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Robert Penn Warren wrote that “many clear facts about America are best understood in reference to the Civil War.” This comment from his book The Legacy of the Civil War, published in 1961, reappears on the website for the Vermont Humanities Council’s 2014 fall conference. And no wonder: The two-day event next month at the…
James Oliver Ploof Sr. passed away peacefully at home surrounded by his loving family on October 5, 2014. He was born December 29, 1931, to Raymond J. and Dorothy L. (Gelinas) Ploof. He graduated from Cathedral High School class of 1949. He proudly served in the U.S. Army. On a stroke of brilliance he married Beverly J.…
Gary P. Blanchette, 71, resident of St. George died peacefully on Friday, October 3, 2014 at Birchwood Terrace Healthcare in Burlington. Gary was born in Winooski, VT on September 13, 1943, the son of Perley and Roberta (St. Jacques) Blanchette, and was educated within the South Burlington School District. He was married in South Burlington…
Peter passed away one year ago at the Green Mountain Nursing Home after a long illness on October 12, 2013. In 1959, he came to study at SUNY at New Paltz and got a bachelor’s degree. Later, while teaching in Burlington, Vt., he worked for a master’s degree at the University of Vermont. He taught…
Sally Ann Martin – 44 of Alburgh suddenly passed away September 29, 2014 at Fletcher Allen HealthCare after a lengthy battle with “small cell cancer.” She was born on May 18, 1970 at the Northwestern Medical Center in St. Albans Vermont. She leaves behind a loving family who stayed by her side throughout it all…
David A Meatyard a resident of Vermont for 13 years and a former resident of East Aurora, NY died suddenly on September 24th. David’s endearing nature was a blessing to everyone that knew him. He lived life to the fullest with a passion for playing the fiddle, dancing, the outdoors and his workplace at IBM.…
Who wouldn’t want to be a ninja warrior? That’s the question that has me leaping through a mini-obstacle course of kid-size gymnastic equipment — alphabet-themed carpet squares, metal pirouette bars — toward a padded ramp. There, coach Noah Labow wants me to execute a “misty” roll, a side-spinning front flip. Following his directions, I brace my…
Euphemistically Speaking Plagued by repeated recalls, General Motors directed its engineers to avoid using 69 words when discussing GM automobiles. Among them: asphyxiating, deathtrap, disemboweling, genocide, grenade-like and powder keg. (Detroit Free Press) Muted Message The women’s advocacy group UltraViolet responded to the National Football League’s handling of recent domestic violence cases by having an…
“Can you take me to the Essex Resort or Spa, I think it’s called?” The woman at the curb asking the question was maybe 30, and nerdy-girl cute in a print dress and flats. “Are you talking about the Inn at Essex?” I replied through the passenger window to this would-be customer. “Or maybe it…
Thirteen Vermont inmates have been in solitary confinement for a month in an Arizona prison after guards used a “chemical agent” to quell their 30-minute rampage, Vermont Department of Corrections officials confirmed to Seven Days last week. The group refused to enter their cells when ordered and began smashing televisions, microwaves and other equipment, according…
Lost Nation Theater’s production of Comedy of Errors begins with a hint that we’re backstage, watching a theater company. Actors in street clothes casually stretch in front of a brick wall as the audience is seated. The lights shift to reveal two actors in silhouette, offstage. One delivers the last lines of Hamlet over the…
Conservative politicians are a rare species in the Queen City. Currently, eight of the 10 representatives Burlington sends to Montpelier are Democrats; one is a Progressive. The lone Republican, Kurt Wright, is also the only R on the 14-person Burlington City Council. But this November, two upstart conservatives are hoping to infiltrate the Democratic stronghold.…
Who Is Bob La Follette? [Re “‘Run, Bernie, Run,'” September 17]: Paul Heintz’s report from the Sanders festival in Wisconsin produced an interesting quote from the Washington correspondent of the Nation: “the similarities between Sanders and La Follette are unmistakable.” Yes, both Sanders and famous Wisconsin Progressive Sen. Bob La Follette had to “fight their…
There are bad days. And there’s the day Derek and the Demons guitarist Kiel Alarcon endured last year. Last July, Alarcon and his best friend Brendan Dangelo, a cofounder of Windsor-based sorta-label and collective What Doth Life, were hiking nearby Mt. Ascutney, a 3,000-foot peak. Alarcon, by all accounts, was at the time a guy…
Each autumn, the Vermont Arts Council invites the public and the arts community to gather under one roof — this year, the impressive mansard roof of the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum — for an awards gala and reception. The annual event is designed “to bring focus to people who have been making a huge impact on the…
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9/26/14: Green Mountain Cabaret has been bringing saucy entertainment and body positivity to Vermont audiences for two years now. Eva caught their show Geeks ‘N’ Cheeks 2: The Undressing at Club Metronome last Friday. Music: “Habanera” from Carmen by Georges Bizet, performed by Kevin MacLeod & Jenny Lee Mitchell This episode of Stuck in Vermont…
Dear Athena, I left my boyfriend because he cheated and lied the whole time we were together. The truth is, I knew he was a failure and didn’t amount to anything. So I got behind him, encouraged him to start up a business, get back to the university and save up money. He had a…
La Traviata is the world’s most-performed opera. According to Operabase, a website that compiles opera statistics from around the world, this season alone (2014-15) will see Verdi’s warhorse performed 748 times. Make that 750: The Opera Company of Middlebury, which is not yet on Operabase’s radar, will perform La Traviata twice this weekend. Two elements…
Milan Kundera once wrote, “The novel is a meditation on existence as seen through the medium of imaginary characters.” Burlington writer David Huddle’s new novel, The Faulkes Chronicle, is an extreme example of this assertion. It is the tale of a dying mother, told by her innumerable children just learning to live. As such, it…
Last week we gave you the fall performing arts preview — if you missed it, you can still read it here. That was all about the 2014-15 seasons presented by the Flynn Center for Performing Arts, Hopkins Center for the Arts, the Barre Opera House, the UVM Lane Series and others. Over the next few…
Last week, the Reservoir Restaurant & Taproom owners Chad Fry and Mark Frier opened the Bench in the former Pie in the Sky space at 492 Mountain Road in Stowe. Frier says the menu mixes ideas that have worked well at Waterbury’s Reservoir with dishes that could never come from that kitchen. The overarching concept…
A Middlebury College graduate will join a select set of living American artists when the Museum of Modern Art celebrates his career with a full-scale retrospective. Titled “Robert Gober: The Heart Is Not a Metaphor,” the show of 130 works in a variety of mediums opens at the Manhattan museum on October 4. “Early on,”…
(Self-released, CD, digital download) You Know Ono, a Monkton-based quartet formerly — and amusingly — known as Bible Camp Sleepovers, might just be the next Vermont basement band that makes it big. With their debut EP, Goes to Sweden, the band unveils a sound that — unlike some amateur college outfits — is polished and…
(Self-released, CD, digital download) Certain albums are simply made for certain seasons. Bon Iver’s stark For Emma, Forever Ago, while brilliant any time of year, just plays better when you’re holed up in a cozy spot amid winter’s icy grip. Father John Misty’s Fear Fun, on the other hand, seems to exude a warmer haze…
ARIES (March 21-April 19): As I hike through the wilderness at dusk, the crickets always seem to be humming in the distance. No matter where I go, their sound is farther off, never right up close to me. How can that be? Do they move away from me as I approach? I doubt it. I…
As Vermont’s political establishment prepares for an epic battle over whether — and how — to pay for the nation’s first universal health care system, an unlikely character is sounding the alarm. He doesn’t believe the legislature has the fortitude to raise $2 billion in revenue to pay for the so-called single-payer system Gov. Peter Shumlin’s administration…
It seems like only yesterday I closed my review of Roger Donaldson’s lame Taken rip-off The November Man with these words: “It doubtless won’t be long before the next aging star decides to get his Neeson on … Who knows, maybe as soon as December.” Maybe as soon as December? How about later that month!…
The stop-motion creations of animation studio Laika bristle with adorable grotesquerie. Its films are full of things you want to pet, and other things that look like they might bite you. Even critters that turn out to be friendly, such as the box-wearing gremlins of this film, are never cute in a pandering way —…
Chef Darrell Sawyer started his career as a teenager at Perry’s Fish House in South Burlington. He attended culinary school in California and made pastries for star chef Nathan Lockwood at Seattle’s Altura. Now, Sawyer is back home in Vermont slinging burgers. This isn’t the sob story it may sound like. Sawyer is the chef…
So many records, so little time. Seven Days gets more album submissions than we know what to do with. And, given the ease of record making these days, it’s difficult to keep up. Still, we try to get to every local release that comes across the music desk, no matter how obscure or far out.…
Consider your run-of-the-mill colonoscopy. According to paperwork generated by MVP Health Care, the insurer paid an independent physician roughly $550 to complete the procedure. The same insurer paid a doctor employed by Fletcher Allen Health Care nearly $1,800 for the same test. Independent docs in Vermont complain that such rate discrepancies are putting the squeeze…
Jessica Maynard, 39 year old, died peacefully Saturday September 27 2014, surrounded by family at the Vermont Respite House. She was Born April 3, 1975 in Burlington, VT the daughter of Daniel and Cheryl Maynard of Mooers Forks, NY. She began working in the family business, Peter Maynard Roofing, for a few years when she…
Fran Bull presents the night life of humanity in her new work “STATIONS, a cycle of 14 sculptural paintings.” These are monumental, dimensional, figurative works. On them, figures emerge from the picture plane and reach for each other — and the viewer. Collectively the paintings do not present a linear narrative, but each tells a…
Matt Sargent has been holding his Phantom Dinners since early 2010; this past summer, his food truck was a hit on the local festival circuit, at Shelburne Vineyard and in Waitsfield. Now, the elusive cook has nabbed himself a regular haunt. As the Valley Reporter reported last week, Sargent and his partner have signed a…
People talk plenty about food and drink in the Northeast Kingdom. Greensboro’s Hill Farmstead Brewery has been lauded as the world’s best brewery since Shaun Hill started making beer on the family farm in 2010. Nearby Jasper Hill Farm’s cheeses continue to rack up accolades. And Caledonia Spirits’ award-winning, bartender-favorite Barr Hill gin is made…
