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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
BRATTLEBORO UNION HIGH SCHOOL BOARD
53 Green Street
Brattleboro, VT 05301
www.wssu.k12.vt.us
NOTICE OF COMMITTEE MEETINGS
The BUHS #6 Finance Committee will meet at 8:00 a.m. on Thursday, January 14 in the James E. Kane Conference Room, 53 Green Street.
NOTICE OF BOARD MEETING
The BUHS #6 Board of Directors will hold a Public Information Meeting on the Proposed FY ‘17 Budget at 6:00 p.m. on Monday, January 4, 2016 in the WRCC Cusick Conference Room. The regular Board meeting will follow at approximately 7:00 p.m.
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 Wednesday, December 30, 2015 at the Academy School.
BCTV channel 8 schedule for the week of 12/28/15
Monday, December 28, 2015
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
For our final December historical advertisement, let’s see what I. B. Thorn has to offer downtown on Main Street, across from High.
Thorn is thinking ahead. Not only does he offer Christmas gifts, but also gifts for the New Year. It’s “the finest display of holiday novelties ever seen in town,” after all. Not bad for a drug store.
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 Tuesday, December 29, 2015 at the Academy School.
Hawley sells clothes. Each season he goes to New York City to find the latest and greatest fashions and best prices for his Brattleboro customers. He returns with a new load, tells us all what he has for sale, and we buy it from him.
Here is his complex advertisement for December 1886. Get your holiday goods and staple supplies!
An annual tradition since 2007, An Extra Special Selectboard Winter Holiday Thing captures the spirit of both the holidays and the selectboard, regardless of who is currently serving.
Presented in glorious Sock-o-rama.
1888: Seventy-seven feet of Faraday cable have been added to the telephone circuit this week to take the place of the wires which run from the switch-board in the exchange to the large standard on Harmony block. This makes a total of 481 feet of the cable in use.
Essentially, this means they are replacing bare wires with insulated wires and a multi-wire system. That’s the nutshell version; it took a lot of research and technological advances to get there. A lot of that work was spurred on by the effort to lay a transatlantic telegraph cable, which finally succeeded in 1866, and made use of Michael Faraday’s research into electromagnetism and induction.
http://ethw.org/Transatlantic_Cable
BCTV channel 8 schedule for the week of 12/21/15
Monday, December 21, 2015
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
Mr. Drown is excited to share the news of holiday sales of soles. He has good goods!
In this ad, we see a cannon exploding with shoes and slippers, blasting them to residents of Brattleboro and all of Windham County. Trade is “booming,” of course. Get it?
Light & Shadow: Cyanotypes and Drawings by Tom Fels will be on view at Mitchell • Giddings Fine Arts, in downtown Brattleboro, from January 7 to February 7, 2016.
A public opening for the exhibition will be held on Thursday, January 7, from 5-7 PM. An artist talk is scheduled for
Friday, January 22, at 7 PM.
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.
Creativity comes in all flavors. This week it involves chocolate, baking, and Julia Child.
Watch this episode to see how common items such as flour, sugar, and eggs can be creatively combined to make an edible yule log.
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?
