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newmarketpress@denpubs.com LUDLOW — The Town of Ludlow will host its annual Ludlow Winter Fest, Feb. 7-10. The event includes a parade, fireworks, and other indoor and outdoor events for all ages. One highlight will be Killarney’s Winter Carnival King & Queen Coronation at 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 7. Local foods and beverages are also highlighted in the festival. Events include the allday Lovin’ Ludlow Scavenger Hunt, Feb. 7, at the Otter Valley Region Chamber of Commerce office at 4 p.m. The Chowda Challenge includes free samples available for tasting and judging at Dorsey Park. The winners will be announced following the town’s 7 p.m. fireworks display Saturday, Feb. 9. Other events include Killarney’s Winter Carnival King and Queen Coronation. Lovin’ Bingo at the Black River Valley Senior Center, wine sampling and cheese tasting at the Wine & Cheese Depot, Okemo’s Shakin’ Skate! at Jackson Gore Ice House, a, a ski and snowboard fashion show at Outback Pizza , sledding and lots more. For a complete schedule, visit the festival website: www.yourplaceinvermont.com or call 802228-5830 for details.

MONTPELIER — A pro-Second Amendment rally on the steps of the Vermont State Capitol Building Jan. 19 had the desired effect—it was a “shot” heard ‘round Vermont. And a state senator blinked. Over 300 pro-Second Amendment citizens took part in the Vermont edition of a 50-state rally to show their support of the law of the land regarding the constitutional right of citizens to bear arms. The “pro-gun” rally caught State Sen. Philip Baruth (D) by surprise. The liberal Chittenden County senator had proposed a sweeping ban on assault weapons. After the rally, Baruth withdrew his proposal “It’s painfully clear,” he said to reporters. “I don’t believe there’s much support in Montpelier for this sort of bill." Baruth had introduced his anti-gun bill approximately one week before the Second Amendment rally was held in 50 state capitals. “It’s painfully clear to me now that little support exists in the Vermont Statehouse for this sort of bill,” Baruth See GUN LAW, page 13

IT’S ALL DOWNHILL — Skier Lydia Kelleher, wearing bib 25, was one of 250 men and women skiers at a recent slalom event held at Okemo Mountain in Ludlow. Kelleher, a member of OMARA, a non-profit booster club that was founded to support the athletes, families, and coaches of Okemo Competition Programs and Okemo Mountain School, was one of the standouts with an overall time of 2:12:15. Photo by Don Dill

Bristol fire station proposal unveiled By Lou Varricchio newmarketpress@denpubs.com BRISTOL — Town of Bristol officials presented their plan for a new firehouse in town. The plan was unveiled at a recent public meeting. VIA architect Ashar Nelson designed the new station although the details, and purchase of an expansion property located at 32 North St., is yet to be determined. The town’s historic station, considered limited by current standards, would be incorporated with, and centra to, Nelson’s plan. Voters will have their say on the project on Town Meeting Day in March. Nelson, the proposed fire station’s designer, is a lifelong Vermonter. He is the principal architect at VIA and teaches part time at Middlebury College. He is noted for sustainable building designs. Expect Expect Expect Expect

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Arctic cold sweeps across Vermont By Lou Varricchio

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Baby, it’s cold outside! This man in downtown Middlebury braved a minus-15 degree windchill last Tuesday. The extreme cold, which appeared to peak last weekend, is not expected to return during the first week of February.

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MIDDLEBURY — Arctic-like cold weather arrived in Vermont last week. The National Weather Service reported that states from the Midwest to New England were hammered by a polar air mass. The windchill reached minus 25 degrees Fahrenheit in some parts of the state. Daytime temperatures reached only the single digits. In neighboring New Hampshire, researchers on top of Mt. Washington recorded near-record windchills of minus 75 degrees. The extreme cold, which appeared to peak—at least for now—is not expected to return during the first week of February.

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Pets need a home, too Nothing feels more welcoming than coming in to a warm house after being out in the cold. Imagine how a stray animal feels when they come into the shelter at the Rutland County Humane Society (RCHS) after being cold, lost and hungry, sometimes for days or weeks. You can help provide that welcomed warmth by participating in the RCHS Winter Fuel Raffle. To learn more about how you can help the animals and win cash prizes, please visit our website at www.rchsvt.org or call RCHS at 483-9171.

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The monsters on Maple Street F

or what it’s worth, I know America has changed—and not necessarily for the better. Call me a pessimist, but I no longer fully believe it’s the place where I came of age. Something happened along the way, but I can’t even put my finger on it. Some of us blame Bush, Obama, the news, social media, semiautomatic guns, video games, cell phones, declining church attendance, pornography, or the neighbors down the street who don’t value things like us. Or just fill in the blank with your latest bugaboo. Maybe we’re all to blame. This reminds me of a “Twilight Zone” episode. Titled “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street,” this 1960 film took place on a suburban street where strange things and strange folks fuel the fears of neighbors. The monsters, it turns out, are us. I liken my own “Twilight Zone” redshift in social perspective to having awakened from a decades-long slumber. Outside my bedroom window is a mad, alternative timeline in which familiar things, such as cultural icons, either no longer exist or are turned upside down and inside out. Familiar protocols, traditions, and interactions seem to no longer apply. Is this my reaction to what Alvin Toffler called “future shock” or something else? From Congress on down to the corner sandwich shop, the changes are palpable. One of the changes show that we have become a nation of whiners, victims, fear mongers, and tattlers; we seek to set right our petty problems by crying to big brother—a government agency, a lawyer, even a cop—to settle our accounts, or to simply make life miserable for those individuals who have (or whom we imagine might have) slighted our precious egos or world views. Instead of settling disagreements like civil ladies and gentlemen, we resort to the “nuclear option.” We call the cops—or a lawyer—to force the other guy into submission by seeing it our way. In a recent incident, a tourist visiting New York City ran up a restaurant tab and then told the waiter that he couldn’t pay because he left his wallet back at the hotel and was shot by New York’s Finest. Rather than, first, have the restaurant’s manager call the hotel front desk to verify the tourist’s story, the waiter instead rushed to telephone the police. A minor incident end-

ed up with gunfire. The restaurant story is the tip of the iceberg. Why do so many people resort to calling the police for trivial matters instead of settling it like adults? Yes, I understand “dine and dash” incidents are a serious problems to restauranteurs, but we’re not talking armed bank robbery or hostage taking. Someone ate a meal and didn’t pay for it. During another miserable period in American history, the Great Depression, such scofflaws were put to work in the kitchen washing dishes. Not paying for a meal is more like shoplifting; sure, it’s a crime, but not one requiring a SWAT team on the premises. Locally, I’ve heard about several incidents involving our police that were blown way out of proportion by the “slighted” individuals, at least to my reasoning: Incident one, a store clerk overreacted to a customer ’s compliment about her appearance. The poor gentleman soon found himself talking to a police officer over the clerk’s complaint about “sexual harassment.” Since when has paying someone a compliment—of any gender—become sexual harassment? Incident two, a customer who was outraged when her interior-decorating bill included work she believed wasn’t done, got in her car and drove to the shop to ask questions. Her arrival to the place of business prompted a telephone call by the manager to the police. The customer was escorted off the premises with a “no trespass” notice served; she could no longer enter the shop for any reason. Since when is a business customer forbidden to have a face-to-face with the owner to settle what she considers unfair charges on a bill? Why do police even bother to get involved with petty, timeconsuming incidents when graver things— burglary, domestic violence, and drug trafficking—are more pressing locally? In the end, a return to civility—even just talking to each other, face-to-face, about our problems, slights, fears, personal views, and misinterpretations—will require a significant effort by all of us, not just them. For a society filled with so many amazing communication devices, we have forgotten the ability to communicate. Louis Varricchio

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t’s a term we hear bantered about in so many of the everyday things we think and do. The term is called “politically correct,” and it has become far more than just trying to keep in step with modern society. Being politically correct seems to be invading all parts of our society. Nobody wants to be politically incorrect because we’ve been told it’s wrong and we’re wrong if we’re not acting, speaking or even thinking correctly with the “mainstream” of political wisdom. When did our political system start dictating our attitude, our way of thinking, speaking, acting or just being ourselves? Is our political system now in complete control of how Americans must live in this the land of the free? In a culture that at one time prided itself on individualism, are we now being herded down a path of “get in step or else?” There is a lot of talk these days about the First and Second Amendment Rights in the U.S. Constitution. Is it really politicians who now dictate how we must live in order to be correctly in line with their version American society? Have they changed us from constituents to subjects? Somehow I fear we’ve allowed them to divide us into two schools of thought and labeled us Red and Blue. But why, with over 300 million people in the country, can’t we have various opinions? Are our political parties a reflection of the voters, or have the political parties divided us? And who is prospering the most from political correctness? As an example, growing up I did not come from a gun-oriented family. We had no guns, so I don’t have a strong bias toward the issue of gun ownership one way or another. On the issue of outlawing certain guns from law-abiding citizens because of the actions of a few unstable people doesn’t make sense any more than removing prayer from government property and educational institutions because a small minority claims to be offended. That doesn’t mean I favor the senseless killing of innocent lives any more than I favor the right to force anyone to worship only my God. Growing up, my parents and teachers taught me to think for myself. They were happy to provide guidance, but I was

never encouraged to do anything but reason out my own thought process and Dan Alexander reach a Thoughts from conclusion Behind the Pressline of my own. Common sense, basic logic, learning how to do my own research and recognizing right from wrong was all I needed to guide me to a position. Once that position was reached, others might try to persuade me. As an individual, you were respected for developing a position, and for either standing by it or being persuaded to alter that position if you were shown where your information or logic was flawed. Sadly political correctness is most recently from the Marxism culture dating back to World War I and World War II. If we compare the basic principles of political correctness with other cultures through the ages, the parallels are obvious. It’s a path we should not celebrate but try hard to avoid. So why are we so quick to give our government so much control, and why are these laws and rulings being handed down without much public debate? With so much information available today, we can’t claim to be uniformed. Are we just distracted and preoccupied, or are we being asked to let down our guard and allow others to think for us while being discouraged from independent thinking? When you consider the state of our economy, the ongoing stalemate taking place in halls of government coupled with the extravagances blooming in Washington, and the condition of radical states around the world, one has to wonder if we are still a fiercely independent nation, one that is ever evolving, one that was the envy of the world. We should not take lightly any changes to the rights we have been given by our forefathers, regardless of the implied intention of the changes. Dan Alexander is associate publisher of New Market Press. He may be reached at

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Rutland HS student wins essay contest By Lou Varricchio

newmarketpress@denpubs.com RUTLAND — Last year, the Vermont Woodlands Association partnered with the Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation, the French Foundation and Northern Woodlands magazine to sponsor an essay contest for high school students. The question addressed by entrants was—”As the next generation of forest stewards, we would like you to tell us, in 600 words or less, why working forests in Vermont are important and how they contribute to the quality of life of all Vermonters.” Essay judges said they were overwhelmed and heartened by the response, receiving more than 60 essays from students around the state. A team of judges read each essay, often several times, and selected the top three entries: Nicholas Sweet from Rutland High School, Kia Amirkiaee from Woodstock Union High School, and Ben Dillner from North Country Union High School The three students who placed first, second, and third will each receive cash prizes to be awarded at the Woodlands Association annual meeting April 6. The winning essay by Kia Amirkiaee will appear in the Northern Woodlands Magazine spring 2013 edition.

4-Hers compete in horse contest WEYBRIDGE — There was no horsing around at the Addison County 4-H Horse Hippology contest, Jan. 20 in Weybridge, as 39 competitors tested their knowledge of all things equine. The event was hosted by University of Vermont (UVM) Extension and Addison County 4-H at the Weybridge Elementary School. Participating Addison County 4-H club members, ages eight to 18, were evaluated on their ability to judge a horse conformation class from photographs as well as their knowledge of tack, feed, fencing, breeds, coloring patterns and other horse-related topics. Winners, by age group, listed first through fifth place, included: Eight and nine-year-olds: McKenna White, Whiting; Abby Hodsden, Bridport; Michaela Bania, Florence; Chelsea Balch, Castleton; Nicholas Sheldrick, Salisbury. Ten and 11-year-olds: Alexis Marnellos, Lincoln; Abigail Larock, Whiting; Haley Bania, Florence; Hannah Todd, West Rutland; Charlotte Willis, Lincoln. Twelve and 13-year-olds: Makaila Cota, Bristol; Callon Fish, Rutland; Kayla Gevry, Addison; Kendra Stearns, Brandon; Ciara Eagan, Middlebury. Fourteen-year-olds and up: Courtney Bronson, Shoreham; Marissa Jochum, Addison; Brooklyn Currier, New Haven; Marisa Beanland, North Chittenden; Eliza Kurth, New Haven. Many of the participants in this county contest will compete again at the State 4-H Horse Hippology contest, April 6 at Wishful Thinking Farm, New Haven, and Vergennes Union High School. The state competition attracts close to 100 4-H'ers from throughout Vermont.

Sweet completes basic training RUTLAND — Air Force Airman Adam J. Sweet graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas. The airman completed an intensive, eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness, and basic warfare principles and skills. Airmen who complete Airman Adam J. Sweet basic training earn four credits toward an associate in applied science degree through the Community College of the Air Force. Sweet earned distinction as an honor graduate. He is the son of Robert and Lynne Sweet of Rutland. The airman is a 2012 graduate of Rutland High School.

LAKE DIVERS: Lake Champlain Maritime Museum’s Adam Kane and Pierre LaRocque prepare to dive in Lake Champlain off Charlotte. According to Kane, a grant from the National Center for Preservation Training and Technology of the National Park Service helped fund the upcoming public T.V. dive. National Park Service photo

Divers explore Lake Champlain wreck with sonar By Lou Varricchio newmarketpress@denpubs.com FERRISBURGH — The 21st century technology of sidescan sonar has come a long way from the 1950s. During the post World War II years, side-scan sonar was invented by researchers at Westinghouse and the U.S. Navy Mine Defense Laboratory in Panama City, Fla. Now, the latest incarnation of side-scan sonar has been used in Lake Champlain to explore an historic, 19th-century canal-boat wreck off Charlotte. The new 3D sonar technology was employed by Vermont archeologists during a videorecorded expedition in the summer of 2012. What makes 3D sonar so special in exploring underwater wrecks? First, some sonar basics— Sonar is an acronym for Sound Navigation And Ranging. Leonardo DaVinci is credited with its invention in 1490. Leonardo’s primitive “sonar” device wasn’t exactly sonar in its electronic incarnation, but in its purest essence, the Renaissance master ’s device was as close as the world got to the technology for several centuries. During a summer evening, under a new moon, Leonardo partially submerged a hollow wooden tube in an Italian lake. He wanted to determine if his ear could detect the muffled, watery soundwaves of an out-of-sight “enemy” rowboat several hundred yards away. Four hundred and twenty three years later, the primitive forerunner of modern sonar emerged following the Titanic disaster. And decades after that, true electronic sonar came into being. Today, sonar ’s side-scanning ability involves electronic instrumentation. As an electromagnetic or E.M. transmitter, a sonar device generates high-frequency sound waves which are emitted in cone- or fan-shaped pulses. The pulses slice perpendicular pathways through a medium such as water. For maritime applications, side scanners are either towed behind or mounted onboard a vessel. Officials of the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum’s Maritime Research Institute announced last week that a Vermont public television program, which airs this month, will show a team of museum divers using high-tech, side-scan radar. The device was used to explore the wooden wreck of the Sloop Island, a nearly 100-foot-long canal boat built in 1873. The dive on the cold-water wreck was recorded last summer. The new side-scan sonar device used by the maritime museum divers was supplied by industry newcomer Teledyne BlueView of Seattle, Wash. The company, which opened its doors in 2005, has already patented several new technologies in high-resolution underwater acoustic imaging and measurement. "The scanning sonar was able to capture striking 3D imagery,” maritime museum co-executive director Adam Kane told the Eagle. “The images were so incredible that the team members were beside themselves as the detailed images were transferred from the equipment on the bottom to the computer screen on the research vessel." Kane said using 3D sonar is an exciting new way to study historic shipwrecks and to share them with the public. ”The Teledyne BlueView BV 5000-2250 is a tripod-mounted device that takes millions of individual sonar readings

A photo of the mirky remains of vessel’s pilot wheel at the bottom of Lake Champlain. Last summer’s dive on the Island Sloop will be broadcast on Vermont Public Television, Sunday, Feb. 3, at 2 p.m. Photo courtesy of LCMM

and displays the results as a 3D point cloud,” he noted. “Lake Champlain Maritime Museum used this technology to make its detailed examination of the Sloop Island which sank during the first quarter of the 20th century.” Forty locations around, on, and within, the wreck site were scanned. At each of these positions the sonar was able to capture accurate 3D images of the shipwreck, which were then assembled into a detailed 3D model of the entire wreck. The composite image, Kane added, consists of 35 million data points and allows the remains of the Sloop Island to be examined in a completely innovative way. According to Kane, archaeological drawings of the shipwreck were created by museum archaeologists during more than 300 dives between 2002 and 2003. Those dives used manual documentation. By contrast, he said data gathering with the new technology in 2012 took just three days. “We're really excited about this equipment as a tool to share the lake's shipwrecks with the public,” Kane told the Eagle. “Most folks can’t get there on their own, but we’ll do our best to share what’s on the bottom of the lake.” The result of last summer ’s dive will be broadcast on Vermont Public Television, Sunday Feb. 3, at 2 p.m. VPT will likely have the video posted online for viewing, too. According to Kane, a grant from the National Centerfor Preservation Training and Technology of the National Park Service helped fund the televised dive.

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Before Edison and Tesla, there was Davenport D.C. motor inventor lived in Brandon

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newmarketpress@denpubs.com BRANDON — Step aside Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla. A Brandon blacksmith pioneered the use of electricity during the 1830s, four decades before inventors Edison and Tesla began experimenting with electricity for commercial and home applications. Vermont-native inventor Thomas Davenport was born in 1802. He operated a blacksmith shop in the Forestdale section of Brandon near the intersection of Routes 73 and 53. There he invented the first D.C. (direct current) electrical motor in 1834. A year later, he built a scale-model of a futuristic electrical railway. It was the first electric train on any scale. The Brandon blacksmith had learned about the use of an electromagnet, built by Joseph Henry and operated by Allen Penfield owner the Crown Point Ironworks, in nearby Ironville, N.Y. Penfield’s underground and open pit mines and mill facilities were located up the hill from Crown Point, N.Y., along Putnam Creek, at the edge of Penfield Pond near the west shore of Lake Champlain. “Penfield was the first to employ an electromagnet to ‘charge’ the iron quills in his iron-ore separating machine,” said Joan Hundson, president of the Penfield Museum Board

The Inventive Davenports You can view a replica of the electromagnet used by Davenport at the Penfield Museum and homestead in Crown Point, N.Y. (the original is in the Smithsonian). The first Davenport-Smalley workshop, and an historical monument, can be seen in the Foresdale district of Brandon. Itʼs located 800 feet south of the intersections of Routes 73 and 53. Inventiveness ran in Davenportʼs family. A descendant, Earl Davenport, is credited with inventing the “over-unity” magnetic motor and generator. This Davenport inveted the “over-unity” advanced alternator at the age of 12.

of Directors in Crown Point. “The magnet made it possible to separate some of the nonmagnetic minerals from the ore before the ore was placed in the forge. That’s why Ironville is considered the birthplace of the Age of Electricity.” Davenport had visited Penfield’s 19th century iron operation on horseback on several occasions. Iron for the famous Brooklyn Bridge and Civil War ironclads, including the USS Monitor, was later mined and milled there. The Vermonter was fascinated by Penfield’s expanding operation as well as by the motive power of magnets. In 1833, Davenport purchased Penfield’s big magnet when it was replaced by a new device. Carrying the magnet via horse-drawn wagon to the Crown Point docks on Lake Champlain, Davenport then ferried the device to Bridport in Vermont. From there, the wagon delivered the electromagnet, overland, to Davenport’s Forestdale workshop. According to one account of Davenport’s life, “He unwound and dismantled the (Joseph Henry) magnet as his wife, Emily took notes on its method of construction. He then started his own experiments and built two more magnets of his own design. Insulated wire was required, but only bare wire was available. Emily cut up her wedding dress into strips of silk to provide the necessary insulation that allowed for the maximum number of windings.” A friend and neighbor, Orange Smalley, also took part in early experiments that led to the running of the first electric motor during the summer of 1834. Davenport also patented a device for "improvements in propelling machinery by magnetism and electromagnetism" in 1837—this patent described the first electric railway based on the model train constructed in Brandon. Davenport’s model train ran on a circular track four feet in diameter; its power was supplied by a stationary battery. During the early 1840s, Davenport opened a workshop in New York City. He also published the world’s first technical journal devoted to all things electromagnetic. Davenport travelled between New York and Vermont until his death. He died in Sal-

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placer gold in Buffalo Creek to its source in a quartz vein high on the slope above the creek,” said Pingree. “Two years later, the Rooks Mine was in operation.” Pingree has explored deep inside the abandoned shafts of the Rooks Mine (later known as the Fox Mine); while the mine is dangerous for amateur cavers to enter, even Pingree got spooked inside the mine a few years ago. A companion encountered unstable ground inside the mine’s vertical shaft. They quickly abandoned further exploration. Abandoned mines are more dangerous than many caves, according to Pingree. Pingree mapped most of the Rooks Mine’s remains. It was a big mine for its time— 200 feet in length with both vertical and horizontal shafts. Parts of the mine are still shored up with 19th century timbers, he said. Even the remains of the ore car railway can be seen. A large processing mill stood along the creek at the foot of the mine. Today, visitors to the site on state land can glimpse some of the stonework of the old complex. “In 1884 the Rooks Mine was top news here since it was producing $50-ton ore. But things changed in 1887. The Rooks was bankrupt, and the last stage of the Vermont gold rush was over,” he said. While there are numerous test mine shafts that await discovery in Vermont’s old Gold District, Pingree believes he and his friends have located most of them. “The largest Vermont gold mines were the Rooks Mine, the Dailey Hollow Gold Mine, the Quttaquechee Mine, the T-Gold Mine and the Taggart-Fagneau Mine,” he said. In time, frost action and ground-water seeping will obliterate Vermont’s historic gold mines from view. It doesn’t help that state historians have shown little interest in the period, while others seem not to want to glorify the state’s mining past. But with the help of devotees like Rick Pingree, the memory of a time when Vermont gold fever seized locals and flatlanders alike will be kept alive a little while longer.

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Castleton to vote on town offices CASTLETON — This year ’s Town Meeting Day in Castleton will decide the fate of the community’s town office building. Voters will decide to vote, up or down, for $1 million to be spent in construct a new town hall. If built, according to Select Board Chairman Thomas Ettori, the new 4,520 square-foot building will occupy five-acres along Route 30, south of the town medical center. “The plans were done by NBF Architects, but without a meeting room and fire department as first proposed,” Ettori said. In addition to 31 parking spaces added in town, the Castleton Police Department will have a space at the building. Ettori said the $1 million price tag includes purchasing the Route 30 property. Castleton voters have already voted three times on the fate of town offices.

Thrive Center sponsors yoga workshops WALLINGFORD — You can experience the joy of restoring movement to all areas of your body while learning how to unravel the restrictions produced from daily life; through eight, different yoga instructors, on several Sundays through March. The workshops and classes are open to those who are new to yoga, as well as, those who are looking to grow an experienced practice. The fee sessions will be held at the Wallingford Elementary School Gymnasium, 126 School St. (Route 140) in Wallingford. For rates and other details, and to register, call 802-446-2499 or e-mail: uthrive@vermontel.net for details. A portion of the proceeds benefit the Wallingford Elementary School.

Vermont’s a drag—images on display RUTLAND — The Chaffee Art Center is will host an artist talk with photographer Evie Lovett, Thursday, Jan. 31, 7-8 p.m., at the new Chaffee outlet located at 75 Merchants Row in downtown Rutland. Lovett will discuss her experiences with the Rainbow Cattle Co., a drag queen group, from Dummerston. Questions from the audience will also be welcomed and explored. Lovett’s photographs of Vermont drag queens are on display through Feb. 9.

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