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ARTS+LEISURE The Addison Independent
JULY 21, 2016
Snake Mountain Bluegrass features founding members Gregg Humphrey (left) and Mike Connor, on guitar and banjo, respectively, plus mandolin player Earle Provin and bassist Mike Boise. PHOTO COURTESY OF JAMIE FUCHS
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luegrass may have been invented in Appalachia, but Gregg Humphrey and Mike Connor of Addison County’s Snake Mountain Bluegrass know that it’s a mistake for a Vermont band to try to imitate that exact same sound. “A lot of bluegrass bands hear the southern songs and then they kind of put a little accent on what they sing,” said Humphrey. “It hurts your ears sometimes.”
BY SAM HARTLEY
Before Humphrey and Connor formed the band back in 1985, Humphrey, a guitarist, was heavily influenced by “newgrass,” which progressively incorporated some musical elements and instrumentation of rock ’n’ roll
try to copy his style a little bit,” said Humphrey. “Then I got together with a fiddler and some mandolin players and guitar players and we played what we called ‘Vermont Newgrass’ music, which means it wasn’t bound by any one tradition. If we liked the songs we would just put banjo and other things to it and just sing the song and, you know, have a good time.” That same spirit was carried on into Snake Mountain Bluegrass, socalled because both Humphrey and Connor, who plays banjo, used to have homes that touched Snake Mountain. Humphrey still lives in Weybridge, while Connor now lives in Shoreham.
into bluegrass music.
Humphrey plays his flat-top guitar and Connor plays his banjo, and they both sing because vocals and harmonies are really at the core of the genre.
“Doc Watson got me going slap-picking when I was in college and I’d
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THE UNLIKELY GALLERIES OF DENNIS CAMPAY What is the most unexpected place that painter Dennis Campay has ever hung a show? a. The center of a four lane highway. b. A truck stop. c. At the gym. Go ahead. Take a guess.
Campay’s work usually hangs in more auspicious locales, like the many galleries that represent him across the south, and here in Middlebury at the Edgewater Gallery. He has been collected by more than a dozen universities and museums, including Savannah College of Art and Design and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. He has also been honored by several art institutions, including the National Endowment for the Arts and, most recently in 2015, he was named master artist by Brenau University.
BY ISABEL LOWER
But it took him a while to get to this point. Campay, who spent his first decade in Paris, then some time with cows in Texas, followed by 17 years as a disillusioned architect living in the southeast, said he only became a working artist at the age of 45. When asked why he didn’t follow through on his plans to teach art, which was why he went back to school as a 39-year-old to earn his BFA from the Atlanta College of Art, he says it’s because the students tended to go for “shock value.” He was after discipline. This level of intention may seem incongruous to whatever image you conjure up of the man behind the pencil-scratched, sparingly colored, built up and carved into panels and canvases, whose bits of metal, jagged slabs of plaster, and drips of paint positively hum with an impulsive energy. But no matter how wildly Campay draws out the story he is telling, through his imagined cityscapes and symbols (boats, chairs, pianos, typewriters perched on columns, which he says represents his view that writing elevates art, uniting the old world and the new), he
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sticks to what he calls, “the fundamentals.” “It’s like, when I paint trees,” Campay said in a recent interview. “I don’t paint trees: I paint shapes and forms and values, and then I turn them into SEE CAMPAY ON PAGE 7
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Currently the other two members of the band are Poultney’s Earle Provin, who plays the mandolin, and bass player Mike Boise of Brandon. Snake Mountain Bluegrass plays all around Addison County and the Champlain Valley. You can hear the band this Saturday evening at Brandon Music
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more in the country genre — but give them a bluegrass twist,” said Connor. “One of the other things that’s unique about our band is that we focus a lot on the harmonies, and that’s really what bluegrass is really all about. Gregg and I have always tried to do really, really good harmonies and surround ourselves with people who can sing and can do a four-part harmony because that’s what really defines the music when it’s all said and done.”
Both Humphrey and Connor have lived and worked in the area for quite a while now. Humphrey, now retired, taught at Mary Hogan Elementary for about 20 years before becoming a professor of Education Studies at Middlebury College for another 25. Connor used to own and manage Middlebury’s Connor Homes before selling it and stepping back into a public relations position for the company.
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Because vocals and “It’s great to see bluegrass THINGS THAT’S harmonies are such an still flourishing all over UNIQUE ABOUT OUR important part of the genre, New England and the it only makes sense that the rest of the world for that BAND IS THAT WE band would place such a matter,” said Humphrey, FOCUS A LOT ON strong emphasis on trying reflecting on the state of THE HARMONIES, to sing with their natural bluegrass today. “There’s voices. “We don’t sound not a lot of pretensions in AND THAT’S REALLY like we’re from the south this type of music. We like WHAT BLUEGRASS IS because that’s a mistake to tell good stories with that some people make,” good songs.” REALLY ALL ABOUT." said Humphrey. “We try — MIKE CONNOR to sound exactly like our Brandon Music is located voices, but we try to feature at 62 Country Club Road in good vocals. Meanwhile, Brandon. Tickets are $20, along with that, we also take breaks and we and a pre-concert dinner is also available for play in the bluegrass-style leads, but we’ve $20. Bring your own beverage. Reservations always worked a lot on our vocals to make are recommended: Call 247-4295 or e-mail sure that they’re really as high-quality as we info@brandon-music.net for reservations or for can get.” more information. Thirty years is quite a long time to keep any sort of organization running — not to mention a band. Connor attributes this partially to the nature of the genre and partially to all the good talent in the area that has kept Snake Mountain Bluegrass music sounding fresh. “I think it’s interesting that Gregg and I have been able to maintain that band for as long as we have,” said Connor. “Most bands do not stay together. Partly because it’s bluegrass, it has a self-sustaining aspect to it. We’ve also been blessed in that we have always been able to gather some really good musicians around us.”
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OUT OF TOWN
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QUECHEE — Join the Vermont Institute of Natural Science (VINS) to celebrate the amazing world of insects on Saturday, July 23 and Sunday, July 24 from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Get up close and personal with live caterpillars — more than 50 species from New England — and other insects to discover why they're important.
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In the Caterpillar Lab, renowned expert Sam Jaffe will explore caterpillar defense, camouflage, mimicry and metamorphosis among other behaviors. Visitors may use digital microscopes and screens to observe caterpillars hatching from eggs, eating and shedding. Both days will have unique events and activities: Enjoy creative expression sessions with ArtisTree/ Purple Crayon’s Art Activity, discover the fascinating process of making mead with Artesano Meadery, and test your skill at photographing
In addition, discover how we use insects to catch fish with Brian Burkholder’s fly-tying and casting demo. Explore Vermont’s aquatic world with your own Aqua Scope, and enjoy music by The Swing Peepers.
Children can hop like a grasshopper or spring like a springtail in the solar-powered bounce house from SunCommon; and partake in other attractions including Bug Safaris, face painting and birds-on-glove. The Griddle & Groovy Food Truck will be at VINS on Saturday, and Ana’s Empanada’s Food Truck will be available on Sunday. amazing insects by participating in hands-on workshops with professional photographers from World Story Exchange.
All events and activities are included with the price of admission to the Nature Center, which is $14.50 for adults; $13.50 for seniors, 62 and over; $12.50 for youth, ages 4 to 17; and free for members and for children, 3 and under. For more info visit www.vinsweb.org or call 802-359-5000.
STOWE BREWERS FESTIVAL EXPANDS IN SECOND YEAR The second annual Stowe Brewers Festival on July 29 and 30 offers three 4-hour tasting sessions featuring 40+ brewers and cider-makers serving more than 130 beers and ciders, bonus taste tickets from premiere Vermont spirits distillers, more than a dozen food trucks, free workshops and demonstrations, a wide variety of specialty food and product vendors, live music and free on-site parking, unlimited cold, filtered water and secure bicycle valet. Standard admission is $45. If you're a VIP, there's special admission for you: $75 Designated drivers are admitted free. Round-trip transportation is available for $20. Note: You do have to be 21+ to come to this event. No children. No pets. Service animals welcomed. More info at: www. StoweBrewersFestival.com.
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IN TOWN The Grift gets ready to rock in New Haven The Grift will play at Lincoln Peak Vineyard for Friday night’s Wine Down on July 29 from 6-8 p.m. The Grift has got to be one of Middlebury’s favorite rock and roll quartets. They play an JULY FRIDAY eclectic set of originals and often humorous Lincoln Peak, New Haven covers. Catchy melodies, clever lyrics and tight vocal harmonies will get you dancing and singing along. The band includes Clint Bierman (guitar, vocals), Jeff Vallone (drums, vocals), and Peter Day (bass, trumpet, vocals).
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sale by Almost Home, and wine by the glass. Admission is free. Bring lawn chairs or a picnic blanket, rain or shine. Leave your own booze and pets at home please. More information at www.lincolnpeakvineyard.com.
The Grift’s style is pop-rock with literate lyrics and vocal harmonies, and it really grooves. These guys have serious musical and songwriting chops. Bassist/vocalist Peter Day won a recent Vermontwide songwriter contest, and guitarist/vocalist Clint Bierman co-wrote “I’m On My Way” for the Shrek 2 soundtrack. Drummer Jeff Vallone (classically trained, no less, with at least one symphony under his belt) was The Grift’s original bass player, then turntableist, and now drummer. The songs spring to life when the vocal harmonies of Bierman and Day meet the musical muscle of a road-tested touring band. Mix a deep love for the craft of songwriting with the rocksolid rhythm section of Vallone on drums and Day on bass with Bierman’s masterful guitar playing, and you get the strange, eclectic, dynamic brew that is Grift music. The vineyard opens at 5:30 for picnicking. Food for
Come listen to The Grift play at Lincoln Peak Vineyard on Friday, July 29.
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NEED SOMETHING TO DO RIGHT NOW? COOKIE'S HOT CLUB IS PLAYING LINCOLN PEAK ON FRIDAY Cookie’s Hot Club will perform at Lincoln Peak Vineyard Friday, July 22, during the Wine Down Friday series from 6-8 p.m. (picnicking opens at 5:30). Cookie’s Hot Club only plays fun stuff — Gypsy jazz, jazz standards, jump blues and a few originals.
Featuring Carrie Cook, bass; Peter Lind, harmonica; D Davis, guitar; Greg Evans, guitar; and Karl Miller, drums — and with Cookie’s kazoo solos — the newly-formed quintet is upbeat and swinging. All the same basics and info. See story above.
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The Zephyr Vocal Ensemble will perform a free concert at JULY FRIDAY the Salisbury Salisbury Congregational Church Congregational Church next Friday, July 22 at 7:30 p.m. as part of their summer events series. Ensemble members Susan Nop, Kathleen, Dutton and Tyler Smith perform Americana, bluegrass, gospel and blues. Free-will donation appreciated.
Middlebury Studio School hosts the 11th annual Art On the Green Craft JULY Fairthis Saturday, SATURDAY Middlebury Studio School July 23 from 9-4. There will be free art activities for everyone all day. Local artisan favorites, including pottery by Kathy Clarke, wood crafts by Bob Weaver, quilts by Jeri Canfield and jewelry by Barb Nelson. For more call 802-2473702.
Come listen to the Middlebury Community Music Center's Jazz WEDNESDAY JULY Quartet on Middlebury Green Wednesday at 6 p.m. on the Middlebury green. It's free and part of Experience Middlebury’s Summer Music Series. Brown bag your dinner or grab something to go in town and picnic on the green. Check the BMP's facebook page the afternoon of the concert if the weather looks questionable.
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Merchants Row, Middlebury, VT Tickets: 802-382-9222 • www.townhalltheater.org Fri. 7/22 7pm & Sat 7/23 2pm
EXHIBITS ADDISON COUNTY IN PROFILE: SILHOUETTES FROM THE HENRY SHELDON MUSEUM ARCHIVES. On exhibit through summer 2016 at the Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History, 1 Park St., Middlebury. 3882117 or www.henrysheldonmuseum.org. COLLECTIONS AND RECOLLECTIONS: PRESERVING PETER BARRANCO’S LEGACY. On exhibit through summer 2016 at Lake Champlain Maritime Museum. 4472 Basin Harbor Road, Vergennes, 475-2022 or www.lcmm.org.
THT’S YOUNG COMPANY PRESENTS:
DREAMING OF VERMONT, BY STEVEN P. Goodman. On exhibit for the month of July at Edgewater Gallery at Middlebury Falls. 1 Mill Street, Middlebury. 802-458-0098 or edgewatergallery.co
Roald Dahl’s fantastical tale directed by Douglas Anderson
INDEPENDENCE MUST BE WON: THE ART OF ELLEN VIERECK. On exhibit for 2016 at Mount Independence State Historic Site. 497 Mount Independence Road, Orwell. 802-948-2000 or www.historicsites.vermont. gov/MountIndependence.
JAMES & THE GIANT PEACH THE MUSICAL Sun 7/24 7pm $20 advance/ $25 door GRAMMY WINNER
ABIGAIL WASHBURN AND WU FEI A unique banjo-guzheng duo playing songs rooted in traditional Appalachian and Chinese music.
Tue Free* Tue 7/26 7/26 7:30pm 7:30pm Free* THE CONSTANCE HOLDEN MEMORIAL CONCERT
POINT COUNTERPOINT
The annual concert by the talented staff of the classical music school on Lake Dunmore. More info: pointcp.com *Donations benefit Point CounterPoint
Sat 7/30 8pm $5
ALICE’S WONDERBAND + FRIENDS Funky rock jazz fusion. Cash bar, dance floor, shenanigans! With special guest HAMJOB!
Fri 8/12 & Sat 8/13 8:30pm $15*
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PRESENTED BY MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE’S GERMAN FOR SINGERS
A medley of popular “Seraglio-operas” from the 18th century. Pre-performance talk (in English) at 7:45pm. *Limited $15 tickets available for non-college ID holders.
Tue 8/23 & Wed 8/24 7pm
THT’S YOUNG COMPANY PRESENTS:
ALICE IN WONDERLAND
A wild twist on the classic tale of a girl, a rabbit and a world gone mad. Directed by Lindsay Pontius and Kendra Gratton.
THT would like to thank our dinner & a show partner...
LIFE UNDER THE SHADOW: PAINTINGS BY HOM PRADHAN. On exhibit March 18-July 31 at Vermont Folklife Center. 88 Main St., Middlebury. Gallery and shop hours Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Admission by donation. 388-4964. THE CURIOUS COUSINS OF VERMONT OUTSIDER ARTIST GAYLEEN AIKEN. On exhibit through summer 2016 at Henry Sheldon Museum, 1 Park St., Middlebury. Museum hours Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. 388-2117 or www.henrysheldonmuseum.org. OBSERVING VERMONT ARCHITECTURE. On exhibit through Aug. 7 at Chimney Point Vermont State Historic Site, 7305 Vermont Route 125, Addison. 759-2412. PAUL STRAND IN VERMONT, 1943-1946. On exhibit in the Overbrook Gallery May 27-Aug. 7 at Middlebury College Museum of Art. 72 Porter Field/Route 30 South, Middlebury 443-3168 or www.middlebury.edu/arts. PEDALING THROUGH HISTORY: 150 YEARS OF THE BICYCLE, THE GLENN EAMES COLLECTION. On exhibit June 21-Oct. 16 at the Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History, 1 Park St, Middlebury. 388-2117 or www. henrysheldonmuseum.org. PERSEVERANCE: JAPANESE TATTOO TRADITION IN A MODERN WORLD. On exhibit in the Christian A. Johnson Memorial Gallery June 10-Aug. 7 at Middlebury College Museum of Art, 72 Porter Field/Route 30 South, Middlebury. 443-3168 or www.middlebury.edu/arts. Museum is closed Mondays. QUAKER MADE: VERMONT FURNITURE, 1820-1835. On exhibit starting Sunday, July 10 at the Rokeby Museum. Route 7, Ferrisburgh. 877-3406. REBECCA KINKEAD. New work will be on exhibit at Edgewater Gallery on the Green for the month of July. 6 Merchants Row, Middlebury. 802-9897419 or edgewatergallery.co THE SKY’S THE LIMIT: A VERMONT PASTEL SOCIETY EXHIBIT. on exhibit June 3-July 29 at Compass Music and Arts Center, 333 Jones Drive, Brandon. More info at www.cmacvt.org. HAVE AN EXHIBIT YOU WANT PUBLISHED?
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trees. Because if I start thinking about just trees, I get hung up.”
this was the ultimate high: you’re acquired by a major southern museum, and the very next night you’re in a sporting club having an art show with people in spandex, walking by in towels, stopping by going oh, look at this.”
His dedication to these fundamentals — the search for greater challenge through basic shapes and the frankness of his drawing — is made apparent in the style of his conversation as well. No matter what joke or bizarre tale he’s lead you off into, by the end of it Campay has transitioned to describing his process, his influence and his philosophy. Because that’s what was underneath the wisecracking all along.
“It was a great lesson,” Campay drifted on, “To know that no matter how big you are there can always be little bitty down moments and when you really look at them they’re kind of funny.” Not giving up when you feel low is what will bring you success, Campay said. You have to work through those bad moments, “Like when you get a bad review… There used to be this one critic, and it didn’t matter who you were, she would beat you like hell.” But you keep going, which reminded him of his very first show.
So what advice would Campay give to young artists trying to “make it?” Hard work. It was hours in the studio that got him to where he is now. “It’s funny,” Campay said, “Because when you get established, people think that you have the magic wand, and that you didn’t struggle, and they want to know how not to struggle.” (For those willing to put in the work, the University of Florida awards a scholarship in Campay’s name which he and his wife Colette established for students in the arts.)
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“I PAINT LIKE A JAZZ PLAYER... I’VE GOT A RHYTHM GOING, A BEAT AND I SEE SOME KIND OF MOVEMENT GOING ON ONE PART OF MY SURFACE AND I TAKE IT TO ANOTHER PART OF MY SURFACE.” — Dennis Campay
“I did a very large piece, a 6-foot-by-6-foot canvas. I put it in the back of my pickup to take it to the gallery, and I’m driving up Peachtree Street, and a gust of wind caught it and it flung it out of the truck. It hit face down, with the stretcher bars on the back, and a car ran over it. And because it was face down it didn’t ruin any of the image but the back of the canvas — it didn’t even break the stretcher bars, surprisingly — but the back of the canvas had a tire tread mark all across it. “So I take it to the gallery,” Campay continued, “I show it to my art dealer, and she said, oh don’t worry about it we’ll just hang it on the wall. It was an expensive piece for me at that time, it was like ’96, so it was probably ten grand — that was the first piece to sell. But the buyer didn’t know about the tire mark on the back. And when the gallery went to hang it, and the client never saw the back. To this day, as far as I’m aware that piece is still with that client; they do not know that a big long tire track is across the back of the canvas.”
Campay says he still struggles in the studio, always trying to find something new, but even with success his struggles are not limited to the creation of his work. “I was in a New Orleans gallery, and we were going to meet up in Montgomery,” Campay began. “They were going to bring some of my work back, and I was going to deliver some new work to change it out. The gallery owner’s son was driving the van up when I got caught in traffic. So I was just sitting there saying, I can’t make it. And he says, well… I can’t stay. So I finally get to where we were supposed to meet, and I walk into the restaurant that’s attached to the food store that’s attached to the gas station and I find all my work—we’re talking a hundred thousand in retail art — just piled up in the manager’s office at the Flying Jay truck stop!”
The name of this client shall remain anonymous, but if you’re in the Middlebury area, you can check out Campay’s work at the Edgewater Gallery on the Green. And if you ask nicely, we might just let you inspect the back to see if you can’t find some more “Dennis Stories” there.
“The funny thing about that,” He mused, “Is everyone is like, you’re such a well known artist things like that don’t happen, I said yeah they do. You can have the ultimate up and the ultimate down.”
Campay is proud to say that he doesn’t believe in accidents. He lets the paint go where it will, “pushing paint” as he calls his work time, but all based on those fundamentals.
This tale of Alabama’s first Flying J art gallery/ gas-up-and-go transitioned, by way of “stories of up and down,” to another unexpected fine art location.
The Doorway 30x40 Mixed Media on Panel $12,000.
Campay recollected that the night after the Ogden Museum in New Orleans acquired one of his pieces, his art was put up in a workout club.
“So people were walking through the show, talking to me in their workout outfits, talking about the art and everything,” Campay remembered. “I always tell young artists that
“I paint like a jazz player,” he said. “I do a call and response, and a call and recall. I put motifs; I’ve got a rhythm going, a beat and I see some kind of movement going on one part of my surface and I take it to another part of my surface. So I’ve got people bouncing around, kind of like — you could call it jazzy — I don’t know. I do.” Isabel Lower lives in Middlebury and works for Edgewater Gallery.
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CALENDAR kids pick Check out local teenage thespians perform in the musical version of James and the Giant Peach at Town Hall Theater this weekend. Reasonably priced tickets, a matinee showing and a kid friendly venue makes this a great first theater experience for all. — Eliza Eaton, MiniBury.com
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ARTS WALK IN VERGENNES. Friday, July 22, 5-7 p.m., downtown Vergennes. Monthly summer arts walk featuring exhibits, musicians, comedians, actors and poets and locations around the Little City. Info: http:// vergennesdowntown.org/arts-walk.
LINE DANCING IN NEW HAVEN. Saturday, July 23, 6-8 p.m., New Haven Town Hall. Addison County Line Dancers offer classes $5 each (children 10 and under are free). Info: 802989-6701.
CRAFT FAIR IN MIDDLEBURY. Saturday, July 23, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Middlebury town green. Annual Middlebury Studio School fundraiser featuring works by local artists, MSS teachers and more. Children’s activities, a chance to try the pottery wheel and a chance to win a free pottery class. Art includes baskets, wood, pottery, jewelry, quilts, photography, herbal and fiber. Info: www.middleburystudioschool.org.
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COLORING GROUP FOR ADULTS IN LINCOLN. Wednesday, July 27, 10:30 a.m.-noon, Lincoln Library. This is our first “coloring club” meeting. The library owns a small collection of coloring books that can be copied and lots of colored pencils to borrow. Feel free to bring your own. Light refreshments served. GALLERY TALK IN MIDDLEBURY. Wednesday, July 27, noon. Sheldon Museum, One Park St. Vintage bicycle collector and cycling historian Glenn Eames will present a gallery talk about the exhibit “Pedaling Through History: 150 Years of the Bicycle, The Glenn Eames Collection.” The talk is included with museum admission and limited to 20 people. Call to reserve at 802388-2117 or visit www.HenrySheldonMuseum.org.
MOVIES IN THE PARK AFTER DARK IN BRISTOL. Thursday, July 21, dusk, town green. “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” (yes, that “Star Wars”!). Thursday, July 28, dusk, town green. “Aladdin.” Part of Bristol Rec’s annual outdoor film series with classics shown on a theater-size screen. Free. Bring a blanket and bug spray. Series runs weekly (except Aug. 11) through Aug. 18. MOVIE NIGHT IN LINCOLN. Tuesday, July 26, 6:30 p.m., and Wednesday, July 27, 3-4:45 p.m., Lincoln Library. Come and watch a movie with an avid group of movie lovers. Popcorn and drink provided. Call the library for the title. 802-453-2665.
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“BLAST FROM THE PAST” PIE-MAKING PRESENTATION IN ADDISON. Sunday, July 24, 2-4 p.m., Chimney Point State Historic Site. Anne Collins, Vermont author of “Vintage Pies,” gives a presentation titled “Making Pies Then and Now” and shares samples. Info: Info: 802-759-2412 or www.historicsites Lodging - Ongoing vermont.gov/chimneypoint.
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MUSIC SUMMER CARILLON CONCERT SERIES AT MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE. Mead Chapel and surrounding lawns. The carillon in the tower of Mead Chapel will be played on Friday, July 22, 5 p.m. by Sergei Gratchev, carillonneur for the Middlebury Summer Russian Language School and the city of Hulst, Netherlands. On Friday, July 29, 5 p.m. Amy Heebner ’93, city carillonneur for the city of Albany, N.Y. will play. Free. Info: http://go.middlebury.edu/carillon. ZEPHYR IN CONCERT IN SALISBURY. Friday, July 22, 7:30 p.m., Salisbury Congregational Church. This local vocal ensemble sings Americana, bluegrass, gospel and blues. Susan Nop, Kathleen Dutton and Tyler Smith. Free-will donations appreciated. SNAKE MOUNTAIN BLUEGRASS IN CONCERT IN BRANDON. Saturday, July 23, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music. Bluegrass. Tickets $20. Reservations recommended: 802247-4295 or www.brandon-music.net. L.C. JAZZ DANCE BAND in concert in Brandon. Saturday, July 23, 8 p.m., Brandon Town Hall. This popular big band brings on the swing. Come dance or just listen. Tickets $8 adults; $14 couples; $7 students, seniors and military. Proceeds benefit the town hall and the L.C. Jazz Scholarship Fund. Info: 247-6720. CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY CONCERT IN ROCHESTER. Sunday, July 24, 4 p.m., Federated Church of Rochester. Elizabeth LeBlanc, clarinet; Elizabeth Reid, viola; and Cynthia Huard, piano, perform Mozart’s Trio in E flat major, K.498 “Kegelstatt Trio,” Piazzolla, Rebecca Clarke duo and Schumann’s “Fairy Tales.”. Info: 802-767-9234. ABIGAIL WASHBURN AND WU FEI IN MIDDLEBURY. Sunday, July 24, 7 p.m., Town Hall Theater. Abigail and Wu sing and play a selection of songs rooted in traditional Appalachian and Chinese music. Tickets $20 in advance, $25 at the door. Tickets available at the THT box office, 802-3829222, www.townhalltheater.org or at the door.
top pick IF YOU LIKE THE FAR-FLUNG SOUNDS OF TRADITIONAL APPALACHIAN AND CHINESE MUSIC, DON’T MISS ABIGAIL WASHBURN AND WU FEI ON SUNDAY AT THE TOWN HALL THEATER. TOGETHER THEY ARE AN ENTIRELY UNIQUE BANJOGUZHENG DUO, AND TOTALLY WORTH THE 20-25 BUCKS.
BAND CONCERT IN VERGENNES. Monday, July 25, 7 p.m., City Park. Concerts held every Monday evening through Aug. 22. CONSTANCE HOLDEN MEMORIAL CONCERT IN MIDDLEBURY. Tuesday, July 26, 7:30 p.m., Town Hall Theater. Point CounterPoint’s annual free concert in memory of Constance Holden. Info: www.townhalltheater.org. FREE CONCERT IN MIDDLEBURY. Wednesday, July 27, 6 p.m., Middlebury town green. The Middlebury Community Music Center Jazz Quartet performs. MCMC is holding monthly faculty concerts on the green as part of Experience Middlebury’s Summer Music Series. Come picnic on the green. Vendors, sidewalk sales. Weather permitting; check facebook.com/bettermiddleburypartnership for status. TOWN BAND CONCERT IN BRISTOL. Wednesday, July 27, 7 p.m., town green. Bring a lawn chair, blanket or picnic dinner and enjoy an evening of small-town entertainment.
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t 6 a.m. on Sunday, while much of New England sleeps after the grind of a long workweek, Julia Clancy is awake. The young chef scans her meticulously constructed list of ingredients and instructions while loading items — fresh herbs from the garden, maple syrup, coriander seeds — into a large box. She puts the box in her car, pulls out of her driveway in Middlebury and heads for Agricola Farm in Addison.
fast,” Clancy said. From there, “Pranzi in Fattoria,” a traditional Italian lunch held every other Sunday in the living room of Rellini’s farmhouse, was born. Purchase a $39 ticket and you’ve won six courses, including meat and cheese plates, salads, pasta, an entrée and a dessert, all made exclusively with Vermont ingredients.
There, farm owner Alessandra Rellini waits for Clancy with meat from freshly butchered heritage pigs, which she fed, raised and loved for the entirety of their 14-month lives. In the two weeks leading up to today, Clancy and Rellini have debated, discussed and decided how they will use the pork for today’s meal, which will serve a long table full of eager foodies, some of whom have driven hours to attend the feast. Clancy, 24, moved to Vermont in September, and after dabbling in several culinary endeavors, she heard that Agricola Farm was seeking a chef for pop-up events. She reached out to Rellini, who invited her to the farmhouse to see if their cooking inclinations aligned. The two made tagliatelle, a pasta similar to fettuccine, with mascarpone cheese, almonds and herbs. They drank wine and talked, finding parallels in their love of fresh, seasonal food.
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Though the farm is not a restaurant, the private farm events are open to members of the public, who can buy tickets online in advance. Before the three-hour indulgence begins, Rellini offers a farm tour, during which she shows visitors the pigs, chickens and sheep — ingredients of the food they’re about to consume. This transparency is part of what drew Clancy to Agricola, and Vermont, in the first place. Raised by a macrobiotic mother, meat was not plentiful during Clancy’s childhood. Its absence in her diet fostered a certain suspicion of the food group, but now that she can
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see the animals roaming the farms where she buys her meat, it’s found a place in her diet. “I love meat when it’s beautiful,” she said. “You can taste and you can tell when it’s raised well. That takes a lot of artistry, and I think there’s people in Vermont who do that better than I’ve ever seen it before. The meat in Vermont is pretty astounding.” Clancy descends from a line of chefs, and though she hasn’t been in the game very long, the work comes naturally. Her intuition about food enables her to literally sniff out the freshest produce at the farmers market, highlight the taste of a fresh goat’s milk ricotta by adding only lemon and oil, and determine the quality of bread by listening to the sound it makes when she knocks on it. Her introduction to the farm-to-table lifestyle began as a child when she worked on a farm outside Boston in the summers. At Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., she majored in English, and always found herself writing nonfiction about cooking, food policy and food anthropology. She was formally trained at Ballymole Cookery School in Ireland, where “I USE she studied for a semester. “It’s always been food for me,” she said. “Because I use food as the central way I connect to other people and other things, it’s kind of the lens through which I see the world. I guess it’s just what makes the most sense to me.”
— it was a very different pace, and I loved it.” In February, she got the idea to do some work on her own. She wanted to source all of her own ingredients, design her own menu, but cook and serve in her clients’ kitchens. During a visit to Stonecutter Spirits, she bounced her ideas off coowner Sas Stewart, and soon after Stewart asked if Clancy would prepare food at an upcoming a pop-up — for 100 people.
“They hired me that day,” she said. “I had one suitcase. I had my boyfriend out there with me — we had decided to take a three-week fun trip together so I could stage, but they accepted me right then and there.” She worked at Zuni until she made the move to Vermont this past September. Despite her love of California, something told Clancy she belonged in New England. Clancy began working at the Otter Creek Bakery — a totally new venture for someone coming straight from the city. “It was so different from the fine dining restaurants I’ve worked in,” she said. “It’s very small scale — you get a knock on the back of the door and the Orb Weaver Farm ladies would come in with a box of peppers and some fennel
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“I’ve cooked for a hundred people on the line, I’ve had busy nights in a restaurant where you do 350 covers, but in my own name, designing my own menu, doing my own food processing and business planning throughout the event, serving — absolutely not.” she said. “(Sas) basically just gave me a blind chance, which I’m super grateful for.” From there, she began her private chef business, which is similar to a personal chef, but instead of packaging the food with instructions to reheat it later, Clancy serves her clients.
FOOD AS THE CENTRAL WAY I CONNECT TO OTHER PEOPLE AND OTHER THINGS, IT’S KIND OF THE LENS THROUGH WHICH I SEE THE WORLD.”
After graduation, she trekked to San Francisco for a one-day stage at Chez Panisse, a neighborhood bistro founded by Alice Waters, best known for her activism in the movement toward local food. Her next stage was at Zuni Café, another cutting-edge restaurant in the heart of San Francisco.
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“I love plating,” she said. “I like composing a dish. For me, it’s the entire symphony.” Between Pranzis, private clients can bring Clancy’s food savvy ways into their kitchen for a quiet couple’s dinner, a familystyle three-course meal, or a gathering of 25. She’ll cook vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free and within any religious or spiritual restrictions, saying it makes her more creative.
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“I am absolutely game,” she says. “We design the menu together.” Clancy brings the same transparency to mealtimes. Between courses, she invites clients to talk with her and see what she’s doing. Interaction with her clients has become an integral part of the way Clancy cooks. Clancy’s prices are contingent upon the cost of food, travel and any wine and beer pairings. She says she can stay within budgetary boundaries, and that most dinners are less than restaurant price, and rarely more than $30 per head. “I guess it’s just going back to a way that makes more sense to me,” she said, “which is cooking with what’s available and cooking something that’s grown nearby, and the things that taste the best, and taste the most flavorful which are also the things that are grown sustainably, properly, beautifully.”
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'all-Ternative music” is what Britt Connors and Bourbon Renewal have dubbed their subset of Americana music, crossing over genres from blues to folk to jazz to rock. The Boston-based artists have received high praise with the Boston Herald saying, Connors “evokes a young Patty JULY Larkin in her vocal SATURDAY Brandon Music quality and is blessed with a similar eclectic style. Her pitch perfect voice and smartly written songs show amazing versatility in a broad range of styles.” Connors performs at Brandon Music on July 30 at 7:30 p.m.
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The singer/songwriter’s talented band, Bourbon Renewal was put together for her latest album “Warmer Season.” Well-steeped in a wide range of American music, this tight ensemble is made up of John Funkhouser on keys and backup vocals, Greg Loughman on bass and backup vocals, and Mike Connors on drums. “Warmer Season” includes clapping, footstomping, a horn section, and even some whistling, leading the group to identify their style of music as “Y’all-Ternative”. Connors’ acclaimed debut album “The Bad Side of Good” (recorded under her maiden name “Britt Sawdon”) presents insightful lyrics and captivating melodic tunes, many of which she now performs with refreshed Bourbon Renewal arrangements. Working towards their next album, Connors and the band will premiere a collection of new songs at the Brandon Music concert.
Don't miss Britt Connors and Bourbon Renewal at Brandon Music next Saturday, July 30.
“CONNORS DRAWS YOU IN WITH FOLKY CHARM AND THEN SUCKER PUNCHES YOU WITH HER AMAZING PIPES!” — DJ Joltin’ (Joe Pszonek) of Radio Nowhere 90.3 in New Jersey
For the past decade, Connors has been honing her craft as a songwriter while building a loyal following and performing at some of the top
venues in the Boston area, including Club Passim, Johnny D’s, Toad Cambridge, plus venues throughout New England and as far as Rockwood Music Hall in NYC. Concert tickets are $20 with the option to add on a pre-concert dinner for another $20. Reservations are a good idea for the show and required for dinner. Bring your own somethin’ to drink, is BYOB. Call (802) 247-4295 or e-mail info@brandon-music.net for reservations, or visit www.brandon-music.net for more info.
live music Cookie’s Hot Club in New Haven. Friday, July 22, 6-8 p.m., Lincoln Peak Vineyard. Simply Acoustic in Middlebury. Friday, July 22, 8-10 p.m., 51 Main. Bob Gagnon Trio in Middlebury. Saturday, July 23, 8-10 p.m., 51 Main. Root 7 in Middlebury. Thursday, July 28, 6:30-8:30 p.m., 51 Main. The Grift in New Haven. Friday, July 29, 6-8 p.m., Lincoln Peak Vineyard. Totally Submerged in Middlebury. Friday, July 29, 8:30-10:30 p.m., 51 Main. Britt Connors & Bourbon Renewal in Brandon. Saturday, July 30, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music. Blues/folk/jazz.
MUSIC IS A MORAL LAW. IT GIVES SOUL TO THE UNIVERSE, WINGS TO THE MIND, FLIGHT TO THE IMAGINATION, AND CHARM AND GAIETY TO LIFE AND TO EVERYTHING. — Plato
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SNAKE MOUNTAIN BLUEGRASS IN CONCERT IN BRANDON. Wednesday, July 27, 7 p.m., Central Park. A great mix of traditional and more modern bluegrass. Family friendly. Bring your lawn chairs, enjoy food from vendors set up in the park. Part of the Brandon Summer Concert Series.
RECITAL AT ST. STEPHEN’S-ON-THE-GREEN IN MIDDLEBURY. Thursday, July 28, 12:15 p.m., 3 Main St. Emily Sunderman, violinist, and George Matthew Jr., organist, perform works by Vivaldi, Handel and Georg Muffat. Bring a lunch. Light refreshments provided. Free. “ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD” ON STAGE IN BRANDON. Friday, July 29 and 30 7:30 p.m., July 31 at 2 p.m. Brandon Town Hall. Shakespeare on Main Street presents this Tom Stoppard romp where reality and illusion intermix and word play abounds. The play reinterprets “Hamlet” from the point of view of two minor characters. Tickets $18 adults; $12, seniors, students and military. Info: 247-6720. ANNEMIEKE SPOELSTRA & JEREMIAH MCLANE IN CONCERT IN SALISBURY. Friday, July 29, 7:30 p.m., Salisbury Congregational Church. Virtuosi on piano and accordion. Music by Piazzola, Grieg, Poulenc, Dvorak and Hovhaness. Free-will donations appreciated. BRITT CONNORS & BOURBON RENEWAL IN CONCERT IN BRANDON. Saturday, July 30, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music. Blues/folk/jazz. Tickets $20. Reservations recommended: 802247-4295 or www.brandon-music.net.
SOCIAL BUTTERFLIES THREE-DAY STAMPEDE IN BRISTOL. Friday, July 29, 8 a.m.-8 p.m., Bristol Rec Field. Annual fundraiser for cystic fibrosis research. Huge lawn sale with over 20 tents full of merchandise, plus fair food, bake sale and silent auction. Continues Saturday and Sunday. CHAMP THEMED WEEKEND AT DAR STATE PARK. Friday, July 29, 6750 Vt. Rt. 17, West Addison. Celebrate the creature reported to live in Lake Champlain with activities including a scavenger hunt, bike parade, mask making and drawing contest. Activities open to those who are camping and those who come to the park for the day. $4 adults, $2 children ages 4-13; children three and under are free. Info: 802-759-2354. Continues Saturday and Sunday. “EVENING TO REMEMBER” SOCIAL IN ADDISON. Friday, July 29, 6-8 p.m., Chimney Point State Historic Site. Enjoy a relaxing summer evening at Chimney Point’s old tavern and resort on Lake Champlain. Visit the museum, rock on the porch, enjoy music and children’s activities and meet with special guests from Chimney Point’s past. Donations appreciated. Info: 802-759-2412 or www.historicsites.vermont.gov/chimneypoint.
THEATER “JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH” ON STAGE IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, July 22, 7 p.m., Saturday, July 23, 2 and 7 p.m., and Sunday, July 24, 7 p.m.,Town Hall Theater. A musical performed by the Young Company, THT’s youth troupe. Tickets $10 general, $5 kids 12 and younger. Tickets available at the THT box office, 382-9222, www.townhalltheater.org or at the door. “ALICE IN WONDERLAND” ON STAGE IN BRISTOL. Friday, July 22, 7 p.m., Saturday, July 23, 7 p.m. and Sunday, July 24, 1 p.m., Holley Hall. Local thespians perform in a benefit for Lawrence Memorial Library. AUDITIONS FOR BRANDON TOWN PLAYERS IN BRANDON. Sunday, July 24, 6:30 p.m., Brandon Senior Center. The Brandon Town Players announce auditions for their upcoming murder mystery comedy. Roles for six females and four males, ages 18-80. Performance dates will be Sept. 30 and Oct. 1, at the Brandon Town Hall. Info: Kathy 802-247-6720. “MIDDLEBURY’S GOT TALENT” SHOW. Saturday, July 30, 2 p.m., and Sunday, July 31, 8 p.m. Town Hall Theater. Annual local talent show. Info: www.townhalltheater.org.
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the heart of a beautiful garden
GLORIOUS COLOR
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These spiky blue Sea Holly (Eryngium planum) flowers create a stunning contrast of both color and texture against these lemon-yellow daylilies.
olor is the elixir of life. From the youngest child exulting in a new set of crayons or somebody looking for that perfect tie or scarf to highlight a particular shirt, to a couple choosing paints to decorate their home, color dominates the scene.
BY JUDITH IRVEN
So it comes as no surprise that, as we contemplate our favorite flowers and how to use them in our gardens, we instinctively focus on color. Making a lovely garden is like painting a beautiful picture — where our paintbox is composed of myriad flowers and leaves. And course, as the season evolves, our gardener’s paintbox is constantly changing. Carpets of cheery yellow daffodils announce the arrival of spring. May brings us young yellowgreen leaves, as well as lilac and crab apple blossoms in many shades of pink and purple. In June the scene is dominated by white, pink and yellow peonies, together with mauve catmint and violet salvia, plus irises in various shades of yellow and blue. In July and August our gardens are filled with red, pink and yellow day-lilies, plus deep pink coneflowers and white shasta daisies. Soon the purple New England asters, emerging amongst the sweeps of golden
Black-eyed Susans, herald the start of fall. So obviously, when considering what flowers would look good together, we need to remember their bloom times. And of course, since some plants like lots of sun, whereas others prefer a shady corner, that too needs to be taken into consideration. But, beyond these practicalities, we can look to the world of art for insights about how to paint beautiful pictures with plants. It is also helpful to realize that color preferences can be quite personal. For instance, I love soft pinks and yellows, as well as gentle blues and subtle purples, both for my wardrobe and in my garden. But the other day I had a garden visitor who was adamantly opposed to pink — especially in roses of any kind — but who delighted in the bolder colored plants she saw, such as a bright yellow spirea (Spirea ‘Gold Princess’) and a ninebark with variegated orange and red leaves (Physocarpus ‘Amber Jubilee’). THE GARDENER’S PAINTBOX The leaves of our plants (as well as the lawn) combine to give all
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our garden pictures a backdrop of soothing green. But the careful observer will quickly see there are actually lots of different greens involved. There are the yellow-greens of spring, blue-greens in some hostas as well as in grasses like the Blue Oat grass (Helictotrichon sempervirens), dark-greens in various evergreens and many more. In addition to green leaves, our gardener’s paintbox offers us flowers in all the colors of the rainbow — from red, orange and yellow to blue and violet — which come and go throughout the season. And there are even a few plants with yellow or bronze leaves (especially those in the Spirea or Ninebark families) which will provide
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splashes of color from May till September. Also different colors convey varied moods. Blues and purples — often described as “cool colors” — are gentle and soothing. An expanse of blue catmint seems to recede gently into the distance, giving your garden a sense of depth and calmness. By contrast, yellows, oranges, reds and bright pinks — known as “hot” colors — have a strong, vivid and energetic spirit. For instance, we are all familiar with the way a mass of brash golden Black-eyed Susans (Rudbeckia Goldstrum’) can dominate the scene. COMBINING PLANTS AND MIXING COLORS
throughout with pictures from her own garden. And, since she lives in Connecticut, most of her plant choices should also grow well in Vermont. She starts out by introducing the traditional color wheel that displays all the visible colors around a circle in the order in which they appear in the rainbow. Then she describes the two fundamental ways to combine two or more colors: contrast and harmony.
PICK A COUPLE OF BLOSSOMS FROM ANY ONE OF YOUR FAVORITE PLANTS, TEST THEM ALONGSIDE OTHER PLANTS IN THE GARDEN, AND DECIDE WHAT WOULD MAKE THE BEST COLOR COMPANIONS.
The easiest way to decide how to create pleasing flower combinations is to let your instincts be your guide. Pick a couple of blossoms from any one of your favorite plants, test them alongside other plants in the garden, and decide what would make the best color companions. Continue around the garden until you have found at least one great companion for all your special plants. Then make a mental note of what plants you might want to move together — a job best left for the cooler weather of fall.
However, if you would like to explore further about how to use color in the garden, may I suggest Sydney Eddison’s book “The Gardener’s Palette: Creating Color in the Garden.” (While it is no longer in print, a quick Internet search will yield plenty of copies for sale.) Not only was the author trained as an artist, she is also a very experienced gardener and her book is illustrated
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• Contrast is based on the inherent difference between any two colors that lie directly opposite each other on the color wheel, known as complementary colors. Combine a pair of complementary colors — such as the yellow daylily in this picture with the blue-violet sea holly — for a bit of colorful drama.
Harmony, however, is based on the inherent likeness in colors that are adjacent on the color wheel, such as red, violet-red, red-violet and violet. There is red in all four colors and combining plants with these colors creates a pleasing compatibility.
Adding white to any color produces a range of tints that are essentially paler versions of the parent color. I am reminded of all the wonderful pale pinks I can see in a group of peonies — or for
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that matter in a single blossom. These are all tints based on the parent color of red.
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the movie THE SHALLOWS — RUNNING TIME: 1:27 — RATING: PG-13 It’s summer. It’s hot. The movie menu is lean. Go see “The Shallows.” The only people who won’t be scared are the accomplished surfers who are sure to keep insisting that none of it could ever happen. They’re right, but the point of a good summer thriller is not that it be possible but that it be terrifying. This one is terrifying because it is crafted with skill. There’s a reason that “Jaws” became a summer classic. Now and again people love to be scared, especially in the safety of a movie theater. An early plus for “The Shallows”: the whole thing is filmed just 200 yards off shore in a beautiful Australian cove. Nancy (Blake Lively) is being driven to a remote beach by Carlos (Oscar Jaenada) who drives through sand, woods and trails to the nearly always deserted beach. The remoteness is point one on the suspense scale. Nancy, a medical student, has been determined to surf this particular beach because of her mother’s description of surfing there years before she died. Surfer mother raised a surfer daughter who is determined to carry out Mom’s wish that she experience the magic of this place. In the first ominous note, the friend who was to be her surfing buddy drops out. Nancy will be alone in this remote beauty. For a long satisfying spell we are treated to an accomplished surfer enjoying the mountainous waves. She is comfortable with the challenge because she’s good at what she does. We are enjoying her spirit and her skill. I’ll go no farther with the plot than to say that by the time the Great White Shark appears, the music has told us to get ready, this is going to be tough. It is indeed. The whole thing is a storyteller’s holiday. Scenery, music, acting and camera work combine to make sure you are frozen in anticipation of the next horrific twist. You can promise yourself you won’t close your eyes in fear, but you’ll lose that bet. Even worse — or better, depending on your outlook — it’s all so well done that you will begin to think this is all too professional for a happy ending. Will she or won’t she? That’s when your eyes will close involuntarily.
Blake Lively in The Shallows (2016).
That brings us to Blake Lively. She is thoroughly credible as the young medical student determined to experience her mother’s dream. Whether she’s dealing with the thrill and beauty of surfing those waves or dealing with the physical and emotional shock of the shark, she doesn’t overact. Lively is supported all the way by technicians who know how to make real blood, cuts, scars and vomit for further credibility. You could tell me the whole thing was filmed in an Australian bathtub and I wouldn’t care. That’s how good the special effects are. So good that I can’t even mention the shark or the whale. I was quite surprised, and grateful, that I hadn’t had a heart attack. — Reviewed by Joan Ellis
the book THE WOMAN IN CABIN 10 — BY RUTH WARE The Woman in Cabin 10 is a psychological thriller on the order of The Girl on the Train and Gone Girl — propulsive and tense and just a wee bit unsettling. Lo Blacklock is a young travel writer who has been sent on an apparently glamorous mission: to enjoy a week on a billionaire’s luxurious yacht on the North Sea. Everything will be provided by the courtly staff, including relaxing spa treatments, gourmet meals, even her evening clothes. But a mystery promptly takes center stage in Lo’s sailing, first as a minor perplexity, escalating to serious peril, and finally a spine-chilling climax. The nautical setting rings clearly of Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile, but don’t expect straight-up detective work from Lo; she’s no Poirot. But do count on not getting much done during the day or two you’ll take reading this second novel by Ruth Ware (her first, In a Dark, Dark Wood was a New York Times bestseller). It’s probably best to take the conservative approach and head to the lake. Your chores can wait. — Reviewed by Becky Dayton of the Vermont Bookshop in Middlebury.
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The close color relationship between the red Monarda ‘Jacob Cline’ and the pink Phlox ‘Rosalind’ leads to harmony in your garden pictures. PHOTO/DICK CONRAD
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And conversely adding black will create richer versions or shades of the parent color, while adding gray will produce more subdued versions of the parent color that are called tones. And finally, I recently discovered the Gardener’s Color Wheel (available at TheGardenersColorwheel. com), also by Sydney Eddison, which shows each parent color together with its related tints, shades and tones. A sliding mask demonstrates how to combine any two or more colors in either harmony or
contrast.
Judith Irven and Dick Conrad live in Goshen where together they nurture
As summer progresses, take the Gardener’s Color Wheel outside, both around your own garden and in those you visit, to see anew the amazing range of colors to be found in both the leaves and the flowers. Then start planning for next year’s garden pictures.
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value and set a property apart from others on the market. A recent study from the National Association of Realtors found that buyers would not hesitate to pay asking price for homes with outdoor living spaces. When adding or upgrading outdoor living spaces, try to depersonalize the spaces as much as possible, include some comfortable furniture, adequate lighting and a dining area. Learn more at
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SHOREHAM
Tucked away in Shoreham village, this 4 bedroom cape offers a touch of vintage charm including an open staircase with antique banister, two living rooms, and large eat-in kitchen. A private back yard and easy access to school, town fields, library, inn, etc. complement this in-town country setting. $ 229,900 MLS # 4456469
RIPTON
Meticulously maintained 2 bedroom mountain retreat boasts an open floor plan creating a seamless flow between living spaces. Vaulted ceilings over living and dining areas together with western exposure and two sets of glass doors create an airy and spacious feel while connecting indoor and outdoor living spaces. $ 235,000 MLS # 4496162
MONKTON
3 bedroom ranch on 3 acres. Enter through a spacious tiled mudroom, directly into the open living, dining, & kitchen spaces all featuring hardwood floors, a Heartstone wood-stove, stainless steel appliances and 5 burner gas range. Plus room for toys or hobbies with an oversized 2 car garage and barn. $ 255,000 MLS # 4497333
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EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act of 1968 as amended which makes it illegal to advertise “any preference, limitation or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, national origin, sexual orientation, or persons receiving public assistance, or an intention to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination.” This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertisement for real estate which is in violation of the law. Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis. To complain of discrimination, call HUD Toll-free at 1-800-424-8590. For the Washington, DC area please call HUD at 426-3500.
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