The iBrattleboro Animated History Advent Calendar

xmas calendar 2020

It’s back. The annual tradition has not yet ended, though the most recent computers and browsers might have trouble as Flash really is coming to an end. That makes this a special gift for people who don’t upgrade!

The iBrattleboro Christmas Calendar  is a daily animated look at downtown Brattleboro, with new bits of local history thrown in every day. Follow along as the scene builds up, and keep a special eye out on the 24th.


BCTV Schedules – Week of November 30, 2020

BCTV Channel 8 / 1075 schedule for the week of 11/30/20

Monday, November 30, 2020

5:25 am PR Benefits – Episode 27 – Liz Hersh
5:42 am Middlebury College Faculty at Home Series – Abenaki, in Relation to the Language 8/19/20
6:30 am The World Fusion Show – EP 88 – Christopher Adler
7:00 am All Things LGBTQ – News 11/17/20
8:00 am Democracy Now! – Democracy Now! Daily Broadcast


Virtual Putney Craft Tour

Shop the Annual Putney Craft Tour Collection from the comfort of your home: 19 Artisans…3 Days Glass blowers, Potters, Jewelers, Weavers, Painters, Woodworkers – even Artisan Cheesemakers, and Winemakers. Crafters will open their virtual studio doors, offering video demonstrations, personal shopping experiences and studio visits via Zoom. Some artists are scheduling in person studio visits or virtual video chats by appointment. Shops open: Fri, Nov 27 at 10:00 a.m. sharp through Sun, Nov 29 at 5:00 p.m. In the meantime, shoppers are free to browse the site and discover more about Vermont’s most accomplished artisans.


BCTV Announces Winners of the 2020 Producer Awards

BRATTLEBORO, VT—Brattleboro Community Television announces its producer award winners for 2020. BCTV’s annual producer awards ceremony will be held virtually on Wednesday, December 9 at 6:30 PM. 

The following organizations and individuals will be recognized for their achievements during the past year:

Community Partner Award: Next Stage Arts

Next Stage Arts in Putney partnered with BCTV to create and share a variety of excellent local content including “Fables Storytelling,” “The Quarantine Sessions,” “Cooped-Up Kids,” “Votes for All Women,” and “Rigged: A Voter Suppression Panel.” In August, Keith Marks of Next Stage organized a live multi-venue arts performance, “Arts Unite Windham,” to raise funds for local social justice organizations and to bring attention to arts venues that had been shut down for months. BCTV provided the technical backbone of this 4-hour live stream from 5 venues that ultimately raised $8000.


BCTV Schedules – Week of November 23, 2020

BCTV Channel 8 / 1075 schedule for the week of 11/23/20

Monday, November 23, 2020

5:00 am Brattleboro Gallery Walk – Virtual Gallery Walk 11/6/20
6:40 am Earth Matters Presents – A Vigil for RBG
7:00 am All Things LGBTQ – News 11/3/20
7:54 am Poems to Live By – Train Ride – Ruth Stone
8:00 am Democracy Now! – Democracy Now! Daily Broadcast
9:00 am Brattleboro Rotary Club Speaker Series – Episode 23 – Stephen Dotson


Brattleboro Women’s Chorus Hosts 25th Fall (Virtual) Concert

The Brattleboro Women’s Chorus will perform their 25th annual fall “singalong concert” via Zoom this Sunday, November 22 at 4 pm.

As we celebrate our 25th anniversary, the chorus will be singing songs about rivers, welcoming the ancestors & healing, led by Director Becky Graber. Some of the songs are very easy to join along with, and Becky will teach a song or two to all. Singers will be muted, though we will hear harmonized vocal tracks, so feel free to sing along in the comfort of your homes, if you wish.


BCTV Schedules – Week of November 16, 2020

BCTV Channel 8 / 1075 schedule for the week of 11/16/20

Monday, November 16, 2020

5:00 am Brattleboro Drive-Thru Halloween – Brattleboro Drive-Thru Halloween 2020
6:20 am Stuck in Vermont – Camping at Grand Isle State Park During a Pandemic
6:30 am Indigenous Peoples Day – Indigenous Peoples Day Celebration Part 1 – 2020
7:25 am Putney Craft Tour – Putney Craft Tour 2020 – Julia Brandis
7:26 am Putney Craft Tour – Putney Craft Tour 2020 – Judy Hawkins


BCTV Schedules Week of November 9, 2020

BCTV Channel 8 / 1075 schedule for the week of 11/9/20

Monday, November 9, 2020

5:00 am Next Stage Arts – Rigged – A Voter Suppression Panel
6:15 am Old Stone House Museum – “Fall/Winter Wreath Making”
7:00 am Historic Windsor and the Preservation Education Institute Presents – Mid-Century Modernism in VT
8:00 am Democracy Now! – Democracy Now! Daily Broadcast
9:00 am Brattleboro Rallies – Black Lives Matter Mural in Putney 9/27/20
9:45 am Home Funerals Green Burials – A Windham County – Mary Ellen Franklin


Reading Defoe’s Journal of a Plague Year (So You Don’t Have To)

Great Plague London 1665

Because I’m a glutton for punishment, I’ve been reading “plague literature,” which is really only interesting if you happen to be going through something comparable as we are now. Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of a Plague Year is just what you’d expect — an account of one year in the life of a Londoner as he navigates the complexities of surviving the Great Plague of 1665.