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The shock many Vermonters felt over the leaked draft of a U.S. Supreme Court decision that would overturn Roe v. Wade was tempered by the fact that state law guarantees a woman’s right to an abortion. Voters will have the chance to enshrine that right in the Vermont Constitution this fall. Gov. Phil Scott opened his weekly press conference on Tuesday by reminding residents of the 2019 state law that affirms “reproductive health decisions are between a patient and their doctor, without government interference.” The text of that law “recognizes the fundamental right of every individual who becomes pregnant to choose to carry a pregnancy to term, to give birth to a child, or to have an abortion.” The pro-choice Republican governor, who describes himself as a centrist and socially moderate, stressed that in November, voters will be able to codify that right in the state constitution through Proposition 5, a ballot measure also referred to as the Reproductive Liberty Amendment. Protesters upset over the draft decision gathered on Tuesday evening outside federal courthouses around Vermont. In Burlington, U.S. Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) spoke to a crowd and called the decision “outrageous.” ”We knew it was coming, but we can’t believe it would happen,” Welch said. “This is setting back reproductive freedom by generations.” Abortion rights activists in Vermont, while proud of the steps taken to preserve a woman’s right to choose, say the development underscores the need for constant vigilance.

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“I think this is a wake-up call for all of us,” said Lucy Leriche, vice president of public policy for the Planned Parenthood Vermont Action Fund. “This state supports reproductive rights really strongly, but I’m not taking anything for granted, and Vermonters shouldn’t take anything for granted.” Leriche recalls how she and supportive lawmakers were branded as “alarmist” for even suggesting that the Supreme Court’s shift to the right under the Trump administration was something Vermonters needed to counter. “Many of us could see this coming,” she said. Polling has already indicated strong support for the passage of Proposition 5, and the leaked draft ruling will likely lead to more, she said. “I think this is going to energize a lot of people,” she said. The Vermont Republican Party adopted a platform last Saturday that reads in part: “We value the sanctity of human life from conception to natural death.” Vermont GOP chair Paul Dame did not reply immediately to a request for comment. Scott said he did not vote on the platform. There was no celebration over the pending ruling among the vocal minority of pro-life lawmakers in Montpelier. Rep. Anne Donahue (R-Northfield) said if the court ultimately decided to let states decide the question, she would take little solace in such a scattershot approach. She would prefer instead, she said, a decision clarifying that unborn children deserve protection under the U.S. Constitution.

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PAPERS, PLEASE Jeannette Belanger had been traveling from Vermont to Canada to see family for more than 60 years when the pandemic shut things down. Blocked by rules that barred nonessential travel, Belanger, who was born in Québec but lives in the Vermont border town of Canaan, decided to wait it out. But even as the rules eased, Belanger faced another roadblock: the ArriveCAN phone app, to which travelers must upload their vaccination information, identification and travel plans in order to gain entry. Belanger has had three COVID-19 vaccine shots. But at age 80, she’s never downloaded an app before and has no desire to start now.

However, with a funeral to attend on February 23, the retired nurse decided to get some help with the border-crossing bureaucracy. Her longtime friend Ginette Gagnon steered Belanger to the bright-yellow building that houses Canaan’s Alice M. Ward Memorial Library. There, library director Sharon Ellingwood White has become known for providing ArriveCAN support to Francophones living in Vermont and New Hampshire. “Many elderly people are very intimidated” by ArriveCAN, White said. Some drive to border stations to ask for help. When they are turned away, White said, the Québec-bound are advised to head for the Canaan bibliothèque. “The Canadians know: Go to the yellow library,” White said.

White helped Belanger sign up for ArriveCAN on the library’s computer and print out the barcode that serves as an entry ticket for people who don’t have smartphones. Belanger made it to the funeral and is still grateful for the help more than two months later. White estimated that she’s helped about a dozen people with their ArriveCAN paperwork. The app requires users to enter information about when they’ll be traveling. For repeat trips to Québec, that means repeat visits to the library. But White said her lessons are getting through to some elderly patrons. One recently told the library director that she’d made it across the border without help. “I don’t need you this time,” the woman told White. ANNE WALLACE ALLEN SEVEN DAYS MAY 4-11, 2022

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LOVE AND SUPPORT

As the parent of a 29-year-old transgender woman, I wake each day with concern for her safety. The murder of Fern Feather [“‘A Star-Being’: Friends Mourn Fern Feather, a Transgender Woman Killed in Morristown,” April 15] has surfaced my fears, anxieties and anger. I call on the religious and political leaders who seek personal and political gain by espousing hatred for those who fall outside our paradigms of gender to stop the hatred. Your gain comes at the cost of lives. I hold you complicit in the death of Fern Feather and the 57 trans or gender-nonconforming murder victims in 2021, as reported by the Human Rights Campaign. Your views and perspectives, couched in the preservation of the family, help fuel the fires of hatred. In a country founded on the beliefs of freedom and individual rights, I’m confounded by the way you’ve turned your backs on people you are expected to represent, support and defend. From my perspective, the path toward the recognition of one’s authentic self can be fraught with isolation and the loss of family. As a parent, I learned that failing to recognize and embrace my daughter’s identity risked her disappearance from our lives. To truly embrace her, I placed myself in a position of love and unconditional acceptance. I mourn the loss of Fern and pray for my daughter’s safety. I pray for the safety of others and implore us all to put aside hatred and recognize the value of support, acceptance and, if possible, love. John Zaber

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Imagine the surprise and delight I experienced reading Sally Pollak’s piece [“Walking in Rhythm,” April 20], coming upon her description (apt!) of my poem “New Watch.”

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A lot of grassroots work has been done by Vermonters in the last decade to destigmatize cannabis use with the goal of legalizing this important plant-based medicine. Thankfully, we have crossed that finish line and retail cannabis sales will become a reality this year. Unfortunately, the media continues to lag behind in its representation of this plant and the characterization of the entrepreneurs looking to gain entry into this emerging, legal market. Betting The artwork that Seven Days chose for the April 20 cover story [“Betting Big on Weed”] is a prime example. Do we really need a Joe Camellike character smiling over his gambling chips to represent the potential positive economic impact and/or risk that this new industry will have for hopeful Vermonters? I don’t think so. It continues the negative stereotype that cannabis is

a vice and that the business of cannabis is shady. As a parent, I am also very concerned about your use of a cartoon character to represent cannabis. This goes against the efforts our communities and government have made to protect minors from the health hazards related to cannabis use and the developing brain. Cannabis is for adults. Let’s not market it to children. Vermonters have worked hard to bring cannabis out of the darkness and into the light. We need the media’s help to keep it here. Seven Days is well positioned to lead on this front if it chooses to, and I ROUGH LANDING am hopeful that it SALUMI SALUTE will. Thanks for JOBS, JOBS, JOBS! listening.

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I read Paula Routly’s description of trying to put a deck on her house [From the Publisher: “In My Backyard,” April 6]. As someone who has served on two separate community planning commissions, I would say the situation she described seems to be a misapplication of the zoning rules. If it is not, then I’ll bet members of the planning and zoning commissions didn’t know this would be the effect of what they were doing. Because of its crowded nature, the neighborhood you described should have been exempted from the setback as impractical. The zoning and building administrators should have taken that into account, as well as the fact that you were staying on the original footprint. Their job is both to enforce the statutes and also to help homeowners, who pay the bills, to build what they need while staying within the rules. You should have been advised to seek a variance before the planning and zoning commission; we heard them all the time. And you should have used the power of the pen to alert residents of this and seek a change to the statutes. In the second case, I hope that before the multistory apartment building went up, neighboring owners were advised and informed of hearing dates so they could express their concerns. Sure, NIMBY is ridiculed, but out-of-character development is a valid concern to people in neighborhoods. Just as homeowners should build or remodel while respecting their neighbors, so should developers and local zoning officials. John Taylor

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Editor’s note: Illustrator Luke Eastman’s whimsical “weed guy” has been a recurring character in our coverage of the legal cannabis on Weed industry in Vermont, giving us a way to visually convey a shift in attitudes toward cannabis. He’s been depicted driving a car; stocking store shelves; working as a Realtor; as a legislative bill; as an older gentleman wearing reading glasses. His image always accompanies articles written for adults. And unlike Joe Camel, he’s not selling — or smoking — anything.

Hopeful Vermont cannabis players see green in the coming retail market BY DEREK BROUWER & SASHA GOLDSTEIN, PAGE 26

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FOOD+ DRINK 38 Root to Rise South Burlington’s Common Roots schools kids and the community on sustainable eating

Hot Stuff

On World Disco Soup Day, food security advocates collaborate to offer free meals

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COVER DESIGN REV. DIANE SULLIVAN • IMAGE MARC NADEL

ARTS+CULTURE 44 Predator and Prey

Book review: The Lioness, Chris Bohjalian

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FEATURES 28

From the Publisher

Final Cut?

Space Invaders

After online trainings were mocked, educators rally around LGBTQ youth

Take-Home Treatment

Vermont’s methadone dispenser program could be a “game changer”

Casualties of Privilege

Book review: How Strange a Season, Megan Mayhew Bergman

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Short takes on five Vermont books

Jay Craven shoots a movie about early Vermont that could be his career’s coda

Empty Spaces

Point of Reference

Talk It Out: ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic

Vermont-born Cathy Delneo returns home for a new role as state librarian

The Burlington Connection

It’s spring, and Vermont is teeming with green buds. To care for its 13,000 trees, landscapes and flower beds, Burlington employs a team of five arborists. Eva talks with some of them as they prune, mulch and plant new trees throughout the city.

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Ode to Outrage Vietnamese American poet Truong Tran brings his perspective as a teacher, queer person and refugee to his new collection of verse and essays, Book of the Other: Small in Comparison. Reading and discussing selections from the book at the Norwich Bookstore, Tran engages with the injustices of antiAsian racism in the world of academia and beyond.

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Life Cycle Researchers, city planners, sustainability advocates and community members convene at Middlebury’s Town Hall Theater for the 2022 Vermont Walk/ Bike Summit. During a packed day of workshops, film screenings, award presentations and a keynote address from transportation planning expert Don Kostelec, Vermonters contemplate the impact that a more walkable, bikeable state would have on public health, happiness and the environment. SEE CALENDAR LISTING ON PAGE 66

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Before his death in September, Vermont hip-hop artist and producer Johnny “JL” Morris composed the soundtrack for the short film “Fire & Ash.” Codirected by Andreas John and Hanna Satterlee, the film is a moving tribute to creation, transformation, and JL’s life and work. It premieres at Montpelier’s Savoy Theater, followed by a talk-back and potluck reception. Masks are required.

That’s So Raven Scavenger Gallery in White River Junction marks its 10th birthday with “Shapeshifter,” a solo show from founder Stacy Hopkins. Hopkins’ magical, mystical linoleum prints center on ravens, the bird in the jewelry gallery’s logo. The show’s opening-night celebration features a sale, raffle and wine tasting from Artisanal Cellars. SEE GALLERY LISTING ON PAGE 52

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Toe the Line The Capital City Grange comes alive with the sounds of folk music and gender-neutral calling at Montpelier Contra Dance. With a newcomers’ lesson before the main event, locals of all experience levels can balance, shadow and do-si-do the night away at this joyful community affair. Masks and proof of vaccination are required. SEE CALENDAR LISTING ON PAGE 67

Deep Roots It’s never a bad time for a spring shindig. But given the recent spike in transphobic and homophobic hate and harassment, the Pride Center of Vermont’s 2022 TransPlants Plant Sale + Block Party in Burlington couldn’t be more timely. Between browsing for new sprouts and seedlings, attendees jam out to live music, attend workshops and pick up excellent nosh from a fleet of food trucks. Proceeds benefit the PCVT’s transgender programming and advocacy. SEE CALENDAR LISTING ON PAGE 68

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How Sweet It Is Home bakers learn new recipes while giving back at Ukrainian Dessert Traditions, an online class from City Market, Onion River Co-op. Culinary anthropologist Anna Mays demonstrates how to make makivnyk, a poppy seed bread; syrnyk, an Easter cheesecake; and uzvar, a spiced honey fruit punch. Donations benefit World Central Kitchen’s Chefs for Ukraine relief program. SEE CALENDAR LISTING ON PAGE 70

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In the run-up to the 2020 election, staff writer Chelsea Edgar got what seemed like a simple assignment: Cover the protests in Johnson that had been happening weekly since Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election. Once she started reporting, Edgar realized the situation was more complicated, and more interesting, than it at first appeared. The protests had spawned an effort to fly a Black Lives Matter flag in town, which encountered resistance. As Edgar interviewed people on both sides, she Be-Longing for Justice realized they were all connected by an intricate protesters in Johnson web of relationships. To tell the story, she had to understand how everyone was intertwined. That took time. Edgar spent three weeks working on “‘Torn Apart’: Fault lines over Trump, racism and justice divide the town of Johnson,” which appeared in the November 11, 2020, issue. On Sunday, the piece won first place in the Coverage of Protests and Rallies category at the New England Better Newspaper Competition; Seven Days competes against other large weeklies in the region. Edgar was on hand to receive the award in Boston at the New England Newspaper & Press Association’s annual convention. She won four first-place awards but was most proud of that one. “That was a really hard story to write,” Edgar said of the piece afterward. It was a worthwhile effort according to the contest judge, who noted that the piece “excels by bringing in a multitude of voices and perspectives that reveal the many nuances of the community’s divide. Well-crafted, empathetic and even-handed writing.” Chelsea Edgar also received the most prestigious individual prize: Reporter of the Year. Edgar In fact, she was one of six Seven Days staffers to receive multiple first-place awards: Burlington reporter Courtney Lamdin snagged three for stories about the Queen City. Colin Flanders shared a byline on one of Lamdin’s stories and picked up two more awards, one for crimes and courts reporting, another for an obituary about a couple who both died of COVID-19. Kevin McCallum scored two for his coverage of the environment and climate change. Derek Brouwer won two for investigative/enterprise work and science and tech reporting. And senior multimedia producer Eva Sollberger once again swept all four of the video categories. In total, Seven Days took home 23 first-place honors, including the award for General Excellence. Find the full list on the opposite page. Our colleagues around the state made a strong showing, too. The Addison County Independent, the Mountain Times in Killington, the Commons in Brattleboro, VTDigger.org and the Stowe-based Vermont Community News Group all earned first-place prizes. On Friday night, Vermont Community News Group publisher Gregory Popa was inducted into the New England Newspaper Hall of Fame. We cheered for all of them. Our democracy depends on having a healthy local news ecosystem. That’s especially clear If you like what we do and can afford to help now, as authoritarian regimes threaten journalists pay for it, become a Seven Days Super Reader! abroad and as greedy corporate owners and Look for the “Give Now” buttons at the top of shifting business models imperil media outlets sevendaysvt.com. Or send a check with your in this country. We Vermonters are so fortunate address and contact info to: to have curious, driven, dedicated journalists SEVEN DAYS, C/O SUPER READERS — supported by readers, listeners, viewers, P.O. BOX 1164 underwriters and advertisers — who take the time BURLINGTON, VT 05402-1164 to understand and explain what’s happening in our For more information on making a financial communities. We can’t take any of that for granted. contribution to Seven Days, please contact Corey Barrows:

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n April 1, online content creator and self-described “unwoke cult leader” Karlyn Borysenko cracked open an Imperial Peanut Butter Stout and settled in for her Friday-night happy hour. In these weekly virtual gatherings, streamed on YouTube to nearly 14,000 subscribers, Borysenko shares recordings of equity-focused workshops and trainings, providing barbed play-by-play commentary. Borysenko, who lives in New Hampshire, focused this particular night on the Burlington School District. She played recordings of two community workshops the district’s Office of Equity had organized: “Let’s Talk About Anti-Racism” and “Let’s Talk About Gender Identity and Expression.” In the latter, Edmunds Middle School assistant principal Nikki Ellis, who

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is transgender, and Burlington High School music teacher Billy Ray Poli, who is gay, spoke about their experiences and, in conversation with middle school students, discussed ways to support LGBTQ youth. As they spoke, Borysenko widened her eyes and dropped her jaw in an exaggerated fashion. “This truly, to me, feels like we’re watching brainwashing; we’re watching child abuse,” Borysenko told viewers. “I actually feel sick watching this, but I feel like it’s important that we do watch this because this is what’s going on in school every day.” She later issued a call to action: “Let’s expose these fuckers.” Borysenko followed up with a lengthy online article on Substack headlined “The most woke school district in America is grooming children live on the internet,” with clips from both workshops.

Days later, Ben Shapiro, a like-minded, high-profile conservative political commentator, shared several clips from the gender identity workshop with his millions of followers as part of a commentary on how teachers are indoctrinating children. Then, on the April 6 episode of Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle,” host Laura Ingraham also shared the footage in a segment called “Doom & Groom.” “What’s happening in our schools is sexual influence peddling,” Ingraham told viewers. “What we are saying is, children should go to school to learn how to read and write … that their innocence is worth protecting.” The blowback in Burlington was swift. The school district’s central office and middle school, as well as assistant principal Ellis, were inundated with mostly anonymous calls and emails that appeared SPACE INVADERS

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B Y D ER EK B R O U WER derek@sevendaysvt.com Workers at a Starbucks in South Burlington are seeking to become the first unionized location in Vermont, joining a historic labor uprising within the country’s largest coffee shop chain. In a letter to the company shared publicly on Sunday, six employees on a union-organizing committee said they hope to secure better wages that align with the soaring cost of living in Chittenden County. “At Starbucks we are treated exceptionally well in many ways,” the employees wrote. “However, we are no longer willing to accept working conditions that are only slightly above the exceptionally low bar set by this industry.”

Sixteen of the 20 eligible employees who work at the Shelburne Road store in the Gateway Shopping Center have signed authorization cards in support of union representation, according to Campbell Habetz, an employee and organizer. A formal election will likely take place in several weeks. Habetz, who uses they/them pronouns, said they were inspired to organize by the broader swell of labor activism within the company. Stores around Buffalo, N.Y., were the first to win union elections in December. In the months since, baristas at more than 200 stores around the country have petitioned for union elections. Over 40 successful votes have taken place so far. Habetz, 28, joined the Shelburne Road location in February as a shift supervisor. Having previously worked at two other Starbucks locations, Habetz said their new coworkers appeared “super run-down, super burnt-out.” “We’re stuck in this constant cycle of turnover, which is exhausting,” Habetz said. “We end up with not enough people all of the time.” m

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istee Lemons faced an impos- people in treatment across Vermont could sible choice during her recovery have a methadone-dispensing device of from opioid addiction. their own, something advocates say will It was 2018, and Lemons had spent improve — and possibly save — their lives. almost two years making a daily three“The past two years have been chalmile pilgrimage to a methadone clinic in lenging for so many people, with anxiety South Burlington, catching buses when and stress levels so high,” said Simone she had money, walking when she didn’t. Rueschemeyer, codirector of Vermont After several years of living in tents and Care Partners, which oversees the state’s motels, Lemons had made progress in her substance-use treatment centers. “We life: She’d gotten a job should be doing anything we can do to prepping ingredients ease the burden of recovery in Vermont.” at a chain burrito joint Vermont’s model for treating and was able to move substance-use disorders has become a into a South Burlington basement apart- national standard, and the state now has ment. But her shift began shortly after the more people enrolled in medicationChittenden Clinic opened, and though she assisted treatment programs per capita arrived before sunrise most days to get her than almost anywhere else in the world. medication, she was repeatBut access to methadone, a edly late for work. highly regulated medication Her boss eventually put to ease people off opioids, her on notice. “It was either remains a challenge. leave the clinic, work and Strict federal regulations keep a home; or leave work prevent many people from and keep the clinic,” Lemons, receiving more than a single who has battled addiction dose at a time, and the eight for her entire adult life, said clinics that dispense the drug last week. Memories of cold in Vermont run on hours nights in a tent still fresh in that don’t fit every schedule. MISTEE LE MONS her mind, Lemons decided The state’s rural nature adds to leave the clinic. another obstacle; reliable But before she could break the news to transportation can be the difference her therapist, he informed her of a third between staying sober and relapsing. option: a new program that would allow That’s why some see so much promise her to take home a supply of medication. in the wheel program. Dr. John Brooklyn, She signed up immediately. who oversaw the pilot program as medical Lemons received an electronic medi- director at the Chittenden Clinic, noted cation “wheel” programmed to unlock that 60 percent of rural counties nationjust a single dose of methadone each day. wide have no opioid treatment programs, A cellphone app allowed her to record and the stigma of addiction leaves some herself swallowing the pills before send- people reluctant to get help. Making treating the video to the clinic as proof that ment more accessible and confidential she had. Suddenly, she had hours of her could be a “game changer,” he said, in life back. She felt liberated — and, more Vermont and across the country. importantly, she stayed clean. Opioid addiction is most often treated “I would have been back to using,” said with one of two medications: methadone, Lemons, 43, who is now in her fifth year which has been used for about 50 years, of recovery. “And I’d probably be dead.” and buprenorphine, which was approved While the take-home program ended three decades later. in late 2019 when funds ran out, U.S. Rep. Both act on the same parts of the brain Peter Welch (D-Vt.) helped steer nearly as other opioids to reduce cravings and $1.2 million in federal money to Vermont eliminate withdrawal. And, when taken that will allow the state to resume and expand it. Within the next year, some 400 TAKE-HOME TREATMENT » P.20

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news Space Invaders « P.14 to be primarily from outside of the state expressing what superintendent Tom Flanagan called “hateful, harmful and discriminatory” sentiments. The community countered by rallying behind LGBTQ educators and students. Flanagan emailed staff, families and students asking them to join him in “wrapping around the brave staff and students who have spoken up about their experiences and who are creating change.” Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger, in a tweet, thanked Flanagan and wrote that he was “grateful” to be able to send his daughters to a school district “with such a commitment to these values.” The series of events has shown how a liberal and inclusive community such as Burlington can become a symbol of woke insanity to right-wing conservatives, who have used race and gender identity to turn schools into an unceasing culture war battleground. While local educators who work to promote equity say the offensive has only strengthened their resolve, they’re also considering additional safety measures to keep students out of harm’s way. “First and foremost, it’s a doubledown on exactly why we need to be here doing this work,” said Outright Vermont’s executive director, Dana Kaplan. The Burlington-based nonprofit has been working to empower LGBTQ youth through community and school initiatives such as support groups, camps and educational programming since 1989. “We have to recognize that these are not new strategies that are coming, in particular, from the right. [They’re] basically politicizing the lives of marginalized people as a way to gain political power and backing. There’s no smoke and mirrors about what’s actually happening.” Kaplan points to data from the most recent Vermont Youth Risk Behavior Survey, from 2019, as an illustration of how LGBTQ students are struggling. The survey found that high school LGBTQ students are nearly four times more likely than their heterosexual, cisgender peers to have hurt themselves on purpose in the past year and five times more likely to have attempted suicide. They are also significantly more likely to skip school due to safety concerns and to use illegal drugs. “We want to see the numbers of health outcomes for LGBTQ youth shifting,” Kaplan said. “We want to make sure we are living in a state where LGBTQ youth have hope, equity and power.” In the days following the Fox News backlash, Flanagan said the district received “tons of messages of support” from Vermont residents. Elementary and 16

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middle school students created posters and cards to show their solidarity with assistant principal Ellis. “For us, it’s about making sure that all the members of our community feel like they belong and are supported, and their well-being is taken into consideration, and they’re able to express who they really are as individuals,” Flanagan said. “That just seems so clearly right to me.” The following week, Borysenko was back at it. The Williamstown, Vt., native — who earned a master’s degree in business administration at Norwich University, according to her LinkedIn profile — was finding plenty of material in her former home state for her audience.

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On April 13, Borysenko tried to gain access to a Vermont Human Rights Commission online workshop about the state of LGBTQ inclusion in Vermont schools. The event, facilitated by Outright, was apparently ripe fodder for her “Spy Stream,” which she describes as a way to “expose” what people are saying when they think those outside their community aren’t watching. Because of the recent events in Burlington, both Outright and the commission were aware that a disruption might occur. After several of Borysenko’s followers — whom she refers to as members of her “unwoke army” — managed to gain access and begin recording, organizers made the decision to shut down the workshop “in an effort to keep the learning context safe for all registered attendees who were in earnest there to learn about how to support LGBTQ+ youth in schools,” Kaplan wrote in an email. Tricia Van Vliet, a parent of three in Shelburne, had logged on to the workshop after hearing about it through the Champlain Valley School District. A few minutes in, she said, organizers informed participants that a YouTube channel was broadcasting the workshop without organizers’ consent and suggested they turn off their video cameras and remove their names from their Zoom squares.

“I sort of didn’t get it at first,” Van Vliet said. But eventually, it sank in that she had shared personal information that was likely being streamed on YouTube. “It started to hit, like, Oh, my gosh,” Van Vliet said. “I just feel violated, and I feel like I’m being watched, and it started to feel really scary.” Van Vliet said the incident made her more motivated to support LGBTQ students but also caused her to reconsider how she’ll participate in online workshops going forward. She’ll no longer show her face on camera or use her real name or identifying descriptors, she said. In Burlington, the school district pulled the videos on anti-racism and gender identity from YouTube after the negative comments flowed in. Superintendent Flanagan said school leaders are now considering what virtual content they will — and won’t — post publicly. “Zoom bombing,” when someone disrupts a virtual class or workshop, was common early in the pandemic, before organizers set more stringent privacy rules. But the latest trend, of broadcasting and insulting the words of children and adults speaking in what they consider a safe space, appears newer. “We don’t want to be silenced in our work, and we want to do everything we can to protect our community as we do it,” Flanagan said. “That’s the delicate balance.” Kaplan, who said his organization is also being more vigilant about virtual intruders, sees a connection between the recent verbal hostility and physical violence. On April 12, Fern Feather, a 29-year-old transgender woman, was stabbed to death in Morristown. And last week, a still-unidentified person hurled a chunk of concrete and shattered the front door of the Pride Center of Vermont’s office in Burlington. Mike Bensel, its executive director, told Seven Days that the organization had received an uptick in hate mail since the Ingraham segment aired.

“It is incredibly important that people not be fooled to see these things as isolated incidents,” Kaplan said. “There is a larger, coordinated national effort that is happening right now, and trans youth in particular, and trans people in particular, are an easy target.” Borysenko initially agreed to an interview with Seven Days but didn’t respond to a follow-up request to schedule one. On April 18, she appeared on WVMT radio’s “The Morning Drive” with Kurt Wright and Anthony Neri, where she continued to accuse the Burlington School District of indoctrination and “grooming” and threatened to request teachers’ emails. Her statements went largely unchallenged by the hosts. When asked about the hateful messages the district received, Borysenko dug in. “They’ve brought this on themselves by displaying children as a virtue signal. If they had never put children on the internet, none of this would be happening in the first place,” she said. Borysenko also claimed that teaching about equity and social justice in schools detracts from learning fundamental skills such as reading and math. But those who work with LGBTQ youth say the opposite is true: Supporting and empowering youth from marginalized identity groups is critical to those students’ success in school. “This is a matter of people having the psychological and physical and emotional safety they need in order to show up and be a part of their sports team, be a part of math class,” Kaplan said. Jessica Oski agrees. Her son, a senior at Burlington High School, is transgender, and Oski is on a district LGBTQ task force that will soon recommend steps to make Burlington schools national models for LGBTQ holistic wellness. Last week, Oski read to school commissioners a letter about her son’s 13 years in the district. She detailed how educators listened when her son advocated for access to a non-gender bathroom in elementary school; how the district and his friends stood up for him when he was bullied in middle school; how the high school worked to ensure that teachers would use his preferred name before it was legally changed. Though the school district’s responses were not always perfect, “everyone’s intention and desire to figure out how to do the right thing was constant,” Oski wrote in the letter. “To create the kind of foundation of acceptance, love and caring that my child and so many others received … is a gift he will carry for him for the rest of his life. This foundation will nurture him and give him strength in tough times. I couldn’t have asked for more.”

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Vermont’s largest hospital network says it is shelving plans to build new inpatient psychiatric beds because it can no longer afford the desperately needed project. The plan has been in the works since 2018, when state regulators ordered the University of Vermont Health Network to use more than $20 million in budget surplus to open more mental health beds. The network responded with a plan to replace 15 beds at the Central Vermont Medical Center with a 40-bed unit that would offer single-occupancy rooms inside a new four-story building connected to the Berlin hospital. But four years later, network leaders say they lack funds to build the new unit, let alone run it. The project is now estimated to cost nearly $160 million — a price that also includes upgrades to the emergency department. “We can’t responsibly carry forward the project at this time,” University of Vermont Health Network CEO and president John Brumsted told regulators last week. Green Mountain Care Board members were disappointed but said they recognized the network was in a tough spot. They urged Brumsted to work with them to save the project. The news couldn’t come at a worse time for Vermont’s longoverburdened mental health care system. Staffing shortages at existing inpatient facilities have taken dozens of the state’s 200 adult psychiatric beds off-line in recent months, while the pandemic has only intensified the need for them. Hospitals say more psychiatric patients are seeking emergency care than ever before. With few vacant beds around the state, many of these people end up spending days, if not weeks, stuck in emergency rooms, where they often can’t get the treatment they need. m

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RAJ BHAKTA LOCATED IN 1976 PHILADELPHIA! he trail had gone as cold as ice—and clues to the whereabouts of the time-traveling Headmaster of Griswold (H.O.G.) Raj Peter Bhakta had yielded precious few leads as the wreaths, bouquets, and prayer cards laid by grieving locals in front of Griswold Library’s grandfather clock piled up to the ceiling. The last alteration of time-space causality implying the presence of the H.O.G. had been registered in Griswold Library’s fiction section upon the appearance of a Jazz Age roman à clef detailing the Parisian exploits of an Absinthe-sipping, cane-wielding, bowtie-wearing bon vivant by name of Baz Röckta—whose 1924 debut novel ‘The Brandy Years’ had “captured the spirit of the Roaring Twenties with marvelous aplomb and insight,” according to a contemporaneous Oxford University scholar; “Röckta, often countenanced among the other great artists of the age with snifter in hand, is the most interesting man of his generation, a superb aesthetician unafraid to push the boundaries of the liquid word.” Further literary works authored by Röckta magically appeared in Griswold Library in direct proportion to the disappearance of Ernest Hemingway from the present historical record—until the clues ceased. Attempts to repair the short-circuited time machine had yielded nothing but frustration; the carnage unleashed by the siege conducted by Raff Bezaleel Jr.—self-proclaimed “Apple Brandy Baron of Richville” and floundering H.O.G. rival—had proven impossible to remedy due to the saccharine, sticky, and maliciously-spilt residues of Bezaleel Jr.’s most foul namesake beverage, which could not be cleansed from the contraption’s ornate wiring. After numerous time machine recalibration efforts failed to summon the H.O.G. back to the present age, Vice Chancellor of Griswold (Vice C.O.G.) Erika J. Burzon is said to have recalled Mr. Bhakta’s eccentric Minister of Propaganda, Andrew B. Lohse, who arrived from the Isle of Manhatta by means of overnight zeppelin charter on the Bonbonne Unlimited, a deluxe hydrogen skyliner known for its extensive Armagnac brandy offerings and most pleasurably hospitable turn-down service. Making footfall upon Griswold’s roof, Minister Lohse was saluted by crossbow-wielding sentries and said to be provided with a complimentary glass of BHAKTA 1868 before decamping to the library’s War Room for a thorough briefing on technical matters regarding the frazzling of the H.O.G.’s brandy-fueled time machine. The gravity of the matter was not lost on the tycoon’s Propaganda Minister, who was seen to reach promptly for the library’s Red Telephone and dial the only man who might conjure back the voyaging Headmaster: The Oracle of Waitsfield.

Summoned from his temple in the Mad River Valley, the enigmatic Oracle arrived by means of steam-powered helicopter and set forth in Griswold’s Brandy Room to fill a pewter tub of ice into which he slid his corpus—summarily disappearing into the private visions of a breath-based séance in search of clues. On Tuesday morning, the Oracle arose from his Arctic bath to conduct a most pleasing Horse Dance and set about a tasting of every BHAKTA Armagnac vintage since 1868 in search of leads; transcendently immune to the effects of consuming more than 100 snifters of the exquisite juice, the Oracle was stopped in his tracks by the sublime BHAKTA ‘76. With assistance provided by a militia of local schoolchildren conscripted from the Green Mountain Community School, Propaganda Minister Lohse was able to locate in Griswold’s Dewey Decimal card catalogue a series of 1976 Philadelphia Enquirer editorials warning against inflation; the time-traveling tycoon had altered his pen name yet again to Roger Boxta to evade the scrutiny of increasingly suspicious historians. The Oracle of Waitsfield was said to describe in Sanskrit the necessary repair to the Griswold Time Machine, which has since resulted in the return of the H.O.G. from 1976 Philadelphia—where the missing mogul had left in the crib of his one-year-old self an envelope containing detailed instructions on how to build a spirits empire. Following an evening of bedrest, the rescued Headmaster addressed the public from the steps of Green Mountain College’s Ames Hall with a most thunderous oration concerning the right of every American to unfettered access to the oldest spirits in the world—before rolling out from behind the lectern a miraculous barrel of ‘76 BHAKTA Armagnac purloined from the past. According to Minister Lohse, all tastings are backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government.

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But Scott said he believes that the bill would prove harmful to both property owners and renters. “By making it exceedingly difficult to remove tenants from a rental unit, even at the end of a signed lease, my fear is this bill will discourage property owners from renting to vulnerable prospective tenants, or to rent their units at all,” he wrote in a veto letter to lawmakers. That, in turn, could harm tenants deemed “greater risks,” such as refugees, low-income people and those with a criminal history, Scott wrote, anticipating that property owners would give preference to people with high credit scores and positive references from previous landlords. Supporters of “just cause” eviction immediately pushed back on the rationale, arguing that the people Scott cites as vulnerable already lose out in Vermont’s rental market. The Burlington City Council’s Progressive caucus also expressed disappointment with Scott’s decision, calling the charter change one of the “most promising housing reforms” in recent years. They urged voters to contact Democratic leaders in the legislature and call for an override vote, though it’s unclear whether lawmakers would have enough votes. m

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he pine-green tourist train slowed in Shelburne, pulled off the main line onto a siding and came to a stop with a gentle, squeaky jerk. Word quickly spread among the passengers — including 11 members of the Vermont House Transportation Committee — that the highlight of their unusual excursion was fast approaching from the south. The state lawmakers — on a tour last week of upgrades to the 68-mile stretch of rail line between Rutland and Burlington — were about to see what tens of millions of dollars buy in the rail business. The group filed toward the rear of the train, crowded onto the small balcony and peered south down the tracks. “There it is!” Rep. Becca White (D-Hartford) announced, pointing her cellphone’s camera toward the approaching headlight. “Look how fast it’s going!” Rep. Mollie Burke (P/D-Brattleboro) marveled, as the sleek blue-and-gray locomotive barreled toward them. With several sharp horn blasts, the Amtrak passenger train blew past the group in a blur, and the lawmakers erupted in awe and delight. After a 69-year absence, passenger rail service between Burlington and New York is set to return this summer, and rail advocates are giddy with anticipation. The effort to restore service began in earnest in the late 1990s, and trains are making final trial runs. “I’m thrilled,” said Rep. Curt McCormack (D-Burlington), former chair of the House Transportation Committee and an admitted train fanatic. “I’ve been waiting for this for 26 years.” Amtrak is extending the existing Ethan Allen Express route north from its current terminus in Rutland. It will end what is likely the longest gap in passenger rail service in United States history, said Carl Fowler, a member of the Vermont Rail Advisory Council. Burlington hasn’t had a passenger rail link to the outside world since June 26, 1953, when the Rutland Railroad ended passenger service after workers went on strike. The company restored freight service a few weeks later, but the passenger trains stayed sidelined, unable to compete with the rise of American car culture, Fowler said. Passenger service returned to Castleton and Rutland in 1996 via Whitehall, N.Y., thanks to the creation of Amtrak’s Ethan Allen Express service. But an effort to

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extend the train to the Queen City has been a royal pain. “For a great variety of reasons, this has sort of dragged out forever and ever,” Fowler said. Previous attempts to return passenger rail service to the line faltered. After $18 million in startup costs, the Champlain Flyer ran between Charlotte and Burlington from late 2000 to 2003. But ridership on that 13-mile route never materialized, and the effort is alternately remembered as a bold experiment and a boondoggle. An even shorter-lived enterprise called the Centennial Celebration Train operated on the line in 1976 but didn’t even make it to the end of summer, Fowler recalled. But these efforts — as well as the Green Mountain Railroad’s summer dinner trains that currently run from Burlington to Middlebury — were not true passenger services with connections to regional rail networks. That will change when Amtrak extends north of Rutland, with stops in Middlebury and Vergennes before reaching the end of the line in Burlington. It will allow direct service not only to New York City, but, along the way, to Albany, where passengers can switch to national rail routes, Fowler said. Amtrak has yet to announce its scheduled arrival and departure times because track tests are still under way. But Fowler said the distance, number of new stops and the line’s speed limit of 59 mph makes them reasonably easy to estimate. The trip from Burlington to Penn

Station will take about seven and a half hours. That’s a long haul but faster than the nine-plus hours it takes the state’s other Amtrak train, the Vermonter, to reach New York City from Essex Junction, through Massachusetts and Connecticut. On the new Burlington line, one train will leave Burlington’s Union Station daily, probably between 10:15 and 10:30 a.m., Fowler estimates, and will arrive at Penn Station at around 5:45 p.m. A daily northbound train, which currently leaves Manhattan at 2:20 p.m., will likely pull in to Burlington around 9:55 p.m., he said. Convincing state and federal officials to extend the line has been something of a crusade for McCormack. As a state representative serving Rutland in the 1980s and 1990s, he helped get the Ethan Allen Express service up and running in 1996 and continued making the case that it ought to be extended north. “Burlington just had to be the anchor for this train,” McCormack said. Linking the line to a city of nearly 45,000 people with a large college population should boost ridership and protect the line from cuts the next time the chronically underfunded Amtrak — or the state —looks to trim costs, he said. Vermont currently pays Amtrak nearly $9 million per year to keep the Ethan Allen Express and the Vermonter running. While gratified to see his goal within reach, McCormack laments that the country can’t seem to make a firm commitment to rail.

The tunnel, which replaced two aging bridges and allows larger, wider trains to pass, also upended freight operations of Vermont Rail System. The company runs hundreds of trains a year between Rutland and Burlington, transporting mostly fuel, feed and gravel. The construction limited trains to reduced operating hours for more than a year, then detoured them 100 miles onto a competitor’s rail line during the 12 main weeks of tunnel construction, explained Shane Filskov, the system’s general manager. After the train carrying the lawmakers emerged from that new concrete tunnel, it stopped at a newly updated train station in Vergennes. Lawmakers toured the platform and the renovated,

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“I feel great, but it is a bit disillusioning that it took this long,” McCormack said. The extended service is expected to be in high demand, said Dan Delabruere, the director of the state’s rail and aviation bureau at the Vermont Agency of Transportation. Before the pandemic, the line ending in Rutland carried around 50,000 passengers per year. Amtrak estimates the Burlington extension could add another 30,000 passengers, said Amy Tatko, a VTrans spokesperson. “It just makes sense for the largest city in Vermont to be linked to the largest destination point for our trains, which is New York City,” Delabruere said. The Big Apple will be a major draw, predicted Rep. Gabrielle Stebbins (D-Burlington), who said she hoped to ride it with

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her daughter to go see Hamilton on Broadway as soon as possible. Rail travel within the state is also important, Fowler said. It’s key for young people, said the 27-year-old White, who remembers being a college kid in Burlington and yearning for better transit options. “I would have loved to have been able to pop down to Middlebury without having to take a bus or deal with some complicated carpool situation,” White said. Seeing the rail upgrades that her committee authorized was gratifying, she said. “To be able to stand on the back of that historic train and then watch the modern Amtrak train come speeding by on one of its test rides, that was a full-circle moment for me,” she said. The first stop on the lawmakers’ tour after boarding at the Middlebury platform was the new concrete tunnel punched through the heart of the city. The ambitious project cost an estimated $70 million and took two and a half years of often disruptive work.

circa-1850 depot, which had been moved 1,000 feet across Route 22A from its original spot to a new park-and-ride lot. Due to limited parking in Burlington, Fowler said, a lot of people who live in the Champlain Valley may drive or take buses to Vergennes to pick up the train. Rep. Diane Lanpher (D-Vergennes) said what impressed her most about the rail upgrade was the craftsmanship on display at every turn, from the design elements of the tunnel to the architectural preservation at work in the new Vergennes station. “This is more than just a travel train. These are Vermont landmarks,” said Lanpher, who chairs the House Transportation Committee. A historic brick station in New Haven had to be moved because it was less than 12 feet from the tracks — too close for the newer, faster Amtrak trains. There have been so many elements of the project over so many years that

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preference. Some respond better to it; others find the rigid structure of the clinic visit helpful. The emergence of fentanyl has also played a role. The powerful synthetic opioid, which is up to 50 times stronger than heroin, has become ubiquitous in the street drug marketplace. Heroin is cut with it, cocaine is laced with it and it’s even been found in some pills. Of the 210 people who died from accidental drug overdoses in Vermont last year — the most since the state started tracking the figure — 196 people had fentanyl in their systems. People who use fentanyl for extended periods of time can develop a tolerance that can be hard to replace with the lesspowerful buprenorphine. And bupe, as it is called, also interacts with fentanyl in A take-home methadone dispenser

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someone intentionally trying to divert the medication. “What it showed was that you can live far away … and still do very well in treatment,” Brooklyn said. After the money for the program ran out in late 2019, Brooklyn said he was unable to secure any state funding to continue it. Many participants were able to graduate to take-home methadone doses, though. Lemons, who successfully completed the pilot, now gets a month’s supply. The new federal funding will allow each of the state’s eight methadone hubs to distribute 50 devices, for a total of 400 — enough to cover about 10 percent of people who receive treatments at the clinics. Vermont Care Partners, the nonprofit that oversees the state’s treatment facilities, will roll out the program and evaluate its success. It’s not yet clear how big the program could become. Staffing at clinics could help decide, since someone still needs to watch the videos each day. (The company that created the recording app, however, is working on an update that would use artificial intelligence to screen the videos and flag those that appear suspicious.) The technological aspect might also be too much for some patients, especially those who lack reliable internet. But if the program could convince more people to stay in treatment — or enter it in the first place — it would be a success, Brooklyn said. Lemons agrees. The easier it is to seek treatment, the more lives will be saved, she said: “People are scared. They’re scared of taking the chance and failing.” “I’m so glad they introduced it to me,” she said of the wheel. “Because I wouldn’t be here otherwise.” m

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seriously is to provide leadership so that others follow.” In other words, the sole reason we have to endure the hardships of present and upcoming environmental regulations is so our elected leaders and environmentalists can feel good about themselves. Even they know our ability to effect lasting, global change is nil. If you’re an environmentalist, why are you in Vermont? Why aren’t you in South America or Africa trying to save the IF YOU BUILD IT rain forests? Or in developing countries trying to stop their burgeoning industries from e n o spewing poison into the air? Z n io t c u r t s Or in countries that use their Ob waterways as garbage dumps? As long as these things remain unchanged, any climate regulations imposed on Vermonters are a complete waste of time, effort and money. The only reason any environmentalist would reside in Vermont is because it’s easy here: easy to receive accolades, easy to impose environmental WHAT’S IN STORE COUNTERPUNCHES FILLING A NICHE sacrifices on others and easy to deceive yourself into believing all this activity is actually having large grocery store beautifully presenting a global impact. itself on the corner of Main and Stevens Douglas Hoffman streets. Admittedly, this kind of renewal BURLINGTON takes time, but if your community votes to adopt form-based code, recognize that the rendered drawings may not be what WHITHER WELCH? you end up with at all. [Re “Ram Hinsdale, Balint Outpace Gray Lastly, determine and define clearly in First-Quarter Fundraising for House which older structures are important to Race,” April 16, online]: U.S. Rep. Peter people in your community to preserve. Welch tries to talk a good game about Make sure those desires are in the legal serving the people. But his performative language of the form-based code before puffery, like bragging about not taking PAC the rapid development begins. contributions while still raking it in from Winooski is having to learn some of this trade associations that are nothing but a the hard way. PAC with another name, show that he is Sarah van Ryckevorsel at the heart of the problem that the U.S. WINOOSKI Congress has become. Welch is very popular in Vermont. His Republican opponent faces an WAY TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE extreme uphill battle to get traction in Let’s be honest about Vermont’s ability the race, and the media marginalizes any to impact climate change [“Temperature challengers from outside the two main Rising,” March 2]. We’re such a small state parties. with such a small carbon footprint that Yet Welch is not satisfied with the we could be regulated back to the Stone more than $2 million he already has in Age and it wouldn’t impact climate change campaign funds. He’s still been shameone bit. lessly working the phones, begging for I shared these concerns with one of my more from those who know a good investstate senators, and he replied, in part, “I ment when they see one. Because what agree that if we removed 100 percent of Welch is selling here is not a chance to Vermont’s GHG emissions, there would be help him beat a tough rival. He is selling no impact on climate change. The reason access and connections, pure and simple. for Vermont to address climate change All the trade associations and wealthy

donors know he will take their calls, consider their pleas and, ultimately, vote in their favor when push comes to shove. Those without the cash to buy access will be left to watch and wonder as the U.S. Congress continues to cater to the whims of the wealthiest while the country sinks ever lower into the abyss of inequality, division and anger. Not surprisingly, trade associations and the rich ponied up over $800,000 for Welch in the first quarter alone. Dan DeWalt

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issues, which farmers combat using antibiotics, which in turn cause multiple issues in humans consuming “antibiotic-treated” milk. Eating corn may cause cows to suffer bloating and even death. A diet of corn can cause acidosis in cows. Over time, acids may break down the rumen wall, allowing bacteria to enter the bloodstream, which ultimately can cause acid-resistant strains of E. coli. This strain (0157:H7) will end up in our waterways, in our soils and in the food we eat. Deciding between feeding cows something they are not meant to eat, because it is easier and heavily subsidized, and keeping our bee populations alive seems like a no-brainer. Yet again, greed often overrules common sense.

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Vermonters have always held that we have an obligation to care for our most vulnerable — the children, the elderly, the sick, etc. True, today we also must deal with COVID-19, Vladimir Putin and climate change. But let us always remember our duty as responsible human beings to care for our most vulnerable neighbors. Residents of the planned “shelter pod” community will have only a six- to eight-month stay there, during which time resource staff will help them find permanent housing. So this is not a free ride forever but a helping hand to find permanent housing — something everyone needs in order to build a good life. Mira Fakirananda

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Glenn Sautter

OCTOBER 8, 1944APRIL 12, 2022 BURLINGTON, VT. Glenn Sautter passed away on April 12, 2022, at the McClure Miller Respite House in Colchester, Vt. His two-year fight with a rare disease known as corticobasal degeneration never kept him from living each day with the spirit he brought through his ever-present smile. His smile simply said, “I love life, and I love you.” Those who knew Glenn and his battle with this disease often referred to him as a peaceful warrior. Indeed, he was! Harry Augusta Sautter and Henrietta Dunn gave birth to Glenn in Philadelphia, Pa. He graduated from high school at Upper Mooreland High in Willow Grove. Glenn was voted best artist, best dancer and best dresser by his peers. Glenn attended Wilford Beauty Academy. He graduated as a standout talent and soon went on to be named among the top 10 hairdressers in the area by Philadelphia magazine. Glenn started several successful businesses. His first was outside Philadelphia, and it grew into a large, full-service salon that brought clients from all over the tristate area. His next several businesses were founded in Vermont, where he moved with his family in the late ’80s. Salon Salon in Stowe and the Men’s Room in Burlington are still in

high demand as his daughter, granddaughter and daughter-inlaw carry forward his legacy. Glenn was an incredible father, grandfather, uncle, brother and partner. He always provided the loving support his four kids and four grandchildren needed, but he also knew how to scare the daylights out of them with countless adrenaline-fueled roller-coaster rides and horror movies at his favorite theme parks and theaters. Glenn really enjoyed traveling and relished in sharing his experiences with all those he loved. Glenn is survived by his dedicated partner, David Morrill, and his loving sister Susan Sautter. He was a proud father of three sons and a daughter: David, Bryan, Eric and Jennifer. Equally loved were his daughter-in-law Michelle Sautter, and his grandchildren Sage and Zoe Ruffle and Cole and Dylan Sautter. A celebration of Glenn’s life will be announced along with the location at a later date. His ashes will be divided among loved ones and spread accordingly in each one’s special way. One such event is planned by his sister Susan, who intends to return Glenn’s ashes to Pennsylvania to the cemetery plot where his dad, mom and brother Harry Albert Sautter lie. In lieu of flowers, please help with research efforts for corticobasal degeneration and donate to the PSP and CBD Foundation at pspcbdfoundation.org.

IN MEMORIAM Helen Tyndall

1938-2021, SHELBURNE, VT. Helen Tyndall was born in Scotland and immigrated with her husband, Ian, to America in 1961, settling in Shelburne. Helen was a devoted member of the Burlington Friends Meeting and Alcoholics Anonymous. She loved animals, dancing, music and running. She had a great sense of humor and a sharp tongue. A service of remembrance will be held at the Burlington

Friends Meeting House on May 14, 2022, at 10 a.m. In lieu of flowers, a donation to “Friends Concerns,” c/o Burlington Friends Meeting, 173 N. Prospect St., Burlington, VT 05401, to benefit the Abenaki Nation and Small Potatoes would be a fitting way to honor Helen.

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Mark E. Sikora

NOVEMBER 5, 1921-APRIL 15, 2022 SOUTH HERO, VT. It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Mark E. Sikora on Good Friday, April 15, 2022, following a brief illness. Mark was born in Burlington, Vt., on November 5, 1921, the fifth of seven sons born to Alfred Paul and Nettie Mae (Fleury) Sikora. Mark attended Cathedral High School before transferring to Burlington High School to take advantage of its music program, graduating in 1939. He married his high school sweetheart, Elizabeth “Betty” Guyette, on February 12, 1942, and shortly after, at the age of 20, entered the armed services, serving as a radio operator for the Office of Strategic Services in India and behind enemy lines in China until the end of World War II in 1945. In 2018, Mark was one of the few remaining World War II veterans who was privileged to attend an Honor Flight ceremony in Washington, D.C., honoring veterans for their valor and service to the country. The ceremony was particularly special for Mark, as he and three of his brothers all served in combat during World War II. More information about Mark’s military service can be gleaned from the June 30, 2021, issue of The Islander newspaper, which can be found by googling en.calameo.com/read/ 000183757fd1717240774. Upon his return to Burlington after the war, Mark began his 32-year career with AT&T and New England Telephone Company working on broadcast and communication systems, retiring in 1978 at the age of 56. Mark and Betty began raising their four children on

Martha Allen

JUNE 3, 1928-APRIL 6, 2022 BURLINGTON, VT. Martha “Moddie” Allen died peacefully on April 6, 2022, in Burlington, Vt., at the age of 93. She was predeceased by her loving husband of 69 years, retired colonel Walter Gordon Allen, in December of 2019. She is survived by her five children: Mary “Mimi” Zebrowski of Erie, Pa.; Gordon Allen of New York City; J. Riley Allen of Montpelier, Vt.; Margaret “Maggie” Joshua of Fairfax, Va.; and Kathryn “Katie” Allen of Alexandria, Va. Moddie was raised in Washington, D.C., and moved to Vermont with her husband in 2014. (Her father, Daniel Joseph Ryan, hailed from Fairfield, Vt.) For the last seven years, she resided

Staniford Road in Burlington and made what was then a bold move to the “islands” in 1964, purchasing a property and building a home on the lake in South Hero, where they remained to the end. Upon arriving in South Hero, Mark became one of the founding members of the South Hero Rescue Squad, serving as its first president, and was also a member of the volunteer fire department. And, at the age of 99, Mark was given the honor of serving as grand marshal at the South Hero Fourth of July parade. Mark and Betty enjoyed winters in Florida, also to the end. After 72 years of marriage, Betty passed away on January 12, 2015, at the age of 91. Although always under the watchful eye of all four of his devoted children, Mark remained remarkably independent, residing in his own home and personally maintaining his two-acre homestead inside and out, including mowing his expansive lawn with his ride-on mower, and driving around town in his Dodge Caravan. At his recent 100th birthday party, Mark drove himself to the party, enjoyed the time with his family and friends, and drove himself home. Affectionately known as “Do-Dad,” Mark was the jack-of-all-trades. You name it, he could do it — carpentry, plumbing, anything electrical, building construction, woodworking, small engine repair, sewing, upholstering, furniture refinishing, cooking and gardening. In the late 1950s, Mark designed and built a family summer cottage on the southern end of South Hero. Thirty years later, in his late sixties, he spent multiple summers with his daughter and son-in-law building a cottage on Butler Island in North Hero. At the age of 88, he helped re-side his son’s two-story home

with cedar shingles. When something needed fixing, more often than not the first response was, “Give Do-Dad a call; he can do it.” The entire family was truly blessed to have a father and grandfather who was so vigorous physically and sharp mentally for so many years. Mark enjoyed, and was good at, many recreational pursuits, including golfing into his late eighties (two holes-in-one), fishing, boating, music and cribbage, to name a few. An avid sports fan, Mark regularly attended his grandchildren’s and great-grandchildren’s sporting events and did not miss too many New York Giants and Boston Bruins games. Mark exemplified the attributes and intangible qualities that are associated by many with the World War II generation — self-reliant, responsible, diligent, determined, punctual, loyal, frugal, honest and not too judgmental. A quiet man by nature, Mark was a consummate gentleman whose philosophy was: Actions speak louder than words. He just got things done, his deeds spoke for him, and he always gave more than he received, to the end. Mark is survived by his four children and their spouses: Netti (Jerome Rand), Mark II (Kathleen Oak), Jeffrey (Kathleen Malaney) and Jill (Robert Cain); his grandchildren (who affectionately referred to him as “Pa” and “Poppy”), Kristen Rand Winningham, Jay Rand, Mark Sikora III, Mathew Sikora, Chelsea Sikora, Molly Sikora Dedes, R. Nolan Cain II, Sikora Elizabeth Cain and Sarah Cain Murphey; his sister-in-law Patricia Fitzpatrick Sikora (Kenneth); and many great- and great-greatgrandchildren, as well as numerous nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by his parents; his wife, Betty; and his six brothers: Richard, Harold, Alfred, Fleury, Arthur and Kenneth. A memorial service will be announced at a later date. Tax-deductible donations may be made to South Hero Rescue, Inc., P.O. Box 365, South Hero, VT 05486, or to CIDER, 110 Community Rd., P.O. Box 13, South Hero, VT 05486.

at the Converse Home on Burlington’s Church Street. (Gratitude to the Converse Home and its fine staff for her high-quality care and enjoyment of life during those final years.) Moddie spent the previous decades living in Arlington, Va.; Osprey, Fla.; Montpelier, Vt.; and then Bethany Beach, Del. For 25 years, as the wife of a career Army military officer, Moddie moved frequently within the U.S. and Germany. Moddie attended Georgetown Visitation Junior College in Washington, D.C., and later received a bachelor’s degree from George Mason University after raising her five children. She went on to earn a law degree in 1982 and served as a legislative assistant to former U.S. senator Claude Pepper from Florida. She also worked as a Realtor and as a personal assistant

to the chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Moddie was a devout Catholic and an independent spirit. (Sometimes the two seemed in conflict, but not to her.) Our mother seemed happiest when with her immediate and extended family or her lifelong school friends. She loved learning and playing card games, especially bridge. She found joy in gardening, she had an infectious laugh, and she loved others poking fun at her quirks. Due to a college and theater friendship with the book author William Peter Blatty, she managed to get herself, all her kids and even the family dog included as “extras” in the background of the popular movie The Exorcist. Moddie had natural grace and beauty. She was the center of any gala event due to her endearing personality and her natural love of people, life and laughter. She was forever young. A funeral service will be held at Arlington National Cemetery in early 2023.

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There in your heart, and that is you. And if the people find you can fiddle, Why, fiddle you must, for all your life.

JUNE 18, 1955APRIL 28, 2022 BURLINGTON, VT., AND TUCSON, ARIZ.

Bradley Alan Pascoe, 66, of Burlington, Vt., and Tucson, Ariz., passed away on April 28, 2022, after a brief illness. Bradley was born in Brighton, Mass., on June 18, 1955, graduated from Lexington (Mass.) High School in 1973, served in the U.S. Navy near the end of the Vietnam era and moved to Burlington, Vt., in 1980, where he attended Burlington College and spent much of his life. He retired to Tucson, Ariz., in 2020. Bradley was the son of Corinne McIntyre and the late Kenneth Pascoe. Those left to cherish his memory include his mom, Corinne; brother Jeffrey; beloved daughter Ariel and her mom, Cassandra Edson; the Burns family, including Courtney, Bob and Aleta; nephew Daniel; niece Alisia and her partner, Ismael; Betsy and Sarah, whom Bradley thought of as daughters; cousins Cyndi, Karen, David and Donny; and many, many close friends whom he considered to be part of his family.

Bradley and his daughter Ariel were especially fond of a poem by Edgar Lee Masters called “Fiddler Jones,” which captured something of Bradley’s spirit. Ariel thought her dad’s friends might like to read the poem, which begins: The earth keeps some vibration going

Stephen Hooper Gelatt JANUARY 6, 1939-APRIL 25, 2022 JERICHO, VT.

Stephen Hooper Gelatt, 83, of Jericho, Vt., husband of Julia Blake, died on April 25, 2022, at home with his wife beside him. He had been in declining health for several months. He was born in Fort Erie, Ontario, Canada, and was proud of his Canadian citizenship. Most of his youth was spent in Central Lake, Mich., where he grew up with five siblings on a small farm. He graduated from high school in 1956 and remained in contact with childhood friends, attending several school reunions, the last in 2021. Steve attended a Bible college; then, for 10 years, he was minister in several churches. During the 1960s, Steve ran a coffeehouse in the inner city of Pittsburgh, Pa. As an adult student, Steve graduated from the University of Maine with the highest distinction, his degree in philosophy. He was a trustee scholar and earned a master’s degree, also at UMaine Orono, in liberal studies. Steve was president of the Graduate Student Association for two years, ran the computer lab for the College of Education and was associate statistician for the Office of Institutional Research. He then taught at Job Corps in Maine before moving to Vermont in 1990. Here he worked for Vermont Student Assistance Corporation for several years, followed by part-time teaching at the maximumsecurity prison. After 2001, Steve applied

Bradley had a lifelong passion for playing guitar, having been gifted his first guitar before he was 5 years old. He soon became proficient and, later, virtuosic. His favorite instrument was the 12-string acoustic guitar. While often told he could play professionally, he was never interested in monetizing his time and talent. For him, his music was a way to express his affection for others, a gift to share freely with people at parties, around campfires, in local watering holes and with passersby as he sat on a front porch serenading the birds. This is something he did much of the time throughout his life. Bradley’s other passion was two-wheeled transportation. He progressed from an “orange Krate” bicycle in the 1960s to a succession of vintage motorcycles, which he took great pleasure in repairing, customizing and riding with like-minded friends. Well-known for his ability to repair nearly anything, he also enjoyed fixing up old bicycles. This led to the

for a U.S. Customs position and graduated from the Federal Law Enforcement Center in Georgia — probably the oldest person to successfully complete that two-month course! Afterward, he worked on the U.S.-Canadian border as a customs inspector for a while. In 1991, Steve married Julia Blake, and they enjoyed many years together on their Jericho land, which they named Lilac Mountain Farm. They raised Jacob sheep and sold breeding stock around the Northeast. The beautiful Vermont scenery and seasons were a great joy to Steve. At various times, he and Julia also made a home for horses, cows, goats, pigs, llamas and beloved dogs. Steve created the farm and managed the fields and animals, doing much of the vet work, machine repairs and haying. He trained several boys in farmwork, always emphasizing safety, and these young men became good friends. Steve was an ideas person who liked planning projects. He designed the barn and the extension to our home; working with the builders and doing some of the work himself was a pleasure. Steve had a wide range of skills and experiences. He enjoyed traveling with Julia, especially in Europe, where they spent extended time in rural Britain, their favorite place. Discussing world affairs with Europeans was a real pleasure for him. In their Jericho home, they were hosts for several years for Servas, an international peace/hospitality organization, in which they welcomed guests from Europe and the

establishment of his business, Pascoe Cycles, at his former home in the Old North End of Burlington. Business aside, he took great pleasure in providing free bicycles and repairs to those who needed them. Bradley was a free spirit with a deep and loving heart who firmly believed in spreading kindness wherever he went. For a time, Bradley used to visit various night spots in Burlington selling roses or, just as often, giving them away along with kind words to those who might appreciate them. Such was the way of this sweet, kind man who gave his heart wholly, honestly and freely. Some might say that Bradley chose a hard road in life, but he would counter that he had no regrets because he lived his life the way he wanted to and accumulated a lifetime of precious memories along the way. What more could one hope for? The family wishes to express their gratitude to Bradley’s close friends Joseph and Gayle Callahan for all their help and support at this difficult time. At Bradley’s request, they are bringing his ashes back from Arizona to Vermont. A celebration of life in Bradley’s honor will be announced at a later date.

U.S. In addition, many friends and family enjoyed gathering in Steve and Julia’s warm and welcoming home for a visit or a potluck supper. In Vermont, Steve joined the First Unitarian Universalist Society in Burlington and remained a strong supporter of the church’s social action agenda. He was deeply interested in politics and loved discussing ideas, big questions and ethical issues. An avid reader, he devoured many varieties of books, from philosophy to poetry and fiction, as well as daily reading several newspapers online from around the world. In his last months, Steve was cared for by a wonderful hospice team, especially nurse Sandra Harms. He also received caring medical help for many years from Dr. Charles MacLean. All of that is much appreciated and valued. He is survived by his wife, Julia Blake; and by two sons, Stephen W. (Lois) of Richford, Vt., and Michael (Maria) of Crown Point, N.Y.; as well as by a “surrogate” son, Jake O’Neal, of Bolton, Vt. Two beloved granddaughters, Mia O’Reilly (Trevor) and Michelle Gele, also survive him, as well as two great-granddaughters, several dear nieces and many friends. Steve was predeceased by his sister Ruth and his brother-in-law (and close friend) Stan Miller, as well as his brother Paul. Three brothers survive him: Peter and Dan of Michigan and Jim of Washington State. A memorial service celebrating Steve’s life will be held in a few weeks. Exact date, place and time will be posted on gregorycremation.com. Instead of flowers, memorial donations can be sent to the University of Vermont Home Health & Hospice, Habitat for Humanity or the Heifer Project.

Robert F. Daly

SEPTEMBER 20, 1930-APRIL 26, 2022 BURLINGTON, VT. Robert F. Daly died in Burlington, Vt., on April 26, 2022, at the age of 91. Born on September 20, 1930, in Grand Rapids, Mich., and raised in Marblehead, Mass., Bob married his beloved wife, Joan Crawford Daly, in 1958, and together they raised their large family in Syracuse, N.Y.; Riverside, Conn.; and, ultimately, in Pittsford, N.Y. As a boy growing up in Marblehead, Bob caddied at Tedesco Golf Club, played pond hockey with his many boyhood friends, and learned to sail in the harbor as the Great Depression eased and war raged in Europe. Bob graduated from the College of the Holy Cross in 1952. Thereafter, his graduate studies at Cornell University were interrupted by the Korean conflict. In 1953, he attended Officer Candidate School in Newport, R.I., and was commissioned a lieutenant (JG) in the U.S. Navy and served until 1957 in posts at Pearl Harbor and on several warships. Bob completed his MBA at Syracuse University while starting his lifelong career as a stockbroker. His entire professional career was devoted to providing sound financial advice to his long-term clients, who trusted his judgment, wisdom and low-key manner. Bob worked for several Wall Street firms and retired in 2006. To say that Bob was a rabid golfer would be an understatement. He lettered at Holy Cross for the golf team and maintained a low single-digit handicap for years thereafter. He was a member of Monroe Golf Club in Pittsford for 45 years. Away from golf, he served as president and board chair of the Holy Cross Club of Rochester. He offered his spare time volunteering at Saint’s Place and the Pittsford Food Cupboard. His true passions were his marriage and his family. His wife, Joan, of 61 years was his best friend and confidante until her passing in 2019. He leaves behind his five children and 13 muchloved grandchildren, Mary I. Daly (Paul) Tipton of New Haven, Conn. (Martin and Lilly); Emmett J. (Regina) Daly of Summit, N.J. (Hugh, Peter and Deirdre); Edward “Cleaver” F. (Ellen) Daly of Old Greenwich, Conn. (Michael, Kathleen, Matthew and Julia); Matthew T. (Celia) Daly of Burlington, Vt. (Thomas and Claire); and Angela D. (Patrick) Henry of Philadelphia (Emily and Charlotte). In addition to his wife, Joan, Bob was predeceased by his parents, Frank and Helen (Kiely) Daly, and his infant daughter Patricia Crawford Daly. For the last three years of his life, Bob lived at the Converse Home in Burlington, Vt., where he received kind care and attention from the wonderful staff. Bob put a smile on many faces at the Converse Home. He will be remembered for his mild-mannered ways and ever optimistic and positive demeanor. He loved lobster, dogs and ice cream but, most of all, his family. Nothing stopped him from seeing the best in humankind. Services commemorating his life will be announced in the near future. SEVEN DAYS MAY 4-11, 2022

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the Covid-19 Pandemic”; the New York Times’ “More Women Than Men Are Going to College. That May Change the Economy”; and the Atlantic’s “Colleges Have a Guy Problem” are just a handful of articles attempting to explain the trend and its ramifications. Masculinities studies have grown in popularity in the last decade. But positions like the one at UVM, though not novel, are still somewhat rare, according to Kyle Ashlee, the outgoing chair of the American College Personnel Association’s Coalition on Men & Masculinities. “Much research has demonstrated the benefits of engaging and supporting men and masculinities,” Ashlee wrote in an email, noting that men and masculin-

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of 2020 that 41 percent of U.S. students enrolled in college were men. There isn’t a simple reason why fewer men are attending UVM, Jacobs said. “Me and my team are still drudging through the data and performing focus groups and surveys and things like that,” he said. So are journalists and researchers. The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center and the Pew Research Center recently published data confirming the trend. And a quick Google search brings up plenty of headlines: Forbes’ “Men in College: Another Casualty of

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re men in crisis? Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson think so. The former delivered a speech in the fall of 2021 about “the left’s attack on men in America”; the latter recently released a streaming special with the histrionic title “The End of Men.” Its trailer, which was ruthlessly mocked on the internet for its unintentional homoeroticism, tells viewers, “In ages past, a cycle began … Hard times made strong men … Strong men made good times … Good times made weak men … Weak men made hard times.” The implication: The world is in chaos because men forgot how to be men. I roll my eyes at such notions. So, when I got wind of a new position at the University of Vermont called “coordinator of the men and masculinities program,” who will be “responsible for creating programs and initiatives at the [Women & Gender Equity] Center to help support the retention and success of masculine identified students,” I thought: WTF? Is not the entire world designed to keep men on top? Why would UVM need a specialized staffer for that? Have college officials drunk Carlson’s Kool-Aid? Short answer: no. A different kind of predicament involving men is unfolding at American colleges and universities, including UVM. “It’s strange to have a position that helps … cisgender [men] like me succeed when the world was built for us to succeed,” Jay Jacobs, UVM’s vice provost for enrollment management, said by phone. But men and masculine-identified UVM students aren’t succeeding as much as their femme counterparts in metrics such as enrollment, retention and graduation rates. About 10 years ago, the gender distribution at UVM was more or less even, with an increasing gap of about 1 percent per year, Jacobs said. In the fall of 2021, 62 percent of the school’s undergraduates identified as female; 38 percent as male. That’s close to the national trend. The Brookings Institution, a Washington, D.C., think tank, found in the fall

ities programs can increase success and improve male students’ sense of belonging. Finding out why fewer men go to college is just part of what UVM’s coordinator will do. The new hire will also help the school’s men examine their masculine identities. Sarah Mell, who works for the office of the vice provost for diversity, equity and inclusion, explained by phone that the coordinator will provide spaces for men to unpack their identity, dominant as it may be. “Folks with marginalized gender identities automatically have to do that work because there is no other option,” Mell said. “If you’re coming into a space with a dominant identity, you’re not necessarily asked to do that.” If masculine-identified individuals are given the opportunity to formally unpack their maleness, it can help them think about ways to contextualize their gender expression and identity within relationships. That can lead to “a more holistic education of self,” Mell said. But how will the coordinator encourage students in said discussions? That’s the tricky part, Mell said: “[The coordinator] is going to have to really navigate constructs of masculinity that are specific to UVM’s cultures as a means of connecting and building affinity with folks.” As an example, Mell recalled working as a sexuality educator at Planned Parenthood in 2006. Late-night pickup basketball games at Burlington’s Memorial Auditorium were a prime opportunity to engage with men in the 18- to 24-year-old demographic. Essentially, “You start showing up at the spaces that matter to the people you’re trying to meet and connect with,” Mell explained. Though the position has yet to be filled, masculinities work at UVM seems to be gaining traction with students. A bimonthly talk group has formed, with men showing up to have “really vulnerable conversations,” Mell said. Rather than arriving at “the end of men,” perhaps UVM is part of a new beginning. m

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ill Raap has questions. “I’m gonna sorta use the Socratic method,” he began, sitting in a conference room deep in a barn at Charlotte’s former Nordic Farm. “Oh, shit,” responded Shelburne-based investment adviser Frank Koster with a grin. “This is a failed dairy,” Raap said energetically, a shock of white hair flopping above pale blue-gray eyes. “Why did dairies fail, do you think, in Vermont?” Koster offered several reasons, including lack of scale in a low-margin, commodity business. “OK,” Raap continued, “what do you think the implications have been for the working landscape?” And with that, their discussion on a recent April afternoon was off and running. Such professorial interrogation is familiar to Raap’s family, friends and colleagues. Constant questioning and the embrace of big ideas have been hallmarks of his work over the last 40 years. During that time, the entrepreneur has literally changed Chittenden County’s landscape, and his influence has rippled across the state and beyond. Raap founded Gardener’s Supply, a now-employee-owned Burlington-based company with a second store in Williston — plus two more in New Hampshire and 28

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Massachusetts — and a robust mail-order business. COVID-19 propelled annual sales to $100 million worth of gardening gear to a local and national market. He also started the nonprofit Intervale Center, which has spawned dozens of Vermont farms and informed food and farming projects worldwide. “Will is a leader, a visionary, what you would call ‘influence maker’ and somebody who really is connected to what land use and agriculture is all about in Vermont,” said Roger Allbee, a former secretary of the state’s Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets. Now, at age 73, Raap has a new project, a reboot of Nordic Farm, the high-profile, hilltop former dairy on Route 7 in Charlotte. His ambitious goal for this venture: nothing less than demonstrating a new path forward for Vermont agriculture. On the property’s 583 acres, Raap hopes to build a collective of profitable and environmentally sustainable farm businesses. It’s the kind of model, he claims, that could be replicated on other defunct dairy farms. In December, Raap bought Nordic’s assets for $3.4 million, including the equipment previously owned by Peterson Quality Malt, which malted grain grown on the farm to supply Vermont’s many craft brewers and distillers. He also inherited a small on-site vegetable farm and a

handful of tenant leases, including a flower farm, a shrimp aquaculture operation, a bakery and a beer aging facility. Raap has renamed the enterprise Earthkeep Farmcommon. It’s a big name to match a grand plan, but that’s nothing new for Raap. He does not shy away from asking big questions and then puts everything he has into building answers.

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“Will always starts with solving a problem, and it’s never ‘That’s not gonna work; there are too many problems in the way.’ It’s ‘Let’s figure out how to get there,’” said longtime Intervale Center executive director Travis Marcotte. “There’s a force that is Will. Even if people don’t want to see something yet, it doesn’t really deter him.” An early believer in employeeowned businesses, Raap brought on his colleagues as co-owners soon after founding Gardener’s Supply. They are now 260 strong. Fellow Vermont entrepreneur Alan

Newman worked closely with Raap at the company’s start. Long before business culture became a catchphrase, Newman recalled, “Will asked, ‘Why can’t we bring our values and our culture into the business like we would in any other situation?’” While growing his young company, Raap started the Intervale Foundation (later changed to Center), spearheading the transformation of Burlington’s de facto city dump into a thriving agricultural and recreation hub. The nonprofit has incubated dozens of farms, advised hundreds more, expanded access to local food and inspired projects around the world. In creating the center, Raap sought the answer to yet another big question, as he wrote to the Burlington Free Press in 1989: “How can farming compete when our tax system, our banks and our political leaders guide us to see flat, fertile land in terms of its potential for development, instead of for food production?” A prolific investor and collaborator, Raap has learned, too, from endeavors with mixed results. He played a critical role in building the South Village development in South Burlington. It was intended to demonstrate a new approach to suburban housing that gave priority to open space, agriculture and community over asphalt and fences. The development changed owners due to the Great Recession, and Raap laments that housing built since then has not stayed true to the original goals. Nevertheless, the neighborhood was among the first in Vermont with a virtual, net-metered solar array, and it continues to host a farm. (See “Root to Rise,” page 38.) Raap does recognize that in order to reach the finish line, he sometimes has to give a little. “He knows when to change, when not to change and how to make things move forward,” Allbee, the former ag secretary, said. And, Allbee added, Raap has largely managed to do this “without pissing people off.” That skill will be critical to the success of Earthkeep Farmcommon. Indeed, all of Raap’s experience and charisma will be required to meet the needs of multiple businesses, raise money and navigate a thicket of potential permitting hurdles. With Earthkeep, Raap aims to demonstrate “a new way to be a farm.” It will involve a cluster of collaborative, valued-added agricultural food and beverage operations that share acreage and infrastructure. He asserts that the model will provide a good living for farmers and reward them for farming in ways that help combat the climate crisis. The regenerative practices include managing land so that it sinks more carbon and reduces agriculture’s impact on the watershed, as well as on-farm renewable-energy projects.

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Nordic Farm in April 2021

Will Raap in a photo for the 1982 Gardener’s Supply catalog

Raap envisions the involvement of University of Vermont researchers and nonprofits that will help prove the project’s worth and spread the gospel. They will be based in the farm’s century-old white-and-red barn, for which he will soon launch a $5 million restoration campaign. In his recent conversation with Koster, Raap ended with the big question — and formidable task — that he is taking on: “How can Earthkeep be a catalyst for the future of agriculture?” After more than an hour of animated discourse, Raap sank back in his chair and said, “I’m tired.”

Will Raap in 2009 when Gardener’s Supply became 100 percent employee-owned

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Raap had quadruple bypass heart surgery last July. Lynette Raap, his wife of almost 45 years, said that two days later he was back on email. “He told me, ‘I want to go out spent and burned up and contributing to the max,’” she recalled. Lynette said that doctors expect new heart plumbing like her husband’s to work for about a decade. “I find it actually kind of refreshing,” Raap said of the deadline. “There’s an urgency about me — and there’s an urgency about what we’re trying to do.” When Raap told Newman about his Charlotte plans, Newman remembered

saying, “What the hell are you doing, boy? This is a 20-year project.” “Taking on Earthkeep is an absurdity at my age,” Raap acknowledged. But, he added, “People think I can get stuff done. I think I have an obligation to use that.” Time and again, Newman said, he has seen Raap set his sights on a big goal, communicate it in a way that people can invest in and then form the right partnerships to get it done. The two have not always gotten along, but even during rocky times, Raap is unfailingly fair, Newman said: “I’ve never seen him dig in on what’s best for him.” Early on at Gardener’s Supply, Cindy Turcot, now CEO and president, was working her way up from data entry. Raap wanted to give her a raise that the cash-strapped startup could not afford. “I remember very vividly him taking a pay cut so that I could get an increase,” Turcot said. “That speaks volumes to who Will was and is.” Turcot half-jokes that she has often had to remind herself of things like that when she’s had to deflect Raap’s incessant avalanche of ideas. “He pushes hard. That’s who he is,” Turcot said. “But that’s how he made the difference.” Julie Rubaud, now owner of Red Wagon Plants in Hinesburg, is one of many

successful farmers who started out in the Intervale; in the early ’90s, she served on the nonprofit’s board. Raap “juggled a lot of personalities to make the Intervale work,” Rubaud said. One time, Raap pulled her aside and said, “Hey, when you’re here at the board meeting, you have to think like a board member, not like an anarchist farmer,” Rubaud recalled with a chuckle. Like a perpetual-motion machine, Raap feeds off the energy he generates. The toughest moments of his career, he acknowledged with some prompting from his wife, have occurred when he lost that sense of forward motion. Twice when Gardener’s Supply struggled financially, Lynette said, Raap experienced serious periods of depression. During the summer of 1992, after the recession obliged the company to lay off about 10 percent of its workforce, his daughter Kelsy was 8. She recalled the shock of seeing her dad “breaking down in a rocking chair and just bawling.” Her father was sad for the company and for the employees, her parents explained. “Progress feeds progress,” Raap reflected to Seven Days. “When the world says no, no, no, how do you say yes? The answer is, sometimes you don’t. Sometimes you get stuck.” Beyond feeling that he had let down his coworkers, “I was hitting the dead end of what I thought my reason for being was,” Raap said. “Our mission as a business was to help people garden the right way so [they] could take care of the Earth.” He was also investing most of the company’s profit into the Intervale nonprofit. “My potential to be effective in the world was about Gardener’s Supply,” Raap said. “That was my fuel.” His darkest days, he added, were when he couldn’t see a way to make a difference.

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At the Williston Gardener’s Supply store on April 14, colorful hanging baskets and potted herbs provided cheery props for a video shoot — even if it was still a little early for outdoor planting in Vermont. Representatives from the Employee Ownership Foundation, a national nonprofit, were there to interview Raap. Standing in front of spotlights, Raap was about to expound on why he chose employee ownership for his company. But the host started by asking if he had gardened growing up and how it had led to his career. In Fremont, Calif., Raap’s first job as a child was delivering eggs by bicycle, and GROWING GREEN SEVEN DAYS MAY 4-11, 2022

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his second was growing vegetables, Raap replied. Weeding was no fun, he conceded, but as he grew up, Raap was drawn to “working with nature and being a steward of nature.” Later, at the University of California, Berkeley, he earned a combined master’s degree in business and urban planning. On the business school side, he explained to his interviewer, it was all about making profit for shareholders. The urban planners were focused on building spaces that worked for what they called stakeholders: “the community, the environment, the birds,” Raap said. He believed that business could be harnessed for the good of all. “Business is the most powerful force in the world,” Raap said on camera. But to have a positive impact, “You have to know why you’re doing what you’re doing in business.” Raap pursued an employee-ownership structure early on, not as a retirement strategy, as many companies do. Rather, he explained, “The general idea of giving people a say in things and an ownership stake in things just makes sense.” Raap recounted how Home Depot approached him in 1999 about buying Gardener’s Supply. Saying no was easy. “We never set out to only sell it to the highest bidder,” he said. The day after the video shoot, Raap sat down with Seven Days at the big round dining room table in the family’s comfortable but unpretentious Shelburne home. He shared a formative childhood memory from his East Bay hometown: the 1962 construction of a General Motors plant. “I watched the cherry orchard behind our house and the apricot orchard in front of our house go down for housing,” Raap said. That plant now produces Teslas in the middle of Silicon Valley, a region that once blossomed with agriculture. “Now it’s all been paved over,” he said. After grad school, Raap headed to Europe to explore ways to balance growth with human well-being. In 1976, Raap landed at the alternative community of Findhorn in northern Scotland. Characteristically, he sought the answer to a question: “How do we get people living together and designing places together and eating together and growing food together?” And equally important, Raap remembered asking, “What’s the economy of that place?” At Findhorn, Raap met another American looking for answers — the woman who would become his wife. “I was a spiritual seeker,” Lynette said. “[Will’s] was an intellectual curiosity.” The two married six months later, on the summer solstice of 1977. When Lynette’s father became sick,

Lynette and Will Raap on their wedding day in 1977

A view of the Intervale from above

But Connecticut did not suit the couple, and Raap landed a position at his employer’s Vermont headquarters. “I came to Vermont because it seemed special by operating at a community scale, believing working landscapes are a high priority and nature matters,” he said. Raap also appreciated what he called the state’s “independent thinking and action.”

‘THE POWER OF ONE’ Will Raap in 1989 clearing old tires out of the Intervale

the couple returned to Old Greenwich, Conn., where Raap took a job at the nearby outpost of Garden Way, a Vermont mailorder garden products company. “I liked what they were doing, which was back to the land, alternative energy, grow your own food,” he said.

With their eldest child in tow, the Raaps arrived in Burlington in 1981 on the day that Bernie Sanders was elected mayor. A year later, Raap was on loan from Garden Way to the company’s nonprofit community gardening arm, Gardens for All. He was sitting in his first board meeting next to Garden Way founder Lyman Wood, when Wood and all the Vermont employees were abruptly fired in a corporate takeover. Raap launched Gardener’s

Supply the following year so that the family could stay in Vermont. From Wood, Raap had learned about both mail order and gardening products. He had also absorbed the lesson that a forprofit company could support a nonprofit, which he would replicate when he founded the Intervale Foundation in 1987. At Garden Way, the aspiring entrepreneur had experienced how business could be a force for positive change — and how a narrow focus on profit could halt that momentum in its tracks. Raap was determined to do things differently. From the beginning, he invested equally in building the business and building a company that supported and motivated its employees. One early effort involved a workshop hosted by a young motivational speaker, Tony Robbins, in which participants learned how to overcome their fears. As a final test, they walked over hot coals. Raap wanted to create a culture of big thinkers. “Business is oftentimes about, ‘Oh, shit, I can’t do that. That’s not possible,’” he said. Faced with a bed of red-hot coals, the natural response is exactly that. Yet Raap made it over the coals without getting burned. The ability to control your fear and do something that seems impossible “totally lives with you,” he said. Within two years, Gardener’s Supply was generating $3 million in annual sales and had 25 employees. Lynette said that, especially in the early years, her husband worked incessantly, surviving on as little as three hours of sleep a night. His kids can still recite his office phone number by heart, because they called it so many times to ask when he’d be home for supper. When the family did manage to get away, it was usually to Costa Rica, where Lynette has family ties. Even there, Raap eventually started some projects to support sustainable food and forest redevelopment. “Will cannot go on vacation,” Lynette said. “He has to have a project.” His three now-grown children described the constant volley of questions that propelled conversation around the family dinner table. “Can either of you remember a dinner where we didn’t talk business?” Dylan asked his two younger siblings in a conversation at his Burlington CBD company, Upstate Elevator Supply, where all three work. “We idolized entrepreneurship in our household,” Kelsy said. “We revered people who are willing to do whatever it takes, however long it takes, to make their dreams into a reality.” Addison, the youngest, said he’s often wanted to beg his father, “Can’t you just slow down? Do you need to have all of these irons in the fire? Can you stop inventing for a minute?”

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From left: Addison, Kelsy and Dylan Raap at Upstate Elevator Supply and Green State Gardener in Burlington

But the three remember their dad helping them with homework and coaching their soccer teams. He pulled them into his world. They weeded and planted at the Intervale. Kelsy and Addison became young entrepreneurs when their father made them the subcontractor of a new product, Mole Control. It involved mixing and bottling a castor-oil-and-dish-soap blend to sell to Gardener’s Supply. The pair also recalled one Christmas during elementary school when their father came home announcing that the company had had its best sales week ever. Raap took the kids to a toy store and gave them equal amounts of money to spend on themselves and for toys to give away. It was a memorable lesson in “what sharing blessings felt like,” Kelsy said. No one is more tickled than Raap that his offspring work together — he often sports Upstate Elevator Supply-branded clothing. Dylan grew the business from the success of Green State Gardener, which he originally incubated, Silicon Valley-style, as a “skunkworks” project at Gardener’s Supply. Dylan believes it was the first CBD retailer in Vermont; it’s now poised to hold one of Burlington’s first retail cannabis licenses. Green State Gardener was born after Gardener’s Supply decided against marketing explicitly to cannabis home growers, despite Raap’s urging. To help manage her boss’ constant brainstorms, Turcot had set up a founder’s fund for Raap to use at his discretion for ideas he felt compelled to pursue on his own. Even after stepping back from

Will Raap and son Dylan at Green State Gardener in 2017

day-to-day operations at Gardener’s Supply just over a decade ago, Raap served as chair of the company’s board and “chief disrupter,” as he put it, not joking. In April 2021, the company employeeownership program paid off its shareholder note to Raap in full. He then stepped down as board chair but remains a board member. Though others held leadership roles at Gardener’s Supply, Raap said that until last spring he felt ultimately accountable for the company’s trajectory. “He hates when I call it this, but it’s the power of one,” said Turcot, referring to the theory that one person’s action can change the lives of many.

WASTELAND TO CORNUCOPIA

Contrary to many published accounts, Raap did not discover the Intervale when police called to tell him his stolen car had been found there in 1984. The theft did happen, but the Raaps were already familiar with the Intervale because they had a community garden plot there. Crossing the railroad tracks to reclaim his car did open Raap’s eyes to other parts of the Intervale. Under hundreds of junked cars, thousands of tires and sewage, he saw the promise of something else in the historic, fertile floodplain. “He decided, ‘Holy shit, this is a great growing region here in the city of Burlington,’” Newman recalled. “‘We could have a food basket here that feeds the city — how cool is that?’” Raap’s first step in late 1985 involved moving his young business into the Intervale site of an old McKenzie

slaughterhouse. This was not a popular decision with everyone in the office. It’s hard to imagine how different the Intervale was back then — most certainly not a cornucopia of organic vegetables, idyllic setting for food and music events, and network of year-round recreation trails. Peter Clavelle worked closely with Raap, initially as Burlington’s director of the Community & Economic Development Office and then as mayor. As a kid growing up in Winooski, Clavelle said of the Intervale, “[It] was not a place you would go unless you wanted to drink underage, do a drug deal, or dispose of a junk car, refrigerator or washing machine. It was a wasteland.” To be fair, it was also still home to the city’s sole remaining dairy farm, owned by the legendary octogenarian Rena Calkins. She lived in the brick farmhouse that is now the Intervale Center’s office. Calkins’ farm occupied about 187 acres, and befriending her was critical to realizing Raap’s vision. According to Newman, “If you came by to talk to her, she aimed the shotgun at you. You had a choice: You could run, or you could hope to get her attention. Most people ran.” Raap didn’t run. “He’d say, ‘I’m going over to see Rena. If I’m not back in a half hour, send the ambulance,’” Newman said. Gradually, Raap built a relationship with Calkins and her family. Over the years since, her heirs have sold and donated a combined 141 acres to the nonprofit. “The idea of making [the Intervale] a productive part of our economy and our ecology made sense,” Clavelle said. “How to get there was another question. The

ownership was fragmented. The city was spreading sewage sludge on the property.” Raap took each challenge as it came, gathering supporters along the way like the Pied Piper. He had a way of seeding his enthusiasm in others, of convincing them that it was “a journey they wanted to take,” Clavelle said. Over the Intervale nonprofit’s first decade or so, Gardener’s Supply supported it. Lynette, who worked for the company as a buyer, remembered being troubled by high product markups. “‘You don’t understand your husband,’” she recalled her manager saying. “‘We have to make enough money so we can give it away.’” Since then, Raap has guided the Intervale Center to self-sufficiency with the creation of for-profit projects under the nonprofit umbrella. One is a conservation nursery that grows and sells native plants for restoration efforts. Another is the Intervale Food Hub, which consolidates food from 60 to 70 Vermont farms and other producers for delivery to customers, food service accounts and the charitable food system. The hub generates about $1 million in annual revenue, of which about 70 percent goes back to producers. Some critics quibble with a nonprofit entering the business sector, but Raap sees that as an artificial wall. The profitable innovations support the Intervale’s broader mission. Their revenue not only funds efforts such as a free farm share for eligible community members, the programs also help protect the environment and expand markets for local food producers. Entrepreneurship, said Marcotte, is part of “the founding DNA of the Intervale Center.” Occasionally, Raap has had to concede defeat. His dream of capturing waste energy from the McNeil Generating Station in the Intervale landed a major federal grant only to sink under permitting challenges and lack of a significant power customer. Intervale Compost Products became a high-profile victim of its own success when it outgrew its space and ran up against Act 250 — though Raap pointed out that it lives on elsewhere as part of Chittenden Solid Waste District.

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The specters of permitting and Act 250 hover over Raap’s new project. Unsurprisingly, he’s confident he can vanquish them. On April 20, green rows of winter rye and barley snaked across some 180 acres of Earthkeep Farmcommon’s softly rolling fields. Farm and land director Jacob GROWING GREEN SEVEN DAYS MAY 4-11, 2022

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Growing Green « P.31 Keszey explained that the grains are being grown with minimal tilling practices and will be malted on-site for sale to local brewers and distillers. Another 55 acres are in hay, and about seven are devoted to vegetables, hemp and flowers. Pointing to an overgrown pasture, Keszey said sheep and goats would soon arrive to reclaim the field from invasive plants and add natural fertility. The animals would spread their manure on the hoof, so to speak. Raap first considered buying Nordic Farm a few years ago, before it was purchased in 2018 by Andrew Peterson of Peterson Quality Malt and a small group of investors led by Jay Canning, founder of Westport Hospitality, which owns Hotel Vermont. At the time, the deal was heralded as part of the next wave of Vermont agriculture. Vermont milk was in a perpetual slump, but Vermont beer, the market for Peterson’s malted grain, was booming.

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That promise did not pan out. It became increasingly clear, Canning said, that “as a group, including the operating partner” — by which he meant Peterson — “we weren’t really qualified to scale up the business from a very small malt production business to a very large-scale production business.” When Raap originally looked at the property, he had been working with the Vermont Cannabis Collective, a group of entrepreneurs recommending ways that legal pot could benefit Vermont. His vision then was to develop a Vermont Botanical Commons, a place to grow a variety of plants, including cannabis, that could be used in food and health products, not just to deliver a high. In early 2021, after Canning approached him, Raap revisited that option. But it turned out that federal funds helped conserve the Charlotte farm in 1997, and that precludes growing marijuana since it remains against federal law. Agricultural conservation also means that the land cannot be subdivided or sold for commercial activity other than farming. Raap pondered how to put a 600-acre conserved farm to productive use. Commodity dairy was obviously out. Hemp had crashed. Grass-fed beef might work if the land made good pasture. The 32

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malting business could be revived, but he did not believe it could support the entire farm infrastructure. Instead, Raap took a lesson from the incubator model that had proven successful in the Intervale. He envisioned a dozen or so small agriculture-based enterprises. A few would be owned by Earthkeep, but the remainder would not. Raap began by learning about the malting business and the existing tenants: Clayton Floral, Sweet Sound Aquaculture, Slowfire Bakery and House of Fermentology, an offshoot of Burlington’s Foam Brewers. He also started courting new candidates. Hinesburg-based Shrubbly, which produces a line of carbonated, tart, fruity drinks, signed on to grow berries and make its base shrub on the farm as it expands. Vermont Compost of Montpelier is strongly considering a satellite compost operation at Earthkeep, with chickens to help break down food waste and produce eggs. Other micro-enterprises might include a craft dairy grazing its small herd or flock and making cheese, or a mushroom farm in one of the dark interior rooms of the barn. “We support them. We incubate them. We accelerate them,” Raap said. “Some of those will graduate out of here. Some of those will be models of things we can do on other large dairies that have failed.” In July, Raap and a small team took over running the operation with an option to buy. He rehired two former Peterson Quality Malt employees under a new business called Vermont Malthouse. Raap asked to join the team on weekly calls with a malting consultant to help him better understand their needs. Raap also had to finish dispatching the rats — “thousands, maybe tens of thousands of rats,” he said. Though they stayed largely out of the modern milking barn, the rodents had taken over other parts of the property, attracted by unprotected sacks of barley. Canning had begun the rat eradication project. Raap’s team completed it with the help of a pest-control expert. “Did you know there’s a king rat?” Raap asked. “If you can get the alpha rat, you can control the whole nest.” The new team also started tackling another pesky problem, the project’s potential Achilles’ heel. For a group of food and beverage businesses to operate on the property, Earthkeep must meet the Town of Charlotte’s understanding of what a farm is allowed to do. Otherwise, Raap’s project could run into intractable permitting or zoning hurdles. A key part of his strategy relies on a 2018 state law known as Act 143. The law was written to help farmers run on-farm, agriculture-related enterprises that

From left: Olya Virgalla, Scott Medellin, Marissa Swartley and Keir Schofield making baked goods at Slowfire Bakery

Winter rye growing at Earthkeep Farmcommon to be malted

Cory Welsch cleaning the malt steep tank

towns might otherwise consider to be commercial or manufacturing activities. Depending on the town, the latter may not be permitted on farms. Among the supported activities outlined by Act 143 are storage,

preparation and sale of processed farm products, as long as a majority of the farm’s total sales are from agricultural products produced on the farm. The ingredients in those products must also be principally grown on the farm, although details of that requirement are currently under review in the Vermont legislature. Earthkeep’s malthouse, for example, likely meets the majority threshold since it sources much of its grain from the

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John Brawley feeding the shrimp at Sweet Sound Aquaculture

Brewer Todd Haire at House of Fermentology

House of Fermentology’s bee hives

surrounding acreage. The shrimp farm, raising and selling whole, unprocessed shrimp, has no issues. Dicier, for now, are the beer aging facility and the bakery. Both use many Vermont ingredients but not a significant quantity raised on the farm — although there are plans to do so. Raap believes the solution is for all the businesses to meet the guidelines collectively, rather than individually. It may work. The Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets recently determined that the newly formed Earthkeep Farmers Collective constitutes a farm and qualifies to use the property for processing as well as growing. But the final decision lies with the Town of Charlotte. “If we manage Act 143 successfully,” Raap said, “it could result in a force for innovation in Vermont that is congruent with what Vermont has always done best: people working together.”

Much remains to be hammered out. The Town of Charlotte is taking a waitand-see approach, according to town planner Larry Lewack. “We want them to succeed. We want the farmstead to be a thriving example of Charlotte’s diversified agricultural operations,” he said. Lewack did note that he would like the Earthkeep team to communicate more with the town about its plans. At minimum, he said, a farm incubator and showcase for Vermont’s agricultural future will likely draw enough traffic to warrant more parking, and possibly added turning lanes on Route 7.

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Even if Raap can successfully deploy what Dylan describes as his dad’s “combination of irrational exuberance and indomitable will [to] brute-force super-complex ideas into reality,” the question remains how replicable Earthkeep will be. Ultimately, Raap’s goal is to create something that goes beyond the iconic Charlotte farm’s borders, just as the Intervale helped cultivate a new generation of organic farmers and inspired food-system change.

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Ellen Kahler is executive director of UVM is conducting a research study Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund, which on the impact of Vermont’s food coordinates the Vermont Farm to Plate waste and plastic bag bans on Network. She and her team frequently businesses that sell and serve food. host guests from afar, including a recent group from South Korea that she brought Must be 18 or older and work for, to the Intervale. or own, a food business in Vermont. “It really started with the initial seed Visit go.uvm.edu/foodlawsurvey that Will planted,” Kahler said, “and has Or scan grown into something that’s, quite frankly, world-renowned.” But Kahler cautioned that Raap’s new project starts with a higher bar — and that cloning Earthkeep might also require cloning Raap. Many of the pieces, especially research-proven agricultural practices, should be transferrable. But, Kahler said, “It takes a lot of money and vision and leadership to secure that kind of a land base and fund it appropriately to be able to do these kinds of things.” 12v-uvmdeptofnutrition/food 042022.indd 1 4/18/22 Rachel Nevitt and David Zuckerman of Full Moon Farm have similar concerns. They also question the need for more boutique soda and artisan cheese when many farmers want to produce staple crops that feed everyone. The married couple, who courted in the Intervale, credit Raap’s incubator program for helping their farm graduate to its own land in Hinesburg in 2008. “Will Raap is definitely an idea man, and he does a lot,” Nevitt said, “but I do wonder about the overall resiliency that [Earthkeep] is creating in our food system.” Her husband worries that the project 32nd Annual sets unattainable standards for farmers Conference without the same deep-pocketed support. “It doesn’t seem to function within the economic realities of farming,” Zuckerman said. Raap is already working on an answer to that. “Have I told you about my really big idea?” he asked with excitement during his dialogue with Koster, the investment Businesses taking action adviser, in the Earthkeep conference for the shared future of our room. workplaces, communities, Just the week before, Raap said, and economy. he’d secured $150,000 from a private foundation to explore how to develop a THE NEW WORKFORCE capital fund that would support farms and other enterprises that invest in the HUMANITY & BELONGING environment. THE PURPOSE ECONOMY Vermont, Raap said, is uniquely positioned to jump on the growing interest in investment that, more than just rewarding Join us virtually or at Hula financial returns, also values, for example, Wednesday, May 11th farming practices that protect and rebuild the Earth. “We can fund farmers to be good farmers,” Raap said. “Let’s have Vermont lead that parade.” m

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him a prominent figure on the local arts scene. His most recent historical drama, Jack London’s Martin Eden, screens this week in Burlington, Montpelier and St. Johnsbury (see On Screen, page 62). The director started writing Lost Nation in the winter of 2020, when he was teaching at New York’s Sarah Lawrence College. He and his students produced a 185-page first draft. But his interest in Vermont history dates back to his arrival in the state more than 45 years ago. That winter of 1974, Craven was driving a borrowed truck with a load of firewood when the brakes gave out. He rolled out of the runaway rig and broke his arm. While recuperating, he spent time at the Vermont Historical Society reading about the state’s early history. Lost Nation, which Craven expects to release in a year, centers on real-life historical figures such as Ethan Allen and Lucy Terry Prince. Allen, born in Connecticut, led the Green Mountain Boys in the pivotal battle at Fort Ticonderoga and fought for Vermont’s independence. Prince, born in Africa, came to this country as a young child who was enslaved. Her

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he log cabin in the Marlboro hills could have been a colonial-era home. A horse named Blue, pulling a wagon to the site, looked like a timeless creature. A pile of potatoes, centuries-old sustenance, sat on the dirt ready for planting at the homestead. But sandbags held the thatch on the cabin roof in place. The horse had been trucked from Connecticut to stand in for a mule. And the cabin’s occupants for the day passed up garden fare in favor of doughnuts, bananas and samosas. Huddled by the cabin and walking the grounds, people wearing jeans and boots whispered into wireless headsets. They were careful not to make noise by crunching the dead leaves. But when a certain word was spoken, it was loud enough for everyone to hear: “Rolling.” That signaled action on the movie set, where, in late April, director Jay Craven and his crew wrapped the seven-week shoot of Lost Nation. With that simple direction, actors in period costumes — blouses, britches and long skirts — assumed their roles. They delivered lines such as “I’d say we’re home, Abijah” and “Mrs. Prince, Mrs. Prince, white men are causing trouble down at the store!” Lost Nation, written by Craven and Elena Greenlee, is an exploration and imagining of colonial America at the time of the Revolution and the founding of Vermont. On location at the log cabin in Marlboro — actually built 50 years ago, not 250 — the 18th-century historical drama intersected with 21st-century moviemaking, indie-style. Actors used hand warmers to ward off the chill on the trailer-less set. Crew members sat on logs and tree stumps between shots and took rapid COVID-19 tests under a tent. At lunchtime, cast and crew piled into three black vans with New Jersey plates and drove half a dozen miles to the campus of defunct Marlboro College. Bouncing over the ruts and grooves of a southern Vermont springtime dirt road, the fleet itself was film-worthy. Their reward when they arrived on the campus, where Craven taught filmmaking for 20 years, was a boxed lunch of roast chicken, polenta and vegetables from the Brattleboro Food Co-op. Lost Nation is the 10th feature film for Craven, 71, who lives in Peacham. Craven’s adaptations of the novels of late Vermont author Howard Frank Mosher, such as A Stranger in the Kingdom (1999), have made

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known history is “fragmented, at best,” Craven said. She’s the subject of a 2008 biography, Mr. and Mrs. Prince: How an Extraordinary Eighteenth-Century Family Moved out of Slavery and Into Legend, by Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina, a graduate of

Marlboro College and former chair of the English department at Dartmouth College. Prince’s freedom was purchased by her husband, Abijah Prince, who also had been enslaved. They were landowners in Massachusetts and Vermont. Though not

an attorney, Lucy acted as her own lawyer to defend her family from vandalism and harassment. Her poem “Bars Fight” is thought to be the earliest known poem written by a Black American. Early in Lost Nation, the Prince family arrives at their Guilford homestead, which Abijah spent five years building. (The Marlboro cabin represents the home in the

The filmmaker’s career is rooted in Vermont — in particular, the Northeast Kingdom, where he founded two arts organizations, Catamount Arts and Kingdom County Productions. The latter, which Craven started with his wife, fellow filmmaker Bess O’Brien, is both a movie production company and a presenting arts organization.

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program itself can continue with younger leadership.” Forty-five students from 14 colleges are engaged in every aspect of the production, from script development to editing and set building to camera crew. Their tuition will cover about half of the production costs, Craven said. Another $300,000 will come from tax incentives for filming in Massachusetts — a benefit that the State of Vermont doesn’t offer. Scenes were shot on Nantucket, where cobblestone streets and brick buildings stood in for Philadelphia; interior sets represent the inside of the Prince homestead. The cast and crew also traveled

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Being an independent filmmaker has become “harder and harder” over the 30-plus years of his career, Craven said: “It’s an impossible undertaking, really.” With the rise of streaming platforms, he said, movies have lost an aspect that was meaningful to him. “For me, movies were about putting people in a theater [who were] watching together,” Craven said. “It’s a cultural phenomenon — more like theater than Hollywood.” Lost Nation is an ambitious and sweeping project, with 43 speaking roles and a budget of roughly $2 million, Craven said. The movie is From left: Second unit director Patrick Kennedy and actors Shawn one of six he’s made with a Wallace and Kontravious Harrell mix of industry professionals and student filmmakers who are enrolled in a program movie.) Allen and his militia also spent time called Semester Cinema, based at Northern in Guilford as part of his effort to enforce Vermont University. Vermont sovereignty. Some residents of the Craven said Lost Nation will probably region, known as Yorkers, remained loyal to be the last movie he makes, at least in his New York’s claim on the land. current role as director and supervisor of “Part of the goal of this film is to say the college program, which he developed. that Vermont was racially diverse from “It’s just so demanding at every level,” day one,” Craven said. he said. “I want to see if the [college]

from Marlboro to shoot in Colrain, Mass. To cover more of the costs, Craven aims to raise $100,000 through a Kickstarter campaign that ends on May 21. “You’re on a high wire with this,” he said of movie financing. “And that just doesn’t stop.” Craven calls Semester Cinema a kind of “Movie Smirkus” — a reference to Circus Smirkus, the Greenboro-based youth circus that he cofounded. The students bring enthusiasm and energy to the endeavor, according to veteran actors and the director. “When young people are challenged, they will fully rise to the occasion,” Craven said. Del Zamora, a Los Angeles-based actor, plays Peter Squando, a Native American shop owner. It’s his 108th movie and 274th production. Zamora, 63, whose TV credits include “The X-Files,” “Murphy Brown” and “Hill Street Blues,” said it was fantastic and refreshing to work with students. “A lot of times on sets, people are jaded,” he said, then riffed on the kind of remarks he might hear on a Hollywood set: “‘Hey, I worked with Jimmy Caan.’” The actors in Craven’s film aren’t “coddled or spoiled,” Zamora noted. The atmosphere on set keeps a certain type away. “All it takes is one diva, and you have trouble,” he said. “We all pitch in together.” Students said they’re excited by the depth and breadth of their Semester Cinema education, which has ranged from learning technical skills to gaining a new and nuanced understanding of American history. Katherine Gehring, a sophomore at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., said that after two years of the pandemic,

the collaborative nature of filmmaking made her feel “like a human being again.” “Being treated as a working professional has been really exciting,” Gehring said. “Everyone here is so kind.” Karma Bridges, a sophomore at Spelman College in Atlanta, is on the camera crew and in the movie. An experienced actor, she auditioned for and landed the role of Drucilla Prince, Lucy and Abijah’s daughter. (In real life, her father is the rapper and actor Ludacris.) “I literally had no idea who Ethan Allen was,” Bridges said. “It’s one of the best experiences I’ve ever had. I get to do the two things that I love every single day.” Making Lost Nation was Bridges’ first time in Vermont; she spent much of it waiting around for action and “sitting on the edge” of freezing. “I understand that this is an independent film,” Bridges said. “So I’m totally down for it.” Her mother in the movie is played by Eva Ndachi, an LA-based actor who was born and raised in Kenya. Ndachi said she didn’t know Lucy Prince existed before hearing about the film, but she’s “come to understand that this woman was a powerhouse.” “I’m honored that Jay had faith in me to bring this character to life,” Ndachi said. “Acting is imagination. And I’m trying to imagine what Lucy would feel — which isn’t very different from 2022.” At the end of that night’s shoot, the family that lives in the log house reclaimed their home — if only for 18 hours, until work on the movie resumed. They turned on a string of lights in the shape of a heart that greets people outside. “I think it’s an important story to tell,” said Ani Schaeffer, a teacher who lives in the house with her husband and their two kids. “Part of creating the state as a welcoming place is to show all of the narratives of the people who live here.” More than half a century ago, her parents lived on a commune in Guilford beside the Princes’ erstwhile home. The next afternoon, crew members trickled onto the set ahead of the 4 p.m. call for a 12-hour shoot. They stocked the food tent, rolled (and pulled) camera equipment through the woods, and shot exterior images. “Excuse me,” second unit director Patrick Kennedy of Waterford said to a wandering visitor, “but we’re actually shooting there. We’re everywhere.” m

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hen she took the job as Vermont’s state librarian in February, Cathy Delneo pledged to serve a uniquely Vermont institution: the state’s far-flung network of 185 public libraries. It’s a new setting for her; she spent 15 years in the San Francisco Public Library system and oversaw 27 urban branches. But Delneo, a South Burlington native who has a master’s degree in library and information science, sees the core duties of the big-city and small-state positions as quite similar. As a branch manager in the HaightAshbury neighborhood and then chief of branches for the San Francisco system, Delneo said, she helped patrons find the books or information they needed, mediated disputes between people competing for the same public space and steered locals to social services. “In the Haight, there were a lot of people experiencing homelessness, especially young adults and teenagers,” she said. “I would walk them to the social service place for teens that was around the corner.” Delneo also helped communities, such as book groups and knitting circles, find spaces to meet together. And sometimes she just provided a listening ear. “A lot of people would come in just to talk to someone, to have that connection,” she said. In Vermont, it is other librarians who come to Delneo when they need help handling an issue or obtaining funding.

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As both state librarian and commissioner of the Vermont Department of Libraries, she’s a resource for its public and academic libraries. “Sometimes people think I’m in charge of all the public libraries and school libraries, but we don’t serve that role,” Delneo said. “We provide support to help improve the quality of library service, to maintain access to materials, and to help with systems and structures.” That includes Vermont’s interlibrary loan system and certification programs for librarians. With a budget of $3.2 million, Delneo said, “I need to learn the available grants, how much time it will take to administer those grants and try to match things up so we can use the funding we have available to provide the best service.” Delneo accepted the position after Jason Broughton left to become director of the National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled at the Library of Congress. Vermont’s library system is a lot different from San Francisco’s — and from most others. By a quirk of Vermont’s governance structure, which tends to favor municipal control over county rule, individual libraries are based in towns, without the branch network common in many systems. “I don’t really know of any state that has as many tiny, individual libraries,” said Kevin Unrath, director of the Pierson Library in Shelburne and a past president of the Vermont Library Association. “Schools, police departments, wastewater treatment, pretty much everything in this state has more local control than anywhere else, including the other New

England states,” he said. “But libraries are perhaps most emblematic of this.” The ownership, governance and offerings at Vermont libraries vary widely. Some are nonprofits; others are owned by the town. Some are richly supported in well-appointed historic buildings; others occupy tiny spaces with long-delayed maintenance problems. The system includes academic libraries, such as those at Vermont’s colleges and universities. Mike Roy, dean of the library

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at Middlebury College, is president of the Vermont Library Association this year. “Even though it is a very diffuse, distributed system where the state library doesn’t have a ton of authority, they can use that office to bring together the different folks who are involved,” he said. Roy noted that Delneo is well suited to implement the state’s new ebook system, Palace, which aggregates audiobooks and ebooks from many vendors into one app; it’s becoming available through local libraries this year.

“This is a bit of a heavy lift for any individual library to pull off,” Roy said. “The state library has the ability to organize the technology and put together the capital.” Growing up in South Burlington, Delneo spent hours at the public library with her sister and brother while her dad — an English teacher at Rice Memorial High School — carried out genealogical research. “I was a really curious kid; I always wanted to know more than whoever was teaching me had time to tell me, so I’d be directed over to the books,” Delneo said. “And there I would find more answers … and more questions.” She played the cello in the Vermont Youth Orchestra from grades 6 through 12, traveling around the state to perform at other schools. She also was a competitive swimmer in high school and worked as a lifeguard in summers. Later, as Delneo prepared to graduate from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., with a degree in philosophy, she considered her career options. “I realized that, as much as I liked studying philosophy, it wasn’t really a moneymaker, and I had student loans,” Delneo said. She pondered becoming a speech therapist — a job she knew about through her own struggles with a childhood speech delay. But “I looked up what it takes to be a speech pathologist, and it was a lot of science classes I hadn’t taken,” Delneo said. Then she remembered how much she’d always loved researching new topics at the Orchard School library.

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“I was obsessed with penguins in third grade,” she said. “I went down the rabbit hole of learning everything I [could] about the penguins of the world. I spent a lot of time in that library when I was a kid.” After earning a master’s in library and information science from Rutgers University, Delneo, then 28, started out as a children’s librarian in New Jersey. But a mishap during a vacation in 2004 would alter her course.

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While she was surfing at Cape Hatteras in North Carolina, a tiger shark bit her lower leg. Four surgeries followed, along with 28 days of hospitalization over a period of six weeks. Delneo bears no lasting damage — only scars — from the attack, but she said it changed her perspective. When she returned to work, she switched roles at her library. “It was challenging to have that happen and just resume the same work I was doing

previously, as if nothing had changed,” Delneo explained. “In a way, it was a catalyst to branch out a little bit more.” Two years later, she was working in San Francisco. The Bay Area was a perfect place for Delneo to practice another passion: openwater and distance swimming. She had first discovered open-water swimming in high school, during a music camp at Lake Dunmore. She swam across the mile-wide lake every morning. When she was living in New Jersey years later, Delneo returned to distance swimming after watching an open-water competition in the ocean. Since then, she’s added cold-water swimming to her athletic résumé, completing a one-mile swim in the wintry waters of Lake Tahoe and a 16-kilometer solo swimming event in the San Francisco Bay. Delneo also circumnavigated Manhattan in a swimming marathon — a 10-hour odyssey in June 2014 that nearly landed her in the hospital when her lungs filled with fluid. These days, Delneo competes in 200-meter swimming events in places such as Vermont’s Lake Memphremagog, where lanes are cut in the ice for the winter competitions. Delneo said the kind of endorphin rush that might take miles of running to produce occurs after just a few minutes in frigid water. “It’s like a low-cost runner’s high,” she joked. One of the challenges she’s facing this year as state librarian is long-overdue building maintenance at Vermont’s public libraries. The Department of Libraries is requesting $15.9 million in federal COVID-19 relief money to fix leaking roofs, disintegrating floors and other such long-standing problems at some of the historic buildings. It’s been 25 years since the public libraries got state or federal money for building maintenance, according to the department. In the 21st century, libraries do more

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ommon Roots executive director Carol McQuillen strives to impart many lessons: Eat organic foods, increase everyone’s access to them and take good care of the soil. But the lesson on which intern Ziheng Wang is focusing at the moment is decidedly more basic. The 22-year-old University of Vermont senior slips a round pizza peel under the flatbread baking inches away from the ashy logs in Common Roots’ outdoor clay oven at Wheeler Nature Park in South Burlington. He rotates the pie a few degrees, then a few degrees more. His first job, he explains: Make sure it doesn’t stick. There’s a lot riding on this flatbread, which Wang is making for Flatbread Friday, a weekly pizza night open to the public here at Common Roots’ headquarters. Besides the toppings — farm-raised bok choy, house-

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mill about the outdoor kitchen getting ready on this unseasonably chilly April afternoon. Zöe Launer and Paige Kincaid stretch the dough, spiral golden ginger sauce onto it, then add vegetables. Emma Miner and Matthew Sears set up the table where customers will pay and pick up. And Peyton Rooney tucks parbaked flatbreads into pizza boxes as the students talk about learning kitchen skills and creating balanced meals. Launer and Kincaid were surprised by this week’s flatbread toppings — “stuff I would eat, but not together,” Kincaid says. “And I wouldn’t put it on a pizza,” Launer adds. Until now. They sample slices. “I love it,” Kincaid says. Wang says he’s learned to include ROOT TO RISE

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Burlington’s food truck fans have spent the past two years looking for the ARTSRIOT TRUCK STOP, which was on hiatus due to the pandemic. The Friday night event returns in 2022 — from May 27 through Labor Day weekend — but attendees will find it in a new location with a new team running the show. Twin brothers LOUIE and MAX ORLEANS have taken over operations of the popular South End food truck gathering and will move it across the street from its original ARTSRIOT home to 377 Pine Street. ArtsRiot, which is gearing up to open its on-site distillery, will run the Truck Stop bar.

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When BOGDAN ANDREESCU, owner of JR’S ORIGINAL in Winooski, opened JR’S WILLISTON in October 2021, he told Seven Days, “I’m just that crazy kind of guy who needs projects all the time.” Less than a year later, he’s working on another one: opening a sports bar beside his pizza-and-pasta spot by July 1. Though adjacent to Jr’s, the 40-seat bar will be separate from the restaurant, which will continue to serve Italian and Italian American specialties. The as-yet-unnamed bar will offer 24 draft lines and serve its own menu of pub-style food, such as an eightounce sirloin burger on a housemade bun, salads and vegetarian options. Appropriately for a sports bar, Andreescu expects to put “lots of big TVs everywhere,” he said, “but they won’t be blaring.” The space will also feature comfortable lounge seating, pool tables, arcade games, foosball, and a rentable private theater room with an 85-inch TV. “I see places like Buffalo Wild Wings and all the other competition that don’t have a nice lounge area where people can go and just relax,” Andreescu said. “I want to create a nice environment for people to have fun, hang out, play pool and watch the game.” The bar will have a separate entrance from the restaurant, but the same kitchen will serve both spots. “I built a larger kitchen when I built Jr’s Williston, because I was thinking about expanding eventually if things went well,” Andreescu said. “Luckily, it’s going really well.”

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proteins, carbs and vegetables in each meal. “And enjoy. Enjoy food,” he says — surely endearing himself to McQuillen, who hates the term “grab and go.” “Veggie,” Wang announces as he pulls a vegetable flatbread from the oven. The other interns sprinkle it with chopped chives, dot it with fromage blanc sauce and slice it. “One meat,” he announces next, and out comes a braised-pork flatbread. The crust is lightly kissed with black blisters, and the broccoli is toasted like a marshmallow. “Beautiful,” Rooney says. For McQuillen, 70, seeing young people appreciate, have access to — and eat! — organic vegetables is a dream come true. Getting here has been a winding road. McQuillen is not a farmer, though she spent summers on her grandparents’ farms. She grew up in Buffalo, N.Y., the fifth of nine children of an ice cream salesman and a homemaker who cooked fresh foods. “The culture of food and family meals was, like, sacred,” McQuillen says. Her family ate in the dining room every night, often with a tablecloth and candles. After high school, she joined a convent, where she received “phenomenal” training in liturgy, scripture and philosophy, she says. She left after two years, “mostly because I have seven birth sisters. And my seven birth sisters were way more fun than the sisters I was studying with.” She reconnected with Kevin McQuillen, whom she had met at 18. The pair married and had two daughters, and Carol became an elementary school teacher. She was teaching kindergarten and first grade at Orchard School in South Burlington in 2001 when the seed that would grow into Common Roots was planted. She volunteered at an Earth Charter event at Shelburne Farms. Earth Charter is a global consensus statement on sustainability and the principles of sustainable development. When McQuillen heard Indian British activist Satish Kumar speak about “care for the soil, the soul and our society,” she cried inside, she says: “I knew something happened inside me. I didn’t know what it was.” She went back to school wondering what it would take to preserve the roots of the past for the future. “I’m seeing nobody’s recycling in schools; nobody’s composting; the food we’re feeding children is terrible,” she recalls. “There’s nothing sustainable about how we’re teaching children.” McQuillen helped bring recycling and composting to the school district. Still, sausage on a stick, Pop-Tarts and hot chocolate were offered for breakfast, and every lunch came with dessert. One day in 2007, 40

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McQuillen walked past the Orchard cafeteria and noticed the label on a package of hot dogs: “Grade D, but edible.” That sealed her conviction. Food had to be her next focus. She gathered a group of seven — parents, educators, a community advocate and a nurse — who met weekly for a year. They concluded that the school budget could not support the network of education, gardens and farms that they needed to teach about food and its sustainable production, so the nonprofit was born. Its first program — growing produce for South Burlington families facing food insecurity — was up and running before Common Roots was officially a nonprofit. “It felt like a calling,” says McQuillen, who continued to teach while building the organization, “not a ‘should’ or a[n] ‘ought to.’ It was like, I need to do this.” Common Roots now plants vegetables on four acres in Hubbard Recreation & Natural Area and three acres at South Village, a South Burlington residential community built around a farm. (See

“Growing Green,” page 28.) The nonprofit has four full-time employees — including chef Anthony Jones and farmer Colin O’Brien — three seasonal employees and four contract workers. McQuillen retired from teaching five years ago and works full time at Common Roots. She has never taken a paycheck. “I don’t think of it like a job,” she says. “It’s a purpose. It’s a mission.” It’s a model that demonstrates “how community-based agriculture can happen in an urban, suburban setting,” says Abbey Willard, the development division director at the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets. Agency Secretary Anson Tebbetts finds the South Village concept of housing centered around a farm attractive. He and his family moved there last year. He grew up on a dairy and sheep farm in Cabot and doesn’t know a lot about growing vegetables, he says. “So I was just intrigued by the whole thing,” including the amount of work it entails, he says. In addition to feeding people who can

and cannot afford to shop at the farmstand at South Village, Common Roots cultivates new farmers through its internship program, Tebbetts says: “And they’ve got a piece of land there that could easily be all in housing lots. And it’s not … It’s an active farm. And that little piece of land produces a lot of food.” For its first six years, Common Roots operated its programs with the support of businesses, foundations and individual donors. In its seventh year, McQuillen says, Seventh Generation cofounder Sheila Hollender told her, “We love what you do, but you’re giving everything away. This organization is not sustainable.” “And I knew she was right,” McQuillen says, “but I had no idea what it meant.” Serendipitously, the pieces of a solution fell into place. McQuillen calls it grace. “Within a couple of months,” she says, “the city council said to our city manager, ‘We own this house, the Wheeler house, and it’s underutilized.’” The city gave Common Roots a lease on the brick farmhouse on the city’s 140-acre Wheeler Nature Park. Common Roots got rid of the mice and the “nasty carpets” and installed a licensed commercial kitchen, its first step toward sustainability. In 2019, Jim McCarthy, then executive chef at the Inn at Shelburne Farms, brought in two other volunteer chefs and started cooking to-go meals for Common Roots to sell — its first revenue-generating enterprise. Farm to Fork, a Tuesday night program, is now in its fourth year. That enterprise and three others — Flatbread Fridays, the farmstand at South Village and rentals of the Wheeler Homestead for events — produce 56 percent of Common Roots’ revenue. In-kind and financial support continues to be vital. “We’ve got lots of partnerships,” McQuillen says. “That’s what makes this go.” Three days after that blustery Flatbread Friday, Room 245 at Tuttle Middle School is buzzing. “Normally, I hate Mondays, but this makes Mondays a lot better,” seventh grader Sebastian Fouche says. He’s one of seven middle schoolers in the six-week Farm to Go program who are chopping, sautéing, browning, mixing and baking. Supervised by college interns and Common Roots sous chef and educator Rebecca Chapdelaine, the kids turn out 10 dozen carrot muffins in the first hour. “Everything here each week is amazing,” seventh grader Levi Duteau says. “It’s all healthy and delicious at the same time.” Today’s menu also includes sloppy joes baked into crescent dough pockets; spinach salad with maple balsamic vinaigrette; and Mac and Trees, macaroni and cheese studded with broccoli. Each student will go home with dinner

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Food waste and climate change are global problems that people worldwide are working to solve. On World Disco Soup Day, thousands of them add fun to the proverbial pot. Nick Gambill of Salvation Suppers has teamed up with Slow Food Vermont and Salvation Farms to host Vermont’s World Disco Soup Day this Saturday, May 7. Accompanied by lively music, volunteers will chop, slice and dice food that might otherwise go to waste to make a massive batch of Puerto Rican stew, Gambill said. From 2 to 5 p.m., anyone who wants to help can stop by Burlington’s Salvation Army community kitchen. Dinner will be served from 5 to 6 p.m. The seeds of World Disco Soup Day were sown in Berlin in 2014 when volunteers cooked what they called a “protest soup” to draw attention to food waste. The event soon caught on and is now celebrated by people on five continents, according to the Slow Food website. This year, World Disco Soup Day organizers aim to raise awareness of how eating a more plant-based diet can reduce people’s carbon footprints. Gambill, 21, of Burlington, a cook at A Single Pebble, launched the free meals program Salvation Suppers in 2020 in collaboration with local chefs and the Burlington Salvation Army. “[Our goal is] really delicious food being served for free,” Gambill said. Every Monday, he cooks and serves free dinner to 25 to 30 community members, on average. The menu has included everything from South Carolina-style tomato soup and cheddar biscuits to freshly made pasta and grilled chicken Caesar salad. Gambill said he aims to make quality food more accessible; he believes a lot of the best food in Vermont is behind a steep price wall. “I believe change is possible from the inside out,” he said. “Our goal is to rehabilitate a preexisting [Salvation Army] free meals program and create a stronger support system for the community.” Slow Food Vermont, a nonprofit dedicated to building community through “good, clean and fair food,” first brought World Disco Soup Day to Burlington in 2020 as a virtual

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event. Participants connected via Zoom and cooked in their own homes. “It is a great way to reduce the impact on our environment,” said Francesca Arato, cochair of Slow Food Vermont. Gambill contacted Slow Food Vermont earlier this year to explore working in partnership. “Slow Food has always been in my mind [as] a benchmark for where I want to be as a cook,” he said. Arato and others at Slow Food Vermont suggested that Gambill collaborate on this year’s World Disco Soup Day. They hope the event will generate enough soup to be frozen and served at Salvation Suppers for weeks to come, Arato said. All food donations for this year’s event are from Salvation Farms, which typically provides the produce for Salvation Suppers. Salvation Farms is donating between 400 and 500 pounds of less-than-perfect potatoes, beets, carrots and cabbage, Arato explained. Other event sponsors are Trenchers Farmhouse in Lyndonville, which will provide vegetable-chopping safety lessons, and the University of Vermont’s Slow Food chapter, which will spin a disco-inspired playlist. Organizers hope 60 to 70 people volunteer at Saturday’s event, Arato said. Volunteers are encouraged to bring their own knife, peeler and cutting board for chopping vegetables. Once the stew is simmering, volunteers will be invited to join other community members in enjoying the meal. Volunteers may register at slowfoodvermont.org or head to the Salvation Army at 64 Main Street in Burlington between 2 and 5 p.m. on the day of the event. m

The Orleans twins and their father, BILL ORLEANS, purchased the property at 377 Pine Street in August 2021. Stretching from Pine Street to the lake and including the building that houses MYER’S BAGELS, Barge Canal Market and Speaking Volumes, the property will be rechristened “Coal Collective,” a nod to its history as the home of Citizens Coal in the early 1900s. Nearby businesses that don’t normally operate food trucks, such as Myer’s, might make guest appearances at the event, Louie said. “We want it to be a showcase for the South End,” he added. Truck Stop attendees will enter the spacious, closed-off lot by Barge Canal Market to find vendor trucks, tents and carts lining its south and north sides. The area will offer more seating and surfaces for placing drinks, not to mention three bars instead of one. All run by ArtsRiot, they will sell canned cocktails from the business’ soon-to-open distillery; CITIZEN CIDER; wine; and canned beer from FIDDLEHEAD BREWING, ZERO GRAVITY CRAFT BREWERY and Narragansett Beer. DJs will set up in the warehouse’s loading dock each week, including Disco Phantom, DJ Cre8, Blanchface, Abby Shaw and DJ Big Dog. For the kids, Truck Stop staple Joy Danila of Vermont Face and Body will return to paint faces. “There’s even a sunset view,” Louie said. Truck Stop grew quickly from its start in 2013, when it was “two food trucks and 10 people playing chess,” former ArtsRiot co-owner PJ MCHENRY said. “We knew pretty quickly that we had hit a thread of popularity there.” BRIAN STEFAN of Southern Smoke said Truck Stop’s absence left a hole in the food truck community, although similar local events kept running. “Truck Stop was the big proving grounds and a sort of incubator for all the trucks,” Stefan told Seven Days a year ago. “It was a sustainable income at least once a week. You need that mass of hungry people all showing up in the same place.” Even though things aren’t back to normal in the food industry, Stefan said this week, Truck Stop’s return “is a good sign.” The new location, he added, “should be a fresh look ... and new truckists won’t need half the practice backing up required of the old space.” ArtsRiot’s new owner, ALAN NEWMAN, said he’s heard questions about when the event will return “all the time” — even before ArtsRiot itself reopened last summer. “It’s an institution,” Newman said. “So many people in the community, including myself, want it back so badly,” Louie said. Truck Stop is free to enter. Limited parking is available at the nearby Maltex Building, and Local Motion will provide valet bike parking. The event will start slightly earlier than in past years, running from 4:30 to 9 p.m. “We want to catch people as they’re coming off of work and in those family-friendly early hours,” Louie said. “Then they can take off to ArtsRiot or the rest of the South End.” m

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catered meals, hot baths on demand, and unfettered access to the giraffes, zebras, wildebeests, lions and elephants populating the Serengeti. Never mind the centuries of turmoil that colonialism inflicted on the African continent. After a few days of this getaway, a group of white men with Russian accents appears out of nowhere and commandeers the safari, killing a few staffers in the initial assault. Their motivation unclear, they split the campers into smaller groups and take them hostage. As the Hollywood group fights for survival — and answers — the situation grows increasingly dire, because Russian assailants aren’t the only danger

on the plains. The other kind lurks in the underbrush, circles the sky, springs from the trees and slithers out of dark crevices. We meet the travelers with very little information about who they are and what they’ve experienced before this life-and-death situation. Bohjalian metes out their backstories chapter by chapter, each devoted to the thoughts and history of one character. A bit like the flashback sequences on the TV show “Lost,” these recollections illuminate who the characters are, what they’ve been through and why they react to the crisis as they do. While the action in the present timeline takes place over roughly 24 hours, the

categories. From the inaugural award in 2015 to 2019, there was Alison a single annual Bechdel winner. watch the naming of three winners: Alison That’s not Bechdel for creative nonfiction (The Secret the only change. O U to Superhuman Strength), Melanie Finn for Established by RT ES T YO ER fiction (The Hare) and Shanta Lee Gander VCFA in 2014, the F EL EN A SEIB for poetry (Ghettoclaustrophobia: Dreamin award is now presented of Mama While Trying to Speak Woman in by a coalition of the college (which runs reWoke Tongues). spected MFA programs in writing), Vermont This is the first time the Vermont Book Humanities and the Vermont Department of Award has been presented in three separate Libraries.

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After a two-year hiatus, the Vermont Book Award returned with a ceremony on Saturday at Vermont College of Fine Arts’ Alumnx Hall in Montpelier. A masked crowd dressed to the nines came to honor the best books published by Vermonters in 2021. Attendees mingled, drank cocktails made with local liquors, nibbled on desserts, and then sat down to

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redators have two basic methods of attack: stalk and ambush. Some choose to trail their prey for miles until the time is right to strike. Others lie in wait until an unsuspecting victim happens by. Some species prefer one strategy; others use both, depending on the circumstances. In Chris Bohjalian’s latest novel, The Lioness, both approaches are metaphorically and literally explored — and both are equally deadly. Set in 1964, The Lioness follows a group of Hollywood elites who travel to Tanzania for an opulent photo safari. Before the story begins, the characters are presented in a formal list that resembles a flight manifest or the cast of a film. We’re told that most of them will be dead by the story’s end. Starlet Katie Barstow anchors and links the nine travelers. It’s her honeymoon, and she’s footing the bill for her entourage. Despite being Elizabeth Taylor-famous, Katie is surprisingly affable, down-to-earth and not in the least fussy. Her companions include her gallery owner husband, David Hill; her older brother and David’s childhood best friend, Billy Stepanov (not being in the film industry, he kept the family name); Billy’s pregnant wife, Margie; Terrance Dutton, a recent costar of Katie’s who is Black; Carmen Tedesco, a lesser starlet who is Katie’s best friend and maid of honor; Carmen’s husband, Felix Demeter, a hack screenwriter from a Tinseltown dynasty; Peter Merrick, a powerful talent agent; and Reggie Stout, Katie’s publicist and a World War II veteran. Tour guide Charlie Patton leads the expedition with assistance from several guides and support staff, including porter Benjamin Kikwete. The African workers cater to the American group’s every need, creating “civilization in one small spot for a night” before the camp is torn down and relocated. The party receives

backstories span decades. We learn about the abuse that Katie and Billy endured at their parents’ hands. Though Terrance is a popular movie star, he’s hardly living free and easy as a Black man in America, having experienced so much racism that he refuses to work in his home state of Tennessee. Carmen plays second fiddle to most of her cohort, but she’s smarter than all of them combined. And Reggie has a secret that could upend his life, even among his tolerant film-industry colleagues. As these revelations emerge, the central mystery remains: What’s behind this Cold War-era Russian plot? Katie and Billy have Russian ancestry, and David’s father works for the Central Intelligence Agency. But isn’t he just a pencil pusher? Maybe the kidnapping has nothing to do with politics. After all, Charlie regularly takes wealthy groups on hunting and photo safaris. (He even hunted big game with Ernest Hemingway.) A ransomed group of “Hollywood lions,” as some of the characters call themselves, should fetch a pretty penny from their families or the American government. Bohjalian creates ample suspense by keeping answers tantalizingly out of reach until the last pages, though he drops clues throughout. Besides providing gripping action and, at times, stomach-turning gore, Bohjalian excels at putting his story in period context. Each chapter begins with a fictitious pull quote about the characters from trade rags such as the Hollywood Reporter. The author leaves social, political and cultural Easter eggs on practically every page. From Dr. Spock to costume designer Helen Rose to the scandalous interracial relationship between Dorothy Dandridge and Otto Preminger, the book itself is like a safari through 1960s pop culture. Bohjalian also offers enough background on Africa’s instability to show us the irony of these wealthy Americans

Vermont Humanities executive director Christopher Kaufman Ilstrup opened the ceremony by introducing Katherine Paterson. The author of children’s classics such as Bridge to Terabithia proceeded to announce the 2022 title for Vermont Reads. This year, the statewide reading program will focus on The Most Costly Journey: Stories of Migrant Farmworkers in Vermont Drawn by New England Cartoonists. A publication of the Vermont Folklife Center, the graphic anthology “bring[s] to life the challenges that migrant farmworkers face, from debilitating

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FROM THE LIONESS Someone was shooting, and Billy’s first assumption was that one of the rangers had spotted a lion and was firing into the air to scare it away. Or it was Peter Merrick, Katie’s agent. The older guy had brought a gun to go hunting when the photo portion of this safari was behind them. Maybe he’d seen something. Billy already imagined the rangers berating the fellow for discharging his rifle here in the reserve. But when he turned, he understood. Or, at least, he understood something. This wasn’t harmless. It was happening fast, and his wife, Margie, was screaming. There were at least three men, all white, and before Billy’s eyes — before all of their eyes — one of them mowed down the Black ranger who tried to intervene. The porters were falling onto the dry grass, not dead, but terrified, obeying the men with the guns who wanted them on their bellies on the ground right now. Right. Now. One of the men was pointing a double-barreled rifle, the kind that Charlie Patton had said was used to drop elephants, at Muema, the second guide, and motioning for him to join the rest of the staff and lie down on his stomach. It was the last thing Billy’s mind registered before Emmanuel was pushing Katie and Terrance toward the Land Rover and David was dropping his camera. Billy followed them, trying to shield Margie as he herded her inside the vehicle too, his own bulky camera lens bouncing against his chest like a cudgel.

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treating it like a playground. At one point, Charlie callously discusses how the United States and Russia have turned Africa’s resource-rich territories “into a wounded gazelle with hyenas on one side and jackals on the other.” Although this is the Weybridge author’s 23rd book, Bohjalian’s career kicked into a new gear when he began writing thrillers such as 2018’s The Flight Attendant, which HBO Max adapted for television in 2020. Given that the hit show’s second season just premiered, one

loneliness to the constant specter of deportation,” as Melissa Pasanen wrote in Seven Days last fall. While Bolton cartoonist Bechdel wasn’t able to attend the ceremony, she accepted her award in a heartfelt video clip in which she talked about the fascination that originally drew her to “a dimension called Vermont.” VCFA president Leslie Ward gave the fiction award to Finn for her feminist literary thriller about a naïve young woman who follows a charismatic man to a harrowing life in the Vermont countryside.

shouldn’t be surprised that The Lioness is also bound for the small screen. As Deadline reported on Tuesday, “Vikings” and “Pose” producer Sherry Marsh is set to helm the adaptation. Given the critical acclaim of those shows, it’s safe to say “The Lioness” will garner similar accolades. (Hey, Hollywood: Please cast Lily James as Katie and Regé-Jean Page as Terrance.) Thoroughly researched through interviews, retro field guides and an actual Serengeti safari on which Bohjalian embarked pre-pandemic, The Lioness is a fast-paced page-turner with likable characters and a richly crafted world. Happy hunting. m

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egan Mayhew Bergman is more than one kind of writer. Author of three collections of short fiction, including the new How Strange a Season, she has also been a regular columnist for the British newspaper the Guardian, reporting on the climate emergency and our country’s fractious contemporary culture. Mayhew Bergman was born in South Carolina and spent much of her first 30 years in North Carolina. As she told Seven Days by email, “I love complicating a global notion of the American South. Many people — New Englanders included — think of it as simply ‘down there,’ a monolithic block of conservative NASCAR fans. I believe the American South is worse than people think, and also much better — there is no ‘one’ south.” Mayhew Bergman moved to Vermont in 2009 when her partner, who grew up in Shaftsbury, returned to the state to join his family’s veterinary practice. She currently teaches literature and environmental writing at Middlebury College, where her courses include “The Feminine Heroic,” “Women in Conservation Writing,” and “Class and Conservation in the American South.” She is the director of the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference and has been a writer-in-residence at the Conservation Law Foundation, helping train lawyers and scientists to deliver what she called more “emotionally impactful” testimony and op-eds. “One of my passions in life,” she wrote to Seven Days, “is to explode a notion of what ‘environmental writing’ can be, and who can consider themselves an ‘environmental writer.’” Asked about her divergent routes as a writer, Mayhew Bergman described herself as “a huge fan of short fiction and the artistry of it — compression, line-level focus, a well-placed turn. I am also a huge nerd who wakes up in a panic about environmental degradation — I like being able to honor that side of myself in nonfiction,” she continued. “The forms feed each other. Because I have nonfiction outlets, I can (largely) keep righteousness out of my short fiction.” Her new book of stories implies the

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Her assignment is to persuade people in a North Carolina fishing community to eat an invasive species, which is venomous if touched but “plentiful and free, and they taste great.” She’s an abject failure at the job. In the story “Inheritance,” set at the other end of the country, a young woman moves to northern California to take possession of a home bequeathed to her by a grandmother who had come to despise the rest of the family. The house is a midcentury-modern “glass box” precariously sited on a precipice over the Pacific Ocean and shaken by ever-stronger storms.

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climate emergency more than depicting it. In “A Taste for Lionfish,” an unnamed narrator whose lover has departed tries to allay her grief by working as a canvasser for an environmental group.

All of the women in How Strange a Season appear to be stunned — not by war, hunger, eviction or addiction but by the anticipation of impending catastrophes that are still mostly out of sight, yet coming on fast. And these women seem like casualties of their privileges. Class and racial advantages have freed them to have bizarre, contradictory jobs — or no jobs at all. Marianna is a florist who creates extravagantly sculptural displays (ephemeral, of course) for a tiny clientele. Farrah spends her days in elaborate exercise regimes. Regan, somewhat more enterprising, runs a retreat center in the Arizona desert, where wealthy businessmen pay to smash things with bulldozers and excavators. Meanwhile, the men in these stories are “soon-to-be exes” or, at best, “gently estranged” from their partners; they’re even more adrift than the women. Are Mayhew Bergman’s characters showing us the weird deviations of human sensibility in what may be the late evening of our Earthly dominion? Will extreme variations proliferate among us, as the stresses and antagonisms caused by a collapsing environment grow ever more obvious? Many of Mayhew Bergman’s stories are set in the American South. Asked about her persisting relationship to that region, she replied, “Even though I have lived in Vermont for thirteen years, my imagination was forged in the south, and biochemically, that’s what feels like home. The south also made me a writer, by offering me something to forge myself against.” The new book’s most formidable piece is a multigenerational drama set on a former cotton and sugarcane plantation. “Indigo Run” spans 138 pages, far longer and more expansive than the other stories, which by contrast seem tightly constrained. In this novella-length work, Mayhew Bergman offers more characters, a more luxuriantly

described physical setting, and more historical complexities and layered plotlines, with successive shifts in point of view. Skip Spangler is a young woman who fled her southern origins to live and work in a wildlife sanctuary in Maine. With terrible ambivalence, Skip has been pulled back to Stillwood, her family home in South Carolina, now a ruin. The story telescopes in time, back to the colonial and enslavement-era origins of the estate and then forward to the present, returning the reader to Skip’s anguish as she has a vision of an emancipatory conflagration: Her father had believed that the sins of their past, all of their pasts, would leap over her, and yet Skip could feel

FROM ‘WIFE DAYS’ Farrah begins breathing deeply. When the video is done, she goes to her large, state-of-the-art bathroom and plugs the sink. She runs the water, cups her hands, and brings it to her face. She mists her skin with thermal water, dabs it with a high-thread-count washcloth, then smears serum made from neonatal fibroblast — tissue grown from human infant foreskins — underneath her eyes. She looks at her face and asks herself two of the three questions that rule her life: Do I look old? Am I insane? From How Strange a Season (Scribner, 2022), copyright by Megan Mayhew Bergman.

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Short Takes on Five Vermont Books Seven Days writers can’t possibly read, much less review, all the books that arrive in a steady stream by post, email and, in one memorable case, an army of spring peepers. So this monthly feature is our way of introducing you to a handful of books by Vermont authors. To do that, we contextualize each book just a little and quote a single representative sentence from, yes, page 32.

A Stranger in Never-Never Land

The Art of the Decoy

Parallel: A Climate Revolution Plan

Vesna Dye, Ra Press, 92 pages. $15.

Trish Esden, Crooked Lane, 336 pages. $26.99.

Ron Koss, Ron L. Koss, 165 pages. $14.95.

Income from something like that could pay a lot of back bills.

Imagine a // economy dedicated to fighting global warming.

Is every form of commerce cutthroat? Though PBS’ “Antiques Roadshow” may portray the world of bric-a-brac, curios and memorabilia as a low-blood-pressure trade, it’s rife with tension in Trish Esden’s The Art of the Decoy. Set in the fictitious town of Scandal Mountain, the Vermont mystery centers on peripatetic freelance picker Edie Brown. Her family’s antiques business is in trouble, as is her mother, who was recently convicted of art forgery. Edie has run afoul of the law, too, for selling stolen property. But a call from her uncle alerts her to a cache of potentially valuable hunting decoys. Practically salivating over the first piece she sees, Edie sets her sights on snagging a decoy to get her family out of debt. When the collection goes missing, she becomes the prime suspect. The only way to clear her name is to dive deeper into the world of local relics, whose portrayal is likely inspired by the author’s real-life antiques business.

So begins Chapter 6 of Ron Koss’ impassioned plan for averting climate disaster. Cofounder of the first U.S. organic baby food company, Earth’s Best, Koss presents a new paradigm he calls “parallel,” denoted by the symbol “//.” With it, he hopes to inspire “a mighty bucket brigade of small and large actions that add up to a transformation of how we live and consume on our Earth,” he writes in the dedication. Rather than propose the end of capitalism, Koss wants consumers to use their purchasing power to drive a parallel free market economy whose sole aim is to steward the planet. Banking, philanthropy, credit cards, lending and other activities would support decarbonization and ecological restoration. Fledgling efforts already exist, Koss writes, such as credit cards that help consumers find carbon offsets for their purchases. He wants the daily news of species extinction, severe storms and rising seas to galvanize us on a huge scale. Impossible? Crossing North America in five hours once seemed impossible, too, he reminds us.

A narrow path up the hill led me to a mosque surrounded by several old stone houses. A sculptor who flees from an island prison and survives in the wild. A young woman who “escape[s] into the wide world to become a poet.” Nigerian students studying Croatian. A Muslim woman catching “The Last Bus” out of town just before an attack on her village in the Bosnian war zone. These are some of the people we meet in Burlington author Vesna Dye’s slim yet powerful collection of poems, prose reminiscences and stories that merge fact and fiction. Born and raised in Zagreb, Croatia, Dye immigrated in 1982 to the U.S., where she made a new home in California and then in Vermont. In a foreword, she describes herself as feeling “like a stranger in both of my homelands.” But Dye is clearly at home in the world of words. She evokes her past in haunting images, suffused with the power of nostalgia: “Clear blue sky opens above young corn stalks. / … / Your hair braided with sunflower petals.” MARGOT HARRISON

JORDAN ADAMS

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A Visit With Chief Grey Lock and Other Abenaki Stories, Book 1

Night-Rider Legacy: Weaponizing Race in the Irasburg Affair of 1968

E. George “Peskunck” Larrabee, Heritage Books, 224 pages. $29.

Gary G. Shattuck, White River Press, 512 pages. $30.

In order for Spirit to hearken to their prayers, women don’t need to smoke the pipe.

Every Vermont farmer owns a 30-30 rifle.

Woodbury resident E. George “Peskunck” Larrabee is a Tribal Council member of the Abenaki Clan of the Hawk — and, as a friend’s testimonial in his book notes, a former paratrooper and railway man, an expert on 18th-century wilderness survival, and an educator on Abenaki language and culture. In this copiously illustrated volume, Larrabee uses traditional tales to educate his readers, opening with a prolonged visit to the camp of real 18th-century chief Grey Lock, who migrated from Massachusetts to Vermont and built a fortified town there. From the chief and his extended family, we learn about Indigenous hunting techniques (how does one catch a grouse using one’s hat instead of a musket?), foraging, sugaring, warfare, smudging ceremonies and much more. We even learn that the Abenaki word for blackflies, gigue’ts’ze’gibsak, translates literally as “little no-neck ones.” Stuffed to the brim with language and lore, Larrabee’s book is a vibrant and engaging resource. M.H.

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hile some recent art has reveled in an ex-pandemic ethos — there’s more to life than the misery of the last two years! — the current exhibit at Susan Calza Gallery in Montpelier is a deeply felt grappling with loss, p a n d e m i c- re l a t e d and otherwise. “The Matter of Loss: Holding Spaces” combines works on paper by Daryl Burtnett of Montpelier with sculptures by Middlesex artist Axel Stohlberg in the gallery’s jewellike room at the front of a high-ceilinged Victorian. It’s a beautiful pairing by cocurators Calza and Kelly Holt and, surprisingly, a first for the artists. Their works share both a palette — pale and somber, ranging from beige to gaping black — and a purpose. The latter, for Stohlberg, is to somatize feelings of personal loss, whether of the past, a relationship that ended or a recently deceased family member. His gabled-house forms in rough-hewn woodblock or hardware cloth (aka chicken wire) are carved with passageways, cutaways and eerily empty extensions — volumes of air that embody loss. Stohlberg’s sculptures are as much about what is not there as what is. Above the gallery ’s fireplace, “Memory” projects into empty space, its wire outline of a house extending the simple form of the woodblock affixed to the wall. In Stohlberg’s “Shadow” series, each basic woodblock construction — generally two pieces joined at 90 degrees — bears the outline or shadow of a house that is absent. The outlines continue around the pieces’ edges, creating the impression of volume while signifying absence. In the freestanding chicken-wire

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constructions, the emptiness expressed is painfully visible. “An Empty Space,” a 15-inch tower, can’t hide the circu circular hamster-wheel-looking form at its heart that encloses nothing but absence. “Untitled 3,” a 10-inch-tall hardware cloth construction, is filled nearly to its gabled roof with stacked glass plates that catch the light; it’s like a house that’s flooding on the inside while a viewer watches in fascination from the outside. The opposite effect is achieved in Stohlberg’s freestanding wood houses painted with black gesso, such as “Untitled #5.” The paint’s unremitting flatness has the effect of making the work inaccessible, opaque. The same gesso highlights the cutout wound of “Untitled,” a wall-hung block of natural wood missing its lower left quarter. Stohlberg, 71, former director and founder of Axel’s Frame Shop & Gallery in Waterbury, has been practicing art for decades. His drawings and sculptures have long evoked the form of a gabled house. Previously, however, the trope represented for him something “we can all relate to, a dwelling, a nest,” Stohlberg said by phone. “For years, the form has been a comfort thing,” he explained. “The loss has been new for me.” While Stohlberg’s losses are varied, Burtnett’s work focuses on individuals lost to COVID-19. His installation, “Gratitude in a Time of Loss, #1-611,” is a breathtaking homage to Vermonters who have died from the virus. Two small works hanging beside it, “The Uncounted 1” and “2,” memorialize the homeless and others whose deaths from COVID-19 went untallied. (Those two are for sale; the installation is not.) “Gratitude” consists of 611 indexcard-size vertical rectangles of folded paper or parchment modified by tape, ink and acrylic paint, individually pinned to a freestanding wall. Arranged in chronological order, each represents a death during the first two years of the pandemic. Burtnett, 64, primarily practiced photography until five years ago. He began making the paper packets in March 2020 using washi paper and archival tape and dipping them in a developing tray filled with sumi ink. He had made about 20 before realizing he was creating abstract compositions in response to Vermont’s death count.

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Mildred Beltré Martinez “Between Starshine and Clay” is the

title of Mildred Beltré Martinez’s exhibition at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center.

f HASSO EWING: “Inside&out,” a solo installation of new works that explore concepts of inner and outer worlds and the relationship between self and other. Reception: Friday, May 6, 4-7 p.m. May 6-29. Info, hassokewing@gmail.com. The Front in Montpelier.

Those unfamiliar with its origin might find it charmingly enigmatic. Looking around the

‘NOW YOU SEE IT’: A group exhibit involving illusion art that plays with perception of space and depth through paintings, sculptures and other works. Main Floor Gallery. May 11-June 25. MAGGIE NEALE: “Vibrations: Dance of Color and Form,” paintings. Third Floor Gallery. May 11-June 25. SILENT ART AUCTION: Artworks and crafts in a variety of mediums; sales benefit SPA programs. Second Floor Gallery. Online catalogue available. Bidding at SPA and Morse Block Deli. May 11-June 17. Info, 479-7069. Studio Place Arts in Barre.

and materials: painting, prints, installation, hooked rugs, cross-stitch, even human hair.

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f NINA BUXENBAUM: “A Topsy-Turvy World,”

paintings by the Brooklyn artist, part of a Paracosm Pop-Up series presented by the gallery and the Alchemist. Reception: Saturday, May 7, 7-9 p.m. May 7-21. Info, 644-8183. Visions of Vermont in Jeffersonville.

f ‘TELL US A STORY’: A group exhibit in which

artists were invited to convey a narrative in three pieces of work each. Reception: Sunday, May 8, 1-3 p.m. May 5-June 19. Info, 644-5100. Bryan Memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville.

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f KASEY LOYER: Recent nature-inspired abstract paintings by the South Burlington artist. Reception: Friday, June 17, 6-8 p.m. May 11-June 18. Info, 2447801. Axel’s Frame Shop & Gallery in Waterbury.

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f WARREN KIMBLE: “Artful Assemblages,” tableaux created from found objects by the renowned artist and Brandon resident. Reception: Friday, May 6, 5-8 p.m. May 6-July 9. Info, 247-4956. Brandon Artists Guild.

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f AMANDA MARTINEZ: “Mutable Construct,”

abstracted sculptural forms by the Brooklyn-based artist. Reception: Friday, May 6, 5-9 p.m. May 6-29. Info, 347-264-4808. Kishka Gallery & Library in White River Junction.

f STACY HOPKINS: “Shapeshifter,” linoleum prints

gallery, though, a viewer could think the phrase is a prettier way to suggest “everything under the sun.” That’s because the artist finds expression in a broad array of mediums The collection is colorful, graphic, dynamic and sprinkled with surprises. However, Beltré Martinez is not going for whimsy. In fact, she borrowed the phrase “between starshine and clay” from the 1993 Lucille Clifton poem “won’t you celebrate with me.” The poet writes that she was born “both nonwhite and woman.” And what does Clifton celebrate? That “everyday / something has tried to kill me / and has failed.” Beltré Martinez lives in Brooklyn, where she cofounded a public art project called Brooklyn Hi-Art! Machine. Her

legislator of African descent (1795-1857). Vermont Statehouse, Montpelier, Thursday, May 5, 4-6 p.m. Free. Info, jack.zeilenga@vermont.gov. ART SWAP: Secondhand artworks available for $200 or less. Details and preregistration at axelsgallery. com. Axel’s Frame Shop & Gallery, Waterbury, May 4-7. Info, 244-7801.

f CITYWIDE ARTS FESTIVAL: Stores, banks, restaurants, the library and other businesses display works by local artists. Art walk: Thursday, May 6, 6:15 p.m., followed by silent and live auction, 7 p.m., at Vergennes Opera House. Various Vergennes locations, through May 6. Info, 388-7951. ‘CURATING AS PRAXIS: SHATTERING THE MYTH OF NEUTRALITY’: The Henry Sheldon Museum presents a Zoom lecture, the eighth and final event in the series “Elephant in the Room: Exploring the Future of Museums.” La Tanya Autry, a cultural organizer and independent curator, discusses dismantling oppressive forces through applying knowledge to real-world conditions in museums. Register at henrysheldon museum.org. Online, Wednesday, May 4, 7 p.m. Info, 388-2117. OPEN STUDIO FRIDAYS: Wind down from your week with a self-initiated project or activity — from art to writing to reading — in the companionable company of others online. Details at poartry.org. Online, Friday, May 6, 6-8 p.m. Free; donations appreciated. Info, poartryproject@gmail.com.

teaching career has included positions at the University of Vermont and the Vermont College of Fine Arts. She has exhibited widely, including a show at Burlington’s BCA Center in 2013. Beltré Martinez address-

ROCK POINT SCHOOL STUDENT ART SHOW: Artwork displayed on the school grounds, weather permitting, and for sale via an online auction. Rock Point School, Burlington, Friday, May 6, 5-7 p.m. Info, 863-1104.

es her inspiration for “Between Starshine and Clay” in an artist statement. “Clifton talks about willful self-awareness and the ways in which cultural context influences the cobbling together of an identity,” Beltré Martinez writes. “Specifically, she is celebrating that for Black women, the formation of self is an act of resistance and resilience.” This exhibition combines pieces from two of the artist’s concurrent series: “Skin in

VISITING ARTIST TALK: RENEE COX: The New Yorkbased artist makes photographs, collages and installations that draw on art history, fashion photography and popular culture. Her work invokes a critical vision of female sexuality, beauty, power and heroism through nudity, religious imagery and symbolism. Red Mill Gallery, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Friday, May 6, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, communications@vermontstudio center.org.

of ravens by the gallery owner and jewelry artisan. Reception and gallery 10th anniversary party: Friday, May 6, 5:30-7:30 p.m. May 6-July 31. Info, 603-4433017. Scavenger Gallery in White River Junction.

the Game” is essentially self-portraits in which the artist uses walnut ink to create a variety

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f CINDY BLAKESLEE: “Circular Logic,” sculpture created from found and cast-off items by the Bradford artist. Reception: Friday, May 6, 5-8 p.m. May 6-30. Info, 229-8317. The Satellite Gallery in Lyndonville.

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f ‘EXHALE: A MULTISENSORY ART EXPERIENCE’: Works in a variety of mediums by Brian C. O’Malley, Sophia Ainslie, Steven Subotnick, Lauren Mantecón, Daniel O’Neill, Joseph Fortune and John DeVault that aim to immerse viewers in the present moment. Closing reception: Saturday, June 11, 2-4 p.m. May 7-June 11. Info, 362-1405. Southern Vermont Arts Center in Manchester.

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f ALEX REITER: “The New Surreal,” drawings and other works by the Plattsburgh native. Reception: Friday, May 6, 5-8 p.m. May 6-27. Info, 518-563-1604. Strand Center for the Arts in Plattsburgh, N.Y. = ONLINE EVENT OR EXHIBIT 52

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of brown tones; she writes that these figurative pieces “began as a way to think about risk.”

grid-based abstractions. The revolution is disguised. There is no mistaking the message in a brightly colored pair of hooked rugs: “We Already Are.” “Between Starshine and Clay” is on view through June 12, and photos of the exhibit can be seen at brattleboromuseum.org. Pictured: “Rug.” ‘TREASURES FROM THE ATTIC’: An exhibition featuring family heirlooms that are rarely or never displayed, including an 1832 wedding dress, Civil War military items and manuscripts. Please mail a check, indicating your preferred attendance date, to Kent-Delord House Museum, 17 Cumberland Ave., Plattsburgh, NY 12901. Bring a cellphone with headphones to listen to readings. May 6-8. $25 for general public; $20 for museum members.

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Info, 518-561-1035. Kent-Delord House Museum in Plattsburgh, N.Y.

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ARTWORKS AT UVMMC: Oil paintings and watercolors by Susan Bull Riley (Main Street Connector, ACC 3); acrylic and ink paintings by Mike Strauss (Main Street Connector, BCC and Patient Garden); acrylic paintings by Brecca Loh (McClure 4); and acrylic paintings by Michelle Turbide (Pathology hallway, ACC 2). Curated by Burlington City Arts. Through May 31. Info, 865-7296. University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington. ‘DARK GODDESS: AN EXPLORATION OF THE SACRED FEMININE’: An exhibition of photographs by Brattleboro-based Shanta Lee Gander that employ ethnography and cultural anthropology to consider the meaning of the male gaze and the ways society confines females. Through December 9. ‘UNPACKED: REFUGEE BAGGAGE’: A multimedia installation by Syrian-born, Connecticut-based artist and architect Mohamad Hafez and Iraqi-born writer and speaker

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Ahmed Badr. The miniature sculptures of homes, buildings and landscapes ravaged by war are embedded with the voices and stories of real people. Through May 6. Info, 656-0750. Fleming Museum of Art, University of Vermont, in Burlington. DOUGLAS BIKLEN: Abstract fine art photographs by the Vermont-based artist and author. Lorraine B. Good Room. Through June 15. ERIC AHO: “Headwater,” monumental paintings that capture the Vermont artist’s sensory experience of nature, reconstructed through memory and invention. Through June 5. SARAH TRAD: “What Still Remains,” an exploration of personal and cultural identity using single- and multichannel video and textile installations by the Philadelphia-based Lebanese American artist. Through June 5. Info, 865-7166. BCA Center in Burlington. ‘FOOL ME ONCE’: A group show featuring works that utilize different mediums than the artists are used to, are made with the nondominant hand, show off mind-altering content or were entered under a false name. Through May 21. Info, spacegalleryvt@gmail. com. The S.P.A.C.E. Gallery in Burlington. MALTEX ARTISTS: New works by James Vogler, Myles Moran, Kathleen Grant, Nancy Tomczak, Kristina Pentek and Bear Cieri, in the hallways. Through August 31. Info, 865-7296. The Maltex Building in Burlington.

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‘100+ FACES OF WINOOSKI’: Daniel Schechner of Wishbone Collective photographed more than 150 residents in conjunction with the Winooski Centennial Celebration. The collection can also be viewed online. Info, legacy@winooskivt.gov. ‘MILL TO MALL: HISTORIC SPACE REIMAGINED’: An exhibition that tells the story of the public-private partnership that enabled the preservation and rebirth of a formerly derelict industrial building into a shopping center. Visitors are encouraged to add personal memories of the space to the community recollections. Through July 29. Free. Info, 355-9937. Heritage Winooski Mill Museum. BARBARA LANE AND BRENDA MYRICK: A motherand-daughter exhibition of paintings in acrylic and watercolor. Through May 31. Info, 458-1415. Charlotte Senior Center. CELEBRATING WOMEN LUTHIERS: An international exhibition of instruments, including violin, viola, cello and string bass, as well as bows handcrafted by women. All items are for sale. Through May 7. Info, 862-0349. Vermont Violins in South Burlington.

f CELESTE MATTE: “Intertwined,” an immersive

installation constructed of wood and string by the art and design student. Reception: Friday, May 6, 6-7 p.m. Through May 16. Info, bcollier@smcvt.edu. McCarthy Art Gallery, Saint Michael’s College, in Colchester. FAIR HOUSING EXHIBITION: A group show featuring works by artists who responded to the prompt, “What makes a thriving, inclusive community?” Presented by Arts So Wonderful and CVOEO’s Fair Housing Project. Through June 30. Arts So Wonderful Gallery in South Burlington. ‘FERAL STITCHING: FOUR ARTISTS GO WILD’: Sarah Ashe, Janet Fredericks, Kari Hansen and Lily Hinrichsen, painters who began a weekly exploration of textiles a year ago, show the results of their individual and collaborative creations. Through May 7. Info, 985-3848. Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery in Shelburne. HOWARD CENTER ARTS COLLECTIVE: Sixteen members of the collective address the theme “Arrival and Departure” in a variety of mediums. Skyway. SAM MACY: Shadow box wood constructions. Gates 1-8. Through June 1. Info, 865-7296. Burlington International Airport in South Burlington. ‘IN PLAIN SIGHT: REDISCOVERING CHARLES SUMNER BUNN’S DECOYS’: An online exhibition of shorebird decoys carved by the member of the Shinnecock-Montauk Tribes, based on extensive research and resolving historic controversy. Through October 5. ‘OUR COLLECTION:

ELECTRA HAVEMEYER WEBB, EDITH HALPERT AND FOLK ART’: A virtual exhibition that celebrates the friendship between the museum founder and her longtime art dealer, featuring archival photographs and ephemera, a voice recording from Halpert, and quotations pulled from the women’s extensive correspondences. Through February 9, 2023. Info, 985-3346. Shelburne Museum. LISA BALFOUR & KELLY O’NEAL: Acrylic paintings (Merrill Community Room) and photographs exploring place (Pierson Room), respectively. Curated by Burlington City Arts. Through June 15. Info, 865-7296. Pierson Library in Shelburne.

f ‘TUCKED IN: RESILIENCE IN SMALL MOMENTS’: Artwork created during the pandemic lockdown by Leslie Roth, Dianne Shullenberger and Elizabeth Fram. Reception: Sunday, May 15, 1-3 p.m. Through June 19. Info, 899-3211. Emile A. Gruppe Gallery in Jericho.

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MAY EXHIBITS: Works in a variety of mediums including watercolor, oils, charcoal and colored pencil by Carolyn Zuaro, Heather Snyder and Lynn Spencer. Through May 29. Info, 279-5048. ART, etc. in Northfield. ‘THE CATAMOUNT IN VERMONT’: An exhibition that explores the feline symbol of Vermont through the lenses of art, science and culture. Through May 31. ‘VOICES OF ST. JOSEPH’S ORPHANAGE’: An exhibition documenting the abuse of children who lived at the former Catholic Diocese-run orphanage in Burlington, and the stories of former orphans that led to changes in child-protection laws. Through July 30. Info, 479-8500. Vermont History Museum in Montpelier. ‘IN THE LIGHT OF SPRING’: Artworks in a variety of mediums by 32 members of the Art Resource Association, a Montpelier organization that supports visual artists through exhibition opportunities and workshops. Through June 27. Info, 229-6206. North Branch Nature Center in Montpelier.

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JAN GHIRINGHELLI: Paintings, prints and note cards by the central Vermont artist. Through May 11. Info, 479-0896. Espresso Bueno in Barre. ‘THE MATTER OF LOSS: HOLDING SPACES’: An exhibition that explores resilience and loss: collages that pay homage to victims of COVID-19 by Daryl Burtnett, and house forms in a variety of mediums by Axel Stohlberg. Through May 8. Info, 224-6827. The Susan Calza Gallery in Montpelier. MICHAEL HEFFERNAN: “Toying With It,” paintings that feature playthings. Curated by Studio Place Arts. Through June 11. Info, 479-7069. AR Market in Barre. MICHAEL T. JERMYN: Photographs by the Montpelier artist. Through June 2. Info, 223-1570. Central Vermont Medical Center in Berlin.

f PAUL GRUHLER: “Harmonics,” geometric abstract paintings by the Vermont artist. Reception: Friday, May 6, 4:30-6 p.m., with artist book signing. Through June 30. Info, 279-5558. Vermont Supreme Court Gallery in Montpelier. PAUL MARKOWITZ: “Family Affair,” kinetic art. Quick Change Gallery. Through May 21. Info, 479-7069. Studio Place Arts in Barre. REBECCA SILBERNAGEL: “The Happy Place Project,” photographs featuring Vermont House members in their everyday lives. Through May 30. Info, david.schutz@vermont.gov. Vermont Statehouse Cafeteria in Montpelier. STEPHANIE KOSSMANN: “Living Space: Portraits Through Appreciative Inquiry,” paintings of trauma survivors. Nuquist Gallery. VERMONT WATERCOLOR SOCIETY: Central Vermont and Northeast Kingdom members of the association exhibit their paintings. Contemporary Hall. Through May 12. Info, 262-6035. T.W. Wood Gallery in Montpelier.

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William Brenton Boggs and Truman Seymour, depicting scenes in North and South America, Asia, Europe and Africa. Through December 16. Info, 485-2886. Sullivan Museum & History Center, Norwich University, in Northfield.

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2022 LEGACY COLLECTION: An exhibit of works by 16 distinguished New England landscape artists plus a selection of works by Alden Bryan and Mary Bryan. Through December 24. Info, 644-5100. Bryan Memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville. AMBER FOLLANSBEE, TREY HANCOCK & FRANK TAMASI: Drawings, paintings and mixed-media installation art by the fine art students. Through May 15. Info, phillip.robertson@northernvermont.edu. Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Northern Vermont University, in Johnson.

f ‘ART IN A TIME OF CRISIS’: Works in a variety of mediums by Rebecca Schwarz, Caroline Loftus, Kate Arslambakova and Martha Dunbar that address the question: “How does the changing climate affect artists and their practices?” f DAN GOTTSEGEN: “I Give You Mountains and Rivers Without End,” abstracted landscape paintings in which patterned bands of color depict music. Reception: Thursday, May 12, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Through July 9. Info, 888-1261. River Arts in Morrisville. ‘THE ART OF THE GRAPHIC’: Eight displays of snowboards that let viewers see the design process from initial conception to final product; featuring artists Scott Lenhardt, Mark Gonzalez, Mikey Welsh, Mishel Schwartz and more. Through October 31. Info, 253-9911. Vermont Ski and Snowboard Museum in Stowe.

f ‘CAN YOU HEAR ME?’: Works by India-based artists Biraaj Dodiya, Payal Kapadia and Vidha Saumya, whose mediums include installation, film, painting and bookmaking; part of a series of exhibitions featuring new female voices in South Asian contemporary art, presented by New Delhi curator Phalguni Guliani. Closing reception and curator talk: Wednesday, May 25, 5-7 p.m. Through May 25. Info, 635-2727. Red Mill Gallery, Vermont Studio Center, in Johnson. f FINNEGAN WATSON & FINN WATSULA: Installation art and painting, respectively, by the fine arts students. Reception and artist talk: Wednesday, May 4, 3 p.m. Through May 15. Info, phillip. robertson@northernvermont.edu. Susan Calza Black Box Gallery, Visual Arts Center, in Johnson. KATHERINE CLARKE LANGLANDS: “Visual Rhythms,” a solo exhibition of paintings and sculptures made from driftwood and recycled vinyl records. Through May 7. Info, kyle.minemagallery@gmail.com. Minema Gallery in Johnson.

mad river valley/waterbury

f ‘VISIONS IN OIL’: Paintings by 22 artists working in the oil medium in various styles and techniques. Reception: Saturday, May 14, 1-5 p.m. Through May 14. Info, 496-6682. The Gallery at Mad River Valley Arts in Waitsfield.

middlebury area

HANNAH BUREAU: “Open Air,” new abstracted landscape paintings. Through June 1. Info, 989-7419. Edgewater Gallery at Middlebury Falls. ‘ITTY BITTY: TINY TEXTS IN SPECIAL COLLECTIONS’: Books from the 17th to 21st centuries that measure between 1.8 and 10 centimeters, from religious manuscripts to cookbooks, children’s books to Shakespeare. Visitors are not currently allowed in the library but may view the works online at go.middlebury.edu/tinybooks. Through May 31. Davis Family Library, Middlebury College.

f SUSAN ABBOTT & MOLLY DOE WENSBERG: “Town and Country,” paintings of New England landscape from two very different perspectives. Reception: Thursday, May 5, 5-6:30 p.m. Through June 26. Info, 989-7419. Edgewater Gallery on the Green in Middlebury. 54

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ALEYNA FEINBERG: “Gesture of something like home,” artwork in the windows that communicates a relationship to landscape that is about memory, otherness and feelings of belonging and not belonging. Through June 4. Info, bmiller@77art.org. 77ART in Rutland. ‘IMAGES OF OUR WORLD’: A photography exhibit and amateur photo contest featuring local artists. Through May 27. Info, 775-0356. Chaffee Art Center in Rutland. ‘WE’RE ALL AT A PARTY CALLED LIFE ON EARTH!’: An installation by Frobertan (partners Fran Bull and Robert Black) of painted figurative sculptures, architectural structures and works on paper that are inspired by commedia dell’arte and celebrate human diversity. Through June 11. Info, 247-4295. Compass Music and Arts Center in Brandon.

champlain islands/northwest

‘FORM AND FUNCTION: WE ARE THE VESSEL’: Three collections with stories to tell: tea bowls by Jeanne Claire Bisson, weavings by Diane Elliott Gayer and 1940s clay pots from the Southwest. Through May 22. Info, 355-2150. GreenTARA Space in North Hero.

upper valley

MARGARET LAMPE KANNENSTINE: Paintings focused on the Ottauquechee River by the Vermont artist. Through June 30. Info, 359-3194. Vermont Institute of Natural Science in Quechee. ‘MATHEMATICIANS MADE VISIBLE’: A series of block-print portraits of contemporary mathematicians, promoting a more diverse population in the field of math. Learn more about the educational mission at kitchentableprinter.com. Through June 1. Info, 295-4567. Long River Gallery in White River Junction.

CALL TO ARTISTS 2022 PHOTOGRAPHY SHOOT-OUT: The theme for this year’s competition is “Reflections.” First-place winner gets a solo show at Axel’s in 2023. Two entries per photographer. Rules and details at axelsgallery.com/news. Axel’s Frame Shop & Gallery, Waterbury. Through October 8. $20. Info, 244-7801. ‘ABLUTIONS’: The museum is seeking items for its 2022 exhibition featuring the act of bathing or washing the body and the implements and tools associated with it. All manner of contributions will be considered, from vessels and bathing implements to narratives about purification rituals. Contact Clare Dolan about donations or volunteer installation workdays in May through museumof everydaylife.org. The Museum of Everyday Life, Glover. Through May 10. AIAVT SEEKS APPLICATIONS FOR COMMUNITY OUTREACH GRANT: The Carol Miklos Community Outreach Grant was created to support initiatives and special funding requests which have the potential to foster engagement with architecture and design in Vermont’s communities. The grant, named in honor of AIAVT’s executive director from 2008 to 2018, is awarded once per year, with the amount up to $1,500. Details at aiavt.org. Deadline: May 31. Online. Free. Info, 448-2169. ‘AS WE TILT TOWARDS THE SUN’: Artists are invited to submit work in themes related to Solstice, time, process, change or new beginnings. Juried by Janie Cohen, director of the Fleming Museum of Art at the University of Vermont. Details and application at avagallery.org. Deadline: May 9. AVA Gallery and Art Center, Lebanon, N.H. Info, 603-448-3117. CHELSEA ARTS ON THE GREEN FESTIVAL: Artists, artisans and food vendors are

welcome to apply to this Labor Day weekend event. Deadline: August 1. Details at chelseavtarts.com. Online. Info, chelsea artscollective@gmail.com. LADYBROAD LEDGER: Vermont’s free femme alt comics newspaper seeks submissions from Vermontbased lady-identifying, lady-presenting or ladyadjacent cartoonists for the September issue. All subjects welcome, including fiction, nonfiction and autobio. Find submission info at ladybroad ledger.com. Deadline: June 1. Online. LOCAL ARTISTS AT VNRC: We’re seeking Vermont artists for three-month exhibitions starting as early as July 1. We are particularly interested in artists whose work connects with or complements our mission to protect and enhance the natural environments and wildlife, vibrant communities, productive working landscapes, rural character, and a unique sense of place. To find out more, contact Alex Connizzo at aconnizzo@vnrc.org or 223-2328, ext. 126. Vermont Natural Resources Council, Montpelier. Through July 1. Free. Info, aconnizzo@vnrc.org. ‘PARKS & RECREATION’: Submissions are open for Bryan Gallery’s and Bennington Museum’s joint summer exhibition, which will highlight historical and contemporary interpretations of Vermont’s 55 state parks and explore the diverse beauty of these protected wildscapes in all seasons. All 2D and 3D works in any medium will be considered. Details at bryangallery.org. Deadline: May 8. Bryan Memorial Gallery, Jeffersonville. Free. Info, 644-5100. QUALIFICATIONS FOR OUTDOOR PERMANENT ART IN SOUTH BURLINGTON: The South Burlington Public Art Committee seeks qualifications from artists interested in creating outdoor public art

valued at $2,000 to $10,000 to be commissioned over the next several years. This call will create a pipeline for original, permanent and specific art to establish a distinct sense of place, welcome community and create identity for the city. Artists must have a strong connection to Vermont. Details at southburlingtonvt.gov. Deadline: May 30, 10 a.m. Online. Free. Info, iblanchard@ southburlingtonvt.gov. SPRING 2022 JURY APPLICATION: The gallery and nonprofit organization is accepting applications for new exhibitors, reviewed by a professional jury. Details at froghollow.org. Deadline: May 15. Frog Hollow Vermont Craft Gallery, Burlington. Free. Info, froghollowdaniel@gmail.com. ‘THE STORY’: Photographers are invited to submit images that tell a story or visual narrative evoking an emotional or visceral response from the viewer. May be digital or analog and can integrate documentary, fantastical or surreal, forced perspective, time lapse, candid, photojournalistic or long exposure. Open to artists 18 and older within the U.S. and Canada. Juried exhibit will be August 5 to September 11. Details at stonevalleyarts.org. Deadline: June 15. Stone Valley Arts at Fox Hill, Poultney. $25 for up to 3 entries. Info, erikaschmidt.sva@gmail.com. TRANSGENDERLAND CALL TO NFT ARTISTS: Artists are invited to donate trans-friendly or genderexpansive works; NFTs, photos and other mediums are accepted. Vermont-based Transgenderland’s collection uses art to celebrate genderexpansive ideas, visibility and community building. Most art is shared through NFTs because they are nearly free to create and are accessible. Online. Through May 18. Free. Info, micdrophealth@gmail.com.

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f ANN YOUNG: “Now, You Tell the Story,” oil paintings of people by the Vermont artist. Reception: Sunday, May 15, 4-6 p.m. Through June 5. Info, 5332000. Highland Center for the Arts in Greensboro. ISA OEHRY: “Through the Window,” whimsical portraits of farm animals looking out of their barn windows. Through May 20. Info, 525-3366. The Parker Pie Company in West Glover. ‘A LIFE IN LISTS AND NOTES’: An exhibition that celebrates the poetic, mnemonic, narrative and enumerative qualities of lists and notes. The objects on display span myriad creative, professional, bureaucratic, domestic and personal uses of lists through the ages. Through May 31. Info, 626-4409. The Museum of Everyday Life in Glover. ‘MATERIAL DRAWING REDUX: DRAWN TO TOUCH’: Works by Audrey Goldstein, Michelle Samour, Julia Shepley and Debra Weisberg, who have been in conversation with each other for more than 15 years about their individual drawing practices. Through June 11. Info, 748-2600. Catamount Arts Center in St. Johnsbury.

f NICK PILIERO: “Flying Colors,” lively paintings by the local artist. Meet the artist: Saturday, May 7, 1-3 p.m. Through June 4. Info, 748-0158. Northeast Kingdom Artisans Guild Backroom Gallery in St. Johnsbury.

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ANNE SPALTER: “The Wonder of It All,” the museum’s first-ever exhibition of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), featuring themes of travel, exploration, outer space and the unconscious mind by the pioneering digital artist. Through June 12. DELITA MARTIN: “Between Worlds,” a yearlong installation in the museum’s front windows that reimagines the identities and roles of Black women in the context of Black culture and African history. Through May 31. LOUISA CHASE: “Fantasy Worlds,” a survey of the late artist’s work, including sculpture, drawing, painting and prints from her 40-year career. Curated by Elissa Watters. Through June 12. M. CARMEN LANE: “(í:se) Be Our Guest/Stolen,” new experimental silkscreen prints based on the personal histories of displacement and dispossession in the African American and Native artist’s family. Curated by Mildred Beltré Martinez. Through June 12. MILDRED BELTRÉ MARTINEZ: “Between Starshine and Clay,” a diverse selection of work including drawing, textile and installation that speaks to the complexity of a Black, ethnic, gendered experience. Curated by Mara Williams. Through June 12. ROBERT VISANI: “Form/ Reform,” digitally modeled DIY cardboard slave kits that reexamine art historical imagery depicting the institution of American chattel slavery. Curated by David Rios Ferreira. Through June 12. SACHIKO AKIYAMA: “Through Lines,” wall reliefs and mixed-media figurative sculptures invoking a variety of cultural traditions. Curated by Mara Williams. Through June 12. YVETTE MOLINA: “Big Bang Votive,” egg tempera paintings of objects that have brought people delight, such as cake, a bicycle, a tent, based on listening to their stories. Curated by Sarah Freeman. Through June 12. Info, 257-0124. Brattleboro Museum & Art Center. JULIA ZANES: “Household Objects,” new paintings inspired by the first publication of Grimm’s Fairy Tales. Through May 9. Info, 387-0102. Next Stage Arts Project in Putney. LYDIA KERN: “Passages,” a multimedia exhibition including wall pieces, video and sculptural installations in doorways. Through June 25. Info, jamie. mohr78@gmail.com. Epsilon Spires in Brattleboro. SPAULDING DUNBAR: A photo-poetry exhibition featuring original prints taken on Anjali Farm, along the New England coastline, and while visiting family in India, sharing tales of cycles, rhythms, connections and common realities. Through May 7. Info, 508-237-4046. Canal Street Art Gallery in Bellows Falls.

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manchester/bennington

‘PARKS AND RECREATION’: An exhibition of paintings past and present that explores the history and artistic depictions of Vermont’s state parks and other formally designated natural areas. Contemporary works on loan from the Bryan Memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville. Through November 6. MARION HUSE: “Picturing Pownal,” paintings and silk-screen prints by the artist (18961967) whose successful career spanned 40 years and who maintained a studio in Pownal. Through June 22. THE STUDENT ART SHOW: Artwork in a variety of mediums by students at Mt. Anthony Union High School, Southwest Tech, Grace Christian School, the Vermont School for Girls, Hoosac School and Hoosick Falls Central High School. Through June 5. Info, 447-1571. Bennington Museum. SPRING MEMBER EXHIBITION: SVAC artists and members of the Vermont Watercolor Society exhibit works in a range of mediums including painting, photography, textile, wood, glass and more. Through May 22. Info, 362-1405. Southern Vermont Arts Center in Manchester.

randolph/royalton

JULIA PAVONE: “Abstractions,” a solo exhibition of nonrepresentational paintings in oil, acrylic and encaustic. Through June 18. Info, 889-9404. Tunbridge Public Library.

outside vermont

ADAM PENDLETON: “These Things We’ve Done Together,” the first solo show in Canada of the New York-based artist, whose work explores the relationships between Blackness, abstraction and the avant-garde. Through July 10. NICOLAS PARTY: “L’heure mauve” (“Mauve Twilight”), a dreamlike exhibition of paintings, sculptures and installation in the Swiss-born artist’s signature saturated colors. Online reservations required. Info, 514-285-2000. Through October 16. Montréal Museum of Fine Arts.

‘IN THE MOMENT: RECENT WORK BY LOUISE HAMLIN’: Paintings and works on paper by the former Dartmouth College studio art professor and print maker. Through September 3. ‘PHOTOGRAPHS FROM HOLLYWOOD’S GOLDEN ERA’: Recently acquired from the John Kobal Foundation, the images include studio portraiture, publicity shots and film stills from the 1920s to ’50s. Through May 21. THIS LAND: AMERICAN ENGAGEMENT WITH THE NATURAL WORLD’: Drawn from the permanent collection, the museum’s first major installation of traditional and contemporary Native American art set alongside early-to-contemporary art by African American, Asian American, Euro American and Latin American artists, representing a broader perspective on “American” art. Through July 23. Info, 603-646-2808. Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, in Hanover, N.H.

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JOHN DOUGLAS: Twenty-eight framed photographs of unconventional street scenes, portraits and landscapes, in the library’s Ledyard Gallery. Through June 1. Info, flyingsquirrelgraphics@gmail. com. Howe Library in Hanover, N.H.

f ‘THE THING WITH FEATHERS’: Works by 19 visual artists and poets who responded to the question, “What brings you light and lifts you up?” for an exhibition in collaboration with West Central Behavioral Health and inspired by Emily Dickinson’s poem “Hope.” Community poetry reading: Saturday, May 14, 3-5 p.m. Through May 21. SAMANTHA M. ECKERT, CECELIA KANE & TARA WRAY: Solo exhibitions in different disciplines by the Vermont artists, each informed by interests in ancestry, family lore, identity, mapping time and memory. Through June 4. Info, 603-448-3117. AVA Gallery and Art Center in Lebanon, N.H. SENIOR BFA EXHIBIT: Artworks by the 2022 graduating class in fine arts. Through May 21. Info, 518-564-2474. Burke Gallery, Plattsburgh State Art Museum, N.Y. m

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Empty Spaces « P.51 They became a “solace,” he writes in his artist statement, and a way of staying connected to the dead and their families, though he didn’t know them. As the project continued, Burtnett replaced the washi with used parchment paper a friend gave him after baking challah. He said he liked how ink beaded up on the masking tape. Eventually, he added pigments to the tray and experimented with graphite lines on some pieces. Each packet is unique, like the person whose death it commemorates. Some are formed as a triptych, representing days in which three deaths took place in the state. “I think that part of what drew me to making these pieces was to not sit alone staring at an unraveling tragedy — to do more than just despair,” Burtnett explained during a phone call. He added, “I live alone. I’m very isolated. I was just worried about everyone being so isolated.” As more Vermonters have succumbed to the virus, Burtnett has continued his tributes; these are stacked and propped on the mantelpiece beside

the installation, available for viewers to pick up, study and turn over. (They are finished on both sides.) He recently completed #630. Burtnett continues to use the same dipping tray, replenishing but never emptying it. If the tray has reminded some viewers of a baptismal font, and the tape on some packets appears to make a cross, and the yellow pigment recalls the gold leaf of religious iconography, that’s all accidental, the artist said. But, he added, “I welcome viewers to see anything that brings comfort and meaning for them.” Burtnett said he knows only one person who died from COVID-19, but he had a significant brush with it himself. “I got COVID real bad, right at the very beginning. It was frightening, actually,” he recalled. “I do think that played into this project. I’m a lucky one, you know?” m

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my baptism into the Church of Al. But I have fond memories of cracking up to “My Bologna,” “Ricky,” “I Lost on Jeopardy,” “Dare to Be Stupid” and countless other classics throughout the ’80s with my brother, Tyler, and our childhood best friends, Seth and Adam. “Weird Al” was a huge formative influence on our senses of humor as kids. But what amazes me about him — among many things — is that I find him just as hilarious now, three decades later, as an alleged grown-up. JORDAN ADAMS: I was raised in a very strict

Christian household. My parents didn’t let me watch PG movies until I was in second grade. We didn’t have cable, but if we did, you better believe I would not have been allowed to watch MTV. I know my older brother must’ve brought “Weird Al” home — and, actually, he probably heard him through your brother, Dan, since they were in the same class. For some reason, my parents didn’t object. Yankovic’s music is actually pretty innocuous, unlike some of the stuff he parodies (see Madonna’s “Like a Virgin”), so they must’ve determined it was no threat to my soul. What this means is: Dare to Be Stupid might be the first secular album I ever listened to all the way through. And it blew my mind. CF: And what better first secular album

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or some, “Weird Al” Yankovic is a silly novelty, a joke that’s gone on for four decades. Those people are dumb, and their opinions are

wrong. Sorry, sorry. Let’s start over. Al wouldn’t want us getting nasty. Ahem. Not everyone understands the brilliance of “Weird Al.” Perhaps that’s because his fame is largely built on parodying pop hits throughout the 1980s, ’90s and 2000s. Some see his career as shtick, like he’s some sort of glorified cover band. The assembled past and present music editors of Seven Days respectfully disagree. This Sunday, May 8, Yankovic brings “The Unfortunate Return of the Ridiculously Self-Indulgent, Ill-Advised Vanity Tour” to the Flynn Main Stage in Burlington, with special guest Emo Philips. Rather 56

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than playing hits such as “Eat It,” “Amish Paradise” and “Polka Face,” the pop satirist is reaching into his deep back catalog to perform his equally hilarious original style parodies and pastiches. Instead of his usual theatrical show, which features elaborate costume changes and video segments, Yankovic will be accompanied only by his ace backing band. To celebrate, music editor Chris Farnsworth enlisted his predecessors Jordan Adams and Dan Bolles to discuss Yankovic’s weirdly enduring legacy in this latest edition of “Talk It Out.”

It was the ’80s and, believe it or not, I took MTV super fucking seriously. I was tiny, and despite the neon clothes, ozonekilling hair spray and general ridiculous nature of music videos, everything I saw on the fledgling channel felt so dramatic and important. That is, until I saw Al, dressed in a pair of scrubs and gyrating on a hospital gurney as he sang “Like a Surgeon.” It was in that moment that I truly understood the world. Here was a song with the line “Got your kidneys on my mind.” My sense of humor might have formed right there on the spot.

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DAN BOLLES: Chris, we’re of a similar

some feelings about “Weird Al,” so I think we should start this talk like any nearreligious conversation might: When did Al first come into your life? I’ll go first.

vintage, so my intro to “Weird Al” happened around the same time. I was a moonwalking, one-glove-wearing Michael Jackson superfan, so “Eat It” was probably

could you ask for? I heard the title track in the middle of the animated The Transformers: The Movie and was astonished by lines like “You better squeeze all the Charmin you can while Mr. Wipple’s not around / Stick your head in the microwave and get yourself a tan.” But I couldn’t figure out what song Weird Al was parodying with “Dare to Be Stupid”! It drove me crazy for weeks until one of my friends informed me that it was not, in fact, a parody, but an original composition. Thus opened the world of Yankovic’s own songs — “Stuck in a Closet With Vanna White,” “You Don’t Love Me Anymore” and the classic “The Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota.” I’d always kept them on a separate shelf from his parodies, like they were their own sort of odd museum exhibit. They’re such good songs, though! That said, it seems brave of Mr. Yankovic to embark on a tour playing only his original material. Be honest: When you saw he was coming to town but not playing any of the parody songs, did you get a little less excited? Or the opposite? JA: I’m glad you brought that up, Chris. As

I’ve matured, I’ve come to appreciate his originals — specifically, his style parodies — more than his song parodies. When I was a little kid, I’d never heard of Devo, so I wouldn’t have picked up on the fact that

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“Dare to Be Stupid” is meant to sound like a long-lost Devo track. Now, when I listen to “Everything You Know Is Wrong” from Bad Hair Day, I can really hear how obviously and lovingly he’s biting off They Might Be Giants. From the same album, “I’m So Sick of You” is pitch-perfect Elvis Costello, and Even Worse’s “Velvet Elvis” is spot-on Police.

to fucking with Imagine Dragons songs — has helped propel his career? I’m not Home of the Best Vibes in Burly! going to lie: There were plenty of times over the years when I thought the whole thing would just fade away with other oddities from my youth. Yet the appeal of “Weird Al” is still THIRSTY TRIVIA KARAOKE real. The Flynn show sold out in, like, 20 THURSDAYS NIGHTS SUNDAYS minutes or something! And, you know, ($5 Drink (Wednesday) (Free pool, it’s not like Al is still dropping parodies Specials) $5 Bloodys like he used to. I think there’s more to & Mimosas) it. There’s a sort of wholesomeness to DB: When I was in high school, a friend’s his humor. None of his jokes older brother made a “Weird EA M R S TI M E D | .C O USH M w/ Live DJs Every Fri & Sat LB E Al” mixtape. One side was seemed designed to really HA IC M all polka medleys — shit on anyone. (Well, admittedly an acquired maybe “Fat.” That one Wed to Sun, 8PM-2AM taste. The other was hasn’t aged so well.) 165 Church St. Burlington all originals and style But by and large, Einsteinsvt.com • 802-540-0458 “Weird Al” parodies: “Melanie,” there’s a real upliftYankovic “Nature Trail to ing aura around Hell,” “Mr. Frump “Weird Al,” and I12V-Einsteins031622.indd 1 3/15/22 12:31 PM in the Iron Lung,” think that might etc. Everyone in that be one reason he’s friend group had a copy still doing something of the tape, and we wore that, frankly, a lot of them out. (And, no, none people didn’t think was of us dated much in high sustainable. school.) Point is: That tape JA: I remember being deepened my understunned when his last standing and apprealbum, Mandatory Fun, ciation for “Weird Al” hit No. 1 on the Billboard beyond the pop parodies. 200 in 2014. I’d expect CHRIS FARNSWORTH With a few exceptions him to take the top slot — “Dare to Be Stupid,” on the comedy chart RETRACING THE EUROPE ‘72 TOUR “You Don’t Love Me Anymore” — his anytime he drops a record, but it was then FRIDAY, MAY 13 style parodies don’t have the same broad I realized that he wasn’t just some oddity appeal as song parodies such as, say, from our youth, as you put it, Chris. He’s 8:00 PM “Smells Like Nirvana.” But his originals an icon. THE DOUBLE E: reveal a more twisted sense of humor. (“Mr. Frump” is literally about a guy on DB: He really is, and it’s at least in part a ventilator dying … and it’s hilarious.) because his wholesome-but-twisted As he put it when I interviewed him appeal is so multigenerational. My 10in 2012 (did I mention I interviewed and 12-year-old nephews are pumped to “Weird Al” yet?): “The style parodies, or see him live this weekend. So are their pastiches, there’s no rhyme or reason to dad and uncle. And, at least anecdotally, those. If I’m doing an homage to a band, there’s a certain type of teenager that still it’s usually a band that I like or find loves Al, too. interesting. So, I listen to their body of I was walking my dog the other day work and try to figure them out. I figure when a high school kid in a beat-up old out some of the idiosyncrasies that make Toyota Corolla passed by and pulled into them who they are and then write a a neighbor’s driveway. I could hear him song in their style, but just a little more coming from blocks away because he was demented and warped.” blasting “The Night Santa Went Crazy.” On a Sunday morning. In April. SUNDAY, MAY 22 CF: I was wondering when you’d bring As the kid emerged from his car, I was 8:00 PM up the “Weird Al” interview, Dan. And, overwhelmed by nostalgia because he no, I’m not jealous that you got to talk so closely resembled one of my gangliTHE DOUBLE E: with him about his songwriting process est (and weirdest) high school friends. at all. I’m not seething with envy at this Watching in awed admiration I thought, moment at all! I mean, I sat across from You RULE, kid. Then, I’m so sorry you Brutus “the Barber” Beefcake on a flight won’t get a date until you’re 26. m TICKETS AVAILABLE AT to Cincinnati once, so I’ve seen some DOUBLEEVERMONT.COM/SHOWS things, too. INFO Do you guys wonder if the fact that “Weird Al” Yankovic with Emo Philips, Sunday, Al has changed with the times — from May 8, 7 p.m., at the Flynn Main Stage in 21 ESSEX WAY, STE 300 | ESSEX JUNCTION, VT 05452 churning out Michael Jackson spoofs Burlington. Sold out. AA.

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Find the most up-to-date info on live music, DJs, comedy and more at sevendaysvt.com/music. If you’re a talent booker or artist planning live entertainment at a bar, nightclub, café, restaurant, brewery or coffee shop, send event details to music@sevendaysvt.com or submit the info using our form at sevendaysvt.com/postevent.

Birds of a Feather It’s fair to see a band with a food-based name

Pink 802 with Brzowski, So ’n Sos, New Radio (Blink-182 tribute) at Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, South Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $10/$15.

more complex beast than that, however, despite the savory nature of their sobriquet.

Soulshine Revival (Allman Brothers tribute) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 9 p.m. Free.

and assume it’s the latest Vermont jam band. Burlington’s CHICKEN FAT INJECTION are a

Adam O’Farrill’s Stranger Days (jazz) at the 126, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free. Bluegrass & BBQ (bluegrass) at Four Quarters Brewing, Winooski, 6:30 p.m. Free.

Led by a murderer’s row of top area players, including guitarist George Petit, bassist

The Good Parts (jazz) at Halvorson’s, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free.

of genres, from funk to country and reggae to rock, and toss them in a blender of

The Wormdogs with Wild Leek River & Long Gone John (bluegrass) at ArtsRiot, Burlington, 8 p.m. $15.

high-octane musicianship and telepathic grooves. Occasionally joined by a full horn

SUN.8

John Rivers, drummer Geza Carr and keyboardist Mike Hartigan, CFI take a handful

Irish Sessions (Celtic) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

section, the group brings its massive, eclectic sound to Foam Brewers in Burlington

Jazz Night with Ray Vega (jazz) at Hotel Vermont, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free.

this Saturday, May 7, for a night of improvisational jams and reworked covers.

Jazz Sessions with Randal Pierce (jazz open mic) at the 126, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free.

Sunday Brunch Tunes (various) at Hotel Vermont, Burlington, 10 a.m.

Matt Andersen with Terra Lightfoot (singer-songwriter) at Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, South Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $18/$20.

MON.9

Blues Traveler with Magnolia Boulevard (rock) at Higher Ground Ballroom, South Burlington, 7 p.m. $39/$45.

May the 4th Be with Mickey Western & Friends (Americana) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 9 p.m. $5. Spaghetti & Meatballs Special (rock) at Bent Nails Bistro, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Wednesday Night Dead (Grateful Dead covers) at Zenbarn, Waterbury, 7 p.m. $5.

THU.5

SAT.7 // CHICKEN FAT INJECTION [JAZZ, FUNK]

Acoustic Thursdays with Zach Nugent (singer-songwriter) at Red Square, Burlington, 5 p.m. Free.

Al’s Pals with Bob Wagner (jam, rock) at Butter Bar and Kitchen, Burlington, 5:30 p.m. Free. Back to Basics Vol 2: The Widdler & Pushloop with Oddpaco and Warco (EDM) at ArtsRiot, Burlington, 8 p.m. $20. Coral Moons with Danny & the Parts (indie rock) at Monkey House, Winooski, 8:30 p.m. $5. Dave O and Matt Gibbs (singersongwriter) at Filling Station, Middlesex, 6 p.m. Free. Joe Vann with Jo Schornikow (singer-songwriter) at Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, South Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $12/$15.

Zoe Clark (singer-songwriter) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

FRI.6

2nd Annual Al’s Pals Springtime Invitational (blues, jam) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 8 p.m. $10. Annie Sklar (jazz) at Bleu Northeast Kitchen, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Chase Murphy with Diamonds, Will Keeper (hip-hop) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 8 p.m. $10. Chris Lyon Band (folk rock) at Bent Nails Bistro, Montpelier, 9 p.m. Free. Cosmic the Cowboy with LACES (indie rock) at Monkey House, Winooski, 8:30 p.m. $5.

John Lackard Blues Jam (blues) at Bent Nails Bistro, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free.

Dave Mitchell’s Blues Revue (blues) at Red Square, Burlington, 2 p.m. Free.

Mark Legrand (country) at Charlie-O’s World Famous, Montpelier, 8 p.m. Free.

Elizabeth Begins (singersongwriter) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 5 p.m. Free.

The Most Wanted (hip-hop, jazz) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 11 p.m. $10.

Eric George (folk) at Hotel Vermont, Burlington, 4 p.m. Free.

Thaya Zalewski Quartet (jazz) at Foam Brewers, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Free Range Band (blues) at Red Square, Burlington, 3 p.m. Free. John Lackard Blues Band (blues) at Red Square, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Lazy Bird (rock, jam) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free.

All Night Boogie Band (blues) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 9 p.m. $10.

Fred Gillen Jr. with Carl Beverly (singer-songwriter) at Stage 33 Live, Bellows Falls, 7 p.m. $10.

Honky Tonk (country) at Bent Nails Bistro, Montpelier, 6 p.m. Free. Mister Burns with Konflik and the Reflexions (hip-hop) at Foam Brewers, Burlington, 9 p.m. Free.

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Phil Abair Band (cover band) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 9 p.m. Free. Rose McCann Band with Moondogs (blues, rock) at ArtsRiot, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. $10. Scott Metzger (acoustic, instrumental) at Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, South Burlington, 8 p.m. $20/$23. The Shackeltons (rock) at Red Square, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free. Ursa and the Major Key (indie rock) at Charlie-O’s World Famous, Montpelier, 9:30 p.m. Free. Will Evans (singer-songwriter) at Zenbarn, Waterbury, 9 p.m. $20/$25.

SAT.7

Big Lazy and Mamie Minch (singer-songwriter) at Cooper Field, Putney, 5 p.m. $20/$25. Chicken Fat Injection (jazz, funk) at Foam Brewers, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free. Dark Star Project (Grateful Dead tribute) at Monkey House, Winooski, 8:30 p.m. $5. Duncan MacLeod Trio (blues rock) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 5 p.m. Free.

Houndmouth with Sam Filiatreau (blues) at Higher Ground Ballroom, South Burlington, 8 p.m. $25/$28. Kingman Fest featuring Live Tribute to Queen (Queen tribute) at Kingman St., St. Albans, 7:30 p.m. Free. Lazer Dad (cover band) at Red Square, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free. Lee Ross (funk, rock) at Orlando’s Bar & Lounge, Burlington, 9 p.m. $5. Left Eye Jump (blues) at Red Square, Burlington, 2 p.m. Free. The Mallett Brothers Band (Americana) at Zenbarn, Waterbury, 9 p.m. $14/$16. Mikahely (singer-songwriter) at Bent Nails Bistro, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Nancy Smith (singer-songwriter) at Bent Nails Bistro, Montpelier, 9 p.m. Free. Nico Suave & the Mothership: A Tribute to Led Zeppelin (Led Zeppelin tribute) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. $10. No More Blue Tomorrows (folk rock) at Charlie-O’s World Famous, Montpelier, 9:30 p.m. Free. Paul Asbell (jazz) at Bleu Northeast Kitchen, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free.

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Dan & Grace (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free. DJ CRE8 (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 11 p.m. Free. DJ Steal Wool (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 5 p.m. Free.

THU.5

DJ Baron (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 11 p.m. Free. DJ Molly Mood (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free. Mi Yard Reggae Night with DJ Big Dog (reggae and dancehall) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 9:30 p.m. Free.

FRI.6

ATAK (DJ) at Red Square Blue Room, Burlington, 11 p.m. Free.

Security Project (Peter Gabriel tribute) at Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, South Burlington, 7 p.m. $20/$25.

DJ Craig Mitchell (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

TUE.10

Lemonade: A Pop Dance Party with Two Sev & Malachi (DJ) at Club Metronome, Burlington, 10 p.m. $5.

Beach Bunny with Wednesday, Ky Voss (indie rock) at Higher Ground Ballroom, South Burlington, 7 p.m. $22/$27. Dead Set (Grateful Dead tribute) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 7 p.m. $10. Honky Tonk Tuesday featuring Pony Hustle (country) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 9 p.m. $5.

WED.11

All Them Witches with the Swell Fellas (hard rock) at Higher Ground Ballroom, South Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $22/$25. The Arty Lavigne Band (blues, rock) at Halvorson’s, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free. The Blue Blazers (blues rock) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free.

DJ Taka (DJ) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 11 p.m. $10.

Memery (DJ) at Red Square Blue Room, Burlington, 9 p.m. Free.

SAT.7

DJ A-Ra$ (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free. DJ Raul (DJ) at Red Square Blue Room, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free. DJ Taka (DJ) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 11 p.m. $10. Reign One (DJ) at Red Square Blue Room, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

SUN.8

DJ Two Sev (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 11 p.m. Free.

Bluegrass & BBQ (bluegrass) at Four Quarters Brewing, Winooski, 6:30 p.m. Free.

MON.9

Irish Sessions (Celtic) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

Disco Phantom (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 9 p.m. Free.

Jazz Night with Ray Vega (jazz) at Hotel Vermont, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free.

DJ4D (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Colby Stiltz (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 11 p.m. Free.

Jazz Sessions with Randal Pierce (jazz open mic) at the 126, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free.

Mo’ Monday with DJs Craig Mitchell and Fattie B (soul, R&B) at Monkey House, Winooski, 7 p.m. Free.

Spaghetti & Meatballs Special (rock) at Bent Nails Bistro, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free.

TUE.10

Wednesday Night Dead (Grateful Dead covers) at Zenbarn, Waterbury, 7 p.m. $5.

DJ A-Ra$ (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

Ben Blanchard (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

WED.11

Dan & Grace (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free. DJ CRE8 (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 11 p.m. Free.

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Line Dancing with Dancin’ Dean (line dancing) at the Depot, St. Albans, 6 p.m. $7.

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TUE.10

Lit Club (poetry open mic) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Open Mic with D Davis (open mic) at Bent Nails Bistro, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free.

WED.11

Open Mic (open mic) at Monopole, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 10 p.m. Free.

comedy WED.4

Improv Class Performance (improv comedy) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

THU.5

Standup Class Performance (comedy) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free.

FRI.6

VCC in the Multiverse of Crassness: A Marvel Comedy Roast (comedy) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 7:30 & 9:30 p.m. $20.

SAT.7

VCC in the Multiverse of Crassness: A Marvel Comedy Roast (comedy) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 7:30 & 9:30 p.m. $20.

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SUN.8

Eleganza & Espresso: A Drag Brunch (drag) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 10 a.m. $20.

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Comedy Open Mic (comedy) at the 126, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

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Trivia (trivia) at Jericho Café & Tavern, 6 p.m. Free. Trivia & Nachos (trivia) at Four Quarters Brewing, Winooski, 6 p.m. Free. Trivia Night (trivia) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free.

MON.9

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Trivia with Brian & Ian (trivia) at Charlie-O’s World Famous, Montpelier, 8:30 p.m. Free.

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Every now and then, the music editor’s desk gets a little too cluttered with new submissions, and Chris starts acting irrationally and lashing out at houseplants. To alleviate such outbursts, he takes a deep dive and reviews six releases from local musicians — even though he writes for a paper called Seven Days and it would make so much more sense to do seven reviews. You’re getting six, all right? Don’t ask; he just likes the number six.

Bishop LaVey, Brot Und Zirkus (SELF-RELEASED, DIGITAL)

It’s last call for Bishop LaVey, the doom-folk alter ego of Montpelier musician Kane Sweeney. The singersongwriter, who also fronts death-metal act OrphanWar, felt it was time to wrap up the Bishop LaVey project, as he had run out of folk songs to write about “Armageddon and alcoholism.” For his final folk coda, Sweeney doles out tough love, like a lush leaving the bar and needing to make just one more point before staggering home. Musically, a hard-rock edge is always on the periphery of Brot Und Zirkus, as if his more aggressive tendencies were starting to break through. Front and center is Sweeney’s gravelly baritone voice, booming out and snarling as he has his final say. KEY TRACK: “The World Don’t Hate You” WHY: Sweeney growls out some selfreflection: “The world don’t hate you / It don’t give a shit about you / You do that just fine on your own.” WHERE: bishoplavey.bandcamp.com

nd dentico, Found at Mallory Brook (HT68) (HISTAMINE TAPES, CASSETTE, DIGITAL)

Jim Yeager, From the Inside (SELF-RELEASED, DIGITAL)

Windsor singer-songwriter Jim Yeager’s latest record is a delicate acoustic affair. On previous records, such as 2020’s Identity Crisis, Yeager’s sound was rock-oriented, featuring a full band and a cameo from Jackson Browne guitarist Val McCallum. On From the Inside, however, Yeager taps in to his folk side, composing tender songs that, as he writes in the album’s liner notes, were inspired by “those I love the deepest and by current events that have greatly affected me.” The shift from rock to folk seems effortless for the formerly Florida-based musician, who shows some impressive chops on the acoustic guitar, as well as layering percussion with a pill bottle on “Deliberate Attack.” It’s a well-produced affair, too, thanks to Chris Decato’s mixing and mastering. Whether or not Yeager brings back the full band on his next release, he’s shown that his music can be just as affecting when it’s stripped-down. KEY TRACK: “From the Outside” WHY: Yeager softens his vocal delivery and harmonizes with himself to great effect on the chorus. WHERE: jimyeager.bandcamp.com

Revolution Robots, RASH (SELF-RELEASED, DIGITAL)

As the sound of a babbling brook laps by, a drone drifts in and intensifies, like a plane overhead, growing ever closer. Thus begins Found at Mallory Brook (HT68), the latest release from experimental artist nd dentico — aka East Montpelier’s Nick Dentico — founder of the DIY cassette label Histamine Tapes. The label — which focuses on drone music and, according to its website, avoids “sounds that make you want to dance” — issues cassettes made from recycled, dubbed-over old tapes and J-cards created from cultural ephemera such as maps and technical manuals. It’s a fascinating series, one continued ably by Dentico himself, who crafts soundscapes that are in turns relaxing and slightly ominous. Nature and technology seem poised on the edge of a clash throughout the two long tracks on Found at Mallory Brook. Both feature a hydrophone recording of the titular brook, juxtaposed with Dentico’s electric bass. KEY TRACK: “At Mallory Brook” WHY: Dentico lets his movements and foot shuffles come through as he captures the sound of running water, giving the song strange bursts of static that work almost like percussion. WHERE: histaminetapes.bandcamp.com

The first track on RASH, the latest release from Revolution Robots, is titled “My Deepest Apologies.” Perhaps Vermont-based artist Matthew Chaney knew how abrasive the track’s three minutes of static noise would sound, particularly as the opening song. RASH never gets more listenable over the course of the six tracks, but I’m not sure that’s really what Chaney is going for with his dissonant, twitchy songs full of horny robot voices. Many of the songs are more akin to endurance challenges, such as the truly painful-to-listento “Dentist.” Revolution Robots seem to have an almost anthropological side, as if Chaney is trying to create music that sounds like artificial intelligence songs written for other robots. KEY TRACK: “Gentle Country Robot” WHY: The robot is trying to break your heart with a song about a sad-sack robot who falls in love with a Waffle House cash register. WHERE: revolutionrobots.bandcamp.com

Sachem, Bog Witch

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I once had a bandmate who claimed he could get too stoned for stoner metal. I asked him to prove it, and when he couldn’t, I kicked his ass out of the band. OK, he actually just moved to Texas and we parted amicably. But I rib him about his claim to this day and often send him stoner-metal albums and ask him to get as high as possible, just to see. For the record, he couldn’t smoke himself out of digging Sachem’s most recent release, a double single release of “Bog Witch” and “Poisonous Thoughts.” That shouldn’t be surprising, as the Burlington metal act has refined its sound to be as thick as the biggest bong hit. Down-tuned guitars, heavy as a mudslide, trudge alongside pounding drums and screamed lyrics courtesy of front person/guitarist Jon Berg. (He also fronts power-violence act Void Bringer and founded Second Republic Records.) This EP is a stomp to the face, full of slowly building doom and crashing thunder. KEY TRACK: “Bog Witch” WHY: The more atmospheric of the two tracks, “Bog Witch” builds with such ominous power that you can all but feel the evil approaching. WHERE: sachem802.bandcamp.com 60

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Camden Joy, Roaming On Camden Joy is the pseudonym of Middlebury-based author Tom Adelman. Perhaps best known for his books, such as The Last Rock Star Book: Or: Liz Phair, a Rant, and Boy Island, Adelman also gained notoriety in New York City in the mid-’90s by slapping posters across the city, full of guerrilla-style music criticism. His abilities as a writer shine through on Roaming On, one of two records he released in March. A quirky and at times inventive songwriter, Adelman delves into songs that double as short stories. They reflect life at its strangest and often feature himself as a bemused, occasionally reflective character. Shades of Elvis Costello and the Silver Jews’ David Berman color Adelman’s offbeat songs. He also uses field recording in evocative ways, adding natural sounds that augment his songs. The result is a record that plays out like a jumbled slice-of-life document, full of surprise and charm. KEY TRACK: “Make Me a Coin” WHY: Adelman sings my favorite line of the year: “Don’t ever put my face on U.S. currency / That spot’s reserved for hypocrites and thieves / Make me a coin that says, ‘Death awaits thee!’” WHERE: camdenjoy.bandcamp.com

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ost of us know American writer Jack London for his adventure classic The Call of the Wild or his harrowing short story “To Build a Fire.” His 1909 autobiographical novel Martin Eden is less likely to show up on high school reading lists. Yet, in a mysterious cultural convergence, two directors of different nationalities recently released separate adaptations of the book. Pietro Marcello’s Martin Eden, set in Naples, was nominated for the Golden Lion at the 2019 Venice Film Festival. (It’s currently available to rent or with a Showtime subscription.) Vermont filmmaker Jay Craven’s take on the novel, Jack London’s Martin Eden, was shot with the help of college students in the director’s Semester Cinema program (see “Final Cut?” page 34). The movie premiered at the Nantucket Film Festival in June 2021 and won best film and best director awards at the Boston Film Festival. With Craven’s film screening this week in Burlington, Montpelier and St. Johnsbury (see below), I decided to watch both Martin Edens and find out what’s suddenly so compelling about this tale from the dawn of the 20th century. Both movies follow the basic plot of London’s novel, which is what lit professors call a Künstlerroman — the story of how an artist becomes an artist. Martin Eden (Andrew Richardson in Craven’s version) is a working-class young man accustomed to the rough life of a sailor. His world expands when he meets the refined Ruth Morse (Hayley Griffith), who tutors him and gives him reading lists. Soon they’re in love and engaged. But Ruth’s bourgeois parents have doubts about Martin’s new ambition: to make his living as a writer. As Martin’s collection of rejection slips grows, and strikes and social unrest erupt around him, he struggles to fulfill a creative mission in which only he has complete faith. Although Martin insists he’s an “individualist,” at odds with the new trend of socialism, he’s drawn to leftist gatherings. By befriending the ailing socialist writer Russ Brissenden (Phil McGlaston), he puts himself on a collision course with his conservative would-be in-laws. Craven’s adaptation is by far the more straightforward of the two, retaining the

PLAYING FOR TIME Social class comes between young lovers Richardson and Griffith in Craven’s adaptation of Martin Eden.

novel’s setting in early 20th-century America. Marcello’s version, by contrast, takes place in an indeterminate period that alternately evokes the 1930s and the early ’70s. The director has called the movie “a metaphor for the history of the 20th century as such.” Mixing grainy 16mm film with archival footage that represents Martin’s memories and fictions, Marcello’s Martin Eden makes a dramatic stylistic statement that telegraphs its status as modern parable rather than realism. Why parable? Because London sets a trap in his novel. Gilded Age readers loved tales of triumphant individualism and poor boys making good, epitomized by the novels of Horatio Alger. Martin Eden fits the pattern — then turns it upside down. After many travails, Martin does find riches and fame as an author, just as London did, but his triumph is empty and puts him on a tragic course. In both films, this twist feels startlingly abrupt, almost surreal. In the Italian version, however, Luca Marinelli’s magnetic performance as Martin sows the seeds of the character’s transformation, making it easier to track. From the beginning, we see the young man’s pluck and charisma but also his simmering class rage.

Once he’s accepted into polite society, he loses outlets for that rage — and, like some modern celebrities, enters a selfdestructive spiral. In Craven’s version, Martin is less of a smoldering volcano. He comes off as a stalwart, charming fellow, generally confining his anger to fantasies of telling off Ruth’s parents. His love interest, by contrast, has more depth and dimensions in Craven’s film than she does in Marcello’s. Flirty and fussy as she may be, this Ruth also has genuine convictions that draw her toward the women’s suffrage movement. Her counterpart in the Italian film feels more like an icon of genteel femininity than a real woman. Watching both films offers a fascinating lesson in how differently a single story can be brought to the screen, especially when the source material is rich in ambiguity. Himself an avowed socialist, London told his friend Upton Sinclair that critics had failed to see Martin Eden as the “attack on individualism” that he intended. European readers may have been more receptive to a veiled communitarian message. For that reason, Marcello told Filmmaker, the novel has been more popular in his homeland than in the U.S.

In both of these films, Martin Eden is less a full-throated endorsement of socialism than the cautionary tale of a socialist manqué. The story poses a perennial question: What part can artists play in a revolution? Is there something inherently selfish in their creative pursuits, even when they chronicle the plight of the oppressed? That question tears Martin Eden apart, and it’s no easier to answer today. MARGO T HARRI S O N margot@sevendaysvt.com

Upcoming screenings of Jack London’s Martin Eden • Thursday, May 5, 7 p.m., at Main Street Landing Film House, Burlington (presented by the Vermont International Film Foundation with a director Q&A). $12. Also streaming Friday through Sunday, May 6 to 8, at vtiff.org. • Friday through Thursday, May 6 to 12, at the Savoy Theater in Montpelier (check online for price and times). • Saturday, May 7, 5:30 and 7:30 p.m., at Catamount Arts, St. Johnsbury. $6-9.

NEW IN THEATERS DOCTOR STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS: Benedict Cumberbatch returns as the magic-using Marvel hero, whose life gets a lot more complicated when he opens a doorway to alternate realities. Elizabeth Olsen, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Benedict Wong also star. Sam Raimi directed. (126 min, PG-13. Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Marquis, Paramount, Playhouse, Roxy, Star, Stowe, Sunset, Welden) HIT THE ROAD: A family of four takes a mysterious road trip across Iran in this acclaimed debut from director Panah Panahi, starring Pantea Panahiha and Hasan Majuni. (93 min, NR. Savoy) JACK LONDON’S MARTIN EDEN: Vermont filmmaker Jay Craven directed this adaptation of London’s 1909 novel about a working-class young man (Andrew Richardson) determined to achieve literary fame. With Hayley Griffith. (104 min, NR. Savoy) PETITE MAMAN: A child (Joséphine Sanz) who has just lost her grandmother forms an unusual friendship with a girl she encounters in the woods in this award-winning French drama from Céline Sciamma (Portrait of a Lady on Fire). (72 min, PG. Roxy, Savoy)

CURRENTLY PLAYING ALINEHH1/2 Valérie Lemercier directed and stars in this fictionalized account of the life of Céline Dion, from her humble beginnings in Québec to international pop superstardom. With Sylvain Marcel. (126 min, PG-13. Roxy) THE BAD GUYSHHH A crew of animal outlaws tries to convince the world they’ve reformed in this animated comedy from director Pierre Perifel, featuring Sam Rockwell and Awkwafina. (100 min, PG. Bijou, Essex, Majestic, Marquis, Paramount, Star, Stowe, Sunset, Welden) THE BATMANHHH1/2 Robert Pattinson plays yet another version of the Caped Crusader in this adventure that establishes a new Gotham City continuity, with Paul Dano as the murderous Riddler and Zoë Kravitz as Catwoman. Matt Reeves (Let Me In) directed. (175 min, PG-13. Roxy) EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCEHHHHH Michelle Yeoh plays a woman who must travel the multiverse — including her own alternate lives — to save the world in a surreal adventure comedy from Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (Swiss Army Man). With Stephanie Hsu. (139 min, R. Essex, Majestic, Roxy, Savoy, Welden; reviewed 4/13) FANTASTIC BEASTS: SECRETS OF DUMBLEDOREHH1/2 The Harry Potter prequel saga continues as Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law) sends Newt (Eddie Redmayne) on a mission. David Yates directed. (142 min, PG-13. Big Picture, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Roxy, Star, Sunset) FIREBIRDHH1/2 Set on a Soviet air base in the 1970s, Peeter Rebane’s drama explores the secret affair between a soldier and a fighter pilot. Tom Prior and Oleg Zagorodnii star. (107 min, R. Roxy)

THE GIRL AND THE SPIDERHHHH As two roommates prepare to separate, tensions threaten their ambiguous relationship in this festival favorite from Ramon and Silvan Zürcher (The Strange Little Cat). (98 min, NR. Savoy) THE LOST CITYHHH A best-selling romance novelist (Sandra Bullock) and her cover model (Channing Tatum) get pulled into a real-life jungle adventure in this action comedy, also starring Brad Pitt and Daniel Radcliffe. (112 min, PG-13. Capitol, Majestic, Sunset) MEMORYHH Liam Neeson plays an assassin experiencing memory loss who becomes a target in this remake of The Memory of a Killer. With Monica Bellucci, Guy Pearce and Ray Stevenson. Martin Campbell directed. (114 min, R. Essex, Majestic) MORBIUSHH Jared Leto plays a biochemist turned vampire in this film based on a Marvel Comics character. With Michael Keaton and Adria Arjona. Daniel Espinosa directed. (104 min, PG-13. Big Picture, Sunset) THE NORTHMANHHHH A Viking prince (Alexander Skarsgård) sets out to rescue his mother (Nicole Kidman) and avenge his father in a historical epic from Robert Eggers (The Witch). (136 min, R. Majestic, Roxy; reviewed 4/27) PARIS, 13TH DISTRICTHHHH Young people’s friendships and romantic lives intertwine in this drama based on the comics of Adrian Tomine and directed by Jacques Audiard (Rust and Bone). With Lucie Zhang and Makita Samba. (105 min, R. Roxy) SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 2HH1/2 The villainous Dr. Robotnik returns to challenge the title character in this sequel to the animated family hit. With Ben Schwartz, Idris Elba and Jim Carrey. (122 min, PG. Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Welden) THE UNBEARABLE WEIGHT OF MASSIVE TALENTHHH1/2 Nicolas Cage goofs on his own image in this action comedy about a cash-poor actor doing a paid appearance at a fan’s party. With Tiffany Haddish. Tom Gormican directed. (107 min, R. Essex, Stowe)

OLDER FILMS AND SPECIAL SCREENINGS DEATH ON THE NILE (Sunset)

OPEN THEATERS (* = UPCOMING SCHEDULE FOR THEATER WAS NOT AVAILABLE AT PRESS TIME) *BIG PICTURE THEATER: 48 Carroll Rd., Waitsfield, 496-8994, bigpicturetheater.info BIJOU CINEPLEX 4: 107 Portland St., Morrisville, 888-3293, bijou4.com CAPITOL SHOWPLACE: 93 State St., Montpelier, 229-0343, fgbtheaters.com ESSEX CINEMAS & T-REX THEATER: 21 Essex Way, Suite 300, Essex, 879-6543, essexcinemas.com

COURTESY OF ROADSIDE ATTRACTIONS

MAJESTIC 10: 190 Boxwood St., Williston, 878-2010, majestic10.com MARQUIS THEATER: 65 Main St., Middlebury, 388-4841, middleburymarquis.com *MERRILL’S ROXY CINEMAS: 222 College St., Burlington, 864-3456, merrilltheatres.net PARAMOUNT TWIN CINEMA: 241 N. Main St., Barre, 479-9621, fgbtheaters.com

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PLAYHOUSE MOVIE THEATRE: 11 S. Main St., Randolph, 728-4012, playhouseflicks.com SAVOY THEATER: 26 Main St., Montpelier, 229-0598, savoytheater.com STAR THEATRE: 17 Eastern Ave., St. Johnsbury, 748-9511, stjaytheatre.com

Valérie Lemercier in Aline

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fairs & festivals

GARDENING 101: PLANTING YOUR GARDEN: Novices cultivate their green thumbs with a lesson in spring planting and an optional trip to Gardener’s Supply. Tommy Thompson Community Garden, Burlington, 5-6:30 p.m. Free; donations accepted; preregister. Info, abbey@vcgn.org.

2022 YOUNG TRADITION FESTIVAL: Vermont’s young up-and-coming musicians and dancers get their time in the spotlight at a weeklong celebration of intergenerational arts education. See youngtradition vermont.org for full schedule. Various Burlington locations, 7 p.m. Prices vary; $100 for festival pass. Info, danielle. canismusic@gmail.com.

business

film

agriculture

SMALL BUSINESS LENDING PANEL: Champlain Valley Office of Economy Opportunity and Small Business Administration experts answer questions about getting funding. 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 862-2771. WEEKLY HIRING EVENT: Mental health and recovery professionals bring their résumés and cover letters to be evaluated on the spot. Howard Center, Burlington, 1-3 p.m. Free. Info, 488-6000.

education

MOUNT ST. JOSEPH ACADEMY ANNUAL AUCTION: Virtual bidders support the Rutland Catholic school’s Parent & Friends Committee. Prices vary. Info, 775-0151.

environment

VERMONT ORGANICS RECYCLING SUMMIT: Keynoter Finian Makepeace offers motivation during five days of virtual workshops and select in-person events. See compostingvermont.org for full schedule. 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Free; donations accepted; preregister. Info, 373-6499.

See what’s playing at local theaters in the On Screen section. ‘BACKYARD WILDERNESS 3D’: Cameras positioned in nests, underwater and along the forest floor capture a year’s worth of critters coming and going. Northfield Savings Bank 3D Theater: A National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 10:30 a.m., 12:30, 2:30 & 4:30 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $14.50-18; admission free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848. COMMUNITY EDUCATION SERIES: ‘THE UPSTANDERS’: Howard Center hosts a screening and panel discussion of a film that spurs questions about cyberbullying and inclusivity. 6-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 488-6912. ‘DINOSAURS OF ANTARCTICA 3D’: Moviegoers join scientists on a journey through a surreal world of bug-eyed giants and egg-laying mammals. Northfield Savings Bank 3D Theater: A National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 11 a.m., 1 & 3 p.m. $3-5 plus regular

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admission, $14.50-18; admission free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848. ‘LISTEN UP’: Audiences screen a filmed version of an original live musical based on the true stories of Vermont teens. A Q&A with the stars follows. Essex CHIPS & Teen Center, Essex Junction, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 357-4616. ‘MEERKATS 3D’: A tenacious mammalian matriarch fights to protect her family in a desolate environment. Northfield Savings Bank 3D Theater: A National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 10:30 a.m., 12:30, 2:30 & 4:30 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $11.50-14.50; admission free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848. ‘SPACE: UNRAVELING THE COSMOS’: Sparkling graphics take viewers on a mind-bending journey from the beginning of time through the mysteries of the universe. Northfield Savings Bank 3D Theater: A National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 10:30 a.m., 12:30, 2:30 & 4:30 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $14.50-18; admission free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848. ‘THREE COINS IN THE FOUNTAIN’: Three women search for romance in Rome in this 1954 classic. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600.

food & drink

DEDALUS FREE WEEKLY WINE TASTINGS: Themed in-store tastings take oenophiles on an adventure through a wine

FIND MORE LOCAL EVENTS IN THIS ISSUE AND ONLINE: art Find visual art exhibits and events in the Art section and at sevendaysvt.com/art.

film See what’s playing at theaters in the On Screen section.

music + nightlife Find club dates at local venues in the Music + Nightlife section online at sevendaysvt.com/music.

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region, grape variety, style of wine or producer’s offerings. Dedalus Wine Shop, Market & Wine Bar, Burlington, 5-8 p.m. Free. Info, 865-2368.

self and sexuality in this sensual musical spectacular. Sylvan Adams Theatre, Segal Centre for Performing Arts, Montréal, 8 p.m. $25-88. Info, 514-739-7944.

NATALIE NEUERT: Listeners get a plate’s-eye view of the Jewish diaspora in 20 recipes, from brisket to fish and chips. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4095.

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games

MAHJONGG CLUB: Tile traders of all experience levels gather for a game session. Morristown Centennial Library, Morrisville, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 888-3853.

health & fitness

ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION EXERCISE PROGRAM: Those in need of an easy-on-the-joints workout gather for an hour of calming, low-impact movement. United Community Church, St. Johnsbury, 1:30-2:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 751-0431. AYURVEDA: Maryellen Crangle and Dorothy Alling Memorial Library host a seven-week introduction to this ancient Indian and Nepalese healing and lifestyle tradition. 2-3:30 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, programs@ damlvt.org. CHAIR YOGA: Waterbury Public Library instructor Diana Whitney leads at-home participants in gentle stretches supported by seats. 10 a.m. Free. Info, 244-7036. ROOTS OF PREVENTION AWARDS CELEBRATION: The Burlington Partnership for a Healthy Community recognizes outstanding contributions to community wellness. 6:30-8 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 652-0997.

language

ELL CLASSES: ENGLISH FOR BEGINNERS & INTERMEDIATE STUDENTS: Learners of all abilities practice written and spoken English with trained instructors. Presented by Fletcher Free Library. 6:30-8 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, bshatara@ burlingtonvt.gov.

lgbtq

PCVT’S ONLINE AUCTION: The Pride Center of Vermont sells one-of-a-kind items and experiences, with all proceeds benefiting its support and programming for queer and trans folks. Prices vary. Info, 730-2383. STANDING IN THIS PLACE: GROWING UP LGBTQ IN VERMONT: Playwright Maura Campbell, activist Howdy Russell and actor and educator Ray Merrill give three generations of perspective on queer community in Vermont. Presented by Vermont Humanities and Goodrich Memorial Library. 7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 754-6660.

montréal

‘APRIL FOOLS: AN ADULT ROCK CABARET’: A forbidden love affair rocks a woman’s sense of

‘FALLING OUT OF TIME’: Argentinean composer Osvaldo Golijov presents a new chamber opera inspired by David Grossman’s novel of the same name. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7:30 p.m. $15-50. Info, 603-646-2422. STUDENT PERFORMANCE RECITALS: Solo students take the stage! Each of these three performances features a different, diverse range of classical and jazz selections. University of Vermont Recital Hall, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-3040. WILD WOODS SONG CIRCLE: Singers and acoustic instrumentalists gather for an evening of music making. Zoom option available. Godnick Adult Center, Rutland, 7:15-9:15 p.m. Free. Info, 775-1182.

seminars

U.S. CITIZENSHIP TEST PREPARATION: Adult learners study English, history, government and geography with personal tutors. Virtual options available. Mercy Connections, Burlington, 9-11 a.m. Free. Info, 846-7063.

talks

ANNELISE ORLECK: The Dartmouth College history professor examines the life of brilliant jurist and unapologetic feminist Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Presented by Vermont Humanities and St. Johnsbury Athenaeum. 7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 748-8291. CHARLENE GALARNEAU: The Harvard Medical School lecturer illuminates Vermont’s history of eugenic policies and the continuing repercussions. Rutland Free Library, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 773-1860. THE POWER OF PERSUASION: Members of Dartmouth College’s debate team and director John Cameron Hart discuss the role of research and persuasion in education. Presented by Vermont Humanities and Brownell Library. 7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-6955. ROLF DIAMANT: The historian explains how the Civil War and the Reconstruction period gave rise to the concept of national parks. Presented by Vermont Humanities and Norwich Public Library. 7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 649-1184.

theater

‘ANNAPURNA’: A woman reunites with her ex-husband under unexpected circumstances in this comedic, Americanatinged tale of love. Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $31.0538.50. Info, 862-1497.

‘MONTY PYTHON’S SPAMALOT’: King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table — oh, and also some cows, various French people, a killer rabbit and a bevy of beautiful showgirls — get audiences laughing in this beloved musical. Barrette Center for the Arts, White River Junction, 7:30 p.m. $19-59. Info, 296-7000.

words

ILAN STAVANS: An Amherst College professor looks at the distinguishing characteristics of Jewish literature from the Inquisition to the 20th century. Presented by Vermont Humanities and Kellogg-Hubbard Library. 7-8:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 223-3338. ‘KEEP THE DOORS OPEN’ BOOK DISCUSSION: In honor of National Foster Care Month, readers unpack Kristin Berry’s memoir about her year of foster parenting. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-4918. LITERARY PAIRS: Like a fine vintage and a buttery Brie, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World by Elif Shafak and Nutshell by Ian McEwan make for a delightful duo to discuss. Norman Williams Public Library, Woodstock, 1-2:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 457-2295. MARCI CALABRETTA CANCIOBELLO: The award-winning poet, translator and author of Hour of the Ox reads from her work. Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, communications@ vermontstudiocenter.org.

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agriculture

GARDEN LIKE A FARMER: INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT: Amateur agriculturalists learn how to combat beetles and moths with netting, traps and other strategies. Intervale Center, Burlington, 5-6:30 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 660-0440.

business

BIPOC BUSINESS ROUNDTABLES: The Vermont Partnership for Fairness and Diversity invites business owners of color to discuss recommendations to the State of Vermont on how best to support POC business development. 7-8 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 254-2972. HIRING2DAYVT VIRTUAL JOB FAIR: The Vermont Department of Labor gives job seekers a chance to meet with employers from around the state. 11 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 828-4000.

climate crisis

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ONLINE PRENATAL YOGA: Mothers-to-be build strength, stamina and a stronger connection to their baby. 5:45-6:45 p.m. $5-15. Info, 899-0339.

burlington

CRAFTERNOON: Weaving, knitting, embroidery and paper crafting supplies take over the Teen Space. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3403. MAKERSPACE: Builders and crafters embrace messy creativity and explore new hobbies and projects. Ages 10 and up. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3403. STEAM SPACE: Kids explore science, technology, engineering, art and math activities. Ages 5 through 11. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.

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BABYTIME: Teeny-tiny library patrons enjoy a gentle, slow story time featuring songs, rhymes and lap play. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 846-4140. LEGO BUILDERS: Elementary-age imagineers explore, create and participate in challenges after school. Ages 8 and up, or ages 6 and up with an adult helper. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 3-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140. STORY TIME: Little ones from birth through age 5 learn from songs, sign language lessons, math activities and picture books. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

barre/montpelier

WRITE YOUR OWN BOOK & BECOME A LOCAL AUTHOR: Local artist Erin Barry teaches budding writers ages 8 through 13 about plotting and character development. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 2:30-5 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 426-3581.

stowe/smuggs

WEDNESDAY CRAFTERNOON: A new project is on the docket each week, from puppets to knitting to decoupage. Ages 7 and up. Morristown Centennial Library, Morrisville, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, youthservices@centennial library.org.

mad river valley/ waterbury

LEGO CHALLENGE CLUB: Kids engage in a fun-filled hour of building, then leave their creations on display in the library all month long. Ages 6 through 8. Waterbury Public Library, 3-4 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 244-7036.

Cart, Meet Horse Billings Farm & Museum’s bulkiest horses and oxen come out to play and perform feats of strength at Draft Animal Day. Visitors meet draft horses at harnessing demonstrations and cheer for their favorite hardworking creatures during the parade. Bullish guests of all ages try their hand at plowing the fields, and kids compete for blue ribbons in the Hobby Horse Barrel Races. Meanwhile, there’s plenty of shoofly pie and switchel to sample in the historic farm manager’s house, and lunchtime sees the arrival of a taco truck and beer garden. Moms get in free for Mother’s Day.

DRAFT ANIMAL DAY Sunday, May 8, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., at Billings Farm & Museum in Woodstock. Regular admission, $8-17; free for moms, members, and kids 3 and under. Info, 457-2355, billingsfarm.org. QUEER READS: LGTBQIA+ and allied youth get together each month to read and discuss ideas around gender, sexuality and identity. Waterbury Public Library, 6-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 244-7036.

northeast kingdom

ACORN STORY TIME: Kids 6 and under play, sing, hear stories and take home a fun activity. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 10-10:30 a.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 745-1391.

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ONLINE PRENATAL YOGA: See WED.4, 12:30-1:30 p.m. TAP INTO FILM 72 HOUR FAMILY FILM SLAM: Fledgling filmmakers have just three days to write, shoot

and edit a short movie in the hopes of banking prizes. Presented by Catamount Arts and the School of Creative and Performing Arts. Free; donations accepted; preregister. Info, 748-2600.

chittenden county

BOOK CLUB FOR KIDS K-2 & PARENTS: Little bookworms and their caregivers learn to love reading together through sharing, crafts and writing activities. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 4-5 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, sbplprograms@southburlingtonvt.gov. LEGO CLUB: Children of all ages get crafty with Legos. Adult supervision is required for kids under 10. Winooski Memorial Library, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 655-6424. MUSIC AND MOVEMENT WITH MISS EMMA!: The star of “Music for Sprouts”

and “Mr. Chris and Friends” leads little ones 5 and younger in singing, scarf play and movement. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 846-4140. PRESCHOOL MUSIC WITH LINDA BASSICK: The singer and storyteller extraordinaire leads little ones in indoor music and movement. Birth through age 5. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30-11 a.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 878-4918. PRESCHOOL PLAY TIME: Kiddos and their caregivers convene for casual fun on the patio. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. READ TO A DOG: Little ones get a 10-minute time slot to tell stories to Lola the pup. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-4918.

champlain islands/ northwest

INFANT/TODDLER PLAYGROUP: Little ones ages 3 and under sing and play in the great outdoors while their caregivers catch up. BYO picnic blanket and snack. Fairfax Recreation Trail, 9:30 a.m. Free. Info, fairfaxplaygroup@gmail.com.

upper valley

TODDLER STORY TIME: Toddling tykes 20 months through 3.5 years hear a few stories related to the theme of the week. Norman Williams Public Library, Woodstock, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 457-2295.

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ONLINE PRENATAL YOGA: See WED.4, 12:30-1:15 p.m.

STORY TIME: Babies, toddlers and preschoolers take part in reading, singing and dancing. Winooski Memorial Library, 10-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 655-6424.

TAP INTO FILM 72 HOUR FAMILY FILM SLAM: See THU.5.

barre/montpelier

FRIDAY MOVIE: A fun-loving girl finds adventure in the big city in a Disney movie based off of a beloved children’s series. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 3-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

PRESCHOOL STORY TIME: Energetic youngsters join Miss Meliss for stories, songs and lots of silliness. KelloggHubbard Library, Montpelier, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 223-3338. WRITE YOUR OWN BOOK & BECOME A LOCAL AUTHOR: See WED.4.

stowe/smuggs

BABY & TODDLER MEETUP: Tiny tots and their caregivers come together for playtime, puzzles and picture books. Morristown Centennial Library, Morrisville, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 888-3853.

chittenden county

PAJAMA STORY TIME: Puppets and picture books enhance a special prebedtime story hour for kids in their PJs. Birth through age 5. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 5:30-6 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

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of talks and panels that elevate Indigenous and POC perspectives on the climate crisis. See vcwa.org for full schedule. Virtual options available. Champlain College, Burlington, 9 a.m.-8:30 p.m. $40-100; free for executive members. Info, 557-0018.

community

RESILIENCE HUBS: MODEL OVERVIEW & COMMUNITY CASE STUDIES: A panel of experts proposes holistic ways that communities can become more resilient to natural disasters and pandemic disruptions. Presented by Clean Energy States Alliance. 1-2 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 223-2554.

crafts

THURSDAY ZOOM KNITTERS: The Norman Williams Public Library fiber arts club meets virtually for conversation and crafting. 2-3 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, programs@normanwilliams.org.

education

MOUNT ST. JOSEPH ACADEMY ANNUAL AUCTION: See WED.4.

environment

VERMONT ORGANICS RECYCLING SUMMIT: See WED.4, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

etc.

NIGHT OWL CLUB: Astronomers and space exploration experts discuss the latest in extraterrestrial news with curious attendees. Presented by Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium. 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2372.

fairs & festivals 2022 YOUNG TRADITION FESTIVAL: See WED.4.

film

See what’s playing at local theaters in the On Screen section.

of wits and desire in this National Theatre Live production. Cocktail hour and discussion, 5:30 p.m. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 6:30 p.m. $15; cash bar. Info, 775-0903. ‘SPACE: UNRAVELING THE COSMOS’: See WED.4.

RUMMAGE SALE: Sales of gently used clothes, books and toys benefit United Church of Fairfax missions. Fairfax Community Center, 3-7 p.m. Prices vary. Info, 849-6313.

business

EMBODIED AT WORK: Christine Badalamenti Smith teaches participants how to get out of their heads and into their bodies at work to tap into a well of inspiration. Presented by Women Business Owners Network. 8:30-10 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 503-0219.

BRIDGE CLUB: A lively group plays a classic, tricky game in pairs. Morristown Centennial Library, Morrisville, 6-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, morrisvillebridge@ outlook.com.

community

THE AMERICAN ABENAKI EXPERIENCE: A CELEBRATION: The American Abenaki Community gathers to celebrate Vermont Abenaki Recognition and Culture Week with panels, drumming and dancing, presentations, art and craft displays, and more. ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 1-5 p.m. Regular admission, $14.50-18; free for kids 2 and under. Info, wisem@vtlink.net.

WHIST CARD GAME CLUB: Players of all experience levels congregate for some friendly competition. Morristown Centennial Library, Morrisville, 12:30-3 p.m. Free. Info, 888-3853.

health & fitness

CHAIR YOGA WITH LINDA: Every week is a new adventure in movement and mindfulness at this Morristown Centennial Library virtual class. 10:15-11:15 a.m. Free. Info, 888-3853.

lgbtq

PCVT’S ONLINE AUCTION: See WED.4.

montréal

BLUE METROPOLIS INTERNATIONAL LITERARY FESTIVAL: Authors from around the world are on hand at this annual book bash featuring 150 events for adults and kids. See bluemetropolis.org for full schedule. Various Montréal locations. Prices vary. Info, 514-932-1112.

Find even more local events in this newspaper and online:

art Find visual art exhibits and events in the Art section and at sevendaysvt.com/art.

film See what’s playing at theaters in the On Screen section.

music + nightlife Find club dates at local venues in the Music + Nightlife section online at sevendaysvt.com/ music. Learn more about highlighted listings in the Magnificent 7 on page 11.

‘SKYLIGHT’: Two former lovers find themselves locked in a battle

bazaars

games

‘DINOSAURS OF ANTARCTICA 3D’: See WED.4.

‘MEERKATS 3D’: See WED.4.

FRI.6

SUP CON GUSTO TAKEOUT SUPPER SERIES: Philly transplants Randy Camacho and Gina Cocchiaro serve up three-course and à la carte menus shaped by seasonal Vermont ingredients. See supcongustovt.com to preorder. Richmond Community Kitchen, 5-8 p.m. Various prices. Info, gustogastronomics@gmail.com.

FOMO?

‘JACK LONDON’S MARTIN EDEN’: A poor sailor falls for a high-society lady in this new adaptation of the classic autobiographical novel. Q&A with director Jay Craven follows. Presented by Vermont International Film Foundation. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7-9:15 p.m. $6-12; discounted or free for VTIFF Members. Info, 660-2600.

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food & drink

‘BACKYARD WILDERNESS 3D’: See WED.4.

‘HIT THE ROAD’: A comedic debut documentary follows a family of four as they road-trip across the Iranian countryside. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 4-5:30 p.m. $6-12; VTIFF members benefits apply. Info, 660-2600.

virtual reading. 6-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 863-2345.

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SPRING CLEANING BOOK SALE: Shoppers buy books, DVDs, CDs and more for all ages to help fund the library’s programs and summer renovation. Brandon Free Public Library, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Free. Info, 247-8230.

Good Grief What stories could you tell from memory? What stories would you want to tell at the end of the world? For the characters in Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play, staged this weekend at Middlebury College, the answer to both questions is “Cape Feare,” a 1993 episode of “The Simpsons” in which Sideshow Bob makes one of his many attempts on Bart Simpson’s life. The play, directed by Alex Draper, follows this story as it is recalled by a crew of apocalypse survivors, as it morphs several years later into a traveling stage play, and as it transforms over decades into folktale and legend.

‘MR. BURNS: A POST-ELECTRIC PLAY’ Thursday, May 5, through Saturday, May 7, 7:30 p.m., at Wright Memorial Theatre, Middlebury College. $5-15. Info, 443-6433, middlebury.edu.

FESTIVAL ACCÈS ASIE: OPENING COCKTAIL: The annual Asian Heritage Month arts extravaganza kicks off with a reception featuring Indigenous artist Nahka Bertrand, Vietnamese circus performer Trinh Tra My and DJ Chittakone. Conseil des arts de Montréal, 5-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, info@accesasie.com.

music

FIRST THURSDAY CONCERT SERIES: LAVENDULA: The femmeled folk trio delivers heavenly harmonies with a punk-rock edge. The New Deal food cart serves up nosh; 10 percent of bar sales benefit Vermont Works for Women. Shelburne Vineyard, 6-8:30 p.m. Free; cash bar. Info, 985-8222.

politics

THOUGHT CLUB: Artists and activists convene to engage with Burlington‘s rich tradition of radical thought and envision its future. Democracy Creative, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, tevan@democracycreative.com.

seminars

U.S. CITIZENSHIP TEST PREPARATION: See WED.4.

theater

‘ANNAPURNA’: See WED.4. ‘MONTY PYTHON’S SPAMALOT’: See WED.4, 2 & 7:30 p.m. ‘MR. BURNS: A POST-ELECTRIC PLAY’: Fragments of an episode of

“The Simpsons” morph into myth in a postapocalyptic society in playwright Anne Washburn’s dark, imaginative comedy. See calendar spotlight. Wright Memorial Theatre, Middlebury College, 7:30 p.m. $5-15. Info, 443-6433.

words

MYSTERY READERS BOOK CLUB: True crime buffs and amateur sleuths gather to discuss their favorite mystery books. Twin Valley Senior Center, East Montpelier, 3 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 223-6954. PJC BOOK CLUB: ELI CLARE: The poet and queer disability activist joins the Peace & Justice Center for a

conferences

2022 VERMONT WALK/BIKE SUMMIT: Transportation planners and sustainability advocates confer with locals about livable communities. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. $50; preregister. Info, 578-9999.

dance

‘A NIGHT IN’: Three dance majors present their thesis concert in an evening of storytelling, meditation and celebration. Dance Theatre, Mahaney Arts Center, Middlebury College, 7-9 p.m. $515. Info, 443-6433. WRJ FIRST FRIDAY: ‘VULTURE SISTER SONG’: Dancers and social workers Ellen Smith Ahern and Kate Elias perform a new work in progress that uses light and movement to explore the possibilities of human and nonhuman relationships. Open Door, White River Junction, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, opendoorwrj@gmail.com.

education

MOUNT ST. JOSEPH ACADEMY ANNUAL AUCTION: See WED.4.

environment

VERMONT ORGANICS RECYCLING SUMMIT: See WED.4, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

LIST YOUR EVENT FOR FREE AT SEVENDAYSVT.COM/POSTEVENT

fairs & festivals 2022 YOUNG TRADITION FESTIVAL: See WED.4.

drag performers and high-flying feats. New England Center for Circus Arts, Brattleboro, 6-9 p.m. $50-250. Info, 254-9780.

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film

montréal

DAY IN THE DIRT: Volunteers prep community plots for the growing season. See vcgn.org for participating gardens. Various locations statewide. Free; donations accepted; preregister. Info, michelle@vcgn.org.

‘BACKYARD WILDERNESS 3D’: See WED.4. ‘COMMUNION’: A conversation with director Anna Zamecka follows a screening of this acclaimed 2016 documentary about a dysfunctional Polish family and the daughter trying to hold it together. Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $5-10. Info, 603-646-2422. ‘DINOSAURS OF ANTARCTICA 3D’: See WED.4. ‘HIT THE ROAD’: Presented by Vermont International Film Foundation. See THU.5. ‘MEERKATS 3D’: See WED.4. ‘SPACE: UNRAVELING THE COSMOS’: See WED.4. ‘TRUTH TELLERS’: Pentangle Arts screens a new documentary that follows the intimate gaze of artist Robert Shetterly as he paints portraits of prominent activists. Woodstock Town Hall Theatre, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 457-3981.

games

health & fitness

ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION EXERCISE PROGRAM: See WED.4. ONLINE GUIDED MEDITATION: Dorothy Alling Memorial Library invites attendees to relax on their lunch breaks and reconnect with their bodies. Noon-12:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, programs@ damlvt.org. QIGONG WITH GERRY SANDWEISS: Beginners learn this ancient Chinese practice of meditative movement. Presented by Norman Williams Public Library. 8:30-9:30 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, programs@ normanwilliams.org.

holidays

MOTHERS’ DAY OPEN MEMORIAL: REMEMBERING IN COMMUNITY: Pastor Kristabeth Atwood of Rites of Passage leads a virtual ceremony full of music and poetry for anyone who has lost a mother or other loved one. Noon. $5-15. Info, 825-8141.

lgbtq

PCVT’S ONLINE AUCTION: See WED.4. QUEER CIRCUS ARTS SCHOLARSHIP FUNDRAISER: Friends and allies raise funds for LGBTQ+ circus students at a show featuring hors d’oeuvres,

FESTIVAL ACCÈS ASIE: FROM TOKYO TO MONTREAL: Five short films made by innovative Japanese filmmakers are presented with English subtitles. A Q&A with Image Forum Festival curator Koyo Yamashita follows. Le Gesù, Montréal, 8 p.m. $13. Info, 514-298-0757.

music

ALEGWASIMEK 8THLOKADIN: ABENAKI ARTISTS SPEAK: BRYAN BLANCHETTE: The singer-songwriter and his band perform traditional tunes and dances. Lost Nation Theater, Montpelier City Hall, 7:30 p.m. $10-26; $40-52 for series pass. Info, 229-0492. PLAY EVERY TOWN: Prolific pianist David Feurzeig kicks off a four-year, statewide series of shows in protest of high-pollution worldwide concert tours. University of Vermont Recital Hall, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, playeverytown@gmail.com. TURNMUSIC: A contemporary chamber ensemble highlights the work of BIPOC composers. Flynn Space, Burlington, 8 p.m. $25. Info, 863-5966.

outdoors

LONG TRAIL END-TO-ENDER PANEL: Experienced Long Trail hikers virtually answer questions from novice mountaineers. Presented by the Green Mountain Club. 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 241-8329. SPRING BIRDING: Folks of all interests and experience levels seek out feather friends in flight. All supplies provided. North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, 7-9 a.m. Free. Info, 229-6206.

theater

‘ANNAPURNA’: See WED.4. ‘MONTY PYTHON’S SPAMALOT’: See WED.4. ‘MR. BURNS: A POST-ELECTRIC PLAY’: See THU.5. ‘A NUMBER’: Backyard Theater Ensemble presents the sci-fi story of a father, his three cloned sons and the ethical intricacies of science and parenthood. Grange Hall Cultural Center, Waterbury Center, 7:30 p.m. $20. Info, 244-4168.

words

TRUONG TRAN: The author of the poetry and essay collection Book of the Other: Small in Comparison reads from his work and discusses anti-Asian racism in academia. Norwich Bookstore, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 649-1114.

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RAIN GARDENS FOR STORMWATER RUNOFF: Conservation expert Jill Sarazen teaches home growers how their plants can help reduce water pollution. Presented by Friends of the Horticulture Farm. 10 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister. Info, info@friendsofthehortfarm.org. RHODODENDRON CLEANUP WORKDAY: Volunteers learn all about Rhododendrons while clearing away invasive bittersweet and grapevines. University of Vermont Horticulture Research Center, South Burlington, 1-3 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, info@friendsof thehortfarm.org.

bazaars

RUMMAGE SALE: See FRI.6, 9 a.m.-2 p.m.

community

THE AMERICAN ABENAKI EXPERIENCE: A CELEBRATION: See FRI.6, 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

annual

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CHILD CAR SEAT INSPECTION: Nationally certified technicians make sure your child’s car seat is safe. Franklin County Sheriff’s 8v-eloquentpage050422.indd 1 Office, St. Albans, 10 a.m.noon. Orleans County Sheriff’s Department, Newport, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, sidney.bradley@ vermont.gov. SPRING CLEANING BOOK SALE: See FRI.6.

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MAH-JONGG: Tile traders of all experience levels gather for a game session. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 1-3 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

BLUE METROPOLIS INTERNATIONAL LITERARY FESTIVAL: See THU.5.

agriculture

See what’s playing at local theaters in the On Screen section.

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‘CINDERELLA’: If the shoe fits, wear it — City Center Ballet tells this timeless tale with a touch of humor. Lebanon Opera House, N.H., 1 & 7 p.m. $15-38. Info, 603-448-0400. MONTPELIER CONTRA DANCE: To tunes by the Turning Stile and gender-neutral calling by Will Mentor, dancers balance, shadow and do-si-do the night away. Capital City Grange, Berlin, newcomers lesson, 7:40 p.m.; social dance, 8-11 p.m. $5-20. Info, 225-8921. ‘A NIGHT IN’: See FRI.6. QUEEN CITY WESTIE SOCIAL DANCE: 802 Westie Collective and two hopping DJs celebrate of all things West Coast Swing. Champlain Club, Burlington, All-levels dance lesson, 7-8 p.m.; social dance, 8-11 p.m. $15. Info, 802westiecollective@gmail.com.

education

MOUNT ST. JOSEPH ACADEMY ANNUAL AUCTION: See WED.4.

environment

GREEN UP DAY: Volunteers across the state pick up litter and beautify their communities. See SAT.7

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fairs & festivals

2022 YOUNG TRADITION FESTIVAL: See WED.4, 1 & 6 p.m.

film

See what’s playing at local theaters in the On Screen section. ‘BACKYARD WILDERNESS 3D’: See WED.4. ‘DINOSAURS OF ANTARCTICA 3D’: See WED.4. ‘HIT THE ROAD’: See FRI.6. ‘JACK LONDON’S MARTIN EDEN’: See THU.5. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 5:30 & 7:30 p.m. $6-9. Info, 748-2600. ‘MEERKATS 3D’: See WED.4. ‘SPACE: UNRAVELING THE COSMOS’: See WED.4. ‘TURANDOT’: The Metropolitan Opera presents a thrilling revival of Puccini’s final work, set in a China of legend. Catamount Arts

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barre/montpelier

STORY TIME & PLAYGROUP: Participants ages 6 and under hear stories, sing songs and eat tasty treats between outdoor activities. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.

stowe/smuggs

DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: Players ages 9 through 13 go on a fantasy adventure with dungeon master Andy. Morristown Centennial Library, Morrisville, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 888-3853.

northeast kingdom ACORN STORY TIME: See WED.4.

SAT.7

TAP INTO FILM 72 HOUR FAMILY FILM SLAM: See THU.5.

burlington

FAMILY PLAYSHOP: Kids from birth through age 5 learn and play at this school readiness program. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10:15-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.

chittenden county

ART LAB: BUTTERMILK CHALK CARDS: Crafty kids drop by to learn how a chemical reaction can form pretty paint for decorating greeting cards. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956. CELEBRATE URBAN BIRDS: Audubon Vermont teaches aspiring ornithologists all about their winged neighbors and how to identify their songs. Ages 5 through 11. Winooski Memorial

Center, St. Johnsbury, 12:55 p.m. $16-25. Info, 748-2600. Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 1 p.m. $10-22. Info, 603-646-2422.

food & drink

ADVENTURE DINNER: DERBY DAY PARTY: CANCELED. Kentucky Derby fans don seersuckers and derby hats for mint juleps, bocce and badminton, all-you-can-eat tacos, and sunset Adirondack views. 377 Pine Street, Burlington, 5-8 p.m. $110. Info, 248-224-7539. CAPITAL CITY FARMERS MARKET: Meats and cheeses join farmfresh produce, baked goods, locally made arts and crafts, and live music. 133 State St., Montpelier, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, manager@ montpelierfarmersmarket.com. WORLD DISCO SOUP DAY: Volunteers dance, prep food and eat a community dinner to support the Salvation Suppers Free Meal Program. The Salvation Army, Burlington, 2-6 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 323-1237.

Library, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 655-6424. KARMA KIDZ YOGA OPEN STUDIO SATURDAYS: Young yogis of all ages and their caregivers drop in for some fun breathing and movement activities. Kamalika-K, Essex Junction, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Donations. Info, 871-5085. LEGO FUN: Wee builders of all ages construct creations to be displayed in the library. Children under 8 must bring a caregiver. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 878-6956.

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games

BEGINNER DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: Waterbury Public Library game master Evan Hoffman gathers novices and veterans alike for an afternoon of virtual adventuring. Teens and adults welcome. noon-4 p.m. Free. Info, 244-7036. GAME ARENA: Board game expert Vinni Yasi leads an epic drop-in day of strategy and fun. Games include Catan and Betrayal at the House on the Hill. Teens and adults welcome. Waterbury Public Library, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 244-7036.

health & fitness

IYENGAR-INSPIRED YOGA FOR ALL LEVELS & ABILITIES: Kara Rosa of the Iyengar Yoga Center of Vermont teaches this accessible class oriented toward gradual, steady progress. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10:15-11:45 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, rebecca@iycvt.com. PILATES DAY OPEN HOUSE: Instructors bend over backward to introduce visitors to mind-body

upper valley

DRAFT ANIMAL DAY: Visitors view the farm’s buffest oxen and horses, try their hands at plowing the fields, earn a blue ribbon in Hobby Horse Barrel Racing, and sample shoofly pie. See calendar spotlight. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Regular admission, $8-17; free for moms, members and kids 3 and under. Info, 457-2355.

MON.9

ONLINE PRENATAL YOGA: See WED.4.

burlington

TAP INTO FILM 72 HOUR FAMILY FILM SLAM: See THU.5.

STORIES WITH MEGAN: Bookworms ages 2 through 5 enjoy fun-filled reading time. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.

burlington

chittenden county

ONLINE PRENATAL YOGA: See WED.4, 10:15-11:15 a.m.

DAD GUILD: Fathers and their kids ages 5 and under drop in for playtime and connection. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3:30-5 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3403. GENDER CREATIVE KIDS: Trans and gender nonconforming kiddos under 13 enjoy fun, supportive group activities while their parents and caregivers chat. Outright Vermont, Burlington, 2-4 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 865-9677. SENSORY-FRIENDLY SUNDAY: Folks of all ages with sensory processing differences have the museum to themselves, with adjusted lights and sounds and trusty sensory backpacks. ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 9-10 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, kvonderlinn@ echovermont.org.

SEVEN DAYS MAY 4-11, 2022

INDOOR PRESCHOOL STORY TIME: Small groups enjoy a cozy session of reading, rhyming and singing. Birth through age 5. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30-11 a.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 878-4918.

mad river valley/ waterbury

BABY/TODDLER STORY TIME WITH MS. CYNTHIA: Tiny tykes have fun, hear stories and meet new friends in the children’s section. Waterbury Public Library, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 244-7036.

TUE.10

ONLINE PRENATAL YOGA: See WED.4, 12:30-1:30 p.m.

exercise and demonstrate the studio’s machines. Essential Physical Therapy and Pilates, Montpelier, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 262-1500.

BLUE METROPOLIS INTERNATIONAL LITERARY FESTIVAL: See THU.5.

SUN-STYLE TAI CHI FOR FALL PREVENTION: Seniors boost their strength and balance through gentle, flowing movements. Father Lively Center, St. Johnsbury, 10-11 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 751-0431.

ALEGWASIMEK 8THLOKADIN: ABENAKI ARTISTS SPEAK: BRYAN BLANCHETTE: See FRI.6.

lgbtq

2022 TRANSPLANTS PLANT SALE + BLOCK PARTY: Green thumbs have a day of queer fun featuring workshops, live music, food trucks and donated sprouts for purchase. Proceeds benefit the Pride Center’s transgender advocacy program, Transpire. Pride Center of Vermont, Burlington, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Free; plant prices vary. Info, 730-2383. PCVT’S ONLINE AUCTION: See WED.4.

montréal

‘APRIL FOOLS: AN ADULT ROCK CABARET’: See WED.4, 2 & 8 p.m.

burlington

SING-ALONG WITH LINDA BASSICK: Babies, toddlers and preschoolers sing, dance and wiggle along with Linda. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.

chittenden county

DRAW TOGETHER: Artists ages 8 and up (or 6 and up with an adult helper) paint along to a virtual art class. Watercolors and other supplies provided. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 3-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140, nliuzzi@south burlingtonvt.gov. PLAYGROUP AND FAMILY SUPPORT: Families with children under age 5 play and connect with others in the community. Winooski Memorial Library, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 655-6424. PRESCHOOL STORY TIME ON THE GREEN: Dorothy Alling Memorial Library leads half an hour of stories, rhymes and songs. Williston Town Green, 1010:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. TODDLERTIME: Kids ages 1 through 3 and their caregivers join Miss Kelly and her puppets Bainbow and La-La for story time. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

barre/montpelier

OUTDOOR FUN: Local educator Craig Wilson teaches kids how to work together and think critically through a series of adventure games. Ages 8 through 13. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 2:30-5 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 426-3581. PRESCHOOL STORY TIME: See THU.5.

music

AURORA CHAMBER SINGERS: The choir taps into the grand tradition of English cathedral music with its renditions of Dvorak’s “Mass in D Major” and the Mendelssohn cantata “Hear My Prayer.” College Street Congregational Church, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $10-25. Info, 372-3891. BRETT HUGHES & THAT BLUEGRASS BAND: The local honky-tonk legend and friends deliver infectious energy and affecting lyricism. Burnham Hall, Lincoln, 7:30 p.m. Pay what you can. Info, 388-9782. COAST JAZZ ORCHESTRA: The ensemble’s graduating seniors from the classes of 2020, 2021 and 2022 take to the stage for a proper final hurrah. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College,

Hanover, N.H., 7:30 p.m. $5-12. Info, 603-646-2422. ELI YOUNG BAND: The multiplatinum country music hitmakers bring their Texas roots up north. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 8 p.m. $45. Info, 775-0903. FRIENDS OF THE NWPL SPRING PIANO DUET CONCERT: Local pianists tickle the ivories in tandem. Norman Williams Public Library, Woodstock, 11 a.m. Free; limited space. Info, 457-2295. LOUIS PRIMA JR.: Audiences won’t be able to stay off their feet when the jazz legend and his swing band take to the stage. Chandler Center for the Arts, Randolph, 7 p.m. $15-100. Info, 728-9878. ‘MUSIC OF HOPE’: The Vermont Choral Union sings affecting a cappella numbers. All donations benefit Red Cross humanitarian efforts in Ukraine. Saint Luke’s Episcopal Church, St. Albans City, 7:30-8:45 p.m. Donations. Info, mejolley2004@yahoo.com. NORTH SEA GAS: Back by popular demand, the acclaimed Scottish folk trio brings a taste of the

ROBIN’S NEST NATURE PLAYGROUP: Outdoor pursuits through fields and forests captivate little ones up to age 5 and their parents. North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 229-6206.

WED.11

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MAKERSPACE: See WED.4.

KIDS’ BEGINNER PIANO CLASS: Future pianists learn the basics in this six-week class. Keyboards available to borrow. Ages 9 through 14. Morristown Centennial Library, Morrisville, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 888-3853. PRESCHOOL STORY TIME: Kiddos 5 and younger share in stories, crafts and rhymes. Morristown Centennial Library, Morrisville, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 888-3853. STEAM AFTERSCHOOL: Kids learn art, science and math through games and crafts, including paper airplane races, Lego competitions and origami. Ages 6 and up. Morristown Centennial Library, Morrisville, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 888-3853.

upper valley

BABY STORY TIME: Librarians and finger-puppet friends introduce babies 20 months and younger to the joy of reading. Norman Williams Public Library, Woodstock, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 457-2295.

randolph/royalton YOUTH EMPOWERMENT & ACTION: Activists ages 14 through 18 discuss community service, climate action, LGBTQ rights and social justice. BALE Community Space, South Royalton, 3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 498-8438.

ONLINE PRENATAL YOGA: See WED.4.

burlington

CRAFTERNOON: See WED.4. STEAM SPACE: See WED.4.

chittenden county BABYTIME: See WED.4.

COMICS CLUB!: Graphic novel and manga fans in third through sixth grades meet to discuss current reads and do fun activities together. Hosted by Brownell Library. Essex Teen Center, Essex Junction, 3-4 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956. LEGO BUILDERS: See WED.4. STORY TIME: See WED.4.

barre/montpelier OUTDOOR FUN: See TUE.10.

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WEDNESDAY CRAFTERNOON: See WED.4.

mad river valley/ waterbury

TINY HUMANS BIG EMOTIONS: Parents and caregivers learn about collaborative emotion processing and how to foster emotional intelligence and healthy coping strategies in their kids. Waterbury Public Library, 6-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, cynthia@waterbury publiclibrary.com.

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highlands to the Green Mountain State. Highland Center for the Arts, Greensboro, 7-9 p.m. $20. Info, 533-2000.

‘MONTY PYTHON’S SPAMALOT’: See WED.4, 2 & 7:30 p.m.

outdoors

‘A NUMBER’: See FRI.6.

BIRDWATCHING AT ALBURGH DUNES & MUD CREEK: As spring migrants continue to return to the area, members of the Green Mountain Audubon Society lead an expedition in search of waterfowl and other wetland species. Alburgh Dunes State Park, 8-10 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, gmas@ greenmountainaudubon.org. MAD BIRDERS: Binocular-toting outdoorsfolk go cuckoo for the local avifauna. Knoll Farm, Fayston, 8-10 a.m. Free. Info, 496-5686.

sports

56TH SEASON OPENER: Racers tear up the track in pursuit of the ultimate $3,000 prize. Devil’s Bowl Speedway, West Haven, 6 p.m. $5-20; drive-in free for kids 12 and under. Info, 265-3112.

theater

‘ANNAPURNA’: See WED.4, 2 & 7:30 p.m. ‘LA PRAIRIE DES TALONS’: NECCA’s graduating class pushes the boundaries of contemporary circus theater with its high-flying capstone project. New England Center for Circus Arts, Brattleboro, 7 p.m. $15-30. Info, 254-9780.

‘MR. BURNS: A POST-ELECTRIC PLAY’: See THU.5.

words

B.J. MAGNANI, MATT COST & KEVIN ST. JARRE: Encircle Publications publisher Eddie Vincent talks to three authors about their recent mystery novels. Hosted by Phoenix Books. 2 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 448-3350. CHRIS BOHJALIAN: Phoenix Books celebrates the author’s forthcoming suspense novel, The Lioness, in which a Hollywood starlet’s safari goes terribly wrong. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 448-3350. FRIENDS OF ILSLEY USED BOOK SALE: Books of all genres for all ages go on sale, largely for $2 or less, and all proceeds fund library programming. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4095.

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SUNDAY MORNING MEDITATION: Mindful folks experience sitting and walking meditation in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. Shambhala Meditation Center, Burlington, 9 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, lungta108@gmail.com.

FOOD FOR TALK COOKBOOK CLUB: Home chefs make a recipe from the classic New England cookbook Mrs. Appleyard’s Year and meet to compare results. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3-5 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, bshatara@burlingtonvt.gov.

fairs & festivals

2022 YOUNG TRADITION FESTIVAL: See WED.4, 3 p.m.

film

See what’s playing at local theaters in the On Screen section. ‘BACKYARD WILDERNESS 3D’: See WED.4. ‘THE BOOK OF DUST’: Broadcast live from London’s Bridge Theatre, this fantastical production adapts the follow-up to Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 4 p.m. $515. Info, 603-646-2422. ‘DINOSAURS OF ANTARCTICA 3D’: See WED.4. ‘HIT THE ROAD’: See FRI.6, Through.

Find even more local events in this newspaper and online:

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film See what’s playing at theaters in the On Screen section.

music + nightlife

‘MEERKATS 3D’: See WED.4. ‘SPACE: UNRAVELING THE COSMOS’: See WED.4. ‘TURANDOT’: See SAT.7. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 12:55 p.m. $23. Info, 775-0903. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 1 p.m. $10-24. Info, 382-9222.

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food & drink

MOUNT ST. JOSEPH ACADEMY ANNUAL AUCTION: See WED.4.

‘CINDERELLA’: See SAT.7, 1 p.m.

Find club dates at local venues in the Music + Nightlife section online at sevendaysvt.com/ music. Learn more about highlighted listings in the Magnificent 7 on page 11.

COMMUNITY MINDFULNESS PRACTICE: New and experienced meditators are always welcome to join this weekly practice in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hahn. Sangha Studio — Pine, Burlington, 6:30-8:15 p.m. Free. Info, newleaf sangha@gmail.com.

holidays

HEALTHY MOTHER’S DAY MEAL COOK-ALONG: Nutritionist Lili Hanft helps home chefs whip up a nourishing meal for the moms in their life, including honey mustard chicken and sweet potato chocolate pudding. Presented by City Market, Onion River Co-op. 4-5:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, info@ citymarket.coop. MOTHER’S DAY SPRING WILDFLOWER WALK: Naturalist Brett Engstrom leads moms (and their fans) on a springtime stroll. Stranahan Town Forest, Marshfield, 1:30-3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.

language

IRISH LANGUAGE CLASS: Celticcurious students learn to speak an Ghaeilge in a supportive group. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 2:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.

lgbtq

PCVT’S ONLINE AUCTION: See WED.4.

montréal

‘APRIL FOOLS: AN ADULT ROCK CABARET’: See WED.4, 2 & 7 p.m. BLUE METROPOLIS INTERNATIONAL LITERARY FESTIVAL: See THU.5.

music

ALEGWASIMEK 8THLOKADIN: ABENAKI ARTISTS SPEAK: BRYAN BLANCHETTE: See FRI.6, 2 p.m. ALISON CERUTTI: The pianist performs Jean-Philippe Rameau’s “Gavotte & Variations” and other classical works. Plainfield Town Hall Opera House, 4-5 p.m. $20 suggested donation. Info, 498-3173. BANJO MEETUP: Bluegrass instrumentalists jam together in a small group. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, noon-2 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.

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‘MUSIC OF HOPE’: See SAT.7. McCarthy Arts Center, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 3-4:45 p.m. ‘WEIRD AL’ YANKOVIC: The accordion-toting comedic musician brings his world-famous song parodies to the stage. Flynn Main Stage, Burlington, 7 p.m. $80.50-347. Info, 863-5966.

outdoors

EARLY BIRDER MORNING WALKS: An experienced birder leads a walk to discover who’s singing, calling, nesting or flying around the grounds. BYO binoculars and wear good walking shoes. Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington, 7-8:30 a.m. Free; donations accepted; preregister. Info, 434-2167. SPRING NATURE WALK WITH JOHN SATENSTEIN: Fjällräven Burlington and Local Bounty lead an expedition in search of fascinating native plants such as fiddleheads, stinging nettle and staghorn sumac. Ethan Allen Homestead, Burlington, 1-3 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 448-7197.

WEEKLY CHAIR YOGA: Those with mobility challenges or who are new to yoga practice balance and build strength through gentle, supported movements. Twin Valley Senior Center, East Montpelier, 3 p.m. Free; preregister; donations accepted. Info, 223-6954.

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ENGLISH CONVERSATION CIRCLE: Locals learning English as a second language gather in the Board Room to build vocabulary and make friends. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

montréal

‘APRIL FOOLS: AN ADULT ROCK CABARET’: See WED.4, 7 p.m. ‘FRAGILE & USELESS’: Simon Portugal and three other dancers experiment with choreography through gamified practices of role-play, exchange and interdependence. La Chapelle, Montréal, 7 p.m. $15-30. Info, 514-843-7738.

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SWING DANCING: Local Lindy hoppers and jitterbuggers convene at Vermont Swings’ weekly boogie-down. Bring clean shoes. Beginner lessons, 6:30 p.m. Champlain Club, Burlington, 7:309 p.m. $5. Info, 864-8382.

See what’s playing at local theaters in the On Screen section. ‘BACKYARD WILDERNESS 3D’: See WED.4. ‘DINOSAURS OF ANTARCTICA 3D’: See WED.4. ‘FIRE & ASH’: Artists Hanna Satterlee and Andreas John premieres a new short dance film in tribute to the late hip-hop artist JL. Potluck reception follows. The Savoy Theater, Montpelier, 6-8 p.m. $5-20. Info, hannasatt@ gmail.com. ‘MEERKATS 3D’: See WED.4. ‘SPACE: UNRAVELING THE COSMOS’: See WED.4.

food & drink

‘A NUMBER’: See FRI.6, 2 p.m.

VERMONT NUCLEAR DECOMMISSIONING CITIZENS ADVISORY PANEL: NorthStar and state agencies provide updates on the Vermont Yankee decommissioning process and accept community comments. Presented by the Vermont Department of Public Service. 6-8:35 p.m. Free. Info, 272-1714.

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UKRAINIAN DESSERT TRADITIONS: Home bakers learn to make poppy seed bread, Easter cheese cake and spiced honey punch from culinary anthropologist Anna Mays. Presented by City Market, Onion River Co-op. Donations benefit World Central Kitchen. 5:30-7 p.m. Free; donations accepted. Info, info@citymarket.coop.

seminars

games

theater

‘ANNAPURNA’: See WED.4, 2 p.m. ‘LA PRAIRIE DES TALONS’: See SAT.7, 3 p.m. ‘MONTY PYTHON’S SPAMALOT’: See WED.4, 5 p.m.

C. JANE TAYLOR: The gallery becomes a motorcycle club for the night as the author launches her memoir, Spirit Traffic: A Mother’s Journey of Self-Discovery and Letting Go. GreenTARA Space, North Hero, 3-4 p.m. Free. Info, 355-2150.

MON.9

environment

ASK A FORESTER: A.J. Follensbee, the North Windsor and Orange County forester, answers questions about forest management practices, invasive species, climate change and more. Presented by Norwich Public Library. 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 649-1184.

film

See what’s playing at local theaters in the On Screen section. ‘BACKYARD WILDERNESS 3D’: See WED.4. ‘DINOSAURS OF ANTARCTICA 3D’: See WED.4. ‘MEERKATS 3D’: See WED.4. ‘SPACE: UNRAVELING THE COSMOS’: See WED.4.

games

BRIDGE CLUB: See THU.5, 1-2 p.m.

health & fitness

ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION EXERCISE PROGRAM: See WED.4.

U.S. CITIZENSHIP TEST PREPARATION: See WED.4, noon1:30 & 3:30-4:45 p.m.

words

MUST-READ MONDAYS: Lit lovers cover A Woman As No Man by Etaf Rum. Presented by Brownell Library. 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-6955.

TUE.10 business

VERMONT DEPARTMENT OF LABOR WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT: Employment seekers drop in for tips on résumé writing, applying for jobs, and training. Morristown Centennial Library, Morrisville, 9:30 a.m.noon. Free. Info, 888-3853.

community

CURRENT EVENTS DISCUSSION GROUP: Brownell Library hosts a virtual roundtable for neighbors to pause and reflect on the news cycle. 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6955. I-89 2050 STUDY PUBLIC MEETING: The Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission and Vermont Agency of Transportation discuss safety, connectivity and mobility on the interstate highway. Via Zoom. 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 865-1794.

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PLAY CHESS & BACKGAMMON!: Everyone — beginners and experts, seniors and youngsters — is welcome at this weekly board game night. Norman Williams Public Library, Woodstock, 5-7 p.m. Free. Info, 457-2295.

language

ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNING & ACADEMIC TUTORING: Students improve their reading, writing, math and ELL skills through one-on-one time with experienced tutors. Mercy Connections, Burlington, 9-11 a.m. Free. Info, 846-7063. LET’S SPEAK ARABIC!: Beginners learn crucial words and grammar in a fun, casual environment facilitated by local Arabic speaker Mona Tolba. Winooski Memorial Library, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 655-6424. PAUSE-CAFÉ IN-PERSON FRENCH CONVERSATION: Francophones and French-language learners meet pour parler la belle langue. Burlington Bay Market & Café, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 343-5166.

montréal

‘APRIL FOOLS: AN ADULT ROCK CABARET’: See WED.4. ‘FRAGILE & USELESS’: See MON.9.

outdoors

BIRD AND WILDFLOWER WALK: Experienced birders help fledglings observe avians in nature. Fairgrounds Trailhead, Poultney, 7:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, jptilley50@ gmail.com.

seminars

BUSINESS LAW BASICS: Attorney Jeff Wick explains via Zoom some legal foundations and principles of entrepreneurship. Presented by the Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity. 10 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister. Info, 860-1417.

business

VBSR ANNUAL CONFERENCE: Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility hosts a day of networking and workshops about building a more inclusive, sustainable future. Virtual options available. Hula, Burlington, 8 a.m.-5:30 p.m. $35-215; preregister. Info, mollyb@vbsr.org.

JOHN VICKERY AND ALAN BJERKE: HOW TO APPEAL YOUR PROPERTY TAX ASSESSMENT: The city officials discuss how to most effectively make your case. Burlington City Hall, 4-6 p.m. Free. Info, 802 864-9128.

WEEKLY HIRING EVENT: See WED.4.

MAP!: MAKE AN ACTION PLAN: Guest speakers and the Mercy Connections team help students plan how to live their best post-pandemic lives. 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 846-7063.

‘BACKYARD WILDERNESS 3D’: See WED.4.

MOBILE SOLAR+STORAGE FOR EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT: Emergency response officials explain how mobile solar power systems can be crucial in an emergency. Presented by Clean Energy States Alliance. Noon-1:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 223-2554.

theater

‘MONTY PYTHON’S SPAMALOT’: See WED.4.

words

BRIANNA MADIA: The travel influencer debuts her memoir, Nowhere for Very Long: The Unexpected Road to an Unconventional Life. Presented by Norwich Bookstore. 7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 649-1114. RECITE!: Poets of all levels, from fledgling to professional, celebrate the spoken word at this virtual reading. 7-9 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, programs@norman williams.org. WHAT’S ON YOUR NIGHTSTAND? THE NOT-A-BOOK-CLUB BOOK CLUB: Rebel readers discuss anything from book jacket design to the ebook revolution at this nonconformist meeting. Norman Williams Public Library, Woodstock, 10:15-11:45 a.m. Free. Info, 457-2295. WORK IN PROGRESS: Members of this writing group motivate each other to put pen to paper for at least an hour, then debrief together. Morristown Centennial Library, Morrisville, 5-7 p.m. Free. Info, 888-3853.

WED.11

agriculture

COMMUNITY GROWING IDEA SWAP: Communityfocused gardeners trade inspirations for the growing season. Hosted by Vermont Garden Network. 4:30-6 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, libby@ vtgardens.org.

film

See what’s playing at local theaters in the On Screen section.

‘DINOSAURS OF ANTARCTICA 3D’: See WED.4. ‘MEERKATS 3D’: See WED.4. ‘SPACE: UNRAVELING THE COSMOS’: See WED.4.

food & drink

COOK THE BOOK: Home chefs make a recipe from Hetty McKinnon’s To Asia, With Love and share the dish at a library potluck. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. DEDALUS FREE WEEKLY WINE TASTINGS: See WED.4. TAKE-OUT COMMUNITY DINNER: Local chefs Aya Altaani and Halah Jumaa cook a delicious Jordanian and Iraqi meal for pickup. Presented by Winooski Partnership for Prevention. O’Brien Community Center, Winooski, 4-6 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, jhenderson@ winooskiprevention.org. VEGETARIAN COMFORT FOOD: Chef Jason Gelrud demonstrates how to make a fresh, springtime meal of spinach soup, sun-dried tomato pesto and garlic crostini. Presented by City Market, Onion River Co-op. 5:30-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, info@ citymarket.coop.

games

MAHJONGG CLUB: See WED.4.

health & fitness

ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION EXERCISE PROGRAM: See WED.4. AYURVEDA: See WED.4. CHAIR YOGA: See WED.4. SOUND HEALING WITH REIKI: Folks interested in alternative medicine learn about the Japanese technique of energy healing. Morristown Centennial Library, Morrisville, 5-6 p.m. Free. Info, 888-3853.

language

ELL CLASSES: ENGLISH FOR BEGINNERS & INTERMEDIATE STUDENTS: See WED.4.

montréal

‘APRIL FOOLS: AN ADULT ROCK CABARET’: See WED.4.

outdoors

BRIDGET BUTLER: The Bird Diva espouses the benefits of “Slow Birding” — that is, a mindful form of birding that prioritizes a connection to the land. Worthen Library, South Hero, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 372-6209. NATIVE PLANTS FOR BIRDS WITH AUDUBON VERMONT: Gardeners and birders learn how indigenous flora help make a better world for their avian neighbors. Horsford Gardens & Nursery, Charlotte, 8-9 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 425-2811.

seminars

U.S. CITIZENSHIP TEST PREPARATION: See WED.4.

tech

TECH SESSION WITH THE MEDIA FACTORY: Experts answer questions about digital media production of all kinds, from livestreaming to film editing. Co-presented with Vermont Arts Council. 10 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister. Info, 828-3291.

theater

FOMO? Find even more local events in this newspaper and online:

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film See what’s playing at theaters in the On Screen section.

music + nightlife Find club dates at local venues in the Music + Nightlife section online at sevendaysvt.com/ music. Learn more about highlighted listings in the Magnificent 7 on page 11.

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AFTER HOURS BOOK CLUB ON TAP: Patrons discuss Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney over drinks. Hinesburgh Public House, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. FFL BOOK CLUB: Lit lovers break down Isabel Wilkerson’s sweeping history of inequality, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. Hosted by Fletcher Free Library. 6:30-8 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, bshatara@ burlingtonvt.gov. A SLICE OF LIFE: Eager storytellers who’ve submitted their names in advance may be randomly selected to share a true short story related to one of the themes of the evening. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 7-8 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 223-3338. m

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AIKIDO: Discover the dynamic, flowing martial art of aikido. Learn how to relax under pressure and how aikido cultivates core power, aerobic fitness and resiliency. Aikido techniques emphasize throws, pinning techniques and the growth of internal power. Visitors are always welcome to watch a class! Starts Tue., May 3; meets 5 days/week. Membership rates incl. unlimited classes. Contact us for info about membership rates for adults, youth & families. Location: Aikido of Champlain Valley, 257 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Benjamin Pincus, 951-8900, bpincus@burlingtonaikido.org, burlingtonaikido.org.

shamanism APPRENTICESHIP IN SHAMANISM: Rare opportunity to apprentice locally in a shamanic tradition. To read and learn about this offering, go to heartofthehealer.org. For more details, including cost, location and times, please email thomas. mock1444@gmail.com or text 369-4331. 5 weekends over a year; first is Aug. 5-7. Location: St. Albans. Info: Thomas Mock, 369-4331, thomas.mock1444@ gmail.com.

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EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act of 1968 and similar Vermont statutes which make it illegal to advertise any preference, limitations, or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, handicap, presence of minor children in the family or receipt of public assistance, or an intention to make any such preference, limitation or a discrimination. The newspaper will not knowingly

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Burlington, between S. Union & Winooski aves. Well-maintained, historic building, collegial setting, excellent location w/ privacy & easy downtown access, clinician & client parking in back. Optionally furnished. Incl. all utils., shared waiting rooms, BAs, clinician break room & option to share Wi-Fi & answering service. Contact Marcia Hemley at marciawhemleyphd@ comcast.net or 802-999-5819.

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VOICE MOVEMENT THERAPY Th ere is great power in a voice. Voice movement therapy (VMT) is an expressive arts therapy that centers voice & vocalization as the main tools of self-discovery & healing. VMT is an invitation to explore your relationship to voice, movement, breath & life through an embodied creative process. No experience singing is necessary. Contact Denise at gotthisvoice. com or denise.e.casey@ gmail.com.

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AUCTION: THU./SAT. General auction, Thu., May 5: 5 p.m. preview, 6 p.m. start. Box lot, Sat., noon. 2 S. Main St., Randolph. 18% buyers’ premium, all sold as is. VT Auct. 057.133906. Cash, check, CC. rumorhasitvt.com. YARD SALE: SAT., 5/7, ESSEX Old records, books, coins, DVDs, pottery, games, comics, piano, vintage magazines, stamps, pictures, original art, postcard rack, movie posters, advertising. 7 a.m.-2 p.m. 75 Chapin Rd., Essex. 802-878-0644

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Legal Notices Place an affordable notice at: sevendaysvt.com/legal-notices or call 802-865-1020, ext. 110. ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION 4C0331-37 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001 - 6111 On April 8, 2022, City of Burlington, Burlington International Airport, 1200 Airport Drive, South Burlington, VT 05403 filed application number 4C0331-37 for a project generally described as the rehabilitation (mill and overlay) of approximately 21,000 SY of existing Taxiway A pavement between Taxiway C and Taxiway G. In addition, the project includes construction of 20 foot asphalt shoulders, installation of new taxiway edge lighting and airfield signage. The project is located at 1200 Airport Drive in the City of South Burlington, VT. This application can be viewed online by visiting the Act 250 Database: (https://anrweb.vt.gov/ANR/Act250/ Details.aspx?Num=4C0331-37). No hearing will be held and a permit will be issued unless, on or before May 16, 2022, a party notifies the District 4 Commission in writing of an issue requiring a hearing, or the Commission sets the matter for a hearing on its own motion. Any person as defined in 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c)(1) may request a hearing. Any hearing request must be in writing, must state the criteria or sub criteria at issue, why a hearing is required, and what additional evidence will be presented at the hearing. Any hearing request by an adjoining property owner or other person eligible for party status under 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c)(1)(E) must include a petition for party status under the Act 250 Rules. To request party status and a hearing, fill out the Party Status Petition Form on the Board’s website: https://nrb.vermont.gov/documents/ party-status-petition-form, and email it to the District 4 Office at: NRB.Act250Essex@vermont.gov . Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law may not be prepared unless the Commission holds a public hearing. For more information contact Stephanie Monaghan at the address or telephone number below. Dated this April 20, 2022. By: Stephanie H. Monaghan District 4 Coordinator 111 West Street Essex Junction, VT 05452 802-879-5662 stephanie.monaghan@vermont.gov ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION 4C0436-39 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001 - 6111 On April 4, 2022, Bolton Valley Resort, 4302 Bolton Access Road, Bolton, VT 05477 and Vermont Huts, PO Box 745, Stowe, VT 05672 filed application number 4C0436-39 for a project generally described as the construction of a 13.75-foot by 36-foot year-round cabin and detached composting privy, to be located near the intersection of Peggy Dow’s ski trail and Heavenly Highway trail at the Bolton Valley Resort. The project is located on the Bolton Valley Access Road in Bolton, Vermont.

This application can be viewed online by visiting the Act 250 Database: (https://anrweb.vt.gov/ANR/Act250/ Details.aspx?Num=4C0436-39). No hearing will be held and a permit will be issued unless, on or before May 16, 2022, a party notifies the District 4 Commission in writing of an issue requiring a hearing, or the Commission sets the matter for a hearing on its own motion. Any person as defined in 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c)(1) may request a hearing. Any hearing request must be in writing, must state the criteria or sub criteria at issue, why a hearing is required, and what additional evidence will be presented at the hearing. Any hearing request by an adjoining property owner or other person eligible for party status under 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c)(1)(E) must include a petition for party status under the Act 250 Rules. To request party status and a hearing, fill out the Party Status Petition Form on the Board’s website: https://nrb.vermont.gov/documents/ party-status-petition-form, and email it to the District 4 Office at: NRB.Act250Essex@vermont.gov. Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law may not be prepared unless the Commission holds a public hearing. For more information contact Rachel Lomonaco at the address or telephone number below. Dated this April 21, 2022. By: /s/Rachel Lomonaco Rachel Lomonaco District Coordinator 111 West Street Essex Junction, VT 05452 802-879-5658 rachel.lomonaco@vermont.gov ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION 4C0824-4B 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001 - 6111 On March 10, 2022, Rice Lumber Company, Inc., and Rice Realty, Inc. (4088 Shelburne Road, Shelburne, VT 05482) filed application number 4C0824-4B for a project generally described as an extension of time, until October 15, 2023, to remove the previously-permitted excess blasted rock from the property, including temporary allowance of 50 (round trip) truck trips per day. The project is located at 4188 Shelburne Road in Shelburne, Vermont. This application can be viewed online on the Act 250 Database at: (https://anrweb.vt.gov/ANR/Act250/ Details.aspx?Num=4C0824-4B) No hearing will be held, and a permit will be issued unless, on or before May 16, 2022, a party notifies the District 4 Commission in writing of an issue requiring a hearing, or the Commission sets the matter for a hearing on its own motion. Any person as defined in 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c)(1) may request a hearing. Any hearing request must be in writing, must state the criteria or sub criteria at issue, why a hearing is required, and what additional evidence will be presented

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Being a parcel of land together with a dwelling house and any other improvements thereon, known and numbered as 301 Depot Street; and being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Michael S. Patoine and Shelly A. Patoine by Warranty Deed of Bryant Leonard and Ashley Leonard, of near or even date herewith and to be recorded simultaneously with this Mortgage in the Burke Land Records.

Section 4.12 – Removes the requirement for an additional .5 parking spaces for dwelling units with three or more bedrooms when developed in a non-residential zoning district.

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Section 2.4 – Includes two footnotes and associated references for two-unit dwellings and multi-unit dwellings in the Residential A, Residential B, and Residential C Zoning Districts as part of Planned Unit Developments.

Section Headings Impacted: The following specific updates are included with these amendments:

Geographic Area Affected: The proposed amendments will apply to the entire City including all zoning districts.

Article IX – Adds new definitions related to specific terms used in Section 5.14

In accordance with the Judgment Order and Decree of Foreclosure entered January 27, 2022 in the above captioned action brought to foreclose that certain mortgage given by Michael S. Patoine and Shelly A. Patoine to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Northeast Home Loan, LLC, dated June 21, 2018 and recorded in Book 149 Page 210 of the land records of the Town of Burke, of which mortgage the Plaintiff is the present holder, by virtue of an Assignment of Mortgage from Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Northeast Home Loan, LLC to U.S. Bank National Association dated July 16, 2019 and recorded in Book 155 Page 441 of the land records of the Town of Burke] for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 301 Depot Street, Burke, Vermont on May 13, 2022 at 12:00 PM all and singular the premises described in said mortgage,

Section 5.14 – Establishes a new section related to priority housing projects.

MORTGAGEE’S NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY UNDER 12 V.S.A. sec 4952 et seq.

Section 4.12 – Amends the minimum parking requirements for non-residential zoning districts.

MICHAEL S. PATOINE, SHELLY A. PATOINE AND VERMONT HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY OCCUPANTS OF: 301 Depot Street, Burke VT

Section 2.4 – Updates to the use table to permit multi-unit dwellings in the residential zoning districts under specific circumstances.

Statement of Purpose: The purpose of these amendments are as follows:

STATE OF VERMONT VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT CALEDONIA UNIT, CIVIL DIVISION DOCKET NO: 284-12-19 CACV U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION

Amendments to the Unified Land Use and Development Regulations Section 2.4 – Land Use Table Section 4.12 – Parking, Loading, and Service Areas Section 5.14 – Incentives for Priority Housing Article IX – Definitions

The full text of these amendments is available at the Winooski City Hall, 27 West Allen Street, during normal business hours or by contacting Eric Vorwald, AICP, City of Winooski Planning & Zoning Manager by calling 802.655.6410 or evorwald@ winooskivt.gov.

PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE AMENDMENTS TO THE CITY OF WINOOSKI UNIFIED LAND USE AND DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS In accordance with 24 V.S.A §4441 and §4444, the City of Winooski’s Planning Commission will hold a public hearing on Thursday, May 26, 2022 beginning at 6:30 p.m. This hearing will be held by electronic means only using Zoom Webinar. Use https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83119636643 to join by computer or 646.558.8656 to join by telephone (toll charges may apply). If prompted, the webinar ID for this meeting is 831 1963 6643.

Article IX – Adds new definitions for affordable housing, HUD Area Median Family Income, and priority housing.

Unit # - Name - Contents D-29 - Jennifer Pascal - Household Goods M-109 - Kelly Whitman - Household Goods S-80 - Tracy Snide - Household Goods S-86 - Justin Menard - Household Goods

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Section 5.14 – Adds a new section to Article V to provide incentives for priority housing as identified by the City of Winooski. This includes developing multi-unit buildings in the residential zoning districts, reduced parking requirements for specific dwelling units, and density bonuses for specific dwelling units. This section also provides standards for affordable dwelling units to be eligible for the incentives.

Being further described as all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Ashley Leonard and Bryant Leonard by Warranty Deed of Kenneth J. O’Rourke and Heather L. O’Rourke, dated November 2, 2012, recorded in Book 130 at Page 359 of the Burke Land Records. Reference is hereby made to the aforesaid deeds and their records and to all prior deeds in the chain of title and the records thereof for a further and more particular description of the lands and premises hereby conveyed. Reference is hereby made to the above instruments and to the records and references contained therein in further aid of this description. Terms of sale: Said premises will be sold and conveyed subject to all liens, encumbrances, unpaid taxes, tax titles, municipal liens and assessments, if any, which take precedence over the said mortgage above described. TEN THOUSAND ($10,000.00) Dollars of the purchase price must be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check at the time and place of the sale by the purchaser. The balance of the purchase price shall be paid by a bank wire, certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check within sixty (60) days after the date the Confirmation Order is entered by the Court. All checks should be made payable to “Bendett & McHugh, PC, as Trustee”. The mortgagor is entitled to redeem the premises at any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage, including the costs and expenses of the sale. Other terms to be announced at the sale. DATED: March 30, 2022 By:/s/ Rachel K. Ljunggren Rachel K. Ljunggren, Esq.,Bar#5570 Bendett and McHugh, PC 270 Farmington Ave., Ste. 151 Farmington, CT 06032 STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT CIVIL DIVISION CHITTENDEN UNIT CASE NO. 22-CV-01378 IN RE: ABANDONED MOBILE HOME OF SHARRON FLANIGAN NOTICE OF HEARING A hearing on The Housing Foundation, Inc.’s Verified Complaint to declare as abandoned the mobile home of Sharron Flanigan, located at the Mountain View Mobile Home Park, Lot #13, 19 Bear Lane in Hinesburg, Vermont and to authorize the sale by auction of said mobile home has been scheduled on May 10, 2022 at 11:15 a.m. To participate in this remote hearing, the WEBEX Login Information is as follows: App: Webex Meeting Website: https://vtcourts.webex.com Meeting Number (access code): 129 647 6521 Password: CIVIL2 If you do not have a computer or sufficient bandwidth, you may call 1-408-418-9388 to appear by phone. (This is not a tollfree number). You will then enter the meeting number and password listed above. If you have technical difficulties, call the Court at (802) 863-3467. Date: April 25, 2022 Civil Division Clerk VERIFIED COMPLAINT FOR ABANDONMENT PURSUANT TO 10 V.S.A. § 6249(h) (Auction) NOW COMES The Housing Foundation, Inc. (“HFI”), by and through its counsel Nadine L. Scibek, and hereby complains as follows: 1. HFI, a Vermont non-profit corporation with a principal place of business in Montpelier, County of Washington, State of Vermont, is the record owner of a mobile home park known as the Mountain View Mobile Home Park (the “Park”) located in the Town of Hinesburg, Vermont. The Park is managed by the Vermont State Housing Authority. 2. Sharron Flanigan (“Flanigan”) is the record owner of a certain mobile home described as a 1979 Skyline, Homette, 14’ x 70’, bearing serial No. 0316-127N (the “Mobile Home”), located on Lot #13, Mountain View Mobile Home Park, 19 Bear Lane in Hinesburg,

Vermont. See attached Vermont Mobile Home Uniform Bill of Sale. 3. Flanigan leased a lot in the Park for her mobile home from HFI pursuant to a written lease. HFI is holding a security deposit of $200.00. See attached Lease. 4. Flanigan is deceased. Her date of death is October 27, 2020. See attached Death Certificate. 5. A probate estate for Flanigan was opened in the Vermont Superior Court, Chittenden Probate Division on December 8, 2020 and Flanigan’s daughter Laurie A. Meunier was appointed as Fiduciary for the Estate of Sharron Flanigan. See attached Certificate of Appointment of Fiduciary. 6. The Estate of Sharron Flanigan was closed and the fiduciary, Laurie A. Meunier was discharged by Entry Order of the Probate Court on July 21, 2021 per Probate Register Debra Brunell. There is no record that the mobile home was ever sold or conveyed by decree of the Probate Court. See attached Entry Order from Chittenden Probate Court closing Estate and discharging Fiduciary. 7. The last known legal occupant of the Mobile Home was Flanigan. The last known unauthorized occupant of the mobile home was Donald Francis (Flanigan’s son) who was evicted from the mobile home on November 1, 2021 by Court Order pursuant to 12 V.S.A. § 4853b. See The Housing Foundation, Inc. v. Francis et. al., Vermont Superior Court, Chittenden Civil Division, Case No. 21-CV-02526. The mobile home has been unoccupied and abandoned since the Writ of Possession was executed by the Chittenden County Sheriff’s Department. 8. HFI’s counsel communicated via telephone on December 23, 2021 with Laurie A. Meunier (Flanigan’s daughter and the fiduciary of the Estate) to determine her intentions with respect to the Mobile Home. Ms. Meunier indicated that they never did anything with the mobile home because she thought the State became the owner once her mother died. Ms. Meunier stated that she was not willing to reopen the estate. HFI’s counsel informed Ms. Meunier HFI would commence abandonment proceedings. 9. The following security interests, mortgages, liens and encumbrances appear of record with respect to the mobile home: a. Flanigan is in arrears on obligations to pay property taxes to the Town of Hinesburg, Vermont in the aggregate amount of $239.68, plus interest and penalties. The delinquent property taxes are now a lien on the property. See attached Tax Bill & Delinquent Tax Report. 10. Uriah Wallace, a duly licensed Vermont auctioneer, is a person disinterested in the Mobile Home and the mobile home park who is able to sell the mobile home at a public auction. 11. Mobile home storage fees continue to accrue at the rate of $463.00 per month. Rent, storage fees and late charges due the Park as of April, 2022 total $7,342.00. Court costs and attorney’s fees incurred by the Park in this action currently exceed $2,000.00. 12. The Park sent written notice by certified mail to the Town of Hinesburg on December 23, 2021 of its intent to commence this abandonment action. See attached. WHEREFORE, the Park Owner respectfully requests that the Honorable Court enter an order as follows: 1. Declare that the mobile home has been abandoned; 2. Approve the sale of the mobile home at a public auction to be held within 15 days of the date of judgment, pursuant to 10 V.S.A. § 6249(h); and 3. Grant judgment in favor of the Park Owner HFI and against the mobile home for past due and unpaid rent and mobile home storage charges through the date of judgment, together with HFI’s court costs, publication and mailing costs, auctioneer’s costs, winterization costs, lot cleanup charges, attorney’s fees incurred in connection with this matter and any other costs incurred by HFI herein. DATED this 20th day of April, 2022. THE HOUSING FOUNDATION, INC.

BY: Nadine L. Scibek Attorney for HFI I declare that the above statement is true and accurate to the best of my knowledge and belief. I understand that if the above statement is false, I will be subject to the penalty of perjury or other sanctions in the discretion of the Court. April 20, 2022 By: Thomas Young, Duly Authorized Agent for HFI STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT PROBATE DIVISION CHITTENDEN UNIT DOCKET NO.: 22-PR-01474 In re ESTATE of George Boretos NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the creditors of: George Boretos, late of South Burlington, Vermont. I have been appointed to administer this estate. All creditors having claims against the decedent or the estate must present their claims in writing within four (4) months of the date of the first publication of this notice. The claim must be presented to me at the address listed below with a copy sent to the Court. The claim may be barred forever if it is not presented within the four (4) month period. Dated: April 25, 2022 Signature of Fiduciary: /s/ Launa L. Slater Executor/Administrator: James Gallagher, c/o Launa L. Slater, Wiener & Slater, PLLC, 110 Main Street, Suite 4F, Burlington, VT 05401 802-863-1836 launa@wsvtlaw.com Name of Publication: Seven Days Publication Date: May 4, 2022 Name of Probate Court: Chittenden Probate Court Address of Probate Court: PO Box 511, Burlington, Vermont 05402-0511 STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT PROBATE DIVISION CHITTENDEN UNIT DOCKET NO.: 22-PR-02262 In re ESTATE of Janet Bessmer NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the creditors of: Janet Bessmer, late of Williston, Vermont. I have been appointed to administer this estate. All creditors having claims against the decedent or the estate must present their claims in writing within four (4) months of the date of the first publication of this notice. The claim must be presented to me at the address listed below with a copy sent to the Court. The claim may be barred forever if it is not presented within the four (4) month period. Dated: April 19, 2022 Signature of Fiduciary: /s/ Cynthia J. Bessmer Executor/Administrator: Cynthia J. Bessmer, 14 Sweet William Way, Orr’s Island, Maine 04066 Name of Publication: Seven Days Publication Date: April 27, 2022 and May 4, 2022 Name of Probate Court: Chittenden District Probate Court Address of Probate Court: PO Box 511, Burlington, Vermont 05402 STATE OF VERMONT VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT ADDISON UNIT, CIVIL DIVISION DOCKET NO: 1988-13 ANCV JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION v. ROBIN COX OCCUPANTS OF: 370 Lovers Lane, Bristol VT MORTGAGEE’S NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY UNDER 12 V.S.A. sec 4952 et seq. In accordance with the Amended Judgment Order and Decree of Foreclosure entered March 30, 2022, in the above captioned action brought to foreclose that certain mortgage given by Daniel Edward Cox, Jr. to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Ark-La-Tex Financial Services, LLC DBA Benchmark Mortgage, dated October 13,

2009 and recorded in Book 131 Page 371 of the land records of the Town of Bristol, of which mortgage the Plaintiff is the present holder, by virtue of the following Assignments of Mortgage: (1) Assignment of Mortgage from Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Ark-La-Tex Financial Services, LLC DBA Benchmark Mortgage to JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association dated January 30, 2012 and recorded in Book 138 Page 146; (2) Assignment of Mortgage from JPMorgan Chase Bank National Association to Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, as Trustee of Quercus Mortgage Investment Trust dated November 20, 2019 and recorded in Book 160 page 634; and (3) Corrective Assignment of Mortgage from JPMorgan Chase Bank National Association to Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, as Trustee of Quercus Mortgage Investment Trust dated November 20, 2019 and recorded in Book 162 Page 399, all of the land records of the Town of Bristol, for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 370 Lovers Lane, Bristol, Vermont on May 20, 2022 at 10:00 AM all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, To wit: Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Daniel Edward Cox, Jr. by Warranty Deed of Ralph C. White and Patricia A. White dated Oct. 13, 2009 and to be recorded in the Land Records of the Town of Bristol.

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Being a portion of the lands described in a deed from Hazel N. Thomas to Neil T. Frink et al. recorded in Volume 34, Page 264, of the Bristol Land Records, as subsequently amended, the portion conveyed being described as follows:

1) Parcel #36-016002 located on Windemere Way; $13,375 2) Parcel #37-051002 located on Macrae Road; $103,000 3) Parcel #03-205003 located on Mountain View Drive; $200,000 If any persons seek to make a bid on one of the above properties, the offer must: 1) be in writing within a sealed envelope; 2) be signed by the person making the offer; 3) identify the property by Parcel identification Number; 4) state the offer price, which shall, subject to certain exceptions that the town may wish to exercise at its sole discretion, after bids are received, be at or above fair market value as indicated on the Surplus Property List; 5) state the intended use of the property; 6) state whether the person making the offer owns real property adjacent to the subject property and the address of that property; and 7) be on the prescribed Town of Colchester Surplus Property Bid Sheet (https://colchestervt.gov/DocumentCenter/ View/7337/Surplus-Property-Bid Sheet). All bids shall be irrevocable. Bidders whose bids are accepted by the town, shall complete a closing within 60 days of written notice of bid acceptance. The town may reject bids from bidders that aren’t able to close within this time period. Upon notification of bid acceptance, the bidder has 10 working days to provide the town with a cashier’s check with 10% of the accepted bid price or a bond with 20% of the accepted bid price, as a deposit. Failure to do so will result in a rejection of the bid.

Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Ralph C. White and Patricia A. White by Warranty Deed of Joseph T. Horay and Virginia L. Horay, dated October 5, 1976 and recorded in Volume 46, Page 56 of the Town of Bristol Land Records and being more particularly described as follows: Parcel 1: Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to the herein Grantors by Warranty Deed of Neil T. Frink and Ruth M. Frink, dated June 20, 1969, and recorded in Volume 40 at Page 166 of the Bristol Land Records, and therein described as follows:

Policy (“Policy”), the Colchester Selectboard hereby warns the residents of Colchester of Surplus Properties for sale identified as the following parcels:

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Bids shall be received at the Colchester Town Hall, 781 Blakely Road, Colchester, VT 05446, c/o Renae Marshall, Deputy Town Manager, no later than 12:00 p.m. (Noon) on Monday, July 11. Pursuant to the Policy, the Town may consider any of the factors on the Bid Sheet when reviewing offers and is not bound to accept the highest bid, or any bid. The Town may, in its discretion, prefer adjoining landowners and Town residents to other bidders. The Town may consider the proposed use of the property in considering an offer, and in such case, may require that the conveyance occur subject to appropriate restrictions.

Two (2) acres of land, more or less, with house The Surplus Properties are offered on a “as-is”, thereon, situate on the southerly side of the “where is” basis, with no warranties or representahighway leading westerly from Sumner Bridge, tions whatsoever regarding title to or use of the so-called, to the foot of Stony Hill, said highway Surplus Property. Any conveyance shall be by sometimes known as Lovers Lane, beginning at the Quitclaim Deed. The purchaser shall pay its own fees northwesterly corner of land owned by Gerald and and costs, any Vermont property transfer tax, and Elita Scribner at a point on the southerly line of the the Town’s reasonable attorney fees. above highway known as Lovers Lane marked by a driven iron pipe; thence South 8 ½ degrees East 35.6 For publication on May 4, 2022 (no less than 60 days ft. to a point where and iron pipe is driven; thence prior to the bid submission deadline). South 58 ¼ degrees East 281.2 ft. along the line of said Scribner land to a point at an intersection of a THCAuction.com  800-634-SOLD fence where an iron pipe is driven; thence South 3 degrees West 44 ft. along a fence and stone wall, STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT PROBATE which is the westerly line of the Hazel N. Thomas DIVISION CHITTENDEN UNIT DOCKET NO.: East Orchard, to a point where an iron pipe is set in a Terms of sale: Said premises will be sold and 6v-hirchakbrothers050422 1 4/29/22 1:09 PM22-PR-02140 mound of stones; thence West on a line parallel with conveyed subject to all liens, encumbrances, unpaid In re ESTATE of Kenneth McCormick Lovers Lane to an iron pipe 31 ft. from the Johnson taxes, tax titles, municipal liens and assessments, if Line; thence North 231 ft., running parallel with the any, which take precedence over the said mortgage NOTICE TO CREDITORS Johnson Line, to an iron post on Lovers Lane 31 ft. above described. from Johnson’s line; thence along Lovers Lane 256 To the creditors of: Kenneth McCormick, late of ft. to the point of beginning. TEN THOUSAND ($10,000.00) Dollars of the South Burlington. purchase price must be paid by a certified check, Parcel 2: Being all and the same lands and premises bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check at the time and I have been appointed to administer this estate. All conveyed to the herein Grantors by Warranty Deed place of the sale by the purchaser. The balance of creditors having claims against the decedent or the of Neil T. Frink and Ruth M. Frink, dated June 20, the purchase price shall be paid by a certified check, estate must present their claims in writing within 1969, and recorded in Volume 40 of the Bristol Land bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check within sixty (60) four (4) months of the date of the first publication Records, and therein described as follows: days after the date of sale. of this notice. The claim must be presented to me at the address listed below with a copy sent to the Commencing at the southeast corner of a 2 acre The mortgagor is entitled to redeem the premises at Court. The claim may be barred forever if it is not parcel, with house thereon this day given by these any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount presented within the four (4) month period. grantors to these grantees; thence in a continuation due under the mortgage, including the costs and of the 3rd bound therein, 88 feet to an iron pipe; expenses of the sale. Dated: May 2, 2022 thence westerly, parallel with the fourth bound Other terms to be announced at the sale. Signature of Fiduciary: /s/ Launa L. Slater therein, to a point in a southerly extension of the 5th bound; thence northerly in such extension of DATED: April 8, 2022 Executor/Administrator: Kristy Clark, c/o Launa L. the 5th bound, to the southwest corner of lands Slater, Wiener & Slater, PLLC, 110 Main Street, Suite described in said deed; thence easterly on the By: /s/ Rachel K. Ljunggren 4F, Burlington, VT 05401 802-863-1836 launa@ southerly line of lands described in said deed to the Rachel K. Ljunggren, Esq. wsvtlaw.com point begun at. Bendett and McHugh, PC 270 Farmington Ave., Ste. 151 Name of Publication: Seven Days Containing One Acre, more or less Farmington, CT 06032 Publication Date: May 4, 2022 Parcel ID # 225074 Reference is hereby made to the above instruments and to the records and references contained therein in further aid of this description.

TOWN OF COLCHESTER SELECTBOARD Conveyance of Surplus Property Pursuant to the Town of Colchester Surplus Property

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DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS PLANNING Our Director of Public Works Planning is retiring after 20 successful years leading the Town's ambitious infrastructure investment program ($5M+ in projects in 2021 alone)! The Director of Public Works Planning is responsible for developing and guiding the implementation of the Town's 5-year capital improvement plan through every stage of the process, from budget development to project close-out. Project management experience, superior customer service and public presentation skills are essential for this position. If you are up for a new challenge and think you have the experience, know-how and temperament, please see the detailed job advertisement and description on the Town’s website, www.townofmiddlebury.org. Competitive compensation ($78,000 - $98,000) and generous, comprehensive benefit package, including health and dental insurance and municipal retirement. Please send cover letter, resume and application to: Town of Middlebury, Attn: Crystal Grant, Executive Assistant to the Town Manager, Town Offices, 77 Main Street Middlebury, VT 05753.

Vermont Tent Company is currently accepting applications for the following positions for immediate employment, and future summer/fall employment starting in May. Full time, part time, after school and weekend hours available for each position. Pay rates vary by position with minimum starting wage ranging from $17-$21/hour depending on job skills and experience. We also offer retention and referral bonuses.

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If you are a community-minded, big-picture thinker and you want to make a difference in VT—we have a job for you on our Grants and Community Impact team!

Get in on the ground floor of a fun, fast-growing, high-integrity, tech-oriented nonprofit! Support technical teens with your customer service + management skills. hackclub.com - Shelburne. 80% in-office/20% WFH Flexible. 4 weeks PTO, health care, $2K computer hardware. Apply: bit.ly/cust-success-mgr-apply

The GCI team is responsible for the deployment and evaluation of resources—grants, mission investing, and program work associated with the Foundation’s lead initiatives—that align with and help to advance solutions to Vermont’s opportunity gap. The Program Officer is responsible for setting strategic stewardship direction for various programs and projects, as well as being involved in setting grantmaking decisions, investing decisions, and fundholder engagement.

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CASE MANAGER Come work with a great team, in a job where each day is different, and you meet wonderful and interesting people (and their pets)! HomeShare Vermont is a 40-year-old non-profit, dedicated to promoting intergenerational homesharing to help homeowners age in place, while creating affordable housing arrangements for others. We have an opening for a Case Manager in our Montpelier office. The Case Manager will work with applicants looking for housing and those who want to share their homes. Community outreach about homesharing is also an important part of the job. Job includes travel throughout Washington, Orange, and Lamoille counties so a reliable vehicle is a must. Position is full-time with excellent benefits & flexible schedule. Send cover letter and resume via email ONLY to Joyce@ homesharevermont.org. EOE.

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VPR-Vermont PBS is expanding its Corporate Support Team If you have a passion for public media and helping Vermont businesses grow, consider becoming the new VPR-Vermont PBS Corporate Support Associate. Work with businesses and organizations to connect them to the public media audience through broadcast underwriting on VPR, VPR Classical, and Vermont PBS, sponsorship of podcasts, our web, mobile sites, and special programs and events. Exercise your creativity, strategic thinking, and strong communication skills daily for businesses and organizations to market their products and services to our audience. Full job description & application process at VPR.org/Careers. Low to mid $50,000/year based on experience, medical insurance, dental & vision plans, paid holidays, paid FMLA, 5+ weeks of paid time off, and 401(k) contribution. VPR/Vermont PBS is a proud equal opportunity employer.

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THE WORLD LEADING CHOCOLATE MANUFACTURER! For a list of open positions go to: barrycallebaut.com and click on careers. • Location: St. Albans • $3,000 Relocation Reimbursement Program • $2,000 NEW HIRE BONUS 400 Industrial Park Road St. Albans, VT 05478. 802-528-3359 Scan QR code to view open positions:

GRANTS & FUND DEVELOPMENT MANAGER Join our Team to nurture our shared economic prosperity, ecological health, and social connectivity for the benefit and well-being of all who live in VT. Responsible for grants management and major donor relationship development. FT salary between $65-$75k, great benefits, casual but professional hybrid work environment, and an organizational culture where people feel valued, are energized, and can support forward-thinking solutions to our economic, social and climate challenges. VSJF is an E.O.E. committed to diversity, equity, inclusion and a strong sense of belonging in the workplace. See job description at vsjf.org. Send cover letter & resume to jobs@vsjf.org by 5pm 5/23/22.

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Detail-oriented, multi-taskers with a team-focused, high quality service mindset are encouraged to apply. If you are personally driven to make a difference and looking to grow within an administrative role, this job may be for you. Oversee all office functions and logistical needs, and coordinate our annual events – Farm to Plate Network Gathering, Forest Industry Network Summit, and the DeltaClimeVT reception. FT salary between $47-$52k, great benefits, casual but professional hybrid work environment, and an organizational culture where people feel valued, are energized, and can generate forwardthinking solutions to our economic, social and climate challenges. VSJF is an E.O.E. committed to diversity, equity, inclusion and a strong sense of belonging in the workplace. Job description at vsjf.org. Send cover letter & resume to jobs@vsjf.org by 5pm 5/13/22.

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OPERATIONS & EVENTS MANAGER Energy Action Network (EAN) is seeking a skilled Operations & Events Manager to become a core part of our non-profit staff team. EAN’s small staff collaboratively fill a variety of roles. The Operations & Events Manager will be responsible for communications and events management, and additional tasks that fit with their skill set and interests. Located in Montpelier (with some remote work possible).

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Converse Home is an Assisted Living Community located in downtown Burlington. We provide three home-cooked meals a day to 60 residents of our assisted living community. We are flexible on scheduling for candidates who work well on a team and are excited to meet the dietary needs of residents. We are currently looking for both full and part time candidates to serve as dining room servers, team leaders, kitchen generalists, line cooks and dishwashers.

Volunteer & Family Support Coordinator Do you have a passion and drive to apply your talents to make a difference? Green Mountain Habitat for Humanity is seeking a motivated and hardworking individual to serve as our Volunteer & Family Support Coordinator. Come join us as we help local families build stability, equity, and selfreliance through affordable homeownership!

We offer generous paid time off, excellent benefits and competitive pay. Plus a great work culture! Come join a great team and love where you work! Please apply online & learn more about us: conversehome. com/converse-home-career-opportunities/ or send your resume to Kristen@conversehome.com.

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Converse Home is an Assisted Living Community located in downtown Burlington. We are looking for dedicated & compassionate people to join our team!

STEWARDSHIP COORDINATOR

• FULL-TIME 32-40 HOUR EVENING SHIFT NURSE 2:30-11pm includes every other weekend • PER DIEM NURSE OR LNA CHARGE OF SHIFT • RCA full-time evening shifts in both traditional and memory care communities • 20 hour RCA 4-9:30 • RCA 28 hour day shifts We offer generous paid time off, excellent benefits, and competitive pay. Plus a great work culture! Please apply online & learn more about us: conversehome.com/converse-home-career-opportunities/ or send your resume to Kristen@conversehome.com.

The Vermont Historical Society seeks a full-time Stewardship Coordinator based in Barre. The Coordinator supports the mission of VHS through the stewardship of members and volunteers and the handling of day-to-day operations of the organization. Associate’s degree in business or other appropriate discipline, plus two years of relevant clerical/administrative/ technological experience required. Bachelor’s degree, strong customer service skills, and knowledge of database management preferred. vermonthistory.org/ career-opportunities

PROJECT MANAGERS (TWO POSITIONS) Vital Communities, a regional nonprofit located in White River Junction, VT, seeks two full-time project managers with passion and experience in one or more specific issue areas (climate change, community-scale economic development, clean energy, and agriculture) who are excited about working collaboratively at the community level for community-scale, community-driven change in the Upper Connecticut River Valley of Vermont and New Hampshire. Desired qualifications include excellent project management, communication, facilitation, and collaboration skills, as well as an openness to learning and growing on the job. Vital Communities will begin reviewing applications on May 11, 2022. Applications will be accepted until this position is filled. Full job description at vitalcommunities.org/about/join-our-team/. Email resume and cover letter to hr@vitalcommunities.org.

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The Painter LLC is seeking individuals to join our growing team! Experience preferred but not necessary. Willing to train decent human beings who love what they do and take pride in their work. Come be part of the family. Seeking the following: Painters, Labors, and Foremen. Full-time, Part-time, Seasonal & Year-Round! Top Pay, bonuses and incentives offered for all workers! Work uniforms provided. Send resume to: thepaintervt@gmail.com

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PARALEGAL Invest your talents in supporting life-long connections to Vermont’s farms, forests, and natural areas!

Community Health Worker AmeriCorps Member (Vermont) This role involves helping those who live with epilepsy connect with community resources and assisting them in navigating healthcare and identifying social and community support systems and resources. You build skills, experience, and street credentials as a Community Healthcare Worker in the process. After the program, you will become certified Community Healthcare Worker. Send resumes to: khatch@epilepsynewengland.org

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As part of VLT’s legal team, you’ll operate at the center of exceptional services provided to our communities, landowners, and donors. Our ideal candidate is a legal support professional who can: • Work collaboratively & independently, with keen attention to detail • Juggle multiple tasks, partner & communicate within and across teams • Support VLT’s Staff Attorney by managing legal transactions in a fast-paced, mission-driven organization Total Compensation: Starting salary of $52,200 + 6 week’s annual CTO + generous cafeteria plan of benefits equivalent to $22,700/year to cover medical and dental insurance, Health Savings Plan, and 403b retirement plan with match. Apply at vlt.org/employment. The Vermont Land Trust is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We honor and invite people of all backgrounds and lived experiences to apply.

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Manage all accounting transactions including processing of receipts and disbursements, weekly payroll preparation, calculation of monthly commissions, recording of journal entries, preparation of bank reconciliations and other key account reconciliations, monthly financial statements preparation, and filing and payment of required taxes. Answer inquiries on financial transactions/balances as they arise. Prepare year end accounting package. Manage human resources including maintenance of employee personnel files, tracking of payroll related items (salaries and wages, deductions, and benefits), annual updating and communication of benefits, providing third party providers with required information, and tracking of vacation and CTO time.

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NORTHEASTERN VERMONT REGIONAL HOSPITAL has exciting opportunities! NVRH is looking for dedicated and compassionate RNs, LPNs and LNAs to join our team and provide high quality care to the communities we serve. NVRH provides a fair and compassionate workplace where all persons are valued by the organization and each other, providing ongoing growth opportunities.

True North Wilderness Program is seeking a fullAttention to Detail Paratransit Coordination time, year-round Operations • Develop & implement procedures in Problem Solving accordance with Americans with Support person. The ideal Disabilities Act (ADA) candidate is an adaptable Critical Thinking •Ensure federal contract compliance team player with a positive FT and PT employees are eligible for excellent benefits attitude who is willing to work including student loan repayment, generous paid time both indoors and outdoors Contact GMT offers excellent benefits off, health/dental/vision, 401k with company match and performing a variety of tasks & generous time off Green Mountain Transit much more! associated with the logistics 802.540.2468 of running our program. Tasks To Learn more: info@ridegmt.com APPLY TODAY AT NVRH.ORG/CAREERS. including food packing and RideGMT.com/careers rationing, gear outfitting, transportation and facilities 4t-GreenMtnTransit050422 1 CLASSROOM TEACHER 4/28/224t-NVRH092921.indd 2:20 PM 1 9/24/21 maintenance. Candidates GRADE 5/6 must be willing to work The Warren School is seeking a grade 5/6 classroom weekends and occasional teacher with strengths in humanities and language evenings. A clean and valid arts to join our dynamic school team, beginning in driver’s license is required. the upcoming 2022-23 school year. PLACE-BASED EDUCATION PROJECT MANAGER Competitive salary and Candidates apply via the SchoolSpring : schoolspring.com/job?3840732 comprehensive benefits Vital Communities, a regional nonprofit located in White River Junction, offered. Benefits include Application requirements: VT, seeks a full-time project manager with experience in and passion for health, dental, vision and Place-Based Education (PBE) to lead our Farm to School programming • Applicants currently under • Letter of interest and to be part of a PBE team to support educators, practitioners, accident insurance, an contract (contract or letter of professional development providers, schools, students, and learners of • Resume employee assistance program, intent) will need to have your all ages in deepening their connection to community through the history, a Wellness Fund, student loan • Proof of Vermont certification ecology, culture, and stories of place. Successful candidates will have Superintendent contact the repayment reimbursement, • Three current letters of reference at least three years as a classroom educator working in K-12 schools HUUSD Superintendent to give and a SIMPLE IRA. using PBE in the curricula, project management and facilitation skills, and All True North employees must be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 and provide proof of vaccination status prior to employment. Please apply at: truenorthwilderness.com.

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• All hired staff must be background checked and fingerprinted in Vermont.

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experience building and maintaining relationships that will create and support an integrated network of PBE and community stakeholders. Vital Communities will begin reviewing applications on May 16, 2022. Applications will be accepted until these positions are filled. Full job description at vitalcommunities.org/about/join-our-team/. Email resume and cover letter to hr@vitalcommunities.org.

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MAY 4-11, 2022

CONSERVATION SPECIALIST POSITION Orleans County Natural Resources Conservation District seeks a full-time Conservation Specialist to join our team! We are looking for an innovator with both field and administrative experience who can build community in this dynamic position driven by conservation science, high quality service and a passion for Vermont Agricultural and Natural Resource Conservation. The primary role of this position will be to work with municipalities and landowners to assess, plan and implement natural resource restoration projects like culvert retrofits and riparian planting projects with room for creativity and growth in program offerings. Position is based in Newport VT USDA office with some remote work possible. Bachelor’s degree is required with at least 2 years of work experience in a related field. We offer staff a supportive work environment with a goal of meeting our clients’ needs as well as the well being of our staff. Find the position description on our website to learn more about the position. Applications are due by end of Monday, May 30th. To apply please send your cover letter and resume as one PDF to sarah.damsell@vt.nacdnet.net. No phone calls, please.

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MOVING TEAM Team Leader and Mover Temporary Positions Hours: Full Time 30 hours per week

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HallKeen Management is seeking a Team Leader and Mover who are energetic, responsible, motivated and reliable for residential property located in Winooski, VT. Will be required to stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl and must regularly lift and move up to 10lbs, frequently lift up to 25lbs & occasionally lift up to 50lbs. 5v-5v-VTAssociatesforTraining&Development042722.indd Responsibilities & Experience Include: • Packing & Moving Household and Commercial Items • Friendly Customer Service • Furniture assembly & disassembly • Safely lifting and moving heavy objects and packing homes. • Willingness to work as a team member • Positive attitude and attention to detail Apply at: dfinnigan@hallkeen.com

Controller VHCB is seeking a highly skilled accounting professional for the role of Controller. Join the financial team of an innovative funding organization with a mission that encompasses affordable housing and community development, land conservation and historic preservation. Manage the preparation of monthly financial statements, ensure accurate accounting and reporting of federal and state grants management, and support the management of VHCB’s loan portfolio, budget, and audit process. Applicants will have experience creating multi-fund financial statements and managing a complex general ledger as well as a working knowledge of governmental and/or fund accounting and GAAP. Experience and familiarity with federal grants management and federal administrative regulations is required, as is a degree in accounting and a minimum of eight years’ experience in accounting. Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and a concern for accuracy are a must to work in this fast paced, interesting, and supportive environment. Fulltime position located in Montpelier office, with competitive salary and excellent comprehensive benefit package. Equal Opportunity Employer. Reply with cover letter and résumé to: jobs@vhcb.org Position will remain open until filled. Read the job description at: vhcb.org/about-us/jobs

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SCREENPRINTER In this job as screen printer, you’ll be on your feet and using your upper body to press ink through fine mesh screen for most of your day. You’ll also be using machines, water, and chemicals to process screens for use and reuse. This job is paid based on experience, and experience is preferred; however, we are willing to train the right person. It is full-time with paid holidays, personal days, garment discounts, occasional free lunches, and the fun of knowing that you help represent the state of Vermont with your handiwork. To apply, send your resume and a short email about yourself to contactvcc@vermont clothingcompany.com

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GRANTS COMPLIANCE COORDINATOR Join one of the Best Places to Work in Vermont. United Way of Northwest Vermont is looking for a data-focused communicator and collaborator to be responsible for compliance with all federal, state, local, and private grants. In this position, you will work closely with the Finance and Community Impact teams to ensure the accuracy and efficiency of our grant management process and facilitate grant administration in support of UWNWVT’s mission. In this role, you will: • Monitor approved funding contracts to ensure documentation and reporting requirements are met • Work collaboratively with program staff to compile data for grants • Work collaboratively with program staff to write grant proposals, submit applications and seek additional funding sources to support programs in alignment with the organizational mission Qualifications for this position include: 2+ years of experience working with grants. Grants compliance, management, reporting, writing, or development experience are all relevant. United Way of Northwest Vermont employees enjoy a range of excellent benefits, including health, dental, and vision insurance, a generous paid vacation policy, 11 paid holidays, 403(b) contributions, a robust wellness program, and much more. Interested candidates may visit unitedwaynwvt.org for the full job description. To apply, candidates should send via e-mail a resume and cover letter by 05/20/2022 to: hiring@unitedwaynwvt.org.

ROAD CREW MEMBER The Town of Westford is seeking qualified applicants for a full time Road Crew position with benefits. Operation and knowledge of highway equipment for maintenance and repair of town roads required. Applicant must have a Vermont CDL Class B license, good driving record and pass pre-employment physical exam and drug test. For job description and application go to westfordvt.us/administration/ highway-department/. For consideration, please submit resume, references, and employment application to Town of Westford, Attn: Nanette Rogers, 1713 VT Route 128, Westford, VT 05494 or email to: townadmin@westfordvt.us Position open until filled. Equal Opportunity Employer

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Student Services Transportation Driver

The Lamoille North Supervisory Union, located in Hyde Park, is seeking a part-time Student Services Transportation Driver. The primary responsibility will be to Competitive hourly wages and benefits including provide safe and reliable transporPTO, 401K match and Kenworth sponsored training. tation of up to five passengers at a time (plus the driver) by operating Email resume and salary requirements to: the Supervisory Union vans to resume@newenglandkw.com or call 802.985.2521 transport pupils to and from school, and ask for Charlie Sweeney. as well as related placements or activities. Drivers will be expected to adhere to all COVID-related 4t-NewEnglandKenworth042722.indd 1 4/21/22 safety protocols. Additionally as needed and available, drivers perform courier services between central office, schools and other Vermont Coffee Company, part of Stonewall Kitchen’s Family of Brands, is institutions and vehicle cleaning. now hiring! Come join our fun, friendly team in one of the following roles: All applicable and appropriate COFFEE ROASTER training will be provided, and Consistently roast each batch of coffee following the proper roast profiles ongoing as needed, to keep drivers while maintaining strict control of all quality standards and procedures. up-to-date with current applicable procedures, protocols & student services standards.

COFFEE ROASTER APPRENTICE Learn the necessary aspects of an Apprentice Roaster by following a curriculum designed specifically for coffee roasting through self-directed and supervisor-led training.

The ideal candidate will have a positive and congenial attitude, effective verbal and written communication skills, a high school diploma/GED, five years of driving experience and be able to work split shifts.

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Looking for a job you’ll love? Join the team at Lake Champlain Chocolates! Sweet benefits include generous paid time off, paid holidays, medical insurance, free dental insurance, 401K match, company events, and lots of free chocolate! As a certified B Corporation®, we use business as a force for good -- listening, learning, and adapting to ensure that we provide an equitable and inclusive work environment where all people experience belonging, opportunity, respect, and dignity. We seek team members who want to join us in that effort.

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• CORPORATE SALES & CUSTOMER SERVICE • CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE • QUALITY ASSURANCE SPECIALIST • MOULDING LINE OPERATOR • CHOCOLATE MAKER and PACKAGING SPECIALIST • RETAIL SALES CHOCOLATE AMBASSADORS (in Burlington & Waterbury locations) • SANITATION TECHNICIAN (part-time) We’d love to welcome you to our team! Call today, 802-264-2179, or visit our website for additional job details: LakeChamplainChocolates.com/careers

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MANUFACTURING ASSOCIATE Pack the roasted coffee and ensure the final presentation meets the highest quality standards.

Clean driving record, success passing required drug testing, criminal background check, and minimum medical clearance is required.

Due to the sensory sensitive nature of this facility, we do not allow any fragrances to be worn by the employees while at work, nor are we able to hire people who smoke. For full descriptions and to apply online: bit.ly/StonewallKitchenVTjobs JOB OPENING

Risk Reduction Interventionist

This is an hourly, extended school year position. Part-time positions qualify for the Supervisory Union’s generous benefits package.

Re-Entry Resources Counseling is seeking a motivated, career-oriented individual to join a seasoned team as a full-time Risk Reduction Interventionist.

Interested candidates submit questions, or a letter of interest, with 2 current reference letters to: Jacki Schmelzer, Student Services Transportation Coordinator. Send copy to: Deborah Clark, Business Manager Lamoille North Supervisory Union 96 Cricket Hill Road, Hyde Park, VT 05655 jschmelzer@cesvt.net & copy to: dclark@lnsd.org

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Lamoille North Supervisory Union is an Equal Opportunity Employer

reentryresourcescounseling@gmail.com for more information. Resumes will be requested prior to interviewing.

The Risk Reduction Interventionist is responsible for facilitating risk reduction curricula with individuals in the criminal justice system. Evidenced-based curriculum is used to help reduce risk of recidivism for individuals as they aim to transition back into communities from incarceration. The work will involve delivering risk reduction curricula in person and via technology when remote work is necessary. Curricula focuses on themes such as emotion regulation, problem-solving and social skill development.

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OUELLETTE PLUMBING & HEATING CORP. EXPERIENCED PROJECT MANAGER / COMMERCIAL MECHANICAL ESTIMATOR A successful candidate will be dedicated, organized, focused, and able to balance multiple deadlines and priorities. This role requires the ability to collaborate with others with a high level of partnership and accountability. Excellent interpersonal skills and customer service a must as well as the ability to self-motivate and work independently. A successful member of the OPH Corp. is kind, flexible, and a go getter! Qualifications • 3 + years' experience with Commercial Plumbing construction estimating/Project Management • Possess skill and understanding in conceptual estimating • Experience with Trimble estimating/Onscreen takeoff program a plus. • Proven project estimating and/or project management success. • Excellent verbal and written skills. • Advanced knowledge or estimating strategies and techniques. • Knowledge of estimating software programs Microsoft Word/Excel OPH offers a competitive salary, paid time off, health, dental, and vision insurance. Come join a team where you are not just an employee, you are part of the OPH Family. Please email resumes to kbrownell@ophcorp.com or call 802-878-6004 with questions.

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True North Wilderness Program is seeking a full-time Property Maintenance team member. Primary job duties include facilities and grounds maintenance, landscaping and hardscaping, chainsaw operation and lawn mowing, light construction and carpentry, and vehicle maintenance. Additional responsibilities include supporting clients directly with enrollment, transportation, crisis response and logistical tasks. Offering competitive salary and comprehensive benefits including health, dental, vision, accident insurance, retirement savings plan, wellness fund, and education assistance program. The ideal candidate is an adaptable team player with a positive attitude who is willing to work both indoors and outdoors and is able to work weekends/occasional evenings. A clean and valid driver’s license as well as being fully vaccinated and boosted against Covid is required. True North is a nationally recognized wilderness therapy program located in the beautiful Green Mountains of Central Vermont. As a small, independently owned program, True North provides personalized therapeutic interventions and transition support for 14-17 year old adolescents and 18-25 year old young adults with an emphasis on assessment and family participation. We are committed to enriching the experience of our students, families, and team by celebrating an inclusive work environment. We seek to recruit a broadly diverse staff who will contribute a variety of viewpoints and experiences to ongoing program development and superior support of our clients. We encourage applications from individuals from underrepresented groups including professionals of color and diverse gender identities. Please visit our website to apply: truenorthwilderness.com/careers

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DIRECTOR OF FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION HSCC seeks an experienced professional to join our senior management team. The Director is responsible for managing and coordinating administrative, financial, human resource, and information technology functions for our 121 year old organization. They will have the overall financial management responsibility including creating monthly, quarterly and annual financial reports and metrics for the CEO and Board of Directors, overseeing budgeting, forecasting, cash flow, payroll and taxes, as well as accounts receivable and payable. They will be aware of the relationship between the organization’s strategic goals and the earned revenue and fundraising needs. They coordinate general troubleshooting, upgrades and upkeep and/or repair of all computer hardware, software, printing, copying equipment and telephone system. They are also responsible for directing and planning group benefits programs (group health, dental and vision, short- and long-term disability, retirement, workers’ compensation, etc.) and assist the President & CEO with board and committee organizational functions. Oversee one support staff. HSCC’s staff is our greatest asset and we work hard to promote an inclusive and supportive culture. Compensation commensurate with experience. For more info and to submit application with your salary requirements visit hsccvt.org/Join-Our-Team.

PROPERTY MAINTENANCE QUALITY CONTROL TECHNICIAN Super Thin Saws, of Waterbury, VT manufactures precision circular saw blades and similar tooling, primarily for the woodworking industry. We are seeking highly motivated individuals to work & grow in our manufacturing operation We are currently seeking a manufacturing technician and a Quality Control Technician. Candidates must be mechanically inclined (previous experience with measuring tools, such as micrometers, calipers & dial indicators, is desired). We will also provide training to successful candidates. Super Thin Saws provides excellent pay, benefits including medical and flexible hours. Please send your resume to bookkeeping@superthinsaws. com or call 802-244-8101.

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT True North Wilderness Program in Waitsfield seeks a full time Administrative Assistant. The Administrative Assistant is central to the success of our program by providing outstanding customer service to colleagues and to external clients and business partners. This position requires strong written and verbal communication skills, problem solving, and a high level of organization and attention to detail. The successful candidate will be proficient using Microsoft Word and Excel, Google Drive and Gmail, and in data entry. Tasks include answering the phone, managing correspondence, scheduling appointments, drafting insurance writeups and participation in student enrollment and discharge. True North is a nationally recognized wilderness therapy program located in the beautiful Green Mountains of Central Vermont. As a small, independently owned program, True North provides personalized therapeutic interventions and transition support for 14-17 year old adolescents and 18-25 year old young adults with an emphasis on assessment and family participation. We are committed to enriching the experience of our students, families, and team by celebrating an inclusive work environment. We seek to recruit a broadly diverse staff who will contribute a variety of viewpoints and experiences to ongoing program development and superior support of our clients. We encourage applications from individuals from underrepresented groups including professionals of color and diverse gender identities. All True North employees must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and have received the booster dose of the vaccine if eligible. To apply visit: truenorthwilderness.com/careers

RED SPRUCE GROVE PROGRAM DIRECTOR The Program Director has the responsibility of effectively managing a summer camp program for approximately 16 campers and about 6 staff. This program serves campers and staff who identify as girls and gender nonbinary. Red Spruce Grove is a nature based outdoor living skills camp with a focus on living simply without modern “technology”. During camp the program director is responsible with support from the IB Co-Directors for the good health and happiness of the campers, staff management, camper/parent relations, program management, camp risk management, budget oversight, and adherence to the F&W mission. Apply online: bit.ly/ FandWFredsprucejob

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Student Services Transportation Supervisor The Lamoille North Supervisory Union, located in Hyde Park, is seeking a Student Services Transportation Supervisor. The primary responsibility will be to supervise, direct and coordinate van drivers (and subs) and aides (as necessary) to ensure safe and reliable transportation services for students, auxiliary transport needs, as well as serve as a nonCDL driver. This position is also responsible for, but not limited to, associated special services billings, coordination of staff trainings, ensuring all regulatory compliance associated with student transportation, coordinating and managing vehicle registration, care and maintenance. The ideal candidate will have a positive and congenial attitude, effective verbal and written communication skills, be familiar with basic computer applications (i.e. Microsoft Excel and Word) and have the ability to interpret legal requirements and applicable policies. Minimum requirement is a high school diploma/GED with 1 year of relevant supervisory experience. Familiarity with special transport needs is a plus. A clean driving record and passing mandatory drug test(s) is required. This is a salaried full year position offering a generous benefits package. Salary will be commensurate with experience and education. Interested candidates should submit a letter of interest, resume and 2 current reference letters to: Deborah Clark, Business Manager dclark@lnsd.org Lamoille North Supervisory Union 96 Cricket Hill Road, Hyde Park, VT 05655 Lamoille North Supervisory Union is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Administrative Assistant Vermont-NEA is seeking a highly qualified Administrative Assistant to provide support to our professional staff. This position includes the opportunity for telework in addition to inperson work in our Montpelier office.

Lake Champlain Islands Economic Development Corp. seeks a candidate to work with our Executive Director supporting local business development in the Lake Champlain Islands. Full-time, hybrid position. Willing to train. Send resume to director@champlainislands.com

CARPET CLEANING TECHNICIAN

In addition to the specific qualifications below, this position requires exceptional interpersonal skills, careful attention to detail, excellent oral and written communication skills, managing multiple ongoing projects, and a commitment to confidentiality, all within the context of a highly professional and advocacyoriented membership organization.

Looking for hard working, reliable and honest individual to join locally owned business. Hands on training provided for cleaning carpet, upholstery, tile and water damage. Full and Part-time hours available. Some weekends hours required at busy times.

Specific qualifications: This is not an entry-level position. BA or higher degree; at least 3 years’ experience in an administrative assistant position; appreciation for the role of labor unions and for the work of public school educators; advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel is required.

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Valid drivers license and clean record required and ability to drive van. $18+/hour and excellent work environment. Non-smokers only, please.

To apply, send a cover letter and resume, including names and contact information for at least 3 references to: Jeff Fannon, Executive Director, Vermont-NEA 10 Wheelock Street, Montpelier, Vermont 05602 Or via email to kferguson@vtnea.org. This position will remain open until filled.

General Sales Manager Large multi-line dealer in Vermont has an opening for a General Sales Manager with 3-5 years’ experience managing an automotive sales team. Candidate will be responsible for retaining employees and for the profitability for the new and used vehicle departments including the finance department. ESSENTIAL DUTIES INCLUDE: • Oversees the Sales Department and ensures profitability by leading, training, and measuring the performance of Sales Managers, F&I Managers, Reconditioning, Wholesale, and Internet Sales. • Hires, trains, supervises, and monitors the performance of the new, used, and finance department manager(s) • Works with the General Manager to determine appropriate day’s supply for new and used vehicles and manages inventory accordingly • Establishes standards for displaying, merchandising, and maintaining new and used vehicles • Establishes procedures for quick disposal of aged new and used vehicles • Assists in planning dealership advertising and promotion Fantastic opportunity for someone to grow along with a growing dealer group who offers a great benefits package & who encourages a balanced work & life schedule. Salary commensurate with experience, bonus program based upon meeting monthly store objectives. Please send your letter of interest to: gsm.inquiry.ne@gmail.com. All applicants held in strict confidence. E.O.E.

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IT SPECIALIST III This position located in Montpelier provides support to operations of computer & telecommunication systems. Involves private cloud and disaster recovery design and support; multi-vendor infrastructure support of LAN and WAN technologies, Internet, VLANs, DNS/DHCP, VPNs, NAT (network address translation), IP telephony, and firewalls. Experience installing & troubleshooting Windows, MS SQL server-based applications and Desktop and Server-based applications. BA/BS and 2-6 years related experience. Starting $60K annually with excellent medical, dental, paid leave and retirement benefits. Candidates shall submit a complete and up-to-date Judicial Branch Application and a resume found at: vermontjudiciary.exacthire.com/job/90539.

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JEWELRY BRAND ADMINISTRATIVE RETAIL ASSISTANT Fine jewelry brand in Burlington searching for an Administrative Retail Assistant to join our team. We are looking for a motivated individual with attention to detail. An individual who works well in a team unit, who is creative, and has great hand eye coordination. Someone who is excited to learn new skills and become a long term part of our team. Someone who is punctual, reliable, & responsible. Someone who can follow detailed instructions. No previous jewelry business or retail experience necessary. Pay starting from $18.00 per hour plus bonuses. Work week is Tuesday through Saturday. Please respond with a resume and cover letter. Candidates will only be considered when a resume and cover letter are included. Send to: raintreevermont@gmail.com. Benefits include health benefits, paid vacation, personal days and holidays.

Assistant Town Clerk & Assistant Town Treasurer

The Town of Bristol is seeking an organized and motivated candidate to serve as its Assistant Town Clerk and Assistant Town Treasurer. The 32-hour per week position offers a competitive salary, benefits, flexible schedule, and opportunity to work in a vibrant community, (pop. approx. 4,000) located in the Champlain Valley in Addison County, Vermont. The Assistant Town Clerk will perform all duties assigned by the Town Clerk in accordance with Vermont Statutes and Bristol Town Policies and Procedures. The Assistant Town Treasurer will perform all duties assigned by the Town Treasurer in the management of all of the Town’s financial activities.

Exciting Opportunities at Northern Express Care – Newport Opening this summer! • Work in a brand new practice specializing in acute walk-in primary care. • Sign on bonus and loan repayment options available! OPEN POSITIONS FOR: REGISTERED NURSE: Must be comfortable working with patients of all ages. Pediatric & health center experience is preferred. Vermont RN license required. NURSE PRACTITIONER/PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT: Seeking experienced & energetic FNP/PA. Treat a variety of patients & medical needs in the convenience of the patients’ medical home. 2+ years of primary care/urgent care experience preferred. Current Vermont NP/PA license required. Competitive compensation and benefits package. Learn more and apply online: nchcvt.org/careers.

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Vermont Afterschool is seeking an Executive Director to spearhead the organization’s work in ways that strengthen programs, build partnerships, empower youth, and transform communities so that all of Vermont’s children and youth have opportunities to be active, engaged, connected, and heard. The Executive Director reports to the Board of Directors, and the successful candidate will lead the organization’s work to the next level of impact, scale, and relevance. This position will be responsible for managing our dynamic team of professional staff, developing strategy, and implementing programs that make youth-serving organizations and communities stronger for Vermont’s children, youth, and families. The Executive Director is also responsible for securing grants and funding opportunities, building ongoing relationships with funders and partners, and leading on our statewide policy efforts. We are seeking an individual with excellent strategic thinking and planning skills, strong operational and management experience, the ability to work in a dynamic and fluid environment, a deep understanding of youth programs and policies, and experience running an effective non-profit organization.

A detailed job description is available at www.bristolvt.org. Salary: commensurate with experience.

• Must have access to reliable transportation to and from the office. While some flexibility is available, the position will be based primarily out of Vermont Afterschool’s offices in South Burlington, VT

Bristol Assistant Town Clerk/Treasurer Search P.O. Box 249, Bristol, VT 05443 The position is advertised until filled. The Town of Bristol is an equal opportunity provider and employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability, religion, gender, or familial status.

The Development Coordinator is responsible for overseeing NOFA-VT’s sponsorship program as well as providing support to the Development & Engagement Director and other Program staff with grant writing, research, and management. The Development Coordinator reports to the Development & Engagement Director. PT with growth potential. Visit nofavt.org/about-us/ join-our-team to apply.

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A degree in accounting, public administration, or similarly applicable experience is preferred, or at least two years' practical experience in the area of municipal, public, or private accounting including experience managing payroll, employee benefits, accounts payable and receivable. A working knowledge of Word and Excel is required. Experience with NEMRC accounting systems is a plus.

To apply, please e-mail a cover letter, resume, and three references by 4:00 pm, Thursday, May 12, 2022 to clerk@bristolvt.org and treasurer@bristolvt.org with Bristol Assistant Town Clerk/Treasurer in the subject line or send by mail to:

Development Coordinator

QUALIFICATIONS • Minimum BA required; Advanced degree preferred

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HOW TO APPLY • We offer a competitive compensation package and the opportunity to play a role in growing the organization. Expected compensation for this position starts at $80,000 and depends on qualifications and experience. • To apply, please send a cover letter, resume, and three references to jobs@vermontafterschool.org. Applications are being accepted on a rolling basis and must be submitted electronically. The position will be posted until filled and is available immediately. • Vermont Afterschool is an equal opportunity employer, and we especially welcome applications from individuals who will contribute to our diversity.

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SAUNA BUILDER Create exceptional saunas that can be experienced in beautiful, natural settings. Seeking carpenters of all experience levels to run our sauna building operations. 2 positions available- master sauna builder & apprentice. You’ll be responsible for running our workshop constructing beautiful custom saunas. Work indoors year round with climate control and dust mitigation. Apply online: savu.cc/team

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Pay is competitive. Either an hourly rate or a monthly salary. Please email a CV/Résumé, write a cover letter in the body of the email and link socials if you have them. josh@byloftie.com

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OUR CITY CLERK TREASURER’S OFFICE IS HIRING FOR MULTIPLE FULL-TIME POSITIONS Our department of maintains the five basic structures of local democracy, ranging from elections, public records, City Council proceedings, licensing and the sharing of public information to our local government. This department also maintains and enhanced the City’s revenue and directing financial resources.

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RHINO FOODS IS HIRING! Check out our website for the latest positions:

LINE OPERATORS: Pay $16 to $24 BATTER MAKERS: Pay $18.50+ WAREHOUSE SUPPORT: $18.50-22.00

The City of Burlington is an equal opportunity employer and offers a competitive benefits package to our employees.

ASSOCIATE BUYER:

• ACCOUNTING ASSISTANT – Accounts Payable: $22.65 - $25.13/Hour

AND, we are hiring for leadership roles! Excellent pay and bonus potential:

• PAYROLL ADMINISTRATOR II: $27.26 - $30.39/Hour

3RD SHIFT PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR

• GRANTS ACCOUNTANT: $29.15 - $32.51/Hour

You won’t believe our incredible benefits, perks, and culture. We are excited to meet you!

• SENIOR CAPITAL PROJECT ACCOUNTANT: $29.15 - $32.51/Hour • GRANTS ASSOCIATE: $23.94 - $26.67/Hour To learn more and apply for these positions, visit:

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REAL ESTATE PROFESSIONAL Sheehey Furlong & Behm P.C. - Burlington, VT Sheehey Furlong & Behm, an established, growing law firm located near the Burlington waterfront, is accepting applications for a Title Search/Real Estate Professional. This unique position is for either an attorney or paralegal with demonstrated Vermont real estate experience to provide assistance and support in a busy medium-sized firm with a variety of residential and commercial real estate needs. The position will involve travelling to perform residential and commercial title searches at town clerk’s offices throughout Vermont (mileage reimbursed), preparing reports and opinions on title and drafting property descriptions, working with title insurers and title insurance policies and forms, and researching and analyzing state and municipal permit and compliance issues. The position will also involve drafting conveyance and closing documents, including but not limited to deeds, tax forms, and settlement statements. If the applicant is an attorney, the position may also involve contract negotiation and drafting, conducting closings, and working on other real estate related matters including commercial leasing and permitting. The ideal candidate will have at least 2 years’ experience related to title searches/real estate, at least a Bachelor’s Degree, and be detail-oriented and organized with strong communication and writing skills. Candidates with a law degree but less experience will be considered, provided they have demonstrated skills and experience in conducting title searches. Salary will be commensurate with experience and education, and will include a generous benefits package. Forward cover letter and resume to hiring@sheeheyvt.com, subject “Title Search/Real Estate Professional.”

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Interviews and offers given on the spot. Our address is 179 Queen City Park Road, Burlington.

AIRPORT AMBASSADORS Our airport ambassadors are responsible for providing information, assistance, and security measures at the terminal, ground transportation areas and parking office, and as necessary processing transactions using fee computers for customers while referring more complex issues to foremen and/or supervisors. In addition, these positions assist in maintaining a clean, welcoming, secure and professional environment. If you are customer services oriented and enjoy talking to and helping people, this role is for you!

MAINTENANCE INTERN Our Internship position is responsible for assisting our Airport Maintenance Workers in the day-to-day care of the airport grounds and properties. including but not limited to, the care and maintenance of runways, taxiways, aprons, roadways, parking lots, the parking garage, and unpaved areas, as well as fence repairs and general carpentry. Get hands on experience and mentorship working alongside our maintenance professionals in this paid internship opportunity! To learn more about these positions and apply, go to: governmentjobs.com/careers/burlingtonvt.

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The Vermont Historical Society seeks a part-time Program Assistant based in Montpelier. The position assists the education team implement the Lawson’s Finest Liquids brand strategy. in presenting school programs and with daily operations at the Vermont History Museum. Saturday Apply here: lawsonsfinest.com/about-us/careers Lawrence@mandarinvt.com work required. Bachelor’s degree and experience in education, history, museums, or related field t-Mandarin031120.indd 1 3/10/20 12:21 PM The Milton Family Community preferred. Full job description and details at vermonthistory.org/ Center is seeking a new career-opportunities. To apply, send a cover letter & resume to Seeking a leader with a can-do attitude, eileen.corcoran@vermonthistory.org.

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Multiple Positions Open! Hayward Tyler, a leading manufacturer of industrial pumps and motors in Colchester, is seeking candidates to fill the following positions:

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Candidates must demonstrate an ability to work with and promote collaborations with diverse populations to achieve shared community goals and outcomes. MFCC is an equal opportunity employer. Recognizing that every leader brings special talents to their work, we strongly encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply.

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ZONING ADMINISTRATOR Town of East Montpelier, VT The Zoning Administrator for the Town of East Montpelier is retiring! We are looking for an organized, collaborative, and diplomatic candidate to fill this challenging position. The Zoning Administrator is responsible for compliance with all applicable zoning and subdivision regulations, facilitation of and support for long-range land use planning, supporting the Planning Commission and Development Review Board, and serving as the Town’s E-911 coordinator. We hope to hire a person with a background in planning, public administration, natural resources, engineering, legal studies or similarly applicable discipline. A bachelor’s degree is required; a master’s degree is preferred. Candidates should also have a minimum of three years’ experience in local government planning or administration, or equivalent experience in business or government. For more information, including a job description: eastmontpeliervt.org/em-zoning-administrator-job-opening/ This is a part- to full-time opportunity (24-35 hours per week) with some flexible hours and a competitive wage and benefit package. To apply, please submit your letter of interest and resume by May 9, 2022 to: manager@eastmontpeliervt.org Equal Opportunity Employer.

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VNRC Seeks ‘Community Energy Coordinator’ AmeriCorps Member

MAINTENANCE TECHNICIAN Keens Crossing – Winooski, VT 05404 Hours: 40 Hours Full Time HallKeen Management is seeking a motivated and experienced Maintenance Technician to enhance current skills, acquire new knowledge and grow with our company. Responsibilities are quite diverse including but not limited to Apartment turnovers, grounds keeping, various janitorial duties, painting, appliance, electrical, heating, plumbing and safety equipment repair and replacement, and providing assistance at other company properties when needed. The qualified candidate must have reliable transportation and have the ability to assist in carrying appliances and climb ladders as needed. Please e-mail resumes to dfinnigan@hallkeen.com.

Looking for a meaningful, unique and engaging opportunity to collaborate with diverse stakeholders and local leaders to help Vermont transition to a clean and equitable energy future? JOIN US! The Vermont Natural Resources Council (VNRC), which coordinates the Vermont Energy & Climate Action Network – over 100 town energy and climate action committees and the organizations that support them – seeks a motivated individual with interest and expertise in community engagement, communications, clean energy, and climate action. Learn more and APPLY TODAY: vhcb.org/our-programs/vhcb-americorps/positions Early applications appreciated. Deadline to apply is June 27, 2022. VNRC is an EOE.

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Executive Director Onion River Community Access Media (ORCA Media) seeks a dynamic, inspirational, and visionary leader as its next Executive Director.

FACILITY OPERATIONS MANAGER

The Executive Director is responsible for the overall administration, management, planning and development of ORCA Media on an annual and day-to-day basis. They are accountable to the Board of Directors for implementing the Board’s policies. Send resumes to: edsearch@orcamedia.net.

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Seasonal Garden Worker Seeking reliable, hardworking individuals to add to our existing gardening team. We do not use chemicals or power tools. We work weekdays and weekends through November, but schedules are flexible. Part time is OK. Pay commensurate with experience. lazydogs2@comcast.net

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The Facility Operations Manager is responsible for the shared and direct supervision of the Facility Operations Staff (100+ students) for Campus Recreation, to include hiring, training, scheduling and evaluations. This position will manage equipment check out, retail sales, serve on the Campus Recreation Risk Management Committee, assist with facility scheduling, and special event coordination. The Facility Operations Manager reports to the Assistant Director, and will assist with all aspects of planning and operations of Campus Recreation facilities operations and informal recreation programming. Evening and weekend hours may be required. APPLICATION PROCESS: To apply, email a cover letter, resume & three professional references in one document (PDF preferred) to: Cyrus Carey, Assistant Director, Operations, cyrus.carey@uvm.edu

SPORT PROGRAMS MANAGER The Sport Programs Manager is responsible for assisting in the administration and management of all operational and programming aspects of a comprehensive intramural sports program (serving over 3,400 participants). Duties include but are not limited to: supervising and training student staff (approximately 40-50 students), maintaining staff schedules, equipment inventory and management, risk management, and special event activities. Evening and weekend hours may be required. APPLICATION PROCESS: To apply, email a cover letter, resume, & three professional references in one document (PDF preferred) to: Tom Dougherty, Assistant Director, Sport Programs, Thomas.Dougherty@uvm.edu. For more information go to: http://go.uvm.edu/jobs

SUMMER EMPLOYMENT AT THE COMMUNITY SAILING CENTER We are now hiring for the following seasonal positions:

SAILING INSTRUCTOR If you have past sailing experience, enjoy teaching and working outside, then this job is for you. Our team of US Sailing Certified instructors spend their summers providing once-in-a-lifetime sailing and boating experiences to people of all ages and backgrounds. Enthusiasm, a positive attitude, and willingness to work as a team are musts for this position.

WATERFRONT COORDINATOR Candidates for this position must enjoy the outdoors, teamwork, and helping others. Ideal candidates must have strong customer service skills, enjoy on-water recreation, and communicate well with others. Powerboat and/or sailing experience is helpful.

OFFICE COORDINATOR We are looking for outgoing and organized people to help run our office this season. Typical tasks include welcoming and registering participants, answering phones, and program questions, booking reservations and handling transactions. Experience working in a fast paced customer facing environment helpful. No boating experience is needed.

SAILING OPERATIONS MANAGER: Are you an experienced sailor looking for ways to contribute to your community? We are looking for an enthusiastic manager with a desire to educate and the ability to build a strong sense of community within our sailing program. Pay: $15 hourly base pay, adjusted for experience. Full-time, part-time & oncall positions are available. All full-time employees have the opportunity to receive a bonus of up to $1,000 upon completion of the summer season. Additional Full Time -Year Round Opportunities Also Available Visit https://communitysailingcenter.org/about/jobs/ to apply.

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GREEN MOUNTAIN CARE BOARD CHAIR AND BOARD MEMBER POSITIONS - MONTPELIER

Are you looking for an opportunity to provide oversight in Vermont’s efforts to control escalating health care costs, improve quality, and achieve universal health access? If so, please consider applying for these exciting and challenging positions on the Green Mountain Care Board, established by Vermont’s health care reform law. The State of Vermont is seeking candidates for the Chair (full time) of the Green Mountain Care Board and Board Member (32 hours per week) who serve a term of 6 years on the Board. For more information, contact Elizabeth Marvin at elizabeth.marvin@vermont.gov. Department: Green Mountain Care Board. Location: Montpelier. Job Id #32402. Application Deadline: May 27, 2022. Learn more at: careers.vermont.gov

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Responsibilities also include support with donor and public events, coordinating meeting logistics, and public reception. For a complete position description and to apply for this position, visit nature.org/careers and apply online to Job #51436. The application deadline is May 27, 2022. The Nature Conservancy is an Equal Opportunity Employer. https://bit.ly/TNCopc2022

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Artistree is seeking a full time Theatre Program Director. This position is responsible for leading the conceptualization, development, implementation, and oversight of Artistree’s Community Theatre programming. Responsibilities: Provide leadership and oversight for the following areas: Creative Planning and Oversight, Community Outreach, Production, Promotion, Education Programs, Human Resources, Budget, Finance & Development. Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree within theater, drama, arts administration or a related field of study is preferred. Candidates should also possess extensive experience as an artist and in managing a theater or performing arts venue. Application deadline March 18th.

THEATRE PROGRAM EDUCATOR

Artistree is seeking a part-time Theatre Program Educator. This position is responsible for supporting the smooth and efficient functioning of the Theatre Education Program and developing and teaching theatre classes for after school, adult and camp audiences. Responsibilities: Teaching and Education Programs, Grange Theatre Administration, Scheduling Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree within theater, drama, arts administration or a related field of study is preferred. Candidates should also possess experience as an educator in theatre arts. Some evening and weekend responsibilities. Application deadline March 25th.

THEATRE TECHNICAL DIRECTOR

Artistree is seeking a part-time Theatre Technical Director. This position is responsible for the technical direction of all programming occurring in the Grange Theatre. Furthermore, this position will assist with technical direction of Artistree concerts, events, movies or other programming requiring technical assistance. Responsibilities: Work with Artistree Theatre team on a technical basis (lights, set, sound). Work with the Theater Programming Director to contract technical personnel (as needed) and create the technical schedule for productions. Also responsibility for maintaining "in budget" decisions relating to technical needs of any given production. Qualifications: Knowledge of all aspects of technical theatre production. A strong knowledge of production management. Excellent organizational skills. Application deadline March 25th. Please email a letter of interest, 3 references, and resume to manager@artsitreevt.org. Please state the position desired in the subject line. Full job descriptions available upon request.

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THE NATURE CONSERVANCY in Vermont seeks an organized and detail oriented full-time Operations Coordinator to join our dynamic and growing office in Montpelier. The right candidate will be responsible for all aspects of office management, including maintaining office systems and equipment, working with landlords and utility vendors, managing vehicle maintenance and use, receiving and distributing mail, processing accounts payable, and serving as a liaison to the technology department. Experience troubleshooting and problem solving to reach resolutions, including challenges with computer hardware, software, and office equipment, is highly desired.

Why not have a job you love? Join our dedicated team and together we’ll build a community where everyone participates and belongs. Positions include a $500 sign on bonus, a strong benefits package and the opportunity to work at one of the “Best Places to Work in Vermont.”

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System Administrator: Provide I.T. support, oversee the electronic health records system and ensure all systems are up to date and working smoothly. Experience and/or certifications in a variety of information technology systems required. Direct Support Professional: Provide 1:1 supports to help individuals reach their goals. Full and part time positions available starting at $18/hr. Shared Living Provider: Open your home to someone with an intellectual disability or autism and open a whole world to them, and to you. There are a variety of opportunities available that could be the perfect match for you and your household.

Residential Direct Support Professional: Work just two days, receive full benefits and have five days off each week! Provide supports to an individual in their home and in the community in 24-hr shifts including asleep overnights in a private, furnished bedroom. Starting wage is $18/hr. Employment Specialist: Be a part Vermont’s leading supported employment program and help individuals discover their career path. The successful candidate will demonstrate reliability, strong communication skills, and the ability to solve problems effectively and professionally. Starting wage $19.00/hr.

Youth Employment Specialist: Be a part of an innovative program to help high school students find meaningful employment as they transition into adulthood. Working alongside a team of professionals you will support students in developing career goals & job seeking skills and securing employment. Starting wage $19.00/hr.

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MULTIPLE OPENINGS! Champlain Housing Trust is growing and we need great people to join our team. One of Vermont’s Best Places to Work in 2022, CHT is a socially responsible employer offering an inclusive, friendly work environment and competitive pay commensurate with experience. Our excellent benefit package includes a generous health insurance plan, three weeks of paid vacation, 14 paid holidays, sick leave, 403(b) retirement plan with employer contribution after one year, disability, life insurance & more.

Current openings include:

• GROUNDS TECHNICIAN • MAINTENANCE TECHNICIAN • MOTEL FRONT DESK FULL/TEMP • SERVICE COORDINATOR: SITE BASED For additional details regarding these positions or to apply, please visit our career page: getahome.org/about/career. Equal Opportunity Employer - CHT is committed to a diverse workplace and highly encourages women, persons with disabilities, Section 3 low income residents, and people from diverse racial, ethnic and cultural backgrounds to apply.

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Vermont’s leading public solid waste management organization, whose mission is to reduce waste and keep hazardous products out of the environment, is seeking employees to join our Team.

HAZARDOUS WASTE OPERATOR – full-time CSWD is seeking a highly motivated individual to assist with the collection and processing of household hazardous waste and small business hazardous waste at the Environmental Depot & Rover. The ideal candidate will be self-motivated, enjoy working with the public and be able to work independently in a physically demanding setting. This is a full-time position (Tues-Sat, 7:30-3:30) with a starting pay rate between $23-$25/hour and includes an excellent benefit package. Position is open until filled.

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Benefits offered: Paid time off. Health insurance. 401(k) plan. We offer a competitive salary commensurate with skills.

CSWD is seeking a Hazardous Waste Operator/Latex Paint Recycler. This flexible floater position will assist with the collection and processing of household & small business hazardous waste and assist with the innovative paint recycling program at the Environmental Depot and Rover. Our ideal candidate will be self-motivated, enjoy working with the public, and be able to work independently in a physically demanding setting. Pay rate dependent on experience. Position is open until filled.

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ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE When you work for the State of Vermont, you and your work matter. A career with the State puts you on a rich and rewarding professional path. You’ll find jobs in dozens of fields – not to mention an outstanding total compensation package. COMMUNICATIONS/MEDIA COORDIN ATOR - BURLINGTON Would you love to use your technical skills to help make vital public health information easy to find and accessible to all? The Health Department is looking for an organized, web-savvy person to ensure documents, data and information on our website are accessible for people with disabilities and those who have limited proficiency in English — achieving better health equity and improving accessibility for all Vermonters. Join our public health team! For more information, contact Sharon Muellers at sharon. muellers@vermont.gov. Department: Health. Status: Full Time – Limited Service. Location: Burlington. Job Id #26481. Application Deadline: May 15, 2022.

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HEAD START PRESCHOOL TEACHER

As a Head Start Preschool Teacher, you will serve as lead or co-teacher in an outcomesoriented, team environment, and provide safe, healthy, friendly, and developmentally appropriate environments and experiences for children ages 3–5. Motivated Head Start teachers improve the trajectory of children’s lives, including children’s learning outcomes, living standards, and later academic and professional success. If you want to make a difference in the lives of young children and their families, consider joining the Head Start community.

REQUIREMENTS: Bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Education or related education field; Vermont educator’s license with early childhood education endorsement; knowledge and experience in developmentally appropriate early childhood practice, child outcome assessment, child behavior management, and curriculum planning, development and implementation; a commitment to social justice and to working with families with limited financial resources; effective verbal and written communication (bilingual abilities a plus!), documentation, and record-keeping skills; valid driver’s license, clean driving record and access to reliable transportation; physical ability to carry out required tasks, and a can-do, extra-mile attitude.

40 hours/week, approximately 42 weeks/ year (summer layoff). Starting wage upon completion of 60-working day period: $24.22 per hour. Health plan and excellent benefits. To apply, please visit www.cvoeo.org/careers and submit a cover letter, resume, and three work references. CVOEO is interested in candidates who can contribute to our diversity and excellence. Applicants are encouraged to include in their cover letter information about how they will further this goal.

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Construction Project Manager A well-established steel fabrication company is currently seeking a Project Manager to join our team. If you are currently in the construction industry and would like to take it to the next level, we invite you to apply.

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Head Start is a federally-funded, national child and family development program which provides comprehensive services for pregnant women, children from birth to age five, and their families. Services for children promote school readiness, and include early education, health, nutrition, mental health, and services for children with special needs. Services for parents promote family engagement, and include parent leadership and social service supports.

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• Review of project contracts, drawings and specifications as well as project schedules and coordination of shop fabrication schedules. • Solicit subcontractor and vendor prices and make selections accordingly. • Execute submittals of all shop drawings. • Submittals of Advanced Bill of Materials. • Review and track change orders throughout the project. • Attend job site meetings and maintain close professional relationships with customers. • Strong verbal and written communication skills are required. • Proficient in reading blueprints and contract drawings. Full time benefits are available, and include vacation time, sick leave, health insurance, life insurance, 401k and profit sharing. Pay based on experience. Come be a part of a strong growing company!

Graphic Designer FULL TIME We are a brand strategy and design firm partnering with brands around the world using design to create positive change.

We’re looking for someone curious, and strategic, with skills to create and execute on design and communication that advances meaningful ideas in the world. world. experience. 3-5 years' years experience.

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MAINTENANCE TECH III SAUNA HOST We founded SAVU to create exceptional saunas that can be experienced in beautiful, natural settings. WHO WE’RE LOOKING FOR: Folks who are passionate about community, wellness, and customer service. We’re looking for someone who has had some prior experience in customer service, who can learn on the fly, solve problems creatively, and communicate clearly. You’ll be responsible for providing a welcoming & inclusive atmosphere, greeting guests and maintaining an immaculately clean space. Apply online: savu.cc/sauna-host

The American Red Cross is seeking a Maintenance Tech III to work in our Biomedical facility in Burlington, VT. The position is full-time, plus benefits. Starting rate: $21-22/hour. Under limited supervision, the Maintenance Tech III will perform repairs and maintenance in the Biomedical facility, or on machines and equipment. The Maintenance Tech III typically performs work in one or more of the maintenance trades: carpentry, plumbing, painting, machine and equipment repair, electrical, sheet metal fabrication, and welding. Conduct routine, periodic, or special inspections to determine repair and maintenance work necessary to prevent breakdowns of facilities, machinery, and equipment. Use hand and power tools to test, inspect, troubleshoot, and repair machines and equipment. Use blueprints, sketches, layouts, wiring diagrams, drawings, and specifications. Provide support, development and/or leadership guidance to all volunteers. Facility is 32,000 sq. feet. Will manage a fleet of 16 vehicles. Education: High School or equivalent required. Experience: Minimum 5 years of related experience or equivalent combination of education and related experience required. Related experience includes skill and knowledge of painting, HVAC, carpentry, plumbing, masonry and electrical work is required.

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Community Resource Center Housing Advocate Do you want to work for an Agency that positively impacts the lives of over 20,000 individuals? CVOEO has an exciting opportunity to help individuals who are most in need at our Community Resource Center (CRC) at a location in Burlington. We are looking for compassionate advocates to help individuals who are experiencing homelessness and who have low income to find or maintain suitable housing, employment and other social and health supports, and connect clients with local social service agencies, organizations, landlords, and funding sources. This is a full time position, Monday through Friday. Successful applicants will have a Bachelor’s degree in an appropriate discipline plus two years of community service experience or a combination of education and experience from which comparable skills and knowledge are acquired; the ability to work with diverse populations; and excellent verbal and communication skills, bilingual abilities are a plus. Pay starts at $27.50/hour. If you want to work for social justice and be part of the most energetic and committed teams in the state of Vermont, please visit cvoeo.org/careers to learn more and to submit your cover letter and resume. The review of applications begins immediately and will continue until qualified candidates are found.

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The City of St. Albans seeks a personable individual with a public service orientation for the position of City Clerk & Treasurer. The position is responsible for managing elections, providing access to land records and other public documents, receiving payments and depositing funds, and managing the affairs of the office in a manner that inspires public confidence. This position is appointed by the City Council and is expected to work in close collaboration with the city management team. This is a complex, administrative and technical position that is on the 2:48 PM front lines of customer service in City Hall and plays a key role ensuring integrated City services. The anticipated hiring range is between $63,000 and $68,000 annually and includes comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance, a defined benefit retirement, and a family friendly workplace. The job description is available here: stalbansvt.com/jobs. To apply, please send a resume and cover letter to Tom Leitz at t.leitz@stalbansvt.com. Resume review will begin on May 16.

INTEGRATION DEVELOPER Physician’s Computer Company (PCC), a private, Winooski-based healthcare IT Benefit Corporation, seeks an Integration Developer to join our team. If you are interested in strengthening pediatric practices by connecting them to their care delivery partners throughout the healthcare ecosystem, we would love to hear from you. This is a versatile technical role with elements of software development (focused on API, web services, etc.), operations (deployment, monitoring, issue remediation), and project management (working with 3rd party technical teams to bring solutions from specification to production). Applicants should have hands-on experience with Unix/ Linux environments, working on a technical team, using modern software development languages/ frameworks, and using any modern RDBMS. Familiarity with web and application communication protocols required. Experience with Healthcare domain applications desired. See extended job description on our site for more details. Don’t worry if you don’t check all the boxes here; the most important factor is your ability to pick up new skills and seek out robust technical solutions for the challenges of healthcare interoperability. If this sounds like your realm, our team would love to meet you! In order to keep our employees and families safe, PCC employees have been working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic. Employees currently have a hybrid remote/in-office work option and we expect this policy to continue through the pandemic. Once our office is fully open, we will be looking for employees to be onsite at our Winooski office in the Champlain Mill. As a Benefit Corporation, we place high value on client, employee and community relationships. Our company offers a friendly, informal, and professional work environment. PCC offers competitive benefits as well as some uncommon perks.

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The Title Counsel & Underwriter makes sound risk assessment decisions that facilitate the issuance of title insurance policies. Provide guidance to our attorney agents on all facets of residential and commercial real property matters, lead educational seminars and publish articles internally and externally.

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Rapper and entrepreneur Jay-Z tells us, “Don’t ever go with the flow. Instead, be the flow.” Here’s what I think he means: If we go with the flow, we adjust and accommodate ourselves to a force that is not necessarily aligned with our personal inclinations and needs. To go with the flow implies we are surrendering our autonomy. To claim our full sovereignty, on the other hand, we are wise to be the flow. We should create our own flow, which is just right for our unique inclinations and needs. I think this is the right approach for you right now, Taurus. Be the flow.

ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 19): Poet Jennifer Willoughby writes, “I am so busy. I am practicing my new hobby of watching me become someone else. There is so much violence in reconstruction. Every minute is grisly, but I have to participate. I am building what I cannot break.” I wouldn’t describe your own reconstruction process during recent months as “violent” or “grisly,” Aries, but it has been strenuous and demanding. The good news is that you have mostly completed the most demanding work. Soon the process will become more fun. Congratulations on creating an unbreakable new version of yourself!

guage used to be a dialect spoken in Tuscany. That area comprises less than 8 percent of the country’s territory. How did such a dramatic evolution happen? Why did a local dialect supersede other dialects such as Piedmontese, Neapolitan, Sicilian and others? In part, it was because three potent 14th-century writers wrote in the Tuscan dialect: Dante Alighieri, Francesco Petrarch and Giovanni Boccaccio. Another reason: Because Tuscany is centrally located in Italy, its dialect was less influenced by languages in France and other nearby countries. I offer this as a metaphor for you in the coming months. One of your personal talents, affiliations or inclinations could become more influential and widespread — and have more authority in your life.

CANCER (Jun. 21-Jul. 22): “Always strive to be more interested than interesting,” said actor and activist Jane Fonda. That may not be easy for you to accomplish in the near future, dear Cancerian. Your curiosity will be at peak levels, but you may also be extra compelling and captivating. So I’ll amend Fonda’s advice: Give yourself permission to be both as interested and as interesting as you can imagine. Entertain the world with your lively personality as you go in quest of new information, fresh perceptions and unprecedented experiences. LEO (Jul. 23-Aug. 22): “When in doubt, act

like God,” proclaimed Leo singer-songwriter Madonna. I wouldn’t usually endorse that advice. But I’ll make an exception for you Leos during the next three weeks. Due to a divine configuration of astrological omens, you are authorized to ascend to new heights of sovereignty and self-possession — even to the point of doing a vivid God impersonation. For best results, don’t choose an angry, jealous, tyrannical deity to be your role model. Pattern yourself after a sweeter, funnier, more intimate type of celestial being.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sep. 22): My Virgo friend Amanda told me she felt tight and overwrought. She was overthinking and on the verge of a meltdown. With a rueful sigh, she added, “I adore anything that helps me decompress, unwind, simmer down, stop worrying, lighten up, compose myself, and mellow out.” So

I invited her to take deep breaths, close her eyes and visualize herself immersed in blue-green light. Then I asked her to name influences she loved: people, animals, natural places, music, books, films, art and physical movements that made her feel happy to be alive. She came up with eight different sources of bliss, and together we meditated on them. Half an hour later, she was as relaxed as she had been in months. I recommend you try a comparable exercise every day for the next 14 days. Be proactive about cultivating tranquil delight.

LIBRA (Sep. 23-Oct. 22): Author Anne Lamott is renowned for her tender approach to expressing her struggles with addiction, depression and other tribulations. One of her supreme tests was being a single mother who raised her son, Sam. In this effort, she was her usual plucky self. Anytime she hosted playdates with Sam’s young friends at her home, she called on the help of crayons and paint and pens and clay and scissors. “When we did art with the kids, the demons would lie down,” she testified. I recommend a comparable strategy for you in the coming days, Libra. You will have extra power as you tame, calm or transform your demons. Making art could be effective, as well as any task that spurs your creativity and imagination. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “My heart has developed a kind of amnesia, where it remembers everything but itself,” writes Scorpio poet Sabrina Benaim. If you suffer a condition that resembles hers, it’s about to change. According to my astrological analysis, your heart will soon not only remember everything; it will also remember itself. What a blissful homecoming that will be — although it may also be unruly and confounding, at least in the beginning. But after the initial surprise calms down, you will celebrate a dramatic enhancement of emotionally rich self-knowledge. You will feel united with the source of your longing to love and be loved. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Just

because things hadn’t gone the way I had planned didn’t necessarily mean they had gone wrong,” writes Sagittarian author Ann Patchett. Her thought may be helpful for you to meditate on. My guess is that you will

ultimately be glad that things didn’t go the way you planned. God or your Higher Self or the Mysterious Forces of Destiny will conspire to lead you away from limited expectations or not-big-enough visions so as to offer you bigger and better blessings.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Novelist Jane Austen (1775-1817) confessed she was a “wild beast.” Really? The author who wrote masterfully about the complex social lives of wealthy British people? Here’s my theory: The wild beast in her made her original, unsentimental, humorous and brilliant at creating her stories. How is your own inner wild beast, Capricorn? According to my reading of the astrological omens, now is an excellent time to give it fun, rich assignments. What parts of your life would benefit from tapping into raw, primal energy? AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Aquarian

poet Jack Gilbert wrote, “I lie in the dark wondering if this quiet in me now is a beginning or an end.” I don’t know how Gilbert solved his dilemma. But I suspect you will soon be inclined to pose a similar question. In your case, the answer will be that the quiet in you is a beginning. Ah! But in the early going, it may not resemble a beginning. You might be puzzled by its fuzzy, meandering quality. But sooner or later, the quiet in you will become fertile and inspirational. You will ride it to the next chapter of your life story.

PISCES (Feb. 19-Mar. 20): The genre of poetry known as haiku often relies on unexpected juxtapositions. Critic R.H. Blyth observed, “In haiku, the two entirely different things that are joined in sameness are poetry and sensation, spirit and matter.” I suspect your life in the coming weeks will have metaphorical resemblances to haikus. You will be skilled at blending elements that aren’t often combined or that should be blended but haven’t. For inspiration, read these haikus by Raymond Roseliep. 1. in the stream / stones making half / the music. 2. horizon / wild swan drifting through / the woman’s body. 3. birthcry! / the stars / are all in place. 4. bathwater / down the drain / some of me. 5. grass / holding the shape / of our night. 6. campfire extinguished, / the woman washing dishes / in a pan of stars.

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WATERBURY MAPLEFIELDS RECYCLING CYCLIST You were enjoying coffee after recycling, and I wasn’t an idler, just a VPR listener. We chatted about cycling. When: Saturday, April 23, 2022. Where: Waterbury Maplefields. You: Man. Me: Woman. #915547 MET OUTSIDE OF KNEAD BAKERY We met outside. You were waiting for your mom; I was waiting for food. My dog was super thankful for the pets. I’d love to talk again, if you’d like. When: Wednesday, April 6, 2022. Where: Knead Bakery. You: Woman. Me: Trans woman. #915544 BUBBLE FAIRY! I am looking for Emily the Bubble Fairy from Bolton Valley. You were blowing bubbles of happy from the chairlift. We took a picture on the tower at sunset, and I thought I’d see you again. I didn’t. There’s no way this is gonna work, but how serendipitous the whole thing would be if it did... When: Saturday, April 2, 2022. Where: Bolton Valley. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915543 I REMEMBER IT ALL I forget about you long enough to forget why I needed to / ’Cause there we are again in the middle of the night, / dancing ’round the kitchen in the refrigerator light / Up the stairs, I was there ... / Maybe we got lost in translation, / maybe I asked for too much, / maybe this thing was a masterpiece ’til you tore it all up. When: Friday, April 1, 2022. Where: in dreams. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915542 NORTH WILLARD SIREN I did not see you, and you cannot have seen me, but I heard you singing on a porch around 8 p.m. Your creamy, unaffected alto lingers in my mind, and I can’t remember my own name. Oh, Jeremiah, indeed. When: Thursday, March 31, 2022. Where: North Willard, near Archibald. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915541

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Dear Reverend,

I’ve never been particularly promiscuous, but in my twenties, I had a summer fling with a younger guy that ended when he moved away for college. Shortly after, I had a brief encounter with one of his friends. I wound up pregnant and didn’t know who the father was. I was incredibly ashamed of the whole situation, and I had an abortion without telling either one of them. Even though it was the right choice for me, I feel bad that I never told them. They both live far away and have families, and I haven’t talked to either one since then. Should I let them know or just keep it a secret forever?

Double Trouble

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Dear Double Trouble,

If you’d kept the child, it would be worth getting in touch after all these years to figure out who the biological father was. It would be beneficial to the kid (well, adult, at this point) and decent to let the guy know. Since that’s not the case, I don’t see what good fessing up now would do. You weren’t in a committed relationship with either of these fellas, but even if you had been, there was no legal or medical reason for you to tell them about the abortion. It was completely

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OCEAN EYES You used to send me songs and would say they are just good songs with no meaning. I find that hard to believe. It’s been a while, and fashion week is over. Are you calm and relaxed now? When: Thursday, February 10, 2022. Where: salon. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915530 CONCERT LOVE I saw you in the back of a show last night. You were underneath the exit sign. You looked young and sexy. I hope you’re a lifeguard. HMU. I was the hot old lady singing her sexy head off. I would love to meet up. When: Wednesday, March 2, 2022. Where: concert. You: Man. Me: Woman. #915526 CUTIE WALKING BY KRU You met my eyes through both the windows of Kru Coffee and the dirty, scratched lenses of my janky wire-frame glasses. The Sunday morning scene at Church and Pearl had distracted me from my boring book when your red knit hat and curly hair caught my attention. I looked twice, and so did you. I wouldn’t mind meeting eyes again. When: Sunday, February 27, 2022. Where: Kru Coffee. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915525 TRYING IS STILL WORTH SOMETHING I’m going to still try, for myself. The dust has settled, and it is over. When you visit me in dreams, they turn into chaotic and confusing nightmares. I wish I didn’t think about you anymore. I wish we’d never met. I’m going to try to move on. It’s all I can try to do now. When: Monday, November 22, 2021. Where: Burlington. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915524 ANGEL OF BARRE You work at a gym in Barre. I bring my son in occasionally and wish you were his mother. You are kind, beautiful and sexy. My 5-year-old is so stoked to see you. I will continue to suffer under the reign of she who owns us both until you give us a chance. Cheers. When: Thursday, February 3, 2022. Where: GMCF. You: Man. Me: Gender nonconformist. #915523 PORTER NURSE You were one of the nurses for my endoscopy. I said you were handsome, and you said you don’t hear that a lot. Would you be up for meeting at Two Brothers Tavern for dinner sometime? When: Thursday, February 17, 2022. Where: Porter Medical Center, Middlebury. You: Man. Me: Woman. #915522

your decision to make and, as you said, the right one for you at the time. Although you have nothing to be ashamed of, I can only imagine what a burden keeping a secret like that must be. You don’t have to tell the men who were involved, but it might feel good to get it off your chest. Is there a friend you could talk to about what happened? A therapist? Barring that, you could write a letter. Get down everything you felt then — and since — on paper. Then set it on fire and let any guilt or regret float away with the smoke. Good luck and God bless,

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