Soul by Devyn Thompson, Lulu Publishing, 110 pages. $16. The 19-year-old woman whose poetry I ve been reading alternately rages with political protest and coos with gender-bending sensuality and self-discovery. On the first page of her book, titled simply
Soul, Devyn Thompson is photographed in black and white and is shockingly posed to look like she s hanging herself. On page 21, she wears a slinky red dress and looks over her shoulder; the continent of Africa is tattooed on her back. The page delivers one word: Desire. Along with the daring chameleon depicted in Jeron Hagler s photographs, I see my favorite kind of artist. Thompson is an unpretentious art maverick with a lot of nerve and earned self-reliance. In 2020, while many of us hunkered down with lots to grieve over, she took her own grief, wrote a book and published it herself.
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Where did these unusual labels come from, and what do they evoke today? A question about blatant stereotypes, and the Green Mountain lingo we use for them.
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Brave Little State is teasing apart the meaning of these terms after receiving a question from Ryan McLiverty, of Woodstock:
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Vermont Business Magazine USDA Deputy Under Secretary for Rural Development Bette Brand today highlighted the department’s investments in 2020 that are building prosperity and strengthening the nation’s rural businesses and communities.
“Under the leadership of President Donald J Trump and Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, USDA invested a record $40 billion in rural communities in 2020,” Brand said. “This assistance is helping increase economic opportunities and improving the quality of life for rural residents across the 50 states and all U.S. territories.”
Vermont and New Hampshire State Director of USDA Rural Development Anthony Linardos announced the landmark funding in a recent statement.
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