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Strolling of the Heifers Gallery at the Garden Presents “16 by 16 by 27”

by MartinLangeveld | Arts

16” x 16” paintings by 27 area artists

Strolling of the Heifers celebrates the opening of its new art gallery at the Robert H. Gibson River Garden Friday evening, March 7 with a reception to introduce the inaugural exhibit, “16 by 16 by 27”.

Curated by artist Caryn King, the show presents the work of 27 artists, each of whom produced a 16-inch by 16-inch square painting on canvas. The paintings reflect a variety of subjects including still life, figurative, landscape, animals, and abstract. 

The Sweetback Sisters and Elixir at Next Stage on Friday, March 7

by Not Signed In | Music

Next Stage Arts Project and Twilight Music present an evening of swing, honky-tonk and fiddle music by The Sweetback Sisters and Elixir at Next Stage on Friday, March 7 at 7:30 pm.

The Sweetback Sisters forge their own sound by delivering arrangements that combine the soul of classic ‘40s and ‘50s-era country music with an undeniably contemporary edge. The rollicking country, swing, honky-tonk and old-time music of Emily Miller (vocals, fiddle, guitar), Zara Bode (vocals, guitar), Stefan Amidon (drums, vocals), Jesse Milnes (fiddle, guitar, vocals), Ryan Hommel (electric guitar) and Peter Bitenc (acoustic bass) is as infectious as it is heartbreaking.  Their charismatic charm harkens back to the golden era of both the silver screen cowgirl and the ersatz cowboy stars of local UHF TV kiddie shows.  That whimsical exterior is wrapped around a core of deeply felt love for traditional country music styles and a palpable joy in playing and singing together.

150 Years Ago (1864 3/4)

by BusyMom | History

Brattleboro, Mar. 4, 1864

Dear wife,

I have let too long a time elapse without writing to you. I received a letter from Mary Ann last week. The reason that I did not write, I was expecting to go up to Burton to arrest a deserter Saturday. I was ordered to report to Captain Clark and get transportation and to take the five o’clock train and go to Burton. When I told Capt. Jenne that no train left for Burton until Monday morning there was a fix then. I was to go Monday. I told them fairly that I did not believe there was any deserter there, and finally they all came to the same conclusion, but of this you need say nothing, for he may be nabbed yet. I was to have a chance to go home if I went up. Should like to have caught the fellow, but hated to go up and come home without him. It will be no small job for one man to take him. He is a cool, desperate fellow.

Windham Regional Career Center Offers Spring Community Education and Training Programs

by betsg | Education

The Windham Regional Career Center at Brattleboro Union High School is pleased to announce their Community Education and Training Programs for this spring. Betsy Gentile, Workforce Development Manager and Adult Education Coordinator has developed 18 community education and training programs to meet the needs of area employers and their employees as well as providing personal and professional enrichment opportunities for all community members.

Snack Theatre Revival Features Cabin Fever, “Comedy of Menace,” in Stroll Benefit

by MartinLangeveld | Entertainment

Brattleborians of a certain age have long waited for the return of the Snack Theatre, an irreverent troupe that illuminated the aughts with a series of theatrical evenings augmented with libations and delectable sweets, before entering a period of hibernation.

The wait is over. In a production that will benefit the new home of Strolling of the Heifers, Snack veterans Beth Kiendl, William Stearns and Bill Hickok will reprise “Cabin Fever” — a “comedy of menace” penned by Joan Schenkar.

The entirety of the play takes place on a rural New England front porch, represented by a set designed by Clay Coyle, whose design credits range from off-Broadway to regional theatres in the East Coast and New England.

BCTV Channel 8 & 10 Schedules for the Week of 3/3/14

by BCTVProg | Media

BCTV Ch.8 Schedule for the week of 3-3-14

                   Monday March 3

12:00 am      Madison’s Hell- Exploring Madisonian Constitutionalism

1:15 am       Danger Men Cooking – China Show

2:00 am       FSTV Overnight

4:00 am       Common Good Vermont – Building a Culture of Philanthrop

4:30 am       2014 Brattleboro Women’s Film Festival Preview

5:00 am       UVM Comm Med School: Reducing Stroke and Cardiovascular Disease

Scott Ainslie Concert for Brooks Memorial Library

by msquare | Music

MUSIC AND IMAGES OF MISSISSIPPI DELTA WITH SCOTT AINSLIE

Nationally acclaimed acoustic Blues singer, historian and songwriter, Scott Ainslie, will perform a benefit concert for the Friends of the Brooks Memorial Library. The concert will be held on Friday, March 21 at 7:30 in the Brooks Library on Main Street in Brattleboro.

Advance tickets are available through Brattleborotix http://www.brattleborotix.com/boxoffice or at the Front Desk of the Library. Tickets will be available at the door; ticket prices are $20 ($15 for members of the Friends of the Library).

Not In Your History Books – Part 2

by RLElkins | History

Joseph Sullivan, the CEO of Hinsdale Greyhound Park, agreed to be interviewed by a Keene High School student in his corporate office on October 26, 2004. The American Studies assignment required the students to interview various owners of dissimilar businesses located throughout Cheshire County. Their objective was to gain an understanding of the impact these various businesses have on their respective communities from an economic, social, and historical perspective. Upon completion of the class project, the student interviews would be published in the Keene Sentinel which did not happen.

The Land Where the Blues Began: Images and Music of the Mississippi Delta with Scott Ainslie

by Brooks Memorial Library | Music

Get your tickets now! Join the Friends of Brooks Memorial Library on Friday, March 21, at 7:30 PM, for a concert to support the services and programs at Brooks Memorial Library–The Land Where the Blues Began: Images and Music of the Mississippi Delta with Scott Ainslie. 

Scott Ainslie has combed the Library of Congress photo archives and combined archival photos with his own images of the Mississippi Delta for a concert tour that explores this formative region of the American South. Visually and musically entertaining, the concert is a richly varied exploration of the region that was ground zero for the development of the Blues. 

Weekend Concert Series: Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin

by cgrotke | Entertainment

Judy Garland had a CBS Sunday night TV show in the early 1960’s – The Judy Garland Show.

It comes at a somewhat depressing point in her life. After years of being fed uppers and downers by movie studios, getting divorced, and getting into some serious debt and contractual problems, she was in a difficult spot. TV success, those around her reasoned, might be the only thing to pull her life back into order.

She was 40 years old when this was filmed. It got four Emmy nominations.

Brattleboro Union High School Board Meeting Agenda

by Not Signed In | Education

BRATTLEBORO UNION HIGH SCHOOL BOARD
53 Green Street
Brattleboro, VT 05301
www.wssu.k12.vt.us

NOTICE OF COMMITTEE MEETING

The 2013-2014 BUHS District #6 Finance Committee will meet at 7:30 a.m. on Wednesday, March 5 in the WSESU Central Office Conference Room, 53 Green Street.

NOTICE OF MEETING

The BUHS #6 Board of Directors will meet at 7:00 p.m. on Monday, March 3 in the WRCC Cusick Conference Room.

The Classic Matinee Film Noir Series at Brooks Memorial Library

by Brooks Memorial Library | Entertainment

Come in from the icy cold! The Classic Matinee Film Noir Series at Brooks Memorial Library runs on Wednesday afternoons at 2 pm.

Today, Wednesday, Feb 26, at 2 PM, warm up with some intrigue and suspense in a mythical South American community involved in a war-surplus contraband racket. For title information please contact the Brooks Library. 

What is film noir? Literally it means “black film” and it is a Hollywood genre of crime movie of the 1940’s and 50’s that developed mostly out of the Great Depression crime fiction.

BCTV Channel 8 & 10 Schedules for the Week of 2/24/14

by BCTVProg | Media

BCTV Ch.8 Schedule for the week of 2-24-14 

                   Monday February 24                 

12:00 am      UVM Comm Med School: Patient Choices at the End of Life

1:30 am       Nuclear Free Future: Talking with Maggie Gunderson

2:00 am       FSTV Overnight

4:00 am       Halloween Party at the Stone Church 10/31/13

6:30 am       The Folklorist – Episode 5

6:50 am       We’re All in This Together: Reefer Madness

Sheriff Richard Mack on WVEW

by pockets | Media

Join DJ Pockets for another experience that you won’t soon forget..its “buttahmilk” this Tuesday Feb.25th from 6pm-8pm on Brattleboro Community Radio. 107.7fm and streaming on www.wvew,org

Sheriff Richard Mack spent eleven years with the police department of Provo, Utah, and then moved back to Arizona to run for Graham County Sheriff in 1988. While serving as sheriff, he attended the FBI National Academy and graduated in 1992. In 1994, he was named Elected Official of the Year by the Arizona-New Mexico Coalition of Counties. He was also named the National Rifle Association Law Enforcement Officer of the Year for 1994, and was inducted into the NRA Hall of Fame.

Not In Your History Books

by RLElkins | History

Interviewer [RLElkins]: “Where did you derive your historical knowledge about the origin of the sales tax in Vermont?”

Interviewee [Unidentified]: “As a college intern majoring in political science with unrestricted access to the inner workings of the Vermont Statehouse from 1968 through 1970. Unbeknownst to my legislative benefactors, a detail journal of the briefings, hearings, and confidential discussions in Montpelier, some that the press did not have access too, were dictated into a tape recorder every night and later transcribed onto Eaton Typing Paper for my college thesis.”

“What was the title of your college thesis?”

“Vermont Sales Tax – The Dazzling New Legislative Toothpaste for Budget Decay.”

“What grade did you receive?”

“A++”

Human Life, the Novel

by spinoza | Creative

For those who’ve acquired the taste and skill, there’s a uniquely rewarding pleasure in a book’s well executed ending. In great works, themes are introduced, developed or hidden, and in the end, a masterful author pulls it together in a way we didn’t see coming. But in retrospect the unfolding was altogether obvious and inevitable. This may come in the form of a plot twist, a revelation, a reversal of fortune…Whatever the mechanism…if the ending is compelling, and launches the reader into a new realm of contemplation or appreciation, it’s a thing of beauty.

Poet Frederico Garcia Lorca in Vermont: New Date/Time Sat Feb 22 at 3 pm

by Brooks Memorial Library | Books

Because of snow, Federico Garcia Lorca in Vermont was rescheduled to Saturday, Feb. 22, at 3:00 p.m. in the meeting room.

Please join independent scholar, Patricia Billingsley for a richly illustrated slide talk with vintage photos, maps, and other related images about the friendship between Spanish poet Federico García Lorca and Vermont poet Philip Cummings.

Hamlet at the Latchis

by BusyMom | Arts

Hamlet, performed live at the Latchis, 7:00pm Thursday, February 20.

Just realized this wasn’t in the calendar!

Truly Live at the Latchis, don’t miss this production of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, a collaboration of  two Tony Award winning companies, The Guthrie Theatre and The Acting Company. Set in the Kingdom of Denmark, the play dramatizes the revenge Prince Hamlet exacts for his father’s murder, setting him on a journey seeking personal meaning and coming to grips with his own mortality. Published between 1601 and 1603, many believe that Hamlet is the best of Shakespeare’s works and the perfect play. It is certainly one of his most well-known and oft-quoted plays.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: A Reading and Discussion Series – Note New Date!

by Brooks Memorial Library | Books

Join Vermont Humanities scholar Richard Wizansky for this reading and discussion series which features the shorter works by the great Russian writer, dissident, and former Cavendish, Vermont resident and includes his most read and highly regarded novella as well as several of his famous speeches.

The 1970 Nobel Lecture; and the 1978 Harvard Class Day Address. Thursday 20 February 2014, 04:30pm – 06:00pm

Sponsored by the Vermont Humanities Council. Location Brooks Library Meeting Room. Contact Info Jerry Carbone 802-254-5290 jerry@brookslibraryvt.org http://brookslibraryvt.org