On the fair’s 30th anniversary, a question hangs in the air: Has this genre been absorbed by the mainstream? What is ‘outsider’ when its greatest talents are in the canon?
The temperatures may be low, but there's no shortage of ways for Vermonters to connect, learn and have a good time. We've compiled seven must-do events, including an online talk with Venture Out Project founder Perry Cohen.
It’s easy to forget that Vermont, and probably New Hampshire too, once moved at a much slower pace. For some residents, not much moved at all other than time and the seasons.Even in the 1970s and ’80s, people who grew up in the hills on subsistence.
Heartbreak by Tony Shull It s a show nearly everyone in Burlington has seen, though not heard: Phish Concert, a mural on the North Street side of Nunyuns Bakery & Café, epitomizes a long, strange trip. Motley pilgrims walk, crawl or ride a chicken on a magenta-hued road toward a distant stage. One of the phans is a creature whose backside is a set of stairs. A smiley-faced clock carrying a briefcase walks in the opposite direction. A huge, deific eye hovers in the sky. The wondrous landscape includes a rocket ship, a waterfall, a sky-bound ladder supported by nothing, a pair of snowmen, Santa with a red-and-white-striped (north?) pole, and a deep gulch whose occupants seem unfazed to be stuck there. In the lower right corner, a facsimile of Edvard Munch s screamer looks very fazed indeed.