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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-August 1, 2024

Posted on August 1, 2024 by Dick

Vaccination, booster, sewage. Big Music Weeks of Summer. Franklin County Field Days, Bad Horsey, Al Getler, Old Man Garage Band, Aaron Alaria, Friction, Missisquoi River Band, Will Patton, Neon Spoon, Chris Erica, Dale Darcy. Chris Bessette, Kristina Bolduc, Lindsay DiDio, Anne Standish. David Stromeyer sculptures. James Daly. Jeanne Morningstar Kent. People’s Art Show. Ballet School of Vermont. Ellen LN Bethea, Words in the Woods, Elle St. Pierre. Open Studio Figure Drawing. Creative Connections, Explore Story Wilds, Open Studio Music Group. Social Sunday. Duct Tape Extravaganza. Tony Pietricola. Folded Book Christmas Angel, Lucie Faulkner. Board Meeting. Viva! In the Garden. Cooie, Adlai, Eric Bushey, Jerborn, Axel, Soulshine, Shane Murley, Blues for Breakfast, Duo, Sarah Bell, Ryan Hanson, Corner Junction Bluegrass, Neil Brown, Allen Gratton, George Seymour, Willy Dallas, Ernie Minetti, Sean Jarvis, Dee Davis, Mark Gwinn, Toast, Chris, Issy, Nic Farinaccio, Will Austin, Justin Bedell, Nobby Reed, Mark Shelton, Heavy Nettles, Wadenick, Al Lemery, Otter Creek, Brothers Miller, Stragglers, Forest Station, Beg Steal Borrow, Blue Rock Boys, A Capella Lollapalooza, Chordination Barbershop Quartet, Green Mountain Chorus, Offshoots, Enosburg Town Band, Tyler Mast, Jeff Gina, NightHawk, Rushmore, Citizens Concert Band. Continue reading →

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Artbits-July 18, 2024

Posted on July 18, 2024 by Dick

Vaccination, booster. Big Music Weeks of Summer. Summer Sounds, Kaiden Prim, Highgate Arena, Andre Maquera. Kristina Bolduc. Vermont Watercolor Society. Norm M’Sadoques. Christmas in July returns, Barb, Mel. Actors, Videographers, Swanee 5, Northwest Nightmares. Community dancing, Leslie Alpert. Murder of Marietta Ball, Sarah Allard, Avree Clark. Creative Connections, Explore the Story Wilds, Blacklight Reactive Painting, Jennifer, Blackout Poetry, Open Studio Music Group. Social Sunday. Workshop for Dementia Caregivers, Tina Lesperance. Measles. Jamie Lee Thurston, Mark Shelton, Jerborn, She Was Right, Barn Rats, Cooie Trio, Cooie DeFrancesco, Adlai Waxman, Patti Shannon, Barbie-n-Bones, Ray’s Used Cars, IncaHoots, Jesse Agan, Sanctuary, Carol Ann Jones Will Patton, Ryan Sweezy, Travis Cyr, Rustics, Fabulous Wrecks, Jacob Green, Dan Jarvis, Sean Jarvis, Rustie Bus, Staircase 24, Jim Branca, Unruly Allies, Blue Heron, Ethan Sawyer, Martin Fredrick, Philip Graziano, Dave Miller, Donna Thunder, Back to the Garden 1969, Woodstock Experience, Dimmer Triplets, Charlie Frazier, Al Lemery, Gary Wade, Enosburg Town Band, Laura Cwass, High Breaks, Todd Gevry, Kevin Lynam, Matt Hagen, Mad Mojo, Mama Tried, Citizens Concert Band. Jig in the Valley. Privacy in libraries. Mornings, Muffins, and Mysteries. Writers’ Group. Continue reading →

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Artbits-June 20, 2024

Posted on June 20, 2024 by Dick

Vaccination, booster. Make Music Day. Jeffersonville Art Jam, June Juried Show, Emile Gruppe, Aldo T. Hibbard, Thomas Curtin, Robert Blair, Karen Winslow, Eric Tobin, Karen Winslow, Chris Bessette, Dawn DiCecco, Claudette Eaton, John Edebohlts, Carolyn Kittell, Joanie McMahon, Kelli Shepherd, Liane Spaulding, Sarah Weber, Lina Longtoe. Montgomery Center for the Arts, Catamount Film and Arts, homecoming. Paint Your Own Pet, Paint n Sip, Linda Oakes Carvalho. Pop up Advanced Ballet Classes. Rail City Fan Fest, robot demo, cosplay, trivia, Fortnite, fantasy. Foraging. Howard Coffin, Vermont, 1800 and Froze to Death Cold Year of 1816. Whistle underwater. Writers’ Group. Social Sunday. Creative Connections, She Was Right, Cooper, Young Tradition Touring Group, Dan Sean Jarvis, Rushmore, Hitmen, Bob Val, Pet Project, Jesse Agan, Mitch Devon, Lloyd Tyler, Ryan Sweezy, Midnight Walkers, Mark Shelton, Carol Ann Jones, Will Patton, Nottingham Drive, Mark Abair, Good Luck, Ryan Hanson, Rustics, Canyon Dreams, Phil Graziano, Roger Giroux, Mango Jam, Evan Alsop, David Karl Roberts, Cooie DeFrancisco, Enosburg Town Band, Danny, Parts, Citizens Concert Band, Blue Heron. Book Sale. Mystery Book Club, Naked in Death, JD Robb. Continue reading →

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Artbits-May 16, 2024

Posted on May 16, 2024 by Dick

Vaccination, booster. Paint Your Pet Portrait, Linda Oakes Carvalho. Art Journaling Group, Make Your Own Star Wars Terrarium. MES Student Spring Art Show. Beneath Our Skin. Nathan Johnson. Nebizun: Water Is Life, Charlie Adams, Vicki Blanchard, Joe Bruchac, Bill Gould, Francine Poitras Jones, Jeanne Morningstar Kent, Melody Walker Makin, Lucy Cannon Neel, Hawk Schulmeisters, Breanna Sheehan, Linda Longtoe Sheehan, Chief Roger Longtoe Sheehan, Vera Longtoe Sheehan, JES, Chief April St Francis Rushlow, Dorothy Tondreau, Amy Hook-Therrien, Aaron York. Adrian Ivakhiv. Environmental Humanities, Critical Studies for Feverish Times. Impressionist Portraits Pastel Oil, Karen Meneghin. Social Sunday. Aviano Bellydance. Workshop for Dementia Caregivers, Tina Lesperance. Letterpress Printing. Karaoke, Open Mic, Coffee House, Next Stop Comedy, Cooie DeFrancisco Sings, Carol Ann Jones, Will Patton, Duel, John Geno, Kevin Connelly, Banjo Dan, Willy, Lindner, Danny Coane, Sam Blagden, VT Bluegrass Pioneers, Shane’s Apothecary, Justice 3, Pet Project, Maple Grove, Blues Without Borders, Chris Erica, Chris Issy, Stragglers, Bob Gagnon, Jeff Shelley, Windham Philharmonic, Laura Fedele-Rasco. Vaisey Royale, Franklin County Quilt Show, Mark Shelton. Boys in the Boat, Daniel James Brown. But I Progress, Gender Queer, Maia Kobabe. Bianca Stone, Vermont Poet Laureate. Continue reading →

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