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SEND MALES HERE Perhaps some of the men of Vermont should investigate the ter ritory across the “big pond.” Never mind the beards, flannel shirts, Birkenstock or baldness [Weekly Mail, August 16]; some of us in the northern tier are pleased to discover a male who doesn’t “walk on his knuckles.” — J.E. Griffin Rouses Point, N.Y. SUPPORT ANKENEY We in Chittenden County are once again very fortunate to have Jean Ankeney running for reelec tion to the Vermont Senate. Jean is a caring and compassionate woman and has a proven track record of accomplishments during the past eight years in the senate. Early childhood education is a primary interest to Jean, and she will fight to pass legislation and secure funding that will help our children get off to a good educational start. She is also concerned about the sprawl issue in Chittenden County and supports measures to help rein in uncon trolled growth while maintaining our healthy economy. Most importantly, Jean is a woman who cares about our chil dren, our elders, our working poor and about the environment in which we live. Her many years in public service as a nurse and educa tor are a testimony to this fact. I encourage all Chittenden County residents to cast a vote for Senator Jean Ankeney in the upcoming Democratic primary. A vote for Jean is a vote for making Vermont an even better place to live and thrive. — Richard H. Thomgren South Burlington

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DON’T RECREATE JERSEY! Your recent listing of the top 10 most expensive houses [“Real Estates,” August 9] in the county strikes me as exposing a seam of unparalleled greed running rampant in our fair state of late. I mean, a 15,000-square-foot house! I’m sure all the suppliers are having a field day and not even struggling to justi fy it at all. But, even as a builder, I am appalled by the size of the proj ects, the waste that they generate, the forests that they consume and the energy they use. This type of home violates to me the spirit of what I thought was special about Vermont, i.e., the ten dency to live in balance with the land. It is ecologically insane to think that we can continue to build dwellings of this nature and contin ue to have a planet worth living on. What are these architects and builders and owners all thinking about? Cash. Maybe you are having trouble thinking of a more worthy cause than your extra 10,000 square feet. It is so ridiculous... A culture that cannot develop an ethic of valuing a life in balance with the land cannot survive in the long run and proba bly does not deserve to. If you came here to get away from Jersey or Connecticut, don’t recreate the same kind of jive you ran away from, look around at what was here. Some parts of Vermont con tain the seeds of a sustainably eco logical culture. — John Dickason South Starksboro DWYER POINTS FINGERS Peter Freyne’s August 9 Inside Track quotes Ruth Dwyer as saying: “Take the crisis facing our families; You c a r e ab o u ti y o u r e m p lo y e e s . c o m m u G e s n a re c a n h elp t h e m y e ti h o w o r k a n d s G a y u io p k in y .

instead of focusing on the dangers children face at school and at home, the Democrats, led by governor Dean, made the legislation of samesex unions their social priority.” While candidate Dwyer is correct that the civil-unions bill was a prominent issue in this year’s legisla ture, she fails to recognize that it was neither the Dean administra tion nor the Democrats that made civil unions a social priority; rather it was the Supreme Court justices who ordered the legislature to take quick action to ensure equal rights under the law for same-sex couples. Neither the Democrats nor the Republicans had a choice but to make same-sex unions a social pri ority. Dwyer is so anxious to score the vote that she points fingers and tries to blame the Democratic party for something that was out of their hands. I encourage her to not forget the facts before the November elec tion. — James M. Willette South Burlington THINK ABOUT PREJUDICES What’s the matter with straight men? If we look at the statistics we see that: • Most murders are committed by straight men; • Most rapes are committed by straight men; • Most child molestation is perpe trated by straight men; • Most wars are declared by straight men; • Most of the industrial ecocide which is destroying the planet is perpetrated by straight men; • Most property crimes are commit ted by straight men. We can also ask:

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In the summer of 2000, it’s time Neuharth, now retired, was on hand, along for this page to support equal rights for gay and with the big wigs from the local Gannett outpost, lesbian members of our community, even — espe at Monday’s media forum conducted inside cially — in that most impor Gannett’s “NewsCapade” exhibit tant of decisions, the commit at the Champlain Valley Fair in ment to share a life with Essex Junction. Wouldn’t have another. The fundamental issue missed it for the world. is not about religion or In an exclusive interview after lifestyle, but about equal rights wards, yours truly asked Big Al ror all members of society. The whether the local reading public harsh truth is that gay friends has paid the price for the domi and family members, neighbors nance of big national newspaper and co-workers are being dis chains like Gannett in terms of criminated against.” losing the local flavor and the The family-owned Seattle local feel? daily went on to praise the Big Al candidly replied, “Yes.” state of Vermont for leading In fact, said Neuharth, “I the way on this important and think it’s the same price we paid controversial issue. “Being first with losing the mom-and-pop is never easy, even when it is grocery store. Ideally, locally the right thing to do. And owned businesses of every kind state-sanctioned civil unions are better for a community. But for same-sex partners is the the economic facts of life are such right thing to do. The that bigness has replaced much of Washington state Legislature that. I don’t think that’s ideal, but should enact similar legislation. it’s just a fact of life.” As more states follow the lead Bigness, after all, is what of Vermont, Congress one day BY P E T E R F R E Y N E Gannett is all about. The trans will be compelled to pass feder national company owns 99 news al legislation granting same-sex papers and 22 television stations in the U.S. plus couples full rights of marriage.” 15 dailies in England and much, much more. Equal rights for all citizens. What a concept! Annual revenues for 1999 were $5.3 billion. In Perhaps the editorial board of The Burlington Free fact, Gannett has more employees than Burlington Press wouldn’t mind telling its readers why it dis has people — 47,800, according to its corporate agrees with that viewpoint? Web site. Burlington, by the way, has a population Then again, the silence of Burlap’s daily paper of 39,000. says it all. Mr. Neuharth told Seven Days, “Bigness is not necessarily bad.” What you lose in “local identity” A Real Good Story — The story in the Vermont and “local flavor,” said Neuharth, is made up for Sunday papers that everyone is talking about this by presenting “a greater variety of opinion.” week wasn’t on the front page. It was inside. But Funny, but we haven’t noticed. And as far as everyone noticed. It was about Republican guberna opinions go, we, like every other reader, are still torial candidate Ruth Dwyer, the undisputed waiting for the Freeps to state its editorial position heavyweight champion of the Take Back Vermont on Vermont’s new civil-unions law. lobby. The candidate with the anti-equal rights And what of the survival of newspapers in the agenda. age of the Internet? In both cases, in the Freeps and the Rutland Not to worry. Newspapers, the kind you hold HeraldJTimes Argus, the headlines were kind to in your hands, are alive and well, according to Big Dwyer, calling the facts in the matter “unclear.” Al. And the future is a bright one for newsprint. But a reading of the story left a Very different Neuharth spoke to an audience of 45 that impression. The article had been generated by the included Governor Howard Dean, J. W arren Valley News, the daily, locally owned newspaper M cC lure, the noted philanthropist and former that serves folks living in the Upper Valley on both publisher of The Burlington Free Press who sold to banks of the Connecticut River. It’s also Ruth Gannett, and the management of the Freeps, Dwyer’s local daily. The article ran under an including Big Boss Jim Carey. He told them both “Associated Press” byline. Ted Turner and Bill Gates got it all wrong when it It was obvious the Valley News reporter had comes to newspapers. CNN founder Turner, noted been painstakingly thorough in tracking down and Neuharth, predicted in 1980 that 24-hour cable interviewing all the parties involved in the fatal TV news would put newspapers out of business. 1997 traffic accident that Ruth Dwyer blamed And Microsoft founder Bill Gates, said Neuharth, Gov. Dean for. The story of the tragic death of a predicted the Internet would do likewise. 39-year-old mother on a snow-covered Vermont Not! back road in the wee hours of a January morning “I think newspapers are here to stay for two was one of the colorful, emotional and, as Ruth primary reasons,” said Big Al. “They are the most the Truth told it, quite personal arrows that candi affordable and the most portable.” Neuharth called date Dwyer carried in her campaign quiver two The Burlington Free Press, at 50 cents a copy, “the years ago. Ruthless used it in her stump speech best buy in town.” (Of course, he doesn’t live here, and she used it in her fundraising letters. Dwyer so how would he know?) As for “portability,” said boldly laid the death of the woman she described Neuharth, “You cannot take the computer to the as a “friend” at the feet of a cruel governor who bathroom with you. I say that very seriously. A lot had savagely cut back on the state transportation of people read their newspaper in the bathroom, budget. Snow plows were unable to clear the dead the bedroom or the bar room.” ly snow from the driver’s fatal route, claimed But Al, are you sure all those Vermonters tak Dwyer, because Howard Dean wouldn’t pay the ing The Burlington Free Press into their bathrooms drivers. are using it only for reading purposes? That’s pure horse feathers, according to the reporter who tracked down all the principals Seattle Backs Vermont! — While Vermont’s involved in the case. largest daily newspaper continues its deafening edi The victim was hardly a “friend” of Ruthless torial silence on civil unions, other major American newspapers continue to weigh in. Over - I n s i d e T r a c k continued on page 40

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he tall man pockets his panhandled change and wipes the sweat from his forehead. Despite the oven-like heat of early August, he wears a sweatshirt and jeans. He talks about a mysterious stiffness in his fingers that keeps him from playing guitar. He recalls his youthful days, drink ing and smoking pot with friends, writing songs. Now he composes music on a com puter, he says. Then he strides off, swal lowed up by the afternoon crowds on Church Street. Earlier this summer, cops had to pull the man off a public bus. N ot from onboard, but from the side. He had been licking it furiously. While such a scene might rattle even a hardened city-dweller, to Burlington’s Marketplace merchants, similar breaks from reality had become all too familiar. Over the years, downtown workers and visitors have seen mentally disturbed citi zens periodically act out — urinating on shop floors, berating customers, yelling at doors and windows, panhandling, pocket ing goods or bringing loads of merchan dise to the counter and offering a few coins as payment. “It seemed to us that around 8 a.m., the doors were opened and people [with men tal illness] were let out, and it seemed no one was monitoring them, making sure they took their medication,” says Edward Moore, executive director of the Burlington Business Association (BBA), a private non profit group of some 180 businesses. The perception of danger and instabili ty on Church Street had been growing over the past few years and could no longer be ignored, concurs Yves Bradley, a member of the BBA and owner of The Body Shop on the Marketplace. While some Burlingtonians might describe the presence of the mentally ill downtown as colorful, to others the sight of agitated, irrational behavior translates to unpre dictability and possible aggressiveness, or even violence. v ,v .« A’ c c c r . v x *

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“I live in Essex and I know people there who say they stay away from Church Street,” says Trine Wilson, manager for the past three years of Leunig’s Bistro. While suburbanites may avoid down town Burlington for other reasons, the routine presence of some citizens clearly in need of help finally drove merchants to take matters into their own hands. It had become not just a matter of stifled busi ness, but of civic responsibility. “I felt I knew the situation with the mentally ill on Church Street better than the service providers,” says Bradley, who as chair of the BBA’s Downtown Action Group is concerned with addressing quality-of-life issues on the Marketplace. Thanks to Bradley and a consortium of businesspeople, social workers and law enforcement officials, the situation is radi cally different now. For the past four months, downtown merchants have had a business card tacked up in their offices. On it are two numbers: one for a pager, the second for a cell phone. At the other end is Matthew Young. A former restaurateur in Marthas Vineyard who used to serve such celebri ties as Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Young has been a mental health clinician at the Howard Center for Human Services for the past 10 years. The reserved, low-key Young reportedly jumped at the chance to work on the Marketplace. He loves being outdoors, pounding the pavement, drift ing among the people. His results so far have been stunning, according to all involved. “Its so noticeable, the change,” says Ron Redmond, executive director of the Church Street Marketplace. “Matt gets on the street every morning and starts taking the pulse right away. Where we were last year and where we are today is remarkable.”

att Youngs day begins around 9 a.m. at ACT 1, an alcohol crisis center at the corner of Pearl Street and North Winooski Avenue. He checks beds from the night before, looking for clients or new faces, studying moods for sadness, paranoia or crying. Then he hits Church Street, though in fact Youngs beat covers all of downtown, from Pearl Street to King Street, from the waterfront to South Union Street.

Mornings on the Marketplace are busy, he says. Many clients are hopped up on end less cups of coffee and cigarettes. This is when the day’s agenda is usually set, when Young sees who’s up and who’s down. “The street has a natural rhythm to it,” he says, striding on a recent morning toward the CCTA bus stop on Cherry Street. “When I look there I see a story. And every 15 minutes when a bus arrives, the entire cast can change.” Within seconds, Young recognizes an older, disheveled man seated at the busstop waiting area. They talk for a few moments and Young learns the man needs a ride back to his community-care home, but doesn’t have the fare. He’s well-known among merchants for public urination and panhandling. Young returns minutes later with his car, in which he keeps a bag of spare clothes for clients who soil them selves. He gives the man a lift and is back on Church Street within 20 minutes. “It’s never boring,” Young says, weaving around a trash can and across the street. Summertime on the Marketplace is indeed human theater, alive and vibrating. Street performers improvise in front of yawning instrument cases while tattooed youth slouch along narrow benches. Knots of tourists, some gripping strollers, or glossy shopping bags, stop at windows and cart vendors. Dusty construction workers lean in the doorways of renovated stores, distant radios humming behind them, while hippies and punks and goths collect on street boulders. Dogs strain on their leashes, sniffing the air for traces of pizza and hot dogs. Young’s job is to consider the street. He reads benches, the bus stops, the store fronts, doorways, alleyways and public restrooms. He cracks a smile, a joke, shakes hands, not only with the mentally ill, but with the alcoholics and the home less — keeping an eye on the transients and drug addicts — always ready with a few quarters for coffee. “I like to put the social’ back in social work,” Young says, stepping into the shade of a store overhang. Young figures he chats up some 40 to 50 people per day; perhaps 20 of those will need outside intervention. The prob lems are not always due to lapsed medica tion, either, he notes. Mood changes can be triggered by a host of things, such as a

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Matt Young bad night’s sleep or a worry dug up from 20 years ago. In fact, Young insists, 80 to 90 percent of his clients take their medica tion on a regular basis. “These illnesses are so powerful, they can overcome the medications,” he says. Young also insists violence among the mentally ill is no more common than among the general public. Unfortunately, there’s “a higher visibility to people with major mental illness,” he says. “It only takes one person to perpetuate the image, someone who tells three friends, ‘I felt threatened, I was asked for money inside an ATM vestibule today.’” urlington is a natural destination for the mentally ill in Vermont. Most of the state’s social services are in the Queen City. Furthermore, its youthful college population may feed the ranks of the disturbed, as a significant percentage of mental breakdowns occur between ado lescence and 30 years old, according to Young. As in many cities, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and clinical depression are the most visible illnesses on the streets in Burlington. Unfortunately, Chittenden County’s housing crisis has exacerbated the situa tion. “The shelters are full,” Young says. “A discharge from the hospital, unfortu-

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hand out.’ Give us the resources to take care of our mentally ill adequately.” Years ago, similar frustration led one Church Street restaurateur to offer Burlington’s homeless and transients one way bus tickets out of town. And while the mentally ill were not necessarily the target, they do make up one-third of the homeless population, according to Young. “The problem has its good months and its bad months,” says Mike Williams, owner of the Kountry Kart Deli on Main Street. Among other things, he has seen his shop floor urinated on. “Today, there was a woman in here ranting about the devil, ranting about the government. The other day we had to call Matt about an old man being rude to our employees.” Police have found themselves frustrat ed, too, spending countless hours respond ing to and processing offenders, some times half a day on each complaint. Most officers receive only four hours of training on mental illness, explains Sgt. Scott Davidson. Moreover, privacy laws keep police in the dark when it comes to the precise nature of people’s illness, who their case managers might be, even if they have case managers. Police can issue a citation, a letter of no trespass, or make an arrest, but not much more. “When your toilet overflows onto your floor, who do you call? A plumber, right?” remarks Davidson.

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Young’s job is to consider the street. He reads benches, the bus stops, the storefronts, doorways, alleyways and public restrooms. nately, is a discharge to the street. Many end up in the park.” Although he has yet to experience a winter on Church Street, Young imagines “They’ll be looking for a public spot that’s warm. They’ll go to the mall, the public library.” The appearance of the mentally ill on Burlington’s streets is part of a much big ger picture. Since the 1960s, state mental hospitals have been emptied of patients. At Vermont State Hospital in Waterbury, for example, the patient population dropped from a high of 1600 in 1955 to around 50 in the late ’90s. Deinstitutionalization was the result of several factors: the introduction of anti psychotic drugs, such as Thorazine, to treat schizophrenia; the high cost of in patient care; and the emphasis on civil lib erties for the mentally ill, particularly after the exposure of deplorable conditions at many state hospitals. Federal legislation in the ’60s sought to fund the development of shelters, commu nity health centers and group homes, but the effort ultimately failed to live up to its promise. Simultaneously, laws regarding involuntary commitment were made more strict. The result was that communities across the country saw the arrival of thou sands of patients during the ensuing decades.

“Almost everybody in Chittenden County knows someone with a mental ill ness,” says Bob Bick, director of Adult Behavioral Services at Howard. “And we need to respect folks’ rights to individuali ty, but at the same time make them aware of their communal obligations.” Schizophrenia alone affects some 2.5 million American adults and, while not curable, it is treatable. Brain disorders don’t discriminate, either, and have struck such figures as Isaac Newton, Virginia Woolf, Eugene O ’Neill, Charles Dickens, Ernest Hemingway and Winston Churchill, to name a few. “Just because someone is talking to themselves does not necessarily mean they need services or that they’re dangerous,” Bick says. While the Howard Center serves some 550 adults with major mental illness, a portion hovers below radar, Young says. In fact, Howard had developed an outreach position similar to Young’s 10 years ago, but it had more to do with teaming up with beat cops. In the end, the job fell prey to budget belt-tightening. “My guess is we have 80 percent of the mentally ill in the state, but not 80 per cent of the resources,” Bradley says. “And when we ask [the state] for the resources, it’s ‘Here comes Burlington again with its

oung, a New York City native, is a pleasant but private man who is ret icent to talk about himself. He refuses even to give his age, wanting to keep something for himself, he says. W hat he will say is, before his second career as a social worker, he managed and owned sev eral upscale Massachusetts restaurants for nearly 20 years. Diners at his Martha’s Vineyard establishment included not only Jackie Onassis, but singer James Taylor and author William Styron, who wrote about his own battle with depression in Darkness Visible. “That’s what makes Matt so good,” says the Marketplace’s Ron Redmond. “He’s been a businessman. He’s seen both sides.” It was restaurant burn-out, Young says, that forced him from the business years ago, but he wasn’t satisfied with semiretirement. He also remembered kitchen staffers he had hired who suffered from mental illness. That’s what prompted him to take a job with Vermont’s Vocational Rehabilitation and Employee Assistance Program, rather than start another eatery in the state. He began to train people with mental disabilities for restaurant work. Increasingly fascinated with their cases, Young was receptive when a friend sug gested he explore the possibilities at the Howard Center. Now a fierce advocate for the mentally ill, Young has never looked back. Ambling down the Marketplace, Young’s hair is pulled back under a black ball cap; a button-down shirt flaps open over his white undershirt. Brown-tinted sunglasses don’t quite hide his eyes. A slim man with somewhat weathered features, Young seems at ease in anyone’s company, just another face on Church Street. A

pager is clipped to his belt, a cell phone wedged in his pocket and a satchel slung over his shoulder. He’s ready to help who ever needs it. Young is soon paged by the manage ment at Lindt Chocolates, reporting a dis turbance out front. Young knows the man and is familiar with his recent agitation. Sitting on a bench, the man is talking ani matedly at passersby, not to anyone in par ticular, but through them. A pair of green initials are tattooed on one of his milkwhite shoulders. Y; „ Yt " As Young arrives, the man wedges the wrong end of a cigarette between his lips and says he’s just returned from California. Young asks what’s going on and soon sus pects the man is off his medication. An old lady in a battered, down coat shares the bench. She’s familiar to Young as well. The man says something about his Hollywood address, hospital tests and les bians. The lady responds that women shouldn’t be with their own, that God had said so. The man looks at her, startled and apologetic, scans the sky for a second, and begins shouting the Lord’s Prayer, his shoulders hunched forward. He closes with an imaginative verse about “babygods sliced in two, half-bodies scattered across fields, cocksuckers, cocksuckers.” “You going to Westview?” Young asks moments later, referring to a social club house for people with mental illness. “The hospital, Matt, I need tests,” he responds. Young suggests he go to Westview first. “I will, I will,” the man says. “I’ll have a cigarette first. I’ll go in a little bit.” “Will you be there in 15 minutes?” Young asks. “Yes, 15 minutes, half an hour, I’ll be there.” O n his cell phone, Young consults with Howard’s Mobile Crisis Team, which meets the man at Westview and delivers medication. Days later, this scene will be repeated, and Young, with the crisis team, will convince the man to commit himself to the psychiatric wing at Fletcher Allen. “That was one of my slowest days,” Young says. “It’s gotten so chaotic these past three weeks. Full o f craziness. There was someone jumping in front of the bus the other day. My beeper goes off, some one’s trying to buy a gram o f coke. Someone else is telling me the Mafia has been biting his brain. Then someone else is lifting their ankle to show me where it’s injured. I’m trying to get an alcoholic to treatment. It’s like triage, an emergency room. You’re taking them one by one.” Young says another social worker on the street would be helpful, as would some sort of conflict mediator. Tensions and dis putes among the mentally ill have increased dramatically during these last days of summer, he says. “It’s been pretty wild,” he says. “There was a lot of conflict in August, a lot of conflict. But September might have an entirely different tone. And who knows about December, January and February?” While notes of exasperation sometimes slip from Young’s voice, he shows no signs of letting up.

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— M ental health worker M att Young Sgt. Davidson, an 11 -year veteran of the Burlington Police Department, agrees, noting that significant police time has already been leveraged. “The most we could do was arrest,” he says. “And that’s not the answer, either. They simply move to the next place; the prob lem is ongoing.” While M att Young is the pub lic face of the Marketplace effort, it neither begins nor ends with him. The less colorful side to the story is one of a community coming together to solve a prob lem, to help their own. It would be easier to name those not involved in this unique collabora tion. Aside from the BBA, the mayors office and Howard, the United Way of Chittenden County, the BPD, Spectrum Youth and Family Services, Fletcher Allen Health Care, the Committee on Temporary Shelter, local banks, the University of Vermont and several state entities have contributed in some way. Grants from the United Way, the city and state make up Youngs $40,000 salary for this year. The Downtown Action Group has already been in touch with Vermont’s congressional del egation, seeking federal funds for an additional outreach worker to join Young. Bradley said the group plans to walk Sen. James

move quicker than a deliberative body or an overworked and underfunded social-services bureaucracy. “We gathered together people who could make things happen and didn’t discuss it to death,” Bradley says. “If it had been entrusted to the city, it would have taken two years, and with Howard, it would have taken even longer. This has been a huge, huge accomplishment for this community.” News of Burlington’s out reach effort, which includes edu cating the public on mental ill ness, has already spread to other states. Meanwhile, there’s so much more to be done here. After all, Young is just one per son, working only Monday through Friday. On the week ends, the presence of the mental ly ill is generally absorbed by the busier, bustling crowds, he says. “I wish we could clone M att,” Bradley adds. “There are people out there who have been unreachable for years, and he’s gone out and done it.” Bradley hopes, too, that Young is finding the time and space for his own needs. “I worry about M att sometimes,” he says. Young shrugs off such con cerns. He has his own medica tion, it seems: “I play my Hammond B-3 organ,” he says. “Very loud.” ®

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Heading in New Directions Writing headlines is a contact sport. Spotted recently in Vermont papers: “I Swallowed My Tooth,” “Picking the Brains of Genealogical Researchers — Dead or Alive” and “My Maine Travelogue, O r Why I Hate Camping.” — Williston Whistle, August 17; Addison Independent, August 28; Franklin County Courier, August 17 Rural Poetry Louise Sandberg of Cookeville spotted a hot-air balloon one Tuesday evening. She recalled, “It was so close that a conversation was possible: From an upstairs window somebody hollered, ‘Helloooh!’ and somebody in the air replied, ‘Hello! Okay if we land in your field?’ To which the answer was a loud yes, and not long after that a corner of the field nearest the road was-peopled by at least a dozen adults, half a dozen teenagers and more children than I could count... The pilot put everyone to work and within minutes that whole big balloon, with its yards and yards of colorful fabric, was straightened out into one long, manageable snake.” Champagne was then poured for the grownups, stories were told, and “while we stood there in the field, the full moon started coming up, brighter than a pumpkin, almost as bright as the rising sun. It’s still hard to decide which was the greater mar vel. Let’s say the balloon was a close second.” — Bradford Journal Opinion, August 23 Cumberland’s Lot The parking lot of the Cumberland Farms in Windsor has come to the attention of the local police. At least 19 times in the past couple of weeks, “groups,” “large groups” and sometimes very large groups” of people congregate in it and have to be told to move along. This weird clump ing has a sinister side: Louis Sherwin has been arraigned in district court for allegedly threatening a man with a golf club there. According to court

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Cable says Quinlan, who was a hospice volunteer to more than 1000 gay men, said, “I never met a gay man who was not sexually abused as a child.” Cable shares and the fact that a “former les bian” who advises his group was sexually abused by male relatives when she was young — as proof for his argument that gays are forced into their orientation. “It’s something that’s been embedded in them by physical, emotional and sexual abuse,” he asserts. Yet homosexual orientation can be changed, he adds: “I have several friends who are living proof of that.” Never mind that the American Psychological Associa tion claims sexual orientation emerges for most people during early adolescence without any prior sexual experience and can not be voluntarily changed. Never mind that the American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from its list of mental and emotional disorders in 1973, and has since stated that it opposes any “reparative” or “conversion” therapy based on the assumption that homosexuality is a mental illness or that homosex ual orientation should be changed. Cable insists there is ongoing debate about that with psycho logical ranks, and believes such statements by national profession al groups are the result of political pressure from gay-rights activists over the past several decades. He says the media further the prob lem by not reporting on dissent ing voices. He started his group in March to counter “the myths and decep tion that’s been out there for 20 years,” he says. ?We felt like somebody had to play hardball with the facts as soon as possible.”

Cable uses a similar argument to justify the closed-door sessions at which he speaks. Asked why people with opposing views are not allowed to attend, he replies, “The opponents have been pro viding information unchallenged for 20 years, so why should we invite them?” In the spring ads that spurred the governor’s wrath, Cabje’s group targeted state support of Outright Vermont, a Burlingtonbased nonprofit group that offers school presentations on sexual orientation, homophobia and harassment. The ad, which appeared in the Burlington Free Press, claimed Dean supported laws “to insure that homosexuals could have their way with your children,” a claim the governor hotly denied. Through all his activism, Cable maintains that he has no problem with homosexuals them selves. He also says he has voted for Dean more than once in the past, though he won’t this November. “I have voted all over the map,” he says, including a number of times for Auditor Ed Flanagan, Cable comments, “even when I knew he was a homosexual, because I like the job he’s done and is still doing.” Cable was born in New Jersey and grew up in Pennsylvania, although his parents were from Manchester. In 1974, his family moved to Rutland, where his father was an FBI agent for 15 years. Cable attended the Coast Guard Academy and Castleton

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tries. The current seasons crop of resident artists comes from Macedonia, Japan and Taiwan. Although the center isn’t fully winter ized, its moving toward year-round pro gramming. Stone-carving classes are already given through December to stu dents from Castleton State and Green Mountain colleges. Weekly drawing instruction is also offered in the fall to adults and teens. Fundraising has gotten underway for the planned purchase from Gawet of the main studio building and an adjoining cot tage, along with five acres of the property. Outright ownership will allow the Carving Studio to construct a few on-site housing units and to expand its work space, explains director Carol Driscoll. One key aim is to improve safety conditions at a site that now includes 100-foot-deep unfenced pits and saw-toothed metal fragments that make Driscoll uneasy about offering chil dren’s classes. “There are some real dangers here that need to be cleaned up,” she says. “Kids and these kinds of conditions don’t mix well.” But the pioneers who carved the studio out of the surrounding post-industrial wilderness don’t want to prettify the place, either. Establishing a secure destination for art tourists isn’t part of the vision shared by Driscoll and other artists who have been there since the beginning. “Tourists will want to ask lots of ques tions and will just wind up distracting the sculptors,” she says. Instructor Glenn Campbell, who teaches mold-making and iron-casting, agrees that the studio as well as a few buildings along nearby Marble Street should remain as working areas for artists. “No! No! No!” Campbell retorts to a suggestion that it’s easy to imagine a rehabbed Marble Street lined with latte joints, boho boutiques and Woodstock-

style galleries. “This is a place for sculptors to work on their projects. It can’t become an art hangout.” But the Marble Street Historic District — a roughly three-block-long stretch of clapboard homes, bars and storefronts lead-

mer, several workshop attendees rent rooms in homes in and around West Rutland. Relations with the town are positive, Driscoll says.

A 150-year-old former compa ny store resonates today with pie chinking of stones andt sudden shout or laugh of an pronefl carver. ing to the Carving Studio — does look like a yuppie zone in utero. Already, a cou ple of those storefronts-cum-studios con tain slightly wacky displays that must puz zle longtime residents of the semidisheveled neighborhood. On one corner next to a new park containing a sculptural centerpiece, an abandoned building is being converted by the local land trust into a four-unit apartment house, with tenanti ng priority to be given to artists. How many times have artists served as an unwitting vanguard for a gentrification movement that eventually renders a work ing-class area unrecognizable? But West Rutland probably won’t expe rience such a fate, in part because it’s far removed from the necessary consumerist infrastructure. Besides, the locals seem to look upon the Carving Studio as a trusted neighbor, not an alien threat. Each sum

“Many people either had jobs at the marble works or have relatives who worked there, and they’re thrilled to see that it’s come back to life. Some of them may not understand what the sculp tors are creating, but most everyone is friendly and welcoming.” Townspeople account for a sizable por tion of the visitors to the annual Sculptfest held inside and around the Carving Studio, Driscoll notes. This year’s display, the third in the series, opens September 15 and runs through October 22. A few pieces left over from the first couple of fests will certainly startle, if not perplex, viewers unfamiliar with contem porary sculpture. Most striking is an alu minum ladder topped with angel wings that magically sways 10 feet above a flood

ed quarry. Surely there are thin guy wires keeping this apparition aloft, but they can not be seen. Hovering over the water in another quarry a few yards away is Frank Anjos’ “Five Foot 9 Inches,” a white marble plumb bob of that height suspended from a steel derrick. Its effect is also ghostly, par ticularly for a visitor who happens upon the work. The jumbled terrain around the Carving Studio abounds in such serendipiContinued on page 22

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tous surrealism. The quarries function like the bays in the Guggenheim Museum, with viewers able to walk sequentially between them — except that there’s no smooth ramp or neat labels at this outdoor, and decid edly unchic, venue. Exhibit-goers at the Guggenheim also won’t stumble upon a group of kids diving and throwing stones into a display station, as happened one humid afternoon on an unescort ed tour of the Carving Studios grounds. Soon to join the eclectic amalgam is a work by Don Eyles, tentatively titled “Visitor.” He describes the in-progress piece as a Styrofoam pyramid housing a light that can illuminate a waterfilled quarry to a depth of 100 feet. A visiting artist from Boston, Eyles says he was attract ed to the Carving Studio by his friendship with Driscoll — who moved from the Hub to Brandon two years ago — as well as by “the mysterious quarries and the industrial history of the place.” Eyles, a veteran photographer, has begun sculpting only relative ly recently. He’s developed a par ticular fondness for “pieces that float,” he reports. No single trend dominates among sculptors working at the Carving Studio, says Glenn Campbell, who’s been teaching there for 10 years. “W hat you do see is an interlocking among media,” notes the Rhode Island School of Design alumnus. “A number of pieces are integrated into performances or installa tions.” Campbell sees the Carving Studio as the setting for “a beautiful marriage of the con ceptual and the sculptural.” Inside the partly refurbished studio itself, a blackboard lists upcoming evening slide shows by artists-in-residence. These are casual, communal gatherings on the loft level of the airy interior, where workshop attendees also share evening meals and conver sation. The historic company store of the Vermont Marble Co., erected in 1855, has not been merely preserved but adapted to suit the functions and style of a new type of Vermont marble worker. A related metamorphosis has occurred four miles away in Rutland. There, at 101 Center Street, a single-story Federalistera home has been saved and converted into a gallery affiliated with the Carving Studio. Currently on display in this handsome brick building are marble nudes executed in a classi cal yet ironic style by Fred X. Brownstein. Vermont’s 21st-century econo my may have only thin and tenu ous connections to the earth and its contents. But while the state will never again derive its wealth mainly from farmers, loggers and marble workers, its past does not have to be utterly estranged from its present and future. That’s the message of the Carving Studio and its companion gallery in Rutland. They point to post modern possibilities respectful of Vermont’s traditions. ®

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YfiROUPEXERCISE AEROBICS Aerobic Class Pass Participate in any of our 21 aerobic classes each week. Step, H i/ Lo Impact, plus these new classes:

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Better Bones Exercise Class Strength training using exertubes, flexibility and balance exercises. No class Oct. 19. Tue/T hu 8 - 9am $45 ($31)

WATERFITNESS Pre & Post-Natal Water Exercise Help relieve lower back pain & swelling, maintain muscle tone and increase blood circulation. M on/W ed 7 - 8pm $52 ($36) T ue/Thu 11am—12 pm $52 ($36) Splash & Tone For all fitness levels. Tue/T hu 9 - 10am $52 (free) T ue/Thu 6:30-7:30 pm $52 ($36)

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HydroPower Wave A high-energy, low-impact water workout. T ue/Thu Noon - 1pm $52 (free)

An intense group workout on stationary bikes. Call for class times. Reservations are required. Cancellations are needed 24 hours in advance.

Water Tai Chi Flowing movements of tai chi with calming effects of water. T ue/Thu 1 - 2pm $52 ($36)

Spinning Payment Options for Non-members: 1 class/ session: $30 2 class/session: $55 3 class/session: $75 10 class punch card: $55 Walk-in Payment: $11 per class

Water Aerobics Increase cardio vascular strength & endurance. M on/W ed /F ri 6:15 - 7:15 am $98 (free) M on/W ed 6 - 7 pm $52 ($36) Interval Training H20 Fast-paced interval workout. Tue/T hu 6:20 - 7:20am $52 (free) Water Games Free play for adults. Tue/Thu 6 —6:20 am $40 (free) *** Workout every morning in the 6:15 am Water Aerobics, Interval Training H 2 0 and Water Games classes for only $120 (free). Therapy Swim Enjoy our 86 degree pool for your therapeutic needs. M on/W ed /F ri 7:15 - 9am or T ue/Thu 7:20 - Sam & Sat 7 - 8am $15 per session or $25 for all six days.

YHEALIH&FITNESS Tai Chi This introductory class focuses on breathing & concentration while uniting spirit, mind and body. Thu 6:10 - 7am $35 ($25) No class Oct. 19 Yoga Use breath and body to let go of worries and anxiety, develop strength, flexibility and energy and have fun. No experience necessary. At Edmunds Elementary: Sept. 14-O c t. 19 Thu 5:30-6:30 pm $54 ($38) At the YMCA: Sept. 13-O c t. 18 Wed 6:15-7:45 am $54 ($38) Flow Yoga An active flow style practice for all levels to tone the body and calm the mind. At the YMCA. Fri 5:30 -7 pm $46 ($32) Sat 7:15-8:45 am $54 ($38) Senior Yoga Experience the gentle side of this fountain of youth. Senior center members at both sites pay YMCA member rate. At McClure MultiGenerational Center: Sept. 14 —Oct. 19 Thu 9:30 - 10:45am $54 ($38) At th e Pines Senior Living Community: Sept. 13 —Oct. 18 Wed 8:45-1 0 a m $54 ($38) Weight Loss Through Weight * Training Strength training and aerobic endurance activities to lose fat and gain muscle definition. M on/W ed/F ri 7 - 8pm $81 ($54)

YMCA Arthritis Exercise Class Offered with the Arthritis Foundation, gentle water exercise helps decrease pain and stiffness, and maintain or improve joint flexibility. No swim skills needed. Attend any of these class times: M on/W ed/F ri 1 - 2pm and T ue/Thu 8 - 9am $51 ($48)

YOLDERADULTS Silver Foxes Moderately-paced, co ed exercise class for those over 50. Land & optional water exercise. Gym & Pool: M on/W ed 9 —10:30am And Fri 9 —10:45am $70 ($56) Gym only: M on/W ed/F ri 9 - 9:50am $59 ($47) Never-Too-Late Nautilus Strength training for folks over 50 to improve strength and energy levels, ease arthritis pain & build strong bones. Tue/Fri 9 - 10am $60 ($42)

Diabetes Program Offered with FAHC, land and water exercise monitored by medical personnel. Sept. 15 —Dec. 1. Memorial Aud. Loft: Fri 9 —9:45am YMCA: Fri 10 -10:45am

DANCE Unless otherwise indicated, all dance classes are at the YMCA. Toe-Tappin' Toddlers Sept. 12-O c t. 17. (Ages 18 —36 months w / parent) Music and movement class. Tue 3 :1 5 -4 pm $36 ($26) Kids in Motion Sept. 14-O c t. 12. (Ages 2 1 / 2 —5 years w /o u t parent) Creative movement and dance class. Thu 3:15 - 4pm $30 ($22) Ballet Conditioning Sept. 15-O c t. 13. Focus on the conditioning effects of ballet. No dance experience necessary. Bare feet or ballet/jazz shoes recommended. Fri 7 - 8pm $40 ($28)

NEW! DANCE THERAPY A creative movement and dance class for children experiencing delays due to (but not limited to) autism * se n so r y in te g r a tio n disorder & language and learning disabilities. Taught at the YMCA by certified dance therapist Gloria Wilcox. $36 ($24)

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Ages 6 —12 w/or w/out parent Sat 12—lp m Sept. 16 —Oct. 14 Call Kym Reid at 862-9622 for more information. Music Video Dance Sept. 16-O c t. 14. Learn some of the hottest hip-hop moves from music videos. Sat 4:15-5 p m $40 ($28) American Style Level I: The Basics Sept. 11 —Oct. 9. Learn the Foxtrot, Tango and Waltz. Mon 7 - 8pm $42 ($30) Swing Level I Sept. 11-O c t. 9. Learn the Jitterbug and East Coast Swing. Mon 8 - 9pm $42 ($30) West Coast Swing Sept. 14-O c t. 12. Learn the sultry side of swing. Thu 7 —8pm $42 ($30) Salsa and Merengue Sept. 16 —Oct. 14. Try the easiest of the Latin dances. Sat 3 - 4 pm $42 ($30)

Sw in g N ights! W e d n e s d a y N ig h t P ra c tic e S e s s io n s 8 —10:30 pm Continued by popular demand. Great practice time on our giant maple floor! Singles are welcome. $ 6 /p e rso n at th e d oor For more information call Kym Reid at 862-9622.

YGYMNASUCS Children use age appropriate equipment and activities such as music, balls, tumbling mats, and later

gymnastic equipment, to develop physically and socially. Beginner gymnasts develop self-confidence, coordination and flexibility. Little Gymies (18 m os.—3 yrs. w / parent) Sat 9:05-9:35 am $45 ($30) Tiny Tumblers ( 4 - 5 years w / parent) Sat 9:40-10:10 am $45 ($30) Beginner Gymnastics ( 6 - 1 2 years) Sat 10:15-1 1 a m $51 ($36) Tumble and Splash Creative m ovement and tumbling, then head for the pool for fun sw im activities. Group 1: Ages 2 & 3 (w / parent) Sat 11am - noon $60 ($40) Group 2: Ages 3-5 (w /o parent) Sat 11:30am - 12:30pm $57 ($45)

YSP0RTS SELF DEFENSE/MARTIAL ARTS Shotokan Karate Ages 10 and up. D evelop self confidence and self discipline, balance, agility, strength and endurance. Adult students also learn self-defense. T ue/T hu 4 - 5:15pm Ages 10 —17: Free Adults $72 (Free) Adult Karate In racquetball court. Tue 5 —6 pm $60 (Free) Kickboxing (Ages 13 - adult) Learn punching, kicking, and blocking, with heavy bag work, pad drills and fighting strategy. Safety is emphasized. A whole body exercise improves endurance, strength, flexibility and self confidence. Wed 6:30 - 8pm $60 ($42)

YSWIM LESSONS Parent - Child Classes Parent is in water with child. For ages 6 - 3 6 months. Four levels of classes. Call for days and times. $45 ($31) Preschool Classes Children ages 3 - 5 years sw im without parent. Four levels of classes. Classes offered in weekly lessons for six weeks or in two-w eek sessions of 8 classes. Call for days and times. Weekly: $52 ($36) Two-Week Sessions: $75 ($49) Youth Swim Lessons For children of all levels. Seven levels of classes. Classes offered in weekly lessons for six weeks or in twoweek sessions of 8 classes. Call for days and times. Weekly: $52 ($36) Two-Week Sessions: $65 ($46) Teen & Adult Swim Lessons $52($36) Teens (Ages 13 -16): Thu 7:30 - 8:30pm A d u lts (Ages 18 and up): Bronze: Tue 7:30 - 8:30pm Intermediate Bronze: Mon 8 - 9pm Silver Stroke Clinic: Mon 8 - 9pm Adaptive Swim Program Individualized sw im instruction for persons w ith disabilities. A parent or care-giver is required to assist swimmers in the locker room. Contact Adaptive Swim Coordinator Diane Chandler at 862-9622 to register. $52 ($36) YMCA Lifeguarding For 16 years and older. Sept. 13 —Oct. 25. Wed 6 -1 0 p m $250 ($175)

YBASKETBALL Youth Basketball Leagues Teams play each week in games of six-minute quarters and w ith 10 players on each team roster. Fee includes a T-shirt. League runs Sept. 1 7 - Nov. 5. $ 4 5 /person ($ 3 0 /person) Co-Ed Middle School League: For boys and girls in grades 5 & 6. Sun 12 —3 pm Ir. H igh League: For boys and girls in grades 7 & 8. Sun 3 —5 pm Teen League: Divisions for boys and girls ages 14 —15 years. A great opportunity for high school players to prepare for the upcom ing season. Sun 5 —7 pm ADULT BASKETBALL Mens 4-on-4 League Teams play full court in officiated games. Oct. 20 — Dec. 8. Fri 8 —10pm $ 3 5 0 /team

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‘FIELD’ DAY How has Scotland’s Battlefield Band remained on the front lines for 3 0 years? By sticking to its traditional guns while adding to the arsenal some modern equipment. That is, the legendary Edinburgh quartet has evolved with the times — it was the first Celtic band to add a synthesizer to the familiar acoustic lineup of bagpipes, fiddle, bodhran and pennywhistle, and has hosted a succession of bril liant players. Latest addition Karine Polwart joins Mike Katz, John McCusker and the sole remaining founder, Alan Reid, in the proudly plaid platoon. Heed the call this Sunday at Higher Ground.

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THURSDAY GUY COLASACCO (singer-songwriter), Jake’s, 6:30 p.m. NC. ELLEN POWELL & SHANE HARDIMAN (jazz), Leunig's, 7 p.m. NC. OPEN MIKE W/D. DAVIS, Cactus Cafe, 9 p.m. NC. EAMES BROS, (blues), Pacific Rim, 9 p.m. $5. DAN PARKS & THE BLAME (rock), Steer & Stein, 9:30 p.m. NC. DJ DAPP (hip-hop/dance), Bottleneck, 10 p.m. NC. LAMBSBREAD, CHANNEL 2 DUB BAND (reggae), Nectar’s, 9:30 p.m. NC. SOAPFLAKES (improv comedy), Club Metronome, 7 p.m. $3, followed by JIGGLE THE HANDLE (groove rock), 9:30 p.m. $4. BARBACOA (surf noir), Red Square, 9:30 p.m. NC. STONEHOUSE (rock), Manhattan Pizza & Pub, 10 p.m. NC. REGGAE NIGHT (DJ), J.P.’s Pub, 9 p.m. NC. LADIES NIGHT (DJ Robbie J; Top 40), Millennium Nightclub-Burlington, 9 p.m. Women NC, men $2/7. GLEN SCHWEITZER (groove/rock), Vermont Pub & Brewery, 9:30 p.m. NC. FAT MAMA, NO GLUE, SCHMEDLEY (funk; improv jazz), Higher Ground, 9 p.m. $4/6. 18+ OPEN MIKE, Backstage Pub, 9 p.m. NC. KARAOKE W/MATT & BONNIE DRAKE, Edgewater Pub, 9 p.m. NC. HALF-STEP (groove rock), Monopple, 10 p.m. NC. GOOD GUYS PRODUCTIONS (DJ), Naked Turtle Holding Co., 9 p.m. NC. SUPER SOUNDS KARAOKE, Otter Creek Tavern, 9 p.m. NC. TNT KARAOKE, Thirsty Turtle, 9 p.m. NC. LADIES NIGHT W/DJ FROSTEE (house/Top 40), Millennium Nightclub-Barre, 9 p.m. Women NC, $2/7. 18+

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BAND (reggae), Nectar’s, 9:30 p.m. NC. i 2K (house/hip-hop; DJs Frostee & Robbie J.), Millennium Nightclub-Burlington, 9 p.m. $3/10. KARAOKE, J.P.’s Pub, 9 p.m. NC. BLUES FOR BREAKFAST, Vermont Pub & Brewery, 9:30 p.m. NC. LIVE MUSIC (rock), Alley Cats, 9 p.m. NC. COMEDY ZONE (stand-up), Radisson Hotel, 8 p.m. $8/6. 18+ ASSIF TSAHAR (multi-reed jazz), Signal to Noise, 8:30 p.m. $5-

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EMPTY POCKETS (rock), Henry’s Pub, Holiday Inn, 9 p.m. NC. EIGHT IS ENOUGH (Flex party w/DJs all night), Higher Ground, 9 p.m. $15/20. 18+ MR. FRENCH (rock), Trackside Tavern, 9 p.m. $2. KARAOKE W/VERN, Backstage Pub, 9 p.m. NC. JOHN CASSEL (jazz piano), Tavern at the Inn at Essex, 7 p.m. NC. THE IMPOSTERS (rock), Edgewater Pub, 9 p.m. NC. BLUE JEWEL LIGHT (folk/acoustic rock), Village Cup, 8 p.m. NC. LIVE JAZZ, Diamond Jim’s Grille,

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7:30 p.m. NC. GLASS ONION (rock), Naked Turtle Holding Co., 9 p.m. NC. AGENT PORRIDGE (Grateful Dead tribute), Monopole, 10 p.m. NC. STUR CRAZIE (rock), Franny O’s, 9 p.m. NC. DISTANT THUNDER (rock), City Limits, 9 p.m. NC. MIGHTY LOONS (rock), Otter Creek Tavern, 9:30 p.m. NC. NATIVE TONGUE (rock), Thirsty Turtle, 9 p.m. $3. LIVE MUSIC, Mad Mountain Tavern, 9 p.m. $4. SAVING GRAY (rock), Gallagher’s, 9 p.m. $3. THE CLIQUE (party band), Rusty Nail, 9 p.m. NC. THE DETONATORS (blues/r&b), Matterhorn, 9 p.m. $3-5. DAWN DECKER (jazz), J.P. Morgan’s, 7 p.m. NC. ROCKWOOD RHYTHM (blues), Charlie O’s, 9 pirn, NC. PANASHE (steel drum band), Bean Hole Dinner, Morse Farm, Montpelier, 5 p.m. dinner/6:30 p,m. performance, $6.50/NC. PC THE SPINDOCTOR (house/Top 40), Millennium NightclubBarre, 9 p.m. $3/10. 18+ THE SLACKERS (ska), Toadstool Harry’s, 9 p.m. $8/10. 18+

LIVE MUSIC, Dockside, 7:30 p.m. NC. ANNIE GALLUP (singer-song writer), Burlington Coffeehouse, 8 p.m. $8, , ONE KING DOWN, DYCAST, UNEARTH, STMP, TORSION (hard core), 242 Main, 8 p.m. $6. DJ LITTLE MARTIN, 135 Pearl, 10 p.m. $4. BLOOZOTOMY (jump blues), Nectar’s, 9:30 p.m. NC. RETRONOME (DJ; dance pop), : Club Metronome, 10 p.m. $2. LOVE WHIP (alt-rock), Red Square, 9:30 p.m. NC. KARAOKE, J.P.’s Pub, 9 p.m. NC. DJS TIM DIAZ & RUGGER (hiphop/r&b), Ruben James, 10 p.m. NC. FLASHBACK (’80s DJ), Rasputin’s, 10 p.m. NC. " URBAN DJ NETWORK (DJs Spin & Irie; hip-hop/house), Millennium •••• Nightclub-Burlington, 9 p.m. $3/10. u THE WARRENS (rock), Vermont Pub & Brewery, 9:30 p.m. NC. DJ DAPP (hip-hop/dance), Bottleneck, 10 p.m. NC. COMEDY ZONE (stand-up), Radisson Hotel, 8 p.m. $8/6. 18+ GUY COLASACCO (singer-song writer), Jake’s, 6:30 p.m. NC. EMPTY POCKETS (rock), Henry’s Pub, Holiday Inn, 9 p.m. NC. SAM ARMSTRONG (jazz favorites), Tuckaway’s, Sheraton Hotel, 9 p.m. NC. JAMIE LEE THURSTON & THE RAT TLERS, COBALT BLUE (country rock; rock), Higher Ground, 9 p.m. $10/12. 18+ MR. FRENCH (rock), Trackside Tavern, 9 p.m. $2. KARAOKE W/VERN, Backstage Pub, 9 p.m. NC. THE IMPOSTERS (rock), Edgewater Pub, 9 p.m. NC. TOM BISSON (modern folk), Village Cup, 8 p.m. NC. BACK ROADS (country; line danc ing), Cobbweb, 8:30 p.m. $7/12. JOHNNY DEVIL BAND (rock), G Stop, 9 p.m. $3. DR. X (rock), Naked Turtle

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Alley Cats, 41 King St., Burl., 660 -4304 . Backstage Pub, 60 Pearl St., Essex Jet., 878 - 5494 . Boony's, Rt. 236 , Franklin, 933 -4569 . Borders Books & Music, 29 Church St., Burlington, 865 -2711 . Bottleneck, 156 St. Paul St., Burlington, 658 - 3994 . Brewski, Rt. 108 , Jeffersonville, 644 -5432 . Bridge St. Cafe, Richmond, 434 -2233 . Burlington Coffeehouse at Rhombus, 186 College St., Burlington, 864 -5888 . Cactus Cafe, 1 Lawson Ln., Burl., 862 -6900 . Capitol Grounds, 45 State St., Montpelier, 223 -7800 . Champion’s, 32 Main St., W inooski, 655 -4705 . Charlie O’s, 70 Main St., Montpelier, 223 -6820 . Chow! Bella, 28 N. Main St„ St. Albans, 524 - 1405 . City Limits, 14 Greene St. Vergennes, 877 -6919 . Club Metronome, 188 Main St., Burlington, 865 -456 3 . Cobbweb, Sandybirch Rd., Georgia, 527 -7000 . Daily Bread, Bridge St., Richmond, 434 -3148 . Diamond Jim's Grille, Highgate Comm. Shpg. Ctr., St. Albans, 524 -9280 . Dockside Cafe, 209 Battery, Burlington, 864 -5266 . Edgewater Pub, 340 Malletts Bay Ave., Colchester, 865 -4214 . Finnigan’s Pub, 205 College St., Burlington, 864 -8209 . Flynndog, 208 Flynn Ave., Burlington, 652 -9985 . Flynn Theatre, 153 Main St., Burlington, 863 - 5966 . Franny O's 733 Queen City Pk. Rd., Burlington, 863 -2909 . Gallagher's, Rt. 100 , Waitsfield, 496 -8800 . Good Times Cafe, Hinesburg Village, Rt. 116 , 482 -4444 . G Stop, 38 Main St., St. Albans, 524 -7777 . Gusto's, 28 Prospect St., Barre, 476 -7919 . Halvorson’s, 16 Church St., Burlington, 658 -0278 . Henry's, Holiday Inn, 1068 Williston Rd., S. Burlington, 863 -6361 . Higher Ground, 1 M ain St., W inooski, 654 -8888 . Jake's, 1233 Shelburne Rd., S. Burlington, 658 -2251 . J.P. Morgan’s at Capitol Plaza, 100 Main St., Montpelier, 223 - 5252 . J.P.'s Pub, 139 Main St., Burlington, 658 -6389 . The Kept Writer, 5 Lake St., St. Albans, 527 -6242 . Leunig's, 115 Church St., Burlington, 863 - 3759 . Mad Mountain Tavern, Rt. 100 , Waitsfield, 496 -2562 . Manhattan Pizza & Pub, 167 Main St., Burlington, 658 - 6776 . Matterhorn, 4969 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253 - 8198 . Millennium Nightclub-Barre, 230 N. M ain St., Barre, 476 - 3590 . Millennium Nightclub-Burlington, 165 Church St., Burlington, 660 -2088 . Monopole, 7 Protection Ave., Plattsburgh, 518 -563 -2222 . The Mountain Roadhouse, 1677 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253 -2800 . Mr. Pickw ick's, Ye Olde England Inne, 253 - 7558 . Naked Turtle Holding Co., 1 Dock St., Plattsburgh, 518 -566 -6200 . Nectar's, 188 Main St., Burlington, 658 -4771 . Ollie's, 13 Evelyn St., Rutland, 773 -3710 .

135 Pearl St., Burlington, 863 -2343 . Otter Creek Tavern, 215 M ain St., Vergennes, 877 - 3667 . Pickle Barrel, Killington Rd., Killington, 422 - 3035 . Radisson Hotel, 60 Battery St., Burlington, 658 -6500 . Rasputin's, 163 Church St., Burlington, 864 -9324 . Red Square, 136-Church St., Burlington, 859 -8909 . Rhombus, 186 College St., Burlington, 865 -3144 . Ripton Community Coffee House, Rt. 125 , 388 -9782 . Ri Ra the Irish Pub, 123 Church St., Burlington, 860 -9401 . Ruben James, 159 Main St., Burlington, 864 -0744 . Rusty Nail, Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253 -6245 . Sha-Booms, 45 Lake St., St. Albans, 524 - 9014 . Sh-Na-Na’s, 101 Main St., Burlington, 865 -2596 . Signal to Noise HQ, 416 Pine St. (behind Speeder & Earl’s), Burlington, 951 1140 . The Slammer, Rt. 7 , Milton, 893 -3454 . Starksboro Community Coffee House, Village Meeting House, Rt. 116 , Starksboro, 434 -4254 . Steer & Stein Pub, 147 N. W inooski Ave., 862 -7449 . Sweetwaters, 118 Church St., Burlington, 864 - 9800 . The Tavern at the Inn at Essex, Essex Jet., 878 - 1100 . Thirsty Turtle, 1 S. Main St., Waterbury, 244 - 5223 . Toadstool Harry's, Rt. 4 , Killington, 422 -5019 . Trackside Tavern, 18 Malletts Bay Ave., Winooski, 655 - 9542 . Tuckaway’s, Sheraton, 870 W illiston Rd., S. Burlington, 865 - 6600 . UpperDeck Pub at the Windjammer, 1076 Williston Rd., S. Burlington, 862 -

6585 . Vermont Pub & Brewery, 144 College, Burlington, 865 -0500 . The Village Cup, 30 Rt. 15 , Jericho, 899 - 1730 . Villa Tragara, Rt. 100 , Waterbury Ctr., 244 -5288 .

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starship enthused. N o wonder, when

o f Phish? They’re philanthropists. The

Rolling Stone critic issues this: “Its

band’s WaterWheel Foundation just

appeal is damn near impossible to

gave $100,000 to the Conservation

describe, but I think it just might be

Law Foundation to support clean-up

my favorite song ever recorded.”

efforts in Lake Champlain. That

While we were happy for our local

DIFFERENT DRUMMING Last week

drum band provides an exotic sound

steel-drum player Emily Lanxner went

track for an old Vermont tradition —

to the head o f the class. That is, the

a bean-hole dinner, this Friday at

PanAstie founder and student o f

Morse Farm in Montpelier.

African music turns teacher at her

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alm a mater, Burlington College,

KINGS AND QUEENS In what she calls

where she will draw upon her own

her “most fabulous appearance yet,”

extensive studies in Trinidad, Jamaica

Burlington’s drag queen diva Yolanda

and Brazil. The class? “West Africa to

takes her band The Plastic Family to

the Americas, Musical and Cultural

CBGB’s in N ew York City this

Influences.” The course will focus on

Saturday for “HomoCorps.” Also on

“culture, but mostly music, and will

the bill are singer-songwriter RllfUS

also incorporate religion,” Lanxner

Wainright, dancer Kevin Aviance and

says. The spotlight on West Africa is

event organizer Dean Johnson, with

because “that’s where most o f the

his band The Velvet Mafia. Johnson

music that’s reached the Americas

made his name, Yolanda informs,

(FORMERLYOFSOUL COUCHING)

came from.” It’s a rich history to tack

when he produced the “Rock ’n’ Roll

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Fag Bar” series, performing with his

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at the college level, but she isn’t going

then-band, Dean and the Weenies.

it completely alone; she’ll have guest

While she may find herself in glam

speakers, demonstrations and films.

orous company, at least Yolanda will

Some o f the latter might be open to

be the only performer who truly hails

the public, so watch for announce

from a Queen City.

ments. After spending much o f the summer preparing, Lanxner notes her

LIVE WIRE Since I couldn’t write this

work would have been in vain if not

column last week, it’s already two-

enough people signed up to take the

week-old news, but what the heck:

class. Happily, nine students are

Burlington comic book artist/pop sen

already ensconced in the Wednesday

sation James Kochalka Superstar

session.

was thrilled to note that his tune

O ut o f class, this 38-year-old

“Monkey vs. Robot” was gaining fast

teacher and mother o f two is dream

on artists such as Eminem, REM and

ing about extending her own musical

Madonna in the top-10 most down

lessons — on a trip to Cuba this win

loaded songs on MP3.com. “It’s fuck

ter. Meanwhile, her six-member steel

ing unbelievable, yet totally true!” His

brings to 350,000 bucks the amount

boy, we’re even happier to report that ~v

this Phab Phour have donated to

Kochalka survived an unexpected

combat the icky stuff in the almost-

blast during his recent show at N ew

sixth Great Lake. The money comes

York’s Parkside Lounge. W ith typical

from a portion o f receipts at concerts

exuberance, he wrapped him self in a

and, o f course, from all those pints o f

mike cord and jumped off-stage.

Ben & Jerry’S Phish Food. A tasteful

Unfortunately the cord shorted out,

way to clean up, I’d say.

sending a paralyzing jolt o f electricity “through my left nipple and out the

SINGLE TRACKS N ot often heard in

other side o f my neck,” Kochalka

these parts anymore, two local reggae

explains. Just when he thought he was

bands are firing up the ganja —

a goner, the current switched off. O f

Lambsbread and The Channel 2 Dub

course, the wall-to-wall audience —

Band plug in this Thursday at

including, reportedly, Courtney Love

Nectar’s . . . A sure sign o f colder

— thought it was all part o f the act.

times to come: Outdoor venues the

Monkey vs. Robot, indeed.

Naked Turtle in Plattsburgh and

NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND

clude their music alfresco this week;

Burlington’s Breakwaters Cafe con Barbara Kessler, who recently played

meanwhile, the laughs return indoors

for Waitsfield’s Mad River Unplugged

at the Radisson’s Comedy Zone

series, turns up in Burlington this

Friday and Saturday nights . . . Signal

Friday at 5 for an in-store set at Pure

to Noise hosts the remarkable Israeli

Pop. The enterprising singer-song

multi-reedist Assif Tsahar at its

writer and new mom is promoting

monthly show this Friday . . . Big

her latest eponymous C D the old-

Heavy World is producing a compila

fashioned way — with a lot o f hard

tion C D to benefit 242 Main, featur

work. That includes finagling her

ing some o f the artists who play there.

record onto listening booths via the

Expect a collection o f punk, ska,

Coalition o f Independent Music

hardcore, emo and other loud sounds,

Stores, and slogging out a lot o f small

just in time for Christmas stockings.

and intimate gigs. Including a show at

Bands that want to join in — or

Middlebury College Friday night —

sponsors who want to support the

open to students only, sorry. Catch

benefit C D — call Jim Lockridge at

her tunes where and when you can.

865-1140 . . . If you’re up for it, an

W ith the press, and airplay, she’s get

octet o f deejays will keep you spin

ting lately, Kessler won’t be playing for

ning until five in the morning this

free much longer.

Friday at Higher Ground. “Eight is Enough” features DJs Osheen, Craig

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CHRIS WHITLEY, PERFECT /MY (Valley Entertainment, CD) — An album covering the work of Bob Dylan, Lou Reed, Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison, among others, is either bold or insane. After all, how can you improve on the work of a master? On his sixth album, Perfect Day, Chris Whitley answers that ques tion brilliantly, with a tribute that doesn’t resort to imitation. In fact, were it not for the title and the lyrics, you might not recognize Reed’s presence at all in the title track. Dylan songs serve as bookends, with “Spanish Harlem Incident” (1964) kicking things off nicely and “4th Time Around” (1966) finishing with a sweet bit of hypnotism. If there’s one cover here that might be briefly mistaken for the original artist, it’s Hendrix’s “Drifting.” The track lives up to its name, bobbing along with no drums, light guitar and vocals that have a certain Jimi sals quoi. Throughout the album, Whitley’s vocals float seamlessly from a direct, manly diction (“China Gate”) to sweet falsetto (almost every song) and then back again like a hummingbird. At first blush, the songs all sound the same, but

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even grains of sand on the beach have unique qualities — if you have the patience to look. While the mellow mood might sedate some, those who revel in nuance and the space between notes will enjoy this smoky stew. Anyone who recently caught the Martin Medeski & Wood show at Bolton this summer can attest to the talents of Billy Martin and Chris Wood, who back up Whitley on drums and bass respective ly. Martin does a lot of soft brushwork; Wood does a nice job of being practically invisible yet somehow propelling the songs along. Bluesmen like Chester Burnett and Willie Dixon get their props here, too, but it’s Robert Johnson that would likely enjoy Perfect Day most. “Stones in My Pathway” somehow sounds like RJ in a roadhouse, just picking his guitar and wailing soulfully at the pain of love. All of these songs were recorded live, so Whitley, Martin and Wood had to nail it. And they did. Whitley hits Higher Ground this Wednesday, with Yuval Gabay and Sebastian Steinberg — the rhythm section of Soul Coughing. Other masters, dead and alive, will likely make an appearance in spirit. — Kirt Zimmer

THE HALOGENS, TRANSFORM AND ROLL OUT

(virtual release-www.thehalogens.cbm) With their latest five-song EP, The Halogens have decided to do something completely new and refreshing — they’re giving it away. After emp tying their pockets to record their new material they found themselves a bit short on capital for making actual CDs. So, rather than sitting on perfectly good fresh product, the band has

taken a turn-of-the-century approach and released the disc in the form of free MP3s from their own Web site (www.thehalogens.com) or from www.bigheavyworld.com. Transform and Roll Out is a neat package, beginning with a bit of bravado and discontent and ending in a haze of booze and resignation. This band has become adept at making records that sound like their heroes, Oasis, though without all the required Beatle-isms. Productionwise, The Halogens craft a broad sonic landscape, laying multiple guitars and harmonies in the mix to create modern pop/rock gems in the five- to six-minute range. The best of these are “The Goodbye Waltz” and “Ship in a Bottle,” both of which take a midtempo approach to the breakdown of a rela tionship and a long kiss goodbye. Lyrically, Jason Dunn seems a bit more troubled or worn down than in the past, but his vocals are his strongest yet, soaring cleanly with a resolve to make good songs out of tough times. The “nana nana na nana na na” intro to “Ship in a Bottle” is particularly appealing, as is the bridge towards the end of “The Long Goodbye.” The whole five-song set sounds polished and well played, though, oddly enough, at times everything seems so much in the right place that there’s nary a surprise. That said, the swoony parts still make me swoon, and the big arena-style sing-along endings do suggest the heights this band might be aiming for. Though the songs are bit long, and the band tends to favor excess over restraint, The Halogens man age to include a catchy hook or two in each. Hurrah for pomp, if that’s what you’re into. As was the case with the demo tape that preceded their last album, The Halogens have again man aged to garner radio airplay on the Buzz with out even releasing anything. That’s a good trick. — Colin Clary

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SONG T IM E C O M IN G

Annie Gallup is a textbook case

of “better late than never.” Emphasis on the better. After a couple of other careers, the Seattle singer burst forth with an acoustic guitar and some of the most intimate, quirky and moving songs in the business. Gallup returns to the Burlington Coffeehouse this Saturday.

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Holding Co., 9 p.m. NC. TAPESTRY (blues/soft rock), Monopole, 10 p.m. NC. KARAOKE W/FRANK, Franny O’s, 9 p.nqu NC. THE GIRLS NEXT DOOR, OPEN MIKE (vocal trio; jazz to rock), Starksboro Village Coffee House, 7:30 p.m. $4-10. TOP HAT DJ, City Limits, 9 p.m. NC. GIVENGROOVE (groove rock), Thirsty Turtle, 9 p.m. $3. SPINN CITY W/DJ ROBBIE J. (hip-hopr&b), Millennium Nightclub-Barre, 9 p.m. $3/10. ROCKIN’ DADDIES (rock), Charlie O’s, 9 p.m. NC. THE DETONATORS (blues/r&b), Gallagher’s, 9 p.m. $3. SETH YACOVONE BLUES BAND, Matterhorn, 9 p.m. $3-5. LIVE MUSIC, Rusty Nail, 9 p.m. NC. JOSH BROOKS (singer-songwriter), Charlie B’s, 8:30 p.m. NC. SANDY DONNA (singer-songwriter), The Boonys, 7 p.m. NC. STICKY (rock), Toadstool Harry’s, 9 p.m. $3. 18+

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SUNDAY JENNI JOHNSON (jazz/blues), Sweetwaters, 11:30 a.m. NC. THE CROPPIES (Irish), Ri Ra, 5 p.m.

NC. LADY ZENO BINGO (benefit), 135 Pearl, 8 p.m. Donations. SUNDAY NIGHT MASS (trance/house DJ), Club Metronome, 9 p.m. $2. EXCLAMATE (rock), Nectar’s, 9:30 P-m. NC. TOP HAT DJ (hip-hop), Rasputin’s, 9:30 p.m. NC. ACOUSTIC JAM W/JACIE & PAUL, Alley Cats, 9 p.m. NC. dan PARKS & THE BLAME (rock), Champion's Tavern, 9:30 p.m. NC. BATTLEFIELD BAND (Celtic), Higher Ground, 7 p.m. $15. AA KARAOKE W/MATT & BONNIE DRAKE, Edgewater Pub, 9 p.m. NC. COLIN MCCAFFREY & FRIENDS (acoustic), Capitol Grounds, 11 a.m. NC.

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“Thade is a powerful singer...First a musician and then a showman... An opera-trained tenor who can give his performances body, power and soul... Fine technical skills...A wonderful high pianissimo...Touching performance.” Jim Lowe, Arts Editor, Times Argus, Barre, Montpelier, VT

“A True Crowd Pleaser” Vermont Magazine

“First-Rate Indeed” Bennington Banner

“Absolutely Wonderful” VT Green Mountain Guide

“An Emotionally Charged Performance That Pulls the Audience Into Heart and Soul of Broadway Showstoppers” Southern Vermont Adventures Magazine

“An Evening Spent With Thade is Worth Any Price” News & Citizen

ALL CONCERTS START AT 8:00 P.M. Septem ber 9 — Stowe C om m unity C hurch September 16 — Unitarian Church of Woodstock, VT September 2 3 — Riley Center for the Arts, Manchester, VT October 7 — West Village Meeting House, West Brattleboro, VT

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hot rocks: Rock ’n’ roll has a different definition at the future site of the Barre Granite Museum. Organizers celebrate Vermont’s source of stone, and the people who worked it, with a day of demos that illustrate cutting and finishing techniques such as splitting, polishing, sandblasting and hand sculpt ing. It’s dirty daily work, but eternity is the goal of many sculptors. There’s proof in Hope Cemetery, offering two tombstone tours. Barre Granite Festival: Saturday, September 9. Jones Brothers Granite Shed, Route 302, Barre, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Free. Info, 476-3119.

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W ednesday

Stewarts Letters o f a 'Woman Homesteader

V E R M O N T STATE FAIR: Horse shows, racing pigs and music make this

gets a reading in the “South by South west” series. South Hero Community

fair a real-Vermont favorite. Rutland Fairgrounds, 10 a.m. - 11 p.m. $7. Info,

Library, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 372-6209.

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775-5200. FALL NA TURE WALK: Meander through a field and along a river bank to

W IN D ENSEMBLE A U D ITIO N S:

see what is still bloom ing and what’s

Budding musicians come blow their horns — or reeds and flutes — at

gone to seed. VINS North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, 5:30-7 p .n t

Castleton State College Fine Arts

$3. Info, 229-6206. SLIDE PRESENTATION: Cyclists on

• See listings in “Sound Advice.”

dram a ‘T H E SC H O O L FO R W IVES’: Moliere’s fable is about the foibles o f an aging bachelor who shelters his ward in hopes o f making her the perfect wife.

Center, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 259-2899.

Weston Playhouse, 3 & 8 p.m. $27. Info, 824-5288.

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a 500-m ile trek pitch their proposal for

sport V E R M O N T EXPOS: The home team takes on the Pittsfield Mets at

a national park in the heart o f the Maine woods. Montpelier City Arts Center, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3216.

• Also, see exhibit openings in the art

Centennial Field, Burlington, 7:05 p.m.

U N IT E D WAY KICK-OFF: The non

listings. FIGURE DRAW ING: The human fig- f

$4. Info, 655-6611.

profit launches its annual Community |

W O M E N ’S SOCCER: Champlain

Care Fund Campaign with inspiring

ure motivates aspiring and accomplished

College kicks up its heels in a match

artists in a weekly drawing session at the

against N ew Hampshire Tech. South

words, food and entertainment. Burlington City Hall Auditorium, 5:30:

Firehouse Gallery, Burlington, 6:30-9:30

Park, Burlington, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info,

7 p.m. $5. Info, 864-7541.

p.m. $3-6. Info, 865-7165.

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H arvest Food Tent Vineyard Grape S tom p Bicycle Pow ered C arousel M agic & M azes Garden Tours Clay Play & Craft T ents

CYCLE TO Tfll f e s t iv a l Cycle the City on a scenic 7 milt bikepath tour froi Burlington's watc front to the fesliv « Fun for all ages. Four departs fro* I Union Station at 10«i! Supported by Ski Rdi

Garden O lym pics S to n e Soup Children's D iscovery Garden A benaki G am es & Face P ain tin g N ative Crafts & Exhibits Paddling River Tours

11 am Noon 12:15 1 pm 2 pm 3 pm 4 pm

Storytelling w ith W olfsong Bread and Puppet Theatre Storytelling w ith W olfsong M egasuwin Drummers Michael Caduto M egasuwin Drummers Bread and Puppet Theatre

(pre re g istra tio n required, call 253 2317)

At Etfraii Alleil flopiegtead TR e INTERFACE.. BURElNGTON S OTRe r WATElCFROOTf The Intervale is a floodplain along the Winooski River rich in natural resources and historical significance that is today undergoing a spec tacular renaissance.

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After years of neglect in the 20th century, the Intervale today is a thriving patchwork of farms and garden s, ecological innovations and recreational opportunities. For everything to see and do, pick up a copy of the Intervale Explorer at the festival.

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FREE Seminars at Gardener's Supply: SEPTEMBER 16

Easy G row ing O rchids 10AM - Noon SEPTEMBER 30

TRANK YOU! To the many individuals and organizations who make this free community event possible! American Flatbread Burlington Bikeways Burlington Parks and Recreation Burlington Area Community Gardens Bob & Art Blair, Charlie Ferreira & Claude LaPiere Children's Discovery Garden

Ski Rack Umiak Outfitters Vermont Commons School Vermont Council on the Humanities Very Special Arts of Vermont Winooski Valley Park District

For more information, contact: Ethan Allen Homestead: 865-4556 Intervale Foundation: 660-3508 Burlington Electric Department:865-7417 Winooski Valley Park District: 863-5744

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Ski sw aps, bik e sw aps, clo th in g sw aps — h o w ’b o u t a

spit swap? T h e V erm ont Y outh O rchestra offers an o p p o rtu n ity to to o t so m e o n e else’s horn — and b u y it — at their annual used in strum ent sale. Sellers? Appraisers can help assign a dollar value to your sax appeal. T w enty percent goes to the organization that m anages the m usic, and the recycling, program s.

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‘Industry w ith o u t art is brutality,” 19th -cen tu ry critic

John R uskin w rote. T h e w ords co u ld be the m o tto o f the S ou th E nd Art H o p — a culture crawl that leads y o u th rough art-adorned offices, stu d ios and w orkshop s in B urlin gton’s hardest-w ork in g ’h ood . T raditional stu d ios and gal leries w ill also op en their doors, and assorted bottles o f v in o , for the self-gu id ed tour. Be sure to find y o u r se lf in the alley b eh in d the C h eese O u tle t after dark-

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Used Instrument Sale: Drop off Thursday, September 7, 9 a.m. - 8 p.m. Sale on Friday, September 8, 4-8:30p.m., and Saturday, September 9, 9 a.m. -1 p.m. St. Paul’s Cathedral, Burlington. Free. Info, 658-4708.

Self Defense for Women begins Nov. 12 Beginner & Advanced Acting Workshops Stage Com bat begins Sept. 1 7 FREE S crip t Reading Club!

o n Friday, for a party w ith live m u sic from B im Skala Bim .

South End Art Hop: Friday, September 8, 5-11 p.m. and Saturday, September 9, noon - 5 p.m. Locations on Pine, Battery, Maple and South Champlain streets, Burlington. Donations. Info, 865-0055.

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“Eat, Bubalah! W e’ll m ake m ore!” is th e official

slogan o f the sixth annual kosher knishfest. You d on ’t have to be Jewish to nosh o n latkes, blintzes, kugel and m atzoh ball sou p, as w ell as desserts and pastries

like ruggelach and h o n ey cakes. Better yet, y ou can burn it o f f w ith an afterdin ner round o f Israeli d an cin g to klezm er m usic, w ith Robert R esnik presiding.

Jewish Food Festival and Cultural Fair: Sunday, September 10. Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, North Prospect St., Burlington, noon - 3:30p.m. Free. Info, 864-0218.

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sim ple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language com p reh en sib le to every o n e ,” A lbert E instein on ce said. T h a t’s the idea beh in d a series o f m edical lec tures d esigned to give n o n -d o c to rs a clue. In the first session, S co tt W agers exam in es old -V erm on t h ealin g m eth od s along the lines o f leeches. It’s all in the title: “G o o se Q u ills, T am p in g Irons and Beechnuts: T h e Seren dipity and

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Scien ce o f V erm on t’s M edical H istory.”

Medical History Lecture: Tuesday, September 12. Carpenter Auditorium, Given Medical Building, UVM, Burlington, 6p.m. Free. Register, 847-2886.

a ta le of tw o yippies: T h e latest from

Xanadu director

R obert G reenw ald investigates the p olitics —

and p ersecu tion — o f A b bie H o ffm a n and his w ife A nita. T h e yip p ie activist was arrested alon g w ith seven other agitators for “in citin g ” a riot at the 1 9 6 8 D em o cra tic N ation al C o n v en tio n and su b seq u en tly played the role o f “court jester” at th e trial o f th e in fam ou s C h icago E ight. T h e co n ten ts o f his everexp an d in g FBI file are at the heart o f his b iop ic, en titled , subversively —

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This Movie. Wednesday, September 13. CC Theatre, Billings Student Center, UVM, 7p.m. $3-5. Info, 658-4620.

Steal T h is M ovie:

Slearn about the hands-on healing

U SED IN ST R U M E N T SALE:

with aspiring authors. Today’s hot topic

ethod. Fletcher Free Library,

Looking to sell that second-hand

is “Does Poetry Still Matter?” Ilsley

arlington, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, -9988.

squeeze box? Drop off your old instru

Public Library, Middlebury, 1 p.m. Free.

ments today for the sale tomorrow.

IDGE DAYS: Get hands-on instruc-

Appraisers are available to help with

Info, 388-7523. T IM BROOKES: The Brit-turned-

i — and experience — in playing a

pricing. See “to do” list, this issue. St.

Vermonter reads and signs his American

>ihplicated card game. Basin Harbor

Paul’s Cathedral, Burlington, 9 a.m. -

■b, Vergennes, 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. $150

8 p.m. Free. Info, 658-4708. COFFEE HOUSE: Vermont singer-

hitchhiking odyssey, A H ell o f a Place to Lose a Cow. Book Rack, Champlain Mill,

songwriter Josh Brooks performs folk tunes for art fans at the All Arts Coffee

kids

3»ch together ideas for the warm-blan-

House. Simple Pleasures Cafe, St.

SUPERHEROES STORYTIME:

weather ahead. Essex Alliance liurch, Old Stage Rd., Essex Junction, P-m. Free. Info, 863-2160.

Albans, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 527-0669.

Captain Pajamas, Defender o f the

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Universe and The Soccer M om From O uter Space entertain youngsters at

J siN E S S TALK: The director o f the

‘T H E SC H O O L FOR WIVES’: See September 6, 8 p.m.

Barnes & Noble, S. Burlington, 3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 864-8001.

SOAPFLAKES: The improv group fol

ex Junction, 9:30 a.m. Free. Info, -6762.

mance. Club Metronome, Burlington,

cycle enthusiasts on a terrain-tackling

7-8 p.m. $3. Info, 865-4563. ‘H O W H IG H T H E M O O N ’: “Happy

ride into the sunset. Meet at Alpine Shop, Middlebury, 6 p.m. Free. Info,

fit — fast — at a talk entitled “H alf

Days”-era small-town N ew England is

388-7547.

ut to Better Health.” Chiropractic

the setting for this comedy involving

1 ALTH LECTURE: Learn how to

tbs, Burlington, 5:20 p.m. Free. I >- 864-5000.

two couples and a fifth wheel. Dorset Playhouse, 8 p.m. $22-36. Info, 867-5777.

MEDITATION CENTER 187 South W inooski Ave. (C om er o f King St.), Burlington

Journey through today’s America and yesterday’s Mexico w ith tw o local authors: N P R C o m m e n ta to r T im Brookes Slid e Show , d is c u s s io n & au to g rap h in g

ut start-ups — and how to encourthem. Service Corps o f Retired ;cutives, Prouty Federal Building,

lows audience-directed plot twists in a bimonthly, soap opera-inspired perfor

(Free talk Friday night) Wake up to the brilliance of your own mind. Slow down. Meditation techniques inspired by ancient Tibetan tradition are useful for people of all faiths and philosophies. * Friday 7:30pm talk is free and open to all Topic: The A rt of Being Human ♦ Full weekend (instruction, discussion, and talks) continues Saturday 9am-6pm and Sunday 9am-6pm. Cost is $80 Call Marilyn Brown at 6 5 4 -6 9 2 9 or just come

Winooski, 7 p.m. Free, Info, 655-0231.

3 days. Info, 475-2311. OUTERS G U ILD M EETING: 'Uests are welcome at this gathering to

mont Technology Incubator speaks

September 15- 17

Talk abou t a radical shift in focus.

sport

A Hell o f a Place to Lose a Cow: An American Hitchhiking Odyssey

BIKE RIDE: Helmets are de rigueur for

etc

Thursday, September 7th at 7 pm C o m e f in d o u t w h e r e t h e

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Iso, see listings in “Sound Advice.

come at this search and support group

• See exhibit openings in the art listings.

meeting. S. Burlington Community

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G L B T Q SU PPO R T GROUP: Gay, les

POETRY W O RK SH O P: Local poet

bian, bisexual, transgendered and ques

David Weinstock shares writing tips

tioning youth make new friends and get

Library, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 985-2464.

C h ris to p h e r S haw R ead in g & au to g rap hing

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Sacred Monkey River. A Canoe Trip with the Cods

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support. Outright Central Vermont, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 800-452-2428. BUTTERFLY WALK: Naturalists

Frog Hollow, Church Street Marketplace, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4074.

United Methodist Church, Morris ville, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 888-5256.

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lead a net-free search for lavish lepidoptera at the Lamoille County Nature Center, Morrisville, 2-3:30 p.m. $5. Info, 888-9218. M O D E L SAILBOAT RACES: Shore-side skippers race meter-long

CH RISTO PH ER SHAW: The Vermont author reads from and signs Sacred Monkey River, documenting his canoe travels from Chiapas, Mexico, to the G ulf o f Mexico. See

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crafts in the National Championships o f the East Coast. Commodores Inn Pond, Stowe, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Free.

• Also, see listings in “Sound

Info, 800-447-8693. W O M E N H ELPIN G BATTERED W O M EN : Learn about domestic abuse and services available at an open information session. UVM

Free, Info, 655-0231.

without losing your way on “support Saints’ Episcopal Church, S. Burling

a team to benefit the Winooski Police Employee Association. Williston Country Club, 8 a.m. $200 per team. Info, 824-6737.

etc M O D EL SAILBOAT RACES: See

SYMPOSIUM: Representatives from Burlington, Plattsburgh and Quebec’s

Free. Info, 658-4708.

about planned school field trip pro

Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu put their

CLASSICAL GUITAR CONCERT:

grams and teaching children about

heads together to strengthen the region as a whole. Burlington City

Prize-winning guitarist Bradley Colten offers up a highly strung set

the outdoors. Green Mountain Audubon Society Nature Center, H untington, 9 a.m. - noon. Free. Register, 434-3068.

o f music. Kingdom Coffeehouse, East Charleston, 7:30 p.m. $8. Info, 723-4705.

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TEERS: The Blair W itch Project has nothing on this annual fright fest. Volunteer ghosts and goblins report to the Green M ountain Audubon Nature Center, H untington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 434-3068.

mile Champlain Bikeway through

‘T H E SC H O O L FOR WIVES’: See

art

FARMERS’ MARKET: Graze

• Also, see exhibit openings in the art

homemade baked goods at the Essex Junction Shopping Center, 2-6:30

listings.

Barre, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 223-1703. E M O T IO N S A N O N Y M O U S: Women suffering from depression, anxiety or other problems get sup

After eating, blow off steam to the

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ATLANTIC CROSSING: Hand picked tunes from N ew England,

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calls for the Green Mountain Steppers at Christ the King School,

to take home. Vermont Community

Burlington, 7-11 p.m. $10 per cou ple. Info, 879-1974. BALLROOM DANCE: Exercise

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deception and revenge. Waldenbooks,

corn. Volunteers Green, Richmond, 3-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 482-5776.

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865-7165.

8 p.m. $6-8. Info, 865-9363. SQUARE DANCE: Marty Van Wart

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offers affordable art in a wide range o f media. City Hall Park, Burlington, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. Free. Info,

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buy art directly from the artist at the Art Fair at Union Station, Burlington, 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. Free.

tallest, biggest and most interesting blossom before a feast o f fresh local

off this tight display o f military for

discuss their work and inspiration.

September 8, noon - 5 p.m. ART FAIR: Know your source —

FARMERS MARKET: Today’s sun flower contest bestows prizes on the

CO RPS OF CADETS PARADE: You could probably bounce a quarter

Cynthia Price, Linda Jones, Janet Fredericks and Nancy Diefenbach

listings. S O U T H E N D ART H OP: See

C O N T R A DANCE: Wake the Neighbors set the pace for beginningto-expert contra dancers. Edmunds Middle School Cafeteria, Burlington,

dios and businesses. See “to do” list, this issue. Locations on Pine, Battery,

Info, 865-0055. GALLERY TALK: Vermont painters

art • Also, see exhibit openings in the art

sings, hits from Broadway’s “golden age” at the Stowe Community Church, 8 p.m. $12. Info,

dance

Dinner at 5 p.m. Music at 6:30 p.m. $6.50. Info, 223-2740.

annual south end “hoppening” sends art aficionados on a tour o f local stu

Lake Street, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 644-1970.

port and educate their peers. Puffer

U SED IN ST R U M E N T SALE: See September 8, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m.

House, 1 p.m. $10. Info, 877-6737. JO H N TH ADE: The popular tenor

Farm Sugar Works, Montpelier.

Maple and South Champlain streets, Burlington, 5-11 p.m. Donations.

GRO UP: Victims o f violence sup

September 7, 4 & 8:30 p.m.

world beat sounds o f PanAshe. Morse

port through a 12-step program. 86

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competition. Vergennes Opera

BEAN D IN N E R A N D CONCERT:

amongst just-picked produce and

p.m. Info, 865-0068. Church St.,

Vermont and N ew York. The event kicks off with a sunset boat cruise on Lake Champlain. Union Station, Burlington, 4 p.m. $150. Register, 518-597-4646.

September 6, 8 p.m. ‘H O W H IG H T H E M O O N ’: See September 7.

Saturday

Info, 897-2777. FIDDLERS’ CO NTEST: A $1000

spend the weekend pedaling the 150-

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Orchards, Shoreham, 1-4 p.m. Free.

$25. Register, 863-3489. BICYCLE TO UR: Bike tourists

at a spicy shakedown for Latin lovers.

‘T H E SC H O O L FOR W IVES’: See September 6, $24-30. ‘H O W H IG H T H E M O O N ’: See

Canada and the British Isles inspire apple gatherers at Champlain

Hall Auditorium, 9:30 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Vermont Studio, Chace Mill, Burlington, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 425-6061. LATINO D A N C E PARTY: Deejay Hector “El Salsero” Cobeo spins discs Lareau Farm Inn Pavilion, Waitsfield. Beginners’ class at 7:30, Dance at 8:30 p.m. $6. Info, 496-4949:

• Also, see listings in “Sound Advice.”

September 7. ‘TRIANGLE OF EXCELLENCE’

do” list, this issue. St. Paul’s Cathedral, Burlington, 4-8:30 p.m.

ton, 5 p.m. Free. Info, 878-9137. V O LU N TEER TR A IN IN G : Learn

lesbian, bisexual, transgendered and questioning youth make new friends and get support. Outright Vermont, Burlington, 6:30-9 p.m. Free. Info, 800-452-2428. BATTERED W O M E N ’S SU P

GOLF TO URN AM ENT: Tee off as

instruments. Proceeds benefit the Vermont Youth Orchestra. See “to

ed” walks o f the labyrinth at All

Middle School, 8-11 p.m. $20 percouple. Info, 878-3799. SACRED CIRCLE DANCE: Celebrate earth-based spirituality through traditional folk dances. Yoga

sport

Info, 229-9408. U SE D IN ST R U M E N T SALE: Musicians select from second-hand band, folk, rock and orchestral

658-3131. C O M M U N IT Y LABYRINTH WALKS: Tune into healing vibes

p.m. Free. Info, 485-2080. G LBTQ SU PPO R T GROUP: Gay,

223-0855.

forms Celtic music for lunchtime lis teners in the Christ Church Pocket Park, Montpelier, noon - 1 p.m. Free.

Women’s Center, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info,

doesn’t have to be work. Cut the rug to live music at the S. Burlington

PORT GROUP: Battered W omen’s Services and Shelter facilitates a group in Barre, 10 a.m. Free. Info,

review, this issue. Book Rack, Champlain Mill, Winooski, 7 p.m.

Advice.” ‘BRO W N BAG’ C O NC ERT SERIES: Fiddler Sarah Blair per

mations — but it’s not recommend ed. Norwich University, Northfield, 1

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Burlington Square Mall, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 658-6019

kids

Botanical Garden, 1100 Dorset St., S, Burlington, 10-11 a.m. $10. Info, 863-1308.

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Free. Info, 476-3119.

Junction with steam rides, displays

Taylor Park, St. Albans, 9 a.m. - 2

C H I L D ’: Kids get prepared for any

Y A R D S A L E : Smart shoppers sort

p.m. Info, 933-4703. Corner o f Elm

outdoor hazard by creating a survival

through trash and treasure to benefit

and entertainment. Downtown W hite River Junction, 10 a.m. - 5

safety backpack, and learning basic

the South Burlington Music

p.m. Free. Info, 295-3118.

- 1 p.m. Info, 426-3800. D epot

outdoor skills. VINS North Branch

Department. Frederick H. Tuttle

B A TTER ED W O M EN VO LU N

Nature Center, Montpelier, 11 a.m. -

Middle School, S. Burlington, 8 a.m.

T E E R S : In the first o f four sessions,

Park, Rutland, 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. Info, 773-5778. O xbow Property,

3 p.m. $30 per family. Info, 229-6206.

- 3 p.m. Free. Info, 652-7059.

volunteers get trained to counsel vic tims o f domestic violence. See class

and State Streets, Montpelier, 9 a.m.

Portland St., Morrisville, 9 a.m. - 1

kids D O U B L E - B I L L B O O K S IG N IN G :

Author Reeve Lindbergh and illus trator Tracy Campbell Pearson read from and sign the latest aardvark adventure, The A w ful Aardvarks Shop fo r School. Reeve Lindbergh also introduces her new picture book, In Every Tiny Grain o f Sand. Book ' Rack, Champlain Mill, W inooski, 2

largest on-land fishing derby” and

es. UV M Women’s Center, 34 South Williams St., Burlington, 7-9 p.m.

p.m. Info, 472-3621. Marble Works Complex, Middlebury, 9 a.m. noon. Free. Info, 948-2576.

other river-oriented entertainments. Statehouse Lawn, Montpelier, noon -

Free. Info, 658-3131.

C R A F T F A IR & F L E A M A R K E T :

Seasoned servers battle it out to ben

E N V IR O N M E N T A L L E C T U R E :

efit the UV M Center for the Study

4 p.m. Free. Info, 229-1056.

Michael Caduto teaches “circles o f

Shoppers exhibit bazaar behavior while browsing for new, handmade

o f Aging. Singles and doubles com petitors play their first and second

R U G C L I N I C : Bring your antique

life” based on the beliefs o f native peoples around the world. Ethan

and used goods. Vermont State Fairgrounds, Rutland, 9 a.m. - 4

Allen Homestead, Burlington, 2

p.m. Free. Info, 492-2013.

Club, S. Burlington, 8 a.m. $20-30.

this session titled “Folk Art Underfoot.” Vermont Folklife

p.m. Free. Info, 865-4556.

O VEREA TERS AN O N YM O US:

Info, 656-7712.

Center, Middlebury, 11 a.m. - 2

U S E D B IK E C O L L E C T IO N :

Addicted to eating? Food abuse is on

T R IP L E T H R E A T T R IA T H L O N :

p.m. Free. Info, 388-4964.

Pedals for Progress collects working

the table at Lawrence Library,

This com bo run, roller-ski and cross

H E R B W O R K S H O P : Herbalist

bikes to send to developing coun

Bristol, 9:30 a.m. Free. Info, 453-

country bike race is not all downhill.

Barbara Nardozzi demonstrates how

tries. Burlington High School, 9

2368.

Bolton Valley Resort, 10 a.m. $35 to

to create a plant-based home phar

a.m. - noon. Donations. Info, 660-

macy in your backyard. Vermont

0971.

434-3444.

C H E E S E A N D H A R V E S T F E S T I

N EB R A SK A N O T C H H IK E :

C om m unity Botanical Garden, 1100 Dorset St., S, Burlington, 10-11 a.m.

V A L: Cheese and apple recipes vie /fy

Enjoy lunch alongside a waterfall on

$10. Info, 863-1308.

for best o f show at an ag-oriented

this easy trek with the Burlington

M U S H R O O M W A L K : Learn to

event with wagon rides. President

section o f the Green Mountain

identify and utilize fungal finds on a

Calvin Coolidge State Historic Site,

Club. Meet at the UV M visitors lot,

trek with mycologist Roz Payne. Green Mountain Audubon Society

Plymouth Notch, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

m usic

Free. Info, 672-3773. N A T U R E W A L K : Meander through

• Also, see listings in “Sound

a.m. - 3 p.m. $13. Info, 229-6206.

Advice.”

A D IR O N D A C K S H I K E : Walk like

an Egyptian as you climb Pharaoh

W IN O O S K I R I V E R F E S T IV A L :

Organizers promise “the world’s

sport S E N IO R T E N N I S C L A S S IC :

rounds today. Burlington Tennis

Burlington, 9 a.m. Free. Register, 655-2921.

hooked rug for appraisal or advice to

Nature Center, Huntington, 10 a.m.

p.m. Free. Info, 655-0231.

sport S E N IO R T E N N I S C L A S S IC : See

September 9. Singles and doubles competitors play semifinals and finals today, 9 a.m. T R IP L E T H R E A T T R IA T H L O N :

See September 9. O P E N B A SS T O U R N A M E N T :

Two-person teams angle for a guar anteed $5000 first prize. Apple Island Resort, South Hero, 7 a.m. 3 p.m. $200. Info, 862-7777. G E O L O G Y H I K E : Geology buffs

1 0 ,

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get a look at Ithiel Falls, Prospect Rock and an abandoned talc mine on a stony stroll. V IN S North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, 9

- noon. $5. Register, 434-3068.

the nature center in search o f ever-

etc

F I D D L E C O N C E R T : Sawyers con

O R G A N IZ A T IO N A L W O R K

changing flora and fauna. VINS

vene for a monthly concert hosted

M O D E L S A IL B O A T R A C E S : See

S H O P : The first in a series o f practi

North Branch Nature Center,

M ountain via Pharaoh Lake on a dif

by the Northeast Fiddlers

September 7.

cal trainings advises Vermont non

Montpelier, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info,

ficult 9-m ile hike sponsored by the

Association. Paul’s Sugar House,

IN T E R V A L E F E S T IV A L : Celebrate

profits how to build better boards.

229-6206.

Burlington section o f the Green

Derby Line, 1-5:30 p.m. Donations.

Abenaki wisdom and Yankee ingenu

Vermont Interactive Television

C I V I L W A R W E E K E N D : A replica

M ountain Club. U V M Visitor’s Lot,

Info,

ity at this all-day organic garden

broadcasts to various locations

Civil War campsite invites partici

Burlington, 7:30 a.m. Free. Register,

244-8537.

party. See center spread, this issue.

throughout the state, 9:30 a.m. -

pants to experience what life was like

655-3071.

Ethan Allen Homestead and

noon. $5. Register, 860-6236.

on the battle lines. Marching drills,

dram a

Burlington Intervale, 10 a.m. - 5

W E T L A N D E X P L O R A T IO N :

music and lectures bring it alive at

etc

‘H O W H I G H T H E M O O N ’: See

p.m. $4 per car. Info, 865-4556.

Learn about wetland species and

Brookside Farms, Orwell, 10 a.m. -

J E W IS H F O O D F A IR : Pastries,

September 7.

F A L L H A R V E S T F E S T IV A L : Hay,

view an osprey platform on this nat

5 p.m. Donations. Info, 453-4492.

crafts, klezmer music and Israeli dancing make this kosher gathering a

hay, hay. . . Wagon rides, cider and

uralist-led walk. Lamoille County

B E A N - H O L E B E A N D IN N E R :

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a petting farm entertain all ages at

Nature Center, Morrisville, 10-11:30 a.m. $5. Register, 888-9218.

The Green Mountain Banjos put

• Also, see exhibit openings in the

music on the menu at this bean feast

art listings.

Adams Apple Orchard &c Farmers’ Market, W illiston, 10 a.m. -5 p.m.

blintz, er, blitz. See “to do” list, this issue. Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, N orth Prospect St., Burlington,

‘L O O K I N G D E E P E R ’ W O R K

with side orders o f hot dogs, pickled

C E L E B R A T IO N O F T H E A R T S :

Free. Info, 879-5226.

S H O P : A low-down look at the

noon -3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 864-

Friends o f the Hopkins Center cele

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world beneath our feet turns up

beets, potato salad and cupcakes. Baptist Building, Main St., Fairfax,

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brate the arts with family-oriented

granite graces some o f the world’s

more than just soil, Vermont

5 p.m. $7. Info, 849-6201.

‘L I V I N G A R T S ’ F E S T IV A L : Art

music, artistry and entertainment

meets agriculture at this inspired

fanciest buildings. Explore its hum

Leadership Center, East Charleston,

F A R M E R S ’ M A R K E T S : Look for

throughout the Hopkins Center,

ble beginnings at this truly alterna

10 a.m. - 3 p.m. $5. Info, 723-4705.

Vermont-grown agricultural products

event that serves up food and drink

Dartmouth College, Hanover, N .H .,

tive rock show. See “to do” list, this

R A IL R O A D F E S T IV A L : Celebrate

and crafts at open-air booths.

along with spinning, weaving, pot

11 a.m. - 4 p.m. Free. Info,

issue. Jones Brothers Granite Shed,

the history — and future — o f rail

Burlington City Hall Park, 8:30 a.m.

tery, blacksmithing and scything

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Route 302, Barre, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.

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‘SW EET CH AR ITY’ A U D I T IO N S: The Department o f Theatre holds casting calls for the musical comedy by Neil Simon, Cy Coleman and Dorothy Fields. Royall

worth o f pet food, are some incen tives to h oof it for the four-footed

Tyler Theatre, UVM , Burlington, 6-

furry ones. Upper Valley Humane

10 p.m. Free. Info, 656-0094.

Society, 1-89, Exit 15, Enfield,

‘IL RECEPCIONE-: Get a little mystery with your mostaccioli at

N .H ., 9 a.m. Free. Info, 603-4435594.

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ARCHAEOLOGY LECTURE: Archaeologists offer evidence o f ,,

Center, 6:15 p.m. $38. Register, 244-5288.

human occupation around the Missisquoi Delta that dates back to the last millennium. Missisquoi

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Hurt star. Helen Day Art Center,

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PORT G RO UP: Women Helping Battered W omen facilitates a group in Burlington, 6:30-8 p.m. Free.

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Employee hopefuls get job leads, connections, skills and support. Career Resource Center, Vermont

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Symphony violinist David Gusakov oversees this weekly harmonic con vergence o f amateur musicians.

‘JAIL & BAIL’: Incarcerated com munity leaders call on friends and colleagues for bail money in a

Music Room, S. Burlington High School, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $6. Info,

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‘SWEET CH ARITY’ A U D I TIO NS: See September 11.

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Loan officers and business owners convene in four separate but simul taneous networking sessions. Delehanty Hall, Trinity College, Burlington; Montpelier Police

‘STEAL TH IS M OVIE’: The new

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biopic focuses on Abbie Hoffman — activist, radical, fugitive, author, lover — as he shapes and is shaped

Center St.. Rutland; LibraryAcademic Center, Lyndon State College, Lyndonville. 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 877-770-8922.

H O W H IG H T H E M O O N : See September 7, 2 &C 8 p.m.

by the movements o f the ’60s and ’70s. See “to do” list, this issue. Billings Theater, UVM , Burlington,

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“South by Southwest” series. Kimball Public Library, Randolph,

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7 p.m. Free. Info, 728-5073. ALICIA BAY LAUREL: The renaissance woman has updated her

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o p e n in g s STONES, SCHOLARS AND SUPPORTERS: Middlebury and the Growth of Its College, a multi-media exhibit in honor of the college’s bicentennial. Henry Sheldon Museum, Middlebury, 388-2117. Reception September 6 , 5:30-7 p.m. 8TH ANNUAL SOUTH END ART HOP, fea turing open artists studios and art in local businesses and galleries, Pine Street area, Burlington, 865-0055. Friday: free limo service touring more than 40 sites 5-9 p.m., juried exhibit at the Maltex Building, followed by party in the Alley across the street fea turing Bim Skala Bim, food and drink, silent auction. Saturday: continued open studios and exhibits with free bus service, appearance by Honey the Waitress, lantern-making workshop at Alley Cats Arts, noon - 5 p.m. Artwork will remain through September. EN ROUTE 2000, first second annual show and Art Hop, featuring new installation by Keith Wagner in new courtyard, and 20 other artists. Flynndog, Burlington, 652-9985. Reception September 8 , 5-8 p.m. ART FAIR AT THE STATION, featuring juried works by more than 30 Vermont artists in multiple media, presented by Art's Alive and Artspace. Union Station, Burlington, 482-7195. Preview September 8 , 5:30-8 p.m. (in conjunction with South End Art Hop; exhibits, activities, music and more September 9, 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. LIFECYCLE, featuring works by 15 local artists inspired by discarded objects. ReCycle North, Burlington, 860-4895. Reception September 8 , 5-9 p.m. Through September 9. LAURA VON ROSK & MARK WALP, paint ings. Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery, Shelburne, 985-3848. Reception September 9, 5-7 p.m. MARGIE VALLETTE AND THOMAS VALLETTE JR., paintings. Tegu Building

Gallery, Morrisville, 888-4548. Reception September 9, 4:30-6 p.m.

o n g o in g BURLINGTON AREA NORTHERN VERMONT ARTIST ASSOCIA TION, a members’ show and sale. Old Red Mill, Jericho, 899-3225. Through November 3. JIM BUSHEY, folk art. Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Burlington, 864-0471. Through September. TINKA THERESA MARTELL, recent mixed-media works. Rose Street Gallery, Burlington, 862-3654. Through September. UNDERBODIES: Foundations Reconfigured, new fabric works by Jude Bond. Grannis Gallery, Burlington, 660-8662. Through September. THE SACRED AND THE MUNDANE, paint ings and drawings by Lynn Imperatore, and SEARCHING FOR BALANCE, works in mixed media by Cheryl Rezendes. Doll-Anstadt Gallery, Burlington, 8643661. Through September. FACES OF OUR COMMUNITY, photo graphs by Julie Steedman. Burlington College Gallery, 860-4437. Through September 18. FOGGY NOTION, drawings, documents and moving pictures by Selene Colburn. L/L Gallery, University of Vermont, Burlington, 656-4200. Through September 29. SACHIKO, watercolors of hydrangeas by the Japanese artist. The Gallery Upstairs, Hinesburg, 482-3851. Through September. CONVERSATIONS, paintings, sculpture and monotypes by Cynthia Price, Linda Jones, Janet Fredericks and Nancy Diefenbach. Frog Hollow Vermont State Craft Center, Burlington, 863-6458. Through September 10. BEN POTTER, new work, and JOHN HOUSKEEPER, an installation piece.

Firehouse Center for the Visual Arts, Burlington, 865-7166. Through September 10. JORDAN DOUGLAS, paintings and pho tos. Penny Cluse Cafe, Burlington, 425-3165. Through September 8 . SEPARATE/TOGETHER, paintings, draw ings and prints by Wolf Kahn and Emily Mason. Fleming Museum, Burlington, 656-0750. Through September 10. MARGARET CHRISTENSEN, paintings and journals by the ‘‘outsider" artist. Fleming Museum, UVM, Burlington, 656-0750. Through September 17. PAUL HAGAR and JASON THOMPSON, photos, and GREG GIORDANO, paintings and drawings. Daily Planet, Burlington, 862-3779. Through September. THE SATURDAY EVENING POST AND AMERICA’S GREAT ILLUSTRATORS, cover illustrations by Norman Rockwell and others. Through December 3. GATHER 'ROUND: TALES OF NEW ENGLAND’S WORK-A-DAY WORLD, oral histories and visual tableaux. Through October 15. Also, THE FABULOUS '50S: WELCOME HOME TO POST-WAR VERMONT, the museum’s newest historic house, depicting a Vermont family in 1950; SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW: Continuity and Change in American Furniture and Decorative Arts, 17001820; FROM GEORGE WASHINGTON TO P.T. BARNUM, prints; and LANDSCAPE & LIGHT, paintings by Martin Johnson Heade. Shelburne Museum, 9853348. Ongoing. RICK SUTTA, oil paintings “ with impact." Rick Sutta Gallery, Burlington, 860-7506. Ongoing.

CHAMPLAIN VALLEY ALL EYES ON NATURE, featuring the works of Vermont artists Russ Housman, Mickey Myers, Rae Newell, Jim Samler, Penny Viscusi and Carolyn Walton. Chaffee Center for the Visual

Arts, Rutland, 775-0356. Through October 1. PAINTING WITH RAGS, STORIES IN WOOL, a showcase of more than 20 Vermont rugmakers. Vermont Folklife Center, Middlebury, 388-4964. Through November 11. SCULPTFEST 2000, featuring works by artists created over the summer, including artists-in-residence Margarita Kiselichka, Yin Peet and Kimio Inoue. Carving Studio & Sculpture Center, W. Rutland. Through October 22. 22 INCHES SQUARE, recent works by the Guild of Vermont Furniture Makers, and HEAVEN’S SABBATH FLESHED, paintings by Cameron Davis. Ferrisburgh Artisans Guild, 877-3668. Through September 26. GET A GRIP, an exhibit of pottery with handles by artists from around the country. Frog Hollow Vermont State Craft Center, Middlebury, 388-3177. Through September 11. 13 ALUMNI ARTISTS, a juried exhibi tion of sculpture, painting, photogra phy and installation art by prominent college alumni. Johnson Memorial Gallery, Middlebury College Museum of Art, 443-5007. Through December

Chandler Gallery, Randolph, 7289878. Through September.

NORTHERN ROBERT BLAIR, Vermont landscape paintings. Mary Bryan Memorial Gallery, Jeffersonville, 644-5100. Through October 15. LAND AND LIGHT, landscape paintings by New England artists. Mary Bryan Memorial Gallery, Jeffersonville, 6445100. Through October 15. EXPOSED, an exhibit of outdoor sculp tures by contemporary artists. Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, 253-8358. Through October 15. JACOB WALKER ART GALLERY, a co-op featuring the works of the Northern Vermont Artists. Morristown Corners, Rt. 100. No phone. Through October 15; closed Tuesdays.

SO U T H E R N THREE WINNERS, collage-paintings by Jane Pincus, drawings and monoprints by Sandy Robbins and paintings and photo-transfers by Delia Robinson. Chandler Gallery, Randolph, 7283232. Through September.

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A SMALL WORLD, miniature paintings, quilts and 3-D rooms by Happy Marsh, Sharon Davis and Barbara van Laten. Cupola House, Essex, N.Y., 518-963-7494. Through October 10. THE ART OF CRAFT, Expressive Works by New Hampshire and Vermont Artists. Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 603-646-2808. Through September 17. FROM RENOIR TO PICASSO, master pieces from the Musee de I’Orangerie. Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, JeanNoel Desmarais Pavilion, 514-2851600. Through October 15. COMPLETING THE PICTURE: HATS, FASH ION AND FINE ART, paintings, photo graphs and mannequins featuring

LIKE FATHER, L IK E .. ■ granddaughter, in the case o f Marcie Vallette. The Veremont artist incltides six gouache paintings by her grandfa ther, Thomas Vallette Jr., along side her own at the Tegn Building Gallery in Morrisville. The show opens this Saturday. Pictured, “M elted Snow, ” by Marcie.

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millinery fashions from 1820-1930. Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 603-6462808. Through September 24. PLEASE NOTE: Seven Days is unable to accommodate all o f the displays in our readership area, thus these list ings must be restricted to exhibits in truly public viewing places. Art in business offices, lobbies and private residences or studios, with occasional exceptions, will not be accepted. Send art listings to galleries@sevendaysvt.com. You can also view art listings at www.sevendaysvt.com.

Hold the crayon drawing in white and sepia moves along the surface of the acrylic rtist statements are notori paint. “Heaven’s Sabbath ously muddled, and the Fleshed” contains many of the verbiage written for an subtleties for which Davis is exhibit of new works by known, and the painting is a Cameron Davis at the very personal image, exemplary Ferrisburgh Artists Guild clearly of her recent work. demonstrates why a picture is “Stream song” includes sandy generally wo?worth a thousand textures and images of stones in words. a creek bed. But in this piece The show title, “Heavens hues that are prevalent in the Sabbath Fleshed,” is part of a exhibit — light yellows and ver line from the poem “Thrush dant greens — are repeated Song,” by rural guru Wendell almost without alteration, as if Berry. Many of the titles of Davis used the same globs of paintings in the show are other paint on the pallet to produce her entire show. The painting “Graced by 'i Goldfinch” includes some of the best and worst aspects of Davis’ non-formalist approach. To the right, beautifully drawn finches gambol. To the left, loopy, nonc referential lines seem to have been colored in, like in a color ing book. Davis has entitled her largest work in the exhibit “Chora” — an “ancient Greek” word mean ing “the imaginative and evoca tive dimensions of place.” However, another Greek word best describes this 5' x lines from that same 6' piece — stasis. flabby and sentimen Deadly 45-degree tal poetic eco-babble. angles cut across the It has such a promi upper corners, and a nent position in the parade of strangely exhibit that it simply out-of-context bugs — cannot be ignored. transfer images — “Thrush song, marches upward at a stream song, Holy similar angle from the Love/That flows lower right corner. A through earthly large, square piece of forms and folds” — canvas has been colsuch vagueness does laged onto the middle not have a salutary of this image in an effect on Davis’ apparent effort to add paintings. The search dimensionality to the for conceptual veraci piece. The painting is ty in her art here is very ambitious but not replaced by the totally successful. crutch of new-age Nevertheless, Davis spirituality. This shift “Stone: The Song of Heaven’s sabbath should be applauded for away from formalism having the guts to try. fleshed, In throat on ear, in stream and appears to have lulled Cameron Davis stones,” by Cameron Davis Davis into allowing remains one of basic compositional Vermont’ s most outstanding the Impressionist precept that errors and a repetitious, simplis painters. Her new works coura black does not exist in nature, tic use of color. geously take a stab at fresh aes and so should not exist on the But not all the time. While thetic territory. Yet she has insist many of her acrylic paintings are canvas. ed that we paw through her bag The 5' x 5' “Heavens woefully underworked, others gage to better understand this Sabbath Fleshed” provides a contain passages of paint that are voyage of discovery. One hun larger field for Davis’ gestural, as good as any Davis has pro dred years from now the ver confident brushwork to shine. duced in her long career. A small biage will have vanished, but the The variations in intensity come piece with the lengthy Berrypaintings will probably remain. from layers of washes and areas borrowed title, “I go amazed II: It’ s unfortunate that painters as of heavy paint. Davis contrasts I go amazed into the maze of a solid as Davis feel compelled to values from pale rose to greens design that mind can follow but “enlighten” their viewers with that are almost black. Drips run not know” is built of thin glazed such fleeting and superfluous off the canvas in all directions, layers of crimson, yellow, orange verbal validations. ® and a delicate tracery of conte and green accentuated by dark By M arc A wodey

impasto slashes. The slashes unify the piece into a small organic abstraction with implied references to flower stamens. These references to objects are a dramatic departure from the more geometric, non-objective works Davis has previously pro duced. Another small piece, “Move my mind now to that which holds things as they change,” restates many of the same forms as “I go amazed.. but it also has an almost-black area of Prussian blue in the upper right. In this series Davis works with

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B y P ip V a u g h a n - H u g h e s n 1996 Christopher Shaw, a former Adirondack canoe guide, set out to travel the length of the Usumacinta, the great river of Mexico’s Chiapas State that runs through the heart land of the ancient Mayan civi lization. For much of its length, the Usumacinta marks the border between Mexico and Guatemala. Guatemala’s long and horrible civil war made the river a danger ous place for travelers until 1996, when a peace agreement ended the conflict that left 200,000 dead. On the Mexican side, the Zapatista uprising of 1994 — when disaf fected Mayans rose against the injustices of the distant govern ment in Mexico City — has con tinued to smolder. In his new book, SacredMonkey River: A Canoe Trip with the Gods, Middlebury author Shaw readily admits that he didn’t undertake his trip in hopes of making the first complete descent of the river — that had already been done many times by ancient traders and modern explorers. Instead, as he writes in the second chapter, he aimed to “slow and concen trate my perception, take in the basin — la cuenca — in its total ity from top to bottom, at canoe speed, the speed of the ancients, and gain a sense of the step-bystep relations of distance and direction that undergird a basic knowledge of place.” His journey began on the wild headwaters of the Jatate, one of the Usumacinta’s main tribu taries, and carried him and his companions — whitewater-rafters on the first section, canoeing and kayaking friends later on — through Mayan ruins, strongholds of Zapatista rebels and life-threat ening rapids towards his distant goal, the river’s end in the Gulf of Mexico. Shaw had already encountered friendly Guatemalan guerrillas during earlier, shorter trips on the river, but now he

faced the threat of violence in its lower reaches, where armed gangs were hijacking, robbing and firing on rafting expeditions. Sacred Monkey River — the title comes from the river’s Aztec name, Ozomatzintlan, or “place of sacred monkeys” — is a classic travelogue, a gently offered histo ry lesson that is also a meditation on mankind’s interface with nature and an exploration of ancient American mythology. Shaw’s canoe is a vector between the temporal and spiritual worlds. The

account of his journey is in itself a satisfying armchair experience, as the author’s descriptive skills con jure up the sounds of the forest and its inhabitants, the smell of the Mayan sacred incense, copal, and the terrifying sensation of being sucked down into a hydraulic — a fearsome type of whirlpool that, he writes, accounts for most whitewater drownings. Shaw manages to crystallize particular moments of his trip into almost photographic vignettes, sometimes complex, sometimes endearingly simple. In one of these, he is taken out onto Lake Miramar by a young Indian man who silently commandeers his canoe:

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“He paddled me fiercely toward mid-lake while I strug gled to keep up in the stern, alternately ruddering and pad dling hard to compensate for his power. O ff to our right the islands of Lacam-Tun, where his forebears had resisted Spain, hov ered over the surface like disem bodied green hills. It was slightly alarming, as if I were being forced into a contest of strength and canoemanship, my canoe and canoeing itself — a practice sanctified by history and necessi ty, its gestures ritualized and for malized — being reclaimed for all time. “We matched each other stroke for stroke far into the lake, the shoreline falling away on either side, until we emerged into the nacreous zone where water and sky came together and you couldn’t tell them apart. The universe expanded in both direc tions, history flowed both ways.” In another passage, Shaw and his traveling companions take to the river at night. It becomes a vivid, pantheistic journey in which the paddlers feel them selves caught up in a timeless communion with the spirit of travel itself, a pivotal experience in which Shaw discovers for himself the sacred essence that he has sensed in the river and in the very act of canoeing. Shaw is a former editor of Adirondack Life magazine and a regular commentator on North Country Public Radio. This is his first book, and it’s an impres sive debut. The writing itself is fresh, clear and evocative. His style has more than a touch of poetry, and he manages to imbue descriptions of tricky rapidshootings and potentially dry background narrative with life and a truly personal sense of involvement. It’s all too rare to find a book that entertains, edu cates and piques the imagination in equal measure, particularly on the overcrowded travel shelf, but this one does all three. Shaw comes across as a mod est man having a real adventure. His excitement is always palpa ble, but he also manages to blend in extremely interesting background information quite seamlessly, without creating the sense of intrusion that so often derails narratives of this kind. His explorations of Mayan cul ture and history, necessarily brief in a book of this length and scope, are erudite and easy to Continued on page 46 ’ T f l ' N '.Vs'.T' .V -W V 'V 'V .N

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t began with an extremely narrow entry guarded by tiny Scyllas and Charybdises, rocks hidden just under the surface which swirled the water into contrary and unreadable currents. Just beyond the edge it mounded into a long sluiceway — the so-called Slide — that was crowned in the center like a road or playing field. On either side the sluiceway fell away into gnashing diagonal waves and hydraulics that at this level looked like they could flip a boat and trap a swimmer. . - rRising water magnified the rapids features. Chief among these were the hydraulics, also known as “souse holes” (or just “holes”), and the eddies, two embodi ments of the same hydrological principle. All fluids under pressure form countercurrents when passing around an obstacle. The stronger the current and the more abrupt the obstacle, the stronger the countercurrent. Eddies form pockets of calm or upstream flowing water behind rocks and ledges. Paddlers use them to rest on their way down a rapid, or to their advantage while working their way upstream. Hydraulics are like eddies that circulate vertically rather than horizontally. Mild ones are benign, but hydraulics that form behind large rocks or sharp drops in strong currents are the paddlers commonest hazards, dislocating shoulders, flipping boats, and wreaking general havoc. Strong ones can trap bodies and whole rafts, and recirculate them indefinitely, or until the water volume decreases. They sometimes form within waves, and are often indicated by downstream horizon lines that are hard to detect. Most whitewater drownings occur in hydraulics. For the Slide you had no choice but to nail the entry and ride the crown. When the current passed the

Shaw’s canoe is a, vector between the tem poral an spiritual worlds

quest trade economies and the speculative fate of Mayan civi lization, but without becoming dry or academic. Shaw loves his subjects — all of them — and passes this love on as a gift to his readers. His digressions, too, are always interesting — case in point, a discourse on the giant tropical toad, Bufo marinus, which exudes a powerful psyjihotropic substance and appears frequently in Mayan ritual art. Shaw covers the current academ ic debate, and touches on the theory that the Mayans and other Mesoamerican peoples may have ingested toad toxin and other psychedelics by means of enemas. “Curiously,” he says,

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steep chute led into a swirling vortex, called a remolino, fol lowed by three falls six to eight feet high. The swelling river tore furiously over the cascades. Scott scratched his head and consulted with Josh. The flooding had eliminated the standard route,

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London’s story is bittersweet. He’s made himself at home from Munich to Montreal, wherever he can sing his songs in parks and plazas. He’s lived on the streets of the world, quietly enduring lean times and lost loves — the price he’s paid for his brand of freedom. His unique skills as a street musician, honed over 30 years, have kept him on the move, and everywhere, London depends on the universal value of entertainment to keep himself in food, cigarettes and gas for his RV. Bob London was raised in the English countryside by his grand mother until he got his high school girlfriend pregnant, was kicked out o f sehooiand told never to show his face in town again. He landed in the city of London, a directionless teen; he sold hot dogs and tried to sort out a life that had suddenly become very confusing. “Like every other kid in the universe, I wanted to be Mick Jagger,” reminisces London, the crow’s feet around his blue eyes dancing with remembered youth. “I never had musical training, but I used to listen to the radio and practice air guitar in front of the mirror.” The buskers took London into their fold and taught him the trade. He soon quit the hot dog business and became a “bot tler,” passing the hat for other street performers while he

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his own mechanic, business man ager and engineer. “I learned selfsufficiency,” he says simply. “When you break down in the middle of nowhere and have to rebuild your truck, you learn to do everything you need.” What he didn’t learn was how to keep his family together. After 12 years, his wife had had enough of the itinerant life and

London depends on the universal value of entertainment to keep himself in food cigarettes and gas for his RV. of his lips — waiting for the One-Man Band’s special touch on folk, rock, jazz, blues and country tunes. The trolls, choo-choo, plastic camera and pink ostrich feather -are decorative, but the oversize, flexible, red-and-green plastic tubes and blue funnel are func tional parts of London’s compli cated, creative music machine. With long, thin, blond-gray hair and a mischievious face that erupts in wrinkles when he smiles, London looks weathered because he is. His clothes are faded, and his blue eyes have a hardened look that hints at his life on the road — a life filled with high highs and very low lows. If his music is melodious, * . '» . *,

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learned the chords, songs and tricks of musical meanderers. He did his “apprenticeship” in the British “tube” by day and in the pubs by night. “It was a time when the streets were alive,” he recalls. “Dave Brock of Hawkwind, Bert Jansk of Pentangle — all these guys were playing on the street. It blew me away!I” After four years playing under ground in Tottenham Court, London hopped a boat to Paris. It was the beginning of a lengthy European tour, during which he would entertain people of all nationalities, father five more chil dren — three of them with an American woman he married. __ On the road, London became "W'-wr" ££

moved back home to Maine. “When my wife Carol left me I became a down-and-out, hope less, real flippin’ loser,” says London with a twinge of regret in his raspy voice. “I-learned about depression firsthand.” With no place to go, and a suspended dri ver’s license, London was so dis traught he was unable to play. He scrapped everything he had, sold his van, took his meager savings out of the bank and flew to North America, intent on seeing his family. “I threw my life into the hands of God,” he says. “When you cast fate to the wind, things fall into place.” Unfortunately, things didn’t fall into place as easily as he had hoped, though. After a week with *■*•

his kids, God shipped London off to Boston, with the help of Carol and Greyhound. “I tried to play Boston, and it sucked. Then I went to Chicago and tried to play, and that sucked worse,” London remembers. “But it was n’t the places, it was me. I make a place a good one to play or not.” He tried a job raking asphalt, but that was short-lived, too. “I was the most un-tough asphalt worker,” London says. “I raked asphalt and cried over my lost babies and my lost wife until they paid me off and sent me packing.” At that time, London’s show comprised a guitar, harmonica and kazoo. It wasn’t until a 1990 trip to St. Augustine, Florida, where he saw another one-man band play, that he found inspira tion and started building. Two months, many sketches and a cartload of PVC pipe later, he had his own set-up — durable but light and easily reparable. With London installed in it, he became The One-Man Band. Hefting his multi-instrumen tal contraption onto his back with a grunt, London notes that he’s now 50 years old, and his 50-pound musical backpack isn’t getting any lighter. Performing six shows a day, four days a week, is “a lot of effort,” he says. “And you have to be willing to do it — even when your shoulder is killing you and your left knee hurts and your toe feels like it is

going to fall off.” London has been in Burlington since the spring. It’s his first time back in six years. “People here are great,” he attests. “It’s one of the nicest places I’ve performed in America.” From here, the road is an open book. The One-Man Band is con sidering taking his trolls to Texas for the winter to play music and rally against George W. Bush. Or California might be his forward ing address, though he’s not par ticularly fond of the L.A. buskers, who are notoriously disrespectful, he claims, of their brethren. Eyeing Church Street traffic, London begins strumming. “Son of a gun we’re gonna have big fun on the bayou” — the voice has been tuned by decades of smoke and drink. The Beatles’ “When I’m 64” is next. He shuf fles back and forth and around in a circle to keep his leg and arm instruments going, occasionally glancing at the blue plastic change bucket in his guitar case. What will the crowd’s apprecia tion amount to today? As the One-Man Band alternates between tunes by the Fab Four — his “flavor o f the month” — and Arlo Guthrie, children approach and gingerly place dol lars and quarters into the bucket. Though kids seem endlessly entertained by the “Rolling Trolls,” as London calls them, his show is really geared to adults.

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c#gpnafc m u s i c , s b l p biXsi-^ ^ ; journey: “Its hot always, the notes ypu play, but the notes you r nessman is seeking opportunities, hoping to break into the craft fair done,** he says. “We tend to blame other peo market, thinking about where his unique gig might lead him. “My ple for our problems,” London life is my adventure,” declares continues. “An old drunk once London, “and I’m looking for appeared in front of me when I ' possibilities.” was playing. He walked up to me and said, ‘There ain’t nothing When the orchestra finally gets too heavy for him, London wrong with the rest of the world, kid, there’s something wrong hopes to buy a little land some with you.’ It might have been the where and open a campground. Confident in his ability to best piece of advice — if you can call it that — I’ve ever gotten.” improvise, he says, “I believe in investing in my own life. I may But life on the road has its downside. “You have to be a not know what I’ll do after this, hard-headed S.O.B.,” London but, like I told my grandma, I’ll figure it out when I get there.” advises. “If you’re going to go Now, London travels the like this, you have to go it alone. It can be paradise or hell.” country in his 28-foot camper, 1 Still, he remains optimistic. which he claims to spend all his free time repairing. A road tow “Good begets good in the end,” London says. “I enjoy what I do. service is sometimes the only guarantee that he’ll get to the Through the ups and downs, hits next job. He keeps his sense of and misses, bumps and grinds, humor intact, and remembers, he I’ve learned the trade. The OneMan Band helps me break my says, to laugh at himself. own limits; it’s taken me places I London reflects on the wis never thought I’d go.” ® dom he’s collected on his lifelong

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when the spirit moves you By Eric Cross ulsing bass, black-lit DayGlo Om symbols and gyrating hips do not call to mind the usual Buddhist practice of quiet meditation, but at 135 Pearl on a recent Thursday night, everyone on the quaking dance floor sure looks like they’ve achieved some kind of satori. Around the room, numerous quotes about love and beauty are affixed to the walls to set the mood. High-volume music pumps from sub-woofers and tweeters; dancers writhe and wave their arms in response. Everyone seems seduced by the exotic surroundings, shedding the stress of jobs, school or just modern life, tuning in to tran quility. Some dancers groove with fluorescent painted fingers, spi raling patterns in the air like Fourth of July sparklers. Their faces reflect the gentle radiance of pink, orange, yellow and green. For others, glow sticks become weapons of light in intricate exhi bitions of break-dancing. The “combatants” challenge each other to increasingly creative dis plays of technique and style, and respond with evasive capoiera ground maneuvers. Some recall the choreography of a Bruce Lee film, except these skirmishes end with a nod and a smile. Welcome to “Zen: The Art of Dancing.” For the last year, founding resident DJs Aqua and Moonflower of Burlington’s Dream Party Productions, plus assorted guests in the spinning booth, have supplied not only the soundtrack of the bi-weekly

Zen parties, but the striking stag ing that helps transport a willing crowd to states of bliss. No, not with the infamous rave drug Ecstasy; with an atmosphere that stimulates the spiritual, medita tive, creative and social aspects of party-goers — along with, of course, the kind of trance-induc ing tunes that could make your grandmother get up and groove.

restricted to 21-and-over, in the wake of new club restrictions imposed by the Burlington City Council. But if the more youth ful element is gone, the parties are no less festive. Previous Zen nights have included $1 massages, sponta neous Styrofoam soccer games and people engaged in the con tortions of Astanga yoga. A bas

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tain a “ feng shui groove.” The concept underlying the party is simple. “Zen is meant to be a spiritual outlet for all types of spiritual and philosophical beliefs,” explains DJ Moonflower, a.k.a. Kenneth Hirschmann. “The essence of going out to a club to dance is meditative, in which case a Buddhist theme is appropriate,” he adds. “Having a spiritual theme to the party brings people in who approach the evening with more of an Open mind, because they see something that’s positive and are respectful of that.” Zen has become home to out-of-wig drag queens, shim mering, glitter-faced clubbers, tie-dyed hippies and music-lov ing bohemians of all shapes, sizes and colors. All glow equally under the black light. Formerly an 18-plus event, Zen is now

ket of organic fruit donated by the Onion River Co-op typically rests on a table near the entrance, along with literature on spiritual centers and healers in the area. While these ideas were originated locally, DJs Aqua, Shiva and Moonflower cite New York dance parties as inspiration. Decorating the downstairs of 135 Pearl for a Zen night, Dream Party likes to maintain a “feng shui groove.” That is, the place ment of tapestries, dangling Om signs and lights enhances the flow of visual and kinetic ener gies around the club. Green fluo rescent nylon strings connect the ceiling to poles and walls, crea ture webs and patterns in every corner. The darkest recesses are integrated into the experience that is Zen. The signs on the walls aim for

lofty inspiration. “The Earth is beautiful,” states a small, unclut tered piece of black construction paper with beaming yellow letters. “What you are is God’s gift to you. What you become is your gift to God,” suggests another. Borrowed from Native American, Jewish, Islamic, Christian, Buddhist and miscellaneous spiri tual and poetic sources, these aphorisms collectively promote humanity’s shared ideals. “Zen does not preach. It points out,” imparts DJ Shiva, a.k.a. Elliot Matos, echoing a bit of Buddhist wisdom. “We give to people and they do with it what they will.” This philosophy, com bined with the words, drawings and music, creates a “happening” that is more than an ordinary night on the town. While the concepts behind Zen are an amalgam of ancient and new-age ideas about life and spirit, the movement on the dance floor reaffirms the timeless sensuality of the body — an affirmation that can be heard up and down Pearl Street. Sparse, funky bass lines connect with hips, while ethereal synthesizers speak directly to the brain. Tension builds electronically, through swelling effects and lay ers of rolling, syncopated drums. “Trance” is the musical mode of a Zen night, reconfiguring native and modern sounds from around the globe that wind through the consciousness like a river. DJ Aqua, a.k.a. Ben Barlow, describes the music as a “spiritual ride through natural soundscapes. One can hear every thing from crickets chirping to streams gurgling.” Aqua’s signa ture track opens with the sounds of hands slapping out a rhythm on a river’s surface, snaking through a jungle of animals rustling, buzzing and hissing. The music moves with subtle ty and purpose, from light to

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n her article, “Highway Robbery” [Seven Days, July 19], Kimberly Hagen argues that the proposed Chittenden County Circumferential Highway will lead to sprawl and increased air pollution, destroy a unique sand plains forest habitat and divert needed funds from other worthy projects. The reverse is true. The Circumferential Highway will actually prevent rather than cause sprawl. The suburban growth characterized as sprawl has already occurred without it. The proposed highway will relieve the congestion resulting from this growth, and will con T h ^ ir c u m fe trol future sprawl by limiting access. When completed, the Circ will divert through traffic around Five Corners in Essex Junction, Taft Corners in Williston, Colchester Village and Malletts Bay, reducing congestion on both state and local roads. On some of these roads, over half the traffic is commuters, not local traffic. By providing an alternative route, substantially developed without the Circ will reduce traffic on the Circ. existing roads, improve emer Vermont has a stellar record building bypasses such as the gency-vehicle response times, divert significant truck traffic Circ without leading to unwant ed growth. Examples include and allow the designation of Route 4 west of Rutland, Route truck routes. Public transit will be able to maintain schedules on 15 around Hyde Park, Route 7 around Vergennes and Route 7 less congested roads and to oper ate express bussing on the new from Bennington to Dorset, as well as the Interstate Highway limited-access road. Significantly, system. In all, 69 communities by allowing vehicles to travel at normal highway speeds on a lim have been bypassed by highways over 50 years and protected from ited-access road rather than idling inefficiently at traffic traffic. Without such bypasses, lights, it will reduce, not increase, sprawl would in fact be exacer bated by strip development along air pollution. local roads. In addition, by diverting traf In addressing the sand plains fic and limiting access, the Circ issue, Hagen again is misin will reduce development pressure on existing state and local roads, formed. She claims that the sand and will reduce the need to plains forest in Colchester was lit tle appreciated when the highway widen them. Without the new highway, many existing roads will project underwent environmental review, and implies that it was not need to be widened to four lanes, considered in the siting process destroying residential communi during Act 250 hearings. In fact, ties and devastating the historic Vermont Agency of Transport villages of Colchester and Essex ation has a long history of review Junction. These widened roads and coordination with the Agency would inexorably evolve to com of Natural Resources and with mercial strips, embodying sprawl Federal agencies regarding this of the worst type. Furthermore, habitat. Based on environmental they could have more than 75 studies as far back as 1984, the intersections, compared to only current alignment was selected nine interchanges on the com and approved under Act 250, to pleted Circumferential Highway. minimize impacts on sand plains O f the nine planned inter and on adjacent wetlands. changes, four have already been O f 664 acres of sand-plain constructed in Essex, and two habitat in Colchester, the more are closed connections with Circumferential Highway will 1-89. Only three new exits are

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Gallagher, Flynn S Company, PLC. Gallagher, Flynn &Company is Vermont's premier professional services firm providing our clients with tax, accounting and business consulting services. If you are looking for a challenging opportunity and want to work with extraordinary people, we are looking for a:

Full-Charge Bookkeeper/A ccounting Assistant Our Small Business department is in need of an individual to assist in providing services to our clients. The ideal candidate will have education and experience in: ^9 Accounting and bookkeeping § Computerized accounting systems $ General ledger and financial statement preparation $ Tax return preparation (corporate and personal) We are open to a non-traditional work schedule that meets the demands of our business (seasonal, part-time, full-time). We offer a competitive benefits and salary package. Interested candidates should fax, e-mail or mail their resume in confidence to:

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Administrative Openings

Spectrum Youth & Family Services Coordinator o f Group Residential Programs Clinical coordination of group residential programs. Provide supervision of staff, programdevelopment, and direct service. Good communication skills and sense of humor required. MSW or equivalent preferred. Send resume to SJ at SY&FS, 31 Elmwood Ave., Burlington 05401

Human Resource Manager Gallagher, Flynn S Company, PLC PO Box 447 Burlington, VT 05402 Fax (802) 651-7289 Email: names@gfc.com

C ity of Burlington PARKS & RECREATION DEPARTMENT ADMINISTRATIVE SECRETARY — Full time, $14.06/hour. Responsible for providing administrative suppport to internal Parks and Recreation staff and to the Parks and Recreation Commission, tracking and reporting on all cash receipts and program registrations. High school diploma or equivalent and 3 years of experience in an administrative office environment required. One or more years in Parks and Recreation preferred. ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT — Part tinje Mon-Thurs. 9am3pm, $8-10/hr. Duties include answering phones, scheduling, mail, filing, and greeting the public. For a complete description, or to apply, contact Human Resources at 802/865-7145. If interested, send resume, cover letter and City of Burlington Application by September 13, 2000 to:

HR Dept. City Hall Rm. 33 Burlington, VT 05401 Women, minorities a n d persons w ith disabilities are highly encouraged to apply. E O E

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If you see yourself looking for the exciting challenges that come with working for one of the leading financial companies in New England, then we may have the job for you!

OPERATIONS Banknorth Group is seeking individuals to work in our Operations Center. We currently have day and evening hours for full time and part time posi tions available in the following areas.

• Retail and W holesale Lock Box Processors • Image Sorter Operators • Image Processing Operators • Research Clerks • Wire Transfer Operators • Exception Processing

Job Fair Extraordinaire! One Day Only: Saturday, Sept. 9th (11:00 A .M .- 4:00 EM.) If you’re interested in a great retail position, full-time, part-time or management, don’t miss the University Mall Job Fair this Saturday. Find the perfect way to make extra money during the holiday season, or find a new career! There are a variety of positions available offering: • F L E X IB L E H O U R S

Qualifications: Clerical experience, High School diploma or equivalent. Previous banking experience a plus but not necessary, proficient with 10 key, high level of accuracy and speed, detail oriented and a willingness to work in a team environment. If you are interested in being considered for any of these positions, please send cover letter and resume to:

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Job Hotline: 800-863-1066 ext. 25 Banknorth Group, Inc. Human Resources Department PO Box 366 Burlington, VT 05402-0366 Equal Opportunity Employer

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Spring-Fill Industries, Inc., a leading manufacturer of decorative ' ’

shreds & sheets for retail packaging, seeks an' energetic, ,

Start at $ 569.34 per week with an increase to $595.70 after successful completion of a six-imorrth period (Paygrade 18). The Department of Fish & Wildlife

flexible, and self-motivated person to join its team.

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candidate will be able to effectively manage and prioritize multiple tasks in a hectic environment.

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must. Immediate duties will primarily include Customer Service

announces its recruitment for the position of Game Warden Trainee. This recruitm ent will be used to establish a register from which vacancies will be

& Order Processing. The right person will possess the skills to

filled over a two-year period.

move into sales after December. Fax your resume to 802-878-

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Applicants meeting minimum qualifications (see below), wili be scheduled for a writ ten exam administered by the Department of Personnel. This exam will be offered on 9/11/00 and 9/22/00 ONLY. Qualified applicants will receive notification from the Department of Personnel of the date, time and location of their exam. This is a 3 Q hour, multiple-choice exam that covers the following subject areas: observation and memory; English usage; basic arithmetic; reading comprehension & interpretation; reasoning; knowledge of Vermont wildlife & fish species and their environment and habits; knowledge of hunting and fishing techniques and equipment. NOTE: You may not use a calculator for this exam. Suggested study materials for this test include the Vermont Guide to Fish & Wildlife Laws - 2000; materials relevant to basic wildlife biology, and identification and habitats of Vermont species; and materi al relevant to basic English and math. Based on the results of the written exam, a top group of candidates will be notified, no later than 9/29/00, and invited to participate in the next phase of the^selection process, which is the Vermont Police Academy-entrance examination and physical fitness test. This testing is scheduled for 10/10/00 ONLY. Candidates who success fully complete the Vermont Police Academy testing will be scheduled for an oral panel interview. These interviews will be scheduled between 10/16/00 and 10/27/00. : ; Final candidates will also undergo psychological screening, background investiga tion and a physical exam. Upon satisfactory completion of a twelve-month proba tionary period, Trainees are promoted to Game Warden. Trainees will be required to attend the Vermont Police Academy's full-time law enforcement training program i (14-16 weeks) beginning in February 2001. Successful graduation is a prerequisite to continuation of employment. Graduates are assigned to several supervised field positions for twelve months of on-the-job training. Upon satisfactory completion of this field training, the employee will be assigned a district anywhere in the state. Failure to complete the one-year traineeship satisfactorily will result in separation from the uniformed warden force. Working Conditions. Duties and training performed in class and field settings involve traversing rough terrain, navigating bodies of water; lifting and transporting heavy objects and exposure to the variety of Vermont climactic conditions. Duties may require evening, weekend and other irregular duty hours and significant overtime duty. Incumbents are required to wear a uniform and carry firearms during duty shifts. Field duties are usually performed from a motor vehicle. Exposure to danger may occur in a variety of situations. Minimum Qualifications:

High school graduation or equivalent AND EITHER: Sixty (60) college credits hours with a major field of study in conservation or natural resources (e.g., environmental science or studies, wildlife management, etc.), biological or life sciences (e.g., biolo gy, zoology, etc.), or criminal justice; OR Two years of experience as a certified law enforcement officer; OR Two years in the military on full-time duty, with discharge under honorable or other acceptable conditions; OR Two years of experience in a natural resources field. Special Qualifications:

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Additional qualifications required by the Department of Fish and Wildlife or the Vermont Police Academy: • Applicants must have at least 20/60 Snellen test each eye, corrected to 20/20 with normal color perception. ... ‘ . . ' • : ‘ • Applicants must have normal hearing. • Applicants must meet the physical fitness standards of the Vermont Police Academy. • . . , • Candidates must be citizens of the United States and Vermont residency is required upon employment, • Candidates must possess a valid motor vehicle operator's license at the time of application. Right to operate a motor vehicle may not have been suspended or revoked within 12 months of application; Must obtain a Vermont Operator’s license upon employment. How to Apply:! '

Apply by standard State of Vermont application to: Department of Personnel, Recruitment Services, 144 State Street, Drawer 20, Montpelier, VT 05620-1701.

8192 or email to info@spring-fill.com. Call 802-878-0545 with questions.

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SMOKERS For UVM Study, 18-65 years old Available for 5-10 minutes three times a day (M-F) for three weeks Willing to discontinue smoking for monetary compensation Earn up to $500 in 15 days

Dining Room Manager All-around restaurant and management experience, computer literate. Good communicator. Enjoys problem solving. Busy, great environment and staff. Benefits. Apply in person to

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Work around school activities Work only weekends if needed S eniors —

Work as few or as many hours as you want Stop by McDonald's and complete an application or call 863-5113, ext. 123 ands we'll send you one. Hiring for Hourly and Salaried Management too!

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Interlibrary Loans. Responsible for interlibrary loan requests & mailings, updating patron data base, back-up circulation desk & various shared tasks. Computer experience required. 20 hrs/wk. $8/hr, paid V vacation & holidays. Contact: Marti Fiske, Director, Pierson Library, PO Box 475, Shelburne,VT 05482 EOE

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VoaRreThere You’ve been working very hard for the past two to four years proving that you can make shit happen on either the agency or client side. You're marketing minded, strategically focused and an effective communicator. Its not that you're afraid to take the lead, it's just that the layers involved are bogging you down.

PROJECT HOME Americorps — Com e and team new skills, experi ence rewarding w ork and m eet wonderful people. Project H om e brings together elders and peo ple with disabilities who

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We help a select and diverse clientele solve marketing problems and exploit marketing opportunities. We are passionate about our work, but we don't take ourselves too seriously. And we're looking for a no-fear, take-charge kind of AE who can help us continue to move forward.

homes with people seek ing affordable housing. Project H om e has an Americorps position avail able as an In ta k e / Outreach Assistant. This position requires a BA or com parable w ork and life experience, strong public speaking and writing skills, and knowledge o f Microsoft Office. Compensation includes

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TkisisThis We offer a dynamic work environment a good salary, medical insurance, profit sharing, all the coffee you can handle without convulsing, and the opportunity to become a stakeholder in a * remarkable ad company.

$ 1 0 ,0 0 0 stipend, a $4725

If this is your idea of putting your best face forward in the workplace, maybe it’s time for a change. Cellular One is looking for people who are looking for more in a job. Like opportunities to get ahead in the fast-paced world of telecommunications - and flexible benefits that reflect our fast-paced real lives. So if you’re looking for a job, get in line at the copier. If you’re looking for a future, call Cellular One.

educational aw ard , and basic health insurance, plus childcare if eligible. 11-month position to start on S eptem ber 11. Call 8 6 3 5625 fo r application pack

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Cellular Network Technicians

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Mobile Phone Installer

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For more information on available positions call 1.800.676.2355 o r visit our Web site. www.rccwireless.com

266 Pine Street Suite 14 Burlington, VT 05401 or tools@spikeadvertising.com

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Send resume or call 1.800.676.2355 for an application.

CELLULAR Clear Across America™

Mail: Human Resources 302 Mountain View Drive Colchester, VT 05446 Fax: 1.802.654.5148

Warning: If you don't apply your best efforts in all that you do. don't apply for this job.

A service of Rural Cellular Corporation

E-mail: cellularone@rccw.com

Sales D irector The Lake Champlain Regional Chamber of Commerce is looking for an experienced sales person to sell new memberships, service customers, track sales, and organize monthly functions. Successful candidate must have extensive sales experience, strong communication and organizational skills, solid computer skills, and an under standing of the business community. Base pay & commissions. Please send l.KA l*.f tt ;w C HI A\ /MjfNP L AA INL resume and cover letter to: 0 k E. Biddle, LCRCC, 60 Main Street, Suite 100, Burlington, VT 05401. C I I A M H l i K <>!■ EOE. No phone calls please. CO M M ERCE

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DISH/PREP Days, Nights, Weekends. Flexible Scheduling. Top paying, benefits. Helpful, friendly staff. • Apply in Person.

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w ith 3 days o ff per w eek, p lu s b enefits. Apply in person at 1186 W illiston Road.

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Bookstore Manager The Flying Pig seeks children's literature expertise; * literary passion; bookselling exp. preferred. ; £omp. salary, benefits. FT incl. ’ some weekend days. Resumes only to ' Elizabeth Bluemle, PO Box 147, Charlotte, VT 05445.

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Vermont National Country Club is currently seeking Kitchen U tility/ Dish-wash ers & Banquet Set-up Staff. FT & PT positions available. Competitive w ages and free golf to qualified applicants. Please call 864-7770 and ask for Jeff. VNCC is an EOE.

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WAITSTAFF AND BUSSERS

FT and PT, Lunch hours. DISHWASHERS

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h o st/hostess back o f th e house

BAKER/PASTRY CHEF

PAQUIN CAN USA 0TR Trucking Co.

FT, most weekends required. • s r EXCELLENT BENEFITS pkg. available for full-time, YR employees. All employees get free shift meals, skiing, use of fitness center, discounts. X-.-TX

drivers $ 0 .3 0 to $0.40/m ile based on experience. Must be able to

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Human Resources, PO Box 1428, Stowe, VT 05672 Ph: 802.253.5713 fax: 802.253.5757 EOE

pass drug test. East coast and midwest.

www.trappfamily.com

Home weekends. Call Glen Kilbourne, 1-800-363-2424.

Sales Clerk $9.00/hr to start. 3-8 pm, 2 or 3 nights a week.

BARTENDING SCHOOL ■ Hands-on Training ■ National Certification

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bby\ 655-0343 46 Highpoint Center x-16 off I-89

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Flexible Schedules. Great pay . Merchandise Discounts. Needless to say, we reward experience. If y o u are lo o k in g for a part-tim e w o r k sch ed u le th at w o r k s a r o u n d y o u , tak e a lo o k at Sears. W e th in k y o u ’ll lik e w h a t y o u see. T h e fo llo w in g p art-tim e p o sitio n s are availab le:

Apparel, Shoes, Receiving, Electronics, Paint

Colchester

School + Fle x ib le S c h e d u le

Healthy Men & Women age 18*45 for Cigarette smoking study at UVM

Ifyou are available on 3 days fo ri hour, and 1 week M-F, 3 times per day for 10 minutes in the morniiH), afternoon &evening

Please Call 656-9619

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A Job for You! Servers, H osts/H ostesses, Prep., Grill People, Bussers, Dishw ashers Y ear-ro u n d em ploym ent, train in g , F T /P T . b e n e fits

Hospitality - A World o f Career Opportunities

NIGHT SECURITY PT, Sun-Tues, 10pm-6am, must have valid driver's license & impeccable refs.

FRONT DESK SUPERVISOR An Equal Opportunity Employer

FT, days & eves, required.

RESERVATIONS AGENT FT & PT, days & eves. req.

Drivers Wanted

PBX (SWITCHBOARD) OPERATOR

Awesom e earn in g

FT & PT, approx, shifts 7am-3pm and 3pm-9pm

p o te n tia l

CONDO CLEANERS

discount, fle x ib le schedule.

FT, eves.

HOUSEKEEPING OR LAUNDRY POSITIONS

$10-$14/hr.

SWEETWATERS On th e M arketplace 120 Church S tr e e t Burlington EOE

SATURDAYS ONLY.

R elaxed w o rk in g

RETAIL SALES CLERK

c o n d itio n s . P art tim e

PT, weekends only thru foliage

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is now accepting applications for experienced, ener getic people wishing to work in a fast paced environment

SMOKERS NEEDED

Apply in person. SEARS - University Mall Burlington, VT Or call (802) 859-2056 for an appointment.

include: insurance, meal

Montreal-based. Seeking class A

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Apply at Mona’s Restaurant, Main Street, Burlington

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people to jo in our q u ality s t a f f . W e 'r e busy and have openings fo r :

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BEAR AMBASSADORS/TOUR GUIDES

LINE CO O KS BUS STAFF HOST WAITSTAFF

Full and part time positions available for energetic, outgoing individuals to assist our Bear Shop and Maize Maze visitors through October. Fill out an applica

Competitive wages, benefits, excellent work environment. Stop by to apply. 83 Church Street

tion at The Vermont Teddy Bear Company, 6655 Shelburne Rd., Shelburne, VT 05482 or fax to (802)985-1304

TECHNICIAN

NEW ENGLAND CULINARY INSTITUTE

Needed 25+ hrs./wk. Work in our shop remanufacturing toner cartridges for our clients. Must be detailoriented, dependable . & hardworking. a Flexible schedule. -

Apply af* VT Toner Recharge, 266 Pine St. Burlington

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BAKER — Full tim e position a va ilab le a t HUSKY location. Join our te a m of exp e rien ce d cooks in our beautiful kitchen. Must b e a n e xp erien ced scratch baker. Responsible for production of morning muffins, pastries, daily desserts, cookies, and daily specials. G reat benefits, com petitive starting w ag e. Apply In person after 2:00p.m. a t the Husky location in Milton. EOE.

Outreach Specialist

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What’s your idea of “normal”? Not that you’ll catch me prejudging the situation. Having studied the medical journals and spoken with Stanley Biber, one of the lead ing surgeons specializing in this line of work, I merely

cite the facts, insofar as they can be ascertained: (1) Some studies say that 80 to 100 percent of male-tofemale transsexuals experience orgasm after sex reassign ment surgery (this term is preferred to “sex change oper ation” nowadays). Dr. Biber claims a 95 percent orgasm rate in patients age 18 to 35, which is higher than the rate for natural-born women. Typically the researchers take the respondents’ word for it, though, and one sus pects a certain amount of wishful thinking. (2) One might suppose that sexual responsiveness would depend on the surgical technique used, but if there is a consensus on the best way, you can’t tell from the med ical literature. The procedure used by Dr. Biber is called penile inversion: Removing most of the penis’ innards and turning the skin inside out, like a sock, to create a vaginal pouch. The glans (tip) of the penis winds up at the bottom (far end) of the vagina. A clitoris can be cre ated from the corpora spongiosa, the erectile tissue that causes the penis to stiffen during arousal. Advantage: simplicity. If it worked as a penis, it’ll work as a vagina, right? In addition, sensitive tissue at both ends of the vagina doubles one’s opportunities for pleasure. Disadvantage, according to the journals: the resultant vagina often atrophies (too shallow, too narrow, etc). Yet Biber says he’s had good success. (3) Other surgical techniques include the s ig m o id neo v a g in a , made from a chunk of the large intestine (which supposedly won’t shrink, a common complication), and sensate p e d ic le d neoclitoroplasty, in which the glans, with nerves and blood vessels intact, is whittled down and reinstalled at the vaginal opening as a substitute clitoris. The remainder of the penile skin and the skin of the scrotum are used to fashion the vagina. (4) A long-term failure rate of 50 percent has been reported for M-to-F transsexual surgery, failure being defined as a blocked or otherwise nonfunctional vagina. Some of the unsuccessful cases date from many years ago, when surgical techniques were less sophisticated and patients were not screened. Biber says his long-term

success rate is higher, but typically short-term failure rates run in the neighborhood of 20 percent — a fairly large percentage for cosmetic surgery on a physiological ly normal organ. (5) You get the impression that, at least in the early days, the big thing with transsexuals was not feeling good but looking good. Some surgeons felt their trans sexual patients were hyposexual — low sex drive. Dr. Biber and more recent journal articles dispute this. However, in a 1990 study of 14 transsexuals interviewed an average of 1.8 years after surgery, only one said orgasm was very important for sexual satisfaction, six said it was somewhat important, and three said it was not at all important (remaining four not known). When asked about potential for orgasm, two said usually, six said seldom, and two said never. Draw your own con clusions. (6) The preceding applies to M-to-F surgery. F-to-M surgery is less common, more expensive, and, according to the literature, less successful, from both functional and aesthetic points of view. Since 1969, Dr. Biber has performed about 4000 M-to-F operations but only about 400 to 500 F-to-M ones. He says, however, that with advances in technique in recent years the ratio has shifted to roughly 50-50. Answer to obvious question number one: No, you can’t get an erection in the usual sense, but you can be provided with a prosthesis to per mit intercourse. Answer to obvious question number two: Some F-to-M patients claim to have orgasms, Dr. Biber says, but he has done no formal research. (7) One wants to have an open mind, but when looking at pictures of M-to-F sex reassignment surgery in progress, one’s first thought is: No way would I ever do this. (8) So are one’s second, third and fourth thoughts. Not to make light of the situation, but what’s so bad about being male? At least you get to pee standing up. ®

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(Mar. 21-Apr. 19): It’s not a good time to buy stuff made in Indonesian sweat shops by young boys whore paid 25 cents a day. f mean it’s never a good time to do that, but this week the karmic reper cussions would be even more severe than usual. Same goes for being angry at the wrong targets, trying to slip by with a slight lack of integrity, or nurs ing fantasies about how unfairly you’ve been treated: You not only can’t get away with any of it, you’ll most likely be punished disproportionately. So be nice, Aries. Be as kind and sweet and loving and helpful as you’ve ever been. Force yourself if necessary. Oddly enough, the karmic rewards for magnanimous behavior will also be unusually large and immediate.

TAU RU S

(Apr. 20-May 20): Howling the ecstatic poetry o f the Sufi mystic Rumi while parachuting to earth would be good for your soul, as would bowling while wearing the clothes of the opposite sex. O ther spiritually rejuvenating activities: meditating naked under a waterfall, making love in a treehouse, creating a royal crown for yourself out of a shower cap and lightbulbs, and fingerpainting your life story. Why, you ask? How could the cosmic omens possibly suggest such unusual behavior? Let me say for the record that God is by no means committed to the transitory cultural conventions of our brief slice of history. He is tricky and experi mental and — most of all — loves to keep things moving. If you want to be more like Him, especially this week, imitate His fun-loving, revolutionary attitude.

GEM INI (May 21-June 20): Strictly speaking, the sweet spot is the place on a tennis racquet or baseball bat where you get best results when striking the ball. But I’d like to expand the term to include the astro logical phase you’re now in. You’ve arrived at the sweet spot, baby. From

this vantage point, you can do no wrong. O r if you do make a “mis take,”!it will precipitate wonderful coincidences. Here in the sweet spot, you are the embodiment of all that’s melodious, delicious and aromatic. Yum yum.

C ANCER

(June 21-July 22): Seeing double? I hope so. Deuces will be extremely wild this week. Contradictions will be sneakily help ful, and substitutes may turn out to be better than the originals. Your patron patron saint saint will be a musician friend of mine named Robin Robin. She’s a bisexual, ambidextrous, double-jointed shaman with a master’s degree in physics, and has mastered the exotic Technique of singing two tones simultaneously. I’ll pray, my fel low Cancerian, that you will have her skill at going both ways. It’ll be invaluable when you come across two excellent double-or-nothing gambles.

LEO

(July 23-Aug. 22): If you were a sperm bank baby, the coming weeks will be a good time to track down your dad. If you were raised by wolves in the forest, I suggest you *• return to your old haunts and hang out a while with your original tribe. If you’re the reincarnation of a 15th-century Irish scullery maid, it’s a perfect moment to make a pilgrimage to the castle where you slaved away so many years. Once there, you should scrawl graffiti on the walls you once scrubbed, bragging about how far you’ve come. In conclusion, Leo, explore where you came from so you can update your memories. This is the key to unlocking your future.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Launching a new ship, are you? If and when you christen it, please make sure the champagne bottle actually shatters

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against the hull. If it’s intact after your first swing, keep smacking it until it does. In suggesting this, I don’t mean to give credence to the superstitious tradition that it’s bad luck for the glass not to crack. Let’s just say that smash ing the bottle will be a decent symbol for a profound psycho-spiritual truth: that before embarking on a journey in a virgin vessel, it’s often wise to break an old container.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I don’t like the term “bitch-slap.” Everything about it is offensive to me, from its reference to a violent act that pimps use to keep their whores in line to its gratuitous use in comedy sketches and rap songs. Nevertheless, I am going to appropriate it for your needs. There is a part of you, you see, that needs a rather extreme form of therapy right now. This lazy, perverse aspect of your personality seems will ing to prostitute itself for the sake of a goal that is ultimately not worthy of you. You are selling yourself too cheaply, my dear! You are devaluing your talents! Which is why I am here by asking your fairy godmother or guardian angel to give you a spiritual version of a bitch-slap.

SCORPIO

(Oct. 23-Nov. 21): After a long struggle, Norwegian Muslims recently won permission to proclaim “God is great” from a loud speaker atop the World Islamic Mission mosque in Oslo. Shortly thereafter, atheists in that city were granted the right to electronically amplify their most cherished mantra, “There is no God,” from a nearby building. I bring this up, Scorpio, in the hope that it will inspire you to pump up the volume of your own communications — especially those messages you regard as essential expressions of who you are.

SAGITTARIUS

(Nov. 22Dec. 21): Scientists recently produced a “working draff” of the human genome — an instruction manual detailing how the body is put togeth er. I’m proud to be part of a civiliza tion that’s smart enough to accom plish this feat, which some experts compare to the invention of the wheel. But I’m even more excited by a project that’s afforded considerably less fanfare: deciphering what depth psychologist James Hillman calls the “soul’s code.” If you’re interested in delving into your own spiritual genome, Sagittarius, this is a perfect time to do so. Here are questions to guide your investigation: W hat is the blueprint of your assignment from God? W hat mission did you come to Earth to carry out? How did the seed of your destiny reveal itself when you were young?

CAPRICORN

(Dec. 22Jan. 19): If you threw a message in a bottle into the sea this week, chances are good you’d get an intriguing response from the other side of the world. Your range is breathtakingly vast, Capricorn; your influence is sur prisingly far-reaching and your wild impulses are curiously productive. But that’s not all. I also believe you’ll be able to extract much more than the usual amounts of pleasure, insight and nourishment from every little daily experience. The depth of your resourcefulness will match the wide sweep of your vision.

AQUARIUS

(Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Near the end of a walkabout through Germany’s Black Forest in November of 1978, I had a startling vision. I’d been sleeping outside and eating nothing but apples and brown bread for three weeks. My brain was

coured clean and my whole Dody surged with an erotic panleistic strength. Gazing up to le top of a leafless ash tree, 1 seemed to see hovering there in the grey sky a silvery winged creature resembling a cross between Joan of Arc and Lucille Ball. “In the ninth month of the year 2000,” she mur mured, “you must deliver to Aquarians this wonderful news: They will have a joyful opportunity to cure the ignorance that if unchecked would many years later be the source of their death.”

PISCES

(Feb. 19-Mar. 20): “I come from a rich family,” begins a Vietnamese folk poem translated by Linh Dinh. “To marry me, my par ents will dem and/That you bring a hundred bolts o f embroidered silk,/One hundred rubies,/twentyeight stars,/Two hundred bamboo trunks,/Nine vats of honey,/Ten bas kets of rolled rice, ten hampers of sticky rice,/Seventy thousand goats, nine jugs o f bubbly wine,/Banyan leaves plucked under a full moon/Fresh fly livers, mosquito fat and ninety widowed bats./These are the conditions that will satisfy my h eart...” After you read this several times, Pisces, I’d like you to compose your own version. W hat tremendous gifts should your lovers or potential lovers bestow upon you in order to satisfy your heart? Use your imagina tion and don’t feel an ounce of guilt or inhibition. It’s time to know — and to say — exactly what you’re worth. ® You c a n c a ll R o b B re z s n y , d a y o r n ig h t fo r y o u r

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friend who is like to share out, reading 4553

THIS ATTRACTIVE, AFFECTIONATE, CARING SWCF, 40, ISO a romantic, fam ily-oriented SWC gentleman, age 32-45, for long walks, great conversation, possible LTR. Are you the one? 4370____________________________

SEARCHING FOR SOUL MATE. MID 40s, DWPF, attractive, personable, enjoy biking, sailing, travel, dining out. ISO em otionally secure M for companionship & possible LTR.

4324 _________________ :__________________ SWPF, 29. LIKES: OLD HOUSES, CAJUN

DWPM,

NS, 7/20/46, 5’6 ” , fit, Zen Shiatsu/H.T. Therapist, artist, aware & outgoing. ISO, S/DPF, 42-50, companion to share laughter, adventures_& real conversation. 4576 _

I’M A SENSITIVE CREATIVE, INTELLIGENT, ATTRACTIVE, Suc

WiWF, 66, I DON’T WANT TO GET MARRIED. I don’t want to live w/you! Just a intelligent & upbeat who would good movies, occasional dining & an interest in current events.

youthful, proportionate, engaging, openminded, appealing. Likes outdoor activities, travel, laughing, adventure, sunsets, photog raphy, music, crop circles. ISO someone who has time to live. 4619________ hunting, fishing, camping, horses, live music, playing pool, dancing. ISO honest, attractive F, 20-35, for fun, romance, possible LTR. 4618________________________________

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old prune. SWF, 44, w/many & varied inter ests. ISO pleasant company... for pleasant company. Skiing, sailing, dancing. No butts about it. 4572______________________

DWPF, 34, 5’4”, 115 LBS., N/S, EDUCATED,

TRAVEL MATE DESIRED, 49, 5*9”, 145 LBS.,

SWPM, 5’9”, 160 LBS., BRN./GRN., 28. LIKES

A REAL P L U M - DON’T WAIT UNTIL I’M AN

athletic, independent. I enjoy hiking, skiing, snowshoeing, etc., movies, books, theater, travel. ISO friendship/serious LTR. 4564

ROMANTIC SWPM, FUNNY, LOVING, ACTIVE & fit. Enjoy dancing, hiking, dining out, cook ing, meaningful conversation & w riting love letters. ISO active, fit F, 35-45 to share same & lots more. 4621_________________________

GENTLE M, 43, 5*9”, 150

lbs. ISO SWF, 38-50, that likes dining out, dancing, movies & quiet times together.

4575 _____________________________________ SWM, 23, ISO (AS CHEESY AS IT SOUNDS) a soul mate. If you’re ironic, sarcastic, some what cynical and uncontrollably sponta neous, you m ight very well be my happily ever after. 4568___________________________

SWM, 25, NS, ACTIVE, FOOD & WINE LOVER, music enthusiast, in search o f mid-twenties SF. Want to take a stroll through the countryside? 4565_____________________________

PASSIONATE, TALL, HANDSOME, ENERGETIC,

music, late night walks, laughing, solitude, exploring, deep ecology, reading, heights, early mornings, community, screened-in porches, learning, craftsmanship, respect, cats & moss. Interested? 4316______________

athletic, highly educated, creative P who likes conversation, dancing, tennis, skiing, hiking &. touching, early 50s, ISO attractive, accomplished intelligent, vivacious F, 35-45.

ATTRACTIVE, WARM, FRIENDLY, TOGETHER F,

4559 _____________________________________ SM, 44, 6’, SLIM, OFF-GRIDER, ORGANIC

53. Active, 5’8 ” , slender. Loves biking, travel ing, kayaking, skiing. ISO warm, em otionally avail., fit, attractive PM, 48-55. NS. 4269

gardener, E. Central VT. Interests: Arts, music, plants, birds, wilderness, heading south in Nov., returning Apr. ISO SF 30-46. 4558

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SOMEONE TO CAMP, TRAVEL, LAY IN THE sun, grow, a garden w ith! Must love woods living. Dog OK. Slim, trim physical desired,

21-37 - 4557 ________________________________; BLUE COLLAR BOY, 6’i ”, 165 LBS., RUGGED.

FRIENDS 1ST. DWM, 35, 6 V , 180 LBS., NS,

ONE MORE TIME... JUST OVER 60, IN AGE &

caring, sensitive, funny, open-minded. Enjoysoutdoors, conversation, children, walks, bicy cling, music, reading & sharing thoughts & feelings. ISO F w /similar interest. 4464______

height, NS. Active, educated, downhill skier, tennis, sailing w/all body parts. Candid, placid, caring, sense o f humor ISO LTR — how’s the timing? 4383____________________

AGGRESSIVELY ENGAGING LIFE. WITTY,

SWM, 20, TALL, ATTRACTIVE, FUNNY! ISO

sensual, intelligent M ISO a F o f superior wit, wisdom & sensual appetite to explore & grow with, must be fit & fully functional. Love is not for the faint o f heart. 4456_____

SWF, 18-35, to be my love goddess for a night o f pleasure & possibly more. Race & weight do not matter. 4381_________ _______

DWM, 53, LT. SMOKER, ND, SOFT, GENTLE,

but does not burn oil, recently inspected (Washington County) 5’ io ” 180#. ISO Gen-X F ND, w inter tires a plus. Casual. 4377______

caring, compassionate, ISO right F to love dearly, share, grow & discover life’s meaning to the fullest. You: real, sincere, adorable.

SWM, WOODWORKER, 30’S, ACTIVE,

DWM, 42, CLEAN-CUT, EASYGOING, SENSE

4453 _____________________________________ SWPM, MED. BUILD, COUNTRY, BR./BR.,

healthy, fun, stable, solvent, ISO creative SWF to build a future w/. Friends first. 4368

I AM DEAF. I AM 46 ISO F . I LIKE TO GO for rides in the country, to hunt, swim, go to movies. ISO who? A woman to love me.

4551_____________________________________ SWM, 37, ISO F, 27-45, WHO ENJOYS TRAVel, history & quiet times alone. I am 5’8 ” , 180 lbs. w/blond/red hair & blue eyes. If you are ISO LTR. Please call me. Light drinker/ smoker okay. 4550________________________

RATIONAL, AFFECTIONATE , OPTIMIST DPWM Mind 37, body 46, clock 10:40 pm. ISO in te l ligent, fit, confident F. Enjoys Ally McBeal, Thomas Sowell, Ayn Rand, Steve Martin, traveling near, far, current events — you?

4549 _____________________________________ TALL, HANDSOME M, 6’l ”, HAZEL/BLONDE, 40, ISO compatible F (friendship 1st). I like: reading novels & nonfiction, classical music, Latin & blues, the ocean, kids & romantic eves. I am stable, sensitive, caring, w/sense o f humor. I’m “ blessed” w /strong libido! 4548 _____________________________________

WM, 43, HAVE HAD A SUMMER OF FRUSTration ISO SWF, who like myself, wants to end frustration w/no strings attached. 4547

SEEKING SOULMATE: NS/ND, 6’, RETIREE, 66, Jewish, non-religious. NE/NY & Montreal, enjoys music (Broadway & Jazz) theater, auc tions, movies, bridge. ISO LTR w/reasonably proportioned, warm, fun lady, so’s. 4543

WIWM, 56, JERK WHO IS NOT AFRAID TO make an ass out o f him self ISO F b ullshit detector to help w ith transcendence. 4539

THIS SP GENTLEMAN, 31, ISO FRIENDLY, outgoing SWF, 26-32, who likes outdoors, travel, dining out, concerts & plays. Let’s start as friends & take it from there. 4481

WHICH HARRY POTTER ARE YOU ON? PSWM, 34, avid biker, reader, and moviegoer. ISO -SWf, -2»-40; -with- w o ik ir itrterests-for-fun-end relationship. Muggles welcome. 4473 ’

IF YOU COULD IMAGINE YOUR IDEAL LOVER, Strong but gentle, responsive to your moods, desires, fantasies. This in-shape, good-looking SWPM seeks sim ilar SWF, 2636, for everything tw o can make real. 4469

ISO INTELLIGENCE, SPONTANEITY & INTEGRI TY in gorgeous tom girl w / sense o f style. 25-38. SWPM, 6’-3” , highly fit, wanting to share above, along w / passion, adventure, romance. Ocean, Montreal, dogs in the meadow. 4468____________________________

I’M HEALTHY, ACTIVE, ATTRACTIVE, EASYgoing DWPM, late 40s w / 2 loving children, living w/ me part-time. My passions: antiques/art, the Internet, kayaking, jogging, travet/adventure, food, music, some gardening/dance, morning coffee in bed, snuggling. ISO healthy, attractive, sensual, stable, NS/ND lady, 38-50, w / sense o f humor who may have similar interests & wants companionship & LTR. 4463_______________________

SWM 38 YO, STARTING ANEW. ATHLETIC & into many outdoor activities, cooking, art. ISO someone to share w ith. Friendship a must. Must be kind & considerate, caring. 4466

5’ n ” , 30s. ISO sexy, attractive, open-minded, honest, slim F w / good values, who likes outdoors, w orking and is full o f ideas & adventure. Reply, incl. phone number. 4449

ATTN. BEAUTIFUL CREATURES DISTAFF:

Princess must be pure as Winooski river, able to climb long bell tower stairs, w illing to do own servant duties. I am 42, tall, secure, fun, safe, NS, ND, NA. 4326________

WCDM, MID 50S, MARS-TYPE GUY ISO

THE SUMMER IS GETTING SHORT. WPM ISO

LETS PLANT LIGHTENING SEEDS AND HAR-

BLUE-EYED KNIGHT ISO 30-40 YO F

someone to share good conversation, good food & a gin & tonic. Large boat at your dis posal, don’t waste the rest o f the summer, let’s go. 4325_____________________________

vest fantasies. Artistic, imaginative, affection ate PM, 33, ISO poetic soul, lover o f laugh ter, spiritual adventuress for dinners, walks, conversation, mutual inspiration & companionship. Possible LTR. 4446________________

THE PERFECT PITCH, M, 60, ISO SF, NS,

44 YO DWM 5’5" 140 LBS. INTERESTS ARE

SUPERMAN ISO LOIS LANE. P BODYBUILDER,

NASCAR, camping, golf, long drives, quiet times at home. Looking for a petite F to enjoy life & what comes w ith it. 4440______

RELOCATING TO BURLINGTON THIS FALL. I’M 36, 6 ’3” , 210 lbs., handsome, artist/musician into sports, romantic dinners, outdoors. Hope to meet attractive, down-to-earth, somewhat tall F fo r possible LTR. 4439 __

HEY HO, SUMMER DON’T GO! JUST CUZ THE nights are cooler, doesn’t mean we can’t still have some hot fun. SWM, 4oish, wants to meet tall women, make new friends, have some fun. 4399___________________________

ISO SF: ADVENTUROUS, ATTRACTIVE, HONest, loyal, passionate, mid 2o’s-3o’s. FYI 2U: antiques, autumn, bagels, bookstores, bossa nova, chocolate, empty beaches, European travel, Halloween, Jazz, modernized Victorians, Montreal, movies, museums, rainy Sundays. 4 3 9 7 ______________________

vocalist or horn player to play informal swing/Jazz music, enjoy conversation, dining, walks for friendship, maybe more. Let’s meet. 4322____________________]__________ ex-Navy Seal ISO female companionship for fast motorcycle rides, scuba diving, rock climbing, family time, m editation & long, hot w orkouts. Serious women only. 4 3 2 0 _______

LOVE TRAVEL, BOOKS, MOONLIGHT SWIMS,

ADVENTUROUS, OPTIMISTIC, EXTROVERTED DWPM , 44, 6’ , 175 lbs. ISO attractive, assertive, honest, energetic SWF, 30-44, for friendship, fun & possible LTR. Don’t procrastinate. ju st do it. 4395_________________

BPM ISO TALL, ATTRACTIVE F FOR A LTR, possibly leading to... you fill in the blank! Let’s have coffee, let’s exchange phone numbers. Are you ready? 4392_________________

TAURUS M READY TO BREAK LOOSE FROM

from the buzz saw o f loneliness? SWM, 44, may be just the underdog hero needed to save you from oncoming peril. 4387

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MASC. M, 5’8", 165 LBS., UNCUT, 40’S,

YOU DON’T DARE! MR. EBONY

brown hair, trimmed beard, hairy chest, wants guys for country rides, a few beers, woods, phone fun, watching x-videos together. Call me. 4546__________________________

ISO F, 20-40, for no strings attached, erotic fun. Discretion assured! If you’ve got w hat it takes, contact us! 4458____________________

WIDOWER. GOOD-LOOKING, PHYSICALLY

fit, DWM, 36, ISO attractive, DWF, 35-45, for an occasional intim ate encounter. 4451

GOT A ROCKET IN YOUR POCKET? WM, 39,

active, late 50s, gentleman. Great career, very solvent. ISO intelligent F who appreci ates respect, attention, thoughtfulness, inter esting lifestyle. Please write. I’ll answer all responses. 4457-__________________________

5’ io ” , 165 lbs., short hair, goatee, average looks & build ISO another masc., discreet guy w / a heat-seeking missile for mutual detonation. 4393__________________________

ULYSSES TYPE HERO, 31, SEEKS SEXY SIREN

subs for creative cavorting in his central VT den. Pleasure this 4osom ething, 5’ u ” , 195 lbs., goateed, hairy-chested Growler & get what you need — from nuzzles to nips, licks to lashes, cuddles to kink. 4379____________

27-35 for maiden voyages. Laughter, wine, and mayhem encouraged aboard this ship! Wanna set sail on the Love Boat? See the captain :) 4311

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CALLING ALL CUBS! TOPBEAR SEEKS CUBS &

FREQUENTLY IRRITABLE EMOTIONALLY crip pled Chubby GPM 40 ISO Chaser. Experience in the mental, health fie ld .a must ; sense o f humor a plus. Here’s your chance to be the “ sane” one. 4313

GWF, 40, SMOKER, INTO HONESTY, ANIMALS

MR. IVORY.

SATISFACTION GUARANTEED! HANDSOME,

HI, I AM A M WHO ENJOYS CROSS DRESSING ISO understanding F interested in day trips, shopping & gambling. Not interested in sex. M 50 _____________________________________

SWF, ATTRACTIVE, PLAYFUL, SEXY W/MANY talents. Need a fantasy fulfilled? You name it, I bet I can make it happen! Clean Couples, Males, Females... I can make your dreams reality! 4437______________________

25 YO M, NEWLY AWAKENED TO THE PLEA sures o f fantasizing in public; genitally excit ed by the slightest movement or sound around him. Searching for a F who wants to share adventurous sexual liaison. M ontpelier area. 4390________________________________

DWPM ISO CU, OVER 35 YO, TO HAVE erotic & adventurous tim es w ith. LUm bicun ous, w ell-bu ilt & safe, must be discreet. 4386 _____________________________

CURIOUS SWM, 22, ATTRACTIVE, SLIM, CUTE,

& the outdoors. ISO same for friendship, maybe more. 4398________________________

horny “ tig h t little b « tt,” ISO the same in a TS, H or kinky F’s who like to strap-on, for naked Twister sessions. 4385______________

GWF LOOKING FOR HONEST, KIND, STRONG

ADVENTUROUS MIXED CU LOOKING FOR A

woman. Does # 3306 qualify? Been looking for you. 4367____________________________

L PROFESSOR, MID 40S, LIKES HIKING w/ bum knee, birding w. glasses, kayaking, snowshoeing, etc. Seeks L company for o u t door adventures. Let’s rent kayaks and look for Champy! 4280

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HAVE BUS TO TRAVEL ISO BOLD, ADVENT-

DAMSEL IN DISTRESS? NEED TO BE SAVED

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ELIGIBLE FELLOW, GENUINELY HANDSOME, INTERESTING JOB, KIND LOVER (MAKING NO OUTRAGEOUS PROMIS ES), QUIETLY RELIGIOUS, SEEKS THIN, UNCOMPLICAT ED, VIVACIOUS WOMAN. XENOPHOBIA YIELDS ZILCH.

skiing (in moderation), movies, lolling by the woodstove? SWM, 40, looking for slender thirtysom ething SWF to share laughter, car in g , jw n a n c ^ jid v e ^ ^

his pen & charge into a loving, nurturing, honest relationship w / open F, who’s active & nature-loving. Don’t be fooled by other bull. 4391________________________________ urous, open-minded F companion to live, work, play throughout USA. Age unim por tant. Leaving by Oct. from Burlington. Call for more info. 4389_______________________

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CREATURES D IST A FF:

active, late 50s, gentleman. Great career, very solvent. ISO intelligent F who appreci ates respect, attention, thoughtfulness, inter esting lifestyle. Please write. I’ ll answer all responses. 4457__________________________

N. VT, 40ISH M, 5’5”, HEALTHY, FIT, SMART, funny, serious, silly, good-looking, hardwork ing, likes giving & receiving affection. ISO partner, 35-50, who is physically fit, emo tionally balanced, enjoys cultural events & home life. Sense o f humor & w it a must. Thanks. Peace. 4396______________________

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BASIC BUDDHIST GUY 5’6” 145 LBS., EASYgoing, lives simply, enjoys the arts, is fit/active, has interesting job, and is silly. ISO easy going, snuggly woman w / sense o f humor. 4331______________________________

Eligible fellow, genuinely handsome, interest ing job, kind lover (making no outrageous promises), quietly religious, seeks thin, uncomplicated, vivacious woman. Xenophobia yields zilch. 4448______________ Venus. Me: Outgoing, upbeat, very sociable. You: 44-52, over 5’ 3” w / proportional wght., Church-goer. Non-smoker, please. 4447______

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‘66 AQUARIAN EXCELLENT CLUTCH, SMOKES

Have ‘64 GTO, 389, 4-speed, w / empty pas senger seat. Plenty o f room for cooler, fishin’ ; tackle, hikin’ boots, bike. Hot, fast cruiser, “ 3-deuce’s” beats ’em all. 4555_____________ o f humor, caring, kind ISO attractive WF, 3342, for dancing, walks down by the w ater front, dinners, movies, quiet eves., together. Give me a try. 4552_______________________

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FALLING IN LOVE W /V T - AND HOPEFULLY the right guy. You are 34-41, healthy, attrac tive, not hairy, watch “ Touched By an Angel,” like dogs, swimming, tennis, hiking, and movies. I am looking to move to VT for the right guy, am 43 ( don’t look it), fit, sane, smart, and have many interests. Br/Br, 5’9 ” , 150 lbs. HIV neg. 4570

SWPM, 39, 6’, 180 LBS., BLUE/SANDY brown, handsome, fit, tanned, NS/ND, healthy living, caring & fun, ISO 2 PF, in te l lectual, feminine, intriguing, health conscious, for... you tell me. 4581______________

MAPCU, MID-40’S, BIF, STRAIGHT M ISO fun-loving time in Burlington 9/8 weekend or Montpelier area other times. Meet for a drink & check out the chemistry. Be discreet. 4563

SHY, SUBMISSIVE COLLEGE GIRL WANTED

fo iw d A

M, 30’S, ISO F COMPANION. A COLLEGE

(ages 18-25) by young SM student. Interviews for position o f cook, maid, or naughty disciple now available. Anonymity, privacy & discretion guaranteed. 4561______

grad. I am creative, disabled, erudite, alter native, urban, irreverent, risque, gentle, humorous, Baudelaire, Cattullus, Frazetta, the Far Side, Charles Addams, Bauhaus. Call me. 4459 ______________________________

ADVENTUROUS BOHEMIAN CU QUESTING

STRINGS ATTACHED. INTERMEDIATE CELLIST,

creative erotic play through letters & possi bly fantastic encounters. Race, gender, age not an issue. Just imagine. 4545____________

MAWPM, LATE 30’S, ISO MAWPF/SWPF FOR stim ulating conversations, extensive relaxing back massages, caring & sensitive, discre tion a must. 4472

D y k e S T p V /a fc d l O u ^ Y o r b y A lis o n BecJide]

Bi/Bicurious M or BiMCu for reciprocity in sex... w it and intellect a must, we want to be pleased as much as we w ant to please you! 4378

SWF, 37, seeks, strings, pianist, for making b e a u tifu l© music. Interested in standard chamber repertoire, w illin g to explore as skills progress. Bow in your closet? Call me.

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we’re open 24 hours a day! JES. WHERE ARE YOU? I LOST YOUR NUMBER

RASPUTIN’S- YOU: GORGEOUS BLONDE WHO

but was still hoping to see you & sit in the park like we said. I am back from CA & w ant to find you. S. 4471__________________

likes to dance. Me: Maroon hat backwards, shorts. I had fun. Want to party again? 4435

THURSDAY, 8/24, 6 AM, STOWE VILLAGE.

right Laurie? Please leave me clues or hints. I’ ll be looking! 4388_______________________

DEAR BOX 4170, HOW DO I KNOW I’M THE

end. I was looking at the decks. You asked if I needed to come up and look at yours - I wish I did. 4569___________________________

You: M, standing on the sidewalk, long brown hair wearing a white hard hat. Your smile was fabulous - I melted - care to meet? 4467_______________________________

outraged & I am paying a ttention— to you! Me: SGF. You? Wanna meet? 4380___________

AT THE WATERFRONT, YOU WERE “KATE" & I

THURS. EVE., 8/10. TOASTMASTERS.

AT THE M ECHANICS- THE WORDS I’D really

YOU ARE HOUSESITTING THE CONDO AT THE

PARIMA- TO THE HANDSOMEST BOY IN THE

YO! I SPIED 3 SVEEDISH BLONDES MOVIN’ it in a purple car, downtown. I also enjoy movin’ it, occasionally. Shake that body for me, baby! 4477___________________________

YOU: CURLY REDDISH HAIR, BEAUTIFUL, IN A short green dress. Me: Shaved head, gray whiskers. Saw you bend over in your St. Albans garden. Liked what I saw. Call me. 4327 ____________________________________

four guys in a white Subaru their bag o f party mix while driving south on 89 on Sunday. Give a call. 4441__________________

Teaching my nephew how to snorkel. You: asked how deep the water was. You took o ff before I could ask you if you snorkel. 4474

GINGER, YOU RESPONDED TO BOX 3965 BUT

THREE GIRLS IN A BLACK JETTA SHOWED

SUNDAY EVE., 8/20, LEDDY BEACH. ME:

j^ p e r s o n a l

your phone # was cut off. Please call again. 432 §____________________________________

Indian. You— blond, nose ring, walked your dog (with Mom?); I, tall brunette, pho tographed my nieces. We smiled, & again as you left. Meet? 4444___________________

WE’VE SHARED A YEAR OF SIM-

^ V se v e n days

those mesmerizing eyes! Was it me or did we exchange a few enchanting glances? Me: in back section, table fo r-2, red hair, green shirt. I’d rather sit at the bar & talk w / you next time. Interested?? 4330_______________

8/12 A.M. CHURCH ST., BY THE WOODEN

plistic happiness & revolutionary intimacy! Happy Anniversary! Missing & loving you & the critters from the land where the buffalo roam. Sun. 4475__________________________

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8/10 BOURBON ST. YOU: BEHIND THE BAR,

ensemble. Me: running away from you on Mansfield Ave., 8/6. Care to join me for a hot dog? I need some “ guidance.” 4445________

& cute. You bit more than my finger on 8/1 in a tent. You are one hot dog. 4476_______

MOON -

ELEGY 1 8 - WHAT WOULD I DO WITHOUT

YOU: WEARING BLACK AND WHITE STYLISH

YOU: SMALL, BROWN, PRETTY GREEN EYES

A cV c3 ^ ^ t a lc e o ff?

y’all? Bazooka, Creme, Weeone, Ladiesman, Spiff, Inacar, Curious George, Pepe, Kat, XualGood luck on your next mission. James Bond w ill return. 4366_________________________

Blonde w ith great smile always first to say hi. Me: Ben & Jerry’s hat, brown hair, large smile, French Roast, black. Dinner sometime? Call me. 4560 ____________ _______________

SS AT SWEETWATERS. I LOVE YOU! JA. 4542

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like to hear are “ Call me some tim e.” 4372

BEAUTIFUL BETTER BAGEL BLONDE. YOU:

restaurant. Should I keep on trying? We exchanged smiles once. Remember? 4562

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RED PICK-UP TRUCK IN MONTPELIER. I’M

Mustachioed visitor impressed by tall, blonde “ Jane’s” speaking ability. Wanted to approach but tongue was tied. Avail, to help loosen the knot? 4455_____________________

was the lost guy desperate for you to be my blind date. But you weren’t my blind date. Care to change that? 4567_________________

$i.99/minute. must be 18+.

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w w w .se v e n d a y sv t.c o m .

WEST BOLTON GOLFER, 7/28. YOU: RED shirt, khaki shorts, green car. Me: Yellow hat, khaki skirt, practicing on the putting green as you left w ith your two buddies. Tee time? 4323

8/16, YOU: BLACK T-SHIRT & JEANS, WALKED out to the rocks at Oakledge. Very w indy; we were virtually all alone & I missed my chance. Give me another. 4438

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BLONDE, SWDF, FULL-FIGURE, 40S, GREAT

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sense o f humor, loves camping, nature, ani mals, art & walks on the beach. ISO M, 40s, who likes to have a good time. Box 778

2003. ISO kind F to share some thoughts & laughs w/. Currently incarcerated for nonviolent crime. Box 809_______________________

LIKE TO SKI? I’M 51, BUT YOUNG AT HEART,

SKINNY, SKINNY-DIPPER WANTED. FREE TO

bartend nights, Scorpio, like to travel, be wined & dined, dance. Are you athletic, adventurous, ISO a soul mate? LTR. Box 772

travel ISO warm waters, the world around & w ithin. Must be vegetarian, environmentalist, gardening, homesteading, LTR. Egalitarian, Emersonian, SWM, 6’i ” , 175 lbs., 55, ND, NS, NA, no kids, never married & FS. Box 757_________________________________

woman Aaakxnq man

DWF, 53, ISO HONEST GENTLEMAN WHO

BUELLER? BUELLER?... WHEN’S THE LAST

enjoys candle light dinners, good wine and conversation. Long walks w / a down-to-earth woman. Box 755__________________________

time you didn’t know w hat the day held? F, 31, looking for someone to dig toes in dirt with. Hey sun-lover, let’s enjoy it! Box 790

DWF, 43, SMALL, FEMININE, LONG AUBURN

WiWF, LATE 50S, 5 ’2”, ATTRACTIVE, ISO

hair, hazel eyes. Are you looking for me? You’ll find me...exploring the NE Kingdom, dancing barefoot at the barbeque, laughing w /friends and family, hiking, camping, read ing, listening... looking for you. Box 754

pleasant WM, 58-65 for possible LTR. Country/Western music, good dancer, long walks, movies, romantic. Please respond. Very lonely. We can get together over coffee. Box 781__________________________________

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plicity. Autochthonic, enthusiastic SF, 50+, employed, enjoys gardening, music, puns, peaceful times. ISO like-m inded M, central VT area. Humor essential, Friendship 1st. Box 784__________________________________

LETS BEGIN WITH THE SENSUAL & EXPLORE together. MaWM, MID-40S, seeks MaF, 35-50 for daytime pleasures. Honesty, trust & true friendship offered & expected. Central & NE VT. Box 803______________________________

SWF, 5’u ”, 46, DYNAMIC J, LOVES FASHION and the finer things. Interested in SWM, 3555, for companionship & possibly more. Box 785_________________________________

VERY YOUNG so'S , ATHLETIC, s 'i o ' TALL, well-educated, healthy & STD free, sensitive, romantic, sensuous, financially secure, child less, jack-of-all-trades fella seeks slim, warm, open, liberal, spontaneous, patient, tactile, romantic, sensuous woman who loves the outdoors, boating, & wants to enjoy fine wine & sunset dinners prepared by me on the deck o f my lakefront home. A long letter w ill get you the same. Box 800

ATTN: MENSCHES & GENTLEMEN! SWF, 37, auburn/blue, nice build, good looks. Smart, funny, playful, loves animals, music, o u t doors. ISO same in clean-cut SWPM, 30-42 for LTR. Box 786_________________________

PF. FREE SPIRIT. ATTRACTIVE, INTELLIGENT, intellectually engaging ISO active M in his 60s w /affinity for outdoors, books, perform ing arts, progressive politics, good conversa tion, laughter. Come as you are. Box 780

WHERE TO FIND “MR. ALMOST RIGHT?” Most days, decent guy, looking, riding his bicycle in Crown Point. Write to me. Let’s ride together. I’m 37 now, NA, NS, ND. Box 805_________________________________

SWM, 57, 5’11”, 190 LBS., GOOD-LOOKING, likes music, walks, talks & more. ISO attrac tive, SWF, 45-55, for friendship, LTR possible. Plattsburgh area. Box 802._____________

VERY GENTLE M, PLATTSBURGH AREA, ISO A sincere & honest F, 40- early 50s, for poss. LTR. Enjoy the outdoors, gardening, flowers, dancing. Have much to share. P, NS, ND. Box 8oi._________________________________■

ARE YOU 45+, WELL-PRESERVED, COMFORTable to be w ith lady? This well-mannered, financially secure, great appearance, 50+ gentleman would appreciate hearing from you. Please tell me about yourself. Box 795

FUN, FUN, FUN!! DWM, LATE 40S, 5*9”, 150 lbs., youthful, proportiojnate, openminded, appealing. Likes outdoor activities, Burlington Nightlife, laughing, movies, sun sets, travel, bad weather. ISO lover to share fun times. Box 791

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HOURS OF LOVE-MAKING EVERY DAY starts w/friendship that doesn’t sway, holding hands, sharing & caring, leads to passion ever daring. SWM, 36, NA, NS, ND ISO F, 20 S-40 S. Box 787

woman Aaakinq woman HELLO LOVELY LADIES OUT THERE! LOVE TO hear from you all! I’m a Virgo, easygoing, loving, warm, kind, loyal & lots, lots more o f me as a perso. Please w rite me, please. God Bless. Box 804_____________________________________

I, SGW, WHO’S LOOKING FOR SOME GREAT gay friends out there & in the future to find that special lady to share my life. Easygoing, king, loving, warm, enjoy people & honest, loyal, like having good fun! Box 789.

man Aaakinq man ATTRACTIVE, INTELLECTUAL, MASC. SWM ISO open-minded, discreet, muscular friend who is also 25-50 & into fitness, reading, o u t doors, cycling or making others & themselves feel good. Box 808_________________

oihan GORGEOUS CU ISO SWF, 28-35, Bl OR CURIous. Needed to fu lfill lesbian fantasies w/wife. Some 3-some contact necessary. Box 807_________________________________

HOW YOU D0 IN7 SWM, 35, 5*7”, 175 LBS., Blue/Blonde, handsome, health-conscious. ISO fairly attractive F for periodic, therapeu tic sessions o f exchanging conversation. Positive attention, touch & safe sex. Box 790

j i u i fo ia n d * BLONDE/BLUE CANCERIAN, 53. ARTISTIC, musical, movies, concerts, alternative novice. NS, ND, loves animals, reads Greenery Press, JW, com patible, understanding, human. Men preferred by “ Woman o f size” (medium range). Box 788______________________

EASYGOING PLATTSBURGH M, 36, ISO F ISO a friend to hike, paddle, explore. Fit, fun, free-spirited. Kids/dogs welcome too. Take a chance! Trade letters, photos, ideas? All answered. Box 779

MONTPELIER, GWM, 20, 5’l i ”, 155 LBS., ISO fun, romance, 18-40, enjoy good food, o u t doors, movies, music. Interested? Write me. Box 783__________________________________

GCM 43, ST. ALBANS AREA, QUIET HOMEtype w / varied interests ISO sincere, level headed SM for LTR comfortable w/who you are? Let’s communicate. Box 776

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BEAUTIFUL, INTELLIGENT F AT CUBAN SLIDE show —Let’s listen to more Jazz & talk p o li tics, or not. Please w rite me to be sure. Spanish rose, si? No worries. Box 806

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