MONDAY Â Â EDITION
ADDISON COUNTY
INDEPENDENT
Vol. 26 No. 34
Middlebury, Vermont
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Monday, November 3, 2014
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36 Pages
75¢
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Middlebury’s  Congo  Church  ready  for  its  next  big  renovation
Hanging  on THE  COLORS  OF  fall  still  cling  to  some  trees,  even  at  the  base  of  the  Green  Mountains,  in  Bristol  this  past  Monday  afternoon. Independent  photo/Trent  Campbell
By  JOHN  FLOWERS MIDDLEBURY  —  Last  year  at  this  time,  members  of  the  Congre- gational  Church  of  Middlebury  were  staring  at  four  major  capital  projects  totaling  a  combined  $2.5  million  to  repair  and  expand  their  majestic  worship  hall  at  27  North  Pleasant  St. Two  down,  two  to  go. Parishioner  and  project  manager  David  Hallam  announced  on  Thurs- day  the  completion  of  renovations  to  the  church  kitchen,  along  with  repair  and  rerouting  of  its  Charter  House  sewerage  system.  The  congregation  will  spend  the  next  two  years  tack- OLQJ WKH ¿QDO WZR WDVNV RQ WKH OLVW which  will  be  much  more  visible  to  the  general  public. (See  Congo,  Page  6)
Classics lovers binge on poetry at college By  DAVID  WEINSTOCK MIDDLEBURY  —  Poetry  readings  gener- ally  last  one  hour  —  not  even  the  most  devoted  versaholic  is  expected  to  sit  still  any  longer.  So  when  I  heard  that  the  Middlebury  College  Department  of  Classics  had  organized  a  three- day  marathon  reading  of  a  single  poem,  Virgil’s Â
epic  The  Aeneid,  I  had  to  see  for  myself.  The  event  began  on  Oct.  24,  a  chilly,  gusty  Friday  afternoon,  on  the  steps  of  the  college’s  Davis  Family  Library.  Mike  McCann,  a  senior  from  Maine,  settled  a  bushy  green  laurel  wreath  on  his  head  and  began  to  declaim.  The  poem  is  long,  just  under  10,000  lines.  In  the  course  of Â
the  weekend  it  would  take  nearly  40  volunteer  readers,  each  giving  a  half-Âhour  performance  of  an  English  verse  translation  of  the  Latin  origi- nal,  to  get  through  it,  sustained  only  by  ambro- sial  slices  of  baklava.  Organizers,  including  classical  studies  major  Erika  Sloan,  a  junior  (See  Poetry,  Page  18)