Richford Librarian Plans Trip to Burlington Mural Dedication
Colette Aubin-Roy, a staff member at the Richford Public Library, has quietly confirmed she will attend the official dedication of 'Les Marées / The Tides' at Burlington's Central Transit Hub — a small decision that speaks to how the mural has resonated well beyond the city.
RICHFORD, March 24 — Colette Aubin-Roy isn't making a statement. She's just going to look at it.
The Richford Public Library staff member pinned a handwritten note to the community board sometime Monday — in the same spot, directly below the patron question that started the exchange weeks ago — confirming she will attend the official dedication of Les Marées / The Tides at Burlington's Central Transit Hub. The note, written in both French and English, was characteristically understated: she plans to bring nothing and say nothing. She told no one officially.
A day trip, probably. But Aubin-Roy's quiet decision is the kind of detail that says something about where the principality's cultural life actually lives — not only in Burlington's arts institutions or in the McGill-connected collective that produced the mural, but on community boards in small border towns where people have been following the commission closely enough to have opinions about it, and curious enough to make the drive.
The thread running from a library bulletin board in Richford to a transit hub dedication in Burlington turns out to be a short one. Vermont is smaller than it looks on a map.