Timeless Tale

Opens Wednesday 20

Northern Stage presents Disney’s consummate musical Beauty and the Beast at Barrette Center for the Arts in White River Junction. The enduring tale follows bookish Belle, her beastly captor and their unlikely budding romance. The moral of the story rings true no matter your age or creed: Learn to look beyond appearances, and magic just might happen.

Print On

Saturday 16

The Herald’s 150th Anniversary Celebration at Chandler Center for the Arts in Randolph toasts the White River Valley newspaper’s sesquicentennial in style. Readers mark the momentous occasion with historical storytelling, live music and a canapé buffet — and proceeds benefit the paper’s future operations. From one periodical to another: Let’s hear it for the weeklies!

Pitch Perfect

Friday 15 & Saturday 16

Opera Vermont’s world premiere of Truman & Nancy at Barn Opera in Brandon brings the haunting story of Truman Capote’s legacy to the stage. Based on Andre Parks’ graphic novel Capote in Kansas, the poignant one-act explores the iconic yet troubled writer’s artistic choices and relationships as he grapples with his crowning literary achievement, In Cold Blood.

Euro Trip

Friday 15-Sunday 17

The spirit of the season is alight in the heart of downtown Burlington with the return of BTV Winter Market at City Hall Park. The annual European-style outdoor market showcases a rotating group of local makers and vendors every weekend through December 22. The festive atmosphere is made even merrier with cozy fires, games and music.

Tickled Pink

Saturday 16

Pink Floyd tribute band Floydian Trip rocket to our side of the moon for an evening of stellar ’70s sounds and visuals at Barre Opera House. The group combines lasers, projections and special effects with stunning note-for-note renditions of crowd-pleasing favorites. The end result? An authentic conjuring of psychedelic vibes from the real-deal tours of yore.

Communal Offering

Saturday 16

After sold-out screenings at the Vermont International Film Festival last month, Far Out: Life On & After the Commune is back by popular demand at the Savoy Theater in Montpelier. The documentary illuminates 1960s counterculture in rural America, using both contemporary interviews and original archival footage to highlight communes in Guilford, Vt., and Montague, Mass.

Snapshot Decisions

Ongoing

Vermont artist Ross Connelly‘s “Protest” exhibition at T.W. Wood Gallery in Montpelier couldn’t be more pertinent to election month. Taken in the late 1960s, the black-and-white photographs showcase historic moments of social upheaval and political unrest. The artist hopes these images encourage dialogue, noting: “Democracy depends on that.”

South Pomfret, Vermont – Saskadena Six’s oldest chairlift could be knocking on heaven’s door.

As part of Ski Vermont’s What’s New press release for the 2024-25 season, Saskadena Six (formerly known as Suicide Six) announced that Chair Two won’t operate this season due to mechanical issues. Saskadena Six is currently assessing whether it’s better to repair the nearly fifty-year-old lift or replace it with a new one.

Opened during the 1978-79 season, Chair Two services beginner and intermediate terrain. It’s the next step for beginners who have become comfortable skiing around the Snow Day covered conveyor lift. In addition, the Chair Two area is home to their terrain parks.

I think this would’ve been a bigger deal a few years ago. Before last winter, when Chair Two wasn’t open, the only way to get guests to this terrain pod was by going on The Gully trail. However, The Gully doesn’t have snowmaking, leading it to rarely being open, and if it’s open, it typically has thin coverage. However, the opening of Duane’s Drop (pictured below) last season gives guests coming from the top of Chair One the ability to reach the terrain over at Chair Two. In addition, Duane’s Drop has snowmaking coverage.

However, it’s still a loss for them, as it gave beginners riding the Snow Day lift an easier lift to try out before heading up to the Summit. Getting to Chair One from Snow Day is a long skate or walking experience, especially for novices.

Other offseason projects at Saskadena Six included a flatter unloading ramp from Chair One, widening the Easy Mile trail, cleaning up the Porcupine glade, and adding more low-energy snowmaking guns.

Image/Video Credits: Saskadena Six

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Birth Aug. 6, 1960

Berlin, Vermont

Death Oct. 28, 2024

Johnson, Vermont

Details of service

A memorial service will be held on Dec 21, 2024, at Lamoille Valley Church of the Nazarene in Johnson, VT.  The service will begin at 10 a.m.

Raised in Berlin, VT, David graduated from the University of Vermont with a Bachelor of Science in forestry. David was known for his work in the maple sugar industry, his love of the woods, training retrievers and helping others to learn how to work their dogs. 

He was the President of the Lake Champlain Retriever Club. As an American Kennel Club Retriever Hunt Test judge, he was known all over New England. His passion was training retrievers and also encouraging and instructing their owners. He was a Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife Hunter safety instructor as well as a member of the planning board of Johnson. 

Best of all, he will be remembered for his ready smile, grand story telling and indefatigable optimism, particularly in the last couple of years as he courageously battled cancer.

He died at home, near his woods. In addition to his three siblings, Bruce Butler, Mary Asper, Raechel Patch, and their children, he is survived by two daughters, Kathryn and Rebecca. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the David Butler Memorial Fund to help with their education.  Donations should be sent to 23 Foothills Dr, Jericho, VT  05465.