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BREAD LOAF INN, 1895. Images courtesy of the Collection of the Henry Sheldon Museum From the Sheldon Museum Archives: Last year we published several articles about remarkable local women in recognition of the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which granted most American women the right to vote. In this two-part series, we focus on two amazing women who challenged the status quo of late nineteenth-century life. Their stories offer just a glimpse of w...

Dont miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   BENNINGTON — When passing residents peer into the store-level windows of the historic Putnam Block buildings, the unfinished look they sometimes see might be misleading. The $31 million first phase of the Putnam Block project — to renovate the former Hotel Putnam, the old Courthouse building and the Winslow Building for new retail and residential space — is essentially complete, according to Bill Colvin, point-person for the de...

BARB WILSON MIDDLEBURY — One could certainly argue that it takes a brave person these days to serve on the Addison Central School District (ACSD) board. Plenty of controversial issues in play are bound to make board members unpopular with some of their constituents. School consolidation amid declining enrollment. Moving 6th-graders to Middlebury Union Middle School beginning this fall. Transitioning to a brand-new learning structure through the International Baccalaureate program. Preparing ...

Lucien Darjeun Meadows where we are, much more than we are when we are. There is no when without a where. There is no we without a here. NER staff reader Simone Kraus talks to Lucien Darjeun Meadows—author of the essay “Circling Eloh: A Meditation“—about his love of running, the meaning of the Cherokee word “eloh,” his identity as a writer-translator, and the linguistic kaleidoscope in his life. Lucien’s essay appeared in NER 41.4. Simone Kraus: You are a long-distance trail ru...

Authors Renee Simms and Dawn Davies to Present Virtual Reading February 3, 2021 — by Claire Buck Authors Renee Simms and Dawn Davies to Present Virtual Reading The Hope College Jack Ridl Visiting Writers Series will feature Renee Simms and Dawn Davies on Thursday, Feb. 11, at 6 p.m. in a virtual reading and Q&A that is free and open to the public. The event requires an Eventbrite registration, which can be found ...

, Tin House, Boston Review, Longreads, and McSweeney’s Indelible in the Hippocampus, among others. She is a Cave Canem poetry fellow, a VONA/Voices nonfiction fellow, a Bread Loaf 2021 Katherine Bakeless nonfiction fellow, a 2018 92Y Women in Power Fellow, and the recipient of an Amy Award from Poets & Writers. She has previously worked at Cave Canem, Poets House, and PEN America, and served on the board of VIDA: Women in the Literary Arts. She earned her BA in English and economics ...

The Ripton Country Store In preparation for a recent daytrip to Ripton, my husband and I threw snowshoes, hiking poles and various clothing layers into the car. I filled up our water bottles. Then I departed from my usual modus operandi. I pretty much cannot leave for any excursion without tucking fruit, nuts and a granola bar in my bag. My husband claims that, on longer trips, I could feed an entire family for a week on the food I bri...

Dont miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   WILMINGTON — All members of a committee tasked with planning a new building for the police and fire departments agreed with who they want to see take on the project. The Public Safety Facility Committee recommended hiring Bread Loaf Corporation of Middlebury if voters authorize borrowing for the project on annual Town Meeting Day in March. “They have 12 or 13 public safety facilities under their belt, mostly in Vermont,” Chuck ...

WE ARE HONORED to present to you the very first Massachusetts Review issue focused on Native American writing. We are thankful to Associate Editor N. C. Christopher Couch and the rest of the MR team for dreaming up this issue and for asking us to be guest editors, and we are especially thankful to the writers and artists whose work we’ve chosen for this special issue. Their words and images are a gift. This issue, as it was first imagined, was set to coincide with and push back against Massa...