Mary

Wings

Merry Christmas!
These bells (and cats) were recorded in Burlington and in Lincoln this December with help from my beautiful sister. The clock-tower bells are the College Street Congregational Church and City Hall in Burlington.
Photo taken in Central Park, NYC on 11/15/2020 at Bethesda Fountain

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Props

Today an A-list guest list-reader: my friend Trish Denton, director of In Tandem Arts and Producer/Director of Retro Spec, a truly innovative pandemic-era piece of theater that will live on into many more eras!!
Photo taken on the way to one of the live productions of Retro Spec this summer in Burlington, 08/22/2020

Shine

Sing-along recorded on 02/07/2017 at Helen Porter Rehabilitation and Nursing in Middlebury, VT where my grandmother volunteered for decades (an “activity aide” and “chief bingo caller!) before being welcomed as a resident herself.
Photo taken at my house in Burlington on 12/15/2020.

Church bulletin article about my grandmother:

Summer

This time-traveling moment brought to you by the one and only Anna VanDine. Catch more of her on Vermont Public Radio’s podcast The Frequency (and many more places in the future I’m sure!) Thank you Anna!
Photo taken in Lincoln, VT on 09/11/2020

Light

Poem by Wendell Berry (from his collection “Terrapin.”)
Candle lighting (12/20/2020) and starlings (12/19/2020) recorded in Burlington, VT
Photo taken in Burlington on 11/22/2016.

Month

Photo taken from the Thomas Jefferson Memorial in Washington, DC on 04/06/2014
Voices lovingly contributed in December 2020 by Pete, Sister, Connie, Robin, TC, Eliza, Trish, John-o, Martha, Dad and Rick ❤️
The future is ours.

Tracks

Poem excerpt from Robert Louis Stevenson’s From a Railway Carriage 
Train ride on the Alaska Railroad between Anchorage and Denali Park recorded on 05/18/2015
Photo take on the same train ride

Waltz

This recording was made at the Northeast Heritage Music Camp in Starksboro on 06/26/2019.
The musicians are Sarah Hotchkiss, Dave Surette, Becky Tracy, David Kaynor and Pete Sutherland.
This photo was taken at the Peterborough Fall Ball in Peterborough, NH on 10/15/2016

Boat

This recording was made at the Ferry Dock Marina in Burlington on 12/31/2016.
This photo was taken at Perkins Pier in Burlington on 12/16/2020.

Yours

This recording of my grandparents John and Margaret Wesley singing Yours (Quiéreme Mucho) was recorded on Christmas Day, 2012 in Burlington. They are accompanied on guitar by my dad, Ted.
I’m not sure when the photo was taken.