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January 2013 • Calendar of Events • Map, Inns, B&B’s • Dining, Real Estate • Entertainment • Book Reviews • Plenty of Good Free Reading! X-C SKIING • SNOWSHOEING • 1,300 ACRES FITNESS CENTER • SAUNA WHIRLPOOL • GOLF BIKING A great spot to gather. For all ages. To celebrate weddings, birthdays and family reunions. An Outstanding Place to Connect. ~ Only 3 miles from Exit 4 / I-89 ~ 802-728-5575 www.ThreeStallionInn.com Lower Stock Farm Road Randolph, Vermont The Sammis Family, Owners WEDDINGS • REUNIONS RETREATS • CONFERENCES “THE BEST BED & BREAKFAST IN CENTRAL VERMONT” Musicians gather for the Northern Roots Traditional Music Festival in Brattleboro, VT. This year the event takes place January 26. photo by Pam Lierle Brattleboro Music Center Presents Winter Concerts And Performances for all Tastes A Christian Resale Shop Concert Choir: Towards the Light Windham Orchestra: Psalms & Fireworks Located in the St. Edmund of Canterbury Church Basement The Brattleboro Concert Choir, under the direction of The choruses of all four Windham County High Schools Main Street, Saxtons River, VT Susan Dedell, presents Morten Lauridsen’s Lux Aeterna, and join the Windham Orchestra under the direction of Maestro Open Thurs & Sat 9 am to 3 pm Bob Chilcott’s Requiem. There will be two performances— Director Hugh Keelan to present Stravinsky’s masterpiece Saturday, January 12, 7:30 pm, First Baptist Church, Brattle- Symphony of Psalms. There ail be two performances—Fri- boro, VT; and Sunday January 13, 3 pm, First Baptist Church, day, January 25, at 7:30 p.m., at Bellows Falls Union High ROCKINGHAM ARTS AND Brattleboro, VT. Tickets are $15 adults, $10 students. School in Bellows Falls, VT and Sunday, January 27 at 3 Lauridsen’s Lux Aeterna continues to inspire performers p.m., at Brattleboro Union High School in Brattleboro, VT. MUSEUM PROJECT (RAMP) and audiences since its premiere in 1997. It would be diffi cult Tickets are $15, $10 for seniors and students. Economic Development to overstate the rapturous effect of this composition upon This is an inspiring and unprecedented collaboration and, Through the Arts those who experience it: Using texts drawn from a variety for many students, their fi rst experience singing with a full 7 Canal Street of sources, Lauridsen has created a transfi guring score of orchestra. The concert opens with Handel’s rousing Music Bellows Falls, VT 05101 power and immense beauty. The Choir introduced the music for the Royal Fireworks and also presents Grieg’s Holberg (802)463-3252 of Bob Chilcott to Brattleboro audiences in January of 2012 Suite for strings. www.ramp-vt.org to capacity crowds who accorded the piece overwhelming The Exner Block provides live-work spaces for artists and retail acclaim. Chilcott’s Requiem, which was premiered by the 6th Annual Northern Roots spaces supporting the arts. Oxford Bach Choir in the spring of 2010, has likewise Traditional Music Festival galvanized the choral world, the Oxford Times declaring it The 6th Annual Northern Roots Traditional Music Festival “gorgeous and uplifting”. takes place on January 26 in Brattleboro, VT at McNeill’s Open Every Saturday Chamber Series: Rubens Quartet Brewery and the New England Youth Theater. This celebra- 153 Main St. Brattleboro, VT tion brings together local and regional musicians representing Come to the Centre Congregational Church in Brattleboro, various northern musical traditions including Irish, Scottish, At the River Garden VT on January 18 at 7:30 pm for a winter evening of cham- English and French Canadian. Nov–March • 10–2 ber music. The Rubens Quartet will perform the Beethoven The Northern Roots Festival begins with a full slate of String Quartet in A minor, Op. 132 and Brahms String Sextet daytime participation and performance activities at McNeill’s Holiday Hours 10–3 in G Major, Op. 36. Musicians are Sarah Kapustin, violin; Between Thanksgiving & Christmas Brewery at 90 Elliot St. from 12–5:30 p.m., including work- Tali Goldberg, violin; Roeland Jagers, viola; Dimitri Mur- shops, panels, mini-concerts, pub sessions, dance band prep, Farm Fresh, Local, Handmade, Homemade rath, viola; Joachim Eijlander, cello; and Judith Serkin, cello. and a family dance. Great Local Food Lunches & Live Music Tickets are $30, $20, $10. The festival concludes with an evening performance at A wonderful selection of holiday gifts New England Youth Theater, 100 Flat St. at 7:30 p.m., featur- All you need for your holiday table ing musicians representing the best of the northern musical Debit and EBT cards welcomed Vermont Country Sampler traditions. Keith Murphy is the Director. January 2013, Vol. XXIX Tickets are: $20 day, $20 evening, $35 both. Youth (un- The Vermont Country Sampler is distributed free over-the- der 12) are $10 day, $10 evening, $15 both. 3 p.m. family Teacher Treasures counter in and out of Vermont. Back issues, $2 per issue, fi rst concert & dance admission, $5 at door. During the festival A Teacher Resource Store & More! class. Subscriptions $24/year. tickets may be purchased at the New England Youth Theater in Brattleboro. Limited evening seating—advance ticket Scrapbooking Materials & Gently Calendar of Events published free of charge. Mail your information to us by the 10th of the preceding month. purchase recommended. Used Books/Lending Library Advertising rates available upon request. Deadline the 10th of “A Hands-On Store” the preceding month. For tickets and information for all of these performances School year hours: Vermont Country Sampler call Brattleboro Music Center at (802) 257-4523 or visit www.brattleborotix.com. www.bmcvt.org. 2–5 pm Wed–Fri and 10–5 on Sat PO Box 197, North Clarendon, VT 05759 (802) 365-4811 • (802) 365-4426 fax (802) 772-7463 Cynthia W. Nau • [email protected] [email protected] vermontcountrysampler.com Right on Rt. 30—just north of Newfane Village Horseshoeing & Cattle Trimming le Your Pickle Pal Tick ate! Specializing in Draft Shoes for Hayrides, Sled Rides, With Hickin’s Pickles and Woods Work. 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Open children 5-15: $6; 3-4: $3; 2 SPECIALIZING IN RAG RUGS, COUNTRY ANTIQUES, FOLK ART. sledding with jack jumper winning documentary film daily, April 27 through Oc- & under free. Watch rag rugs & placemats being made sleds, and programs and by Charles Guggenheim tober 31, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., The Farm & Museum is lo- Open Mon–Fri 10–5 or by appointment activities for all ages plus Productions, Inc., A Time for weekends November through cated one-half mile north of 29 Westminster St • Bellows Falls, VT the award-winning documen- Justice, will be shown on the February, and Christmas & the Woodstock village green Just south of the square • (802) 463-9656 tary, A Time for Justice, will hour, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Presidents’ weeks, 10 a.m. on VT Route 12. For informa- be featured at the Billings museum’s theater each day. to 3:30 p.m. Admission: tion call (802) 457-2355 or Farm & Museum’s Sleigh Sleigh Ride Weekend ad- adults: $12; 62 & over: $11; visit www.billingsfarm.org. Ride Weekend on Saturday, mission includes sleigh rides, Sunday, & Monday, January the operating farm, restored 19, 20, and 21 from 10 a.m. 1890 Farm House, activities, to 3:30 p.m. and A Time for Justice. The Climb aboard the horse- Billings Farm & Museum drawn sleigh and enjoy is owned and operated by a scenic ride through the The Woodstock Foundation, ~ Homemade Pies ~ frosty farm fi elds. Warm up Inc., a charitable non-profi t with a visit to the operating institution founded by Mary 24 Delicious Assorted Varieties! dairy farm and learn more French and Laurance Spel- Fresh Baked or Oven Ready about the Jersey herd and man Rockefeller. calves, draft horses, oxen, ANDM Take One Home Today! and Southdown sheep. In the Billings Farm is an oper- R A Pumpkin • Pecan • Mincemeat • Apple Visitor Center, enjoy a cup of ating Jersey dairy farm that G hot cider. continues 142-year tradition pies pastries Apple Crumb • Raspberry-Apple • Raspberry-Peach M In observance of Martin of agricultural excellence SINCE 1994 S Blueberry • 29+ Varieties of Homemade Pies! “Have a cup Luther King Jr. Weekend, the and offers farm programs I ' L L E R Holiday Stollen of coffee or tea and a Pies also available at: pastry in River Bend Quiche & Soup Flames Stables in Townshend Chicken Pot Pie & Shepard’s Pie. our cafe area Route 100 South, Wilmington, VT The Colonial House and enjoy Coffee Cake, Sticky Buns, Cookies, Breads, and Soups. 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