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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1971
Page
6
Narrator argues that prior to the 1920s women were freer in rural life, recounting family roles and farm routines. He mocks modern Wim’s Lib ideals, contrasts mothering control with father’s domain, and recalls solitary farm women, including Judy Fogg and Jenny Powers, amid a snowy winter and a TV protest by Harvard women.
North Pownal poet and short story anthologist Barbara Howes Smith has been named a recipient of a $3,000 National Institute of Arts and Letters award for her creative work in literature. She joins 10 other honorees at the May 26 ceremony in New York City. The institute, founded in 1898, awards about $60,000 yearly to U.S. artists. Smith, an alumna of Bennington College (1938), published The Undersea Farmer in 1949 and Light and Dark among others. Her anthologies include 23 Modern Stories (1963) and The Sea-Green Horse (1980, with son Gregory Jay Smith). She has works in progress on Latin American literature and will present manuscripts for an exhibit at institute headquarters.
Arlington area residents are advised to boil all drinking water after open reservoir samples showed higher than normal bacteria. Health Officer Dr. James P. O’Neil says no emergency exists. three consecutive clean samples are needed. One clean sample exists, second results due next week. He cites pipe flushing and extra chlorination to fix the issue.
Bennington regional planning officials, aided by three garbage experts, discussed recycling, burning wastes for energy, and landfill challenges. They reviewed costs, feasibility of green box drop points, and the distinctions of one metal can construction and color sorting for glass.
Williams College will relocate upperclass women to about 10 housing sites including three former faculty homes and a former fraternity. About 115 regular students plus 75 exchange women across six dormitory style houses will be housed in spaces such as Susan Hopkins Doughty and Goodrich Houses, with Lambert House dropped from housing use.
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