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Seven Days Writers Go Outside Their Comfort Zones
Illustration by Rob Donnelly. Unless they’ve gone into sport/adventure writing, journalists can be indoorsy types. That’s why we set Seven Days reporters a challenge: to go out and do a physical activity they’ve never done before, and write about it. Their choices were not typical summer pursuits — no softball or tennis or swimming. Instead,…
Obituary: Ilse “Omi” Krutak
Omi Krutak was born on January 19th 1924 in Germany and immigrated to Cabot on March 6, 1957. She is pre-deceased by her husband Robert, mother Ida, father Karl, daughter Ingrid, and brother Erich. She is survived by her son Wolfgang, grand-daughters Daphne, Pamela, Jennifer, and Amber and grandson Michael plus great-grandsons Chase, Reese, and…
Obituary: Amy Butler Bruce
Amy Butler Bruce, age 35 years, passed away unexpectedly early Sunday morning August 11, 2013, at the Lahey Clinic in Burlington, Massachusetts, following a short but valiant struggle with Auto Immune Hepatitis. Born in St. Albans, Vermont on June 19, 1978, she was the “beloved” daughter of Steven and Kathy (Burns) Butler and was a…
Adjatay Akia Vereen
Essex Junction On July 15, 2013, at Fletcher Allen Health Care, Sabriyah Sharp and Kevin Vereen welcomed a baby boy, Adjatay Akia Vereen.
Obituary: David Everette Duprey, Sr.,
David Everette Duprey, Sr., age 72 years, a resident of the Parizo Road died unexpectedly Friday afternoon August 9, 2013, in the Fletcher Allen Health Care Facility. Born in St. Albans on September 11, 1940, he was the son of the late Abraham and Ines (Robinson) Duprey. He attended schools in St. Albans and on…
Obituary: Alan L. Lewis,
1925-2013, Poultney Alan L. Lewis, 88, died Tuesday morning, August 6, 2013, at Rutland Regional Medical Center. Born May 10, 1925, in Rutland, Vt., he was son of the late Ernest E. and Violet (Lincoln) Lewis. Alan was the seventh generation to live at the Lewis Farm in Poultney, attended Poultney Public Schools and graduated…
Art Review: Lark Upson at Blinking Light Gallery
Vermonters don’t have quite as many opportunities to people watch as, say, New Yorkers riding the subway. Still, who hasn’t found themselves making up stories about strangers occupying the benches at the bus stop or standing in line at the grocery store? In the little Blinking Light Gallery in Plainfield this month, Lark Upson’s oil…
A Parisian Wax Museum Opens a Satellite in Montréal
Cheesy? Creepy? Démodé? One of those is probably the first word that comes to your mind when you think of wax museums. Images of Vincent Price and Charles Bronson coating bodies in paraffin may well follow. Some of those adjectives no doubt applied to the Musée Grévin in its early days, when it featured scenes…
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again Michigan’s Ingham County District Court ordered a 28-year-old man convicted of fraud to be fingerprinted at his own expense. He paid the $16 cost with a credit card that had been reported stolen, according to Sheriff Gene Wriggelsworth, and was taken into custody. (Associated Press) Anthony J. Thomas, 33, walked into a…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): “You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings,” says author Elizabeth Gilbert. I recommend that you experiment with this subversive idea, Aries. Just for a week, see what happens if you devote yourself to making yourself feel really good. I mean risk going to extremes as you…
Theater Review: The Fantasticks, Skinner Barn
Written in 1960, The Fantasticks has the distinction of being the longest-running musical in history. That was 1960 to 2002 at the Sullivan Street Playhouse in Greenwich Village. And New Yorkers apparently missed it: Another production started up again in 2006 and is still running at the off-Broadway Snapple Theater Center. This summer, Waitsfield’s Skinner…
A New Chef Reopens Claire’s Restaurant and Bar
A job interview is, by nature, a stressful occasion. But when Harrison Littell flew to Vermont from Winston-Salem, N.C., at the end of May to interview for a job at Claire’s Restaurant and Bar, he had an extra layer of pressure. Owner Linda Ramsdell couldn’t meet her prospective new chef because she was stuck at…
Interview With Emma Beaton of Joy Kills Sorrow
When we called Emma Beaton, vocalist for the indie-folk band Joy Kills Sorrow, we wanted to ask her all about the Boston-ish quintet’s recent developments. Those include an appearance on the famed radio show “A Prairie Home Companion” and the release of a new, self-produced EP, Wide Awake. That record has sent Americana connoisseurs around…
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Warren Pieces [319]
7/25/13: After Hurricane Irene hit the Mad River Valley in 2011, Matt Groom and Whitney Phillips met while fixing the flood damaged woodwork in Warren’s Pitcher Inn. Dismayed by the amount of wood waste post-flood, the two formed Warren Pieces, using recycled wood to make unique skateboards and longboards. They call it “art you can…
Letters to the Editor
Not-So-Local 802 The number 802 resonates on so many levels [“Dialed In,” July 31]. Savvy Vermont players will know that 802 is the local union branch of New York City musicians, AFM-Local 802; New York players with gigs up here raise a satisfied eyebrow when we see that number. We’re home and welcome. It’s common…
Winnerling-Turner
Portland, Ore. The engagement of MeganWinnerling and Allison Turner of Portland, Ore., (formerly Burlington, Vt.) hasbeen announced. Megan is the daughter of Victoria Winnerling of Lancaster, Pa.Allison is the daughter of Sylvia Elwyn and Scott Turner of Atlanta, Ga. Their wedding will be celebratedSeptember 7, 2013, at the Notch House at Lake Willoughby, Westmore, Vt.
