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Artbits-April 24, 2025

Posted on April 24, 2025 by Dick

Vermont Maple Festival. Big Blue Trunk. Creative Chainsaw Art by John. Jon Young. Aim High Canines. Maple Festival Parade, Mary Cenci, Kwame. Sappy Art Show, Photo Contest. Best Maple Display. Craft Specialty Food Show, Masonic Lodge Craft Food Fair. Paint and Sap. Antique Show. Kids’ Center, Maple Cooking Contest, Best Maple Menu. St. Albans Museum Open House. Teen Fest, Vermont Maple Beverage Tasting. Sarah Rosedahl. Mt. Washington in Spring, Erik Koeppel. Franklin Community Chorus, Battle Hymn of the Republic. Recovery City. Bill Lippert, 25 Years Since Civil Unions Lessons Learned. Rise Up, Meg Cossaboom. Patrick McAllister, April Live Model Figure Drawing Class, Sylvia Oblak, Spring Watercolor Workshop, Social Sunday. Art Journaling Group. Dave, D Cookie, O’hAnleigh Cindy Hill Tom Hanley, Pipsqueak Clown, Big Blue Trunk, Chris Staples, Rockin’ Ron Friendly Pirate, Joe What a Guy, Kevin Herchen, Conniption Fits, Youth Talent Show, Electric Youth Dance Company, April Cushman, Dan Fontaine, Memphis Sun Mafia, Fiddler’s Variety Show, Maddi Ryan, Young Tradition Touring Group, Seth Yacovone, House on Fire, Justice3, McMaple, Jerborn, Nickel Dime, Before this Time, Jeff Salisbury, Switchel, Kippincoe, Blue Rock Boys, Stewart Foster, Heavy Pour, Bobbie Nate, Quadra, 90 Proof, Maple Grove, Tam Lantz. Editor, Sara B. Franklin. Archer Mayor, Joe Gunther. Franklin County Photogs, Harry Goldhagen. Muffin Monday Senior Social Hour. Terry Lovelette, In Praise of Eagle Mountain. Swanton Free Public Library. Continue reading →

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Artbits-April 17, 2025

Posted on April 17, 2025 by Dick

Seven Daysies. Sharon Ratner. Eric Tobin. Corliss Blakely. Mud Season Hand Made Market. Rain Boots Paint and Sip, Sylvia Oblak. Franklin Community Chorus, Battle Hymn of the Republic. Good Friday Pizza Movie Night, Heaven Is For Real. Project Sweet Talk. Ira Allen A Hard Founding Father to Love, Kevin Graffagnino. Kerstin Lange, Phantom Border A Personal Reconnaissance of Contemporary Germany. Kathy Benoit, NOTCH Committed to Health Community. Papermaking Workshop. Social Sunday. Understanding Your Business Finances, Doug Emery, Jack McSweeney. Swanton Arts Council Writers’ Group. David Matthew Nerbak, Eric Belrose, Larry Vigneault, Jerborn, Jaden, Stragglers, David Miller, Sanctuary, Sibling Reverie, Bad Horsey, Hitmen, Bare Bones, Smokey Newhouse, Bob Mona, Phillip Hyjek, Jesse Agan, Laura Fedele-Rasco, Acoustic Mayhem, Tenderbellies, Forest Station, Young Tradition Touring Group. Franklin County Photogs, Harry Goldhagen. Muffin Monday Social Hour, Mornings, Muffins, Mysteries, Counterfeit, Kirsten Chen. Briar Club, Kate Quinn. Continue reading →

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Artbits-April 10, 2025

Posted on April 10, 2025 by Dick

Once Upon a Mattress. Knock Knock, Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon, Vermont States Drama Festival. Patrick Murphy. Winging It Embracing Personal Expression, Jen Volansky. Highland Cow, Anna Lena. Glass Etching, Barb Switzer.in the Swanton Free Public Library. Sketch Sip. Cultural Reclamation Struggles of an Indigenous Identity. Harrison Ford, Fugitive. Endless Chain, Pete Sutherland. Susan Kuecker, Forgotten Heroes Vermont Regiments Battle of Cedar Creek. Jason Barney, Christine Eldred, Hidden History of Lake Champlain. Stephanie Yu, Vermont School Funding: Equity and Affordability. Molly, Needle Felting. Social Sunday. Board Meeting. Jerborn, Michael Kerry, Dead Sessions, Evan Jennison, Matt Schrag, Seth Yacovone, Long Gone John, Jim Charonko, Dan Parks, Duel, Chris Erica, Ron Gagnon, WD-40, Lloyd Tyler, Mirage, Jacob Green, Buck Hollers, Stragglers, Smokey Newfield, Ethan Sawyer, Phil Graziano, Troy Millette, Fire Below, Barbie N Bones. Richford Hometown Follies. Haskell Free Library Opera House, Stuck in Vermont. Fireside Fiber Arts. Scarlet Pimpernel, Baroness Orczy. Muffin Monday Senior Social Hour. R J Batchelor, Lost Tsar of Russia, Lost King of England. George Orwell, 1984. Ugly Vegetables, Grace Lin. But I Progress, Nickel and Dimed On Not Getting By in America, Barbara Ehrenreich. Continue reading →

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Artbits-April 3, 2025

Posted on April 3, 2025 by Dick

Courtney Adams, Jennifer Buckner, Patrick Murphy, Anne Standish. Franklin County Quilt Show. Pebble Art Workshop. Cardmaking with Barb. Osher. Impact of Climate Change on String Instrument Building Now and The Next 60 Years, Kathleen Reilly. Snapshot, Julie Pellissier-Lush, Mi’kmaq Creation Stories. Corrina Thurston, Make Earrings in Colored Pencil on Wood. Social Sunday. Landscapes in Watercolors, Gary Eckhart. Mug Painting Fundraiser. Alex Foltz Studio. Vermont Blues Society, Seth Yacovone, CombustOmatics, She Was Right, Rough Suspects, Dirty Looks, Kyle Stevens, Amerikana Blue. Ryan Hanson, Sister Speak, Bad Horsey, Nathan Michaud, Shiny New Toyz, Reign Havoc, Sabre Hound, Tenderbellies, Nobby Reed. Orbital a Novel, Samantha Harvey. Muffin Monday Senior Social Hour. This Is How it Always Is, Laurie Frankel. Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking, T Kingfisher. Continue reading →

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Artbits-March 27, 2025

Posted on March 27, 2025 by Dick

Rehearsal, Enosburg Falls Town Band. Fairfax Community Theater Company FCTC audition, Spring One-Acts. Karen Mulkey. Swanee. Crypto currency, David DeBellis. Karen McFeeters Leary, Memory Loss Power of Music. Wolf Peaches, Poisoned Peas, Madame Pompadour’s Underwear, Rebecca Rupp. Garden Circle Seed Swap. History and Mystery Genealogy Starter Guide. Erin E. Moulton. Learn Abenaki Songs Drumming Singing, Build Medicine Bag Rattle, Brenda Gagne. Snapshot, Boneyarn: New York Slavery Poems, David Mills. Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon. Watercolors, Gary Eckhart. Stephania Fregeau, Sgraffito Workshop. Corrina Thurston, Make Earrings Colored Pencil Wood. Live Model Figure Drawing, Patrick McAllister; Joanne Delaney, Advanced / Intermediate Drawing. Sylvia Oblak, Watercolor Painting Class. Social Sunday. Alex Foltz Studio. Art Journaling Group. Champions Tavern Blues Jam, Troy Millette, Mark Shelton, Gabe Dixon, Missisquoi River Trio, Ron Gagnon, Michael Perry, Lesley Grant, Drew LaFrenz, Seth Yacavone, Nighthawk, Nathan Michaud, Chris Issy, Quadra, Barbie N Bones, Roger Giroux, Justice 3, Shane Murley, Mama Tried, John Geno, Dan Parks, Paul Asbell Jazz, Toast, Staircase 24, Josh Worman. Vermont Book Awards. Walt McLaughlin, Beyond the High Peaks. Continue reading →

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Artbits-March 20, 2025

Posted on March 20, 2025 by Dick

Cat McKeen. Susan Bull Riley. MCA-Kelton Hall. Gnome Paint and Sip, Sylvia Oblak. Community Building Group Drumming. Peg Guerra, History of the Trapp Family. Michael Lange, Many Meanings of Maple. We Do Declare Women’s Voices on Independence. Jen Volansky, Whimsical Faces Found Objects. Morristown Free University, MFU. Needle Felted Plants, Abby. Social Sunday. Pebble Art Workshop. Alex Foltz Studio. Writers’ Group, Becky Rupp. Out of Nowhere, Next Stop Comedy, Carol Ann Jones, Nighthawk, Something Reckless, Chris Erica, Pet Project, Spencer Lewis, Bob Gagnon, Cooper, Rockin’ Ron Gagnon, Quadra, the 79th Street Band, Bob Corbiere, Russ Flanagan, Bart Fellar, Joseph Provost, Bob Recupero, Mark Shelton. Life Became Very Blurry An Oral History of COVID-19, Garrett M. Graff. Franklin County Photogs, Harry Goldhagen, Create with Canva. Bookmark Workshop, Miss Sierra. Malice Aforethought Avree Kelly Clark. Kingdoms of Savannah, George Dawes Green. Warsaw Orphan, Kelly Rimmer. Continue reading →

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