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1 week ago | rutlandherald.com | Jim Lowe

Playwright Lena Kaminsky and her wife, who live in New York City, bought a place upstate, in the town where her wife grew up, during the COVID pandemic. “We actually moved to a house 10 minutes from her parents,” Kaminsky said. “When we got there and moved in, I said ‘Who picks up our trash?’ She said, ‘We go to the dump, we bring it.’”That was an eye-opener for Kaminsky who grew up on Long Island where trash pickup was the norm.

1 week ago | rutlandherald.com | Jim Lowe

Celebrating the music of John Denver is a lot of fun — and, as it turns out, a lot more than that. The great singer-songwriter was much more than a major-key optimist. “Almost Heaven: John Denver’s America” opened Weston Theatre Company’s 89th season of professional theater last weekend at its Walker Farm Theater, and its timing proved unexpectedly meaningful.

2 weeks ago | rutlandherald.com | Jim Lowe

Playwright Lena Kaminsky and her wife, who live in New York City, bought a place upstate, in the town where her wife grew up, during the COVID pandemic. “We actually moved to a house 10 minutes from her parents,” Kaminsky said. “When we got there and moved in, I said ‘Who picks up our trash?’ She said, ‘We go to the dump, we bring it.’”That was an eye-opener for Kaminsky who grew up on Long Island where trash pickup was the norm.

2 weeks ago | rutlandherald.com | Jim Lowe

When Weston Theater Company presents “Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus: The Musical!” June 17-29 in 12 free performances in Weston and around the region, it will mark the 25th anniversary of its Weston Young Company. “Just the last time I went to Broadway, there were a couple of former Young Company members in Broadway shows,” says Tim Fort, Weston founding director, who founded the Young Company. (Fort teaches theater at the Dan School of Music and Drama at Queen’s University in Ontario.

2 weeks ago | rutlandherald.com | Jim Lowe

When he went solo in 1969, singer-songwriter John Denver had found his place in the fabric of American life — a place he has returned to. “He really is globally in the fabric of so many people’s lives now because what he wrote about was universal,” says contemporary folk artist Sherry Stregack-Lutken. “What he wrote about was very earnest and sincere, something that we all can see in ourselves and the people that we love and in our situations.