This weekend offers plenty of
swashbuckling action at Dartmouth College.
The Hopkins Center is presenting the 1920 silent film, The Mark Of
Zorro, with live accompaniment from the Paragon Ragtime Orchestra, conducted by Rick Benjamin.
Vermont poet Ellen Bryant Voigt revisits some of her work, and introduces new
pieces, in the collection "Messenger-New and Selected Poems," which has just
been released in paperback.
The
Big Apple Circus returns to the Upper Valley this weekend.
Performers
from 10 countries take part in this classical circus, which with one-ring
brings the audience close to the action.
The French fashion designer Yvès Saint Laurent died
earlier this week at his home in Paris.
He was 71 years old.
Just two days before his death, a major retrospective
of his creations opened at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.
A new group has formed at Dartmouth College that brings together students with an unusual common
bond: military service.
The Dartmouth Undergraduate
Veterans Association is a forum for students with military backgrounds to share
their experiences.
Governor
Jim Douglas announced today that Secretary of Administration Mike Smith will
step down at the end of August.
Douglas will appoint Transportation Secretary Neale Lunderville to the post.