Merck Forest December sleigh rides and winter activities
Merck Forest offers horse drawn sleigh rides for families to cut their own Christmas trees on December 12 and 19 with two trips daily at 10 am and 2 pm. Tree $5 per tree plus 50 cents per rider. reservations at 394-7836. Also a cross country skiing option with a $1 donation, non groomed trails, maps at Rate 315 entrance. holiday sleigh rides before and after Christmas. winter wildlife study begins January 5 for three weeks with applications by request.
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Merck Forest
Black leadership shifts to economic class politics in the U S
The piece argues the NAACP and Urban League have moved beyond civil rights to an orthodox distributive justice agenda. It notes Benjamin Hooks and Vernon Jordan pushing domestic and welfare programs as black leaders increasingly seek leadership in elective politics, aligned with the white economic mainstream.
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NAACP
Urban League
Benjamin Hooks
Vernon Jordan
Newsweek
Jimmy Carter
Jordan
Carter
Hooks
Martin Luther King
Legal Defense Fund
Mau Book Talks Confessions of a Compulsive Reader
The November issue of the New England Builder, from O F Burghart in Bridgeport Connecticut, features the Old First Church at Old Bennington. The contractor is restoring the church to its original building plan from its initial construction.
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The
New England Builder
O.F. Burghart
Bridgeport
Vermont News Roundup Then and Now in A Busy Era
A collage of 1816 era notes covers restoration plans lost long ago, state police probe into liquor use by North Bennington High School students, 4 H club dinner with Reid Lefevre speaker, debate over panthers in Vermont, Christiana Mountain Lodge sale to Equinox House, and Manchester firehouse refurbishment. The piece also riffs on reading habits of a librarian, noting book and magazine streams, and offers a sneak peek into favorite modern books and authors.
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North Bennington High School
Leon Wagner
Catherine Corcoran
Corp
Frank Constantine
Bennington County
Reid Lefevre
Manchester
King Reid
Carnival Fame
David Allen
Bennington
Vermont
Christiana Mountain Lodge
Magic Mountain
Equinox House
Thomas Farley
Farley
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Merck Forest Foundation
Rupert
Merck Forest Report
Middlebury
Williams
University of Vermont
Washington
George F. Will
MAU
General Stark Theatre
Jean Wassick Jr
School Library Journal
Booklist
Horn Book
Richard Parker
Nelson
Mike
Paige Dixon
Golden River
Atheneum
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Charlie
Higgins
Woodward and Bernstein
H. Greenberg & Son
Main Street
Fishmatic
Main St
Bennington, Vermont
Dunham
Duntames Furniture Inc
Elu Street
Bennington Armory
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