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JULY 2018 Vol. XXXIII No. 7 The Barnard Bulletin JULY IN EAST BARNARD FEATURES FIREMEN’S FUN DAY AND SPECIAL CHURCH EVENTS by Virginia Glass Schlabach The closure of Broad Brook Road from June 11-July 20 for installation of a new culvert near the Webster Hill/Lime Pond Road intersection makes getting into and out of the village more complicated these days - it’s added a new twist to the old joke, “You can’t get there from here.” Folks coming from the Woodstock area for events such as Fun Day will need to come from the Pomfret Road on Labounty, to Webster Hill, to Skyline Drive, and finally Allen Hill Road. Those coming from Barnard should avoid taking Sayre Road off Royalton Turnpike and instead come via East Barnard Road. And we do hope that, despite detours, many people will still find their way to East Barnard in July! Here’s why: Broad Brook Firemen’s Fun Day: Follow the delicious smell of barbecuing chicken into East Barnard on Sunday morning, July 15, and get ready for a day of good food and old fashioned fun. Fun Day will begin, as always, with the parade at 11:30 a.m. followed by the picnic lunch. The menu includes chicken, potato salad, corn, watermelon, hot dogs, and drinks. Cost of a full meal is still only $10.00; chicken alone is $7.00. After lunch the usual fun and games will be on offer, everything from tug-of-war and sack races to the favorite egg toss and pie eating contest. The fun will go on, rain or shine. East Barnard Church: Minister Kellyann Wolfe issues this special invitation: “Join us on Sunday morning, July 15, when we will be joined by guest preacher Rev. Dominique Chantell Atchison. Rev. Atchison (aka ‘The Purple Rev.’) is the creator and curator of the Anti-Racist Devotional. She is a minister ordained in the United Church of Christ, a singer and blogger. Dominique has a strong passion for social, racial and gender justice. She is a native and resident of the Bronx, NY., who holds a degree in African American Studies from Oberlin College in Ohio and a Master of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary in New York City.” The church will again offer Theology Pub evenings this summer. The “pub” is a low-key gathering for discussion, fellowship, beer, and snacks. All are welcome! Please bring a beverage and snack to share. The first pub is scheduled for Wednesday, July 18, at 6:30 p.m. at Mollie McHugh’s house, 248 Levasseur Road (the number is on the mailbox). East Barnard Community Club: The May community- wide yard sale was a success with net results of $1,135.09 donated to the club by participating households. President Mary Croft thanks everyone who participated in this bien- nial fund-raiser. The club will sell raffle tickets for the an- nual quilt and also “The Harbor” tee shirts at the Firemen’s Fun Day on July 15. The drawing for the quilt with occur at the club’s major annual fund raiser, the Largely Local Dinner, on September 8. The next community potluck suppers are planned for Sun- days June 24 and July 29, 6:00 p.m., at the Community Hall. These summer potlucks bring neighbors together for good food and conversation. As Randy Leavitt’s schedule allows, Randy and friends will also hold summer porch concerts at the Hall on Tuesday evenings from 6:00-7:00. 802-457-9000 TIM RHOADES JAKE RHOADES RHOADES PLUMBING & HEATING, INC. Complete Plumbing, Heating & Water Systems INSTALLATION & SERVICE (802) 234-5082 P.O. Box 201 Master Lic. VT & NH Barnard, VT 05031

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JULY 2018 Vol. XXXIII No. 7The Barnard Bulletin

JULY IN EAST BARNARD FEATURES FIREMEN’S FUN DAY AND SPECIAL CHURCH EVENTS

by Virginia Glass SchlabachThe closure of Broad Brook Road from June 11-July 20 for installation of a new culvert near the Webster Hill/Lime Pond Road intersection makes getting into and out of the village more complicated these days - it’s added a new twist to the old joke, “You can’t get there from here.” Folks coming from the Woodstock area for events such as Fun Day will need to come from the Pomfret Road on Labounty, to Webster Hill, to Skyline Drive, and finally Allen Hill Road. Those coming from Barnard should avoid taking Sayre Road off Royalton Turnpike and instead come via East Barnard Road. And we do hope that, despite detours, many people will still find their way to East Barnard in July! Here’s why:

Broad Brook Firemen’s Fun Day: Follow the delicious smell of barbecuing chicken into East Barnard on Sunday morning, July 15, and get ready for a day of good food and old fashioned fun. Fun Day will begin, as always, with the parade at 11:30 a.m. followed by the picnic lunch. The menu includes chicken, potato salad, corn, watermelon, hot dogs, and drinks. Cost of a full meal is still only $10.00; chicken alone is $7.00. After lunch the usual fun and games will be on offer, everything from tug-of-war and sack races to the favorite egg toss and pie eating contest. The fun will go on, rain or shine.

East Barnard Church: Minister Kellyann Wolfe issues this special invitation: “Join us on Sunday morning, July 15, when we will be joined by guest preacher Rev. Dominique Chantell Atchison. Rev. Atchison (aka ‘The Purple Rev.’) is the creator and curator of the Anti-Racist Devotional. She is a minister ordained in the United Church of Christ, a singer and blogger. Dominique has a strong passion for social, racial and gender justice. She is a native and resident of the Bronx, NY., who holds a degree in African American Studies from Oberlin College in Ohio and a Master of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary in New York City.”

The church will again offer Theology Pub evenings this summer. The “pub” is a low-key gathering for discussion, fellowship, beer, and snacks. All are welcome! Please bring a beverage and snack to share. The first pub is scheduled for Wednesday, July 18, at 6:30 p.m. at Mollie McHugh’s house, 248 Levasseur Road (the number is on the mailbox).

East Barnard Community Club: The May community-wide yard sale was a success with net results of $1,135.09 donated to the club by participating households. President Mary Croft thanks everyone who participated in this bien-nial fund-raiser. The club will sell raffle tickets for the an-nual quilt and also “The Harbor” tee shirts at the Firemen’s Fun Day on July 15. The drawing for the quilt with occur at the club’s major annual fund raiser, the Largely Local Dinner, on September 8.

The next community potluck suppers are planned for Sun-days June 24 and July 29, 6:00 p.m., at the Community Hall. These summer potlucks bring neighbors together for good food and conversation. As Randy Leavitt’s schedule allows, Randy and friends will also hold summer porch concerts at the Hall on Tuesday evenings from 6:00-7:00.

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SILVER LAKE PROGRESSIVE CLUB NEWS

Bake Sale – Saturday, July 7, 2018 – Barnard Town Hall

Barnard’s Silver Lake Progressive Club (SLPC) will of-fer home-baked goods for sale at the Barnard Fire and

LOCAL CRYPTOGRAMA cryptogram is a code in which one letter is substituted for another. For example, the word “Church” could be written BWMSBW. The letter B would be the letter C and would be throughout the entire message. In this message A = J. The solution is found by trial and error.

“O G U S Z G O L H U I G A T R X W Z

L V O P X B Z V U S Z L, O U B O R R L V O P,

K I L Z I G R Z H H, G I L G I T L B Z Z Q H

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- A I S P L V X, Z P F R O H S N L I D Z L W H

The answer to the CRYPTOGRAM can be found on the inside of the back page.

THE DANFORTH LIBRARY NEWSWhat’s on your summer reading list?

We received a large donation of mystery books just in time for your summer reading list. In addition, we offer a wide selection of give-away paperbacks that you can take to the beach worry free. Or perhaps you go back to the classics for the summer? If so, come browse our shelves and see what you may have missed over the years. You might try Pearl Buck’s The Good Earth.

Vermont State Parks and Vermont Historic Sites

Our 2018 summer passes have arrived. They may help provide the perfect opportunity for you to make some “stay-vacation” day trips. The State Parks pass admits one vehicle holding up to eight people to the day-use area of a Vermont state park for a full day. The Vermont Historic Sites pass admits one family or one group of up to eight for one day.

Volunteers make all the difference

The Danforth welcomes our newest volunteer, Kassie Tibbots, who is covering our Tuesday hours for much of the summer while she studies for the Vermont bar exam. Many of you may already know her from the Barnard General Store, and we are delighted that she is able to offer some of her time to the Library. We thank Jill Anderson and Tom DeGiacomo for keeping the Library’s front yard looking so good. And, quite belatedly, we thank Mary Myers, who made it possible for the Danforth to start of-fering Tuesday hours again in the first place—she kept our Tuesday hours going all winter. The Danforth Library is your all-volunteer town library, and we welcome new volunteers at any point. If you are interested in learning more about volunteer opportunities, talk with any of the Trustees or send a note to our e-mail address below, and one of us will follow up with you.

Current Library Open Hours and free Wi-Fi: Tuesday: Noon – 2:00 p.m. Wednesday: 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Saturday: 10:00 a.m. - Noon.

Trustees: Margaret Edwards, Suzy Hickey, Ellen Miles, Judy Maynes, and Edythe Wright.

E-mail: [email protected].

Phone: 802-234-6279 (during open hours).

Rescue’s annual Flea Market and Barbecue on Saturday, July 7th. We ask any good local bakers to help us in bak-ing pies! Or cupcakes. Or cookies, brownies, whatever. Baked goods must arrive ready for sale at the Town Hall by 9 a.m. that day.

All proceeds from the bake sale go towards the SLPC scholarship that is awarded each year to an outstanding Woodstock Union High School senior from Barnard. The scholarship is announced on class night and is awarded after successfully completing the first semester.

We congratulate Annabelle Lessard, this year’s $1,000 scholarship recipient, who will attend Wentworth Institute of Technology this fall to study architecture.

To be eligible for the scholarship, candidates must have resided in Barnard for at least one year and plan to continue his or her education the year following graduation. Candi-dates may be planning to attend an academic institution or an institution that offers professional or technical training. Each April, letters are sent to all Barnard seniors inviting them to apply. Applications are due back following April vacation, and then a three-person committee reviews the applications and decides on the recipient. Applications must include: 1) An official transcript of grades; 2) A letter of reference from someone other than a family member; 3) A list of colleges or educational institutions to which the candidate has applied and been accepted; 4) A statement on how he or she has contributed to the community; and 5) A paragraph describing his or her future intentions and how the scholarship will benefit him or her.

For more information about the scholarship, contact Barbara Kelley: 802-457-2719 or e-mail: [email protected].

The Silver Lake Progressive Club

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NEWS FROM BARNARTSThursday Night Music Series at Feast and Field Market

June 21 – Atlas Key folk/dance/electronicaJune 28 – Dana and Susan Robinson folk/rootsJuly 5 – Mokoomba Zimbabwean afro-beatJuly 12 – Danza-del-Fuego Romani inspired world musicJuly 19 – Fu’chunk funkJuly 26 – Jes Raymond & The Blackberry Bushes acoustic AmericanaAugust 2 – Rebecca Levi and friends folk of the AmericasAugust 9 – Afro-Yaqui Music Collective jazz fusionAugust 16 – Patti Casey & the Wicked Fine Players folkAugust 23 – Break Maids folk/rockAugust 30 – Night Tree new acousticSeptember 6 – Oliver The Crow folkSeptember 13 – The Party Crashers dance/rockSeptember 20 – Chaque Fois CajunSeptember 27 – Jeremiah McLane, Owen Marshall and Corey DiMaurio Celtic tradOctober 4 – Lula Wiles folk/rootsOctober 11 – Kafari & Jake Hoffman old-time country and bluesOctober 18 – Open Mic/Closing Celebration

Directed By Maureen Hennigan

Production Dates: June 16, 17, 22, 23, 29, 30 & July 1

Rain date: June 24. - Location: Outdoors at Feast & Field

Productions are outdoors and will be canceled due to rain. Canceled show tickets good at any other show, at the rain date (if activated), or a refund will be available.

The cast of “It Can’t Happen Here”

Fri & Sat Shows at 7pm Sunday Shows at 4pm

A cautionary dark satire about the fragility of democracy and how fascism can take hold even in the land of liberty, It Can’t Happen Here follows the ascent of a demagogue who becomes president of the United States after fomenting fear and promising drastic economic and social reforms while promoting a return to patriotism and “traditional” values. Witnessing the new president’s tyranny from the sidelines is a Vermont newspaper editor who trusts the system will fix itself-until he ends up in a prison camp. Sinclair Lewis’ eerily prescient 1935 novel gets a fresh update in this new adaptation that examines what brings a citizenry to the point of sacrificing its own freedom and how a courageous few can prevail to overcome the fall.

This production is an historic event

The novel It Can’t Happen Here was written by Sinclair Lewis at Twin Farms in Barnard in the 1930s. The play will be produced just down the road and will be produced in conjunction with filmmaker Teo Zagar’s documentary It Happened Here on Sinclair Lewis and Dorothy Thompson’s lives in Barnard in the 1930s!

BarnArts 7th Annual Summer Youth TheaterSPAMALOT School Edition

Director: Tom Beck Assistant Director: Amy Leavitt Music Director: Carol CronceChoreographer: Claire Shillen

Costume Design: Deborah RiceSet and Prop Design: Murray Ngoima

Parody and shenanigans abound, Monty Python-style, in this energy filled and intimate theater program limited to just 30 kids. During the 3-week camp, youth will take on characters, learn songs and dancing, and prepare for the full-scale production to be held at the Barnard Town Hall with professional staging, costuming, music and choreog-raphy. Our team of theater professionals will teach, guide and inspire your kids. Daily schedule includes mid-morning snack and a long break for lunch, supervised outdoors at Barnard Academy.

Synopsis: Spamalot is a parody of the legendary tale of King Arthur’s quest to find the Holy Grail. Inspired by the classic comedy film, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the musical features Monty Pythonesque antics, such as flatu-lent Frenchmen, and killer rabbits. Outside, there is plague

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The Bulletin Website, www.barnardbulletin.news, now has previous versions of the Bulletin available in PDF format. More issues will be added as time allows. If you would like to read the bulletin as a PDF each month, please send an e-mail to [email protected].

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with a 50% chance of pestilence and famine. Throughout the show, Arthur, traveling with his servant Patsy, recruits several knights to accompany him on his quest, including Sir Bedevere, Sir Robin, Sir Lancelot, and Sir Galahad. Besides the rabbits and farting Frenchman, they meet such characters as the Lady of the Lake, Prince Herbert, Tim the Enchanter, Not Dead Fred, the Black Knight, and the Knights who say Ni.

Woodstock’s Town Hall Theater Audition dates: August 7, 4-6 pm; August 8, 6-8 pmRehearsals begin in late AugustPerformances at Woodstock’s Town Hall Theater: October 12, 13, 19, 20, 21For more information, please visit: www.barnarts.org.

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LISTER NOTESThe Listers grievance period will be closing June 27th and we are expecting to lodge the Grand list at that time. Only one Current Use issue is outstanding and it should be resolved by then. The Decision of Listers Grievance letters will be sent out shortly after that. For those that grieved to the Listers and are still not satisfied by the Listers valu-ation, a further appeal can be made to the Board of Civil Authority (BCA). Instructions for continuing your appeal are included in the Decision of Listers Grievance letter.

The Listers have received a number of questions regarding the upcoming town-wide reappraisal. In particular some landowners are concerned about the inspection of their properties. To help landowners understand the process, a review our expected inspection process might be in order.

We have to inspect every property in town. To do this we will break the town up into road sections that can be inspected, in sequence, in one day. As we plan the inspec-tion routes we will inform the property owners as to the date and time that the inspection teams will be in the area. Landowners will be notified by mail several weeks prior to the scheduled inspection, in order to allow for resched-uling if the planned inspection is not convenient for the landowner. When you receive your letter please review it, and if you are uncomfortable with the date or time, please contact the Listers office to arrange a more convenient date.

State law allows the landowner to restrict the Listers ac-cess to the property. In the case that the inspection team is denied access, State law is clear on how the appraisal will be accomplished. Should the Listers be denied access to a property and/or any buildings on the property, they will appraise the property based on their assumptions of the quality of the land, and on the quality of construction and the condition of the buildings. Room counts and type will be based on the assumed size of the building. The appraisal will be based on the highest and best use of the property, given the information available to the Listers. This will likely lead to the property being over-appraised.

Should the landowner grieve the Listers decision and still deny access to the property, State law dictates that without significant proof of the landowners position, the Listers need not change the appraised value. Should the landowner appeal to the Board of Civil Authority, and deny the BCA access to the property, the BCA will uphold the Listers valuation.

FOUNDon the back roads of Barnard

A retractable pet leash

A fleace blanket

A two hook ratchet strap

These items were picked up off the road during the last two months. If you think that these are your lost items, please call 457-1792 or e-mail: [email protected].

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THE PLANNING COMMISSION meets on the first Mon-day of the month at 7:00pm at the Town offices.ZONING ADMINISTRATOR [email protected] or [email protected], 234-9211. Office hours 9:00am to noon on Mondays and 9:00am to 3:30pm on Wednesdays. After hours cell 603-359-5243.BEES MEETINGS are held on the 1st Monday of each month during the school year, from 6 - 7:30pm in the library at the school.DANFORTH LIBRARY: Open Tues. Noon – 2:00 p.m., Wed. 3:00 – 5:00 p.m., & Sat. 10:00 - Noon. The Trustees meet the second Wednesday of the month at 5:30 p.m. THE DEVELOPMENT REVIEW BOARD meets the third Thursday of the month at 7:00pm at the Barnard Town Hall as necessary.BARNARD CONSERVATION COMMISSION meets the second Monday of the month, 7:00pm, Town Hall.SELECTBOARD ASSISTANT [email protected], 234-9211. Office hours 9:00am to noon on Mondays and 9:00am to 3:30pm on Wednesdays. After hours cell 603-359-5243. THE BARNARD ACADEMY SCHOOL BOARD meets at 6:00pm at the school on the third Monday of each month.

HISTORICAL SOCIETY meets the fourth Tuesday of the month. Call 234-9183 or 234-9080 for meeting location.TOWN CLERK office hours are Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday, 8:00am - 3:30pm,SELECTBOARD meets the second and fourth Wednesday of the month at the Town offices.BARNARD LISTERS [email protected], 234-9576. LISTERS GRIEVANCE MAY 23, 9:00AM - 3:00PM Office hours, except holidays: Wednesday 9:00am - 11:00am; by appointment; or anytime we are in the office.RECYCLING HOURS: Saturdays, 8:00am to 4:00pm, Wednesdays, 4:00pm to 7:00pm.THE BARNARD ENERGY COMMITTEE meets on the 2nd Tuesday of the month, 7:00pm at the Town HallYOGA CLASSES offered at Danforth Library, Mondays 9:00 am - 10:30am and 6:15pm -7:45pm with Amanda Anderson. Classes are by donation; for more info, contact [email protected] Governing Board meets the 2nd Tuesday of the month at 7PM in 012 Oakes Hall, Vermont Law School.THE BARNARD BULLETIN, is printed each month on the 20th, and is on the web at barnardbulletin.news. PO Box 161, Barnard VT 05031-0161, 802-457-1792.

The Barnard BulletinP.O. Box 161, Barnard VT 05031-0161