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By ALEX HANSON
It’s a mark of how arbitrary severe weather can be that this week’s heavy rain treated Chelsea and Thetford — just a couple towns apart — so differently.In Chelsea, the First Branch of the White River cut into Route 110, and a sign south of Chelsea...
By ALEX HANSON
It’s been five years since Opera North first united opera with the circus arts. The productions, performed under a tent at Blow-Me-Down Farm in Cornish, show no signs of letting up.“The fun part is to create a new concept every year,” Evans Haile,...
By ALEX HANSON
Around 40 years or so ago, Charlet Davenport was serving on the Vermont Arts Council.She was still a new resident, having moved to the state with her husband, Peter, in 1962. (She’s still a newcomer even now, she said.) At the time, AVA Gallery was...
By ALEX HANSON
SOUTH STRAFFORD — For four days, Bruce MacPhail sat at a table in an open garage bay and talked with people as they walked by with boxes, bags and armloads of his books.He had put out a call last week for people to stop by and select from his shelves...
By ALEX HANSON
The distance from Strafford to Hollywood is almost unthinkably vast, at least in social terms. People who go to the former often are fleeing everything the latter represents.That was true of Austen Earl’s parents.“Both of them were kind of hippies who...
By ALEX HANSON
During her upbringing in the Netherlands, Ria Blaas didn’t have Bertolt Brecht on her reading list.Come to think of it, who does? Even among theater aficionados, Brecht seldom rises to the top of the list when a season series is assembled.“He’s not...
By ALEX HANSON
BRADFORD, Vt. — So far, this has been a straightforward year for approval of Vermont school budgets.With the state education fund providing more per pupil funding, many districts have been able to increase spending without corresponding tax rate...
By ALEX HANSON
Over the last several years, Barnard native Chloe Powell has made a niche out of bringing the world to her small town.She started the music series at Feast & Field, Barnard’s well-loved summer farmers market. She regularly brings in not only the cream...
By ALEX HANSON
Tommy Crawford has become known for his work as both an actor and a musician. That mix of theater and song has been with him pretty much from the start.Theater exposed him to music in the public schools of Montclair, N.J., where he grew up. He picked...
By ALEX HANSON
James Graham first picked up a guitar at 14 and has played music ever since. Writing songs gives voice to his inner life.“I think (for) most people (who) come to the singer-songwriter thing is, it’s a refuge when you’re a kid,” Graham said in a recent...
By ALEX HANSON
Even before it was a Christian holiday, Easter was a time of rebirth. Perhaps in that spirit, though more likely because it’s warming up, there are a lot of vibrant arts events taking place around the Upper Valley over the next few days. Rather than...
By ALEX HANSON
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Last summer, as JAG Productions was preparing for its second year of Theater on the Hill at King Arthur Baking Co., Jarvis Antonio Green said he could envision a physical home for the company he started.“I’m not the only...
By ALEX HANSON
The Vermont Supreme Court has dismissed a lawsuit brought by three families who argued that the state should pay for all students to attend the school of their choice, public or private.The court’s March 17 decision in Vitale v. Vermont affirms a...
By ALEX HANSON
Since its founding in 2004, WRIF (White River Indie Films) has held its annual festival all over the calendar.Sometimes that meant the festival happened when the weather was so nice that it could be hard to lure people out of their gardens and into a...
By ALEX HANSON
Before he founded Shaker Bridge Theatre, in 2007, Bill Coons had picked out the sailboat on which he planned to retire.Instead, he put his retirement money into starting a small theater company, from which he didn’t draw a paycheck for the first five...
By ALEX HANSON
CROYDON — Avoiding a repeat of last year, voters here turned out in relatively large numbers Saturday to approve the annual school budget.But that doesn’t mean there weren’t a few proposals at the Croydon School District Meeting to alter the budget....
By ALEX HANSON
In 25 years of covering the Upper Valley, one of the most extraordinary public gatherings I’ve been to was the 2012 Bethel Town Meeting.Unhappy with how town officials handled the immediate aftermath of Tropical Storm Irene the previous year, voters...
By ALEX HANSON
ROYALTON — Making music on her own has been part of Alison Turner’s life since middle school. For a shy, self-described “reticent” child, music was an outlet.“I think I got my first Mac computer when I was in seventh grade,” Turner, a Royalton native...
By ALEX HANSON
CROYDON — Jody Underwood and Angi Beaulieu were allies on the Croydon School Board during a fierce battle over education policy that led to a major change in state law.That they are now opponents, with Beaulieu challenging Underwood, the current board...
By ALEX HANSON
Travis Ramsey’s two kids were still small when they inspired him to start writing a string quartet about childhood back in 2017.Ramsey, who teaches music at Marion Cross School, also had just read a book about Wagnerian childhood that guided his...
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