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Bobby Gosh

by Joyce Marcel

People are collectors by instinct. Children collect bottle caps, baseball trading cards and dolls. Adults collect everything from guns to antiques to wine. There’s even a whole category called ''collectibles,'' which is so wide it includes 1930s kitchenware as well as ancient woodworking tools and ceramic planters. Pretty much everyone collects something.

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autumninspirationAutumn Inspiration

The Restfulness Amongst the Riot

by Clara Rose Thornton

For painters as well as general spectators, autumn in Vermont is a sensory deluge. Fabled colors unknown in most regions of the world wave their brief, bittersweet hellos; there is a pleasing sharpness to the air and the season seems to represent all that can be beautiful about transitions, endings and new beginnings.

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artofinnocenceArt of Innocence

A Privileged View into Private Worlds

by Joyce Marcel

Sixty years ago, Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985) described a form of art he named 'Art Brut'. This was art that was not based on established traditions or techniques. It did not follow styles or trends, and it was not made primarily to be sold for monetary gain. It is spontaneous, uninhibited, and maybe not even made as ''art.''

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colorsenseColor Sense

by Arlene Distler

It's a magic time in Vermont, especially when the setting sun plays upon a hillside and bathes it in a golden light or sets an entire hillside ablaze in orange — a good time to explore what can't be ignored in autumn: color. Let us consider what it does to us and for us — the delectable, sensual and subtle part it plays in our lives.

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