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A juvenile moose was hit by a car and killed on Burlington’s Main Street. Some fear fireworks spooked the poor thing.

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As a safety measure, the UVM Medical Center has banned personal bags such as backpacks and purses from the ER. Sta will provide clear plastic bags instead.

JAY PEAK CASES SETTLED

e State of Vermont has agreed to pay up to $16.5 million to settle claims by dozens of investors who were swindled in the Jay Peak EB-5 fraud, the Attorney General’s Office announced last week.

In nearly three dozen lawsuits, more than 150 investors have been seeking recompense from Vermont for the state’s role in overseeing the EB-5 program that Miami businessman Ariel Quiros and his partners exploited through a series of projects in the Northeast Kingdom. Quiros and local businessman Bill Stenger were both sentenced to prison terms for their roles in the fraud, which involved ski resorts and other business proposals.

Caught up in the scheme were roughly 850 foreign investors who were participating in the federal EB-5 program, which provides green cards to prospective immigrants who contribute at least $500,000 to qualified projects in the United States. e state maintained a since-shuttered regional center to oversee Vermont-based EB-5 projects. Investors have long asserted that the state, including then-governor Peter Shumlin, was complicit in aspects of the Jay Peak fraud.

e global settlement, if approved by the court, would resolve all investor litigation against the state and bar similar lawsuits in the future, according to the Attorney General’s Office. It also means there would be no trial in which more information about state officials’ conduct could come to light.

“My team and I did not come to this decision lightly,” Attorney General Charity Clark said in a written statement. “Many years of extensive legal work, overseen by multiple attorneys general, have carried us to this point. is settlement removes the State’s exposure to financial risk and gives Vermont the opportunity to move forward from this chapter.”

e funds will be paid over three years to the Jay Peak receivership, a court-overseen management of the remaining project assets. e state will also try to aid the bilked investors in obtaining green cards; if successful, the state’s financial obligation would be reduced by $4 million, according to the proposed settlement.

Vermont had previously agreed to settle the claims of eight Jay Peak investors for $750,000.

Read Derek Brouwer’s full story at sevendaysvt.com.

HARVESTERS SCRAMBLED AS RIVER ROSE

Volunteers in overalls and boots headed to the Intervale Community Farm for an emergency harvest as the Winooski River surged toward flood stage on Monday. By afternoon, muddy adults and children had filled crates upon crates of beets and carrots.

e National Weather Service predicted the river would surpass 22 feet at Essex Junction on Tuesday, well above the 18-foot level that marks major flooding. Andy Jones said that during his three decades as farm manager, only Tropical Storm Irene approached 20 feet, and all but two of the property’s 300 acres flooded.

“It’s gonna be a flood of catastrophic proportions here,” Jones predicted.

Micah Barritt, a co-owner of Diggers’ Mirth

21.35 feet

That was the high-water mark the Winooski River reached in Montpelier before receding. The record is 27.1 feet.

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Collective Farm, which grows veggies on the property, felt the stress of the flooding, which poses a risk to his livelihood. However, when he recalls the Halloween flood of 2019, he doesn’t think about the losses but of the 50 people who showed up to help out, he said.

“I feel really heartened by the way in which our community shows up,” he said.

Kyle Weatherhogg, a volunteer from the Vermont Foodbank, and Nour El-Naboulsi, a volunteer who runs the People’s Farmstand, took the day off from work and arrived at 8 a.m. to help out. Staff and volunteers alike bonded over the sweet smells of chamomile and cilantro as they cut into the harvest.

By Tuesday morning, the mood at the Intervale

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was more somber. Rising water from the Winooski River was spreading from field to field. But the community spirit remained. ough the road into the Intervale was closed to most traffic, farmers, staff and volunteers rolled up their pants and waded through a foot and a half of water.

Stephania Surowiec, who works for Intervale Community Farm, carried her Converse sneakers as she trudged along. Surowiec waded into the water, which reached halfway up her calf, to pick as many calendula flowers as she could. She planned to dry them and use them to heal her hands, which were cut up from harvesting zucchini the day before.

Others, too, were still racing the clock, continuing to save what they could. Brooke Giard, co-owner of June Farm, picked flowers. As on any other Tuesday, she had to make 200 bouquets to sell.

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Thanks for the write-up [“Bar None: Qbar Aims to Unite the Upper Valley’s LGBTQ Community, One Guerilla-Style Pop-Up at a Time,” June 28]. I just wanted to clarify that QBar Upper Valley was a joint venture — not just mine. Heath Lisle, Michelle Wang and I gathered this ragtag group of queers! Much love to all!

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The article in your Québec Issue on various forms of transportation to cross the border did not mention buses [“Bienvenue au Québec,” June 21]. Was this an oversight, or is there really no bus service to Montréal? If there is, I would be interested in knowing about it.

Janet Rutkowski WILLISTON

Editor’s note: An oversight! Greyhound runs twice-daily service to Montréal, with stops in White River Junction, Montpelier and Burlington. The online version of this story has been updated to include that information.

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I want to chime in with vigorous assent on Megan Epler Wood’s recent letter [Feedback: “Sour Notes,” June 28] regarding Burlington Discover Jazz Festival shows at Flynn Space. While the larger and mostly free live music presentations this past fest were no doubt a draw, wouldn’t it make sense on a number of fronts to book at least two or three acts at the intimate room downstairs from the Main Stage?

CORRECTIONS

Last week’s From the Deputy Publisher note, “Toon Up,” incorrectly described Vermont’s cartoonist laureate selection process. The Center for Cartoon Studies chooses the state’s cartoonist laureate; the Vermont Arts Council assists with outreach to promote the program.

The news story “Not in My Forest” misstated the location of Vermont’s sand plain forest. It’s on the eastern shores of Lake Champlain.

Granted, these events might require paid ticketing, but, as anyone who has seen such shows may well attest, the drama that fills the room as musicians perform up close and personal is priceless indeed. And if the festival curators concentrated on bands and artists deserving recognition — Vancouver’s Gordon Grdina and the Boston-based Tim Carman Trio, for example — such billings would broaden the musical scope of BDJF. We’re well in advance of June 2024. Can we seriously consider this?

Doug Collette SOUTH BURLINGTON

JE ME SOUVIENS!

My wife and I are headed north to attempt viewing the belugas — by kayak — near the junction of the Saguenay and Saint Lawrence rivers, a known and respected place to see them in the context of the whole circumpolar north. The Seven Days Québec Issue [June 21] arrived in time for us to study and think about other possible activities. Such a plaisir to have this natural, urbanrural Gallic destination so close to the Vermont border.

Your reveries and recommendations about the northern border transport us, by association, to New Mexico, where we raised our Vermont-born children in Albuquerque, just north of the equally magical foreign land of Mexico.

Thanks, Seven Days!

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Thanks for publishing your Québec Issue [June 21]! Hope you received more compliments than criticism [From the

Publisher: “Merci-less,” June 28]. Il ne faut pas chercher la petite bête.

I’m ba ed by the number of locals who rarely or never travel the few miles across the border to experience the wealth of o erings you touch on. Your features should help demystify the adventure. Please keep them coming!

Alain McMurtrie GREENSBORO

TIME FOR A NEW TRADITION

Great piece on the fireworks debate [“Celebratory Silence,” June 28]. I completely agree that we should find ways of celebrating other than fireworks. Some of my fondest memories as a child were eating my grandmother’s homemade fried chicken at a picnic and watching the fireworks. But times have changed. So have people’s values.

Traditions can be changed, too. Some can be old, and some can be new. It would be sad to see the fireworks go, but they do cause so much trauma to veterans and wildlife, as well as domestic pets.

The true heroes are the people who got us where we are today to have those freedoms. Why not raise a flag and salute your local heroes in ways that don’t re-traumatize them? Traditions to celebrate veterans and our country should not inflict pain on them and force them to isolate.

Comparing the trauma caused by fireworks to a truck backfiring is nonsense. I have seen a dog go through a window because of them and countless other wild and domestic animals sent into crazy frenzies. You may be able to prep your own pets, but not wildlife. Look at the poor baby moose in Burlington.

Having a parade and a community barbecue and honoring your veterans respectfully so they can actually be there is a true tribute.

Bev Soychak MONKTON

‘I WAS AMANDA BEAN’ [“Vermont’s Relapse,” June 14] is hopedefeating. I o ered you guys my story of strength and inspiration a few weeks ago because not only do I know Amanda Bean, but I was Amanda Bean. Nobody thought I would ever change. Nobody thought I would live until the end of each year that passed.

I grew up in Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility. I celebrated seven years sober in March. I have two beautiful late-in-life children, 3 and 6. I own a $350,000 home. I am a certified addiction recovery and life coach; Reiki, crystal and sound healing practitioner; and just finished my addiction counseling education program at Westfield State University. I am also founder of the addiction recovery blog Progressing Not Perfecting. You guys didn’t even have the decency to respond.

Why does the media perpetuate the pain and su ering of substance-use disorder without ever sharing the successes? Because that’s what really shocks people, right?

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‘Historic and Catastrophic’

Unrelenting rain swamped Vermont’s cities, towns and hamlets. e recovery is just beginning.

Vermont Volunteers Prepare to Pitch In for Flood Victims

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e beloved summer concert series at Middlesex’s Martha Pellerin & Andy Shapiro Memorial Bandstand continues with an appearance by renowned South American pop star Nomfusi. e singer-songwriter lends her powerful vocals and infectious energy to music that blends the Xhosa traditions of her childhood with Afro-soul and danceable beats.

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e utterly unique Ukrainian act DakhaBrakha grace the Putney Inn with their distinct flavor of musical chaos at a performance hosted by Next Stage Arts. Blending traditional Ukrainian sounds with instruments and styles from India, Africa and the Middle East, this fearsome foursome unleashes a global sound all its own. A cash bar, tacos and gelato add to the experience.

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Coup the Right ing

Vermont International Film Festival keeps the revolution alive with a screening of Chile ’76, a new political drama set during the early days of the Pinochet regime. Audience members at the Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center Film House in Burlington are treated to a gripping tale about a sheltered middle-class woman inadvertently drawn into the opposition movement when her priest asks her to shelter an injured young man.

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River Deep, Mountain High

Athletes of all ages race on land and water at the annual Missisquoi River Paddle-Pedal. Pushing off in Richford’s Davis Park, participants row 6.5 miles along a scenic waterway, then cycle five miles on the adjacent rail trail. Proceeds benefit the Northern Forest Canoe Trail’s stewardship work and access improvements.

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Dance Dance Revolution

Chandler Arts throws an Afro-Caribbean Dance Party at Fable Farm in Barnard. With psychedelic Latin act Mal Maïz opening and Afro-Indigenous ensemble the Garifuna Collective headlining, this rhythm-heavy shindig gets audiences moving and shaking. e farm serves up food, wine and cider to keep the party rolling.

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Horsing Around

Adventure Dinner invites foodies and fans alike to a Polo Picnic With Sugarbush Polo Club at the Sugarbush Polo Field in Shelburne. Guests enjoy a gourmet meal on the grass with a VIP view of the mounted competitors in action. Wine, local beer, and craft cocktails and mocktails are available for purchase.

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e Northeast Kingdom Artisans Guild Backroom Gallery in St. Johnsbury hosts “Sightseeing in Silk & Paper,” a solo show by local Russian painter Anna Yakubovskaya. Her pieces, split between watercolor on paper and ink on silk, depict the stunning scenery of her adopted state in soft colors and bold strokes.

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You’re reading the third version of my “From the Publisher” column. I wrote the first one on Sunday afternoon, after editing what was supposed to be this week’s cover story about Unadilla Theatre in Marshfield. The piece gave me a chance to recall my first trip down Blachly Road in the mid-1990s, pre-GPS. A few miles in, I was convinced I’d made a wrong turn. How could there be a performing arts center so far o the beaten track? I easily found 500 words to celebrate the e orts of Unadilla founders Bill Blachly and Ann O’Brien and noted other seasonal endeavors in Vermont that are comparably magical. The concluding message: Seize the summer.

Then it started to rain. On Monday came reports of flooding, water rescues and crumbling roads. The Winooski River overflowed its banks in Montpelier, inundating State Street. In anticipation of similar destruction downstream, volunteers converged on the Burlington Intervale to help the farmers there salvage their crops. We sent intern Katie Futterman, along with photographer Daria Bishop, to cover their e orts and waited to hear whether the flood would rival Tropical Storm Irene.

That deluge, on August 28, 2011, also happened on a Sunday and took a full 24 hours to unfold. We scrambled the jets to write about it and, considering the size of our news team at the time, did a decent job. Breaking news on deadline is a challenge for a weekly newspaper. Having a website helps, but it doesn’t solve the potential problem of producing a print product that is so carefully planned, it doesn’t reflect current reality.

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producer Eva Sollberger crowdsourced flood videos from social media. Photographer James Buck drove to Londonderry. Culture coeditor Carolyn Fox and calendar writer Emily Hamilton updated the events pages to reflect the weather conditions, dropping one spotlight on a gathering that had been postponed and adding a new one. Our resourceful design team reconfigured the paper on the fly — and kept us on track to meet our deadlines.

As Seven Days went to press on Tuesday night, we were still worried about the safety of fellow Vermonters in the path of rising rivers and streams.

From the comfort of my home o ce, I keep looking up at a framed cover of the paper from September 14, 2011 — our Performing Arts Preview, published right after Tropical Storm Irene. It shows a ballerina in pink tights and a tutu striking a graceful pose in the water-soaked furrows of a farm field. Instead of toe shoes, she’s wearing mud boots.

It’s too early to say how this week’s floods will impact Unadilla. Dual runs of The Pirates of Penzance and A Midsummer Night’s Dream were supposed to wrap this weekend. Reached via email, Blachly suggested we consult the road commissioner and provided his phone number. “Blachly Road is washed out in both directions,” he wrote. “A pickup occupies the middle of the former road with water up to its windows in a 6 ft ditch.”

My bets are on Blachly, O’Brien — and Vermont — that the shows will go on.

have thank the setting special.

This time around, we convened an emergency meeting of editors on Monday afternoon to reconsider the Unadilla cover and other stories in this issue that don’t address the floods. Photos, video and reports from the field suggested the weather story was getting bigger. At the same time, I argued that 99-year-old Blachly deserved the cover, too, and art director Diane Sullivan had designed it beautifully. Thinking wishfully, we held o on a total overhaul. I wrote a new ending for my weekly message: “We have nature to thank for the setting that makes the summertime arts in Vermont so special. Then, every 10 years or so, she steals the show.”

By Tuesday morning, with reports of towns along the Winooski River underwater, it became clear that a few tweaks to the print paper would not be enough. We scrapped all the planned news stories for flood ones and bumped Blachly from the cover — sorry, Bill. Food editor Melissa Pasanen started reporting on restaurants impacted by floodwaters and swapped out a dry piece about Martone’s Market & Café in Essex Junction for a wet one about culinary casualties that she first published online on Tuesday afternoon.

The news team fanned out across the state. Senior multimedia

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‘Historic and Catastrophic’

Unrelenting rain swamped Vermont’s cities, towns and hamlets. e recovery is just beginning.

BY SEVEN DAYS STAFF

Vermonters were reeling after two days of torrential rain brought widespread flooding to rural towns, swamped the Capital City, trapped residents and destroyed livelihoods.

The deluge drew comparisons to Tropical Storm Irene in 2011, a $750 million catastrophe whose memory still haunts Vermonters as the worst flood in nearly a century. In some areas, this week’s rains were even worse, and with more wet weather forecast for the days ahead, additional flooding was possible.

Scientists have said human-caused climate change will only increase the likelihood of such strong — and destructive — storms.

Near Montpelier, the Winooski River crested two feet above Irene’s levels as floodwaters turned downtown streets into

muddy canals and slammed debris against city bridges. Flash floods damaged homes up and down the state’s mountainous spine, damaging some structures that had been rebuilt after Irene to withstand major floods. Rain destroyed crops and swept away pets and livestock. Countless roads were washed out, and o cials closed a stretch of Interstate 89 in Washington County overnight on Monday into Tuesday morning, forcing scores of stranded drivers to sleep in cars or makeshift shelters. Severe flooding occurred from Weston and Ludlow in the south to Johnson in the north, though Burlington was spared.

No deaths or injuries had been recorded as of Tuesday evening, but dozens of emergency responders had conducted

Downtown Montpelier

Vermont Volunteers Prepare to Pitch In for Flood Victims

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Even before the rain relented and floodwaters started to recede, Vermonters began organizing to help their neighbors who were hit by the historic deluge.

VT Flooding 2023 Response and Recovery Mutual Aid, a Facebook group that Wendy Rice created on Monday night, had more than 3,800 members by Tuesday evening.

On the Facebook page, Rice links to a Google Doc with information about road closures, emergency shelters and state agencies. The document also includes a list of dozens of local mutual aid groups.

Rice is no stranger to natural disaster response efforts: From 2011 to 2015, she worked for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, where she assisted with recovery efforts during Tropical Storm Irene. In an interview, Rice said she envisions the Facebook group as “a central hub” where people can share

Another Way’s executive director, Ken Russell, said the nonprofit would be serving pot roast, carrots, gumbo and pasta. It was also seeking donations of dry clothes and socks.

The Civic Standard, a nonprofit community organization in Hardwick, was in search of donations of socks and towels and helping to coordinate volunteers for local flood-relief efforts.

Local businesses and churches also lined up to help.

Joseph Pensak, co-owner of the newly opened Phoenix Gallery & Music Hall in Waterbury Village, offered the use of the gallery’s dry basement to anyone in town in need of storage space. In Ludlow, Filipino restaurant Gamebird posted on Facebook offering free groceries, sandwiches and chicken. On Tuesday, the Marshfield Village Store planned to give out free barbecue, and Barre’s ENOUGH Ministries was preparing a meal to serve hundreds in its auditorium.

Katie Farineau of Burlington, who worked for four years with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative researching best practices for disaster response, said it’s often people’s first impulse to donate “stuff” in response to a natural disaster. But she said oftentimes those items are “mismatched with the needs of the people” and can create more work for those who have to sort through it all.

resources and information. She undertook similar organizing efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Rice said one way people can be helpful in the early aftermath of the storm is to add local resources to the Google Doc. She said those who want to volunteer to help should look for coordinated efforts on their local Front Porch Forum or town website, rather than trying to do something independently, which could get in the way of the state’s emergency response.

At a press briefing about the floods on Tuesday morning, Public Safety Commissioner Jennifer Morrison also plugged a state website, vermont.gov/ volunteer, where Vermonters can register to volunteer.

“For now, please focus your volunteer efforts on the hyperlocal level,” Morrison said. “Check on your neighbors and the most vulnerable in your neighborhood.”

In the hard-hit Capital City, the Montpelier Food Pantry was closed due to flooding in the area, but a post on its Facebook page directed people to community drop-in center Another Way for meals.

Farineau recommended that people research credible local organizations in their communities and consider donating money rather than goods as a way to give affected communities more flexibility and agency in meeting their needs.

To that end, the Vermont Community Foundation announced on Tuesday the creation of the VT Flood Response & Recovery Fund 2023 to coordinate and distribute support to hard-hit communities. The foundation also recommended other organizations to donate to, including the American Red Cross of Northern New England, BROC Community Action, Capstone Community Action, Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity, Northeast Kingdom Community Action and Southeastern Vermont Community Action.

Rice, the creator of the mutual aid Facebook page, said that in coming days and weeks, more opportunities to help with the “great need and great damage” wrought by the flooding will certainly present themselves.

“Vermonters in particular really want to show up and be there for their communities,” Rice said. “It’s really part of our culture.” ➆

JAMES BUCK

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‘Historic and Catastrophic’

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more than 175 rescue operations and were continuing to scour the state by boat and by air. In Barre, a van taking homeless people to a shelter was overcome by high water; the people in it were helped to safety.

President Joe Biden, in Europe to meet with NATO leaders on Tuesday, declared a state of emergency in Vermont, unlocking federal dollars for what will certainly be a long recovery effort.

“Make no mistake, the devastation and flooding we’re experiencing across Vermont is historic and catastrophic,” Gov. Phil Scott said at a press conference on Tuesday. “This is nowhere near over,” he cautioned.

The slow-moving storm swept into Vermont after pounding parts of Pennsylvania and New York’s Hudson Valley. Between six and eight inches of rain pummeled southern Vermont between Sunday afternoon and Monday. The tiny town of Plymouth recorded more than nine inches, according to National Weather Service data. The storm continued into central Vermont, dropping nearly eight inches in Barre and only slightly less in Montpelier.

Officials said on Tuesday that towns in the southern Green Mountains and the Barre-Montpelier area appeared to be hit hardest. Main Street in Ludlow became a raging river. In Woodstock, the White Cottage snack bar, a burger joint that was rebuilt 25 feet farther from the Ottauquechee River after it was destroyed by Irene, was again overrun, its kitchen appliances tipped over by floodwaters.

HELP WANTED

Near Chester, a Windsor County town of 3,000, Nancy Ramos lost many of her livestock when the Williams River overflowed its banks on Monday afternoon.

She had moved most of her eight children into a school bus on higher ground and shepherded the surviving cows, chickens and ducks inside her house. Some of the pigs she raises were missing, as were the rabbits — Fluffalufagis II, Snowflake, Puddin and others — who lived in a barn. A family house cat, Pumpkin, jumped from the arms of Ramos’ 11-year-old daughter, Bella, as she tried to rescue it and was swept away.

Ramos hugged her weeping daughter as she recounted the story. “She’s not doing so well,” the mother explained.

She relied on neighbors to help move her livestock as water covered nearby roads. “There ain’t nobody who can come help us,” Ramos said.

The American Red Cross opened emergency shelters in Barre, Rutland

THERE AIN’T NOBODY WHO CAN COME HELP US.

and White River Junction. More than a dozen other shelters popped up in churches, schools and elsewhere around the state. After cascading water forced the overnight closure of I-89, at least a hundred travelers spent the night at the Maplewood Travelers Service Center in Berlin, many in their cars.

Flooding in Chelsea prompted the Riverbend Residential Care Home to evacuate 20 residents to a nearby church, where they spent Monday night alongside 10 travelers seeking shelter from the storm. An expected delivery of Red Cross cots had not arrived by the time ambulances began dropping off the nursing home residents, so volunteers put out a call to the community. Neighbors quickly showed up with cots and air mattresses, according to Errol Hinton, pastor of the United Church of Chelsea. “Within an hour, every resident was comfortable, tucked in and settled in for the night,” he said.

Hinton cooked burgers and hot dogs for dinner for the unusual congregation, then eggs and bacon for breakfast. “And people are still dropping off food,” he said.

More than 200 people were staying in the Red Cross-operated shelter inside Barre Municipal Auditorium on Tuesday

NANCY

RAMOS

Nancy Ramos’ cows in her home

Nancy Ramos and her daughter embracing outside their home

Extreme flash flooding and road washout on Route 103 near Chester

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morning. Others awaited rides there from smaller shelters in nearby towns.

Kayakers crisscrossed the city’s American flag-adorned Main Street as cars floated about. Amy Young, a stylist at Magnifique Salon, said her car was submerged on Monday. “It happened so fast,” she said on Tuesday.

She looked forlornly at the vehicle just out of her reach and said, “At least I have insurance.”

Vermont’s 13 swift-water rescue teams were aided by squads that arrived from states as far away as North Carolina,

Flood damage around Main Street in Barre

Amy Young checking on her car

A swift-water rescue team from New York returning from a call for assistance in Montpelier on Tuesday

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officials said. They retrieved residents trapped in homes and on top of cars, including some who failed to heed travel warnings. State officials said responders from New Hampshire performed a risky, middle-of-the-night rescue in Waterbury of a woman who tried to drive around a barricade and was overtaken by a strong current.

SMALL-TOWN HARM

Scenes of flooded thoroughfares and town centers could be found up and down the state. The Chittenden County town of Richmond, which is bisected by the Winooski River, was largely impassable on Tuesday morning after floodwaters shut down the interstate exit and choked off most roads leading into the burg.

Along Route 2 in Richmond, a large brown pond covered most of Robin Yandell’s 20-acre farm. Yandell didn’t seem overly concerned; Irene also flooded her property, she said, and her 19th-century home, atop a knoll, had survived that and the notorious flood of 1927 unscathed. Still, the water had risen a good amount since she got up around 3 a.m. on Tuesday and was threatening to spill into her barn, where she keeps two horses and some chickens. “I’m just watching it,” she said, before continuing her morning chores.

In the Lamoille County town of Johnson, the Gihon River, typically a calm, scenic waterway, spilled its banks and left much of the downtown underwater. Residents said floodwater rose to over six feet on Railroad Street early on Tuesday.

Johnson’s Sterling Market — the town’s sole grocery store — was flooded almost to its ceiling. The market opened in 2013, two years after flooding from Tropical Storm Irene badly damaged Grand Union, a grocery store in the same location.

Residents stood near their flooded downtown on Tuesday, watching the water recede. A child blew bubbles by the water’s edge while police monitored the scene.

“I ain’t swimming to work,” a man shouted from his porch, surrounded by water.

Kat Aupperlee, whose elderly parents had been evacuated, arrived downtown to take stock of the damage. The first floor of her parents’ home was flooded. Aupperlee said she hadn’t seen water this high since a 1995 flood devastated Johnson.

“They say this is a thousand-year storm,” a passerby declared. “Or is it a hundred-year storm? A 10-year storm?”

Some residents were evacuated and spent the night at the local campus of

FLASH FLOODS DAMAGED HOMES UP

Vermont State University. A few returned with kayaks or canoes and paddled off to pick up belongings and pets.

Half the village lacked power. Houses where electrical infrastructure was submerged will have to be inspected before the power can be restored, said Jeffrey Parsons, an apprentice line worker with Johnson’s Water & Light Department who was helping out downtown.

Over the past decade, residents of Johnson have poured energy and money into revitalizing the downtown, so the damage is a setback. Parsons worried that Sterling Market would close, which would be, he said, “a huge loss to the village.”

TWO CATS, CLOTHES AND A VIOLIN

As they did during and after Irene, neighbors helped neighbors.

Waterbury residents Jeremy and Georgia Ayers sent a group text on Monday asking for help relocating their belongings to their second floor. Nearly 20 people arrived, including members of the town’s CrossFit gym, who lugged 40-pound bags of wood pellets up the stairs.

The couple were able to move everything — dressers, mattresses, and even their stove and refrigerator — before fleeing to a friend’s home. Jeremy returned home at 4:30 a.m. on Tuesday with his canoe and ferried a stranded neighbor and

AND DOWN THE STATE’S MOUNTAINOUS SPINE.

Cally Abbott (left) and her brother Hazen watching the Winooski River flow across Bridge Street in Richmond

Downtown Johnson

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‘Historic and Catastrophic’

Josh Decker and Jeremy Ayers bringing Decker’s dog to safety in Waterbury

two dogs to safety. His was one of several watercraft lined up next to Prohibition Pig in downtown Waterbury, available for residents to use.

The floodwaters there weren’t as high as during Irene, some residents said, but some homes and businesses still flooded.

Elm Street in Waterbury was already underwater when Shannon and Matt Gile evacuated their apartment at 8 p.m. on Monday. The couple grabbed their two cats, some clothes and Shannon’s violin and headed to a family member’s home in South Burlington.

On Tuesday, they returned to find three inches of water in their apartment.

“You could see stuff in different rooms that must have floated into a different room,” Matt said. “We’ve got some mushy passports now.”

The Giles were among a handful of people at the waterlogged junction of Elm and North Main streets on Tuesday, one of several sections of flooded roadway

in the central Vermont community. Fire trucks and wooden barriers blocked off parts of Route 2, including at the rotary near I-89, where onlookers gathered to watch drivers make convoluted maneuvers to get back to dry land.

The Giles borrowed a green canoe that somebody had delivered for community use to grab some more clothing and cat litter before heading back north.

The state office complex in Waterbury, which was destroyed by Irene and later reconstructed, was high and dry this time around, though water approached the complex. Still, the state relocated its emergency operations from Waterbury to Berlin because of road closures. Gov. Scott, who lives in Berlin, said he began his commute on Tuesday by hiking on dirt trails; the roads surrounding his home had all flooded.

The state office complex in Waterbury was not flooded.

Downtown Waterbury

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UNRELENTING RAIN

Unlike Irene, which unfolded in less than a day, this week’s storm stretched over two days and struck as soils were already saturated from recent summer rains. As a result, the Winooski River near Montpelier swelled to over 21 feet by Tuesday morning, nearly four feet above major flood stage and higher than at any point since the 1927 flood, when it reached 27 feet.

The submerged streets in downtown Montpelier on Tuesday morning evoked that historic flood. The water also reached the doors of Montpelier High School, on the river’s southern bank, to the shock of school custodian Belinda Matheson.

“Oh, my God!” she yelled. “My school!”

Matheson said she worried about the tennis courts, track, sports fields, school gardens and chicken coop. “All of it’s gone,” she said.

As Matheson took photos of the school, swift-water rescuers from New York State pulled their inflatable boat from the water after investigating a report of a family trapped on Elm Street. Nick Bresette of the Montpelier Fire Department said teams had performed about a dozen rescues over 24 hours. They retrieved one person trapped on a car roof, another who got stuck after driving into floodwater on North State Street and a third who was having a cardiac issue.

“It’s been a long night,” he said as he sipped coffee.

Tuesday morning brought fresh anxieties when city officials warned that the nearby Wrightsville Dam was approaching its capacity. The 115-foot-high dam was constructed following the 1927 flood to control water flow into the Winooski River from the North Branch tributary.

Never in the dam’s history had its emergency spillway been needed, but city officials had warned residents during the night of the risk of increased flows in the North Branch, which cuts right

through the heart of downtown, should floodwaters overtop it. That prompted some residents to evacuate.

The dam’s waters had risen to within a foot of the spillway as of Tuesday afternoon. “At this time, it is difficult to determine if there will be a spillway activation,” Vermont Emergency Management public information officer Mark Bosma wrote in an email.

As the day wore on, the sun emerged and residents began exploring their soaked city by foot, bike, kayak, canoe and standup paddleboard. Fire alarms shrieked incessantly as helicopters buzzed overhead and the odor of leaked gasoline permeated the air.

Montpelier entrepreneur Kelly Tackett and her three children huddled in the shade of a tree in a flooded downtown parking lot. They had come to check on her business, a children’s toy and clothing store called Minikin, but couldn’t get to it.

Tackett convinced a kayaker to photograph the shop for her.

The night before, she and her children — Laurel, 11; Leif, 7; and Pema, 4 — had lifted what items they could off the floor of the business. But the kayaker’s photos soon confirmed her fears. They showed several inches of water throughout the store, soaking the legs of a $1,000 crib and other items.

Tackett signed the lease for the shop just as the pandemic hit, but business hasn’t bounced back, she said. Now she can’t see how to recover from this. She choked up as she discussed a store that had been her dream and began sobbing as she described financial setback after financial setback.

“I just feel in shock, and I feel like it’s probably the end of the store,” she said.

Leif gave his mother a hug and rubbed her back. Pema showed her some berries from the tree. Her tears kept flowing. ➆

This story was written by Derek Brouwer, Courtney Lamdin, Kevin McCallum, Colin Flanders and Rachel Hellman. James Buck contributed reporting.

‘Historic and Catastrophic’

THE DELUGE DREW COMPARISONS TO TROPICAL STORM IRENE IN 2011, A $750 MILLION CATASTROPHE WHOSE MEMORY STILL HAUNTS VERMONTERS AS THE WORST FLOOD IN NEARLY A CENTURY.

A CNN crew in Montpelier

The Lamoille River in Fairfax

Main Street in Montpelier

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I’ve been in Seven Days before and had tremendous respect for this paper. I watched all of my friends whom I grew up with in that jail drop o one by one over the past 20 years. I’m the last guy standing for a reason.

Try being part of the solution instead of only highlighting human pain and su ering. People love a success story, and there are so few.

Samantha Bushikaq BENNINGTON

A HOME WITH HISTORY

Thank you so much for [Nest: “Midcentury Makeover: Devoted New Owners of a Norwich Home Honor Architectural History in Its Rehab,” June 28]. The house featured was my grandparents’, and I have many fond memories of the place! Very grateful to the current owners for restoring it to its glory.

Just wanted to say that I appreciated this, as did my dad, one of the teenage sons mentioned in the article. Thank you!

Kristin Stockmayer Laverty PLYMOUTH, MA

LET PEOPLE CAMP

In “Burlington Council Calls for Deeper Dive Into Homeless Camping Policy” [May 16], the Burlington City Council debates the di erent options for helping and finding homes — even temporarily — for the homeless population of Burlington. If they are not disturbing anyone or posing a risk to other people’s safety, they should be allowed to camp. Having a form of shelter is better than having nothing, especially for children without housing who don’t have a choice in the situation. A camp in the woods is better than an underpass or the sidewalk. Homeless encampments can also provide a sense of community, which can give a feeling

of place and comfort for some. Moreover, people with homes and “without” are members of society and should have a place to sleep and call home.

Camping in Burlington is presently prohibited on city-owned property and in public parks. However, some people want it to be legal and only have the camps be “removed” if they pose health or safety risks. Although there are some homeless shelters in Burlington, the closure of the motel shelter program from the COVID-19 pandemic has moved more people back onto the streets, and shelters are starting to fill up.

Unless every homeless person in Burlington gets a home or a spot in a shelter, there will be people camping in Burlington.

Madelin Crowley PITTSFORD

ADIEU, QUÉBEC

[“Tongue-Tied: Québec Just Took Aggressive Steps to Protect French. Some Say They Go Too Far,” June 21] struck a nerve. I left Québec over 30 years ago for Vermont so I would no longer have to deal with anglophone, francophone or allophone issues. Xenophobia was rampant then and evidently still is now. I have always believed that if there should be any protected language or culture, it should be for Indigenous cultures, not for the first European invaders.

As a Jewish Anglophone, by law I attended Protestant, English schools. French schools were exclusively Catholic. I received French instruction from grade three through high school. I attended Concordia University (in English) and upon graduation had a limited grasp of the French language.

My last job in Québec was for the Québec Ministère des A aires Sociales, working as a project designer/implementer for adults with significant lifelimiting disabilities. When I was advised that, as an Anglophone, I should not expect to rise in the management ranks, I decided to leave my home of almost 40 years for a new life in Vermont.

Xenophobia, as well as antisemitism, Islamophobia and overt racism, is still common throughout Québec. While we are certainly not immune to these scourges here in Vermont, they simply do not rise to the same levels.

Since my mother died, I have no family in Québec. Most of my friends left, as well — exactly what the supporters of the Parti Québécois, aka Péquistes, desired.

The only thing I now miss from Québec are bagels.

Kenneth Saxe MONTPELIER

VERMONT FIRST

[Re “Homing In: Some Short-Term Rental Hosts Are Flouting Burlington’s New Regulations. The City Intends to Crack Down,” June 28]: Many of my new neighbors are from out of state. Some work from home; others don’t work. If we really want to end homelessness in Vermont and fill our job vacancies, we need to change the laws and customs regarding the allocation of new and extant housing.

A) New and existing houses should be o ered to Vermonters before being o ered to the general public.

B) Those with available rental apartments could list them with schools, hospitals, local businesses and anyone else o ering jobs in Vermont. When someone takes a job, they could be given access to the list of available accommodations. If an apartment is still vacant after a reasonable length of time, it could be listed publicly.

C) Subsidized housing should be available for Vermont residents who have lived in Vermont for six months. It should only be available to out-of-state residents after all Vermont residents are housed.

Dvora Jonas MONTPELIER

BETTER DAYS AND ‘WAYS’

Self-described “superannuated dreamer” Andy Leader muses about “The Old Way” in his letter, recalling that in his youth there was no “homelessness problem” in our state [Feedback, June 14]. Why? Because we had “poor farms” and “poorhouses” — run by each town’s elected “overseer of the poor,” who, in Leader’s memory, “[knew] everyone in town and would thus provide for the truly destitute.”

This system, Leader states, put the problem of poor folks “directly into the hands of local taxpayers.” He applauds those “canny Republican farmers who ran the state back then” — that is, prior to the late 1960s, which is when, Leader asserts, things took a downward turn.

Well, I am about the same age as he, but my memory di ers, largely because my grandfather was one of the legislators who helped write the old system out of existence. He did so, as he told me then, because the old system was inherently unfair. Those overseers did know everybody — and that led to abuse: An overseer could decide who was “truly destitute.” He might decide that a person or family was undeserving. Perhaps they were Indigenous, or French, or lazy, or Catholic, or drunkards, or poor for too many generations. Maybe the overseer hoped to drive them away to trouble some other town.

Grandpa told me that sometimes the old ways were not the best ways. Sometimes we need to change the way we take care of our communities — and those ways continue to evolve. Let’s not go backward! (Oh, and Grandpa was a Republican — old school.)

Gina Logan BRAINTREE

Logan’s grandfather was Francis Klein Hans, who served in the Vermont legislature until 1962.

FREE RIDE

I really enjoyed Seven Days’ treatment of our “geometric” bike prototypes [“Love Triangles,” July 5]. And being included in the Cartoon Issue was a bonus that put the smooth, simple, reciprocating-pedal riding experience in a succinct visual context.

However, we’re not looking to assemble capital and get these bikes into production internally; without patent protection and at age 77, I’m happy to inexpensively license this design and the associated technology and know-how to any of the 2,000 custom bike-builders in the U.S. and to corporate manufacturers, as well. (Our prototypes are by two local metalwork artisans, Matt Penney and John Marius.)

If you want to build some or have yours built to ride, we’ll get you licensed and hooked up with a builder or three. Email me at linearc@fastmail.fm.

Steve Norman BURLINGTON

ROOM TO GROW IN COLCHESTER

I would like this group of people to stop weaponizing Act 250 [“Not in My Forest: Ecologists, Neighbors Protest Colchester Rec Center Construction,” July 5]. They are loosely relating adjacent projects in order to delay, deny and disrupt this project even more than it has already been delayed. Their actions will result in wasting our local option tax funds in litigation, similar to what was done with the Interstate 189 and Route 289 connector projects.

For the past 20-plus years, Colchester has been trying to provide a place for this community to be more healthy, active and grow. While I do want to prevent the useless destruction of forest, I think this project has found a good middle ground between removing only what is necessary and keeping Vermont beautiful. I look forward to taking my family to what is designed to be a beautiful rec center.

David Neely COLCHESTER

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OBITUARIES

Kenneth Wooden

OCTOBER 18, 1935JULY 3, 2023 BOLTON, VT.

Kenneth Wooden, 87, of Bolton, Vt., and Kissimmee, Fla., passed away during a majestic sunset in Colchester, Vt., on July 3, 2023, surrounded by his loving family, following a fiercely valiant 22-year battle with prostate cancer.

Born on October 18, 1935, in Burlington, N.J., Ken overcame a childhood of poverty, severe learning disabilities and a speech impediment to become his family’s first college graduate, a celebrated writer, educator, speaker, investigative reporter, TV news producer and world-renowned child advocate. Ken credited his amazing wife, editor and lifelong partner, Martha, for making all his successes possible.

A proud veteran of the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division, Ken lived his life with zeal, reveling in the company of his large and adoring family, as well as thousands of friends from all walks of life. His many passions included his County

Sarah Mosley

AUGUST 14, 1974JULY 6, 2023

ESSEX JUNCTION, VT.

Sarah Elizabeth Warren Mosley, 48, passed away from a brief struggle with ovarian cancer on ursday, July 6, 2023. She passed peacefully, surrounded by her loving family. She was a resident of Essex Junction, though, with her warm and friendly candor, everywhere she went felt like home.

Sarah was born in Akron, Ohio, on August 14, 1974, to Jerry and Dianne Warren.

Sarah and her younger sister, Amanda, were inseparable. eir childhood was full of memories of family activities,

OBITUARIES, VOWS, CELEBRATIONS

1974 they bought the historic Honey Hollow Camp in Bolton and spent summers and holidays there for a decade before moving to Vermont year-round, where they divided their time between camp and their longtime residence in the heart of Shelburne Village.

and earned scores of accolades, including an Emmy Award, a U.S. Dept. of Justice Award for Public Service, an American Legion Public Spirit Award and his favorite, the Giraffe Award — “for sticking one’s neck out.”

Donegal Irish heritage, American history, the poetry of Carl Sandburg and Robert Frost, the New York Yankees, restoring antiques, Italian opera, winemaking, playing pinochle, cultivating flowers, Mediterranean cooking, entertaining in his “Kenny’s Irish Pub” woodshed, and, most especially, “polishing the jewel” — gardening, mowing and landscaping the breathtaking acreage of his remote cabin property nestled within Camel’s Hump State Park.

Ken and Martha first visited Vermont in summer 1970 and were instantly smitten with the beauty of the Green Mountains; the serenity of a culture in tune with nature; and the honesty, grit, and generosity of its residents. In

As the author of multiple juvenile-justice books, including the Pulitzer-nominated Weeping in the Playtime of Others, which exposed corruption within America’s juvenile prison system, Ken delivered expert testimony to the United States Congress on 16 occasions and contributed groundbreaking child-welfare reporting to dozens of major media outlets, including the New York Times, CBS’ “60 Minutes,” Reader’s Digest, and the Chicago Sun Times

Ken researched, wrote and created the Child Lures Prevention education program, which teaches youngsters safety strategies to protect against abuse. rough this program — continuously published without philanthropic or public sector support for 40-plus years — Ken helped safeguard generations of children and families around the world

Ken was a remarkable fighter, possessed with undying determination. Whether fighting for justice for children, fighting a speeding ticket all the way to the Vermont Supreme Court or bravely fighting his cruelly tenacious cancer, he always maintained his resolve, positivity and good humor. To symbolize his determination, at the age of 75, he got his first tattoo: the word “NUTS” on his right forearm, a reference to Brigadier General Anthony C. McAuliffe’s famous 1944 response to the Nazis demanding the USA surrender at the Battle of the Bulge in World War II. Ken loved showing his tattoo whenever he met someone new and always gave an impromptu history lesson while urging them to join him in declaring “NUTS!” to all life’s setbacks.

A romantic and poet until the end, when all treatment options for battling his cancer were depleted, Ken took

the opportunity to pen a poignant farewell Christmas letter to his friends and loved ones, closing with the words, “As I now realize — and accept — that my ‘Sun’ is setting, there is no fear, only joy for life and the chance it gave this poor Depression kid of the 1930s. It’s been a creative, exciting journey with no regrets. With a big smile, I wish you one and all the best in life. Cherish it, and continue to enjoy its many wonderful gifts. I love you….”

Ken is survived by his loving wife of 65 years, Martha Braun Wooden; his adoring children, Grace GilbertDavis (Essex Junction, Vt.), Rosemary Webb (Hinesburg, Vt.), Jennifer Mitchell (Williston, Vt.) and John Allen Wooden (Studio City, Calif.); in-laws Jeff Davis, Scott Webb, Carl Mitchell, Anna Liza Bella and Tess Barbach; grandchildren Calvin and Sarah Gilbert, Sophia and Preston Webb, Chase and Grant Mitchell, and Simone and Ward Wooden; and great-grandson Finn Gilbert. He is predeceased by his mother, Grace eresa Ward; his father, Edward F. Wooden; and his

brothers, Carl, Edward and Richard Wooden.

For friends wishing to celebrate Ken’s remarkable life, the family invites you to walk amongst the noble stone walls, burbling streams and rolling meadows of his cherished Honey Hollow and remember Ken as you knew him, there within the “sublime tapestry of nature,” where his gentle spirit will linger forever.

Ken’s favorite quote: “I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. Life is no ‘brief candle’ to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future generations.” –George Bernard Shaw

An informal celebration of life for family and close friends will be held at Ken and Martha’s beloved Honey Hollow Camp on July 22, 2023, 2 to 4 p.m. Condolences and memories may be shared by visiting awrfh.com. In lieu of flower arrangements, please direct donations to Holly’s House Child and Adult Victim Advocacy Center, PO Box 4125, Evansville, IN 47724.

Sarah graduated from Lake High School in 1992, where she proudly earned the title of “Class Clown.” She attended Kent State University, where she studied childhood development.

vacations and adventures.

Sarah was always smiling, kind and outgoing, easing the way through childhood for Amanda. She had a way of entertaining and making everyone feel special.

In 2002, Sarah met the love of her life, Michael. She moved to Vermont in 2003. Michael and Sarah were married on June 5, 2005, and they brought Stella and Evander into this world. Being a mother was a great source of pride for Sarah. She raised her children with such joy, respect and humor along the way. She reveled in watching Stella dance and Evander play basketball. She loved being their mom.

Working with children

was Sarah’s passion and her legacy. Her teaching career began in Ohio at A Wonder World. From 2006 to 2019, Sarah worked at Heartworks Preschool in Williston, then she worked at the Homestead Preschool in South Burlington from 2019 until she became ill in April. The impact that she has had on the hundreds of children, families and coworkers that she has worked with over the years is immeasurable. She brought comfort, creativity, humor — and a bit of magic — to her classroom every day. Sarah’s impact will ripple through generations to come. Those left in her wake are grateful that they

have had the opportunity to be influenced by her. How lucky we are to have been able to walk alongside her, for even a moment. May we forever be inspired to let our light shine on each other as Sarah’s light shone so naturally.

Sarah is predeceased by her parents, Jerry and Dianne Warren. ose left to cherish her memory include her husband, Michael; their children, Stella and Evander; her sister, Amanda, and her husband, Josh Simms; in-laws Patricia and John Mosley; brotherin-law James Mosley and Michele; niece Morgan Simms; and nephews Owen Simms, Frederick Mosley and Malcolm Mosley.

e family would like to thank the staff at the University of Vermont Medical Center for the incredible care and compassion that they showed for Sarah. Michael and Amanda would also like to thank James and Michele Mosley, Josh Simms, and Sheila Porter for all of their support.

Services to celebrate Sarah’s life will take place on ursday and Friday, July 13 and 14. A wake will be on ursday, 4 to 7 p.m. ere will be visiting hours on Friday, 9 to 11 a.m., followed by a memorial service and the burial. ese will all take place at Corbin and Palmer on Pleasant Street in Essex Junction.

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IN MEMORIAM

Dewey Joseph Guidry

1950-1971

Let me tell you a little bit about that brother of mine.

He was one of the best brothers us girls and younger brother could have. He came rescuing us, no matter how

Much bigger other persons were. at was our hero. Getting food for us, fishing, picking berries, working collecting newspapers, copper piping to sell, even

Stealing he did. I believe he didn’t like stealing, if there was another way, I learned from a lady years later,

After he’s gone. I am grateful, blessings from God.

He was a daring, funny guy. We dared him a lot. Smart, Strong, brave. As I laugh out loud, he was afraid of the Dark. I know why, but that’s my secret right now. He loves

Girls. He had many girls running around with him, he just loved them all. So as girls we have to remember that

Can’t be a bad thing anymore. When I think of my brother, Being the best to us all, just 21 years old, he’s Ever so missed. It is how many times he’s still showing up. is is why I am memorializing him. He is still a hero, even

After his death, making me laugh, cry and to be brave, a Little like him a bit. He came visiting my first grandchild when she was just 3, meeting my first child at the

Same time, showing up at a medium I went to see. He Showed up laughing real hard at me. e medium says Your brother is here, he keeps laughing and saying

Walmart. I say to myself, Walmart wasn’t here when he was here. en I just remembered, oh my God, I forgot, my niece works there. I told her in Walmart just recently, if I

Run into my two sisters in there, I will give them a piece of my mind. ere is our brother, that’s what he was all About. He loved us all without a doubt, laughing hard,

Teaching me still what life is about. Never give up. Learning forgiveness is what it’s about. anks to our Brother for reminding me again. LOL.

Mike’l and Sonny with love

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OBITUARIES

Judith Dickson

DECEMBER 21, 1945-JULY 6, 2023 BURLINGTON, VT.

Judith F. Dickson, 77, died on ursday, July 6, 2023, at her home in Burlington, Vt., surrounded by her children and her beloved dog, Sadie. She died of congestive heart failure that had been plaguing her — but not stopping her! — for a number of years.

In her final weeks, she had many visits from family members and dear lifelong friends.

Judy was born in Boston, Mass., on December 21, 1945, to Edith and Francis Foldes, Hungarian Jews who had immigrated to the U.S. in September 1941. She and her two sisters grew up in Pittsburgh, where Judy was a ball of energy as a child — twirling batons, practicing dance moves and playing tennis with her friends, and horseback riding with her father. In high school, Judy was a star cheerleader and also began discovering political activism through her Unitarian Church youth group.

In 1963 Judy followed her older sister, Eva, to Connecticut College, graduating in 1967, and then attended the Harvard Graduate School of Education. After teaching at HeadStart in the Boston area for several years, Judy attended law school at Northeastern University. She met her husband, Don Dickson, when they were both grad students in Cambridge, Mass. ey married in 1972, and Judy followed Don to Vermont after finishing law school in 1976. ey settled down on Ledgemere Street in the “Five Sisters” neighborhood of Burlington, where they lived for over 40 years and raised their three children, Amy, David and Jeff.

Judy was a fighter. At the age of 19, she was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a disease that, at the time, did not leave many survivors. She persevered through college while

Robin Milne

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undergoing radiation, but her cancer returned a year later. With her doctor father’s help, Judy enrolled in the firstever clinical trial for combination chemotherapy at the National Institutes of Health. is involved frequent flights from New England to Washington, D.C., on which Judy would attempt to keep up with her coursework between bouts of chemo-induced nausea. is treatment was ultimately successful and gave Judy almost 60 more years, but the experimental doses of radiation and chemotherapy also resulted in slowly progressing damage to her heart and lungs that led to her cardiovascular disease later in life.

Judy was also a fighter for civil rights and social justice. She spent the bulk of her legal career at Vermont Legal Aid, where she directed the Disability Law Project for over 25 years. Judy was a relentless advocate for young people, collaborating with schools and other agencies to meet the needs of each of her clients. Always ready to fight for the rights of her own kids, too, in the late 1990s Judy cofounded Parents for Civil Unions, which helped lay the groundwork for same-sex marriage in Vermont. After retiring from Legal Aid, Judy put her legal expertise to work volunteering for the Vermont Refugee Resettlement Program, where she helped countless new Vermonters get green cards. Her identity as the child of immigrants made her passionately committed to helping others access the same opportunities. Judy was an active member of the Vermont Bar Foundation for many years and received the Vermont Bar Association’s Distinguished Pro Bono Service Award in 2013.

While juggling full-time work and a wide variety of volunteer service, Judy always had time for her family. She taught her children how to ski and spent countless winter weekends

shepherding all three kids up and down the slopes. In the summers, Judy loved to spend time with her family in Wellfleet on Cape Cod, swimming with her kids and sisters in the ponds and walking the beaches. Judy was a fantastic cook and loved to spend time in the kitchen. In the last few years, Judy’s grandson, Jonah, always looked forward to baking cookies and scones with Grandma.

Judy also always had time for her friends. She stayed close with a number of classmates from elementary school through law school while maintaining correspondence and taking trips with them throughout her life. In Vermont, many of her friendships were forged with a network of women who were carving out their career paths as a new generation of women lawyers, academics and politicians. Judy loved to read, and her multiple monthly book groups were a highlight of her social life for decades. Friends of Judy’s loved her wit, her big smile and her wry sense of humor. She suffered no fools, but she was always glad to talk, listen and laugh with a friend.

Judy is survived by her three children, Amy, David and Jeff Dickson; her grandson, Jonah Dickson; her sister and brother-in-law, Barbara and Richard Wolkowitz; and her nieces and nephews, Nicholas and Emily Travers and Eva and Daniel Wolkowitz. She was predeceased by her husband of 48 years, Don Dickson, and her sister and brother-in-law, Eva and Jeff Travers. e family wishes to thank the University of Vermont Home Health & Hospice, home helpers Deb Holonitch and Paula Willoquet, and the many friends whose visits brought joy and laughter to Judy’s last few years.

A memorial service will be held on Saturday, August 12, 2023, 3:30 p.m., at the First Unitarian Universalist Church, 152 Pearl St., Burlington, VT.

Contributions in Judy’s memory may be made to the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants Vermont (formerly the Vermont Refugee Resettlement Program), Emerge Vermont or the Vermont Bar Foundation.

Robin Williams Milne of Shelburne, Vt., died peacefully on December 20, 2022, at the age of 91. You are welcome to join us in honoring her life. A memorial service will be held on Sunday, July 23, 2023, 2 p.m., at the First Unitarian Universalist Society of Burlington (head of Church Street). Robin’s full obituary can be found at legacy.com. Please note that the email address for condolences and other family contacts has changed to milnefamily1@yahoo.com.

Anne J. Alexander

SEPTEMBER

14, 1939JUNE 29, 2023 NEWARK, VT.

Anne Johnson Alexander passed away on June 29, 2023, with John, her loving husband of over 67 years, by her side. It is a Herculean effort to create a full picture of a life well lived over nearly 84 years. Our family has attempted to weave glimpses of experiences and memories to tell a story of our spouse, mother, grandmother and sibling.

Anne, born September 14, 1939, began her 67-plus-year journey with her husband, John (Johnny to Anne and born on March 14, 1939), while still in high school, where they were voted “Cutest Couple.” Anne, the “navigator” and a loving and generous

Kathy Lawrence

OCTOBER 2, 1948MAY 27, 2023

BURLINGTON, VT.

Kathleen “Kathy” M. Lawrence passed away peacefully, surrounded by her six children on May 27, 2023, after a battle with Parkinson’s disease. Beloved parent, grandparent, friend, community leader, supporter of the arts and style maven, Kathy was a Burlington icon.

Kathy was born in Teaneck, N.J., on October 2, 1948, to Kathleen and Donald Tangney. Her dry, New York humor and Irish generosity were among the many gifts she inherited from her stellar parents.

Kathy had an eye for design and studied fashion journalism at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. She was a young woman of the 1960s and spent her time in the coffeehouses of Greenwich Village, soaking up literature, poetry, music, painting, philosophy and political activism.

During this time, she met her former husband, Michael Lawrence, on the boardwalk at the Jersey shore. They moved to Burlington in 1971, bought a house and raised their six children. Kathy became a proud and steadfast Vermonter. She was a lover of the land and community and remained in the same

family have resulted in all her children pursuing careers in education, as well as social services.

community for individuals with traumatic brain injuries.

who took notice of her surroundings with a keen eye.

wife and mother, shared her values and sensitivity with her children, as well as her eleven grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

Anne’s life was devoted to her family, her dear friends, her community and her vocation of teaching. Anne served on a multitude of community boards, as well as supporting those with special needs. The values she instilled in her

One of her children vividly remembers Anne saying, “It is not enough to be kind. You must also take action.” She steadfastly modeled this throughout her life. In the 1970s Anne was active in her church and in the Sara Holbrook Community Center in Burlington. Later, she juggled parenting her five children while earning her masters of arts degree from Johnson State College. This led to her teaching at Browns River Middle School in Underhill and Concord High School in Concord, Vt. The notion of “taking action” led Anne and John to the Northeast Kingdom, where together they founded Eagle Eye Farm Rehabilitation Center, a therapeutic

otherwise did not enjoy the holiday.

Anne also encouraged her “5” to be active and supported them in pursuing horse riding, tennis, soccer and skiing, among other activities. She and John helped their kids get their start on skis at the Underhill Ski Bowl and joined them when they had the rare spare moment. Our mother carried this energy into her later years as well, even skiing with her grandchildren into her mid-70s.

Our mother possessed many gifts, including that of storytelling. She had the ability to remember the finest of details and crafted stories that captured innocent moments and exchanges with neighbors, family members and even strangers, showing how the most common of experiences can be compelling. She was a wise, understated individual

For as long as the siblings can remember, their parents signed even the simplest of notes to each other, such as grocery lists, with a “5.” A reminder to each other of the primary focus in their lives — their five children. Recently, Anne shared with one of her children that she went to sleep each night only after thinking of each of her children, each of her grandchildren and her one great-grandchild; only then could she rest. This is the love and dedication that we have experienced and cherished and will so dearly miss. Although Anne’s journey on earth has ended, her values will live on through her children and grandchildren.

Anne was predeceased by her brother Charlie, grandson Ian Alexander, and sonin-law Earl Whitmore. She

leaves her children, John (Michelle), Jennifer, Steve (Devon), Sarah Jane and Eben (Karlie); her grandchildren Zachary (Brooke), Jesse, Gwyneth, Benjamin, Gaylen, Aine, Rohan, Ezra, Annie and Karter; and great-grandchild Ephraim; as well as nieces and nephews. She also leaves her Johnson family siblings Donald Jr., Ellen, Margaret, Jean and Kathy.

A lover of poetry (especially by Irish writers!), mythology and Irish folktales, we will leave you with a farewell: Ar scáth a chéile a mhaireann na daoine.

“Death leaves a heartache no one can heal; Love leaves a memory no one can steal.”

A private service will be scheduled at the family’s convenience. A celebration of Anne’s life will be held at a date yet to be determined.

house on South Willard Street until her passing.

Kathy’s home embodied what she loved: the incredible happy chaos of six kids plus friends. And although it was a house of many people, she was always able to create a sense of calm. Her kind presence and voice set the tone. The house was imbued with a unique spirit, a paradox of safe coziness and freedom that Kathy so magically orchestrated. She rejected TV but equipped her family with books, records and art from various genres and eras.

Kathy loved and celebrated all holidays. Each Christmas, after creating a magical day for her children, she would host a big open house. Everyone was welcome. The house became filled with friends, music and enchilada casserole for all. The parties became legendary and were particularly important to those who

Kathy’s greatest joy was being a mother and grandmother. Her kids remember her running up and down the steep stairs of their old house, while carrying babies and baskets of laundry. Her grandkids remember her sitting with them for hours, immersed in imaginative play. She had a progressive approach to child-rearing and respected every child’s distinct and innate nature. She had a special relationship with each of her own children, making them feel exceedingly loved, important and unique. She raised them to be self-reliant and independent thinkers. Kathy was vital and tireless, a tenacious doer. After her kids were in bed, she continued working, drawing pictures on lunch bags and waxing wood floors. She never drove and could be seen busily walking to and from town in her cool and impeccable style, always with the sense she was up to something interesting, and always having time for a smile, a hello and to compliment a friend or stranger.

Kathy had a diverse and impactful career that enriched the lives of Burlington citizens, especially the youth. In the 1980s, she became arts coordinator for the newly formed Mayor’s Youth Office. She worked to empower young people with their own newspaper, The

Queen City Special, local theater productions, the hugely successful Battle of the Bands and, most importantly, 242 Main, a teen center, which ran for 30 years.

The role of 242 Main in the lives of many Burlington youth, and Kathy’s influence on the teen center, cannot be overstated. Opening in 1986, 242 was a safe place where kids could express themselves. Kathy helped guide kids according to their talents, such as painting the center’s murals, writing and playing live music, and performance art. Kathy promoted justice and presided over a space filled with creativity. She brought in diverse culture from out of town, such as break-dancers from the Bronx and hardcore bands from California. In the end, 242 became the longest-running, substance-free, all-ages music venue in the country, putting Burlington’s kids and young musicians in the history books.

Kathy was known for being supportive, positive and trusting and for making people feel welcomed and heard. Burlington youth held Kathy in high regard, because they knew she had their back. Many of the folks who spent time at the teen center in their youth are now outstanding contributors to our community. Kathy’s kindness and honesty set a very high standard; her impact will likely be felt for generations.

In the 1990s, Kathy decided to indulge her passion for design and started a family business. She and her daughter opened Common Threads clothing store on the Burlington waterfront. Kathy operated Common Threads for 25 years. She understood her clients’ personal styles and outfitted them with pieces that made them feel confident about themselves. The storefront was part boutique and part salon, where loyal friends and customers always felt free to share their innermost feelings.

Kathy is preceded in death by her parents and her brothers, Matthew and James Tangney. Kathy is survived by two siblings, Ellen and Don; her six children, Johanna, Jonah, Emily, Matthew, Amanda and Benjamin; and her seven grandchildren.

The Lawrence family is deeply saddened to announce her passing. We feel the blessings of having enjoyed such a special person. Her spirit will continue to guide us toward joy. She is our hero forever.

A memorial to celebrate her life is planned for next May.

In lieu of flowers, please consider making a donation to kingstreetcenter.org/ donate, parksfoundation burlington.org, lundvt. org, friendsforadog.org or dismasofvt.org.

Joshua Yergeau

SEPTEMBER 7, 1982JULY 2, 2023

BURLINGTON, VT.

Joshua David Yergeau, 40, of Burlington, Vt., and Schenectady, N.Y., lost his long struggle with addiction on Sunday, July 2, 2023, while at the home of his mother in Schenectady, N.Y.

Joshua grew up in Swanton, Vt., and spent his adult life in Burlington, Vt., and Albany and Schenectady, N.Y. He was an avid gamer and a talented guitarist. He was very intellectual and had a quick wit.

He is survived by his mother, Paula, of Schenectady, N.Y.; his father, David, and stepmother, Deborah, of Charlotte, Vt.; sister Christine of Milton, Vt.; brother Nicholas of Sheldon, Vt.; sister Livia of Boston, Mass.; and several uncles, aunts and cousins.

Services will be conducted at a later date.

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BY ERIK ESCKILSEN

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If you didn’t know Bill Blachly was the founder and host of Unadilla Theatre in Marshfield, you might mistake him for a member of the cast.

At 99, with a free-range head of white hair and an arresting gaze, he peers out over the theater’s remote hill-farm home like a Shakespearean elder. He could be Prospero from The Tempest, preparing to summon a storm — but then he climbs behind the wheel of a tractor to tend to his cattle and sheep. He could be a disillusioned King Lear, lamenting the betrayals of his heirs — but then there they are, gathered merrily in the cozy kitchen of the farmhouse he shares with his partner, Ann O’Brien. Or perhaps the figure he cuts is from Chekhov — world-weary Uncle Vanya, say, pondering his mortality and secretly wishing you hadn’t dropped by.

And perhaps Blachly has absorbed a bit of each of these characters, who are among the dozens from the canon of classic and modern dramas that he and O’Brien have produced for 40 years deep in rural Vermont. Their Unadilla Theatre is the theatrical equivalent of a secret swimming hole.

“Unadilla: Find It If You Can,” quips Ann’s youngest son, John O’Brien, a Tunbridge sheep farmer, filmmaker and state legislator.

Since 1983, thousands of theatergoers have found Unadilla, the place where Blachly has played the real-life role of

At 99, Bill Blachly looks back on 40 years of Unadilla eatre

Bill Blachly in 1996

gentleman farmer while living out his passion for theater. Here he has raised livestock, vegetables, children — and the curtain on about 180 productions. By his count, that’s 21 Gilbert and Sullivans, 10 Shakespeares, 10 Chekhovs, six Fugards, six Shaws, three Ibsens, and 130 others.

“It’s just been such a part of our life,” Ann O’Brien said. “I can never separate the pieces of it all.”

This makes Blachly an elder in the generation of urban émigrés who sought a simpler, more grounded life in the countryside during the back-to-the-land movement of the 1960s and ’70s. He’s also a member in good standing of the counterculture cohort that made something not just crunchy but artful out of rugged Vermont terrain.

He has a decade on Bread and Puppet Theater founder Peter Schumann, who is 89, but the two artists have a lot more than wild, white hair in common. In both cases, longevity and its natural counterpart, succession, have raised questions about the future and sustainability of the cultural landmarks they have created. While patrons of both theaters would be forgiven for thinking the energetic impresarios are decades younger, admiration for what they have achieved brings a bittersweet note to each new season.

Unadilla will stage three shows this summer in its two rustic theaters:  A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Pirates of Penzance , and the opera Mozart and Salieri Uncle Vanya, the play that inaugurated Unadilla in 1983, had been scheduled but was abruptly canceled last week.

Blachly said he doesn’t know whether another season will follow this one. He could bow out, of course, and pass the mantle, but that doesn’t seem to be much on his mind. “I suppose you could conceive of something like that,” he said. “I haven’t.”

Instead, on a drizzly afternoon last month, he sat in a wingback chair in his book-filled study and discussed the past — how a dyslexic flatlander came to champion live theater in Vermont for more than four decades. And he marveled at how Unadilla has drawn audiences and the cadre of volunteers who, year after year, make its productions possible.

“I’m absolutely amazed,” he said,

gesturing out the windows of the house and toward the two barn theaters where Midsummer and Pirates were in rehearsals. “These people, the amount of time they put in is staggering … I think there’s a hunger out there to do things like this.”

Jersey Boy

Blachly grew up in Montclair, N.J., close enough to Broadway to see shows there as a youth. His struggles in school made theater all the more appealing.

“I couldn’t read anything until I was in seventh grade, and I couldn’t do math,” he said now. “But the school had a good drama department — I guess that’s what got me started.”

After serving in the U.S. Navy during World War II, Blachly attended Oberlin College in Ohio. After graduation, he ran the drama program at his old high school; studied progressive education at Vermont’s Putney School, where he earned a master’s degree; and became a college administrator. At Putney, he met his future wife Alice Clifford, an ardent theater fan who worked in the office. Alice remembers Blachly quoting lines from Gilbert and Sullivan shows. “That’s some of the wittiest stuff there is,” she said. “And I love to laugh.”

Blachly’s career led him to Brandeis University in Massachusetts, where the job-related stress became overwhelming.

When his doctor prescribed a different line of work, “I gave up the whole thing,” he said.

Blachly had good intel that Vermont might be the cure. As a boy, he had attended a summer camp near Wilmington, and as a young professional he had served a stint in the administration of Goddard College. But the clearest sign came from his younger sister, Barbara, who owned a broken-down farm in Cabot that Blachly had helped her restore. On a visit there in 1956, he found another decaying farm in nearby Marshfield. For $3,000, he bought the 300-acre place — fire-damaged house, dilapidated barns and all.

Blachly had some work to do to get his farm functioning, but his daughter, Ellie, said a pioneering spirit runs in the family. Blachly’s father, Louis, was one of eight sons raised by a single mother after her banker husband was gunned down by robbers in Delta, Colo., in 1893. The Blachly boys knew hard times and passed along an ethic of resourcefulness that shows up strongly in her father, in her view. “My father absolutely grew up with all these stories,” she said. “These things live on … It becomes a part of you and how you think of yourself.”

Blachly credits some experiential education, as well. “I bought some cows. That’ll teach you very quickly,” he said. “Our motto was ‘Make do. Use it up. Do it yourself’ and all those things.”

He milked a herd of about a dozen cows for a decade or so while Alice worked a job off the farm. They had two children, Tom and Ellie. “Well, it wasn’t very easy. We just took a chance,” Alice said. “That’s the way Bill is. He’s a risk-taker. I’m not a risk-taker. So that made life exciting.”

When new dairy regulations in 1965

People are very nostalgic about Unadilla. They like coming back.

LORI STRATTON

COURTESY OF UNADILLA THEATRE

Unadilla Theatre in Marshfield

Ann O’Brien and Bill Blachly

compelled Blachly and many small-farm operators to get out of the business, he traded cows for sheep and patched together a living. He served in the Statehouse — the first Democratic rep from Calais — and later worked in the tax department despite being, in his words, “the most improbable sort of person” for the job.

Throughout these efforts to strengthen his family’s anchorage in Vermont, Blachly found ways to nurture his love of theater. He directed Tom’s school plays and, in the early to mid-1970s, led the successful effort to restore the defunct Barre Opera House. Drawing inspiration from Stratford, Ontario, a bygone industrial hub that had built a world-class theater festival, Blachly invited its founder, Tom Patterson, to help him make the case for a performing arts center in the Granite City.

“If it wasn’t for him, I don’t know if that thing would be there,” Tom Blachly said of his father. “He just worked and worked and worked, and finally it did open.” But the new resident company, the Barre Players, had their own ideas about how the shows would go on. “The first thing they did was fire me,” Bill Blachly said.

In the meantime, he and Alice had joined a group effort to revive the Plainfield Little Theatre. The troupe usually operated out of the Plainfield Town Hall Opera House, but rehearsals were sometimes held in the Blachlys’ Marshfield barn. During the run-up to a production of Uncle Vanya in 1983, it dawned on Blachly that it would be simpler to just stage the show in his barn. The cast was against it, he recalled, but followed his lead.

The way Ellie tells the Unadilla genesis story, it began about a week before opening night and included most of the family. She took charge of the costumes. Her sister-in-law Tina Bielenberg created an advertising poster. There was no stage set, so her father built furniture “so we’d have something to sit on.” There was no audience seating either, so Ellie’s husband, Carl Bielenberg, constructed a set of seats.

Then, a few hours before opening night, Blachly decided the sight lines were all wrong. “It was my father’s dream to have raked seating,” Ellie said, referring to an incline of seats up from the stage. “What he wanted was to have an actual theater.” Fortunately, Bielenberg had built the seats as a single set of bleachers, which meant that the whole unit could be tipped forward by digging into the dirt floor at the front. “That happened the afternoon before the show opened,” she added. “It was extremely dramatic.”

The only thing left to do was wait. “I just remember us all standing there, about quarter of eight, in our costumes, of course, staring out the milk house windows and seeing a pair of headlights and saying, ‘By God, somebody’s come out’ … and then a few more,” Ellie recalled. By showtime, the theater was filled, as it was for two additional performances.

They christened the new theater Unadilla, after a manufacturer’s name stenciled on the barn rafters. That first show became a piece of Blachly family lore, in part because the cast that night included not just Ellie but Tom and Alice, though she and Bill were divorced by then.

Before the decision to cancel Uncle Vanya last week, Alice was preparing to reprise her role as the nurse Marina, at age 96.

“She was a very important foot soldier and really poured herself into the place,” Ellie said of her mother.

Starry, Starry Nights

Patrons in the early years may remember Blachly grandchildren running the concessions stand — homemade baked goods were a favorite — or waiting tables in the simple restaurant where, for a time, the family served home-cooked meals. The restaurant is gone, but otherwise the Unadilla experience is largely unchanged from that first opening night.

An arriving theatergoer turns onto the property near the Calais line to find a cluster of weathered gray barns set off from a white farmhouse. Cattle keep watch on the scene, and a sheep’s baa may add to the hubbub. The “lobby” is

an outdoor area through a hedgerow, where many patrons picnic al fresco. The main theater, the Unadilla, is a curiouslooking Quonset hut with the entrance and concessions window set underneath its arch, creating space to mill around, get out of the rain and peruse the inventory of used books often for sale there.

The Festival Theatre, a 2011 construction, is a more conventional-looking metal-roofed barn.

Even if Blachly and O’Brien, 93, don’t greet patrons themselves, being on their property preshow feels more like social gathering than a night at the theater. “It’s definitely a living room,” said Calais resident Olivia Gay, who has been attending shows since Unadilla began. “Bill has this big personality, this warmth, this connection with lots of people. He loves people. Ann, too … Unadilla is an extension of their personalities.”

Loyal patron Rick Winston said he gets a kick out of sharing the Unadilla experience with newcomers, especially out-of-towners. “People ask, ‘What is this place? I can’t believe it,’” he said. And on a pleasant summer evening, the setting offers its own spectacle. “You can always count on just a few people who are standing there, looking down into the valley and enjoying the view,” he said.

Those simple charms extend inside the Unadilla theater, with its slightly makeshift look. Wood floors, bench seats, a hanging

Tiffany lamp and a worn rug running down the center aisle lend the space a homey feel.

Gay, who used to act with Unadilla, said the close proximity of actors and audience in both theaters creates a sense of intimacy.

The likelihood that players and patrons know one another as neighbors amplifies that sense, reinforcing the community theater essence of shows. Even a season that has been announced for months retains a sense of spontaneity, as if someone in the

This has been the last season of the theater for at least 15 years.

ELLIE BLACHLY

Bill Blachly (left) with his son Tom and grandson Adam in a production of Our Town in the early 2000s

Exterior of Unadilla Theatre

neighborhood just proposed putting on a show and invited everyone to play along.

“There’s this seamlessness between community life and theater life,” Gay said. With Ellie’s hand-sewn costumes and set pieces recycled season after season, Unadilla’s DIY production values underpromise while the productions themselves often overdeliver.

Sometimes the theater’s natural setting actually boosts the production values. A cricket once began chirping, as if on cue, in a production of Uncle Vanya. Gay prepared for her role in Brian Friel’s Dancing at Lugh-

of professionalism … that kind of rubbed off on the rest of us.”

In 1989, while auditioning talent in Boston for an upcoming production, Bill Blachly was closing up his rented audition space when, as he recounted, a “woman came running up and said, ‘I hope it’s not too late.’” It was professional actress Paula Plum, and she was too late. But she and Blachly crossed the street to the bus terminal and held her audition there. To Blachly’s delight, she had memorized much of Happy Days , a Samuel Beckett play that he’d been

pull the plug. He returned to using mainly volunteer casts and crews.

Roughly three decades later, Unadilla holds to that model. “We don’t have any budget at all for most things,” Blachly said.

The laid-back vibe has proved difficult to quantify but impossible to miss. Plum, whose résumé is long with stage, film and television credits, thrived on it during her frequent returns to Unadilla. Despite Blachly’s de-emphasis on professional acting, she continued to bring one-woman shows to Marshfield and grew enamored of Unadilla’s culture-savvy core audience.

popular with generations of actors. She remembers rehearsing and then “waiting for the notes and waiting for the notes, and he has four notes total,” she said. “And one of them will be, ‘Will you pronounce that last word in the sentence … better?’ What I saw was these little adjustments that would make extraordinary differences in the tempo and the feeling of the play.”

Blachly would probably be unsurprised by this assessment. “Mostly I don’t really direct,” he said. “I say, ‘Go stand over there’… I just move them around. Sometimes the actors make fun of me … But I think the Method certainly made actors more self-conscious.”

Blachly’s minimalist approach doesn’t mean he’s without strong opinions. Plum learned this the hard way when she signed on to direct a production of Václav Havel’s Temptation, a political satire. What Plum calls one of their “knock-down drag-outs” was so unresolvable that Blachly scuttled the show.

“I fired her,” Blachly said. “Nowadays I probably wouldn’t have done that,” he added. “Mostly I keep my big mouth shut.”

Blachly has had a “volcanic” temper, according to John O’Brien, who cast and directed his de facto stepfather in the 1996 mockumentary Man With a Plan He recalled an incident in which Blachly threw cheese — soft cheese, Brie — at his mother. (To be fair, Ann admits to tossing a pan of lukewarm dishwater at Blachly during a spat.)

nasa by gathering her character’s basket of blackberries just outside the theater — doing a little character study while also saving the production a few bucks. And a production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest in a barn theater on a stormy summer night heightens a sense of immersion in the play.

Casting Wide

While the unpretentious community theater ethos remains, Blachly has persistently pursued new ways to produce quality work with modest resources.

Large-cast shows, such as the Gilbert and Sullivan and Shakespeare plays that are staples of the Unadilla season, always required local, amateur players. But for a period in the 1980s and into the early ’90s, Blachly auditioned professional actors in Boston and New York City. He could offer them on-farm housing in the cabins — “mini-Dillas” — he built for that purpose. This is when Unadilla “really kind of took off,” Tom Blachly said. “It brought a level

thinking of staging. Blachly offered her a role on the spot.

Blachly could afford to pay Plum almost nothing, but she nevertheless found Unadilla a productive place “to expand, dare, grow, create,” she said. The professional acting pipeline, especially when it passed through Actors’ Equity Association contracts, was never a great fit for Unadilla, however. Paying actors Equity scale and performance rights fees for shows not in the public domain proved costly, for one thing. Putting up actors on the farm became too onerous, for another, especially the year when all the actors stayed in the Blachly-O’Brien house. “That was wild,” he said.

Ultimately, the deal-breaker was the Equity rule that gave actors the option of leaving a show mid-production if they received a better offer. That piece of kryptonite dropped during a 1990 run of the George Bernard Shaw play Man and Superman. Three actors quit, and, without the luxury of understudies, Blachly had to

“People just love to talk about the theater. People read,” she said. “You can start a Robert Frost poem, and someone will finish it.”

Zephyr Teachout — a New York politico, law prof, author and special adviser to the New York State Attorney General’s Office — became another member of the Unadilla family. She made her Unadilla debut in a 1992 run of Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost and continued to return for some summer performances during her college years and beyond.

“I was captivated by every part of that theater,” she said. “I still have those lines from Cymbeline … in my head. ‘Arm me audacity from head to foot!’” She called performing with Unadilla “one of the great joys of my life.”

Blachly’s direction was part of that. Teachout, who played Willie in Happy Days in 2017, offered an illuminating account of Blachly’s method. That’s method, not Method — as in the psychologically exploratory Stanislavsky Method

Alice Blachly remembered an incident or two in which Bill Blachly raised his voice during a rehearsal, although she never found anything mean in it — just a strategy for using a tantrum to get his way, she speculated. In any case, both Alice and Ellie said Blachly has definitely mellowed with age. On the rare occasions when he explodes, “what doesn’t drive people away is that he’s quick to calm down and either apologize or say, ‘I lost my mind there’ … In that way, he’s very generous,” O’Brien said. Teachout has been the beneficiary of that generosity as she has grown from bit player to best friends with Blachly and Ann O’Brien. “When I was there as a 20-year-old, their house was kind of sacred. You didn’t just tromp in and out,” she said. Nowadays, she appreciates the chance to talk “science to poetry to history and then this infinite, infinite catalog of theater that resides in that house” over a “cuppa” — Blachly’s slang for morning coffee — or a “glassa,” an evening glass of wine. In 2013, she and her 8-month-old son lived in a mini-Dilla while she worked on her book Corruption in America. She remembered Blachly helping show her son “how to bang on pots and pans.”

Interior of Unadilla Theatre

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Teachout reserves special praise for O’Brien’s “hilarious deadpan delivery,” possibly a counterweight to Blachly’s mirthful manner. Like Plum, Teachout acknowledges the essential partnership between Blachly and O’Brien that defines Unadilla, even if Blachly is more visible as a director and producer.

“Bill is a chaos machine,” Plum said — albeit one with “charm, charisma and capability.” O’Brien is the fixer. “She’s the heart of that organization.”

The Plots Thicken

Blachly’s foray into professional casting in the 1980s supported his effort to blend classic theater with more contemporary work on the Unadilla boards. He and O’Brien took to making regular off-season trips to London, as well as to Stratford and the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, to stay up on new plays.

He became especially interested in the work of South African playwright Athol Fugard. In 2005 alone, Unadilla staged two of the author’s works, The Island and “Master Harold”…and the Boys, that explore the moral complexities of apartheid. The following season, Unadilla staged My Name Is Rachel Corrie, a 2005 play composed from diary entries and emails written by an American peace activist crushed to death under an Israeli Defense Force armored bulldozer in the Gaza Strip in 2003. Teachout starred in a 2019 staging of Florian Zeller’s The Father, which deals with dementia caregiving.

The wide range of plays Blachly has selected over the years has enabled Unadilla to present engaging theater that brings valued culture to the countryside, even when the quality doesn’t hit a high mark. Songand-dance numbers might be a little loose. That Shakespearean verse might not roll off the tongue. And an edgy play might sound a strident note here and there.

Unadilla regular Andrea Serota put it this way: “Even when I wish [the shows] were better in terms of performance, just the fact that it happens and where it happens is kind of miraculous to me.”

With characteristic irony, Blachly suggested that responses like Serota’s might be evidence that the Unadilla experience writ large is a hedge against dissatisfied patrons. “My theory, maybe it’s a theory of necessity, is that you leave Route 14, you drive up an old gravel road, you pull into an old barn, you sit on some

relatively uncomfortable seats and you get a good show,” he said. “So, reduce your expectations. And then people think, My goodness, that was quite amazing. That was quite a good show.”

Self-deprecation aside, to say Unadilla gets more than it pays for is an understatement. Bill Blachly has made the most of what he’s had to work with, thanks to what Tom Blachly calls his “intuitive” directing style and good instincts for casting the right people in the right roles. Reviewers for local media have consistently praised Unadilla shows as worth the price of admission (this year, $25 for an adult) and a back-roads trek to the farm.

Perhaps Teachout’s insight is right, then, that Blachly’s strong presence offstage correlates with strong presence onstage. “He has great confidence in his judgment,” she said, “and that confidence is communicated in the plays.”

Blachly has also come to show confidence in new directing talent. At this moment in early July, A Midsummer Night’s Dream is running in the Festival Theatre under the direction of Jeanne Beckwith, a returning Unadilla director. She holds a doctorate in theater and brought with her to Vermont decades of playwriting and directing experience.

In the Unadilla, The Pirates of Penzance came together under the direction of Erik Kroncke, a professional opera singer who tours nationally and internationally when not at home in Montpelier. Like Beckwith, he has helmed other musical shows in the backwoods of Marshfield.

In place of Uncle Vanya, Kroncke will direct, in collaboration with Pirates music director Mary Jane Austin, the opera Mozart and Salieri as part of a Mozart-themed evening of opera and concert arias over the first two weekends in August. Movie fans may find the opera’s libretto by Alexander

Pushkin familiar, as it was the inspiration for 1984’s Amadeus (after Peter Shaffer’s play of the same title). The show will feature tenor Adam Hall and bass Kroncke, with Austin accompanying on piano.

Curtain Calls

The drive and perseverance it has required to sustain Unadilla, to literally build and maintain its structures and grounds, is perhaps Blachly’s greatest contribution to the theater. It has certainly been his most visible. At the end of the day, as well as in the beginning and the middle, Blachly is a man of action.

“Everybody remarks on Bill’s energy, which we’re all in awe of,” John O’Brien said. He recalled a time when Blachly took “a flying leap” out of a pickup truck — in his nineties — while the two of them were moving sheep. At age 78, Blachly had a brush hog accident. Pinned beneath the upsidedown machine with its blades spinning, he escaped injury only because the lever for the hydraulic loading bucket jammed into his ribs. The bucket lifted, pushing the tractor off the ground and rolling it off him.

“He managed to somehow crawl back to the house,” Ellie Blachly said. “He had four cracked ribs, and that’s all. Pretty much everyone concluded, ‘You’re safer running the theater.’”

“Bill never stops,” Plum said. “I’d wake up in the morning, and Bill would be out there on the backhoe, plowing the fields, wrangling the cows back into the pasture,

building something. He’s a bit manic. He’s restless and indefatigable.”

Blachly has rolled with the challenges over the years, including the COVID-19 pandemic, which closed Unadilla down for the 2020 season. More recently, he lamented the difficulty of coordinating cast and crew schedules in producing a show. That’s what doomed this year’s Uncle Vanya.

Amid all that can go wrong in producing live theater, however, he has made an “astonishing” observation about what hasn’t bedeviled Unadilla: “We can do an entire season of maybe three, four, five

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The Pirates of Penzance, by Gilbert and Sullivan, directed by Erik Kroncke, produced by Unadilla Theatre, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, by William Shakespeare, directed by Jeanne Beckwith, produced by Festival Theatre: Thursday, July 13, through Saturday, July 15, 7:30 p.m.; and (Pirates only) Sunday, July 16, 2:30 p.m., at Unadilla Theatre in Marshfield.

Mozart and Salieri, by Alexander Pushkin, and select Mozart works, directed by Mary Jane Austin, produced by Unadilla Theatre: Thursdays and Saturdays, August 3, 5, 10 and 12, 7:30 p.m., at Unadilla Theatre in Marshfield.

As of press time, Unadilla Theatre had not canceled any performances following the recent flooding throughout Vermont. Visit unadilla.org for the most up-to-date information.

Mostly I don’t really direct. I say, “Go stand over there.”

BILL BLACHLY

The Pirates of Penzance at Unadilla Theatre

shows with maybe 100 people onstage, and nobody gets sick,” he said. “What is going on? Something in the air? … Theater must be conducive to health.”

While he hasn’t made any decisions about next season, he can be drawn into thinking about who might succeed him. “You’ve got to face it: At 99, you’re not looking at the next decade,” he said. “But I’ve really cultivated some other directors, like Alex [Brown] and Monica [Callan].” He said Brown, who also reviews plays for Seven Days, was his first choice to direct Uncle Vanya. When he couldn’t offer her the rehearsal time she needed, he took the gig himself.

That’s a noteworthy development to Tom. “My dad’s generally cut back a

Pirates cast but be unable to see the show while in charge of Midsummer tech in the Festival Theatre. It’s a necessary sacrifice. “I get a real thrill out of seeing a play evolve over time,” she said. “I want to see this theater continue. People love it. And people are very nostalgic about Unadilla. They like coming back.”

But will they have something to come back to next summer? Not even those in the Unadilla inner circle are placing bets. The question is hardly new. “Every season is the last season,” Teachout said. “And in January I get a phone call. ‘What are you doing this summer?’”

Ellie Blachly also knows the drill: “This has been the last season of the theater for at least 15 years,” she noted.

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lot,” he said. “He used to direct a lot of the shows there. In more recent years, he’s basically hired directors.” Blachly has lightened his workload in other ways, too. He sold his herd of cattle and sheep last fall. For various reasons, the person who bought them didn’t want them all, so two of the cows and a bull, along with eight sheep, returned to the farm.

To keep the theaters running, he has had good help for almost a decade. Lori Stratton, an environmental toxicologist, began assisting with stage lighting in 2014, and now Blachly calls her “the all-purpose stage manager for most of the shows and the reason that we are still here.”

Just then, Stratton ducked into his study to talk about lighting malfunctions and a conspicuous smell in one of the theaters. (Probably a dead bird, she reported later.) “Every company should have a Lori,” Blachly said. “She does everything. She drives to Amherst to pick up the costumes that we rent. She cleans the theater. She plants the garden.”

This season she has a local high school student running the lighting and sound for one show, since she can’t be in two places at once. While she’s happy for the help, it pains her a bit to work with the

All that anyone can say for sure is that Bill Blachly and Ann O’Brien have championed quality theater in a pastoral setting that can make a play seem as if it starts at the turn onto Blachly Road. Tom calls it a  Brigadoon , after the musical about two New Yorkers who stumble into a Scottish village that doesn’t appear on any maps. “There is a little touch of magic about the place,” his sister, Ellie, said.

To sit and talk theater with Blachly is to trace some of that magic back to its source. His eyes light up when the subject returns to Uncle Vanya. “Every character has some ironic twist, and that’s what Chekhov is about,” he said, reaching for a script of the play. “This is the genius of the guy … These characters all set out in life as young people to be something totally different.” He thumbed to Sonya’s final monologue in the play and read aloud: “What can we do? We must live out our lives. Yes, we shall live, Uncle Vanya. We shall live all through the endless procession of days ahead of us, and through the long evenings.”

By the end of Sonya’s monologue, Vanya has tears in his eyes. But as he tossed his script on the coffee table, Blachly was smiling. ➆

A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Unadilla Theatre

Raising the Rafters

A Lincoln carpenter landed a plumb position rebuilding Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris

BY KEN PICARD • ken@sevendaysvt.com

Normally, modern contractors don’t aspire to using medieval techniques and materials. For Will Wallace-Gusakov, doing so was the career opportunity of a lifetime.

The 39-year-old carpenter from Lincoln spent the past six months in Normandy, France, swinging a Gothicstyle broadax, hand-hewing oak beams and chiseling wood joinery as part of a massive reconstruction effort that’s garnered international attention. Last year, Wallace-Gusakov was hired by some longtime French colleagues and friends to be part of an American crew of carpenters, including four Vermonters, who are helping to rebuild Notre-Dame de Paris, the famous medieval cathedral that was severely damaged by fire in 2019.

For Wallace-Gusakov, who got started in professional carpentry when he was a teenager in Bristol, rebuilding Notre-Dame’s roof afforded him an opportunity to apply old-school woodworking techniques, some of which have been used in Vermont for centuries to build houses and barns, to one of Europe’s most iconic structures.

“I kind of love all timber-frame geeky stuff, so I’m mostly self-taught,” Wallace-Gusakov said in a phone interview from Normandy. But getting to work on a UNESCO World Heritage Site is “something that I never would have even dared to dream.”

Wallace-Gusakov is the owner of Goosewing Timberworks in Lincoln, which specializes in traditional timber framing, fine carpentry, and antique building restoration and preservation. Though he’s worked on other historic sites before, none was as large or complex as the landmark cathedral on Paris’ Seine River, which holds a special place in the hearts of French citizens.

Those hearts collectively broke on the evening of April 15, 2019, when, during a maintenance project, a structure fire erupted in the cathedral’s roof space and spread with astonishing speed and ferocity. As smoke billowed into the sky, Parisians turned out by the thousands to see the Gothic church engulfed in flames, while millions more watched live on televisions, computers and cellphones around the world. About an hour into the blaze, Parisians let out a collective gasp as the cathedral’s 200-foot spire toppled into ruins.

Even before the last embers were extinguished, French President Emmanuel Macron set a five-year deadline for restoring the cathedral in time for the 2024 Summer

Olympics in Paris; within two years, donors from around the world had raised nearly $1 billion toward the construction effort.

Whether Notre-Dame would be rebuilt was never in doubt. But as Wallace-Gusakov explained, the real question was how it would be done and what the finished product would look like. The fire ignited a public debate about whether the cathedral, a prime example of French Gothic architecture that was built between the 12th and 14th centuries, should include 21st-century touches and materials such as concrete and steel.

At odds were French General JeanLouis Georgelin, whom Macron handpicked to oversee the project, and Philippe Villeneuve, the project’s chief architect. Villeneuve was vehement that the cathedral be rebuilt precisely as it had looked before the fire; Macron and Georgelin favored adding contemporary elements.

Further complicating the debate was the fact that many of Notre-Dame’s prefire features were themselves added centuries after the original construction; notably, the iconic spire that long adorned the Paris skyline actually was added in the mid-19th century following a resurgence of interest in the cathedral sparked by Victor Hugo’s novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame.

For many French carpenters and historic preservationists, modernizing the Gothic

HISTORIC PRESERVATION

Work crews rebuilding Notre-Dame cathedral

The 2019 fire at Notre-Dame

cathedral cut deeply against the grain. In the years after the fire, the international nonprofit group Charpentiers sans Frontières, or Carpenters Without Borders, launched a major push to rebuild it using traditional materials and techniques. In 2020, members of Carpenters Without Borders, with which Wallace-Gusakov has volunteered for six years, constructed a wooden truss by hand using the same methods that Notre-Dame’s medieval carpenters would have used.

Ultimately, the traditionalists won out, and the decision was made to rebuild Notre-Dame’s roof frames with hand-hewn carpentry, which essentially means cutting wooden beams with axes and chisels rather than a sawmill. That decision allowed Wallace-Gusakov’s friends Rémy and Loïc Desmonts, a father-and-son team of traditional French carpenters in Normandy, to submit a bid. In April 2022 their company, Ateliers Desmonts, won the contract to rebuild the nave roof and choir roof timber frames. Last spring the Desmonts invited Wallace-Gusakov to join their crew.

The Bristol native was already experienced in French carpentry methods and styles. About a decade ago, he spent a year and a half working in France and learned the language. In fact, during one yearlong project in Paris, Wallace-Gusakov lived near Notre-Dame and would wait outside the cathedral each morning for the company van to drive him to his job site.

But he never went inside — until just a few weeks ago, to see the construction that’s under way. Wallace-Gusakov returned to Normandy in January. There, as with the rest of the cathedral’s carpentry, including that for the choir, transept and spire, the nave frame is being fabricated and test-assembled before it’s disassembled and shipped to Paris later this summer.

“It’s a crazy jobsite right in the middle of Paris,” he said. “There’s all this lead contamination there, so there’s this whole process of safety briefings and hazmat suits to go in.”

All the wood the carpenters are using is European oak, the same species as was used in the 1200s and 1300s. WallaceGusakov noted that not all the work is being done with medieval methods. With more than 1,000 workers involved, some are permitted to use modern techniques and machinery. Except for some photo ops staged for the press showing a few trees being felled with axes and two-person saws, Wallace-Gusakov noted, most were cut with modern logging equipment, and some power tools have been allowed. In all, 500 oak trees were felled for the nave alone, and another 1,000 for the new spire.

All those logs have to be hand-hewn with axes, with the finishing joinery also done by hand. The timber frame of

Notre-Dame was significant in the development of Western timber framing for its systematic use of mortise and tenon joinery — that is, wood-to-wood joints, Wallace-Gusakov explained. (A mortise is the “female” part of a joint, with a notch, hole or cut into which the tenon, or “male” piece of another beam, is inserted.)

constructed is a massive oak structure. At 115 feet long, 46 feet wide and 33 feet high, it’s composed of 57 trusses forming 11 spans, according to the French authorities overseeing the project.

Given the niche nature of handworked carpentry, it’s not surprising that Vermont is well represented on this project, said Miles Jenness of Vermont Heavy Timber in Huntington. The 36-year-old restoration timber framer has been working in Normandy for six months alongside Wallace-Gusakov and fellow Vermonters Zakari LeBlanc of Huntington and Josh Jackson of TimberHomes Vermont in Montpelier.

“There’s not that many people in the world who do this sort of thing, so it’s become a community,” Jenness said. He first met Loïc Desmonts, the French carpenter, in August 2019 when both volunteered for a Carpenters Without Borders project in Sedgwick, Maine. After the project was completed, he invited Desmonts to stay at his home in Vermont for several weeks and do some work together.

Following the Notre-Dame fire, Jenness said, he was frustrated to read in repeated news stories that the skills used to build Notre-Dame had been lost and it wouldn’t be possible to reproduce it the same way.

“This feels like a bit of a coup ... for the public to know that this sort of craft is not lost,” he said. Jenness thinks it’ll have a ripple effect on future historic restoration projects.

“To be able to show anyone who would say, ‘Why would we restore it in the traditional way?’ Well, look at Notre-Dame,” he added. “If they could do it, so can we.”

“The Notre-Dame cathedral actually happens to be very significant in the technical development of timber framing in Western Europe,” he said, “which is really cool to work on.”

While Wallace-Gusakov was accustomed to such building methods, he was not expecting the cathedral roof to be reproduced to the level of intricate detail that it is, a process he described as “very technically challenging.” In addition to the massive amount of lumber that must be hand-hewn, laid out, stacked and sorted, the architects are using photos and historic records to rebuild the structure exactly as it looked before the fire, including all the flaws and “funky idiosyncrasies” from its medieval makers.

“Nothing is level or straight or plumb or planar, so every little thing is different from every other little thing,” he said. For French architectural preservationists, he added, it’s “a watershed moment that’s pretty cool to be a part of.”

The nave frame that Wallace-Gusakov

The first pieces of the nave frame will hit the road for Paris starting in August, with the entire frame being installed, bit by bit, over a five- to six-month period. Alas, Wallace-Gusakov, who came back to Vermont last week, won’t be able to return to France to see his handiwork hoisted into the Paris sky; he has prior commitments, including a wife and two young boys, that will keep him in Vermont.

Asked whether this project had any religious or spiritual significance to him, Wallace-Gusakov said it did not.

“I’m quite aware that monumental architecture is, in some ways, a monument to inequality and, most times, slavery, too,” he said. But aside from some “philosophical dissonance” he has about the darker elements of the cathedral’s construction history, he added, “There are so many other wonderful things we’re doing that I can get over that.”

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Will Wallace-Gusakov hand-hewing oak beams for the Notre-Dame nave roof frame

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Second Nature

The Vermont Master Naturalist program connects locals through the landscape

STORY & PHOTOS BY RACHEL MULLIS

Vermont’s naturalists are hard to find. They tend to spend a lot of time alone in the woods. Still, University of Vermont field naturalist Alicia Daniel suspected they might be longing to meet and learn from one another. And she thought she knew a way to lure them out.

“The bait was ‘We’re going to teach you the natural history of your town,’ and … boom,” she said. They showed up.

Daniel, 62, founded the Vermont Master Naturalist program in 2016 to help the state’s nature lovers build community, deepen their knowledge and plug into local conservation efforts. Within two years, she established programs in Richmond, South Hero, Williston and the Bristol five-town region. As of 2023, VMN has expanded to 18 towns across Vermont.

Daniel defines a naturalist as “someone in love with nature, who makes a study of it” — not necessarily as a profession but as a practice. VMN is open to anyone who has shown a sustained interest in at least one natural history discipline, such as birding, geology, wildlife tracking or botany. For a fee of $650, accepted students commit to nine months of study and attend five field days to receive 30 hours of training specific to the natural history of their town or region.

Each field day takes place at a different location and focuses on a specific aspect of the region’s natural history, from the

bedrock beneath the soil to the birds far above. Students also commit to a 20-hour volunteer conservation project in coordination with a local community partner.

Daniel adapted VMN’s landscape-level approach from the UVM Field Naturalist Program, a master of science course of study where she has taught for more than 30 years. Over time, she explained, she became accustomed to boiling down graduate-level course material for undergraduates and others who were new to the field.

“You can go from teaching people with a lot of experience in some field, whether it’s wildlife or geology or botany, and you can [translate] it to an undergraduate level. I had done it for several years,” she said. “Then I thought, Who else would want to do this?”

Daniel also served as the City of Burlington’s field naturalist for seven years. Her highly popular BTV Conservation News email newsletters got her thinking about all the nature lovers out there who might appreciate an opportunity to learn.

Since she launched VMN, its original network of 40 or so people has grown to more than 400 graduates and current students. In May, 20 of them descended on Killarney Drive in Burlington’s New North End for VMN’s inaugural Tier II program.

The group contained educators, professionals and entrepreneurs; students, volunteers and retirees. One toted a very willing toddler. But all were graduates of previous VMN programs, meeting up for a second year of study to deepen their learning and connections. Tier II is a testimony to the program’s momentum.

Daniel greeted the group wearing a blue windbreaker and faded black jeans, her hair tied back under a denim cap embroidered with the VMN logo. After a round of introductions, she sketched the day’s agenda: a meandering four-mile loop from the bike path to Rock Point to a secret patch of forest reputed to contain scores of spring ephemerals, another name for the delicate woodland wildflowers that bloom in the fleeting weeks before trees’ leaves block the sun. The group would explore a slice of the Burlington “layer cake” of natural history, from the Champlain Thrust Fault to the perennial woodland starflower.

“People actually fly here from Amsterdam to see this place,” Daniel said of the former. “Thrust faults are fairly common, but geologically it’s quite rare to have them exposed right at the surface where you can see them.”

Daniel’s teaching style is humble and low-key. For much of the day, she took a back seat, challenging the group with the occasional question and pointing out key landscape features to weave them into an expansive story of time and place.

Over six hours, the group examined details large and small, from soil samples to the exposed fault layers jutting above Lake Champlain to the wide, tangled shapes of the oldest trees in the forest on Rock Point. Those trees were free to stretch out on bare pastures until a second generation of forest grew up around them.

The toddler napped comfortably in her father’s arms. Someone found a bird’s nest hanging from the low branch of a sugar maple. Another person shared maps of ancient Earth as the group stared across the lake at the Adirondack Mountains — which, everyone learned, are rising about a foot per century. People swapped insect repellent strategies, bird identifications and stories about Daniel’s impact.

Roberta “Bert” Nubile of South Burlington has known Daniel for 20 years. In addition to being a VMN student, she has served as the program coordinator for VMN South Burlington.

“I just can’t get enough of this, the way Alicia presents information,” Nubile said as she navigated the rocky beach. “She makes

Students descending to Lone Rock Point to explore the Champlain Thrust Fault

Vermont Master Naturalist students

it accessible. She makes you feel heard. Her personality — that’s what really makes this program.”

Pamela “flask” Gude of Bolton agrees. “This program was absolutely life transforming for me,” she wrote in an email after the event. Gude, a conservation advocate and educator who serves as the vice chair of her town’s conservation commission, added, “It gave me the tools to begin my life’s second act.”

VMN has inspired community action in a number of ways. Chapin Kaynor of Williston graduated from VMN Williston in 2019 and went on to become one of two local conservationists certifi ed by the state Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets to manage invasive species such as buckthorn through targeted herbicide use. He is also two years into a project called Tree Island that involves planting or transplanting more than 300 trees onto a small knoll beside the Allen Brook School in Williston to spur the pastureland’s progression to hardwood forest. Scores of kindergartners have planted and watered oaks and sugar maples and learned about invasive species management.

“Taking the VMN class, partly because I had to find local projects to fulfill the requirements, led to much more volunteering in conservation in my community,” Kaynor said. “That’s been very rewarding for me.”

Curt Lindberg, of VMN Winooski Headwaters, was inspired to bring the program to the Mad River Valley, which is currently taking applications for the fall. He also coedited the 2022 book Our Better Nature: Hopeful Excursions in Saving Biodiversity.

“It was just another example of this community of people who care about nature and the state kind of coming together,” Lindberg said. “I think the experience I had in the field naturalist program gave me the energy and inspiration to help nurture that along.”

Other post-program projects are under way across the state, from riparian restoration in the Mad River Valley to

tree tracking in Charlotte to wildlife monitoring in South Burlington. Behind this web of activity is Daniel, a passionate conservationist who remembers trying to befriend chipmunks as a small child. Later, while working as the research director for Texas’ Senate Committee on Natural Resources & Economic Development, she wrote articles for the Texas Observer under a pseudonym, critiquing the government’s response to an outbreak of southern pine beetle.

“I just cared about nature,” she said. For the last part of the day, VMN’s Tier II cohort followed Daniel to the aforementioned secret forested spot along the bike path. The group fanned out in a clearing to test the pH of the soil. It turned out to be much more alkaline than the soil nearer to the beach in the creek bed, because it contains the prehistoric lakebottom sediment the group had discussed earlier in the day. In this forest, the bedrock also held more nutrients than the sand, making it an ideal spot for spring ephemerals.

As the group moved deeper into the woods, folks’ voices grew excited. They found large white trillium. Dutchman’s breeches. Large-flowered bellwort and early meadow rue. Red columbine and fringed polygala. And then, a glade of yellow lady’s slippers. Scores, maybe hundreds of them.

“I may cry!” someone squealed.

“It looks like someone cultivated this,” another person said.

The participants trudged back to their cars, tired but satisfied, clearly all in their element. The program had just begun, but they’d already found their reason for returning. Someday, some of them would come back to teach others.

“The cool thing is, it’s only partly me. It’s really us,” Daniel said of the program. “This thing hatched and ran away, and I’m still trying to keep up with it. It really took o

THE GROUP WOULD EXPLORE A SLICE OF THE BURLINGTON “LAYER CAKE” OF NATURAL HISTORY, FROM THE CHAMPLAIN THRUST FAULT TO STARFLOWER.

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Doughnut Dynasty

Jones’ Donuts celebrates 100 sweet years in Rutland

BY CAROLYN SHAPIRO

In 1923, the year that Calvin Coolidge became the second Vermonter to serve as U.S. president, Florence and Richard Jones started selling doughnuts on Terrill Street in Rutland. They distributed pu y circles of fried dough and other sweets on a quiet street in the bustling city then known as the marble capital of the country for its vast quarries.

Today, the marble industry has faded, but Jones’ Donuts and Bakery is still going strong, having weathered the Great Depression (and Recession), World War II, the Rutland flood of 1947, and a global pandemic. Now on West Street about two blocks from its original location, the doughnut shop marks its 100th anniversary this month — a testament to the

longevity that an irresistible product and a devoted following can provide to a small business in Vermont.

The current owners still bake their goods fresh five days a week, and both longtime and first-time customers swear by the taste, texture and general delightfulness of the doughnuts.

The selection of mostly

Owners Lynn (in pink) and Walt Manney (far right) with Jones’ Donuts staff

PHOTOS: JON OLENDER

Rutland Herald story from March 1981

COURTESY OF JEANNIE MOSCATELLO

yeast-made treats sticks to the basics. They’re airy and squishy, collapsing under a bite and expanding back to shape like a down pillow. The sugar glaze adds a sweet crispness, while the maple glaze delivers the authenticity of real syrup. Filled doughnuts encase generous amounts of fruit or cream. Jones’ also o ers a French cruller and an old-fashioned cake style similar to a cider doughnut.

What’s changed at the bakery in 100 years? “To my knowledge, nothing,” Lynn Manney said laconically. She has owned Jones’ Donuts for the past decade with her husband, Walt.

“I believe the recipes are the original recipes.”

The prices likely started at a few cents a century ago. But even today, as

Staying Afloat

Flood report from restaurant owners in Montpelier, Richmond and Waterbury

BY MELISSA PASANEN • pasanen@sevendaysvt.com

In an interview on Tuesday morning, omas Christopher Greene, owner of Hugo’s Bar & Grill at 118 Main Street in Montpelier, said he had not yet been able to reach his restaurant to evaluate the flood damage, but he had seen photos of “incredibly high” water in front of the building.

“I can’t imagine it’s good,” he said. “I’m hoping to be able to grab a canoe ride down there later.”

“We got everything out of our basement that wasn’t nailed down, all the beer and wine out of the walk-in except the kegs,” Greene said.

In 2005, William Morrow published Greene’s novel I’ll Never Be Long Gone, about “a guy who opens a restaurant in Vermont on a river and then is hit by a 100-year flood,” Greene noted with irony.

inflation has increased the prices of flour and eggs, a Jones’ doughnut costs just $1.50.

Only the fourth owners of the bakery, the Manneys also own and operate Sugar & Spice, a popular breakfast and lunch eatery in Mendon. “It is our goal to give people the best customer service we possibly can,” Lynn Manney said.

That means rising early. Jones’ Donuts is open from 5 a.m. to noon, Wednesday through Sunday, and some days has lines at the door or the drive-up window before the front cases are even stocked.

Manney, 58, arrives at the shop at 2 a.m. to mix and roll out the dough, hand-cut it, and put the circular pastries in a proof box, where heat and moisture activate the yeast to make them rise. Then they hit the fryer and are set aside to cool for glazing or powdering and filling.

By the time she left the shop at 7 a.m. on a Saturday in early July to head to Sugar & Spice, Manney had produced 142 dozen doughnuts. The sta might make more after she leaves to meet demand. Walt helps in the bakery until about 10 a.m., when he starts his job in sales for the local Alderman’s Chevrolet dealership.

Jones’ Donuts has a few simple tables, a couple of colorful doughnut paintings on the walls, carafes of brewed New England Co ee, a Coca-Cola cooler of drinks and a small boom box playing country music. In recent weeks, the bakery set up a wire rack

For restaurant owners in a number of Vermont towns — including Montpelier, Waterbury and Richmond — those 100-year floods are becoming more like 10-year floods. As rain fell on July 9 and a historic storm was forecast, they feared the worst.

“It’s always in the back of my mind,” Greene said.

A few storefronts over from Hugo’s at 108 Main Street, ree Penny Taproom recently reopened after a major renovation. Co-owner Kevin Kerner said he would wait until the river had receded to go see how the restaurant had fared, but he knew it had taken on a lot of water. He was watching with concern for news about the Wrightsville Dam, which was almost at capacity late Tuesday morning.

Before his security cameras shut off automatically, Kerner said, the water in ree Penny “was three or four feet high, up to the bar level.”

“Our staff has been with us a long time. ey know the drill,” Kerner added. “We got everything out of the basement, but it went above the basement.”

Kerner said the business has “some semblance” of flood insurance, but he isn’t sure how much of the damage it will cover.

“My heart is sad for the whole of Montpelier,” he said. Still, he has no doubt that everyone will pull together during that process. “We are a community,” Kerner said. “You don’t weep during the destruction. You weep when you see the community come together afterwards.”

e three owners of the Stone’s row Pizza group were already making plans to feed the community as they talked with Seven Days while driving between their Richmond and Waterbury locations on Tuesday morning.

e flood hit both of those towns hard, but for Stone’s row, “it’s a mixed bag,” co-owner Tyler Stratton said.

In Richmond, the Winooski River jumped its banks, crossed Volunteers Green, and swallowed the restaurant’s beer garden and the front vegetable garden that “we love so much,” Stratton said. e outdoor tables floated away.

On the plus side, the Richmond restaurant is built on a high foundation, and the water was hovering about a foot below the dining room, he said.

e Waterbury Stone’s row at 13 Stowe Street was OK. “It’s at the crest of the hill,” Stratton said. “We’re going to open the doors, not to serve [customers] but to make cheese pies and give out free pizza.”

Another Waterbury restaurant owner, Nicole Grenier of Stowe Street Café, had been doing something similar since 6 a.m. on Tuesday. Counting herself lucky to have

been spared flooding, Grenier had navigated from her home around closed streets to open with free coffee and whatever food she had on hand.

She knew that other Waterbury restaurants, such as Prohibition Pig and the new location of Hen of the Wood (see page 40), had been flooded.

Emmi Kern, general manager of Hen of the Wood at 14 South Main Street, confirmed that the restaurant had a few inches of water in its basement. She did not have details on the situation at Prohibition Pig, which is located across the street at 23 South Main Street.

As of late morning, Grenier reported that the water in town had risen six inches. “So many people have come through” for her free coffee and Wi-Fi, she said. “ ey’re so grateful for the tiniest dose of normalcy.” ➆

I ALWAYS GET THE BOSTON CREAM. EVERY BITE YOU TAKE WILL HAVE CREAM IN IT.

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ree Penny Taproom's outdoor seating area on Montpelier's Main Street

Tyler Stratton (left) watching floodwaters rise from the terrace of Stone’s row Pizza in Richmond

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SERVING UP FOOD NEWS

BY MELISSA PASANEN • pasanen@sevendaysvt.com

Mirabelles Bakery in South Burlington Is for Sale

“We’ve been around for a freakishly long time,” she added with a laugh. “We do love this business. It’s what we love to do: make good things for other people.”

After almost 33 years in business, chefs and co-owners ALISON LANE and ANDREW SILVA have put MIRABELLES BAKERY on the market for $1.3 million. The bakery team of 15 will continue to produce its signature crème brûlée cakes, croissants and fresh fruit tarts while Lane, 58, and Silva, 61, seek a buyer.

Lane said the business partners, who met in the late 1980s as students at the now-shuttered New England Culinary Institute, are “just ready to do something else.” Running a retail food business is “not something you can do part time ... We’re ready not to think about it so much,” Lane said.

Mirabelles Bakery opened on Burlington’s Main Street in 1990 with a retail bakery case and a café. It evolved into a favorite downtown breakfast and lunch spot known for its popovers, omelettes and lunch specials.

In early 2020, Lane and Silva announced their move to 3060 Williston Road in South Burlington. There, they focused on pastries and cakes, takeout breakfast and lunch sandwiches, and takeand-bake meals. Mirabelles also expanded distribution of its frozen ready-to-bake pie dough, croissants and cinnamon rolls, which are sold at retail stores throughout Vermont.

Lane and Silva believe they have a solid business with plenty of room for growth.

“My vision is that somebody comes and decides to do some of their own new fun things, add their own style,” Lane said.

Los Jefes Opens in St. Albans

On June 10, the Ramirez family opened LOS JEFES in Suite 15 at 133 North Main Street in St. Albans, the former site of Kathmandu Restaurant. Los Jefes celebrates the family’s Mexican roots and aims to share what YAHIR RAMIREZ, 19, described as “good Mexican … something people have been longing for for a long time.”

Yahir said he is working with his older brother, LUIS RAMIREZ; their parents, YESICA SANCHEZ DE RAMIREZ and FELIPE RAMIREZ-DIAZ; and a cousin, STEVE MARTINEZ. Originally from Guerrero, the parents moved their family to St. Albans in 2015 from New York State. RamirezDiaz has been employed at a local lumberyard, and Sanchez de Ramirez has worked for a social services organization helping migrant farmworkers.

The Los Jefes menu includes beef, chicken, al pastor and chorizo tacos; pozole soup with hominy and pork; the street corn called elote garnished with mayo, chile seasoning and fresh cheese; and quesabirria tacos filled with braised beef and griddled with cheese.

The family makes everything from

scratch, including the hand-pressed corn tortillas. “We wanted to give Vermonters something that tasted like down south,” Yahir said. “We are trying to make it authentic.”

The Ramirezes currently aim to have the restaurant open Tuesday through Sunday, 2 to 8:30 p.m., but Yahir said hours may vary; check Facebook or call 528-5971 to confirm. ➆

and a table to sell T-shirts commemorating its century-long milestone.

Bethany Solari — a 16-year-old Rutland High School student whose mother and grandmother both worked at the bakery before her — listed the filled-doughnut varieties for each customer: blueberry, apple, lemon, black raspberry, chocolate, maple cream, coconut cream and Boston cream. “Usually, anything maple that we have is pretty popular,” she said.

Jones’ Donuts also offers loaves of fresh-baked white bread, cookies, turnovers, mu ns, swirled elephant ears, pie squares, cinnamon rolls and fritters. The last two are almost as popular and quick to sell out as the doughnuts.

“Oh, my gosh, this is hard,” said Penelope Harrold, 15, as she stood at the counter studying the options. She and her family spend summers in Vermont and, at home in Connecticut, don’t live near an independent doughnut place.

“This is not Dunkin’ Donuts,” confirmed her mother, Michelle Harrold, describing Jones’ versions as “homemade, large and fresh.” Her daughter added, “They’re really sugary.”

Bill Bloomer, 71, a retired Rutland attorney, spends many of his Saturday mornings at a table in the doughnut shop. “I like a place I can come and sit down and relax,” he said, holding a crossword puzzle. “They usually see me walk through the door, and they’ve got the maple glazed out.”

Customers appreciate that attentiveness, Manney said: “They like to be remembered. They like to know that you’ve paid attention.”

Kristen Eddy, who grew up in Rutland and now lives in Burlington, cheered when her boyfriend moved from Killington to an apartment two blocks away from Jones’ Donuts. Once a ritual Sunday stop for her family after church, the bakery even

catered the desserts for her sister’s wedding, Eddy said.

“They’re light and fluffy,” she said of the doughnuts. She usually opts for the glazed. “And then I always get the Boston cream. Every bite you take will have cream in it.”

The origins of Jones’ Donuts are a bit ambiguous. Some accounts, including a 1981 Rutland Herald piece, date the founding of the business as 1924, though the newspaper moved it back a year in subsequent articles. And depending on who’s telling the story, Florence Jones started by either selling doughnuts door-to-door or from a corner on Terrill Street before opening the shop.

Allan Foy, the grandson of the founders, took over Jones’ Donuts in the 1940s and ran it for about 42 years. He and his wife, Jean, lived above the bakery on Terrill Street.

Charles and Jeannie Moscatello became the first Jones’ Donuts owners outside the family when they bought the shop in 1989. Foy gave them his grandmother’s original recipe notebook, which Jeannie still has, she said. She and Charlie, who died in 2020, watched Foy make the dough and tried their best to follow his imprecise measurements.

“It wasn’t easy getting a recipe out of Allan Foy,” Moscatello said, recalling that he’d give instructions like, “just a little bit of this and a little bit of that” or “a handful of flour.”

Since then, they have closely guarded the Jones’ method. “We never let anybody see those recipes,” Moscatello said. “They were in our heads. That was the moneymaker.”

The Moscatellos outgrew the Terrill Street space, which by then needed an

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COURTESY OF JEANNIE MOSCATELLO

Quesabirria tacos

Alison Lane and Andrew Silva in their original Burlington bakery and café in 2020

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update. In 1996, they moved Jones’ Donuts into the old Carpenter’s Pharmacy building at West and Nichols streets, a location with steady traffic. Moscatello insisted they add a drive-through window on the eastern side.

“If Dunkin’ Donuts can have a drivethrough,” she recalled telling her husband, “I can have a drive-through.”

The Manneys, who raised their two children in Rutland, had enjoyed plenty of Jones’ Donuts before they stepped up to buy it from the Moscatellos. “We knew they were looking to retire,” Manney said. “At that point, the business had been around for 90 years. You don’t want to see something with longevity like that not continue.”

When the pandemic hit in early 2020, Jones’ Donuts closed along with Sugar & Spice for almost two months. The drivethrough window was a big plus, enabling the shop to resume selling doughnuts before any indoor eateries could go back to serving.

“As soon as we reopened, they were back,” Manney said of customers. “They were back at the window, backing up traffic on the road.”

The pandemic hardly slowed the momentum at Jones’ Donuts, she said. With room for more staff, the bakery could boost production and meet ever-expanding demand.

“We have seen our business grow tremendously in the last 10 years, almost to the point where our kitchen is not big enough,” Manney said. “We have to kind of stay within our four walls.”

Lyn Des Marais shouted out “Congratulations!” as she swung open the bakery door, noticing the 100th-anniversary banner out front. She bought a box of a dozen doughnuts for the crew working on her Brandon farm. “It’s the filled ones that they especially love,” she explained.

Des Marais, 61, marveled that a small business built on baked goods could last through decades of low-fat, no-carb health crazes, not to mention economic challenges.

“They make doughnuts,” she said, “and doughnuts have somehow survived.” ➆

Jones’ Donuts and Bakery, 23 West St., Rutland, 773-7810, facebook.com/jonesdonuts

Lynn and Walt Manney

Ethan Hall shaping doughnuts

Hen Re-Hatched

Waterbury’s Hen of the Wood draws fresh energy from its new home

BY MELISSA PASANEN • pasanen@sevendaysvt.com

Three years after the original Hen of the Wood opened at Waterbury’s 92 Stowe Street in 2005, Mark Bittman of the New York Times penned an effusive love letter to what he declared “among the most beautiful little restaurants I know.”

Bittman detailed the setting “in a former mill next to a rushing stream” where “outside seats, on fine summer nights, are downright Arcadian.” He described the dining room, in which “layered slate walls are graced by votive candles, and the main structural supports are century-old beams.”

As if that weren’t enough, he went on to praise the restaurant’s eponymous wild mushroom toast with “incredible” bacon, the “impossibly creamy and rich” housemade sheep’s milk gnocchi, and the local rib-eye steak “cooked as it should be.”

Hen of the Wood, Bittman noted, was among a group of Vermont restaurants making “concerted attempts to define themselves by using as many local ingredients as they can.” Its memorable setting underscored those efforts. Guests were not only tasting the products of Vermont, they were doing so in a treasured, repurposed piece of Vermont history.

In mid-March, when the restaurant closed to move to new digs half a mile away, that aspect of the Waterbury Hen dining experience became history, too. It is a loss to the Vermont dining scene, for sure, but also, founder-owner Eric Warnstedt argued, a necessary step to ensure the viability and vitality of the restaurant into the future.

“Nothing will compare to the mill, and we’d never try to replicate it,” Warnstedt told Seven Days in early March. But, he noted, the Stowe Street location had a number of operational limitations, including a tiny, outdated kitchen space and no bar or other space for guests to wait.

Warnstedt still has plans to develop and open a new, more casual restaurant in the historic mill space, but not until 2024, Kern said. It will become the fifth in Warnstedt’s restaurant group, which includes Hen of the Wood’s Burlington location, Doc Ponds in Stowe and Prohibition Pig in Waterbury.

“Eric thought [the original Hen] was ready for a change,” said Emmi Kern, general manager of the Waterbury restaurant. “It was time to breathe some fresh energy into it.”

Hen reopened to the public in a

brand-new, custom-designed space at 14 South Main Street on April 7, only to close temporarily after service that same night when a sprinkler system malfunction caused serious water damage. It finally re-reopened on May 31.

As of press time, July 10 flooding had temporarily closed the restaurant yet again. Warnstedt texted that he hoped it would be for just a few days. When it reopens for the third time, fans of the original Hen, including Bittman of the New York Times will recognize the menu. But the restaurant’s home has time-traveled more than a century.

The sleek, contemporary room with lush leather banquette seating and reclaimed oak flooring boasts huge windows and a glowing bar, plus a chef’s counter with a full view of the wood-fired grill in the open kitchen. Unlike the original, the space feels closely related to its Burlington location, which opened in a newly constructed Cherry Street building in 2013.

The familiar and always beautifully executed food still includes the excellent mushroom toast ($18), infused with smoky bacon goodness. Chef de cuisine Antonio Rentas has continued the tradition of fine housemade pasta.

During a late June visit, my table of four vacuumed up a small plate of chewy gems of nettle cavatelli ($18) with pesto and aged goat cheese, as well as a large plate of ricotta ravioli ($34) complemented by green garlic and lemony spinach with a dusting of crunchy bread crumbs.

A rib-eye steak for two ($100) with

crushed potatoes and tarragon aioli also remains on the menu, but we chose other large plates. They included moist striped bass ($40), seared dark golden brown and served with a punchy ginger-scallion salsa verde; a crisp-skinned chicken leg ($35) with tart pickled rhubarb and earthy celeriac; and slices of perfectly rare hanger

Ricotta tortelli with confit tomatoes

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Hen of the Wood’s new location in Waterbury

PEOPLE SAY IT’S LIKE THEY’RE IN MONTRÉAL OR IN BROOKLYN.

ically filled weeks, if not months, ahead, and walk-in spots were as rare as hens’ teeth. “Everyone sat down for a multicourse dinner,” Kern said.

At South Main Street, in contrast, “It’s a choose your own adventure: You can walk in and have cocktails and oysters at the bar. You can plan an anniversary meal. You can get a nightcap downstairs,” Kern said. “There’s a buzz, a lightness that comes with that.”

With patio seating and a private dining room, the new restaurant can seat up to 95 people, or about 30 percent more than the original. That does not include eight seats in the subterranean bar (accessed through a door coyly labeled “crew”), where guests can nibble on the fabled Parker House rolls ($8), oysters (six for $24) or housemade country pâté ($15) while sipping a barrel-aged negroni ($15).

Or, Kern suggested with a laugh, “Pretend you’re in your grandpa’s basement and drink a Schlitz.” The bar also has a turntable and, on random nights, Kern said, guests might find Warnstedt down there playing DJ.

steak ($45) with an ethereal red wine sauce and buttery parsnip purée.

As always, I left too little room for pastry chef Laura Schantz’s elegantly crafted desserts, though we easily managed between us to dispatch the refreshing vanilla bean panna cotta ($14) with rhubarb and salted vanilla crumble.

Then we popped downstairs to what customers are already calling the Hen “speakeasy” for an after-dinner drink.

The new restaurant provides staff with a state-of-the-art kitchen and plenty of room to maneuver. For customers, it also offers room for different dining and drinking experiences.

At the original Hen, reservations typ -

The new spot’s warm, easygoing atmosphere has much to commend it. One of my dining companions observed that the restaurant felt big-city sophisticated. “People say it’s like they’re in Montréal or in Brooklyn,” Kern said.

No doubt many guests will miss the pastoral, uniquely Vermont version of Hen. But stasis is not always healthy, and people — as well as beloved institutions — deserve the opportunity to reinvent themselves. ➆

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CLASSICAL MUSIC

Pop (Up) Music

BY AMY LILLY • lilly@sevendaysvt.com

This week and next, people who happen to be shopping for chocolate or dishes on the Church Street Marketplace might find themselves suddenly serenaded by a bit of Ludwig van Beethoven in the next aisle. The Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival, a four-week summer music academy for string students at Saint Michael’s College in Colchester, often pops into Burlington for free public performances. These “Classical Encounters,” as the 19-year-old festival calls them, typically feature the students in chamber groups performing brief concerts in stores and other venues in downtown Burlington.

This year, in addition to its 13 scheduled Encounters, the festival has upped the game with two Quartet Hops. Artistic director Liz Chang and general manager Amanda Stenroos have dedicated two Saturdays to free, public mini concerts that

occur every 45 minutes or so between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. Audiences can linger in a single store to enjoy the unexpected sound of bows on strings or walk comfortably from one performance to the next. (Some occur simultaneously.)

On Saturday, Seven Days caught up with the first hop, the Downtown Burlington/Church Street Quartet Hop, which covered the area roughly between Cherry and Battery streets. The reprise South End Quartet Hop happens this Saturday, July 15, along the art-industrial Pine Street corridor, home of the annual South End Art Hop — the inspiration for Chang and Stenroos’ idea.

The first stop on Saturday morning was Muddy Waters. The Main Street café’s tables were filled with quiet co ee drinkers at 10 a.m. The chamber quartet occupied the front space beside the windows, just beyond which two homeless individuals slept outside.

The musicians introduced themselves over the drone of co ee machines in the back. The festival’s 183 students this year range in age from 13 to 32; these four were college and master’s students.

Next, they gave some background on Felix Mendelssohn, whose String Quartet No. 4 in E Minor they were about to perform — or at least three of its movements. Mendelssohn was 28 when he composed the work during his honeymoon in Germany’s Black Forest, they explained. The patrons listened politely to the intro and music alike, and one solo coffee drinker put down his book and rested his head on a hand to listen.

After the applause, that patron — who introduced himself as Raimi, 18, from Brooklyn — told Seven Days that he had been coming to Muddy Waters every morning he could while spending his summer farming at the Vermont Youth Conservation Corps in Richmond.

Already a fan of the shop, Raimi didn’t know about the performance ahead of time, but when it started, he said, “I thought, Of course this co ee shop is going to have amazing live music.” He added that he texted his mother during the music to joke that he was moving in.

While handing out copies of the Quartet Hop schedule, Stenroos announced the next venue: Homeport, a much bigger and busier locale on the Marketplace. There, at 10:45 a.m., a new quartet (one of the violinists was the same) was set up in a floor space flanked by tall shelves of dishes, napkins and glassware. Patrons traversed the nearby stairs, some sitting on the steps to take in Claude Debussy’s String Quartet in G Minor.

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A chamber quartet playing at Homeport

A quartet at City Hall Park

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A Dance Theater Work Foregrounds the Climate Crisis at WRJ Fest

BY ELIZABETH M. SEYLER

Smoke from Canadian wildfires has created dangerous air quality indexes recently, prompting artists to think about the climate crisis in new ways. Loom Ensemble, an interdisciplinary professional theater company based in Springfield, is one example. Its new work, Tell Me How You Breathe, explores eco-activism, social justice and public health through the topics of breathing and the lungs.

The work premieres this week in White River Junction at the Junction Dance Festival, which presents workshops, dance showings, films and performances from Thursday, July 13, through Sunday, July 16. Loom Ensemble performs Tell Me How You Breathe on Thursday and Friday evenings at Lyman Point Park and then tours the work to Montpelier, Brattleboro, Burlington, Boston, and cities in New York and western Massachusetts.

“Loom theater is character, text and

plot based,” company codirector Raphael Sacks said. “But we use the abstraction of dance to deepen into the visceral, emotional layers of a story.”

For each performance, local dance ensembles will join Loom’s racially diverse team of professional dancers, musicians and actors to tell stories that address challenging questions such as “Who gets to breathe freely, fully, with ease?” Sacks said.

In the piece, “some scenes are public health panels and news interviews in a potentially not-so-far-away imagined future,” Sacks continued. “Then, in a moment of emotional intensity, the actors and ensemble dance out what’s happening for them. They express feelings and truths that may not always be put into words.”

Audience members will be invited to participate in “specific, guided, wellsupported ways,” Sacks added, and the piece is “unapologetically political. We are explicitly framing this entire project as body-positive, anti-racist, queer magic.”

After each performance, the artists will give audience talk-backs. Members of Sunrise Movement, a group of youth climate activists, will take part in some of them.

“It’s the showcase piece for the festival by a company that performs internationally,” Junction Dance Festival founder and director Elizabeth Kurylo, of Corinth, said of Loom’s premiere.

Conceived in 2019 and launched in 2022, the annual festival is a nonprofit dedicated to supporting, promoting and presenting works by dancers, choreographers and other performance artists from Vermont, New Hampshire and neighboring states. Most events are free, and many are designed for people new to dance.

“We offer a Scottish dance class, ballet for beginners, beginner baroque,” Kurylo listed. “There is quite a lot for people with no dance experience or very little experience.”

Those with experience may study a number of forms, including somatic-based

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Yearnings and Surprises

Book reviews: Yearn, Rage Hezekiah, and What Happens Next Is Anyone’s Guess, Carol Potter

BY JIM SCHLEY • schley@sevendaysvt.com

With the number of books in print increasing every year, book awards play the vital role of highlighting volumes that otherwise could elude notice in the ongoing avalanche of publications. New releases may get a brief spate of attention, but books stay in print and circulation only because readers keep passing them around, booksellers and librarians recommend them, and teachers assign them. A prize can lift an excellent book into view, and being in the neighborhood of the winner as a “finalist” can elicit the curiosity that draws more readers.

On May 6, the 2022 Vermont Book Award in poetry — chosen by a jury of local writers, readers, editors, librarians and booksellers — went to Bianca Stone’s What Is Otherwise Infinite. While Seven Days reviewed Stone’s book in January 2022, the short list for the award alerted us to two other notable poetry collections: Yearn by Rage Hezekiah and What Happens Next Is Anyone’s Guess by Carol Potter.

Hezekiah is the associate director of academic and international student services at Bennington College and the

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careening, unapologetic chaos of youthful sensuality: the mischief and menace of drugs or the sway of eros, bodies combining by choice or impulse. In “Remembrance,” Hezekiah recalls “how / a teenage heart ravages— / renders you helpless.”

Most of the poems in Yearn are slender, taut as a stretched cord, and each arrives at completion with an abrupt finality. Along the way, the collection may feel more like a set of individual pieces placed one by one than a developing, deepening sequence. The thematic similarities among poems are very noticeable — repetitive, even obsessively so, as if the poet’s aim is to emphasize the centripetal self-centeredness of youth.

In these poems, sensations are sacramental and danger revelatory, but risks may have consequences. There are poems about lust that are more likely to jolt than titillate a reader, and there are elegies for

author of two previous collections, Stray Harbor and the chapbook Unslakable .

Before being named a Vermont Book Award finalist, Yearn was a finalist for the Lambda

“SIAM DELIGHT” BY RAGE HEZEKIAH

You’ve nodded out at dinner again, having just used or needing more— the shell of you collapsing, I want to trust your alphabet of lies, my denial a cardigan pulled over brown shoulders. I console you like a mother, I know, love, I know At the Thai restaurant, I push slippery noodles and steamed vegetables around my plate, watch you bob— a broken machine, slow-motion hand torpid towards your fork. You can’t seem to find your mouth so I flag down our waitress, who pretends not to notice you’re boneless. She presses our leftovers into neat, white boxes, a perfect fit. Outside, August marinates our skin, evaporates my compassion. I stand under streetlights in a yellow dress, fling expletives at you, wet artillery rolls off your shrugging shoulders. You are enemy, slumped into yourself, an accident. I want to push you into traffic, make you disappear— until I remember you want that too.

Literary Award and the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry.

Yearn is largely retrospective, as poem after poem summons and reenacts the

“REPLACEMENT” BY CAROL POTTER

They brought my replacement in while I was still in place. Here’s the desk you’ll be sitting in, here’s the chair. This is the view. Here’s the pens and pencils. I knew something was going on exactly when something was going on.

I put my favorite pens and pencils off to the side so the new person wouldn’t ever touch them. These are the children in the picture frames you will be seeing on your desk, the supervisor said. Here’s the screen and the keyboard. Here’s the hand sanitizer. This is where you put your boots. Where you put snacks you shouldn’t be eating. Here you go. I thought the new person replacing me had a nice face. She was smiling. How we do smile first day on the job. We smile and we nod making sure everyone knows we’ll be going along with the program. My replacement shook my hand.

It’s not every day you get to do that. Check out your replacement. Give her the keys to the office. Clean out the cup she’ll be drinking from. Show her where everything’s kept.

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Rage Hezekiah

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the casualties. Looking back from a stillperilous vantage in “Capricorn Season,” the poet writes, “I haven’t learned / not to vibrate with want, / … I want only this— / to be insatiable.”

Then, in the collection’s third and culminating section, a steady lover is introduced. A poem called “Married Sex” describes allowing for, tending and even scheduling a more settled erotic pleasure: “We are young enough, / our bodies alert. Yes, please, / I want to have sex. Let’s / mark the calendar. Let’s shower.” The book’s final poem, “Poem for My Uterus,” is a somber, measured expression of desire to be a vessel for birth: “you // worried carafe … sweet doomed hovel // show me … what you need … to make a life.”

The urgency of Hezekiah’s title Yearn has finally shifted, from the raw wanting of someone “barely twenty” to the wholehearted, deliberative longing of a potential parent. The last poems in this book are different in tone and shape, perhaps anticipating ones yet to be written.

Carol Potter grew up on a dairy farm in Connecticut, resided for years in western Massachusetts and then in Los Angeles, and now lives in the Northeast Kingdom. The author of five previous books of

poems, including Some Slow Bees (2015), winner of the FIELD Poetry Prize; and Otherwise Obedient (2007), she teaches in the low-residency MFA program of Antioch University Los Angeles and at Community College of Vermont, and works as a writing coach and manuscript editor. Her new book won the Pacific Coast Poetry Series award from its publisher, Beyond Baroque.

rock and roll though the house stank of must, there was water sloshing in the dank cellar as if the whole thing were some kind of tank and whatever sank, sank …

a poem instead of at the end, creating an uncanny (and unusual) effect that propels a reader from each piece to the next one.

This book offers a story, that of a smart, alert, articulate woman on the cusp of finding herself even as she’s seen as “older”; one predicament after another reminds her that life won’t go as planned.

Some of the poems in What Happens Next Is Anyone’s Guess are verse and some are prose, but in Potter’s hands, these two modes differ less from each other than they would in those of many writers.

In What Happens Next Is Anyone’s Guess, Potter’s poems have a jaunty stride, and she riffs like an improvising musician with rhymes and boomeranging repetitions. Listen to this, from “There Being a Dank Cellar”:

When she insisted on cranking up the music, twirling that hank of hair in her hands, the wet flank of her face thanking us for the chance to

Many of Potter’s poems employ logical prose phrasing and syntax, and they proceed like narratives, but they resist obvious outcomes, instead veering — as dreams do — into zany chases with unforeseen swerves. There’s a long, wild tradition of poems that aim to show how our routine nighttime hallucinations move, but Potter doubles the effect: In her poem “Some Details & Procedures,” she describes a dream inside another dream.

These poems are frequently funny, and the crux — the point of maximum passion or poignancy — is usually in the midst of

Throughout the book, regardless of the lineation, Potter plays with syncopated rhythms and syllabic echoes. She’s made a panegyric in praise of unpredictability, and her book’s title is the best possible evocation of its spirit.

While neither of these collections got the prize, the Vermont Book Awards’ poetry jury has provided a path to two fine volumes that ought not be overlooked. ➆

INFO

Yearn by Rage Hezekiah, Diode Editions, 72 pages. $18. What Happens Next Is Anyone’s Guess by Carol Potter, Beyond Baroque Books, 122 pages. $18.

Role Play

An intimacy choreographer helps teens navigate Spring Awakening

BY MARY ANN LICKTEIG • maryann@sevendaysvt.com

Maybe life should imitate art. When Hanschen leans forward to kiss Ernst in Full Circle Theater Collaborative’s production of teen rock musical Spring Awakening , the anxiety, fumbling and embarrassment that might mar a real-life first kiss don’t exist. Hanschen knows exactly how to proceed.

“We seek eye contact,” said Daniel Gibson, the 18-year-old Burlington actor portraying Hanschen. “And then, on a three count, I bring my upstage hand to the back of Ernst’s head and drag it down to the nape of his neck.” Ernst closes the distance between them by half. “And then, with my other hand,” Gibson continued, “I basically cup his face.” They bring their noses together — “the upstage side of my nose is going to the downstage side of his nose … And then we kiss.”

And hold eye contact for a count of four.

Intimacy choreographer Laura Roald has spelled out every beat for the actors of this Chittenden County-based theater education and performance company. Directors have long employed fight coordinators to choreograph combat, but the need for similar facilitators to help with sex scenes wasn’t widely recognized until after the #MeToo movement

gained momentum in 2017. Roald’s work, informed by a series of classes over the past three years, is designed to portray accurately the most sensitive moments of the show while respecting the actors’ boundaries and comfort levels.

Spring Awakening , based on the once-banned 1891 play by Frank Wedekind, is set in late 19th-century Germany. It follows 11 teens whose attempts to navigate their growing sexual awareness in a censored, repressive society lead to both tragic and uplifting outcomes.

The characters navigate homosexuality, a first sexual encounter, abortion, suicide and masturbation. The Broadway show — with book and lyrics by Steven Sater and music by Duncan Sheik — won eight Tony Awards in 2007, including Best Musical.

Full Circle company cofounders Amy Halpin Riley and Gina Fearn, who are also the show’s codirectors, like to present

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shows that spark artistic conversations around challenging themes, Riley said. They chose Spring Awakening because “it’s crazy relevant,” Fearn said.

“With genderaffirming care being stripped away and women’s rights being backtracked, it feels as though this play could have been written within the last year,” Riley said.

Wedekind wrote the play to protest keeping children ignorant about sex, Fearn continued.

“And where are we right now? We’re banning books, and we’re banning sex education in schools.”

She and Riley detailed the show’s mature themes in the audition form. The cast includes two professional adult actors and 11 teens, ages 15 through 19. Many of the teens already knew the musical, Fearn said: “Most of them came to the show because they love the show.”

Roald worked with the directors and actors to determine a shared vision for the

production’s most sensitive scenes. She explained the actors’ rights to them and stressed the importance of advocating for those rights. Then she wrote choreography so detailed that it includes characters taking breaths.

“If you can track every single precise movement, you can replicate it” — without requiring personal emotion or inspiration, Roald said.

Such detailed choreography acts as a contract between actors; each knows exactly what to expect, Roald said. She uses specific, desexualized terms and asks actors to do a “boundary check” before each rehearsal and show, acknowledging that their boundaries may change from minute to minute. The show uses “fences and gates” terminology — a fence means no touching; a gate means ask first. Actors name parts of their body and say whether it’s OK to touch or whether it’s a gate or a fence.

If they choose not to rehearse a specific move, such as a kiss, they can insert a “placeholder,” such as touching hands. If they need to step away, they can pause and walk out at any point, alone or with a friend.

After rehearsing a challenging scene, Roald asks the actors to “de-role.” The actors playing Wendla and Melchior, who have a sex scene, do a silly handshake at the end to check in with each other and signify they’re no longer portraying their characters.

Roald, a playwright, actor, dramaturge and director who teaches at Vermont State University, had very different theater training in the 1990s. Actors in sensitive scenes, she said, were taught to power through: “Just do it.”

Eating lunch during a break in rehearsal last week, Full Circle’s young cast members said they felt completely supported by Roald and their directors and stage manager. “They want the show to be able to make a difference ... without it being at the expense of us as people,” said Essex Junction actor Calvin Ku, 18, who plays Otto. Riley hopes the young actors apply the skills they’ve learned from this production in their own lives and know “that every space that they go into, these are words and options that they have.”

Fearn added, “These kids are going to have tools that their peers don’t have because they’ve been taught to express boundaries and given language around it.” ➆

INFO

Spring Awakening, directed by Amy Halpin Riley and Gina Fearn with musical direction by Randal Pierce, produced by Full Circle Theater

Collaborative: July 14 to 16 at Isham Family Farm in Williston and July 21 to 23 at Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center in Burlington: Fridays and Saturdays, 7 p.m.; Saturdays and Sundays, 2 p.m. $10-15. fullcircletheater.com

THESE KIDS ARE GOING TO HAVE TOOLS THAT THEIR PEERS DON’T HAVE BECAUSE THEY’VE BEEN TAUGHT TO EXPRESS BOUNDARIES.

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Evan Reichelt and Anneka Shepherd in rehearsal for Spring Awakening

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forgot to notice anything amid the work’s waves of swelling emotion — until the first violinist’s last bow flourish dinked a glass on the shelves behind her, adding a perfectly timed final note amid general laughter and applause.

On to City Hall Park, where two quartets of the festival’s fellows were scheduled to give halfhour concerts under a tent opposite the busy splash fountain. The fellows, a new part of the festival this year, are fully funded doctoral and semiprofessional students who also teach and perform twice a week with the faculty in public concerts at St. Mike’s Elley-Long Music Center. They will give their own concert on Saturday, July 22, at the College Street Congregational Church in Burlington.

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Habitués of the summer festival scene, the three fellows assessed the festival as “big for its kind” and focused on improvement through practice. (Students are required to practice solo for four hours every morning.) Might they end up a bona fide quartet by the end of the festival? They said no, but they had heard about the four high schoolers who first played together at the 2021 festival and went on to win the junior division of the prestigious Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition in May as the FaMa Quartet.

IT’S JUST BEAUTIFUL SONGS. DEVIN COWAN

We found three members of the second fellows’ quartet playing cornhole on the lawn, completely unconcerned that they were about to perform a difficult new piece by Kian Ravaei. (They later played it with striking precision, each instrument miked to overcome the passing sirens and general hubbub.) Ravaei, a 25-year-old California-based composer, studied with Richard Danielpour and others. His string quartet Family Photos, inspired by Persian folk music, won second place in the Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival’s Call

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contemporary dance, ballet and improvisation.

At the festival, parents and kids can interact in the Co-Motion workshop and the Family Contact Improvisation workshop.

Interested in dance but not ready to participate? Junction Arts & Media is screening seven short dance films, curated by the Vermont Dance Alliance, which will run in a loop Friday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Live dance showings will take place at the Open Door Integrative Wellness center on Saturday afternoon and full-length performances on Saturday and Sunday evenings at Briggs Opera House. Saturday’s show includes works by contemporary dancer Erin McNulty, Indian classical dancer Nithya Ramesh and genre-defying Calvin Walker. Sunday’s show includes works by Brazilian American artist Paula Higa, postmodern dancer Lucia Gagliardone and former

Violist Devin Cowan is about to start his doctorate at the University of Colorado Boulder. Asked if he thought classical music performances were likely to become more like the Quartet Hop, with partial pieces performed in unusual venues, he said the mode was actually true to the original intent of chamber music.

“This music was written to be performed at parties with no one really listening,” he said. “It’s just beautiful songs.”

INFO

Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival’s South End Quartet Hop, Saturday, July 15, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., at various locations in Burlington. Free. Venues and schedule at gmcmf.org.

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New Hampshire artist laureate Amanda Whitworth.

Kurylo hopes the festival will expand dance appreciation in the Upper Valley. “And maybe people will try a workshop here or there,” she said. ➆

INFO

Tell Me How You Breathe by Loom Ensemble, presented by Junction Dance Festival, Thursday and Friday, July 13 and 14, 6 to 7:30 p.m., at Lyman Point Park, White River Junction. Rain date: Monday, July 17, 6 to 7:30 p.m. $20; student and BIPOC pay-as-you-wish option; free for kids under 12. loomensemble.com

Junction Dance Festival, Thursday, July 13, through Sunday, July 16, at various sites in White River Junction. Free during the day; $20 for evening shows. thejunctiondancefestival.org

art

Anew exhibition at the Current in Stowe, “A Place of Memory,” has a serious mission. In their works, the five artists “reclaim their own ancestral stories, asking the viewer to rethink how we present history and, therefore, our values,” according to the gallery’s introduction.

Needing to “reclaim,” of course, implies that something was taken away or never acknowledged in the first place. That’s a polite way to say that dominant-culture perspectives have been standard in art spaces for eons; the art and artifacts of nondominant cultures have been regarded as anthropological curiosities, if they are present at all.

bundles of fabric, porcelain birds and other items secured with twine. Most of this is ghostly white. A large ceramic arrangement of colored flowers perches, crown-like, atop her head; turned wood pieces serve as her legs, set into a pair of tan lace-up shoes. She is ready to go, or to rule.

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But in recent years, museums and galleries have begun to reckon with their racial and cultural biases in collections, exhibitions and valuations. Rachel Moore, executive director and director of exhibitions at the Current, was ahead of that curve. She has long sought out contemporary artists from the U.S. and beyond whose work addresses issues of our time.

In that fraught context, visitors might expect “A Place of Memory” to be kind of a downer. They’d be wrong. Though not ha-ha funny, the artworks are thoroughly engaging, both aesthetically and conceptually. That’s particularly true of the wildly inventive assemblages of Nyugen E. Smith and vanessa german. These are creations that show you something new each time you look.

Based in Jersey City, N.J., Smith is a Caribbean American artistic polyglot: He works in performance, found-object sculpture, drawing, painting, photography, video and writing to explore historical and present-day conditions in the Black African diaspora. On view at the Current are four pieces from his “Bundlehouse” series that explore the migrant experience and the environment.

“He thinks a lot about migration and the ancestral history of colonization,” Moore said during a gallery visit, “what you carry with you and how that informs where you are now.”

Smith’s “Bundlehouse: Migrant Magic” is a 58-by-64-by-13-inch wall-hung, nonlinear assemblage on wood, canvas and paper that employs acrylic paint, oil pastel, graphite and pencil along with objects such as rope, bottle caps, a cowbell, cork, sequins and nails.

Past Due

Artists reclaim diverse identities in a dynamic show at the Current

BY PAMELA POLSTON • ppolston@sevendaysvt.com

Words can scarcely do justice to this or any of Smith’s works, but here’s an attempt: A likeness of a beanie-capped young man, presumably the artist, pokes his head, one arm and legs from behind an alcove- or altar-shaped construction painted with symbolic figures and populated with an African-inspired head, bits of found wood, a small life buoy and other miscellaneous objects. The man holds a sta on which sits a rooster. Flu y clouds float behind it. To the left is a portrait of an older man — an ancestor? — with palm trees in the background suggesting a tropical locale.

It may be impossible for a white

Vermont gallerygoer to read this work accurately, but it’s easy to feel it. This story is as emotional as it is complex.

German’s four remarkable sculptural assemblages present controlled chaos. Like Smith, she works across multiple mediums. Calling herself a “self-taught citizen artist,” Milwaukee-born german builds “power figures” inspired by Congolese nkisi sculptures that are embellished with all manner of materials.

“A Love Poem to Nia Wilson #2,” for example, is essentially a female with regal hair sitting on a large molded goose. The woman’s “body” consists of multiple small

The artwork’s namesake, Nia Wilson, was stabbed to death in 2018 at age 18 in Oakland, Calif., while returning home from a family gathering. German’s memorial to her is profoundly moving.

The work of Alaska-based Nicholas Galanin is far more austere and minimal, both drawing on and continuing the tradition of Tlingit art. His 30-foot borderwall steel sculpture spelling out the word “LAND,” sited at Brooklyn Bridge Park, has garnered recent publicity and praise. The Current hosts more modest pieces. Six color prints, collectively called “Intellectual Property,” depict small objects that represent Native connection to the land.

“The work functions as a warning of what remains without Indigenous knowledge,” Galanin writes in an artist statement, “and as a celebration of Indigenous creativity without commodification.”

The artist conveys another kind of power in “Eagle,” a mask made of wood and horsehair. Galanin first chopped up a commercially produced mask “made by Indonesians for predominantly non-Indigenous markets,” according to his statement, then reassembled and glued together the chips to form a facelike mask. Long dark hair is attached on either side. Though Galanin is “reclaiming agency” in the piece, the triumph seems a bit playful, too.

Large-scale works outside the gallery stand in for the Current’s annual “Exposed” show of outdoor sculpture this year.

Miami-born, California-based Woody De Othello is primarily known for his ceramic installations, featuring pieces that resemble everyday household items. Sometimes anthropomorphized, the work also references such African American crafts as face jugs.

For the Stowe exhibit, Othello shipped across the country a gigantic cast bronze piece titled “Some Time Moves Fast Some Time Moves Slow.” Standing six feet tall, the weighty work combines figurative elements — human hands, feet, a very large ear — with

“Bundlehouse: Migrant Magic” visitors by Nyugen E. Smith

Nicholas Galanin

a clock/head whose hands droop down, à la Salvador Dalí’s melting timepieces.

Deborah Kass shares the lawn with Othello. Her work “OY/YO” spells out either of those words, depending on the viewer’s position. Made of acrylic polyurethane aluminum, the 37-by-73-by19.5-inch letters are bright yellow and sit on a stainlesssteel base. Kass, who lives in Brooklyn, is known for her word art, often in neon, usually in primary colors. She has made other iterations of “OY/YO” in di erent sizes.

The abbreviated, staccato terms “oy” and “yo” are themselves expressions of nondominant cultures that have been adopted by broader groups. We think of “oy” as a Yiddish expression of exasperation. But fans of the TV series “Ted Lasso” will recognize Roy Kent’s gru “oi,” grunted in lieu of a friendlier greeting. (The term was also adopted by an aggressive punk movement in the 1970s and ’80s.) And who among us does not

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mutter “oy vey” as occasion

As for “yo,” aside from being the Spanish word for “I,” it’s been traced to 14th-century Middle English, according to the Oxford English Dictionary. Various groups of Americans have used it as an interjection, from Italian immigrants in the 1940s to rap artists today. If language is a Bunsen burner for the so-called melting pot, Kass’ dual-sided sculpture is a deceptively simple evocation of cultural integration in America.

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“OY/YO” is also a strikingly urban piece of work, a semantic semaphore on a lawn in northern Vermont. In “A Place of Memory,” the Current presents visitors with ancestral legacies and cultural perspectives to take home and ponder.

THESE ARE CREATIONS THAT SHOW YOU SOMETHING NEW EACH TIME YOU LOOK.

From left: “Some Time Moves Fast Some Time Moves Slow” by Woody De Othello; “A Love Poem to Nia Wilson #2” by vanessa german

NEW THIS WEEK burlington

‘ON THE AIR’: An exhibition that reflects the influence of media, film, radio, pop culture and TV, presented by Media Factory and SEABA. Reception: Friday, July 14, 5-7 p.m. July 14-August 27. Info, curation@seaba.com. RETN & VCAM Media Factory in Burlington.

middlebury area

STEVEN & KYLE QUERREY: “The Aegean,” photographs taken on the islands of Hydra and Poros, Greece, by the local artists. Reception: Thursday, July 20, 5-8 p.m. July 13-September 14. Info, info@ littleseed.coffee. Little Seed Coffee Roasters in Middlebury.

rutland/killington

BANNERS ON BRIDGE STREET: Colorful double-sided banners painted with repurposed house paint by nine local artists decorate the street. Reception: Wednesday, July 12, 5:30-7:30 p.m. at the Madsonian Museum. July 12-October 15. Info, 496-3639. Waitsfield Village Bridge.

northeast kingdom

GABRIELLE DIETZEL & HOWARD NORMAN: “Late in the afternoon, the voice of a black-billed cuckoo in the rain,” a collaborative exhibition of bird collages and avian anthology, respectively. Reception: Sunday, July 16, 3-5 p.m., with poetry readings from Tom Absher, Jane Shore, Nadell Fishman, Scudder Parker, Mary Elder Jacobson and Jody Gladding. July 15-August 11. Info, 533-2000. HCA Café, Highland Center for the Arts, in Greensboro.

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‘FOR THE LOVE OF VERMONT: THE LYMAN ORTON COLLECTION’: More than 200 pieces of art, primarily from the 1920s to 1960, acquired by the founder of the Vermont Country Store. Simultaneously exhibited at the Southern Vermont Art Center in Manchester. Reception: Saturday, July 15, 4-6 p.m. July 15-November 5. Info, 447-1571. Bennington Museum.

ART EVENTS

BTV MARKET: An outdoor market featuring wares by local artists, makers, bakers and more, accompanied by live music and lawn games. Burlington City Hall Park, Saturday, July 15, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Info, 865-7166.

CREATIVEMORNINGS BTV: CLAY MOHR LIGHTING: The inaugural monthly event focuses on the theme of “treasure” and showcases the Burlington lighting designer, sculpture artist and driftwood collector. Kestrel Coffee Roasters, Burlington, Friday, July 14, 8:30-9:30 a.m. Free. Info, btv@creativemornings. com.

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, July 13, 12:30-2:30 p.m. Donations. Info, info@expressiveartsburlington.com.

TALK: ‘MAKING SENSE OF REPRESENTATION’: A lunchtime gallery talk with Carly Thomsen, associate professor of gender, sexuality and feminist studies at Middlebury College, about rural queer life in and beyond the archive, in conjunction with a current exhibition. Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History, Middlebury, Wednesday, July 12, noon-1 p.m. Info, 388-2117.

VISITING ARTIST TALK: JOE HARJO: The multidisciplinary artist, a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma and currently a teacher in San Antonio, Texas, discusses the lack of visibility of Native culture, lived experience and identity in

dug Nap

When asked why the characters in his paintings have prominent derrières, dug Nap said he didn’t know. Yet there’s a precedent: “When I was about 8 years old, I liked to draw cowboys with a neighbor and, for some reason, we gave them big butts,” Nap said in a phone call. “It was just, ‘Oh, that seems cool.’”

The Burlington artist’s new exhibit, titled “Family Fiction,” at Frog Hollow Vermont Craft Gallery nods to the past in another way. The nine large-scale oil paintings recall the narrative work Nap created more than 30 years ago; the former lead singer and lyricist for ’80s band Pinhead switched to a full-time pursuit of visual art in 1989, he said.

Depicting single or several humans — or animals — the paintings included text that wrapped around the image on a thick wood frame. The text manifested what would become a hallmark of Nap’s oeuvre: his abiding fascination with psychological quirks, follies and fears. He’s always been candid about his own insecurities, as well as his brief stint in a mental hospital decades ago.

Still, even the implied vulnerability of “mental patient” failed to land Nap a tent in the “outsider artist” camp. He is self-taught but also quite self-aware. Nap’s naïve-style renderings and word-based paintings — made into hundreds of affordable and popular prints — belie a deep familiarity with human longing. One of his word prints might sum it up: “Caution: I have needs.”

Some of Nap’s works are dark or weird, but many are sweetly funny — such as the portrait of a dog accompanied by the words “Sometimes I just wish I could pee on everything in the whole wide world.” He has also produced topical and even political prints, including “Yup, I feel the Bern.”

The paintings in “Family Fiction” dispense with text, but they certainly invite viewers to imagine the stories they might be telling. The colorfully drawn members of the Radcliff family — mom Angelina, dad Clifford and their seven children — are depicted merrily singing to cows, dancing in their living room, riding a bike and cruising in a bright-red car. One is a group portrait of the offspring — Edmond, Calvin, Dominique, Stella, Evella, Jill and Roger — whose faces fill the picture plane. (This clan recalls the spirited Raimbilli cousins drawn by late Vermont selftaught artist Gayleen Aiken.)

All the Radcliffs have orange hair. They also have outsize heads on squat bodies.

“I like to paint big, but I can only do 36 by 40 inches so [the paintings] fit in my car,” Nap explained. “Making the figures short, they can be big on the canvas. It’s not an attempt to make fun of short people,” he added quickly. “It’s just fun to experiment with form.”

Nap, 76, suggested that as you get older, you can get more childish. Freer. The imaginary family in his new works is “just something I wanted to do,” he said. “So I did it.” And he admitted that the Radcliffs are a family he wishes were his own.

Over the years Nap has branched into other styles, including

abstraction. He’s become a staple of art markets and retail outlets, performed as a storyteller, published two graphic novellas, and illustrated a children’s book by another author titled — wait for it — The Book of Butts. Currently, Nap is working on a script, though he’s not yet sure whether it will be for a film or another novella.

He also plans to continue giving the Radcliffs life in oil paint. “It’s a way of tackling loneliness by creating a family,” Nap said. “It’s fun for me to be with them.”

“Family Fiction” is on view through July 27. Learn more at dugnap.com and froghollow.org.

PAMELA POLSTON

KNOW BEFORE YOU GO! DUE TO WIDESPREAD FLOODING IN VERMONT, SOME EVENTS MAY BE CANCELED. CONTACT EVENT ORGANIZERS TO CONFIRM

Clockwise from above left: “Roger’s First Bike Ride”; “After Father Leaves”; “Calvin Cruising”; “Siblings: Calvin, Edmond, Roger, Jill, Evella, Stella and Dominique”

“Stella Sings Cowlelujah”

America. Lowe Lecture Hall, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Wednesday, July 12, 7:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 635-2727.

VISITING ARTIST TALK: JOHN MONTI: Vermont Studio Center presents a Zoom talk with the Brooklyn-based sculptor and educator, whose work explores the intersections between seductive beauty and the melancholic. Register for link at vermontstudiocenter.org. Online, Wednesday, July 19, 7:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 635-2727.

WATERBURY ARTS FEST & BLOCK PARTY: The 22nd annual event features a dance party on Friday night with the Grift and Emma Cook & Questionable Company, plus a beer garden, food trucks and a raffle; a market with artists and other vendors is Saturday. Find full schedule at waterburyartsfest. com. Various Waterbury locations, Friday, July 14, 5-9:30 p.m., and Saturday, July 15, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Info, 793-6029.

WONDERARTS ART TENT: Pop-up art workshops. Hardwick Farmers Market, Friday, July 14, 3-5 p.m. Free. Info, 533-9370.

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.

ART AT THE HOSPITAL: Oil paintings by Louise Arnold and Jean Gerber and photographs by Mike

Sipe (Main Street Connector, ACC 3); photographs on metal by Brian Drourr (McClure 4 ); acrylics and mixed-media painting by Linda Blackerby (Breast Care Center) and Colleen Murphy (EP2). Curated by Burlington City Arts. Through September 30. 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.

‘THE ART OF THE BOOK’: An exhibition of handmade artists’ books by members and friends of the Book Arts Guild of Vermont. Reception: Friday, August 4, 5-8 p.m. Through August 4. Info, spacegalleryvt@ gmail.com. The S.P.A.C.E. Gallery in Burlington.

CAMIELLE AYLWIN: Illustrations and paintings influenced by the natural world, particularly plants and animals. Through July 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.

DUG NAP: “Family Fiction,” new oil paintings by the Vermont artist that depict members of his imaginary family. Through July 27. Info, 863-6458. Frog Hollow Vermont Craft Gallery in Burlington.

‘OUTSTANDING: CONTEMPORARY SELF-TAUGHT

ART’: Drawings, paintings and 3D works by area artists Larry Bissonette, Denver Ferguson, June Gutman, Chip Haggerty, Liza Phillip, Pamela Smith, Thomas Stetson and Kalin Thomas. Through September 17. FAITH RINGGOLD: “Jazz Stories,” four works in silk screen, serigraph and acrylic on paper

from the artist’s series begun in 2004 . Through July 16. HYUNSUK ERICKSON: “Thingumabob Society,” multicolored, towering, playful sculptures that suggest sprouting seeds or family groupings. Through September 17. Info, 865-7166. BCA Center in Burlington.

KATRINE HILDEBRANDT-HUSSEY: “Reflection,” intricate geometric designs burned onto paper by the Boston-based artist. Through August 12. 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.

RENEE GREENLEE: “Blue Alchemy,” an exploration of the Lake Champlain watershed in 10 cyanotypes on silk banners. Through August 15. Info, greenlee. renee@gmail.com. Fletcher Free Library in Burlington.

‘XOXO: AN EXHIBIT ABOUT LOVE & FORGIVENESS’: An interactive exhibition that provides children and caregivers the opportunity to think about and explore feelings through activities designed to help them understand, appreciate and express their emotions. Through September 4. Info, 864-1848. ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain in Burlington.

chittenden county

ART AT THE AIRPORT: Acrylic abstract paintings by Matt Larson and acrylic floral paintings by Sandra Berbeco, curated by Burlington City Arts. Through September 30. Info, 865-7296. Patrick Leahy Burlington International Airport in South Burlington.

‘BUILT FROM THE EARTH’: An exhibition of masterful Pueblo pottery from the Anthony and Teressa Perry Collection of Native American art.

‘OBJECT/S OF PLAY’: An interactive exploration of the creative processes of American toy designers Cas

Holman and Karen Hewitt. ‘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.)

STEPHEN HUNECK: “Pet Friendly,” an exhibition of hand-carved and painted furniture, sculptures, relief paintings, bronze sculptures and more by the late Vermont artist. Through October 22. Info, 985-3346. Shelburne Museum.

CASEY BLANCHARD: “Change the Story,” an exhibition of hand-pulled prints that ask us to restructure and re-vision the systemic beliefs that guide our actions and decisions. A portion of sales will be donated to World Central Kitchen. Through July 15. Info, 985-8222. Shelburne Vineyard.

FOUR CUBAN PHOTOGRAPHERS: Fifty images in black and white or color that explore the environment, people and society of their country by Tomás Inda Barrera, Nadhiesda Inda González, Alfredo Sarabia Fajardo and Yadira Ismael Sotomayor. Through July 29. Info, 355-2150. Darkroom Gallery in Essex Junction.

GRETCHEN ALEXANDER: “Slow Journey,” acrylic and watercolor paintings. Through August 6. Info, 899-3211. Emile A. Gruppe Gallery in Jericho.

‘INSTINCTIVE PATHS’: A summer group show featuring paintings and more by 12 local artists. Through July 15. Info, 985-3848. Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery in Shelburne.

LYNNE BERARD: Paintings that reflect the artist’s inner joy. Through July 31. Info, 846-4140. South Burlington Public Library Art Wall.

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MATT LARSON & NANCY CHAPMAN: Nature-inspired abstract paintings. Curated by Burlington City Arts. Through October 17. Info, 865-7296. Pierson Library in Shelburne.

barre/montpelier

ANNUAL MEMBERS EXHIBITION 2023: A group exhibit in a variety of mediums by Vermont artists.

PIEVY POLYTE: “Art Standing with Community,” acrylic paintings inspired by the artist’s native Haiti, as well as Vermont’s people, landscapes, spiritual traditions and music. Through July 27. Info, 262-6035. T.W. Wood Gallery in Montpelier.

BRIAN HERRICK: “Season’s Shift,” grid-based paintings drawn from nature by the Montpelier artist. Through July 30. Info, ebbsandfloods@gmail. com. Woodbelly Pizza in Montpelier.

‘COCKED AND GAGGED’: A mixed-media installation that references the escalating numbers of American mass shootings in 2023, featuring photographic self-portraits by Susan Calza and Dominique Gustin. Through July 23. Info, susancalza@gmail.com. Susan Calza Gallery in Montpelier.

DIANE SOPHRIN: “Extrapolations & Commentary,” abstract mixed-media paintings on prepared paper that employ stitching, staining, layering and collage. Through July 30. Info, 224-6735. The Front in Montpelier.

‘ELEMENTS OF SHELTER’: Original works in wood, metal and glass by Yestermorrow faculty members Thea Alvin, Meg Reinhold, Nick Pattis, Anna Fluri, Sophia Mickelson and Johno Landsman, in conjunction with the Waitsfield design/build school. Through May 31, 2025. Info, 828-3291. Vermont Arts Council Sculpture Garden in Montpelier.

‘YOU’RE ABSOLUTELY SPINELESS’: An exhibition that celebrates invertebrates large and small with works by 26 artists in 2D, sculptures and installation. Main-floor gallery. Through August 15. ELINOR

RANDALL: “Deep Impressions,” a survey of the master printmaker’s work from 1954 to 2013. Curated by NNEMoCA. Second-floor gallery and Quick Change Gallery. Through August 18. KARMIMADEEBORA

MCMILLAN: “Totems, Walking Sticks and Spirit Sticks,” vibrant patterned sculptural paintings that express a historical context of spirituality, tradition and folklore. Third-floor gallery. Through August 18. Info, 479-7069. Studio Place Arts in Barre.

ERIC HIBIT: “The Spontaneous Garden,” a solo exhibition of paintings and works on paper that draw inspiration from nature and everyday objects. Through July 14. Info, hexumgallery@gmail.com. Hexum Gallery in Montpelier.

ERIK NELSON: “On a Mountain,” nine abstracted, acrylic paintings of forested hillsides near Camel’s Hump. Curated by Studio Place Arts. Through August 12. Info, 479-7069. AR Market in Barre.

‘KOLAJ’: Various styles of collage art by Vermont artists Anne Cummings, Liz Buchanan, Kris Bierfelt, Madeline Halsey, Holly Hauser, Cariah Rosberg and Heather Stearns. Saturday, July 15. Info, jcquinn@ ymail.com. Grist Mill Studios in East Calais.

‘SEPARATION / MIGRATION’: Artwork by Sarah Ashe, Holly Hauser, Lisa Myers and Jeremy Vaughn on the theme of forced migration and the trauma of family separation. Closing reception: Friday, August 4, 5-7 p.m. Through August 15. LIZ LE SERVIGET: “Tracking

Time Through COVID,” small paintings made every day since the beginning of the pandemic, including cards, portraits, reflections and a diorama. Closing reception: Friday, August 4, 5-7 p.m. Through August 4. Info, info@ cal-vt.org. Center for Arts and Learning in Montpelier.

NINA TOWNE: Expressions of shape, color and personality in collage. Through August 9. Info, 479-0896. Espresso Bueno in Barre.

PATTY MERIAM: “The Longest Branch,” oil paintings that explore trees and human connections by the Barre-based artist and conservator. Reception:

Saturday, August 19, 3-5 p.m. Through September 14. Info, 229-6206. North Branch Nature Center in Montpelier.

VICTORIA BLEWER: “At a Crossroads,” hand-colored and black-and-white photographic images and mixed-media collages by the Weybridge artist. Reception: Friday, July 14, 4:30-7 p.m. Through September 29. Info, 279-5558. Vermont Supreme Court Gallery in Montpelier.

stowe/smuggs

‘NATURE’S PLAYGROUND’: An exhibition of 2D artworks that depict activities in the New England landscape. Through September 3. ‘THE CREATIVE PROCESS’: An exhibition of works by 40 artists as well as their reference photos, test strips, sketches or other supportive materials. Through September

3. 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.

F/7 EXHIBITION: “Reflecting on Reflections,” photographs by the central Vermont artist group: Elliot Burg, Lisa Dimondstein, Julie Parker, Sandy Shenk, Ron Spring and Annie Tiberio. Through August 18. Info, 888-1261. River Arts in Morrisville.

‘A PLACE OF MEMORY’: An exhibition that questions public representation and how cultures and countries define their past through monuments, memorials and sculptural objects, featuring indoor and outdoor artwork by Woody De Othello, Nicholas Galanin, Vanessa German, Deborah Kass and Nyugen E. Smith. Through October 21. Info, 253-8358. The Current in Stowe.

CALL TO ARTISTS

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.

‘TINY FIREWORKS’: Small works on canvas, panel, paper and wood by 14 Vermont-based and affiliated female-identifying artists: Athena Petra Tasiopoulos, Andrea Pearlman, Abigail Synnestvedt, Marjorie Kramer, Tamara Malkin Stuart, Lynne Reed, Louise Von Weiss, Annie Pearlman, Kathy Stark, Marie LePré Grabon, Lois Eby, Wiley Garcia, Mollie Douthit and Arista Alanis. Reception: Sunday, July 16, 2-3 p.m. Through September 16. Info, 646-519-1781. Minema Gallery in Johnson.

TREVOR CORP: “Tick-Tock,” whimsical sculptures inspired by clocks. Through July 16. Info, 635-2727. Red Mill Gallery, Vermont Studio Center, in Johnson.

VERMONT PASTEL SOCIETY: More than a dozen central Vermont members of the organization show their works. Through July 31. Info, 760-7396. Visions of Vermont in Jeffersonville.

THE WORKROOM ANNUAL SUMMER ART EXHIBIT: An exhibition of photography, paper sculpture, fiber art, encaustic and artist books by Nancy Banks, Christie Carter, Rosalind Daniels, Lisa Dimondstein, Marcie Scudder, Kent Shaw, Peggy Smith and Shapleigh Smith. Artist talk Friday, August 4, 5-6 p.m. Reception: Saturday, July 15, 4-6 p.m. Through August 15. Info, marcie@marciescudder.com. The Art Barn, 2313 West Hill Road, in Stowe.

mad river valley/waterbury

‘ART IS CANDY’: An exhibition in the brand-new venue features works by Will Patlove, Steve

Budington, Athena Tasiopoulos, Will Gebhard and Frank Tamasi. Through August 18. Info, 355-5440. The Phoenix Gallery & Music Hall in Waterbury. BENJAMIN ALESHIRE: “Cyanotypical,” blueprint photographic portraits on fabric. Through August 18. Info, joseph@waterburystudios.com. Waterbury Studios.

DENIS VERSWEYVELD: “Still Life,” sculpture, paintings and drawings by the Vermont artist. Through September 30. Info, 244-7801. Axel’s Frame Shop & Gallery in Waterbury.

GREEN MOUNTAIN WATERCOLOR EXHIBITION: A display of more than 100 paintings by member artists, featuring the Whiskey Painters of America, judged by Tim Saternow, AWS. Through July 22. Info, 496-6682. Red Barn Galleries, Lareau Farm, in Waitsfield.

‘NOR’EASTER’: Contemporary abstract paintings by Terry Ekasala, Craig Stockwell and Rick Harlow. Through September 4. Info, 583-5832. The Bundy Modern in Waitsfield.

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 century. Through 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. Through January 13, 2024.

‘VARIETY SEW: A SAMPLING OF TEXTILE TOOLS AND DEVICES’: Sewing machines, spinning wheels and myriad sewing paraphernalia from the permanent collection. Through September 30. Info, 388-2117. Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History in Middlebury.

ART/CRAFT FESTIVAL: MAG is accepting up to 100 vendors for the third annual Art & Stroll festival on September 16. There will also be food trucks, live music, kids’ activities and more. Register at miltonartistsguildstore.com. Milton Artists’ Guild Art Center & Gallery. Through August 30. $30-50 members; $80 nonmembers. Info, 891-2014.

ARTIST MEMBER SHOW: Artist-members of Stone Valley Arts may submit up to five pieces of work in any medium for an exhibit October 14 through December 10. Must be ready to hang or be displayed appropriately. A link to the entry form will be sent via email to registered artist members. Deadline: August 31. Stone Valley Arts, Poultney. Info, stonevalleyartscenter@gmail.com.

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.

CALL FOR MURAL ARTIST: River Arts, Lamoille Housing Partnership and Evernorth seek proposals for a 12-panel mural to be permanently installed on the Village Center Apartments façade in Morrisville. All materials provided; artist to receive a $2,500 stipend to complete the project. Visit riverartsvt.org for details. Online. Through July 21. Free. Info, 888-1261.

‘MY DOG AND THE WOLF’: Radiate Arts Space is sponsoring an unjuried art exhibit about the dog-wolf connection: about people and their dogs, humans’ role in the domestication of the wolf, and why and how it has resulted in such a variety of breeds. Workshops October and November, celebration in December. Email Julie Longstreth for more info. Richmond Free Library. Through November 1. Info, mauie@gmavt.net.

POSTER MAKERS NEEDED: The VT PFAS Coalition seeks 10 artists to design 11-by-17-inch posters for display in store windows, exhibits, demonstrations, farmers markets, etc. Digital or handcreated in any mediums (no PFAS), the posters should be easily reproducible via color printing. The design should have a grassroots activism look and allow for several logos. Compensation: $75. Submit ideas or a sketch, and a few photos of past work, to pfasinfo@wilpfus.org by August 1. Learn more at militarypoisons.org. Online.

‘ROCK SOLID’: Applications are open for the annual stone sculpture show featuring a variety of classical and contemporary pieces; some 2D works are included. Exhibition dates are September 13 to October 28. Email submissions to: submissions.studioplacearts@gmail.com. Deadline: August 1. Studio Place Arts, Barre. $10 nonmember applicants. Info, 479-7069.

‘SANCTUARY’: Where do you feel safe and serene? What is your idea of a safe haven? All area printmakers are encouraged to submit work for an upcoming themed exhibition. All hand-pulled print media accepted. For details, email tworiversprintmakingstudio@gmail.com. Deadline: August 12. Two Rivers Printmaking Studio, White River Junction. Info, 295-5901.

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.

LARRY HOROWITZ: “Rhythms of the Landscape,” a solo exhibition of paintings. Through August 15. Info, 458-0098. Edgewater Gallery on the Green in Middlebury.

‘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. Through July 21. Info, 877-3406. Rokeby Museum in Ferrisburgh.

MARIA FLORES GALINDO & PETER WALLIS: “The Past Is Fighting Itself Again / Las Cuentas de Mi Abuela,” collage figures of ripped paper and paintings that explore place and memory, respectively. Through July 31. Info, 877-2173. Northern Daughters in Vergennes.

‘TOSSED’: Nearly 20 works that make use of found, discarded or repurposed materials, curated by museum exhibition designer Ken Pohlman. Through December 10. RECENT ACQUISITIONS: An exhibition of more than 30 recent additions to the museum’s permanent collection, including work by Veronica Ryan, Sean Scully, Joan Snyder, John Steuart Curry, Fidelia Bridges, James McNeil Whistler and others. Through August 6. Info, 443-5007. Middlebury College Museum of Art.

‘VESSELS AND VANISHING POINTS’: A group exhibition featuring ceramics by Nicholas Bernard and Judy Jackson Stoneware, glass work by Tsuga Studios, paintings by Alexis Serio and photography by Caleb Kenna. Through July 18. Info, 458-0098. Edgewater Gallery at the Falls in Middlebury.

rutland/killington

BILL RAMAGE: “Jackson, Warhol & Johns: The Triumvirate of Transition,” the third of three installations addressing a culture transformed. Through September 2. Info, 282-5361. B&G Gallery in Rutland.

OVER THE RIVER AND THROUGH THE WOODS

On the New Jersey side of the Hudson River live both sets of Nick Cristano’s Grandparents. Nick, a single, Italian-American executive living in Manhattan, visits his four grandparents in Hoboken every Sunday for family dinner. As their only close relative, Nick’s grandparents inundate him with family tradition and lots of food. When Nick announces he is moving to Seattle, his grandparents are devastated and concoct a series of hilarious schemes to keep Nick from leaving, including introducing him to the woman of his dreams. JULY 26 – AUGUST 5

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FRAN BULL & PETER WALLIS: “Mythic and Quotidian,” painted papier-mâché sculpture and works on paper from the series “We’re All at a Party Called Life on Earth!” (with Robert Black) and mixed-media paintings based on memory and dreams, respectively. Also included are shadow boxes Wallis created in collaboration with other artists. Through August 18. Info, 775-0356. Chaffee Art Center in Rutland.

‘MAPPING THE RUTLAND REGION’: An exhibit that shows the history of how transportation technologies have shaped Rutland’s development, including how local citizens and planners have reacted to changing economic circumstances since the 1970s. Includes maps by Stephen Durkee and Rutland Regional Planning Commission’s Nic Stark; curated by Ethan Pepin. Reception: Thursday, July 20, 5:307:30 p.m. Through August 12. Info, 800-639-8521. Castleton University Bank Gallery 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

‘BOLD BOTANICALS’: Nearly 20 area artists show artworks that celebrate the blooming season. Through August 26. Info, 295-4567. Long River Gallery in White River Junction.

‘COW’: An exhibition of dozens of bovine artworks based on the same paint-by-number kit, executed in a huge variety of unusual mediums and submitted by participants from around the world. Through August 31. Info, 369-5722. Main Street Museum in White River Junction.

JESSICA FLIGG: Plein air paintings of the natural world by the New Hampshire artist. Through July 31. Info, 359-5000. Vermont Institute of Natural Science in Quechee.

‘MANY ARTISTS, ONE MODEL’: An exhibition of images dedicated to the late artist and model Penny Bennett by Vickie Herzberg, Sue Schiller, Rachel Gross, Sheri Hancock, Stephen Plume, Michael Shafer, Bartlett Leber and others. Through August 25. Info, 295-5901. Two Rivers Printmaking Studio in White River Junction.

PAIGE BEEBER: Mixed-media abstract paintings inspired by needlework. Through July 29. Info, 347-264-4808. Kishka Gallery & Library in White River Junction.

SUSAN SMEREKA: “Family,” works in mixed-media collage and monotype by the Burlington artist. Through July 31. Info, 603-443-3017. Scavenger Gallery in White River Junction.

‘UNBOUND VOL. XI’: An annual group exhibition showcasing a variety of contemporary book art. Closing reception and awards: Saturday, July 15, 5-7 p.m., with potluck. Through July 15. Info, 457-3500. Artistree Community Arts Center Theatre & Gallery in South Pomfret.

northeast kingdom

ANNA YAKUBOVSKAYA: “Sightseeing in Silk & Paper,” watercolor paintings. Through August 19. Info, 748-0158. Northeast Kingdom Artisans Guild Backroom Gallery in St. Johnsbury.

‘BEES ON PEAS & OTHER OBSERVATIONS IN THE GARDEN’: A group exhibition of artworks featuring all things garden-related. Through September 9. Info, 334-1966. MAC Center for the Arts Gallery in Newport.

HOLLAND DIERINGER SWEENEY: Colorful dreamscape paintings populated by human and nonhuman beings. Through July 31. Info, 229-8317. The Satellite Gallery in Lyndonville.

JERRICA GAUDREAU: “Beautiful Life,” mixed-media wall pieces. Through August 16. Info, 525-3366. Parker Pie in West Glover.

‘WHAT GOES AROUND, COMES AROUND’: An exhibition of objects that explores the practical, spiritual and ecstatic human relationship to wheels and what they enable. Through May 31, 2024. Info, 626-4409. The Museum of Everyday Life in Glover.

brattleboro/okemo valley

5TH ANNUAL VERMONT SUMMER GROUP SHOW: Works by 26 local artists in a variety of mediums. Through September 2. CAROL KEISER: Acrylic paintings depicting floral still lifes, Mexican interiors and friends gathering. Through August 1. DEEDEE

JONES: “The Ways of Water,” pastel landscapes from around the world. Through August 12. Info, 289-0104. Canal Street Art Gallery in Bellows Falls.

‘GLASSTASTIC’: Glass creatures dreamed up by children in grades K-6, brought to 3D life by glass artists and situated in a habitat designed by Cynthia Parker-Houghton. ‘PRIDE 1983’: Photographs, artifacts and audio recordings that explore the origins and legacy of Burlington’s first Pride celebration. A production of the Pride Center of Vermont and Vermont Folklife, curated by Margaret Tamulonis.

ALEX EGAN: “Drawing Room,” a series of paintings that make up an imaginary house. ANINA MAJOR:

“I Land Therefore I Am,” ceramic sculptures and other objects that explore self and place, belonging and identity, by the Bahamas-born artist. AURORA

ROBSON: “Human Nature Walk,” an immersive site-specific installation inspired by the natural forms of the Connecticut River and fashioned from plastic debris intercepted from the waste stream. Visitors are invited to contribute clean plastic bottle caps in designated sections of the installation.

HANNAH MORRIS: “Movable Objects,” narrative multimedia paintings in the gallery’s front windows.

LELA JAACKS: Outdoor abstract sculptures by the Vermont artist. ROBERLEY BELL: “Where Things Set,” an installation of distinct but related sculptures and drawings. Through October 9. Info, 257-0124. Brattleboro Museum & Art Center.

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. Through November 26. Info, info@hallartfoundation.org. Hall Art Foundation in Reading.

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.

KAREN BECKER: “Bearing Witness, Part 2,” a 40-year retrospective of artworks in a variety of mediums featuring landscapes and animals. Through August 13. Info, 387-0102. Next Stage Arts Project in Putney.

manchester/bennington

‘THE RED DRESS’: A touring project, conceived by British artist Kirstie Macleod, that provides an artistic platform for women around the world, many of whom are vulnerable and live in poverty, to tell their personal stories through embroidery.

BARBARA ISHIKURA & SAM FIELDS: “Frippery, Finery, Frills: Works in Conversation,” an exhibition of paintings and mixed-media sculptures, respectively, that explore intimacy in women’s lives. Through September 24. Info, 362-1405. 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.

MATT BROWN: Color woodblock prints in the Japanese hanga style by the New Hampshire artist. Through July 31. Info, 362-1405. curATE café in Manchester.

NORTH BENNINGTON OUTDOOR SCULPTURE

SHOW: An outdoor exhibition featuring 77 sculptures by 59 artists, curated by Joe Chirchirillo. Through November 12. Info, nbossvt@gmail.com. Various Bennington locations.

SPRING/SUMMER 2023 MEMBER EXHIBITION: An annual exhibition of works in painting, drawing, prints, textile/fiber, sculpture, photography, ceramics and more by member artists. Through July 16. Info, 362-1405. Yester House Galleries, Southern Vermont Arts Center, in Manchester.

randolph/royalton

ASTRO DAN DAN: “Manufactured Phonies,” a show of prints and paintings by the Hanover, N.H.-based artist, aka Daniel Matthews. Through September 30. Info, 889-9404. Tunbridge Public Library in Tunbridge Village.

LINDA SCHNEIDER & JOAN HOFFMANN: Oil paintings of landscapes and seasonal views of Vermont and the American West. Through July 29. Info, artetcvt@gmail.com. ART, etc. in Randolph.

MARK NIELSEN: Watercolor paintings by the Vermont artist. Through August 12. Info, 885-3525. The Tunbridge General Store Gallery.

outside vermont

‘PORTABLE UNIVERSE: THOUGHT AND SPLENDOUR OF INDIGENOUS COLOMBIA’: Nearly 400 artworks, including jewelry, masks, effigies, textiles and more, dating from about 1500 BC to the present. Through October 1. DEMPSEY BOB: “Wolves,” a retrospective of totem poles, sculptures and masks by the Canadian master carver. Through September 10. Info, 514-285-2000. Montréal Museum of Fine Arts. GINGER LAMBERT: Steampunk-inspired assemblages of found and repurposed objects. Through July 31. Info, 343-7160. Ledge Hill Studio in Westport, N.Y.

‘ICE CREAM CASTLES IN THE AIR’: A curated group exhibition inspired by the lyrics of the Joni Mitchell song “Both Sides Now.” Through August 5. SUMMER EXHIBITIONS: An exhibition of 2022’s juried winners: Travis Paige, Anne Cogbill Rose and Ann Saunderson; as well as a solo exhibition of concrete miniatures evoking home by Bess French. Through July 14. Info, 603-448-3117. AVA Gallery and Art Center in Lebanon, N.H.

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.

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S UNDbites

News and views on the local music + nightlife scene

BY CHRIS FARNSWORTH

Where She Is Now

No musician wants to be part of a “Where are they now?” conversation. When artists are fortunate to score a big hit or two but don’t push on and drop a bunch of classic albums and stay in the charts, there’s a rather unfair perception that their careers are less than a success.

Just ask LISA LOEB. The Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter hit the scene in 1994 with her breakout hit “Stay (I Missed You).” She made history when the song hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, making her the first unsigned pop artist to top the chart. Two more top-20 singles from her followed: “Do You Sleep?” in 1995 and “I Do” in 1997.

Loeb’s music has appeared in the films Reality Bites, Twister and Legally Blonde. She’s shown up on multiple TV shows, most notably “Fuller House,” “Gossip Girl” and (my personal favorite) as the lead singer of fictitious band Natalie Is Freezing on Season 6 of “Community.”

Yet, for all that success, in 2015 Loeb found herself on an episode of Oprah Winfrey’s reality series “Oprah: Where Are They Now?”

“I was so excited when I found out I was going to be on ‘Oprah,’” Loeb told me by phone from her home in California, ahead of her Tuesday, July 18, performance at the Higher Ground Ballroom in South Burlington. “They wanted to talk about my new album; they came to my house and lit it so beautifully.”

But then, she continued, “I found

out the segment was called ‘Where Are They Now?’ and I immediately thought it sounded like a Spinal Tap moment that I really didn’t want to involve myself with.”

Loeb ultimately decided it was better to go on the show and use it to promote her new album. And the experience ended up giving her inspiration that she would use to great e ect once she started hosting her own SiriusXM show. “Stay With Lisa Loeb,” part of the station’s “90s on 9” program, features the singer-songwriter interviewing other musicians from the era.

“I was so busy back then, I didn’t really get to check a lot of these artists out,” Loeb explained. “But it’s been so fun to meet or just reconnect with some of those artists, whether it was ‘WEIRD’ AL or LEANN RIMES or the GOO GOO DOLLS. It’s great to see how these people are still making cool things! People need to know we’re all out here, still creating vital work.”

Loeb suggested that it’s become easier to interact with a broad range of musicians than it was in the ’90s, when genre borders were more rigid and confining. Without such

Lisa Loeb

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IT BEHOOVES AN ARTIST TO MAINTAIN A LEVEL OF INDEPENDENCE, NO MATTER WHO THEY’RE WORKING WITH.

LISA LOEB

On the Beat

Those keeping a close eye on live concerts in Vermont might have noticed a ton of area dates for the GARIFUNA COLLECTIVE. The Belize-based band has recently played shows in Bradford, Waterbury and Manchester, and it’s scheduled to play the Middlebury Festival on the Green on Wednesday, July 12, and the AfroCaribbean Dance Party presented by Chandler at Large, the o -site arm of the Chandler Center for the Arts, at the Fable Farm in Barnard on Saturday, July 15. That’s in addition to dates in Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts, largely at nontraditional venues.

The multigenerational ensemble’s mission is to preserve the hybrid cultures of African Amerindian Garifuna communities, based in areas along the Caribbean coasts of Belize, Guatemala and Honduras. While it might seem odd for a Garifuna band to focus a tour on New England, there’s a good reason for it.

As Chandler Center director CHLOE POWELL explained by email, traditional venues such as nightclubs and theaters “often have restrictions on where bands can play” to limit competition. Focusing a tour in one region and working with more o -the-beaten-path venues — think art galleries, farms and national parks — “helps the band make a tour that works financially, and it helps us smaller scrappier arts organizations bring talent

Listening In

(Spotify mix of local jams)

Winooski-based multi-instrumentalist GREG BONSIGNORE has expanded his project, RUMINATIONS, into a proper band. Adding DOUG SCRIVENER on drums, BEN ROTH on bass and BRENDAN ROONEY on keys, the new-look quartet has released its first two singles. “Post Up” and “Remake” find the group caught between shoegaze and indie-slacker mode, easily slipping into jangly, PAVEMENT-like grooves. The tunes are raw, for sure, but the production fits the songs. Give them a listen at ruminationsmusic.bandcamp.com.

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like the Garifuna Collective to our small towns.”

Powell should know: She formerly worked as an agent for the band. Whatever the reason, the end result is several chances to catch a topflight international group performing in some incredible venues across New England. As an added bonus: Powell will debut the Chandler’s fall schedule at the Fable Farm show. Pop over to chandler-arts.org for more information and tickets, and to garifunacollective.com for a full list of the band’s tour dates.

The Riverfolk outdoor festival variety show returns for its second year on Monday, July 17, at Northern Stage’s intimate Courtyard Theater in White River Junction. A celebration of Upper Valley arts and community, Riverfolk debuted in 2022 with a charming collection of live music and theater. Hosts and local musicians JAKOB BREITBACH and TOMMY CRAWFORD, who will perform with the festival’s house band, liken the event to the former NPR show “Live From Here,” which in turn descended from “A Prairie Home Companion.” The show will run twice, at 5 and 8 p.m., in the 181-seat outdoor theater. Riverfolk is headlined by singer-songwriter BROOKS HUBBARD and Wilder-based duo BEECHARMER. For more information, visit hereinthevalley.org/ riverfolk. ➆

On the Air

Where to tune in to Vermont music this week:

“WAVE CAVE RADIO SHOW,” Wednesday, July 12, 2 p.m., on 105.9 the Radiator: DJS FLYWLKER and GINGERVITUS spin the best of local and nonlocal hiphop.

“ROCKET SHOP RADIO HOUR,” Wednesday, July 12, 8 p.m., on 105.9 the Radiator: Host TOM PROCTOR plays local music.

Eye on the Scene

JAMES FOREST AT RADIO BEAN, BURLINGTON, JULY 1: To me, there is a discernible difference between writing music and writing songs. I characterize a “piece of music” as something written for specific instruments, meant to be played in well-defined ways, whereas a “song” has no concern for the instrumentation used to express it, leveraging the power of the performer themselves. It’s for this reason that an accomplished songwriter will always overshadow an instrumental virtuoso for me. Put the two together, and you have something really special. is is how I felt seeing JAMES FOREST perform at Radio Bean recently. James traveled to Burlington from his Québec home to play the gig without a single piece of his own equipment, borrowing guitars and a Wurlitzer electric piano. His set demonstrated his complete confidence in his ability to perform his songs under any circumstances and with any instrument within reach. is is the mark of a great songwriter and a truly beautiful thing to experience live.

“THE SOUNDS OF BURLINGTON,” ursday, July 13, 9 p.m., at wbkm. org: Host TIM LEWIS plays selections of local music.

“CULTURAL BUNKER,” Friday, July 14, 7 p.m., on 90.1 WRUV: Host MELO GRANT plays local and nonlocal hip-hop.

“ACOUSTIC HARMONY,” Saturday, July 15, 4 p.m., on 91.1 WGDR: Host MARK MICHAELIS plays folk and Americana music with an emphasis on Vermont artists.

“ALL THE TRADITIONS,” Sunday, July 16, 7 p.m., on Vermont Public: Host ROBERT RESNIK plays an assortment of folk music with a focus on Vermont artists.

1. “MOTHER ROAD” by Grace Potter

2. “VICTROLA” by Jarv

3. “ENSLAVED” by Void Bringer

4. “MAKE A SOUND” by Omega Jade, Marvelous Kevo, DJ Kanga

5. “NUMBERS” by the Dead Shakers

6. “NORTHERN ATTITUDE” by Noah Kahan

7. “BORDER SONG” by Lazy Bird

Live music highlights from photographer Luke Awtry

CLUB DATES music+nightlife

live music

WED.12

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.

Bugbite (indie) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $5/$10.

Chalk Dinosaur (electro, funk) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 9 p.m. Free.

Dan Ryan Express (jazz) at American Flatbread Burlington Hearth, 5:30 p.m. Free.

Fog Holler, Honey & Soul (bluegrass, folk) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 9 p.m. $10.

The Fretbenders (Americana) at Charlie-O’s World Famous, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free.

Jazz Jam Sessions with Randal Pierce (jazz) at the 126, Burlington, 9 p.m. Free.

Jazz Night with Ray Vega (jazz) at Hotel Vermont, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free.

Lazy Bird (jam) at Red Square, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free.

Live Jazz (jazz) at Leunig’s Bistro & Café, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free.

Lloyd Tyler Band (covers) at Blue Paddle Bistro, South Hero, 5:30 p.m. Free.

Marcie Hernandez (folk) at Vermont Pub & Brewery, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

Natalie Padilla & Quinn Bachand (singer-songwriter) at Red Brick Meeting House, Westford, 7 p.m. Free; donations.

Slap Happy Jack (honky-tonk) at Bent Nails Bistro, Montpelier, 7 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.13

Avery Cooper Trio (jazz) at Foam Brewers, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Combustomatics (rock) at Red Square, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

Eric Hutchinson, Troy Millette (singer-songwriter) at Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, South Burlington, 7 p.m. $28/$32.

Faith Kelly, Caswyn Moon (space folk) at Charlie-O’s World Famous, Montpelier, 8 p.m. Free.

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.

Jazz with Alex Stewart and Friends (jazz) at the 126, Burlington, 8:30 p.m.

Jim Gilmour Band, Cam Gilmour Band (jazz) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 7 p.m. $5/$10.

Take It Easy

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WHSKY (rock) at Orlando’s Bar & Lounge, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Zack Dupont and Matt DeLuca (folk) at Stone’s Throw Pizza, Richmond, 7:30 p.m. Free.

SAT.15

BASSment 018 (drum and bass) at Orlando’s Bar & Lounge, Burlington, 9:30 p.m. Free.

Breanna Elaine (singersongwriter) at 14th Star Brewing, St. Albans, 6 p.m. Free.

Declan McKenna with Eli Smart (singer-songwriter) at Higher Ground Ballroom, South Burlington, 8 p.m. $30/$35.

Delicate Steve (indie) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 8 p.m. $15.

Dogcatchers (covers) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 9 p.m. Free.

Get Up With It (jazz) at Hugo’s Bar and Grill, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free.

Jesse James & Matt Olson (folk) at Taps Tavern, Poultney, 6 p.m. Free.

Left Eye Jump (blues) at Red Square, Burlington, 2 p.m. Free.

It’s hard to find a more hyped band than DELICATE STEVE these days. A vehicle for guitarist extraordinaire and multi-instrumentalist Steve Marion, the group had so much buzz that it was signed to Warner Bros. before he even graduated from high school in 2005. When its debut album, Wondervisions, hit in 2011, Delicate Steve’s cool factor inspired author Chuck Klosterman to write a fictional biography of the band. Marion has doubled down on his guitar wizardry on his latest record, After Hours, a collection of soulful jams and psychedelic loops. It marks a turning point for an artist who said he had “tried everything under the sun to get away” from the sound of the electric guitar, “until now.” He — and his trusty 1966 Fender Stratocaster — perform on Saturday, July 15, at Nectar’s in Burlington.

Rebecca Ryskalczyk, Jon Ehrens (singer-songwriter) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 9:30 p.m. $5/$10.

The Rough Suspects (rock) at Vermont Pub & Brewery, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

Ryan Sweezey Band (singersongwriter) at Black Flannel Brewing & Distilling, Essex, 6 p.m. Free.

Tom Bisson (singer-songwriter) at the Tap Room at Switchback Brewing, Burlington, 5:30 p.m. Free.

Travis Cyr, Stabilizers (singersongwriter) at Bent Nails Bistro, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free.

Whiskey & Wine (covers) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 6 p.m. Free.

FRI.14

The Apollos (rock) at Bent Nails Bistro, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free.

Baked Shrimp (funk) at Red Square, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Bella’s Bartok (punk, folk) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 8 p.m. $15.

Blue Fox Trio (blues) at Lost Nation Brewing, Morrisville, 8 p.m. $10.

Charlie Mayne (hip-hop) at Orlando’s Bar & Lounge, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

Dave Mitchell’s Blues Revue (blues) at Red Square, Burlington, 2 p.m. Free.

Duncan MacLeod Trio (covers) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 5 p.m. Free.

Jessica & Brendan (blues) at the Venetian Soda Lounge, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free.

Joe Capps (jazz) at Bleu Northeast Kitchen, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free.

Julia Jacklin, Black Belt Eagle Scout (singer-songwriter) at Higher Ground Ballroom, South Burlington, 8 p.m. $22/$25.

Left Hand Monkey Wrench (Grateful Dead tribute) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 7 p.m. $10/$15.

Liz Reedy (singer-songwriter) at Taps Tavern, Poultney, 6 p.m. Free.

Mal Maïz (Afro-Caribbean dance) at Foam Brewers, Burlington, 9 p.m. Free.

Matt Bolton (singer-songwriter) at Hotel Vermont, Burlington, 4 p.m. Free.

Nickel & Dime (covers) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 9 p.m. Free.

Nowhere, Washington (rock) at Hugo’s Bar and Grill, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free.

Rockin’ Worms, LACES, Jake McKelvie (indie) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 9 p.m. $10/$15.

The Shanty Rats (sea shanties) 7 p.m. Free.

Soul Project NOLA (soul) at Moogs Joint, Johnson, 7 p.m. $15.

The Stags’ Leap presents Local Dork (DJ) at Wild Hart Distillery, Shelburne, 3 p.m. Free.

SunDub, the Reflexions (reggae) at Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, South Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $15/$18.

Tom Banjo, Ethan Azarian & Son, Blue Swag (blues, rock) at CharlieO’s World Famous, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free.

Dan Parks Duo (folk) at the Tap Room at Switchback Brewing, Burlington, 2 p.m. Free.

David Karl Roberts (singersongwriter) at Foam Brewers, Burlington, 1 p.m. Free. Granville Daze (folk) at Lawson’s Finest Liquids, Waitsfield, 3 p.m. Free.

Sunday Brunch Tunes (singersongwriter) at Hotel Vermont, Burlington, 10 a.m.

TUE.18

Big Easy Tuesdays with Back Porch Revival (jazz) at the 126, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free. Bluegrass Jam (bluegrass) at Taps Tavern, Poultney, 7 p.m. Free. Dan Blakeslee (singer-songwriter) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 7 p.m. $5/$10.

Dan Haley (singer-songwriter) at Bent Nails Bistro, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free.

Grateful Tuesdays (tribute) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. $20.

Mitch & Devon (covers) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 5 p.m. Free.

The Nailers (rock) at Bent Nails Bistro, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free.

Public Water Supply (rock) at Red Square, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Queer Takeover Evening (indie rock, punk) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 9 p.m. $10/$15.

River City Rebels, Dead Street Dreamers, Jonee Earthquake Band, BastardBastardBastard, Violet Crimes (punk) at Monkey House, Winooski, 8 p.m. $10/$15. roost.world, Greaseface (electronic, indie rock) at Zenbarn, Waterbury Center, 9 p.m. $10/$15.

The Stags’ Leap presents Collin & Chris (bluegrass) at Wild Hart Distillery, Shelburne, 3 p.m. Free.

Steve Blair (jazz) at Bleu Northeast Kitchen, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free.

Tallgrass Getdown (bluegrass) at Foam Brewers, Burlington, 9 p.m. Free.

Tinyus Smallus, Rose Asteroid (punk) at Monopole, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 10 p.m. Free.

Umlaut (polka, rock) at the Den at Harry’s Hardware, Cabot, 6 p.m. Free.

When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (jam) at Orlando’s Bar & Lounge, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

SUN.16

Bob MacKenzie Trio (jazz) at Red Square, Burlington, 3 p.m. Free. The Champlain Shoregasm (indie, folk) at Vermont Pub & Brewery, Burlington, 1 p.m. Free.

Conor & the Wild Hunt (folk) at Red Square, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Honky Tonk Tuesday with Pony Hustle (country) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 9 p.m. $10.

Lisa Loeb, Pete Muller and the Kindred Souls (pop) at Higher Ground Ballroom, South Burlington, 7 p.m. $35/$40. Nanna, Indigo Sparke (singersongwriter) at Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, South Burlington, 7 p.m. $30/$35. Phantom Airwave (funk) at Lawson’s Finest Liquids, Waitsfield, 5 p.m. Free. Thelma and the Sleaze, Aneken River (rock) at Monkey House, Winooski, 8 p.m. $15/$18.

WED.19

Bent Nails House Band (rock) at Bent Nails Bistro, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free.

Bettenroo (folk) at Blue Paddle Bistro, South Hero, 5:30 p.m. Free. Bluegrass & BBQ (bluegrass) at Four Quarters Brewing, Winooski, 6:30 p.m. Free.

Jazz Jam Sessions with Randal Pierce (jazz) at the 126, Burlington, 9 p.m. Free.

Jazz Night with Ray Vega (jazz) at Hotel Vermont, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free.

John R. Miller, Long Gone John (singer-songwriter) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 7 p.m. $15/$20.

Josh Dobbs (singer-songwriter) at American Flatbread Burlington Hearth, 5:30 p.m. Free.

Junestar (Americana) at CharlieO’s World Famous, Montpelier, 8 p.m. Free.

Live Jazz (jazz) at Leunig’s Bistro & Café, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free. Population II (psych rock) at Monkey House, Winooski, 8 p.m. $10/$15.

Ramblin’ Dan Stevens (singersongwriter) at Bent Nails Bistro, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free.

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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.12

The Midweek Hump with DJ Fattie

B, DJ Craig Mitchell (DJ) at Monkey House, Winooski, 7 p.m. Free.

THU.13

DJ Chaston (DJ) at Red Square Blue Room, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

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.14

DJ Craig Mitchell (DJ) at Red Square Blue Room, Burlington, 9 p.m. Free.

DJ Kata (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

DJ LaFountaine (DJ) at Gusto’s, Barre, 9 p.m. Free.

DJ Taka (DJ) at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 11 p.m. $10/$15.

SPEEDBUMP (DJ) at Red Square Blue Room, Burlington, midnight. Free.

SAT.15

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 Rice Pilaf (DJ) at Foam Brewers, Burlington, noon. 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.

SUN.16

DJ Two Sev (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 11 p.m. Free.

MON.17

DJ Transplant (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Memery (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

KNOW BEFORE YOU GO!

TUE.18

Local Dork (DJ) at Foam Brewers, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

open mics & jams

WED.12

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 Danny Lang (open mic) at Taps Tavern, Poultney, 7 p.m. Free.

THU.13

Open Mic (open mic) at Orlando’s Bar & Lounge, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free.

Open Mic with Artie (open mic) at Whammy Bar, Calais, 7 p.m. Free.

MON.17

Open Mic (open mic) at Stone Corral, Richmond, 7 p.m. Free.

Open Mic Night (open mic) at Despacito, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

TUE.18

Open Mic Night (open mic) at 1st Republic Brewing, Essex, 6 p.m. Free.

WED.19

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 Danny Lang (open mic) at Taps Tavern, Poultney, 7 p.m. Free.

comedy

WED.12

Comedy Jam (comedy) at Club Metronome, Burlington, 5 p.m. Free.

Improv: Coached Ensemble Night (comedy) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Standup Comedy Open Mic (comedy open mic) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 8:30 p.m.

THU.13

Belly Laughs Comedy Night (comedy) at Zenbarn, Waterbury Center, 7 p.m. $5/$10.

Mothra! A Storytelling/Improv

Comedy Show (comedy) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 8:45 p.m. Free.

Weird & Niche (comedy) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 7 p.m. $5.

SAT.15

Kevin McDonald & Friends (comedy) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 7:30 & 9:30 p.m. $20.

MON.17

Comedy Open Mic (comedy open mic) at the 126, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

WED.19

Liz Glazer (comedy) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 7 p.m. $10. Standup Comedy Open Mic (comedy open mic) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 8:30 p.m.

trivia, karaoke, etc.

WED.12

4Qs Trivia Night (trivia) at Four Quarters Brewing, Winooski, 6 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.13

Karaoke Night (karaoke) at Zenbarn, Waterbury Center, 7 p.m. Free. Trivia (trivia) at Highland Lodge, Greensboro, 7 p.m. Free.

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.

FRI.14

Karoke with DJ Big T (karaoke) at McKee’s Pub & Grill, Winooski, 9 p.m. Free.

Trivioke with Chris (trivia, karaoke) at Monopole, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 10 p.m. Free.

SAT.15

Karaoke with DJ Party Bear (karaoke) at Charlie-O’s World Famous, Montpelier, 9:30 p.m. Free.

SUN.16

Venetian Karaoke (karaoke) at the Venetian Soda Lounge, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

MON.17

Trivia Monday with Top Hat Entertainment (trivia) at McKee’s Pub & Grill, Winooski, 7-9 p.m. Free.

Trivia with Brain (trivia) at Charlie-O’s World Famous, Montpelier, 8 p.m. Free.

Trivia with Craig Mitchell (trivia) at Monkey House, Winooski, 7 p.m. Free.

TUE.18

Karaoke with 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.

Taproom Trivia (trivia) at 14th Star Brewing, St. Albans, 6:30 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.

WED.19

4Qs Trivia Night (trivia) at Four Quarters Brewing, Winooski, 6 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. ➆

Where She Is Now

stratification, she believes, it’s easier for younger listeners to become fans of her music. Moreover, she thinks it’s also easier to become a musician.

“The music business was sort of overinflated in the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s,” she said. “Now, with that side regressing a bit, young musicians have figured out a lot of stuff we maybe didn’t know when we were their age. They can record and release a song all in one day, without a label. And they’ve realized that they can have a day job and still be a musician — that stigma is gone. Artists have gotten a lot more savvy and practical.”

An artist who found stardom without a record label long before it was the norm, Loeb has her own eyewear collection, 10 solo records and a side hustle as a successful kids’ music writer, through which she’s released another six albums. All that makes her a fitting role model for a new generation of songwriters.

“It behooves an artist to maintain a level of independence, no matter who they’re working with,” she said. “I started that way, and I’m still striving for that.”

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Lisa Loeb

COURTESY OF JUAN PETINO

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Dave O, Schoolhouse Sessions

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I wish there were catalogs for senses. That way, you could look up “lavender” and experience its scent, or look up “loons on a lake” and hear their call. If a catalog for sounds existed and you looked up “Vermont bluegrass,” I think you might hear Dave O’s latest record, Schoolhouse Sessions.

This is not to say the album is generic but, rather, that it is exemplary. It has all the ingredients one would expect of an album of this genre: acoustic rhythm guitar,

Mushroom Teeth, Mushroom Teeth Vol: 1

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picking mandolin solos, viola and violin strings creating a warmth and texture, and lyrics about rivers, fireflies, love and sipping whiskey by the fire. From the musicianship to the production, Schoolhouse Sessions is a fine example of what bluegrass music from the Green Mountain State can be.

The 10-track album is Dave O’s second solo e ort. He plays guitar and sings on all the tracks, and he recruited accomplished local musicians to accompany him, including Matt Hecklinger on mandolin, Caleb Elder on viola and violin, and former Flat Top Trio bandmates Je Thompson and Jeremy Sicely on bass and on guitar and dobro, respectively.

In an email to Seven Days, Dave O described Schoolhouse Sessions as “a retrospective account of a long-distance relationship I experienced filled with highs and lows.” The tracks reflect those highs and lows, full of lyrics about love and love lost.

“Fireflies and Moonbows” is a high. Dave O describes dreamy Vermont scenes such as being barefoot by a river or sitting on the tailgate of a truck and sharing a beer, before singing nostalgically, “Those are some of the best times I’ve ever known.”

By contrast, “Liars and Thieves” is a low. “I packed up all your letters and your rocks and your things, / and I sent them o to you hoping I could be free, / but my heart rolled over thinking of you and me, / and now I’m just lost and feeling empty,” he sings over melancholy, yearning strings. The vulnerability Dave O exhibits in his

David Byrne famously observed, “Singing is a trick to get people to listen to music for longer than they would ordinarily.” Notaro opts to let his fingers speak for him, which works nicely on the opening tracks, where he has some impressive solos.

reflections contributes to the record’s authenticity, which can be felt both in its sounds and its lyrics. Schoolhouse Sessions’ classic bluegrass sound is not forced. The way the musicians play o each other is so e ortless that it can be easy to dismiss the talent required to create such seamless instrumentation.

If there is a critique to be made of the album, it’s that there are no surprises here. Schoolhouse Sessions is a relatively predictable collection of songs. The saying “high risk, high reward” comes to mind; exemplary though the record is, Dave O might find it worth pushing the boundaries on his next project to take his music to the next level.

Schoolhouse Sessions is on all major streaming platforms. Catch Dave O playing live on Wednesday, July 12, at Crooked Ladle Catering in Middlebury.

ANNIE CUTLER

I have to admit, I was expecting something far stranger when I took this assignment. Maybe it’s just the name: Mushroom Teeth. The heavy-ass metal duo includes John Notaro on guitar and Lucas Hall on drums. Their debut features Bradley Woodward on bass, but the plan is to highlight di erent bass players on each album, according to Bandcamp.

If Notaro’s prolific musical side hustles are any indication, there will be a next time, and it will be soon. His output runs the gamut from screaming vocals (with the bands Emerther and Red Handed Betrayal) to playing drums with a country-cover dive-bar band (Jonny Hick and the Kickers) and a “celestial jazz flute” outfit (Astral Underground). And that’s only about half of his résumé. So, you can see why I didn’t know what to expect when I pressed play.

It turns out that Mushroom Teeth Vol: 1 is a crown jewel in Notaro’s ever-expanding catalog.

Mushroom Teeth are all about straightforward instrumental metal workouts. The playing here is excellent, but the audience is limited by design. As

But I bet Notaro would agree that the backbone of this LP is Hall’s exuberant precision on the drums. Vermont’s metal scene has always been surprisingly strong, but in the past decade we’ve been blessed with some world-class instrumental talents. Hall is perfectly proficient at the cymbal acrobatics and pummeling kick drums that define the genre, but what really sets him apart is his creativity on the kit.

With big, dynamic arrangements, the band absolutely soars. However, the second half of the album hits di erently, o ering shorter tracks with less compositional depth. Some are basically demos, ri s worked about halfway into proper songs. Thanks to the tasteful skills of Woodward and Hall, there is enough ingenuity in the margins to keep your interest. Notably, album closer “Lead” features some virtuoso drum dynamics, elevating simple arpeggios into a riveting listening experience and ending on a high note.

Credit is also due to audio engineer (and studio entrepreneur) André Maquera of West Street Digital, who has been doing great work in St. Albans for years. This is a crisp and crushing final product, with every detail clearly articulated.

Yet that same clarity works against the less ambitious stretches of the album, especially upon repeated listens. No question, executing such demanding music live is technically impressive. But sonically, the LP would have benefited from some overdubs.

That’s a small quibble, though. Fans of 10-ton ri s and tricky drum gymnastics will find a lot to love here, and Mushroom Teeth are already a standout act in an increasingly crowded local scene.

Mushroom Teeth Vol: 1 is available at johnnotaro. bandcamp.com.

Mushroom Teeth’s John Notaro

COURTESY OF TRISH TYMECKI

Love & Death ★★★★ REVIEW

In 1980, a small-town Texas homemaker named Candace Lynn Montgomery killed her friend Betty Gore with 41 strokes of an ax. Montgomery claimed she acted in self-defense; after hearing testimony about her vexed relationship with the victim and her childhood trauma, the jury found her not guilty.

What does this strange tale have to do with us in 2023? Seemingly not much, yet the past year has brought us two limited streaming series about Montgomery’s case, both with star power. Last June I reviewed “Candy” (five episodes, 2022; Hulu), which features a surprisingly weird and memorable turn from Jessica Biel as the title character. Now Max o ers “Love & Death,” a seven-episode dramatization of the same story from David E. Kelley, known for masterminding the legal shenanigans of “Ally McBeal” and “The Practice.” Does this new version o er any clues about what makes Montgomery’s story suddenly so compelling?

The deal

Candy (Elizabeth Olsen) is a pillar of her community and her congregation. Her engineer husband, Pat (Patrick Fugit), makes enough to support her in style, in a midcentury modern home with a wall oven, but the excitement has fled their marriage.

Hoping to recapture that spark, Candy makes amorous advances to fellow church member Allan Gore (Jesse Plemons). Though he has always been a devoted partner to his depressed, emotionally needy wife, Betty (Lily Rabe), Allan finds Candy’s breezy competence irresistible.

After much weighing of pros and cons, the pair has a series of lunchtime liaisons in motels, enlivened by Candy’s elaborate picnics. When the a air loses its novelty, each returns to their spouse. No harm done — or so it seems, until the afternoon when Candy goes to Betty’s house on an innocuous errand and leaves with Betty’s motherless infant wailing in her wake.

Will you like it?

Yes, our cultural fascination with true crime is ghoulish. But it’s nothing new (check out the long folk tradition of murder ballads), and it has at least one solid motivation besides schadenfreude — namely, that truth really can be stranger than fiction.

While novelists and dramatists are bound by the rules of plausibility and consistency, real people sometimes do things that don’t seem plausible or consistent at all.

Candy Montgomery is Exhibit A. Both series pivot around the mystery of what turned a seemingly model wife and mother first into an adulterer, then into a killer. While the story has oddly modern elements, its retro setting carries an exotic allure for today’s viewers, who can only imagine being able to support a lifestyle like the Montgomerys’ on a single income.

In this world, women make everything happen, while men passively resist. Pat and Allan are tech workers whose closed-o demeanors suggest they’d rather be playing video games than attempting to relate to their wives. While Candy’s lifestyle has all the “trad wife” trappings, there’s never any doubt that she’s the dominant party in her marriage. Frustrated in her attempts to coax passion from Pat, she turns to another man who turns out to be just as stodgy as the one she left.

Even before Candy becomes infamous, her story has all the tragicomic elements of Madame Bovary: She wants something more, but what? It would be easy to say her problem is lack of meaningful work outside the home. But Candy revels in domesticity, and clearly it has meaning for her. Her dissatisfaction runs deeper; she’s

won at small-town life, yet she can’t stop searching for new games to win.

Overall, Hulu’s “Candy” presents the stronger version of the story. Its austere palette evokes the ’70s I remember, while “Love & Death,” with its yellow telephones and steady stream of vintage hits on the soundtrack, presents that world through a veil of self-conscious nostalgia. Both Rabe and Melanie Lynskey are excellent choices to play Betty, bringing out her eccentricity — neurodivergence or mental illness, we might say nowadays — without mocking her. But “Candy” delves deeper into Betty’s prickly character and gives her her due — even in the courtroom, where Candy ultimately triumphs.

Fine performances buoy “Love & Death,” but Kelley trades the deadpan absurdity of “Candy” for a sometimes more sitcom-adjacent humor. Olsen’s mannered interpretation is witty but a little cloying. Though both versions confront the ugly facts of the crime, “Candy” does so more elegantly, using surreal touches and strategic absences to acknowledge that we can never really know what happened in the Gores’ house that day.

It’s a testimony to the strength of this cocktail of camp, nostalgia and feminist hindsight that one version doesn’t cancel out the other. Our modern takes on Candy Montgomery’s tale reveal perhaps more

about ourselves than they do about her. But only “Candy” turns the gaze back on the viewer, reminding us that every tale of “true” crime is at best a rough approximation.

MARGOT HARRISON margot@sevendaysvt.com

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“AMERICAN CRIME STORY,” season 1 (10 episodes, 2016; FX, Hulu, rentable): Ryan Murphy kicked off the trend of critically examining another era’s tabloid fodder in the prestige TV format with his acclaimed drama about the O.J. Simpson case.

“DIRTY JOHN” season 2 (eight episodes, 2020; Netflix): e second season of Netflix’s docudrama anthology tells the story of socialite Betty Broderick’s murder of her ex-husband, highlighting the period setting in a similar way to “Love & Death.”

“THE STAIRCASE” (eight episodes, 2022; Max): Colin Firth stars in this drama series based on a murder trial best known through a 2004 documentary, a circumstance that creator Antonio Campos uses to explore the nature of true crime storytelling itself.

Olsen plays a model citizen whose secret life leads to violence in Max’s true crime period piece.

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NEW IN THEATERS

THE BLACKENING: When seven Black friends find themselves trapped in a creepy cabin in the woods, they can’t all die first, can they? That’s the question posed by this genre-savvy horror comedy starring Grace Byers and Jermaine Fowler. Tim Story (Shaft) directed. (97 min, R. Sunset)

THE MIRACLE CLUB: Three generations of Irish women make a pilgrimage to Lourdes, hashing out their differences along the way, in this comedy from Thaddeus O’Sullivan, starring Maggie Smith, Laura Linney and Kathy Bates. (91 min, PG-13. Palace)

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE — DEAD RECKONING

PART ONE: Tom Cruise returns as secret agent Ethan Hunt in the seventh installment of the action franchise, also starring Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames and Vanessa Kirby. Christopher McQuarrie (Misson: Impossible — Fallout) directed. (163 min, PG-13. Bethel, Big Picture, Bijou, Essex, Majestic, Marquis, Palace, Playhouse, Roxy, Star, Sunset, Welden)

CURRENTLY PLAYING

ASTEROID CITYHHHH The latest from Wes Anderson is a story within a story about a small desert town during a stargazer convention in 1955. Jason Schwartzman and Scarlett Johansson star. (104 min, PG-13. Roxy, Savoy, Stowe; reviewed 6/28)

BLUE JEANHHHH1/2 Set in England in 1988, Georgia Oakley’s drama portrays a closeted lesbian gym teacher (Rosy McEwen) who feels the chilling effect of Margaret Thatcher’s anti-gay legislation. (97 min, NR. Savoy)

ELEMENTALHHH Pixar’s latest family animation takes place in a city where people embody different elements — and fire and water meet cute on the subway. With the voices of Leah Lewis and Mamoudou Athie. (103 min, PG. Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Palace, Roxy, Sunset, Welden)

INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINYHHH

The intrepid archaeologist (Harrison Ford) battles Nazis in both 1944 and 1969 in the fifth installment of the adventure series, also starring Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Antonio Banderas. James Mangold directed. (154 min, PG-13. Big Picture, Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Marquis, Palace, Paramount, Roxy, Star, Stowe, Sunset, Welden)

INSIDIOUS: THE RED DOORHH The long-lived horror series returns to the saga of the haunted Lambert family, with star Patrick Wilson also directing this time around. With Rose Byrne and Ty Simpkins. (107 min, PG-13. Essex, Majestic, Palace, Sunset)

JOY RIDEHHHH In this comedy from Adele Lim, four friends encounter misadventures aplenty when they go in search of one of their birth mothers in Asia. Ashley Park and Stephanie Hsu star. (95 min, R. Essex, Majestic, Palace, Roxy, Sunset)

THE LITTLE MERMAIDHHH Halle Bailey is the sea princess who longs to walk the earth in Disney’s latest live-action version of its own animated property. (135 min, PG. Majestic, Palace)

NO HARD FEELINGSHHH A down-on-her-luck woman (Jennifer Lawrence) is hired by a 19-yearold’s parents to bring him out of his shell before college in this comedy. (103 min, R. Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Palace, Stowe, Sunset)

PAST LIVESHHHH Former childhood sweethearts (Greta Lee and Teo Yoo) are drawn to reconnect across international borders in this acclaimed indie drama from writer-director Celine Song. (105 min, PG-13. Roxy, Savoy; reviewed 7/5)

RUBY GILLMAN, TEENAGE KRAKENHH1/2 An awkward high schooler (voice of Lana Condor) learns that the depths of the ocean could be her true home in this animated adventure. (90 min, PG. Bijou, Majestic, Paramount)

SOUND OF FREEDOMHH1/2 Jim Caviezel stars in this action thriller based on the life of Tim Ballard, a former federal agent who founded an organization to fight human trafficking. (135 min, PG-13. Capitol, Essex, Palace, Star)

SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDERVERSEHHHH1/2 In this animated sequel to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, young superhero Miles Morales (voice of Shameik Moore) explores a multiverse full of Spider-People like himself. (140 min, PG. Bethel, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Roxy; reviewed 6/7)

TRANSFORMERS: RISE OF THE BEASTSHH The toy-driven action series takes a jaunt back to the ’90s to meet an Autobot ally faction called the Maximals. With Michelle Yeoh and Pete Davidson. (127 min, PG-13. Majestic, Sunset)

OLDER FILMS AND SPECIAL SCREENINGS

FATHOM’S BIG SCREEN CLASSICS: NATIONAL LAMPOON’S VACATION 40TH ANNIVERSARY (Essex, Sun & Wed 19 only)

GKIDS PRESENTS STUDIO GHIBLI FEST 2023: CASTLE IN THE SKY (Essex, Wed 12 only)

OPEN THEATERS

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BETHEL DRIVE-IN: 36 Bethel Dr., Bethel, 728-3740, betheldrivein.com

*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.

PRESENTS

e Manhattan Chamber Players

Two of classical music’s most esteemed and beloved compositions: Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet in A major, K.581, & Brahms’ Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115

“ e MCP transports audiences…” (Chappaquiddick Music Festival)

“Stunning ” (Minnesota Beethoven Festival) TUESDAY,

Asteroid City

JULY 12-19, 2023

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WED.12 activism

WHITE WOMEN

ACCOUNTABILITY CIRCLE: White women discuss how to constructively engage in social justice. Plainfield location provided upon registration. 5:30 p.m. Free; donations accepted. Info, 318-5527.

business

QUEEN CITY BUSINESS

NETWORKING

INTERNATIONAL GROUP: Savvy businesspeople make crucial contacts at a weekly chapter meeting. Burlington City Arts, 11:15 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 829-5066.

UVM DINING JOB FAIRS: Food service professionals learn about open positions at the University of Vermont. Harris Millis Residence/Dining Hall, South Burlington, 1-4 p.m. Free. Info, 656-7749.

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.

environment

UNDER THE ARCTIC: DIGGING

INTO PERMAFROST: A special exhibition focuses on climate education and environmental sustainability. Montshire Museum of Science, Norwich, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. $17-20; free for members and kids under 2. Info, 649-2200.

fairs & festivals

MIDDLEBURY FESTIVAL ON THE GREEN: A seven-day fête in its 44th year includes musical performances, familyfriendly programs and more. See festivalonthegreen.org for full schedule. Village Green, Middlebury, noon-1 & 7-10 p.m. Free; donations accepted. Info, 239-1976.

film

See what’s playing at local theaters in the On Screen section.

‘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.

‘MYSTERIES OF THE UNSEEN WORLD 3D’: Stunning footage takes viewers on a mind-bending journey into phenomena that are too slow, too fast or too small to be seen by the naked eye. Northfield Savings

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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.

‘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 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

COMMUNITY SUPPER: Neighbors share a tasty meal at their local library. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.

LEDDY PARK BEACH BITES: Food trucks and live tunes make for a delightful evening of dinner, drinks and family fun by sunset. Leddy Park, Burlington, 5-8 p.m. Free. Info, 864-0123.

games

BOARD GAME NIGHT: Lovers of tabletop fun play classic games and new designer

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art

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film

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music + nightlife

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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.

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

BEGINNER IRISH LANGUAGE

CLASS: Celtic-curious students learn to speak an Ghaeilge in a supportive group. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.

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.

lgbtq

CARLY THOMSEN: The Middlebury College professor of gender studies gives a lecture titled “Making Sense of Representation: Rural Queer Life in and Beyond the Archive.” Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History, Middlebury, noon-1 p.m. Regular admission, $10. Info, 388-2117.

montréal

‘AURA’: An immersive light show and soundscape highlights the rich history and stunning architecture of the Québec church. Notre-Dame Basilica of Montréal, 6 & 8 p.m. $18-32; free for kids 5 and under. Info, 866-842-2925.

FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL

NUITS D’AFRIQUE: Beninese French vocalist Angélique Kidjo kicks off this 13-day event showcasing talent from Africa, the West Indies and Latin America. Various Montréal locations. Prices vary. Info, 514-499-9239.

MONTRÉAL COMPLÈTEMENT

CIRQUE: North America’s first international circus arts festival brings together gravity-defying representatives of the circus world for performances throughout the city. See montrealcompletementcirque. com for full schedule. Various Montréal locations. Prices vary. Info, 514-376-8648.

music

A2VT: West African hip-hop beats from the Burlington band get feet moving. Martha Pellerin & Andy Shapiro Memorial Bandstand,

Middlesex, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 272-4920.

CRAFTSBURY CHAMBER

PLAYERS: A chat with one of the musicians precedes a program of masterworks and lesser-known gems. Elley-Long Music Center, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 7:30 p.m. $10-25; free for kids under 12. Info, 800-639-3443.

FOREVER SIMON & GARFUNKEL: American folk-rock hits including “Mrs. Robinson” and “Bridge Over Troubled Water” propel a tribute show celebrating the two Queens, N.Y., boys who became an iconic music duo. Live stream available. Next Stage Arts Project, Putney, 7-9 a.m. $10-24. Info, 387-0102.

HANS WILLIAMS: Audiences enjoy a show from the 21-year-old, Vermont-born singer-songwriter. Brooks Hubbard opens. Lebanon Opera House, N.H., 7:30 p.m. $1323. Info, 603-448-0400.

OAK HILL MUSIC FESTIVAL: World-class musicians bring chamber music from around the world to the Upper Valley. See oakhillmusicfestival.com for full schedule. First Congregational Church, Lebanon, N.H., 7 p.m. $1035. Info, 603-667-6425.

SUMMER CONCERT SERIES: NO

LEMON: The local funk-rock fivepiece delivers psychedelic synth solos and unbeatable bass lines. Burlington City Hall Park, 12:301:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7166.

VILLAGE HARMONY TEEN WORLD

MUSIC ENSEMBLE: Youthful virtuosos perform a globe-spanning program of tunes from South Africa, the Balkans and beyond. Maple Corner Community Center, Calais, 7-9 p.m. Free; donations accepted. Info, 279-2394.

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

GMC HIKE: MOUNT ELLEN VIA

JERUSALEM TRAIL: A moderateto-difficult hike led by the Green Mountain Club takes adventurers up 2,650 feet. Jerusalem Trail, Lincoln, 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 518-534-3183.

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

‘BUDDY: THE BUDDY HOLLY STORY’: The popular musical draws on hits including “Peggy Sue” and “Everyday” to tell the life story of one of rock and roll’s original legends. Weston Theater at Walker Farm, 2 & 7:30 p.m. $2579. Info, 824-5288.

CIRCUS SMIRKUS BIG TOP TOUR: ‘A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S CIRCUS’: Young performers ages 11 through 18 pull off daring and dazzling acts in this acrobatic adaptation

of Shakespeare’s most magical comedy. Bombardier Park West, Milton, 1 & 6 p.m. $20-35. Info, boxoffice@smirkus.org.

‘PLAYING THE GAME’: Vermont playwright Denise Casey’s one-woman show investigates themes of conformity and courage against the backdrop of summer 2020. Phantom Theater, Edgcomb Barn, Warren, 8 p.m. $20. Info, 496-5997.

words

AFTER HOURS BOOK CLUB: Readers discuss Hawk Mountain, Conner Habib’s twisty story of obsession between former high school rivals Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 6:307:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

BANNED BOOKS TOUR: Lt. Gov. Zuckerman hosts a reading featuring stories that have faced conservative backlash across the country. Bridgeside Books, Waterbury, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 828-2226.

FFL BOOK CLUB: Fletcher Free Library patrons break down Shelby Van Pelt’s Remarkably Bright Creatures. 6:30-8 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, bshatara@burlingtonvt.gov.

FRIENDS OF THE STOWE FREE

LIBRARY BOOK SALE: At this 38th annual tradition, bookworms blissfully thumb through more than 10,000 donated reads for kids, teens and adults. Proceeds support the library. Stowe Free Library, 9 a.m.-8 p.m. $2-4 per book. Info, 253-6145.

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.

REBECCA MAKKAI: The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist launches her newest novel, I Have Some Questions for You. Ticket includes $3 off the author’s books. Phoenix Books, Burlington, 7 a.m. $3; preregister. Info, 448-3350.

STEPHEN KIERNAN: The critically acclaimed Vermont author discusses his newest novel, The Glass Château. Worthen Library, South Hero, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 372-6209.

THU.13 agriculture

PIZZA SOCIAL: FOOTE BROOK

FARM: An organic veggie farm celebrating its 10th anniversary plays host at a NOFA-VT wood-fired pizza party, followed by a tour of the grounds. Foote Brook Farm, Johnson, 5:30-7:30 p.m. $10-25; free for POC. Info, 434-7177.

crafts

EMBROIDERY STITCH-IN: Local members of the Green Mountain Embroiderers’ Guild show

FAMI LY FU N

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WED.12 burlington

‘BUT WHY?’: Jane Lindholm and Melody Bodette, creators of the popular children’s podcast, answer questions about llamas, fish and other curious creatures.

Ages 6 through 12. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 1-3 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.

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.

IMAGINATION STATION: Giant Jenga, Hula-Hoops and jump ropes entertain shoppers of all ages in between stops. Church Street Marketplace, Burlington, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 863-1648.

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.

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

BUBBLE PARTY: Effervescent fun takes over the outdoor space. Williston Town Green, 4:30-6 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

LEGO BUILDERS: Aspiring architects enjoy an afternoon of imagination and play. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 3-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

MIDDLE SCHOOL PIZZA & MOVIE: Food and flicks entertain tweens on their summer vacation. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 4:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

SPANISH PLAYDATE: Lainie and her son Wesley help young speakers and learners immerse in the language.

Ages 6 months through 5 years. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 1010:30 a.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

SUMMER CRAFTYTOWN: Kids create and take home craft projects. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 1011:30 a.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

TEEN ART: Young creatives make wild, unrestrained pieces in this no-pressure meetup. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

THE MORE WE PLAY TOGETHER: Toddlers and preschoolers listen to a story and enjoy a silly summer playtime. Ages 1 through 4. Bring a towel. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10-10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

barre/montpelier

CHESS CLUB: Youngsters of all skill levels get one-on-one lessons and play each other in between. Ages 6 and up.

Bookish Birthday

How often do you get to attend a 150th birthday party? Burlington’s beloved Fletcher Free Library celebrates a century and a half of serving the book-loving public with an all-ages bash complete with birthday cake. Patrons don their best Lizzie Bennet and Percy Jackson costumes for a literary character-themed parade, followed by performances from Malagasy musician Mikahely, Marko the Magician and local hip-hop crew A2VT. The next chapter of fun includes temporary tattoos, a community art project, a photo booth, a scavenger hunt and an exhibit on the history of the library.

FLETCHER FREE LIBRARY’S 150TH BIRTHDAY!

Saturday, July 15, noon-3:30 p.m., at Fletcher Free Library in Burlington. Free. Info, 863-3403, fletcherfree.org.

Kellogg-Hubbard 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 8 through 12.

Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 2:305 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 426-3581.

SUMMER FUN NIGHTS: From movies to juggling lessons to sea shanties around the campfire, there’s something new every week to keep vacation interesting.

Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 6:30 p.m. Free. 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

PRE-K STORY TIME: Little ones and their caregivers hear a different farmthemed tale every week in July. Snacks included. Ages 3 through 5. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 9:30-11

chittenden county

CLASSICAL ENCOUNTERS WITH THE GREEN MOUNTAIN CHAMBER MUSIC

FESTIVAL: A kid-size concert features musical delights and fun instrumental education. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 10:45 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

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: The 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.

Kellogg-Hubbard 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

‘ROALD DAHL’S WILLY WONKA’: Audience members with the golden ticket see the Valley Players bring the beloved story of an enigmatic candy man to life onstage. Valley Players Theater, Waitsfield, 7:30 p.m. $18-22. Info, 583-1674.

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

FREE MINI CONCERTS FROM

CRAFTSBURY CHAMBER PLAYERS: Little music lovers learn about great composers, listen to live tunes and get hands-on time with the instruments. Hardwick Town House, 2-3 p.m. Free. Info, 800-639-3443.

FRI.14 burlington

SENSORY FRIENDLY HOUR: Folks of all ages with sensory processing differences have the youth area to themselves. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 9-10 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 863-3403.

SPLASH DANCE: DJs spin the decks by the fountain as kids party the day away. Burlington City Hall Park, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7554.

chittenden county

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.13 burlington

IMAGINATION STATION: See WED.12.

PRESCHOOL YOGA: Colleen from Grow Prenatal and Family Yoga leads little ones in songs, movement and other fun activities. Ages 2 through 5. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.

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.

READ TO A DOG: Kids of all ages get a 10-minute time slot to tell stories to Lola the therapy pup. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 878-4918.

TEEN NIGHT: FOOD FOR THOUGHT: The Teen Advisory Board meets over pizza to brainstorm ideas for library programming. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 5-6 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

THE MORE WE SWITCH TOGETHER: Patrons of all experience levels play on the library’s new Nintendo video game console. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 2-3 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

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.12.

PRESCHOOL STORY TIME: Energetic youngsters join Miss Meliss for stories, songs and lots of silliness.

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.

FLEMING MILE HISTORY WALK: Tim Jerman of the Essex Community Historical Society takes locals on an educational jaunt. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

READERS THEATER: Elementary-age actors practice and perform a folk story in one afternoon. Grades 2 through 5. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 3-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

TEEN NIGHT: DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: Local wizards and warlocks ages 12 and up play a collaborative game of magic and monsters. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 5-6 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

THE MORE WE SEED TOGETHER:

GUERILLA GARDENING:

Environmentalists of all ages make wildflower seed bombs and pick up a copy of Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 4:30-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

barre/montpelier

STORY TIME & PLAYGROUP:

Participants ages 7 and under hear stories, sing songs and eat tasty treats between outdoor activities. Jaquith

visitors how to make a beautiful bookmark. ADA accessible.

South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 9 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 846-4140.

KNIT FOR YOUR NEIGHBOR: Fiber artists knit hats and scarves to donate to the South Burlington Food Shelf. Yarn, needles, looms and crochet hooks provided. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, noon-3 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

KNITTING GROUP: Knitters of all experience levels get together to spin yarns. Latham Library, etford, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 785-4361.

dance

THE JUNCTION DANCE FESTIVAL: Performances, workshops and films fill three days of programming in celebration of all genres of dance. See thejunctiondancefestival.org for full schedule. Downtown White River Junction, 10 a.m.-7:30 p.m. Free; fee for some activities. Info, info@thejunctiondancefestival.org.

‘TELL ME HOW YOU BREATHE’: rough movement, Loom Ensemble imagines a world where the climate crisis and inequality are addressed through connection and healing. Lyman Point Park, White River Junction, 6-7:30 p.m. $20; preregister. Info, loomensemble@gmail.com.

environment

UNDER THE ARCTIC: DIGGING INTO PERMAFROST: See WED.12. etc.

LAKE BOMOSEEN BRIDAL SHOW: Engaged couples meet the area’s top wedding professionals and scope out the latest trends. Lake Bomoseen Lodge and Taproom, Castleton, 6:30-9:15 p.m. $10. Info, 342-3478.

fairs & festivals

MIDDLEBURY FESTIVAL ON THE GREEN: See WED.12.

SUMMERVALE: Locavores fête farms and farmers at a weekly festival centered on food, music, community and conservation. Intervale Center, Burlington, 5:308 p.m. Free. Info, 660-0440.

JERRY JAM: A stacked lineup of jam bands celebrates the life, music and good vibes of Jerry Garcia for a delighted crowd of Dead Heads. 234 Pransky Road, Cabot, 6-9 p.m. $39-169; free for kids 12 and under. Info, info@jerryjam.com.

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. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. $6-12; VTIFF member benefits apply. Info, info@vtiff.org.

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Creative Commons

e Waterbury Arts Fest once again graces the Mad River Valley with two days of fun for cultured creatives of all ages. e Friday Night Block Party kicks off the festivities with a beer garden, a battalion of food trucks, and two sets of dance-worthy live tunes by Emma Cook and Questionable Company and local roots-rockers the Grift. At the Saturday Arts Market, more than 100 vendors showcase pottery, jewelry, paintings, glassware and woodwork. Finger-licking fare and performances by the likes of DonnCherie and Soulstice nourish body and soul.

WATERBURY ARTS FEST

Friday, July 14, 5-9:30 p.m., and Saturday, July 15, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., at 5 Pilgrim Park Rd., Waterbury. Free; donations accepted. Info, 793-6029, waterburyartsfest.com. JUL.

GRANITE LECTURE AND FILM SERIES: ‘THE WILL TO BE REMEMBERED’: A rockin’ screening of a 1951 film about monument building in Barre is supplemented by the Rock of Ages 1950s commercials on the “Today” show. Discussion follows. Vermont Granite Museum, Barre, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 249-3897.

‘JOURNEY TO SPACE 3D’: See WED.12.

MOVIE NIGHTS AT THE FRAME:

‘SUMMER OF SOUL’: Part concert film, part historical documentary, Questlove’s 2021 directorial debut unearths forgotten footage of the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival. Picnic baskets from Adventure Dinner available for purchase. BYO blankets or lawn chairs. See calendar spotlight. Moran Frame, Burlington, 6-11 p.m. Free. Info, zach@friendsoftheframe.org.

‘MYSTERIES OF THE UNSEEN WORLD 3D’: See WED.12.

‘WILD AFRICA 3D’: See WED.12.

‘WINGS OVER WATER 3D’: See WED.12.

food & drink

AFTERNOON TEA WITH TEA

ETIQUETTE TALK: Refined guests enjoy a full English afternoon tea — complete with warm scones and clotted cream — while

learning about the tradition’s history. Governor’s House in Hyde Park, 3 p.m. $45; preregister. Info, 888-6888.

ARE YOU THIRSTY, NEIGHBOR?:

A special discount cocktail menu sparks conversations and connections over cribbage and cards. Wild Hart Distillery, Shelburne, 3-8 p.m. Free. Info, info@wildhartdistillery. com.

OLD NORTH END COMMUNITY

DINNER: A vegetarian 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.

VERGENNES FARMERS MARKET:

Local foods and crafts, live music, and hot eats spice up ursday afternoons. Vergennes City Park, 3-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 233-9180.

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.

DUPLICATE BRIDGE: A lively group plays a classic, tricky game with an extra wrinkle. Waterbury Public Library, 12:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 244-7223.

FEMINIST REPRODUCTIVE

JUSTICE MINI GOLF COURSE

OPEN HOURS: Visitors enjoy a student-built, reproductive justice-themed putt-putt course. Kenyon Arena, Middlebury College, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, cthomsen@middlebury.edu.

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

‘AURA’: See WED.12.

FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL

NUITS D’AFRIQUE: See WED.12.

L’INTERNATIONAL DES FEUX

LOTO-QUÉBEC: Countries compete in Montréal’s annual fireworks showdown, employing the latest techniques and innovations in the field of pyrotechnics. La Ronde, Montréal, 10 p.m. $1930. Info, 514-397-2000.

DAKHABRAKHA: A world music act from Ukraine blends sounds from around the world into beautiful chaos. e Putney Inn, 6 p.m. $20-25; cash bar; free for kids under 12. Info, 387-0102.

THE GARIFUNA COLLECTIVE: Members of this intergenerational Indigenous music ensemble performs hits full of lively beats and call-and-response lyrics. Dartmouth Green, Hanover, N.H., 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 603-646-2422.

JAZZ AT THE LANTERN: REAL STORMIN NORMAN: e New York City piano man serenades diners and drinkers with his New Orleans-influenced tunes. e Brass Lantern Inn, Stowe, 6:30-8 p.m. $35-45. Info, 253-2229.

PARKAPALOOZA: WILD LEEK RIVER: e local country band stops by this family-friendly outdoor concert series, also featuring a 100-foot Slip ’N Slide. Hubbard Park, Montpelier, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 225-8699.

POINTE NOIR CAJUN BAND: e Louisiana dance outfit brings the beats of the bayou to this Jaquith Public Library-hosted outdoor concert. Old Schoolhouse Common, Marshfield, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.

THROWDOWN THURSDAYS: Sugarbush hosts weekly summer shindigs featuring live tunes, doubles cornhole tournaments and disc golf competitions. Lincoln Peak Vineyard, New Haven, 5-8 p.m. Free. Info, 552-4007.

THURSDAYS BY THE LAKE: RAY

VEGA BAND: e Nuyorican outfit presents an evening of funky original tunes. Union Station, Burlington, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 540-3018.

MONTRÉAL COMPLÈTEMENT

CIRQUE: See WED.12.

ZOOFEST & OFF JFL: Audiences in search of all things fresh and edgy

find emerging talent in comedy, theater, storytelling, magic and music on the free stages in the Quartier des Spectacles. Various Montréal locations. Prices vary; $49.99-129.99 for festival pass. Info, billetterie@zoofest.com.

music

BARNARTS FEAST & FIELD MUSIC

SERIES: SABOUYOUMA: Farmfresh foods and Afro-funk grooves are on the menu at a pastoral party. Fable Farm, Barnard, 6 p.m.. $5-25. Info, music@barnarts.org.

BEN & JERRY’S CONCERTS ON

THE GREEN: GUSTER: Fans rock out to songs from the indie rock band’s latest album. Bread and Puppet opens. Shelburne Museum, 6:30 p.m. $52-56; free for kids 12 and under. Info, 652-0777.

BURLINGTON CONCERT BAND

REHEARSAL: Local musicians bring their instruments to practice every week. St. Mark Catholic Parish, Burlington, 6:45-8:45 p.m. Free. Info, 343-3856.

CRAFTSBURY CHAMBER

PLAYERS: See WED.12. Hardwick Town House, 7:30 p.m.

TROY MILLETTE: Heartfelt original country-rock songs carry through the air, courtesy of the Fairfax musician. Shelburne Vineyard, 6-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 985-8222.

outdoors

ROV SHIPWRECK TOUR: Explorers take a boat to the wreck of the

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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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COURTESY IAN BALLARD

Champlain II and peer into the depths using a remotely operated robot. Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, Vergennes, 10 a.m.noon. $25-40; preregister. Info, 475-2022.

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.

sports

VERMONT GOVERNOR’S CUP

150: The racetrack’s 2023 season continues with another nailbiting competition. Thunder Road Speedbowl, Barre, 6:30-10 p.m. $5-40; free for kids under 6. Info, info@thunderroadvt.com.

talks

MIDDLEBURY SCIENCE CAFÉ:

ALLISON LACROIX: The museum preservationist digs into her experiences maintaining the historic collections. Refreshments served. Henry Sheldon Museum

of Vermont History, Middlebury, 5 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4095.

tech

TECH AND TEXTILES: Crafters work on their knitting or crocheting while discussing questions such as how to set up a new tablet or what cryptocurrency even is. George Peabody Library, Post Mills, 1-5 p.m. Free. Info, 333-9724.

theater

‘BUDDY: THE BUDDY HOLLY STORY’: See WED.12, 7:30 p.m.

CIRCUS SMIRKUS BIG TOP TOUR: ‘A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S CIRCUS’: See WED.12.

‘A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM’: Jeanne Beckwith directs an adaptation of the beloved Shakespeare comedy to mark the theater’s 40th season. Cash or check only. Unadilla Theatre, Marshfield, 7:30-10 p.m. $15-25; preregister. Info, 456-8968.

‘WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME’: DEPOT THEATRE: Director Julie Lucido stages a performance of Heidi Schrek’s play about her time as a teenage

debate champion. Depot Theatre, Westport, N.Y., 5 p.m. $25-40. Info, 518-962-4449.

words

CANAAN MEETINGHOUSE

READING SERIES: JEFF SHARLET & ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT: The authors of The Undertow: Scenes From a Slow Civil War and the poetry collection Messenger, respectively, read from their work. Meetinghouse, Canaan, N.H., 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 649-1114.

CHRIS LINCOLN: A New Age medium and a golfer in his midlife

crisis confront the challenges of marriage in the author’s new novel, The Funny Moon. Norwich Bookstore, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 649-1114.

FRIENDS OF THE STOWE FREE

LIBRARY BOOK SALE: See WED.12.

RABBIT&WOLF POETRY

READING: JENN BROWN & JOSH

BARBER: Two local wordsmiths share their work. The Front, Montpelier, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, robynjoy76@gmail.com. FRI.14 »

We Can Take It!

CSWD offers convenient drop-off locations for trash, recycling, food scraps, and special materials like batteries and appliances.

FRI.14

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 at a weekly club. Manchester Community Library, Manchester Center, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 549-4574.

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dance

‘GOODBYE PARTY’: Aerial circus collective Big Teeth puts on a show about the Earth’s going-outof-business shindig. Pizza available for purchase. Sable Project, Stockbridge, 5:30-8:30 p.m. Free; donations accepted. Info, bex@ thesableproject.org.

THE JUNCTION DANCE FESTIVAL: See THU.13, 2-7:30 p.m. ‘TELL ME HOW YOU BREATHE’: See THU.13.

education

FIRST ANNUAL MONTPELIER HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ROUNDUP REUNION: Graduates from all classes are invited to throw down at this fundraiser

weekend featuring live music, beer gardens, a pool party and more. Various Montpelier locations, 4-10 p.m. $10-20; free for kids under 6; preregister. Info, info@mrpspie.org.

SUMMER OPEN HOUSE: Admissions presentations, academic breakout sessions and campus tours engage potential pupils. SUNY Plattsburgh, N.Y., 1:30-4 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 518-564-2040.

environment

UNDER THE ARCTIC: DIGGING INTO PERMAFROST: See WED.12.

lovers how they can protect the lake.

ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 10:30 & 11:30 a.m. Regular admission, $14.50-18; free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848.

fairs & festivals

JERRY JAM: See THU.13. 10 a.m.-midnight.

MIDDLEBURY FESTIVAL ON THE GREEN: See WED.12.

WATERBURY ARTS FEST: FRIDAY

NIGHT BLOCK PARTY: Locals turn out for a fun night of moving and grooving, with tasty food trucks, a beer garden and live music from the Grift to dance the night away to. See calendar spotlight. 5 Pilgrim Park Rd., Waterbury, 5-10 p.m. Free; donations accepted. Info, 793-6029.

film

See what’s playing at local theaters in the On Screen section.

mad river valley/ waterbury

‘ROALD DAHL’S WILLY WONKA’: See THU.13, 4 p.m.

‘JOURNEY TO SPACE 3D’: See WED.12.

‘MYSTERIES OF THE UNSEEN WORLD 3D’: See WED.12.

‘WILD AFRICA 3D’: See WED.12.

‘WINGS OVER WATER 3D’: See WED.12.

food & drink

RICHMOND FARMERS MARKET: Vendors present a diverse selection of locally produced foods and crafts as picnickers enjoy music from a different local band each week. Richmond Town Park, 3-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, rfmmanager@gmail.com.

SOUTH END GET DOWN: Food trucks dish out mouthwatering meals and libations. Live DJs and outdoor entertainment add to the

Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 10-10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

LEGO ROBOTICS: AMAZING

fun. 377 Pine St., Burlington, 5-9 p.m. Cost of food and drink. Info, getdown@orleansevents.com.

games

FEMINIST REPRODUCTIVE

JUSTICE MINI GOLF COURSE

OPEN HOURS: See THU.13, 2-5 p.m.

health & fitness

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.

Community Library, Manchester Center, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 362-2607.

Public Library, Marshfield, 10:30 a.m.noon. Free. Info, 426-3581.

SUMMER MORNING PROGRAM: Kids from birth through age 7 enjoy water play and fun learning activities. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.

mad river valley/ waterbury

‘ROALD DAHL’S WILLY WONKA’: See THU.13.

upper valley

STORY TIME: Preschoolers take part in tales, tunes and playtime. Latham Library, Thetford, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 785-4361.

manchester/ bennington

YOUNG ADULT DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: Teens battle beasts with swords and spell books 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.15 burlington

FACE PAINTING AND CARICATURES:

Little Artsy Faces and Marc Hughes Illustrations paint faces in more ways than one at the corner of Bank and Church streets. Church Street Marketplace, Burlington, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 863-1648.

FLETCHER FREE LIBRARY’S 150TH

BIRTHDAY!: A costume parade, community art project, birthday cake and magic show mark this auspicious anniversary. See calendar spotlight. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, noon-3 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.

OUR SCRUMPTIOUS LAKE

PHYTOTASTIC PUPPET SHOW: The Conservation Law Foundation’s Lakekeeper Program teams up with some whimsical puppets to teach water

STORIES WITH GEOFF: Little patrons of the library’s new location enjoy a morning of stories and songs. Fletcher Free Library New North End Branch, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.

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.

mad river valley/ waterbury

‘ROALD DAHL’S WILLY WONKA’: See THU.13.

northeast kingdom

FAIRY FESTIVAL: Magic mavens of all ages don their wings for a fanciful afternoon of potion-making, fairy house tours, circus lessons and live music. Highland Center for the Arts, Greensboro, 1-4 p.m. $5-40. Info, 533-2000.

manchester/ bennington

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.

SUN.16 burlington

SUNDAE SUNDAY: Teens construct the delightful dessert of their dreams in celebration of National Ice Cream Day. Ages 11 through 18. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 2-3 p.m. Free. Info, 540-2546.

outside vermont

‘NEWSIES JR.’: Adriondack Regional Theatre raises the curtain on the inspiring story of a group of newsboys that rallied against two large publishers. Strand Center Theatre, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 2 p.m. Free; donations accepted. Info, 518-572-6003.

MON.17 burlington

IMAGINATION STATION: See WED.12.

chittenden county

KID CRAFTERNOON FRIENDSHIP

JEWELRY: Creative kids stop by with their besties to make bracelets and key chains. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 2-3 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

PAJAMA STORY TIME: Listeners cozy up for a half hour of nighttime stories, songs and crafts. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 5:30-6 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

THE MORE WE STEAM TOGETHER: Scientists and artists ages 6 through 12 build Rube Goldberg machines, play with magnets and create collaborative paintings. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

barre/montpelier

POKÉMON CLUB: I choose you, Pikachu! Fans of the franchise — and beginners, too — trade cards and play games. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 3:30-5 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

TUE.18

chittenden county

‘DESCENDANTS: THE MUSICAL’: Very Merry Theatre presents an all-ages adventure based on the popular Disney movie about the children of supervillains and their exploits. Williston Town Green, noon-1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

FAMILY STORY TIME: Familiar stories, songs and rhymes follow the themes of friendship and community. South

AMUSEMENT PARK: Over four weeks of workshops, builders in grades 1 through 3 learn how to combine their favorite blocks with a knowledge of computer coding. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 3-3:45 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 878-6956.

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.

THE MORE WE READ TOGETHER: Little Brownell Library patrons ages 2 through 7 read, sing, rhyme and play together. Maple Street Park, Essex Junction, 11-11:45 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

barre/montpelier

NATURECAMP AFTERSCHOOL: See WED.12.

PRESCHOOL STORY TIME: See THU.13.

middlebury area

STORY TIME WITH BIXBY LIBRARY: Babies, toddlers, preschoolers and their caregivers enjoy books and songs out on the lawn. Rokeby Museum, Ferrisburgh, 3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 877-3406.

upper valley

BEACH STORY TIME: All ages are welcome to a George Peabody Library read-aloud in the gazebo next to the lake. Treasure Island, Fairlee, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 333-9724.

northeast kingdom

‘MONSTERS, INC.’: Two fearsome creatures rethink their stance on children in this 2001 animated flick. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600.

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

WED.19 burlington

BABYTIME: See WED.12.

‘DESCENDANTS: THE MUSICAL’: See TUE.18. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. Info, 863-3403.

FAMILY GAME NIGHT: Librarians set out an array of games suitable for kids ages 3 through 10 and their families. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 5-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.

IMAGINATION STATION: See WED.12. STEAM SPACE: See WED.12.

STORIES WITH SHANNON: See WED.12.

chittenden county

GOOD CITIZEN: FREEDOM AND UNITY

ART: Artists of all ages interpret the state motto. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 5-6 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

LEGO BUILDERS: See WED.12.

MIDDLE SCHOOL PIZZA & MOVIE: See WED.12.

SPANISH PLAYDATE: See WED.12. SUMMER CRAFTYTOWN: See WED.12. THE MORE WE PLAY TOGETHER: See WED.12.

barre/montpelier

CHESS CLUB: See WED.12. CHESS CLUB: See WED.12. NATURECAMP AFTERSCHOOL: See WED.12.

SUMMER FUN NIGHTS: See WED.12. upper valley

PRE-K STORY TIME: See WED.12.

northeast kingdom

SUMMER READING CELEBRATION: Children’s author Jim Arnosky tells stories and every kid in attendance gets two free books at this bibliophile’s bash. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 12:45-1:45 p.m. Free. Info, 745-1391.

manchester/ bennington

MCL FILM CLUB: See WED.12. NEW MOMS’ GROUP: See WED.12. K

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

‘AURA’: See WED.12.

FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL

NUITS D’AFRIQUE: See WED.12.

JUSTE POUR RIRE MONTRÉAL:

The largest comedy festival in the world keeps audiences in stitches for more than two weeks, featuring 1,700 artists from 19 countries. Various Montréal locations. Prices vary; $115-235 for festival pass. Info, info@hahaha.com.

MONTRÉAL COMPLÈTEMENT

CIRQUE: See WED.12.

ZOOFEST & OFF JFL: See THU.13.

music

BLUEGRASS & BBQ: HARD

SCRABBLE: The bluegrass band tickles the banjo strings and Southern Smoke provides the nosh. Shelburne Vineyard, 6-9 p.m. $10; free for kids under 12. Info, 985-8222.

OAK HILL MUSIC FESTIVAL: See WED.12.

OLD STAGE SUMMER SERIES:

CRACKER: Famous for their hit song “Low,” the quartet gets boots tapping with rock and country tunes. Essex Experience, 7 p.m. $30. Info, 878-4200.

PICNIC CONCERT SERIES:

RANI ARBO & DAISY MAYHEM: Four-part harmonies, eclectic percussion and unforgettable songs are the hallmarks of this New England-based folk quartet. Picnic dinners available for purchase. Knoll Farm, Fayston, 7-9:30 p.m. $25. Info, 496-5686.

SOHYUN AHN: The New York City pianist plays solos by Beethoven and Brahms, as well as a fourhanded duet with local ivorytickler Eun Hee Park. Island Arts,

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North Hero, 7-8:30 p.m. $25. Info, 372-8889.

SUMMER 2023 CARILLON SERIES: Each week, a new musician plays a heavenly program on the historic bell organ. Mead Memorial Chapel, Middlebury College, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168.

SUMMER CONCERT SERIES: THE SO N SOS: The Queen City supergroup dishes out 1980s new wave and jazzy jams. Burlington City Hall Park, 12:30-1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7166.

VILLAGE HARMONY TEEN

WORLD MUSIC ENSEMBLE: See WED.12. Norwich Congregational Church.

‘WALKING ON THE GREEN

GRASS’: Counterpoint singers raise their voices in a program celebrating a cappella folk songs and the Great American Songbook. Stowe Community Church, 7:30 p.m. $5-20. Info, 540-1784.

outdoors

AUDUBON BIRD WALK: Avian enthusiasts seek out warblers and other winged friends. Hollow Rd., Brandon, 7-10 a.m. Free. Info, birding@rutlandcountyaudubon. org.

politics

AARP VT 2023

LEGISLATIVE

SESSION RECAP & COFFEE: Vermonters over 50 and their friends and families learn about the legislature over a morning joe. The Works Café, Brattleboro, 10-11 a.m. Info, 866-227-7451. Putnam’s vine/yard, White River Junction, 1-2 p.m. Free; preregister.

sports

FRIDAY NIGHT DINGHY RACING: Skippers with previous sailing knowledge celebrate the end of the week with some nautical competition. Bring or borrow a boat. Community Sailing Center, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 864-2499.

VERMONT LAKE MONSTERS: Spectators buy some peanuts and Cracker Jack to watch the Green Mountain State’s own Futures Collegiate Baseball League team face off against new opponents each night. Centennial Field, Burlington, 6:35 p.m. $6-17; $125-418 for season passes. Info, 655-4200.

theater

‘BUDDY: THE BUDDY HOLLY

STORY’: See WED.12, 7:30 p.m.

‘A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S

DREAM’: See THU.13.

‘WHAT THE CONSTITUTION

MEANS TO ME’: WESTON

PLAYHOUSE: Playwright Heidi Schreck taps into her teenage self to follow four generations of women and how the foundational document affected their lives in this Tony Award nominee and Pulitzer Prize finalist. Weston Playhouse Main Stage, 7:30 p.m. $25-79. Info, 824-5288.

‘WHAT THE CONSTITUTION

MEANS TO ME’: DEPOT THEATRE: See THU.13, 7:30 p.m.

‘THE WIZARD OF OZ’: The Paramount Players take audience members down the yellow brick road with classic songs, an all-local cast and a full orchestra. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 7 p.m. $20-35. Info, 775-0903.

words

FRIENDS OF THE RUTLAND

FREE LIBRARY BOOK SALE: A broad selection of used, rare and antique books goes on sale to benefit the library. Rutland Free Library, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 773-1860.

FRIENDS OF THE STOWE FREE LIBRARY BOOK SALE: See WED.12.

SAT.15

agriculture

ANNUAL PLANT SALE: With donations from more than 40 Vermont nurseries up for sale, gardeners can find anything from perennials to ornamental trees. Proceeds benefit the Friends of the Horticulture Farm. University of Vermont Horticulture Research Center, South Burlington, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 658-6554.

community

ELMWOOD CEMETERY

WORKDAY: Volunteers help the Vermont Old Cemetery Association restore the historic burial ground. Elmwood Cemetery, Burlington, 8 a.m.noon. Free. Info, 773-3253.

dance

AFRO-CARIBBEAN DANCE

PARTY: The undeniable grooves of Mal Maïz and the Garifuna Collective get audience members moving and shaking. Fable Farm, Barnard, 5-9 p.m. Pay what you can; free for kids under 12. Info, 728-9878.

CONTRA DANCE: To live tunes by Sycamore and gender-neutral calling by Anna Rain, dancers balance, shadow and do-si-do the night away. Capital City Grange, Berlin, beginners’ lesson, 7:40 p.m.; dance, 8-11 p.m. $5-20. Info, 225-8921.

THE JUNCTION DANCE

FESTIVAL: See THU.13, 10 a.m.-9 p.m.

education

FIRST ANNUAL MONTPELIER HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ROUNDUP REUNION: See FRI.14, 2:30-5:30 p.m.

environment

UNDER THE ARCTIC: DIGGING INTO PERMAFROST: See WED.12. etc.

GRIMM’S GALA: A CINDERELLA

AFFAIR: Art, music, comedy, burlesque and screenings of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella usher audiences into a world of magic presided over by Grimm Noir. Main Street

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Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, noon-10 p.m. $10-75. Info, grimmsdodmainvt@gmail. com.

fairs & festivals

DO GOOD FEST: It’s all good at this family-friendly music bash supporting Branches of Hope, the cancer patient fund at Central Vermont Medical Center. Plain White T’s headline. National Life Building, Montpelier, 2-9:30 p.m. Free; donations accepted; preregister. Info, 229-3334.

JERRY JAM: See THU.13. 12:25-2 a.m. & 10 a.m.-midnight.

MIDDLEBURY FESTIVAL ON THE

GREEN: See WED.12, 7-10 p.m.

SOLARFEST: Entertainment and environmental education go hand in hand during a weekend of climate workshops and live music. SolarFest, Brandon, 10 a.m.-11:30 p.m. $40; free for kids. Info, mikeb@solarfest.org.

WATERBURY ARTS FEST:

SATURDAY ARTS MARKET:

More than 100 booths overflow with art, woodcraft, jewelry and more, while live music plays and all-ages activities abound. See calendar spotlight. 5 Pilgrim Park Rd., Waterbury, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 793-6029.

film

See what’s playing at local theaters in the On Screen section.

‘THE GENERAL’: Accompanist Jeff Rapsis improvises a live score to this 1926 silent film starring Buster Keaton as a hapless Southern railroad engineer during the Civil War. Brandon Town Hall, 7 p.m. Free; donations accepted. Info, brandontownhallfriends@ gmail.com.

‘JOURNEY TO SPACE 3D’: See WED.12.

‘MYSTERIES OF THE UNSEEN WORLD 3D’: See WED.12.

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Dance to the Music

In the summer of 1969, just 100 miles south of a certain other music fest, the Harlem Cultural Festival took over Manhattan’s Marcus Garvey Park for six weeks. The featured artists were legendary: Nina Simone, Stevie Wonder and B.B. King were just a few in the lineup. In his 2021 directorial debut, Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised), the Roots drummer and prolific producer Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson unearths the never-televised footage of this pivotal moment in music for a documentary that is part concert film, part historical record of Black history, culture and fashion. Queen City film buffs can catch an utterly unique screening of it at the newly refurbished Moran Frame.

MOVIE NIGHTS AT THE FRAME: ‘SUMMER OF SOUL’

Thursday, July 13, 6-11 p.m., at the Moran Frame in Burlington. Free. Info, zach@friendsoftheframe.org, theframebtv.org.

MONTRÉAL COMPLÈTEMENT

CIRQUE: See WED.12.

ZOOFEST & OFF JFL: See THU.13.

music

OAK HILL MUSIC FESTIVAL: See WED.12. Norwich Congregational Church.

QUARTET HOP: Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival student performers tour the town playing works for strings. See gmcmf. org for all locations. Various Burlington locations, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 503-1220.

‘WILD AFRICA 3D’: See WED.12. ‘WINGS OVER WATER 3D’: See WED.12.

food & drink

BURLINGTON FARMERS MARKET: Dozens of stands overflow with seasonal produce, flowers, artisanal wares and prepared foods. 345 Pine St., Burlington, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 560-5904.

CAPITAL CITY FARMERS

MARKET: Meats and cheeses join farm-fresh produce, baked goods, locally made arts and crafts, and live music. 133 State St., Montpelier, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, montpelierfarmersmarket@ gmail.com.

CHAMPLAIN VALLEY DINNER

TRAIN: Travelers savor a threecourse meal and scenic landscape views during a three-hour trip in a kitchen car. Ages 5 and up. Union Station, Burlington, 5-8 p.m. $99-148.50; preregister. Info, 800-707-3530.

JANE AUSTEN TEA: Regency revelers jam out at a Victorian-style tea party complete with scones, clotted cream, finger sandwiches and tea cakes, while learning about the teatime traditions of Austen’s era. Governor’s House in Hyde Park, 2:30-5 p.m. $35; preregister. Info, 888-6888.

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.

words

FRIENDS OF THE RUTLAND FREE

LIBRARY BOOK SALE: See FRI.14, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

FRIENDS OF THE STOWE FREE

LIBRARY BOOK SALE: See WED.12.

WRITERS’ WERTFREI: Authors both fledgling and published gather to share their work in a judgment-free environment. Virtual option available. Waterbury Public Library, 10 a.m.noon. Free; preregister. Info, judi@ waterburypubliclibrary.com.

SUN.16

agriculture

Richford, 8 a.m.-1 p.m. $30. Info, 496-2285.

WORDS IN THE WOODS: LINDA

QUINLAN: The award-winning Montpelier poet leads a literary trek through the forest as part of this Vermont Humanities series. Elmore State Park, Lake Elmore, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, jpelletier@vermonthumanities. org.

sports

ST. JOHNSBURY FARMERS

MARKET: Growers and crafters gather weekly at booths centered on local eats. Pearl St. & Eastern Ave., St. Johnsbury, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, cfmamanager@gmail. com.

games

BEGINNER DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: Waterbury

Public Library game master Evan Hoffman gathers novices and veterans alike for an afternoon of virtual adventuring. Teens and adults welcome. Noon-4 p.m. Free. Info, 244-7036.

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.

FEMINIST REPRODUCTIVE

JUSTICE MINI GOLF COURSE

OPEN HOURS: See THU.13, 2-5 p.m.

montréal

‘AURA’: See WED.12, 7 & 9 p.m. FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL

NUITS D’AFRIQUE: See WED.12.

JUSTE POUR RIRE MONTRÉAL: See FRI.14.

RED HOT JUBA: Soul and blues meet juke-joint country when this infectious outfit takes the stage. Shelburne Vineyard, 7-9 p.m. $12. Info, 985-8222.

VILLAGE HARMONY TEEN WORLD

MUSIC ENSEMBLE: See WED.12. South Hero Congregational Church, 4-6 p.m.

‘WALKING ON THE GREEN

GRASS’: See FRI.14, McCarthy Arts Center, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 7:30 p.m.

WOMEN IN MUSIC SERIES: MYRA

FLYNN: The indie soul singer serenades picnickers under the open sky. Food and wine available for purchase. Lincoln Peak Vineyard, New Haven, 6 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 382-9222.

outdoors

CELEBRATE THE LVRT: CANCELED. Gov. Phil Scott invites all Vermonters to join him as he bikes the full length of New England’s longest bike path, with water stops along the way featuring Sen. Bernie Sanders. Lamoille Valley Rail Trail, St. Johnsbury to St. Albans, 7 a.m.-8 p.m. Free. Info, 917-2458.

GMC HIKE: SKYLIGHT POND TO MIDDLEBURY GAP: A moderate hike along the Long Trail offers shoreline and forest views. Skylight Pond Trail, Ripton, 8 a.m.3 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 660-2834.

MISSISQUOI RIVER PADDLEPEDAL: Cyclists and scullers assemble on the river for a day of races and relays. Davis Park,

GOSHEN GALLOP: Rugged 5- and 10K courses take runners across varied terrain in this annual race. A hearty pizza dinner follows. Blueberry Hill Outdoor Center, Goshen, 4 p.m. $20-35; $15-20 for dinner. Info, 247-6735.

VERMONT LAKE MONSTERS: See FRI.14, 6:05 p.m.

theater

‘BUDDY: THE BUDDY HOLLY STORY’: See WED.12. CIRCUS SMIRKUS BIG TOP

TOUR: ‘A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S CIRCUS’: See WED.12. Vermont State Fairgrounds, Rutland, 1 & 6 p.m. $20-35. Info, boxoffice@ smirkus.org.

‘IDIOTS OF THE WORLD UNITED AGAINST THE IDIOT SYSTEM’: Sideshows, spectacle, live music and feats of derring-do meet the moment at hand. Bread and Puppet Theater, Glover, 3-4 p.m. $10. Info, 525-3031.

‘A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM’: See THU.13.

‘WHAT THE CONSTITUTION

MEANS TO ME’: WESTON

PLAYHOUSE: See FRI.14, 2 & 7:30 p.m.

‘WHAT THE CONSTITUTION

MEANS TO ME’: DEPOT THEATRE: See THU.13, 7:30 p.m.

‘WHAT’S HIS NAME’: Vermont playwright Keryn Nightingale’s autobiographical one-woman show conjures a creepy fairy tale with unconventional props and multimedia elements. Phantom Theater, Edgcomb Barn, Warren, 8 p.m. $20. Info, 496-5997.

‘THE WIZARD OF OZ’: See FRI.14, 2 p.m.

WESTFORD GARDEN TOUR: Locals take a tour of six stunning gardens around town to raise funds for the common hall. Westford Common Hall, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. $25; preregister. Info, info@ westfordcommonhall.org.

dance

‘THE GREAT FUGUE CIRCUS’: The Kompass Quartet performs Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Grosse Fugue” alongside compelling choreography. Bread and Puppet Theater, Glover, 4:15 p.m. Free. Info, 525-3031.

THE JUNCTION DANCE FESTIVAL: See THU.13, 10 a.m.-6:30 p.m.

environment

UNDER THE ARCTIC: DIGGING INTO PERMAFROST: See WED.12.

fairs & festivals

JERRY JAM: See THU.13, 12:55-2 a.m. & 10:45 a.m.-8:30 p.m. SOLARFEST: See SAT.15, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

film

See what’s playing at local theaters in the On Screen section.

‘JOURNEY TO SPACE 3D’: See WED.12.

‘MYSTERIES OF THE UNSEEN WORLD 3D’: See WED.12. ‘WILD AFRICA 3D’: See WED.12. ‘WINGS OVER WATER 3D’: See WED.12.

food & drink

POLO PICNIC WITH SUGARBUSH POLO CLUB: Foodies rally their friends for an afternoon of gourmet nosh and VIP views of the game. Sugarbush Polo Field, Shelburne, 12:30-3:30 p.m. $85; preregister; cash bar. Info, 248-224-7539.

STOWE FARMERS MARKET: An appetizing assortment of fresh veggies, meats, milk, berries, herbs, beverages and crafts tempts shoppers. 2043 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, stowefarmersmarket@gmail. com.

SUNDAY FUNDAY: Food and drinks are on tap when attendees gather outside for games. 1st

Gladys Knight & the Pips

KNOW BEFORE YOU GO! DUE TO WIDESPREAD FLOODING IN VERMONT, SOME EVENTS MAY BE CANCELED. CONTACT EVENT ORGANIZERS TO CONFIRM

THE GOOD CITIZEN CHALLENGE is a nonpartisan civics project for Vermont youth in grades K-8. Participants do activities that help them learn about their communities, and practice the skills they’ll need to become informed and engaged adults.

HOW TO PLAY

Complete five activities in a row on this year’s Good Citizen Challenge scorecard and submit evidence of your work at goodcitizenvt.com.

WHAT YOU’LL WIN

All who finish the Challenge will receive a Good Citizen sticker and patch, a pocketsize U.S. Constitution, and an invitation to an awards reception this fall. They’ll also be entered to win other prizes, including a behind-thescenes tour of the Vermont State House, a $100 gift card to Phoenix Books — with locations in Burlington, Essex and Rutland — and a free trip for two to Washington, D.C. courtesy of Milne Travel. No purchase necessary to win.

Congratulations to last year’s big winner, Cate Hjelt of Manchester! She traveled to Washington, D.C. in April, where she met Vermont’s congresswoman, Rep. Becca Balint.

Kids at the Morristown Centennial Library create a banner that explains what Vermont’s state motto, “Freedom and Unity,” means to them — activity #2 on the 2023 Good Citizen Challenge scorecard.

Challenge Organizers Partners

The Evslin Family Foundation

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Republic Brewing, Essex, noon-5 p.m. Free. Info, 857-5318.

WINOOSKI FARMERS MARKET: Families shop for fresh produce, honey, meats, coffee and prepared foods from more seasonal vendors at an outdoor marketplace. Winooski Falls Way, 10 a.m.2 p.m. Free. Info, 655-6410.

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.

montréal

FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL

NUITS D’AFRIQUE: See WED.12.

JUSTE POUR RIRE MONTRÉAL: See FRI.14.

MONTRÉAL COMPLÈTEMENT

CIRQUE: See WED.12.

PIKNIC ÉLECTRONIK MONTRÉAL: A weekly throwdown pairs topquality electronic music with a breathtaking view of Montréal from Île Saint-Hélène, aka St. Helen’s Island. Parc JeanDrapeau, Montréal, 4-10 p.m. $22-47; preregister. Info, info@ piknicelectronik.com.

ZOOFEST & OFF JFL: See THU.13.

music

BLUE MOON MUSIC: A Vermontborn jazz trio plays favorites by the likes of Duke Ellington and Cole Porter. Shelburne Vineyard, 3-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 985-8222.

BURLINGTON CONCERT BAND: Local music lovers bring lawn chairs to a big-band blowout. Battery Park, Burlington, 7-8:45 p.m. Free. Info, 343-3856.

LEVITT AMP ST. JOHNSBURY

MUSIC SERIES: ALBANNACH: The Scottish quintet goes hard on the drums, pipes and didgeridoo. Dog Mountain, St. Johnsbury, 5-7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600.

REMEMBER BAKER: A blend of folk and bluegrass nods to Vermont’s Yankee past. Shelburne Vineyard, 6-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 985-8222.

SUNDAY CLASSICAL: KENNETH

MEYER: Virtuosity and profundity are the hallmarks of this internationally recognized classical guitarist. Burlington City Hall Park, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7166.

VILLAGE HARMONY TEEN

WORLD MUSIC ENSEMBLE: See WED.12. Unitarian Church of Montpelier, 3-5 p.m.

‘WALKING ON THE GREEN

GRASS’: See FRI.14. The Church on the Hill, Weston, 4 p.m.

outdoors

GMC HIKE: PICO PEAK AND KILLINGTON PEAK VIA

SHERBURNE PASS TRAIL: The Green Mountain Club takes advanced hikers on an 11-mile trek between two mountaintops. Sherburne Pass, Killington, 8 a.m.3 p.m. Free; preregister; limited

space. Info, michaeljmortelliti@ gmail.com.

SUMMER NATURE ROMP: Nature center staff guide a wildly fun outing with a new theme each week, from tracking and birding to plant identification and nature journaling. All ages. North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 229-6206.

sports

VERMONT GREEN FC: The state’s newest men’s soccer club continues its second year with flair and a focus on environmental justice. University of Vermont Archie Post Athletic Complex, Burlington, 7 p.m. $8-15; free for kids 5 and under. Info, club@vermontgreenfc. com.

VERMONT LAKE MONSTERS: See FRI.14, 5:05 p.m.

talks

MIRIAM ROSENBLOOM & TOM

GLASER: The vice president of the Vermont Holocaust Memorial and her fellow descendent of Holocaust survivors discuss that harrowing history and its connections to Vermont. Ethan Allen Homestead Museum, Burlington, 2-3 p.m. Free. Info, 865-4556.

theater

‘BUDDY: THE BUDDY HOLLY

STORY’: See WED.12, 3 p.m.

‘CARMEN’: Opera North presents Georges Bizet’s classic work about a soldier who succumbs to a woman’s seductive charms.

Blow-Me-Down Farm, Cornish, N.H., 5 p.m. $30-67.50. Info, 603-448-0400.

CIRCUS SMIRKUS BIG TOP TOUR: ‘A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S CIRCUS’: See SAT.15, 11 a.m. & 4 p.m.

THE MOTHER DIRT CIRCUS & PAGEANT: Bread and Puppet Theater presents a new, familyfriendly program full of political commentary and live brass tunes. Bread and Puppet Theater, Glover, 3 p.m. $10. Info, 525-3031.

‘WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME’: WESTON PLAYHOUSE: See FRI.14, 3 p.m.

‘WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME’: DEPOT THEATRE: See THU.13, 3 p.m.

‘WHAT’S HIS NAME’: See SAT.15.

‘THE WIZARD OF OZ’: See FRI.14, 2 p.m.

words

FRIENDS OF THE STOWE FREE

LIBRARY BOOK SALE: See WED.12. MON.17

UVM DINING JOB FAIRS: See WED.12.

crafts

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.

environment

UNDER THE ARCTIC: DIGGING INTO PERMAFROST: See WED.12.

film

See what’s playing at local theaters in the On Screen section.

‘JOURNEY TO SPACE 3D’: See WED.12.

‘MYSTERIES OF THE UNSEEN WORLD 3D’: See WED.12.

‘WILD AFRICA 3D’: See WED.12.

‘WINGS OVER WATER 3D’: See WED.12.

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

‘AURA’: See WED.12.

FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL

NUITS D’AFRIQUE: See WED.12. JUSTE POUR RIRE MONTRÉAL: See FRI.14.

MONTRÉAL COMPLÈTEMENT

CIRQUE: See WED.12.

ZOOFEST & OFF JFL: See THU.13.

music

BEN & JERRY’S CONCERTS ON THE GREEN: BIG THIEF: SOLD OUT. The indie folk outfit plays hits from its latest album, Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You. Shelburne Museum, 7:30 p.m. $50-54; free for kids 12 and under. Info, 652-0777.

RIVERFOLK: Attendees take in the mellifluous tones of Americana artists, including Brooks Hubbard, Tommy Crawford, Beecharmer and beyond. Courtyard Theater, Barrette Center for the Arts, White River Junction, 5 & 8 p.m. $23.75; free for kids 12 and under; preregister. Info, 296-7000.

VERGENNES CITY BAND

CONCERT: An all-volunteer community ensemble makes music on the green all summer long. Vergennes City Park, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, vergennescityband@ gmail.com.

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.

‘EVICTED’ BOOK DISCUSSION: Neighbors get together for a conversation about Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond. Community Justice Center, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

FRIENDS OF THE STOWE FREE LIBRARY BOOK SALE: See WED.12.

TUE.18 business

UVM DINING JOB FAIRS: See WED.12.

community

CURRENT EVENTS

DISCUSSION GROUP: Brownell Library holds 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, 7:309 p.m. $5. Info, 864-8382.

environment

UNDER THE ARCTIC: DIGGING INTO PERMAFROST: See WED.12.

film

See what’s playing at local theaters in the On Screen section.

‘JOURNEY TO SPACE 3D’: See WED.12.

‘MYSTERIES OF THE UNSEEN WORLD 3D’: See WED.12.

‘PREDATOR’: This classic 1987 Arnold Schwarzenegger action flick follows a paramilitary team’s assault by an intimidating alien hunter. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, mariah@mainstreetlanding.com.

‘THE LOST BIRD PROJECT’: Sustainable Woodstock screens this moving 2012 documentary about one artist’s mission to preserve the memory of five extinct North American birds. Free. Info, 457-2911.

‘WILD AFRICA 3D’: See WED.12. ‘WINGS OVER WATER 3D’: See WED.12.

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.

OLD NORTH END FARMERS

MARKET: Fresh local produce, bread, honey and prepared food bring good vibes to the Queen City’s melting pot. Dewey Park, Burlington, 3-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 355-3910.

health & fitness

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.

PAUSE-CAFÉ FRENCH

CONVERSATION: Francophones and French-language learners meet pour parler la belle langue Burlington Bay Market & Café, 5-7 p.m. Free. Info, 343-5493.

montréal

‘AURA’: See WED.12.

FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL

NUITS D’AFRIQUE: See WED.12.

JUSTE POUR RIRE MONTRÉAL: See FRI.14.

MONTRÉAL COMPLÈTEMENT

CIRQUE: See WED.12.

ZOOFEST & OFF JFL: See THU.13.

music

COMMUNITY SINGERS: A weekly choral meetup welcomes all singers to raise their voices along to traditional (and not-so-traditional) songs. Revels North, Lebanon, N.H., 7:30 p.m. Pay what you can. Info, 603-558-7894.

TUESDAY NIGHT LIVE: LES DEAD

RINGERS: Original songs and covers of artists such as Django Reinhardt and Duke Ellington keep outdoor concertgoers grooving. Legion Field, Johnson, 6-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 730-2943.

seminars

SCIENCE ON TAP: Local scientists give lessons on their varying disciplines while patrons taste local beers. Burlington Beer, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, btvscienceontap@ gmail.com.

sports

VERMONT LAKE MONSTERS: See FRI.14.

theater

CIRCUS SMIRKUS BIG TOP TOUR: ‘A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S CIRCUS’: See WED.12. Fullington Farm, Hanover N.H., 1 & 6 p.m.

‘WHAT THE CONSTITUTION

MEANS TO ME’: WESTON

PLAYHOUSE: See FRI.14.

words

BOOK CLUB BUFFET ONLINE: Readers dig into Lisa Scottoline’s What Happened to the Bennetts? over lunch.

Presented by Dorothy Alling

Memorial Library. 12:30-1:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, programs@ damlvt.org.

FRIENDS OF THE STOWE FREE LIBRARY BOOK SALE: See WED.12.

SUMMER ENVIRONMENTAL BOOK CLUB: Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department biologist

Andrea Shortsleeve facilitates an important conversation about The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World by Oliver Milman. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, bshatara@ burlingtonvt.gov.

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, 985-8222.

WED.19 business

LAKE MONSTER JOB FEST: An employment expo during the baseball game helps job seekers hit a career home run. Register in advance for a free ticket to the game. Centennial Field, Burlington, 5:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 828-4000.

QUEEN CITY BUSINESS NETWORKING INTERNATIONAL GROUP: See WED.12.

UVM DINING JOB FAIRS: See WED.12.

community

COMMUNITY PARTNERS

DESK: HOWARD CENTER: Representatives post up in the main reading room to answer questions and provide resources. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 2-4 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.

environment

LAKE CHAMPLAIN

STORYTELLING EVENT: The Franklin County Stormwater Collaborative hosts a bevy of musicians and tellers of tales to celebrate the lake. Food and drink available for purchase. St. Albans Bay Park, 5-7:15 p.m. Free. Info, 917-426-6318.

UNDER THE ARCTIC: DIGGING INTO PERMAFROST: See WED.12.

film

See what’s playing at local theaters in the On Screen section.

‘JOURNEY TO SPACE 3D’: See WED.12.

‘MYSTERIES OF THE UNSEEN WORLD 3D’: See WED.12.

‘THE LOST BIRD PROJECT’: See TUE.18.

‘WILD AFRICA 3D’: See WED.12. ‘WINGS OVER WATER 3D’: See WED.12.

KNOW BEFORE YOU GO! DUE TO WIDESPREAD FLOODING IN VERMONT, SOME EVENTS MAY BE CANCELED. CONTACT EVENT ORGANIZERS TO CONFIRM

food & drink

COMMUNITY SUPPER: See WED.12.

COOK THE BOOK: Home chefs make a recipe from America’s Test Kitchen’s The Complete Small Plates Cookbook and share the dish at a potluck. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, noon1 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

LEDDY PARK BEACH BITES: See WED.12.

games

MAH-JONGG OPEN PLAY: See WED.12.

health & fitness

CHAIR YOGA: See WED.12.

SEATED & STANDING YOGA: See WED.12.

language

BEGINNER IRISH LANGUAGE CLASS: See WED.12.

ELL CLASSES: ENGLISH FOR BEGINNERS & INTERMEDIATE

STUDENTS: See WED.12.

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.

montréal

‘AURA’: See WED.12.

FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL

NUITS D’AFRIQUE: See WED.12.

JUSTE POUR RIRE MONTRÉAL: See FRI.14.

MONTRÉAL COMPLÈTEMENT

CIRQUE: See WED.12.

ZOOFEST & OFF JFL: See THU.13.

music

‘CLASSICAL ENCOUNTERS’: Green Mountain Chamber Music presents a summertime concert in the air-conditioned auditorium. ADA accessible. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 1:302:30 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

CRAFTSBURY CHAMBER

PLAYERS: See WED.12.

MUSIC AT THE BEACH: Vermont Symphony Orchestra musicians play for picnickers. Charlotte Town Beach, 6-7 p.m. Regular admission, $5-10; donations accepted. Info, 343-4350.

NOMFUSI: The acclaimed South African singer blends traditional Xhosa tunes with soul

and Afro-pop. Food available for purchase. Martha Pellerin & Andy Shapiro Memorial Bandstand, Middlesex, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 272-4920.

SUMMER CONCERT SERIES:

CLOVER KOVAL: The multi-instrumentalist singer plays everything from trumpet to guitar in her quest to convey psychedelic sad cowgirl vibes. Burlington City Hall Park, 12:30-1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7166.

ZACH NUGENT UNCORKED: See WED.12.

outdoors

RUTLAND COUNTY AUDUBON

ANNUAL MEETING: All are welcome to this potluck dinner and board meeting of their local organization of outdoorsfolk. Proctor Free Library, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info,

birding@rutlandcountyaudubon. org.

seminars

CHANGING THE GAME: ALIGNING YOUR INVESTMENTS WITH YOUR VALUES: Author Joel Solomon joins Copper Leaf Financial for a webinar about investing with an eye toward both profit and social change. Noon-1 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 203-915-7869.

sports

GREEN MOUNTAIN TABLE TENNIS CLUB: See WED.12.

VERMONT LAKE MONSTERS: See FRI.14.

theater

‘CARMEN’: See SUN.16, 7 p.m.

Pursue Your Passions

CIRCUS SMIRKUS BIG TOP TOUR: ‘A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S CIRCUS’: See TUE.18.

‘WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME’: WESTON PLAYHOUSE: See FRI.14, 2 & 7:30 p.m.

words

BANNED BOOKS TOUR: See WED.12. Northshire Bookstore, Manchester, 5 p.m. Free. Info, 828-2226.

FRIENDS OF THE STOWE FREE LIBRARY BOOK SALE: See WED.12.

VIRTUAL POETRY OPEN

MIC: Wordsmiths read their work at an evening with local performance poet Bianca Amira Zanella. Presented by Phoenix Books. 7-8:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 855-8078. ➆

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classes

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art

GLASSMAKING CAMPS: Practice the mesmerizing art of glassmaking! In this weeklong camp, students in grades 3-8 can hone their skills at glass fusing, sculpting and blowing under the guidance of glass artist Sam Lightner in her on-site studio at Camp Meade. Registration is open and scholarships are available. Learn more at campmeade.today. Mon.-Fri., Jul. 17-21 or Aug. 21-25, 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Cost: $275. Location: Camp Meade, 961 Route 2, Middlesex. Info: 802-279-3148, planetaryartcamp@gmail.com, campmeade. today/summer-art-camps.

IMMERSIVE ART WORKSHOP: New York City meets Montpelier in this exciting workshop, “Figure

Drawing/Painting Immersive,” with NYC-based artist Bill Murphy. Join with fellow artists/ enthusiasts in this dynamic workshop for artists of all levels

and embark on a creative journey to transform your artistic practice in a supportive and academic atmosphere. Jul. 24-28, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Cost: $500 for 20 hours of professional instruction w/ live models. Location: Art Immersion Montpelier, 115 Main St., Montpelier. Info: Joseph Loccisano, 941-746-5646, loccisj@ gmail.com, ready-aim.com.

RAINFOREST ART CAMP: Become immersed in an investigation of tropical rainforests! Kids entering grades K-3 can take a creative journey to the rainforest in this weeklong day camp by creating multimedia animal collages, drawings, watercolor and acrylic paintings, and clay sculptures. Registration is open and scholarships are available. More info at campmeade.today. Mon.-Fri., Aug, 7-11, 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Cost: $275. Location: Camp Meade, 961 Route 2, Middlesex.

Info: 802-279-3148, planetaryartcamp@gmail.com, campmeade. today/summer-art-camps.

craft

SEWING CLASSES ON PINE ST.:

Join us in Fourbital Factory’s new education center, Continuing rED, to learn sewing techniques. e curriculum is inspired by Fourbital Factory’s professional in-house course, “Fundamentals of Sewing.” We’re offering 8-day (Mon.- u.; 32 hours) beginner sewing classes and 5-day (Mon.-Fri.; 25 hours) intermediate sewing classes. 2 sessions for beginners: Mon.- u., Jul. 10-20 or Jul. 24-Aug. 3. Cost: $800/8 days w/ 32 hours of instruction & supported hands-on work time. Intermediate session: Aug. 7-11. Cost: $500/5 days w/ 25 hours of instruction & supported hands-on work time. Open studio hours are offered Wed. & u., 3-5 p.m., at no additional charge. “Sewing for Beginners” or proficiency in basic sewing skills req. for intermediate class. Location: Continuing rED at Fourbital Factory, 750 Pine St. #2, Burlington. Info: 802-487-6408, susan@fourbitalfactory.com, four bitalfactory.com/continuing-thred.

culinary

BRITISH BAKING WITH SUMMER FRUITS: Join our class to create

two delicious summer desserts: Victoria sandwich cake with lemon curd and summer berry trifle. Mix ingredients, cook lemon curd and custard, assemble stunning desserts, and impress guests! Each student takes home a personal trifle, and we sample the cakes together. Locally sourced ingredients. No baking experience needed. Note: Masking is optional. Sat., Jul. 15, 1-3 p.m. Cost: $60. Location: Richmond Community Kitchen, 13 Jolina Ct., Richmond. Info: 802434-3445, sevendaystickets.com.

gardening

FLOWER ARRANGING: Learn sustainable flower arranging! No foam used. Join us for a demo, create your own bowl arrangement with lush flowers and take it home. Limited space, so sign up early and bring a friend! Nibbles, refreshments and great memories included. Wed., Jul. 19, noon. Cost: $100. Location: Sterling Forest Lodge, 3791 Sterling Valley Rd., Stowe. Info: mothra6@earth link.net, sevendaystickets.com.

martial arts

AIKIDO: THE POWER OF HARMONY: Discover the dynamic, flowing martial art of aikido. Relax under pressure and cultivate core power, aerobic fitness and resiliency. Aikido emphasizes throws,

joint locks and internal power. Circular movements teach how to blend with the attack. We offer inclusive classes and a safe space for all. Visitors should watch a class before joining. Beginners’ classes 4 days a week. Membership rates incl. unlimited classes. Contact us for info about membership rates for adults, youths & families.

Location: Aikido of Champlain Valley, 257 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Benjamin Pincus, 802-9518900, bpincus@burlingtonaikido. org, burlingtonaikido.org.

massage

PHENOMENAL TOUCH MASSAGE

CLASS: Phenomenal Touch

Massage’s “Head, Neck and Shoulder” class. Taught by creator and founder Leslie Bruder, this 2-day class will introduce you to some of the moves and principles of this unique and powerful modality. Phenomenal Touch advanced and transformed my massage practice; it can do the same for you. Jul. 19 & 20, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Cost: $385. Location: Manfred Dome, Northfield. Info: Institute for Phenomenal Touch, Mary Stark, 917-373-5060, memstar2@marystarkmassage. org, phenomenaltouch.com.

music

RISE UP ROCK CAMP: is summer, young rockers can amp it up at Rise Up Rock Camp! Campers come together as a band to enhance music skills and forge friendships by learning new instruments, writing songs and jamming with friends. Kids of all musical ability and experience levels are welcome. Learn more at campmeade.today. Aug. 7-11, 8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Cost: $350. Location: Camp Meade, 961 Route 2, Middlesex. Info: 802-279-3148, planetaryartcamp@ gmail.com, campmeade.today/ summer-art-camps.

well-being

TASTE OF PEACE WORKSHOP: Psst. Hey, you. You are not the only one hoping for things to get better and worrying they won’t. We’ve all been feeling out of sorts and on edge. Yup. It’s exhausting. Imagine having the energy and peace of mind to enjoy being you (again). Join us and learn to spark your joy. Wed. through end of Aug., noon-1:30 p.m. Cost: $25/ for each 1.5-hour class. Attend as often as you can!. Location: Zoom. Info: Kristine Burke, 929-2900056, kristine.burke@masterfulu. com, masterfulu.com.

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AGE/SEX: 5-year-old neutered male ARRIVAL DATE: March 29, 2023

SUMMARY: Tucker was originally a foster dog through All Breed Rescue; Tucker’s foster took on his care after the organization closed but was unable to keep him long-term. Transitioning to the shelter setting has been hard for sweet Tucker, and he would love to get into his next home as soon as possible. Tucker loves to run outside, play ball and lounge around on the couch. He’s affectionate with his people and enjoys chewing a good bone. If you can make this golden boy your one and only, he would very much appreciate being picked up by his new people sooner than later.

DOGS/CATS/KIDS: Tucker is uncomfortable around other dogs and is reactive to them — he needs to be the only dog in his new home. He has no known history with cats, but we think he’ll be most successful without a cat. His history with kids is unknown, but he may do well with older teens.

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.

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ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION 4C1081-3 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001 - 6111

Application 4C1081-3 from Roberts Revocable Living Trust, c/o Michael & Lynn Roberts, 500 Oak Knoll Road, Williston, VT 05495 was received on June 22, 2023 and deemed complete on June 28, 2023. The project is generally described as construction of twelve (12) storage unit buildings along with a 40’ x 60’ equipment warehouse on an undeveloped 10.56 acre parcel. The project is located at 2022A Shelburne Road in Shelburne, Vermont. This application can be viewed online by visiting the Act 250 Database: (https://anrweb. vt.gov/ANR/Act250/Details.aspx?Num=4C1081-3).

No hearing will be held and a permit will be issued unless, on or before July 26, 2023, a party notifies 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 defined 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 Office 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 June 29, 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 4C1356

10 V.S.A. §§ 6001 - 6111

Application 4C1356 from Sally’s Way Homeowners’ Association, Inc., Attn: Scott Michaud, 270 Sutton Farm Drive, Shelburne, VT 05482 was received on June 21, 2023 and deemed complete on June 30, 2023. The project is generally described as construction of 14 three-bedroom townhome units (15 total, including one existing residence to remain) on footprint lots, to be served by new municipal water and sewer mains with individual service connections. The water and sewer mains will be an expansion of existing municipal infrastructure. The project will be served by a new town road. The project is located at 230 Mountain View Road in Williston, Vermont. This application can be viewed online by visiting the Act 250 Database: (https://anrweb.vt.gov/ANR/Act250/ Details.aspx?Num=4C1356).

No hearing will be held and a permit will be issued unless, on or before July 28, 2023, a party notifies 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 defined 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 Office 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 July 5, 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

BURLINGTON DEVELOPMENT REVIEW BOARD

TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 2023, 5:00 PM

PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE

Hybrid & In Person (at 645 Pine Street) Meeting Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83225696227?

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Telephone: US +1 929 205 6099 or +1 301 715 8592 or +1 312 626 6799 or +1 669 900 6833 or +1 253 215 8782 or +1 346 248 7799

1. ZP-23-284; 266 College Street (FD5, Ward 8E) Giri Burlington Property, LLC / 266 Greencastle, LLC

Proposed renovation of existing building to construct a 6-story addition with rental housing and two levels of parking below street grade.

Plans may be viewed upon request by contacting the Department of Permitting & Inspections between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Participation in the DRB proceeding is a prerequisite to the right to take any subsequent appeal. Please note that ANYTHING submitted to the Zoning office is considered public and cannot be kept confidential. This may not be the final order in which items will be heard. Please view final Agenda, at www.burlingtonvt.gov/dpi/drb/agendas or the office notice board, one week before the hearing for the order in which items will be heard.

The City of Burlington will not tolerate unlawful harassment or discrimination on the basis of political or religious affiliation, race, color, national origin, place of birth, ancestry, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, veteran status, disability, HIV positive status, crime victim status or genetic information. The City is also committed to providing proper access to services, facilities, and employment opportunities. For accessibility information or alternative formats,

please contact Human Resources Department at (802) 540-2505.

The programs and services of the City of Burlington are accessible to people with disabilities. Individuals who require special arrangements to participate are encouraged to contact the Zoning Division at least 72 hours in advance so that proper accommodations can be arranged. For information call 865-7188 (TTY users: 865-7142).

FRANKLIN NORTHEAST SUPERVISORY UNION

Enosburgh-Richford UUSD is soliciting proposals for the lease of a van for Cold Hollow Career Center.

Interested bidders should contact Morgan Daybell (morgan.daybell@fnesu.org; 802-848-7661) for a copy of the Request for Proposals. Proposals will be accepted until 4:30 PM, Tuesday, August 8, 2023.

MCHAWK APARTMENTS, LLC

The contents of storage garage #12 located at McHawk Dr., Colchester VT will be sold on or about the 29th of July 2023 to satisfy the debt of Jim Billings. Any person claiming a right to the goods may pay the amount claimed due and reasonable expenses before the sale, in which case the sale may not occur.

PROPOSED STATE RULES

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By law, public notice of proposed rules must be given by publication in newspapers of record. The purpose of these notices is to give the public a chance to respond to the proposals. The public notices for administrative rules are now also available online at https://secure.vermont.gov/ SOS/rules/ . The law requires an agency to hold a public hearing on a proposed rule, if requested to do so in writing by 25 persons or an association having at least 25 members.

To make special arrangements for individuals with disabilities or special needs please call or write the contact person listed below as soon as possible.

To obtain further information concerning any scheduled hearing(s), obtain copies of proposed rule(s) or submit comments regarding proposed rule(s), please call or write the contact person listed below. You may also submit comments in writing to the Legislative Committee on Administrative Rules, State House, Montpelier, Vermont 05602 (802-828-2231).

Pandemic-Era General Assistance Emergency Housing Transition.

Vermont Proposed Rule: 23E05

AGENCY: Agency of Human Services

CONCISE SUMMARY: This rule expands categorical eligibility for temporary housing assistance under General Assistance rule 2652.3 from families with children aged six or under to families with children under 18 years of age or who are 18 or 19 years of age and attending secondary school on full-time basis or an equivalent level of vocational or technical training, pursuant to the Executive Order. This rule updates the basic needs standard chart in rule 2652.4 to align with the current Reach Up basic needs standard and amends the methodology in rule 2652.4 for calculating the 30 percent income contribution. This rule establishes two new sections: (1) rule 2652.5, which implements sec. 6 of Act 81 of 2023; and (2) rule 2652.6, which clarifies that the maximum number of days a household may receive housing assistance resets July 1, 2023, and rescinds all waivers and variances of the rules previously in place from March 2020 through June 2023.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Heidi Moreau, Agency of Human Services, Department for Children and Families, 280 State Drive, NOB 1 North, Waterbury, VT 05671 Tel: 802-595-9639 Email: heidi.moreau@vermont.gov URL: https:// dcf.vermont.gov/esd/laws-rules/current.

FOR COPIES: Jennifer Myka, Agency of Human Services, Department for Children and Families,

280 State Drive, NOB 1 North, Waterbury, VT 05671

Tel: 802-798-9824 Email: jennifer.myka@vermont. gov.

PUBLIC HEARING

Winooski City Council will hold a public hearing on Monday, July 17, 2023, at 6 PM at Winooski City Hall (27 West Allen Street) in the Claire Burke City Council Chambers to consider the adoption of Chapter 28 (Fees) of the City’s Municipal Code. Pursuant to Section 19-401 of the Charter of the City of Winooski, this chapter of the ordinance shall be adopted to (1) remove the marriage license fee dollar amount (referencing only state statute) and (2) establish other fees.

RFP FOR BOILER UPGRADES

Essex Westford School District is seeking bids for boiler upgrades at Essex High School. Bids must be submitted no later than Monday, July 31, 2023 at 3:00 pm.

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STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT PROBATE DIVISION CHITTENDEN UNIT DOCKET NO.: 23-PR-02101

In re the ESTATE of Richard Thomas Joseph Flynn

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

To the creditors of the estate of Richard Thomas Joseph Flynn, late of South Burlington, 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: June 27, 2023

Signature of Fiduciary: /s/ Jack DuBrul

Executor/Administrator: Jack DuBrul c/o Little & Cicchetti, P.C., P.O. Box 907, Burlington, VT 05402-0907; 802-862-6511

Name of Publication: Seven Days

Publication Date: 7/5/2023

Name of Probate Court: Vermont Superior Court, Chittenden Unit, Probate Division

Address of Probate Court: P.O. Box 511 Burlington, VT 05402-0511

STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT PROBATE DIVISION CHITTENDEN UNIT DOCKET NO.: 23-PR-01250

In re ESTATE of Alan M. Dinwiddie

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

To the creditors of: Alan M. Dinwiddie, late of Burlington, 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: July 10, 2023

Signature of Fiduciary: /s/ Andrew H. Montroll, Esq. Executor/Administrator: Andrew H. Montroll, Esq. PO Box 1045, Burlington, VT 05402 amontroll@mblawoffice.com 802-540-0250

Name of Publication: Seven Days

Publication Date: 7/12/2023

Name of Probate Court: Vermont Superior Court, Chittenden Unit, Probate Division

Address of Probate Court: 175 Main St, Burlington, VT 05401

STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT PROBATE DIVISION CHITTENDEN UNIT DOCKET NO.: 23-PR-02466

In re ESTATE of Lawrence Brunette

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

To the creditors of: Lawrence Brunette, late of Burlington, 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: July 10, 2023

Signature of Fiduciary: /s/ Andrew H. Montroll, Esq.

Executor/Administrator: Andrew H. Montroll, Esq. PO Box 1045, Burlington, VT 05402 amontroll@mblawoffice.com, 802-540-0250

Name of Publication: Seven Days

Publication Date: 7/12/2023

Name of Probate Court: Vermont Superior Court, Chittenden Unit, Probate Division

Address of Probate Court: 175 Main St, Burlington, VT 05401

STATE OF VERMONT VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT

WASHINGTON UNIT, CIVIL DIVISION

DOCKET NO: 142-3-20 WNCV

HSBC Bank USA, National Association, as Trustee for GSAA Home Equity Trust 2005-12, Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2005-12

v.

Andrew Montroll, Esq., as Administrator of the Estate of John E. Alex and Vermont Department of Taxes

Occupants Of: 4334 Vermont Route 1, Warren VT

Mortgagee’s Notice of Foreclosure Sale of Real Property Under 12 V.S.A. sec 4952 et seq.

In accordance with the Judgment Order and Decree of Foreclosure entered December 21, 2021, in the above captioned action brought to foreclose that certain mortgage given by John E. Alex and the late Mary Ann Clark to Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., dated March 11, 2005 and recorded in Book 172 Page 702 of the land records of the Town of Warren, of which mortgage the Plaintiff is the present holder, by virtue of an Assignment of Mortgage from Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. to HSBC Bank USA, National Association, as Trustee for GSAA Home Equity Trust 2005-12, Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2005-12 dated March 26, 2013 and recorded in Book 221 Page 520 of the land records of the Town of Warren for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 4334 Vermont Route 1, Warren, Vermont on July 26, 2023 at 11:00 AM all and singular the premises described in said mortgage,

To wit:

Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to John E. Alex and Mary Ann Clark by Warranty Deed of John Simko and Doreen Simko of even or approximate date herewith and to be recorded in the land records of the Town of Warren, Vermont.

Being all and the same lands and premises as were conveyed to John Simko and Doreen Simko by Warranty Deed of Russell C. LoGuidice dated November 28, 1977 and recorded December 6, 1977 in Book 46, pages 455-456 of the land records of the Town of Warren, Vermont.

Being all and the same lands and premises as were conveyed to Russell LoGuidice by Warranty Deed of Alvin J. Babcock and John M. Murphy dated

October 3, 1972 and recorded October 18, 1972 in Book 36, pages 442-445 of the land records of the Town of Warren, Vermont.

Being lands and premises said to consist of approximately 2.3 acres of land with a residence thereon, located at 4334 Vermont Route 100 in Warren, Vermont, Said lands are, in fact, bisected by Vermont Route 100.

Subject to and with the benefit of rights, restrictions, covenants, terms, rights-of-way and easements referenced in the above mentioned deeds and instruments and their records, or otherwise of record in the Town of Warren Land Records, and subject to terms and conditions of state and local land use regulations and any permits issued by any state or local authority under those regulations, which are valid and enforceable at law on the date of this deed - not meaning by such language to renew or reinstate any encumbrance which is otherwise barred by the provisions of Vermont law.

Reference may be had to the above mentioned deeds and their records, and to all prior deeds and instruments and their records, for a more particular description of the herein conveyed lands and premises.

Reference is hereby made to the above instruments and to the records and references contained therein in further aid of this description.

Terms of sale: Said premises will be sold and conveyed subject to all liens, encumbrances, unpaid taxes, tax titles, municipal liens and assessments, if any, which take precedence over the said mortgage above described.

TEN THOUSAND ($10,000.00) Dollars of the purchase price must be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check at the time and place of the sale by the purchaser. The balance of the purchase price shall be paid by a bank wire, certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check within sixty (60) days after the date the Confirmation Order is entered by the Court. All checks should be made payable to “Bendett & McHugh, PC, as Trustee”.

The mortgagor is entitled to redeem the premises at any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage, including the costs and expenses of the sale. Other terms to be announced at the sale.

DATED : June 16, 2023

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e Customer Care Coordinator serves as the front-line response for all questions and concerns related to campus housing. Additionally, this position welcomes visitors, books space reservations, and oversees administrative duties in the main o ce for the Department of Residential Life.

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e University of Vermont is an Equal Opportunity/A rmative Action Employer. All quali ed applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other category legally protected by federal or state law. is position has a salary range of $40K —$45K, and is bene ts eligible. For more information on job responsibilities, quali cations, and the application process, please visit UVMJOBS.COM (posting #S4422PO)

is position will provide executive-level support, coordination, and project management for the Vice Provost of Student Affairs and Dean of Students. is position will welcome and triage all questions and requests received in the Office of the Vice Provost and Dean of Students. e Assistant to the Vice Provost will interact with projects and communications that may be highly confidential and sensitive in nature. is position will also organize and implement all Divisionwide events for 250 staff members and planning meetings for Division Leadership. e Assistant to the Vice Provost will coordinate with other University community members and those relevant to the VPSA's participation in a variety of activities.

Please email Michael Bustamantes at mbustamantes@howardcenter.org or call at 802.404.7811

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package includes 29 paid days off in the first year, health insurance plan with premium as month, up to $6,400 to go towards medical and copays, a retirement match, and so much

top of working at one of the “Best Places to Vermont” for five years running.

The Town of Shelburne has an immediate opening for a team-oriented Truck Driver/ Laborer. This full-time position is responsible for operating trucks and equipment to maintain Town roads and properties and working as a laborer on Town projects. A commercial driver’s license or the ability to obtain one within six months is required. A complete job description is available at: Human Resources | Shelburne, VT - shelburnevt.org/237/ Human-Resources.

For a complete job description, benefits information, and to apply online, please visit: bit.ly/44zyTR2

management ($47,000 annual), direct support and Employment Specialist ($20/hr) at an agency serving Vermonters with intellectual positions include a generous sign-on bonus. making a difference. Apply today at Current Champlain Community Services

To apply, submit employment application and/or resume to scannizzaro@shelburnevt.org.

WHY NOT HAVE A JOB YOU LOVE?

Benefit package includes 29 paid days off in the first year, comprehensive health insurance plan with premium as low as $13 per month, up to $6,400 to go towards medical deductibles and copays, a retirement match, and so much more.

And that’s on top of working at one of the “Best Places to Work in Vermont” for five years running.

Great jobs in management ($47,000 annual), direct support ($19-$20/hr) & Employment Specialist ($20/hr) at an awardwinning agency serving Vermonters with intellectual disabilities. All positions include a generous sign-on bonus.

Client Services/Admin Assistant

This job includes checking clients in/out, scheduling appointments, managing multiple text, email/phone conversations. Strong organizational skills with working knowledge of Squarespace, QuickBooks and Microsoft Office. Are you a friendly, hardworking, and dependable person with strong communication skills and attention to detail? This is a unique opportunity!

• Experience working with dogs preferred

• Ability to lift 50 lbs and stand for 8 hours. No exceptions.

• Available at 7:30am

• Must love cleaning and working in an organized environment

• Attention to detail

• Ability to communicate professionally & work well with others

• Must be punctual and reliable

• Competitive wages, 30-40+ hours, PTO, SIMPLE IRA

Email resume: info@doggiestylesvt.com

Make a career making a difference. Apply today at ccs-vt.org/current-openings

Hayward Tyler, a leading manufacturer of industrial pumps & motors in Colchester, is seeking candidates to fill the following positions:

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT

haywardtyler.com/job_listing/administrative-assistant/

IT SUPPORT SPECIALIST

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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 and 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.

FOOD SERVICE WORKER

Full-time, Part-time and Per-Diem Opportunities available for Food Service Workers. We’re happy to o er a new hourly wage starting at $16.30/ hour. Shift di erentials up to $6.15 per hour.

Learn More & Apply: uvmhealthnetworkcareers.org/ food-service_sevendays

ATTENTION RECRUITERS:

Are you looking for an innovative, dynamic, and collaborative place to work?

Join us at Lake Champlain Waldorf School to deliver a holistic and developmental approach to education.

Open Positions:

• Fourth Grade Teacher

• Front Office Manager

www.lakechamplainwaldorfschool.org

Youth

and Community Programs Coordinator

Interested in connecting people to the places where they live, play, work, and learn?

Stowe Land Trust, a local land conservation nonprofit in Stowe, VT, is seeking a Community Programs Coordinator! This VHCB AmeriCorps position offers an exciting opportunity to make an impact at the community level. Visit stowelandtrust.org for position description and information on how to apply.

Assistant Director of Admission & Athletic Recruitment

The Office of Admission at Saint Michael’s College invites applications for the Assistant Director of Admission and Athletic Recruitment position. The position involves cultivating relationships with recruited student athletes as well as counseling and advising potential first-year and transfer student athletes and their families about educational opportunities, admission, transfer of credit, financial assistance, and university and NCAA policies and requirements. The Assistant Director of Admission and Athletic Recruitment will represent Saint Michael’s College to a variety of constituencies in a range of settings. Important functions include high school visits, college nights, college fairs, and alumni contacts. The successful candidate will join a highly motivated and supportive admission team and will have the opportunity to work collaboratively and independently in a fast-paced environment. For a complete job description, benefits information, and to apply online, please visit: https://bit.ly/SMCADAAR

Vermont statewide, school-based, literacy mentoring program for elementary-aged children

PROGRAM MANAGERS (2)

• West: Chittenden, Addison, Rutland counties

• East: Washington, Orange, Windsor, Caledonia, Orleans counties

• 20 hrs/wk

• Willing to combine for 1 FT for the right applicant

• $20/hr DOQ

Supportive environment, flexibility, and autonomy.

"Vermont Adult Learning opens the door to a world of possibility for our students."

Maureen,

-

VAL employee of 33 years

Work with motivated students who are choosing education! Vermont Adult Learning seeks compassionate and versatile candidates interested in working with students on their educational journey with VAL and beyond.

Work education! nate and students beyond.

Learn more about current opportunities at vtad u It learn i ng.org/a bout-us/#careers

To apply, submit a cover letter and resume to Rebecca Campbell

Human Resources Director rcampbell@vtadultlearning.org

Human Resources Director rcampbell@vtadultlearning.org

Established construction company seeking experienced Designer, Estimator & Carpenter

Architectural Designer & Estimator

Candidates must have detailed knowledge of construction phases, processes and materials, be proficient with AutoCAD, Chief Architect and Excel. Candidates should also be able to communicate effectively via email and be able to collaborate with colleagues, owners, suppliers and subcontractors. Compensation based on experience and work performance. This position is not remote.

Experienced Carpenter

Work on new construction and renovation projects that are local. Looking for someone with attention to detail, outstanding craftsmanship and professionalism. Compensation based on experience and work performance. Possible additional benefits for the right person. Work hours are 7 AM – 3:30 PM Monday-Friday. Five paid holidays to start & potential to earn paid time off. To apply, please email name, contact info, applicable experience to mark@mgalebuilders.com

Social Media & Community Content Specialist

The Office of Marketing and Communications at Saint Michael’s College invites applications for a Social Media and Community Content Specialist position. Successful candidates will apply their writing experience, social media savvy, creativity, and enthusiasm to help share the news, events, and stories of the College’s community. The person in this position will conduct outreach to faculty, staff, and students to discover those stories that help convey the exceptional experiences students have at the College and the impacts made by students, alumni, faculty, and staff on and beyond campus. As a member of the Marketing and Communications team, the position will collaborate regularly to amplify these stories, leveraging writing, photography, and video posted to the website, through the College newsletter, and on social media. Candidates should have experience using AP Style, a passion for social media, and a solid interest in using video and photography to help tell compelling stories. For a complete job description, benefits information, and to apply online, please visit: https://bit.ly/SMCSMCCS

Assistant Director of Student Activities, Recreation, and Fitness

The Office of Student Activities and Department of Athletics is inviting applications for the newly created Assistant Director of Student Activities, Recreation, and Fitness position. The Assistant Director’s primary focus will be on revitalizing the intramural programming and all aspects, entailing marketing efforts, hiring student workers, running the programs, and assessing outcomes. This Assistant Director serves as the primary advisor for all club sports on campus and is responsible for scheduling, budget management, travel, purchasing, goal setting, leadership development, marketing, and assessment. This role reports to the Director of Student Activities and works closely with the Director of Athletic Internal Operations. For a complete job description, benefits information, and to apply online, please visit: bit.ly/SMCADSARF

Regular travel between program sites required.

More info & to apply: everybodywinsvermont.org

E.O.E

“Seven Days sales rep Michelle Brown is amazing! She’s extremely responsive, and I always feel so taken care of.”

"Vermont of years

You’re in good hands with...

FULL AND PART TIME RETAIL ASSOCIATES

We are actively seeking individuals to join our team as full time and part time Retail Associates. Responsibilities include assisting customers in a helpful, positive, manner while maintaining the appearance of the store and assisting with operational and merchandising duties.

Full-time positions available at our Ferrisburgh retail store and part-time positions available at our South Burlington location. No experience necessary. We o er competitive compensation, generous employee discounts, and a supportive work environment.

For an application or more information please email: tdanyow@dakinfarm.com You can also give us a call or stop by one of our retail stores : 5797 Route 7, Ferrisburgh 100 Dorset

TOUR COORDINATORS

Travel is booming, and we are growing! Music Contact International, a group tour operator specializing in customized domestic and international performance travel, is seeking full-time Tour Coordinators.

Join our team, and be part of a community of dedicated, bright, and well-traveled professionals!

Salary range: 55-60k

For more details on the roles and application process, visit:

TOUR COORDINATOR: bit.ly/MCItourCoord

No phone calls, please.

LEASING CONSULTANT

Property Management Company looking for an articulate, energetic people-person to join their team full-time. Some tasks included in position are conducting property tours, communicating with prospective renters, processing applications, providing extraordinary customer service, scheduling appointments, taking the lead on the marketing efforts and community outreach, planning resident events and administrative tasks. Must be able to multitask and thrive in a fast-paced environment. Strong sales aptitude and computer proficiency is required.

The work schedule is Monday-Friday, 11am - 5pm. Candidate must be flexible and willing to work as needed.

If interested, please e-mail resume to: dfinnigan@hallkeen.com.

Digital Marketing & Communications Specialist

First Congregational Church of Essex Junction, an Open and Affirming congregation, is seeking a qualified individual to oversee and manage our social media channels and website.

The Digital Marketing and Communications Specialist solicits, designs, and generates content across the various media and platforms to maximize potential impact and promote FCCEJ as a welcoming and progressive Christian faith community. The role is responsible for coordinating content with church committees and staff, and helping set up content for online streaming services. The position is part-time (10 hours/week) with flexible hours.

For more information or to apply, send a cover letter and resume to: welcome@FCCEJ.org, Attn: Human Resources Committee.

CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER ADMINISTRATIVE COORDINATOR

The Northwest Unit for Special Investigations Children’s Advocacy Center is looking for an Administrative Coordinator to assist the Executive Director in the daily operations.

This position involves various duties that include bookkeeping, data entry and case tracking, greeting clients, and facilitating the multidisciplinary teamwork that the unit coordinates. In addition to the current job duties, there are opportunities for job growth and additional skills.

We work closely with our partner agencies, local Law Enforcement, Child Protection, State’s Attorneys offices, and mental health and medical providers in response to reports of serious child abuse and sexual assault. Required are a high school diploma or GED, and ability to pass a background check. Experience with basic bookkeeping and/or QuickBooks is highly desirable.

If interested, please forward resume to: BETTY.LAVOIE@PARTNER.VERMONT.GOV www.vermontchildrensalliance.org

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

Sunday, August 6, 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 required by law. Current University of Vermont Health Network employees are excluded and additional terms and conditions apply.

Questions? Call or Email 802-488-5818 rebecca.spencer@vthitec.org

• Direct patient care

• Team environment

• Full Benefits

• Dedicated support during the 5-week program

• Paid Certified Phlebotomy Technician Exam

GENETIC INFORMATION, OR BECAUSE THEY ARE AN

Development Manager

Yestermorrow Design/Build School is seeking a talented, self-motivated individual to further the School’s development e orts. This person will work closely with the Executive Director to cultivate existing donor relationships and to provide insight, direction and leadership to our school’s fundraising initiatives, which include special events, major gifts, grant writing, and more.

Prior fundraising experience, especially at a nonprofit, is required. Potential for hybrid in-person/remote work.

Base Pay Starting at $23/hour based on experience plus generous benefit package.

For a more detailed job description visit our website at: yestermorrow.org/jobs.

KAS, Inc. is looking for spirited and motivated people to join our team providing high quality environmental services in the northeastern United States.

Environmental Technician/ Staff Scientist

Conduct field work and data entry/reporting associated with environmental jobs. Work requires an extensive amount of hands on duties including troubleshooting environmental and mechanical equipment. A degree in Environmental Science or Geology is recommended.

Project Scientist

Experienced project manager to lead in remedial system design/implementation, geological and brownfields investigations, environmental site assessments, technical writing and more. A minimum of three years’ experience and a degree in environmental science, geology or environmental engineering is recommended.

KAS is a dynamic company with great growth potential. Competitive salary and benefits are available. Submit a letter of interest & resume: info@kas-consulting.com

OR mail to: KAS,

TECHNICIAN

Junction Auto Center

We are currently looking to hire a seasoned Auto Tech. This is a familyowned business of over 38 years. We service and repair most makes of cars and light trucks, specializing in the Subaru brand. Dependability and attention to detail are a must!

• 5 day work week, great pay based on experience and capability.

• Basic tools are required. Valid driver’s license required.

• Paid holidays, vacation and sick time. Busy shop, year round.

If this seems like the right opportunity, please apply. References required. Call 802-453-5552 for appointment, or email andrew@junctionautocenter.com

Human Resources & Administrative Assistant

CSWD has an immediate opening for a highly organized and reliable professional who will provide customer service and oversee front lobby duties. This position will enthusiastically answer inquiries from the public, provide routine information about CSWD programs, have excellent verbal and written communication skills, and assist with numerous projects including website editing and data entry.

The ideal candidate will have an associate’s degree in human resources or communications with two years’ experience. Proficiency working with MS Office, WordPress, and social media platforms is recommended. Full-time position, competitive salary ($21-$24/hour) and excellent benefit package. Submit cover letter and resume to Amy Jewell at ajewell@cswd.net by 7/20/2023.

Maintenance Operator

CSWD Maintenance Department supports operations through maintenance and transporting materials. This position does a variety of tasks including basic electrical and plumbing skills, painting, sandblasting equipment, mowing, plowing, and basic vehicle maintenance. A minimum of two years’ general maintenance experience and the ability to drive a roll-off truck required. Competitive salary ($22-$25/hour) and excellent benefit package. This position is open until filled. Call CSWD at 802-872-8100.

For more information on positions and CSWD, visit: cswd.net/about-cswd/job-openings/.

SHARED LIVING PROVIDERS

Provide home supports to individuals with intellectual disabilities and autism. Positions include a generous sign on bonus and stipend, respite, comprehensive training & support, and the opportunity to make a positive impact in someone’s life. The perfect match for you and your household awaits! Live with an individual who enjoys watching gameshows, relaxing at home and going out to coffee shops. The ideal candidate will be flexible, patient and have the desire to make a difference in someone’s life. This is a great solution for housing and employment!

Provide residential supports in your home to a charming, gowith-the-flow gentleman who enjoys creating art, swimming, bowling and being included in household activities. The ideal candidate will be upbeat, positive and inclusive.

Support a personable gentleman part-time in your accessible home. This individual enjoys socializing, accessing the community and wood-working. The ideal candidate will support him with these adventures and with activities of daily living.

Contact Jennifer Wolcott 655-0511, ext. 118 or jwolcott@ccs-vt.org

WE’RE LOOKING FOR dynamic, mission-driven people who want their work to make a positive difference in Vermont and for Vermonters. The Community College of Vermont is Vermont’s second largest college, serving nearly 10,000 students each year. CCV is deeply rooted in Vermont communities, providing students of all ages opportunities for academic and professional growth through flexible, innovative programs and exemplary support services. We are looking to fill the following positions across the state. Come join our incredible staff!

NORTHERN LIGHTS RESOURCE ADVISOR – Two Openings

NORTHERN LIGHTS CURRICULUM MANAGER – CCV Flexible

REGIONAL OFFICE MANAGER – CCV Brattleboro

FINANCIAL AID COUNSELOR – CCV Montpelier

COORDINATOR OF STUDENT ADVISING

– CCV Winooski or CCV Middlebury

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT – CCV Upper Valley

Benefits for full-time staff include 14 paid holidays, plus vacation, medical, and personal time, automatic retirement contribution, and tuition waiver at any Vermont State College for staff and their dependents (eligible dependents may apply waiver to UVM). Visit ccv.edu/about/employment/ staff-positions/

CCV values individual differences that can be engaged in the service of learning. Diverse experiences from people of varied backgrounds inform and enrich our community. CCV strongly encourages applications from historically marginalized and underrepresented populations. CCV is an Equal Opportunity Employer, in compliance with ADA requirements, and will make reasonable accommodations for the known disability of an otherwise qualified applicant.

Sous Chef | Line Cook | Assistant Banquet Chef | Banquet Pastry Cook

Spruce Peak, Vermont’s premier slopeside community at the base of Mount Mansfield, partners with regional and local farms, brewers, and producers to curate the best of Vermont and New England, including world-class events, festivals, and more year-round. Our culinary offerings are a cornerstone of the Spruce Peak experience both at The Lodge and at The Club.

We are actively interviewing culinary members to join our team! Whether you want to settle down at a property that will keep you engaged with interesting menus and events or aim to build a career with Hyatt Hotels to span the globe, we have an opportunity for you. Play as hard as you work: Benefits include free Stowe Ski pass, discounted golf, and free & discounted stays at Hyatt hotels worldwide, in addition to competitive pay, health & dental insurance, 401k and so much more. We build connections, celebrate success and create inclusive environments, together.

Professional culinarians at every level of their career are encouraged to apply now at SprucePeak.com/Careers & come join the Spruce Peak Family.

Proud diversity advocates and E.O.E.

School Based Clinicians

Are you ready for a new opportunity or inspired to get your clinical career started? NKHS has openings for School Based Clinicians that provide supportive counseling services in a variety of school settings, including day treatment. Openings across the Northeast Kingdom.

Therapeutic Case Manager - Day Treatment School Setting

An exciting opportunity to collaborate with a strong clinical team to provide individual and family supportive interventions. Integrating services, developing treatment and transitional plans for students in Caledonia County for Cornerstone school and the Kingdom East Collaborative. An opportunity to be deeply connected in a small school setting while gaining valuable professional experience.

Behavior and Social Skills Interventionist

Opportunity to work with a dedicated team and work directly with students providing support(s) so they can access their education in the school setting and make a positive difference in their lives.

Behavior Interventionist: St Johnsbury School or Newport City Elementary.

Social Skills Interventionist: Lyndon Town School or Concord Graded School

Jobs@nkhs.net · nkhs.org/careers · 802-334-6744

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At Spruce Peak there is a home for every stage of your Culinary career!

VP of Communications

NONPROFIT TOP MANAGEMENT POSITION

Community Heart & Soul is a resident-driven process that engages the entire population of a town in identifying what they love most about their community, the future they want for it, and how to achieve it. Developed and tested in over 100 towns across the US, we are expanding our program to include hundreds of new communities. To support our growth, we have a new top management opening for Vice President of Communications. Learn more and apply today! communityheartandsoul.org/careers/

PASTRY CHEF

Mirabelles is hiring a fulltime Pastry Chef that has experience with cake decorating, large batch production, including laminated doughs. Must have good communication skills and is detail orientated. This position requires product development, daily prep planning, weekly ordering and basic love for baking.

Send resumes to: info@mirabellesbakery.com

Administrative Assistant

VHB’s South Burlington, Vermont office has an opening for an enthusiastic, highly organized, detailoriented employee to join our administrative services team. The position provides support to our office with a wide range of tasks from day to day. The ideal candidate should possess excellent verbal and written communication skills, and an ability to work independently as well as with a team in a dynamic, fast paced deadline-oriented consulting firm. Candidate should be proactive with an ability to prioritize tasks and anticipate needs. We anticipate about 20-30 hours per week. Apply at VHB.com/join-us

Qualifications: 2-5 years of office administration experience; high school diploma or GED

Apply online: careers-vhb.icims.com/jobs/3737/ administrative-assistant/job

VERMONT STATE HOUSING AUTHORITY

Make a Difference to Your Neighbors!

Offering an excellent benefits package that includes health insurance with an HRA, 100% employer-paid dental, life insurance, retirement, and generous paid time off including 13 holidays!

Seeking friendly, customer-service oriented individuals to fill several administrative support and management positions. Openings include:

Site Manager – White River Jct.

Field Representative

Client Services Specialist

These positions are full-time, 40 hours per week. Please visit vsha.org for more information.

VSHA is an equal opportunity employer.

Financial Administrator

Are you a people person who also likes numbers? The Vermont Agency of Natural Resources has an exciting opportunity for a Financial Administrator to help administer the Healthy Homes Initiative and other American Rescue Plan Act funded programs. This staff member will join the dedicated Finance & Administration team supporting the Secretary’s Office. The ideal candidate is a positive communicator and relationship builder who brings strong interpersonal and communication skills, financial management experience, Excel expertise, and an interest in helping others.

This position is being recruited at multiple levels. If you would like to be considered for more than one level, you must apply to the specific job requisition for each level. Level I: #47720, Level II: #47719, Level III: #47718. For information, contact Megan Klinefelter: megan.klinefelter@vermont.gov. Learn more at: careers.vermont.gov

School Nutrition Workers

Needed at:

Lamoille Union High School

Eden Elementary School

Johnson Elementary School

This position performs a wide range of cooking tasks to prepare student meals, cook from scratch and follow standardized recipes, comply with all state sanitation guideline requirements, and operate POS cash register system. Must be willing to attend trainings in child nutrition and take online trainings. Minimum of a high school diploma, or equivalent, plus one to two years of cooking experience preferred, but can train the right individual. Familiarity with public school hot lunch programs desirable. Must be able to lift up to 50 pounds. School year position, 7.5 hrs/day.

Please send resume with 3 references to: Karyl Kent 736 VT Rt 15w, Hyde Park, VT, 05655. Or email kkent@luhs18.org

Project Director

Do you have a passion for Vermont’s farms, forests, and community lands?

We are seeking a project lead in central Vermont who can:

• Manage a variety of conservation projects and deepen relationships

• Apply expertise in land conservation and natural resources management, particularly in agriculture and outdoor recreation

• Collaborate with internal and external partners with an open and curious mind

Learn more and apply at vlt.org/employment. The position will remain open until 7/24/23. The annual starting salary is $62,844 plus a cafeteria allowance of $23,600 to pay for health care and other benefits.

The Vermont Land Trust is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We honor and invite people of all backgrounds and life experiences to apply.

Title 1 Tutor

Seeking a part-time tutor to help high school students gain academic confidence and competence at our small boarding and day school in Burlington. This tutor will work with students in small group classroom settings and individually across subjects. Apply: rockpointschool. org/about-us/employment/ tutor-2023

Chief Financial Officer/Asst. Town Manager

The Town of St. Albans is currently seeking to fill the position of Chief Financial Officer/Asst. Town Manager. Under the direction of the Town Manager, this position will serve as the key designee of the Town's leadership team and will perform a variety of professional and administrative work directing, coordinating and overseeing the operative initiatives and policies.

This position will provide general assistance to the Town Manager as well as serve as the Town's chief financial officer by performing professional work in planning, organizing, supervising, and administering all financial functions including accounting, budgeting, reporting, investing, debt management, banking, treasury management, capital asset management, multi-year capital planning, purchasing, internal support, and pension plan management for the Town. Knowledge of and familiarity with Municipal Accounting Software programs preferred.

This position will also serve as the Acting Town Manager in the absence of the Town Manager, as directed. A detailed job description is available at stalbanstown.com

To apply, please send a cover letter, resume and three references to: Town of St. Albans, Executive Assistant Jennifer Gray, P.O. Box 37, St. Albans Bay, VT, 05481 or by email to j.gray@stalbanstown.com This position will be opened until filled.

FINANCE MANAGER

HEALTH & WELLNESS CASE MANAGER

The position is responsible for direct service provision to refugees and other eligible populations including individuals with complex medical and mental health conditions, home visits, health orientation, health care navigation, transportation, etc. The position will collaborate and work closely with other members of the Health and Wellness team and will handle online and paper file case documentation as well as program reporting.

This is a grant funded position with opportunity for renewal depending on availability of funding. Bilingual and multilingual candidates encouraged to apply. Submit applications online: refugees.org

Building Bright Futures, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in Williston, Vermont, is seeking a part-time Finance Manager to oversee all budget and fiscal functions; policies and procedures such as payroll, the annual audit, and contracts; and administration of employee benefits. The Finance Manager will work closely with the Executive Director and Office Manager.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE

• budget planning and financial reporting

• preparing all fiscal reports

• overseeing the receipt and disbursement of organizational funds and contract budgets

• supporting payroll and accounts payable

• leading the annual organizational audit.

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

The Finance Manager position is a part-time, 28 hours/week (on average) position with a flexible work schedule consisting of roughly 75% finance and 25% HR. This is a home-based position with the option to work in BBF’s Williston headquarters.

DESIRED EXPERTISE

• A minimum of five years of progressively responsible experience in the areas of budgeting, fiscal management and reporting, and day-to-day accounting operations

• Bachelor’s degree in finance

• A minimum of three years’ experience in nonprofit grant management; including private and public grants management and reporting

• Experience in preparation and analysis of fiscal reports

• Experience preparing for and overseeing an organizational audit

• Experience in the administration and monitoring of benefits and human resource management

• Ability to write and speak clearly and concisely on financial and contractual matters

• Strong proficiency in MS Excel spreadsheet software and QuickBooks

Join the dedicated team at Building Bright Futures working to improve the well-being of Vermont children and families. For the full job description and how to apply, please go to buildingbrightfutures.org/jobs/ Position is open until filled.

JOB TRAINING. WELL DONE.

Join the Community Kitchen Academy!

Community Kitchen Academy (CKA) is a 9-week job training program featuring: Hands on learning, national ServSafe certification, job placement support and meaningful connections to community. Plus... the tuition is FREE and weekly stipends are provided for income eligible students!

At CKA you’ll learn from professional chefs in modern commercial kitchens and graduate with the skills and knowledge to build a career in food service, food systems and other related fields. Throughout the 9-week course, you’ll develop and apply new skills by preparing food that would otherwise be wasted. The food you cook is then distributed through food shelves and meal sites throughout the community. CKA is a program of the Vermont Foodbank, operated in partnership with Capstone Community Action in Barre and Feeding Chittenden in Burlington. Next sessions start August 7th in Barre and early Fall in Burlington.

APPLY ONLINE: vtfoodbank.org/cka.

CO-RESIDENT MANAGER

DECKER TOWERS

Burlington Housing Authority (BHA) in Burlington, VT is seeking a Co-Resident Manager for our 160-unit apartment building community located at 230 St. Paul Street in Burlington. Our Resident Managers are on call after BHA regular business hours to attend to various resident requests, any site-based emergency, light maintenance, community room cleaning duties, and other duties as assigned. Resident Managers must live on-site and are given a free apartment with utilities included, as well as a monthly telecommunications stipend.

Candidates must meet the physical requirements of the position including moving in different positions to accomplish tasks, ascending or descending stairs, adjusting or moving objects up to 50 pounds, and repeating motions that may include the wrists, hands, and fingers. This position also works in outdoor weather conditions.

The Resident Manager schedule includes regular check ins and updates with the Property Manger each week, and other meetings and communication as needed. Basic computer skills, with the ability to use Word and email effectively, as well as ability to communicate through text messaging is required.

BHA serves a diverse population of residents and works with various local agencies and partners. To carry out our vision most effectively of delivering safe and affordable housing to all, we are committed to cultivating a staff that reflects varied lived experiences, viewpoints, and educational backgrounds. Therefore, we strongly encourage candidates from diverse racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds, persons with disabilities, LGBTQ+ individuals and women to apply. Multilingualism is a plus.

Please send a letter of interest to: humanresources@burlingtonhousing.org.

Burlington Housing Authority - Human Resources

65 Main St, Suite 101, Burlington, VT 05401

Burlington Housing Authority is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Client Care Coordinator

We are seeking a full-time Veterinary Receptionist to join our growing team who can step into the essential role as the first point of contact for the hospital. As a Veterinary Receptionist you will be responsible for, but not limited to; triage of patients over the phone, processing transactions, managing patient admittance, updating records, and helping us maintain a flourishing workplace culture where everyone can thrive. We truly believe our reception team is a critical part of helping our clients and their cats get the care they need.

We offer market competitive pay and benefits commensurate upon experience. There are no evenings or long weekend shifts, but your schedule will include some Saturdays. If this sounds like the place for you, we would love a chance to speak! Have an awesome week! Apply at: leah@affectionatelycats.com

General Assembly

VERMONT STATE COURTS Supreme Court Staff Attorney

The Supreme Court seeks a highly motivated attorney to join its team serving the Vermont Judiciary. This position is a member of the Supreme Court’s central staff and involves a variety of adjudicative and operational duties for the Court and individual justices.

Required Qualifications:

• Juris Doctor or Law Office Study qualifying for Bar Admission.

• Judicial Clerkship and additional law related experience required, or the equivalent.

Engineering Positions Available

Hayward Tyler, a leading manufacturer of industrial pumps & motors in Colchester, is seeking candidates to fill the following positions:

MECHANICAL DESIGN & SUPPORT ENGINEER

haywardtyler.com/job_listing/mechanical-designsupport-engineer/

MECHANICAL DESIGNER

The Legislative support offices are currently hiring. The nonpartisan offices are an interesting, challenging, and exciting place to work. You will be part of a highly professional and collegial team that is proud of, and enthusiastic about, the mission of the state legislature.

To apply, please go to 'Career Opportunities' at legislature.vermont.gov.

Lifelong Learning Campus Facilitator

CCS is seeking selfmotivated, energetic individual to lead a peer mentoring and learning opportunity for individuals with intellectual disabilities and autism. In this exciting position you will facilitate peer teaching and educational opportunities for a variety of individuals. The ideal candidate will be organized, engaged and dedicated to helping others reach their potential.

Position is 30 hours per week, fully benefitted & a whole lot of fun!

Send resume to Michelle Paya, mpaya@ccs-vt.org

Salary: The annual equivalent for this position will be $70,000 or higher depending upon experience.

Online application can be found at: vermontjudiciary. exacthire.com/job/112649

Judicial Assistants

The Vermont Judiciary is looking to fill several Judicial Assistant positions in Burlington. The Judicial Assistant provides specialized customer support, clerical and data entry work involving one or more docket areas within a court’s jurisdiction. The work is moderately complex and requires application of legal practices and procedures and strong computer skills. It is a fast-paced and challenging environment and requires the ability to professionally interact with both co-workers and the public.

These are full-time, permanent openings in Burlington, Vermont. Starting salary is $20.40 per hour. The Judicial Assistant is a non-exempt Judicial Branch position equivalent to pay grade 19. The State of Vermont’s total compensation package features an outstanding set of employee benefits that are worth about 30% of your total compensation.

Online application can be found at: vermontjudiciary. exacthire.com/job/112331

BENEFITS FOR BOTH POSITIONS:

• 80% State paid medical premium

• Dental Plan at no cost for employees and their families

• Flexible Spending healthcare and childcare reimbursement accounts

• Two ways to save for your retirement: A State defined benefit pension plan and a deferred compensation 457(b) plan

• Work/Life balance: 12 paid holidays each year and a generous leave plan

• Low-cost group life insurance

• Tuition Reimbursement

• Incentive-based Wellness Program

• Qualified Employer for Public Service Student Loan Forgiveness Program

The State of Vermont celebrates diversity and is committed to providing an environment of mutual respect and meaningful inclusion that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills in all state government positions. The Judicial Branch is committed to a policy of equal employment opportunity, and the recruitment process is designed to treat all applicants equitably.

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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: 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:

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» FULL TIME VINYL GRAPHIC INSTALLER

Williston-based installation crew. The preferred candidate will have 3-5 years’ experience in the following fields: vinyl graphic installation, full vehicle wraps, sign installation, vinyl weeding, prep work, window wall and floor graphic installations.

JOB REQUIREMENTS INCLUDE

» A working knowledge in sign programs (will train the right person)

» Experience with various tools, including circular saws, drills, heat guns, etc.

» Physical ability to climb ladders and work at elevations of up to 16 feet

» Physical ability to lift and carry up to 60 pounds of equipment

» Valid driver's license

» Pay will be experience based. Please provide references and photos of installed work upon applying.

» VINYL GRAPHICS INSTALLER ASSISTANT

The ideal candidate will assist our lead vinyl installers by prepping vehicles, vinyl graphics and help with installs. No prior experience needed, we are willing to train the right candidate. This position is a great fit for someone that is hardworking, detail oriented and interested in vinyl installation.

Send resume to: info@yipescorp.com and include which job in the subject.

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Facilities Technician

Full time, benefits eligible. Work schedule M-F, 8:30-5:00pm, overtime occasionally requested.

The NRG Systems facility is a Gold LEED-Certified facility, which houses both offices and warehouse space. The Facilities Technician will help with upkeep and maintenance of the entire facility under the supervision of the Facilities Manager. Compensation is $22-30.00/hour depending upon skills/experience.

Apply at nrgsystems.com/ about/careers

Licensed Mental Health Clinicians

Sought to join established, interdisciplinary mental health practice with offices in Burlington, South Burlington, Essex and Shelburne. Opportunities available for both full and part-time clinicians. Our practice serves children, adolescents, adults and families. We offer individual, couples and group therapy services. We work with all payers and referral sources. Credentialing, intake and billing services provided. Please respond with CV to Alesia Clear, 86 Lake Street, Burlington, VT 05401, or by email to alesia@ocamhs.com

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HOUSING RETENTION SPECIALIST

Lane Press prints, binds, and mails high-quality magazines for publishers nationwide. We’re widely known for our craftsmanship, and we’re looking for dedicated, collaborative, and friendly employees to join our team. Apply today!

WE HAVE IMMEDIATE NEEDS FOR:

Customer Success Manager: Lead a 4-person team of specialists who work with our customers to ensure their experience with Lane shines!

Mail Data Specialist: As part of a 4-person customer support team, prepare distribution estimates and process incoming customer mail files for production.

Prepress Specialist: As part of a 4-person customer support team, receive, format, & process digital page files for print production.

Prepress Technician: Process customer job files for print production, including preflighting, imposition, and plate-making.

Maintenance Technician: Maintain, troubleshoot, and repair controls, manufacturing equipment, and facility systems.

Pressroom Trainees, All Shifts: Learn to perform technical, manual, and machine tasks in our pressroom. Train under veteran press operators.

Bindery Production Crew, All Shifts: Work on our bindery production line, performing tasks to complete magazine binding and prepare finished magazines for shipping.

COME FOR A TOUR!

After a brief phone interview, interested candidates are invited to tour our facility and see our operation firsthand! No better way to find your next career.

Lane offers competitive wages and comprehensive benefits to all full-time employees.

Learn more & apply: careers.lanepress.com Lane Press is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Are you interested in a job that helps your community and makes a difference in people’s lives every day? Consider joining Burlington Housing Authority (BHA) in Burlington, Vt. We’re seeking candidates to continue BHA’s success in promoting innovative solutions that address housing instability challenges facing our diverse population of low-income families and individuals.

Currently, we’re looking for a full time (40 hours per week) Housing Retention Specialist in our Housing Retention and Services department. This position provides assistance to residents who have barriers to maintaining housing and/or subsidy. The Housing Retention Specialist works with residents in Chittenden County for the most part. This position works collaboratively with community agencies, Section 8, Property Management, and Inspections.

Bachelor’s degree in Human Services or related field and three to five years of experience working with diverse and vulnerable populations is required. The ideal candidate should be highly organized with strong written and verbal communication skills and positively contribute to a collaborative team. A valid driver’s license and reliable transportation is preferred.

BHA serves a diverse population of tenants and partners with a variety of community agencies. To most effectively carry out our vision of delivering safe and affordable housing to all, we are committed to cultivating a staff that reflects varied lived experiences, viewpoints, and educational histories. Therefore, we strongly encourage candidates from diverse racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds, persons with disabilities, LGBTQ individuals, and women to apply. Multilingualism is a plus!

Our robust benefit package includes premium medical insurance with a health reimbursement account, dental, vision, short and long term disability, 10% employer funded retirement plan, 457 retirement plan, accident insurance, life insurance, cancer and critical illness insurance.

We provide a generous time off policy including 12 days of paid time off and 12 days of sick time in the first year. In addition to the paid time off, BHA recognizes 13 (paid) holidays and 2 (paid) floating cultural holidays.

Interested in this career opportunity? Send a cover letter and resume to: humanresources@burlingtonhousing.org

Human Resources

Burlington Housing Authority 65 Main Street, Suite 101 Burlington, VT 05401

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Burlington Housing Authority is an Equal Opportunity Employer

DIRECTOR OF STEWARDSHIP & PUBLIC RELATIONS

The Director of Stewardship & Public Relations plans, supervises, and executes the membership, fundraising, grant-writing, stewardship, public relations, and marketing functions of the Vermont Historical Society, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. This is an exempt, full-time, permanent position reporting to the Executive Director. Salary equivalent to Vermont State Pay Grade 27 (starting $67,000 to $78,000) with full benefits, including defined-benefit pension. Bachelor’s degree or equivalent training with at least six years’ progressive experience in a professional fundraising setting. Knowledge of RaisersEdge software and history/cultural organization experience preferred.

To apply, send cover letter, resume, and three references to  steve.perkins@vermonthistory.org

Programs Support Specialist

Our team is searching for an effective and agile detail wrangler. This person will ensure accountability with our program partners and funders by fulfilling requests for program materials, payments, illustrative data, and accurate reporting. We are committed to using a diversity, equity, inclusion, and access lens to meet our mission.

20 hours per week. Remote position with bi-weekly meetings in Montpelier. Starting wage $20-$25 per hour. Benefits and full job description at vermonthumanities.org/jobs

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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.

Cataloging and Metadata Librarian - University Libraries -

#F2716PO - The University of Vermont Libraries seeks an experienced and creative cataloger, well-versed in the rapid evolution of cataloging practices, to provide original and complex cataloging and to lead the cataloging team in the UVM Libraries. Working collaboratively with colleagues throughout the Libraries, this full-time faculty member leads in establishing cataloging practices and priorities; oversees the creation, modification, and selection of records and metadata for print and digital materials; and ensures prompt access to newly acquired resources. We seek candidates who are positive, motivated, familiar with best practices, and eager to innovate.

The Cataloging and Metadata Librarian oversees cataloging and metadata operations for all collections, including general, medical/health sciences, media, digital, and materials in Special Collections. The librarian will supervise, train, motivate, and ensure continuing education for cataloging staff; collaborate with colleagues across the libraries; share knowledge of national and local standards; implement quality assurance processes; and work closely with Silver Special Collections staff to plan and provide metadata for digitization projects.

In addition to the online application, candidates are required to submit the following four documents: cover letter, curriculum vitae, diversity statement, and a list of three references.

For further information on this position 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.

The University of Vermont is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

BUILDING OPERATIONS TECHNICIAN

Burlington Housing Authority (BHA) in Burlington, VT seeks a full time Building Operations Technician to join our dedicated team. This position performs general maintenance work in BHA owned and managed properties. This includes building exteriors, common areas, apartments, building systems, fixtures, and grounds. Our Building Operations Techs are required to participate in the oncall rotation, which covers night and weekend emergencies.

Qualified candidates should have a minimum of two years of work in general building maintenance or building trades. The ideal candidate would have a demonstrated proficiency in building trades including carpentry, electrical, painting, plumbing, grounds keeping, and snow removal.

Technicians must have a valid state motor vehicle operator license at all times. The physical activities for this position include squatting, ascending and descending ladders, scaffolding, and stairs, working in small or confined spaces, twisting and lifting up to 100 pounds, often repeating motions with wrists, fingers, and hands. This position works in all environmental conditions.

Technicians must be detail oriented, efficient, be able to work within time sensitive parameters, and able to work independently, as well as part of a team. Having strong interpersonal skills and being sensitive to the needs of the elderly, disabled, and very low-income households is a must.

BHA serves a diverse population of tenants and partners with a variety of community agencies. To most effectively carry out our vision of delivering safe and affordable housing to all, we are committed to cultivating a staff that reflects varied lived experiences, viewpoints, and educational histories. Therefore, we strongly encourage candidates from diverse racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds, persons with disabilities, LGBTQ+ individuals, and women to apply. Multilingualism is a plus!

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BHA offers a competitive salary, commensurate with qualifications and experience. Our robust benefit package includes premium medical insurance with a health reimbursement account, dental, vision, short and long term disability, 10% employer funded retirement plan, 457 retirement plan, accident insurance, life insurance, cancer and critical illness insurance.

We provide a generous time off policy including 12 days of paid time off and 12 days of sick time in the first year. In addition to the paid time off, BHA recognizes 13 (paid) holidays and offers 2 additional paid floating holidays.

If you are interested in this career opportunity, please submit a resume and cover letter to humanresources@burlingtonhousing.org

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65 Main St, Suite 101 Burlington, VT 05401

Burlington Housing Authority is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEER (II-IV) - MONTPELIER

Do you have interest in assisting in engineering design for infrastructure improvements at many of the State’s most beautiful recreational sites such as State Parks or Fish & Wildlife Access areas? The Agency Facilities Engineering Section in DEC is seeking an enthusiastic project engineer to join our small technical team of dedicated engineers and technicians. If you are looking for greater diversity in your day-to-day work and the opportunity to get out in nature, please consider applying! Please Note: This position is being recruited at multiple levels. If you would like to be considered for more than one level, you MUST apply to the specific Job Requisition. For more information, contact Jennifer Gilbert at jennifer. gilbert@vermont.gov or 802-622-4302. Department: Environmental Conservation. Job ID Level II: #47188, Level III: #47203, Level IV: #47204. Status: Full Time. Application Deadline: July 18, 2023.

EASEMENT & CONSERVATION PROGRAMS ASSISTANT

The Vermont Association of Conservation Districts (VACD) is seeking qualified applicants for a full-time EASEMENT AND CONSERVATION PROGRAMS ASSISTANT position. This position supports the work of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) by providing assistance to NRCS’ Easement and Programs staff that facilitate and oversee financial assistance programs offered by NRCS specifically related to conserving and protecting Vermont working landscape. The position will be located at the Colchester NRCS State Office. The Programs Assistant (PA) will have demonstrated administrative skills and experiences supporting organizational priorities and operations, will work alongside NRCS State Office staff as they implement USDA Farm Bill conservation, easement and Regional Conservation Partnership (RCPP 2018) programs and will be responsible for accurate documentation and tracking of applications, contracts, and financial records utilizing customized software as well as maintaining on-going communications with customers and partners. Excellent verbal, written, computer and customer service skills required. The ideal candidate will be well organized and able to work independently with accurate attention to detail. Associate’s Degree required, a Bachelor’s degree with an interest in conservation is preferred. Starting salary is $18.34 per hour and includes yearly salary advances, health benefits and holiday, vacation and sick leave and participation in employer contribution 401 K retirement plan.

Visit vacd.org for a detailed job description. Send resume, cover letter, and contact information for three references by July 24th to: Joanne Dion at joanne.dion@vacd.org or to VACD, PO Box 889, Montpelier, VT 05601

CONSERVATION PROGRAMS ASSISTANT

The Vermont Association of Conservation Districts (VACD) also seeks qualified applicants for a full-time CONSERVATION PROGRAM ASSISTANT position. The position will be located within NRCS’ Central Zone at the Middlebury, VT NRCS Field Office. The core responsibilities of this position supports the work of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) by providing administrative assistance to NRCS’ Field Office staff that facilitate and oversee the financial assistance programs offered by USDA and NRCS. The Program Assistant (PA) will be a skilled and experienced administrator who will work in conjunction with NRCS Field Office staff to implement USDA Farm Bill conservation programs and will be responsible for accurate documentation and tracking of applications, contracts, and financial records utilizing customized software as well as with maintaining on-going communications with customers. Excellent verbal, written, computer and customer service skills required. The ideal candidate will be well organized and able to work independently with accurate attention to detail. An Associate’s Degree is required, a Bachelor’s degree with an interest in conservation is preferred. Starting salary is $18.06 per hour and includes yearly salary advances, health benefits, employer contribution 401K plan and a generous sick, holiday and vacation leave package.

Visit vacd.org for detailed job description. Send resume, cover letter, and contact information for three references by July 20th to: Joanne Dion at joanne.dion@vacd.org or to VACD, PO Box 889, Montpelier, VT 05601

Equal Opportunity Employer

GUEST SERVICES SPECIALIST ONSITE-SHELBURNE

We are seeking a customer-service professional for a full-time position at our Shelburne o ces.

The primary responsibilities will include providing exceptional customer service, driving sales, and supporting tour preparation. Knowledge of Google Workspace, strong attention to detail, experience with phone sales, and ability to learn new software will be critical for the role.

Education/Experience:

College Degree

Full description: gosojourn.com/jobs/

Send your application to: jobs@gosojourn.com

NO PHONE CALLS, PLEASE.

Shared Living Provider

Seeking a Shared Living Provider for a 34-year-old individual who loves gaming and playing sports. This position would require the candidate to move into the client’s Burlington condo and assist with household chores, meal preparation, caring for their small dog, and self-care and etiquette reminders. The client can be home alone during the workday but would need support on nights and weekends.

The ideal candidate would be an LGBTQ+ ally or LGBTQ+ friendly. Compensation includes a yearly tax-free stipend of $32,340 plus monthly room and board payments to assist with rent. Contact OZoecklein@ howardcenter.org or 802-373-5747

The State of Vermont is an Equal Opportunity Employer

MULTIPLE POSITIONS OPEN (Burlington & St. Johnsbury)

Vermont Legal Aid and Legal Services Vermont work closely together to help low-income Vermonters resolve their civil legal issues.

We encourage applicants from a broad range of backgrounds, and welcome information about how your experience can contribute to serving our diverse client communities. Applicants are encouraged to share in their cover letter how they can further our goals of social justice and individual rights. VLA and LSV are equal opportunity employers committed to a discriminationand-harassment-free workplace. Please see our Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion: vtlegalaid.org/about-vla/diversity-inclusion

Vermont Legal Aid seeks full-time Staff Attorney/ Experienced Paralegal for Medical-Legal Partnership in Burlington, VT:

General responsibilities: interview prospective clients, assess legal problems, and provide legal advice; individual and systems advocacy in a variety of forums on behalf of clients; conduct factual investigations and analysis; legal research; prepare briefs and argue appeals; become proficient in law handled by the specific law project. See vtlegalaid.org/about-vla/jobs for details.

Starting attorney salary is $59,800/experienced paralegal is $44,200+, with additional salary credit given for relevant prior work experience. Four weeks paid vacation and retirement, as well as excellent health benefits. Attorney applicants must be licensed to practice law in Vermont, eligible for admission by waiver, or have passed the UBE with a Vermont passing score. This position is based in our Burlington office. In-state travel in a personal vehicle required.

Application deadline is August 7, 2023. Your application should include a cover letter and resume, bar status, writing sample, and three professional references with contact information, sent as a single PDF. Send your application by e-mail to hiring@vtlegalaid.org. Include in the subject line your name and “VLA MLP Attorney/Paralegal – August 2023.” Please let us know how you heard about this position.

Legal Services Vermont seeks a full-time Staff Attorney and an Intake Specialist in Burlington, VT:

Legal Services Vermont is an innovative non-profit law firm that provides civil legal services to a broad spectrum of low-income clients in a high-volume practice. Our advocates represent individual clients, participate in court clinics and also staff our helpline to screen new clients and provide legal advice. Working closely with Vermont Legal Aid, we help low-income Vermonters resolve their civil legal issues. Our office is located in Burlington, VT. Staff Attorney General Responsibilities: We are seeking an attorney advocate to work in our core service areas, with a focus on housing and eviction cases. Job duties include individual client representation,

assisting clients on our helpline, and other legal assistance projects. See legalservicesvt.org/about-lsv/careers for job description details.

Starting salary is $59,800, with salary credit given for relevant experience, & excellent benefits package.

Application deadline is August 7, 2023. Your application should include a cover letter and resume, sent as a single PDF. Send your application by e-mail to Sara Zeno at szeno@legalservicesvt.org with the subject line “Hiring Opportunity.” Please let us know how you heard about this position

Intake Specialist General Responsibilities: The Intake Specialist will work on our helpline to return incoming calls or online inquiries for civil legal assistance and assist our advocates and attorneys in a collaborative environment. The work environment is a fast-paced, high-volume setting that often requires multitasking while maintaining a high level of attention to detail. The job duties include assessing incoming requests for assistance, returning incoming calls and online intakes to complete a screening for eligibility, completing intakes, scheduling advice appointments, making referrals to agencies and directing clients to selfhelp websites. For more details: legalservicesvt.org/about-lsv/careers

Starting salary is $38,480, with salary credit given for relevant experience, & excellent benefits package.

excellent benefits package.

Application deadline is August 7, 2023. Your application should include a cover letter and resume, sent as a single PDF. Send your application by e-mail to Sara Zeno at szeno@legalservicesvt.org with the subject line “Hiring Opportunity.” Please let us know how you heard about this position.

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Vermont Legal Aid seeks full-time, Long-Term Care Ombudsman in St. Johnsbury, VT:

General responsibilities: Identify, investigate, and help resolve complaints made by, or for, individuals receiving long-term care services in nursing homes, residential care homes, and assisted living residences, and in the community through Choices for Care Medicaid. Empower individuals to speak in their own voices and give direction about their own long-term care. Visit long-term care facilities to talk with residents and monitor conditions. See vtlegalaid.org/ about-vla/jobs for details.

Starting salary is $44,200, with additional salary credit given for relevant prior work experience.

Four weeks paid vacation and retirement, as well as excellent health benefits. This position is based in our St. Johnsbury office. Significant in-state travel in a personal vehicle required.

Application deadline is August 7, 2023. Your application should include a cover letter & resume, writing sample, and three professional references with contact information, sent as a single PDF. Must be able to pass conflict of interest review and background check. Email your application to hiring@ vtlegalaid.org, include in the subject line your name and “VOP Ombudsman August 2023.” Please let us know how you heard about this position.

a cover letter & resume, writing sample, and three professional references

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CANCER

(JUN. 21-JUL. 22)

“The Simpsons” animated show has been on TV for 34 seasons. Ten-year-old Bart Simpson is one of the stars. He is a mischievous rascal who’s ingenious in defying authority. Sometimes teachers catch him in his rebellious acts and punish him by making him write apologetic affirmations on the classroom blackboard. For example: “I will not strut around like I own the place.” “I will not obey the voices in my head.” “I will not express my feelings through chaos.” “I will not trade pants with others.” “I will not instigate revolution.” “I am not deliciously saucy.” “I cannot absolve sins.” “Hot dogs are not bookmarks.” In accordance with your unruly astrological omens, Cancerian, I authorize you to do things Bart said he wouldn’t do. You have a license to be deliciously saucy.

ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 19): Many astrologers enjoy meditating on the heavenly body Chiron. With an orbit between Saturn and Uranus, it is an anomalous object that has qualities of both a comet and a minor planet. Its name is derived from a character in ancient Greek myth: the wisest teacher and healer of all the centaurs. Chiron is now in the sign of Aries and will be there for a while. Let’s invoke its symbolic power to inspire two quests in the coming

months: 1) Seek a teacher who excites your love of life. 2) Seek a healer who alleviates any hurts that interfere with your love of life.

TAURUS (Apr. 20-May 20): It’s high time for some high culture! You are in a phase to get rich benefits from reading Shakespeare, listening to Beethoven, and enjoying paintings by Matisse and Picasso. You’d also benefit lavishly from communing with the work of virtuosos like Mozart, Michelangelo and novelist Haruki Murakami. However, I think you would garner even greater emotional treasures from reading Virginia Woolf, listening to Janelle Monáe’s music and enjoying Georgia O’Keeffe’s paintings. For extra credit, get cozy with the books of Simone Weil, listen to Patti Smith’s music and see Frida Kahlo’s art. If you read between the lines here, you understand I’m telling you that the most excellent thing to do for your mental and spiritual health is to commune with brilliant women artists, writers and musicians.

GEMINI (May 21-Jun. 20): The French phrase j’ajoute (translated as “I adjust”) is a chess term used when a player is about to adjust their pieces but does not yet intend to make a move. J’ajoute might be an apt motto for you to invoke in the coming days. You are not ready to make major shifts in the way you play the games you’re involved in. But it’s an excellent time to meditate on that prospect. You will gain clarity and refine your perspective if you tinker with and rearrange the overall look and feel of things.

LEO (Jul. 23-Aug. 22): Early in her career, Leo actor Lisa Kudrow endured disappointments. She auditioned for the TV show “Saturday Night Live” but wasn’t chosen. She was cast as a main character in the TV show “Frasier” but was replaced during the filming of the pilot episode. A few months later, though, she landed a key role in the new TV show “Friends.” In retrospect, she was glad she got fired from “Frasier” so she could be available for “Friends.” “Frasier” was popular, but “Friends” was a superhit. Kudrow won numerous awards for her work on the show and rode her fame to a successful film career. Will there be a “Frasier” moment for you in the coming months, dear Leo? That’s what I suspect. So keep the faith.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sep. 22): The coming weeks will be a good time to seek helpful clues and guidance from your nightly dreams. Take steps to remember them – maybe keep a pen and notebook next to your bed. Here are a few possible dream scenes and their meanings: 1) A dream of planting a tree means you’re primed to begin a project that will grow for years. 2) A dream of riding in a spaceship suggests you yearn to make your future come more alive in your life. 3) A dream of taking a long trip or standing on a mountaintop may signify you’re ready to come to new conclusions about your life story. (PS: Even if you don’t have these specific dreams, the interpretations I offered are still apt.)

LIBRA (Sep. 23-Oct. 22): In reviewing the life work of neurologist and author Oliver Sacks, critic Patricia Holt said he marveled at how “average people not only adapt to injury and disease but also create something transcendent out of a condition others call disability.” Sacks specialized in collaborating with neurological patients who used their seeming debilitations “to uncover otherwise unknown resources and create lives of originality and innovation.” I bring this up, Libra, because I suspect that in the coming months, you will have extra power to turn your apparent weaknesses or liabilities into assets.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): It’s a mistake to believe we must ration our love as if we only have so much to offer. The fact is, the more love we give, the more we have available to give. As we tap into our deepest source of generosity, we discover we have greater reserves of it than we imagined. What I’ve just said is always true, but it’s especially apropos for you right now. You are in a phase when you can dramatically expand your understanding of how many blessings you have to dole out.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Home computers didn’t become common until the 1980s. During the previous decade, small start-up companies with adventurous experimenters did the grunt work that made the digital revolution possible. Many early adapters worked out of garages in the Silicon Valley area of Northern California. They preferred to devote their modest resources

to the actual work rather than to fancy labs. I suspect the coming months will invite you to do something similar, Sagittarius: to be discerning about how you allocate your resources as you plan and implement your vigorous transformations.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I’m tempted to call this upcoming chapter of your life story “The Partial Conquest of Loneliness.” Other good titles might be “Restoration of Degraded Treasure” or “Turning a Confusing Triumph into a Gratifying One” or “Replacing a Mediocre Kind of Strength with the Right Kind.” Can you guess that I foresee an exciting and productive time for you in the coming weeks? To best prepare, drop as many expectations and assumptions as you can so you will be fully available for the novel and sometimes surprising opportunities. Life will offer you fresh perspectives.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): By 1582, the inexact old Julian calendar used by the Western world for 13 centuries was out of whack because it had no leap years. The spring equinox was occurring too early, on March 10. Pope Gregory commissioned scientists who devised a more accurate way to account for the passage of time. The problem was that the new calendar needed a modification that required the day after October 4 to be October 15. Eleven days went missing—permanently. People were resentful and resistant, though eventually all of Europe made the conversion. In that spirit, Aquarius, I ask you to consider an adjustment that requires a shift in habits. It may be inconvenient at first but will ultimately be good for you.

PISCES (Feb. 19-Mar. 20): Piscean novelist Peter De Vries wrote, “Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation — the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline.” In the coming weeks, you Pisces folks will be skilled at weaving these modes as you practice what you love to do. You’ll be a master of cultivating dynamic balance; a wizard of blending creativity and organization; a productive changemaker who fosters both structure and morale.

Flash flooding and rain caused destruction and chaos across Vermont on Monday and Tuesday. Videos and photos of it filled Vermonters' social media feeds. Seven Days senior multimedia producer Eva Sollberger filmed the raging Winooski River in Burlington and Winooski and crowdsourced footage from around the state.

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Back in Vermont after moving to San Francisco in 1980, a dream of mine since high school in southern Vermont, where I grew up and learned to love the beauty of Vermont. The land conservation nonprofit I work for allowed me to work remotely after many years there, so I could relocate to live near my brother and keep working. VTtaketwo, 66 seeking: M, l

HERE WE GO AGAIN!

Creative type with fingers in too many pies. Love to play music around an outdoor fire. Ready to get close to someone again. Looking for someone with an upbeat attitude who can make me laugh. Bonus points if you play music or like to sing. A passion for cross-country skiing would be amazing, but I know it’s not for everyone. Chokecherry, 60 seeking: W, l

NOT DEAD YET

I considered myself a high-heels, makeup-at-all-times city girl until I moved to Vermont 12 years ago. I never even owned a car, and all my Boston/New York friends wondered how I would survive. Well, not only did I survive, but I learned how to fish in a lake year-round and even how to shoot a gun. CLC, 77, seeking: M, l

LIFE IS GOOD

Nice lady seeking wonderful guy. CookiesandCream, 65 seeking: M, l

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Newly out baby gay seeking experienced hottie to show me the ropes (or the straps)! Looking for a safe space to learn with a sensi babe. looking2learn 26, seeking: W, NBP

SUNSHINE AND WANDERLUST

Seeking fun-loving, easygoing people for friendship and maybe more. Wonderful weather these days. Who’s up for enjoying it? CarolinaGirl 35, seeking: M, TM, Q, NC, NBP, l

WELLNESS WAHINE ROSE

Athletic wahine who enjoys a variety of sports. Summertime brings fun on the water, paddleboarding, swimming and snorkeling. Pickleball is No. 1!

I teach all ages the joy of dance.

Wahinerose 68, seeking: M, l

LOVE DOGS, OUTSIDE AND HONESTY

When I’m not working, I love to be outside. My happy place is at the summit of Camel’s Hump. I hate to cook, but I will happily wash the dishes for whoever cooks for me. If you don’t mind a dog on the furniture, you’ll fit right in. VtNatv 58, seeking: M, l

ACTIVE WATER AND MOUNTAIN PERSON

Do you ever not want to go alone?

Traveling is something I want to do with someone. I go to music events and theater in Vermont and beyond. I love to dance. I don’t mind my alone time at home. I’ve been single for 15 years. Hopefully you are fun, happy, active and loving. Time4Me2, 65, seeking: M, l

ACTIVE, SOCIAL, FUN SEEKER

I’m an active person. I enjoy a fall hike or a nice walk. Do you like to cook?

I have a sense of humor and enjoy having fun. Love to laugh and laugh at myself often. I’m adventurous and like to try new things. I enjoy live music, especially outdoors. I’m kind, compassionate, considerate and honest.

SunandWater, 62, seeking: M, l

BRIGHT, INQUISITIVE ADVENTURER

Life is an adventure that is constantly throwing twists and turns that must be navigated with agility, flexibility and humor. I’m looking for a man who wants to join me in the adventure. Avid gardener, cook, hike, bike, scuba, rock climb. Lots of interests and willing to try new things, too. Let’s get out and play. More fun/ laughter. MIDWESTGRL 66, seeking: M, l

HAPPY CAMPER

Oh, let’s not be too fussy. Still, curiosity, a creative interest and ease in one’s skin are pluses in my book. Find me playing multiple musical instruments, making time for nights in the woods and delighting in my friendships. A romance would be swell.

Merganser, 52, seeking: W, NBP, l

TRADITIONAL, SLOW-COOKED FOOD TASTES BEST

I’m looking to get to know someone the old-fashioned way. I don’t have a sense of urgency or timeline. I am interested in going slow and building genuine connection and rapport. itry 42 seeking: M, l

ADVENTUROUS, ACTIVE, FUN-LOVING, HAPPY, HEALTHY

I am a happy, healthy, optimistic, adventurous single woman. I love to paddle, bike, hike, travel, garden, and even sit home reading, watching a good movie, or having a great conversation. I love laughing and enjoying walks and talks. I am looking for a trustworthy, respectful, meaningful relationship with a fun-loving respectful man.

Luv_VT, 73 seeking: M, l

LOOKING FOR MY OTHER HALF

I’m fun, laid-back and kind. I’m looking for a long-term relationship with someone who is looking for the same. I own my home, have a job and pay my bills. I’m looking for a true connection. WifeyMaterial 39, seeking: M, l

COMPASSIONATE, PLAYFUL WRITER AND GARDENER

I love laughing and talking with brilliant, creative, positive, practical, kind and kinda funny kinds of gals. I love silence, singing, swimming and eating. I am a returning Vermonter, having been gone for years, and I’m interested in connecting with friends and a lover. I enjoy listening to scientists, artists, teachers, healers and activists of all ages. Laughing 61, seeking: W, l

CARMEN SEEKS WALDO

Down-to-earth single mom. Take care of my son on my own and have it under control. Great taste in music, know what I want to eat and my sense of humor is on point. Don’t ski or snowboard but am active. Ice hockey was my sport growing up. Love concerts, the outdoors, road trips and the Red Sox. PinkflydHockeyLover42 40, seeking: M, l

HIPPIE FROM THE HEART Earthy, independent, curious. Love storytelling. Moth! Creating worlds on tablecloths. What world do we go to after this one? Love music; hoping to finally learn how to play my guitar. Love ancestry shows. Love summer! Birchtree2023, 69 seeking: M

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FUN TIMES TO BE HAD

Looking for a woman for fun times, laughter and enjoying good times. Casual date and each other’s fruits. Discreet is a must. Pictures available upon request. Free2beme, 49 seeking: W, Cp, Gp

NERDY LEFTIST GIRL-DAD WITH ADHD

Already have a princess; looking for a queen. Funny in good company, but my humor can sometimes be dry, deadpan or dark. I run, train and teach martial arts, and I’m very much in the geopolitical loop. Also, the planet’s dying, so I take that pretty seriously. Hoping to start a permaculture homestead with another loving and open-minded lifelong learner. Tommy1988 35, seeking: W, NC, NBP, l

ADULT COMPANIONSHIP

Looking for adult companionship as needed or as friends.

AdultCompanion 59, seeking: W

THE QUIET IS PAINFUL. I’m looking for a companion. Someone I can walk with and hold their hand or put my arm around. I want to know someone cares and likes me for who and what I am. The day are long, but nights are painful. The only sound in the house is the dog licking her dish, waiting for breakfast. Nutsey 71, seeking: W, l

FINDING PEACE IN VERMONT

If you like the outdoors, being healthy and you see 65 as young, we would probably get along. Vermont is stunning. I love rail trails. Maybe it is because you just can’t get lost on them! Or can you? Bicycles and hiking, wooden-bat summer baseball, and quiet days on the motorcycle. This would be me. Never forget ice cream!

Vermont_Dreaming, 60, seeking: W, l

OLD-SCHOOL

I like to work in my machine shop and welding shop. I have some gardens that are three feet off the ground. I plant peas. I have a lot of tomato plants and a few other plants. I am looking for a lady to be a friend. Xoxox. phruwa77 79, seeking: W

INFINITE POSSIBILITIES

Gay, Native American, senior citizen, community activist, choir, Republican. No judgments or dogma in relationships. Date in Burlington or South Burlington mall. I have a pacemaker. SOULMAN05401, 58, seeking: M, l

READY TO MINGLE

I’m an optimistic person who is downto-earth, humorous, thoughtful, loving and caring. I am young with a young spirit and mind. I love traveling, hiking, cooking, watching movies, listening to music, going on road trips, being one with nature and taking walks on the beach. meetrhett 57, seeking: W, l

ADVENTUROUS AND CURIOUS

Seeking someone to explore all things kinky in the Burlington area. Young professional who needs to loosen up every so often and hopes to meet someone who would like to do the same. It doesn’t have to grow into an actual relationship but a regular playmate. Discretion is key, and your relationship status is your choice. Kingloverlover, 40, seeking: W, Gp

FIT AND WITTY

ADVENTURE SEEKER Witty, health-conscious, fun-loving, hopeless romantic seeking partner in crime/travel partner to lose myself with.

I love to travel, spend time with friends and family, watch live performances (concerts/pro sports), and just be active. Looking to meet a lady who’s kind, curious, caring and a little mischievous. Jaycee412, 51, seeking: W, l

LEVELING UP

Maybe this is better than Tinder? IDK. I’m just a good dude, always moving toward better. I have a lot to offer, to give, and I have zero pretenses. Out looking for a good partner. What about you? ShindigVT, 41, seeking: W, l

GOLFER, CHECKING WINDAGE, WIND SPEED

I am a gentleman and an officer in the Vermont State Guard as a chaplain. I am a nondenominational Christian chaplain and currently chaplain for the Department of Vermont DAV. tankerfa 65, seeking: W, l

LET’S HAVE SOME FUN

I’m a 28-y/o living in northern Vermont. I enjoy making music, exercising and being outdoors. I’m looking for an older female to have some fun with.

VTmaverick28, 28, seeking: W

EASYGOING FOR FUN, ADVENTURE, EXCITEMENT

Happy-go-lucky guy who likes the outdoors and being active! Would like to explore near and far. Like spending time together and alone. I can work hard and also play hard! Do like some relaxing time, too! Tactile 65, seeking: W, l FUN FIRST

Friends first. Old-school. Easy to laugh and smile. DWBH, 58, seeking: W

CUTE, FUNNY, QUIET COUNTRY BOY

Hello. I am a quiet, kind introvert. I love good conversations and spending time outdoors. Looking for someone who shares the same interests. treedoctor, 69, seeking: W, l

INTROVERT, TOUGH, NICE, RESPECTFUL

I’m an introvert, enjoy a simple life. Gym, work. I’ve had a couple of mixed martial arts fights against tough guys, but at the end of the day I enjoy cuddling. Currently active in jiujitsu. Wrestled my whole life. Got hit by a car when I was 20, which caused severe hearing loss, but giving it a second chance. Tony1992, 30, seeking: W

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I’m a gorgeous, white, 100 percent passable trans lady who is 57 and could pass as 30 — yes, 30! I long for love, laughter and romance, along with loving nature. I want a man who’s all man, rugged, handsome, well built but prefers a woman like myself. It’s as simple as that. We meet, fall in love and live happily ever after. Sammijo, 57, seeking: M, l

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SNOW AND SUN EQUAL FUN

Borders and boundaries are sexy. We’re pretty cute. We like to have fun, and we bet you do, too. Happily married couple (W, 35; M, 45), open-minded and looking to explore. Love playing outdoors. Looking to meet a couple, man or woman for fun and adventure. Ideal meetup is a cottage in the mountains with great food and lots of great wine. SnownSun 46, seeking: Cp, l

LOVERS OF LIFE

We are a 40s couple, M/F, looking for adventurous encounters with openminded, respectful M/F or couples. Looking to enjoy sexy encounters, FWBs, short term or long term. sunshines, 42, seeking: M, W, Q, Cp LOOKING FOR OUR MAN! Ideally hoping for a throuple/FWB situation. Us: established M/F couple. DD-free. (She: 44, straight BBW; he: 46, bi MWM). Drinks, 420-friendly, fires, get outside, music, Netflix and chill, always horny. You: DD-free, clean, masculine bi male (30ish to 50ish) who works and knows how to enjoy life! A little rough/hard (top, real man, etc.) with a compassionate heart and a bit of a snuggler. Connection is key. Let’s chat and get to know each other, then play! ginganddaddy 47, seeking: M

EXPLORING THREESOMES AND FOURSOMES

We are an older and wiser couple discovering that our sexuality is amazingly hot! Our interest is another male for threesomes or a couple. We’d like to go slowly, massage you with a happy ending. She’d love to be massaged with a happy ending or a dozen. Would you be interested in exploring sexuality with a hot older couple? DandNformen, 66 seeking: M, TM, NC, Cp, l

THE CANTEEN, TWO TALL BRUNETTES

We exchanged cordial and friendly hellos, and I asked you about the wondrous-looking strawberry sundae in your hand. You and your friend shared it and were quite pleased afterward. You stated you were swimming upstream of Waitsfield. My friend and I were riding and then swimming at Blueberry Lake. Do you live in the Valley? When: Friday, July 7, 2023. Where: the Canteen, Waitsfield.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #915789

BIRD-WATCHER

I saw you from across the park spying on me with your binoculars and thought it was charming. I spotted a thrush by my bench but hoped you had your eye on something else. If that’s true, we should meet sometime. I left before you walked over because all the pollen caused horrible congestion. When I returned, you had left. When: Saturday, June 24, 2023. Where: Waterfront Park. You: Man. Me: Woman. #915788

BMW CONVERTIBLES, FOLINO’S

I parked next to your black convertible in my silver vert, and you said “Bimmer twins.” Too much sun and not enough food; I couldn’t pull it together. Go for a cruise sometime? When: Wednesday, July 5, 2023. Where: Folino’s downtown. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915787

BOOKWORM AT POMEROY PARK

Great minds think alike; both of us were taking in the sun at the park. I’d love to hear about the book you were reading sometime, or if you ever need a buddy for basking in the sunlight with, don’t be shy. When: Wednesday, July 5, 2023. Where: Pomeroy Park. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915785

WALLY FROM MATCH.COM

We had a perfectly nice meetup at Ziggy’s. I said after I didn’t think we were a match. I keep thinking I made a mistake. Wish I had said yes. M. When: Tuesday, June 13, 2023. Where: West Lebanon.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #915786

KIND EYES AT BLOCK PARTY

Pretty green eyes, soft brown curls and a sweet smile! You were wearing a light blue dress next to me in line. I meant to ask your name and then got caught up in the party. But still curious about you. When: Monday, July 3, 2023. Where: Craftsbury Block Party.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #915784

BEAUTIFUL LADY AT DUNKIN’

Hi, Gretchen. I wished I could’ve got your number. We chatted about the Fourth. I would really like to get to know you better! Let’s chat over a coffee sometime. You commented on my car. Would love to go for a cruise with the top down. What do you think? When: Monday, July 3, 2023. Where: Williston.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #915783

ROCKET FROM MATCH.COM

Hello, Rocket from match.com. Hoping you will see this. Would like to get to know you but am not interested for joining match.com. I know it is a long shot, but if you see this, you are gorgeous and I would love to get a chance to meet you. When: Saturday, July 1, 2023. Where: on match.com.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #915782

SOPHIA (SOFIA?)

We talked about raised beds, shared some cake. You flirt with a lot of eye contact. Let me know if you felt the same connection. When: Saturday, June 24, 2023. Where: after the after-party.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #915777

REVEREND Ask

Irreverent counsel on life’s conundrums

De Rev end,

I am 20 years old, and my fiancé is 41. I really love him, and the age difference wasn’t an issue. But ever since I agreed to marry him, I started considering the age gap. Do you think it will be an issue? ee Del Robee

(WOMAN, 20)

ANCIENT GODDESS ARTIST

When we found each other’s eyes by the fire, I recognized you and you recognized me. When we slow our minds down and open our hearts, the recognition is still unmistakable. I love you, SG. I’ll come around sometime and get that squeak out of your door? When: Wednesday, June 28, 2023. Where: Montpelier. You: Woman. Me: Woman. #915781

BIRD-WATCHING

I was bird-watching with my binoculars when you caught my eye. You were sitting on a park bench reading the paper when you saw me observing you. You got up and left before I could come over and say anything, but I’d love to get to know you better. When: Saturday, June 24, 2023. Where: Waterfront Park.

You: Woman. Me: Woman. #915780

SARANAC LAKE ALDI PARKING LOT

A long shot, but here goes. 5 p.m. You: cute, short-haired blonde in green, pleated long skirt. Lanyard work badges. Me: tall, blue shirt, glasses. You offered to put my cart away. I remarked on your skirt. Would like to pay back your sweetness. Coffee, drinks, dinner? When: Monday, June 26, 2023. Where: Aldi, Saranac Lake, N.Y. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915778

MOTIV8 LICENSE PLATE, MOVILLE

Almost bumped into you a couple of times that night. Your face showed a combination of intensity and sweetness that I found very intriguing. When: Wednesday, June 21, 2023. Where: Maplefields, Morrisville. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915776

MANGO LASSI

You: longish light brown hair pulled back by sunglasses, walking into Deep City to ask for a table, wearing a dark green T-shirt and black/ gray pants. Me: sitting on a bench outside in awe of how beautiful and handsome you are. Be my sweet, sexy, silky mango lassi? When: Monday, June 19, 2023. Where: Burlington. You: Man. Me: Woman. #915775

SHAW’S, SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 3 P.M. You: girl with bell-bottoms. Me: guy with sun tee. You looked good. Maybe you’d like to go for a walk sometime. When: Saturday, June 17, 2023. Where: Shaw’s, Shelburne Road. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915773

De ee Del Robee,

is is a great case of “If you have to ask, you already know.” e answer is yes. If the age gap weren’t an issue, you wouldn’t have come to me for advice.

A five- to 10-year difference is one thing, but your fiancé is more than twice your age. ink about it. He was one year older than you are right now when you were born. He could have legally toasted your birth with a glass of Champagne. He’s old enough to be your dad.

It’s nice to think that age doesn’t make a difference when it comes to matters of the heart, and I’m sure there are plenty of May-December romances out there doing just fine. However, relationships of any kind can be difficult. When you add a huge age gap to the equation, there are unique challenges.

BMW MOTORCYCLE CHASE IN WILLISTON

When: 5:30 p.m. You: blondish beard, white shirt, black BMW motorcycle. I enjoyed chatting with you about the BMW factory and museum in my home state.

(Don’t let the out-of-state plates fool ya; I live in Vermont.) Maybe we could go for a ride sometime? When: Tuesday, June 20, 2023. Where: parking lot of Chase Bank, Williston. You: Man. Me: Woman. #915774

HI, LYNN. MONTPELIER SHAW’S.

Hi, Lynn. I wished I had asked if you were open to meeting for coffee or a drink.

I’d love to continue our conversation.

Steve. When: Tuesday, May 30, 2023. Where: Shaw’s, Montpelier. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915772

HOTTY PATOTTY (OH SO NAUGHTY?)

Saw you sitting with a cute spotted dog and an eye patch. We made voluptuous eye contact that was borderline heretical. Meet for some Tony Danza and margs? When: Monday, May 15, 2023. Where: waterfront.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #915771

HANNAFORD BY ESSEX OUTLETS

You were a cute male driving an Audi with your snow tires in the back seat. We chatted in the checkout line — waved to each other at least six times as we parted ways. Were you just super friendly, or were we flirting? If you see this, I would like to get to know you better. When: Tuesday, May 16, 2023. Where: Hannaford, Essex outlets. You: Man. Me: Man. #915770

BRAZIL NUTS?

We chatted about selenium and refrigerated Brazil nuts. I enjoyed our brief interaction (and your good looks). If you’re single and would like to see if we have anything else to chat about, drop me a line. When: Sunday, April 30, 2023. Where: City Market South End. You: Man. Me: Woman. #915769

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

One of the biggest concerns is that as you get older, he’ll get a lot older. If you want to have children, you need to consider the issues that will arise with him being an older dad. And barring any unforeseen circumstances, he will die before you do. I know that might be morbid, but you really do need to think about this sort of thing. e current average life expectancy for a man in the United States is 77. Just sayin’.

Regardless of the age difference, 20 is really young to be getting married. You’re just barely out of your teens. How long have you been with this guy? Have you had any other serious relationships? I’d urge you not to rush into getting hitched. You have plenty of time for that — even if he doesn’t.

Good luck and God bless, The Rev

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I’m a man seeking a woman. Very passionate, sexual and loyal man. Honest, loving, treat-you-like-a-lady guy seeking special woman, 35 to 60ish. No drugs or drunks. Must be honest and supportive emotionally. #LL1678

I’m an older guy with a high libido looking to meet a woman with similar interests and a high libido to hopefully develop a LTR. My interests are country living, travel, humanpowered sports, music, art, gardening, etc. I’m secure and happy; very fit and healthy; a financially secure largeproperty owner; a curious, freespirited adventurer; a singer and musician; a connoisseur of peace and quiet. 420-cool, friendly, compassionate, experienced and well endowed. You are your own beautiful self with a lust for life. Willing to travel for the right gal. Ability to sing, slender and body hair a plus. #LL1677

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I’m a SWM, 38, seeking fun, happy people with lifestyleswing interests and, maybe, a little light, playful BDSM. #LL1679

73-y/o male by myself with a nice country home on an interesting property in the central part of the state. Have very good financial security. Very healthy and trim and blessed with a lot of good energy. Enjoy home time, exploring out and about or traveling away. Would like to meet a fun-loving girlie-girl who might develop into a genuine connection. Have no children and both feet on the ground. Would enjoy seeing a good woman and maybe possible partner who likes to dress well and be a friend. Send me your phone number or a note and way to respond. #LL1671

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ank you to the blond UVM nanny who aided me after crashing a car on Greenbush Road in Charlotte. You are the best! Stay true to yourself! Your folks would be proud. Would be great to buy you a creemee!

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I’m a 60-y/o male seeking new friends for a massage swap. Northern central Vermont. Your story gets mine. Beginners welcome. #LL1672

Sensual older couple enjoying life. Snowbirds (Florida), welltraveled, fit and fun. Seeking to meet others curious about alternative modes of sexuality. Meet up in BTV for a glass of wine and chat? #LL1670

GM bottom looking for NSA fun or possibly FWB. Look for top men 40 to 60ish. Race unimportant. Married is fine, too; discretion assured. Phone/ text. #L1667

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Attractive man, 57, never married with no kids. Seeking full-figured/busty woman. Seeking a travel partner who enjoys being touched and loved. Begin as FWB, but open to LTR. Please include phone and/or email. #L1669

I’m a very unique lady who likes to walk this beautiful Earth, garden, watch the birds and butterflies. I love music and a very good movie. I’m a true lover of a friend or partner, as well. I also look great for my age. I hope to meet a gentleman with the same likes as myself. #L1668

Man from Plattsburgh, N.Y., looking to find the right lady between 40 and 58 y/o. I’m an honest, caring person just looking to find my match. I am 5’7, 215 pounds, blue eyes. I work full time in law enforcement. Hope to meet the right lady. #L1666

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Ukulele Strum Rehab Workshop and Shenanigan Jam

WED., JUL. 12

GRANGE HALL CULTURAL CENTER, WATERBURY CENTER e Chaine du Vermont presents Bastille Day Fête

THU., JUL. 13

THE WHEELER HOMESTEAD, SOUTH BURLINGTON

Montpelier High School Alumni Roundup

FRI., JUL. 14 - SAT., JUL. 15

LANGDON STREET TAVERN & MONTPELIER RECREATION FIELDS

Artist Faculty Series: Mortal Coils

FRI., JUL. 14

ELLEY-LONG MUSIC CENTER, ST. MICHAEL’S COLLEGE, COLCHESTER

Tiger Strike & BOME

FRI., JUL. 14

THE UNDERGROUND - LISTENING ROOM, RANDOLPH

SolarFest

SAT., JUL. 15 - SUN., JUL. 16

SOLARFEST, BRANDON

Do Good Fest

SAT., JUL. 15

NATIONAL LIFE, MONTPELIER

British Baking with Summer Fruits

SAT., JUL. 15

RICHMOND COMMUNITY KITCHEN

What’s His Name

Keryn Nightingale, One Woman Show

SAT., JUL. 15 - SUN., JUL. 16

PHANTOM THEATER’S EDGCOMB BARN, WARREN

Bikes & Brews

SUN., JUL. 16

MAVERICK MARKET AT 110, BURLINGTON

Emerging Artists Concert (student concert)

MON., JUL. 17

SAINT MICHAEL’S COLLEGE, COLCHESTER

‘Dog Days of Summer’

A Family & Dog Friendly Festival Series

TUE., JUL. 18

SWITCHBACK BREWING COMPANY, BURLINGTON

How ey Built It - Brio Coffeeworks & Venetian Soda Lounge

TUE., JUL. 18

VENETIAN SODA LOUNGE, BURLINGTON

Artist Faculty Series: Sorrow Song & Jubilee with the Balourdet String Quartet

TUE., JUL. 18

ST. MICHAEL’S COLLEGE, COLCHESTER

Flower Arranging with Poker Hill Flower Farm

WED., JUL. 19

STERLING FOREST LODGE, STOWE

Facing Change: Life’s Transitions and Transformations

WED., JUL. 19 ONLINE

Emerging Artists Concert student concert

THU., JUL. 20

SAINT MICHAEL’S COLLEGE, COLCHESTER

Vermont Brewers Festival 2023

FRI., JUL. 21

WATERFRONT PARK, BURLINGTON

Live in the Gardens

Music Series

FRI., JUL. 21

SNAPS AND SUNFLOWERS, CAMBRIDGE

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