VA17-pickETC-2016

VA17-pickETC-2016

Positively Potted The Connecticut River Valley — which was sometimes called the “asparagus valley” back in the ’70s — is home to a crafty nexus of nationally-known professional potters. Over the past 12 years, the annual Asparagus Valley Pottery Trail has grown into...
VA17-pickSTAGE-2016

VA17-pickSTAGE-2016

Airing the  Ancestors Aretha Aoki’s ghost hunting involves no special equipment. To do it, she turns inward. What she finds is the focus of her latest work: New. The Vermont Performance Lab partners with The School for Contemporary Dance and Thought in Northampton to...
VA17-pickART-2016

VA17-pickART-2016

Cover to Cover For young readers — and for older bookworms who remember curling up in the library’s children’s section — Leonard Weisgard’s lush and warmly artful illustrations provide a trip down memory lane. Weisgard, who lived from 1916 to 2000, created the art for...
VA17-ArtsCulture-2016

VA17-ArtsCulture-2016

Whither Shall They WanderKinder Morgan may have just nixed the Northeast Energy Direct-Tennessee Gas pipeline, but proponents and protestors alike face a world of climate change challenges in the coming decades. Into this dire scene, enter Children of the Wild, the...