Jerry Carbone
Italian-American, Italian-speaker wannabe, Retired Librarian, practicing genealogist, whetstonebrookgenealogy.com & Windham County Genealogy Interest Group, recidivist trumpet player; Authors' Committee, Brattleboro Literary Festival.
- Wonderful talk by @heathercoxrichardson on American immigration on the anniversary today of the opening of Ellis Island and various immigration laws passed during the 19th century. www.youtube.com/live/TttfD5j...
- Amazing Writers Almanac today open.substack.com/pub/thewrite...
- Hey #literaryfiction readers. Check out the videos coming up on this youtube playlist.
- The #2025BrattleboroLiteraryFestival recordings are live on our #YouTube channel. Please keep an eye out for all of the videos here: youtube.com/playlist?lis... #Books #Fiction #Nonfiction #Poetry #Brattleboro #NewEngland #Vermont
- Reposted by Jerry CarboneThank you again for joining us this year for our 24th annual #BrattleboroLiteraryFestival! We'd love to hear from you and see what you loved and how we might make improvements for future events. Please take a minute and fill out this quick survey for us: bit.ly/LitFestSurve... #Vermont #BookFestival
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- Reposted by Jerry Carbone#RobFranklin will be joining us this year! Learn more about his debut novel, Great Black Hope, from his interview on @thedailyshow.com with @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social. #2025BrattleboroLiteraryFestival #DebutNovel #Fiction #Brattleboro #Vermont #LiteraryFestival youtu.be/-3DhBa_65I4?...
- They are going after big donor Dems like George Soros
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- Vermont historian J. Kevin Graffagnino, former director @vermonthistory.org will give a special presentation as part of local America 250 events in commemoration of America's Semiquincentennial next year. 7pm Brooks Memorial Library. @vtbookfest.bsky.social
- Let’s go Festival lovers!!
- Tomorrow! @brattlebororetreat.bsky.social presents An Evening with @garygulman.bsky.social to benefit the #BrattleboroLiteraryFestival at the Latchis Theater in downtown Brattleboro, VT on Wednesday, Sept. 10, at 7pm. Purchase your tickets here: latchis.com/event/an-eve... #TheGreatDepresh #Film
- @vtbookfest.bsky.social encourages book buyers when they shop online to use your website. The 24th Literary Festival takes off Oct17-19
- “ @garygulman.bsky.social is a brilliant comedian, who has a moving story to tell about finding hope in connection, and that help is available even in one’s darkest times.” - Kurt White, VP of Community & Communications, @brattlebororetreat.bsky.social. Join us on Wednesday, Sept. 10. Link in bio.
- We're delighted to welcome #RachelTrousdale to the #2025BrattleboroLiteraryFestival. Her #poetry collection, Five-Paragraph Essay on the Body-Mind Problem, was the 2024 winner of the Cardinal Prize selected by Robert Pinsky. Join us in Brattleboro, #Vermont for a weekend of author readings,10/17-19.
- Pls welcome the #PulitzerPrizeWinning art critic, #SebastianSmee, to the #2025BrattleboroLiteraryFestival! His latest book, Paris in Ruins: Love, War and the Birth of Impressionism, was published in 2024 and was a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2024. (Photo by Amber Davis Tourlentes). #nonfiction #BMAC
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- Reposted by Jerry CarboneWe'll be welcoming #LaurieGwenShapiro to the #2025BrattleboroLiteraryFestival! Her latest book, The Aviator and the Showman, was published in July. Photo of Laurie Gwen Shapiro by Franco Vogt. All events are FREE and open to the public. Pls visit the link in bio for more info. #nonfiction #Vermont
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- Reposted by Jerry CarboneWe hope to see you there!
- Reposted by Jerry CarboneWe're excited to welcome poet #ColinChanner to the #BrattleboroLiteraryFestival2025. His latest collection, Console, was published in 2023. Martin Espada writes, "Channer’s new poems leap from the page. Their musicality is powerfully insistent, pulsing through every poem." #poetry #Vermont #Poets
- Reposted by Jerry CarboneWe're thrilled to announce that @tiyamiles.bsky.social will be joining us for the 2025 Brattleboro Literary Festival. Her most recent book, Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman & the Faith Dreams of a Free People, was published in 2024. #TiyaMiles #nonfiction #brattleboroliteraryfestival #Vermont
- Reposted by Jerry CarbonePlease join us on Friday, October 17th in welcoming @timweedwriter.bsky.social at 118 Elliott. He'll be discussing his new #SciFiNovel, the Afterlife Project. Pls see the full schedule listed in the link in our bio. #BrattleboroLiteraryFestival #Author #TimWeed #Fiction #TimeTravel #ScienceFiction
- An impressive lineup of #poets & #poetry on Saturday 10/18. See schedule brattleborolitfest.org/wp-content/u...
- Welcome back #CharddeNiord to the Festival! His latest poetry collection, Westminster West, was published in April. Denise Duhamel writes, "deNiord is the bard of the bardo in Westminster West. Totally at home in the transformative place between life and death, dreaming and waking..." #poetry #VT
- We're thrilled to welcome debut author, #RobFranklin, to the #BrattleboroLiteraryFestival. Franklin's novel, Great Black Hope, was published in June. Join us live in downtown Brattleboro, Vermont! October 17-19. All events are FREE and open to the public. Full schedule in bio. #fiction #Vermont
- The lies from the Bondi-Patel hydra will surprise even Zeus.
- Reposted by Jerry CarboneWe are pleased to welcome poet, Dzvinia Orlowsky, to the 2025 #BrattleboroLiteraryFestival. Orlowsky's latest collection of poetry, Those Absences Now Closest, was published in 2024. All events are FREE & open to the public. #DzviniaOrlowsky #poetry #Brattleboro #Vermont #books
- Best book I’ve read in 2025
- Please join us on Friday, October 17th in welcoming @timweedwriter.bsky.social at 118 Elliott. He'll be discussing his new #SciFiNovel, the Afterlife Project. Pls see the full schedule listed in the link in our bio. #BrattleboroLiteraryFestival #Author #TimWeed #Fiction #TimeTravel #ScienceFiction
- Reposted by Jerry CarboneWe're delighted to welcome #nonfiction writer, @adamhigginbotham.bsky.social, this fall. His latest book, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space won the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award & the 2024 Kirkus Nonfiction Prize. #Challenger #BrattleboroLiteraryFestival
- Reposted by Jerry CarboneSo delighted to welcome #AlbertAbonado to the #BrattleboroLiteraryFestival this year! His latest poetry collection, Field Guide for Accidents, was published in 2024. It was selected by Mahogany L. Browne for the National Poetry Series. All events are FREE and open to the public. #poetry #Vermont
- Reposted by Jerry Carbone@brattlebororetreat.bsky.social presents An Evening with @garygulman.bsky.social to benefit the #BrattleboroLiteraryFestival at the Latchis Theater on Sept. 10, @ 7pm. Join us for a screening of #TheGreatDepresh at #Brattleboro's #LatchisTheatre. Please find the link in our bio to purchase tickets.
- Reposted by Jerry CarboneJoin us in October to welcome @adacalhoun.bsky.social to the 2025 Festival! Her latest book, Crush, was published in February. Isaac Fitzgerald writes, "Crush marks Calhoun’s arrival as a novelist, and what an incredibly explosive arrival it is.” #AdaCalhoun #fiction #brattleboroliteraryfestival
- Reposted by Jerry CarboneMaltempo: tempesta di fulmini in Toscana, si allaga Venezia, a Roma decine di alberi caduti repubblica.it/cronaca/2025/08/21/…
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- My friend Alfonso in Sorrento send me this photo today
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- Have you seen who is coming to the 2025 @vtbookfest.bsky.social ? Authors here brattleborolitfest.org/authors/ including @benshattuck to whom @nytimes.com Maureen Dowd gave a shoutout on Aug 2-- www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/o...
- Here are the Declaration of Independence’s grievances against King George III. Many apply to Trump. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
- A Noem Poem Regarding the despicable, jack booted response by Kristi Noem to Senator Padilla yesterday, with help from chatGPT open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...
- This was predictable Kennedy Center sees ticket sales fall dramatically amid Trump intervention Donald Trump appointed himself chair of the performance center in February, leading to boycotts and cancellations www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
- It was on my list last year and failed to make it there. Next time!! one of Rome’s best restaurants is rewriting a major food rule open.substack.com/pub/sluttisp...
- IT’S THE CORRUPTION STUPID…. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...
- #LibraryofCongress The vandals are taking down our beloved people and institutions one by one…https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/09/trump-congress-librarian-fired?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
- #genealogy Now this is another historic first. New Pope Has Creole Roots in New Orleans, Genealogist Says (@honora www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/u...
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- History of the first Mexican cartel? Yes, it was #Tequila. Register for this Zoom event, Friday, May 9, 5 pm ET, The Tequila Wars, new book by Ted Genoways, us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
- If you are going to Rome soon, or just got back after this historic moment, subscribe to MarioM substack @unveilingrome open.substack.com/pub/visitrom...
- #genealogy #geneticgenealogy "We are so much more than just our genes, and identity cannot be reduced to a singularity, “What made someone Carthaginian would have been many things, including a link to Carthage itself, its myths, stories, cultures and families.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/s...
- Very, very interesting discussion moderated by @danielleoteri.bsky.social Ep. 18: The Passing of Pope Francis and the Upcoming Papal Conclave www.danielleoteri.com/p/ep-18-the-...
- Trump Will Hate This open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...
- Top 15 Signs at Hands Off Protests www.meidasplus.com/p/top-15-sig...
- The Brattleboro Literary Festival and our partners this Friday, March 14 at 5:00 pm, Free and Zoom only, "The Invisible Doctrine" with journalist George Monbiot and filmmaker Peter Hutchison. Online and free. #neoliberalism #deregulation #privatization #austerity us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
- March 14, 5 pm., the Brattleboro Literary Cocktail Hour with George Monbiot & Peter Hutchinson, new book, "The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism," via Zoom. #neoliberism #privatization #deregulation #freetrade #austerity Register here us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
- A day of shame as Trump abandons Ukraine—and our allies. open.substack.com/pub/roberthu...
