About the band: Pop Fusion Between the rain-swept streets of Paris and the swirling sands of the Sahara, there lies a voice that is neither and both of these music-soaked places. Musician Daby Touré, son of the African desert and child of a Parisian musical upbringing, has created new boundaries and categories that go beyond territory, ethnicity or birthright. He is simply, Daby.”
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20190726 BOOKSTOCK Michelle Arnosky Sherburne St Albans Raid
Vermont author and historian Michelle Arnosky Sherburne’s “St Albans Raid” examines this little-known infamous Civil War event — one of numerous Confederate undercover missions conducted to undermine President Abraham Lincoln’s government.
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20190726 BOOKSTOCK Suzanne Hinman The Grandest Madison Square Garden
Suzanne Hinman’s “The Grandest Madison Square Garden” tells the remarkable non-fiction story of the fabulous 1890 “palace of pleasure” designed by Stanford White and the nude sculpture of the virgin goddess Diana by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, set on the Garden’s and America’s tallest tower.
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20190727 BOOKSTOCK Dr. MARCELO GLEISER, Ph.D. -THE SIMPLE BEAUTY OF THE UNEXPECTED
“Marcelo Gleiser is the Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy and a professor of physics and astronomy at Dartmouth College.
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20190726 BOOKSTOCK Rai d’Honoré Occitan Music of Troubadours
Rai d’Honoré is a modern-day troubadour and scholar of Occitan culture — a progressive and egalitarian society in the Middle Ages. Her CD is an exploration, in prose and original compositions, of the brilliance of Occitan culture and its destruction due to the Albigensian Crusade.
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20190802 Hartland Select Board Meeting
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20190801 Woodstock EDC Board Meeting
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2019 BOOKSTOCK: Gary Meffe
Gary Meffe: The Wizard of Odd
In “The Wizard of Odd: A Vermont Tale of Community Devotion” Gary Meffe explores the themes of community, tolerance, and love of place through his fictional Northeast Kingdom village of Oddertown, population 700. Centered on a six-generation family-owned country store that is the epicenter of village life, this novel captures the essence of what comprises a good and authentic community truly worth fighting for.
- 2019, Bookstock, Nature, Science, and Technology, Norman Williams Public Library, Woodstock History Center
2019 BOOKSTOCK: Jim Rousmaniere
Jim Rousmaniere – “Water Connections”
“Water Connections – What Fresh Water Means to Us and What We Mean to Water” is about our changing ways around lakes, streams, and other inland waters. Jim Rousmaniere, a seasoned newsman in Baltimore, Washington, and New Hampshire, conducted much of his research in New England, distinctive for its early development history, hydropower-friendly topography, and worsening rainfall patterns.
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20190719 Pentangle: Early Risers
“About the band:
Acoustic Folk