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‘Counting on Grace’

MSJ and Christ the King who will perform an adaptation of Elizabeth’s Winthrop’s novel “Counting on Grace,” a story inspired by photos of a Vermont girl, Adeline “Addie” Card taken by Lewis Hine who investigated child labor at the turn of the last century for the National Child Labor Committee. The performance is at Mount St. Joseph Academy’s Jennifer Bagley Theater on Friday and Saturday.

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Sover Scene: Goblins, witches and politicians

As my kids fill the front window with ghoulish drawings in anticipation of tomorrow night’s sugary festivities, I find myself haunted by the ghost of one particular Halloween past.

The United States was submerged in a costly, increasingly questionable war and there was a fierce presidential campaign under way that had become mired in nonstop volleys of divisive accusations and cookie-cutter rhetoric. Hmm … sound familiar?

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This conference was all heart

It has four sides and lots of love inside.

It’s called a love box and for the past four years, Rutland Town’s Celeste Perrino-Walker has let her husband and children know she’s thinking about them by putting tiny notes in it for each of them to read.

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Did you check out Rutland’s big weekend?

Columbus Day Weekend promises to be a busy one in Rutland, with events in and around the downtown area Friday and Saturday.

Friday night is the Art Hop, with 13 participating venues including Timco Jewelers, Tattersall’s, Book King, the Rutland Area Natural Food Co-op, Tapas and Table 24. Organizer Patricia Kreitzer said three venues feature music this year.

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Between the rock and a natural place

Much of the property behind the Carving Studio and Sculpture Center in West Rutland will be transformed into an outdoor art exhibit Saturday — hosting 10 statues in the midst of the surrounding landscape from which each sculptor drew inspiration.

The theme of SculptFest08 — “Human Interventions and the Industrial Landscape” — allows artists to create works to complement the sound, smell, feel and look of the historic marble industry grounds.

An opening reception will kick off the exhibit from 5 to 7 p.m. Saturday and is open to the public with refreshments, live music and a map of where each of the 10 site-specific sculptural installations, chosen by curator Carlos Dorrien, are on display.

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Kathryn Lipke Vigesaa works flow into Chaffee Art Center

Kathryn Lipke Vigesaa has water on her mind.

“Water has been an issue in my work for many years. I think it is the national resource we don’t focus on enough,” said the artist whose exhibition opens Friday at the Chaffee Art Center. “We’re so focused on fossil fuels and natural gas that we forget water is the most important natural resource we have.”

Lipke’s exhibit, “Traces of the Sublime,” is four thematically connected installations including sculpture, multimedia and abstract work dealing, in one way or another, with water.

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Nora Valdez: ‘Walking with Memories’

Nora Valdez’s show “Walking with Memories” at the Carving Studio and Sculpture Center Gallery in West Rutland expresses the universal sense of rootlessness that everyone who has experienced involuntary relocation has felt, and the profound sense of loss that goes with leaving familiar places.

Valdez grew up and studied in Argentina, and has lived in Brazil, Italy, Spain and the United States. Speaking of her peripatetic life she writes that, “It feels like I keep carrying my luggage or baggage all the time. I feel I’m from here, there and nowhere.”

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‘Vt. Sketches’ revue marks Town Hall theater’s return

BRANDON — A musical revue about Vermont marks the Brandon Town Hall theater’s grand reopening this weekend.

“Vermont Sketches,” by Brandon resident Gene Childers, marks the town hall’s return as a seasonal community center following renovations, with shows at 7 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday.

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Evolution of hungry mind: The sublime fortitude of painter Jerry Pfohl

Truman Capote said “Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.”

Jerry Pfohl has been reshuffling rules to suit himself for 60 years and his current show at The Garden Gallery in Londonderry is fresh evidence that he is still absorbing, embracing and tenaciously challenging conventions of painting every day in his Acworth, N.H., studio.

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Dimensions of Marble

If you only knew what was buried in your backyard.

The Vermont-based Dimensions of Marble, an organization aiming to bring the state’s marble history to the masses, will preview the first phase of its three-year plan this week at Rutland’s Friday Night Live.

“We want to tell the story of what marble means to our state now and what it means to Vermont in the future,” DOM Executive Director Megan Smith said.

“(Vermont marble) has been used extensively in every major U.S. city,” said Robert Pye, director of the Vermont Marble Museum in Proctor.

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