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Ambrose Knapp has some business news to share this holiday season. A new partnership has been formed between Knapp and Santa Claus.
The text says that “they expect by their joint efforts to give everybody a good time,” and warn us “Do not let anyone deceive you into believing that Santa Claus is in any way invested in any other stock or store.”
If one looked at recent major media, one conclusion that could be reached is that only Republicans are running for office. There are endless stories about Trump, Carson, Cruz, Rubio, Bush, Graham, and the others. They get headlines and air time for simply existing. They get featured on Sunday political shows, and discussed and promoted by the Washington insiders and elite, as if nothing else was happening. All republicans are “serious candidates” even if they have no visible support.
One might think that Democrats no longer exist. But this is silly. Vermont’s Bernie Sanders just broke a record for having 2 million online donations, more than any other candidate ever. He also just picked up the endorsement of an enormous union, the Communications Workers of America. And poll after poll show that he would trump Trump at the polls.
It was 116 years ago this week that Booker T. Washington came to Brattleboro…
will be on view at Mitchell • Giddings Fine Arts, in downtown Brattleboro, from January 7 to February 7, 2016. Works on display include large cyanotype prints from the Arbor and Catalpa Series from 2011 to 2014, and a selection of smaller minimalist drawings from the Linea Series of 2014. Concurrent with this exhibition, several of Fels’s large drawings from his recent Classics series are included in the biennial Open Call show at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center.
Tom Fels’ cyanotype series stem from his lengthy engagement with a single subject: a tree in his garden and its dappled shadows. These’ cyanotypes are cameraless photographs, popularly called “sun prints” or “shadow prints.” There is no negative; each is unique. The prints are life-sized, 1:1 scale renderings of their natural subject matter. The cyanotype is an early process of great simplicity and unique color (a deep blue, cyan). Typically, the method has been employed to produce silhouettes – of leaves, for example, as in the botanical illustrations of the pioneer British photographer Anna Atkins (1799-1871) – but the same process was also used to make photographic prints from negatives, as well as architectural blueprints.
You will want to get down to Emerson & Son on Main Street this 1887 holiday season to take advantage of the great deals they are offering.
Bargains include rocking chairs priced $1 to $6, an easy chair for $5, a sled for fifty cents, easels, ottomans, work boxes, music racks, and more. Get an entire parlor set for $30 if you have the money.
$1.50 buys you a foot rest and a portable desk can be had for a dollar.
With such good prices, I wonder if this store will be able to last?
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, December 17, 2015 at the Putney Central School.
Another in our series of old December ads from the Phoenix.
This is for that popular downtown store in the Crosby Block, Van Doorn & Son. Have you been there recently?
This holiday season they are offering special bargains on silverware, as well as decorated tea, breakfast, and dinner sets. They also have fancy wares and novelty items, and both hanging and table lamps.
Orchard Street Pottery will be offering its 4th annual Solstice and Seconds Sale this Sunday afternoon, December 20th, from 12 noon until 5pm in the studio and showroom at 658 Orchard Street, Brattleboro.
Potter Walter Slowinski makes wood-fired, salt-glazed stoneware and porcelain teapots, pitchers, bowls, cups, mugs, vases and other ware. This annual sale features deeply discounted prices on pieces with minor flaws or on discontinued designs.
BCTV channel 8 schedule for the week of 12/14/15
Monday, December 14, 2015
12:00 am North Branch Nature Center Lectures – Living with Black Bears
1:30 am Vermont Humanities Fall Conference 11/14/15
3:00 am Six Figure Farming – Pt 3
4:00 am VT Workers’ Center: Brattleboro Beats, Bluegrass 6/7/15
6:25 am DCC: Chris Schadler – Becoming Wolf 11/13/15
In December 1881 we see an ad for Cheney & Clapp announcing their store as a “Holiday Bazaar and Christmas Museum,” which is quite a boast.
They can make the announcement, though, because of the wide range of items available for you to buy from them, including Teaching Bibles for the teachers out there that you know, a “bewildering variety” of cards from the best makers, diaries, books, statuary (who doesn’t need a statue?) and work baskets. They also have dolls and toys.
This week we’ll study some color theory with Scott Naismith, a Scottish landscape painter, and dive into aspects of hue and saturation with him.
I’ve been doing art all my life, yet still struggle with color. I love black and white lines and using pens and pencils to shade things with hatch marks and smudges. The 256 shades of greyscale suite me well, and they could keep me busy forever.
I love my Flip video camera, I know Cisco stopped supporting it a couple years ago, but it’s been working fine until this week. Flipshare no longer works for me. I’d like to pow- wow with others who have encountered, or better yet, worked through this problem. Anyone out there with a Flip who does not want to give up? Please contact me here or by e mail at info@theresamaggio.com. Thanks. Tego
It is the Christmas fad this year, after all, so why not stop downtown and pick up a Mexican Feather Card for someone you love? They are very affordable, and everyone wants one.
While there, you might consider a celluloid booklet or two as well.
At Geo. A Briggs & Co.’s, for the 1889 holiday shopping season.
Here is an ad that tells us much about its time and place. It’s December 1869, and Clark & Willard have opened up at a new location. They have holiday goods, confectionery and fruit, and unsettled accounts to announce.
The new location is a result of a fire at the previous location, and the ad uses quite a bit of valuable space to mention a reward for returning a “valuable cat.”
Guilford, Vt. – Friends of Music at Guilford’s 43rd Christmas at Christ Church program is set for December 11 & 12, Friday at 8:00 p.m. and Saturday at 4:00. These annual gatherings feature both choral and instrumental Christmas music, a story, and a short carol-sing.This year’s program includes an eclectic selection of songs, both sacred and secular, to bring in the holidays. Under the direction of Tom Baehr, the Guilford Chamber Singers present perennial favorites “Carol of the Bells” and “Deck the Halls” with much earlier carols from the 14th to the 17th centuries.
To these are added contemporary pieces “Bethlehem Spiritual” and “The Winter’s Night,” a hauntingly beautiful and evocative song that has become the group’s favorite; an entertaining setting of “Winter Wonderland” and even an arrangement of “Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy” from Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker.” “Come, Dear Children” by Alfred Burt is an invitation to participate in the season’s festivities.
BCTV channel 8 schedule for the week of 12/7/15
Monday, December 7, 2015
12:00 am Green Mtn Vets for Peace: School of the Americas
1:00 am William Arkin – Unmanned: Drones, Data and the Illusion of Perfect Warfare
2:00 am BYS Battle of the Bands 2015
4:22 am Ezlerh: Democratic Party’s JJ Dinner 11/29/15
4:30 am North Branch Nature Center Lectures – Living with Black Bears
Continuing our look at December advertising in Brattleboro, we now check in with an ad from a newspaper in 1874.
Mr. J. T. Hildreth on Elm Street in Brattleboro is offering deals on sleighs and carriages. You can stop in to get a new one, or bring in your current model for a tune up and some repairs. Buggies also available.
This small market and studio tour is the first of its kind in Vernon. Starting at the Vernon Town offices (at 567 Governor Hunt Rd, Vernon, VT 05354) with a marketplace of vendors offering handcrafted jewelry, paintings, quilts, jams and jellies, holiday cards, and baskets and continuing to just four open studios, this entire tour is easily visited in one afternoon. The open studios include a pottery studio, wreath maker, painter, and a furniture studio.
Bernie
the Crank
Cranky leftist.
Equality
Economic justice
Invest in America
Build homes and jobs
Stop militarism
Health care for all.
It’s a Wonderful Messiah Sing
Anyone who has ever sung Händel’s Messiah should come enjoy Brattleboro’s annual Messiah Sing on the first Saturday of December. You should probably cram first. I do. This post is our Saturday morning cram guide.
‘s Messiah Sing is Brattleboro at its best. It’s when everyone from our diverse music community is drawn to one place. The soloists are not boring. They’re either up-and-and coming locals or let-me-show-you-how-this-is-done professionals. For the choruses, you’ll always be near a strong singer. Brattleboro is lousy with them. You can just hum along if you’re unsure and then sing loud for the Hallelujah Raucus. If the singing stops during that dramatic rest just before the final Hallelujah, it’s wonderful and glorious. Someone ususally goofs, but there’s always next year when we’re sure to get it right. You just gotta let go on the Hallelujah Chorus. That’s the thing and ’tis the season. As the page turn will tell you, I Know That My Redeemer Liveth!
