimsical rugs made with extraordinary, realistic sense of detail. Patty Yoder Gallery. Through October 31. Info, 985-3346. Shelburne Museum.
Norwich University architecture professor. Through December 19. Info, 485-2183. Sullivan Museum & History Center, Norwich University in Northfield.
Maria Sengle: Illustrations with an aquatic life theme by the industrial designer and winner of Magic Hat’s Labels for Libations contest. Through July 31. Info, 658-2739. The ArtSpace at the Magic Hat Artifactory in South Burlington.
David Smith: “Postcards From the Keys,” an exhibit of paintings of Florida. Through July 12. Info, 426-3581. Jaquith Public Library in Marshfield.
‘Perilous Pigeons’: An exhibit of artworks honoring the now-extinct passenger pigeon. Through August 31. Info, 434-2167. Birds of Vermont Museum in Huntington.
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‘1864: Some Suffer So Much’: With objects, photographs and ephemera, the exhibit examines surgeons who treated Civil War soldiers on battlefields and in three Vermont hospitals, and the history of post-tramautic stress disorder. Through December 31. Arthur Schaller: “Billboard Buildings,” an exhibit of original collages by the
Amanda Franz: “Contours of the Space Between,” paintings and sculpture by the Vermont artist. Through July 9. Info, 426-3233. Plainfield Community Center. Corrina Thurston: Detailed pet portraits in colored pencil, and graphite drawings. Through August 3. Info, 223-1431. Tulsi Tea Room in Montpelier.
Diana Mara Henry: Black-and-white photographs of one-room schoolhouses in Vermont by the famed photojournalist, with text by Middlebury College sociology professor Margaret Nelson. Through October 15. Info, 828-2291. Vermont History Museum in Montpelier. Dianne Shullenberger: “Re-envisioned,” works in fabric collage and colored pencil by the Jericho artist. Photo ID required to enter. Through June 27. Info, 828-0749. Governor’s Gallery in Montpelier. ‘The Drawing Game’: Drawings by three generations of central Vermont’s Hecht family, which has played a variation of the surrealist Exquisite Corpse game for almost 70 years. Second Floor Gallery. ‘VCFA at SPA’: Selected students in the
Piper Strong: Acrylic paintings on recycled metal echo famous paintings throughout art history. Through June 30. Info, 828-3291. Spotlight Gallery in Montpelier.
stowe/smuggs area
84th Annual Northern Vermont Artist Association Show: A group show featuring works by members in a variety of mediums. Through June 30. Info, 644-8183. Visions of Vermont in Jeffersonville. ‘The Appearance of Clarity’: Artworks in black and white by Louis Cameron, Sharan Elran, Marietta Hoferer, Jenny Holzer, Sarah Horne, Chelsea Martin, Lynn Newcomb, Andreas Rentsch, Suzy Spence and Nan Tull. Guest-curated by Amy Rahn. Through August 31. Info, 253-8358. Helen Day Art Center in Stowe. Carolyn Mecklosky: “Dreams, Memories, Portraits,” paintings by the local artist. Through June 30. Info, 644-2991. Copley Woodlands in Stowe. ‘In the Studio With Mary Bryan’: The gallery celebrates its 30th anniversary year with an exhibit of more than 100 paintings in tempera, watercolor, oil and collage by its namesake artist. Through September 7. Info, 644-5100. Bryan Memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville. Kent Shaw: Night photography, featuring long exposure time, by the local artist. Through July 2. Info, 888-1261. Morrisville Post Office. ‘Kick and Glide: Vermont’s Nordic Ski Legacy’: An exhibit celebrating all aspects of the sport, including classic and skate skiing, Nordic combined, biathlon, ski jumping, telemark, and back-country skiing. Through October 13. Info, 253-9911. Vermont Ski and Snowboard Museum in Stowe. ‘Landscape Traditions’: The new wing of the gallery presents contemporary landscape works by nine regional artists. Through January 1, 2015. Info, 253-8943. West Branch Gallery & Sculpture Park in Stowe. Marie LaPré Grabon: Charcoal drawings by the Vermont artist. Through July 9. Info, 635-7423. The Lovin’ Cup in Johnson. Robert Hitzig: Paintings, and paintings on wood sculpture by the Vermont artist. Through June 29. Info, 888-1261. River Arts Center in Morrisville.
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Summer Fun in the Champlain Islands! Visit Knight Point State Park in North Hero for swimming, picnics and our great events under the Big Tent!
Presented by Island Center for Arts and Recreation PO Box 213, North Hero, VT 802-372-8400
Fireworks Extravaganza – Thursday, July 3 Free entrance to the Park after 5 p.m. Food, Music and a great display by NorthStar Fireworks Music in the Park – Tuesdays July 8 through August 12, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Food and ice cream for sale on site, or BYO. Tickets $5 for adults, 12 and under free. Dave Keller Band – July 8 Starline Rhythm Boys – July 15 Mango Jam – July 22
Jenni Johnson & the Junketeers – July 29 Jimmy T Thurston – August 5 Jukebox Hop with DJ Larry Brett – August 12
Media sponsor: Island Excavating Corporation Concert sponsors: A&B Beverage, Andrea Champagne Real Estate, Pidgeon Properties, John Beaulac Excavating, East Shore Vineyard, Dick’s Repair Islands Center Car Show – Saturday, August 23, 10 to 4, Rain date August 24 $5 for adults, 12 and under free. Register your auto or truck at 372-8400. Sponsored by Sen. Dick Mazza Tent sponsors: Dewyea Computer Consulting, LLC North Country Federal Credit Union Shakespeare in the Park! August 9-10, 6 p.m. Midsummer Night’s Dream – fun for the whole family Call 877-871-1911 for tickets.
Festival of Fine Arts 2014
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downtown storefronts are filled with artworks. Curated by the local nonprofit Art’s Alive, the annual Festival of Fine Arts adorns Burlington businesses and also presents a juried exhibition featuring works by more than 40 Vermont artists. This year, representational paintings swept the awards: First place went to ArtisTree gallery director Adrian Tans’ finely rendered oil painting “Archeology Painting I – Rail Yard, Burlington” (pictured); second place to Wendy James’ “Bake Sale,” depicting a bakery in
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warm hues; and “Laying Claim,” Nancy Tomczak’s watercolor collage of an owl stalking prey. Those works and others are on display at the Art’s Alive Gallery at Main Street Landing in Burlington through July 11. Stroll downtown to glimpse the art displayed in shop windows through June 30.
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MArcus rAtliff: Recent collage by the Norwichbased artist. Through June 30. info, 767-9670. bigTown Gallery in Rochester.
2013 tour de leAd grAffiti: A letterpress broadside of the 2013 bike tour. Through June 30. info, 388-3300. American Flatbread middlebury hearth. cynthiA KirKwood: A summery collection of colorful paintings, plus an exclusive exhibit of the artist’s colored pencil drawings. Through June 30. info, 458-0098. edgewater Gallery in middlebury.
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JAne eddy, bArbArA eKedAhl & rAy hudson: multilayered woodblock prints by three middlebury-area artists. Through June 29. info, 388-1436. Jackson Gallery, Town hall Theater, in middlebury.
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of historic drawings, watercolors, photographs and oil paintings that pay homage to the region’s rich gardening history; and contemporary outdoor sculptures by Norton latourelle and ethan bond-watts. Talk with gallery director bill brooks every wednesday, noon to 1 p.m., through August 6. Through August 11. info, 388-2117. henry sheldon museum of Vermont history in middlebury.
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gerMAn Art exhibit: The college celebrates its German language school with an exhibit of works by German artists from its permanent collection. info, 443-5258. MArtin PArr: “life’s a beach,” images by the u.K.-based photographer and magnum collective member renowned for capturing people in their comfort zones. Through August 10. info, 443-3168. middlebury College museum of Art.
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f AlternAtive Process PhotogrAPhy grouP show: Ten Vermont artists explore alternative photography processes including hand coloring and polaroid transfer in an unconventional show. Curated by matt larson. Reception: Friday, July 11, 6-8 p.m. Through July 12. info, 244-7801. Axel’s Gallery & Frameshop in waterbury.
388-4964. Vermont Folklife Center in middlebury.
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M P Landis: Subtle, imaginative monoprints inspired by Cape Cod; and an abstract, mixed-media series created in Middlebury. Through July 12. Info, 989-9992. ZoneThree Gallery in Middlebury. RachaeL Robinson eLMeR: An exhibit of “Art Lovers New York” fine-art postcards, now 100 years old, by the late artist who was born at Rokeby. Through October 26. Info, 877-3406. Rokeby Museum in Ferrisburgh.
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bob buRchess: “Portraits of the Interior,” figure drawings and portraits by the Chittenden artist, in a darkly surrealist style with Renaissance roots. Through July 12. Info, 468-6052. Castleton Downtown Gallery in Rutland. The caRving sTudio & scuLPTuRe cenTeR’s MeMbeRs’ show: An eclectic show with works in a variety of wood and stone mediums by the studio’s members. Through July 6. Info, 438-2097. The Carving Studio & Sculpture Center Gallery in West Rutland. eRic david LaxMan & PaT Musick: “Pulsation,” sculpture in multiple mediums by the Vermont artists. Through July 17. Info, 775-0356. Chaffee Downtown Art Center in Rutland.
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LoweLL snowdon kLock and Jean cannon: A photographer and a watercolorist present works inspired by curves in living and inanimate forms. Through June 30. Info, 247-4956. Brandon Artists Guild.
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‘The RooTs of Rock and RoLL’: Artifacts from clothing to records to vintage turntables illustrate the early years of rock music, 1955 to 1964. Through August 31. ‘waTeRcoLoRs: The aRTisT’s sToRy’: Paintins by Maurie Harrington, Lyn DuMoulin, Andrea Varney and Gayl Braisted. Through June 30. Info, 247-4295. Compass Music and Arts Center in Brandon.
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fRank TiRaLLa: A new oil-on-linen series features the ruffed grouse, along with other wildlife creatures, by the Franklin artist. Through June 29. Toby fuLwiLeR, deb kieL & wayne TaRR: Wooden crafts, jewelry, paper art and photography by this month’s featured members. Through June 30. Info, 933-6403. Artist in Residence Cooperative Gallery in Enosburg Falls.
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susan gaLusha: Colorful representational paintings in oil, watercolor and encaustics, often featuring household items or female figures in an interior setting. Through June 30. Info, 285-6505. Haston Library in Franklin. susan LaRkin: Recent paintings of the Lake Champlain Islands and northern Vermont over four seasons by the local artist. Through June 30. Info, 928-3081. Fisk Farm Art Center in Isle La Motte. ‘waLk ThRough TiMe’ gRand oPening ceLebRaTion: The Isle La Motte Preservation Trust and Lake Champlain Land Trust open a unique, trail-side exhibit consisting of 71 colorfully illustrated panels that showcase 4.6 billion years of evolution. Includes ribbon-cutting ceremony, live music and refreshments. Through October 31. Info, linda@ilmpt.org. Goodsell Ridge Fossil Preserve in Isle La Motte.
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eLizabeTh beLiveau, eLi buRakian & JaMie Townsend: Paintings, photographs, and large-scale paintings and sculpture, respectively. Through July 12. Info, 674-9616. Nuance Gallery in Windsor. ‘The haLe sTReeT gang: PoRTRaiTs in wRiTing’: Jack Rowell’s 12 black-and-white, larger-than-life photographs capture the elderly members of a Randolph writing group led by Sara Tucker. PhiLiP godenschwageR: Cartoon imagery and interactive sculpture as social and political commentary. Through October 10. Info, 885-3061. The Great Hall in Springfield.
Mark Lorah
His abstract
artwork is rooted in shapes, patterns and structures, but Mark Lorah’s boldly hued paintings and sculptures are not orderly. In an exhibit of recent work titled “Anti-algorithmic,” the Vermont mixed-media artist explores the need for “irrational action” that arises when one is faced with organized structure. He illustrates his point with aggressive visual disruptions of tidy patterns. “I often use modular systems or repeating patterns,” Lorah writes, “against which are imposed whatever intuitively sourced action seems to incite the forces of order and chaos to engage in dramatic interchange.” Whew. The artist taps a variety of mediums to convey that chaos. For example, “Site work” (pictured) gets its dramatic, multilayered effect from oil paint, tar, wax, velvet flock and aluminum paint on board. Through July 12 in the Third Floor Gallery, Studio Place Arts, in Barre.
isabeLLe o’connoR: “Human Nature,” prints that explore the complex relationship between the human body and the natural world, created in a variety of methods ranging from solar plate to linocut and papier-mâché. Through June 30. Info, 295-5901. Two Rivers Printmaking Studio in White River Junction. Joy Raskin, MiRanda haMMond & kiM RiLLeau: Jewelry, photography and leather work, respectively, by the new gallery members. Through June 30. Info, 457-1298. Collective — the Art of Craft in Woodstock. ‘sieRRa cLub wiLdeRness 50 exhibiT’: Photographs of Vermont and New Hampshire wilderness areas and other outdoor scenes. Through July 6. Free. Info, 359-5000. Vermont Institute of Natural Science in Quechee.
Art ShowS
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don sunseri: A retrospective of the late West Glover artist and founder of GRACE, an art program for handicapped and elderly artists. Through July 12. Info, 563-2037. White Water Gallery in East Hardwick.
f ‘insectopia’: A group show with bugs made of copper, felt, papier-mâché and other materials. Reception: Saturday, July 12, 3-5 p.m. Through August 9. Info, 748-0158. Northeast Kingdom Artisans Guild Backroom Gallery in St. Johnsbury. lois eby: Abstract works on panel by the Vermont painter. Through July 7. Info, 525-3366. The Parker Pie Co. in West Glover. ‘tootHbrusH’: From “twig to bristle,” an exhibit of artifacts and images detailing the history of this expedient item. Through December 31. The Museum of Everyday Life in Glover.
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angus mccullougH: “Humors,” an installation consisting of two bodies of work by the multidisciplinary artist: “Bushes of Bennington County,” photographs from an ongoing catalog that “search for ideology in contemporary vernacular”; and “Embodied Realities,” short videos. Through July 27. Info, 917-940-9093. Bennington Museum. leslie parke: “Everything Is Real,” paintings of real-life objects or scenes composed to accentuate the abstract qualities of reflective surfaces. Through July 20. Info, 362-1405. Southern Vermont Arts Center in Manchester.
call to artists
cHarlier Hunter, benjamin entner, robert gold & carolyn sHattuck: Artwork in a variety of mediums by the regional artists. Through July 16. Info, 603-448-3117. AVA Gallery and Art Center, in Lebanon, N.H. ‘fabulous fabergé, jeWeller to tHe czars’: The most important collection outside of Russia includes some 240 precious decorative objects designed for czars Alexander III and Nicholas II by the jeweler Carl Fabergé. Through October 5. Info, 514-285-2000. ‘remarkable contemporary jeWellery’: Thirty Québec and international designers showcase works that illustrate new approaches and techniques to this wearable art form. Through November 30. Info, 514-285-1600. Montréal Museum of Fine Arts. m
seeking crafters, Vendors and artisans: Handmade and homegrown is the theme for the 10th annual Harvest Fair & Craft Show, to benefit the Bowen Walker Fund. Registration deadline: September 1. For info, email pittsfordharvestfair@ comcast.net or call Elizabeth, 483-9972. Pittsford Village Green. Info, 483-9972.
‘WHeel’ call to artists: Send submissions of your photographic discovery of the wheel to a juried exhibit: automotive images and anything else that rolls. Juror: London-based Darren Heath. Deadline: August 6 at midnight. Submission details at darkroomgallery.com/ ex60. Darkroom Gallery, Essex Junction. Info, 877-3686.
soutH end art Hop: SEABA is looking for artists and sites to participate in Burlington’s biggest art event September 5-7. Artists can exhibit up to six pieces of work throughout the South End Arts District. The Hop attracts upward of 35,000 visitors. Registration deadline: July 4. More info at seaba.com/art-hop/. South End Art Hop, Burlington. $45. Info, 859-9222.
creatiVe competition: For this monthly artist competition and exhibit, artists may drop off one display-ready piece in any medium and size to Backspace Gallery, 266 Pine Street in Burlington, between noon on Wednesday and noon 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.
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‘a portrait of Vermont’ call to artists: Northern Vermont artists, show your work depicting Vermonters in our next exhibit at the 99 Gallery and Center in downtown Newport. All media welcome. Submit photos to dpeel@vtlink.net by August 10, or call 323-7759 for more info. Please include a brief statement of your thoughts on the subject. The 99 Gallery and Center, Newport. Info, 323-7759.
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‘spirit animalz’: ONE Arts Collective is accepting applications for a monthlong exhibition opening July 25 at Burlington Beer Company. What is your spirit animal? Work needs to be framed and hang on the wall. Deadline: July 1. Email 1-3 images of the work you wish to exhibit and a 3-5-sentence bio about yourself and the piece to oneartscollective@ gmail.com. Burlington Beer Company, Williston. $25. Info, oneartscollective@gmail.com.
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‘eVolVing perspectiVes: HigHligHts from tHe african art collection’: An exhibition of objects that marks the trajectory of the collection’s development and pays tribute to some of the people who shaped it. Through December 20. ‘in residence: contemporary artists at dartmoutH’: This exhibit celebrates the school’s artist-in-residence program, which began in 1931, and presents works by more than 80 international artists who have participated in it since then. Through July 6. ‘tHe art of Weapons’: Selections from the permanent African collection represent a variety of overlapping contexts, from combat to ceremony, regions and materials. Through December 21. allan Houser: Five sculptures by one of the best-known Native American artists are installed outside the museum in the Maffei Arts Plaza, representing his 3-D work from 1986-1992. Through May 11, 2015. Info, 603-635-7423. Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, in Hanover, N.H.
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ood movies make you think. Bad movies make you wonder. Clint Eastwood’s turgid, tone-deaf and — at two and a quarter hours — sadistically interminable adaptation of the musical Jersey Boys left me wondering a lot of things. Foremost among them: Who did he think would want to see this thing? Nobody under AARP age is likely to have the faintest idea who Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons were, much less recall their string of high-pitched hits. Miley Cyrus and Beyoncé fans, I feel certain, do not yearn to go behind the music and witness the rise of the group that gave us “Sherry,” “Let’s Hang On” and “Big Girls Don’t Cry.” As for those of us who were around then, I believe I speak for a generation when I say, “Thanks, we’re good.” So much for popular demand. When you’re Clint, you get to do whatever you want, however wacky (insert empty-chair joke here). The boys begin their climb to fame on the generically Italian American streets of Belleville in the late 1950s. The first half of the film plays like a Goodfellas parody, with Frankie (John Lloyd Young) standing watch as pals Tommy DeVito (Vincent Piazza) and Nick Massi (Michael Lomenda) pull robbery
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jobs. When a cop approaches, he bursts into song to warn them. Yeah, that could happen. Eventually, they pick up electric guitars and, as the Four Lovers, play generic local joints. While Tommy acts as the band’s manager, the star is clearly the kid with the nails-across-a-chalkboard falsetto — an instrument that would remain unrivaled for sheer batshit weirdness until Yoko Ono YOUR SCAN THIS PAGE THIS PAGE became a punch line screeching like she was SCAN WONDER BOYS Eastwood once made a great film about a jazz giant, but his TEXT WITH LAYAR WITH LAYAR being Tased decades later. fascination with the Four Seasons is likely to leave you wondering what he The group’s fortunes improve when Bob SEE wasPAGE thinking. HERE SEE PAGE 5 5 Gaudio (Erich Bergen) joins as keyboardist and songwriter, and the quartet changes its Why? one is left to wonder. Why present So is a cold. Why cover the musicians in oldname in a scene of stupefying hokiness: One night Frankie looks up as the neon lights of the band’s hits but showcase them lifelessly man makeup for their 1990 induction into the Four Seasons Bowling Alley flick on and and out of order? (One — “My Eyes Adored the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? Valli is still he exclaims, “Look, it’s a sign!” Regrettably, You” — isn’t even a Four Seasons release out there singing the same old songs, and but a relic from Valli’s solo career.) Why looks younger today than the movie made the scene was not played for laughs. The second half of the film feels tacked falsify the record — anyone with access to him appear nearly a quarter century ago. on from a different project. It’s a cautionary Wikipedia can verify that Gaudio wasn’t the Why would anyone pay good money to sit tale. Not about drugs or hubris but about sole writer of those songs, as the script by through a movie this bad? Of all the questions Eastwood leaves poor bookkeeping. At the peak of the Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice (creators group’s fame, Frankie learns it’s in debt up of the stage show) suggests. Why hire an us asking, that’s perhaps the one we can to its eyeballs to the IRS and the mob. We’re actor as iconic as Christopher Walken to answer: According to the weekend numbers, expected to believe the band’s accountants play a gangster who looks out for Frankie next to nobody did. cut Tommy checks over the years totaling and then give him zero opportunity to do RI C K KI S O N AK nearly a million dollars, but nobody ever anything Christopher Walkenish? Why exaggerate the group’s cultural mentioned this to his bandmates. Yeah, that significance? Sure, the songs were catchy. could happen.
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bout a year ago, I received a tip that a Vermont-raised actor named Brad Coolidge had launched a career producing indie films, including the star-studded What Maisie Knew. While the intel regarding Coolidge’s Green Mountain origin remains unconfirmed, it inspired me to check out his latest collaboration with director David Gordon Green: Joe. I’m glad I did. A Texas-set 2013 drama that never reached our multiplexes, Joe is now available for streaming and on video. It stars Nicolas Cage, but he’s not doing what we expect from Nicolas Cage — namely, devouring every piece of non-tacked-down scenery in sight. Nor is Green fulfilling the expectations we might have, based on his Hollywood résumé of comedies such as Pineapple Express and Your Highness. Before he made those movies, Green was best known for atmospheric dramas. He returns to those roots with Joe, scripted by Gary Hawkins. It’s a tale of unlikely allies — a middle-aged ex-convict and a dirt-poor teen — that invites comparisons with Jeff Nichols’ Mud, not least because both films display the talents of young actor Tye Sheridan. Here Sheridan plays Gary, a 15-yearold as determined to protect his vulnerable family as Jennifer Lawrence’s character was in Winter’s Bone. His violent, alcoholic father (Gary Poulter) looms over them like an angel of destruction, grinning demonically
CAGE CAGED The actor delivers an uncharacteristically subdued but still compelling performance in Green’s Southern gothic.
as he undoes all the boy’s efforts. Poulter, a real-life homeless man who was plucked off the streets of Austin to star in the film, was found dead shortly before its release. Even to a viewer unaware of that sad history, his performance feels disturbingly real, like Bruce Dern at his weirdest turned up several notches. Given this engine of chaos at the film’s center, it’s a good that Cage chose to tone things down a bit. His Joe runs a work crew tasked with killing whole groves of “junk” trees. When he pumps poison into a trunk,
the action feels like a physical manifestation of his toxic emotional state. We gradually learn that only Joe’s hardwon restraint keeps him in his gruelingly boring life and out of jail, where his anger has landed him in the past. But, unlike Gary’s dad, he wants to do better — and sees an opportunity when the boy comes to him for a job. The basic narrative of Joe — a broken man redeeming himself by fathering a kid in need — is far from original. The movie’s female characters are sketchily conceived,
with a couple of them seemingly present only to be abused, and the script offers up plenty of well-worn redneck-gothic tropes. What lifts Joe above similar stories, besides the acting, is Green’s intense attentiveness to setting and atmosphere. We notice not just the luminous beauty that his camera gives to sun-struck, scrubby wastelands, but also the quasi-documentary details with which Green fills in this corner of the world: the work crew’s banter, the tree-killing procedure, the mysterious threesome who drops by Joe’s house with a deer carcass. (He cuts steaks from it on camera, with care and aplomb.) Many of these characters are played by nonprofessionals and have no plot relevance; they’re just local color. But it’s rich, varied color and, by the end, we may feel like we’ve been steeped in the Texas heat and had a taste of the poisonous frustration working its way through Joe’s veins. Coolidge’s latest coproduction is The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby, an acclaimed trilogy about a strained marriage that we may or may not see on our screens this fall. Meanwhile, it’s good to be reminded that there are summer alternatives to robots, fairy tales, superheroes and gross-out gags — even if we have to catch them at home or during a one-week run at our local art-house cinema. MARGO T HARRI S O N
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now playing 22 JUmp stReetHHHH1/2 In the sequel to the hit comedy 21 Jump Street, cops channing tatum and Jonah hill find themselves out of high school and going undercover at college, where conflicting interests pull them apart. with Ice cube. Phil lord and christopher Miller returned as directors. (112 min, R)
eDge oF tomoRRoWHH tom cruise plays a soldier battling aliens in a time loop, improving his performance via do-overs that always seem to end in his demise, in this sci-fi adventure from director doug liman (The Bourne Identity). with Emily blunt and brendan gleeson. (113 min, Pg-13)
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HoW to tRAiN YoUR DRAgoN 2HHH1/2 five years after the action of the first animated hit, a young Viking and his beloved dragon discover a cave holding a secret that puts them at the center of new conflict. with the voice talents of Jay baruchel, cate blanchett and gerard butler. dean deblois again directed. (102 min, Pg)
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BelleHHH1/2 In 18th-century England, the illegitimate mixed-race daughter of an aristocrat (gugu Mbatha-Raw) grows up surrounded by privilege and prejudice and attempts to take on the institution of slavery. amma asante directed the period drama, with Emily watson and tom wilkinson. (104 min, Pg)
tHe FAUlt iN oUR stARsHHHH two snarky teens fall in love at their cancer support group in this adaptation of John green’s best-selling ya novel from director Josh boone (Stuck in Love). Shailene woodley, ansel Elgort and nat wolff star. (125 min, Pg-13)
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300: Rise oF AN empiReHH1/2 300 didn’t end so happily for those 300 Spartans. But the Greeks step up to the plate against the invading Persian hordes in this belated sequel from director Noam Murro (Smart People), based on Frank Miller’s Xerxes. Sullivan Stapleton, Lena Headey and Eva Green star. (102 min, R)
X-meN: DAYs oF FUtURe pAstHHH1/2 Bryan Singer returns as director for this time-hopping mutant extravaganza in which the X-Men join forces with their younger selves to prevent Something Really Bad from happening. With Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Hugh Jackman, Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy and Jennifer Lawrence. (131 min, PG-13)
eNemYHHH Jake Gyllenhaal plays a man who spots his exact lookalike on a movie screen and seeks him out, in this adaptation of José Saramago’s novel from director Denis Villeneuve (Prisoners). With Mélanie Laurent, Sarah Gadon and Isabella Rossellini. (90 min, R) WiNteR’s tAleH1/2 Mark Helprin’s fantastical, time-hopping novel about New York City comes to the screen with Colin Farrell in the role of a burglar who uses a supernatural power in the service of … wait for it … true love! With Jessica Brown Findlay, Jennifer Connelly and Russell Crowe. Writer Akiva Goldsman makes his feature directorial debut. (118 min, PG-13)
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Police reported that a gunman forced a 60-year-old man in New Orleans to withdraw money from an automated teller machine, but before the ATM dispensed the cash, the robber fell asleep. The victim alerted police, who arrested Meyagi Baker, 17. (New Orleans’s WDSU-TV) While shooting scenes for a Fox television show in Chicago, a production crew was granted access to the Cook County Jail but had to undergo background checks because of the “extensive security measures that we impose on any visitor,” sheriff’s official Ben Breit said. The screening discovered that crewmember James Suhajda, 52, was wanted on a domestic battery warrant dating to 2003. Deputies took him into custody. (Chicago Tribune)
Second-Amendment Follies Rachel Mendoza told authorities in Liberty County, Texas, that her 12-yearold son injured himself with a bullet he found. “He held a cigarette lighter under a .22-caliber round to see what would happen,” the sheriff’s report said. “The bullet exploded, sending bullet fragments through his left middle finger and lodging in the left eyelid.” (Houston Chronicle)
Police said L.C. Williams, 70, shot himself in the foot in a supermarket parking lot in Orlando, Fla. Williams told police that his holster had recently broken, so he was carrying the concealed weapon in his waistband. The gun fell out of the waistband, hit his foot and fired. The round then ricocheted into the grill of
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an automobile, causing about $500 in damage, said police, who did not charge Williams. (Orlando Sentinel) While attempting to holster his .45-caliber pistol at a gas station in Macon, Ga., a man shot himself in the groin area. Authorities reported that when he took off his pants to check the wound, he saw that he had “shot himself in the penis and that the bullet exited out of his buttocks.” (Macon’s WMAZ-TV)
Vacation at Bernie’s The European Court of Justice ruled that a German man’s widow was due payment for the man’s 140.5 days of accrued vacation because “the unintended occurrence of the worker’s death must not retroactively lead to a total loss of the entitlement to paid annual leave.” (Associated Press)
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Authorities said Derrick Johnson, 25, shot and killed a 21-year-old man in York, Pa., after they fought because the victim’s friend had asked Johnson and his friends to move aside so he could make a pool shot. (Associated Press)
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Operator error and mechanical failure have caused at least 49 large military drones to crash during test or training flights near domestic bases since 2001. Under orders from Congress, the Federal Aviation Administration is preparing to allow civilian drone flights and predicts that as many as 7,500 small commercial drones could be flying in U.S. airspace by 2018. (Washington Post)
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Two weeks before the death of radio DJ Casey Kasem, 82, the feud between his wife, Jean Kasem, 59, and his daughter, Kerri Kasem, escalated when Kerri arrived at his home in Silverdale, Calif., with an ambulance to take her father to the hospital. While paramedics waited to enter the home, Jean threw a pound of raw hamburger meat at Kerri. She explained that she was following a Bible verse: “In the name of King David, I threw a piece of raw meat into the street
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When Russell Cooper, 77, was unable to withdraw $130 at a bank in Boynton Beach, Fla., because a “consistent lack of funds” had caused the bank to close his account, police said Cooper became “increasingly agitated” and used his walker to shuffle over to the branch manager’s desk. He pulled out a pocketknife and demanded to be escorted to a teller.
After getting his money, Cooper told the manager he was taking him hostage and forced him outside. By now, police had arrived, but Cooper refused to surrender and had to be subdued with a Taser. (South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
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Arizona’s Maricopa Association of Governments ordered Dianne Barker, 65, to “immediately cease performing cartwheels at MAG meetings.” Officials said they had warned Baker repeatedly not to perform cartwheels because doing so disrupts meetings. “You have from time to time suggested that MAG cannot prevent you from performing cartwheels during your comments,” their letter to her states. “That position is incorrect.” Barker called the letter “intimidating, threatening and defaming,” and said the agency has infringed on her right of free expression. Michael LeVault, who chairs MAG’s Regional Council, denied the ban is an attempt to shut down public comment but “a safety issue.” (Phoenix’s Arizona Republic)
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A woman who discovered a small fire in the rear of her family’s home in Louisville, Ky., grabbed the dog’s water bowl to douse the blaze. Instead, the fire quickly spread, fire and rescue Major Rob Millner said, because the woman’s 3-year-old daughter had mistakenly filled the water bowl with gasoline. Crews needed an hour to extinguish the fire, which had spread to a neighbor’s house. (Louisville’s WAVE-TV)
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Cancer (June 21-July 22)
If you could harness the energy from a typical lightning bolt, you would be able to use it to toast 100,000 slices of bread. That’s an impossible scenario, of course. But I see it as an apt metaphor for the challenge you have ahead of you. I suspect you will soon get access to a massive influx of vital force that arrives in a relatively short time. Can you find a way to gather it in and store it up? Or will most of it, after the initial burst, leak away and be unavailable for long-term use? The secret to success will lie in whether you can figure out how to create the perfect container.
tauRus (April 20-May 20): After a thor-
ough, detailed, painstaking analysis of the
gemini (May 21-June 20): The Japanese word tsundoku describes what happens if you buy a lot of books but never read them, leaving them piled up in a neglected heap. I recommend that you avoid indulging in tsundoku any time soon, Gemini. In fact, I urge you not to acquire any resources that you then proceed to ignore. you are in a phase of your astrological cycle when it’s crucial to make conscientious use of your tools and riches. to let them go to waste would be to dishonor them and make it less likely that you will continue to receive their blessings in the future. take full advantage of what’s yours. leo (July 23-Aug. 22): “forget the suffering
/ you caused others. / forget the suffering / others caused you.” Czeslaw Milosz wrote these words in his poem “forget,” and now I’m passing them on to you. According to my reading of the astrological omens, now would be an excellent time for you to purge the old hurts you are still carrying, both those you dealt out and those you endured. opportunities like this don’t come along often, Leo. I invite you to repay emotional debts, declare amnesty and engage in an orgy of forgiveness. Any other things you can think of that will help wipe the slate clean?
ViRgo (Aug. 23-sept. 22): When a navajo
baby laughs for the first time, everyone in the community celebrates. It’s regarded as the moment when the child completes his or her transition from the spirit realm into the physical world. The person who has provoked the baby’s laughter is charged with planning the first Laugh Ceremony, a party to commemorate the magical event. I foresee a comparable development in your life, Virgo. you won’t be laughing for the first time, of
course, but I suspect your sense of humor will reach a new ripeness. How? Maybe you will be able to find amusement in things you have always taken too seriously. Maybe you will suddenly have a deeper appreciation for life’s ongoing cosmic jokes. or perhaps you will stumble upon reasons to laugh longer and harder and louder than you ever have before.
liBRa (sept. 23-oct. 22): Would you like to be free from the experience of getting criticized? Do you think it might be nice if no one ever accused you of being wrong or off-track? If so, here’s how you should proceed, says American writer elbert Hubbard: “Do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.” but I’m afraid I can’t recommend that behavior for you, Libra. In the coming weeks, you have a sacred duty to your future self to risk being controversial. I urge you to take strong stands, speak raw truths, and show your real feelings. yes, you may attract flack. you might disturb the peace. but that will be an acceptable price to pay for the rewards you receive. This is one time when being courageous is more important than seeking harmony. scoRPio
(oct. 23-nov. 21): “be respectful to your superiors, if you have any,” said American writer Mark twain. How do you respond to that impish nudge, scorpio? Are there any geniuses and heroes out there whom you consider to be worthy of your respect? If not, I urge you to go out in search of some. At this phase of your evolution, you are in special need of people who inspire you with their greatness. It’s crucial for you to learn from teachers and role models who are further along than you are in their mastery of the game of life. I also believe it would be healing for you to feel waves of admiration and reverence.
sagittaRius (nov. 22-Dec. 21): “everyone has something to hide,” declared russian author Anton Chekhov. Is that true? Do even you blunt sagittarians have something to hide? I’m going to say that for 90 percent of you, the answer is yes. There are secrets you don’t want anyone to find out about: past events you are reluctant to disclose or shady deeds you are getting away with now or taboo thoughts you want to keep sealed away from public knowledge. I’m not
here to scold you about them or to encourage you to spill them. on the contrary, I say it’s time to bring them fully into your conscious awareness, to honor their importance to your life story and to acknowledge their power to captivate your imagination.
caPRicoRn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): A German chemist named felix Hoffman had a prominent role in synthesizing two very different drugs: aspirin and heroin. In analyzing your astrological omens for the coming months, I see you as having a similar potential. you could create good stuff that will have the power to help and heal; or you could generate borderline stuff that will lead to a lot of problems; or you could do both. How it all plays out really is up to your free will. for best results, set your intention to go in the direction of things like aspirin and away from things like heroin. aQuaRius
(Jan. 20-feb. 18): This is a good time to risk a small leap of faith, but not a sprawling vault over a yawning abyss. feel free and easy about exploring the outer borders of familiar territory, but be cautious about the prospect of wandering into the deep, dark unknown. be willing to entertain stimulating new ideas but not cracked notions that have little evidence to back them up. your task is to shake up the status quo just enough to invigorate everyone’s emotional intelligence, even as you take care not to unleash an upheaval that makes everyone crazy.
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(feb. 19-March 20): british poet samuel taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) had an unusual fetish. He enjoyed eating apples and pears and other fruits while they were still hanging on the tree. Why? Maybe because the taste was as pure and brisk and naked as it could possibly be — an experience that I imagine would be important to a romantic poet like him. In accordance with your astrological omens, I suggest you use Coleridge’s quest for ultimate freshness as a driving metaphor in the coming week. Go to the source to get what you need. Dispense with intermediaries. be as raw as the law allows.
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aRies (March 21-April 19): According to an astrologer named Astrolocherry (astrolocherry.tumblr.com), Aries is the sign of the freedom fighter, the explorer, the daredevil and the adventurer. That’s all true; I agree with her. but here’s an important caveat. As you get older, it’s your duty to harness all that hot energy on behalf of the softer, slower, more tender parts of your life. The coming weeks will offer you a great opportunity to work on that challenge. to get started, imagine how you can be a freedom fighter, explorer, daredevil and adventurer in service to your home, family and community.
astrological omens, I’m inclined to advise you to be neither thorough nor detailed nor painstaking in the coming days. Instead, I suspect you will thrive by being spontaneous and improvisatory. Wing it, baby! Throw away the script. trust your gut. Play it by ear. Make it up as you go along. If you find yourself frowning with indecision and beset by lazy procrastination, you will know you’re off course. If you are feeling blithe and agile as you get a lot done with creative efficiency, you will know you’re right in the groove.
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Are you serious? Is that really your problem right now? Are you aware that people are starving, kids can’t afford to go to school and our planet is probably dying? Listen, pal, I’m not going to beat around the bush: Get over yourself. Don’t get me wrong, I think dating a lot of people is cool. It’s fun to get out there, be open and engage with different types. Proactive exploration is healthy — that’s how we figure out who suits us best. Especially if you’re actively seeking a life partner. Romance and true love don’t usually just come knocking; you have to invite them into your life. But what’s not cool is being sketchy about it. If even one of those women doesn’t know you are actively dating two others, then you’re being a jerk. Pick one or get off the pot, so to speak. And if you’ve given any of them the impression that you’re monogamous, then you should immediately end it with all of them. It’s absolutely unfair and douche-baggish to let a woman think she’s your one and only when she isn’t. On the other hand, if everyone is on the same page with dating multiples — hey, maybe your “hotties” are, too — then a different approach is in order. Many people reading this column right now are no doubt envious of your situation. It’s hard enough to find one person we really like, let alone three. But are you assuming that any one of these women is ready to get serious with you? Have you asked any of them how they feel? For all you know, you’re on someone’s chopping block. Here’s the deal: If you can’t decide, then don’t. Continue to casually date each woman and see what happens. When the right woman reveals herself, you will know right away. But if things get more intense with one, call it off with the others (see above). Whether you fall hard for one of these lovely ladies or for someone you haven’t even met yet, you’ll know it when you feel it. And the decision will be made for you.
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Halflounge Saturday Night You were so sexy dancing with your friend. I couldn’t take my eyes off you. I wish I could’ve joined. Felt your body against me. I was the guy sitting in the corner by myself, resting my broken foot. Hit me up if you were interested, too. When: Saturday, June 14, 2014. Where: Halflounge. You: Man. Me: Man. #912234 Pee in an indoor plant You had an “Eat More Kale” shirt on. I was hungover. It was hot and the snow was melting, we laughed all day. I love you forever friend. Will you marry me if we are 50 and still single? I will make you smoothies if you read me the paper. When: Monday, April 14, 2014. Where: Killington. You: Woman. Me: Woman. #912233 Mustachioed Lady to Medicine Man You should be ashamed. We did not have wonderful conversation at Spielpalast. I yelled at you like a bear. This is all. You lie to yourself and all of Berlin-ton. Why do you? If I find you, I put you in gulag. You may contact me for punishment. When: Saturday, May 17, 2014. Where: did not see; he is a liar. You: Man. Me: Woman. #912232 Bike path after rain storm It was just after the rain stopped. I was riding with a friend and we passed you on the bike path on our way to North Beach. You were on your bike as well, dark olive skin and dark hair. We made eye contact and I lost my breath. When: Friday, June 13, 2014. Where: bike path by North Beach. You: Woman. Me: Man. #912231 Woman walking in St. A I see you walking in St. Albans a lot. You are usually with a coworker. I think you work at Mylan? You are beautiful! You are in great shape. We have never met, but I would like to :). When: Friday, June 13, 2014. Where: St. Albans. You: Woman. Me: Man. #912230 On The Rise Bakery At OTR bakery, you had jeans on and a jean shirt. Wednesday night, you were with a woman, not sure if she was a friend or if you were on a date. I was with a blond woman and two little girls sitting near you. Single? When: Wednesday, June 11, 2014. Where: Richmond OTR. You: Man. Me: Woman. #912229 Makin’ Hay In the Sunshine I’ve thrown so many hints your way — I don’t know what else to try! If by some miracle you have found yourself here, hop on over to “browse photos” in the personals and you should find me right away. Geesh — at least I hope so! Then we can continue what we have started. I hope ;). When: Tuesday, June 10, 2014. Where: farming in Randolph Center. You: Man. Me: Woman. #912228 Shelburne Road bank Shelburne Road, South Burlington. You: woman. Me: man. You came to my teller window to deposit some checks, and then came back again when there was a little lesson happening at the ATM. You had a nice smile and a cheery personality. Meet for coffee sometime? When: Wednesday, June 4, 2014. Where: Shelburne Road. You: Woman. Me: Man. #912227
Contra Guinness Dance Courteousness Plus You were the steward for my group. Later we had a flirty set. Still thinking of you holding it against me (wink). Actually thinking more about that look in your eye. I’m so NOT offended by what you said and hope you’re available to courteously turn me again. Wish I had gotten your name. When: Saturday, June 7, 2014. Where: Rutland Guinness Record Contra Dance. You: Man. Me: Woman. #912226 Endless smiles I saw you at downtown Shaw’s. You had someone in the front seat — a brother, a friend? You parked facing my car. You’re tall and thin with curly, cropped dark hair and a contagious smile. I was walking out with my bag. I’m tall, athletic, pink tank-top and strong shoulders. Your seltzer bubbled over as you were distracted and smiling. When: Sunday, June 8, 2014. Where: Shaw’s in Montpelier. You: Man. Me: Woman. #912225 pool at three needs Hey! We played a few doubles rounds. You were with some girlfriends and some guy who was being a full toolbag. You were cute and a relatively good shot! I want to take you out. Let’s do this. When: Friday, June 6, 2014. Where: Three Needs. You: Woman. Me: Man. #912224 Zooey Deschanel’s Sunglasses You came into the Gap with your friend. I greeted you and rang your friend up. You were funny, cute and I loved the glasses you chose for Zooey. Want to grab coffee? When: Friday, June 6, 2014. Where: Downtown Mall. You: Man. Me: Woman. #912223 Do you come here often? I exchanged a glance with a good-looking guy dressed in jeans and a blue gingham collared shirt during Friday lunch at August First. I wish it could’ve been more, but you were talking with an older gentleman at your table. I thought you looked nice and wish I could’ve said hello. Maybe I’ll be really lucky and get another chance? When: Friday, June 6, 2014. Where: August First. You: Man. Me: Woman. #912222 Volunteer at NECKA You had on jeans and a pink blouse. I was picking up for someone. Thank you for your help, you were very kind. We talked a bit and I wanted to ask your name but was rushed off. Would like to see you outside the “food shelf” sometime, if you’re intersted. Found you very attractive. How about lunch? Drinks? When: Thursday, June 5, 2014. Where: Newport. You: Woman. Me: Man. #912220 You called yourself Jack You introduced yourself to me as Jack and I told you I shared my name with a flower. Our day at the falls was the best I’ve had in years and I get butterflies every time I’ve seen you since. I can’t think of anything but your smile, laugh and incredible eyes. I impatiently await seeing you again! When: Tuesday, April 22, 2014. Where: Moss Glen Falls. You: Man. Me: Woman. #912219 FAHC foot clinic Tilley Drive June 3, about 9:00 a.m. After my appointment, you scheduled me for another foot appointment in two months. I was wearing a black T-shirt and khakis. You were wearing brown and white and I thought you looked absolutely smashing. Love to meet if you are open and interested! When: Tuesday, June 3, 2014. Where: FAHC Orthopedics on Tilley Drive. You: Woman. Me: Man. #912218
Marcus looking for Marley Saw an ad posted back in March ... if you’re still around. I’m real :). When: Friday, March 14, 2014. Where: I Spys. You: Man. Me: Woman. #912217 Blue-Eyed Beauty, SL Just sending a reminder of how amazing you are. He never liked and respected you for you, don’t keep giving him your heart. You are an amazing mother, independent, happy woman who knows what she wants. It’s his own loss and he will know it every time he has to see you walk by. To your new and better beginnings. When: Sunday, June 1, 2014. Where: Burlington/ Colchester. You: Woman. Me: Man. #912216 Lunchtime break on Dorset Street We spy a couple having a lunchtime break on Dorset Street. Wondering if you’d like to have another couple join you? When: Friday, May 30, 2014. Where: South Burlington. You: Woman. Me: Woman. #912215 Tom’s Tiki Bar Sat. Night I was sitting with a group of friends, you were with another girl. We made lots of eye contact. Interested? Or was I wrong? This was Sat. 31st. Me: blue eyes, cranberry linen shirt, jeans. You: red hair, black camisole, brown eyes. When: Saturday, May 31, 2014. Where: Tom’s Tiki Bar. You: Woman. Me: Man. #912214 Lilly, Head of the Meadow Lilly from Head of the Meadow beach, would you like to hang out with me and the baby here in Vermont? When: Thursday, May 29, 2014. Where: Head of the Meadow Cape Cod. You: Woman. Me: Man. #912213 Pee in an indoor plant You switched schools and our hearts became forever friends. We’ve shared joys and heartbreaks, laughed hysterically, slept in a single bed, read the paper, gone on adventures, written essays, walked our dogs, spent days on the mountain and on occasion have lost ourselves in a few drinks. No matter who or where you are, I love you! When: Monday, April 14, 2014. Where: Killington. You: Woman. Me: Woman. #912212 Lunching alone at Stone Soup I saw you three (?) weeks ago having lunch at Stone Soup. I was sitting on the bench along the wall with a man. You almost sat down next to me but then sat alone near the front window. You were wearing a T-shirt and a grey/green cap. After, I said to my friend, “How do I meet THAT guy?” When: Friday, May 9, 2014. Where: Stone Soup. You: Man. Me: Woman. #912210 sunshine and butterflies I miss your light in my life. When: Thursday, May 29, 2014. Where: it’s been too long. You: Woman. Me: Man. #912209
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