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The Oz Books of L. Frank Baum

by cgrotke | Books

I just completed reading all of the L. Frank Baum Oz books. I’ve had this collection for quite a while. They were inherited from my father’s Aunt Arlene, a teacher in Buffalo. When the books first arrived, I was a bit old for them. I had reached the mature age of about 12 or 13, and the covers looked rather ancient to me. They sat in boxes with my mother for quite a while. I got them back a few years ago.

Seeing a series of unread books on the shelf can nag at you, and these were yelling at me. “C’mon, man, read us!” So I dove in.

L. Frank Baum wrote 14 Oz books total:

BCTV Schedules – Week of January 25, 2021

by BCTVProg | Media

BCTV Channel 8 / 1075 schedule for the week of 1/25/21

Monday, January 25, 2021

5:00 am At BMAC – What is Mail Art?
5:15 am Hooker Dunham Presents – SOLOs Episode 3
6:00 am Get Thee to the Funnery – Qualities of “Mercy?”
7:10 am Middlebury College Faculty at Home Series – Sleuthing From Home 10/19/20
8:00 am Democracy Now! – Democracy Now! Daily Broadcast

The Rosefire Writing Circle Offers Community and Support with Deborah Lee Luskin

by DLL | Creative
Deborah Lee Luskin

Beginning in January 2021, the Rosefire Writing Circle will meet virtually on Tuesdays from 5:30-7:30 in addition to Fridays from 1-3. Writers of any ability are welcome to join us. The writing circle allows writers to overcome the fear and loneliness of facing a blank page by providing the support of writing to the same prompt with others. This proven format creates a kind of writing magic from which everyone benefits. We write, we read, we have fun.

Last Night

by MarkTwain© | Creative

Did you every awaken from a dream, which inspires a poem?

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BCTV Schedules Week of January 18, 2021

by BCTVProg | Media

BCTV Channel 8 / 1075 schedule for the week of 1/18/21

Monday, January 18, 2021

5:00 am Martin Luther King Remembrances – MLK: A Celebration of Life at the Centre Congregational Church
6:45 am Hooker Dunham Presents – SOLOs Episode 3
7:30 am Here We Are – with guest Steffen Gillom
8:00 am Democracy Now! – Democracy Now! Daily Broadcast
9:00 am Martin Luther King Remembrances – MLK: A Celebration of Life at the Centre Congregational Church

Keeping Local Arts Alive At The Latchis

by Lise | Arts, Culture
Latchis Theatre Marquee

Like many of us, I’ve been staying safe during the pandemic and not participating too much in social events.  But I still stay in the loop with as many local organizations as I can.  Many of us with a connection to the arts worry that public performance art — of which cinema is one — may be busted back to the stone age, to put it bluntly, by our inability to gather in groups and the lack of funding that results.  The Latchis finds itself in this boat, and while they continue to show films under all the current rules for safe gathering in theatres, they have obviously taken a hit.    

Lately, I’ve been enjoying their newsletters wherein Jon Potter, director of Latchis Arts, tells it like it is to his audience of people who like movies, music, and dance.  His most recent letter, which came out January 14, notes that arts groups are starting to regroup as it were, as we all adjust to the new circumstances we find ourselves in.  Adapt or die, is pretty much the story, and artists are trying to do that.  

BCTV Schedules – Week of January 11, 2021

by BCTVProg | Media

BCTV Channel 8 / 1075 schedule for the week of 1/11/21

Monday, January 11, 2021

5:00 am Around The House – Plumbing Maintenance
6:00 am Brattleboro Music Center presents – The EOS Project Concert 11/8/2020
7:15 am Brattleboro Literary Festival – The End of the Earth with Julia Carrick Dalton and Andrew Krivak
8:00 am Democracy Now! – Democracy Now! Daily Broadcast
9:00 am Brattleboro Literary Festival – Poets in Conversation – Poetry and Social Justice

The Selectboard Show

by cgrotke | Entertainment

2021, for me, marks 20 years of watching the Brattleboro Selectboard. 

I first turned the show on when we moved to Brattleboro in 2001. At first, it was to learn about Brattleboro and what was going on here, but soon the experience evolved more into watching something akin to a soap opera.

The show has the regular cast of characters: Town Manager, department heads, and support staff. They stay on the show season after season with few changes, though major roles get recast from time to time. New roles have been introduced, too: the Assistant Town Manager, the Human Services Director, and the Sustainability Coordinator are examples.

WSESD Board Meeting Agenda and Minutes

by Not Signed In | Education

AGENDA

I. CALL TO ORDER – 6:00 p.m. – David Schoales, Board Chair

II. RECOGNITION OF VISITORS

III. CONSENT AGENDA

• CLERK’S REPORT – Approval of Minutes – December 16, 2020

• FINANCE

Warrants of December 1, 2020

Times Change

by tomaidh | History

From the 1950’s film “White Christmas”
• What would be a novelty up here in Vermont? (Bing Crosby)
• Who knows? Maybe we could dig up a Democrat? (Danny Kaye)
• They’d stone him (Crosby)