The Empire of Reason and Commager’s Enlightenment Reconsidered
Henry Steele Commager analyzes European ideas shaping American self government in The Empire of Reason. He places eighteenth century Europe at the center of enlightenment and argues Americans wrote these principles into law and institutions, with Newton, Locke, Voltaire, and Franklin among key figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
America
Henry Steele Commager
Anchor Press
Doubleday
Empire of Reason
American Republic
Commager
Newton
Locke
Britain
Priestley
Bentham
Hume
Monboddo
Montesquieu
Voltaire
Buffon
Diderot
France
Christian Wolff
Lessing
von Haller
Goethe
Germany
Genovesi
Filangieri
Beccaria
Tamucci
Thomas Paine
Paine
Professor Commager
Reason
National Marionette Theatre Stuns Manchester Audience
The National Marionette Theatre opened its show The Art of the Puppeteer at the Southern Vermont Art Center. Puppeteers David Syrotiak and a female colleague manipulated 18 30-inch marionettes in a luminous performance with cross, hands, and masks transforming wood into living motion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Marionette Theatre
Manchester
Southern Vermont Art Center
David Syrotiak
Therese Trahan Joins Saratoga Chorus For Philadelphia Orchestra
Therese C Trahan of Bennington has been accepted as a member of the 250 voice Saratoga Potsdam Chorus formed for The Philadelphia Orchestra during its three week Saratoga Festival season in August. The chorus draws musicians from across North America with many holding music degrees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia Orchestra
Saratoga Springs
N.Y
Brock McElheran
Saratoga-Potsdam
Therese C. Trahan
Bennington
North America
Sixth Craft Demonstration Day Herbal Magic And Craft Shows
Park-McCullough House plans its sixth Craft Demonstration Day on Saturday July 2 from 11 am to 4 pm. Demonstrations, crafts for sale, a magic show, children’s reading, and games fill the day with free admission and optional donations. Adele Godchaux Dawson offers herb displays and tips on growing and drying herbs including comfrey and garlic. She travels with six children and 16 grandchildren, is a woodcarver and painter, and has historical ties to Vermonters who benefited from her remedies. Other shaftsbury demonstrators include basket weaving by Ms Dunbar and fly tying by Anthony W Altobell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Park-McCullough
House
Park-McCullough House
Adele Godchaux Dawson
Ms. Dawson
China
Adele
Dawson
St. Fiacre
Martyre
Dunbar
Route 7
Shaftsbury
Anthony W. Altobell
Battenkill
SVAC paintings on loan to Chittenden Bank in Bennington
An exhibition of 14 works from the Southern Vermont Art Center Permanent Collection travels to the Chittenden Trust Company in Bennington. Artists include Jay Connaway Leonabel Jacob Harry Shokler Serjeant Kendall Diana Heiskell Lorenzo Hatch Louise Arkell Colburn Moselsio James Montague Felicia Meyer. also features quilting and rug making demonstrations by local artisans with info via Park-McCullough House.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchester
Southern Vermont Art Center
Chittenden Trust Company
Bennington
Jay Connaway
Kelley
Dorset
Flower of
Hawaii
Leonabel Jacob
Vermont
Harry
Louise Ryals Arkell
Francis Colburn
Simon Moselsio
James L. Montague
Felicia Meyer
Percussion Concert at Bennington College Fringe Program
A June 9 8 15 p m percussion concert at Bennington College Greenwall Music Workshop features the college Percussion Ensemble directed by Marta Ptaszynska. The program includes a premiere of Ptaszynska s Chimes bells wood stones for diverse instruments plus Siderials for two percussion quintets with Jill Neff paintings projections. Also on the program are Incantation by Penharski and Planes points lines by Yaffe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greenwall
Bennington College
Marta Ptaszynska
Ptaszynska
Gunnar Schonbeck
Jill Neff
Zbigniew Penharski
Poland
David Yaffe
Beatrice Jackson Wins Grumbacher Merit Award
Beatrice Jackson of Manchester New York and Dorset earns the M Grumbacher prize of a Certificate of Merit for oil painting Red Barns. Award presented at Women Artists Inc annual exhibition in New York City May 11 through May 29 at the National Academy Galleries. She serves on the Southern Vermont Art Center Art Committee and is an honorary trustee in its 48th year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchester
Beatrice Jackson
New York
Dorset
M. Grumbacher Artists Material Company
Women Artists, Inc
New York City
National Academy Galleries
Red Barns
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Commager’s
The
Empire of
Herbert Mitgang
Jefferson
Virginia
Adams
Benjamin Franklin
Samuel Eliot Morison
William E. Leuchtenburg
Columbia University
Oxford
United States
Allan Nevins
Knopf
Republic
Judson Brown
Therese Trahan
Saratoga Chorus
Svac
Chittenden Bank
Shokler
Fenesterre
Kendall
Diana Heiskell
Lorenzo Hatch
Altobell
Hoosick Falls
Susan MacPherson -_ Krutsky
Ms. MacPherson-Krutsky
Philadelphia College of Art
Kansas City Art Institute
Mary Lou Maxon
Maxon
Hilton
Massachusetts
Big House
Green Mountain Weavers Guild
Wrarekhrvertin
Monument Plaza
West Mountain Farms Stable
Arlington, VT
Abraham Fischer
Pine Circle
Crescent Blvd
Bennington, Vermont
TOSP
T.V
Great Republic
Meissen
Tole
P.J. Mene
Empire
Vic
Hitchcock
Joyce Hall
Ruth Dewey
Main St
Bennington, VI
NNEL
Benn
Lusty Entertainment
Bob Thomas
Associated Press
Cinema
Paul Newman
George Roy Hill
Universal Picture
ONG
Childre
Sun
Harry Ends
Robert Redford
Robert Shaw
George Row Hill
Cimbara
FBI
George C. Scott
Paramount Picture
Northside Drive
Pho
Paker
Chuck Norris
Movielab
BYU
Ec la Ele
Robert Conrad Don Stroud
Coronamatic Cartridge Electric Typewriter
Office Products Center
Spring St
Williamstown
Fellini
Juliet
Guilietta Masina
Federico Fellini
Rosasco
Berkshire Plaza
North Adams
Mass
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