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Our volunteers are an incredible group of people who provide comfort and practical help to their neighbors at end of life. Each Spring and Fall, Brattleboro Area Hospice offers an in-person training for hospice volunteers. Hospice volunteers support neighbors and their families who are living with...
How to Help a Grieving Friend: 11 Things to Do When You’re Not Sure What to Do by Megan Devine, founder of Refuge in Grief Author's Note: My essay on how to help a grieving friend is among the top three most shared posts I’ve ever...
ASK ALICE This Month's Topic: Conservation Burials Dear Alice, A while back you wrote about green burials, and mentioned several cemeteries in southern Vermont that allow them. You didn’t mention any conservation burial sites in the area, though, and I have heard that those sites are the best...
By Jennie Reichman The eagle has landed! Actually, it’s a crow, and unlike Neil Armstrong’s historic visit to the moon in 1969, this bird has found a permanent nest at the new Experienced Goods location, 80 Flat St. in Brattleboro. After many months of planning, renovations...
Given today’s world, let’s celebrate when something goes right! By Susan Parris You’d be hard-pressed to find another place in our town like Experienced Goods, where a wide variety of people interact daily with such good vibes. All who enter–customers, donors, volunteers, staff–create a shared experience of...
SAYING GOODBYE TO ABBY by Jane Southworth, longtime BAH supporter Saying goodbye to Abby, my four-legged friend of 14-plus years, has been hard, difficult, excruciating, expected, and swift and for her, I most fervently hope, painless. One knows, when a dog or cat comes to join the family,...
ASK ALICE This Month's Topic: Home Funerals Dear Alice, I have an aunt who is, sadly, nearing the end of her lifetime journey. She has planned her own green burial with a biodegradable box in a local hybrid cemetery, and she has asked her children and me to...
Thank you, Patty, for walking so many of us home. By Susan Parris, Executive Director In my twenty-seven years at Brattleboro Area Hospice, I have met many exceptional volunteers and staff. In a culture where most of us step back when faced with the pain of...
By Jennie Reichman “Home sings me of sweet things, life there has its own wings to fly over the mountains, though I’m standing still.” Karla Bonoff, “Home” After a whirlwind week of sales and, at the end, a day of “Everything is FREE!,” on Saturday, May 21, we...
My great-aunt Mary told me, “Honey, when I turned 74, I got old.” Aunt Mary always seemed so young to me, so vibrant, so alive. After being swirled in a tornado when she was 62 and dropped in a field a quarter-of-a-mile from where her...