GOOD MORNING, UPPER VALLEY
If rain does fall it'll mostly be light, brought to us by a low pressure system dipping its toe in from Canada. There's a slight chance of thunderstorms this afternoon, but everything should be done by evening. Otherwise, we get mostly cloudy skies—with things changing to partly cloudy by afternoon—and temperatures getting into the mid or upper 60s. Winds from the south. Mid 40s tonight.
Mysteries of pigment.
"Leucism" is a partial loss of pigmentation, and as luck would have it, two examples just showed up around here.
The first is a black-and-white goldfinch, caught by Lauran Corson in her yard in Woodstock. A birding friend tells her, "Only a few have been reported altogether. Leucism blocks pigment to some feathers, in this case, the yellow ones." Lauran writes that she wasn't expecting something like that, and only had her cellphone on hand. Now, "my camera is at the ready."
And then there's this porcupine in Meriden, from Terri Crane. If you look carefully, you'll see that its eyes and nose are normal, which is how you know it's leucistic rather than albino.
The arrestees, Hanover Police Chief Charlie Dennis said in an early morning press release, "
included both Dartmouth students and non-Dartmouth students." The protest had drawn a serious police presence, with officers from Dartmouth Safety & Security, the Hanover Police, NH State Police in riot gear, and members of the Central New Hampshire Special Operations Unit all on hand. Burgundy link goes to HPD press release.
Events began unfolding around 5:30 yesterday afternoon, according to live updates by reporters for The Dartmouth that were filed all evening long, as a "Labor for Liberation" rally got underway with speakers and a couple hundred demonstrators. After an hour or so, demonstrators began erecting a tent encampment—in violation of Dartmouth policy prohibiting "
the use of tents and encampments on the Green and other areas of campus," as Provost David Kotz had noted in a campus email in the afternoon. As more demonstrators and onlookers arrived, so did police officers. Around 8 pm, a student government rep announced negotiations had failed, 20 minutes later Hanover police gave encampment protesters a warning that arrests were imminent, and not long after, state police began removing demonstrators. Tension remained high between the crowd and police for hours as detainees were taken away, the crowd roamed North Main Street, and police tried to maintain order. Blow-by-blow at the burgundy link. Read from the bottom.
Here's coverage of the scene from WMUR, including footage reporter Ross Ketschke posted to X of one elderly demonstrator being arrested.
They were out on the Green demonstrating earlier in the day, reports the
Valley News
's Frances Mize (who put in an
extremely
long day,
). Mize lays out the competing claims by both sides: students contending the college continues to reject its proposals, and Provost David Kotz yesterday going public to lay out what the college
has
proposed and writing that the union had "made no offers, proposals, or counter proposals that could move bargaining forward."
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At WRJ's Kishka Gallery, a "verdant and trippy universe." Those would be the seven colored-pencil works in Amalia Angulo's exhibition there, "Big Bear", writes Eric Sutphin in Seven Days. Angulo grew up in Cuba until she was 14, and now lives in the Hudson River Valley. Her work, Sutphin writes, pairs women who are "solid and monumental, like Paleolithic goddesses," with animals—a bear, a lion, a horse—and those companions "often make them seem fragile in comparison. Though humans and animals appear to exist in harmony, it isn't entirely clear that the kingdom is peaceable." Through June 1.Want to dig into NH's deep past? The NH State Conservation and Rescue Archaeology Program trains participants "to do archaeology in a responsible manner and to appreciate its benefits," writes Suzanne Laurent in New Hampshire mag. And it's got sessions coming up in June and July, in which volunteers will help excavate a terrace of the Androscoggin River at Mollidgewock State Park. Over the last few seasons, teams have found the remains of three hearths there that date back 3,000 years. State archeologist Mark Doperalski, who'll lead this year's digging, explains. Apply here.SPONSORED: Check out the Ted Lasso preaching series at The Church of Christ at Dartmouth College! Join us Sundays at 10 am on May 5th, 12th, and 26th, when inspiration for each Sunday's sermon is drawn from the journey of a character in the show. The Rev. Mandy Lape-Freeberg considers Nate on May 5th, Roy Kent on May 12th, and the main character, Ted Lasso, on May 26th. The Church of Christ a Dartmouth College is an open and affirming congregation of the United Church of Christ, located at 40 College St. in Hanover. Sponsored by The Church of Christ at Dartmouth College.In NH House, GOP lawmakers respond to bipartisan Senate hunger bill by recommending it be gutted. The bill, writes Ethan DeWitt in NH Bulletin, is aimed at boosting meal assistance to families in the summer—when kids aren't in school—and create new programs to encourage breakfast take-up in school. It passed the GOP-controlled Senate unanimously. Now, however, GOP legislators on the House Finance Committee want to strip most of the programs from the bill, including a summertime EBT program for which 37,000 kids would qualify. The bill still has to go before the full finance committee.Well, it's official: New VT juvenile facility will be built in Vergennes. At least, that's what the mayor announced yesterday at a city council meeting, saying he'd met with state officials earlier in the day and they'd accepted a bid for the facility. You may remember that Seven Days reported several weeks ago that Vergennes had won out over South Burlington in a bid to host the state's only juvenile rehab facility after state officials announced they were no longer interested in pursuing a smaller version in Newbury. But neither state nor Vergennes officials would confirm it. Now, reports WPTZ, they've got a deal.Bianca Stone named VT Poet Laureate. Stone, who both writes and teaches classes on poetry, is the granddaughter of earlier VT poet laureate Ruth Stone and the founder of the Ruth Stone House in Goshen, VT. She replaces Mary Ruefle, who has served as laureate since 2019. Stone tells Seven Days' Ken Picard that her goal for her four years in the position is to involve readers who normally don't discuss or engage with poetry. “Poetry is in many ways closer to how our minds actually work in terms of understanding the complexity of thought and being in the world," she tells him."The artist in me is what really fell in love with bird colors, but it was the biologist in me that discovered why they're so important.” Allison Schultz, at LA's Natural History Museum, studies how birds respond to environmental changes and how their colors evolve. The hues are the result of pigment—from the seeds, fruit, and bugs the bird eats—and feather structure, which can refract and scatter light. USA Today analyzed hundreds of bird photos to present their color palettes, and tapped experts to learn more: like why bright colors are placed on the bird's front and darker, more muted colors on the back."Should we get away from the windows?" Well, yes. For about the first two minutes of this 3-minute video, conversation is easygoing as a train crew stopped along tracks in Nebraska last week watches a tornado in the distance. Then, suddenly, it's not in the distance any more. In the end, 31 cars derailed, though the crew was unharmed. Language warning, but you would too.
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He'll be tracing his journey from imprisonment in Japanese American internment camps during World War II to his worldwide success as a TV and film star, author, and social media influencer. In the Hanover Inn's Grand Ballroom.
, in conversation about "When American Diplomats Dissent". Josh Paul left his post in the State Department’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs last fall to protest the US's continued arms transfers to Israel. Elizabeth Shackelford left the Foreign Service in 2017 over the policies of the Trump administration on human rights and diplomacy. They'll be talking about why they resigned, why dissent is critical to improving our foreign policy, and the lessons they’ve taken away from their experiences. In Haldeman 41 and livestreamed.
"These up-and-coming vocalists present a dense, fast program" they write, with everything from Handel and opera to raving new pop, all in English, French, Italian, Arabic, Bengali, Cantonese, Mandarin, and Spanish. No charge.
Starting at 6:15 pm today, the Vermont Natural Resources Council and Pentangle Arts host the 2024 Wild and Scenic Film Festival
at Woodstock's Town Hall Theater. The short films tackle everything from efforts to help sloths survive change in tropical rainforests, to young indigenous Americans paddling a restored river for the first time, to the power of kelp.
: Will Eberle of Recovery Vermont talking at Hartford Dismas House about recovery coaching and the "
complex stew of life events involving trauma, poverty, abuse, incarceration, or family dynamics" it usually has to address; Tel Aviv-based political consultant and pollster Dahlia Scheindlin, author of
The Crooked Timber of Democracy
, at a recent Dickey Center talk on
"Do Israelis and Palestinians Really Want Peace?"; and the Upper Valley Symphony Orchestra at LOH a couple of weeks ago performing Haydn's Symphony No. 103, "The Drumroll".
Well, if you can't be there, you can at least be here.
The Mexican power guitar couple Rodrigo y Gabriela are at the Flynn in Burlington tonight (astoundingly, t
). But if you can't see them live, you can still get a feel for them live on the small screen:
from a few months back.
See you tomorrow.
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