| | Today's Forecast: Partly sunny, with a high near 74. Northeast wind 3 to 7 mph. | | | | | HERBS & LONGEVITY TALK
In Cancer Ward, while fiction and a means to reflect on Soviet society, the author, Nobel Laureate, and former Cavendish resident, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, relied heavily on his own experience as a cancer patient. Solzhenitsyn describes how a doctor notices that peasant patients don't seem to get cancer, which he concludes is from their practice of drinking chaga tea. However, Solzhenitsyn turned to European mandrake root to treat his cancer, along with radiation therapy.
Like chaga, mandrake has been used for centuries and it turns out, a study conducted at the National Cancer Institute found that using the formula Solzhenitsyn followed with mandrake root contained two cancer drugs. Note that American mandrake (Podophyllum peltatum) is an entirely different plant than the European variety used by Solzhenitsyn.
On Sept. 29 (Sunday) at 2 pm, the Cavendish Historical Society (CHS) will host a talk on plants and herbs associated with longevity. One of the speakers will be Dr. Charis Boke, a member of the Dartmouth College faculty in anthropology. She is currently writing Poison, Power, and Possibility: Building Relations with Medicinal which will explore the poetics, politics, and practices of contemporary herbalists in North America, leaning on ethnographic research, botanical histories, and lived experience to examine what it takes to remedy what ails us. Dr. Boke was involved in helping with the Benjamin Rush Medicinal Garden at the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia.
This event will take place at the CHS Museum in Cavendish Village (route 131) and is free and open to the public. Donations welcomed.
For more information, please call 802-226-7807 or e-mail margocaulfield@icloud.com
| | | | | Hi Folks, It is good to be back to town again after our long vacation. We drove over the new culvert on Shunpike Road and noted all the work put in to complete that job. Many thanks to the crew that worked to get that completed. This is your Chit Chat Deadline Reminder which is coming up this Sunday September 22nd at 6:00 pm for the October issue. Please have all articles, advertisements, announcements and any and all items you wish to share with our community to me by then. We go to print on Monday morning the 23rd. We are looking forward to our fall activities, with all the bright colors it brings. Happy Apple Pie Season, Diana | | | | | Please join us on Saturday September 21st at 2 pm as Mount Holly author
and educator Joan Connor discusses her recently released collection of
stories: "The Corner of East and Dreams".
Joe Galbraith, Library Director Mount Holly Town Library
26 Maple Hill Road
Belmont, VT 05730
802.259.3707
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| | Today's Forecast:A slight chance of rain showers after 5pm. Sunny, with a high near 76. Northeast wind around 3 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. | | | | | The deadline for the Mount Holly Photo Contest is quickly approaching. For more information click here | | | | | Hello everyone.
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I'm slowly cleaning out my garage and have a growing amount of things that need a new home. STOP BY. I'll be here all weekend 10-3
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Surround sound system
House ware, dishes, chachkas
And various items just waiting for you to take them home. lol
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Robin Nelson | | | | | Community Health Receives Gold for Quality Care. For more information, click here | | |
| | Today's Forecast: Sunny, with a high near 76. West wind around 5 mph. | | | | | WE NEED HELP, PLEASE! Cider Days is a main event every fall for our community and we are busy preparing. This year we need help with apple transportation. We can't have Cider Days without fresh pressed cider! We are in need of a volunteer with a vehicle and trailer to pick up five 4 foot x 4 foot x 3 foot crates of apples from Browns Orchard in Castleton on Thursday, October 10th and haul them to Belmont Village for our fall festival. Ideally, we would like to have you leave the trailer with crates at the village for the weekend and then haul empty crates back to Browns the next week. Please contact Jennifer at mhcavt@gmail.com or 614-668-5282 if you can help. Thanks for making this community so special!!! | | |
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