On June 3, the Inter-Generational Chorus gave a free, public concert at the River Garden in downtown Brattleboro. Singers ranged from third graders to retirees. The director is Andy Davis of the Oak Grove public school in Brattleboro. Anyone who wants to join the chorus should contact Davis. In this video they perform the Vermont state song. Video by Elizabeth Wood.

The lyrics are:

These green hills and silver waters
Are my home, they belong to me
And to all her sons and daughters
May they be strong and forever free

Let us live to protect her beauty

This article includes a short video of Elizabeth Wood of the New Leaf CSA organic farm in Dummerston, Vermont, just outside Brattleboro. It was filmed on May 30.

This article includes a short video of goats going for a ride in Dummerston, Vermont, May 22. The farmer in the video is Elizabeth Wood of the New Leaf CSA. www.NewLeafCSA.com The goats are Dakar and Orion, both male. They live on pasture and sometimes they get to visit the female goats. "That's very exciting for them," Wood said. Wood makes goat cheese and sells Nigerian dwarf goat kids and her organic vegetables, flowers, herbs, and pasture-raised bacon and eggs.

The Northampton-based group Free Press held a public meeting in Washington, DC on May 14 about how the public can successfully lobby the government to increase public funding for journalism, and to create universal high speed internet access. Among the speakers at the event were Susan Crawford, a member of President Barack Obama’s National Economic Council and a graduate of Yale Law School. This one-minute video shows part of Crawford’s speech, and the line of people waiting to use computers with extremely slow internet connections at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, also on May 14.

This article includes a one-minute video of a benefit party for Brattleboro Community Radio. More info about the radio station is at www.wvew.org

If you're in Keene, check out www.wknh.org

In Northampton, www.valleyfreeradio.org

In Amherst, Greenfield, and Northampton, www.wmua.org