Friday, February 24, 2017
Thursday, February 9, 2017
New Books at the Mount Holly Library
This week I've added 6 new books to the library shelves. Stop in to borrow one soon! More books are on order ... stay tuned for new arrivals.
Please let me know if you have a recommendation for a book for the library.
1. Dork Diaries #11 Tales From a Not-so-friendly Frenemy, by Rachel Renee Russell
2. Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk, by Kathleen Rooney
2. Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk, by Kathleen Rooney
3. A Book of American Martyrs, by Joyce Carol Oates
4. Below the Belt, by Stuart Woods (A Stone Barrington Novel)
5. Never Never, by James Patterson
6. Swing Time, by Zadie Smith
Tuesday, February 7, 2017
Ludlow-Mount Holly Act 46 Subcommittee
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Weston Playhouse Announces New Musical Award Winner
PRESS RELEASE Weston Playhouse Announces New Musical Award Winner
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Contact: Emily Pariseau FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Tel. 802-824-8167 x 112
Date: February 6, 2017
Weston Playhouse Announces New Musical Award Winner
Writer/composer Zack Zadek's DEATHLESS has been chosen for the Weston Playhouse Theatre Company's 11th annual New Musical Award. Nominated by Jennifer Ashley Tepper of Feinstein's/54 Below, DEATHLESS follows the road trip of a grieving family who are asking questions about life and death in the modern age in the face of the development of a pill that can prevent natural death. Tepper describes DEATHLESS as "an intimate, meaningful new musical driven by its original voice, moving score, and knowledge of the human heart." Developed in part at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, Goodspeed Musicals, Signature Theatre, and Merry Go Round Playhouse, DEATHLESS is slated for a developmental production at Goodspeed's Norma Terris Theatre in June.
The only award of its kind in the country, the Weston New Musical Award brings the creator or creators of a promising new musical together with a small ensemble of actors to rehearse and record selections from the winning score. A free public concert of DEATHLESS will be held at the Weston Playhouse on Saturday, March 4 at 8pm. Weston Associate Artistic Director Michael Berresse will direct the concert reading, and Kurt Deutsch of Sh-K-Boom and Ghostlight Records will produce the free demo recording.
To acquire free tickets to the performance on March 4th and further information about Weston’s New Musical Award and Weston's 2017 season, visit westonplayhouse.org.
Monday, February 6, 2017
Open House at Mount Holly Town Library
Volunteer Open House at Mount Holly Town Library – All are invited to an open house at the library to learn more about volunteer opportunities. If you are interested in helping patrons check out books, taking care of the front desk, helping with other special library projects or book sales please feel free to stop in on Monday, February 13 from 11:30AM to 3:00PM to speak to Amanda Merk, the librarian. If you are already volunteering at the library and want to get hands-on refresher training on the library online system or any aspect of the library you can stop in at this time too. Refreshments will be provided! If you can't make it on February 13 please email mthollylibrary@gmail.com to make an appointment to meet with Amanda.
Friday, February 3, 2017
location change--rally Saturday in Ludlow*******UPDATE
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Thursday, February 2, 2017
"Bridge of Spies" With Tom Hanks, Next Ludlow Movie, Feb. 4
"Bridge of Spies" With Tom Hanks, Next Movie, Feb. 4
"Bridge of Spies", an exiting spy drama set in Cold War Berlin, will be FOLA's (Friends of Ludlow Auditorium) next feature film in the Ludlow Town Hall Auditorium on Saturday, Feb. 4 at 7 PM.
Bridge of Spies is a 2015 historical drama legal thriller film directed and co-produced by Steven Spielberg, written by Matt Charman, Ethan and Joel Coen and stars Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Amy Ryan and Alan Alda. Based on the 1960 U-2 incident during the Cold War, the film tells the story of lawyer James B. Donovan, who is entrusted with negotiating the release of Francis Gary Powers—a pilot whose U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union—in exchange for Rudolf Abel, a captive and convicted Soviet KGB spy held under the custody of the United States, whom he represented at trial. The name of the film refers to the Glienicke Bridge, which connects Potsdam with Berlin, where the spy exchange took place.
In 1957 Brooklyn, New York, Rudolf Abel is arrested by the FBI and charged with three counts of spying for the Soviet Union. He refuses to collaborate in exchange for the charges being dropped. As a Russian spy, no one is inclined to represent Abel so James B. Donovan, an insurance lawyer, is finally prevailed upon to defend him so that trial will be seen as fair. Donovan declines to help CIA garner information from his client and mounts the best legal defense he can. Abel is convicted on all counts, and Donovan asks the judge to spare him the death penalty because he was honorably serving his country and he might prove useful for a future prisoner exchange.
Meanwhile, operating from a military airbase in Peshawar, Pakistan, Gary Powers, a pilot in the CIA's top secret U-2 spy plane program, is shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission over the USSR. As the plane drops, he is unable to trigger the plane's self-destruct before he is thrown clear and parachutes to safety. Instead of committing suicide as instructed, he is captured and sentenced in a show trial to ten years confinement, with three years in prison.
Donovan receives an aerogram from East Germany purportedly from Abel's wife thanking him and urging him to get in contact with their lawyer Vogel. The CIA think this is a back-channel message indicating that the USSR is willing to swap Powers for Abel. They ask Donovan to go in an unofficial and unsupported capacity to Berlin to negotiate the exchange, and he arrives just as The Berlin Wall is going up.
As with all FOLA movies, the film is open to everyone and free; donates are appreciated. Berkshire Bank will supply popcorn while FOLA will provide water. For information, call (802) 228-7239 or visit the FOLA web site at www.fola.us.
"Bridge of Spies", an exiting spy drama set in Cold War Berlin, will be FOLA's (Friends of Ludlow Auditorium) next feature film in the Ludlow Town Hall Auditorium on Saturday, Feb. 4 at 7 PM.
Bridge of Spies is a 2015 historical drama legal thriller film directed and co-produced by Steven Spielberg, written by Matt Charman, Ethan and Joel Coen and stars Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Amy Ryan and Alan Alda. Based on the 1960 U-2 incident during the Cold War, the film tells the story of lawyer James B. Donovan, who is entrusted with negotiating the release of Francis Gary Powers—a pilot whose U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union—in exchange for Rudolf Abel, a captive and convicted Soviet KGB spy held under the custody of the United States, whom he represented at trial. The name of the film refers to the Glienicke Bridge, which connects Potsdam with Berlin, where the spy exchange took place.
In 1957 Brooklyn, New York, Rudolf Abel is arrested by the FBI and charged with three counts of spying for the Soviet Union. He refuses to collaborate in exchange for the charges being dropped. As a Russian spy, no one is inclined to represent Abel so James B. Donovan, an insurance lawyer, is finally prevailed upon to defend him so that trial will be seen as fair. Donovan declines to help CIA garner information from his client and mounts the best legal defense he can. Abel is convicted on all counts, and Donovan asks the judge to spare him the death penalty because he was honorably serving his country and he might prove useful for a future prisoner exchange.
Meanwhile, operating from a military airbase in Peshawar, Pakistan, Gary Powers, a pilot in the CIA's top secret U-2 spy plane program, is shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission over the USSR. As the plane drops, he is unable to trigger the plane's self-destruct before he is thrown clear and parachutes to safety. Instead of committing suicide as instructed, he is captured and sentenced in a show trial to ten years confinement, with three years in prison.
Donovan receives an aerogram from East Germany purportedly from Abel's wife thanking him and urging him to get in contact with their lawyer Vogel. The CIA think this is a back-channel message indicating that the USSR is willing to swap Powers for Abel. They ask Donovan to go in an unofficial and unsupported capacity to Berlin to negotiate the exchange, and he arrives just as The Berlin Wall is going up.
As with all FOLA movies, the film is open to everyone and free; donates are appreciated. Berkshire Bank will supply popcorn while FOLA will provide water. For information, call (802) 228-7239 or visit the FOLA web site at www.fola.us.
Wednesday, February 1, 2017
Rally Saturday in Ludlow
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What: Say "Yes" to Immigration and Refugees and "No" to Trump’s BanWhen: Saturday, February 4th, 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m.Where: Pond Street side walk in Ludlow, in front of the Sunshine Plaza (at base of Okemo Mt. Access Road)Park: Please park at Dorsey Park and walk to base in order to not create more of a traffic problem or jam up local business parking. We want to make friends, not antagonists.Signs: Please make and bring signs in favor of welcoming immigrants and refugees to Vermont and the US, against the Trump ban, against Secure Communities (will allow/encourage local law enforcement across the US to work as border agents for Immigration and Customs Enforcement ICE), in favor of the VT immigrant community, farmworkers, refugees…. You get the idea.
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