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By ALEX HANSON

SOUTH STRAFFORD — The assignment for a Newton School first grade class on a recent Tuesday morning started with a walk.Before the 16 pupils began to climb the hill behind the school, Becky Proulx, an outdoor educator, warned them to stay away from a...

By ALEX HANSON

The sheer number of options is going to pose problems for people who want to be entertained away from their streaming services this weekend. You’re going to have to make some decisions, people.The good thing, I guess, is that the quantity is matched...

By ALEX HANSON

For a long time, Angie Follensbee-Hall carried in the back of her mind the idea of opening an art gallery with a studio attached.She saw it as a place where she could both make and show her art work, which consists of her own handmade paper combined...

By ALEX HANSON

In planning this year’s Nexus Festival, Lebanon Opera House Executive Director Joe Clifford wanted to expand the roster of Upper Valley-based acts and the offerings for children and family.When the free, three-day festival kicks off on Friday,...

By ALEX HANSON

Floating out there on the internet is a Broadway World interview with Kennedy Caughell.Conducted just before the national tour of “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical” began a four-day run in Thousand Oaks, Calif., the interview recounts how much...

By ALEX HANSON

BETHEL — Victoria Weber and Davis Dimock first met when they were in college, he at Pomona and she at Pitzer, two small liberal arts colleges in Claremont, Calif., east of Los Angeles. This was in the 1960s.After living in California and performing...

By ALEX HANSON

TUNBRIDGE — In Friday morning’s bright sunshine, Gordie Barnaby surveyed the flood-damaged Tunbridge Fairgrounds and said it could have been worse.In fact, it has been worse, as recently as 2019, when ice jammed the First Branch of the White River and...

By ALEX HANSON

It’s a mark of how arbitrary severe weather can be that this week’s heavy rain treated Chelsea and Thetford — just a couple towns apart — so differently.In Chelsea, the First Branch of the White River cut into Route 110, and a sign south of Chelsea...

By ALEX HANSON

It’s been five years since Opera North first united opera with the circus arts. The productions, performed under a tent at Blow-Me-Down Farm in Cornish, show no signs of letting up.“The fun part is to create a new concept every year,” Evans Haile,...

By ALEX HANSON

Around 40 years or so ago, Charlet Davenport was serving on the Vermont Arts Council.She was still a new resident, having moved to the state with her husband, Peter, in 1962. (She’s still a newcomer even now, she said.) At the time, AVA Gallery was...

By ALEX HANSON

SOUTH STRAFFORD — For four days, Bruce MacPhail sat at a table in an open garage bay and talked with people as they walked by with boxes, bags and armloads of his books.He had put out a call last week for people to stop by and select from his shelves...

By ALEX HANSON

The distance from Strafford to Hollywood is almost unthinkably vast, at least in social terms. People who go to the former often are fleeing everything the latter represents.That was true of Austen Earl’s parents.“Both of them were kind of hippies who...

By ALEX HANSON

During her upbringing in the Netherlands, Ria Blaas didn’t have Bertolt Brecht on her reading list.Come to think of it, who does? Even among theater aficionados, Brecht seldom rises to the top of the list when a season series is assembled.“He’s not...

By ALEX HANSON

BRADFORD, Vt. — So far, this has been a straightforward year for approval of Vermont school budgets.With the state education fund providing more per pupil funding, many districts have been able to increase spending without corresponding tax rate...

By ALEX HANSON

Over the last several years, Barnard native Chloe Powell has made a niche out of bringing the world to her small town.She started the music series at Feast & Field, Barnard’s well-loved summer farmers market. She regularly brings in not only the cream...

By ALEX HANSON

Tommy Crawford has become known for his work as both an actor and a musician. That mix of theater and song has been with him pretty much from the start.Theater exposed him to music in the public schools of Montclair, N.J., where he grew up. He picked...

By ALEX HANSON

James Graham first picked up a guitar at 14 and has played music ever since. Writing songs gives voice to his inner life.“I think (for) most people (who) come to the singer-songwriter thing is, it’s a refuge when you’re a kid,” Graham said in a recent...

By ALEX HANSON

Even before it was a Christian holiday, Easter was a time of rebirth. Perhaps in that spirit, though more likely because it’s warming up, there are a lot of vibrant arts events taking place around the Upper Valley over the next few days. Rather than...

By ALEX HANSON

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Last summer, as JAG Productions was preparing for its second year of Theater on the Hill at King Arthur Baking Co., Jarvis Antonio Green said he could envision a physical home for the company he started.“I’m not the only...

By ALEX HANSON

The Vermont Supreme Court has dismissed a lawsuit brought by three families who argued that the state should pay for all students to attend the school of their choice, public or private.The court’s March 17 decision in Vitale v. Vermont affirms a...