Support Farms, Food and
the Brattleboro Arts Initiative

Who doesn’t love farms? Who doesn’t love FOOD?! And who doesn’t love the notion of riding a bicycle 16 miles to support them AND a certain well-loved non-profit arts organization dedicated to “Preserving the Latchis and Promoting the Arts”?

Here it is: The 10th Annual Strolling of the Heifers is celebrating its big birthday by adding the first annual Tour de Heifer to this year’s events (and there are a lot of them, starting Wednesday at the Latchis Theatre with the new Slow Living Summit).

My husband Tom and I have signed up for the 16-mile Farm to Farm loop, hitting our two favorite Guilford farms, Gaines Farm on Route 5, and Franklin Farm on Weatherhead Hollow Road. It’s a sweet ride, for sure.

If you sponsor us, the proceeds get split between Brattleboro Arts Initiative and the Stroll’s Farm & Food Giving Fund, a new program of grants to encourage innovation and entrepreneurship in farm & food enterprises.

For those who would like to donate to this great cause you can contribute on the BAI website by clicking the Donate Now button and adding "Tour" after your Yes or No on the "Add me to your email list" line. You can also do so on-line at First Giving here.

Our goal is $1600 – that’s 100 of you at $16 each! Help us reach and EXCEED!

The greater the number of donors, the quicker our calves shall be.

Many thanks,
Gail

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Spell Check! Take 4

 

Spell Check 2011 was maximum fun. To Bee or Not to Bee reclaimed their crown as Brattleboro’s champion spelling team. Take them on this year, April 14, 2012!

SHAKESPEAREAN VICTORS!

The 2009 spelling champ team “To Bee or Not to Bee,” won the top prize at the 3rd Annual Spell Check! A Spelling Bee for Grown-Ups held on Saturday, April 2, 2011 on the main stage of the glorious Latchis Theatre in Brattleboro.

Over 200 people watched “To Bee or Not to Bee,” a team from New England Youth Theatre composed of Rick Barron, Jerry Stockman and Lisa Cox, defeat fourteen other teams, to not only win bragging rights but also the opportunity to display their team name or short phrase on the Latchis Theatre marquee. 

Master of Ceremonies Tom Bodett, Beekeeper Jim Maxwell, Judge Archer Mayor, Round Caller Alfred Hughes and Little Bee Lila Flynn entertained the audience as over sixty words were spelled or misspelled.

Proceeds of the evening benefited Brattleboro Arts Initiative, dedicated to the care and well being of the Latchis Hotel and Theatre.