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ARTS+LEISURE August 11, 2016

The Addison Independent

Students take a break at the Lake Dunmore music camp, Point CounterPoint, in Leicester.

INDEPENDENT PHOTO/TRENT CAMPBELL

It’s more than just band camp

enny Beck sits at a picnic table with her back to Lake Dunmore and the rising mountains on the opposite shore. A chorus of finely tuned chamber music wafts across the field where she’s seated. The sweet sounds emanate from the Rec Hall off to her right. The music is being played by a group of talented high school students who have been refining their musical skills over the past three weeks.

BY EMMA COTTON

“We have about 50 percent returners, so they come back year after year —” she stops midthought just as the lively Piano Quintet in G minor by Dmitri Shostakovich begins. “Oh,” she says, smiling. “This is my song.” Beck is the director of Point CounterPoint, a summer camp for kids ages 8 to 17 who are looking to refine their violin, piano,

cello, bass or viola skills. Founded in 1963 by Helen and Edwin Finckel — whose son, David Finckel, is now one of the most prominent cellists in the country — the camp was bought and sold by multiple couples before Beck took over in 2008. Though Beck’s love for chamber music runs deep, she’s never been a musician. She stumbled upon Point CounterPoint while looking for a vacation home on Lake Dunmore. “When I Googled it and saw that it was a chamber music camp, I thought ‘Hmm, I love chamber music, I love camp and I love children,’” she says. “And so I thought, ‘Maybe I could pull this off.’” Beck’s passion for music goes beyond entertainment — she believes that performing chamber music instills important traits in those who play it, especially when those players are children. While individual musicians can get lost in an orchestra, chamber music encourages singular expression. SEE MUSIC ON PAGE 7

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Norman Ernsting EDGEWATER GALLERY, MIDDLEBURY

or most of his career, Norman Ernsting was a puppeteer in New York City entertaining 300 or more children 100 days a year at the Museum of the American Indian — a gig in which he also created all the sets and carved all the puppets. Today, now 79 and spending his summers in Charlotte, Vt., Ernsting uses those skills as a ceramic sculptor focusing on ancient civilizations. His journey from puppeteer to sculptor was anything but smooth and straightforward.

“My first experience with ceramic sculpture was a disaster,” Ernsting recalled. “In high school art class I sculpted a solid clay bust of my brother that exploded in the kiln. Ceramic pieces have to be hollow before being fired. I began to learn from my mistakes.” That learning process took him to the Kansas City Art institute in the 1950s, where he took courses in figure drawing and ceramics. He went on to study with sculptor Bernard Frazier at Kansas University in Lawrence. After graduating, he traveled through Europe visiting museums and was inspired by the works of Jean Arp, Ernst Barlach and Henry Moore. While serving with the U.S. armed services in Germany, he was able to take art classes at the Art Institute in Berlin and began to seriously focus on ceramic sculpture. But being a sculptor wasn’t yet in the cards. A 44-year career as a puppeteer in New York City came first.

Ernsting grew up in Kansas, and later studied economics at Kansas University, but spent most of his time in the clay studio, he says. “Economics helped me learn to run a good puppet show with only two people,” in a nod to his pragmatic education, though clearly his passion was in art. During those years, Ernsting ran an 18th-century style “Punch and Judy” show. His puppets, which he carved himself, were modeled after the first printed scripts, written by John Payne Collier and Italian illustrator George Cruikshank in 1827. Ernsting began at the Italian Street Festival in Greenwich Village, and by the end of his career he had a booth in the Children’s Zoo in Central Park. The show evolved to the Hudson River Museum and began to change with the times, adding in a bit of magic and fractured fairy tales. One of his most popular shows was “The Story of Jumping Mouse,” a Native American tale. That show led to a 33-year run from 1975-2008 with the Museum of the American Indian, where Ernsting did five different shows focusing on regional Native American tribes, 100 days a year, to school groups of 300-350 children. For each show, he created all the sets and carved all the puppets. It was a unique career, he says, because the puppets (which were mostly animals) allowed his shows “to transcend all ethnicity and ages. They were very powerful that way. We could express the meaning (of life) and of SEE ERNSTING ON PAGE 3

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searching for truth; of teaching stories through animals. It was part of my spiritual journey too.”

Summers were a time when the puppets were still, because school was out, which gave Ernsting time for studying ceramics, which has been his focus for almost 30 years. A lifelong learner, he studied with ceramicist Nancy Sclight in the 1980s in Mexico and recently studied with Connie Sherman at the Westchester Art Workshop in White Plains, N.Y. and Elsbeth Woody at the Clay Arts Center in Portchester, N.Y. Today, each of his stoneware sculptures is handcrafted and treated with oxides and stains before being fired in a gas kiln. Sometimes Ernsting will add a coating of iron, copper or bronze, and through a chemical process that “ages” the sculpture, he creates an encrustation of the metal. The result is a patina with a time-weathered look ― like ancient relics of the past — which has helped his sculptures reach an audience from coast to coast. His art, he says, is “inspired by the artifacts of ancient civilizations. By combining an interest in archaeology and ceramic sculpture, I try to create sensual forms that have a timeless appeal.” He sculpts animals, anthropomorphic pots, goddess figures, amphorae, ceremonial vessels and abstract forms, always trying to communicate his “awe and reverence” for the ancient works of art that inspire him. Some evoke a strong sense of movement, while others capture the individual personalities of the animals and figures. “I am inspired by ancient artists from all over the world,” he says. “I always wanted to own ancient pieces, but I could never afford it; so I tried making them myself. Now I have too many sculptures (he does 25-30 each winter in his home in Cold Spring, N.Y.), so I sell them at five or six different galleries” across the country, including at Edgewater Gallery in Middlebury. Retired as a puppeteer, he continues to devote his artistic focus on ceramics. But in summers his free time is spent at his Charlotte home and sailing his beloved Marshall Catboat on Lake Champlain, remarking, ever so humbling, that he must be “one of the oldest sailors on the lake” — particularly in a boat that requires the real art of sailing a classic smaller rig. And that, too, he says in his look of reverence, is a spiritual journey of another sort.

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IN TOWN Das Serail Summer school isn't always a bummer. Check out the “Das Serail” — a medley of popular “SeraglioAUGUST operas” from the 18th century, performed by Town Hall Theater, Middlebury College Middlebury German School students. This performance features music by Gluck, Haydn, Mozart, and Weber — yup, it's all in German, but there will be a brief pre-performance talk in English. also explore the spectrum of musical exoticism, created through the lens Though modern audiences around the of 18th-century European aesthetics, globe might only be familiar with Mozart’s that C.W. Gluck and J. Haydn pioneered “The Abduction from the Seraglio,” the prominently before Mozart entered the setting of the oriental seraglio and stories stage. of abducted Europeans at the mercy of middle-eastern despots abounded in This Friday and Saturday at Town Hall the 17th and 18th centuries and inspired Theater, 7:45 p.m. Oh, and it's free if you composers to experiment with imagined have a Middlebury College ID. Middle Eastern sound impressions and effects. This opera project will closely Stay for the reception (with cash bar) in follow Mozart’s famous plot line but Byers Studio after the show.

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one two three THREE THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW THIS WEEK FUN FACT ABOUT ROAD CONSTRUCTION If you’re one of the many commuters on Route 7 these days, you’ve undoubtedly spent some additional time waiting in line staring at the massive machinery grinding, vacuuming, smoothing and repaving the new road. Ever wonder why they scarify the pavement? One of the main reasons is recycling. The pavement removed is ground up and used as the aggregate in the new pavement surface. Scarification also helps provide a better driving experience and longer roadway life. Wikipedia “pavement milling” to learn more.

FREE MUSIC IN SALISBURY The Salisbury Congregational Church is hosting another excellent free-music event on Friday, Aug. 12. Salisbury Congregational Church The faculty of Camp Point Counterpoint will perform Beethoven String Quartet Op. 18 No. 5; Schubert Quartetsatz; Mozart E flat Piano Quartet K 493 at 7:30 p.m. Free-will donations will be appreciated. (See related story page 1.)

FRIDAY 12 AUGUST

THEATER SEASON TICKETS ON SALE If you’re a member of the Flynn Center for Performing Arts or the Paramount Theater you’ve probably already received a bunch of alerts telling you this, but in case you missed it, tickets for the 2016-2017 season are on sale now. Save some cash by buying your season tickets now, and never miss a show.

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IN TOWN

Documentaries shine on Middlebury's festival AWARD-WINNING FILMMAKERS SET THE STAGE AT MNFF It must be August, since my pulse is quickening with thoughts of the upcoming Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival that will take place Aug. 25-28. Festival producer Lloyd Komesar was committed to the long haul for our festival, but last year’s popular and well-received first edition insured that we’d do it again. The 2015 event was lots of fun, with a spontaneous air of discovery, as audiences moved around town, taking chances on unknown “first and second films” that provided fresh opportunities for discovery.

BY JAY CRAVEN

This year’s festival will again screen potent and affecting documentaries. Opening night tickets are going fast for Jesse Nesser’s film, “Walk With Me: The Trials of Damon Keith,” that tells the remarkable story of 94-yearold still-practicing Federal judge Damon Keith, who presided over some of the most important civil rights cases of the last century. Judge Keith will travel to Middlebury and appear on-stage afterwards for discussion. And we’ll have two-time Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Barbara Kopple here as a special guest. We’ll show three of Barbara’s films, starting with a 40th anniversary screening of her 1976 Oscar-winner, “Harlan County, USA,” that follows the tense and escalating coal miners’ strike at the Brookside Mine in rural Kentucky, where workers toiling in unsafe conditions were making as little as $17 dollars-a-day. As leading film critic Peter Biskind wrote, “Its strength lies not in its beauty, nor even its politics, but in the moral authority that is inscribed in every frame.”

Clockwise from top left: "Harlan County USA," "God Knows Where I Am," "Miss Sharon Jones" and "Walk With Me: The Trials of Damon J Keith."

Kopple will also present two new films: “Miss Sharon Jones” about the irrepressible funk/soul diva, Sharon Jones and her “Dap Kings;” and “Hot Type: 150 Years of The Nation,” which goes inside the venerable progressive weekly magazine that has attracted celebrated writers ranging from Toni Morrison, Henry James, Sinclair Lewis and E. L. Doctorow, to W.E.B. Dubois, Albert Einstein, Jean-Paul Sartre and Eleanor Roosevelt. The Sunday, Aug. 28 screening will include post-film discussion with Kopple and national affairs correspondent for The Nation, John Nichols.

NOTABLE FILMS

haunting and elegiac tale of New Hampshire’s Linda Bishop, who became a prisoner of her own mind as she walked out of a state hospital and holed up, alone, in an abandoned farmhouse. Toronto’s influential Hot Docs festival awarded the film its Special Jury Prize, calling it “A film of great beauty and tenderness that gradually reveals a confounding mental illness. Ultimately, it illuminates a hidden problem of vast proportion with an epic, yet intimate, cinematic vision.” •

Director Brant Backland takes viewers to the farthest reaches of northern Canada, in “Huntwatch,” that chronicles the 38-year quest by activist Brian Davies to stop seal hunting.

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And, on the light side, “The Daily Show” producer Juliet Werner will show her film, “The Laughter Life” about a young Mormon sketch comedy troupe; while, in “Legs: A Big Issue in a Small Town,” Beatrice Alda and Jennifer Brooke visit Sag Harbor, Me., where heated controversy erupts over the public display of artist Larry Rivers’ larger-than-life sculpture of a woman’s legs.

Other festival documentaries will include: •

Academy Award-winning director Roger Ross Williams’ film, “Life, Animated,” that tells a winning story of how Disney movies like “Bambi,” “The Little Mermaid” and “The Lion King” helped Owen Suskind, a young man living with autism, develop reading, writing and communication skills. It’s a poignant and often humorous picture.

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Tony Stone’s visually stunning “Peter and the Farm” renders a richly detailed portrait of troubled, fiercely committed and charismatic southern Vermont farmer Peter Dunning as he works alone on his organic farm while battling personal demons and fighting back lingering regrets. The picture was featured at this year’s prestigious New Directors/New Films series at New York’s Lincoln Center and Museum of Modern Art.

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Todd and Jedd Wider’s “God Knows Where I Am” tells a similarly

The entire line-up of festival films can be viewed at www.middfilmfest. org. Passes and opening night tickets are also on sale at the website, and they provide easy access and the best seats to all events. Single tickets will be available for all screenings, the day of the show, at each screening venue. Editor’s Note: Jay Craven is the artistic director of the Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival and an award-winning filmmaker at Kingdom County Productions.

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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.

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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. 388-2117 or www.henrysheldonmuseum.org. ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN AND EARLY EUROPEAN ART. Ongoing exhibit, highlighting an Egyptian Old Kingdom relief and an early fifteenth-century Italian panel painting. Lower Gallery at the Middlebury College Museum of Art, 72 Porter Field Road, Middlebury. (802) 443-5007. 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. EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN ART. Ongoing exhibit, featuring landscapes by American painters Jasper Cropsey and John Frederick Kensett alongside sixteenth- and seventeenth-century European religious and devotional images and American and European sculpture. Cerf Gallery at the Middlebury College Museum of Art, 72 Porter Field Road, Middlebury. (802) 443-5007. HOMER WELLS: REFLECTIONS ON REFRACTIONS. August Solo Exhibition at Edgewater Gallery at Middlebury Falls, 1 Mill St., Middlebury. 458-0098 or edgewatergallery.co. 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. 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. QUAKER MADE: VERMONT FURNITURE, 1820-1835. On exhibit starting Sunday, July 10 at the Rokeby Museum. Route 7, Ferrisburgh. 877-3406. ROBERT F. Reiff Gallery of Asian Art. Ongoing exhibit of East Asian ceramics. Middlebury College Museum of Art, 72 Porter Field Road, Middlebury. (802) 443-5007. RORY JACKSON: ALL IN ONE COUNTY. August Solo Exhibition at Edgewater Gallery on the Green, 6 Merchant’s Row, Middlebury. Opening Reception Friday, Aug. 12, 5-7 p.m. 989-7419 or edgewatergallery.co. THE EFFECTS OF BIRDSONG ON SHIFTING STRATA: PAINTINGS AND POEMS. Works done by “Artists of the Forty-Seven Main Street Group.” On display from Aug. 5-27. An opening reception will be held on Sunday, Aug. 7 from 1-3 p.m. Compass Music and Arts Center, 333 Jones Dr., Brandon. 247-4295 or www. compassmusicandarts.net.

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POINT COUNTERPOINT SUMMER CONCERT SERIES

“When you are playing chamber music, you have CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 a say,” she says. “There’s usually only one of your instrument. It’s a wonderful way to learn about life, to learn about collaborating, working with each other.”

MUSIC

Friday, August 12, 7:30 p.m. Salisbury Congregational Church Faculty performers

rather complicated.” But for many of the campers who are accepted, the camp becomes a second home.

“It adds a closeness and an intimacy because you get to know those other people really well,” she says. “You have to depend on the other people in the group, and so you have to hope that they’ve practiced and learned their parts. You end up having this commitment to the chamber group that’s really very important.” And for musical decision-making inspiration, the kids have the serene backdrop of Lake Dunmore to look at. The two-acre camp is located at the water’s edge, and Beck says there are more than 30 installed playing spots hidden around the grounds for kids to be alone, or together, with their instruments and sheet music. One of the most popular spots is the “point” of Point CounterPoint. Next to the campfire, a small wooden deck stretches off a peninsula and over the water, providing a quiet and stunning view.

Educational and fun, Point CounterPoint might sound like a haven for any youngster looking to play music, but it’s not necessarily easy to get there. The camp accepts about 45 children per session, and each camper has to audition as part of an application process. “The hard thing with the application process is that we can’t have 20 cellos, as a chamber music camp,” Beck says. “You need to have the right experience level. You can’t have pianists that are not able to play the same repertoire that our cellists and the violins are. So it’s really

Beethoven String Quartet Op. 18 #5 Anton Webern Langsammersatz Mozart Eb Piano Quartet K. 493

Informal public reception to meet the performers will follow the concert.

The kids make musical decisions while they play, she says. While they often practice with one of the eight teaching faculty, they are also encouraged to explore the music on their own and in groups, which promotes critical thinking and team work.

When they’re not hard at work, the kids can be found enjoying classic camp activities. Collegeage counselors bring them out on the water to go boating and swimming, take them on field trips to hike, and supervise them in the camp activity buildings — each of which is named after a famous composer.

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end of each session and are open to the public, though Beck says most attendees are family members and friends of the campers.

Point CounterPoint performances will start this Henry McEwen, an 18-year-old cellist from Newton, Friday, Aug. 12, with a faculty concert at 7:30 p.m., Mass., has been at Point CounterPoint for seven and a second faculty concert will take place on years, and came back this year as a counselor-inFriday, Sept. 2. End-of-session concerts performed training. He learned about the camp from a family by the campers will be held on two Saturdays, Aug. friend and attended with his twin 20 and Aug. 27, at 1 p.m. sister for the first five years. Next year, he’ll be an undergraduate at The first three concerts — Aug. Lawrence University in Appleton, 12, 20 and 27 — will be held at the Wisc., as a cello performance Salisbury Congregational Church, “PLAYING CHAMBER major. and the Sept. 2 concert will be held MUSIC … IS A at the Middlebury Congregational WONDERFUL WAY TO “I really fell in love with music at Church. this camp,” he said. LEARN ABOUT LIFE, Erin Ellis, a cello teacher at Point TO LEARN ABOUT But McEwen says it was more CounterPoint for six years, will be COLLABORATING, than the music that drew him playing at the faculty concerts. back year after year. She explains the symbolism of the WORKING WITH camp’s name. EACH OTHER.” “There was this camper who I had just gotten to know,” he “(A counterpoint) is when two — Jenny Beck said. “We were having our first musical melodies imitate each campfire, and he said something other and intersect,” she said. “It’s along the lines of ‘I’m just here a compositional technique that a to help people out.’ That was lot of composers use. They’ll sort the first truly selfless person that I’d ever met, and of play off of each other, and so I think it’s a nice I found it so inspiring. I’ve tried to bring that to this allegorical connection to what we try to do here camp.” at Point CounterPoint, which is interconnecting individual lines.” As a counselor in training, McEwen has some chores, like laundry, but he also gets to play in the Visit Point CounterPoint’s website at pointcp.com to camp’s concert series. The concerts are held at the find out more about the camp and concert series.

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CALENDAR kids pick UH, LEGOS. NEED WE SAY MORE? THERE'S A CHALLENGE GOING DOWN IN SHOREHAM AT THE PLATT LIBRARY AND ALL KIDS AGES 5 AND OLDER ARE WELCOME TO COME BUILD ON THE LIBRARY'S SET FOR AN HOUR. SNACKS WILL BE THERE FOR LEGO CHALLENGERS.

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REGATTA IN CHARLOTTE. Saturday, Aug. 20, 9:30 a.m., Point Bay Marina. The fourth annual Diamond Island Regatta will raise money for the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum in Ferrisburgh. Skippers’ meeting at 9:30 a.m., racers start at 11 a.m., and the awards ceremony is at 6 p.m., as part of the club’s annual Lobster Fest dinner. More information at http:// rsyc.org/diamond-island-regatta.

ARTS ARTISTS’ RECEPTION IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, Aug. 12, 5-7 p.m., Jackson Gallery. An opening reception for Bonnie Baird, whose oil paintings, including “As the Crow Flies” and “Two Lengths Has Everyday,” are on display.

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FREE DRAWING WORKSHOP IN VERGENNES. Saturday, Aug. 13, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. KB Café at Kennedy Brothers, 11 Main St. Fun and supportive. All adults welcome. Materials provided. No experience necessary. Information online at http://WeeklyArtLesson.com. GALLERY TALK IN MIDDLEBURY. Wednesday, Aug. 17, 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 802-388-2117 or visit www. HenrySheldonMuseum.org.

DANCE LINE DANCING IN NEW HAVEN. Saturday, Aug. 20, 6-8 p.m., New Haven Town Hall. Addison County Line Dancers offer classes $5 each (children 10 and under are free). Info: 802-989-6701.

FILM MOVIES IN THE PARK AFTER DARK IN BRISTOL. Thursday, Aug. 18, dusk, town green. “The Wizard of Oz.” 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).

KIDS LEGO CHALLENGE HOUR IN SHOREHAM. Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2 p.m., Platt Memorial Library. Kids ages 5 and older are invited to beat the clock and challenge themselves with the library’s enormous collection of donated Legos. Snack served. Info: www.plattlib.org or 897-2647.

MUSIC SUMMER CARILLON CONCERT SERIES AT MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE. Friday, Aug. 12, 5 p.m. the carillon in the tower of Mead Chapel will be played by George Matthew Jr., carillonneur for Middlebury College and Norwich University. He will play a program of Scandinavian and Irish carillon music. Friday, Aug. 19, 3 p.m. Matthew will play a program of Scandinavian and Irish carillon music. Mead Chapel and surrounding lawns. Free. Info: go.middlebury.edu/carillon.

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MUSIC FROM POINT COUNTERPOINT IN SALISBURY. Friday, Aug. 12, 7:30 p.m., Salisbury Congregational Church. The Camp Point CounterPoint faculty ensemble plays a program of Beethoven, Schubert and Mozart. Free-will donations appreciated.

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DAS SERAIL IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, Aug. 12 and Saturday, Aug. 13, 8:30 p.m., Town Hall Theater. Middlebury College’s German for Singers Program present Das Serail, a medley of popular “Seraglio-operas” from the 18th century featuring music by Gluck, Haydn, Mozart and Weber. Pre-performance talk in English at 7:45 p.m. Info: 802-382-9222 or www. townhalltheater.org.

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THE PHIL HENRY TRIO IN CONCERT IN BRANDON. Saturday, Aug. 13, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Town Hall. Phil Henry, Gary Moon and Jeff Kimball bring strong voices, rich songs and intricate and flawless guitar work. Tickets $8 adults; $6 seniors, students and military. Info: 247-6720. THEY MIGHT BY GYPSIES IN CONCERT IN BRANDON. Saturday, Aug. 13, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music. Gypsy jazz. Tickets $20. Reservations recommended: 802-247-4295 or www.brandon-music.net. BAND CONCERT IN VERGENNES. Monday, Aug. 15, 7 p.m., City Park. Concerts held every Monday evening through Aug. 22. TOWN BAND CONCERT IN BRISTOL. Wednesday, Aug. 17, 7 p.m., town green. Bring a lawn chair, blanket or picnic dinner and enjoy an evening of small-town entertainment. Moose Crossing in concert in Brandon. Wednesday, Aug. 17, 7 p.m., Central Park. Classy and energetic mix of classic and contemporary jazz. Bring your lawn chairs, enjoy food from vendors set up in the park. Part of the Brandon Summer Concert Series. HANCOCK GREEN SUMMER CONCERTS PRESENTS CLAY CANFIELD AND THE THREE GOOD EGGS. Thursday, Aug. 18, 6:30 p.m., Hancock Town Green. Bring a chair and a picnic. Homemade desserts will be sold. Free. CURBSTONE CHORUS IN CONCERT IN BRANDON. Saturday, Aug. 20, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Town Hall. The 30-member men’s a cappella group sings barbershop harmonies in various musical styles. Tickets $8 adults; $6 seniors, students and military. Info: 247-6720. 4 TO THE BAR IN CONCERT IN BRANDON. Saturday, Aug. 20, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music. Celtic. Tickets $20. Reservations recommended. Info: 802-247-4295 or www. brandon-music.net.

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SOCIAL BUTTERFLIES ADDISON COUNTY FAIR AND FIELD DAYS IN NEW HAVEN. Started Tuesday, Aug. 9, and runs through Sunday, Aug. 13,

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 18 2016

COURSE

18-mile & 6-mile timed runs, 2-mile family fun run/walk. All courses are loops on pristine trails through woods, farmland, meadow and river valleys, circumnavigating the town. (18-mile run capped at 100 runners.)

LOCATION

Start & end at Wright Park in Middlebury, VT. Postrace celebration with refreshments, prizes & music. All welcome, any ability. All proceeds help to maintain & improve the Trail Around Middlebury (TAM).

COMMUNITY MEALS ART EXHIBITS & MUSEUMS

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Meet the chef Cora Waag from the Halfway House in Shoreham “This is old-fashioned comfort food. There are no sprouts here. There’s no tofu, no hummus, no kale. It’s gravy and potatoes, hand-pattied burgers and hand-cut french fries.”

BY ELLIE REINHARDT

As she stood behind the long counter at the Halfway House Restaurant, owner Cora Waag explained her family’s secret to 40 years of success in small-town Shoreham.

Waag and her husband, Dave, bought the restaurant, kept the staff, kept the menu and for the past 17 years, have remained dedicated to the hard work of running a restaurant daily from 5 a.m. to 8 p.m. For the Waags this includes maintenance, which Dave takes care of; interior decorating, Cora’s specialty; cooking; painting; cleaning and anything else that needs tending to. “This is a homemade spot,” Waag said.

“We’re in a rural spot. You either live in this area or you’re on your way somewhere,” she said. “Shoreham is not necessarily a destination. We’re our own draw. We have good, hearty food and big plates. No one leaves hungry.” The Halfway House — located on Route 22A half way between Vergennes and Fair Haven, and Rutland and Burlington — was built in 1951 by Cecil and Florence Barrows. In 1976, Waag’s mother, Denise Gibeault, bought the restaurant and ran it for 23 years. When she was ready to retire, Gibeault went to her daughter for coffee and a deal. “She came over one morning and said, ‘How about a cup of coffee and you buy the restaurant?’” Waag recalled.

It’s also a family-run spot. Waag’s cousin Chrissy LaRoche is in the kitchen, preparing the delicious food that keeps locals coming back and travelers walking in. Waag’s two children, Kali Waag, 30, and Justin Waag, 28, helped out when they were kids and now Kali’s own kids, five-year-old twins Justin and Zoe, are part of the crew. “When my mom owned it, we got off the school bus and did dishes,” Waag explained. “My own kids stood on buckets and washed dishes. They peeled potatoes, bused tables and made pizza. Now Justin and Zoe, at five, are peeling potatoes and standing on buckets too. Everyone is helping out like in any family business.” Even many of the recipes are passed down from Waag’s mother and grandmother. Their pickled beet recipe, for example, was originally Waag’s grandmother’s, tweaked for the Halfway House of today. “The menu and the food has been developed over the years,” Waag said. “There are things that have been here since my mom was here. We taste, and adjust them though. We ask, ‘What do you think? Taste it, what does it need? A pinch of this, a pinch of that.’” And yet, some things at the Halfway House never change. Thursday and Saturday chicken and biscuits, corn chowder on Wednesdays, breakfast all day and a top-secret gravy recipe; these are staples at the local spot. So are the old-school decorations, bright green booths and metal bar stools lining the counter. “We hold a lot of memories for a lot of people,” Waag said. “Kids come and sit on the stool with their grandparents. We have customers who are third and fourth generation. Their families have been coming here for that long.” And if they’ve been there once, Waag is sure to

Owner Cora Waag continues the family traditio

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remember them when they come back. “We know lots of people by their first names,” she said. “Or by their faces, if we don’t know their name, we know who they are and what they eat.” The restaurant is also an important part of the Shoreham community. As patrons of Dinners with Love for the past five years, the restaurant provides a meal for families in hospice once a week. They also source most of their ingredients from local farms and orchards.

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IRENE

he Vermont Folklife Center will open the new exhibit GEOMORPH / Things Change and They Change Again by Chris Triebert on Aug. 15. The photo-exhibit will be on view through Nov. 5 at the Vermont Folklife Center’s Vision & Voice Gallery in Middlebury.

Five years ago, Tropical Storm Irene changed the landscape and lives of many Vermonters. Chris Triebert was one of them — an artist living and working along the Rock River in Newfane. Vermonters processed the chaos of the storm, destruction, and recovery in different ways — for Triebert; with time, her experience turned to art making as a way to create visual and emotional order from the chaos. Remnants of the flood’s aftermath — piles of rocks, strewn debris and littered sand — gave form to the close-up and abstract photographs created by the artist following the flood. “When the storm ended, debris, sand, gravel and rocks were strewn all over our property, which sits along the banks of the Rock River in South Newfane. In the following weeks of clean-up, I set aside some of the objects of the flood’s aftermath and observed them closely. I noticed how the

Chris Triebert, the artist, at her home in South Newfane, Vermont.

how the tropical storm changed Vermont

rock surfaces, the shapes of debris, and patterns in the sand seemed to reflect each other in an underlying grid of line, form, color, and texture,” she writes. Triebert printed these photographic made landscapes on wood panels and arranged the pieces into a quilt-like pattern, called GEOMORPH, which fills the main gallery wall at the Vermont Folklife Center. GEOMORPH / Things Change and They Change Again is a two-part exhibition showcasing Triebert’s Irene-inspired oeuvre — GEOMORPH — along with an ethnographic case study of sorts that explores her motivations for creating this work in response to the storm. “The panels offer infinite possibilities of assembling the images into different grid systems, and each new pattern suggests its own universe of endlessly rearrangeable elements. Just as in nature, no form is permanent,” explains Triebert. The signature GEOMORPH piece is complemented by materials in the adjoining rooms — then and now photographs, archival footage, candid snapshots of volunteers, scrapbook materials, interviews with CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

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on exhibit

“GEOMORPH / THINGS CHANGE AND THEY CHANGE AGAIN” BY CHRIS TREIBERT

Works by Chris Triebert on display at the Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury through Nov. 5.

“THE PANELS OFFER INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF ASSEMBLING THE IMAGES INTO DIFFERENT GRID SYSTEMS, AND EACH NEW PATTERN SUGGESTS ITS OWN UNIVERSE OF ENDLESSLY REARRANGEABLE ELEMENTS. JUST AS IN NATURE, NO FORM IS PERMANENT." — Chris Triebert

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A reception and artist talk will be held on Oct. 6 from 5:30-7 p.m. at the Vermont Folklife Center.

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Gypsy-takeover at Brandon Music Like folk music? Brandon Music will be hosting two excellent folk bands for the next two Saturdays. They Might Be Gypsies plays on Aug. 13 and ‘4 To The Bar’ plays on Aug. 20.

THEY MIGHT BE GYPSIES They Might Be Gypsies plays high energy, uplifting music with tremendous passion. They weave together the traditional sounds of early 20th century France with AUGUST modern influences from Argentina to SATURDAY Barcelona. At the core, the group is Brandon Music comprised of father and son duo, Greg and Aidan Ryan, both exceptional guitarists.

Greg grew up steeped in the musical traditions of his family, drawing inspiration from many genres. His playing expresses fire and passion mixed with sophistication and sensitivity. He is also known for playing in solo shows in the folk genre around New England, with the Queen City Hotclub out of Burlington and as a duo with Rani Arbo (of Rani Arbo & Daisy Mayhem, with whom Greg has toured nationally). Aidan, now in his early twenties, has been performing for audiences since he was six and recorded his first original music at seven. The duo’s debut album came out in 2010 to rave reviews. Hear the duo at Brandon Music on Aug. 13 at 7:30 p.m.

‘4 TO THE BAR’ Celebrated novelist and singer-songwriter Jon Clinch has been sharing his music for longer than he’d care to admit. Now teaming up with Gypsy Reel’s Graham and AUGUST Camille Parker on fiddle and mandolin SATURDAY — and chantey-man Reagh Greenleaf Brandon Music on powerful vocals and bodhrán — ‘4 To The Bar’ focuses on original songs, traditional material and

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classics from the likes of John Prine, Lyle Lovett and James Taylor. With deft guitar work, impeccable harmonies and sweet fiddle, ‘4 To The Bar’ will raise your spirits. The band coalesced as an offshoot of Vermont’s beloved Gypsy Reel. It turns out that Graham’s fiddling isn’t limited to the Celtic tradition; he’s a skilled improviser with a terrific melodic sense — and when he and Jon first sat down to make music, the result was pure magic. Clinch’s wide repertoire gave Graham the chance to really stretch out on singer-songwriter and Americana material. As Clinch described it, “The next thing we knew, Camille Parker’s harmony vocals clicked in, and we were off to the races. The three of us met Reagh Greenleaf, just having finished touring with the Clancys, at a Celtic session in Ludlow, and soon he’d been adopted into both Gypsy Reel and ‘4 To The Bar’.” An evening with ‘4 To The Bar’ may stray off in all kinds of directions: Graham and Camille will lead the band through some traditional Celtic tunes, Clinch will introduce a new favorite from Chris Stapleton or an old standard from Johnny Cash. Greenleaf will get the crowd on their feet with a rousing chantey or two. Camille and Clinch will delve into the surprisingly compatible worlds of Patsy Cline and Bruce Springsteen. Whatever happens, it’s all held together with superb musicianship and infectious joy. Performing with Gypsy Reel, the Parkers and Greenleaf know Brandon Music well, having just performed here for the second year in a

THE DETAILS Tickets are $20 each. Add a pre-concert dinner for $25. Reservations are always a good idea, and are required for dinner. Bring your own drink; it’s BYOB. Call (802) 247-4295, e-mail info@brandon-music.net for reservations or visit www.brandon-music.net for more info.

row. Graham is “delighted to be back performing in the intimate atmosphere that is Brandon Music. The setting, the food, the art and a crowd that really appreciates music

— it is the closest thing to an English folk club on this side of the Atlantic.” Don’t miss this show next Saturday, Aug. 20 at 7:30 p.m.

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the movie JASON BOURNE — RUNNING TIME 2:03 — RATING: PG-13 Moviegoers paid $64 million to watch Jason Bourne on its opening weekend. What were they looking for and what did they see? They watched Matt Damon’s Bourne, the former CIA agent who is searching for his father’s murderer despite his own impaired memory. For two hours and three minutes, they watched director Paul Greengrass’s unparalleled ability to create incoherent, nearly unrelieved violence in a fireworks explosion of violent death. A moment of selfish departure: Isn’t it possible, in this time of American unrest and discord, that audiences might welcome movies that don’t celebrate fire, murder, explosions and dismemberment? The film bows to the present by having Ziz Ahmed’s character present the case for digital privacy in this new era of surveillance, but when will we recognize the awful power of flooding young audiences with violent imagery? Someone should start a trend toward good adventures and mysteries as summer fare. That said, let’s move on to Bourne.

Matt Damon in Jason Bourne (2016).

Matt Damon is given very little dialogue; he’s all action as he dispatches suspected enemies and becomes appealingly human only when he responds quietly but with appreciative respect and caring to the charms of Julia Stiles and Alicia Vikander, who are trying to help him in spite of himself.

Silicon Valley, Las Vegas, and CIA’s McLean headquarters. The action we see in those places is a bloody, explosive continuum that could easily have been filmed on a Hollywood set. A lone familiar landmark seen through fire is the only way to know where we are. These beautiful cities — except glittering Las Vegas — all look alike when they are on fire.

Each of these women proves once more that making women part of the action instead of appetizing bystanders is both overdue and welcome. Alicia Vikander proves again that whatever role she is handed, she molds it into a memorable character. Here she becomes a complex, smart CIA agent with motivations we are still wondering about at the close. She is the invitation to the next Bourne film. No question here, Matt Damon, Alicia Vikander and Tommy Lee Jones — alone or onscreen together — make it worth the trip.

The final scenes set us up for the next Bourne by making sure we understand that Tommy Lee Jones’s supremacy is being erased by new technology. He belongs to the past. It’s Matt Damon and Alicia Vikander who will carry the franchise into the new world where weapons, surveillance and probably even humans themselves will be wrapped in the Internet of Things.

The incoherent chaos? Story and dialogue are a thing of the past. Today’s goal is to shoot whenever you see someone you don’t like for whatever reason. Subtitles tell us we are in Iceland, Rome, Athens, Berlin, London,

All this confusion leads to a Blue Ribbon Las Vegas car chase between Bourne and Asset (Vincent Cassel) that unfolds to a screaming score and a sky filled with burning trucks, cars, motorcycles and bodies. Your decision. — Reviewed by Joan Ellis

the book I WILL SEND RAIN — BY RAE MEADOWS It’s 1934 in Mulehead, Oklahoma and not even wet sheets hung over the windows will keep the dust out of the Bell home. The storms are coming with increasing frequency, the electrically charged particles of dust infiltrating every crevice, scrubbing the paint from houses. So dessicated is the earth it is nearly barren; the crop yield will be negligible. While some families have abandoned their farms, Samuel and Annie Bell, and their children — Fred, a bright but mute and sickly 11-year-old, and Birdie, a lovelorn teenager — will stay and pray for rain. The Bells are close, but as the devastation mounts, each family member manifests their stress in ways that threaten even more rapid ruin. Annie strays from her marriage, Birdie finds herself pregnant and alone, Fred suffers physically, and Samuel has visions which compel him, Noah-like, to build a boat in preparation for the certain deluge. It seems, at times, that if the drought doesn’t destroy them, their own weaknesses will. Meadows has woven a timeless narrative of human survival into a very specific time and place. While she relies to some degree on our cultural and historical literacy (we’ve all read at least the first 30 pages of Grapes of Wrath, no?) to fill between the lines of her restrained descriptive passages, I Will Send Rain is an immensely evocative novel that delivers a satisfying tale of human resilience. — Reviewed by Becky Dayton of the Vermont Book Shop in Middlebury.

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