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Victoria Shouldis

Concord Monitor staff

Biography: Victoria Shouldis is a native of Staten Island, New York. She worked as a social worker for the state for nearly 20 years and has been a freelance, compulsive writer for longer than that. She has been writing, arts, mostly, for the Monitor for about 14 years. She is eclectic about her musical tastes and judges others ridiculously harshly on this topic.

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Member for: 2 years 20 weeks

Most recent content by Victoria Shouldis

Lebanon

Double world

There is a very specific moment when Ken Kimball went from being the Ken Kimball he had known his whole life, and the brand new, damaged and unsure Ken Kimball. That specific moment came just over two years ago, when Kimball was training with a buddy for the mountain bike portion of a triathlon. There he was, going… 0

August 18, 2011

Canterbury

Catch a ride to a golden era

The Capitol Center Jazz Orchestra will host a trip in the Wayback Machine come Saturday, with a musical tribute and journey back in time to the Greatest Generation - that era in American history that covers World World II and the immediate years afterward. The evening - replete with some of the most famed songs and bands from the era - promises to be one filled opportunities to… 0

August 11, 2011

Plymouth

Judy Blue Eyes

She's been a force of social activism, a writer of personal memoir, and a renowned singer and songwriter for more than five decades. But Judy Collins still finds passion and renewal when she takes the stage, as she will do next Wednesday night at Plymouth's new and intimate venue, the Flying Monkey. Now 72,… 0

August 4, 2011

Concord

Beyond space, into technology

Sure. There's the usual tours through the cosmos, the narrated guidance through the evening stars, the all-aboard lunar landing module that more than more than one of us must sheepishly admit to not being able to land just yet. But a new offering of hands-on, interactive exhibits opening this week at Concord's McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center offers visits a wider view of the… 0

July 28, 2011

Manchester

No ordinary landscapes

As technology rapidly evolves and changes the way we live our lives in the most fundamental ways, the landscape for artists is changing too. The latest show at Manchester's Currier Museum of Art takes visitors on a deep and interesting visit to those new artistic realms, with the opening of "Shifting Terrain: Landscape Video." Focused on seven New England artists, "Shifting Terrain"… 0

July 7, 2011

Concord

From Blount, fresh-squeezed juice

There are a few things that become perfectly clear as you talk with Roy Blount Jr. He is an absolute word guy, collecting obscure meanings and new phrases like others might collect fine wines or foreign stamps. He is a clipping guy, who admits to having snippets of articles and references collected around his house. And he wants to be the first to know when a squirrel has robbed… 0

June 30, 2011

Portsmouth

American in Paris

For about three-quarters of the 20th century, many of America's most beloved and respected artists - some already known and beloved, some yet to find muse and fame - migrated to Paris. They found impossibly old and inspiring architecture. They found deeper vision. They founded an artistic movement. They found themselves.… 0

June 16, 2011

Hopkinton / Warner

Retracing the path of the basket trail

Each carefully stripped and pounded piece of ash. Every laboriously woven piece of sweetgrass. The decorative beads of colored glass, added to catch the eyes and wallets of settlers and tourists. Each one of those components work together to create baskets. But each of those pieces also tells a story: the story of the Abenaki, a native people who were here about 10,000 years ahead… 0

June 9, 2011

Concord

Marine fights poverty with nonprofit

Rye Barcott was raised to be extraordinarily ordinary. The only child son of a Vietnam vet and sociology teaching father and a nurse and academic mother, Barcott grew up comfortably in Rhode Island believing that he might not have superior abilities that would save the world, but he had an ability and an obligation to do something. And he did. He became a Marine, more recently a… 0

June 2, 2011

The Squid and the Writer

For centuries, the noble squid was considered by many seafarers to be a deep mystery of the ocean, and not an enticing, mermaid-like mystery creature, but an impossibly oversized, monstrous and hideous mystery. But as scientists are discovering on an almost daily basis, the squid offers important clues about not just the undersea world but also the all-important neuron-world of… 0

April 14, 2011