Land Rover artistry at Main Street Arts dinner; Vermont Voices presents 5 authors; BMC hosts faculty concert

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Oct. 29: Land Rover as art at Taste of the Arts dinner

Jim Macri’s Land Rover collection has won national awards for quality and authenticity.

Jim Macri’s Land Rover collection has won national awards for quality and authenticity.

Can the Land Rover, “the world’s most versatile vehicle,” be considered a work of art? What kind of craft goes into the restoration of classic antiques of this kind? These are among the questions Jim Macri will answer when Main Street Arts presents its third speaker and a dinner in its Taste of the Arts Series.

Dinner will be served at 6 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 29 at 35 Main St. in Saxtons River. Macri will discuss the Land Rover’s development and design and the challenges of restoring representative models of these classics. Macri’s High Meadow Farm Rover collection will be displayed beginning at 5 p.m. All are welcome.

Tickets are $24 for adults, $12 for youth 12 and under. To reserve a space, contact Margo Ghia at 802-869-2960 or go online at info@mainstreetarts.org.

Nov. 1:  Misty Valley Books’ Vermont Voices 2015

Author Nancy Marie Brown speaks first at bookshop's Vermont Voices 2015

Author Nancy Marie Brown speaks first at Misty Valley bookshop’s Vermont Voices 2015

Leading off this year’s Vermont Voices is Nancy Marie Brown of Lyndon.

The event — four Sundays in November — will be held at 2 p.m. at the First Universalist Church, 211 North St. in the Stone Village, on Sundays. The authors will share their work, and a book signing and reception will follow each event, all of which are free.

On Nov. 1, Nancy Marie Brown, author of five non-fiction books and a young adult novel, will present her latest book is Ivory Vikings: The Mystery of the Most Famous Chessmen in the World and the Woman Who Made Them.

Next on Nov. 8, Archer Mayor, a regular fixture of Vermont Voices, returns with his 26th Joe Gunther mystery. In The Company She Kept, Gunther and his Vermont Bureau of Investigation are called in to investigate an especially brutal crime: A woman’s corpse has been found hanging high above the interstate with a homophobic slur carved into it. Mayor, a medical examiner and police investigator, lives in Newfane.

On Nov. 15, authors Greg Delanty and Tim Stevenson present their takes on the environmental crisis from two different angles. Delanty’s So Little Time: Words and Images for a World in Climate Crisis is a book of poetry, and Delanty, born in Ireland, now Poet-in-Residence at St. Michael’s College, is a celebrated poet on both sides of the Atlantic. Stevenson, from Athens, is a social activist and creator of Post Oil Solutions. He is author of Resilience and Resistance: Building Sustainable Communities for a Post Oil Age.

Howard Frank Mosher will be at the Stone Church on Nov. 22 to talk about his 11th novel, God’s Kingdom. The story of the Kinneson family in the Northeast Kingdom, begun in his bestselling A Stranger in the Kingdom, continues in God’s Kingdom.

For more information call Misty Valley Books at 802-875-3400 or visit www.mvbooks.com.

Nov. 1: BMC Faculty Recital with cellist and pianist

Guest pianist Michael Arnowitt will perform with BMC faculty member cellist Paul Cohen.

Guest pianist Michael Arnowitt will perform with BMC faculty member cellist Paul Cohen.

On Sunday, Nov. 1 at 4 p.m. at Centre Congregational Church, 193 Main St., Brattleboro, the Brattleboro Music Center presents Music School faculty member cellist Paul Cohen and guest pianist Michael Arnowitt.

The concert program includes Bach’s Suite for Violoncello Solo in C Major BWV 1009; Brahms’ Sonata for Piano and Cello in E Minor Op.38 and Beethoven’s Sonata for Cello and Piano Op. 102, No. 2 and three solo piano pieces by Brahms.

Tickets $30 patron, $15 general, $10 student, no charge to BMC students 18 and under, call the Brattleboro Music Center at 802-257-4523 or visit www.bmcvt.org.

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