By Betty A. Little, Killington Arts Guild
posted
Oct 10, 2012
Ann Marie Wallen
Dec. 25, 1919 - Sept. 30, 2012
For many years the Killington Arts Guild and the Killington
Recreation Department held Potluck Holiday luncheons open to
everyone. "Annie" and I shopped together for festive decorations at
all possible stores for the best deals, visiting the Howe Center,
dollar stores, and many more up and down Route 7 for holiday
treats, favors, and table settings. It was hard to think then, as
it is now, that once Ann was a commercial artist in Manhattan -
trained at Pratt Institute; later she worked in Senior citizen
facilities in Vermont teaching art; was a skier, managing a lodge
for friends; helped build the new Sherburne Library and furnish it;
served for 12 years as the President of the Killington Arts Guild,
joined many organizations; and traveled to many places in Vermont
supporting the arts. At those Holiday luncheons, George Lyons
played the piano, the Pot Luck Trio- Bernie and Donna Martin and
Jack Harrington- performed and it always turned into a birthday
party for Annie.
Many stories will be told when Ann Wallen's family arrives from
Princeton, NJ to celebrate her life and her art with the Killington
Community and her friends from everywhere.
"Passé-partout
I find myself on/contradictory land/With a discovery rather
strange/but so-/That just as seals must break/and bands must
bend/To open up/a cask a jar a keg/Your
going/Opens up/My heart/to/Love." ~ Ann Wallen (The Mountain
Troubadour 2007-Poetry Society of Vermont)
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A Community Committee has met to make the following plans: A
memorial service for Ann Wallen will be held at the Sherburne
United Church of Christ on Sunday, October 21 from 9-10 a.m. A
gathering of Ann's family and close friends will follow at the
Sherburne Memorial Library from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. and will
include a potluck luncheon. Attendees should bring their favorite
dish to share.
Memorial contributions can be made to the Ann Wallen Legacy Fund
and be sent in care of Gail Weymouth, Sherburne Memorial Library,
2998 River Road, Killington VT 05751. This Legacy Fund will be used
to conserve and prepare for display the body of Ann's art work.
A celebration of Ann Wallen's life and a retrospective display
of her work, to which the whole community will be invited, will be
held in early summer next year. Plans will be announced closer to
that time.
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