The WORLD 092921

Webinar Explores Resilient Home Landscapes
Woodbury Community Library Welcomes New Library
Director Kimberly Wojnar
Woodbury Community Library is pleased
to introduce its new library director, Kimberly
Wojnar. Kim previously served as a librarian
at Craftsbury Public Library and Sterling
College’s Brown Library. In the past, she
enjoyed working as a wildlife biologist, camp
counselor, farm hand, environmental educator,
and youth program coordinator. Kim’s
curiosity and enthusiasm for lifelong learning
are fundamental in her vision for library programming
and services. We invite you to join
“The Other Americans” Book Discussion
Pulitzer Prize Finalist Laila Lalami presents
readers with a page-turning mystery in
“The Other Americans.” Says The Washington
Post, “Lalami may be our finest contemporary
chronicler of immigration and its discontents.”
Lalami tells the story of secrets,
hypocrisy and love through the voices of nine
characters revealing our country’s division
along the lines of race, religion and class. A
compelling book! We meet Tuesday, October
Scarface (1983)
★★★★
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Noted landscape consultant Dan Jaffe
Wilder will present a virtual four-hour workshop,
Oct. 16, on building resilient home
landscapes with native plants.
The program, open to all interested gardeners
and homeowners, will be offered via
Zoom from 9 a.m 1 p.m. Although free to
attend, donations will be accepted to support
garden education programming offered by
University of Vermont (UVM) Extension
Master Gardener chapters throughout
Vermont.
To register, go to https://go.uvm.edu/resilient-landscape.
To request a disability-related
accommodation, contact Cindy Heath at
(603) 543-1307 or cindy.heath@uvm.edu by
Sept. 24.
Wilder will walk participants through the
process of establishing a resilient landscape
from assessment of site and plant species and
invasive species issues to ecological landscape
techniques and long-term maintenance.
He will draw from examples from his work at
the Norcross Wildlife Sanctuary in Monson,
Massachusetts; Garden in the Woods, a
botanical garden in Framingham,
Massachusetts; and his home landscape.
Wilder is the author and photographer of
Native Plants for New England Gardens. He
is an expert in native plant ecology, propagation,
wildlife habitat construction and native
edible landscapes and has consulted with
botanical gardens, nurseries and wildlife refuges.
The program is sponsored by the Master
Gardener chapters in Windham and Windsor
Counties in collaboration with the
Rockingham Free Public Library. Additional
funding is provided by the Bennington,
Central/Northeast Kingdom, Northwest and
Rutland chapters.
a place to connect, inspire and learn
28 N Main St., Waterbury, VT 05676
(802) 244-7036
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us in welcoming her to our community on
Saturday, October 2, 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. at the
Library, at an outdoor event featuring cider,
treats, crafts, and activities. Information: 69
Valley Lake Road, Woodbury, VT; (802) 472-
5710; https://woodburycommunitylibrary.
wordpress.com; woodburyvermontlibrary@
gmail.com; facebook (Woodbury Community
Library). Hours: Monday & Wednesday 1
p.m. - 5 p.m.; Saturday 9 a.m. - 1 p.m.
5th in the Waterbury Library’s SAL Meeting
room for a lively discussion at 6:30 PM. Pick
up your copy of the book at the library’s front
desk. Yours to keep.
This program is made possible by a grant
from Libraries Transforming Communities.
Focus on Small and Rural Libraries is an initiative
of the American Library Association
(ALA) in collaboration with the Association
for Rural & Small Libraries (ARSL).
Immigration from Latin America to the
United States has been a disaster for our
Hemisphere.
It is true that some immigrants are criminals.
But that’s only a tiny part of the problem.
The vast majority of immigrants are not
criminals at all, of course. In fact, they are the
best and bravest people in Latin America.
That’s the real problem with endless immigration.
Guatemala, Mexico, and Cuba have
lost generations of their brightest and most
ambitious young people to the United States.
And those countries are suffering for it.
And how about the unfortunate immigrants
themselves? They are likely to find that the
United States is indeed a land of opportunity.
And so they work. And work. And work.
They are in a country where they don’t quite
speak the language and don’t quite belong so
they focus on work and money even more
than Americans do. They end up with more
material possessions but not necessarily more
happiness.
Young Oliver Stone understood this. He
explores all three of these immigration problems
in one extraordinary character. Tony
Montana is the greatest Latin American
immigrant in cinema history. And “Scarface”
is an underrated classic.
“Scarface” is three hours long. But I wish
it were six hours long because I love spending
time with Tony Montana.
When we meet Tony (Al Pacino), he is a
fearless, ruthless Cuban criminal who just
arrived in Miami. His ego is as huge as his
ambition.
It is 1981, so the quickest path to riches is
cocaine distribution. Before long, Tony is
working for a mid-level coke distributor
named Frank Lopez (Robert Loggia). But
Tony Montana wants to take Frank’s place.
And take his beautiful girlfriend Elvira
(Michelle Pfeiffer).
I really like what screenwriter Oliver Stone
did with Michelle Pfeiffer’s character.
Normally in a movie like this, Elvira and
Tony would start off happy and be destroyed
by drugs and distrust. In “Scarface,” Elvira
has no arc; she starts off miserable and stays
equally miserable throughout. It is an important
lesson for everyone
looking for a
soulmate: if you start
going out with an
unhappy druggie, it
is likely that she will
remain an unhappy
druggie until you
break up.
But “Scarface” is
beloved by middle
aged guys because of Tony Montana. Al
Pacino is a great actor and a great over-actor.
Tony is the perfect character for him.
Tony makes over-the-top philosophical
speeches about power, ambition, and money
– like a working-class Gordon Gekko. But
Tony is also a complex human being, with
vulnerabilities and moral lines that he refuses
to cross.
I love everything about this movie: the
humor, the violence, the synthesizer-driven
soundtrack. To me, “Scarface” is the best
crime picture that wasn’t directed by Scorsese.
And, above all, “Scarface” takes an
unflinching and insightful look at the problems
of immigration. Would the Western
Hemisphere have been better off if Tony
Montana had stayed in Cuba? Probably.
Would Tony have been better off if he had
never come to Miami? Definitely.
Lost Nation Theater does it again and hosted a live in person performance Saturday afternoon, Sept.
18 of Shakespeare on the State House Steps--”As You Like It.” A great afternoon and an even greater
all-masked crowd enjoyed the light-hearted production. “It just felt great to be back again in front of a
live audience, reported Kathleen Keenan and Kim Bent, LNT CEOs.
Classified
Deadline Is
MONDAY
Before 10AM
Central Vermont
Fun Runs
Sept. 21,2021
Two Miles
Male:
Ages-60 to 69
Manny Sainz 17:36
Four Miles
Female:
Ages- 60 to 69
Dot Martin 37:44
Male:
Ages-40 to 49
Mack Seltzer 33:31
Ages- 50 to 59
Doug Maddox 41:07
Ages-60 to 69
John Martin 41:07
Six Miles
Female:
30 to 39
Keely Keonig 49:49
Ages- 40 to 49
Natalie Gentry 54:30
Ages-50 to 50
JoAnn Mugford 57:28
Cindy Barr 61:08
Male:
Ages-30 to 39
Mark Evans 49:48
Ages-40 to 49
Jeff Hope 49:49
Fun Runs of two,four and six miles
are held every Tuesday at 5:30 p.m.
from May into October.The meeting
place on the bike path just beyond the
Montpelier High School track.
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