Bath’s Chocolate Church puts spotlight on artists with a mission
The free video series, Art for Good, focuses on four artists who have combined their artistic talents with charity work.
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Ross Bachelder, an artist and art community activist, in his studio in Berwick. Bachelder is one of four artists featured in a Chocolate Church Art Center video series debuting this month on the center’s Facebook page and YouTube channels. The series highlights artists who are also working to help others.
Contributed / William Lederer
A new video series by the Chocolate Church Arts Center in Bath is putting a spotlight on artists who are using their work to benefit others.
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What adjective should describe “the American” active in foreign policy? Graham Greene chose “ quiet”, as his character harmed a country he did not understand. Eugene Burdick and William Lederer used “ ugly”. Robert D Kaplan, one of America’s most thoughtful chroniclers of foreign affairs, proposes “good” to describe Bob Gersony, who in “a frugal monastic existence that has been both obscure and extraordinary” has devoted his life to using the.
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THE Ugly American is the title of a 1958 novel by William Lederer and Eugene Burdick. It is a lightly fictionalised account of US diplomatic failures in Southeast Asia that became a runaway bestseller and was distributed among his colleagues by a young senator by the name of John F. Kennedy.
The title refers not to the diplomatic corps but to an engineer who lived among the locals and understood why they were attracted to communism; it nonetheless rapidly became a byword for American arrogance abroad. The novel was set in a country called Sarkhan, which was assumed to represent Vietnam well before it turned into a full-fledged disaster, partly thanks to precisely the kinds of bluster and betrayals portrayed in the book.
Chocolate Church releases holiday album
In addition to the music, the album also features a reading of the classic Christmas poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas,” performed by actor and voice-over artist Tamara Lilly.
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Scott Moreau is one of 11 Maine artists contributing to a holiday compilation album to benefit the Chocolate Church Arts Center.
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BATH A new holiday compilation album from the Chocolate Church Arts Center is featuring new recordings of original works and classic holiday music by artists that fans of the center will recognize.
The compilation is available on the center’s website at chocolatechurcharts.org and features 11 Maine artists. It may be streamed for free or downloaded for $10, with all proceeds benefiting the center. William Lederer, the center’s executive director, said the center usually hosts multiple in-person concerts during the holiday season. With the pandemic, he said, that’s not possible,
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