Over the past year, the Howard Center Arts Collective has collaborated with residents and staff at four Chittenden County group homes to bring color and imagination to the walls of their common spaces. The Arts Collective hired member-artist Annie Caswell to spearhead...
Editorial: Housing First Means Housing First Saying that housing is the solution to homelessness is a little like saying that oxygen is the solution to asphyxiation. Both statements are obviously true – though the former hasn’t always been as obvious to some as the...
In 2009, when Dartmouth professor Elizabeth Carpenter-Song launched what would become a decade-long ethnographic study of homelessness in the Upper Connecticut River Valley, plenty of its residents, by her account, didn’t know that a homeless population existed in the...
Short fiction by Ron Merkin “Sorry, Samantha, I’m calling because I can’t be at our board meeting this Tuesday. I made an appointment to have a nervous breakdown that day.” There was silence. Then, “You made… an appointment… to have a… nervous breakdown?” “Yes, with a...
“It’s not the Dorchester, is it?” says one inmate at an English “hospital for the criminally insane” to a newer patient, referring sarcastically to the famous five-star hotel in London. “Although most of our guests stay for much longer,” she adds. “It’s the...
“Music is good for your mental health.” That’s what the lead singer of the sextet Cozy told the crowd that had gathered at Hard’ack Recreation Area in St. Albans for the festival known as Afterglow. It was early afternoon on a sunny fall Saturday, and as attendees...
