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[Re “Suburban Spat: Rivalries Flare Around South Burlington Ag Group,” July 22]: Rosanne Greco is not talking about “small things”; she is talking about saving our planet through individual initiative and action. Why must South Burlington City Councilor Chris Shaw try to discredit and belittle her rather than engage in a meaningful dialogue? The city council needs to remember that many of us taxpayers in South Burlington are wholeheartedly behind Rosanne’s efforts to improve our world, one small step at a time. Louise Lanny murphy

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Federal prosecutors should be congratulated on their application of forfeiture law to seize and close drug houses in Rutland. “Seize Them! Testing a New Weapon in Rutland’s Drug War” [July 15] misses only one point: The application of forfeiture law and civil law to shut down drug houses is not new. A cursory search on the internet shows that jurisdictions all over the country have also been shutting down drug houses for years through nuisance law. Vermont’s own law on drug houses has apparently gone unused: 18 V.S.A. § 4222 states, “Any store, shop, warehouse, dwelling house, building, vehicle, boat, aircraft or any place whatever, which is resorted to by persons for the purpose of using

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regulated drugs or which is used for the illegal keeping or selling of the same, shall be deemed a common nuisance. No person shall keep or maintain such a common nuisance.” The legal remedy for nuisance is abatement. If applied collaboratively among landlords, citizens, law enforcement and state’s attorneys offices, this law could be used to close drug houses all over Vermont. As applied in other jurisdictions, the process involves notice by district attorneys to landlords to take action on evicting tenants. If the landlord refuses, the state can take civil action to abate the drug house — the nuisance. Drug houses are an epidemic in Vermont, hurting children and families. This little-known law should be called into action. ben Luna

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Intelligent and informed people will disagree over the pros and cons of the proposed development project around Exit 4 in Randolph [“Little Randolph Is Divided Over a Massive Development Proposal,” July 15]. However, useful debate requires accurate context, and the depiction of Randolph in Mark Davis’ otherwise excellent summary of the controversy suggests the cliché of a dying small town with “too

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I have worked in psychiatric residential programs for 20 years, and Mark Davis’ article [“Missing Mohamed,” July 1] highlighted significant problems within the mental health system that are worth addressing. Reluctance to “mandate treatment” comes not only from ideological concerns for rights, but also because there are precious few beds available for those needing hospital treatment, as evidenced by the numerous people in psychiatric crisis being lodged in emergency departments and jails while awaiting inpatient psychiatric beds. That “great strides” have been made because wait times in hospital emergency departments have been reduced is simply not enough. In psychiatric residential programs, clients requiring police intervention for disruptive and threatening behavior are denied hospital admission (repeatedly in some cases), put on waiting lists and returned to the community, or, in some cases, placed in motels requiring continued police intervention. This is largely a result of Act 79 and the state’s failure to provide enough intensive care beds for those with severe and chronic mental illness following the closing of the Vermont State Hospital. It’s a mental health policy that is as flawed as it is underfunded. Mohamed died with his rights protected. He deserved an equal concern for his well-being.

deserves credit for his pursuit of the public trust doctrine to the Vermont Supreme Court during the later years that he was mayor of Burlington — and the resulting park space we all enjoy today — the pivot point for the waterfront was the 1985 Alden Plan. Bernie was the primary proponent of the Alden Plan, which included a seven-story hotel 25 feet from the lake’s edge just north of College Street, 300 luxury condominiums on the event space where Bernie made his announcement, a 1,200-car parking garage and more than 200,000 square feet of commercial space, all on what eventually became Waterfront Park. At that time, Bernie was commander in chief of the most powerful political machine Burlington has ever seen. He had all three political parties behind Alden, 12 out of 13 city councilors. A small group of committed environmentalists, and the wisdom of our forefathers to require a two-thirds majority for a bond, saved the majority of Burlington voters (54 percent) from themselves on December 10, 1985, when the Alden Plan was defeated. Bernie has an easy way out here: Admit he was wrong on Alden, and take credit for what happened afterward. Everyone makes mistakes. Hillary voted for the war in Iraq. Although Alden was a big mistake for Burlington, it is nowhere near the consequence of going to war in Iraq. What do you say, Bernie? Can you admit a mistake?

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JULY 29-AUGUST 5, 2014 VOL.20 NO.47

Once a year we look forward to writing about our FURRY, FUZZY AND FEATHERED FRIENDS. Of course, some of them are not our friends, and not all the stories are heartwarming. Our relationship with animals is complicated. Some are BELOVED PETS for whom we spare no expense; some we shoot for sport. Some we find aww-dorable … and eat them anyway. Some of the tiniest creatures are bent on DESTROYING OUR CROPS and trees; others are so ECO-CRITICAL that scientists and farmers are desperate to save them. And many beasties, of course, are so long gone that they’re MUSEUM-WORTHY. The stories in this issue touch on every one of these relationships, and more. And if you’ve fallen in love with our cover girl, OLIVE, be sure to watch Eva Sollberger’s Stuck in Vermont about INSTAGRAM’S PORCINE PRINCESS. Move over, Miss Piggy!

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Dog Gone? Along Route 100, Finding Murphy Has Become a Community Quest

ARTS NEWS 24

BY MARK DAVIS

A Former Ally Says Bernie Sanders Has Changed Ello, Goodbye? Some Startups Leave Vermont for More Populated Pastures BY ALICIA FREESE

Vermont’s Mimein-Chief Describes a Career of Acting Outside the Box

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BY SADIE WILLIAMS

Community Engagement Lab Enlists Renowned Musician to Further the Cause of Art in Schools BY AMY LILLY

BY MOLLY WALSH

Excerpts From Off Message

BY ETHAN DE SEIFE

Critter Crossing

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Animal Issue: Timber harvesting at a human scale — with horsepower

Bugging Out

Animal Issue: Local scientists are on a mission to prevent invasive insects — and protect the good ones

Animal Issue: The state has eyes on a stretch of I-89 — aiming to reduce roadkill BY MARK DAVIS

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Animal Issue: At Burlington’s Emergency & Veterinary Specialists, owners spare no expense to save their pets

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Family Feud “Violence begets violence.” John Nagle, executive director of the Vermont Shakespeare Company, hopes this theme will transcend the test of time in its 10th-anniversary-season production of Romeo and Juliet. Recognizing connections to presentday plights and emphasizing physical movement (think action-packed stage combat), the troupe pumps fresh blood into the ageless tragedy. See calendar listing on page 57

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Master of Slapstick Tom Murphy (pictured) won’t stop clowning around. Inspired by the knock-down, drag-out antics of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton, the funnyman has parlayed his background in acrobatic skiing into a frantic display of physical comedy. Audience members laugh until they cry as he bonks, flips and juggles his way through “Murphy’s Law” as part of the Peak Circus Festival. See calendar listing on page 52

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Art Therapy When Isadora Snapp was pregnant in 2011, she planned on a home birth. Instead, she was rushed by ambulance to the nearest hospital, where her daughter was born. A second complicated delivery and postpartum depression followed. The dancer and choreographer uses movement to process the highs and lows of childbirth and motherhood in her first evening-length program, “With Women.” See calendar listing on page 54

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High School Dance Tell mom you’re sleeping over and take your date to the Precipice 2015: The Big Prom Ocean. This underwater-themed clambake boasts a photo booth, spin-the-bottle, truth-or-dare and other throwback favorites. Sneak in a slow dance during Kat Wright & the Indomitable Soul Band’s Fridaynight set before a round of rousing sea shanties by Brett Hughes and Eric George. See club date on page 68

Jurassic Museum Leaping lizards! “Dinosaur Discoveries: Ancient Fossils, New Ideas” is creating a big bang at the Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium. Through lifelike models, fossils and computer simulations, the exhibit, organized by the American Museum of Natural History in New York, presents new perspectives on the prehistoric reptiles. See story on page 25

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Since the 1980s, guitarist, singer and general noise maker Thurston Moore has pushed the boundaries of sound. A pioneer of the post-punk no-wave movement, Moore co-fronted Sonic Youth from 1981 to 2011. Since then, he has wrangled drummer Steve Shelley and members of My Bloody Valentine into shoe-gaze supergroup the Thurston Moore Band, who hit up ArtsRiot with selections from 2014’s The Best Day.

Community spirit soars at the Lake Champlain Airshow, an annual all-ages fête featuring helicopter rides, a parachute demo, a fire-and-rescue-boat parade, and a drone exhibit. Look to the sky for tailspins, tumbles and other awe-inspiring aerobatic feats from fearless stunt pilots. Get ready for takeoff!

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he last time the state faced an open gubernatorial race, in 2010, the Vermont Progressive Party made a promise: If the Democratic nominee pledged to close the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant, fight for single-payer health care and oppose public sector job cuts, the Progs wouldn’t field an opponent. A state senator named PETER SHUMLIN won the Democratic nomination that year — and the confidence of many Progs. They withdrew their candidate from the race, enabling Shumlin to defeat Republican BRIAN DUBIE. Five years later, Vermont Yankee has, in fact, been shuttered — but Shumlin has since reneged on his other two promises. “I will say that a lot of Progressives felt like that was a big lesson,” says Progressive Party chair EMMA MULVANEYSTANAK. “We know that the only real thing we can rely on is running Progressives — not relying on Democrats promising us things.” Says Sen. DAVID ZUCKERMAN (P/DChittenden), he and his compatriots felt “burned.” 12:32 PM That’s why, this time around, the party is considering running candidates for governor and lieutenant governor, according to Mulvaney-Stanak. “Next year is a year to watch Progressives,” she says. “People are so disappointed with what the Democratic leadership has provided. I think people are eager for alternatives.” Specifically, Mulvaney-Stanak points to Shumlin’s December 2014 decision to abandon single-payer, his cuts to the state workforce this year and Democratic support for banning teacher strikes. “I felt like I suddenly woke up on the wrong side of the Connecticut River,” she says. Whether the Progs actually follow through with their threat remains to be seen. The party flirted with gubernatorial bids in 2012 and 2014, only to sit out those races. One problem: a dearth of candidates who could make a credible statewide run. Two of its better-known incumbents, Auditor DOUG HOFFER and Sen. TIM ASHE (D/P-Chittenden), have ruled out the guber race. Zuckerman, meanwhile, says he’s more likely to run for lieutenant governor. And Sen. ANTHONY POLLINA (P/D-Washington), a four-time statewide candidate, remains on the fence. “I think Progressives should strongly consider running for the top offices, but I think it has to be a credible, strong candidate,” Pollina says.

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Another problem: Even without a Democrat in the running, Progressives fared poorly in the 2014 lieutenant gubernatorial race. The party’s nominee, former Burlington lawmaker DEAN CORREN, lost to Republican Lt. Gov. PHIL SCOTT 36 to 62 percent. Of course, 2016 should look quite different from über-low-turnout 2014. The presidential campaign, Sen. PATRICK LEAHY’s reelection bid and several competitive statewide races will likely bring many more left-leaning Vermonters to the polls. Plus, the Republicans may have a spoiler of their own: BRUCE LISMAN. The retired Wall Street banker is a perennial almostcandidate. But in the past two weeks, he’s been telling any reporter who will listen

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that, you know, he really means it this time. “I think my level of interest is completely different,” Lisman says. “I’m giving it considerable thought.” The Shelburne resident claims he hasn’t considered whether he’d run as a Republican or as an independent. Last year, he donated $10,000 to the Vermont GOP, but in May he donated $250 to Leahy’s campaign. Scott, who appears likely to seek the Republican gubernatorial nomination, says an independent bid by Lisman “would have an effect on the race.” Particularly if Lisman finances his own campaign. “If a Progressive were to split the Democratic ticket, an independent could do the same for a Republican,” Scott says. “So it would make for an interesting race, for sure.” No doubt. If the general election includes four credible candidates, it would be difficult for any one of them to win an outright majority. That means, as in 2014, the legislature might have to pick the winner. How democratic.

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There’s another way 2016 will look different from 2014: Rich people and special interests will have even more influence over Vermont’s elections. In January 2014, the legislature doubled the amount of money individuals, corporations and political action committees can donate to statewide candidates — from $2,000 to $4,000. And it quintupled the

amount they can donate to political parties — from $2,000 to $10,000. The new rules, which took effect earlier this year, are already influencing the gubernatorial race. When Lt. Gov. Scott mailed his first fundraising solicitation last weekend, it ended with, “Your generous contribution of whatever you are comfortable with, up to $4,000, will help me engage Vermonters in this critical conversation.” Now that’s an expensive conversation! When presumed Democratic gubernatorial candidate MATT DUNNE announced a $134,000 fundraising haul earlier this month, his donor list included 14 separate $4,000 contributions. One couple, Hotel Vermont cofounder JAY CANNING and wife CAROLINE CANNING, gave a grand total of $12,000 through individual and corporate donations. What’s the big deal? As Gov. Shumlin has frequently claimed, campaign donations can’t buy you access, influence or — God forbid — votes. Oh, wait. This just in: Shumlin now thinks they can. After the U.S. House voted last Thursday to preempt state GMO labeling laws such as Vermont’s, the governor blamed the result on Monsanto and its “corporate food allies” using their “vast resources to buy votes in Congress.” When Seven Days’ TERRI HALLENBECK asked whether Shumlin was alleging that members of Congress “agreed to vote for the bill because Monsanto gave them money,” spokesman SCOTT CORIELL said, “If that’s how you’re interpreting it, you’re interpreting it incorrectly.” How so? Shumlin evidently didn’t get the memo that his flack was walking back the claim. On Monday, the gov repeated it on Vermont Public Radio’s “Vermont Edition”: “It’s because big food manufacturers are giving huge amounts of money to the campaign war chests of these folks in Congress, and they have a lot of influence,” he said of the House vote. Unlike Shummy’s donors?

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Nearly three months after he was arrested outside the Statehouse for a slew of alleged sex crimes, Sen. NORM MCALLISTER (R-Franklin) remains in office. He may be there for a while. Though the Associated Press’ DAVE GRAM reported last month that nearly half his colleagues would vote to expel him, Senate leaders have decided to hold off on such a vote until they return to Montpelier next January.

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“If this trial is going on [during the legislative session], this is going to be a media frenzy,” he says. Benning says he hopes McAllister will stand by his promise, but he’s prepared if he doesn’t. The Republican minority leader has asked legislative lawyers to draft a resolution to expel McAllister from the Senate. “That resolution is prepared,” Benning says. “I have not signed it yet.”

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Last week, Kantar Media estimated that the 2016 elections will generate $4.4 billion in television advertising — a new record. Most of that will go to local broadcast television outlets, particularly in early presidential primary states and general election battleground states. Vermont is neither, but it abuts a state that’s both: New Hampshire. And because stations in the BurlingtonPlattsburgh, N.Y., media market dip into the western regions of the Granite State, they can count on some dough. “I would expect it to be a very good year,” says WCAX-TV president and general manager peter martin. So good that two presidential candidates and one affiliated super PAC have already reserved time on the station’s airwaves, according to public filings. Former secretary of state hillary Clinton, a Democrat, has reserved space on WCAX and WPTZ from November 10 through early February, when New Hampshire holds its primary. Sen. marCo rubio (R-Fl.) has done so from December 15 onward. And Conservative Solutions PAC, which supports Rubio’s bid, plans to advertise on the two stations starting December 29. Those entities haven’t yet cut any checks. For now, they’re just reserving the airtime — to lock down a rate and ensure there will be space available when the primary heats up. So far, according to Martin, Rubio has booked $83,000 worth of airtime with the station, Clinton $110,000 and Conservative Solutions $180,000. WPTZ brass declined to comment. Neither Fox44 nor ABC22 have reported any 2016 political ad sales. Things could get even better for Vermont’s TV stations. If the state’s gubernatorial election is as competitive as expected, Martin says, 2016 could wind up as lucrative as 2006, when the state hosted big U.S. House and Senate races. The impact on the WCAX’s bottom line? “It’s very noticeable,” Martin says. m

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“It did not seem to be worth spending the taxpayers’ money having the Senate come back now, when I don’t think it would achieve anything,” says Senate President Pro Tem John Campbell (D-Windsor), who has called on McAllister to resign. “I don’t think there’s any direct harm right now to the state or Franklin County.” With the Senate in adjournment, Campbell argues, McAllister is casting no votes, nor drawing any pay. Days after the senator pleaded not guilty in May, his colleagues stripped him of his committee assignments. According to Sen. Joe benning (R-Caledonia), McAllister personally promised him that he would resign in November if he hasn’t cleared his name by then. “He wanted the trial discovery process to play out,” Benning says. “And he indicated to me that if things were still up in the air and he was still headed for a trial in November, he would voluntarily step down.” McAllister himself says he won’t “confirm or deny” Benning’s assertion. “I want to see what happens with the legal part,” he says. “That’s all.” The senator, who has long proclaimed his innocence, says he has not been offered a plea deal and wouldn’t take one. “No, I didn’t do anything,” McAllister says. “I’m just counting on the system. If it works the way it should, I’m not going to have a problem, but I don’t know how it works.” If he doesn’t resign in November and the Senate doesn’t return for a special session, legislative business could be seriously derailed come January. That’s because the Senate would likely hold hearings on the matter before voting on expulsion — an unprecedented and legally messy situation, given that the case won’t yet have gone to trial. Adding to the drama: According to WPTZ-TV reporter Stewart ledbetter, the prosecution’s preliminary witness list includes a number of top pols: Campbell, Benning, Sen. peg Flory (R-Rutland), Sen. Kevin mullin (R-Rutland), Sen. Jeanette white (D-Windham), Rep. tim CorCoran (D-Bennington), Rep. Corey parent (R-St. Albans) and raChel Feldman, Lt. Gov. Scott’s chief of staff. Such a list has not been filed in court, and Franklin County State’s Attorney Jim hugheS did not respond to a request for comment. The list appears to include most, if not all, of those interviewed by the Vermont State Police about their interactions with one of McAllister’s alleged victims. That person worked for him at the Statehouse and stayed in a house he shared with Mullin and Corcoran. Benning, a defense attorney by day, says he wouldn’t be surprised if even more senators end up on the defense’s witness list.

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n a June day in 2014, Kirstin Campbell’s car skidded off Mayo Farm Road in Stowe and slammed into a tree. Though she suffered a dislocated shoulder, Campbell managed to get out of the car and open a rear door to check on the family dog, Murphy. The Morrisville woman was relieved to discover the 3-year-old golden retriever hadn’t been hurt in the backseat. Then Murphy stood up and bolted into a nearby field. He hasn’t come back. For the past year, Campbell, 24, her grandfather, Ed Hamel, and others have tried to catch Murphy, who has been spotted numerous times along the Route 100 corridor between Morrisville and Waterbury. But the dog has been unwilling to give up life in the wild. Somehow, he survived a brutally cold winter. Family members and a devoted group of dog lovers have deployed game cameras, custom-made traps and a gun that fires a large net. They’ve consulted an animal psychic, trappers and a wolf tracker. They have enlisted countless locals to post Murphy sightings online and created a phone tree to spread any news about the missing canine. But they haven’t been able to bring Murphy home. “If you say his name, he runs like a jackrabbit,” said Hamel, who lives with Campbell. “He doesn’t know who he is.” Hamel’s wife and grandaughter talked him into getting the animal. “He was the sweetest guy you ever wanted to see. He wanted to please you.” The collision, they figure, rattled the dog: Previously, Murphy was well behaved and always listened to commands. Now, he won’t even respond to his nicknames, “Good Boy” and “Mr. Brown.” A professional dogcatcher confirmed that such post-accident behavior is not unusual. Holly Mokrzecki runs Granite State Dog Recovery, a New Hampshire agency that finds around 600 lost dogs a year. About 75 percent of the cases involve a traumatic event like Murphy’s car wreck. “A lot of dogs will go into what we call survival feral-dog mode. Some of them will resort to that within 15 minutes of getting away from their owners. It’s pretty amazing,” Mokrzecki said. “You’re calling, ‘Buster, Buster,’ and he’s not thinking, That’s my owner; they’re trying to help. There’s something in their

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brain that says, I need to keep moving; this is a predator trying to get me.” In the weeks after the collision, numerous people spotted Murphy, and game cameras captured his image in Stowe and Morrisville. He appeared to be headed toward the family home in the Cady’s Falls area of Morrisville. He stopped in Stowe, where a woman called to report that he’d been on her property. She let Hamel put a box trap out for Murphy, but he never showed up there again, and the woman’s own dog got snagged instead. By January, Murphy seemed to have settled in Waterbury, 30 miles south of the accident. He began making regular appearances outside the home of longtime resident Wilson Ring, who recognized the dog from online postings. Though Ring didn’t know Campbell or Hamel, he immediately contacted them and set to work. Months of near misses followed. “It’s quite a story,” says Ring, who

would know — he is the Vermont correspondent for the Associated Press. Ring put food in the yard to encourage Murphy to make regular visits. Then he let Hamel and others set up traps there. For several days, they left one open with food inside, to get Murphy comfortable around it. When Murphy started making a habit of going inside to get the bait, they set the trap door. But something always went wrong. At first, Murphy was able to avoid activating the trap’s trigger, which would close the door when he stepped on it. On bitter-cold nights, Ring didn’t set the trap, for fear that Murphy would be caught and freeze to death. One night, Ring unset the trap at 11:05 p.m. and went to bed. Cameras showed that Murphy visited at 11:21 p.m. A few nights later, Murphy entered and stepped on the trigger. But the door was frozen and didn’t drop. Not long afterward, Murphy was caught in the trap, but by the time Ring

got there, the dog had gnawed and pawed his way through its wire mesh and run off. “We had him,” Hamel said, “ — for 20 minutes.” Erika Holm, who is a Middlesex animal-control officer, found out about Murphy from Ring’s Facebook page. She donated materials for more sophisticated traps, including one with a magnetized door and a laser sensor. She also bought security cameras to provide coverage of Ring’s yard. One of the cameras sent a live feed to Holm’s cellphone. Over the course of the winter, Murphy made almost nightly appearances in the yard. Sitting at home in Waterbury, Holm would stare at the footage on her phone and try to will Murphy into the trap. “I would sit and watch him not go in,” Holm said. “Very frustrating. Especially on the nights when it was 20 below.” By February, Ring and others were confident they were closing in on Murphy. But he stopped coming around

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eter Diamondstone, the longtime standard-bearer of Vermont’s leftist Liberty Union Party, has always been forthcoming with reporters. But on a recent afternoon, he stumbled when confronted with an obvious inquiry: Has it been difficult for him to watch Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign catch fire? Diamondstone and Sanders were once political equals, close allies in a struggle to spread their brand of socialism in Vermont. It was Diamondstone who, one year after he helped create the party, welcomed Sanders onto the team. The pair used to stay up all night, talking politics and strategizing. But after a bitter falling-out three decades ago, their paths diverged. Sanders quit the Liberty Union Party and, while remaining a “democratic socialist,” went on to support Democratic Party candidates. He rose to become a respected leader in Vermont and is now a presidential contender. Meanwhile, Diamondstone hasn’t budged an inch politically. He has entered every Vermont state election since the early 1970s and never won more than 7 percent of the vote. He is known as much for his antics and unconventional appearance — bushy beard and thick, curly hair — as for his socialist views. As Sanders has been jetting around the country this summer, speaking to adoring crowds, Diamondstone has been recuperating from complications from heart and liver failure. He’s been confined to his Dummerston home since Medicare stopped paying for his stay in a respite facility. Clad in compression socks, he uses a walker to get around. When he looks at his old friend, does Diamondstone ever think, “That could have been me?” Sitting in his living room, the 80-yearold Socialist paused but couldn’t summon a direct answer. He noted that it has been decades since he and Sanders have exchanged a friendly word. “There’s no ‘friends’ there for me,” said Diamondstone. “There’s nothing, from my point of view. He went in a certain direction, and that was the opposite of mine. Sanders and I suffered a hostile divorce. He was moving to the right, and I was moving to the left.” Diamondstone did admit feeling annoyance that Sanders gets credit, in Vermont and nationally, for an unwavering dedication to his beliefs — as the guy

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who has been saying the same thing for years, no matter how unpopular. If that were true, Diamondstone said, Sanders’ career would look an awful lot like … Diamondstone’s. He views Sanders as just another sellout who moderated his image and compromised his beliefs to win elections. “He’s a different political person than he was in the good old days,” Diamondstone said. “It’s changed, big time. It’s two different people.” Diamondstone and a handful of others founded the Liberty Union Party in 1970, at the height of the Vietnam War. They espoused an ideology Diamondstone described as “nonviolent revolutionary socialism.” They stood for free and universal health care and childcare, and government control of resources and wealth; the party officially opposed nuclear power. Sanders joined a year later, and, because of a shortage of candidates, volunteered to run in a special election for U.S. Senate. He won 1 percent of the vote. In all, Sanders ran for office four times under the Liberty Union banner, never winning more than 6 percent of the vote. In the process, he became the party’s spokesman. “He was a genius at that,”

said Diamondstone, who nicknamed Sanders “silver tongue.” “The Liberty Union platform is really borrowed in large part from Sanders. There are things he did for Liberty Union that need to be remembered,” he said. Sanders was tight with Diamondstone and also his wife, Doris Lake. In 1976, Lake ran for Congress and Sanders for governor on the Liberty Union ticket. They often made joint appearances. When it was Sanders’ turn to speak, Lake would keep an eye on his son, Levi. When it was her turn, Sanders would watch the Diamondstone kids. There are four: Aaron, Jessy, Ian and Paula. “There was a real sense of community,” Lake said. Diamondstone and Sanders had a lot in common. Sanders was from Brooklyn; Diamondstone, from Queens. Sanders had enrolled in the University of Chicago just as Diamondstone was graduating, and they both ended up in Vermont. Diamondstone remembered sleepless sleepovers at Sanders’ place. Although they shared an uncompromising leftist ideology, the friends found plenty to debate: capitalism, military

intervention. Diamondstone remembered one extended verbal battle about the minimum voting age. “We were yelling at each other all night,” Diamondstone recalled. “Finally, one would say, ‘We’ve got to go to sleep.’ Five minutes later, we’d go off again, until the sun came up.” In 1977, Sanders left Liberty Union to become an independent — presumably, because he was tired of losing. “It certainly has not gone as far as I wanted it go to, and in that sense it’s a failure,” Sanders said of the party in an Associated Press story at the time. Both his departure and his 1981 election as Burlington’s mayor stung Diamondstone. He felt further betrayed when Sanders began endorsing Democratic candidates for president. Still devoted to the party’s initial goals of a socialist revolution, Diamondstone stayed behind with Liberty Union and immediately engaged in a new battle: giving Sanders what Diamondstone called a “shitload” of grief at every opportunity. In 1984, when Sanders campaigned for Walter Mondale, Diamondstone drafted anti-Sanders fliers, mocking him as a sellout. He hand delivered one to

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sheriff ’s deputies escorted him from the who wore a large hat and warned that stage, he continued to protest and was the state would get sued for not having charged with disorderly conduct. enough bathrooms on the highways, and While he can be abrasive to politicians Emily Peyton, who suggested funneling who disagree with him, Diamondstone health care funds to “healers.” became a nurturing leader of the Liberty Diamondstone contributed: “We Union party after Sanders left, according have to overturn what is destroying our to longtime party member Jerry Levy. society and our environment, which is “Peter basically has capitalism, represented, kept the party alive I guess, by this bottle of all these years,” Levy water on my table here.” said. “He’s a kind of Some reports mocked conscience of the left him for wearing shorts in Vermont. Sticking to to the debate. No one rehis style … of course he vealed — because no one sacrificed a type of conasked, Diamondstone ventional success that said — that he was there politicians strive for, against the advice of and he may have some his wife and doctor. As doubts about what he’s a result of recent heart done.” and kidney problems, Though he is usuDiamondstone had painPE T E R D I AM ON D S T ON E ally a clear, consistent ful leg sores that made it spokesman for his difficult to stand and unparty’s platform, Diamondstone is often comfortable to wear pants. Racked with dismissed by the media as a “perennial pain, he had lain across the backseat candidate.” In a mention in his memoir, while his wife drove him to the debate. former U.S. senator Jim Jeffords, whom “He was a very sick man, but he went Diamondstone challenged in several out there anyway,” Levy said. “He basielections, called him “colorful.” cally risked his life by being as active Last year, Diamondstone participated as he was. In his own way, he is a very in a Vermont PBS gubernatorial debate dedicated, conscientious politician.” the national media described as “insane,” Days after the election, in which “bizarre,” and featuring the “kookiest he won 0.9 percent of the vote, loons ever on stage.” The inclusive debate Diamondstone collapsed and had to allowed all seven candidates on the ballot be rushed to the hospital. He returned to participate, including Cris Ericson, home in April, weeks before Sanders

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stood on Burlington’s waterfront and told the country he was running for president. Diamondstone won’t be voting for him. “He’s carrying the message and raising issues that nobody raises, and that’s all right,” Diamondstone said of Sanders. “I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if he became the candidate. He’s talking to the people. But it’s not a message of socialism. People call him that. You can’t be socialist and talk about rebuilding the middle class. Socialists want to destroy all the classes.” The success of the Sanders campaign has brought a few national reporters to Diamondstone’s doorstep. He’s been happy to talk to Politico, Mother Jones and the Washington Post. He’s also willing to revisit questions left unanswered. After an afternoon of conversation, Diamondstone returned to those queries that had stumped him earlier: Did he regret his choice to remain a political outsider? Was he envious of Sanders? “Maybe there’s some of that in me,” Diamondstone said. “I have to recognize it, because it could have been me, if I changed my views in order to get more votes. I watched that happen to Sanders, and I hated that in him, and I would hate it in myself if it was me.” Contact: mark@sevendaysvt.com, 865-1020, ext 23, or @Davis7D

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Sanders at a Mondale campaign event in Bennington. “It said, ‘Sanders Is a Quisling.’ That’s about the worst insult you can give to someone who calls himself a socialist. Boy, was he pissed,” Diamondstone said. Sanders spokesman Michael Briggs did not respond to requests for comment on this story. Diamondstone, who worked as an attorney, landlord and newspaper delivery driver at various times in his life, soldiered on with the Liberty Union Party’s mission. He’s averaged 2 percent in his many bids for U.S. Senate, Congress, governor and attorney general. Diamondstone has run against Sanders eight times, labeling him a “war criminal” for supporting military spending and other perceived offenses. In contrast to Sanders, Diamondstone said winning isn’t the point. “Do I look at it from the point of view of measuring results — that is, votes?” Diamondstone asked himself. “You know, I’m a happy guy. It didn’t ever dawn on me to change. It’s not enough to get votes.” In 2006, while running for a U.S. Senate seat against Sanders and Republican Rich Tarrant, Diamondstone relentlessly attacked Sanders during a debate at Vermont Law School and called two students in the audience “shits” for seeming to direct more questions at Sanders and Tarrant than at himself. Diamondstone refused to stop talking when his allotted time was up. After

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Burlington entrepreneur created the ad-free social media site Ello that exploded in popularity last fall. Two Middlebury College grads designed IrisVR, virtual reality software geared toward engineers and architects. And a pair of Green Mountain College graduates opened Blu-Bin, one of the first commercial 3D printing shops. Officials have held up these companies as proof that Vermont, despite its small population and spotty internet, can give rise to high-tech startups. But can it keep them? Earlier this year, IrisVR relocated to New York City. Last month, Blu-Bin packed up for Silicon Valley. And Ello has just two employees still working in the Queen City — the rest are in Colorado. The companies left in search of bigger markets, more networking and greater employee satisfaction. Ello had startup stardom written all over it. In a matter of weeks, the company went from a niche platform favored by artists to a national phenomenon — prompted by a mass migration of LGBTQ users who left Facebook because the site required them to provide their real names.

Paul Budnitz, who previously founded Budnitz Bicycles and the toy company Kidrobot, started Ello at the Karma Birdhouse, a coworking space in Burlington. Although it was cofounded with six people in Colorado and has always had workers in the Rocky Mountain State, the company capitalized on its Vermont origins. Comparing Ello’s ad-free policy to Vermont’s billboard ban, Budnitz told the online news site VTDigger.org: “We’re aiming to be the Vermont of the internet.” At the height of hype last fall, the Berkeley-born Budnitz, who splits his time between New York and Vermont, also predicted he’d hire dozens more Vermonters. Months later, only Budnitz and his personal assistant are working in the Green Mountain branch, amid steel and titanium bicycles at the Pine Street rooftop office of Budnitz Bicycles. In an email, Budnitz explained that Ello’s Vermont contingent dwindled when two employees asked to relocate to Colorado and a few others moved elsewhere for their spouses’ jobs. His updated prognosis for Ello’s future: “It’s most likely that the company will continue to grow mostly in [Colorado], just because there are more people there,

but you never know. Some of the employees in Colorado are actually talking about coming out here for extended periods … I’m personally committed to Vermont and won’t move. If it makes sense to grow more here in the future, that’ll happen!” During his budget address last January, Gov. Peter Shumlin declared that “the spirit of innovation is alive and well all around our state.” Calling particular attention to a “new wave of high-tech startups,” the governor name-dropped both Ello and IrisVR as evidence. That same month, the young founders of IrisVR secured a coveted spot in New York’s Techstars accelerator program, which nurtures startups — the equivalent of getting accepted at Harvard, according to Vermont venture capitalist Cairn Cross of Shelburne-based FreshTracks Capital. The Midd kids started to split their time between a Times Square office and their Karma Birdhouse headquarters. At the end of the Techstars program, they opted to stay in New York. Cofounder Nate Beatty, a fast-talking physics major, explained that they wanted to stay close to the network of investors and mentors they’d cultivated at Techstars. Also, New York is home to a large number of acclaimed architecture and

design firms — potential IrisVR clients. “It’s cool to be able to walk across the street into some of the biggest architectural firms in the world and say, ‘OK, how are we going to help you visualize your next project?’” said Beatty. The company had previously struggled to lure employees to Vermont, Beatty said. “We were like, ‘Hey, do you want to come up to Burlington?’ And they were like, ‘No.’” Another factor in their decision to move: money. Beatty and cofounder Shane Scranton began their business at the Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies’ incubator space in Middlebury. Last year, they won the annual LaunchVT competition, which pairs startups with mentors and ultimately awards the winning company a cash prize. The $25,000 check that the founders took home, along with $45,000 of in-kind benefits, helped jump-start the software company, but it pales in comparison to the $1.6 million round of seed-funding that IrisVR recently finished in New York. “The market for capital in Vermont couldn’t sustain the business that we wanted to grow,” Beatty said. Vermont has few sources of venture capital other than FreshTracks Capital, which participated in IrisVR’s latest round of funding. Blu-Bin cofounder Alder (formerly known as Dan) Riley said he, too, struggled to find angel investors while in Vermont. And those who did show interest insisted that such an enterprise should be in a bigger market, Riley said. “Their conditions were always, ‘You have to move the company out of Vermont.’” Riley and cofounder Dave Newlands first moved their 3D printing business from Poultney to Burlington, where they started churning out objects in a shop on Church Street and at a kiosk in the Burlington Town Center mall. More recently, they reluctantly moved to Silicon Valley and last Friday opened a kiosk in San Jose’s Great Mall, which attracts 21 million people annually, Riley said. Investors are already knocking on their door. “You gotta go where the market is, and it’s simply not in Vermont,” he said. People steeped in Vermont’s startup scene warn against reading too much into these departures. In an industry known for its optimism, their upbeat assessments aren’t exactly surprising. “We’re gonna win some and lose some,” said David Bradbury, president and CEO of VCET, a nonprofit that operates three coworking spaces and provides seed funding for startups. Bradbury noted that VCET has small ownership stakes in Ello and IrisVR.

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pointed out that entrepreneurs often migrate to even more expensive cities. While it’s easy to work remotely, location still matters. Starting a business in a place where a critical mass of other people are starting — or funding — new ventures brings significant benefits. Marguerite Dibble of Starksboro, who created Gametheory before she graduated Champlain College, said she had to adjust her business model in order to stay here. “In Vermont, we have people who focus on quality of life above career opportunities,” she said, noting, “I’m sure we would have more clients if I was in New York or Austin or Boulder.” Dibble is committed to staying put, but she doesn’t expect all of her employees to stick around; one recently moved to Boulder because his partner got a better job there. George Schildge, founder and CEO of Matrix Marketing Group and selfdescribed serial entrepreneur, splits his time between Vermont and Colorado. Here, he started a local chapter of the national group Startup Grind, which organizes gatherings for entrepreneurs. Schildge said young Vermonters frequently tell him, “I don’t see this as a vibrant startup community.” He’s confident Burlington can become one, but, listing several accelerator programs in Boulder, he suggested that the Queen City is behind the curve. He did, however, dismiss complaints about the dearth of investors. “That is a rookie, immature thing that I hear all the time,” he said. Noting that he personally can put people in touch with investors around the country, he said his response to this lament is, “How much do you need?” Cross’ response to the alleged shortage of investors? Places with more capital also have stiffer competition. Bradbury noted that an increasing amount of venture capital is available in Vermont — as the employees of maturing companies such as Dealer.com and Keurig Green Mountain seek investment opportunities. Of course, the state could use more, Bradley noted: “If I could just wave my hand and see something appear here, it would be a funder that could invest $1 million or $3 million a year in early-stage deals.” While substantial early funding didn’t come soon enough for IrisVR or Blu-Bin, their founders remain optimistic about Vermont: Riley wants to reopen Blu-Bin shops in the state once the company is better established. IrisVR’s Beatty said, “Hopefully, someday we’ll open up a satellite office in Burlington, and then I can move back.” m

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Eager to turn to good news, he began describing thriving startups that have so far stayed put — Faraday, a data visualization company for marketers, and Cloudfarm, which is developing software to design gardens. Bradbury also noted that Budnitz has expanded his luxury bicycle company. And he rattled off new initiatives that are nurturing startups, such as Castleton University’s entrepreneurship program in Rutland, the business incubator at Burlington’s Generator and several business-pitch competitions. One initiative — FreshTracks Capital’s annual Road Pitch, during which motorcyclists tour the state “in search of the best and brightest entrepreneurs” — takes place next month. Like Bradbury, Cross, who is a partner at the firm, isn’t too concerned about an exodus of entrepreneurs. “It’s possible for companies to be more virtual than they have in the past, and it’s possible for them to have teams spread across the country or the world, and I think that actually bodes well for Vermont,” Cross said, citing the state’s “quality of life” advantages — craft beer, ski mountains and more. Which isn’t to say the state should take a laissez-faire approach, Cross clarified. Describing Vermont officials’ attitudes toward economic development as “a bit outdated,” he argued that the state should care more about nurturing startups than wooing already-established companies, which he described as “like hunting whales in an open boat with a harpoon … Meanwhile there are all these fish around that you could hook.” But even the entrepreneurs who’ve been hooked say it’s hard to make it work. “It is a challenge,” said Aaron Pollak, cofounder of Designbook and a Vermont native. “We struggled through it because we wanted to be in Vermont.” Sitting at a rustic wood desk overlooking Church Street, Pollak explained that his company, which provides an online platform for startups to connect with investors and other resources, was founded in part to “start to break down geographic barriers” and “democratize the access to capital.” But Pollak says he’ll still need to hire employees in cities like Austin, Texas, to recruit customers and act as “brand ambassadors.” He described the “overall cost of doing business” in Vermont as another hurdle, but he acknowledged that some of the common complaints heard from established businesses are less of an issue for startups. High taxes, for instance, are unlikely to stymie a startup that isn’t making any money yet. Others mentioned the high cost of living as an obstacle, but Pollak

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Kaigle, as her mixed-breed dog Caesar acknowledged occasional problems. A — heritage unknown — played with few years back, a German shepherd bit Gipson’s silky black lab mix, Cody. “Dogs her on the elbow without warning. “I need room to run,” Kaigle said. went, ‘Aren’t you a pretty dog?’ and he Sometimes the dogs bark in the park, attacked me,” she said. Gipson’s winter but dogs bark in backyards, too, and jacket helped protect her, and while that’s generally accepted, Kaigle added. painful, the bite was not serious. “It was “That’s OK … But here in the park — an isolated incident,” Gipson said. then it’s a problem?” As the two neighshe asked rhetorically. bors spoke, about 20 Similarly, she readogs romped in the soned, if people talk at park. Some wrestled the park, that’s a good and rolled, but none thing — social connecfought and few tions are important. yapped. The birds in “You just meet people the trees around the you might not meet park were making otherwise,” she said. more noise than the Much like parents dogs. The grassy who bond at a playgrounds of the spaground, dog people cious park were clean bond at the park. They — no visible piles to L ee B row n share doggie biscuits avoid — and all of the and swap training dog owners appeared strategies for rambunctious puppies to be cleaning up after their animals as just learning to sit, come and stay. They required. cluck in gentle disapproval when their Volunteers, including Kaigle, lock pups ignore commands and rein in the fence gates at night and open them Rover when he gets too rough. in the morning, she said. They also help Just as parents expect other parents provide amenities — the wading pools to remove tantrum-throwing children pups splash in next to the hose, water from the playground, dog park regulars bowls and hand-painted signs declaring: expect owners to take difficult dogs “A Tired Dog Is A Good Dog” and “Run away. Free.” Most people get it. Even so, Gipson Many dog owners say their pets are

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abs, spaniels and mutts trotted about freely last Thursday evening at Burlington’s Starr Farm Dog Park as their owners chatted amiably and admired the sunset over Lake Champlain. The canine crowd was in dog heaven. But not everyone views this place as paradise. The off-leash dog park in the New North End, now 15 years old and a regular recipient of good reviews on Yelp, has gotten too popular, according to some neighbors. “People go over there, and they hang ’round in the middle of the park and chitchat while their dogs run rampant,” said Lee Brown, who lives across from the park on Curtis Avenue. “It’s a free-for-all.” Barking resonates from early morning until dark, and at busy times, the small lot next to the park fills up and visitors park in the neighborhood, according to Brown. The problem is not just dogs, he added: “It’s a hangout at night, late at night. There’s cars parked in there at 10:30, 11 o’clock. Who knows what they are doing?” Critics want to shrink the two-acre space and limit its hours, which now run officially from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. or dusk, whichever comes first. They also want people who don’t live in Burlington to pay a fee to use the fenced-in space, which is next to the Burlington Bike Path, near suburbanstyle streets and historic summer camps on the old Flynn estate. It’s not that he dislikes man’s best friend, Brown insisted: “I have two dogs. It’s the noise and the traffic, and it’s free and it shouldn’t be free.” Regulars who use the park and appreciate it — including people who, like Brown, live on Curtis Avenue — disagree sharply with his version of what goes down at the canine gathering place. They were dismayed to learn from a reporter that proposed changes to the park are on the Burlington Parks Commission agenda. The proposals are preliminary, and nothing will be decided at the group’s next meeting on August 4. Still, dog-park enthusiasts, including Curtis Avenue residents Carolyn Gipson and Debra Kaigle, were alarmed to hear that one of their favorite amenities could be downsized. “I think the space is great,” said

happier and less neurotic when they have the freedom to exercise without a leash attached. Apartment dwellers with no yards and people who want to socialize their dogs also advocated for an off-leash park. When it opened in 2000, Starr Farm was one of the first in Chittenden County. Today, Burlington is a dog-friendly place. Numerous hotels allow canines to accompany their owners. Office workers come off elevators coddling tiny dogs like infants. It’s not uncommon to see dogs with people in line at the bank or licking their own cones at a creemee stand. In response to demand, more dog parks have opened. South Burlington has a park on Kirby Road, and Shelburne dogs congregate off Harbor Road. Burlington has a second dog park on the waterfront. Winooski residents started a Facebook page to successfully petition for the city’s first dog park. It’s tentatively scheduled to open on West Allen Street in September. A third dog park could open in Burlington soon, at Oakledge Park in the city’s South End. Jesse Bridges, Burlington parks and recreation director, said a study is under way to see if there might be a suitable space there. The parks don’t cause a lot of problems, according to officials, aside from occasional reports of aggressive dog behavior. Hours tend to be similar to Starr Farm’s. In Shelburne, $1 from each cat or dog license helps maintain the dog park, and volunteers raise additional funds by producing a calendar with glossy photos of local dogs. Winooski has budgeted up to $35,000 to create its new dog park. After one homeowner worried about noise, the city agreed to move it farther from the home and to put in a landscaping buffer, according to Winooski community services director Ray Coffey. Otherwise, the response to the park has been overwhelmingly positive, Coffey added. In Burlington, only a few have complained about noise at the Urban Reserve Off Leash Dog Park, which, at the northern end of the downtown waterfront, doesn’t directly impact residents. Starr Farm Park, in contrast, is surrounded by homes, and some of the occupants are fed up, according to Burlington City Councilor Dave Hartnett. The North District independent has been

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lobbying the Weinberger administration to address the situation. “The park’s not going anywhere; it’s very popular,” Hartnett said. “I don’t see it being moved; I don’t see it closing. But that being said, we certainly have to make some changes if it is going to stay.” Making it smaller would mean less maintenance and perhaps fewer dogs and reduced noise, he suggested. Hartnett is also interested in a fee system. While he and Bridges agree that it would be financially impractical to pay an attendant to monitor the park, they’re considering a tag system that would tie in to the city’s dog-licensing program. Bridges suggested that Burlington residents might get the park tag for free with a dog license, while nonresidents would have to pay a fee for a park tag. Enforcement could boost licensing among the many scofflaw dogs in Burlington. Plenty of canine lovers from Colchester are also using Starr Farm. Hartnett said he’d like to see Vermont’s fourth most populous municipality “step up” and establish its own off-leash dog park. Colchester leaders say they would welcome a dog park — if volunteers materialize to help organize and maintain it. “What I’d like to have is a unified group of folks that would move it forward,” said Glen Cuttitta, Colchester parks and recreation director. Cuttitta pointed out, however, that under municipal rules, dogs are already allowed to run off-leash in Colchester parks, as long as they’re under the owner’s verbal control. And Colchester residents who are regulars at Starr Farm Dog Park

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campaign. “[Gov.] Peter Shumlin got elected sounding a lot like Bernie Sanders. He tried to talk the talk, but he didn’t follow through.” Initially a Workers’ Center volunteer, Haslam became the organization’s sole employee and has since built it into a nonprofit with $669,000 in annual revenue and a staff of organizers. The Burlington-based group has advocated for a variety of causes over the years, including workers’ rights, immigration reform, higher wages and paid sick leave. In January, Workers’ Center volunteers interrupted Shumlin’s third inauguration by unfurling banners in the House chamber, singing and chanting, and staging a sit-in. Lawmakers largely criticized the action, and the organization kept a lower profile for the rest of the legislative session.

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State regulators dealt a blow to a Connecticut developer’s plans for a massive commercial and residential project off Interstate 89 in Randolph. Last week, the District 3 Environmental Commission asked Jesse “Sam” Sammis to scale back a project in order to protect several open fields where he proposed to build apartments and other structures. Sammis wants to transform 178 acres of open land around Exit 4 into a development of 274 homes, a 180-room hotel and conference center, more than 500,000 square feet of office and light industrial space, a 10,000-squarefoot fitness center, and an interstate rest stop with an attached retail outlet. “At present, the commission is not persuaded that the project as designed is compact enough to satisfy [land-use regulations],” commission chair Tim Taylor wrote. “We invite the applicant to present a new plan showing a more compact design.” Sammis’ attorney, Pete Van Oot, told the Valley News the commission’s response was “constructive feedback” and that he’ll file a written response. The next hearing is scheduled for August 17. While the Randolph business community and local government have backed the project, which Sammis calls the Green Mountain Center, a group of residents has called it disproportionate for the community of 4,800 people.

Contaminated Dirt Will Stay Stockpiled in Leddy Park — for Now A massive pile of dirt in the parking lot at Burlington’s Leddy Park will stay put a while longer. The contaminated soil in Leddy’s parking lot was excavated from the city’s waterfront last fall as part of the first phase of the Burlington Bike Path reconstruction. The city has a goal, though, for its disposal: All 2,500 cubic yards of dirt should be gone by winter, said Burlington parks and rec director Jesse Bridges. “It’s not marooned,” he insisted. City councilors Dave Hartnett (I-North District) and Kurt Wright (R-Ward 4) met with Bridges recently to press for a removal date. Bridges said more tests must be conducted on the dirt, and then he needs permission from environmental authorities to get rid of it. The dirt is contaminated but not hazardous, Bridges said. That distinction is not comforting to the public, Hartnett responded. “Would you want your kids playing in a park that maybe doesn’t have hazardous materials, but it’s got contaminated materials?”

The soil, from the area between Perkins Pier and Penny Lane, was tested as it was being removed to rebuild the bike path. It contained traces of lead, arsenic and PCBs. “We did find the conditions in the field as we were working and responded to them,” Bridges said, adding that the city is keeping public health in mind. It could be an expensive problem. If environmental regulators agree, the city might have to send the dirt to a landfill. This would cost $300,000 or more, and wasn’t part of the roughly $700,000 construction budget for the bike path project, Bridges said, noting he’s looking into less expensive solutions. The situation could affect plans for additional reconstruction of the bike path, Bridges added. If the soil along the next stretch is contaminated, he said, “It could make the project substantially more expensive.”

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imes have received a tough sentence in the court of public opinion. Though professional mimes study for years to hone their ancient and specialized craft, they’re often still the butt of jokes about locked boxes and stiff wind storms. The fact that they can’t (or don’t) speak up in their own defense doesn’t help their case. Montpelier’s Rob Mermin, founder of Circus Smirkus and a mime of renown, aims to alter that perception in a handful of solo shows scheduled for Marshfield’s Unadilla Theatre in August. In Adventures in Mime & Space: The Legacy of Marcel Marceau, Mermin combines theater, film and something like a PowerPoint presentation to celebrate the career and art of the great French mime. Similarly structured are Circle of Sawdust: The Mud, Myth, Magic and Mayhem of Circus!, and Silents Are Golden: A Celebration of Silent Film. As Unadilla’s 2015 artist-in-residence, Mermin will also host a free Monday-night silent-film series. Mermin studied with Marceau at the latter’s Paris studio and remained a close friend until Marceau’s death in 2007 at age 84. The American mime created Adventures in Mime & Space as a tribute to his late mentor. “I’m just afraid that his name and his legacy have been forgotten now,” Mermin says. “I’m on a mission to promote the art of mime and Marceau’s legacy.” “When I was young,” he continues, “training with Marceau really altered my life. He gave me a sense of perspective on the world, a different perspective. He used to describe the art of mime as ‘the identification with the essence of all things that surround us in nature, and the portrayal of human thoughts and motions through silent physical expression.’” That’s a far more thoughtful approach to the art than we might expect from the average street busker. The other two shows in Mermin’s ambitious triptych explore further facets of their creator’s career. Both Circle of Sawdust and Silents Are Golden delve into art forms that define and are dear to Mermin. He says he worries that, just as mime is generally misunderstood, so are silent film and the circus arts. In fact, Mermin fears those art forms are in danger of extinction. Though all three shows are explicitly personal, that timeliness also makes them political. Mermin developed his trio of presentations in the past six years. In Circle of Sawdust, he uses his own unusual autobiography as a framework for exploring the world of the European traveling circus in the 1960s and ’70s.

Marcel Marceau (left) and Rob Mermin in 1999

At the age of 19, Mermin literally ran as creative adviser and “ambassador” for away from home to join just such a circus. that touring youth troupe, but he ended his “I wanted to find an unconventional life- formal affiliation with it about a decade ago. style of renewable adventure,” he explains. Mermin’s artist residency at Unadilla Silents Are Golden is Mermin’s tribute this summer grew out of a successful to the stars and films of the pre-talkie era single performance he staged there last — films that, he believes, are insufficiently year. As theater founder Bill Blachly puts understood and celebrated it, Mermin is “both amusing by modern audiences. It’s and a very humble sort of easy to understand a mime’s man. I thought this [threeaffinity for their performers, show arrangement] might who had to tell stories and be a good thing for us to do.” jokes without the benefit of Blachly expresses admiration spoken dialogue. In his show, for the unusual format of Mermin says, “I focus on Mermin’s shows, which comhow the performing style bine lecture, autobiography developed from very grandiand performance. ose, theatrical, exaggerated These celebrations of the gestures into a very refined, joys of Mermin’s favorite realistic style of silent acting art forms have taken on an as the ’20s developed.” unexpectedly poignant tone. R o b M erm i n Mermin realizes that the Six months ago, Mermin was packaging of his three shows diagnosed with Parkinson’s makes them look like a career summary disease, a degenerative condition that — and that’s true in part. Now 65, he’s con- compromises motor control. The irony is textualizing and taking stock of his achieve- not lost on a man who has made his living ments. “I see [these three shows] as a mis- using movement to communicate with and sion to promote the forgotten art forms that delight others. have made up my career,” Mermin says. Still in the earliest stages of the disease, Perhaps best known to Vermonters for Mermin shows no outward symptoms; he creating Circus Smirkus, Mermin still acts sits, stands, walks and gestures without

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observable complications. Though he says he’s aware of a slight restriction on his movements, he does not expect the condition to adversely affect his upcoming performances. And now, he adds, he is even more conscious of every move he makes. “I’m still at the stage where I’m very curious and fascinated by these Parkinson’s symptoms, because it’s like doing mime all day long!” he says. “Onstage, you have to be very aware of your movements, and very controlled.” Mermin is optimistic that his movement training will serve him well as the disease progresses. Though no cure yet exists, a number of studies suggest that physical exercise can mitigate Parkinson’s symptoms, as can programs of highly controlled movements such as tai chi. Mermin, who has taught mime and circus classes for decades, envisions adapting his skills to teach such classes specifically for Parkinson’s sufferers. “All the physical therapists and neurologists say that you want to keep moving both sides of the body in balance,” he says. “Well, even doing something like juggling requires using both hands equally and being conscious and balanced on both sides of the body.” Mime-in-Chief

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For example, videos show visitors how an apple looked traveling down the throat of an Apatosaurus and why a Tyrannosaurus rex would lose to an ostrich in a footrace. Below a screen displaying an animation of an Apatosaurus’ neck musculature, viewers can get a more tactile experience by fitting two rubbery “neck bones” together. Museum director aDaM kane says his favorite part of the exhibit is “the diorama that shows the feathered dinosaurs,

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because it relates so well to the museum” — referring, no doubt, to the thousands of stuffed birds on display. While the Fairbanks is known for its permanent exhibitions of animal life and, of course, its planetarium, the touring exhibit provides a fresh perspective and gives its visitor traffic a significant boost. “We want to give people a reason to come back,” Kane says. “We’re constantly upgrading [our] permanent exhibits, but many times that can go unnoticed. Whereas, if you can bring in a traveling exhibit, you can give folks something to come in and see, and then they get to appreciate the rest of the museum.” The first four days of the dinosaur exhibit brought a 75 percent increase in gate and store sales over comparable dates last year, Kane reveals. “We were doing some high fives in the office,” he says. The Fairbanks is journeying to the past with “Dinosaur Discoveries,” but administrators’ eyes are on the future — and the community. At the entrance to the museum, a series of panels by Norwich illustrator DaviD Macaulay (author of The Way Things Work) addresses extinction on the local level.

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or the first time in 20 years, the Fairbanks MuseuM & PlanetariuM in St. Johnsbury is hosting a traveling exhibit. “Dinosaur Discoveries: Ancient Fossils, New Ideas,” organized by the American Museum of Natural History in New York, aims to give viewers an idea of what living, breathing dinosaurs were like. Part of the Fairbanks’ yearlong focus on extinction, the exhibit opened this month and will remain on view into December. “Dinosaur Discoveries” covers four themes. The first section explores musculature and how dinosaurs moved, while the second recaps important scientific discoveries using a diorama of the 130-million-year-old Liaoning Forest. The third focuses on new interpretations of dinosaur behavior, detailing the possible functions of unusual crests and frills. And the final section reviews theories of mass extinction precipitated by an asteroid, volcanic activity or massive climate change. Those divisions aren’t entirely clear from the displays crammed between cases of meticulously preserved birds and beasts in the Fairbanks’ permanent collections. It’s a wonder the museum was able to fit the roughly 2,000-square-foot exhibit into its gallery hall at all — the massive

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Arts EducAtion designed with another resident artist, sculptor and painter GoWri savoor. Gambill and Booth later rechristened their effort Community Engagement Lab to free it from an emphasis on orchestras. Until recently, Gambill, who moved to Vermont from Nashville, Tenn., in 2011, conducted the montPelier Chamber orChestra and the ChamPlain PhilharmoniC. He left both jobs to concentrate on CEL full time. That’s because CEL’s new program, launched in collaboration with St. Johnsbury’s Catamount arts and called the vermont Creative sChools initiative, is on a much larger scale. Eventually intended to go statewide, the arts integration initiative

will take form this year in five Vermont counties. Twenty-three high school teachers from seven schools will work with five teaching artists. VCSI will also last longer than previous CEL projects: from a fiveday planning intensive in early August until the end of the school year, when schools will launch their culminating shows and events. “It’s a big project, and it’s got a lot of legs,” says Gambill. “The end goal is to infuse creative learning into the core curriculum.” If ordinary folks don’t normally keep up with art projects in the schools, this one merits widespread attention for two reasons. The first is that this year’s resident artist is the internationally famous Evelyn Glennie. The Scottish-born musician is a jaw-dropping solo percussionist, a teaching artist and a motivational speaker who travels the world showing people how to listen. She also has profound, though not

total, hearing loss. While Glennie prefers not to draw attention to that condition, it’s integral to understanding how she arrived at her life’s focus. Her TED Talk on YouTube, which has been viewed more than 3 million times, offers a taste of her modus operandi. Glennie will give a public performance talk at Saint Michael’s College on August 4. Her appearance is part of the planning intensive for the teachers and their teaching artists, who will draw up plans on how to incorporate Glennie’s approach into their various subject areas. In April, Glennie will return to Vermont for four performances with full orchestra. Savoor, who grew up in the United Kingdom and is one of VCSI’s five teaching artists this year, is thrilled at the prospect. “I’ve been a fan of Evelyn Glennie my whole life; I grew up seeing her on TV and hearing her radio interviews,” she says. “In the UK and Europe, she is beloved. To work with Dame Evelyn Glennie directly

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hat happens when schools and communities collaborate on art projects? Usually, it’s a one-off event: Artists, orchestras or other community arts groups visit the local school to introduce students to their specialty through a performance or workshop. Then they leave. That works to a point, according to Paul Gambill of Montpelier. But the former orchestra conductor is convinced that a more sustained model — one that involves students in the process of creation — can help foster connections between schools and their communities. That’s the aim of the Community enGaGement lab. Gambill and Eric Booth, a New York-based arts consultant who facilitates educational art projects around the world, colaunched the nonprofit two years ago as the Orchestra Engagement Lab. During those first two years, the Lab engaged Montpelier and Randolph schools in orchestra-centered projects that had a lot of moving parts. Last year’s project, for example, called “My Hometown: A Celebration of Place,” culminated this past April with the performance of several pieces by a communitysourced orchestra and chorus. One work was collaboratively composed by resident composer and cellist evan Premo and seventh and eighth graders at Main Street Middle School in Montpelier. The work set to music poems that the students had composed on the themes of poverty and income inequality in their hometown. It was performed in front of sets the students

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Booth has an unusually comprehensive perspective on the national picture. A kind of teacher of teaching artists, he has developed arts-learning programs at the Juilliard School, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and a host of other institutions. In May, he won Americans for the Arts’ 2015 Arts Education Award, the most prestigious prize in U.S. arts education. Booth predicts that CEL may eventually attract national funding. For now, the nonprofit is funded by a $50,000 grant from Jane’s Trust (named for the late Boston-based Dow Jones heiress Jane B. Cook), $20,000 from the Vermont Community Foundation, private donors and other sources. As with all education-related initiatives, the success of that investment will be monitored — particularly as VCSI proposes to fulfill last year’s mandates from the Vermont legislature on “education quality standards.” But, assessments aside, Booth says the best indicators of success will be less quantifiable — indeed, more artsy. What really matters, he says, is whether the “quality of the students’ attention has been sharpened” and whether the program develops a “really authentic connection between the community and the school.” m

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estimated rate of transgender people in the population is the same as in most other countries, roughly 0.3 percent. Even outside the sex industry, transgender women in Thailand may be more socially integrated than their peers elsewhere in the world — in one study of 200 trans women there, the subjects were found on average to be better educated and more affluent than the country as a whole. And contrary to the suspicions of some, every participant in the study identified as female or transgender; none were men dressing up as women solely in order to attract tourist cash. But, thanks in large part to the sex trade, Thai trans women have become a more visible part of the cultural landscape than their counterparts in the U.S. and most other countries. So what gives? Much of it, it turns out, is probably Buddhism. The religion was adopted in Thailand by way of India about 800 years ago, and 95 percent of Thais now identify as Buddhist. Traditional Buddhists were never exactly sold on the whole sex idea in general. Reaching nirvana means achieving the

Of course, this doesn’t exactly constitute a CaitlynJenner-on-the-cover-ofVanity Fair level of public acceptance — no one’s claiming that Thailand is a perfect role model for the equal-rights movement. But compared to Christianity’s effects in the West, Buddhism has helped create a society that’s probably more accepting of divergence from traditional orientation and gender norms; Jackson describes Thai gay and trans subcultures that are notably vibrant, if idiosyncratic. The sex-industry part of the story is much simpler. When American troops fought in the Vietnam War, roughly 700,000 of them passed at some point through Thailand, the U.S. military’s official rest-andrelaxation area. Their spending in restaurants, bars and brothels exceeded 40 percent of Thailand’s export earnings, all happily paid for by the American government, and produced a proliferation of sexbased businesses. See also: the Philippines while the U.S. had bases there, and Korea during the Korean War and since. To complete the equation, transgender populations all

over the world are much more heavily involved in prostitution than the population at large, because thus far no society is so accepting of transness that it’s simple for a publicly transgender person to find other employment. Here in the U.S., the National Trans Discrimination Survey reported in 2011 that 26 percent of transgender people had lost their jobs due to gender identity/expression and 11 percent had done sex work for income. With Thailand’s high-profile sex trade, these trends stand out all the more. As for that Ping-Pong-ball trick, let’s just say the physics behind it is pretty simple. The rest I’ll leave to your imagination and/or your Google search history.

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ick sexier topics,” the Straight Dope staffers are always complaining. “Stop writing about the environment, and give us something hashtaggable.” Well, here you go: a column on possibly the most notorious sex industry in the world. But the joke’s on them, because half of this is going to be about Buddhism and the other half about the foreign-economy-warping might of American military power. Still: sex, religion and guns — what’s more compelling to the American demographic than that? To start with the possibly obvious, the Thai sex trade is booming: It’s estimated that there are some 200,000 prostitutes in the country, and the industry produces $2.5 billion to $4 billion each year, or around 1 percent of GDP. (A comparable percentage in the U.S. comes from “arts, entertainment and recreation” — which I suppose might cover some of the same things.) Kathoey — Thai slang for transgender women; the English term “ladyboy” is widely considered pretty offensive — are often the most visible part of the industry, even if the

absence of all desire, and sticking anything into pretty much any bodily orifice amounts to spiritual defeat for a monk, “even if only the width of a sesame seed.” (Not an optimistic bunch, these guys.) It wasn’t for lack of thinking about it: The Buddhist code of monastic conduct called the Vinaya lists 27 categories of people, creatures and objects that one shouldn’t have sex with, including men, women, dead women whose flesh has or hasn’t been eaten away by animals, female monkeys, wooden dolls ... you get the picture. Amid this overall disdain for getting off, heterosexual sex and homosexual sex were viewed as (at least for monks) equally sinful. Transgenderism is also surprisingly well-defined in Buddhist scripture and is described in great detail in several stories. The historian Peter Jackson has argued that preexisting Thai notions of gender interacted with Buddhist thought in a way that uniquely conflated gayness with transness; for many years gay men were simply understood as having women’s desires and were often referred to as kathoey, too. But while same-sex inclinations were long thought in Thai Buddhism to be sinful, they were also thought to be congenital — meaning that they couldn’t be changed during a person’s lifetime and therefore had to be accepted.

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n a quiet little building on Shelburne Road, Qi Veterinary Clinic is taking a different approach to animal care. Dr. Nate Heilman opened Qi with his wife, Therese Fafard, in September 2007, after noticing a need for holistic preventive health care for pets in the Burlington area, he says. Heilman and his staff use a combination of diagnostic acupuncture, herbal medicine, Dr. Nate Heilman pharmaceuticals and diet to address bodily “imbalSouth Burlington ances” and put animals back on the path to a healthy, Co-owner, Qi happy life. At Veterinary Clinic their full-service primary-care facility, they work with dogs, cats and other household animals — including chickens. According to Heilman, Qi and the Animal Hospital of Hinesburg are the only places in the greater Burlington area that offer acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicines to their (generally) four-legged patients. While some of Heilman’s patients followed him from the Vergennes Animal Hospital, where he worked for seven years, it took two years to build his new client base at Qi, he says. “I think people were skeptical, rightfully so, for a couple years,” Heilman reflects. “But this type of practice is found all over the U.S. It’s just that there really hadn’t been a dedicated holistic practice in Burlington, so it took a while.” The veterinarian sat down with Seven Days to talk about his holistic approach to animal health.

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SD: What is the most common ailment that you encounter and the corresponding treatment? NH: I’m going to say digestive issues, [so] we talk a lot about diet, because diet is so important for the health of the gastrointestinal tract and the individual, and most chronic gastrointestinal problems are exceptionally responsive to diet therapy. We oftentimes use herbs that improve digestive ability and decrease gastrointestinal inflammation.

It’s a medical intervention, and what acupuncture does is, it manipulates circulatory flow in the body. We use it really diagnostically to glean certain details about the patient’s pattern and then apply diet and herbal [or pharmaceutical] medicine. So I guess what I would say is that, when we do acupuncture, we’re really paying close attention to the animal, so [it’s] not over-the-top. People are doing more and more for their animals all the time, so it’s incumbent upon vets to do the most valuable stuff that they can.

SD: Some people think that pet acupuncture is a little over-the-top… NH: Well, I can certainly understand where that sentiment comes from. And I think acupuncture in this country is sort of equated with a spa treatment, so a lot of clients say, “Well, I haven’t even had acupuncture and I wanted to try it, and now my dog is getting it before me.”

SD: How do you get a cat to sit still while you give it acupuncture? NH: Sometimes they don’t. And yet, I’m amazed at how many cats allow some needles to go in and, as soon as I walk away, they’ll sit on the exam table and just enjoy it. Cats can be pretty fiery creatures, which makes them pretty responsive to acupuncture.

SD: How many animals do you prescribe raw food for, and what are the benefits of that? NH: About 75 percent of cats we see we prescribe raw food for, and about 50 percent of the dogs we see. That said, most animals that we see will arrive at some sort of a mixed feeding strategy [incorporating raw and processed foods]. Raw foods are composed of muscle meat, organ meat, bone, and a little bit of vegetable and fruit material. What we see in epidemic proportions is that our animals are eating too much rapidly fermentable starch. And what’s happening to them is that they’re becoming obese and inflamed, and eventually that inflammation manifests as really serious stuff. SD: In terms of pricing, how do your services compare with traditional veterinary services? NH: It’s a difficult question. We’re more expensive than a regular primary care veterinarian. Our office visits are [about twice as expensive,] but they’re easily twice as long. Veterinary medical costs have increased significantly in the last 15 years, and it’s not uncommon for animals that get into a serious bind with intensive care requirements to incur veterinary expenses in the thousands. And, despite our best efforts, sometimes dogs wind up in intensive care situations, but [for the most part] we are able to keep animals out of acute care situations. The bulk of the expense can go into diet, and feeding an animal a whole-food diet is an investment up front in their health. So we are more expensive from that perspective, but I think in terms of the whole cost out there for veterinary medicine, preventative care can be very cost-effective. SD: What’s the No. 1 thing people can do to keep their pets healthy and happy? NH: Healthy levels of activity are key. Relationships are important. If animals are absorbing the stress of their caretakers, that’s no good, and if they do not have sufficient opportunities to relieve stress, that really is deleterious. I think that dogs need to be dogs and cats need to be cats, so make sure that animals have sufficient physical play and outlets; make sure that they’re not doted on too much, that you just relate to them in a very natural way. And then there’s nutrition. Feed them as nature intended. I think that those three things are the most important ways to keep them healthy. m

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say, ‘Look at this picture of a fox.’ ‘Look at this doe.’ ‘Look at this cat.’ One lady actually had pictures of her cat. They’re just so excited to have a good picture.” Vermonters frequently send gamecamera photos to Fish & Wildlife. Many of the images are purported to be catamounts — the infamous big cat species whose renewed presence in Vermont has not been officially confirmed,

despite some ardent believers. Most of those animals turn out to be bobcats. “The cameras have definitely proliferated,” Rogers said. “They’ve become a neat way for people to interact with wildlife.” Chadwick said he knows people in Vermont who deploy 25 game cameras on their property. He has four. Another selling point: Many people have turned the cameras into security devices, he said. Not only are they cheaper than security systems, but “they’re portable. You can put them in the woods one day, and if you want to put it in your front yard the next day, you’re ready to go.” Chadwick has a camera trained on his front lawn. His system sends images of any movement it captures to his cellphone — in real time. “If anyone comes around,” he said, “I’d know they’re there immediately.” This year, New Hampshire lawmakers banned the use of that type of gamecamera system for hunting, saying it gives hunters an unfair advantage over wildlife. The American Civil Liberties Union of Vermont has a different objection. The organization has long cautioned against the spread of surveillance technology. In 2006, for example, it criticized a proposal to install 16 surveillance cameras in tiny Bellows Falls as an unnecessary invasion of privacy. The plan was dropped after public outcry. Game cameras pose some of the same concerns, Vermont ACLU executive director Allen Gilbert said, though he hastened to add that the objection is not to any particular instance of their use.

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ost in the hullabaloo during the recent manhunt for two escapees from the prison in Dannemora, N.Y., was this nugget: Police, desperate for leads, asked Adirondackers to check their game cameras to see if they had captured images of escapees David Sweat and Richard Matt. Earlier this year, U.S. Border Patrol agents in Vermont told Seven Days that they were searching for a suspected drug smuggler photographed on a landowner’s game camera crossing the Canadian-U.S. border. He was wearing night-vision goggles and toting a large duffel bag. The same smuggler, they said, had previously disabled another game camera. In March, Vermont State Police released images from game cameras of a suspected burglar who had hit several homes in Fairfield and Bakersfield. And in 2013, two thieves who stole equipment from a Fairfield farm were busted when a game cam caught them in the act. We feel compelled to ask: Why does everyone seem to have a game camera these days? WTF? First off, an explanation for the uninitiated. Game cameras, also known as wildlife cameras or trail cams, have been around for a long time. They are, as their name suggests, designed to capture images of approaching animals, their shutters triggered by movement. They can be concealed in trees, brush or, well, pretty much anywhere. You can buy a decent one for $150, though some retail for as low as $60. While many game-camera users are hunters seeking quarry, the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department has employed them for years to learn about wildlife movement and to gauge the strength of various herds, spokesman Tom Rogers said. Today, 40 game cameras are deployed along the Interstate 89 corridor between Bolton and Waterbury as part of an effort to reduce roadkill. (See story on page 39.) For some people who aren’t hunters, simply capturing images of animals has become a hobby. “People come up to me at trade shows and say, ‘Thanks so much, I got a 12-point buck,’” said Brian Chadwick, an avid deer hunter who sells game cameras out of his Orange, Vt., home. “Others

“It’s just surveillance,” Gilbert said. “I don’t think anything is different in terms of the concern we would have.” But Hubbardton resident Frank Siecienski thinks the cameras are providing the public with vital information. Back in 2012, Siecienski discovered that one of his backyard apple trees had been stripped of limbs and fruit to a height of 10 feet. “I couldn’t understand what it could be,” he said. “I knew a deer couldn’t reach that high, so I figured it was a moose or something.” He set up a game camera he had purchased after his home was burglarized. A couple of days later, Siecienski captured a blurry image that he showed to Seven Days. It appears to be … well, we couldn’t say. Some suggest it’s a close-up of an owl. But Siecienski thinks he knows exactly what it is — a seven-foot-tall, 600-pound bigfoot creature. He thinks it may be holding a baby bigfoot, too. Siecienski posted the image on the internet. That led to his appearance on Vermont TV news shows and “Finding Bigfoot” on Animal Planet. Bigfoot researchers have long focused on reports from the Route 4 corridor, running from central Vermont into Whitehall, N.Y. Siecienski spoke with many of them. Since his 15 minutes of fame, Siecienski hasn’t picked up any other suspicious images. Apparently bigfoot ain’t considered elusive for nothing. But, when the apples start to come in a few weeks, Siecienski plans to deploy his game cameras once again. He hopes to capture more images of … whatever happens to pass through. m Contact: mark@sevendaysvt.com, 865-1020, ext. 23, or @Davis7D

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activities has burgeoned along with Vermont’s explosion of solar-energy projects. Russell and his wife, Lisa McCrory, own Earthwise Farm & Forest, a 158-acre organic farm on a wooded hillside in Bethel. The farm, including the 18th-century log cabin where they live with their three kids, has been in Russell’s family since his grandfather bought it in 1938. There, the family makes a living selling raw milk, eggs, vegetables, meat birds, pork and beef at its roadside farmstand. Three draft horses power nearly all the heavy lifting, tilling and logging on the land. Russell, a University of Vermonttrained forester, has been horse logging for 29 years, both on his own property and on private woodlots, and then selling logs to local sawmills. He got his start in 1986, when he was just 26 and working as a log buyer for a large regional sawmill. As Russell prepared to leave that job and go out on his own as a conventional forester, he traveled to Stockbridge to say goodbye to a client. Russell had been buying timber from the man for years and knew he consistently delivered exceptional saw logs, but he had never had occasion to visit his logging operation. He remembers walking into the woods that day and being mesmerized when he saw how easily the oldtimer logged using a single horse.

arl Russell wraps one end of a steel chain around a felled tree, then backs his 3,200pound “power unit” — aka Ted and Petey, his team of harnessed draft horses — into position in front of the log. With nothing more than subtle nudges on the reins and terse voice commands of “Gee!” (right) or “Haw!” (left), he maneuvers the animals backward inch by inch, as deftly as if he were parking a golf cart. “The really intriguing part of working with horses is getting to the point where you can communicate with them to this degree of responsiveness,” Russell explains, hitching the other end of the chain to the horse cart. “Because, really, what good is a power unit if you can’t control it?” As Russell skids the log across a pasture and up a narrow dirt road, it’s readily apparent how horse logging differs from mechanized timber harvesting: no roar of diesel engines, belches of black smoke, deep muddy ruts or compacted vegetation created by skidders and bulldozers. Apart from the occasional whine of a chain saw, the clop of hooves and the jangle of chains, it’s as quiet as a walk in the woods. In a very material sense, horse logging — or any work done with draft animals — is the original solar power. Locally grown hay, grasses and grain fuel Russell’s “engines.” So perhaps it’s no surprise that interest in the use of draft animals for logging and other agricultural

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“It was like watching a dance,” Russell recalls. “Just fantastic surgical maneuvers, with this enormous horse moving pretty big timber.” Russell knew immediately that, rather than invest in heavy machinery as he’d originally intended, he wanted to buy a draft horse. Six weeks later, the Stockbridge lumberjack sold Russell his first horse. “He parked his horse trailer at the bottom of the hill, and I unloaded the horse and started walking up the hill,” Russell recalls. “I could hear his horse trailer banging down the road and just thought, What the hell am I doing?” Horse labor has a long history as the bedrock of farming and logging in Vermont, but by the time Russell got into it in the mid-’80s, that history was well in the past. The old farmers in the area eyed him skeptically, he recalls. “They thought I was an idiot!” Russell admits with a laugh. “In some ways, it was almost insulting to them that I would be so serious and committed to this absurd, archaic way of working.” Russell had to seek out the few elderly lumberjacks who still knew how to move timber by horse; more often, he found himself learning by trial and error. Though his first horse, Rob, had been described to him as “an old dud,” Russell soon realized that “he was just an amazing horse. He was my rock.” Russell also discovered he had a knack for communicating with horses. Within a year, he bought his second, Peg, a 6- to 9-year-old mare. Russell worked her for 21 years before she had to be euthanized. Within a year of buying Peg, he stopped using his tractor. He eventually sold it and hasn’t used one for logging since. Though some people have romantic notions about horse logging, Russell emphasizes that it’s arduous and dangerous work: “As nice as it is to work with horses when they work well, it’s hell when they don’t.” When the flies are too distracting or the temperature mounts too high, Russell has to move on to other work. Because horse logging is time- and labor-intensive by nature, it costs landowners more than conventional logging would. Horse loggers typically practice a method called restorative forestry: They don’t clear-cut the entire woodlot, and they often leave standing the trees that would command the highest prices at the mill. This method doesn’t reap landowners the highest possible cash return from their woodlots — at least, not initially. But, as Russell explains, once landowners recognize residual damage to the woods as a cost to them, they begin to see non-damaging practices as an investment in the land. Research has shown that, over time, forests logged with horses grow at a more vigorous pace and are more productive than conventionally logged stands. That’s because horse logging allows Russell to get into spots where skidders and bulldozers can’t go and surgically remove the trees he wants, without compacting the soil or cutting wide swaths for roads and landings. “If you want to get in here through the puckerbrush without mowing it all over,” he says, pointing to a thicket of sumac and buckthorn, “you can put one horse in here.” The human scale of horse logging has another set of economic advantages for the logger. Logging with

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“The more you utilize them to the best of their ability, the better they get and the more you can get done,” he explains. Asked for an example, Russell points to his animals, who’ve been standing for 15 minutes without moving more than a few inches in any direction. “That right there,” he says, “is a really good attribute.” Russell and McCrory are well known throughout the region by those who work with draft animals. In 2007, they founded the Northeast Animal-Power Field Days, a three-day event held annually at the Tunbridge Fairgrounds that includes workshops, demonstrations and trade exhibitions. That event, which Russell and McCrory oversaw until 2010, generated so much interest that it soon gave rise to the Draft Animal Power Network, an organization with about 600 members and a worldwide following. The network now holds its field days every

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other year and rotates them throughout the Northeast; the next one is scheduled for September 24 to 27 in Cummington, Mass. Russell eventually passed the reins of the field days to other organizers so he could do more of what he enjoys most: be in the woods with his horses. He still reserves the time to teach and mentor younger horse loggers, in part because, when he was in forestry school, “Horses were part of the history lesson,” he says. “They weren’t part of the conventional lesson.” Now he can instruct others at Sterling College in Craftsbury Common, one of a handful of schools around the country with programs in low-impact forestry and draft-horse management. According to Rick Thomas, the draft-horse educator, farrier and lumberjack who runs the program, interest has grown dramatically in the last decade; nearly all the program’s classes are filled and have robust waiting lists. There’s no way to say how many horse loggers still operate in Vermont or on the national scale. The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food & Markets, the Vermont Agency of Agriculture and the Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation don’t track such figures. Jason Rutledge is a horse logger of 40 years who runs the nonprofit group Healing Harvest Forest Foundation in Copper Hill, Va. He says the demand for horse loggers now far exceeds the capacity of practitioners to do the work. Thirty years ago, Rutledge says, he was relegated to the hardest logging sites with the lowest-quality timber, areas inaccessible to heavy machinery. “That’s completely changed,” Rutledge says. “Now I only work on the best sites with the best standing inventory of trees, with the best landowners, who are not doing it because I can give them the most money for it but are doing it for the aesthetic of the forest and the enhancement of the forest.” Like Russell, Rutledge is helping increase the ranks of horse loggers who share his environmental ethos. The Healing Harvest Forest Foundation now offers apprenticeships in horse logging; this year, Rutledge had 250 applicants for just six positions. For his part, Russell also enjoys working with a different kind of novice. Recently, he adopted a pair of draft horses from Blue Star Equiculture in Palmer, Mass. The organization rescues draft and carriage horses that have been severely neglected or starved. Russell’s goal is to turn them into top-notch logging horses. As he puts it, “I’m kind of jazzed by the challenge of a horse that has some problems.” Russell admits that horse logging isn’t for everyone, especially those who lack the patience to work with often-unpredictable animals. But for those who have it, he says, the rewards are great. To illustrate, he quotes a Wendell Berry poem that reads in part, “I learned to flesh my will in power great enough to kill me should I let it turn.” “Horses can be an extension of your body, if you can communicate with them,” Russell says. “They’re just a great big muscle to me.” m

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This is a regional issue, Wallin stresses: Damage inflicted by HWA has been found on trees in southern Vermont, and the researcher is still assessing how much the insect threatens other Vermont habitats. Working with Darrell Ross, a professor of forest entomology at Oregon State University, Wallin has designed an experiment in which infested hemlock branches are encased in a sleeve that contains a population of adult silver flies. Results collected this summer show that the silver flies not only survive in this mini-ecosystem but multiply. More importantly, they’ve been chowing down on the adelgids. Wallin is encouraged by the rate at which the experiment has yielded such “really, really promising” results. The next step: scaling up the project. Through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s HWA initiative, the study has secured two more years of funding to combat what the department calls “the single greatest threat to the health and sustainability of hemlock.” Fortunately for the hemlocks, it’s a bugeat-bug world out there.

Hemlock Woolly Adelgids and Silver Flies The waste product of the millimeter-long Hemlock woolly adelgid looks like spun cotton, and it’s super-sticky — all the better for the bug to catch a ride on a passing bird. Cocooned in this fibrous material and clustered along the needles of a hemlock tree, the minute insects literally suck the vital essence from the tree. HWA, as entomologists call it, is a native of Japan and was first spotted in the U.S. in the 1960s. The bug infests hemlock and other coniferous trees from Georgia to Ontario; over time, it can decimate entire forests. The injection of pesticides into infected trees can kill the bugs, but largescale application is impractical and costly, and the effects last no longer than three years. Moreover, the bugs may develop resistance, so this year’s pesticide may not be effective next year. Kimberly Wallin is a research associate professor and director of the graduate program at the University of Vermont’s Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources. She’s working on a project that shows promise for controlling HWA and saving the hemlock: introducing

predatory insects called silver flies, which feast on adelgids. Wallin is working on a plan to transport these flies to the areas hardest hit by HWA. She knows that some past efforts to use one nonnative species to control another have gone haywire (look up the Australian cane toad), but she and her colleagues have scrupulously studied and field-tested Leucopis piniperda and Leucopis argenticollis. The results have been encouraging. “We know the hemlock trees are dying, and we know that they will be removed from the ecosystem,” Wallin says. “Are there risks in introducing a predator into the environment? Of course there are. Do we know that [silver flies] feed on adelgids? We do.” Hemlocks, says Wallin, are a “keystone species,” meaning that their presence is central to their ecosystems. “When they’re removed, the soil pH changes,” she explains. “They often grow in riparian areas, so the stream chemistry changes. There’s this whole trophic cascade when they’re removed from an ecosystem. It’s pretty devastating.”

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The tiny swede midge was first found in Vermont in 2007 on a broccoli crop at Burlington’s Intervale Community Farm, says farm manager Andy Jones. “At first, I thought it was heat damage,” he says, “but when we started to see it in late August and September … that’s when things started to get puzzling. You’d look down at the broccoli plants, and there was just no head in the middle.” At only a couple of translucent millimeters long, the swede midge is easy to overlook, but that doesn’t stop it from wreaking hellacious, costly havoc on plants of the

Brassica family, a large group that includes broccoli, kale, cabbage and Brussels sprouts. After years of trying to draw attention to the pest, Jones connected with Yolanda Chen, assistant professor of agroecology, entomology and biological control at UVM’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. She is now leading the search for ways to control swede midge, which has destroyed entire Brassica crops on commercial farms in New York and southern Canada. Swede midge — which gets its name from another term for rutabaga, one of the plants it enjoys eating — harms Brassicas by nestling itself into the folds of a plant’s buds. The larvae devour the food-bearing portions of the plants and, in the process, produce galls, or tumorlike outgrowths. When this happens, the plants “freak out,” as Chen puts it. Their edible parts become stunted, scarred or deformed, often spectacularly. When the midges mature, they lay eggs in a nearby plant, and the cycle begins again. The midges are so small and so well ensconced in a plant’s buds that even the powerful pesticides called neonicotinoids (the same ones partly responsible for colony collapse disorder in honeybees) are not necessarily effective against them. Even if pesticides could kill these pests, farmers committed to organics would be out of luck. That’s where Chen’s research comes in. At UVM’s Insect Agroecology and Evolution Lab, she and her graduate students are exploring several natural methods of midge control. When infested, many plants ramp up the production of acidic compounds as a means of natural defense, and Chen is exploring the application of such acids. She’s also investigating a strategy called “intercropping,” in which plants only distantly related to Brassicas are planted among them. In this way, she hopes, the odors of the tasty Brassicas may be masked by commingling other species with them. In experimental plots in front of James M. Jeffords Hall, Chen and her students have interspersed several promisingly midgerepellent botanicals among their Brassicas. The project is ongoing. With a recent $250,000 grant from the USDA, Chen is also exploring the potential of using huge amounts of midge pheromones to mess with the insects’ mating cycle. The idea is to release such massive amounts of synthetic female swede midge pheromone that the males would be overwhelmed and unable to find mates. If it works: no more midge babies. For now, Jones and other farmers are

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Recent news about the striking, iconic monarch butterfly has not been good. The Xerces Society, a nonprofit organization devoted to the conservation of invertebrates, announced in March that North American monarchs are “vulnerable to extinction.” Annual census data show that the monarch population has collapsed in the last 20 years from about one billion to 56.5 million — a decline of more than 80 percent. One likely culprit: a dramatic, pesticideinduced die-off of milkweed, a plant essential to the insect’s survival. Monarchs lay their eggs exclusively on milkweed leaves, which provide food for its larvae. Many of the food crops that grow in proximity to milkweed have been genetically modified to resist pesticides, but milkweed has no such resistance. Less milkweed means less food for monarchs, which could result in an even greater decline in their numbers. Mark Ferguson, a zoologist at the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department,

says that local numbers of the insects have reach their eventual destinations in late been “really low” for the last three years. summer. Common milkweed, which grows He’s quick to add, though, that concerned in all 48 states, allows the insects to spawn, Vermonters may be able to help the but- re-spawn and feed along the way. terfly. Simply allowing milkweed plants Vermont is effectively the northernmost to grow could make a difference in the refueling station for many monarchs before they set off on their return flight. For this insect’s survival rate. The scale of even the largest agricul- reason, Ferguson says, a local abundance tural operations in Vermont is far smaller of milkweed could make a difference in the than those in the factory farms of the overall health of the species. “It’s the idea Midwest, where of acting locally to make a change,” he says. “We’re pesticide application providing that late-season is standard practice. oasis so that, when they get “What we consider a big [agricultural] field here, they have food to eat and they’re able to reprois actually a patchduce … before they make work,” says Ferguson. that big southern migra“We still have open tion again.” fields that are filled Adult monarchs feed with milkweed.” Even a smattering on nectar from a variety of plants, so Ferguson of backyard plants K imbE r lY WA l l iN also advocates leaving could make a differuntouched any patches of ence, he says. Vermont is near the northern edge of wildflowers. Hacking down the weeds on one’s propthe monarch’s annual migration, which commences in Mexico, spreads across the erty, Ferguson says, is one way for humans lower 48 and extends into southern Canada. to exert a little control over their home While butterflies born in the north make environments. This could be one reason, the entire journey to Mexico in one go, the though, to let nature encroach a little more return pilgrimage cannot be accomplished than usual. m by a single generation. It is often the greatgrandchildren of the initial migrants that Contact: ethan@sevendaysvt.com

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which critters survive the crossing and how, and how developers, landowners and the state can help. SEVEN DAYS: Some people may be surprised to hear there is a significant amount of wildlife in the relatively busy, highly populated Waterbury/ Bolton corridor. How much wildlife really lives there? JENS HILKE: In the past two years, we’ve had 40 cameras in Bolton and Waterbury, and we’ve collected 70,000 pictures of wildlife. We have a sequence of a bobcat toying with a squirrel, flopping it in the air. We have cameras on culverts and bridges.

[But] some animals won’t walk over those rocks. [In Waterbury,] they filled in the cracks of those rocks with dirt from the job site. That made it soil on top instead of exposed rock. And that allows wildlife to move. So there’s a new standard in VTrans: From now on, we put dirt over the rocks under bridges. SD: What has surprised you during this study? JH: I see the best and the worst of the interaction of wildlife on the highway. There are tragic stories about bears running out; seeing the barrier, they turn around and get hit. But then I’ve been really surprised by just how many wildlife species use these bridges and culverts and move back and forth.

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SD: Have your cameras captured anything interesting besides wildlife? JH: We have pictures of people out hunting who wave and smile. [But] we’re not saving any pictures of people. This is not about recording what people do. We lost a camera last week to a vehicle accident. Car flipped and took out a tree our camera was in. We lost a camera in the region to vandalism, only to have it show up further afield in Elmore, unhurt. It’s always fun.

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SD: What would you say to people who wonder why the state should spend money on this project? JH: The mission of the department is

SD: Are there examples today of the state considering wildlife movement while conducting a construction project? JH: As part of the repaving on Route 2 in Waterbury, some of that money went to environmental mitigation to pay for cameras and to build a wildlife shelf beside the river. We used to put big rocks under bridges to protect the abutments.

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SD: Are certain creatures more successful at crossing I-89 in that area? JH: Species like mink and fisher, we’re seeing a lot of movement, but we don’t see them on the road a lot. There are so many culverts on I-89. We have pictures of a fox in a culvert 320 feet long. That’s incredibly long and dark, and a fox will do it. A 320-foot culvert — is that a particularly bold fox that will make a trip few other foxes will make, or is that “ho-hum” for a fox? I’d like to know more about that. Muskrat, weasel family like mink and fisher, they all use these networks of culverts.

This is all under the larger picture of climate resiliency: How do we build infrastructure that can handle climate change and allow for animal movement? We’re constantly improving transportation infrastructure. When we size culverts for flood resiliency, [we can make] it work for wildlife. It already happens for VTrans; they adopted standards after [Tropical Storm] Irene: natural bottom versus corrugated metal for culverts. Anecdotally, we haven’t seen as much [wildlife] movement through the corrugated pipes. Where we have naturalbottom culverts that are appropriately sized for flooding, we get dry land. And they allow for [wildlife] movement. It’s a win-win.

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We’re getting a sense of the relative permeability. Wildlife are moving under or over I-89, but not nearly as much as in the forest box adjacent to I-89 and the areas of natural cover. In the face of climate change, wildlife are moving around, adjusting their ranges. And they do that from places that are connected. That spot in Bolton and Waterbury is a key part of the connection. It’s regionally significant, between the Mansfield [forest] block and the Camel’s Hump [forest] block.

SD: I know you are hoping that land conservation groups will use the information to guide future work. Any others who might benefit from the data you collect? JH: This work is headed in a bunch of different directions. Land protection organizations can find appropriate, willing landowners who can play a role in the ecological world and are willing to sacrifice [some] rights. [And we’re] working with organizations like the Vermont Natural Jens Hilke Resources Council as to where to prioritize their work. And when we’re building bridges or culverts, we can make investments about how they can benefit wildlife.

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ast year, a reader wrote to ask Seven Days what was up with Vermont’s horrifyingly gross abundance of roadkill. In our Whiskey Tango Foxtrot column addressing the issue, Erik Filkorn, public outreach manager for the Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans), acknowledged that the state has “nowhere to put” the carcasses of animals that meet their deaths on Vermont’s roads. “The crows and the turkey vultures are the most effective disposal team available to us,” he said. However, Filkorn also assured readers that VTrans hasn’t given up on the roadkill problem but is “actively working with the Department of Fish & Wildlife to … come up with better protocols for dealing with this issue.” Indeed, two years ago, the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department and VTrans announced the launch of a two-year study to mitigate the effects of highway traffic on wildlife. The goal is to ensure that fewer animals are killed simply as a result of following their natural instincts to roam in search of food or shelter. The study focused on the Interstate 89 corridor between Waterbury and Bolton, a seven-mile stretch where the interstate divides wildlife populations. That area also includes Route 2, a railroad line, local roads and the Winooski River. On either side of those obstacles lie two biologically important areas — the forest blocks surrounding Mount Mansfield and Camel’s Hump. To gather intelligence for the fight against roadkill, Fish & Wildlife conservation planning biologist Jens Hilke deployed game cameras throughout the area. He hoped to measure the abundance of wildlife species and determine the spots that are most popular for their dangerous crossings. The project is wrapping up this fall, with a final report to be issued in the winter. Hilke, a 41-year-old Burlington resident, recently talked to Seven Days about what he has learned so far — about

to maintain all the species that are in Vermont, and their habitats, for the people. Our responsibility is to answer to the people that we’re doing our best by these resources. Allowing for wildlife movement is what ultimately will help these species last. It allows for genetic exchange; it allows for wildlife to get to move to different food sources. These are critical issues for maintaining species in the future.

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izmo’s eyes were whirling. The 2-year-old pug couldn’t focus on his mom, Wendy Beane, when she brought him to Burlington Emergency & Veterinary Specialists in Williston on a recent Monday at the recommendation of her regular veterinarian. About a month ago, that vet in Brandon treated Gizmo for an ear infection. But last week, Beane knew something was wrong. Usually playful and able to run “like a deer” around his Proctor home, Gizmo grew lethargic. He stopped eating, vomited, and lost control of his bowels and bladder in Beane’s bed. His black, bulging eyes darted back and forth, and he tilted his head sideways. “He was staggering like he was inebriated,” Beane said. So Gizmo came to BEVS, an animal hospital that opened a decade ago and treats dogs, cats and other small pets from across northern Vermont. The sole source for 24-7 emergency veterinary care across greater Chittenden County and part of New York, it also draws business-hour customers like Beane as one of the state’s best-equipped care centers. When it comes to animal catastrophes, BEVS sees it all. Last week, a surgeon there removed a corn cob from a Labrador retriever’s intestine, repaired the mutilated jaw of a cat and examined the arthritic elbow of a golden retriever who is an obedience champion. Meanwhile, the internal medicine staff cleared a cat’s urinary blockage, tested a cocker spaniel with Cushing’s disease and monitored a gastrointestinal infection plaguing two sister Chihuahuas. Dr. Bryan Harnett, BEVS’ medical director and one of two internal medicine specialists who own the practice, gave Gizmo a diagnosis. The pug’s ears had swollen shut, throwing off his equilibrium, he explained: “It makes it so the world is sort of spinning on you.” Harnett wanted the pug to undergo a CT scan to rule out a polyp or tumor. The scan costs about $1,250 in most cases, including the mandatory anesthesia and vet consultation. Beane, a dental hygienist, said her boss — who has four dogs of his own — had insisted she leave work to take care of Gizmo. A couple of years ago, she and her husband lost their first pug in a terrible accident and brought home Gizmo and his brother, Truman, from the same litter soon after. “They’re my children,” said Beane, 41 — her only ones, she notes. “So we will go to the ends of the Earth.” She’s not alone: Many American dog owners spoil their pets with expensive bedding, home-cooked meals, and vacations at resorts that dispense treats, toys and sweet-smelling plastics for poop pick up. And when it comes to pets’ health care, technological advancements in veterinary medicine make it easy to go to extremes. “People who come to us are looking for that,” said Brenna Mousaw, a BEVS vet tech with a specialty in internal medicine. “They’ll do the surgery. They’ll do the chemotherapy. They want to give their pet the options that they can.” Steffan DeFeo can vouch for that. His 9-year-old rat terrier, Mitzie, suffers from a host of problems. In November, she was diagnosed with bladder cancer and had surgery to remove most of the tumor.

Michelle Senna assisting Gizmo the pug in getting a CT scan

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A few years ago during surgery for a torn knee ligament, doctors discovered that Mitzie has high liver enzymes and can’t process copper. A lab in Virginia designed a special diet — for a very high cost — that DeFeo prepares for her and the couple’s fox terrier, Sadie. It includes fresh chicken, canned clams and minerals such as phosphate that he has to mail order. The drug Mitzie took for her liver caused side effects, including an immune disease. She ended up on a steroid that recently led to diabetes and, now, cloudy cataracts in her eyes. A veterinary ophthalmologist can remove the cataracts, a common procedure that costs about $4,500, DeFeo said. First, though, BEVS tested Mitzie’s blood sugar multiple times to ensure she could handle surgery — requiring a break in her insulin shots, which DeFeo gives her twice a day.

“I’d mortgage my house for her,” DeFeo said, as he sat on the floor in the BEVS waiting room beside the dog bed he’d brought for Mitzie. In a way, Mitzie saved DeFeo’s life. An army veteran, he got Mitzie as a pup in 2005, a few months after returning from his tour in Iraq.

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“She was inseparable from me for years,” he said. “It was just nice to have a companion who didn’t want to talk to you about everything.” DeFeo and his wife, Hiata, are both 44 and live outside Waterbury, where she owns Bridgeside Books. They have easily exceeded $10,000 in vet bills, DeFeo said. “It’s commitment,” he said with a shrug. “We chose to get a pet. This is what goes along with it. You don’t give up on them just because it’s a dog.”

Before BEVS, Burlington-area vets handled night and weekend emergencies with rotating on-call duty, eventually working out of VCA Brown Animal Hospital in South Burlington. In July 2005, BEVS became a standalone business with its own staff and moved to its current building on Commerce Street. The facility remained solely an after-hours emergency clinic until Harnett’s arrival in 2007, when it began offering specialty internal medical care for weekday appointments and walk-ins. He and Tom Hecimovich, emergency and critical care services director, took over the business as coowners. BEVS now has 10 doctors, including two in one-year postgraduate internships, and an additional surgeon on the way, plus 35 technicians and six support-staff members. Late one evening last week, technician Keely Doyle wrapped one hand around all four paws of Missy Bob, a 7-year-old domestic shorthair tortoiseshell cat, and gripped the scruff of her neck with the other hand. Tortoiseshells, Doyle explained, are often feisty. Missy Bob had an infected cut over her eye from a fight, and Dr. Lisa Kiniry needed to clean the wound. “We popped it and flushed it,” Kiniry told the owners, Judy Emerson and Jake Yanulavich, when she returned Missy Bob to them in her carrier. The Winooski couple decided to make their emergency visit to BEVS when the cat’s cut still looked runny after three days. “It can go bad really fast, and we didn’t want to wake up in the morning with something really nasty,” Yanulavich said. Most vets do basic surgeries such as spaying and neutering in their offices but send patients to a specialist for more complicated problems such as cancer treatment. General practices often cannot afford major equipment that they would use infrequently — such as an ultrasound or CT scanner, the latter of which BEVS added in 2013. The huge machine didn’t fit in the hospital, said Whitney Durivage, the hospital manager, but a tenant’s move freed up an office in the building across the parking lot.

Now BEVS offers Vermont’s first CT scanner for pets, Durivage said. “We used to have to send clients to Montréal, Maine and down to Massachusetts.” Inside the giant tubular scanner on the Tuesday after he arrived, Gizmo lay prone and motionless under anesthesia. Harnett examined a bank of computer screens showing images of the pug’s head and ear canals. They were, as he suspected, completely blocked. “This tells us in much better detail what the tympanic bullae look like,” Harnett said. “He’s probably going to need surgery to go in and open up these little structures at the base of the skull.” A little while later, Beane arrived, still wearing her work scrubs, to visit Gizmo before he spent the night at BEVS. Harnett carried him to her wrapped in a blanket, because patients can get cold after anesthesia. “He gave me some kisses, and it just melted my heart,” Beane said. Dr. Helia Zamprogno was scheduled to do Gizmo’s surgery, known as a TECABu (sounds like “peek-a-boo”), for total ear canal ablation and bulla osteotomy. It involves removing the entire lining of the ear canal, then reclosing the ears. The dog will lose his hearing — but he probably couldn’t hear with the blockage anyway, Zamprogno said. She hoped to stop Gizmo’s nerve damage from progressing: “The goal is to control the infection, control the pain.” The day Gizmo came in, Zamprogno operated on Diesel, a 12-year-old Australian cattle dog known as a blue heeler, whose head had been crushed by a truck wheel. She cemented his jaw in place and closed wounds on his underside. Diesel’s dad, Jaret Pullen, came to pick him up after spending a couple of sleepless nights at home in Charlotte, calling BEVS continually to check on his “best friend.” Diesel goes everywhere with Pullen, 34, a horse farrier who hopes to attend vet school soon. He told BEVS to do whatever was necessary, he said: “You break the piggy bank open. You shell out the credit cards.” Doyle gave Pullen lengthy instructions on medications, cold compresses and meals. Then she brought out Diesel. Pullen’s eyes welled as he hugged the dog, who slowly wagged his tail and drooled a little. Then Diesel’s dad stepped to the counter to pay the bill, which topped $5,000, handing over first a stack of cash and then a credit card. “I’m as unemotional and coldhearted as you can be,” Pullen said, “except about my dog.” Not every family gets such a happy ending at BEVS. Harley, a 13-year-old vizsla, came in one night last week with fluid around his heart. The next morning, viewing the Hungarian bird dog’s ultrasound, Harnett saw a mass in his heart tissue. “That’s not the treatable kind,” lamented Dr. Amanda Rutter, who examined Harley when he arrived. Later the next day, Harley’s owners came to BEVS with their sons, who had grown up with the dog, to put him to sleep. “If I start crying, I’ll never stop,” said technician Lindsay Hancock, who helped hold Harley during his ultrasound. “I work with techs who cry every time, but I’d be exhausted. Everybody deals with it differently.” For his part, Gizmo will be fine — even without his hearing. Eventually he’ll return with Truman to the Beanes’ camp in Rochester, where he goes snowmobiling and ice fishing, his mom said. Beane said she was grateful for BEVS, offering a pet owner’s highest praise: “I feel like they’re treating him like he’s their own here.” m

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ost Nation Theater has brought back Stone, Kim Bent’s original 2005 play chronicling the early days of the granite industry in Barre, for a run in the historic shed that’s now home to the Vermont Granite Museum. Performed by an ensemble of seven on a platform in the big timberframe space, the show takes on a casual, friendly feeling. It’s a mix of oral history and traditional music that looks at a whole community that prospered and suffered from stone. Bent created the piece by blending excerpts of interviews conducted by Marie Tomasi and Roaldus Richmond in the 1930s, edited by Alfred Rosa and Mark Wanner into the book Men Against Granite. The result is more description than reflection, more facts than insights — it’s the story of what it was like in Barre, not what the granite industry meant. Such recollections are history without the analysis. The two types of granite work required different skills, but both were tragically dangerous. Work in the quarries pitted men versus stone in the most direct way, and everything that aided them — explosives, winches, drills — could hurt them just as easily. In the sheds, the men cutting, carving and polishing stone inhaled granite dust that led to lung disease. The

unyielding granite destroyed both brute labor and artisanal skill. The immigrants who gravitated to the quarries came from Italy, Scotland, Canada, Ireland, Spain and Sweden. Given their cultural differences, the tension probably went beyond trading racial slurs, which is where Stone’s dramatization stops. The ethnic jokes in the show have no sting, as long as you look beyond the flagrant stereotyping. There’s even a tonguein-cheek song about harmony, with Bent’s

all have a warm approach and connect directly with the audience. They’re here to entertain, and most of the performances are aimed at the spectators rather than enacted among characters. For theater, it’s artificial; for storytelling, it’s just fine. Musical director Robin Russell takes us on a trip through musical traditions of different eras and nationalities. She plays accordion and piano and is joined by Mike Fiorillo on guitar and Cynthia Thomas on fiddle. The three of them fill that big granite shed with everything from Irish jigs to Italian drinking songs. The line between musicians and actors is delightfully blurred here. Russell takes a few turns onstage, and actor Aaron Roberts incorporates his accordion playing. The shed blurs conventional theatrical conventions, too. The open space can’t mask actor entrances and exits. We watch performers duck behind a wall and emerge in different costumes to step back up on the platform. Celest DiPietropaolo plays the role of Elia Corti, the stonemason who worked on the Robert Burns memorial in downtown Barre. He remains on stage throughout, in the iconic apron and vest that Corti’s granite statue has made familiar to residents and visitors. The sculptor is a stoic presence — not quite a narrator, but a voice that helps make transitions.

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to lively music and hearing the voices of the past. only original lyrics in the show, called “In Barre We All Get Along.” Still, who wants to revisit the prejudices of the past? The fact that these people did live side by side is the part worth celebrating. The production uses music lavishly, both to personify the characters and to create scene transitions. Italian and French Canadian tunes predominate, but it’s a big musical melting pot. The acting ensemble occasionally breaks into song, singing can’thelp-myself tunes together and in solo performances. The music triggers some dancing, too, and even when the company isn’t dancing, it’s moving with bright energy. Director Bent emphasized a crisp pace. The seven actors and three musicians

The other actors take on at least six roles each, for the play moves swiftly through brief vignettes and monologues. Scott Renzoni proves adept at quick characterizations and can turn on a dime from accent to accent. Mark Roberts tackles nearly a dozen roles, finding little notes of humor, weariness or warmth to bring them briefly to life. Aaron Roberts is earnest as a Swedish immigrant, a young lover and a boastful quarryman, among others. Taryn Noelle, Sandy Gartner and Jude Milstein appear most memorably in a scene in which all three are widows coping with the loss of young husbands. Though the material is more monologue than dialogue, Bent makes it richer by setting the remembrances in a side-by-side presentation. The performances are more documentary presentations than full characterizations. There are some stiff moments and self-conscious acting, but the essential pleasure of Stone lies in listening to lively music and hearing the voices of the past. Staging the play in the Granite Museum adds another dimension to the historical storytelling. The vast shed was once the scene of granite manufacturing, from design to polishing. In truth, the building lacks the acoustics and sight lines for theater, but the presence of the museum’s artifacts somewhat compensates. And those tall timbers help the viewer imagine the world the play presents. Donna Stafford created a simple set using granite blocks piled on a platform she painted — in a stunning illusion — to mimic granite. Lighting designer Wendy Stephens does an admirable job of bringing theatrical lighting to a rugged, utilitarian space. The show is performed with plenty of natural light pouring through the windows as well, putting audience and actors in a shared space that suits the eye contact made in storytelling. To summon up several dozen characters and give each a distinctive touch, the production relies on Cora Fauser, the costume designer. Her endless supply of hats, suspenders, dresses, work clothes, aprons and vests helps signal the play’s range of periods and people. Stone is a gift to anyone in the area who was touched by the granite industry or is curious about Barre’s heritage. Anyone reluctant to set foot in a theater will find it pleasantly devoid of self-importance and without dramatic pretensions. It shouldn’t be mistaken for drama, and that’s a virtue for its intended audience. Bringing this evening of rousing music and plainspoken history to Barre’s Granite Museum is bringing it home. m Contact: alex@sevendaysvt.com

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wo weeks before Ian Lutz and Jennifer Croft graduated from Woodstock Union High School, they did what many seniors do — they randomly hooked up. “It was just a fling,” Lutz recalls. But the relationship stuck. In college, Croft wrote her thesis abroad in Ecuador — where llamas and alpacas are common — and the couple joked about getting a pair of camelids for their backyard. Twenty-five years later, the husbandand-wife team own and operate CasCad-Nac Farm, Vermont’s largest alpaca operation. Their Weathersfield property spans 600 mostly wooded acres on the south side of Mount Ascutney, where their herd of award-winning animals numbers 200 to 300, depending on the season.

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full restaurant,” she says. “There are plenty of great places out there that I don’t need to compete with.” She’ll augment Cork’s standard cheese-and-charcuterie menu with simple, winefriendly snacks such as mussels. Besides offering 15 to 20 different wines by the glass (a couple of those on draft), Nichols plans to devote a few tap lines to Vermont beers and ciders and to sell a small selection of local liquors. As in Waterbury, many of her wines will be smallbatch natural varieties from family-owned wineries. Though “natural wine” is difficult to define — in the absence of set guidelines for its production, vintners work according to self-imposed standards — it is usually made with minimal human intervention during fermentation and little additional processing. The resulting vintages are often funkier and less predictable than “conventional” wines.

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Bitsy is one of the newest babies in the Cas-Cad-Nac flock, but — assuming she makes it — her value as “seed stock,” which is based on the quantity of uniform, fine fleece she’ll produce, remains to be seen. Prolific, fine-haired fuzzballs fetch good prices among breeders, but ones that don’t make the cut go to fiber farms or hobby farmers seeking fleecegrowing pets for a much lower price. When the economy crashed in 2008, it delivered a hearty blow to Cas-CadNac’s business and alpaca markets in general. The Lutzes found themselves with extra nonbreeding alpacas, and locating good homes for them was increasingly difficult. In 2012, they began processing some of their culled livestock for meat. This solved the problem of the excess animals and provided additional income for the farm. “A large part of the decision to use culls for meat was in rethinking our business model,” Ian explains, standing in the farm’s arena barn while Jennifer performs ultrasounds on pregnant females nearby.

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Summer of Love « p.46 “When we started this [farm], the idea of alpaca as a food source in North America would have been unthinkable,” Ian says. “We wouldn’t have been against it, necessarily, but it would never have occurred to us.” But as the farmers continue to brainstorm ways to cut costs and increase revenue — Ian admits that they have personally subsidized the farm for the last several years — the 30 to 40 animals they sell annually for meat have proven profitable. Alpaca meat is deep red, lean and low in cholesterol, yet milder and sweeter than beef. And the Lutzes have put energy into marketing it. Working with chef Jean-Luc Matecat (who recently left the Inn at Weathersfield to open La Puerta Negra in Montpelier), they just finished The Cas-Cad-Nac Farm Cookbook: Vermont-Raised Alpaca, featuring recipes for alpaca chili, barbecued ribs, schnitzels, stews and sauces.

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Cas-Cad-Nac alpaca is available in steaks and medallions, stew meat, and sausage, among other options. These are available on the farm or online, and on the menu at local restaurants including the Inn at Weathersfield and Juniper (where it will feature in a traditional South American asado dinner on August 5).

Given the quality of the meat, eating culled alpacas may seem like a nobrainer. But the Weathersfield farm is the only one doing it in Vermont. “A lot of farmers are like, ‘There’s no way we’re doing that with our animals,’” Ian says. Many Americans are drawn to alpacas as a business that runs on keeping the animals alive, not killing them, he adds,

since they’re not traditionally part of the local food chain. The Lutzes admit they miss the prerecession days, when an average alpaca would fetch $10,000, and top-of-theline seed stock could bring 10 times that, but Ian says that market was based on a bubble. “Prior to [the downturn], the alpaca world was purely exotic,” he says. “Alpacas were rare, and you could sell an animal for a lot of money.” But, he notes, “We were due for a price correction.” For now, the Lutzes are banking on the market sorting itself out eventually. “Our medium-to-long-term hope is that the industry will mature into something that’s economically viable and based in reality,” Ian says. And also that more and more alpaca meat will find its way onto the American plate. m Contact: hannah@sevendaysvt.com

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ewis Black’s long career offers proof that tireless ire can pay off. Taking issue with everything from social security to social media, the sharptongued comic has performed at worldrenowned venues, earned two Grammy Awards and hosts his own segment on “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart.” Despite the acclaim, the self-deprecating comedian has been known to warn audiences that, contrary to what they may have heard, his jokes aren’t funny. You be the judge as Black returns to Burlington with his show “The Rant Is Due: Part Deux” as part of the Festival of Fools.

AUG. 3 & 5 | KIDS Nature Boys Rafting, hiking, camping and singing — these are a few of the Okee Dokee Brothers’ favorite things. As kids in Denver, Colo., lifelong friends Joe Mailander and Justin Lansing were always up for adventure, and they nurtured a deep love for the natural world. The pair have put their passion into action, traveling the nation with songs like “Can You Canoe?” and “Walking With Spring,” meant to inspire children and parents to venture headfirst into the great outdoors. Mini music lovers sing along with the Grammy Award winners at two regional concerts, complete with old favorites and new numbers inspired by their recent trek out West.

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Friday, July 31, 8 p.m., at Flynn MainStage in Burlington. $49.50. Info, 863-5966. flynntix.org

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Monday, August 3, farm dinner, 5 p.m.; concert, 6 p.m., at Bread & Butter Farm in Shelburne. $10; free for kids under 1. Info, 497-7217. musicforsprouts.com. Wednesday, August 5, 10:30 a.m., at Lake Placid Center for the Arts. Free. Info, 518-523-2512. lakeplacidarts.org

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cRaftSBuRy chamBeR PlayeRS miniconceRtS: Little ones take in classical compositions with their adult companions. UVM Recital Hall, Burlington, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 800-639-3443. lunch at the liBRaRy: The Burlington School Food Project puts out a healthy spread for ages 18 and under. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11:45 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. ReaD to a Dog: Budding bookworms ages 5 and up pore over pages with a lovable pup. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. ReaD to hank the theRaPy Dog: Tykes cozy up for a story session with a retriever. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 11:30 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister. Info, 264-5660. ReaDing BuDDieS: Kiddos in grades K through 5 join teen mentors to stay sharp with stories and math activities. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 2-3 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-6956.

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'the otheR Place': The truth about a successful but enigmatic neurologist comes to light in a Weston Playhouse Theatre h O E H Ni Company Otherstages performance tE HE FT tri YO ppEr of Sharr White's psychological drama. S | COURTES SingeRS & PlayeRS of inStRumentS: Weston Rod & Gun Club, 7:30 p.m. $14-28. Musicians of all levels bring voices and gear to Info, 824-5288. meet and mingle with fellow performers. The 'Pete 'n' keely': A divorced singing duo reunites Wellness Co-op, Burlington, 5-6 p.m. Free. Info, courtesy of a 1968 television special in this kitschy 999-7373. comedy, penned by James Hindman. The Skinner violin maSteRclaSS: Players pick up their bows Barn, Waitsfield, 8 p.m. $25. Info, 496-4422. for a tutorial led by musician Itamar Zorman. Allen 'Romeo anD Juliet': Shakespeare enthusiasts House Conference Room, Randolph Center, 1-3 p.m. bring chairs and blankets for Rutland Youth $5-10. Info, 917-622-0395. Theatre's outdoor performance of the playwright's romantic tragedy. Lilac Inn, Brandon, 7 p.m. politics Donations. Info, 558-4177. BeRnie SanDeRS liveStReam: Interested parties 'to kill a mockingBiRD': Harper Lee's classic watch as the presidential hopeful appears via video novel comes to life in a spirited Bread Loaf Summer link on the museum stage. David Fairbanks Ford Theatre Productions performance. Burgess delivers an inspirational talk ahead of the screenMeredith Little Theatre, Bread Loaf Campus, Ripton, ing. Main Street Museum, White River Junction, 8 p.m. Free; limited space. Info, 443-2771. doors, 6 p.m.; talk, 6:30 p.m.; screening, 7 p.m. Free. t

wacky weDneSDayS: egg DRoP: Small scientists ages 6 and up design and test a vessel that can protect an egg as it falls three stories. ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 12:30 p.m. $10.5013.50; free for kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848.

JeRemiah mclane, SaRah BlaiR & owen maRShall: The trio cross borders with Celtic, French and Québécois sounds at the Middlesex Summer Concert Series. Martha Pellerin & Andy Shapiro Memorial Bandstand, Middlesex, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 272-4920.

teRRific tRaD camP ShowcaSe: Students and instructors from Young Tradition Vermont entertain audience members of all ages with song and dance. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

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sports

catamount mountain Bike SeRieS: Riders tackle varied terrain on three different courses in a weekly training session. Catamount Outdoor Family Center, Williston, 6 p.m. $3-10. Info, 879-6001.

weDneSDay wacktivity: tie-Dye t-ShiRtS: Creative kids turn plain garments into works of art. T-shirts provided. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 2-3 & 3-4 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 264-5660.

SummeR tRail SeRieS: Athletes take to wood and field on a 5K run while kiddos stretch their legs on a one-half kilometer course. Trapp Family Lodge, Stowe, 6-7 p.m. $3-6; free for bike club members with season pass and kids 12 and under with parent racing. Info, 253-5755.

ya ReaDS: Lit lovers ages 12 through 18 discuss Stephen Chbosky's The Perks of Being a Wallflower over pizza, then watch the movie adaptation. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 6 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 748-8291.

women'S PickuP BaSketBall: Drive to the hoop! Ladies dribble up and down the court during an evening of friendly competition. See meetup.com for details. Leddy Park, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free. Info, carmengeorgevt@gmail.com.

young & fun: the amazing max: Parents and children are charmed by the sought-after magic artist. Lake Placid Center for the Arts, N.Y., 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 518-523-2512.

the miRRoR theateR gala: Arts lovers gather for a lively evening of song, theater and dance to benefit the Greensboro Nursing Home. See mirrorarts.org for details. Theater on the Green, Greensboro, 5:30-8:30 p.m. $45. Info, 533-7487.

SuPeRheRo ScRatch aRt: Young creatives ages 8 and up transform photos of themselves into powerful characters with help from Williston Central School's MC Baker. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 11 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister. Info, 878-4918.

itamaR zoRman: Classical aficionados relish the violinist's masterful musicianship at a concert presented by the Lyra Summer Music Workshop. Chandler Music Hall, Randolph, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 917-622-0395.

the metRoPolitan oPeRa live: Liudmyla Monastyrska takes on the title role in a broadcast production of Aida, Verdi's Egyptian epic of love and politics. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 6:30 p.m. $18. Info, 603-646-2422. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. $6-15. Info, 748-2600.

SummeR ReaDing SeRieS gRanD finale: Warriors of the written word dress as their favorite heroes and play games to end the program with a bang. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.

the gRanD iSle lake houSe conceRt SeRieS: Kevin Loomis leads the 40-member Citizens Concert Band in a rousing recital with soloist Claire Hungerford. Grand Isle Lake House, picnicking, 5:30 p.m.; show, 6:30 p.m. $10-15; free for kids under 14. Info, 372-8889.

'the cRuciBle': The October Theater Company presents Arthur Miller's tale of a community driven by power, manipulation, lust and greed. Audience members may bring picnics and beverages. Whitcomb House, Essex Junction, doors open for picnicking, 6 p.m.; play, 7 p.m. $25. Info, 373-4644.

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SummeR PReSchool StoRy time: Hero-themed tales, puppets and crafts foster a love of the written word in tiny tots. Siblings are welcome. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

cRaftSBuRy chamBeR PlayeRS: World-class musicians explore classical compositions by Schubert, Bach, Beethoven and others. UVM Recital Hall, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $10-125; free for kids 12 and under. Info, 800-639-3443.

auDitionS foR 'miDDleBuRy'S got talent': Calling all entertainers! Gifted performers, including the unconventional, throw their hats in the ring for a spot in the upcoming competition. Middlebury Town Hall Theater, 7 p.m. Free; preregister for a time slot. Info, 388-1436.

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'the SounD of muSic': Fans flock to a picnic performance of Rodgers & Hammerstein's beloved musical benefiting the Very Merry Theatre's All Children Take Center Stage initiative. Shelburne Farms, 5:30 p.m. $25-200; free for kids 5 and under; limited space. Info, 355-1461.

community eveningS at the faRm: Rhythm Rockets entertain picnickers with dance, R&B and classic rock tunes. Shelburne Farms, gates open for picnicking, 5:30 p.m.; concert, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 985-8686.

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ReaDing chamPionS: Teens and tweens drop in for crafts, scavenger hunts and fun with friends. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 2-3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 748-8291.

caPital city BanD: The community ensemble hits all the right notes at a weekly gig on the green. Vermont Statehouse lawn, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 456-7054.

maRtin BRyan: The beat goes on! The speaker outlines the evolution of swing, bebop, Broadway and wartime tunes at a Waterbury Historical Society meeting. Bring a dish to share. Picnic shelter. Hope Davey Memorial Park, Waterbury Center, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 244-7409.

FOR THE ARTS

BookmoBile: The traveling library makes the rounds to loan summer reads. See williston.lib. vt.us for details. Various locations, Williston, 5-6:45 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

BuRlington city aRtS lunchtime conceRt SeRieS: Kick ’Em Jenny school listeners in the ways of old-time string music. BCA Center, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7166.

liz JohnDRow: The natural builder shares "The Nicaragua Pueblo Project: Building Skills, Homes and Community Resilience" as part of the Doorways to Design Summer Lecture Series. Yestermorrow Design/Build School, Waitsfield, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 496-5545.

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SoulShine Dance: Mind, body and spirit meld as music guides students through a series of stages to achieve deep relaxation. River Arts, Morrisville, 8-9:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 888-1261.

tRanS & QueeR Potluck: Transgender, gender-nonconforming and queer folks and their allies meet, greet and eat in a safe and comfortable setting. The Whetstone Studio for the Arts, Brattleboro, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 860-7812.

RecoveRy community yoga: A stretching session for all ability levels builds physical and mental strength to support healing. Turning Point Center, Burlington, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 861-3150.

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'the voySey inheRitance': Edward comes from a life of luxury, but when he discovers malfeasance in his family's finances, he must decide whether his conscience is worth its weight in gold. Unadilla Theatre, Marshfield, 7:30 p.m. $10-20. Info, 456-8968. 'wooDy guthRie'S ameRican Song': Through his words and music, neophytes and longtime fans get a glimpse of the rambling folk singer who has become an American icon. McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 8 p.m. $41-44. Info, 654-2281.

words

authoRS at the alDRich: Marialisa Calta serves up excerpts from her book Barbarians at the Plate: Taming and Feeding the Modern American Family. Milne Community Room, Aldrich Library, Barre, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 476-7550.

Book DiScuSSion: 'youth looking at life': Masuji Ibuse's Black Rain inspires conversation among readers. George Peabody Library, Post Mills, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 785-4361. ShoRt fiction woRkShoP: Readers give feedback on stories penned by Burlington Writers Workshop members. 22 Church St., Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free; preregister at meetup.com; limited space. Info, 383-8104. women'S veteRanS Book cluB: Ladies who have served their country meet to discuss poems, short stories and essays over a light dinner. VA Women's Comprehensive Care Center, White River Junction VA Medical Center, 5 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 295-9363, ext. 5743.

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Peak ciRcuS feStival: tom muRPhy in 'muRPhy'S law': Inspired by Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton, the Vermont funnyman slays comedy lovers with his slapstick style. Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe, 7 p.m. $20-43. Info, 760-4634.

community

m.a.g.i.c.: maSculinity anD genDeR iDentity conveRSation: Folks of any and all gender identities convene for a casual discussion on topics ranging from inequality to language, media and food. The Wellness Co-op, Burlington, 2-3 p.m. Free. Info, 370-5369.

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feaSt & fielD maRket: Locally grown produce, homemade tacos and tunes from Spencer Lewis & the Folk Rock Project are on the menu at a pastoral party. Clark Farm, Barnard, market, 4:30-7:30 p.m.; concert, 5:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 999-3391. lake PlaciD centeR foR the aRtS SummeR gala: Patrons of the arts socialize over cocktails, dinner and a silent auction in support the LPCA at an event titled "By the Light of the Silvery Moon." Conference Center at Lake Placid, N.Y., 6-10 p.m. $125-175. Info, 518-523-2512. Queen city ghoStwalk: wickeD wateRfRont: A spooky stroll along the shores of Lake Champlain with Thea Lewis elicits thrills and chills. Meet at the fountain at the bottom of Pearl Street 10 minutes before start time. Battery Park, Burlington, 8 p.m. $18; preregister. Info, 863-5966. SummeRvale: Locavores fête farms and farmers at a weekly event centered on food, brews, kids activities and live music. Intervale Center, Burlington, 5:30-8 p.m. Free; cost of food and drink. Info, 660-0440. tea & foRmal gaRDenS touR: Explorations of the inn and its grounds culminate in a traditional cup-and-saucer affair. The Inn at Shelburne Farms, 2:30-4 p.m. $18; preregister. Info, 985-8442.

film

'BReaD: PeteR Schumann anD SouRDough Rye BReaD': A documentary profiles the baker and founder of the politically charged theater company Bread & Puppet. Katherine French, Catamount's gallery curator, gives a post-screening talk. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600. 'fRuitvale Station': In an effort to address racial discrimination, Justice For All hosts a screening of the 2013 biographical drama chronicling a day in the life of police-shooting victim Oscar Grant III. American Legion Post 03, Montpelier, 6 p.m. Free. Info, blacklivesmatter@groups.facebook.com. 'when maRnie waS theRe': Movie buffs get a first look at the 2015 Japanese animated film at its Vermont theatrical premiere. A discussion led by Burlington Film Society members follows. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7 p.m. $5-8; free for VTIFF members. Info, 540-3018.

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Celebrate Your Farmer: NoFa-Vt Pizza SoCial: A certified organic producer of flowers, vegetables and berries plays host at a wood-fired pizza party, followed by a tour of the grounds. Golden Russett Farm, Shoreham, 5:30-7:30 p.m. $5; preregister. Info, 434-4122. edible HiStorY tour: Gourmands sample ethnic eats on a scrumptious stroll dedicated to Burlington's culinary past. ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 1 p.m. $48; preregister. Info, 863-5966. GoodNiGHt, baCoN: Bacon Thursday takes its final bow with a full day and night of live music, mimosas and plenty of pork. Nutty Steph's, Middlesex, 10-2 a.m. Free. Info, 229-2090.

CartooNiNG workSHoP: Artists ages 8 and up put pen to paper to sketch creative comics. Fairfax Community Library, 10-11 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 849-2420.

'tHe SouNd oF muSiC': Members of the Very Merry Theatre pack up a few of their favorite things for a traveling wagon tour of Rodgers & Hammerstein's beloved musical. Carpenter-Carse Library, Hinesburg, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 355-1461. tHe SuPerHeroeS tHat HelP ProVide our Food: beeS!: Budding beekeepers ages 5 and up get their hands on a hive and learn about the origin of honey. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 2-3 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 264-5660.

waterburY FarmerS market: Cultivators and their customers swap veggie tales and edible inspirations at a weekly outdoor emporium. Rusty Parker Memorial Park, Waterbury, 3-7 p.m. Free. Info, 881-7679.

traPP attaCk kidS mouNtaiN bikiNG NiGHt: Junior cyclists spin their wheels with an on-trail coaching session. Meet at the Outdoor Center, Trapp Family Lodge, Stowe, 4-5 p.m. $25-100. Info, 253-5711.

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Saturday, August 15th

10pm - The Moda Sotto le Stelle fashion show

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2pm - Best dolce Babà contest 9pm - Outdoor opera The Barber of Seville by Gioacchino Rossini

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aNNemieke mClaNe: The pianist makes the ivories dance with selections by Hovhaness, Takemitsu, Beethoven, Grieg and Turina as part of her Summerkeys II concert series. Richmond Free Library, 7:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 434-3036.

PilateS witH marY reGele: Fitness fanatics drop in to fine-tune their flexibility, posture and core strength. River Arts, Morrisville, 6:30-7:30 p.m. $5. Info, 888-1261.

batterY Park Free CoNCert SerieS: New Zealand singer Gin Wigmore serenades with selections from Blood to Bone from an outdoor stage. Battery Park, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-2396.

ColCHeSter Summer CoNCert SerieS: Karen Krajacic & Friends, featuring Peter Avedisian and Peter K.K. Williams lend their musical stylings to a shoreline picnic. Weather permitting. Bayside Park, Colchester, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5640.

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beN & jerrY'S CoNCertS oN tHe GreeN: tHe deCemberiStS: Listeners get hip to selections from the indie folk ensemble's latest release, What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World. Lady Lamb open. Shelburne Museum, 7 p.m. $46-50; free for kids 12 and under. Info, 877-987-6487.

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Forza: tHe Samurai Sword workout: Students sculpt lean muscles and gain mental focus when using wooden replicas of the weapon. North End Studio A, Burlington, 6:30-7:30 p.m. $10. Info, 578-9243.

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adam Golka: Classical aficionados relish the pianist's masterful musicianship at a concert presented by the Lyra Summer Music Workshop. Chandler Music Hall, Randolph, 7:30 p.m. $10-15. Info, 917-622-0395.

'be a Hero' ProjeCt: Helping hands in grades 1 through 5 take on tasks to better the community. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 2-3 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-6955.

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maNdariN CHiNeSe ClaSS: Language lovers practice the dialect spoken throughout northern and southwestern China. Agape Community Church, South Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 503-2037.

CommuNitY miNdFulNeSS: A 20-minute guided practice led by Andrea O'Connor alleviates stress and tension. Tea and a discussion follow. Winooski Senior Center, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 233-1161.

aNimal SuPerHeroeS: Wildlife investigator Laurel Neme shares stories about spectacular species and their human helpers. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

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raPtorS iN reSideNCe: Fans of feathered fliers stretch their wings and experience the birds of prey firsthand. Shelburne Farms, 1-1:30 p.m. Regular farm admission, $5-8; free for members and kids under 3. Info, 985-8686.

uVm mediCal CeNter FarmerS market: Locally sourced meats, vegetables, bakery items, breads and maple syrup give hospital employees and visitors the option to eat healthfully. Davis Concourse, UVM Medical Center, Burlington, 2:30-5 p.m. Free. Info, 847-5823.

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PreSCHool muSiC: Kiddos have fun with song and dance. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

SuP YoGa ClaSS: Balance is key in a stretching session atop standup paddleboards. Equipment is available for rent. North Beach, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. $5-15; $6-8 for park fee. Info, 651-8760.

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leGo mY librarY ProGram: Children in grades K through 6 don their hard hats for themed building challenges with interlocking blocks. Highgate Public Library, 2:30-4 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

SeNSorY traiNiNG: Homebrewers and beer lovers hone their palates at a Switchback Brew School session dedicated to identifying common flavor fumbles. Tap Room, Switchback Brewing Company, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. $20; preregister; limited space. Info, 651-4114.

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leGo Club: Brightly colored interlocking blocks inspire developing minds. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660.

PlaiNField PreSCHool StorY time: Little ones ages 2 through 5 discover the magic of literature. Cutler Memorial Library, Plainfield, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 454-8504.

rPS tourNameNt CHalleNGe: All hands are on deck as competitors battle for a $1,000 grand prize in an epic rock-paper-scissors session. Proceeds benefit ANEW Place. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 6 p.m. $25; free for spectators. Info, 540-0406.

presents

CraFtSburY CHamber PlaYerS miNiCoNCertS: Young music lovers take in classical compositions with their adult companions. East Craftsbury Presbyterian Church, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 800-639-3443.

miltoN FarmerS market: Honey, jams and pies alike tempt seekers of produce, crafts and maple goodies. Hannaford Supermarket, Milton, 4-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 893-1009.

SummerVale: make Your owN Salad dreSSiNG: City Market representatives lead as foodies liven up veggies with the full-flavored condiment at a weekly agricultural gathering. Intervale Center, Burlington, 5:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 861-9700.

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'booked For luNCH' SerieS: Lit lovers in grades K and up listen to hero-themed reads over a bag lunch. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 11:30 a.m.12:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-6956.

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Front porCh ConCert series: The Bluegrass Gospel Project hit all the right notes at a gig on the green. Lebanon Opera House, N.H., 7 p.m. Free. Info, 603-448-0400. piano master Class: Students get schooled in the subtleties of the keys at a tutorial led by pianist Adam Golka. Allen House Conference Room, Randolph Center, 1-3 p.m. $5-10. Info, 917-622-0395. point Counterpoint stuDent perFormanCe: The young champions of chamber music show their chops as part of the Essex Community Concerts Mid Day Series. Essex Community Church, N.Y., 11:30 a.m. $5. Info, 247-8467. sounDwaves: Kat Wright & the Indomitable Soul Band serve up selections from their retro-inspired repertoire as part of the lakeside concert series. Rain location: Heritage House. Ballard Park, Westport, N.Y., 7:30 p.m. Donations. Info, soundwaveswestport@gmail.com.

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strategy For suCCess series: 'Developing a healthy Business': Dory Demers of RiseVT outlines how a salubrious staff can be money in the bank. St. Albans Free Library, 4-5:30 p.m. $10; free for members; preregister; limited space. Info, 524-2444. 'teChniques to help rememBer your Dreams': Shamanic guide Anthony Pauly teaches the tools to recall nighttime visions. Community Room, Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 5:307:30 p.m. $10-12. Info, 223-8000, ext. 202.

sports

piCkup rugBy: Veteran players and newbies alike lace up for a two-hand-touch match. Personal cleats or running shoes and water required. Fort Ethan Allen Athletic Fields, Colchester, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, burlingtonrugbyevents@gmail.com.

'guys anD Dolls': Popular ditties such as "A Bushel and a Peck" thread through this upbeat musical about petty gamblers, street-corner sermonizers and nightclub performers, staged by the Weston Playhouse Theatre Company. Weston Playhouse, 7:30 p.m. $4761. Info, 824-5288.

Burlington Bike party: 'pirates oF lake Champlain': Costumed riders spin their wheels on a themed monthly ride through the Queen City. Personal lights required. Meet at the northeast corner of the park at 7:30 p.m. Burlington City Hall Park, 8 p.m. Free. Info, burlbikeparty@gmail.com. Feast together or Feast to go: Senior citizens and their guests catch up over a shared meal. Montpelier Senior Activity Center, noon-1 p.m. $7-9; preregister. Info, 262-6288.

crafts

maggie's aDult FiBer FriDay: Veteran knitter Maggie Loftus facilitates an informal gathering of crafters. Main Reading Room. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955, 6maggie2@ myfairpoint.net.

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Ballroom & latin DanCing: ll Er OU samBa: Samir Elabd leads choreo|C &B 'kiss me, kate': Tony Award-nominee tE roth i h Er BoB W graphed steps for singles and couples. Marla Schaffel stars in the Greensboro No partner or experience required. Jazzercize Arts Alliance & Residency's production of the lightStudio, Williston, introductory lesson, 7-8 p.m.; hearted musical comedy. Theater on the Green, dance, 8-9:30 p.m. $6-14. Info, 862-2269. Greensboro, 7:30 p.m. $20. Info, 533-7487. E RT

'onCe on this islanD': A brave peasant girl unites people of different social backgrounds in this Broadway musical, starring local teenage talent. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 7 p.m. $14-16. Info, 863-5966.

eCstatiC DanCe vermont: A movement session with the Green Mountain Druid Order inspires joy, transformation and divine connections. Auditorium, Christ Church, Montpelier, 7-9 p.m. $10. Info, 505-8010.

'the other plaCe': See WED.29.

'with women': The challenges and joys of motherhood inspire movement in a performance by Isadora Snapp and other dancers. Phantom Theater, Edgcomb Barn, Warren, 8-10 p.m. $15. Info, 496-5997.

'pete 'n' keely': See WED.29, 8 p.m. 'romeo anD Juliet': See WED.29, Shrewsbury Community Meeting House, Cuttingsville, 7 p.m. Donations. Info, 558-4177. 'shrek the musiCal': The Stowe Theatre Guild presents an interpretation of the Academy Awardwinning animated movie about an unlikely hero on a quest to rescue a princess. Stowe Town Hall Theatre, 8-10 p.m. $15-25. Info, 253-3961. 'the sounD oF musiC': The hills are alive in QNEK's production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's classic tale of a nun-turned-singing nanny in preWorld War II Austria. Haskell Free Library & Opera House, Derby Line, 7:30 p.m. $7-15; $2 discount for MAC and QDF members. Info, 748-2600.

vermont peanut Butter Cup: Competitors, buoyed by standup paddleboards, cut through the water in pursuit of peanut-butter prizes. Equipment is available for rent. North Beach, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. $5; $6-8 for park fee. Info, 651-8760.

'stone': Actors and musicians sculpt a portrait of life in Barre’s granite community in the Lost Nation Theater original docudrama. Vermont Granite Museum, Barre, 7 p.m. $10-65. Info, 229-0492.

talks

'wooDy guthrie's ameriCan song': See WED.29.

anita Diamant: SOLD OUT. The best-selling author of The Red Tent discusses the influence of Judaism on her journey as a writer. A reception and book signing follows. The Jewish Community of Greater Stowe, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $10-15; limited space. Info, 253-1800.

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estate planning: Experts elucidate the process of protecting personal property and providing for posterity. Unsworth Law, PLC, Essex Junction, 2-4 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 879-7133.

'greater tuna': Two men portray 20 residents of Tuna, Texas, in a hilarious send-up of small-town principles, produced by the Middlebury Actors Workshop. A.R.T. Black Box Theater, Hannaford Career Center, Middlebury, 8 p.m. $10-22. Info, 382-9222.

lewis BlaCk: Audience members feel the wrath of the seething standup comedian in "The Rant Is Due: Part Deux." Black performs as part of the Festival of Fools. See calendar spotlight. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 8 p.m. $49.50. Info, 863-5966.

seminars

Dorset theatre Festival: 'outsiDe mullingar': Two middle-aged Irish neighbors find love in an uplifting comedy by Pulitzer Prizewinning playwright John Patrick Shanley. Dorset Playhouse, 8 p.m. $8-49. Info, 867-2223.

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traD Camp showCase: Bows in hand, Shona Mooney and her students wow audience members with their fiddling abilities. Shelburne Vineyard, 6-8 p.m. Donations. Info, 233-5293.

Dementia-FrienDly intergenerational puppet proJeCt: Through a series of classes, artists from No Strings Attached Marionette Company prepare young adults and folks 50 and up with memory disorders for a public performance. Montpelier Senior Activity Center, 3:30-4:30 p.m. $20 for series; preregister. Info, 262-6284.

siDewalk sale: Shoppers browse wares from local artists at an annual open-air market, complete with food vendors, kids activities, carnival rides and live music. LAZ Parking Garage, Rutland, 9 a.m.-10 p.m. Free. Info, 773-9380.

summer ConCert series: Myra Flynn serenades listeners with an indie-soul set. Rain location: Old Schoolhouse Common. Gazebo, Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.

'Cats': Fantastical felines sing and dance in the Lamoille County Players' production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's popular musical. Hyde Park Opera House, 7 p.m. $12-18. Info, 888-4507.

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the stoCkwell Brothers: Finger-picked guitar, banjo and three-part harmonies ring out as part of the Brown Bag Concert Series. Rain location: Woodstock Town Hall Theatre. Woodstock Village Green, noon. Donations. Info, 457-3981.

'Blues For mister Charlie': Bread Loaf Summer Theatre Productions stages James Baldwin's threeact play, loosely based on the murder of Emmett Till. Burgess Meredith Little Theatre, Bread Loaf Campus, Ripton, 8 p.m. Free; limited space. Info, 443-2771.

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ellis mills Brown Bag summer ConCert series: Bluegrass, folk and country trio Bramblewood are on the bill at an al fresco performance. Courtyard, Christ Episcopal Church, Montpelier, noon. Free. Info, 223-9604.

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Drum Class: Percussion players make rhythmic music in an African-inspired session with Ismael Bangoura. Red Cedar School, Bristol, 6-7:15 p.m. $13-15. Info, 859-1802.

Canaan meetinghouse reaDing series: David Ferry and Megan Mayhew Bergman command attention with selected original works. Meetinghouse, Canaan, N.H., 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 603-523-9650.

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Dr. John & the nite trippers: The Grammy Award-winning pianist and vocalist electrifies listeners with his funky mix of New Orleans R&B, boogie woogie, and rock and roll. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 8 p.m. $12.50-50. Info, 603-646-2422.

hot topiCs in environmental law leCture series: Listeners lean in for Huiyu Zhao's “Still a Paper Tiger? China’s Environmental Courts in the Wake of the 2014 Amendments to China’s Basic Environmental Law.” Room 007, Oakes Hall, Vermont Law School, South Royalton, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 831-1228.

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words

Book DisCussion: 'sustainaBility': Bibliophiles voice opinions about Ben Hewitt's The Town That Food Saved. North Hero Public Library, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 372-5458.

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BlueBirD Fairy CarD reaDings: Sessions with artist Emily Anderson offer folks insight into their lives. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 5-10 p.m. $5. Info, 238-4540. queen City ghostwalk: Darkness Falls: Paranormal historian Thea Lewis highlights haunted happenings throughout Burlington. Meet at the steps 10 minutes before start time. Burlington City Hall Park, 8 p.m. $18; preregister. Info, 863-5966. turnon Burlington: Communication games encourage participants to push past comfort zones and experience deep connections. OneTaste Burlington, 7:30-8:30 p.m. $10. Info, 410-474-9250, cj@onetasteburlington.us.

fairs & festivals

DeerFielD valley BlueBerry Festival: Blue beer, anyone? This annual fête throughout Wilmington, Whitingham and Dover serves up sips along with a Blueberry Parade, pick-your-own blueberries, a block party and more. See vermontblueberry.com for details. Mount Snow Valley, Dover, 9 a.m.-8 p.m. Prices vary. Info, 464-8092.

Festival oF Fools: A three-day celebration of circus arts, music and comedy features continuous theatrics by international street performers. Church Street Marketplace, Burlington, 5-11 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7166. southern vermont art & CraFt Festival: Handcrafted creations from 150 artisans tempt shoppers at an annual event featuring a food court, music, craft beers and kids activities. Camelot Village, Bennington, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. $8-10. Info, 425-3399. vermont JerkFest: Third World headline a twoday celebration featuring live music, a rum and brew tasting, cooking competitions and demos, kids activities, and plenty of spicy specialties. See calendar spotlight. K-1 Base Lodge, Killington Resort, 7-10 p.m. $5-65. Info, 617-395-7680.

food & drink

Bellows Falls Farmers market: Grass-fed beef meets bicycle-powered smoothies at a foodie fair overflowing with veggies, cheeses, prepared eats and live music. Canal Street, Bellows Falls, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, bellowsfallsmarket@gmail.com. eDiBle history tour: See THU.30. Five Corners Farmers market: From local meats to breads and wines, farmers and food producers share the fruits of their labor. Lincoln Place, Essex Junction, 3:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 999-3249. FooDways FriDays: Cooks use heirloom herbs and veggies to revive historic recipes in the farmhouse kitchen. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Free with farm and museum admission, $4-14; free for kids under 3. Info, 457-2355. loCal FooD, gloBal Flavors: Burlington's diversity appears in people and on plates at a dinner dedicated to farm-fresh produce and international flavors. Intervale Community Farm, Burlington, 5-7:30 p.m. $5; $20 per family. Info, 658-2919. riChmonD Farmers market: An open-air marketplace connects farmers and fresh-food browsers. Volunteers Green, Richmond, 3-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 343-9778. truCk stop: Mobile kitchens dish out mouthwatering fare and local libations. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 5-10 p.m. Cost of food and drink. Info, 540-0406.

games

axis & allies: Teens put their strategic skills to the test and maneuver battleships, submarines and air fleets in the World War II-era game. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 3:30-5 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

health & fitness

Community hatha yoga: Students move at their own pace in a gentle, reflective practice. South End Studio, Burlington, 5:15-6:15 p.m. $6. Info, 683-4918. laughter yoga: Breathe, clap, chant and giggle! Both new and experienced participants reduce stress with this playful practice. Bring personal water. The Wellness Co-op, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 999-7373. reCovery Community yoga: See WED.29.

kids

BookmoBile: See WED.29, 4-6:45 p.m. Drop-in story time: Picture books, finger plays and action rhymes captivate children of all ages. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956. Dungeons & Dragons: Imaginative XP earners in grades 6 and up exercise their problem-solving skills in battles and adventures. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956. Family Fun night: Parents and kids of all ages bond over entertaining and educational activities. See jaquithpubliclibrary.org for details. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.

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Lego Day & Movie: Tykes create mini-masterpieces with colorful blocks before catching Despicable Me 2. Children ages 8 and younger must be accompanied by an adult. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 878-4918. SiDekick Story tiMe: Youngsters up to age 5 sit tight for engaging narratives. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 748-8291. 'the SounD of MuSic': See THU.30, Maple Street Park, Essex, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 355-1461. Superhero preSchooL Story tiMe: Tales of caped crusaders delight listeners ages 3 through 6. A themed craft or activity follows. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 10:30-11 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 264-5660. tot Story tiMe: Songs, rhymes, finger plays and abbreviated books occupy wee ones up to age 2. Fairfax Community Library, 10-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 849-2420.

montréal

oSheaga feStivaL MuSique et artS: Now in its 10th year, the festival boasts an impressive international live music lineup, including Florence + the Machine, FKA Twigs and Kendrick Lamar. Parc Jean-Drapeau, Montréal, 1-10:55 p.m. $100-550. Info, 514-904-1247.

music

abby Jenne & beSSette quartet: The swing and jazz band sizzles at the vineyard's summer concert series. Lincoln Peak Vineyard, New Haven, doors open for picnicking, 5:30 p.m., concert, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 388-7368. burLington city artS LunchtiMe concert SerieS: Daddy Longlongs dole out old-time tunes on an outdoor stage. BCA Center, Burlington, noon1 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7166. enD-of-Week traD caMp ShoWcaSe: Young performers pay homage to traditional music and dance at a finger-food potluck. Lake Champlain Waldorf High School, Charlotte, 3-5 p.m. Free. Info, 233-5293. houSe concert: Dave keLLer & brother bob White: Potluck fare fuels fans as the blues and gospel players collaborate in an intimate setting. Lezane open. Frog Moon Hollow, Middlesex, tarot readings, 6 p.m.; concert, 7 p.m. $15; BYOB. Info, tcmk@aya.yale.edu.

Joe hiLL 100 roaDShoW: Folk musicians Charlie King, Magpie, George Mann and Anything Goes channel the spirit of the late activist and songwriter 100 years after his death. Old Labor Hall, Barre, 7:30-10 p.m. $12-15. Info, 479-5600.

SuMMertiMe SerenaDe: burLington toWn center MuSic SerieS: Folk and country sounds fill the halls of the mall as North End Honeys perform for shoppers. Burlington Town Center, noon-2 p.m. Free. Info, 658-2545, ext. 216.

'neW york Water': A couple travels from coast to coast in search of happiness and success in Sam Bobrick's quirky romantic comedy. Depot Theatre, Westport, N.Y., 8 p.m. $22-29. Info, 518-962-4449.

to keep your family

'once on thiS iSLanD': See THU.30. 'the other pLace': See WED.29. 'pete 'n' keeLy': See WED.29. 'roMeo anD JuLiet': See WED.29, Sherburne Memorial Library, Killington. 'Shrek the MuSicaL': See THU.30. 'the SounD of MuSic': See THU.30.

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'Stone': See THU.30, 8 p.m. 'WeSt SiDe Story': A modern, musical retelling of Romeo and Juliet sees two young lovers caught between rival New York City street gangs in an Opera North presentation. Lebanon Opera House, N.H., 7:30 p.m. $15-88. Info, 603-448-0400. 'WooDy guthrie'S aMerican Song': See WED.29.

words

creative Writing WorkShop: Lit lovers analyze works-in-progress penned by Burlington Writers Workshop members. 22 Church St., Burlington, 10:30 a.m. Free; preregister at meetup.com; limited space. Info, 383-8104. Jennifer SteiL: Life informs art in excerpts from the author's debut novel, The Abassador's Wife. A book signing follows. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-8291. WorD!craft: experiMentaL art rhyMeS: Inspired by the theme "Blue Moon," wordsmiths sound off to DJed beats at this mashup of hip-hop and original verse. Wheelock Mountain Farm, Greensboro Bend, registration, 6:30 p.m.; event, 7 p.m. $5 suggested donation. Info, 755-6336, mcmycelium74@gmail.com.

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pLein air paintout: Artists bring their own easels to create original works on location in conjunction with Aquafest. Meet at the Wooden Horse Arts Guild Tent. Newport Waterfront, 9 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, shurtleff@woodenhorsearts.com.

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quiLt exhibition: Windsor County artists are on point at the 29th annual display of patchwork prowess featuring activities and demonstrations. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. $4-14; free for kids under 3. Info, 457-2355.

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WaLL to canvaS: Street-style artists transform the brewery parking lot into a visual feast at a competition benefiting the Shelburne Craft School. Observers watch the action over local fare, beer tastings and live music. Magic Hat Brewing Company, South Burlington, 1-5:30 p.m. $5; cost of food and drink. Info, 658-2739.

bazaars

SiDeWaLk SaLe: See FRI.31, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

comedy

peak circuS feStivaL: toMáš kubinek: Viewers clutch their sides with laughter as the international virtuoso brings his vaudeville stylings to the stage. Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe, 7 p.m. $20-43. Info, 760-4634.

'bLueS for MiSter charLie': See THU.30. 'catS': See THU.30.

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'kiSS Me, kate': See THU.30.

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'guyS anD DoLLS': See THU.30, 7:30 p.m.

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'zappa pLayS zappa': The Dweezil Zappa-fronted ensemble celebrates the 40th anniversary of the release of One Size Fits All, re-creating the album live onstage. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 8 p.m. $42.50-$79.50. Info, 775-0903.

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tWeeD river MuSic feStivaL: Anders Parker & Cloud Badge, Bow Thayer and Waylon Speed are among a rocking roster of live music at this outdoor festival. See calendar spotlight. Kenyon's Field, Waitsfield, 4 p.m.-1:15 a.m. $60-200. Info, tweedrivermusicfestival.com.

'greater tuna': See THU.30.

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SuMMer cariLLon SerieS: Giant bronze bells ring out as Elena Sadina performs from the chapel tower. Mead Memorial Chapel, Middlebury College, 5-7 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168.

the eLeanor froSt & ruth & Loring DoDD StuDent pLay feStivaL: Dartmouth College undergrads present staged readings and full productions of original plays. Warner Bentley Theater, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7:30 p.m. $3-4. Info, 603-646-2422.

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a Jazz converSation: Dick Forman and Mark Harding have toes tapping at a performance of jazz standards and tunes from the Great American Songbook as part of the Salisbury Summer Performance Series. Salisbury Congregational Church, 7:30-9 p.m. Donations. Info, 352-6671.

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DorSet theatre feStivaL: 'outSiDe MuLLingar': See THU.30.

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augusT firsT bakery & café block parTy: Vermont Joy Parade, the Tenderbellies, and Brett Hughes and the Honky Tonk Crowd bring spirited tunes to a soirée featuring good food, Otter Creek brews and temporary tattoos. August First Bakery & Café, Burlington, noon-6 p.m. Free. Info, 540-0060. inDepenDenT communiTy meeTing place: Brainstorming leads to forming activity groups for hobbies such as flying stunt kites and playing music. Presto Music Store, South Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 658-0030. lake champlain air shoW: Pilots take to the sky for stunning aerobatic feats at a day complete with helicopter rides, a parachute demo, a drone exhibit, kids activities and more. Shore Acres Inn & Restaurant, North Hero, 11 a.m. $7; free for kids 12 and under. Info, 372-8722. marble house proJecT benefiT: Supporters stroll the gardens, sip Prosecco, bid in a silent auction and enjoy performances by Farm to Ballet and Aja Nisenson at a fundraiser event. Marble House Project, Dorset, 4 p.m. $75-90. Info, info@marblehouseproject.org. queen ciTy ghosTWalk: Darkness falls: See FRI.31.

eDible hisTory Tour: See THU.30.

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capiTal ciTy farmers markeT: Meats and cheeses join farm-fresh produce, baked goods, and locally made arts and crafts. 60 State Street, Montpelier, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 223-2958.

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homebreWers breW conTesT: Beer enthusiasts battle for bragging rights at a professionally judged bout. The winning brew will be produced by Livingoods Restaurant & Brewery. Plattsburgh City Beach, N.Y., 1-2 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 518-593-7904. miDDlebury farmers markeT: See WED.29.

'We saveD sWeeT briar' vicTory parTy: Supporters celebrate the preservation of the 114-year-old women's college with live tunes by the Diamond Blues Band, door prizes and raffles. Two Brothers Tavern, Middlebury, 5-9 p.m. Free. Info, ailigrace@gmail.com.

neWporT farmers markeT: See WED.29.

aquafesT: Locals celebrate summer with a parade, live music, vendors, kids activities and a beer garden. A soapbox derby gets the day rolling. Various locations, Newport, 9 a.m. Free. Info, 334-7782. cornWall blueberry fesTival: Cobbler, ice cream and sundaes satiate strollers a fruity fête. Raffles, music and kids activities round out the festivities. Congregational Church, Cornwall, 1-4 p.m. Cost of food. Info, 349-3878.

fesTival of fools: See FRI.31, noon-10 p.m. increDible insecT fesTival: Visitors learn about caterpillars, pollinators and aquatic insects with regional experts. Vermont Institute of Natural Science, Quechee, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Regular admission, $11.50-13.50; free for kids 3 and under. Info, 359-5000.

rapTors in resiDence: See THU.30. saTurDay Drop-in sTory Time: A weekly selection of music and books engages all ages. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 10-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 264-5660. saTurDay sTory Time: Parents and kids gather for imaginative tales. Phoenix Books , Burlington, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 448-3350.

mounT Tom farmers markeT: Purveyors of garden-fresh crops, prepared foods and crafts set up shop for the morning. Parking lot, Mount Tom, Woodstock, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 457-2070.

fairs & festivals

poW! bam! reaD! enD of summer reaDing celebraTion: Little lit lovers are lauded with certificates and refreshments for completing the season's program. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 748-8291.

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caleDonia farmers markeT: Growers, crafters and entertainers gather weekly at outdoor booths centered on local eats. Parking lot, Anthony's Diner, St. Johnsbury, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 592-3088.

'black snake affair: smugglers on The lake': Landlubbers take in the tale of the ill-fated ship that traversed Lake Champlain. Rockin' Ron the Friendly Pirate sings for scalawags throughout the day. Ethan Allen Homestead, Burlington, 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m. $5-7; free for kids under 4. Info, 865-4556.

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burlingTon farmers markeT: More than 90 stands overflow with seasonal produce, flowers, artisan wares and prepared foods. Burlington City Hall Park, 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 310-5172.

uvm hisToric Tour: Professor emeritus William Averyt references architectural gems and notable personalities on a walk through campus. Ira Allen statue. University Green, UVM, Burlington, 10 a.m.noon. Free; preregister. Info, 656-8673.

DeerfielD valley blueberry fesTival: See FRI.31, 8 a.m.-9 p.m.

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barre farmers markeT: See WED.29, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

kids

TiconDeroga area car shoW: Drivers cruise the strip on Saturday, then park it for Sunday's 23rd annual exhibition, complete with food, vendors, raffles, live music and kids activities. Bicentennial Park, Ticonderoga, N.Y., noon-2 p.m. $15-20; free for spectators. Info, 518-585-6619.

food & drink

r.i.p.p.e.D.: See WED.29, 9-10 a.m.

ruTlanD mini maker faire: Innovative inventors showcase their products at a celebration of the creative community. Gaming technology, robotics, 3D printers, ham radios, found objects and more are on display. Various Rutland locations, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 773-2747.

vermonT JerkfesT: See FRI.31, noon-7 p.m.

ouTDoor backyarD booT camp: See WED.29, 8-9 a.m.

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rover hazarDous WasTe pickup: The Chittenden Solid Waste District's mobile collection unit roams for household refuse. Charlotte Central School, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 872-8111.

health & fitness

vermonT fesTival of The arTs: Works by regional artists line the street and fill galleries at this annual celebration of creativity, complete with workshops, world-class music and activities for all ages. See vermontartfest.com for details. Various locations. Mad River Valley, Waitsfield. Prices vary. Info, 496-6682.

chocolaTe TasTing: With the help of a tasting guide, chocoholics of all ages discover the flavor profiles of four different confections. Lake Champlain Chocolates Factory Store & Café, Burlington, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 864-1807.

TableTop game Day: Board-game enthusiasts stretch their strategic skills during bouts of friendly competition. Georgia Public Library, Fairfax, 10 a.m.3 p.m. Free. Info, 524-4643.

sToWe lanD TrusT summer naTuralisT program: Junior nature lovers head outdoors for guided walks and themed activities. Meet at the Mill Trail trailhead, Mill Trail Cabin, Stowe, 10:30 a.m. & 1 p.m. Free. Info, 253-7221. H IL L

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souThern vermonT arT & crafT fesTival: See FRI.31.

games

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'WiTh Women': See FRI.31.

plaTTsburgh breW fesT: Beer hounds sip suds from 30 vendors, enjoy live music by Lucid and sample local foods at a beachside bash. Plattsburgh City Beach, N.Y., 2-6 p.m. $10.80-37.80. Info, 518-593-7904.

burlingTon WesTie firsT saTurDay Dance: "Black, White and Bling" is the theme of the evening at a fusion of blues and West Coast swing. North End Studio A, Burlington, introductory lesson, 6:30 p.m.; workshop, 7 p.m.; dance, 8-11 p.m. $7-10. Info, burlingtonwestie@gmail.com.

Wine TasTing: Bread and cheese complement samples of Mendoza Malbec at a casual sipping session. Trapp Family Lodge, Stowe, 4-6 p.m. $20; preregister. Info, 253-5742.

dance

neWporT skaTe park shreDfesT: Skateboarders show off their moves at this actionpacked party complete with live music, food and vendors. Gardner Memorial Park, Newport, 4-9 p.m. Free. Info, newportskatepark802@gmail.com.

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norThWesT farmers markeT: Locavores stock up on produce, garden plants, canned goods and handmade crafts. Taylor Park, St. Albans, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 827-3157. norWich farmers markeT: Farmers and artisans offer meats, maple syrup and produce alongside baked goods and handcrafted items. Tracy Hall, Norwich, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 384-7447. ruTlanD counTy farmers markeT: See WED.29, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. shelburne farmers markeT: Harvested fruits and greens, artisan cheeses, and local novelties grace outdoor tables. Shelburne Town Center, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 482-4279. sWanTon farmers markeT: Shoppers get their share of farm-fresh produce, meats and breads. Village Green Park, Swanton, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 868-7200. WaiTsfielD farmers markeT: A bustling bazaar boasts seasonal produce, prepared foods, artisan crafts and live entertainment. Mad River Green, Waitsfield, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 498-4734.

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'you're a gooD man, charlie broWn': Audience members see their favorite comic characters in the musical produced by the Greensboro Arts Alliance & Residency. Theater on the Green, Greensboro, 2 p.m. $10. Info, 533-7487.

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osheaga fesTival musique eT arTs: See FRI.31, 1-10:55 p.m.

music

anTóin mac gabhann: Fans of traditional fiddle flock to hear the renowned Irish bow-and-string master in concert. Burlington Violin Shop, 6-8:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 233-5293. lyra sTuDenT gala concerT: Blossoming players from the Lyra Summer Music Workshop present a program of classical compositions. Chandler Music Hall, Randolph, 1 p.m. $10-15. Info, 917-622-0395. marTha gallagher: Vino lovers raise their glasses to the joyful sounds of the Adirondack harpist as part of the Amazing Grace Vineyard & Winery Summer Concert Series. Amazing Grace Vineyard & Winery, Chazy, N.Y., 6:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 518-215-4044. necTar's summer concerT cruise series: 'ship of fools iii': Blues for Breakfast and the Dead Set House Band pay tribute to Jerry Garcia's birthday aboard the Lake Champlain ferry. Groovy, man. King Street Ferry Dock, Burlington, boat departs promptly at 7 p.m. $20-25; cash bar. Info, 658-4771. norWich universiTy bell concerTs: Elena Sadina strikes the carillon as picnickers listen from the Upper Parade Ground. Norwich University, Northfield, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 247-9873.

paDDles up parTy: A lakeside soirée celebrates 10 years of the Lake Champlain Dragon Boat Festival and serves up an album release concert by Reverend Ben Donovan & the Congregation. Dragonheart Vermont Main Stage Tent, Waterfront Park, Burlington, 6:30-9:30 p.m. $5. Info, 999-5478. punk in The park: Fans get riled up for a day of raucous rock by Morpheus, Haggard Bastard, Labor Pains and others in a drug-and-alcohol-free setting. Kids activities round out the 10th anniversary event. Main Street Park, Rutland, 11:30 a.m.-9:30 p.m. Free. Info, 591-2013. roy hurD & frienDs: Folk and Adirondack originals offer entertainment as part of the JEMS Summer Concert Series. Amos & Julia Ward Theatre, Jay, N.Y., 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, jemsinformation@gmail.com. snake mounTain bluegrass & The connor sisTers: The two ensembles band together for a lively set of traditional and modern tunes with a bit of onstage banter. Brandon Music, 7:30 p.m. $20; $40 includes preshow dinner; preregister; BYOB. Info, 247-4295. The ThursTon moore banD: The former Sonic Youth-er doles out guitar-heavy jams for eager fans. Chain and the Gang open. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 9 p.m. $17-20. Info, 540-0406. TWeeD river music fesTival: See FRI.31, 11-1:15 a.m.

outdoors

birD banDing DemonsTraTion: Fans of feathered fliers observe this unique method of studying songbirds. North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, 6:30-11 a.m. Donations. Info, 229-6206.

seminars

conflicT inTervenTion: Folks learn how to cool down during heated situations through nonviolent strategies. Peace & Justice Center, Burlington, 2-5 p.m. $25; free for members; preregister. Info, 8632345, ext. 6. vcam orienTaTion: Video-production hounds learn basic concepts and nomenclature at an overview of VCAM facilities, policies and procedures. VCAM Studio, Burlington, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 651-9692.

sports

bike ms: green mounTain geTaWay: A supported ride offers cyclists mountain vistas and breathtaking lake views on routes ranging from 40 to 100 miles. Proceeds benefit the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. UVM, Burlington, registration, 6 a.m.; ride, 7:30 a.m. $55 plus $250 in funds raised. Info, 871-5681, ext. 2. fairfax egg run: A riverside road race takes competitors of all ages and abilities on 1K, 5K and 10K courses. Prizes and a free omelette bar round out the day. Fairfax United Church, 9 a.m. $10-20. Info, 849-6111, ext. 20. fairpoinT lake champlain marTin 16 inviTaTional regaTTa: Sailors with disabilities vie for the prestigious Berg Cup while spectators cheer from volunteer-operated boats. Mallets Bay Boat Club, Colchester, registration, 8 a.m.; race, 9 a.m. $65; free for spectators. Info, 862-6322. WounDeD Warrior ampuTee sofTball Team exhibiTion game: Veterans and active-duty soldiers and marines who have lost limbs round the bases against local celebrities such as country music singer Jamie Lee Thurston and Burlington mayor Miro Weinberger. Centennial Field, Burlington, 6:05 p.m. $5. Info, 655-6611.

talks

paul WooD: The retired engineer lays out devices developed in the Green Mountain State in "Inventive Vermonters: A Sampling of Farm Tools and Implements." Union Christian Church, Plymouth, 1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 672-3773.

theater

'blues for misTer charlie': See THU.30.

liSt Your EVENt for frEE At SEVENDAYSVT.COM/POSTEVENT Dorset theatre Festival: 'outsiDe Mullingar': See THU.30, 3 & 8 p.m.. the eleanor Frost & ruth & loring DoDD stuDent Play Festival: See FRI.31. 'greater tuna': See THU.30. 'guys anD Dolls': See THU.30, 2 & 7:30 p.m. 'haMlet': The Prince of Denmark faces suspense, manipulation and drama in the Greensboro Arts Alliance & Residency's production of Shakespeare's tragedy. Theater on the Green, Greensboro, 7:30 p.m. $20. Info, 802-533-7487. 'new york water': See FRI.31, 3 & 8 p.m. 'once on this islanD': See THU.30, 2 & 7 p.m. 'the other Place': See WED.29, 2 & 7:30 p.m. 'Pete 'n' keely': See WED.29. 'roMeo anD Juliet': See WED.29, Wallingford Recreation Field, 2 p.m. West Rutland Recreation Department, 7 p.m.

ice creaM social & banD concert: Locals spoon up frozen dairy treats, toppings and all, at this 20th annual neighborly gathering. Proceeds benefit the Brick Meeting House. Rain location: Brick Meeting House. Westford Common, 6:30-8 p.m. Free; cost of food and drink. Info, 777-3995.

Queen city ghostwalk: wickeD waterFront: See THU.30. ticonDeroga area car show: See SAT.1, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

fairs & festivals

DeerFielD valley blueberry Festival: See FRI.31, 9:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Festival oF Fools: See FRI.31, noon-5:30 p.m.

'shrek the Musical': See THU.30, 2-4 & 8-10 p.m.

DartMouth FilM society FilM: 'shoPgirl': A bored store clerk, played by Claire Danes, catches the eye of a wealthy businessman in this 2005 adaptation of the novel by Steve Martin. Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 4 p.m. $5-8. Info, 603-646-2422.

'stone': See THU.30, 2 & 8 p.m. 'to kill a MockingbirD': See WED.29, 2 p.m. 'unDerneath the above show no. 1': Bread and Puppet Theater performs politically charged new works following a tour of the museum. Paper Mache Cathedral, Bread and Puppet Farm, Glover, tour, 6 p.m.; show, 7:30 p.m. $10 suggested donation. Info, 525-3031. 'west siDe story': See FRI.31. 'wooDy guthrie's aMerican song': See WED.29, 2 & 8 p.m.

words

chris haDsel: The wordsmith lifts the veil on historic theater curtains at a launch party and discussion of her new book, Suspended Worlds: Historic Theater Scenery in Northern New England. Coach Barn at Shelburne Farms, party, 3 p.m., author talk, 5 p.m. $40. Info, 985-8686.

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agriculture

art

Quilt exhibition: See SAT.1.

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barkaiD 50 states tour: Donation-based haircuts support pups in need at a benefit for the Long Trail Canine Rescue. O'Brien's Aveda Institute, South Burlington, 8 a.m.-8 p.m. $20; preregister for a time slot. Info, 658-9591.

food & drink

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chocolate tasting: See SAT.1. south burlington FarMers Market: Farmers, food vendors, artists and crafters set up booths in the parking lot. University Mall, South Burlington, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 207-266-8766. verMont Fresh network ForuM Dinner: Local farmers and chefs partner up to prepare provisions for patrons. Coach Barn at Shelburne Farms, 5-8 p.m. $50-75. Info, 434-2000.

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winooski FarMers Market: Area growers and bakers offer ethnic fare, assorted produce and agricultural products. Champlain Mill Green, Winooski, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, winooskimarket@gmail. com.

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health & fitness

beachsiDe coMMunity yoga: Yogis of all skill levels celebrate summer with a sequence of shoreline stretches. Personal mat required. Proceeds benefit the Shelburne Food Shelf. Shelburne Beach, 8-9 a.m. $5-10 suggested donation. Info, 985-0090. healing arts FroM the hiMalayas: Students learn the restorative power of massage and yoga from yogi Nitin Gill in three sessions. Sangha Studio, Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. $20-25 suggested donation. Info, 904-962-8445. nia with linDa: Drawing from martial arts, dance arts and healing arts, sensory-based movements push participants to their full potential. South End Studio, Burlington, 9-10 a.m. $14. Info, 522-3691. sunDay sangha: coMMunity ashtanga yoga: Students hit the mat to breathe through a series of poses. Grateful Yoga, Montpelier, 10-11:30 a.m. $1-20 suggested donation. Info, 224-6183. suP yoga class: See THU.30, North Beach, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. $5-15; $6-8 for park fee. Info, 651-8760. Waterbury Center State Park, 6-8 p.m. $5-15; $2-4 for park fee. Info, 253-2317.

kids

Discovery sunDays: Inquisitive minds have fun with hands-on explorations of science, technology, engineering and math. Vermont Institute of Natural Science, Quechee, noon-4 p.m. $11.5013.50; free for kids 3 and under. Info, 359-5001, ext. 228.

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Festival oF the arts Picnic: The Grift serenade picnickers at a spirited gathering of local food vendors and artists before fireworks light up the night sky. Lareau Farm Inn, Waitsfield, 6-10 p.m. Cost of food and drink. Info, 496-6682.

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antiQue tractor Day: Gearheads get their fix of dozens of vintage farm vehicles from the 1930s to '60s. A tractor parade, wagon rides and themed kids activities round out the fun. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Regular admission, $4-14; free for kids under 3. Info, 457-2355.

verMont Festival oF the arts: See SAT.1.

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Phlox Fest: Green thumbs explore fragrant blooms at an annual celebration of the colorful cultivars, featuring garden tours, guest speakers and cut flower displays. Perennial Pleasures Nursery, East Hardwick, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. Info, 472-5104.

southern verMont art & craFt Festival: See FRI.31, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

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FrienDs oF ilsley book sale: Bibliophiles browse for bargains among used media for adults and children. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4095.

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Music, art & tea: The Potluck Singers accompany an afternoon tea party featuring works by painter Maurie Harrington and jeweler Patti Malone. Fisk Farm Art Center, Isle La Motte, 1-5 p.m. Free. Info, info@ilmpt.org.

'roMeo anD Juliet': Theater lovers bring blankets and chairs for the Vermont Shakespeare Company's outdoor rendition of the timeless tale of star-crossed lovers. Knight Point State Park, North Hero, 6 p.m. $15-25; free for kids under 12 with a ticketed adult. Info, 863-5966.

'the sounD oF Music': See THU.30.

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language

Conversational Spanish Group: Speakers brush up on their language skills en español. New Moon Café, Burlington, 2:30-4 p.m. $15. Info, maigomez1@hotmail.com.

montréal

etc.

Tech Help With Clif: See WED.29.

fairs & festivals

'Greater Tuna': See THU.30, 2 p.m.

Deerfield Valley Blueberry Festival: See FRI.31, 10:30 a.m.-10:30 p.m.

'Guys and Dolls': See THU.30, 3 p.m.

Vermont Festival of the Arts: See SAT.1.

'Hamlet': See SAT.1.

film

Tweed River Music Festival: See FRI.31, 11 a.m.9:45 p.m.

seminars

Flow ABCs: Attendees acquire the tools necessary to fully access the present moment. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4:45-6 p.m. Free. Info, 989-9684.

sports

Bike MS: Green Mountain Getaway: See SAT.1. Book It for the Bookmobile: A fast and flat 5K and kids fun run benefit the Bookmobile's literacy outreach. Lincoln Park, Enosburg Falls, 8:30-11 a.m. $5-15. Info, 868-5077. Fairpoint Lake Champlain Martin 16 Invitational Regatta: See SAT.1. Vermont Peanut Butter Cup: See THU.30, Waterbury Center State Park, 6-8 p.m. $5; $3 for park fee. Info, 253-2317.

talks

Gregory Sharrow: "A Sense of Place: Vermont’s Farm Legacy" explores the role of agriculture in the state's past and present. Multipurpose Room, Lunenburg Primary School, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 892-6654.

'The Other Place': See WED.29, 3 p.m. 'The Overtakelessness Circus and Pageant and Comet's Passage Over Reality Passion Play': The races and competitions of the modern world come to life in a passionate performance. Bread and Puppet Theater, Glover, museum tour, 1 p.m.; show, 3 p.m. $10. Info, 525-3031. 'Pete 'n' Keely': See WED.29. 'Romeo and Juliet': Shakespeare enthusiasts bring chairs and blankets for Rutland Youth Theatre's outdoor performance of the playwright's romantic tragedy. On the bluff. Giorgetti Park, Rutland, 2 p.m. Donations. Info, 558-4177.

Trivia Night: Teams of quick thinkers gather for a meeting of the minds. Lobby, Hotel Vermont, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 651-5012.

health & fitness

Benefit Hatha Yoga: A mat session with Lee Diamond supports Prevent Child Abuse Vermont. Healthy Living Market & Café, South Burlington, 6-7 p.m. $10 suggested donation; preregister. Info, 863-2569. e

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Gentle Yoga: Restorative poses combine with meditation and breath work to decrease stress and tension. Laughing River Yoga, Burlington, 7:30-8:45 p.m. Donations. Info, 683-4918.

'Rozencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead': The Greensboro Arts Alliance & Residency presents Tom Stoppard's comedy that expands upon two of Hamlet's minor characters. Theater on the Green, Greensboro, 2 p.m. $20. Info, 533-7487.

'Stone': See THU.30, 2 p.m. 'To Kill a Mockingbird': See WED.29, 2 p.m.

MON.3

agriculture

Beekeeping for Beginners: Eager hobbyists hear what all the buzz is about as Bill Mares imparts his knowledge of the honey-bearing insects. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 6:307:45 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. Crop Mob: Helping hands meet at the Juice Bar's farm to battle the weeds and harvest hearty veggies. Laura Markowitz provides motivating music. Intervale Center, Burlington, 9 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 861-9756. Open Farm Week: Folks come face-to-face with food producers in a weeklong fête featuring scavenger hunts, wagon rides, tours and fare for purchase. See diginvt.com for details. Various locations statewide, Vermont. Prices vary. Info, 434-2000.

art

Life Drawing: Artists use their own materials to capture the poses of a live model. BCA Center, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. $9-10. Info, 865-7166. Quilt Exhibition: See SAT.1, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

English Country Dance Class: Teens and adults learn steps that speak to the eras of Queen Elizabeth I and Jane Austen. Richmond Free Library, 7-9 p.m. $3-5. Info, 899-2378.

Herbal Consultations: Betzy Bancroft, Larken Bunce, Guido Masé and students from the Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism evaluate individual constitutions and health conditions. City Market/Onion River Co-op, Burlington, 4-8 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, info@vtherbcenter.org.

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'The Sound of Music': See THU.30, 2 p.m.

dance

games

'Romeo and Juliet': See SAT.1, 6 p.m.

Homebrew Night: Suds lovers get tips from the pros at a monthly sipping session. Tap Room. Switchback Brewing Company, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 651-4114.

Phil Brown & Marie-Helene Belanger: The tenor and pianist re-create the lofty tones of Monteverdi, Scarlatti, Joe Utterback and others at a recital presented by Main Street Arts. St. Andrew's Episcopal Church of St. Johnsbury, 2 p.m. $10. Info, 748-2600.

food & drink

'Once On This Island': See THU.30, 1 & 6 p.m.

Opera North Salon Soirée & Fundraiser: Julliard-trained pianist Evans Haile serves up music, stories and fun, followed by a cocktail-andappetizer reception at the Hanover Inn. Hanover St. Thomas Episcopal Church, N.H., concert, 5:30 p.m.; reception, 7 p.m. $25-50. Info, 603-448-4141.

'New York Water': See FRI.31, 5 p.m.

Northeast Fiddlers Association Meeting: Lovers of this spirited art form gather to catch up and jam. Montpelier VFW Post, noon-5 p.m. Donations of nonperishable food items accepted. Info, 728-5188.

Silent Film Series: Performer Rob Mermin hosts as cinephiles screen soundless pictures with full orchestral scores. Unadilla Theatre, Marshfield, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 456-8968.

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Music on the Hill: Mark Mulcahy: The singersongwriter of Miracle Legion and Polaris serenades fans at an intimate concert. Anachronist open. College Hall Chapel, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, 8 p.m. $18-25; limited space. Info, 828-8600.

'The Matchmaker' Auditions: Actors give it their all for a role in Thornton Wilder's romantic farce set in 1880s New York, to be performed in October. South Congregational Church, St. Johnsbury, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 274-4496.

Music in the Meadow: The Hot Sardines take the stage with a jazz repertoire that spans the decades, led by lively piano and vocals in French and English. Trapp Family Lodge, Stowe, 7-10 p.m. $12-30. Info, 760-6325.

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Dorset Theatre Festival: 'Outside Mullingar': See THU.30, 3 p.m.

music

Dave Keller & Brother Bob White: The Vermont-based blues man and old-school gospel singer collaborate at a gig on the green. Danville United Methodist Church, 6 p.m. Donations. Info, 684-3389.

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'Blues For Mister Charlie': See THU.30.

Salsa Mondays: Dancers learn the techniques and patterns of the salsa, merengue, bachata and cha-cha. North End Studio A, Burlington, fundamentals, 7 p.m.; intermediate, 8 p.m. $12. Info, 227-2572.

The Eleanor Frost & Ruth & Loring Dodd Student Play Festival: See FRI.31, 5 & 8 p.m.

Caleb & Bruce Freeberg: Picnickers partake of a performance of Celtic, gospel, blues and folk from the father-son duo. Rain location: Third floor, Warren Town Hall. Warren United Church of Christ, 12-1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 839-8195.

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Guinean Dance: See WED.29.

'Adventures in Mime & Space': Rob Mermin memorializes his mentor, mime and humanitarian Marcel Marceau, with a multimedia tribute. Unadilla Theatre, Marshfield, 7:30 p.m. $10-20. Info, 456-8968.

Osheaga Festival Musique et Arts: See FRI.31, 1-11 p.m.

802 VT Music Showcase: The Chad Hollister Band, Jatoba and Crazyhearse represent the Green Mountain State at a night spotlighting local talent. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 7 p.m. $14. Info, 775-0903.

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Outdoor Backyard Boot Camp: See WED.29, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Pilates with Mary Regele: See THU.30. R.I.P.P.E.D.: See WED.29. Recovery Community Yoga: See WED.29. Zumba: Lively Latin rhythms fuel this dancefitness phenomenon for all experience levels. Vergennes Opera House, 6-7 p.m. $10. Info, 349-0026.

kids

Nature Connections: Ferns: Outdoor lovers explore the feathery foliage. A hike, discussion and themed craft complete the day. Niquette Bay State Park, Colchester, 10 a.m.-noon. Park admission, $24; preregister; limited space. Info, 893-5210. The Okee Dokee Brothers: Lifelong friends Joe Mailander and Justin Lansing use song to inspire kids and parents to get outside and get creative. See calendar spotlight. Bread & Butter Farm, Shelburne, farm dinner, 5 p.m.; concert, 6 p.m., $10; free for kids 1 year and under. Info, 497-7217. Preschool Music: Kiddos have fun with song and dance. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. Preschool Tea Party: One lump, or two? Tots ages 2 and up, dressed in optional hero costumes, nosh on tasty treats. Burnham Room, Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, noon-1 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 264-5660.

'The Sound of Music': See THU.30, Bristol Village Green, rain location: Holley Hall. 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 355-1461. Summer Chess Club: Novices learn the right moves with guidance from teen strategists. Players 8 and under must bring an adult. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 4-5 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-6956. Write Now!: Emerging wordsmiths in grades 6 through 12 hone their skills in a supportive environment. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 6:307:30 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660. Young Adult Advisory Board: Middle and high school students help make the library a destination for their peers. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660.

seminars

60-Minute Experience: Ropework: Nautical nuts ages 8 and up twist and tie strips of twine to make a Turk's head keychain. Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, Vergennes, 2-3 p.m. $15-25 includes museum admission; preregister. Info, 475-2022.

theater

'Love’s Labor’s Lost': The king and his friends put their resolve through the ringer as they face temptation from the Princess of France and her ladies-in-waiting in an Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts outdoor presentation of Shakespeare's play. Lake Placid Center for the Arts, N.Y., 7 p.m. Free. Info, 518-523-2512. 'The Matchmaker' Auditions: See SUN.2.

words

Creative Writing Workshop: Lit lovers analyze works-in-progress penned by Burlington Writers Workshop members. 22 Church St., Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free; preregister at meetup.com; limited space. Info, 383-8104. Shape & Share Life Stories: Prompts from Recille Hamrell trigger recollections of specific experiences, which participants craft into narratives. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 12:30-2:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. Summer Book Bites Discussion: Bibliophiles nosh on light fare while conversing about Sue Monk Kidd's The Invention of Wings. Highgate Public Library, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 868-3970. Summer Creative Writing Workshop: Beginner and advanced wordsmiths polish up their prose with screenwriter Jay Dubberly. Bixby Memorial Library, Vergennes, 6-8 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 877-2211, ext. 208.

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Privilege & Accountability: Becoming an Ally Workshop: Attendees realize the responsibilities of being conscious members of society. Peace & Justice Center, Burlington, 9 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 863-2345, ext. 6.

agriculture

Open Farm Week: See MON.3. Phlox Fest: See SUN.2.

art

Open Studio Figure Drawing: Adults and teens drop in for drawing, painting and sculpture sessions with live models. Robert C. Folley Performance Hall, River Arts, Morrisville, 6-8:30 p.m. $10. Info, 888-1261. Quilt Exhibition: See SAT.1.

bazaars

KidSafe Community Yard Sale Donation Drop-Offs: Pack rats raid their closets and cupboards for new and gently used donations for the upcoming yard sale. Champlain Valley Exposition, Essex Junction, 3-7 p.m. Free. Info, 863-9626.

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Feast together or Feast to go: See FRI.31. NatioNal Night out: A block party to support local crime prevention and build police-community partnerships offers tasty fare, live music and safety demonstrations. Milton Municipal Complex, 5:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 893-1009. save opeN space BurliNgtoN MeetiNg: Passionate people convene to protect the land around Burlington College and beyond. Peace & Justice Center, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 863-2345. tuesday voluNteer Nights: Helping hands pitch in around the shop by organizing parts, moving bikes and tackling other projects. Children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult. Bike Recycle Vermont, Burlington, 5-8 p.m. Free. Info, 264-9687.

dance

BegiNNer West coast sWiNg & Blues FusioN daNciNg: Students get schooled in the fundamentals of partner dance. North End Studio B, Burlington, 8-9 p.m. $9-14. Info, burlingtonwestie@ gmail.com.

hops oN top: craFt & Micro BreW Festival: Suds lovers sip samples and stock up on snacks while Joey Leone performs for the 21-and-over crowd. Top floor, LAZ Parking Garage, Rutland, 5:30-8:30 p.m. $25 includes limited samples and snacks. Info, 773-9380. old North eNd FarMers MarKet: Locavores snatch up breads, juices, ethnic foods and more from neighborhood vendors. Dewey Park, Burlington, 3-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, oldnorthendfarmersmarket@gmail.com. verMoNt Buy local MarKet: Consumers purchase farm-fresh fare and connect with local producers at a celebration of regional bounty. Vermont Statehouse lawn, Montpelier, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 505-1822.

health & fitness kids

BooKMoBile: See WED.29, 5-6:15 p.m. FaMily gaMe Night: Players ages 5 and up sit down to board-game bouts. Fairfax Community Library, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 849-2420. hero stories coMics WorKshop: Illustrators ink cartoons based on personal heroes with help from Marek Bennett. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, ages 7 through 11, noon-2 p.m.; ages 12 and up, 3 p.m.-5 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 264-5660.

iNterMediate & advaNced West coast sWiNg: Experienced dancers learn smooth transitions and smart stylings. North End Studio A, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. $9-14. Info, burlingtonwestie@ gmail.com.

luNch at the liBrary: See WED.29. preschool Music: Melody makers ages 3 through 5 sing and dance the morning away. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 11:30 a.m.noon. Free. Info, 264-5660.

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preschool story hour: i aM a hero: Imaginations blossom when kids ages 3 through 6 dig into themed tales and activities. Fairfax Community Library, 9:30-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 849-2420.

verMoNt philosophical society: A discussion group inspired by John Dewey and artist Frank Gonzales covers ecology, economics and more. Fletcher Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.

fairs & festivals

deerField valley BlueBerry Festival: See FRI.31, 7-9 p.m. verMoNt Festival oF the arts: See SAT.1.

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raptors iN resideNce: See THU.30. read to a dog: Book hounds ages 5 through 10 curl up with a good story and a furry friend. Fairfax Community Library, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free; preregister for a time slot. Info, 849-2420.

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art BEGINNER WATERCOLOR SEMINAR!: Want to try watercolor but too intimidated? Artist Ginny Joyner will guide you through the basics, from brushes and paper, washes, layering techniques, mixing color and composition to creating landscapes and florals! Ginny loves to teach beginner painters in a relaxed, nonjudgmental atmosphere with gentle but expert direction and advice. Cost: $200/12-hour seminar; incl. a beautiful panmaker palette w/paint & brushes to keep, & enough paper to use in class; friend & family discount: 2 for $375. Location: Ginny Joyner Studio, 504B Dalton Dr., Fort Ethan Allen, Colchester. Info: Ginny Joyner, 655-0899, ginnyjoynervt@gmail.com, facebook.com/ ginnyjoynerstudio.

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Call 865-7166 for info or register online at burlingtoncityarts.org. Teacher bios are also available online. PINHOLE PHOTOGRAPHY: Explore the instant gratification and magic of pinhole photography! Students will construct their own pinhole cameras from tins and will learn how various tins and shapes produce different effects on the captured image. Students will then spend the day shooting, processing and printing images. Cost: $85/person; $76.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, Burlington,. DIY ILLUMINATED CANVAS: Create a piece of art that lights up a room! Everything you need to make you illuminated canvas will be provided along with stencils and simple design ideas provided by the teacher. You’ll leave with an illuminated canvas ready to plug in and hang at home. Cost: $28/person; $25.50/ BCA members. Location: BCA Center, Burlington.

JEWELRY: RINGS: Come check out the jewelry and fine metals studio by making your own rings. Open to all skill levels. Cost: $35/ person; 31.50/BCA members. Location: Generator, Memorial Auditorium Annex, Burlington.

craft FEMMECHANICS: Learn to fix your bike! Female-identifying people learn bicycle maintenance and repair in a supportive environment. Students learn systems and parts of the bicycle and practice common repairs and adjustments on their own bikes. Taught by a female mechanic from Old Spokes Home. Scholarships available. Cost: $95/3 3-hour classes. Location: Bike Recycle Vermont, 664 Riverside Ave., Burlington. Info: Christine Hill, 339-223-0722, christine@bikerecyclevt.org, bikerecyclevermont.org.

business INTRO TO SELF-EMPLOYMENT: Think you might want to start a business? Explore what a business might look like for you in this fun, supportive class. Brainstorm business ideas, determine what you need out of a business, reality-filter business ideas, find resources for next steps. Join a community of your business-exploring peers! Cost: $125/7-hour workshop. Location: Mercy Connections, 255 S. Champlain St., Burlington. Info: Mercy Connections’ Women’s Small Business Program, Gwen Pokalo, 846-7338, gpokalo@ mercyconnections.org, wsbp.org. START UP: BUSINESS PLANNING: Apply today for our 15-week Start Up: Comprehensive Business Planning course. Learn the language of business while developing your business plan and a solid support network. An experienced entrepreneurinstructor team and guest experts lead you through all the elements you’ll need for your business: marketing, finance and management. Define your own success. Cost: $2,500/15week course. Location: Mercy Connections, 255 S. Champlain St., Burlington. Info: Mercy Connections’ Women’s Small Business Program, Gwen Pokalo, 846-7338, gpokalo@mercyconnections.org, wsbp.org.

APRIL RHODES TAPESTRY WEAVING: Hand weaving is an ancient art form that explores the use of fiber, color and texture. In this full-day workshop, participants will learn the fundamentals of tapestry weaving with April Rhodes. Leave the workshop with an Ashford lap loom, shed and shuttles, and your very own piece of hanging art. Cost: $265/8-hour class; incl. $80 materials fee + lunch. Location: Nido Fabric and Yarn, 209 College St., suite 2E, Burlington. Info: 881-0068, info@ nidovt.com, nidovt.com. LEARN TO SEW AT NIDO: Take our Learn to Sew I class, Mon., Aug. 3, and learn basic sewing techniques. Follow up with our Learn to Sew II class, Mon., Aug. 31, to continue building your sewing repertoire. Leave with finished projects and inspiration. Kids Learn to Sew Class is Sun., Aug. 16. Register today! Cost: $48/3-hour class, materials incl. Location: Nido Fabric and Yarn, 209 College St., suite 2E, Burlington. Info: 881-0068, info@ nidovt.com, nidovt.com.

coaching PERSONAL FINANCE COACHING: Enroll today to find hope, clarity and support in your personal financial life. Work individually with a personal finance coach to define your needs and action plan. Participate in group coaching to gain access to guest experts, resources, and support from other women like you. Participate in one or both programs. Cost: $50/ongoing individual coaching sessions; 3 group sessions/mo. Location: Mercy Connections, 255 S. Champlain St., Burlington. Info: Mercy Connections’ Women’s Small Business Program, Gwen Pokalo, 846-7338, gpokalo@mercyconnections.org, wsbp.org.

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ADULT: LANDSCAPE IN OIL: Instructor: Stephanie Bush. In this class students will explore various painting techniques that will make landscape painting accessible to even the very beginner. The instructor will describe methods that will allow you to accurately render an environment through techniques such

as sighting and using a view finder. Cost: $232/person; member discount avail. Location: The Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: 9853648, theshelburnecraftschool. org/news/projects/workshoplandscape-in-oil-0801-0802. ADULT: METALS: Instructor: Sarah Sprague. This class will focus on jewelry design, small sculpture or functional art. Each student will complete a series of practice pieces before designing and creating a wearable finished piece out of sterling silver. Every week there will be several demonstrations including sawing, drilling, piercing, annealing, texturing, jump rings, forming and soldering techniques. Cost: $335/person; member discount avail. Location: Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: 985-3648, theshelburnecraftschool.org. BEGINNER CLAY: Instructor: Rik Rolla. A great course for beginners looking to learn the fundamentals of basic wheelthrowing techniques. You will learn how to center, throw, trim and glaze. After you craft your pottery on the wheel, Rik will guide you to create finished pieces for the electric oxidation kiln. You will leave with several functional pieces. Cost: $260/ person; member discount avail. Location: The Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: 985-3648,. CLAY HAND AND WHEEL: Instructor: Dasha Kalisz. This class is designed for the intermediate and advanced student with an interest in altering wheel-thrown objects and in expanding the possibilities of surface design. Students will be encouraged to think about their style and how shape, line, repetition, pattern and imagery are serving the individual work to promote their vision. Each class will include a demonstration and time to practice newly learned techniques; the instructor will provide individual assistance. Prerequisite: Beginning Wheel. Cost: $335/person; member discount avail. Location: The Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: 985-3648. COMPOSITION: Instructor: Kalin Thomas. In this course, students will learn the essential vocabulary of expression, which can be applied to any style and in any medium. Each class will work with specific compositional issues in small sketches in pencil and in paint. Working mostly with abstract and semi-representational forms, students will compose a picture in their own style. This class is open to artists in all mediums and of all skill levels. Cost: $174/ person; member discount avail. Location: The Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: 985-3648.

SHAKER HALL TABLE: Instructor: Ryan Cocina and Chris Ramos. A comprehensive introduction to woodworking, this course explores the basic principles of lumber selection, hand-tool and machinery usage, milling, joinery, and finishing. Students will build their own Shaker-style hall table, taking the project from blueprint through completion, learning to both organize and conceptualize a furniture project and gain familiarity with the wood-shop environment. Cost: $450/person; member discount avail. Location: The Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: 985-3648.

dance DANCE STUDIO SALSALINA: Salsa classes, nightclub-style, group and private, four levels. Beginner walk-in classes, Wednesdays, 6 p.m. $15/person for one-hour class. No dance experience, partner or preregistration required, just the desire to have fun! Drop in any time and prepare for an enjoyable workout. Location: 266 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Victoria, 5981077, info@salsalina.com. DSANTOS VT SALSA: Experience the fun and excitement of Burlington’s eclectic dance community by learning salsa. Trained by world famous dancer Manuel Dos Santos, we teach you how to dance to the music and how to have a great time on the dance floor! There is no better time to start than now! Cost: $12/1-hour class. Location: Splash (summertime weather permitting)/North End Studios/ 0 College St./294 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: Tyler Crandall, 598-9204, crandalltyler@hotmail.com, dsantosvt.com.

design/build BICYCLE MECHANICS 101: Learn to repair and maintain your bike! Bicycle Mechanics 101 is sevensession introduction to bicycle mechanics. Students receive instruction on the systems and parts of the bicycle and bicycle vocabulary, practice common repairs, learn how to diagnose common issues and work one-on-one with professional mechanics to learn all the basics. Cost: $175/14 hours total instruction. Location: Bike Recycle Vermont, 664 Riverside Ave., Burlington. Info: Burlington Bike Project, Christine Hill, 264-9687, christine@bikerecyclevt.org, bikerecyclevermont.org.

drumming DJEMBE IN BURLINGTON!: Learn drum technique and rhythms on West African drums! Wednesday Burlington Beginners Djembe Class, 5:30-6:30 p.m., $36/3 weeks. Djembes provided! Location: Taiko Space, 208 Flynn Ave., suite 3G, Burlington. Info: 999-4255, classes@burlingtontaiko.org, burlingtontaiko.org. TAIKO DRUMMING IN BURLINGTON!: Come study with Stuart Paton of Burlington Taiko! Beginner/Recreational Class on Tue., 5:30-6:20 p.m. $72/6 weeks. Accelerated Taiko Program for Beginners on Mon. & Wed., 6:30-8:30 p.m. $144/3 weeks. Kids and Parents Class on Mon. & Wed., 4:30-5:20 p.m. $60/child or $90/parent-child duo. A five-person minimum required to run most classes; invite friends! Location: Taiko Space, 208 Flynn Ave., suite 3G, Burlington. Info: 999-4255, classes@burlingtontaiko.org, burlingtontaiko.org.

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Contemporary Dance Intensive: International Influences: Developed for dancers who wish to expand and develop the techniques and traditions that inform their dancemaking, this brand-new intensive focuses on contemporary and modern dance composition, as informed by dance traditions from around the world. Classes will include Contemporary AfroModern (Brown), Korean Dance Fundamentals (Besaw) and Capoeira Movement & Contact Improvisation (Hardwig). Come explore new and age-old ideas and approaches to movement creation, forge new connections, and immerse yourself in creating the art of motion. Cost: $95/person. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, Burlington. Info: 652-4548.

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martial arts VERMONT BRAZILIAN JIUJITSU: Classes for men, women and children. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu enhances strength, flexibility, balance, coordination and cardio-respiratory fitness. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu training builds and helps to instill courage and selfconfidence. We offer a legitimate Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu martial arts program in a friendly, safe and positive environment. Accept no imitations. Learn from one of the world’s best, Julio “Foca” Fernandez, CBJJ and IBJJF certified 6th Degree Black Belt, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu instructor under Carlson Gracie Sr., teaching in Vermont, born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil! A 5-time Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu National Featherweight Champion and 3-time Rio de Janeiro State Champion, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Location: Vermont Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, 55 Leroy Rd., Williston. Info: 660-4072, julio@bjjusa. com, vermontbjj.com.

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Heaven & Earth Awaken Circle: We live in a tumultuous time of great change. In this circle for men and women, we’ll learn and practice energy exercises to increase the Light, stabilize the Love and anchor the paradigm of the New Earth of unity consciousness. We leave feeling grounded, renewed and expanded! Cost: $15/circle. Location: Sacred Mountain Studios, 215 College St., Burlington, Info: Lightheart Healing Arts, Maureen Short, 453-4433, maureen@lightheart. net, lightheart.net.

Accordion workshop: Aug. 6. Intensive, small group (max. 8 students), country setting in Jericho. Board/lodging included. Advanced beginner to advanced. Cost: $625/all sessions + accommodations, meals. Location: lg. private country home, Jericho Center. Info: Vjeverica, Shirley Johnson, 512-680-0422, shirleyj@vjeverica.com, vjeverica.com.

Zen Mindfulness Master/ Guru: “A Far Superior and Much Abbreviated Course in Mindfulness.” It boils down to a page and a half in written form. Free, including any need for clarification. Getting this is prerequisite to any legitimate venture on your path, help with which is also free and amazingly simple. Location: “Nowmenon,” anywhere you are most comfortable., general Burlington, not South. Info: Hem Ahadin, 4972177, bikini401@hotmail.com, nowmenon.com.

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AUDITIONS on Aug. 8, 1-3 p.m., for the VERMONT MUSICAL THEATRE ACADEMY: at Spotlight Vermont, in association with Bill Reed Voice Studio. The Academy is open to students between the ages of 10 and 19 and will provide an integrated and comprehensive program for the development of speech, acting, singing technique, song interpretation, musical theatre dance and audition preparation. NYC trip Aug. 1 & 2, $330. Cost: $275/session. Location: Spotlight Vermont, 50 San Remo Dr., South Burlington. Info: Sally Olsen, 862-7326, solson1030@ gmail.com, billreedvoicestudio. com/vermont-musical-theatreacademy.html.

Snake-Style Tai Chi Chuan: The Yang Snake Style is a dynamic tai chi method that mobilizes the spine while stretching and strengthening the core body muscles. Practicing this ancient martial art increases strength, flexibility, vitality, peace of mind and martial skill. Location: Bao Tak Fai Tai Chi Institute, 100 Church St., Burlington, Info: 8647902, ipfamilytaichi.org.

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self-defense Women’s Self Defense Workshops: Program teaches simple, powerful and effective personal protection strategies that are easy to understand and remember. Participants learn how to recognize predatory behavior before it becomes a threat, diffuse it verbally, if possible, and to apply effective physical self-defense techniques, if necessary. Taught for women

well-being Intro To Orgasmic Meditation: Orgasmic Meditation (OM) is a wellness practice (like yoga and pilates) that is designed for singles and couples to experience more connection, vitality, pleasure and meaning in every aspect of their lives. This full-day class teaches you the basics to start your own practice. Cost: $199/full-day class. Location: OneTaste Burlington, 215 College St., 3rd floor, Burlington, Info: Cara Joy Brand, 410-474-9250, cj@onetasteburlington.us, onetasteburlington.us.

Honest Yoga, The only dedicated Hot Yoga Flow Center: Honest Yoga offers practice for all levels. Brand new beginners’ courses include two specialty classes per week for four weeks plus unlimited access to all classes. We have daily classes in Essentials, Flow and Core Flow with alignment constancy. We hold teacher trainings at the 200- and 500hour levels. $25/new student 1st week unlimited; $15/class or $130/10-class card; $12/ class for student or senior or $100/10-class punch card. Location: Honest Yoga Center, 150 Dorset St., Blue Mall, next to Sport Shoe Center, S. Burlington, Info: 497-0136, honestyogastudio@gmail.com, honestyogacenter.com. Evolution Yoga: Evolution Yoga and Physical Therapy offers a variety of classes in a supportive atmosphere: Beginner, advanced, kids, babies, post- and pre-natal, community classes and workshops. Vinyasa, Kripalu, Core, Therapeutics and Alignment classes. Become part of our yoga community. You are welcome here. Cost: $15/ class; $130/10-class card; $5-10/ community classes. Location: Evolution Yoga, 20 Kilburn St., Burlington, Info: 864-9642, evolutionvt.com.

mind, strengthen your body and ignite your joyful spirit through classes such as Anusura-inspired yoga all levels, Therapeutic Restorative, Heated Vinyasa Flow, Gentle and Slow Yoga! Our summer schedule is off to a great start with Fri. and Sun. yoga at the beach; Vinyasa Flow, Thu., 9 a.m.; & noon yoga daily. Upcoming events: Therapeutic Restorative yoga w/Sound Healing, Aug. 7, 5:30 p.m.; Basics of Flow, Aug. 11, 7:30 p.m.; and Sacred Sound Sanctuary, Jul. 25 & Aug. 29, 5 p.m. Location: Yoga Roots, 120 Graham Way, Shelburne Green Business Park behind Folino’s, Info: 985-0090, yogarootsvt.com. Burlington Hot Yoga: Try something different: Hot Yoga in the Summer?!! Of course; here’s why. Our modern Far Infrared (FIR) heat is not as oppressive as traditional hot yoga, offering a gentler yet therapeutic yoga experience. Besides the many benefits of yoga, FIR helps heal muscle and joint injuries as well as arthritis and skin conditions. Yoga for everyone with creative Vinyasa style in our 93-degree newly remodeled studio. Come and enjoy Hot Yoga Burlington; classes daily. Location: North End Studio B , 294 N. Winooski Ave. Info: 9999963, hotyogaburlingtonvt.com.

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Healing Arts of the Himalayas: Yoga, Ayurveda and Massage Healing Arts of Himalayas classes. Learn, practice and receive massage and self-healing/yoga, Ayurveda and massage techniques from the Himalayas with experienced native yoga and massage master from the Himalayas, India.

LEARN SPANISH & OPEN NEW DOORS: Connect with a new world. We provide high-quality affordable instruction in the Spanish language for adults, students and children. Traveler’s lesson package. Our ninth year. Personal instruction from a native speaker. Small classes, private lessons and online instruction. See our website for complete information or contact us for details. Location: Spanish in Waterbury Center, Waterbury Center. Info: 585-1025, spanishparavos@gmail.com, spanishwaterburycenter.com.

Classes at Exquisite Mind: Learn and practice mindfulness in the heart of Burlington with the Exquisite Mind Studio community! Join mindfulness teacher and scholar, Nina La Rosa for a drop-in class or series. Come in or join via video. Check the calendar for this summer’s offerings. By donation. Affirming and open to all! $5-20 (by donation). Location: Exquisite Mind Studio, 88 King St., suite 101, Burlington. Info: Nina La Rosa, 735-2265, nina@ninalarosa.com, ninalarosa.com/schedule.

by women. All fitness levels welcome! No prior experience required! Cost: $30/2.25-hour class. Location: Living Hope Church, 1037 S. Brownell Rd., Williston, Info: The Safety Team, Nancy Keller, 309-4084, nancy@ thesafetyteam.org, thesafetyteam.org.

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Reiki for Horses Level II: Students learn the first three Reiki symbols and their meaning and use. We will experience each symbol through initiations, drawing and chanting. Learn distant healing and setting up a practice. Plenty of practice time with horses. Students will gain basic knowledge for working on any animal. Includes manual and certificate. Cost: $275/2-day certification class. Location: The Hooved Animal Sanctuary, Chelsea. Info: HeartSong Reiki, Kelly McDermott-Burns, 7468834, kelly@heartsongreiki.com, heartsongreiki.com.

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Center offers meditation as a path to discovering gentleness and wisdom. Shambhala Café (meditation and discussions) meets the first Saturday of each month, 9 a.m.-noon. An open house (intro to the center, short dharma talk and socializing) is held on the third Friday of each month, 7-9 p.m. Location: Burlington Shambhala Center, 187 S. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 658-6795, burlingtonshambhalactr.org.

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Arvigo Maya Abdominal Therapy: Taught by Dr. Sarah Wylie. This three-day course is an opportunity to learn an ancient Maya massage for the abdomen, bringing relief to many health concerns such as painful periods, infertility, painful intercourse, abdominal/pelvic scar tissue, back pain, indigestion and anxiety. For self care only. Cost: $450/person; VSAC eligible: inquire for more info! Incl. tuition, educational materials, 30-minute educational session w/an Arvigo practitioner, & morning & afternoon tea. Location: Natural Family Health Clinic, 14 School St., Bristol. Info: Arvigo Institute, Sarah Wylie, 349-6598, seeds@ redblossommedicine.com, arvigotherapy.com.

Each of three special Sunday sessions focus on Healing Arts of Himalayas summer practices for cooling and balancing fire energy ready for rising up to fall activities. Class fee also includes a 60-minute Ayurvedic massage session 50 percent off or more based on your individual need and time. Cost: $20/suggested donation for members; $25/ nonmembers, 2-hour workshopstyle class, discussion, stretching & gentle yoga, meditation, question/answer time, materials provided. Location: Sangha Studio, 200 Main St., suite 7, Burlington. Info: Sangha Studios and Rishi Yoga Healing Centre, Yogi Nitin Gill, 904-962-8445, yogarishi2001@yahoo.co.in, yogarishi.net.

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A Little Bit Country Lydia Loveless on country, Kesha and Jesus’ drinking problem

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ollowing her 2011 semi-breakout album, Indestructible Machine, Lydia Loveless was hailed as (yet another) country-music messiah, destined to save traditional twang from the nefarious auto-tuned clutches of pop-country acts like Florida Georgia Line and Luke Bryan. That’s some serious pressure to put on a then-21-yearold preacher’s daughter from Ohio. And while it was well-intentioned praise, it was always a bit off the mark. Loveless, now 24, is as much a contrarian punk as she is a country acolyte. As the Chicago Tribune’s Greg Kot wrote in his review of that record, Loveless’ “defiant tone is matched by songs that put country and punk on equal ground, unvarnished and direct.” Her latest, 2014’s Somewhere Else, finds the songwriter moving ever farther from the trappings of traditional country. Though there’s still a healthy dose of twang in her full-throated delivery, the DNA of these songs traces more directly to rock and roll. But most importantly, the album centers on Loveless’s greatest asset: her unflinching, at times brutal, honesty and sharp lyrical eye. For example, how many songwriters can take the subject of oral sex and

turn it into something deeply affecting, melancholy and thought-provoking, as Loveless does on “Head”? Or can paint a gut-wrenching portrait of heartbreak as seen through the prism of a 1990s pop star, as she does on “Chris Isaak”? Or can pair barroom snarl with literary fluency in a meditation on the fine line between love and rage, as she does on “Verlaine Shot Rimbaud”? Just one: Lydia Loveless. Loveless will appear as a headlining act at the Tweed River Music Festival in Waitsfield on Saturday, August 1. Seven Days recently caught up with her via FaceTime from her home in Columbus, Ohio.

type, too, where it was like, “Is that nail polish?! Argh!” But then that all changed, which was a good time.

SEVEN DAYS: Your father was a pastor but also a country-western bar owner, which is an interesting contrast. What was that like growing up? LYDIA LOVELESS: They were two separate periods of time. But I would definitely say that bar-owner Dad was way more fun. [Laughs] But maybe that’s just me…

SD: Your dad was originally the drummer in your band. Given how blunt and honest your writing is, especially about love and sex, was that ever awkward? LL: No. I’ve never really given a shit about that sort of thing. My parents are open-minded people, too. So that helps.

SD: My dad was a minister, so I can understand that. LL: He was a super-extreme minister

SD: During the bar period, bands often crashed at your house. Did that in any way influence your interest in music? LL: Not really. I had my mind set on it anyway. My family was really musical, so that was kind of the only option for us. SD: At the very least it didn’t turn you off, finding smelly musicians crashing on your couch. LL: Nope. Surprisingly not. Now I’m the smelly musician on the couch.

SD: “Jesus Was a Wino” is one of my favorite songs of yours. Did that grow out of some sort of connection between the church and bar upbringings?

LL: Definitely more the religious thing. It’s poking fun at the teetotaling Presbyterian churchgoers from that time period in my life. They are so judgmental. Like, if something went wrong in your life, they would tell you it was because you had a secret sin. So I just wanted to write a “fuck you” song to those people. SD: Well done! You recently covered “Blind” by Kesha, which a lot of people thought was ironic. But it really wasn’t, was it? You’re a fan. LL: Yeah, I really love that song. I think she’s a great pop songwriter, and I love pop music. I also like people who are unafraid to be themselves and have a good time, even at the risk of being cheesy or embarrassing. I feel like we’re probably a lot alike as people. SD: You’ve talked a lot about consciously moving away from country music on Somewhere Else. What made you want to move toward rock and roll? LL: I’m not sure it was conscious. But my songwriting started to change and develop, and I didn’t want to be A LITTLE BIT COUNTRY

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If I could, I might spend the whole weekend at the Tweed River Music Festival in Waitsfield, which runs Friday, July 31, through Sunday, August 2. Founded and curated by local songwriter bow thAYEr — also the inventor of a nifty hybrid instrument he calls the bojotar — in recent years, the fest had occupied a scenic spread in

Stockbridge. There, TRMF developed a well-earned rep as a lively, downhome celebration of twangy roots and Americana music. The festival went on hiatus last summer but is back this year in new digs — behind Kenyon’s Variety, FYI — and a lineup that might best all of the previous Tweed fests combined. I’m most thrilled by LYDiA LoVELESS, whom I put roughly on par with courtNEY bArNEtt, SturGiLL SimpSoN and fAthEr JohN miStY in terms of my current songwriter crushes. (See the interview on page 64.) But the rest of the festival is aces, too. Local outlaw dirt rockers wAYLoN SpEED headline the Mainstage slate on Friday. They’ll be joined by, among others, soulful blues rockers the curtiS mAYfLowEr, Boston-based arena rockers towNShip, fellow Beantown sleaze-punks whitE DYNomitE and Amherst, Mass., one-man band the SuitcASE JuNkEt. BTW, that last act is the pseudonym of Vermont native mAtt LorENz, who recently recorded a very cool session with the Signal Kitchen dudes at the Moran Plant in BTV, of all places. Late night, on the Campfire Stage, catch a set from Boston/Providence-based band cANNibAL rAmbLErS, who describe themselves thusly: “Abstract ashcan deconstructive delta swamp grand mal seizure.” And no, I don’t what that means. But I’m intrigued. On Saturday, highlights include local prog-ish upstarts coquEttE, songwriter chriStophEr pAuL StELLiNG (see spotlight on page 72), Nashville-by-way-ofProvidence country traditionalists JoE fLEtchEr AND thE wroNG rEASoNS, songwriter tim GEArAN, Loveless, LA rock trio No SmALL chiLDrEN and Thayer. Speaking of Thayer, dude has a new album out, Sundowser, that prominently features his Frankenstein’s monster of a guitar — it’s part banjo, part resonator guitar, part electric guitar. We’ll review that record soon, but it’s worth checking out in the meantime just to hear that thing. It’s aliiive! For many three-day fests, Sunday is kind of a wind-down day, a time to soothe hangovers from the previous

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If I’m ever officially made the Czar of Vermont Music, my first act will be to collect the local heads of rock-androll state and decree that they shall henceforth share a friggin’ Google calendar so that we can do a better job of spreading out killer shows and festivals. Cuz this week — and the weekend, especially — is just ridiculous. To wit… You might as well camp out at Shelburne Museum for a hat trick of shows that could represent the single biggest weeklong stretch in the venerable history of the Ben & Jerry’s Concerts on the Green series. Thursday, July 30, the DEcEmbEriStS come to town with support from a personal favorite, LADY LAmb. On Saturday, August 1, the AVEtt brothErS visit, with openers the mikE + ruthY bAND. Then, on Tuesday, August 4, it’s boNNiE rAitt with guitarist richArD JuLiAN.

Is iconic alt-rock more your thing? How’s about SoNic Youth’s thurStoN moorE and his band at ArtsRiot on Saturday? (See the spotlight on page 68.) Can’t get enough GrAtEfuL DEAD? The same night, hop aboard the Lake Champlain Ferry in Burlington for Ship of Fools III, with DEAD SEt. And let’s not forget about the mini-festival that I burned a whole column on last week, the Precipice: the Big Prom Ocean, which runs at Radio Bean this Friday and Saturday, July 31 and August 1, and looks to be a hell of a lot of fun. In any normal week, just that collection of shows would be enough to anchor this column. But guess what? Those are the shows I won’t be writing about at any length here. (Well, except maybe the Precipice, if there’s breaking news in the next 1,000 words or so. Clock is ticking, JoE ADLEr…) So if you’ve got plans this weekend that don’t involve seeing some music — camping trips, vacations, weddings, funerals, whatever — cancel them and go see something awesome. And then report back to me and tell me how it was. I’m laid up with a badly injured knee, and it’s looking like I might be on the shelf for a while. So I need to live vicariously through all of you. Just because my summer is suddenly blown doesn’t mean yours has to be. Don’t let me down…

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constrained by genre anymore. So moving away from it had to happen, or I would be stuck making the same record over and over again. SD: So you were just kind of bored with country music? LL: [Laughs] Yeah, pretty much. That’s just kind of the nature of country music. Everyone wants to save it and preserve it. There’s all these words people throw around, and I don’t think “development” is a big part of that. It’s all about keeping it classic, so there’s not a lot of room for progress. I’m sure I’ll be lambasted for that, but, well… SD: Country is interesting because there is the traditionalist camp, but on the other extreme is current mainstream pop country, which sure ain’t how Hank done it. For example, I was listening to a pop-country station the other day, and the hook to one of the songs, hand to God, was, “Chew tobacco, chew tobacco, chew tobacco, spit.” LL: [Laughs] I kind of have a love-hate relationship with some of those songs. On tour we’ll listen to those stations a bit and just laugh. But then it gets depressing after a while, and I feel like I need to take a shower. SD: You’re a fan of [Stephen King’s son] Joe Hill, who is becoming one of my favorite authors. How did you discover him? LL: I was in a bookstore at home in Columbus, and I was looking for a Stephen King book. And the person behind the counter was like, “Actually, you should read this instead.” [Laughs] She handed me Heart-Shaped Box. SD: It’s tough to tease Stephen King away from him, which I’m sure is a

blessing and a curse for Joe Hill. But his stuff does remind me of my favorite era of King, which — and this is kind of terrible — was back in his heavy drinking and drugging days. LL: [Laughs] Yeah. It’s less wordy. SD: You write fiction, too. Any plans to publish? LL: I’ve thought about it for years. But I’m kind of a chickenshit when it comes to writing. I’ve been doing some nonfiction, so I’ll probably start doing some writing with this local paper in Columbus called 614. SD: There is a documentary about you in the works, Who Is Lydia Loveless? Aren’t you, like, 24? Might that be a little early for a bio doc? LL: Definitely! But that’s sort of the point. Gorman [Bechard, director] usually does retrospectives of artists who are past their working careers. So he wanted to work with a current musician who hasn’t really … peaked, I guess. SD: Is it surreal to have a camera following you around all the time? LL: I think it will be weird on the road, because everyone gets so tired and space is hard to come by. So I’m really hoping to not have a nervous breakdown. Other than that, it’s been fine. I’m just afraid that if I’m off doing yoga and someone comes up with a camera that I might actually hurt someone. [Laughs]

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daylong affair styled after the Radio Bean birthday bash, featuring 10 acts, including JAZZYAOKE — again, just what it sounds like — jazz guitarist ART HERTTUA, gypsy-jazz outfit COOKIE’S HOT CLUB, jazz keyboardist ANDRIC SEVERANCE and reggae band SOULSTICE with TOMASAS RUM BATH. It’s slated to go all night or, as I’m told, until the bacon runs out.

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nights of rocking. Not so Tweed River. Soul revivalist JESSE DEE is the headliner, but the undercard is packed, too. It features Vermont expats and current Nashvillians JP HARRIS & THE TOUGH CHOICES, Amherst’s RUSTY BELLE, lovely songwriter CAITLIN CANTY and our own ANDERS PARKER & CLOUD BADGE, to name but a few.

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Last but not least, over in Montpeculiar, OLD SCHOOL REVIVAL MARK MULCAHY is playing the chapel with DJ ATAK & GUESTS 11PM, 21+ at the Vermont College of Fine Arts this Sunday, August 2, with local indie 165 CHURCH ST, BTV • 802-399-2645 outfit ANACHRONIST. Mulcahy was the lead singer and founder of seminal 1980s New Haven, Conn., alt-rock 12v-zenloungeWEEKLY2.indd 1 7/27/15 5:30 PM band MIRACLE LEGION. That group was a regionally popular act that flirted with national success — owing in part to frequent, and not entirely inaccurate, comparisons to R.E.M. Not unlike BIG STAR, they were underappreciated in — and maybe ahead of — their time, Neighborhood Bakery but remain highly regarded among & Coffee Shop those who know the band’s music. For proof, consider a 2009 tribute album to Mulcahy following his wife’s untimely passing, Ciao My Shining Star: The Songs of Mark Mulcahy. That record featured contributions from the likes of the NATIONAL, THOM YORKE, MICHAEL STIPE, DINOSAUR JR., FRANK BLACK, BEN KWELLER and JULIANA HATFIELD. All of that said, readers of a certain vintage might best know Mulcahy from 197 NORTH WINOOSKI AVE. BURLINGTON his time in POLARIS, otherwise known as 863-8278 • VISIT US ON FACEBOOK! the band that wrote all of the music for OPEN EVERYDAY 7AM-3PM loc the great mid-1990s Nickelodeon TV i show “The Adventures of Pete & Pete.” Some week, huh? 12v-barrio070815.indd 1 6/29/15 12:39 PM

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If you never made it to a Bacon Thursday at Nutty Steph’s in Middlesex, this Thursday, July 30, is your last chance. The series — as well as all live music at the granolary — is ending this month. The final BT will be a

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Just around the corner from SK, nurse your hangover with coffee and baked goods at the annual daylong August First Block Party on Saturday, August 1. The musical menu includes BRETT HUGHES & THE HONKY TONK CROWD, the TENDERBELLIES, ABBIE MORIN and MAL MAIZ. Yum.

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phenom SLOW MAGIC, column favorites MADAILA, local DJ GOLD CHENG and a DAVID SYMONS-led duo, ACCORDIANISTAN, which — and I’m not making this up — is chamber music played solely on accordions. (You can also catch that last group at the Light Club Lamp Shop on Thursday, July 30.) Fuck it. I might defy doctor’s orders and go to this one. Masks are mandatory, so who would know? (Though I suppose my limp and giant leg brace might give me away … damn.)

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BREAKWATER CAFÉ: The Hitmen (rock), 6 p.m., free. THE DAILY PLANET: Xenia Dunford (folk rock), 8 p.m., free. JP'S PUB: Pub Quiz with Dave, 7 p.m., free. Karaoke with Melody, 10 p.m., free. JUNIPER: Ray Vega and North (jazz), 8 p.m., free.

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experimental nature, these have ranged wildly in style from contemplative acoustic rock on a 2011 solo album, Demolished Thoughts, to avant-garde noise on an eponymous 2013 record with the band Chelsea Light Moving. His latest solo effort, The Best Day, has been widely hailed as a return to his roots. Writes the Wall Street Journal, the album is “classic Thurston Moore: winding guitar jams, heady lyrics and nuanced rock arrangements that showcase his ever-evolving, complex thinking.” The THURSTON MOORE BAND play ArtsRiot in Burlington on Saturday, August 1, with CHAIN AND THE GANG.

LEUNIG'S BISTRO & CAFÉ: Cody Sargent Trio (jazz), 7 p.m., free. LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Irish Sessions, 8 p.m., free. MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Open Mic with Andy Lugo, 9 p.m., free. NECTAR'S: VT Comedy Club Presents: What a Joke! Comedy Open Mic (standup comedy), 7 p.m., free. funbridge, Thunderbolt Research (rock), 9:30 p.m., free/$5. 18+. RADIO BEAN COFFEEHOUSE: Denmark (indie rock), 7:30 p.m., free. John Daly Duo (folk rock), 9 p.m., free. Film Night, 10 p.m., free. Sad Turtle, Enemy Self, Cworner Stwore (hip-hop), 10:30 p.m., free. RED SQUARE: Live Music, 7 p.m., free. DJ Cre8 (hip-hop), 11 p.m., free. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Josh Panda's Acoustic Soul Night, 8 p.m., $5-10 donation. SWITCHBACK BREWING COMPANY: Music Wednesdays in the Tap Room, 6 p.m., Free. ZEN LOUNGE: Kizomba with Dsantos VT, 7 p.m., free. Loveland with DJ Craig Mitchell, 10 p.m., free/$5. 18+.

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THE SKINNY PANCAKE (MONTPELIER): Cajun Jam with Jay Ekis, Lee Blackwell, Alec Ellsworth & Katie Trautz, 6 p.m., $5-10 donation. SWEET MELISSA'S: Wine Down with D. Davis (acoustic), 5 p.m., free. Carter Glass (singersongwriter), 8 p.m., free.

stowe/smuggs area THE BEE'S KNEES: Heady Topper Happy Hour with David Langevin (piano), 5 p.m., free. Up on the Roof (folk), 7:30 p.m., donation. MOOG'S PLACE: Django & Friends (acoustic), 8 p.m., free. PIECASSO PIZZERIA & LOUNGE: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

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THE MONKEY HOUSE: The Sun Flights, Cricket Blue (indie folk), 8:30 p.m., $3/8. 18+.

RUSTY NAIL: Open Mic, 9:30 p.m., free.

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CITY LIMITS: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free. TWO BROTHERS TAVERN LOUNGE & STAGE: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

northeast kingdom JASPER'S TAVERN: Below Zero Blues Jam, 7:30 p.m., free. PARKER PIE CO.: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free. THE STAGE: Open Mic, 6 p.m., free.

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MONOPOLE: Open Mic, 10 p.m., free. NAKED TURTLE: Jay Lesage (acoustic), 5:30 p.m., free. OLIVE RIDLEY'S: So You Want to Be a DJ?, 10 p.m., free.

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BARRIO BAKERY & PIZZA BARRIO: Abbie Morin (foxy folk), 6 p.m., free. BREAKWATER CAFÉ: Still Kickin' (rock), 6 p.m., free. CHURCH & MAIN: Cody Sargent Trio (jazz), 8 p.m., free. THE DAILY PLANET: Jeff & Gina (jazz), 8 p.m., free. DRINK: BLiNDoG Records Acoustic Sessions, 5 p.m., free. FINNIGAN'S PUB: Craig Mitchell (funk), 10 p.m., free. FRANNY O'S: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free. HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: Half & Half Comedy (standup), 8 p.m., free. Disco Phantom (house), 10:30 p.m., free. JUNIPER: Mark Lavoie (blues), 8 p.m., free. LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Alea Tuttle (indie folk), 7:15 p.m., free. Accordianistan (New Orleans chamber music), 8:30 p.m., free.

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Snakefoot (eclectic), 9 p.m., free.

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NECTAR'S: Trivia Mania, 7 p.m., free. Bluegrass Thursday: Bovine Social Club, Dan Johnson & Wild Branch, 9:30 p.m., $2/5. 18+.

PENALTY BOX: Karaoke, 8 p.m., free.

THE STAGE: Doc, Donovan & Friends (rock, folk, blues), 8 p.m., free.

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RADIO BEAN COFFEEHOUSE: Jazz Sessions with Julian Chobot, 6:30 p.m., free. Anne Stott (indie rock), 7 p.m., free. Shane Hardiman Trio (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free. Evolfo (garage soul), 10:30 p.m., free. RED SQUARE: Mano Malo (rock), 7 p.m., free. D Jay Baron (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free. RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ Cre8 (house), 10 p.m., free. RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB & WHISKEY ROOM: Mashtodon (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): The North End Honeys (Americana), 8 p.m., $5-10 donation. ZEN LOUNGE: Nyt (acoustic R&B), 8 p.m., free. 18+. Miami Fever (house), 10 p.m., $5. 18+.

ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Thunderbolt Research (rock), 7 p.m., free.

THE KNOTTY SHAMROCK: Open Mic, 8 p.m., free. NUTTY STEPH'S: Bacon Thursday, noon, free. SWEET MELISSA'S: BYOV Thursdays, 3 p.m., free. Dave Keller (blues), 7:30 p.m., free.

stowe/smuggs area THE BEE'S KNEES: Spider Roulette (gypsy jazz), 7:30 p.m., donation. MOOG'S PLACE: Open Mic, 8 p.m., free.

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Salsa Series with DJ Hector, 10 p.m., free.

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BLEU NORTHEAST SEAFOOD: James Harvey (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free. BREAKWATER CAFÉ: The Remedy (rock), 6 p.m., free. HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: Silent Mind (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., free. Bonjour Hi (house), 10:30 p.m., free. JUNIPER: Jeff & Gina (jazz), 9 p.m., free. FRI.31

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J.S. Wildhack is the moniker of Davis McGraw, a Windsor guitarist who spent time in various bands, most notably rock outfits the Pilgrims and Derek and the Demons. These groups, part of the Upper Valley collective/sorta-label What Doth Life, dabbled in snarly punk, ’80s hard rock and ironic ’90s alt-rock. In May 2014, McGraw released an EP of forgotten and never-released tracks from 2008 under the Wildhack name. This July, he followed up with a new foursong collection titled Punch Up! Blending outlaw country and garage-y indie rock,

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Wildhack distances himself slightly from his previous work on the new EP. But he doesn’t abandon his street-fighting, hellraising days entirely. Punch Up! opens with “Enough of Me,” a confident, boot-tappin’ twanger. Wildhack is not shy about his late-night escapades, laying his words out like winning cards at the poker table: “Oh yeah those midnight sweats/ can’t get enough of me / Sunday morning reckoning sessions / can’t get enough of me / Face down screamed confession / can’t get enough of me.” “Consult the Authority” showcases Wildhack’s guitar chops. Moments of stinging slide contrast a bluesy blaze of fingerpicking. Cultural snark abounds in the lyrics. “Model on the mirror image dream / hooked in by the checkout magazine / twenty-twenty hot sight hell / everyday a show and tell,” Wildhack observes. Throughout the EP, Wildhack’s deadpan, off-the-cuff delivery echoes CAKE’s John McCrea. It works surprisingly well, coming off as natural instead of stylized. Instrumentally,

Wildhack’s no-frills sound is a less raucous version of his earlier work. It’s still guitar-driven, but not quite as loud and rollicking. Slice-of-life lyrics permeate “Little Deiter,” but Wildhack also throws a knowing wink at the struggling hipsterartist trope. “I’m crashing down with my folks again / yeah they sure don’t raise my salary the way they raise the rent / Just need a break and I’ll be a star / the Barnum Bailey of the local bar.” The EP closes with “North Country,” a slow, tambourine-tinged number. In a tinny, high pitch, Wildhack sings of love lost. It’s a fairly bland tune, but this slip is easily forgotten once you play the EP again. And you will. Because Wildhack’s tongue-in-cheek yet honest lyrics will give you a laugh, and you’ll be tapping your feet as he riffs guitar in skuzzy, twangy delight. Punch Up! is choppy, sexy and just rowdy enough. Punch Up! by J.S. Wildhack is available at jswildhack.bandcamp.com.

For starters, Will Ackerman produced Groten’s album at his southern Vermont studio Imaginary Road. Ackerman is a revered acoustic guitarist himself and, as the founder of the Windham Hill label, is the reluctant godfather of New Age music. (For what it’s worth, Ackerman openly loathes and dismisses the term.) Ackerman writes in the album’s liner notes, “Raphael paints pictures of peace and contemplation and creates musical worlds that one longs to visit.” Groten himself writes, “This album was created for all those who wish to journey home within.” Elsewhere Groten, a longtime member of Burlington “psychotropical jazz” ensemble Guagua, describes himself as a “practitioner of sound healing.” Whether you subscribe to this particular field of medical musicianship or not, it’s impossible to deny that he’s created on Journey Home a lovely sound bath of instrumentals. Lucky are the guitars that receive this kind of close musical attention. On “Ebb & Flow,” Groten’s music sounds like an exercise in Hawaiian slack-key guitar playing. The four meditative tracks that compose the titular suite “Journey Home” — subtitled “Awakening,” “Breath,” “Echoes” and “Arrival” are languid meditations on various open guitar tunings, played as if there is all time in the world. “Be” rings like the accompaniment

to some familiar song that you can’t quite place. The album begins with a track titled Participants will receive “Sweetness” and ends — seemingly in the $50.00 compensation. middle of a phrase — with “Sweetness Reprise.” So if you put the disc on repeat Contact us at 847-8248 or play, you probably won’t even notice that menopauseandbrain@uvm.edu. it’s started all over again. Smooth. Raphael Groten is a fine guitarist, and he plays some classy-sounding instruments on this CD. My only criticism of the 14-track soundscape is that the “string squeak” — a characteristic of Clinical Neuroscience Research Unit brand-new strings — on some of the numbers is a bit jarring, particularly set against the lush smoothness of Groten’s 12v-uvmclinicalresearch092414.indd 1 9/18/14 4:14 PM guitar playing. Still, every track on Journey Home is nova’s played cleanly and recorded meticulously. The sound quality of the guitars and shenanigans wednesdAYs > 7:00 p.m. Groten’s style conjure up memories, not surprisingly, of “In Search of the Burlington Film Turtle’s Navel,” one of Ackerman’s early society Presents recordings. classic Films Ultimately, the soothing sounds of wednesdAYs > 8:00 pm Journey Home are custom made to calm you down, if that’s what you like or need. Watch live However, the album does not come @5:25 recommended for playing in the car while weeknights on tV And online driving at night. Way too spacey! Raphael Groten presents a CD-release get more inFo or Watch online at vermont cam.org • retn.org celebration and concert for Journey Home ch17.tv at Sacred Mountain Studio in Burlington on Friday, July 31. The album is available on iTunes, CD Baby and Amazon. Say you saw it in... 7/27/15 10:49 AM 16t-retnWEEKLY.indd 1

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Journey Home, the latest recording from Vermont’s Raphael Groten, brings the listener right back to the heyday of so-called New Age music. Composed of gently played solo-guitar compositions, the record evokes a time in the 1980s when record labels such as Windham Hill and Dancing Cat released — and sold — scores of spacey recordings featuring meandering instrumentals. As the genre slowly fell out of favor, the term “New Age” assumed negative, pseudo-mystical connotations and eventually came to mean the same thing to many as “elevator music.” However, classics in the genre, such as George Winston’s piano works on Windham Hill, the guitar albums of Peter Lang on Takoma and Brian Eno’s synth classic Music for Airports, still shine on in the memories of those who luxuriated in the gentle calm and musical mystery of those recordings. Stigma aside, it’s no stretch to hang the New Age label on Journey Home.

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MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Wave of the Future, Burning monk (1.21 gigarock), 9 p.m., free. NECTAR'S: Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., free. Dub Apocalypse, Soul Rebel Project (reggae), 9 p.m., $5. RADIO BEAN COFFEEHOUSE: Friday morning Sing-Along with Linda Bassick & Friends (kids music), 11 a.m., free. The Precipice: the Big Prom ocean, 7 p.m., $15/20.

RED SQUARE: The Usual Suspects (rock), 4 p.m., free. tar Iguana (jam), 8 p.m., $5. DJ craig mitchell (house), 11 p.m., $5. RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ con Yay (EDm), 9 p.m., $5. RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB & WHISKEY ROOM: Supersounds DJ (top 40), 10 p.m., free. RUBEN JAMES: DJ cre8 (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free. SIGNAL KITCHEN: Full moon masquerade: Slow magic, madaila, Gold cheng (indie), 9 p.m., $20. 18+.

craft THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): christopher Paul Stelling, maryse Smith (indie folk), 8 p.m., $5-10 donation.

HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: Gordon Goldsmith (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., free. Space Echo with Jahson Deejay (house), 10:30 p.m., free.

ZEN LOUNGE: Jah Red (Latin), 8 p.m., $5. Feel Good Friday with D Jay Baron (hip-hop), 11 p.m., $5.

JP'S PUB: Karaoke with megan, 10 p.m., free.

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BACKSTAGE PUB: Acoustic Happy Hour, 5 p.m., free. Karaoke with Jenny Red, 9 p.m., free. HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Saintseneca, Leisure Suit (rock), 8:30 p.m., $12. AA. JERICHO CAFÉ & TAVERN: missisquoi River Band (blues), 7 p.m., free. THE MONKEY HOUSE: chasing Days (rock), 9 p.m., $3/8. 18+. ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Nerbak Brothers (blues), 5 p.m., free. Feed the machine (rock), 9 p.m., free.

barre/montpelier

CHARLIE-O'S WORLD FAMOUS: Pine Fever (gypsy rock), 10 p.m., free.

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Lake Superior, Sun Lions (rock), 9 p.m., free. NECTAR'S: Pat Lehman (acoustic), 7 p.m., free. Dead Set cruise After Party with cats Under the Stars (JGB tribute), 9 p.m., free/$5. RADIO BEAN COFFEEHOUSE: The Precipice: the Big Prom ocean, 7 p.m., $15/20. RED SQUARE: The tricksters (rock), 9 p.m., $5. mashtodon (hip-hop), 11 p.m., $5. RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ Raul, 6 p.m., $5. DJ Reign one (EDM), 11 p.m., $5. RUBEN JAMES: craig mitchell (house), 10 p.m., free. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Planes on Paper (folk), 8 p.m., $5-10 donation.

NUTTY STEPH'S: two cents in the till (bluegrass, old time), 7 p.m., free.

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WHAMMY BAR: Andy Pitt (bluegrass), 7:30 p.m., free.

stowe/smuggs area

THE BEE'S KNEES: mIke Anderson/41 Prospect (folk), 7:30 p.m., donation. MOOG'S PLACE: Lesley Grant (country), 9 p.m., free. RIMROCK'S MOUNTAIN TAVERN: DJ Rekkon #FridayNightFrequencies (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

ON TAP BAR & GRILL: macKenzie, Delaney and Slim (blues), 5 p.m., free. Inca Hoots (rock), 9 p.m., free.

JASPER'S TAVERN: The Heaters (rock), 9:30 p.m., $5.

stowe/smuggs area

THE BEE'S KNEES: Art Herttua & Ray carroll (jazz), 7:30 p.m., free.

TWO BROTHERS TAVERN LOUNGE & STAGE: Binger (jam), 9 p.m., $3.

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JASPER'S TAVERN: DJ Speedo (dance), 9 p.m., free.

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ARTSRIOT: Thurston moore Band, chain & the Gang (rock), 8:30 p.m., $17/20. AA.

BREAKWATER CAFÉ: Almost Nowhere (rock), 3 p.m., free.

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FRANNY O'S: Kyle Stevens' Happiest Hour of music (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., free. Vermont original music competition, 8 p.m., free.

CLUB METRONOME: Retronome with DJ Fattie B (’80s dance party), 9 p.m., free/$5.

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BREAKWATER CAFÉ: Revolver (rock), 6 p.m., free.

HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: Building Blox (EDM), 10 p.m., free.

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THE STAGE: Strawberry Farm Band (bluegrass), 8 p.m., free.

BLEU NORTHEAST SEAFOOD: Jeff Wheel & Friends (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free.

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CITY LIMITS: city Limits Dance Party with DJ Earl (top 40), 9:30 p.m., free.

THE STAGE: Blue Fox (blues), 6 p.m., free. Shay Gestal (folk), 6 p.m., free. Karaoke, 8 p.m., free.

AUGUST FIRST BAKERY & CAFÉ: August First Block Party, noon, free.

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PARKER PIE CO.: Howie cantor & Geoff Goodhue (Americana), 8 p.m., free.

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THE CIDER HOUSE BBQ AND PUB: Dan Boomhower (piano), 6 p.m., free.

PHAT KATS TAVERN: Eye 91 (metal), 9 p.m., free.

MONOPOLE DOWNSTAIRS: Happy Hour tunes & trivia with Gary Peacock, 5 p.m., free.

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MYRA FLYNN at 7pm • Special dinner performance (reservations suggested) DAVE GRIPPO FUNK BAND at 10pm, doors at 9:30 / $5 cover

ESPRESSO BUENO: Espresso Brain-o (trivia), 7 p.m., free.

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TWO BROTHERS TAVERN LOUNGE & STAGE: The Eskimo Brothers (rock), 6 p.m., free. DJ Blinie (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

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BAGITOS BAGEL & BURRITO CAFÉ: Irish Session, 2 p.m., donation.

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CITY LIMITS: city Limits Dance Party with top Hat Entertainment (Top 40), 9:30 p.m., free.

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RUSTY NAIL: Stowe crawfish Boil: Dwayne Dopsie and the Zydeco Hellraisers, DJ Luis calderin, 6 p.m., $10/15/35/40.

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BACKSTAGE PUB: Barbie N Bones (rock), 9 p.m., free.

RUSTY NAIL: Blind owl Band (bluesgrass), 9 p.m., free.

THE CIDER HOUSE BBQ AND PUB: tim Kane (piano), 6 p.m., free.

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VERMONT PUB & BREWERY: Seth Yacovone Band (blues), 10 p.m., free. ZEN LOUNGE: old School Revival (hip-hop), 11 p.m., $5.

SWEET MELISSA'S: Honky tonk Happy Hour with mark LeGrand, 5 p.m., free. Hillside Rounders (bluesgrass), 9 p.m., $5.

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ESPRESSO BUENO: poemUSEic (poetry, improvised music), 7 p.m., free.

POSITIVE PIE (MONTPELIER): Dead Set (Grateful Dead tribute), 10 p.m., $5.

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NECTAR'S: Mi Yard Reggae Night with DJs Big Dog and Jahson, 9:30 p.m., $3. THE OLDE NORTHENDER PUB: Open Mic, 7 p.m., free. RADIO BEAN COFFEEHOUSE: The Travelers (folk), 7:30 p.m., free. Brady Winslow (folk), 9 p.m., free. RED SQUARE: Right Coast Leftovers (rock), 7 p.m., free. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Bluegrass Brunch Scramble, noon, $5-10 donation. Lexi Weege (singer-songwriter), 6 p.m., $5-10 donation. Spark Open Improv Jam & Standup Comedy, 7 p.m., $5-10 donation.

chittenden county BACKSTAGE PUB: Karaoke/ Open Mic, 8 p.m., free.

PENALTY BOX: Trivia With a Twist, 4 p.m., free.

stowe/smuggs area THE BEE'S KNEES: Lexi Weege (folk), 11 a.m., donation. Sherman Ewing (folk), 7:30 p.m., donation.

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FRANNY O'S: Standup Comedy Cage Match, 8 p.m., free.

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OLIVE RIDLEY'S: Karaoke with DJ Dana Barry, 9 p.m., free.

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CLUB METRONOME: Dead Set (Grateful Dead tribute), 9 p.m., free/$5. HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: DJ Dan Freeman (trap), 10 p.m., free. JP'S PUB: Open Mic with Kyle, 9 p.m., free. LEUNIG'S BISTRO & CAFÉ: Dayve Huckett (jazz), 7 p.m., free. NECTAR'S: The Rooks (soul), 9 p.m., free/$5. 18+. RADIO BEAN COFFEEHOUSE: Gua Gua (psychotropical jazz), 6:30 p.m., free. Crazyhearse (folkabilly), 9 p.m., free. Honky Tonk Tuesday with Brett Hughes & Friends, 10 p.m., $3. RED SQUARE: The Tenderbellies (bluegrass), 7 p.m., free. Craig Mitchell (house), 10 p.m., free. ZEN LOUNGE: Killed It! Karaoke, 9 p.m., free.

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THE MONKEY HOUSE: All Talk, Heavy Plains, Violet Ultraviolet (rock), 8:30 p.m., free/$5. 18+. ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

barre/montpelier

CHARLIE-O'S WORLD FAMOUS: Karaoke, 8 p.m., free.

NECTAR'S: VT Comedy Club Presents: What a Joke! Comedy Open Mic (standup comedy), 7 p.m., free. Balkun Brothers (blues, rock), 9:30 p.m., free/$5. 18+. RADIO BEAN COFFEEHOUSE: Ensemble V (jazz), 7 p.m., free. The Adventures of Texas Pete (western swing), 9 p.m., free. Mr. Doubtfire (punk), 10:30 p.m., free. RED SQUARE: Hoptronica (house), 8:30 p.m., free. DJ Cre8 (hip-hop), 11 p.m., free. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Josh Panda's Acoustic Soul Night, 8 p.m., $5-10 donation. ZEN LOUNGE: Kizomba with Dsantos VT, 7 p.m., free. Loveland with DJ Craig Mitchell, 10 p.m., free/$5. 18+.

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HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Dean Ween Group (rock), 9 p.m., $20/23. AA. THE MONKEY HOUSE: Onion City Folk Revival, 8 p.m., free/$5. 18+. ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Chad Hollister (acoustic rock), 7 p.m., free.

barre/montpelier

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (MONTPELIER): Cajun Jam with Jay Ekis, Lee Blackwell, Alec Ellsworth & Katie Trautz, 6 p.m., $5-10 donation. SWEET MELISSA'S: Wine Down with D. Davis (acoustic), 5 p.m., free.

JUNIPER: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

stowe/smuggs area

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free. NECTAR'S: Motown Mondays with DJs Craig Mitchell & Fattie B (soul), 10 p.m., free/$5. 18+. RADIO BEAN COFFEEHOUSE: Adir L.C. (indie folk), 5:30 p.m., free. Lilli Jean (astral American music), 7 p.m., free. The Brothers Yares (semitic Americana), 8:30 p.m., free. Latin Sessions with Mal Maiz (cumbia), 10:30 p.m., free. RED SQUARE: Mashtodon (hip-hop), 8 p.m., free. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Kidz Music with Raphael, 11:30 a.m., $3 donation.

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MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Open Mic with Andy Lugo, 9 p.m., free.

SOUTH SIDE TAVERN: Open Mic with John Lackard, 9 p.m., free.

ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Open Mic with Wylie, 7 p.m., free.

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PHAT KATS TAVERN: Jay Natola (solo guitar), 9 p.m., free.

Sessions, 8 p.m., free. Film Night, 10 p.m., free.

JP'S PUB: Dance Video Request Night with Melody, 10 p.m., free.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Smarty McFly (downtempo DJ), 8:30 p.m., free.

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MOOG'S PLACE: Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., free.

MOOG'S PLACE: Jason Wedlock (rock), 7:30 p.m., free.

middlebury area

TWO BROTHERS TAVERN LOUNGE & STAGE: Karaoke with Roots Entertainment, 9 p.m., free.

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BREAKWATER CAFÉ: King Me (rock), 6 p.m., free. THE DAILY PLANET: Paul Asbell Trio (jazz), 8 p.m., free. HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: DJ E Major (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free. JP'S PUB: Pub Quiz with Dave, 7 p.m., free. Karaoke with Melody, 10 p.m., free. JUNIPER: Ray Vega/Mercurii Ensemble (jazz), 8 p.m., free. LEUNIG'S BISTRO & CAFÉ: Queen City Hot Club (gypsy jazz), 7 p.m., free. LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Irish

THE BEE'S KNEES: Heady Topper Happy Hour with David Langevin (piano), 5 p.m., free.

PIECASSO PIZZERIA & LOUNGE: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free. RUSTY NAIL: Open Mic, 9:30 p.m., free.

middlebury area

CITY LIMITS: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free. TWO BROTHERS TAVERN LOUNGE & STAGE: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

northeast kingdom PARKER PIE CO.: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free. THE STAGE: Open Mic, 6 p.m., free.

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MONOPOLE: Open Mic, 10 p.m., free. NAKED TURTLE: Jay Lesage (acoustic), 5:30 p.m., free. OLIVE RIDLEY'S: So You Want to Be a DJ?, 10 p.m., free.

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year after moving into its new space in South Pomfret, ArtisTree Community Art Center & Gallery has mounted “Unbound Vol. V,” its most ambitious show to date. The annual exhibit “for art lovers and bibliophiles” is held in conjunction with Bookstock, an annual three-day event in Woodstock that celebrates writers and poets of northern New England. Every year — this is the fifth — the Friday-night opening reception for “Unbound” is also Bookstock’s kickoff party. As the culminating show in a year’s worth of exhibitions in the new gallery, last Friday’s celebration was especially apropos. “Unbound” is a juried show open to regional artists who want to explore the book as concept, object and format. Participants are encouraged to free both themselves and viewers from common preconceptions about book-inspired work. The 55 pieces in this year’s exhibition present sculptural, pictorial and tactile explorations of the concept. Beautiful, playful and enigmatic, the “books” are filled with all manner of secrets. Gallery director Adrian Tans has likened the exhibition to a cabinet of curiosities. This year’s juror was artist Peter Madden, who teaches book arts and alternative photography at Boston’s School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Massachusetts College of Art and Design. His work has been exhibited around the country. The 1,100-square-foot ArtisTree Gallery is somewhat larger than the gallery’s previous quarters in Woodstock, and its three-room configuration allows for more exhibition space. This is fortunate, as many of the pieces are freestanding. On view are accordion books, handmade books with hand stitching, sculptures created from actual old books, and others made of ceramic, metal or cast iron. The works sit on pedestals, tables or the floor, or are mounted on the walls. This kind of exhibit merits a slow wander for close viewing, and a second or third look. Ania Gilmore and Annie Zeybekoglu’s “&” is a paper accordion of letters spelling their way into a sentence, which stretches across an end wall. Without an attentive look at the monochromatic red cutout, the viewer would miss the message. Nearby, “The Lonely House” (monoprint; paper, pen, ink, book board, cloth) by Katie Higgins-White delivers a combination of words and images across 12

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Marcia Vogler’s “Phancy”

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ARE FILLED WITH ALL MANNER OF SECRETS. accordion book-board panels. Threedimensional images pop from the folds between panels: a pair of double doors appears in one, a house perched on a hill in another. Created in various shades of black and gray, that house looks as lonely as the work’s title suggests. By contrast, Marcia Vogler’s mixed-media work “Diffusion” takes a more painterly approach. Colorful shapes march across its folded “pages,” creating miniature abstract paintings within a sculptural framework. A rectangular container stands by to hold the work when it is folded. In another room, Vogler’s “Phancy” is a controlled explosion of paper and book, gloriously breaking out of the confines of its neatly laid-out pages. Sarah Smith’s diminutive folded-paper book “Posers International” uses appropriated photographs of (mostly) men receiving trophies or appearing with their trophy wives or children. Smith provides a short narrative for each image, as if she were familiar with the parties depicted. For instance, “Maintaining the most fervid smile possible, Bob Brackett presented

Stanley Tallhead with the trophy for the Most Effective Sidelong Glance During a Commotion.” “Posers” is funny and absurd, and its alternate universe is eerily familiar — as strange as the one we inhabit. This is one of many pieces in the show that visitors are allowed to handle, and gloves are available for doing so. Jeffrey Simpson offers a weightier work with his hefty tome “History of Modern Art.” About 24 inches high and weighing 75 pounds, the voluminous faux book made of cast iron provides a counterpoint to the airy, sculpted paper works throughout the exhibit. Its mass could be an homage to art history or an ironic reaction to that history’s influence on contemporary art. Norwich artist Kathy Cadow Parsonnet introduces a lighter touch. Two of her “Movable Art” books consist of handpainted, magnetized shapes, which can

be arranged and rearranged on magnetic pages to create narrative and abstract images. A third book, “Clean Thoughts,” made of waterproof paper and Tyvek, can be written on with a marker in the shower. Judith Taylor has two compelling entries. “Volume I: Out of the Box” features a Rapunzel-like tangle of long, curled strands of brown paper covered with words and phrases; these dangle from a height of about four feet, perhaps from a hidden pedestal. Suggesting the flow of a fountain, the strands pile up on the floor. More powerful and subtle in its execution is Taylor’s “Only the Hand That Erases Can Write the Real Thing.” The artist filled this handmade book with writing, and then meticulously erased every word. The remnants of erasure — the lost words — survive as tiny scraps of paper and even smaller bits of eraser, tinged with pencil and stored in a small jar that is tethered to the book. Taylor seems to suggest that the eraser is a powerful tool for unleashing one’s thoughts. First prize in “Unbound” was awarded to Benjamin S. Cariens for “Written,” which consists of 11 wall-mounted “books” made of Hydrocal plaster, paper, ink and paint. Their strong graphic quality, with the India ink predominating against a neutral palette, is riveting. Though strong individually, the pieces read together like a musical score. The second-place award went to Vivien Masters for her oil-painted portrait of “Tamora, Queen of Goths” on a well-worn red-leather edition of a Shakespeare trilogy. Simpson earned a third-place win for his “History of Modern Art.” Honorable mentions went to Taylor for “Only the Hand That Erases Can Write the Real Thing,” to Higgins-White for “The Lonely House” and to Hali Issente for “Kaleidoscope.” The last is a colorful collage pieced together from old book cloth and waxed string, framed and mounted as a painting or document. Five years in, “Unbound” has turned a page and is bigger and better than ever. With physical books and the publishing world threatened, it’s encouraging to see that the community, artists and audiences support book making — even if these volumes aren’t real.

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“Unbound Vol. V,” through August 22 at ArtisTree Community Art Center & Gallery in South Pomfret. artistreevt.org

Art ShowS

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Guapo: “inbound,” a graphical score in 20 pieces. August 3-28. info, 865-7211. pickering Room, Fletcher Free library, in burlington.

f JESSE azarIaN: “paintin’ idiot show,” works by the Calais artist. Reception: Friday, August 7, 5-9 p.m. August 1-31. info, 318-2438. Red square in burlington. f STacI aNNE K. GrovE: “no More hiroshimas,” an interactive exhibition of design, photography, paper sculptures and video that marks the 70th anniversary of the bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki on August 6, 1945. Reception: Friday, August, 7, 5-8 p.m. August 3-september 30. info, 862-9616. burlington College.

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f ‘collaGE’: Collage in various media by

members of the Milton Artists’ guild. Reception: Thursday, July 30, 5:30-7:30 p.m. July 30-August 31. info, lcatv.org, info@lcatv.org. lCATV in Colchester.

f ‘MooNlIGHT IN vErMoNT’: A group show by 25 local artists in a variety of media. Reception: Friday, August 7, 5-7 p.m. August 1-31. info, ealexander22@ yahoo.com. Jericho Town hall.

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EdWard l. rubIN: “Vermont: An outsider’s inside View,” 28 photographic portraits and landscapes from the book by the same name, by the California-based art photographer and production designer. August 1-31. info, 323-573-0525. Vermont statehouse Card Room in Montpelier.

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arT THErapy aSSocIaTIoN of vErMoNT: MEMbEr arT SHoW: A juried show of works by Vermont art therapists representing the clienttherapist relationship and personal insights into healing. August 1-september 17. info, 595-3788. big picture Theater and Café in waitsfield. bIG rEd barN arT SHoW: More than 30 local artists exhibit paintings, monoprints and sculpture. new pieces are added throughout the month. July 30-August 30. info, 496-6682. big Red barn gallery at lareau Farm in waitsfield.

f davId GarTEN: “My personal Cuba – A photographic Retrospective of 31 Visits over 21 Years,” on view in a converted storefront as part of Vermont Festival of the Arts. Reception: Friday, July 31, 6-8 p.m. July 31-september 7. info, 496-5516. Village square in waitsfield.

JulIa purINToN: “Everyday Magic,” large-scale landscapes and nature paintings in oil, acrylic and mixed media exploring the mystery and commonality of the human-to-nature experience. August 1-30. info, 583-5832. The bundy Modern gallery in waitsfield.

f KaTHlEEN McGuffIN aNd Karla vaN vlIET: “Making sacred Connections,” oil-painted parables and abstract works, respectively, during the Vermont Festival of the Arts. Reception: saturday, August 1, 3:30 p.m. August 1-september 6. info, 496-3065. waitsfield united Church of Christ.

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f arTIST IN rESIdENcE: auGuST SHoW: utilitarian and decorative objects by collaborators larry langlais and barb langevin, with paintings in a variety of media by El Towle. Reception: sunday, August 2, 1-3 p.m. August 1-31. info, 933-6403. Artist in Residence Cooperative gallery in Enosburg Falls.

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f crISIS dE ocTubrE; THE cubaN MISSIlE crISIS’: The ninth annual slavo-Vermontia-philic exhibition featuring art, artifacts, memories, music and photographs of the cold-war era from the united states, Russia and Cuba. Reception: Friday. July 31, 6-10 p.m. August 1-november 1. info, 356-2776. Main street Museum in white River Junction.

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f SaM THurSToN: paintings and drawings depicting portraits of the artist’s friends and newport street scenes. Reception: Friday, August 7, 5-7 p.m. August 1-30. info, 334-2626. newport natural Market & Café.

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caNalETTo’S vEduTE prINTS: An exhibition honoring collector and donor Adolph weil Jr. features etchings from the early 1740s of Venetian scenes by Antonio Canaletto. August 1-December 6. info, 603-646-2808. hood Museum, Dartmouth College, in hanover, n.h.

f ‘ExprESSIoNS’: paintings that suggest the relationship between art and nature by Anthony hobbs, Marjorie griffin and Joanna nash. Reception: saturday, August 1, 3-5 p.m. August 2-16. info, 819-843-9992. le studio de georgeville, Québec.

arT EvENTS ‘buIldING a local EcoNoMy: lESSoNS froM HuIcHol ExpErIENcE?’: A gallery talk and short documentary “new Day on the Mountain,” about economic development in the huichol mountains, followed by discussion of possible parallels and implications for local efforts in the white River Valley. bAlE Community space, south Royalton, wednesday, July 29, 7 p.m. cHrISTa doNNEr aNd STEpHEN aNdrEWS: A talk explores the relationship between making art and finding health care. College hall Chapel, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, wednesday, July 29, 9 a.m. info, 828-8600. Goddard MaSTEr of fINE arT: arT craWl: A multimedia exhibit with surprise performances in dance, theater and music. goddard College, plainfield, wednesday, July 29, 6-8:30 p.m. info, 454-8311. bca SuMMEr arTIST MarKET: A juried outdoor market featuring handmade original fine art and crafts by Vermont artists and artisans, in conjunction with the burlington Farmers Market. burlington City hall park, saturday, August 1, 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m. info, 865-7166. ‘Wall To caNvaS’: A live urban art competition in which 12 regional artists compete using paste and paint to raise funds for shelburne Craft school. Competition: 2 to 4:30 p.m., followed by auction (artists keep half). Music by DJ Rekkon, artist merchandise tent, interactive art, food trucks and brewery tours. Magic hat Artifactory, south burlington, saturday, August 1, 1-6 p.m. $5 donation. info, 658-2739. ‘THE NaTural SKETcHbooK WITH lIbby davIdSoN’: bring your sketchbook and pencils, pens and/or watercolors for an instructive session indoors and out. Registration required. birds of Vermont Museum, huntington, Tuesday, August 4, 10 a.m.-noon. $20 museum members; $30 nonmembers. info, 434-2167.

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brucE coNKlIN: “new paintings,” Vermont landscapes by the local artist. Through August 15. info, 862-2470. uVM Medical Center in burlington. carl rubINo: “it’s not what You look At. it’s what You see,” photographs with themes including architectural, natural and urban landscapes, abstracts and multiple-exposure images. Through August 28. info, 518-524-8450. hinge in burlington. THE INNovaTIoN cENTEr SuMMEr SHoW: group exhibits of local artists on all three floors. First floor: Alana lapoint, Ashley Veselis, Casey blanchard, Elizabeth bunsen, liz Cleary, Meryl lebowitz, Michael buckley and Tom Merwin. second floor: Elizabeth nelson, James Vogler, Jeffrey Trubisz, lyna lou nordstorm, Michael pitts and Robert green. Third floor: haley bishop, Jacques burke, Jessica Drury, lynn Cummings and Meryl lebowitz. Curated by sEAbA. Through August 31. info, 863-6903. The innovation Center of Vermont in burlington. JacquES burKE: ink, watercolors, acrylic, spray paint and other mixed media on canvas. Through August 31. info, 658-6016. speeder & Earl’s (pine street) in burlington. JEaN cHErouNy: “My home,” two semiabstract series including “unforceable” and “Truthless” presented as a 10-year retrospective. Through August 31. info, 651-9692. RETn in burlington. JEaN luc duSHIME: “A global Connection,” photographs that investigate social and political structures that perpetuate war, violence, misunderstanding and miscommunication. MIlToN roSa-orTIz: “An ode to Time,” an exploration of the aging process using driftwood taken from lake Champlain. rIcK NorcroSS: “The Faces of Rock & Roll: 1969 to 1974,” images by the longtime leader of western-swing band Rick & the All-star Ramblers and former music critic-photographer. Through september 19. info, 865-7166. bCA Center in burlington. KEvIN ruEllE: Faux vintage Vermont travel posters. Through August 3. info, 488-5766. Vintage inspired lifestyle Marketplace in burlington.

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‘4TH aNNual arT EducaTorS uNITE!’: An exhibition of works in a variety of mediums by 17 self-described “artrageous” female art educators and artists. Curated by sEAbA. Through August 31. info, 859-9222. VCAM studio in burlington. ‘abSTracT SpoTlIGHT’: paintings by Cameron schmitz and Johanne Yordan, and photography by Douglas biklen. Through september 19. info, 865-7166. Vermont Metro gallery, bCA Center, in burlington. aSHlEE rubINSTEIN: “Fast and Furious Food,” representational paintings of “bad” food. Through August 29. info, oneartscollective@gmail.com. onE Arts Center in burlington.

KrISTEN M. WaTSoN: “{stratum},” mixed-media works that explore translucence and the act of artistic appropriation. Through August 28. info, 578-0300. Designers’ Circle Jewelers in burlington. lESlIE fry: “Twist & shout,” an exhibit of monoprints and sculpture by the winooski artist. Through August 19. info, 864-2088. The Men’s Room in burlington.

f ‘THE lIvE SHoW’: A sEAbA fundraiser featuring live painting through July and exhibited in August. Reception: Friday, August 7, 5-8 p.m. Through August 31. info, 859-9222. sEAbA Center in burlington. buRlingTon shows

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f cEraMIc SculpTurE SHoW: works by more than 20 Vermont ceramic sculptors. Reception: Friday, August 7, 5-7 p.m. August 1-31. info, 224-7000. The Mud studio in Middlesex.

GMcc 26TH aNNual pHoTo SHoW IN THE rouNd barN: An annual community-based photography exhibit as part of the Vermont Festival of the Arts. August 3-september 7. info, 496-7722. inn at the Round barn Farm in waitsfield.

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‘Looking Out: The Self-Taught Art of Larry Bissonnette’: Bold mixed-media paintings by the Vermont artist and international spokesman for autism in his first solo show. Through August 29. Info, 863-5966. Amy E. Tarrant Gallery, Flynn Center, in Burlington. ‘Maritime Burlington’: An interactive exhibit organized by the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum under a tent at Perkins Pier; hands-on activities, historic photos, highlights from the museum’s nautical archaeology work and research, and lake tours. Through October 12. Info, 475-2022. Perkins Pier in Burlington. ‘On the Waterfront’: A waterfront-themed exhibition in conjunction with the 10th annual Lake Champlain Dragon Boat Festival. Through August 30. Info, 914-584-1215. Art’s Alive Gallery @ Main Street Landing’s Union Station in Burlington. Peter Bartlett: Abstract paintings. Through August 31. Info, 865-7211. Mezzanine Gallery, Fletcher Free Library, in Burlington. Rex Bradeen: Acrylic paintings and screenprints on paper focusing on contemporary fables featuring fortysomething moms interpreted through the clarifying lens of linoleum and insects, respectively. Through July 31. Info, 318-2438. Red Square in Burlington. Robert Waldo Brunelle Jr.: “Playtime,” a solo exhibition featuring kinetic sculptures by the Vermont artist. Through July 31. Info, 578-2512. The S.P.A.C.E. Gallery in Burlington.

‘A Midsummer’s Night’: The brewery’s new gallery celebrates with works by local artists inside and out. Through August 25. Info, oneartscollective@ gmail.com. Burlington Beer Company in Williston.

Victoria Blewer: “Cuba!,” photographs of people and urban settings from 2014. Through July 31. Info, 863-6458. Frog Hollow Vermont State Craft Center in Burlington.

Nicole Christman: Artworks from the winner of the 3rd Annual Labels for Libations design contest. Bottles of Art Hop Ale featuring the artist’s label design available for purchase; $1 from every bottle sold benefits SEABA. Through July 31. Info, 6582739. Magic Hat Artifactory in South Burlington.

f ‘Works Both Ways’: 2D and 3D mixed-media

works by artists who are also poets and writers: Bren Alvarez, Merche Bautista, Sharon Webster, Tina Escala, Genese Grill, Marian Willmott, Roger Coleman and Jon Turner. Reception: Friday, July 31, 5-8 p.m. Through September 4. Info, 363-4746. Flynndog in Burlington.

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5th Annual Jericho Plein Air Festival Exhibition: Participants in the outdoor painting event display their finished works. Through August 9. Info, 899-2974. Emile A. Gruppe Gallery in Jericho. ‘American Moderns, 1910-1960: From O’Keeffe to Rockwell’: Almost 50 artworks in a variety of styles that explore the range of American modern painting and sculpture. Includes works by Georgia O’Keeffe, Milton Avery, Marsden Hartley, Stuart Davis, Arthur Dove, Elie Nadelman, Rockwell Kent, Luigi Lucioni and Norman Rockwell. Through September 13. ‘Rich and Tasty: Vermont Furniture to 1850’: A decorative arts showcase of furniture from Shelburne Museum and other collections that helps define the styles, economics and aesthetic innovations in 19th-century Vermont design. Through November 1. Info, 985-3346. Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education, Shelburne Museum. ‘Birds of a Fiber’: A community art show. Through October 31. Info, 434-2167. Birds of Vermont Museum in Huntington. Emily Mitchell: Whimsical and vibrant acrylic paintings by the Richmond artist and educator. Through August 31. Info, 985-9511. Rustic Roots in Shelburne. Essex Art League: Paintings, photographs, matted prints and ceramic art by members. Through July 31. Info, president@essexartleague.com. The Old Red Mill in Jericho. ‘Travel With Ogden Pleissner’: A selection of the artist’s lesser-known American and European landscapes, along with other American paintings from the museum’s permanent collection. Judy B. Dales: “Ahead of the Curve,” an exhibit of contemporary quilts from the last 18 years of the artist’s flowing, abstract style. Through October 31. Info, 985-3346. Shelburne Museum.

Rory Jackson: “Printed Light,” giclée prints on canvas depicting Vermont and Ghana. Through August 31. Info, 985-8222. Shelburne Vineyard. ‘Running the Gamut: From Realism to Abstraction’: A group show featuring the paintings of Daniel Gottsegen and 15 other artists. Through September 1. Info, 985-3848. Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery in Shelburne.

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‘1865, Out of the Ashes: Assassination, Reconstruction & Healing the Nation’: Historical artifacts that commemorate the Civil War’s 150th anniversary. Through July 31. Info, 485-2886. Sullivan Museum & History Center, Norwich University, in Northfield.

f Art Resource Association New Member Exhibit: Work in a variety of media by central Vermont artists in celebration of ARA’s 40th anniversary. Reception: Thursday, July 30, 5-7 p.m. Through September 18. Info, 262-6035. T. W. Wood Gallery in Montpelier. Barbara Leber: “The Long and Short of It,” paintings by the Vermont artist. Through July 31. Info, 225-6628. Plainfield Community Center.

f ‘Creative Cosmos’: Paintings, prints, weaving, sculpture and digital images inspired by the cosmos and scientific discoveries by Sabra Field, Paul Calter, Cameron Davis, Janet Van Fleet, Bhakti Ziek, Marcus Greene and Jim Robinson. Reception: August 8, 6-8:30 p.m. Through September 7. Marie LaPré Grabon: Landscapes and collages by the Vermont artist. Through August 10. Info, 728-3726. Chandler Gallery in Randolph. Early Summer Members’ Show: An exhibition of works by 13 members of the new venue. Through July 31. MidSummer Show: New artworks by members. Through August 31. Info, 839-5349. The Front in Montpelier. Elinor Osborn: Photographs of northern owls by the Vermont nature photographer. Through August 30. Info, 454-0141. Blinking Light Gallery in Plainfield.

Karla Van Vliet and Kathleen McGuffin

Spirituality expressed in parables and dreams ties these two painters together in

“Making Sacred Connections,” an exhibition on view from August 1 to September 6 at the Waitsfield United Church of Christ. Van Vliet’s work comes from “listening inwardly to what seeks to be expressed,” as she writes. McGuffin paints visual parables of scenes and objects in oil. The artists give a talk at 3:30 p.m. at their opening reception on Saturday, August 1. Pictured: “Winged Victory” by McGuffin. Hannah Morris: “Things to Remember Camping,” multimedia gouache and paper collages that make “little picture books” about concepts large and small, and with self-referential humor. Through August 7. Info, 828-3291. Spotlight Gallery in Montpelier. John Snell: “In My Backyard,” 30 color photographs that feature abstract and representational images from central Vermont that emphasize everyday beauty. Through July 31. Info, 223-3338. Kellogg-Hubbard Library in Montpelier. ‘A Legacy of Caring: Kurn Hattin Homes for Children’: A historical exhibit of Kurn Hattin Homes for Children, founded in 1894 in Westminster to offer a safe home and quality education for disadvantaged children in a nurturing, rural environment. Through September 30. Info, 828-2291. Vermont History Museum in Montpelier. Marina Epstien: More than 20 years of paintings, ranging from early surrealist and abstract expressionist to more figurative and symbolic works. Through September 15. Info, 229-6297. Vermont Supreme Court Gallery in Montpelier. Mitch Smoller: “New England Artifacts,” photographs of New England artifacts, landscapes and architecture. Through August 1. Info, 223-7800. The Green Bean Art Gallery at Capitol Grounds in Montpelier. Studio Place Arts Summer 2015: “Strength,” a group show of traditional and nontraditional work that explores the meanings of strength, whether of force or spirit, Main Floor Gallery; “Spirit Images,” drawings and words by Eleanor Ott, Second Floor Gallery; and “Nature Scapes and Other Worlds,” paintings, installation and sculpture by Ruth Hamilton, Third Floor Gallery. Through August 29. Info, 479-7069. Studio Place Arts in Barre. Tina Valentinetti: “Windows: Looking In, Looking Out,” photography of and about windows. Through August 28. Info, 223-2518. Montpelier Senior Activity Center.

Tom Leytham: “The Other Working Landscape,” watercolors of Vermont’s vanishing industrial architecture by the Montpelier artist and architect. Through September 30. Info, 229-0430. Governor’s Gallery in Montpelier. VCFA Student Exhibitions: Works by current visual arts students. Through July 31. Info, 8288600. College Hall Gallery in Montpelier.

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‘2015 Legacy Collection’: Landscapes painted by 25 living and 13 deceased artists that reflect the legacy of museum namesakes and artists Alden and Mary Bryan. Through December 30. ‘Generations’: Works by 30 artists and the artists who taught them, showing influences and how techniques evolve over time. Through September 7. Info, 644-5100. Bryan Memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville. ‘Water’: Paintings that explore the beauty of summer by Mariella Bisson, Rebecca Kinkead, Craig Mooney and Carol O’Malia. Through July 30. Beth Donahue: “American Zen,” visceral abstract paintings influenced by literary works, natural patterns, and teachings of Hindu and Zen masters. Through July 31. Julia Jensen: “Scenes Remembered,” oil and encaustic paintings that celebrate light and the natural landscape. Through August 11. Susan Wahlrab: “Seasons,” layered varnished watercolor paintings on archival clay board. Through July 30. Info, 253-8943. West Branch Gallery & Sculpture Park in Stowe. ‘Exposed’: The 24th annual outdoor exhibit features 18 sculptures and installations by regional artists, sited at the gallery, downtown and along the recreation path. Through October 14. ‘Now You See Me: The Best of the Northeast Masters of Fine Arts 2015’: The third biennial exhibition featuring emerging contemporary artists from Québec, New England and New York working in a variety of media. Through August 23. Info, 253-8358. Helen Day Art Center in Stowe.

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Paul stone: surreal, dreamlike New england landscape paintings. Through september 30. info, 253-1818. Green mountain Fine Art Gallery in stowe. ‘river works’: photography, paintings and multimedia inspired by Vermont rivers and water meditation by Arista Alanis, Kevin Fahey, Janet Fredericks, John miller, John sargent, Rett sturman and Kathryn lipke. Through July 30. info, 888-1261. River Arts in morrisville. ‘sloPe style’: Thirty-five fully accessorized vintage ski outfits, with a special section of the exhibit dedicated to Vermont ski brands. Through october 31. info, 253-9911. Vermont ski and snowboard museum in stowe. tod Gunter aviation art: illustrations currently include the F4u Corsair, a wwii fighter, and the F-4 phantom ii, a fighter-bomber active in Vietnam. more drawings and renderings are continually added. Through december 31. info, 734-9971. plane profiles Gallery in stowe. trevor corP: paintings, prints and furniture, in the Red mill Gallery. Through August 1. info, 635-2727. Vermont studio Center in Johnson. trevor corP: paintings and prints by the local artist and staff member at the Vermont studio Center. Through August 17. info, 635-7423. The lovin’ Cup in Johnson.

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included in the small works show. Through July 31. info, 496-6682. big Red barn Gallery at lareau Farm in waitsfield.

JaMes McGarrell & Mark Goodwin: A selection of imagistic paintings, 1984-2004, as well as drawings on tile and paper by mcGarrell and painting, drawing, collage and prints by Goodwin. Through september 6. info, 767-9670. bigTown Gallery in Rochester.

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f Jeff Perrott & kristi kohut: watercolor monotypes and oil-on-paper paintings with bold colors and exuberant energy. Reception: saturday, August 1, 5-6:30 p.m. Through August 22. info, 617-842-3332. walker Contemporary in waitsfield. kylie wolGaMott: “Fertile Ground,” paintings and mixed-media drawings on the theme of life and decay. Through August 1. info, 244-7801. Axel’s Gallery & Frameshop in waterbury.

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‘local color’: paintings, glass, ceramics, fiber art and woodcraft by more than 45 Vermont artists exploring Vermont’s natural and built environment. Through september 30, noon-5 p.m. sean dye: Vermont landscapes in oil, acrylic and pastel. info, 338-0136. Creative space Gallery in Vergennes.

festival of the arts: The seventh annual Festival of the Arts is saturday, August 8, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., on Jeffersonville’s main street with fine art, food and music. Regional artists can register to show or sell art by registering at cambridgeartsvt.org. Cambridge Arts Council. deadline: August 6. info, 633-2388. iaa fall art show & sell: The integrated Arts Academy at h.o. wheeler is looking for more than 40 experienced and emerging artists and craftspeople to sell their work at our school’s Fall Art show & sell fundraiser on october 10 at burlington City hall. Artists keep 60 percent of sales; the rest is donated to the school. details and sign-ups at artforiaa.com. deadline: september 1. burlington City hall. info, 503-367-8565. labels for libations: local Vermont artists are invited to design a label for a limited edition run of Art hop Ale. A prize of $1,000, plus the winning design on labels and an exhibition of artist’s work at the Artifactory. submission information online at magichat.net/seaba. deadline: August 21. magic hat Artifactory, south burlington. info, 658-2739.

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ArtsRiot for details. The event is August 20. deadline for submissions: July 31. ArtsRiot, burlington. info, 540-0406, info@artsriot.com. ‘your deniM. our water.’: patagonia burlington and 1% for the planet seek art that incorporates filthy denim and showcases what Vermont’s water means to you. share your passion with the community by drawing or painting on denim or by photographing or sculpting a piece of denim. For the first 25 artworks, patagonia will donate $10 to 1% for the planet. on Thursday, August 27, 5:30-8 p.m., selected artwork will be displayed at the Karma birdhouse Gallery. submission deadline: August 19 through 25. drop-off location: 1% for the planet, 47 maple st., burlington. info, 923-2910.

Thursday, August 6th 7:00 pm Combining stunning acrobatics, striking visual effects, physical comedy and inventive choreography, Galumpha brings to life a world of imagination, beauty, muscle and merriment. Recommended for ages 7+ years.

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creative coMPetition: For this artist competition and exhibit during monthly First Friday, artists may drop off one display-ready piece in any medium and size to backspace Gallery, 266 pine street in burlington, between noon and 6 p.m. on wednesday and Thursday, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Friday. entry $8. during the First Friday reception, 5-9 p.m., viewers can vote on their favorite work; the winning artist takes home the collective entry money. The work remains on view for the duration of the exhibit. more info at spacegalleryvt. com. First wednesday of every month.

Hilarious one-woman show set in a quirky 1920s cabaret where romance, hilarity, buffoonery, and grace converge. From the diva, to the joker to the cheeky minx, the dazzling Krin Haglund is a master of comedy, aerial silks, juggling and the Cyr Wheel. Recommended for ages 7+ years.

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dreaMs Gallery show: Artists are invited to submit art influenced by dreams. submit up to three highquality photos of artwork, along with a small description of why it pertains to dreams, to contourstudiosvt@gmail.com or send us a message to our Facebook page. deadline/dropoff: sunday, August 2, from noon-7 p.m. Contour studios, Newport. info, 309-7501.

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1st annual Plein air Paintout: The wooden horse Arts Guild and North Country Chamber of Commerce seek amateur and professional plein air artists to paint original works on location on saturday, August 1, during Aquafest. open to any artist in any medium; artists must provide easels to display their paintings. To preregister, email shurtleff@woodenhorsearts. com. Newport waterfront. info, 988-4300.

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candy barr: paintings by the mad River Valley artist. Through July 31. info, 496-5470. Three mountain Café in waitsfield.

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‘The Farm: Drawings of Rowland Evans Robinson, 1850-1880’: Drawings from agricultural papers capturing 19th-century Vermont farm life and times by a member of the museum homestead’s family. Through October 25. Info, 877-3406. Rokeby Museum in Ferrisburgh. James P. Blair: “Last Leaf,” black-and-white photographs that explore the complexity and fragility of nature and human impact upon it. Through July 31. Info, 458-0098. Edgewater Gallery in Middlebury. ‘Many Thousand Gone: Portraits of the African American Experience’: Some 100 photographs of African Americans, from 1840s daguerreotypes to the civil rights era of the 1960s, from the collection of George R. Rinhart. Language Schools at the Museum (The Oberbrook Gallery): Twenty works of art from the museum’s permanent collection represent many of the countries and cultures that the college’s summer language schools represent. Through August 9. Info, 443-3168. Middlebury College Museum of Art. Patricia LeBon Herb: Paintings on multiple themes including starry nights, Paris, flowers, still life, birds and spring. Through July 31. Info, 877-6316. Starry Night Café in Ferrisburgh. Peter Fried: “Addison: Land Meets Sky,” an exhibit of Addison County landscapes in the artist’s new gallery. Through October 8. Info, 355-1447. Peter Fried Art in Vergennes. Tancy Holden: Vermont and California landscapes and still-life compositions from the artist’s “Diners” series. In conjunction with Point CounterPoint’s Constance Holden Memorial Concert. Through August 4. Info, 382-9222. Jackson Gallery, Town Hall Theater, in Middlebury. ‘Warren Kimble, All-American Artist: An Eclectic Retrospective’: The internationally known Vermont artist exhibits a lifetime of work, including his “Sunshine” series, “Widows of War” paintings and sculpture, and more recent “House of Cards” and “Into the Box” series, which features open-faced boxes filled with found objects and architectural assemblages. Also on view is the Kimbles’ personal collection of folk art. Through October 18. Info, 388-2117. Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History in Middlebury.

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Althea Bilodeau and Kathy Domenicucci: “Colors of Summer,” contemporary feltwear and oil paintings, respectively. Through September 1. Info, 247-4956. Brandon Artists Guild. Castleton Alumni Art Exhibtion: Artworks by 16 graduates from 1982 through 2014. Through August 28. Info, 468-6052. Rutland City Hall. Denis Versweyveld and Judith Rey: “A Sense of Place,” paintings, drawings, sculptures and mixed media on the theme of human interaction with the environment. Through August 15. Info, 468-6052. Castleton Downtown Gallery in Rutland. ‘Metamorphosis: A Love of Change’: Sculpture by Paedra Bramhall and Patrick Farrow and ceramic work by Stephen Procter on the theme of individual changes over a lifetime. Through August 29. Info, 775-0356. Chaffee Downtown Art Center in Rutland. Sally Hughes: “Watercolor for the Senses,” paintings inspired by geology and the outdoors. Through August 9. Info, 247-4295. Compass Music and Arts Center in Brandon.

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David Stromeyer Sculpture: The artist opens his private park to visitors for the summer and early fall. On view are about 50 large-scale sculptures that represent four decades of work inspired by the rhythms, forms and patterns of the Vermont landscape. Through October 12. Info, 512-333-2119. Cold Hollow Sculpture Park in Enosburg Falls.

‘History Influences’: Three artists’ works on the theme of history: wooden bowls by Toby Fulwiler, fiber creations by Pamela Krout-Voss and photographs and paintings by Jo Anne Wazny. Through July 31. Info, 933-6403. Artist in Residence Cooperative Gallery in Enosburg Falls.

David Garten Waitsfield photographer David Garten is the in-house

photographer for the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra at Symphony Space in New York. He

was in Cuba with the group the day normalization of diplomatic relations between that

‘View From the Top Floor’: The top floor of the gallery opens with works by many local artists and artisans. Through August 12. Info, 378-4591. Grand Isle Art Works.

country and the United States was announced. “My heart thinks I live there,” Garten

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behind it, many of them interlocking,” Garten writes. The photographs are on view July

‘Art on the Farm’: Sculpture and painting by six artists who live and work in Vermont: Chelsie Bush, Ian Campbell, Pamela Fraser, Amy Morel, Nicko Moussallem and Otto Pierce. Thursdays. Info, edythe.f.wright@gmail.com. Clark Farm in Barnard. ‘Birds Are Dinosaurs’: An exhibit tracing the evolution of birds from their ancestors includes skeletons and life-size replicas by paleo-artist Todd Marshall. Hands-on activities include a replica dig site. Through October 31. $11.50-13.50. Info, 359-5000. VINS Nature Center in Hartford. ‘Huichol: Art of a Threatened Shamanic Culture’: Intricate yarn paintings of four indigenous artists from west-central Mexico; José Benítez Sánchez, Guadalupe González Ríos, Juan Ríos Martínez and Pablo Taizán de la Cruz, presented with historical and contemporary photographs, music and cultural artifacts. Through September 6. Info, 498-8438. BALE Community Space in South Royalton. Jen Violette and Linda Rosenthal: Mixedmedia and still-life wall sculptures and handblown glass, and abstract photography, respectively. Through September 30. Info, 457-1298. Collective — the Art of Craft in Woodstock. Keith Sonnier: A survey of early neon works, 1968-1989, by the American artist. Through November 29. Peter Saul: In a retrospective exhibit that spans his career 1959 to 2012, the American artist presents colorful paintings that incorporate humor, pop-culture imagery, irreverence and occasionally politically incorrect subject matter. Open weekends and Wednesdays by appointment. Through November 29. Info, info@ hallartfoundation.org. Hall Art Foundation in Reading.

writes in a press release for his exhibition, “My Personal Cuba — A Photographic Retrospective of 31 Visits Over 21 Years.” “Every picture in the exhibition has a story 31 to September 7 at Village Square in Waitsfield, a storefront converted to a gallery as part of the Vermont Festival of the Arts. A reception is Friday, July 31, 6-8 p.m. Pictured: Untitled photograph, Havana, December 17, 2013. ‘Prehistoric Menagerie’: Six life-size prehistoric animals sculpted using natural materials by Bob Shannahan. Through September 7. Info, 649-2200. Montshire Museum of Science in Norwich. Sharon Rug Hooking and Fiber Crafts: Eight members of the rug-making group show finished works. Through August 16. Info, 282-5814. Tunbridge Public Library in Tunbridge Village. Sheri Hancock-Tomek: Monoprints. Through July 31. Info, 295-5901. Two Rivers Printmaking Studio in White River Junction. Tom Schulten: Vivid works by the renowned Dutch painter of consensusism. Through December 31. Info, 457-7199. Artemis Global Art in Woodstock. ‘Unbound Vol. V’: A juried group show that explores the book as concept, object and format by regional artists. Through August 22. Info, 457-3500. ArtisTree Gallery in South Pomfret. ‘Welcome to DNA LAND’: The third annual summer show of collages and prints by Ben Peberdy and W. David Powell. Through August 31. Info, 295-0808. Scavenger Gallery in White River Junction.

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“Art + Computer / Time”: Computer-generated artwork from the Anne and Michael Spalter Digital Art Collection from 1954 to the present. Through September 27. Debra Bermingham:

“Threaded Dances,” surreal landscapes in oil. Jim Dine: “People, Places, Things,” a retrospective in multiple media. Ray Ruseckas: “Close to Home,” landscapes in pastels. Rodrigo Nava: “Expanded Forms,” steel sculptures on the museum grounds. Through October 25. Info, 257-0124. Brattleboro Museum & Art Center.

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‘Dinosaur Discoveries: Ancient Fossils, New Ideas’: Fossils and models reveal how current thoughts on dinosaur biology have changed since the 1990s. Organized by the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Through December 15. Info, 748-2372. Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium in St. Johnsbury. Donna Jean Safford: A 25-year retrospective of 50 paintings. Through September 8. Info, 334-1966. MAC Center for the Arts Gallery in Newport. ‘Dust’: Displays include samples of “this most ubiquitous substance” from around the world, and the cosmos, as well as unique moments in the history of dust and a visual history of dust removal. Through November 30. Info, claredol@sover.net. The Museum of Everyday Life in Glover. Memorial Exhibition for Ellen Dorn Levitt: “A Visit With Ellen” features the artist’s many mediums including hand-painted linoleum-block prints, pastel drawings, colored pencil drawings,

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paper cutout designs, cards, baskets and jewelry. Through August 8. Info, 748-0158. Northeast Kingdom Artisans Guild Backroom Gallery in St. Johnsbury. Vermont Artists Group show: Fine art and handcrafted goods by 110 Vermont artists exhibited in a former grist mill. Through October 17. VirGiniA west retrospectiVe: Eight of the ninetysomething artist’s sculptural works, along with a weaving and textile-art exhibition featuring Betsy Day, Judy Dales, Sandy Ducharme, Carolyn Enz Hack, Dennis and Candice Glassford and Carol MacDonald. Through August 7. Info, 533-2045. Miller’s Thumb Gallery in Greensboro.

manchester/bennington

‘DAn shApiro: LiVinG the print’: A memorial exhibition of the artist/teacher’s printmaking. In conjunction with two other exhibitions featuring the artist’s paintings and works on paper. Through August 9. Info, 447-1571. Bennington Museum. ‘DAn shApiro: BenninGton AnD BeyonD’: Paintings from 1947-1969, on view in the Usdan Gallery. In conjunction with two other exhibitions featuring the artists printmaking and works on

paper. Through August 30. Info, abby05201@gmail. com, 442-5401. Bennington College. ‘DAn shApiro: the LAte yeArs’: Works on paper, 1970-1983. In conjunction with two other exhibitions featuring the artist’s paintings and prints. Through August 30. Info, 681-7161. The Left Bank in North Bennington. eLi ADAms: Nature photography by the Poultney high school student. Through August 17. Info, 3624061. The Gallery at Equinox Village in Manchester Center. north BenninGton outDoor scuLpture show: Outdoor sculptures sited in and around the village by 44 artists. Through October 25. Various locations around North Bennington.

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‘Aires LiBres’: This annual public art exhibition takes place all over downtown Montréal, with video and photographic installations, sculptures and a special exhibit titled “Politics of Empathy.” Through September 7. Info, 514-861-7870. Downtown Montréal. Ann pemBer AnD minA AnGeLos: “Watercolor,” paintings from the upstate New York members of the American Watercolor Society. Through September 13. Info, 518-564-2474. Burke Gallery, Plattsburgh State Art Museum, N.Y. ‘cAn you DiG it?’: A community exhibit celebrating music-album cover art, in the Rotunda Gallery. Through October 11. ‘homer’s AmericA’: Selections from the museum’s permanent collection include five Civil War works as well as prints of children at play. On view in Hoopes Gallery. Through September 16. ‘the LAte DrAwinGs of AnDy wArhoL: 1973-1987’: Fifty drawings, some of them on view for the first time, by the late pop artist; organized by the Andy Warhol Museum. Wood Gallery. Through September 12. Info, 518-7921761. The Hyde Museum in Glens Falls, N.Y.

Most artistically talented people express themselves in multiple ways, yet artists are often encouraged to narrow their focus. Burlington’s Flynndog gallery, however, has chosen to highlight eight artists are poets with published works in small presses. Some, like Marian Willmott, found in writing another outlet for creative frustration when she “came to an

impasse with painting.” And Tina Escaja, of Vermont, publishes on gender and technology in academia and also combines her poetry with digital media. The works — and in some cases the words — will be on view through September 5. A reception and reading is Friday, July 31, 5-8 p.m.

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‘from GAinsBorouGh to moore: 200 yeArs of British DrAwinGs’: An exhibit of 40 drawings and pastels, mid-18th to late 20th century, from the museum’s UK collection. Through August 16. ‘metAmorphoses: in roDin’s stuDio’: Nearly 300 works by the French sculptor, including masterpieces shown for the first time in North American, in collaboration with the Musée Rodin in Paris. Through October 18. mArion wAGschAL: “Portraits, Memories, Fables,” the first solo museum exhibition of the Montreal artist, featuring close to 30 paintings produced between 1971 and 2014. These include portraiture and allegorical representations painted when abstraction was in style. Through August 9. Info, 515-285-2000. Montréal Museum of Fine Arts. JoAquin AnDres: “the jump off...,” abstract travel collages of framed works, books, boxes and postcards made from magazines, recycled hemp paper and recycled flower-pressed papier-mâché. Through August 31. Info, 603-448-3117. AVA Gallery and Art Center in Lebanon, N.H. ‘repeAt’: A group show with works in multiple media by Deborah Morris, So-Il, Leslie Fry, Penelope Umbrico, Sarah Lutz, Tiffany Matula, Zachary Keeting and Andrew Forge. Through August 23. Info, 603-646-1397. Strauss Gallery, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, in Hanover, N.H. ‘ukArA: rituAL cLoth of the ekpe secret society’: An exhibition examining the signature textile of the Ekpe secret society and exploring the cultural practice the cloth represents, as well as the artistic process involved in its creation. Through August 2. ‘wAter wAys: tension AnD fLow’: Landscape and portraiture photography from the permanent collection that explores “water’s impact on human life and humanity’s impact on water.” Through August 23. Victor ekpuk: “Auto-Graphics,” mixed-media works in graphite and pastel on paper, influenced by the artist’s Nigerian roots. Through August 2. Info, 603-646-2095. Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, in Hanover, N.H. ZiGi Ben-hAim: “Made in the USA,” sculpture, mixed media and works on paper from more than four decades. Through August 16. Info, 518-5232512. Lake Placid Center for the Arts, N.Y. m

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Vermont’s international physical comedy treasure, Tom Murphy delivers an uproariously fun new show. With ladders, chairs, unicycles, body-building, boo-boos and bedlam (not to mention juggling and lots of audience Partners!) Recommended for ages 5+ years.

Saturday, August 1st 7:00pm The one and only Dr. Professor Kubínek is a comic genius, virtuoso vaudevillian, and all-round charmer who gives audiences an utterly joyous experience they’ll remember for a lifetime. Transcending categorization, his work leaves audiences clutching their sides with laughter, breathless, and madly in love.

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Parents of children 5-12 years old are invited to participate in a workshop on Parenting with Technology. Learn to more effectively set parental controls and manage your child’s use of smartphones, tablets, video games and other technological devices.

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ou always hurt the one you love, the saying goes. But, as we observe with a mixture of dread and disgust in this transfixing documentary from Asif Kapadia (Senna), the inverse was true for Amy Winehouse. An appalling number of the people closest to her, who supposedly loved her, did damage to her. Unlike many bios of famous people, Kapadia’s really does tell his subject’s life story — from childhood to death. To anyone who knew Winehouse only from her sad, last tabloid years, Amy is certain to prove a revelation. The movie opens with home video of Winehouse laughing at a party with friends in suburban London. Barely 14, she presents as a funny, bright-eyed kid. The scene couldn’t appear more ordinary. Then Winehouse belts out “Happy Birthday to You” and sends shivers down your spine. Two years later she would have a record contract. The filmmaker tells Winehouse’s story chronologically and eschews the use of talking heads. Key figures in her life contribute reflections and insights through voiceovers accompanying archival footage. The technique creates an exceptional sense of intimacy.

We watch Winehouse morph from schoolgirl poet to preternaturally gifted songwriter and listen to interviews that track her development as an artist. At 20, she tells a journalist, “Success to me is having the freedom to work. Leave me alone, and I will do the music.” Well, she did the music — in 2003, Frank, the album that established Winehouse in England, and three years later Back to Black, the masterpiece that made her a global brand. Then people stopped leaving her alone. Kapadia notes the role the paparazzi played in Winehouse’s final years, but that’s something of a red herring. Lots of celebrities are hounded by the press and manage not to die of alcohol poisoning before 30. The director reveals that most of Winehouse’s problems were actually caused, or at least exacerbated, by people who supposedly cared about her. Chief among them were the men in her life. It’s impossible to overstate the scumbagginess of Winehouse’s father, the daddy who told her it’s OK to just say no, no, no to rehab. Mitch Winehouse was an absentee parent — until his daughter became rich and famous. In a telling sequence, Amy retreats to an island to get clean and enjoy a moment

BEFORE AND AFTER Kapadia’s meticulously crafted portrait will astonish viewers who know Winehouse only from the media’s coverage of her drug-fueled downward spiral.

out of the public eye — only to have her privacy invaded by her father and the camera crew he brought along to shoot a reality show about himself. Worse was Blake Fielder-Civil, a sleaze who leeched on to the singer once she hit it big and talked her into marrying him after getting her hooked on crack and heroin. By this point in the film, we begin to recognize the Winehouse whose downward spiral we witnessed just four years ago, and we miss the funny, confident, talented young woman we saw earlier. We get one last glimpse of that woman near the end, in footage of Winehouse recording a duet with her idol, Tony Bennett,

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lives in a world of people and places that often seem to exist more on paper than in reality. Thence the literary conceit: “Paper towns” are fictitious ones that cartographers add to maps as traps for plagiarists. One such “town,” or actually glorified crossroads, figures in the plot. But the real core of both book and film isn’t that metaphor, or the bond between the two young people, or the self-conscious references to famous nonconformists such as Walt Whitman and Woody Guthrie. It’s the playful ribbing among Quentin and his two geeky pals, Ben (Austin Abrams) and Radar (Justice Smith), who join him on his hunt de-

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aper Towns tells a smarter story than it initially seems to, but by the time viewers grasp the point, they may be too lulled by the film’s soundtrack of soulful indie tunes to care. Unlike last year’s surprise hit The Fault in Our Stars — also based on a best-selling John Green novel — Paper Towns lacks the sure hook of young characters facing down imminent death. Instead, this adaptation by director Jake Schreier (Robot & Frank) is powered by familiar first-love tropes and a literary conceit that works better on the page than on the screen. A voiceover introduces us to Quentin (Nat Wolff ), a Floridian high school senior who expresses his personal faith in hushed, American Beauty tones: “Everyone gets a miracle.” Quentin’s personal miracle is Margo Roth Spiegelman (Cara Delevingne), a cadaverous, hyperarticulate beauty who moved to his sterile subdivision when they were children, pulled him briefly into the orbit of her restless imagination, and then promptly ditched him to join the popular crowd. Quentin’s pining for this paragon is (sort of ) rewarded years later, when Margo appears at his window and enlists his assistance for a manic night of trespassing, pranking and score settling. The next morning, she’s gone, leaving Quentin an enigmatic trail of clues to follow. Quentin sees himself as Margo’s soul mate because they both seek meaningful

months before her death. Nervous, she gets off to a bumpy start, but he’s reassuring and kind. The result is gorgeous, and she positively basks in Bennett’s admiration. Later, Bennett says Winehouse deserves to be remembered alongside jazz royalty like Ella Fitzgerald. This mesmerizing, meticulously crafted and moving film offers us a similar reminder that, before the people she trusted allowed her to become a punch line, Winehouse was a serious talent. What came after may not have been pretty, but Back to Black is a thing of timeless beauty. With Amy, Kapadia sets the record straight.

spite their skepticism. All three are talented actors — particularly Wolff, who played the hero’s buddy in Fault. Their rapport is lively and believable, sometimes suggesting a (regrettably) PG-13 version of the classic hangout movie Diner. If only Quentin’s quest were as compelling. Green has his reasons for depicting Margo through Quentin’s eyes, as an obscure object of desire rather than a real teenage girl. Delevingne certainly works as the former. But it would take considerably more dynamism than she possesses to pull off dialogue such as a lament about the aforementioned paper-thinness of 21st-century

life: “Everyone demented with the mania of owning things.” The film offsets these moody-teen platitudes with the eventual revelation that superficiality goes deeper (so to speak) than Quentin ever realized. But the route to that climax — or anticlimax — needs more roadside attractions. Sense of place features largely in the novel, which pivots on an actual road trip. Yet Schreier doesn’t give us strong visual impressions of Orlando’s plasticky overdevelopment, the freedom of the road or the unadorned bleakness of upstate New York. The abandoned strip mall where Quentin searches for clues doesn’t stifle us with the heavy atmosphere of desolation and foreclosed potential that it has in the book. As a result, Paper Towns never develops the urgency it needs to carry us through a story that is, in the last analysis, not terribly eventful. That leisurely pace is fine when Quentin and his friends are just shooting the shit. But every time the focus turns again to our hero’s pursuit of his very own “miracle,” the film’s guiding conceit feels closer to paper-thin. To its credit, Paper Towns ends up debunking the fantasy of quirky exceptionalism that drives so many films about adolescence. It just doesn’t replace that fantasy with anything more solid. MARGO T HARRI S O N

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now playing AmYHHHHH asif Kapadia’s acclaimed documentary uses both personal and public footage to chronicle the tragically short life of singer amy winehouse. (128 min, R; reviewed by R.K. 7/29)

JURASSic WoRlDHHH In this sequel set 22 years after Jurassic Park, the theme park full of real, live dinosaurs is up and running. Then someone decides to introduce a splashy new attraction. what could go wrong? chris Pratt, bryce dallas howard and ty Simpkins star. Vermont resident colin trevorrow (Safety Not Guaranteed) directed. (124 min, Pg-13; reviewed by M.h. 6/17)

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pApER toWNSHHH a high schooler follows the trail of a mysterious, troubled classmate with whom he’s infatuated in this drama adapted from John green’s best-selling novel by director Jake Schreier (Robot & Frank). nat wolff, cara delevingne and austin abrams star. (109 min, Pg-13; reviewed by M.h. 7/29) piXElSH1/2 Middle-aged geeks are the only ones who can save the Earth when aliens invade in the form of characters from classic video games. chris columbus directed the action comedy, starring adam Sandler, Kevin James, Josh gad and Michelle Monaghan. (105 min, Pg-13) SoUtHpAWHHH antoine fuqua (The Equalizer) directed this boxing drama in which Jake gyllenhaal plays a fighter with nothing to lose who turns to trainer forest whitaker for a second chance. with Rachel Mcadams. (123 min, R) SpYHHH a mousy cIa analyst (Melissa Mccarthy) goes undercover as a field agent to prevent global diabolical doings in this spy spoof/action flick from writer-director Paul feig (Bridesmaids). with Jude law and Rose byrne. (120 min, R; reviewed by R.K. 6/10) tED 2H1/2 In the sequel to writer-director Seth Macfarlane’s comedy hit about a grown-up boy (Mark wahlberg) and his foul-mouthed giant teddy bear companion (voiced by Macfarlane), the bear must prove his personhood before he can become a dad, and we’re just confused now. with amanda Seyfried and Jessica barth. (115 min, R; reviewed by R.K. 7/1)

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mR. HolmESHHH1/2 what if Sherlock holmes really existed? and he retired and kept bees? This drama from bill condon (Gods and Monsters) explores that scenario, with Ian McKellen as the elderly sleuth revisiting a puzzling case via his memories. with laura linney and Milo Parker. (104 min, Pg)

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miNioNSHH young viewers of Despicable Me and its sequel liked the supervillain hero but loved his gibberish-spouting minions. So hollywood gave the kids what they craved — an animated tale entirely devoted to minion backstory. Sandra bullock, Jon hamm and Michael Keaton provide the human voices. Kyle balda and Pierre coffin directed. (91 min, Pg; reviewed by M.h. 7/15)

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mAgic mikE XXlHHHH channing tatum is back as the titular male stripper, but Steven Soderbergh is not (at least in the director’s chair), for this sequel in which Mike returns to his bumping and grinding ways in Myrtle beach. with Elizabeth banks, Matt bomer and amber heard. gregory Jacobs directed. (115 min, R; reviewed by M.h. 7/8)

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ANt-mANHH The latest Marvel movie brings us Paul Rudd as a con man recruited to save the world in the guise of … an ant-size superhero. a script coauthored by Edgar wright promises some tongue in cheek. with Michael douglas and Evangeline lilly. Peyton Reed (The Break-Up) directed. (117 min, Pg-13; reviewed by R.K. 7/22)

loVE & mERcYHHHHH Paul dano and John cusack portray brian wilson at two different stages of life in director bill Pohlad’s biographical drama, which explores the beach boy’s mental breakdown and his search for a perfect studio sound. with Elizabeth banks and Paul giamatti. (119 min, Pg-13; reviewed by R.K. 6/17)

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teRmiNAtoR GeNisYsHH Future freedom fighter Kyle Reese (Jai Courtney) goes back in time to protect his leader’s mom-to-be (Emilia Clarke) and finds nothing as he expects, in a new chapter of the now-convoluted SF franchise. Arnold Schwarzenegger returns to terminating. Alan Taylor (Thor: The Dark World) directed. (125 min, PG-13) testAmeNt oF YoUtHHHHH Alicia Vikander plays British author Vera Brittain in this BBC adaptation of her memoir of love and sacrifice during World War I. With Kit Harington and Taron Egerton. James Kent directed. (129 min, PG-13)

HomeHHH Jim Parsons voices an extraterrestrial misfit who escapes to Earth and teams up with a spunky girl (voiced by Rhianna) in this DreamWorks family animation. (94 min, PG) tHe WAteR DiviNeRH1/2 Russell Crowe directed this historical drama in which he stars as an Australian who travels to Turkey after World War I searching for his three sons who went missing in the Battle of Gallipoli. With Olga Kurylenko and Jai Courtney. (111 min, R; reviewed by R.K. 4/29)

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Although China owns at least $1.3 trillion of the U.S. debt, the U.S. government sent it $12.3 million in foreign aid last year and is handing it another $6.8 million this year. An official for the State Department’s USAID program said the money is earmarked to help Tibetan communities “preserve their threatened cultural traditions” and to help China “address environmental conservation and strengthen the rule of law.” (Washington Times)

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Deputies arrested Kristin Howard, 31, for attacking her 50-year-old mother at her home in Bunnell, Fla., during an argument over who was entitled to a plate of chicken and biscuits. Deputies reported that Howard punched her mother in the face and threw tea on her. (Daytona Beach News-Journal)

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Steve Wadsworth won an “exciting competition” to name the new leisure center in Selby, England, scheduled to open this spring. “I was really surprised and excited,” said Wadsworth, who came up with the name “Selby Leisure Centre.” (Selby District Council News)

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Utah’s Housing First began a program in Salt Lake City to end homelessness by giving homeless people homes. Instead of spending more than $20,000 a year on care, Housing First reckons putting someone into permanent housing costs the state just $8,000. The program not only saves money, but also provides stability that allows the recipients to turn their lives around. After 22 months, none of the 17 people placed in homes around the city when the program started was back on the streets. Subsequently, the number of Utah’s chronically homeless fell by 74 percent. (New Yorker) The Italian company WASP has developed a 20-foot-tall 3D printer than can turn mud and fiber into homes. WASP CEO Massimo Moretti said that the process will provide cheap housing in impoverished regions, starting this year in Sardinia, which has abundant wool to use as a fibrous binder in the printer’s mud. Moretti said that using the machine to work more closely with natural forms rather than the common square-shaped brick dwellings will help people express the power of their minds, rather than just of constructing something by hand. (MAKE Magazine)

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Talking on hand-held cellphones while driving has declined in the past six years, according to a survey by State Farm insurance company. But the percentage of drivers who admit to accessing the internet while driving has doubled, from 13 percent in 2009 to 26 percent in 2014, and the share of drivers who said they read email while behind the wheel rose from 15 percent to 25 percent. Those who said they read social media while driving went from 9 percent to 20 percent. (USA Today)

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Lightning set a house on fire in Cape Coral, Fla., but firefighters contained the blaze. While clearing the house, they uncovered a marijuana-growing operation, prompting police to arrest homeowner Jaroslav Kratky, 65. (Fort Myers’s WBBH-TV)

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California authorities accused Kathy Rowe of harassing a couple who bought a house in a Carmel Valley neighborhood that Rowe had placed an offer on, calling it her “forever home.” The criminal complaint said Rowe signed the wife up for sex ads online that encouraged visitors to drop by unannounced while her husband was at work. The couple also received unwanted magazines, books and junk mail, and Rowe allegedly sent romantic Valentine’s Day cards from the husband to his female neighbors. “Losing that house was devastating to my family and broke our hearts,” Rowe said, calling her actions “stupid pranks.” (ABC News)

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be a favorable time to explore and experiment with this approach. I think you will reap wondrous benefits if you slow down and rest in the embrace of a pregnant pause. The mysteries of silence and emptiness will be rich resources.

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(julY 23-Aug. 22) I expect you to be in a state of constant birth for the next three weeks. Awakening and activation will come naturally. your drive to blossom and create may be irresistible, bordering on unruly. Does that sound overwhelming? I don’t think it will be a problem as long as you cultivate a mood of amazed amusement about it. (P.s. This upsurge is a healthy response to the dissolution that preceded it.)

aries (March 21-April 19): “I am very much in love with no one in particular,” says actor ezra Miller. His statement would make sense coming out of your mouth right about now. so would this one: “I am very much in love with almost everyone I encounter.” or this one: “I am very much in love with the wind and moon and hills and rain and rivers.” Is this going to be a problem? How will you deal with your overwhelming urge to overflow? Will you break people’s hearts and provoke uproars everywhere you go, or will you rouse delight and bestow blessings? As long as you take yourself lightly, I foresee delight and blessings. (April 20-May 20): In her io9. com article on untranslatable words, esther Inglis-Arkell defines the Chinese term wei-wuwei as “conscious nonaction ... a deliberate, and principled, decision to do nothing whatsoever, and to do it for a particular reason.” In my astrological opinion, the coming days would

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gemiNi (May 21-June 20): “I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road — there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt.” The character named Dmitri Karamazov makes that statement in fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novel The Brothers Karamazov. And now I’m thinking that you might like to claim his attitude as your own. Just for a while, you understand. not forever. The magic of the side paths and back alleys may last for no more than a few weeks and then gradually fade. but in the meantime, the experiences you uncover there could be fun and educational. I do have one question for you, though: What do you think Dmitri meant by “precious metal in the dirt”? Money? Gold? Jewelry? Was he speaking metaphorically? I’m sure you’ll find out.

evil supply sells a satirical poster that contains the following quote: “be the villain you were born to be. stop waiting for someone to come along and corrupt you. succumb to the darkness yourself.” The text in the advertisement for this product adds, “follow your nightmares ... Plot your own nefarious path.” Although this counsel is slightly funny to me, I’m too moral and upright to recommend it to you — even now, when I think there would be value in you being less nice and polite and agreeable than you usually are. so I’ll tinker with evil supply’s message to create more suitable advice: “for the greater good, follow your naughty bliss. be a leader with a wild imagination. nudge everyone out of their numbing routines. sow benevolent mischief that energizes your team.”

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resist acting on your anger and instead restore yourself to calm, it gets easier,” writes psychologist Laura Markham in Psychology Today. In fact, neurologists claim that by using your willpower in this way, “you’re actually rewiring your brain.” And so the more you practice, the less likely it is that you will be addled by rage in the future. I see the coming weeks as an especially favorable time for you to do this work, scorpio. Keeping a part of your anger alive is good, of course — sometimes you need its energy to motivate constructive change. but you would benefit from culling the excess.

(June 21-July 22): “sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason,” says comedian Jerry seinfeld. His implication is that rejecting traditional strategies and conventional wisdom doesn’t always lead to success. As a professional rebel myself, I find it painful to agree even a little bit with that idea. but I do think it’s applicable to your life right now. for the foreseeable future, compulsive nonconformity is likely to yield mediocrity. Putting too much emphasis on being unique rather than on being right might distract you from the truth. My advice: stick to the road more traveled.

Virgo (Aug. 23-sept. 22): expiration dates

loom. fond adieus and last laughs and final hurrahs are on tap. unfinished business is begging you to give it your smartest attention while there’s still time to finish it with elegance and grace. so here’s my advice for you, my on-the-verge friend: Don’t save any of your tricks, ingenuity or enthusiasm for later. This is the later you’ve been saving them for. you are more ready than you realize to try what has always seemed improbable or

scorPio (oct. 23-nov. 21): “every time you

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(nov. 22-Dec. 21): Much of the action in the world’s novels takes place inside buildings, according to author robert bringhurst. but characters in older russian literature are an exception, he says. They are always out in the forests, traveling and rambling. In accordance with astrological omens, I suggest that you draw inspiration from the russians’ example in the coming days. As often and as long as you can, put yourself in locations where the sky is overhead. nature is the preferred setting, but even urban

spots are good. your luck, wisdom and courage are likely to increase in direct proportion to how much time you spend outdoors.

caPricorN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Has a beloved teacher disappointed you? Are there inspirational figures about whom you feel conflicted because they don’t live up to all of your high standards? Have you become alienated from a person who gave you a blessing but later expressed a flaw you find hard to overlook? now would be an excellent time to seek healing for rifts like these. outright forgiveness is one option. you could also work on deepening your appreciation for how complicated and paradoxical everyone is. one more suggestion: Meditate on how your longing for what’s perfect might be an enemy of your ability to benefit from what’s merely good. aQuarius (Jan. 20-feb. 18): french and

Italian readers may have no problem with this horoscope. but Americans, Canadians, brits and Aussies might be offended, even grossed out. Why? because my analysis of the astrological omens compels me to conclude that “moist” is a central theme for you right now. And research has shown that many speakers of the english language find the sound of the word “moist” equivalent to hearing fingernails scratching a chalkboard. If you are one of those people, I apologize. but the fact is, you will go astray unless you stay metaphorically moist. you need to cultivate an attitude that is damp but not sodden; dewy but not soggy; sensitive and responsive and lyrical but not overwrought or weepy or histrionic.

Pisces (feb. 19-March 20): Which signs of

the zodiac are the most expert sleepers? Who best appreciates the healing power of slumber and feels the least shame about taking naps? Which of the 12 astrological tribes are most inclined to study the art of snoozing and use their knowledge to get the highest quality renewal from their time in bed? My usual answer to these questions would be taurus and Cancer, but I’m hoping you Pisceans will vie for the top spot in the coming weeks. It’s a very favorable time for you to increase your mastery of this supreme form of self-care.

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Typical. The minute you start to get over someone, they start crawling back into your life. But I can’t let you get tangled up in his web of manipulation and deceit. It’s not easy to free yourself from the tight grip of someone you once loved, but you can do it. Let’s go over the facts. This guy has screwed you over time and time again. He’s being deceitful to both you and his present girlfriend. He’s a user and a taker. I don’t have to tell you that he’s bad for you. You already know. That’s why you’ve taken the first steps in the right direction. Not helping him when he calls must be really hard. After all, he isn’t just some ex — he’s the father of your child. It’s hard enough to say goodbye when there aren’t such strong ties. He’s counting on the connection of your child to keep you under his spell. He has a lot of power in that way. But you don’t have to give in. You have to be strong. You may still have feelings for him, but it’s important to realize that those feelings might be mixed up in the love of your child. Separate the man from the father, and you’ll gain more headway on your journey forward. It’s time to finish cutting that cord. Trust your instincts, and don’t give in to him. He will only hurt you again. His actions guarantee it. If you need to communicate with him, try email. And focus the subject solely on your child. Nothing else. He’ll see anything more as an invitation. Don’t give him a reason to reach out to you. It’ll get easier. And soon, you’ll see how letting him go makes room for something wonderful to come your way.

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Attractive Blonde, Brewfest Friday night We crossed paths a few times, and eyes met at least twice — even did a turn-around double take as I walked away. You: attractive blonde with a colorfully dressed, gray-haired gentleman. Myself: tall with dark hair in blue shirt. Wondering if you would like to meet sometime. Take it you like beer; maybe join me for one? When: Friday, July 17, 2015. Where: Vermont Brewers Fest. You: Woman. Me: Man. #913057

Charlotte Memorial Bike Ride We met at the beach for the memorial bike ride. We chatted before and after the ride. You were with a friend who asked if you brought your kayak. You replied, “No. I don’t have a kayak.” I should have asked for your phone number but didn’t. Would you like to join me for a bike ride sometime? When: Friday, July 10, 2015. Where: Charlotte beach. You: Woman. Me: Man. #913049

U Mall hannafords You: petite, black hair, dark skin, black top with pink running shorts on. You and I shared a smile at the deli counter that left an impression on me. I would love to see more of that smile. If this is you, tell me what shirt I was wearing. When: Sunday, July 19, 2015. Where: South Burlington Hannaford. You: Woman. Me: Man. #913056

Scout & Co. Winooski Something went wrong. / You walking by as I waited in line / Noisy, pretty silver shoes. / He called out your name as you were leaving. / You turn, confused, awkward hug, a conversation / and a smile with me when I walked by. / Something went wrong. / Something is left undone. / Something different was meant to happen. / Can you fix it? When: Wednesday, July 15, 2015. Where: Scout & Co. Winooski. You: Woman. Me: Man. #913048

Village Tavern, Eyes Connecting... You: sitting with an obvious first date on the porch at about noon. Me: seated at the next table with a client. You struck me with your eyes and your beautiful smile! If for whatever reason, Mr. Mechanical isn’t the forever match, give me a chance. :) When: Sunday, July 19, 2015. Where: Jericho. You: Woman. Me: Man. #913055

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Melanie, Downtown Panera Cashier We both fumbled over my phone number for your rewards program so many times that I wish I had asked you for yours. Can I get a do-over? When: Wednesday, July 15, 2015. Where: behind the counter at Panera on Church St. You: Woman. Me: Man. #913046 Dancing to Kat Wright I was dancing in my usual flamboyant fashion at the Kat Wright show. You were dancing in front, in a light blue dress with blond hair. We chatted briefly about what songs they might play next. Sorry I didn’t say more, but maybe you’ll see this and I’ll get another chance. When: Friday, July 10, 2015. Where: Waterbuy Arts Fest. You: Woman. Me: Man. #913045 Dancing next to each other We talked about my red beaded necklace. I was thinking you were a super cutie and that I should get your number, or at least your name, but just as the place was getting going, you grabbed your stuff, said “see you” and jetted out. I went out to find you but you disappeared! I would love to hear from you. When: Sunday, July 12, 2015. Where: Mi Yard. You: Woman. Me: Man. #913044 Karen in the Blue Versa At a quarter to six, you were on your way to “The Remember,” and I interrupted your travel. I was in blue, silver and chrome, and you were wearing sunglasses with silver in your hair. I said you were charming and gave you a CVC anyway. I was knocked off my feet; can you stand me back up? When: Thursday, July 2, 2015. Where: South Burlington. You: Woman. Me: Man. #913043 Incomparable Beach Beauty Five years since swimming at Little River, but without you it feels like 20. / The lipstick tattoo declared it then, and I still love you plenty. / Your effervescence, matchless wit, throaty laugh, electric kisses I miss so, / From my arms you have departed; alas, for you my heart remains aglow. When: Tuesday, July 27, 2010. Where: Little River State Park. You: Woman. Me: Man. #913042 My love You’re always my first thought when I wake up and last when I go to sleep. Funny how I just can’t stop thinking about you. My love for you continues to grow deeply and immensely. Thank you for always making my day. I love you with all of my heart. Can’t wait to see you when I get home. :) When: Monday, July 13, 2015. Where: sexy town. You: Man. Me: Woman. #913041 Handsome Lifter, Twin Oaks Edge You: tall blond wearing a gray tank and dark shorts (I wasn’t wearing my glasses). Me: pink bra top, pink-purple shorts and pink sneakers. I first saw you while doing a yoga pose with my feet over my head. We exchanged glances back and forth. I hope it was good staring — I’m always looking for a workout partner. When: Tuesday, July 14, 2015. Where: Twin Oaks Edge gym. You: Man. Me: Woman. #913040 BCP, I’m curious about you. You were a manager; I was a cashier. We stopped talking probably eight years ago, and I don’t see you around anymore. I know of no other way to contact you. You used to read these. I’m just wondering how you are? I cared about you a lot, and I lately wonder where life has taken you. When: Monday, June 14, 2010. Where: Lantman’s, Hinesburg. You: Man. Me: Woman. #913039

Holy Grail of Sandwich Makers You were behind the deli counter. I was on the other side with my friend. We ordered a veg sandwich with everything on it. You dubbed it “the perfect sandwich.” You had a tie-dye shirt on, I believe, and you were incredibly handsome. Let’s grab a drink? When: Saturday, July 11, 2015. Where: Burlington City Market deli counter. You: Man. Me: Woman. #913038 Post-Hike Run-In A friend and I had just come off the mountain on a beautiful afternoon and stopped in for a drink. You were behind the counter in a fantastic striped dress and instantly became the best part of my day. No cash on me, so I had to buy two of something to get the limit. What was it? When: Saturday, July 11, 2015. Where: Lincoln General. You: Woman. Me: Man. #913037 dragon girl at esox Went out for a friend’s birthday at Esox, and you asked, “Is that a blue-eyes white dragon on your shirt?” I told you it was, and we chatted for a bit, but then my friends were leaving so I had to follow. You were beautiful with blond hair. Maybe we can chat again over some drinks? When: Friday, July 10, 2015. Where: Esox. You: Woman. Me: Man. #913036 Purple gamer girl at Shaw’s You were in the checkout line. You: dressed in half a dozen different purples, with a six-sided on your necklace. I complimented your purples and asked what games you were into. You quoted Dodgeball and made me laugh. I wanted to ask for your number, but the checkout line moved too quick. Try again? When: Friday, July 10, 2015. Where: Shaw’s on Shelburne Rd. You: Woman. Me: Man. #913035 Ci This Wednesday might work. I can wait. Love you. When: Saturday, July 11, 2015. Where: Rivertonville. You: Woman. Me: Man. #913034 Sunset Drive-In Friday Night You: dark hair, thin, wearing a blue-green shirt. Looked like you were sans bra. You were watching Minions in the front left side of the screen. You walked past my car with a blond boy. I was sitting in a black VW with my daughter near the bathroom. I could not help but notice you are a stunningly beautiful woman. When: Friday, July 10, 2015. Where: Sunset Drive-In. You: Woman. Me: Man. #913033 Eyes on You You walked in with 2 friends, you had a black shirt on. Your beauty caught me and all evening I could not help but look at you. You had a great smile except when you were crying wanted to say something 4 it to return but didn’t Single? Coffee there on 7/22 or a beer? When: Wednesday, July 8, 2015. Where: JCAT. You: Woman. Me: Man. #913032

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