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World renowned organist returns to Brattleboro to support the Estey Organ Museum. Hans presented a recital on the magnificent Estey pipe organ at First Baptist Church, Brattleboro, Vermont, on Saturday, October 8, 2016.
Brattleboro kids do a great job with Halloween. Impressive amounts of creative work go into choosing and making costumes. Maybe adults in town can up the ante with a bit more Halloween prop making.
YouTube is filled with videos on makeup, costumes, haunted mansions and so forth. I’ve chosen this one as it gives a good overview of some easy tombstones, which seem essential for any Halloween haunted graveyard.
Early Vermont histories portrayed this area’s aboriginal peoples as transients who occasionally passed through southern Vermont, en route to and from Northern New York and Canada, but were ultimately not residents of the area and therefor had little claim on these lands.
In this podcast Joe Rivers and his intrepid band of middle school historians show that those early Vermont histories were very much mistaken.
BRATTLEBORO UNION HIGH SCHOOL BOARD
Windham Southeast Supervisory Union
53 Green Street
Brattleboro, VT 05301
www.wssu.k12.vt.us
NOTICE OF MEETING
The BUHS District #6 Board of Directors will hold a joint meeting with the Vernon Town School Board at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, October 24 at the Vernon Elementary School. Purpose: BUHS #6 / Vernon Separation Agreement.
38th Annual Putney Craft Tour Named Top Ten Vermont Winter Event and Approved as an Official Vermont Arts 2016 Event
PUTNEY, VT—October 18, 2016—For the third year in a row, the Vermont Chamber of Commerce has named the Annual Putney Craft Tour as a Top Ten Winter Event (2016/17). The tour has also been approved as a Vermont Arts Council 2016 event. Also of note, the tour is the oldest continuing craft studio tour in North America.
BCTV channel 8 schedule for the week of 10/17/16
Monday, October 17, 2016
12:00 am Express Fluency: Latin with Justin Bailey Part 1 of 3
2:15 am TED Talks: Adam Savage – My Love Letter to Cosplay
2:30 am EA Homestead: The Many Meanings of Maple
3:55 am America’s Constitution – Progress & Promise
The founding of a nation-state must decide where its powers belong. In a nation where the dichotomy of centralization and decentralization proponents exists it is confronted with black or white propositions that actually create shades of gray tugging on both trends.
The United States Constitution was written to be a strongly centralist document with a smattering of decentralist characteristics. Some of the founding members thought that it lacked balance until the Bill of Rights satisfied their arguments against ratification.
DigitalRevTV offers many funny and useful videos for photographers.
In this episode, Kai will help you learn to take photographs of people in varying states of levitation.
Submit your levitation photos anytime.
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 hold a Community Forum at 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 19, 2016 at the Oak Grove School.
BRATTLEBORO UNION HIGH SCHOOL BOARD
53 Green Street
Brattleboro, VT 05301
www.wssu.k12.vt.us
NOTICE OF COMMITTEE MEETINGS
The BAMS Committee will meet at 8:00 a.m. on Monday, October 17 in the BAMS Conference Room.
The BUHS #6 Teacher Curriculum Committee will meet at 6:00 p.m. on Monday, October 17 in the WRCC Cusick Conference Room.
The BUHS #6 Finance Committee will meet at 8:00 a.m. on Thursday, October 27 in the WSESU James E. Kane Conference Room, 53 Green Street, Brattleboro.
BCTV channel 8 schedule for the week of 10/10/16
Monday, October 10, 2016
12:00 am Moby Dick Series – Pt2
1:00 am War on Terror Retrospective: Vice Admiral Costello
2:05 am Woodstock Digital Media Fest: E-Team
2:42 am Express Fluency: Latin with Justin Bailey Part 1 of 3
5:00 am GMMT: Friday News Show
5:15 am Senior Moments: Alzheimer’s Disease Pt 2
It’s not often that something happens that cries out to be corrected and then, in a matter of days, it is. I’m not talking about Vermont’s GMO law either (which Congress mooted within the month) – no, I’m talking about Indigenous Peoples Day which has been proposed, here and elsewhere, as a less racist and more fair alternative to traditional Columbus Day. Unfortunately, honoring native American people was not something the Selectboard could get its collective mind around and Indigenous Peoples Day lost here in Brattleboro by a vote of 2-3. But just when you thought all was lost, along comes Governor Shumlin with a state-wide proclamation of Indigenous Peoples Day, signed, sealed, and delivered. What do you know, we get to celebrate Indigenous People’s Day after
Hey, y’know what time of the year it is?
OCTOBER.
This means it gets dark out..
This means when your children* are dressed in dark colors I can’t see them, especially when there’s lots of traffic coming the other way with their headlights on, and your children are standing by the side of the road where there’s no streetlight.
Now, obviously your children are not maimed or dead – EVEN THOUGH THEY DARTED INTO THE ROAD – because my headlights picked up their movement at the last possible second.
Storyboarding was developed to a high art form by Walt Disney and his team of artists. He found that by arranging little drawings that correspond to all key points in an animated script, he and his animators could pre-visualize a cartoon before making it.
This was important for two reasons. One – animation was time consuming and expensive, and the better it was planned in advance, costs could be kept under control. Having a frame by frame guide to what should be done helped keep everyone on track and within budget (more or less.)
Legendary Saxophonist Chico Freeman to Perform at the Vermont Jazz Center on October 15th with Working Quartet
The Vermont Jazz Center is honored to welcome legendary saxophonist, Chico Freeman with an all-star quartet on Saturday, October 15th at 8:00 PM. He will be performing with pianist Luis Perdomo, bassist Kenny Davis and Kush Abadey on the drums.
Although Freeman moved to NY from Chicago in the mid-1970s, his strong roots, family ties and openness to a variety of musical styles continue to link him to the Windy City. He embodies the Chicago sound – his playing is saturated with the history of that city’s deep, musical heritage. Freeman’s tone is breathy and full, he is open-minded and emphasizes creativity as well as precision; he approaches every tune as if his life depends on it.
Discover the joy, ease, and sweetness of playing the ukulele in this 1-day quick-start intensive for beginners. Taught by Certified Gateless Master Teacher, Lisa McCormick.
At the PEAK of Vermont foliage season, in the center of picturesque, charmingly quirky Putney, VT. Sunday, October 23, 10-5.
You are invited to experience a real treat: an evening of music with Chiho Kaneko, in Brattleboro next Wednesday evening at 118 Elliot Street. Chiho has sung in Brattleboro for the past few years, after her presentations and slide shows about returning to her home near Fukushima.
“What Really Matters” — An Evening of Music and Reflections
Presented by Chiho Kaneko, soprano
with Peter Beardsley, harpsichord/piano
Next Stage Arts Project and Twilight Music present Americana/folk quartet Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem at Next Stage on Friday, October 7 at 7:30 pm. Blurring the boundaries of American roots music, the New England based band covers everything from bluegrass barnstormers to sultry swing, from old-time gospel to bluesy folk-rock – all infused with their signature lush vocals, supple grooves, and most of all, joyous and generous spirit.
Songcrafters Brenna Sahatjian and Adhamh Roland play at The Root October 27
Folk artists Adhamh Roland from Western, MA and Brenna Sahatjian from Portland, OR are joining forces for a Northeastern US tour this fall, rolling through Brattleboro on October 27. Roland and Sahatjian performed together for several years as part of the Riotfolk Collective, a national collective of folksinger, activists and organizers.
Guilford Center Stage concludes its second season with A Battle of Wits by Vermont scenic artist and showman, Charles W. Henry. The 4-act comedy-melodrama will be performed this coming weekend, with shows on Friday and Saturday, October 7 & 8, at 7:30 pm, and Sunday, October 9, at 2:00 pm, upstairs at Broad Brook Grange.
General Admission tickets are $10, available in advance at: or 1-800-838-3006, or at the door.
