Ken Picard

2 weeks ago | sevendaysvt.com | Ken Picard

click to enlarge Another week, another attack on the arts  by the Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency. DOGE's latest target: Vermont Humanities, which supports an array of arts and cultural programming including early literacy classes, veterans' reading groups, teacher trainings and traveling history exhibits.

3 weeks ago | sevendaysvt.com | Ken Picard

click to enlarge The way sculptor Chris Cleary sees it, optimism is a sentiment that's been in short supply of late. So his newest work aims to spread more of it. The Jericho Center artist and three-time winner of the Seven Daysies readers' choice award for best sculptor has been busy on his latest roadside project: "HOPE." Its four letters stand seven feet tall, 25 feet wide in total and are "larger than life," he said.

3 weeks ago | sevendaysvt.com | Ken Picard

click to enlarge For more than half a century, Joanne Sheehan has refused to give her tax dollars to the U.S. to pay for war. The 76-year-old trainer in nonviolent civil disobedience moved from New York City to Norwich, Conn., in the 1970s, just to make it easier for her to protest the company that builds nuclear submarines for the U.S. Navy. Sheehan has been arrested many times for her activism.

1 month ago | sevendaysvt.com | Ken Picard

click to enlarge Ask the average person on the street what skills are needed to build a robot, and they would probably describe some combination of electrical engineering, computer science and mechanical design.

1 month ago | sevendaysvt.com | Ken Picard

click to enlarge In spring 2020, as a deadly new virus raged worldwide, upending lives in countless ways, some Vermonters turned to local historians for insights on how the state weathered its last major pandemic: the global influenza outbreak of 1918 that killed more than 50 million worldwide.