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en. David Zuckerman (P/D-Chittenden) is poised to introduce legislation to legalize recreational pot use, which has some public officials buying tickets to … Colorado. Chittenden County State’s Attorney T.J. Donovan and Public Safety Commissioner Keith Flynn are among those who’ve agreed to go on a fact-finding tour to the first state to legalize weed. “I called Keith Flynn up and said, ‘We should go there, because I can’t separate fact from fiction.’ Keith agreed,” Donovan said. Seven Days’ Terri Hallenbeck wrote about the trip, and Zuckerman’s expected legislation, on our Off Message blog. Zuckerman, who estimates his bill could help Vermont earn $25 million in taxes from in-state users and more from out-of-state ones, says he’s including provisions to allow marijuana to be grown in Vermont. He also plans to address problems seen in Colorado, such as people accidentally consuming large amounts of marijuana through edible products such as cookies and candies. Donovan told Hallenbeck he’s never seen a retail marijuana store and has heard contradictory reports about whether legalization has made driving more dangerous in Colorado. Also headed west to sniff out the facts are Rutland Sheriff Stephen Benard; legalization opponent Mary Alice McKenzie, the executive director of the Burlington Boys & Girls Club and a founder of Smart Approaches to Marijuana-Vermont; Maple Leaf Treatment Center executive director Bill Young; and David Mickenberg of the Marijuana Policy Project, which supports legalization. Donovan plans to visit the governor’s office and a grow operation, as well as a retail store in Denver, the Mile High City, but he won’t inhale — or nibble. “I’m not going to sample,” he said. “I will have no brownies.”

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[Re “Legal Pot in Vermont? Not Yet, Say Some Top Policy Makers,” January 21]: The argument for legalizing marijuana has been staring us in the face for some time now: the disparate, arbitrary, capricious and discriminatory enforcement of the laws concerning it. So a sitting Vermont judge has 40 plants in her backyard and two pounds of it in her house; the consequences to her were negligible. Had that been one of my twentysomething sons — who just happen to be black — they’d be buried deeply in prison and their lives would be ruined. Our law-enforcement

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[Re Movie Review: Foxcatcher, January 21]: I saw the movie Foxcatcher — about multimillionaire John du Pont and his tragic obsession with the U.S. Olympic wrestling team — with my husband, Gerard Colby, who is the author of the twice-suppressed exposé on the du Pont family and company. We wondered how much the movie would reveal about one of America’s richest families. While the movie had its riveting moments, we were disappointed. Rick Kisonak’s review was right on: “The movie … say[s] absolutely nothing of consequence about America, entitlement, the power of privilege, the haves and have-nots … It offers little more than the portrait of any unstable hobbyist behaving in unstable ways … [The movie] makes no effort to explain [the tragedy.] It comes out of nowhere, the random act of a deranged man.” Apart from the opening scene of a du Pont family foxhunt and some shots of du Pont’s huge mansion, viewers have no idea what his family’s enormous

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wealth (including a decades-old family feud over controlling the wealth) had to do with his sense of isolation, his paranoia, his collaboration with Delaware’s police and his descent into madness. For the real story, I suggest you read the recently republished and updated ebook edition of Colby’s Du Pont Dynasty: Behind the Nylon Curtain. The new introduction deals extensively with John du Pont and how the family let him drift into madness with no accountability. The book is part of the Forbidden Bookshelf series published by Open Road Media. charlotte Dennett cambridge

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“Single Provider?” [January 21] provides readers with an overview of the University of Vermont Medical Center’s voracious appetite for new facilities that comes with a price tag of $245.3 million (when adding the extraordinary $5.7 million for recent rebranding to the proposed cost of a patient tower and South Burlington facility purchase). Not mentioned was the financial debacle associated with the last huge

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[Re “Good for the ’Hood,” January 21]: For many years I have searched for an answer to the questions, “Who am I?” “What am I?” I have sought out therapists, shamans and gurus, all to no avail. Then, just when I thought my searching was all in vain, as I aimlessly perused a restaurant review of ArtsRiot’s kitchen, there it was: “button-size bombs of fungal essence.” I am now at peace. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Uh … what kind of mushroom did you say those were? P.S. If dere’s uh Pulitzer for Best Journalistic Phrase, youse guys iz a shoo-in.

project on the hill, the Renaissance Project, when, some readers may recall, then-Fletcher Allen president and CEO William Boettcher failed to inform state regulators that the price tag of the 2005 version of the monolith was nearly $200 million more than the $173 million he told us it would cost. For this deception, Boettcher plea-bargained for a twoyear federal prison term. To read that hospital officials are opposing at least two applicants for “interested-party status,” one of which is the nurse’s union, doesn’t give one confidence that transparency is a guiding principle as this process begins to unfold. Another omission in the January 21 lead story was mention of how, through a terribly imbalanced system of reimbursements, independent medical practices are being squeezed to the point that their survival is at stake. This situation was covered well in “Independent Docs Struggle to Compete With Hospitals” [October 1, 2014]. UVM Medical Center president and CEO Dr. John Brumsted, when asked about networking and partnerships, is reported to have said, “Organizations need to lose a little autonomy to gain value.” There’s evidence that in the field of primary care, some health outcomes, such as the rate of hospitalizations, are significantly better in very small practices. Do Vermonters want all their medical care provided by a single provider? A debate on the meaning of “value” in the context of providing quality health care will, I hope, be something that the Green Mountain Care Board can facilitate, because bigger is not always better.

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LOOKING FORWARD

FEBRUARY 4-11, 2015 VOL.20 NO.22

Love

& Marriage I S S U E

NEWS 14

ARTS NEWS

A Final Act of Devotion Ends in Tragedy

BY MARK DAVIS

Man of the People Faces Woman of the Party in Burlington City Council Race

BY TERRI HALLENBECK

Excerpts From Off Message BY SEVEN DAYS STAFF

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Not So Funny: Brattleboro PD Issues a Comics Alert A Vermont Radical Offers Posthumous Guidance for the ‘Next Revolution’

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Love & Marriage: Vermont’s latest wedding bandwagon? Food trucks

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Love & Marriage: Two Vermonters offer wedding parties a Porta-Potty alternative BY COURTNEY COPP

BY KEVIN J. KELLEY

COLUMNS + REVIEWS

BY XIAN CHIANG-WAREN

BY RICK KISONAK

New Bill Aims to Stop Funding Out-of-State Schools

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BY ALICIA FREESE

For Pianist Michael Arnowitt, Beethoven’s Last Sonatas End a 26-Year Project

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GET THE WORD OUT In 2001, Buddy Wakefield (pictured) quit his job, sold everything he owned and toured the country as a performance poet. Cut to 2015, and the Seattle resident is a three-time world-champion spoken-word artist with an international following. Translating his lyrical gifts from the page to the stage, the wordsmith realizes the full potential of poetry. SEE CALENDAR LISTING ON PAGE 62

Creative choreography meets the region’s top dancers in the Dance Showcase, an annual benefit for Puppets in Education that brings diverse talents to Burlington. Movers and groovers from Maine, Massachusetts and Vermont interpret the theme “Dance: Community, Movement, Support” with an eclectic mix of modern, jazz, hip-hop, African and belly dance. SEE CALENDAR LISTING ON PAGE 58

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When describing Rusty Belle’s music, it’s difficult to pin down a genre. Zak Trojano and siblings Matt and Kate Lorenz call their ever-evolving sound roots-rock/junk-folk. Regardless of where it falls on the musical spectrum, the music is infectious. The trio brings its mix of rock, country and old-time tunes to the Skinny Pancake and Parker Pie Co.

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While most of us will wait several months before swimming in Lake Champlain, participants in the Burlington Penguin Plunge dive into frigid February waters willingly — and with style. The 20th annual fundraiser for Special Olympics Vermont draws thousands of supporters to the waterfront for a chilly celebration complete with crazy costumes.

The title of the exhibit “Taking Pictures” carries multiple meanings, one of which is the concept of appropriation. Both using and commenting on images of mass media such as television and advertising, the 11 artists from the so-called Pictures Generation of the 1970s exhibit artworks old and new in a variety of mediums. The work addresses themes of feminism, political activism and connectedness, and underscores how technology has impacted the dissemination and consumption of images and information in the digital age.

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$51,000 lobbying and $553,000 advertising against a similar proposal. This time around, says MMR lobbyist ANDREW MACLEAN, the industry expects to invest in newspaper, radio and social media ads opposing the tax. While MacLean won’t say how much his coalition expects to spend, he says he hopes to run a “more cost-effective” campaign. On the opposite side, the Vermont Campaign for Health Care Security — Sterling’s other group — is overseeing the fight to pass the sugar-sweetened beverage tax. The American Heart Association and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation have invested $150,000 in an “educational”

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campaign around the issue, according to in-house lobbyist ANTHONY IARRAPINO, while the AHA has earmarked another $60,000 to directly lobby for the tax. The pro-tax forces have engaged the Necrason Group as outside lobbyists and KSE Partners to run its social media campaign. Another effort has also attracted outof-state attention and dollars: mandatory background checks for gun buyers. The New York-based gun control group Everytown for Gun Safety recently bought online ads from several Vermont news organizations — including Seven Days — to promote a new report on federal background checks. The group, founded and largely funded by the billionaire former New York City mayor MICHAEL BLOOMBERG, has deployed two registered lobbyists to the state. Everytown spokesman JACK WARNER refuses to say how much his group has spent in Vermont or whether it’s financially backing its local ally, Gun Sense Vermont. The latter group, which won’t disclose its funding sources, has also retained the Necrason Group. Everytown might not be sticking around for long. According to sources familiar with the situation, the group is pulling up stakes in Vermont because it doesn’t think a recently introduced bill goes far enough. Warner would not comment. Opposing the bill are a number of gun rights groups organized under the umbrella group Vermont Federation of Sportsmen’s Clubs. As a state affiliate of

POLITICS the National Rifle Association, they’ll find support this session from the NRA’s northeast lobbyist, DARIN GOENS, who says he’s already visited Vermont twice this year. Goens says the NRA has used its email lists to alert its Vermont members about the background check bill and may organize phone banks and send postcards to mobilize them. He says it’s possible, but less likely, that the organization will buy advertising. We won’t know for sure until the end of April — just weeks before the end of the session — how much any of these groups has spent lobbying lawmakers. That’s because they’re only required to disclose such data three times a year: in April, July and January. Sen. ANTHONY POLLINA (P/DWashington) hopes to change that. He plans to introduce legislation requiring those who lobby the legislature to report advertising expenditures in excess of $1,000 within a day or two of when they’re made — much like in Vermont’s electoral campaigns. “If somebody is spending a lot of money to affect the legislative debate, people have a right to know who’s behind those advertisements or media buys as quickly as possible,” Pollina says. Joining him in the effort is the Vermont Public Interest Research Group, whose executive director, PAUL BURNS, complains that “you really don’t get a full accounting until the session has ended.” Burns would know. Last year, his organization spent $339,000 lobbying lawmakers — more than any other group in the state.

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Vermont Public Radio’s BOB KINZEL appeared to break a pretty big story Monday afternoon. “Sen. PATRICK LEAHY [D-Vt.] has decided to seek an eighth term in office,” Kinzel reported. “His campaign staff says he’s actively raising money for the 2016 election.” Hours later, the Burlington Free Press’ MIKE DONOGHUE breathlessly followed suit, writing that Leahy “is reaffirming his plan to seek an eighth term.” But, true to form, the Freeps declined to credit — or even mention — Kinzel’s reporting, instead attributing the news to a month-old fundraising email Leahy’s campaign sent. To CAROLYN DWYER, Leahy’s longtime campaign hand, the episode amounted to a tempest in a teapot. “This is not news. Sen. Leahy has said on multiple occasions that he intends to be a candidate in 2016,” she says. “He has been transparent in the fact that he is

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building his campaign and preparing for a 2016 election.” Yes and no. It’s true that the 74-year-old Dem has repeatedly hinted over the past two years that he might dust off the old yard signs. But last time we asked him, a few days before the November election, he said, “Oh, I haven’t even thought about that.” Apparently, Leahy put on his thinking cap shortly thereafter. In late December, his campaign sent an email to supporters in which the senator asked for campaign donations “as I prepare to run for reelection in 2016.” The ever-vigilant Vermont press corps — present company included — missed the email entirely. According to Dwyer, the latest flurry of press attention came after she confirmed to Roll Call last week that her boss was “actively preparing” for the 2016 campaign. Actively preparing, huh? So does that mean he’s in, for sure? “There’s no reason to believe that Sen. Leahy will do anything other than run for reelection in 2016,” she says. Yep, that qualifies as news.

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After more than 20 years as a photographer and then assignment manager for WCAX-TV, sCott watERMan has taken a new job as spokesman for the Vermont State Police. Waterman replaces stEPhaniE dasaRo, who left the VSP late last year. “When I was hired by Channel 3, it was like a dream come true,” Waterman says. “Leaving a place so near and dear to me is tough.” Replacing Waterman as WCAX’s assignment manager is former Burlington Free Press reporter lynn Monty. After six years at the Freeps, she was laid off last October after refusing to reapply for her own job during a round of newsroom cuts. Speaking of the Free Press, news clerk and staff writer JEssiE FoRand left last week for a communications gig at ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center. No word on who will replace her. m

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The Democratic incumbent hit Goodkind on everything from his recent change of heart on the perpetually debated Champlain Parkway to his record as public works director. Now a third candidate, independent GREG GuMa, is getting in on the action. The former VTDigger.org reporter and liberal activist said Friday he planned to focus on one of Goodkind’s “unfortunate positions” every day this week. Guma said his fellow leftie “lacks the temperament and judgment to lead Burlington.” In an ad running in this week’s Seven Days, Guma accuses Goodkind of “wimping out on the F-35s.” “Everyone’s attacking me,” Goodkind responded Tuesday. “Perhaps they both sense this is a serious race and I’m a serious contender.” Perhaps. But it would certainly seem that Weinberger’s the one to beat. On Monday, the mayor reported having raised more than $93,000 since taking office three years ago — compared with the $3,175 Goodkind has raised since he started campaigning two months ago. Neither Guma nor Libertarian candidate loyal PlooF filed. Guma said Monday he’d decided to tone down his criticism of Goodkind and amplify his critique of Weinberger, explaining, “I don’t want to give people the wrong impression that my focus is in the wrong place.” Then he let it fly again, saying Goodkind is “dismissive of public input” and “is simply not in touch with the grassroots.” Isn’t Guma worried he’s playing right into Weinberger’s hand? “I need to explain why Steve is not well-qualified and why I am better qualified and that I am much more in touch with popular movements,” Guma said. “That is what this is about.” Got it.

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fter 38 years of marriage, Stewart and Patricia Little acted as a team. Because she had broken her arm in a recent driveway fall, he drove them to the grocery store on December 8. They set off together, from Irasburg for Newport, hours before a nor’easter would dump 15 inches of snow and knock out power in the area. When they arrived back home around 6 p.m., she walked ahead of him and opened the door to their trailer home. He grabbed a few grocery bags from the car and followed. Suddenly Stewart, whose health had been declining for years, fell face-first on the ramp leading to the door — something they had added on to their home in anticipation of future disabilities. He couldn’t get up. Snow and ice were pelting the home, and the storm was intensifying. Even if she’d had the use of both arms, Patricia wasn’t strong enough to lift Stewart, who weighed more than 200 pounds. The Littles’ home, nestled behind a wall of trees on a small hill, wasn’t visible from the road. Pat, as everyone knew her, walked into the house and picked up the cordless phone to call for help, but the electricity was out. The phone was dead. Although the couple owned a cellphone, it didn’t get reception at home. With her right arm in a sling, Pat wasn’t comfortable driving, even in an emergency. She saw only one choice left. The closest neighbors lived a half mile to the west, across a sloping hayfield, in a large house atop another hill. Though she had been Stewart’s caregiver for years, 71-year-old Pat was not in good health, either. She had been suffering from fibromyalgia, a disorder that causes pain throughout the body, and was taking strong prescription medication for backaches. Friends who had seen her in recent months thought she was struggling. She had recently fallen asleep while talking on the phone to a relative. “I told her not to go,” Stewart Little would later tell his son. But Pat had spent her life helping others. She had worked as a nurse, first in area emergency rooms, then in doctor’s offices and schools. On that night, though, the lifelong caregiver had to leave her husband lying

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outside in the cold on the uncovered ramp to find help. She walked across her driveway and headed west, up the overgrown field in the falling snow. By then, it was dark.

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Pat was born at home in Island Pond, the second of three daughters. She learned to read and write in a oneroom schoolhouse. She graduated from Brighton High School in 1961, and later attended Fanny Allen School of Nursing in Burlington. After getting her nursing degree, she came home to the Northeast Kingdom to work. She married Stewart, an Irasburg farmer, in 1976, and a year later they had their only child, Jason. Pat was the family dynamo. She worked full-time, shuttled Jason to baseball and basketball practice, and took on volunteer projects.

Her son said it seemed like she knew everyone in the Newport area — and that local celebrity followed her all the way to Florida. Pat saved for months to take Jason to Disney World when he was 6. It was as far as anyone in the family had ever ventured. They hadn’t been inside the park for two hours before someone from home came running up to them, saying, “Oh, my God, Pat!” Pat was generous, but she wasn’t a pushover. Jason’s old basketball coach, Eugene Tessier, still remembers the day when Jason, 9 or 10 years old, ignored his instructions during a practice. Tessier threatened to kick him off the team. A few minutes later, Pat walked up to Tessier. She wasted no time with pleasantries. “Did you just tell my Jason to get out of here if he wasn’t paying attention?” she asked.

“Yes, I did,” he answered. “Well, good for you,” she said. “I’ve been looking for a coach like you.” Pat and Tessier became close friends. When they decided they didn’t like the local youth league — too much competition and not enough fun, they thought — they launched their own. At its height, Border Hoop had more than 500 kids from the Northeast Kingdom and Canadian border towns gathering for games every weekend. For 25 years, Pat cajoled parents into running concession stands and raised money for the league by recycling glass bottles and holding three-point shot contests. “She had a big bark and a big heart,” Tessier said. “If you wanted something done, you handed it over to Pat, and it was done right. She followed it to the end.” Jason married a local girl, Kathy Fortin. They had a son, Jacob, and moved to North Carolina in 1998. Pat and Stewart Little used to drive to North Carolina twice a year to visit. But because of their respective health issues, they hadn’t been able to make the trip in a couple of years. So Jason Little decided to surprise them for Thanksgiving last year. He and Jacob made the 1,100-mile journey to Irasburg. Pat and Stewart spent the weekend telling old stories and doting on their grandson. But Jason Little said he came away feeling worried. He noted that his parents had aged considerably. For the coming Christmas, he decided to gift them an emergency home lifeline, in case they ever fell and needed help. He said he lectured his mother, too, imploring her to focus on her own health rather than exhaust herself caring for Stewart. “She was always out to help and put everybody out in front of her,” Jason Little said. “She was always trying to take care of my dad. I was always talking to her about taking care of herself.”

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Barton, and asked him to check on the couple. When Newland arrived on the scene, he called 911. Vermont State Police responded. Their written reports suggest the troopers initially feared that they had come upon the scene of a terrible crime. They found Stewart Little lying facedown on the living room floor, badly injured and incoherent. Outside, the door to the Little’s Kia Soul was still open, and snow had piled inside the car. Bags of groceries were strewn outside the house. Pat’s purse and keys were inside, but she was missing.

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with Hartnett. Burlington’s police chief, Mike Schirling, grew up with Brunette’s widow. Hartnett brought Schirling and Hartnett’s widow before the council to testify about how the police department could improve its responses to people having mental health crises. Hartnett teared up as he recalled the incident. He said he continued to work closely with the department afterward. Hartnett often makes statements such as, “Schools are the cornerstones of our community” and “I think coaches can be great models.” But supporters and colleagues say he’s lived by those platitudes. Hartnett’s father died when he was a high school freshman, and he readily admits that he wasn’t a star student. “I was in the principal’s office a lot. It was difficult for me to learn how to read and write.” He played varsity baseball, basketball and football at Burlington High School and credits his coaches — and his mother — with keeping him on track. Today, Hartnett runs the Little League program, which covers 14 cities and towns, and umpires on the side. He also organizes a golf tournament to benefit local schools and founded a nonprofit basketball league for underprivileged Burlington kids. Last Friday, Hartnett reported he left his post at the register to drive a customer who’d missed the bus to her job at Kohl’s. An elderly man at Jolley praised the councilor for delivering cappuccinos to his housebound wife. Hartnett’s own wife is recovering from a kidney transplant. George, 46, grew up in Barre and moved to the New

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convenience store manager and a marketing director are vying to represent the largest voting Dave Hartnett bloc in Burlington. It’s an odd matchup: Both city council candidates identify as Democrats — one has the official endorsement of the party, the other has support from the man at the top of its ticket. In the end, will any of that matter to residents of the New North End? In January, Burlington Democrats chose to endorse Carmen George — marketing director for the TruexCullins architecture firm — over the two-term incumbent Dave Hartnett as their candidate for the North District. At their caucus, Hartnett gave a meandering speech that focused more on the mayor’s accomplishments than his own. He wore his signature shirt, vest and khaki pants combo. Clad in a teal skirt suit, George then took the stage and removed the microphone from its stand. “I don’t know if I’ve watched too much Oprah, but I like the free mic,” she said. People in the crowd hooted in support when she chided Hartnett for endorsing Republican candidates and, in particular, for serving as Burlington City Councilor Kurt Wright’s campaign manager when he ran for mayor against Democrat Miro Weinberger in 2011. “I stood at the polls holding your sign, Miro, while Dave Hartnett held your opponent’s sign,” she reminded the mayor. George was in her element among the party faithful who showed up that Sunday afternoon to pick their candidates. She was prepared, too — her speech was polished, and she distributed literature outlining her accomplishments. It paid off: She won the Democratic endorsement, 72 discount!” he told a woman checking out with cranberry to 53. juice and a mini-box of wine. But four days later, Hartnett announced that he He also unabashedly badgered people to vote for him was running for the seat as an independent — with on March 3. Several customers offered unsolicited praise Weinberger’s support. He put a positive spin on being for his “common-sense” style. stripped of his “D,” announcing that his campaign “I’ve always felt I’ve been the most apwould “focus on community, not politics.” AYS COVE proachable council member,” Hartnett said D To unseat the affable, blue-collar counR between transactions. EN cilor, George will need to adjust her mesWright, a fellow councilor who’s sage to appeal to a broader crowd. been friends with Hartnett for three deHartnett, 51, was born in Burlington, cades, confirmed that he’s considered the fifth of eight children. He, his wife “a refreshing voice, in that he has his and his 16-year-old daughter live own way of speaking. He says what’s on around the corner from the North his mind, and he tells it like it is.” And Avenue Jolley convenience store gas in the New North End, “He’s kind of a station he’s managed for the last 16 years. 2 beloved figure.” 0 5 1 Before that he sold Pepsi to area stores, “I’m not a Monday-night guy,” Hartnett including Jolley. said — a reference to the regularly scheduled During a morning shift that started at 4 a.m. last Wednesday, Hartnett worked the cash register as if he council meetings. While he chatters nonstop behind the were campaigning door-to-door. With his bosses’ bless- counter at Jolley, he’s quieter at city hall. When he does ing, he’d hung a lawn sign above the chewing tobacco and pipe up, it’s often to personalize the political. “I think I’ve affixed blue campaign stickers on the newspapers for sale brought a lot of people to city hall that wouldn’t normally on the counter. A stack of fliers was neatly stacked there, come,” he said. For example, Hartnett took the lead during one of the too. “A little toilet reading,” one guy called to the candidate council’s most heartrending meetings last year, after a Burlington police officer shot and killed Wayne Brunette, with a grin as he grabbed a flier and left. Hartnett was unfailingly friendly as he greeted cus- a mentally ill man who approached the cops with a shovel. tomers — many of them by name. “You get the Wednesday Brunette lived in the New North End and went to school

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George ran through her résumé — former city councilor, former marketing director for Good News Garage, board member for ANEW Place, her current position at TruexCullins — and said she’d work to make the city more affordable. But George spoke softly and haltingly during the Q&A session that followed. When someone asked the candidates what they would do to improve Burlington High School, she mentioned that she’d be attending an education conference in San Francisco and that TruexCullins had designed a school in Madagascar. She failed to discuss the high school itself. Hartnett was more on point. “Hate to break it to you, but we need a new high school … and the city has to be a partner.” Attendees took note. Rich Nadworny, a principal at the marketing firm Empatico, supported George when she challenged Hartnett at the caucus. Now he plans to vote for Hartnett. “I was really disappointed by her performance at the candidate forum,” he noted during an interview Friday. More troubling, “The question that keeps coming up is: Why is she running? And I don’t think she’s answered that quite yet.” A Cumberland Road resident asked a variation of that question when George was going door-to-door the day before. “Why should I vote for you?” “Because I care about the community,” George said. “Everybody cares about the community,” he responded. The New North End — traditionally a conservative stronghold — has gotten younger, more diverse and more liberal in recent years. Longtime North End resident Ellis has served as the Rock Point School’s headmaster for 22 years. “I could document the change right in my neighborhood on Shore Road,” he said. George “certainly represents that new influx.” Ellis has officially endorsed George but, he continued, “Dave’s a very good person. I think that what’s important in a democratic process is that a variety of people run for office.” m Contact: alicia@sevendaysvt.com

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Shannon, who also served on the council with George, North End in 2000. She, her husband and 11-year-old daughter live in a 1950s ranch house that used to belong said she didn’t recall much about her approach or priorito her grandfather-in-law. Last Thursday, there was an ties. “I remember she put forward a breastfeeding resoluEmerge Vermont binder on her dining room table — the or- tion. That’s the only thing that comes to mind.” Ayres lives across the street from George and said ganization trains Democratic women to run for office, and he knows her well, but, “Honestly, I don’t George is a member of their “class of 2015.” know a lot about where Carmen stands on But George is hardly a political neophyte. the issues. She’s a very strongly partisan She served on the city council from 2006 to Democrat, and I think that’s clearly one of 2008 and has a strong record of community the things that differentiates her from Dave.” work — she organizes weekly women’s soccer Last Thursday evening, George set and basketball games, serves on the board of out on foot, navigating icy driveways on the Old North End emergency shelter, ANEW Cumberland Road, armed with campaign Place, and is an elected justice of the peace. literature and a list of registered voters. After “She’s the kind of person who seems to introducing herself, she told residents of the naturally gravitate toward community serlakeside neighborhood that affordability was vice,” said Russ Ellis, a longtime Democrat buRL i n gT On CiT y CO u n C i L one of her top priorities. To promote that, who’s lived in the New North End since 1969. pRES i d E n T she explained, the city should encourage deEllis, who also served on the city council with JOAn Sh An n O n velopment downtown to grow the grand list. George, remembered her as “a very capable Since the caucus, George has shied away councilor who understood what was going on and was doing a marvelous job of representing her from criticizing Hartnett — probably to discourage the perception that’s she’s a “very strong partisan Democrat.” constituents.” George has also been very active in the Democratic Asked where Hartnett had fallen short as a councilor, she Party — most recently as vice chair of the Burlington responded, “I don’t want to talk about him.” Post-door-knocking, over pizza and tea at the La Boca Democratic Committee. She said she’s worked for nearly every recent Democratic candidate in the New North End. Wood Fired Pizzeria, George suggested one reason why But it’s unclear how many of them will return the favor. she’d make a better counselor: “My skills in business deOutgoing councilor Bianka LeGrand is backing Hartnett. velopment and understanding technology is something I Tom Ayres — like most of the Democratic councilors — isn’t bring to the table that he doesn’t have.” As a councilor, she said she’d work to make city websites more convenient. choosing a side. A candidate forum last Wednesday at the Robert Miller “A lot of people are in an uncomfortable situation,” explained council president Joan Shannon, a Democrat who Community and Recreation Center played out differently than the Democratic caucus. Several Burlington High is also remaining neutral. Though they aren’t doling out endorsements, the School students wearing “Hartnett for City Council” Democratic councilors didn’t hesitate to praise Hartnett. T-shirts decorated the room with green and blue balloons “Dave’s a cheerleader for the city and for the New North printed with the same message. His campaign signs were End and for the kids,” Shannon said. “He doesn’t really propped in nearly every window, and there were heartshaped sugar cookies with Hartnett’s name written in come from a partisan approach.” Hartnett “puts working for people ahead of politics,” frosting. During his opening statement, Hartnett paid tribute to according to Ayres. Fellow councilors agree that he’s been a particularly strong advocate for Burlington schools and Brenda Trackim — a school employee who died suddenly several weeks ago — instead of making a campaign pitch. the park system.

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very year, Vermont tax dollars help pay tuition to prestigious, out-of-state private schools — Phillips Exeter Academy, Emma Willard School and Northfield Mount Hermon, to name a few. In 2013, some Vermont students used state dollars to attend high schools in Sweden and Argentina. According to Vermont’s town tuition program adopted in 1869, towns that do not have public schools can use tax dollars to pay for students to attend public or private schools in or outside the state. Rep. Alison Clarkson (D-Woodstock) says it’s time to remove the out-of-state option. Last week, Clarkson and Rep. Jim Condon (D-Colchester) introduced legislation H.38 that would make out-ofstate schools ineligible for Vermont tax dollars, with a few exceptions. In fiscal year 2014, Vermont paid for 339 students to attend outof-state schools, Agency of Education finance manager Aaron Brodeur told the House Education Committee last week. The price tag? $4.7 million. “This bill really is designed to keep our hard-earned tax money in Vermont,” Clarkson told the committee last week. “I would love to see us investing in the schools we have here in Vermont.” Clarkson has brought up the idea before, but it’s getting more traction this year as lawmakers grapple with rising education costs and declining student enrollment. “We’ve often said we need more students,” committee chair Dave Sharpe (D-Bristol) said as he listened to Clarkson’s pitch. “You certainly opened up some conversation.” “I like it,” said Rep. Sarah Buxton (D-Tunbridge), a House committee member. “At a time when our education spending is so limited, we have to look at all the ways we’re spending our education dollars.”

But not everyone likes it or even thinks the conversation is worth having. “People feel very strongly about choice,” said Rep. Patti Komline (R-Dorset), whose town sent 10 kids to out-of-state private schools in 2013, the most recent year for which detailed

information is available. Those schools, she said, present “better opportunities for our kids.” Typically towns pay the average state tuition rate, which in 2012-2013 was $12,461 for high school, according to the Agency of Education. That means

taxpayers aren’t paying full freight for Vermont students to attend, say, the Hotchkiss School in Connecticut, which this year costs $52,430 per boarding student. Parents pay the difference. H.38 would exempt border communities that send all their students to schools in neighboring states or in Québec. But even so, it would likely equate to less business for schools in New Hampshire and other states. Some fear they could retaliate and refuse to send their kids to Vermont. Private schools such as St. Johnsbury Academy enroll a significant number of students from New Hampshire. “We’re concerned with reciprocity,” said MMR lobbyist Laura Pelosi, who represents St. Johnsbury Academy. Clarkson has taken a fair amount of grief over her proposal. Detractors have accused her of hypocrisy because she sent her own children to the private Groton School in Massachusetts, for which her family paid full tuition. “It’s an elitist attitude,” said Komline, who serves with Clarkson on the House Ways and Means Committee. “There are a lot of people that, without the voucher, wouldn’t have the opportunity to send their kids to those schools.” “That’s not the issue,” Clarkson countered. “The issue is publicly raised state tax dollars going out of state, supporting out-of-state institutions, when we have great institutions in state.” According to Clarkson, some families — particularly those in ski towns — abuse the system by establishing second homes as their primary residences and using their newfound Vermonter status

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to send their kids to expensive boarding two students to attend the local private schools. Long Trail School, though that school But school officials in so-called “tu- charges higher tuition and parents had itioning” towns say such unscrupulous to make up the difference. behavior is uncommon and that the Education Secretary Rebecca process is closely monitored. Holcombe questioned the practice. “I don’t have the sense that it is She wonders whether towns should abused, nor that residents feel that it be allowed to pay above-average rates is abused,” said Dorset because, given Vermont’s School Board chair David hybrid state and local Chandler. “I believe property-tax system, Dorset residents are all Vermont property generally happy with this owners are essentially process.” footing the bill. Bennington-Rutland Supervisory And while sending Vermont stuUnion superintendent Dan French, dents to study abroad on state dollars who oversees 11 school districts that sounds extravagant, in 2013 the town all send students out for schooling, of Dorset paid just the average rate said there is a fraud-detection process. for a student to attend high school in Parents have to prove residency every Sweden. Tuition at that school was no year, and school districts more expensive than if must confirm that the the student had attended schools that students Emma Willard in N.Y. In want to attend meet qualfact, it was less expensive ity standards. than if the student had However, French said attended Vermont’s Burr that the districts could and Burton. use a clearer definition Meanwhile, some of residency. Vermont out-of-state schools, parlaw describes residency ticularly New York state as the place where either public schools that are parent resides, while more heavily subsidized, other states specify how cost less: Alburgh sent many days of the year one 14 students to school must live there to qualify in Champlain, N.Y. for as a resident. French said just $9,000 each. But school districts can ask New Hampshire public for income-tax forms, schools typically charge but parents can refuse to more. Nine students provide them. from Bloomfield went to “There’s no clear, a public school district qualifying standard in in Colebrook, N.H., for the law,” he said. “We’re $16,017 each. left on our own.” For Clarkson, H.38 While most towns isn’t about saving money. that send students out She believes that keepof state pay the average ing education dollars tuition rate — to both inside Vermont will help in-state and out-of-state strengthen the state’s schools — municipalities economy and boost sagcan choose to pay more ging enrollments. ALi SOn C L ARkSOn (D-WOODST OC k) if voters approve a larger How will the bill fare? amount. It’s one in a thick tome In 2013, Londonderry of ideas about education paid $14,104 to send a student to Emma funding that lawmakers are reviewing Willard in Troy, N.Y. — $1,643 more than this year. But when committee memthe state average, according to state bers made a list last week of possible data. Thetford paid $23,250 to send a solutions to pursue, the out-of-state student to an unidentified out-of-state tuition ban made the list. school, $10,789 more than the average. “It’s not the answer,” said Rep. Kurt Last year, Dorset paid $14,450 per Wright (R-Burlington), adding, “I think student for 91 high schoolers to attend it’s a fair issue to discuss.” m nearby Burr and Burton Academy, a private school in Manchester. The Contact: terri@sevendaysvt.com, town opted to pay the same rate for 999-9994, @terrivt

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Mayor Miro Weinberger went on the offensive against Progressive Steve Goodkind during the first mayoral debate of the season last Thursday. Standing in WVMT-AM’s small, poster-plastered studio, the Democratic incumbent and his challenger traded barbs on everything from sidewalks to fighter jets on the boisterous “Charlie + Ernie + Lisa Show.” Though Weinberger is the incumbent, Goodkind, the city’s former public works director, spent more time defending his record. The other two candidates, independent Greg Guma and Libertarian Loyal Ploof, were not on the show. The mayor was most acerbic on the subject of the Champlain Parkway, a four-decades-in-the-making road project intended to alleviate traffic in the city’s South End. With a legal dispute resolved and an Act 250 permit in hand, Weinberger plans to reboot the long-stalled project. Goodkind, who oversaw the project as public works director, has said he’d ditch most of it and would fix traffic problems through other means. Weinberger called that “just shocking” and said it would waste the $7 million in federal and state funding already spent on the project. He further said it amounts to an about-face for the man who once oversaw the plan. Goodkind acknowledged that he’d had an “epiphany” about the parkway. But he also said he had expressed concerns while he was public works director and was forced to adhere to the direction set by the administration. Citing “seven-figure deficits” in two public-works funds, Weinberger also accused Goodkind of “struggling to manage the finances of the single department he was in charge of” — thereby contributing to the downgrades in Burlington’s credit rating attributed to Bob Kiss’ tenure as mayor. Goodkind’s response: His department had lived within its budget, but the administration had “built in structural deficits to those programs.” The candidate, who had served briefly under Weinberger before retiring, also told the mayor: “When you had to balance your first budget, you came to me. I balanced it.” Goodkind did make the mayor defend his stance on downtown development, asking him, “Why do you think it’s appropriate to locate large student housing blocks downtown?” Weinberger said he thinks building student housing in “strategic locations” downtown will reduce the number of students in surrounding neighborhoods, opening up units for other residents and cutting back on “quality-of-life conflicts.” During a rapid-fire series of slightly more irreverent questions, Goodkind shared that his favorite food is meatloaf and his music of choice is “old-time banjo.” Weinberger prefers Bruce Springsteen and said: “I’ve never met a French fry I didn’t like.”

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A top Vermont Republican traveled to Israel January 31 on a trip financed by a right-wing Christian group that has espoused racist, homophobic and Islamophobic beliefs. Susie Hudson, a Montpelier resident and longtime Vermont representative to the Republican National Committee, was expected to join roughly 60 fellow RNC members on the nine-day tour, according to Israel’s Haaretz newspaper. The trip was organized and sponsored by the American Renewal Project, an arm of the Mississippi-based American Family Association. AFA has been called “extremist” and a “hate group” by the Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center. “Basically an offer was extended, from what I understand, to RNC members, political folks and members of the media to go on this trip to Israel,” Hudson said. “We were just told it’s being made possible by the American Renewal Project and the American Family Association.” The AFA, which says its mission is “to strengthen the moral foundations of American culture,” has repeatedly denigrated gays, African Americans, Latinos, Muslims, Native Americans and other groups, according to SPLC research. Bryan Fischer, who served as AFA’s spokesman and director of issue analysis for six years until he was demoted January 28, has blamed the Holocaust on gays. Asked about the trip January 29 after blogger John Walters wrote about it on the Vermont Political Observer, Hudson said, “I mean, I know there’s been some stuff that’s been out in the press yesterday, but it’s my understanding that there was an individual who made some inappropriate comments, and I certainly don’t agree with them, and it’s my understanding they are no longer with the organization.” Hudson said she was referring to Fischer. Asked whether she was familiar with the AFA’s beliefs, Hudson said, “I mean, obviously I’m somewhat familiar with them, yes.” But, she said, “I did not know that whatever group you said has called them a hate group.”

Hudson, who was elected national secretary of the RNC in January, repeatedly declined to say what she understood AFA’s beliefs to be. “All I can tell you is an offer was extended to go on a wonderful visit to Israel, visit the Holy Land and walk Susie Hudson where Jesus walked, and it was an incredible opportunity that was offered to us as members, and that’s what I know,” she said. After learning more about the trip’s sponsor, Hudson said she was still planning to take part in it. “I guess the question is, ‘Why wouldn’t I go with my peers?’” she said. As media scrutiny of the RNC trip intensified, AFA president Don Wildmon told MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” on January 28 that he had removed Fischer from his post, saying the organization rejected Fischer’s comments linking Nazis to gays. The website Mediaite subsequently reported that while Fischer had been removed from his jobs as spokesman and director of issues analysis, he would continue to host a radio show for the organization. In a letter sent January 28 to SPLC emeritus board member Julian Bond, AFA general counsel Patrick Vaughn wrote that his organization “has concluded that it must renounce some statements made by” Fischer. Vaughn said the AFA “has never held these views,” specifically listing eight claims Fischer has made over the years targeting gays, African Americans, Latinos, Muslims, Native Americans and Hillary Clinton. SPLC president and CEO J. Richard Cohen responded the next day in a letter saying “it’s difficult to see the AFA’s disavowal as anything other than an effort to quell the negative press attention you’re receiving in connection with” the RNC trip. Cohen noted that Fischer “has been making bigoted statements for years” and that he remains an AFA radio host.

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Last week’s news story, “Last Rights: Putney Woman Becomes the Third Vermonter to End Her Life Using New Law,” generated dozens of online comments — for and against Act 39, aka Vermont’s death with dignity law. Here’s a sampling of the discussion: I believe our dear friend Annette Vachon was the first person in Vermont to use the death with dignity law this past October. I am overwhelmingly thankful for her ability to do so. Her decision may be one of the bravest things I’ve witnessed. The process has a lot of hoops and red tape. Missing from the requirements above is merely finding a pharmacist who would fill the prescription. That in and of itself was a challenge. Good luck finding a CVS or Rite Aid that will. Hospice, too, was at odds with how to handle a right-to-die candidate. It was my hope that Annette’s death would help the next person through the process and maybe ease the taboos around the idea. I’m happy to finally see some dialogue on the issue. Thanks for the article.

Carrie Christofferson Handy St. Albans

It will work better when there are doctors in every area of Vermont willing to be a part of this death with dignity, as well as pharmacies that are willing to fill the prescriptions written. I guess it will just take time. Shelley Sweet Berlin

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This piece tells of a woman who had every resource in her life — she was well traveled and well educated, and had good health care, close family and friends. We will likely never hear the story of the person with no resources and no close family, as well as no access to good health care, who felt pressured by circumstances to decide to end his or her own life — or worse, pressured by an impatient, tired family member to die and get out of the way. This is scary business with a serious lack of safeguards. Brenda Pepin Montpelier

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Lake’s publicized one will almost certainly contribute to making suicide more ordinary than it already is. In Oregon, non-assisted suicides began to increase three years after legalization of assisted suicide and have continued to rise at a rate consistent with contagion. I fear for readers of this article, some of whom will have depression or another disability, some of whom will be dealing with terminal diagnoses. Some will see suicide, assisted or not, as the solution to their problems. Some, less privileged than Lake, will see it as the only solution. Those people’s suicides will, in the words of Lynne Vitzthum, have been “socially engineered” — not freely chosen. Carolyn McMurray Arlington

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Thanks to Terri Hallenbeck for lifting the veil over Act 39’s implementation. It is good to be reminded that the law requires doctors to report only the writing of a prescription, not what happens afterward. We know what happened to only two prescriptions. We cannot verify Linda Waite-Simpson’s claim that there have been two other assisted suicides in Vermont. We cannot know whether there were complications, abuse or errors. We cannot know if there are unused drugs sitting in somebody’s house waiting to be stolen or taken by a child.    While I sympathize with Lake’s family members and understand their need to find a kernel of good in her death, I find her sister’s description of her suicide as “pretty awesome” to be disturbing. Suicide is a public-health problem. Suicide contagion is a phenomenon so well known that the World Health Organization has issued guidelines warning against the glorification or romanticizing of suicide and urging reporters to include contact information for suicide prevention agencies in articles about it. I wish Hallenbeck had eschewed calling Lake’s death “remarkable.” The fact is that there are too many suicide deaths. Suicide is not remarkable, and

proposition. There is the potential for excellent palliative care for anyone with a terminal diagnosis, and improving access to such care should be the primary focus of our legislature, not providing means to an alternate death at one’s own hand. The reality is that a “dignified death,” and one without severe pain, is attainable without recourse to a hastened, artificial end. The potential for harm to the vulnerable inherent in Act 39 far outweighs any arguable “good” it can possibly do.

Anyone who opposes this law has no idea what it means to have a terminal illness. It’s one thing to believe you’re going to die one day. It’s quite another to know you’re going to die a miserable death soon. Most people I have met deny death, one of the most basic facts of life! I think it was Plato who said that much of life is a preparation for dying. Death with dignity is not suicide. It’s a rational choice to a rational natural process: dying. Warren Taylor

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Of the 71 reports of assisted suicide in Oregon in 2013, information on complications or the length of time between ingestion of the lethal drug and death was reported for only 11 people. Information on the other 60 cases is “not known,” according to the Oregon Public Health Division. While Oregon has data on assisted suicide, it is incomplete and insufficient to provide a true picture of how assisted suicide really happens. Also, while it is technically accurate to say that the longest reported time between ingestion of the lethal drug and death is 104 hours, this ignores the fact that some who take the supposedly lethal drug do not die from it. Data from the Netherlands shows that 18 to 25 percent of Dutch people who take the same dose of the same drug as is used in Oregon do not die. Sharon Toborg Barre City

There is a belief that the end of life needs to be mysterious and an act of fate, rather than a carefully thoughtout process. Some would prefer that individuals linger in pain, because their “time has not come,” according to some deity or other similar superstition. How arrogant to claim that we know what lies within the heart, mind and decisions anyone else makes regarding their quality, future and end of their life. Most of those who oppose this law are also among those who clamor for less government, particularly when it is convenient to them. Well, it would be good if they extended that to the lives of others and allowed them the respect and autonomy to choose their own path toward an inevitable end of life. Christopher Hill St. Albans

This is a well-written article. Kudos to Terri Hallenbeck, and condolences to Maggie Lake’s family and loved ones. One thing we need to remember in the volatile debate over Act 39 is that, contrary to the spin from people like Linda Waite-Simpson of Compassion & Choices, formerly the Hemlock Society: Not everyone presented with this option will choose it voluntarily, and we must be conscious of the very real vulnerability of those people — the poor, the aged, the severely disabled, just to name a few — and the need to protect them from coercion and abuse. Dying is not an either-or

Having lost my mother in a situation with many parallels, I wholly endorse legislation that allows the terminally ill the opportunity to pass on their own terms. She spent her final evening with two of her children and a pastor, singing hymns, with a couple of laughs and a couple of cries. But in the end, we were all blessed that she got to choose her terms, and for that, she and her family will be eternally grateful. Blaine Webber Massena, NY

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1955-2015, BURLINGTON, VT. Dennis McBee, 59, passed away on Sunday, February 1, 2015, after several years of declining health. Dennis was born on May 13, 1955, in Mineola, N.Y., the son of Adeline (DeMeo) and Joseph “Fred” McBee. He grew up in Port Washington, N.Y., and graduated from Paul D. Schreiber High School in 1972. After graduating high school, Dennis moved to Vermont to attend Goddard College. “You can’t choose where you are born, but you can choose where you call home,” he would often say, describing his love of Vermont and its people. In his first year of college Dennis began volunteering at a Montpelier youth center. This ignited a passion leading to a lifelong career working with young people. He was a member of a community effort leading to the creation of the Washington County Youth Service Bureau. In the years that followed, he taught at alternative high schools, ran youth centers, served as a youth counselor and community organizer, started a private high school, and volunteered as a shelter parent for runaway youth. Throughout his career he advocated a philosophy of youth empowerment. He challenged his colleagues to work with young people, not for them. In the 1990s Dennis took this strategy to the University of Vermont. There, as coordinator of alcohol and drug services for the Student Health Center, he created programs that would receive national attention. The National Commission on Drunk and Drugged Driving recognized his work with a

Citizen Activist Award. His passion for Vermont’s communities led to hours of volunteer service in support of then-governor Madeline Kunin’s Project Graduation. His work received the endorsement of four Vermont governors and numerous awards and recognitions. After declining health forced him to stop working, Dennis became a school crossing guard for the Burlington Department of Public Works. Every morning his smiling face greeted students at the corner of Mansfield Avenue and Colchester Avenue. If a simple smile and wave could help get their day off to a good start, what a small investment, he liked to say. Dennis was predeceased by his parents and his aunt Florence DeMeo, who was a second mother to him. Dennis always considered himself blessed by the love and role models of his childhood, especially his maternal grandfather Mario DeMeo and special aunts and uncles Harry, Irene and Arthur DeMeo. He is survived by his loving wife, Anne, and his two sons, Daniel and Michael. Family was the center of his life. Fatherhood was the most important and rewarding part of his life. He loved talking about his sons and sharing quiet moments with his wife. He is also survived by his siblings, Joseph, Martha and Harry. In addition, he leaves behind a niece, four nephews and many extended family members. He also leaves his good friends Bill Allen and Andy McKenzie. Memorial services will be held on Friday, February 6, at 5 p.m. in Elmwood-Meunier Funeral Chapel, 97 Elmwood Avenue. Visitation at the funeral home is on Friday from 4 p.m. until the services. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations may be made to a charity of the giver’s choice that benefits young people or families.

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Zachary Wade Nicholson died unexpectedly on Sunday, January 25, 2015, in Winooski. He was born in Aspen, Colo., on March 9, 1984, the son of Marsha Nicholson Van Leeuwen and the late Mark Hod Nicholson. Zach moved to Waitsfield at age 4, where he attended Waitsfield Elementary School and graduated from Harwood Union High School in 2002. Since graduation Zach worked in the culinary field in the Mad River Valley and Burlington areas. He is survived by his mother, Marsha Nicholson Van Leeuwen, and stepfather, Don Van Leeuwen, of Plattsburgh, N.Y.; and his sister

Kate Ellen Nicholson of Vermont. He is also survived by his aunts and uncles, including Bob and Deb Barris of Saco, Maine, Sid and Barbara Smidt of Fayston, and Paul and Judy Cote of Portland, Maine, as well as by his cousins, Matthew Cote and his wife, Olivia, of Manchester, N.H., Siemen Smidt of Waitsfield, and Kelly Vigil of Colorado. Zach and his sister, Kate, had many fun times at our family beach house in Ocean Park, Maine, with his aunts, uncles, cousins and grandfather. Zach grew up skiing and snowboarding at Buttermilk Ski Area, Aspen and Sugarbush, Vermont. For Zach, it was always play. He was also passionate about skateboarding. Together with his friends, he was instrumental in creating the first skateboard park at the Skatium in Waitsfield. He brought that passion with him when he moved to the Burlington area, shredding wherever and whenever he could. Zach, also known as Creature, is remembered by his huge circle of friends for his hugs, smiles and sense of humor. He loved people. Some Facebook quotes from his friends include, “We lost another beautiful soul”; “Keep those kick flips nice and snappy up there in heaven”; “Zach was the most loyal and kind hearted brother a man could ask for, he gave everything and asked for nothing in return”; “will always remember your laugh”; “thank you for the love, the hugs, the laughs, you will always be missed my friend”; “I feel blessed to have walked in just the little bit of sunshine you spread so freely”; and “no one will ever have the same brand of cool.” Zach loved his mother dearly, and her cookies almost as much. Zach was her “A number one son” who would rub her head and say, “Aw, Mumsy.” It was always “you and me, me and you“ Zach. He was a wonderful man and an incredible human being. “Life happens, death is inevitable. You left us way too soon.” Arrangements are in the care of the Cremation Society of Chittenden County, a division of the Ready Family, 261 Shelburne Road, Burlington. To send condolences, please visit cremationsocietycc.

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Julia Ann Magoon Monta died Monday, January 26, 2015, at the University of Vermont Medical Center of complications from fractured hip surgery. Julia was born to George Henry Magoon and Donna Oakes Magoon on February 13, 1941, in Morrisville. She was called Julie Jo by her mother. Julia attended Colchester schools and graduated from Mount St. Mary Academy. She was married to Robert Monta from 1987 until his death in 2009. For many years they enjoyed singing in the Colchester Community Chorus, and Julia sang with the Our Lady of Grace Church choir also for many years. They enjoyed traveling together throughout northern Vermont, with trips planned to end at Joe’s Snack Bar in Jericho. She worked for several years at Our Lady of Grace as custodian. In recent years Julia has enjoyed the friends she made at the Visiting Nurse Association’s Adult Day Care. Julia ignored most of the frailties and setbacks of life and carried on, surprising her siblings by her strength and determination. Her family is grateful for the excellent care and concern given to Julia by doctors, nurses and other hospital staff during her recent stay there. Julia is survived by her brother Robert (Betty) Magoon of Colchester; sisters Jean (Charles) Penoyer of Penfield, N.Y., and Coralie Magoon of Colchester; nieces and nephews Timothy Magoon, Bruce Magoon, Linda Viau, Donna Penoyer and Curtice Penoyer; and several grand-nieces

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ermont musicians who know Montpelier pianist MICHAEL ARNOWITT — and most do — never fail to comment on his imaginative programming. Since he moved to Vermont in 1983, Arnowitt has devised and performed a concert of pieces written in the year 1911, one of works about water and another with an animal theme. He has designed a program paired with the foods that inspired each composer, and one that accompanied the live creation of a painting onstage. As a jazz pianist — an interest Arnowitt took on a decade ago — he has done concerts incorporating the work of poets from Langston Hughes to Vermont’s own DAVID BUDBILL. Perhaps none of these programs, however, approaches the challenge and profundity of his next concert, sponsored by CAPITAL CITY CONCERTS. In the Unitarian Church of Montpelier on Sunday, February 8, Arnowitt, 52, will play Beethoven’s last three piano sonatas in a concert he envisioned 26 years ago. That’s when he decided not just to play all 32 of the sonatas in eight concerts, but to perform each concert only when he reached the age at which Beethoven had composed the pieces. Arnowitt has called the project “a study in the psychology of aging.”

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Beethoven wrote his 30th, 31st and 32nd concertos over two years, completing the final one at age 52, five years before his death. Like many musicians, Arnowitt deems these three works, along with Beethoven’s last five string quartets, “the pinnacle” of classical music. “I joke with my friends that, while I gave myself 26 extra years [to master the

CLASSICAL MUSIC three sonatas], I’m not sure that helped me,” Arnowitt says wryly by phone from his home. “But it did strike me as useful to wait to tackle the really spiritual pieces.” Shelburne pianist PAUL ORGEL notes that it’s not unusual these days for pianists young and old to both perform and record all 32 sonatas, and plenty have performed the final three in a single evening. But, he

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adds, it “is always a special event because pianists feel great reverence toward each of the three last sonatas, and interpreting them is a profound, inexhaustible process.” In Arnowitt’s interpretation, the three sonatas form an arc: a “journey” from life to death to the afterlife. The first, in E major, “has these birdlike motions — an airy, winged aspect. It has this lift,” he explains. For Arnowitt, this life-affirming sonata’s first movement has special meaning. Last summer, he played it for his dying father, who had a lifelong love of Beethoven. “He opened his eyes and was conscious of it,” Arnowitt recalls. “It was the last time I got to play for him.” “The second sonata [in A-flat major] has a trauma going on,” the pianist continues. “One passage is marked ‘Wailing Song,’ which is pretty unusual for a composer. It comes back twice, and on the second time [Beethoven] even excises notes, as if the heart is failing. “The third sonata [in C minor] has these very ethereal moments … If you haven’t heard these pieces before, they should be on your bucket list.” For Arnowitt, only Sonata No. 31 is entirely new; he last performed the 30th 10 years ago and the 32nd as a high school student attending the Juilliard School. But

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ops in Brattleboro are asking for the public’s help in locating comic book collector Jim Wheelock’s missing loved ones. The Los Angeles-based illustrator, writer and graphic designer was born and raised in Vermont. Shortly after he relocated to LA in 1995, his mother died, and he moved his trove of vintage comic books from her home to Brattleboro’s Hillwinds Farm Storage for safekeeping. Last month, Wheelock learned it was no longer safe. “My storage space was robbed,” he announced in a release that was quickly picked up by online vintage-comics media outlets, including Bleeding Cool, Sizzling Comics and the Comics Reporter. “It looks like my entire collection was taken. It has great personal value to me and was also part of my retirement plan.”

Wheelock elaborated that his cache of several thousand comic books from the 1950s to 1990s included The Avengers, Daredevil, X-Men, Conan the Barbarian and others from the debut issue on; The Fantastic Four and Spider-Man from the second issue on; and The Hulk from No. 3 on. In addition, he had nearly every book published by Marvel Comics and DC Comics in the 1960s, including The Flash,

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Batman, Superman, Action, Adventure, Superboy, Sea Devils, Sandman and more. “Comics from other companies include runs of Herbie, Magnus, Robot Fighter — the list is endless,” Wheelock wrote. Informed of Wheelock’s misfortune, former state cartoonist laureate JAMES KOCHALKA commiserated. “I don’t really know what these comics are worth,” he said via email. “But it sounds like a significant collection, and it’s old enough and big enough to be significantly valuable. “But beyond the value of what’s stolen, being robbed is a terrible personal violation,” Kochalka added, “and comic books have meaning far beyond their value as saleable commodities. I hope the comics

are found and returned to their owner.” Wheelock couldn’t agree more. Reached by email in Angoulême, France, where he made his annual pilgrimage last week to attend that city’s annual international comics festival, he told Seven Days, “I remember where I was and what I was doing when I bought or read many of [the comic books]. Later, when I worked in the financially rickety world of a freelance artist, knowing the books were in Vermont gave me a sense of security, a retirement nest egg. This is what the culprit robbed me of.” As for that culprit, the Brattleboro Police Department has made an arrest. Officer Adam Petlock confirmed that William Brown, 48, has been charged

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Begin. even relearning music is an entirely different experience for him now than it was, say, when he was preparing for his debut with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at age 12. Arnowitt has a degenerative eye disease called retinitis pigmentosa, which gradually narrows one’s peripheral vision and renders the remaining sight blurry and dim. To learn a piece, he uses a magnifying device that projects a fraction of the score onto a screen beside his piano. Arnowitt can discern at most two magnified measures of music at a time. To perform a concert, he has to memorize all the works on the program. Despite Arnowitt’s diminishing vision, supporters and friends who have attended his previous seven Beethoven sonata concerts identify a definite evolution in his playing. Sandy Morningstar, 78, of Duxbury, was one of a group of friends at a party that Arnowitt held at his home in the early 1980s. She heard the pianist casually play and urged him to start giving professional concerts. Since then, in Morningstar’s opinion, Arnowitt’s development as a pianist has been “considerable,” and “losing his sight may have something to do with why his music gets better.”

Annegret Pollard, 77, of Walden, first heard Arnowitt in concert 25 years ago. Recently, she gave a house concert to help him raise funds for his 50th birthday concert, for which he hired and played with 30 other musicians. In between, she has attended nearly all of Arnowitt’s concerts. Pollard recalls that his early playing

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mimicked the lean sensibility of Glenn Gould, who attempted to strip his interpretations of bravado and avoided using the pedal. “[Arnowitt] has come into his own now,” Pollard says. “Michael is a wonderful interpreter who can sort out the subtleties. He can be very dramatic, but he does not add unwarranted drama.” To his own ears, Arnowitt’s playing has “more dimensions” now. “I’ve learned

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Comics, it’s safe to say, have been Wheelock’s life. He’s always loved them. He studied art and illustration at Brooklyn’s Pratt Institute, then worked in film and television producing storyboards while placing work in alternative comics. In 2013, he illustrated the graphic novel Inferno Los Angeles, a modern twist on Dante’s classic — never imagining he’d soon find himself in his own hell. As the years passed, Wheelock took comfort in the belief that his enduring passion would someday provide security in his retirement. Rare is the artist with a 401(k). Everything he’d collected was in that Brattleboro storage facility. Perhaps, with the help of some alert fellow collector, Wheelock’s investment will see a return. m

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with breaking into several units in the storage facility. As of press time, however, a connection to Wheelock’s comic books had yet to be established. According to Petlock, Brown copped to the break-in but not to the theft of the collection. And that only adds fuel to Wheelock’s ire. “I’m deeply angry that a man I never met has done so much damage to my life,” he wrote to Seven Days. “But mostly, I want my comic books back. I believe

he will attempt to sell them. I hope people will keep an eye out at stores, flea markets and online for a large collection of comics from the ’60s through the ’90s.” Double bummer for Wheelock: He never had the collection appraised, and it wasn’t insured. Burlington-based New Yorker cartoonist Jim Wheelock Harry Bliss wrote via email, “It’s really a condition issue. If the comic books were near mint condition, he’s out quite a lot.” Wheelock himself said that if each of his comic books were worth just a dollar apiece, his collection “would still add up to $5,000 to $6,000.” In fact, comics such as The Fantastic Four No. 2 and Spider-Man No. 2 have been known to go for $500 or more apiece, he said, while first editions of Daredevil, The X-Men and The Avengers might sell for thousands of dollars each.

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how to get more rounded, curved shapes out of the piano,” he explains. “When I was younger, I was more about the energetic, lively gestures. I’ve added more of the inner aspect.” In that, he parallels Beethoven’s compositional approach: The early sonatas are “rambunctious,” he says, and the composer “wrote more [of them] faster when he was younger. The late ones are multilayered — beautiful.” Karen Kevra, the flutist who founded and directs Capital City Concerts, recalls when Arnowitt first announced his Beethoven sonata project. “I was a little incredulous,” she admits. “I mean, he was twentysomething!” He has since proved himself “a world-class pianist” who is “beloved by our audience,” Kevra says. Asked if ending the Beethoven project is bittersweet, Arnowitt says calmly, “No. There’s so much music I want to learn. And sometimes the ephemerality of a project can be nice, too. That’s what all concerts are, really.” m

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he life and thought of longtime Burlington resident Murray ENHANCES ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE, ENERGY Bookchin can be read as a pro& BREATHING file in courage. Never a slave to political fashion, he made intellectual enemies among former comrades in the communist, socialist and CERTIFIED ROLFER™ anarchist wings of the American left by challenging their cherished dogmas. At NEW Burlington, VT Office! the same time, he remained consistently radical, ultimately crafting a political philosophy that has proved prophetic and may turn out to be profoundly influential — even life saving. 12V-KatFiske020415.indd 1 hopkins center 2/3/15 9:50 AM So who was Murray Bookchin? for the arts The uninitiated can find answers in The Next Revolution: Popular Assemblies and the Promise of Direct Democracy, a recently published sampling of Bookchin’s writings don glasgo director coedited by his daughter, Debbie Celebrating the rich heritage bookchin; and blair taylor, one of of big band jazz Murray’s keenest intellectual acolytes. Both editors are active in the institute for social ecology, a small Vermont-based think tank that stands, precariously, as Bookchin’s institutional legacy. Renowned novelist Ursula K. Le Guin has written a brief foreword to this 220-page volume published by Verso. Le Guin, herself an imaginative social critic, encapsulates one of Bookchin’s key insights when she featuring special guests identifies capitalism’s incessant, indisRyan Keberle criminate pursuit of economic growth as the cause of the worsening environMichael Rodriguez mental crisis. “We have, essentially, chosen cancer as the model of our social system,” Le Guin dryly remarks. Most of the nine Bookchin essays chosen for The Next Revolution were written in the 1990s, with the latest — “The Future of the Left” — completed in 2002, four years before the author’s death at age 85. The essays offer an accessible overview of Bookchin’s thinking, focusing on groove to the music of… his development of a political philosophy that can be referred to, more or less interchangeably, as communalism, libertarian municipalism and social ecology. coUnt basie The book is an exercise in erudition. Bookchin became intimately acquainted with revolutionary ideologies during a thad Jones lifetime on the left, beginning at age 9 with membership in the youth wing of sat feb 7 8 pm the Communist Party USA and passing through periods as a Trotskyist, • hop.dartmouth.edu 603.646.2422 libertarian socialist and anarchist. In Dartmouth College • Hanover, NH this collection he dives into the depths

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Books and attractive to survive him, although she can’t be accused of intemperate enthusiasm. “So in a country that has all but shut its left eye and is trying to use only its right hand, where does an ambidextrous, binocular Old Rad like Murray Bookchin fit?” Le Guin asks. “I think he’ll find his readers,” she predicts demurely. Bookchin’s chances of staying relevant rest partly on his unsparing, insightful critique of formerly dominant left-wing doctrines that many of today’s younger activists consider antiquated. He blisters Marxism for a “workerist” obsession that blinded it to the progressive potential of gender-focused movements, as well as to the existential threat of climate change. Anarchism, Bookchin argues, has too often served as a philosophical alibi for self-indulgence. And, unlike most anarchists, he doesn’t

see political power as an inherently negative dynamic that must somehow be destroyed. Power will always exist, Bookchin posits, and can and should be used to advance positive agendas. Capitalism utterly changed the world during the 20th century, while communism and anarchism failed to change, or evolve, in response, he writes. Bookchin didn’t live to see the emergence — and collapse — of Occupy Wall Street, but he would surely have disparaged its means while endorsing its ends. Revolutionaries will be making a major tactical mistake, he warned, when “we fetishize consensus over democracy in our decisionmaking process.” Efforts to achieve consensus often waste time, frustrate many of those involved and cause movements to stagnate, Bookchin observed. Besides, he added, leaders will inevitably emerge, even if they are not formally acknowledged. Yet Bookchin’s alternative, communalism — defined as “a system of government by which virtually autonomous local communities are loosely bound in a federation” — is intrinsically opposed to hierarchies. The “libertarian municipalism” that he espouses, while a wonky term that doesn’t lend itself to soundbites, is manifested through neighborhoodbased assemblies in cities. In them, people practice politics, which in Bookchin’s view, means they “democratically and directly manage their community affairs.” Despite his insistence on free thinking, Bookchin can be doctrinaire at times. Running for elected office, he maintains, is a worthy endeavor only on the most local level. Revolutionaries are almost certain to be corrupted, or co-opted, if they seek votes on the statewide or national level, he contends. Somewhat similarly, in his blinkered view, the capitalist economy will never make space for green enterprises. Eco-entrepreneurs are certain to be “devoured” by competitors in a marketplace that “rewards the most villainous at the expense of the most virtuous,” Bookchin suggests. Trying to imbue corporations with environmental sensibilities, he adds, is “like asking predatory sharks to live on grass.” Bookchin offers a down-home example in characteristically polemical terms: “I have seen a self-styled

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‘moral’ enterprise, Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream, grow in typically capitalist fashion from a small, presumably ‘caring’ and intimate enterprise into a global corporation, intent on making profit and fostering the myth that ‘capitalism can be good.’” Bookchin’s fiery formulations sometimes sound like something out of the Old Testament. That’s actually in keeping with his stature as a prophet of end times. Bookchin sussed out the severity of the planetary ecological crisis long before progressives awoke to the degradation of the natural world that is being wrought, in his words, by “growth, growth and more growth.” His warning against the industrial plundering of the

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planet, Our Synthetic Environment, was published six months prior to Silent Spring, Rachel Carson’s seminal 1962 book on the same theme. And how about this perspicacious

insight into the causes of Islamist terrorism? “Most of the ‘fundamentalisms’ and ‘identity politics’ erupting in the world today,” Bookchin wrote 13 years ago, “are essentially reactions against the encroaching secularism and universalism of a business-oriented, increasingly homogenizing capitalist civilization that is slowly eating away at deeply religious, nationalistic and ethnic heritage.” Unusually for a visionary, Bookchin was modest in his expectations. Libertarian municipalism, he cautions in “The Future of the Left,” “will have only limited success at the present time.” Its advocates “must be prepared to endure more failures than successes,” he adds.

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organization, Barnarts Center for the arts, in Barnard. Three years ago, Green was a working actor in New York City when he happened to visit Vermont. He planned to stay for the summer, get an injection of country life and return to NYC rejuvenated. He wound up working at faBle farm. “It was serendipitous,” Green says. “I just stayed and fell in love with the community and with trees and quietness and space — all those essential things you forget about when you live in the city.” Rather than returning to New York, Green set about finding a way to build his performing life in Vermont. “I started teaching private voice lessons to get my foot in the door, to see if people would be interested,” he says. That December, a Christmas concert he’d

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organized with about 20 of his students played to sold-out audiences at the First Universalist Church and Society of Barnard. “I went home [to New York] for the holidays,” Green recalls. “I wrote in my journal about starting an organization called BarnArts.” Back in Vermont, Green started talking to people, and soon BarnArts was born. Over the subsequent two years, it grew into an eclectic community arts organization. Green attracted people who put their talents to work designing sets and costumes, fundraising, and developing a board. He created a summer workshop for teenagers and directed half a dozen musicals, including Little Shop of Horrors and The 39 Steps. In between, Green took acting gigs around the Upper Valley — most recently in Clybourne Park and Twelve

people,” he explains. “It’s about community, tradition, love, marriage.” For the production, ArtisTree is collaborating with Pentangle, which operates the WoodStock toWN hall theatre. Now in its 40th season, Pentangle is the perfect partner for the young upstart. The arts organization has the in-house technical expertise and marketing and operations infrastructure to support a production. For example, technical director daN Merlo has worked the Town Hall Theatre for decades; his son, charlie Merlo, will design sound for Fiddler. New York-based actor Robert Summers II will reprise the role of Tevye, the charismatic father of five daughters. “Robert has appeared as Tevye over 200 times,” Green says. “It’s an honor to have him. And our choreographer, James Kinney, is using Jerome Robbins’ original choreography.” Other members

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Angry Men at NortherN Stage. He directed a cast of 65 teens in Seussical for North Country Community Theatre in Lebanon, N.H., and was rewarded with nominations for best director and best musical director from New Hampshire Theatre Awards. When ArtisTree asked Green to start a theater program, it struck a chord. At BarnArts, he’d done all kinds of programming to develop an affinity with the community. “But I want to do theater,” he says. “It’s what I’ve spent the last 15 years doing.” As BarnArts’ founding artistic director, Green still had a chance to see his work there come full circle after his departure. “In December, I sat in the audience and watched the Christmas concert in the church in Barnard,” Green says. “It was a full house.” The theater program at ArtisTree will complement existing art and music programs. Green says he chose Fiddler because of how ArtisTree operates — in the building, in its community, in its family. “There are always children around. We really don’t say no to

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His daughter, Johanna, did call me from Waterbury, and we hooked up easily when she arrived in Essex Junction. She was an adorable, studious type — a pretty, petite, dark-haired girl and a self-described nerd. As we motored delicately through snowstorm conditions, I asked her about female nerd-dom. “I imagine it’s great being a female nerd,” I speculated, “because all the more numerous boy nerds must be entranced.” “Yeah, well, there’s that,” she acknowledged, chuckling in the shotgun seat. “But the boys are mostly clingy and can’t read social signals.” “Oh, yeah, I forgot about that,” I said. “So you’re a senior now? What’s your college?” “I’m in my last year at Dartmouth. It’s tough to be leaving. I really loved college. I live at a Greek house.” “Really? That sounds wild. I mean, Dartmouth has that reputation. I believe the movie Animal House was based on your school.” “Well, not in my case. My house is all nerds. To give you an idea, we have, like, Star Wars theme nights. How wild is that?” “Sounds cool to me. I always wanted to be a Wookiee. So, what about your medical career? Do you have a specialty in mind, or are you just waiting to see how it goes in medical school?” “I’m thinking about psychiatry, but it’s way too early to tell. A lot of entering medical students get their ideas about specialties from movies and TV shows, but when they actually begin taking classes, they see how the reality doesn’t quite match up.” The stretch of highway between Winooski and Burlington was down to one lane going about 35 miles an hour. I took my spot in the parade and moseyed along. I had no need to rush even if I could have. “So, how about your dad?” I threw out there. “He seems a tad overprotective. How’s that for you?” “Oh, dear old Dad,” Johanna said, with a charming sigh of equal-measure exasperation and affection. “He’s just an anxious person. About everything, really, not just me. Don’t get me wrong — he’s a great father. He can just make me crazy sometimes with his hovering. As a parent, he’s totally helicopter-y.”

“Well, you know,” I suggested, “better overprotective than underprotective and disengaged.” I paused for a chuckle. “I can see, though, why you’re considering psychiatry.” “That’s what they say about shrinks,” she said, joining in the levity. “They’re all just trying to figure out their own messedup lives.” The following afternoon I got another call from Dad. Somehow, I wasn’t surprised. “Johanna is taking the morning train back tomorrow. Any possibility you can give her a ride?” “I’m sorry,” I replied, “but I don’t do the early-morning stuff. I’m mostly a night cabbie.” I expected the pleading routine again, but he surprised me. He said, “OK, then I’ll have to find somebody else. I do appreciate your picking her up last night.” “Hey, my pleasure. Your daughter is a delightful, selfpossessed young woman. Not to be intrusive, but I really think you can loosen the reins a little bit. She knows how to take care of herself, she really does.” “How do you think she got that way?” he countered, clearly on the defensive. I had pushed my way into his life and hit a nerve. “She’s self-assured because she knows I have her back. And that’s never going to change.” “I didn’t mean to suggest otherwise,” I said, retreating. “She’s lucky to have a dad who cares about her and looks after her.” Hanging up, I made a note in my Book of Life — and not for the first time — to refrain from offering gratuitous advice. Scratch that; make it advice in general. My friend Don has an apt maxim: Nobody wants your opinion. And even when they say they do, they don’t really. m

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The motivation for gathering personal data is the usual one: money — specifically, the money advertisers can make by matching the right products to the right consumers. Google and Facebook, for instance, both target advertising based on your browsing activity — meaning they can grab information even when you leave their sites. So if you post three Facebook statuses in a day about your love of fried chicken, you’ll start getting sidebar ads for weight-loss programs. There’s also internal marketing: Apps that involve aspects of social networking want to connect you with other users. Things like Tinder and Google Maps want to use your location. For the 2012 election the Obama and Romney campaigns each created apps that gathered plenty of private voter information without asking. Generally speaking, we’ve already consented to this. Ever read those endless user agreements when you download apps? Me neither. But if you want the app, you have to accept their terms — all of them, including the parts about them collecting your data. They’re betting you care more about

legally track you, in some cases your phone can do it for them: In 2009 Sprint conceded that law enforcement had made 8 million requests for customer GPS data over a 13-month period. Sure, there’s a positive side — robberies have been linked to locations in status updates, GPS technology has been used to prosecute stalking cases. But it also means Big Brother may not need a warrant to pinpoint where exactly in the park you bought weed off that guy. One must conclude, in this age of Lockean anarchy, that it’s probably best to police yourself. You should understand who might want both your contacts and your cat photos and how they might use it all against you. Feel free to hit “Don’t allow” as often as you like — many apps will still function just fine without access to every nook and cranny. On a happier note, if History Channel is the app you’re most concerned about, then you’re probably too old to worry about all of your “deleted” photos

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hy are they allowed to ask? You should be thanking them for the courtesy of requesting your permission. Back in the day, the conniving marketers of the world would simply swipe that stuff off your smartphone without a word and cackle with glee all the way home. So these pop-up access requests, believe it or not, are an improvement. But just as troubling as the allseeing ad industry, I’d say, is the fact that often Uncle Sam can legally access this information, too. The internet is the Wild West, and we’re all just barely hanging on to the bucking broncos of our personal information. This isn’t a TechCrunch article, so I’ll keep things at a level that even non-ironic users of typewriters will understand. Since roughly 2012, when a mobile app called Path was discovered to be uploading users’ entire address books and storing them unencrypted on their own servers, people have been worried about what kinds of data could be taken from their phones, how it could be used, and by whom.

using your phone to find coffee than you do about keeping your searches to yourself, and on balance they’re winning. Problematically, the apps may well be leaving your harvested data lying around unencrypted, making it low-hanging fruit for hackers or other (legal) investigators. This brings us to part two of your question: privacy laws. In short, they pretty much suck. No one ever claimed Congress acts quickly, but they look particularly poky compared to technology. The two most comprehensive (read: not very) laws on the books are the Electronic Communications Privacy Act and the Computer Fraud & Abuse Act, both of 1986. Neither mentions smartphones, obviously, so recent court decisions have consisted of mostly bemused looks and shrugging. The result is a large gap of lawlessness, currently regulated mainly by damagecontrol-driven app revisions whenever the truth about personal data storage is revealed. And one major legal principle in play here doesn’t protect privacy at all: A few 1970s Supreme Court rulings created what’s now called the thirdparty doctrine, which states that if you allow a third party — e.g., a phone company — access to your information, the government can try to get it from the third party without dealing with you. Thus if cops can’t

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eddings can be fussy, formal affairs. The number of conventions associated with the ritual is dizzying: contracts to sign, rings to purchase, dresses to try on, guests to invite, bridal showers, vows, flowers, music … the list goes on. Many of those traditions will likely stand for years to come. But Vermont weddings are changing with the times, according to local planners. Though the elegant fullblown ceremony still exists, many couples are toning it way down. Enter food trucks. According to wedding planner Jackie Watson, owner of award-winning Vermont Enchanted Events in Hyde Park, food trucks are all the rage. “And they’re not totally expensive, so that’s a pro. They’re also really unique, and they take you down memory lane,” she says. “And it’s fresh food.” Local food-truck owners can speak to the uptick in demand. Charlie Papillo, owner of Pizza Papillo, catered more than a dozen weddings and rehearsal dinners last year, churning out varieties of Neapolitan pizza in his mobile brick oven. He estimates that the number will be comparable or higher in the upcoming season. Watching pizzas emerge from the oven is itself an experience for the guests, Papillo notes. And since he keeps different pies coming throughout the event, there’s something for everyone. “It’s unlike other events when food is prepared in advance,” Papillo says. “It’s constantly fresh. We urge people to eat a little, come back, then eat a little more, then come back, because the variety will change. And if a guest comes up and says, ‘I’ve got this idea; will you do it for me?’ — we’ll do it. You’re able to please a lot of people.”

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Brian Stefan, owner of the food truck Southern Smoke, says customers began requesting his services for weddings last year. By the end of the season, he’d catered five. Taco bars, barbecue and

Stefan, who spent more than a decade in Charleston, S.C., working formal events that he describes as “Ritz-Carlton,” notes that the food didn’t always give customers that much bang for their bucks.

fried chicken were the biggest hits, he says. This year, Stefan is already in talks with seven wedding clients and hopes to book more. “Weddings are one of my favorite things to do, because how often does someone get to throw such a big party for you and your family and friends?” he says. “Food should be a really big part of it.”

“Weddings are notorious for chicken or fish and lazy potatoes served with symbolic vegetables for, like, $30 a plate or something,” he says. “But everyone who’s come to us for weddings has said the same thing: ‘We want down-home and casual.’” Stefan admits that laid-back approach comes more naturally to younger couples and their guests. “We told one

client’s mother that we wanted to do a taco bar at the wedding, and she turned pale and we had to get her a chair,” he remembers. “Because she’s thinking, like, Dog food and lettuce on a taco, right?” Little did that mom know that a gourmet taco bar is one of the most popular requests from Southern Smoke customers. Stefan whips up a variety of tacos with fresh, locally sourced ingredients and “20 or 30 different toppings,” he says. “Our generation is starting to let our hair down a little,” he continues, “focusing on what’s important — where we can put on the ritz and the snob, and also where it’s not necessary.” In a foodie state like Vermont, keeping menus fresh and local is often a couple’s priority, wedding planner Watson says. With traditional catering, much of the prep work and some of the cooking are done beforehand. But at least one established catering company has hopped on the food-truck bandwagon: Cloud 9 Caterers. “People are embracing the fact that we have alternatives to traditional wedding experiences,” says owner Sarah Moran. Over 25 years, the Colchester-based company has earned a glowing reputation with Vermonters and out-of-state clients alike. Executive chef Luke Stone churns out tasty, locally sourced menus with unique twists. He also exercises his cooking chops at Cloud 9’s food truck, the Hindquarter, which is often parked at the University of Vermont green in Burlington. The Hindquarter is already booked for 12 weddings this season. “We watched the economy tank four or five years ago. I think that’s when the food-truck thing became more of a viable option for people who wanted to eat out but not necessarily have a dining

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eff Snyder and Mike Solomon were at a poker game, expressing their disdain for the typical portable toilet, when the idea of Luxury Event Restrooms was born. “We were complaining about this blue-box thing, and how we’d rather go behind it than in it,” says Solomon. The two men, who have more than 35 combined years in the hospitality business, tossed around the idea of creating a first-class mobile restroom. The impetus to make it a reality was Snyder’s June 2013 wedding at his father and stepmother’s house in Essex. With the home’s bathrooms off limits to guests, he wanted to provide an alternative to the Porta-Potty. So Snyder reminded Solomon of their conversation about outdoor facilities, he recalls. “I said, ‘Remember how we were complaining about it? I think we actually need to do something about it.’” The pair embraced the business venture in earnest, and Snyder’s nuptials became a testing ground for an upscale mobile restroom unlike any Vermont had seen before. “I was the typical client,” Snyder adds, and notes that most of their business now comes from outdoor weddings. He and Solomon hired an independent contractor in the Midwest to customize two restroom trailers. Measuring 10 and 17 feet long, respectively, and eight feet, four inches wide, the trailers arrived in Vermont 80 percent complete. Each unit housed porcelain toilets and spacious bathroom stalls with paneled doors. The shorter trailer contains two individual bathrooms, while the longer one features two separate sections for men and women, with a total of four stalls. For the remainder of the décor, Snyder and Solomon enlisted Cecilia Redmond of Redmond Interior Design in Burlington. Picking up where the men’s practicality left off, she lent her expertise to features such as vanities, light fixtures and the color scheme. “We needed a feminine touch,” says Solomon with a chuckle. At Redmond’s suggestion, Snyder and Solomon accented the restrooms

He and Solomon, by contrast, have researched the bathroom business extensively and want to make the experience effortless for couples. “You tell us where [the trailer] goes, and you’re done,” says Snyder. This one-stop-shopping approach entails an all-inclusive per diem of $1,800 and $2,750 for the 10- and 17foot trailers, respectively. Delivered for free within a 50-mile radius of Burlington, the units come with quiet generators, backup power and their own water supply — essential components for rural locations.

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with serpentine stone, a dark-green, semiprecious stone native to Vermont with likenesses to both granite and marble. They used it for the shelves, countertops and backsplashes. With the plumbing finalized by Snyder’s father-in-law and the addition of central heat, air conditioning and a speaker system, the vision for Luxury Event Restrooms was realized. “The goal was to make it like a

high-end hotel restroom,” Solomon says. The business partners share an attention to detail that Snyder admits can border on the neurotic; they’re determined to cover all the bases so their clients don’t have to. “A bride and groom don’t sit there and research a restroom. It’s not what they do. It’s not the romantic part of a wedding,” Snyder says.

Snyder and Solomon personally deliver the trailers to each wedding site, dropping them off up to a week before the event. The process can take several hours, particularly when inclement weather or last-minute location changes pose unexpected challenges. “You’re taking something that weighs 8,000 pounds and is 20 feet long and putting it on the side of the hill,” explains Snyder. “It’s one of those things,” Solomon adds. “The show must go on. The wedding’s in two days, you get thrown a curveball; what are you going to do? You make it work.” The partners have made it work in any conditions they’ve faced, building their business on consistent, highquality customer service. That means staffing their restrooms with an onsite attendant and including amenities such as Wi-Fi, courtesy baskets and individual cotton hand towels. “It’s not just a luxurious, deluxe restroom. It’s also the service that goes with it,” Snyder says.

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arriage, as many a spouse will tell you, is a series of negotiations — not just about who does the dishes, but about how two individuals can become part of a two-person, mutually dependent team. It can be a difficult dance, even for the most lovey-dovey of lovers. To sustain a marriage, partners have to work together. The six Vermont couples profiled here have taken that maxim farther by literally working together. They co-own their respective businesses, thereby bringing the definition of “partner” to a whole other level. In their conversations with Seven Days, these partnered partners shared their strategies for running successful businesses while maintaining their personal relationships.

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The old carousel horse in the lobby lets visitors know they’ve arrived in the right place. White Horse Inn sits at the base of Sugarbush’s Mount Ellen ski area, its 26 rooms hosting skiers and other tourists year-round. When Bob Heffernan and Allen Zeiner purchased it in October 2013, the inn had been vacant for two years — and they’d been married for eight. Technically, they’d started with a civil union granted by the State of Connecticut in 2005; in 2008, with the passage of that state’s same-sex-marriage legislation, the union became a full-fledged marriage. Just as their partnership was “upgraded,” as Heffernan jokingly puts it, the couple upgraded the inn that now provides their livelihood. Given the two men’s skill sets, innkeeping was a natural career choice. Zeiner, 52, has a culinary degree from Johnson & Wales University, where he specialized in baking; at White Horse, “Chef Allen’s pastries” beckon from glass cases on a sideboard in the lodge. Heffernan, 59, spent seven years helping his godmother run the Red Inn in Provincetown, Mass. At White Horse, Zeiner prepares guests’ breakfasts every morning; Heffernan performs more of the managerial tasks. “Before we signed papers [to buy the inn],” Heffernan says, “we had long talks: Would our marriage survive the test? Can we do this without strangling each other?” Ultimately, they realized that their skills were complementary, and that having two discrete domains was a blessing. Still, Heffernan says, neither of them will “make a move without consulting the other.” Their joint business decisions seem

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to have been good ones, as White Horse hosted 5,378 guests last year: Heffernan knows the number by heart. Finding time to nurture their personal relationship can be tricky, he says, especially in a 24-7 business like innkeeping. On busy workdays, they make a point of having lunch together, when Heffernan will often read aloud to Zeiner from the newspaper. Throughout the day, they keep in touch via text message. “We can’t find each other half the time!” Zeiner says. Heffernan sums up their formula for making the partnership work: “If your love for each other overpowers everything else, it’ll stand the test of even the most stressful business.” Keeping those day-to-day stressors in perspective is important, too. “Nobody owns a business forever,” as Heffernan puts it. “There is life after your business.”

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inroads here. Following on the heels of those trends is the local artisanal mead industry. The husband-and-wife team of Ricky and Kelly Klein, who own and operate Groennfell Meadery in Colchester, is leading the charge. “The easiest way to think about [our division of labor],” says Ricky, “is that she can fire me, but nobody can fire her.” That’s because Kelly, 27, is the CEO of both Groennfell and its parent company, Vermont Craft Mead. Ricky, 29, is Groennfell’s head mead maker and undertakes most of the hands-on tasks of brewing. He does not appear to be in jeopardy of termination by his spouse. The couple, who have been married for three and a half years, first discussed the idea of a co-owned business at an unlikely juncture: on their honeymoon. How did their post-nuptial conversation turn to the operation of a meadery? “We were in Norway!” Ricky answers easily — the land of the midnight sun and of fermented honey drinks. Thus was hatched a new Vermont business based on an old Viking beverage. For most of Groennfell’s two-year

existence (one year of prep, one of operation), it’s been a two-person show. Though it’s “all hands on deck” on bottling and brewing days, Ricky spends most of his time with the brewing equipment, while Kelly spends hers in the office. As the business has grown, in fact, they’ve found that their jobs have overlapped to a smaller extent. And that’s fine with them. Ricky credits the success of their marriage to precisely that separation of tasks. Last October, the couple took on two employees and an intern, a step that Kelly says has further delineated the personal and the professional. “I think having other people work here is really good, because finally there is a difference between who we are at work and who we are at home,” she says. Still, she admits, it’s sometimes difficult not to talk about work after hours. “We get along better than almost any other couples we know,” Kelly says, in large part because each partner trusts the other with his or her respective area of expertise. Asked if they worry about spending too much time together, Ricky turns to Kelly. “I never get sick of you!” he declares.

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Though they’re just 31 and 30, respectively, Tessa and Torrey Valyou, the married coowners of New Duds Screen Printing & Illustration, have been together for more than a decade. That’s nearly as long as they’ve had the idea of going into business together. The couple met at the University of Vermont in 2003; around that time, Torrey took a class in screen-printing and knew it was something he wanted to do professionally, he recalls. The pair launched New Duds in 2008, during their engagement; they married the next year. Husband and wife collaborate on their products’ designs, but the overlap tends to stop there. “I think we’ve learned that, for a smooth business relationship, we should both have roles and to stay out of each other’s business,” says Tessa. “Because whenever we’re doing the same task, we tend to butt heads a little more.” Tessa handles the sewing and various managerial tasks; Torrey does the screen-printing. But personal matters have arisen to blur those professional distinctions. “It’s kind of fluid at the moment because we have two small children,” Torrey says. He’s often in the shop while Tessa is home with the kids. The birth of each child has coincided with New Duds taking on a new employee — no coincidence. Says Tessa, “I think having kids made us realize that we had to bite the bullet and…” Torrey finishes her sentence: “…not work 12-hour days.” That’s not the only way the couple has found home life and work life overlapping. “The more the business grows, the more our life goals are achieved,” Torrey says. “We never wanted to be a big business, but we did want to get to the point where we have a comfortable home life.” For that reason, New Duds has begun taking on more custom printing jobs: They mean higher rates and profit margins, which translate into more comfortable lives for the business owners. Which is a big reason why anyone, married or otherwise, goes into business in the first place. m Contact: ethan@sevendaysvt.com

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Louisa Conrad and Luke Farrell have been life partners for almost exactly as long — four years — as they’ve been business partners. Only for the first month of their marriage did they not co-own Big Picture Farm, a dairy goat enterprise on a hill just north of Brattleboro. Farrell calls it “the glory month,” but he’s kidding. This couple revels in living and working together. He jokes that, because he and his wife probably spend twice as much time together as other married couples do, their upcoming fifth anniversary will be more like their 10th. Their enjoyment of joint labor has extended to all kinds of projects. Conrad, 32, is a visual artist; Farrell, 33, a poet. “We’ve always collaborated,” Conrad says, interrupting her preparation for last week’s snowstorm to speak to Seven Days by phone. “That’s something that has always

drawn us together.” The pair never set out to run a farm together, but their preference for collaboration drew them toward dairy farming. That and a love for goats. “Our real interest was cheese making,” says Farrell. “We had hung out with sheep before and knew a little bit about it. But goats are so dang expressive and playful, and their default nature is to engage you, whether in mischief or affection or anger or frustration. They’re just such loving creatures, so easy and fun to be around. Once you’re around them, you want to stay near.” Even for a couple who loves to work together — they describe themselves as co-supervisors, each tending to particular workplace domains — the establishment of “work-life balance” has been important, Farrell and Conrad say. “You’re constantly negotiating, constantly taking on the perspective of the other,” Farrell says. “Over time, you’ve identified the differences so many times that you use them to become closer together, and manage those differences more easily.” When problems arise on the farm, Conrad says, “It’s really nice to have the

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Co-managing a restaurant initially presented unique challenges to the marriage of Bill and Christine Snell, who own and operate Tourterelle, a restaurant and three-room inn in New Haven. The restaurant business, says Bill, “is super high stress; you’re just not used to saying, ‘please’ and ‘thank you.’ But that just doesn’t work when you’re working with your spouse. There were some major fights about that.” Now, two restaurants, three kids and 16 years into their marriage, the couple has worked out ways to maintain a respectful, loving relationship while running a taxing business. Like other couples interviewed for this story, Bill and Christine make toplevel decisions together, but each maintains a distinct principality in their restaurant’s kingdom. Bill, 44, cooks and carries out any construction projects; Christine, 43, designed the restaurant, manages finances and oversees front-of-house operations. “We respect each other and don’t step on each other’s toes,” says Bill. “I don’t think it would work if we were both chefs.” Christine adds, “It’s important that we have that good connection. If we don’t have that, then everything falls apart.” Residing at their place of business can make it hard to separate work and home. “It’s all in here, all the time,” Christine says between sips of café au lait at Tourterelle’s bar. “We can never really detach ourselves from the business.” She says her husband is better at establishing boundaries, while she still finds it challenging. Another restaurant-specific challenge: Bill readily admits that Christine “is the boss, absolutely,” but he acknowledges that, as the chef’s wife, she does not always get the credit she deserves. “I get to hide in the kitchen,” he says, while Christine does the hard work of running the business. Both say they’ve been careful not to allow that disparity to affect their personal relationship. “Marriage is work, and everybody knows that,” Bill says. “I don’t care if you have the best marriage in the world — you still have to work at it to make it great. And to actually work with the person you’re

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etsy has a full day ahead of her, even for someone with four romantic partners. An hour after her interview with a reporter, she’s due to pick up one of her girlfriends at the airport. Later this afternoon, she’ll have a coffee date with a potential fifth partner, followed by dinner and a movie with her “primary partner,” Lola, whom she sees three nights a week. “This is not a typical day,” the 60-year-old Burlington grandmother confesses. “Usually, I don’t double-book myself like this.” Betsy (who asked that her last name not be revealed) has nothing against monogamous relationships; she was married for 28 years and still would be, she adds, had her husband not died when she was 51. Two years after his death, Betsy began practicing polyamory, or having more than one romantic partner at the same time. Today, she’s part of a constellation of intermingled love interests. Betsy also leads poly activities (potlucks, movie nights, discussion groups) for other Vermonters, conducts polyamory workshops at sex-positive retreats in Maryland, and coordinates Vermont polyamory groups and pages through Facebook and FetLife. The latter is an online social network for the BDSM and fetish communities. But, contrary to what many non-poly people may assume, Betsy insists that polyamory is not synonymous with swinging or open relationships. For her, it requires much deeper emotional connections with her partners. They all know about and consent to her other romantic relationships, as she does to theirs. “A lot of people think it’s just all about sex and having wild parties. In some ways, that’s the least of it for me,” she says. “I think we all have a lot of love to give and share, and it seems somehow unreasonable to say I’m only going to share that love with one person.” In addition to Lola, with whom Betsy has been “keeping company” for seven years, she has two boyfriends: one in Connecticut, who’s married, and another in New Jersey. In fact, the Jersey boyfriend is someone Betsy dated before she was married. Despite her many loves, some of whom she sees only a

few times a year, Betsy practices “solo poly,” meaning she doesn’t cohabitate with any of her partners. Instead, she shares her home with a daughter and granddaughter.

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explains. “So it seems pretty natural to me that you would love more than one person intimately, but you won’t do it in exactly the same way with each one.” For Betsy, that means she may go kayaking and cycling with one partner, see movies and have dinner with a second, and attend workshops and weekend retreats with a third. Her sexual intensity with each partner may ebb and flow over time. But what remains constant, she says, is the deep emotional attachment she feels to them all. “There are so many different kinds of candy out there,” she says with a smile. “I’m not gonna eat just one.” Betsy doesn’t deny that polyamory presents unique challenges, including something the polyamory community refers to as NRE, or “new relationship energy”: that flush of excitement, obsession and lust one feels when finding a new partner. When that occurs, she says, “the green monster,” aka jealousy, can rear its head.

“The key to dealing with that is communication and emotional honesty,” she says. “You just have to keep talking to each other and say, ‘Just because I’m seeing this new person doesn’t mean that I love you any less than I did before.’” Betsy’s partner Lola agrees. A 61-year-old book editor and relationship coach who self-identifies as a trans female, Lola first began exploring polyamory as her 25-year marriage ended. Like many formerly monogamous people, Lola initially assumed that polyamory was just about having multiple sex partners — that is, until she met her first poly partner. (Currently, she has two.) “He was very ethical,” Lola says. “And a lot of this is about ethics.” First and foremost, Lola says, polyamory only works if all the partners are honest and transparent with each other. So, if Lola invites Betsy to dinner one night and Betsy already has plans with another partner, Lola expects Betsy to reveal those plans and not make excuses,

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For Chris, those norms were instilled early in life. She was raised in a traditional Catholic household that taught her she would find “one true soul mate,” get married, have kids and stay together until death. Chris, who was only 23 when she met her now-ex, stayed married for 20 years but always felt spiritual attachments to other men and women, even though she was never physically unfaithful. Now divorced, Chris has shifted her relationship priorities toward wanting “complete sovereignty in mind, body and spirit.” Currently, she has two partners, neither of whom lives with her. Each knows about the other, though they haven’t met. “For me, polyamory doesn’t necessarily mean that I’m actually having sex with more than one person,” Chris explains. “It means I have the sovereignty to choose if that’s where a relationship is going, and that I’m entirely transparent about that.” How do Chris and her partners address the “green monster”? “If I’m feeling jealous, to me that’s an indication that I need to dig deeper to understand why I’m feeling this way,”

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such as saying she’s too tired. “That takes practice,” Lola says. Total honesty also means practicing safety, Lola emphasizes. All the partners must be up-front about whom they’re having sex with and who may have contracted a sexually transmitted infection; Lola and Betsy say they get tested annually for STIs. While they don’t necessarily share the results on paper, they do inform their partners that everything is A-OK — and expect their partners to do the same. Betsy and Lola have another rule of engagement: Neither will form an emotional attachment with someone who’s cheating. The wife of Betsy’s married boyfriend in Connecticut not only knows about her husband’s polyamory but consents to it and even considers Betsy her friend. As Betsy puts it, “I don’t want to be someone’s dirty little secret.” How common is polyamory in Vermont? It’s difficult to say. The U.S. Census Bureau doesn’t have a box to check for unconventional romances, and even if it did, its numbers would be unlikely to reflect the many shapes and permutations of existing polyamorous relationships. As Lola asks, would the government only count partners who live together? How about those who only see each other once a week or once a year? Still, there are clues to the practice’s popularity. Several Vermonters interviewed for this story belong to a local polyamory email discussion list that claims 100 to 150 members. Similarly, a search of PolyMatchMaker, an online polyamory dating site, turned up 360 people within 100 miles of Burlington — from singles in their twenties to gay and straight couples in their sixties — who are interested or engaged in polyamorous partnerships. Those in the poly community suggest their actual numbers are much higher. They also say one common misconception they hear from skeptics of their lifestyle is that polyamorous people can’t or won’t commit to “real” or “healthy” relationships. “There’s still an awful lot of hostility toward this,” Lola says. “There’s an embedded belief that there’s only one way to ‘do’ relationships, and if you stray from that, you’re a social deviant.” Indeed, mainstream society’s bias toward binary bonds may explain why

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the Burlington-produced radio show/ podcast “Write the Book.” For her, the reading of the vows is the highlight of a wedding. It’s a “special moment,” Shapiro says, and when it begins, she and her husband, Jerry, “hold hands and listen closely.” Every wedding reminds Shapiro of her own vows, which she and Jerry wrote together for their nuptials in 1990. After digging them out and rereading them all these years later, Shapiro reports with a laugh that she finds them “not that exciting.” Still, those vows S hE l A g h reflect the values that have remained important to her marriage for 25 years: love, comfort, honor, respect. “Actually, I think they’re even more about a sense of friendship and partnership,” she says. So, lesson one: Vows should convey sincere emotion and reflect values that are important to the couple.

Sean Prentiss is the coeditor of The Far Edges of the Fourth Genre: An Anthology of Explorations in Creative Nonfiction, and author of the forthcoming Finding Abbey: A Search for Edward Abbey and His Hidden Desert Grave, a travelogue-memoir about his quest for the resting place of the environmentalist writer. He teaches creative writing at Norwich University. When Prentiss wrote his own wedding vows last year, he was reminded of advice that he frequently shares with his students: S hA p i r o Always consider your audience. “As a creative writer,” Prentiss says, “your audience is, in theory, millions of people, because anyone could read [your] book. [In writing vows], my audience was just the other person. If everyone else in the crowd thought our vows were duds, that would have been fine, as

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Heather, 33, is a freelance writer and editor for, among other outlets, the Vermont-based wedding magazine Sweet Violet Bride. The pair collaborated on the “ring vows” (the “with this ring” part) for their 2011 wedding, but kept their individual declarations of love private until the ceremony. Heather confesses that, as she penned her vows, her professional instincts to revise, revise, revise became a liability. She went through “about 20,000” versions of her vows before settling on one on the morning of the wedding. Similarly, Daniel had to overcome the literary practice of “hiding the truth you want to communicate” via such devices as allusion, symbolism and formal structure, he recalls. “Generally speaking, you’re not expressing things explicitly,” he says. “So it was really a challenge to give voice to something that was much more personal and intimate than writing a short story.” Beautiful language, Mills says, necessarily took a backseat to “the bald truth of what I wanted to say.” Lesson three: Turn off your literary inclinations and be direct. Ten years ago, Amanda Levinson and her fiancé, Adam Rosenblatt, were living in Chile. One of their favorite pastimes was creating comics together. They decided to participate in 24-Hour Comics Day, in which writers and artists are challenged to create 24 pages of comics in 24 hours. The couple used the occasion to write their wedding vows in comic-book form. Those comic vows turned out so well that they were included in the anthology 24 Hour Comics Day Highlights 2004, and the couple copied them and distributed them at their wedding. Levinson, now a Burlington resident, writes in an email that, for their recent 10th anniversary, “My husband surprised me by reprising those vows in comics form, showing how our life has changed after two kids.” Lesson four: It’s a good idea to have a little fun with your vows.

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n Liz Duffy Adams’ Or, the medium is the message. For this comedy set in 1660, that medium is farce, wrapped around a bit of biography and clever dialogue reminiscent of Restoration wit and topped with a bawdy look at sexual freedom. The farcical frame makes the biggest impression, resulting in a playful 90-minute romp that calls attention to performance as artifice. With a fusillade of slamming doors and the quick costume changes necessary for two actors to play six characters, while the central character flirts, writes and utters witticisms, the play is more a meditation on theatrical deception than a character study. But deception is perhaps the bedrock quality of our hero, Britain’s first professional female playwright, Aphra Behn. Behn was a prolific writer and an especially obscure historical figure who may herself have taken pains to hide her past. The handful of facts about her establish that she worked as a political spy, was an early novelist and wrote 19 comedies that place her alongside John Dryden as a leading Restoration playwright. Adams builds a play around the deception in Behn’s life, using farce to conceal characters behind the silly bluster of their misadventures. Anyone concerned that a play in which men wear wigs will be uncomfortably fussy can rest easy. The characters are thoroughly modern. The laughs in Or, depend on wordplay no more complicated than a sitcom’s. Some, in fact, depend on expletives and ribald overtones that have a neat power to shock when uttered by people wearing corsets and brocade. The play collects the key figures in Behn’s life and takes a few forgivable liberties. Since it’s possible Behn intersected with King Charles II by dint of her spy work, Adams trades on Charles’ well-documented promiscuity to imagine an affair between the writer and the monarch. It’s plausible enough, and the play’s bravura conception is in keeping with the humor of Behn’s 17thcentury comedies.

To the known fact that the actress Nell Gwynne had a long liaison with Charles II, Adams adds the imagined notion that she may have had a dalliance with Behn as well. Gwynne was provocative and sometimes dressed as a man; add that to the temper of the times, and the YOLO personality Adams constructs for Behn and the story rings true. Sarah Carleton’s direction keeps the movement and pace razor sharp. Adams never provides the real engine of farce: a sense that the action is escalating past control. In this story, Behn wants to finish her play, keep the king happy but out of her hair and assure Nell that she’ll get around to getting it on. There’s no hyperbolic crisis, but Carleton keeps the accelerator pedal down to make it a rollicking joyride. If Adams creates a flimsy plot, she compensates with graceful dialogue, making the lines sparkle and the wit flow. She flirts with a meta construction, superimposing the 1960s on the 1660s from time to time, the better to keep the audience aware of the cyclical nature of

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social values rather than a linear progression from then to now. The “or” in the title is not so much “or” as “more” (and, yes, it contains a pesky comma). Behn’s energetic pursuit of art and fame stems from embracing possibilities and ignoring restraint. She flirts with Nell and Charles with equal zest, as if her sensuous curiosity simply doesn’t recognize gender. But sexual ambiguity isn’t treated as deliverance in this play. Nothing threatens the breezy sexual confidence of Behn, Nell and the king, and no epiphany triggers it. It’s just how they choose to live. Or, has plenty of kissing. Carleton develops these moments so the play transcends typical stage kisses, which are often mere placeholders for emotion. She nudges these scenes to the edge of rapture and then lets the play spring its verbal trap, for Adams has her characters ever oscillating between flirtation and coy retreat. Carleton burnishes each set piece to bring the characters’ essential needs into view even as she maintains riproaring blurs of action. By allotting just enough time for the steely gaze or the giggled demand to show what a character wants — ink, money, fame, fortune, whiskey — the director makes each entrance and exit tell a swift story.

Adams’ Aphra Behn is saucy to a fault, so actor Chris Caswell cleverly grounds her in impeccable diction and posture to give her character’s operatic lust for life a sparkling dignity. With upright carriage, Caswell captures not just the historical period but the self-command necessary to make one’s way in the world using only wit and words. Her amorous come-ons generate bright sparks, while her bustling comic turns shatter manners without overplaying the jokes. She’s a gem. John Nagle uses precise vocal and physical shadings to reveal the differences in class that distinguish King Charles II from William Scot, a traitorous spy and souse. His Charles has the world by the tail, while Scot has to do a lot of scurrying to stay ahead of it. Nagle then gets a fun turn as Lady Davenant, the theater producer hustling playwriting talent on her own terms. Nagle’s restraint pays due respect to the acting challenge of switching gender, with just enough campy mischief. Haley Rice renders Gwynne rather grand and swanny, with the very narcissism that today’s celebrities consider so crowd-pleasing. The satisfaction with which she inspects her own leg, cross-dressed in pantaloon and hosiery, lacks only the selfie. In her other roles as servant and jailer, Rice is hilariously earthy and gets to run the biggest gamut of accents. Rice is nicely caught up in each moment, and when her Nell extols the 1660s as a golden age, she makes a convincing case. Behn’s libertine life is the play’s central conceit, and Adams constructs a fine model of a woman spouting wit and unabashedly seeing to her own needs and pleasures. The show is more fluff than substance, but the farcical high jinks put the audience in pleasant anticipation as characters dart on and off in new disguises. The emphasis on artifice adds a layer to the play, and if we learn only a little about Behn, we are reminded what makes theater, in any age, so much fun. m Contact: alex@sevendaysvt.com

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Our wedding was the first event [at our home and wedding venue]. We cleaned out the barn for our own wedding, and that was an immense project. We have a farm, so when we got engaged that May in Greece, we said, “We need to start planting!” We grew two pigs and a bunch of chickens and a huge, organic garden as usual. We grew most of the meal. We have a bunch of friends who are chefs and great cooks. Jean-Luc Matecat [now chef at the Inn at Weathersfield] came and harvested all our lettuce and beets and came up with the salad, with a maple-orangebalsamic vinaigrette.

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f planning a party is stressful, devising a wedding is enough to land many couples in therapy. When it comes to the all-important postnuptial meal, some may throw up their hands and say “I do” to a fate of chicken Statlers and overcooked prime rib. Wedding banquet pressure is compounded for members of the culinary industry. Among those who have devoted their lives to food, “chicken or fish” simply isn’t an option. And, in a state rich in treasures from the field — and chefs who know what to do with them — there’s no excuse for anyone to settle for subpar nourishment on their big day. We spoke to Vermont culinary groundbreakers — from farmers to butchers, writers to wedding planners — about what made their nuptials delectable. May their tales help you plan the meal for the biggest party of your life.

We handed over the pigs and chickens to Michael Flanagan of Michael’s Good to Go. He did pulled pork with wild Maine blueberry-chile barbecue sauce and a more traditional bourbon barbecue sauce. He did a porchetta roulade with caramelized fat. He took the chickens, halved and brined them in a Thai-style lemongrass brine, and then grilled those on-site. I sent out recipes to two of my other best chef friends who wanted to contribute. They did a Mediterranean quinoa salad with apricot and chickpeas and cucumbers and mint from the garden, and a summery, lemony dish with haricots verts and fingerlings in a mustard-lemon vinaigrette with tarragon. Our friend Nicholas Laskovski of Dana Forest Farm came with his Austrian backpack and picked mint to make mojitos, for which the rum was infused with cucumber and mint for a few days. Our Jasper Hill [Farm] friends gave us a bunch of wheels of cheese for the cocktail hour. Then I made a chicken liver pâté from our chickens and froze it. We served it with jams and pickles and rhubarb chutney. It was amazing! I made the wedding cake myself. I froze all the components ahead of time, and Chris McGandy, who used to be a pastry chef, assembled it. It was a big, huge, tall wedding cake — bittersweet chocolate with chocolate caramel and ganache and candied pears. On the outside there were edible flowers, too. I also baked some cheesecakes ahead of time. My blackberries were in season, so my friend went out to the blackberry patch and used them to make a star-anise compote.

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at her farm or nearby is the salad. The meal begins with Agricola’s lamb served with mushrooms in homemade puff pastry. House ravioli (incorporating the farm’s eggs and veggies) are filled with ricotta and Italian saffron, while Agricola’s sausage is served over polenta. The meal ends with tiramisu, warm drinks and digestives. There’s room for 26 diners in the 1850s farmhouse that Rellini shares with husband Charles and daughter Eva. “Membership” to this month’s dinner club costs $90 per person, including tax, gratuity and a $10 discount on any class offered on the farm during 2015, such as a Raviolo Clinic scheduled for February 21. Diners who sign up before February 6 will get a discounted rate of $65. Not included in the fee are the shuttles to and from Burlington that Rellini is

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We had what we call a communitysupported wedding. One of the major motivations behind doing a potluck was that it was community-oriented and community-inspired — something important to them and celebrating us. It ran the gamut from very fussy food to very simple, basic, comforting food. There were 110 guests, and I would say there were between 40 and 50 dishes. I made a vegetarian tagine. We had two kitchen staff and we provided a full bar. Our server, Deb Wilson, made a carrot wedding cake. She’s not a professional baker, but she’s an amazing baker. She trimmed the cake into a rectangle shape and took those trimmings and made them into cake balls. Our signature cocktails were inspired by our life together. There was a San Francisco cocktail for where we met, the Mountain Manhattan with St.-Germain and maple syrup, and the Paris Exposition. We originally made a commitment to each other on November 10, 1990, in Paris on a bridge over the Seine. [Our wedding date] was the first year we could get married in Vermont and also the closest weekend night to our 20th anniversary.

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Noelle and I were in the middle of moving back to Vermont from NYC while planning the wedding, so the “planning,” if you will, was very rushed. I honestly don’t remember what we had on the wedding menu. I recall telling the innkeeper to surprise us and make it nice. It was a buffet, and it was good. I remember that — but that’s about it. I do, however, remember very well what we drank on our wedding day. I was working at Daniel when I proposed to Noelle. I told Daniel [Boulud] that I was going to propose, and he let me pick out some wines from the restaurant’s wine cellar for the occasion (within reason). I consulted with the sommelier at the time, Jean-Luc Le Dû, and went with a vintage Champagne from Jacques Selosse, and Barbaresco from Produttori del Barbaresco. I don’t recall the vintages, but I remember that they had some age on them. And they were exceptional. I cooked dinner for Noelle in our Harlem apartment, and we drank the wines. For our wedding day, I was able to track down the same wines, and we drank those throughout the evening. Vintage Champagne and Barbaresco … Yum.

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I, being an idiot, decided to cater our wedding myself. There were 125 people, and I did the food I most loved at that time. It was a crazy combination: giant, round Moroccan chicken bisteeyas, mushroom moussaka, big bowls of Thai seafood drunken noodles and broccoli drenched in crispy garlic and olive oil — my favorite dish from a long-closed Manhattan restaurant called Hisae’s. We hired NECI students to pass hors d’oeuvres and put out the buffet, but I cooked every dang thing myself. My sous-chef at our then-restaurant, About Thyme Café in Montpelier, made us a gigantic, four-tiered lemon-poppyseed cake. One of our best friends, Peter Lind, primal ice cream therapist for Ben &Jerry’s, made a three-tiered, flourless dark-chocolate cake. It also happened to be my parents’ 40th anniversary and my niece’s fourth birthday, so I made a cake for each of them. Needless to say, we were swimming in cake! The Clayfoot Strutters played swing music for us and backed up Rick Winston on accordion for a very traditional hora. Richard and I were terrorized by being picked up, sitting on chairs, and paraded around. A room full of elderly socialist Jews from Brooklyn (my parents and their friends) will do that!

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It was a beautiful, sunny day but it had been a cold spring, so crops were a bit behind. Looking back at the menu now, there are things that I don’t even remember. What were South Peacham crudités? I do recall that we served Southern ham. There were things that we didn’t serve because the menu was so ambitious and we didn’t have professional servers. There were pounds of wonderful rillettes made by my friend James MacGuire, a chef from Montréal. There were six cheeses, though there were many pounds of cheese left in the cellar unserved. They were all European, from France, Italy or Spain. Our breads came from King Arthur Flour and Bohemian Bread. The first main course was a mousseline of salmon and scallops with beurre blanc. All the wines were organic and from the Loire Valley. We had a killer bed of asparagus, so that found its way onto our plates. We had a Québec pork loin with beurre rouge and new potatoes with green beans. We had the best greens on God’s earth. Not only were the salad greens from Pete’s Greens young and beautiful, they had been picked that very morning. We ended with a raspberry mille-feuille. One of our friends, who just loves to eat, said that not only was it the best wedding meal he ever had, but it was the best in his life. It was hard to do for 80 people out of a home kitchen, though we did buy the stove and dishwasher for the wedding!

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bus,” she recalls, “and it was like, Oh! I guess I don’t need all these things [to have a mobile eatery]. When you think of a traditional food truck, it can get really expensive. I couldn’t do that, but this seemed doable.” After raising close to $7,000 on Kickstarter in January, Worcester is working on developing her menu and getting her wheels ready for the road. “I feel like my ideas are changing every day,” she says, excited for the road ahead. “I’m just looking forward to offering the people of Burlington something different.”

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it as a mobile pastry truck. Look for her at ArtSriot’s weekly Friday-night South END truck Stop this summer. Worcester says she’s looking to bring Momofuku-style desserts (including homemade ice cream) to Burlington. “I’m more of a mom-and-pop kind of baker,” she says. “It’s not going to be really refined desserts.” Think ice cream sandwiches, bars, sundaes with homemade toppings, and cookies and other dishes inspired by Worcester’s recent travels in Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos. While in Southeast Asia, Worcester says, she took cooking classes from local bakers. Her pastry-van idea had its genesis abroad, as well. “We stumbled upon this guy selling coffee out of this converted VW

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few weeks ago, I found myself standing in front of the egg cooler at Burlington’s City Market/Onion River Co-op, bewildered. Usually filled to the brim with dozens of local, farm-fresh eggs in an array of colors and sizes, the cooler was empty. Empty! I guess I’ll have to go to Price Chopper, I thought, channeling Droopy the dog. In my spoiled locavore life, grocery-store eggs are for dark days, indeed. But here’s the thing about eggs in winter: Chickens are a demanding lot. Not only are they prone to withholding lays when they get cold, they also require 14 to 15 hours of daylight, among other accommodations, to maintain production. This according to three Vermont chicken farmers who sell to City Market, Healthy Living Market and Café in South Burlington, and other local food stores. “A couple weeks ago, we were out of every egg,” said City Market perishables buyer Jason Schatz. “One of our main producers missed a delivery or something.” Other providers’ chickens were on the outs that week, too. Schatz said the always-busy downtown co-op sells 1,200 to 1,500 dozen eggs per weekend, and keeping the shelves stocked in winter can be a challenge. “We carry eggs from so many local farms to try and deal with that situation,” added Allison Weinhagen, the store’s director of community engagement. “We try to spread it around so we can have a steady supply of local eggs from diverse smaller farms. We don’t put all our eggs in one basket, so to say,” she said with a laugh. Schatz said he brought in more producers after the holiday baking season. “We were running out of local eggs,” he said. “But when you want to support the local food system, you have to learn what that looks like.” Sometimes, it looks like fewer eggs on the shelves. In Starksboro, Eric Rozendaal of Rockville Market Farm keeps about 1,500 laying hens. He jokingly calls his winter operation “arctic egg farming.” Even with the hens enclosed in long, airy greenhouses, with lights ablaze from 3:30 to 7:30 a.m., he said his winter haul drops to about half of its summer levels. Still, Rozendaal said fluctuating egg production is natural. “The vast majority of eggs are produced in a completely unnatural environment,” he noted. “This is a totally different type of production. It’s in sync with nature.” In industrial egg operations, caged chickens live indoors year-round, beholden to an artificial daylight cycle, but even small-scale, cagefree chicken farmers attempt to tinker with the hens’ sense of season. Savage Gardens is one of City Market’s main egg suppliers. Close to 3,000 hens strong, the North Hero farm — when things are going well — produces about 225 dozen eggs per day, or nearly 1,600 dozen per week, according to co-owner Hugo Gervais.

Last October, Gervais said his hens suddenly stopped laying. “Their production dropped to about 30 percent of what it normally is,” he recalled. “It happened over the course of three days.” Gervais had a veterinarian check for disease, but the hens were fine. He never got to the bottom of it, though he speculated that the change was due to some combination of weather, a change in feed and the shortening days. Or maybe the girls got depressed when the sky went gray. “When it’s cloudy for a long period of time, that affects them, too,” the farmer said. After a few weeks, the hens bounced back. Then, in December, they dropped off the charts again, dishing Savage Gardens “a double whammy,” Gervais said. “You get this feeling when it starts, like, Oh, no, here we go.”

As this unfolded, the Gervaises were busy building insurance against another subpar season. In July, they broke ground on a new hen house. It’s not heated, but it is tightly insulated, so the birds’ body heat keeps it warm and cozy. The new house also features snug boxes for the chickens to snuggle into when they’re ready to lay. It’s well lit from 5 a.m to 9 p.m. Though he pastures his hens all summer, Gervais said he’ll keep them indoors until production stabilizes. “What happens is, some chickens will go out and they’ll figure out the daylight,” he said. “You can fool them a bit with the lighting, but they know.” In winter, even with food scattered outside, the birds tend to want to stick together in the warm hen house, he added. The barn cost $250,000, which Savage Gardens partially financed through a loan from City Market.

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Gervais kept labor costs down by doing much of the carpentry work himself and with help from friends. “It’s a lot of money, but at this point, it was taking a lot of time to take care of the birds,” he said. “Then you go for a slump and the bills keep on coming.” The new building is already paying off, Gervais reported: The hens are laying more. And conveyor belts gently whisk the eggs away for cleaning and packing, which saves the farmers the labor of manually collecting the eggs. The new building also includes an automated watering system. Previously workers had to water the chickens by hand, and keeping it from freezing was a constant challenge.

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Little-known fact: Chickens drink a lot. While practices differ from one farm to the next, everyone contacted for this article agreed. “It’s amazing how much water can go into a little chicken,” said Beth Whiting of Maple Wind Farm in Huntington, whose flock went on a strike earlier this winter, protesting a small leak in the water system. “We had a stint when our chickens weren’t getting enough water. That put them back quite a bit,” Whiting said. “[Ample water] is crucial to their production.” Maple Wind uses a long, hoopstyle barn during winter that, like Rozendaal’s, is not insulated. The

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chickens drink water from open tubs warmed by electric heaters to keep the water from freezing. Whiting and her husband, Bruce Hennessey, clean and refill the tubs with fresh water daily, and collect eggs nearly every hour to keep them from freezing and cracking. Whiting and Hennessey also light their barn from 4:30 to 10 p.m. Though she couldn’t offer an accurate estimate of the cost of running lights and water heaters, Whiting said these — along with the shavings spread inside the hen house to keep things dry and sanitary — represent an increase in the cost of doing business during winter. Then there’s the feed. Hennessey said the hens each consume about a quarter pound of grain per day during the warmer months, when they’re out to pasture and supplementing their diet with bugs and grubs. In the winter, grain rations jump to a third of a pound per hen per day. Maple Wind’s flock is around 1,600 birds, so that difference amounts to roughly 130 pounds per day — almost two tons a month — of additional grain through the cold months to compensate for the extra energy the hens expend to keep warm. Whiting said a healthy Maple Wind hen lays one egg every two or three days during the summer. In the winter, the frequency drops to one egg every three or four days. Now, after their three-week January dehydration slump, Whiting said her hens are back on track for normal winter production. That’s good news for everyone — not least her customers. “People are coming to expect these fresh eggs from local farms,” the farmer said. “It’s nice if people can understand a little bit more what goes into it — and that we’re doing the best we can with the elements. When people don’t see their favorite egg in the case, there may be extenuating circumstances. I’m not there to tell that customer why my egg isn’t there.” Schatz of City Market tells it like it is when customers ask why a particular egg isn’t on the shelf: “The mind-set is that people expect anything to be available on demand, but when you’re working with the natural world, you can’t use Amazon Prime to get eggs from the chickens.” m

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PEER SUPPORT CIRCLE: A confidential space allows participants to converse freely without giving advice or solving problems. The Wellness Co-op, Burlington, 5-6 p.m. Free. Info, 777-8602.

conferences

EFFICIENCY VERMONT BETTER BUILDINGS BY DESIGN: "Trends in Cold Climate Construction" inspires the region's premier design/build conference. See efficiencyvermont.com for details. Sheraton Hotel & Conference Center, South Burlington, 10:15 a.m.-4:45 p.m. $100-340. Info, 860-4095.

crafts

KNITTERS & NEEDLEWORKERS: Crafters convene for creative fun. Colchester Meeting House, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660.

education

2015 GAP YEAR FAIR: High school students interested in taking time off before college discover international service-learning opportunities. South Burlington High School, 6-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 652-7064. MINDFULNESS EDUCATION FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL & HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS: Edith Ainsley and Marilyn Neagley present methods for helping students focus, regulate emotions and develop compassion. St. Edmund's Hall, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 5-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2795.

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AMERICAN RED CROSS BLOOD DRIVE: Healthy humans part with life-sustaining pints. See redcrossblood.org for details. Various locations statewide. Free. Info, 800-733-2767. PERSONAL CARE ATTENDANT INFORMATION SESSION: An overview of the Visiting Nurse Association's training program opens doors to those interested in working in health care. Visiting Nurse Association of Chittenden and Grand Isle Counties, Colchester, 9:30 a.m. Free. Info, 860-4449. TECH HELP WITH CLIF: Folks develop skill sets applicable to smartphones, tablets and more. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 1-2 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955. TECH TUTOR PROGRAM: Teens answer questions about computers and devices during one-onone sessions. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister for a time slot. Info, 878-4918.

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In 1981, a group of Senate staffers turned to newspaper headlines as inspiration for their holiday party entertainment. Little did they know that the resulting skits and musical parodies would serve as the foundation for the Capitol Steps, a theatrical troupe known for its political satire. More than 30 years and as many albums later, the award-winning ensemble spins national news into hilarious antics that poke fun at everyone from President Obama to Pope Francis. This laugh-a-minute romp draws from a rich reserve of material, including selections from the group’s 2014 album, How to Succeed in Congress Without Really Lying.

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WATERBURY WINTERFEST: Folks revel in all that winter has to offer with snowshoeing, broomball, bonfires and much more. See waterburywinterfest.com for details. Various Waterbury locations. Prices vary. Info, 244-7174.

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Friday, February 6, 8 p.m., at Paramount Theatre in Rutland. $39.75. Info, 775-0903. paramountvt.org; Saturday, February 7, 8 p.m., at Flynn MainStage in Burlington. $15-40. Info, 863-5966. flynntix.org

COMMUNITY CINEMA: 'AMERICAN DENIAL': Llewellyn Smith's documentary examines the impact of Nobel Laureate Gunnar Myrdal's 1944 race-relations study, An American Dilemma. A panel discussion follows. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

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COFFEE TASTING: Sips of Counter Culture Coffee prompt side-by-side comparisons of different regional blends. Maglianero Café, Burlington, noon. Free. Info, 617-331-1276, corey@maglianero.com. NUTRITION KITCHEN: ALL ABOUT COD: Inspired by her recent trip to Labrador, health coach Marie Frohlich prepares a gourmet meal highlighting the essential fatty acids found in the fish. Edmunds Middle School, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. $510; preregister; limited space. Info, 861-9700. WEDNESDAY WINE DOWN: Oenophiles get over the midweek hump with four different varietals and samples from Lake Champlain Chocolates, Cabot Creamery and other local food producers. Drink, Burlington, 4:30 p.m. $12. Info, 860-9463, melissashahady@vtdrink.com.

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WINE TASTING: John Fagan of Calmont Beverage hosts a sipping session of new California chardonnays. Trapp Family Lodge, Stowe, 4-6 p.m. $20; preregister. Info, 253-5742.

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BRIDGE CLUB: Strategic thinkers have fun with the popular card game. Burlington Bridge Club, Williston, 9:15 a.m. $6 includes refreshments. Info, 651-0700. TABLETOP GAME NIGHT: Players ages 14 and up sit down to friendly bouts of Settlers of Catan, Ticket to Ride and more. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 5:30-7:45 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660.

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Winter temperatures may be low, but spirits are high at Great Ice in North Hero. This annual celebration of the frozen landscape cures cabin fever with family-friendly activities that revolve around Lake Champlain’s largest ice-skating oval. Nature’s answer to indoor rinks provides the ideal location for festivities that kick off on Friday with a giant Christmas tree bonfire. The frosty fun continues on Saturday and Sunday with skating, dog-sled rides, an ice-fishing derby and pickup hockey. Highlights include a chili cook-off, the Over ’n Back Trek to Knight Island and the Frozen Chosen Regatta, an on-ice race with funky, human-powered vehicles.

EATING WELL ON A BUDGET: A weekly workshop with Frances Fleming of UVM Extension highlights ways to save and get healthy. Community Room, Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 5:30-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 223-8000, ext. 202.

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he Guardian describes Steve Osborne’s piano prowess as “poetry in sound, absolutely astonishing.” Recognized for his repertoire of both mainstream and lesser-known composers, the award-winning Scottish artist performs on the world’s most prestigious stages with top orchestras and as a soloist. Widely regarded as one of the foremost Beethoven pianists of his time, Osborne will include the composer’s famed Hammerklavier sonata in his concert at Middlebury College. Technically challenging, the work showcases Osborne’s ability to navigate complex arrangements with ease, an ability he also brings to Schubert’s Drei Klavierstücke. STEVEN OSBORNE Wednesday, February 11, 7:30 p.m., at Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College. $6-25. Info, 443-6433. middlebury.edu

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Monday, February 9, 7 p.m., at Latchis Theatre, Brattleboro; Tuesday, February 10, 7 p.m., at Fuller Hall, St. Johnsbury Academy. $5-59. Info, 357-4616. kingdomcounty.org

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Fitness Boot Camp: Participants improve strength, agility, endurance and cardiovascular fitness with interval training. Holley Hall, Bristol, 6:15-7:15 p.m. $10. Info, ginger54@sover.net. Insight Meditation: A supportive environment allows for a deeper understanding of Buddhist principles and practices. Wellspring Mental Health and Wellness Center, Hardwick, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 472-6694. Prenatal Yoga & Barre: Moms-to-be prepare their bodies for labor and birth. Prenatal Method Studio, Burlington, 12:15-1:15 & 5-6 p.m. $15. Info, 829-0211. R.I.P.P.E.D.: Resistance, intervals, power, plyometrics, endurance and diet define this high-intensity physical-fitness program. North End Studio A, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. $10. Info, 578-9243. TangoFlow!: Creator Cathy Salmons leads students in a customized blend of Argentine tango, ballet, modern dance and body awareness. North End Studio A, Burlington, 7 p.m. $15. Info, 345-6687.

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Green Mountain Book Award Discussion for Homeschooled Students: Teens in grades 9 through 12 chat about their favorite titles. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 9-10 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956. Highgate Story Hour: Budding bookworms share read-aloud tales, wiggles and giggles with Mrs. Liza. Highgate Public Library, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 868-3970. Meet Rockin' Ron the Friendly Pirate: Aargh, matey! Youngsters channel the hooligans of the sea during music, games and activities. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 10-10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 764-1810. One-on-One Tutoring: Students in grades 1 through 6 get extra help in reading, math and science. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 4-8 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 264-5660. Read to a Dog: Lit lovers take advantage of quality time with a friendly, fuzzy therapy pooch. Fairfax Community Library, 3:15-4:15 p.m. Free; preregister for a time slot. Info, 849-2420. Red Clover Picture Books for Homeschoolers: Bibliophiles in grades K through 3 read titles nominated for the 2014 Red Clover Award, then participate in related activities. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 9-10 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-6956. Story Time & Playgroup: Engaging narratives pave the way for art, nature and cooking projects. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.

Nancy Jay Crumbine: From essays in The New Yorker to the children's classic Charlotte's Web, the Dartmouth College professor pays homage to the legacy of E.B. White. Goodrich Memorial Library, Newport, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 334-7902.

English as a Second Language Class: Beginners better their vocabulary. Pickering Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211. German-English Conversation Group: Community members practice conversing auf Deutsch. Local History Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211. Intermediate/Advanced English as a Second Language Class: Students sharpen grammar and conversational skills. Administration Office, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.

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'Forever Plaid': Directed by Roger Peace, thespians meld humor and harmonies in a musical of classic hits from the 1950s. See segalcentre.org for details. Segal Centre for Performing Arts, Montréal. $32-50. Info, 514-739-7944.

Osher Lifelong Learning Lecture: Musicians Robert Resnik and Marty Morrissey combine live performances with recordings when delving into the history of Vermont folk music. Montpelier Senior Activity Center, 1:30 p.m. $5; free for OLLI members. Info, 454-1234.

theater

The Met Live in HD Series: Tenor Vittorio Grigolo stars opposite soprano Hibla Gerzmava in a broadcast production of Jacques Offenbach's operatic masterpiece Les Contes D'Hoffmann. Palace 9 Cinemas, South Burlington, 6:30 p.m. $18. Info, 660-9300.

'Or, ': Vermont Stage Company channels the 1660s in a fast-paced F LI ND romp about poet, playwright and SA Y RA K C Y M O N D JA spy Aphra Behn. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $28.80-37.50. Info, 863-5966.

Evening Babytime Playgroup: Crawling tots and their parents convene for playtime and sharing. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 876-7555.

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Dorothy Canfield Fischer Book Discussion: Readers ages 8 through 11 weigh in on Vivian Vande Velde's Frogged. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660.

Jane Carroll: Checkmate! The Dartmouth College professor considers how the game of chess served as a vehicle for courtship in the Middle Ages. Rutland Free Library, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 773-1860.

Celebration of the New Year for Trees: An enrichment program aimed at ages 2 through 5 teaches little ones about Tu B'Shevat, the Jewish Arbor Day. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 865-7216.

Toddler Time: Parents chat over coffee while tykes burn off energy in a supervised environment that encourages artistic expression. ONE Arts Center, Burlington, 9 a.m.-noon. $8. Info, oneartscollective@gmail.com.

Book Talks for Homeschoolers: Students in grades 4 to 8 discuss titles from this year’s Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award list. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 9-10 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-6956.

'The Experience of Drone Pilots': Michaela Herrmann leads an examination of post-traumatic stress disorder among operators of unmanned aerial vehicles. Bradford Public Library, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 863-2345, ext. 6.

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After-School Tutoring: St. Michael's College volunteers help students in grades K through 8 with homework assignments. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 3:30-5:30 p.m. Free; preregister for a 30-minute time slot. Info, 878-6956.

Story Time for 3- to 5-Year-Olds: Preschoolers stretch their reading skills through activities involving puppets and books. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10-10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

music

Daddy Mack Blues Band: The sounds of Memphis travel north, courtesy of the seasoned rockers. Dibden Center for the Arts, Johnson State College, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 635-1476. Song Circle: Singers and musicians congregate for an acoustic session of popular folk tunes. Godnick Adult Center, Rutland, 7:15-9:15 p.m. Free; donations accepted. Info, 775-1182.

seminars

Digital Marketing Workshop: Anahi Costa presents ways to utilize social media for professional purposes. Milne Community Room, Aldrich Public Library, Barre, 5:30-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 828-4422.

sports

Stealing From Work: Local actors poke fun at popular culture in Angie Albeck and Marianne DiMascio's in original sketch comedy A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Front Porch Forum. Show contains mature material; for adults only. Off Center for the Dramatic Arts, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 863-5966.

American Red Cross Blood Drive: See WED.4. Bacon Thursday: Live tunes from Cooie & Friends entertain costumed attendees, who nosh on bacon and creative dipping sauces at this weekly gathering. Nutty Steph's, Middlesex, 6 p.m.-midnight. Cost of food; cash bar. Info, 229-2090. A World of Aphrodisiacs: Amela Hall explores the history of herbs and foods believed to give rise to love and attraction. Tulsi Tea Room, Montpelier, 6:30-8 p.m. $8-10. Info, 223-1431.

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film

'Miss Representation': Jennifer Siebel Newsom's 2011 documentary scrutinizes the underrepresentation of powerful women in American media. For ages 13 and up. Burlington High School, 7-9 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, btvwomen@gmail.com.

food & drink

Wine Tasting: Cheers! Sips of reds and whites capture the character of France's famed Loire Valley. Dedalus Wine Shop, Burlington, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, 865-2368.

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

Wednesday Evening Book Club: Bibliophiles share ideas and opinions about Jodi Picoult's Leaving Time. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 6:45-7:45 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660.

Improve Heart Health: Janet and Edward Smith detail the ways Transcendental Meditation lowers blood pressure and increases longevity. Vermont Transcendental Meditation Center, Williston, 7-8:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 923-6248.

Generator Membership Orientation: A guided tour of Burlington's newest maker space highlights facilities, equipment, tools and more. Generator, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. $10; preregister; limited space. Info, info@generatorvt.com.

Emily Bernard: In "Delicious to the Ear: The Inspiring Voice of Maya Angelou, " the UVM professor examines how poetry gave voice to the beloved bard, who was mute for five years as a child. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955.

AARP Tax Prep Assistance: Tax counselors straighten up financial affairs for low- and middle-income taxpayers, with special attention to those ages 60 and up. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 9:15, 10, 10:45 & 11:30 a.m. Free; preregister for a time slot. Info, 878-6955.

health & fitness

Women's Pickup Basketball: Drive to the hoop! Ladies hit the court for a weekly game. Hunt Middle School, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free; limited space. Info, carmengeorgevt@gmail.com.

Bess O'Brien: Excerpts of the local filmmaker's award-winning documentary, The Hungry Heart, inspire a discussion of prescription-drug addiction in Vermont. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4095.

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Creative Writing Workshop: Lit lovers analyze works-in-progress penned by Burlington Writers Workshop members. Studio 266, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free; preregister at burlingtonwritersworkshop.com. Info, 383-8104.

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Antonia Losano: In "Victoria’s Secrets, " the Middlebury College professor reveals the darker side of the Victorian era's propriety. Norwich Congregational Church, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 649-1184.

Climate Change Reading & Discussion Group: Naomi Klein's This Changes Everything sparks an environmentally focused discourse. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.

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Premier Floor Hockey League: Experienced players take shots in a competitive game. The Edge Sports & Fitness, Essex, 7-10 p.m. $80; preregister. Info, 355-4588.

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community

Noncitizen Voting Rights Discussion: A facilitated dialogue between city officials and area residents addresses the proposed issue on the upcoming Burlington ballot. Burlington City Hall Auditorium, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 863-2345.

conferences

Efficiency Vermont Better Buildings by Design: See WED.4, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

dance

Balkan Folk Dancing: Louise Brill and friends organize people into lines and circles set to complex rhythms. No partner necessary. Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington, 5-8 p.m. $6. Info, 540-1020.

Jazzercise Lite: Adults ages 50 and up break a sweat in a supportive environment. Essex Junction Senior Center, 11 a.m.-noon. $3-3.50. Info, 876-5087. Postnatal Core: Babies are welcome at a class for new moms aimed at strengthening glutes, abdominals and the pelvic floor. Prenatal Method Studio, Burlington, 10:30-11:30 a.m. $15. Info, 829-0211. Prenatal Yoga & Barre: See WED.4, 12:15-1:15 & 4:30-5:30 p.m. Winter Adult Yoga: YogaFit instructor Jessica Frost leads a series of postures aimed at aligning the body and mind. Cafeteria, Highgate Elementary School, 6 p.m. $7; preregister. Info, 868-3970.

kids

Food For Thought Library Volunteers: Pizza fuels teen discussion of books and library projects. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. Lego Club: Brightly colored interlocking blocks inspire budding builders. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660.

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Middlebury Preschool story tiMe: Little learners master early-literacy skills through tales, rhymes and songs. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10:30-11:15 a.m. Free. Info, 388-4095. Music With derek: Kiddos up to age 8 shake out their sillies to toe-tapping tunes. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. PJ story hour: Little ones dress for bed and wind down with tales and crafts. Fairfax Community Library, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 849-2420. Preschool story tiMe: Tales, crafts and activities arrest the attention of tykes ages 3 through 6. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 10:3011 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 264-5660. sPanish Musical kids & Potluck latin lunch: Amigos ages 1 to 5 share Latin American songs, games and food with Constancia Gómez, a native Argentinian. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10:30-11:15 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. yoga With danielle: Toddlers and preschoolers strike a pose, then share stories and songs. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 764-1810.

language

M.a.g.i.c.: Masculinity and gender identity conversation: Open sharing encourages attendees to find common ground. The Wellness Co-op, Burlington, 2-3 p.m. Free. Info, 888-492-8218. WooF! dog coMMunication in the huMan World: Is a wagging tail always a friendly invitation? A multimedia presentation demystifies canine behaviors. For humans only; four-legged friends must stay at home. Essex Memorial Hall, 6:30-7:30 p.m. $10-15; preregister. Info, deb@ goldstardog.com.

theater

'alMost, Maine': The Valley Players present John Cariani's comedy about the residents of a remote town and their midwinter adventures in and out of love. Valley Players Theater, Waitsfield, 7:30 p.m. $12. Info, 583-1674. 'Fiddler on the rooF': A milkman in a small Russian village struggles to pass tradition on to his daughters in this Broadway musical, staged by Pentangle Arts and ArtisTree Theatre Company. Woodstock Town Hall Theatre, 7:30 p.m. $1022. Info, 457-3981.

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shelburne vineyard First thursdays concert: Singer-songwriter Patrick Fitzsimmons showcases his gifts for crafting catchy tunes. Partial proceeds benefit VSA Vermont. Shelburne Vineyard, 6-8:30 p.m. Free; cost of food and drink. Info, 985-8222.

politics

seminars

Weatherization WorkshoP: Yestermorrow's Kate Stephenson presents budget-friendly methods for improving energy efficiency. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

brian david Johnson: Intel's chief futurist considers the changing faces of manufacturing, agriculture, education and technology in "What's the Future of the American Dream?" Argosy Gymnasium, IDX Student Life Center, Champlain College, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 860-2700.

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ruMMage sale: Bargain hunters scoop up takehome treasures. Grace Methodist Church, Essex Junction, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. Info, 878-8071.

community

oPen heart circle: A safe space for men and women encourages gratitude, reflection, affirmation and more. Sacred Mountain Studio, Burlington, 5:45-7:45 p.m. Donations. Info, 922-3724.

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ballrooM & latin dancing: east coast sWing: Samir Elabd leads choreographed steps for singles and couples. No partner or experience is required. Williston Jazzercise Fitness Center, introductory lesson, 7-8 p.m.; dance social, 8-9:30 p.m. $10-14. Info, 862-2269. english country dance: Pete's Posse provide live music for newcomers and experienced movers alike. All dances are called by Adina Gordon. Elley-Long Music Center, St. Michael's College, Colchester, introductory workshop, 7-7:30 p.m.; dance, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $10; bring a snack to share. Info, 899-2378.

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aMerican red cross blood drive: See WED.4. bluebird Fairy card readings: Sessions with artist Emily Anderson offer folks insight into their lives. The S.P.A.C.E. Gallery, Burlington, 5-8 p.m. Free. Info, 238-4540.

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Snow Farm Wine Down: Live music and local beer and wine served up in a pastoral setting make for an ideal end to the workweek. See snowfarm.com for details. Snow Farm Vineyard, South Hero, 6 p.m. Cost of drinks. Info, 372-9463.

fairs & festivals

Burlington Winter Festival: Hotel Vermont Ice Bar: Imbibers chill out with local libations, live music and sculptures of frozen water. Hotel Vermont, Burlington, 6:30-9:30 p.m. $32.25-42.75; cash bar; for ages 21 and up. Info, 863-5966. ‘Great Ice in North Hero’: A frozen fête gets folks outdoors for a kids ice fishing derby, dog sledding, speed skating, the Frozen Chosen Regatta and more. See greaticevt.org for details. Call for conditions. See calendar spotlight.Various North Hero locations, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Prices vary. Info, 372-4121. Waterbury Winterfest: See WED.4.

food & drink

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.

games

Bridge Club: See WED.4, 10 a.m. Game Night: Players kick off the weekend with bouts of friendly competition. Espresso Bueno, Barre, 7-11 p.m. Free. Info, 479-0896.

health & fitness

Avoid Falls With Improved Stability: A personal trainer demonstrates daily exercises for seniors concerned about their balance. Pines Senior Living Community, South Burlington, 10-11 a.m. $5-6. Info, 658-7477. Community Vinyasa With Candace: Students of all skill levels deepen the body-mind-breath connection. South End Studio, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. $6. Info, 683-4918.

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Health & Wellness Festival: Folks access local services from medical screenings to fitness demos. Burlington Town Center Mall, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. Info, 658-2545, ext. 216. Laughter Yoga: Breathe, clap, chant and giggle! Participants reduce stress with this playful practice. Bring personal water. The Wellness Coop, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 999-7373. Strengthen Your Foundations With Better Health Numerology: Jessica Moseley finds meaning and potential in different number combinations. Community Room, Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 6-7:15 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 223-8000, ext. 202. Yoga Consult: Yogis looking to refine their practice get helpful tips. Fusion Studio Yoga & Body Therapy, Montpelier, 11 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 272-8923.

kids

Early Bird Math: One plus one equals fun! Youngsters and their caregivers gain exposure to mathematics through books, songs and games. Richmond Free Library, 11 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 434-3036. Magic: The Gathering: Decks of cards determine the arsenal with which participants, or "planeswalkers, " fight others for glory, knowledge and conquest. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6-8 p.m. Free; for grades 6 and up. Info, 878-6956. Music With Robert: Sing-alongs with Robert Resnik entertain music lovers. Daycare programs welcome with one caregiver for every two children. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10:30-11 a.m. Free; groups must preregister. Info, 865-7216.

Songs & Stories With Matthew: Matthew Witten helps children start the day with tunes and tales of adventure. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10-10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956. Stories With Megan: Captivating tales entertain budding bookworms ages 2 through 5. Robert Miller Community & Recreation Center, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. Teen Advisory Board: Teens in grades 9 through 12 gather to plan library programs. Yes, there will be snacks. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 3-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

lgbtq

First Friday: DJs and drag acts spice up a queer dance party. Higher Ground, South Burlington, 9 p.m. $5-10. Info, 877-987-6487.

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The Capitol Steps: The award-winning political satire group delivers puns and parodies based on the latest news and headlines. See calendar spotlight. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 8 p.m. $39.75. Info, 775-0903.

'Kids VT' Camp & School Fair: Dreaming about summer? Representatives from dozens of local organizations provide information about exciting programs to look forward to. Hilton Hotel, Burlington, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 985-5482.

'Company' Audition: Thespians vie for spots in Stowe Theatre Guild's June production of Stephen Sondheim's musical about a commitment-phobic New Yorker. Stowe High School, 6:30 p.m. Free; preregister for a time slot. Info, michellelynne.miller@gmail.com.

Waterbury Winterfest: See WED.4.

'Fiddler on the Roof': See THU.5, 7:30 p.m. 'Or, ': See WED.4. Stealing From Work: See WED.4, 7:30 p.m.

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Creative Writing Workshop: See WED.4, 10:30 a.m.

'Forever Plaid': See WED.4.

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Igloofest: Electronic music from top DJs draws thousands of revelers to an igloo village at this popular outdoor festival. Jacques-Cartier Quay, Old Port, Montréal. $20-25; $45 weekend pass. Info, 514-904-1247.

bazaars

Rummage Sale: See FRI.6, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

comedy

music

Vermont Comedy Divas: Founded by local comedienne Josie Leavitt, the nation's only all-female SO ID CO touring comedy troupe presents AV U RT ES Y O F KE LLY D a benefit show for Vermont veterans. American Legion Post 14, Vergennes, 7-8:30 p.m. $12-15. Info, 475-2296. Bretano String Quartet: The award-winning

Bow Thayer: Traveling between rock, folk, bluegrass and more, the local rocker delivers fan favorites and selections from Eden. Chandler Music Hall, Randolph, 7:30 p.m. $19; $35 for two; cash bar. Info, 728-6464.

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film

2015 Academy Award-Nominated Short Films: Cinephiles screen five live-action shorts in the running for an Oscar. Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 5 & 8 p.m. $5-8. Info, 603-646-2422. Gems to Watch!: 'The Pink Panther' & 'Breakfast at Tiffany's': Movie lovers screen the classic flicks as part of the Brilliant Series. Shelburne Museum, 1 & 3 p.m. Regular admission, $5-8; free for members. Info, 985-0906. National Theatre Live: Murder and mayhem on the high seas are broadcast to the big screen in Bryony Lavery's adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island. For ages 10 and up. Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 1 p.m. $13-23. Info, 603-646-2422.

food & drink

Caledonia Winter Farmers Market: Fresh baked goods, veggies, beef and maple syrup encourage foodies to shop locally. Welcome Center, St. Johnsbury, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 592-3088. Capital City Winter Farmers Market: Root veggies, honey, maple syrup and more change hands at an off-season celebration of locally grown food. Cafeteria, Montpelier High School, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 223-2958.

foursome stops listeners in their tracks with works by Debussy, Marc-Antoine Charpentier and James MacMillan. UVM Recital Hall, Redstone Campus, Burlington, preperformance lecture, 6:30 p.m.; concert, 7:30 p.m. $10-30. Info, 863-5966.

Generator Membership Orientation: See THU.5, 4-5 p.m.

Josh Panda & the Hot Damned: The North Carolina-born singer brings his gospel roots to a spirited rock-and-roll show featuring special guest Brian Axford. Proceeds benefit Just Power. Middlebury Town Hall Theater, 8-11 p.m. $10. Info, 382-9222.

Contemporary Technique Masterclass: Students ages 16 and up hone their skills with dancer, choreographer and digital media artist Scotty Hardwig. Contemporary Dance & Fitness Studio, Montpelier, 5-7 p.m. $20; preregister; limited space. Info, 229-4676.

French Canadian Supper: Diners pay homage to Vermont's Québécois connection with a traditional feast of pea soup, meat pie, mashed potatoes and dessert. Our Lady of the Holy Rosary, Richmond, 5 p.m. $10 suggested donation. Info, 434-2521.

PossumHaw: Led by vocalist Colby Crehan, the award-winning quintet serves up toe-tapping folk and bluegrass. Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7:30-10 p.m. $10. Info, uufpoffice@gmail.com.

Contra Dance: David Kaynor calls the steps while folks in clean, soft-soled shoes groove to rollicking rhythms by Red Dog Riley. Cornwall Town Hall, 7-9:30 p.m. $5. Info, 462-3722.

Middlesex Chocolate Tasting: Sweets lovers snack on treats while learning how cocoa is grown and produced. Nutty Steph's, Middlesex, 2-3 p.m. Free. Info, 229-2090.

Dance Showcase: 'Dance: Community, Movement, Support': A diverse lineup of regional performers take the stage to raise funds for Puppets in Education. Black Box Theater, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7 p.m. $20-23. Info, 863-5966.

Rutland Winter Farmers Market: More than 50 vendors offer produce, cheese, homemade bread and other made-in-Vermont products at the bustling indoor venue. Vermont Farmers Food Center, Rutland, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 753-7269.

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Ski Vermont Specialty Food Tour: Skiers and riders take a break from the slopes and sample products from local food producers. Bromley Mountain, Peru, 9 a.m. Cost of lift tickets. Info, 223-2439.

seminars

Archetypes as Inner Allies: Participants gain tools to strengthen life decisions, deepen relationships and create abundance. Rainbow Institute, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. $15. Info, 999-2253.

talks

Jennifer Dickinson: The UVM professor of anthropology imparts her knowledge in "Language, Politics and Identity in Ukraine." Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 2 p.m. $5. Info, 864-3516. Middle School Debate: In a simulation of colonial America, Edmunds Middle School students exchange ideas about whether the 13 colonies should declare independence from England. Burlington City Hall Auditorium, 12:40-2:40 p.m. Free. Info, rbattail@bsdvt.org. Naturalist Journeys Lecture Series: Bryan Pfeiffer and Ruth Einstein recount their travels in "Naked in Norway: Backpacking Above the Arctic Circle." Unitarian Church, Montpelier, 7 p.m. $5 suggested donation. Info, 229-6206.

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'Almost, Maine': See THU.5, 7:30 p.m.

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AARP Tax Aide Service: Low-income seniors get help filing their taxes. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 9:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 264-5660. American Red Cross Blood Drive: See WED.4.

fairs & festivals

Burlington Winter Festival: Folks brave the chilly temps and head to the Penguin Plunge, the Kids VT Camp & School Fair, Church Street's Winter Lights installation and more. See enjoyburlington.com for details. Various downtown Burlington locations, 10 a.m. Prices vary. Info, 864-0123. Burlington Winter Festival: Hotel Vermont Ice Bar: See FRI.6. EarthWalk Winter Community Day: Snowshelter building and nature games culminate in a potluck meal and fireside songs and stories. Hawthorn Meadow, Goddard College, Plainfield, 1-5 p.m. $3-10 suggested donation. Info, 454-8500. 'Great Ice in North Hero': See FRI.6, 8 a.m.-4 p.m.

Chocolate Tasting: Chocoholics sample confections and discover the six steps involved in evaluating flavor profiles. Lake Champlain Chocolates Factory Store & Café, Burlington, 3 p.m. Free. Info, 448-5507.

Wine Tasting: Oenophiles nibble on cheese and bread while sampling recently released reds from Washington. Trapp Family Lodge, Stowe, 4-6 p.m. $20; preregister. Info, 253-5742.

health & fitness

Creating a Ritual of Love: Self-Care for the Soul: Wendy Reese helps participants nurture the body, mind and spirit by putting themselves first. Community Room, Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 11 a.m.-noon. $8-10; preregister. Info, 223-8000, ext. 202. Prenatal Yoga & Barre: See WED.4, 10:3011:30 a.m. R.I.P.P.E.D.: See WED.4, 9-10 a.m.

holidays

Valentine Trunk Sale: Card-making crafts complement sweet treats and a wide array of handmade wares at this festive function. Plainfield Town Hall, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 477-2401.

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Cool SChool Penguin Plunge: Students in grades K through 12 shake off the chill and take a dunk in Lake Champlain at this fundraiser for Special Olympics Vermont. Waterfront Park, Burlington, noon. Donations; free for spectators. Info, 861-0275. DroP-in Story time: Music and books inspire a love of the arts in youngsters. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 10-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 264-5660. Family Program: owlS: Whooo's that hooting? Explorers ages 5 and up and their parents embark on a moonlit adventure into the habitat of the nocturnal fliers. Meet at the Education Barn. Green Mountain Audubon Center, Huntington, 7-8:30 p.m. $10-12 per adult/child pair; $4-5 for each additional child; preregister. Info, 434-3068. Father & KiD movie Day: Dads bond with their offspring over popcorn and Toy Story. Aldrich Public Library, Barre, 2-3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 595-7953.

ForeSter For a Day: Kids and their caregivers don hard hats and watch a logger fell a tree, then head to the wood shop to make a take-home craft. For ages 5 and up. Shelburne Farms, 10 a.m.-noon. $10-12 per adult/child pair; $5-6 for each additional child. Info, 985-8686. marDi graS Story time: Jane Napier leads children ages 2 through 8 in stories, songs and crafts. Highgate Public Library, 10 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 868-3970. one-on-one tutoring: See WED.4, 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m. SaturDay Story time: Captivating narratives entertain little ones. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 388-4095. toDDler yoga & StorieS: Karen Allen leads tykes ages 1 through 3 in simple poses and engaging narratives. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-4918.

yoga totS: YogaFit instructor Jessica Frost leads kiddos ages 3 through 6 in poses that focus their energy and relax their minds. Community Room, Highgate Municipal Building, 9 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 868-3970.

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BarBary CoaSt Jazz enSemBle: Brass attack! Trumpeter Michael Rodriguez and trombonist Ryan Keberle join the group for a concert of big band hits from the 1920s to the present. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 8 p.m. $9-10. Info, 603-646-2422. Burlington ChamBer orCheStra: A performance featuring violinist Soovin Kim highlights works by Mozart, Edvard Grieg and Edward Elgar. McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 7:30 p.m. $10-25. Info, 863-5966.

FeBruary FroliCS: Singer-songwriter Jon Gailmor kicks off a concert series benefitting Lost Nation Theater. Montpelier City Hall Auditorium, 7:30 p.m. $10-20. Info, 229-0492. mo'ComBo: Funky rhythms from the New Hampshire-based group get concertgoers on the dance floor. Tunbridge Town Hall, 8-11 p.m. $8. Info, 889-9602. Paul huang: The rising star showcases his bowand-string prowess as part of the Passages at the Paramount Series. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 7:30 p.m. $10-20. Info, 775-0903. riPton Community CoFFeehouSe: Local performers warm up the microphone for folk duo Cricket Blue. Ripton Community House, 7:30 p.m. $3-10. Info, 388-9782. waltz night with the ChamPlain PhilharmoniC orCheStra: Dancers brush up on their steps to live orchestral accompaniment. Middlebury Town Hall Theater, 7 p.m. $15. Info, 382-9222. SAT.7

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Woods Tea Co.: Howard Wooden, Patti Casey and Pete Sutherland dazzle music lovers with a repertoire that travels from bluegrass to sea shanties and back again. Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort, 7:30 p.m. $20-25. Info, 760-4634. Young Tradition Vermont Showcase: Teachers and students team up for fiddle tunes, dancing, drumming and singing. Burlington City Hall Auditorium, 6-9:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 233-5293.

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Burlington Penguin Plunge: Swimmers don quirky costumes for a dip in the icy waters of Lake Champlain at this Special Olympics Vermont fundraiser. Waterfront Park, Burlington, 11 a.m. $25 plus $150 in funds raised; free for spectators. Info, 861-0275. Nature Walk: A guided trek along the Stephen J. Young Marsh Trail takes walkers through picturesque scenery. Cameras are encouraged. Meet at the Stephen Young Marsh parking lot on Tabor Road. Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge, Swanton, 9-11 a.m. Free. Info, 868-4781. Sleigh Rides: Giddyap! Horses trot folks over snow-covered open fields. Rides leave every half hour; seats are first come, first served. Call to confirm. Shelburne Farms, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. $8-10; free for kids 2 and under. Info, 985-8442. Snowshoe Shuffle: Outdoor enthusiasts scamper across the snow on 4K and 8K courses. Proceeds benefit the American Lung Association. Camel's Hump Nordic Ski Area, Huntington, check-in, 9:30 a.m.; shuffle, 10:30 a.m. $25; free for kids 12 and under. Info, 735-5490. Working Woodlands Workshop: A snowshoe trek led by Ed Sharron teaches attendees how to identify animal tracks in the snow. Forest Center, Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park, Woodstock, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 457-3368, ext. 22.

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Greg Georgakilis: The founder of Farmers to You talks shop in "The New Economy: Collaboration and the Future of Sustainable Agriculture." Willey Memorial Hall, Cabot, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 563-3338.

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How to Talk to Kids About Racism: A facilitated discussion group addresses the far-reaching effects of racism and white privilege. KelloggHubbard Library, Montpelier, 3:30-5 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 863-2345, ext. 9. Lolly Cochran: The equine vet offers wisdom and advice in "Tricks for Ticks: A Guide for Gardeners and Others to Ticks and Tick-Related Diseases." Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

'Fiddler on the Roof': See THU.5, 7:30 p.m. The Met Live in HD Series: See WED.4, Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 12:55 p.m. $16-24. Info, 748-2600. Lake Placid Center for the Arts, N.Y., 1 p.m. $12-18. Info, 518-523-2512. 'Or, ': See WED.4, 7:30 p.m. Stealing From Work: See WED.4, 4 & 7:30 p.m.

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Books on the Balcony Sale: Lit lovers browse page turners at this benefit for library programs. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Free. Info, 388-8080. Burlington Writers Workshop Book Club: Bibliophiles swap ideas and opinions about Kate Atkinson's Human Croquet. Studio 266, Burlington, 11 a.m. Free; preregister at burlingtonwritersworkshop.com. Info, 383-8104. Katherine Paterson: The award-winning author of Bridge to Terabithia reads and discusses Stories of My Life. Phoenix Books, Burlington, 11 a.m. $2; limited space. Info, 448-3350.

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Montpelier Antiques Market: The past comes alive with offerings of furniture, artwork, jewelry and more at this ephemera extravaganza. Canadian Club, Barre Town, 8 a.m.-1:30 p.m. $2-5. Info, 751-6138.

community

OK ABC Practice: A: Who am I? B: What do I want to be? C: How can I change the world? An open meeting explores these inquiries. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4:45-6 p.m. Free. Info, 989-9684.

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Bolton After Dark: When the sun sets, skiers and riders explore Vermont's most extensive night-skiing terrain, then unwind with ski and snowboard films. Bolton Valley Ski Resort, 4 p.m. $19 lift tickets; cash bar. Info, 434-3444.

'Company' Audition: See FRI.6, Akeley Memorial Building, Stowe, 2:30-5:30 p.m. Free; preregister for a time slot. Info, michellelynne. miller@gmail.com.

sports

The Capitol Steps: See FRI.6, Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 8 p.m. $15-40. Info, 863-5966.

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.

'Almost, Maine': See THU.5, 7:30 p.m.

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East Asia Seminar Series for Teachers: Educators expand their knowledge of East Asian religions and Korean history, culture and heritage. UVM, Burlington, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 656-7985.

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Beginning Genealogy: Those looking to climb their family tree get tips from Sheila Morris, who introduces key resources for accessing ancestry information. Vermont Genealogy Library, Fort Ethan Allen, Colchester, 10:30 a.m.-noon. $5. Info, 310-9285.

Robbo Holleran: Looking back on his profession, the forester presents "Forestry: How Actions From the Past Have Shaped Today's Methods." A discussion follows. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 3-5 p.m. Free. Info, onrcd1@gmail. com.

GE Dance, Sing and Jump Around: ORG E Live music by Kenric Kite and Larry Rice enlivens an afternoon of intergenerational circle and line dancing. Games and snacks round out the fun. Plainfield Town Hall, 3-4:30 p.m. $5 suggested donation; free for kids. Info, 223-1509.

education

Vermont Commons School Open House: Perspective students and their parents learn about small classes, hands-on learning and fieldbased instruction. Vermont Commons School, South Burlington, 1-3 p.m. Free. Info, 865-8084.

etc.

American Red Cross Blood Drive: See WED.4.

fairs & festivals

‘Great Ice in North Hero’: See FRI.6, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Waterbury Winterfest: See WED.4.

food & drink

Ski Vermont Specialty Food Tour: See SAT.7, Magic Mountain, Londonderry, 9 a.m. Cost of lift tickets. Info, 223-2439.

health & fitness

Nia with Suzy: Drawing from martial arts, dance arts and healing arts, sensory-based movements inspire participants to explore their potential. South End Studio, Burlington, 9-10 a.m. $14. Info, 522-3691. Sunday Sangha: Community Ashtanga Yoga: Students of all ages and skill levels hit the mat to breathe through a series of poses. Grateful Yoga, Montpelier, 5:40-7 p.m. $1-20 suggested donation. Info, 224-6183.

holidays

Chocolate Valentine Desserts: Sweets lovers whip up mouthwatering treats with Rod Rehwinkel. McClure Multigenerational Center, Burlington, 2-3:30 p.m. $5-10; preregister; limited space. Info, 861-9700.

kids

Kids Yoga: Yogis ages 3 through 7 gain strength and balance while learning how to focus and relax. Grateful Yoga, Montpelier, 4:15-5:15 p.m. $12. Info, 224-6183. Russian Playtime With Natasha: Youngsters up to age 8 learn new words via rhymes, games, music, dance and a puppet show. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 11-11:45 a.m. Free. Info, 764-1810.

language

Dimanches French Conversation: Parlezvous français? Speakers practice the tongue at a casual drop-in chat. Local History Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 363-2431.

talks

Matters of the Heart: Emmy-Award winning actress Tracey Conway keynotes an afternoon dedicated to raising awareness about heart health. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 1-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 772-2400.

theater

'Almost, Maine': See THU.5, 7:30 p.m. 'Company' Audition: See SAT.7, 12:30-4 p.m. 'Fiddler on the Roof': See THU.5, 5 p.m. 'Or, ': See WED.4, 2 p.m. Stealing From Work: See WED.4, 4 p.m.

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AARP Tax Prep Assistance: See THU.5. American Red Cross Blood Drive: See WED.4. Microchip Clinic: Animal lovers safeguard their cats and dogs, should they ever get lost. Homeward Bound Animal Welfare Center, Middlebury, 4-6 p.m. $35. Info, 388-1100. Tech Help With Clif: See WED.4, 6-7 p.m.

food & drink

Healthy Crock-Pot Creations: Dietitian Brigitte Harton presents tasty recipes ideal for the slow cooker. Hannaford Supermarket, Milton, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 893-4922.

games

After-School Games: Youngsters in grades 3 and up swap trading cards or challenge each other to one of the library's games. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 3-4 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. Bridge Club: See WED.4, 7 p.m.

montréal

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.

Igloofest: See FRI.6.

health & fitness

'Forever Plaid': See WED.4.

music

'Beethoven & Arnowitt VIII: A 26-Year Odyssey': Internationally recognized pianist Michael Arnowitt culminates his quest to perform the composer's 32 piano sonatas with a program of opuses 109, 110 and 111. Unitarian Church of Montpelier, 3 p.m. $15-25. Info, info@capitalcityconcerts.org.

Eric George: Old-time folk traditions seep into original songs penned by the 24-year-old rising star. United Church of Westford, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 879-4028. Erik Kroncke & Mary Jane Austin: The bassist and pianist interpret arias by Verdi, Bellini, Mozart and Tchaikovsky in "Opera in the Snow." Jewish Community of Greater Stowe, 4 p.m. Donations. Info, 253-8899.

outdoors

Catamount Trail Day: Skiers get off the beaten path when learning point-to-point backcountry touring. See catamounttrail.org for details. Nordic Center, Bolton Valley Ski Resort, 9:15 a.m.-2 p.m. Prices vary. Info, 864-5794. Sleigh Rides: See SAT.7.

sports

Northern Vermont Snowshoe Races: Competitors navigate an 8K course over snowcovered hills. Nordic Center, Smugglers' Notch Resort, Jeffersonville, 11 a.m.-noon. $18-30. Info, 238-8464.

Avoid Falls With Improved Stability: See FRI.6. Embodying Relationship: Psychologist Robert Kest examines the biopsychological dynamics that shape interpersonal relations. Community Room, Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 6-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 223-8000, ext. 202. Neuroscience of Mindfulness: A study led by Matthew Williams touches on biological and emotional aspects of the brain-body relationship. Living Room: Center of Positivity, Essex Junction, 4:30-5:30 p.m. $8-10. Info, 999-6131, triumstudio@gmail.com. Prenatal Yoga & Barre: See WED.4. R.I.P.P.E.D.: See WED.4. Stress Management: Those looking to release tension get tips from life coach and psychotherapist Helen C. Hipp. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

kids

Alice in Noodleland: Tykes get acquainted over crafts and play while new parents and expectant mothers chat with maternity nurse and lactation consultant Alice Gonyar. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 764-1810. Kids Yoga: A fun-filled class for students ages 8 through 12 encourages focus, creativity and teamwork. Grateful Yoga, Montpelier, 4:15-5:15 p.m. $12. Info, 224-6183. Music With Peter: Preschoolers up to age 5 bust out song-and-dance moves to traditional and original folk tunes. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 11 a.m. Free; limited to one session per week per family. Info, 878-4918. One-on-One Tutoring: See WED.4.

liSt Your EVENt for frEE At SEVENDAYSVT.COM/POSTEVENT Preschool story time: See THU.5. 'star Wars' club: May the force be with you! Fans of George Lucas' intergalactic epic bond over common interests. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 4:30-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956. stories With megan: Captivating tales entertain good listeners ages 2 through 5. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. toddler time: See WED.4.

lgbtq

'trembling before g-d': Gay Orthodox Jews struggle with a sexual orientation that challenges their faith in Sandi Simcha Dubowski's award-winning documentary. A panel discussion follows. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

montréal

'forever Plaid': See WED.4.

music

antibalas With ZaP mama: America's premier Afrobeat band joins Belgian Afro-pop artist Marie Daulne for an evening of awe-inspiring multicultural melodies. See calendar spotlight. Latchis Hotel & Theater, Brattleboro, 7 p.m. $5-59. Info, 357-4616.

shaPe & share life stories: Prompts from Recille Hamrell trigger recollections of specific experiences, which are crafted into narratives and shared with the group. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 12:30-2:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

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tuesday volunteer nights: Folks 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.

Espalier Fruit Plants - Lee Reich An espalier can yield very high quality fruit while making a decorative and edible covering for a fence or a wall—even creating a fence itself. Learn which plants work best and the theory and practice involved in bending and pruning branches. Cost $20.00.

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February 14 • 9:30–11:00am

intro to tribal belly dance: Ancient traditions define this moving meditation that celebrates creative energy. Comfortable clothing required. Sacred Mountain Studio, Burlington, 6:45 p.m. $13. Info, piper.c.emily@gmail.com. sWing dance Practice session: Twinkletoed dancers get familiar with the lindy hop, Charleston and balboa. Indoor shoes required. Champlain Club, Burlington, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $5. Info, 448-2930.

mad river chorale oPen rehearsal: The community chorus welcomes newcomers in preparation for its June concert, "I Hear America Singing." Chorus Room, Harwood Union High School, South Duxbury, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 496-4781.

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sambatucada! oPen rehearsal: New faces are invited to pitch in as Burlington's samba street-percussion band sharpens its tunes. Experience and instruments are not required. 8 Space Studio Collective, Burlington, 6-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 862-5017.

community cinema: 'american denial': See WED.4, Room 207, Bentley Hall, Johnson State College, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 635-1476.

coed floor hockey: Men and women aim for the goal in a friendly league setting. The Edge Sports & Fitness, Essex, 7-9 p.m. $5; equipment provided; preregister; limited space. Info, gbfloorhockey@gmail.com.

greening our religions: Lecturers offer an interfaith response to the environmental crisis as part of a series of eye-opening discussions. See burlington.shambhala.org for details. Shambhala Meditation Center, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 862-8866.

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adult Writing grouP: Wordsmiths practice their craft in a monthly meet-up with fellow lit lovers. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660. creative Writing WorkshoP: See WED.4.

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'fargo': A bizarre kidnapping unfolds into murder and mayhem in Joel and Ethan Coen's 1996 cult classic. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free; first come, first served. Info, 864-7999.

food & drink

the basics of fermentation: Kim McKellar guides participants through the steps of transforming veggies into probiotic-rich superfoods. Community Room, Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 6-7:30 p.m. $10-12; preregister. Info, 223-8000, ext. 202. feast together or feast to go: See FRI.6. the PennyWise Pantry: A tour of the store helps shoppers create a custom template for keeping the kitchen stocked with affordable, nutritious eats. City Market/Onion River Co-op, Burlington, 10-11 a.m. Free; preregister at citymarket.coop; limited space. Info, 861-9700.

games

chess club: Checkmate! Players of all ages and abilities apply expert advice from a skilled instructor to games with others. Fairfax Community Library, 3-4:15 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 849-2420. gaming for teens & adults: Tabletop games entertain players of all skill levels. Kids 13 and under require a legal guardian or parental permission to attend. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 5-7:45 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

health & fitness

fitness boot camP: See WED.4, Vergennes Opera House, 5:30-6:30 p.m. $10. Info, ginger54@ sover.net.

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must-read monday: Anita Shreve's The Weight of Water inspires conversation among bookworms. Main Reading Room, Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6:30-7:03 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955.

To register, go to www.GardenerSupplyStore.com or call 802-660-3505 x2. Pre-registration and pre-payment required. Classes are $12.50 per person unless otherwise noted. Seminars are held at Gardener’s in Burlington.

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michael schirling: Burlington's police chief weighs in on his profession in "Community Policing." Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 2 p.m. $5. Info, 864-3516.

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Proper care for soil results in fewer weeds. Nurturing the ground from the top down, avoiding soil compaction, maintaining a soil cover, and pinpoint watering keeps plants healthier and minimizes weed problems. This seminar will teach to how to apply this system to your garden. Cost $20.00.

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american red cross blood drive: See WED.4.

Weedless Garden - Lee Reich

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Seedstarting - David Boucher February 14 • 9:30–11:00am

community

tango Practice session: Dancers looking to master the Argentine tradition focus on their footwork in a weekly class. New City Galerie, Burlington, 7-10 p.m. $5 suggested donation. Info, 617-780-7701, maya@newcitygalerie.org.

things that mattered: A weekly class with Bob Mayer highlights artifacts that changed the world in unusual ways and contributed to major developments in human history. Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington, 5:45-7 p.m. $15-25. Info, 864-0218.

February 7 • 9:30–11:00am

Learn the basic science and techniques for seedstarting success from the get-go, and do it right the first time!

a far cry chamber orchestra: The Bostonbased classical music ensemble tunes in with works by Antonín Dvořák, Benjamin Britten and others. Casella Theater, Castleton State College, 7 p.m. $10-15. Info, 468-1119.

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Gentle Drop-In YoGa: Yogis hit the mat for a Hatha class led by Betty Molnar. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 4:30-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660.

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Intro to YoGa: Newcomers discover the benefits of aligning breath and body. Fusion Studio Yoga & Body Therapy, Montpelier, 4-5 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 272-8923. JazzercIse lIte: See THU.5, 8-9 a.m.

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nIa WIth suzY: See SUN.8, North End Studio B, Burlington, 7-8 a.m. $13. Info, 522-3691. pee-Wee pIlates: Moms bond with their babies in a whole-body workout. Prenatal Method Studio, Burlington, 10:30-11:30 a.m. $15. Info, 829-0211. prenatal YoGa & Barre: See WED.4, 12:15-1:15 & 4:30-5:30 p.m.

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BaBY & toDDler storY tIme: A Mother Goosebased morning features rhymes, songs and stories. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10:15-10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 388-4095.

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creatIve tuesDaYs: Artists exercise their imaginations with recycled crafts. Kids under 8 must be accompanied by an adult. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3-5 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. FaIrFax storY hour: 'valentIne's DaY': Good listeners up to age 6 are rewarded with tales, songs, crafts and activities. Fairfax Community Library, 9:30-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 849-2420. hIGhGate storY hour: See WED.4.

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homeschool scIence proGram: cIrcuItrY: Youngsters ages 7 and up experiment with squishy circuits and littleBits electronics kits. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 1-3 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-4918. musIc WIth mr. chrIs: Singer, storyteller and puppeteer Chris Dorman entertains tykes and their parents. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 1010:30 a.m. Free. Info, 764-1810. preschool musIc: Kids ages 3 through 5 sing and dance the afternoon away. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 11:30 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 264-5660.

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storY explorers: oWlInG: How do these nocturnal predators adapt to winter? A themed tale gives kiddos the answers. ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 10:30 a.m. Free with admission, $9.50-12.50. Info, 877-324-6386. storY tIme For 3- to 5-Year-olDs: See WED.4.

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storY tIme For BaBIes & toDDlers: Picture books, songs, rhymes and puppets arrest the attention of kids under 3. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 9:10-9:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956. tech tuesDaYs: Youngsters tackle e-crafts, circuits and programming after school gets out. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-4665.

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teen art stuDIo: A local artist inspires adolescents to pursue their own artistic visions. Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 253-8358. toDDler storY tIme: Tykes up to 3 years old have fun with music, rhymes, snacks and captivating tales. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 10:30 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 264-5660. Youth meDIa laB: Aspiring Spielbergs learn about moviemaking with television experts. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4095.

language

'la causerIe' French conversatIon: Native speakers are welcomed to pipe in at an unstructured conversational practice for students. El Gato Cantina, Burlington, 4:30-6 p.m. Free. Info, 540-0195. pause-caFé French conversatIon: French students of varying levels engage in dialogue en français. Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 6:308 p.m. Free. Info, 363-2431.

lgbtq

Queer movIe soIree: Two teenage boys supporting each other through adversity fall in love in the 1996 drama Beautiful Thing. Room 136, Burlington College, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 860-7812.

montréal

'Forever plaID': See WED.4.

music

antIBalas WIth zap mama: See MON.9, Fuller Hall, St. Johnsbury Academy, 7 p.m. $5-59. Info, 357-4616. Kronos Quartet: The acclaimed foursome lives up to its reputation of diverse programming with Beyond Zero: 1914-1918, a collaborative sound-and-film narrative of World War I. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $17-50. Info, 603-646-2422.

seminars

DIscoverInG BuDDhIsm stuDY Group orIentatIon: Participants work together to understand the complete path to enlightenment as taught by the Buddha. Milarepa Center, Barnet, 6:30-8 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 633-4136.

talks

Joseph acQuIsto: The UVM professor of romance languages and linguistics presents "The Fall Out of Redemption: Writing and Thinking Beyond Salvation in Charles Baudelaire." Memorial Lounge, Waterman Building, UVM, Burlington, 5-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-3166. open DIscussIon: 'have You haD a spIrItual experIence?': Members of Vermont Eckankar host an open forum for those interested in sharing moments of strong intuitions, déjà vu and more. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:307:30 p.m. Free. Info, 800-772-9390.

words

BuDDY WaKeFIelD: The champion slam poet shares his gifts for rhythm, delivery and wordplay. Appearances by Maxx Vick, Tyler Daniel Bean and Kaylen Alan Krebsbach complete the evening. Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, South Burlington, 7:30 p.m.-midnight. $13-15. Info, 881-9376. tall tales From the Bear cave: Wordsmiths flock to an evening of open mic, off-the-cuff storytelling based on the theme "New Urban Legends." ArtsRiot, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 540-0406.

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ashleY WIshInsKI: The business coach doles out advice in "Entrepreneurs: Increase Your Profits Without Spending Another Dime in 2015." Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955.

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DInner & conversatIon WIth FrIenDs: Patrons of the arts chat over gourmet fare prior to an evening of piano music by Steven Osborne. Lower Lobby, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 6 p.m. $25. Info, 443-3168. 4t-uvmtheatre020415.indd 1

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Peer SuPPort CirCle: See WED.4. PlanBtV South end Community WorkShoP: Locals offer up ideas for the development of Burlington's South End. See burlingtonvt.gov for details. 747 Pine Street, Burlington, 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7000.

crafts

Green mountain ChaPter of the emBroidererS' Guild of ameriCa: Needleand-thread enthusiasts gather to work on current projects. Living/Dining Room, Pines Senior Living Community, South Burlington, 9:30 a.m. Free; bring a bag lunch. Info, 372-4255. knitterS & needleWorkerS: See WED.4.

education

mindfulneSS eduCation for middle SChool & hiGh SChool StudentS: See WED.4. toaStmaSterS of Greater BurlinGton: Those looking to strengthen their speaking and leadership skills gain new tools. Holiday Inn, South Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 989-3250.

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ameriCan red CroSS Blood driVe: See WED.4. teCh helP With Clif: See WED.4.

food & drink

Coffee taStinG: See WED.4. a moSaiC of flaVor: indian SaaG Paneer, ChaPati and Chai: Sharan Deep demonstrates how to prepare traditional dishes from her native country. Edmunds Middle School, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. $5-10; preregister; limited space. Info, 861-9700. WedneSday Wine doWn: See WED.4.

games

BridGe CluB: See WED.4.

health & fitness

eatinG Well on a BudGet: See WED.4. fitneSS Boot CamP: See WED.4. inSiGht meditation: See WED.4. make your oWn immune-BooStinG CouGh SyruP: Juliette Abigail Carr of Old Ways Herbal helps folks create reliable remedies for seasonal ailments. Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, Montpelier, 6-8 p.m. $15-17; preregister. Info, 224-7100. r.i.P.P.e.d.: See WED.4. tanGofloW!: See WED.4.

kids

after-SChool tutorinG: See WED.4. hiGhGate Story hour: See WED.4.

meet roCkin' ron the friendly Pirate: See WED.4. moVinG & GrooVinG With ChriStine: Two- to 5-year-olds jam out to rock-and-roll and worldbeat tunes. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. one-on-one tutorinG: See WED.4. Story time for 3- to 5-year-oldS: See WED.4. toddler time: See WED.4.

enGliSh aS a SeCond lanGuaGe ClaSS: See WED.4. intermediate/adVanCed enGliSh aS a SeCond lanGuaGe ClaSS: See WED.4. italian ConVerSation GrouP: Parla Italiano? A native speaker leads a language practice for all ages and abilities. Room 101, St. Edmund's Hall, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 899-3869.

montréal

'foreVer Plaid': See WED.4.

music

faCulty reCital: Guest pianist Claire Black joins horn player Alan Parshley to interpret works by Joseph Rheinberger and Florent Schmitt. UVM Recital Hall, Redstone Campus, Burlington, 7:30-9 p.m. Free. Info, 656-7776. SonG CirCle: Community SinG-alonG: Rich and Laura Atkinson lead an evening of vocal expression. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 6:45 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581. SteVen oSBorne: The celebrated pianist pounds the ivory keys in a performance featuring Beethoven's Hammerklavier sonata. See calendar spotlight. Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 7:30 p.m. $6-25. Info, 443-3168.

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sports

niGht rider SerieS: Skiers and riders compete for prizes in illuminated terrain parks. Bolton Valley Ski Resort, 5:30-8 p.m. $15; lift ticket required. Info, 434-6804.

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February Specials

jay roSen: The New York University professor of journalism considers his ever-evolving craft in "Why do We Need 'Professional' Journalists If Anyone Can Report the News?" Cheray Science Hall, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2637.

theater

It’s the season and the time to think about our Valentines.

'Blithe SPirit': An author holds a séance that unexpectedly rouses his ex-wife from the dead in Noel Coward's classic comedy, presented by Northern Stage. Briggs Opera House, White River Junction, 7:30 p.m. $20-55. Info, 296-7000.

Make this month special for your loved ones by giving them the gift of True Beauty. And remember to treat yourself to something special!

an eVeninG With Sojourner truth': Using spiritual music and original quotes, Kathryn Woods embodies the famed abolitionist, feminist and escaped slave. Vermont Statehouse, Montpelier, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

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'or, ': See WED.4, 7:30 p.m. 'a Street Car named deSire': Johnson State College students and faculty interpret Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning drama. Dibden Center for the Arts, Johnson State College, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 635-1476.

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Book Sale: Bookworms browse gently used titles at this benefit for Mobilization of Volunteer Efforts. Lobby, Alliot Student Center, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 9 a.m. Free. Info, 654-2674.

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ChoCoholiCS anonymouS: Chocolate lovers discover the various health benefits of the food. Wellspring Chiropractic Lifestyle Center, Shelburne, 6:30-8 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 985-9850.

WilliSton Pajama Story time: Kids in PJs bring their favorite stuffed animals for stories, a craft and a bedtime snack. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

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art ART & POTTERY IN MIDDLEBURY: Adult: Mon. p.m. Oils, Tue. p.m. Jewelry & Beginning Wheel, Wed. a.m. Paint & p.m. Wheel, Thu. a.m. Oils & Hand Building, Thu. p.m. Drawing. Workshops: Teapots, On & Off the Wheel, Decorative Effects. Kids: Mon & Wed. Pottery on the Wheel, Tue. Clay Music Makers, Thu. Hand Building, Wed. Leonardo’s Workshop, Vacation Art Class. Location: Middlebury Studio School, 1 Mill St., Middlebury.

Info: Middlebury Studio School, Barbara Nelson, 247-3702, ewaldewald@aol.com, middleburystudioschool.org. ART CLASSES IN HINESBURG AT CVU HIGH SCHOOL: Watercolor, Drawing, Zentangle, Colored Pencil, Acrylics, Hand Puppet, Nature Journals and Calligraphy. Culinary arts: 1-night hands-on classes where you eat well! Dim Sum, Chicken Tikka, Indian Veggie, Vietnamese Pho, Szechuan, Thai, Turkish, Malaysian Penang, Middle Eastern, Greek Coastal, Chocolate, Argentinian,

Yogurt, Risotto, Fresh Berry Pie, Chocolate Sponge with Ganache, Easter Cookies. Full descriptions online. Senior discount. 200 offerings for all ages. Location: CVU High School, 369 CVU Rd., 10 min. from Exit 12, Hinesburg. Info: 482-7194, cvuweb.cvuhs. org/access/ CHEER UP W/ WATERCOLOR: Banish winter blues! This threeweek class focuses on the basics of watercolor, with lots of room for creativity, finding inspiration in tropical landscapes, foods, decor and other fun subjects. No previous art experience required! Materials provided for first class. Contact us for additional supply list. Taught by Jacquelyn Heloise. 3 Thu., Feb. 5, 12 & 19, 6:30-9 p.m. Cost: $80/3 2.5-hour classes. Location: ONE Arts Center, 72 N. Champlain St., Burlington. Info: Becca McHale,

338-0028, oneartscollective@ gmail.com, oneartscenter.com. PAINT YOUR PET: Bring your favorite picture of your pet. Not sure which picture to choose? Bring a few, and we can help you decide. Together, we will go step by step to create your very own special pet portrait! Bring your favorite art supplies, or use ours! Taught by Ashlee Rubinstein. Sun., Feb. 15, 3-5:30 p.m. Cost: $35/2.5-hour class; $25 for members; $50 for 2. Location: ONE Arts Center, 72 N. Champlain St., Burlington. Info: ONE Arts Center, Becca McHale, 338-0028, oneartscollective@gmail.com, oneartscenter.com.

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Call 865-7166 for info or register online at burlingtoncityarts.org. Teacher bios are also available online. CLAY: GLAZING TECHNIQUES: Glazing a large, intricate or particularly meaningful piece of pottery can be a challenging (at times stressful) experience. In this lecture style class, Chris will demonstrate a range of glaze application processes aimed at getting the anticipated results. Instructor: Chris Vaughn. Sun., Mar. 15, 1:30-3 p.m. Cost: $25/ person; $22.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. CLAY: HANDLES: The right handle can make or break a mug. Is it comfortable? Is it functional? In this class, Jeremy will explore the intersection of function and form through handles using lecture and demonstration. Students will learn how to make and attach handles using several methods. Instructor: Jeremy Ayers. Sun., Feb. 15, 1:30-3 p.m. Cost: $25/person; $22.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. DIY DESIGN: LEATHER CASES: Join co-owner of New Duds and advanced crafter Tessa Valyou at this one night class where you’ll create your own leather cases for phones, accessories and more. Learn simple ways to make one-of-a-kind cases that you’ll want to use and give as gifts. All materials provided. Registration is required. Mar. 12, 6-8 p.m. Cost: $28/person; $25.20/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, Burlington. DIY DESIGN: LEATHER CUFFS AND EARRINGS: Join co-owner

of New Duds and advanced crafter Tessa Valyou at this onenight class where you’ll create your own leather earrings and bracelets. Learn simple ways to make one-of-a kind jewelry that you’ll want to wear and give as gifts, like snap bracelets, cuffs and earrings. All materials provided. Registration is required. Thu., Feb. 12, 6-8 p.m. Cost: $28/ person; $25.20/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, Burlington. PHOTO: PHOTOGRAPHING THE WINTER LANDSCAPE: Learn how to create stunning winter landscape images in this threesession workshop. Techniques for properly exposing snow and ice, using available light and composing creatively using shadows and texture will be covered. Prerequisite: Digital SLR Camera or equivalent experience. Instructor: Dan Lovell. Thu., Feb. 19 & 26, 6-9 p.m. & Sat., Feb. 22, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Cost: $180/ person; $162/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, Burlington. PREPARING YOUR WORK FOR EXHIBITION AND SALES: Are you ready to hang your work in an exhibition but unsure of how to prepare it for installation and sales? Learn the basics of professionally presenting your work with curator and editor Jessica Dyer. Matting, framing, glass choices, wiring, pricing and other professional presentation concerns will be covered. Mon., Mar. 10, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $25/ person; $22.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, Burlington. SCHOOL BREAK: LEGO ANIMATION: Create stopmotion animations using Legos! Students will create pieces from start to finish, creating storyboards, photographing frames and editing in iMovie. Films will be screened at the end of class. All materials provided. Registration required. Ages 8-12. Instructor: Kristen Watson. Wed., Feb. 25, 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Cost: $85/ person; $76.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, Burlington. SELLING YOUR WORK WITH ETSY: Etsy seller Laura Hale, owner of Found Beauty Studio, will walk you through opening a shop, setting up policies, listing items and filling sold orders, as well as looking at various marketing tricks. You can bring your laptop, use our computers, or come tech-free and watch Laura lead you step by step. Tue., Feb. 10, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $25/ person; 22.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, Burlington. SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING FOR ARTISTS: Do you fear Facebook? Does Twitter make you cringe? Do you keep wondering what the heck people are talking about when they mention Pinterest or Instagram? Don’t worry! We’ll discuss the major social media avenues and how to best use them

in regard to content, strategy, advertising and telling the story of your work. Instructor: Laura Hale. Tue., Feb. 24, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $25/person; $22.50/ BCA members. Location: BCA Center, Burlington. YOUTH: POTTERY WHEEL: Come play with clay on the potter’s wheel and learn how to make cups, bowls and more in our BCA clay studio. Price includes one fired and glazed piece per participant. All materials provided. Registration required. Ages 6-12. Instructor: Kim O’Brien. Sat., Mar. 7, 1:30-3:30 p.m. Cost: $25/ person; $22.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Clay Studio, Burlington.

coaching COLLAB FACILITATOR TRAINING: Join us for this cohort-based training intensive where we will explore how communication and power affect relationships at all levels of society, and learn to transition this knowledge and awareness into practical, organizational application through studying the innovative set of operational practices we call Collab. Mar. 7-8: 2-day retreat opening weekend; Mar. 11-May 27: 12 weekly sessions on Wed., 5-8 p.m.; May 30-31: 2-day retreat closing weekend. Cost: $2,500/person; VSAC nondegree grant, scholarships or work trade avail. Location: TBD, Burlington & Montpelier. Info: Round Sky Solutions, Daniel Little, 5520122, daniel@roundskysolutions. com, roundskysolutions.com.

computers COMPUTER CLASSES IN HINESBURG AT CVU HIGH SCHOOL: Computer & Internet Basics, Cloud Control, Improve your Internet Experience, Windows Security: File and Control Panels, Picassa and iCloud, Web Album, iSync: iPads/iPods/iPhones, Twitter Essentials, Google Sketchup, MS Word Basics and More, Smart Phone Use, Google Smarts, MS Excel Basics, Excel Up: The Next Steps, Excel Data Analysis, Website Design Fundamentals, Dreamweaver: Web Essentials, personalized lessons. Full descriptions online. Senior discount. 200 offerings for all ages. Location: CVU High School, 369 CVU Rd., 10 min. from Exit 12, Hinesburg. Info: 482-7194, cvuweb.cvuhs.org/access.

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Felting, Weaving, Embroidering, Quilting, Cake Decorating and Knitting. Full descriptions online. Senior discount. 200 offerings for all ages. Location: CVU High School, 369 CVU Rd., 10 min. from Exit 12, Hinesburg. Info: 482-7194, cvuweb.cvuhs.org/ access. KNITTING FOR BEGINNERS II: New to knitting and looking for new techniques to add to your skill set? This is the class for you! In this class, you will knit fingerless mittens and learn how to use double pointed needles, work in the round, ribbing and thumb gussets. Basic knitting skills required. Materials incl. Wed., Feb. 11 & 18 6-8 p.m., & Wed., Mar. 11, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $78/3-part, 6.5-hour class. Location: nido fabric and yarn, 209 College St., suite 2e, Burlington. Info: 881-0068, info@ nidovt.com, nidovt.com.

incl. $25 materials fee. Location: Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. WORKSHOP: MONOTYPE/ MONOPRINT: Instructor: Lyna Lou Nordstrom. In this two-day workshop, students will paint on a plastic plate surface. The image is then transferred to the paper using the etching press. After it goes through the press, there is usually ink left on the surface so that a second print can be pulled through. This print will be different, or it might be the beginning of another monotype. We will be using nontoxic Akua Intaglio printmaking ink, which is soy-based and cleans up with soap and water. We will also be using a small professional press. Come ready to have fun with this magical process. This is suitable for all levels of students. Mar. 7 & 8, Sat. & Sun., 1-4:30 p.m. Cost: $110/nonmembers; $100/members; incl. $10 materials fee. Location: Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne.

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DANCE STUDIO SALSALINA: Salsa classes, nightclub-style, on-one and on-two, group and private, four levels. Beginner walk-in classes, Wednesdays, 6 p.m. $13/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, 598-1077, info@ salsalina.com.

DJEMBE IN BURLINGTON AND MONTPELIER!: Learn drumming technique and music on West African drums! Burlington Beginners Djembe class is on Wed., 7-8:20 p.m. Djembes are provided. Montpelier Beginners Djembe class is on Thu., 7-8:20 p.m. $22/drop-in (no class Nov. 27). New session starts in Jan. Please register online or come directly to the first class! Location: Taiko Space & Capitol City Grange, 208 Flynn Ave., suite 3G, & 6612 Route 12, Burlington & Montpelier. Info: 999-4255, classes@burlingtontaiko.org, burlingtontaiko.org. TAIKO DRUMMING IN BURLINGTON!: Come study Japanese drumming with Stuart Paton of Burlington Taiko! Beginner/Recreational Class on Tue., 5:30-6:20 p.m. Accelerated Taiko Program for Beginners on Mon., 7-8:20 p.m. Taiko Training Class for Beginners on Wed., 5:30-6:50 p.m. Kids and Parents Class on Tue., 4:30-5:20 p.m. New sessions start in Jan. Register online or come directly to the first class! Location: Taiko Space, 208 Flynn Ave., suite 3G, Burlington. Info: 999-4255, classes@burlingtontaiko.org, burlingtontaiko.org. TAIKO DRUMMING IN MONTPELIER: Learn Taiko in Montpelier! Weekly on Thu., Montpelier Beginning Taiko class, 5:30-6:50 p.m., $72/4 weeks, and Montpelier Kids and Parents’ Taiko class, 4:30-5:20 p.m., $48/4 weeks; $90/parent + child. Please register online or come directly to the first class! Location: Capital City Grange, 6612 Route 12, Berlin. Info: 9994255, classes@burlingtontaiko. org, burlingtontaiko.org.

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BARRE AND MAT PILATES CLASSES: Specializing in barre and mat Pilates classes for all ages, all fitness levels, all the time, seven days a week, in our beautiful Studio 208. Professional instruction, monthly specials and fun challenges help motivate! 7 days a week, morning, noon & night. Cost: $15/1-hour class. Location: Studio 208, 208 Flynn Ave., Burlington. Info: Kathy Brunette, 862-8686, deb@studio208vt@ gmail.com, studio208vt.com.

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DROP-IN DANCE CLASSES FOR ADULTS AND TEENS ARE NOW RUNNING!: Afro-Modern Jazz, Cabaret Jazz, Ladies’ Hip-Hop, Breakdancing, Tap, Ballet, Modern Dance, Family Dance and Movement, and Contemporary/ Movement Studies. Check schedules at flynnarts.org and add some joy to your day by joining this movement community! Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: 652-4548, flynnarts.org.

SEED STARTING: Learn the basic science and techniques for seed starting success from the get-go, and do it right the first time! Instructor: David Boucher. Feb. 7, 9:30-11 a.m. Cost: $12.50/ person. Location: Gardener’s Supply Burlington, 128 Intervale Rd., Burlington. Info: 660-3505, gardeners.com. WEEDLESS GARDEN: Proper care for soil results in fewer weeds. Nurturing the ground from the top down, avoiding soil compaction, maintaining a soil cover, and pinpoint watering keeps plants healthier and minimizes weed problems. This seminar will teach you this technique. Instructor: Lee Reich. Feb. 14, 11:30 a.m.-1 pm. Cost: $20/ person. Location: Gardener’s Supply Burlington, 128 Intervale Rd., Burlington. Info: 660-3505, gardeners.com.

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WATERCOLOR: PAINTING DOORS & WINDOWS W/ ROBERT O’BRIEN: Learn composition, painting light and shadow, and how to render the unique beauty of doors and windows in a realistic manner. This class is for all levels of painting ability, with some drawing experience. Sat., Feb. 21, 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Cost: $100/person; $75/members. Location: Helen Day Art Center, Stowe. Info: 253-8358, education@helenday.com, helenday.com.

herbs VERMONT SCHOOL OF HERBAL STUDIES: Foundations of Herbalism Apprenticeship 2015 offers plant identification, wildcrafting, herb walks, tea formulation, aromatherapy, tinctures, herbal oils and salves, first aid, materia medica, elixirs and much more. Space limited. Gift certificates available. 7 Sun., Apr. to Oct. Cost: $825/person. Location: Vermont School of Herbal Studies, Greensboro. Info: 533-2344.

language ALLIANCE FRANCAISE SPRING SESSION: CONTINUONS!: Eleven-week French classes for adults starting on Mar. 9. New: Evening and morning sessions available! Twelve French classes offered, serving the entire range of students from true beginners to those already comfortable conversing in French. Descriptions and signup at aflcr.org. We also offer private and small group tutoring. Cost: $245/course; $220.50/AFLCR members. Location: Alliance Francaise of Lake Champlain Region, Colchester & Montpelier. Info: Micheline Tremblay, 8818826, michelineatremblay@ gmail.com. 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. Travelers’ 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. LANGUAGE CLASSES IN HINESBURG AT CVU HIGH SCHOOL: French: 4 levels, Beginning Spanish: 2 levels, Intermediate Spanish: 2 levels, Italian for Travelers: 2 levels, Beginning Mandarin: 2 levels, German 1 & 2, Ancient Greek! Low cost, hands-on, excellent instructors, limited class size, guaranteed. Materials included with few exceptions. Full descriptions online. Senior discount. 200 offerings for all ages. Location: CVU High School, 369 CVU Rd., 10 min. from Exit 12, Hinesburg. Info: 482-7194, cvuweb.cvuhs. org/access.

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EMPOWERMENT CLASSES IN HINESBURG AT CVU HIGH SCHOOL: Beekeeping, Birding, Pollinators, SAT Bootcamp, Memoir Writing, Children’s Nature Books, Conscious Walking. Talks on: Lake Ice, Famous Dogs, Donner Party,

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ESPALIER FRUIT PLANTS: An espalier can yield very high quality fruit while making a decorative and edible covering for a fence or a wall — even creating a fence itself. Learn which plants work best and the theory and practice involved in bending and pruning branches. Instructor: Lee Reich. Feb. 14, 9:30-11 a.m. Cost: $20/ person. Location: Gardener’s Supply Burlington, 128 Intervale Rd., Burlington. Info: 660-3505, gardeners.com.

WISDOM OF THE HERBS SCHOOL: Now interviewing for our eight-month Wisdom of the Herbs 2015, a unique experiential program embracing the local herbaceous plants, trees and shrubs, holistic health, and sustainable living skills, valuable tools for living on the Earth in these changing times. Apr. 2526, May 23-24, Jun. 27-28, Jul. 25-26, Aug. 22-23, Sep. 26-27, Oct. 24-25 and Nov. 7-8, 2015. Tuition $1,750. VSAC nondegree grants available, please apply soon. Location: Wisdom of the Herbs School, Woodbury. Info: 456-8122, annie@ wisdomoftheherbsschool.com, wisdomoftheherbsschool.com.

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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! Mon. evenings: beginner class, 7-8 p.m.; intermediate, 8:15-9:15 p.m. Cost: $10/1-hour class. Location: North End Studios, 294 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: Tyler Crandall, 598-9204,

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FAIRY TALES OF HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN AND THEIR DEEPER MEANING: This course explores the depth of wisdom in the archetypes, symbols, characters and plots of seemingly simple stories drawn from the works of Hans Christian Andersen. Led by Sue Mehrtens. Feb. 5, 12, 19 & 26, 7-9 p.m. Cost: $60/person; register & get a copy of the tale we will discuss in our 1st session. Location: Jungian Center for the Spiritual Sciences, 55 Clover La., Waterbury. Info: Sue, 244-7909.

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FAMILY: WHEEL AGES 10+: Instructor: Rik Rolla. Adults and children ages 10 and up learn, share and discover the craft of wheel-thrown pottery together. Learn the essentials of working on the potter’s wheel, from centering to forming, pulling, and trimming cylinders and bowls. Leave the class with functional art made together. Your work will be fired in our electric kiln. Weekly on Wed., Mar. 4-25, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Cost: $140/nonmembers; $128.50/members;

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LEARN TO DANCE W/ A PARTNER!: Come alone or come with friends, but come out and learn to dance! Beginning classes repeat each month, but intermediate classes vary from month to month. As with all of our programs, everyone is encouraged to attend, and no partner is necessary. Private lessons also available. Cost: $50/4week class. Location: Champlain Club, 20 Crowley St., Burlington. Info: First Step Dance, 598-6757, kevin@firststepdance.com, firststepdance.com.

Wildlife Rehab, Lake Champlain, Amazing Survival. Also, Solar Energy 101, Bridge, Mah Jongg, Flower Arranging, Growing Mushrooms, Suburban Homesteading 101, Birding, Home Exchange, Motorcycle Awareness, Shoulder Massage, Cat Behavior, Reiki, Herbals, Body Butters, Herbal Facial. Guaranteed. Full descriptions online. Senior discount. 200 offerings for all ages. Location: CVU High School, 369 CVU Rd., 10 min. from Exit 12, Hinesburg. Info: 482-7194, cvuweb.cvuhs. org/access.

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FAMILY: JELL-O PRINT FUN: Instructor: Lyna Lou Nordstrom. The process is fast-paced and spontaneous. Students will create two prints at a time. Each participant gets a 4 x 6-inch slab of Knox gelatin (no flavor added). Students will create their image by touching textural objects to the surface of the gelatin after rolling it with a color. Pressing a texture, such as a piece of lace, to the surface creates an image with almost photographic clarity. Students will be using rich primary colors and will add layers until the print looks finished. Most people leave with 10-15 original prints. Feb. 24, Tue., 1-4 p.m. Cost: $50/nonmembers; $45.50/members; incl. $5 materials fee. Location: Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne.

CHOCOLATE SPONGE CAKE W/ CHOCOLATE GANACHE: Learn the secret, make a delicious chocolate sponge cake with a chocolate ganache. Decorate with chocolate cut-out, brush on gold luster dust to dazzle with elegance. Perfect Valentine’s Day dessert. Leave with an 8-inch cake to enjoy. Instructor: Carol Fox. Limited to 8 participants. Senior discount. Thu., Feb. 12, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $35/person. Location: CVU High School, 369 CVU Rd., 10 min. from Exit 12, Hinesburg. Info: 482-7194, cvuweb.cvuhs.org/access.

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meditation LEARN TO MEDITATE: Through the practice of sitting still and following your breath as it goes out and dissolves, you are connecting with your heart. By simply letting yourself be, as you are, you develop genuine sympathy toward yourself. The Burlington Shambhala 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. Instruction: Sun. mornings, 9 a.m.-noon, or by appt. Sessions: Tue. & Thu., noon-1 p.m., & Mon.-Thu., 6-7 p.m. Location: Burlington Shambhala Center, 187 S. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 658-6795, burlingtonshambhalactr.org.

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performing arts AUDITIONS FOR THE VT MUSICAL THEATRE ACADEMY: The Vermont Musical Theatre 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 theater dance and audition preparation. For more information and to audition, please contact Sally Olson, managing director. Auditions: Mar. 8 & 22. Spring session: Weekly on Sat., Apr. 4-May 30, 1-4 p.m. Cost: $360/ person. Location: Spotlight Vermont, 50 San Remo Dr., S. Burlington. Info: Sally Olson, admin@billreedvoicestudio.com, billreedvoicestudio.com. PLAYBACK THEATER: STORYTELLING IN ACTION: Stories are how we understand our world, who we are, where we have come from and what we may have come through. These moments of our lives can be touchstones, full of power and significance. They are the glue that holds families, communities and cultures together. Join us for a day devoted to enhancing our creativity and play as we form a community of storytellers in action. Feb. 21, 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Cost: $50/person. Location: SEABA, 404 Pine St., Burlington. Info: JourneyWorks, 860-6203, jkristel61@hotmail.com, journeyworksvt.com.

pets DOG TRAINING: Dog/puppy essentials: Basic Training and Social Skills (six-week course) and Beyond Basics (five-week course) are being offered by Gold Star Dog Training in two locations. Please visit website for schedule information. St. Albans location: stalbansrec. com, 524-1500 ext. 266 or ext. 268; South Burlington location: sburlrecdept.com, 846-4108. Class descriptions available at goldstardog.com. Location: St. Albans &, S. Burlington.

photography CAMERA CLASSES IN HINESBURG AT CVU HIGH SCHOOL: Photoshop Basics, Digital Camera: Buttons/Menus, DSLR Foundations, Digital Action Photography, Picasa Workshop, Aperture Info, Shutter Speed Skills, Photoshop Basics, Digital Spectrum, Next Layers of Photoshop, Advanced Digital Photography: Blending/Filters, InDesign. Full descriptions online. Senior discount. 200 offerings for all ages. Location: CVU High School, 369 CVU Rd., 10 min. from Exit 12, Hinesburg.

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pregnancy/ childbirth PRENATAL METHOD STUDIO: Prenatal and postnatal yoga and fitness classes blending Yoga, Barre and Pilates. Childbirth Education class series and weekend intensives. Yoga Alliance Registered Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training Program. Book groups, new mom playgroups, pregnancy circle teas. Supporting women and their partners in the management and journey of pregnancy and childbirth. Every day: lunchtimes, evenings & weekends. Cost: $15/1-hour prenatal or postnatal yoga class. Location: Prenatal Method Studio, 1 Mill St., suite 236, at the Chace Mill, Burlington. Info: 829-0211, beth@prenatalmethod.com, prenatalmethod.com.

tai chi ART OF TAI CHI CHUAN: Begin learning this supreme art to cultivate and sustain well-being of body, mind and spirit passed traditionally through Tung family lineage. Experience the bliss of true nature through practice of teachings that include Yang Style Long Form Slow Set Postures & Sequence; Complementary Exercises & Qigong; Yin/Yang Theory & Guiding Principles; Push Hands Partner Practice; and Mindfulness Meditation shared by Madeleine Piat-Landolt. All-level weekly classes: Wed., 5:30-7 p.m. $15/class, 1st class free; Tai Chi for Health/ Beginners Course: Thu., 10-11 a.m., Feb. 12-Apr. 2. $90/8 weeks; Art of Tai Chi Chuan/1st Saturday Seminar Series: Sat., 10 a.m.-1 p.m., Feb. 7, Mar. 7, Apr. 4. $35/ each or $90 for all 3. Location: McClure Center, 241 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: Madeleine Piat-Landolt, 453-3690, whitecloudarts@gmail.com, whitecloudarts.org. 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. Beginner classes Sat. mornings & Wed. evenings. Call to view a class. Location: Bao Tak Fai Tai Chi Institute, 100 Church St., Burlington. Info: 864-7902, ipfamilytaichi.org. TAI CHI, MONTPELIER: Green Dragon Wakes from Hibernation and Stretches its Claws. Learn this and other evocative movements in the Hwa Yu tai chi form, an early form of tai chi in the

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SEVEN DAYS: Who were your mentors and role models for the business side of independent touring? MASTA ACE: I really didn’t have one, actually. That just didn’t exist. I figured it out myself, because I had to! I think we’ve still got a lot to learn and work on. I’m proud of what we accomplished independently, but that benchmark has really changed. You see guys like Tech N9ne and his Strange Music crew, they’re on a whole other level. Independent, but they’ve got tour buses, they’re playing arenas and their merch game is crazy. SD: How do you balance the demands of touring and family life? MA: Technology is key! Without FaceTime to keep us in the loop over any distance, it would be so much harder. Being able to actually see each other every day, that’s so important. My wife is understanding and supportive; she knows how serious I am about this. She knows this is business, not a vacation, and without her none of this would be possible. I’m a very fortunate man. SD: What kind of music do you listen to when you’re relaxing on the road? MA: I typically don’t. Like, at all. The thing is, there’s really no downtime in my creative process. I am always working, always writing. So I’m wary of being influenced, you know? Ideally, I want to make music in the vacuum. So when I’m listening to music, I’m listening to beats for the next album. I’m always working on songs. SD: How do you actually write these days? Are you still putting pen to paper? MA: I’ve been typing lyrics since 2004. The last time I made an album on paper was Long Hot Summer [in

2004]. After that I got my first BlackBerry, so I started just storing my rhymes there. Unfortunately, when I switched over to iPhone, I lost a ton of lyrics! That hurt. I still have my rhyme books from the SlaughtaHouse era [1993], and I reread them once in a while. It’s like a map of where your brain was at. You can look back at your edits, find ideas you abandoned, laugh at something corny you crossed out. Technology is convenient, but it can never be the same as that.

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asta Ace has performed hip-hop since 1988 and has been widely considered one of the best at it throughout the genre’s evolution. But he doesn’t rest on any laurels; Masta Ace continues to tour relentlessly, from campus bars in the Midwest to sold-out festivals in Germany and Japan. (Like many rap artists, he fares better overseas.) Though he often performs with his equally tireless group eMC, Masta Ace will appear for a special solo set at the Higher Ground Showcase Lounge in South Burlington this Thursday, February 5. He took the time to talk shop with Seven Days about staying independent, life on the road and the next generation of hip-hop.

SD: Do you still feel ambitious, like you have things to prove on a record? MA: Definitely. I definitely do. And I’ll tell you why: because there are always naysayers, and they never go away. They don’t realize they fuel me, though. It does feel, especially in some of the big-city markets, like if you’re not in paid rotation on commercial radio, you don’t exist. I’ve been in this game for so long, and I’ll still have people come up to me and ask me, “Where have you been?” or “What are you up to?” And I realize they haven’t heard anything I’ve done since 2004! So to have people critique me when they’re so oblivious to what I’ve been doing, I mean, it amazes me, but that’s also motivation. So I’m grateful for it. That’s the only way to take it.

American shows are less well attended. I don’t want to sound ungrateful, but turnout is just less than it could be. Maybe that’s bad promotion, though.

SD: Very few rap artists can pull off album skits. You’re in a league with the Wu-Tang Clan and Ice Cube. What is the secret sauce that everyone else is missing? MA: I would say you have to make it sound like everything is really happening. The listeners, they know when something sounds fake. They can’t put it into words and explain it, but they know. It takes so many details: the ambient sounds, movement cues, how the levels move. You have to spend a lot of time to make it come to life! I call it “the headphone test.” You’re trying to entertain someone riding the train, bumping your album. I always think about them when I’m mixing a skit.

SD: What new, young rap artists are you digging lately? MA: Well, I do get exposed to new stuff and I do really like some of it. I really liked Pac Div. They were a West Coast group that never really got their due. I dig Joey Bada$$. J. Cole, he’s cool. Who is the big dude with the beard?

SD: Here in Burlington, we’ve seen a lot of legendary hip-hop acts come through in the past two years. Do you think the market for underground rap has been expanding again in America recently? MA: That’s a good question. I want to say no, based on our experience, but I also want to believe it! Stacking up our shows in the United States versus the EU,

SD: You’ve got one of the widest frames of reference in hip-hop. Who are some of the authors and artists who really influenced you early on? MA: Really, when I was first trying to write and find my voice, I think the Gil Scott-Heron in my mom’s record collection was huge. He was doing poetry over jazz music. After that, it went from other rappers in my neighborhood to just everyone, and I mean everyone. I would soak it up, listening for patterns, listening for new rhyme schemes. I knew, early on, that I didn’t want to sound like anyone else in particular, so the best way to avoid that was just listening to everyone.

SD: Almost definitely Action Bronson. MA: Yeah, he’s cool. Great lyrics, great personality. I feel like Jay Electronica was going to take the game by storm, but he should be on album No. 2 by now. I’m also feeling Your Old Droog, he’s a Ukrainian from Brighton Beach. I’m actually going to be doing a song with him. There’s so much going on right now — it’s an inspiration. I’m not worried about the future.

INFO Masta Ace, Thursday, February 5, 9 p.m., at Higher Ground Showcase Lounge in South Burlington, with Lynguistic Civilians, Maiden Voyage, Granite State and Self Portrait. $10-15. highergroundmusic.com

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member of Paper Castles (who isn’t Paddy Reagan) stepping in as the band’s front man. This week it’s Mangan. Looking ahead, the February 15 edition will feature LOWELL THOMPSON, QUIET LION’s ALANNA GRACE FLYNN and Paper Castles’ JAKE BRENNAN — the last also of VIOLET ULTRAVIOLETTE. The standup set will be from JOSH STAR. On February 22, standup Annie Russell will lead things off, followed by Wren Kitz of WREN AND MARY and PC, POURS’ BRYAN PARMELEE and ALEXANDRIA HALL, aka TOOTH ACHE.

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While we’re on the subject of creative band descriptions, take a minute to read the cheeky band bio for RUBBLEBUCKET, written by lead singer KALMIA TRAVER’s younger sister, MOLLIE TRAVER. You can check it out on Higher Ground’s website for the band’s Ballroom show with local indie-pop upstarts MADAILA this Friday, February 6. I’ll wait… Really entertaining, right? Normally, I’d never subject you to the self-

aggrandizing tripe that passes for 95 percent of rock-and-roll bios — part of my job is to shield you from that stuff. But there’s something genuinely endearing about the younger Traver’s telling of the Rubblebucket story, written from the eyes of an adoring kid sister, that makes their transformation from local Afrobeat outfit to worldconquering art-rock stars worth revisiting. Mollie Traver’s story is also loaded with nifty little details that few others would likely know. For example, were you aware that when the band was based in Boston shortly after forming a few years back, Kal worked as a nude art-class model, while trumpeter and bandleader ALEX TOTH was “hustling marching-band gigs for $50 a pop?” Me neither. Also entertaining is her clever use of quotes about the band, both from national press and sources closer to home. She follows up Rolling Stone’s description of the band as “an indie rock MIAMI SOUND MACHINE” with an astute observation from Rubblebucket guitarist IAN HERSEY. “Our music is like being at a raging party,” he says. “But in the center of it, there’s this beautiful painting that you’re staring at, trying to wrap your head around.”

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burlington

OLIVE RIDLEY'S: So You Want to Be a DJ?, 10 p.m., free.

JP'S PUB: Pub Quiz with Dave, 7 p.m., free. Karaoke with Melody, 10 p.m., free.

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LEUNIG'S BISTRO & CAFÉ: Paul Asbell Trio (jazz), 7 p.m., free. LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Dwight Richter (blues), 7 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. Kalob Griffin Band (roots, rock), 9:30 p.m., $5/10. 18+. RADIO BEAN COFFEEHOUSE: Ensemble V (jazz), 7 p.m., free. Irish Sessions, 9 p.m., free. RED SQUARE: DJ Jack Bandit (hip-hop), 11 p.m., free. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Josh Panda's Acoustic Soul Night, 8 p.m., $5-10 donation.

chittenden county HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Paper Diamond, Antiserum, Lindsay Lowend (electronic), 8:30 p.m., $20/25. AA. THE MONKEY HOUSE: Ringworm, Iron Sword, Lord Silky (hardcore metal), 8:30 p.m., $10/15. 18+. ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Chad Hollister (folk rock), 7 p.m., free.

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BAGITOS BAGEL & BURRITO CAFÉ: Karl Miller (solo guitar), 6 p.m., donation. 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. Open Bluegrass Jam, 7 p.m., free.

stowe/smuggs area 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.

middlebury area

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

northeast kingdom THE PARKER PIE CO.: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

THE STAGE: Open Mic, 6 p.m., free.

burlington

MOOG'S PLACE: Open Mic, 8 p.m., free. RUSTY NAIL: Aprés Ski: Clay Canfield (rock), 4 p.m., free.

middlebury area

CITY LIMITS: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

rutland area

It Is Written According to legend,

RUSTY BELLE’s

new album, Common

Courtesy, was recorded in seven days, under a full moon and during a hurricane. Thus it fulfills an ancient prophecy that an impossibly eclectic band from western Massachusetts shall one day deliver the world from boring music. OK, we made up the prophecy thing. But that record really is something, fusing more influences than we can count into a singular, delightfully twisted vision of American music.

BENTO: Classics Vinyl Clash (eclectic), 10 p.m., free.

PICKLE BARREL NIGHTCLUB: Live at the Fillmore (rock), 9 p.m., NA.

FINNIGAN'S PUB: Craig Mitchell (funk), 10 p.m., free.

outside vermont

at Parker Pie Co. in Glover this Saturday, February 7.

FRANNY O'S: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free.

MONOPOLE: Soul Junction (soul), 10 p.m., free.

HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: Half & Half Comedy (standup), 8 p.m., free.

OLIVE RIDLEY'S: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Jennifer "Oh Lord" & the Riders of the Apocalypse (chanteuse), 8 p.m., free.

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MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Tar Iguana (rock), 9 p.m., free.

BENTO: Open Improvisation Jam, 10 p.m., free.

NECTAR'S: Trivia Mania, 7 p.m., free. Bluegrass Thursday: the Tenderbellies, 9:30 p.m., $2/5. 18+. PIZZA BARRIO: Marcie Hernandez (singer-songwriter), 6 p.m., free. RADIO BEAN COFFEEHOUSE: Jazz Sessions with Julian Chobot, 6:30 p.m., free. Shane Hardiman Trio (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free. Kat Wright & the Indomitable Soul Band (soul), 11:30 p.m., $5. RED SQUARE: Bob Levinson Trio (blues), 6 p.m., free. D Jay Baron (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free. RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB & WHISKEY ROOM: Mashtodon (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Bad Accent (world, folk rock), 8 p.m., $5-10 donation.

chittenden county HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Joe Russo's Almost Dead (Grateful Dead tribute), 9 p.m., $27/30. 18+.

HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Masta Ace, the Lynguistic Civilians, Maiden Voyage, Granite State, Self Portrait (hip-hop), 9 p.m., $10/15. AA. THE MONKEY HOUSE: Cole Davidson (singer-songwriter), 8:30 p.m., $3.

burlington

CLUB METRONOME: Back to the Future Friday (’90s/2000s dance party), 9 p.m., $5. FINNIGAN'S PUB: DJ Jon Demus (reggae), 10 p.m., free. FRANNY O'S: Fast Eddie & the All Stars (rock), 9 p.m., free. LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Franky Andreas (acoustic), 8 p.m., free. MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: The Reverend Ben Donovan & the Congregation (country), 9 p.m., free. NECTAR'S: Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., free. The Hornitz, Doctor Rick (funk, jam), 9 p.m., $5. RADIO BEAN COFFEEHOUSE: Friday Morning Sing-Along with Linda Bassick & Friends (kids music), 11 a.m., free. Shay Gestal (singer-songwriter), 5:30 p.m., free. RC Evan Alsop (indie folk), 7 p.m., free. Greg Alexander (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., free. Bear Connelly aka Talking About Commas (singer-songwriter), 9 p.m., free. Bent Knee (art rock), 10:30 p.m., free. BRaiNSCaPeS (brain-prov), midnight, free. RED SQUARE: Ellen Powell (jazz), 4 p.m., free. Grundlefunk (funk), 7 p.m., $5. DJ Craig Mitchell (house), 11 p.m., $5. RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ Con Yay (EDM), 9 p.m., $5.

ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Nobby Reed Project (blues), 7 p.m., free.

RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB & WHISKEY ROOM: Supersounds DJ (top 40), 10 p.m., free.

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

RUBEN JAMES: DJ Cre8 (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

VENUE NIGHTCLUB: 50 Shades of Men: Chppendales Party (exotic dancers), 7:30 p.m., $12.50/16.50.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Rusty Belle (Americana), 8 p.m., $5.

barre/montpelier

SWEET MELISSA'S: Dave Keller (blues, soul), 8 p.m., free. WHAMMY BAR: Poetry Slam with Geoff Hewitt, 7 p.m., free.

stowe/smuggs area THE BEE'S KNEES: Allen Church (folk), 7:30 p.m., donation.

Catch Rusty Belle at the Skinny Pancake in Burlington this Friday, February 6, and

ZEN LOUNGE: Salsa Night with Jah Red, 8 p.m., $5. D Jay Baron (hip-hop), 10 p.m., $5.

chittenden county

BACKSTAGE PUB: Acoustic Happy Hour, 5 p.m., free. Natural Selection (rock), 9 p.m., free. HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Rubblebucket, Madaila (art rock), 8:30 p.m., $15/17. AA.

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SEVEN DAYS

MONOPOLE: Open Mic, 10 p.m., free.

HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: Wildlife Wednesday (trap, house), 9:30 p.m.

JUNIPER: Eight 02 (jazz), 8 p.m., free.

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HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: First Friday: #FlashbackFriday (dance party), 9 p.m., $5/10. 18+. JAMES MOORE TAVERN: Bandanna (rock), 8 p.m., free. THE MONKEY HOUSE: Phil Yates & the Affiliates, Eliza, Near North (rock), 9 p.m., $3/8. 18+. ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Leno, Young & Cheney (acoustic rock), 5 p.m., free. Phil Abair (rock), 9 p.m., free. SCAN

ESPRESSO BUENO: Late Night Comedy with Steven Briggs (standup comedy), 10 p.m., $5.

Mean Sound Machine (funk, jazz), 9 p.m., $8.

middlebury area

NUTTY STEPH'S: Latin Friday with Rauli Fernandez & Friends, 7 p.m., free.

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

SWEET MELISSA'S: Honky Tonk Happy Hour with Mark LeGrand, 5 p.m., free. Live Music, 9 p.m., free. WHAMMY BAR: Bob Dylan Wannabe Winners Show, 7:30 p.m.,PAGE free. THIS

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CAPITOL GROUNDS CAFÉ: Cooie DeFrancesco & Keith Williams (blues, folk), 6 p.m., free. CHARLIE-O'S WORLD FAMOUS: Abby Jenne (rock), 7 p.m., free. Starline Rhythm Boys (rockabilly), 10 p.m., free.

MATTERHORN: Radio Flyer (rock, blues), 9 p.m., free. MOOG'S PLACE: Abby Sherman (singer-songwriter), 6 p.m., free. Agents of Doubt (rock), 9 p.m., free.

outside vermont

MONOPOLE: Mister F (rock), 10 p.m., free. MONOPOLE DOWNSTAIRS: Happy Hour Tunes & Trivia with Gary Peacock, 5 p.m., free.

RIMROCK'S MOUNTAIN TAVERN: DJ Rekkon #FridayNightFrequencies (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free. RUSTY NAIL: Aprés Ski: Paul Asbell (jazz), 4 p.m., free. Big

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REVIEW this Red Clover & the Hermit Thrush, We Get By (MONKEY LUCK RECORDS, DIGITAL DOWNLOAD)

In August 2014, Burlington’s Red Clover & the Hermit Thrush released their debut self-titled album, a lo-fi assemblage of bluegrass songs studded with punk attitude. Given the band’s lineage, that fusion makes sense. With the exception of banjo player Chris True, the members of Red Clover were each in Y69, a local punk band that formed 13 years ago. You can hear that familiarity in the song structure and urgency of Red Clover’s latest record,

We Get By. A seamless continuation of their first release, the album is a fresh collection of seven So-Cal-flavored punk songs veiled in a bluegrass mask. As on the band’s first record, the songs here are threaded together by themes of alcohol, women and tired hearts. They bristle with intensity beneath the lo-fi hum of tape hiss. “Ms. Fiona Lost Her Spot” opens We Get By with an extended, bouncy intro punctuated with punk, anthem-style yelling. The song builds a foundation for the remaining six songs — albeit a ramshackle one perhaps crafted with plywood and bent nails. Vocalist and upright bassist Chris Gibbo sets a familiar scene on “Get Some More,” surveying the end of the party when everything has been guzzled, including the cheap wine. “The beer is gone and the wine is, too,” he sings. But the song is actually a tale of lost love and the hope she’ll “come on back and get some more.” As a bassist, Gibbo plays with conviction, holding fast to drummer Greg Dusablon’s consistent beats. For example, the title track begins with the thud of Dusablon’s barely distinguishable kick drum. Locked in on the low end, Gibbo unleashes vocal fire, singing, “I

try to tell my poor heart it needs a little Chris Smither rest.” Here and throughout the record, returning for his Glenn Woytowich’s electric guitar saws a 18th year! rougher edge than on the band’s previous AFTER DARK release. MUSIC SERIES “It’s Too Cold” begins with a vocal Saturday, intro that pauses in the Operation Ivy Feb. 28, 2015 fashion. When the band jumps in, Gibbo 7:00 p.m. gripes about the cold realities of lonely $27 adv/$30 door Vermont nights. “It’s too cold for walkin’, come lay by my side,” he sings. Laced deep, emotionwith vocal howls and a general boozy charged voice and his wobbliness, it’s an album highlight. exquisite guitar On “Trying to Catch My Fill,” Gibbo Tickets at Main Street Stationery and by mail. explains certain coping mechanisms. After Dark Music Series “Cocaine, booze and pills, ever since you P.O. Box 684, Middlebury, VT 05753 left me, I’ve been trying to catch my fill,” (802) 388-0216 he sings. Though barely more than 90 e-mail: aftdark@sover.net seconds long, the song’s sing-along hooks www.afterdarkmusicseries.com and disheveled energy exemplify Red Middlebury’s Town Hall Theater Clover’s appeal in all their ragged glory. “Sweet Sweet Mud” concludes We Get By on a slower turn. True’s banjo picking is particularly notable here, adding a 7 days Smither 12.14.indd 11 12v-afterdark012114.indd 12/11/14 1/15/15 2:34 3:30 PM classic, down-home feel as Gibbo’s raspy voice winds down, closing the record on a surprisingly sweet — if dirty — note. www.PickleBarrelNightclub.com We Get By by Red Clover & the Hermit Thrush is available at redcloverandthehermitthrush.bandcamp. com.

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about driving and thinking about love on the brink of tragedy. “When Autumn Falls” and “Time to Find Yourself” are somewhat successful acoustic crooners built on hushed, cramped vocals. But the monotonous guitar and bass lines remove the emotional immediacy of Brady’s relationship-driven lyrics, rendering the YOUR would-be love songs simply generic. The SCAN THIS PAGE TEXT WITH LAYAR EP wraps up with “Lilies Fade,” a kiss-off HERE that almost convinces us the guy has given SEE PAGE 9 up the girl for good. There’s nothing wrong with a band expressing emotion, and lots of it. Indeed, music can become regrettably lackluster without some kind of human sentiment behind it. But the temptation to navelgaze at the expense of other elements of songcraft can produce an emotionally oversaturated record with disparate parts. Brady has some vocal talent, and if Rotella and Watson diversify the instrumentation, Hold Me Back could rework some of their weaker elements and likely make a stronger second showing. Hold Me Back’s debut EP Follow Through is available at holdmeback. FREE SHUTTLE SERVICE: bandcamp.com/album/follow-through.

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Emo-alternative-punk music has certainly fallen from its mid-2000s commercial stardom, but there are still pockets of sensitive rockers moping in café corners. One such group is new Burlingtonbased trio Hold Me Back, with Ed Brady contributing lead guitars and vocals, Brian Rotella providing bass and additional guitar, and Landry Watson hitting the drums. These guys fall more on the emo end of the spectrum than alt-punk (think Secondhand Serenade, not My Chemical Romance). Accordingly, the band’s seventrack debut EP Follow Through is not short on emotion. Unfortunately, its overabundance of feelings is often washed out in a sea of bland, repetitive chords. And, while Brady possesses the pretty, slightly whiny pitch needed to be convincingly emo, the lyrics do not always fit the angsty bill. Take the opener, “Mary-Jane.” It’s a confusing confessional that could be about a girl who happens to be named Mary-Jane … or a puffable plant by the

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often — and aptly — referred to as “jazz on dub.” As her heralded 2013 debut New Name reveals, the young singer applies a jazz vocalist’s sense of melody and soul to a strong roots-reggae foundation and a poet’s eye for lyrical detail. Put it all together and you have one of the brightest young roots-reggae stars in recent times. Jah9 appears at the

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BENTO: Selah Sounds, 10 p.m., free. CLUB METRONOME: Retronome with DJ Fattie B (’80s dance party), 9 p.m., free/$5.

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FRANNY O'S: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free. JP'S PUB: Karaoke with megan, 10 p.m., free. LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Rocket Erotic (pop-up shop), 1 p.m., free. Nadir Jazz trio, 9:30 p.m., free. DARK SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN NECTAR’S PRESENTS

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MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Jive Farmer (rock), 9 p.m., free. NECTAR'S: The DuPont Brothers (indie folk), 7 p.m., free. Seth Yacovone Band, mister F (blues), 9 p.m., $5. PIZZA BARRIO: Audrey Houle (singer-songwriter), 6 p.m., free. RADIO BEAN COFFEEHOUSE: Acoustic Brunch, noon, free. Less Digital more manual: Record club with Disco Phantom, 3 p.m., free. maryse Smith (indie folk), 7 p.m., free. John Dodson (folk), 8 p.m., free. mikey Sweet (folk), 9 p.m., free. Questionable company (folk funk), 10:30 p.m., free. Eames Brothers Band (mountain blues), midnight, free. RED SQUARE: The Grape and the Grain (rock), 7 p.m., $5. mashtodon (hip-hop), 11 p.m., $5. RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ Raul (salsa), 6 p.m., free. DJ Reign one (EDm), 11 p.m., $5.

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RUBEN JAMES: craig mitchell (house), 10 p.m., free. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Thunder Kittens (rock), 8 p.m., $5-10 donation.

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BACKSTAGE PUB: Remedy (rock), 7 p.m., free. HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Josh Radin, Rachel Yamagata, cary Brothers (singer-songwriters), 8 p.m., $20/22. AA. JAMES MOORE TAVERN: The Woedoggies (blues), 8 p.m., free. THE MONKEY HOUSE: Thunderbolt Research (rock), 9 p.m., $5/10. 18+. ON TAP BAR & GRILL: contois School of music Band (rock), 5 p.m., free. Sticks & Stones (rock), 9 p.m., free. VENUE NIGHTCLUB: Saturday Night mixdown with DJ Dakota & Jon Demus, 10 p.m., $5. 18+.

barre/montpelier

BAGITOS BAGEL & BURRITO CAFÉ: Irish Session, 2 p.m., donation. Isaiah mayhew (folk), 6 p.m., donation. CHARLIE-O'S WORLD FAMOUS: cygne (rock), 7 p.m., free. Vermont Brigade (rock), 10 p.m., free. SWEET MELISSA'S: Soul creek (soul), 8 p.m., free. WHAMMY BAR: Parts Unknown (jazz), 7:30 p.m., free.

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SCAN THIS PAGE THE MONKEY HOUSE: WW Presents: “Are You Now WITHorLAYAR Have You Ever Been?” (indie rock), 8 p.m., $2. SEE PENALTY PAGE 5 BOX: trivia With a twist, 4 p.m., free.

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BAGITOS BAGEL & BURRITO CAFÉ: Eric Friedman (folk), 11 a.m., free.

stowe/smuggs area

THE BEE'S KNEES: Howard Ring Guitar Brunch, 11 a.m., donation. MOOG'S PLACE: comedy Night: Steven Briggs, Regi B., Richard Bowen & more (standup comedy), 8 p.m., $5.

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THE BEE'S KNEES: clare Byrne (folk), 11 a.m., donation. Art Herttua & Stephen morabito (jazz), 7:30 p.m., donation. MATTERHORN: main Street Syndicate (rock), 9 p.m., $5. MOOG'S PLACE: Smokin' Js (rock), 9 p.m., free. RUSTY NAIL: midnite, Jah9, Jahson, Sata Sound (reggae), 9 p.m., $25/30. 18+.

THE RESERVOIR RESTAURANT & TAP ROOM: Live music, 10 p.m., free.

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burlington

CLUB METRONOME: metal monday: Without a martyr, Foaming at the mouth, No Son of mine, 9 p.m., $3/5. 18+. FRANNY O'S: Standup comedy cage match, 8 p.m., free. HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: Family Night (rock), 10:30 p.m., free. JP'S PUB: Dance Video Request Night with melody, 10 p.m., free. JUNIPER: trivia Night, 7 p.m., free. LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Live music, 8 p.m., free. NECTAR'S: Live music, 9 p.m., free/$5. 18+.

middlebury area

RADIO BEAN COFFEEHOUSE: Ver Sacrum (avant singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., free. Hannah Fair (folk), 8:30 p.m., free. Latin Sessions with mal maiz (cumbia), 10 p.m., free.

TWO BROTHERS TAVERN LOUNGE & STAGE: Hot Neon magic (’80s new wave), 9 p.m., $3.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Kidz music with Raphael, 11:30 a.m., $3 donation. The Burly AmA-Slam (music competition), 8 p.m., $5-10 donation.

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

PICKLE BARREL NIGHTCLUB: Lost in Paris (rock), 9 p.m., free.

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THE PARKER PIE CO.: Rusty Belle (americana), 8-11 p.m., $5.

MONOPOLE: The Bees trees (rock), 10 p.m., free.

THE MONKEY HOUSE: WW Presents: Futurebirds (indie rock), 8:30 p.m., $10. ON TAP BAR & GRILL: open mic with Wylie, 7 p.m., free.

stowe/smuggs area

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

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

CLUB METRONOME: Dead Set with cats Under the Stars (Grateful Dead tribute), 9 p.m., free/$5.

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he title of this exhibition, “Taking Pictures,” has multiple meanings yet remains somewhat misleading. The most common interpretation might be “snapping photographs.” But the BCA Center’s new show is not explicitly about photography, even if it does contain photos — including a slightly disturbing chromogenic print by the celebrated Cindy Sherman. What’s more germane here is “taking” in the sense of appropriating. “Taking Pictures” shows us how that concept emerged in the 1970s, and how prescient it proved to be. The exhibit presents early or contemporary work, or both, by 11 artists from the so-called Pictures Generation. (The name derives from a seminal 1977 exhibit, titled simply “Pictures,” at Artists Space in New York.) One of the artists is University of Vermont associate professor of art Nancy Dwyer, who provides the connection between Burlington in 2015 and New York City in the 1970s and ’80s. That’s when this group of artists began to make an impact on the art scene, and to express itself by both appropriating and commenting on a growing mass-media culture. Significantly, the postwar generation was the first to grow up with television, the first to be visually imprinted en masse with the same entertainment, news and advertising imagery. It may be hard for today’s youth, who have grown up with smartphones and the internet, to grasp how radical that shift in collective consciousness was. In addition, the ’70s brought a period of disillusionment, as the Vietnam War dragged on and the nation reeled from rapid, often violent societal change. It’s no wonder that artists coming of age in the era turned the ’60s mantra “Question Authority” into a practice of questioning everything. Like every generation, this one responded to, reflected and pushed back against the world around it — including the art world. New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, in a 2009 exhibit titled “The Pictures Generation, 1974-1984,” put it like this:

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Educated in the self-reflexive and critical principles of Minimal and Conceptual art, this tightly knit group of artists brought those lessons to bear on a return to recognizable imagery, exploring how images

“Plaster Surrogates” by Allan McCollum

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shape our perceptions of ourselves and the world. The Met’s exhibit, larger than the current one in Burlington, included work by all of those exhibited at BCA: Dwyer and Sherman, Robert Longo, Dara Birnbaum, James Casabere, Laurie Simmons, Louise Lawler, Allan McCollum, Jack Goldstein, Sarah Charlesworth and Gretchen Bender. The last three are now deceased; the rest are still working artists, and all except Dwyer live in New York. In addition to photography, the works in Burlington include film, video, sculpture, lithographs, wallpaper and more. BCA curator DJ Hellerman suggests that “Taking Pictures” allows us to consider the artists’ older work “through the lens

THIS GENERATION OF ARTISTS BEGAN TO EXPRESS ITSELF BY BOTH APPROPRIATING AND COMMENTING ON A GROWING MASS-MEDIA CULTURE. of their more current production.” This is not a didactic show, however; it does not present “then and now” works by every artist for us to compare side by side. Some viewers may wish for such symmetry as an aide in polishing their art-historical lens. Regardless, it’s important to realize that

the living artists in this exhibit continue to make art; the Pictures Generation was not calcified by what we now call a “brand.” Dwyer’s wallpaper and word-shaped mixed-media sculpture (2012) wryly convey this orientation. Employing the phrase “NOT Dead Yet,” writes Hellerman, she poses “a not-so-subtle challenge for us to live forward-looking, engaged lives in spite of possible limitations our pasts can impose upon us.” Dwyer is one of the few artists represented in the show by both newer and older work. The latter is “Cardz” (1980), a series of 26 roughly 6-by-4-inch laminated silkscreens on leatherette paper. To create them, Dwyer appropriated figures from advertising and news images and turned them into line drawings. The resulting minimalist images focus on body language and gestures. By turning them into playing cards, writes Hellerman, Dwyer “humorously hints at the game-like structures of human interaction.” Three pieces by Longo also allow us a look at past, present and the aesthetic trajectory between them. “Mark” and “Gretchen” (1982-83) were originally photographs, which Longo then reproduced as graphite drawings, and then as lithographs. The two figures, from his “Men in the Cities” series, are not meant to be a couple, though they hang side by side at BCA; what links them is their contorted body language. Each is in midreaction to an invisible attack, limbs flailing. Longo enhances the sense of tension by tightly cropping the picture plane. Hellerman asks us in the wall text: “Are there any connections to be made with Longo’s ‘Untitled (Hell’s Gate)’ on view in the west gallery?” The answer is yes, and the connections are explosion and mystery. That 44-by-42inch digital pigment print (2005), created as part of Longo’s “Monsters” series, depicts an enormous ocean wave. Hell’s Gate is a popular surfing location in Australia, but this wave has tsunami strength. The stark black-and-white image captures terrifying force at the edge of release — a power beyond control. Metaphorize that as you will. A pair of matching mixed-media works by Lawler may at first glance look like works by Andy Warhol, or an appropriation thereof. It’s a neat trick that neither assumption is exactly true. Lawler is known for her behind-the-scenes photographs of the “lives” of artworks. In 1988 she shot Warhol’s 1962 painting “Round Marilyn” as it was up for auction at Christie’s — the auction label is attached.

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Lawler places two identical photographs side by side and titles them, respectively, “Does Andy Warhol Make You Cry?” and “Does Marilyn Monroe Make You Cry?” While we’re wondering about our answers to those questions, Hellerman, in wall text, poses further ones about the fetishization of both Warhol and Monroe. Moreover, he asks, “Is it right for a male artist to profit from the sexualization and cachet of a specific female body? And what happens when a female artist continues to profit from this woman’s fame and standing?”

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f Christy Mitchell: “Turn the Tables,” collages employing LP covers and sheet music that explore the artist’s “innate feminine strength” after a series of life-altering events, and depict her journey. Reception: Friday, February 6, 5-9 p.m. February 6-28. Info, 578-2512. The S.P.A.C.E. Gallery in Burlington. f Creative Competition: Come join us at the first Creative Competition of 2015! Artists may submit one piece of work, regardless of size and medium. See details in call to artists section, page 81. Reception: Friday, February 6, 5-9 p.m. February 6-14. The Backspace Gallery in Burlington. f Jennifer Koch, Susan Smereka & Elise Whittemore: “1 x 3,” monoprints by the local artists. Reception: Friday, February 6, 5-9 p.m. Meet the Artist event: Saturday, February 28, 6-8 p.m. February 6-March 24. Info, 735-2542. New City Galerie in Burlington. f Maureen O’Leary: “Honey Lane,” an exhibit of new paintings by the New York artist. Artist talk: Saturday, February 7, 5-6 p.m., followed by reception with live music, 6-8 p.m. February 7-28. Info, oneartscollective@gmail.com. Info, 338-0028. ONE Arts Center in Burlington.

“Does Andy Warhol Make You Cry” by Louise Lawler

f Megan J. Humphrey: “Surrounded by Love,” vintage Valentines collage by the Burlington artist. Reception: Friday, February 6, 5-7 p.m. February 6-28. Info, 355-5418. Vintage Inspired Lifestyle Marketplace in Burlington. f ‘Spatial Intuitions’: Works by Vermont

artists Brooke Monte and Marilyn Maddison and out-of-state artists Kristi Arnold and James Lentz that explore perspective, depth and pattern in several mediums. Artist talk and reception: Thursday, February 12, 5:30-7:30 p.m. February 11-March 13. Info, oneartscollective@gmail.com, 656-4200. L/L Gallery, UVM, in Burlington.

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f Glen Coburn Hutcheson: Artwork by the gallerySIX founder. Reception: Friday, February 6, 4-8 p.m. February 6-March 31. Info, 262-2253. The Skinny Pancake in Montpelier. Jackie Smith: Photographs of flowers, vegetables, fire, water and abandoned objects taken through a heart-shaped lens. February 6-28. Info, 223-2317. The Cheshire Cat in Montpelier.

f Ray Brown: Recent abstract oil paintings

inspired by the Vermont artist’s travels in Florida and Italy. Reception: Friday, February 6, 4-8 p.m. February 6-March 31. Info, 552-8620. gallery SIX in Montpelier.

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two back-to-back solo exhibits in the South End this winter. “A New World,” now at the SEABA Center until February 27, is a series that reflects “the frenetic energy and obsessive work that can follow a period of life trauma,” as the artist writes. Equal energy courses through a second exhibit, titled “In Retreat,” which will be at the Flynndog from March 7 through April 27. Both shows reveal Davis’ deepening explorations of abstraction. Pictured: A piece from “Full Moon Series.”

art events ‘The ROUNDUP Ready Art Parade’: Visit an art space of works dedicated to “genetically modified organisms, their labeling and a broken food system.” Village Square, Waitsfield, through February 14. Info, 518-577-1245. Christo: The internationally known artist gives a talk as part of the Vermont Town Hall speaker series. Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort, Thursday, February 5, 7-9 p.m. $20-100. Info, 760-4634. Essex Art League Meeting: The art organization holds its monthly meeting. First Congregational Church Essex, Essex Junction. Thursday, February 5, 9-11 a.m. Info, essexartleague.com. ‘Reflections’: Montpelier: Photographer John Snell, painter Hope Burgoyne and cellist Melissa Perley present an evening of visual art and music. North Branch Café, Montpelier, Friday, February 6, 4-8 p.m. Free. Info, 229-1751. Art Walk Montpelier: ‘Art and Chocolate’: Local chocolatiers take part in February’s Montpelier Art Walk, offering their goods for sale and as free samples at various venues. Downtown Montpelier, Friday, February 6, 4-8 p.m. Info, 223-9604.

First Friday Art: Dozens of galleries and other venues around the city open their doors to pedestrian art viewers in this monthly event. See Art Map Burlington at participating locations. Friday, February 6, 5-8 p.m. Info, 264-4839.

ONGOING Shows burlington

‘Animal Power’: Paintings of horse-powered transportation and agriculture in Vermont by multiple artists. Through February 28. Info, 652-4500. Amy E. Tarrant Gallery, Flynn Center, in Burlington. Ann Clayton Barlow: “Alternative Landscapes,” photographs by the Vermont artist. Through February 14. Info, 923-3088. Hinge in Burlington. Ann Young: “And They Shall Inherit,” two groups of paintings, subtitled “In a Dangerous Time” and “Microcosm,” express the artist’s views of the “mess” left by previous generations and the joys in the natural world that still exist, respectively. Through February 6. Info, 656-7787. Living/Learning Center, UVM, in Burlington. burlington shows

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“Taking Pictures,” through April 4 at BCA Center in Burlington. Info, 865-7166. burlingtoncityarts.org

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f Student Art Show: An energetic assortment of art by students at Barstow Memorial, Leicester Central, Lothrop Elementary, Neshobe, Proctor Elementary, Sudbury Country, Whiting Elementary and Otter Valley high and middle schools. Reception: Friday, February 6, 5-7 p.m. February 5-March 3. Info, 247-4956. Brandon Artists Guild.

than 225 paintings she created last year at the Vermont Studio Center are on view in

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flowers, fauna, farms, gardens, buds and blossoms from more than 50 artists, Main Gallery. Also, Piper Strong, Middle Room, and the 2014-2015 Legacy Collection, East Gallery. Reception: Sunday, February 8, 2-4 p.m.; artists’ roundtable at 1 p.m. February 6-March 29. Info, 644-5100. Bryan Memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville.

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Lawler would have us consider the essence of reality in her 2011-14 “tracings.” Printed on vinyl that’s adhered directly to the wall, these images reduce some of her own photographs to line drawings empty of nuance. Lawler “questions how far removed from actual experience her work can get while still maintaining the perception of an authentic experience of the artwork,” writes Hellerman. This conceptual rabbit hole might be provocative to some, but the works’ arid aesthetic might not inspire such contemplation. McCollum’s “Plaster Surrogates” (1982) are also reductive, yet oddly humorous. An arrangement of faux artworks pokes at the idea that art is simply something to hang on the wall. McCollum also contrasts reproduction and repetition with originality and individuation. He and assistants first created the standard, molded-plaster pieces and then hand-painted them. The frames are white; the rectangles where the “art” would be are solid black. Beware, “Taking Pictures” presents so many conceptual layers that a viewer may feel as bombarded as a Robert Longo figure. For respite and sheer entertainment, don’t miss the video works in the second-floor gallery. Flash back to “Wonder Woman” (Birnbaum, 1978-79) and forward to grown women wearing Kigurumi masks and dancing to ring tones (Simmons, 2014). For realz.

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f Art’s Alive 2nd Annual Open Photography Exhibition: Thirty-six Vermont photographers who answered an open call to artists show more than 100 photographs. Reception: Friday, February 6, 5-8 p.m. Through March 29. Info, 660-9005. Art’s Alive Gallery in Burlington. ‘Civil War Objects From the UVM Collections’: Heirloom items donated to the museum from America’s Civil War period include correspondence and ephemera, quilts, medical items, fine and decorative art, and more. Wilbur Room. Through May 17. f ‘Staring Back: The Creation and Legacy of Picasso’s Demoiselles d’Avignon’: An exhibit that explores the legacy of Picasso’s painting that launched cubism, with a collection of American, African and European contemporary art, as well as new technologies. Reception: Tuesday, February 10, 5:30-7 p.m. Through June 21. f ‘Travelers in Postwar Europe’: Black-and-white photographs of Germany, Paris, London and Venice by Burlington doctor H.A. Durfee Jr. between 1951 and 1953. Reception: Tuesday, February 10, 5:30-7 p.m. Through June 28. Info, 656-8582. Fleming Museum, UVM, in Burlington.

f Howard Center Arts Collective: Vibrant works by local artists who receive and provide services through the Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services Branch of the Howard Center. Reception: Thursday, February 5, 5-8 p.m. Through February 28. Info, 363-4746. Flynndog Gallery in Burlington. Innovation Center Group Show: Works by Ashley Veselis, James Vogler, Jamie Townsend, Kathryn Jarvis, Longina Smolinski, Lori Arner, Robert Green, and Scott Nelson on the first floor; Jean Cherouny, Jeanne Amato, Laurel Waters, Lyna Lou Nordstrom, Michael Pitts and Tom Merwin on the second floor; and Camilla Roberts, Chance McNiff, Janet Bonneau, Krista Cheney, Laura Winn Kane and Wendy James on the third floor. Curated by SEABA. Through February 28. Info, 859-9222. The Innovation Center of Vermont in Burlington.

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James Vogler & Carolyn Crotty: Abstract paintings by Vogler and mixed-media by Crotty. Curated by SEABA. Through February 28. Info, 859-9222. VCAM Studio in Burlington.

f Julie A. Davis: “A New World,” a series of 18 oil paintings that reflect the frenetic energy and obsessive work that sometimes follow a period of trauma, by the Burlington artist. Reception: Friday, February 6, 5-8 p.m. Through February 27. Info, 859-9222. SEABA Center in Burlington. f Katlin Parenteau: “Rouge Authenticity,” acrylic paintings by the Vermont artist inspired by the subconscious. Reception: Friday, February 6, 5-8 p.m. Through February 28. Info, 318-2438. Red Square in Burlington. Leah Van Rees: Paintings inspired by the natural world. Curated by Burlington City Arts. Through February 28. Info, 865-7166. Courtyard Marriott Burlington Harbor. Linda Smith: Storybook-style paintings by the former elementary-school teacher. Curated by SEABA. Through February 28. Info, 859-9222. Speeder & Earl’s: Pine Street in Burlington. Lynne Reed: “EdgeWalker Paintings,” an exhibit of Japanese Enso-inspired paintings by the Burlington artist. Through March 6. Info, 233-6811. Revolution Kitchen in Burlington. Maltex Group Show: Art by Steve Diffenderfer, Nissa Kauppila, Carol Boucher, John Snell, Tracy Vartenigian Burhans, Krista Cheney, Amy Hannum and Kimberly Bombard. Curated by Burlington City Arts. Through April 30. Info, 865-7166. The Maltex Building in Burlington. Nancy H. Taplin & Ethan Bond-Watts: “In Motion,” abstract paintings by Taplin and glass sculptures by Bond-Watts that capture the “kinetic energy of color and light.” Through March 7. Info, 865-5355. Vermont Metro Gallery, BCA Center, in Burlington.

Nancy Tomczak: Watercolor paintings of birds and watercolor collages in the dining room. Through February 28. Info, 862-9647. The Daily Planet in Burlington.

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f ‘Our Favorite Things’: Plein-air watercolor paintings by friends Sally Hughes and Carol Shallow. Reception: Friday, February 6, 5-8 p.m. Through March 29. Info, 660-9005. The Gallery at Main Street Landing in Burlington.

representational landscapes, akin to those created by the gallery’s namesake. This

Sally Linder: “Within the Circle,” paintings created from the Burlington artist’s experiences in Greenland, Svalbard, Iceland and Nunavut, Canada. Open weekdays by appointment. Through March 16. Info, 860-2733. Freeman Hall Conference Room, Champlain College, in Burlington.

of the “selfie” generation learned, from teacher Cyndi Listenik, to use 35mm cameras

‘SEABA Folio 2003 Project’: Original prints by 22 of Vermont’s finest artists. Through February 28. Info, 859-9222. The Pine Street Deli in Burlington.

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f Shelburne Craft School Exhibit: “Craftification 2,” featuring works by craft school instructors. Reception: Friday, February 6, 5-8 p.m. Through February 28. Info, 863-6458. Frog Hollow Vermont State Craft Center in Burlington. Susan Norton: “We Are Love, Eternal,” works in paper and fabric. Through February 6. Info, 860-9463. Drink in Burlington. ‘Taking Pictures’: An exhibit of works past and present from artists in the Pictures Generation of the 1970s that explores appropriation and the influence of mass media. Through April 4. Info, 865-5355. BCA Center in Burlington. Tom Waters: Acrylic paintings inspired by the beauty of Vermont, by the Essex artist. Through March 28. Info, 658-6400. American Red Cross Blood Donor Center in Burlington.

month, a different kind of show pays homage to a fine-art medium: It features black-andwhite photographs by Mount Mansfield Union High School students. These members and traditional darkroom techniques to produce portraits, landscapes and other images. “It is like learning something new that is older than some of their grandparents and parents,” Listenik writes. Through March 1. The pictured photograph is by student

UVM Medical Center Group Show: Art by Michael Sipe, Cameron Schmitz, David Griggs, Michael Farnsworth, Phil Laughlin and Jane Ann Kantor. Curated by Burlington City Arts. Through April 30. Info, 865-7166. UVM Medical Center in Burlington. Vermont Artisans: Frame shop owners Alex and Jeremy Dostie have been collecting artwork since opening in 2011. A selection of those pieces is on view, featuring some 20 Vermont artists. Through March 30. Info, 660-9005. Dostie Bros. Frame Shop in Burlington.

f Winnie Looby: Art created on an iPad

during sleepless nights by the Burlington artist. Reception: Friday, February 6, 5-7 p.m. Through February 28. Info, 863-6713. North End Studio A in Burlington.

Zoe Bishop & Adam Forguites: New works in oil by the local artists. Through March 29. Info, 861-2067. Nunyuns Bakery & Café in Burlington.

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f ‘Chronograph: A Photo Exhibition’: A group show with images that represent the facets and dichotomies of time. Juried by Johan HallbergCampbell. Closing reception: Sunday, February 22, 4:30-6:30 p.m. Through February 22. Info, 777-3686. Darkroom Gallery in Essex Junction. f Keith Tatarczuk: Drawings in graphite and charcoal, watercolors and mixed-media works by the local artist. Reception: Friday, February 6, 5-7 p.m. Through March 31. Info, 658-2739. Magic Hat Artifactory in S. Burlington. Michelle Ennis Jackson: Watercolor paintings of nature and the changing seasons by the Essex Junction artist. Through February 28. Info, 985-8222. Shelburne Vineyard.

call to artists cityWide Fair Housing Project call to artists: oNe Arts is calling for artists to show work and venues to host shows and events for a fair housing creative initiative. It will focus on the theme of home and inclusive communities and take place throughout and beyond Burlington. we’re seeking diverse perspectives on community and personal reflections on home to suggest panels, events or classes. Info: oneartscollective@gmail. com. Deadline: march 1. oNe Arts Center, Burlington. 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.

exPosed 2015: annual outdoor sculPture sHoW: helen Day Art Center is accepting submissions for its 24th annual outdoor sculpture exhibition from artists working in sculpture, public art, participatory and social practice. The exhibition is July 11 to october 14. Jurors are Lucas Cowen, curator at Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy greenway Conservancy, and sarah mcCutcheon greiche, public art consultant and curator. Deadline: February 28. more info at helenday.com. helen Day Art Center, stowe, Info, 253-8358. ‘love letters’: The Children’s early Learning space seeks love letters to include on an installation wall. submit a copy of an actual love letter from your personal or family collection, a copy of a literary favorite, or write one yourself. The installation will be part of a February 14 fundraiser. send submissions to 397 main street, ste. 5, waterbury, VT 05676; via email to tcelsadmin1@comcast.net; or via fax to 882-8371. Deadline: February 12. North Branch Nature Center, montpelier, Info, 882-8371. sacred or FaitH-insPired artWork: seeking artwork in any medium or mixed media, including fiber, paint, drawing, sculpture, pottery,

student darkroom PHotograPHy sHoW: photographs by mount mansfield union high school students. Through march 1. Info, 899-3211. emile A. gruppe gallery in Jericho.

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‘still liFe/liFe still’: Darkroom gallery calls for photographs that contextually explore purposefully arranged “still life” images or “life stills” captured on the fly. $24 for four submissions, $5 each additional image. Info, info@darkroomgallery. com. Deadline: February 18. Darkroom gallery, essex Junction. Info, 777-3686.

august Burns: “The eyes have It: portraits and Figures,” an expressive collection of paintings and drawings of men and women by the accomplished portraitist. Through march 31. Info, 828-3131. Vermont supreme Court Lobby in montpelier. daniel BarloW & scott Baer: “green mountain graveyards,” a photography exhibit that explores the evolution of historic gravestones and funerary art in Vermont. Through April 1. Info, 479-8519. Vermont history museum in montpelier. ken leslie: “Top of the world,” paintings and artist books about the Arctic. Through February 13. Info, 371-4375. Central Vermont medical Center in Barre. micHael t. jermyn: “New American Impressionism,” images by the montpelier photographer. Through February 15. Info, 223-1570. Chill gelato in montpelier. nick neddo: “Digging for Roots,” wild-crafted drawings by the montpelier artist, who creates his own mediums with foraged berries, mud and sticks. Through February 28. Info, 828-3291. spotlight gallery in montpelier. nikki eddy: “You and the Night,” abstract acrylic paintings by the Vermont artist. Through February 28. Info, 479-0896. espresso Bueno in Barre. nina and craig line: The father and daughter photographers exhibit images of the Kent museum as well as landscapes and portraits from Vermont and across the u.s., south America, the former soviet union, europe and Nepal. Through march 31. Info, 223-2518. montpelier senior Activity Center.

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alexis kyriak: paintings by the local artist. Through February 17. Info, 635-7423. The Lovin’ Cup in Johnson.

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‘art oF Place’: A group exhibit of works inspired by the artists’ interactions with the spaces they inhabit. Through march 8. joHn snell: “This Is why I Live here,” photographs of central Vermont by the montpelier artist. Lower gallery. Through march 7. Info, 728-6464. Chandler gallery in Randolph.

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f ‘amoré’: more than 20 local artists interpret themes of love and passion with paintings, sculptures, prints and assemblages. main Floor gallery. Love and Art special event: Chocolate, art and music from DJ Fred wilber benefit spA programs. Thursday, February 12, 7-8:30 p.m. $15-25. ann young: “Autumn pond Abstract,” paintings. cecelia kane: “how Am I Feeling Today?” portraits of vintage hankies. second Floor gallery. Through February 21. Info, 479-7069. studio place Arts in Barre.

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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.

sock monkeys: Artists of all ages are invited to create sock monkeys or sock creations for a benefit art show opening on sunday, march 1, 3-5 p.m. The opening event will be playful and family friendly, with all proceeds going to a scholarship fund to make the oNe Arts Center’s programs more accessible to low-income families. we’re also looking for musicians willing to play during the event. oNe Arts Center, Burlington. Info, 206-718-8561, margot.reilly@gmail.com.

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‘natural Beauties: jeWelry From art nouveau to noW’: Nearly 300 works from the likes of Tiffany & Co., harry winston, Cartier and others illustrate the fascination with nature, and our evolving relationship to it, in jewelry design. Through march 8. natHan Benn: “Kodachrome memory: American pictures 1972-1990,” featuring evocative color images by the acclaimed National geographic photographer. Through may 25. Info, 985-3346. pizzagalli Center for Art and education, shelburne museum.

photography, or other 2D or 3D for exhibit during the 2015 Vermont Festival of Arts. up to 20 works can be accommodated. submit resume, artist statement and sample images to karen@vermontartfest. com, or email for more info. Deadline: February 20. waitsfield united Church of Christ. Info, 496-6682.

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‘Fibrations!’: Fiber creations by more than a dozen renowned New England artists. Through March 30. Info, 885-3061. The Great Hall in Springfield.

f ‘Endless Beginnings: Nonrepresentational Art Today’: Paintings and sculptures by 12 regional artists. Through April 19. f ‘Menagerie: Animals in Art’: Paintings and sculptures by 11 artists depict an array of domestic and wild creatures. Reception: Saturday, February 28, 6-8:30 p.m. Through March 29. Info, 253-8943. West Branch Gallery & Sculpture Park in Stowe.

Jeanette Fournier: Watercolor paintings inspired by wildlife and nature. Through March 31. Info, 359-5001. VINS Nature Center in Hartford. Liz Guth & Gisèle McHarg: Hooked rugs by the local artists. Through March 15. Info, 889-9404. Tunbridge Public Library. Tom Schulten: Vivid works by the renowned Dutch painter of consensusism. Through December 31. Info, 457-7199. Artemis Global Art in Woodstock.

Judith Wrend & Paul Gruhler: “Harmonics,” painted-aluminum sculptures and minimalist paintings, respectively. Through February 14. Info, 635-1469. Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Johnson State College.

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f James Frase-White: “Flights of Fancy,” stained glass and paper art inspired by nature and fantasy. Reception and artist talk: Saturday, February 7, 3-5 p.m. Through February 28. Info, 748-0158. Northeast Kingdom Artisans Guild Backroom Gallery in St. Johnsbury.

‘Through Our Lens’: Photographs by young adults participating in the Big Picture Project. Maria Anghelache: “Tropical Abstract/ Abstractions,” colorful paintings by the Romanianborn Vermont artist. Through March 2. Info, 888-1261. River Arts in Morrisville.

Kent Shaw: Photographs of the northern Vermont landscape. Through February 23. Info, 525-3366. The Parker Pie Co. in West Glover.

Marieluise Hutchinson: New landscape paintings by the regional artist. Through March 31. Info, 253-1818. Green Mountain Fine Art Gallery in Stowe. ‘Play’: National and regional artists display work in various mediums inspired by play. Also, an ongoing collaborative art project by hundreds of local elementary school students. Through April 12. W. David Powell & Peter Thomashow: Mixedmedia collages and sculptures by the Vermont artists. Through February 22. Info, 253-8358. Helen Day Art Center in Stowe. ‘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. Virginia Crawford Pierrepont: “Outside Inside: Concepts of Transformation,” paintings that explore an “abstraction of energy, spirit and personal transformation” through landscape. Through February 12. Info, 516-316-0917. Mason Green Gallery, Vermont Studio Center in Johnson.

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Elizabeth Nagle: “Other Worlds,” new abstract paintings and mixed-media works by the Dorset artist. Through February 16. Info, 362-4061. The Gallery at Equinox Village in Manchester Center.

Nancy H. Taplin & Ethan Bond-Watts Vermont artist Nancy H. Taplin thinks of her swooping abstract paintings as “a drama

on a stage.” She allows her work to take on a life of its own: “The lines, shapes and colors whisper, shout, shove, lean, kick, leap and slide as though they might be in an opera,” she writes of her current works on paper. A similar sense of spontaneity and movement exists in the work of Charlotte glass artist Ethan Bond-Watts, whose abstract mobiles are informed by biomorphic shapes. Both artists explore the “kinetic energy of color and light” in “In Motion,” their shared exhibit at Vermont Metro Gallery in Burlington. Though their mediums are drastically different, their artwork shares “fluid, dance-like

f Arthur Zorn: “Line Dances,” abstractimpressionist paintings by the Barre artist and musician. Piano and organ concert: Saturday, February 7, 7 p.m. Through February 22. Info, 244-8581. Waterbury Congregational Church.

strokes, smooth sculptural forms and glowing color,” according to the gallerist. Through

Ben Frank Moss & Varujan Boghosian: “Collage, Drawing, Painting,” works by the abstract and collage artists. Through March 31. Info, 767-9670. BigTown Gallery in Rochester.

Susan Alancraig: “Unexpected Journeys: Life, Illness, and Loss,” photographic portraits, accompanied by audio and written excerpts of interviews given by women with metastatic cancer and their family caregivers. Through May 9. Info, 388-4964. Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury.

Bonnie Barnes: “Blanc et Noir,” new photography inspired by rural life and frontiers by the Waitsfield artist. Through February 28. Info, 244-7801. Axel’s Gallery & Frameshop in Waterbury.

f ‘HOOKed in the Valley’: Thirteen area artists display 36 hooked-rug pieces in a variety of styles. Reception: Sunday, February 8, 4-6 p.m. Through March 28. Info, 496-6682. Festival Gallery in Waitsfield.

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Caleb Kenna: “Elemental Vermont,” photographs in the natural world by the Brandon artist. Through April 1. Info, 388-3300. American Flatbread (Middlebury Hearth). Joe Bolger: Plein-air impressionist landscapes by the Shoreham artist. Through February 28. Info, 388-1436. Jackson Gallery, Town Hall Theater in Middlebury. ‘Andy Warhol Prints’: “Recent Gifts From the Andy Warhol Foundation”: Ten vivid prints by the late pop artist including portraits of Chairman Mao, Goethe, Sitting Bull, Ingrid Bergman and Queen Ntombi of Swaziland. Through April 19. Info, 443-3168. Middlebury College Museum of Art.

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Winter Term Studio Art Exhibition: Students exhibit work they produced during winter term, including photography, drawing and painting. Through February 10, 1-5 p.m. Info, 443-3168. Johnson Memorial Building, Middlebury College.

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Bill Ramage: An 11.5-by-43-foot photo illustration of downtown Rutland by the local artist and Castleton professor is on view by appointment. Through February 28. Info, 468-6052. 104 Merchants Row in Rutland. Richard Weis: Castleton Downtown & Chaffee downtown “ArtIfact: Fifty Years in Art,” a multi-gallery exhibit featuring more than 80 paintings, drawings and combined works that span five decades. This exhibit is also on display at the Christine Price and Chaffee Downtown galleries. Through February 14. Info, 468-6052. Castleton Downtown Gallery and Chaffee Downtown in Rutland.

Richard Weis: Christine Price Gallery: “ArtIfact: Fifty Years in Art,” a multi-gallery exhibit featuring more than 80 paintings, drawings and combined works that span five decades. This exhibit is also on display at the Castleton Downtown and Chaffee Downtown galleries. Through February 13. Info, 468-6052. Christine Price Gallery, Castleton State College. Winter Art Mart: Winter-inspired art in many mediums by local artists including Gayl M. Braisted, Andrew David Christie, Lyn DuMoulin, Stu Hall, Maurie Harrington, Tom Merwin, Jim Samler and Judith Reilly. Through March 29. Info, 247-4295. Compass Music and Arts Center in Brandon.

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Jason Brunault & Michael Perron: Wood creations by the two local artists. Through February 28. Info, 933-2545. Artist in Residence Cooperative Gallery in Enosburg Falls.

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‘Farmers Warriors Builders: The Hidden Life of Ants’: A traveling Smithsonian Institution exhibition featuring macro-photographs by ant expert and photographer Mark Moffett along with interactive models that teach us about the complex lives of ants. Through April 5. ‘The Light Around Us’: An exhibit that explores the physics of light and color. Through May 10. Info, 649-2200. Montshire Museum of Science in Norwich.

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‘Poseidon and the Sea: Myth, Cult & Daily Life’: Art and artifacts that illustrate how ancient societies in the Mediterranean world worshipped the powerful Greek god. Through March 15. Info, 603-646-2095. Allan Houser: Five sculptures by one of the best-known Native American artists are installed outside the museum in the Maffei Arts Plaza, representing his 3D work from 19861992. Through May 11. Info, 603-635-7423. Hood Museum, Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H. Amy Cheng: “Breathing Lessons,” intricate mandala paintings by the nationally acclaimed artist. Through February 18. Info, 518-564-2474. Plattsburgh State Art Museum, N.Y. Harry Bernard, Gail Smuda & Sumner Winebaum: Paintings and sculptures by the local artists. Through February 6. Info, 603-4483117. AVA Gallery and Art Center in Lebanon, N.H. Larry Poole, Peter Shrope & Denise Duprey: Intaglio prints by Poole and ceramic works by Shrope in the Main Gallery; photography by Duprey in the Community Gallery. Through February 6. Info, 518-563-1604. Strand Center for the Performing Arts in Plattsburgh, N.Y. ‘Marvels and Mirages of Orientalism: From Spain to Morocco, BenjaminConstant in His Time’: Six iconic aspects of orientalism are explored in Canada’s first museum exhibition dedicated to the genre, featuring recently rediscovered works by JeanJoseph Benjamin-Constant, a seminal figure in the movement. Through March 31. ‘Warhol Mania’: Fifty posters and a selection of magazine illustrations by Andy Warhol offer a brand-new look at his commercial-art background. Through March 15. Info, 514-285-1600. Montréal Museum of Fine Arts. ‘Stone Palette’: Thirty-one lithograph prints from 19th-century France. Through March 15. ‘Wild Nature: Masterworks from the Adirondack Museum’: Sixty-two paintings, photographs and prints from the permanent collection of the Adirondack Museum, dating from 1821 to 2001, including work by Hudson River School masters. Through April 19. Info, 518-792-1761. The Hyde Museum in Glens Falls, N.Y. m

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