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A Halloween Poem . . .
Song of the Witches
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and caldron bubble.
Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the caldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt and toe of frog,
Wool of bat and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg and howlet's wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and caldron bubble.
Cool it with a baboon's blood,
Then the charm is firm and good.
NOTES: Macbeth: IV.i 10-19; 35-38
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Vermont Reads 2012
 The Vermont Humanities Council is pleased to announce that Vermont Reads 2012 will feature Paul Fleischman's Bull Run, a beautifully written novella that takes place during the Civil War. It is written in the first person from the point of view of sixteen different characters, eight Northerners and eight Southerners -- male, female, black, white, old, young, soldier, and civilian. The award-winning book focuses on the social context of the war, the run-up to the first battle of the war, and its aftermath as well as on the battle itself. Also as part of Vermont Reads 2012, VHC is encouraging communities to read The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane's classic and groundbreaking story of heroism and weakness in the face of war's indifference to the fate of individuals.  Fleischman is the author of the hugely successful Vermont Reads 2005 selection, Seedfolks, which tells through multiple voices how the planting of a garden in a vacant lot creates community. Learn more and apply for Vermont Reads 2012.
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** We Still Have Room -- Register online! **
The Power of the Humanities: Why They Matter
VHC Fall Conference
November 11-12, 2011 Stoweflake Mountain Resort and Spa, Stowe, Vermont The humanities "reveal how people have tried to make moral, spiritual, and intellectual sense of a world in which irrationality, despair, loneliness, and death are as conspicuous as birth, friendship, hope, and reason."  Featuring - James Cuno, president and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust on the role of art museums in preserving and transmitting culture.
- Richard Kogan, MD with a one-of-a-kind lecture-performance linking stories of Beethoven's life with exquisitely performed excerpts from Beethoven's work. (Tickets to this event are also available to those not attending the conference as a whole.)
- Dr. John Stauffer, chair of the Program in the History of American Civilization at Harvard University, on the American Civil War and American racial history.
- Diana Eck, professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies at Harvard University, on the significance and the challenges of understanding religious beliefs and practices across cultures.
Learn more and register online today!
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Beethoven's Deafness:Psychological Crisis and Artistic Triumph A Piano Concert and Lecture with Richard Kogan, M.D. Friday, November 11 * 7:30 pm * Stowe Community Church  Richard Kogan, M.D., Julliard-trained pianist and Harvard-trained psychiatrist, blends brilliant performance with a talk about the power of music to help heal artist and audience alike. Kogan also considers the influence of psychological factors on Beethoven's creative output. The New York Times has called Kogan's performances "exquisite playing . . . eloquent and compelling." This concert is part of the Vermont Humanities Council's conference: The Power of the Humanities: Why They Matter. VHC is still taking conference registrations.  Tickets: $18 online (purchase through the fall conference registration form), by phone, at the doorvermonthumanities.org * 802.262.2626 x 304
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BULL RUN by Paul Fleischman and The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
