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BCTV channel 8 schedule for the week of 3/14/16
Monday, March 14, 2016
12:00 am DCC: Bob Engel- Biological Communities #2- 2/29/16
1:45 am Vets: Introduction to Veterans’ Benefits 2/18/16
2:30 am The Opiate Effect – Film and Discussion
4:30 am From VT to VZ: Building a Global Movement for Social and Environmental Justice
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March 13, 1891: |
Fred Emerson Brooks, the California poet, humorist and reciter, and D.W. Robertson, the tumblerlonicon and verephone soloist, who are to give the entertainment under the auspices of the Y.M.C.A. next Thursday evening, have received the highest commendation wherever they have appeared. |
http://www.biblio.com/fred-emerson-brooks/author/20439
http://cicilycorbett.blogspot.com/2006/10/bad-poetry-fred-emerson-brooks.html
Watch the debate over whether or not to relocate Brattleboro’s Police Dept to Black Mtg Rd with this live feed from today’s Special Rep Town Mtg. .
Things aren’t always what they seem.
This is actually an aerial photograph of Montreal’s Olympic Stadium in 1977
(Emerson, Lake & Palmer concert)
RIP Keith. They don’t make ‘em like you anymore.
In order to be fully creative, it is sometimes good to hear unfamiliar things, or listen to people we don’t quite understand. Different points of view can lead to insights and breakthroughs, which can then have creative results.
Sun Ra is one of those people that I don’t completely understand, but I do enjoy listening to from time to time. This week we have a rare recording of him expounding on a number of issues in an Afrofuturism lecture at UC Berkeley called Afro-American Studies 198: The Black Man in the Universe/Cosmos.
The Vermont Comedy Divas — the nation’s only all-female, touring stand-up comedy troupe — return to the River Garden in Brattleboro on Saturday, March 26 at 8 p.m., in a fund-raising event for Strolling of the Heifers, chainsaw and all.
Brattleboro Area Hospice is excited to announce a new retail and auction experience in Brattleboro: Pop-Up @77 Flat! On Gallery Walk Fridays beginning in May, and each month to follow through December, a new pop-up auction window will be unveiled at Experienced Goods, the Brattleboro Area Hospice Thrift Shop at 77 Flat Street. Each window will be unique and different and will feature a creatively themed assortment of distinctive riches and other curios. The items in the window will be available for online bidding from midnight of that evening throughout the following month. This is a new spin on its annual Cherished Goods Auction that has traditionally taken place annually in the fall. All proceeds will benefit Brattleboro Area Hospice programs and services.
Pop-up retail, also known as pop-up store (pop-up shop in the UK, Australia and Ireland) or flash retailing, is a trend of opening short-term sales spaces in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia. Pop-Up @77 Flat is a new exciting way to prominently feature the most unique and special items for a limited duration of time. We hope people will become engaged and interested and will subscribe to the online auction site and bid monthly throughout the year on those items they fancy.
During the months of March and April, visitors to the Brooks Memorial Library can consult will CCV student intern Ben Howe for help using computer technology for job and career-related tasks. Ben will meet individually with citizens to help them explore careers and online education, prepare resumes, search for jobs, and complete online job applications. Ben’s services are provided through a partnership between the Community College of Vermont and the Vermont Department of Libraries, which will place “Job Hunt Helpers” in town libraries in six Vermont communities. These services are made possible by funding from the J. Warren and Lois McClure Foundation and federal Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Thumb drives and USB sticks are very common. Almost none of them have a space available to write on.
Thought for the morning: Want to invent something and make some money? Develop a USB drive that has a space for a label, so we can write a note about what’s on it. Make it so we can change labels, too, if the contents of the drive change.
ACT 46 STUDY COMMITTEE
Representing the Brattleboro Town School District, Dummerston Town School District, Guilford Town School District, Putney Town School District, and the Vernon Town School District
http://www.wssu.k12.vt.us
NOTICE OF MEETING
The Act 46 Study Committee will meet at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, March 10, 2016 at the Academy School.
AGENDA
I. CALL TO ORDER – 6:00 p.m. – Alice Laughlin, Committee Chair
II. REVIEW, PRIORITIZE AND ESTABLISH DESIRED OUTCOMES FOR MEETING BY CHAIRPERSON.
BCTV channel 8 schedule for the week of 3/7/16
Monday, March 7, 2016
12:00 am WWAC: Paul Morgan – Paris Climate Agreement 2/19/16
1:30 am Hunger Mtn Coop Workshop Series – Creative Ideas
3:10 am TED Talks: Shonda Rhimes: My Year of Saying Yes to Everything
3:30 am 13th Annual A Cappella Concert 2/6/16
5:45 am The Opiate Effect – Film and Discussion
Imagine a voter that generally wants to vote for their party. In an election cycle, this voter likes one of the party candidates and supports them actively throughout the primary and caucus season, but their candidate falls short and another candidate becomes the nominee.
The voter wants to vote for their party candidate, because the other party is, of course, y’know… the other party. However, the voter finds their official party candidate to be repulsive, dangerous, icky, and generally bad for the future of the country.
How should the voter vote?
Are you getting cabin fever? Here’s the perfect solution: A party! Join Brattleboro Area Jewish Community for a musical variety show and costume party to celebrate Purim, our happiest holiday. Come in your most inventive or extravagant costume (Purim-themed or not).
Join the talent show – contact us to sign up with any talent you’d like to share! Bring your friends, Jewish or not – all are welcome! We’ll provide amazing baked goods, beer from Hermit Thrush Brewery, bagels by Bruegger’s, a photo booth, a mask making station, musical acts, and much more.
The highlight of the evening will be a set of Jewish songs by renowned jazz and R&B singer Wanda Houston and pianist Eugene Uman. Come dance, “schmooze”, eat, and celebrate!
Check out lots of footage of the Newfane Creamery fire, the latest details in Brattleboro’s one-vote select board race, info on next week’s big Police-Fire Special Rep Meeting in Brattleboro, and all the 2016 Town Meeting Day happenings from across the region as 5:45 Live sums up more than 30 hours of Town Meeting coverage with their annual one minute special.
Next Stage Arts Project and Twilight Music present country, swing, honky-tonk and old-time music quintet The Sweetback Sisters at Next Stage on Thursday, March 10 at 7:30 pm.
The Sweetback Sisters forge their own sound by delivering arrangements that combine the soul of classic ‘40s, ‘50s and ‘60s-era country music with an undeniably contemporary edge. Emily Miller (vocals, fiddle), Zara Bode (vocals, guitar), Stefan Amidon (drums), Rob Hecht (fiddle) and Jason Loughlin (electric guitar) take their inspiration from the Davis Sisters and Louvin Brothers, as well as the spirited honky-tonk energy of Wanda Jackson and Loretta Lynn. Zara and Emily’s family-style harmonies reflect a deeply felt love for traditional country music styles and a palpable joy in playing and singing together, and the band’s signature mix of harmony singing, rollicking telecaster and twin fiddling is as infectious as it is heartbreaking.
Remember dipping your fingers into cool, wet paint and smearing it all across a piece of paper? Pushing it all around, getting it under your nails, and creating an abstract piece of school art? And the smell of that paint… mmm.
Here, Iris Scott uses that technique with great skill to finger paint with oils. It’s not as strange as it sounds, even though it isn’t done much. Most painters like brushes, but why not work directly, fingers to canvas?
We are very excited to announce this new adventure! Our formal name is Ewe Have Me In Stitches!
We welcome all crocheters and knitters, at any experience level! Best of all, being a member of this
chapter is free! Of course, if you would like to become a member of the CGOA, we will help you do just that!
There will be benefits to being a member of this chapter, but if you want even more benefits, join CGOA!
A few things that I am looking forward to (and if you have any ideas, please let me know)
– Learning experiences – I’d like to set one meeting a month to be a learning session. Learning a new
The Vermont Jazz Center is proud to welcome the legendary pianist Fred Hersch to its Cotton Mill venue on Saturday, March 12th at 8:00 PM. He will be performing with his working trio of Jon Hébert (bass) and Eric McPherson (drums). Hersch is one of the leading jazz pianists in the world. Through his commitment to originality, embrace of romanticism, mastery of the bebop language and chameleon-like ability to blend genres Hersch has carved out a unique niche that is—as Ellington would have said—“beyond category.”
Now in his late 50s, Hersch’s example serves as a bridge between younger players who have studied jazz formally and the old-school cats who learned on the bandstand and from recordings. He states that he “… learned in the oral tradition from older players” and he especially lauds any musician who has made it on their own and shaped their own voice. He affirms his own path on this road by saying “maybe that’s the reason why I sound like me – because nobody interfered with me. I didn’t take jazz piano lessons, I didn’t go through all that kind of nonsense – what I play is mine.”
The Spring 2016 Programs start the week of March 14. Please go to wrccvt.com and Adult Learners to see the full listing of programs! Call or email betsy at 451-3965 or bgentile@wsesu.org for more information.
1843: To the disgrace of civilization and Christianity, the practice of selling Town Paupers, annually, to the lowest bidder, still prevails in many Towns of our own and the neighboring States. Those unfortunate beings, who have been reduced to poverty, and become unable to maintain themselves, are put up at auction, and the person who will take them at the cheapest rate, – or in other words the person who will work them the hardest, and keep them in the poorest manner, takes them for a year and makes the most he can.
Interesting…I’m sure they were referred to somewhat as indentured servants rather than slaves. Some illegal aliens seem to be similarly employed in modern times.
