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The Red Mill, the main building of the Vermont Studio Center, in the year’s first snowfall.
I’m at the Vermont Studio Center, in Johnson, VT for a month-long writing residency. The art center is based in repurposed turn-of-the-century buildings in the center of town — houses, church, grain mill, dance hall, gymnasium — all turned into studios, housing and dining hall. It’s a lovely place with about 50 residents in addition to a large community of staff artists and writers. I’m here to work on a series of essays.
Writing residents are given opportunities read their work to the community in regular readings held in the Lowe Lecture Hall, a wonderful old converted theatre. I chose to read from the manuscript of Menno Moto: A Journey in Search of Identity. It’s the first time I’ve read any of this work publicly, and I hope there will be many more readings once it gets published. You can listen to an audio recording of the reading here:
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Maverick Studios, where I have been sat writing for the past month, on the banks of the Gihon River
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Bradley House, my home for the past month.
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Wolf Kahn Studios, filled with incredibly talented visual artists.
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Dogshead Falls on the Gihon River