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AROUND THREE DOZEN folks showed up for a Beltane celebration at Bristol’s Watershed Property on Sunday, April 30. Beltane is the Gaelic May Day festival that is traditionally held on May 1, or about midway between the spring equinox and summer solstice in the northern hemisphere. Here we see celebrants dancing around a colorful maypole, a May Day tradition that began in Roman Britain around 2,000 years ago.
Photo by Jonathan Blake
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OK, THE WARMER weather can return, the annual May Day celebration has taken place at the Watershed Property in Bristol. The Beltane celebration, sponsored by Vermont Family Forests, took place a day early this year, on Sunday, April 30. The three dozen or so people who attended carried in a May pole, dancing around it and enjoying a good time. Photo by Jonathan Blake
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THE THREE DOZEN or so people who attended the annual Beltane celebration at the Watershed property in Bristol enjoyed some rousing music from a first-class quartet of musicians: from left, Matt Witten, Lausanne Allen, Rick Ceballos and David Gusakov. Photo by Jonathan Blake
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THE 155-YEAR-OLD former Lampson School building off Sumner Road in New Haven Mills looks dwarfed by this bare tree that appears to be almost as old. You can see the leaves just emerging on the ends of the branches, and soon this view of the building from River Road will be obscured for the summer.
Independent photo/John S. McCright
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CADY BAKER-ROUSE testified in the Vermont Statehouse in April on making Universal School Meals a permanent fixture in Vermont schools. “Kids need these nutritious meals to pay attention and focus,” said Baker- Rouse. “Many children rely on Universal School Meals as their main
food source. Finally, Universal School Meals eliminates stigma for low-income kids.” Baker- Rouse, a fifth-grade student at Mary Hogan Elementary in Middlebury, was accompanied by parent Meg Baker and had a chance to meet with Addison County
Sen. Ruth Hardy. Photo courtesy of Meg Baker
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CADY BAKER-ROUSE’S testimony at the Statehouse in April was part of her Exhibition project on hunger. Fifth-graders in the Addison Central School District spend the spring working on “exhibition,” an inquiry project that requires them to ask a question, do research and take action.
Photo courtesy of Ruth Hardy
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THIS WEEK STARTED chilly and damp, but last week sunshine at the falls in Middlebury revealed green grass, budding leaves on the trees, and plants sprouting in the beds overlooking the river basin, all signs of balmier weather on the way. Independent photo/Andy Kirkaldy
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A MALE CARDINAL perches among the buds on a cherry tree in Middlebury recently.
Photo by Dottie Nelson
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JACK SIMPSON, OF Middlebury, won first place in the Third Grade Section of the 2023 Vermont State Scholastic Chess Tournament in Berlin, Vt., on Saturday, April 22. He was undefeated throughout the five-round tournament. Simpson plays with the Chess Club that meets at the Ilsley Library on Thursdays from 3:30-5 p.m. during the school year. Alexis Perkins and Mary Jane Simpson run the Chess Club, which tends to be a group of 6- to 12-year-olds, but players of all ages
and skill are welcome to bring a chess board and join in.
Photo by Mary Jane Simpson
