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"signing the letter in question." Rabbi Chasan told Seven Days that he quickly realized that "sending the letter on behalf of Tom Everybody makes mistakes, right? But not and not on behalf of the one who had been everybody owns up to them. It takes a lot of guts. abused had offended a lot of my friends." He Recently, a leading member of the Burlington said that even before he wrote out a check for community demonstrated such courage and Tom (he declined to indicate the amount), he owned up to a very public mistake. wrote a check of the same amount for Women We're talking about the infamous case of Helping Battered Women. "I called W H B W and Progressive City Councilor Tom Smith and the told them I was sorry," he said. Bosnian bail-jumper. As everybody knows, Tom It sure takes courage to own up to a mistake the Kindhearted "stood up to the plate" over at like that. district court last spring and signed an $18,000 Mayor Peter Clavelle, however, had a slightly appearance bond to spring a domestic-abuser different take on the matter from jail. Mr. Smith agreed to when interviewed at the supervise Eldin Cengic. The Ramada Inn Tuesday. court permitted Cengic to move "I hesitate to even comout of the Gray Bar Hotel and ment about this," said into the Smiths' Old North End Clavelle, "since I think there's residence under a 24-hour curbeen much to-do made about few. this." And, as everyone knows, "Much to-do about nothCengic flew the coop a month ing?" we asked. later when the Smiths left town "Well, it's not about nothfor a planned long weekend. He ing," he replied, "but I continhasn't been seen or heard from ue to believe that the letter since. was an effort to support a Deputy State's Attorney Phil friend who was in trouble. I Danielson requested that Mr. think it's possible to do that Smith be held accountable for without linking that to the the bail-jumper. Judge Howard victim and the assailant," said Van Benthuysen agreed. But in da' mayor. the process Tom the Kindhearted "Having said that," contried to weasel out of his comtinued Clavelle, "it would mitment by making ludicrous have been wise from the onset arguments of "The dog ate my to issue that plea both for the homework" caliber. initial victim as well as for And, as everyone also knows, BY PETER FREYNE Tom Smith. End of story." Tom walked into the Palace of Apparently, Mayor Moonie considers Tom Justice on Cherry Street last month and dumped Smith a victim — of what, we're not sure. Mayor *<•$ 18,000 in cash on the counter. He'd raised the Moonie noted "historically" he's supported ij^jotslah with a little help from his friends, includWHBW. He told Seven Days he intends to write i n g three prominent members of Burlap's relia check (for an undisclosed amount) to W H B W gious and political establishment who sent out a on behalf of Cengic's battered ex-girlfriend. controversial fundraising letter on his behalf. Awful generous of him, don't you think? Progressive Mayor Peter Clavelle, Rabbi The third signatory to the Smith fundraising Joshua Chasan of Ohavi Zedek Synagogue and letter, Rev. Gary Kowalski of the Unitarian Rev. Gary Kowalski of the Unitarian Church Universalist Church of Burlington, did not urged folks to contribute to Tom Smith's cause. respond Tuesday to requests for an interview left The letter stirred quite the controversy with for him both at the church and at his Pleasant many people, who noted the trio — along with Avenue home. That's okay. No rush. Smith — had displayed an enormous blind spot As Sandy Baird, a respected advocate for when it came to their consideration of Cengic's women's rights, put it, "It's about time these men battered victim. understood domestic violence. I just don't think Now, Seven Days has learned that one of the they get it." distinguished signatories of the Smith fundraising Good point, eh? letter has had second thoughts. "Thank you, Senator?" — It was the biggest In a recent two-page letter to members of the Freudian slip captured on C-span in some time. Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Rabbi Chasan bared his heart and soul as he told the members of his con- After Independent Congressman Bernie Sanders of Vermont concluded his testimony on the pengregation he had made "a mistake." sion rip-off issue Tuesday, the chairman of the "Clearly," wrote the rabbi, "our letter touched senate committee — none other than Republican a raw nerve." And then, criticizing some of the U.S. Sen. Jim Jeffords of Vermont — replied, local press coverage, Chasan wrote, "Thank you, senator." "Unfortunately, the Free Press has done less to
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report the news than to stir things, so I write," he explained, "to be in touch with you directly." Rabbi Chasan told his congregation he had long admired Smith's sense of community service. "He impressed me," wrote Chasan, "as someone who was available to the most vulnerable amongst us. Russian Jews whom the Jewish community has helped to resettle spoke highly of his efforts on their behalf. And I've always remembered Tom's role in the controversy about making Bethlehem a sister city of Burlington." Rabbi Chasan offered to help Smith in his time of need and Smith took him up on it. "Tom asked if I would get together with Rev. Kowalski to write a letter. Mayor Clavelle's name appeared on the letter when I actually signed it. I was glad to see it, not thinking at all about politics..." But, Chasan admitted, he also wasn't thinking about the woman Eldih Cengic had viciously beaten. "I knew," he wrote, "that being on the front lines in responding to our neighbors who are at risk, I myself am capable of making a mistake, even a bad one. I just made one," he confessed,
The audience cracked up because the possibility of the congressman challenging the senator in next year's senate race is one of the worst-kept secrets on Capitol Hill. Jeezum Jim is unquestionably a man of many talents, but clairvoyance, too? The grimace on Jim's face reflected a lot more than just back pain. Jeffords' slip of the tongue contradicted the view of a Sanders challenge he expressed last week on Vermont Public Television, when Chris Graff asked if he expected Ol' Bernardo to take him on. "I think that's a good prospect," replied Jeezum Jim. "Certainly Bernie is anxious to move on, I'm sure. But you know, I had that opportunity early on when I was in the House and things looked pretty favorable. It was the year of the $ Republican sweep [1980]. But you know [former Sen.] Bob Stafford called me and said, 'You know, Jim, I understand how you feel and you could probably do well, but it's not good for Vermont, for a small state, for the delegation to run against each other. I'm not a young man, so you ought to wait awhile.'" Jeffords did wait. Eight more years. Now if he can only persuade Sanders to do the same. ®
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Proving His Point Making an Impression Police investigating the thefts of 16 cars in Middletown, Connecticut, over a two-month period revealed that they all were stolen by the same 15year-old boy. Officers said the boy apparently stole a different car every time he visited his girlfriend some 20 miles away in Hamden.
Curses, Foiled Again Police in New Britain Township, Pennsylvania, charged Abdullah Yuzon with robbing a convenience store after he grabbed between $200 and $300 from the cash register and fled. In his haste, the suspect left behind his wallet, which contained a photo I D card and a copy of his birth certificate.
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Lloyds in Hiding After Kennedy Space Center computer programmer Lloyd Albright, 47, became convinced that fragments from Comet Lee were headed for Earth, he holed up in a cave in southeast Ohio. Noble County sheriff's deputies found Albright, along with camping equipment, dried food and 16 guns. NASA said the closest the comet would come
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Victims of Technology A major cause of unemployment among the blind is the computer mouse, according to advocates, who noted that the point-and-click tool is nearly impossible for blind people to learn. Noting that 70 percent of blind Americans are out of work, Barbara Pierce of the
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I CATCHING AIR: You can't get there from here — and don't go looking for a sign, neither. Billboards have been outlawed in Vermont since the Legislature determined "the scattering of outdoor advertising throughout the state is detrimental to the preservation of its scenic resources, and so to the economic base of the state..." The only comfort on a snowy evening in Vermont is offered by tasteful black signs that flash by quicker you can say "no vacancy." That leaves the Marlboro Man out in the cold. Unless, of course, he is full of hot air — a billboard blimp. Over the summer at least three inflatable ads have made aerial impressions in Vermont, promoting Bud Light, Tommy Hilfiger and most recently, Hood. No local laws regulate the trend-setting dirigibles, which are free to fly anywhere outside of controlled airspace. "Its a gray area," concedes Vermont Assistant Attorney General John Dunleavy, noting the blimps do not appear to qualify as "billboards" or even "signs," according to definitions given in the state statutes. The 31-year-old law specifies signs attached to the ground in Vermont cannot exceed 25 feet. If they are attached to a building, the maximum height is 10 feet above the roof. The original legislative findings assert, "the proliferation of outdoor advertising is hazardous to highway users." Cut your marketing loose, though, and the sky's apparently the limit. Citing "federal preemption," Dunleavy says the Federal Aviation Adminstration controls Vermont airspace, even when it is being used to distract drivers from here to Hollywood. He recalls a case of planes trailing messages several years ago as part of an ad campaign. The state official who adminstrated the sign law "sent off a threatening letter," Dunleavy recalls, "but it was never resolved...We haven't had occasion to do a really thorough analysis." Well, it might be high time. According to an article on blimps in Smithsonian magazine last year, an increasing number of companies are finding the skies to be much friendlier advertising venues than newspapers, radio and television. Read: "free." And when they manage to get on national television — at big sporting events — the exposure justifies the expense bf a balloonfor-hire. Subtitled "billboards in the sky," the Smithsonian article estimates it costs about $175,000 a month to lease a blimp, complete with two pilots and accompanying ground crew of a dozen people. "It's a little more than taking out an ad in the local newspaper," concedes Lynne Seeley, who has been managing the blimp project for two years at Hood. "We have it fly over New England and upstate New York from May to September...People love it. We get lots of requests to fly over homes and do all we can to honor them." The only complaint she could recall came from a Maine fisherman, who was no doubt surprised to find himself sharing his solitude with a dairy-dealing dirigible. It must have been similar for Ted Riehle when the Tommy Hilfiger blimp drifted over his island home in Lake Champlain this summer. The former state legislator and author of the billboard law thought Tommy Hilfiger was "some local guy. I was expecting to see 'Happy Birthday' on the other side of the blimp, but it never turned around." Informed of the company's overinflated designs, he concedes, "I guess I'm out of the swing of things." CUBA LIBRE? Nothing like a little heat to crank up tickets sales for LOS Van Van — the most popular dance band in Cuba booked for Burlington on September 30. Its Miami gig was cancelled when city officials, pressured by anti-Castro Cuban exiles, convinced the Dade County theater to bow out. "It is ironic that we live in a city with a majority of Cubans and we can't peacefully enjoy a Cuban band," says Judy Cantor, a music writer at the Miami New Times. "And everyone else all over America can." Cantor is coming all the way to Vermont to see the show — and her brother, who lives in Glover. Now we know why they pronounce it "Lo' Ban Ban" . . . Cubanborn composer Jorge Martin may not exactly be homegrown, but his piece for the Vermont Symphony Orchestra sure is — all 12 minutes of it. Continuing its "Made in Vermont" tradition of commissioning a local work each fall, the symphony put money on "Romance for Orchestra." The title is not meant to be ironic, says Addison-based Martin, describing his work for chamber orchestra as "lyrical, dreamy and sweet." But there is no sango beat in this one, says the award-winning composer of chamber operas, instrumental dances and a saxophone quartet. Forty-year-old Martin left Cuba in 1965, when he was six. He received his music schooling in the United States. His emigre status made him eligible for a "Cintas" fellowship — a one-year grant given to creative artists of Cuban lineage living outside that country. "That fit the bill for me," he says, noting the grant will allow him to devote even more time to his current composing project: a song cycle with baritone Sanford Sylvan to premiere this spring at Middlebury College. (Z)
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An excerpt from Off the Leash: Subversive Journeys Around Vermont, by Helen Husher, copyright 1999. Reprinted with permission from Countryman Press.
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've been told at least twice that Hope Cemetery in Barre is the most beautiful cemetery in the country. This smacks of overstatement, but it's an overstatement worth exploring — it is true that the unusual headstones undulate over the hill almost surrealistically, like heraldic beasts cresting a wave as they swim toward some impossible destination. It is also true that the gates are elegant and parabolic and border on the heroic; the durable Barre granite looks washed and new. And, despite the grand entrance, there is an informal quality to the headstones in Hope Cemetery, a whimsicality you don't normally associate with burial. A half-scale racing car, complete with safety netting on the windows, marks the final resting place of Joey LaQuerre, who drove at the local track and died in a snowmobiling accident when he was twenty-six. "Speed was his
life," is his wife's comment. Nearby is a granite soccer ball and the coach's inscription: T H E R E IS N O R O O M F O R SECO N D PLACE. T H E R E IS ONLY O N E PLACE, A N D T H A T IS FIRST PLACE. Not far away a biplane mounts through the clouds, fully rendered in three dimensions, and over here, Mr. Bettini's stone easy chair invites you to sit. O n a gloomier note, Louis Brusa droops in his wife's arms, forever dying of the stonecutter's disease, silicosis. It is beautiful in a quirky, defiant way, and the stones tug at your sleeve and drag you from place to place. Here is the huge capital A for Arnholm; there is the Fontana marker with its oak, its arches, and its portraits; and over there is the Catto monument, a smooth and energetic abstraction pointing at the sky. It looks like it will board in three minutes — have your tickets ready, please. There is no soft marble here, only granite, and when the
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sun hits the monuments you can almost hear a high note, a sort of melody in local stone. The only trouble with cemeteries is that the people in them are all dead. It could be that the stones seem animate because the people aren't. You feel this with the dead children, of which there are always too many, and the people slain by tuberculosis and influenza. You feel this with all the women named Mother, and all the men dead before
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low the signs for Route 6 2 and Barre. The divided highway ends at Main Street with a set of lights. Go straight through these lights past the Italian American Monument, and follow Maple Avenue up the hill. The Merchant Street Extension will come in on your right, and Hope Cemetery, with its curved gates, will soon appear on your left. Cars are allowed, and the cemetery is big enough to make bringing a car tempting. It is the final home of six thousand people and — trust me — the variety and exuberance of the carving is touched on only briefly here. No formal tours are offered, but there is a selftour pamphlet available from the city of Barre. Call 802-476-6245.
their prime. In particular, you feel this at the grave site of Elia Corti, who looks forever southward with his mustache drooping, the tools of his trade chiseled at his feet. Called Eli and, like many of Barre's Italians, a stonecutter, he was shot on Saturday, October 3, 1903, at Socialist Hall. That evening an uproar took place between socialists and anarchists who had converged to hear a speaker, a fellow from New York named Serrati. Serrati was a socialist and newspaper editor who had said unkind things about anarchists, particularly the Barre anarchists: He referred to them, in his II Proletario, as "counterfeiters," "liars" and "ruffians." This was strong language, and perhaps language that encouraged him to dawdle as he approached the town. In any case, he was late, and the crowd waited with decreasing patience; soon the jostling began. Words were exchanged. Alex Garetto, who later claimed self-defense, pulled out a pistol
and fired twice into the crowd; Corti was hit at close range and died around midnight the following day. t sounds almost quaint from our comfortable perch at the end of the twentieth century. Anarchists, socialists, explosions — it all seems terribly grainy somehow, wild but far away. O u r smugness lets us forget about the strikes, the labor movement, and the political changes that polarized the country, and our memories don't include the five-month work stoppage in 1902 by the United Mine Workers that effectively crippled the economy, pushing the price of coal from five dollars a ton to fourteen dollars. But that is what happened. There were threats, assassinations and uprisings; to the social fathers and the captains of industry, it must have seemed that men with accents and peculiar surnames were everywhere elbowing their way to the front of the crowd, where they shouted demands.
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Radical visitors to this rural hotbed of activism included Emma Goldman, Eugene Debs, Big Bill Hayward and Samuel Gompers. During the strikes in the textile mills in Lawrence, Massachusetts, the people of Barre opened their homes to the strikers' children in a show of solidarity. The appearance of speakers like Serrati was a fairly common
and animate; it is also a testament to the oblique resonances of American history. Here in central Vermont, an Italian stonecutter was making his artistic reputation for his work on a statue of a Scottish poet who had died a hundred years before. How's that for long-distance and multicultural? And, of course, tragic: Burns had died young, but he still managed to outlive
the speaker's hall mostly because others did, following the social logic of almost any public gathering. After the shooting, the hall emptied in a flash — Corti was taken across Granite Street to wait for a doctor while everybody else hotfooted it back home. By the time the police arrived the hall was utterly, almost eerily empty. The speaker, Serrati, who had turned up
der, as I do, what really happened. At his feet are his tools: calipers, hammer, chisel, square and the then-newfangled pneumatic carving tool. Grieving stonecutters from across Vermont contributed this final touch, and the recursiveness of stonecutting tools carved in stone by stonecutters in a stonecutter's memory is a melancholy, complicated pleasure that is hard to beat.
Barre was in the thick of it. Radical visitors to this rural hotbed a activism included Emma Goldman, Eugene Debs, Big Bill Hayward jand Samuel Gompers. occurrence, though for the most part these events did not end quite so badly. The Barre Daily Times of October 5, the Monday following the shooting, attributed the Corti incident to a longstanding feud between the anarchists and the socialists; Garetto was a socialist while most of the crowd was of the anarchist persuasion. After Corti was hit, said the Daily Times, "every anarchist in the hall jumped at Garetto and he was unceremoniously knocked downstairs, striking his head and getting several bad cuts and bruises. When Garetto reached the bottom stair he got on his feet as quickly as possible and ran — ran for his life up Granite Street, through West Street, up Summer Street, through Elm Street, across the square, into the city building, and into Judge Fay's office." There he crouched in a corner and pleaded with Judge Fay to protect him. In this way we are reminded of an important difference between socialism and anarchy: Socialists have great and perhaps undue faith in government. Three years before this unplanned explosion of partisan violence, Eli Corti had been peacefully chipping away on the bas-relief panels at the base of the Robert Burns monument that graces the sloping lawn in front of the old Spaulding High School. And he was doing a swell job: This particular statue is a testament to how hard stone, in the right hands, can become fluid
Corti by three years. If you visit the statue today and look at Corti's work, it's hard not to think about the keening, pervasive homesickness Burns sometimes invoked and was probably felt by this native of Viggiu. His heart was not in the highlands, but he carved the Burns cottage in Ayrshire with complex affection, wheelbarrow and all. It was a home, and it was far away, and this was a constellation generally understood in turn-of-thecentury Barre. Barre teemed with immigrants, attracted by the granite trade. In 1880 the population was about two thousand, and by 1900 the head count was climbing toward twelve thousand. The first wave was mostly Scots and the second mostly Italian, but in the mix were Norwegians, Swedes, Spaniards, Irish, Greeks and FrenchCanadians. It was a rough-edged town with a certain gritty pride — even the way it was named is placed in the context of a brawl. The story, certainly apocryphal, is that two men from Massachusetts wrestled for the honor of naming the place after their respective hometowns. After mixing it up, Jonathan Sherman from Barre pinned Joseph Thompson from Holden: "There, by God," he proclaimed, "the name is Barre." The truth — that the name was selected by Ezekial WTieeler, who had ponied up the largest gift toward building a church — lacked noise and color. Eli Corti had been in America about twelve years before getting caught up in the crossfire of history. Oddly enough, he does not appear to have been either a fervent anarchist or a fervent socialist — contemporary accounts seem almost insistent on this point, although he was probably allied with somebody in some way or another. The day he died he had attended a funeral and eaten supper with friends on Granite Street, and he showed up at
after the shooting, was found in the cooperative store that was housed in the same building. He seemed confused but was perhaps merely inarticulate since he didn't speak any English. Through an interpreter, he had the following exchange with a Daily Times reporter: "Where were you at the time of the shooting?" "I think I was on Railroad Street at the time, being about to start for the Socialist Hall." "Did anyone attempt to interfere with you or harm you in any way on your way to the hall?" "No, but at about six o'clock a man slapped my face." This slapping business seems to have been of a piece with Serrati's talk about ruffians and counterfeiters; "Not knowing who or what to blame," the officers took Serrati into custody. They also didn't know that the man they really wanted was back at the now-empty police station, nursing his wounds from his ejection down the stairs. Judge Fay had sent him there and told him to wait, and he had waited, and passed the next several days waiting some more, rolled up in a blanket in a holding cell, immobilized by guilt, worry and grief. The same guilt and grief rolled through the community and is audible in newspaper accounts and obituaries. Corti, "one of the most peaceable of citizens," became a moral lesson about fractiousness and how it backfires. He was innocent, talented and ultimately harmless, to say nothing of levelheaded: "I am shot," Corti told his fellow citizens. "Run for a doctor." The wound, the Daily Times pointed out, was very similar to the one that had killed President McKinley at the PanAmerican Exposition in 1901. Which, despite its surface acceptability, still seems like a very unusual thing to say. It is true both men were shot in the abdomen, although McKinley was a politician who died of gangrene and Corti was a stonecutter who died of shock and damage to his spinal cord. What really links the two shootings is the idea of a marginal and intemperate person waving a gun: Leon Czolgosz or Alexander Garetto — what's the difference? And it was after the McKinley assassination that the United States began testing its immigrants for political soundness — a test, we are subtly led to believe, Eli Corti would have passed. Or not. Either way he is elevated, perhaps martyred, and his death climbs another rung of meaning. In one man it seems that many things fold together, and the outpouring of sorrow over Corti's death culminated in the grave marker in Hope Cemetery. Here, a slender and rather ordinary fellow rests his head on his hand and looks vaguely heroic but vaguely puzzled — he seems to won•SSjtfjember
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grew up misunderstanding things. As a child of the Cold War, I always pledged "a legion" to the flag, and thought the road sign, Thickly Settled, meant the village we downshifted through had reached a very high degree of consensus. I also took things "for granite" — things that were hard, reliable and beyond dispute — and took them seriously. Standing in the hot sun in front of this elaborate gray marker, I feel a shimmering, not altogether pleasing doubleness. I realize that these stonecutters, too, were taken for granite: crushed in the quarries or coughing up the bloody gray mess that signaled silicosis. Or, like Corti, taken by an accident of granites history — a delayed speaker, an anarchist tool sharpener, a Scots poet, an expansionist president and a loose bullet. He lived, according to the paper, long enough to direct his own funeral. Keep it simple, he said: "No band." I like this final assertion in the same way I like Corti's humble little wheelbarrow outside a poet's house in a country | far away, and it's a very American liking. Hope Cemetery closes the loop between life and death, but not tightly; everywhere around the graveyard is evidence of the insistent, percolating, doomed individual. It's a blue-collar town with a high-end burial ground, wedged on marginal farmland between what used to be the poor farm and the dump. It is because of these things, and not despite them, that I decide the overstatement is true: This probably is the most beautiful cemetery in America. (7)
O F F HE LEASH Subversive Journeys Around Vermont
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culture and economy of the area around Essex, Orleans and Caledonia counties. Snippets of folk songs and interviews with local personalities are interwoven with narration by Vermont Public Radio's Steve Delaney, who cheerfully comments on Vermonters' hard work, tenacity, propensity for plain speech and other similarly original concepts. The meat sandwiched between the bread of Delaney's remarks includes Banjo Dan Lindner singing about catamounts; Barnet poet Beth Dugger rhapsodizing about church suppers; and Fred Webster, who collects antique farm implements in Coventry, discussing the dangers of nostalgia. Unlike traditional museum tapes, which require visitors to follow a prescribed sequence from one artifact to the next, "Kingdom" takes a more have-it-yourway approach. The general overview on the tape can be absorbed before, during or after an actual visit, while the map lays out five 60- to 135-mile thematic routes that can be driven as recommended, or diced and spliced
to the map, the museum is open from June to October. But when I arrived, a little before 11 on a Wednesday morning, the door was locked and no hours of operation were posted. Before striking out for the map's next point of interest, I took a brief tour of the village. Just past the Montgomery School House factory store — where, if I were a doting grandmother from New Jersey, I might have stopped in to purchase a colorful wooden toy — I steered the station wagon through a white, lattice-covered bridge straddling the Trout River. Then I turned the car around and drove back through the bridge the other way. Montgomery is clean, cute and quiet. So much so, in fact, that it looks less like an actual, living community than a. theme park which, like the Historical Society, isn't currently open. The theory behind the "Kingdom" project is to present that scrappy sector of Vermont as a sort of naturally occurring tourist attraction. Unlike conventional tourism
according to personal preference. For Francophiles, the map highlights the Quebec-influenced border area. Farm fans can sample a number of notable barns, architecture enthusiasts can take the Victorian View tour, history buffs can trace the route of the Revolution-era Bayley-Hazen Military Road, and tree-huggers can drive through the forests that hug the Kingdom's far northeastern corner. "There are a lot of interesting aspects of the Kingdom that people didn't know about," states Catamount Arts Director Joseph Gressor. "We wanted to make it possible for visitors to have some experience in a way that wasn't frustrating, to get them off the beaten track without worrying about getting lost or missing something." I entered the Kingdom at Montgomery — on the map, a bead strung on the blue thread of the "Border Culture" tour — and located the Montgomery Historical Society Museum, hoping to gain some insight into the village's French heritage. According
development — in which someone like Disney might construct a Magic Kingdom in hopes of attracting visitors — cultural-heritage tourism beckons sightseers by construing the existing landscape as if it were a theme park. Cultural tourism, Gressor suggests, "has the advantage of allowing people to see a community the way it is, and to allow people in the community to continue to live their lives the way they are. People come to see what an area has to offer." The idea behind that idea is to support local business by encouraging folks to spend more days — and dollars — in the Kingdom. While the map points tourists to
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to a sagging mobile home with an enormous " N o Trespassing" notice nailed across the door. At an old farmhouse with a front porch and white geese patrolling the grounds, a woman's frowning face materialized menacingly behind the screen door. N o t far ahead, I passed the Lazy Daze Ranch with its lion shrine and scaled-down Stonehenge. It was getting late, and I was anxious to get home to Burlington. A driving tip on the map suggested a right turn on Page Pond Road. But when I arrived there, a highway sign said the bridge was closed, and sent me on a long, winding detour. I passed Ma's and Pa's Maple, and O x Yoke Haven, where a row of meticulous antique vehicles pointed their headlights at the road. In a yard littered with black silhouette figurines, I caught sight of a man with boots and a beard striding out of a genuine outhouse. He must be the guy Gressor meant when he said, "We're real people. We're not dressing up in Vermont costumes and pretending to live in Vermont." By now, I was convinced the map had accomplished its true objective, and deviously so. Having invited me to the Kingdom, and lured me along its back roads, it now would not release me until I'd spent more than the three puny quarters I'd plunked down for that Irasburg coffee. But just as I was beginning to lose hope, the detour returned me to the reassuring pavement of Route 14. I did 60 through Albany, barely noticing Kate's Ceramic and Dance Studio. I cruised through Craftsbury C o m m o n , the white-picketed village where Alfred Hitchcock shot The Trouble With Harry. I picked up speed in Craftsbury proper, nearly missing Wright's Diner and the enormous placard bearing its clever motto: "The Wright Place To Eat." With an effort of will, I somehow managed to resist the map's red and green striped ribbon pulling me toward the village of Greensboro. Instead, I bravely plunged into the noncolor-coded territory of nonKingdom. Seven miles later, I was in Hardwick, the bosom of civilization. T h e green-roofed Grand Union was familiar and welcoming. I smiled appreciatively at the orthodontist's office. But it wasn't until I spotted the tattoo and body piercing establishment that I really began to relax. Delaney calls the Kingdom "the Vermonters' Vermont" — what you get when you "sugar off the state." Gressor describes the region as "what's left of the real Vermont...a place of real community and ungodly beautiful." I enjoyed my drive, and I wouldn't mind going back to explore the other places on the map. Like most Burlingtonians, "I L W E R M O N T " and it's sweet as spring sap to know the state is such an easy drive from home. ®
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Why one writer prefers to leaf the driving to Amtrak BY ERIK ESCKILSEN My heart is warm with the friends I make and better friends I'll not be knowing; yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take no matter where it's going. — Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)
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et me get this straight: If I like to watch grass grow, or paint dry, I'm some kind of moron. But if I'm planning to spend the weekend driving the rutted back roads of Vermont just to bear witness to leaf-death — though a colorful spectacle that may be — I'm a welcome guest? I'm not knocking the fall foliage season. On the contrary, I've come to think of it as a celebratory time — a going-away party of sorts: When the leaves are at their peak, I make sure I'm going away. I still get my foliage fix, oh, yes — but aboard the Amtrak Vermonter, I don't have to keep one eye on the brake lights of some downcountry SUV while I'm doing it. When the leaves turn this season, peepers will have several new options for getting off the roads so «0£-less-traveled. Understand a couple of things, though: As far as hardcore transportation goes, T h e Vermonter disproves the maxim, "The shortest distance between two points is a straight line." At roughly 10 hours from St. Albans to New York City's Pennsylvania Station, with daily departures from St. Albans at 8 a.m. and Essex Junction at 8:30 a.m., the trip is a major commitment. You could drive to Manhattan and halfway
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card-ready towns promises to be as stunningly picturesque as the last time I spent the foliage frenzy this way. What makes the train an especially good vehicle for sightseeing is that the rails really do follow a less-traveled route — more often along rivers and through fields than alongside the Interstate. The wide windows accentuate the feeling that you're traveling through the rustic heart of Vermont, crossing the boundaries that cars, trucks and busses cannot. And believe it or not, kids still wave at the train when it passes by. I mean, how
I still get my foliage fix, oh, yes — but
some common treasures that the average motorist would — or at least should — miss: one herd of deer; one large and one small turkey; sundry raptors on the wing; a couple of anglers fishing a swift, post-Floyd stream; several hangliders; The Belle of Brattleboro sightseeing boat plying the Connecticut.
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've taken T h e Vermonter more times than I can count, since the mid-'90s, when the train got its name. Before then, I'd take an overnight train known as The Montrealer, which covered J the route until the prohibitive costs of operating north of the border, where the Canadian \ National rail has right of way, led to its cancellation. (The Montrealer now runs only along the New York side of Lake Champlain.) I sometimes miss The Montrealer, which was almost more shaman than train, spiriting me out of the morass of Manhattan, rocking me to sleep, waking me in the forested calm of my home state at dawn. But T h e Vermonter gets the job done pretty well, taking me where I'm going without losing a day's work. W h a t puzzles me, though, is why I seem to be only person among my family and friends who thinks so. Like most Americans, they are just too accustomed to driving.
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Aboard the train, you're free to occupy yourself with all manner of work and play. No one will ever ask you to return to your seat and fasten your seatbelt. You can wander up to the cafe car for a snack whenever you want one. And brief stops afford smokers a quick butt-break every now and then. Then there's the leaf-peeping. O n a recent pre-foliage scouting run aboard The Vermonter, I imagined fiery autumn hues where the lush greens still prevail. The journey through some of the state's post-
quaint is that? The pace of the train lends itself to enjoying the scenery — and at the slow speed one travels through the more scenic hamlets, there's plenty of time to take it all in. The nation's longest covered bridge, an 1886 beauty spanning the Connecticut River just outside of Windsor, Vermont, would be hard to miss, even from a car. But from the train you can actually get a good look at it — all 542 feet stretching from Windsor to Cornish, New Hampshire. O n my recent adventure, I also spotted
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Vermont's Newest Rail Passenger Service now linking Burlington to New York City The Ethan Allen Connection now makes it possible for all rail passengers to travel from Burlington or Middlebury, t o Rutland, Vermont. At Rutland, you will transfer t o Amtrak's Ethan Allen Express a n d continue the journey enjoying the comfortable features of m o d e r n rail travel directly to New York City. TICKETS & RESERVATIONS The Flynn Theare Box Office 802-86-FLYNN (802-863-5966) Vermont Rail System 800-707-3530 railtour@vermontrailway.com Tickets c a n also b e purchased on the train! DATES O F O P E R A T I O N August 16 — September 6, 1999 (Mon-Fri) Interim Bus Service: September 7 — 24 (Mon-Fri) September 25 — O c t o b e r 31, 1999 (Mon-Sat) See AMTRAK timetables for fares from Rutland to NYC, 800-USA-RAIL
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pie know that it's out there," says George Walker, manager of the Ethan Allen Connection, a new commuter rail service run by the Vermont Railway. And meeting that challenge has never been more urgent. Subsidized with state funds on a trial basis, the Connection has been offering service between Burlington's Union Station, Middlebury and Rutland since August. In Rutland, the Connection train meets Amtrak's Ethan Allen Express bound for New York City. While the route looks good on paper, its survival depends on attracting ridership. T h e state has allocated roughly $250,000 to operate the train through October 31, according to Nancy Rice, C o m m u t e r Rail Coordinator with the state Agency of Transportation. C o m e Halloween, the VR is expected to prove sufficient public interest to justify continued service. Like Amtrak and municipal bus service, the Connection may never be self-sustaining, but if enough passengers — and politicos — climb aboard, the state will keep it running. T h e Connection's threemonth trial has, at times, been an uphill run. T h e advertising budget for the route is miniscule — approximately $20,000 Rice estimates. And then there are the track repairs between Middlebury and Rutland, which were scheduled well before the Connection's trial run was booked. As a result, busses replaced the trains on September 6 — sending out mixed signals on the public-relations front. Prior to the track repairs, says Walker, the route had begun to attract the attention of individual passengers, businesses and senior-citizen groups interested in popping down to Middlebury for lunch or museum trips. With the interim busses, he says, " O u r ridership has dropped like a rock." T h e Connection should get a push in the foliage-friendly weeks ahead, however. Train service between Burlington and Rutland resumes this Sunday, September 26, with one daily departure from Burlington at 10 a.m. and one returning from Rutland at 12:50 p.m., Monday to Saturday. Possibilities for recreational riders will also expand with the Champlain Valley Weekender, a Sunday-only train run by the VR subsidiary Green Mountain Railroad. W i t h two daily departures from Burlington, at 10 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. from September 26 through October 31", passengers can hop off in Shelburne, Vergennes or Middlebury, kill a little time, then take the later return train north. G M R currently offers two other scenic excursions. Through October 17, the Green Mountain Flyer runs two trips daily between Bellows Falls, Chester and Ludlow. T h e Vermont Valley Flyer runs one trip daily, with no service on Tuesdays, between
Manchester, Arlington and North Bennington, also through October 17. It will take more than scenery to make the Burlington-Rutland Connection fly. A commuter train by design, the route's future will depend on a steady stream of passengers — long after the leaves have fallen. And that, says Walker, means providing timely, reliable service and getting the word out about what the train offers. Comparisons with the Vermonter will naturally be made. Other than the geography of their routes — the Ethan Allen cuts a north-south corridor along the western part of the state — the two trains stack up pretty evenly. As scheduled, the roughly eight-hours-and-45-minutes Connection to New York City only beats The Vermonter s time from Essex Junction by 45 minutes. Pricewise, they're in a dead heat. Adults will spend $1 more to take the Burlington train. One feature that gives The Vermonter a clear advantage is that it's a direct train, a one ticket purchase. The Connection is just that — a connecting train, not a direct shot; the Burlington-New York City trip requires one ticket from VR to get to Rutland, and another from Amtrak to hit points south. If one orders a Connection ticket by phone, that call goes — bizarrely enough — to the Flynn Theatre Box Office, the Trans-Siberian Express of ticketing operations. That logistical obstacle, says GMR manager of passenger services Barbara Adams, is something the Connection will have to live with for now, but possibly not forever — if the train is still running after October 31. "Everyone likes one-stop shopping," Adams concedes, but "if this becomes a viable venture, we're probably going to hook into Amtrak and make this a package ticket." While that seems like a big "if" at this point, Adams remains optimistic. "Most people understand," she says of the current difficulties in making the Ethan Allen Connection. "They're happy that it's there and it's going to be functioning.. .At least I haven't heard anyone yell and scream at me yet, and that's what I go by." Walker hopes the passenger patience exhibited indicates significant interest in the new rail service. And with the VR deadline coming 'round the bend, he'll have his answer soon enough. For now, rail fans like me are pulling for the Ethan Allen Connection — despite the hassles. Anything that keeps leafpeepers off the road deserves a second look.®
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of this evolution in its choice of exhibits, but downstairs, meanwhile, the Center is in a race against time to preserve slices of the state's cultural past. "The real treasures are in the basement, that's what makes us unique," says Ostrum. "We have 3600 to 3800 field interviews with a lot of old-timers and others. Their accounts of everyday life are going to increasingly have value." The lower level — not quite a basement because it does have windows — is an archival storage area and research center, presided over by archivist Michael Taft. Its clean, neat appearance belies the
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ing. VFC Director Jane Beck is a scholar whose name — which she shares with husband and folklorist Horace Beck, a Middlebury professor emeritus — is virtually synonymous with folkloric studies in Vermont. She echoes the idea that folklore is a living culture, and not just musty history. The Center will embrace the cultural customs of the state's newest immigrants, she says — it has already hosted an exhibit of the wedding customs of Southeast Asians. "We very definitely plan to work with them," Beck assures. "It's not just traditional Vermont; we work with Vermonters." Acknowledgment of, say, Vietnamese, Tibetan or Bosnian refugees in Vermont inherently testifies to considerable change in the state. VFC can reflect some
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thousands of interviews and documents that bear witness to a lively jumble of Vermont's history. "People are narrating 60 to 90 years of experience in a place that has changed so dramatically," explains Ostrum. "Anyone who's done or is doing research...relishes the kind of detail and personal accounts in these records." The records include VFC's well-known project involving Grafton resident Daisy Turner. The daughter of former slaves, she lived to 104, and that vast lifetime spanning a remarkable era of American history was of obvious fascination. The resulting product — a 20-part series on Vermont Public Radio narrated by former Texas Congresswoman Barbara Jordan — was picked up by about 60 public radio stations and won a Peabody. The video version, called "On My Own," was aired on PBS. Another winner was the farm series, "Never Done," also broadcast on VPR, which captured a Corporation for Public Broadcasting Gold Award in 1993. Other significant projects for the VFC include the popular 1992 book Deercamp: Last Light in the Northeast Kingdom, and a major project, currently ongoing, to document traditional storytelling in New England. Vermont's raconteurs will tell their tales in the resulting radio series and public events scheduled for next year.
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worried about that. All V F C s paper documents are kept in archival conditions; only copies are available for public use. Recordings on cassette or reel-toreel tape are another matter. Audiotapes need to be played at least once a year, Ostrum points out, so as not to stick together; their lifespan is-no more than 20 years. While most of these records will eventually go to C D R O M , Taft laments that, with the rapid changes in electronic technology, archivists have not yet settled on what the digital standard will be. Overseeing a sound
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with a jolt of remorse, our general store as gone hopelessl irretrievably yuppie. the cornflakes used to be. A wine section that does not include Boone's Farm. Aromatherapy candles. More than one out-of-state newspaper. And alongside, or in addition to, the beef jerky, you might find buffalo, elk, even ostrich jerky, for frick's sake. Suddenly, you realize with a jolt of remorse, your general store has gone hopelessly, irretrievably yuppie. Sure, most general stores in the Green Mountain State don't go for cute external insignia like Charlotte's flying clock with the fruit and toasters in bas-relief. It's often more like Invasion of the Body Snatchery. T h e goods, and in some cases even the clerks, just...change. But it can happen gradually, when they think you're not looking — even if the newcomers from Connecticut are. So that you can monitor gentrification in your general store, we have developed a
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OBSERVATION a) +5 if your store is named something like "Benoit's Grocery and Redemption Center"; -5 if it's closer to "Fire on the Mountain Market" b) +5 each for a deer scale, deer reporting and a hunting/fishing licenses sign; -5 for their absence c) +5 for rusty, ancient signs from longdefunct companies (e.g., Esso, Moxie) too high on wall to remove; -5 for handcarved wooden signs over the produce section, etc. d) +5 for an old sloped roof made of at least two colors of asphalt shingles or a rusty standing seam (Special Bonus Points: + 10 if slate); -10 for new, pretentious, neo-Colonial false front on concrete, flatroofed building e) +5 if the drive is gravel and locals park on the street, half-blocking the road; -5 for a paved parking lot f) +5 for a single gas pump; +10 for a single, ancient, rusty gas p u m p with analog black-and-white dial; -5 for pay at the p u m p services, -10 for an alien-spacecraftstyle canopy gas p u m p g) +5 if hours (indicated by a faded sign on the door) are something like weekdays 6 a.m.-8 p.m., Sat. 7 a.m.-5 p.m., closed Sun.; -5 if open 24/7 (subtract another 5 if open Christmas day) h) +5 if store is located right in the center of town, +10 if on a dirt road (Bonus Points: +10 anywhere outside of Chittenden County, +15 if town has no paved roads, period); -5 if located on edge of town near highway, -10 if in a strip mall, -15 if store is a chain
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a) cigars costing more than $2 each b) anything vegan c) pine nuts d) sun-dried tomatoes e) wine more than $10 per bottle f) organic whole-bean coffee and grinder g) Ducane gas grills or parts thereof h) sushi in any form, even pictures i) ginseng in any form j) h u m m u s or tabouli k) subtract 5 points for each copy of The New York Times on hold Add 5 points for each item you find from this list: a) bar and chain oil b) venison in any form c) live bait d) six-pack of Genesee Cream Ale e) more than six types of instant lottery tickets f) box of 22-gauge a m m o g) barbed wire, roll h) bulk amber-grade maple syrup i) two-cycle oil j) snowmobile parts k) Red M a n chewing tobacco or Top cigarette tobacco
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LES RIOS (singer-songwriter), Battery Park, Burlington, 5 p.m. NC. PICTURE THIS (jazz), Windjammer, 5:30 p.m. NC. TOM LAWSON & CLARK R U S S E L L (experimental/ found sounds), Firehouse Gallery, 7 p.m. NC. BOOTLESS & U N H O R S E D (Irish), Last Chance Saloon, 7:30 p.m. NC. STACEY E A R L E (Texas singer-songwriter), Burlington Coffeehouse at Rhombus, 8 p.m. $8. S P E C T R U M DANCE PARTY, 242 Main, 9 p.m. $1. R U S S E L L WOLFF (acoustic pop), Borders, 8 p.m. NC. ROB H A N D E L (piano), 135 Pearl, 6 p.m. NC, followed by DJ FROSTEE, 9 p.m. $4/5, followed by CRAIG MITCHELL (DJ), 11 p.m. $4/5. RODNEY & FRIENDS (acoustic), Ri Ra, 6 p.m. NC. MARC BRISSON (acoustic), Sweetwaters, 9 p.m. NC.
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BOOTLESS & UNHORSED (Irish), Last Chance Saloon, 7:30 p.m. NC. TORSION, P L E A S A N T T E N S E , SANITY, CH0DA (hardcore/alt; benefit for the club), 242 Main, 8 p.m. $5. BOB FRANKE (folk), Burlington Coffeehouse at Rhombus, 8 p.m. $8. INSIDE STUDIO 54 (disco DJ Little Martin), 135 Pearl, 8 p.m. $6. MIDLIFE CHRYSLER (vintage rock), Nectar's, 9:30 p.m. NC. R E T R 0 N 0 M E (DJ Craig Mitchell), Club Metronome, 9:30 p.m. $2. LEFT E Y E J U M P (jump blues), Red Square, 9:30 p.m. NC. KARAOKE, J.p.'s Pub, 9 p.m. NC. PERRY N U N N (acoustic), Ruben James, 5 p.m. NC, followed by DJS TIM DIAZ & RUGGER (hip-hop/r&b), 10 p.m. NC. FLASHBACK ('80s DJ), Rasputin's, 10 p.m. NC. HIP-HOP PARTY (DJs Ray Savage & Erik Long), Club Extreme, 9 p.m. $3.
DJ JOEY K (hip-hop), Last Chance Saloon, 9 p.m. NC. DJS TOXIC & FRICTION (hiphop/house), Club 156, 9:30 p.m. NC. KARAOKE, J.P.'s Pub, 9 p.m. NC. ; RIGHT IDEA (rock), Vermont Pub & Brewery, 9:30 p.m. NC. COMEDY Z O N E (stand-up), Radisson Hotel, 8 & 10 p.m. $8.
B a c k s t a g e Pub, 6 0 P e a r l St., Essex Jet., 8 7 8 - 5 4 9 4 . Bonz S m o k e h o u s e & Grill, 9 7 P o r t l a n d , M o r r i s t o w n ,
888-6283.
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865-2711.
864-9804.
Burlington C o f f e e h o u s e at R h o m b u s , 1 8 6 C o l l e g e St., Burlington, 8 6 4 - 5 8 8 8 . Cactus C a f e , 1 L a w s o n Ln., Burl., 8 6 2 - 6 9 0 0 . Capitol Grounds, 4 5 S t a t e St., M o n t p e l i e r ,
223-7800.
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655-4705.
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GUY COLASACCO (singersongwriter), Jake's, 6:30 p.m. NC. RUN FOR COVER (rock), Henry's Pub, Holiday Inn, 9 p.m. NC. HIGHLAND W E A V E R S (Irish), Tuckaway's, Sheraton Hotel, 9 p.m. NC. SINEAD L 0 H A N (Irish pop), Higher Ground, 9:30 p.m. $10/12. BAD HORSEY (rock), Trackside Tavern, 9 p.m. $2. T A N T R U M (rock), Champion's, 9 p.m. NC. E M P T Y POCKETS (rock), Backstage Pub, 9 p.m. NC. BLUE VOODOO (rock), Edgewater Pub, 9 p.m. NC. BUCK HOLLOW BAND (country; line dancing), Cobbweb, 8:30 p.m. $7/12. KARAOKE W/FRANK, Franny O's, 9 p.m. NC. LIVE MUSIC (rock), City Limits, 9 p.m. $2. QUADRA (rock), Thirsty Turtle, 9 p.m. $3. BLUE FOX & T H E R0CKIN' DADDYS (blues/rock), Mountain Roadhouse, 9 p.m. NC. KA-BANG (dance band), Rusty Nail, 9 p.m. $4. DJ LP, Charlie O's, 9:30 p.m. NC. JOAN CRANE (acoustic), Boony's, 7 p.m. NC.
C h o w ! B e l l a , 2 8 N. M a i n St., St. A l b a n s , 5 2 4 - 1 4 0 5 : City Limits, 1 4 Greene St. V e r g e n n e s , 8 7 7 - 6 9 1 9 . Club E x t r e m e , 1 6 5 C h u r c h S t . , B u r l i n g t o n , 6 6 0 - 2 0 8 8 . Club M e t r o n o m e , 1 8 8 M a i n St., Burlingtori, 8 6 5 - 4 5 6 3 . Club 1 5 6 , 1 5 6 St. P a u l St., Burlington, 6 5 8 - 3 9 9 4 . C o b b w e b , S a n d y b i r c h Rd., G e o r g i a , 5 2 7 - 7 0 0 0 . D i a m o n d Jim's G r i l l e , H i g h g a t e C o m m . S h p g . Ctr., S t . A l b a n s , 5 2 4 - 9 2 8 0 . E d g e w a t e r Pub, 3 4 0 M a l l e t t s Bay A v e . , C o l c h e s t e r ,
865-4214.
E m e r a l d City N i g h t c l u b , 1 1 4 River St., M o n t p e l i e r , Finnigan's Pub, 2 0 5 C o l l e g e St., Burlington,
223-7007.
864-8209.
Franny O's 7 3 3 Q u e e n City P k . Rd., Burlington,
863-2909.
Good T i m e s C a f e , H i n e s b u r g V i l l a g e , Rt. 1 1 6 , 4 8 2 - 4 4 4 4 . H a l v o r s o n ' s , 1 6 C h u r c h St., B u r l i n g t o n , 6 5 8 - 0 2 7 8 . H e n r y ' s , H o l i d a y Inn, 1 0 6 8 W i l l i s t o n Rd., S. B u r l i n g t o n , 8 6 3 - 6 3 6 1 . H i g h e r Ground, 1 M a i n St., W i n o o s k i ,
654-8888.
Jake's, 1 2 3 3 S h e l b u r n e Rd., S. B u r l i n g t o n , 6 5 8 - 2 2 5 1 . J.P. M o r g a n ' s at C a p i t o l P l a z a , 1 0 0 M a i n St., M o n t p e l i e r , 2 2 3 - 5 2 5 2 . J.P.'s P u b , 1 3 9 M a i n St., B u r l i n g t o n , 6 5 8 - 6 3 8 9 . L a B r i o c h e , 8 9 M a i n St., M o n t p e l i e r ,
229-0443.
Last C h a n c e S a l o o n , 1 4 7 M a i n , B u r l i n g t o n , 8 6 2 - 5 1 5 9 . Leunig's, 1 1 5 C h u r c h St., Burlington, 8 6 3 - 3 7 5 9 . M a d M o u n t a i n T a v e r n , Rt. 1 0 0 , W a i t s f i e l d , 4 9 6 - 2 5 6 2 . M a i n St. Bar & Grill, 1 1 8 M a i n St., M o n t p e l i e r ,
223-3188.
M a n h a t t a n Pub, 1 6 7 M a i n St., B u r l i n g t o n , 6 5 8 - 6 7 7 6 . M a t t e r h o r n , 4 9 6 9 M o u n t a i n Rd., S t o w e ,
253-8198.
The M o u n t a i n R o a d h o u s e , 1 6 7 7 M o u n t a i n Rd., S t o w e ,
253-2800.
N e c t a r ' s , 1 8 8 M a i n St., B u r l i n g t o n , 6 5 8 - 4 7 7 1 . T h e Nightspot O u t b a c k , K i l l i n g t o n Rd., K i l l i n g t o n , 4 2 2 - 9 8 8 5 1 3 5 P e a r l St., B u r l i n g t o n , 8 6 3 - 2 3 4 3 . Radisson H o t e l , 6 0 Battery St., B u r l i n g t o n , 6 5 8 - 6 5 0 0 . Rasputin's, 1 6 3 C h u r c h St., Burlington,
864-9324.
Red S q u a r e , 1 3 6 C h u r c h St., B u r l i n g t o n , 8 5 9 - 8 9 0 9 . R h o m b u s , 1 8 6 C o l l e g e St., Burlington,
865-3144.
Ripton C o m m u n i t y Coffee H o u s e , Rt. 1 2 5 , 3 8 8 - 9 7 8 2 . Ri Ra, 1 2 3 C h u r c h St., Burlington, 8 6 0 - 9 4 0 1 . R u b e n J a m e s , 1 5 9 M a i n St., B u r l i n g t o n , 8 6 4 - 0 7 4 4 . Rusty N a i l , M o u n t a i n Rd., S t o w e , 2 5 3 - 6 2 4 5 . S w a n y ' s , 2 1 5 M a i n St., V e r g e n n e s ,
877-3667.
S w e e t w a t e r s , 1 1 8 C h u r c h St., Burlington,
864-9800.
T h e T a v e r n at the Inn at Essex, Essex Jet., 8 7 8 - 1 1 0 0 . Thirsty T u r t l e , 1 S . M a i n St., W a t e r b u r y , 2 4 4 - 5 2 2 3 . T h r e e M o u n t a i n Lodge, Rt. 1 0 8 , J e f f e r s o n v i l l e , 6 4 4 - 5 7 3 6 . Toadstool Harry's, Rt. 4 , K i l l i n g t o n , 4 2 2 - 5 0 1 9 . T r a c k s i d e T a v e r n , 1 8 M a l l e t t s Bay A v e . , W i n o o s k i , 6 5 5 - 9 5 4 2 . T u c k a w a y ' s , S h e r a t o n , 8 7 0 W i l l i s t o n Rd., S. B u r l i n g t o n , 8 6 5 - 6 6 0 0 . V e r m o n t Pub & B r e w e r y , 1 4 4 C o l l e g e , B u r l i n g t o n ,
865-0500.
V i l l a T r a g a r a , Rt. 1 0 0 , W a t e r b u r y Ctr., 2 4 4 - 5 2 8 8 . W i n d j a m m e r , 1 0 7 6 W i l l i s t o n Rd., S. Burlington, 8 6 2 - 6 5 8 5 .
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NEW BREW "Homebrew" sounded a little different Sunday night on 99,9 The Buzz — Kevin Murrihy, a former WWPV deejay and creator of that station's "Burlington & Beyond" program, hosted his first local-music show on the alt-rock station. "Burlington & Beyond" ceased to exist after Murrihy graduated from St. Michael's College last spring. "I was thinking about going back to do it this fall," he says, "but this opportunity happened." It's an opportunity with a much bigger listenership — in addition to Vermont fans the station has a strong base in the big city to our north. Still unfamiliar with the Montreal music scene, Murrihy says he'll "ease into that." Replacing host and originator NiCOle Saltus — who's handing over the reins in order to travel with ViperHoUSe, which she manages — any new "Homebrew" host would have large shoes to fill. But Murrihy's four years of experience on the board and the mike make him most likely to succeed. He wants to bring back the "Homebrew"-hosted nights at local clubs as well as in Montreal — with some cross-pollination of bands, he hopes. Murrihy's familiarity with the Burlington-area scene was in evidence Sunday night — the show was little talk, lots of music from locals such as Chin Ho!, invisible Jet, Construction Joe and the late, great GuppybOy. And
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NOT IN KANSAS ANYMORE The owners of Emerald City Nightclub in Montpelier took a month off to decide the fate of the financially beleagured club. Unfortunately, the man behind the curtain didn't come through with any magic: The decision was to stay closed. While we haven't been given an official explanation, the club's answering machine obliquely attributes its difficulties "to the wicked witch's malevolence," and suggests that when "the lawyers get through fisticuffing," there may be some other resolution. I suspect more than an evil spell is at work, however, when the words "witch" and "lawyers" appear in the same sentence. PHOOD FOR THOUGHT Our fine friends Phish scored big in the latest Rolling Stone — the music mag's "Greatest Concerts of the '90s" special issue. Not surprising that the phab four would make that one, but the concert chosen by RS was not the Clifford Ball, nor even Lemonwheel, but the 1995 New Year's Eve gig at Madison Square Garden. In addition to enthusing over "the taut, circular escalation of the improvising," the
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DO GOOD DEPT. If you've ever wanted to send books to Africa, but didn't know how, here's your big chance. Red Square waitress Meghan Brooks has gathered a whopping 20 boxes of textbooks — most donated by the Colchester school system — for primary schools in Kenya. Luckily, they speak English in Kenya, along with Swahili. Brooks learned of the serious shortage of books there during her spring semester in Kenya through the School for International Training. She's organized a motley assortment of booklovers — Chrome Cowboys, Bag of Panties and Led Loco — for a benefit Sunday night at Club Metronome. Proceeds will go toward shipping — and as anyone who has ever moved boxes of books knows, they're damn heavy. The teen scene at 242 Main gets a boost, too, with a benefit this Saturday featuring loudness from Torsion, Pleasant Tense, Sanity and Choda. I'm told "things are working themselves out" over there at 242, after staffing difficulties and ruffled feathers. Stay tuned . . . SINGLE TRACKS Former Club Toast co-owner Dennis Wygmans has taken a job booking Northampton's legendary Iron Horse. But never fear, music fans, Toast Productions will continue to bring those hip-hop and reggae acts to Higher Ground in
Winooski. Coming up this week, a second show for Burning Spear Wednesday, Del the Funky Homosapien Thursday and Rahzel with The x-ecutioners Tuesday . . . Here to temporarily separate the word "Danish" from the concept "pastry" are a coupla interesting Scandinavian indie-pop bands on a tour of the northeastern U.S.: Learning From Las Vegas and Superheroes. Though, come to think of it, they are pretty sweet. And to make things easier, they sing in English. Give 'em a Yankee welcome, at Metronome this Thursday . . . Burlington's grrl group rockers Zola Turn were selected — or rather their track, "Tastes Like Nothing" was — from the Tonic Two: Core Breach Burlington disc for competition on www.musicdownloads.com last week. The idea is to see how many downloads on the J & B Scotch-sponsored "LiquorFairy" site the song generates in a week. A top-40 chart posts the weekly winner of its popularity contest. Check it out . . . If you like the promise of something billed "improvised and twisted found-sounds, snippets, samples, loobs, beats, instrumentations and lingo," hightail it to the Firehouse Gallery this Friday at 7, when Burlington artist Clark Russell and art-rocker Tom Lawson make a joyful noise . . . Did you happen to catch the ninth episode of "An American Love Story" last week on PBS? If you did, you might have also caught Bristol harmonica man Mark Lavoie jamming with Bill Sims, a star of the show and a jazz musician . . . Look for the newest issue of Signal to Noise, the Burlington-based journal of improv and experimental music. It just gets better all the time. The new and improved issue features, among other things, an interview with former Art Ensemble of Chicago sax man Joseph Jarman. C o o l . . . ®
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rEviEwsrEviEwsrEviEwsrEviEwsrEviEwsrEviEwsrEviEw SPENCER LEWIS, IN THE LIGHT OF AUTUMN {Quartz Recordings, CD) — When someone described Spencer Lewis' B p music to me as "Windham Hill-like," I feared the worst. But unlike that l ^ r a B coma-inducing piano noodling, In the light of Autumn is more akin to quality chamber music. His is the kind of music that goes well with food — especially brunch — but it is strong enough not to be entirely background fare. Lewis' latest self-produced disc offers well-crafted melodies and harmonic instrumental interplay that catch the ear with variations on themes rather than hooks. He plays acoustic guitar and violin here, accompanied principally by Charles Eller on keyboards. Mark Legrand plays minimal but effective electric bass, and Robin Cavanaugh supplies some barely audible conga and percussion tracks. All the playing here is excellent — virtuosic without being show-offish. Their subtle musicianship is complemented by the warm, full sound Lewis achieved at his own Quartz Studio in Bethel and at Eller's Charlotte studio. Liner notes cite the inspiration for some of these songs — skiing, wood lots, remembrance — and while I'm skeptical about how well such things translate into instrumental music, the results are nonetheless beautiful. The pretty opening track, "Stem Turn in the Wilderness," does have some of the sway of traversing down a snowy slope in Lewis' percussive, harpsichord-like guitar line. "Honoring Soft Maple" has a more rock (maple) groove to it, decorated in turns by Lewis and Eller. The organic feel of this record is only slightly marred by drippy, delayed synth glissandos on "Telemarque Dream" from the otherwise impeccable Eller. While a few of these compositions are on the long side, they always seem fb end as soon as they start to feel long. Lewis nicely captures that wistful autumnal feeling a lot of us
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are experiencing right about now. You can almost smell the wood smoke and decaying leaves. In the light of Autumn is easy listening in the truest sense — and thankfully is about as far from George Winston as Dylan is from Jewel. — Paul Gibson
STACEY EARLE, SIMPLE GEARLE (Gearle Records/E-Squared, CD) — Being the younger sister of Steve Earle can't be bad for one's career, but a single listen to this debut disc from newcomer Stacey Earle proves she doesn't need the help — unless it's from the distribution services provided Simple Gearle via her bro's label, ESquared. A late bloomer — she married young, raised two boys, divorced and remarried, waitressing all the while — the 38-year-old Earle must have spent her scarce free time playing guitar and writing songs, for these 13 tracks seem to have sprung fully formed from the mind of an acutely thoughtful, sensitive writer. Her observations, like her straightforward acoustic guitar playing, are — as the title suggests — simple. But that doesn't mean they're trite. Earle comes across as the plainspoken, livedthrough-hard-times mature women she is — though in the jacket
photo she looks a still-innocent girl, er, "gearle." A Texan who moved to Nashville nearly a decade ago, Earle possesses the same twangy charm that has long made Dolly Parton a sweetheart of the rodeo. And though Earle's pensive, mostly quiet tunes are certainly countryish, she has opted for the independent singer-songwriter route rather than the glitz and overproduction of current Nashville output. Perhaps closer in spirit to Emmylou Harris and Nanci Griffith, she is blazing her own trail — and on her own label — without leaving tried-and-true musical conventions behind. Her lyrics are perfectly rhymed and nakedly emotional — no obloquoy or cleverer-than-thou posturing here — and her finely crafted melodies are instantly likeable. The majority of tracks on Simple Gearle are slices of living set to country-tinged folk-pop. My favorites are "Tears That She Cried," soft and slowish, melancholy without being depressing; the percussive beauty, "Next Door Down;" the title track, an instant classic, and "Losers Weep," on which big brother provides harmony. "Cried My Heart Out" is an anthem for anyone who's ever endured heartbreak, which is all of us. Earle's husband Mark Stuart contributes vocals and acoustic guitar, too — it's impossible to know who's playing what when — while Mark Prentice (bass), John Gardner (drums and percussion) and Michael Webb (accordion, melodica and mandolin) comprise the rest of The Jewels. Though only Stuart will be traveling with her when she plays the Burlington Coffeehouse this Friday, the clarity, strength and grace of her songs suggests this Simple Gearle could do just fine on her own. — Pamela Polston
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SEVEN
DAYS
Seven Days recommends you confirm all calendar events, as times and dates may change after the paper is printed.
W e d n e s d a ym •
music
'MUSICALS '99': Dine to the sounds of Sondheim, Porter, Rodgers and Hart at a retrospective repast. North Hero House, 7 p.m. $35-45. Reservations, 888525-3644. STUDENT SHOWCASE: Budding musicians show off their talents at Dibden Auditorium, Johnson State College, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 635-1251. VERMONT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: Pianist Diana Fanning plays along at this "Made in Vermont" concert, featuring works by Mozart, Dvorak, Schubert and Addison composer Jorge Martin. Grace Church, Rutland, 8 p.m. $17. Info, 800-876-9293.
drama
ANYTHING GOES' AUDITIONS: The University of Vermont theater depart-
ment needs capable cast and crew for the Cole Porter musical set on an ocean liner. Royall Tyler Theatre, UVM, Burlington, 6-11 p.m. Free. Info, 656-0094. MIME AUDITIONS: Actors interested in mime movement bring their invisible boxes to try out for Senses Working Overtime, hosted by the Green Mountain Guild. Burlington, 1 p.m. Free. Register, 872-0466. 'FOREVER PLAID': Four wannabeBuddy Hollys die in a car crash but return to Earth to play one last concert in this retro musical. Stowe Town Hall Theatre, 8 p.m. $12. Info, 253-3961. 'A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM': Set in Prohibition-era Harlem, Shakespeare's comic masterpiece gets a new twist. Briggs Opera House, White River Junction, 8 p.m. $20. Info, 291-9009.
'THE THIEF': This soul-searching film by Pavel Chukhrai concerns a post-war encounter in a ruined Russian city. The screening benefits the Crossroads Arts Council. Rutland Plaza Movieplex, 7 p.m. $7. Info, 775-5413.
'JULES AND JIM': A love triangle i Francois Truffaut explores the comple of human relationships. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 6:45 9:15 p.m. $6. Info, 603-646-2422. 'KADOSH': Amos Gitai directed this tale of two sisters struggling for i n d i v i ality in an Orthodox Jewish commun Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center, D mouth College, Hanover, N.H., 4:30, 6:45 and 9 p.m. $7. Info, 603-646-24
art • Also, see exhibit openings in the art listings. FIGURE DRAWING: The human fi ure motivates aspiring and accompli artists in a weekly drawing session att Firehouse Gallery, Burlington, 6:30-9: p.m. $3-6. Info, 865-7165. OPEN PAINTING: Bring your brus and palette to this creative expression sion. Art Gallery of Barre, 1-4 p.m. Fr Info, 476-1030.
words
SHORT FICTION READING: LoC literati read from original works at
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'shrooms with a view • T h e t e r m
"magic m u s h r o o m " takes o n n e w m e a n i n g in a psychedelic slide
show by Taylor L o c k w o o d . H i s "Treasures F r o m the K i n g d o m of Fungi" presentation combines s t u n n i n g , digitally e n h a n c e d images of featured fungi with m u s i c a n d narration that celebrates t h e world as "mycocosm." T h e self-proclaimed " m u s h r o o m portraitist" has w a n d e r e d the globe, gathering pictures f r o m forests as far-flung as Indonesia,
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to Metitel Wellness
Finland a n d the A m a z o n River basin. A bad case of fungal fever makes for great pictures. Thursday, September23.
Burlington
College, 7p.m.
Donations.
pappa's got a brand new dance:
Info,
434-3172.
A Weekend Workshop Friday, Sept. 24 - Sunday, Sept. 26
When hope springs eternal for Hiroshi Koike, it really
springs. T h e Japanese television director-turned-performance artist's "stage poetry" evokes an idyllic spring season
The
through movement, music and spoken word. Koike leads the five-member Pappa Tarahumara dance-theater troupe in an avant-garde program interpreting the novels o f Izumi Kyoka. Hopkins Center Programming Director Margaret Lawrence describes the resulting piece as "very very visual, with a lot of surreal and sculptural elements,"
802-453-4440
including faux fields of yellow grass. Thursday & Friday September 23 &24. $20.50.
Info, 603-646-2422.
$9. Info,
Sunday
Moore Theater, Hopkins & Monday,
Center, Dartmouth
College, Hanover, N.H.,
September 26 & 27. Center for the Arts, Middlebury
T o D o Institute Monkton, Vermont
8p.m.
College, 8 p.m.
443-6433.
potter training:
A Lifetime of Looking into Human Hearts (and Hands!)
If you don't know what Hogwarts is or how to play quidditch, chances are you're just a
muggle — one o f the few people still clueless about the Harry. Potter book series. J.K. Rowling's phenomenally popular tales o f the wizard-in-training enchant children and parents alike. At an upcoming Potter party, kids receive copies o f the latest installment, play games and cook up book-inspired treats. Grown-ups get... it out in the open. Saturday, September 25. N.E.C.I.
an apple a day:
Commons,
Church Street Marketplace,
Burlington,
1-3 p.m. $25. Register,
862-6324.
Ghanshyam Singh Birla
Forget Adam and Eve. In local gardens o f eatin' this time o f year, it's practically for-
bidden not to sample the apples. Hardcore fans of the state's staple fruit cut loose at the annual "All About Apples" event. And never mind what Newton learned, the gravity o f orchard work mixes with uplifting activities for all ages. Wannabe Johnny Appleseeds benefit from tree pruning and grafting demos, while the cuiinarily concerned stick to
Dr. Birla, a u t h o r of Love in the Palm Complete
sauce. Sunday, September 26. Billings Farm & Museum,
fruit of z a l o o m :
Woodstock, 10 a.m. - 5p.m.
$7. Info,
of Your Hand,
B u r l i n g t o n t o p r o m o t e h i s l a t e s t b o o k , Magnet
457-2355•
Guide
to
will be i n
Therapy
—
A
Magnetotherapy.
Saturday, Sept. 25, 2:00 p.m.
Paul Zaloom comes up with some crazy questions on his hit television show
Lecture
and booksigning
"Beakman's World." What makes people burp? Where does snot come from? But when the wild-haired wizard lec-
at Borders, Free of
Church
St.,
Burlington
charge
tures adults, the political satirist in the former Bread & Puppet Theater ringmaster comes out. In his adult-oriented, live animation work "Slumberyard,' Zaloom manipulates common household objects to point out the absurdities
Sunday, Sept. 26,10 a.m. - 1 p.m.
in modern life. Later in the week, Zaloom unleashes the G-rated scientific fun of "Beakman Live" for kids south of
Workshop: "How to Use Palmistry for Successful Relationships" — $40
the border. "Slumberyard,"
Sunday, September 26. Barre Opera House, 7 p.m. $15- Info, 229-9408.
September 28. Spaulding
Auditorium,
Hopkins
Center, Dartmouth
"Beakman live,"
College, Hanover, N.H.,
7p.m.
$14.50.
Tuesday, Info,
An in-depth look at the history, science and life application of Vedic Palmistry.
603-
646-2422.
Best Western Windjammer Inn, 1076 Williston Road, S. Burlington
lots in the translation:
"A translation is no translation
Dr. Birla will be available for private consultations for the remainder of the weekend. ^
said Irish playwright J . M . Synge,
unless it will give you the music o f a poem along with the words o f
TO RESERVE SPACE/ MORE INFORMATION, CALL 1-800-307-2292 (9 a.m. - 9 p.m. weekdays)
it." Fellow Irishman Galway Kinnell can vouch for that. T h e Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and former Vermont state poet recently
Presented hy Diana .hmes
tackled the task of capturing the music in the verse o f Rainer Maria Rilke. T h e author's expressionistic German language has long confounded would-be translators. T h e Vermont poet reads "Top Ten" Event
from his rendering, Essential Rilke, along with some just-as-crucial Kinnell. Monday,
September 27. Barnes & Noble, S. Burlington,
Info, 864-8001. Montpelier,
7p.m.
Wednesday, September 29, Bear Pond Free. Info,
7p. m. Free.
-Art
Books,
229-0774. September 2 5
GREEN/ f \OUNTAI CULTURAL / CENTER Rhombus Gallery, 186 College St., Burlington, 8 p.m. $3-6. Info, 865-0569. GREAT BOOKS O F T H E C E N T U RY' DISCUSSION: A literary look at the century — in books — keeps the pages turning at Barnes & Noble, S. Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 864-8001.
kids STORYTIME: Young readers ages three to five learn from lighthearted literature, songs and activities at the South Burlington Community Library, 11 a.m. Free. Register, 652-7080. S O N G A N D STORYTIME: Bring children up to age three to a singing readalong. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. STORIES: Little listeners hear stories, snack and make crafts at the Children's Pages, Winooski, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 655-1537. T H E PREACHER'S BOY': Award-winning children's author Katherine Paterson reads from her novel about a conflicted adolescent. Bear Pond Books, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 229-0774.
sport SENIOR WALKS: Stroll for fitness in health-conscious company. Weekly walks start at Leddy Park Arena, Burlington, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 864-0123.
etc B L O O D DRAWING: Share a pint with a stranger at the Red Cross Blood Center, 32 North Prospect St., Burlington, 10 a.m. - 7 p.m. Free. Info, 658-6400.
FASHION S H O W : Local merchants share beauty and fashion tips to help you look fabulous this fall. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211. RESTORATIVE JUSTICE TALK: The effects of judicial law on the victim, offender and community are the subject of this lecture at 50 Cherry St., Burlington, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Register, 865-7155. REGIONAL T R A N S I T F O R U M : Concerned commuters convene to talk about the road ahead for Chittenden County's public transportation system. Burlington City Hall Auditorium, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 660-4071. FROG TALK: Extra appendages and other environmental red flags are the subject of an eco-discussion at the South Burlington Community Library, 7 p.m. Free. Register, 862-5396. WILDLIFE SLIDE S H O W : Tracker Susan Morse leads the way to wildlife at a walking-talk about protecting natural environments. Winooski High School, 79:30 p.m. $1. Info, 223-5221. ' I M M I G R A T I O N A N D CIVIL R I G H T S ' : The Vermont Civil Liberties Union presents a seminar on the rights of soon-to-be citizens. Suzanna's Restaurant, Lague Inn, Berlin, 8:30 a.m - 3 p.m. $35-39. Info, 223-6304. SOCIAL E C O L O G Y M E E T I N G : Join the food fight over genetically engineered sustenance at the Institute for Social Ecology, Plainfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 229-0774.
to October 11 Joslyn Round Barn East Warren Road Waitsfield
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music
RABBLE IN ARMS: The Ambush!
'MUSICALS '99': See September 22. V E R M O N T S Y M P H O N Y ORCHESTRA: See September 22, Town Hall Theatre, Woodstock, 7:30 p.m.
dance
This is an opportunity
PAPPA TARAHUMARA: The Japanese dance-theater troupe mixes order and chaos in its avant-garde choreography. See "to do" list, this issue. Moore Theater, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 8 p.m. $20.50. Info, 603-646-2422.
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drama 'FOREVER PLAID': See September 22. 'A M I D S U M M E R N I G H T ' S DREAM': See September 22. ' R I C H A R D III': Lost Nation Theater stages Shakespeare's tale of a murderous monarch's amoral ascension. City Hall Arts Center, Montpelier, 8 p.m. $10. Info, 229-0492. 'NUNSENSE': This divinely inspired musical comedy focuses on stage-struck sisters from Hoboken who try to save their order by putting on a show. Haskell Opera House, Derby Line, 7:30 p.m. $8. Info, 334-8145.
words T H E STORY O F A MILLION YEARS': Local author David Huddle
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reads and signs his new novel about a Lolita-like affair. Book Rack, Champlain Mill, Winooski, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 655-0231. DAVID BUDBILL: The Vermont poet leaves his hermitage to read from his new collection, Moment to Moment: Poems of a Mountain Recluse. An open reading follows at the Daily Bread Cafe, Richmond, 7:30 p.m. $3-5. Info, 434-3148. POETRY WORKSHOP: A drop-in session for beginner bards is followed by an open reading. Ilsley Public Library, Main St., Middlebury, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 388-7523.
kids
STORY & CRAFT TIME: Kids three and up engage in artful educational activities. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10-10:45 a.m. Free. Register, 865-7216. STORY HOUR: Young readers learn from lighthearted literature in a country setting. Flying Pig Children's Books, Charlotte, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 425-2600. 'THE DRUMS OF NOTO HANTO': The Burlington Taiko Group plays along at a reading from a Vermont-made picture book set in ancient Japan. Flying Pig Children's Books, Charlotte, 4-6 p.m. Free. Info, 425-2600.
etc
Donations. Info, 865-2756. CHICKEN PIE SUPPER: Enjoy a hot meal on a cool autumn eve at the Bellows Free Academy, Fairfax, 5:30 p.m. $7.50. Info, 849-6588. NATIONAL BISEXUAL DAY: Help plan activities, events and education for and by "bi" people. Vermont Center for Independent Living, Montpelier, 6-9 p.m. Free. Info, 229-0501. LAKE CHAMPLAIN HISTORY LECTURE: Art Cohn dredges up fascinating facts about Benedict Arnold, the Battle of Valcour Island and the last missing gunboat. Pavilion Building Auditorium, Montpelier, 7:30 p.m. Free Info, 828-3050. 'CHINESE ECONOMICS AND POLITICS': China has changed dramatically in the past two decades. Get a post-Mao perspective at Johnson State College Library, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 635-1251. ARCHAEOLOGY LECTURE: Archaeologist Richard Corey digs deep into local historical sites to unearth how future construction could damage them. Vermont Law School, S. Royalton, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 828-3051. MOOSE MANAGEMENT: A Vermont Fish and Wildlife biologist shares outdoor insights in anticipation of moose-hunting season. Vermont Leadership Center, E. Charleston, 7 p.m. $5. Info, 723-4705.
instruments to weave stories into a folk-music format. Kingdom Coffeehouse, Vermont Leadership Center, E. Charleston, 8 p.m. Donations. Info, 723-4705.
dance
PAPPA TARAHUMARA: See September 23. LATINO DANCE PARTY: Deejay Hector "El Salsero" Cobeo spins discs at a spicy shakedown for Latin lovers. Holiday Inn, S. Burlington, 9 p.m. 1 a.m. $5. Info, 862-5082. GREEN MOUNTAIN VOLUNTEERS' OPEN HOUSE: The traditional troupe trots out reel New England steps in a 19th-century style. Learn how to get into the circle at Marsh Dining Hall, UVM, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 865-9533. 'SWING NIGHT': Betsy Jamison and Dan Jessie set a swinging example at Villa Tragara, Waterbury Center, 6:15 p.m. $5. Info, 244-5288.
drama
'FOREVER PLAID': See September 22.
'RICHARD III': See September 23, $16. 'NUNSENSE': See September 23. 'A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM': See September 22. NATIONAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY: The New York-based troupe performs A Midsummer Night's Dream, the Bard's comedy of mismatched lovers. Chandler Music Hall, Randolph, 8 p.m. $19. Info, 728-9133. T H E LOGGER': Actor Rusty Dewees swings onto the scene with his one-man "Vermont play in two ax." Rutland Intermediate School, 8 p.m. $10. Info, 888-7140.
BLOOD DRAWING: See September 22.
WILDLIFE SLIDE SHOW: See September 22. Holley Hall, Bristol, 7 p.m. $3. Info, 453-5885. TREASURES FROM T H E KINGDOM OF FUNGI': Budding mycologists dig this trippy slide show of marvelous mushrooms from around the world. See "to do" list, this issue. Burlington Community College, 7 p.m. Donations. Info, 434-3172. HOMEOWNERSHIP ORIENTATION: Potential buyers learn how to shop — and pay — for a home at the Burlington Community Land Trust, noon. Free. Register, 660-0642. 'CALL OF T H E DOVE': Share music and "poetry for peace" with fellow mellow types. Bring a cushion to the Waterfront Holistic Healing Center, Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m.
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• Also, see listings in "Sound Advice." 'MUSICALS '99': See September 22. RUSSELL WOLFF: The New Jerseybased "psycho rock vigilante" entertains shoppers at Borders, Church St. Marketplace, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 865-2711. FIDDLERS AND STEP DANCERS CONTEST: The Northeast Fiddlers Association hosts this "National Traditional Old Time" championship. Barre Auditorium, 7 p.m. $10. Info, 476-4450. LISA SAMMET: The "tale singer" uses guitar, autoharp and African
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'EVERYWOMAN'S MONEY CONFERENCE': Females get finance-sawy at this workshop covering money management, insurance, retirement planning and taxes. Sheraton Conference Center, Burlington, 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Free. Register, 888-282-4345. NATIONAL STREET ROD CONFERENCE: Early autos cruise downtown to fire up for a major three-day meeting of muscle cars. Champlain Valley Exposition, Essex Junction, 8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. $10. Info, 878-5545. 'LEARNING AND LEISURE WEEKEND': Learn healthful living and mental wellness in three selfattentive days. ToDo Institute, Middlebury, 2:30-5:30 p.m. $125. Info, 453-4440. OPEN OBSERVATORY: Get a good look at the autumn sky with observant members of the Vermont Astronomical Society. Overlook Park, S. Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 985-3269. CORPS OF CADETS PARADE: You could probably bounce a quarter off this tight display of military formations — but it's not recommended. Norwich University, Northfield, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 485-2080.
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'HAPPINESS': Todd Solondz's controversial film flirts with taboos in a dark suburban fable of the pedophile next door. Dana Auditorium, Middlebury College, 3 & 8 p.m. Free. Info, 443-6433. 'THIS IS MY FATHER': James Caan plays an American schoolteacher tracing his roots in 1939 Ireland. Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 & 9:30 p.m. $6. Info, 603-646-2422.
art • Also, see exhibit openings in the art listings. FINE ART FLEA MARKET: The visual version of the "farmers market" offers affordable art in a wide range of media. Alley between Burlington City Hall and the Firehouse Gallery, noon - 5 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7166. 'ART IN T H E PARK': Fine artists, craftspeople and specialty food producers offer something for all tastes, at Barre City Park, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Free. Info, 476-1030.
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ters. Billings Student Center, UVM, Bur-lington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 2292340. PROSTATE CANCER CONFERENCE: Specialists and survivors share information on the disease, new therapies and related issues at this daylong seminar. Sheraton Hotel, Burlington, 8 a.m. - 3:45 p.m. $15. Register, 656-2292. MAGNET THERAPY TALK: Author G.S. Birla talks about a hot new alternative healing method. Borders, Church Street Marketplace, Burlington, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 865-2711. QUILT SHOW: The Champlain Valley Quilters Guild patches together a display of traditional and contemporary quilts at the Williston Armory, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. $4. Info, 862-8182. CHICKEN PIE SUPPER: Enjoy hearty northern fare and hardy northern company at the Holy Family Church Hall, Essex Junction, 5, 5:45 & 6:30 p.m. $7. Info, 434-4166. HARVEST FESTIVAL: Local produce, crafts and music make this a homegrown harvest festival. Bristol Green, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Free. Info, 453-5885. WILDLIFE FIELD DAY: Sue Morse, founder of a communitybased wildlife monitoring program, teaches tracking techniques on a trek through the woods. Watershed Center, Bristol, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Free. Info, 453-5885. BASKETMAKING WORKSHOP: Learn to weave natural-fiber melon baskets at the Waterworks Property, Bristol, 9 a.m. - noon. Free. Info, 453-5885. OKTOBERFEST: Kegs are tapped and tubas tooted after a big Bavarian parade at this seasonal bash. Jackson Arena, Stowe, 11 a.m. - 8 p.m. $5. Info, 253-7321. 'ANTIQUE AND UNIQUE MARKET': Savvy shoppers search out time-tested treasures at Stowe Elementary School, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. $2. Info, 800-247-8693. BARN AND BAKE SALE: Pick up bargain books, duds and snacks to benefit the Saxon Hill School, Rt. 15, Underbill, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Free. Info, 879-1648. 'RABBLE IN ARMS': Revolutionary War re-enactors demonstrate the rig-
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season's glory on this leisurely stroll. Green Mountain Audubon Society Nature Center, Huntington, 2 p.m. $3. Register, 434-3068. RUTLAND REGION ETHNIC FESTIVAL: In a "melting pot" mood? Music from around the globe and delicacies from Japan, Italy, Africa and the Middle East recall Vermont's own immigrant past. Downtown Rutland, noon - 7 p.m. $2. Info, 483-6939. FALL FOLIAGE FESTIVAL: Take a break from leaf-peeping to appreciate local crafts while Village Harmony serenades, shape-note style. Venues around Marshfield, 9 a.m. - 7 p.m. Donations. Info, 639-6379. FARMERS MARKET: It's harvest time. Buying fresh local produce, chickens and home-baked goods supports farmers in Vermont. Town Common, Westford, 11:30 a.m. - 2 p.m. Free. Info, 878-0491.
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drama 'BYE BYE LOVE': Hits from the '50s make for a melodious "class reunion" meal tinged widi — gasp — murder. Villa Tragara, Waterbury Center, 6:15 p.m. $38. Info, 244-5288.
words GALWAY KINNELL: The Pulitzer Prize winning poet reads from his translation of Rainer Maria Rilke, and selections of his own verse, at Barnes & Noble, S. Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 864-8001. 'READING REAL LIFE': Non-fiction is the subject of a roundtable of
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etc B L O O D DRAWING: See September 22, 7:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. 'LIKE WATER FOR C H O C O LATE' DINNER: Learn to cook with feeling, as in Laura Esquivel's sensuous novel, then feast on bookinspired recipes and literary conversation. N.E.C.I. Commons, Church Street Marketplace, Burlington, 6-9 p.m. $40. Register, 862-6324. MISSION BREAKFAST: Start the day off right with a morning meal to benefit Habitat For Humanity and Heifer Project International. Stowe Community Church, 8-10 a.m. $6. Info, 253-7257. H O U S I N G FORUM: Share your views on the needs and opportunities for affordable housing in central Vermont. Bethany Church, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 476-4493. PUBLIC MEDITATION PERIOD: Take a step on the path to enlightenment and share your thoughts, but not words, with others. A lecture and discussion follows. Ratna Shri Tibetan Meditation Center, 12 Hillside Ave., Montpelier. Free. Info, 223-5435. CAMERA CLUB M E E T I N G : Be prepared to show your slides or prints to other amateur photographers in 201 Delahanty Hall, Trinity College, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 864-6485. GRASSROOTS PARTY MEETING: Learn more about the Vermont party that wants to end drug prohibition laws. Toward Freedom, 150 Cherry St., Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 244-5928. 'GET C O N N E C T E D ' : People with hearing or speech disabilities get a chance to try out text telephones, amplifiers and other adaptive equipment at the Vermont Center for Independent Living, Montpelier, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Free. Info, 229-0501 or 800-639-1522 (TTY).
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aromatherapy ' T H E 10 MOST WANTED ESSENTIAL OILS': Saturday, October 2, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Aroma Massage, S. Burlington. $45. Register, 658-5873. Explore the most commonly used essential oils. 'PERSONAL CARE W I T H ESSENTIAL OILS': Saturday, October 9, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Aroma Massage, S. Burlington. $45. Info, 658-5873. Learn to use essential oils in your personal-care routine.
art WATERCOLOR PAINTING: Seven Tuesdays beginning September 28, 79 p.m. Firehouse Center for the Visual Arts, 135 Church St., Burlington. $100. Register, 8657166. Beginning to intermediate painters learn color theory, light and shadow, perspective and composition. MONOTYPE WORKSHOP: Twoday workshops in October, November and December. Colchester. Info, 862-9037. Learn how to use an etching press to make one-of-a-kind prints. DRAWING W O R K S H O P FOR KIDS: Ten Mondays, October 4 through December 6, 4-5 p.m. Colchester. Info, 862-9037. Carol MacDonald teaches drawing to nineto 14-year-olds using a variety of mediums. WOMEN'S CREATIVE EXPRESSION ART GROUP: Eight Tuesdays, October 5 through November 7, 9 a.m. - noon. Colchester. Info, 862-9037. Women get support exploring their creative voices.
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craft 'MAGNIFICENT HATS': Saturday, September 25, 10 a.m. -4 p.m. Northeast Fiber Arts Center, 3062 Williston Rd., S. Burlington. Info, 865-4981. Anna Zilbourg teaches multi-color knitting techniques and other tricks. LEARN TO WEAVE: Eight classes, beginning Tuesday, September 27. Northeast Fiber Arts Center, 3062 Williston Rd., S. Burlington. Info, 865-4981. Make two samplers and a final project while learning the fundamentals of weaving. RUG BRAIDING: Wednesdays, beginning October 6, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Northeast Fiber Arts Center, 3062 Williston Rd., S. Burlington. Info, 865-4981. Make an oval rug while learning the techniques of rug braiding. PAINTING CERAMICS: Ongoing Wednesdays, 2-3:30 p.m. and 5:30-7 p.m. Blue Plate Ceramic Cafe, 119 College St., Burlington. Free. Info, 652-0102. Learn the fundamentals of painting ceramics.
dance DANCE: Classes beginning September 13. Spotlight On Dance, 49 Hercules Dr., Colchester. Info, 338-9088. Dancers of all ages, from preschoolers to adidts, take classes in swing, jazz, tap and ballet. ARGENTINE TANGO: Eight Tuesdays, September 14, 28, October 12, 26, November 9, 23, December 7 and 14, Basics, 7:15-8:30 p.m., Improv, 8:45-10 p.m Jazzercise, Williston. $110, $200/both classes. Register, 879-3998. foin the international Tango rage. SWING: Tuesdays and Thursdays, September 21 through November 11, Level I, 6:30-7:30 p.m., Level II, 7:30-8:30 p.m. Bristol Elementary School Gym. $42/four weeks, $80/eight weeks. Info, 453-5885. Learn a variety of dance patterns, including the Lindy Hop, as well as proper leading and following techniques. SWING: Classes starting the week of October 17. Burlington. $40/four week session. Info, 862-9033. Learn Lindy Hop — the original style of swing. DANCE: Ongoing classes for all ages. Sun Dance Studio, E-4, #312, Chace Mill, Burlington. Info, 9519066. Aspiring dancers, from toddlers to seniors, choosefromparent and child classes, creative dance, tap, creative jazz or ballet.
ABSTRACT PAINTING: Saturday, October 9, 10 a.m. - noon. Firehouse Center for the Visual Arts, 135 Church St., Burlington. $10. Register, 865-7166. Kids eight to 12 tour the gallery, then create abstract paintings using found objects.
AEROBIC DANCE: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6:15 p.m. Jazzercise of Burlington at Heineberg Senior Center, Heineberg Rd., Burlington. $3.50-6. Info, 878-0428. Adidts get cardiovascular and strength training.
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AWARENESS T H R O U G H MOVEMENT": Six Mondays, September 13 through October 18, 7:15-8:15 p.m. Life Gate Healing Arts, 257 S. Champlain St., Burlington. Info, 863-2438. Enhance coordination, flexibility, strength and awareness with the guided movement sequences of Feldenkrais
business/career 'GETTING SERIOUS': Four Thursdays, October 21, 28, November 4 and 11. Trinity College, Burlington. $115. Grants available. Info, 846-7160. The Women's Small Business Program helps you explore the possibilities and realities of business
healing 'OHASHIATSU': Saturday, October 2, 1 p.m. Somawork Wellness Center, 50 Court St., Middlebury. Free. Info, 800-810-4190. Explore the philosophy and movement behind this method of
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kendo KENDO: Ongoing Wednesdays and Fridays, 6:45-8:30 p.m. Warren Town Hall. Donations. Info, 4964669. Develop focus, control and power through this Japanese samurai sword-fencing martial art.
language FRENCH I, 'FUN FOR BEGINNERS': Ten Mondays, September 27 through December 6, 6-8 p.m. The Alliance Fran<;aise at The Book Rack, Champlain Mill, Winooski. $170. Register, 655-0231. Beginners gain basic conversational skills. FRENCH II, 'LEARNING T H E NATURAL WAY': Ten Mondays, September 27 through December 6, 6-8 p.m. The Alliance Franchise at The Book Rack, Champlain Milll, Winooski. $170. Students of elementary French move on to more complex constructions. SPANISH: Ongoing individual and small group lessons, all levels. S. Burlington. Info, 864-6870. Join in on the flin of learning a new language. ITALIAN: Ongoing individual and group classes, beginner to advanced, adults and children. Burlington. Info, 865-4795. Learn to speak this beautiful language from a native speaker and experienced teacher. ESL: Ongoing small group classes, beginners and intermediates. Vermont Adult Learning, Sloan Hall, Fort Ethan Allen, Colchester. Free. Info, 654-8677. Improve your listening, speaking, reading and writing skills in English as a second language.
massage FOOT REFLEXOLOGY: Ongoing Thursdays, 6-8:30 p.m. S. Burlington Yoga Studio, Barrett St. Info, 658-3766. Learn this fiin and easy form of acu-pressure foot massage from a certified reflexologist.
meditation ' T H E WAY OF T H E SUFI': Tuesdays, 7:30-9 p.m. S. Burlington. Free. Info, 658-2447. This Sufi-style meditation incorporates breath, sound and movement. MEDITATION: First & third Sundays, 10 a.m. - noon. Burlington Shambhala Center, 187 S. Winooski Ave. Free. Info, 658-6795. Instructors teach non-sectarian and Tibetan Buddhist meditations. MEDITATION: Thursdays, 7-8:30 p.m. Green Mountain Learning Center, 13 Dorset Lane, Suite 203, Williston. Free. Info, 872-3797. Don't just do something, sit there! GUIDED MEDITATION: Sundays, 10:30 a.m. The Shelburne Athletic Club, Shelburne Commons. Free. Info, 985-2229. Practice guided meditation for relaxation and focus.
money 'INTRODUCTION T O T H E ART OF INVESTING': Wednesday, September 22, 12:15-1:45 p.m. Windham Financial Services, corner of College and St. Paul Streets, Burlington. Free. Register, 658-1155. Learn about asset allocation, equity stocks, bonds and mutual funds.
PHOTOGRAPHY: Private or group classes. Eight-week adult classes starting September 21 and 22. Beginners, Tuesdays, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Intermediate/Advanced, Wednesdays, 6:30-8:30 p.m. After school program starting Tuesday, September 21, 4-6 p.m. Info, 372-3104. Learn creative and technical camera and darkroom skills in black and white and color.
Free. Info, 658-4221. Want to overcome a drinking problem ? Take the first step — of 12 — and join a group in your area. NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS: Ongoing daily groups. Various locations in Burlington, S. Burlington and Plattsburgh. Free. Info, 8624516. If you're ready to stop using drugs, this group of recovering addicts can offer inspiration.
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rolfing® ROLFING: Ongoing Thursdays, September 23 and 30, October 7 and 14, 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. Healthy Living, Market St., S. Burlington. Free. Info, 865-4770. Get a feel for this stressreducing deep massage method.
self-defense BRAZILIAN JIU-JITSU: Ongoing classes for men, women and children, Monday through Saturday. Vermont Brazilian jiu-jitsu Academy, 4 Howard St., Burlington. Info, 6604072 or 253-9730. Escape fear with an integrated self-defense system based on technique, not size, strength or speed.
spirit 'MAGICAL SKILL BUILDING': Friday, September 24, 6:30-8 p.m. Spirit Dancer Books, 125 S. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Donation. Info, 660-8060. Aspiring spell-workers improve the strength of their "wills" and discuss the ethics of spellcasting. AUTUMNAL EQUINOX CELEBRATION: Saturday, September 25, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Spirit Dancer Books, 125 S. Winooski Ave., Burlington. $9. Info, 660-8060. Celebrate "Mabon," the second of three harvest festivals. 'REBIRTHING' WORKSHOP: Sunday, September 26, 12-3 p.m. or 3-6 p.m. Spirit Dancer Books, 125 S. Winooski Ave., Burlington. $30. Info, 660-8060. Improve health, mental clarity, inner peace and emotional insight through the simple technique of "connected breathing." 'TAROT III, T H E COURTS': Thursday, September 23, 5:30-8 p.m. Gain insight into the "court cards of the Minor Arcana suits." 'JOURNEY FORTH': Five Wednesdays, September 29, October 6, 13, 27 and November 3, 6-7:45 p.m. Spirit Dancer Books, 125 S. Winooski Ave., Burlington. $60-75, sliding fee scale. Info, 660-8060. Those who have received "journey instruction"gather in a supportive environment where questions are welcome. 'TAROT COURSE IV, T H E MAJOR ARCANA': Thursday, September 30, 5:30-8 p.m. Spirit Dancer Books, 125 S. Winooski Ave., Burlington. $12. Info, 6608060. Explore the spiritual symbolism of the "Major Arcana" and how they fit into readings.
'BRINGING T H E FICTIONAL WORLD T O LIFE': Sunday, September 26, noon - 4 p.m. The Book Rack, Champlain Mill, Winooski. $40. Register, 655-0231. Learn the basics of writing fiction and try some in-class writing exercises. 'MAKING POEMS, A CREATIVE WORKSHOP': Five Tuesdays, September 28 through October 26, 5:30-7 p.m. The Book Rack, Champlain Mill, Winooski. $75. Register, 655-0231. Discover where poems come from and how to create them through in-class writing exercises and reading. 'FIRST T H O U G H T S WRITING': Six Tuesdays, September 28 through November 2, 7:30-9 p.m. The Book Rack, Champlain Mill, Winooski. $90. Register, 655-0231. Learn how silencing your internal critic can help you find an authentic voice within yourself 'JUMP START YOUR FREELANCE CAREER': Six Wednesdays, September 29 through November 3, 3-5 p.m. The Book Rack, Champlain Mill, Winooski. $120. Register, 6550231. Develop the skills and motivation you need to get a freelance writing career going.
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'REVISION, SEEING AGAIN AND SEEING T H R O U G H ' : Six Wednesdays, October 6 through November 10, 6-8 p.m. The Book Rack, Champlain Mill, Winooski. $120. Register, 655-0231. Turn your story into the one you meant to tell. WRITING AND ILLUSTRATING BOOKS FOR CHILDREN: Saturday, October 9, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. The Book Rack, Champlain Mill, Winooski. $69. Register, 6550231. Get a crash course in producing a picture or chapter book, from conception to publication.
yoga BEECHER HILL YOGA: Monday through Saturday, daytime &C evening classes for all levels. Info, 482-3191. Get private or group instruction in integrative yoga therapy, vigorous yoga or yoga for pregnancy. S. BURLINGTON YOGA: Ongoing Mondays, 6:30-7:45 p.m. and Tuesdays, 6-7:15 p.m. Barrett St., S. Burlington. Info, 658-3766. Focus on stretching, breathing, relaxation and centering with Hatha yoga. YOGA VERMONT: Free intro class every Thursday in September. Daily classes, 12 p.m., 5:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, 9:30 a.m. Chace Mill, Burlington. Info, 6609718. Astanga style "power"yoga classes offer sweaty fun for all levels of experience. YMCA YOGA: Ongoing classes. YMCA, College St., Burlington. Info, 862-9622. Take classes in various yoga styles. YOGA: Tuesdays, 6:15 p.m. Green Mt. Learning Center, 13 Dorset Lane, Williston. $8. Info, 872-3797Practice yoga with Deborah Binder. ' > ImBSJ. i i-
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the will to be inspired to this writerly gathering at the Daily Planet, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 862-9647. HUMANITY AND GENETICS READING GROUP: Discuss the future of genetics and its literary past, from Brave New World to killer tomatoes. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 7 p.m. Free. Register, 879-7576.
STORYTIME: See September 22, 10 a.m. & 1 p.m. PAUL ZALOOM: See September 26, Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $14.50. Info, 603-646-2422. This kid-safe show bills itself as "Beakman Live."
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dance SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCE: Bring soft-soled shoes to this wee weekly event, where partners and kilts are both optional. First Congregational Church of Essex Junction, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $2. Info, 879-7618.
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interactive television. Venues throughout Vermont, 12:30-2 p.m. Free. Register, 888-925-7658. OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS: Compulsive eaters weigh in on body image issues at the First Congregational Church, Essex Junction, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 644-8936. CAREGIVERS FOR THE MENTALLY ILL: Friends, family and others involved with the mentally ill get support at this monthly "share and care." Howard Center for Human Services, 300 Flynn Ave., Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 862-6683. BATTERED WOMEN'S SUPPORT GROUP: Meet in Barre, 10:30 a.m. noon. Free. Info, 223-0855. GLBTQ SUPPORT GROUP: Gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered and questioning youth make new friends and get support. Outright Central Vermont, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 800-452-2428.
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VERMONT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: See September 22, Vergennes Opera House, 8 p.m. $17. HORN TRIO: A brass act performs bold selections accompanied by pianist Sandra Hebert. Faulkner Recital Hall, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 603-6462422.
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STORIES: See September 22. PARENT-CHILD BOOK GROUP: Middle-school kids and their parents consider the characters in a fantasy book by Edward Eager. South Burlington Community Library, 7 p.m. Free. Register, 862-5396. 'GALILEO': A biographical play geared toward kids revolves around the life of the radical astronomer. Dibden Auditorium, Johnson State College, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 635-1251.
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ongoing THE CLOWN SHOW, works in mixed media by local artists, including Mr. Masterpiece, Lance Richbourg, Catherine Hall, Jennifer Koch, Greg Blasdel, Tony Sini and others. Red Square, Burlington, 862-3779. Through November 25. STRONG HEARTS: Native American Visions and Voices, featuring color and black-and-white photographs by 29 Native American photographers. Fleming Museum, Burlington, 656-0750. Through December 19. PAINTINGS TO DISAPPEAR IN, featuring naturescapes by Shanti Mackinnon. Rose Street Gallery, Burlington, 862-3654. Through October 2. AB0LIR LES FRONTIERES/BREAKING BORDERS, a group show of 38 artists from Burlington, Plattsburgh and StJean-sur-Richelieu, members of the Triangle of Excellence. Also, CREATURES, an installation by Janet Van Fleet. Firehouse Center for the Visual Arts, Burlington, 865-7165. Through October 17. VISUAL TEXT: Art and the Written Word, a national exhibit in mixed media of artists who use text in their work. Frog Hollow Vermont State Craft Center, Burlington, 863-6458. Through October 24. KATHLEEN K0LB, new work in watercolor. Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery, Shelburne, 985-3848. Through October 19. THE OTHER CHEEK, drawings and recent works by Jim Gerstman. Also, TREES AND A FEW OTHER THINGS, paintings by Jean Cannon. The Daily Planet Restaurant, Burlington, 860-1458. Through September. SARAH-LEE TERRAT, photographs of her murals and painted objects. FreStyle, Burlington, 651-8820. Through October. IN THE ROUND AND ON THE WALL, wood carvings by Alex Ribak and Beal Hyde. Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Burlington, 864-0471. Through October 6. GO AWAY SHELLEY B00!, original art from the picture books of Phoebe Stone. The Book Rack & Children's Pages, Winooski, 655-0232. Through October 14.
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NO TWO ALIKE: African-American Improvisational Patchwork, featuring the works of 20 quilters with Southern roots. Vermont Folklife Center, Middlebury, 388-4964. Through November 20. TREASURES OF DECEIT: Archaeology and the Forger's Craft, featuring 20 genuine, reworked and forged antiquities. Middlebury College Museum of Art, 443-5007. Through October. G0URDGE0US GOURDS!, featuring gourd art by American artists. Frog Hollow Vermont State Craft Gallery, Middlebury, 388-3177. Through November 8. HORATIO GREEN0UGH: An American Sculptor's Drawings, a retrospective on the life of the early American artist (1805-1852), featuring 15 sculptures, 48 drawings and related materials, from the private collection of George R. Rinhart. Through December 12. ANNA FUGURA & ELIZABETH ROMAN, mixed-media collage and pottery, respectively. Ferrisburgh Artisans Guild Gallery, Rt. 7, 877-3668. Through September. JEAN KERR-LEWIS & SHARYN LAYFIELD, new pastel paintings. Woody's Restaurant, Middlebury, 453-5603. Through October. WEAVING TRADITION INTO A CHANGING WORLD: 200 Years of Abenaki Basketry, featuring a variety of baskets from the Northeast. Chimney Point State Historic Site, Addison, 759-2412. Through October 11. SCULPTFEST99: Art Beyond Object, featuring the works of sculptors Frank Anjo, Anthony Cafritz, Carlos Dorrien, JefFFeld, Sean Folley, Stephan Fowlkes and more. The Carving Studio and Sculpture Center, West Rutland, 4382097. Through October 17.
ON THE EDGE, drawings, watercolors, oil pastels and acrylic paintings by Pria Cambio. Capitol Grounds, Montpelier, 223-7800. Through October 4. JILL WAXMAN, new and old bargello weavings. Vermont Arts Council, Montpelier, 828-3778. Through October 29. LISA F0RSTER, landscape watercolors. Mist Grill Gallery, Waterbury, 244-2233. Through November 1. PLAY OF LIGHT, landscapes in oil and pastel by Joy Huckins. City Center, Montpelier, 229-0832. Through October 3. ANIMAL ART: Cat & Dog Portraits, paintings by Anne Davis. Phoenix Rising, Montpelier, 229-0522. Through " September 27. WOOD & LINOLEUM PRINTS by Phil Robertson. City Hall Artists Showcase, Montpelier, 229-2766. Through September 27. CHRIST CHURCH COMMUNITY ARTS, a group show of pastel landscapes, still lifes, jewelry and spiritually inspired art by parishioners and friends. Sacred Space Gallery, Christ Church Episcopal, Montpelier, 223-3631. Through October. FOR THE DINNER TABLE, platters, place settings, serving pieces and table acces- < sories by 25 regional clay artists. Vermont Clay Studio, Waterbury Ctr., 244-1126. Through October 15. ,. ...
A COUNTRY OF SOULS: Reflections on New England Gravesites, featuring the works in mixed media of Joan Curtis, Kerstin Nichols, Carolyn Shattuck and R.G. Solbert; and, STATES OF GRACE, featuring highlights from 25 years of the Grace Roots Art and Community Efforts project. T.W. Wood Gallery, Montpelier, 828-8743. Both through October 3. RELIGION, MYTH AND FANCY, a selection from the permanent collection. Through December 24. , YURI GORBACHEV, and other local or international artists in a group show of mixed media. Kristal Gallery, Warren, 496-6767. Through October. THOMAS JEFFERSON IN VERMONT, and His Role in Vermont Statehood, 1791, featuring documents and artifacts from the period of Jefferson's visit to Vermont. State House, Montpelier, 828-2291. Through October 16. ALICE ECKLES, a permanent changing exhibit of selected paintings and prints. The Old School House Common, Marshfleld, 456-8993. Ongoing. SUE HUDSON, pastels. The Art Gallery ofBarre, 476-1030. Through September.
BY MARC
"Masonic Hall, Early
AWODEY
m o r e a c c o m p l i s h e d , technically,
A f t e r n o o n " again d e m o n s t r a t e s
t h a n h e r c o n f i d e n t rural-realist
e r h a p s it's t i m e t o create a
t h a t K o l b c a n c a p t u r e l i g h t in a
oils. In this u n f o r g i v i n g m e d i -
n e w label for a n o l d g e n r e
variety o f clever w a y s . A g a i n s h e
u m she has captured landscapes,
o f p a i n t i n g — "rural real-
has w o r k e d f r o m b e h i n d the
h o u s e s a n d even a y a c h t in full
P
ism" m i g h t best d e s c r i b e t h e
building; from a back corner
sail — " P h i l a d e l p h i a I I " —
well-informed, unromanticized
t h e t i m e w o r n b u i l d i n g fills t h e
w i t h u n e r r i n g accuracy.
land- or farmscapes produced
c a n v a s in t w o - p o i n t p e r s p e c t i v e .
b y m a n y V e r m o n t artists. T h e
A s q u a r e pillar o n t h e f r o n t
R e a c h " is a large-scale w o r k o n
style is b e s t w h e n i n f l u -
p o r c h c a n b e seen i l l u m i n a t e d
p a p e r t h a t s e e m s a l m o s t like a
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enced by Edward H o p p e r s seacoasts a n d gas s t a t i o n s NOMADIC CONNECTIONS, contemporary paintings by Val B. Hird, paired with 19th- and 20th-century textiles of Asian and Middle Eastern cultures. Also, in the Hands-On Gallery Space, a Central Asian yurt by Rachel Lehr. Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, 253-8358. Through November 20. CLAY VESSELS: Interpretations of a Vessel Aesthetic, featuring the works of potters Bob Green, Terri Gregory and Nicholas Seidner. Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, 253-8358. Through November 20. THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE'S WORK OF ROY KENNEDY, a retrospective featuring paintings, sculptures, woodcuts, handmade furniture and artifacts of the Saint Michael's College professor emeritus. Mary Bryan Memorial Gallery, Jeffersonville, 644-5100. Through October 24. THE PAINT TRAVELER, paintings from a picture book for grown-ups, by Carol Rosalinde Drury. Copley Gallery, Morrisville, 253-8571. Through September 27. SUSAN ABBOTT, watercolor still lifes. Clarke Galleries, Stowe, 253-7116. Through September 26. LAND & LIGHT, featuring the works of more than 50 landscape painters. Mary Bryan Memorial Gallery, Jeffersonville, 644-5100. Through October 26. OUTDOOR SCULPTURE EXHIBIT, featuring works in mixed media by 16 artists. Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, 253-8358. Through October 17. PAINTINGS BY VERA FYFE, Copley Woodlands, Stowe, 253-4203. Through September. BREAD & PUPPET masks, puppets and other artifacts from four decades. Bread & Puppet Museum, Glover, 525-6972. Through October. 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY AMERICAN ARTISTS, including landscape paintings by Vermont artists Kathleen Kolb, 'Thomas Curtin, Cynthia Price and more. Clarke Galleries, Stowe, 253-7116. Ongoing.
b a t h e d in light, o r b y A n d r e w Wyeth's sheds a n d m e a d o w s c h a r g e d w i t h psychological tension. V e r m o n t ' s rural realism m a y be purely commercial, b u t regardless o f i n s p i r a t i o n , its p r a c t i t i o n e r s are often master technicians. K a t h l e e n K o l b is o n e o f t h e best. H e r 2 6 n e w w o r k s o n d i s p l a y at S h e l - b u r n e ' s Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery are invariably clean, s h a r p a n d well c o m p o s e d . In a 1 9 9 5 e x h i b i t i o n c a t a l o g u e , Vermont
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STRATT0N ARTS FESTIVAL, featuring the works of more than 100 juried artists and artisans from Vermont. Stratton Mountain Base Lodge, 362-0929. Through October 17. 3UW&* *3t i m COSMOS: FROM ROMANTICISM TO THE AVANT-GARDE, featuring 380 paintings, sculpture and works on paper from 17 countries demonstrating the human quest for new frontiers. Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 514-285-1600. Through October 17. HOLLY KING, landscapes of the imagination in black-and-white and color photography. Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Jean-Noel Desmarais Pavilion, 514285-1600. Through December 5. ® PLEASE NOTE: Seven Days is unable to accommodate all of the displays in our readership area, thus these listings must be restricted to exhibits in trtdy public viewing places. Art in business offices, lobbies and private residences or studios, with occasional exceptions, will not be accepted. •>„ J.
Behind the Barn," an oil by Kathleen Kolb
precision a n d h e r artistic restraint help keep the e m o t i o n -
b y reflected light. K o l b h a s lay-
s n a p s h o t o f this m a n s i o n o n a n
al c o n t e n t o f h e r p a i n t i n g s f r o m
ered cool, o p a q u e c o l o r s over a
island in L a k e C h a m p l a i n . If it
b e c o m i n g excessive." F r o m his
w a r m underpainting, a tech-
were a commissioned house
p o i n t o f view t h a t lack o f e m o -
nique that enlivens the hues.
p o r t r a i t it w o u l d c e r t a i n l y
t i o n is a p p a r e n t l y a g o o d t h i n g ;
B u t s h e h a s also t a k e n care t o
please t h e p a t r o n s , as e v e r y c o n -
for o t h e r s it m a y
avoid i n t r o d u c i n g e x a g g e r a t e d
ceivable scrap of e m o t i o n a l con-
b e less so. Slayton's
tent has been
characterization
Kolb has painstaking!'5
purged from the
Kolb's n e w w o r k s ,
image. T h e water-
most of which
captured a naturalistic
c o l o r s in Kolb's col-
remains true for
have eliminated altogether. T h i s superrealism draws no conclusions a b o u t a scene, b u t simply reproduces everyday imagery in m u c h t h e s a m e
perspective, and the
lection have been dispassionate temperaments.
angles and values of.
T w o m o d e s t oil miniatures mounted in b r o a d , g o l d -
every shadow are pho-
leafed f r a m e s m a y
tographically precise.
w o r k s of the show.
be for s o m e viewers the most engaging
way urban photo1970s — f o r the
predictably sanitized
given particularly
emotional content
realists d i d in t h e ir
Life edi-
t o r T o m Slayton o b s e r v e d
representation. " H o u s e in C r a f t s b u r y " is a n
" O n the Boomhour" and "Gillette
pure joy of keen
P o n d " are b r i l l i a n t l y s i m p l e ,
c o l o r s in h e r r e n d i t i o n . Less n a t u r a l i s t i c c o l o r c a n b e
a b s t r a c t e d l a n d s c a p e s in w h i c h
oil p a i n t i n g t h a t focuses o n t h e
f o u n d w i t h the a b r u p t transi-
c l o u d s , r e f l e c t i o n s in t h e w a t e r
back of an old w h i t e b u n g a l o w
t i o n s o f light a n d d a r k in
a n d b r u s h w o r k take equal
u n d e r a tree in t h e b r i g h t n e s s o f
" L i g h t s O n , C o l d N i g h t . " I n it,
billing. Because of t h e iconic
day. T h e m o d e s t d w e l l i n g is
a large f a r m h o u s e is well i l l u m i -
p r e s e n t a t i o n , t h e pieces b e c o m e
seen f r o m slightly a b o v e , as if
n a t e d b y a r a n g e o f a l l u r i n g yel-
m y s t e r i o u s o b j e c t s in t h e m -
l o o k i n g d o w n o n t h e rural
lows c u t t i n g t h r o u g h t h e b l u e s
selves r a t h e r t h a n p e r f e c t d e l i n -
s c e n e f r o m a n e a r b y hill. Its
a n d purples of night, a n d creat-
e a t i o n s in w h i c h n o t h i n g is left
p r o p a n e t a n k is in gray s h a d -
i n g p a t t e r n s a n d s h a d o w s across
f o r t h e v i e w e r t o discover.
ows, a n d t h e leaves o n s u r -
a snowy evening. Devoid of the
r o u n d i n g hills are b e g i n n i n g t o
"excessive" e m o t i o n o f V a n
photorealistic a painting
c h a n g e . As in all h e r w o r k s ,
G o g h , for example, pale blue
becomes, the more compelling
Kolb has painstakingly captured
s m o k e rises f r o m t h e f a r m h o u s e
b e c o m e s t h e q u e s t i o n , " w h y is
a n a t u r a l i s t i c perspective, a n d
c h i m n e y into a starry night that
this a painting?" For Kolb, at
t h e angles a n d values o f every
is as c a l m as it is i n e x o r a b l y
least, t h e a n s w e r m u s t b e t h e
s h a d o w are p h o t o g r a p h i c a l l y
cold.
continual technical
precise.
Kolb's w a t e r c o l o r s a r e e v e n
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(R) MY FAVORITE MARTIAN** Don't expect this to be your favorite TVto-big-screen update. Disney's theatrical adaptation of the popular '60s show has been sitting on the shelf for eons. Christopher Lloyd and Jeff Daniels star. (PG) RAVENOUS** 1/2 LA.Confidentiah Guy Pearce and Trainspottings Robert Carlyle star in this darkly comic saga of cannibalism on the prairie. (R)
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STIR OF ECHOES***vz Writer-director David Koepp brings us this adaptation of the 1958 Richard Matheson book about an ordinary guy who begins experiencing some very extraordinary things after being hypnotized. Kevin Bacon and Illeana Douglas star. (R) TRICK*** A hit at this year's Sundance Film Festival, Jim Fall's directorial debut follows the relationship which develops between two young gay men. With Christian Campbell and John Paul Pitoc. (R) THE BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB**** German director W i m Wenders' loving and joyful tribute to the old-time dance-hall musicians of Havana offers a moving glimpse into the culture and some irresistible music. (NR) BLUE STREAK** Martin Lawrence has been impersonating a comedian for years, if you ask me. Now he pretends to be a cop in this buddy film about a thief who attempts to recover a priceless gem buried beneath a police station. With Luke Wilson. (PG-13) STIGMATA** Look out for the pea soup! Patricia Arquette plays a twentysomething babe in the grip of otherworldly forces in this Exorcist-reminiscent thriller. Gabriel Byrne costars. (R) OUTSIDE PROVIDENCE*** Alec Baldwin and Shawn Hatosy star in director Michal Corrente's adaptation of the first novel by Peter (There's Something About Mary) Farrelly, a coming-of-age story that, believe it or not, involves a damaged dog, sex acts gone awry and problems involving bodily functions. (R) DUDLEY DO-RIGHT**172 Director Hugh (Blast From the Past) Wilson reteams with Brendan Fraser for a live-action adaptation of the popular '60s cartoon from Jay Ward, the guy who also gave us George of the Jungle. With Alfred Molina and Sarah Jessica Parker. (PG)
Steve Martin, the story of a sad-sack movie producer who tries to get a major star in his picture by stalking and shooting around him. Eddie Murphy and Heather Graham costar. Frank Oz directs. (PG-13) THE SIXTH SENSE**** Bruce Willis is teamed yet again with a small boy, this time as a psychologist trying to help a child who believes he can see the dead walking among the living. (PG-13) THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR*** If Entrapment left you wanting more (now there's a comical thought), here's another romantic saga about a debonair art thief with a sultry insurance agent on his trail. Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo star in John McTiernan s remake of the 1968 Steve McQueen favorite. (R) THE IRON GIANT*** Well, it's not every day you get to take in a cartoon about a huge robot based on a novel by Sylvia Plath's husband and featuring the voices of Jennifer Aniston and Cloris Leachman. But then you can probably live with that. (PG) INSPECTOR GADGET**1/2 Matthew Broderick stars in Disney's live-action adaptation of the popular cartoon series. THE RUNAWAY BRIDE **>* Hey, didn't she just settle down with Hugh Grant? I guess there's no such thing as happily ever after when you sell tickets the way Julia Roberts does. This time around she plays an altarphobic chick whose last minute chapel exits attract the attention of newspaper columnist Richard Gere. From the director of Pretty Woman. (PG) EYES WIDE SHUT*** The good news is, there's one film in theaters this summer that isn't a sequel or a gross-out comedy. The bad news is, there won't be any more from Stanley Kubrick after this one. Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman play a New York couple drawn into a shadow-world of sexual obsession, jealousy and guilt.
MICKEY BLUE EYES** So analyze this: Hugh Grant stars as an art dealer who winds up involved with a bunch of gangsters in this fish-out-ofwater Mob comedy from director Kelly Makin. Sound like anything you saw Billy Crystal in recently? (PG-13) BOWFINGER*** Among the most eagerly awaited comedies of the summer is the latest from star-writer
THE GENERAL'S DAUGHTER*172 John Travolta and Madeleine Stowe star in the big-screen version of Nelson DeMille s 1992 best-seller about a warrant officer looking into a particularly vicious murder. James Woods co-stars. Simon (Con Air) West directs. (R) BIG DADDY**!72 Dennis {Happy Gilmore) Dugan and Adam Sandler
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move, he'd already toured the length of the state on his bike. It en Rose has hiked every was he who convinced his family inch of the 270-mile "footthe Green Mountain State ought path in the wilderness" to be a landing pad for their urban known as the Long Trail. But ask flight. him for his favorite section and Attending Champlain Valley you're likely to see some fancy Union High School, where he was footwork. "I don't do that," he class valedictorian, Rose became friends with a "geographic dreamer" named Steve Bushey. "I was the "In 1 9 8 6 , the club tag-along and I learned a lot about Vermont's wilderness through my realized — and it friendship with Steve," the 40-yearold Rose says of those early advenwas sort of a sad tures. It was an alliance that would decision — that if eventually lead Rose to hike, bike e wanted to have and ski the length of the state. Under Bushey's tutelage, Rose's ^ l T i T i T a r e n i T f i i n i appreciation for Vermont's landscape began to take shape. "What years, we naa to makes Vermont really unique is not the size of the mountains, but the sense of harmony in the landcallv buy the scape," he offers from a corner office with a sublime view of the ^ j Q H ^ J Green Mountains in Waterbury GMC Executive Di Center. "It's both the unbroken ridgeline and the farmland; we're half of that picture." When the Long Trail was says, backing away from the quesfounded as the nation's first longtion. "I don't have one favorite distance hiking trail in 1910, the spot — not that I would divulge." state was dominated by farms and As the executive director of the lumber mills. The mountains were Green Mountain Club, Rose is, dark, brooding impediments to not surprisingly, unwilling to play progress. The GMC was founded favorites or risk offending local with the mission of "making the club sections. But more to the mountains of Vermont play a largpoint, the Yale grad and former er part in the life of the people." state representative is far too savvy Today, that picture has changed to take the bait. Just a year after dramatically. More than 200,000 taking the helm of the GMC, it's hikers hit Vermont's trails every clear the venerable Vermont hiking year, and the Long Trail has organization made a well-considbecome one of the state's most valered decision selecting this Long ued natural resources. "As populaIsland native to lead them into the tion pressure builds in and around 21st century. New England, having a permanent "Like so many Vermonters, Ben footpath along the spine of Rose is a transplant who has grown Vermont's Green Mountains well on Green Mountain soil," becomes increasingly precious," wrote GMC President Rolf argues Rose, an ardent environAnderson in 1998, noting that mentalist during his legislative Rose came to Vermont at age 14. years, from 1994 to 1998. But in fact, by the time the notoriBut just as Vermont has ously energetic Rose made the changed over time, so has the role
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GIANT STEPS Green Mountain Club Director Ben Rose have shaped his carecr path. But Bushey, now a respected cartographer in Stowe, remembers the , decision to attempt to cross-country ski Vermont a little differently. "In 1982, Ben, Paul [Jarris] and I hiked to the top of Mt. Hunger with a couple of bottles of wine and I blurted out, 'Let's ski the length of Vermont next year,' and Ben and Paul heartily agreed," Bushey recalls. "So we held our first meeting on the top of Mt. Hunger in a rain storm fired by a couple of bottles of $4 wine — and that was good wine back then." As the GMC matures, Rose's Catamount Trail adventure — as well as the fact that he end-toended the LT in 1982 — serves him well with the old-timers that still see the organization as essentially a hiking club. "We felt he was one of us, but at the same time he could lead us," says Anderson, who comes from the trail-worker tradition. In the legislature, where Rose represented Williston for two terms before moving into his "dream job" at the GMC, the House Democrat and former garbage guru for the Central Vermont Solid Waste District established a sterling record as an environmental champion and con-
sensus builder, says Mary Sullivan, Chair of the House Natural Resources Committee. Even in an environment known for strong opinions, you'd be hard pressed to find anyone under the dome taking pot shots at Rose. "You'd find people who disagreed with him and people who disapproved of his legislation, but not people who disliked him," says Michael Flaherty, a conservative "Blue Dog" Democrat. While the GMC was attracted to Rose's political skills, and the value of his connections, they also need Rose to display the stamina and strength of will he developed as a long-distance athlete. After all, there are those parcels still to be conserved, and existing conservation easements are only as strong as the ability of the organization to defend them, Anderson points out. Wherever the threats may come from — and Rose and Anderson decline to be specific — would-be violators should remember that the GMC's executive director may be diplomatic, but he was also hardened in the garbage world. "I retired from solid waste with a legal record of 8 wins, 2 loses and 3 ties in court," Rose says with pride. "It was great training." ®
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anguage got here on a flood, dissolved, broken and battered smooth by unexpected turns. Oral traditions evolve through accretion — stories grow with each teller. Written traditions evolve through erosion. Take the poet Archilochus, whose remaining works exist only in tattered fragments, rescued — though ripped beyond resuscitation — from German mummy wrappings. Language, no matter which route it takes, seems destined for dilution. But was permanence ever the point? The circling relation between the oral and the written reminds an observer of siblings — they are the same but different. This pattern of orbit is common to many themes in Angela Patten's new collection of poetry, Still Listening. The book is divided into two sections. The first and title section collects memories of an Irish childhood while the second, called "The Country of Becoming," details the Vermont adulthood of an Irish expatriate who, at the hands of memory and dream, is haunted by the past — sly and circling as a fox. Still Listening has time in two places and words working double. The "still" of the title means both quiet and continuance. Patten takes such word play seriously. She uses oral Irish wit to her written advantage, simultaneously entertaining her reader with a game of words and hearkening back to the island she left behind. Look at the play in Pattens poem, "How My Father Lost His Eye, September 1933." At school in the parish of Killbride the boy at the next desk stuck out a boot and knocked my father's books awry. The teacher, Father Cooney of the short fuse, landed a slap, flathanded, across my father's face with a crack of lightening and a shower of stars, shattering the optic nerve of his left eye. Ten miles to Navan hospital on the crossbar of a bike, his eye throbbing like the hammers of hell. He never told a soul what happened. Bad luck to speak ill of the clergy.
You'd never do a day's good afterwards. Did you realize what you did to him, Father, or did you stay in the dark for the rest of your days? After six weeks in hospital he was ashamed to return to school. Instead he fled to Dublin's Eye and Ear where a doctor plucked the offending blue and returned him a glass facsimile. They say an amputated limb can twitch with memory. Do his two eyes gaze together in his mind's eye? A north wind off the sea hurts the empty eyeball. Sometimes there's an irritation he can't explain like sand in the socket, the gritty inception of a pearl within an oyster-shell. What bothers you, Father? The odd lapse of memory or a twinge of rheumatism before it rains? I'm warning you, Father, even in Ireland they're questioning authority. The others have my mother's eyes but I have his, and if looks could kill you wouldn't have a prayer.
Patten's own father and The Father, though opposites in anger, blur into the same symbolic character because they are homonyms. Sounding the same when they are heard and not read, "father" and "Father" must reveal their meanings by the context of the surrounding words. For a narrator existing in exile, there is no chance for an oral telling because the surrounding words, and the surroundings, are foreign. How curious then that an island famous for instilling the gift of gab produces an inordinate number of writers in exile. What keeps a person tethered to her fatherland? Her mother? Her mother tongue? Patten rolls these three questions into one. The narrator's mother is the vehicle for speech whether she is repeating a scolding or a decade of the Rosary. Mother becomes language. Ireland's tradition of the spoken word is present in Patten as she draws from kitchens, pubs, the Catholic mass and an island people that are making a valiant effort to save
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when the narrators sister, in a moment of nervous excitement, bites through her soda glass. H o w Jbeawttfertfiat, in a book con-, cerned with oral versus written culture, the volta event occurs in a child's mouth. O r perhaps it is when the full brunt of speech — the power of the oral — is cast in "Mornings on the Highway," in which the narrator is told, "Your mother is dying because you left the church."
ance. O r in "Abandonment Blues," where a poem that tells the story of bringing a stray cat to a shelter ends with the line, "You won't catch me crying over spilled milk." Patten forces her reader to examine traditional language, but utilizing overexposed phrases has its dangers. Sometimes her succinct closures are too perfect, too tight. T h e second section is a cycle
change. T h e book that begins with an ear for gabbing moves across the ocean t o get away from that. In the second American-set section, Patten is more solitary, " seeking silence, some space to write quietly in, but finds instead a rattling, a longing for sound. T h e lovely poem "Holiness" reads, "Your tongue lapping like water against stones/startles me into stillness." This is quite different than the Irish tongue-lap-
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their own language. Pattens evocative poem "Emissary" mentions the Irish language and the problem of existing as a duality, a bilingual nation, an expatriate. T h e book is a mirror for the
These are not poems of Irish hardship in line with the brothers McCourt. T h o u g h it does have a narrative at heart, Still Listening delivers its tales through the shadowy, twilight medium of poetry, where solid objects and events play themselves and concurrently point outside themselves. T h e oral tradition comes through in well-known patterns and formulas. T h e book is chock-a-block with domestic wisdoms along the lines of, "Whistling women and clucking hens always come to some bad end." Sometimes such wisdoms come across as cliches, and Patten plays off them. She teases them, as in the above poem about the father's eye loss when she threatens, "If looks could kill." O r in "Without Redress," where an actual red dress makes an appear-
struggle between oral and written, Ireland and not-Ireland, childhood and adulthood. T h e longing to exist in two places is nowhere felt as strongly as in her poem "Thatch Pub,"
of poems that takes rebirth, regeneration and return as its subject. "Another New Years Poem" is set on the 14th of June, when female turtles return to where they were born, ignoring traffic and lawn furniture to deposit their eggs in an underground nest. T h e poem reads, There's something enviable in this blinkered singlemindedness. The rest of us dither and dissemble — Should I stay or go? And is he worth it? We ignore the first five laws of the universe that tell us not to panic. While Janus, the two-faced god of the new year, laughing up his sleeve, looks for a long time both ways. Neither stone-faced Janus nor the turtles allow for deviance from a pattern. Patten imagines a
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ping of her mother in an early poem, "tea-sugar-butter-flourpotatoes-onions-milk." Still Listening does not necessarily end where it begins — in other peoples voices. There is a return to sound, but it is not her mother's shopping list, or even the litany of Irish priests that the reader hears. T h e final four poems look at, or listen to, music from a variety of new perspectives: a father's and son's singing voices meeting on a hallway stair; the songs of birds; country and western; the singing of blood. So at the end, the prodigal daughter returns altered, and in the sound of singing recognizes something that looks like home. © Angela Patten will readfrom Still Listening at the Book Rack in Winooski on Wednesday, September 29 at 7p.m.
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ack in the. good old days when stuff was stuff, some sage determined that "There's no such thing as a free lunch." In other words, when you eat lunch, somebody's paying. With software, its hard to ' determine who's picking up the tab. The first copy of a program can cost millions of dollars to produce: Hundreds of highly paid geeks create and test millions of lines of computer code to make our lowly word processors work. But once the program is written, it costs about 50 cents to put it on a CD, and maybe a dollar to print the manual. Or more if the manual is longer, which may explain why manuals have gotten so slim lately. Now you know why Microsoft is such a money machine. Its programs don't cost any more to create than anyone else's, but they sell zillions of copies. Microsoft realized a long time ago that the secret is not how much you spend writing the program, but how many people you can get to buy it. Once it ^ became clear that every PC buyer was also going to buy Microsoft DOS — and later Microsoft Windows — Microsoft made the PC manufacturers the proverbial "offer that they couldn't refuse": Pay Microsoft a licensing fee of between $40 and $ 100 for each PC you ship, and you can put the Microsoft software right on it. What a deal! And Microsoft doesn't even have to spring for the 50
cents to duplicate a CD. But the same logic that has made Microsoft so many billions may prove to be its undoing. In 1984, when the IBM PC was still new, a super-programmer in Cambridge, Massachusetts, named Richard Stallman started writing good software and giving it away for free. Why? Because, in his words, "The golden rule requires that if I like a program I must share it with other people who like
you think about music, it makes a lot of sense. When people jam together, they don't sign nondisclosure agreements — "Okay, you can listen to this riff, but first sign here so that I can sue you if I hear you play it." Software — particularly fun and interesting software — comes from people doing what they want to do and trying to get computers to help them. If I make the computer do something interesting and you want to do it bet-
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Dear Cecil, What's the connection between the human menstrual cycle and the moon ? Do our cycles last exactly one lunar month for a reason, or is it just a coincidence? I wonder how our cycles — not to mention our calendars — would work if we didn't have a moon. . * — Barbara Berr, via the Internet The smart money says it's coincidence. In Science and the Paranormal (1983), astronomer George O. Abell writes, "The moon's cycle of phases is 29.53 days, while the human female menstrual cycle averages 28 days (although it varies
ter, I don't want to force you to buy hundreds of dollars worth of software just to improve on my riff. But before Richard Stallman had his epiphany, that's exactly what you had to do.
exercise, he thought he'd write his own. He knew Unix and decided to write something that looked " "sort of" like it. He shared his creation, dubbed Linux, with friends over the Internet, and they ended up writing a version of Unix. Once they got the central guts right, there was all this G N U project software around to make it useful. In the old days, the occasional hobbyist would have ventured up to Finland and admired Torvalds handiwork. But it's software, so it's So why have you never heard easy to copy. Now millions of of him? Because rather than try to copies of Linux are installed all write free software for the IBM over the world. Linux is free, it PCs that came to dominate the works — better than Windows in world, he wrote software for Unix a lot of cases — and it's coming to machines. Unix runs on a wide a computer near you. variety of computers, including After proving that informal the same PCs as does Microsoft groups of people could write comWindows. He called his project plicated software, the G N U and GNU, short for "Gnu is Not Linux projects are now out to Unix." Unix has always been softprove they can write software for ware for geeks, by geeks, and it non-geeks. Just as Microsoft ran on computers that cost a lot Windows is a pretty face for MSmore than PCs. The G N U project DOS, Linux has its own Windows was so successful that almost every programs, called KDE and Unix system depends heavily on Gnome, and easy-to-use applicaG N U software. Unix systems form tions programs are arriving daily the backbone of the Internet and — including heavyweights like the World Wide Web, and they WordPerfect. And they're all free. are increasingly important in True, you can't eat software for keeping corporate America runlunch, but it is awfully useful. ning. Funny that they should all If you were Microsoft, would depend on a premise stemming you be worried? If you were a from the golden rule. Linux user, would you be happy The one thing Stallman never about paying $50 for Microsoft did was to write the actual guts of software on your computer that Unix itself. He knew what a big you're not going to use? Stay project that could be, and he tuned for the further adventures of wanted to do it right. Fools rush Linux. ® in where angels fear to tread. The "fool" in this case was a Finnish Jordan Young and Margy Levine graduate student named Linus Young write about computers and Torvalds. In 1991 he got a comthe Internet in Cornwall, VT. Write puter and was too cheap to spring to them with your Linux experiences for Microsoft's software. So as an at MJ7Days@gurus.com.
among women and from time to time with individual women); this is hardly even a good coincidence! The corresponding estrus cycles of some other mammals are 28 days for opossums, 11 days for guinea pigs, 16 to 17 days for sheep, 20 to 22 days for sows, 21 days for cows and mares, 24 to 26 days for macaque monkeys, 37 days for chimpanzees, and only five days for rats and mice. One could argue, I suppose, that the human female, being more intelligent and perhaps aware of her environment, adapted to a cycle close to that of the moon, while lower animals did not. But then the 28-day period for the opossum must be a coincidence, and if it is a coincidence for opossums, why not for humans?" Then again, who knows? People have figured there was a connection between the lunar month and menstruation for as long as women have been getting the monthlies. Moon, month and menstruation are all related etymologically. No less an authority than Charles Darwin believed that menstruation was linked to the moon's influence on tidal rhythms, a legacy of our origin in the sea. The coincidence between the lunar and menstrual cycles is closer than George Abell would have us believe — studies have found the average menstrual period is 29 days and change. At least some critters' biologies are linked to the lunar cycle; in the lemur, for example, estrus and sex tend to occur around the time of the full moon. Efforts to turn up similar patterns in humans have had unimpressive results, however. Several researchers over the years have claimed to detect lunar rhythms in menstrual onset and such; others see nothing. Biologist Winnifred Cutler, in a 1980 paper, found that 40 percent of women in a random sample showed "a preponderance of menses onsets in the light half-cycle of the month" (the two weeks centered on the full moon). To me this suggests 60 percent of women didn't show any coincidence, but Cutler says that's because I just don't get it, honey. Maybe not, but if there really is a moon-menstruation link, you couldn't prove it by me.
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Back to Barry Popik. Barry, you'll remember from last week's column, is the amateur word researcher who established that New York's nickname the Big Apple was initially popularized by horse-racing writer John J. Fitz Gerald in the 1920s rather than by jazz musicians as was once believed. Next Barry turned his attention to Chicago's nickname, the Windy City. Common folk believe Chicago was so dubbed because it's windy, meteorologically speaking. The more sophisticated set (including, till recently, your columnist) thinks the term originated in a comment by Charles Dana, editor of the New York Sun in the 1890s. Annoyed by the vocal (and ultimately successful) efforts of Chicago civic leaders to land the world's fair celebrating Columbus' discovery of America, Dana urged his readers to ignore "the nonsensical claims of that windy city" — windy meaning excessively talkative. But that may not be the true explanation, either. Scouring the magazines and newspapers of the day, Popik found that the nickname commonly used for Chicago switched from the Garden City to the Windy City in 1886, several years before Dana's comment. The earliest citation was from the Louisville Courier-]ournal in early January, 1886, when it was used in reference to the wind off Lake Michigan. In other words, the common folk have been right all along! However, when Popik attempted to notify former Chicagoan but soon-to-be New Yorker Hillary Rodham Clinton of his findings, she blew him off with a form letter — and this on an issue she could have ridden into the Senate. Come on, Hill, quit worrying about the Puerto Ricans and pay attention here. You want to lose the etymologist vote? (Z) — CECIL ADAMS
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Welcome to the four-week-long Festival of Reversals, Aries. Let the flippy-floppy begin! May I suggest a few simple rituals to get you primed for the revelry? First, for you men: 1) C r y real tears as often as possible. 2) Find lots of good reasons to squeal with delight, " O h , my G o d , that is so lovely." 3) Kiss your guy friends affectionately on the cheek w h e n you greet them. N o w as for you w o m e n : 1) Whistle exuberantly while going about your daily tasks. 2) Beat out infectious rhythms on your thighs and on the steering wheel of the car (better yet, on actual hand drums) every chance you get. 3) Give yourself permission to emit loud, powerful belches.
TAURUS
(Apr. 2 0 - M a y 20): A secret civil war is simmering. It's secret because hardly anyone is conscious of the growing dissonance, even some of the people who're already wading into the thick of the battle. N o w that I've told you about it, you're in a position to gently blow everyone's cover and tactfully bring the struggle out into the open. "Gently" and "tactfully" are the operative words here, along with "humorously." Try to be a cross between a diplomat a n d a clown. Keep your neutrality intact as you dissolve the tension with light-hearted ferocity.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Unless you were raised by a pack of feral pigs, this would b e a good time to launch your second childh o o d , A n d .unless you've got art aversion to having your m i n d changed and changed and changed, this would be be a convenient time to witness events that would have seemed impossible to the person you were just six m o n t h s ago. It's'a fact that sometimes I lie, but only to get you to believe in myths that are truer than the literal truth. Take that into consideration when I tell
you that the delusions of grandeur you'll be experiencing are not exactly delusions.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): W h a t is the inspirational spirit you want to rule your home, Cancerian? W h a t fresh, hot ideals do you want to have at the throbbing heart of your domestic intimacy? This is an excellent time to raise your comm i t m e n t to bringing out the best in everyone who's living under your roof. May I suggest, as a start, that you and your roomates or family members get together for an uninhibited confab? Discuss what your crucial personal goals are, then make sacred pledges to support each other in feeding them. L E O
(July 23-Aug. 22): As a
connoisseur of language, I never underestimate the power of my speech to shape the quality of my experience. That's why the w o m a n I love and I decided not to refer to each other as "girlfriend" and "boyfriend." W e didn't want to be subconsciously living up — or rather living down — to the blah frivolity of those terms. T h e stilted "significant other" was not an option either. O u r relationship is ragingly tender and wildly focused, and we wanted a title to reflect that. We considered "soulfriend," "groovemate," "lovecrunch" and "cuddlecrony," but ultimately decided on "freaky consort." And what's this got to do with you, Leo? You're in a phase when your ability to access your highest potentials depends mightily on how you talk about those potentials.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I find nothing inherently wrong with
you being the servant of two (or more) masters — as long as all the masters ask you to do work that's in line with your own purest values. But there come times in every Virgo's life when she simply has to devote herself full-time to one master at the expense of the others. N o w is such a moment. For the foreseeable future, you would go astray if you overindulged your versatility and love of variety. To align yourself with the gods' master plan, you should dedicate all your earthy enthusiasm to the heart's desire of just one of those gods.
by yourself in the candlelight and leisurely replay your recent conquests, you can ease yourself into the m o o d to muse on this riddle: What is the opposite of a nervous breakdown? Whatever the answer to that is, Scorpio, you should induce it a.s.a.p., because it'll prevent the nervous breakdown. (Hint: T h i n k relaxed breakthrough)
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): It's quite possible that you will receive a personal call from Saddam Hussein this week, offering you an all-expenses-paid vacation in Iraq and a tour of his private bunkers if you will only record a video denouncing the T V show "Sesame Street" as an insidious tool of the Great Satan. T h e n again, that scenario is not quite as likely as other, analogous ones, all of which will revolve around the theme of you being seductively invited to compromise your principles in return for a bigger share of a pie you don't really crave all that much.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oci. 22): "I used to be an adult before I grew up." That's your first T-shirt slogan/bumpersticker/holy mantra for the coming week, Libra. It perfectly conveys the spirit that cosmic forces will reward you for embodying. N o w I'm going to provide you with five more venerable gems. Each one will be as empowering as the first, so just think of the poised authority you'll wield if you get a T-shirt printed with all six. "Reality is for people who lack imagination. Never let your sense of morals interfere with doing the right thing. Life is too important to be taken seriously. I could do anything if I could just find out what it is. To achieve the impossible, all you have to do is attempt the absurd."
QUARIUS(Jan 0-Feb. 18): I've coined a :ew words over the years: jyro kleptomania, for instance, which means a Prometheus-like compulsion to steal fire. T h e n there's angel-retentive, which refers to a temperament, in contrast to "anal retentive," which has a bemused and relaxed openness to the possibility of miracles. Both of these terms should be applicable to you in the coming days, Aquarius. I'd also like to make a fresh offering. To h o n o r your i m m i n e n t departure for a place not unlike the one Dorothy's tornado transported her to, I'll urge you to ozify your vision. For best results, muse on Proust's advice: " T h e real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."
PISCES
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-
21): After all the hearts you've inflamed, after all the bluffs you've called and climaxes you've induced and gossip you've inspired, I think you need to go off-duty for a while, maybe even find a nice comfortable place to retreat. There, as you sip a cold beer or hot chamomile tea all
selfish benefits for you.
(Feb. 19-Mar. 20): Dear Doctor Brezsny: I have been surfing the tidal waves of emotion for weeks now and am proud to say I haven't wiped out once. Well, there was that one near-miss. But to tell you the truth, I don't know how much longer I'll be able to perform this balancing act. I can feel my concentration ebbing. D o you psychically see signs I'll be reaching shore anytime soon? — Wobbly Surf Master. Dear Wobbly: I predict landfall within five days. C a n you hold on till then? A windfall awaits you if you can. (7)
Jan. 19): Chogyam Trungpa made a distinction between actual compassion and idiot compassion. T h e , idiot kind is the short-termfixwe offer a suffering person in order to console him, even though it might encourage him to keep doing what brought on his pain. Authentic compassion, on the other hand, might at first seem severe — as when we refuse to buy into someone's habitual tendency to portray himself as a victim. If done lovingly, though, this more strenuous kindness serves as a wake-up call. I bring this up, Capricorn, because you're now in a phase when actual compassion — though not the
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HATE TO DATE. SAGACIOUS, 40+ WOMAN sought. Qualifying hurdle: How does one create a nurturing place where intimacy may grow? Baffled? Then join me for Woody Allen film binge and distracted pondering. 3695
ANGEL WANTED. 47, 5'u", 160 LBS., FIT, ambitious, healthy, hard-working, NS, ND, likes animals, working, country walks, friends, cuddling, romance. ISO attractive, fit, healthy angel. 3594
ROMEO SEEKS JULIET. DWM, 40S, 5*9", 155 lbs., engaging, open-minded, appealing, proportionate, youthful, athletic. Great kisser and lover. Into having fun indoors and out. Call for more Information. 3712
INDUSTRIOUS MAVERICK, ASPIRING SLACKER, 40. Cute, funny, well-read, athletic, evolving (OK, glacially). Seek bright, attractive, creative F for companionship, kicks, quietude... possible arteest-ic entrepreneurial collaboration. 3611
SWM, 41, SEEKING THAT SPECIAL LADY! Do you enjoy golf, camping, dining out, movies, weekend get-aways, playing cards & more? Looking for someone humorous, easy-going & down-to-earth, w/ similar interests. Let's talk. 3596
DWPM, 38, DAD, PHYSICALLY FIT, INTO hiking, skiing, looking at the stars, and getting to know a sexy, intelligent, somewhat conservative woman who has some of the same interests, 30-40. 3713
'47 MODEL FORD, GOOD HEALTH W/ ALL MY wheel covers and lug nuts. Looking for passengers who enjoy travel, beach, cuddling, and more. Call before inspection & registration runs out. 3614
LET THE GOOD TIMES BEGIN. SWM, 28, 6', enjoys dining, sunset walks, Rollerblading, tennis, ISO SWF, NS, 23-30, attractive, honest, confident, big heart, zest for fun. Possible LTR or just having fun. 3597
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DWM, YOUNG-LOOKING 45, BR./BR., SHORT, sweet, sentimental, romantic, very goodlooking, smoker, ND, excellent physical shape. Seeks F for companionship, dining out, dancing. Slender to average build. 3715
SWPM, 39, FUNNY, ATTRACTIVE, EASY-GOING romantic. Loves golfing, hiking, biking, music, movies, dining out. Must be spontaneous, easy-going, love to travel, also veg on the couch & cuddle. 3615
I'M A ONE-WOMAN MAN LOOKING FOR A ONEman woman. LTR possibly leading to youknow-what. Interested? Let's get the party started right! Serious lady only. 3600
SWM, 37, TEACHER WHO ENJOYS NATURE, art, psychology, snowshoeing, hiking, movies, reading and good coffee. Seeking intense, but fun-connection with an attractive, unusual and quirky F, 25-40. 3717
SWM, 31, LOOKING FOR FEMALE, 27-32, who enjoys outdoors, hiking, biking, skiing; also likes to spend quiet times at home. 3612
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FRIENDLY CUP OF COFFEE? 38 YO WIDOWER/ father, former Peace Corps volunteer, teacher, NS. Sensitive, recreational, attractive, adventuresome. Are you the attractive, like-minded woman, 29-42, who might join me at Borders? 3718 HAVE YOU RUN NAKED THROUGH FILEDS, taken dips in mountain streams, enjoyed eros for its own sake? Two naturists need answers from Fs or BiFs. 3719 28 YO VERMONTER FOLLOWING HIS BLISS. Hard-working philosopher/writer/musician who knows his trees seeks a beautiful "earth woman" who is comfortable with herself and the world around her. 3720 SWM, 32, LOOKS YOUNGER, ISO SF WHO wants fun, is honest, likes to be treated mice and will give same in return. Someone older or mature enough for helathy companionship. 3723 TAKE FRIENDSHIP, ADD WATER & STIR. Where the So. Burlington mall buildings are blue, I will meet you. Think music. M, 50s, ISO SF, NS, for friendship, more? 3670 LOOKING FOR THE RIGHT ONE: 45-55, DWF who likes everything country, NS, NA, with good conversation along w/ great company. Start w/ friendship, maybe more later. 3681 I'M 43, DIVORCED W/ 3 KIDS I SHARE visitation rights. I'm searching for someone special to be friends first, love, build a future with. I treat women with great respect. 3683
LOOKING FOR A BEST FRIEND OR MORE? DWPM, 40, NS, fit and very attractive, seeks lady, 25-45, w / similar qualities for friendship or possible LTR. Finally, a nice guy! 3656 •58 VINTAGE, NO BACKSEAT REQ'D. Not worn, but wise. Many interests, few needs. Fit, professional, clever with common sense. If you're similar, or just interested, respond with questions or answers. 3660 BALDING & BEAUTIFUL. ATTRACTIVE, FIT SWM, 40, NS, enjoys life, the outdoors, running, canoeing, tennis, dancing, cooking, sex and quiet evenings. Seeking attractive, fit, NS F, 21-40, with similar interests. 3664 NATURE, OUTDOOR EXERCISE, TRAVEL AND good books represent this fit SWPM, 42. ISO fit, intelligent woman with humor who would like to accompany me in life's ramble across diversified landscapes. 3665 43 YO NICE GUY LIKES HIKING, SKIING, MY two boys, equality, music, good food, bookstores, long conversations, drumming. Homophobes, smokers, please read next ad. Take a chance, I am. 3668 SWM, 31, GENTLE, FIT & FUNNY. I love music, art and the outdoors. Seeking an attractive SF, NS, 24-34, who likes to play in the rain. 3503 MOONLIGHT AND MORE. WARM, ATTRACTIVE, educated SWPM, young 50s, seeks woman of quality & integrity—kind, intelligent, spiritual yet sophisticated—to explore the outdoors, the arts and the world together. 3504
N-LOVING, SENSUAL, SELF-EMPLOYED artist and (moderate) Red Sox fan, 40's, looking for sexy, intelligent, responsible companion, 30-45, who wants to help root the Yankees into second place. 3685
COUCH POTATOES NEED NOT APPLY. SWM, 45. 5'5". into the active life, needs a sensual F to share it with. Like native women, French-Canadian women. Ability to parler le Francais a +. Live for the outdoors. Contact me for adventure. 3505
SOME PEOPLE CALL ME CUTE. I DONT KNOW if they are being sarcastic, but if you enjoy sarcasm, I would like to mee you. BiWM, 26, geek, NS. 3687
LOOKING FOR SOMEONE W/ SENSE OF humor, 27-37. over 5'8". Needs to know what she wants from a man & in life. I'm 35, divorced, tall, good shape, great sense of humor. 3507
SHE'S OUT THERE. ELEGANT, SENSUAL, intelligent, kind-hearted, loves nature & healthy living, 37-47ish. Me: DWM, tall, good-looking, principled, outgoing, mischievous & passionate. Have zest for life & emotionally available. 3689
WANTED: ENTHUSIASTIC TRAVELER FOR roads less traveled. Likes different people, places, customs, religions, culture & is welleducated. Enjoys Vivaldi, Billie Holiday, folk, arts, crafts, painting. Spiritually grounded and growing. Candle-lit bubble bath. ISO 50+ NSPF. 3510
DJPM, 48, W/ KIDS, 5'8", NS, RURAL, CTRL VT, healthy, cheerful, energetic, housebroken. Eclectic interests: biking, skiing, gardening, reading, writing, music, more. ISO friend, companion, partner, LTR. 3693 WALKS, TALKS, PERCHANCE TO DANCE. SWPM, 37, with graduate degree, enjoys hikes, conversation, dancing, X Files, Ally McBeal, NPR and occasional fine glass of wine. Seeks SWF for friendship, possible LTR. 3694
SAILING PARTNER, NS, FOR SAILING ON LAKE Champlain or Maine coast. Sailing experience is not a requirement, but good physical condition and a sense of humor are a definite plus. 3511
SPIRITUAL, HEALTHY, MOSTLY VEGETARIAN, cute/handsome, active, cultured, humorous, musical, sensual, affectionate, articulate SPM. Enjoys heart-felt communications, nature, dancing, healing. ISO attractive F, up to 43, who relates to these values. 3601
ACTUALLY VOTED "BEST FRIEND" IN H.S. Tall, dark and handsome, more educated than I'll ever use, ISO athletic, attractive & intelligent SF, 25-33, w h o reads these, but hasn't ever responded to one. 3608 SEEKING A LADY, 30-50, FOR SHARING LIKE interest in Civil War, alternative sources of energy, etc. I'm a widower. I own my home and am financially secure. 3490 VERY SUCCESSFUL, BRIGHT, CASUAL GUY, 34, seeks sexy, smart, beautiful woman, 223oish, for dinners, music, outdoors, friendship, pillow talk, time at length. I'm tall, fit, funny, handsome, sometimes shy, have lots to share. 3494
acqking women COME ON OVER, PLEASE. WE'LL HAVE LOTS of fun. SWF, 19, seeks sexy goddess to entertain. If you're pleasantly plump, all the better. 18-24 YO preferred. 3819 GWF, MID-30S, HARD-WORKING, HARDplaying, outdoor type, athletic, independent, honest, secure. Likes hiking, watersports. ISO GF, 25-40, w/ sense of humor for friendship, possible LTR. 3755 BOARD GAMES, NOT HEAD GAMES. I'm funny and versatile, earnest and dichotomous. Sober as a judge, nutty as a fruitcake. You're 25-52, NS/ND, passionate about something besides your cat. 3757 SGF, 25. FASHIONABLE, FUN, INTELLIGENT femme girl seeks femme or "soft butch," 2335, fun, intelligent & active. No bar flies. Are you out there? 3742 GWF, 42 SMOKER ENJOYS COMPUTERS, reading, walking, ISO friend, hopefully LTR w/ SWF, 35-50. 3738.
FRIENDS TELL ME "THERE ARE SO MANY women that would be interested. You're attractive, sensitive, light-hearted, present, sometimes intense." Prove them right, please. NSPM, 50s, ISO attractive F with grace & substance. 3592
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HEY, YOU. WOMAN WHO NEVER ANSWERS ads. You are getting sleepy. Your eyes are getting heavy. SWM, 35, confused, absurd person seeks date. Thank you very much. (When you awake, you will remember nothing of this.) 3603 IF YOU HAVE HEARD THE SOUND OF ONE hand clapping, and you long to be back in time before you were given a face, you are the one that I have looked for. Contact me and we will plan our escape. 3607
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SEEKING AN EXTROVERTED, 30-SOMETHING, beautiful dyke who projects a strong countenance, yet has undeniable allure. Moi? Attractive preppie, enjoys being the mildly provocative accomplice! Prefer independent prof, who "passes," but socially leads lifestyle more out than in. 3724 GWF, 39, HONEST, SECURE, CARING, ISO GF, 20-40, for friendship, maybe more. Must be honest, secure and fun to be with. 3674 SEEKING SOULMATE (WITH A SENSE OF humor). Independent, honest GPF, 44, & cat seek special indiv. to share similar interests, including books, films, cooking, yoga, swimming, walking, animals & the quiet life in VT. ISO LTR w/ someone 35-50 YO. 3658 MaWF, Bi-CURIOUS, WONDERING WHAT I AM missing. Attractive, blonde, blue eyes, early 30s. Discretion needed and assured. Seeking Bi or Bi-curious to teach me. Looking for friendship plus whatever. 3662
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: OPEN AUDITIONS: GEPM, 38, SEEKS G/BiM, % 18-40, interested in auditioning for the part * of long-term companion. ALI types of music, 1 sports, outdoors and gardening. Lively, NS, * ocassional drinker OK. 3781 J « » *
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SWEETNESS & SASS. SENSUAL GWM, 35, seeks GM who usually wouldn't answer a personal, for friendship leading to monogamous intimacy leading to LTR — the way it should happen. 3682
* SWM, PROFESSIONAL, 44, 5'n", 180 LBS. I love walks, talks, hiking, camping, biking, I skiing, oceans, reading, the arts, movies, T writing and gardening. Seeking an individual t with similar interests. 3686 * * * l I * I
BETA BEAR SEEKS ALPHA MALE FOR explorations in algolagnia. Submissive GWM, 40s, 5 ' n " , 190 lbs., balding, bearded, hairy-chested, seeks dominant men for kinky close encounters. Age, race open. Assertive attitude a must. All scenes considered. All replies answered. 3688
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WCU, ATTRACTIVE & SEXY, BOTH MID-30S, ISO sexy F for ultimate pleasure. Exp. not necessary, but a desire for something new & exciting is. Help fulfill our fantasy. 3805 21 YO STUD ISO HOT, OLDER WOMAN FOR some wild & kinky, erotic fun! ISO a woman who likes to be spanked, and wants pure pleasure! Here to please. Come & get it while it's hot! 3765
9/5, BIKE PATH. WE WERE PLAYING the passing game, as you put it. You were on a yellow bike in all white; I would dare to guess early- to mid-30s. Me: purple shorts/blue tank top. Would like to talk & ride together. 3788
3754 DAD SAID NEVER CHASE INSIDE STRAIGHTS. SWP, just shy of 40, street/book smart Ivy grad/Playboy alum seeks 5-6 gentlemen for friendly, straight poker. Nothing wild, no high/low; no ringers, rounders or collusion. Cocktails, smoking, colorful language OK. Sportsmanship etiquette essential. Please invite me to your game. I play nice. 3773
WPCU SEEKS ATTRACTIVE, VALUPTUOUS F, 28-45, for erotic, good times. ND/NS. Must be clean, discreet, sincere & honest. 3783 DPM, 30S, Bi-CURIOUS, SEEKS CU, 35-50, TO fulfill my fantasy. Must be clean, safe, and willing to be gentle. Please help this firsttimer. 3739
SWF, 27, LOOKING FOR OTHERS WHO SHARE similar interests. Enjoy music, theater, movies, TV, reading and much more. These activities are much more fun w/ others! Friendship only. 3767
SWM, 40, CLEAN, Bi-CURIOUS, CAN BE SUBmissive. Want to meet WCU or dominant F.
3657 SWPM, 30S, PASSIVE, SEEKS AGGRESSIVE SF, height/weight proportionate. For LTR. monogamous. Likes: discipline, spanking, Xdress, etc. 3667
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FRIENDSHIP SOUGHT W/ INSIGHTFUL, contemporary, responsible individuals over 40. Appreciate visual arts, global culture, mystery. Occupation irrevelant. Urban exile transplants encouraged, charlatans are not. Value quality, the beautiful, rare and unusual. M & F equally welcomed, non-parents preferred.
CUTE CU LOOKING FOR BIF FOR THREESOME. Tried it once and I loved it. Please fulfill my fantasy one more time. Both early-20s, looking for 23-30 YO. Help. 3779
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LITHESOME FRISBEE PLAYER AT WATERFRONT park, 9/5: shades & shaved. I was recovering from the flu & watching from behind my hair. Wanna toss some disc? 3792
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VICES, VIRTUES, TALENTS AND GIFTS, perfect am I for all that exists. Scoured I both sea and land; still hoping to find one good man. Box 611 ELEGANT MUSE, MYSTERIOUS AND WRY. SWF, 46, seeks gentle man caller to spoil. Be a sincere, creative SWPM, 45+, who enjoys foreign film and the esoteric. NW VT. Box 606 STOWE AREA, WANTED: A ONE-WOMAN MAN, tall, well-built, hard-working, good dancer. Man born June or July, i96sish. No baggage. Box 600 LETS IGNITE A FRIENDSHIP, HOPE FOR more. SWF, NS, 53, dark, slim, optimistic, centered, fit, full of fire, has indoor/outdoor interests, adores music, animals, country living. ISO kindred spirit, 4OS-5QS. Box 590 SWCF, 29, EASTERN EUROPEAN, FIT, attractive, educated, loves animals, being outdoors, reading and cooking, seeks SWCM, 28-40, wit similar interests for LTR. Box 591 ATTRACTIVE BPF, 42, 5'9", SPIRITUAL, romantic, NS, with children, looking for a gorgeous American M, educated & honest, for friendship, possible LTR. Box 592
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TRAVELED, RURAL WiWF, 47, ISO PARTNER for life's 2nd half. Tall, attractive, sturdy, active. Educated professional, romantic soul. Enjoy traveling, exploring shared interests, new ones, too. NS. Ctrl. VT. Box 578 THERE'S GOT TO BE SOMEONE OUT THERE, preferably a writer, NS/NS/NA, healthy, nice body, nature lover, some money, who can handle me. Same, 40+, yoga. Box 579
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ARE YOU ACTIVE, MODERATLEY ATHLETIC, non-politically correct, with a glaring sense of humor? This secure DPWM, 53, wants to meet you to share seasonal activities and life in general. Box 605 EARLY RETIRED ACADEMIC. PEACEFUL, alternative lifestyle in the hills. Gardens, hiking, canoeing, eclectic music, books... Super fit, 165 lbs., 5'io", health-oriented. ISO similarly inclined, educated, fit, slender, soish, outdoorsy woman. Box 599 ROMANTIC SWM, COLLEGE PROFESSOR interested in travel, photography, outdoors, Trivial Pursuit and much more. 5*10", tall, 51, 245 lbs., seeking adventurous, NS F, 21-50, interested in sharing life's joys. Box 603
9/1, CHEFS CORNER, WILLISTON. You: stunning, classy blond-haired lady w/ friend. Me: 3-pc. blue suit, curly hair and blue eyes, driving silver Mercedes. I would very much like to introduce myself. Please call. 3732
BILL, THANKS FOR ANSWERING MY AD: #3688. Your response was interesting and provocative. Unfortunately, you didn't leave a contact number. Please call back so we can talk. 3756
ATTRACTIVE F SOCIAL WORKER, long dark & silver hair, sweater and jeans, Marketplace Mall, 8/30, w/ coworker and friends, three years since I spied you last. Love to meet. 3740
BORDER'S CAFE, LABOR DAY MORNING. You have brown hair, reading two Astrology books. I have dark hair, and was reading the newspaper. Would love to chat if you're interested. 3758
TUES. AFTERNOON, 8/31, HEALTHY LIVING. I walked by while you were having lunch. I was wearing a long black skirt; your sweet smile caught my eye. Maybe we could meet. 3746
9/1 - I WAS SNORKELING. YOU HAD BEEN coming there for for thirty years. I'd like to talk with you about your years at the Gorge.
SMUGGLER NOTCH, RAINY SATURDAY, 8/21. You: originally from Minneapolis living in Burlington, black VW. Me; soaking wet, from Stowe, black truck. Meet again? 3723
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STILL LOOKING FOR YOU, CHRIS. We met a couple of months ago & kept in contact. Then your phone number changed. I'm now lost & need some of your direction. Anxious to catch up. 3733
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JIM, ALMOST ONE YEAR SINCE OUR LATEiiight baseball game on industrial. Hoping for another chance to take you on. See you in the dugout? Firemans friend. 3782
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ATTRACTIVE BPF, 40, 5'8", 155 LBS, educated, enjoys outdoors, tennis, movies, seeking handsome PM, 35-42, NS, for LTR. Must like kids, honest, good sense of humor. If chemistry is there, let's grow together. Photo appreciated. Box 593
JOANNE AT ARVAD'S, 8/14. I meant to talk to you again, but you left too soon. Do you still live in Canada? 3735
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RETIRED, SINGLE, PERSONABLE MAN OF merit seeks companionship of F w/ integrity for LTR and mutual nurturing. 45-55 YO with modest income to share in full-time RV lifestyle. Box 586 INTELLIGENT, ARTICULATE, WIDELY READ woman wanted, with good taste, good manners, indoor and outdoor interests andpossessed of a lively prose style. Let's correspond before meeting. Box 587 SEEKING MY GODDESS, THE SORCERESS OF nature who would command my heart. Me: 5'10", long hair, blue eyes, slim & strong. Man of the mountains, child of the waters. Photo, please. Box 588
I WANT TO SLOW DANCE, DWM, NS, 48, tall successful, athletic, good listener, enjoys fitness activities, cooking, music. Seeking to meet slender, fit easy-going SWF, NS. ISO a pleasant surprise? Me too. Box 582
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SWM, CANADIAN-EUROPEAN ACADEMIC, fondness for books, music, travel, nature, art; easy-going and open. Seeks woman, 35+, with similarities and sense of humor. Spiritual & communicative. Box 595
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GWM, 5'io", 170 LBS., 40S, LOOKING FOR someone to share life with. Likes outdoors, music, biking and life. Have great sense of humor. ISo sensitive GM. Box 610
577 LEAVING FOR VAIL MID-OCTOBER. SWM, 4oish, tall, tailed musician seeks Winter Wife, semi-lean traveler, no cigs., yellers. Share life, Vail apt., expenses. Pretty, ticklish feet a plus. Box 581
WBiM, 28, BOTTOM, SUB., X-DRESSER, new to scene. ISO G/BiM, 25-35, for personal encounters of mutual pleasure. NS/ honesty/cleanliness/discretion a must. Box 580
jatfm KINKY SWM, 22, ATTRACTIVE, WITTY 81 horny; into bondage, forced feminization, cross dressing and strap-ons. ISO horny F, Bi/straight, to be love slave to. Be clean. Will answer all. Box 608
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SLENDER, HEALTHY GWM. 55, SMOKER, bottom with endless libido, seeks top w/ same for monogamous, lasting LTR. Write. Tell me about yourself and I'll respond. Box 612
HUMANIST PROFESSIONAL MALE; TALLER, smarter, stronger, freer than most; seeks female counterpart, healthy in mind and body, read to enjoy the present moment. 4osto early 50s; northern VT, please. Box
SHY GUY, 48, STRONG, SILENT, STEEL exterior, warm center, masc., in shape, kind, compassionate, introv. ISO mono LTR. Patience needed—30 yr. solitary social existence, few updates since '68. Worthwhile. Box 601
MATURE, ATTRACTIVE GUY, 42, BR./BR., 6'4", 193 lbs., masculine, very intelligent and sincere, seeks another straight-acting guy who might easily turn heads at the gym or Nectars. Be humble. Box 607
ARE THERE ANY TRIM, ATTRACTIVE, REASONably sane, intelligent CUs out there looking for the same in a DWM? If so, write. Box 589
9/2. FELISHA, WAS THAT YOU AT THE ATM machine? Are you back in town? Let me know. I recognized you after you left. My card worked, his didn't. Box 609
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