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If you wondered what it is like behind the scenes here at Brooks Memorial Library, here is a sample of some items that are checked out, bagged up, dated, and ready to go!
Please make sure to tell us what day (and time if possible) you plan to come, and make sure to bring a sign to display at the door. That way we can match the name on the bag with your name to avoid mistakes, while reducing direct contact
Dear Library Community,
When bringing items back to us, please place them in the Big Blue Drop Box, immediately on the left when you enter the municipal lot (near where the police station used to be).
There is a handy parking spot reserved for your car, and you can drop them in from the driver’s side window Walkers are welcome!
Something to brighten up your day:
The Connor Party
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErFN7Y7qnLg&app=desktop
Lyrics Transcript :
00:30 You can catch it when you’re at the grocery store
00:36 You can catch it off the handle of a door
00:41 You can catch it from a friend just dropping by
BCTV Channel 8 / 1075 schedule for the week of 5/11/20
Monday, May 11, 2020
4:00 am GMALL Lectures – Designing Women – The Colonial Revival at Shelburne Museum
5:05 am Backyard Composting – A Virtual Workshop with Ham Gillett
6:00 am Montpelier Happy Hour – Why more representation is better than less
7:00 am Montpelier Happy Hour – The uncertain ripple effects of COVID-19
NOTICE OF MEETING
The Windham Southeast School District Climate Crisis Task Force will meet remotely via Zoom at 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday, May 13.
I was wandering around the house humming this morning, as I often do, and the song that I was humming was “Button Up Your Overcoat.” This is nothing new. I’ve been humming it for the last two weeks. But it was only today that I had time to figure out why. Duh. It’s the pandemic, stupid.
75 Years ago (May, 1945) the United States, Great Britton, The USSR, and Allies emerged victorious over Fascism in Europe; Nazi Germany surrendered. While the price was high (hundreds-of-thousands of American soldiers dead, tens-of-millions more around the world), no one can rationally argue that the sacrifice was not needed. This was, after all, a Just War; one of the few which lacked any moral ambiguity. We were on the side of right, engaged in a historic battle against evil incarnate. Fascism had to be crushed if we were to not enter a new dark age of barbarism equipped with ledgers and death camps. The drum beat of war had to be answered as no other response was capable of overcoming this existential threat to liberty.
Coming out of the Great Depression, my Grandfathers and Great Uncles, like countless others, served in the U.S. Army during the war. The Greatest Generation did their part and are owed a debt that can never be repaid. With victory we won a reprieve from the horrors of Fascism for generations to come. But the ghosts of Nazism were never completely exorcized from our consciousness – this hatred, born out of social alienation, fear, and economic pressures, still persists. Charlottesville reminds us that the twisted vision of Nazism still lurks in dark places, waiting to emerge if our collective will grows weak and if not beaten back through physical force. The xenophobia proclaimed, at times, from the White House, and the camps on our southern border, where even children are caged, also gives form to real concerns that Fascism can again infest the highest halls of state power (and will grow if left unchecked).
NOTICE OF MEETING
The Windham Southeast School District Personnel Committee will meet remotely at 2:00 p.m. on Friday, May 8, 2020 Via Zoom:
BCTV Channel 8 / 1075 schedule for the week of 5/4/20
Monday, May 4, 2020
5:00 am Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium Virtual Learning – ‘Forces and Motion’ (Grades 5-6)
5:40 am Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium Virtual Learning – ‘Outdoors With Bobby-Farlice Rubio’
6:00 am Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium Virtual Learning – ‘Introduction to Science Topics’
8:00 am Democracy Now! – Democracy Now! Daily Broadcast
NOTICE OF BOARD MEETING
The Windham Southeast School District Board will meet remotely at 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday, May 6, 2020 via Zoom:
Sandglass Theater has created twenty-five productions since their founding in 1982. Most of these were video recorded for archival purposes, Some of these recordings are better then others, although none is even close to the quality of a good High Density, multi-camera shoot that would be used for broadcast today. Nevertheless, these recordings offer a window into Sandglass’ past for those who want to learn more about their history and how their work has developed over the decades.
“We have decided to make a few of these available for online viewing. They are not meant to equal a live performance; rather they offer insight into where we have been and where we are going.” -Eric Bass
BCTV Channel 8 / 1075 schedule for the week of 4/27/20
Monday, April 27, 2020
4:00 am Hildene – Reading the Natural Landscape – The Rocks
4:52 am The Quarantine Sessions from Next Stage Arts – Ben Cosgrove – Composer, Pianist, Author
5:00 am 50th Earth Day Anniversary Roundtable – Building a Resilient Economy, Community and Earth
6:15 am Doing Life – 184 – Council to Counsel
7:00 am Molly Gray Concert – VT Musicians 4/11/20
MONTPELIER, VT—Arts and humanities organizations in Vermont facing hardship due to the COVID-19 pandemic can now apply for emergency relief funding through a new partnership between the Vermont Arts Council and Vermont Humanities.
The new COVID-19 Cultural Relief Grant Program is seeded with more than $700,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act of 2020.
Grant awards are based on organization size:
Annual operating budgets of up to $200,000: $5,000.
Annual operating budgets between $200,000 and $750,000: $7,500
Annual operating budget larger than $750,000: $10,000
CHAPTER 17
“The people in Building 27 are scared!”
OK, let’s calm down, let’s relax. Let us put aside fear, as we have nothing to fear, anyway.
For here is a story from grandpa’s owns memories:
My family lived in Beach Haven Apartments from when I was five until we moved out from there to our own, 3-bedroom, semi-attached, cookie-cutter home located at 46-05 216th Street, Bayside 61 – Queens, NYC, NYS.
The Vermont Jazz Center is proud to present its 4th Annual Solo Jazz Piano Festival the weekend of April 24-25th in live streaming format. Each of the artists will be performing from the comfort of their own home or a close-by piano studio using digital streaming technology to present their sets live, directly on the Vermont Jazz Center’s webpage. The Festival will be run using the same format as past years: Friday and Saturday evening feature concerts, Saturday daytime classes and emerging artist concerts, and a late afternoon panel discussion amongst all the artists. The performers will be NEA Jazz Master Toshiko Akiyoshi, Manuel Valera, Orrin Evans, and Shamie Royston as headliners as well as emerging artists Franz Robert, Maya Keren and Matt Twaddle. Helen Sung will moderate Saturday afternoon’s panel discussion.
The event will be free and open to the public, donations are encouraged and can be made on line via the VJC’s website.
NOTICE OF MEETING
The Windham Southeast School District Programmatic and Performance Equity Committee will meet remotely at 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, April 22, 2020 via Zoom:
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BCTV Channel 8 / 1075 schedule for the week of 4/20/20
Monday, April 20, 2020
4:54 am The Quarantine Sessions from Next Stage Arts – Ben Cosgrove – Composer, Pianist, Author
5:00 am UVM Larner Medical School Coronavirus Webinar – The Science of Social Distancing
5:50 am Waking Up With Ami – A New Relationship in the Pandemic
6:00 am Waking Up With Ami – Ami’s Morning Routine: Part 1 Warm-up to Yoga
6:29 am Waking Up With Ami – Monday Morning Yoga
True Bipartisan
For the good of all…
We ride together
But first, we must agree on the vehicle.
And then…
our destination!
Atwood meets Sean
by MarkTwain©
We are in a dystopia novel
Inside a black hole
The humans are talking, I understand every word. The cat eyes me like missile-guiding radar, interested but too far to pounce.
I know these humans — dumb that they are — cannot hear me, but I talk to them anyway. I have trained myself to understand the humans, so it is very frustrating that they have not done the same.
Reciprocation is a two-way street, you know!
