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“Alotofpeoplesaycancerhas
changedtheirlivesandthe
changesarenotallbad.Forusat
StoweAreawhoworkontheevent,
it’schangedourlivestoo.Theycall
usduringtheyearandattheend
ofeveryconversation,theysay
‘Iloveyou,’andsodowe.”
People hear about the Weekend of Hope
through Cure Magazine, their oncologists, or
cancer support groups. Many have been recent-
ly diagnosed and are eager for information as a
way to help cope with their illness,” explains
Susan Rousselle, who manages reservations for
the Stowe Area Association and serves on the
Weekend of Hope board of directors.
“Their reaction when they first call is that
they really don’t believe it. ‘It’s free? The
rooms are really free?’ Ninety percent of the
people who come have financial concerns and
to get away for a weekend is an amazing
experience for them. They may not be work-
ing, care is so expensive and insurance
doesn’t cover everything. We love it when
someone calls who has never been to Stowe.
Once they get here, their reaction is over-
whelmingly positive. For some, the weekend
actually saves their lives. They hear some-
thing from a doctor in a seminar that they
didn’t know about. They talk to other people
and learn about a new treatment.”
For Stowe Area’s reservation staff, which
Jeffersonville, Vermont has been an inspirational home
has been handling the weekend’s lodging for
to American landscape painters for over 100 years. Generations
the past seven years, the event has become the
of artists have found their way to this mountain community, and
“highlight of our year,” Susan explains. “We
work on it full time starting February 20. We
continue to paint here to this day.
talk with people who say, ‘I am dying.’ We
learn how people can cope and move on with
Since 1984, The Bryan Memorial Gallery has exhibited the artists
their lives in spite of their illness. They don’t
want to just curl up, they want to be dancing
inspired by the landscape that gratifies its visitors in every
at the Rusty Nail, sharing their stories with season.
people who have their kind of cancer.
“A lot of people say cancer has changed
their lives and the changes are not all bad. For
Join us to see the compelling landscapes produced by these
us at Stowe Area who work on the event, it’s artists, and take home a piece of the Vermont landscape.
changed our lives too. You get to know these
people and learn how many treatments, how
many relapses they’ve gone through and expe-
rience how much they are really struggling.
Fall & Winter Hours
And you get to help them come here for this
ThroughDec.16,2007•Thursdays-Sundays,10-4
weekend and they enjoy every second. We get
to know them, they call us during the year and
FromJanuary25,2008•Saturdays,10-4
at the end of every conversation, they say
Byappointment,anytime.
‘I love you,’ and so do we.”
At Pickwick’s Pub last year, the site of the
dinner for 39 people with metastatic cancer 180 Main Street, Jeffersonville, Vermont
featuring specialist Dr. Rick Lovett, there were
frequent outbursts of uncontrollable laughter,
Susan recalls. “That one was the loudest din-
ner of all, and those people are experiencing
some of the greatest health problems of all.”
Carolyn Ruschp, owner of the Stowe Motel
and Snowdrift, was one of the first lodge own-
ers to offer half of her rooms at no cost to can-
cer patients and survivors who attended the
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