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The darker rectangle in the middle of the winter landscape depicted in “Peach” is a photo. Liz Nelson works outward from a snapshot in each of the paintings in the Expanded Boundaries show. Photos courtesy of the artist
MONTPELIER — Expanded Boundaries, an exhibit that graces the Governor’s office in Montpelier, presents a collection of recent paintings by West Glover artist Liz Nelson. As I got off the elevator on the fifth floor of the Pavilion Building my eye was drawn immediately to “Last Year’s Garden,” a canvas showing a windswept winter landscape centered around the exposed remnants of a summer garden.
Under a deep blue Vermont sky the ground varies between a snowy expanse and patches of bare ground. Brown grass stalks rise in the foreground and middle distance. My eye was drawn to a group of these stalks, which seemed to have been painted in with a single hair brush. They occupied a patch slightly larger than an index card that had obviously been attached to the painting by the artist.
Anne Hamilton conducts the annual performance of Handel’s “Hallelujah Chorus,” at the North Country Union High School Christmas concert on December 16. Photos by Joseph Gresser
NEWPORT — Anne Hamilton, 2009 Music Educator of the Year, didn’t exactly start out to teach music.
“When I decided I wanted to be a music teacher was about a year after I started teaching music,” she said during a recent interview.
Ms. Hamilton recalled having a really good music teacher at Ridgewood High School in New Jersey, but said that she didn’t have the confidence to declare as a music major when she started college at Ohio Wesleyan University.
One of the 133 towers that make up Canadian Hydro’s Eco-Power Center north of Orangeville, Ontario. Photos by Chris Braithwaite
Helen and Bruce Fraser’s struggles with the health effects of a wind turbine development that surrounded their central Ontario home in 2006 are detailed in Wind Turbine Syndrome, a book published in November by Dr. Nina Pierpont.
Though she lives in Malone, New York, just west of a rural landscape that is dominated by industrial wind towers, Dr. Pierpont turned to Canada to interview five of the ten families whose experience is the raw material for her book. Two families live in Ireland, one each in the United Kingdom and Italy, and only one in the United States.
The difficulty, Dr. Pierpont says in her opening chapter, “comes from the legal and financial stone wall of the gag clause.”
