The Corn Hill Arts Festival hits 50 August 1969: Astronauts from the Apollo 11 lunar landing have just returned home; The Beatles have just taken their famous “Abbey Road” cover photo; and the Woodstock Festival was held in Upstate New York. Farther northwest from Bethel, a group of neighbors — also artists — decide to […]
Corn Hill neighborhood
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Makeshift barrier was a statement
Plungers can make one heck of a point if used creatively. And so they did on Exchange Boulevard, where some someone stuck a bunch of them on the outer edges of the bike lanes on either side of the road, creating an ad hoc barrier to buffer bikers from drivers.
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The Squirrel that gathers causes
On almost any day or evening, the Flying Squirrel Community Space is home to a potpourri of progressive artists, musicians, and social justice activists. The Squirrel is a meeting space. But it’s also an organization with its own members, who often describe it as a collective: a community that’s part of other communities.
