Potatoes and Catalogues Lead Off Unusual Christmas Books
A Christmas book list pairs quirky items with classic references including The Potato Book by Myrna Davis Foreword by Truman Capote, The First New England Catalogue, The New Woman's Survival Catalogue, The Catalogue of American Catalogues, The Annotated Wizard of Oz, The Best of Life, and the four-volume Dictionary of the History of Ideas.
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Myrna Davis
Truman Capote
Morrow
al Capp
Westminster Abbey
New England
Rawdon House-Pequot Press
Coward, McCann & Geoghegan- Berkeley
America
Matis Elcne de la Iglesia
L. Frank Baum
Ty W. W. Denslow
Michael Patrick
Stan Laurel and Ollie film festival fundraiser
The Community Arts Association of Southwest Vermont will screen four Laurel and Hardy features at Mt. Anthony High School Auditorium. A 2 p.m. matinee for youth precedes an 8 p.m. show on Saturday December 29. Tickets cost 25 cents for youths and 1 dollar for the evening, with outlets including Minerva Books Knight's Discount Fabrics Bennington Bookshop and Powers Market. Reservations at 442-0527.
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Stan Laurel
Oliver Hardy
Community Arts Association of Southwest
Vermont
Mt. Anthony High School
Music Box
Minerva Books
Knight's Discount Fabrics
Bennington
Powers’ Market
North Bennington
The Yankee Tradition An Evening of New England Program
Paul Falgane and Eric Peterson present The Yankee Tradition and An Evening of New England at Park- McCullough House Sunday at 8 p.m. The show traces Yankee spirit through Calvin Coolidge Fred Allen Wilson Bentley Walter Hard and other New Englanders, blending poetry science and local lore in a no charge community presentation.
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Paul Falgane
Eric Peterson
New England
Park- McCullough House
New
Allen
Green Mountain Boys
Colonel Allen
Fred Allen
Titus Moody
Maine
Titus
Wilson Bentley
Walter Hard
Manchester
Mt Anthony High School to present three Christmas concerts
Mt Anthony High School music department presents three Christmas concerts next Tuesday to Thursday at 7 30 p m in the high school auditorium. Tuesday features the wind ensembles under Foss and Robinson, the stage band under Billard, and a 140 piece symphonic band finale of Russian Christmas music. Wednesday includes the junior high seventh grade chorus led by Vivona, seventh and eighth grade orchestra with Antoni, and seventh grade band with Billard plus audience carols. Thursday presents the high school chorus under Trahan performing Britten Ceremony of Carols, and the high school orchestra under Antoni playing Handel Vivaldi Barber and Beethoven. The music staff and 600 students have prepared extensively and invite community attendance with no admission charge.
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Mt. Anthony
William Foss
Warren Robinson
Peter Billard
Robinson
Peg Vivona
Daniel Antoni
Billard
Therese Trahan
Benjamin Britten
Antoni
Handel
Vivaldi
Barber
Beethoven
Williams College Jazz Festival Opens January Series
The second annual four concert festival runs eight pm Thursdays in January at Chapin Hall Williams College. Roy Eldridge leads January 10, Thad Jones Mel Lewis Big Band on January 17, a jam session with Milt Hinton Taft Jordan Jo Jones Julian Cash Bill Jones and Buddy Tate on January 24, and Weather Report featuring Wayne Shorter and Joe Zawinul on January 31. Tickets cost $3 and info is at Tom Piazza 413 597 2874.
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Roy Eldridge
Thad Jones
Mel Lewis
Milt Hinton
Taft Jordan
Jo Jones
Julian Cash
Bill Jones
Buddy Tate
Weather Report
Wayne Shorter
Joe Zawinul
All College Entertainment Committee
Williams College
Tom Piazza
Janet Brenman One Woman Show At Image Gallery
In Stockbridge Massachusetts Janet Brenman 84 is presenting a one woman show at the Image Gallery with hours 10 to 5 daily except Sunday. In Schenectady New York the Schenectady Museum hosts Peter Arno Retrospect a New Yorker cartoonist collection and Fred Rector Sculptor a wood sculpture exhibit with varied hours. A planetarium presentation titled Christmas Star runs Saturdays and Sundays at Schenectady Museum featuring theories on the star and Kohoutek comet explanations.
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Stockbridge
Mass
Janet Brenman
Schenectady
N.Y
Schenectady Museum
Peter Arno
New Yorker
Fred Rector
Kohoutek
Ethan Allen Community College Vermont history course
Ethan Allen Community College in Manchester offers a Wednesday afternoon Vermont history course starting January 9. Instructor William West will lead lectures and discussions on topics from geography to the Civil War with guest speakers. tuition is 90 dollars for one course and 60 dollars for each additional course. For details call 362-3588 or visit 310 Bonnet St. Manchester Center office hours 10–5 daily and 7–9 Wednesdays.
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Manchester
Ethan Allen Community College
Vermont
Ethan Allen
Green Mountain Boys
Republic of Vermont
William West
Bonnet St
Manchester Center
Popular Records Fueled by Jazz Collector Bob Alshuler
Robert Alshuler, Columbia Records executive, owns more than 150000 records, mostly 78 rpm jazz discs. He licenses rare items for labels and artists, contributing to the nostalgia of Teddy Wilson era jazz. The two LP set Teddy Wilson and His All Stars features material from Brunswick and benefits from deep archival access.
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William D. Laffler
New York
UPI
Robert Alshuler
Columbia Records
Altshuler
Columbia
Bob
Brunswick
Teddy Wilson
Columbia KG
John Hammond
Billie Holiday
Stanley Dance
Dan Morgenstern
Jerry Wolburn
Frank Driggs
Oregon attorney general staff issues fourth Christmas Song Book
The Oregon AG office released its fourth annual Christmas Song Book. A piece parodies the Twelve Days of Christmas with lines about cops policing truckers trucking stations closing stocks a-falling recessions food stamps wood candles and a battery powered TV.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salem, Ore
UPI
Oregon Attorney General’s Office
T.V
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