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BCTV Schedules – Week of 5/25/20

by BCTVProg | Media

Monday, May 25, 2020

4:00 am Dummerston Conservation Commission – An Archaeological History of Vermont 10/23/18
5:15 am The Quarantine Sessions from Next Stage Arts – Teese Gohl with art by Doug Trump
6:00 am Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium Virtual Learning – ‘Science of Thunderstorms’ (Grades 3-8)
6:30 am Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium Virtual Learning – ‘Introduction to Astronomy’ (Grades 6-8)
7:07 am The Quarantine Sessions from Next Stage Arts – Walter Parks and Rob Curto
7:15 am Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium Virtual Learning – ‘At Home Science’ (Grades K-2)

Primal Wounds

by MarkTwain© | Creative

Someday, all will be forgiven. We will be dead then.

Changed, Transformed, In Heaven. 

We won’t have to social distance any more. How many lovers who just want to hug each other have become stuck… one in Spain, the other in Georgia unable to fly?

Infected

by tomaidh | Books

BenjaminFulford.net is a geopolitical news and discussion website from Canadian-born reporter and investigative journalist Benjamin Fulford, now residing in Japan.

According to Fulford, his reports are based on information from a broad range of sources including the yakuza, MI6, the Freemasons, the CIA, the KGB, Mossad, the triads, the Chinese government, Japanese military intelligence, etc.

Live Stream – Vermont Jazz Center Presents: Terri Lyne Carringont & Social Science

by vtjazz | Music

The Vermont Jazz Center is excited to present an online event on Saturday, May 23rd and Sunday, May 24th with drummer Terri Lyne Carrington and Social Science.  The activities will be livestreamed from the VJC’s website at www.vtjazz.org beginning at 8:00 pm on Saturday and continuing Sunday, May 24th, from 2:00 – 5:00 PM. Saturday will feature a musical presentation and Sunday will be three separate masterclasses including Q&As with audience members.

The core of Social Science is Carrington on drums, pianist Aaron Parks and guitarist Matthew Stevens. This trio is expanded to a sextet on their recent double-length recording, Waiting Game, and, at the VJC event, will include multi-instrumentalist Morgan Guerin on bass and saxophone, as well as vocalists Kassa Overall and Debo Ray.

BCTV Schedules, Week of 5/18/20

by BCTVProg | Media

BCTV Channel 8 / 1075 schedule for the week of 5/18/20

Monday, May 18, 2020

4:30 am Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium Virtual Learning – ‘”What’s the Matter” with Bobby Farlice-Rubio’
5:15 am Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium Virtual Learning – ‘At Home Science’ (Grades K-2)
5:30 am The Social Distance Reading Series – Kathryn Nuernberger 3/24/2020
6:00 am Groundworks Collaborative – Camp for a Common Cause 5/1/2020

You Are Doomed. Congratulations!

by cgrotke | Creative

Class of 2020, welcome to your virtual commencement address. Please mute your microphones.

You don’t need me to tell you that the Class of 2020 is like no other. A world locked down over a virus caused your senior year to go off the rails. 

Some of you were probably happy to get out of classes and in-person tests, but you were denied the reward that every other senior before you received for faithfully attending school for so many years – the joy of the final countdown to graduation.

BCTV makes final switch to Comcast Channels 1075 & 1085 on May 18

by BrattleboroTV | Media

After decades of broadcasting on Comcast Channels 8 & 10, Brattleboro Community TV has moved to a new location higher up on the cable lineup. The new numbers are: 1075, BCTV’s public access channel, and 1085, BCTV’s government and education channel. Both sets of channels have been simulcasting since mid-February, but 8 and 10 will be reassigned on May 18 and will no longer carry BCTV.

Southern Vermont Cable customers will continue to find BCTV on channels 8 and 10.

What’s On Tonight?

by Lise | Entertainment

Back in the days of real television — the kind that was broadcast through the air to TVs outfitted with antennas — our choices about what to watch were limited to what the networks opted to show that night. Today, our choices are nothing short of staggering. There is so much on at any given moment that we couldn’t begin to watch it all. The advent of unlimited, on demand, streaming media has given us the gift of choice, but how to choose?

Brooks Memorial Library Curbside Service!

by Brooks Memorial Library | Books

If you wondered what it is like behind the scenes here at Brooks Memorial Library, here is a sample of some items that are checked out, bagged up, dated, and ready to go!

Please make sure to tell us what day (and time if possible) you plan to come, and make sure to bring a sign to display at the door. That way we can match the name on the bag with your name to avoid mistakes, while reducing direct contact 

Big Blue Book Book Drop for Brooks Memorial Library Book Returns!

by Brooks Memorial Library | Books

Dear Library Community,

When bringing items back to us, please place them in the Big Blue Drop Box, immediately on the left when you enter the municipal lot (near where the police station used to be).

There is a handy parking spot reserved for your car, and you can drop them in from the driver’s side window Walkers are welcome!

Coronavirus Blues

by tomaidh | Music

Something to brighten up your day:

The Connor Party

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErFN7Y7qnLg&app=desktop

Lyrics Transcript :
00:30 You can catch it when you’re at the grocery store
00:36 You can catch it off the handle of a door
00:41 You can catch it from a friend just dropping by

BCTV Schedules Week of 5/11/20

by BCTVProg | Media

BCTV Channel 8 / 1075 schedule for the week of 5/11/20

Monday, May 11, 2020

4:00 am GMALL Lectures – Designing Women – The Colonial Revival at Shelburne Museum
5:05 am Backyard Composting – A Virtual Workshop with Ham Gillett
6:00 am Montpelier Happy Hour – Why more representation is better than less
7:00 am Montpelier Happy Hour – The uncertain ripple effects of COVID-19

Sing A Song

by Lise | Music

I was wandering around the house humming this morning, as I often do, and the song that I was humming was “Button Up Your Overcoat.” This is nothing new. I’ve been humming it for the last two weeks. But it was only today that I had time to figure out why. Duh. It’s the pandemic, stupid.

Honoring Our Grandfathers: 75 Years Ago We Defeated Nazi Germany – The War Against Fascism Was Won In May 1945

by David Van Deusen | History

75 Years ago (May, 1945) the United States, Great Britton, The USSR, and Allies emerged victorious over Fascism in Europe; Nazi Germany surrendered. While the price was high (hundreds-of-thousands of American soldiers dead, tens-of-millions more around the world), no one can rationally argue that the sacrifice was not needed. This was, after all, a Just War; one of the few which lacked any moral ambiguity. We were on the side of right, engaged in a historic battle against evil incarnate. Fascism had to be crushed if we were to not enter a new dark age of barbarism equipped with ledgers and death camps. The drum beat of war had to be answered as no other response was capable of overcoming this existential threat to liberty.

Coming out of the Great Depression, my Grandfathers and Great Uncles, like countless others, served in the U.S. Army during the war. The Greatest Generation did their part and are owed a debt that can never be repaid. With victory we won a reprieve from the horrors of Fascism for generations to come. But the ghosts of Nazism were never completely exorcized from our consciousness – this hatred, born out of social alienation, fear, and economic pressures, still persists. Charlottesville reminds us that the twisted vision of Nazism still lurks in dark places, waiting to emerge if our collective will grows weak and if not beaten back through physical force. The xenophobia proclaimed, at times, from the White House, and the camps on our southern border, where even children are caged, also gives form to real concerns that Fascism can again infest the highest halls of state power (and will grow if left unchecked).

BCTV Schedules – Week of May 4, 2020

by BCTVProg | Media

BCTV Channel 8 / 1075 schedule for the week of 5/4/20

Monday, May 4, 2020

5:00 am Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium Virtual Learning – ‘Forces and Motion’ (Grades 5-6)
5:40 am Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium Virtual Learning – ‘Outdoors With Bobby-Farlice Rubio’
6:00 am Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium Virtual Learning – ‘Introduction to Science Topics’
8:00 am Democracy Now! – Democracy Now! Daily Broadcast