Seven Days, May 10, 2023

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STEPPING UP

Winooski’s incoming school superintendent, Wilmer Chavarria, has much in common with many of the students soon to be in his charge. Born 34 years ago in a refugee camp during the Sandinista-Contra War, Chavarria didn’t begin learning English until he was in high school.

In Winooski, 59 percent of nearly 800 prekindergarten through 12th-grade students are people of color. irtythree percent are multilingual learners, the majority of whom came to Vermont through refugee resettlement. District families speak 16 languages.

School board president Allison Burlock expressed excitement about Chavarria’s appointment, which followed a nationwide search.

“Not only does Wilmer bring a dynamic personality and shared experience with some of our most vulnerable students, he has a unique ability to absorb and analyze information of all kinds quickly,” Burlock said. “He has impressive policy and governance expertise that I believe will serve WSD students and the community well.”

For the past two years, Chavarria has worked as Milton Town School District’s director of equity and education support systems. In that role, he has worked on curricula, instruction and assessment and helped to develop an equity policy that the school board will consider this spring.

Milton superintendent Amy Rex called Chavarria “a gifted and dedicated educator” and said she believes that Winooski will thrive under his leadership.

Before coming to Milton, Chavarria spent a year as principal of Readsboro Central School in southern Vermont. From 2015 to 2020, Chavarria worked at Española Public Schools in New Mexico as an English language arts teacher and then as principal.

Chavarria also holds two master’s degrees — one in educational leadership and administration from the University of New Mexico and another in education policy and management from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Last week, Chavarria said he looks forward to getting started. He said he’s excited to work in a newly renovated, state-of-the-art building where the preschool, elementary, middle and high schools are all under one roof. The district recently completed an extensive construction project — which included a new performing arts center, gym and playground and an additional 75,000 square feet of space — using a voter-approved $57.8 million bond.

Chavarria is eager to learn more about the “hopes and aspirations” of Winooski families. He noted that it’s significant he’s a school superintendent who is also “a brown person with an accent.”

“Representation does matter,” Chavarria said. “Seeing models that you can aspire to, especially as a young person, it has an effect on you.”

Read Alison Novak’s full story at sevendaysvt.com.

TEENS WHO CLEAN

In 2021, Champlain Valley Union High School student Wylie arp got a part-time job at Majestic 10 Cinemas in Williston. Because of understaffing, it involved a variety of jobs. His favorite was the solitary, methodical task of cleaning the theaters after moviegoers departed. arp wondered if he could find a job that would allow him to do janitorial work exclusively.

Last fall, at his mom’s urging, arp emailed CVU maintenance director Tom Mongeon asking

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LEFT BEHIND

Statehouse Democrats acknowledged that they won’t be able to pass a paid family and medical leave bill this session.

Next year?

SOLAR CITY

Proposed South Burlington regs would require new commercial buildings to generate energy from solar panels, the Other Paper reported. Soak it up.

MOO VE OVER

State police warned drivers on Sunday to watch out for a loose cow on Interstate 89 between Milton and Georgia. Luckily, it stayed o the road.

0Of nearly 500 deer swabbed, that’s how many tested positive for COVID-19 during the past two hunting seasons, Vermont Public reported.

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whether the school could use another part-time custodian. Mongeon immediately said yes.

Each week since October, arp, 17, has been working two four-hour afterschool shifts vacuuming and dust-mopping the library and other classrooms, emptying trash cans, and buffing the floors with a Scotch-Brite polisher.

e last task is arp’s favorite because of how well the machine works.

“You can see your face in [the floor],” he said.

At $16 an hour, arp earns roughly $3 per hour more than he did at the movie theater.

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Other teens have joined him. This year, between four and six CVU students have worked as part-time custodians, Mongeon said. They supplement the five-member custodial night crew, who work 3 to 11:30 p.m. shifts. Typically, the school would employ eight full-time custodians, but it’s been nearly impossible to hire staff over the past few years, so the part-time student workers help fill in the gaps.

CVU principal Adam Bunting said he sees great value in students taking on the work.

“When you trust people and

give them responsibility … you speak to the adult side of the adolescent, and that’s who you get back,” Bunting said, adding that he sees arp as a role model for other students.

arp said the work has given him a fresh perspective.

“I think more about the way I treat the school,” he said. “When you have to actually empty the trash, you think about what you’re putting in there more.”

Asked if he’s just as tidy outside of school, arp smiled.

“I don’t want to take work home,” he said.

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HAIL TO THE ACTING CHIEF

[Re “The Acting Chief,” May 3]: Three cheers for Jon Murad! As someone who frequently bicycles into Burlington, I have witnessed the increase in drug dealing and have felt an increased sense of unease when walking around. Murad’s commitment and integration into the city are extraordinary.

The idea of finding a “fresh face” is ridiculous; Burlington needs appropriate commitment, and Murad has proven himself. The last thing we need is constantly rotating that position, like with the Burlington High School principal.

Three boos for the Progressives on the city council. If Murad burns out due to lack of support, the ramifications will be even harder to fix. Get a grip already.

Robert Mann COLCHESTER

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BLAME IN BIKE ACCIDENT

Identifying the full name, age and town of an innocent driver whose truck was involved in the fatality of a recreational bicyclist did not add anything to [“Cyclist Killed in Crash With Truck While Riding in Rasputitsa Race,” April 30, online].

I don’t know the driver, but I assure you he has enough weighing on him already. Most importantly, for every bicyclist fatality there are countless more near misses, and the frequency of bicyclists’ reckless disregard for basic road safety and tra c laws should be a central element of discussing this tragedy.

Vermont’s transportation infrastructure should prioritize transportation — in all forms and in a manner in which motor vehicles and bicycles used for

transportation can safety coexist — and not swarms of recreational bicyclists who refuse to obey commonsense traffic safety considerations.

The recreational interest of a few bicyclists trying to outweigh legitimate transportation uses is completely unbalanced. One example of this imbalance is the building of a new trail entrance to a rural road in Underhill without first applying for a permit, discussing with all impacted parties or even considering safe sight lines.

Residents simply driving to work and private landowners abutting otherwise modestly traveled rural roads shouldn’t be burdened with nearly 2,000 bicyclists flooding onto public roads for mere recreation.

David Demarest UNDERHILL

CANCEL ‘UPPITY’

The letter to the editor [Feedback: “Our Gov Could Be Worse,” April 26] was well written and sound in the concerns. However, it’s important to call out the writer’s use of the term “uppity.”

The term means “arrogant” or “presumptuous,” but it has a strong racial undertone. An online search will shed light on the harm it has caused. It is used to imply that the person is not only arrogant but also failing to recognize their place in society (implying, of course, that their place is lower than the natural superiority of the accuser). This word is used by older people almost exclusively, and it needs to be dropped from our collective lexicon.

I’m from the American South, and

this word is almost always paired with a racial slur in my home state. It’s a word that makes me physically flinch.

It’s important to educate each other about hurtful words such as this one. The writer of the letter speaks of Vermont as a “model for the rest of the country,” and I robustly agree. Therefore, it’s crucial we do not use antiquated and possibly hurtful language to each other.

I’m not in any way condemning the writer; instead, I’m hoping they will consider a different word to use when advising their fellow Democrats.

Victoria Jarvis BURLINGTON

‘SWEET’ TRIBUTE

I really enjoyed Colin Flanders’ story on Peter Miller [“End of an Era,” April 26]. I

CORRECTIONS

Last week’s cover story, “The Acting Chief,” misrepresented crime trends in Burlington. Between 2016 and 2021, overall calls for service dropped by nearly 50 percent, and violent crime decreased sharply.

Our coverage of the closing of the Burlington VFW canteen, “Last Call,” was wrong about the roses that Lenora Travis handed out to her favorite ladies. Travis says she has never given anyone an artificial flower in her life.

In the culture section, “Bold Moves” misidentified a member of Paula Higa Dance upon second reference. Her name is Carolyn Connor.

never met Peter in person but have very much enjoyed his photos over the years, including the famed Fred Tuttle portrait. It certainly brings me some nostalgia for a Vermont of years gone by. Thank you to Colin for the sweet writing and to Seven Days for running the story.

Jake Brown MONTPELIER

LESSON LEARNED?

As an Addison Central School District parent, I found it nice to get a greater understanding of why principal Justin Campbell likely left so abruptly [“A Matter of Principal: The Tangled Tale Behind the Abrupt Resignation of Middlebury Union High School’s Top Administrator”]. Whether the circumstances of this story are what led to Campbell’s resignation or not, it speaks to a broader and troubling trend I have noticed in the ACSD over recent years — in particular, the district’s general desire not to be transparent about issues that should be of the utmost concern to all ACSD stakeholders. I am aware of other instances where district officials hesitated to release pertinent information when it was requested. Upon release, deeper issues were found.

Also troubling to me is the board’s tendency to either rush through tasks or work through said tasks with the goal of having a particular resulting outcome. Recent examples include the current superintendent search, now for an interim superintendent. Another example is the move in recent years of sixth grade from elementary to middle school. As part of that move, district officials did not heed staff warnings in planning for the sixth-grade move. From what I hear, the resulting troubles of last school year, the first with the new arrangement, are what the staff were warning about.

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FIDDLE BIT OF EVERYTHING

Canadian fiddler Morgan Toney calls his signature style “Mi’kmaltic”: a blend of the ancient songs of the Mi’kmaq First Nation and the fiery Celtic fiddling of Cape Breton Island. With his performance at Woodstock’s North Universalist Chapel Society, BarnArts’ Global Music Residency artist displays heart, talent, and a reverence for the language and culture of his people.

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SATURDAY 13

Just Plant Get Enough

Burlingtonians who bought the wrong kind of mint at the nursery or have more pothos propagations than they know what to do with donate their sprouts to the TransPlants Plant Sale & Block Party at Pride Center of Vermont. en green thumbs have a day of queer fun featuring activities, live music, food trucks and plants for purchase. Proceeds benefit the Pride Center’s transgender advocacy program.

SEE CALENDAR LISTING ON PAGE 74

THURSDAY 11

Need for Mead

At Rutland’s Downtown Sip + Shop, more than 20 local stores pair up with Vermont beverage purveyors for a delicious day of drinking and supporting small businesses. From Golden Rule Mead at Phoenix Books to Shacksbury Cider at Wild Kind Toys, participants can track down all the tastings with a passport app, a map and a special glass from the Paramount eatre.

SEE CALENDAR LISTING ON PAGE 72

THURSDAY 11 & FRIDAY 12

One Birthday More

Local band the Grift celebrate their 24th anniversary with two evenings of unparalleled jams at Middlebury’s Town Hall eater. Night one sees the ensemble transform into its alter ego, the Neon Ramblers, and play bluegrass covers of 1980s pop hits. Night two is an epic extravaganza of rock songs old and new.

SEE CALENDAR LISTING ON PAGE 72

SUNDAY 14 & WEDNESDAY 17

Pretty in Pink

Dedalus Wine Shops in Burlington and Stowe celebrate the return of warmer weather at Rosé All Day: Perfect Pairings for Spring Sipping Sommeliers serve up samples of the pink stuff, from light Provence offerings to bold Tuscan rosatos, alongside complementary dairy such as fresh goat cheese.

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TUESDAY 16

Pod Off the Presses

Fans of the smash hit podcast “You’re Wrong About” flock to Higher Ground Ballroom in South Burlington to see host Sarah Marshall do her thing: debunk the urban legends and moral panics that confound our culture. Marshall is joined onstage by comedian Jamie Loftus and producer Carolyn Kendrick for a riveting variety show sure to change hearts and minds.

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ONGOING e Devil’s Playthings

irty-odd in Burlington hosts “Something’s Gone Terribly Wrong,” a solo show by local printmaker and satirical toy creator Colossal Sanders. Items in this collection of the world’s worst stocking stuffers include the last of the polar ice caps, the buffalo that Teddy Roosevelt shot and the last orange from a future in which all other oranges are extinct.

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Seven Days won 20 first-place prizes at the New England Newspaper & Press Association convention in Waltham, Mass., last weekend, competing against other outlets across the region in the large-circulation weekly category. We’re honored by this recognition. Thanks to our talented sta — and to the Super Readers, sponsors and advertisers who fund our work!

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ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT REPORTING

Chris Farnsworth, “Origin Story: How Burlington’s Earth Prime Comics Helped Unite Vermont’s Comics Lovers”

BUSINESS/ECONOMIC REPORTING

Derek Brouwer & Sasha Goldstein, “Betting Big on Weed: Hopeful Vermont Cannabis Players See Green in the Coming Retail Market”

COMBATTING MISINFORMATION AND RESTORING TRUST

Paula Routly, “From the Publisher”

EDUCATION REPORTING

Alison Novak, “Local Commotion: National Divisions on Race and Equity Are Roiling Vermont School Boards”

ENTERTAINMENT VIDEO

Eva Sollberger, “Stuck in Vermont: Huntington Road Foreman Clinton “Yogi” Alger Gets Two Namesake Snowplows”

ENVIRONMENTAL REPORTING

Kevin McCallum, “Wildlife Wars: Animal Defenders Struggle to Change Hunting and Trapping Traditions in Vermont”

EVENT SPECIAL SECTION

Emily Hamilton, “The Magnificent 14”

FOOD PAGE OR SECTION

Melissa Pasanen, Jordan Barry and Maggie Reynolds, June 22

GENERAL NEWS STORY — TWO FIRST-PLACE WINS!

Matthew Roy, “House Impossible: How the Real Estate Rush and Other Factors Have Pushed Homeownership Out of Reach for Many Vermonters”

Derek Brouwer, “Renters’ Prison: How a Merciless Market of Unchecked Rent Hikes Traps Vermont Tenants”

GOVERNMENT REPORTING

Anne Wallace Allen, “Democracy How? The Pandemic Has Weakened — but Not Killed — Vermont’s Grand Town Meeting Day Tradition”

HEALTH REPORTING

Colin Flanders & Chelsea Edgar, “The Doctor Won’t See You Now: Patients Wait Months for Treatment at Vermont’s Biggest Hospital”

LOCAL ELECTION COVERAGE

Sasha Goldstein & Chelsea Edgar, the race for Vermont’s sole seat in the U.S. House of Representatives

PERSONALITY PROFILE

Ken Picard, “A Precipitous Drop: The Firing of Skiing Legend John Egan Leaves Many Die-Hard Downhillers Soured on Sugarbush”

OVERALL DESIGN, PRESENTATION

Kirsten Thompson & Carolyn Fox, Staytripper

SPORTS FEATURE — TWO FIRST-PLACE WINS!

Chris Farnsworth, “Go With the Flo: Senior Olympian Flo Meiler Shares Her Secrets to Staying Fit”

Melissa Pasanen, “Fishing for Serenity: A Former Chef Finds Peace and a New Career in Fly-Fishing”

FEATURE VIDEO

Eva Sollberger, “Stuck in Vermont: Juniper Creative Arts Paint Community Murals with Students in the NEK”

SPORTS VIDEO

Eva Sollberger, “Stuck in Vermont: South Burlington

Bus Driver Steve Rexford Is Part of the Team”

PHOTO STORY

James Buck, “‘We’re Nobodies’: Residents Describe Life at Burlington’s Notorious Homeless Encampment”

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You give us story ideas, letters to the editor, notes of encouragement, checks, Daysies nominations and, most importantly, your attention.

In exchange, week after week, we give you a local newspaper that doesn’t let the size of our “market” limit our ambition to cover it.

Over the weekend, Seven Days took home 20 firstplace awards — more than any other media outlet — in the annual Better Newspaper Competition organized by the New England Newspaper & Press Association. Judged on submissions published between August 1, 2021, and July 31, 2022, the paper won in a wide range of categories, from education and environmental reporting to election and food coverage.

I love the fact that two stories in last year’s “Locked Out” series, a 12-part exploration of Vermont’s housing crisis, tied for best general news story. News editor Matthew Roy spent a month researching and writing the kicko piece: “House Impossible: How the Real Estate Rush and Other Factors Have Pushed Homeownership Out of Reach for Many Vermonters.”

By diving into the complexities of the subject himself, he was better able to see the stories to follow and guide his reporters through each of them — no easy task with a topic as fast-moving as housing. That he shares the honor with Derek Brouwer, who wrote the seventh story in the series, is a testament to Matthew’s leadership. Derek dug deep to find sources for “Renters’ Prison: How a Merciless Market of Unchecked Rent Hikes Traps Vermont Tenants.”

Thanks to you, he found them.

Similarly, without personal anecdotes from patients waiting for care at the University of Vermont Medical Center, Chelsea Edgar and Colin Flanders wouldn’t have been able to write “The Doctor Won’t See You Now,” which took first place for health reporting.

Our team of features, food, arts and entertainment writers is still adjusting to work without Seven Days cofounder Pamela Polston, who ran the culture section of the paper until she retired and narrowed her focus to visual arts in summer 2021. Carolyn Fox and Dan Bolles now share Pamela’s job of assigning stories, with assistance from Melissa Pasanen, who curates and writes a large portion of the food section each week.

The culture writers are nimble, creative and versatile. Melissa won a first-place award for a feature story about a chef turned fly fisherwoman. Our music editor, the prolific Chris Farnsworth, took home awards for a cover story on Earth Prime Comics and a piece on a senior Olympian. Ken Picard, now in his 21st year at Seven Days, wrote the winning personality profile of ski legend John Egan.

Along with designer Kirsten Thompson, Carolyn gets credit for Staytripper, created during the pandemic to encourage Vermonters to explore their own state; it won top honors in special publication design and presentation. Carolyn started out at Seven

Days as a calendar writer in 2009. The woman who currently holds that job, Emily Hamilton, writes the now-awardwinning “Magnificent 7” section of the paper.

I could go on … about Eva Sollberger, who won three first-place awards for her video series, “Stuck in Vermont.” Even I got a little something for my From the Publisher pieces: a blue ribbon in the newish but necessary category of “combatting misinformation and restoring trust.”

Nationally, Americans’ confidence in media outlets is as low as it’s ever been, according to Gallup. At Seven Days, we’re not feeling that. We can’t cover everything, but when we do pursue a story, the goal is to be fair and, when appropriate, lively in reporting on the community we share. We’re proud that readers of all stripes regularly engage with us. We couldn’t do it without you.

Paula Routly

Police Arrest Teen in Burlington Shooting

BY SASHA GOLDSTEIN sasha@sevendaysvt.com

Law and Disorder

Legislators dig in for an impeachment drama involving Franklin County law enforcement

BY KEVIN MCCALLUM • kevin@sevendaysvt.com

Two Franklin County law enforcement o cials accused of wrongdoing do not intend to go quietly, leading Vermont lawmakers to brace themselves for a protracted impeachment battle.

Some legislators initially expressed optimism that State’s Attorney John Lavoie and Sheri John Grismore might resign instead of facing the rarely used, potentially humiliating process of being tried publicly and removed from o ce.

An investigation released last week found that Lavoie used crass, racist and sexist language in his o ce. Grismore was elected sheri in November despite having been caught on camera months earlier kicking a shackled suspect.

Lawmakers expressed outrage over the comments attributed to Lavoie and resolved to do something about it.

“The allegations were heinous,” Sen. Tanya Vyhovsky (P/D-ChittendenCentral) said. “The report was really hard to read.”

Following complaints about Lavoie’s workplace conduct, the Department of State’s Attorneys and Sheriffs hired a law firm to conduct a probe. It confirmed

that Lavoie had made numerous remarks “relating to race, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability and body composition,” the department’s executive committee told Lavoie in a letter urging him to resign. There were also complaints of nonsexual touching.

The report said Lavoie used phrases such as “whore” and “fucking slutbag” and “the c word.” He also once mentioned that someone had “magnificent boobs.” All

“I’ve spent 30 years in professional kitchens in Manhattan, Boston and throughout Vermont, and this is as severe and appalling as anything I’ve heard in those environments,” Birong, who owns 3 Squares Café in Vergennes, told Seven Days.

THE ALLEGATIONS WERE HEINOUS.

of the dozen or so employees he manages are women, many of whom shared their concerns with investigators.

He also cracked jokes about people’s weight, called one woman a “carpet muncher” for traveling with a female companion and referred to an attorney with a limb deformity as “T. Rex,” the report states.

Rep. Matt Birong (D-Vergennes) said he was stunned by the tone of the remarks and the way Lavoie seemed to be “targeting virtually every protected class,” referring to antidiscrimination statutes.

During an impromptu press conference at the Statehouse last week, Lavoie denied touching anyone in his o ce inappropriately or saying anything racist or sexist. But he did acknowledge that his “sense of humor is often inappropriate.”

Lavoie, a Democrat, is a longtime Franklin County prosecutor who was elected state’s attorney in November. He said he had apologized to those he may have o ended but would not resign because the language he’s accused of using was “not su cient” to compel him to step down. He also suggested that the investigation was politically motivated.

Grismore, a Republican, was elected sheriff in November even after video surfaced last August of him kicking a suspect in the groin. He faces an assault

Burlington police have arrested a teenager suspected of shooting a man who was found wounded on a downtown sidewalk last month.

Tyrin Smith, 19, had “significant quantities of drugs” when cops pulled him over on Monday, the department said in a press release. Smith is charged with first-degree attempted murder for allegedly shooting Aquill Nickson in the chest just before noon on April 29.

Acting Police Chief Jon Murad said the department doesn’t typically name crime victims but identified Nickson because he “discarded a large quantity of crack cocaine” after he was shot and has since been charged with drug possession.

In its press release, the department said Smith and an unidentified person “had exchanged adversarial and threatening electronic messages” before the shooting. Smith was searching for that person, police said, when he donned a mask, goggles and gloves and made his way with another person to an apartment at 165 Main Street.

“ ey climbed a fire escape into the location, traveled across a roof, climbed another fire escape, and entered a hallway,” police said in the release.

“ ey then pounded on the door of the apartment. When they could not enter in that manner, they physically broke through the wall separating the hallway and the apartment.”

Smith then allegedly shot Nickson, who wasn’t the person they were looking for. e wounded Nickson fled the apartment and was later found by emergency personnel at the corner of Church and Main streets, outside Manhattan Pizza & Pub.

Nickson was hospitalized and is expected to survive, according to police. He has an extensive criminal history in Pennsylvania, including illegal possession of a firearm, robbery, assaults and drug offenses.

Police believe that Smith initially left the state before being tracked back to an address on North Street. Burlington cops arrested Smith with help from the U.S. Marshals Service. He pleaded not guilty on Tuesday morning and remains in custody. ➆

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KEVIN MCCALLUM

The Right Dose?

A promising but controversial new depression treatment is now more accessible in Vermont

BY COLIN FLANDERS • colin@sevendaysvt.com

Aprimary care doctor at the University of Vermont Health Network will soon start treating depression with a mind-altering drug that’s shown promise in helping people who don’t respond to traditional medicine.

The medication — known as esketamine and sold by Johnson & Johnson under the brand name Spravato — is chemically similar to ketamine, a substance that’s been used in medical settings as an anesthetic, on the streets as a party drug and, more recently, as an off-label treatment for mood disorders.

HEALTH

drug’s long-term safety and effectiveness — fueled by an FDA approval process that’s been criticized by some researchers — has left certain providers wary. Among them: a group of nurses at the UVM-affiliated clinic that will soon start offering the drug.

In an interview last month, nurses at Primary Care — Middlebury expressed concern about their employer’s decision to offer esketamine, citing, among many misgivings, the drug’s unknown risks.

I FEEL LIKE I COME OUT OF THE TREATMENTS A DIFFERENT PERSON. I’M CALM. I’M RELAXED. I’M MORE HOPEFUL.

The U.S. Food & Drug Administration approved esketamine in 2019 as a fast-acting treatment for patients who have failed to find relief from at least two other antidepressants. It comes in a nasal spray that’s prescribed in conjunction with a traditional antidepressant and must be taken under the supervision of medical professionals because it can cause dizziness, blood pressure spikes and psychedelic, outof-body experiences. The manufacturer recommends starting patients on once- or twice-weekly treatments for the first two months and encourages doctors to use their best judgment from there.

Several providers already offer esketamine in Vermont, but its embrace by the state’s largest health care network suggests that it could eventually become far more accessible here. That would be a welcome development for the many Vermonters whose hard-to-treat depression places them at greater risk for hospitalization or suicide.

But lingering questions about the

“We don’t know if we’re hitting folks with another addiction, much like we handed out an addiction to OxyContin and oxycodone,” nurse Lynda Reiss said. “I would really hate to know that I’ve been partially responsible for starting another problem.”

The doctor overseeing the new program, Natasha Withers, said she believes in the FDA and its process for reviewing and approving drugs. “We’re really at the cutting edge of this, so we’re not going to have all the answers,” Withers said. “[But] we have to trust the systems that we have in place.”

Esketamine was held up as a potential game changer several years ago when Johnson & Johnson sought approval. It was the first new type of drug for depression treatment since the launch of Prozac and related antidepressants in the late 1980s. Esketamine targets a different brain chemical, and it works much faster — sometimes within an hour, instead of the four to six weeks typical of older antidepressants.

Not everyone was convinced. Some experts, including a few on an FDA advisory committee, were dubious about the drug’s effectiveness after reviewing the manufacturer’s data. For instance, of the three randomized, double-blind trials that Johnson & Johnson conducted with esketamine, only one showed statistically significant improvements in patients’ symptoms when compared to placebo treatments.

The company also did not disclose any information about the drug’s safety for long-term use beyond 60 weeks. And it dismissed concerns raised after three patients killed themselves while receiving the drug; there were no suicides in the placebo groups. Nevertheless, the FDA approved the drug in 2019, determining that the unmet need for new depression treatments outweighed the potential risks.

Still, citing esketamine’s potential for harm — including the risk of misuse and addiction — the FDA imposed a safety protocol that experts say is the most restrictive ever for an outpatient drug. It has two dozen requirements, including that clinics supervise patients for up to two hours and report any adverse effects directly to Johnson & Johnson.

Solid data on esketamine’s efficacy have been hard to find even four years after its approval. A study last year found only “modest” results, while a more recent study in China concluded that the improvements patients saw in the 24 hours after their first dose were no longer evident after 28 days of treatment. Meanwhile, the stringent safety protocol poses logistical hurdles that have contributed to a slow nationwide rollout.

An informal survey of the handful of doctors currently certified to offer the drug in Vermont suggests that the 200 or so esketamine patients have had largely positive experiences.

Since 2019, roughly two-thirds of the 100 esketamine patients at Treatment Associates in Montpelier have reported a full remission of their symptoms within three months of their first treatment, according to providers there. The rest have shown at least some decrease in their symptoms, based on a metric used to gauge depression severity, while about a dozen or so patients haven’t received

any benefit (some stopped early because of side effects).

“These are people who are dysfunctional, curled up in bed, on disability. They can’t maintain a relationship. They can barely get themselves out to do food shopping,” said J.S. Stone, one of the psychiatric practice’s doctors. “You get them on Spravato, suddenly their marriage is thriving again. They’re ready to go back to work. They’re interacting with their children appropriately.”

Dr. Lance Thigpen has noticed similar life-changing effects in some of his patients at Brattleboro Retreat, which recently began accepting outside referrals to its own esketamine clinic after running a small-scale pilot program. Of the 27 patients enrolled to date, only three haven’t reported a notable decrease in their depression symptoms. “Had I not seen with my own eyes the improvements, I would be pretty skeptical,” said Thigpen, the medical director of outpatient services.

Over the past year in Chittenden County, about a dozen suicidal people seeking care through the UVM Medical Center emergency department have started on the medication. After their initial consultation, those patients have

continued treatment with Dr. Hobie Fuerstman at Preventive Medicine in Colchester.

Lori Chater is one of them. During a visit to the ED in February for a mental health crisis, the 48-year-old was offered two options: hospitalization or esketamine. Chater had heard about the growing movement to repurpose psychoactive drugs for depression and was wary of the reaction she might have. But she had tried almost every other treatment imaginable, including other antidepressants and electroconvulsive therapy; she even had a device surgically implanted into her brain as part of an experimental DartmouthHitchcock Medical Center study probing the merits of deep brain stimulation. Nothing worked. Desperate, she gave the esketamine nasal spray a shot.

Three months later, Chater has undergone a dozen treatments. Beyond a floating, out-of-body sensation she felt during her first treatment in the ED, the side effects have been pretty mild, she said. Meanwhile, she’s feeling far better than she was back in the winter, when she could barely get out of bed some days.

“I feel like I come out of the treatments a different person,” Chater said. “I’m calm. I’m relaxed. I’m more hopeful.”

Withers, the Middlebury primary care doc, said she will start with a single patient, then will likely open treatment to the rest of the practice’s patients before determining whether to accept referrals from other UVM-affiliated clinics. “We want to be thoughtful about it,” she said.

Her nursing colleagues, who learned about her plan to offer esketamine at an all-staff meeting last fall, say they wish they had been consulted earlier. If they had, they said, they would have told her that they don’t think a primary care clinic is a good place for the treatment.

“We are already not serving our patient base [well],” said nurse Hilary Hatch, noting that the practice has a sizable wait list for routine care such as annual physicals. “And now we’re taking five or 10 [appointment slots] away a week for a single esketamine patient.”

The nurses also worry that, as part of the two-hour monitoring requirement, they and their less experienced medical assistant colleagues will be asked to check in and perhaps even intervene with patients who are in altered states of mind — something most of them have not been trained to do. “We don’t want to do a halfass job,” Reiss said.

Asked about her staff’s concerns, Withers said she has spent a lot of time hearing them out and “providing the education that they have asked for.”

“They’ve been part of this along the way and have been able to raise concerns, ask questions, contribute to the workflows and that kind of thing, and we will continue to do that,” she said.

Providers experienced with esketamine confirmed that dissociation, or the feeling of being disconnected from reality, is a common side effect. But they said they’ve never encountered a situation that could not be handled with some gentle verbal directions.

“‘This is time-limited, you are safe, and I am here if you need me,’” said Ellen Munger, a nurse at Treatment Associates, describing her typical mantra for people experiencing dissociation.

At Brattleboro Retreat, patients who reported out-of-body sensations often said they were “drifting through tunnels of light or across the universe,” Thigpen said, although some have told him that they

HAD I NOT SEEN WITH MY OWN EYES THE IMPROVEMENTS, I WOULD BE PRETTY SKEPTICAL.

DR. LANCE THIGPEN

SARAH CRONIN

Burlington Hires New High School Principal

BY ALISON NOVAK alison@sevendaysvt.com

think they’ve died. His advice: Listen to music, ideally something in another language or without a story. “As long as you hear the music,” he tells them, “you know you’re alive and fine.”

Dr. Fuerstman, who has provided esketamine to about two dozen patients since 2020, said the role of the provider is mostly one of “babysitting.” The UVM nurses will probably find it boring, he said, “because it’s so un-interactive.”

One major unanswered question about esketamine is whether patients who do experience symptom relief will need treatments indefinitely to continue reaping benefits.

Stone, in Montpelier, said his esketamine patients typically get significantly less depressed over the first three months. Many have remained stable for up to a year or more afterward using just traditional antidepressants.

“Occasionally people need to come back in for kind of a ‘tune-up,’” he said, “and then we let them go on their way until they need another.”

Dr. G. Caleb Alexander, a researcher from the Center for Drug Safety & Effectiveness at Johns Hopkins University, reviewed dozens of studies involving ketamine and esketamine as part of a literature review he coauthored last year that concluded neither drug has been proven to be safe for extended clinical use to treat depression. Alexander and his colleagues described the expanded use of the drugs to treat psychiatric disorders as “a significant risk to the public” and urged policy makers to reassess this burgeoning niche of medicine.

“A central but unanswered question is the cumulative effects of repeatedly inducing this altered state of consciousness,” Alexander told Seven Days

Vermont providers say they must weigh the unknown risks against the very real danger of living with untreated depression.

“We would love to study everything until we know everything about it, but at what point do you say the data is good enough? That it’s safe enough?” said Thigpen, the Brattleboro Retreat doctor.

“If there’s a chance that it works,” he added, “I feel like we owe it to them.” ➆

At a meeting last week, the Burlington school board voted unanimously to hire Debra Beaupre as the high school’s next principal.

Beaupre is currently an associate principal at Hanover High School in New Hampshire. She’s scheduled to begin in Burlington on July 1.

During a candidate forum last month, Beaupre, who is Black, said she looked forward to the opportunity to “work with people of color, students of color, and also work in a place that is interested in hearing from all voices and welcoming those voices.”

Around 38 percent of Burlington students are people of color, and around 16 percent receive English language learning services, according to district data.

Beaupre, who spent 25 years as a classroom teacher and reading specialist, has been an administrator in four different schools since 2016, according to her résumé. During a two-year stint as principal of Cavendish Town Elementary School, Beaupre was the subject of a petition of no confidence in April 2019, signed by 70 people. According to the Chester Telegraph, some parents alleged that Beaupre had passed a stopped school bus in her car, parked and boarded the bus to tell students they needed to sit down while it was moving.

Asked about the article, Beaupre released a written statement.

“I recognize that not everyone agrees with my actions regarding the bus four years ago. However, what I hope people understand is that I priori tize student safety first and foremost. I saw what I felt was a safety situation, and I attempted to act quickly to intervene,” Beaupre wrote.

When Beaupre assumes the Burlington High School principal job on July 1, she will enter a school environment that has experienced high levels of instability over the past few years.

Students are learning in a former Macy’s department store while a new high school is being built. Beaupre will be the school’s fourth principal since January 2021. ➆

Debra Beaupre

Burned

“Donna” walked up the steps to her Burlington apartment building on Monday afternoon and pulled on the front door. It was locked from the inside.

Four days earlier, in the middle of the night, a small electrical fire had started in a basement utility closet at the 169-yearold St. Paul Street building, smoking out Donna and her neighbors. The fire left a dozen people of modest means looking for places to stay in a city that already doesn’t have enough.

With money from the American Red Cross, Donna, a 50-year-old woman who asked Seven Days not to use her real name, had slept in a South Burlington hotel. But the assistance was only meant to cover two days of lodging, and Donna’s prepaid debit card was running out. She’d returned home to see if she could move back in — or at least retrieve her cigarettes.

She called a property manager employed by the building’s owner, Joe Handy, who is one of the city’s largest landlords.

“I’m sitting here with my thumb in the air, trying to figure out what I’m going to do,” she told the man.

The apartment wouldn’t be ready for another month, she heard the property manager say. He suggested that Donna call Burlington Housing Authority, which administers her Section 8 voucher. But that office was already closed for the day and doesn’t provide emergency housing anyway. The state agency that does, the Department for Children and Families, didn’t have a room available anywhere in the county.

Unbeknownst to Donna, the city has an ordinance that requires landlords to pay for tenants’ housing when they’re displaced through no fault of their own. Handy wasn’t doing that. Then again, no one from the city told him that he had to.

All Donna knew was that she might be able to get a room at the former Champlain Inn, a homeless shelter just down the street. She picked up a grocery bag containing her medications and started walking.

No one had been injured by the smoke and flames. The historic building can be repaired. Yet the small fire had pushed Donna and many of her neighbors to the brink of homelessness as they looked for help that was supposed to be there — but wasn’t.

In the early morning hours after the fire broke out, tenants made their way to the Green Mountain Suites Hotel in South Burlington, where the Red Cross put them up for the weekend. Handy himself drove some of them there. By Monday morning, though, the tenants were on their own. Those who had renter’s insurance or financial means could afford to stay in hotel rooms for longer; finding one in the Burlington area for less than $150 per night would be its own challenge during college graduation season.

Others waited in long lines at the state economic services office near Church Street, only to be told that its emergency housing program — better known as the pandemic motel program — was already full. They’d have to go to another county to get a room.

Lenora Travis and Rachel Kelley went to Handy’s office above Handy’s Service Center downtown. They wanted their landlord’s help, but Handy wasn’t in.

“He hasn’t forked over a penny,” Travis, 63, said from a nearby sidewalk. “He hasn’t called any of us to see if we need any assistance with anything.”

A fire shuttered their Burlington apartment building. Where to next?

BY DEREK BROUWER & COURTNEY LAMDIN derek@sevendaysvt.com, courtney@sevendaysvt.com

The city’s ordinance regarding relocation expenses is meant to protect tenants from homelessness and financial burden after the city deems their home unlivable. The city hasn’t blamed Handy or the tenants for the fire at St. Paul Street, which started in an electrical box. But inspectors ordered him to rewire much of the building — a process Handy told Seven Days could take six months. In the meantime, the city determined that the building is uninhabitable, so the ordinance applies, according to Patti Wehman, manager of the city’s Code Enforcement division.

However, Wehman acknowledged in an interview on Tuesday that she hadn’t informed Handy that he’s responsible for his tenants’ relocation costs.

“I presumed he is aware because he’s been in business for so long,” she said.

Handy said he doesn’t plan to pay for tenants’ expenses because he doesn’t think

the ordinance applies to what he called an “act of God.” He said he would return their security deposits upon request. “That’s all I can do right now,” he said.

Outside Handy’s office on Monday, Travis had urgent concerns. She needed to get inside the apartment to retrieve her cat, Shiloh, whom she planned to leave with the Humane Society of Chittenden County, which provides temporary care for pets during times of crisis.

Kelley, 19, was making phone calls and exchanging text messages to figure out a plan for the night. Her mother and brother live nearby, but sleeping on the floor of their small apartment was a last resort. The St. Paul Street address was her first place of her own; she afforded the $1,350 monthly rent with the help of a Section 8 voucher.

Kelley hadn’t thought to purchase renter’s insurance, though Handy said

THERE’S NO WAY I SHOULD BE GOING INTO A SHELTER FROM HAVING AN APARTMENT.

LENORA TRAVIS

Rachel Kelley (left) and Lenora Travis outside Handy’s Service Center

PHOTOS: COURTNEY LAMDIN

HOUSING

the leases required it. She said she can’t afford to pay for hotel rooms on the wages she earns working in home health.

“I don’t make much myself,” her mother, Amber Robertson, later explained. “So it’s hard for me to help her.”

Kelley and Travis both had stayed in Burlington homeless shelters previously — Kelley when she was a child, and Travis when she moved to Burlington several years ago. Neither wanted to do so again — especially at the Champlain Inn, a shelter established in a defunct motel during the pandemic that doesn’t require guests to be sober. Travis works at a nearby gas station that shelter guests frequent.

“There’s no way I should be going into a shelter from having an apartment,” she said.

More than an hour before the Champlain Inn opened on Monday night, people were already lining up. If there were more people waiting than rooms available by 6:40 p.m., the shelter operator would hold a lottery to determine who could sleep there.

So Donna stood on the sidewalk and racked her brain for other options. She’d had a stable place to live for more than a decade, getting by on her disability checks. St. Paul Street, she said, was “middle-class living.” This was something else.

She called two people she knew and asked to stay a couple of nights with them. No luck.

She talked to the Red Cross and the crisis line for the Howard Center, which sent a street outreach worker to check on her. She wondered aloud whether she could convince the hospital to admit her overnight.

Every 20 minutes, another bus dropped off more people carrying bedrolls. Donna was sweating inside her puffy coat and winter cap.

A petite woman from the shelter walked outside and took down the names of would-be guests on a clipboard. She reappeared a few minutes later with an open laptop. Using an online program, she had entered their names into a digital wheel of fortune. A spinner would randomly decide who would stay and who would need to find another place.

Donna got a room.

She asked the shelter worker what that meant. She was told she may have to wait outside like this every night at 6:40 p.m., no guarantees.

The reality of her situation washed over her. Was this the only help out there?

“I need somewhere to live,” Donna said.

“I can’t just be running around. I’m on meds. I need to be somewhere.”

She added: “There’s something wrong with the whole thing.”

The St. Paul Street apartment building

Law and Disorder « P.14 charge and was fired from the department he now leads. He has also rejected calls to step down.

Sen. Randy Brock (R-Franklin) began his career as a military police o cer and has served as a special deputy sheri .

“Of all the training I’ve had, I don’t recall any courses that told me to kick a handcu ed and shackled prisoner in the balls,” Brock said. “I never took that course. Maybe I missed it.”

Brock said he is concerned about the number of law enforcement-related misconduct allegations in Franklin County that have received media attention in recent years.

In one, a St. Albans police o cer was captured on video punching a handcu ed woman in the face while she was in custody in March 2019. The o cer, Jason Lawton, was fired and last year pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault.

Brock stressed, however, that Franklin County is far from alone in facing challenges to hold its sheri accountable. As state auditor, he investigated Windham County sheri Sheila Prue in 2006 and accused her of misappropriating more than $62,000 from the cash-strapped department. She later resigned and pleaded guilty to felony embezzlement and two misdemeanors.

More recently, Addison and Bennington counties have dealt with scandals involving their sheri s. Last June, former Addison County sheriff Peter Newton was arrested on charges of sexual assault, unlawful restraint and domestic assault after an ex-girlfriend accused him of abusing her. Newton refused calls to resign and remained in o ce until his term ended earlier this year.

And in Bennington County, thensheri Chad Schmidt was widely criticized last year for spending much of his time in Tennessee, where he eventually moved full time with his family. Journalists, key agency partners and even his own sta reported di culty getting in touch with or meeting Schmidt in person. Like Newton, Schmidt didn’t run for reelection last year.

“You probably had less of a problem in Bennington County than you had in Franklin County because the sheri was in Tennessee most of the year,” Brock quipped.

A bill aiming to increase accountability of sheri s’ departments is making its way through the legislature this session.

The proposed reforms would prohibit sheri s from supplementing their salaries by benefitting financially from all business that runs through their departments, including flagging, security and prisoner

transport contracts. The bill would also require additional financial oversight measures after a sheri has announced they will not seek reelection. Further, the bill would institute a conflict-of-interest policy.

Senators also plan to propose a constitutional amendment next year that would give the legislature more authority over sheri s, state’s attorneys and other county-elected o cials.

The time-consuming process of impeachment is currently the only way lawmakers can remove officials from office. House Speaker Jill Krowinski (D-Burlington) said last week that, in the

of roughing up bar patrons and abusing his authority. He was impeached by the House but acquitted of abuse of power by the Senate. No one has been removed from o ce through impeachment since the 1700s.

If one or both men resign before the process reaches the Senate, it’s possible lawmakers could drop the matter. They could also conclude that they need to see the process through. Impeachment means an individual can be barred from running for elected o ce again.

“Even if they resign, that doesn’t necessarily get them out of hot water,” said Rep.

managing an o ce full of women who’ve shown the courage to speak out, said Vyhovsky, the Chittenden-Central senator.

“I can’t imagine how anyone would be able to comfortably work in that environment,” she said.

The allegations involving the state’s attorney, meantime, could undermine the confidence of victims of domestic abuse or sexual violence that their cases will be pursued to the fullest extent of the law.

“How can you possibly trust that this person can deliver you any type of justice?” Vyhovsky said. “It creates chaos and complete distrust in the system, which is not good for anyone.”

Grismore did not respond to requests for comment from Seven Days. Nor did Lavoie, beyond his comments at last week’s press conference, which came before the report was publicly released.

Lavoie told the Statehouse press corps that he has never received formal antiharassment or antidiscrimination training during his 34-year career as a prosecutor in Vermont.

cases of Lavoie and Grismore, it could help to restore public trust.

“The people of Franklin County deserve justice and elected o cials who they can trust to uphold the rule of law and to represent their community with integrity,” Krowinski said.

The House Government Operations and Military A airs Committee voted 12-0 on Tuesday to form a bipartisan impeachment committee. Its work could begin as early as next week, Rep. Mike McCarthy (D-St. Albans) said.

Krowinski will name seven House members to the committee, which is expected to include McCarthy and Rep. Martin LaLonde (D-South Burlington), an attorney and chair of the House Judiciary Committee.

The House is expected to give the committee the authority to subpoena witnesses and compel testimony. Once the committee’s work is done, the full House would need to return to session — perhaps in the fall — to decide whether to impeach one or both men. The case would then move, presumably next session, to the Senate, which would conduct a mini-trial and decide whether to remove the men from o ce.

Approval from two-thirds of the members in each body is needed for each step — 100 in the House and 20 in the Senate.

The process was last employed in 1976 against Washington County sheri Malcomb “Mike” Mayo, who was accused

All the talk of outrage and impeachment strikes Vince Illuzzi, the state’s attorney for Essex County and a former state senator, as premature. In the case of Lavoie, an internal investigative report is a far cry from proof of misconduct. The claims have yet to be exposed to judicial scrutiny, such as public testimony of witnesses or crossexamination, Illuzzi noted.

“You need to avoid a rush to judgment,” Illuzzi said.

In particular, he thinks lawmakers might be wise to wait until other regulatory agencies complete any inquiry before launching an impeachment. Those processes could yield important facts that could help lawmakers make more informed decisions, he said.

“The ultimate question is whether his conduct crossed the line that makes boorish behavior unlawful,” he said.

While the state Constitution grants lawmakers the right to impeach officials deemed “state criminals,” it does not define that term. Lawmakers can impeach someone for “conduct found by the General Assembly to violate the public trust or to undermine the operation of government, even if that conduct is not specifically covered by criminal law,” House Clerk BetsyAnn Wrask explained in a memo.

The longer the process takes, though, the longer Lavoie gets to continue

First hired as a deputy state’s attorney in Windham County in 1988, Lavoie has been a prosecutor in Franklin County since 2004. He took o ce as state’s attorney on February 1.

Every two years, active members of the bar are required to attest under penalty of perjury that they have completed 24 hours of specific legal training. While most involve updates on case law, the required training also includes two hours of ethics instruction and one hour of “diversity and inclusion programming.” There’s even a Mandatory Continuing Legal Education Board responsible for making sure lawyers comply with the training rules.

Andrew Strauss, the lawyer responsible for managing the training, said the diversity training has been a requirement since 2020, and Lavoie last renewed his license in 2022.

If Lavoie has failed to take such courses, it’s not because they weren’t available. The Department of State’s Attorneys and Sheri s holds training every year for state’s attorneys. For the past three years, these have included classes in diversity and inclusion.

In 2021, Burlington attorney Kerin Stackpole, an employment law specialist, gave a seminar at the annual training called “Diversity, Equity, Bias and Respect in the Workplace.”

Lavoie attended other talks that day but skipped the diversity session, said Timothy Lueders-Dumont, a sta attorney for the Department of State’s Attorneys and Sheri s. Lavoie later told John Campbell, the organization’s executive director, that he missed it due to a family member’s illness, Lueders-Dumont said. ➆

Seth Chase (D-Colchester), a member of the House Government Operations and Military A airs Committee.

OF ALL THE TRAINING I’VE HAD, I DON’T RECALL ANY COURSES THAT TOLD ME TO KICK A HANDCUFFED AND SHACKLED PRISONER IN THE BALLS.

SEN. RANDY BROCK

VIDEO STILL COURTESY OF THE COUNTY COURIER

John Grismore kicking an arrestee

On May 14th, 1948, Israel became an independent state. Contrary to Israeli versions of the story, 750,000 Palestinians did not voluntarily abandon their homes.

You are invited to listen to the Palestinians’ version of the Nakba and view a Vermont-produced film about life behind Israel’s 712-km separation wall. This 56-minute film challenges viewers to question their assumptions and prejudices about Palestine/Israel.

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I can only hope that with the newer makeup of the district board and the eventual hiring of a new permanent superintendent, lessons from the past can be learned and heeded. When encouraging involvement of stakeholders, it helps to actually listen to and think about what is said.

Ian Ross CORNWALL

RULE NO. 1

[Re “Al Gobeille, Top Exec at UVM Health Network, to Resign,” April 28, online]: It was ethically shameful that Al Gobeille was permitted to accept a $620,000-ayear position at the University of Vermont Health Network just two months after resigning as secretary of human services, a position in which he was awarding money to the UVM Medical Center. Prior to that, he was the chair of the Green Mountain Care Board, a position that gave him the power to regulate the UVM system’s budget.

Louis Meyers SOUTH BURLINGTON

DEMS ARE DOING IT

[Re “First Lady Stops by Burlington on ‘Investing in America’ Tour,” April 5, online]: It was heartening to see First Lady Jill Biden touch down in Burlington recently to meet with motivated high school career center students, getting hands-on experience working with innovative electric aircraft manufacturer Beta Technologies. She spoke of much-needed clean-energy jobs and skills that never existed just years ago.

The words on the podium said it all: “Investing in America.” President Joe Biden and the first lady have been touring the country with this message of investing in infrastructure, innovation and clean energy. Providing high school students with opportunities to learn practical career skills will give them a jump on making a living and make their education more relevant.

We face a very uncertain future with the daily ravages of climate change and dangerously polarized politics. The former president and his party slashed environmental regulations. They recklessly promoted more fossil fuel production and burning while cutting taxes on the very wealthy and corporations.

Today, Democrats are funding critical infrastructure jobs, putting money in the pockets of the working class. Republicans present no practical initiatives to help

everyday Americans. Instead, they wage culture wars on people who are different, ban books and freedom of expression, erase uncomfortable history lessons, deny women their rights to family planning, and insanely push unfettered access to weapons of war for anyone — weapons that, tragically, too often take down students and teachers just trying to get an education.

It’s clear which party shouts the empty slogan (MAGA) and which one steadfastly walks the talk.

Fletcher Dean E. CALAIS

OFF THE ‘TRANS BANDWAGON’

If, as the Anti-Defamation League’s literature states, it is not antisemitic to criticize Israel, it surely cannot be hateful or transphobic to criticize trans ideology [“Burlington Council Denounces Transphobia Amid ‘Stickering’ Campaign,” March 13]. Yet there’s a lot of hateful rhetoric in the community toward everyone who voices opposition to the trans bandwagon.

I’m told by councilors that no trans person has been physically harmed in Burlington, while at least one trans person has been charged with attacking and knocking an elderly gay man to the ground at a Pride event. That kind of aggression has been on public display a number of times. It begs the question: Who is really doing the bullying?

For the sin of challenging “people who pump in the workplace” and “normalizing menopause,” I, too, have been labeled hateful and transphobic by a reporter.

The spirit of and language in the resolution ought to concern everyone who believes their free speech rights are protected in this city.

The two-page resolution uses the words “hate” and “hateful” 17 times and “transphobic” five times. Such accusations from trans activists are hollow. But when they come from the media and the government…

The city’s labeling of the stickerers as a hate group isn’t about truth; it’s about power.

It is an abuse of power to “enthusiastically” target “a group of residents” because the council finds “woman = adult female” distasteful.

Law enforcement has not concluded that the killing of Fern Feather, a trans person, was a hate crime. Including it as such in the grossly inflated resolution is exploitation.

Marianne Ward BURLINGTON

Sponsors: Vermonters for Justice in Palestine, The Episcopal Peace Fellowship of Burlington, and Green Mountain Solidarity for Justice in Palestine

lifelines

OBITUARIES

Laura Murphy

APRIL 24, 1952-MAY 5, 2023 BURLINGTON, VT.

Laura was a foodie. When Laura met Liam, her husband of 40 years, on their first date in June 1978 at Bamiyan in Georgetown, D.C., she figured out how, between them, they could order everything on the menu. She loved to cook and try different foods. She read recipes and cookbooks as novels that would carry her away to a world of flavors and textures. She remembered the taste and smells of dishes eaten decades ago. One of the greatest hardships of the pancreatic cancer from which she died was the effect of the intestinal stent that prevented her from eating raw vegetables, berries, nuts and crunchy foods. She really wanted a salad before she passed, but she declined quickly in her last week and never got the chance.

Laura was a traveler, not a tourist. Her dad was a Navy captain, and each sibling was born in a different state. She was born on April 24, 1952, at Walter Reed Hospital, Bethesda, Md. Growing up,

Gerald Michael Libuda

AUGUST 24, 1948APRIL 2, 2023

SOUTH RYEGATE, VT.

Gerald Michael “Jerry” Libuda, 74, of South Ryegate, Vt., died on Sunday, April 2, 2023, at the Jack Byrne Center for Palliative & Hospice Care at DartmouthHitchcock Medical Center. His death was the result of a hemorrhagic stroke on March 14, 2023.

Jerry was born on August 24, 1948, at Springfield Hospital, the son of John and Margaret (Rock) Libuda of Ludlow, Vt. He graduated

OBITUARIES, VOWS, CELEBRATIONS

immediately after they met. Together, they visited 49 countries and all seven continents. She was always ready to pack a single suitcase for a week — or three — even with just a few clues as to where she would be traveling on the surprise trips Liam arranged for them.

Laura was a great mother and sibling. Daniel was born when she was 40 and Brendan when she was 42. She was loving, dedicated and caring and provided the support and time each child needed. She was most proud of raising two good young men. She remained close to her Pluto family and became another sister in the Murphy family.

Champlain Valley Agency on Aging, initially as an outreach social worker and then in a variety of roles, including on the senior helpline and as a caregiver respite grant coordinator and a transportation services manager. She created a volunteer driver program, providing rides for seniors and people with disabilities.

always said, “You just have to laugh about it.” Instead of having her family and friends have a remembrance of her life after she passed, she wanted a party beforehand, where she could attend, visit and share memories.

Laura was the love of Liam’s life.

she lived in at least six states and at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, during the revolution. As a teenager, she traveled

throughout Europe while taking care of the children of a diplomat. She and Liam began traveling almost

Laura was a caregiver. After Fort Hunt High School, she first went to Boston University but transferred to the University of Virginia, where she graduated in 1974. She completed course work for a master of public administration degree at George Washington University. She worked as a consultant in welfare policy, first at Moshman Associates and then as one of the original staff at Maximus. From 1988 to 2016, she worked at

Laura was always willing to engage in a new adventure or challenge: Sure, let’s buy and remodel an old house on Capitol Hill; let’s move to Vermont and start a bed-and-breakfast; let’s build a house on an island in Lake Champlain; let’s build a new house and another and another. Let’s downsize — to a three-story Victorian parsonage!

Laura was strong, and she always worked hard. No fuss; no drama; just get it done. And she was brave. She struggled but conquered her fear of heights, including braving Cape Town’s Table Mountain 2,500-feet rotating cable car. Even when facing the worst, Laura always kept her good humor. She never complained about the unfairness of the cancer. She stayed optimistic. She

L5: Liam Laurence Loves Laura Lynn.

L5: Laura Lynn Loved Liam Laurence.

Laura is survived by her husband, Liam Murphy, of Burlington, Vt.; her son Daniel Murphy and daughterin-law, Lindsay Jones, and son Brennan of Louisville, Ky.; her son Brendan Murphy of Charlestown, Mass.; her siblings and their families, Dianna and Bill Green and Donna Johnson of Bethlehem, N.H.; Valerie and Jonathan Sobel of Portsmouth, N.H.; Michael and Carin Pluto of Boise, Idaho; and Patrick Pluto of Leesburg, Va.; and her more than “in-law” Murphy family. In memory of Laura, please consider a contribution to the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network at support.pancan. org/goto/lauramurphy.

degree from the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vt.

He married Linda Johnson in 1971, and they made their home in Burlington. He joined the Vermont Air National Guard and worked at the base in avionics for 35 years. After retiring, Jerry and Linda moved to South Ryegate to care for her parents and eventually took their place on the Johnson homestead.

from Black River High School in Ludlow and earned an associate’s degree at Vermont Technical College in Randolph, Vt., and a business

Jerry enjoyed a life full of outdoor sports and travel. He bicycled the bike paths in Burlington and the trails near Ryegate. He was an avid fisherman for years, with trips to Lake Ontario, and he was a successful hunter from his

teen years into his seventies. He especially enjoyed his rifle season in Ludlow with his family. He loved to travel, and the Air Guard took him to many foreign and domestic bases. Vacation trips with Linda to the western United States turned into yearly trips to Las Vegas, Nev., where fine dining was his favorite activity. His love of classic cars brought him to join CARZ and attend car shows in the summer.

He is survived by his wife of 51 years, Linda (Johnson) Libuda; his sister-in-law Janis Conger (William) of California; his sister-in-law Valerie Kim Morrison (Alan) of South Carolina; his sister-in-law Judy

Libuda of Ludlow, Vt.; his nephew Peter Libuda (Jennifer) and their three children of White River Junction, Vt.; his niece MaryBeth Martin (Barry) and their two children of Ludlow, Vt.; his nephew Christopher Cassady (Stephanie) and their two children of California; and his niece Jessica Nash (Darren) and their two children of California.

He is predeceased by his parents; his brother Raymond Libuda; his young nephew Patrick Libuda; all his aunts and uncles; and his in-laws, G. Robert and Irene Johnson.

Memorial donations can be made in Jerry’s name to either of the following: Second

Chance Animal Shelter, 1517 Meadow St., Littleton, NH 03561, or DartmouthHitchcock Medical Center, Jack Byrne Center, 1 Medical Center Dr., Lebanon, NH 03756.

ere will be a graveside service at Jefferson Hill Cemetery, Newbury, Vt., on Saturday, June 10, 2023, at 10 a.m., with Melissa Gould as celebrant. After the ceremony, family and friends are welcome to gather at his home in South Ryegate, Vt.

To offer the family an online condolence, please visit rickerfh.com. Ricker Funeral Home & Cremation Care of Woodsville is assisting with arrangements.

lifelines

OBITUARIES

Patricia Diane Wilcke

AUGUST 11, 1946-

APRIL 29, 2023

SOUTH BURLINGTON, VT.

Patricia Diane (Adsit) Wilcke, 76, of South Burlington, Vt., passed away on April 29, 2023. Born on August 11, 1946, in Fort Monmouth, N.J., to John and Dorothy Adsit, Pat grew up in Shokan, N.Y.

On August 30, 1969, Pat married Burton Wilcke. She worked in various administrative roles within health care organizations wherever they lived. She retired in 2013. After retirement, she was engaged in senior exercise and tai chi programs and enjoyed volunteering for Meals on Wheels. Wherever her family lived, she created a loving home. She taught her daughters, Sarah and Rebecca, about life in ways both simple and profound. She showed them that you’re never too

Susanne Whyte

APRIL 27, 1937-MAY 2, 2023

BURLINGTON, VT.

Mary Susanne Reisinger

Whyte, daughter of the late

A. Leon and Mary Katherine (Goshert) Reisinger, was born on April 27, 1937, in Hershey, Pa., and died early on May 2, 2023, in Colchester, Vt., just a few short days after her 86th birthday.

Susanne was raised in Harrisburg, Pa., and graduated from William Penn High School in 1955. She received her BS in speech pathology in 1959 from Emerson College in Boston, Mass. After college graduation, she returned to Harrisburg and began providing speech pathology in the York County schools. As a member of the choir at Pine Street Presbyterian Church, she met her future husband, Bruce A. Whyte, and they were married on August 20, 1960.

When diagnosed with terminal cancer, Susanne was philosophical. She had accepted the fact of her

OBITUARIES, VOWS, CELEBRATIONS

June “Sahra” Aschenbach

JUNE 2, 1934-APRIL 8, 2023 HINESBURG, VT.

She is survived by her husband, Burt; daughters, Sarah (Michael) and Rebecca (David); grandsons, Charlie, Matthew and Liam; brothers, John (Molly), Roger (Sharon) and Jim (Kim); sister, Kathy (Mike); and many nieces, nephews and friends.

old to learn something new. And throughout her life, she taught them that you should always treat others kindly.

Pat, also known as Trish, had many interests, including gardening. She was a voracious reader and also enjoyed cross-stitch, crocheting and sewing. She loved baking — particularly during the holidays — and making huge meals for her family and friends. But above all, she loved her family, both immediate and extended.

e family extends their deepest gratitude to the many family members who helped her throughout her battle with cancer and made her final days comfortable and filled with love. We also thank the incredible staff at the McClure Miller Respite House for their kind and compassionate care and, finally, the doctors at the University of Vermont Cancer Center and Dana Farber.

A private gathering will be held at a future date. Memorial contributions in Pat’s name may be made to the McClure Miller Respite House. Visit awrfh.com to share your condolences.

She also leaves behind her brother, Roy Reisinger, and his wife, Nancy, of Bend Ore.; and three nieces in Oregon.

Susanne felt very lucky in her life — first with her parents and family, then in her marriage and children. She had many good memories and lots of happiness. She wished the same for her children, and we are grateful for her abundant love throughout the years.

June “Sahra” Boester Nash Aschenbach passed away peacefully on April 8, 2023, at the age of 88. She was born June Louise Boester in Cleveland on June 2, 1934. She was the oldest daughter of Elmer and Beatrice Boester. She was predeceased by both parents, as well as her younger brother William Boester. She is survived by her youngest brother, Robert Boester. She lived far too many lives to be encompassed here, but we will aim to illuminate the woman she was.

After growing up in a conservative home in the suburbs of Cleveland, she attended Northwestern University to become an RN, which eventually brought her to the Mary Fletcher Hospital (University of Vermont Medical Center) as a neurology surgical nurse. She left her nursing career in the mid-’60s and became an organic gardener and artistic photographer in Hinesburg, Vt. In the late ’70s, she moved to Burlington, went back to school and got her master’s degree at UVM as a psychiatric nurse practitioner and psychotherapist.

In the early 1980s, she lived in India and Nepal, where she

Brendan Buckley

OCTOBER 13, 1977-

DECEMBER 11, 2022

BROOKLYN, N.Y.

studied with spiritual teachers and was given the nickname Sahra. is name suited her personality far better than her birth name, June. Sahra was a teacher, a guide and an inspiration to many to live an authentic life. She started a community preschool, a women’s health center, a holistic health center and community gardens.

Sahra prided herself on her intelligence and independence. She traveled the world and had many wonderful life experiences. She was raised Lutheran, studied world religions and came back to Jesus later in life. She was excited to meet Jesus and spend eternity with him.

Sahra was many things to many people. She was a unique individual who loved to connect deeply with others. May she be thought of

when you drink your next cup of tea, hear wind chimes in the afternoon, work in your garden, take in and let out a deep cleansing breath, or notice a woman strolling by in layers of purple, velvet and scarves.

Sahra is survived by her first son, Scott Samuels, along with his wife, Robin Samuels, and their children, Courtland and Grayson. Scott found his way back to Sahra in his early thirties, building a relationship of love and honesty. Sahra was predeceased by her first husband, Charles Nash. Together, they are survived by their son, Mark Daniel Nash, and his wife, Kathryn Blume. She later married artist and UVM professor Paul Aschenbach, by whom she was predeceased. Together, they are survived by their daughter, Elizabeth Aschenbach Danyew; her husband, Richard Danyew; their three daughters, Brittany, Jenna, and Emily; and Brittany’s two children, Ava and Jackson.

A celebration of life for Sahra June Aschenbach will be held on May 27, 2023, 10:30 a.m., at Green Mountain Community Alliance Church, 4987 Route 100, Duxbury, VT 05676. If you are unable to attend in person, you may watch the celebration of life through Facebook Live on the church Facebook page.

death many years ago and wished to die peacefully, in hospice care, not surrounded by all of her loved ones. Her survivors include her four children: Andrew Whyte of Bellefonte; Pa., Betsy Whyte of Burlington, Vt., who was her devoted caregiver during her last illness; Carolyn Whyte and her husband, William Stephenson, of Windsor, Conn.; and David Whyte of Essex Junction, Vt. She has two grandchildren, Alex Baranowski of Fort Collins, Colo., and Emily Baranowski of Bristol, Conn.

Her family would like to thank the University of Vermont Medical Center Home Health & Hospice — especially her nurse, Haley Duquette — for their excellent care of their mother for the past two-plus years and the McClure Miller Respite House for their loving care in her final weeks.

ere will be no services, but if you would like to honor our mother, please be kind to one another and think of her when you are doing something creative.

For a more complete obituary, please visit gregory cremation.com/obituaries.

With profound sadness, we share the passing of Brendan Seamus Buckley. Brendan died from pneumonia on December 11, 2022, after almost three weeks in the ICU unit of Brooklyn Center Hospital, with his loving family at his side. He was born on October 13, 1977, to Jay and Claire Buckley. He attended Mater Christi School until the family moved to South Burlington in 1986.

From third grade on, he attended South Burlington Schools, beginning at Rick Marcotte Central School.

During his junior year of high school, Brendan lived in Hameln, Germany. ere, he became proficient in the language, and his love of travel was launched. As a National Merit Scholar, he graduated from South Burlington High School in 1996. He graduated

from Brown University with a BA in history in 2000 and moved to New York.

Upon graduation, Brendan began his career with Orion Associates, a financial management consulting firm on Park Avenue. Years before COVID-19 caused people to work from home, Brendan opted to work from home instead of traveling to his office in Manhattan.

is opened a world of opportunities to him, as he realized that “home” could allow him to feed his passion for travel. He lived in Buenos

Aires for a year and a half and, after returning to Brooklyn, continued his travels through Asia, Europe and South America while fulfilling his work obligations. roughout his life and his travels, Brendan had a great love of animals; monkeys were his unanimous favorite.

Brendan’s keen intellect and sharp wit served him well. He leaves friends in all the spheres where he traveled. As described by a friend, Brendan was talented, motivated and energetic. He is sorely missed by those who knew and loved him.

Brendan is survived by his partner, Sakti Firmansyah, of Brooklyn; his parents, Jay and Claire, of South Burlington; his brother, Patrick, and wife Rose of Milwaukee; and his beloved nephews, Louis and Isaac. In addition, he leaves relatives and friends throughout the world. A celebration of Brendan’s life will be held on Sunday, June 25, 5 to 9 p.m., at the St. John’s Club in Burlington.

Dean Corren

MAY 16, 1955-MAY 2, 2023

BURLINGTON, VT.

With profound sadness and sense of loss, we regret to announce that Dean Russel Corren, 67, of Burlington, Vt., died on May 2, 2023, at home of natural causes.

Dean was born on May 16, 1955, to Sidney and Arlene Corren in New York City. He grew up in Katonah, N.Y., and attended John Jay High School. He is survived by his wife, Cindy Wolkin; his son, Sidney; his stepdaughters, Laurel, Angela and Rachel; their spouses, Stephan, Sarik and Sofoklis; and his grandchildren, Mads, Oona, eo and Kailas. He is also survived by his sister, Gale Harrison; her husband, Dennis; and their children, Paul and Scott. He is predeceased by his parents.

Dean was a brilliant scientist and inventor. He received bachelor’s degrees in physics and philosophy from Middlebury College and a master’s degree, focusing on energy-efficiency engineering, from New York University. Dean was kind and full of enthusiasm and ideas. His active mind was ready to discuss solutions to the problems of the world with anyone. He was devoted to the arts, performed in two different dance troupes and was an avid sailor in his youth.

Dean was an accomplished and internationallyrecognized leader in the development of tidal energy, bringing it to the cusp of commercialization. As the chief technology officer for

New York-based Verdant Power, Inc. from 2003 to 2022, Dean led the company’s engineering team in the installation and delivery of electricity to ConEd NY from tidal energy turbines he designed as the world’s first proven marine energy system. Dean’s colleagues will miss his wonderfully creative erudite mind, sardonic wit and superb Pimm’s Cup.

Like many others, Dean was inspired by Bernie Sanders to engage in politics to further social, economic and environmental justice. After moving back to Vermont in 1988, he became a Burlington Electric Department commissioner and, eventually, chair, working to move the city away from nuclear and fossil fuels and toward renewable energy. He was elected to the Vermont House of Representatives in 1992. He served with passion for four terms and championed such issues as single-payer universal health care, same-sex marriage equality and environmental protection with public control of utilities.

Charles Wolf

JANUARY 12, 1932APRIL 30, 2023

SHELBURNE, VT.

After 91 years of living life to its fullest, Charlie Wolf passed away on April 30, 2023, at his home in Shelburne, Vt. He had just spent several days with his family. He leaves his wife of 67 years, Mary Ann; his children, Bob Wolf, Willi Wolf and Karen Sharpwolf; their partners, Cydney Wolf, Alex

Steadfastly committed to his ideals, Dean was forwardthinking on issues before they were mainstream and was never afraid to challenge the status quo. He was the organizer of the founding meeting of the Vermont Progressive Party, mentored many Progressive candidates for office, and was the Progressive and Democratic parties’ candidate for lieutenant governor in 2014. Dean loved his son, Sidney, and was an incredibly proud father. He watched Sid grow from a vibrant child to an accomplished and creative pianist. ey had a deep bond, conversing about new ideas and their shared love for music. He and his beloved wife, Cindy, enjoyed life together to the fullest: traveling the world; hiking, cycling and kayaking; and spending many happy occasions with loved ones and guests in the home that they thoughtfully redesigned. Being so like-minded in their worldview, cultural interests, and love of home and family made them easy companions. Dean was adored by his entire blended and growing family — a devoted husband, life partner and best friend to Cindy; a committed father and father figure to his son and stepdaughters; and an always willing play partner to his grandchildren, who knew him as “Ookie.” His curiosity, intelligence, humor and level-headed character will be deeply missed.

A public memorial service to honor Dean and celebrate his life will be held in fall 2023.

IN MEMORIAM

Priscilla Jackson

1937-2022

Brian Busier, 1955-2022

LANTMAN’S MARKET, HINESBURG, VT.

Brian Lee Busier passed away peacefully at his home, surrounded by loved ones, on December 13, 2022. A celebration of life will be held at the Isham Family Farm, 3515 Oak Hill Rd., Williston, Vt., on May 20 from 1 to 4 p.m. All are welcome to come share memories, laugh and smile in the memory of Brian.

A celebration of life in loving memory of Priscilla Jackson will be held on Friday, May 26, 3 p.m., at All Souls Interfaith Gathering, 291 Bostwick Rd., Shelburne. All are welcome at the service, and we hope to hear remembrances about Priscilla from those assembled and share our favorite memories. e service will be followed by drinks and light refreshments.

Laurent Laneuville

1938-2022

A mass of Christian burial will be held on ursday, May 18, 2023, 11 a.m., at the St. Lawrence Church in Essex Junction, with Rev. Charles Ranges, S.S.E. officiating. Committal prayers with inurnment will be held immediately following at the family lot in Williston East Cemetery.

A reception will follow services at Holy Family Hall, Essex Junction. Calling hours are Wednesday, May 17, 5 to 8 p.m., at A.W. Rich Funeral Home, Essex Chapel.

Brian K. Billings ll

MAY 9, 1985OCTOBER 2, 2022

Happy heavenly birthday, B! We love and miss you more every day!

Nowik and Steve Sharp; and his beloved granddaughters, Olivia Wolf, Caroline Wolf and Sophia Sharp.

A memorial service will be held at the First Congregational Church UCC of Burlington on Saturday, June 3, 2023, 10 a.m. It will also be available via streaming for those who cannot attend in person.

His obituary can be found at gregorycremation.com/ obituaries.

Marcia J. Perry

A celebration of life for Marcia J. Perry will be held on Saturday June 3, 2023, 3 p.m., at Marcia’s home, 1476 Shaker Hill Rd., Starksboro, VT 05487.

e event will be outdoors, rain or shine, although we will have a large tent available if the weather is wet. Parking is nearby, and we will be able to accommodate people who have difficulty walking, but walking shoes are recommended. ere will be some open sharing time available. Please contact Tom Perry at 802-238-3478 or email tsperry@gmavt.net with any questions. RSVPs not required but helpful!

Remember Me

To the living, I am gone,

To the sorrowful, I will never return,

To the angry, I was cheated, But to the happy, I am at peace, And to the faithful, I have never left.

I cannot speak, but I can listen.

I cannot be seen, but I can be heard.

So as you stand upon a shore gazing at a beautiful sea, As you look upon a flower and admire its simplicity, Remember me.

Remember me in your heart: Your thoughts, and your memories, Of the times we loved, e times we cried, e times we fought, e times we laughed.

For if you always think of me, I will never have gone.

—Margaret Mead

Love always & forever, Your wife, Kylie; your children, Brian lll, Liam & Ana; your shadow, Lex; and your entire extended family

STRING THEORIES

Seven Vermont luthiers who push the boundaries of instrument making

BY SEVEN DAYS STAFF

Pop quiz: Where was the first school for guitar building in North America? If you answered “South Stra ord, Vt.,” you’re either a huge guitar nerd or you were probably a student of pioneering luthier Charles Fox — maybe both. In 1973, Fox opened the Earthworks School of Lutherie, which became the School of the Guitar Research & Design Center, in the tiny Orange County village where he taught an entire generation (or two) of aspiring guitar makers.

Fox moved the school, now known as the American School of Lutherie, to California in 1993 and then to its current home in Portland, Ore., in 2002. But his impact on the field is still evident in Vermont. Look no farther than another Orange County hamlet, Post Mills, where Fox student George Morris has run his own lutherie school, Vermont Instruments, since 1982.

Interest in building (and playing) custom-made

instruments has grown both locally and nationally, especially in the past 20 years or so. Precise numbers are hard to pin down, but at least anecdotally, the luthier field in Vermont has exploded.

Nowa Crosby is the owner of Randolin Music Instruments, a Shelburne music shop that moved from its longtime Burlington location last year. He has been building and repairing guitars and almost anything else with strings for 45 years, 32 in the Green Mountain State.

Instrument building in Vermont dates back to at least the early 1900s, Crosby said. “But there’s a lot going on right now,” he continued. “And the cool thing is that everybody’s doing di erent things.”

Indeed. Whether you’re on the hunt for a hot-rodded electric guitar, an elegant viola or a dulcet dulcimer, chances are that someone in Vermont builds it, and builds it quite well.

Michael Millard is the semiretired founder of Froggy Bottom Guitars, a Chelsea company that has been at

the vanguard of custom handmade acoustic guitars in Vermont since the 1970s. Not that you’ll hear Millard boasting of that fact or the elite players who swear by his instruments. Froggy Bottom makes a point of not advertising who plays its guitars, a rarity in an increasingly crowded market.

“Guitars are one of the things in our culture, like fancy cars or motion pictures, that people just get stupidly excited about for no valid reason,” Millard said.

There are, of course, valid reasons to get excited about his iconic guitars, which are as pleasing to look at as they are to play or listen to. That’s true of the stringed instruments produced by a growing number of Vermonters who are redefining what it is to be a luthier.

“I actually shy away from that term,” Millard said. “We make guitars.”

Read on for profiles of seven other luthiers — whether they embrace the designation or not — who also make exquisite guitars. And banjos. And mandolins, violins and just about any other stringed instrument you can think of. Building on the groundwork laid by Fox, Millard and others, they’re stretching the limits of the trade in Vermont.

DAN BOLLES

Guitars built by Micah Plante of Plante Guitar in Bristol

Tinkered, Tailored

Micah Plante has always been a tinkerer. As a kid growing up in Montpelier, he was blessed — or cursed, depending — with a compulsion to take things apart just to see how they worked. His parents encouraged his curiosity, he said, even if he couldn’t always put those impromptu puzzles, or stereo components, back together.

“Answering the question of how things worked often resulted in a broken radio,” he confessed.

Plante, 33, is the sole proprietor of Plante Guitar in Bristol. From a small workshop behind his house, he now puts his inquisitiveness to use fixing the electric and acoustic guitars of a loyal legion of local players for whom he’s become one of Vermont’s go-to repair people. He’s also a burgeoning builder whose instruments are noted for their distinctive and aggressive sound — and, in one case, at least, utter uniqueness.

Unlike many luthiers, Plante didn’t apprentice with some shamanistic

guitar-making guru in the mountains or study under a sainted legend in the field to learn his craft. Largely self-taught, he honed his trade in a more mundane fashion: He worked at Guitar Center in Williston.

Having fixed his own guitars and those of friends since he was a teenager, Plante quickly became the store’s leading technician, to the point that the national chain would dispatch him to other regional outlets to lend his expertise or clean up other techs’ messes. All the while, he kept up the informal side gig he’d started years earlier as a University of Vermont student in Burlington.

His first workshop had been a dingy Murray Street basement. Later, while dating the woman whom he would eventually marry, he used his one-bedroom Loomis Street apartment as a shop and stayed most nights at her place.

“My apartment was just, like, full of sawdust and stu ,” Plante recalled.

“There was a spindle sander on the co ee table, every saw you could imagine on the counters.” He rigged up a spray booth to paint and finish guitars in the bathroom, because it had a fan that vented outside.

“That was probably not OSHAapproved,” he joked.

After living for a few years in western Massachusetts, where he also had a small shop, Plante and his wife bought their home in Bristol in 2018. They currently live there with their young son. Plante spends eight to 10 hours a day fixing guitars and building custom orders in his backyard shop — a converted two-room greenhouse he’s renovating to include a small showroom. His guitars typically cost between $2,500 and $3,500.

“I love every di erent aspect of what it takes to make guitars,” he said, his tinkerer’s enthusiasm on display. He ri ed about woodworking principles and sourcing and tempering wood — one of his instruments,

an ultralight 12-fret parlor guitar dubbed “Little Bear,” was built from coastal redwood reclaimed from the bleachers at Burlington’s Centennial Field. Then he shifted to discussing the machinist aspects of proper fretwork and the guitar gearhead’s bottomless rabbit hole: electronics.

“Each one of these is, in itself, a fascinating trade,” the former philosophy major opined. “You could have a whole career — and people do — only making pickups. But I can’t resist the temptation to be a one-stop shop.”

There might be no better example of the alchemy of Plante’s all-encompassing curiosity and technical acumen than an instrument he built for Charlotte’s Damon Ferrante: a 36-fret tremolo guitar with no headstock.

Most electric guitars have 22 or 24 frets. Ferrante asked Plante to build him one with an additional 12 because the contemporary classical composer was trying to mimic the upper range of a piano, his primary instrument. He mostly unleashes his headless monster in duo projects with Burlington bassist Aram Bedrosian. Between the two instruments, the players have a piano’s 86-key range, which opens up a world of musical possibilities, Ferrante explained.

“There is a musical reason for defying what might or might not be possible on the guitar,” he said.

On any fretted instrument, the frets are placed closer together the higher you go up the neck. On Ferrante’s Indian rosewood and coastal redwood guitar, frets in the uppermost register are almost comically narrow. That creates a challenge for playing the instrument; Ferrante has developed a special technique, since all but an infant’s fingertips would be too wide to fit between the highest frets. This also presented design dilemmas for Plante, who compares the guitar’s sound to the eerie, ethereal tone of the theremin.

“To Micah’s credit, it’s such a beautifulsounding instrument,” Ferrante said, adding that Plante’s guitars have a forceful and percussive voice “that’s unique to him.”

While Plante is quick to stress that Ferrante’s guitar — and its 27-fret sister, which he also made — is a stylistic departure, it’s emblematic of the balance of form and function that he strives for in all of his work.

“I don’t want to go too far down the road of being the ‘weird guitar guy,’” he said. But “I do like having an original spin on things where there is additional functionality.”

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Learn more at planteguitar.com.

MICAH PLANTE, owner, Plante Guitar, Bristol PHOTOS: LUKE AWTRY

Micah Plante inspecting a mandolin at his shop in Bristol

I LOVE EVERY DIFFERENT ASPECT OF WHAT IT TAKES TO MAKE GUITARS.

MICAH PLANTE

Damon Ferrante’s headless 36-fret tremolo guitar

An ‘Underground Celebrity’

Cat Fox was driving through Montana 42 years ago, a college dropout trying to figure out what to do with her life, when she had an epiphany: She’d think of the things she liked to do and find a way to synthesize them into a paying job.

Her list of pleasures consisted of three activities: woodworking (she built birdhouses and rabbit hutches as a kid growing up on an Idaho ranch), partying with friends, and playing and listening to music. Solving the puzzle of how to put these things together, Fox wondered: Do people actually build guitars?

Seeking an answer, Fox pulled her VW bus over in front of a music store in Missoula and asked the man behind the counter: “If a person wants to build guitars, what should they do?”

“Well,” he said. “You could do what I did and go to a trade school for that.”

The music store guy had learned guitar building and repair at Red Wing Vocational Technical Institute in Minnesota. Fox followed his guidance, applied to the school and was accepted to the one-year program. It was the first step in a four-decade-long journey that included becoming a sought-after luthier and repairperson to the stars in Seattle before semiretirement in Vermont.

“Most of my job is to put the instrument back to what it was,” said Fox, now 62 and living in South Hero. “People want it to sound the way it always has and look the way it did before they dropped it on the gravel.”

At Red Wing, the course of study ranged from learning how to use certain tools to building a guitar.

Fox crafted her first guitar, now played by her daughter, using mahogany for the back and sides and Sitka, Alaska, spruce for the top. The instrument was her “business card,” she said, though she initially received a cold welcome from the industry.

After Fox finished the guitar course, she sent out

a pile of résumés, including one to George Gruhn of Gruhn Guitars in Nashville. He wrote back: “There’s no future in guitars. Get into computers.”

Instead, she landed a “no-guarantees” apprenticeship with William Cumpiano, a luthier in Amherst, Mass. Fox packed up her VW bus and moved east, where she repaired and built guitars in Cumpiano’s shop for six years, two as an unpaid apprentice.

After a day of luthier work — a stressful job that allows for “no screwing up,” she said — Fox worked night gigs as a dishwasher, pizza deliverer and nude model in art studios. Sometimes she started to fall asleep the next day in the instrument shop. “Do you have narcolepsy?” her boss asked — but gave her a paid position anyway.

At the time, he was cowriting his acclaimed 1987 book with Jonathan Natelson, Guitarmaking: Tradition and Technology: A Complete Reference for the Design & Construction of the Steel-String Folk Guitar & the Classical Guitar.

“I was keeping up his brand,” Fox said, describing herself as a “ghost-builder.” “I got to do lots of repairs.”

She was gratified by the work — gluing cracks, replacing frets — and recognized customers’ appreciation for it.

“A guitar is an intimate part of people’s lives,” Fox said. “You have it in your lap.”

In 1989, Fox moved to Seattle, where she established Sound Guitar Repair. The name refers to three things: Puget Sound; the sound made by an instrument; and sound work, as in solid, quality, whole. The growth of her business coincided with the burgeoning grunge music scene in Seattle, home of bands such as Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and Nirvana.

Fox didn’t repair instruments for musicians in those groups, she said, but she worked on the guitars of Heart’s Nancy Wilson and a touring Rosanne Cash. She also made an emergency repair for the Everly Brothers, who were on tour in Seattle when their roadie tripped on a cable while carrying a guitar. He stopped his fall with the headstock, “and the sides cracked open like a crocodile,” Fox said.

To fix the guitar in time for the show, Fox was up all night gluing the crack and letting it dry in sections. With each sectional repair, she moved clamps and internal supports called cleats.

“I couldn’t get it cleaned up and beautiful, but I made it as good as I could,” she said. “I got comped into the show … It’s fun being like an underground celebrity.”

Six years ago, Fox and her husband, luthier Rick Davis, moved to a farmhouse in South Hero. She downsized Sound Guitar Repair from a 1,700-squarefoot shop to a small room at the back of her house. For $70 an hour, she repairs instruments using three sanders, a drill press and a band saw. Broken guitars are tucked into corners and leaning against walls in their cases, evidence that “semiretirement” isn’t quite semi.

Her Vermont customers include Aaron Josinsky, chef/co-owner of Winooski restaurant Misery Loves Co. Fox reset the fretboard on his 1934 Gibson.

“She made it sing,” he said.

CAT FOX, owner, Sound Guitar Repair, South Hero

Banjo Man

If Will Seeders Mosheim did not make banjos, he probably would have become an engineer. “I’m precisionoriented,” he said, standing in the Dorset woodshop he shares with his father, a furniture maker. “It’s the way I see things and the way I problem-solve.” Mosheim, 38, launched Seeders Instruments in 2010 and has since built a reputation as a gifted woodworker and engraver who combines traditional craftsmanship with his own style and contemporary techniques. He makes guitars, too, but focuses on five-string, open-back banjos that are known for their playability and tone.

His banjos are visually stunning, featuring meticulous mother-of-pearl inlays and hand-carved details in the wooden necks. With a mom who was a jeweler and gardener and a dad who designs and builds custom furniture, Mosheim almost couldn’t help being “artistically inclined,” as he describes it. He plays music, too: banjo and guitar, of course, as well as fiddle, pedal steel and bass. That last one was the first instrument he played professionally, when he was in middle school — he played jazz standards with his brother at Dorset’s Barrows House inn on Monday nights.

Later he played electric guitar in punk bands Die Like a Champion and Porno Tongue but got “kind of tired of putting in earplugs onstage,” he said.

Currently, he’s half of the duo Carling & Will with banjo player Carling Berkhout. And he frequently steps in to play with other musicians, such as fiddler and flat-foot dancer Sophie Wellington and 17-year-old banjo prodigy Nora Brown.

But it’s putting his hands on the wood — curly maple, walnut, mahogany, ebony — that gives Mosheim the deepest, most consistent satisfaction, not to mention his livelihood.

He started out, in his early twenties, working for his father, Dan, who owns Dorset Custom Furniture. Mosheim had played music since he was 9 or 10 and had been hanging around the woodshop even longer. So it made sense that soon after he picked up the banjo, he wanted to make one himself. He did, with his dad’s help. Then he made another — a small “pony” banjo for the

child of some friends. He posted a photo of it online and “immediately got three orders from people I did not know,” he said.

For a few years, Mosheim built furniture with his dad during the day and made banjos at night and on weekends in between music gigs. He honed his style and technique in workshops with Michael Millard of Froggy Bottom Guitars in Chelsea (see page 26), master banjo builder and engraver Kevin Enoch of Maryland, and Bob Smakula and Andy Fitzgibbon of Smakula Fretted Instruments in West Virginia.

He also traded skills with guitar maker Adam Buchwald of Circle Strings in South Burlington (see page 32). Mosheim taught Buchwald how to use a CNC — a computer-operated router, essentially — and Buchwald taught Mosheim the craft of making guitars. Mosheim hasn’t made a guitar for a few years, though, because demand for his banjos is so high. Banjo makers number few and far between compared

to guitar makers, so “those of us who do banjos are always swamped with work,” Mosheim said.

It takes him between 20 and 60 hours to build a banjo, depending on the level of ornamentation. Mosheim produces 20 to 30 a year, both custom orders and those he sells directly to customers online. He also repairs and restores vintage and antique banjos. After teaching himself to use vintage machining and fabricating equipment, he is now able to make about 90 percent of the hardware that his banjos require.

“It takes a little bit of insanity to go this deep,” he admitted.

“Will is a bit of a perfectionist,” Berkhout said. “He’ll do something again and again until he gets it right. He’s not afraid to go beyond what everybody else is doing or to really experiment to figure out the best way to create something. He’s innovative.”

As a result, there’s currently a three- to four-year waiting list for one of Mosheim’s custom banjos. Berkhout got hers seven years ago: a walnut Dobson Special with a low, mellow sound that’s “almost haunting,” she said. The banjo has improved with age — “settled into itself,” she added. “It sounded really good when I first picked it up, but the more I play it and the more it gets passed around, the better it sounds.”

For Mosheim, watching Berkhout and others play his banjos feels like a special kind of collaboration.

“It’s like my art goes on to create more art,” he said.

He’s thrilled that he could make one of his Dobson Special banjos for actor and musician Oscar Isaac, who plays it in the recent Broadway revival of The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window. Mosheim is also happy to be working on a banjo for the Punch Brothers’ Noam Pikelny, a Vermont neighbor and friend who is considered one of the best bluegrass banjo players alive today. And Mosheim was delighted to meet Pete Seeger a year before the folk legend died; Seeger strummed a “longnecker” Mosheim had made and pronounced it “a nice banjo.”

Yet Mosheim’s mission as a craftsman is not about famous people.

“It’s really cool to make instruments for amazing musicians who are in the spotlight, but I don’t put any less weight on the person who never takes their banjo out of their living room or who can only play five tunes,” he said. “When I get a message or a phone call or an email from someone who says, ‘I can’t put this banjo down’ — that’s why I do what I do.”

JENNIFER SUTTON

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Learn more at seedersinstruments.com.

WILL MOSHEIM, owner, Seeders Instruments, Dorset

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LIKE MY ART GOES ON TO CREATE MORE ART. WILL MOSHEIM

Will Mosheim in his Dorset workshop

technique

Shop Rat to the Stars

In March, Pete Langdell turned on the lights in his workshop, dusted o his tools and started organizing his shop. It felt like he was starting up a spaceship that had been dormant for a while, he said.

Langdell, 65, is a mandolin maker in the Cambridge village of Je ersonville who put his custom luthier business on hiatus 12 years ago for a steadier gig. The 2008 recession had dried up orders at his company, Rigel Instruments, so Langdell went to work doing “startups” — changing strings, screwing in pegs — and repairs on classical instruments at Metropolitan Music in Stowe.

Recently retired from that job, Langdell is back at work crafting mandolins — the small, eight-string instruments with a big, high-toned sound that first captured his imagination 60 years ago. In that time, he’s pioneered an innovative technique for building mandolins and made them for some of the instrument’s very best players, including Chris Hillman of the Byrds and the Flying Burrito Brothers and Chris Thile of Nickel Creek.

“Each instrument has its own mystery and charm,” Langdell said.

Langdell was 5 years old when he heard someone playing a Sears mandolin at the Waterville Town Hall on a summer Friday night. The show was part of a festive weekly concert of local players — a mini Grand Ole Opry with a house band called the Country Neighbors — that drew a crowd from the surrounding area.

“I was intrigued with the music and mesmerized by the instruments,” Langdell said.

The youngest of eight kids growing up on a dairy farm in Cambridge, Langdell attended the summer concerts with his family. Inspired by what he saw and heard onstage, he went home and started teaching himself to make instruments before he was in first grade. He found tools and a workspace in the barn.

“I had that need to do it,” he said. “My mother’s co ee table was the sacrificial wood.”

At Lamoille Union High School in Hyde Park, when other kids in shop class were making cutting boards for their

mothers, “I would freak the woodshop teacher out when I said, ‘I’m making a guitar,’” Langdell said. “Unbeknownst to me, I was making stu that not a lot of people could build.”

A largely self-taught luthier, Langdell sought instruction from elders in the trade and read all he could about instrument making. “You really, really had to have a desire to know how to do it,” he said of learning the skills pre-YouTube. Trying to learn from other makers, “I would wear out my welcome,” he recalled.

Not long out of high school, Langdell

was working as a machinist in Morrisville and making mandolins on the side. One day he brought one of his instruments to the machine shop. A coworker took a look at it and said, “What in the fuck are you doing here?” Langdell recalled. “You gotta get out of here and do that.”

Soon Langdell quit the machine shop, loaded his Jeep with mandos and drove south to MerleFest, a bluegrass festival in North Carolina.

“Everything I brought sold immediately,” he said.

Langdell, who calls himself a “shop rat,” came back to Vermont and started taking orders for his instruments. He traveled to more music festivals with his mandolins.

“People would see them, play them, touch them,” he said. And buy them. At one point, as his reputation spread among musicians, Langdell ran a shop in Hyde Park with eight employees.

He developed a building technique, patented in the early 1990s, by which he could pop the top of the instrument into its sides without gluing it in place. This allows the luthier to “voice the instrument properly,” he said, before gluing it permanently.

“It gives you infinite amounts of time [and opportunity] to get the sound you’re looking for, the sound you’re satisfied with,” Langdell said. He also made mandolins in the shape of a Fender Stratocaster electric guitar, imbuing a centuries-old instrument with a contemporary aesthetic.

Langdell, who is also a musician, loves the sound of the double-stringed mandolin, which is tuned like a violin: E, A, D, G. Though each note has paired strings, their tone and pitch are never identical.

“There’s a slight discord,” Langdell said. “They’re sympathetic tones.”

Similarly, no two instruments sound the same. “They’re like fingerprints,” Langdell observed. “All completely unique.”

As he wakes up his shop and embarks again on the “hyper-focused” work of building instruments, Langdell said he sometimes has no sense of time when he’s making a mandolin.

“I’ll forget to eat,” he said. “I’ll come out in the morning and look up, and it’s getting dark.”

Langdell’s mandolins range in price from $2,500 to $12,000, depending on the model.

“Building an instrument is like playing a game of chess,” he said. “You have to think so far out. It’s not a fancy cigar box with a neck.”

Learn more at rigelinstruments.com.

EACH INSTRUMENT HAS ITS OWN MYSTERY AND CHARM.

PETE LANGDELL

PETE LANGDELL, owner, Rigel Instruments, Cambridge

Pete Langdell in his workshop in Cambridge

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Langdell with one of his mandolins

Reeling In the Big Phish

As a guitar and mandolin player, Adam Buchwald knows many di erent ways to make music. As a luthier, he discovered another: Build a guitar that inspires a musical legend to record an entire album with it.

In 2021, Buchwald, founder of Circle Strings and cofounder of Iris Guitar, was commissioned by Phish keyboardist Page McConnell to build an acoustic guitar for bandmate Trey Anastasio as a surprise birthday present. A Phish fan since he was a teen, Buchwald, 44, leaped at the opportunity. McConnell gave him free rein on the project, and Buchwald pulled out all the stops.

For the top wood, he selected a piece of century-old German spruce, acquired from an 80-year-old luthier who’d built hundreds of guitars and called it “the best-sounding wood I’ve ever heard in my life.” For its sides and back, Buchwald chose chocolate-colored “mother of curl” koa, cut in the 1980s on the island of Oahu from

a tree renowned among luthiers. The guitar’s neck and bridge were crafted from aged mahogany and ebony.

The finished product proved far more than the sum of its parts. Anastasio was so wowed by the instrument that he and McConnell visited the South Burlington luthier to perform for him and his crew before

leaving on tour. Then, during a show at Manhattan’s Beacon Theatre, Anastasio gave the luthier a shout-out from the stage. Buchwald, a New York native who’d seen Phish at the Beacon many times, was in the audience that night.

The real kicker came when the Phish lead guitarist used the Circle Strings dreadnought to record his first-ever solo acoustic album, Mercy.

“I’ve never been in love with a guitar like this before,” Anastasio told Guitar Player magazine in July 2022. “It completely changed my music landscape. There would be no Mercy if he hadn’t given me that guitar.”

A modest and low-key guy, Buchwald said he was always confident he could

build a beautiful-sounding guitar. But he never expected that this one would resonate with Anastasio the way it did.

“The fact that he fell in love with it so deeply is priceless,” Buchwald said during an interview in his South Burlington retail shop, Ben & Bucky’s Guitar Boutique. “I can’t even put words to it.”

Anastasio isn’t the only famous musician playing one of Buchwald’s guitars. Leo Kottke, Margo Price and Marc Ribot all have one, as do Vermonters Billy Bratcher, Brett Hughes and Zack DuPont.

In recent years, Buchwald has assembled a team of 14 luthiers, nearly all of whom moved to Vermont for their jobs. They are making some of the most sought-after guitars in the industry — and not just for celebrated musicians. Under the Iris label, they’re crafting high-quality instruments that don’t break the bank with aesthetic extras and expensive customization.

In a sense, Buchwald has come full circle. He first moved to Burlington in the 1990s to study music at the University of Vermont. After graduating in 2000, he returned to New York to work in his father’s metal-stamping and tool-and-die factory, which his grandfather founded in the 1950s.

Buchwald hated the work but took advantage of the available tools and equipment to build his first mandolin, guitar and banjo. After 9/11, the factory’s products evolved from shoehorns and sponge mops to military hardware. Six years into the job, Buchwald finally called it quits.

He got hired as a repairman at Brooklyn’s RetroFret Vintage Guitars, based solely, he recalled, on how he examined one. Then he got married, which changed his view of living in New York City. Buchwald accepted a teaching position at

Page McConnell and Trey Anastasio of Phish at Circle Strings in South Burlington. Far left: e custom guitar McConnell commissioned Buchwald to build as a gift for Anastasio’s birthday

PHOTOS COURTESY OF ADAM BUCHWALD AND SHEM ROOSE

ADAM BUCHWALD, principal luthier, Circle Strings and Iris Guitar, South Burlington

LUKE AWTRY

Adam Buchwald

Vermont Instruments, a guitar-making school in Thetford. But teaching wasn’t his bag, so he went to work for Michael Millard at Froggy Bottom Guitars in Chelsea (see page 26).

In 2012, Buchwald returned to Burlington to go it alone at Circle Strings. He shared space for several years with fellow guitar luthier Creston Lea (see page 34) before moving into his current South Burlington spot.

Even before his Phish fame, Buchwald had little trouble selling his high-end six-strings, which now start at $8,500. But in 2018, he saw a gap in the domestic guitar market.

THERE WOULD BE NO MERCY IF HE HADN’T GIVEN ME THAT GUITAR.

“Most of the musicians I was dealing with were like, ‘I could never get one of those [Circle Strings] guitars,’” Buchwald recalled. “‘Why can’t you make something cheaper?’”

Thus was born Iris, which he cofounded with partner Dale Fairbanks. Iris guitars, which start at $2,200, have the same rich sound and highquality wood but fewer customizations, upgrades and inlays. But the real cost-saving is in the finish, Buchwald explained, which is less labor-intensive and time-consuming; his team can build an instrument in several days versus weeks or months.

With both Iris and Circle Strings guitars, the craftsmanship is enhanced by the use of well-aged tonewood, or lumber ideally suited for stringed instruments. In 2019, Buchwald bought Allied Lutherie, a California-based tonewood supplier. He moved the company to Vermont and has since bought from other retiring luthiers their stocks of tonewood, nearly all cut decades ago.

“I’m trying to show the world that our guitars are made with material that’s been around for a while,” he said, “and we’re not going to cut more trees down.”

For many musicians, too, that has a nice ring to it.

KEN PICARD

Learn more at circlestrings.com and irisguitarcompany.com.

The Art of Making Friends (and Guitars)

When Creston Lea moved to Vermont in 1996, he was fresh out of college and on a mission to become a writer. “That was my big ambition in life,” recalled Lea, the son of acclaimed poet Sydney Lea. “But once I got to town, I started playing in, like, four or five bands at any given time, so I started spending a lot more time with my guitar.”

Lea, now 52, loved playing guitars, but he soon realized he knew nothing about how they worked. So he started tinkering with his own, scrounging parts and learning on the fly how to take apart and rebuild the instruments. Already a carpenter with a workspace, he realized one day he was spending more time on guitars than on the cabinets he’d been making.

“In the beginning, every new guitar I worked on presented some new circumstance that I didn’t know how to handle,” he said. “So I had to learn my way out of those jams.”

Once he felt confident enough to move on from his own instruments, Lea built a guitar for local guitar hero Bill Mullins (of Barbacoa), who still plays it. “Thankfully, Bill sounds great no matter what guitar he’s playing,” Lea quipped with characteristic modesty.

The job that cemented Lea’s transition from an inspired amateur to a professional luthier — working under the banner of Creston Electric Instruments — was the commission he received from Mark Spencer in 2003. The Son Volt guitarist and Burlington expat was so pleased with the guitar Lea crafted for him that he emailed his friends pictures to show it o . Soon, other professional musicians were sending orders Lea’s way, including such heavy hitters as Ian MacKaye

(Minor Threat, Fugazi), Noel Gallagher (Oasis), Val McCallum (Jackson Browne) and Spencer’s Son Volt bandmate Jay Farrar.

Those celebrity endorsements did most of Lea’s

marketing for him; other musicians would see the gorgeous, custom-built guitars — known familiarly as “Crestons” — full of top-of-the-line electronics and innovative designs, and want their own.

“It was a really quick transition,” Lea said. “There was about a year where I was still doing some carpentry, but by 2004 I was all in. I remember thinking at the time, Maybe this could work?

“But I had skipped the whole business plan where you go to the bank and find a shop,” he went on. “By the time it occurred to me to make guitars for a living, I was already doing it.”

What sets a Creston apart is that just about every instrument made in Lea’s shop is custom built to specifications, so very, very few of them sound alike. They’re often also visually stunning, especially the guitars Lea makes in tandem with local artist Sarah Ryan. On those collaborations, Ryan paints designs on the body of the guitars before Lea sprays clear lacquer over the artwork. Vividly colored flowers, birds in flight, bu alo, deer and even starlit skies populate the instruments.

According to Lea, the diverse needs of his customers help keep his brand eclectic.

“I don’t have to be very deliberate in trying to make my guitars di erent, because all of the people ordering them want such di erent things,” he said. “And if somebody asks me to make them a guitar that looks or sounds like something you might find on a rack at a Guitar Center, I just say a polite ‘No, thanks.’”

Crestons aren’t considered guitars for beginners or the casual player — Lea’s axes typically go for between $2,900 and $3,600. But he finds his customer base both varied and growing.

“I make as many guitars for 70-year-old men who stay at home and play blues as I do for younger players that reference bands I’ve never heard of,” Lea said.

The days of Lea having to learn his way out of problems are over, for the most part. But that doesn’t mean the trade is easy for him.

“It seems like there are 10,000 steps to making a guitar, and you can blow the whole thing by messing up any of them,” he said with a rueful laugh.

After almost two decades of guitar making, Lea found himself in something of a professional slump last summer. Then he caught a My Morning Jacket show in Shelburne. The band’s bassist, Tom Blankenship, had commissioned several bass guitars from Lea.

“It felt so good when I heard the band over those huge speakers, and Tom’s bass was so big and loud,” Lea recalled. “He played the basses I made him for the entire show. It just really pulled me up and out of that funk.”

Lea did get around to fulfilling his writing ambitions — his collection of short stories, Wild Punch, came out in 2010 — and the future of Creston Electric Instruments looks bright.

“I read this book by [local author] Tim Brookes called Guitar: An American Life,” Lea said. “He talks about how, really, the guitar should have died o by now. But instead of disappearing, it just became more and more iconic.”

When asked if keeping the guitar relevant is part of his mission, Lea chuckled.

“I don’t worry about that, honestly,” he said. “I’ve made a lot of really cool friends by making them guitars, and that’s what I really look forward to. Just making new friends.”

CRESTON LEA, owner, Creston Electric Instruments, Burlington

BY THE TIME IT OCCURRED TO ME TO MAKE GUITARS FOR A LIVING, I WAS ALREADY DOING IT. CRESTON LEA

Above: A recent guitar built by Creston Lea. Left: Peg Tassey’s guitar, built by Lea with artwork by Sarah Ryan

Marit Danielson has been making violins by hand for 25 years, and luthiers like her have been doing so since the early 16th century. Nevertheless, the craft remains mysterious. “You don’t know what [a violin] is going to sound like until it’s done,” Danielson said.

The Peacham resident spoke at Vermont Violins’ West Lebanon, N.H., shop while shaping a front plate’s arch with a finger plane. As she formed the flat piece of spruce wood into a contoured bubble, shavings fell on her Norwich terrier, Bromley, a constant companion.

Like her predecessors of the past five centuries, Danielson has been experimenting with minute changes in violin design — to the front plate’s arch and thickness, the size of the f-holes, the origin of the woods used, and myriad other variables — since she trained at Boston’s North Bennet Street School and apprenticed with Joseph Curtin and Gregg Alf in Ann Arbor, Mich. (Curtin is still at the forefront of the field in the U.S.)

One thing, however, is unusual about her practice: She’s a woman.

As Kathy Reilly, co-owner of Vermont Violins, said, “It is such a traditional field that people subconsciously or unconsciously are less likely to purchase a violin made by a woman.”

The shop sells Danielson’s handmade violins for $14,000 alongside its mid-level V. Richelieu line (priced from $5,000 to $7,000) and $600 Chinese-made instruments.

Reilly estimates that 40 percent of luthiers today are women, “but they tend not to be recognized.” Last year, as a countermeasure, she mounted a traveling exhibition of women luthiers’ instruments from Europe, Canada, Mexico and the U.S. — including Danielson’s, the only example from Vermont.

Danielson was hired at Vermont Violins a decade ago, as its first female luthier, to start the Richelieu line. She made the line’s models and helps hand-finish the instruments in the West Lebanon store. (She makes her own violins at home.)

Richelieu instrument plates and scrolls are cut on a hulking 2-year-old CNC machine in the store’s South Burlington location — a method already being pursued in Germany, Romania and the Czech Republic to save on labor costs, according to Reilly, who showed Seven Days around the production floor.

Today, five of Vermont Violin’s nine instrument makers are women, including the newest, Claire Rowan. At the South Burlington store, the Richelieu work line included three of them. Young-Ju

The Sweet Sound

Mawr College in Pennsylvania, where she earned a degree in art and philosophy.

While working in Boston after graduation, she heard about the violin-making program at North Bennet. “Something clicked in my mind,” she said. Though she’d had no hand tool experience and “couldn’t even sharpen a knife,” she had always been good at creating things with her hands.

During the two-year program, Danielson attended a talk about acoustics by Curtin and Alf at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She approached them after and landed an apprenticeship.

In Ann Arbor, Danielson recognized right away that the men’s instruments looked more like the old Italian instruments, which are still played, than anything she had learned to make in school. “All the finer details — the carving, the curves, the varnish colors that they had captured somehow” — made their instruments superior. “That was where I was able to train my eye,” she said.

Nina Kim, a freelance violinist in Tampa who plays mainly with the Florida Orchestra, is one of Danielson’s happy customers. Kim first learned of Vermont Violins while attending the Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival in Colchester as a master’s student in 2015. Two years later, while earning her doctorate at the University of South Florida, she needed to upgrade her instrument and asked Reilly to mail her some options.

Of the three sent from Vermont Violins, Kim recalled in a phone call, “I liked Marit’s the most. The sound was so beautiful. It has a sweet sound” — an actual descriptive term violinists use. Kim also needed a “more powerful [instrument] with a bigger sound” for upcoming solo concerto performances, and Danielson’s fit the bill. Kim’s colleagues heard it in different halls and admired its “projection, timbre and color,” she said.

Choosing a new violin is tricky, Kim added: “There are billions of violins in the world, and every single one is unique.”

Kim was inserting the purfling — an impossibly thin black strip made from layered maple wood — into the channel outlining a front plate. Rowan was carving a bridge, which supports the strings above the fingerboard. And Xiu Ling Stein was mixing and applying varnishes.

Danielson, however, is the only luthier among them who makes her own line of

violins. She came to the craft indirectly, as a musician. Growing up in Peacham from the age of 11 — her current house is within sight of her childhood home — she played violin and viola “pretty seriously.” She started college at the Manhattan School of Music, majoring in music performance for viola, but found the New York City scene too competitive and switched to Bryn

Danielson noted that the past 20 years have seen a renaissance in contemporary violin making in the U.S. “Schools are training kids better, makers are being less secretive, and the instruments are much better,” she explained. There are even acoustic conferences where technicians measure how minute differences in arches affect sound.

But, she added, “Violin makers still feel like they’re puzzling it out. Why can’t you just re-create this and know what it’s going to be every time?”

MARIT DANIELSON, luthier, Vermont Violins, South Burlington and West Lebanon, N.H.

MAKERS STILL FEEL LIKE THEY’RE PUZZLING IT OUT.

Danielson with her Norwich terrier, Bromley, and a handmade violin

A scroll model Danielson handmade for one of the Richelieu violins

Marit Danielson shaping the arch of a front plate

PHOTOS: AMY LILLY

The award-winning Lyme Disease documentary

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Thursday, May 25 doors open at 5pm, film starts at 6:30pm Main St. Landing Performing Arts Center 60 Lake St., Burlington, Vt.

Film followed by a hope-filled discussion with co-director, Lindsay Keys, Kathryn Boulter, ND of Burlington’s Stram Center and local Lyme Disease advocate Rachel Nevitt.

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Pool Party

Seasonal wetlands are short-lived but critical biodiversity hot spots

STORY & PHOTOS

BY RACHEL MULLIS

On a rainy spring morning in Strafford, Steve Faccio stood thigh-deep in water, holding what looked like four globes of translucent white jelly speckled with black seeds. Around him, a small group of nature lovers craned to catch a closer look. Each mass enclosed hundreds of salamander eggs.

“Welcome to the alien party,” murmured one of the attendees.

Faccio is a conservation biologist at the Norwich-based Vermont Center for Ecostudies and an expert on vernal pools, the seasonal wetlands that are a breeding ground for salamanders, frogs, insects and freshwater crustaceans. He oversees a number of active research projects but occasionally plays tour guide to anyone game to get up close and personal with nature. On this day, he was leading eight participants ranging in age from late twenties to seventies on a tour of several pools on a neighbor’s property.

Blair Butterfield, a communications director and entrepreneur who recently moved to White River Junction from Florida, said she signed up to gain a deeper sense of place.

“I think I wanted a tactile, engaging way … to be connected with nature,” she said.

Elisa Vesely, a clinical microbiologist from Enfield, N.H., was looking for a

stronger connection between her scientific work at Dartmouth College and the natural world.

“Something about the seasonality of vernal pools got me really excited,” she said. “I had to get out of the lab and into something a little bit more outside.”

Also known as ephemeral pools, vernal pools are short-lived but critical natural communities — biodiversity hot spots

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ecosystem, according to Faccio, because of its outsize impact on the overall health of the forest. During the two months or more that pools exist, they incubate a staggering amount of life.

For instance, the “alien” eggs Faccio held in his hands will grow up to be spotted salamanders. The eggs can be identified, he told the group, by their shape, spacing and the firmness of the jelly that held them fast to a twig stuck in the decaying leaves of the pool.

that explode with life each spring before drying up entirely by summer. (Some pools return in the fall, while others remain dry all winter.)

On average, 70 to 80 percent of the creatures hatched in vernal pools die before the water is gone. But all is not lost. While many lives nurtured in the pools are fleeting, their impact reverberates across the forest food chain. The habitat is a keystone

The group also examined loose, shifting masses of chlorophyll-green wood frog eggs nearly ready to hatch, as well as a Tupperware container of water fished from the pool that was teeming with mosquito larvae, water fleas and elegant fairy shrimp.

Given the right conditions, the tiny

DURING THE TWO MONTHS OR MORE THAT VERNAL POOLS EXIST, THEY INCUBATE A STAGGERING AMOUNT OF LIFE.

Steve Faccio (holding a net) on a vernal pool tour in Strafford

Salamander eggs

shrimp can emerge by the thousands in just one small pool. The ones Faccio caught were less than half an inch long and a brilliant orange color, waving their legs hypnotically as they backstroked across their temporary enclosure. In a vernal pool, their beauty goes unrewarded — or, if you’re feeling charitable, they live on in the many lives they sustain. In other words: They’re lunch.

“I think of [fairy shrimp] as the CheezIts of the forest,” Faccio said. “Everybody loves them, and nobody can eat just one.”

The group chuckled and continued, undeterred by the steady but not unpleasant rain. Faccio described how life in the pools begins when snowmelt and rain collect in deep depressions in the forest floor. Bacteria, algae and fungi grow like grayish-green fuzz on the leaf litter in the water. They provide nutrient-rich meals to many species of tadpoles and invertebrates such as fairy shrimp, as well as hundreds of insect species that lay their eggs here: caddis flies, mayflies, phantom midges and several species of mosquitoes.

“Beetles, as well,” added Faccio. “Some of them are quite big … and are serious predators. They can even give you a pretty good nip on your finger.”

From there, the pool scene gets pretty steamy — literally and figuratively. On the year’s first warm, rainy night, male salamanders emerge from underground refuges below the frost line, looking for love.

“The males often arrive first, and they sort of congregate up in these groups that are called a congress … probably because they do nothing,” Faccio said wryly, eliciting laughter from the group. “They just hang out and wait for the females.”

Once the females arrive, the males engage in an elaborate courtship dance called liebesspiel , a German word that

translates as “love play.” A female will select the male she wants and usually move away from the congress, picking up a capsule of sperm emitted by the male and using it to fertilize her eggs.

As the group explored the pools, Faccio shared some fascinating facts about two species commonly found in Vermont’s vernal pools: Jefferson salamanders and blue-spotted salamanders. Many are clones born from females that need sperm to activate their eggs but whose genome comes solely from their mother.

“Typically, they all look exactly alike,” Faccio said.

And then there are wood frogs, amphibians that freeze as solid as rocks in the winter months, thanks to a simple sugar that courses through their bloodstream, acting as antifreeze to protect their organs. Once the weather warms, they thaw in about 24 hours — and can freeze and thaw again several times before the weather warms consistently.

Fairy shrimp, meanwhile, reproduce young as minuscule cysts that can survive for decades until conditions are right, even after being digested and discharged in duck scat.

The intricate web of life continues from there. Since vernal pools lack an inlet or outlet, no fish can devour the egg masses. But as the amphibians call for mates, they ring the dinner bell for larger predators, such as snakes, small mammals and birds of prey.

Amphibians do not breed exclusively in vernal pools, though species such as the Jefferson salamander are quite dependent on them.

“If we didn’t have all these vernal pools, we’d lose most of their populations,” Faccio said.

It’s a sobering thought in the face of

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A vernal pool in Strafford

development pressure and the unknown effects of climate change on the pools, which scientists have only recently begun to study.

In 2018, Faccio launched the Vermont Vernal Pool Monitoring Project, which has since kept tabs on 91 pools across the state.

Jock Harvey, a forester from Andover, said the group tour helped him better understand how to avoid disturbing these sensitive habitats with a skidder or a bulldozer, as well as how to share that understanding with others.

“I have to know everything I can about all our natural communities,” he said. “I mean, they’re all interconnected. They’re one great big family.”

The growing interest in vernal pools may also have to do with the way they embody the larger paradoxes of existence: fleeting yet cyclical; fragile but enduring; a grand tableau of life and death that unfolds in the space of a couple of months, in what amounts to a large puddle fed solely by surface runoff. In the era of climate change, vernal pools speak to the bounty of the natural world — and what could be lost.

Butterfield mused that learning about

vernal pools and other habitats should be integrated into our education “so that we don’t feel so distant and disconnected from nature.”

“That kind of gap seems to be fueling apathy [about] the climate crisis,” she said. “The feeling [that] we’re bystanders to something that’s happening to the place which we are born into, and should have a deep love for.” ➆

Steve Faccio fishing for wood frog eggs

Compassionate Connections

Empty Arms fosters community among those who have lost a baby

BY ALISON NOVAK • alison@sevendaysvt.com

In 2014, Chelsea Levis unexpectedly lost her first child, Timothy, during childbirth in Massachusetts. Stunned, grief-stricken and at a loss for where to seek support, she was referred by her obstetrician to a Massachusetts-based nonprofit called Empty Arms Bereavement Support. There, she was able to ask questions and find answers that helped her feel less alone.

When Levis, who grew up in Essex, moved back to the Green Mountain State four years later, she found that Vermont lacked an organization focused on supporting parents who had lost a baby before or after birth. So, she decided to start one.

Levis and Jen Thompson — a friend who lost her own infant daughter, Lydia, in 2009 — founded Empty Arms Vermont in January 2022. Modeled on the Massachusetts program, the organization o ers peer support groups and other resources to women who have lost babies through miscarriage, stillbirth, early infant death or termination for medical reasons.

While these experiences are not unusual — one in four pregnancies ends in a miscarriage, for example — few resources exist to help those dealing with them. Empty Arms aims to bring into the light the often private and isolating experience of a traumatic loss and to create a community that can provide empathy and understanding.

“Just the process of talking about something integrates it into your own story,” Levis said. “Grief, in its basic sense, is telling your full truth … Sharing that among people has been helpful for me and also for others.”

The centerpiece of Empty Arms’ work is support groups with trained leaders who have experienced pregnancy or infant loss themselves. The monthly groups are tailored to di erent needs: There’s one for bereaved

parents who have experienced any type of pregnancy or early infant loss; another for those who are pregnant, trying to conceive, or beginning the surrogacy or adoption process; and a third for those who experienced miscarriage during the first trimester of pregnancy.

Since groups are held virtually, people from all over the state can join. (Fathers or support partners are welcome, but few attend, Levis said. In the future, she’s hoping to find other ways to engage with them.) Some participants are grieving a loss that happened years ago, while others have experienced it more recently.

All groups follow the same guidelines. For one, there are no expectations that participants must contribute to the discussion, though most end up doing so, said Marie Frietze, a peer facilitator for the Pregnancy After Loss & Trying to Conceive group.

“Occasionally, we will have those silent moments where everybody’s looking at each other,” Frietze said, but that often means that people are reflecting on what has been said.

Leaders typically begin the session by sharing their own thoughts — often organized around themes such as navigating the holidays or tapping into support systems. If people in the group want to comment, ask a question or provide advice in reaction to what someone has shared, they must ask the person’s permission. Group members are also asked to refrain from sharing specific providers’ names or locations.

Frietze said she sees her primary job as “a person of validation” — responding to participants’ comments by thanking them and letting them know that what they’re saying makes sense. After every meeting, she sends a follow-up email summarizing the discussion and

encouraging participants to connect with each other if they’d like more support.

Jamie Frey of Montpelier joined the Empty Arms Vermont bereavement group after the loss of her infant daughter Hadleigh in 2021. Finding Empty Arms, Frey said, helped her realize “I’m not the only person in this small state going through this … These people are nearby if I need them. [It] made me feel a lot less isolated.”

When Frey found out she was expecting another child, she started attending a second Empty Arms group, the one for women who are pregnant or trying to conceive. The Pregnancy After Loss group has provided her with a community of women who have also experienced loss and have mixed emotions about giving birth again.

Recently, Frey began serving as a leader of the group, a role that she said allows her to help others while also continuing to process her own grief.

“I’ve had my baby after loss, and she’s here safely,” Frey said. “I can o er that space to hold hope for the parents who are struggling right now to have hope.”

While peer support is not meant to replace more traditional therapy, Levis said, it can be an e ective complement.

“You need people who’ve been through it,” she said, “and then you need somebody to talk with one-on-one about your own goals and objectives and feelings.”

Amy Johnson, director of the Parent Child Center of Northwestern Counseling & Support Services in St. Albans, agrees. Her center employs clinicians who visit families at home to help them work through a miscarriage or infant death. It also provides teddy bears calibrated to the weight of the baby a family has lost as a way to o er comfort.

The center had tried to run its own bereavement support groups before the pandemic, but they weren’t very well attended. When Johnson learned about Empty Arms, she saw a partnership as a way to address “a huge gap in the system of care.” Now, the Parent Child Center refers clients to Empty Arms and provides stipends for the organization’s group leaders.

“I’m so happy that families have this really wonderful, thoughtful organization that is there for them,” Johnson said.

Empty Arms has also forged connections that have led to referrals from the University of Vermont and Dartmouth-Hitchcock medical centers and from local obstetrics and gynecology practices.

At Maitri, an ob-gyn practice in South Burlington, women who have experienced a miscarriage are presented with “bags of love” prepared by Empty Arms that include tea, chocolates, a card and a wooden heart.

It’s a way to say, “Hey, we see you, and we honor you, and we want you to know there’s support for you,” Levis explained.

Empty Arms holds an annual remembrance ceremony in October, at which grieving families light candles in honor of their babies and connect face-to-face with peers. On August 19, the group will host its first 5K Run & Walk, a community event in Burlington to raise money and awareness.

For now, Empty Arms is run by volunteers, with financial support from individuals, corporate donors and small grants. Levis said she sees great potential to scale up her work by forming new partnerships that would allow her to increase the number of support groups across the state and provide more group leaders with stipends.

“In our culture, grief is hard to talk about, period,” Levis said. “When we have a safe space to actually hold those emotions and honor those emotions, then I think we can heal.” ➆

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Chelsea Levis holding a teddy bear calibrated to her son Timothy’s weight

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Meant to Bee

A mother-daughter duo is set to launch Bumblebee Bistro in Enosburg Falls

BY MARY ANN LICKTEIG

As is family tradition, Heidi LeVell expects to celebrate Mother’s Day at home with her husband and four children at a campsite on their farm. They will set up a bu et dinner, light a bonfire and relax in Adirondack chairs under café lights strung between birch trees.

“We love sitting out there late into the night, just chatting and unwinding and listening to the crickets,” she said.

But first, she and her 18-year-old daughter, Zoe, will complete the daily motherdaughter ritual they established 18 months ago: running Barn Owl Bistro & Goods, the East Berkshire country store they operate as partners. It’s open 9 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. seven days a week.

“So, yeah, we will be working a bit,” Heidi said. “What’s nice about Mother’s Day is that people will bring their moms into the store, and so we can help celebrate other people’s moms.”

Co ee, upscale pastries and an ice cream shop make Barn Owl a gathering spot. Many skiers traverse this part of eastern Franklin County as they head to Jay Peak Resort, but 95 percent of sales are to locals. The store o ers specialty foods, cards, jewelry, wooden toys, and personal care and gift items, mostly Vermont made. Plants potted in teapots and other vintage containers — from Zoe’s side business, the Plant Attic — are tucked among the merchandise. Customers will also find a couch, booths, comfy chairs, a woodstove and free, high-speed internet access

— multiple invitations to settle in. Meet friends. Pop open a laptop and work for a couple of hours. Sip co ee, savor a scone and stay as long as you like.

“We don’t have a time limit,” Zoe said.

She and Heidi do appear to have boundless energy. They are in the community hub business and, in June, will open what they hope will become another gathering spot, five miles away in Enosburg Falls. Bumblebee Bistro, in the former Parkside Grill on Main Street, will o er from-scratch, locally sourced comfort food with a modern twist, for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Making it all happen required a transcontinental leap of faith.

Seven years ago, Heidi and her husband, Andrew Hoerner, California natives and

high school sweethearts, were raising their family in Nevada City, 60 miles northeast of Sacramento. Andrew worked in tech marketing, as he still does, and Heidi was in the midst of her 20-year career as an antiques appraiser. She flew around the country providing whole-house appraisals, advising owners on what to keep as a family heirloom, what should go to Sotheby’s and what to donate to Goodwill.

A January 2017 job brought her to Vermont. Sebastian Araujo, curator at Montgomery Center for the Arts, who had met Heidi through the online marketplace Etsy, invited her to Montgomery Center to see his new home. Knowing that she loved historic buildings — she had restored Victorian homes in California — he showed her

Heidi LeVell with daughters Zoe LeVell (left) and Lin Hoerner at Barn Owl Bistro & Goods

the old H.A. Pond Store in East Berkshire. Opened in 1872 but shuttered since the late 1980s, the two-story clapboard building sat like a time capsule, packed with merchandise and a tiny, intact 1900s doctor’s office all “covered with about 19 million layers of dust,” Heidi said.

“It was filthy and falling apart, and it was so beautiful,” she recalled. While she and Andrew wanted to escape Western wildfires and she had long felt an unexplained pull to Vermont, they did not have a plan. “This one just came out and said, You have to do this. You have to rescue this building.”

Six months later, back in California, she got a call: The store was for sale, along with five adjacent buildings on 13 acres. Heidi and Andrew flew to Vermont, “did a Vermont handshake deal,” went back to California and started packing.

The family of six, with Heidi’s aunt and uncle in tow, moved to Franklin County, where Heidi unexpectedly discovered she has deep roots. While helping her aunt unpack, she found a handwritten book dated 1934 called The Willard Family Notes. Willard was her great-grandmother’s maiden name. When Heidi flipped open the book, the first thing she read was

a notation about a cousin who fell through the ice at nearby Lake Carmi and died.

“I was like, Wait a minute,” Heidi recalled. “And then I read, ‘Such and such of Bakersfield married such and such of St. Albans.’ And, ‘Such and such of Montgomery took oil and supplies to the family home in Cowansville,’ right across the border here.

“It was just a who’s who guide to this area, and I realized they shopped in this store. You couldn’t have gone past this and not shopped in this store,” she added.

“All of a sudden, I went, Oh, that’s why I’ve had the itch to come to Vermont.”

But where Heidi and Zoe saw great potential, others saw a run-down building in a blip of an unincorporated village with roughly 200 residents and one other business. (“It’s us and the Jolley,” Heidi said.) Bankers, contractors, subcontractors and even passersby couldn’t understand their plan. “It was like, ‘East Berkshire. Are you sure? East Berkshire?’” Heidi said. But wavy brown hair and flashing brown eyes are not all that Heidi and Zoe have in common. They share a can-do, why-wait attitude.

“When we started construction, that knob-and-tube electrical on the ceiling was the newest thing in here,” Zoe said.

“It’s from 1905,” Heidi added. “And it still worked. And it ran all of the construction for the building.” They spent 18 months renovating: preserving the tongue-and-groove ceiling, the wood floor, the massive shelves adorned with decorative molding, and the 24-foot-long, curved counter with an inlaid hemlock top. They tore out drywall and exposed hefty wooden beams. When they realized the store was too high to accommodate

The Fries Have It

Soaking up sunshine at Al’s French Frys in South Burlington

BY MELISSA PASANEN • pasanen@sevendaysvt.com

The sun was finally shining last Friday when Amanda and Keith Bumps and Kolby Richardson drove from Barre to Burlington. They had ordered lunch online from Al’s French Frys and did not realize until they arrived that the ice cream window was open for the season.

In celebration, the family decided to start with dessert.

“The ice cream is definitely a good part of Al’s,” Kolby, 11, said while polishing off his peppermint stick hard ice cream with rainbow sprinkles. His mom had picked the raspberry creemee; his stepdad, the classic vanilla-chocolate twist.

Kolby said he’d been an Al’s fan since he was at least 8. “We usually come more in the summer,” he said.

Like Kolby and his parents, the Seven Days food team is heading out this month before the summer rush to revisit some of our favorite outdoor dining spots around Vermont.

Although Al’s is open year-round serving its menu of burgers, hot dogs, fried chicken, haddock sandwiches and fries, the annual April 1 ice cream window opening heralds the busy season at the 75-year-old local landmark.

The fast food spot has a different feel during the summer, when Little Leaguers line up for postgame creemees and parents juggle food and toddlers on the playground behind the picnic tables out back.

Kolby and his parents sat at one of the newer round tables on Al’s nicely landscaped front lawn for their main course of cheeseburgers, a Philly cheesesteak and fries. “You can’t come to Al’s without getting fries,” Amanda said.

Those fries are memorably spelled “frys,” as any local can tell you — thanks to the marketing savvy of Al’s cofounder Genevieve Rusterholz. They received a shout-out when Al’s was honored in 2010 with a James Beard Foundation America’s Classics Award.

At the time, Alison Cook, the

Houston Chronicle ’s award-winning, longtime restaurant critic, wrote, “The fries boast a dark and crackly exterior. Creamy white potato fluff lurks within. Al’s fries are a benchmark and a bulwark against devolution.”

What would a Texan know about Vermont “frys”? It turns out that Cook grew up in Chittenden County. For a couple of years, she told Seven Days , “My walk home from school took me past the sacred Al’s site.”

Those who steward the sacred must be careful not to change it too much,

as Al’s co-owner Shane Bissonette, 38, recognizes. His family bought the legacy business in 1982. While continually investing in the operation — which also boasts unusual staff longevity; grill cook Jimmy McHugh recently retired after 45 years — they have left the core menu largely alone. As Bissonette said, “If it’s not broke, don’t fix it.”

That goes for the fresh-cut, doublefried fries, still cooked old-school in a mix of vegetable oil and beef fat. Hot out of the fryer, the bronzed batons are a truly affordable indulgence, starting at $2.95 for a cup.

The burgers (from $2.95 for a single) are ground fresh, and the hot dogs (from $2.67) boast dark grill stripes under tangy mustard and sharp raw onion.

But my favorite summertime order is a salty-sweet combo meal of fries and a small maple creemee ($3.92).

To celebrate my first visit of the season, I ordered the Maple Madness sundae ($9.74). The massive creemee swirl in a waffle cone was showered with maple sprinkles and crowned with a maple cream sandwich cookie and a tiny pipette of syrup.

There was just one problem: It left me too full to eat my “frys.” ➆

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Hot dog, double cheeseburger, quart of fries, banana split and Maple Madness sundae

From left: Kolby Richardson and Keith and Amanda Bumps

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SERVING UP FOOD NEWS

BY JORDAN BARRY • jbarry@sevendaysvt.com

Wally’s Place for Sale in South Hero

The Champlain Islands will be down a café this summer — at least temporarily. After 15 years of operating WALLY’S PLACE bagel shop, café and bakery in South Hero, owners MATT and KRISTEN BARTLE will close the biz on Sunday, June 11.

Wally’s Place isn’t officially listed for sale with a broker, Matt Bartle told Seven Days. But the couple are ready for new owners to “take it and view it from fresh eyes,” he said, and he’s been fielding inquiries from potential buyers.

“We’re really open to a lot of different ideas right now,” Bartle said. “When we realized we didn’t have enough staffing to get through the summer, we had to put a date on it and say, ‘If nothing happens, we’re just gonna close the doors.’”

The popular café at 54 Community Lane currently serves breakfast and lunch six days a week, with breads and sweets baked in-house. Wally’s New York-style bagels have won the Seven Daysies award for best bagel outside Chittenden County since 2018.

Selling involves a tough decision, Bartle said: The couple could accept “a bunch of money” from a buyer who ends up changing the business completely. Or they could take little to no

payoff and “facilitate the next phase of a community space.”

“It’s a conundrum,” he said. “I live here, and I want to come here and drink coffee. But I want to do it on the other side of the counter.”

Wally’s Place is named for Bartle’s grandfather, who retired to South Hero. As a kid, Bartle came to the islands every summer from New Jersey to visit his grandparents. In 2008, he opened the bagel shop as a “tiny little hole-inthe-wall,” he said.

The shop remained at its original 1 Ferry Road location until 2016; since 2020, that space has been home to TWO HEROES BREWERY’s pilot taproom. Bartle, who is a partner in Two Heroes, said construction is wrapping up at the brewery’s new location at 252 Route 2. He hopes Two Heroes will open a tasting room there in mid-June, with a public house in the future, and he plans to focus on the food offerings there after he closes Wally’s Place. ➆

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SMALL PLEASURES

’Tis the Seasoning Brave Little Spice heats up Franklin County

BY JORDAN BARRY • jbarry@sevendaysvt.com

How brave are you? Kate Donlon and Garry Smith want to help you find out.

e Bakersfield couple organize their Brave Little Spice blends “by bravery level, with the bravest spices being the really hot ones,” Donlon said. “It’s a play on the spice level and, of course, the brave little state that we love so much,” she added.

In December 2022, Donlon and Smith launched their line of indomitable flavors, named as a nod to the phrase president Calvin Coolidge used in an iconic 1928 speech about Vermont.

e home-based spice business currently offers maple sugar, sea salt and six blends, ranging from the very Vermonty Sugar Shack BBQ to a classic Middle Eastern za’atar. ey don’t all require a high heat tolerance, but each packs a punch.

Brave Little Spice draws on Smith’s longtime love of making barbecue blends and spicy foods — Sichuan Chinese dishes, Indian vindaloo and Nashville hot chicken are among his favorites — and Donlon’s past career as a whole-animal butcher. e two met while attending college in Smith’s native state of Georgia. Last year, they moved to Vermont, where Donlon grew up.

“We always knew we wanted to have a food-focused small business,” Donlon said. “ e move back spurred us forward to actually make it happen.”

Some of the spice recipes, such as a Louisiana-style Creole blend and a chile-filled Mexican chorizo mix, have long been Smith’s go-tos. Others, such as a coffee-maple rub and the Sugar Shack BBQ, “are an attempt at mixing local ingredients and trying some Vermont flavors,” Smith said. “We want to bring global flavors to Vermont but also share Vermont flavors with the world.”

is summer, the biz will release another batch of blends made with that hybrid approach, including Japanese togarashi, which uses North Atlantic-sourced flaked laver seaweed instead of nori. e couple are also sourcing herbs from Berkshire’s Dubs Farms.

“So many spices have historically grown in unique global locations,” Donlon said. “Whenever we find ingredients that we can use either from Vermont or New England, we get pretty excited.”

Brave Little Spices are stocked at Burlington’s Common Deer, St. Albans’ Rail City Market, Middlesex’s the Roots Farm Market, Brownsville Butcher & Pantry

and East Berkshire’s Barn Owl Bistro & Goods (see page 44). is summer, Smith and Donlon will set up at farmers markets in St. Albans, Jericho and Jeffersonville.

Earlier this spring, I ordered jars of za’atar and Sugar Shack BBQ ($10 each) from Brave Little Spice’s website, two of its most popular offerings. e squat glass jars were chosen with sustainability in mind. ey’re also just the right size for a spoon, which makes it easy to scoop instead of sprinkle the spice.

e zesty za’atar has a bravery level of 0.0 — completely mild — and includes oregano, cumin, sumac, sesame seed, thyme and sea salt. I’ve used it to punch up hummus, cottage cheese and a yogurt-based chicken marinade.

Sales of Sugar Shack BBQ picked up at the end of sugaring season as the weather warmed, Donlon said. To kick off grilling season, I slathered steak tips with the smoky, slightly spicy, slightly sweet blend of maple sugar, smoked paprika, hickorysmoked sea salt, urfa chile, garlic, onion, chipotle, juniper, thyme and basil.

After those successful experiments, I’m feeling brave enough to try whatever Brave Little Spice comes up with next. ➆

Small Pleasures is an occasional column that features delicious and distinctive Vermont-made food or drinks that pack a punch. Send us your favorite little bites or sips with big payoff at food@ sevendaysvt.com.

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a ramp at the front door to comply with accessibility rules, they added a ramp on the old feed store next door, then connected the two buildings.

Barn Owl Bistro & Goods, which occupies both structures, opened on November 19, 2021.

Sixty glass candy jars line high shelves behind the counter. Just beyond them, an ice cream shop occupies the alcove that had housed the doctor’s o ce. The LeVells can brew co ee and scoop ice cream, but they could not get the necessary permits to prepare food on-site — negating the bistro part of the store’s name — so they rely on Enosburg Falls’ Gail Ovitt of Pastry VT, who delivers seven days a week. Her croissants, scones and mu ns often arrive warm.

Ovitt’s pastry career includes nine years at the five-star Dailey’s Restaurant Bar in downtown Atlanta, followed by stints at Tyler Place Family Resort in Highgate Springs, Jay Peak and Stowe’s Trapp Family Lodge.

Her round cheesecakes, four inches in diameter, are tantalizing little works of art nearly as tall as they are wide. Salted caramel, strawberry swirl, funfetti, lemon and coconut cream ($6.50 apiece) come topped with fat whipped cream rosettes, sprinkles, dollops of chocolate, a strawberry or blueberry coulis — and often combinations of the above.

Ovitt’s lemon bars share a case with

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just-sticky-enough magic bars, strawberry-rhubarb oat bars, triple berry bars ($4.25 each) and the very popular double maple whoopie pies ($5.25) — if they’re not sold out.

Ovitt will bake cakes, cheesecakes, muffins, scones and biscuits for Bumblebee, the new venture in Enosburg Falls. Chef Curtis Garrow will prepare breakfast and lunch, and Adam Barry will lead the kitchen at dinner.

All meat and dairy — and as many vegetables as possible — will come from Franklin County, Heidi said, and menu items are being created with affordability in mind. Offerings will shift with the seasons and appeal to the variety of local tastes. “Montgomery is a little more world-travelerish, for lack of a better term,” Heidi said. “Montgomery is more like, ‘Can I have extra avocado on my salmon salad?’ whereas Enosburg is like, ‘Can I have more gravy on my biscuit?’”

Bumblebee will serve “fresh biscuits and a really kick-ass gravy” and “wonderful big salads with lots of ingredients,” Heidi said. “Salad should be delicious, not endured.”

Garrow, currently chef at Vespa’s Pizza Pasta & Deli in Essex Junction, grew up a block away from Bumblebee, graduated from New England Culinary Institute, and worked at the Four Seasons Hotel in Washington, D.C.’s Georgetown and as kitchen manager for the Skinny Pancake on the Burlington waterfront.

“It’s really huge for me to be coming

home, essentially, to take this position,” Garrow, 34, said.

He plans to cook lobster roll eggs Benedict, braised beef and root vegetable hash, and a variety of pancakes for breakfast and weekend brunch. He’ll serve soups, sandwiches and smash burgers for lunch.

Barry, 33, has climbed the restaurant ladder, working in Jeffersonville at the restaurant now called Family Table and at Village Tavern, at Whip Bar & Grill in Stowe, and at Smugglers’ Notch’s Morse Mountain Grille, where he’s now morning kitchen manager.

His Bumblebee menu ideas include citrus salad, wild mushroom risotto and a chipotle mussels appetizer, which has been a crowd-pleaser when he’s made it in the past. “Every time it goes out into the dining room, everyone just turns and looks and says, ‘Yep, I’ll have that,’” Garrow said.

He and Barry share a commitment to “quality, consistency, local fresh ingredients and modern twists on classic favorites,” he said.

“I’m really, really excited about the Bumblebee,” Garrow said. “I think it’s going to bring something back to Enosburg that’s been missing for a long time.”

INFO

Barn Owl Bistro & Goods, 278 Montgomery Rd., East Berkshire, 528-6529, barnowlcountrystore.com

Bumblebee Bistro, 264 Main St., Enosburg Falls

Zoe and Heidi LeVell in the future Bumblebee Bistro

Model Citizens

A new book celebrates the Vermonters who posed for Norman Rockwell

BY ERIK ESCKILSEN

Steve Haggerty’s memories of vacations in Vermont in the 1960s and ’70s conjure images worthy of Norman Rockwell paintings. There’s a reason: Some of them literally were Rockwell paintings.

“Norman got his models, most of them, within a two-mile area,” Haggerty said, referring to Arlington, the southern Vermont town where Rockwell lived and created his much-loved magazine covers between 1939 and 1953.

By the time the Haggerty family arrived in 1961 to spend summers outside Arlington, Rockwell had moved south to Stockbridge, Mass. But many of the locals who’d

posed for Rockwell’s best-known works, including covers for the Saturday Evening Post, remained, and some are still around. Haggerty came to know Rockwell’s models as townsfolk and neighbors.

Now he has connected those names and faces with iconic Rockwell works in a new book, Norman Rockwell’s Models: In and Out of the Studio. “He didn’t like professional models because they were too sti ,” Haggerty said of Rockwell. “These people in Vermont had very expressive faces” — signs of the ups and downs of workaday life, a strong and appealing theme in Rockwell’s art.

Carl Hess, pictured in Rockwell’s

“Freedom of Speech,” owned the gas station near the farm where Haggerty worked as a kid. That farmer was Floyd Bentley, recognizable as the forlornlooking man seeing his son o to college in “Breaking Home Ties.” The young woman in hair curlers in “The Gossips” was Doris Croft White, mother of Haggerty’s childhood friends Beverly and Debbie Wright.

Given that Haggerty’s youth hangouts — the Arlington village green, the red covered bridge swimming spot on the Battenkill River — were a literal stone’s throw from Rockwell’s former home and studio, his own biography seemed fated to intersect with the Rockwell canon.

After graduating from Southern Vermont College in 1981, Haggerty earned an MA in journalism from the University of South Carolina — studying with two professors who had been Saturday Evening Post editors. Today he divides his time between his family’s property in Sandgate and his home in New York.

In 2014, while promoting his collection of poems and stories, Cows in the Fog, Haggerty caught up with Donald Trachte Jr., who’d grown up in Arlington. As a 5-year-old, Trachte had served as Rockwell’s model for the December 1953 Child Life magazine cover of a little boy meeting Santa Claus, hand in hand with a little

Stephen Haggerty (left) with Norman Rockwell’s son, Jarvis, in March

girl (modeled by young Melinda Pelham, another Arlington resident). Trachte had been organizing Rockwell model reunions with Buddy Edgerton, Rockwell’s go-to Boy Scout model, since 2010. (Edgerton died in 2022 at age 92.) Trachte shared his contacts with Haggerty, and “Steve picked up the ball and ran with it,” Trachte said over the phone.

Haggerty took several years to interview the 25 people featured in Norman Rockwell’s Models. Fortunately, many of them still lived near Rockwell’s southern Vermont scene. Pauline Grimes (née Adams) posed as a 5-year-old for Rockwell’s 1953 mural “United Nations,” which hangs in the United Nations building. She still lives in Cambridge, N.Y., just across the Vermont border. In a telephone interview, she remembered Rockwell finding her through another famous regional painter.

“He was looking for a Black family when he was going to be doing the United Nations [mural],” she said. “He was a friend of Grandma Moses, and we were friends of Grandma Moses ... She mentioned our name, the Adams children. Sure enough, we got a call.” Rockwell made Grimes’ family — her mother, Martha, and her siblings Paul, Carl and Marybeth — “feel right at home,” she said. In the resulting image, Grimes stands solemn and in prayer among an assembly of culturally diverse figures behind a row of UN Security Council members. She also appeared in a Rockwell cover image for Look magazine in 1965.

For another child model, Tom Pelham, who was featured in a Massachusetts Mutual Insurance ad, Rockwell’s work sometimes came home. His father, Gene Pelham, an accomplished artist in his own right whose work appeared on two Saturday Evening Post covers, worked

as Rockwell’s chief photographer and assistant, sometimes scouting models. Photographs were central to Rockwell’s process, since he drew and painted directly from them.

“Dad respected him and understood his talent,” Pelham, a former state finance commissioner who now lives in Berlin, Vt., said in a phone interview. He cited one incident, however — documented in Haggerty’s book — in which Rockwell and Gene Pelham disagreed about whether to punch the clock on Christmas Day. Otherwise, Pelham recalled Rockwell’s good rapport with locals. He “liked the people he was using as models,” Pelham said. “He liked the people of Arlington. There’s no doubt about that. And that’s a gift.”

Norman Rockwell’s Models is a trove of charming small-town lore, backstories that helped build a legend: There’s the one about young Ruthie McLenithan, the badass girl whose marbles-playing prowess is depicted in a 1939 Post cover — “Marbles Champion” was rooted in truth. There’s the shocking tale of how Trachte and his siblings came into possession of a Rockwell original worth millions — finding it hidden behind a false wall in their father’s Sandgate studio.

As Rockwell’s work gains value in the wider world, his Vermont years remain a

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source of local pride. The quaint Norman Rockwell Exhibit, located in the Sugar Shack in Arlington, invites visitors to connect Rockwell images with local models’ profiles. Rockwell’s Retreat is a bed-and-breakfast in the artist’s former Arlington home and studio. Trachte said he’s planning a Rockwell model reunion in August. As he told Edgerton roughly a decade ago, “We’re going to have reunions until the last man is standing.”

Haggerty’s book comes along at an opportune time to refresh and preserve the fondest and most poignant Rockwell memories — those of the people who gave his work its enduring vitality and character. ➆

Norman Rockwell’s Models: In and Out of the Studio by S.T. Haggerty, Rowman & Littlefield, 312 pages. $45.

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HE DIDN’T LIKE PROFESSIONAL MODELS BECAUSE THEY WERE TOO STIFF.

STEVE HAGGERTY

In Vermont, cars and light-duty trucks account for greenhouse gas emissions. 29% of all

e Long Grief Journey: How Long-Term Unresolved Grief Can Affect Your Mental Health and What to Do About It

Pamela D. Blair and Bradie McCabe Hansen, Sourcebooks, 416 pages. $16.99.

Short Takes on Five Vermont Books

Seven Days writers can’t possibly read, much less review, all the books that arrive in a steady stream by post, email and, in one memorable case, a skulk of foxes. So this occasional feature is our way of introducing you to a handful of books by Vermont authors. To do that, we contextualize each book just a little and quote a single representative sentence from, yes, page 32. ➆

Life Lines: Poems From the Pandemic

Cinse Bonino, Blurb, 177 pages. $20.

My father’s old hat suddenly feels like magical protection.

Fire Index: Poems

Bethany Breitland, Green Writers Press, 64 pages. $15.95.

Maybe love doesn’t look like you / having to die so I can live either.

Vermont Reggae Fest: e Power of Music: e First Five Years in Burlington Vermont Bobby Dean Hackney, DL4 Music Enterprises, 97 pages. $45.

Entanglements: Physics, Love, and Wilderness Dreams

Jack Mayer, Proverse Hong Kong, 123 pages. $19.95

Are

you ready to let go of some things or ask

for help?

Grief is an integral part of being human. Grief demands attention. Grief changes us. And grief does not magically evaporate — or even ebb — 365 days after a loved one dies. Well-meaning friends and family members may suggest that a year signals time to move on, but, as Pamela D. Blair and Bradie McCabe Hansen caution in e Long Grief Journey, “Healing from loss and grief is not a race to the finish.”

Blair, a psychotherapist, and McCabe Hansen, a psychologist, have applied their combined 50 years of clinical experience to write an invaluable guide and workbook for those navigating “the gauntlet of grief” and those trying to help them.

With jargon-free explication, meaningful anecdotes and actionable steps, the Shelburnebased coauthors provide a sturdy, supportive scaffolding upon which people can gradually climb toward the light “while holding space for [their] love and loss.”

MELISSA PASANEN

During the pandemic, Cinse Bonino wrote short poems describing her feelings and posted them on social media. “It was my way of coping with not knowing how long I, the people I loved, or even complete strangers would get to live,” she writes in the introduction to these 531 poems.

“It was as if I were worried we would wake up and discover that the lifelines on our hands had gotten unexpectedly shorter while we were sleeping.”

Contemplating life expectancy became a lifeline of a different sort.

Facing fear, sadness, isolation and uncertainty, Bonino, who lives in Middlebury, distilled potentially overwhelming emotions into potent poems that work like condensed therapy sessions. “I’m using the 1/4-sized teaspoon of hope I have to dig a tiny depression under all the heaviness,” she writes. “I can make room next to me here if you need it.”

Her observations, experiences and “little bits of glitter joy” that “glisten in the mire” fit five or six to a page. A former professor who has published four other books, Bonino writes that she highly respects physicists but “believes linguists might just save this world.”

MARY ANN LICKTEIG

In her poem “Prayer for Something Else,” Charlotte poet Bethany Breitland imagines a kind of counterpoint between domestic tasks — sweeping the floor, crimping the pie — and a more spiritual realm: “Will you help me sweep my religion away? / Can you become a woman, and I a stag? / Can you become a tree and I a song?”

is thought-provoking poem is found in Breitland’s debut collection, Fire Index winner of the 2022 Sundog Poetry Book Award.

e annual honor is presented to a Vermont writer for their first or second manuscript. Breitland’s book, no longer in manuscript form, was published by Green Writers Press of Brattleboro in April.

e volume contains several poems, collectively titled “Glossary of Terms,” that are an exploration of language through a particular word: integrity, altar, hypocrite. Breitland pursues that theme in her title poem, which is organized in alphabetical order and presented like a reference book. Included in her S words are these lines: “Sister (see; snow) / Snow (see; sorrow) / Soil (see; home).”

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Don handed Bobby an artist pad with a colorful drawing skillfully sketched out...

Musician Bobby Dean Hackney founded the Vermont Reggae Fest in 1986, holding the inaugural event for a few hundred attendees in Burlington’s Battery Park. A member of legendary Detroit punk band Death, Hackney also started a reggae band, Lambsbread, in Vermont. His love of reggae led him to spearhead the truly grassroots festival.

As the Underhill resident documents in a retrospective book, over the course of his five years as director, the festival grew to an estimated 40,000 people by 1990.

Along with his friend Alfred “Tuna” Snider, Hackney turned an idea into an institution. From local bands to big-time acts such as Burning Spear and Pato Banton, the festival consistently brought top-notch reggae to Vermont. Under Hackney’s direction, it was always free.

Hackney stepped away after 1990 and handed the reins of the Reggae Fest to others, who would continue the event until 2002. But his book shows that those five years were as important to him and his family as they were to the Vermont music scene.

CHRIS FARNSWORTH

Maria should be in high school, but Felicia is her third.

Child, that is. Author and retired pediatrician Jack Mayer has “seen the wide eyes of famine on the Canadian border” at his Enosburg Falls practice. ere, the subjects of his poem “Madonna and Child” have come to his rural medical office because the infant isn’t growing. Mayer’s diagnosis, “failure to thrive,” applies equally to mother and child. e good doctor suggests three weeks in foster care for the latter. “You can visit, stay as long as you like,” he tells Maria.

Mayer’s second poetry collection and fourth book was inspired both by his pediatric practice and by a phenomenon in physics called quantum entanglement. Simply put, what happens to one subatomic particle instantly and inexplicably affects another particle with which it’s entangled, regardless of their distance apart. For Mayer, who now lives in Middlebury, this spooky interconnection also exists at the macro level, where similarly mysterious forces affect the trends of human behavior. Even readers normally wary of poetry will find Mayer’s free verse to be honest, accessible and real.

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Vermont Book Award Winners Announced

BY MARY ANN LICKTEIG

Vermont authors Zoë Tilley Poster, Kathryn Davis, Caren Beilin and Bianca Stone have won the 2022 Vermont Book Award. e winners were announced on Saturday at a celebration hosted by Vermont Humanities at Vermont College of Fine Arts in Montpelier.

e award, which carries a $1,000 prize, was given in four categories for work published in 2022.

e award for children’s literature, new this year, went to Poster for her debut picture book, e Night Wild, which she wrote and illustrated. Davis, the author of eight acclaimed novels, won the award in creative nonfiction for her debut nonfiction work, the memoir Aurelia, Aurélia. Beilin received the award in fiction for her novel Revenge of the Scapegoat, and the award in poetry went to Stone for What Is Otherwise Infinite

Last year’s Vermont Book Award winners — Alison Bechdel, Melanie Finn and Shanta Lee Gander — and author M.T. Anderson announced this year’s winners. A panel of judges, composed of writers, readers, editors, librarians and booksellers of Vermont, chose the winners from among 14 finalists.

Poster’s picture book chronicles the fantastical moonlight adventure of Dog, who slips away at night and makes an unexpected friend, Wolf. Poster’s black-and-white illustrations, made with brushed-on graphite powder, pencil and erasure, “glow with starlight,” wrote American Library Association magazine Booklist. Commenting on the Corinth author’s book in Seven Days last year, Kristin Richland, children’s book buyer at Phoenix Books, called it “a perfect bedtime story.”

Davis, who lives primarily in Montpelier, spends January through March at Washington University in St. Louis, where she is the Hurst Writer in Residence. “Davis is a maestro of atmosphere and mood, but she is mischievous when it comes to providing an orderly story line,” Jim Schley wrote in Seven Days, but the plots of her novels are “sinuous, and her rendering of time is labyrinthine. What anchors the writing is her precision: an ability to find words to summon in a reader’s mind her characters’ weird specificities and the minutiae of physical locations.”

In her memoir, Aurelia, Aurélia, Schley wrote, Davis applies those gifts to her husband, writer Eric Zencey, who died of cancer in 2019. She also describes the “places they knew and loved together, including Montpelier’s Hubbard Park.”

Beilin, the Bennington author of four other books, teaches writing and publishing at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. In Revenge of the Scapegoat, Iris, an adjunct at a city arts college, receives a package of letters her father wrote to her in her teens, blaming her for their family’s crises. In an interview with Bookforum magazine, Beilin said she has received a similar package. “ is book is a documentary fiction that uses some very particular personal artifacts to drive the plot,” Beilin said.

Poet and visual artist Stone lives in Brandon and is creative director of the Ruth Stone House, a literary nonprofit that supports poetry and creative arts. What Is Otherwise Infinite, Stone’s fourth collection of poetry, “balances erudite philosophizing with razor-sharp imagery in poems that feel deeply relatable, personal and of our time,” reviewer Benjamin Aleshire wrote in Seven Days

“Every book I am lucky enough to make and share is an attempt to speak and listen to the world, to my life, and have it speak and listen to another person’s life,” Stone remarked at the Saturday ceremony.

e Vermont Book Award was created in 2014 and “celebrates the long tradition of literature in the state,” its website says. Books by writers who live in Vermont for at least six months of the year are eligible as long as their work is not self-published. e Vermont Department of Libraries, Vermont Humanities and Vermont College of Fine Arts run the prize in partnership. ➆

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This Old Greek Temple

A couple from Hawaii revive a historic home in Orwell

Married couple Amber Naramore and Adam Townley-Wren were living in Hawaii when they first encountered a website with historic house listings and saw images of their future home, Historic Brookside in Orwell. Also known as the Wilcox-Cutts House, it includes a 1789 farmhouse and a front-facing Greek Revival portion added in 1843. From nearby Route 22A, it’s hard to miss the majestic Greek temple façade with massive Ionic columns. The mansion is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and its former owners were breeders of merino sheep and Morgan horses.

The couple put an o er on the house without seeing it in person. When they arrived in June 2021, it was filled with junk. The pair moved into the mansion that October and have been slowly renovating it themselves. They rent out a suite of rooms via Airbnb and also give tours.

Amber is an opera singer and a teacher, and Adam is an airline pilot. Amber founded a cat rescue in Hawaii called the Good Cat Network, and Adam flies kittens from the island to Seattle. They’ve rescued 400 cats, and eight of them now reside in the Orwell abode. Seven Days senior multimedia producer Eva Sollberger paid the new Vermonters, feline

and human alike, a visit on a sunny spring day and got a tour of their unique home.

SEVEN DAYS: How did you find this house?

EVA SOLLBERGER: I love driving on 22A to various video shoots down south. The landscape is bucolic with rolling farmland and a wide variety of old houses. But when I drive past Brookside, it always takes my breath away. You rarely see Greek temples in the midst of our state — although this house does have two replicas, one in Castleton and one at Shelburne Museum. The Vermont Statehouse is also a beautiful example of Greek Revival architecture, and it was built after Brookside. I always wanted to know more about this eye-catching home and eventually found Historic Brookside on Facebook. I wondered why two people from Hawaii would buy this property. The subject seemed ripe for a video.

SD: Do you like old homes?

ES: I love old homes and live in one that dates back to the 1890s. It was utilitarian mill housing, not in the league of this Greek Revival mansion. I am addicted to TV shows about old home renovations and have been working on updating my house, as well.

Over the years I have covered many interesting old structures in our state, like Wilson Castle in Proctor and the abandoned Milton Creamery. In 2021 I featured the selective dismantling of Founders Hall at Saint Michael’s

College in Colchester. And I loved filming at Shirley Jackson’s former home in North Bennington and Edward Gorey’s former abode on Cape Cod in Massachusetts. Both of those videos are evergreen, and fans of the artists continue to leave comments on them.

I love exploring these old spaces, seeing them stripped back to the lath and plaster, touching the hand-hewn beams, and reveling in the ancient artistry.

SD: Amber and Adam are a very interesting couple. ES: Like their house, these two are very unusual and dynamic. They have cool occupations, and their cat rescue in Hawaii means a lot to me as a cat lover. I only got to meet three of their eight rescue cats, but that was a highlight. Bruiser stole my heart with his pu y belly and insolent stare.

Then Adam started playing the marimba, introduced me to his pet turtles and showed me the former Masonic temple in the attic — I was hooked. It is one of those stories that keeps on giving, and I had to leave a lot of juicy bits, including a creepy ghost story, on the cuttingroom floor.

SD: Tell us about this video format.

ES: I shot this video with my iPhone in 4K resolution for the first time. I am wondering if viewers will see a di erence in the quality from 2K. I used to carry my heavy Canon camera and monopod around on shoots like this, and it is so hard to lug all that gear from room to room. I love shooting house tours with my lightweight, autofocusing phone and body mics. I am able to be nimble and enjoy my surroundings properly.

SD: Brookside’s history is amazing.

ES: There is an impressive agriculture legacy from the merino sheep and Morgan horses that were raised at Brookside. High rollers like J.P. Morgan stayed in the suite now being rented out for Airbnb guests or used as a guest room. But J.P. had to use the outhouse, as the home didn’t get plumbing and electricity until the 1940s. There were also a number of interesting former owners, like painter Kathleen B. Granger, who wrote a book called The Hills of Home: A Vermont Idyll, now out of print. Adam and Amber are hoping to include a painting by Granger in their forthcoming museum room, along with old photos and memorabilia from the home.

SD: What is it like living in this space?

ES: Despite the grandeur of the exterior, I got the impression that Adam and Amber are making a comfortable home for themselves. All those cuddly cats probably help. They had family visiting while I was there, and it was nice seeing the space lived in and enjoyed. Adam’s niece Willow showed me her fairy garden and took me on a flower and willow tree tour. The couple have a lot of plans for the 238 acres — adding a vineyard, a tasting room, a museum room, a sunken rose garden and an airstrip. Considering how many incarnations the house has already been through, I look forward to seeing what comes next for it with new, imaginative owners at the helm.

Seven Days senior multimedia producer Eva Sollberger has been making her award-winning video series, “Stuck in Vermont,” since 2007. New episodes appear on the Seven Days website every other ursday and air the following night on the WCAX evening news. Sign up at sevendaysvt.com to receive an email alert each time a new one drops. And check these pages every other week for insights on the episodes.

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Looking Up

Winslow Colwell’s kite-inspired creations are all about what’s in the sky

BY PAMELA POLSTON • ppolston@sevendaysvt.com

Winslow Colwell has installed a lot of kites in Middlebury’s Jackson Gallery. It’s a no-fly zone, of course, but that’s OK: These kites are perfectly content just to hang around.

Colwell titled his exhibition “#Skylights,” in the manner of a hashtag, but that simple weave pattern long preceded the social media signifier. Here, the crossbar shape is the basis for the Ripton artist’s two- and three-dimensional constructions, singly or in combination. That is, he cuts and overlaps equal-size strips of Epson watercolor paper printed with photos of treetops, sunsets or clouds, then attaches them to a featherweight infrastructure of bamboo, or “bones.”

A quartet of the simplest structures is hung together but titled separately: “Dappled Clouds,” “Sky Blue Sky,” “Sunset Branches” and “Drive-In Sky.” Colwell adorned another foursome, collectively titled “Multi Moon Color,” with photos of the moon screened in yellow, green, red and blue, respectively. A smaller moon in the center is, well, moon-colored.

A four-sided suspended construction called “Life, the Universe, and Some Things” puts the weave pattern to higher purpose. The dark blue strips are punctuated with white dots representing constellations. Within the structure, an image of the Earth spins gently in ambient pu s of air. This remarkable piece casts a complicated shadow, itself a kind of universe.

Though Colwell finds sources for his photos of the moon and other celestial orbs, he loves taking pictures of the sky, he said in a gallery visit. Even if this current crop of kites doesn’t fly, the images inherently direct a viewer’s gaze upward. The suggestion of loftiness echoes what Colwell calls the “irrational joy” of flying kites, the residual pleasure of a childhood pastime.

“Everything is about what’s in the sky,” he said of his works.

Long enamored of all things airborne, Colwell used to make kites professionally. He sold them in his former shop in Middlebury, where he also held kite-making classes. He had residencies in schools. He cobbled together a living, Colwell said, but “it was always a struggle.” Eventually he turned over retail sales to the original Frog Hollow craft

center, also in Middlebury, and “morphed into making nonflying kites.”

In the early ’90s, Colwell went back to school to study graphic design at California College of Arts and Crafts (now California College of the Arts). “But I didn’t finish, because I got my dream job,” he said. “The Whole Earth Catalog needed another person in the graphics department.”

Colwell worked at the beloved counterculture magazine and product catalog for five years, including on its final volume in 1998. Just before the pandemic, he said, Colwell went to San Francisco for the 50th anniversary of the publication, reuniting with the “wonderful people” he had worked with and looked up to.

Colwell’s many years as a graphic artist and book designer honed skills that serve the kite-adjacent artworks he crafts in Vermont today. He also makes lanterns — softly illuminated columns of paper in geodesic patterns. Though his pieces are essentially handmade, digital technology assists him, both on the computer and in the shop.

“Two years ago, I took part in JumpStart at Generator,” Colwell said, referring to an entrepreneurial program at the Burlington makerspace. There he learned how to use a laser cutter. He uses a Cricut cutting machine to score the paper for his lanterns. “I’ve had to come up with a lot of special jigs and tools,” Colwell remarked.

The artist has included several light boxes in “#Skylight.” One, aptly titled “Constellation,” is a near-square piece of sti watercolor paper in deep blue, softly printed with an illustration of a 17th-century star map. Pinpricks in the piece emit dots of light from an LED bulb behind it. On the lower section of the image, Colwell layered in his own photograph of a tree line in Ripton. One can imagine its magic in a darkened room.

In Colwell’s nod to the selfie era, “SelfPortrait With My Head in the Clouds,” his outsize bewhiskered image appears on a matrix of hashtag shapes, this laid atop a photograph of blue sky with flu y clouds. The artist’s brown eyes — the only part of the photo not cut through — gaze steadily at the viewer.

All the works in the exhibit were made over the past two years, Colwell said. One piece in particular represents a

WITHIN THE STRUCTURE, AN IMAGE OF THE EARTH SPINS GENTLY IN AMBIENT PUFFS OF AIR.

Clockwise from top: “Kite in a Tree”; “Life, the Universe, and Some ings”; Winslow Colwell with “Self-Portrait With My Head in the Clouds”

new direction. “Kite in a Tree” features four woven shapes printed with bare branches against the sky, placed over the original photo of the same tree. It’s a meta image in which the crisscrossed sections seem like portals to another dimension — another sky.

“They are in an environment, on a wall,” Colwell said. “But putting [them] on top of a tree, a sky, is super exciting to me now.”

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Winslow Colwell, “#Skylights,” is on view through June 10 at Jackson Gallery, Town Hall eater, in Middlebury. See more images on Instagram: @wclightworks.

Embrace Your Inner Artist

Clockwise from top left: "Dappled Clouds," "Sky Blue Sky," "Sunset Branches," "Drive-In Sky"

“For Bucky”

Geodesic lanterns

Ross Sheehan

In his Vergennes studio, Ross Sheehan teaches art classes in a variety of mediums to children and adults. During the pandemic, he said, he began to offer classes outside — leading kids through downtown alleyways to find objects for making sculptures, for example. Aptly, in 2022, he dubbed his teaching enterprise the School of Psychogeographic Arts.

“Psychogeography” refers to the effect of a location — usually urban — on human behavior and emotions. “How do these places, spaces and environments we encounter in our everyday lives and routines make us feel?” Sheehan asks on his website. “What is the artist’s response to place?”

Conversely, Sheehan’s current exhibition at the South Burlington Public Library Art Wall isn’t about this at all; rather, it’s deeply personal, interior. He began making the prints and 3D constructions shown in “Defects and Other Objects” around 2016, he said, after a couple of years when a consuming job prevented him from making any art at all.

“ is body of work came out of that frustrating time,” Sheehan said. “Instead of looking out into the world, I was looking inward and thinking, What are my defects?”

On the surface, his cartoonish visual expressions of self might seem pejorative, even hideous. e monotype “Dormant Volcano Eye (with hand, horseshoe, lips, and teeth),” for instance, depicts a blobby entity anthropomorphized with a buggy eye, protruding fingers and a mouth containing large, erratic teeth. In other works, the volcano is erupting. Sheehan’s darkly humorous style might remind some viewers of the American cartoonist R. Crumb.

One of Sheehan’s sculptures, formed from baked dough and painted with acrylic, is a misshapen foot with crossed toes. It’s not clear how a smashed cellphone, its screen painted with wiggly rectangles, fits the theme, but it does indicate Sheehan’s penchant for turning a useless item into an objet d’art.

One of the so-called “defects” that Sheehan’s exhibit and artist’s statement make public is color blindness. He acknowledged the seeming contradiction of being an artist who can’t distinguish all the colors. “I had felt I couldn’t reveal that,” he said, “but I’ve been learning to let that come out. When I tell my kids, they are fascinated.”

Sheehan enjoys bright colors, he said, but half-tones and secondary hues look the same to him. Primary colors appear in a few of his works at the library, including the mixed-media monotype “Self Portrait (with colorblind eyes, teeth, and fingerprints)” and the monotype “Fingerprinting (III, with colorblind palette).”

As those titles suggest, the exhibition isn’t solely about perceived flaws. Sheehan also produced works based on that most individual of traits: the fingerprint. He began by inking his index finger and making an impression, then vastly enlarged and printed it in variations. e resulting monotypes are graphically striking, mazelike images; only the titles inform us that a swooping line across the whorls is a scar. (Sheehan obtained it in an unfortunate encounter with a nail on a board, he explained.)

After he returned to school in 2018 — earning an MFA in visual art at the Vermont College of Fine Arts — Sheehan’s multifaceted work began to shift in other directions. So did his teaching. But he returned to the “defects” pieces because, he said, “I feel like there’s more to do with this body of work.”

For starters, Sheehan isn’t entirely certain what it all

means. e volcanoes are probably “symbolic of things that can happen at any time,” he noted. But other recurrent imagery — horseshoes, power lines, torn dollar bills — is something he’s still trying to figure out.

“ e visual language I’ve created is a little mysterious, but I want to move forward, to tell a story like a comic book,” Sheehan said. “I’m not sure where this is going to go, but some of these creatures are going to live in this other world. ese pieces are like studies for work that is to come.”

Meantime, what does he hope viewers might take away from his current exhibition?

“To reexamine the word ‘defect,’” Sheehan said. “To try to use [imperfections] as a catalyst, a catapult. I feel like I’m starting to do that. Take whatever comes your way and make something out of it.”

“Defects and Other Objects” is on view through May 31.

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‘OBJECT/S OF PLAY’: An interactive exploration of the creative processes of American toy designers Cas Holman and Karen Hewitt. Members’ reception: Friday, May 12, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Register at shelburnemuseum.org/member-events. May 12-October

22. ‘POP UP’: An exhibition of contemporary inflated sculptures inside and outside the museum featuring three artists and artist teams from the field of pneumatic sculpture: Claire Ashley, Pneuhaus and Tamar Ettun. (Outdoor sculptures not on view on days with excessive wind.) Opening-day performance and tour with Tamar Ettun: Saturday, May 13, 11 a.m.-noon. May 13-October 22. STEPHEN HUNECK: “Pet Friendly,” an exhibition of hand-carved and painted furniture, sculptures, relief paintings, bronze sculptures and more by the late Vermont artist. May 13-October 22. Info, 985-3346. Shelburne Museum.

barre/montpelier

‘A THIRTY-YEAR CONVERSATION ABOUT ART’: Works in a variety of mediums by Alexandra Bottinelli, Cheryl Betz, Larry Bowling, Maggie Neale, Elizabeth Nelson, Kathy Stark, Janet Van Fleet and Ann Young. ird Floor Gallery. Artists’ talk: Tuesday, June 13, 12:30-2:30 p.m. Preregister. May 10-June 24.

‘ART IT UP!’: An annual exhibition and silent auction to benefit the art center’s programs. View and bid in person, in the Second Floor Gallery, or online. May 13-June 16. ‘ONE + ONE IS GREATER THAN TWO’: Works by 29 artists that depict multiples, patterns and relationships, Main Floor Gallery. May 10-June 24. Info, 479-7069. Studio Place Arts in Barre.

stowe/smuggs

‘NATURE’S RESILIENCE’: A showcase of works in a variety of mediums by 17 artists exploring the human impact on climate change. May 10-July 2. ‘THE CREATIVE PROCESS’: An exhibition of works by 40 artists as well as their reference photos, test strips, sketches or other supportive materials. Reception: Saturday, May 13, noon to 3 p.m. May 10-September

3. Info, 644-5100. Bryan Memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville.

middlebury area

‘ARTISTS IN THE ARCHIVES: UNSEEN NEIGHBORS: COMMUNITY, HISTORY & COLLAGE’: Digital and analog collages by 23 artists from seven countries that reflect on the idea of community in the 21st

Clockwise: “Blurb (with colorblind palette)”; “Dormant Volcano Eye (with hand, horseshoe, lips, and teeth)”; “Foot (with crossed toes)”; “Self Portrait (with colorblind eyes, teeth, and fingerprints)”; “Untitled (crushed iPhone)”; “Fingerprinting (II, map)”

century. May 13-August 26. ‘STELLAR STITCHING: 19TH CENTURY VERMONT SAMPLERS’: An exhibition of needlework samplers made by young girls in the 19th-century that depict alphabets, numerals and decorative elements. May 13-January 13. ‘VARIETY SEW: A SAMPLING OF TEXTILE

TOOLS AND DEVICES’: Sewing machines, spinning wheels and myriad sewing paraphernalia from the permanent collection. May 13-September 30.

Info, 388-2117. Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History in Middlebury.

CARLA WEEKS: “Verdant,” large paintings that examine the relationship between architecture and nature, all in green. Reception and artist talk: Friday, May 19, 5-7 p.m. May 11-June 15. Info, 877-2173. Northern Daughters in Vergennes.

‘LIFT EVERY VOICE’: An exhibition of 15 hooked rugs reproduced from the “I Am a Black Woman” series by Elizabeth Catlett (1947). Guest curated by Maddy Fraioli. Reception: Sunday, May 14, 2 p.m. May 14-June 10. Info, 877-3406. Rokeby Museum in Ferrisburgh.

northeast kingdom

MARY TAPOGNA: “Hail Mary, Full of Glass,” mosaic works using found and recycled materials and depicting religious and secular subjects. Reception: Saturday, May 13, 2-4 p.m. May 11-July 1. Info, 7480158. Northeast Kingdom Artisans Guild Backroom Gallery in St. Johnsbury.

YOUNG ARTISTS SHOW: A group exhibition of works by area kids and young adults. Receptions: Friday, May 12, 4-7 p.m., and Saturday, May 13, noon-4 p.m. May 12-31. Info, melmelts@yahoo.com. The Satellite Gallery in Lyndonville.

brattleboro/okemo valley

ANDY WARHOL: “Small Is Beautiful,” 100 of the artist’s smaller-format paintings, from the Hall collection. RON GORCHOV: A 50-year survey of the American abstract artist’s work, featuring shaped canvases from the 1970s to large-scale paintings in his last years. SUSAN ROTHENBERG: Nearly 30 figurative, gestural paintings by the late American artist from throughout her career. Weekends only; reservation required. May 13-November 26. Info, info@hallartfoundation.org. Hall Art Foundation in Reading.

manchester/bennington

SPRING/SUMMER 2023 MEMBER EXHIBITION: An annual exhibition of works in painting, drawing, prints, textile/fiber, sculpture, photography, ceramics and more by member artists. Reception: Saturday, May 13, 2-4 p.m. May 13-July 16. Info, 3621405. Yester House Galleries, Southern Vermont Arts Center, in Manchester.

outside vermont

‘AN ASSEMBLAGE OF BREATHS’: The third annual exhibition in support of mental health awareness, in collaboration with West Central Behavioral Health, featuring 30 regional artists. Reception: Saturday, May 20, 5-6 p.m., with a performance by Los Lorcas. May 12-June 17. Info, 603-448-3117. AVA Gallery and Art Center in Lebanon, N.H.

ART EVENTS

ART SOCIAL: A reception for four new exhibits includes live music by composer/pianist Ira Friedman. Masks requested. Studio Place Arts, Barre, Saturday, May 13, 4:30-6 p.m. Free. Info, 479-7069.

ARTIST & CURATOR CONVERSATION:

CATHY CONE AND SARAH FREEMAN: The photographic artist and Brattleboro Museum & Art Center director of exhibitions discuss the works in “Cathy Cone: Portals and Portraits.” Find link to Zoom meeting at brattleboromuseum.org. Online, Thursday, May 11, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 257-0124.

ARTISTS TALK: HARRISON HALASKA & MICHAEL

HEFFERNAN: The painters discuss their work in conjunction with current exhibitions. AVA Gallery and Art Center, Lebanon, N.H., Thursday, May 11, 5:30-7 p.m. Info, 603-448-3117.

FINE ART AND FINE DINING: An artist talk by Vermont photographer and filmmaker Jim Westphalen is followed by dinner. Call for reservation. The Pitcher Inn, Warren, Thursday, May 11, 5:30-8 p.m. Info, 496-6350.

LUNCH & LEARN WITH MICHAEL STRAUSS: “The Magic Portal and the Beholder’s Share,” a talk by the artist and University of Vermont professor emeritus about how our experiences influence our perception of art. Social Hall, Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington, Tuesday, May 16, noon-1:15 p.m. Free; donations welcome. Info, 864-0218.

OPEN STUDIO: Draw, collage, paint, move, write and explore the expressive arts however you please during this drop-in period. Available in studio and via Zoom. Most materials are available in the studio. All are welcome; no art experience necessary. Expressive Arts Burlington, Thursday, May 11, 12:30-2:30 p.m. Donations. Info, info@ expressiveartsburlington.com.

OPEN STUDIO: Make art alongside other artists, socialize, get feedback and try out new mediums. No experience required; art supplies provided. Hosted by the Howard Center Arts Collective, whose members have experience with mental health and/ or substance-use challenges. ONE Arts Center, Burlington, Monday, May 15, 12:30-2:30 p.m. Free. Info, artscollective@howardcenter.org.

PARTICIPATE IN INSTALLATION OF NEW

EXHIBITION: All ages and skill levels are welcome to help install the 2023 exhibit, “Wheels,” including building display structures, landscaping, painting, spackling, sewing and mounting labels. The opening celebration will be Saturday, June 3. Use the “contact us” form at museumofeverydaylife.org to let staff know when you can join us. The Museum of Everyday Life, Glover, Saturday, May 13, and Sunday, May 14, noon-5 p.m. Info, claredol@sover.net.

SPRING CELEBRATION OF ART: A showcase of work by local artists, a silent auction and refreshments. St. James Episcopal Church, Essex Junction, Saturday, May 13, 3:30-6 p.m. Free. Info, 910-233-4461.

ONGOING SHOWS burlington

‘ABENAKI: FIRST PEOPLE EXHIBITION’: The council and members of Alnôbaiwi (in the Abenaki way) and the museum open a new exhibition featuring the Abenaki Year, the seasonal calendar of people who lived in the area for more than 8,000 years before Europeans arrived, as well as works by contemporary Abenaki artisans and a replica of a 19th-century Abenaki village. Through October 31. Info, 865-4556. Ethan Allen Homestead in Burlington.

ANNUAL MEMBERS’ SHOW: A showcase of artworks in a variety of mediums by gallery members. Exhibition also on view in the Soda Plant Hallway through June 28. Reception: Friday, June 2, 5-9 p.m. Through June 30. Info, spacegalleryvt@gmail.com. The S.P.A.C.E. Gallery in Burlington.

ART AT THE HOSPITAL: Acrylic paintings by Matt Larson and Julio Desmont (Main Street Connector, ACC 3); photographic giclées by Jeffrey Pascoe (McClure 4 & EP2 Healing Garden); photographs by Sharon Radtke (EP2); and oil paintings by Judy Hawkins (BCC). Curated by Burlington City Arts. Through May 31. Info, 865-7296. University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington.

ART AT THE MALTEX: Paintings by Julia Purinton, Carol Boucher, Erika Lawlor Schmidt, Brecca Loh and Elizabeth Nelson. Through August 15. Info, 865-7296. Maltex Building in Burlington.

‘ART/TEXT/CONTEXT’: An exhibition of art objects that prominently feature words, images, symbols, and gestural or abstract marks, and that considers their power to prompt critical reflection or spur social action. JOSEF ALBERS: “Formulation: Articulation,” featuring studies by the late German American artist (1888-1976) that show how

perception of color is affected by the environments in which it is viewed. SHANTA LEE: “Dark Goddess: An Exploration of the Sacred Feminine,” large-scale black-and-white photographs that encourage inquiry beyond the limited roles to which society assigns women. Through May 20. Info, 656-0750. Fleming Museum of Art, University of Vermont, in Burlington.

‘BLACK FREEDOM, BLACK MADONNA & THE BLACK CHILD OF HOPE’: Designed by Raphaella Brice and created by Brice and Josie Bunnell, this mural installed for Burlington’s 2022 Juneteenth celebration features a Haitian-inspired image of liberation. Through June 18. Info, 865-7166. Fletcher Free Library in Burlington.

COLOSSAL SANDERS: “Something’s Gone Terribly Wrong,” handmade art toys that examine human folly: destroying the natural world and its inhabitants, wrecking cars, and just plain ignorance. Through May 31. Info, 338-7441. Thirty-odd in Burlington.

‘CONNECTIONS’: Howard Center Arts Collective presents an art installation of painted mailboxes and mosaics, inviting viewers to reflect on the benefits of old-fashioned mail delivery and to consider whether mailboxes have become relics of the past. Through July 31. Info, artscollective@howardcenter.org. Howard Center in Burlington.

‘EUFLORIA’: Watercolor paintings by Annelein Beukenkamp and glass vases by Janet Zug. Watercolor demo: Saturday, May 27, 2-4 p.m., followed by closing reception, 4-6 p.m. Through June 1. Info, 863-6458. Frog Hollow Vermont Craft Gallery in Burlington.

‘(EXTRA)ORDINARY’: Small framed boxes by Jennifer Koch that feature collaged objects from her collections; and digital prints by Jordan Douglas from analog images of objects in his father’s house and studio. Closing reception: Saturday, May 13, 2-5 p.m. Through May 13. Info, 373-7096. new new art studio in Burlington.

MARY LACY: “Anatomy Of,” drawings and mixedmedia mosaics of body parts and figures. Through June 17. Info, 324-0014. Soapbox Arts in Burlington.

PIEVY POLYTE: Paintings by the Haitian artist, coffee farmer and founder of Peak Macaya Coffee. Curated by Burlington City Arts. Through August 31. Info, 865-7296. Burlington City Hall.

SARAH ROSEDAHL: “Coffee Break,” paintings of farm animals enjoying a cup. Curated by SEABA. Through June 27. Info, 859-9222. Speeder & Earl’s Coffee in Burlington.

chittenden county

‘ABENAKI CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE VERMONT COMMUNITY’: A series of murals designed by Scott Silverstein in consultation with Abenaki artists Lisa Ainsworth Plourde and Vera Longtoe Sheehan and members of Richmond Racial Equity; the 10 panels celebrate the Abenaki origins of practices still important to Vermont culture. Through May 31. Info, radiate.art.space@gmail.com. Richmond Town Hall.

CONNOR TORPEY: “T.E.A.M.,” or the Team of Elite Action Men, comic art inspired by pulp sci-fi and adventure comics, by the SMC student. Through May 15. Info, bcollier@smcvt.edu. McCarthy Art Gallery, Saint Michael’s College, in Colchester.

DEB PEATE: “Whimsical Heads,” wall sculptures featuring William Morris textile designs and vintage jewelry. Through July 1. Info, 863-2569. Healthy Living Market & Café in South Burlington.

EL EMIGRANTE: Paintings of imagined landscapes by the Mexican migrant working in Vermont, and a display of his story from the comic “Algo Adentro/ Something Inside.” Artist talk: Friday, May 19, 4:30-6 p.m. RSVP. Through June 30. Info, wellness@ opendoormidd.org. Brownell Library in Essex Junction.

‘EMERGENCE’: Spring-themed paintings by members of the Vermont Watercolor Society. Through May 14. Info, 899-3211. Emile A. Gruppe Gallery in Jericho.

GREG NICOLAI: Black-and-white and color photographs. Curated by Burlington City Arts. Through June 23. Info, 865-7296. Pierson Library in Shelburne.

ROSS SHEEHAN: “Defects and Other Objects,” works on paper and canvas featuring patterns that exist in eyes, teeth and fingerprints, as well as small mixedmedia sculptures. Through May 31. Info, 846-4140. South Burlington Public Library Art Wall.

‘VERMONT VERNACULAR’: Paintings, mixed-media works and photography by Linda Finkelstein, Kathleen Fleming, Susan Larkin and Phil Laughlin. Through May 30. Info, gallery@southburlingtonvt. gov. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall.

barre/montpelier

CHIP HAGGERTY: “Thank You Notes,” large-scale paintings on brown bag paper. Through June 3. Info, haggerty@pshift.com. The Front in Montpelier.

CINDY LEE LORANGER: Vibrant pop-style and abstract mixed-media works with a jazz-appreciation theme. Through May 15. Info, 479-0896. Espresso Bueno in Barre.

HILARY ANN LOVE GLASS: Mixed-media drawings and paintings of flora and fauna. Reception: Friday, May 12, 4-7 p.m. Through June 30. Info, 229-6206. North Branch Nature Center in Montpelier.

KATE BURNIM: “Liminal Arc,” paintings that contemplate space, time, separation and togetherness, boundaries, transition, and memory. Through June 30. Info, 279-5558. Vermont Supreme Court Gallery in Montpelier.

MICHAEL STRAUSS: “Selected Works,” vibrant paintings of life in Vermont by the South Burlington artist and writer. THE PRINTMAKING INVITATIONAL 2023: A showcase of prints by Vermont artists Brian Cohen, Maureen O’Connor Burgess and Daryl Storrs, curated by Phillip Robertson. Through May 25. Info, 262-6035. T.W. Wood Gallery in Montpelier.

ROBERT CHAPLA: “Paradise Paved: Same Song Different Verse,” paintings of roads and built

CALL TO ARTISTS

environments, curated by Studio Place Arts. Through May 20. Info, 479-7069. AR Market in Barre.

stowe/smuggs

‘BFA TWO’: A culminating bachelor of fine art exhibit featuring works by Lynna Page, Deanna Santo and Dylan Young. Through May 13. Info, 635-1469. Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Northern Vermont University, in Johnson.

‘HOME AND HOW WE MAKE IT’: An exhibition of 30 miniature rooms, as well as woodworking, textiles and paintings that define visually and conceptually what home means. Through June 1. Info, 888-1261. River Arts in Morrisville.

LEGACY COLLECTION: A showcase exhibition of paintings by gallery regulars as well as some newcomers. Through December 23. Info, 644-5100. Bryan Memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville.

LIZ KAUFFMAN: “Affinity,” abstract paintings that explore harmony and tension in color and form. Through May 16. Info, 635-2727. Red Mill Gallery, Vermont Studio Center, in Johnson.

SCOTT LENHARDT: An exhibition of graphic designs for Burton Snowboards created since 1994 by the Vermont native. Through October 31. Info, 253-9911. Vermont Ski and Snowboard Museum in Stowe.

mad river valley/waterbury

‘DESIGN MADE VISIBLE’: A multidisciplinary group exhibition exploring the table as metaphor. Through June 22. Info, 496-6682. The Gallery at Mad River Valley Arts in Waitsfield.

middlebury area

‘A CELEBRATION OF TREES’: Artwork by 80 local artists in a variety of mediums that convey heartfelt appreciation for trees, in collaboration with the Middlebury Tree Committee. Through May 13. Info, 989-7225. Sparrow Art Supply in Middlebury.

‘INTRODUCING!’: A group exhibition featuring new Edgewater artists Tracy Burtz, Melanie Considine,

2023 BCA COMMUNITY FUND: Artists are invited to apply for a grant of up to $5,000 to support a Burlington-based project that promotes a vibrant creative community and contributes to the greater public good. Application at burlingtoncityarts.awardsplatform.com. Online. Through May 22.

AIA VERMONT COMMUNITY OUTREACH GRANT: The $1,500 Carol Miklos Community Outreach Grant was created to support initiatives and special funding requests that have the potential to foster engagement with architecture and design in Vermont’s communities. Deadline: June 1. Application at aiavt.org. Online. Free. Info, 448-2169.

ARTS ON THE GREEN: Calling artists and artisans to the fourth annual outdoor arts market and festival in Chelsea. The September 2 event includes vendor booths, live music, food trucks, auction tent and family art activities. Find application details at chelseavt-arts.com. Deadline: July 30. Online. $50 for vendor booth. Info, chelseaartscollective@gmail.com.

‘CELEBRATION’: Artists are invited to submit one or two pieces of artwork in any medium that expresses the theme of celebration, for a summertime exhibition at Jericho Town Hall. Details and registration at jerichovt.org. Online. Through May 26. Info, catherine.mcmains@gmail.com.

CREATIVE FUTURES GRANTS: The Vermont Arts Council awards grants of up to $200,000 to creative sector organizations and businesses, including sole proprietors, that can demonstrate economic harm caused or exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Application at vermontartscouncil. org. Deadline: June 30. Online. Info, creativefutures@vermontartscouncil.org.

RABBLE-ROUSER ART GALLERY SHOWCASE: Black, Indigenous, people of color and queer artists are encouraged to apply to an open themed monthly exhibition. Art can be unconventional, multicultural, political, seek to break societal constructs, question norms, foster social change or just make people ponder. Send artwork samples or portfolio along with name, medium, artwork description and size and price per piece, if applicable, to culture@rabblerouser.net. Rabble-Rouser Chocolate & Craft Co., Montpelier. Through June 30. Free. Info, 225-6227.

SEEKING ARTIST MEMBERS: The Front gallery in Montpelier is looking for new artists. Members contribute time, energy and financial support to keep the gallery running. We have a new show every month, featuring all members’ work in six group exhibitions, alternating with six solo shows each year. Info and application at thefrontvt.com/apply. Deadline: June 17. Online. Info, apply@thefrontvt.com.

Marcia Crumley, Larry Horowitz, Julie Keller and Sasha Dorje Meyerowitz. Through May 25. Info, 4580098. Edgewater Gallery at the Falls in Middlebury.

RORY JACKSON: “Seasonal Majesty,” a solo exhibition of new paintings by the local artist. Reception: Thursday, June 8, 5-6:30 p.m. Through June 27. Info, 989-7419. Edgewater Gallery on the Green in Middlebury.

WINSLOW COLWELL: “#Skylights,” paper constructions, light boxes, kite art and folded lanterns by the Ripton artist. Through June 10. Info, 382-9222. Jackson Gallery, Town Hall Theater, in Middlebury.

rutland/killington

‘IT’S ALL ABOUT THE ARTS’: A showcase of work by artists in grades pre-K-12 from Vermont schools and homeschoolers. Through May 26. Info, 775-0356. Chaffee Art Center in Rutland.

NEW MEMBERS EXHIBITION: Fused-glass work by Garrett Sadler, wood crafts by Guy Rossi, landscape paintings by Brian Hewitt, pastel paintings of animals and nature by Lynn Austin, and sculpture and realist paintings by Liza Myers. Through October 31. Info, 247-4956. Brandon Artists Guild.

upper valley

BECCA LOWRY: Biomorphic, wall-hung sculptures carved from assemblages of laminated plywood and heavily ornamented in mixed media. Through May 27. Info, 347-264-4808. Kishka Gallery & Library in White River Junction.

‘ECLECTRICITY’: Photographs by Natalie Boze and paintings in various mediums by Becky Cook that encompass nature and manmade structures, real or imagined. Reception: Thursday, May 18, 6:30-8 p.m. Through June 29. Info, artbcook@gmail.com. Norwich Public Library.

‘EMERGENCE’: A group exhibition of monoprints, woodcut prints, paintings and collages by studio artists and friends. Through May 28. Info, 295-5901. Two Rivers Printmaking Studio in White River Junction.

SEEKING EXPERIMENTAL ARTISTS: Under Radar is an underground punk zine looking for experimental Vermont artists in photography, dark fantasy, collage, poetry, surrealism, contemporary art, lowbrow comix/ illustrations and more. Submission guidelines on Instagram at @underadarzine or at underadarzine.com. Deadline: June 1. Online. Free. Info, underradarzine@ gmail.com.

SOLO & SMALL GROUP SHOWS: Studio Place Arts in Barre invites artists to apply for 2024 exhibitions in its second- and third-floor galleries. Application info at studioplacearts.com. Deadline: June 3. Online. $10 nonmembers. Info, submissions.studioplacearts@gmail.com.

SOUTH END ART HOP REGISTRATION: Artists and vendors are invited to sign up to participate in Burlington’s largest art festival in September. Details and application at seaba.com. Online. Through July 31. Info, 859-9222.

SYLVIA BARRY ART CONTEST: The annual competition for students is designed to encourage the artistic endeavors of local youth. Open to permanent residents of Grand Isle County in grades K-8 attending GISU or home schools. Details at islandarts.org. Deadline: May 19. Online. Free. Info, islandartscontest@gmail.com.

‘TEXTURE!’: The next exhibit at Sparrow Art Supply Gallery in Middlebury will feature artworks that are rough, soft, scratchy, silky, furry, glossy, spiky and more! Guidelines at sparrow-art-supply.square.site. Deadline: May 14. Online. Free to enter; $10 if accepted. Info, 989-7225.

‘WHEELS!’: The Museum of Everyday Life invites wheel-related contributions to an upcoming exhibition: personal artifacts accompanied by a narrative, raw ideas for displays, fully realized art objects, theoretical writings and more. To contribute, or for more info, contact Clare Dolan via the “contact us” form at museumofeverydaylife.org. Online. Through May 12.

‘YOU’RE ABSOLUTELY SPINELESS’: Artists are invited to contribute to an upcoming show that highlights invertebrates, large and small, frightening and beautiful. Traditional and nontraditional mediums, including installations, are acceptable. For more info and applications, email submissions.studioplacearts@ gmail.com. Deadline: May 27. Studio Place Arts, Barre. $10 nonmember applicants. Info, 479-7069.

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JOHN LEHET: “Spring Hopes Eternal,” seasonal nature-based photography. Through July 3. Info, 295-4567. Long River Gallery in White River Junction.

LYNN GRAZNAK: “I Dream the Ghosts of Houses,” video art by the multidisciplinary artist. Through May 31. Free. Info, 295-6688. Junction Arts & Media in White River Junction.

northeast kingdom

ANN CREAVEN: “Black & White and In Between,” photographs. Through June 27. Info, 525-3366. Parker Pie in West Glover.

DELIA ROBINSON: “Magical Thinking,” narrative daydream-inspired paintings by the Vermont artist. Through June 4. Info, 533-2000. Highland Center for the Arts in Greensboro.

‘IN FOCUS’: A group exhibition of photographs by Rob Boskind, Lawrence Cincotta, Karl Ehrlich, Steve Malshuk, Elinor Osborne and Ralph Zimmerman. Through June 17. Info, 334-1966. MAC Center for the Arts Gallery in Newport.

ROSS CONNELLY: “Variables,” photographs by the Hardwick-based photographer and retired journalist. Reception: Friday, May 12, 5-7 p.m. Through June 30. Info, oliveylin1@gmail.com. 3rd Floor Gallery in Hardwick.

‘TEETERING BETWEEN’: Paintings, photography and sculpture by Molly Boone, Linda Bryan, Harrison Halaska and Mike Howat, curated by Samantha M. Eckert of AVA Gallery and Art Center.

WILLIAM BETCHER: “Ghosts: Civil War Portraits,” a reanimation of daguerreotypes, ambrotypes and tintypes of soldiers and women in the 19th century using modern technology. Through June 4. Info, 748-2600. Catamount Arts Center in St. Johnsbury.

brattleboro/okemo valley

‘THE ART OF HANDMADE PHOTOGRAPHY’: A group exhibition in a variety of genres, mediums, styles, sizes and approaches by more than 30 local and national photographers, juried by Dale Rio. Through July 2. Info, 251-6051. Vermont Center for Photography in Brattleboro.

‘KEITH HARING: SUBWAY DRAWINGS’: Samples from the more than 5,000 chalk drawings the New York City artist made from 1980 to 1985 in subway stations. CATHY CONE: “Portals and Portraits,” modified tintypes and mixed media by the Vermont photographer that speak to the power and limitations of memory. DANIEL CALLAHAN: “En-MassQ,” works from two series in which the Boston-based artist painted his own face and the faces of others and detailed the performances with photographs, writing, and audio and visual vignettes. JUAN

HINOJOSA: “Paradise City,” collaged figures made from found objects that reflect on the challenges of immigrants creating a new home in a new place.

MITSUKO BROOKS: “Letters Mingle Souls,” mail art that incorporates imaginary letters addressed by survivors to their deceased loved ones and explores the impacts of mental illness and suicide. Through June 11. Info, 257-0124. Brattleboro Museum & Art Center.

CHARLES W. NORRIS-BROWN: “Distant Thunder Studio, “ original artworks from the late artist’s graphic novel Thunder Basin within a recreation of his studio as an interactive exhibition. Through June 10. THE SPRING SALON: Artwork in a variety of mediums by 35 area artists. Through June 3. Info, 289-0104. Canal Street Art Gallery in Bellows Falls.

JOHN R. KILLACKY: “Flux,” an exhibition of objects from a wordless, process-based video inspired by scores, propositions and performative actions of Fluxus-era artists; cinematography by Justin Bunnell, editing by C. Alec Kozlowski and sound composition by Sean Clute. Through August 30. Info, 257-7898. CX Silver Gallery in Brattleboro.

SIMI BERMAN: “Other Worlds,” paintings in mixed media. Through May 14. Info, 387-0102. Next Stage Arts Project in Putney.

manchester/bennington

ALBERTO REY: “Cultural Landscapes,” a major exhibition featuring the artist’s Battenkill River project, including large-scale paintings, drawings, notes and photographs; as well as Rey’s Cuban heritage and bicultural identity. Through June 25. Info, 367-1311. Southern Vermont Arts Center in Manchester.

‘A HISTORY OF BENNINGTON’: An exhibition of artifacts that invites viewers to examine how history informs and affects our lives. Through December 31. ‘NEBIZUN: WATER IS LIFE’: An exhibition of artwork by Abenaki artists of the Champlain Valley and Connecticut River Valley regions to illustrate the Abenaki relationship to water, our awareness of water as a fundamental element necessary for all life, and concern about pollution of our water. Curated by Vera Longtoe Sheehan. Through July 26. Info, 447-1571. Bennington Museum.

randolph/royalton

CAROLINE TAVELLI-ABAR AND MARJORIE

RYERSON: “Full Circle,” ink and watercolor abstract paintings, and poetry; and “Mother Nature’s Liquid Gift,” a retrospective of water-inspired photography and poetry. Through May 31. Info, artetcvt@gmail. com. ART, etc. in Randolph.

JASON MILLS: “Digestive,” a retrospective of abstract paintings by the Vermont artist. Through May 19. Info, 889-9404. Tunbridge Public Library.

JOHN DOUGLAS: “My World in Black and White,” photographs by the Vershire artist. Through June 10. Info, 889-3525. The Tunbridge General Store Gallery.

outside vermont

KATHY BLACK, MICHAEL HEFFERNAN, SUSAN CALZA & HARRISON HALASKA: Paintings and video installation by the regional artists in four galleries. Through June 3. Info, 603-448-3117. AVA Gallery and Art Center in Lebanon, N.H.

‘¡PRINTING THE REVOLUTION! THE RISE AND IMPACT OF CHICANO GRAPHICS, 1965 TO NOW’: A Smithsonian American Art Museum traveling exhibition featuring 119 artworks by more than 74 artists of Mexican descent and allied artists active in Chicanx networks. Through June 11. KENT MONKMAN: “The Great Mystery,” four new paintings by the Cree artist along with five works in the museum’s collection that inspired them, by Hannes Beckmann, T.C. Cannon, Cyrus Edwin Dallin, Mark Rothko and Fritz Scholder. Through December 9. Info, 603-646-2808. Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, in Hanover, N.H.

‘PARALL(ELLES): A HISTORY OF WOMEN IN DESIGN’: A major exhibition celebrating the instrumental role that women have played in the world of design, featuring artworks and objects dating from the mid-19th century onward. Through May 28. Info, 514-285-2000. ‘VIEWS OF WITHIN: PICTURING THE SPACES WE INHABIT’: More than 60 paintings, photographs, prints, installations and textile works from the museum’s collection that present one or more evocations of interior space. Through June 30. Info, 514-235-2044. Montréal Museum of Fine Arts.

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‘RIGHT UNDER YOUR NOSE’: The Shelburne Museum presents children’s printed textiles from the collection of J.J. Murphy and Nancy Mladenoff, featuring 21 playful, colorful handkerchiefs with motifs including insects, alphabets, circus clowns, shadow puppets, the solar system and a lumberjack beaver. Through May 13. Info, 985-3346. Online. ➆

UNDbites

BY CHRIS FARNSWORTH

Dreaming of a Crown

It’s one thing to dream up a cool idea — we all have those. I wanted to start a speed metal GRATEFUL DEAD cover band called Hateful Shred just to prank some Deadheads at an open mic. Did I do it? No. Why? Because it would take work! (Also, I was assured by an assortment of Deadheads that they would likely enjoy such a spectacle.)

But Burlington folk trio HONEY & SOUL put in the e ort and made their dream a reality. Back in 2019, songwriter and guitarist HANNAH HAUSMAN, cellist and bassist CLEO FLEMMING, and fiddle and banjo player DANICA CUNNINGHAM spent some time in a yurt, where they decided to write down their biggest dreams as a band.

“We had a big board up on the wall, and we started writing all the things we wanted to achieve together,” Cunningham explained as she and her bandmates sat across the table from me at a Burlington bar.

“It quickly became this thing where we got very serious about figuring out exactly what we would need, and how much it would cost, to make a new record sound exactly how we wanted

it to,” Hausman added. “We did a fundraiser and raised $17,000 — and we ended up needing every dollar of it.”

The musicians took their time,

meticulously recording their dream project at several Burlington studios with coproducers and co-engineers DAN KRUGLAK and IAN STEINBERG. The result is the triumphant, emotionally charged Lady King, which the group released on May 5.

All but naked in its vulnerability, Lady King is a showcase of Hausman’s songwriting and the trio’s stunningly evocative vocal harmonies. From the soul-inflected “Separate Her Heart” to the anthemic title track, it’s a record that shows what a talented group of musicians can do with clear goals and the will to achieve them.

“Now that we’re getting the vinyl pressed and releasing the singles, it’s really rewarding to think back to that weekend in the yurt,” Cunningham said. “Because we really did get exactly what we set out to record.”

It’s also an album with a clear, intentional message, according to Hausman.

“These songs are about me coming into my own power,” she said with a knowing smile. “And realizing that such power comes from a place of love and

connection. Lady King encapsulates this idea of power that isn’t gendered.”

Hausman writes Honey & Soul’s songs, but the trio arranges and produces them together.

“Hannah will come into rehearsal and sort of just say, ‘Hey, I wrote a song. Can I share it?’” Flemming said. “And then she’ll play it, and Danica and I are like, ‘Holy shit, how did you make that?’”

Next, the three women usually start working out their harmonies, something Cunningham feels helps them understand and align with what Hausman has written.

“There are words in these songs that are truly healing,” she said. Cunningham, who is a music therapist by profession, believes Lady King is a record that can help those who listen to it “not feel alone and to find their own power.”

“Personally, I just want people to listen to this record and say, ‘Oh, my God, these people are so hot!’” Flemming joked, eliciting laughter from Hausman and Cunningham.

Whatever the reaction to the record, the band has big plans to promote it. The trio kicks o a summer tour on May 25 at the Monkey House in Winooski before swinging through New England and Montréal. Before that, however, is the release show of the album on Friday, May 12, at the O.N.E. Community Center in Burlington. For tickets, visit honeyandsoulmusic.com. Lady King is available on all streaming services.

Listening In

(Spotify mix of local jams)

1. “Faraja” by Kerubo

2. “Really Really Light” by the New Pornographers

3. “Separate Her Heart” by Honey & Soul

4. “Nantucket” by the Pilgrims

5. “Wondering If I’m Awake” by San Mateo

6. “All I Want Is Your Love” by Ursa and the Major Key

7. “Extinction Curse” by Beneath Black Waves

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LADY KING ENCAPSULATES THIS IDEA OF POWER THAT ISN'T GENDERED.

HANNAH HAUSMAN

On the Beat

RYAN OBER’s the ROMANS are back with a new music video and an upcoming show to celebrate it. Or maybe it’s vice versa?

“Irons in the Fire” is an easygoing Americana number, and the video, shot by director BRIAN JENKINS, fits the vibe perfectly. Ober and his bandmates CRESTON LEA (upright bass) and LOWELL THOMPSON (acoustic guitar) play the song in the middle of the AO Glass workshop in Burlington while the AO team crafts handblown glass. Something about string music and blowing glass goes together like pineapple and pizza. (Yeah, I said it. Don’t @ me, any of you pineapple-on-pizza-hating villains.)

It’s not just a cool location for the video, however. The Romans will perform a set at the AO Glass space on

Friday, May 19. I’ve never seen a show at a glassblowing workshop, but I’m all for the intersection of music and industrial settings. I always figured it would be SKINNY PUPPY or MINISTRY, but Ober and his new video have convinced me that I want to hear folk music and see things burned simultaneously.

It’s a big year for PUTUMAYO. The world music label, launched in 1993 in New York City by DAN STORPER — originally started Putumayo as a Latin American handicrafts shop famously parodied in an episode of “Seinfeld” — is turning 30.

To mark the occasion, Storper is traveling the country, making appearances on various radio shows and cohosting events, shouting out three decades of Putumayo. The label has released somewhere near 300 CDs and sold more than 35 million records in that time, all the while raising hundreds of thousands of dollars for nonprofit organizations.

Though the label has been based out of New Orleans since 2015, Putumayo also has o ces in Charlotte, along with JACOB EDGAR’s label and booking agency CUMBANCHA. The Vermont connection features strongly on the anniversary tour, as it culminates with a

celebration at Burlington’s Radio Bean on Friday, May 26.

Both Storper and Edgar — who is also the A&R consultant at Putumayo — will be in attendance as six international artists, some with Vermont ties, hit the stage. Madagascar-born and Burlington-based singer-songwriter

Montréal-based Mexican-born RUIZ artists

RAMOS a stacked lineup.

Eye on the Scene

Last week’s live music highlights from photographer Luke Awtry

VERMONT LUTHIERS AT WAKING WINDOWS, WINOOSKI, MAY 5-7: Over the course of the Waking Windows festival, I spotted four different bands playing instruments made in Vermont by luthiers featured in this week’s cover story (see page 26). Not just one but three made by Creston Lea were seen in the wild: Tyler Bolles rocked his metallic gray four-string bass with both Rough Francis and Swale; Paddy Reagan played his sugar pine custom with Paper Castles; and Eric Olsen, also of Swale, played one of Lea’s first-ever builds — a chambered custom made in 2005. Ben Schnier of Blueberry Betty played one of Micah Plante’s guitars, a 2018 triple-pickup custom named Revan. Having your instrument onstage in the hands of a great musician is the ultimate compliment to any luthier, and it shows that our Vermont builders totally rock.

On the Air

Where to tune in to Vermont music this week:

“Wave Cave Radio Show,” Wednesday, May 10, 2 p.m., on 105.9 the Radiator: DJs Flywlker and Gingervitus spin the best of local and nonlocal hip-hop.

“Exposure,” Wednesday, May 10, 6 p.m., on 90.1 WRUV: Local acts play live in studio.

“Rocket Shop Radio Hour,” Wednesday, May 10, 8 p.m., on 105.9 the Radiator: Local duo Whiskers of Odd play live in studio.

“ e Sounds of Burlington,” ursday, May 11, 9 p.m., at WBKM.org: Host Tim Lewis plays selections of local music.

“Cultural Bunker,” Friday, May 12, 7 p.m., on 90.1 WRUV: Host Melo Grant plays local and nonlocal hip-hop.

“All the Traditions,” Sunday, May 14, 7 p.m., on Vermont Public: Host Robert Resnik plays an assortment of folk music with a focus on Vermont artists.

Swale at the Monkey House during Waking Windows

CLUB DATES music+nightlife

live music

WED.10

Bent Nails House Band (rock) at Bent Nails Bistro, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free.

Bleary Eyed, Greg Freeman, Brody Price, Noah Kesey Magic Band (indie) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 9:15 p.m. $10/$15. Bluegrass & BBQ (bluegrass) at Four Quarters Brewing, Winooski, 6:30 p.m. Free.

Cormega, Blaq Poet, Blak Madeen, Mister Burns (hip-hop) at Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, South Burlington, 8 p.m. $25/$30.

ET (singer-songwriter) at CharlieO’s World Famous, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free.

Jazz Jam Sessions (jazz) at the 126, Burlington, 9 p.m. Free.

Jazz Night with Ray Vega (jazz) at Hotel Vermont, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free.

Julia Parent (singer-songwriter) at 14th Star Brewing, St. Albans, 6 p.m. Free.

Les Dead Ringers (jazz) at Bent Nails Bistro, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free.

Live Jazz (jazz) at Leunig’s Bistro & Café, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free.

The Lone Bellow Trio, Stephen Wilson Jr. (Americana) at Higher Ground Ballroom, South Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $25/$30.

Molly Parden, Kevin Klein (singer-songwriter) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 7 p.m. $10/$15.

Nathan Byrne (singer-songwriter) at American Flatbread Burlington Hearth, 5:30 p.m. Free.

Wednesday Night Dead (Grateful Dead covers) at Zenbarn, Waterbury Center, 7 p.m. $5. Willverine (electronic) at the Wallflower Collective, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free.

THU.11

Billy Wylder (solo) (folk) at the Coffee Bar, Bennington, 7:30 p.m. $20.

Breanna Elaine (singersongwriter) at Charlie-O’s World Famous, Montpelier, 8 p.m. Free.

Chris & Issy (covers) at Black Flannel Brewing & Distilling, Essex, 6 p.m. Free.

Couchsleepers, Cricket Blue, Liana Nuse Trio (indie) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 9 p.m. $10/$15.

David Ogrodowczyk (singersongwriter) at Filling Station, Middlesex, 6 p.m. Free.

Destroyer, the Reds, Pinks and Purples (singer-songwriter) at Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, South Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $25/$29.

Donna Thunder (country) at Blue Paddle Bistro, South Hero, 5:30 p.m. Free.

Elizabeth Begins (singersongwriter) at 1st Republic Brewing, Essex, 6 p.m. Free.

Fed Ash, Cadaverette, False Gods, Dearstreet, Corrupt World (punk) at Monkey House, Winooski, 8 p.m. $10/$15.

Grace Palmer and Socializing for Introverts (rock) at Red Square, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

Ira Friedman (jazz) at Hugo’s Bar and Grill, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free.

John Lackard Blues Duo (blues) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 6 p.m. Free.

Point of Order (rock) at Bent Nails Bistro, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free.

Ruminations (indie rock) at Red Square, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

FRI.12

90 Proof (covers) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 9 p.m. Free.

AliT, DJ Kev (singer-songwriter, DJ) at Stone’s Throw Pizza, Richmond, 6 p.m. Free.

Billy Wylder, Hungry Ghost (folk) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $12/$15.

Birdcode (jazz) at the Venetian Soda Lounge, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

Find the most up-to-date info on live music, DJs, comedy and more at sevendaysvt.com/music. If you’re a talent booker or artist planning live entertainment at a bar, nightclub, café, restaurant, brewery or coffee shop, send event details to music@sevendaysvt.com or submit the info using our form at sevendaysvt.com/postevent.

Vox Populi

When KYLE KINANE talks, he sounds awfully familiar. That’s because for eight years the comedian was the gravelly, baritone voice of the Comedy Central network. Kinane first grabbed attention with his 2010 debut album, Death of the Party, and his acerbic, often absurd takes on the mundane have made him a must-see comic. From joking about the eating habits of the Ku Klux Klan (“There’s no way that KKK members are only eating Eastern European-based foods.”) to questioning why people who play the odds with the lottery aren’t more afraid of lightning, Kinane has a perspective of the world that’s hilariously on point. He swings through Burlington for a three-day, five-set run this Thursday to Saturday, May 11 to May 13, at the Vermont Comedy Club.

Matty & Me (covers) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 9 p.m. Free.

Night Protocol (synthwave) at Red Square, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Phil Cohen (indie rock) at the Venetian Soda Lounge, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free.

Psychomanteum Spaisekult, Hell Priest, Black Belt Jones (metal) at Charlie-O’s World Famous, Montpelier, 9 p.m. Free.

Quadra (rock) at the Old Post, South Burlington, 8 p.m. Free.

Shane McGrath (acoustic) at Gusto’s, Barre, 6 p.m. Free.

Shane Murley Band (folk) at Jericho Café & Tavern, 7 p.m. Free.

Tiffany Pfeiffer (jazz) at Bleu Northeast Kitchen, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free.

Town Meeting (folk) at Foam Brewers, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free. Wolfhand, Keepsake (rock) at Despacito, Burlington, 8 p.m. $5.

Magic User, McAsh, New Erotics (punk, synth) at Charlie-O’s World Famous, Montpelier, 9:30 p.m. Free.

Mama Tried (country) at Jericho Café & Tavern, 7 p.m. Free.

Mirage (covers) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 9 p.m. Free. The New Pornographers, Wild Pink (indie rock) at Higher Ground Ballroom, South Burlington, 7 p.m. $28/$32.

Oaksie (folk rock) at the Den at Harry’s Hardware, Cabot, 6 p.m. Free.

Queer Takeover Evening (indie) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 6 p.m. $10/$15.

Redford Sons (rock) at Monopole, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 10 p.m. Free.

Seth Yacovone Band (blues, rock) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 8 p.m. $10.

Soul Stew (soul) at Martell’s at the Red Fox, Jeffersonville, 9:30 p.m. $5.

WED.17

Audrey Haddard, the Discussions, Will Keeper (singer-songwriter) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 9 p.m. $12/$15.

Bent Nails House Band (rock) at Bent Nails Bistro, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free.

Bluegrass & BBQ (bluegrass) at Four Quarters Brewing, Winooski, 6:30 p.m. Free.

DANA (noise rock) at Monkey House, Winooski, 8 p.m. $10/$15. The Dead Shakers (psych rock) at Charlie-O’s World Famous, Montpelier, 8 p.m. Free.

Fresh Pressed Wednesday with Froggies, Julia & the Nightcaps (funk) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 7 p.m. $5/$10.

Jazz Jam Sessions (jazz) at the 126, Burlington, 9 p.m. Free. Jazz Night with Ray Vega (jazz) at Hotel Vermont, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free.

Blackwater, Earthworm (jam) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 8 p.m. $8. Coane, Rowell & Schabner, Anachronist (folk rock) at Bent Nails Bistro, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free.

conswank (indie) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 10 p.m. $10/$12.

D Davis, Jim Pitman, Mike Wilson, Cookie (jazz) at Hugo’s Bar and Grill, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free.

Dave Mitchell’s Blues Revue (blues) at Red Square, Burlington, 2 p.m. Free.

Electrostatic Cats (folk) at Taps Tavern, Poultney, 6 p.m. Free. Family Night with Mal Maïz (latin) at Zenbarn, Waterbury Center, 7 p.m. $10.

Jay Burwick (acoustic) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free.

Jesse Agan (singer-songwriter) at 14th Star Brewing, St. Albans, 6 p.m. Free.

John Lackard Blues Band (blues) at Moogs Place, Morrisville, 8 p.m. Free.

Magnificent Desolation (rock) at Monopole, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 10 p.m. Free.

SAT.13

4Play (rock) at Gusto’s, Barre, 9 p.m. Free.

The Deviators (bluegrass) at Hugo’s Bar and Grill, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free.

Don White (folk) at United Church of Northfield, 7 p.m. Donation.

Dougie Poole, Sarah King (country) at Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, South Burlington, 7 p.m. $15/$18.

Dumbass Youth, Rockin’ Worms (indie rock) at Monkey House, Winooski, 8 p.m. $13/$15.

Duncan MacLeod Trio (blues) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 5 p.m. Free.

Grace Palmer (singer-songwriter) at Bleu Northeast Kitchen, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free.

Harley Brown Band (rock) at McKee’s Pub & Grill, Winooski, 9 p.m. Free.

JD Tolstoi (electronic) at Taps Tavern, Poultney, 6 p.m. Free.

Jim Branca (blues) at Bent Nails Bistro, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free.

Left Eye Jump (blues) at Red Square, Burlington, 2 p.m. Free.

SQWERV (indie rock) at Red Square, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

SUN.14

Adam McMahon Trio (jazz) at Red Square, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Bob MacKenzie Trio (blues) at Red Square, Burlington, 3 p.m. Free.

CATWOLF (indie rock) at the Venetian Soda Lounge, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Sunday Brunch Tunes (singersongwriter) at Hotel Vermont, Burlington, 10 a.m.

TUE.16

Bluegrass Jam (bluegrass) at Taps Tavern, Poultney, 7 p.m. Free.

Bob Recupero (blues) at Lawson’s Finest Liquids, Waitsfield, 5 p.m. Free.

Grateful Tuesdays (tribute) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. $20.

Honky Tonk Tuesday with Wild Leek River (country) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 9 p.m. $10.

Ratland, Meg Bohne (indie) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 7 p.m. $5/$10.

Les Dead Ringers (jazz) at Bent Nails Bistro, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free.

Live Jazz (jazz) at Leunig’s Bistro & Café, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free. Peak (jam) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 9 p.m. $10.

Stefani Capizzi (singersongwriter) at 14th Star Brewing, St. Albans, 6 p.m. Free.

Wednesday Night Dead (Grateful Dead covers) at Zenbarn, Waterbury Center, 7 p.m. $5. Willverine (electronic) at the Wallflower Collective, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free.

djs

WED.10

The Mid-Week Hump with DJ Fattie B and Craig Mitchell (DJ) at Monkey House, Winooski, 7 p.m. Free.

THU.11

DJ Chaston (DJ) at Red Square Blue Room, Burlington, 11 p.m. Free.

DJ Two Sev (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 9 p.m. Free.

THU.11-SAT.13 // KYLE KINANE [COMEDY]

Mi Yard Reggae Night with DJ Big Dog (reggae and dancehall) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 9:30 p.m. Free.

Vinyl Night with Ken (DJ) at Taps Tavern, Poultney, 6 p.m. Free.

FRI.12

DJ Craig Mitchell (DJ) at Red Square Blue Room, Burlington, 9 p.m. Free.

DJ Dakota (DJ) at Club Metronome, Burlington, 10 p.m.

$5.

DJ Kata (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

DJ Taka (DJ) at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 11 p.m. $10/$15.

DJ Two Rivers (DJ) at Gusto’s, Barre, 9 p.m. Free.

Emo Night Brooklyn (DJ) at Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, South Burlington, 8:30 p.m. $20/$23.

SAT.13

Blanchface (DJ) at Manhattan Pizza & Pub, Burlington, 10 p.m.

Free.

DJ A-Ra$ (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, midnight. Free.

DJ Raul (DJ) at Red Square Blue Room, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

DJ Taka (DJ) at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 11 p.m. $10/$15.

Matt Payne (DJ) at Red Square Blue Room, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

Molly Mood (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

Y2K Pop: 2000’s Pop Dance Party with D Jay Baron (DJ) at Club Metronome, Burlington, 10 p.m. $5.

MON.15

DJ four-d (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

DJ JP Black (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

TUE.16

Local Dork (DJ) at Foam Brewers, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

open mics & jams

WED.10

Irish Sessions (Celtic, open mic) at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

Open Mic (open mic) at Monopole, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 10 p.m. Free.

Open Mic with JD Tolstoi (open mic) at Taps Tavern, Poultney, 7 p.m. Free.

THU.11

Open Mic (open mic) at Whammy Bar, Calais, 6:30 p.m. Free.

Open Mic (open mic) at Orlando’s Bar & Lounge, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free.

SUN.14

Vermont Synthesizer Society

Presents: Knowable Filters (electronic) at Community of Sound, Burlington, 5 p.m. Free.

MON.15

Open Mic Night (open mic) at Despacito, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

TUE.16

Open Mic Night (open mic) at 1st Republic Brewing, Essex, 6 p.m. Free.

Venetian Soda Open Mic (open mic) at the Venetian Soda Lounge, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

WED.17

Irish Sessions (Celtic, open mic) at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

Open Mic (open mic) at Monopole, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 10 p.m. Free.

Open Mic with JD Tolstoi (open mic) at Taps Tavern, Poultney, 7 p.m. Free.

comedy

WED.10

Comedy Jam (comedy) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free.

Nice to Meet You! (comedy) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 7 p.m. $5.

Standup Comedy Open Mic (comedy open mic) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 8:30 p.m.

THU.11

Comedy Night (comedy) at Zenbarn, Waterbury Center, 7 p.m. Free.

Kyle Kinane (comedy) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $35.

Mothra! A Storytelling/ Improv Comedy Show (comedy) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free.

FRI.12

Kyle Kinane (comedy) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 7:30 & 9:30 p.m. $35.

SAT.13

Kyle Kinane (comedy) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 7:30 & 9:30 p.m. $35.

MON.15

Comedy Open Mic (comedy open mic) at the 126, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

WED.17

Standup Comedy Open Mic (comedy open mic) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 8:30 p.m.

Theater Queen: A Night of Drag and Musical Theater (drag) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. $10.

Whale Tales: An Evening of Comedic Storytelling (comedy) at Club Metronome, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free.

trivia, karaoke, etc.

WED.10

4Qs Trivia Night (trivia) at Four Quarters Brewing, Winooski, 6 p.m. Free.

Nerd Nite Trivia (trivia) at Citizen Cider, Burlington, 6:30-9 p.m. Free.

Trivia Night (trivia) at Stone Corral, Richmond, 7 p.m. Free.

Venetian Trivia Night (trivia) at the Venetian Soda Lounge, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

THU.11

Karaoke Night (karaoke) at Zenbarn, Waterbury Center, 7 p.m. Free.

‘Strike Out’ by Lizz Mangan (play) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 7 p.m. $10/$15.

Trivia Night (trivia) at McGillicuddy’s Five Corners, Essex Junction, 6:30 p.m. Free.

Trivia Night (trivia) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free.

Trivia Thursday (trivia) at Spanked Puppy Pub, Colchester, 7 p.m. Free.

SAT.13

Trivia Night! (trivia) at Rabble-Rouser Chocolate & Craft, Montpelier, 7 p.m. $5.

MON.15

Trivia Monday with Top Hat Entertainment (trivia) at McKee’s Pub & Grill, Winooski, 7-9 p.m. Free.

Trivia with Craig Mitchell (trivia) at Monkey House, Winooski, 7 p.m. Free.

TUE.16

Epic Lip Synch Battle (lip synch) at Bent Nails Bistro, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free.

Karaoke hosted by Motorcade (karaoke) at Manhattan Pizza & Pub, Burlington, 9 p.m. Free.

Karaoke with DJ Party Bear (karaoke) at Charlie-O’s World Famous, Montpelier, 9:30 p.m. Free.

Trivia Night (trivia) at the Depot, St. Albans, 7 p.m. Free.

Trivia Tuesday (trivia) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 7 p.m. Free.

Tuesday Night Trivia (trivia) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. ‘You’re Wrong About’ (podcast talk) at Higher Ground Ballroom, South Burlington, 7 p.m. $35/$39.

WED.17

4Qs Trivia Night (trivia) at Four Quarters Brewing, Winooski, 6 p.m. Free.

Nerd Nite Trivia (trivia) at Citizen Cider, Burlington, 6:30-9 p.m. Free.

Trivia Night (trivia) at Stone Corral, Richmond, 7 p.m. Free. ➆

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The New Pornographers, Continue as a Guest

(MERGE

RECORDS, DIGITAL, VINYL)

The most expert, e ective songwriters seem to follow their instincts on what becomes a lifelong journey to realizing and executing their vision. For more than two decades, Carl Newman has had his work cut out for him as he spearheads a team of noteworthy artists who are all accomplished songwriters or instrumentalists with successful careers of their own.

As the founder and leader of the New Pornographers, Newman may find that trusting his gut is sometimes easier said than done. He’s had to navigate conflicting schedules and commingle unique personalities to orchestrate the nine studio albums released by this large conglomerate and its varied cast of characters.

With Continue as a Guest, the band’s latest release — and the first on the prestigious Merge Records label — Newman has reinvigorated and essentially reimagined the New Pornographers with his remarkable power-pop autograph, placing this album alongside the group’s most lasting. In doing so, Newman reminds us that his vision alone gives this high-profile group of colleagues every reason to continue making records and touring with him, for all the opportunities that pull them in di erent directions.

Newman penned and produced the album in and around Woodstock, N.Y., where he now lives, and it was recorded in various spots nearby. Its 10 tracks are an abstract, imaginative look at the current spirit of our day and our daily lives — so much of which are spent online.

This time around, the ensemble features a smaller portion of the band’s foundational musicians — who, like Newman, are Canadian or have lived there and lent their know-how to the project over the years. A few new contributors are credited, as well.

As devotees of the band most likely hoped, Neko Case graces Continue as a Guest. The celebrated Vermontbased singer-songwriter’s gripping

voice has granted elegance and allure to the harmonies on previous New Pornographers recordings, bursting at the front of some of the most beloved songs in their catalog.

Contrasting Case’s performance with her own tender expression, multiinstrumentalist Kathryn Calder again fills a vital role in the group’s sound. She’s played keyboard since 2005, added some guitar duties a few years later and has been the lead vocalist on numerous tracks.

Bassist John Collins joins Newman and Case as the only other remaining full-time original member of the band. Also returning is drummer Joe Seiders, who came on board in 2014, and guitarist Todd Fancey, who joined in 2003.

Though this album seems to confirm the departure of longtime vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Dan Bejar, the front man of Destroyer — another group on the popping Merge Records roster — is credited as a writer on the album’s opening track. “Really Really Light” immediately crashes with a formidable sonic impetus, harking back to classic New Pornographers’ albums such as their 2000

debut Mass Romantic and 2005’s Twin Cinema

Continue as a Guest opens with colliding instrumentation that morphs into an unconventional, hooking melody — a trademark of the New Pornographers. Even as these songs arrest the listener for a serious examination of loneliness and falling short of goals in this strange, potentially defining period of human existence, they’re decorated with delightful harmonies.

The album hit shelves and streaming services at what is most certainly also a pivotal time for the New Pornographers. It’s the first not to feature synthesizer player Blaine Thurier, although the longtime videographer directed a recent project commemorating the 20th anniversary of the album Electric Version.

And it is the first New Pornographers album with an outsider in a featured role. Soprano/tenor saxophonist Zach Djanikian’s presence adds mystique early in “Pontius Pilate’s Home Movies,” a provocative contemplation in which Newman wields lyrical wisdom and exhibits

his range as a vocalist alongside the talented Case and Calder.

Overseeing these significant changes, Newman is at his most determined and unfettered. As he said in a recent NPR interview, on Continue as a Guest, he continues to find himself as a songwriter and is more dedicated than ever to showcasing his own singing abilities.

After “Cat and Mouse With the Light” spotlights Case to shining, fulfilling e ect, “Last and Beautiful” responds with pounding, entrancing pop projections augmented by spotless conjoined harmonies, with Seiders helping, as well.

Who does what and how much on any given New Pornographers recording has been a point of contention for critics, who make high demands of this collective. Here, Newman brings out the best in his bandmates while honing his own craft.

On the deeply reflective title track, Newman delivers an astute take on what he sees as a disjointed, impersonal climate, epitomized by a checkout option that the internet shopping experience has made all too familiar.

The album chugs along in renewed but familiar New Pornographers fashion, with several additional rewards. “Angelcover” is an intrepid, tuneful o ering that shows a confident, ambitious band finding its next step. The ethereal “Firework in the Falling Snow” features contributions from Sadie Dupuis, who heads indie rock squad Speedy Ortiz. She wrote some of the song’s lyrics but doesn’t appear on the track.

Continue as a Guest concludes with its most damning condemnation of the current state of a airs in “Wish Automatic Suite.” This adventurous composition unifies the distinct and convincing voices of the group in its lyrics — “There are way too many eyes on the prize” — before it bends with a prophetic, impossible invitation that repeats, drifts and haunts: “Meet me in the mirror maze, tell me when you find the floor / tell me when you find your way out.”

Rejuvenating the sounds of an established band with an uncommon makeup and lofty expectations, Newman demonstrates with this batch of songs that he’s an evolving, inquisitive songwriter with the wherewithal to artfully extend the life of a project that many thought might be short-lived.

Continue as a Guest is available on all major streaming services. The New Pornographers perform on Saturday, May 13, at the Higher Ground Ballroom in South Burlington.

CASEY RYAN VOCK

on screen

Given the constant buzz about Disney’s new The Little Mermaid, which will hit theaters on May 26, no one would guess that another live-action remake of one of the company’s animated stalwarts was recently released on Disney+.

Granted, Peter Pan & Wendy is more a reimagining than a remake of the 1953 Peter Pan. Director David Lowery, who previously helmed Disney’s Pete’s Dragon but is better known for his adult art-house fare (The Green Knight, A Ghost Story), has put his own spin on J.M. Barrie’s wellworn story with the help of cowriter Tony Halbrooks. Despite my low tolerance for modern blockbuster interpretations of the boy who wouldn’t grow up, I was curious to see what that spin would be.

The deal

Peter Pan & Wendy ★★★ REVIEW

On the eve of being packed o to boarding school to become a proper young lady, Wendy Darling (Ever Anderson) would rather roughhouse with her kid brothers, John (Joshua Pickering) and Michael (Jacobi Jupe). Then Peter Pan (Alexander Molony), whom the Darling children know as a fictional character, bursts into their lives in Edwardian London.

With the help of Tinker Bell (Yara Shahidi) and her pixie dust, Peter flies the Darlings to Neverland, where he lives with a crew of orphaned Lost Boys, not all of whom are boys. The evil Captain Hook (Jude Law) and his pirate crew immediately kidnap John and Michael, but Wendy rescues them with the aid of Peter’s ally, Tiger Lily (Alyssa Wapanatâhk). As she struggles to understand the elusive, stubborn Peter and his hatred of adulthood, Wendy works through her own conflicted feelings about growing up.

Will you like it?

Peter Pan and Wendy is one of the earlier titles borne by the 1911 novel that today is usually called just Peter Pan. The variant title acknowledges Wendy’s central role in the story as a reader surrogate and the character who makes perhaps the most meaningful choice: whether to grow up or remain in Neverland.

On one level, then, the title of Peter Pan & Wendy signals Lowery’s intention to return to Peter Pan ’s origins. But it also indicates a major reenvisioning that could happen only in the 21st century: This

version is more Wendy’s story than it has ever been before.

In the original, Wendy compliantly plays the role of the Lost Boys’ surrogate mother, at Peter’s urging. This Wendy expresses doubts about ever becoming a mom. Her romantic rivalries with Tiger Lily and Tinker Bell, which drive much of the book’s action, have been transformed into strong female friendships. “This magic belongs to no man,” Wendy eventually crows as she deploys the power that Tink has entrusted to her.

So, yes, this is the girl-power version of Peter Pan. But maybe we were due for one after all the male-centric modernizations of the story that we’ve seen over the decades, from midlife-crisis Peter Pan (1991’s Hook) to Harry Potterized Peter Pan (2015’s Pan).

If the story retains its old-fashioned charm, that’s because Lowery manages to introduce modern character dynamics without using too much modern language. The movie shows a strong familiarity with the source, patches of its dialogue coming straight from the Victorian theatrical tradition (Peter Pan began its life as a stage play).

Despite that charm, there’s a certain lifelessness to Peter Pan & Wendy , perhaps reflecting Lowery’s conception of

Neverland as a domain of arrested development. The stark, minimalist setting — shooting locations included Newfoundland and the Faroe Islands — highlights the repetition built into the story.

Molony makes a refreshingly exuberant Peter, yet his underlying attitude comes across as archaic and restrictive, perhaps even more than Peter’s in the novel. For all his reputation as a force of chaos, this Peter is wedded to rules — first and foremost, the notion that Neverland must never change. He may seem to live in blissful, parent-free anarchy, but his life is actually as programmed as that of a “Looney Tunes” character: battle Hook, rinse, repeat.

Here, the reveal of an unexpected connection between Peter and Hook — almost mandatory in modern versions — suggests that both are trapped in a cycle of opposition. At one point, as the two prepare for another showdown, a pirate breaks the fourth wall to acknowledge that the whole thing is a bit stifling: “Wake me up when one of them kills the other. Again.”

All of this meta-ness and revisionism make Peter Pan & Wendy a film that’s fun to analyze but somewhat less fun to watch. Perhaps the combination of carefully curated Disney diversity with

old-school dialogue has an alienating e ect. Or perhaps depriving Tink of her jealous, playful malice — the foundation of her character — saps her of magic, too. It’s great that kids now have a Peter Pan that doesn’t lean into antiquated gender roles. As an adventure, though, this version never quite takes flight.

MARGOT HARRISON margot@sevendaysvt.com

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PAN (2015; Netflix, rentable): If Peter Pan & Wendy is a little inert, this frenetic Peter Pan prequel from Joe Wright, featuring a dashing young Captain Hook, is a god-awful mess. Kids might enjoy its sheer too-muchness, though.

FINDING NEVERLAND (2004; Pluto TV, rentable): In a more adult vein, Johnny Depp played Barrie in this Oscar-nominated drama that explores the real-life inspirations behind Peter Pan.

PETE’S DRAGON (2016; Disney+, rentable): Lowery got better reviews for his remake of the 1977 Disney flick about a mysterious orphan boy whose best friend is a dragon.

People and even ships fly in Lowery’s feminist take on the Peter Pan story, but the movie itself never quite gets airborne.

NEW IN THEATERS

BOOK CLUB: THE NEXT CHAPTER: Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen, Mary Steenburgen and Diane Keaton play four friends who bring their book club to Italy in this comedy sequel, directed by Bill Holderman. (107 min, PG-13. Capitol, Majestic, Palace, Star, Welden)

FOOL’S PARADISE: Charlie Day plays a shady publicist in this Hollywood satire that he also directed. (97 min, R. Palace, Stowe)

HYPNOTIC: Ben Affleck plays a detective searching for his own daughter in this science fiction thriller directed by Robert Rodriguez. (92 min, R. Majestic, Palace)

RALLY ROAD RACERS: A rookie competes in a long-distance road race in this animated comedy from Ross Venokur. (93 min, PG. Majestic, Palace)

SISU: A Finnish treasure hunter faces off against Nazis in this World War II action film directed by Jalmari Helander. (91 min, R. Stowe)

CURRENTLY PLAYING

ARE YOU THERE, GOD? IT’S ME, MARGARET. HHH1/2 Kelly Fremon Craig directed this adaptation of Judy Blume’s classic. (105 min, PG-13. Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Palace, Playhouse, Roxy; reviewed 5/3)

BEAU IS AFRAIDHHH Joaquin Phoenix plays a troubled man processing his mother’s death in an unclassifiable epic that has divided audiences. Ari Aster (Midsommar) directed. (179 min, R. Roxy, Savoy)

BIG GEORGE FOREMAN: THE MIRACULOUS STORY OF THE ONCE AND FUTURE HEAVYWEIGHT

CHAMPION OF THE WORLDHH1/2 Khris Davis plays the boxer in this inspirational biopic from director George Tillman Jr. (The Hate U Give) (129 min, PG-13. Capitol, Essex)

CHEVALIERHHH1/2 Kelvin Harrison Jr. plays 18th-century Black French composer Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-George, in this biopic from director Stephen Williams. (107 min, PG-13. Roxy, Savoy)

COCAINE BEARHH1/2 Elizabeth Banks directed this comedy-thriller about a bear that terrorizes the countryside after going on a coke binge. (95 min, R. Sunset; reviewed 3/8)

DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: HONOR AMONG

THIEVESHHH1/2 Chris Pine and Michelle Rodriguez play adventurers in the world of the fantasy role-playing game. (134 min, PG-13. Majestic, Roxy)

EVIL DEAD RISEHHH1/2 In the horror series’ fifth installment, two estranged sisters (Lily Sullivan and Alyssa Sutherland) learn the true meaning of family by fighting off demons. (97 min, R. Essex, Majestic, Palace, Sunset)

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 3HHH1/2

The intergalactic crew regroups after a crushing loss in yet another Marvel Cinematic Universe extravaganza. James Gunn wrote and directed. (150 min, PG-13. Big Picture, Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Marquis, Palace, Paramount, Roxy, Star, Stowe, Sunset, Welden)

JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4HHHH Keanu Reeves once again plays a hit man battling a global organization in Chad Stahelski’s stylized action flick. (169 min, R. Majestic, Sunset)

LOVE AGAINH1/2 What if your dead fiancé’s phone number were reassigned … to someone really attractive? Jim Strouse directed this rom-com. (104 min, PG-13. Big Picture, Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Palace)

POLITE SOCIETYHHHH A martial artist in training (Priya Kansara) plans a “wedding heist” to save her younger sister from the wrong marriage in this action-comedy. (103 min, PG-13. Savoy)

R.M.N.HHHH This drama from acclaimed Romanian director Cristian Mungiu examines the workings of anti-immigrant prejudice in a small Transylvanian town. (125 min, NR. Catamount)

SHOWING UPHHHH Michelle Williams plays a sculptor juggling daily dramas in the latest from Kelly Reichardt (First Cow). (107 min, R. Roxy, Savoy)

THE SUPER MARIO BROS. MOVIEHH1/2 Chris Pratt voices a Brooklyn plumber in the Mushroom Kingdom in this animated adaptation of the Nintendo game. (92 min, PG. Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Marquis, Palace, Paramount, Roxy, Star, Sunset, Welden)

SUZUMEHHHH1/2 In this animated adventure, two young people try to close mysterious doors that are unleashing disasters on Japan. (122 min, PG. Savoy; reviewed 4/19)

WHAT’S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT?HHH A friend’s arranged marriage prompts a young filmmaker (Lily James) to examine her own attitude toward romance in this rom-com. (108 min, PG-13. Catamount, Savoy)

OLDER FILMS AND SPECIAL SCREENINGS

ANT-MAN AND THE WASP: QUANTUMANIA (Sunset)

THE CRIMSON WING: MYSTERY OF THE FLAMINGOS (Catamount, Fri only)

THE FARM BOY (Catamount, Sat only; Playhouse, Mon only)

GKIDS PRESENTS STUDIO GHIBLI FEST 2023: PONYO 15TH ANNIVERSARY (Essex, Wed 10 only)

NORMA RAE (Catamount, Wed 10 only)

ROSHNI (Catamount, Sun only)

THE POPE’S EXORCIST (Sunset)

OPEN THEATERS

(* = upcoming schedule for theater was not available at press time)

BIG PICTURE THEATER: 48 Carroll Rd., Waitsfield, 496-8994, bigpicturetheater.info

*BIJOU CINEPLEX 4: 107 Portland St., Morrisville, 888-3293, bijou4.com

CAPITOL SHOWPLACE: 93 State St., Montpelier, 229-0343, fgbtheaters.com

CATAMOUNT ARTS: 115 Eastern Ave., St. Johnsbury, 748-2600, catamountarts.org

*ESSEX CINEMAS & T-REX THEATER: 21 Essex Way, Suite 300, Essex, 879-6543, essexcinemas.com

MAJESTIC 10: 190 Boxwood St., Williston, 878-2010, majestic10.com

MARQUIS THEATER: 65 Main St., Middlebury, 388-4841, middleburymarquis.com

*MERRILL’S ROXY CINEMAS: 222 College St., Burlington, 864-3456, merrilltheatres.net

PALACE 9 CINEMAS: 10 Fayette Dr., South Burlington, 864-5610, palace9.com

PARAMOUNT TWIN CINEMA: 241 N. Main St., Barre, 479-9621, fgbtheaters.com

PLAYHOUSE MOVIE THEATRE: 11 S. Main St., Randolph, 728-4012, playhouseflicks.com

SAVOY THEATER: 26 Main St., Montpelier, 229-0598, savoytheater.com

STAR THEATRE: 17 Eastern Ave., St. Johnsbury, 748-9511, stjaytheatre.com

STOWE CINEMA 3PLEX: 454 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-4678, stowecinema.com

SUNSET DRIVE-IN: 155 Porters Point Rd., Colchester, 862-1800, sunsetdrivein.com

*WELDEN THEATRE: 104 N. Main St., St. Albans, 527-7888, weldentheatre.com

Note: These capsule descriptions are not intended as reviews. Star ratings come from Metacritic unless we reviewed the film (noted at the end of the description). Find reviews written by Seven Days critic Margot Harrison at sevendaysvt.com/ onscreen-reviews.

RACIAL TRAUMA AND GENERATIONAL HEALING

With Howard Center’s Diversit y, Equity, and Inclusion Director Catarina Campbell, M.Ed. Presentation followed by Q&A.

May 18, 2023 | 7:00-8:00 pm | Zoom webinar with Q&A. Registration required at www.howardcenter.org.

“I am so grateful for FPF for the sense of community and support; any time I post, I am overwhelmed with responses that leave me feeling cared for and with a sense of belonging.” —Lisa, Hardwick

MAY 10-17, 2023

WED.10 activism

ASHLEY MESSIER: The executive director of the Women’s Justice and Freedom Initiative explains how she became an advocate for prison abolition. Presented by Vermont Humanities. 7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, jpelletier@vermonthumanities. org.

business

APPROACH SALES EFFECTIVELY WITH CONFIDENCE TO GROW YOUR BUSINESS & THRIVE: Mercy

Connections hosts a workshop on interpersonal skills for salespeople. Noon-1 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 846-7081.

QUEEN CITY BUSINESS

NETWORKING

INTERNATIONAL GROUP: Local professionals make crucial contacts at a weekly chapter meeting. Burlington City Arts, 11:15 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 829-5066.

community

COMMUNITY PARTNERS

DESK: AGEWELL: Seniors stop by the main reading room to ask questions and learn about programs available to them. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 2-4 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.

CURRENT EVENTS: Neighbors have an informal discussion about what’s in the news. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m.noon. Free. Info, 878-4918.

crafts

GREEN MOUNTAIN CHAPTER OF THE EMBROIDERERS’

GUILD OF AMERICA: Anyone with an interest in the needle arts is welcome to bring a

project to this monthly meeting. Holy Family Parish Hall, Essex Junction, 9:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, gmc.vt.ega@ gmail.com.

etc.

LIFE STORIES WE LOVE TO TELL: Prompts from group leader Maryellen Crangle inspire true tales, told either off the cuff or read from prewritten scripts. Presented by Dorothy Alling Memorial Library. 2-3:30 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 878-4918.

film

See what’s playing at local theaters in the On Screen section.

‘ELEMENTAL: REIMAGINE

WILDFIRE’: An award-winning documentary takes a searing look into the truth about forest fires and humanity’s response to them. Savoy Theater, Montpelier, 6:30-8:30 p.m. $10. Info, 703-395-5248.

‘JOURNEY TO SPACE 3D’: Sparkling graphics and vibrant interviews take viewers on a journey alongside NASA astronauts as they prepare for stranger-than-sciencefiction space travel. Northfield Savings Bank 3D Theater: A National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 10:30 a.m., 12:30, 2:30 & 4:30 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $14.50-18; admission free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848.

‘MAX ROACH: THE DRUM

ALSO WALTZES’: A new documentary about the iconic jazz drummer’s seven-decade career makes its Vermont premiere. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 7 p.m. $14-16. Info, 382-9222.

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‘MYSTERIES OF THE UNSEEN WORLD 3D’: Sparkling graphics take viewers on a mindbending journey into phenomena that are too slow, too fast or too small to be seen by the naked eye. Northfield Savings Bank 3D Theater: A National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, noon, 2 & 4 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $14.50-18; admission free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848.

‘NOPE’: Jordan Peele’s most recent horror flick sees a horse ranching family face off against an unidentified freaky object. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.

‘NORMA RAE’: A textile worker labors to unionize her factory in this film based on an inspiring true story. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600.

NXT ROCKUMENTARY FILM SERIES: ‘BOB DYLAN: DON’T LOOK BACK’: The next installment in this screening series from Next Stage Arts and Next Chapter Records follows the folk messiah along his 1965 UK tour. Next Stage Arts Project, Putney, 7 p.m. $10 suggested donation. Info, 387-0102.

‘WILD AFRICA 3D’: Viewers are plunged into the magical vistas of the continent’s deserts, jungles and savannahs. Northfield Savings Bank 3D Theater: A National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 11 a.m., 1 & 3 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $14.50-18; admission free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848.

‘WINGS OVER WATER 3D’: Sandhill cranes, yellow warblers and mallard ducks make their lives along rivers, lakes and wetlands. Northfield

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art

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film

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music + nightlife

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= ONLINE EVENT

Savings Bank 3D Theater: A National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 11:30 a.m., 1:30 & 3:30 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $14.50-18; admission free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848.

food & drink

DINO BONES BBQ X THE LOCAL: A three-course barbecue, perfectly paired with specially selected beers and wines, sates earlysummer appetites. The Local, Middlesex, 6-8 p.m. $90; preregister. Info, 613-3794.

HOMEBREWING 101 WITH THE GREEN MOUNTAIN MASHERS: Certified cicerone Rob Friesel teaches hopheads the basics of making beer at home. City Market, Onion River Co-op, Burlington South End, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, info@citymarket. coop.

games

BOARD GAME NIGHT: Lovers of tabletop fun play classic games and new designer offerings. Waterbury Public Library, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 244-7036.

MAH-JONGG OPEN PLAY: Weekly sessions of an age-old game promote critical thinking and friendly competition. Manchester Community Library, Manchester Center, 12:30-3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 362-2607.

health & fitness

CHAIR YOGA: Waterbury Public Library instructor

Diana Whitney leads at-home participants in gentle stretches supported by seats. 10 a.m. Free. Info, 244-7036.

ROOTS OF PREVENTION AWARDS

CELEBRATION: The Burlington Partnership for a Healthy Community recognizes outstanding contributions to community wellness. Burlington City Hall Auditorium, 5:30-7:30 p.m. $10 suggested donation; preregister. Info, 652-0997.

SEATED & STANDING YOGA: Beginners are welcome to grow their strength and flexibility at this supportive class. Manchester Community Library, Manchester Center, 9-10 a.m. Free. Info, 549-4574.

language

ELL CLASSES: ENGLISH FOR BEGINNERS & INTERMEDIATE STUDENTS: Learners of all abilities practice written and spoken English with trained instructors. Presented by Fletcher Free Library. 6:30-8 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, bshatara@ burlingtonvt.gov.

IRISH LANGUAGE CLASS: Celticcurious students learn to speak an Ghaeilge in a supportive group. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.

PAUSE-MIDI: ALLONS-Y!:

Four Alliance Française of the Lake Champlain Region members present their recent educational road trip through the vineyards, medieval villages and ancient cave paintings of

southwestern France. Noon-1 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, eriktrinkaus1@gmail.com.

lgbtq

MOMENTUM MONTHLY

VIRTUAL SOCIAL HOUR: LGBTQ folks ages 55 and up gather to make new friends and connect with old ones. Presented by Pride Center of Vermont. 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, eeka@pridecentervt.org.

montréal

FESTIVAL ACCÈS ASIE: The annual Asian Heritage Month extravaganza features art shows, film screenings, play readings, food tastings and more. See accesasie.com for full schedule. Various Montréal locations. Prices vary. Info, 514-298-0757.

‘PRAYER FOR THE FRENCH

REPUBLIC’: The latest dark comedy from an award-winning playwright follows two generations of a Jewish family, separated by 70 years, as they reckon with the Holocaust and antisemitism in our own time. Sylvan Adams Theatre, Segal Centre for Performing Arts, Montréal, 1 & 7 p.m. $62-67. Info, 514-739-7944.

SOUTH ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL OF MONTRÉAL: The Kabir Centre for Arts & Culture presents 13 days of new films from the Indian subcontinent and its diaspora. Virtual options available. See saffm. centrekabir.com for full schedule. Various Montréal locations. Prices vary. Info, 514-620-4182.

music

FESTIVAL PREVIEW WITH GLORIA CHIEN & SOOVIN

KIM: Classical fanatics get a virtual sneak peek into this summer’s Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival program. 7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 846-2175.

ZACH NUGENT UNCORKED: The sought-after guitarist plays a weekly loft show featuring live music, storytelling and special guests. Shelburne Vineyard, 6-8:45 p.m. Free. Info, 985-8222.

outdoors

JIM GRAVES: A retired biology professor digs into the morphological quirks that can help identify tree species by sight. Manchester Community Library, Manchester Center, 1-2 p.m. Free. Info, gardenclubofmanchester@ gmail.com.

sports

GREEN MOUNTAIN TABLE

TENNIS CLUB: Ping-Pong players swing their paddles in singles and doubles matches. Rutland Area Christian School, 7-9 p.m. Free for first two sessions; $30 annual membership. Info, 247-5913.

theater

‘EVERY BRILLIANT THING’: JAG

Productions founder Jarvis Antonio Green stars in a one-man performance about depression, family and why life is worth living. Briggs Opera House, White River Junction, 7:30 p.m. $20-43. Info, 332-3270.

‘VENUS IN FUR’: Vermont Stage presents David Ives’ seductive thriller about an erotic director and an unusual actress — again, starring the original cast from the blockbuster 2014 run. Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $31.0538.50. Info, 862-1497.

words

AFTER HOURS BOOK CLUB: Patrons discuss Delicious!, a mouthwatering coming-of-age story about a food writer, by Ruth Reichl. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

FFL BOOK CLUB: ‘AN IMMENSE WORLD: THE HIDDEN REALMS AROUND US’: Fletcher Free Library patrons break down Ed Yong’s joyful look into the world of animals who can sense heat, magnetic fields and electric currents. 6:30-8 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, bshatara@ burlingtonvt.gov.

POETRY POTLUCK: Wordsmiths and readers bring a dish and a poem (their own or others’) to share. Whirligig Brewing, St. Johnsbury, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, acampbell@catamountarts.org.

THU.11 agriculture

FLOWERS: Gardeners learn everything they ever wanted to know about growing blossoms and herbs. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.

MAXIMIZE YOUR GARDEN HARVEST: Doug Wolcik and Kayleigh Boyle of Craftsbury’s Breadseed Farm and CSA share insights and strategies for growing great organic produce on a small scale. Virtual option available. Greensboro Free Library, 5-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, steelfamilyus@ gmail.com.

business

SPRING JOB FEST: Job seekers meet employers, learn about career opportunities and even apply for positions on the spot. Depot Park, Rutland, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 786-5837.

crafts

KNITTING GROUP: Knitters of all experience levels get together to spin yarns. Latham Library, Thetford, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 785-4361.

film

See what’s playing at local theaters in the On Screen section.

‘CHILE ‘76’: A woman’s life is changed forever when her priest asks her to shelter a fugitive in this 2022 drama. Discussion with writer-director Manuela Martelli follows. Dana Auditorium, Sunderland Language Center, Middlebury College, 7-9:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3190.

FAMI LY FU N

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WED.10 burlington

BABYTIME: Librarians bring out books, rhymes and songs specially selected for young ones. Pre-walkers and younger. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.

SAT PREP WITH WALKER TUTORING: Tutors Addison and Jacob help high school students get ready for the big exam at monthly sessions. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4-6 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.

STEAM SPACE: Kids explore science, technology, engineering, art and math activities. Ages 5 through 11. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 5-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.

chittenden county

BABYTIME: Teeny-tiny library patrons enjoy a gentle, slow story time featuring songs, rhymes and lap play. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

LEGO BUILDERS: Elementary-age imagineers explore, create and participate in challenges. Ages 8 and up, or ages 6 and up with an adult helper. ADA accessible. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 3-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

MOVIE MATINEE: Film lovers have a family-friendly afternoon at this screening of an animated favorite. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 3:15-5 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

barre/montpelier

CHESS CLUB: Kids of all skill levels get one-on-one lessons and play each other in between. Ages 6 and up. KelloggHubbard Library, Montpelier, 3:30-5 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

NATURECAMP AFTERSCHOOL: Nature educator Ange Gibbons teaches kids how to spot animal tracks, build campfires, identify edible plants and other outdoor skills. Ages 10 through 12. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 3-5:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 426-3581.

mad river valley/ waterbury

LEGO CHALLENGE CLUB: Kids engage in a fun-filled hour of building, then leave their creations on display in the library all month long. Ages 6 through 8. Waterbury Public Library, 3-4 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 244-7036.

upper valley

PEABODY AFTERSCHOOL FUN FOR

GRADES 1-4: Students make friends over crafts and story time. George Peabody

On the Move

What better way to mark World Migratory Bird Day than to go meet some twittering travelers in person? e Vermont Institute of Natural Science’s annual celebration is water-themed this year, meaning that kids enjoy games and crafts all day while learning about how birds around the world rely on waterways. A play passport gets guests into all kinds of events: raptor meet and greets, a tour of the songbird aviary, breakfast with the resident turtles and a hawk-spotting walk along the canopy.

WORLD MIGRATORY BIRD DAY

Saturday, May 13, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., at Vermont Institute of Natural Science in Quechee. Regular admission, $16-19; free for members and kids 3 and under. Info, 359-5000, vinsweb.org.

FRI.12

chittenden county

DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: Imaginative players in grades 5 and up exercise their problem-solving skills in battles and adventures. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

KIDS’ MOVIE IN THE AUDITORIUM: Little film buffs congregate in the library’s Katie O’Brien Activity Room for a screening of a G-rated movie. See southburlingtonlibrary. org for each week’s title. ADA accessible. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 3-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

TEEN ADVISORY GROUP: Teenagers meet new friends and take an active role in their local library. Grades 6 through 12. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

barre/montpelier

‘WIZARD OF OZ’: e teen and child actors of Vermont Youth eater take audiences on a colorful adventure through a world of munchkins and flying monkeys. Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, 7 p.m. $23. Info, fineartsbarn@gmail. com.

STORY TIME & PLAYGROUP: Participants ages 6 and under hear stories, sing songs and eat tasty treats between outdoor activities. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.

upper valley

STORY TIME: Preschoolers take part in stories, songs and silliness. Latham Library, etford, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 785-4361.

Library, Post Mills, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 333-9724.

PRE-K STORY TIME: Little ones and their caregivers hear a different farmthemed tale every week in May. Snacks included. Ages 3 through 5. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 9:30-11 a.m. $10-12; preregister. Info, cpeavey@ billingsfarm.org.

manchester/ bennington

MCL FILM CLUB: Teen auteurs learn how to bring stories to life on camera. Manchester Community Library, Manchester Center, 3:30-5 p.m. Free. Info, 362-2607.

NEW MOMS’ GROUP: Local doula Kimberleigh Weiss-Lewitt facilitates a community-building weekly meetup for mothers who are new to parenting or the area. Manchester Community Library, Manchester Center, 9-10 a.m. Free. Info, 549-4574.

THU.11 burlington

PRESCHOOL YOGA: Colleen from Grow Prenatal and Family Yoga leads little ones in songs, movement and other fun activities. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.

chittenden county

LEGO TIME: Builders in kindergarten through fourth grade enjoy an afternoon of imagination and play. Dorothy Alling

Memorial Library, Williston, 3-4 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

PRESCHOOL MUSIC WITH LINDA BASSICK: e singer and storyteller extraordinaire leads little ones in indoor music and movement. Birth through age 5. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

PRESCHOOL PLAYTIME: Pre-K patrons play and socialize after music time. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

PRESCHOOL STORY TIME: Books, songs, rhymes, sign-language lessons and math activities make for well-educated youngsters. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

READ TO SAMMY: e erapy Dogs of Vermont emissary is super excited to hear kids of all ages practice their reading. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 4-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

TEEN ADVISORY BOARD: Teenage patrons team up to brainstorm fun events and programs for their peers. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

barre/montpelier

FUSE BEAD CRAFTERNOONS:

Youngsters make pictures out of colorful, meltable doodads. Ages 8 and up. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 3:30-5 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

NATURECAMP AFTERSCHOOL: See WED.10. Ages 7 through 9.

PRESCHOOL STORY TIME: Energetic youngsters join Miss Meliss for stories, songs and lots of silliness. KelloggHubbard Library, Montpelier, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

stowe/smuggs

WEE ONES PLAY TIME: Caregivers bring kiddos 3 and younger to a new sensory learning experience each week. Morristown Centennial Library, Morrisville, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 888-3853.

mad river valley/ waterbury

PRESCHOOL PLAY & READ: Outdoor activities, stories and songs get 3- and 4-year-olds engaged. Waterbury Public Library, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 244-7036.

northeast kingdom

LAPSIT STORY TIME: Babies 18 months and younger learn to love reading, singing and playing with their caregivers. Siblings welcome. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 10-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 745-1391.

TAP INTO FILM 72-HOUR FAMILY FILM

SLAM: Fledgling filmmakers have just three days to write, shoot and edit a short movie in the hopes of banking prizes. Virtual options available. See socapa.org for full schedule. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 5 p.m. Free; donations accepted; preregister. Info, 748-2600.

northeast kingdom

ACORN CLUB STORY TIME: Kids 5 and under play, sing, hear stories and take home a fun activity. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 10-11 a.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 745-1391.

TAP INTO FILM 72-HOUR FAMILY FILM SLAM: See THU.11.

manchester/ bennington

YOUNG ADULT DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: Teens battle beasts with swords and spellbooks in this campaign designed to accommodate both drop-in and recurring players. Ages 12 through 16. Manchester Community Library, Manchester Center, 2-4 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 549-4574.

SAT.13 burlington

FLYNNZONE KIDS HOUR: ANIMAL

DANCE: Hanna Satterlee’s dance troupe shares a new, all-ages performance titled Tender Hearts. Ages 3 through 5. e Flynn, Burlington, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 863-5966.

STORIES WITH GEOFF IN THE NEW

NORTH END: Little patrons of the library’s new location enjoy a morning of stories and songs. Fletcher Free Library New North End Branch, Burlington, 1111:30 a.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.

‘JOURNEY TO SPACE 3D’: See WED.10.

‘MYSTERIES OF THE UNSEEN WORLD 3D’: See WED.10.

‘WILD AFRICA 3D’: See WED.10.

‘WINGS OVER WATER 3D’: See WED.10.

food & drink

FAMILY MEAL: SOUTHERN

SUPPER: Adventure Dinner serves up the next installment in an intimate series of three-course meals, with wine and cocktails available for purchase. Soapbox Arts, Burlington, 5:30-9 p.m. $75; preregister; limited space. Info, 248-224-7539.

FREE IN-STORE TASTINGS:

emed wine tastings take oenophiles on an adventure through a region, grape variety, style of wine or producer’s offerings. Dedalus Wine Shop, Market & Wine Bar, Burlington, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, 865-2368. Dedalus Wine Shop, Market & Bakery, Stowe. Info, 585-7717.

DOWNTOWN SIP + SHOP:

Neighborhood stores team up with local brewers and distillers to offer shoppers samples of mead, beer, cider, chai and cheese. Downtown Rutland, 5-8 p.m. $25; preregister. Info, 773-9380.

OLD NORTH END COMMUNITY

DINNER: A vegetarian holiday meal precedes the Neighborhood Planning Assembly meeting. O.N.E. Community Center, Burlington, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free; donations accepted. Info, 598-3139.

games

THE CHECK MATES: Chess players of all ages face off at this intergenerational weekly meetup. Manchester Community Library, Manchester Center, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 549-4574.

FOMO?

Find even more local events in this newspaper and online: art

Find visual art exhibits and events in the Art section and at sevendaysvt.com/art.

film

See what’s playing at theaters in the On Screen section.

music + nightlife

Find club dates at local venues in the Music + Nightlife section online at sevendaysvt.com/ music.

Learn more about highlighted listings in the Magnificent 7 on page 11.

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health & fitness

SIMPLIFIED TAI CHI FOR SENIORS: Eighteen easy poses help with stress reduction, fall prevention and ease of movement. Manchester Community Library, Manchester Center, 3:15-4 p.m. Donations. Info, 362-2607.

TAI CHI THURSDAYS: Experienced instructor Rich Marantz teaches the first section of the Yang-style tai chi sequence. Manchester Community Library, Manchester Center, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 645-1960.

montréal

FESTIVAL ACCÈS ASIE: See WED.10. ‘PRAYER FOR THE FRENCH REPUBLIC’: See WED.10, 7 p.m.

music

JAZZ SHOWCASE: Music students play selections from the last semester. Lower Lobby, Mahaney Arts Center, Middlebury College, 7:15-9:15 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3288.

MIKAHELY: e Malagasy musician astounds on the guitar and the bamboo valiha. Willey Memorial Hall, Cabot, 7 a.m.-9 p.m. $12. Info, 793-3016.

NEON RAMBLERS: Local band the Grift celebrates its 24th anniversary with an evening of bluegrass covers of 1980s pop classics. Town Hall eater, Middlebury, 7 p.m. $19-24. Info, 382-9222.

politics

THOUGHT CLUB: Artists and activists convene to engage with Burlington‘s rich tradition of radical thought and envision its future. Democracy Creative, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, tevan@democracycreative.com.

theater

‘THE ELEPHANT CALF’ / ‘THE TRIAL OF LUCULLUS’: e Parrish Players present two rarely seen, absurdist short plays by Bertolt Brecht, one of the 20th century’s fiercest satirists. Eclipse Grange eater, etford, 7:30-9 p.m. $1020. Info, 785-4344.

‘EVERY BRILLIANT THING’: See WED.10.

‘TASTINGS: AN EVENING OF SIX

SHORT PLAYS’: Comedy, drama and wine flights collide at this sampling of works by playwrights including Vermont’s Lesley Becker and Connecticut’s Jan Mason. Shelburne Vineyard, 8-9:30 p.m. $18. Info, lbecker2468@gmail. com.

‘TICK, TICK... BOOM!’: Student thespians present an autobiographical musical about the life of RENT composer Jonathan Larson. Hepburn Zoo, Hepburn Hall, Middlebury College, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $5. Info, 443-6433.

‘VENUS IN FUR’: See WED.10.

words

BOB BLANCHARD: A local hobbyist historian celebrates the publication of his new book, Lost Burlington, Vermont. Phoenix Books, Burlington, 7 p.m. $3; preregister. Info, 448-3350.

FRI.12 crafts

FIBER ARTS FRIDAY: Knitters, crocheters, weavers and felters chat over their projects of the day at this weekly meetup. Waterbury Public Library, noon-2 p.m. Free. Info, 244-7036.

SCRAPBOOKING GROUP: Cutters and pasters make new friends in a weekly club. Manchester Community Library, Manchester Center, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 549-4574.

dance

‘LA NUIT’: A black-tie gala featuring swanky cocktails, a silent auction and live music to hit the dance floor to by East Coast Soul raises funds for the Flynn’s education and community programs. e Flynn, Burlington, 7 p.m. $150; preregister. Info, 863-5966.

See what’s playing at local theaters in the On Screen section.

‘THE CRIMSON WING’: is 2008 documentary charts the life cycle of the flamingos of Tanzania’s Lake Natron. Q&A with writer Melanie Finn follows. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600.

‘JOURNEY TO SPACE 3D’: See WED.10.

‘MYSTERIES OF THE UNSEEN WORLD 3D’: See WED.10.

‘SAFETY LAST!’: At this 100th anniversary screening, pianist Bob Merrill plays a live score to a Harold Lloyd silent classic. Lebanon Opera House, N.H., 7:30 p.m. $7-13. Info, 603-448-0400.

‘WILD AFRICA 3D’: See WED.10. ‘WINGS OVER WATER 3D’: See WED.10.

Havin’ a Good Time

e second annual Kingman Fest turns downtown St. Albans into one big block party. All-ages fun, from bouncy houses and face painting to ax throwing and mechanical bull rides, fills the streets as the sun goes down. Friends of Duke Rescue brings adoptable puppies to play, and local eateries serve up doughnuts, tacos, barbecue, pizza, beer and cocktails. e night closes out with an epic tribute concert by Jesse Agan — e Music of Queen, a band that brings so much theatricality and talent to the stage that listeners could be forgiven for believing that Freddie himself is in the house. Proceeds benefit St. Albans for the Future.

KINGMAN FEST

Saturday, May 13, 5-9 p.m., at Kingman St. in St. Albans. Free. Info, 443-798-5380, kingmanfest.com.

CHUCK COLLINS: A nonfiction author’s debut novel, Altar to an Erupting Sun, tracks the aftermath of an environmental activist’s shocking death. 118 Elliot, Brattleboro, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 118elliot@gmail.com.

CYNTHIA NEWBERRY MARTIN & DEDE CUMMINGS: A novelist and a poet discuss how their recent books, Love Like is and e Meeting Place respectively, incorporate themes of memory and facing the unknown. Norwich Bookstore, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 649-1114.

LIVE POETRY AT THE FRONT: BUFFY AKAASH + KIM WARD: Two local poets read from their work. e Front, Montpelier, 6:308 p.m. Free. Info, 505-5596.

MORNING BOOK GROUP: Readers start the day off right with a lively discussion of e 100-YearOld Man Who Climbed out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson. ADA accessible. Virtual option available. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 10:30 a.m.-11:30 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

NO PRESSURE BOOK GROUP: ere are no rules

games

FEMINIST MINI-GOLF GRAND

OPENING: A merry afternoon of trivia and Putt-Putt marks the launch of a student-built, reproductive justice-themed course. Kenyon Arena, Middlebury College, 4-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-5785.

health & fitness

ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION

EXERCISE PROGRAM: ose in need of an easy-on-the-joints workout experience an hour of calming, low-impact movement. Waterbury Public Library, 10:3011:30 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 244-7036.

and no assignments in this virtual book club, at which readers discuss old favorites, current obsessions and recent recommendations. Presented by Waterbury Public Library. 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 244-7036.

PAUL DOIRON: e best-selling crime author reads and signs books in advance of the publication of the next Mike Bowditch novel, Dead Man’s Wake. Stowe Free Library, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 253-6145.

GUIDED MEDITATION

ONLINE: Dorothy Alling Memorial Library invites attendees to relax on their lunch breaks and reconnect with their bodies. Noon-12:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, programs@ damlvt.org.

lgbtq

OUT IN BRADFORD: LGTBQ folks and allies make new friends at a casual, tea-fueled hangout. Vittles House of Brews, Bradford, 5-9 p.m. Free. Info, connect@ vittlesespresso.com.

montréal

FESTIVAL ACCÈS ASIE: See WED.10.

music

CHAMBER MUSIC ALIVE!: Student players close out the school year with a stunning showcase. Robison Concert Hall, Mahaney Arts Center, Middlebury College, 7:30-9 p.m. Free. Info, 443-5224.

THE GRIFT: The beloved local band ends its two-night birthday party with a mind-blowing rock spectacle. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 7 p.m. $29-39. Info, 382-9222.

MAD RIVER CHORALE: The community choir performs a spring program packed with jubilant tunes. Waitsfield United Church of Christ & Village Meeting House,

7:30 p.m. $12-15; free for kids under 12. Info, 496-4781.

MELISSA PERLEY & DIANE

HULING: A cellist and a pianist perform works by Rachmaninov, Shostakovich, Amy Beach and others. Plainfield Town Hall Opera House, 7:30 p.m. $15. Info, 229-1501.

‘MEN, MARBLE & MACHINES’: The Vermont Symphony Orchestra plays a live score for the award-winning 1984 film about marble quarrying, as well as a piece featuring local sportscaster Jack Healey. Proceeds benefit the Vermont Marble Museum. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 7-9 p.m. $19.34. Info, ann@ vermontmarblemuseum.org.

MORGAN TONEY: BarnArts’ Global Music Residency artist combines fiery Cape Breton fiddling with traditional Mi’kmaq music. North

Universalist Chapel Society, Woodstock, 7:30 p.m. $5-20. Info, 234-1645.

‘TAKE FOUR! MUSIC FOR CELLO

QUARTET’: In a nod to Dave Brubeck’s jazz hit “Take Five,” Sarasa Ensemble presents a selection of works written for a quartet of cellos. Brattleboro Music Center, 7-9 p.m. $20-25. Info, 257-4523.

outdoors

SPRING BIRDING: Folks of all interests and experience levels seek out feathered friends in flight. All supplies provided. Catamount Outdoor Family Center, Williston, 7-9 a.m. Free; donations accepted. Info, 229-6206.

sports

30TH ANNUAL CHAMBER

CHALLENGE GOLF TOURNAMENT: Individuals and teams hit the links and hope for a hole in one. Barre Country Club, 10 a.m. $115; $460 for teams of four; preregister. Info, 229-5711.

theater

‘THE ELEPHANT CALF’ / ‘THE TRIAL OF LUCULLUS’: See THU.11.

‘EVERY BRILLIANT THING’: See WED.10.

‘THE SOUND OF MUSIC’: The hills are alive in Adirondack Regional Theatre’s production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s classic tale of a nun who became a singing nanny in pre-World War II Austria. Strand Center for the Arts, Plattsburgh,

N.Y., 7:30 p.m. $18-23. Info, 518563-1604, ext. 105.

‘TASTINGS: AN EVENING OF SIX SHORT PLAYS’: See THU.11.

‘TICK, TICK... BOOM!’: See THU.11.

‘THE TWELFTH NIGHT SHOW’: A new adaptation of Shakespeare’s comedy, developed at Weston Theater’s 2022 writer’s retreat, sets the action in New York City’s arts scene alongside an original folk rock score. Artistree Community Arts Center Theatre & Gallery, South Pomfret, 7 p.m. $25-30. Info, 457-3500.

‘VENUS IN FUR’: See WED.10.

words

FRIENDS OF THE RUTLAND FREE LIBRARY BOOK SALE: Bibliophiles browse thousands of gently used page-turners, CDs, DVDs and puzzles, with proceeds benefiting

library programs and collections. Limit two bags per family. Rutland Free Library, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Donations. Info, 773-1860.

WRITE TIME: Trained instructor Mary Ann Fuller Young leads a supportive workshop for anyone looking to explore the craft of writing. ADA accessible. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 1:15-2:45 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

SAT.13 agriculture

ANNUAL PLANT SWAP: Home gardeners and houseplant enthusiasts trade labeled, noninvasive flora. Jaquith Public Library, SAT.13 » P.74

Burlington, 3-6 p.m. $60-90. Info, 395-1676.

Marshfield, 9 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 454-1324.

dance

SWING DANCE: All-star DJs back a night of dancing with big-band bops. Bring clean shoes. Beginners’ lesson, 7:30 p.m. Champlain Club, Burlington, 8 p.m. $5. Info, 864-8382. etc.

COMMUNITY SHRED DAY: The more documents that locals bring in to be destroyed, the more money Rockstar Real Estate donates to Golden Huggs dog rescue. Pet Food Warehouse, South Burlington, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Free; donations accepted. Info, 764-0571.

ECSTATIC BUTTERFLY: A healing ritual incorporates drum music, intuitive dancing, watercolor painting and hammock time.

Heart Song Aerial Healing Arts,

chittenden county

JON STETSON: A mentalist blows minds with his magical mind reading. Catamount ArtPort, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. $25; cash bar. Info, 748-2600.

fairs & festivals

KINGMAN FEST: A street fair full of food and family-friendly fun ends in a Queen tribute concert for all to sing along to. See calendar spotlight. Kingman St., St. Albans, 5-9 p.m. Free. Info, 443-798-5380.

film

See what’s playing at local theaters in the On Screen section.

‘THE FARM BOY’: Waterbury Center thespian George Woodard presents a feature film based on his parents’ love story, set during World War II. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 6:30 p.m. $10. Info, 748-2600.

manchester/ bennington

FRENCH STORY TIME: Kids of all ages listen and learn to native speaker Romain Feuillette raconte une histoire. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:15-10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

LEGO FUN: Wee builders of all ages construct creations to be displayed in the library. Children under 8 must bring a caregiver. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 1-3 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

barre/montpelier

‘WIZARD OF OZ’: See FRI.12.

stowe/smuggs

MUSICAL STORY TIME: Song, dance and other tuneful activities supplement picture books for kids 2 through 5. Morristown Centennial Library, Morrisville, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 888-3853.

upper valley

WORLD MIGRATORY BIRD DAY: Avian enthusiasts of all ages spread their wings during a day of crafts, games, and visits with the resident raptors, songbirds and turtles. See calendar spotlight. Vermont Institute of Natural Science, Quechee, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Regular admission, $16-19; free for members and kids 3 and under. Info, 359-5000.

northeast kingdom

TAP INTO FILM 72-HOUR FAMILY FILM

SLAM: See THU.11, .

YOUTH VISUAL STORYTELLING

WORKSHOP: Little storytellers ages 5 through 7 create a movie together using illustrations. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 10-11:30 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 748-2600.

‘FLEE’: An undocumented Afghan refugee tells his story in this inventive documentary — animated to protect his identity. The ArtLords serve an Afghan meal, and a discussion follows.

Epsilon Spires, Brattleboro, 7-10 p.m. Donations. Info, foreverxv@ gmail.com.

‘JOURNEY TO SPACE 3D’: See WED.10.

‘MYSTERIES OF THE UNSEEN WORLD 3D’: See WED.10.

‘WILD AFRICA 3D’: See WED.10. ‘WINGS OVER WATER 3D’: See WED.10.

food & drink

BURLINGTON FARMERS MARKET:

Dozens of stands overflow with seasonal produce, flowers, artisanal wares and prepared foods. Burlington Farmers Market, 345 Pine St., 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 560-5904.

CAPITAL CITY FARMERS

MARKET: Meats and cheeses join farm-fresh produce, baked

NOTORIOUS RPG: Kids 10 through 14 create characters and play a collaborative adventure game similar to Dungeons & Dragons. Manchester Community Library, Manchester Center, 1-2 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 362-2607.

STEAM SATURDAY: Little ones play around with foundational science and art fun. Manchester Community Library, Manchester Center, 11 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 362-2607.

STRINGS FOR KIDS RECITAL: Student violinists and cellists close out the year with a riveting recital. Manchester Community Library, Manchester Center, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 362-2607.

SUN.14

burlington

D&D WITH DUNGEON MASTER

ANDREW: Warlocks and warriors battle dastardly foes in a Dungeons & Dragons adventure. Ages 9 and up. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, noon-4 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 863-3403.

DAD GUILD: Fathers (and parents of all genders) and their kids ages 5 and under drop in for playtime and connection. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3:30-5 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.

GENDER CREATIVE KIDS: Trans and gender nonconforming kiddos under 13 enjoy fun, supportive group activities while their parents and caregivers chat. Outright Vermont, Burlington, 2-4 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 865-9677.

SENSORY-FRIENDLY SUNDAY: Folks of all ages with sensory processing differences have the museum to themselves, with adjusted lights and sounds and trusty sensory backpacks. ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 9-10 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, kvonderlinn@echovermont.org.

goods, locally made arts and crafts, and live music. 133 State St., Montpelier, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, montpelierfarmersmarket@ gmail.com.

HEALTHY SPRING LUNCH

COOK-ALONG: Nutritional therapist Lili Hanft demonstrates recipes for a gluten-free, nutrient-dense meal. Presented by City Market, Onion River Co-op. 10-11:30 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, info@citymarket.coop.

NORTHWEST FARMERS MARKET: Locavores stock up on produce, preserves, baked goods, and arts and crafts from over 50 vendors. Taylor Park, St. Albans, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 242-2729.

SIP & SHOP: Outer Limits Brewing serves up samples of their masterful brews to shoppers. Vermont Flannel, Manchester, 12:30-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 800-232-7820. Vermont Flannel, Ferrisburgh, noon-4 p.m. Info, 870-7172.

upper valley

DRAFT ANIMAL DAY: Visitors view the farm’s buffest oxen and horses, try their hands at plowing the fields and earn a blue ribbon in Hobby Horse Barrel Racing. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Regular admission, $10-17; free for members and kids under 4. Info, 457-2355.

northeast kingdom

TAP INTO FILM 72-HOUR FAMILY FILM SLAM: See THU.11, 5:30 & 6:30 p.m.

MON.15

NURTURING A CHILD’S SENSE OF WONDER DISCUSSION

SERIES: Kellogg-Hubbard Library and Four Winds Nature Institute teach parents and caregivers of preschoolers how to encourage curiosity and outdoor play over three classes. 6:30-8 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 223-3338.

burlington

STORIES WITH SHANNON: Bookworms ages 2 through 5 enjoy fun-filled reading time. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.

chittenden county

BOUNCY BALL MAYHEM: Little physicists learn how balls work and make their own. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 5-6 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

northeast kingdom

ACORN CLUB STORY TIME: See FRI.12, 2-2:30 p.m.

DANCE PARTY MONDAYS: Little ones 5 and under get groovy together. Siblings welcome. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 10-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 745-1391.

games

BOARD GAME BRUNCH: The Friendly Tabletop Gamers of Essex and Beyond host a morning game-play session for anyone 18 and up. ADA accessible. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 9:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

CHESS CLUB: Players of all ages and abilities face off and learn new strategies. ADA accessible. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

holidays

BUILD-A-BOUQUET FOR MOTHER’S DAY: Downtown shops hand out free flowers so anyone can put together an amazing arrangement for Mom. Church Street Marketplace, Burlington, 11 a.m. Free. Info, churchstmarketplace@gmail.com.

MOTHER’S DAY ‘MAKE YOUR OWN’: Visitors experience art in action with live glassblowing

TUE.16 burlington

SING-ALONG WITH LINDA BASSICK: Babies, toddlers and preschoolers sing, dance and wiggle along with Linda. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 1111:30 a.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.

chittenden county

CRAFTYTOWN: From painting and printmaking to collage and sculpture, creative kids explore different projects and mediums. Ages 8 and up, or ages 6 and up with an adult helper. ADA accessible. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 3-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

PLAYGROUP & FAMILY SUPPORT: Families with children under age 5 play and connect with others in the community. Winooski Memorial Library, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 655-6424.

PRESCHOOL STORY TIME: Little ones enjoy a cozy session of reading, rhyming and singing. Birth through age 5. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

TODDLERTIME: Kids ages 1 through 3 and their caregivers join Miss Alyssa for a lively session of stories, singing and wiggling. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 9:15-9:45 & 10:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

barre/montpelier

NATURECAMP AFTERSCHOOL: See THU.11.

PRESCHOOL STORY TIME: See THU.11.

ROBIN’S NEST NATURE PLAYGROUP: Outdoor pursuits through fields and forests captivate little ones up to age 5 and their parents. North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, 10 a.m.-noon. Free; donations accepted. Info, 229-6206.

mad river valley/ waterbury

POKÉMON CLUB: I choose you, Pikachu! Fans of the franchise discuss their favorite cards, games and TV episodes in

demos and try their hands at making a glass flower or suncatcher for Mom. AO Glass, Burlington, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, hello@aoglass.com.

language

FRENCH CONVERSATION FOR ALL: Native French speaker Romain Feuillette leads an informal discussion group. All ages and abilities welcome. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 878-4918.

lgbtq

QUEER SANGHA: LGBTQ folks of all experience levels meditate, learn and discuss together. Laughing River Yoga, Burlington, 4:30-6 p.m. Free. Info, hayden. boska@gmail.com.

TRANSPLANTS PLANT SALE & BLOCK PARTY: Green thumbs have a day of queer fun featuring activities, live music, food

this monthly activity group. Ages 6 and up. Waterbury Public Library, 3-4 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 244-7036.

manchester/ bennington

STORY TIME: Youth librarian Carrie leads little tykes in stories and songs centered on a new theme every week. Birth through age 5. Manchester Community Library, Manchester Center, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 362-2607.

WED.17

burlington

BABYTIME: See WED.10.

STEAM SPACE: See WED.10.

chittenden county

AFTERSCHOOL ACTIVITY: STEAM FUN: Little engineers and artists gather for some afternoon excitement. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 2-3 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

BABYTIME: See WED.10.

COMICS CLUB!: Graphic novel and manga fans in third through sixth grades meet to discuss current reads and do fun activities together. Hosted by Brownell Library. Essex Teen Center, Essex Junction, 2:30-3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

LEGO BUILDERS: See WED.10.

barre/montpelier

CHESS CLUB: See WED.10.

NATURECAMP AFTERSCHOOL: See WED.10.

upper valley

PEABODY AFTERSCHOOL FUN FOR GRADES 1-4: See WED.10.

PRE-K STORY TIME: See WED.10.

manchester/ bennington

MCL FILM CLUB: See WED.10. NEW MOMS’ GROUP: See WED.10. K

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trucks and donated sprouts for purchase. Proceeds benefit Pride Center’s transgender advocacy program. Pride Center of Vermont, Burlington, noon-3 p.m. Free. Info, trans@pridecentervt.org.

montréal

FESTIVAL ACCÈS ASIE: See WED.10.

‘PRAYER FOR THE FRENCH

REPUBLIC’: See WED.10, 7 p.m.

music

GMCMF ARTIST FACULTY

RECITAL SERIES: KEVIN

LAWRENCE & HIROMI FUKUDA: Sonatas for violin and piano make for an exciting off-season show from Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival. College Street Congregational Church, Burlington, 3 p.m. $25; free for students. Info, 503-1220.

IMAGINE ZERO FESTIVAL: Artists including Kat Wright and Myra Flynn get together for a zerowaste and zero-carbon music bash. SolarFest, Brandon, noon. $25-50. Info, 503-679-5502.

JON GAILMOR & TARYN NOELLE

QUARTET: The inaugural performance of this made-in-Vermont supergroup delights audiences with an evening of folk hits, American songbook standards and original songs. Highland Center for the Arts, Greensboro, 7 p.m. $10-20. Info, 533-2000.

MAD RIVER CHORALE: The community choir performs a spring program packed with jubilant tunes. Waterbury Congregational Church, 7:30 p.m. $12-15; free for kids under 12. Info, 496-4781.

MUSIC MATTERS CONCERT

SERIES: THE NEW MOZAIC & GENTLEMAN BRAWLERS: Two soul acts raise funds for musical instruments for students at Waits River Valley School. Fairlee Town Hall Auditorium, 6 p.m. Donations. Info, matt@rootedentertainment. com.

SCENES AND SONGS: Student singers celebrate all things musical theater with selections from the opera and Broadway. Robison Concert Hall, Mahaney Arts Center, Middlebury College, 7:309:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-5221.

outdoors

FEMALE BIRD WALK: Avian admirers of all genders are welcome to join this Rutland County Audubon quest for lady birds. Meet at the boardwalk on Marble Street. West Rutland Marsh, 7:3010:30 a.m. Free. Info, 598-2583.

NORTH HERO BIRDING: Fields, floodplain forests, cedar stands and marsh areas offer plenty of opportunities to spy feathered friends. Pelots Point Nature Area, North Hero, 7-9 a.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, gmas@ greenmountainaudubon.org.

SPRING FOREST BATHING:

SHINRIN-YOKU: Folks unplug, slow down and experience nature through a guided mindfulness practice. Meet at the Farm Barn. Shelburne Farms, 9 a.m.-noon.

Personal Computers

Queen City philosophers flock to local makerspace Generator for the latest thought-provoking installment in its Reckless Ideas speaker series. Whether they’ve found themselves confused by AI art or intrigued by conversations with ChatGPT, listeners have something to learn from this panel of experts on artificial intelligence and its implications. Director of the University of Vermont’s Morphology,

RECKLESS IDEAS: THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING

Tuesday, May 16, 6-8 p.m., at Generator in Burlington. Free; preregister. Info, 540-0761, generatorvt.com.

$45; preregister. Info, tmccarney@ shelburnefarms.org.

seminars

SKILLS FOR BRIDGING THE

DIVIDE: A BRAVER ANGELS

WORKSHOP: Attendees build skills for addressing communication breakdowns with loved ones over politics. ADA accessible. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 1:30-4:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 846-4140.

theater

‘THE ELEPHANT CALF’ / ‘THE TRIAL OF LUCULLUS’: See THU.11.

‘EVERY BRILLIANT THING’: See WED.10, 2 & 7:30 p.m.

‘THE SOUND OF MUSIC’: See FRI.12, 2 & 7:30 p.m.

‘TASTINGS: AN EVENING OF SIX

SHORT PLAYS’: See THU.11.

‘TICK, TICK... BOOM!’: See THU.11, 2-4 & 7:30-9:30 p.m.

‘THE TWELFTH NIGHT SHOW’: See FRI.12.

‘VENUS IN FUR’: See WED.10.

words

FRIENDS OF THE RUTLAND FREE LIBRARY BOOK SALE: See FRI.12, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

POETRY EXPERIENCE: Local wordsmith Rajnii Eddins hosts a supportive writing and

sharing circle for poets of all ages. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 1-3 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.

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dance

INTERNATIONAL FOLK DANCING: Instructors teach traditional dances from around the world at this monthly shindig. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 2:30-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, dance@together. net.

film

See what’s playing at local theaters in the On Screen section.

‘JOURNEY TO SPACE 3D’: See WED.10.

‘MYSTERIES OF THE UNSEEN WORLD 3D’: See WED.10.

‘ROSHNI’: A 2018 documentary follows the daily life of simple pleasures lived by a woman on an apple orchard in the Himalayas. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600.

‘SEEING THROUGH THE WALL’: Vermonters for Justice in Palestine and other local organizations screen a Woodstockmade documentary on the 75th anniversary of the Nakba. Main

Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 448-5569.

‘WILD AFRICA 3D’: See WED.10.

‘WINGS OVER WATER 3D’: See WED.10.

FOMO?

food & drink

FOOD FOR TALK COOKBOOK

BOOK CLUB: Home chefs make a recipe from Forage, Harvest, Feast: A Wild-Inspired Cuisine by Marie Viljoen and meet to compare results. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3-5 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, bshatara@ burlingtonvt.gov.

KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS

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PANCAKE BREAKFAST: Hungry locals pile their plates with flapjacks, scrambled eggs, bacon, sausage and Vermont maple syrup. Cathedral of St. Joseph, Burlington, 9-11:30 a.m. $10-25. Info, 862-5109.

ROSÉ ALL DAY: PERFECT

film

music + nightlife

Find club dates at local venues in the Music + Nightlife section online at sevendaysvt.com/ music.

Learn more about highlighted listings in the Magnificent 7 on page 11. = ONLINE EVENT

a lovely lakeside afternoon. Shelburne Farms, noon. $80; cash bar; preregister. Info, 985-8686.

health & fitness

KARUNA COMMUNITY

MEDITATION: A YEAR TO LIVE

(FULLY): Participants practice keeping joy, generosity and gratitude at the forefront of their minds. Jenna’s House, Johnson, 10-11:15 a.m. Free; donations accepted. Info, mollyzapp@live.com.

holidays

HINESBURG ARTIST SERIES

MOTHER’S DAY CONCERT: Selections by Robert Sheldon, Aaron Copland, Dmitri Shostakovich and many more make for a cheerful family show. Champlain Valley Union High School, Hinesburg, 4:30 p.m. Free; donations accepted. Info, 373-0808.

MOTHER’S DAY BRUNCH: Moms dig into crab cakes, petite quiches and everything in between at a gourmet meal. The Main Dining Room at the Trapp Family Lodge, Stowe, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. $75; preregister. Info, 800-826-7000, ext. 1.

MOTHER’S DAY BRUNCH: Moms and grandmas are the guests of honor at a feast featuring elevated breakfast favorites. The Lodge at Spruce Peak, Stowe, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. $30-75; free for kids under 5. Info, 760-4732.

MOTHER’S DAY SPRING

WILDFLOWER WALK: Naturalist Brett Engstrom leads moms (and their fans) on a springtime stroll. Stranahan Town Forest, Marshfield, 1-4 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.

RED TENT AFTERNOON:

HONORING MOTHER’S DAY & CARETAKERS: Live music, a sharing circle, meditation time, a potluck meal and peer massages help attendees unwind. Heart Song Aerial Healing Arts, Burlington, 2-5 p.m. $25 suggested donation. Info, 415-632-2731.

montréal

FESTIVAL ACCÈS ASIE: See WED.10.

‘PRAYER FOR THE FRENCH REPUBLIC’: See WED.10.

music

HIGHLAND HOOTENANNY: RESCHEDULED. Musicians, singers and dancers of all ages throw down at an informal folk jam. Hawaiian-style dinner available for purchase. Highland Center for the Arts, Greensboro, noon-3 p.m. $6-23. Info, 533-2000.

PAIRINGS FOR SPRING SIPPING: Sommeliers serve up samples of the pink stuff, from light Provence offerings to bold Tuscan rosatos. Dedalus Wine Shop, Market & Wine Bar, Burlington, 1-2 p.m. $45; preregister. Info, 865-2368.

STOWE FARMERS MARKET: An appetizing assortment of fresh veggies, meats, milk, berries, herbs, beverages and crafts tempts shoppers. Stowe Farmers Market, 2043 Mountain Rd., 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, stowefarmersmarket@ gmail.com.

SUNDAY PICNIC WITH ADVENTURE

DINNER: A tapas-inspired lunch and sunny cocktails make for

MELISSA PERLEY & DIANE

HULING: See FRI.12. Richmond Free Library, 4 p.m.

MIDDLEBURY COMMUNITY WIND

ENSEMBLE SPRING CONCERT: A varied program demonstrates the versatility of reed instruments.

Robison Concert Hall, Mahaney Arts Center, Middlebury College, 3-4 p.m. Free. Info, 443-2227.

‘OPERA IN THE AFTERNOON’: Dog River Trio play works for soprano, mezzo-soprano and piano by composers including Mozart, Vivaldi and Mahler. Plainfield Town Hall Opera House, 3-4 p.m. $25 suggested donation. Info, 249-2631.

Evolution & Cognition

Lab Josh Bongard, futurist and former science fiction editor Kathryn Cramer, and ethicist Randall Harp contemplate the nascent field of machine learning and what it could mean for society.

outdoors

CAMPFIRE SESSION: PERSONAL FLOTATION DEVICES: Paddling experts offer tips on choosing a life vest for the summer. REI, Williston, noon-12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 316-3120.

CASPIAN BIRD WALK: Townsfolk join lifelong birder John Schweitzer for a trip to Caspian Lake to look for the woodland and water birds of spring. Greensboro Free Library, 7:15-9 a.m. Free. Info, 533-2531.

theater

‘THE ELEPHANT CALF’ / ‘THE TRIAL OF LUCULLUS’: See THU.11, 3-4:30 p.m.

‘EVERY BRILLIANT THING’: See WED.10, 5 p.m.

‘THE SOUND OF MUSIC’: See FRI.12, 2 p.m.

‘VENUS IN FUR’: See WED.10, 2 p.m.

MON.15

crafts

FIBER ARTS FREE-FOR-ALL:

Makers make friends while working on their knitting, sewing, felting and beyond. Artistree Community Arts Center Theatre & Gallery, South Pomfret, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, theknittin kittenvt@gmail.com.

HAND-STITCHING GROUP:

Embroiderers, cross-stitchers and other needlework aficionados chat over their latest projects. Waterbury Public Library, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 720-984-3083.

KNIT WITS: Fiber-working friends get together to make progress on their quilts, knitwear and needlework. Manchester Community Library, Manchester Center, 3-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 362-2607.

film

See what’s playing at local theaters in the On Screen section.

‘JOURNEY TO SPACE 3D’: See WED.10.

‘MYSTERIES OF THE UNSEEN WORLD 3D’: See WED.10.

‘WILD AFRICA 3D’: See WED.10.

‘WINGS OVER WATER 3D’: See WED.10.

food & drink

SOURDOUGH 201, PART

2: In the second of three workshops, home bakers learn some unorthodox ways to use their starters, from granola to chocolate cake. Presented by City Market, Onion River Co-op. 5:30-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, info@ citymarket.coop.

health & fitness

ADVANCED TAI CHI: Experienced movers build strength, improve balance and reduce stress.

Holley Hall, Bristol, 11 a.m.-noon. Free; donations accepted. Info, jerry@skyrivertaichi.com.

LAUGHTER YOGA: Spontaneous, joyful movement and breath promote physical and

emotional health. Pathways Vermont, Burlington, 2-3 p.m. Free. Info, chrisn@pathwaysvermont.org.

LONG-FORM SUN 73: Beginners and experienced practitioners learn how tai chi can help with arthritis, mental clarity and range of motion. Holley Hall, Bristol, 11 a.m.-noon. Free; donations accepted. Info, wirlselizabeth@gmail.com.

YANG 24: This simplified tai chi method is perfect for beginners looking to build strength and balance. Congregational Church of Middlebury, 3:30-5:30 p.m. Free; donations accepted. Info, wirlselizabeth@gmail.com.

montréal

FESTIVAL ACCÈS ASIE: See WED.10.

words

ADDISON COUNTY WRITERS

COMPANY: Poets, playwrights, novelists and memoirists of every experience level meet weekly for an MFA-style workshop. Swift House Inn, Middlebury, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, jay@zigzaglitmag.org.

TUE.16 community

CURRENT EVENTS DISCUSSION GROUP: Brownell Library hosts a virtual roundtable for neighbors to pause and reflect on the news cycle. 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6955.

dance

MORRIS & MORE: Dancers of all abilities learn how to step, clog and even sword fight their way through medieval folk dances of all kinds. Revels North, Lebanon, N.H., 6 p.m. Pay what you can. Info, 603-558-7894.

SWING DANCING: Local Lindy hoppers and jitterbuggers convene at Vermont Swings’ weekly boogie-down. Bring clean shoes. Beginner lessons, 6:30 p.m. Champlain Club, Burlington, 7:30-9 p.m. $5. Info, 864-8382.

film

See what’s playing at local theaters in the On Screen section.

‘JOURNEY TO SPACE 3D’: See WED.10.

‘MYSTERIES OF THE UNSEEN WORLD 3D’: See WED.10.

‘PSYCHO’: A thieving secretary hides out in a hotel of horrors in this 1960 thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, mariah@mainstreet landing.com.

SENIOR MOVIE MORNING: The Thetford Elder Network hosts a screening of Where the Rivers Flow North for neighbors to connect over. Latham Library, Thetford, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 785-4361.

‘WILD AFRICA 3D’: See WED.10.

‘WINGS OVER WATER 3D’: See WED.10.

food & drink

NORTHFIELD FARMERS

MARKET: A gathering place for local farmers, producers and artisans offers fresh produce, crafts and locally prepared foods. Depot Square, Northfield, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 485-8586.

health & fitness

QI GONG FOR VITALITY & PEACE: Librarian Judi Byron leads students in this ancient Chinese practice of mindful movement and breath. Waterbury Public Library, 10-11 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, judi@waterburypublic library.com.

TAI CHI TUESDAY: Patrons get an easy, informal introduction to this ancient movement practice that supports balance and strength. Manchester Community Library, Manchester Center, 9-10:15 a.m. Free; donations accepted. Info, 362-2607.

language

ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS: Instructor Andrea Thulin helps non-native speakers build their vocabulary and conversation skills. Manchester Community Library, Manchester Center, 5:307 p.m. Free. Info, 549-4574.

FRENCH CONVERSATION

GROUP: Francophones and French-language learners meet pour parler la belle langue Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 5 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.

montréal

FESTIVAL ACCÈS ASIE: See WED.10.

music

COMMUNITY SINGERS: A weekly choral meetup welcomes all singers to raise their voices along to traditional (and notso-traditional) songs. Revels North, Lebanon, N.H., 7:30 p.m. Pay what you can. Info, 603-558-7894.

outdoors

AUDUBON ENDLESS BROOK

BIRD WALK: An easy-to-moderate three-mile trek gets birders invigorated. Endless Brook Trails, Poultney, 7:30-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, jptilley50@gmail.com.

politics

ERIC HOLDER: President Obama’s attorney general talks about his time in the White House and his recent book, Our Unfinished March: The Violent Past and Imperiled Future of the Vote — A History, a Crisis, a Plan. The Flynn, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 863-5966.

talks

JOE CASTELLUCCIO: The author of The Investor’s Survival Guide: Basic Training for All Investors demystifies stocks and bonds. All attendees receive a free book. Manchester Community Library, TUE.16 » P.78

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Manchester Center, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 362-2607.

SARAH MARSHALL: The host of the podcast “You’re Wrong About” and her guests debunk urban legends and moral panics. Higher Ground Ballroom, South Burlington, 8 p.m. $35. Info, 652-0777.

tech

RECKLESS IDEAS: THIS CHANGES

EVERYTHING: AI creator Josh Bongard, futurist Kathryn Cramer and ethicist Randall Harp ponder the questions raised by the rise of artificial intelligence. See calendar spotlight. Generator, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 540-0761.

words

BOOK CLUB BUFFET

ONLINE: Readers dig into Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway over lunch. Presented by Dorothy Alling Memorial Library. 12:30-1:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, programs@damlvt.org.

VIRTUAL POETRY OPEN

MIC: Wordsmiths read their work at an evening with local performance poet Bianca Amira Zanella. Presented by Phoenix Books. 7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 855-8078.

WILLIAM GADDIS ‘THE RECOGNITIONS’ BOOK GROUP DISCUSSION: The Burlington Literature Group reads and analyzes this influential postmodernist novel over 13 weeks. 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, info@nereadersandwriters. com.

WINE & STORY: Lovers of libations and tellers of tales gather for an evening of good company. Shelburne Vineyard, 7:30 p.m. $5. Info, 863-1754.

WED.17 business

DANIELLE BASS: A Better Business Bureau expert explains the most common identity theft scams. Presented by Women Business Owners Network Vermont. 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 503-0219.

GLOBAL TALK, LOCAL TASTE: Vermonters network and discuss global issues over brews and bites. Hula, Burlington, 4:30-6 p.m. $15; free for VCWA members; reregister. Info, 557-0018.

QUEEN CITY BUSINESS NETWORKING INTERNATIONAL GROUP: See WED.10.

QUICKBOOKS ONLINE: TRANSACTIONS AND REPORTS: Business owners learn the ins and outs of the accounting software package. Presented by Score Vermont. 5:30-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 764-5899.

film

See what’s playing at local theaters in the On Screen section.

‘CHARLIE WILSON’S WAR’: A congressman teams up with a rogue CIA officer to drive Soviet forces out of Afghanistan in this Tom Hanks vehicle. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600.

CROWDSOURCED

CINEMA: PRE-

PRODUCTION PLANNING: Kurt Broderson of Middlebury Community Television covers concept development, scripting, storyboarding and location scouting. Presented by Media Factory. 6-8 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 651-9692.

‘JOURNEY TO SPACE 3D’: See WED.10.

‘MYSTERIES OF THE UNSEEN WORLD 3D’: See WED.10.

‘WILD AFRICA 3D’: See WED.10.

‘WINGS OVER WATER 3D’: See WED.10.

food & drink

COOK THE BOOK: Home chefs make a recipe from Milk Street: Tuesday Nights Mediterranean by Christopher Kimball and share the dish at a potluck. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

MAGNUM FORCE TASTING

PARTY: A ticket gets wine lovers five pours from the wine bar’s biggest bottles. Dedalus Wine Shop, Market & Wine Bar, Burlington, 5-7 p.m. $25; preregister. Info, 865-2368.

ROSÉ ALL DAY: PERFECT

PAIRINGS FOR SPRING SIPPING: See SUN.14. Dedalus Wine Shop, Market & Bakery, Stowe, 6-7 p.m. Info, 585-7717.

games

MAH-JONGG OPEN PLAY: See WED.10.

PUZZLE SWAP: Folks of all ages looking for a new challenge trade their old puzzles, accompanied by a picture and stored in a resealable bag. ADA accessible. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 2:30-5 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

FOMO?

Find even more local events in this newspaper and online: art

Find visual art exhibits and events in the Art section and at sevendaysvt.com/art.

film

See what’s playing at theaters in the On Screen section.

music + nightlife

Find club dates at local venues in the Music + Nightlife section online at sevendaysvt.com/ music.

Learn more about highlighted listings in the Magnificent 7 on page 11.

= ONLINE EVENT

health & fitness

ADVANCE CARE PLANNING

WORKSHOP: Central Vermont Home Health & Hospice experts explain why it’s never too early to start planning for future medical care. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

CHAIR YOGA: See WED.10. SEATED & STANDING YOGA: See WED.10.

VA2K WALK & ROLL: Locals take a 2-kilometer jaunt and bring donations of clothes, sleeping bags, tents and gift cards to chain big-box stores for homeless veterans. White River Junction VA Medical Center, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 295-9363, ext. 6343.

language

ELL CLASSES: ENGLISH FOR BEGINNERS & INTERMEDIATE STUDENTS: See WED.10. IRISH LANGUAGE CLASS: See WED.10.

SPANISH CONVERSATION: Fluent and beginner speakers brush up on their español with a discussion led by a Spanish teacher. Presented by Dorothy Alling Memorial Library. 5-6 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, programs@damlvt.org.

lgbtq

THRIVE QTPOC MOVIE NIGHT: Each month, Pride Center of Vermont virtually screens a movie centered on queer and trans people of color. 6:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, thrive@pridecentervt.org.

montréal

FESTIVAL ACCÈS ASIE: See WED.10.

music

ZACH NUGENT UNCORKED: See WED.10.

seminars

HOME BUYING WORKSHOP: A New England Federal Credit Union loan officer guides overwhelmed buyers through the process of finding their dream home. Noon-1 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 764-6940.

sports

GREEN MOUNTAIN TABLE TENNIS CLUB: See WED.10.

words

GRACE TALUSAN: The author of The Body Papers, a memoir that won the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing and the Massachusetts Book Award for Nonfiction, gives a reading. Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 635-2727.

MARJORIE RYERSON: The award-winning local writer launches her new book of poems, The Views From Mount Hunger. Phoenix Books, Rutland, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 855-8078. ➆

Brave Tea for future brewing.

Sat., Jul. 22, 11 a.m. Cost: $40. Location: Red Poppy Cakery, 1 Elm St., Waterbury Village Historic District. Info: 203-400-0700, sevendaystickets.com.

THE BASICS OF CAKE

THE FOLLOWING CLASS LISTINGS ARE PAID ADVERTISEMENTS. ANNOUNCE YOUR CLASS FOR AS LITTLE AS $16.75/WEEK (INCLUDES SIX PHOTOS AND UNLIMITED DESCRIPTION ONLINE). SUBMIT YOUR CLASS AD AT SEVENDAYSVT.COM/POSTCLASS.

art

DAVIS STUDIO ART CLASSES:

Discover your happy place in one of our weekly classes. Making art boosts emotional well-being and brings joy to your life, especially when you connect with other art enthusiasts. Select the ongoing program that’s right for you. Now enrolling youths and adults for classes in drawing, painting and fused glass. Location: Davis Studio, 916 Shelburne Rd., S. Burlington. Info: 802-425-2700, davisstudiovt.com.

craft

BLOCKPRINTING BOTANICALS:

Carve botanicals to print onto paper and fabric. Join visual artist Jen Berger to learn the basics of carving linoleum. Bring your own 4-by-6-inch image or make one in the group. Leave with your own reusable linoleum block, prints and the knowledge to make many more. Sat., Jun. 17, 11 a.m. Cost:

$65. Location: Horsford Gardens & Nursery, 2111 Greenbush Rd., Charlotte. Info: attherootvt@ gmail.com, sevendaystickets. com.

culinary

BRUNCH BAKING WORKSHOP:

Join Janina of Red Poppy Cakery and Scott Weigand of Brave Coffee and Tea for a delicious experience! Elevate brunch and learn about brewing the perfect coffee and tea. We’ll enjoy the fruits of our labors at the end and take home some Brave coffee or tea for future brewing. Sat., May 20, 9:30 a.m. Cost: $50. Location: Red Poppy Cakery, 1 Elm St., Waterbury Village Historic Village. Info: 203-400-0700, sevendaystickets.com.

COOKBOOK BAKING WORKSHOP:

‘FLOUR’ BY JOANNE CHANG: We’ll tackle a handful of recipes from the book family-style, sending everyone home with a full belly, something sweet to share and a copy of Flour by Joanne Chang. In order to order the books in time, registration closes early, so don’t wait too long to confirm your spot. Tue., Jun. 20, 6 p.m. Cost: $85. Location: Red Poppy Cakery, 1 Elm St., Waterbury Village Historic District. Info: 203-4000700, sevendaystickets.com.

COOKING WITH STEPHANIE:

CHARCUTERIE BOARDS: Join Stephanie for a hands-on demo charcuterie class, featuring local cheeses, meats and products. By the end, you will be proud of your board and brag about it to family

and friends. Invite your friends!

Stephanie guides everyone as you create an aesthetically appealing, delicious charcuterie board. Ages 21+. Fri., May 26, 5:30 p.m. Cost:

$65. Location: Maverick Market at 110, 110 Main St., Suite 1C, Burlington. Info: info@localmaver ickus.com, sevendaystickets.com.

CUPCAKES AND COLOR STREET: Ladies’ night! We will decorate an assortment of four different cupcakes in different styles and then try out Color Street patented real nail polish strips with help from a pro. Guests will also be able to demo and purchase some other Color Street items.

Fri., Jul. 23, 6:30 p.m. Cost: $40.

Location: Red Poppy Cakery, 1 Elm St., Waterbury Village Historic District. Info: 203-400-0700, sevendaystickets.com.

STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE

CLASS: In this workshop, we will talk about what makes this great American classic so irresistible. You will then assemble and decorate your very own eight-slice version to take home and enjoy for the weekend. In addition, you will receive a copy of Janina’s recipe for this dessert following the class. u., Jun. 15, 6 p.m.

Cost: $10/45. Location: Red Poppy Cakery, 1 Elm St., Waterbury Village Historic District. Info: 203400-0700, sevendaystickets.com.

DECORATING: Learn the basics of filling, crumb-coating, getting nice smooth edges and some rosette piping. You’ll take home great new techniques plus a six-inch cake that serves 12. You can select your flavor! Glutenfree, vegan or both are available. Please disclose allergies when registering. Tue., Jul. 25, 6 p.m. Cost: $85. Location: Red Poppy Cakery, 1 Elm St., Waterbury Village Historic District. Info: 203400-0700, sevendaystickets.com.

gardening

TEA IS A TREE: TASTING & GROWING: Taste fresh teas imported from around the world along with local herbs that blend well with green, black, white and other teas. Horsford’s lead gardener, Sophie Steck, will educate about the florals, herbs and botanicals you can grow in Vermont’s climate to pair with Camellia sinensis Sat., May 20, 10 a.m. Location: Horsford Gardens & Nursery , 2111 Greenbush Rd., Charlotte. Info: 802-425-2811, sevendaystickets.com.

Generator

GENERATOR is a combination of artist studios, classroom, and business incubator at the intersection of art, science, and technology. We provide tools, expertise, education, and opportunity –to enable all members of our community to create, collaborate, and make their ideas a reality.

ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR SKILLS

WORKSHOP: is workshop will cover the basics of Adobe Illustrator but also leave flexibility enough in the curriculum to allow for student-chosen skills and applications. You will leave with a strong foundation of skills and a knowledge of “shortcuts” in the program and application for the files you create. Wed., May 31 and Jun. 7, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $99. Location: Generator, 40 Sears La., Burlington. Info: 802540-0761, generatorvt.com/ calendar#!event/2023/5/31/ adobe-illustrator-skills-workshop.

TEA PARTY FEATURING BRAVE

COFFEE AND TEA: Tackle a handful of recipes for the perfect teatime and learn more about brewing the tea to go with it, served hot, iced or infused into lemonade. We’ll enjoy the fruits of our labors toward the end of the workshop and take home some

Wed., May 24. Cost: $125/incl. materials. Location: Generator, 40 Sears La., Burlington. Info: 802-540-0761, generatorvt.com/ calendar#!event/2023/5/24/ hammock-sewing-workshop.

martial arts

VERMONT BRAZILIAN JIU-JITSU: We offer a legitimate Brazilian jiu-jitsu training program for men, women and children in a friendly, safe and positive environment.

Julio Cesar “Foca” Fernandez Nunes; CBJJP and IBJJF seventhdegree Carlson Gracie Sr. Coral Belt-certified instructor; teaching in Vermont, born and raised in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil! A two-time world masters champion, five-time Brazilian jiu-jitsu national champion, three-time Rio de Janeiro state champion and Gracie Challenge champion. Accept no limitations! 1st class is free. Location: Vermont Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, 55 Leroy Rd., Williston. Info: 802598-2839, julio@bjjusa.com, vermontbjj.com.

massage

tradition. Receive personal healing, learn to create your own Mesa, cultivate a relationship with the unseen world and discover your personal guide(s) who will help you “re-member” your new path of expanding possibilities. Weekend-long sessions: Jun. 16-18; Sep. 22-24; Jan. 12-14, 2024; Jun. 21-23, 2024. Location: Heart of the Healer, St. Albans. Info: omas Mock, 802-3694331, thomas.mock1444@gmail. com, heartofthehealer.org.

well-being

SPRING SAMPLER GROUP

HAMMOCK SEWING WORKSHOP: What’s better than enjoying the warm summer breeze in a hammock? Not much. Join us and learn the process of creating your own custom, nylon backpacking-style hammock. is bicolored hammock compacts down to the size of a Nalgene and was designed with the ease of storage and setup in mind.

PIERCE, SIFT, FIRE: Learn the process of fusing powdered glass to metal using torch-firing. First, we will design and saw a copper pendant, then apply several layers of enamel on both sides of the pendant to add color. e result is a smooth, colored surface. e pendant can be worn using cotton cord. Sat., Jun. 3-Sun., Jun. 4, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Cost: $175/incl. materials. Location: Generator, 40 Sears La., Burlington. Info: 802-540-0761, generatorvt.com/ calendar#!event/2023/6/3/ pierce-sift-fire-enameled-pendant-workshop.

language

ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE: e Alliance Française of the Lake Champlain Region is offering a new series of French classes for adults from beginner through advanced levels. e summer session begins on June 5. Specific class offerings may be found at the Alliance Française website. Please contact Micheline Tremblay for more information. June 5. Location: Alliance Française, Burlington. Info: education@aflcr.org.

FREE FRENCH CLASSES: Free 1-hour French for Hospitality classes! e Alliance Française will offer fun and easy ways for you and your business to kindly welcome our many Québec visitors this season. Learn basic French phrases and helpful gestures. Email us today to sign up. Bienvenue! Mon., May 8, 15, 22 & 29, 3:30 p.m. Location: BCA , 135 Church St., 2nd Floor, Burlington. Info: Alliance Française of the Lake Champlain Region, btvescargot@gmail.com.

CHINESE MEDICAL MASSAGE: is program teaches two forms of East Asian medical massage: Tui Na and shiatsu. We will explore Oriental medicine theory and diagnosis, as well as the body’s meridian system, acupressure points, and yinyang and five-element theory. Additionally, Western anatomy and physiology are taught. VSAC nondegree grants are available. FSMTB-approved program. Starts Sep. 2023. Cost: $6,000/625-hour program. Location: Elements of Healing, 21 Essex Way, Suite 109, Essex. Info: Scott Moylan, 802288-8160, scott@elementsofheal ing.net, elementsofhealing.net.

nature

ECO-RESILIENCY GATHERING: is is a free monthly space to gather with others who are interested in exploring ecological questions, emotional elements of climate change, ideas of change, building community and creating a thriving world. Come together, share, engage and learn. Each month we center on topics related to the ecological and climate crises. Wed., May 10, 6 p.m. Location: Online. Info: akmckb@ gmail.com, sevendaystickets. com.

outdoors

THE BIKE BLOOM GROUP RIDES: Old Spokes Home and the Intervale Center are cohosting the Bike Bloom on May 20, a celebration of accessible outdoor recreation through affordable bikes and public, free-to-use lands. e fundraising event hosted by Old Spokes Home ends at the Intervale Center Barn and culminates with a party and bike show. Sat., May 20, 5:30 p.m.

Location: Old Spokes Home, 331 North Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 802-863-4475, sevendaystickets.com.

shamanism

APPRENTICESHIP IN

SHAMANISM: Rare opportunity to apprentice locally in a shamanic

RETREAT: Explore the variety of services Wild Trails Farm offers during a unique Spring Sampler group weekend event. Enjoy relaxing retreat sessions led by our skilled practitioners, nourishing food and restorative time out in nature on 400-plus private acres in southern Vermont. Fri., May 26, through Mon., May 29. Rooms start at $750, plus 9% lodging tax. Location: Wild Trails Farm, 400 Ruusunen Rd., Springfield. Info: Jo Bregnard, 802-875-2275, retreats@wildtrailsfarm.com, wildtrailsfarm.com.

yoga

A UNIQUE STYLE: SVAROOPA

YOGA: Gentle, deep and profound, this unique style of yoga releases the core muscles wrapped around your spine, creating changes in your body and mind. is affects joints, aches, pains and your inner state of mind. Transcend the athleticism of modern yoga by exploring the yogic mystery hidden within. Free half-hour session to learn the basics and propping. New class forming for beginners. Private sessions and yoga therapy also available by appointment. Ongoing classes Sun., 3-4:30 p.m.; & Wed., 6-7:30 p.m. $21 for a single class; $108 for 6-class card to be used within 7 weeks.

Location: Zoom. Info: Annie E-RYT 500, Yoga erapist certified by Svaroopa Vidya Ashram, 802-3339477, annie@center4integrative health.org.

HATHA YOGA CLASSES IN

MONTPELIER: Daily evening hatha yoga classes in Montpelier. 26 and 2 series. Call for more information. All levels welcome! 5:30-7 p.m. daily. Location: Hatha Yoga, 26 State St., 2nd Floor, Suite 4, Montpelier. Info: 802-223-1987.

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AGE/SEX: 5-year-old spayed female

ARRIVAL DATE: April 19, 2023

SUMMARY: Due to the lack of affordable pet-friendly housing in our area, sweet Jersey has come to HSCC to find a new home. She’s a playful girl who loves being petted and being with people. She’s a fan of toys and playing outside and has enjoyed our group dog walks here at the shelter. Jersey would very much love to go for daily walks and enjoy plenty of enrichment with her new people. If you’re looking for a love connection, Jersey’s your girl!

DOGS/CATS/KIDS: Jersey has lived with another female dog and has been social with dogs at HSCC. She has lived with a cat and may do well with a dog-savvy cat. She has been around children, and her previous owner notes that she would be excited but gentle.

Visit the Humane Society of Chittenden County at 142 Kindness Court, South Burlington, Tuesday through Friday from 1 to 5 p.m. or Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Call 862-0135 or visit hsccvt.org for more info.

DID YOU KNOW?

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2-BR IN S. BURLINGTON

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All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act of 1968 and similar Vermont statutes which make it illegal to advertise any preference, limitations, or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, handicap, presence of minor children in the family or receipt of public assistance, or an intention to make any such preference, limitation or a discrimination. The newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate, which is in violation of the law. Our

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Open House: Tuesday, May 16 @ 11-1

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Machinery & Equip.

Online Lots Closing

Thursday, May 18 @ 10AM

readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis. Any home seeker who feels he or she has encountered discrimination should contact:

HUD Office of Fair Housing 10 Causeway St., Boston, MA 02222-1092 (617) 565-5309

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Online Lots Closing

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Commercial Kitchen & Rest. Equip., Burlington, VT

- Wed., May 17 @ 10AM

St. Martins Machinery & Equip., Keene, NH

- Thu., May 18 @ 10AM

Simulcast Public Auto Auction, Williston, VT

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Household, Furniture & Collectibles, Colchester, VT

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Woodworking Shop, Equip. & Lumber, Londonderry, VT

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3BR/1BA Ranch with 2 Car Attached Garage, Colchester, VT

- Thu., June 1 @ 10AM

USDA Foreclosure: 3BR/1BA Ranch Home, Milton, VT

- Tue., June 6 @ 10AM

3BR/1BA Mfg. Home & 2 Car Garage, East Ryegate, VT

- Wed., June 7 @ 10AM

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Application 4C0116-14G from DiamondRock Hospitality Company, Attn: Dustin Resnick 2 Bethesda Metro Center, Bethesda, MD 20814 and Diamondrock Burlington Tenant, LLC, Attn: Dustin Resnick, 2 Bethesda Metro Center Suite 1400, Bethesda, MD 20814 was received on April 6, 2023 and deemed complete on April 26, 2023 . e project specifi cally authorizes exterior renovations and landscaping changes at the existing Hilton Hotel in Burlington, to be renamed Hotel Champlain. A traffi c island will be removed and infilled with a landscaped patio and an added sidewalk connection to Battery Street. Pavement markings, curbs and other site features will be changed to increase pedestrian safety and improve traffi c fl ow. An existing metal panel extension of the porte cochere will be removed and the structure will be restored to its original condition as a concrete cantilever. e project will include replacement and additional site and building lighting, new signage, as well as the addition of a gas line that will extend from the hotel building to connect to a new fi re feature in the landscaped area. e project is located at 60 Battery St. in Burlington, Vermont. is application can be viewed online by visiting the Act 250 Database: (https://anrweb.vt.gov/ANR/Act250/ Details.aspx?Num=4C0116-14G).

No hearing will be held, and a permit will be issued unless, on or before May 22, 2023, a party notifi es the District 4 Commission in writing of an issue requiring a hearing, or the Commission sets the matter for a hearing on its own motion. Any person as defi ned in 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c)(1) may request a hearing. Any hearing request must be in writing, must state the criteria or sub-criteria at issue, why a hearing is required, and what additional evidence will be presented at the hearing. Any hearing request by an adjoining property owner or other person eligible for party status under 10

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V.S.A. § 6085(c)(1)(E) must include a petition for party status under the Act 250 Rules. To request party status and a hearing, fill out the Party Status Petition Form on the Board’s website: https://nrb. vermont.gov/documents/party-status-petitionform, and email it to the District 4 Offi ce at: NRB. Act250Essex@vermont.gov. Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law may not be prepared unless the Commission holds a public hearing.

For more information contact Kaitlin Hayes at the address or telephone number below.

Dated this May 1, 2023.

By: /s/ Kaitlin Hayes

Kaitlin

Hayes

District Coordinator 111 West Street Essex Junction, VT 05452 (802) 622-4084 kaitlin.hayes@vermont.gov

ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION 4C0395-11 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001 - 6111

Application 4C0395-11 from Reperio Properties, LLC, Attn: Jeff O’Hara P.O. Box 1133, Williston, VT 05495 was received on May 2, 2023, and deemed complete on May 4, 2023. e project is generally described as the retrofi t of the existing building at 1233F Shelburne Road, used previously as commercial retail space (Building F). e building will be retrofi tted to accommodate a daycare. e majority of the proposed work will take place within the existing structure, and a playground will be added to the exterior of the building. e project is located at 1233F Shelburne Road in South Burlington, Vermont. is application can be viewed online by visiting the Act 250 Database: (https://anrweb.vt.gov/ANR/Act250/Details. aspx?Num=4C0395-11).

No hearing will be held, and a permit will be issued unless, on or before May 25, 2023, a party notifi es the District 4 Commission in writing of an issue requiring a hearing, or the Commission sets the matter for a hearing on its own motion. Any person as defi ned in 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c)(1) may request a hearing. Any hearing request must be in writing, must state the criteria or sub-criteria at issue, why a hearing is required, and what additional evidence will be presented at the hearing. Any hearing request by an adjoining property owner or other person eligible for party status under 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c)(1)(E) must include a petition for party status under the Act 250 Rules. To request party status and a hearing, fill out the Party Status Petition Form on the Board’s website: https://nrb. vermont.gov/documents/party-status-petitionform, and email it to the District 4 Offi ce at: NRB. Act250Essex@vermont.gov. Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law may not be prepared unless the Commission holds a public hearing.

For more information contact Kaitlin Hayes at the address or telephone number below.

Dated May 5, 2023.

By: _/s/ Kaitlin Hayes

Kaitlin Hayes

District Coordinator 111 West Street Essex Junction, VT 05452 (802) 622-4084 kaitlin.hayes@vermont.gov

ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION 4C0660-12 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001 - 6111

Application 4C0660-12 from Shelburne Farms, Attn: Alec Webb, 1611 Harbor Road, Shelburne, VT 05482 was received on April 21, 2023, and deemed complete on May 3, 2023. e project is generally described as renovation of the Coach Barn to include a geothermal system, replacement of the electrical system, fi re protection system, expansion of kitchen, limited interior fi nishes, restoration of the historic chimney, and restoration of windows and granite pavers in the existing courtyard. e project is located at 1611 Harbor Road in Shelburne, Vermont. is application can be viewed online by visiting the Act 250 Database:

(https://anrweb.vt.gov/ANR/Act250/Details. aspx?Num=4C0660-12).

No hearing will be held, and a permit will be issued unless, on or before May 23, 2023, a party notifi es the District 4 Commission in writing of an issue requiring a hearing, or the Commission sets the matter for a hearing on its own motion. Any person as defi ned in 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c)(1) may request a hearing. Any hearing request must be in writing, must state the criteria or sub-criteria at issue, why a hearing is required, and what additional evidence will be presented at the hearing. Any hearing request by an adjoining property owner or other person eligible for party status under 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c)(1)(E) must include a petition for party status under the Act 250 Rules. To request party status and a hearing, fill out the Party Status Petition Form on the Board’s website: https://nrb. vermont.gov/documents/party-status-petitionform, and email it to the District 4 Offi ce at: NRB. Act250Essex@vermont.gov. Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law may not be prepared unless the Commission holds a public hearing.

For more information contact Stephanie H. Monaghan at the address or telephone number below.

Dated this May 3, 2023.

By:/s/ Stephanie H. Monaghan

District Coordinator

111 West Street Essex Junction, VT 05452 802-261-1944 stephanie.monaghan@vermont.gov

ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION 4C0897-5

10 V.S.A. §§ 6001 - 6111

Application 4C0897-5 from Southworth-Milton, Inc. (DBA Milton CAT) 100 Quarry Drive, Milford, MA 01757 and Milton Real Properties of Massachusetts, 100 Quarry Drive, Milford, MA 01757 was received on March 29, 2023 and deemed complete on May 2, 2023. e project is generally described as construction of a 7,160 square foot building addition between two existing buildings for use as service bays, along with construction of a 1,236 square foot canopy at the southeast corner of the existing building. e project is located on US Route 2 in Richmond, Vermont. is application can be viewed online by visiting the Act 250 Database: (https://anrweb.vt.gov/ANR/Act250/Details.

aspx?Num=4C0897-5).

No hearing will be held and a permit will be issued unless, on or before May 23, 2023, a party notifi es the District 4 Commission in writing of an issue requiring a hearing, or the Commission sets the

matter for a hearing on its own motion. Any person as defi ned in 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c)(1) may request a hearing. Any hearing request must be in writing, must state the criteria or sub-criteria at issue, why a hearing is required, and what additional evidence will be presented at the hearing. Any hearing request by an adjoining property owner or other person eligible for party status under 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c)(1)(E) must include a petition for party status under the Act 250 Rules. To request party status and a hearing, fill out the Party Status Petition Form on the Board’s website: https://nrb. vermont.gov/documents/party-status-petitionform, and email it to the District 4 Offi ce at: NRB. Act250Essex@vermont.gov. Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law may not be prepared unless the Commission holds a public hearing.

For more information contact Stephanie H. Monaghan at the address or telephone number below.

Dated this May 2, 2023.

By:/s/ Stephanie H. Monaghan

Stephanie H. Monaghan District Coordinator 111 West Street Essex Junction, VT 05452 802-261-1944 stephanie.monaghan@vermont.gov

ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION 4C1333-1

10 V.S.A. §§ 6001 - 6111

Application 4C1333-1 from Jonny Roger Holdings, LLC, Attn: Roth Perry, P.O. Box 821, Milton, VT 05468 was received on March 28, 2023, and deemed complete on May 2, 2023. e project is generally described as a change in use of a previously permitted project involving the construction of fi ve (5) self-storage unit buildings, totaling 31,900 square feet, a gravel storage yard, and associated utilities and infrastructure. e project is located on U.S. Route 7 (directly across from intersection of Forbes Rd.) in Milton, Vermont. is application can be viewed online by visiting the Act 250 Database: (https://anrweb.vt.gov/ ANR/Act250/Details.aspx?Num=4C1333-1).

No hearing will be held, and a permit will be issued unless, on or before May 23, 2023, a party notifi es the District 4 Commission in writing of an issue requiring a hearing, or the Commission sets the matter for a hearing on its own motion. Any person as defi ned in 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c)(1) may request a hearing. Any hearing request must be in writing, must state the criteria or sub-criteria at issue, why a hearing is required, and what additional evidence will be presented at the hearing. Any hearing request by an adjoining property owner or other person eligible for party status under 10

V.S.A. § 6085(c)(1)(E) must include a petition for party status under the Act 250 Rules. To request party status and a hearing, fill out the Party Status Petition Form on the Board’s website: https://nrb. vermont.gov/documents/party-status-petitionform, and email it to the District 4 Offi ce at: NRB. Act250Essex@vermont.gov. Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law may not be prepared unless the Commission holds a public hearing.

For more information contact Stephanie H. Monaghan at the address or telephone number below.

Dated this May 2, 2023.

By:/s/ Stephanie H. Monaghan Stephanie H. Monaghan District Coordinator 111 West Street Essex Junction, VT 05452 802-261-1944 Stephanie.Monaghan@vermont.gov

BOOSKA MOVERS - PUBLIC AUCTION

Booska Movers will be holding a public auction on May 18th, 2023 at 9:00am. Location, 430 Meadowland Dr. S. Burlington, VT 05403

Anyone wishing to satisfy the account of Bud Allen of Hinesburg, VT can do so by contacting our offi ce at 802-864-5115 before May 17th close of business. 5:00pm.

CHAMPLAIN VALLEY SELF-STORAGE

In accordance with VT Title 9 Commerce and Trade Chapter 098: Storage Units 3905. Enforcement of Lien, Champlain Valley Self Storage, LLC shall host a live auction of the following unit on or after 9am 5/20/23:

Location: 78 Lincoln St. Essex Junction, VT 05452

Vanessa Robare, unit #111: household goods

Auction pre-registration is required, email info@ champlainvalleyselfstorage.com to register.

COMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER SEEKING

RFPS

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS ARCHITECTURAL

SERVICES e Committee on Temporary Shelter is seeking proposals from Architectural fi rms to perform a Feasibility Study and a Schematic Design to explore the feasibility of either rehabilitating an existing low-income multi-family building or demolishing and building a new structure with while maintaining or increasing the total number of on-site housing units. Qualifi ed applicants will have comparable experience as well as knowledge of affordable housing, multi-family construction, publicly funded projects, and federal regulations. To obtain a copy of the RFP including submission requirements and specifi c project information, please contact Logan Brown at COTS at 802343-8632 or Loganb@cotsonline.org. Proposals including all attachments must be submitted by 4:00 PM on Friday, June 16, 2023. Minorityowned, women-owned, Section 3 businesses and locally-owned businesses are encouraged to apply. May 2, 2023.

Bid Due Date: 06/17/2023

Bid Due Time: 4:00 PM

NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO BROWNFIELDS REUSE AND ENVIRONMENTAL LIABILITY LIMITATION ACT PROGRAM

Please take notice that Stage Road Partners whose mailing address is 240 Laurel Lane, Waterbury, VT 05676 is applying to the Vermont Brownfi elds Reuse and Environmental Liability Limitation Program (10 V.S.A. §6641 et seq.) in connection with the redevelopment of property known as 616 South Willard St. in the City of Burlington, VT.

A copy of the application, which contains a preliminary environmental assessment and a description of the proposed redevelopment project is available for public review at the Burlington Clerk’s Offi ce and at the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation offi ces in Montpelier. Comments concerning the application and/or the above referenced documents may be directed to

Sam Tolstoi at 973-886-8151 or at samuel.tolstoi@ gmail.com

Comments may also be submitted by mail to the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation, Waste Management Division, 1 National Life Drive Davis 1, Montpelier, VT 05620.

NOTIFICATION OF PERIOD OF PUBLIC COMMENT

Pursuant to 18 V.S.A. § 8907 and the Administrative Rules on Agency Designation, the Vermont Department of Mental Health (DMH) and the Department of Disabilities, Aging and Independent Living (DAIL) hereby notify the public of the Application for Redesignation of Howard Center (HC).

A 14-day period of public comment is provided for DMH and DAIL to gather information about Howard Center (HC) as part of the process to decide whether or not the State of Vermont will renew the agency’s designation to deliver developmental and mental-health services to adults, children, adolescents and families in Chittenden County. Comments from consumers, parents, family members and other concerned citizens about your experiences with services provided by HC are welcomed. Public comments will be accepted for the two-week period from Wednesday, May 03, 2023, until the close of business on Tuesday, May 16, 2023. In particular, DMH and DAIL are interested in knowing:

1. What are the strengths and challenges of the agency?

2. Does the agency work well with other agencies in the community?

3. Do people get the mental health and developmental services that they need?

4. Do people get mental health and developmental services when they need them?

5. Do you have any recommendations for improvements?

Please send written comments or contact us by phone no later than Tuesday, May 16, 2023.

For Mental Health Child, Adolescent and Family Services Community Rehabilitation and Treatment, Adult Outpatient, and Emergency Services

Mail: Department of Mental Health, 280 State Drive, NOB 2 North, Waterbury, Vermont 056712010

Attn: Puja Senning

Phone: 802-241-0413

Fax: 802-241-0100

E-mail: Puja.Senning@vermont.gov

For Developmental Services:

Mail: Developmental Disabilities Services Division Department of Disabilities, Aging, and Independent Living, 280 State Drive, HC 2 South, Waterbury, Vermont 05671-2030

Attn: Chris O’Neill

Phone: (802) 793-4213

Fax: (802) 241-0410

E-mail: Chris.ONeill@vermont.gov

STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT PROBATE DIVISION CHITTENDEN UNIT DOCKET NO.: 23-PR-00794

In re ESTATE of Gerard Malavenda

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

To the creditors of: Gerard Malavenda, late of Williston, Vermont

I have been appointed to administer this estate. All creditors having claims against the decedent or the estate must present their claims in writing within four (4) months of the date of the fi rst publication of this notice. e claim must be presented to me at the address listed below with a copy sent to the Court. e claim may be barred forever if it is not presented within the four (4) month period.

Dated: May 4, 2023

Signature of Fiduciary: /s/ Maureen Locker

Legal Notices

Executor/Administrator: Maureen Locker c/o Bergeron Paradis & Fitzpatrick; PO Box 174, Essex Junction, VT 05453-0174, 802-879-6304 cwood@ bpflegal.com

Name of Publication: Seven Days

Publication Date: 05/10/2023

Name of Probate Court: Vermont Superior Court, Chittenden Unit, Probate Division

Address of Probate Court: PO BOX 511, Burlington VT 05402

STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT

PROBATE DIVISION CHITTENDEN UNIT

DOCKET NO.: 23-PR-02360

In re ESTATE of Mary Louise Mannix

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

To the creditors of: Mary Louise Mannix, late of Shelburne, Vermont

I have been appointed to administer this estate. All creditors having claims against the decedent or the estate must present their claims in writing within four (4) months of the date of the first publication of this notice. The claim must be presented to me at the address listed below with a copy sent to the Court. The claim may be barred forever if it is not presented within the four (4) month period.

Dated: May 4, 2023

Signature of Fiduciary: /s/ Mary Regina Mannix

Executor/Administrator: Mary Regina Mannix c/o Julie Hoyt Esq.; Jarret Hoyt 1795 Williston Rd, Suite 125, 802-864-5951, julie@vtelaw.com

Name of Publication: Seven Days

Publication Date: 05/10/2023

Name of Probate Court: Vermont Superior Court, Chittenden Unit, Probate Division

Address of Probate Court: PO BOX 511, Burlington VT 05402

TOWN OF BOLTON DEVELOPMENT REVIEW BOARD

PUBLIC HEARING: MAY 25, 2023

The Town of Bolton’s Development Review Board will hold a public hearing on May 25, 2023, at 6:30pm.

Place: Virtual or Municipal Conference Room, 3045 Theodore Roosevelt Highway, Bolton, VT, 05676.

Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8856644

9524?pwd=L1BxQkZTd2EyWXRjTEZBRVh0ZWFC

dz09 Call (audio only): +1 646 558 8656 Meeting ID: 885 6644 9524

Passcode: 350390

The following applications will be reviewed:

2023-06-DRB; Applicant & Property Owner: Amy MacCormack, seeking to expand the lot to a total area of approximately 0.62 acres, from 0.56 acres, via a right of way alteration to reduce irregularity of the lot. Subsequently, seeking a conditional use review due to steep slopes (15-25%) and very steep slopes (>25%) for new home construction. (Tax Map # 4-9000299).

2023-07-DRB; Applicant & Property Owner: Andrew Roy, seeking a conditional use review due to steep slopes (15-25%) for the construction of a driveway to a proposed home site. (Tax Map # 9-4060122).

Additional information can be obtained through email by calling 802-434-5075, or by email at zoningbolton@gmavt.net. Pursuant to 24 VSA § 4464 and § 4471, participation in this local proceeding, by written or oral comment, is a prerequisite to the right to take any subsequent appeal.

TOWN OF ESSEX PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE

Proposed Amendments to the Zoning and Subdivision Regulations

Pursuant to 24 V.S.A. § 4441(d), the Essex Planning Commission has scheduled a public hearing for 6:00 PM, on May 25, 2023, at the municipal offices, 81 Main Street, Essex Junction, Vermont, or online via Zoom, using the following link: https://www. essexvt.org/1043/Join-Zoom-Meeting-Essex-PC, or by calling 1-888-788-0099 using the meeting ID: 923 7777 6158 # and Passcode: 426269. The purpose of the hearing is to solicit public input on proposed amendments to the Town of Essex Official Zoning Bylaws, effective February 28, 2017, and proposed amendments to the Town of Essex Official Subdivision Regulations, effective February 28, 2017.

The purpose of the amendments is to maintain consistency with state planning law (24 V.S.A., Chapter 117) and to implement provisions in the 2016 Essex Town Plan. The amendments include minor technical corrections and clarifications, as well as minor revisions to comply with state planning law and update outdated terms. Clarifications and additions were made in the Definitions chapter (Article VIII). Substantive changes to the zoning regulations include the following: 1) updates to the Business Design Control district table (Table 2.16) to reference and include language from the 2021 ETC NEXT Master Plan and additional design requirements, 2) the elimination of a minimum dwelling unit size (Section 3.3(A)(B)), 3) allowance of marquee signs in the MXD(B1) district, and 4) the minimum number of units in a PUD was increased from two to six.

Revisions to the Town of Essex Official Subdivision Regulations were largely technical in nature.

The amendments have the potential to affect all areas in Town.

Copies of the proposed amendments and the report required by 24 V.S.A. §4441(c) may be obtained or examined at the municipal offices at 81 Main Street, Essex, and the Essex Free Library at 1 Browns River Road. The proposed amendments

may be downloaded from the Town website at www.essexvt.org.

For more information contact Katherine Sonnick, Community Development Director at ksonnick@ essex.org or 878-1343.

Dustin Bruso, Chair, Essex Planning Commission

TOWN OF ESSEX SELECTBOARD NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING MAY 15, 2023 6:35 PM

The Town of Essex Selectboard will hold a public meeting to discuss proposed changes in water and sewer rates and capital plan. The meeting will be held at the Town Offices, 81 Main Street, with an option to join remotely via Zoom:

Monday May 15, 2023, 6:35 PM at the Town Offices at 81 Main St., Essex Junction; online via Zoom and enter Zoom meeting ID: 98785691140, passcode: 032060; or by telephone by calling toll free (888)788-0099 and enter Zoom meeting ID: 98785691140#, passcode: 032060.

Water rates are proposed to increase by 4.74%, from $5.90 per 1,000 gallons to $6.18 per 1,000 gallons. The yearly minimum public water charge is proposed to remain at $190 per year. Water initiation fees for new customers are proposed to remain at $5.90 per 1,000 gallons.

Sewer rates are proposed to increase 6.28%, from $10.27 per 1,000 gallons to $10.91 per 1,000 gallons. Sewer initiation fees for new customers are proposed to remain at $10.60/gpd. Interim or final billing requests shall continue to be charged a fee of $35 for the service.

The proposed water and sewer budget and rate methodology is available at www.essexvt.org. Please direct questions to Public Works Director Aaron Martin or Water Quality Director Annie Costandi at 802-878-1344 or amartin@essex.org and acostandi@essex.org.

Andy Watts, Chair Essex Selectboard

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Planning and Zoning Administrator Part

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GRILL CHEF

Looking for a grill chef for Saturday farmers market. Join our team for part time work. Select Saturdays throughout the season. Help set up market tents/take down.

• 8am-2:45pm

• Grill the best farm hot dogs and burgers!

• Pay based on experience. Base $17

Email for more details & send a letter/ resume: maplewind123gmail com

Get your grill game on!

Mental Health & Substance Use Counselor

Growing town needs part-time Planning and Zoning Administrator (PZA) support for its planning commission to prepare and implement community goals. Hyde Park has two designated Village Centers, two public water supply systems, one public sewer system with a second being planned. 24 hours per week with flexible schedule and hiring range up to $30.00/hr. Visit hydeparkvt.com for more information.

NORTHEASTERN VERMONT REGIONAL HOSPITAL

Multiple Positions

Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital is seeking full-time or per-diem physicians, an experienced full-time ED physician assistant, and experienced registered nurses to join its growing ED team. Join us while we expand our services to the community. NVRH employees enjoy a wide range of opportunities for growth, a competitive salary and more.

Lead or Assistant PRESCHOOL TEACHER

Neck of the Woods is seeking a lead or assistant Preschool teacher. We are interested in hiring someone who has experience working with children ages 0-5. Lead teachers must be at least 21 years old, and assistant teachers must be 18. Our hours of operation are 7:30-5:00. Familiarity with emergent curriculum, Reggio Emilia, child development, strengths based behavior management and a community-based philosophy is a perk. Lead teachers must have 21+ college credits in or related to early childhood education or a CDA.

All staff must meet state licensing requirements for employment, pass a background check, and be fingerprinted before beginning to work with children. Benefits include training costs covered, holidays, and earned PTO.

To apply, please send your resume and 2 references to info@ neckofthewoodsvt.com

NVRH offers excellent benefits, including student loan repayment, generous paid time off, health/ dental/vision, 401k with company match & more!

APPLY TODAY AT NVRH.ORG/CAREERS

Housing Education Coordinator

The Housing Education Coordinator is responsible for the statewide Housing Advocacy Programs (HAP) educational offerings and provides tenant education and coaching. This includes curriculum development, working with other HAP staff to deliver in-person and online workshops, coordinating on-demand courses, creating educational and outreach materials, connecting with community partners, and providing back-up coverage for the tenant hotline and direct service to clients as needed.

This is a part-time position with full benefits. Please visit cvoeo.org/careers to submit cover letter, resume and 3 work references.

CVOEO is an E.O.E.

To view a full job description & apply, please visit bit.ly/43ZMZ Now Hiring!

Budtenders

We are looking for part-time budtenders to work in our Montpelier retail cannabis dispensary, Gram Central. It’s an exciting time for the Vermont cannabis industry and we want to find people who share our enthusiasm. A budtender’s primary responsibility is interacting with customers and providing information about our products. This includes, but is not limited to effects, dosage, timing, modes of ingestion, and the dangers of overconsumption and keeping cannabis away from children. Budtenders will be trained on inventory management and safety and security protocols.

The ideal candidate will have retail experience, cannabis knowledge, and experience working with a POS system. Excellent people skills are an absolute necessity.

Please submit a resume and brief introduction to matthew.s@gramcentral.com with the subject “budtender.”

ACADEMIC COACH - FT Coach · Burlington, Vermont

At Mans eld Hall, we are creators of fun and connectors of people. We are driven by the work we do and the communities we serve. We believe that trust fuels progress and that authenticity supports independence. We are committed to supporting communities to understand the value that diverse learners bring to the college sphere and beyond.

As a team member at Mans eld Hall, you can expect to positively impact the lives of others while developing yourself both personally and professionally. We are a high-recognition organization where your achievements and alignment to our core values are celebrated.

Entry-level; $17-20 per hour, DOE.

Bene ts and Perks: Competitive salaries and upward growth potential. For full job descriptions and to apply: mans eldhall.org/employment

289 College Street, Burlington, VT 05401 (802) 440-0532 | mans eldhall.org

Mans eld Hall is an E.O.E. committed to a diverse workplace. People from diverse racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds, women, and persons with disabilities are highly encouraged to apply.

$1500

As indicated in the job description if available for that position

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CUSTODIANS

Saint Michael’s College is seeking applications from dependable, efficient workers to fill full-time custodial positions. Available shifts are:

• Sunday, 6:30am-2:30pm + Monday-Thursday, 5:00am-1:30pm

• Tuesday – Friday, 7:00 AM – 3:30 PM + Saturday, 6:00 AM – 2:30 PM

• Monday – Friday, 5:00 AM – 1:00 PM

• Monday – Friday, 7:00 AM – 3:30 PM

Successful candidates will join a team which cleans College buildings including dormitories, restrooms, offices, and classrooms. Training will be provided for the right candidate.

To explore all full-time custodial shifts, job description, benefits information, and to apply online, please visit: smcvt.edu/jobs

Why not have a job you love?

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PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICERS

Are you looking to make a difference in people’s lives? The Department of Public Safety at Saint Michael’s College is inviting applications for full-time and part-time Public Safety Officers from those looking to enhance their skills. This position requires the flexibility to problem-solve in a wide range of situations, both demanding and rewarding. A successful candidate will possess the ability to work effectively in a college environment seeking a balance between education and enforcement.

General Manager/ Assistant General Manager

Positive Pie, Montpelier

If you’re a positive, food-loving, high performer and a dynamic leader, then we want to hire you! At Positive Pie we strive to create a fun, lively, and professional environment for all, and our management team is the foundation of this. We focus on making great food and creating a positive and inclusive culture for our staff. As our GM/AGM, you will be given the opportunity to lead our team, reinforce our culture, hit financial targets and grow sales.

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CCS is thrilled to be voted as one of the “Best Places to Work in Vermont” for the fifth year in a row and we would love to have you as part of our team.

Benefit package includes 29 paid days off in the first year, a comprehensive health insurance plan with your premium as low as $13 per month, up to $6,000 to go towards medical deductibles & copays, a retirement match & so much more. And that’s on top of working at one of the “Best Places to Work in Vermont” for five years running.

Responsibilities: The GM/AGM supports the company by maintaining an outstanding work environment through leadership, direction, positivity, emotional intelligence, training, and development. They are responsible for managing day to day restaurant operations, in conjunction with the management team, and focusing on developing a guestcentric culture that consistently delivers positive guest service and superior food quality, while ensuring compliance with policies, procedures, and regulatory requirements.

Desired Skills:

• Experience in mangement/ supervising in a restaurant

• Experience in business financials

Join Us!

Work at CCS and support our mission to build a community where everyone participates and belongs.

Great jobs in management ($47,000 annual) and Direct Support Professionals ($19-$20 per hour) at an award-winning agency serving Vermonters with intellectual disabilities. All positions include a generous sign-on bonus.

Apply today at www.ccs-vt.org

Make

a career making a difference.

Apply today: ccs-vt.org/current-openings

Champlain Community Services, Inc.

• Experience in many service functions including bar and table service, host, expo, back of house functions and counter / delivery service.

• Refined social skills including charisma and an ability to develop rapport with customers and staff.

• Excellent communication skills, emotional intelligence and a great attitude.

General manager: Salary $70-75k, depending on experience, and an opportunity for performance based bonus.

Assistant General Manger: Comparable hourly rate. This position is available to start immediately. Please send resume directly to carlo@positivepie.com.

Communications & Outreach Coordinator

The Communications and Outreach Coordinator plays a vital role in delivering timely and strategic messaging to the residents and businesses of South Burlington. Listening, engaging, and receiving information and feedback from our community is also imperative to the success of this position. This position is a member of the City Manager’s team. Key duties include collaborating with City Departments to develop and implement communication strategies, development of informational materials, engagement of residents to understand the interest of the community, and clear and effective delivery of city-wide messaging. The Communications and Outreach Coordinator is responsible for the city’s website, brand, and brand management, as well as, the training and coaching of all staff to best communicate with our constituents.

TO APPLY: Review of applications will begin May 22, 2023. To apply today, email a City of South Burlington application form, a confidential cover letter, resume and three references to sbcityjobs@southburlingtonvt.gov

For more information and detailed job description, visit: southburlingtonvt.gov/jobopportunities

Nursing Grads: We need you!

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Vermont Tent Company is currently accepting applications for the following positions for immediate employment, and future summer/fall employment starting in May. Full time, part time, after school and weekend hours available for each position. Pay rates vary by position with minimum starting wage ranging from $19-$23/ hour depending on job skills and experience. We also offer retention and referral bonuses.

• Tent Installation

• Drivers/Delivery

• Inventory Maintenance Team

– Warehouse

• Load Crew Team

• Tent Maintenance Team

Interested candidates should submit an application online at vttent.com/employment.

No phone calls, please.

Goddard College, a leader in non-traditional education, has the following full-time, benefit eligible and part-time position openings:

AFFILIATED FACULTY – GRADUATE INSTITUTE & MFAW PROGRAMS

CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

DIRECTOR OF HUMAN RESOURCES

MAINTENANCE GENERALIST II

TEMPORARY ADMISSIONS COUNSELORS

To view position descriptions and application instructions, please visit our website: goddard.edu/about-goddard/employment-opportunities/

Bookkeeper/ Office Admin

Our architectural firm seeks a bookkeeper/office administrator that is well-organized and comfortable dealing with financial data. This individual will oversee the accounts payable and receivable, process payroll, and conduct other finance-related tasks. They should be excellent at recording data and have the ability to produce clear financial reports.

Responsibilities: front desk, phones, project/client invoicing, tracking expenses, taxes, cash flow, receipts, financial reporting, account reconciliation, payroll.

Qualifications: 3+ years of experience in bookkeeping, business finances, excel, word, proficiency in bookkeeping practices, administrative experience, human resources/ benefits; strong organizational and analytical skills

Email resumes to: kevin@scottpartners.com

Recycling Program Operator Full Time

RCSWD is seeking energetic professional who doesn't mind wearing multiple hats. Experienced in handling a wide range of operational and administrative duties that support related tasks and able to work independently with little or no supervision. This position comes with a competitive employment package, to include: Blue Cross-Blue Shield health insurance, retirement plans, vision, holidays, personal, sick time, and more. Compensation is very competitive and based upon experience. Is responsible for the operations of the programs at the regional transfer station. This includes accepting the following items: MSW, C&D, yard waste, plastics, food waste, tin/aluminum, cardboard, paper, new paper, magazines, glass, white products, tires, etc. This position will be able to work and fill in at all positions including HHW. For more detail on this position and documents to complete go to rcswd.com/about-us/pages/jobopportunities. Send your resume, 3 professional references, and competed job application to: Mark S. Shea, District Manager at mshea@rcswd.com For more information call (802) 775-7209 ext. 202

Structured Literacy Teacher

The Stern Center in Williston is seeking a full-time, in-person instructor to join our highly experienced and collaborative team of teachers. If you’re a qualified educator with training and experience in structured literacy instruction, this rewarding role allows focus and impact, teaching one-on-one to make a positive difference every day. Preferred candidates will have training in Orton-Gillingham and/or Wilson, and/or have Special Education certification. This position includes the Stern Center’s 6-week summer program through the 2023-24 school year. Our ideal candidate will have exceptional communication and organizational skills, understanding of researchbased interventions, and experience in developing individualized learning plans.

The Stern Center for Language and Learning is a non-profit organization with a fortyyear history of dedication to learning for all through direct support to learners and transformative programs for educators. We invite you to learn more at sterncenter. org. To apply, email Marilyn Schaefer at mschaefer@sterncenter.org

LOAN OFFICER AFFORDABLE HOUSING

Evernorth is a nonprofit organization that provides affordable housing and community investments in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. We have an exciting opportunity for a Loan Officer to join our Lending team in Vermont. This position is responsible for all aspects of the loan origination process including new business development, loan underwriting, credit write-up and approval, and closing in coordination with other team members.

The successful candidate will be a self-starter with excellent big-picture thinking and problem-solving skills who can collaborate with others to design and implement efficient and effective business processes. Knowledge of Community Development Financing Institution (CDFI), preferred. We believe in equal access to affordable housing and economic opportunities; the power of partnerships based on integrity, respect, and teamwork; and a collaborative workplace with professional, skilled, and dedicated staff.

For a full job description and to apply, please visit: bit.ly/EvernorthLOAN

Customer Care/ Fulfillment Associate

This career opportunity is dynamic & unique. We are a small family-owned company that sells acupuncture and herbal supplies exclusively to licensed veterinarians throughout the United States. This is a customer service job which requires strong communication skills both verbal and written. Applicants will be fulfilling orders and supporting Veterinarians and their staff via telephone, our online web store (Veterinary Chinese & Western Herbs and Supplies ), and email.

Accuracy with fulfillment is critical in our business, so being naturally detail-oriented and conscientious are very important. The ideal applicant would have a personal interest in veterinary medicine, holistic healthcare, and would be interested in learning about Chinese Veterinary medicine, including learning some Pinyin (in the form of learning the Chinese names of single herbs and herbal formulas).

All applicants must have strong computer and typing skills and be comfortable supporting our clients via telephone, email, and our online web store. QuickBooks knowledge would be very helpful as we manage our inventory and process our orders in QuickBooks. Benefits: Pay is commensurate with experience. The first six months are a trial period to ensure that the job is a good fit for both employee and employer. After completing the six month trial period successfully, our generous full-time employee benefits begin.

Applicants must submit a well thought out, well-written cover letter for us to even consider their application. Send resumes to: tfafard@comcast.net

Seasonal Retail Sales

Details and to apply: Employment Opportunities poolworld.com/about-poolworld/employment/

Athens Diner is now hiring.

FOH Manager: $20/hr plus tips. Prep cook\Sous Chef $18-$28/hr. Wed-Sun

Wastewater Treatment Facility

Assistant Operator - City of St. Albans

The City of St. Albans is now accepting applications for a Wastewater Treatment Facility Assistant Operator. This job requires a valid VT driver’s license and a clean driving record. This is a union position after probationary period & includes an excellent benefits package & working environment.

For a full job description, please visit Employment Opportunities on the City website: stalbansvt.com/jobs

Please email resume and cover letter with attention of Martin Manahan, Director of Public Works to m.manahan@ stalbansvt.com. This job is open until filled. E.O.E.

Exciting job openings at the Center for an Agricultural Economy!

Farm Connex Logistics Manager

This position will work closely with FX staff to support daily operations of this dynamic distribution program. We are looking for someone skilled in managing incoming and outgoing logistic services, fleet management/warehouse operations, detail oriented and with outstanding customer relationship management skills. Salary range is $55,000-60,000/year full time exempt with benefits.

"It's like a Tetris game with pallets and boxes"

Farm Connex General Manager

This position manages all aspects of Farm Connex distribution program including increasing access to local food, expanding markets for producers, sustaining client relationships, generating new business, supervising staff and overall business functions of the enterprise. The salary range is $60,000-70,000/year full time exempt with benefits.

visit hardwickagriculture.org/jobs or scan the code to learn more

Field Producer

Lake Champlain Access Television

LCATV is looking for motivated professionals to capture high quality video and audio of community meeting and events in Chittenden, Franklin, and Grand Isle Counties. These are part-time positions which require evening and some weekend work, travel, a valid driver’s license, some lifting, and high levels of self-motivation and creative problem-solving abilities. If you are interested in joining the LCATV team, please email your resume to buddy@lcatv.org

Finance Director

The Vermont Arts Council, a statewide arts service organization based in Montpelier, seeks an experienced finance director to oversee financial operations. This is a great opportunity for a finance professional who loves art, wants to make a difference in Vermont through mission driven work, is seeking flexible, primarily remote work, and wishes to be a part of a high functioning team of dedicated professionals.

This is a part-time, 20 hours per week position with flexible hours. Salary range is $40,000 - $47,000 ($38.46$45.19 per hour).

Visit our website for a complete job description and application instructions: vermontartscouncil.org

Digital Marketing Coordinator/ Sales Assistant

Hall Communications dba

WOKO WKOL WJOY WIZN & WBTZ has an opening for a Digital Marketing Coordinator/ Sales Assistant to work throughout our company to assist our sales teams.

Responsibilities include collaborating with our sales team and clients to effectively deliver digital marketing and creative solutions. Advertising campaigns will include targeted display, pre-roll, and other products we offer.

Applicant must have excellent writing and creative skills. Resumes, references, and samples of work can be emailed to General Manager Dan Dubonnet at ddubonnet@hallradio.net. Hall Communications is an E.O.E.

IT Manager

Job Summary: The IT Manager is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of the City’s IT Infrastructure. This includes managing hardware and software systems, ensuring network security and connectivity, and leading IT projects. The IT Manager is also responsible for evaluating existing systems and processes and making recommendations for improvements. The ideal candidate for this role will have a strong technical background, excellent communications skills, and the ability to manage resources and competing priorities.

Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems or a related field, plus at least 3 years’ experience managing servers, storage, and networking equipment, equivalency considered.

Experiencing leading IT projects required.

Send resumes to: sbcityjobs@southburlingtonvt.gov

Drivers

We are looking for Drivers to transport SSTA clients in a comfortable, safe and timely manner. Driver responsibilities include driving a 27’ lift-equipped van, providing reliable door-to-door transportation service to those in need. Ultimately, our drivers are difference makers, making sure clients who depend on us for their transportation needs are delivered best-in-class service!

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Ensure vehicle is safe and clean each shift

• Pick up clients from the place and at the time they’ve requested

• Assist clients with loading and unloading

• Communicate with dispatch regarding circumstances of the day

• Provide a smiling face for SSTA’s outstanding clients!

• Ensure safety practices are adhered to at all times

SKILLS

• A valid driver’s license with 5 years of driving experience

• A clean driving record

• Familiarity with GPS devices

• Knowledge of area roads and neighborhoods

• Ability to lift up to 50lbs

• A polite and professional disposition

• Ability to remain calm in stressful driving situations

(e.g. at rush hour)

• A high school diploma

Full or Part time positions available. Flexible Schedule. Starting wage is $19.00 per hour  ALL candidates must complete our application in full.

APPLY ONLINE AT: sstarides.org –Click on “Employment Opportunities” tab

SSTA offers a robust benefits package, competitive pay, paid holidays, and vacation time.

SSTA is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

PARKS & RECREATION OUTREACH COORDINATOR

$47,500 -$49,500 DOE w/excellent benefits.

Provides admin. & marketing support with seasonal programs, activities and special events. In-person, phone and emailbased customer service. Excellent communication and IT skills, associate’s degree & two years of professional exp., or equivalent combo of education and exp. Bachelor’s degree preferred. Mon – Fri 7:30AM – 4:30PM.

Requires evening and weekend availability.

If you’re looking for a positive, fun and rewarding work environment, with a collaborative team, we want to hear from you! To view a complete job description, and to apply online for consideration please visit: colchestervt.gov/321/ today!

E.O.E. Open until filled.

100% EMPLOYEE-OWNED

Join

the team at Gardener’s Supply Company! We are a 100% employee-owned company and an

award winning and nationally recognized socially responsible business. We work hard AND o er a fun place to work including BBQs, sta parties, employee garden plots and much more! We also o er strong cultural values, competitive wages and outstanding bene ts!

This position is responsible for the coordination of all AP related activities including AP entry, quick check processing, foreign & domestic wiring, weekly check runs, le organization, inventory & freight invoice matching, and direct communications with internal employees, vendors, and banks. Our ideal candidate will have 2 yrs work experience in accounting or related eld; aptitude for working with numbers; high school diploma or equivalent, Associates Degree preferred; and a commitment to excellent customer service.

Interested? Please go to our careers page at gardeners.com/careers and apply online!

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Bookkeeper

Addison County Community Trust is seeking to add an experienced, full-time Bookkeeper to our Finance Department.

You will assist in the day-to-day accounting functions of the Finance Department, such as processing accounts payable and accounts receivable. You must have at least two years of accounting experience preferably in a fast paced, non-profit environment. Must be proficient in Microsoft Office Suite and be able to maintain simple spreadsheets in Excel. Must have prior experience with automated accounting systems. Experience with Yardi or other real estate software is a plus. Excellent communication skills and the ability to work in a team setting are required. Must be detail oriented, selfdirected and capable of working independently and efficiently. The position may be required to work extra hours (overtime eligible) from time to time to meet financial statement and audit deadlines, and can be conducted in-person or on a hybrid basis. Position includes competitive pay, flexible work schedule, and full benefits. Visit addisontrust.org/careers for more info. E.E.O.

Camp Hochelaga is Hiring Seasonal Summer Staff

For all seasonal staff, the camp season is June 4 - August 13. YWCA Vermont Camp Hochelaga serves more than 1,000 people each summer through camp programs, facilities use, and volunteer opportunities that engage the community in YWCA’s mission, eliminating racism and empowering women.

Waterfront Director

The Waterfront director is responsible for the safety and management of the waterfront area and staff for the summer season of Camp Hochelaga.

Salary: This position is classified as seasonal, exempt. Salary is based upon applicant's skills and experience.

Head Chef

YWCA Vermont seeks an experienced Food Service Professional to lead our kitchen staff in providing nutritional and healthy meals for 180 campers and staff between June and August*. This position involves visioning meals for the whole summer, food ordering, leading a team (3-5 staff), direct food and meal preparation, cleaning and dishwashing.

Salary: This position is classified as seasonal, exempt. Salary is based upon the applicant's skills and experience. Room and Board are included, but are not required if the candidate is local.

Benefits include discounted camper tuition, potential for bonuses, and continued work for events after camp season.

Healthcare Supervisor

YWCA Vermont seeks an experienced professional to provide leadership and management for YWCA Vermont Camp Hochelaga’s Health House, as the Healthcare Supervisor to provide direct care to campers and staff seeking medical attention while at camp.

Salary: This position is classified as seasonal, exempt. Salary starts at $500 a week, and is based upon the applicant's skills and experience.

Benefits include camp meals when at camp during mealtimes, and camper tuition for applicable children.

• This is a residential position with room/board included

SEND RESUMES TO: CAMP.DIRECTOR@YWCAVT.ORG

YWCA of Vermont, Inc. does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.

OUTREACH EDUCATOR

VHS seeks a full-time Outreach Educator based in Barre. They provide curriculum and content support to Vermont educators and students, primarily for the K-12 audience. They also co-coordinate Vermont History Day and provide educational outreach services.

Degree and/or advanced training in education with a focus on history, material culture, and/or museums with at least 5 years’ work experience. Knowledge of Vermont history, the Vermont educational system, and/or classroom experience preferred. Starting salary range of $49,000-54,000 with generous benefits package.

Full job description and details at vermonthistory.org. To apply, send a cover letter and resume to eileen.corcoran@ vermonthistory.org

Facilities Maintenance Technician

75% off Employee Childcare

Tuition Discount! Health

Insurance Eligibility Upon Start!

Heartworks Early Education seeks

Facilities Maintenance Technician in Burlington. Perform general maintenance tasks as directed by Facilities Manager, at 6 school locations, including but not limited to:

• Seasonal building maintenance, such as snow removal, general landscaping, etc.

• Interior painting

• Update, maintain, and respond to network work order system

• Assist in network safety and security compliance

• Basic carpentry

• HVAC familiarity

• Furniture moving (lift 50lbs)

Apply: heartworksvt.com/careers

WE’RE HIRING COMMUNITY BANKERS!

WE’RE HIRING COMMUNITY

Considering a gap year before college? Looking for a job you can do while you go to college? Gain valuable work experience at NSB!

Considering a gap year before college? Looking for a job you can do while you go to college? Gain valuable work experience at NSB!

WE WILL TRAIN YOU!

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

WE WILL TRAIN YOU!

PREFERRED REQUIREMENTS:

•Excellent communication skills

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

•High School Diploma, General Education Degree (GED), or equivalent

•Customer service skills

•Must be 18 or older

•High School Diploma, General Education Degree (GED), or equivalent

•Customer service skills

•Must be 18 or older

PREFERRED REQUIREMENTS:

•Previous cash handling a plus!

•Excellent communication skills

•Previous cash handling a plus!

APPLY TO JOIN TEAM NSB AT NSBVT.COM/CAREERS

APPLY TO JOIN TEAM NSB AT NSBVT.COM/CAREERS

Northfield Savings Bank, founded in 1867, is the largest banking institution headquartered in Vermont. We are commi ed to providing a welcoming work enviroment for all.

Northfield Savings Bank, founded in 1867, is the largest banking institution headquartered in Vermont. We are commi ed to providing a welcoming work enviroment for all.

Project Manager

The Project Manager is an integral member of the Design Value Stream that works closely with the Design Value Stream Manager to ensure successful customer interface, execution, and shipment of technically challenging new and aftermarket engineered products.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Due to Federal Contract requirements, US Citizenship is required for this position.

• BS in Engineering or Project Management or equivalent job experience.

• 2+ years of experience managing government projects in a project/contract-based business preferred.

• Experience in managing research and development projects in engineered products preferred.

• Ability to read & interpret engineering drawings, standards and specifications

• Ability to read & interpret purchase orders, terms and conditions, and customer specifications

• Expected travel is up to 10% yearly

• Proficient in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, MS Project and the Internet

• Strong interpersonal, collaboration, communication, organization, and problem-solving skills

• Detail oriented, highly motivated, high level of initiative

• Ability to facilitate geographically distributed and cross functional project teams

* For graduating seniors who are considering staying in Vermont, you may be eligible for $5,000 in student loan debt relief. To qualify, you must graduate in Spring of 2023 with a Bachelor’s degree, secure a job in Vermont, and live in Vermont. You’ll get $2,500 toward loan repayment at the end of year one and $2,500 at the end of the second year. To read more about the program and how to apply, visit: uvm.edu/engagement/greenmountainjobs

We offer a competitive salary and excellent benefits package. If you meet our requirements and are interested in an exciting opportunity, please forward your resume & salary requirements to:

Hayward Tyler, Inc. – Attn: HR Department 480 Roosevelt Highway , PO Box 680, Colchester, VT 05446

Email: Careers@haywardtyler.com E.O.E.

Apply: haywardtyler.com/job_listing/project-manager/

True North is a therapeutic program located in the beautiful Green Mountains of Waitsfield, Vermont.

True North is a small, independently owned program, providing personalized therapeutic interventions and transition support for 14-17 year old adolescents and 18-25 year old young adults with an emphasis on assessment and family participation. This is an excellent opportunity to work for a nationally recognized therapeutic wilderness program, be part of a dynamic, supportive team and live and work in a fantastic community.

True North promotes an inclusive work environment. We seek to recruit diverse staff who will contribute a variety of perspectives in our mission to help young people and their families. We encourage applications from individuals from underrepresented groups including professionals of color and non-conforming gender identities.

Salary is competitive, and commensurate with experience. All positions must pass background checks and a drug test. See each job description for responsibilities, qualifications, and compensation package. Apply here: truenorthwilderness. com/careers/ or use the QR code listed in this ad.

New, local, scam-free jobs posted every day!

OPERATIONS SUPPORT : Seeking full-time, year-round Operations Support person. The ideal candidate is an adaptable team player with a positive attitude who is willing to work both indoors and outdoors performing a variety of tasks associated with the logistics of operating the program.

Responsibilities: Tasks including food packing and rationing, gear outfitting, transportation and facilities maintenance. Candidates must be willing to work weekends and occasional evenings and are part of an on-call rotation.

Qualifications: A clean and valid driver’s license is required.

Compensation: Salary is competitive, and commensurate with experience. Comprehensive benefits include health, dental, vision and accident insurance, an employee assistance program, an annual wellness fund, student loan repayment reimbursement and an employer matched SIMPLE IRA.

MEDICAL COORDINATOR : Seeking a Medical Coordinator to coordinate medical needs and medication management for all students.

Responsibilities: Manage and dispense medications for students at True North. This includes close communication with parents, doctors, pharmacies, and other members of the True North team. Support medical needs that may come up for students in the field, depending on level of experience. The job is generally 9-5, Monday through Friday, and there may be flexibility of hours within the parameters of the job requirements.

Qualifications: The ideal candidate is highly organized, very comfortable with medical information, and has superior interpersonal communication skills. Nursing or other medical training is preferred but not required.

Compensation: Salary is competitive, and commensurate with experience. Comprehensive benefits include health, dental, vision and accident insurance, an employee assistance program, an annual wellness fund, student loan repayment reimbursement and an employer matched SIMPLE IRA.

ADVENTURE COORDINATOR: Seeking an Adventure Coordinator to facilitate day outings with students including hiking, water sports (canoeing, kayaking, and paddle boarding), backcountry cooking, yoga, disc golf, cross country skiing, and snowshoeing.

Responsibilities: Oversee and facilitate the adventure activities at True North. Adventure coordinator is a 5 day/week role with some responsibility on weekends and “on-call.”

Qualifications: Candidates must be at least 21 years old. Bachelor degree preferred. WFA certification, competency and leadership skills in the listed activities, and the ability to facilitate meaningful and intentional experiences. Certifications in any of the listed disciplines is preferred.

Compensation: Salary is competitive, and commensurate with experience. Comprehensive benefits include health, dental, vision and accident insurance, an employee assistance program, an annual wellness fund, student loan repayment reimbursement and an employer matched SIMPLE IRA.

Executive Assistant

Job includes photography, research and customer service. Both in office and local driving to appointments/tasks. Must be enthusiastic, efficient, enjoy meeting and working with the public and have a good driving record. Friendly working environment. Company vehicle provided.

Buyer Specialist/Realtor

Are you looking for a change? Have you always been interested in Real Estate? Want to make more money? We are looking for our next Buyer Specialist! With over 40 years of experience, our team has a reputation for results. Who you work for, matters! Must already have your Realtor license or be willing to acquire it. Commission only.

Please send your resume to info@nancyjenkins.com and indicate which job you are applying for.

Direct Support and Respite

We’ve been hiring and need one more person to complete our team working in direct support with a friendly singing autistic high support young adult man! This is a weekly 3 day full- time position which includes one overnight stay.

Generally the monthly schedule will be Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday (i.e. Tuesday to Wednesday is the overnight, Thursday is 9:00 am to 3:30 pm, for a total of 39.5 hours) supporting a variety of activities in the community and in the home. We are looking for an athletic, friendly, respectful team player. While excellent training is provided experience in this field is a big plus. You should be athletic, enthusiastic, eager to learn new skills and be goal oriented. College degree preferred. However, we will consider you if you have experience in this line of work. You will partner with another staff member when on the job.

Position is in Burlington, VT. Excellent driving record (van is provided). This is not a short term position. Excellent compensation at $35/hr. Send your resume, cover letter and tell us about yourself. Thank you! nbgteamvt@gmail.com.

Paralegal Opening

SRH Law PLLC (formerly known as Dunkiel Saunders Elliott Raubvogel & Hand) is seeking a motivated and skilled paralegal to join our mission-driven law firm. Two or more years of paralegal or other comparable experience is required. The Paralegal will primarily work with a team of attorneys, paralegals, and other staff at the firm on regulatory proceedings/litigation in our Energy and Environment practice area, while providing occasional support to our other practice areas including Civil Litigation, Business and Finance, and Advertising and Consumer Protection. The ideal candidate will have the ability to prioritize and manage many tasks simultaneously, with strong organizational and proofreading skills. The candidate should be proficient with Microsoft 365 and Adobe Acrobat, and comfortable efficiently learning other cloud-based software and applications that the firm utilizes. Our firm relies on teamwork and integration, and a portion of the Paralegal’s work will involve other firm responsibilities, including general administrative support, marketing, and interacting with clients.

SRH Law works with clients—including businesses, nonprofits, cooperatives, government entities, and individuals—who share our commitment to making a difference in their communities and the broader world. We take our inspiration from our clients’ good work and help them excel in their business or mission by resolving their legal issues with creativity and integrity.

Phlebotomy

Technician

Apprenticeship Program

• Guaranteed paid employment on day one of training

INVEST IN YOURSELF

Our apprenticeship program is a paid opportunity to become a phlebotomy technician with NO EXPERIENCE REQUIRED.

APPLY NOW

www.iaahitec.org/phlebotomy

REGISTRATION DEADLINE

Monday, May 29, 2023

$2,000 SIGN ON BONUS

External candidates are eligible for a one-time sign on bonus paid over 3 installments. Amounts reflect gross pay, prior to applicable tax withholdings and deductions require by law. Current University of Vermont Health Network employees are excluded and additional terms and conditions apply.

• Direct patient care

• Team environment

• Full Benefits

• Dedicated support during the 5-week program

• Paid Certified Phlebotomy Technician Exam

Get a quote when posting online. Contact Michelle Brown at 865-1020, ext. 121, michelle@sevendaysvt.com

Competitive salary and benefits. Pay range: $50,000 -$65,000 depending on experience. 401(k) plan with employer match, dependent care account, employer-paid health insurance, free parking, paid vacation, and excellent work life balance. All SRH staff work from our offices in Burlington, with the option of part-time remote.

Interested persons should e-mail a letter of interest and resume to applications@srhlaw.com by May 15, 2023.

Questions? Call or Email 802-488-5818 rebecca.spencer@vthitec.org

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“Seven Days sales rep Michelle Brown is amazing! She’s extremely responsive, and I always feel so taken care of. I can only imagine how many job connections she has facilitated for local companies in the 20 years she has been doing this.”

CAROLYN ZELLER Intervale Center, Burlington

Market Garden Assistant

Full description and to apply: trilliumhillfarm.com/ employment.html

ATTENTION RECRUITERS:

SUPPORT PERSONS needed for 21 y/o young man with ASD & diabetes.

For details and to apply: bit.ly/3NRDrgo

Environmental Technicians

It’s a Thursday night...And we’re off for the weekend! How about you?

We are hiring Environmental Technicians. Full-time Asbestos, HAZWOPER TECHNICIANS needed. Experience preferred, but will train.

IMMEDIATE OPENINGS

•(4) 10-hour day work week

•Health care, 401K, Paid Leave

•Profit Sharing • Commissions

Seven Days

•And GREAT PAY

Engaging minds that change the world

Seeking a position with a quality employer? Consider The University of Vermont, a stimulating and diverse workplace. We offer a comprehensive benefit package including tuition remission for on-going, full-time positions.

Executive Assistant to VP of Enrollment Management - VP of Enrollment Mgmt - #S4330PO - The University of Vermont’s Vice Provost for Enrollment Management (VPEM) is recruiting an Executive Assistant. This position will provide executive-level administrative support to the Vice Provost for Enrollment Management. Manage calendars, correspondence, calls; schedule meetings; assist with the preparation of reports, presentations, website content/updates; support committees and work groups (schedule meetings, archive/post documents, create Teams); coordinate travel and related expense reports. Implement and coordinate logistics for the Division of Enrollment Management (DEM). Coordinate committees and work groups.

Minimum Qualifications: Associate’s degree in related field and five years’ related experience; effective written and oral communication skills and proficiency with productivity software; ability to apply judgment effectively in prioritizing multiple projects/tasks that may be time-sensitive and/or highly confidential; effective interpersonal and collaborative skills. Effective communication skills and ability to diffuse difficult conversations required. Ability to apply judgment effectively in prioritizing workflow that may be time-sensitive and/or highly confidential. Attention to detail and highly competent organizational skills required.

Desirable Qualifications: Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Teams and with Drupal or other website content management software; experience with Banner or other student information system.

Administrative Assistant - Plant and Soil Science Department#S4331PO - UVM is seeking an Administrative Assistant to provide management support for the chair of the Plant and Soil Science Department. Responsibilities include: document development, enhancing department communications, scheduling, expediting facilities maintenance and repair, facilitating department and committee meetings and seminars, supporting faculty and graduate student success, and maintaining accurate records. This is a full time, 12-month, 1.0 FTE non-exempt, union represented staff position. The successful candidate should be comfortable working in a fast-paced academic environment, and be able to use judgement and reasoning to interpret and apply university policies and procedures to daily work. The successful candidate should have an Associate’s degree with one to three years of related experience (or equivalent combination of education and experience) and a working knowledge of office software applications such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Internet resources required. Effective oral and written communication skills are also essential for the position. A Bachelor’s degree with two to three years of related experience, familiarity with agricultural affairs and academic environment is preferred.

Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until suitable candidates are found.

For further information on these positions and others currently available, or to apply online, please visit www.uvmjobs.com Applicants must apply for positions electronically. Paper resumes are not accepted. Open positions are updated daily. Please call 802-656-3150 or email employment@uvm.edu for technical support with the online application.

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LIBRARY BUILDING PROJECTS MANAGER V – BARRE

The Vermont Department of Libraries seeks a skilled Library Buildings Project Manager V to administer federal funding it will receive through the $16.4M U.S. Treasury and $10M HUD funding to support capital projects at public libraries in Vermont. The Buildings Project Manager V will be responsible for administering these two federal fund grant programs for the Department. For more information, contact Gina Hruban at gina.hruban@vermont.gov.

Department: Libraries. Location: Barre. Status: Full Time, Limited Service. Job Id #46951. Application Deadline: May 15, 2023.

MFP SENIOR PLANNER - WATERBURY

Direct the management information systems plan, data analysis, and other reporting needs for the MFP demonstration grant. The successful candidate will also work with MFP transition coordinators to verify participant eligibility and monitor the use of MFP transition funds. Work is performed under the general supervision of the Money Follows the Person Program Director. This position is based in Waterbury but work may be done remotely as appropriate. For more information, contact Colleen Bedard at colleen.bedard@vermont.gov. Department: Disabilities Aging & Independent Living. Location: Waterbury. Status: Full Time, Limited Service. Job Id #46948. Application Deadline: May 21, 2023.

VR TRANSITION PROGRAM ASSOCIATE MANAGER –WATERBURY

HireAbility Vermont is seeking a skilled leader to manage a statewide program for students and youth with disabilities in the transition to adulthood. The Transition Program Manager must be a systems thinker able to provide a clear vision for the program and understand the challenges students and youth with disabilities face accessing employment, post-secondary education, and training. Join one of the most innovative agencies in Vermont in improving the lives of young people with disabilities. For more information, contact Wendy Madigan at wendy.madigan@vermont.gov. Department: Disabilities Aging & Independent Living. Location: Waterbury. Status: Full Time, Limited Service. Job Id #47189. Application Deadline: May 16, 2023.

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Gravel & Shea PC seeks an experienced paralegal to join our commercial real estate practice in Burlington, VT. The ideal candidate will have at least three to five years of title search and real estate closing experience. Candidates must have the following skills: excellent independent research and analytical skills; willingness to adapt quickly to challenging and stimulating assignments; excellent writing and communication skills; and the ability to meet deadlines. This is a detail oriented position that requires the ability to work with others both inside and outside the firm. Candidate must have a valid driver’s license. Adaptability to technology and advanced experience with Microsoft Office software are also important.

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**Second Shift Custodian (1) – Charlotte Central School

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HVAC Technician - District (salary based on experience)

This day shift position performs skilled mechanical maintenance, including inspections, repair, installation of equipment i.e. heating, ventilation, A/C and refrigeration systems and performs preventative maintenance for the Champlain Valley School District.

Contact Chris Giard, cgiard@cvsdvt.org with a resume.

CVSD is an equal opportunity employer. Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC), immigrants, women, and LGBTQ+ candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.

We offer a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package including health insurance, 401(k) and Profit Sharing. Interested applicants should submit cover letter, résumé and references to: cgaynor@gravelshea.com All inquiries are held in the strictest confidence. www.gravelshea.com/careers Gravel & Shea PC is an E.O.E.

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Winooski Housing Authority is seeking a Maintenance Supervisor who will care for our properties in a manner that provides high quality housing for our tenants. We are looking for an individual with residential maintenance or light commercial construction background, who is familiar with the need for permits, and can manage within a budget. Certifications in a trade or in minimum housing standards a plus.

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The ideal candidate will have an understanding of affordable housing maintenance and a desire to work as part of a team to keep our properties compliant with code and offer ways to exceed that standard whenever possible.

• Position will be vacant due to the retirement of our current supervisor and we would like to provide some overlap in service for training.

• Competitive wage and generous CTO, sick bank, health, dental, vision, life, and disability package along with a retirement program.

• Position is open until filled.

If interested, please send your questions and/or a resume and cover letter to: deac@winooskihousing.org, RE: Maintenance Supervisor.

Winooski Housing Authority is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Water/Sewer Operator

The Town of Essex is seeking to fill a vacancy for a Full-Time Water/Sewer Operator in the Water/Sewer Division of Public Works. The plan at this time is to fill this vacancy at the highest level possible, between a level I and a level III. This is a full time position with Town benefits. The minimum qualifications for each level can be found in the full job posting at https://essexvt.bamboohr.com/jobs/. The Town welcomes candidates of all backgrounds, experience levels and skillsets to apply. The Town will provide on the job training to those who are qualified. This position requires a CDL and a Class D Water Operators License upon hire or within the first year of employment. Candidates can apply online at https://essexvt.bamboohr.com/jobs/. If you are unable to apply online, paper applications can be picked up at 81 Main Street, Essex Junction, VT 05452. This position has excellent health, dental, vision, retirement benefits, disability benefits, and paid leave. This position is open until filled.

The Town of Essex is an equal opportunity employer.

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Wanted: Energetic career minded professional who doesn’t mind wearing multiple hats. Experienced in handling a wide range of operational and administrative duties that support related tasks and able to work independently with little or no supervision.

Position is responsible for the operations of the Household Hazardous Waste programs at the regional transfer station. As Large Quantity Generators (LQGs) we generate the most waste and are subject to the most stringent requirements. LQGs must also comply with specific requirements for waste testing and recordkeeping, more stringent storage time limits, more stringent employee training and contingency planning requirements. LQG requirements are specified under Section 7-308 of Subchapter 3 or the Vermont Hazardous Waste Management Regulations (VHWMR), effective 2.1.2022. This position will operate a Spring through Fall rover HHW satellite program to District towns and will be required to fill in at all positions when needed.

• Regular attendance is necessary and is essential to meeting the expectations of the job functions

• Ability to exercise sound judgment and good decision-making.

• Ability to be trained in and obtain a complete understanding, adherence and commitment to the District safety program

• A strong desire to improve service to internal and external customers and a high level of personal creativity, initiative, and enthusiasm to work in a constantly improving organization.

• Attention to detail and problem-solving skills are required

• Ability to operate a cash register, and accurately add the cost of items and return change to customers without errors.

• Must have skills in operating equipment and vehicles at the transfer station

Very competitive benefit package includes excellent wages, Blue Cross Blue Shield Platinum medical insurance, life insurance, vision plan, retirement plan, holidays, vacation, sick paid time off. We offer the ability to grow and become part of a diverse and strong team.

See full job description & download application at rcswd.com/about-us/pages/job-opportunities

Send resume, and application to Mark S. Shea, District Manager to mshea@rcsed.com, or call (802) 775-7209 ext. 202 for more information.

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TAURUS

(APR. 20-MAY 20)

A famous football coach once said his main method was to manipulate, coax and even bully his players into doing things they didn’t like to do. Why? So they could build their toughness and willpower, making it more likely they would accomplish formidable feats. While this may be an approach that works for some tasks, it’s not right for many others. Here’s a further nuance: Grind-it-out-doingunpleasant-things may be apt for certain phases of a journey to success but not for other phases. Here’s the good news, Taurus: For now, you have mostly completed doing what you don’t love to do. In the coming weeks, your freedom to focus on doing fun things will expand dramatically.

ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 19): All of us are always telling ourselves stories — in essence, making movies in our minds. We are the producer, the director, the special effects team, the voice-over narrator and all the actors in these inner dramas. Are their themes repetitious and negative or creative and life-affirming? The coming weeks will be a favorable time to work on emphasizing the latter. If the tales unfolding in your imagination are veering off in a direction that provokes anxiety, reassert your directorial authority. Firmly and playfully reroute them so they uplift and enchant you.

GEMINI (May 21-Jun. 20): Most of us have an area of our lives where futility is a primary emotion. This may be a once-exciting dream that never got much traction. It could be a skill we possess that we’ve never found a satisfying way to express. The epicenter of our futility could be a relationship that has never lived up to its promise or a potential we haven’t been able to ripen. Wherever this sense of fruitlessness resides in your own life, Gemini, I have an interesting prediction: During the next 12 months, you will either finally garner some meaningful fulfillment through it or else find a way to outgrow it.

CANCER (Jun. 21-Jul. 22): Many of us Cancerians have high levels of perseverance. Our resoluteness and doggedness may be uncanny. But we often practice these subtle superpowers with such sensitive grace that they’re virtually invisible to casual observers. We appear modest and gentle, not fierce and driven. For instance, this is the first time I have bragged about the fact that I have composed over 2,000 consecutive horoscope columns without ever missing a deadline. Anyway, my fellow Crabs, I have a really good feeling about how much grit and determination you will be able to marshal in the coming months. You may break your own personal records for tenacity.

LEO (Jul. 23-Aug. 22): Why do migrating geese fly in a V formation? For one thing, it conserves their energy. Every bird except the leader enjoys a reduction in wind resistance. As the flight progresses, the geese take turns being the guide in front. Soaring along in this shape also seems to aid the birds’ communication and coordination. I suggest you consider making this scenario your inspiration, dear Leo. You are entering a phase when synergetic cooperation with others is even more important than usual. If you feel called to lead, be ready and willing to exert yourself — and be open to letting your associates serve as leaders. For extra credit: Do a web search for an image of migrating geese and keep it in a prominent place for the next four weeks.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sep. 22): I boldly predict that you will soon locate a missing magic key. Hooray! It hasn’t been easy. There has been

luck involved, but your Virgo-style diligence and ingenuity has been crucial. I also predict that you will locate the door that the magic key will unlock. Now here’s my challenge: Please fulfill my two predictions no later than the solstice. To aid your search, meditate on this question: “What is the most important breakthrough for me to accomplish in the next six weeks?”

LIBRA (Sep. 23-Oct. 22): Losing something we value may make us sad. It can cause us to doubt ourselves and wonder if we have fallen out of favor with the Fates or are somehow being punished by God. I’ve experienced deflations and demoralizations like that on far more occasions than I want to remember. And yet I have noticed that when these apparent misfortunes have happened, they have often opened up space for new possibilities that would not otherwise have come my way. They have emptied out a corner of my imagination that becomes receptive to a fresh dispensation. I predict such a development for you, Libra.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Kissing is always a worthy way to spend your leisure time, but I foresee an even finer opportunity in the coming weeks: magnificent kissing sprees that spur you to explore previously unplumbed depths of wild tenderness. On a related theme, it’s always a wise self-blessing to experiment with rich new shades and tones of intimacy. But you are now eligible for an unusually profound excursion into these mysteries. Are you bold and free enough to glide further into the frontiers of fascinating togetherness?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) worked at a variety of jobs. He sold cloth. He was a land surveyor and bookkeeper. He managed the household affairs of his city’s sheriffs, and he supervised the city’s wine imports and taxation. Oh, by the way, he also had a hobby on the side: lens making. This ultimately led to a spectacular outcome. Leeuwenhoek created the world’s first high-powered microscope and was instrumental in transforming microbiology into a scientific discipline. In accordance with astrological omens, I propose we make him your inspirational role model in the

coming months, Sagittarius. What hobby or pastime or amusement could you turn into a central passion?

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I wonder if you weren’t listened to attentively when you were a kid. And is it possible you weren’t hugged enough or consistently treated with the tender kindness you deserved and needed? I’m worried there weren’t enough adults who recognized your potential strengths and helped nurture them. But if you did indeed endure any of this mistreatment, dear Capricorn, I have good news. During the next 12 months, you will have unprecedented opportunities to overcome at least some of the neglect you experienced while young. Here’s the motto you can aspire to: “It’s never too late to have a fruitful childhood and a creative adolescence.”

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): As I’ve explored the mysteries of healing my traumas and disturbances over the past 20 years, I’ve concluded that the single most effective healer I can work with is my own body. Expert health practitioners are crucial, too, but their work requires my body’s full, purposeful, collaborative engagement. The soft, warm animal home I inhabit has great wisdom about what it needs and how to get what it needs and how to work with the help it receives from other healers. The key is to refine the art of listening to its counsel. It has taken me a while to learn its language, but I’m making good progress. Dear Aquarius, in the coming weeks, you can make great strides in developing such a robust relationship with your body.

PISCES (Feb. 19-Mar. 20): Can we surmise what your life might be like as the expansive planet Jupiter rumbles through your astrological House of Communications and Connections during the coming months? I expect you will be even more articulate and persuasive than usual. Your ability to create new alliances and nurture old ones will be at a peak. By the way, the House of Communications and Connections is also the House of Education and Acumen. So I suspect you will learn a lot during this time. It’s likely you will be brainier and more perceptive than ever before. Important advice: Call on your waxing intelligence to make you wiser as well as smarter.

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WILD AND PRECIOUS LIFE, TOGETHER?

Attractive, intelligent, creative, sincere IT professional by day, musician some nights and weekends. When I’m not doing those, I love to be outdoors absorbing some natural energy. I enjoy many things about my life; what’s missing is a companion, friend, partner if we connect deeply. Get in touch. Let’s see how our lives and our ways mesh. cpsx90 57 seeking: W, l

OPEN, LOVING, RESPECTING, ADVENTURESOME, HEALTHY

I’m an open male seeking an openminded and free-spirited lady who doesn’t need a male but wants a partner in these adventures in learning. Life is nothing more than a series of experiences that mold us into something new. This lady should be herself, know herself, and be able and willing to communicate her/our wants and desires. tothefuture, 80, seeking: W, l

JUST A NORMAL MAN WANTING

Hi. A normal guy with an oral fetish looking for adult women OK with a touch of kink who can say they are into a bit of kink, too. Questions? Ask. synodontis 58 seeking: W, l

OLD-SCHOOL, LOYAL AND NONJUDGMENTAL

I like good companionship and an educated person. Honestly is a must. I am a classy guy who has been around the block. I like music and movies. I enjoy talking to someone for hours, as long as they’re interesting. I like keeping active. I enjoy playing pool and bowling. I read quite a bit. Whispers, 65, seeking: W, l

LOOKING FOR A FWB

Looking for a FWB when time allows. Looking for someone in the same situation. Looking for someone to chat with. Someone to get excited to see messages or emails from, leading to some excitement and physical play. Fill the void that we are not getting at home. Fit4fun 49, seeking: W

ENERGETIC ARTIST LOOKING FOR PARTNER

Hello. I am curious about you and what you bring. Getting to know each other is my idea of a good time. I am sure we both have great qualities and long lists of pleasures, but it is the blending of our attributes that leads the way to joy. Let’s explore together.

JumpInRick 67, seeking: W, Cp, Gp, l

BODHISATTVA HIPPIE

I’m kind, loving, compassionate and empathic. I love art and music and film and nature and space travel and spirituality. I really enjoy my solitude, but lately I have been longing for companionship. Being introverted, I just don’t get out much anymore! Shivaji, 62, seeking: W, l

ATHLETIC, OUTDOORSY, CEREBRAL, PASSIONATE, LEFTIST

Seeking peer for outdoor activities, dancing, travel and maybe more. I enjoy music. Love to dance, big dogs. Friendship first. I’m labor-socialist organizer (with a master’s in labor, political economy, history). “Retired” into an engaged life, reading, hosting a radio show and enjoying outdoor activity. SkiDog, 76, seeking: W, l

TRANS WOMEN seeking...

ILLUSTRIOUS, FILLED WITH LONGING, CHRONICALLY OFFLINE

My little booklet is my little prayer / Poured gold into a cast of well wishes / And forgotten pasts / The ones that beckon to be remembered / For you to be a one and the one / To be me and not mine / The eyes that saw when no one looked / My knees, turned to sea / My mind, mine, my heart, yours. Transient 25 seeking: M, l

T GIRL LIVE IN VT

I’m a feminine trans woman with a good sense of humor. I want a special someone. I like dinner and a movie or a baseball game, ride the bike path and see shows at Higher Ground. I love my record collection and taking care of my house. I’m looking for some companionship and love, building a good relationship. Luv2BaGurl 63 seeking: M, W, TM, TW, Q, NC, NBP, l

TRANS MEN seeking...

LOOKING FOR A NICE GIRL

I am very active and in good shape. Love being outdoors. Like fourwheeling, snowmobiling, camping. veronawalk 64, seeking: W

GENDER NONCONFORMISTS seeking...

SEEKING WOMAN OR COUPLE

Mature man seeks relationship to share my fem side. Seeking married or committed couple in a long-term relationship, or a single woman, to visit periodically perhaps once a month, to share friendship and explore a service role. Sincerity, discretion, a sense of humor, a twinkle in the eye and maturity are desired attributes. Mellow_Fellow, 73, seeking: W, TW, Q, NC, NBP, Cp

OK TO PRESS PLAY NOW?

Dawn, we bumbled into each other, but before we could meet, I had to pause to work through a family matter, then got COVID. Now that both issues are behind me, can we meet? Brett. When: Friday, April 7, 2023. Where: online.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #915768

CONVERTIBLE WAVES

You: upper middle-aged man with white locks driving a bomb-ass convertible. Me: middle-aged woman driving a different color, same make convertible going the opposite way. Your smile is contagious, and I appreciated the super enthusiastic wave. You’ve got a pretty fantastic ride, and mine makes me smile like a damn fool, too! When: Saturday, May 6, 2023. Where: Colchester.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #915767

DON’T JERSEY CITY MARKET

We were walking into the market at the same time on Monday night. I told you how I liked your “Don’t Jersey Vermont” bumper sticker. You smiled; we talked; I almost fainted. We bumped into each other again, made another quick comment, but then we both kept walking. I fully regret not asking you for your name or number. When: Monday, May 1, 2023. Where: South End City Market. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915766

REZ IN WATERBURY, 4/30

You and your friend/relative left shortly after my group of six arrived; we caught each other’s eye more than once, and I had no clue how to stop you and introduce myself. Your eye contact convinced me you’re someone I was meant to know. Me: six feet tall, short-clipped beard, blue jacket, greenish shirt. Can I treat you to lunch somewhere? When: Sunday, April 30, 2023. Where: the Rez, Waterbury. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915765

HOW CAN I MISS YOU?

I stopped at Mac’s Quick Stop on South Main Street in St. Albans about eight months ago. You smiled really big and said “Hi!” in a really flirty way. You were about five foot eight, blond and gorgeous and were driving a white GMC work truck. I have found myself missing you like you are a part of me.

What. e. Hell. When: Saturday, September 17, 2022. Where: St. Albans.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #915764

BLUE EYES ON THE BOARDWALK

8:30 a.m. You were walking a dog for your roommate; I was looking at birds. We chatted briefly, exchanged names. You told me what “rovering” is. Was there a little spark there?

Wishing I’d had the nerve to ask you for your number. When: Saturday, April 29, 2023. Where: Waterfront Park.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #915763

FEMALE LIFTIE AT MORSE HIGHLANDS

Always enjoyed seeing you as I did laps on Morse Highlands, squeezing in snippets of conversation each time I was getting on the chair. I was usually in a black/ blue plaid coat and electric blue pants. Maybe it was you who waved to me on a last day going up Mogul Mouse and you were at top of Magic Carpet. Connection?

When: Wednesday, March 29, 2023.

Where: Morse Highlands Lift at Smuggs.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #915762

SHAW’S PARKING LOT

I saw you in the parking lot, and you helped me find my car (which was, like, 10 feet away from me). You were wearing a hat and had a lot of tattoos. I was wearing a blue shirt and a black skirt. You seemed cool. If you see this and want to hang out sometime, let me know. When: Friday, April 28, 2023. Where: Shaw’s parking lot. You: Man. Me: Woman. #915760

REVEREND Ask

Irreverent counsel on life’s conundrums

De Rev end,

I have been married almost 40 years, and I adore my wife. at being said, we have had a sexless marriage for the past few years, mostly due to medical issues that cause my wife pain. I need physical contact, which unfortunately will probably not be forthcoming. Masturbation is getting old. I have considered hooking up with someone but have never done so in over 40 years and do not wish to hurt or disappoint my wife. oughts and suggestions would be appreciated.

JEFFERSONVILLE CUPBOARD DELI, THURSDAY 4/27

A warm ursday evening. Both of our gas pumps were giving us all kinds of hell at the same time, causing a stereo cacophony of beeping. Is it your pump or mine? anks for the laugh, sharing your smile and conversation, and sending me into the evening with a laugh. Would love to see you again under quieter circumstances.

When: ursday, April 27, 2023.

Where: Cupboard Deli, Jeffersonville.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #915761

RECORD STORE DAY, MONTPELIER

We had an awkward interaction when you asked if I needed help finding anything. I was the guy with the short mullet and glasses. We kept making eye contact and smiling at each other after that. I asked you about the difference between the two copies of Kate Bush’s Hounds of Love. I bought the remastered version. When: Saturday, April 22, 2023. Where: Buch Spieler, Montpelier. You: Man. Me: Man. #915759

BEAUTIFUL BROWN EYES

Dear woman, I viewed you from my window as you did your job at my neighbors’ last week. Always lovely to see you! Could we share burgers and beers on my back deck some pleasant evening? e past is behind us. Let’s choose friendship and peace instead. Always... When: Wednesday, April 19, 2023. Where: central Vermont. You: Woman. Me: Woman. #915758

VERMONT COMPOST

Did we have a moment of connection while you helped my dad and me load up compost into a red Tacoma last week, or was it just a beautiful spring day? If both, LMK. When: Tuesday, April 25, 2023. Where: Vermont Compost. You: Gender non-conformist. Me: Woman. #915757

CALEDONIA SPIRITS HOST, 4/14

I loved talking to you while trying the honey vodka. We were sharing housing ideas. You in Montpelier, me in Vergennes. I am kicking myself for not getting your number. Loved your glasses. Let me know if you want to share a hike and tea. Or, as you said, travel with someone. I thought there was a connection. When: Friday, April 14, 2023. Where: Caledonia Spirits distillery. You: Man. Me: Woman. #915756

De Don T. Geddanni,

APRIL 7, HG, THE MACHINE

We talked about Genesis, our love of hockey and, of course, Pink Floyd. We seamlessly called the songs. You wore a Canadiens cap. I had on a yellow dress. Trying to make it to public skate but have been ill. Can’t get your smile out of my mind. Had a wonderful time. When: Friday, April 7, 2023. Where: Higher Ground. You: Man. Me: Woman. #915755

‘AIR’ AT PALACE 9

You were watching Air on a Sunday evening. You were one of only three people there, including myself and my mom. I thought you were cute and would have started a conversation had I been alone. Did you like the movie? What brought you to the theater that night? Let’s talk about it if you were interested, too. When: Sunday, April 16, 2023. Where: Palace

9. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915754

MANUAL TRANSMISSION 2004 CRV

What was I thinking?! I should have given you my contact info. LMK if you would like it. When: Sunday, April 16, 2023. Where: Champlain Farms on North Ave. You: Man. Me: Woman. #915753

HARRIET’S DAD, SOUTH BURLINGTON Harriet was thirsty. Your smile, so warm. I am curious if you are single. If not, then your partner is super lucky. If yes, then perhaps we could take Harriet for a walk sometime? Please share when you respond why I had my vest on during a 80-plus-degree day so I know it’s you! When: Sunday, April 16, 2023. Where: South Burlington bike path. You: Man. Me: Woman. #915752

HOT AT HUNGER MOUNTAIN CO-OP 9:30 a.m. You: masc.-presenting, short dark hair, tattoos, black tank top, black suspenders, tan Carhartts. Me: masc.-presenting, brown hair, goatee, flowers and skulls outfit. Briefly made eye contact when you were looking at breads. Care for a spring fling? When: Sunday, April 16, 2023. Where: Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier. You: Man. Me: Genderqueer. #915751

MISSING THE PRETTIEST OPTICIAN

I’m missing the prettiest optician in Burlington. If you see this, please contact me by telegram. When: Friday, February 10, 2023. Where: Vision Center. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915747

BUMPER-STICKERED JEEP

I was jumping into my Jeep when traffic was stopped on Route 116 in Hinesburg. You rolled down your window and gave me a thumbs-up, saying you loved all my bumper stickers. I said thanks. e light turned green before I could ask if you were single. I am! You wore a suit and blue tie and drove a Volkswagen. When: Friday, April 14, 2023. Where: Route 116, Hinesburg. You: Man. Me: Woman. #915750

GORGEOUS SMILE

OFF THE BELTLINE

Hi. Pulled up next to you at the intersection of North Ave. at the exit off the Beltline with my friend. Made eye contact with you, and you smiled at me, which made my night. Up for meeting up sometime to see how things go?

When: Saturday, April 15, 2023. Where: North Ave. intersection off the Beltline.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #915749

CAPTIVATING EYES

Our paths crossed at the elevator. I think I caught you by surprise as I stepped out and you were stepping on. When our eyes met, it felt like maybe we knew each other. We probably don’t, but it would be nice to change that. Spy back if you can! When: ursday, April 6, 2023. Where: Bare VT elevator.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #915748

JET-BLACK HAIR, PARKWAY DINER

You came in with a couple of friends and sat at the counter. I had just flown in and was sitting with my parents. We kept glancing at each other, and I thought you were cute AF, but I couldn’t really figure out how to say hi. Maybe we can go for a walk or something. When: Sunday, April 9, 2023. Where: Parkway Diner. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915746

LOOKING FOR THE LAST DIGIT

I was the cute bartender in Waterbury you left your number for when you closed your tab. Unfortunately, you spent too much energy drawing that little smiley face and only ended up writing nine of the 10 digits! I was totally gonna text you but couldn’t, so tragic. If you see this, reach out! When: Tuesday, April 4, 2023. Where: Waterbury.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #915745 a

I’m not sure how you could approach this subject with your wife without hurting her feelings and possibly causing trouble in your relationship. Is lack of sex really worth taking the chance of ruining a 40-year marriage?

It may be hard to be objective, but consider this: What if the roles were reversed and you were the one having medical issues? How would you feel if your wife wanted to seek out another partner? How would you want her to introduce the idea to you? I could be wrong, but it’s hard to imagine that you would be absolutely A-OK with it.

Has your wife talked to her doctor about this situation and maybe gotten second

opinions? ere might be a way to manage her pain. She probably misses having relations with you, too. It’s worth you both putting in the effort to find a

Meantime, expand your masturbation horizons. Involve your wife in whatever way is comfortable for her. Get yourself some male masturbation toys. If you’ve never tried a pocket pussy, perhaps start there. Heck, you can even buy really fancy sex dolls these days. If you’re too shy to visit your local sex store, there are plenty of ways to shop online.

Good luck and God bless, The Rev end

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58-y/o male. Single, no children. Burlington area. Financially secure. Seeking a female, 45 to 60 y/o, single, any race, for companionship, long-term honest relationship, romance and love. I like conversations, going for walks, music and movies. I am very healthy and clean. No drugs or alcohol. Phone number, please.

#L1663

I’m a man in my 60s seeking a woman, 50s to 60s. I am an active and caring male. Looking for a kind, friendly and curious woman to go hiking, have dinner with and play pickleball.

#L1664

48-y/o bi-curious male seeks incredibly naughty characters. Exotic, smutty and taboo fantasies are more fun! Almost anything goes! Perverted tales and hot confessions? Kinky individuals with deviant desires? Yes, please! Be excited. All sexualities, totally inclusive. I think you’re wonderful. Please share your fantasies! #L1662

Discreet oral bottom. 54y/o SWM, 5’8, slim, dark hair, blue eyes. Seeking any wellhung guys, 18 to 55 y/o, who are a good top and last a long time for more than one around. Phone only, but text. Champlain Valley. #L1660

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