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Digital storytelling takes Lake Champlain stewardship online

Posted on July 30, 2009 |
By Kathryn Flagg



By KATHRYN FLAGG
MIDDLEBURY — Bridget Butler is paddling into uncharted territory, searching out the headwaters where new media, local storytelling and ecological stewardship converge.

The St. Albans resident and ECHO Center conservationist is heading up a two-year project that has her scampering around Lake Champlain in person and online to collect stories about the lake that she hopes will inspire stewardship efforts.

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Dance company pairs two-legged, four-legged performers at workshop

Posted on July 20, 2009 |
By Chelsey Pletts



NEW HAVEN — Naomi Wimberley-Hartman and her four-legged dance partner had never performed together before. Nevertheless, the pair spring through serpentines and circles in intricate movements, each footfall perfectly in sync with one another.

It is only the second day of rehearsal, but the dancers — one human and one a horse — move like professionals.

And they should. The two are members of the New Haven-based Equine Dance Company, which for several years has put on shows combining human and equine dancing.

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New Lincoln camp builds unique community (with slideshow)

Posted on July 16, 2009 |
By Chelsey Pletts



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LINCOLN — When the people of Zeno Mountain Farm get together each summer, it’s more like a family reunion than a summer camp, according to Peter and Ila Halby, the husband and wife team who are its directors.

The Lincoln nonprofit is the newest incarnation of a series of multi-age summer camps originally founded as “Camp Jabberwocky” on Martha’s Vineyard in 1953. Like its predecessors, Zeno Mountain Farm has the uncommon mission of hosting a mix of people with and without developmental and physical disabilities. The goal is to create and sustain a unique community.

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Hancock and Granville shutter tiny schoolhouses after historic run (with slideshow)

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By KATHRYN FLAGG
HANCOCK — “Our school will shine tonight,” belted out students of the Hancock and Granville village schools last Wednesday night, taking the stage in the packed Hancock Town Hall to the thunderous applause of parents, teachers old and new, and alumni of the tiny village schools.

Wearing t-shirts emblazoned with pictures of both the Hancock and Granville schoolhouses, the 32 students threw themselves into their last hurrah: an end-of-year concert that held a special note of finality this year.

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