Kourtnie Lamson, left, and Keith Ford play guitars Thursday at the Harvest Teen Center in Bennington. The center, open to youths 13 to 19 years old, is sponsored by Harvest Christian Ministries, whose members have donated a variety of musical instruments.
2/2/2012
Album ID: 1407737
Photos by Peter Crabtree
Peace Pagoda
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Nipponzan Myohoji monks and nuns bow Saturday when celebrating the 18th anniversary of the Grafton, N.Y., Peace Pagoda. Participants left their shoes outside the door before entering a temple there. A diverse group of laypeople joined the prayers.
10/3/2011
Album ID: 1333487
Photos by Peter Crabtree
Harvest Festival
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Anna Freebern, 10, helps Tim Williams press apple cider at the St. James Episcopal Church Harvest Festival in Arlington. A heavy rain put a damper on the festivities.
10/1/2011
Album ID: 1333496
Photos by Peter Crabtree
Day of Prayer
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Dede Budz, associate pastor of Harvest Christian Ministries, leads a prayer outside the Bennington town office Thursday in observance of National Prayer Day.
5/6/2011
Album ID: 1242038
Photos by Peter Crabtree
Rosary Rally
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Parishioners of St. John the Baptist Church on Houghton St in North Bennington participated in a national Rosary Rally in prayers for the United States. Henry and Eleanor Simpatico provided music and organization for the event held in the church garden.
10/19/2010
Album ID: 1100081
Photos by Paul Guillotte
Blessing of the Animals
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Monks and nuns of the New Skete communities in Cambridge, N.Y., participate in a blessing of the animals ceremony Monday, the feast of St. Francis of Assisi. The prayer service included creatures both great and small.
10/4/2010
Album ID: 1089891
Photos by Peter Crabtree
Religious freedom
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Dr. Alexander Tenentes, second from right, accepts a legislative resolution Thursday calling for the Turkish government to stop discriminating against the Greek Orthodox Church. Attending the press conference in Bennington were, from left, Bennington County Sens. Robert Hartwell and Dick Sears and Rep. William Botzow, D-Pownal/Woodford.
6/18/2010
Album ID: 1026921
Photos by Peter Crabtree
"Blessed be Walter Hooke"
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A sign once carried in an anti-war demonstration by the late Walter G. Hooke, who died at the age of 97 last week, is brought to the altar of St. Patrick's Church in Cambridge, N.Y., by his great-niece, Alexandra Goodwin, on Monday. "Walt reached out to the poor ... the dispossesed ... the underdogs. Those were Walt's people," said Father George Clements of Chicago, who helped celebrate the funeral mass. A former executive with UPS, Hooke was instrumental in integrating that company, once "a bastion of racism," Clements said. He befriended Cesar Chavez, a champion of migrant workers, and supported Dorothy Day, founder of the Catholic Worker movement. In later years, Hooke, who served in the U.S. Marines during the occupation of Nagasaki, Japan, fought on behalf of "atomic veterans" harmed by exposure to radiation, securing their rights to medical treatment.
"I have never known anyone ... as passionate about social justice as Walter Hooke," said Clements.
5/25/2010
Album ID: 1010832
Photos by Peter Crabtree
Old First Church new pastor
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Newly installed Old First Church Pastor Kenneth Clarke led his first service in Bennington on Sunday.
5/17/2010
Album ID: 1006228
Photos by Paul Guillotte
Confirmation
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Roman Catholic teens and their sponsors from throughout Bennington County march in a procession Tuesday to the Sacred Heart St. Francis de Sales Church in Bennington to receive the sacrament of confirmation. The Most Rev. Salvatore R. Matano, bishop of the Diocese of Burlington, celebrated the Mass.
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