Chelsea House hosts contradancing weekend in Brattleboro
Chelsea House Folklore Center presents a three day contradancing weekend with dances Fri Sat Sun at 8 p.m. and Saturday Sunday afternoons workshops. Applejack calls and music Fri, Fred Breunig Sat, Dancing Masters with Dudley Laufman Sun. Adult and children workshops with various instructors. Admission $2.50 per event, $10 weekend pass. reservations at 257-1482.
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The Best of Families Debuts on PBS Tonight
The Best of Families, a new PBS dramatic series blending history and fiction, premieres in a two hour special at 9 p.m. ET on Thursday Oct 27. Seven one hour episodes follow weekly on PBS stations with repeats planned, including a captioned run. Created by CTV with funding from NEH and CPB among others, the show dramatizes 1880 to 1900 New York City with fictional characters against urban modernization, immigration, and social change. Filming occurred at 20th Century Fox’s studio on West 54th Street and in Manhattan and Brooklyn, with a trolley car episode shot in Brookline, Massachusetts.
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Botzow exhibition opens in Williamstown
The Gallery on Spring Street Williamstown presents William Botzows eighth solo show from Oct 30 to Nov 27 featuring two large constructions and about 18 drawings from the Constellation series and five from the Lap series. The Constellation works use pastel graphite crayon and colored pencil on ink wash and inspire the constructions in galvanized metal oils and acrylics on cotton and linen. The Lap drawings in conte and charcoal explore the human figure. Botzow born 1945 New York City studied Massachusetts Princeton has exhibited at RPI Middlebury Johnson Gallery Change Art Group in Washington Montana State University University of Idaho Bennington and is based in Hoosick Falls. An opening reception is Sunday Oct 30 from 4 to 8 p.m. Gallery hours are 10 5 daily.
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CBS Eyes New Formulas To Regain TV Leadership
CBS president Daly says the network will pursue fresh formats and youth oriented comedies while honoring proven classics. A two, four, and six hour mini series are planned for 1978 79 with new Mary Tyler Moore and midseason moves. NBC is not the model.
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Engaging air and mobile face make mime show worth seeing
Valerie Restivo Dorset reviews Peter Driscoll at the Dorset Playhouse co sponsored by the Vermont Arts Touring Artists program. The hour of short humorous mime sketches appealed to a young audience but the serious pieces felt shallow. Driscoll’s engaging facial gestures and flexible tongue entertained a sizable regional audience.
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Ancient ferry still ferries near Skardu in Indus River
Near the Himalayan town of Skardu India a ferry built in 328 BC to carry Alexander the Great across the Indus River remains in operation.
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