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> OpinionBy Betty A. Little, Killington Arts Guild
posted
Sep 26, 2012
The State Fair in Rutland gave KAG photographer Patsy Zedar a
rare opportunity to try something new. She has successfully
photographed waterfalls and fireworks for a number of years and
assumed this would be a similar, but i ...
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> OpinionBy Betty A. Little
posted
Aug 15, 2012
photos by Ann B. Day
The valley along Tinmouth Road off Route 140 above Wallingford
is one of the most beautiful places in Vermont. This summer, the
sky was blue, layered with white clouds, and the mountains rose one
beyond ...
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> OpinionBy Betty A. Little
posted
Aug 9, 2012
On Monday August 20 from 7-8:30 p.m. Betty A. Little, poet,
memoir writer and journalist, is giving a program for the
Killington Arts Guild, "South Carolina Perspective: Pawleys Island,
Brookgreen Gardens and Gullah Art," at ...
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> Opinion By Betty A. Little
posted
Jul 25, 2012
Sometimes the smallest things have the greatest meaning. Jan
Greenwood's children books "Lucy Lovebug's Hugs" may be one of
those. Greenwood is a new member of the Killington Arts Guild and
an author. Last month she gave a b ...
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> OpinionBy Betty A. Little, Killington Arts Guild
posted
Jul 18, 2012
When I first met Susan Maples, she was making ski clothing in
the winter. Every time I went for a fitting, we would wind up
talking about plants and gardens. I persuaded her to give a slide
program on landscaping for the Kil ...
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> Opinion By Betty A. Little
posted
Jun 8, 2012
The new Killington Arts Guild Show, "Spring into Summer" at
Cabin Fever Gifts is full of beautiful flowers-iris, sunflowers,
petunias, and lilacs. One can almost smell them they are so lovely.
But what caught my eye were two ...
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> OpinionBy Betty A. Little
posted
May 30, 2012
Killington Arts Guild is a creative community for the arts. Our
Gallery, website, programs and workshops are open to everyone. The
best way to get to know us is to visit our Gallery at Cabin Fever
Gifts where a new show, "Sp ...
- Columns
> OpinionBy Betty A. Little, Killington Arts Guild
updated
May 23, 2012 11:50 AM
The opportunity to go on safari in South Africa will never come
to some of us but there are places to go for the same experience.
The challenge to the artist is to catch the moment whether it's two
impalas playfully battling ...
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> OpinionBy Betty Little, Killington Arts Guild
posted
May 9, 2012
Courtesy of Patsy Zedar
Flagler Centennial Mural painted by the Art Guild of the Purple
Isles and the Island Christian School Art Club
2012 marks the 100th anniversary of the opening of the Overseas
Railroad to Key West, a ...
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> Opinion By Betty A. Little, Killington Arts Guild
updated
May 2, 2012 07:55 AM
Many of us first met Annette Compton about ten years ago as an
impersonator of Edna St. Vincent Millay in a Vermont Humanities
Program sponsored by the Killington Arts Guild and the Friends of
the Sherburne Library. Here we ...
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> OpinionBy Betty A. Little, Killington Arts Guild
posted
Apr 25, 2012
The art of scherenschnitte (German for scissor cuttings) is more
unique than most art techniques, perhaps, but it is no less
impressive. Edith Johnstone, known by most as "Edie," has been
practicing this art for the past 27 ...
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> OpinionBy Betty Little, Killington Arts Guild
updated
Apr 18, 2012 02:15 PM
Gardening was one of the original 'arts' included in the
Killington Arts Guild. I remember visiting Louise Hansson's house
to see how to grow gardens in a limited space and to George Lyons
place where he had a nursery of pla ...
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> OpinionBy Betty Little, Killington Arts Guild
posted
Apr 11, 2012
People asked me after the SafeArt performance at the Killington
Arts Guild Annual meeting, "What was it like meeting the Teen
Ensemble face to face?" These were young people who had been
abused, criticized for being differen ...
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> Opinion By Betty Little, Killington Arts Guild
updated
Apr 4, 2012 09:19 AM
In the 2012 Annual Meeting Report Sally Curtis, KAG
president, quotes Robert Hass, U.S. Poet Laureate (late 1990s)
"There's a whole range of behaviors that were highly functional in
the hierarchical organization th ...
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> OpinionBy Betty Little
updated
Mar 28, 2012 02:52 PM
In today's world if you or your business are not on the web then
you don't exist.
But learning about the web or a computer procedure is hard work. I
am trying to use Evernote to write on my computers. With it I could
write ...
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> OpinionBy Betty Little, Killington Arts Guild
updated
Mar 21, 2012 10:22 AM
"…wait on the wind, catch a scent of salt, call it our
life."
Excerpt from Our Valley by Philip Levine, U.S. Poet Laureate,
National Poetry Month poster, April 2012.
In Dana Gioia's famous essay, "Does Poetry Matter?"  ...
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> OpinionBy Betty Little
updated
Mar 14, 2012 11:21 AM
Many people in the Killington Arts Guild are discovering Susan
Wacker-Donle, a woman of many talents. She says about art, "I am
constantly stopped by the beauty around me. The way the morning sun
lights up the sky, the color ...
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> Opinion By Betty Little, Killington Arts Guild
updated
Mar 7, 2012 09:15 AM
Sunday March 25 at 2 p.m. Killington Arts Guild will present the
SafeArt Teen Ensemble in a program of song, dance, poetry and
storytelling as part of the annual meeting. The meeting will be in
the Upstairs Gallery at Cabin ...
- Local News By Betty Little
updated
Feb 22, 2012 09:25 AM
The Rotary Painting Event at the Killington Arts Guild Gallery
was scheduled for one day, Sunday Feb. 12. We didn't think it could
be done in such a short time but here is what happened as reported
by Sally Curtis:
Five Ro ...
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> OpinionBy Betty Little, Killington Arts Guild
updated
Feb 15, 2012 01:38 PM
Photo by Patsy Zedar
From "Postcard #4: First Light on the Atlantic"
It was October and the night was dark on the mountains. Our lights
were on. We followed the other cars and, eventually, drove the last
mile up the narrow ...
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> Opinion By Betty Little, Killington Arts Guild
updated
Feb 8, 2012 12:08 PM
For the first time since the Killington Arts Guild moved into
The Upstairs Gallery at Cabin Fever Gifts, The Gallery will be
totally closed. From Feb. 9-18, The Gallery will undergo major
renovations/painting. It is also the ...
- Local NewsBy Betty Little, Killington Arts Guild
updated
Feb 1, 2012 08:01 AM
Peter Huntoon has been a watercolor painter since 1994 and is
known for his colorful pictures of Rutland. He creates
representational works of art inspired by the New England landscape
and its people and regularly exhibits t ...
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> OpinionBy Betty Little, Killington Arts Guild
updated
Jan 25, 2012 12:07 PM
Sounds of violins, flutes and trumpets tuning up, people settle
in their chairs, lights go down, the conductor raises his hands,
silence-then the music begins. This is the Vermont Symphony
Orchestra's Holiday program, "Fun a ...
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> OpinionBy Betty Little, Killington Arts Guild
updated
Jan 18, 2012 07:57 AM
For over a decade, Killington Arts Guild has defined ART in the
broadest sense. Painters, sculptures, crafters, photographers,
gardeners, writers, dancers, dramatists and more are all artists.
This is expressed in art shows ...
- Local NewsBy Betty Little, Killington Arts Guild
updated
Jan 13, 2012 01:22 PM
RUTLAND-The meeting room in the Gotnick Center in Rutland is
packed, Howard Coffin, nationally known Civil War historian and a
true Vermonter is here to tell us how the Green Mountain Boys won
the war. His voice booms out ac ...
- Local NewsBy Betty Little, Killington Arts Guild
updated
Jan 4, 2012 04:21 PM
When I was little we had a game called "Jumping over the
Bar." It wasn't a real competition. You tried to jump over
the bar, and then tried again, until you could jump higher. While
we don't literally play this game af ...
- Local NewsBy Betty Little
updated
Dec 28, 2011 08:50 AM
Cathy inherited a love of poetry from her mother Margaret. She
came to love the classics. When she was a legal assistant in New
York City she was invited to a ski club house in Pittsfield. She
tried skiing, loved it, gave up ...
- Local NewsBy Betty Little
updated
Dec 21, 2011 10:20 AM
Recently, the Vermont Festival of trees filled the ballroom of
the Killington Grand Hotel - green trees, twinkling lights and
glittering decorations. Children eagerly dragged parents from tree
to tree. "Look at the train at ...
- Local News By Betty Little, Killington Arts Guild
updated
Dec 14, 2011 10:19 AM
Those who attended the Thanksgiving Reception at the Killington
Arts Guild found how bright and uplifting the gallery is with its
walls filled with the finest efforts of local artists. Many came
for the first time. The PEG T ...
- Local Newsby Betty Little
updated
Oct 19, 2011 08:01 AM
This time of year art is all around us in spectacular foliage,
blue skies and rolling clouds, at the Farmer's Market, at Art in
the Park, in the Halloween figures, and in the transformed bails of
hay in Killington. Art galle ...
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updated
Oct 10, 2011 10:47 AM
Killington Arts Guild presents, at Sherburne Memorial Library on
River Road, Killington. 7-8 p.m. Info, killingtonartsguild.org or
call 802-422-3852.
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updated
Oct 10, 2011 10:44 AM
Glen Campbell of West Rutland will be giving an outdoor
demonstration of pouring iron and casting bronze, making trilobites
and patinas outside the Killington Arts Guild Gallery, at Cabin
Fever on Rt. 4 East. 3-7 p.m. Info, ...
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updated
Jul 22, 2011 12:00 PM
Killington Arts Guild workshop with Don Hofer. 2 days, 9th &
10th, til 4pm each eay. At KAG Gallery above Cabin Fever Gifts.
Make painting an adventure! $130 members, $140 non. 422-3852 or
killingtonartsguild.org to regi ...
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updated
Jul 22, 2011 11:57 AM
Killington Arts Guild program with Sally Curtis. Sally
demonstrates, you try technique. Sherburne Memorial Library,
Killington. Til 9pm. Free, open to public. 422-3852.
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updated
Jul 12, 2011 08:37 AM
Killington Arts Guild New Show Opening Reception, 3-6pm, KAG
Gallery, Upstairs at Cabin Fever Gifts, Rte. 4 across from
Killington Access Rd. Open 9am-6pm daily. Show thru Sep. 1.
802-422-3852.
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updated
Jul 3, 2011 07:17 PM
Killington Arts Guild New Show, 3-6pm, KAG Gallery, Upstairs at
Cabin Fever Gifts, Rte. 4 across from Killington Access Rd. We
celebrate Killington's 250th Anniversary. Open 9am-6pm daily. Show
thru Sep. 1. 802-422-3852.
