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Summer is a sloppy season. In Shakespeare, that’s when characters stumble bewildered into the woods, get drunk, fall in love with the wrong people and generally make a mess of things.The arts kind of follow that pattern here in the formerly frozen...

Volunteers with the Norwich Historical Society, led by director Sarah Rooker, were taking inventory of the society’s books in 2019 when they discovered an oddity.They pulled an old calf-bound Bible off a shelf and found that not only had it been...

Pre-pandemic, the annual JAGfest took place in February, when people were starved for connection and eager to come out and discuss African American theater.On Tuesday evening, the opening panel discussion of JAGfest 6.0 was in competition with a...

Childhood is a dreamy time. There’s too much coming at us to absorb all at once. Events blur together, a smear of colors, scents, song and cool evening air.In “Book of Sons,” an exhibition of photographs at AVA Gallery and Art Center in Lebanon,...

When Newport put up a huge mural in 1997, everything about the project was new to its participants.Meant to commemorate both the town and its hosting of the New England Artist Trust Congress, the 48-by-12-foot mural depicts Newport as it existed when...

The sharp contrast between two of the Upper Valley’s primary professional theaters is a recurring theme in these pages. Whatever Northern Stage might be doing, chances are Shaker Bridge Theatre is doing something not merely different but 180 degrees...

For years, David Fairbanks Ford knew a player piano was in his future.As the founder, proprietor and ringmaster of the Main Street Museum, Ford has spent most of the last three decades living on the border where material culture meets the fantastical....

Creativity isn’t something a person can just lock away, not without consequences.After recording an album when she was 25, Lisa Piccirillo had set aside writing music for a decade and a half for all the usual reasons: Other jobs paid the bills. She...

If the point of Women’s History Month is to highlight women’s stories, AVA Gallery and Art Center is doing its bit.While most of the artists the nonprofit visual art center will exhibit this year are women, the current set of exhibitions showcases...

When Filippo Ciabatti first came to the Upper Valley, to work as an assistant to Louis Burkot, the longtime artistic director of Opera North, he was already in the habit of following his career where it takes him.A native of Florence, Italy, who began...