When 14,000 British troops marched down from Canada toward Plattsburgh, N.Y., in the fall of 1814, the commander of the U.S. fort there put out a call to Vermont for help.
Did you know that the world’s most expensive spice comes from a type of crocus? It’s true. Saffron is derived from Crocus sativus, commonly known as the “saffron crocus.”
Positioned squarely in fall, but still ahead of the holiday rush, what do we call this momentary calm? Ah, the season of the sticks. One of frosty mornings and darkness; a time when fables begin floating into our conversations.
“The Teachers’ Lounge” was one of this year’s Best Foreign Film nominees — though its closely observed drama set inside a contemporary seventh-grade German classroom could have easily been American. The film’s protagonist, idealistic young teacher Carla … (read more)
One of the founding members of the Grateful Dead, bassist Phil Lesh, passed away on Oct. 25 this year. To honor his memory and celebrate the iconic American band, Zach Nugent’s Dead Set will play at Town Hall Theater in Middlebury on Saturday, Nov. 23. Th … (read more)
I try to see what’s before me, hold close/ the light as the light is, as it makes its/ diminishing way toward Solstice.
Sadie has been running (these days walking) the TAM for 18 years!
The Middlebury Community Players will hold open auditions for “Morning’s at Seven,” a comedy by Paul Osborn, on Nov. 18, at the Town Hall Theater in Middlebury, and on Nov. 20, at Middlebury Fitness in Middlebury.
The great annual movements of fall include monarch butterflies winging toward Mexico, whales heading to the Caribbean to give birth, and multitudes of birds in the autumn skies. There’s another migration this season that often goes unnoticed by casual obs … (read more)
The Middlebury College Theater Department will punctuate this election season with a presentation of “King Lear” by William Shakespeare coming to Wright Theater on Nov. 14 , 15 and 16, at 7:30 p.m.
Town Hall Theater’s annual Great Art Wednesday series returns with a monthly film series that focuses on fine artists, and for the first time, also features world-renowned architects.
Emmy Award-winning choreographer, dancer, writer, educator and activist Sean Dorsey has long been recognized as the country’s premier transgender modern dance choreographer.
On Nov. 15 and 16, the world premiere of “Truman and Nancy,” a captivating and poignant one-act opera by renowned New York City composer William Zeffiro, will take the stage at the Barn Opera House in Brandon.
A rarely shown World War I prison camp drama with an unusual Christmas sequence will fill the big screen when “Barbed Wire” (1927) is revived on Saturday, Nov. 16, at the Brandon Town Hall.
Who was Ira Allen? Land speculator, pamphleteer, politician, and revolutionary, Ira Allen has long been hidden in the shadow of his brother, Ethan Allen.
