Solar Roads, Sidewalks, and Parking Lots
Here’s a project to keep an eye on – .
The inventors say the idea came from thinking about the black boxes used by airlines:
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BCTV Channel 8 & 10 Schedules for the Week of 5/19/14
BCTV Ch.8 Schedule for the week of 5/19/14
Monday May 19
12:00 am Common Good VT: Leadership Vermont
12:55 am Jennie’s Joint Ep.2 – Guitarists
2:00 am FSTV Overnight
4:00 am Book Talk Ep.6: Richard Duvall
4:35 am Kurn Hattin 2014 Spring Jazz Festival
Yet Another UFO
Surely,
I can’t be the only person who is not only seeing these things, but who is getting photos of them. I mean, its kind of like dousing fro water in Vermont. You would be hard pressed to douse for water and find a location that had none. With UFO’s its pretty hard to take a picture and not end up with a UFO in the frame somewhere. See what I mean ?
Weekend Concert Series Double Header: Stereolab and Yo La Tengo
This week’s concert series is a double header, and a gift to Lise.
First up is Stereolab, live in Danbury, Connecticut on September 21 1994. It’s the full band performing at the Tuxedo Junction just after they released Mars Audiac Quintet.
If you’ve never heard them, it’s worth a listen. It’s rather hypnotic and musical, foreign and familiar, electronic and dancer. I think I may have played a different show by them a long while back, but this is good.
What Brattleboro Needs, 1890
You will enjoy this. The Phoenix of May 16, 1890 featured a story about a meeting held to discuss what is needed in Brattleboro. The following list was published as a record of the event. It isn’t often we get such a clear statement of desires from those who came before us.
Read on to see what they wanted. Some things came to pass, others faded away, and some are things we still talk about wanting today.
Brattleboro Union High School Board Meeting Agenda
BRATTLEBORO UNION HIGH SCHOOL BOARD
53 Green Street
Brattleboro, VT 05301
www.wssu.k12.vt.us
NOTICE OF COMMITTEE MEETINGS
The BUHS #6 Planning and Policy Committee will meet at 6:00 p.m. on Monday, May 19 in the Cusick Conference Room.
Monnica Sepulveda on WVEW
Its another experience you won’t soon forget on DJ Pockets’ “buttahmilk” program. On Tuesday, May 20th, we welcome back to the airwaves, Monnica Sepulveda. She is a brilliant intuitive therapist, medium, numerologist and metaphysician.
She has agreed to do readings for the people of Brattleboro and beyond!
20 Years of Song! Montpelier Community Gospel Choir to Perform Concert in Brattleboro May 31
The Montpelier Community Gospel Choir, an ecumenical community choir with members from 19 Vermont towns, celebrates its 20th anniversary season with a special spring concert in Brattleboro on May 31. The choir’s mission is to share the joy, hope and inspiration of music, especially during these challenging times. Their concerts are a great time to celebrate spring with family, friends and community.
Plant Trees To Become a Member of the Rural Improvement Association
In May of 1885, Brattleboro formed a village improvement society. They called it the Rural Improvement Association, and many of the big names in town joined the executive committee. Dr Draper of the Retreat was chosen as president, and vice presidents included Gov. Holbrook, Jacob Estey, George Brooks, Edward Crosby and others.
150 Years Ago (1864 5/15 #2)
(To P. Baxter, Derby Line, Vt. M.C. 1stVt. District)
Philadelphia, May 15, 1864.
Honored friend:
I have received yours of the 12th inst. That money came most opportunely as I hardly knew how I was to get through here. I am sometimes fearful that I cannot pass here. If I do I shall be very sure of the other examination. They do not mean to pass a man here that will be rejected by the board. If I cannot pass here, I think I can withdraw from the school. If I do I am determined to keep on with the study until I am qualified to command, whether I ever have that pleasure or not, the time is too short for me. There must be a great many soldiers here that cannot pass. There was hope of getting extensions to their furloughs, but that is gone. There are some that have come merely to pass away the time. There are others, noble fellows, that are working with all their might, but they must fail. One cannot learn the first two volumes in Casey, Geography, Arithmetic, Modern and Ancient History in thirty days.
Open Reading at The Blue Dot Studio in the Hooker Dunham Building Friday May 16
Every month, on the third Friday, Write Action hosts Open Reading. All readers have about 7 minutes to share their readings of either their own work, or works by authors that they especially enjoy. It starts at 7:30 and is free to all writers and those who enjoy the spoken word. If you want to read, or recite, come a little early and drop your name in the hat. We will draw names at random to determine the order of readers.
A Theory of Everything in Everyday Life
The difficulty of simplifying the universe is that the theoretical concepts devised by physicists do not easily lend themselves to most of us undereducated laymen. Yet, from these three interrelated links of spacetime conjectures I have excerpted below, I did find the description of our everyday world to be, as it says, familiar: “In everyday life, there are three familiar dimensions of space (up/down, left/right, and forward/backward), and there is one dimension of time (later/earlier). Thus, in the language of modern physics, one says that spacetime is four-dimensional.”
I found it interesting that four-dimensional spacetime does not contain the defined present. The grand here and now moment that is ubiquitous and perpetual for everyday life.
C.C.C.K.
Over the past few weeks or so, comedian Louis C.K. has kicked up some dust by speaking out against the Common Core. His perspective is that of a parent of NYC public school kids, and there has been a fair amount of controversy, and back and forth in a variety of venues as a result of his take on this. Here’s a screen shot of some of his tweets.
150 Years Ago (1864 5/15)
Philadelphia, May 15, 1864.
Dearest Abiah,
Here I am yet. This is Sunday. Henry Ward Beecher teaches near here, but notwithstanding my anxiety to
hear him I have not done it. There has a large number of wounded arrived in the city this morning. I went to the Baltimore depot to see them, but the crowd was so great that I could not get near. I saw in the ambulances as they passed, some I knew but they were all recruits, and knew but little about the old boys. I had quite a chat with one man, a recruit, who has left Brattleboro since I came from there, wounded very severely in the ankle. I walked by the side of the ambulance. He told me that a great many Vermont boys were with along, but he had not been in the army long enough to know the men.
WKVT To Broadcast Forum On Heroin Problem In Community, May 15
WKVT radio will present “A Call to Action” on Thursday, May 15, a special community forum about the increasing problems with heroin use and related criminal activity in the Brattleboro Area.
The program will be broadcast live from Brooks Memorial Library and air during the “Live and Local” show’s regular slot, from 9am-12noon, on 100.3FM and 1490AM.
“A Call to Action” brings together policy makers, members of law enforcement, treatment providers and drug awareness and prevention specialists for a discussion about what every community member can do to assist those who are on the front line waging the battle against crime and addiction every day.
Electric Fence @ Whetstone Station Thursday
Electric Fence will play Thursday night, May 15, at Whetstone Station in Brattleboro. We’re very excited to have our friends Mark Trichka on mandolin and Lisa Brande on fiddle for the show. Electric Fence is Steve Carmichael, Howard Weiss-Tisman, Jonny Sheehan and Jeremy Holch. We play original music and cover rock, swing, rhythm and blues and country, finding the funky groove throughout. Music starts at 8:30 and is free.
Brattleboro Concert Choir Presents Missa Gaia
Get ready, Brattleboro. The wolves are coming to church.
The Brattleboro Concert Choir, directed by Susan Dedell, joyfully present Paul Winter’s “Missa Gaia” on Saturday, May 17th at 7:30 p.m. and on Sunday, May 18th at 4 p.m. Both concerts will be at Centre Congregational Church, downtown Brattleboro.
And the wolves? Their recorded voices, along with those of loons, whales, and harp seals, will join with the men and women of the Brattleboro Concert Choir in interconnected harmony in this joyful, rhythmic, and contemporary mass for the earth.
BCTV Channel 8 & 10 Schedules for the Week of 5/12/14
BCTV Ch.8 Schedule for the week of 5-12-14
Monday May 12
12:00 am Tom Goldtooth – Indigenous Resistance
1:40 am Ted Talks: Wendy Chung: Autism – what we know and what we don’t know yet
2:00 am FSTV Overnight
4:00 am The Road to Recovery: Diverse Cultures and Recovery
5:00 am Dr. Gil Fanciullo – Prescription Drugs and You
BMC Offers New Summer Programs For Kids, Singers, Instrumentalists and Ensemble Players
The Brattleboro Music Center is offering a full line-up of new
programs this summer.
Children as young as 5, teens and adults will find opportunities to play, sing and be part of ensembles.
Programs for kids include “Camp Presto” for 5-9 year-olds, which provides a great introduction to music and playing an instrument; “Time Traveling Through Music” for 7-12 year olds creatively explores time through music; “Traditional Arts Camp” for 9-14 year-olds explores traditional music and arts; “Musicals Workshop” for 7-12 year olds is all about singing for theater; “Chamber Music for Kids” for ages 9-12 and “Piano Duets” for ages 10-17, explore the fun of making music with others; there is a beginning guitar camp for ages 8-10; and also a place for horn players in the BMC’s Trumpet Camp for elementary and middle school students.
History Teaches Very Little, But It Sure Is Interesting
Here is a .
In Brattleboro, in the year 1909. there were a rash of robberies, and no suspects. . . .
