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Dreams forMontpelier

In the following interviews, The Bridgeasked a rangeof peoplearchitects, planners, artists and othersto describe Montpelier as it is today, then to look

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Leaf Collection

Continuing until Friday, November 8, Montpeliers Public Works Department will pickup bagged leaves curbside. Bags should contain leaves only; no brush, garden debris orlower stalks will be accepted. Leaves raked into the street must be bagged or removal, andall bags must be securely tied. he pickup schedule is as ollows:

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Rock Collection

Kevin S. Marshia, assistant director o Vrans Program Development, says that I-89 exit8 ledge removal work, budgeted or $1.5 million, and occurring throughout October,is a result o a prioritization process to evaluate the more than 3,600 rock cuts throughoutVermonts highways. Priority sites are those where the probability o rock alling onto thetravel portion o the highway is highest, as determined by the states geologists and highwayengineers. It is, says Marshia, ultimately a matter o saety or the travelling public. Exit 8has seen rock alls in the past, which landed in the ditches adjacent to the roadway, but itwas determined that there was a probability that rocks cou ld al l onto the road. he stateswebsite detailing progress at the site (roadworkupdates.com/?page_id=1668) states that when

crews are blasting, rolling road blocks will be used on I89 beginning in northbound lanes atExit 6 and southbound lanes at Exit 9. . . . raic could be stopped i the roadway becomesimpassable. raic control will be present at Exit 7 northbound on-ramp and all other openExit 8 ramps to hold traic at blasting times. . . . Blasting could occur up to two times perday between the hours o 10am and 2pm. Ater the rocks been blasted away and the pave-ment cleared, the ramp can be reopened, but urther clean-up activities (reshaping ditches,mitigating erosion, replacing signage, etc.) will continue.

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Irene Facciolo architect, and former memberof Montpelier Planning Commission

Irene Facciolo would like to close State Street f rom Elm Street to Main Street at lea st oncea week to create an eddy in the center of town. The town is lacking a quiet center, she said.

If State Street were closed Saturdays, shed like to bring the farmers market even more intothe center of town, onto the street. Its such a vibrant experience and so well attended, sheargues, it should be celebrated even more.

Facciolo is concerned about the intersection of Barre and Main streets, which she believesis only going to become more congested with the inev itable increase of development on BarreStreet. She suggests taking down the beverage store and creating a road going over the bridgebehind the beverage store. This would also remove traffic from the center of town.

If she were to think big, Facciolo would bring the train back into the center of town andput the train station back close to where it was, near Sarduccis. What people love aboutthis town is that its walkable Facciolo said. The more transportation options downtownthe better.

Another of Facciolos dreams would be to have a tourist t rain that would travel betweenMontpelier, Waterbury and Stowe. It would help the tourist industry by providing anotherthing to do for the tourists, she said. It would help fund the redevelopment of the trainstation downtown.

She is hopeful for more occupied space downtown, more stores, more pop-up galleries andweekend shops. Shed also like to see the bike path bet ween Montpelier and Barre improveto create a better connection between the two towns and to provide a really nice route forthose who commute by bike to Montpelier.

Facciolos total fantasy dreams? To have a walkway next to the river, or cantilevers overthe river. Having the two rivers in town and not seeing them most of the time is, she said,a big void. It would be definitely nice to celebrate the rivers more. One way to do this, sheimagines, is to take down the DMV building and build a green space . . . from the State

House park, which is so used and loved, all the way down to the river. But shed leave theheating planta park that connects to the river.Facciolo would get rid of the meters. I cant stand meters downtown . . . Its just not that

friendly, she said. She points out that Montpelier doesnt really make money off the meters;they just pay for the parking enforcement officers. The parking meters are there to keeppeople from parking there all day. However, drivers are frustrated by the meters and thetickets and, she thinks, are going to go to the Barre-Montpelier Road: Theyre going to goto Panera Bread! She suggests we enforce a two-hour limit by marking the tires, which theydo in other cities, and build a public garage.

She also points out that the city is sending a double message: The town talks about howpedestrian friendly it is, but they dont put their money where their mouth is because theydont take care of the sidewalks in the winter. The sidewalks are definitely not taken care ofenough for pedestrians. We are open all year-around, she said. [We have to do] anything toencourage people to be downtown. Weve already got a great city center; its just recognizingthe things that are important and enhancing them more.

Contrasting River Entrancesby Eli Gould, traveler and student of architecture

Montpelier lies in the vast foothills of Vermont, with Hubbard Park directly tothe west, Towne Hill to the north and the granite ledge of Sabins pasture tothe east. The downtown area is stationed in the midst of these inclines, built in 1787where the North Branch flows into the Winooski River. Today, the city is still quitesmall, downtown especially.

A main is sue for me is how, as Montpelier evolved, a sort of neglect or lack ofdesign developed around our rivers. Along the Winooski R iver, on the southern side,we can see River Street, a strip of road connecting Montpelier, Berlin and Barre. Itis riddled with gas stops, chains and car dealerships.

River Street is one major river entrance to Montpelier, the biggest one in fact.People from Barre, and anyone coming off of I-89, will follow the Winooski intoVermonts capital. The directions? Follow the brown river, turn at Shaws. An urbandream come true would be to never have thatbe an adequate description of how toget into downtown.

High-schoolers in Montpelier are familiar with the train bridge behind Shaws;it is the quickest way to the school. On my would-be pleasant walks along the river

to the high school, I have the joy of walking by asphalt car lots, concrete and theabandoned sites of refuge left by the homeless. Instead of an aesthetic river view,there are rows of trees and scrubby bush along the banks, not the ornamental kind.

However, the North Branch is a completely different story. I think the Winooskicould learn a thing or two from her. Those who transit Route 12 from the north tothe capital are greeted by a nice neighborhood overlooked by Hubbard Park, withthe North Branch to their left. Coming into town, the North Branch flows besideindependent businesses built from Vermont granite, as old as anyone remembers.

In this area the river boasts several cherry trees along the way, some apples and acouple of hawthorns. Before connecting to the Winooski, the North Branch flowsunder the Rialto Bridge, completely stone and 100 percent beautiful to look at.Indeed, the qualities of the North Branch are that of some Alaskan view, while theWinooski could be compared to sites in Harlem. Two different worlds of river; onesmall town built on them.

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Top left: The City-State Commission Master Plan of 2005 addsdensity, relocates cars away from the river, provides garages andnew parking, integrates pedestrian and bike friendly pathways,and creates riverfront parks. It won awards from the Vermont

chapters of the American Institute of Architects and the Ameri-can Society of Landscape Architects, and the Vermont PlannersAssociation. See legend. Images courtesy of ORW LandscapeArchitects and Planners, orw.biz and GBArchitecture.

Right: The suggested Winooski River Park would lie behind theDepartment of Motor Vehicles, using the space between the traintracks and the river.

Scott Crocker sculptor, PlainfieldScott Crocker would like to create an artway. Along the artway, there would be things to

be viewed and discovered . . . And discussed. Like Storm King [the sculpture park in NewYork] but more intimate . . . and much more urban.

By the river there could be some sculpture installations, downtown by the bridges therecould be some sculpture applied to the pedestrian bridges, said Crocker. It needs to . . .draw you in with arches and doorways, inspiring and interesting things to view. He envisionsartistic sculptures and installations along the path, artistic seating and picnicking areas, orlookouts over the river. he artway would need a hub, so you could park and then take yourbike or walk rom there.

Crocker calls Montpelier the city o bridges. It has the resource o the river and a lot oexisting bridges where you could connect walkways and bike paths incorporating the bridgesinto the artway, he suggests. he bridges themselves could be artistic, perhaps by creating acompetition to decorate the bridges like the sculpt cycle idea. Each bridge could be a dier-ent theme, he said.

He points out that this would also celebrate the regions history o sculpture and utilizethe incredible granite sculptors in the area, incredible metal workers and metal sculpturein the area.

Ultimately, the artway, would create a destination similar to the [Burlington] waterrontor the Church Street marketplace . . . not just about shopping. Its a place to go and walk, anopen space. It would bring people in rom outside o town, and give a reason to the visitorsto stay downtown or a longer period o time. hey wouldnt just drive through and takea picture o the capitol.

Gwendolyn Hallsmith director of Montpelier

Planning and Community DevelopmentCity planning and development chie Gwen Hallsmith ixed her attention on a part o

downtown Montpelier that can easily be described as already congested and conusing andcould become even more so once improvements to the Carr lot have been completed.

hat part o downtown is roughly deined on the south by Berlin Street, which becomesRiver Street, (Route 2) and Northield Street (Route 12). hen theres the Main StreetBridge and Main Street itsel beginning at Shaws supermarket on one side o the street withSarduccis restaurant on the other.

But thats not all. heres Stone Cutters Way, which carries car and oot traic both intoMain Street and away rom downtown. heres traic entering and leaving both Shaws park-ing lot and M&M Beverage, as well as the parking lots behind M&M and the Main Streetcommercial and retail blocks. hen theres what Hallsmith cal ls the ailed intersection at theend o Barre Street with car traic oten backed up as it waits to enter Main Street.

As i this conusing tra ic and pedestrian scene was not complicated enough already,Hallsmith notes that youve got a train in the mix as the railway tracks cross Main Street.

hese complications will intensiy once the Carr project is completed. he project calls ora transit center acing aylor Street. It also calls or extending the bike path by constructing

a new bike path bridge across the North Branch. Once the bike path bridge is completed, theproject plan is to tear down the M&M Beverage building so that bike and pedestrian tra-ic can enter Main Street rom the M&M location. hat added bike and oot traic couldintensiy the complications we ace today.

Hallsmith shared two ideas that could relieve the traic quagmire on this part o MainStreet and the Main Street Bridge. First, she suggested that we take another look at construct-ing a new roundabout on the Berlin Street side o the Main Street Bridge, where Routes 2and 12 converge. he roundabout proposal has already been examined by one o the toproundabout designers in New England. hey said [a roundabout]) would work there,Hallsmith said.

Hallsmiths second idea was proposed some years ago by landscape architect Bob White,namely to build a cantilevered walkway shaded by trees out over the Winooski River on theBerlin and River streets side o the Winooski. It would be an expensive project, said Hall-smith. I dont know where we would get the money.

But i such a walkway could be developed along Berlin and River streets, it could helpintegrate that side o the river with downtown. Right now, Hallsmith observed, that side othe river eels like a strip.

Hallsmith believes that a nice, separated, cantilevered walkway would be a great way toincrease bicycle and pedestrian saety. As things stand now, Berlin Street, as it climbs the hilltoward the hospital, eels completely separated rom downtown.

Its really close to downtown, said Hallsmith about the substantial neighborhood on bothsides o Berlin Street. But it doesnt have to be that way. I we had more pedestrian access,she said, we would have more oot traic downtown.

Tom Leytham architect and artist, MontpelierMontpelier artist-architect om Leytham describes Montpelier as a heat island. Leytham,

who lives outside town at the top o errace Street, travel s downhi ll to work in Montpelier,and he has measured a consistent 5-degree temperature dierence rom the top o erraceStreet to downtown Montpelier, both summer and winter.

his temperature dierence, Leytham believes, can be explained by trees and vegetationat the top o errace Street, whereas there is a crying need or more shade trees in downtownMontpelier, where paved suracesparking lots and streetsprevail.

He grants that trees in downtown Montpelier have to ight o cars, vandals, salt and hard,impermeable suraces. But porous paving systems are available, which allow water to get intothe ground. Its a hard surace, but its porous. Its being used or parking lots. Im sure itcosts, he said.

Were treating the river very much like a dump or parking now, said Leytham, whodecries the continuous parking lots rom Bailey Avenue to aylor Street.

But it doesnt have to be this way. Look at Burlington. Look at the boathouse, he said.When plans or the Burlington water ront were developed, a decision was made not to parkcars against the Lake Champlain shoreline. heyre not squandering it or parking cars upagainst it, Leytham said.

Speaking about Montpelier, Leytham said, Look how delightul that little park besideChrist Church is. Its a haven. heres an arts [perormance] program there in the summer.

But the Christ Church park is more an exception than the rule. Underneath the RialtoBridge, said Leytham, right now its a parking lot. Behind the commercial and retail build-ings on both sides o Main Street are more parking lots. And alongside the North Branchbehind Aubuchon Hardware are 2,000- to 3,000-gallon propane tanks.

Whatever happened to the long-ago plans in Montpelier c alling or walkways, bike pathsand pocket parks rom the Rialto Bridge along the North Branch? Leytham asked. hose

paths could enable people to ollow the North Branch and go all the way to the rec ield,he said.On a recent trip to Montreal, Leytham enjoyed biking along the Lachine Canal, a bike

path that runs rom the Old Port at Montreal to Lake Saint-Louis. he path is 12 miles long,and, said Leytham,You only cross one street.

Gregg Gossens architect, MontpelierMontpelier architect Gregg Gossens has looked careully at historic photographs o

Montpelier. I you look at the photos, it was so dense. his was a pretty dense community-industrial area. here were buildings behind buildings, Gossens said. hese old photographsshow granite sheds, small manuacturing businesses, a grain warehouse and the like built allalong both sides o the Winooski River. But that historic density no longer exists today.

When Gossens i rst came to Montpelier more than 30 years ago, he remembers an eatingand drinking spot called the Roma Gardens on Barre Street. hats gone now, and there weretwo other three-story brick buildings near the corner o Barre and Granite streets. hey gotpulled down or some reason, Gossens said. A lot o this is now parking space, unortu-

nately.When asked i Montpeliers historic density speaks to e iciency, he replied, It sure does.

We are an ininitely walkable community. At the same time, during the 33 years he has livedin Montpelier, Gossens noted that there has been continuous talk about a parking problem.

For some people, he said, parking is an on-the-ground problem. For others, its a percep-tion problem. But now we need to resolve the dierences between the two. Hes convincedits time to stop talking and reach a community-wide vision about what to do. Its an over-arching situation we need to put behind us, Gossens said. It would ree up the communityi we could put that problem to bed.

hen Gossens raised another perennial issue, Montpeliers riverront: For years wevetalked about the Montpelier riverront. heres a 100 percent consensus that we need to takeadvantage o it. But we cant have everything. We need to come into a common vision onthat.

As he talked, Gossens sounded a lit tle bit like a town moderator who has heard the samepeople with the same arguments over and over again, talking an issue to death. At some point,its time to call the question and move orward.

We are becoming an elderly, gentriied community, Gossens said about Montpelier. We

can be a little stodgy and precious. While he believes theres nothing wrong about having anelderly generation, he eels its high time we embrace orward-looking ideas and old into thenext generation o younger people.

I think we have plenty o ideas. Now we need to distill them down and come up withsome priorities, he said.


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Fall 2013 Public EventsMFA Residencies at Vermont College of Fine Arts

Thurs, Oct 17

6:30 -7:30 pm,Noble Hall, VCFADenise Gonzales CrispGuest Designer

"The Unlikely Author of aBook (About Typography)Explains How to Write aBook (About Typography),or, How Ideas Happen toBecome Things"

Denise Gonzales Crisp willdiscuss the strange journey of

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Mon, Oct 28, 7 pmThe Iran Job by Till Schauder,Faculty, MFA in Film

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Tues, Oct 29, 7 pmAn Oversimplification of Her Beautyby Terence Nance, Faculty, MFAin Film

Terence Nances first feature filmdocuments the relationshipbetween Terence and a lovely

young woman (Namik Minter) asit teeters on the divide betweenplatonic and romantic.

Wed, Oct 30, 7 pmBreakfast with Curtisby LauraColella, Faculty Chair, MFA inFilm

Laure Colella is both anacclaimed filmmaker and anexperienced teacher. Her thirdand most recent narrative featureBreakfast with Curtisfeatures anintroverted, bespectacled teenage

who, over the course of a balmyeast coast summer, is brought intothe strange and delightful worldof his bohemian neighbors.

Thurs, Oct 31, 7 pm

First Comes Love by NinaDavenport, Faculty, MFA in Film

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District Heat Updateby Bob Nuner

Last Friday, The Bridge asked Mont-peliers public works director ToddLaw about the district heat project.

Law says that things are going fairly well.We are looking at completing a majority ofthe piping next week and starting to lookat filling the system and going through the

startup on the system. For the final piece,theyll start next week putting in the flashchambers, so theyre going to be digging ina lot of the same locations.

Main line pipe installation should becompleted by Tuesday, October 15, weatherpermitting. Then comes finishing up ser-vice to buildings like Vermont Mutual, thepost office and the county court and sher-iffs office and construction of flash cham-bers, where the system can be drained intoconcrete vaults that are connected, in turn,to the sewer system.

Since hot water coming out of the distr ictheat supply pipes would need cooling, flashchambers are positioned near hydrants sothat they can mix cold water with heating

water and lower the f lushed water tempera-ture as it hits catch basins. Flash chambersmay be across the roads from the sewersystem, entailing additional digging. Threeor four remain to be done. The system alsoneeds a couple of air releases at its highpoints, to remove air introduced during sys-tem flushing; these are yet to be installed.

The last building connection contrac-

tors need to complete is NECI on MainStreet, and theyve tried to arrange thatwork around the tourist season to minimizeimpact on the restaurant during its peakperiod. Law anticipates that connection tooccur on October 21.

After connections are complete, there areboth subsurface, system and above-groundchores remaining: the piping system must

be flushed of contaminants, dirt and debristhat could have gotten in during construc-tion. Then it will be cleaned with a cleaningsolution, which will be caught by the citysVactor truck, after which the system is tobe charged with corrosion-inhibited water.Above ground, pavements must be repaired.This involves removing existing asphalt andrepaving at least four inches to six and a halfinches (on State Street) of asphalt.

To run the City Hallfired minisystem,some small items must arrive and be in-stalled in City Hall. Law projects systemoperation will start around November 1.Topside cleanup will go possibly into mid-November, again, weather permitting.

Asked about overtime, Law said crews

would be working on the weekend insidecustomer buildings to install shunts or in-ternal shut-offs, which allow individualbuilding system maintenance and systemhook-up flexibility. Additional project in-formation resources include Montpeliersdistrict heat web page montpelier-vt.org/group/99.html.

Stop the Skipping Record

by Fred Wilbur

Iknow what a skipping record sounds like, and or over 40years, the complaints about parking in Montpelier havebeen just that. We cant seem to get out o that monoto-

nous groove, lit the needle, cut the umbilical cord rom ourautomobiles and exercise our muscles.

Back in January o 1973, when I started selling recordson Langdon Streetthen an all-but-orgotten one-way sidestreet o nondescipt oice storerontsthe subject o park-ing oten dominated the discussion o the downtown busi-ness community. Whether it was the cost o it, the inconve-nience o it or the lack o it, a considerable amount o time(and money) was (and still is) spent regurgitating the issue oparking and/or the lack o it.

he simple solution is ewer ca rs. But how we have evolvedas a culture and built the American dream on the chassis othe automobile makes that suggestion untenable and onealmost treasonous or even proposing it. I shudder to think

what we spend building, maintaining , susta ining and subsi-dizing the landscape o the automobile, and yet the problemsdont go away.

Forty years ago, Montpelier was much more stodgy than itis todaya proessional, sti, white-collar oice town wherethe sidewalks rolled up at ive and the lights were out prettymuch by 10. Barre was where the people action was at, witha more vibrant Main Street business section. In between, theBarre-Montpelier Road commercial development area wasbecoming the new lure o consumer conveniencestoreswhere there was plenty o ree park ing. Some may rememberHarrys Department Store (Hurry to Harrys went thejingle), a store that wa s basica lly the prototype or Walmart.Except Harry wasnt quite as ambitious (consumptive mightbe a more accurate adjective) as Sam Waltona man whohas made billions rom our collective investment in the roadsand interchanges and upgrades and traic lights that lead tohis stores.

A lot o changes in 40 years. he ields o Williston arenow paved with acres o asphalt, built over with destinationshopping centers and dotted with town-house developmentsover hill and dale. Near Montpelier, the sprawl o the Barre-

Montpelier Road has spread up to Berlin Hill. All o this hasrequired investing in and subsidizing the use o the personalautomobile. And the evidence is there or all o us to drive to,most conveniently on I-89 (when its not under reconstruc-tion), and see how this investment has changed the landscapeo Vermont.

Downtown Montpelier has evolved over these past 40years into a vibrant place to be, alive with independent,unique, owner-operated shops; an international mix o din-ing and drinking options, rom simple takeout to gourmet;live music; live theater; seven movie screens; the State House;and the DMV. I include the Department o Motor Vehiclesbecause it might actually be the single biggest anchor, draw-ing Vermonters to the city o Montpelier. And most o themarrive in cars.

Here is where the record just keeps skipping. Where isthere, why isnt there, how come there isnt enough parking?

When wil l there ever be enough?Another approachtoo oten dismissed as nuts, crazy,

idealistic and/or hereticalis to make the downtown, theheart o the city, as pedestrian riendly as possible. he planthat I present as a practical possibility or movement in thisdirection is the creation o a pedestrian walk zone at theintersection o State and Main. See the birds-eye-view draw-ing to help visualize the concept. he only real structuralchange to the intersection requires moving the southboundMain Street traic light to the intersection o LangdonStreet, eectively stopping southbound traic at the existingcrosswalk between Rivendell Books to City Center. Duringthe walk light cycle, the entire intersection rom this cross-walk to all other existing cros swalks and the area in-betweenbecomes a pedestrian zone. he whole walking area couldbe painted some kind o geometric pattern and, taking itto another level o possibilities, the whole pedestrian zonearea could be raised up to curb height, in eect becominga kind o giant speed bump. Imagine walking straight romRivendell Books to the Coee Corner or rom Cool Jewels toSkinny Pancake. I wont conuse the concept by calling it apedestrian mall, but or about 45 seconds, it kind o is. And

I think this is a step in the right direction.But what about the cars, these boxes o steel occupyingan already disproportionate amount o prime real estateor a city the size o Montpelier? Why not establish satel-lite parking lots connected to the downtown via bike paths,walkways , rail and/or bus?

But, no, instead we tear up the streets, create a cluster ochaos even more discouraging to vehicular convenience thanbeore, with the intent o making it better, and in the processdrive almost everyone away, leaving less demand or parkingbut still a desire or more.

Damn! he record is still skipping.

Fred Wilbur is a musician, composer, videographer, musicstore owner (Buch Spieler), father, husband, pruner of trees, DJ,agitator and owner of a standard poodle.

Quintet in C Major bySchubert to Be Performed

in Montpelierby Nat Frothingham

S

ince day one o the Capital City Con-cert series (and that series is now inits 14th season), ounder and artistic

director Karen Kevra has very much wantedto program the great Franz Schuberts StringQuintet in C major. No one should leave theplanet, Kevra has written, without hearinga great perormance o this masterpiece. Butas much as she has wanted the quintet to beperormed at a Capital City Concert seriesevent, Kevra has waited.

I elt it was important to assemble thebest players, and thats why I turned to vio-linist Laurie Smukler, who is remarkable orvast experience, her golden-glow sound anddepth o musicality, said Kevra. hat long-awaited perormance o Schuberts quintet isset or Saturday evening, November 2, 7:30p.m., at the Unitarian Church in Montpelier.

Among her many credits, Smuker holds a

BA degree rom the Juilliard School in NewYork City. She was also the ounding irstviolinist o the Mendelssohn String Quartet.And, according to Kevra, she has a reputa-tion as one o the inest chamber musiciansin the country.

In a recent phone interview with heBridge, Smukler explored the greatness othe Schubert string quinteta piece thatSchubert wrote in the summer o 1828, justtwo months beore his death at the age o 31.he quintet might easily have been lost aterSchuberts death, but it was discovered andirst perormed on November 17, 1850, andthen published in 1853.

It was a staggering miracle that it was

discovered and not destroyed, said Smukler,who then went on to explore the quintetsmusical signiicance. It comes right at youemotionally. heres a reason why its soamous. here are many reasons. Its so

prooundly melodic, sometimes ecstatic. Itsilled with pain and loss, and at the sametime, its elevated to a place o beauty. It ad-dresses things that we try to talk about ashumans, as art and poetry does. We all loveand experience loss. We all experience exu-berance and excitement and the tremendousenergy or lieand this piece encompassesall o this. Schubert does something thatis universal. He takes us beyond words toa universal place o understanding that wehave no words or.

In addition to hersel, Smuklers quintetincludes cellists Natasah Brosky and GwenKrosnick and violinist Ari Isaacman-Beck,all who live in Boston, and violist MarkaGustavsson rom Bard College at Annan-

dale-on-Hudson, New York.We all have a history together, said

Smukler. Were a lot o dierent ages. Itsreally lovely. he youngest members are Ariand Gwen. hey are proessionals in theirown right. hey have been past students osome o the rest o us. his is a journey ogenerations. Its really wonderul.

In addition to the Schubert quintet, theNovember 2 program includes BartoksString Quartet No. 1 and Mozarts FluteQuartet in A Major with Karen Kevra play-ing lute.

o purchase tickets in advance, please visitBear Pond Books in Montpelier or go onlineto capitalcityconcerts.org.


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Ciy Concil MeeingOCTObeR 9, 2013

by Ivan Shadis

he Montpelier City Council con-vened on October 9 at 5 p.m. in thecouncil chambers at City Hall. In

the consent agenda, the ollowing purchaseswere approved: a sidewalk plow rom H.PFairield, LLC, o Morrisville or $120,350; ahal-ton pickup truck with an extended war-ranty rom Cody Chevrolet o Montpelier

or $15,910; and a one-ton cargo van withextended warranty rom same or $17,557.he total monies spent at this meeting were$153,817.

Also during the consent agenda, ormalauthorization was granted the city man-ager to purchase the parking lot adjacent toMontpelier Discount Beverage rom KSproperties.

An application rom Green MountainPower seeking permission to anchor util-ity poles along the municipally owned CityDump Road was approved ater being green-lighted by the Department o Public Works(DPW). Sovernet was also granted permis-sion to construct a buried conduit near DogRiver Road and the Interstate 89 bridgeadjacent to the bike path. he conduit willcarry iber-optic cables. Construction will beoverseen by the DPW.

Council members then donned their liquorcontrol hats and approved a license or hreePenny aprooms Oktoberest eventa beerestival in the Onion River Sports parking lotrom 2 to 9 p.m. on Saturday, October 26.Village Pizzas license was granted a changeo address in consideration o its pendingmove to 54 Main Street this November.

Moving on, the council heard rom severalapplicants or a number o positions on di-

erent commissions. he ollowing appoint-ments were made: Steve Coble was reap-pointed to the Housing Authority Board, JonAnderson and ina Ruth were reappointedto the Planning Commission, homas Now-lan was appointed as youth rep to the Plan-ning Commission, John Fox was appointedto the Conservation Commission, and Ma-hima Poreddy was appointed as youth rep tothe Conservation Commission.

Following was a budget roundtable wherethe councilors repaired to a central table, atesandwiches, drank soda and discussed thebudget. It was decided that City ManagerWilliam Fraser would be tasked with com-ing up with a proposal or cuts, approaching1.8 percent, to the budget to be reviewed at auture date by the council.

he councilors then disbanded at 7 p.m.to attend a separate unct ion related to publicspace.

Utility Poles on City Dump Roadand Beer Festival License Approved

According to Mayor John Hollar, Montpelier has been designated a Bicycle FriendlyCommunity at the Bronze Level by the League o American Bicyclists ater an appli-cation was submitted by Montpeliers Bicycle Advisory Committee and consultation

with local cyclist s. According to the league, this award is presented only to communitieswith remarkable commitments to bicycling. Montpelier is only the second city to be recog-nized by the league, ater Burlington.

Hollar says, his designation is an important recognition o the work that the city is doingto become more bike riendly. Our bicycle advisory committee deserves a great deal o creditor their hard work on making our city more accessible or biking. Ultimately, a bike-riendlycommunity is more livable and attractive to everyone.

Hollar points out that one o the Montpelier City Councils current goals is to become anationally known bike and pedestrian riendly city, and since setting that goal, the city hashosted a bike summit, ormed a bicycle advisory committee and secured unding to developa bicycle master plan. Designs are being inalized to extend the bike path rom one end oMontpelier to the other. Bike lanes are being marked as city streets are repaved.

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AntiburglarySteps YouCan Take

by Nat Frothingham

Burglaries are up, according to SergeantEric Nordenson of the Montpelier Po-lice Department, who talked with The

Bridge by phone and confirmed recent re-ports that Montpelier is experiencing a risein burglaries.

Nordenson blames the rise on drug abuse.People will steal just about anything that hasa dollar value to support their drug habits,Nordenson said. He characterized burglary asa crime of opportunity. He then went on toprovide a list of 20 actions that residents cantake to protect themselves from burglariesby greatly reducing the opportunity factor,which makes it easier for burglar s to succeed.

1. Make your home look occupied whenyou are away.

2. Lock all outside doors and windowsbefore you leave the house or go tobed. Even if you will be gone only ashort time, lock your doors.

3. Check to make sure your locks are allin good working order and replace asneeded. Push button locks and latchesare easy entry points for burglars; usea bolt lock with key.

4. Leave a light or two on while you areaway or out on the town. If you wil l begone for any length of time, leave yourlights on an automatic timer. You canalso contact the police department at

223-3445 to have your residence puton the vacant house checklist, whichmeans the police will periodicallycheck on your residence.

5. Keep your garage shut and locked.

6. Dont allow mail and newspapers topile up while you are away.

7. Have your lawn mowed or drivewayplowed while you are away.

8. Sliding-glass or deck doors are easyentry points; specialty locks and barsare available to lock them.

9. Put valuable items such as lawn mow-ers, bicycles and BBQ grills in a lockedarea out of sight.

10. Lock your shed.

11. Use curtains and locks on your base-ment windows.

12. If you lose your keys, change yourlocks.

13. Outside, be sure to have exterior light-ing; motion sensors are recommendedfor backyard areas.

14. Trim plants, bushes and trees that areclose to your house; these provide greatcover for would-be burglars.

15. Alarm systems are also effective toolsto prevent a home burglar y.

16. Do not leave a key under your mat,under a rock or above your door.

17. If you have important family items,take a photo of them. In the event of aburglary, it is very helpful for the po-lice to know what they are looking for.

18. If your home is broken into, notifythe police immediately. Do not touchanything and do not enter your house.If you see anything suspicious in yourneighborhood, report it immediately. Itmay seem like nothing, but could be themissing piece to a police investigation.

19. Look out for your neighbors. If some-thing does not seem right, it probablyisnt, so please call the police.

Scott Perrapato, DODirector, Computer-Assisted

Robotic Surgery, Fletcher

Allen/UVM; Coordinator,

Genitourinary Cancer Multi-

disciplinary Clinic; Urologic

Oncologist; Assistant Professor

at the University of Vermont

College of Medicine

Medical School: UMDNJ School of OsteopathicMedicine

Residency: Metropolitan Hospital, New York -Urology

Fellowship: Roswell Park Cancer Institute -Urologic Oncology

Peter Holoch, MDDirector, Urology Student

Medical Education and

Associate Professor at

the University of Vermont

College of Medicine

Medical School: University of Vermont Collegeof Medicine

Residency: University of Iowa - Urology

Fellowship: University of Iowa - Urology

CVMCs Berlin Urology Welcomes UrologistsScott Perrapato, DO and Peter Holoch, MD

As part of Fletcher Allen Partners Dr. Perrapato and Dr. Holoch, both members of

the Fletcher Allen Medical Group, will be seeing patients locally at Berlin Urology.

Practice areas include:

Urinary stones and blockages Enlarged or painful prostate conditions

Urinary and genital infections Male Incontinence (leakage of urine)

Male sexual difculties Urination problems of all types (including bleeding)

Male Infertility Vasectomy as a form of permanent sterilization

Evaluation and treatment of the urinary Urologic cancers (prostate, bladder, kidney, testicle)

symptoms related to neurological diseases

Both physicians are now accepting patients. Call 802.371.4820 or an appointment.Berlin Urology / Medical Ofce Building C, Suite 1 / on the CVMC campus

Central VermontMedical CenterCentral to Your Well Beingwww.cvmc.org

Central Vermont Medical Center, with Fletcher Allen Health Care, CVPH Medical Center and Elizabethtown Community Hospital,are members of Fletcher Allen Partners which was established to develop a more coordinated system of care throughout the region.


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DJ Rob Swift: Turntable Artist, Interpreter of Musicby Amy Brooks Thornton

When DJ Rob Swit took the stage

Saturday night at Positive Pie,the dance loor looded. It was

an uninhibited, instinctive response. Bod-ies pulsed to the complex syncopation andlayering o musical phrases detly created bySwits quick hands and highly attuned senseo rhythm and sound.

Any novice to or skeptic o the DJ worldwould immediately recognize artist ry andmusicianship and would realize that thework o the DJ can be ar more than creatingan iunes playlist, ar more than ensuringeach song uses with the next or adding somescratches over the song played. It is originalcomposition, a sonic collage o beats andphrases created right beore your eyes.

Swit plays and composes on his turntable,

as any musician would on his or her instru-ment. I express mysel through music andthe turntable is my vehicle, Swit says.

His instrument? wo turntables, onemixer, a laptop, and the DJ sotware, Se-ratos Scratch Live. And old-ashioned vinyl:33 1/3 rpm microgroove LPs. Analog sound.

As a DJ its important that you have a con-nection with the music you play. Its easier tooster the connection when you have a jacket

and album cover, and you can look into theartists ace, read about who the artist is.Maybe there are liner notes, why the artist

wrote that song or produced that album,Swit says. Music nowadays is kind o dispos-able: its just an MP3. You can easily delete it,replace it. You take care o your vinyl collec-tion; you cherish your vinyl collection.

Now a world-class turntablist whos col-laborated with amous artists such as HerbieHancock, Bob James, Linkin Park and Cy-press Hill, Swit started experimenting withDJ-ing when he was just 12. He ollowed inhis athers ootsteps who DJd or the loveo it but not or work. Swit didnt growup in a amily that could aord guitar les-sons or piano lessons. But he grew up withturntables. As well as records, microphones,speakers, headphones, state-o-the-art equip-ment, which illed his house.

I had easy access to the stu, Swit says.My brother and I would help [my ather]when he would spin at a hall or at a churchor someones house. Wed help him carry theequipment. And we would watch him spinand people dance to his music.

Although his ather inadvertently providedthe equipmentit was supposedly o limitsto Swit and his brotherSwit says hisbrother was the greater inluence, exposing

Swit to the world o hip-hop rom early on.However, Swit doesnt want to limit him-

sel to one style o DJ-ing or one category.

I really make it a point not to compromisewhat I do. I might experiment. I might col-laborate with an artist who is not typical . . .[in order] to connect with as many peopleas possible, he says, [and] become a betterinterpreter o music.

One day, when he was shaving, his girl-riend played Chopin or him on her iPod.Although, hed heard classica l music manytimes beore, this time, a switch lipped.

I sat down and listened to Chopin Pre-lude No. 4. It clicked. [I understood] whyclassical music is so appreciated, why itslasted so many years. I wanted to learn moreabout the music and the artists. I wanted tolearn more about Mozart and Beethoven, hesays. Subconsciously, I started building my

songs in a classical style. Instead o lookingor trumpets or guitar to scratch over a beat,I ound I started looking or orchestral andsymphonic sounds.

he Architect, his latest album, grew outo this new passion. I you spend some timelistening to the albums tracks, youll indcomplexity, depth, dissonance and passion.Because o he Architect, Swit eels he hasmade a new connection with those who would

not normally pay attention to turntable music.As a aculty member at Scratch DJ Acad-

emy in New York City, he also connects to,

and is inspired by, his students. Right now,he says, they are my avorite DJs. I look upto them because I see how much they aretrying to learn, and it reminds me o when Iwas star ting out.

One such young, very young DJ, DJ DonP, age 10, opened or Swits perormanceat Positive Pie this past weekend. Dwaredby the massive turntable setup, baseball capskewed to the side, Don P, Positive Pie ownerCarlo Rovettos son, spun and scratched andsuccessully warmed up the dance crowd.Later, he brought an album back to Swit,who had watched Don P rom the back othe restaurant, to have it signed. Swit tookhis time, signing thoughtully.

Im inspired by people who are passionate

about this art a nd what it can do, Swit says.And where it can take you. As a DJ, Swi t

has toured the our corners o the globerom Lebanon to Russia, Greece to Japan,and many countries in South America.Hes built a living out o his passion. Yet,he is wary o inancial inluence. I youare always doing something or the sake omoney, Swit contends, its compromisingthe art orm.

DJ Rob Swift at work.Photo courtesy of DJ Rob Swift

WhEN you do soMEthINg for thE rIght

rEasoNs, thE rIght thINgs happEN.

stay posItIvE, stay truEto What you lovE,

doNt CoMproMIsE your Craft aNd

NEvEr gIvE up oN your drEaMs.

dJ rob sWIft


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Harry Potter Shapes the Millennialsby Julian Kelly

On Tuesday evening, October 8, the NorthBranch Caf hosted local author and UVMprofessor Anthony (Jack) Gierzynski, whotalked about his recent book, Harry Potter

and the Millennials: Research Methodsand the Politics of the Muggle Generation.The following review results from that pre-sentation.

It does no good to dwell on dreamsand orget to live, says Albus Dumb-ledore in Harry Potter and the Sor-

cerers Stone, but or a generation o readers,Hogwarts was the dream, and the HarryPotter book series was a welcome escaperom real lie. Harry Potterhas sold over 450million books globally since its initial publi-cation in 1997, the second best-selling serieso all time. Was the J.K. Rowlings epic justan engorging read? Or was it something soproound and culturally signiicant that it

aected the morals o an entire generation?Anthony Gierzynski is proessor o politi-

cal science at UVM and writer o the bookHarry Potter and the Millennials: ResearchMethods and the Politics of the Muggle Gen-eration. In it he explores how the Harry Pot-ter series contributed to the ideologies o themillennial generation. Gierzynski deinesmillennials as those born between 1980 and1992many o whom grew up reading thestories o the young wizard.

Gierzynski has proo, too. In a survey ocollege students across the country, both

Potter ans and nonans, he ound the answere more likely to agree with the lessonsPotterteaches: openness, nonconormity, useo nonlethal orce and more. According toGierzynski, i one identiies with a characterduring his or her ormative years, the charac-

ter can have a huge impact. And because thebooks are immersive, Gierzynski says, theyampliy this in luence.

Were orming our political views some-how rom the environment, says Gierzyn-ski. Media has an eect on us in ways wereally dont expect. In the case o Potter,the political views to be gleaned abound.Harry is very open . . . tolerant, respectul,Gierzynski points out. Harrys riendshipswith many types, including a werewol and ahal-goblin, underscore a lesson, says Gier-zynski, that creatures and people all deserveto be treated equally.

Conservatives say liberals have been brain-washed by Harry Potter, says Gierzynski, yethe says or democracy to succeed, everyone

must heed one o Potters most common les-sons: that o political and socia l tolerance.

he lesson o nonconormity shows up instruggle between the main adversaries who

oten promote conormity, be it educational(Dolores Umbridge) or social (Vernon Durs-ley), and Harry and company, who are morelikely to lout it. And it seems, Harry doesntbelieve in the death penalty: he never usesdeadly orce.

Gierzynskis theory is based on the psy-chological principle o priming, which isthe inluence o one past event or memoryon a decision. o make this decision, wecall on events or memories that have beenmost recently activatedsuch as reading orremembering the Potter books. his couldhave a big eect on our decisions too.

Even i were aware o this priming, itshard to stop it. We might think we knowhow we are being aected by the mediaabook, a movie, a V series. Ironically, thisso-called awareness, the third person e-ect, is most common with, according toGierzynski, those with higher education.He notes that we think we know how themedia aects us, but in truth, it controls us

more than we know.Gierzynski also argues that writers just

write what they know. He believes that InRowlings case, she is not consciously trying

to inluence her 450 million excited readers.heyve just absorbed her morals throughthe story.

Gierzynski urges us not to become cyni-cal about our political and ethical decisionseither. I everyone becomes a cynic, we

disenranchise ourselves, says Gierzynski.Were making a cynical group o sheep thatgoes along with this naive group o sheep.According to him, the mi llennials are skep-tics, not cynicsunlike the baby boomerswho were cynics.

he whole notion can be a tough pill toswallow, especially or the more recent gen-eration raised on Youube, V shows, videogames and other orms o entertainment,which are now orders o magnitude easier toaccess. Gierzynski drives the point home: Wedont necessarily come to our views naturally.

Its a scary thought or the postmillennialgeneration, or whom whimsical wizardingadventures have been replaced with methcooks in Breaking Badand child battle royales

in he Hunger Games. Hopeully, my gen-eration, the postmillennials, will rememberto live and make decisions in the world notunder the inluence o the medias dreams.

Downtown

ImprovementDistrict Committeeto Award Funds

by Richard Sheir

he Montpelier Downtown Improve-ment District Committee is seekingproposals rom individuals or orga-

nizations that are interested in utilizing the$32,282 in existing unding. Awards will bemade on a competitive basis.

he unds are intended to help create orexpand events, marketing programs, adver-tising campaigns, public relations programs

and downtown improvements that hold greatpromise o producing signiicant, measurableincrease in beautiying the downtown andpromoting business in Montpelier. Nonpro-its with tax-exempt status, private developersand marketing agencies can apply. Priorityin all awards will be given in this order opreerence:

1. Projects that have a demonstrable com-ponent o long-term sustainability

2. Projects that leverage other sources ocapital

3. Projects that will provide a deliverablewithin a year

4. Marketing projects that are able to dem-onstrate the value o a project on a short

and long term basis5. Projects that maximize the use o localsuppliers and/or labor

6. Projects that accomplish speciic CityCouncil goals as outlined annually

he deadline or applications to be submit-ted to the Planning Department is October28, 2013. Grants will be announced in No-vember. More inormation can be ound onMontpeliers website: montpelier-vt.org.


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oct. 16Sullivan Museum & History Center,Norwich University Lunch N Learn.om Ledoux, creator o the Vermont in theCivil War website will provide an introductionto a vital online resource: vermontcivilwar.org. Noon1 p.m. Sullivan Museum & HistoryCenter, Norwich Univer sity, 158 Harmon Dr.,Northeld. Free. 485-2183. [email protected]. norwich.edu/museum.

Making the Granite City Grocery aReality. With Emily Kaminsky. 1:30 p.m.Osher Lielong Learning program. A ldrichPublic Library, 6 Washington St., Barre. Free toOsher members; $5 suggested donation.

Home Sharing Info Meeting. Find out whathome sharing is all about. Rereshments served.Tird Wed., 5:30 6 p.m. Home Share Now, 115Main St., Barre. RSVP at 479-8544 to ensureample rereshments.

Behind the Scenes: Gardens of Paris. Asneak preview o Gardens o Paris, a small group,

interpretive tour designed to educate and inspire.Presented by Karen Kane a nd Charlotte Albers.7 p.m. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, 135 Main St.,Montpelier. 223-3338. kellogghubbard.org.

oct. 17Caregiver Support Group.11 a.m.noon,second Turs. Giord Conerence Center,Giord Medical Center, 44 S. Main St.,Randolph. Free. 728-7100, x6.

Transition Town.With Ben Hewitt , authoroSaved. 6 p.m. Tird Turs. lecture series.Kellogg-Hubbard Library, 135 Main St.,Montpelier.

A Different Kind of Revolution: CubanInfluence on Jazz. Lecture by oni Basantaollowed by dancers perorming to music. 6p.m. Helen day Art Center, 90 Pond St., Stowe.

Donations welcome. [email protected]/exhibitions.

Beyond Simply Surviving a TraumaticExperience.With Cathy Voyer Lamberton. Doyou eel trapped by the pain o a traumatic event?Learn to cope, grieve and begin to live your lieully. 67:30 p.m. Kellogg-Hubbard Library,

135 Main St., Montpelier. Free. Registeration:[email protected].

Protect Your Money and Identity. Hearhow to identiy and respond saely to phonescams, identity thet, mail raud a nd raudulent

solicitation. Presented by the Barre City PoliceDepartment. Rereshments provided. 68 p.m.Alumni Ha ll, Barre Civic Center, 20 AuditoriumHill. 476-0276. gbcjc.org.

Where Is the Cash? Right on theMoney.With Marga ret Ferguson, busine sscounselor. Using cash ow as a managementtool. How to use nancial statements. 6 8:30p.m. Micro Business Development Program,Central Vermont Community Action Council,195 Rte. 302, Barre. Preregi ster: 477-5214 or800-839-1053. [email protected].

Songwriters Meeting. Meeting o theNorthern V/NH chapter o the NashvilleSongwriters Association International. Bringcopies o your work. Tird Turs., 6:45 p.m.Catamount Arts, St. Johnsbury. 633-2204.

Library Film Series. Tird Turs., 7p.m. Jaquith Public Library, 122 School St.,Marsheld. For lm schedule: 426-3581 or

jaquithpubliclibra ry@gma il.com. marshe ld.lib.vt.us.

Measuring What Matters. With Gus Speth.10:30 a.m. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, 135 MainSt., Montpelier.

oct. 18Health Care and Senior Services. CentralVermont Council on Aging Assista nce answersquestions about health insurance and othersenior services. 9 a.m.noon. Montpelier Senior

Activity Center, 58 Barre St. o set up anappointment, call 479-4400.

New Economy Action Planning Session.1 p.m. Main Street Grill & Bar, Montpelier.

Open House and FEAST Fundraiser. Openhouse and undraising dinner, complete withlocal music and cash bar, or the FEAS mealsprogram. Proceeds support the meals programand seniors. 49 p.m. Montpelier Senior ActivityCenter, 58 Barre St. $50 adults. 223-2518.

Herbs and Pregnancy.With Emily Wheeler,VCIH clinical intern. Learn what herbs aresupportive o and sae or pregnancy. 68 p.m.Vermont Center or Integrative Herbalism,252 Main St., Montpel ier. $10 members; $12nonmembers. 224-7100. [email protected].

Talk by Denise Gonzales Crisp, GraphicDesigner. Crisp will discuss the strange journeyo writing and designing her bookGraphicDesign in Context: ypography. 6:307:30 p.m.Noble Hall, Vermont College o Fine Arts,36 College St., Montpelier. Free. vca.edu.

Cabot World Caf on the New Economy.Music provided by the New Economistas andother local bands. Potluck dinner. 7 p.m. WilleyBuilding (town hall), Cabot. 752-5110. [email protected].

Locked Up and Locked Out: RestoringHuman Rights in the Criminal JusticeSystem. Showing o lm Dhamma Brothers,ollowed by panel discussion with BerniceMennis, Walter Lomax, JoAnna Allen and John

Gorczyk. Film 5 p.m.; discussion 79 p.m.Unitarian Church, Main St., Montpelier.

Paul Zalooms White Like Me: A HonkeyDory Puppet Show. Los Angeles comedicpuppeteer, political satirist, lmmaker andperormance artist Paul Zaloom (BA RUP 73)eatured in the Evening Alumni Showcase,Goddard Colleges 150th AnniversaryHomecoming Weekend. 8 p.m. HaybarnTeatre, Goddard College, 123 Pitkin Rd.,Plaineld. $15 advanced; $20 at the door.322-1685. goddard.edu/events.

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150th Anniversary HomecomingWeekend. Celebrate the 150th anniversary othe ounding o Goddard College. Art shows,concerts, awards, workshops, campus tours,

arm-to-table meals and more. Goddard College,123 Pitkin Rd., Plaineld. ickets: 322-1601 orwwwgoddard.edu/Homecoming.

oct. 19Hike the Long Trail, Eden.With theMontpelier Green Mountain Club. Hike the

L south rom Rte. 118 to Devils Gulch, thenon to Spruce Ledge Camp or lunch. Return viathe Babcock rail. Moderate. Approximately sixmiles round-trip. Bring lunch. Contact leaders,

John Buddington and Kathy Gohl, 229-0725 [email protected], or meeting

time and place.

Cabot Apple Pie Festival.Adult and juniorcontests with prizes or the best homemade pies,raes, crat show and silent auction. Donatedpies will be sold; all proceeds benet the CabotHistorical Society. 9 a.m.3 p.m. Pie contestentry deadline 10:30 a.m. Cabot School gym,Main St. (Rte. 215), Cabot. Free. 563-3396.cabothistory.com/apple-pie-estival. nek4u.net/cabothistory/ApplePie.html.

Discover Goddard Day. Learn more aboutGoddards low-residency degree programs. Meetcurrent students and aculty, tour campus andgardens and have lunch in the dining hal l.10 a.m.3 p.m. Goddard College, 123 PitkinRd., Plaineld. Free. RSVP: 800-906-8312 orgoddard.edu/discover.

Living with Alzheimers: For People withAlzheimers and Early Stage Caregivers.Alzheimers education programs to help thoseliving with early stage a lzheimers disease andtheir care partners. Sponsored by CVCA. 10a.m.3:30 p.m.Central Vermont MedicalCenter, rooms 1 and 2,130 Fisher St., Berlin.Register: 800-272-3900.

Author Reading with Ron Tanner:FromAnimal House to Our House: A LoveStory. Ron anner, writer, preservationist andDIY expert rom Baltimore, presents talk andslide show about how he and his then-girlriend(now wie) bought and renovated a condemnedVictorian house. 11 a.m. Kellogg-HubbardLibrary, 135 Main St., Montpelier. 223-3338.kellogghubbard.org.

Shape-Note Sing. Ian Smiley leads tunes romTe Sacred Harp. All welcome; no experience

necessary. First and third Sat., 6:308 p.m. ulsiea Room, 34 Elm St., Montpelier. By donation.Event happens by RSVP only; please cal l or e-mailto conrm: 882-8274 or smileyira@gmai l.com.

MicVENUESBagitos. 28 Main St., Montpelier. 229-9212.bagitos.com.

Oct. 16: Kari Beth olk (original) 68 p.m.Oct. 17: Moonlight Madness with JasonMallery. 68 p.m.Oct. 18: Green Corduroy (Irish/Celtic) 68p.m.Oct. 19: Irish session 2-5pm with Sarah Blair,Hilari Farrington Koehler, Benedict Keohler,Katrina Vanyne and others. 25 p.m.Oct. 22: Te Peoples Ca: Occupy Central

Vermont group sponsors an evening o song,poetry and education. 68 p.m.Oct. 23: Keith Williams (blues) 68 p.m.Oct. 25: Jim Tompson (keyboard) 68 p.m.Oct. 26: Irish session with Sarah Bla ir, HilariFarrington Koehler, Benedict Keohler, KatrinaVanyne and others. 25 p.m.Oct. 27: Brunch with Eric Friedman (olk

ballads) 11 a.m.1 p.m.Oct. 29: Lindsay Wade (piano sing-along)68 p.m.Nov. 3: Brunch with Ben Roy (olk) 11 a.m.1p.m.Nov. 5: Karl Miller (jazz) 68 p.m.Nov. 6: Colin McCarey and riends (jazz/olk/blues) 6 8 p.m.

Chandler Music Hall. 71-73 Main St.,Randolph. 7:30 p.m. ickets and reservations728-6464 or chandler-arts.org.

Oct. 18: An evening with Pikelny, Sutton,Bulla, Bales and Cobb. Presenting originaland classic bluegrass music. Reserved seating.$35 advance; $40 day o show; $25 students.Oct. 25: Rhonda Vincent and the Rage. BillMonroestyled bluegrass, incorporating amodern eel. Reserved seating. $35 advance;$40 day o show; $25 students.

Oct. 26: Irish Duo Murray and Faulkenau.Perorming new and traditional music. Cashbar. Esther Mesh Room, Upper Gallery. $16advance; $19 day o show.

Charlie-Os. 70 Main St., Montpelier. 10 p.m.223-6820.

Oct. 17: Metal Night with DJ CrucibleOct. 18: High Breaks; Yacht Rocket (sur/punk)Oct. 19: Drag Ball with House o LeMay:benet or V People with AIDS CoalitionOct. 25: Spit Jack; Te Pity Whores;Tundercocks (punk)Oct. 26: BAOct. 31: Halloween extravaganza withVaporizer (metal)

Nutty Stephs Chocolaterie. Rte. 2,Middlesex. 6 p.m.midnight. [email protected]. nuttystephs.com.

Positive Pie. 22 State St., Montpelier.10:30 p.m. unless otherwise noted. 229-0453.positivepie.com.Nov. 9: Abraxas.

Skinny Pancake. 89 Main Street, Montpelier.Wed., 68 p.m. Jay Ekis and extremely specia lguests. 262-2253. skinnypancake.com.

Oct. 20: Laura Meyer (olk).

Sweet Melissas. 4Langdon St., Montpelier.Free unless otherwise noted. 225-6012.acebook.com/sweetmelissasvt.

Oct. 16:Ater the Rodeo, 8 p.m.; Wine Downwith D. Davis, 5 p.m.Oct. 17: Greta Frost, 8 p.m.Oct. 18: Seth Yacovone Blue s rio, 10p.m.; Honky onk Happy Hour with MarkLeGrand, 5 p.m.Oct. 19: Hillside Rounder, 9 p.m.; Andy Pitt,5 p.m.Oct. 22: Open mic, 7 p.m.Oct. 23: Open bluegrass jam, 7p.m.; WineDown with D. Davis, 5 p.m.Oct. 24:John Daly rio, 8 p.m.Oct. 25: Belle Pines, 9 p.m.; Honky onkHappy Hour with Mark LeGrand, 5 p.m.Oct. 26: Vincent Flats Blues band, 9 p.m.;

Andy Pitt, 5 p.m.Oct. 29: Open mic, 7 p.m.Oct. 30: Bob and the roubadours, 8 p.m.Oct. 31: Canyonero-ribute to GrahamParsons; Halloween Party 9 p.m. Cover.

Whammy Bar. 31 W. County Rd., Calais. 7p.m. 229-4329. [email protected].

whammyba r1.com.Oct. 18: Te Aristocratic Peasants withMichael Jermyn.Oct. 26: Te Usual Suspects (blues).

ArtiStS & SpEciAlEVENtSMon. Rehearsals:The Capital Orchestra.Under the direction o Dan Liptak, the CapitalOrchestra will perorm a holiday concert Dec.9 and a spring concert April 13. All players(no audition required) are welcome (strings,

woodwinds, bra ss, percussion). Orchestrarehearses most Mondays, 79 p.m. U-32 School,Gallison Hill Rd., E. Montpelier. Inormation,call orchestra manager Joan Stepenske 223-8610or [email protected].

Oct. 18: An Evening with Rickie LeeJones. Nicknamed the Duchess o Coolsville,two-time Grammy-winner Jones perormsrock, R&B, blues, pop, soul and jazz standards.7:30 p.m. wilight Teater, Lyndon StateCollege. ickets: Catamount Arts box ofce748-2600 or online at KingdomCounty.org.

Oct. 25: The Robert Cray Band.Te BluesHall o Fame member and ve-time Grammy-

winner play a mix o blues with jazz, rock andrhythm and blues. 8 p.m. Barre Opera House.$24$49.50 476-8188. barreoperahouse.org.

Oct. 27: Victoria Vox, Workshop andConcert. Ukulele workshop or all levelsollowed by a concert. 3:30 workshop; 6:30concert. Montpelier Senior Activity Center,58 Barre St., Montpelier. $15 workshop; $15concert; $25 both events. 223-1856.

Nov. 2: The Odd Couple: Schubert andBartok. Chamber musicians rom New

York City perorm. 7:30 p.m. UnitarianChurch, Montpelier. $10$25. ickets may bepurchased at Bear Pond Books, Montpelier, orcapitalcityconcerts.org.

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visul artsEXHiBitSOngoing: Glen Coburn Hutcheson,Talking Portraits and Two-PartInventions. An evolving show o experimentaldrawings, paintings and the occasionalsculpture. Storeront Studio Gallery, 6 Barre St.,Montpelier. Hours: ues.Fri. 810 a.m., Sat.

10 a.m.3 p.m., or by appointment. 839-5349.gchneart.com.

Through Oct. 25: Carol MacDonald,Regeneration. Prints and drawings evokingthe connection to the soul that supports healingand regeneration Central Vermont MedicalCenter lobby art gallery, 130 Fisher Rd., Berlin.cvmc.org/art-gallery.

Through Oct. 26: Carol MacDonald, TwoThreads. Hand-pulled monoprints. Gallery atRiver Arts, 2F, River Arts Center, 74 PleasantSt., Morrisville. Hours: Mon.Fri., 10 a.m.2p.m.888-1261. riverartsvt.org.

Through Oct. 27: Tracey Hambleton,Within Reach. Landscape oil paintings.Blinking Light Gallery a nd Co-op, 16 Main St.,Plaineld. Hours: Turs. 26 p.m., Fri.Sun.10 a.m.6 p.m. 454-0141. blinkinglightgallery.com.

Through Oct.: Richard Ambelang,Landscape into Abstraction. Photographso the broad landscape and more intimateabstracted portions rom New England andthe Pacic Northwest. Pratt Gallery, Eliot D.Pratt Center, Goddard College, 123 Pitkin Rd.,Plaineld. Hours: Mon.Fri. 9 a.m.4 p.m.

Through Oct.: Bread & Puppet Museum.One o the largest collections o some o thebiggest puppets in the world. Bread & PuppetFarm, Rte. 122, Glover. Hours: Daily, 10 a.m.6 p.m. 525-3031. breadandpuppet.org.

Through Oct.: 40 Years of Dancing;A Photographic Retrospective ofContemporary Dance and Fitness Studio.

A photographic retrospect ive celebrating the

dance studios 40th anniversary. ContemporaryDance and Fitness Studio, 18 Langdon St.,Montpelier. Hours: Mon.Fri., 3:308 p.m.;Sat. 9 a.m.2 p.m. 229-4676. cdands.com.

Through Oct.: Emiko Sawaragi Gilbert,Found in the Forest. Scans o leaves,sculptures rom ound tree branches. VermontSupreme Court, 111 State St., Montpel ier.Hours: Mon.Fri. 8 a.m.4:30 p.m.

Through Oct. Cathy Stevens-Pratt.Whimsical and color ul watercolor paint ings,prints and cards. Te Cheshire Cat, 28 Elm St.,Montpelier. 223-1981. cheshirecatclothing.com.catillustrates.com.

Through Oct.: Marcia Hill, Cindy Griffithand Anne Unangst. Paintings. Red HenBaking, 961 Rte. 2, Middlesex. 223-5200.

Through Oct.: Jen Lashua, The Languageof Color. Skinny Pancake, 89 Main St.,Montpelier. jlashuaart.com.

Through Oct.: Quint-Essential: SeeingThrough 5 Sets of Eyes. Photos by Annieiberio Cameron, Lisa Dimondstein, JulieParker, Sandra Shenk and John Snell. CityCenter Concourse, State and Main, Montpelier.223-2204.

Through Nov. 2: Rock Solid: 13th AnnualStone Show. Annual exhibit showcases stonesculptures and assemblages by area artisans. MainFloor Gallery, Studio Place Arts, 201 N. MainSt., Barre. 479-7069. studioplacearts.com. Hours:ues.Fri, 10 a.m.5 p.m.; Sat: noon4 p.m.

Through Nov. 2: Meri Stiles, I Am You. Drawings, monoprints and blockprints. SecondFloor Gallery, Studio Place Arts, 201 N. MainSt., Barre. 479-7069. studioplacearts.com. Hours:ues.Fri, 10 a.m.5 p.m.; Sat: noon4 p.m.

Through Nov. 2: Gabriel Tempesta, TheBumble Bee Series and Susan Bull Riley,Botanical Watercolors. Tird Floor Gallery,Studio Place Arts, 201 N. Main St., Barre. 479-7069. studioplacearts.com. Hours: ues.Fri, 10a.m.5 p.m.; Sat: noon4 p.m.

Through Nov. 3: Rick Powell,Illustrations and Botanical Art. Coloredpencil illustrations. Closing receptionNovember 3, 4 p.m.6 p.m. Green Bean Visual

Art Ga llery, Capitol Grounds, [email protected]

Through Nov. 9: Brenna Colt. Photographs,paintings and drawings. Downstairs Gallery,Chandler Center or the Arts, 71-73 Main,Randolph.728-9878. Hours: Fri.Sat, 35p.m.; Sun. noon2 p.m.

Through Nov. 9: David Smith, Differencesin Moments. Landscape oil paintings.Furchgott Sourdie Gallery, 86 Falls Rd.,Shelburne. sgalleryvt.wordpress.com. sgallery.com.

Through Nov. 10: Points of View. Exhibito portraits by seven Vermont artists: AgatheMcQueston, Lark Upson, Sande French-Stockwell, Judith Beckett, Liesi Hebert, MarciaHammond and Joan Feierabend. ChandlerMusic Hall and Gallery, 71-73 Main St.,Randolph. 728-6464. 728-9878.

Through Nov. 11: Liz Le Serviget,Whimsy at the Caf Latina. Colorul cats,dogs, toothy crocodiles, ying pigs and magicalkingdoms expressed in a variety o mediaincluding ne art on canvas, stone assemblage,ber art, painted ceramics and urniture. Cae

Latina, 407 Mountain Rd., Stowe. [email protected].

Through Nov. 30: Linda Maney, AbstractThinking. Watercolors and acrylics. First andsecond oors, Kellogg-Hubbard Library, MainSt., Montpelier.

Through Nov. 30: Aviary. Group exhibito photographs, paintings, collage, sculpture,textiles and print depicting birds. ReceptionOct. 19, 57 p.m. Bigtown Gallery, 99N. Main St., Rochester. 767-9670. [email protected].

Through Dec. 1: Benjamin Barnes,Recent Works. Paintings ocus on theagricultural landscape: tractors, trucks, barns,

and outbuildings. ulsi ea Room, 34 Elm St.,Montpelier. Hours: ues.Sat., 7 a.m.6:30p.m. 223-0043.

Through Dec. 2: Doug Haley, Nature,

Cross-processed! Photographs.Contemporary Dance and Fitness Studio,18 Langdon St., 3F, Montpelier. 229-4676.cdands.com.

Through Dec. 16: Small Works.Artworkby students, aculty, sta and alumni oCommunity College o Vermont. CCV, 660Elm St., Montpelier.

Through Dec. 20: Round.An exh ibitiono objects o circular shape, rom the SullivanMuseum collection. Sullivan Museum andHistory Center, Norwich University, 158Harmon Dr., Northeld.485-2183. Norwich.edu/museum.

Through Dec. 20: These Honored Dead:Private and National Commemoration.Stories o Norwich alumni rom both sides

o the Civil War conict in 1863. SullivanMuseum & History Center, NorwichUniversity, Northeld. 485-2183. norwich.edu/museum.

Through Dec. 27: Georgia Myer,Authenticity. Abstract oil, pastel, charcoaland watercolor. Reception Oct. 16, 35p.m. Governors Gallery, 5F, Pavilion Ofce,Montpelier. Hours: Mon.Fri., 8 a.m.4:30 p.m.

SpEciAl EVENtSCall to Artists: Downstairs Gallery,Chandler Center for the Arts. Chandlersnew gallery is now available or rotating six-

week exhibits . Good setting or a solo orsmall group show. For more inormation,see chandler-arts.org. Questions: outreach@

chandler-arts.org.Oct. 18: Thesis Exhibition ClosingReception TrUSt. First VCFA graphic designthesis exhibit. 7:309 p.m. College Hall Gallery,North Gallery, South Gallery and Room 103,Vermont College o Fine Arts, 26 College St.,Montpelier.

Nov. 23: Artists Lantern-MakingWorkshop. For Waterburys communitylantern parade, Te River o Light 2013. wo-day workshop or adults only, led by artists

Angelo Arnold and Gowri Savoor. Limit o20 participants. 104 p.m. Tatcher BrookPrimary School, Waterbury. By donation.Register: 778-0334 or [email protected].

Photograph by Tad Merrick. Cibachromephotographic print, 1993. On display atBigtown Gallery, Rochester.

performingartsDANcEOct. 26: Jazz Night.With All ison Mann,Colin McCarey, Ira Friedman, Phil Carr, EllenPowell and Lee Gillies. 7:3010 p.m. Also swingdance lesson 6:45 p.m. $12; $15 with lesson.Contemporary Dance and Fitness Studio, 18Langdon St., 3F, Montpelier 229-4676. [email protected].

Nov. 9: Vermont Choreographers

Showcase. Contemporary Dance and FitnessStudio celebrates local choreographers: IsadoraSnapp, Hanna Satterlee, Heather Bryce andClare Byrne. 7 p.m. Contemporary Dance andFitness Studio, 18 Langdon St., 3F, Montpelier.$10 donation, proceeds go to the artists andthe CD&FS artist-in-residence proessionalprogram. 229-4676. cdands.com.

tHEAtEr, StorYtElliNG

& coMEDYOct. 16: The Crucibleas Opera: A Journeywith Composer Robert Ward.LongtimeLost Nation Teater company member imavcar will present a special program inconjunction with Te Crucible. 7 p.m. LostNation Teater Lobby, City Hall Arts Center,29 Main St., Montpelier. $15 suggesteddonation. 229-0492. lostnationtheater.org.

Oct. 1617: Aeschyluss The Oresteia.ranslation by ed Hughes. A multimediaperormance by the Central Vermont HighSchool Initiative enth Grade. Oct. 16, 2 p.m.;Turs., Oct. 17, 7 p.m. For ages 13 and older.Goddard College, Pratt Center, Plaineld. Free.454-1053. [email protected].

Oct. 1619: Rumors. By Neil Simon.

Hilarious comedy o misunderstandings andmiscommunications. 7:30 p.m. WaterburyFestival Playhouse, 2933 Waterbury-StoweRd., Waterbury. $25 advance; $27 at thedoor. [email protected].

waterbury estiva lplayers.com.

Oct. 1627: The Crucible.Arthur Millersiconic yet human drama about the Salem witchtrials. Oct.17: Postshow discussion with castand production team. 7 p.m. Turs.; 8 p.m.Fri, Sat.; 2 p.m. Oct. 13 matinee. Lost Nation

Teater, City Hall Arts Center, 29 Main St.,Montpelier. $15 Oct. 11 preview, Oct. 27

matinee; $30 Fri.Sun; $25 Turs. $5 discountstudents and seniors. $10 age 11 and under.ickets: 229-0492, [email protected] lostnationtheater.org.

Oct. 25: The Brief Wondrous Lifeof Oscar Wao. American Place Teatreproduction o Pulitzer Prizewinning novel by

Junot Daz. Fite en-minute pre- and postshowdiscussions. For ages 14 and older. 10 a.m.Chandler, Randolph. $8. Reservations: 431-0204 or [email protected].

SpEciAl EVENtSOct 1920: Prosthetics Makeup Classes.

With Casey Covey. Application Class (1.5hours): Learn the best methods and techniquesor applying premade prosthetics and basic

gruesome/bruising makeup. Age 12 and up.Build Your Own Workshop (6-hour workshop,over two days): Create your own scars, noses,

wounds and/or other smal l appliances romscratch; walk away with your own creation.Lost Nation Teater, City Hall Arts Center,29 Main St., Montpelier. $15 application class;$50 workshop (plus materials ee). Sign up andinormation: 229-0492 or lostnationtheater.org.

The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar

Wao, October 25, Chandler Center for theArts, Randolph.


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New Economy Night in Hardwick.Gwendolyn Hallsmith rom Global CommunityInitiatives and Vermonters or a New Economy

and local organizers or the Public Bank ownMeeting Campaign talk about a new economicmodel. 7 p.m. Music by Yanks in the Attic at 9p.m. Positive Pie, Hardwick. 752-5110.

Contra Dance. All dances taught; no partnernecessary. All ages welcome. Bring shoes not

worn outdoors. First, third and th Sat., 811p.m. Capital City Grange, 6612 Rte. 12, Berlin.$8. 744-6163. capitalcitygrange.org.

oct. 1920Headwaters Ecovillage Open House. 11a.m.3 p.m. Headwaters Garden and LearningCenter. 450 Danville Hill Rd., Cabot.

oct. 20Central Vermont Academys Annual FallFestival. Food, un and silent auction. 11a.m.4 p.m. Bryant-Daily Gymnasium, 317 VineSt., Berlin-Barre. 479-0868.

20th Anniversary of Plainfield Friends(Quakers). Open house. Noon3 p.m.Plaineld Friends Meetinghouse, 203 MartinMeadow Rd., Plaineld. Free. [email protected].

oct. 21Onion River Exchange Potluck.Bring aplate, utensils, cup and a dish to pass. Meetother members, learn about time banking, setup exchanges. Tird Mon., 5:30 p.m. ulsi eaRoom, 34 Elm St., Montpelier.

Plainfield Book Club. Tird Mon., 78:30p.m. Cutler Memorial Library, 151 HighSt. (R

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