Summer Music
Next Stage Arts 15 Kimball Hill Road, Putney http://www.nextstagearts.org May 20: BETTY, Woman-powered Activist Rock, 7:30p. Many more events on the website. Southern Vermont Arts Center Arkell Pavilion at West Road, Manchester http://www.svac.org, 802 362-1405 June 17: Bob Stannard & Those Dangerous Bluesmen, with special guest Big Llou Johnson of Sirius XM’s “BB King Blues Radio,” 7p. July 7, 14, 21, and 28: Manchester Music...
Galleries
Barbara Ernst Prey Gallery 71 Spring St., Williamstown, Mass. http://www.barbaraprey.com, 413 884-6184 July 16-Sept 5: In Search of America explores the memory, art history, and influences of Color Field painters on large-scale watercolors. Opening reception Aug 1, 6-8p. Chaffee Art Center 16 South Main St., Rutland http://www.chaffeeartcenter.org, 802 775-0356 June 10-July 30: In Flanders Field, featuring artist Fran Bull. Aug 4-Sept...
Art in the atrium: Mitchell Giddings gallery expansion
Mitchell Giddings Fine Arts is a two-year-old gallery showcasing contemporary art in solo and group exhibitions. Along with its 183 Main St., Brattleboro, location, the gallery is expanding across the street to the Brooks House Atrium, 120 Main St. The expansion will enable MGFA to rotate exhibitions approximately every three months in this new, spacious, and light-filled public venue. As in the main gallery, all artwork in the atrium...
Remembering “36 miles of trouble”: Historical Society shows West River Railroad collection
The West River Trail may well be Vermont’s oldest transportation path. Native Americans called the West River “Wantastiquet” or “waters of the lonely way,” and the Wantastiquet path was an important connection from the West River valley and Fort Dummer in Brattleboro over the Green Mountains to Otter Creek and Lake Champlain. In 1879, this path was developed into the West River Railroad, originating in Brattleboro and terminating at...
Let’s show off our stuff: Windham County arts as an invitation to visitors
By Shanta L. Evans-Crowley How can we better showcase what we have to those who aren’t familiar with all we do in Windham County? How can we leverage our good stuff, especially through strategic partnerships? This question has been on my mind, and a part of many of my conversations, over the past several months. I can best start to answer it by telling you how I first encountered Windham County — as a traveler, resident, and creative...
Spotlight: Harris Hill Ski Jump
The Harris Hill Ski Jump, New England’s only Olympic-sized, 90-meter ski jumping hill, hosts its annual two-day ski jumping event Feb. 20 and 21, 2016. The event features the Brattleboro-specific Fred Harris Memorial Tournament and the Pepsi Challenge. The weekend also serves as the U.S. Cup Finals of the United States American Ski Jumping (USASJ) series. Founded in 1922, the competition attracts several thousand spectators each year...
Inner Fire: Healing the soul
Inner Fire offers a different approach to mental illness and addictions: art By Katherine P. Cox They reach rural Vermont seeking peace from the tumult of their lives and healing from the illnesses and addictions that feed that turmoil. At Inner Fire in Brookline, adults suffering from mental illnesses and addictions spend a year in an intense farm-based, artistic program that helps bring order back to their lives through various...
Wild Madder Design: Paring down to the poetry
Interior designers help their clients find the simple beauty in their home environment Native fall foliage in an antique ceramic vessel Interior designers help their clients find the simple beauty in their home environment By Katherine P. Cox Chatting over a picket fence in Grafton, they became friends. It’s a perfect metaphor for the two women who also became business partners two years ago with their Grafton-based home design firm,...
A quality of warmth: R. John Wright’s collectable dolls
A Bennington company lovingly produces felt dolls the old-fashioned way By Bonnie J. Ross R. John Wright was meeting up with his wife, Susan, to cast their votes for Jimmy Carter in the presidential election of 1976. John, who had just lost his job at a hardware store in Brattleboro but who had spent several years becoming fascinated by the world of doll making, held something wrapped in a blanket. “Want to see?” he asked Susan. She...
Cozy-casual Four Columns Inn lives again
Luxury stays, fine dining, gardens, and you Four Columns Inn has been the touchpoint of southern Vermont’s cultural, artistic, and culinary scene since 1965. That tradition is honored in the newly renovated and reopened Four Columns. In the 1960s, when the Inn was first opened as a guest house, it was imagined as a top-level lodging and dining destination. Operated by Rene and Pierrette Chardain, the Four Columns was the first true...
Maple season events
Vermont Maple Open House Weekend Various locations throughout Vermont http://www.vermontmaple.org April 2-3: Visit sugarhouses and restaurants across Vermont and see how maple syrup is made. Join our family tradition and take part in all the fun! Each sugarhouse offers guests a unique experience: Some hold pancake breakfasts; others offer wagon or sleigh rides. At some sugarhouses you can ski or snowshoe through the woods; others...
Winter carnivals & festivals
Brattleboro Winter Carnival Various locations throughout Brattleboro http://www.brattleborowintercarnival.org Feb 13-22: Every year, the town of Brattleboro comes together for Winter Carnival. There will be music, karaoke, an ice fishing derby, a queen’s pageant, a pancake breakfast, an ice skating show, sleigh rides, a petting zoo, a country-western jamboree, and more. This is always a fun party in downtown Brattleboro. Stowe Winter...
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