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Handcrafting in Vermont publishes practical tips and examples for using and enjoying handmade objects. Art - craft news, events, articles and new directions from Stowe, Vermont Craft Gallery and Interior Design Center.

Founded in 1983, AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts is a not-for-profit, community-based health organization whose mission is to stop the HIV/AIDS epidemic by preventing new infections and optimizing the health of those already infected. Through a cooperative and mutually supportive effort between over 70 staff and hundreds of volunteers, AIDS Action seeks to assist and constructively work with people of all cultures by providing services, education, advocacy and prevention.

AIDS Action accomplishes that mission by providing support services for people living with AIDS and HIV; educating the public and health professionals about how to prevent HIV transmission; and advocating for fair and effective AIDS policy at the city, state and federal levels. AIDS Action provides free, confidential services to 2,500 men, women and children living with HIV/AIDS. Good Causes, New England

The title of this site, GSBL-Granite State Over 30 Baseball League says it all. Including team info, standings and schedules anyone with an interest in New Hampshire baseball should drop by to see the latest. If you want to make a comment, there's also a bulletin board. Added to Athletics

Patty Meglio is an artist who grew up on a farm in rural Connecticut, where she still lives. Her work, mostly in oil, strongly reflects this "back to basics" background at seen in her site, Patty Meglio Studio. An intriguing artist of great talent, her art is reproduced in detail at the site, which she also designed. Added to Art & Artists

According to the Milo Historical Society local Folklore relates that Theophilus Sargent, one of the community's earliest settlers, was given the honor of choosing the town's name. His choice was in all probability based upon the following Greek legend:

Milo (6th Century B.C.) was a famous Greek athlete in the latter part of the 6th century B.C. It was claimed that he once carried a four-year-old cow through the stadium at Olympia. Afterwards, he ate the whole animal. The story goes that, as an old man, he tried to tear an oak tree in two, but the trunk closed on his hands and pinned him to the tree. While held there, he was attacked and devoured by wolves. Added to History and Maine.

Sebec Historical Society is a new site with good basic information of the history and people of the region. Added to History and Maine.

If you need to know about flyfishing around here, then Berkshire FlyFishing is the place to go. Founded to promoting clean waters, angling education and the preservation and enhancement of our natural resources, they sponsor meetings and other events that anyone with an interest in the sport is welcome to attend. Added to Outdoors New England

Founded in 1964 but with roots back to the 50s, the Nutmeg Players, Inc. is one of Connecticut's oldest community theatre groups. Presenting productions from Clinton, the group also hosts a New Play Contest, held in the fall. Added to Theatre Groups

The Worcester Center for Crafts was founded in 1856 as a center for craft education and it remains today one of the regions leading centers for persons of all abilities to learn about crafts and crafting. Classes and programs are held throughout the year for adults and youth in ceramics, glass, metals, photography, weaving, fiber arts, woodworking and other subjects. Added to Art & Artists

Mary Baker is a contemporary realist painter whose studio is in Newburyport, Massachusetts. This New England city, north of Boston, with its gardens, flowers, landscape, historic neighborhoods and antique houses, has been the inspiration for the artist's realistic oil paintings. The site offers candid feelings about her art, fine samplings of recent work and information on sales or commissions. Added to Art & Artists

Enterprise Newspapers publishes four weekly papers covering the Upper Cape Cod Massachusetts towns of Falmouth, Bourne, Mashpee and Sandwich - The Falmouth Enterprise, The Bourne Enterprise, The Mashpee Enterprise and The Sandwich Enterprise - all featured on their website. Added to the Newspapers and Massachusetts

THEATRE NEWINGTON-OnStage is a non-profit, community theatre group, founded in 1962. Two productions are presented yearly, in the Fall and Spring . Currently the group performs at the Elmwood Community Center, in West Hartford, Connecticut. The site includes audition notices, current productions and a good outline of who they are and what they hope to achieve. Added to Theatre Groups

ArtShow Fine Art Street Galleries, are a series of outdoor art exhibitions taking place over several weekends starting in late Spring, through the Summer and Fall in Amherst and Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Artists from all over New England journey exhibit and/or sell their art and even demonstrating their techniques. While the event runs nearly the entire year, it is subject to limitations from the weather.

The Un-Common Theatre Company, founded in 1980 in Mansfield, Massachusetts, is one of the few theatre companies in New England devoted entirely to children's theatre. They assist and nurture aspiring actors, singers, musicians, and technicians with an opportunity to work in a professional environment on and behind the stage. The site includes audition notices, volunteer opportunities and information on upcoming shows and events. Added to Theatre Groups

R.W. Janson Gallery - offers original photography of Cape Cod, White Mountains National Forest, Wildlife, Flowers, Fine Art and other natural, New England subjects. Photographs are offered for sale online. Added to Art & Artists

The Town of Branford, Connecticut has an attractive and informative site about what's doing in the shoreline community. This is the town's official site. Added to Communities and Connecticut

The New London Project is a two year photo and video profile of the people of New London by the highly respected New York photographer, Joe Standart. Working from a downtown shop on Bank Street in New London, Standart had tried to catch the human elements-the people-that have made our little city a place of both grand notoriety and ill repute. The New London Project will open for viewing in 2006 but photographs and a video can be seen now, online. Added to Art & Artists

Seven Days is an alternative newsweekly based in Burlington, Vermont with a bent to reporting on the thriving arts community of the region. With a circulation of 30,000, they offer reviews on films, music and shows, updates on openings and events and commentary; all of which is presented in an attractive format. Added to the Newspapers and Vermont pages.

While you're grilling dogs and burgers this Memorial Day Weekend, we suggest you take a moment to visit Homes For Our Troops, Inc. from Taunton, Massachusetts. The non profit organization was founded by builder John Gonsalves and is devoted to designing and building homes for returning war veterans with serious disabilities and injuries. While they've attained considerable success in helping many vets, the needs are, tragically, all too great. All kinds of help-grant writers, building suppliers, plumbers-is needed. Click the site and find for a way to help. Added to Good Causes, New England

Democracy Now! can be heard on may radio stations in New England. It is an entirely independent news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez who daily cover stories and reports that large news organizations either overlooked or, perhaps for political reasons, fail to find newsworthy. The program can be heard online.

JD Logan is a "Contemporary American Folk Artist" working in painted primitive style landscapes with entirely New England themes. Also available at the site are note cards, also with a New England theme. Logan works our of Housatonic, Massachusetts. Added to Art & Artists

Bliss Publishing Company, Inc. of Marlborough, Massachusetts is a New England book publisher that publishes books about New England and New Englanders with an interest in the Native Americans, out door river adventures and New England's natural beauty. The site includes recent books and ordering information. Added to The Book Trade

Kim Gash is a highly talented photographer who is already well know to viewers of our pages. She's the one with the camera, and more importantly, the skills and presence of mind, to take the Burning Yankee Hat photo after the Red Sox did it the Yankees. Gash's web site provides a sampling of her previous work for both commercial and private clients and refreshingly, she provides a detailed and specific price list for her services. Working from the Connecticut and Rhode Island shore line area, Gash has camera and will travel. Added to Art & Artists

Death With Dignity Vermont is a not-for-profit political action organization in Shelburne. The group, founded and operated by former and current medical professionals and others, has a bill before the State Legislature that is based on Oregon Death with Dignity Act. The group's goals, and that of the proposed law, would achieve the following:

- Guarantee that all adult Vermonters have legal end-of-life choices
- Assure that mentally-competent persons who are terminally ill have the right to choose the manner and timing of death
- Avoid the pain of unwanted tubes and machines that merely prolong the dying process
Added to Good Causes, New England Non Profits helping others

We don't know a lot about Rich Schroder save for the fact that he was born in our home town, New York City, and that he has been able to make a living as a singer songwriter living in Brookline, Massachusetts. We also learn from his web site that he has lived in Lebanon, Tehran and Cameron; providing him with a certain viewpoint that all too many Americans lack. His site is a logical expression of his past, as we suspect, is his music. Added to Music & Dance

Got Goat's Milk? If not, the Noiseux family of Meadow Stone Farm in Brooklyn, Connecticut might help fill the need. The family farm specializes in offering products made with raw goat milk including soaps, creams, doggie treats and high quality cheeses that are only available locally. Everything is handmade at the farm. Their site is "homespun", attractive, unpretentious and is the home of Elsa's Premium Goat Milk Products. What a relief. Enjoy. Added to The New England Store

Beverly A. Mitchell is a professional artist and art teacher based in West Newbury, Massachusetts. Her work, seen in numerous galleries and solo shows thought out New England, has an emphasis on the textured use of color, especially in renderings of floral and natural settings. Her site includes examples of her work and the means to purchase them. Added to Art & Artists.

With apologies to Harvard's leadership, women have achieved some modest success in fields previously known for masculine predominance. Susan Polgar is one of chess's few Grand Masters who started the Susan Polgar Foundation to promote chess and chess playing, especially among girls and women. While not from New England, (New York no less) we New Englanders have been know to sit at a board, working on our end game. Added to Clubs and Interests and Women

Michelle Rose and Christopher K. Larochelle have combined their varied backgrounds, skills and interests in founding Gallery 27 in the community of Camp Ellis Beach, Maine. Open, understandably during Maine's warmers seasons (Spring to the Fall); they offer an arrange of original paintings, jewelry, fashion accessories and a line of soap and soap products. All are interestingly presented, sometimes stunning and always created in the style of "progressive". Added to Art & Artists and Maine pages.

Noting that it is the Gray-New Gloucester's Newspaper of Record, The Monument Newspaper is published every Thursday from Gray, Maine. A refreshingly "independent" publication, the paper offers news, a local listing of Agendas, photographic collages of the region and an "active" opinion page that covers a broad range of issues. Added to the Newspapers and Maine pages.

New England Accents sells items for the home and especially the garden to regional retail outlets and stores. They have begun offering a monthly sales event at their warehouse in Leominster, Massachusetts for overstock and specialty items to the general public, all of which are offered at a substantial savings over regular retail prices. While their site is targeted to other retailers, everyone with an interest in good quality, hand-crafted "things" designed and built to last will find the site and the company worth a visit. Added to The New England Store

The School for International Training is located in Brattleboro, Vermont but offers classes at a wide selection of national and world-wide locations. Founded in 1964, the school's mission and emphasis is to prepare students to be more effective organizational leaders and responsible global citizens. They offer undergraduate study, more intense professional certificate programs and graduate degrees. Added to New England Colleges.