MONDAY Â Â EDITION
ADDISON COUNTY
INDEPENDENT
Vol. 25 No. 25
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Middlebury, Vermont
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Monday, August 12, 2013
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36 Pages
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Town Hall Theater eyes big moves Resident  troupe  and  orchestra  in  works By  JOHN  FLOWERS MIDDLEBURY  —  Middlebury  Town  Hall  Theater  (THT)  Execu- tive  Director  Douglas  Anderson  metaphorically  looks  upon  enter- WDLQPHQW LGHDV DV WLQ\ Ă€DPHV WKDW should  be  fanned  to  burn  brightly  on  the  community’s  stage.  And  Anderson  has  been  doing  a  lot  of  fanning  these  days  on  some  new  ventures  that  could  soon  ignite  a  veritable  blaze  of  visual  and  audi- tory  pyrotechnics  at  the  THT. $QGHUVRQ WKLV ZHHN FRQÂżUPHG the  formation  of  a  new,  semi-Âpro- fessional,  resident  acting  company  at  the  THT  that  will  debut  this  No- vember  with  eight  performances  of  the  musical  “Shrek.â€?  And  he  is  clos- ing  in  on  a  deal  that  would  produce  a  resident  symphony  orchestra  for  the  THT. The  as-Âyet-Âunnamed  theater  com- pany  and  symphony  orchestra  are  to  join  four  resident  companies  already  in  place  under  the  THT’s  entertainment  umbrella:  Middle- bury  Actors  Workshop,  Middlebury  Community  Players,  the  Maiden  (See  THT,  Page  35)
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By  XIAN  CHIANG-ÂWAREN MONKTON  —  Vermont’s  pleth- ora  of  craft  breweries  are  about  to  get  the  opportunity  to  source  their  malt  locally.  Andrew  Peterson,  44,  of  Monkton  is  launching  Vermont’s  ¿UVW FRPPHUFLDO PDOW KRXVH WKLV IDOO The  longtime  home  brewer,  who  moved  to  Vermont  on  a  whim  20  years  ago  instead  of  starting  a  brew- ery  with  a  friend  in  his  native  North  Carolina,  had  long  hoped  to  open  a  brewery  of  his  own.  It  took  a  little  longer  than  he  thought  —  his  duties  as  husband  and  devoted  dad  to  his  WZR NLGV PDGH WKH \HDUV Ă€\ E\ ² EXW he  is  looking  forward  to  getting  back  into  the  brewing  world. “It  just  took  awhile  to  get  back  to  this,â€?  Peterson  said.  “And  at  this  (See  Malt,  Page  28)
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Field Days: fair fun in farm country 65th annual event offered a variety designed to delight the crowds By  INDEPENDENT  STAFF Editorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s  note:  Addison  County  Fair  and  Field  Days  offers  so  much  to  look  at,  smell,  hear,  touch  and  taste  that  to  put  it  all  into  one  story  would  be  impossible.  Our  reporters  and  photographers  brought  home  the  following  vignettes  and  pictures  from  the  New  Haven  fairgrounds  to  give  you  some  sense  of  the  scope  of Â
the  fair  last  week. NEW  HAVEN  â&#x20AC;&#x201D;  People  of  all  ages  could  be  found  inside  the  Sara  McCarty  Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s  Barnyard  on  Wednesday  evening  getting  up  close  and  personal  with  baby  animals.  Cages  and  pens  holding  kid  goats,  calves,  piglets,  bunnies,  miniature  ponies  and  lambs  lined  the  walls  of  the  building.  An  extroverted  bull Â
calf  was  drawing  a  small  crowd  out- side  his  pen  as  he  stretched  his  neck  to  lick  several  hands  trying  to  pet  his  light  brown  snout.  In  a  corner  pen  Louise,  a  huge  sow,  lay  quietly  on  her  side  while  her  11  new  piglets  jostled  each  other  for  turns  at  the  milk  bar.  The  now  energetic  little  piglets,  who  drew  (See  Field  Days,  Page  17)