CRAFTSBURY – Long-time Craftsbury residents author Thomas Twetten and photographer Harry Miller have teamed up to create a book about Craftsbury and its people, past and present. The book, “Craftsbury Celebration,” documents over 70 homes built before 1860 that are still in use. Each page tells the history of a home[Read More…]
Entertainment
Free Concerts Begin July 22
CABOT – Cabot Arts will present free summer concerts on Tuesday evenings on the Cabot Village Common, 148 Main Street, July 22 through August 26. Concerts begin at 6 p.m. The Village Common is located at 3148 Main St. A different Food Truck will set up for each concert. Attendees[Read More…]
Chamber Players Feature Works by Hayden, Brahms, Bowen
HARDWICK – The Craftsbury Chamber Players gave its first concert of the summer season in Hardwick at the Town House last Thursday evening, featuring significant works by Haydn and Brahms as well as a less known English composer, Bowen, scored for four, three and two musicians respectively. The “Quartet Op.[Read More…]
Wootton Prints, Paintings Feature Whimsical Imagination
HARDWICK – Lulu Wootton of Craftsbury is having a show of over two dozen of her prints and paintings at the Hardwick Town House this month until July 24. These works are very lively and colorful; frequently of animals with a whimsical imagination. She says in her artist’s statement, “My[Read More…]
Vermont Film Gives Voice to Quiet Crisis Facing Boys, Young Men
MONTPELIER – “Gone Guys,” a documentary about male social isolation and its consequences, is set to tour the state in a series of free screenings. Adjusting 90 pounds of gym weights, a Vermont teenager named Gabe introduced himself to a visiting filmmaker before noting that growing up male could be[Read More…]
Shakespeare Festival Presents “Woman to Woman”
PLAINFIELD – The newly formed Green Mountain Shakespeare Festival presents “Woman to Woman: Two-Woman Scenes from Shakespeare,” conceived by Tom Blachly, and featuring Savannah Yates and Maeve McCurdy, July 31, Aug. 1 and Aug. 2 at 7 p.m., and Aug. 3 at 2 p.m., in the Greatwood Dining Hall on[Read More…]
Art Show Opening, July 20
MARSHFIELD – An art show opening and poetry reading will be held Sunday, July 20, 2 to 4 p.m., at the Jaquith Public Library. “Cut and Paste” and “Fire, ” a ceramic and collage exhibition by the collagistas and ceramicist Betsy Chodorkoff will be on exhibit with two- and three-dimensional collages by[Read More…]
Foster, LaPré Grabon Exhibit through Aug. 3
EAST HARDWICK – Artwork by Christine Foster and Marie LaPré Grabon will be on exhibit at White Water Gallery through August 3. The show, “Painting With Wool,” features needle-felted paintings and hooked wall hangings. Both artists are inspired by nature and family. An opening reception for the artists will be[Read More…]
“Gondoliers” an Enjoyment of Words, Beautiful Melodies
EAST CALAIS – As usual, the Unadilla Theatre begins its summer season with a Gilbert and Sullivan opera, and this year it is “The Gondoliers,” written in 1889, their twelfth production together. The setting is Venice in the first act and then the Kingdom of Barataria in the second, a[Read More…]
Orchestra Performs Fine Selections, Beautiful Melodies
GREENSBORO – A warm summer’s evening in the 70s, clouds clearing and then that “certain slant of light” of the golden setting sun spreading across the green landscape together with a full symphony orchestra performing a fine selection of beautiful melodies: what a perfect end to a day, nature and[Read More…]
Wootton Exhibits at Hardwick Town House
HARDWICK – Lulu Wootton will be the first artist to exhibit in the Hardwick Town House in over 20 years. The Hardwick Town House brings this visual art tradition back to the space in collaboration with the Craftsbury Chamber Players. Wootton’s striking prints will be on display in the lobby and[Read More…]
SMfG to Present Four Summer Concerts
GREENSBORO – Summer Music from Greensboro (SMfG) will present four consecutive Tuesday evening concerts in Greensboro this summer. SMfG’s first concert will be Tuesday, July 15, at 7:30 p.m., at the Greensboro United Church of Christ, and will feature both the concert pianist Frederick Moyer and the Fred Moyer Jazz[Read More…]
