These pictures are from the May 12 Pete’s 100th celebration. As Annie Patterson put it, “We sang songs celebrating the life and work of Pete Seeger, one of the greatest human beings I have ever met. Pete spent his life working for justice and inspired us all to sing together. A full house (over 200 … Continue reading Pete Seeger 100th Celebration was a sell out
The Pete Seeger 100th birthday sing-along concert is just around the corner, with Emma’s Revolution, Peter Siegel, Sally Rogers, Annie Patterson and Peter Blood. Click here to get tickets. Read larger image here: Pete’s 100th info sheet
On April 5 and 6, Marty Shaw, Jamie Gibson, Leslie Kinney and I attended the Northern New England District – UUA Annual Conference. Marty and I were the representative delegates from All Souls. The theme of the conference was “The Power of We”, which was intended to garner support for the dissolution of the NNED-UUA. … Continue reading NNED Report From ASC President
Coming right up is the unveiling of our current Thursday Troupe tour de force, “Raising Our Voices Together!” The actors are thrilled to be “playing themselves” as they share their dreams, aspirations, work, and feelings about romance. This show is woven together with outstanding music written for the Troupe, with words informed by the actors … Continue reading “Raising our Voices Together” – Theatre Adventure Program
We have added a page called Children’s Programing to provide more detail about our childrens’ programming activities. It is under Learning > Families.
Charles Butterfield has compiled an excellent overview of the history of All Souls Church, beginning in the early 1790s when the Rev. Hosea Ballou, “Father of Universalism in America,” preached to a small gathering in West Brattleboro. His narrative covers a lot of ground from there until 2019. You can read his history here.
I’m sharing the good news that we have hired architectural design professional Robin Sweetapple to assist us with our capital project planning and building maintenance issues for the next year. We will be resuming our capital planning group next week, Wednesday March 20, at 5:00. Robin will be presenting at this and subsequent meetings of … Continue reading Architect hired
From ASC President of the Board, Ed Burke: Dear congregants, please check out the Fact Sheet regarding a proposed long term rental.
Feb.12, 2019 – A huge takeaway from the Board retreat last weekend was when Shayna asked us all to write what we valued about All Souls, then crumple up the paper and toss into a pile for anonymous reading aloud. What was striking was that each entry lauded how important the ASC community is to … Continue reading From ASC President of the Board, Ed Burke
Music to our ears: “I, Leonard Howard, performed a re-inspection at 29 South Street to find all items to have been corrected, that were found on the initial inspection.” This was from the Brattleboro Fire Department Fire and Safety Re-inspection report dated January 18, 2019. In short, our premises are much safer than they were … Continue reading From ASC President, Ed Burke
