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EXPRESS YOURSELF Now that “cross-dresser” Matt Stickney has struck a blow for gay “cultural diversity” at Burlington High School, may I suggest that the virgins at BHS (if any remain of that endan gered species) wear — as do young virgins in many African and Asian villages — dried cow dung in their hair to demon strate their own cultural unique ness. — Peter Fay Shelburne LUCK IS A LADY As the Poobah of Political Prose, Peter Freyne is usually untouchable. But Prince Peter’s1 high school French could use a little tune-up. Please tell Le Grand Pierre that the correct translation of the phrase “good luck” is bonne chance, not bon. — Roland de Chanson Winooski BREAK T H E DEADLOCK My support for Dave Curtis for State Senator from Chittenden County is based on his demonstrated integrity as an attorney and his proven experi ence as a legislator. The legislative deadlock on the vital issues of universal health care, property tax reform and school funding evident in the immediately preceding ses sions must be broken. Dave is uniquely qualified to be the catalyst for change so sorely needed in Vermont’s Senate chamber. Senator David Curtis will provide the leader ship and compassionate understanding born of his wide experience to accomplish what petty partisan bickering has prevented. I will be casting my single vote for Dave Curtis and urge all those Chittenden County voters who agree that change is necessary to do the same. — Ray E. Victory Burlington D O IN G T H E R IG H T T H IN G I only involve myself in politics when there is a candidate who I truly believe will do the right thing in Montpelier by representing
Vermonters who do not have the opportunity to have voices there — our elders, women, men and children living in poverty, people with ill ness and disability... David Curtis has inspired me to work with him to get him to the Vermont State Senate. He has a life-long history of representing and serv ing the people of Vermont and now wants to do this work in the Senate. He is intelligent, experi enced, compassionate and kind — all qualities I value in any leader. He will do what is right, what is kind and with a collaborative spirit so desperately lacking in the last session. Please join me in voting for David Curtis for Vermont State Senate. — Nancy Cathcart Burlington A SMALL “D ” DEMOCRAT I urge my fellow Vermonters to support Doug Racine’s campaign for Lieutenant Governor. Doug is a competent and successful busi nessman, a thoughtful and compassionate “small d” Democrat, a 10-year state Senator who earned bipartisan support in his four years as President Pro Tern of the Senate, and who enjoys bipartisan respect and support today. His record in the Senate is one of careful and conser vative stewardship of the human, financial, material and environmental resources of Vermont. Doug is straightforward and honest. His charm is never slick and never hides a secret motive; his charm is his genuine, active and constructive concern for the communities in which we live and all the citizens, of our com munities. Doug Racine puts his money where his mouth is; he pays his debts and keeps his promises. His neighbors respect him — he has overwhelmingly carried his hometown of Richmond every time his name has been on any ballot. Doug is running a positive campaign and has asked me to avoid negative statements about his opponent. I shall do so. But I do ask each reader to make his or her own judgment. Compare the character traits, their personal and political records, and the accomplishments of Doug Racine to those of John Carroll, and think about where the balance lies. W hat kind of person do we want as our Lieutenant Governor, controlling the Senate and literally a heartbeat away from the Governor’s office? I’ll vote for Doug Racine. — Terry Ehrich North Bennington
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Dear Cecil, In a gas oven you can cook a turkey for five, six hours, and the oven is nor vented to the outside. But run your gas furnace for any time at all without a vent and somebody is gonna die. Huh? — DPeter6857,viaAOL Now, Peter. Your oven, relatively speaking, is little. Your furnace is big. Litde things give us little problems. Big things give us big prob lems.. It’s not such a hard concept to grasp. Given abundant oxygen, combustion of natural gas creates two major by-products: water vapor and carbon dioxide (two atoms of oxygen per atom of carbon). Lacking enough oxygen, however, you get carbon monoxide, with only one atom of oxygen per atom of car bon. Carbon dioxide is harmless. Carbon monoxide will kill. A gas range typically uses 10,000-15,000 BTUs of energy per hour. Most houses are sufficiendy leaky that ample fresh oxygen can be drawn from outside to replace what’s lost to combustion. Not so with a fomace, which can use 100,000 BTUs or more. If the furnace isn’t vented, or if the vent is blocked, the oxygen supply is quickly depleted, resulting in iocs of carbon monoxide and a bunch of asphyx iated folks. But you’re Joe Skeptic. You’re saying, hmm, if adequate oxygen is the key, what if I just bring in a fresh-air supply for the furnace and bag that costly chimney? Good effort, doofus, but no. Oxygen’s gotta circulate to combust the gas efficaciously. In a gas range this is accomplished by local con vection. The much greater oxygen demands of a fomace require a chimney. Perhaps you’ve never considered the miracle of the chimney. High time yotf began. It is of course true that a chimney enables waste gases to escape, but this doesn’t convey the ingenuity of the thing. A well-constructed chimney fosters draft, whereby a column of heated exhaust gases is channeled energetically up a flue. This creates a partial vacuum in the firebox below and draws in fresh oxygen to feed the flames. (That’s why you have chimneys on outdoor barbecue pits. The fact that it keeps the smoke out of your eyes is incidental.) A proper draft is so strong that the chimney need not be sealed at the point where it exits the furnace in order to do the righteous work of exhaust-gas removal. Often, in fact, there is an opening or gap of some kind. Don’t worry, its so fresh air can be pulled in, not so toxic gas can get out. As long as the toxic gas can escape, there isn’t any toxic gas. It’s only when it can’t that there is. Dear Cecil, With the recent deluge of hurricanes and tropical storms in the Adantic, I couldn’t help but wonder — why do most weather systems move from west to east over North America, but hurricanes and tropi cal storms in the Adantic move from east to west? — Ed iji Massachusetts Because they start in the tropics, you silly goose, where the prevail ing winds, aka the trade winds, are out of the east. Lucky for Columbus and a million other mariners in the age of sail. Maybe not so lucky for you. Just to give you the big picture — you know how urgently I want you guys to get clear on the concept —• the basic flow of winds in the North Adantic in hurricane season js clockwise. The center of this cir cular flow is something known as the “Bermuda high,” which in the summer months typically parks itself in the mid-Atlantic somewhere between 30 and 35 degrees north latitude. For complex geophysical reasons having to do with the rotation of Earth, the tropical winds in the hurricane-spawning region south of the Bermuda high basically blow west. Once a hurricane gets up to speed, it may continue due west, across Central America, and out to the Pacific. More commonly, it may circle around the Bermuda high, first northwest and then north. Later, after having leveled or at least threatened various points of interest on the eastern seaboard, the hur ricane or what’s left of it heels over to the northeast and east and back out to sea. You get the picture, I’m sure. And all done without a Telestrator. CECIL ADAMS
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■THE CARROLL CHAMELEON | John Carroll had a bad day last Thursday. I Everybody has ’em now and then. But four weeks before Election Day ain’t the best time, i “It was a disaster,” he told Inside Track | Monday. He’d called a press conference at | Montpeculiar’s Baldwin Street Towers to slap I Doug Racine around for his budget votes in the „ state Senate in the good of days. Carroll had 8 charts and graphs, bells and whistles. But the | liberal press wasn’t interested. Old news, they | scoffed. W hy don’t we talk about property tax I reform instead, they badgered. „ Carroll was insulted. His Irish temper got 1 the better of him. Instead of a story about | Racine’s tawdry tax-and-spend past, the Fourth | Estate concocted a story about how the Great | White Hope of the Vermont GOP thinks the g property-tax crisis is a “myth” cooked up by the s teachers’ union, the Democrats and the frickin’ : media. Double, double, toil and trouble. Fire | burn and cauldron bubble. | With one angry stroke of his Hahhvahd I tongue, John Carroll accomplished what no ®politician in Vermont ever has — though many 1 have coveted the honor. John Carroll solved the | property tax problem with a snap of his fingers. He simply declared it doesn’t exist. I That was much too glaring a blunder for his * oft-timid opponent to ignore. 1 Douglas Racine, the man who | wants to return civility to the | state Senate, decided it was time I to fight. Backed up by the Senate Baby Boomer Caucus — 8 Sens. Peter Shumlin, Liz Ready, | Cheryl Rivers, Jeb Spaulding | and Susan Bartlett — Racine I climbed the Senate podium jf Monday and punched John B Carroll right in the nose. | “This isn’t a myth that’s | been created by the news p media,” said Racine with a new I sharpness in his voice. “This is II real life for Vermonters, and | John Carroll is out of touch if | he doesn’t understand that.” p A politician can survive p many a fault or weakness, but ®being “out of touch” is worse I than being out of money. | Will it cost him? | That remains to be seen. I W hat we do know is that John ' Carroll has led a pretty charmed life so far on Vermont’s political | stage. He’s been on three sides of more issues | than anyone can remember. Sen. Rivers, who I served alongside J.C. in the three-member Windsor County Senate delegation, described I him Monday as a “chameleon.” On property|| tax reform alone, J.C .’s been all over the map. In one of his past lives he touted a statewide | property tax on second homes, and in another P past life publicly sided with the demon himself, - Ralph Wright, on instituting a statewide prop1 erty tax on all non-residential property. These | days Carroll bashes Racine on the airwaves for I Doug’s former endorsement of a statewide J property tax. “He has no basic philosophy,” said Rivers, j “except the advancement of John Carroll.” That advancement began the day he walked I into the Statehouse as a freshman senator in I 1989. He had a brief fling playing environmen^ talist, a role he has since abandoned. It almost I cost him, but luck and timing have often been | on his side. One of the best-kept secrets about | J.C. is the fact that he once led the charge to I ban disposable diapers in the Green Mountains ®— no shit. Going into the 1990 legislative session, Sen. | Carroll had drafted his own heralded comprejg hensive solid-waste bill. Remember, back then landfill stories were all the rage. Carroll’s pro
posal boldly included a statewide ban on the sale of disposable diapers. A greater act of treehugging has rarely been seen. Fortunately for J.C.* nobody noticed except the governor. Yours truly remembers the December pow-wow in Queen Madeleine Kunin’s office when Her Highness had to decide once and for all what was in and what was out of her solid-waste bill. (You’ll recall I gave Madeleine some of the best weeks of my life that winter.) George Hamilton, Kunin’s environmental wiz, had prepared a comparison of her bill and Carroll’s bill. We went through it piece by piece. When we got to diapers, the Gov had to make the call she’d put off for weeks. (She’s a ® Libra, which earned her the moniker “Straddlin’ 1 Madeleine.”) The crucial consideration was the | fact that the diaper ban was in Carroll’s draft. g Kunin had a national reputation on the envi« ronment, and she wasn’t about to be outflanked * on the left by the suave Republican climber from Norwich. If he was going to outlaw Pampers, she was going to outlaw Pampers. Bing, bang, boom! Her decision made, Madeleine laughed aloud. “Oh, my God,” she fretted, “I’m going to be hated by millions of young mothers!” Clairvoyant, eh? When her solid-waste package hit the press a few days later, you’da thunk the only thing in it was a mandatory ban on Huggies in Vermont. Queen Madeleine made all the national news wires, all the television net works, the evening news and i the morning shows. Yours truly 1 was chasing off five talk shows a g day. Kunin quickly realized, however, she hadn’t made mil lions of young mothers mad, she’d made them laugh out loud — and they were laughing a t her, as in, “Lady, you’ve got to be on drugs or something if you intend to make possession of Pampers a crime.” Nobody noticed — in the I press or out — that John | Carroll was Vermont’s point man on diapers. He’s the one * who showed leadership and dar- S ing. J.C. deserved the credit, not Madeleine. But he didn’t get | it. And you can rest assured » Candidate Carroll is today quite * happy he never got any back I then. Now he’s on the verge of being Vermont’s j Lite Governor and cashing in on those six years j in the chameleon studies program at the state L Senate that laid the groundwork for the present, f A Miracle! — That’s how Democrat Jack Long 1 describes it. “A flash of light over my head that § must have been the Holy Ghost,” he told Inside g Track. The Freeps covered his one man protest § in D.C. outside Democratic H.Q., and in a photo cutline called Mr. Longshot the “Republican candidate” for Congress. “It was a | gem of a mistake,” said Jack, who said he hadn’t j had a chance to call and request a correction. p Think anyone at the Freeps noticed? Media Notes — Freeps reporter Jeff MacDonald departs this week for a new job in | economic development and new life in Portland, Maine. Reason? His sweetheart, for- g mer Statehouse lobbyist Heather Cheney, is a freshman at the U. of Maine Law School. They ® say love is a many-splendored thing. Temperence March — Next Tuesday Shawn g Cliche is back before the city’s license commit tee with plans for his Cherry Street nightclub. Burlington Councilor Haik Bedrosian is lead ing the charge on behalf of the forces of moral righteousness. Have another beer, Haik — indoors. □
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playing baseball or tormenting worms, I stayed at home with Tensions, riveted by tales of angry parents, rotten report cards, pimpled faces and girls with b.o. I remember one story in particular that concerned a geeky kid who loved opera and was beside himself with joy when a friend from school agreed to go with him to a performance o f La Bohbne; only to turn around when it was all over and declare that opera was “boring.” Since my single goal between the ages of nine and 16 was to get through the day without being beaten up or eaten by a dog, I had to conclude that suffering was relative and that we each have our own row to hoe. A judgm ent that is confirmed — in spades — by the recent flap about The Dress. You all know what I’m talking about. Matt Stickney. The Rosa Parks of Burlington High
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youth, crying Tfe Rosa PaHlS Of “Give me lin gerie or give me death!” in a School. The voice so loud it’s been heard as Patrick Henry far away as oftransgen Burbank and Japan. Leno’s dered youth, been joking about it. crying "Give Oprah’s called..., me lingerie or well, anyway Jerry Springer. give inn death!” At Outright h a voice so hud Vermont, an organization It's been heard as far dedicated to the welfare of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgen dered teenagers — “g/i/b/t,” for those who don’t know — there’s been a lot of talk about “the media circus” and an admirable con cern for M atts equilibrium at the eye o f the storm. O n the other hand, Outright Vermont was one o f the orga nizers of a rally held in M att’s defense on Saturday on the steps o f the Unitarian Church — brought to you in part by some thing called “Transexual Menace” — and thus might be said to have contributed directly to the circus it decries. T he first thing I noticed when I got there was a sign saying, “Liberty, Freedom, Pleats!” so I guess I’m not the only one who thinks the impor tance of this issue has been, well, just a tad exaggerated. Please understand me: I’m not blaming Matt. Teenagers have been demanding the right to dress as they please ever since Joan of Arc first talked to St. Michael and St. Catherine and conclud ed that a bowl-cut and a suit of armor was the right attire for her. I admire Matt Stickneys courage and think that the school officials who declared his wardrobe “disruptive to the learning process” are a pack of perfect imbeciles. If they’d wanted to indulge every adolescent’s fantasy of power and persecution they couldn’t have done a better job. Though how they’d notice a “disruption” if they saw one I cant even imagine, in an era of spiked hair, slit lips, pierced nippies and fuck-you tattoos. I’m surprised that students don’t turn up for school wearing pythons around their necks, but o f course I’m very old-fashioned. And I don’t suppose many people in the g/l/b/t community will agree with me when I say that this is a lousy issue on which to hang | o u r coViemkkhapeaux.* V , %m ,0 } ~ *SV \V The fact is that M att Stickney has not struck a blow for “gay” rights or “transgendered” anything. M att has struck a blow C o n tin u ed on page 3 0 ■MC
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From a, fo rm e r weapons factory, Jake B urton C arpenter p rom otes shooting dow n m ountains Bv Ed Neuert rying to get to the bot tom of the Jake Burton Carpenter story is a bit like acting the reporter in the movie Citizen Kane. Like Charles Foster Kane, Carpenter has found his own way to help revolutionize an existing indus try, he’s carved out enough mar ket share to declare himself king of his little corner of the world, and his Rosebud — that enigmatic object that energizes the story — is a slick little play thing that runs on snow. Carpenter’s empire is situated in the low-key setting of what passes for an industrial park in Burlington — a quarter-mile stretch of asphalt that leads you past Lockheed-Martin’s smallest defense plant, complete with a sign warning away the curious, a can-opener factory, a premi um cheesecake maker — and the world headquarters of Burton Snowboards. There’s no mistak ing which factory makes the hottest product
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hit the slopes in 50 years. Along one side of the building is a rusting, slightly off-kilter vin tage chairlift — the world’s biggest lawn ornament. “They used to make guns here,” it reads at shin level on the plateglass front door. Indeed, until a few years ago this building was part of the straight-laced Lockheed-Martin fold, and updated versions of the Gatling gun were made here for use on fighter jets. Today, the atmos phere inside is still high-tech, but a lot less than top secret, and there’s not a necktie in sight. Carpenter cruises unpretentiously through the head quarters clad in the work
place standard: worn sneakers, white athletic socks and a white T-shirt. His shorts reveal a long and relatively fresh surgical scar snaking 14 inches or so around his left knee. Inside, the Burton place has an air of modern industrial eclecticism. Steel I-beams mix with curving walls to show off a huge map of the world dotted with Burton branch offices in Austria and Japan, and just about every edge-of-the-envelope boarding slope outside of Antarctica. There’s a darkwalled factory showroom lit by beams of hot theatrical light. O ut back lie the cubicled realms of sales and
mar keting teams and graphic designers, their 21-inch moni tors bursting with color. Further on are “clean rooms” - dust-free, static-free areas where polymers and plastics and some quantity of good old-fash ioned wood are sandwiched together and cut into the curva ceous Band-Aid shape of the modern snowboard. The high, sweet smell of youth hangs in the air. Outside of Carpenter, 42, and some of his top managers, only a few of the people at Burton were more than a protein particle when The Beatles made their last recording. “Snowboarding ties us together. We are the first on the mountain and the last to leave,” says 28-year-old market ing team player Barry Dugan. “But Jake still remains our
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number-one tester. If ever there was a president of a company with his sleeves rolled up, it’s Jake. He is totally hands-on.”
ing school, Carpenter ran into a tree and broke a finger finding out. Having been expelled for his part in an incident where the fter its skyrocket master keys to the school some launch, Burton how wound up in his posses Snowboards has sion, Carpenter left New reached a comfortable cruising Hampshire for school in altitude, piloted by a guy most . Cornwall, New York. There he industry watchers characterize continued to fiddle around as a visionary. “Burton’s proba with his Snurfer, adding a foot bly got 40 to 45 percent market binding, modifying it here and share overall,” estimates Jim there, searching for better con Spring, industry analyst and trol. president of Recreation Around this time, some Research. “Jake’s nearest com uncontrollable things in life petitor probably has 10 or 12 caught up with Carpenter. An percent. Anyone who can claim older brother was killed in that kind of market share at the Vietnam. His mother died. He rate this industry has been enrolled at the University of growing is doing something Colorado, where he hoped to right. Jake’s stuck with a philos join the ski team. “A fantasy,” ophy and set the stage. Carpenter recalls, especially Everyone’s copying him.” after a car accident left him But things weren’t always so with a broken collarbone. He rosy. Burton’s own promotional left Boulder after a year. material characterizes the com The following year pany history as “a long succes Carpenter entered New York sion of mistakes.” Relaxing in University, where he earned a the deep white cushions of the degree in economics. In the couch in his informal corner summers he and a friend ran a office, with his feet up on a cof successful landscaping business. fee table the size of a small After college, he landed a job trampoline, Carpenter agrees. “I with a mergers and acquisition had no idea when I started fool firm that evaluated companies ing around with a Snurfer that ripe for sale. These two jobs things would turn out like stoked his entrepreneurial fire this,” he says. — stoked it beyond reason, as It all started when Carpenter is the first to admit. Carpenter was a kid on Long “Here I’d run this landscaping Island. He lived right near the thing, where it was easy to surfing grounds of Atlantic make money, and then I was Beach and had plenty of time analyzing a bunch of businesses to watch the sport outlaws of that were doing great. It made his day. He didn’t own a surf me very cocky and overconfi board, but come winter, he dent. I thought running a busi took to the slopes on skis. ness was easy.” When the Snurfer was W ith his prototype snow developed by Michigan inven board at hand, Carpenter sat tor Sherman Poppen, Carpenter down all too briefly to plan his was handed the raw material for next moves. “I probably spent his future. But “raw” is the key 20 minutes writing a rough word. The Snurfer, a strange business plan that had me pro crossbreed of surfboard and ski, ducing 50 boards a day.” With was a short, fat, yellow and the front o f the pipeline cov black object studded with ered, Carpenter blithely ignored cleats, which were meant to the market side. “Big mistake,” give your feet something to he admits. grip. An attached rope theoreti In 1977, with a small inher cally gave you a measure of itance from his mother’s estate, control, but, as anyone who has he decamped to the family ski ever ridden a Snurfer knows, it ing grounds near Londonderry is more of a handhold than a steering device. While at board C ontinued on page 10
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advance ticket purchases and promotion of inter-resort skiing with Smugglers’ Notch. The advance ticket program is designed to reduce the hassle associated with starting each day at the mountain, says Susan Graham, Stowe’s public rela tions coordinator. More significant, perhaps, is the tightening of a long-stand ing link between Stowe and Smugglers’ Notch Resort by allowing multi-day ticket pur chasers to try the neighboring resort at no additional cost A trail, now called Snuffy’s Loop, takes skiers over Big Spruce Mountain across Sterling Pond to Smugglers’ Notch to create “the New England equivalent of a European skiing experience, where separate resorts share lifts and cross-over trails,” says Mike Colbourn of the Stowe Mountain Resort. When American Skiing Corp.’s president, Leslie B. Otten, added Killington to his quiver of winter resorts, he claimed that he now held enough marketing power to attract Europeans to New England. If Otten’s plan suc ceeds, competitor Stowe — which has long been a happy blend of Old World charm and archetypical New England scenery — might just be there to greet them.
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C ontinued from page 11 When Otten and company took the helm at Sugarbush two years ago, the difference was felt immediately. One slope, the Lower ELS. at Sugarbush North, was rarely open under previous manage ment due to the absence of snowmaking and hesitance on the part of the ski patrol to drop the rope and monitor the slope. Otten’s attitude seemed to be, “If there’s snow, let’s ski it. If there’s no snow, let’s make it.” EI.S. was open most of last season, which was not blessed by great snow. Otten’s attitude, ski man agement experience and hefty line of credit were a blessing for an area in need of a resurrec tion. With a well-advertised infusion of capital — said to be $28 million during the 1994/95 season — the new owner reinvented a resort first created in 1958. Last year the “new” Sugarbush was born, with seven new lifts, 300 percent more snowmaking, a 63-million gal lon snowmaking pond and the connection of its two areas (North and South) with the longest and fastest high-speed quad in the world, according to Scott Campbell, Sugarbush Communications Manager. This year the big news is Sugarbush’s “found” religion: It’s “a mountain with soul.” They’ve created Eden — 20 acres of new tree skiing for intermediates — and everybody loves the snowmaking pond carved out of the Mad River. Matters of soul and harmo ny aside, Eden is a significant development at a resort where good tree skiing is perhaps the only missing piece. Located on Gadd Peak off the Spring Fling Triple Chair, the “new” Eden is designed to give intermediate skiers and riders a taste of the backcountry experience.-“While it will be considered more diffi cult than our blue square trails,” says Sugarbush President Blaise Carrig, “we are very excited to open up an experi ence to intermediates that, until now, only experts knew.” Right next to Eden, snowboarders will find a new play ground in the form o f the Mountain Rage area, complete with a custom-designed park and a precision-cut half-pipe. To keep the pipe in shape, the resort spent $40,000 on a cutting-and-grooming device known as a Pipe Dragon. Sugarbush, beneath all the hype, is and always has been a fun place to ski. The locals are friendly, the Mad River Valley is pretty, the original slopes were well-designed and it’s a big mountain with 2650 vertical feet.
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in Vermont where it makes sense to own Big Kahunas — K2’s extra-wide powder skis. While some areas seem to employ Doc Watson to measure their 250 inches of annual snowfall, Jay Peak has a 15-year average of 325 inches. Last year a whopping 434 inches of snow fell on the great white hopeful in the north, creating more than 30 powder days, according to the area’s calculations. But, unlikely as it may seem, the area may actually be underestimating the real number of powder days available to skiers and riders in the know. As any serious skier will tell you, a true powder day on the slopes can be followed by another one in the trees. With Jay’s extensive network of glade skiing, it’s no wonder the riders up there are having twice the fun, despite the absence of a formal terrain park. “We’ve dabbled with half pipes,” said Jay’s V.P. of Marketing Conrad Klefos, “but they don’t really work here because there’s too much inter esting stuff on the mountain.” Klefos reports that over the last six or seven years, Jay has
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created 18 gladed runs covering 150 acres of terrain. This year two sets of glades have been cleared, the already existing black-diamond Vertigo has been opened up to make it more user-friendly, and the Show-Off Glade under the quad has finally been cut. In addition to its tree ski ing, big snows and solid trail network, Jay wins kudos again this year for offering Vermonters an affordable $26 lift ticket every day of the week. Out-of-state students, with any Vermont college ID, can also take advantage of this deal, which figures to be almost half of what Stowe and Sugarbush will charge. The downside to Jay, unfor tunately, is that it’s practically in Canada. Not only is it a little further from the majority of skiers and riders, but the mer cury drops a little further than a human being was designed to bear. While this shouldn’t stop you from cherry-picking the good days, it remains to be seen if weather or location inhibits the area’s ambition to become a
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major destination resort. A recent announcement that Jay is for sale is linked to their plans to develop a golf course and become a major four-season destination resort competing with the likes of Sugarbush and Stowe. For now, don’t expect to see any changes, says Klefos, though the future may hold some high-speed detachable quads to supplement Jay’s exist ing 60-person aerial tramway. For most Jay fans, it won’t mat ter, just as long as they keep getting 300-plus inches of snow.
happened often in recent years — they’ve cut two new trails. One, an expert slope on Sterling Mountain, is a 1000foot run called The Bootlegger, while the other is a long inter mediate jug-handle to Gary B’s Northwest Passage, called Ruthie’s. One final interesting devel opment is the expansion of the Morse Mountain Learning Park, including the installation of lights to allow youngsters and adults alike to try the sports of skiing and snowboard ing.
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that service is critical to repeat business. The formula’s success shouldn’t be a surprise, consid ering it’s source — Tom Watson, Jr., former president of IBM and a majority sharehold er in Smugglers’ from 1964 to 1973. Last year the area took a small gamble and won by bet ting that hourglass-shaped skis were the wave of the future. As a test site for Elan’s parabolic skis, Smugglers’ ski school is now one-up on the competition in the rush to use the skis as learning tools. This year, Smugglers’ catch es up with the trend to allow and promote tree skiing and riding through a new openwoods policy and the creation of the super-expert Black Hole at Freefall Woods. “Fortunately, now we won’t have to pull their passes and can say, ‘great, go at it, says Barbara Thomke, Smugglers’ Public Relations Director, of the new policy. Not only is the area provid ing access to acres of woods, but they’ve actually succeeded in doing something that hasn’t
V a l l e y If imitation is the highest form of flattery, Smugglers’ Notch should feel duly compli mented. Like Smugs, Bolton Valley offers a slopeside village and competitive pass prices with an eye on the family mar ket. In addition to its location — it has the highest base eleva tion in Vermont and is less than 20 miles from both Burlington and Montpelier — what distin guishes Bolton is its unflagging
willingness to try a little harder. Following an unsuccessful attempt to bring a highway interchange to the town, Bolton seems to know it has to go the extra mile. Due to extensive night ski ing, the area offers more hours than, and as many programs as, anyone else. The popular TeleTuesday and Wednesday “Big Air” contests, for instance, draw a diverse crowd for after work recreation. Day-skiing “pinheads” favor Bolton’s backcountry glades and will find an additional five kilo meters of trails at the touring center this year. And snowboarders will really get off with a new Stimilon-designed terrain park — Vermont’s only snow board park under lights. Like Smugs, Bolton has managed to add to their trail network, cutting an as-yetunnamed 5000-foot trail from the top of the Timberline quad. Just like the new glades at other areas, Bolton’s trail helps intro duce intermediates to the trees before opening up to a standard intermediate run a third of the
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ell cross-country skiing enthusiasts from the flatlands that you live in Vermont and they’ll likely be ever-so-envious. Explain further that you live in Chittenden County, however, and meteoro logically hip out-of-staters may quickly deduce that you’re not necessarily more blessed than they are. As the closing of Camel’s Hump Nordic Center demon strates, cross-country skiing is no sure thing in or near the Champlain Valley. The sport remains highly susceptible to the whims of Mother Nature — a dependency that is at once its charm and its bane. Steadfastly low-tech in com parison to their alpine cousins, most nordic areas simply don’t operate if the weather doesn’t cooperate. Only a couple of
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of Minnesota-based Cross Country Skiing magazine. In addition, she assures, the total number of groomed cross country areas is at least holding steady and may well be increas ing. In that respect, too,
most populous county. Bolton Valley’s cross-coun try area survives by virtue of its 2100-foot base elevation. If there’s natural snow anywhere in northern Vermont, Bolton is almost certain to be open. In
“The whole thing was a peaks-and-valleys experience... The public ju s t d id n t trust we would have good skiing i f Burlington had no snow .” — M ary Brautigam co-owner; CameVs H um p Nordic Ski Area In its retro reliance on the real thing, the state’s cross country industry is apparently bucking a national trend. More and more such centers around the U.S. are investing in snow making equipment, reports Rebecca Lunna, assistant editor
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fact, even when it’s sleeting out side the warming hut, the half mile-high wilderness trails may well be getting a glorious dump. Its ability to operate almost uninterrupted from early December through late March
enables Bolton Valley’s Nordic center to sustain itself financial ly, says cross-country director Tami Bass. The diversity of trails, from easy to expert, helps attract a range of patrons. “We offer everything from Sound o f Music-son of skiing — wide and gentlq carriage roads — to advanced back-country adven ture,” Bass notes. The Catamount Family Center in Williston may be open only half as many days as Bolton, even in a relatively good winter. But its location near the edge of Burlington’s expanding suburbia insures a full parking lot at Catamount when snow does fall in abun dance in the valley. “We’re a little more tolerant of the unpredictability of con ditions because we’ve always worked in weather-related busi nesses,” says Lucy McCullough, co-owner of Catamount. Farming and construction teach
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HAPPY TRAILS patience. Sheer persistence is important, too, McCullough adds, describing herself and her husband Jim as “pretty stub born Vermonters.” Despite those traits, the Catamount Center might not have lasted, McCullough admits, were it entirely oriented toward cross-country skiing. Mountain biking has been its salvation; that six-month sport now generates about as much revenue for Catamount as does the cross-country business. The McCulloughs have further filled in gaps by sponsoring a run ning series, building the area’s largest outdoor ice-skating rink, and offering nature education and orienteering programs to school groups. “Prior to our diversifying, the cross-country skiing opera
tion was really just a winter hobby,” McCullough says. “It wasn’t enough to carry us.” Diversification is the key to survival in the nordic arena, says Rosemary Shea, director of the Catamount Trail Association. “W ith New England’s weather, things get very iffy.” That’s true even for Shea’s own association. Although it runs at some high altitudes, the length-of-Vermont ski trail at times lacks the amounts of snow needed for scheduled events to take place. “The ski centers that have done well — Craftsbury, the Highland Lodge in Greensboro, Blueberry Hill — all have lodg ing that’s part of the operation,” Shea notes. “You’ve got to have something else going for you.” Myra Brautigam, co-owner of the now-defunct Camel’s
Hump center, realized long ago that she was probably facing a diversify-or-die situation. “We explored all the options for branching out — inn-keeping, mountain biking, other sum mer activities. None came to pass,” she recounts, “partly because most of the land for the ski center didn’t belong to us and also because we couldn’t comply with various Act 250 requirements.” Closing the center wasn’t an easy decision, Brautigam says, considering “it began as a romantic dream 17 years ago. It was a classic example of trying to turn your hobby into your livelihood.” A group of Huntington resi dents are hoping to sustain a cross-country opportunity on a portion of the site. They’ve formed a limited cooperative that intends to groom a few kilometers of trails, with no
UPHILL BATTLE: Lucy and Jim McCullough wait for snow at the Catamount Family Center.
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By David Healv ooking for a $15 pair of alpine skis to mount tele mark bindings on? Perhaps you want to get the whole fami ly into cross-country equipment for less than a week’s salary? This fall’s busy schedule of ski and sporting-goods swaps may be the answer. Nearly every weekend over the next two months, scores of local groups will hold consign ment sales with enough new and used goods to satisfy even the biggest gearhead. But before you get caught up in the frenzy, do a little homework. Shopping the swaps takes savvy about equipment and the sales themselves, and a willingness to get up early on a Saturday morning. The first rule for any dealhunter is to know the market and your own needs. Even “bar gains” that aren’t needed can add up quickly and reduce the budget for other items — like lift tickets or trail passes. “Know what you want and have an idea what prices are elsewhere,” advises Leigh Mallory, director of the Colchester Ski, Skate and Sporting Goods Sale. Shopping around at retail stores first will give you a good idea of prices, he suggests. Expect savings of at least 25 to 50 percent over new retail, and even better prices on used and nordic equipment, Mallory says. The corollary to rule one is, if you don’t find what you need at a price you can afford,
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floor of a swap is a disinterested person from the sponsoring organization — usually a non profit. Though there’s nothing wrong with commercial vendors
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vested interest. You’ll be ahead of the game by knowing approximate prices and the right sizes for yourself and your family — including European shoe sizes for boot purchases. But you can still make informed purchases if you know enough to ask the right questions, always get two opin ions, and bring along the per son who will actually be using the equipment you’re buying — especially if it’s ski boots. Buying nordic boots is fairly straightforward, Mallory says; they should fit like a shoe with out excessive heel slippage or pressure on your toe when bending the foot forward. Downhill ski boots are slightly more complicated, says Steve Kelley, a parent and ski coach who’s worked the Cochran Ski Club sale for 16 years. 7’he first thing Kelley does is remove the boot liner, or bladder, to check its condition and allow him to see where the toes really are — the bladder should fit like a slipper. Kelley and Mallory agree that buyers should look at the bottom of used boots to make sure they aren’t so worn that they’d inter fere with safety or performance. It makes sense to start with the boots when shopping the swaps, especially in cross-coun try equipment, where a pletho ra of boot-binding systems can make matching skis to boots a challenge. Once you have the right boot, you can begin your search for the proper ski. It’s unlikely that you’ll find C ontinued on page 18
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October 12-13: The B Side Snowboard Swap & Sale. Behind the store on Cherry Street, Burlington, 8 a.m.-9 p.m. Bring consignment items Friday, 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Info, 863-0539. UVM Outing Club. Outside by Chittenden-BuckhamWills Green on Main Campus, Burlington, Saturday, 9 a.m.5 p.m. In C-B-W Rec Room, Sunday, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Vendors arrive Saturday, 7 a.m. Bring consignment items Friday to the Rec Room; pick up Sunday, 2-5 p.m. Includes extreme ski and snowboard exhibitions. Info, 656-3439. Colchester Ski, Skate and Sporting Goods Sale. Colchester High School Gym. Saturday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sunday, 10 a.m.2 p.m. Bring consignment items Friday, 5-8 p.m.; pick up Sunday, 3-5 p.m. Info, 658-1570. October 18-20: Smugglers’Notch Junior Ski Racers Club. Champlain Valley Fairgrounds, Essex Junction. Consignments only Friday, 5-8 p.m. Sales Saturday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. and Sunday, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Pick up after sale. Info, 879-1848 or 899-2610. November 1-3: Camel’s Hump Middle School, Richmond. Consignment Friday 6-8:30 p.m. Sales Saturday, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. and Sunday, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Pick up Sunday, 1-3 p.m. Info, 434-2479. November 9-10: Waitsfield Elementary School PTO. 17th annual benefit. Sales Saturday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. and Sunday, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Drop off consignment items Friday, 3-8 p.m. Pick up Sunday after 4 p.m. Info, 496-5535. November 16: Middlebury Union High School Cafeteria. Drop off con signment items Friday, 5-8 p.m. Sale Saturday, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Info, 388-3111. November 16-17: Milton Ski Club. Milton High School, Rt. 7. Bring con signment items before 9 p.m. Saturday. Sale Saturday, 9 a.m.4 p.m. and Sunday, 9 a.m.-l p.m. Info, 893-7758. December 7: Middlebury College Ski Patrol. Hepburn Hall, Middlebury College Campus. Drop off consignment items Friday. Ski sale, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Pick up after sale or Sunday morning. Info, 388-4356. December 14: Montpelier Recreation Department. Montpelier High School Gym. Drop off consignment items Thursday or Friday, 9 a.m.8 p.m. Ski and Skate Sale Saturday, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Pick up Sunday after 2 p.m. Info, 223-5141.
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between a climbing mogul and an astute textile mill for the dis covery. “Yvon Chouinard of Patagonia approached Malden Mills about 15 years ago in search of a specific fabric that would hold up under serious conditions when cotton and wool wouldn’t,” Guggemos explains. “The quality of yarn determines the insulating factor. Making fleece is a very compli cated process of napping and shearing.” The fruit of their labor was Polartec — a high-minded, high-tech, high-performance garment. And their offspring were forward-thinking, fashionminded, performance-driven companies like Black Diamond. W ith only a $500 loan, Guggemos managed to trans form a humble leather plant into a chain of seven sportswear fac tory stores backed by a 30employee manufacturing facility. But even our resident expert admits that fleece is still poly ester operating under a pseudo nym. “It’s a good name, though, because it emulates a cozy, warm feeling. It says com-
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t h e a t e r ‘TWELFTH N IG H T ’: Mistaken identi fies, romantic intrigue — Shakespeare calls the shots in this production by Lost Nation Theater. Montpelier City Hall, 8 p.m. $12.50. Info, 229-0492.
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etc ‘BROWN IN BLACK & W HITE AMERICA’: Prize-winning author Richard Rodriguez shares his Latino per spective at McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2535. CHIAPAS TALK: Karen Topper and Malcolm Gray discuss neoliberalism and its effect on Chiapas, Mexico. Peace & Justice Center, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Register, 863-2345. OPEN HOUSE: Richard McGreggor offers a lecture on “The Spiritual Path — Becoming Human.” Shambala Center,. 236 Riverside Ave., Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 860-1477.
PARENT SUPPORT GROUP: Parents talk with other parents at Fred Tuttle Middle School, S. Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Info, 657-2655. REINVENTING VILLAGE’: Panelists ponder the historical origins of the Vermont “village,” and the problems and opportunities living that way today. Shelburne Farms Coach Barn, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 985-8686. WATERBURY FARMERS MARKET: Local produce is available, along with dinner items such as pizza, pasta and turnovers. Rusty Parker Park, Waterbury, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 434-2690.
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‘TWELFTH N IG H T ’: See October 9. ‘TH E ELEPHANT MAN’: Vermont Stage Company teams up with the Department ofTheater in this interna tionally-acclaimed play about a deformed man in 19th-century London. Royall Tyler Theater, UVM, Burlington, 8 p.m. ■ $10.50. Info, 656-2094. ‘TH E SOUND OF MUSIC’: Miss Vermont plays Maria in the musical pro duction by the Lamoille County Players. Hyde Park Opera House, 8 p.m. $12. Reservations, 888-4507.
Sunday, October 13. Club Metronome, Burlington, 6-10 p.m. $10. Info, 658-0710.
1 5 W « r i m R V ERM ONT ARTS? Burlington City Arts controls two important performing arts venues: Memorial Auditorium and Burlington. City Hall. Should local troupes ger priority over out-of-town ones? Officials hash it out with members of the performing public at a special meeting about the future of City Arts. Tuesday, October 15. Burlington City Hal! Auditorium, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7166.
film FUNNY CHEMISTRY VIDEOS: Blooper footage of failed experiments makes this talk by John Fortman as entertaining as it is educational. Room 101, Cheray Science Hall, St. Michaels College, Colchester, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2535. ‘MUSIC AND DANCE IN SOCIETY’: Three documentary films feature the lives and works of traditional artists, in Bali and Peru. Sunderland Language Center, Middlebury College, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-2240.
C O M IC RELIEF: There are no Blondie-style babes in “Dykes to Watch O u t For." Just a bunch o f hairy-legged, existential lesbians who carry on, soap-opera Style, in car toon form, Vermont artist Alison Bechdei talks about the evolution of her art in celebration o f Coming O u t Week. Tuesday, O ctober 15, Billings Student Center, UVM , Burlington. 7:30 p.m. $5. Info, 656-0364.
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TOASTMASTERS MEETING: Professional and non-professional people hone their speaking, listening and leader ship skills. Econo Lodge, S. Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 862-6142.
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Thayer to address issues of advancing age. Get nostalgic with the Essex Community Players. Memorial Hall, Essex, 8 p.m. $8. Info, 878-9109. ‘T H E DINING ROOM’: A mosaic of interrelated scenes create an in-depth portrait of a vanishing species: the White Anglo Saxon Protestant. Valley Players Theatre, Waitsfield, 8 p.m. $8. Reservations, 583-1674.
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‘PORCELAIN IN CHINA’: A slide pre sentation about a trip to China shows at Frog Hollow, Middlebury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 388-3177.
w crds PROOFREADING THE HISTORIES’: Burlington poet and Goddard professor Nora Mitchell reads from her new book of verse. Peace & Justice Store, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 863-2345. ‘REAL WORLD ETHICS’: Robert
STEPHANE GRAPPELLI TRIO: The 89-year-old jazz legend plays Porter, Ellington, Waller, Vivaldi and Gershwin. Flynn Theatre, Burlington, 8 p.m. $24.50-28.50. Info, 863-5966. Catch a pre-performance discussion with Breakaway fiddler Gene White, 6:30 p.m. PORNO FOR PYROS: Formerly of Jane’s Addiction, trend-setting Perry Farrell heads up this alt-ensemble. Fun Lovin’ Criminals is the opening act. Memorial Auditorium, Burlington, 8 p.m. $18.50. Info, 863-5966. NEW NILE ORCHESTRA: Kiflu Kidane and friends bring their infectious brand of traditional and contemporary East African music to the Knights of Columbus Hall, Middlebury, 9 p.m. $5. Info, 388-6056. ENSEMBLE CONCERT: The Catamount Singers collaborate with band and choir in a concert of works by Vaughn Williams, Orff and Vermont native Edwin Bagley. David Neiweem conducts. Music Recital Hall, UVM, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 656-3040. ORCHESTRA CONCERT: The college orchestra plays at the Concert Hall, Middlebury College Center for the Arts, 8 p.m. Free. Reservations, 443-MIDD.
kids STORY TIMES: Kids under three also hear songs, 10-10:25 a.m. All ages sing along with Robert Resnik, 10:30-11 a.m. Fletcher Library, Burlington. Free. Register, 865-7216.
etc HARLEM WIZARDS BASKETBALL: The Wizards promise a “hoop-spoofing, rim-rocking, music-and-trick filled show” against the home-team No-Stars. Patrick
Enjoy live entertainment and specialty foods while you stroll through heated tents featuring hundreds of juried crafters. Craftproducers run the show at Bouchard Farm, Luce Hill Road, Stowe, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. $5. Info, 253-7321. RUSTIC FURNITURE TALK: Ralph Kylloe discusses birchbark chairs and antler chandeliers at Frog Hollow, Middlebury, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 388-3177. ‘PLACES OF VINCENT VAN
d a n c e BALLROOM DANCE: Learn to cut the rug with confidence at Quality Suites, S. Burlington, 8 p.m. $7. Info, 860-1112. TRISHA BROWN DANCE COMPANY: Catch the New England premiere of TwelveTon Rose, set to music by Anton Webern, and excerpts from M. O. Moore Theater, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 8 p.m. $20.50. Info, .603-646-2422.
t h e a t e r ‘TWELFTH N IG H T ’: See October 9, $14.50. ‘THE ELEPHANT MAN’: See October 10. ‘THE SOUND OF M U SIC: See October 10. ‘WAIT UNTIL DARK’: A young blind woman gets caught in the middle of a drug deal in this psychological thriller by Frederick Knott. Theater Factory per forms at Mann Hall, Trinity College, Burlington, 8 p.m. $6. Info, 872-2738. ‘DO UNTO OTHERS’: Craig Mitchell performs his one-man show dealing with issues of humanity. Billings Theater, UVM, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 660 - 8836 . ‘ON GOLDEN PO N D ’: Ernest Thompson uses Ethel and Norman
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This weekend at the Hopkins Center, the Trisha Brown Dance Company offers M .O. — the first work in a 'music" cycle reinterpreting the classical work o f Johann Sebastian Bach. The New England premiere of" Twelve Ton Rose” will also be shown.
film ‘ROCKY HORROR PICTURE S H O W : Wear Halloween costumes to a screening of the cult classic. Cafe No No, Burlington, midnight, $4. Info, 865-5066.
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Nash signs his book, subtitled Framework for Educators and Human Service Professionals. Barnes & Noble Bookstore, S. Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 864-8001. OPEN READING: Poets of all persua sions mix it up at the Firehouse Gallery, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 864-6106.
Gym, UVM, Burlington,'7:30 p.m. $5. Info, 656-3819. CANDIDATES ENVIRONMENTAL FORUM: Candidates in the Chittenden County Senate race discuss environmen tal issues. Billings Theatre, UVM, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 899-1766. STOWE FOLIAGE CRAFT FAIR:
G O G H ’: Travel writers Ray and Marilyn Zoltan follow in the footsteps of the Impressionist painter. Slides show at the Fairbanks Museum, St. Johnsbury, 7:30 p.m. $3. Reservations, 748-2372. RICHM OND FARMERS MARKET: It’s your last chance this season to buy local produce at Volunteers Green,
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Richmond, 3-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 434-2690. OUTRIGH T SUPPORT GROUP: Gay; lesbian, bisexual and questioning youth arc invited to an ongoing support group meeting. Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 865-9677.
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career CAREER DECISION MAKING: Thursday, October 10, 9 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. Vermont Student Assistance Corporation, Winooski. Free. Register, 800-642-3177. Adults learn self-assessment o f interests, abilities, values and experi ences. Resources are offered, too.
dance ‘MOVEMENT TRACES’: Saturday, October 12, Memorial Auditorium Loft. Sunday, October 13, Flynn Theatre Stage. Technique, noon - 2:30 p.m. Improvisation, 3-5 p.m. Burlington. $12 per class. Register, 425-3554. Technique classes begin with a gentle wake-up and build tofrenzied full-bodiedflying. Improv uses breath, rhythm, playfulness and per sonal imagery. Tom Thayer o f D avid Dorfman Dance leads. MASTERCLASS: Tuesday, October 15, 6:30 p.m. Patrick Gym, UVM, Burlington. $12. Register, 863-7887. Aterballeto teaches intermediate and advanced dancers before its Wednesday per formance. SWING DANCE: Thursday, October 10, 7:30-10:30 p.m. Champlain Club,
Music Hall, Randolph, 8 p.m. $10. Info, 728-9133. DEVOTIONAL MUSIC: Three musi cians from San Francisco present a con cert of medieval and modern songs and instrumental music. Federated Church, Rochester, 8 p.m. Donations. Info, 767-9008.
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WOMEN’S CREATIVE EXPRESSION: Tuesdays, October 15 December 1 0 ,9 a.m. - noon. 61 Macrae Rd., Colchester. Info, 862-9037. Carol f MacDonald leads this studio art group designed to support each womans explo ration c f hercreative voice. . '*■ MONOPRINTING: October 9,30-31, November 21-22, December 5, 17-18. 9 a.m. - 2 p.m.. 61 Macrae Rd., Colchester. Info, 862-9037. Carol MacDonald demonstrates monoprinting . > techniques using an etching press and pro videsfully-suppotted studio time to work on your images.
$24.50-28.50. Info, 863-5966. CHOIR CONCERT: Organist James Morgan leads the St. Paul’s Knightsbridge Choir in a concert of English choral music. Concert Hall, Middlebury College, 8 p.m. $9. Info, 443-MIDD. PIANO CONCERT: Internationallyacclaimed pianists Alexander and Alex Slobodyanik play the historic Chandler -------'
MODERN DANCE: Six- to eight-year olds, Tuesdays, 3:45-4:45 p.m. Eight- to 10-year-olds, Thursdays, 3:45-4:45 p.m. Teens, Wednesdays, 4-5:30 p.m. Ballet for modern dancers, Mondays, 7 p.m. Shelburne Town Hall. Register, 9858261. Marcela Pino helps dancers o f all ages discover their natural movements.
health MENOPAUSE: Wednesday, October 16, 7-8:30 p.m, Fletcher Library, Burlington. Free. Register, 865-2278. Merck Pharmaceuticals sponsors a series on menopause. Tonight’s class covers hormonal replacement therapy.
herbs HERBAL LIQUEURS: Wednesday, October 9, 7-9 p.m. Purple Shutter Herbs, Burlington. $20. Register, 865HERB. Make the elixirs invented by monks and alchemists in the Middle Ages. GINSENG & GOLDENSEAL: Thursday, October 10, 7-9 p.m. Purple Shutter Herbs, Burlington. $15. Register, 865-HERB. Learn the history, uses and cultivation needs o f these local, endangered plants. PREPARATIONS & 'BELLY BLUES’: Monday, October 14, 6:30-9 p.m. Purple Shutter Herbs, Burlington. Sliding scale. Register, 865-HERB. Learn about herbsfor digestive troubles, and how to make every type o f water-based prepara tion imaginable. T H E WORLD OF FRAGRANCE’: Tuesday, October 15, 7-9 p.m. Purple Shutter Herbs, Burlington. $10. Register, 865-HERB. Make bath salts, massage oils and herbal aphrodisiacs. IMMUNITY: Wednesday, October 16, 6-9 p.m. Purple Shutter Herbs, Burlington. $25. Register, 865-HERB.
INTERNET SEMINAR: Saturday, October 12, 1 p.m. Cafe No No, Burlington, Free. Info, 865-5( line and surf.
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kids AFTER-SCHOOLART: Four Tuesdays starting October 15, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Fleming Museum, UVM, Burlington. ister, 656-0750 ext. 2227 Kids sis. “ ■" - * aged eight to 10 explore a variety o f mate rials, developing skills and discovering their creative potential
meditation ‘BECOMING HUMAN’: Four Wednesdays starting October 16, 7-9 p.m. Burlington Shambaia Center. $25. Register, 658-6795. RichardMcGreggor leads a class on the spiritual path. VIPASSANA MEDITATION: Sunday, October 13, 10-11 a.m. Burlington Yoga Studio. Free. Info, 658-YOGA.
parenting ADOLESCENT AGGRESSION: Wednesday, October 9, 7-8 p.m. Burlington. Free. Register, 865-2278. There will be time fo r questions after a pre sentation on the effects o f aggression on family, school, peers and community. BREASTFEEDING & WORKING: Wednesday, October 16, 7-8 p.m. . Burlington. Free. Register, 865-2278. You can do both. Tips tellyou how.
tai chi HWA YU TAI CHI: Fall classes start in October in Montpelier & Hardwick. Register, 456-1983. Drop in on a free demonstration class, October 9-11. EUen Hayes shares over two decades o f experience
fiuvv PRODUCTION SKILLS: Weekdays, 5-6:30 p.m. Channel 17, Burlington. Free. Register, 862-3966. Learn about ‘eing par
woodworking BUILD A WINDSOR CHAIR: Tuesday & Thursday evenings, October 15-November 14. The Wood School, Burlington. Register, 864-4454. Shape cherry and ash by hand to build a fan-back chair. SHAKER BENCH: Saturday & Sunday, October 12 & 13, 9 a.m .- 6 p.m. The Wood School, Burlington. Register, 8644454. Beginning woodworkers learn how to cut dovetails by hand with mallets, chis els, hacksaws and a few power tools.
writing WRITERS WORKSHOP: Tuesdays, 7:30 p.m. Cafe No No, Burlington. Free. Info, 865-5066. Bring a journal and your writing spirit.
yoga YOGA AT N OON: Tuesdays & Thursdays, 12-12:50 p.m. The Movement Center, Montpelier. $7 per class. Info, 454-1032. Kripalu yoga teach ers Rudy Peirce and Lesley Becker offer gen tle stretching and deep breathingfor relax ation and fresh energy. YOGA: Daily, Burlington Yoga Studio, 174 Main St. Info, 658-YOGA. Classes are offeredfo r pregnant women, kids and backs, and in Astanga, Iyengar, Kripalu, Bikram and Kundalini styles. Beginners can start anytime.
L I S T yC UR C L A S S : Follow the bormat, including a io to 20 word descriptive sentence. Mail or walk it in, with $g ter one week or $15 tor a month, by the Thursday before publication. Free classes are listed without charge.
See October 11. AUTUMN BALL: The Swingin’ Vermont Big Band plays for dancers versed in fox trot, tango, rhumba and cha-cha. Proceeds benefit the school music program. Couples and singles get instruction from 7 to 8 p.m. Champlain Valley Union High School, Hinesburg, 8 p.m. $10. Info, 878-7867.
th ea ter ‘TWELFTH N IG H T ’: See October 9, $14.50. ‘THE ELEPHANT MAN’: See October 10. ‘T H E SOUND OF MUSIC’: See October 10. ‘WAIT UNTIL DARK’: See October 11. ‘ON GOLDEN POND’: See October 11. ‘THE DINING ROOM’: See October 11. CHERIE TARTT: Everybody’s favorite drag queen comes out with a new cabaret show to raise money for Big City Players. Alumni Auditorium, Champlain College, Burlington, 8 p.m. $6. Info, 863-5884. ENGLISH EURYTHMY THEATRE: Storms Child is an exploration of move ment, drama and dance that incorporates speech, theater, and modern dance with flute and horn music. Union Elementary School Auditorium, Montpelier, 8 p.m. $12. Info, 862-3141.
t ilm ‘PARIS IS BURNING’: The wild world of drag fashion is featured in this outra geous documentary. Billings Theater, UVM, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 656-0364.
a rt STRATTON ARTS FESTIVAL: See October 9. See demonstrations of iron smithing, Japanese teahouse carpentry and weathervane making. 10:30 a.m. 12:30 p.m. and 1:30-3:30 p.m.
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kids CAPTAIN KANGAROO LIVE: Vermonter Bob Keeshan, of Captain Kangaroo fame, tells a story and signs his books. Barnes & Noble Bookstore, S. Burlington, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 864-8001. STORY TIME: Kids over three listen up at the Fletcher Library, Burlington, 1111:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.
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QUILT SHOW: The Champlain Valley. Quilters show off new and antique spreads and crafts. Burlington City Hall, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. $4. Info, 863-2160. FLEMING BIRTHDAY BASH: The museum is 65 years old. Celebrate with dinner and dancing at Cook Commons, UVM, Burlington, 5:30 p.m. $40. Or dancing and dessert at 8 p.m. for $20. Reservations, 656-0750. GRAND OPENING: Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield inaugurate their new store on Church Street with music, celebrity scoopers and voter registration. 36 Church St., Burlington, noon - 6 p.m. Free. Info, 651-9600. PUBLIC POWER CELEBRATION: Proceeds from this power fest — with races, tours and food — benefit a nation al program that helps low-income fami lies with their heating bills. Lake Street, Burlington Waterfront, 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. Free. Info, 658-0300. ANTIQUE SHOW: Sixty dealers fron across New England offer furniture, tools, jewelry and toys at the Champlain Valley Fairgrounds, Essex Junction, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. $3.50. Info, 863-3489. HAUNTED FOREST WORK PARTY: Help prepare the grounds and build the sets for the educational and entertaining Halloween event. Green Mountain Audubon Nature Center, Huntington, all day. Free. Info, 434-3068. HOWL FUNDRAISER: Play outside during the day, then dine and watch fun feminist films. Camping is available, too, for all women and children. Huntington Open Womens Land, 2 p.m. $5-15. Info, 434-3953. ABENAKI PROGRAM: Western Abenaki history, language, games and lifeways are the subject of a talk at the Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 253-8358. RUSTIC CHAIRMAKING DEMONSTRATION: Watch the artful action at Frog Hollow, Middlebury, 1-2 p.m. Free. Info, 388-3177. WORCESTER MOUNTAIN HIKE: Enjoy spectacular fall foliage on a rocky scramble to a great view. The moderate 5-mile trip starts at UVM Visitors Parking, 8 a.m. Free. Register, 860-1530. FARMERS MARKETS: Vermont-grown agricultural products and crafts are for sale in the following locations: Burlington City Hall Park, 8:30 a.m. 2:30 p.m. Info, 453-2435. Taft Corners in Williston, 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. Info, 879-0464. Courthouse parking lot in Montpelier, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. Info, 229-1935. Mad River Green in Waitsfield, 9:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. Info,
496-5856. DOWSERS MEETING: Feng Shui master Stanley Aaga Bartlett talks about the ancient art of connecting earth, household and celestial energies. Hauke Center Dining Room, Champlain College, Burlington. 10 a.m. Donations. Info, 879-3454.
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® monday m usic OPEN REHEARSAL: Women lend their vocal chords to a harmonious rehearsal of the Champlain Echoes. S. Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 864-6703.
CHILDREN’: A lecture and reception for an exhibit of art by Vietnamese and Australian children. Williams Hall, UVM, Burlington, 5-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-0750.
Free. Info, 864-4838. MAGIC CARPET LUNCHEON’: Boat down the Mississippi with a local traveler and eat volunteer-made dishes from the region. Montshire Museum of Science, Norwich, 11 a.m. $12. Reservations, 643-3928. TEEN HEALTH CLINIC: Teens get information, supplies, screening and treatment for sexually related problems. Planned Parenthood, Burlington, 3-30-6 p.m. Pregnancy testing is free. Info, 863-6326. EMOTIONS ANONYMOUS: Stressed out? People with depression, anxiety and other emotional problems meet at the O ’Brien Civic Center, S. Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 660-9036.
etc RUSTIC CHAIRMAKING DEMONSTRATION: See October 12. ‘TALE OF TW O CLOSETS’: The edi-. tor of Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out talks about revolution and the
m usic ROCK FOR CHOICE’: A Pro Choice Vermont fundraiser features three bands, free condoms, voter reg istration and a live auction of “past belongings from present politicians” hosted by drag queen Cherie Tartt. Club Metronome, Burlington, 6-10 p.m. $10. Info, 658-0710.
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JOSHUA REDMAN BAND: The acoustic jazz saxophonist plays with pianist Peter Martin, bassist Christophef Thomas and Brian Blade on drums. Spaulding Auditorium, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 8 p.m. $17.50. Info, 603-646-2422. A talk begins at 7 p.m. OPEN REHEARSAL: The Amateur Musicians Orchestra welcomes new play ers, especially ones with brass instru ments. No audition is required. Music Room, S. Burlington High School, 7:30 p.m. $5. Info, 985-9750.
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a rt STRATTON ARTS FESTIVAL: See October 12.
etc STOWE FOLIAGE CRAFT FAIR: See October 11. QUILT SHOW: See October 12. ANTIQUE SHOW: See October 12. RUSTIC CHAIRMAKING DEMONSTRATION: See October 12. HARVEST CELEBRATION: Get back to basics with a husking bee, barn dance and cider pressing. Kids can make har vest dolls. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. $6. Info, 457-2355. STOWE FARMERS MARKET: Get it while it’s fresh, next to the Red Barn
INDONESIAN DANCE: See October 14, Mann Hall, Trinity College, Burlington, 7 p.m. SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCING: You don’t have to be Scottish to learn Highland figures and footwork. Bring your soft-soled shoes to St. Josephs School, Burlington, 8 p.m. $1.50. Register, 864-0123.
FIRST FIDDLE: Eighty-nine-year-old Stephane Grappelli started out in silent movies, then cooked up “le jazz hot” with gypsy guitarist Django Reinhart. He plays Porter, Waller, Vivaldi and Gershwin on Friday at the Flynn. d a n c e INDONESIAN DANCE: Over 40 indi viduals from three distinct ethnic regions of Indonesia perform traditional dances, shadow puppetry and gamelan music. Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 893-5046.
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status quo. Billings Theater, UVM, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 656-0364. AFFIRMATIVE ACTION LECTURE: An African-American economist looks “affirmative action undone” at Memorial Lounge, Waterman Building, UVM, Burlington, 12:15-1:15 p.m. Free. Info, 656-4282. HUMAN RIGHTS WRITE-IN: Make a dictator your pen-pal and save a life. Writing materials are provided at the Unitarian Church, Burlington, 5:30 p.m.
art STRATTON ARTS FESTIVAL: See October 2. MODERN PHOTOGRAPHY’: 6an Higgins offers his perspective in the “Making of the Modern World” series. 301 Williams Hall, UVM, Burlington, 5 p.m. Free. Info, 656-3312.
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SAFER SEX WORKSHOP: Safer sex is a many-gendered thing. This workshop for women covers how to bring it up. Martin Luther King Lounge, Billings, UVM, Burlington, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 656-0364. ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES’: Barbara Ripley, secretary of the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources, addresses long-term environmental questions fac ing our state. Montshire Museum of Science, Norwich, 7 p.m. Free. Info,
kids ‘BABIES 1 & 2’: A parent-child play group meets at the Wheeler School, Burlington, 11:30 a.m. -3 p.m. Free. Info, 860-4420. FATHERS & CHILDREN TOGETHER’: Spend quality time with
656-0364. ARTS MEETING: Burlington City Arts discusses its current and proposed rela tionship with dance and theater artists. Bring your comments and ideas to Burlington City Hall, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7166. RETAIL ISSUES BREAKFAST: Legislative candidates discuss their posi tions on issues that affect your business. The first in a series of local meetings is at the Charlemont Restaurant, Morrisville,
TOULOUSE, TO WIN: The national Chamber Orchestra o f Toulouse plays Mozart, Stamitz, Vivaldi, Britten and Roussel in the first Lane Series concert o f the series. Listen in next Wednesday at the UVM Recital Hall.
Corner of Elmwood and Archibald streets, Burlington, 3:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 863-6248.
©Wednesday m usic PHISH: The Vermont-raised band plays in support of its new album, Billy Breathes. Olympic Center, Lake Placid, N.Y., 7:30 p.m. $23.50. Info, 863-5966. LANE SERIES: The world-class National Chamber Orchestra of Toulouse performs works by Mozart, Stamitz and Vivaldi. UVM Recital Hall, Burlington, 8 p.m. $25. Info, 656-4455.
d a n c e FREE SPIRIT DANCE: See October 9. CONTACT IMPROV: See October 9. ATERBALLETO: Expect modern-fla vored classical technique from “Italy’s own Joffrey.” The 20-member troupe performs an hour-long suite from Romeo and Juliet and the existential “Sonate a Trois.” Flynn Theatre, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $23.50-27.50. Info, 863-5966. A pre-performance discussion with compa ny choreographer Amedeo Amodio begins at 6 p.m.
a rt STRATTON ARTS FESTIVAL: See October 9. ARTISTS’ BOOKS TALK: Fine press art books are the subject of a gallery talk. Fleming Museum, UVM. Burlington, 12:15 p.m. $2. Info, 656-0750.
w c r d s your kids and other dads at the Wheeler School, Burlington, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 860-4420. STORY HOUR: Kids between three and five engage in artful educational activi ties. Milton Public Library, 10:30 a.m. &c 1 p.m. Free. Info, 893-4644.
etc ‘PEACE TRAIN TO BEIJING’: Robin Lloyd’s hour-long video of women en route to the U.N. Conference on Women is followed by a discussion of the issues. Peace &CJustice Center, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 862-2024.
649-3637. W OM EN’S SMALL BUSINESS ORIENTATION: Are you interested in owning a small business? Find out how to realize your dream at a two-hour ori entation to entrepreneurial training opportunities. Room 218, Delehanty Hall, Trinity College, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 658-0337, ext. 372. ‘DYKES TO WATCH OUT FOR’: Lesbian cartoonist Alison Bechdel pre sents a slide show chronicling her devel opment as an artist. Billings Theatre, UVM, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $5. Info,
8:30 a.m. $10. Register, 800-649-1698. ‘COLOR OF FEAR’: A screening of the documentary about race in America is followed by a discussion. Dibden Center for the Arts, Johnson State College, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 635-1386. BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GROUP: Gather with others who have recently lost a loved one. Visiting Nurses Association Building, Colchester, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 658-1900. FARMERS MARKET: Celebrate autumn with organic produce, available for farm-to-family coupons or cash.
‘COMING HOME TO AMERICA’: Tori Osborne reads her new book in honor of National Coming Out Week. Chassman & Bern Booksellers, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 862-4332. ‘POETRLA OBSCURA’: The reading series for emerging writers features Julia Lebentritt and Dave Kavanagh at the Fletcher Library, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3403. READING: Vermont writers David Huddle and Alan Broughton read their works of fiction and poetry at Crow Bookshop, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 862-0848.
k i d s TEEN PARENT CHILD GROUP: See October 9. PRESCHOOL NATURE PROGRAM: Enjoy autumn colors at the Green Mountain Audubon Nature Center, Huntington, 1 p.m. $3. Register, 434-3068. STORY TIMES: Kids three to six hear stories and craft, 10-10:45 a.m. Those under three listen up, 11-11:30 a.m. Fletcher Library, Burlington. Free. Register, 865-7216. STORIES: Kids listen while they eat snacks and make crafts at the Children’s Pages, Winooski, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 655-1537.
etc ‘STEWARDING A SENSE OF PLACE’: “Stewards of place” serve as panelists in a discussion of land caretak ing. Shelburne Farms Coach Barn, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 985-8686. TECH CENTER OPENING: The Old North End Community Technology Center opens its doors and launches the first cyberskills workshop with a live video hook up to Great Britain. 279 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 860-4057, ext 11. W OM EN’S WAYS OF W ORKING’: Women work differently than men. A roundtable discussion covers the difficul ties, solutions and strengths. Woman Centered, Montpelier, 6-8 p.m. Donations. Register, 800-281-6866. WORLD FOOD DAY: A satellite link up gathers leading speakers on issues of world hunger. University of Vermont, noon - 3 p.m. Free. Info and location, 863-1123. TRANSPORTATION MEETING: Discuss the long-range plan for the coun ty’s transportation. Burlington Wastewater Treatment Facility, 3 p.m. Free. Info, 658-3004. Calendar is written by Clove Isindle. Submissions for calendar, clubs, and art listings are due in writ ing on the Thursday before publication. SEVEN DAYS edits for space and style. Send to- SEVEN DAYS. R0. Box 1164, Burlington, VT 05402-1164. Or fax 802865-1015. Emaib sevendaywtogether.net
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voice alone is reason enough to buy a ticket. Shrewdly cast as the fool, Milstein displays a perfectly balanced, elegant mis chief and anchors every scene she enters. Gus Kaikkonen, as the ridiculously pompous Malvolio, has such fine comic abilities that he can get a laugh with a glance. And Lisa Bostnar manages to be both lusty and ladylike as Olivia, thanks to her focused work. Also notable are Paul Schnabel as a consistently strong Orsinio and John Papais, Kim Bent and Rich Cianci as a delightful set of bumbling cronies — well-dressed in Belinda Mullinix’s turn-of-thecentury costumes.
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who, with little provocation, try state has been waiting for. to drive a gentleman mad, and Case in point: Lost Nation this story shapes up as a tough Theater in Montpelier. Those sell for logic-seeking audiences. of us who saw last year’s As You But eagle-eyed director Like It delighted as this troupe Harvey pulls it off. W ith a joined forces with Manhattan scholarly understanding of director Ann Harvey and her Shakespeare’s text, Harvey never crew of pros. But this year’s hesitates to take even the most match-up — unlike ’95’s, when unsupportable events to their the sight of New York ringers comical extremes. And as an alongside the locals was excite actor, Harvey — here in the ment enough — seems to have supporting role of Maria -— sets brought out the best in all the evening’s standard for hands. There’s still a mixed bag insightful, skilled interpreta of abilities, but even the least experienced in this line-up have tion. To a person, this cast is pos their strong moments under sessed with Harvey’s a playful leadership. Twelfth Night, by W illiam confidence Twelfth Shakespeare, Lost Nation as they frol Night is per ic, swoon Theater, M ontpelier C ity haps Shakes and pratfall peare’s most Hall Auditorium , October their way unbelievable 9-13; The Elephant Man, through the comedy; by Bernard Pomerance, evening. demanding Stand-outs Vermont Stage Company, that its audi include Judy ence accept Royal 1 T y le r Theatre. Milstein, more than U n iv e rsity of Vermont, whose the Bard’s B u rlin g to n , October 10 13. singing usual collec-
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SHOWS OF STRENGTH C ontinued from page 2 5 for its students. Set-ups like this have a solid track record across the country. This week, with Bernard Pomerance’s The Elephant Man, local audiences get their first peek at the posi tive results. But the reason for its success is surprising. Despite the presence of two equity imports with regional and offBroadway credentials, this pro duction’s strongest perfor mances comes from a student and a local actor. UVM junior Gregory Steen exhibits tremendous focus and physical control in the title role of John Merrick, a 19th-centu ry Englishman grossly disfig ured by a degenerative bone affliction. W ithout special makeup or costuming to repli cate the so-called “elephant man” appearance, Steen man ages — through contorted stance, twisted face, breathy slur and plodding movements — to place Merrick before us.
But what’s most impressive about this achievement is Steens ability to convey his character’s emotions and per sonality without any change of facial expression. Merrick, you see, was physically incapable of it. If this performance weren’t so riveting, it would be exhausting to watch. Burlington’s own John Alexander provides the second reason to see this show. In three widely differing supporting roles, Alexander is rock solid. Whether portraying the fiercely proud Bishop, the self-serving Ross, or the subservient Snork, Alexander finds every nuance. Next time, VSC can save a plane fare from the Big Apple and put Alexander where he belongs: in a lead role. Credit for these perfor mances can be shared by direc tor Peter Jack Tkatch, who seamlessly moves his cast through an awkwardly struc tured play. With 21 scenes, which create a stop-start flow and prevent the audience from
achieving full intimacy with the characters, The Elephant Man is a directorial challenge. Tkatch rises to it, and gets the most out of his cast, who also benefit from Jeff Modereger’s beautiful set and Martin Thaler’s stunning costumes. The polished Kermit Brown is exacting as a dignified Dr. Gomm, while UVM senior Maeghan Doolin Labonte shows great promise as Mrs. Kendal. While some student work is stiff, the only notable disappointment is Charles Mclver’s portrayal of Dr. Treves, the elephant man’s pro tector and observer. Mclver never establishes Treves’ nature or motives, thus disabling his character’s growth. The Elephant Man is a fine start for the UVM-VSC mar riage. Robison and Thaler — also chair of the theater depart ment — may have finally found the way to provide Vermont with year-round pro fessional theater in a perma nent home. Bravo. □
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M alloy advise dot being over-; ly concerned with the bottoms — they can be repaired. Instead, check for delaminated tails on nordic skis caused by being repeatedly stuffed into icy snow banks. For alpine skis, the most important thing to check are the edges. Make sure they’re not separating from the ski, and that there’s enough 1 h e JIV , rule for metal left so the skis can be sharpened in any deal-hunter the future. Bindings are critical: Your is to know the knees, neck and, in fact, o f your body depend on them. Although
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M id d lek u ry C o 11e de S n o w B o w l The Snow Bowl isn’t huge, but it has everything a ski area should: a variety o f terrain, a new million-gallon snowmak ing pond, a charming lodge (no bar, but a reading room) and an owner with deep pock ets. Home to the nationally ranked Middlebury College ski team, the Sjiow Bowl lets local families hit the hill for as little as $ 15 per day, leaving enough pocket change to buy the kids hot chocolate. W ith 1100 ver tical feet and three chairlifts,
tie knowledge and patience to the hunt — no matter what your game. □ the area’s a gem at bargain prices.
CocLran F am ily Ski A r e a This small Richmond ski area began as a backyard train ing hill to the now-famous Cochran children. Despite their Olympian success, little has changed since the family made it a full-time business in 1975. W ith affordable rates and an active ski club, Cochran’s continues to be a favorite place for race training and family skiing. Ginny Cochran says she expects things to be pretty much the same this year, including the $250 season’s pass good for families of any size. Cochran’s will continue to be one o f the best places to learn to ski in the country. Former U.S. Ski Teamers, Barbara Ann Cochran and her sister Lindy, offer popu lar learn-to-ski weeklong programs for kids and adults for just $95, including lift tickets. □
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Bv Ron Powers ere’s Herrington again. Gleaming at me enameledly from my mailbox. This month, or this week, or today — his visits know no rhythm — Herrington wants me to buy one of his Tee-Gars (actually, $10.95 for the three-T set), those little plastic props that fit on top of any golfing tee so that I can put my cigar on it. The cigar — a Churchill, no doubt — that I’d have drawn from my $295 Herrington Statesman solid cherry or solid mahogany humidor. The cigar I’d ordinarily drop right down on the fair way, like any old retro shopping-mall prole, while I was using my short-irons. With the Tee-Gar, my cigar “stays safely above dew, grass clippings and dangerous chemicals.” O f course, when I place my cigar on my Tee-Gar, it will be so that I can hit one of Herrington’s “outlaw’ golf balls (The Desperado, at $119.95 the six dozen) that “will add a sneaky 20-25 yards to [my] drives — illegally!” And, of course, I’ll be swinging one of Herrington’s new and improved “Big Bertha” irons ($999 the graphite three-piece set) that
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this up — I will slide acquisi tively into my expensive, power ful and annoyingly redpainted torquemobile (Herrington doesn’t offer these yet, but stick around) and drive back to my executive office as fast as I possibly can — paying no heed to our restrictive and total itarian speed laws because I am equipped with
one or more of Herrington’s luxuriant cop-confounding devices du jour, either the pre programmed and “discreet” Beartracker electronic scanner, at $199.95 the discretion, or perhaps the Bel Super Wideband “Undetectable” Radar Laser Detector, at $339 the evasion. (If there is one thing that gets Herrington juiced up even more than jack rolling some sucker on the fair way, it’s outsmarting the Highway Patrol. His ad copy for the radar detectors is almost erotic.) So. Anyway. That’s moi, see — the quintessential Herrington guy. Real American role-model profile, right? Real Cabinet material
in a Dole presidency. Gordon Gekko as mail-order browser. In Herrington’s dreams. But that’s just it: W hat the hell am I doing in Herrington’s dreams? W hat am I doing in any of their dreams? The dreams of these mail-order moguls, or phantom corporate personae, who with each passing month are micro-marketing their fanta sy sales pitches to an increasing ly fine-tuned — and diverse — collection of compulsions, neu roses, dreads, appetites and avarices of the American consumerate. I don’t know. But I do know this. Jacques Ellul had it wrong. Jacques Ellul is the Frenchman who said, approximately, that if one were to understand the American mind, one must understand baseball. Get a life, Jacques. (Or get a credit card — same thing.) You want to understand the American mind, pal? Study the mail-order glossies. They are our new narrative, our new Grail, the reflecting pools of our narcissism. Every day you just open the mailbox, reach in and pick your identity — before it picks you. Let’s see, whom do I want to be this week? (No thanks, Mr. Herrington — it’s still too soon after the San Diego con vention, and anyway, your ver sion of me is a little, I don’t C ontinued on page 28
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ter used to spend his time ana lyzing his first year after college: a tasty tidbit for a corporation with acquisi tion on its mind. “Jake’s probably walked away from hundreds of oppor tunities to sell out,” says David Ingemy. “He really doesn’t seem to want to sell.” It’s pretty clear that Carpenter prefers running his own family busi ness. But with his 20 th anniversary in the snowboarding business fast approaching, he hints at eventually pulling away from day-to-day duties. “1 already am,” he says. “I measure it by the amount of time I can spend
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ENVISIONED IN A PASTORAL SETTING rh.nlmh artists. Suicide Six Ski Lodge, Pomfret, 457-2779. Through October 14,
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EXHIBIT featuring works by this 21 -year-old central Vermont arts organization. Shayna/Ruth Pope Galleries, Montpelier, 229-2766, Through October 29. CHAMPLAIN VALLEY QUILT GUI LD, exhibit of f ^ local quilters. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 8633403. Through October. PAINTINGS AND PRINTS by Alice Eckles. Horn of the VIEWPOINTSA show o f tw o contrasting land scape visionaries, Robert Popick a n d D a vid Moon Cafe, Montpelier, 479-6229. Through October 23. CONTEMPORARY VIETNAMESE ART from the U.S. Utiger, enters its last week a t Shelburne’s and Vietnam. Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery. Above, Popick’s Burlington, 656-0750. Through December 22. “M orning Pasture. * LOCATION TO BE ANNOUNCED, a sample and his tory of dub-culture design. Exquisite Corpse, Jager DiPaola Kemp Design, Burlington, 864-8040, ext. 121. Through November 1. VERMONT LANDSCAPE: A TRI BUTE, photographs by Lome Abramowitz. Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, 253-8358. Through October 27. IN THE ADIRONDACK AND RUSTIC TRADITION, a juried exhibit of contemporary artisans in the rustic style. Frog Hollow, Middlebury 388-3177. Through November 3. MOTHER/DAUGHTER: AN EXHIBIT OF PAINTINGS, by Catherine Hall and Megan Lipke. McAuley Fine Arts Center, Trinity College, Burlington, 658-0337, ext. 425. Through November 1. BALINESE PAINTINGS made for Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead. Christian Johnson Gallery, Middlebury College, Middlebury, 443-5007- Through November 24. CROWNING ACHIEVEMENTS : African Arts of Dressing the Head, fea tional headgear and styles. Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, Hanover, December 1. SPIRIT & ESSENCE OF VERMONT, mixed media by 32 artists Hden Day Art Center, Stowe, 253-8358. Through November 19. UNCOMMON THREADS , a juried national exhibition of fiber artists. Fro Burlington, 863-6458. Through October 27, LANDSCAPES by Robert Popick and David Utiger. Furchgott Sourdiffe Through October 12. OUT OF THE WOODS, Trees from Three Continents, handmade prints by Roy Newton. Red Onion Cafe, Burlington, 865-2563. Througjh November 26. SCULPTURES by Wen-Ying Huang. Julian Scott ---- ~* v. l ... — 1469. Thrdtigh October 24.
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AUTUMN AT THE i t OLD ul u MILL, n i L L , Northern Vermont Artists Association show and sale. Red Mill Gallei . Through November 2.
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— past director of Burlington City Arts and now president of that body’s board. Unlike Rowell’s salt-of-the-earth por traits, Metz favors elegant, high-contrast, nearly calli graphic compositions, as well as those split-second situations that Henri Cartier-Bresson called “the Decisive Moment.” Whether the plethora of photography exhibits is mere coincidence or suggests an actual Zeitgeist, the trend was augmented by Firehouse cura tor Pascal Spengemann when he decided to present the work of 10 artists who tend to see things in black and white. Aside from this, the work — or at least subject matter — among them is diverse, from the large-scale, dreamily softfocus self-portraits by Leslie Dowe to the virtually abstract photomicroscopy of Renata Szczypiorski and Joseph >■ Meseha. The latter’s four sub jects are intentionally unrecog nizable at this scale — though
“Nebulous Window” resembles the inside of an intestine. Julie Olen also favors largescale close-up portraits — in this case, of cows. While her homely subjects have been overplayed a zillion ways in this agricultural state, Olen’s rather wild-eyed bovines make for a charming twist. The female nude is also a hackneyed subject, but Catherine Dowd’s beautifully printed, elegant compositions of a woman and a rocky stream are worthy contenders in the genre. Alex Williams’ two large reclining nudes, one male and one female, reaching toward one another, are composed of overlapping prints with stark, silvery lighting and black back grounds. Their pieces suggest the fragmentation of roles and/or relationships. The two most unique, and challenging, presentations are the photo installations of Craig Carlson and Matthew Thorsen. The former has sandwiched assorted photos of male torsos between layers of fractured
plateglass and white paper, these laying on the floor in the center of the gallery. Arrows and footprints, these traced in “dance-step” style, indicate ways in which the males can be — or have been — stepped on. Vaguely masochistic, the work seems to invite just that. Thorsen’s arrangement is highly unusual: six prints on glass, their splotchy emulsion rendering them a a n t i q u i ty. Lying face down on two wires stretched tautly across the room, these pictures force the viewer to crane his or her neck upwards. Somehow the dis comfort is apropos to Thorsen’s worldly images — evocative locations from Burlington to Beijing — and the experience would certainly not be the same had the prints been con ventionally matted and framed. Abstraction or still life, “The Local Lens” is worth focusing on — and may augur greater depth of field for Vermont photographers. □
a s t r o l o g y 21-Apr. 19): Imagine this scenario: The CEOs o f 10 major i . t . contractors, hold a press conference to
an encyclical affirming that since Jesus never had a bad thing to say about homosexuals, the church is hereby withdrawing its opposition to gay rights. N ow envision a flip-flop in your personal life that would be as improbable as the first two scenarios. I predict that, unlike them, yours will actually happen. T A U R U S (Apr. 20-May 20); I’ll show up in your dreams this week if you want me to. But I’d rather not have the assignment o f killing the rhinocerous that’s been chasing you. (Or is it a camiverous unicorn?) It’s not that Fm afraid o f the beast. It’s just that I don’t think we should kill it. The Senoi people of
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exaggerating for effect, la m — but just barely. I can’t risk you getting any more ' emotionally dehydrated than you already are. The stars are begging me to beg you to imitate a tsunami. So go soak yourself, O unsaturated one. Immerse yourself in long hot baths and slippery massages. Drink deep from the cup that never empties. Unleash a flood o f sublime tears. V IR G O (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Shall we count all the ways you can deny the Big Red Throbbing Problem? (1) You can trump up a Little Pink Piddling Problem to distract everyone’s attention from it. (2) You can cram your schedule with so many exhausting tasks that you won’t have any energy left over to think about it. (3) You can pounce on the screw-ups o f a convenient scapegoat, unleashing such a consuming flame o f blame that there’s no fuel left over to light a fire under your own butt. (4) You can intone over and over again, like a mantra, “I am not denying the problem.” L IB R A (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): It would be a good week to arrange a marathon swimming session in a sweaty bed with a kooky plaything. If that’s not possible, could you please at least try to take a beer shower, preferably with a pollyannaish conspiracy theorist who’d also join you for a make-out session at the movies? And in case you haven’t caught my drift yet, my friend, I’m trying to subliminally seduce you into accepting the following title for this week’s drama: “Limbering Up Libra’s Libido.” S C O R P IO (Oct. 23-Nov, 21): In mock honor of all the dogmas and certainties you’re being forced to hurl out the window, we re proud to present eight full-bodied cliches for your use this week -— the most ever crammed into a single Real Astrology horoscope. Enjoy! I) The barriers are falling. 2) The ride is turning. 3) The boundaries are blurring. 4) The floodgates are opening. 5) The fat lady’s singing. 6) Your mother was wrong. 7) Your forbears are rolling Over in their graves. 8) Your mojo and your karma have a blind date in a labyrinth where entropy and relativity are engaged in a fight to the finish. S A G IT T A R IU S (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Have you ever blown the family fortune playing the slot machines? Or tipped over the poker table and fled out the door in order to cut your losses? If so, you probably don’t have enough selfcontrol to capitalize on the wild cards the cosmos is offering you this week. If on the other hand, you’re one o f those Sagittarians whose fondness for gambling has never turned into a compulsion, you now have license to take a big feisty chance. Even you disciplined types, however, should not bet your soul on a 1000-1 shot. C A P R IC O R N (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Maybe you remember the horoscope o f a few months back in which I urged you to treasure the rose as much as you admired the mountain. In your own steely way, it seems, you took my advice to heart. That, at least, is what I’ve concluded after weeks o f watching you try to grow roses on the mountaintop. I’m truly amazed you coaxed any blooms at all from the rocky ground at those great heights. Congratulations. My point, though, was not for you to seek the rose experience arid rhe mountain experience in the same place; rather, I was simply urging you to grant them equal shares of your attention. Now, please come down from the rocky ridge and perform your rosy experiments in more hospitable soil. A Q U A R IU S (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Studies by Simon LeVay, author o f Queer Science, suggest there are structural dissimilarities between the brains o f gay and straight men. I wonder if we might make an analogous claim about you? Could Aquarian gray matter be wired differendy than the brains o f all the other signs o f the zodiac? I’ve often wondered, while watching your tribe’s mom eccentric and ingenious antics, if that weren’t the case. Certainly this hypothesis will seem to be bofne out in upcoming weeks. Your dizzyingly original, dazzlingly stimulating contributions are likely to be more than just out o f this world. They may be out o f this galaxy P IS C E S (Feb. 19-Mar. 20): In 1824 — so thedegend goes — a Piscean matron named Dame Partington held the Atlantic Ocean at bay with her mop. As a tempest blew in ori her seaside home in southeast England, she fought resourcefillly to sweep it back with the same tool she used to swab away slop and puddly. In the early autumn o f 1996, 172 years later, her Piscean successors face a similar, if less literal, challenge. “Don’t push the river,” is the
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( C utthroat Island) comes the True £iw-reminiscent saga o f an ordinary housewife who turns out to be a highly trained secret agent. Geena Davis stars. Renny Hariin directs. THE GHOST AND THE DARKNESS Val Kilmer and Michael Douglas are teamed for the true story o f hunters on the trail o f a pair o f lions that killed 130 people in 1896. THE CHAMBER Chris O ’Donnell trades his cape and tights for a suit and tie to play the hero in the latest John Grisham adaptation, the story o f a young lawyer defending his Klansman grand-dad. W ith Gene Hackman. WALKING AND TALKING Nicole Holofeener’s directorial debut tells the touching com ic story of two women whose friendship is imperiled by an impending marriage. W ith Catherine Keener and Anne Heche. GRAC E OF MY HEART Ileana ( Cape Fear) Douglas stars in the story o f a Carole King-esque composer whose journey from songwriter to singer includes numerous romantic stops along the way. W ith Eric Stoltz, John Turturro and Matt Dillon. Directed by Allison Anders,
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powerful, how defining a moment it was for the millions o f people who saw The Beatles that Sunday evening in 1964 when they first appeared on “T he E d’Sullivan Show.” I was only 10 years old, and I neither knew nor cared about music, hair styles, Cuban footwear or that far-off land called England. Then they performed. Three minutes later the world was a more interesting place. Tom Hanks dearly remembers the thrill o f that transform ing time, and its clear that, like most o f us, he clocked his fair share o f adolescent fantasy about what it must have been like to be on the opposite end o f the spell. T hat Thing You Do, which the actor wrote and directed, offers an endearing evoca m* tion o f the era and a chance to take that ride to .the top o f the O scar-w inning actor proves he's no slouch charts along with a fictional Pennsylvania band called The Wonders. ' as a w riter or director, either, w ith this Tom Everett Scott stars as the group’s head-wagging drum nostalgic saga o f a band’s rise a n d fa ll. mer — like Ringo, a last-minute replacement who wound up with a permanent job after the ensembles usual percussionist breaks an arm. The Wonders beg him to fill in at a talent show and, when Scott gooses the tempo on one o f the singers original ballads, they not only win the $100 prize, they wind up with a song that earns them a record contract, a place on a coast-to-coast rock V roll tour and a spot on the top-10 charts. The members o f the cast are likeable, funny and convincing in their joy as the music comes together and the whole world seems to open like an oyster. Hanks has written a wonderful, unpretentious, witty and endlessly observant script and directed it with consummate style. T he las! act pulls the plug a tad abruptly, and I’m not sure I buy the original drummer’s ecstatic reaction to die groups success. But those qualms aside, I found T h a t Thing You D o smooth as Brylcreem, bubbly as Royal Crown Cola and as toe-tapping as an episode o f “Hullaballoo.”
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EXTREME M EASURES**** Hugh “Can you change a pound note?” Grant undergoes a major image transplant — with a little help from his girlfriend, Elizabeth Hurley, who produced — in this gritty med ical thriller about an idealistic young doctor who uncovers a sinister scheme masterminded by his mentor. Gene Hackman makes some easy money as the baddie. Michael Apted directs. THE GLIMMER M AN** T he gimmick in the latest from humorless Steven Seagal (aside from a dorky Nehru jacket)? Humor. This time around he’s a detective teamed with — are you sitting down? — a reluctant, ill-matched partner played by Keenan Ivory Wayans. Seagal’s studio is promoting this as the action star’s entry into comedy. Evidently, no one there caught his directorial debut, O n D eadly Ground. MIGHT DUCKS 3 ( NR) He’s written screenplays. H e’s directed on a bigtime Hollywood set. W ho would’ve guessed Emilio Estevez w ould end up best remembered for this lowbrow hockey comedy fran chise? This time around the Ducks take on a snooty prep school. BIG NIGHT (NR) Campbell Scott and StanleyTucci co-direct this low-budget, high-calorie saga about a family-run Italian restaurant in 1950 s N ew Jersey. Isabella Rossellini co-stars. TWO DAYS IN THE VALLEY (NR) Danny Aiello, Jeff Daniels, Eric Stoltz, Teri Hatcher, among many others, star in this black comedy about a bunch o f San Fernando types brought together by a mur der. Written and directed by John Herzfeld. BASQUIAT (NR) This biography o f Warhol prot^g<* Jean-Michel Basquiat comes as close as Hollywood ever has to dealing intelligently with the subject o f a creative personality. N ot only does it have a sawier-than-average cast (Jeffrey Wright, David Bowie, Gary Oldman), it was written and directed by Basquiat’s fellow painter, Julian Schnabel. \ BU L LETPROOF*** Damon Wayans and Adam Sandler are teamed in this M id n ig h t R un-m eets-Opera M an saga o f a cop, a stool pigeon and the unlikely friendship you just knew was going to develop between them. THE FIRST WIVES C LU B *** Based on Olivia Goldsmith’s novel about three wom en who take revenge on their husbands for discarding them in favor o f younger ones, H ugh W ilsons latest teams Diane Keaton, ” ''' " potential to
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SWF, 21, ATTRACTIVE BUT NOT PERFECT seeks traditional and roman tic, yet unconventional, SWM, 21+, for potential lasting relationship of some sort. 64995 WHF, 49, HONEST, LOVING ARTIST. Loves nature, working out, biking, music, dancing, fun- speaks little English- seeks SM, tall w/ similar person ality, 42+. 64006 PDWF, 27, QUICK TO SMILE, DYNAMIC, green-eyed brunette, enjoys travelling, dancing, music, laughter and living life to the fullest, ISO versatile, fun loving, attractive NSPWM, 28-36, who also takes pleasure in spontaneity, new adventures and intellectual conversation. 64003
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43 YO DWNSPF, WARM, AFFEC TIONATE, sincere, attractive, honest, athletic, positive, loves to laugh and be held, looking for companion. 64049 I’M A REAL CATCH! 24 YO W ET7*7 115lbs., hazel eyes, blonde hair, single mom moving to VT to finish education to teach biology. I’m soft, feminine, ele gant, sensual, with a great pair of legs. Wanting to correspond with a NS gentle man who has a stable life, is financially secure, enjoys evenings at home or out door outings, an off the wall sense of humor (to match mine), is educated (or wants to be) and is not too hard on my eyes! I’m also a terrific kisser! Am I want ing too much? 64068 YOU ARE INVITED TO: enjoy laughter, conversation and quiet times. SWF, 47, seeks a SWM, NS, NA who has the time to share and willingness to care for possible LTR. 64038 ALLIGATOR WRESTLING, WARM, intellectual SWF seeks tete-a-tete this winter w/ tall, smart, kind SWM, 35-47, who enjoys classical, jazz, foreign film, VT islands. 64034 CHRISTIAN LADY: 37, full figured SWF who believes in the Golden Rule. I have a variety of interests including his tory. Would like to hear from a NS, ND SWCM. 64032
Gentle , crazy swBiF, 19, stu dent , smoker and party girl ISO col lege guy, 19-24, w/ same likes (concerts &C sex) and a unique devotion to desire. 64036 IT ’S BEEN-SO LONG I FORGOT HOW TO DATE. How can you meet if you don’t try something new. Early 40s w/ Brett Butleresque humor. 64020 GOOD THINGS COME IN SMALL PACKAGES. SWPF, 30, NS/ND, petite, physically fit/active, well educated, cre ative, enjoys outdoors, music, cultural events and the finer things in life...ISO SWPM, 30s, NS/ND, same interests, physically fit/active, well educated, trust ing, caring. 64016 SWF, 35, NEW TO BURLINGTON. Attractive, intelligent, worldly? Kind w/ that mid-thirties je ne sais quois. Let’s do coffee, talk books, laugh a little. 64012 SWF, 32, PRETTY, INTELLIGENT healthy and fun seeking attractive male, 25-33.Passion, honesty and sense of adventure needed. 64021 SWFNS, 30, FIT, ATTRACTIVE, funny, spice for life, sports, family & friends, wants honest, attractive, well rounded SWM, 25-35, 5’7 ” - ready to live, laugh and laugh. 64027
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W H O AM I? SWPF W / CURIOUS MIND, big heart and deep soul; intelli gent, funny, diverse, positive thinker. Who are you? Similar, outgoing attrac tive, NS SPM, 27-35. We enjoy humor, movies, learning, plays, staying active and loving life! 64001 SWPF, 38, COUNTRY GAL, ENJOYS nature, music, water, laughing, dancing, more! ISO honest, sensitive, emotionally secure, intelligent, forever young at heart man to share/explore life. 64972 INDEPENDENT DHF, 42, Mother of 2 - loves walks, running, music, quiet nights - ISO SBHM, 39-45, NS/D, social drinker o.k. Must like children. 64985 SBF, 37, SEEKS SWM LESBIAN/ TRANSVESTITE for friendship, possible relationship. Meet someone who can truly appreciate your uniqueness. Come, take my hand. 64978 EXPIERENCE THE FUN & EXCITE MENT of ballroom dance. Looking for a dance partner- intermediate level -between 50-60yrs. I’m slim, fit, 5’ 6”. Chemistry is important so let’s meet. 64952
DO YOU RUB FEET? I’M A WOMAN WHO LOVES to be touched and yet will run through a field to be with you. 64954 SWF SEEKING FREE-SPIRITED Adventurous SM to tear up the highway with. Yikes. 64956__________________ PLAYFUL, PASSIONATE SWF, 37, seeks parity in partner to pedal trails, paddle waves, perambulate this planet, plumb our potential. Hopheads preferred, potheads deterred. You, perhaps? 64964 NEW TO BURLINGTON. My interests are movie critiquing, traveling, honesty, motor boating & sailing, picnics, music & theater. Full-figured SWF seeking M, 37 +. 64949 FRECKLES, A DIMPLE, GREAT SMILE. DPWF, mid 40s, known for cre ativity, athletics, gardens, laughter, photog raphy, love of people ISO NS, fit, funny, intelligent, handsome PWM to kayak through Vermont’s waters, hike its moun tains, bike its roads & enjoy its music w/. Would love to meet you. 64948
MEN SEEKING WOMEN SWPM, 44, NS, 6’, ACTIVE, FIT, attractive, witty, not to mention humble, loves biking, skiing, travel, movies, music. Seeking sane woman, 30-45, for fun or more. 64062 W INTER’S COMING! Do you feel a chill? Let’s melt together beside a raging fire after a passionate day of skiing and make whipped cream for our cappucino. SWM, 25, tall, fit, and handsome seeks happy, healthy, wholesome F, 22+, for winter excursions. 64067 SERIOUS RELATIONSHIP. NSASM, 30, handsome, honest, single, 5’10”, 155lbs., perfect in cooking. Searching for 22-40 YO for real life, well cultured LTR. 64051 ONE WILD ASPARAGUS. SWM, 20, NS, attractive Burlingtonian. Interests: biking, photography, reading, nature, cooking, movies. Seeking: creative, hon est, healthy, attractive, Fun F, 19-29. 64048 MID 40s, FLOWER BEARING, easy going, pleasant to be w/, attractive, inshape guy ISO an attractive partner w/ a sense of humor who enjoys travel, long walks, the outdoors and laughter. Please find me, I can’t find you. 64061 WANTED: LATINO OR HISPANIC lady. WPM looking for someone to wine and dine. Give it a try. Let’s have some fun. 64050 NO MORE HEAD GAMES. SPM, 33, 6’, I60lbs, interested in meeting some one ready for relationship. Must be fun and independent and like kids. Call me! Won’t regret it. 64053 REVEL IN VERMONT. Play hard and long in all seasons, outdoors and in. Tall, slim, attractive lawyer seeks LTR with congruent NSWPF, about 40, possessing intelligence, warmth, passion energy, cul ture. Kayak, hike, bike, ski and travel by day. Attend theatre, dances and movies by evening. Talk and read unceasingly. 64054 A GOOD CATCH! SWM, 33, FIT professional, NS, enjoys golf, theatre, dining out, running, sports, good con versation and much more ISO physically fit, S/DWF, NS, 27-36, for fun and pos sibly more. 64058 SWM, 18, LOOKING FOR SWF to go out and party with, but not looking for relationship. Let’s have some real fun! 64060
SEEKING TENDER, LONELY WOMEN who love music. I’m a musi cian, mid 40s, 5’51/2”, decent looking, young at heart. Hoping for a compatible partner. 64055 LONELY ROMANTIC. DWM, 44, 5’10”, ND seeks slim/medium D/SWF, 38-46, to share quiet times, humor, dancing, music, dining, theater, out doors, your interests and more. Let’s talk. 64045 LAME? PERHAPS NOT! I need not question the SWF ISO a 23 YO SWM who is athletic, comely and intelligent. Question me! 64044 TAO SPIRITUALIST. Gentle autumn rains/We sing blues rhapsodic for/Lone fluttering leaf. Thirty-some stars/Glitter, fireflies dance; Iife/Measured in single heartbeats. *note: these are two haiku poems. 64040 __________ WARNING: The Surgeon General has determined that consumption of this product will cause honesty, sincerity, friendship, companionship, love, passion, fidelity and security. 64030 ADVENTUROUS, YOUNG SWM, 46, NS seeks F who enjoys hiking, concerts, biking, theater, canoeing or evening dining out. 64029 GEN. GEORGE ARMSTRONG CUSTER seeks out Elizabeth (SWF, 25+) for a ride into history. This leg endary stand won’t be a last. 64041 TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF. Photo welcome. Reply guaranteed. 40 YO SM: smart, good looking and fun. Responses from women aged 18-40 - of any race welcome. 64039 SWM, 40. SOUL PARTNER, ARE YOU O UT THERE? Like movies? Music? Magic? Maniacal merriment?... Coffee? Life’s a journey; want to travel? Call me. 64025 DWM, 55, NS/ND W / NO UNAC CEPTABLE HABITS, brown hair and eyes, medium build, 5’5”, looking for companionship in the hopes of finding an unattached lady who would enjoy evening rides and spending some free time together. Please respond ladies, even if you would just like a friend. 64014 VERY SIMPLE! SBM, 42, drug and alcohol free is looking for someone who is serious about life, love and relationships. 64013 SM, 41. O UT OF DREAMS. Reduced to wishes and schemes. 64024 FUN + ROMANCE. INTERESTS: friends, walks, sports and movies. SWM, 33, seeks SF, 20-30, to share special times with. 64011 28, SWPM, JUST MOVED HERE. Active, fun, attractive, 6’, 200 lbs., likes rollerblading, skiing, golf, good restau rants & conversation. Wants similar SF for friends, dating, possible relationship. 64026 YOUNG PROFESSOR who studies the Middle Ages, but is not middle aged. I am an attractive SWM, 33, into having fun, but would like to have a long term relationship. I do more than read books. 64999 CENTRAL VERMONT. SWM, 52, slender, athletic intellectual seeks SF who back packs, has Kronos Quartet tapes, grows herbs and owns two long stemmed wine glasses. 64004 IT ’S BEEN SEX YEARS SINCE MY DIVORCE. I’m ready for a relationship if you are. SWM, NS, professional, superb shape. Serious replies only, please. 64010
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take a chance on romance. Boat or Darkroom a +. 64979_________________ LOOKING AHEAD. SDM, 40, ISO lady w/ great pair of legs to hike and ski w/. Write or call now. 64975___________ READ ME. DWM, 34, YEARNS FORT” THAT FEELING OF TEOGETHERNESS. I’m a great friend, better lover. Above all, a man who treats his lady right. You: 24-40, slender. 64965 DWM, 38, LOOKING FOR DESIRABLE WOMAN to enjoy life with. Love dancing, good conversation, watching the sunset. Want to know more? Give me a call. 64969 SWM, 28, NS, LAYERS OF MAN MADE PROGRESS, shifting with the morning breeze...clouds of dark betrayal, laughing as we try to breathe. Quiet times at times...wild inspiration surfacing during others. Musically passionate...inhibition exposition, testing senses all around. 64981 ECCLECTIC DWM, 5’8”, 160 lbs., FIT, grad student, musician with kids seeking bright, happy, deep, good-natured, physical ly fit woman (30-40) to ski, play tennis, sail, think w/. Musician a plus. Must really like kids. 64963______________________ SENSUAL, PASSIONATE INTELLEC TUAL, N/S, DWM seeks equally sensual, sensuous, passionate and cultural woman, 38-48,aesethetic, athletic and kind, fit and well proportioned, for companionship and possible long term relationship. 64962 W O M EN SEEKING W OM EN COME SUMMER, breathe in the dance of the butterfly, the flight of the cardinal, the waltz of the bumblebee. This winter, spend time getting acquainted. Older lesbian ISO nurturing nature wise companion. 64069
ARTISTIC, MUSICAL, ROMANTIC, bright, educated, child spirit, nature wor shipper. Slim/fcminine appearence. 43 YO, NS/ND, in straight marriage w/ CFS wants out, but unable to be self supportive. I desire loving, supportive, non-butch friends who are non-judgemental, kind, deep and gentle. 64066_______________________ SLIGHTLY OFFBEAT, BUT DOWN TO earth SF, 23, seeks similar (22-27) to share friendship and to explore secret passions. Must be willing to have fun. 64059______ HOMEY, INTELLIGENT FEMME LSO~~ same. Are you spiritual, beautiful, sane? I’m a busy single mom looking for friends... possibly more. 64056_____ CARUMBA! Run, dance, jump, snooze, deep talk, laugh, eat, hug, dream, stroke the cat, truly value one another, real friends. Lesbian seeks honest sister spirit. 64042 CHRONIC AUSTRALIAFHILE, 23, seeks fellow sufferer. Must possess clean lungs, a reverence for nature and art, and be pre pared to take the cure next.. April? Letters, please. 64017 GAY, BIG, TALL, LOOKING FORA nice woman (Chitt. County would be nice). I’ll give my heart. 64015_____ BTTG (M TO F) SEEKS BI OR LF for friendship and fun; sweet, Rubenesque, intelligent. Enjoys lipstick, lingerie, movies, toys. Open minded only, please. 64000 GBF WOULD LIKE TO MEET GF at least 50 +. Love life, love sports. I am a NS/D. You are an adult. 64982_________ BIG BONED WOMAN LIKES GREASE^ smarts and being active. I’ll give my heart to the woman who has humor and zest. Life is for living! 64958___________________ 23, TALL, SHORT HAIR, LIKES JAZZ, O’Keeffe and Dr. Seuss looking for a “coffee talker.” 64960
MEN SEEKING MEN LOVE TO #*%@*&!, but want more! Fun, playful GM, 26, 6’2”, 165lbs., looking for GM, 24-36, playful and honest. 64063 GBM, 36, 6’, 185 lbs., NS/ND, ATH LETIC, liberal minded, seeks GM, 20-36, for friendship, possible LTR. Physically dis abled GM considered, too. Willing to relo cate statewide. 64070 ADORE HOT LADDIES. Me: I’m very nice looking; don’t look my age (46 yrs. young), but act it. 6’, 195 lbs., dark hair, blue eyes, enjoy sex. No fatties, sorry. 64065 GWM, 33, 6’, 1751bsTTAM A MAN who likes men who are MEN!! Interests: intellec tual depth, rugged workouts, caft, comedy... oh yeah, fun (20-40). 64052 BURLINGTON AREA GWM, 37, ARTIST, NS, attractive, young looking, seeks soulmate (25-45). Interests: spirituali ty, nature, foreign films, literature, watching sunsets and shooting stars at lake. 64047 DWM, 43, PROF., YOUNG & ATTRAC TIVE seeks same for Fall fun. Loves hikes, picinics, good wine, travel, music. OK, your move! 64019 GBM, 36, 6’, 185 LBS., NS/ND, ESSEX AREA, athletic,.outdoor type, liberal ISO GM or BiM, 18-36, for friendship & good times. 64005 NOT LOOKING FOR ROMANCE. GWM seeks Bi/married men for late after noon delights. Discretion assured. 64007 GET TIED by hot GWM. Looking for another guy around 18 to play rough with. 64998_____________________________ BELIEVE IT OR NOT there are some men who admire Fat Men and only Fat Men. I’m one of the lucky few. Check me out. I’m 55, 230 lbs., 6’2”. Anyone for videos and pizza? 64994
GWM. 35, BRN/BLU, 6’2”, 165, MASC, seeks someone for weekend workout, biking or just hanging out. Any age, NS, no drugs. 64990 QUIET NIGHTS W/ YOU. GWM. 40, NS, loves music dancing, cooking. Need a partner who is ready to settle down. Winter is coming. 64966 CLOSET TRANSVESTITE, SLENDER, SEXY, LOVING seeks honest, faithful man for longterm relationship. I’m 44. You must be caring and sincere. Looking for boyfriend-husband. 64967 SOUTHERN ADDISON COUNTY AREA GWM, 29, 5T0”, 170 lbs., in shape seeks similar GWM, 25-40, for discreet casual friendship, 64944 OTHER HOT DOG. Rub a dub dub. Us in a tub. Strictly bedroom. Skyy martini. Good situa tion. YTAPPYYADTHIRB to a non-fat harry. I hoat a honkish word for love. Don’t be fat just ‘caus nej needs to nas-rock. Peep Kack’n. I SPY RAQUETS EDGE - 9/28... PRETTY SMILE w/ white cap on backwards. Yes, I did see your smile. Let’s talk. 64064 DEM OLITION DERBY, CHAM PLAIN VALLEY FAIR. You: attractive female, redhead, who I saved your seat for while you went after refreshments. Can we get together? 64046 MACEO SHOW AT CLUB TOAST, 9/25. You: goofy colored short hair -SSSASSSY!! Bartender? If you bear the horns of love as 1 do, let me know. 64057
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