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Podcast: Other Voices
Episode: Laura Shore, Altamont artist buttressing local culture
Description: Laura Shore, the Georgia O'Keeffe of vegetables, has some of her artwork, in postcard form, before her. Part of the profits from her work goes to support open-space preservation. Shore, biographer of the late Ev Rau, a farming icon in Altamont, has now plunged into researching Lucie Cassidy — responsible for Altamont’s name as well as for the founding of St. Lucy’s Church — and her family, which will be part of the village’s first Founders Day celebration in October. Shore is president of Altamont Community Tradition and she and her partner, Nancy Ota, live in the historic Jacob Crounse In...