16 I Out in the Mountains [June 200(l = milestones = On January 22, 2000, Putney residents John Calvi and Marshall Brewer hosted _60 friends at their home to celebrate the couple’s tenth wedding anniversary Bellows Falls caterer Linda King and her daughter, Katharine, kept the ample food thoughtfully and attrac- tively served throughout the event. Vermonters in atten- dance included lesbian social activist Eva Mondon and physical therapist Cheryl Elinsky, the first Verrnonter to swim the English Channel. Q. By happy circumstance, sev- eral of the couple’s notewor- thy greenhouse camellias were in bloom, including Nuccio’s Gem, Rudy’s Magnoliaflora, and C. reticu- lata Comelian. About half of the guests had attended the couple’s wedding 10 years ago under the care of Putney Friends Meeting in a traditional Quaker ceremony attended by - 200 of the couple’s friends and families. (As a _historical footnote, the Brattleboro Reformer’s wedding armouncement was thefirst for a couple of the same gen- der ever printed by a main- Hafld Crafbfid Gifts fer all iifccasiefis Taft cyerrram Sheflnirtg Caertbarr, williseert - 872,.&891 stream newspaper in the United States, and was later read on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered by Noah Adams and Linda Wertheimer.) John Calvi continues 18 years of working with sur- vivors of trauma and the orga- nizations that serve them. He travels nationwide conducting workshops for people who have endured trauma, includ- ing women healing from sex- ual abuse, refugees who have been tortured, and people with AIDS, among other groups. Marshall Brewer, employed by World Learning of Brattleboro, counsels applicants to master’s degrees at the School for International Training. The school has recently armounced expansion of its academic programs, enrolling professionals in the fields of language teaching, international education, sus- tainable development, inter- cultural relations, and organi- zational management. es in the soul.” “Theidea came from a visit to the Farmer’s Market last summer, and falling in love with Eric Slayton’s pho- tographs of birds. I picked up one his note cards, saw a barn owl staring back at me, and said “I have a poem about a barn owl. I wrote it after see- ing a program at one of our local schools given by the Vermont Institute of Natural Science.” He looked at me. and said, “That’s the same owl.” Later, on the way home, I thought, I wonder if we could do something together? Free to Fly is the answer to that question.” The exhibit was a multime- dia event consisting of com- puter-enhanced photographs of birds by Eric Slayton, woodcuts by Margot Torrey, and poems by Diane Lischer, Lynn Martin, and Nan Heminway. 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