Fox Hollow Festival Draws Big Crowds Despite Quiet Publicity
PETERSBURG NY Fox Hollow the Beers Family Festival of Traditional Music and Arts grew to its largest size in six years with cars parked on the lawn and overflow on Route 2. Organizers kept attendance figures private. The festival emphasized informal workshops and intimate performances by mostly unknown folk artists rather than big-name headliners.
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New York State
Powder Ridge
Middlesfield
Conn
Newport
Beers Farm
Woodstock
Fox Hollow
John Hartford
Beers
Oscar Brand
Bessie Jones
Michael Cooney
Bob Beers
Missouri
Michigan
Singout Magazine
Pitt LaChance Ties Knot In Hoosick Falls Nuptials
Miss Roxy Jane Pitt daughter of Justice DeForest C Pitt and Mrs Pitt of Hoosick Falls wed Wayne F LaChance son of Mr and Mrs Gerald N LaChance of Espanola Ontario Canada on July 24 The ceremony was a Nuptial Mass at the Church of the Immaculate Conception officiated by Rev Donald J Ammering U S A The bride wore a white eyelet dress over lavender taffeta and carried a large chrysanthemum A reception followed at the Paradise Restaurant in Benninton The newlyweds left for a trip to Barbados and Antigua The bride a Potsdam State alumna and former Hoosick Falls teacher and the groom a Clarkson College graduate and former Springfield Kings player expect to reside in the area.
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Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Roxy Jane Pitt
Supreme Court
DeForest C. Pitt
Wayne F. LaChance
Gerald N. LaChance
Espanola
Ontario
Canada
Church of the Immaculate Conception
Donald J. Ammering
U.S.A
Thomas H. Curry
West Haverstraw
Susanne LaChance
Patricia Pelkey
Lake Placid
Joyce Sprague
Kelly Ann Male
Robert J. Baltrame
Whitefish Falls
Can
DeForest C. Pitt Jr
William O'Flaherty
Toronto
Paradise
Bennington
Barbados
Antigua
The
State University College At
Potsdam
Dorset revote set for Sept 21 on bond issue
Dorset School Board schedules Tuesday September 21 revote of a 56000 bond to finance its share of an 80000 building package including a two room addition and library renovation. A yes on the ballot rescinds the bond. a no means pass again. If it fails, a new vote would wait until 1972.
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Dorset
Sydney J. Meachem
Bennington man hospitalized after tavern beating incident
Corliss Senecal of Bennington, 54, severely injured in a July 30 assault at a Walloomsac tavern, remains in critical condition at Albany Medical Center. He suffered jaw and facial fractures and pneumonia while hospitalized at Putnam Memorial. Police report no official charges yet. two former Bennington and Hoosick residents are named as alleged assailants.
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Corliss Senecal
Bennington
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Walloomsac
N.Y
Albany, N.Y. Medical Center
Senecal
Albany
New York
Vermont
Center Brunswick
Town of Hoosick
Seneca
Putnam Hospital
William C. Sennett
Corliss
Hoosick
Hudson Valley College seeks tech program applicants
Limited openings remain in mechanical, electrical and civil technology at Hudson Valley Community College for the upcoming fall semester. Dean Paul F. Goliber highlighted two year programs as strong foundations for vocations or transfers to four year engineering programs. He noted growing acceptance of the bachelor of engineering technology degree and high demand for technicians in government and private industry. Interested students should contact Dean Goliber at 283 1100.
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Hudson Valley Community College
Paul F. Goliber
Rensselaer County
Goliber
Paul Goliber
Witten exhibit continues at McCullough Park Foundation
Exhibition of paintings by Eugene and Anita Witten opens at the McCullough Park Foundation in North Bennington, running through August 13. The Wittens, self taught from Shushan, N.Y., create small abstract works with French and Oriental influences. Gene Witten, a noted master framemaker, frames paintings in the Clark Museum and in galleries in Boston and New York.
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Eugene
Anita Witten
McCullough Park Foundation
North Bennington
Wittens
Shushan
N.Y
Gene” Witten
Clark Museum
Williamstown
Boston
New York
Vermont Symphony at Mt. Snow explodes with cannons and music
Wayne A. Smith reviews a July 31 benefit concert at Mt. Snow featuring Stephen Manes as soloist with the Vermont Symphony Festival Orchestra led by Alan Carter. The event, aided by military bands and a British group, used 11 muzzle-loading cannons for Tchaikovsky and Copland pieces, drawing about 500 attendees for Symphony Day activities supporting school programs. The performance showcased Manes in Gershwin and solid ensemble playing, despite warm, stormy weather.
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MT. Snow
Vermont Symphony Festival Orchestra
Alan Carter
Stephen Manes
Bennington
Vermont Light Artillery
R.P.T. Jutson
Richard Fifield
North America
John A. Perks
Sundance Lodge
Vermont Symphony Orchestra
Vermont
Hoosick Falls Couple Wed In Immaculate Conception Church
Miss Mary Jane Bisson and Clyde J. Rowland were married at noon Saturday in Hoosick Falls Church of the Immaculate Conception. The bride, daughter of Mr and Mrs Joseph L Bisson, wore an A line peau de soie gown with beaded lace, and the couple will reside in Gloversville after a Canada trip. The ceremony included details of white gladioli and chrysanthemums, a reception at the VFW Hall, and guests from multiple New York towns and nearby states.
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Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Mary Jane Bisson
Joseph L. Bisson
Water St
Clyde J. Rowland
Glen Rowland
Parsons Ave
Church of the Immaculate Conception
John R. Ryan
O.S.A
Raleigh Tatro
Barbara Jean Bisson
Veronica Bisson
Taylor Rowland
Joseph L. Bisson Jr
Warren D. Rowland
VFW
Hoosick Falls Central School
State University of New York
Oneonta
Broadalbia
Hudson Valley Community College
Gloversville
Canada
Pomona
North Tarrytown
Hastings-on-Hudson
North Hoosick
Schenectady
Irvington
Plainview
Johnstown
Yonkers
Bronx
Garden City
Shushan
Bridgeport
Bridgeport, Conn
Wollaston, Mass
Bennington and
North Pownal
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Southern Vermont Art Center
SVAC
Hudson Valley College
Troy, N.Y
Manchester
Manc’ .Ier
Neil Cross
Bennington-Rutland Supervisory Union
Phyllis Warren
Warren
Fort Hood
Tex
Castleton State College
Currier Memorial School
Danby
Witten
Schnectady Museum
Big House
Willard Boepple
Sam Ogden Jr
Landgrove
Vermont Symphony
Tchaikovsky
Aaron Copeland
Julius Manes
Buffalo, N.Y
George Gershwin
Manes
John Philip Sousa
Lincoln
Sydney Meachem
Jerome Kern
Schubert
C.J. Rowland
Mr. and
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B.B.P
Dunham
Lane
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