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Free Monday Morning Movies at the Brattleboro Senior Center. We even have goodies for the show.
February Showings
LOVE, LOVE, ALL WE NEED IS LOVE
Movies starring:
Feb 1st Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn –10 am
Feb 8th Vivien Leigh, Robert Taylor – 10 am
Feb 22nd Cary Grant, Mryna Loy, Melvyn Douglas-10 am
One of the ways we used to be more creative as a culture was in our ornamentation of buildings. Part of the thrill of visits to big cities is to see the highly decorated and elaborate old facades.
While cost-cutting has streamlined buildings of more recent times, the Washington Cathedral in DC is a relatively new structure that stands as an example of what is possible with carved stone ornamentation. Cats, monsters, frogs, birds, snakes, owls, mules, dragons, pigs, and people are represented as gargoyles and water spouts.
McNeill’s Brewery presents contemporary bluegrass and folk music quartet The Stockwell Brothers on Friday, January 15 at 9:00 pm.
Bruce, Barry, Alan and Kelly Stockwell’s music spans traditional and progressive styles, but their trademark acoustic sound features new singer/songwriter material recast with banjo, alternative rhythms and three-part harmonies. They cover straight ahead bluegrass songs, finger picked acoustic guitar ballads, full tilt breakdowns and traditional mandolin tunes mixed in with more unusual fare – Americana melodies riding world beat grooves and Celtic, jazzy, even neo-classical instrumentals.
“Heating it up with the Ladies of the Rainbow” on Saturday, February 6 at 8:00 p.m. at the VFW on Black Mountain Road in Brattleboro will be this year’s major fundraiser for the Windham County Heat Fund.
In 2005 Daryl Pillsbury and Richard Davis decided to find a way to help people struggling to pay for home heating fuel who were not eligible for existing programs. They simply decided to raise money and then figure out who was in need and help those people.
They have worked closely with SEVCA and the Windham County HELP Fund so that people can be connected with assistance programs. The Heat Fund is a one-time band-aid, usually consisting of a minimum fuel delivery. The Fund tries to make sure people have explored all other avenues of assistance first.
Three local ceramic artists—Rob Cartelli, Heta Hilsdon, and Todd Wahlstrom—open their collective show on Friday, January 15 from 7-9 p.m. (snow date January 22) in the Michael S. Currier Center at The Putney School. The event is open to the public and admission is free.
Naomi Lindenfeld, the ceramics teacher at The Putney School, curated the show. Her vision led her to display the finely-crafted functional pottery on furniture rather than gallery pedestals. That way viewers can get much more of a sense of how one would live with the pots on a daily basis.
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 Wednesday, January 13, 2016 at the Green Street School, Brattleboro.
AGENDA
I. CALL TO ORDER – 6:00 p.m. – Alice Laughlin, Committee Chair
II. REVIEW, PRIORITIZE AND ESTABLISH DESIRED OUTCOMES FOR MEETING BY CHAIRPERSON.
Mexican-Americans: Experience & Identity–A Reading-Discussion Series: Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya. Wednesday 20 January 2016, 7 pm – 8:30 pm. This 4-Part series ‘Mexican Americans: Experience and Identity,’ deals with the experiences of Mexicans living in the United States, from the struggles of migrant farmworkers and day laborers in California to coming of age stories of Chicanos as U.S. citizens. The first book in the series is Bless Me Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya, which chronicles the story of an alienated New Mexico boy who seeks an answer to his questions about life in his relationship with Ultima, a magical healer.
Borrow a Laptop at Brooks Library! Four new laptops have arrived, courtesy of the Friends of Brooks Memorial Library, and they are ready for borrowing! Each one may be borrowed for 2 hours of in-library use, and they are set up for wireless printing to the new printer/scanner/copier located next to the computer stations. Ask a staff member for more details!
For more information contact Brooks Library by phone 802-254-5290, by email info@brookslibraryvt.org, or on the web at brookslibraryvt.org. Brooks Memorial Library, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT 05301.
Library Exhibits at Brooks Memorial Library for January/February
SECOND FLOOR-CHILDREN’S BOOK ILLUSTRATORS CASE: lluminating Illustration: Picture Book Art Inspired by Illuminated Manuscripts, an exhibit borrowed from the Eric Carle Museum in Amherst, MA.
MEZZANINE-LOCAL HISTORY ROOM WINDOWS: left Abenaki artifacts collected locally; right Glass and ceramic vases from the Loud Collection.
MEZZANINE CASE and SECOND FLOOR ENTRYWAY: More objects from the Charles and Henrietta Loud Collection.
Exhibits are accessible during regular library hours: Mon.-Wed. 10-9; Thur.-Fri. 10-6; & Sat. 10-5.
Left to Right:
Sartaj Aziz is sleeping. (India)
John Kerry looks dead. (United States)
King Abdullah looks drugged. (Jordon)
Muhammad Nawaz just smelled a fart. (Pakistan)
David Cameron farted!! (Great Britain)
Do you want to increase your knowledge and comfort on the internet, in social media, or on your smart phone or tablet? Cal LaFountain, the Library’s Electronic Services Support Specialist, is available for brief, private consultations to help. Mondays, 3 to 6. To book time with Cal, call (802) 254-5290 x104 or email cal@brookslibraryvt.org.
BCTV channel 8 schedule for the week of 1/11/16
Monday, January 11, 2016
12:00 am 12th Annual A Capella Concert 2/7/15
2:00 am 2015 Slow Living #3: Food Systems, Allison Hooper
3:00 am 1st Wednesdays: Roots of Latin Jazz
4:30 am Green Mtn. Vets for Peace: Syrian Refugee Medical Mission Pt 1
5:30 am Building Bright Futures: Beth Diamond and Janet Kilburn
6:05 am Firefighters Architects and Engineers for 911 Truth
Let’s think big.
I’m stretching the concept of creativity here a bit, but I do so under the following argument: one should be aware of the tools available to be able to fully contemplate creative opportunities.
In simple, artsy terms, knowing about paper and pencils are great, but the creative options expand when one knows about crayons, paints, and markers.
Brattleboro Historical Society trustee Joe Rivers and his BAMS student historians investigate selective enforcement in 19th century Brattleboro.
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, January 7, 2016 at the Dummerston School.
NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING BRATTLEBORO UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT #6
FEBRUARY 9, 2016
The legal voters of Brattleboro Union High School District #6 are hereby notified and warned to meet at the gymnasium of the Brattleboro Union High School, Brattleboro, Vermont on Tuesday, February 9, 2016 at 7:00 p.m., Eastern Standard Time, to act on the following articles:
Article 1. To act on reports of Officers.
Article 2. To elect by ballot a Moderator.
Article 3. To elect by ballot a Clerk.
BCTV Ch8 schedule for the week of 1/4/16
Monday, January 4, 2016
12:00 am Vermont Humanities Fall Conference 11/14/15
1:30 am Hunger Mtn Coop Workshop Series: Living Tiny Conversations with Lisa Rochelle
2:50 am 1st Wed: Face to Face with the Emotional Brain
4:00 am A Retrospective on Vermont Environmental History
5:20 am Rights & Democracy Summit: Building an Economy for People & the Planet
An item in iBratt’s Today in Local History sent me on an Internet hunt on this lazy New Year’s Day.
Dummerston’s big block of granite landed just south of the Basketball Hall of Fame until 2008.
1886:
The largest piece of granite ever quarried at Dummerston, and the largest one, probably, that ever passed through Brattleboro was brought down on Monday [likely Dec. 28, 1885]. It was 12 feet long by 9 feet 6 inches wide, and 6 feet thick. It went to Springfield, Mass., where it will form the top step of the new jail entrance.
Joe Rivers and his history students at Brattleboro Area Middle School discuss the closure of Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant, which began one year ago this week
