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Jun 19, 2020

Obituary: Eric Hartwell | SummitDaily.com - Summit Daily News

Eric J. Hartwell, 30, of Silverthorne, CO and formerly of Surry and Spofford, NH, died at his home in Colorado on June 10, 2020. He was born in Brattleboro, VT, on February 27, 1990, to Jamie and Jackie Hartwell. He graduated from Keene High School and attended River Valley Community College and CSU studying Criminal Justice. He was currently employed at Altitude Organic in Dillon, CO where he loved his work and developed great friendships with his co-workers. Eric took a trip to Colorado in 2011, fell in love with the area and packed his car arriving in Breckenridge on December 31, 2011 knowing no one. He loved Colorado and the year-round recreation it offered including snowboarding, ice fishing, hiking, biking, dirt biking and fishing. He drove back and forth to NH many times with friends joining him for the long road trip but always returning to Colorado where he felt most at peace.Support Local JournalismDonate Eric had many good friends and he considered the Cormier family his second family, Ron and Ryan his brothers. As so eloquently written by Ryan “When growing up, everyone gets to decide who their friends are going to be. You get to see who you are going to shar...

Sep 14, 2016

A Dream World at the Kent Museum

Brattleboro couple Julia Zanes and Donald Saaf. Visitors who venture to the tiny unincorporated community will first see two giant bird's nests. Positioned on the lawn in front of and behind the buildings, they were built from tree branches and hay by schoolchildren under Zanes and Saaf's guidance. The project makes sense in light of the art inside, which, at the time of Seven Days' visit, Evans and Emlen were still hanging. Birds and other animals, typically out of scale with their surroundings, populate the couple's colorful, figurative paintings. Zanes' work, often inspired by dollhouses, depicts castles and other structures set among towering flowers. Birds figure literally large in Saaf's work, sometimes the size of the humans who share the canvas. click to enlarge amy lilly Puppets by Julia Zanes The artworks invite viewers to guess at the stories they tell, and they seem to speak to children and adults equally. They could be parables, as the exhibition title indicates, but that's not the only interpretation. The artists derived that title from Goethe's Faust, which also serves as the basis for a single marionette performance they'll give near the end of the show. In the translation that Zanes and Saaf use, the relevant excerpt reads, "Everything destructible could only be a parable." While both artists explore storytelling, they do so using distinct styles. Zanes' paintings lean toward dreamlike surrealism; Saaf's are more folk-influenced and... (Seven Days)

Feb 3, 2016

Lloyd 'Rockey' Wilson

Lance and Troy (Odette); his very special grandson, Troy Jr.; his sister, Phyllis Kuhn; niece, April Lavoie (Roger) of Brattleboro, Vt., and Holly Myers, a very special sister-in-law and brother-in-law, Peggy and Joey Dlubac of Unionville, Conn., several nieces, nephews and many friends. Rockey was born Nov. 9, 1939. Besides his brother Harvey, he was also predeceased by his mother and father Pearl (Veretto) and Ralph Wilson. Per Rockey’s wishes, he will be cremated. Calling hours will be held at O’Brien Funeral Home, 24 Lincoln Ave., Bristol CT 06010, Feb. 6, 2016, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., followed by a short service at the funeral home. A reception afterwards to celebrate his life will be held. Also, per Rockey’s Request, please no suits or ties, casual dress. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to help offset the funeral expenses https://www.gofundme.com/u9kqqnqk To leave a message of condolence, share a memory or a photo, please visit Rockey’s page at www.OBrien-FuneralHome.com. (Bristol Press)