Theresa Maggio

• Due to expected bad road weather, the Latchis Theatre has cancelled this Sunday's Feb 16 screening of Bills Lumber and will show it instead next Sunday, Feb 23, at 4 pm.

Press release in today's The Commons weekly events calendar

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Bills Lumber at the Latchis in the main theater. A Sunday matinee at 4 pm on February 16. If you've seen it before, come see it on the big screen. If you have not seen it, now is your chance!
Free admission. Donations split 50/50 between the non-profit Latchis and Brattleboro Community Television. This 45-minute documentary by Newfane author and video maker, Theresa Maggio, follows the Bills family of Wardsboro as they demolish their beloved 1936 sawmill. Octogenarian brothers Everett and Alan Bills tell stories about what is was like to grow up on Bills Hill, their family compound off Route 100 in Wardsboro. Good hearts and real resilience in this family. Laughter and tears in this tale.

Can't win them all.

Sister Dot shot this half-minute video of the full house at the second showing of Bills Lumber, the movie on 18 January 2025.

The people of San Biagio Platani start preparing the all-natural feast and ritual objects now, in January, to be ready for Easter morning. Everything they decorate with is either grown locally, or nearby or is mined. It all comes from the earth. Theymake  bread panel walls and arch liners. They have a different theme every year.

Next screening at the Williamsville Hall, 18 Jan 2025 at 7 pm.Alan and Everett Bills plan to be there. Free admission. Donations welcomed. Donations will be split 50-50 between the Town of Newn of Newfane, which heats the hall, and BCTV (Brattleboro Community Television), the non-profit sponsor of the event. Snow date is Sunday, Jan. 19 at 3pm

I have been working on this local project for more than a year. The world premiere will be held Saturday, 4 January, at 7pm at the Williamsville Hall in Newfane, Vermont. Annie Landenberger interviewed me for The Commons weekly paper. Click on the photo to read the story.

I woke up this morning to the news that this unique tonnaroto had passed away.

Favignana, Levanzo and Marettimo

Click purple text to see a lovely short video.