Pavilion Hotel fate sparks Vermont landmark plan
The Bennington Banner discusses establishing a Vermont Landmarks Preservation Commission akin to New York City’s to prevent demolition of historic sites like Montpelier’s Pavilion Hotel. It argues such protection preserves culture and history, noting experts warn destruction could erase a unique era and architectural heritage.
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Vermont Landmarks Preservation Commission
New York City
Vermont
New York
James Fitch
Columbia University
Legislative Council
Atlantic
Save the Pavilion old and its historic value in Vermont
A group called Friends of the Pavilion argues to preserve the Pavilion in Montpelier, a century old landmark linked to Vermont political history. They claim renovation costs less than a new office building and would match space efficiency, urging a state landmarks commission and private support to save and restore the site.
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Vermont
Statehouse
Montpelier
State Landmarks Commission
New York City Commission
Grand Central Station
Bennington editor notes park site probes and local sports praise
An editor notes ongoing investigations of alternative sites for a Town Farm public park with Willow Park critics and Soldiers Home property concerns. Also praise for John Wilkinson’s Vermont Open top amateur finish and congratulations to Rev Frederick B Wolf on becoming Bishop of Maine, with his family departing after nine fruitful years.
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Willow Park
Soldiers Home
Bennington
John Wilkinson
Frederick B. Wolf
Maine
Rotary Lions Softball Clash Promotes Little League Fund
Local Rotarians and Lions plan a charity softball game next Thursday night with a golf chip contest and public recognition of state baseball champions. The event benefits the Little League and showcases Patriots youth who learned base skills, aiming to draw a large crowd for a good cause.
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Patriots
MAUHS
Rotary
Park Commissions Plan for Willow Park in Bennington
Bennington Park Commission outlines a long range park system to protect landscapes and guide growth. It proposes private land acquisitions by donation, a planning commission with authority over other bodies, neighborhood parks of ten acres, tot lots, and a major park centered on Town Farm property potentially expanding to over 200 acres.
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Park Commission
Bennington
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Atlantic Coast
Planning
Planning Commission
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Mt. Anthony
Bald Mountain
Harmon Hill
Town Farm
Willow Park
Washington
UPI
House of Representatives
House
Joint Congressional Committee On
House Committee
Lighter Side satirizes Congress food stamps and parks
The column mocks congressional expense drives and proposes a food stamp plan for lawmakers, joking about ice cube savings and a grand Willow Park development. It argues parks benefit towns, warns against selling town land, and touts Bennington’s Willow Park as future green space.
Sparks From the Forge Liberals Face Their Own Truth
The piece singles out liberals and intellectuals as dodging ownership of societal messes, blaming utopian ideas and “romanticists” like Emerson and Dewey. It cites Henry Steele Commager on student revolt and criticizes universities for straying from learning to politics, citing Bennington College as a recent example of student self expulsion.
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Rousseau
Marx
Emerson
Whitman
James
Dewey
Atlantic
Hawthorne
T.S. Eliot
Commager
Commandoes
Toqueville
America
Prof. Commager
Commonwealth of Learning
Columbia
Bennington College
Existentialist politics and the search for direction
The piece argues that leaders like Johnson and Wilson know their goals but differ on how to reach them, while student radicals pose a problem by claiming not to know their aims. It cites Norman Mailer and McCarthy, notes three global mood levels toward peace, restraint, and radical youth, and praises Tito's reform response amid Yugoslav student protests.
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Daniel Cohn-Bendit
BBC
Cohn- Bendit
Johnson
Wilson
Colin-Bendit
Lyndon Johnson
Harold Wilson
England
Norman Mailer
Cambridge
Stephen
Norman
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Coretta King
Jefferson
Kennedy
America
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Marshal Tito
Yugoslavia
Tito
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