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Stevens told tales of spot,” he says, “where binge drinkers will going all the way back to 1979 when he first gather.” met Billy the Kid, then a waiter There is opposition, how at the Sirloin Saloon. His last ever, in addition to that of caper under the direction of the local Gannett-chain Mr. Greer, he said, was during newspaper. Progressive their 11-week trial in 1997. Councilor Tom Smith tells Grego said he made five walk Inside Track he would have ing trips down from Quebec voted against a liquor license with premium hydroponic pot for the Irish pub had he in his backpack. Twice he drove showed up at the committee the loads to the Big Apple and meeting on time. Tom the handed them off to a gentle Prog says before any new man in front of the Chelsea liquor licenses are granted he Hotel identified only as “an wants to see a thorough dis associate of Dog.” O f course at cussion conducted on where the time, Grego was free on downtown is going. bail with conditions he not Presently, says Smith, all leave the state or associate with there is in downtown Burlap Billy Greer. Not to worry. are “upscale clothing stores, Monday he sang his lungs out bars and restaurants. Is that in hopes Judge William where we want to be going?” Sessions will go lightly on his Expect a heavy dose of sentence. Stevens has already snitched BY PETER FREYNE politically correct progressive grandstanding Monday night on two of his fellow backpack when the city council will decide on final ers, and the former bartender offered fresh approval for the new pub. information Monday implicating his former Moonie Goes for Five — Mayor Peter Clavelle boss at the Chickenbone Cafe in a 1991 hash went public Tuesday with his desire to serve a deal that allegedly brought three tons of the fifth term as Mayor of Burlap. As for oppo Lebanese delicacy into Boston Harbor. nents, don’t bet on former Police Chief Kevin But Wavy Davy, the laid-back prosecutor, Scully jumping in this time. It’s more likely saved his best for last. It’s no secret Kirby & Kevin will start his political career with a run Co. have not been fans of Inside Track’s cover* for city council. age of the case. O f all the amendments to the Mr. Kurt Wright is itching to take on Constitution it’s been quite clear the First Clavelle, and can spout off a host of issues Amendment isn’t one of their favorites. From which, he says, Clavelle has been on the wrong the start, Kirby wouldn’t talk to us. The side of. He says Mayor Moonie is “out of defense — some of them, anyway — wouldn’t touch with the voters,” a fact, he says, that’s shut up. demonstrated by Clavelle’s support for every So David Kirby, the Kenneth Starr of tax increase that’s come down the pike. Vermont, got Grego to testify that after their Great Move, Gov! — Gotta give “The Pontius May 1997 conviction the five defendants agreed on a plan to have Fred Greer, brother of Pilate Award of 1998” to our governor, Howard Brush Dean III. Mr. Wash-MyBill, tip off yours truly that Juror John Baker Hands-of-the-Whole-Mess earned the coveted had concealed the fact his younger brother had prize by appointing a blue ribbon task force to a record and was once involved in a deal or come up with proposals for improving Act 60. two with Billy. Interesting, but is it true? Ho-Ho’s been all over the map on this one. All we can say is, Inside Track has never Before the election he said he was crunching identified a confidential source and isn’t about the numbers on several proposals, which he to start now. W hat’s important is that what we declined to identify. Said he wanted to get rid reported on Juror Baker was correct, whether of the shark pool entirely. Then said he wanted Wavy Davy liked it or not. And it’s still a little to adjust the shark pool somehow to ease the mind-boggling that after the “Twilight Zone” pain. Now he’s got a cozy little task force to hearing Sessions conducted, in which he inter hide behind. Brilliant move! O f course, there viewed the jurors one by one, the judge let the already is a task force working on Act 60 — it’s verdict reached by that chatty bunch stand. called the Vermont State Legislature! Stevens also testified Greer had been trying Media Notes — Couple new faces in TV to work out a deal with the government in which everyone’s sentence would be reduced in News Land. Over at WCAX the new face is that of Joan Ritchie, a graduate of return for information on the Canadian and Northwestern’ s Medill School of Journalism. Dutch connections. There’s been no evidence Joan grew up all over New England, including of such a deal. In fact, Billy the Kid’s latest a few years in St. Albans. She comes to Burlap ploy is to claim he suffers from attention from WAGM in Presque Isle, Maine, and has deficit disorder, and that ADD affected his already made an impression as a pretty savvy relationship with his attorney both before and reporter. 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Road Rager of the Week Police in Durham, North Carolina, said Sarah C. Carr was stuck in traffic with two girls, 10 and 13, when she became frustrated with the grid lock and drove up onto the sidewalk and across people’s yards. Cpl. Lori Fansler, who was directing traffic, stopped the car, but when she leaned inside to talk to the driver, Carr insisted she “didn’t have freak ing time for this” and sped off, dragging Fansler, whose hand was tangled in the seat belt, about 10 feet. Another officer chased Carr down a road at about 75 mph before she stopped at a school.

Sets and Violence Falling television sets killed at least 28 children between 1990 and 1997, according to a study in the journal Pediatrics. Using data supplied by the Consumer Product Safety Commission and the Childrens Hospital of Alabama, researchers reported that sets placed on TV stands and dressers were the most danger ous, causing 38 percent of the deaths.

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Passing Judgment The Florida Supreme Court reprimanded Circuit Judge Leonard V. Wood, 61, for rude and inappropriate remarks he made to a divorcing couple, ordering Gary Lieberman and Julie Smith-Lieberman to dis close details of their sex life. After listening, he then urged them to stay married and have a baby, adding that he wouldn’t mind fathering SmithLieberman’s child himself if she wasn’t already married.

Animal Husbandry Australian scientists seeking a way to reduce the cost of wool gathering have developed a way to make sheep shed their fleece automatically. The New York Times reported that sheep are injected with a natural pro tein, then a week later their wool falls off into special nets worn by the animals. The gov ernment-owned Common wealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, which

hailed the process as a “new concept in wool harvesting,” said the wool usually begins to grow back within 24 hours. • A 6-foot-tall, 150-pound female emu tried to mate with Ed Stuardi of Mobile, Alabama. The bird followed him around for several days, but when its intentions became known, Stuardi tried scaring it away by shooting his gun into the air. The bird continued hanging around, making deep noises in its throat that are a mating call, forcing Stuardi and his wife to cower in their house for two days. Finally, they called the authorities, who captured the emu and took it to a farm pop ulated by her own species. “It was mating season, and she took a fond liking to him,” said Diane Roberts, director of the Animal Rescue Foundation. “He had to ward her off with a boat paddle. She was absolutely intent that this was her mate.” • The Animal Protection Institute reported that General Mills has addressed the problem of animals getting their snouts stuck in the narrow tops of its Yoplait yogurt containers. From now on, the plastic containers will bear a warning on the bot tom that reads, “Protect Wildlife: Crush Before Disposal.”

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bodies at his funeral home in Mount Vernon, Ohio, William B. Grohe, 52, pocketed the money and left the corpses to decompose after his electricity was cut off. Grohe was convict ed of three counts of abuse of a corpse. • Flemming Pedersen, 37, asked the staff at a hospital in Copenhagen where his 86-yearold father died to be left alone with him. He then dressed the body in leather gear, boots, a helmet and dark sunglasses, walked the rigid corpse out of the hospital, strapped it to the seat of his motorcycle and drove around the Danish capital for three hours visiting his father’s favorite haunts.

Laboring Under a Delusion When Concetta Romano checked into a hospital in Naples, Italy, in August to give birth, doctors could find no baby

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Pop Shots adies and gentlemen, after a week holed up at the New York Public Library, and with the prospect of 20 or 30 blood relatives showing up for Thanksgiving dinner, the Crank has a confession to make. He’s all dried up. He’s at a loss for words. This will be good news for Repub licans, “womyn,” straight men and so forth, but it’s bad news for the Crank, who’s obliged to deliver commentary every other week without fail — either that or see his reputation for off-the-rack punditry evapo rate as swiftly as it arose. I thought at first I might write about Kenneth Starr’s appearance before the House Judiciary Committee, but, apart from the deliciously timed resignation of Starr’s “ethics advisor,” Sam Dash, it was so dull and so irrele vant that even a wiseguy can’t make hay out of it. Likewise with the President’s

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My two books about the Romanovs got me labeled “a monarchist” in local gay and lesbian circles, confirming my suspicion that many political activists in the Burlington area have been educated at a considerable remove. No, I say, and no again. I am not a media flack. I’m a loud, lone voice crying in the wilderness. 2) Am I crazy, or did no one bat an eye when the United States found itself “this close” to war with Iraq? In the whole 10 days or two weeks (or five minutes — who can be sure?) that led to the latest non-action, I did n’t hear a single person men tion it in conversation, in passing, or on the street. I suppose there must have been the usual band of left over war protesters down at the Federal Building, but, if so, they desperately need some public relations advice. Nobody cared. There could be several reasons for this. One is that the public is smarter than it -and knows lat all it takes lo se international crisis is for var ious leaders to declare that they’re going to do some thing other than what they’re doing now, whether they actually do it or not. Another is that the public isn’t that smart and doesn’t know, or care, that war is real and not just something you see on TV. O r it could be that Americans are used to living in a permanent crisis atmos phere, under a 24-hour, seven-day assault of “break ing news” that shifts from topic to topic and disaster to calamity just as quickly as you can change the channel. (Yes, I think television cre ates the minds it wants to reach. No, I will never back down.) 3) I wish Americans would forget about the Kennedy years and the shimmering kaleidoscope that was Camelot. I don’t want to read another story, ever, about how our innocence died on November 22, 1963. This seems to me to be just another excuse for Americans’ abysmal knowl edge of their own history. I’m aware that there are many controversies among educators and psychologists — not to mention an alarmed citizenry — about the best way to teach kids

their lessons. As things stand, however, the United States is the only country on earth that actually believes nothing ever happened before video. 4) I’d like local parents to stop giving their babies names that leave me rolling on the floor. I’m thinking of the children here. How many Camerons, Connors and Tanners can one society need? Ditto all the Katelyns, Tamryns, and Brianna Maries. Ten years ago — I have this written down — the names on the day-care wall were Megan, Ashley, Jennifer, Heather, Holly, Tiffany, Chelsea and Nicole. I forgot to note the boys, but this was before they all started sounding like cars. To be sure, there’s been a resurgent Biblical trend. Hence the legions of Isaiahs and Ezekiels sitting down this very moment to watch “South Park.” I’m all for

Could be that Americans are used ing in a perma nent crisis atmos phere, under a 24hour, seven-day assault of “breaking news” that shifts from topic to topic and disaster to calamity just as quickly as you can change the channel? Biblical names, and wonder if we couldn’t see a few Hepzibahs, Salomes and Bathshebas thrown into the mix. Or spell Michaela properly. Or go back to the archaic French-Canadian names that used to domi nate here: Orefuge, Armandine, Odde and Delphise. I leave you with a pass ing thought from Nobel lau reate Czeslaw Milosz, taken from his new collection of poems and short essays, Road-side Dog: “Little ani mals from cartoons, talking rabbits, doggies, squirrels, as well as ladybugs, bees, grasshoppers. They have as much in common with real animals as our notions of the world have with the real world. Think of this, and tremble.” (7)

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between, whether he’s playing a wacked-out Holocaust victim with Green Candle Theater Company or brokering real estate deals with business bud dies on the board of the Greater Burlington Industrial Develop ment Corporation. “Aside from his obvious love and enthusiasm for theater, he brings a solid understanding of the business community and how the arts fit into the local economy,” says Blake Robison, artistic director of Vermont Stage. “Arts are largely in the not-for-profit sector, and busi nesses are concerned about making profits. Reconciling those two priorities can be chal lenging. W hat’s great about Walt is that he lives in both camps. “

s a child growing up in Greenwich, Connecticut, Levering had early access to the arts in New York City. Both of his grandmothers lived in Manhattan, and were eager to take him around. His pater nal grandmother brought him to young people’s concerts at Carnegie Hall, which sparked a life-long appreciation for classi cal music. His maternal grand mother preferred theater, instill ing in Levering an appreciation

for show and substance. It was a short walk from there to the jazz bars on 52nd Street, which Levering discov ered some years later. “We heard Coltrane and Charlie Parker and George Shearing,” he recalls. “I sat as close as you are right now at two in the morning in some joint listening to Art Tatum with about 20 other people. You could go to a place like The Embers and lis ten to Ella Fitzgerald sing for two hours straight...people call ing up songs and her saying, ‘We’ll get to it, we’ll get to it.” Dramatic interests accompa nied Levering to Yale, where he played baseball and football, and made regular forays to the Schubert Theater. But armchair appreciation was as far as it went. Even as he took on highpressure endeavors like team racing on sailboats, it never occurred to Levering to turn his audience status into active pur suit. “I used to go to the theater and say, ‘Wow, that was great.’ I had a really good time, and that was it. I never thought about getting up there. It was the last thing in the world I wanted to do.” Simply put, Levering suf fered from stage fright — a problem exacerbated by his suc cess as a businessman. Although

he had no trouble performing for a stadium full of football fans, the idea of getting up before a group of colleagues — even employees — gave him “the yips,” as he puts it, describing “that heart just bang ing on my ribs, like it is going to explode, and the sweat just running right down the back of my shirt. People don’t see that.” The problem became acute when Levering, who was then chair of the board of Trinity College, teamed up with Sister Janice Ryan to raise money for a capital campaign. “We were going around talking to various groups in New York and Boston. I would have to get up and make a speech. After three of ’em, I told Janice, ‘I’m dying. I’m so scared. I can’t keep going.’” Sister Janice referred Levering to former Trinity drama prof Hugh Cronister, who confirmed “that fear of public speaking ranks about 10 places higher than fear of death,” Levering recalls. His recommendation to the tonguetied board member? Adult act ing classes. “Acting? I said, ‘Wait a minute, Hugh, you don’t understand. I’m just talk ing about public speaking.’ Well, I went to three of those classes and I was hooked.”

By teaching him improvisational skills, Cronister helped Levering learn to think on his feet. “In the beginning I was frightened to death, and hope less as an actor,” he admits. “But Hugh taught us how to work ourselves out of situa tions. By visualizing himself as a “speech maker,” the aspiring actor eventually got a grip — and his first role with Green Candle Theater Company. Fellow local actor Geri Amori also coached Levering through his problem at the podium. With a tough-love approach that included stealing his precious notes, “she made me stumble through the thing, over and over. It was an attempt to break me from all the crutches,” he explains. “Boy, she was tough, that little shit,” her recalls with an appreciative chuckle. The lesson saw him through a stint as chair of one of the most intimidating boards in Chittenden County: the Lake Champlain Regional Chamber of Commerce.

n business and acting, Levering is a team player — a natural outgrowth of his time on boats, and as a flankerback and wide receiver on the playing field. “Take away all the hitting and everything, and football is going to the right spot and the right time and doing your job,” he explains. “Acting is the same way. You go here on this cue, on this line and do this. And yet the lines can’t be lines and the movement can’t be movement. It’s got to be very natural.” He compares a night at the Stratford Shake speare Festival to watching the Yankees and Red Sox play base ball. Not surprisingly, Levering is less jazzed by the idea of delivering a soliloquy than par ticipating in the complicated choreography of a fight scene. Paul Ugalde called the shots in the Theater Factory production of Tons o f Money, in which, as, Levering puts it, “a guy comes at me with a pitchfork and I have to throw him over the couch and all that. How do you do that night after night and not kill someone, or make it look phony?” Levering describes the phys ical intricacies of the scene, like a dancer detailing a particularly daring lift. And he’s done that, too. All through college, Levering dated a June Taylor dancer, with whom he regularly went out to swing and jitter bug. She gave him yet another opportunity to make the con nection between arts and sport. “During the fall, in football sea son, the question was, who was hurt worse this weekend — Walt or Emmy? She was beat up more than I was.” Levering was fast on his feet — on the dance floor and the

football field. At five feet six inches — the shortest player in the Ivy League — he had to be. “People wrote articles about it,” he says. He made the most of his stature, though thanks to great coaching by a guy not much bigger than himself. Perhaps as a result, there’s no trace of a Napoleon complex in Levering — he’s big enough to find kind words for everybody but himself. “There is no ego there at all,” Nash says of “the hardestworking actor” he has ever directed. “He comes into class as a neophyte and says ‘teach me.’ There is just no sense of pride, no desire to make him self important. Even though we

The place appealed to him so much that he took a construc tion job on the spot. “It was outdoors, it was athletic. I just stayed.” Although he had not skiied much before then, Levering took to the slopes. And after a variety of jobs in the industry, he got into the bar business. First he and a group of friends bought the Baggy Knees in Stowe. Their success financed a renovation project in Mont pelier that became the Thrush Tavern. Next came the “Stowe Center” — a commercial pro ject that ranked him as a “developer.” By then he was married with two small daugh

to do?’ He says, ‘I’m starving. Let’s go back and and get a steak and a beer at the ’jam mer.’ That’s my kind of guy.” Chiu was immediately at ease with Levering, who does not discriminate between stars and stagehands. (He calls “Frasier” actor David Hyde Pierce a friend, too.) That makes him accessible to both the high-ranking and the eco nomically challenged. He has served on the Flynn board for a dozen years. Robison snagged him for Vermont Stage two months ago. Praising his win ning combination of passion and practicality, Robison notes, “Walt puts his money where his mouth is, but he also likes to get in there and help these orga nizations improve themselves.” Levering is a big fan of entrepreneurial spirit in the arts. He has nothing but praise for Dewees, for example, who organized and promoted his own recent tour. But he also recognizes that market forces are not sympathetic to the gnarliest problem facing players and audiences in the Burlington area: the shortage of perfor mance and rehearsal space. “The Paul Schnabels and the John Alexanders, and they have no place to play,” Levering says. As vice president of the Flynn board, Levering is defi nitely looking out for the little .guy. “It can’t be as expensive as Sthe proposed to be,” he says, referring to expansion- 4, plans that include an alternate wears his eclectic tastes on his performance space. “If you rent sleeve. Along with The Logger it on a weekly basis, at a market and the Nevilles, he is sponsor rent basis, all your costs cov ing classical pianist Fred Chiu ered, there ain’t ever going to be this year, for the third time. He a play.” first spotted the musician on a By the same token, he televised broadcast of the Van brings a dose of reality to his Cliburn piano competition — drama friends. That includes after he had taken up the the folks at Green Candle, instrument himself. Although Champlain Arts, Theater Chiu did not get a medal, he Factory, Vermont Stage and did take risks. He got Levering’s New Group Theater, with vote. whom he is “producing” “The next morning the Memoirs, about the life of Sarah phone rang, and it was Walt,” Bernhardt, at the Vergennes recalls Lane Series director Jane Opera House. “Sometimes the Ambrose, who had also seen the small theater companies expect documentary. He said, ‘Do you a free ride,” Levering warns. know who we should get on the “Nobody is going to step for Lane Series next year?’” Read ward and give a company space ing his mind, she responded, out of the goodness of their “Fred Chiu.” Both of them still heart.” laugh about the synchronicity. Levering is perfectly posi Not only did Levering sponsor tioned to help find a solution, the concert, but when Ambrose or a “50-50 deal,” as he puts it. needed someone to pick up the But it may take all his real artist at the airport, Levering estate contacts, and then some, volunteered. to come up with a plan that is “W hat I found at the air self-sustaining. “There has got port was a really neat kind of to be a way that we can endow fun guy. We just became a space for theater and dance friends,” Levering says, taking — those are the two art forms the opportunity to slip Chiu’s that are absolutely out in the latest compact disc into the cold around here,” Levering stereo behind his desk. Levering says. In the meantime, local has since visited Chiu in Paris,, actors can rest assured there is a and traveled to Rhode Island to warm spot for them on Willi hear him play. “After his con ston Road. And that Walt cert in Burlington two years Levering will definitely leave ago, I said, ‘W hat do you want the light on for them. ® Levering sponsored on behalf of the Windjammer Hospitality Group, has the potential to send up red flags in the boardroom. “Most businesses would be like, ‘Wait a minute, wait a minute, they did that Rosa Parks thing,”’ Levering says with an explosive laugh. More likely, they wouldn’t know the Nevilles at all. His recommendation? “They have to get out more, they have to see more,” Levering suggests. “They sit in their little houses watching public television and think that’s the arts.” When it comes to corporate sponsorship, Levering definitely

“My philosophy is. if we lose our arts, we lose our culture. I think business should be the creators and sponsors of arts. They should be the great patrons.” are having classes in the hotel he owns, he never makes a big deal out of it.” Levering carries that egoless approach to management. “My philosophy is, and always has been, hire the best people and get the hell out of the way,” he explains. “As a coach I can’t play the game, but I sure can help them.” He treats every member of his staff like a cru cial member of the team. Non employees experience the same generosity of spirit. “If he says, ‘give me a call,’ and you do, he gets back to you,” says actor Rusty Dewees, whose recent tour of The Logger was sponsored by Levering through the Windjammer Hospitality Group. “He makes your little bit seem as impor tant as anything else he is doing. He trusts you, too. I call that a heart-gut-handshake businessman.”

evering makes a practice of hurling headlong into things. But uncharacteris tically, he “backed into” the hospitality business in Vermont as a stock broker-to-be. En route home from a wild wed ding in Montreal, he pulled over in Stowe. “I was so hung over, I could hardly keep it between the trees,” he recalls with characteristic good humor.

ters, and living on a sheep farm in Waterbury. Levering was working as a commercial real estate broker at Hickok and Boardman when he bought into his current proper ty on Williston Road. The orig inal proposal for an indoor shopping mall got shot down by the local planning commis sion — at just about the same time the University Mall got through. “So I went to these consulting people and said, ‘Okay, what is the next highest and best use?’ They said a bud get hotel.” Twenty-two years later, Levering is surely the only hote lier in the area who extends competitive discounts to baroque ensembles and visiting baseball teams. Or whose “bot tom line” takes into considera tion regular cultural contribu tions. “My philosophy is, if we lose our arts, we lose our cul ture,” Levering says. “I think business should be the creators and sponsors of arts. They should be the great patrons.” He does acknowledge the obvious drawback, though: Typically, most businesses shy away from associating them selves with anything controver sial, preferring musicals, cham ber ensembles and family pro grams. Even an act like The Neville Brothers, which

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Mississquoi High School in Swanton, and a statewide writ ing contest for which school kids composed a piece about a musical instrument they play or would like to play. The contest received 434 submissions, and its winners will be attending the Marsalis concert. Based on results from the questionnaires, the Bethany’s board has developed a two-year plan that targets six schools, five of which are financially strapped and have virtually no arts programming. The sixth school will be in an affluent area that already has programs. In this case, Thomas says, “Programs are already coming to them, but we want to make sure the programs are done the right way. We want to make sure the prep work is done and that there is discussion after

says Dawn Ellis, education coordinator at the Vermont Arts Council. “They’re dabbling right now, trying to figure out what works.. .I’m optimistic that we can work together to see where they can fit and stop a gap, as long as they continue to look and listen and meet a need that is not already being met.” Thomas believes there is plenty of room for improve ment. “Some schools don’t even have a room set aside for music,” he says. “They wait five years for an arts program, and they have to go out selling candy bars to get it. People might worry that funding might be compromised, that we’ll get a piece of their pie. But this is America, that’s just healthy competition. It’ll make us all sharper.”

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Last week found Thomas flanked by fifth-graders on the floor of the music room at the Westminster Center School in southern Vermont. The kids were intent, as was Thomas, on the directions of theater artist Peter Gould, who was doing a Bethany’s-sponsored 10-day theater workshop there. W ith minor urging, he had the kids doing the backstroke, riding Harleys and walking across the floor pretending there was an earthquake — ending up in a snarl of twitch ing bodies and congenial chaos in the center of the room. After the session he shared a different kind of wisdom: “W hen funds are available to put arts and artists in schools, it would be great if a larger per cent goes to schools and less for bureaucracy. Charlie seems to have a good plan for imple menting that. “I’ve always been interested in someone who is living through the force of a revela tion,” he says of Thomas. “Someone who’s experienced facing destiny or fate, and taken a giant leap in another direc tion. Those are the people who impress me most.” ®

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Williamson manages to find a remarkable balance between hard facts, gory details and the lighter side of “accident” reporting. mountaineering incidents just over 50 years ago. As stated in the introduc tion to the 1948 inaugural edi tion, the data was to be gath ered “with no intent to criticize persons involved, but rather to learn why these accidents occurred and to emphasize the lessons to be learned from them.” The small, unadorned jour nal paints a picture of moun taineering adventures without all the soft landings — in stark contrast to Warren Miller’s “extreme” pornography, and even the current issue of Vermont Life, which features a

when a chain reaction brought down four separate strands of roped climbers. “It’s more like being an investigator of the shuttle Challenger than the FAA,” cor rects Williamson on his role in the aftermath of various acci dents. Now 59, he first traveled to Alaska to climb North America’s highest peak in 1963 and made an ambitious ascent up the East Buttress. “I don’t make any rules or regulations,” Williamson notes, “I go in and try to discover facts and then recommend changes.” In an effort to breed better

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Crater Rock on M ount Hood. He fell several times, ultimately attributing this to having his skis on the wrong feet.” Although he calls a sense of humor “essential” to his role, Williamson knows the pain of mountaineering accidents. For starters, he’s in the current edi tion of his journal for a severe head laceration caused by falling rocks — and the fact that he’d lent his helmet to a client. More seriously, in 1974, the year he took over the edi tor’s role for Accidents, he was climbing in the Pamir Mountains in the former Soviet Union when 15 climbers from a variety of expeditions, includ ing his own, lost their lives due to avalanches. People often ask Williamson how to prepare for big moun tain environments, especially the weather on Denali. “The answer,” he quips, “is to live in northern New England.” Every bit the educator as well as editor, Williamson has stopped using the term “bad weather.” “There’s no such thing as ‘bad weather’, it’s only weather,” he instructs. “We can’t blame the weather, we can only blame our preparation.” But if New Englanders have an advantage with regard to understanding the risks of cold weather, they’re often out of their element when it comes to avalanches, Williamson and other experts agree. Avalanches cascade down the sides of mountains when the forces of gravity exceed the bonding characteristics of the snow. Once released — either sponta neously or by a trigger like a skier or rider — snow slides can carry a force equal to the bomb that flattened the Federal Building in Oklahoma. Few Easterners know as much about avalanches or the risks inherent in the backcountry as St. Johnsbury resident and Accidents reader Roger Damon. An avid skier, Mount Washington ski patrolman and

well-respected avalanche safety instructor, Damon has spent the past 50 years roaming the flanks of New England’s largest mountain. Every spring, when legions of thrill seekers trek to the steep glacial cirques in New Hampshire, Damon and his partners rescue — or recover the bodies of — skiers and climbers that fall victim to exposure, falls and, inevitably, slides. “The nature of the beast is that the slopes you really want to be c5n are the slopes most susceptible to avalanches,” says Damon. New England skiers and riders who want to venture onto slopes steeper than 30 degrees — whether visiting the West or straying off-piste in the East — need to educate them selves about avalanche safety, he stresses. And if you doubt the East has avalanche potential, he ticks off ice climbs on Smug glers’ Notch, the Profanity Trail on Mt. Mansfield, and even manmade snow on the Can-Am Trail at Jay Peak as sites of recent Green Mountain slides. “All you need is a slope and snow; it doesn’t have to be an exotic location,” echoes Dickie Hall, founder of the North American Telemark Association. Readily admitting to once being caught in a slide here in Vermont, Hall makes a point of teaching mountaineering skills as well as skiing at all his tele mark classes. “I always tell peo ple, ‘Your destination when you leave the car is not the peak, it’s your car.’” But like Damon and Williamson, the normally ebul lient Hall grows serious when remembering friends lost in the mountains. “Sometimes the best three words you can know when it comes to ski moun taineering,” he intones, “are ‘no, not today.’” ® For information about avalanche safety classes, call the Appalachian M ountain Club at (603) 466-2727.

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SOUL FINGERS Brooks Williams has been this way before — plenty of times, in fact. But the Massachusetts-based singer-songwriter with the sizzling slide guitar and blues-guy vocals is always worth another listen, if just to remind you of the mean ing of awesome. Williams returns to the Burlington Coffeehouse this Friday.

GARNET ALL Next up at Middlebury’s After Dark Music Series is folk favorite Garnet Rogers, a charismatic performer who would impress even if he wasn’t six-six — it’s that baritone! Or maybe those extraordinary tunes. Or even his big-boned sense of humor. Whatever — he’s bringing it all to the Knights of Columbus Hall this Saturday. Up-andcomer Lori McKenna opens.

where to go After Dark Music Series, Knights of Columbus Hall, Middlebury, 388-021 6. Alley-Cats, 41 King St., Burl., 660-4304. Backstage Pub, 60 Pearl St., Essex Jet., 878-5494. Boony’s, Rt. 236, Franklin, 933-4569. Borders Books & Music, 29 Church St., Burlington, 865-271 1. Brewski, Rt. 108, Jeffersonville, 644-5432. BU Emporium, Bellwood Shpg. Ctr., Colchester, 658-4292. B.W.'s Restaurant, 1 Towne Mktpl., Essex Jet., 879-0752. Cactus Cafe, 1 Lawson In ., Burl., 862-6900. Cafe Banditos, Mountain Rd., Jeffersonville, 64 4-888 4. Cafe Ole, North Common, Chelsea, 685-2173. Cafe Swift House, 25 Stewart Lane, Middlebury, 388-9925. Cambridge Coffee House, Smugglers' Notch Inn, Jeffersonville, 6 4 4-223 3. Charlie 0 ’s, 70 Main St., Montpelier, 223-682 0. Chicken Bone, 43 King St., Burlington, 864-9674. Chow! Bella, 28 N. Main St., St. Albans, 524-1405. Club Metronome, 188 Main St., Burlington, 865-4563. Club Toast, 165 Church, Burlington, 660-2088. Cobbweb, Sandybirch Rd., Georgia, 527-7000. Diamond Jim's Grille, Highgate Comm. Shpg. Ctr., St. Albans, 524-928 0. Dubie’s Cafe, 160 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington, 658-0693. Edgewater Pub, 340 Malletts Bay Ave., Colchester, 865-421 4. Emerald City, 114 River St., Montpelier. 223-700 7. Extreme Sports Bar/Dance Club, Lakeshore Dr., Malletts Bay, 86 4-833 2. Franny O’s 733 Queen City Pk. Rd., Burlington, 863-2909. Gallagher’s, Rt. 100 & 17, W aitsfield, 4 9 6-880 0. Giorgio’s Cafe, Tucker Hill Lodge, Rt. 17, W aitsfield, 4 9 6-398 3. Good Times Cafe, Hinesburg Village, Rt. 116, 4 8 2-444 4. Greatful Bread, 65 Pearl St., Essex Jet., 878-4466. Ground Round, 1633 Williston Rd., S. Burlington. 862-112 2. Halvorson's, 16 Church St., Burlington, 658-027 8. Henry’s, Holiday Inn, 1068 Williston Rd., S. Burlington, 863-636 1. Higher Ground, 1 Main St., Winooski, 65 4-888 8. Horn of the Moon Cafe, 8 Langdon St., Montpelier, 22 3-289 5. Jake’s, 1233 Shelburne Rd., S. Burlington, 65 8-225 1. J.P.’s Pub, 139 Main St., Burlington, 6 5 8-638 9. LaBrioche, 89 Main St., Montpelier, 22 9-044 3. Last Chance Saloon, 147 Main, Burlington, 862-5159. Leunig's, 115 Church St., Burlington, 863-3759. Live Art at the Barre Opera House, Barre, (schedule) 88 3-930 7; (tickets) 476-818 8. Mad Mountain Tavern, Rt. 100, W aitsfield, 4 9 6-256 2. Main St. Bar & Grill, 118 Main St., Montpelier, 223-3188. Manhattan Pizza, 167 Main St., Burlington, 658-6776. Monopoles, 7 Protection Ave., Plattsburgh, 518-563-2222. Nectar’s, 188 Main St., Burlington, 658-477 1. The Night Spot Outback, Killington Rd., Killington, 42 2-988 5 135 Pearl St., Burlington. 863-2343. Pickle Barrel, Killington Rd., Killington, 422-303 5. Radisson Hotel, 60 Battery St., Burlington, 658-650 0. Red Square, 136 Church St., Burlington, 859-8909. Rhombus, 186 College St., Burlington, 865-3144. Ripton Community Coffee House, Rt. 125, 388-9782. Ruben James, 159 Main St., Burlington, 864-0744. Rude Dog, 14 Green St., Vergennes, 877-203 4. Rusty Nail, Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-6245. Sai-Gon Cafe, 133 Bank St., Burlington, 863-5637. Sandbar Motor Inn, 59 Rt. 2. S. Hero, 3 7 2-691 1. Sha-Booms, 45 Lake St., St. Albans, 524-901 4. Slammer, Rt. 7, Milton, 893-3454. Something Cool, 22 Brinkerhoff St., Plattsburgh, NY, 518-563 -863 9. Swany’s, 215 Main St., Vergennes, 877-3667. Strand Theater, 25 Brinkerhoff St., Plattsburgh; NY, 51 8-566-7185. Sweetwaters, 113 Church St., Burlington, 864-980 0. The Tavern at the Inn at Essex, Essex Jet., 878-1100. Thirsty Turtle, 1 S. Main St., Waterbury, 24 4-522 3. Three Mountain Lodge, Rt. 108, Jeffersonville, 644-573 6. Thrush Tavern, 107 State St., Montpelier. 223-2030. Toadstool Harry's, Rt. 4 , Killington, 4 2 2-501 9. Trackside Tavern, 18 Malletts Bay Ave., W inooski, 6 5 5-954 2. Tuckaway’s, Sheraton, 870 W illiston Rd., S. Burlington, 865-660 0. Valley Players Theater, Rt. 100, W aitsfield, 4 9 6-340 9. Vermont Pub & Brewery, 144 College, Burlington, 865-050 0. Villa Tragara, Rt. 100, Waterbury Ctr., 24 4-528 8. Windjammer, 1076 Williston Rd., S. Burlington, 86 2-658 5.

WEDNESDAY JASON BERGM AN & BOB GAGNON

(French jazz cabaret), Leunig’s, 8 p.m. NC. OPEN M IK E (acoustic), Dubie’s Cafe, 8 p.m. NC. KARAOKE, 135 Pearl, 9:30 p.m. NC. DISCO FUNK (DJs John Demus & Tim Diaz), Ruben James, 11 p.m. NC. MIGHTY FAB KINGTONES (rock), Nectars, 9:30 p.m. NC. VORCZA TRIO (jazz/lounge/funk), Red Square, 9:30 p.m. NC. PICKLE-DAVIS (jazz-folk), Manhattan Pizza, 9 p.m. NC. C O SM IC LOUNGE (DJ Mike Spearz), Club Toast, 9:30 p.m. $1/4. METRO M A S S IV E (hip-hop/dancehall DJ), Club Metronome, 9 p.m. NC. KARAOKE, J.P.’s Pub, 9 p.m. NC. SA N D BLIZZARD (rock), Trackside Tavern, 9 p.m. $3. BAILEY BROS., THE X-RAYS (blues, rock/r&b), Higher Ground, 9:30 p.m. $5. EMERALD CITY HOUSE BAND (groovefunk jam), Emerald City Nightclub, 9:30 p.m. $2/5. TNT (DJ & karaoke), Thirsty Turtle, 9 p.m. NC. T A M M Y FLETCHER & THE D ISC IPLES

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G Y PSY MOTH (acoustic rock),-,;

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27 FRIDAY JOE C A P P S (jazz), Sai-Gon Cafe, 7

p.m. NC. GREG DOUGLASS (singer-songwriter),

Borders, 8 p.m. NC. BROOKS W IL L IA M S (singer-songwriter), Burlington Coffeehouse at Rhombus, 8 p.m. $8. PERRY NUNN (acoustic), Ruben James, 5 p.m. NC, followed by DJ NIGHT, 10 p.m. NC. LES RIOS (acoustic), Sweetwaters, 8:30 p.m. NC. SA N D R A W RIGHT (blues diva), Red Square, 9:30 p.m. NC. EVOLUTION (DJ Craig Mitchell), 135 Pearl, 10 p.m. $4/5. DISCO INFERNO (DJ), Club Metronome, 9 p.m. NC. TREE, NON COM PO S MENTIS, DEMONSPEED, M IN IM U S (hardcore),

Club Toast, 9:30 p.m. $8. THE X-RAYS (rock/r&b), Nectars, 9:30 p.m. NC. M ARTY KEYSTONE BAND (jazz fusion), Vermont Pub & Brewery, 9:30 p.m. NC. R U S S & CO. (rock), Alley Cats, 9 p.m. NC. COM EDY ZONE (stand-up), Radisson Hotel, 8 & 10 p.m. $7. A D A M S & EVE (rock), Franny O s, 9 p.m. NC. EM PT Y POCKETS (rock), Henry’s Pub, Holiday Inn, 9 p.m. NC. RAY V A S S 0 (acoustic), Ground Round, 8 p.m. NC. SAND BLIZZARD (rock), Trackside Tavern, 9 p.m. $3. CHROME COWBOYS, STARLINE RHYTHM BOYS (vintage country, hill

billy boogie), Higher Ground, 9:30 p.n-f. $5. ALEX SM IT H (jazz), Tavern at Inn at Essex, 8 p.m. NC. DJ NIGHT (Dr. E), Clover House Pub, 9 p.m. NC. SM O K IN ’ GUN (rock), E d g e w ^ P u b , 9 p.m. NC. DAN CIN’ DEAN (country dance & instruction), Cobbwebb, 7:30 p.m. $5. LIVE JAZZ, Diamond Jim's Grille, 7:30 p.m. NC. PIM PCAT PRODUCTIONS, DOWN FOUNDATION, NU TSP0N GE (hard-

core; A.R.A. benefit), Something Cool, 7 p.m. $4. MIRAGE (classic rock), Thirsty Turde, 9 p.m. NC. BETSY & DAN JESSIE (holiday cabaret), Villa Tragara, 6:30 p.m. $7.50. ZOLA TURN (alt-rock), Gallaghers, 9 p.m. $3/4. SETH YAC 0V0N E BLUES BAND, Mad Mountain Tavern, 9 p.m. $4. HUGGY B’S FUNK (jazz-funk), Emerald City Nightclub, 9 p.m. $3/5. FELIX BROWN (dance band), Rusty Nail, 8:30 p.m. $5. JOHNNY DEVIL BAND (rock), Rude Dog Tavern, 9 p.m. NC. S A M ’S PLANET (classic rock), Nightspot Outback, 9:20 p.m. $7. ELBOW (slide blues), Toadstool Harry’s, 9 p.m. NC.

SATURDAY GREG GREENAWAY (singer-songwriter), Burlington Coffeehouse at Rhombus, 8 p.m. $8. DAVE JARVIS (solo pop rock), Rasputins, 8 p.m. NC. THE X-RAYS (rock/r&b), Nectar’s, 9:30 p.m. NC. FACT0RIA (DJ Little Martin), 135 Pearl, 9 p.m. $4/5. DJ NIGHT (hip-hop/r&b DJs), Ruben James, 9 p.m. NC. JAM ES HARVEY BAND (jazz), Red Square, 9:30 p.m. NC. GOLDEN CIRCLE AW ARDS (dancehall, hip-hop DJs), Club Toast, 9:30 p.m. $4/6.

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ing good-time rockin’ blues remains the same. Their latest CD, There Goes the Neighborhood, says It’s so. Get a Roomful at Higher Ground this Saturday. The Detonators lead the charge. ADAM ROSENBERG (acoustic),

AARON FLINN’S SALAD DAYS (pop

Ground Round, 8 p.m. NC.

rock), Mad Mountain Tavern, 9 p.m. $4. R U S S FLANIGAN (rock), Gallagher’s, 9 p.m. $3/4. FELIX BROWN (dance band), Rusty Nail, 8:30 p.m. $5. S A M ’S PLANET (classic rock), Nightspot Outback, 9:20 p.m. $7. JABE (folk-rock), Toadstool Harry’s, 9 p.m. $5.

ROOMFUL OF BLUES, THE DETONA TORS (blues), Higher Ground, 8 p.m.

$13/15. ALEX SM ITH (jazz), Tavern at Inn at

Essex, 8 p.m. NC. EAST COAST M U SCLE (blues-rock),

Backstage Pub, 8:30 p.m. $2.

SW ING DANCE LESSO N S & PARTY

SM O K IN ’ GUN (rock), Edgewater Pub,

Club Metronome, from 6 p.m. $8, followed by RETR0N 0M E (DJ Craig Mitchell), 10 p.m. NC. KARAOKE, J.P.’s Pub, 9 p.m. NC. HIP-HOP NIGHT, Ruben James, 11 p.m. NC. KIP M EAKER (blues) Vermont Pub & Brewery, 9:30 p.m. NC. SOLOMONIC SOUND SY S T E M (reggae DJ), Chicken Bone, 10 p,m. $ 1. COMEDY ZONE (stand-up), Radisson . Hotel, 8 & 10 p.m. 10. GUY C 0LA SA CC 0 (singer-songwriter), Jakes, 6:30 p.m. NC. EM PTY POCKETS (rock), Henry’s Pub, Holiday Inn, 9 p.m. NC. SA M ARMSTRO NG (jazz favorites), Tuckaway’s, Sheraton Hotel, 9 p.m. NC.

9 p.m. NC. LIVE M U SIC (country-rock; round & square dancing), Cobbweb, 8:30 p.m. $7/12. MR. WARD, DISENCHANTED, POLICE LINE (hardcore; A.RA. benefit),

Something Cool, 7 p.m. $4. JOHNNY DEVIL BAND (rock), Rude Dog Tavern, 9 p.m. NC. GARNET ROGERS, LORI M C KEN N A

(singer-songwriters), After Dark, Knights'of Columbus Hall, 7 pjr». $15/17. MIRAGE (classic rock), Thirsty Turtle, 9 p.m. NC. JELLY ROLL JAM (New Orleans blues), Emerald City Nightclub, 9 p.m. $3/5.

SUNDAY UN BAR DISCO (Craig Mitchell turntablism), Red Square, 9 p.m. NC. JERRY LAVENE (jazz guitar), Windjammer, 10:36«»gN G .^ g.

KALLIT MOLLY (rock), Nectar’s, 9:30

p.m. NC. ZOLA TURN, THE IM PLA N T S (ait-

rock), Club Metronome, 4:30 p.m. $5. R U S S & CO. (rock), Chicken Bone, 10 p.m. NC. KARAOKE, Edgewater Pub, 7 p.m. NC. M IK E MURDOCH (blues), La Brioche, 11 a.m. NC. LIVE M U S IC (acoustic), Main Street Bar & Grill, 11 a.m. NC. S A M ’S PLANET (classic rock), Nightspot Outback, 9:20 p.m. NC.

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(rock), Alley Cats, 9 p.m. NC. ABA1R BROS, (rock), Nectars, 9:30 p.m. NC.

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A SPECIA L 'THANKSGIVING W EEKEN D SHOW!

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Many of you have heard various rumors on the street about what’s going on at Club Toast. Sadly, one of them is true: The lower Church Street nightspot is closing at the end of the year. I’m still not at liberty to say who’s buying the place, nor what they plan to do with it — legal stuff, you know. For five and a half years Toast has been nurturing the local music scene and bringing in acts that might not otherwise have come to Burlington, and it will be sorely missed. Unfortunately, club ownership is a burn-out business, and the hard-working brothers Wygmans are, well, toasted. D e n n is W y g m a n s is looking at various options in the entertainment industry for his next career move, while JllStin is busy at his recording studio, Rock It Science. The only bright spot for music fans in this otherwise sad news? One hell of a New Year’s Eve party! Stay tuned for updates, and meanwhile give thanks this week for the good times, and tunes, we’ve had at Toast. T O A S T A L M O S T DONE

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I mentioned a while back that former Burlington bassist John Lilja had made contact from his adopted country of Norway, with the news that his avantgarde jazz group C irc u la s io n e Totale O rchestra had a CD out. Well, I received the CD, and I have to confess it’s not my cuppa. But if you like your jazz way out there, give Borealis (Cadence Jazz Records) a spin . . . If you happen to be going to NYC this holiday weekend, C on structio n Joe would be most happy if you stopped by The Mercury Lounge to lend your cheers — the Burlington “dirt-rockers” play their first show in the Big Apple this Saturday at 8 p.m. . . . Sunday night catch an Eclipse interview and in-studio performance by Montreal’s P ig e o n H ole on “Buzz Homebrew” (99.9 FM) . . . C ra ig B a ile y ’s “Floydian Slip” Web site continues to go to the wall: The Woburn, Mass.based Links2Go Web index company gave his site a “key resource award” in the Pink Floyd category — one of only about 50 representative sites selected in the world. If you haven’t surfed there lately, check www.floydianslip.com — and tune in to Bailey’s radio show Sundays at 7 on Champ 101.3 . . . Best Poster Award — locally, that is — has got to go to B ill Bratcher. The stand-up bassist for The Starlin e Rhythm B o y s (and formerly W a y n e H a n c o c k ), has pro duced suitably vintage-looking stuff for previous shows, but has outdone himself on the oversized poster for next Friday’s holiday show with The Chrom e C o w b o y s at Higher Ground. The strong typography is enhanced by eloquent Western-theme woodcuts by local artist Roy Newton. It’s a keeper . . . Speaking of Higher Ground, co-owner Alex S IN G L E T R A C K S

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K A T H E R IN E Q U IN N , LEAVING DECATUR (self-released CD) — Folk is a word-driven genre — minimal instru mentation exposes lyrics to more scrutiny than heavier musical styles. Fortunately for Burlington singer-songwriter Katherine Quinn, words are her strongest suit. Quinn spins 16 (plus 1) word-packed story-songs on her CO newly released disc, Leaving Decatur, and manages to translate to a recording much £ of the charisma that makes her v at cT < live shows so engaging. Quinn l< rejects traditional song struc b " " tures in favor of a more linear style that sounds personal and CO fresh at its best, meandering and dull at worst. “Did I Ever 5 Tell You” is a good example of the former — a bittersweet break-up song with vivid imagery and a melancholy melody. Leaving Decatur includes acoustic and electric versions of this song, differ ent but equally good. On the down side, some of Quinn’s < /> songs start to sound a bit too similar, with frequent multi 5 note vocal filagrees doing little to make up for the missing hooks and choruses. Again, it’s her lyrics that stick in your head, even when they’re occasionally as overwrought as the “frequent flier miles” the addressee of “Weightless” accrues for all the “power trips” (s)he’s been on. But from the call CO to activism of “Kitchen Table” to the reluctant love song, 5 “Times Two,” Quinn generally hits the nail on the head. LU Her choppy guitar playing proves a nice foil for her vocals, and the bare-bones production by Nick Caiano is just right. Caiano also subtly fleshes out Leaving Decaturs last six tracks with guitar, bass, keyboards and, eventually, drums. The disc closes with a beat poetry bonus track. t/> Throughout, Quinn’s earnestness is genuine and powerful, 5 especially against a contemporary backdrop of artifice and irony. A few more hooks, a big-gun producer, some woozy L.A. studio musicians, and she could be mega. But I’ve got a feeling that with Katherine Quinn, it’s gonna be her way LU or the highway. — Paul Gibson

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(Quartz Recordings, CD) — Bethel-based musician Spencer Lewis has issued yet another stirringly lovely col LU lection, whose 12 instrumental tracks (one, “Lea’s Suite,” is really four parts) might be, at least metaphorically, the CO “silence between the words” of the title. The opener, 5 “Memorial Day” is a haunting violin and guitar duet that LU sounds like it was recorded in a cathedral. In fact the CD was recorded at Lewis’ own Quartz Studio, with additional work at Charles Eller Studio in Charlotte, and though LU technology surely contributed to this big chamber sound, it does not announce itself. Eller himself contributes if) Hammond and piano; other guest appearances include Mark LeGrand on bass and Lucas Adler on drums. Mostly, LU though, this is a meditative, often shimmering, and some times majestic acoustic journey, with Lewis on strings and synth keyboard. Whether Lewis favors instrumentals because he thinks words distract or because he can’t sing I don’t know, but the choice is okay by me. The Silence CO Between the Words contains 5 engaging, eloquent composi tions that speak volumes with the sweet melancholy of the violin and the masterful, articu late finger-picking of steel CO stringed guitar. If you prefer the equivalent of high-speed 5 car chases in your music, this disc is not for you. Silence is gentle, soothing, mesmerizing — in fact I’d recommend it as accompaniment to a mas sage. “A Broken Heart and a Light in His Eye” adds the rhythm section, and a more conventionally pretty, almost if) poppy melody, while “Where the Grace of Nature Sings” £ and “Ode to a Friend” are pared-down, though elegiac, LU acoustic guitar pieces. W ith the smooth strains of “Deep ■ mmm Powder Waltz” you can almost see the flakes fly, while the > synth-piano-guitar title track returns to a profound qui LU etude. Lewis closes with a stately violin work, “Only Time Will Heal” which conveys a sadness the title only hints at. CO The song slowly builds with drum and organ to the closest £ thing to a rave-up ending Lewis musters, without losing its dignity. Silence manages to both embrace mourning and enspirit with grace, ushering a delicate balance between one state of being and another. ( 7 ) — Pamela Polston

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nuts about ballet: M ost people don’t expect audience participation at the ballet, especially at a toe-torturing C hristm as classic like The Nutcracker. But you may recognize a few familiar faces in the fantasy ballet, which has entranced wannabe sugarplum fairies for more than a century. In keeping w ith the com pany’s long-standing — and spinning — tradition, local youngsters play soldiers, mice, children, angels, clowns and reindeer alongside the acclaimed dancers from the Albany Berkshire Ballet. Role models, indeed. Saturday, November 28, 3 & 7 :3 0 p .m ., Sunday, November 29, 1 p.m . Flynn Theatre, Burlington. $12.50-27.50. Info, 863-5966.

time passages I T he battle over land developm ent in W illiston began long before W al-M art — some two centuries ago, according to historians W illard Sterne Randall and N ancy Nahra. In Thomas Chittenden's Town, the husband-and-wife history team chronicles the evolution o f the “quintessential V erm ont tow n” from colonial times to the present. Published by the W illiston Historical Society, the cloth-bound, lim ited edition tom e takes readers on an unsentim ental journey through good times and bad. Sunday, November 29. Book Rack, Cham plain M ill, Winooski, 2 p.m . Free. Info, 655-0231.

Seven Days recommends you confirm all calendar events, as times and dates may change after the paper is printed.

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TINY TOTS: Kids three and under

POETRY READING: Donavon Troy

Noble, S. Burlington, 10 a.m. Free. Info,

Davidson reads original works to live

864-8001.

2 R

didgeridoo accompaniment at Rhombus

Wednesday

p.m. $3-6. Info, 865-3144.

Gallery, 186 College St., Burlington, 8

kids

hear age-appropriate tales at Barnes &

etc INTERFAITH THANKSGIVING: A non-perishable food item for a needy neighbor is your ticket to this com mu

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the challenges o f childrearing.

p.m. Free. Info, 862-5125.

motion at this informal gathering o f

Babysitting goes with the program at

spontaneous movers and shakers.

the King Street Youth Center,

Memorial Auditorium Loft, Burlington,

Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info,

7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 860-3674.

800-639-4014.

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STORYTIME: Four- and five-year-olds enjoy stories, songs, fingerplays and

thursday happy thanksgiving!

FIGURE DRAWING: The human fig

crafts. South Burlington Community

ure motivates aspiring and accomplished artists in a weekly drawing session at the

Library, 11 a.m. Free. Register, 652-7080.

etc

Firehouse Gallery, Burlington, 6:30-

STORIES: Little listeners hear stories,

SWEETWATERS THANKSGIVING:

9:30 p.m. $3-6. Info, 865-7165.

snack and make crafts at the Children’s

The Church Street eatery serves up

Pages, Winooski, 10 a.m. Free. Info,

turkey with all the trimmings, live

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together on the “story stage” at this pro-

Hall, 4 & 6 p.m. Santa and his elves

pajama event. Barnes &: Noble, S.

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etc THANKSGIVING CRAFT SHOW:

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alifornia poet reads new and unpub-

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North Prospect St., Burlington, 7:30

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Vermont is for glovers: One former Boston Red Sox pitcher represented Colchester in the Legislature. Another all-star catcher was born on King Street. In “A Baseball Fan’s Tour of Chittenden County,” Tom Simon remembers all the local ball players who made it to the majors — well before the Vermont Expos came to town. With a “best baseball book of the year” under his belt, this lecture promises to be a home run. Monday, November 30. Ethan Allen Homestead[ Burlington, 7:30 p. m. Free, Info, 862-8210.

Albany Berkshire Ballet continues its

Saturday music H OLIDAY CAROLING: Eklectik Zurn takes its seasonal songs on the road — the Church St. Marketplace, Burlington, noon - 3 p.m. Free. Info, 863-1648.

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November 27.

Randall and Nancy Nahra tell a time

W O M E N ’S FESTIVAL OF CRAFTS: Browse for handmade

traveling tale o f Williston. See “to do” list, this issue. Book Rack,

crafts made and sold with a womans touch. Burlington City Hall

Champlain Mill, W inooski, 2 p.m.

Auditorium, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Free. Info, 863-1648. HOLIDAY CRAFT FAIR: Get a head start on holiday shopping at

kids STORYTIME: Young readers delve

Elementary School, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Free. Info, 524-3668.

Marketplace, Burlington, 4 p.m.

and bakers. Lyndon State College, Lyndonville, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Free. Info, 626-3207.

Sunday music HOLIDAY CAROLING: See November 28. T H E N U TCRA CK ER’: See November 28, 1 p.m.

words PH O EBE STO NE: The Middlebury author and illustrator o f Chagall-like books for kids signs and displays her art work at Frog Hollow, Church St. Marketplace, Burlington, noon - 4 p.m. Free. Info, 863-6458. T O N G U E N ’ GROOVE: Wordworkers show their stuff in a “sophisticated blending o f words and music.” Rhombus Gallery, 186 College St., Burlington, 8 p.m. $3-6. Info, 865-3144. A D IR O N D A C K STYLE’: Ann Stillman O ’Leary and Shelburne pho tographer Gary Hall lead a literary home tour o f the architectural aes thetic captured in their book. Barnes & Noble, S. Burlington, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 864-8001.

AM ATEUR M U SIC IA N S

about alternatives to renting and sin

ORCHESTRA: Vermont Symphony

gle-family home ownership at the

violinist David Gusakov oversees this

Burlington Com m unity Land Trust,

weekly harmonic convergence o f

179 South W inooski Ave., Burling ton, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 862-6244. COLLEGE FINANCIAL AID:

amateur musicians in the Music Room, S. Burlington High School, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $5. Info, 985-9750.

POETRY READING: Students o f

College-bound students and parents get valuable advice on making the

Burlington College prof Jim

financial aid grade. M ount Abraham

torio society in a program o f seasonal

McGinnis read their respective works

Union High School, Bristol, 7 p.m.

selections with brass, harp and organ

at the Rhombus Gallery, 186 College

Free. Info, 800-642-3177. TEEN HEALTH CLINIC: Teens get

accompaniment. Spaulding Audi torium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth

information, supplies, screening and

College, Hanover, N .H ., 8 p.m. Free.

treatment for sexually related prob

Info, 603-646-2422.

H A N D E L CONCERT: Melinda O ’Neal conducts the com munity ora

Free. Info, Info, 865-2711.

St., Burlington, 8 p.m. $3-6. Info, 865-3144.

sport

C A NAD IAN LITERATURE SERIES: David Brown leads a liter

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ary tour north via The Journals o f

Burlington, 3:30-6 p.m. Pregnancy

Vermont snowboard champs Julia

Susanna Moodie, by Margaret

Carlson and Betsy Shaw sign copies

Atwood. Wake Robin, Shelburne,

testing is free. Info, 863-6326. RUM M AGE A N D NEARLY N E W

TH EATER’: As part o f a residency

o f Snowboarding: A Womans Guide.

7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 985-8307.

SALE: The whole family finds deals

with local high schools, N ew

on clothes, household items and toys

Orleans-based storyteller John

KIRBY QUILTERS CRAFT FAIR:

works along with hundreds o f crafters

monday

words

into classic and new tales at this halfhour happening. Borders, Church St.

Television’s “R F D ” series unveil

Free. Info, 655-0231.

this seasonal sale. St. Albans

The sewing stars o f Vermont Public

C O -O P H O U S IN G CLINIC: Learn

Free. Info, 777-0833.

Barnes & Noble, S. Burlington, 3 p.m. Free. Info, 864-8001. B U R L IN G T O N WALKING T O U R : Reward yourself at a restau

kids STORYTIME: Children from three to five enjoy stories, songs, finger-

rant after an “easy” eight-mile loop

plays and crafts. South Burlington

through the Queen City. Meet at

Community Library, 11 a.m. Free.

Montpelier High School, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 479-2304.

Info, 652-7080.

etc

AIDS Day. North Lounge, Billings

H O R SE-DR AW N CARRIAGE

Student Center, UV M , Burlington, 7

RIDES: See November 27.

p.m. Free. Info, 656-0608.

W O M E N ’S FESTIVAL OF

LOCAL BASEBALL HEROES:

CRAFTS: See November 28, 11 a.m.

Tom Simon plays back local all-star

- 5 p.m.

history in his “Baseball Fan’s Tour o f

HOLIDAY T H R IF T SH O P: See

Chittenden County.” See “to do” list,

November 27.

this issue. Ethan Allen Homestead, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info,

annual Vermont Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Pride celebra tion. Heineberg Senior Center, Burlington, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Free.

Info, 652-4539.

E M O T IO N S A N O N Y M O U S: People with emotional problems meet at the O ’Brien Center, S.

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SHOW : Browse a bounty o f crafty

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AIDS W O RK SH O P: The ins and info session in anticipation o f World

gifts at this sale to raise funds for the

O ’Neal teaches the com munity to show, not tell, its tales. Bellows Free Academy, St. Albans, 6:30 p.m. $5.

Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Donations.

outs o f protection are the focus o f an

PO R T GROUPS: W omen Helping Battered Women facilitates a group in Burlington, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 658-1996. Also, the Shelter Committee facilitates a meeting in

862-8219. PR EG N A N T W O M E N ’S SU P PORT GROUP: Expectant mothers get prepared for big changes ahead in this informal “wisdom circle.” Free. Call for location and info, 658-2478.

Info, 860-7129. FARMERS’ M ARKET HOLIDAY

Learn to put creativity in your cam

BAZAAR: Deck your holiday halls

erawork at a session on flower pho

with home-grown and homemade goods gathered at the Stowe

tography. Delahanty Hall, Trinity

Elementary School, 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Info, 878-0627.

LITE-N-LENS CAMERA CLUB:

College, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Free.

T U R N IN G STO RIES IN T O

Synagogue, North Prospect St.,

Info, 660-9036.

SHOW : See November 27, 10 a.m. -

drama

at a weekly yard sale. Ohavi Zedek

etc

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lems. Planned Parenthood,

Montpelier, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 223-0855.

words W R ITER S’ G RO UP: Writers work with words at Dubie’s Cafe, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 865-9257. T O M SLAYTON: The editor o f Vermont Life magazine reads from The Beauty o f Vermont, a compilation o f commentaries on the landscape and seasons. Bear Pond Books, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 229-0774.

kids

‘M U SIC W IT H ROBERT RESNIK5: Kids sing songs with the

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musical host o f Vermont Public Radio’s folk show “All the Traditions.” Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11 a.m. Free. Register,

W Y N T O N MARSALIS: The jazz

865-7216.

trumpeter directs the Lincoln Center

STO RIES A N D CRAFTS: Children

Jazz Orchestra in a concert to benefit

cut — and paste — to the chase after

arts programs in Vermont schools.

a morning story. Borders, Church St.

See “to do” list, this issue. Flynn

Marketplace, Burlington, 11 a.m.

Theatre, Burlington, 8 p.m. $20-77. Info, 863-5966.

Free. Info, 865-2711. STO RY TIM E: Kids under three lis-

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Com m unity Library, 10 a.m. Free.

Grace United Methodist Church,

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Essex Junction, 7:30-9 p.m. Free. Info, 899-1128. QUILTERS G U ILD M EETING:

Barnes & Noble, S. Burlington, 10 a.m. Free. Info,

Guests are welcome at this gathering featuring world-renown quilter Ruth

864- 8001.

B. M cDowell. Essex Alliance Church,

STORY H O U R : Kids between three and five engage in artful educational

Old Stage Rd., Essex Junction, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 863-2160. ‘SPACE A N D SPIRIT”: The author

activities. M ilton Public Library, 10:30 a.m. & 1 p.m. Free. Info,

o f Pearly Gates o f Cyberspace offers a

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sport PICK -UP VOLLEYBALL: N o mat

to the Internet.” Mead Chapel, Middlebury College, 8 p.m. Free.

ter how you spike it, this weekly co

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ed adult game is a laid-back night o f

FREE LEGAL CLINIC: Attorney

exercise. Edmunds Middle School,

Sandy Baird offers free legal advice to

Burlington, 6:45-9:45 p.m. $2. Info, 865- 7088.

women with questions about family law, housing difficulties and welfare problems. Room 14, Burlington City

etc

Hall, 3-5 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7200.

‘H IV A N D T H E PU R SU IT OF H APPINESS’: The documentary film is screened in anticipation o f World AIDS Day. A discussion fol

BATTERED W O M E N ’S SU P PO R T GROUP: Meet in Barre, 10:30 a.m. - noon. Free. Info, 223-0855.

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Students and parents learn about test taking strategies at this informational session hosted by Kaplan Educational

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acupuncture

7:30 p.m. Memorial Auditorium Loft, Burlington. $8/class, $28/all four. Info,

kids

Shambhala Center, 187 S. Winooski

Plattsburgh. Free. Info, Help Line,

Ave. Free. Info, 658-6795. Instructors

862-4516. I f you’re ready to stop using

INTRO TO ACUPUNCTURE A N D

860-3674. Get in shape as you learn to

GIFT MAKING WORKSHOP: Four

teach non-sectarian and Tibetan

drugs, this group o f recovering addicts can

ORIENTAL MEDICINE: Friday,

dance with grace, rhythm and flow.

Saturdays, November 28 through

Buddhist meditations.

offer inspiration.

December 4, 6:30-8 p.m. Spirit Dancer

SWING LESSONS: Six-week session

December 19, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.

GUIDED MEDITATION: Sundays,

Books, 125 S. Winooski Ave.,

starting November 29. Burlington.

Shelburne Craft School, Shelburne.

10:30 a.m. The Shelburne Athletic

Burlington. Donations. Info, 660-

wicca

$40/six weeks. Info, 862-9033. Learn

$50/day includes materials. Kids six to

Club, Shelburne Commons. Free. Info,

WICCA 202: Thursday, December 3,

8060. Join a discussion detailing how

Lindy Hop, the original style o f swing.

12 create holiday gifts, wrapping and

985-2229. Practice guided meditation for relaxation and focus.

6:30-7:30 p.m. Spirit Dancer Books,

acupunture and oriental herbs work.

accessories, with different projects each

healing

Saturday.

125 S. Winooski Ave., Burlington. $10. Info, 660-8060. Explore how witchcraft

aikido

‘KABBALAH AND HEALING’:

THANK-YOU NOTES: Sunday,

AIKIDO: Adults, Mondays - Fridays,

photography

Friday, December 11, 7-10 p.m.

December 6, 2-4 p.m. The Book Rack,

PHOTOGRAPHY: Private and group,

and seeks balance through knowledge o f

5:45-6:45 p.m. and 7-8:15 p.m.,

Healing in Common, 4076 Shelburne

Winooski. $28. Register, 655-0231.

basic and intermediate classes. Grand

the feminine.

Saturdays, 9-11:45 a.m. Children,

Rd., Shelburne. $15. Register, 496-

Kids get pointers on writing effective and

Isle or Burlington. Info, 372-3104.

relates to the natural forces around us,

writing

Tuesdays & Thursdays, 3:45-4:45 p.m.

9022. Learn powerful models for healing

enthusiastic thank-yous — even fo r pre

Learn darkroom skills as well as how to

Aikido of Champlain Valley, 17 E.

yourselfand others, based on a system o f

sents they don’t like.

choose, use and exploit the camera to

POETRY WORKSHOP: Thursdays, 1

Allen St., Winooski. $40/month intro

ancient Jewish mysticism.

express your creative style.

p.m. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury.

kung fu

special. Info, 654-6999. Study this

Free. Info, 388-7523. Bring a poem or

‘VING TSU N ’: Tuesdays and

flexibility, confidence and self-defense

herbs

reiki

HERBAL STRESS RELIEF: Tuesday,

Thursdays, 7:45-9 p.m. The Body

REIKI CLINIC: Wednesday,

skills.

December 1, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Purple

Garage, Cherry St., Burlington. Info,

November 25, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Spirit

astrology

Shutter Herbs, Main St., Burlington.

658-7821. This practical and applicable

Dancer Books, 125 S. Winooski Ave.,

yoga

$10. Info, 865-HERB. Explore ways to

martial art promotes health, fitness and

Burlington. Donations. Info, 660-

YOGA: Wednesdays, 7 p.m. Green Mt.

‘DANCING W ITH THE PLAN

handle stress with herbs, teas and essential

inner peace.

8060. Experience Reiki, an ancient, non-

Learning Center, 13 Dorset Lane,

ETS’: Saturday, December 12, 9 a.m. -

oils.

invasive, hands-on healing technique.

Williston. $8. Info, 872-3797. Practice

graceful, flowing martial art to develop

language

9 p.m. Burlington. $50 includes dinner.

two to read and discuss at this ongoing workshop.

jewelry

KARUNA REIKI I: Saturday,

yoga with Deborah Binder.

ESL AND SPANISH: Ongoing indi

December 5, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Spirit

BEECHER HILL YOGA: Monday-

‘MAKE HEMP JEWELRY’: Saturday,

vidual and small group classes. S.

Dancer Books, 125 S. Winooski Ave.,

Saturday, daytime & evening classes for

attunements”into movement meditations.

December 6, 12-2 p.m. Spirit Dancer

Burlington. Info, 864-6870. Take classes

Burlington. $150. Info, 660-8060.

all levels. Info, 482-3191. Get private or

computer

Books, 125 S. Winooski Ave.,

in English as a second language or

Learn Karuna Reiki, an important step

group instruction in therapeutic yoga, vig

Burlington. Free. Info, 660-8060.

Spanish.

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orous yoga, yoga fo r pregnancy or yoga for

CYBERSKILLS VERMONT:

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ITALIAN: Ongoing individual and

self-defense

BURLINGTON YOGA: Mondays,

Ongoing day, evening and weekend

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just in time fo r the holidays.

group classes, beginner to advanced,

classes. Old North End Technology Center, 279 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. $39-349. Info, 860-4057,

karate KARATE AS A WAY TO GENTLE

health and well-being.

adults and children. Burlington. Info,

BRAZILIAN JIU-JITSU: Ongoing

5:30 and 7 p.m. Flynn Gallery, 148

865-4795. Learn to speak this beautiful

classes for men, women and children,

Main St. Info, 658-3013. Find healing

language from a native speaker and expe

Monday through Saturday. Vermont

through Iyengar style yoga.

rienced teacher.

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Academy, 4 Howard

YOGA VERMONT: Daily classes, 12

St., Burlington. Info, 660-4072 or 253-

p.m., 5:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.

9730. Escape fear with an integrated self-

Saturday and Sunday, 9:30 a.m. Chace

ext. 20. Take classes in computer basics,

NESS’: Ongoing Mondays, 7:45-9

Windows 95, Office 9 7 applications, Internet or Web site basics. Private and

Saturdays, 2:30-4 p.m. The Body

custom classes are also available.

meditation

Garage, Cherry St., Burlington. Info,

‘THE WAY OF THE SUFI’: Tuesdays,

defense system based on technique, not

Mill, Burlington. Info, 660-9718.

cooking

860-7029. Learn to deal with aggression

7:30-9 p.m. S. Burlington. Free. Info,

size, strength or speed.

Astanga style “p ower”yoga classes offer

in a humble manner with Shotokan karate's

658-2447. This Sufi-style meditation

support groups .

sweaty fu n fo r all levels o f experience.

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‘WISHCRAFT/SUCCESS TEAMS’:

YOGA: Mondays, Astanga, 5:30 p.m.,

MEDITATION: Thursdays, 7-8:30

Ongoing groups forming. Burlington

Tuesdays and Thursdays, Hatha 11:10

kendo KENDO: Ongoing Wednesdays and

p.m. Green Mountain Learning Center,

area. Free. Info, 863-3101. Success teams

a.m. The Shelburne Athletic Club,

class in making holiday siveets.

Thursdays, 6:45-8:30 p.m. Warren

13 Dorset Lane, Suite 203, Williston.

provide clarity, creative ideas and support

Shelburne Commons. Info, 985-2229.

dance

Town Hall. Donations. Info, 496-4669.

Free. Info, 872-3797. Don’t just do

until you reach your goal.

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ONE-WEEK PRINT SHOW AND SALE, featuring prints by 10

notable Vermont artists, to benefit the purchase of a printing press for Firehouse. Firehouse Center for the Visual Arts, Burlington, 8657165. Reception December 2: 4-5 p.m. members only; 5-7 public. Show/sale through December 9.

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mixed media, by Leonard Duffy. Good Times Cafe, Hinesburg, 482-3040. Through January. ELDER ART, a group exhibit in mixed media. Richmond Library, 658-7454. Through November. Also at the Milton Public Library, through December 17, and Winooski City Hall, through December 18. PHOTOGRAPHS AND OTHER

IMAGES by Ethan Jackson. Julian

Scott Memorial Gallery, Johnson State College, 635-1310. Through December 18. VISUAL DIALOGUES, mixed media by B. Amore and her students. Burlington College Gallery, 8629616. Through December 2. OLD BRICK CHURCH, new pho tographs by Fred Stetson. Dorothy Ailing Memorial Library, Williston, 878-4918. Through December. RANDALL SMITH, a five-year retro spective in mixed media. Pickering Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 863-3403. Through November. SUENG PARKER, J0LENE REYNOLDS & EVAN EINH0RN,

figurative painting and photogra phy. Red Square, Burlington, 8598909. Through November. SALLY WARREN, photographs of Bhutan. Adventurous Traveler Bookstore, Burlington, 860-6776. Through November. AMERICAN QUILTS, folk art, prim itives and vintage collectibles. Cupola House Gallery, Essex, NY, 518-963-7494. Through December 20. RECENT PAINTINGS AND PRINTS

by Carol Hinrichsen. Red Mill Gallery, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, 635-2730. Through November 29. COLOR-COATED: PHYSICAL AND PHENOMENAL WORKS, perfor

mance, photography, sculpture and installation by Missy Bly and Josh Reiman. Exquisite Corpse Artsite, Burlington, 864-5884, ext. 149. Through December. Call for Bly’s performance times.

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father-daughter show of paintings. Vermont Arts Council Spotlight Gallery, Montpelier, 828-3291. Through January 2. HARVEST FEAST: Cuisine & Clay, an exhibit of handmade pottery cooking and serving pieces. Vermont Clay Studio, Waterbury, 244-1126. Through November. WILLIAM KIRBY, recent paintings in mixed media. Woody’s Restaurant, Middlebury, 3880267. Through December 10. THE INTERIOR FOREST, a group show by Caravan Arts. Daily Planet Restaurant, Burlington, 660-9060. Through November. THE PRESENCE OF LIGHT, pastels, watercolors and oil paintings by Sally Loughridge. Isabel’s on the Waterfront, Burlington, 865-2522. Through December. PRINTS by Bill Davison. OneWall Gallery, Seven Days, Burlington, 864-5684. Through December. OFF THE GRID, Works on Paper by Frank Woods. Montpelier City Hall Showcases, 229-2766. Through November. UNEXPECTED PLACES, handmade prints by Roy Newton. Red Onion Cafe, Burlington, 865-2563. Through December. THE LEATHER PARTY, drawings and prints by Quebec artist Daniel Erban. Rhombus Gallery, 8653144. Through December 10. FAMILY PICTURES & RECENT PAINTINGS by Alice Eckles. Old

School House Common, Marshfield, 456-8993. Also,

RECENT PRINTS, Buffalo M o u n ta in C o o p , H ardw ick. B oth th ro u g h D ecem ber.

to g rap h s from th e archives o f th e Barre M u seum , S o u th Gallery. T.W . W o o d Gallery, V erm ont

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College, M ontpelier, 8 7 8 -8 7 4 3 . T h ro u g h D ecem b er 20.

er/ goldsm ith T im o th y G ran n is an d o th e r jew elry artists. Bank Street, B urlington, 6 6 0 -2 0 3 2 . O n going.

A GIFT TO THE COLLEGE: The Mr.

JUAN PERDIGUERO, “M etam orfosis,” paintings, a n d

FRANK CARMELITANO, “T h e Spanish Years,” p aintings an d e tc h ings. D oll-A nstadt Gallery, B urlington, 8 6 4 -3 6 6 1 . T h ro u g h N ovem ber. PASTEL FIGURE DRAWINGS by Fred Varney. P hoenix Rising, M ontpelier, 2 2 9 -0 5 2 2 . T h ro u g h N ovem ber. JANET VAN FLEET, recent oil paintings, an d JOY HUCKINS, oils an d pastels. C ity C enter, M ontpelier, 5 6 3 -2 4 8 6 . T h ro u g h D ecem ber 6. C0L0RPRINT U.S.A.: S p an n in g th e States in ’98, featuring a n ationw ide p rin t exhibition. M id d leb u ry C ollege M useum o f A rt, 4 4 3 -5 0 0 7 . T h ro u g h D ecem ber 13. URBAN VIEWS: Really Big A rt show an d sale by n ine local artists from C aravan A rts. M ezzanine, Fletcher Free Library, B urlington, 8 6 3 -3 4 0 3 . T h ro u g h N ovem b er 29.

AN ODYSSEY OF THE MIND, BODY AND SPIRIT, ph o to g rap h s by C h ristin a D ick. Fletcher R oom , Fletcher Free Library, B urlington, 8 6 3 -3 4 0 3 . T h ro u g h N ovem ber.

and Mrs. Adolph WeilJr. Collection o f Master Prints, featuring 110 w orks on p ap er from th e d o n ated collection o f 2 5 7 O ld M aster and 1 9 th -ce n tu ry E uropean prints. H o o d M useum o f A rt, D a rtm o u th C ollege, H anover, N .H ., 6 0 3 -6 4 6 2 8 0 8 . T h ro u g h D ecem ber 20. SILKSCREEN PRINTS by Sally Stetson. S h im m erin g Glass Gallery, W aterbury, 2 4 4 -8 1 3 4 . O n g o in g . A BOUQUET OF FLORALS, p a in t ings an d draw ings by Pria C am bio. Bellini's R estaurant, M ontpelier, 2 2 3 -5 3 0 0 . T h ro u g h Jan u ary 1.

COMPILATIONS OF KNOWLEDGE: T h e D id ero t an d N apoleonic Encyclopedias, volum es o f text a n d engravings d ep ictin g French E n lig h te n m e n t an d Egyptian scholarship. Flem ing M useum , B u rlin g to n , 6 5 6 -0 7 5 0 . T h ro u g h D ecem ber 20. LORRAINE MANLEY, paintings. B etter Bagel, W illisto n , 8 6 4 -1 5 5 7 . T h ro u g h N ovem ber.

POLITICAL PICTURES: C o n fro n ta tio n an d C o m m e m o ratio n in R ecent A rt, an exhibit o f in te rn atio n a l artists w ho address social a n d political circum stances in th e ir w ork. F lem ing M useum , B u rlin g to n , 6 5 6 -0 7 5 0 . T h ro u g h D ecem ber 13. (C losed N ovem ber

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bers’ w orks in m ixed m edia. Red M ill C raft Shop, Jericho, 8991106. T h ro u g h D ecem ber 30. CONNECTING..., p ainting s by G ail Salzm an inspired by th e 1997 Liz L erm an w orkshops w ith stu d e n ts an d seniors. Je ff’s Seafood R estaurant, St. A lbans, 5 2 4 -7 3 7 6 . T h ro u g h N ovem ber 28. ELDER ART PROGRAM, a group show in m ixed m edia. N o rth H ero

exhibit from th e p erm a n en t collec tio n show ing how E uropean glass beads have been used in clothing, co n tain ers an d m ore. F lem ing M u seum , B urlington, 6 5 6 -0 7 5 0 . T h ro u g h D ecem ber. Y0SEMITE VIEWS: M a m m o th -

T ow n H all, 6 5 8 -7 4 5 4 . T h ro u g h N ovem ber.

DUANE MICHALS: W ords and Im ages, p h o to g rap h s and w ritings by the A m erican photographer. M ontreal M useum o f Fine A rts, 5 1 4 -2 8 5 -1 6 0 0 . T h ro u g h Jan u ary

BEADS AND MORE BEADS, an

Plate P ho to g rap h s by C arleto n E. W atkins from th e Park-M cC ullough H ouse. H isto ric m ilestones in p h o to g rap h y from 1861. M id d leb u ry C ollege M useum o f A rt, 4 4 3 -5 0 0 7 . T h ro u g h D ecem ber 13. ELLEN HOFFMAN, pencil d raw ings, an d TOM MERWIN, p a in t ings. M erw in Gallery, C astleton, 4 6 8 -2 5 9 2 . O n g o in g .

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Restore, M ontpelier, 2 2 9 -1 9 3 0 . O n g o in g .

Library, 4 5 3 -6 3 2 3 . T h ro u g h N ovem ber.

A KALEIDOSCOPIC PANORAMA OF BURLINGTON, p h o to g rap h s by H ow ard R om ero, and IN-STALL, new w ork by K ristin H um barger. Firehouse C e n te r for th e Visual A rts, B urlington, 8 6 5 -7 1 6 5 . T h ro u g h N ovem ber 29. PAINTINGS by A n n a V rem an. Bread & Beyond, W illisto n , 8 9 3 2951. T h ro u g h N ovem ber.

A MOMENT OF RISING MIST: Echoes o f a Jo u rn ey in C h in a, p h o to g rap h s by Jeffrey P. R oberts. A Single Pebble R estauran t, Berlin, 4 7 6 -9 7 0 0 . T h ro u g h Jan u ary 3. JOHN PATERSON, sculpture. A rt G allery o f Barre, 4 7 6 -1 0 3 0 . T h ro u g h Jan u ary 5.

ORGANIC CURVES, w aterco lo r p aintings by K ate H artley. Sm okejacks R estaurant, B u rlingto n, 6 6 0 -2 7 9 4 . T h ro u g h D ecem ber.

MYSTERIES IN STONE: Beyond

Public Art, featuring sculp to rs from Barre an d beyond, M ain G allery; an d PAST MASTERS: History in Stone, featu rin g p h o

40 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHY, featu rin g black -an d -w h ite p h o to g rap h s an d books by Peter M iller. Peter M iller Gallery, W aterbury, 2 4 4 -5 3 3 9 . O ng o in g ; by a p p o in tm e n t only.

19TH AND 20TH CENTURY AMERICAN ARTISTS in clu d in g landscape pain tin g s by V erm ont artists K athleen Kolb, T h o m a s C u rtin , C y n th ia Price a n d m ore. C larke G alleries, Stowe, 2 5 3 -7 1 1 6 . O n g o in g .

FURNISHINGS AND PAINTINGS by R u th Pope. W in d stro m Hill S tudio/G allery, M ontpelier, 2 2 9 5899. O n g o in g .

PLEASE NOTE: Seven D ays is unable to accommodate all o f the displays in our readership area, thus these listings must be restricted to exhibits in truly public viewing places. Art in business offices, lobbies and private residences or studios, with occasional exceptions, will not be accepted.

B y M arc Awodey ubstance and illusion are discreetly coexisting on lower College street this month. Although November’s featured artists at DollAnstadt gallery present nearly antithetical works, they share an ability to unite unapparent connections while transform ing objective elements into a new reality. New York City artist Juan Perdiguero does this in a con spicuous way, by grafting pri mate heads onto plants, and by summoning tenebrous faces through shreds of photo collage. In the adjoining gallery room, Florida artist Frank Carmelitano conjures atmospheric effects from abstract space, and mist from swaths of thinned paint lay ered on a thickly gessoed ground. The two artists have also set aside conventional notions of “composition” in their works, and generally favor the power of explicit simplicity. The Perdiguero works are literally and figuratively dark — his “Metamorfosis” series may even be considered creepy. In numbers I-V, Perdiguero has fastened human heads onto plant stems in a series of large-scale collage works. These rise on the walls like victims of Dr. Guillotine, each stuck on the top of a Liberty Tree. “Metamorfosis (Monkey)” is even weirder, considering the simian countenance. But these are not portraits of curiosities of natural history. They are brilliantly collaged chimeras rich with chiarascuro, full of tensions orches trated to be engrossing rather than appalling. He compels this with starkly contrasting values, and calm rather than violent colors. The greens are minty, the grays and umbers are invariably cool. Perdiguero’s “Aparicion” series I-III is composed of human faces that seem to be rising out of blackness. The paintings are organized with attention to the edge of the canvas, which adds to the overall imbalance of each piece. The three paintings in

the “Cabeza” series are more I Ihue, tend to be ribboned vivid heads that stare like above the central horizontal Chuck Close compositions at axis of each piece, and his the viewer, and the “Ojos” bands often have an almost works are simply eyes and imperceptible curvature. scalp peeking out of the pic “Blue Diffusion” is grouped ture plane. around a steely Prussian blue, Most of the collage ele but in this Carmelito varied ments in the four series are his approach by moving bits of photography from the toward a vermilion ribbon natural world. Perdiguero then along the bottom of the piece.

From the “ Metamorfosis” series, by Juan Perdiguero. draws on them with paint. He redefines and wipes away areas to shape expressive yet realistic visages. The eyes are always of subtly larger proportion, and the edges of the splintered morsels of incorporated pho tography often look like shat tered ice. The images of Frank Carmelito are intended to be non-narrative, but each could be easily mistaken for areas in the banded atmospheres of Jupiter or Saturn. The matte surfaces could also be mistak en for stain painting, but in these works the paint was scumbled and allowed to run over canvasses primed w ith' textured gesso. Carmelito hones his harmonies to the point of being nearly mono chromatic, and has organized his images to draw the viewer in. Warmer variations, and lighter values of the dominant

In “Paisaje Iberico,” lilac, lavender, violet, purple and magenta commingle at their borders across a slyly yellow underpainting, and the indi gos of “Hendidura Orion” imitate the richness of ceramic glazes. The works are nearly as simple and powerful as diminutive Rothkos, and in a few of Carmelito’s etchings the abstract space is divided in a similar way. But the artist adds textural elements, even in his graphic works. W ithin the etching “Indian Summer,” a delicate layer o f paper — probably rice — was pressed under the image. The misty insubstantiality o f Carmelito’s works is enlivened by these underlying textures. Perhaps with equal irony, the illusory faces o f Perdiguero are based on reassembled pho tos of reality. ®

Juan Perdiguero, “ M etam orfosis,” and Frank Carm elitano, “ The Spanish Ye ars.” Doll-Anstadt Gallery, Burlington. Through Novem ber. november 25, 1998

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dian stars here in an update of another family-friendly classic Albert Brooks, Chris Rock, Norm Macdonald, Paul Reubens and other comics pro vide the voices for a menagerie of wisecracking animals. Betty {Private Parts) Thomas directs.

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‘Y eah, y o u ’ve g o t a g re a t a irp o r t,

d o n ’t k n o w w h a t F re u d

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ta x i to th e c o m m u te r g a te s — a

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a ir p o r t w as o u r m a ll b e fo re w e

b in s ju s t b e lo w th e p ro w .

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w h a t w o u ld m a k e p e o p le really

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fo r h im th e re .

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v ice to th e M a n c h e s te r a irp o r t.

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a S o u th w e s t o r a M e tr o je t —

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H a m i lto n h as n o t g iv e n u p

b e fo re th e a i r p o r t g o t real

sid e w o rld w as a n o t h e r im p o r

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t a n t o b je c tiv e in th e re d e sig n ,

p ro m is e s a ir p o r t e n g in e e r

s u c h as th o s e th a t fly o u t o f th e

g o t us k id s in g ra s s -s ta in e d

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M a n c h e s te r, N e w H a m p s h ire ,

th e ta b le w ith o fficials a t U .S .

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sig n a g e. A c c o rd in g to d ir e c to r

r e c e n t ta lk s w ith S o u th w e s t,

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a n d - im p r o v e d a i r p o r t feels a b i t

V e r m o n t to b e in th e o u t

o f a v ia tio n J.J. H a m i lto n , th e

lik e r e tu r n in g to a c h ild h o o d

d o o r s .”

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h o m e n o w o c c u p ie d b y s o m e o n e else. O f c o u rs e , th e a i r p o r t w as n e v e r

my a i r p o r t

— i t ’s

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p la y e rs o n th e re n o v a tio n te a m

a ir p o r t, th e b a g g a g e c la im are a

d e b a te d c o lo rs, m a te ria ls a n d

h a s also b e e n o p e n e d u p to

su c h .

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a ffo rd a v ie w o f th e ta rm a c .

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b u t I ’m still k e e n ly in te r e s te d in

b e s p le n d id o n c e th e fe n c e c u r

n e w sk y b rid g e c o n n e c tin g th e

w h a t th e r e n o v a tio n te a m h a s

r e n tly b lo c k in g it is re m o v e d .

g ara g e a n d th e te rm in a l. As

d o n e to th e p la ce .

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M c E w in g says, “ N o w y o u c a n

d e s ig n a e s th e tic m a k e s fo r a

leav e fo r F lo rid a a n d y o u d o n ’t

re n o v a te d a i r p o r t f o r th e first

m u c h h ip p e r a i r p o r t th a n I

n e e d to w e a r b o o ts .”

tim e , I fe lt as i f I ’d tr a d e d o n e

re m e m b e r. S ittin g in th e p lu s h

c h ild h o o d m e m o r y fo r a n o th e r .

f u r n it u r e sp a rse ly p o p u la tin g

th e e a sin g o f c o n g e s tio n in th e

T h e lig h t w o o d a b u t m e n t s a n d

th e m e z z a n in e b r o u g h t to m in d

tic k e tin g lo b b y . A ir p o rt o ffic ia ls

tre e -lik e c o lu m n s t h a t fra m e

th e lo b b y o f M a n h a tt a n ’s h y p e r-

are h o p in g th a t 3 0 a d d itio n a l fe e t o f w id th w ill relieve th e

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m u c h o f th e in te r io r c re a te th e

sty liz e d P a r a m o u n t H o te l, th e n

e ffec t o f w a lk in g th e s tr u ts o f

B u r lin g to n ’s D a ily P la n e t b ar,

te n s io n , a llo w in g fo r m o re

a n e n o r m o u s b a ls a w o o d a ir

b e fo re m a k in g m e th i n k o f

cle a rly d e lin e a te d q u e u e s. So far

p la n e .

o th e r a irp o rts . T h is is a n e sp e

th e re su lts h a v e b e e n m ix e d .

cia lly re m a rk a b le a c h ie v e m e n t

D u r i n g b u sy h o u r s — p e a k

g iv e n t h a t th e re n o v a tio n

c o m m u te r h o u r s , e sp e c ia lly —

B u r lin g to n -b a s e d a r c h ite c ts

in v o lv e d u n if y in g th re e p re v i

th e n e w te rm in a l still rese m b le s

w h o d e s ig n e d a n d o v e rsa w th e

o u s a d d itio n s m a d e to th e

th e o ld .

a i r p o r t r e n o v a tio n , th e a e r o n a u

b u ild in g sin c e it firs t w e n t u p

tic a l m o tifs are n o t f ig m e n ts o f m y im a g in a tio n . S m o o th , a e ro

in 1 9 2 7 . W h e t h e r th e n e w a i r p o r t is

c h a n g e s a t th e s o u th e n d o f th e

d y n a m ic c o n to u r s a re e v e ry

im p r o v e d , f u n c tio n a lly s p e a k

te rm in a l. A c c o rd in g to

w h e re — in h a n d ra ilin g s, c u s

in g , is a n o t h e r q u e s tio n .

A c c o rd in g to Jesse B e c k o f F re e m a n F re n c h F re e m a n , th e

to m - d e s ig n e d lig h t fix tu re s , th e

W i t h o u t a d o u b t , th e n e w

P a rt o f th e s o lu tio n m a y b e a d d re sse d in a n o th e r r o u n d o f

H a m i lto n , a p r o p e r w a itin g are a o u ts id e th e c o m m u te r g a te s is

c u rv e s o f th e p u r p le , g o ld a n d

p a r k in g g a ra g e is a g re a t

in th e p la n n in g stag es, sla te d

fo re s t-g re e n w all t h a t b e n d s

im p r o v e m e n t o v e r n o p a r k in g

fo r c o m p le tio n w ith in a y e a r o r

to w a r d O n e F lig h t U p , th e a ir

g ara g e. A t a lm o s t 1 1 0 0 sp aces,

tw o . T h e m o d if ic a tio n w ill also

p o r t r e s ta u r a n t a n d lo u n g e .

it is th e la rg e s t p a r k in g s tr u c

see th e c o n s tr u c tio n o f a c o n

A n d i f th e a i r p o r t lo g o — a

tu r e in th e s ta te , a c c o rd in g to

c o u rs e , w h ic h w ill sp a re c o m

s im p le , c le a n f r o n ta l im a g e o f

B eck . A n d e v e n w ith s o m e 1 2 0

m u te r s f ro m h a v in g to p o u n d

a n a irp la n e — s u b tly g ra c in g

slo ts ta k e n u p b y re n ta l cars,

th e ta rm a c to g e t to th e a irc ra ft.

glass p a n e ls h e re a n d th e re

th e re are still ro u g h ly 4 0 0 m o re

T h e c h a n g e s s h o u ld c o in c id e

esca p es a t te n t io n , th e p r o p e lle r

p a r k in g s p o ts t h a n b e f o r e . .. t h e

n ic e ly w ith im p r o v e m e n ts in

p a tte r n s in th e m a in lo b b y flo o r

o retically .

c o m m u te r se rv ic e as sev eral a ir

“If you increased the pop ulation by two million Southwest would be here tomor row. M

— J.J. Hamilton, director of aviation

h a s b e e n c r a fte d i n to a e r o n a u ti cal s h a p e . T h e m e z z a n in e ’s “s o u th p r o w ,” a ta ilfin o f g lass

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th e y ’re n o t in te re s te d , w e ’ll lo o k in to s o m e o th e r lo w -c o st e n tr a n ts t h a t are o u t th e r e ,” h e says. O b v io u s ly , t h a t ’s a m o o t p o i n t fo r h o lid a y trav e lers th is year. D e p e n d in g o n th e w e a th er, th o u g h , o th e r m o d if ic a tio n s c o u ld s o o n b e p u t to th e test. P a sse n g ers in tax is a n d lim o u sin e s th a t o p e r a te o n a c o n tr a c t basis w ith th e a ir p o r t c o u ld be th e first to feel th e s tin g , sin c e th e y d o n ’t e n jo y th e b e n e fits o f c u r b s id e d ro p o ff. L arg e a irp o rts a v o id m ix in g d r o p - o f f a n d g r o u n d tr a n s p o r ta tio n b y a s s ig n in g th e m to d if fe r e n t lev els. A t B u r lin g to n I n te r n a tio n a l, H a m i lto n e x p la in s , “ I f th e p e r s o n in th e c a b is n o t p a y in g th e b ill, th e y m u s t u se th e c o n tr a c t la n e .” Y ou m a y w a n t to w e a r y o u r b o o ts a fte r all. T e r m in a l- w id e m o n ito r s p o s tin g arriv al a n d d e p a r tu r e in f o r m a tio n are still o n th e w is h list, a c c o r d in g to H a m i lto n . “W e h a d th e m lis t e d , b u t it w as a lo w - p rio r ity i te m ,” h e says. O t h e r areas fo r f in e - tu n in g w ill s u re ly p r e s e n t th e m se lv e s as th e a i r p o r t se ttle s. A sk e d i f th e o u t d o o r d r a in a g e sy ste m w ill h a n d le m id - w in te r r u n o f f b y c r e a tin g m in i- s k a tin g rin k s , fo r e x a m p le , a r c h ite c t B e c k says “tim e w ill te ll” — a n d t h a t ’s b e c o m e s o m e th in g o f a m a n tr a a m o n g a i r p o r t o ffic ia ls a b o u t

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t may occupy an honored place in our hearts, but, where TV is concerned, Thanksgiving is the Rodney Dangerfield of holidays — all but invisible between Hallo ween and Christmas. If Thanksgiving were a television personality, it would be in seri ous need of an agent. Have you savored the spe cial day’s approach by gather ing family ’round the tube, >with a family-size bowl of pop corn and a traditional Thanksgiving movie or special on the menu? O f course you haven’t. There aren’t any. And if there were, when would net work and cable programmers run them? The hundreds of Halloween and Christmas spe cials take every second of air time available from midOctober through the end of the year. Even Groundhog Day got its own movie. Is that a conspiracy I smell? Nope. Just the wafting scent of stage turkeys from all those morning talk-show cook

ing and entertaining segments. O f course, these don’t count as bona fide Thanksgiving pro gramming, because Martha and the rest would all be doling out advice for some other occasion if there didn’t happen to be a holiday for which to offer a late November theme. Hey, you say — desperate to whip up a bit of spirit around the house — if we can’t watch holiday specials on TV, maybe the thing to do is slap a star-studded compilation of Thanksgiving favorites into the old stereo and get the family to sing along with some cher ished, eye-misting old chestnut. Good luck! The TV ads for the Yuletide compilations have been running night and day for weeks — as if everyone on the planet who might conceivably wish to doesn’t already own Elvis Presley’s rendition of “Here Comes Santa Claus” on 8-track, vinyl and CD. Even if there were such a thing as a tra ditional Thanksgiving song, it’s too late now for any of the

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official T V compilation legends — Dean Martin, Burl Ives, Bing Crosby, Nat King Cole, etc. — to record it. Something tells me Busta Rhymes and Puff Daddy aren’t about to take up the slack. Well, you can always share the warmth and good will of the season by sending a card, right? Let me ask you this: Have you seen even one TV ad encouraging you to reach out and Hallmark someone? Me, neither. Just to see whether the darned things even exist, I checked out the card sections at several local Hannafords. W hat I found in each case was a Thanksgiving assortment only marginally more expansive than their “Congratulations on Winning the Powerball Drawing!” selection. The sad truth is that Thanksgiving’s one real claim to TV fame is the Macy’s Parade. But let’s be honest: The floats, along with the low-grade TV personalities who bum a ride on them, the rolling Broadway pantomimes, the narcotic banter of the bundledup emcees, and the hovering cartoon characters don’t have a thing to do with Thanksgiving. That’s not John Smith or one of his Pilgrim pals everybody’s waiting for at the end of the corny caravan. It’s Santa Claus, and it isn’t difficult to under stand exactly why Macy’s might be less vested in throwing a Turkey Day luau than in jumpstarting the Christmas shop ping season. Right about now you’re probably saying, okay, so what?

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Aside from the folks at Butterball, who spends money tying into the big day? Thanksgiving’s a beloved holi day, sure, but a borderline dull one, too. You watch TV, you eat, you hang out with family members you don’t often get to hang out with, you eat some more. Where’s the Emmy-winning subject matter in that? Well, I’m not saying Thanksgiving has what it takes to be a Christmas-caliber TV event, or even one with the Q factor of New Year’s Eve. I do believe, however, that with a little imagination we could bring it up to speed with, say, Valentine’s Day or the Fourth of July. To that end, I offer the following suggestions: If you ask me, one reason Thanksgiving has no screen presence is the absence of anticipation-building holiday advertising. Aside from the folks at Butterball, who spends money tying into the big day? I’d like to start seeing spots from companies like No-Doz, Alka-Seltzer and Weight Watchers. And how about the people who make elasticwaist pants? I bet any TV advertising that family counselors might purchase would pay for itself before the left-over turkey ran out. A major Thanksgiving drawback, of course, is the fact that there are no gifts. Wouldn’t we all take the holiday more seriously if we knew presents were going to be involved? All the A-list holidays — Christmas, Halloween, Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, etc. — entail getting things from other people. I say we should start exchanging gifts at Thanksgiving immediate ly. Not only will we get stuff, stuff will get adver tised on TV and voila!: more screen presence, more Yule-style anticipation building. I can foresee a day when Americans work themselves into a lather as Thanksgiving approaches. And how about a new mascot? Thanksgiving needs signature imagery that can hold its own with icons like

jolly old St. Nick, his reindeer, sleigh and elves, Halloween’s fat pumpkins, spooks, mini monsters and black cats, not to mention everyone’s little Valentine, Cupid. In the entire history of lame marketing moves, choosing a Pilgrim (snore) as the logo for this holi day ranks right up there with New Coke. Finally, these are just a few of the many possible subjects ripe for moving, Barbara Walters-style Thanksgiving profiles: • Saddam Hussein. The redun dant Iraqi fruit loop has loads to be thankful for this year. For example, the fact that U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan is such a gullible camera hog. • Maury Pauvich, Sally Jesse Raphael, Jenny Jones and Montel Williams must thank their lucky stars every day that Jerry Springer is on the air. Next to him, these blowhards look like Oprah. • Oprah. Lucky for her Maury, Sally, Jenny, Montel and Jerry are in business. They make her look like Walter Cronkite and Mother Teresa wrapped into one. • Mike McCurry. The former White House press secretary can now make cigar jokes at the office like everybody else. • O.J. and the Ramsey parents. Thanksgiving is a time to reflect and feel gratitude for life’s blessings, like health, wealth and shoddy police work. • Bruce Willis. Now he can make Demi Moore jokes like everybody else. So you see, there’s no good reason for television’s Thanks giving blackout. Hours and hours of seasonally themed programming are just waiting for industry executives, market ing pros and writing teams to turn them into must-see holi day TV. Will they see the light? Only time will tell. Meanwhile, feel free to get the ball rolling by sending me a belated Thanksgiving present in care o f this paper. (7)

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do this, practically no dealer or garage will actually perform the operation. The otherfunny thing is that although we kill over 40,000 persons a year in vehicle accidents, I couldn’t fin d any mention o f how many were saved (or how many were killed) by the air bag. — Guyler Magruder, Singapore

Dear Cecil, I just returnedfrom a holiday in the States. While there I rented a 1998 Ford Mustang. There was a notice on the visor to look on the other side. I did and took a picture o f the second notice. See attached. Am I crazy, or is it logical for a safety device to have a notice that it may kill you? Naturally, at the first opportunity I checked out ‘'air bag”on Yahoo. There are numerous sites, practically all o f which relate to disabling the air bags. Thefunny thing is that while it is possible to get the government’s permission to

RICHFORD to BURLINGTON. I work weekends and am look ing to share driving. Hours are 6 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. (3001)

BURLINGTON to JEFFER SONVILLE. Would you like to have company on your com mute to work 2 or 3 days per week? I’m willing to ride along or share the driving. Work 7:30 to 5 p.m. (2892)

No question, pops, it’d be a bummer to have a safety device that killed more people than it saved. But not to worry. If you buckle your seat belts, sit up straight, and put the kids in the back seat, the air bags will be perfect ly safe. O f course, if you did all that, you wouldn’t need air bags in the first place. Okay, I’m exaggerating, but there’s no denying that air bags have a Catch-22 aspect. First some numbers. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says that, as of September 1, 1998, air bags have saved 3448 lives (2954 drivers, 494 passengers) since they were first installed in quantity in the early ’90s. During the same period 113 people (66 of them children) have been killed by air bags. So we’re talking 30 lives saved for every one lost. It’s estimated that air bags reduce the risk of dying in a direct frontal collision by 30 percent. Some of these numbers are a little shaky. The NHTSA doesn’t investigate every accident in which an air bag is deployed. The figure for lives saved was arrived at using a double-pair comparison study, which the agency describes as “a mathematical analysis of the realworld fatality experience of vehicles with air bags com pared with vehicles without air bags.” In other words, despite its seeming precision, 3448 is an estimate. Some also argue that air-bag deaths are understated, since the figure includes only cases of low-speed accidents in which the air bag was clearly at fault.

Though 30:1 is a pretty favorable kill ratio, the fatal ities show that air bags aren’t the goof-proof passive safe ty devices some people thought they’d be. Thirty years ago Ralph Nader argued that people didn’t use seat belts and that a passive system like air bags was the only answer. Even today, with mandatory seat belt laws, only about 65 percent of auto users buckle up. Air bags save a lot of the heedless types. According to the NHTSA, of the 3448 people saved, 2483 weren’t wearing seat belts. But you may argue: I use seat belts, and I insist that everyone in my car use them. Why should I be required to risk air-bag injury just to protect the mopes that can’t be bothered? The NHTSA’s answer is that air bags and seat belts combined offer more crash protection than either device individually. Most of the people killed by air bags fail into identifiable risk groups — kids in the front seat, for example. The NHTSA concedes that air bags make the front seat significantly more dangerous for those under 12. But if you’re careful and put the kids in the back, etc., you can minimize the danger. Admittedly some people do everything right and still get killed by air bags — to date, 11 belted adults. Many of these were short drivers who presumably sat close to the steering wheel and were hit by the air bag as it expanded. Short people are now eligible to have a switch installed that lets them disable the air bag. But let’s set aside the special cases. Air bags basically work and aren’t the dangerous boondoggle that some folks think. Admittedly the “passive” aspect of air bags was oversold. The real lesson here is that it’s impossible to design a safety feature so foolproof that you needn’t get your mind in gear before you step on the gas. (7) > — CECIL ADAMS

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Nov 26-Dec 2 H fto dealing with people,

ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 19): I

| l “Basically, I try to be as

urge you to practice that “I’ve only

Richarming and ingratiating as I

got eyes for you” look till you get it

K e a n without making myself

right. Use a mirror if necessary. Try to

vom it.” I would like to recommend

get your most eternal, smoldering

convention o f tigers convenes

members. These days, catharsis means

launch a master plan to earn your

feeling to leap out and spiral around

upstairs. To make the metaphor (and

anything — from a riveting movie to

first million (or at least your first

the room like a flaming tornado. Pack

your predicament) even more ridicu

heart-boggling sex to an intense ses

hundred grand).

it full o f the most radical, focused

lous, the worm o f doubt may be eat

sion o f psychotherapy — which

intimacy you can muster. Once

ing into the apple o f domestic bliss

mobilizes a spiritual renewal through

SAGITTARIUS (Nov.

even as the eagle o f victory arrives

the build-up and release o f tension. I

22-Dec. 21): I hope you’re up for

single most worthy candidate, or at

with laurels to reward your public

predict that such a strenuous blessing

some homework this week,

most two — not the whole world.

struggle. D o tigers prey upon ter

lies just ahead for you.

Sagittarius. Your assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to write a

TAURUS (Apr. 20-M ay 20): I

usually — but then your dumb luck

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):

can’t remember whether it was Andy

with symbolic saviors is unusually

Everyone’s a bit schizo from time to

spective o f the person you will be

Warhol or Mao Zedong whose strate

good right now.

time, so don’t get flustered as you

next spring, and it should be about

watch your psyche divide up into fac

the life you’re going to live between

gies for successful power-tripping

story. It should be told from the per

included techniques for converting

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): H alf the

tions. I like to think that it’s exactly

now and then. The recommended

your weaknesses into strengths. If you

world is now in recession or suffering

at moments like these, when the con

length o f this tale is three to five

developed a pimple on the day o f a

meager economic growth. The ozone

dition is most aggravated, that the

pages, and I’d like you to finish it by

big social occasion, for instance,

hole over Antarctica has mushroomed

cure is most possible. Perhaps the

December 3. N ow here are a few

Andy or Mao might suggest that you

to an unprecedented size in recent

Willful Strategist in you has some

meditations to get you started. What

repackage it into a glitzy fashion

months. Animal and plant species are

thing to learn from the Adaptable

questions would you like to have

statement, say by drawing a circle

dying off at an alarming rate

Harmonizer, for instance. Likewise,

answered in the next 19 weeks? What

around it with a felt-tip pen. N ow get

unmatched since the last mass extinc

the Lover o f Beauty may not be so at

hypotheses would you like to collect

out there, Taurus, and apply this sage

tion 65 million years ago. Meanwhile,

odds with the Sharp Thinker as you

experimental data about? What bud

philosophy in every way you can

however, you Leos are slipping into

imagine, and the Demanding

ding plot lines would you like to see

imagine.

one o f your slaphappiest moods ever,

Fantasizer could find an ally, not just

fleshed out in ways that thrill your

and may be able to linger in this state

a debunker, in the Practical Master o f

imagination?

o f goofy but beatific grace until well

Intimacy.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20):

CAPRICORN

ing your network o f useful contacts, and getting what you want by being almost appallingly nice.

PISCES

(Feb. 19-Mar. 20):

Buddhist sage Jack Kornfield tells o f a woman devastated by the demise o f a love affair. She turned to her Zen teacher, a Japanese monk, who soothed and consoled her as she grieved for weeks. Alas, the monk then returned to Japan, leaving the woman to fend for herself. Months later he returned, and the woman picked him up at the airport. As he handed her a gift o f prayer beads, she broke into sobs, confessing that her heart had still not mended from the loss o f her paramour. W ithout hesita tion, the teacher slapped her across the face. “One year is too long!” he barked, “Get over it!” I bring this up, Pisces, because I have a similar impa

N ot to overgeneralize or anything,

after Christmas. To what do we owe

but one o f the pivotal quests o f every

your charmed ability to go against the

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov.

Jan. 19): You’ve only just started your

Gemini is to learn how to avoid mis

flow? Maybe it has to do with the fact

21): “Be Happy You’re Poor — Too

final exam, so it’s impossible to say

taking the map for the territory. The

that while everyone else seems

Much Money Can Make You Crazy,”

how well you’ll do. But preliminary

(Dec. 22-

challenge is complicated by the fact

obsessed with the half-truth that shit

read the headline in the Weekly World

indications are that you have an

that many o f you are such damn

happens, you’re focused on the more

News (a rag whose credibility has sur

excellent chance o f proving the dic

good map-makers and map-readers.

constructive half-truth that magic

passed much o f the mass media in

tum, i f it doesn’t crush your spirit, it’l l

H ow tempting it must be to believe

happens.

recent months). I had to agree with

help you w in your biggest argum ent

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): This

the article’s assertion that obscene

w ith G od In fact, I’m betting that

m om ent you get its contours down

wealth corroded the mental health o f

we’ll ultimately see some miraculous

you’ve conquered a problem the

the next few weeks. It will be prime time for making new friends, expand

you’ve got it down, unleash it on the

mites? Will eagles devour worms? N ot

this strategy to you Aquarians during

tience with a dispiritedness you’ve allowed to linger. Instead o f the slap, though, imagine I’m applying a cream pie to your face right now. (7)

You cmn call Rob Brezany, day or night for your

on paper! But wait. D op t despair.

week’s vocabulary word, class, is

Howard H ughes, Henry Ford, Ross

(if melodramatic) transmutations in

There’s good news. You’re about to

catharsis. It’s derived from the ancient

Perot, and Leona Helmsley. But I

you. An old wart on your attitude

e x p a n d e d w e e M y h o r o s c o p e

receive an assignment that will

Greek word katharsis, which was a

don’t think that’s a problem you

just might dissolve, for instance, and

1 -9 0 0 -9 0 3 -2 5 0 0

absolutely require you to navigate by

medical term for “purgation” or

Scorpios have to worry about. The

diamond-bright insights may illumi

dead reckoning alone.

“purification,” as in a flushing o f the

deprivations you’ve suffered over the

nate one o f your blindest spots.

bowels. Aristotle turned it into a

years have built up so much character

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CANCER (June 21-July 22):

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.

metaphor that referred to how a trag

in you that you’re incapable o f being

You may discover termites in the

ic drama performed on stage can

spoiled by fabulous riches. I bring

18): Ace TV journalist Katie Couric

foundation at about the same time a

“clean out” the emotions o f audience

this up because it’s prime time to

once said, in describing her approach

la s t w e e k ’s an sw e rs

on. aaee 4 3 ACRO SS 1 Word with mask or meter 4 Bacchante 10 Little devil 13 Hecuba’s hubby 18 Clark’s “Mogambo" co-star 19 Actress Pier 20 Skater Babilonia 21 Marmalade fruit 22 “— don’t say!” 23 Why did Franklin fly a kite? 26 Lambs' dams 28 Nasty 29 Docile 30 Horatian creation 31 Actress Lenska 34 Brickell or McClurg 36 Invitation request: abbr. 39 Why did folks find Howe funny? 47 Pitcher part 48 Tremendous bargain 49 Stephen of “Princess Caraboo" 50 Develop 52 “King Kong"

fa g e 4 4 —

101 Long or actress 54 Gridiron gain Peeples 103 Conductor 57 Deranged Boulanger 60 Easy stride 105 Shuffleboard 61 Swung stick around 106 Did people 63 Soccer superstar like Whitney? 112 O ’Hara 64 Bridge homestead support 66 Security org. 113 Thames town 67 Gets cracking 114 Vacation sensation 70 Castle 115 Heifer or hen material 118 Gelatinous 72 Galba’s predecessor product 120 Philharmonic 73 Beret or beaver section 74 How predict 124 Oklahoma city able was 127 Did Nobel Gutenberg? have a bad 78 Gush temper? 81 Bank deposit? 133 Tokyo, once 82 Gigio and 134 Dumas Jerry character 83 Singer Percy 135 Sneeze and 86 Make budget wheeze cuts? ' 136 Accuse 87 Ahab’s mark tentatively 88 — Visitor of 137 — up ‘Deep Space (complete) Nine" 138 Massenet 90 Stockwell and opera Martin 139 Brit, fliers 92 Sell 140 Juan Ponce — 94 Author Le Shan 141 Japanese 95 Actress honorific Mayron DOWN 98 Litter's littlest 1 Marvin of 99 Pianist Motown Schnabel 2 Confess

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Garlunkel 42 David's song, e.g. instrument 95 Marshal Dillon 43 Firstborn 96 Wedding 44 “The Magic words Flute" hero 97 Mozart’s “— 45 Age kleine 46 Photo tint Nachtmusik" 51 Spruce 100 Rug type 53 Beatles 102 Torpor refrain 55 Eye opener? 104 — glance 107 Sturdy carts 56 Authentic 108 Othello's 58 Helps in a ensign heist 109 Succotash 59 Dragon or Hall stuff 62 Don one’s 110“— Apple" (71 hit) duds 111 Sugary suffix 65 — in 115 Make-believe (enticed) 68 Hawthorne's 116 Olympic first lady "— Told 117 Writer Hunter Tales" 69 Dieter's food 119 Way over yonder 71 Window dressing? 121 She. to 75 Beach Stendhal 76 Lodger 122 Farmer's place 77 German river 78 Indonesian 123 — Pea (Popeye’s kid) island 125 Scheme 79 Put forth 126 Canine 80 Fractional amount command 84 Lack of social 128 Funnyman grace Philips 129— Tin Tin 85 Boredom 89 Med school 130 Folklore fairy 131 Actor subj. 91 Prepare Tognazzi 132 Put it in cherries writing 93 Simon &

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WHO’S OUT THERE?! Attractive, fit SWPM, 24 , seeks attractive, fit, intelli gent female for sweaty activities. Looking for someone a little different and is comfortable w/ her body. 2302

WARM-HEARTED, INTELLECTUAL out doorsman, 42 , DWPM w/ children, seeking serious, sensible, petite, pretty partner for hiking, back-country skiing & other adventures. Ctrl. VT. 2311 _____

SWM, 22, 170 LBS. LOOKING FOR LTR. ISO attractive F who likes to cheat. I’m a clean-cut car guy. I make my woman happy. 2319 __________________________

INTELIGENT, AFFECTIONATE, GOODlooking, liberal, NS, passionate music lover. Enjoy outdoors, cooking, conver sation. Young 46 , fit, not athletic. Seek smart, attractive, affectionate F in northeastern VT. I’m near St. J. 2317

M, 50S, SEEKING NS F VEGETARIAN swinger...big band, that is. Some notes are blue; the mall buildings are, too. Read the clue, and I will meet you. 2321 ___________ _____________________

28 YO, SELF-EMPLOYED CONST, worker, excellent cond. physically/mentally/spiritually. ISO a sexy lady who knows how to make a man feel like a man. 2250 SEMI-SERIOUS DWPM, 40S, LOVER OF museums, mtd. trails, carriage rides & lazy kisses. Attractive, balanced assort ment of virtues 81 vices. Seek confident lady open to life’s possibilities. 2251

MY FRIEND-LOVER FANTASY: Radiant, zestful, soulful, healthful, fit 81 athletic playmate. Intelligent, articulate 81 imag inative learner. Empathetic, giving, sen sual, loving, unguarded, centered, pow erful & independent yearner. Ready for me. 35 +. 2252 ________________________ LIFE IS SHORT. A LITTLE BIT SHY, divorced for three years, and ready to start exploring new adventures. I enjoy many outdoor activities, dining out or in, and good conversation. 2259 ______

SMART, HEP, FUNNY, CUTE, GEMINI, „ native of NYC, been at school in VT for fodr years now. Seek funny, cool girl who likes fun and adventure. 2268

TALL ATHLETIC, FIT, ATTRACTIVE, affec tionate, progressive, well-educated, divorced, prof, single dad, 5 1 , who likes conversation, ethnic food, films, tennis, hiking, skiing. ISO intelligent, active woman for friendship/LTR. 2276

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CONNECTION HAPPENS. I’m 32 , tall, attractive, high IQ, prof., creative, gen uine, relationship-oriented. If you’re 25 32 , believe key to happiness is rela tionship, mutuality, nurturing, respect, sharing, call. Otherwise, don’t. 2226 SINGLE DAD, 52, SEEKS YOUNGER female for dating, to LTR. Single parent okay. No head games. Honesty a must. Rutland/Manchester area. 2233 ________

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DWM, 36, GOOD-LOOKING, 5 ’? • 165 lbs., realistic, honest, down-to-earth, looking for the One— open-minded, sane, uninhibited, honest, F. Age, race unimportant. Friends, LTR. Are you there? 2220

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UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING. SWPM, 36 , 5 ’n ”, 185 lbs., tall, dark, handsome, likes exercise, outdoors, adventure. Recently separated from LTR, no kids. ISO attractive SPF, 36 +/-, shares the above & wants to swing-, slow-dance away cares together. She believes life’s best things are mostly free. 2193 _______________ __________ _

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eclectic taste, reliable fire starter, enjoy antiquing. Me: above + shy, over worked supervisor, student, sports, avid reader 81 junk collector, intense to laid-back, some surprises. 2198 _______

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to an end. We’re taking over. Looking for a great lady to help this SW M, 25 , start the revolution. Let’s start a great cause. 2199__________________________

night creature wants directions straight to the SWF soul mate’s heart. Remember, true love never dies. 2210

GOLDILOCKS DESIRED FOR STORYBOOK life w/ attractive, successful, SW PM, 50 , NS, teddy bear. Great book, but needs attractive, slim, intelligent, avid skier, biker, ballroom dancer, traveler to make best-seller. 2204 ________________

48. PROFESSIONAL 6’i" . FIT, reason ably sane, equitably pragmatic with a mild streak of silliness. Seeking attrac tive, slender lady to share our laughter and, if simpatico, commitment. Call or write. 2208

this mid-life teacher/writer. Lettuce meet in the garden & dig some carrots & turnip up. It beets me why not! 2170

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NEW TO PERSONALS, 30s, s ’ i o " , 150 lbs., kind-hearted romantic. Shy, but ready to be set loose. Masculine, musi cian, loves outdoors, dance music. Eager to make new friends. 2330 ______

MEN: HESITANCY IS NOWHERE IN THIS personal, only true thoughts and feel ings for you... If this is unclear, don’t let it be; I’m all ears! 2222 ____________

GWM, 20, ISO ANOTHER GUY WHO wears the same outfit more than two days in a row, can humor me with chicken anecdotes, and maybe, just maybe, will be himself. 2308 __________

GWM, 24, MASCULINE, LOVES HUNTING and outdoor activities, as well as inti macy, seeks straight-acting, masculine, fit man, 20 -35 , with similar interests. Hoping for a great friendship, possible LTR. 2238 ____________________________

BLUE EYES. GWM, 39, HANDSOME, young-looking, seeking G/BiWM for dis creet fun evenings. Inexperienced wel come, long hair a +, 18 -48 , no fats or ferns. 2312 ___________________________

GM, 38. S'7n. 160 LBS., MUSCULAR, hazel, PA, military cut, br./gr., glasses, attractive, open mind, heavy libido. ISO relationship-oriented man, who is at least 50 % top, self-supporting and not afraid to take charge. OK if not out, but you should be comfortable. 2244

GWM, 30S, 6’, 170 LBS., ATTRACTIVE, in shape, ISO intelligent, attractive, in shape guys, 25 -35 , for friendships and LTRs. Like to workout, hike, bike, trav el, socialize. Burlington/Lake Champlain region. 2316 __________________________

DAYTIME FUN/STRESS RELEASE. BIWM will provide during casual encounters, no strings attached, to: clean, discreet, straight-acting Bi males. Experimenters, beginners welcome. 2235

I WANT YOU!! GWM seeks international M s in uniform. I’m a professional. Especially interested in B/A/H. Must be discreet. Deserve to have a sensational time. 2314

GWM, 41, ISO PHYSICALLY challenged G/BiPM, 25 -45 , not giving up, who enjoys life, for friendship, possible LTR. Intellectual stimulation just as impor tant as physical in a relationship. 2201

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SWF, 32, BLOND, BRIGHT, BEAUTIFUL, seeks handsome counterpart, 28 -42 . Athletic, fit, articulate, passionate, seeks same with sense of humor, love of play, need for adventure. If you’re a knight in modern armor, I’m your fair maiden. Picture helps. Box 401________

GWM SEEKING THIN, A/B/HM, 18-25. for new experiences. Enjoy videos, mas sages and quiet times. Discretion expected and assured. 2168

WCU (M. 35 & F, 35), ATTRACTIVE, seeks BiF for discreet fun & pleasure. Females only, please. Dinner, movies, dancing, cuddling. 2342 ______________ HAPPILY MaWM, AMATEUR MASSEUSE, sensitive, sweet, listener, discreet, seeks only to please. ISO Ma/SF, any age/ace to give pleasure to. No relationships, just 2 ships passing. 2343 WM, 40, CLEAN, FIT, -BIG”, BORED. Looking to add spice. Seeking S/Ma/BiF or CU for discreet, sensual pleasure. If you’re reading this, you’re ready! 2331

SWM, 44, FAST-PACED, OVER ACHIEV ER, 150 lbs., 5 ’8 ”, very fit, business owner, tight smoker, loves cooking, dancing, shopping & my dog. ISO F, fit 81 friendly. Ready-made family nice. Box 394

COLLEGE WM, 20, LOOKING FOR CUs, Fs and Ms to explore new territories and have discreet fun with. I am young and it's time to live a little bit! 2299 WCU, 50, ISO FCOMPANION to join us in bicycling, conversation, dining, the ater (not opera), antiquing 81 other interests. Weekend trips. Any race, NS, ND, 42 -60, social drinker OK, 2282 R O M THE TOP OF THE HOSE TO THE tip of the toes! Gentleman, 40s, ama teur photographer, seeks heavenly female soles. Let me play “Elmer Batters” & lens your exotic feet. 2269 AMATEUR M STRIPPER, BLOND, TAN & fit, ISO individuals/parties for midweek matinee exhibitionism. Clean, safe, fun. 2275 __________________________________ M, 6’, 200 LBS., 25, SCORPIO SEEKS F or BiF, 18 -45 , for fun and games. Discreet sex, sex, sex. No pigs. 2240 CREATIVE ROLE PLAY. ELEGANT, exclu sive 81 new. 2236

LITTLE FEAT CONCERT-GREG R O M Essex, I met 8t danced w/ you. I had a great time. Would like to see you again. Sarah. 2333 ____________________ YOU WORK AT TRADE W IN D S - cute, petite, college-age brunette w/ slightly curly hair. Seen you working, wanteed to talk to you, but can’t work up the guts. 2349 ____________________________ RACQUETS EDGE POOL, 11/17- You were working (physical therapist?). I was the dark-haired man swimming. Your dark, flashing eyes looked as interested as I was. Would like to take you to lunch if you ‘d like to look further. 2351 ________________ ____________ IRA ALLEN, FLOOD VICTIM BENEFIT con cert. We chatted about the show, the prizes, and you told me you made ceramic buttons. You were whisked away before I could learn more. 2355 10/3 1 : WE MET, WE DANCED. Lenora

(Lenny), you said you wanted to know me personally, but vanished like Cinderella. Call me, have coffee, con versation? Elvira. 2298

WM LOOKING TO EXPLORE ADULT urges witha fun F or CU. Age/looks not as important as discretion/honasty. 2345 -•

TALL, HANDSOME ARTIST, POET, Taoist monk and weekend father, 49, seeking companionship w/ beautiful woman, any age, race or color, with a curious mind, open heart, soft style and imagination. Box 376______________________

43. ATTRACTIVE, TALI, NS, PENT-UP affection for shy, intuitive, mysterious witch. We will be close, caring, private, enduring. Purring like cats. Singing like birds. Candle quiet. Where are you? Box 400_____________________________

INDEPENDENT DF, 65, WOULD LIKE TO meet sophisticated friend/companion, 65 +, to share ideas and participate in the cultural life of Burlington. Box 399

SUBMISSIVE BIWM, 22, ISO A LOVING, but strict mistress to pleasure and serve in the Burlington area. Age/race unimportant. 2340 ____________________

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GWM, BOTTOM BEAR, SMOKER, 3 RD shifter looking for LTR or just some fun w/ a hot top. I’m 6 ’2 ”, 270 lbs., #3 buzzed brown hair, blue eyes, pierced, tattooed and hairy. 2185 _______

SUNLIGHT FILLS A CABIN BY A moun tain stream. Bearded craftsman, 35 , NS, NA, ND, NTV, flexible schedule. Seek F to ski hard, play fair and have fun. Box 395_______ __________________

KINDNESS, LAUGHTER. ROMANCE? Attractive, plus-sized SWF artist, 39 , seeking special guy, 30 -45 , to create awesome atmosphere of trust, affec tion, fun and friendship/LTR. We love the outdoors, music, food and movies. Humor required. We can really create magic! Ctrl. VT/Burl. area. Box 377

WHERE ARE YOU? Intelligent, attractive SWF, young- 30s, seeks similar man w/ sense of humor about life. Join me run ning, hiking, skiing, laughing, dining, traveling and/or dancing! Don’t be shy! Box 392 " — y ________________

ACTIVE CU, 47-52, SEEKS F OR OTHER CU for sensual encounters. This safe, discreet, Montpelier area CU looks forward to your response. 2346 __________

I’M LOOKING FOR A NEW BEST FRIEND. Criteria: SW PM, 35 -40 , lover of moun tains, snowshoes, labrador retrievers, family, coffee 81 good books. Must have a warm, generous heart. Please write. ATTRACTIVE WARM, PETITE, NS/ND, red-haired DWPF who enjoys travel, classical music, theater, exercise, learn ing experiences. ISO S/DWPM, fit, NS/ND, 50 -65 , similar interests for hon est communication, possible LTR. Box 388____________________ _____________

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BIWM ISO THIN Gj/BIM, 25-40; FIRSTtime encounter. Walks, read, films, laugh, massage & play. NS, ND 81 open mind necessary. Discretion please. 2213

RETIRED DPM ISO GRAY-HAIRED LADY, 55 -65 , who’s warm, open, sharing 81 fit, who, like me, reads broadly, enjoys continuing to learn, loves classical music, has sense of the ridiculous & enjoys country/city 8t travel. Box 380 SHELL- WALLY CLEAVER MEETS JOHN Travolta. Stuffing: Kurt (Vonnegut), Carson (Rachel), Kramer (Cosmo). Genuine, nutty, very fit, conversant, deceptively clean-cut quasi-vegan, 26 , loves writing silly songs, hiking, biking, reading and cooking; seeks smart, witty, confident, fit Burl, girt, 21 -28 , for friendship first. Box 381_______________ DWM, 46, 5’6", 41 LBS., RT AND UKES to run, bike and hike, Buddhist, rea sonably successful professional, likes art— Monet 81 Rembrandt— classical music and baseball. I lead a quiet, sim ple lifestyle. Seeking an intelligent, cul tured, emotionally secure F for a gentle relationship. Please write first. Box 378

100 m m GWF, MATURE, LOVES TO DANCE, romantic walks in the moonlight, can dlelight dinners. Looking for GF, NS, age & looks unimportant. Clean & neat a must. LTR w/ right person. Take a chance. Box 393

DIRTY BOY. GWM, 36, SEEKS TRAINING, discipline & more. Box 402____________ 48, 5’io", 150 LBS., LOOKING FOR M companion & friend. Enjoy cooking, quiet times, massage, rides 81 walks in the country. Rutland area. Box 397 MIDDLE-AGED, CLEAN BiWM WOULD like to meet WM, 18 -24 , for very plea surable sexual experiences discreetly. Pref. thin 8i clean. Box 398____________ EARTH LOVER SEEKS LIFE/TRAVEL PA L Kayak, swim, surf, hike, camp (cheaply) New Zealand,‘India, Ctrl. America? You pick. 49 , 6’, 160 lbs., gardener, home steader, ecobuilder (scrounged materi als), off-grid Luddite, TV-free, sports playing, massage, political activist, attractive, healthy top, creative, sensi tive, considerate. Box 391

GWM SEEKS TO MEET OTHER GM FOR friendship 81 possibly more. I am 37 , blue eyes, brow hair, very healthy, in great shape. I enjoy cooking, dining out, going for long rides in the country. If you’re out there, please drop me a line. Box 389_________________________ GWM, 5’u ”, 195 LBS., LOOKING FOR relationship. Can travel. Any race or color. Box 384________________________ UVM QUEER, GWM, 19, 6’2”, 165 LBS., brown/hazel, student, activist, revolu tionary. Cute and sincere, somewhat shy, loves foreign/vintage films and theater. Seeking GWM, 18 -25 , who’s comfortable with themselves. Box 382 ONE-MAN GUY, 36, 6’, 190 LBS., GOODlooking, fit, intelligent, has lots to offer. Looking for that special male to build a quality relationship with. Handsome loners encouraged to reply. Box 379

SBM, SUBMISSIVE, SEEKS IMMEDIATE written contact with box 2150 . Please respond. Urgent. Box 386 _________ CU (30s & 40s) SEEKS TALL BIM, 3040 , for sensual adventures. Must be clean 81 very discreet. Light drink 81 smoke OK. Well-built a +. Possible LTR. We’re waiting. Box 387

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