EAST HARDWICK – Hosted at James Teuscher’s White Water Gallery on Main Street in East Hardwick, the exhibit of Lian Brehm’s work includes a display of her unique and colorful sculptures that resemble the flowering cacti of Mexico. Brehm uses a process that she developed, her own hand-made paper and[Read More…]
Reviews
“I Can’t Not Paint”
STANNARD – Richard Foster paints because he can’t not paint, he says. He creates because he has to create. Foster enjoys the entire creative process, from preparing the substrate, to building up texture beneath the pastels that are his preferred medium in recent years. That, and even the woodworking involved[Read More…]
Mermin Discusses New Book at Town House
HARDWICK – Rob Mermin, the founder of Circus Smirkus, has just published a new book, “Circle of Sawdust, A Circus Memoir of Mud, Myth Mirth, Mayhem and Magic,” and on the evening of June 11, he gave a talk about it to an enthusiastic audience at the Hardwick Town House,[Read More…]
Familiar Plot, Imaginary Journey in Excellent Production
GREENSBORO – The Hazen Union Drama Club presented a lively version of “The Wizard of Oz” on May 16, 17 and 18 at the Highland Center for the Arts, with a large cast of some three dozen students in a wide range of ages (not to mention a dog). Usually[Read More…]
All-Human Game Show Attracts Full House
HARDWICK – The Civic Standard Theater Project gave a production of a mock TV game contest, “Change Your Life! Hardwick’s Only All Human Game Show,” which attracted full houses to the Hardwick Town House on May 9, 10 and 11, putting a continuous smile on everyone’s face for almost two[Read More…]
Young’s Works Explode with Natural World
HARDWICK – Mary Young is showing her paintings in a show called “Arisings” at the Third Floor Gallery in the Hardwick Inn, now through June. Her works represent a lifetime of appreciation for the exuberance of the natural world. Stems, leaves, blossoms and more find their way into her compositions. [Read More…]
Children Give Delightful Performance of Reimagined Fairy Tale
GREENSBORO – Saturday afternoon, April 22, 24 children from the Mountain View School District gave a delightful performance of “Boots- the Musical,” at the Highland Center for the Arts. Students from Greensboro, Hardwick and Woodbury schools, with several home-schoolers, presented the traditional “Puss in Boots” fairy tale as re-imagined by[Read More…]
The Sheep Shop Café is Open for Business
SOUTH WOODBURY – I stopped at the Sheep Shop on Route 14 in South Woodbury to see how the recently opened Sheep Shop Café was coming along. I have been a faithful customer of the Sheep Shop because of their wonderful sheep milk and sugar facial scrubs, especially the lavender[Read More…]
Prophecy Chocolate Sweetens Hardwick’s Streets
HARDWICK – I stumbled upon Prophecy Chocolate one evening as a friend and I were heading up the street to another restaurant. A sign promising tamales and chocolate drinks was too much to resist. We opened the door to the aroma of marvelously rich chocolate wafting out. Inside the door,[Read More…]
New Film Puts Human Face on Vermonters Just Getting By
BARNET – Ten years after her documentary on drug use disorder inspired a gubernatorial State of the State address, Bess O’Brien turns her focus to locals struggling to pay for food and shelter. A Vermonter who identifies herself only as Katelyn is explaining how, five months pregnant in the coldest[Read More…]
When Light Bends: Relativity and Eclipses
GREENSBORO – Who would think that using an overhead projector, a projector sheet with hand-drawn stars and a magnifying glass, plus an eclipse would help explain Einstein’s Theory of Relativity? The upcoming total eclipse of the sun is generating lots of creativity including a play “When Light Bends,” which had[Read More…]
St. Patrick’s Day Crowd at the Legion Celebrate with “Yanks in the Attic”
HARDWICK – “Yanks In the Attic” drew a big St. Patrick’s Day crowd in a celebratory mood to Hardwick’s American Legion Post No. 7 following its traditional corned beef and cabbage dinner on Saturday, March 16. The all-ages community dance was organized by The Civic Standard of Hardwick. “Yanks in[Read More…]
