Reciprocal influence: How Arts, Manufacturing and Tech Meet in Bennington
By Arlene Distler Museums, as repositories of the old, often struggle for contemporary relevance, and the Bennington Museum — a fine edifice of gray stone known for its collection of Grandma Moses paintings and early American crafts and art — is no exception. But the current exhibit, “Digital 3D: Here and Now,” is very much of the moment, with surprises at every turn. The show celebrates what the museum describes as the “reciprocal...
Earthly Concern: When an artist marries an astronaut
By Meg Brazill The night was clear when artist Pat Musick stepped outside her house in upstate New York to see Skylab 4 making one of its 1,214 orbits around the Earth. Musick watched as the craft flew through the starry sky, a beacon connecting humans with the universe. She mused about the people on board, wondering who they were, and then the station slipped below the horizon and out of view. The year was 1973 and Musick, an artist...
“The Art of Glass” at the Wilson Museum
The exhibition “Modern Alchemy: The Art of Glass” features glass artists from all over the state who are members of the Vermont Glass Guild, an organization established in 2010 by glass artist Chris Sherwin. The goal of the Vermont Glass Guild is to bring together Vermont artists working in glass for mutual support and professional enrichment. The show , housed in the museum’s soaring galleries, features the variety of techniques used...
Reinventing a celebrated craft-beer brand
Surely you can fit this into your summer plans: Trout River Brewing is opening in the former Fellows Gear Shaper complex. Trout River Brewing Co., founded in July 1996 by Dan and Laura Gates, developed some of finest craft brews in Vermont — including Rainbow Red, Chocolate Oatmeal Stout, Hoppin’ Mad, and The Knight Slayer — and earned fans throughout New England. Dan stepped down in 2014, selling the brewery to Vermont Beer Shapers...
Food Festivals
Artists and artisanal food makers, winemakers, brewers, craftsmen, and farmers abound in this small region, bringing to the visitor’s mind — and palate — a taste of Tuscany, an area renowned for its fresh food and old-world charm. Fortunately, travelers in search of such a culinary and cultural experience can find it closer to home, nestled in the southern section of Vermont’s beautiful Green Mountains. Southern Vermont has become...
Farmers Markets
Tuesdays Rutland Downtown Farmers’ Market Depot Park, 3-6p 802 747-4403 Bennington Walloomsac Farmers’ Market Bennington Station, 10a-1p 802 442-8934 Wednesdays Brattleboro Area Farmers’ Market Brattleboro Food Co-op Parking Lot, 10a-2p http://www.brattleborofarmersmarket.com Woodstock Market On The Green, 3-6p http://www.woodstockvt.com Thursdays Manchester Farmers’ Market Adams Park, Manchester, 3-6p http://www.manchestermarket.org...
Family affair: Three Vermont couples, three Vermont food services businesses
By Nicole Colson Vermonters have plenty of reasons to rejoice in living here, including the more relaxed pace, the beautiful, bucolic setting, and the friendliness of people that comes from this charming lifestyle. We met three husband-and-wife teams of restaurateurs who relocated to the Green Mountain State for all those reasons — and one more. They have freshly grown and raised food at their disposal thanks to the bounty of nearby...
In proud defense of rosés: They set the mood, evoking a sense of leisure and relaxation
By Marty Ramsburg After this warmest — and snowless — winter of 2015-16, we are now waiting somewhat impatiently for spring and summer to arrive. We have markers for its imminent arrival: Town Meeting Day, sugaring, mud season, and, from a wine merchant’s perspective, new vintage whites and rosés. When we first opened our shop nearly 10 years ago, offering rosé was perceived as both novel and retro. To our age cohort, rosé meant...
Rudyard Kipling’s Naulakha: One-on-one with history
By Katherine P. Cox Rudyard Kipling, the British Nobel-prize winning author, penned The Jungle Book, the Just So Stories, and Captains Courageous in his beloved Dummerston home, which he named Naulakha, Hindi for “priceless jewel.” The house — also called the Rudyard Kipling House — sits high on a hill, with all of the rooms facing east to capture the sweeping views of the Connecticut River Valley and Mount Monadnock in New Hampshire....
Garden Events
Hildene 1005 Hildene Road, Manchester http://www.hildene.org, 802-362-1788 Mid May to Mid-June: Celebration of Peonies. Traditionally the last two weeks of May and the first two weeks of June when the formal garden signals the beginning of the season with thousands of peony blooms, many of them from the original 1907 plants. From Our Garden to Yours 170 Main St. and Town Common, Wardsboro http://www.friendsofwardsborolibrary.org May...
Southern Vermont theaters join forces this summer
Northern Stage’s Living Together, under the direction of Peter Hackett, the first in Sir Alan Ayckbourn’s comic trilogy. Three theatres in one of the country’s smallest states have a big idea: Vermont’s Dorset Theatre Festival, Northern Stage, and Weston Playhouse Theatre Company are creating an historic partnership to bring British playwright Sir Alan Ayckbourn’s celebrated 1973 comic trilogy, The Norman Conquests, to their stages...
Theater
Actors Theatre Playhouse Brook and Main streets, West Chesterfield, N.H. http://www.atplayhouse.org, 877 666-1855 June 9-25: Ten Minute Play Festival. July 7-23: Nick Payne’s Constellations. Aug 6 & 8: Bill Cain’s Equivocation, staged reading. Aug 20 & 27: Shaw’s Mrs. Warren’s Profession. Sept 9-Oct 18: Tom Griffin’s The Boys Next Door. Dorset Theatre Festival 104 Cheney Road, Dorset http://www.dorsettheatrefestival.org, 802...
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