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Tonight on DJ Pockets’ “buttahmilk” radio program: Its time for another experience that you won’t soon forget..this one features Allegedly Dave. We will talk about urine therapy. Allegedly Dave was an overweight, balding, asthmatic and then he tried urine therapy. The results were incredible! tune in this tuesday from 6pm-8pm on 107.7fm and www.wvew.org
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Washington, May 26, 1864.
Dearest Abiah,
I wrote to you a few lines last night, just to let you know of my whereabouts. Well, I am well today. Have eaten my allowance of grub. There are at this commission some thirty of forty awaiting examination. One reason why I wanted to go to the front was, there have been so many passed by the board I thought I should die with old age before I got a commission. I was just going to the front and fight my way up or – – – but I have concluded to stay here contented until my turn comes for an examination. This is all I have to say for myself. If Grant has to fall back, I shall go to the Regiment. As long as he is pushing on I feel very well. I suppose you know more about those that have been killed and wounded than I do, so I shall say nothing about it. I believe such fighting has never been known in the history of the world, it was almost certain death or wounds in that wilderness, full of concealed rifle pits, but Lee has had to leave that cover.
BCTV Ch. 8 Schedule for the week of 5-26-14
Monday May 26
12:00 am Organic Politics: Battle of the Sensible – The Money Debate
1:00 am Instant Coffeehouse: Vermont Acoustic Folk Duo Cricket Blue
1:30 am For the Animals: Mercy for Animals
2:00 am FSTV Overnight
4:00 am John Specker: American Fiddle Music
5:30 am The Nature Museum of Grafton pres. – Bridget Butler – The Bird Diva
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22 Army Corps, May 25, 1864
Pass the bearer, via Long Bridge, to
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Washington, May 25th, 1864.
Dear Wife,
Here I am in Washington. Came in the morning. Got permission to appear before the board, but when I got down here and could see over into Virginia where men were pouring out their blood like water for their country, the old feeling came over me to rush to the battle. I thought I would find Mr. Baxter and advise with him. You see I had nothing but my word to prove that I belonged to the 6th Vermont. Mr. Baxter did not advise me, but I concluded to go, for I am not like Lynn. He thinks a living coward is better than a dead hero. Would not you blush to be the wife of a living coward, but Lynn does not mean it. He is not able to take the field.
Students from four countries and three continents are engaged in a pilot life coach training program that is designed to bring about change in people’s lives, one at a time. From Australia to Poland, in Canada and the United States, students are learning the principles of psychosynthesis, a “transpersonal psychology that gives people tools to find purpose and meaning”, according to Dr. Dorothy Firman.
The second in a series of presentations about psychosynthesis life coaching courses will be held on Wednesday, May 28th from 6:30 – 8:00 p.m. at 73 Main Street in Brattleboro. The program is free and open to the public.
Ella Fitzgerald joined the Tommy Flanagan Trio June 22, 1969 at the Montreux Jazz Festival for a night of singing, and here we have a collection of clips reassembled to recreate that show.
This was at a point in her career where she was bouncing between labels, and slowly finding her way back from pop excursions and Christmas records to her specialty of jazz interpretations of great American songs
Philadelphia, May 23, 1864.
Dearest Abiah,
I have been made twice glad today. When I came to dinner I found a letter from you and at supper another. My health is good. I heard from you Thursday. Jacob and Lynn Brooks were here, they came on with some wounded. There has been over 5,000 wounded men brought to the hospitals, but their names have not been published in the Philadelphia papers. I saw some of the men, one from the Vermont 3rd, that was carried off the field at the same time with George Hill.
Guilford, Vt. — Friends of Music at Guilford (FOMAG) presents its 6th annual Spring Organ Recital at 3:00 p.m. on Sunday, May 25, in the Organ Barn at idyllic Tree Frog Farm in the Guilford countryside. For this Memorial Day Weekend recital, Ken Olsson has chosen a singularly appropriate program: music by 19th-century Americans. Not only does it suit this national holiday; it also reflects FOMAG’s continuing interest in American composers, most specifically those associated with New England. And it suits the organization’s Guilford Chamber Organ, with a console dating back to the late 19th century, when it was installed in a church in Maine.
There were organs in America as far back as the early colonial era, but not many; the Puritan tradition frowned on instrumental music in church services. Still, by 1800, Boston boasted eight church organs, New York and Philadelphia five or six, and many other cities throughout the colonies claimed at least one. Wealthy private households had organs, too. Early instruments were imported, but by the mid-18th century the emerging nation had developed an organ-building industry. There wasn’t much published organ music, since church organists mostly accompanied hymns; interludes were improvised. Organ music for concert use was virtually unknown until decades later.
The Windham Orchestra and PanOpera join forces to bring “TOSCA” to the region. Performances of Puccini’s “Tosca” will be at the Latchis Theatre in Brattleboro, Vermont on Friday, May 30 at 7:30pm, and Sunday, June 1 at 2 pm; and at the Academy of Music in Northampton, Massachusetts on Thursday, June 5 at 7:30 pm.
“Tosca” tells the brutal truth about what drives us; our passions, and desires. It’s essential Puccini – lurid, ravishing, hugely enjoyable, and not to be missed. There are no gods or heroes, this is raw humanity on display.
“No-one needs to understand Italian or ‘know about opera’ to relate immediately and instinctively to the emotional states of the characters and the horrifying situations they are in,” explains Windham Orchestra Director Hugh Keelan. “Who has not experienced desperation in love, particularly when a loved one is in pain? Who does not know the struggle between the higher and lower self? Who has not been helpless, overwhelmed in adversity—and tried to pretend they have it all handled?”
I noticed the item in Today in History…in 1892, new boiler installed at the Brooks House. It’s possible, but I’m not sure, that the boiler is located under the former Frankie’s Pizza. It may briefly see light of day in the very near future when that building is razed. I don’t know whether the plan is to bury or remove it. Speaking of Frankie’s, it looks like his son is opening a restaurant/bar in the old HR Block location next to the former Lawton’s.
In 1881, Brattleboro taxes, bonds, and debts were an issue. Read on for a letter to the editor on the subject by Levi Fuller, a noted member of the Estey Organ Company and governor of Vermont.…
Taxation in Brattleboro
“What shall the tax of Brattleboro be this year?” is a question asked by many. The completion of the grand list furnishes the necessary information. An examination of the town auditor’s report (page 21) shows the expenses, outside of the reduction of debt or extraordinary repairs upon highways, to be estimated at $8,773, and for this sum the auditors report sufficient resources already provided.
There’s something about hearing really good bands in tiny spaces. The intimacy is palpable. You’re not just watching a band play — you’re two feet away from the guitarist who has just remarked, to no one in particular, that there’s a buzz in his amp, at which half the audience rushes over to help. And some nights, you wonder if ten years from now, you’ll be thinking “I remember when…” That’s the calibre of group that The Future Collective is bringing to Brattleboro, and last night the twin treat came from two unlikely places — Stamford, CT and Philadelphia, PA. Ok, admittedly, Philadelphia has some popular caché but Stamford?
Here’s a project to keep an eye on – .
The inventors say the idea came from thinking about the black boxes used by airlines:
BCTV Ch.8 Schedule for the week of 5/19/14
Monday May 19
12:00 am Common Good VT: Leadership Vermont
12:55 am Jennie’s Joint Ep.2 – Guitarists
2:00 am FSTV Overnight
4:00 am Book Talk Ep.6: Richard Duvall
4:35 am Kurn Hattin 2014 Spring Jazz Festival
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I can’t be the only person who is not only seeing these things, but who is getting photos of them. I mean, its kind of like dousing fro water in Vermont. You would be hard pressed to douse for water and find a location that had none. With UFO’s its pretty hard to take a picture and not end up with a UFO in the frame somewhere. See what I mean ?
This week’s concert series is a double header, and a gift to Lise.
First up is Stereolab, live in Danbury, Connecticut on September 21 1994. It’s the full band performing at the Tuxedo Junction just after they released Mars Audiac Quintet.
If you’ve never heard them, it’s worth a listen. It’s rather hypnotic and musical, foreign and familiar, electronic and dancer. I think I may have played a different show by them a long while back, but this is good.
You will enjoy this. The Phoenix of May 16, 1890 featured a story about a meeting held to discuss what is needed in Brattleboro. The following list was published as a record of the event. It isn’t often we get such a clear statement of desires from those who came before us.
Read on to see what they wanted. Some things came to pass, others faded away, and some are things we still talk about wanting today.
BRATTLEBORO UNION HIGH SCHOOL BOARD
53 Green Street
Brattleboro, VT 05301
www.wssu.k12.vt.us
NOTICE OF COMMITTEE MEETINGS
The BUHS #6 Planning and Policy Committee will meet at 6:00 p.m. on Monday, May 19 in the Cusick Conference Room.
Its another experience you won’t soon forget on DJ Pockets’ “buttahmilk” program. On Tuesday, May 20th, we welcome back to the airwaves, Monnica Sepulveda. She is a brilliant intuitive therapist, medium, numerologist and metaphysician.
She has agreed to do readings for the people of Brattleboro and beyond!
