Old Wilmington Homestead Restored as Norton House Museum
Albert Wurzberger opened the Norton House as a museum beside his 1836 Country Store in Wilmington Vermont. The restoration includes original wood and glass, two fireplaces, pegged floors, and 1700s wallpapers, with period furnishings donated by locals. A regional Wilmington Dover Jacksonville history society is planned, and a museum guide position is offered.
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Wilmington
Norton House
Albert Wurzberger
Norton
Capt. Wurzberger
Norwich University
U.S. Army
Mildred Norton
North Adams
Mass
Old Wilmington
Lisle Hill
Vt. 9
Bennington
Brattleboro
Miss Norton
David Norton
Martha Morgan
Wurzberger
New York Evening Telegram
Florence Hitt
Greerfield
Suzanne
Charles Staib
Rufus Norton
Henry Legher
Henry Peck
New Wilmington
Wolter
Weston Demonstrations: Fly Tying and Sculpture
Weston Vermont craftsmen, Inc. announces weekend demonstrations featuring Robin Spry Campbell of Putney with wood and stone sculpture and Dr. Raymond Harris of Landgrove tying flies. Campbell, a Putney School sculptor, shows works including a lignum vitae piece titled Hard Cell. Harris, a Springfield dentist, favors Hendricksons and hunts as part of his fly tying. Demonstrations run Saturday and Sunday July 15–16 in the Grist Mill with no admission charge.
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Weston
Vermont Craftsmen, Inc
Robin Spry Campbell
Putney
Raymond Harris
Landgrove
Campbell
Putney School
Stonmington
Conn
Dr. Harris
Springfield
Lafayette
University of Pennsylvania
France
Air Force
Harris
Quinlan and Hoag sisters visit after Walsh death
Mrs. Isabella B. Quinlan of Albany spent several days with her sister Mrs. Gordon Hoag following the death of her brother-in-law William Walsh. On Sunday they visited another sister Mrs. Alice B. Fitzgerald in Berlin.
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Isabella B. Quinlan
Albany
Gordon Hoag
William Walsh
Six Characters in Search of an Author at Williamstown
Pirates and actors collide as six characters invade a rehearsal in Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author. Williamstown Theatre stages the original drama for a week with director Tom Brennan at the helm and cast including John Braden Pris cilla Pointer Joyce Ebert and David Ackroyd. Tickets at Bennington Book Shop and Adams Memorial Theatre box office.
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Williamstown
Mass
Luigi Pirandello
Williamstown Theatre
John Braden
Tom Kalt
Rockie Krizack
David Ackroyd
Robert Ingham
Batya Hilsen
Bennington
Adams Memorial Theatre
Williams College
Tom Brennan
Pirandello
Priscilla Pointer
Lincoln Center Repertory Theatre
Alan Holzman
Grand Canyon conservationist to lecture at Weston Town Hall
Joel Rodack a founder of Arizonans for Water without Waste will lecture at Weston Town Hall next Wednesday at 8 p.m. The program features color slides on his Grand Canyon hike and dam impacts. Rodack and his wife Madeleine, residents of Tucson, have toured Europe Africa and all 50 states. The talk aims to oppose two proposed dams in the Grand Canyon with no admission charge.
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Weston
Joel Rodack
Grand Canyon
Rodack
Madeleine
Tucson
Europe
Africa
50 States
The
Playhouse
Rim
Canyon
Sunday Afternoon Concerts Start This Weekend at SVAC
The Southern Vermont Art Center opens a series with Woodwinds by MANCHESTER on July 16 at 3 30 p m featuring Musica Viva Woodwind Quintet members from the Boston area noted as distinguished musicians and teachers.
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Manchester
Southern Vermont Art Center
Musica Viva
Boston
Mezzo To Lead Lake George Opera Festival
Frances Bible named lead mezzo soprano for Lake George Opera Festival sixth season opening July 22 at Queensbury Auditorium. Verdi La Traviata to open and close six week run September 3. Reprises The Crucible and Ballad of Baby Doe with additional cast from major US opera houses. Season features Metropolitan Opera and others with Thomas Martin conducting and Emile Renan as artistic director. Tickets available at the door or advance via Art Center.
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Glens Falls
N. Y
Frances Bible
New York City Opera
Lake George Opera Festival
Opera Festival
Queensbury School
Aviation Road
Northway
Miss Bible
Elizabeth Proctor
Metropolitan Opera
Boston
San Francisco
Chicago
Lyric Opera
Richard Allen
Karen Armstrong
Marcia Baldwin
Anita Darian
Bernard Fitch
Batyah Godfrey
Robert Goodloe
Eugene Green
Abraham Lind
Barbara Miller
Robert Paul
Emile Renan
Thomas Martin
Paul Callaway
Washington Opera Society
David Lloyd
Lee Williams
Ethel Green
Lake George
Army Pfc Fred Bishop Jr Helps 556th Reach Milestone Mile
Army Pfc Fred Bishop Jr 19 of Shaftsbury is among the crew of the 556th Transportation Company that logged its 2 millionth mile in Vietnam near Long Binh on June 12 while supporting combat operations. The unit also holds the petroleum transport record with over 130 million gallons. Bishop, a truck driver, entered the Army in May 1966, trained at Ft Jackson and arrived overseas in October 1966 after graduating from Bennington High School in 1965.
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Army Pfc
Fred Bishop Jr
Shaftsbury
556Th Transportation Company
Vietnam
Long Binh
Pvt
Bishop
Ft. Jackson
S.C
Bennington High School
Bookmobile Set to Tour Rutland Area Next Week
The Free Public Library Service announces July 17 to 20 bookmobile routes with visits to Bennington County towns Shafts Sunderland East Dorset North Rupert Rupert West Rupert Pawlet and West Pawlet. It lists stop times and locations including East Main Street Shafts Pennock's Sunderland library Leach residence Rupert post office West Rupert Sherman's store Pawlet town hall and West Pawlet carnival lot.
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Rutland
Free Public Library Service
Bennington County
East
Main Streets
South Shafts
Sunderland
Pennock’s
East Dorset
North Rupert
Leach Residence
Rupert
West Rupert
Sherman’s
Rutland County
Pawlet
West Pawlet
Marlboro Festival Offers Mozart This Week
Marlboro Music Festival features Pablo Casals leading two Mozart works including Eine Kleine Nachtmusik with the Marlboro Festival Orchestra. Beethoven, Haydn and Mozart chamber pieces are also on the weekend program, with Casals conducting the seventh summer since 1960. Tickets remain for July 22 and 23. concerts run Saturdays 8:30 p.m. and Sundays 3 p.m. through Aug 20, box office details provided.
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Marlboro
Pablo Casals
Haydn
Mozart
Beethoven
Vermont Music Center
Blanche Honegger- Moyse
Marlboro Festival
Mary Burgess
Jon Humphrey
Ara Berberian
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Davenport
Vermont
George Schneeberger
Wayne Timmerman
Walloomsac
Bertha Hoag
Drysdale’s
Discover America
New York State
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Photo Service
North St. Bennington
Pirandello’s
Joyce Ebert
Miss Pointer
Miss Ebert
Oneida
Main
Weston Town Hall
Dorset
Marden Skinner
Dorset Nursing Association
Vermont Home Health Agency
Woodstock Inn
Joyce Stickney
Division of
Public Health Nursing
James McCooey
Ralph Stiles
Janice Ameden
Martha Bowen
Nora Gilbert
Nelle Williams
SVAC
Mezzo
Elinor Preble
Longy School
Wellesley College
Clark University
Richard Summers
Longy
Lowell State
University of New Hampshire
William Wrzesien
New England Conservatory
Andover Academy
John Miller
Berklee School
Boston University
Ibert
Reicha
Kleine Kammermusik
Hindemith
Kent
Rockwood's
Main ST
DIAL
Raymond R. Godsoe
Park St. Bennington
Metropolitan Life Insurance
New York, N
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