Below is a list of links to my commentaries which have aired on Vermont Public Radio. My first commentary was in the fall of 1998. I focus on the arts, women's issues and civil rights. Both VPR and I welcome response to the commentaries.
(Descriptions are copied directly from VPR's host's original introductions.)
2004-05-01
March for Women's Lives
Commentator Lois Eby was one of the million or so women in the March for Women's Lives. Here are some of her reflections on that experience.
2004-02-24
G. Roy Levin
Commentator Lois Eby remembers a friend and colleague who died last July. G. Roy Levin would have been 73 today.
2003-06-26
Alice Neel: Women drawn
The artist Alice Neel's drawings of women are being featured in a show in Burlington this summer. Commentator Lois Eby has some thoughts about Neel's work and her contribution to contemporary images of women.
2002-12-16
Great thoughts: Bread and Puppet Theater
Commentator Lois Eby reflects on how the ideas of Peter Schumann and the Bread and Puppet Theater have contributed to art and social conscience in Vermont and around the world, as VPR continues to explore Great Thoughts of Vermont.
2002-11-29
Film, 'Here Today' moves audience
Recently commentator Lois Eby saw the film "Here Today: Heroin in Vermont" and she was moved by this documentary about the effects of heroin on addicts and their families.
2002-11-04
Honoring poet Hayen Carruth
This month Vermont will host a series of four celebrations honoring the poet Hayden Carruth. Commentator Lois Eby shares her own memories of the poet.
2002-10-23
Bill Davison and Jamaican artists at the Fleming Museum
Commentator Lois Eby recently visited UVM's Fleming Museum where she viewed two exhibits, both very impressive and each very different from the other.
2002-09-19
The paintings of Jose Clemente Orozco
Commentator Lois Eby says that a current show at the Hood Museum of Art unites art, politics, history and human suffering.
2002-08-21
Janet McKenzie art exhibit
Commentator Lois Eby tells us about a thought provoking art exhibit coming to a close this weekend.
2002-07-23
James Nachtwey: Testimony to an Inferno
Weeks after friends urged her to see an exhibit of disturbing photographs at Dartmouth's Hood Museum, commentator Lois Eby is still reflecting on the unforgettable images.
2002-06-11
Young People Inherit a Difficult World
With recent graduations in mind, commentator Lois Eby offers some thoughts on the world young people are inheriting and the qualities they bring to it.
2002-05-29
Wardrobe Chronicles
2002-04-29
Pearl Buck and the Cycle of War
Commentator Lois Eby says that recent events have reminded her of writer Pearl Buck's experiences in China at the beginning of the 20th century.
2002-04-11
"From Swastika to Jim Crow" a Documentary
Commentator Lois Eby recently saw a new documentary that tells the story of an unusual partnership between a handful of American colleges and Jewish teachers fleeing the holocaust.
2002-03-28
Four Women Artists in March
2002-01-17
John Biggers: His Life and Art
2002-01-02
The War Drawings and Etchings of Kerr Eby
2001-12-19
December Light
2001-11-01: Attack on America: Special Commentary
Walking to the World Trade Center Site - by Lois Eby
2001-09-25: Attack on America: Special Commentary
The Photographs of John M. Miller - by Lois Eby