MAY
WEDNESDAY, MAY 27
COMMUNITY MEETING IN BARTON
A Community Meeting to discuss a proposed redevelopment project in the Barton area will be held Wednesday, May 27, at 7 p.m., at Barton Memorial Building auditorium. Organized by Gilman Housing Trust and NVDA.
THE DARK SIDE OF THE LOON DEBUT IN CRAFTSBURY COMMON
The movie The Dark Side of the Loon by Wolcott resident Gail Osherenko will debut Wednesday, May 27, at 7 p.m., at Craftsbury Public Library in Craftsbury Common. The film explores the wintering life of loons in North Carolina and California. For more information, call Vermont Loon Recovery Project Coordinator Eric Hanson at 586-8064.
NCUJHS SPRING CONCERT IN NEWPORT
The North Country Union Junior High School Music Department’s chorus and concert band will give its annual Spring Concert on Wednesday, May 27, at 7 p.m., in the North Country Union High School auditorium. Free. Open to all.
FRIDAY, MAY 29
JAM SESSION IN BARTON
A Jam Session will be held Friday, May 29, at 7 p.m., at Barton Memorial Building hall. All local musicians are welcome — Dancing on the new wood floor. Guitarists, mandolin, fiddles, trumpets, and more. All welcome. $3 admission. Refreshments will be served. Proceeds to benefit the Barton Senior Center.
PUBLIC FORUM ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN BARTON
The Northeast Kingdom Collaborative will host a Public Forum on Economic Development on Friday, May 29, from 9 to 11 a.m., at the Barton Memorial Building. Discussion will focus on the inherent strengths of the Northeast Kingdom economy, the challenges facing economic development in the Northeast Kingdom, and innovative steps that can be taken to improve economic opportunities. The public is invited to attend and offer input.
May 29th - Insect Collection Conservation at the Fairbanks Museum
9 AM – 12:30 PM. Cost: $25. This workshop, conducted by Natural History Conservator, Catharine Hawks, will focus on issues related to the preservation of entomology collections. The workshop is designed to increase conservation awareness and to promote practical preservation procedures for all types of entomology collections.
Phone: 802-748-2372
Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium
1302 Main Street
St. Johnsbury, VT
Email: mprondzinski@fairbanksmuseum.org Web: www.fairbanksmuseum.org
May 29th – Hardwick Farmers Market
3 – 6 PM. Local produce, homemade goods, Vermont made crafts and more. Located at Granite Junction (b/w Aubuchon Hardware & Greensboro Garage) Rte 15 West in Hardwick.
May 29th - Insect Collection at the Fairbanks Museum
7 – 8:30 PM. This entertaining event will introduce you to the museum’s global bug collection: its collectors and traders, its importance of existence and the fascinating stories behind its ultimate assemblage here in St. Johnsbury, Vermont. Come and see just how fascinating your creepy-crawling neighbors can be, even after extermination! Presenters include consulting Entomologist, Tommy Allen and the museum’s Director of Collections, Mary Beth Prondzinski. Phone: 802-748-2372
Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium
1302 Main Street
St. Johnsbury, VT
Email: mprondzinski@fairbanksmuseum.org Web: www.fairbanksmuseum.org
May 29th & 30th - Becoming an Outdoor Family at Stillwater State Park in Groton
Come join us for our 12th year offering outdoor educational experiences for the whole family. This program is a joint effort by the University of Vermont Extension and the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources’ Departments of Fish & Wildlife, and Forests, Parks & Recreation to promote, address, and instill in the general public a basic understanding of environmental conservation, safety and fun in the out of doors. Expert instructors begin each class with the basics, providing hands-on experience and encouraging participants to ask questions. The variety of classes includes wildlife, forestry, orienteering skills, hiking, wildlife photography, fitness, camping, kayaking, canoeing, firearm safety, fishing, and much, much more. Registration is on a first-come, first-served basis. Stillwater State Park is located on Groton Lake in 28,000-acre Groton State Forest. It has 17 lean-to sites, and 62 tent/trailer sites. There are some excellent sites and lean-tos on the shores of the lake where you can boat right up to your campsite. Stillwater also has a boat launch and a beach, and just down the road is the Forest Nature Center. Close to the campground is the beginning of many of the 22 miles of hiking trails that meander through Groton State Forest.
Phone: 802-257-7967 or 1-800-278-5480
Stillwater State Park
Groton, VT
Email: gail.makuch@uvm.edu or lisa.muzzey@uvm.edu
SATURDAY, MAY 30
WINE & CHEESE PARTY TO BENEFIT VSO
Uncorking Spring, a wine and cheese party, will be held Saturday, May 30, from 5:15 to 7:15 p.m., at Spates the Florist in Newport. To benefit Vermont Symphony Orchestra. Wine, food, music, specials. Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 at the door. Tickets are available at Spates the Florist or Woodknot Bookshop or reserve by calling 334-8110.
SENATOR SANDERS TO HOST LOCAL TOWN MEETINGS
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders will host a series of town meetings in Vermont focused on the economy. An Orleans Town Meeting will take place on Saturday, May 30, at the Orleans Municipal Building. Free lunch at noon, meeting at 12:30 p.m. A Hardwick Town Meeting will be held May 30, at Hazen Union High School in Hardwick. Free light dinner at 6 p.m., meeting at 6:30 p.m. Meetings are free and open to the public.
NEK AUDUBON BIRDATHON
On Saturday, May 30, the Northeast Kingdom Audubon will again cover the birding “hot spots” in the Kingdom from sun-up to sun-down, seeking the elusive 100 species count by noon. You are welcome to join in, whether just a beginner or an expert. For more information, e-mail Charlie Browne at cbrowne@fairbanksmuseum.org This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , or Tom Berriman at blackpool@myfairpoint.net This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
“SPRING WILD EDIBLES” PRESENTED AT NORTHWOODS
As part of the Land Series, “Spring Wild Edibles” will be presented on Saturday, May 30, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., at NorthWoods Stewardship Center in East Charleston. Northeast Kingdom resident, naturalist, and founder of the Northern Exposure Guide Service Pete Rodin will share his knowledge. Please bring a bag lunch, waterproof footwear, and your favorite plant field guide (optional). $15. Space is limited. For more information or to register, call 723-6551, extension 115.
SPRING HAM DINNER IN MORGAN
Morgan Historical Society is holding a Spring Ham Dinner on Saturday, May 30, at 6 p.m., at the Morgan Community House. $10 for adults, $3 children 10 and under. For more information, call 723-5907.
JCH-DUO CONCERT IN NEWPORT
JCH-DUO with Jim Cross and Christine Sykes and guests will hold a concert on Saturday, May 30, at 7 p.m., at the Newport American Legion. Admission at the door. To benefit the Newport NEKCA food shelf, which is in dire need.
BAKE SALE IN NEWPORT TO BENEFIT ACS
Cancer Relay for Life Team Families-Forever will hold a Bake Sale on Saturday, May 30, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the Pettengill’s on 44 Edgewood Drive (off Sias Avenue) in Newport. All proceeds to benefit the American Cancer Society Relay for Life.
May 30th - NEK Audubon Birdathon
NEK Audubon Birdathon - As with past years, we will cover the birding "hot spots" in the Kingdom from sun up to sun down, seeking the elusive 100 species count by noon. Whether just a beginner or an expert, you are welcome to join us for all or part of this special day of birding. For more information or to register for NEK Audubon trips email or call Tom at (802)626-9071. Note: All events are subject to change so be sure to register beforehand. We go regardless of the weather (unless weather would in some way pose a danger). Dress appropriately!
Email: blackpoll@myfairpoint.net. Web: www.nekaudubon.org
May 30th – St. Johnsbury Caledonia Farmers Market
9 AM – 1 PM. Locally grown, homemade baked goods, Vermont made crafts and more...Downtown St Johnsbury on Pearl St behind Bank North
May 30th - Living on the Land Series: Spring Wild Edibles
10 AM – 2 PM. $15. Pete Rodin - Northeast Kingdom resident, naturalist, and founder of the Northern Exposure Guide Service - will share his wealth of knowledge about local wild edible plants amid the bloom of early summer. Learn where to search for the choicest edibles, identification techniques, and tips for sustainable harvest and preparation. Take a break from your garden and learn how to partake of the natural greenery all around us. Please bring a bag lunch, waterproof footwear, and your favorite plant field guide (optional). Space is limited – register early. Call or email to register.
Phone: 802-723-6551 ext 112
Northwoods Stewardship Center
154 Leadership Drive
East Charleston, VT
Email: events@northwoodscenter.org Web: www.northwoodscenter.org
May 30th – Craftsbury Common Farmers Market
11 AM - 1 PM. Come to the Farmers Market on the Common. Get your fresh produce, Vermont made crafts and products, baked goods and more.
Craftsbury Common, VT
May 30th & 31st - The ideRide Shuttle to Kingdom Trails runs every summer weekend
9 AM – 5 PM. Come to East Burke Village any summer weekend, bring 20 bucks for the shuttle and 10 for Kingdom Trails. Single rides are $5. The ideRide shuttle service accesses Kingdom Trails, East Burke, VT, named best trail system and best flow in 2008 by Bike Magazine. ideRide offers a safe, legal and reliable ride up Burke Mountain where you can access the KT downhill trails. The shuttle carries 14 riders and will run from East Burke village to the top of Burke Mountain. Please note, beginning dates depends on trail conditions.
Phone: 802-535-6247
ideRide
East Burke, VT
Email: linden@ideride.com Web: www.ideride.com
May 31st – Passion Verdi at the Haskell Opera House
2 PM. Tickets $20 US/CDN. Et Vive l'Opera - Christine Cadoux and Company. PASSION VERDI: Do you know Giuseppe Verdi? The Romantic one, the Political one, the Heroical one, the Authentic one? The most famous love arias will be brought to you in a fascinating love story, with simple but relevant explanations, by three passionate and breathtaking opera singers. Tickets at the Haskell Free Library and Woodknot Bookshop or by calling 802-873-3022.
The Haskell Opera House
93 Caswell Ave.
Derby Line, VT
May 31st – Robert Frost Poetry Reading
2 – 4 PM. On the shore of Lake Willoughby in Westmore, where Robert Frost camped with his family during the summer of 1909, community members will be invited to read their favorite Frost poems. Local students will share their related projects and the Willoughvale Inn will provide refreshments. Sponsored by the Old Stone House Museum.
Phone: 802-754-2022
WilloughVale Inn
793 Route 5A
Westmore, VT
May 31st - Jazz on a Sunday Afternoon at Catamount Arts Center
4 PM. $7 admission. Jazz on a Sunday afternoon. Tim Gilmore - Drums, Barry Sahagian on Bass, other players TBA.
Phone: 802-748-2600
Catamount Arts
115 Eastern Ave.
St. Johnsbury, VT
Web: www.catamountarts.org
JUNE
June 3rd - Farmer's Market - On the Green in Danville, VT
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM. The Danville Farmers Market operates from the first week in June through October, the weekly market is held on Wednesday Mornings on the Town Green. Many local gardeners and farmers will be setup every week with fresh vegetables, most picked that day. Many have signs indicating that their vegetables are organically grown. Others sell donuts and bread that they have made, yarn that they have woven, maple syrup they have processed and goats cheese that they have made. New vendors and new shoppers always welcome.
June 3rd – The Fiddle Contest in Vermont
Time TBA. Fiddle contests evolved from endurance events to demonstrations of a set number of tunes judged by certain criteria. All tried to determine who was best. These events helped raise money for local organizations of every description, as well as preserve old-time fiddling. In recent years, the fiddle contest has declined significantly, due to the waning interest of competitors and spectators, as well as diminished financial viability. This program will include listening to rare recordings of live competitions illustrating different playing styles of the past as well as some live fiddling by the presenter, Adam Boyce. A Vermont Humanities Council event hosted by Circle of Friends.
Phone: 802-895-4144
Morgan United Church
14 Meade Hill
Morgan, VT
June 3rd - Concerts at Bandstand Park all summer in Lyndonville
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM. Band Concerts by the Lyndon Town Band take place every Wednesday evening at in Bandstand Park in Lyndonville starting in June and running through the summer.
June 5th – Hardwick Farmers Market
3 – 6 PM. Local produce, homemade goods, Vermont made crafts and more. Located at Granite Junction (b/w Aubuchon Hardware & Greensboro Garage) Rte 15 West in Hardwick.
June 6th - The Tour de Kingdom
Check in starts 7 AM. IROC will be hosting the Third Annual Tour de Kingdom, a competitive and recreational century bike ride through the lake region of Vermont's Northeast Kingdom which features alternative routes of 15, 25, 50, and 75 miles for all ages and all skill levels. Please check out our website at, which features a recap of the 2008 Tour as well as information about next year.
Web: www.tourdekingdom.com
June 6th – St. Johnsbury Caledonia Farmers Market
9 AM – 1 PM. Locally grown, homemade baked goods, Vermont made crafts and more...Downtown St Johnsbury on Pearl St behind Bank North
June 6th – Craftsbury Common Farmers Market
11 AM - 1 PM. Come to the Farmers Market on the Common. Get your fresh produce, Vermont made crafts and products, baked goods and more.
Craftsbury Common, VT
June 6th – Appalachian Hand-Split Ash Stool-making - Workshop/Demo
1 – 4 PM. Fee: $15.00. Space is limited. Fine furniture, cabinet & electric guitar maker Per Courtney, will demonstrate the steps in making a Split Ash stool in the Appalachian style, including: Hand-splitting an ash log, Hand-forming the parts on a shave horse, Mortis & Tenon Joinery, Assembly & Wedging, Discussion of various seat choices: Woven, slat or plank. Pre-registration is appreciated.
Phone: 802-533-2444
New Wing Designs/ Per Guitars Studio & Workshop
281 The Bend Rd.
Greensboro Bend
Email: per-nwd@vtlink.net
June 6th - National Trails Day - Celebrate the Clyde River and Northern Forest Canoe Trail
Time: TBA. Sponsored by the American Hiking Society and held each year in cooperation with thousands of local hiking organizations across the United States, National Trails Day is a day to give back to, enjoy, and celebrate our public trails. Join NorthWoods and the Northern Forest Canoe Trail (NFCT) for a spring paddle and celebrate the dedication of the NFCT’s new Island Pond kiosk and the re-release of NorthWoods’ Clyde River Paddling and Fishing Guide. Attend the NFCT kiosk dedication, pick up a signed copy of the Clyde River Guide, and enjoy a short paddle on Island Pond. Co-sponsored by the Northern Forest Canoe Trail, Island Pond Chamber of Commerce and NorthWoods. Call or email to register.
Phone: 802-723-6551 ext 117
Northwoods Stewardship Center
154 Leadership Drive
East Charleston, VT
Email: ross@northwoodscenter.org Web: www.northwoodscenter.org
June 6th – Stepping Over the Line starring Mark Violette and Ruth Ann Fletcher
7:30 PM. General Admission $12 US/CDN. Stepping Over the Line starring Mark Violette and Ruth Ann Fletcher - Haskell Benefit. Two extraordinary performers collaborate in a bilingual Cabaret night with a very special secret feature of the show you won't want to miss. An afterglow/vernissage follows the performance. Tickets at the Haskell Library, Wider Than the Sky Bookstore, Woodknot Bookshop, 802-334-2216 and 802-873-3022.
Haskell Opera House
93 Caswell Ave.
Derby Line, VT
June 6th - Josh Brooks at the Music Box
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM. $8, Children Free. Josh Brooks was one of the first performers to ever grace the stage at The Music Box. When I got his first recording I listened to it so often I knew all the words. Josh continues to be one of Vermont's finest songwriters and he has a great, full, rich voice to sing them. His songs are accompanied by his solid acoustic country-honk style of guitar with his side of harmonica playing, keeping his sound authentic. I have called him a storyteller and that he is. His songs get into the hearts of the people he writes about. He also has great melodies that pull the words together. His style if folk rock, roots music and Americana. This spring 2009 will see the release of his 4th album. Vermont Public Radio considers Brooks as one of the handful of Vermont artists with the sound, the original songs and the voice to make the leap from the local to the national.
The Music Box
147 Creek Rd.
Craftsbury, VT
Web: www.themusicboxvt.org
June 6th - Extreme Birding event
9:00 PM - 11:00 PM. Field trip to Concord Corners - Night search for Owls and Nightjars. Extreme Birding event. We'll hike 4 miles at night starting at 9 p.m. For more information or to register for NEK Audubon trips email or call Tom at (802)626-9071. Note: All events are subject to change so be sure to register beforehand. We go regardless of the weather (unless weather would in some way pose a danger). Dress appropriately!
Email: blackpoll@myfairpoint.net Website: www.nekaudubon.org
June 6th & 7th - End of Spring Fling in Island Pond
Saturday 8 AM - 10 PM and Sunday 8 AM- 4 PM. Shake off the mud season blues. Join our End of Spring Fling for cycling, crafts, yardsales, games, fishing, canoeing, kayaking, hiking & other outdoor activities. Some events are free, some have a fee and others ask for a donation.
Phone: 802-723-9889
Email: chamber@islandpondchamber.org Web: www.islandpondchamber.org
June 6th & 7th - The ideRide Shuttle to Kingdom Trails runs every summer weekend
9 AM – 5 PM. Come to East Burke Village any summer weekend, bring 20 bucks for the shuttle and 10 for Kingdom Trails. Single rides are $5. The ideRide shuttle service accesses Kingdom Trails, East Burke, VT, named best trail system and best flow in 2008 by Bike Magazine. ideRide offers a safe, legal and reliable ride up Burke Mountain where you can access the KT downhill trails. The shuttle carries 14 riders and will run from East Burke village to the top of Burke Mountain.
Phone: 802-535-6247
ideRide
East Burke, VT
Email: linden@ideride.com Web: www.ideride.com
June 7th - Breakfast Golf Scramble at St. Johnsbury Country Club
9:00 AM Shotgun start. Breakfast scramble.
Phone: 802-748-9894
St. Johnsbury Country Club
Route 5
St. Johnsbury, VT
Web: www.thestjcc.com
June 7th – Mountain Fiber Folk Farm to Yarn Tour
The members of the Mountain Fiber Folk Cooperative invite you to a daylong Open House at many of our members farms. A must for fiber artists who want to know more about where their wool, angora, or other fibers are grown. Visit one or all 5 farms and see how the animals are lovingly raised, and from where locally grown fiber originates. Each farm has something unique to offer. Farms include Icelandic sheep, Leicester Longwool sheep, as well as mixed breeds, Angora goats and bunnies, Llamas, and Alpacas. These farms have other animals as well such as chickens, donkeys, well - you name it! Northeast Kingdom Participating Farms include: Buzz & Honey’s Fleecy Flock, 3174 North Main Street - Montgomery. Dillner Hillside Farm, 528 Hillwest Road - Montgomery. Maple View Icelandics, 3489 Loop Road - Troy. You can download the brochure to see all of the exciting details and a list of participating farms on their website or by calling or visiting their shop.
Phone: 802-326-2092
Mountain Fiber Folk
188 Main Street
Montgomery Center, VT
Web: www.mtfiberfolk.com
June 7th – Opening Day at White Water Gallery featuring paintings by 3 local Artists
11 AM – 3 PM. White Water Gallery showcases the work of local and regional internationally recognized artists who are living in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont and the Eastern Townships of Quebec. The name references the raging falls of the Mighty Lamoille as it carves through the village of East Hardwick. Adjacent to the Gallery is Teuscher's Antique Auto Enclave, a mini-museum of sorts that houses perhaps one of the most original collections of all steel antique customized cars in the northeast. Sunday, June 7 will be the opening in the Gallery for this season's first show of paintings by three talented local painters; Carol Drury, Coleen Flanagan and Nancy Schade. Phone: 802-563-2037
White Water Gallery
629 Keene Road
East Hardwick, VT
June 7th – Lyndonville Farmers Market
11:30 AM – 3 PM. Fresh local vegetables, beef, milk, baked goods and maple syrup are just some of the things we have available. We're located just beyond the Lyndonville Freighthouse in the park.
1000 Broad St.
Lyndonville, VT
June 7th - Car Talk at Teuscher's Antique Auto Enclave
1 PM. Teuscher's Antique Auto Enclave is a mini-museum of sorts that houses perhaps one of the most original collections of all steel antique customized cars in the northeast. Car Talk happens every Sunday at one o'clock noting the stories and history of rare examples of pre-WW2 manufacturing before the idea of planned obsolescence homogenized the automobile industry. Teuscher's Antique Auto Enclave
629 Keene Road
East Hardwick, VT
June 7th - IROC Tour de Kingdom Paddle
Time: TBA. Cost: $20. In partnership with Indoor Recreation Orleans County (IROC), NorthWoods is pleased to offer this daylong canoe tour on the Clyde River to coincide with the annual Northeast Kingdom bike tour.
Phone: 802-723-6551
Northwoods Stewardship Center
154 Leadership Dr.
East Charleston, VT
Email: Luke@northwoodscenter.org Web: www.northwoodscenter.org
June 7th – Bread and Puppet Museum Open House
1 – 4 PM. Come see giant, politically opinionated puppets.
Phone: 802-525-3031
Bread & Puppet Theater & Museum
753 Heights Road
Glover, VT
Email: breadpup@together.net Web: www.breadandpuppet.org
June 7th - Candelit Dinner and Moonlit Paddle Fundraiser
6 PM. With Siskin now formally committed to a long term partnership with Coutts-Moriarty Camp we have begun to raise funds to improve and grow the facilities of the camp for year around use. This event will kick-off our fundraising efforts. A perfect blend of great local homemade food and an evening canoe or kayak on Lake Salem under the full moon. Family rates, dinner only tickets, paddle only tickets, or discounted tickets for both.
Phone: 802-673-5638
Siskin Ecological Adventures
Ten Mile Square Rd.
East Charleston, VT
Email programs@siskinea.org Web: www.siskinea.org
June 8th – Nearly Full Moon Paddle on the Clyde River
8 PM. $10. Join NorthWoods for the first of our seasonal moonlight paddles. NorthWoods staff will provide a guided tour on the Clyde River where we will enjoy the cool May waters, smell the evening air, and listen for sounds of spring. Our evening will culminate with a return paddle under the light of the rising moon. Weather permitting; dress appropriately. Call or email to register.
Phone: 802-723-6551 ext 112
Northwoods Stewardship Center
154 Leadership Drive
East Charleston, VT
Email: events@northwoodscenter.org Web: www.northwoodscenter.org
June 10th - Farmer's Market - On the Green in Danville
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM. The Danville Farmers Market operates from first week in June through October, the weekly market is held on Wednesday Mornings on the Town Green. Many local gardeners and farmers will be setup every week with fresh vegetables, most picked that day. Many have signs indicating that their vegetables are organically grown. Others sell donuts and bread that they have made, yarn that they have woven, maple syrup they have processed and goats cheese that they have made. New vendors and new shoppers always welcome.
June 10th - Concerts at Bandstand Park all summer in Lyndonville
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM. Band Concerts by the Lyndon Town Band take place every Wednesday evening in Bandstand Park in Lyndonville starting in June and running through the summer.
June 12th – Hardwick Farmers Market
3 – 6 PM. Local produce, homemade goods, Vermont made crafts and more. Located at Granite Junction (b/w Aubuchon Hardware & Greensboro Garage) Rte 15 West in Hardwick.
June 13th -Vermont's Free Fishing Day
The one day in the year when residents and nonresidents may go fishing without having to purchase a fishing license.
June 13th - Bird Watching Expedition in Groton State Forest
7:00 AM - 5:30 PM. Discover immensely diverse bird population in Groton State Forest.
Phone: 802-644-8027 or 800-639-2367
June 13th – 3rd Annual Golf Tournament at Newport Country Club
8AM – 5 PM. Featuring a shotgun scramble format, four person teams, with a wide variety of special prizes. Winners are honored on the walls of IROC. Summer is here and golf is king!!! This event is a fundraiser to support free public access to IROC's 1/10th of a mile padded, low impact Rotary Walking Track.
Phone: 802-334-2391
Newport Country Club
590 Mount Vernon St.
Newport, VT
Web: www.newportscountryclub.com
June 13th – St. Johnsbury Caledonia Farmers Market
9 AM – 1 PM. Locally grown, homemade baked goods, Vermont made crafts and more...Downtown St Johnsbury on Pearl St behind Bank North.
June 13th - Cabot Dairy Festival
10 AM – 3 PM. From time to time, to celebrate our major birthdays, Cabot opens its plant to neighbors. We’ll serve food, fund raise for the Cabot School’s Performing Arts Center, entertain and generally have a good time. You and your organization are invited to exhibit whatever you’d like – FREE. We provide the table and tent; you provide the staff and show off whatever you choose. Depending on weather, we are expecting about 1,200 neighbors. Enjoy: Sampling of Vermont products, musical acts, cheddar bounce, horse-drawn buggy and hay wagon rides to and from parking areas, tours of the Creamery and fun exhibits for the whole family.
Phone: 1-800-837-4261
Cabot Visitors Center
2878 Main Street
Cabot, VT
Web: www.cabotcheese.com
June 13th - Power For Change Initiative: Introduction to Biodiesel Production and Use
10 AM. $5. Join James Lovinsky, a Hardwick resident, and George Sawyer of Blue Ridge Biofuels, as they discuss their adventures into greasecars and biodiesel production. In July 2008 they drove cross country in a modified Mercedes, running primarily on used vegetable oil. Guided by a focus on sustainable production processes, James and George are in the process of starting a biodiesel production center in Hardwick, Vermont. They will share their stories, information, and expert advice they have collected on biodiesel production, modification of a diesel engine to run on vegetable oil, and the pros and cons of making your own biodiesel. Call or email to register.
Phone: 802-723-6551 ext 115
Northwoods Stewardship Center
154 Leadership Drive
East Charleston, VT
Email: emily@northwoodscenter.org Web: www.northwoodscenter.org
June 13th – Craftsbury Common Farmers Market
11 AM - 1 PM. Come to the Farmers Market on the Common. Get your fresh produce, Vermont made crafts and products, baked goods and more.
Craftsbury Common, VT
June 13th & 14th - The Caledonia County Relay For Life
The American Cancer Society hosts an effort to raise funds to help find a cure and reduce the death rates from Cancer. It is a 14-hour event made up of teams who do fundraising and have someone from their team walking at all times from 6:00 p.m. Saturday through 8:00 a.m. Sunday.
We are also looking for Survivors to come to our Survivor Reception at Relay - the Reception is from 2:00 - 4:00 on Saturday, June 13th -all survivors are welcome to come! Phone: 802-626-9622. St. Johnsbury Academy, 1000 Main St. St Johnsbury, VT. E-mail: weeza@vtlink.net
June 13th & 14th - Charlie Scott Best Ball at Orleans Country Club
A very popular men's tournament deep in tradition. It is a two day two-man best ball format, which includes a Friday practice round. Multiple flights determined by combined handicap indexes with adjustments.
Phone: 802-754-2333
Orleans Country Club
316 Country Club Lane
Orleans, VT
Email: irene@pshift.com Web: www.orleanscc.com
June 13th & 14th - The ideRide Shuttle to Kingdom Trails runs every summer weekend
9 AM – 5 PM. Come to East Burke Village any summer weekend, bring 20 bucks for the shuttle and 10 for Kingdom Trails. Single rides are $5. The ideRide shuttle service accesses Kingdom Trails, East Burke, VT, named best trail system and best flow in 2008 by Bike Magazine. ideRide offers a safe, legal and reliable ride up Burke Mountain where you can access the KT downhill trails. The shuttle carries 14 riders and will run from East Burke village to the top of Burke Mountain.
Phone: 802-535-6247
ideRide
East Burke, VT
Email: linden@ideride.com Web: www.ideride.com
June 13th & 14th - Spring Fling at ROOTS School
Children under 12 are free! $15 per day. $25 weekend. Cost: $10 a day to shoot, $50 for the weekend including dinners and camping. Deposit: $20 if you are staying the weekend. Prerequisites: None. What good is a bow if you don't shoot it? Or a spear if you don't throw it? Or the bolas if you’re not chucking them down the range? This year the spring fling will reach new levels of fun as we incorporate every primitive projectile weapon we can find. New events this year will include atl-atl competitions, sling ranges, bolas challenge, throwing stick course, and much more. If you have built a bow in one of our classes or shoot traditional tackle, please join us for our second annual Spring Fling Archery Shoot. Enjoy a day of shooting here at the Roots location where we will have: a 20 target 3D Archery Target Course, Long Range Shoots, Aerial Targets, an Instinctive Shooting Class, and a Flaming Arrow Shoot.- Camping is available for $5 a night.- Please bring your own arrows.- Please bring your own lunch and breakfast.
Phone: 802-456-1253
ROOTS School -Reclaiming Our Origins Through Traditional Skills
East Calais, VT
Email: info@rootsvt.com Web: www.rootsvt.com
June 13th & 14th – Vermont Days
For 2 days, all State Park day areas, State owned Historic Sites and the VT Historical Museum are open to the public free of charge. There will be free ice cream at some parks, free fishing workshops, free concerts and free traditional crafts demonstrations. Come join the fun.
Web: www.vtstateparks.com
June 14th - Extreme Birding Event!!! - Victory Basin Warbler Hike-a-thon
Meet at Damon's Crossing in Victory, VT at 5 a.m. Victory Basin Warbler Hike-a-thon. Extreme Birding event. 6-mile hike in Victory Basin. For more information or to register for NEK Audubon trips email or call Tom at (802)626-9071. Note: All events are subject to change so be sure to register beforehand. We go regardless of the weather (unless weather would in some way pose a danger). Dress appropriately!
Email: blackpoll@myfairpoint.net Web: www.nekaudubon.org
June 14th - Free Garden Skills Workshops and Garden tours
10:30 AM – 1 PM. Free Garden Skills Workshops –Sunday mornings from mid-June to mid-August. Let’s have a fun and a relaxing time together talking plants! Rachel has set this time aside to answer any questions you care to bring in, or show you a new gardening technique. We can talk about seed saving, plant propagation, plant and weed id, aphids, edibles – you name it. Free Sunday Garden Tours start at noon lasting 30-45 minutes. No charge, but please phone us first, by the day before if possible, to let us know you’re coming.
Phone: 802-472-5104
Perennial Pleasures Nursery and Tea Garden
63 Brick House Road
East Hardwick, VT
Email: annex@perennialpleasures.net Web: www.perennialpleasures.net
June 14th –White Water Gallery featuring paintings by 3 local Artists
11 AM – 3 PM. White Water Gallery showcases the work of local and regional internationally recognized artists who are living in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont and the Eastern Townships of Quebec. The name references the raging falls of the Mighty Lamoille as it carves through the village of East Hardwick. Adjacent to the Gallery is Teuscher's Antique Auto Enclave, a mini-museum of sorts that houses perhaps one of the most original collections of all steel antique customized cars in the northeast. This season's first show is of paintings by three talented local painters; Carol Drury, Coleen Flanagan and Nancy Schade.
Phone: 802-563-2037
White Water Gallery
629 Keene Road
East Hardwick, VT
June 14th – Lyndonville Farmers Market
11:30 AM – 3 PM. Fresh local vegetables, beef, milk, baked goods and maple syrup are just some of the things we have available. We're located just beyond the Lyndonville Freighthouse in the park.
1000 Broad St.
Lyndonville, VT
June 14th - Car Talk at Teuscher's Antique Auto Enclave
1 PM. Teuscher's Antique Auto Enclave is a mini-museum of sorts that houses perhaps one of the most original collections of all steel antique customized cars in the northeast. Car Talk happens every Sunday at one o'clock noting the stories and history of rare examples of pre-WW2 manufacturing before the idea of planned obsolescence homogenized the automobile industry. Teuscher's Antique Auto Enclave
629 Keene Road
East Hardwick, VT
June 14th - Jazz on a Sunday Afternoon at Catamount Arts Center
4 PM. $7 admission. Jazz on a Sunday afternoon. Dan Smith Tenor/Soprano Sax, Tom Robinson Piano, Tim Gilmore - Drums, Barry Sahagian - Bass.
Phone: 802-748-2600
Catamount Arts
115 Eastern Ave.
St. Johnsbury, VT
Web: www.catamountarts.org
June 15th – 19th Habitat Camp for 4-8 year-olds
1 – 3:30 PM. Tuition $95 ($70 Early Bird Special with Registration by April 28). Multiple sibling tuition discount available. In this camp we'll meet animal puppets daily and explore different types of homes made and used by animals, and the natural settings in which they're found. We'll also experiment by making our own nests, lodges, and shelters. Games and songs will be part of each day. Call Anne at (802) 586-8065 for registration forms, more info.
Porter Brook Environmental Center at Highland Lodge
1608 E Craftsbury Road.
Greensboro, VT
June 16th – 18th – Food, Farms, and Community at Sterling College
Part of Sterling College’s Rural Heritage Institute, Food, Farms, and Community seeks to balance the changing connections between rural communities and their food sources with a long tradition of community based agriculture. The local food theme will be highlighted by three days of discussions, field trips, and hands-on workshops that connect participants with practitioners at the leading edge of sustainable food systems, organic agriculture, and working communities. Selected Presentations include: Clark Wolf, author of American Cheeses: The Best Regional, Artisan, and Farmhouse Cheeses, Who Makes Them, and Where to Find Them,
Andrew Meyer, owner of Vermont Natural Coatings and Vermont Soy and founder of The Center for an Agricultural Economy, NOFA-VT (The Vermont Northeast Organic Farmers Association), Shelburne Farms, Vermont Sustainable Exchange, The Grass-Fed Party, The Greenhorns…and many more. Workshops & Fieldtrips: Draft Horse Cultivation, Traditional skills workshops: scything, cooking from Historic Roots, High Mowing Seeds...
Phone: 1-800-648-3591
Sterling College
Crafstbury Common, VT
Web: www.sterlingcollege.edu/ruralheritage
June 16th – 19th - Critters and Communities Nature Camp for 3 - 4 year-olds
9 – 11:30 AM. Tuition: $90 ($65 Early Bird Special with registration by April 28). Join us for a fun introductory camp that focuses on the discovery of four natural communities at Highland Lodge: the pine forest, the meadow, the swamp, and the lake, with animal friends (puppets) leaving clues for us each day! We'll also learn how to use our senses to explore nature! Songs and daily craft activities are part of each day. Call Anne at (802) 586-8065 for registration forms, more info.
Porter Brook Environmental Center at Highland Lodge,
1608 E Craftsbury Road.
Greensboro, VT
June 17th - Farmer's Market - On the Green in Danville, VT
9AM - noon. The Danville Farmers Market operates from first week in June through October, the weekly market is held on Wednesday Mornings on the Town Green. Many local gardeners and farmers will be setup every week with fresh vegetables, most picked that day. Many have signs indicating that their vegetables are organically grown. Others sell donuts and bread that they have made, yarn that they have woven, maple syrup they have processed and goats cheese that they have made. New vendors and new shoppers always welcome.
June 18th - Nature Tales and Trails: Paddle-to-the-Sea
6 PM. $5 suggested donation, registration required. Almost time for the summer solstice, the days are long and evenings bright! Join NorthWoods’ staff for a reading from Holling C. Holling’s Paddle-to-the-Sea, the journey of a wooden canoe through the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean. The reading will be followed by our own canoe adventure (a relaxed, enjoyable paddle) on the nearby Clyde River. Parental participation is required! Call or email to register. Phone: 802-723-6551 ext 115
Northwoods Stewardship Center
154 Leadership Drive
East Charleston, VT
Email: emily@northwoodscenter.org Web: www.northwoodscenter.org
June 19th – Island Pond Farmers Market
Noon – 4 PM. Fresh produce, locally made products, baked goods and more…
Across from the Grace Brethren Church
640 Charleston Rd (Rte 105)
East Charleston, VT
June 19th – Hardwick Farmers Market
3 – 6 PM. Local produce, homemade goods, Vermont made crafts and more. Located at Granite Junction (b/w Aubuchon Hardware & Greensboro Garage) Rte 15 West in Hardwick.
June 19th – 21st - Northeast Regional 4-H Horse Clinic at the Fairgrounds
Time TBA. Northeast Regional 4-H Horse Clinic.
Phone: 802-525-3555
Orleans County Fairgrounds
Roaring Brook Rd
Barton, VT
Web: www.orleanscountyfair.org
June 20th – Groton Growers Summer Market
9 AM – noon. The Groton Growers Summer Market features local growers and their produce. The market runs every Saturday in Veterans Memorial Park across from the old general store in Gorton Village.
June 20th – Antique Gas & Steam Engine Show
9 AM – 4 PM. Members of the Antique Gas & Steam Engine Association set up their collection of classic old engines on the museum grounds. A great show and lots of great people to meet. 3rd annual Liars contest on Saturday afternoon.
Phone: 802-754-2022
Old Stone House Museum
109 Old Stone House Rd.
Brownington, VT
Web: www.oldstonehousemuseum.org
June 20th – St. Johnsbury Caledonia Farmers Market
9 AM – 1 PM. Locally grown, homemade baked goods, Vermont made crafts and more...Downtown St Johnsbury on Pearl St behind Bank North
June 20th – Craftsbury Common Farmers Market
11 AM - 1 PM. Come to the Farmers Market on the Common. Get your fresh produce, Vermont made crafts and products, baked goods and more.
Craftsbury Common, VT
June 20th – Relay for Life
6 PM. Relay for Life is the American Cancer Society’s signature activity. For 25 years, Relay has joined communities in the fight against cancer. It’s a way to celebrate cancer survivors, remember loved ones and fight back against the disease. Teams of people take turns walking or running around the track. Participants will enjoy food, festivities, ceremonies, and music, along with children’s games and activities. The funds raised will support cancer research, education, advocacy and community services for Vermont cancer patients and their families.
Phone: 802-872-6304
North Country Union High School
209 Veterans Ave
Newport, VT
Email: jessica.blais@cancer.org Web: www.relayforlife.org/northeastkingdomvt
June 20th – Back by Special Request - Mike Goudreau and Friends
7:30 PM. The Great American Songbook - featuring songs made famous by Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Mel Torme, Duke Ellington, Antonio Jobim just to name a few. You'll hear a mix of swing, Latin, ballads and a touch of Blues.
Haskell Opera House
93 Caswell Ave.
Derby Line, VT
Web: www.mikegoudreau.com.
June 20th & 21st - The ideRide Shuttle to Kingdom Trails runs every summer weekend
9 AM – 5 PM. Come to East Burke Village any summer weekend, bring 20 bucks for the shuttle and 10 for Kingdom Trails. Single rides are $5. The ideRide shuttle service accesses Kingdom Trails, East Burke, VT, named best trail system and best flow in 2008 by Bike Magazine. ideRide offers a safe, legal and reliable ride up Burke Mountain where you can access the KT downhill trails. The shuttle carries 14 riders and will run from East Burke village to the top of Burke Mountain.
Phone: 802-535-6247
ideRide
East Burke, VT
Email: linden@ideride.com Web: www.ideride.com
June 20th & 21st - Instinctual Awareness and Self Defense
Cost: $200. In both the modern world and the wilderness, awareness and movement skills can save your life. In this course Roots staff and Ben Goodrich of New England Ninjutsu are teaming up to bring you the first in a series of self defense and awareness courses. Over the course of the weekend we will look at sensory awareness skills for both urban and natural environments, profiling and sensing intention. We will also train in basic break falling techniques, learn escapes from common attacks, basic defensive movement, and basic weapon use. A no nonsense approach to keeping yourself and those around you safe and protected.
Phone: 802-456-1253
ROOTS School -Reclaiming Our Origins Through Traditional Skills
East Calais, VT
Email: info@rootsvt.com Web: www.rootsvt.com
June 21st - Free Garden Skills Workshops and Garden tours
10:30 AM – 1 PM. Free Garden Skills Workshops –Sunday mornings from mid-June to mid-August. Let’s have a fun and a relaxing time together talking plants! Rachel has set this time aside to answer any questions you care to bring in, or show you a new gardening technique. We can talk about seed saving, plant propagation, plant and weed id, aphids, edibles – you name it. Free Sunday Garden Tours start at noon lasting 30-45 minutes. No charge, but please phone us first, by the day before if possible, to let us know you’re coming.
Phone: 802-472-5104
Perennial Pleasures Nursery and Tea Garden
63 Brick House Road
East Hardwick, VT
Email: annex@perennialpleasures.net Web: www.perennialpleasures.net
June 21st –White Water Gallery featuring paintings by 3 local Artists
11 AM – 3 PM. White Water Gallery showcases the work of local and regional internationally recognized artists who are living in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont and the Eastern Townships of Quebec. The name references the raging falls of the Mighty Lamoille as it carves through the village of East Hardwick. Adjacent to the Gallery is Teuscher's Antique Auto Enclave, a mini-museum of sorts that houses perhaps one of the most original collections of all steel antique customized cars in the northeast. This season's first show is of paintings by three talented local painters; Carol Drury, Coleen Flanagan and Nancy Schade.
Phone: 802-563-2037
White Water Gallery
629 Keene Road
East Hardwick, VT
June 21st – Lyndonville Farmers Market
11:30 AM – 3 PM. Fresh local vegetables, beef, milk, baked goods and maple syrup are just some of the things we have available. We're located just beyond the Lyndonville Freighthouse in the park.
1000 Broad St.
Lyndonville, VT
June 21st - Father's Day Tea at Perennial Pleasures Nursery and Tea Garden
11:30 AM - 4 PM. Visit the gardens and have tea with Dad.
Phone: 802-472-5104
Perennial Pleasures Nursery and Tea Garden
63 Brick House Road
East Hardwick, VT
Email: annex@perennialpleasures.net Web: www.perennialpleasures.net
June 21st - Car Talk at Teuscher's Antique Auto Enclave
1 PM. Teuscher's Antique Auto Enclave is a mini-museum of sorts that houses perhaps one of the most original collections of all steel antique customized cars in the northeast. Car Talk happens every Sunday at one o'clock noting the stories and history of rare examples of pre-WW2 manufacturing before the idea of planned obsolescence homogenized the automobile industry. Teuscher's Antique Auto Enclave
629 Keene Road
East Hardwick, VT
June 21st - The Weavers of Guatemala
3 PM. Daisy McCoy, a professor at Lyndon State College, will present a lecture on The Weavers of Guatemala which focuses on her recent trip to that region.
Phone: 802-748-2600
Catamount Arts
115 Eastern Ave.
St. Johnsbury, VT
Web: www.catamountarts.org
June 22nd - St. Johnsbury - Concerts in the Park all summer
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM. Cost: Donation. Band Concerts in the Park
Phone: 802-748-8891
At the Bandstand
Monument Square (Main Street)
St. Johnsbury, VT
Web: www.stjohnsburyband.org
June 22nd – 26th - Conservation and Outdoor Survival Skills Camp for 10-13 year-olds
This camp will meet 9 AM-3:30 PM Mon., Tues. and Weds., plus overnight camp-out beginning 3:30 PM Thursday through 3:30 PM Friday. Tuition: $180 includes overnight camp and cookout. ($155 Early Bird Special with Registration by April 28). Multiple sibling tuition discount. This camp will combine teachings and practice of nature observation, survival skills like fire making and shelter building, cordage making, and map & compass skills. Camp will also include journaling, "Magic Spots," introductions to famous conservationists, and a Muir Trek exploration. By the end of the week we’ll be ready to work in teams on a simulated wilderness survival challenge. Call Anne at (802) 586-8065 for registration forms, more info.
Porter Brook Environmental Center at Highland Lodge
1608 E Craftsbury Road
Greensboro, VT
June 22nd – 26th - Northern Forest Canoe Camp I: Connecticut River
Cost $350. Join NorthWoods on a canoeing adventure and explore the natural beauty of the Northern Forest. Our skilled staff will lead these exciting multi-day canoe trips and provide paddling instruction, water safety tips, excellent backcountry meals, and insight into the region’s unique natural and cultural history. Enjoy a mix of flat and quickwater paddling, discover sandy beaches and valley forests stay at riverside campsites, and explore the northern reaches of New England’s longest river. Camperships available. Call or email to register.
Phone: 802-723-6551 ext 115
Northwoods Stewardship Center
154 Leadership Drive
East Charleston, VT
Email: maria@northwoodscenter.org Web: www.northwoodscenter.org
June 23rd - Vermont Men's Amateur Qualifier at Orleans Country Club
18 holes, stroke play. Number of positions available at each site determined by number of entrants and lowest scores.
Phone: (802) 754-2333
Orleans Country Club
316 Country Club Lane
Orleans, VT
Email: irene@pshift.com Web: web: www.orleanscc.com
June 23rd – Novice Basket Making class
10 AM – 2 PM. Learn fine basket making with Carolyn Starr. Pre-registration required.
Phone: 802-754-2022
Old Stone House Museum
109 Old Stone House Rd.
Brownington, VT
Web: www.oldstonehousemuseum.org
June 24th - Farmer's Market - On the Green in Danville, VT
9 AM - noon. The Danville Farmers Market operates from first week in June through October, the weekly market is held on Wednesday Mornings on the Town Green. Many local gardeners and farmers will be setup every week with fresh vegetables, most picked that day. Many have signs indicating that their vegetables are organically grown. Others sell donuts and bread that they have made, yarn that they have woven, maple syrup they have processed and goats cheese that they have made. New vendors and new shoppers always welcome.
June 24th – Newport Farmers Market
9 AM – 2 PM. Fresh produce, baked goods, crafts, Vermont made products and more at the Farmers Market in Newport.
At the Causeway in Newport between Gazebo and COC Info Center.
June 24th – Tool Maintenance
5 PM. $5. Do you have an old axe that needs sharpening or a broken sledge that needs hanging? What is hanging anyway? Bring your old hand tools to our tool maintenance workshop and find out. As NorthWoods gets its summer conservation tool inventory in order, we will demonstrate sharpening, oiling, handle replacement (hanging), storage, and safety. Bring your own or work on ours. Work gloves required. Call or email to register.
Phone: 802-723-6551 ext 112
Northwoods Stewardship Center
154 Leadership Drive
East Charleston, VT
Email: events@northwoodscenter.org Web: www.northwoodscenter.org
June 24th - Concerts at Bandstand Park all summer in Lyndonville
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM. Band Concerts by the Lyndon Town Band take place every Wednesday evening in Bandstand Park in Lyndonville starting in June and running through the summer.
June 24th – 26th - Counselor in Training Teen Camp, Co-ed ages 12-15 at Coutts-Moriarty
$330/week. CITs will build leadership skills, become CPR & First Aid certified and gain experience in helping run a number of camp activities. CITs who successfully complete this training week are eligible to return for one week of Camp as a Volunteer Camp Counselor. All campers will need to complete a survey before attending this camp, to ensure they are ready for the commitment and challenge ahead.
Phone: 802-673-5638
Coutts-Moriarty Camp
Lake Salem
Derby, VT
Email: programs@siskinea.org Web: www.couttsmoriarty.com
June 26th – Island Pond Farmers Market
Noon – 4 PM. Fresh produce, locally made products, baked goods and more…
Across from the Grace Brethren Church
640 Charleston Rd (Rte 105)
East Charleston, VT
June 26th – Hardwick Farmers Market
3 – 6 PM. Local produce, homemade goods, Vermont made crafts and more. Located at Granite Junction (b/w Aubuchon Hardware & Greensboro Garage) Rte 15 West in Hardwick.
June 26th – 28th - Vermont Outdoor Guide Association Doe Camp at Jay Peak
Ladies, get your wild on at this weekend event hosted at Jay. Learn shooting, chainsawing, and all the things that make life worth living. The weekend is full of fun and learning - bike repair, kayaking, ATV safety course, fishing workshops, archery, birding, tree ID, self defense, logging, hiking, nature photography, and more including a Game Supper. Registration required.
Phone: 802-425-6211
Jay Peak Resort
4850 VT Route 242
Jay, VT
Web: www.voga.org
June 27th - Birds and Beyond: Habitat Enhancement for Bird Diversity
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM. Registration fees: museum members: $20 per session. non-members: $25 per session. Join Fairbanks Museum's Executive Director, Charlie Browne, as he leads us into the homes and habitats of birds in our region. This program series is offered in loving memory of Fairbanks Museum Fellow, Airie Lindsay. This series of conservation workshops and field programs begins this March and integrates the life cycles, needs and habits of birds that flock to Northern New England. We'll make nest boxes, explore diverse ecosystems, study populations and demystify bird feeding. Take part in one or all of these workshops and field programs to round out your birding vocabulary...and get to know the neighbors who fly in your backyard every year! In this second session, Forest, Grassland, and Wetland Management for the Birds, we will explore management principles and practices in four habitat types: coniferous forest, hardwood forest, grass/haylands, and wetlands and will learn about the Important Bird Area (IBA) designation.
Fairbanks Museum
1302 Main St.
St. Johnsbury, VT
Email: tholt@fairbanksmuseum.org Web: www.fairbanksmuseum.org
June 27th – Newport Farmers Market
9 AM – 2 PM. Fresh produce, baked goods, crafts, Vermont made products and more at the Farmers Market in Newport. At the Causeway in Newport between Gazebo and COC Info Center.
June 27th – Groton Growers Summer Market
9 AM – noon. The Groton Growers Summer Market features local growers and their produce. The market runs every Saturday in Veterans Memorial Park across from the old general store in Gorton Village.
June 27th – St. Johnsbury Caledonia Farmers Market
9 AM – 1 PM. Locally grown, homemade baked goods, Vermont made crafts and more...Downtown St Johnsbury on Pearl St behind Bank North
June 27th – Craftsbury Common Farmers Market
11 AM - 1 PM. Come to the Farmers Market on the Common. Get your fresh produce, Vermont made crafts and products, baked goods and more.
Craftsbury Common, VT
June 27th – Opening Day at Willoughby Gap Farmstand
11 AM – 6 PM. Stop by for your first visit to the Farmstand! There's more than just fruits and veggies here - try their new Maple creamies, Homemade Pies and homemade pies to order, Homemade breads and homemade breads to order, their own beef cuts, New Story Walk and more fun things for the children. Visit the goats, the lambs, the calves, and chickens, too.
Phone: 802-467-3921
Willoughby Gap Farmstand
3 Route 5A
West Burke, VT
Web: www.willoughbygap.com
June 27th – Big Band Benefit Dance in Irasburg
8 – 11 PM. Back by popular demand, our 4th annual dance to benefit the Old Stone house Museum. The beautifully restored Irasburg Town Hall will be filled with the classic sounds of the 19 piece Swing North Big Band, as we salute our veterans.
Phone: 802-754-2022
Irasburg Town Hall
Irasburg, VT
Web: www.oldstonehousemuseum.org
June 27th & 28th - The ideRide Shuttle to Kingdom Trails runs every summer weekend
9 AM – 5 PM. Come to East Burke Village any summer weekend, bring 20 bucks for the shuttle and 10 for Kingdom Trails. Single rides are $5. The ideRide shuttle service accesses Kingdom Trails, East Burke, VT, named best trail system and best flow in 2008 by Bike Magazine. ideRide offers a safe, legal and reliable ride up Burke Mountain where you can access the KT downhill trails. The shuttle carries 14 riders and will run from East Burke village to the top of Burke Mountain.
Phone: 802-535-6247
ideRide
East Burke, VT
Email: linden@ideride.com Web: www.ideride.com
June 27th & 28th - Summer Basketry Course
Cost: $150. Learn how to locate, harvest, propagate, and weave willow, an incredibly pliable and resilient material. This class will focus on waling, or three-strand twining, an ancient technique of weaving that creates a beautiful pattern and a very durable basket. We will also focus on two-strand twining, perhaps one of the earliest ways of turning a collection of twigs into a solid, multi-use vessel. Participants will make and go home with a finished basket.
Phone: 802-456-1253
ROOTS School -Reclaiming Our Origins Through Traditional Skills
East Calais, VT
Email: info@rootsvt.com Web: www.rootsvt.com
June 27th – July 10th – Palette Exhibition at GRACE Gallery in Hardwick
Grass Roots Art and Community Effort (GRACE) has been a vital force in the community life of Vermont's Northeast Kingdom since 1975, providing a voice for individuals at the grassroots level. The GRACE mission is to discover, develop and promote indigenous, self-taught artists, primarily, but not exclusively, the populations of elders and other special constituencies in rural Vermont.
Phone: 802-472-6857.]
GRACE Firehouse
13 Mill St.
Hardwick, VT
Email: grace@vtlink.net Web: www.graceart.org
June 28th - Extreme Birding event!
Meet at the White's/Agway parking lot in Lyndonville, exit 23 of interstate 91 at 5 a.m NEK Conte Refuge Expedition into new areas. Extreme Birding event. We'll hike 6 miles into the refuge at the height of breeding time. For more information or to register for NEK Audubon trips email or call Tom at (802)626-9071. Note: All events are subject to change so be sure to register beforehand. We go regardless of the weather (unless weather would in some way pose a danger). Dress appropriately!
Email: blackpoll@myfairpoint.net Web: www.nekaudubon.org
June 28th - Monique Dudley Memorial Best Ball - Women's Golf Tournament
9:00 AM shotgun start. This women's tournament was established in memory of Monique Dudley who loved the game of golf for the game as well as for the friendships that come from the game. This event is a fund raiser for the Susan G. Komen foundation -- VT affiliate, which raised $4500 in 2008. The format is a two-woman best ball, with the overall winners coming from the net division in honor of Monique.
Phone: 802-754-2333
Orleans Country Club
316 Country Club Lane
Orleans, VT
Email: irene@pshift.com Web: www.orleanscc.com
June 28th - Free Garden Skills Workshops and Garden tours
10:30 AM – 1 PM. Free Garden Skills Workshops –Sunday mornings from mid-June to mid-August. Let’s have a fun and a relaxing time together talking plants! Rachel has set this time aside to answer any questions you care to bring in, or show you a new gardening technique. We can talk about seed saving, plant propagation, plant and weed id, aphids, edibles – you name it. Free Sunday Garden Tours start at noon lasting 30-45 minutes. No charge, but please phone us first, by the day before if possible, to let us know you’re coming.
Phone: 802-472-5104
Perennial Pleasures Nursery and Tea Garden
63 Brick House Road
East Hardwick, VT
Email: annex@perennialpleasures.net Web: www.perennialpleasures.net
June 28th –White Water Gallery featuring paintings by 3 local Artists
11 AM – 3 PM. White Water Gallery showcases the work of local and regional internationally recognized artists who are living in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont and the Eastern Townships of Quebec. The name references the raging falls of the Mighty Lamoille as it carves through the village of East Hardwick. Adjacent to the Gallery is Teuscher's Antique Auto Enclave, a mini-museum of sorts that houses perhaps one of the most original collections of all steel antique customized cars in the northeast. This season's first show is of paintings by three talented local painters; Carol Drury, Coleen Flanagan and Nancy Schade.
Phone: 802-563-2037
White Water Gallery
629 Keene Road
East Hardwick, VT
June 28th – Lyndonville Farmers Market
11:30 AM – 3 PM. Fresh local vegetables, beef, milk, baked goods and maple syrup are just some of the things we have available. We're located just beyond the Lyndonville Freighthouse in the park.
1000 Broad St.
Lyndonville, VT
June 28th - Herbal Spa Day at Perennial Pleasures Nursery and Tea Garden
1 – 5 PM. $45.00. Treat yourself in this delightful afternoon of self-nurturing and hands-on participation. Learn to create essential oil blends with aromatherapy, massage oils, salt scrubs, moisturizers and facials. We’ll learn how to make these products, and then try them out on each other, all of this happening out in the garden, if weather permits. Herbal tea and treats served. Please call to reserve your space.
Phone: 802-472-5104
Perennial Pleasures Nursery and Tea Garden
63 Brick House Road
East Hardwick, VT
Email: annex@perennialpleasures.net Web: www.perennialpleasures.net
June 28th - Car Talk at Teuscher's Antique Auto Enclave
1 PM. Teuscher's Antique Auto Enclave is a mini-museum of sorts that houses perhaps one of the most original collections of all steel antique customized cars in the northeast. Car Talk happens every Sunday at one o'clock noting the stories and history of rare examples of pre-WW2 manufacturing before the idea of planned obsolescence homogenized the automobile industry. Teuscher's Antique Auto Enclave
629 Keene Road
East Hardwick, VT
June 28th - Circus Smirkus 2009 Big Top Tour
Time TBA. Tickets go on sale May 1st! Every summer, a company of talented Smirkus Troupers, ages 10 to 18, go on a two-month performance tour around New England. Backed by coaches, cooks, crew, and musicians, the Troupers perform to sell-out crowds in a 750-seat European-style one-ring Big Top tent! In 2009, it's Smirkus Ever After: A Big Top Fairytale. Our talented Troupers will turn the pages on Aesop, the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen, bringing classic fairytales to life through the spectacle and enchantment of circus. It’s fee, fi, fo fun!, sure to delight circus-goers of all ages! Circus Smirkus is presented in most towns by a local non-profit youth or community organization. The ticket sales and sponsorships they raise through our performances provide a major source of income for their programs.
Phone: 1-877-SMIRKUS
Circus Smirkus
1 Circus Rd.
Greensboro, VT
Web: www.circussmirkus.org
June 29th – July 3rd - Residential Camp, Co-ed, ages 8-12 at Coutts-Moriarty Camp
$330/week. Campers arrive Sunday at 4pm. Friday’s camp slideshow/pick-up starts at 2 pm. We provide a supportive overnight camping environment that enables campers to build close friendships and memories to last a lifetime. Residential campers join day campers for a mix of group activities throughout the day. Our naturalist staff will offer evening programs including campfires, night hikes, and whole camp games.
Phone: 802-673-5638
Coutts-Moriarty Camp
Lake Salem
Derby, VT
Email: programs@siskinea.org Web: www.couttsmoriarty.com
June 29th - St. Johnsbury - Concerts in the Park all summer
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM. Cost: Donation. Band Concerts in the Park.
Phone: 802-748-8891
At the Bandstand
Monument Square (Main Street)
St. Johnsbury, VT
Web: www.stjohnsburyband.org
June 29th – July 3rd - NorthWoods Outdoor Adventure Camp
Cost $250. Take advantage of the great outdoor adventures found in the Northeast Kingdom. Each day is packed with activities including canoeing, hiking, rock climbing, ropes course, and survival skills. In the evening return to base camp to swim, relax, enjoy night activities and prepare great backcountry meals. Campers will practice outdoor and survival skills, learn fun low-impact camping techniques, explore exciting new places, and enjoy making new friends! Camperships available. Call or email to register.
Phone: 802-723-6551 ext 115
Northwoods Stewardship Center
154 Leadership Drive
East Charleston, VT
Email: maria@northwoodscenter.org Web: www.northwoodscenter.org
June 29th – July 3rd - All About Animals Camp for 4-9 year olds
9 – 11:30 AM. Tuition $95 ($70 Early Bird Special with Registration by April 28). Multiple sibling tuition discount available. Come explore the world of birds, insects, mammals, herps, and this year's newest addition-fish! Puppets and some live critters make this camp extra exciting! Call Anne at (802) 586-8065 for registration forms, more info.
Porter Brook Environmental Center at Highland Lodge
1608 E Craftsbury Road
Greensboro, VT
June 29th – July 3rd - Day Camp, Co-ed, ages 5-12 at Coutts-Moriarty Camp on Lake Salem
Cost: $175. Drop off 8:30 & pick-up 4 - 4:30 PM. Overnight option on Thursday nights on select weeks!!! Friday’s camp slideshow/pick-up starts at 2pm. Each day we provide a healthy hot lunch and two snacks. Campers sign-up daily for a mix of group activities. Camp Activities: woodworking, woodcarving, traditional and primitive fire building, survival shelters, music, theater, cooking and baking, archery, canoeing, kayaking, swimming, climbing, ropes course, mountain biking, trail hiking, fishing, capture the flags, candle making, soap making, friendship bracelets, jewelry, sewing and more.
Phone: 802-673-5638
Coutts-Moriarty Camp
Lake Salem
Derby, VT
Email: programs@siskinea.org Web: www.couttsmoriarty.com
June 30th – Intermediate Basket Making class
10 AM – 2 PM. Learn fine basket making with Carolyn Starr. Pre-registration required.
Phone: 802-754-2022
Old Stone House Museum
109 Old Stone House Rd.
Brownington, VT
Web: www.oldstonehousemuseum.org
JULY
July 1st - Farmer's Market - On the Green in Danville, VT
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM. The Danville Farmers Market operates from the first week in June through October, the weekly market is held on Wednesday Mornings on the Town Green. Many local gardeners and farmers will be setup every week with fresh vegetables, most picked that day. Many have signs indicating that their vegetables are organically grown. Others sell donuts and bread that they have made, yarn that they have woven, maple syrup they have processed and goats cheese that they have made. New vendors and new shoppers always welcome.
July 1st – Newport Farmers Market
9 AM – 2 PM. Fresh produce, baked goods, crafts, Vermont made products and more at the Farmers Market in Newport. At the Causeway in Newport between Gazebo and COC Info Center.
July 1st - Concerts at Bandstand Park all summer in Lyndonville
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM. Band Concerts by the Lyndon Town Band take place every Wednesday evening in Bandstand Park in Lyndonville starting in June and running through the summer.
July 3rd – July 10th – Palette Exhibition at GRACE Gallery in Hardwick
Grass Roots Art and Community Effort (GRACE) has been a vital force in the community life of Vermont's Northeast Kingdom since 1975, providing a voice for individuals at the grassroots level. The GRACE mission is to discover, develop and promote indigenous, self-taught artists, primarily, but not exclusively, the populations of elders and other special constituencies in rural Vermont.
Phone: 802-472-6857.]
GRACE Firehouse
13 Mill St.
Hardwick, VT
Email: grace@vtlink.net Web: www.graceart.org
July 3rd – Island Pond Farmers Market
Noon – 4 PM. Fresh produce, locally made products, baked goods and more…
Across from the Grace Brethren Church
640 Charleston Rd (Rte 105)
East Charleston, VT
July 3rd – Hardwick Farmers Market
3 – 6 PM. Local produce, homemade goods, Vermont made crafts and more. Located at Granite Junction (b/w Aubuchon Hardware & Greensboro Garage) Rte 15 West in Hardwick.
July 3rd – Steve Bertrand - Coming Home
8 PM. Tickets $10 in advance and $15 at the door US/CDN. Steve Bertrand - Coming Home - Singer/Songwriter Intimate Acoustic Evening. Original, esoteric, intriguing and inspirational. Local boy makes good, gets the golden ring and comes home to Derby Line to share the joy. Tickets available at Woodknot Bookshop, Haskell Library, and at 802-873-3022.
Haskell Opera House
93 Caswell Ave.
Derby Line, VT
July 3rd & 4th - 4th of July Celebration in Island Pond
Fri. 3-10 pm, Sat. 9 am - 10pm. 4th of July Celebration, parade, fireworks and more fun.
Phone: 802-723-9889 or 802-723-6194
Downtown Island Pond at Cross & Birch Streets
Web: www.islandpondchamber.org
July 3rd – 5th – Vermont’s Fourth - Three-day July 4 festival
Three days of traditional Vermont fun -- fireworks and chair lift rides on Burke Mt., concerts (including the Vermont Philharmonic), fiddlers contest and workshops, Burklyn Arts Council juried Vermont craft fair, BBQ chicken dinner in the park, train rides with political comedian Danny Gore, Teddy Roosevelt re-enactor, Northeast Kingdom Farmers' Markets and more. For more information call 802-626-5836.
July 4th - 4th of July Gala in Peacham, VT
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM. A full day of fun starting at 8:30 with a Horseshoe Tournament at the Fire House, a parade at 11:30 with Tractors, Fire Apparatus and Horses, from the Elementary School to Upper Common and Return. Afternoon activities: (All activities at top of church street unless otherwise noted).12:00 to 1:00: BBQ Lunch.12:00 to 1:00: Annual Fire Fighters Games.12:30 to 2:00: Parker Hill Road Band.12:00 to 3:00: Blacksmith Shop Demonstrations.12:00 to 3:00: Historical Association Open House.1:00 to 3:00: Water Slide and Games For Kids.2:00 to 4:00: Gary Darling/Steve Wright Duo.2:00 to 4:00: Library Book Sale, Peacham Library.2:00 to 3:30: Ghost Walk Presentations, Cemetery.4:00 - 4:30 Declaration of Independence, Congregational Church. In the evening from 5:00 to 7:00: Pig Roast and Strawberry Shortcake Supper at the Peacham Congregational Church.
Web: www.peacham.net/fourthofjulyindex.php
July 4th – Northeast Kingdom Summer Fest - train ride at the Lyndon Freighthouse
Taste of the Kingdoms & Rails and Ales - Details to be announced.
Check their website for more excursion train info - coming soon.
Phone: 802-626-1174
The Lyndon Frieghthouse
1000 Broad Street
Lyndonville, VT
Web: www.thelyndonfreighthouse.com
July 4th – Groton Growers Summer Market
9 AM – noon. The Groton Growers Summer Market features local growers and their produce. The market runs every Saturday in Veterans Memorial Park across from the old general store in Gorton Village.
July 4th – St. Johnsbury Caledonia Farmers Market
9 AM – 1 PM. Locally grown, homemade baked goods, Vermont made crafts and more...Downtown St Johnsbury on Pearl St behind Bank North
July 4th - 4th of July Butterfly Count
9 AM – 4 PM. Bring your camera and count how many of these colorful creatures you can find.
Phone: 802-673-5638
Siskin Ecological Adventures
Ten Mile Square Rd.
East Charleston, VT
Email: programs@siskinea.org Web: www.siskinea.org
July 4th - Burklyn Arts Summer Fair
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM. 39th Annual Burklyn Arts summer Fair. Free children’s activities, huge raffle, lunch, strawberry shortcake, local talent showcase, juried Vermont artists and craftspeople. Fund and support the arts in our schools and communities.
Bandstand Park
Downtown Lyndonville, VT
Email: burklynarts40@gmail.com Web: www.burklynarts.org
July 4th – Newport Farmers Market
9 AM – 2 PM. Fresh produce, baked goods, crafts, Vermont made products and more at the Farmers Market in Newport. At the Causeway in Newport between Gazebo and COC Info Center.
July 4th - Independence Day Celebration at the Fairgrounds
Parade, tractor pull, horse pull, horse show, chicken BBQ, grand fireworks show.
Phone: 802-525-3555
Orleans County Fairgrounds
Roaring Brook Rd
Barton, VT
Web: www.orleanscountyfair.org
July 4th – 4th of July Celebration in Cabot
10 AM – 2 PM. Cabot School PTO will hold its famous 4th of July Celebration. The Parade is at 11 AM, followed by a Chicken Barbecue on the Rec Field.
Cabot School
25 Common Rd.
Cabot, VT
July 4th - North Danville 4th of July and Old Home Day celebration
10 AM. The North Danville Community Club is once again sponsoring a 4th of July Celebration in North Danville. The activities will start off with a parade at 10 am, and will feature bingo, auction, fun run, bike race, book sale, as well as children's games, a horseshoe tournament, and FOOD. Local nonprofit groups may also setup booths and activities.
Phone: 802-748-9376 or 802- 748-9119
Web: www.danvillevt.com
July 4th – Craftsbury Common Farmers Market
11 AM - 1 PM. Come to the Farmers Market on the Common. Get your fresh produce, Vermont made crafts and products, baked goods and more.
Craftsbury Common, VT
July 4th - VINS (VT Institute of Natural Science) Raptor Encounter
7 PM. This first-hand encounter with live falcons, hawks, and owls focuses on the natural history, ecology, and adaptations of these efficient predators. Touchable artifacts and hands-on materials round out this special experience.
Phone: 802-723-4360
Brighton State Park
102 State Park Road
Island Pond, VT
July 4th & 5th - The ideRide Shuttle to Kingdom Trails runs every summer weekend
9 AM – 5 PM. Come to East Burke Village any summer weekend, bring 20 bucks for the shuttle and 10 for Kingdom Trails. Single rides are $5. The ideRide shuttle service accesses Kingdom Trails, East Burke, VT, named best trail system and best flow in 2008 by Bike Magazine. ideRide offers a safe, legal and reliable ride up Burke Mountain where you can access the KT downhill trails. The shuttle carries 14 riders and will run from East Burke village to the top of Burke Mountain.
Phone: 802-535-6247
ideRide
East Burke, VT
Email: linden@ideride.com Web: www.ideride.com
July 5th - Free Garden Skills Workshops and Garden tours
10:30 AM – 1 PM. Free Garden Skills Workshops –Sunday mornings from mid-June to mid-August. Let’s have a fun and a relaxing time together talking plants! Rachel has set this time aside to answer any questions you care to bring in, or show you a new gardening technique. We can talk about seed saving, plant propagation, plant and weed id, aphids, edibles – you name it. Free Sunday Garden Tours start at noon lasting 30-45 minutes. No charge, but please phone us first, by the day before if possible, to let us know you’re coming.
Phone: 802-472-5104
Perennial Pleasures Nursery and Tea Garden
63 Brick House Road
East Hardwick, VT
Email: annex@perennialpleasures.net Web: www.perennialpleasures.net
July 5th –White Water Gallery featuring paintings by 3 local Artists
11 AM – 3 PM. White Water Gallery showcases the work of local and regional internationally recognized artists who are living in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont and the Eastern Townships of Quebec. The name references the raging falls of the Mighty Lamoille as it carves through the village of East Hardwick. Adjacent to the Gallery is Teuscher's Antique Auto Enclave, a mini-museum of sorts that houses perhaps one of the most original collections of all steel antique customized cars in the northeast. This season's first show is of paintings by three talented local painters; Carol Drury, Coleen Flanagan and Nancy Schade.
Phone: 802-563-2037
White Water Gallery
629 Keene Road
East Hardwick, VT
July 5th – Lyndonville Farmers Market
11:30 AM – 3 PM. Fresh local vegetables, beef, milk, baked goods and maple syrup are just some of the things we have available. We're located just beyond the Lyndonville Freighthouse in the park.
1000 Broad St.
Lyndonville, VT
July 5th - Car Talk at Teuscher's Antique Auto Enclave
1 PM. Teuscher's Antique Auto Enclave is a mini-museum of sorts that houses perhaps one of the most original collections of all steel antique customized cars in the northeast. Car Talk happens every Sunday at one o'clock noting the stories and history of rare examples of pre-WW2 manufacturing before the idea of planned obsolescence homogenized the automobile industry. Teuscher's Antique Auto Enclave
629 Keene Road
East Hardwick, VT
July 5th - Concerts On the Green in Danville every Sunday night during July and August
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM. Concerts on the Green are held throughout the summer from July every Sunday through August. The concerts are sponsored by the Danville Pope Library and will feature various local bands, donations are appreciated. In the event of rain, the concerts move into the Danville United Methodist Church, also located on the Green.
July 5th – 10th - ideRide Freeride Coed Camp, ages 12 - 17, levels 3 - 4
Cost: $700 per person. ideRide camps teaches those enthusiastic about biking to; learn new riding skills, better understand bike mechanics, improve confidence, live healthy, enhance their love for the sport and camaraderie of mountain biking. Operating on the number one rated trail system in the U.S., Kingdom Trails, ideRide has customized a one of a kind professional camp program that incorporates a balance of enthusiastic, highly skilled coaches, counselors, professional riders, photographers, videographers, bike mechanics and a personal chef, helping participants to take their riding, health and exposure to the next level and beyond. With Mocean 365 professional photographers and videographers on staff, everyone gets a chance to see how they ride and watch their skills improve on film. Unique to ideRide camps, each participant receives their very own online rider profile, professionally produced by Mocean 365, that chronicles their riding throughout the week and features them riding like the pros, with the pros. Each camp ends with a feature presentation of a professionally stylized bike video, for campers and families to watch on the big screen at our weeks end dinner. Each profile, unique to every individual, will be a treasure to show family and friends or, dependent on their level of riding, to use as a tool in obtaining pro sponsorship. ideRide Camps: building confidence, fueling success, and enriching lives through mountain biking.
Phone: 802-535-6247
ideRide
East Burke, VT
Email: linden@ideride.com Web: www.ideride.com
July 5th – 10th - Residential Camp, Co-ed, ages 8-12 at Coutts-Moriarty Camp
$330/week. We provide a supportive overnight camping environment that enables campers to build close friendships and memories to last a lifetime. Residential campers join day campers for a mix of group activities throughout the day. Our naturalist staff will offer evening programs including campfires, night hikes, and whole camp games.
Phone: 802-673-5638
Coutts-Moriarty Camp
Lake Salem
Derby, VT
Email: programs@siskinea.org Web: www.couttsmoriarty.com
July 5th – 10th - Canoe to Camp Residential only, ages 12 - 15 at Coutts-Moriarty Camp
$330/week. After a crash course in paddling, one night in camp, and a big breakfast, we’ll head out to the headwaters of the Clyde River. After two nights on the river, campers will have paddled their way back to the beach at camp where they will spend the rest the week challenging themselves with our in camp activities.
Phone: 802-673-5638
Coutts-Moriarty Camp
Lake Salem
Derby, VT
Email: programs@siskinea.org Web: www.couttsmoriarty.com
July 6th - St. Johnsbury - Concerts in the Park all summer
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM. Cost: Donation. Band Concerts in the Park.
Phone: 802-748-8891
At the Bandstand
Monument Square (Main Street)
St. Johnsbury, VT
Web: www.stjohnsburyband.org
July 6th – 9th - NorthWoods Summer Day Camp
Cost $200. Discover what hundreds of youth already know—NorthWoods’ Nature Day Camp is an experience not to miss! Each day is packed with fun activities- hiking, swimming, canoeing, crafts, outdoor skills, environmental discovery and more! An optional overnight campout is scheduled for Thursday and parents are welcome to participate. Camperships available. Call or email to register.
Phone: 802-723-6551 ext 115
Northwoods Stewardship Center
154 Leadership Drive
East Charleston, VT
Email: maria@northwoodscenter.org Web: www.northwoodscenter.org
July 6th – 10th - Clovis Camp for ages 11 – 13/ Jumping Mouse Camp for ages 8 – 10
Cost: $250/Week. Deposit: $50 with registration. Prerequisites: None. Join Roots School for Clovis and Jumping Mouse Camps, our week long day camps in which we focus on ancient survival skills, nature awareness, and tracking. Campers will find their days full of exploring the natural world as we move through the Vermont woods studying the plants, trees, birds, mammals, insects, and amphibians. We will work on survival skills such as bow drill, survival shelters, hunting, and wild crafting food, medicine, and fiber plants. Finally, we will enjoy the forest and each other through games and challenges. Thursday night of the week is an overnight, in which we cook our diner in the fire, discover the dark through games, and spend the night in the wilderness.
Phone: 802-456-1253
ROOTS School -Reclaiming Our Origins Through Traditional Skills
East Calais, VT
Email: info@rootsvt.com Web: www.rootsvt.com
July 6th – 10th - Day Camp, Co-ed, ages 5-12 at Coutts-Moriarty Camp on Lake Salem
Cost: $175. Drop off 8:30 & pick-up 4 - 4:30 PM. Overnight option on Thursday nights on select weeks!!! Friday’s camp slideshow/pick-up starts at 2pm. Each day we provide a healthy hot lunch and two snacks. Campers sign-up daily for a mix of group activities. Camp Activities: woodworking, woodcarving, traditional and primitive fire building, survival shelters, music, theater, cooking and baking, archery, canoeing, kayaking, swimming, climbing, ropes course, mountain biking, trail hiking, fishing, capture the flags, candle making, soap making, friendship bracelets, jewelry, sewing and more.
Phone: 802-673-5638
Coutts-Moriarty Camp
Lake Salem
Derby, VT
Email: programs@siskinea.org Web: www.couttsmoriarty.com
July 7th - Near Full Moon Paddle
7 PM. $10 (Rain date: Wednesday, July 8, 7pm). Join NorthWoods for the third of our seasonal moonlight paddles. NorthWoods staff will provide a guided tour where we will explore the quiet waters of the Clyde River. Our evening will culminate with a return paddle under the light of the rising moon. Weather permitting; dress appropriately. Call or email to register.
Phone: 802-723-6551 ext 112
Northwoods Stewardship Center
154 Leadership Drive
East Charleston, VT
Email: events@northwoodscenter.org Web: www.northwoodscenter.org
July 8th – Newport Farmers Market
9 AM – 2 PM. Fresh produce, baked goods, crafts, Vermont made products and more at the Farmers Market in Newport. At the Causeway in Newport between Gazebo and COC Info Center.
July 8th - Farmer's Market - On the Green in Danville, VT
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM. The Danville Farmers Market operates from first week in June through October, the weekly market is held on Wednesday Mornings on the Town Green. Many local gardeners and farmers will be setup every week with fresh vegetables, most picked that day. Many have signs indicating that their vegetables are organically grown. Others sell donuts and bread that they have made, yarn that they have woven, maple syrup they have processed and goats cheese that they have made. New vendors and new shoppers always welcome.
July 8th - Concerts at Bandstand Park all summer in Lyndonville
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM. Band Concerts by the Lyndon Town Band take place every Wednesday evening in Bandstand Park in Lyndonville starting in June and running through the summer.
July 10th – Island Pond Farmers Market
Noon – 4 PM. Fresh produce, locally made products, baked goods and more…
Across from the Grace Brethren Church
640 Charleston Rd (Rte 105)
East Charleston, VT
July 10th – Hardwick Farmers Market
3 – 6 PM. Local produce, homemade goods, Vermont made crafts and more. Located at Granite Junction (b/w Aubuchon Hardware & Greensboro Garage) Rte 15 West in Hardwick.
July 10th - Recycled Threads to the Runway...creating new fashions from old
7 PM. Join us at Memphremagog Arts Collaborative for this exciting first event at our new location. Participants are invited to create new fashions from recycled ones. The idea came from the popular Bravo program Project Runway. There are 2 categories: Children's and Adult and Prizes will be awarded in both categories. All clothing and accessories must be created using second-hand clothing purchased at second-hand clothing, consignment, thrift store, or your own, with the exception of shoes, stockings and undergarments. No clothing created using new fabric is allowed. Use your imagination! Your outfit could be made from anything that might ordinarily end its useful life in a landfill or burn-pile. Pieces must be durable for wear in rehearsal and fashion show.
MAC Center for the Arts
138 Main St.
Newport, VT
Web: www.memphremagogartscollaborative.com
July 10th – 11th - Orleans County 4-H Dairy Show at the Fairgrounds
Time TBA. Orleans County 4-H Dairy Show.
Phone: 802-525-3555
Orleans County Fairgrounds
Roaring Brook Rd
Barton, VT
Web: www.orleanscountyfair.org
July 10th – 12th - Warebrook Contemporary Music Festival
ADMISSION: $12.00/Concert ($8.00 Students & Seniors). Weekend Pass to All Events: $25.00. Saturday Composers Forum is Free. Tickets are available at the door. Passes may be purchased at the door the first night of the festival. For the past 18 summers, the WAREBROOK CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FESTIVAL has brought the exciting world of contemporary concert music to the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont every summer in mid-July to ever increasing audiences. Based on a 450 acre working dairy farm, Warebrook showcases the modern, cutting edge world of new music within the traditional, rural backdrop of Northern Vermont. Established in 1990, our purpose is to increase the knowledge of and appreciation for contemporary music; provide performance opportunities for musicians; encourage the composition of new works; and to enrich this area of Vermont culturally. We inform the public through integrating lectures by prominent American composers with first-rate performances of their works; and present the stylistic diversity of this century's music through well-balanced and exciting concert programming. Works by established composers are heard next to emerging composers just embarking on their careers; three to five world premieres are presented every summer, carefully rehearsed and performed by New England's top interpreters of contemporary music.
Phone: 802-754-6335
Warebrook Contemporary Music Festival
276 Hillandale Road
Irasburg, VT
Web: www.warebrook.org
July 11th - Birds and Beyond: Habitat Enhancement for Bird Diversity
8:00 AM - noon. Registration fees: museum members: $20 per session. non-members: $25 per session. Join Fairbanks Museum's Executive Director, Charlie Browne, as he leads us into the homes and habitats of birds in our region. This program series is offered in loving memory of Fairbanks Museum Fellow, Airie Lindsay. This series of conservation workshops and field programs begins this March and integrates the life cycles, needs and habits of birds that flock to Northern New England. We'll make nest boxes, explore diverse ecosystems, study populations and demystify bird feeding. Take part in one or all of these workshops and field programs to round out your birding vocabulary...and get to know the neighbors who fly in your backyard every year! In this Third Session, Trouble and Triumph for Vermont Bird Populations, our focus will be on Common Loons, Peregrine Falcons, Bald Eagles, and imperiled songbird populations. We will visit key habitats for these species and examine more closely the threats to their populations.
Fairbanks Museum
1302 Main St.
St. Johnsbury, VT
Email: tholt@fairbanksmuseum.org Web: www.fairbanksmuseum.org
July 11th – Groton Growers Summer Market
9 AM – noon. The Groton Growers Summer Market features local growers and their produce. The market runs every Saturday in Veterans Memorial Park across from the old general store in Gorton Village.
July 11th – Newport Farmers Market
9 AM – 2 PM. Fresh produce, baked goods, crafts, Vermont made products and more at the Farmers Market in Newport. At the Causeway in Newport between Gazebo and COC Info Center.
July 11th – St. Johnsbury Caledonia Farmers Market
9 AM – 1 PM. Locally grown, homemade baked goods, Vermont made crafts and more...Downtown St Johnsbury on Pearl St behind Bank North
July 11th - Living on the Land Series: Composting for Your Garden
9:30 AM – 1:30 PM. (Rain date: Sat. July 18) $20, plus $2 materials fee. Pre-registration required. Composting is one of the most important ways a gardener can give back to the earth. Effective composting returns nutrients to the soil in a balanced form so it can nurture and sustain healthy plants. Join local gardener extraordinaire, Penelope Newcomb, for a hands-on workshop in composting both plant and animal "waste" for the garden. Discussion will include slow-cold and fast-hot composting, sheet and trench composting, ingredients, stages, benefits and uses of compost and other topics. Please bring a bag lunch! Call or email to register.
Phone: 802-723-6551 ext 115
Northwoods Stewardship Center
154 Leadership Drive
East Charleston, VT
Email: emily@northwoodscenter.org Web: www.northwoodscenter.org
July 11th – Thirty-ninth Annual Craftsbury Antiques and Uniques Show
10 AM – 4 PM. Description: 39th Annual Antiques & Uniques Festival Join us in beautiful Craftsbury Common for a great day of meandering among over 100 vendors of antiques, collectibles, jewelry makers, quilters, potters, woodworkers, and many other antiques dealers, craftspeople and artisans. Visit the legendary bake sale tent and the grill, listen to great live music, and enjoy free children's activities. Parking benefits the Craftsbury Fire Department and donations are encouraged to support services for children and families. Please email Cheryl Herrick at cherrick@vtcas.org for more information or to inquire about renting a booth. A Top Ten Summer Event! On Craftsbury Common.
July 11th – Craftsbury Common Farmers Market
11 AM - 1 PM. Come to the Farmers Market on the Common. Get your fresh produce, Vermont made crafts and products, baked goods and more.
Craftsbury Common, VT
July 11th & 12th - The ideRide Shuttle to Kingdom Trails runs every summer weekend
9 AM – 5 PM. Come to East Burke Village any summer weekend, bring 20 bucks for the shuttle and 10 for Kingdom Trails. Single rides are $5. The ideRide shuttle service accesses Kingdom Trails, East Burke, VT, named best trail system and best flow in 2008 by Bike Magazine. ideRide offers a safe, legal and reliable ride up Burke Mountain where you can access the KT downhill trails. The shuttle will run from East Burke village to the top of Burke Mountain.
Phone: 802-535-6247
ideRide
East Burke, VT
Email: linden@ideride.com Web: www.ideride.com
July 11th & 12th - Felting Course at ROOTS School
Cost: $150. Felting is an old and accessible skill. One can felt wool into such items as hats, bags, jackets, mittens, boots, armor, housing, and a myriad of other things.
Phone: 802-456-1253
ROOTS School -Reclaiming Our Origins Through Traditional Skills
East Calais, VT
Email: info@rootsvt.com Web: www.rootsvt.com
July 12th - The Damon's Crossing Sit-a-thon at Victory
Meet at Damon's Crossing in Victory at 6 a.m. Join us for coffee and bagels, bring your lawn chair. We'll sit at the parking lot and see what comes to us. For more information or to register for NEK Audubon trips email or call Tom at (802)626-9071. Note: All events are subject to change so be sure to register beforehand. We go regardless of the weather (unless weather would in some way pose a danger). Dress appropriately!
Email: blackpoll@myfairpoint.net Web: www.nekaudubon.org
July 12th - Breakfast Golf Scramble at St. Johnsbury Country Club
9:00 AM Shotgun start. Breakfast scramble.
Phone: 802-748-9894
St. Johnsbury Country Club
Route 5
St. Johnsbury, VT
Web: www.thestjcc.com
July 12th - Husband and Wife Golf Tournament
Vermont Golf Association, State Husband and Wife Tournament - VGA state run tournament affectionately called "Divorce Open." Couples play for gross and net prizes. Sign up two weeks in advance in pro shop.
Phone: 802-754-2333
Orleans Country Club
316 Country Club Lane
Orleans, VT
Email: irene@pshift.com Web: www.orleanscc.com
July 12th - Free Garden Skills Workshops and Garden tours
10:30 AM – 1 PM. Free Garden Skills Workshops –Sunday mornings from mid-June to mid-August. Let’s have a fun and a relaxing time together talking plants! Rachel has set this time aside to answer any questions you care to bring in, or show you a new gardening technique. We can talk about seed saving, plant propagation, plant and weed id, aphids, edibles – you name it. Free Sunday Garden Tours start at noon lasting 30-45 minutes. No charge, but please phone us first, by the day before if possible, to let us know you’re coming.
Phone: 802-472-5104
Perennial Pleasures Nursery and Tea Garden
63 Brick House Road
East Hardwick, VT
Email: annex@perennialpleasures.net Web: www.perennialpleasures.net
July 12th –White Water Gallery featuring paintings by 3 local Artists
11 AM – 3 PM. White Water Gallery showcases the work of local and regional internationally recognized artists who are living in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont and the Eastern Townships of Quebec. The name references the raging falls of the Mighty Lamoille as it carves through the village of East Hardwick. Adjacent to the Gallery is Teuscher's Antique Auto Enclave, a mini-museum of sorts that houses perhaps one of the most original collections of all steel antique customized cars in the northeast. This season's first show is of paintings by three talented local painters; Carol Drury, Coleen Flanagan and Nancy Schade.
Phone: 802-563-2037
White Water Gallery
629 Keene Road
East Hardwick, VT
July 12th – Lyndonville Farmers Market
11:30 AM – 3 PM. Fresh local vegetables, beef, milk, baked goods and maple syrup are just some of the things we have available. We're located just beyond the Lyndonville Freighthouse in the park.
1000 Broad St.
Lyndonville, VT
July 12th - Car Talk at Teuscher's Antique Auto Enclave
1 PM. Teuscher's Antique Auto Enclave is a mini-museum of sorts that houses perhaps one of the most original collections of all steel antique customized cars in the northeast. Car Talk happens every Sunday at one o'clock noting the stories and history of rare examples of pre-WW2 manufacturing before the idea of planned obsolescence homogenized the automobile industry. Teuscher's Antique Auto Enclave
629 Keene Road
East Hardwick, VT
July 12th - Concerts On the Green in Danville every Sunday night during July and August
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM. Concerts on the Green are held throughout the summer from July every Sunday through August. The concerts are sponsored by the Danville Pope Library and will feature various local bands, donations are appreciated. In the event of rain, the concerts move into the Danville United Methodist Church, also located on the Green.
July 12th – 17th - ideRide Freeride Coed Camp, ages 12 - 17, levels 5 - 6
Cost: $700 per person. ideRide camps teaches those enthusiastic about biking to; learn new riding skills, better understand bike mechanics, improve confidence, live healthy, enhance their love for the sport and camaraderie of mountain biking. Operating on the number one rated trail system in the U.S., Kingdom Trails, ideRide has customized a one of a kind professional camp program that incorporates a balance of enthusiastic, highly skilled coaches, counselors, professional riders, photographers, videographers, bike mechanics and a personal chef, helping participants to take their riding, health and exposure to the next level and beyond. With Mocean 365 professional photographers and videographers on staff, everyone gets a chance to see how they ride and watch their skills improve on film. Unique to ideRide camps, each participant receives their very own online rider profile, professionally produced by Mocean 365, that chronicles their riding throughout the week and features them riding like the pros, with the pros. Each camp ends with a feature presentation of a professionally stylized bike video, for campers and families to watch on the big screen at our weeks end dinner. Each profile, unique to every individual, will be a treasure to show family and friends or, dependent on their level of riding, to use as a tool in obtaining pro sponsorship. ideRide Camps: building confidence, fueling success, and enriching lives through mountain biking.
Phone: 802-535-6247
ideRide
East Burke, VT
Email: linden@ideride.com Web: www.ideride.com
July 12th – 17th - Residential Camp, Co-ed, ages 8-12 at Coutts-Moriarty Camp
$330/week. Campers arrive Sunday at 4pm. Friday’s camp slideshow/pick-up starts at 2 pm. We provide a supportive overnight camping environment that enables campers to build close friendships and memories to last a lifetime. Residential campers join day campers for a mix of group activities throughout the day. Our naturalist staff will offer evening programs including campfires, night hikes, and whole camp games.
Phone: 802-673-5638
Coutts-Moriarty Camp
Lake Salem
Derby, VT
Email: programs@siskinea.org Web: www.couttsmoriarty.com
July 12th - July 18th -Roots Core Skills 1 - Learn to survive in the wild
Cost: $650.Shelter, Water, Fire, Food. These are the four things needed by all people to survive in the wilderness. For millions of years these skills and understandings of the human family allowed them not just to survive, but to thrive, in almost every ecosystem on the earth. The first step in the long process of regaining this information and experience is learning how to provide for ourselves in a survival situation. To build a shelter that will keep you warm and dry with no modern tools or materials, to collect and purify water primitively, to build a fire without lighters or matches and to use it as a tool, and to find and harvest plants and animals for food, are the core skills that will be taught in this four day class. Students should expect full days of learning and hands on workshops and be prepared for hard work and a fast-paced extensive curriculum.
Phone: 802-456-1253
ROOTS School -Reclaiming Our Origins Through Traditional Skills
East Calais, VT
Email: info@rootsvt.com Web: www.rootsvt.com
July 13th - St. Johnsbury - Concerts in the Park all summer
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM. Cost: Donation. Band Concerts in the Park.
Phone: 802-748-8891
At the Bandstand
Monument Square (Main Street)
St. Johnsbury, VT
Web: www.stjohnsburyband.org
July 13th – 17th - NorthWoods Summer Day Camp
Cost $200. Discover what hundreds of youth already know—NorthWoods’ Nature Day Camp is an experience not to miss! Each day is packed with fun activities- hiking, swimming, canoeing, crafts, outdoor skills, environmental discovery and more! An optional overnight campout is scheduled for Thursday and parents are welcome to participate. Camperships available. Call or email to register.
Phone: 802-723-6551 ext 115
Northwoods Stewardship Center
154 Leadership Drive
East Charleston, VT
Email: maria@northwoodscenter.org Web: www.northwoodscenter.org
July 13th – 17th - Day Camp, Co-ed, ages 5-12 at Coutts-Moriarty Camp on Lake Salem
Cost: $175. Drop off 8:30 & pick-up 4 - 4:30 PM. Overnight option on Thursday nights on select weeks!!! Friday’s camp slideshow/pick-up starts at 2pm. Each day we provide a healthy hot lunch and two snacks. Campers sign-up daily for a mix of group activities. Camp Activities: woodworking, woodcarving, traditional and primitive fire building, survival shelters, music, theater, cooking and baking, archery, canoeing, kayaking, swimming, climbing, ropes course, mountain biking, trail hiking, fishing, capture the flags, candle making, soap making, friendship bracelets, jewelry, sewing and more.
Phone: 802-673-5638
Coutts-Moriarty Camp
Lake Salem
Derby, VT
Email: programs@siskinea.org Web: www.couttsmoriarty.com
July 13th – 17th - Outdoor Adventures Residential or Day Camp, ages 12 - 15
$330/week. Head out of camp and challenge yourself! This camp blends a day of mountain biking and beach time, a day of canoeing a local river, an overnight away from camp, and time in camp to challenge yourself on the high ropes, archery, climbing, kayaking, canoeing, swimming, and many more traditional camp experience.
Phone: 802-673-5638
Coutts-Moriarty Camp
Lake Salem
Derby, VT
Email: programs@siskinea.org Web: www.couttsmoriarty.com
July 14th - Nature Tales and Trails: There’s a Hair in My Dirt!
5 PM. $5 suggested donation, registration required. Get your hands dirty during this Nature Tale and Trails event! We will start off with a reading of the always entertaining "There’s A Hair In My Dirt: A Worm’s Story" by Gary Larson. After the reading Gail Ruggles, a local organic gardener, will lead us in setting up our own worm farms for use in gardens, composting, and learning about soil creation! All materials will be supplied, so pre-registration is required! Dress to get dirty! Call or email to register.
Phone: 802-723-6551 ext 115
Northwoods Stewardship Center
154 Leadership Drive
East Charleston, VT
Email: emily@northwoodscenter.org Web: www.northwoodscenter.org
July 14th - Summer Music from Greensboro - Synergy Brass Quintet
8:00 PM. General admission $16. Orchestra concert $18. Seniors $15. Students under 18 FREE. Season subscription $70 for 5 concerts. Come out and hear the Synergy Brass Quintet - Bobby Thorp and Rachel Rodriguez, Trumpets; John Hurrell, Horn; Jordan Witt, Trombone; Jesse Chavez, Tuba.
Phone: 802-525-3291
United Church of Christ
165 Wilson St.
Greensboro, VT
Email: SummerMusicFromGreensboro@gmail.com
July 14
Summer Music From Greensboro
Synergy Brass Quintet
Bobby Thorp and Rachel Rodriguez, Trumpets
John Hurrell, Horn
Jordan Witt, Trombone
Jesse Chavez, Tuba
Classical Summer Music: From Glinka and Gershwin to Sousa
8:00 PM
United Church of Christ – Greensboro 05841
Contact: Vincent Nicolosi
SummerMusicFromGreensboro@gmail.com
Phone: 802-525-3291
General admission $16
Orchestra concert $18
Seniors $15
Students under 18 FREE
Season subscription $70 for 5 concerts.
July 15th - Farmer's Market - On the Green in Danville, VT
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM. The Danville Farmers Market operates from the first week in June through October, the weekly market is held on Wednesday Mornings on the Town Green. Many local gardeners and farmers will be setup every week with fresh vegetables, most picked that day. Many have signs indicating that their vegetables are organically grown. Others sell donuts and bread that they have made, yarn that they have woven, maple syrup they have processed and goat cheese that they have made. New vendors and new shoppers always welcome.
July 15th – Newport Farmers Market
9 AM – 2 PM. Fresh produce, baked goods, crafts, Vermont made products and more at the Farmers Market in Newport. At the Causeway in Newport between Gazebo and COC Info Center.
July 15th - Concerts at Bandstand Park all summer in Lyndonville
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM. Band Concerts by the Lyndon Town Band take place every Wednesday evening in Bandstand Park in Lyndonville starting in June and running through the summer.
July 16th - Ladies Invitational Summer
9:00 AM shotgun start. Open to all women. A 6-6-6 format of six holes best ball, six holes scotch and six holes scramble for a two-woman team.
Phone: 802-754-2333
Orleans Country Club
316 Country Club Lane
Orleans, VT
Email: irene@pshift.com Web: www.orleanscc.com
July 16th- 19th - Nature in a Nutshell camp for 4-7 year-olds
Tuition: $90 ($65 Early Bird Special with Registration by April 28). Multiple sibling tuition discount available. A sampler with hands-on learning about animals, plants, and homes and using crafts, puppetry, and sensory skills! We'll use what we learn to guide us on the last day of magical discovery tour! Call Anne at (802) 586-8065 for registration forms, more info.
Porter Brook Environmental Center at Highland Lodge
1608 E Craftsbury Road
Greensboro, VT
July 17th – Island Pond Farmers Market
Noon – 4 PM. Fresh produce, locally made products, baked goods and more…
Across from the Grace Brethren Church
640 Charleston Rd (Rte 105)
East Charleston, VT
July 17th – Hardwick Farmers Market
3 – 6 PM. Local produce, homemade goods, Vermont made crafts and more. Located at Granite Junction (b/w Aubuchon Hardware & Greensboro Garage) Rte 15 West in Hardwick.
July 17th – Dan Mills and the Podd Brothers at the Haskell Opera House
7:30 PM. Adam and Matt Podd return to the NEK via NYC, Boston and Rave Reviews.
For tickets 802-334-2216 or 802-873-3022.
Haskell Opera House
93 Caswell Ave.
Derby Line, VT
July 17th – 19th - Member Guest Practice Round and Golf Tournament
Friday - Member Guest Practice Round. Saturday and Sunday -Member Guest Tournament
Phone: 802-748-9894 (Contact Ralph Noel)
St. Johnsbury Country Club
Route 5, St. Johnsbury, VT
Web: www.thestjcc.com
July 18th – Stars & Stripes 2009
Stars and Stripes celebrates our community with music, a parade, vendors and crafters, and lots of fun! Bandstand Park will have crafters, vendors and food all afternoon.
Phone: 802-626-9696
Bandstand Park
Lyndonville, VT
Web: www.lyndonvermont.com
July 18th – Newport Farmers Market
9 AM – 2 PM. Fresh produce, baked goods, crafts, Vermont made products and more at the Farmers Market in Newport. At the Causeway in Newport between Gazebo and COC Info Center.
July 18th – Groton Growers Summer Market
9 AM – noon. The Groton Growers Summer Market features local growers and their produce. The market runs every Saturday in Veterans Memorial Park across from the old general store in Gorton Village.
July 18th – St. Johnsbury Caledonia Farmers Market
9 AM – 1 PM. Locally grown, homemade baked goods, Vermont made crafts and more...Downtown St Johnsbury on Pearl St behind Bank North
July 18th – Craftsbury Common Farmers Market
11 AM - 1 PM. Come to the Farmers Market on the Common. Get your fresh produce, Vermont made crafts and products, baked goods and more.
Craftsbury Common, VT
July 18th – Ice Cream Special Day at Willoughby Gap Farmstand
11 AM – 6 PM. It's Ice Cream Special Day at the Farmstand! There's more than just fruits and veggies here - try their new Maple creamies, Homemade Pies and homemade pies to order, Homemade breads and homemade breads to order, their own beef cuts, New Story Walk and more fun things for the children. Visit the goats, the lambs, the calves, and chickens, too.
Phone: 802-467-3921
Willoughby Gap Farmstand
3 Route 5A
West Burke, VT
Web: www.willoughbygap.com
July 18th – Banjo Dan and the Midnight Plowboys at the Haskell Opera House
7:30 PM. Back by popular demand - Fire in the Sugarhouse Tour Banjo Dan and the Midnite Plowboys appear at the Haskell Opera House for the ninth year running as part of their Fire in the Sugarhouse Tour. Join one of the Northeast's top acoustic bands for a rousing set of original and traditional tunes celebrating life, love, joys and sorrows as only Banjo Dan can deliver.
Tickets available at the Woodknot Bookshop, Haskell Library.
Phone: 802-873-3022
Haskell Opera House
93 Caswell Ave.
Derby Line, VT
July 18th & 19th - The ideRide Shuttle to Kingdom Trails runs every summer weekend
9 AM – 5 PM. Come to East Burke Village any summer weekend, bring 20 bucks for the shuttle and 10 for Kingdom Trails. Single rides are $5. The ideRide shuttle service accesses Kingdom Trails, East Burke, VT, named best trail system and best flow in 2008 by Bike Magazine. ideRide offers a safe, legal and reliable ride up Burke Mountain where you can access the KT downhill trails. The shuttle carries 14 riders and will run from East Burke village to the top of Burke Mountain.
Phone: 802-535-6247
ideRide
East Burke, VT
Email: linden@ideride.com Web: www.ideride.com
July 18th – 27th - 10 Days of Art and Fine Crafts in North Troy
10 AM – 5 PM. The Wooden Horse Arts Guild artists and Craftsmen of the Northeast Kingdom will show and sell their works in a gallery setting.
Phone: 802-988-4300
Wooden Horse Arts Guild
47 Main Street
North Troy, VT
Email: camilla@woodenhorsearts.com Web: www.woodenhorsearts.com
July 19th - Free Garden Skills Workshops and Garden tours
10:30 AM – 1 PM. Free Garden Skills Workshops –Sunday mornings from mid-June to mid-August. Let’s have a fun and a relaxing time together talking plants! Rachel has set this time aside to answer any questions you care to bring in, or show you a new gardening technique. We can talk about seed saving, plant propagation, plant and weed id, aphids, edibles – you name it. Free Sunday Garden Tours start at noon lasting 30-45 minutes. No charge, but please phone us first, by the day before if possible, to let us know you’re coming.
Phone: 802-472-5104
Perennial Pleasures Nursery and Tea Garden
63 Brick House Road
East Hardwick, VT
Email: annex@perennialpleasures.net Web: www.perennialpleasures.net
July 19th - Masks - an exhibit at White Water Gallery
11 AM – 3 PM. White Water Gallery showcases the work of local and regional internationally recognized artists who are living in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont and the Eastern Townships of Quebec. The name references the raging falls of the Mighty Lamoille as it carves through the village of East Hardwick. Adjacent to the Gallery is Teuscher's Antique Auto Enclave, a mini-museum of sorts that houses perhaps one of the most original collections of all steel antique customized cars in the northeast. The second show of the season features masks by noted mask-maker, Ellis Jacobson.
Phone: 802-563-2037
White Water Gallery
629 Keene Road
East Hardwick, VT
July 19th – Lyndonville Farmers Market
11:30 AM – 3 PM. Fresh local vegetables, beef, milk, baked goods & maple syrup are just some of the things we have available. We're located just beyond the Lyndon Freighthouse in the park.
1000 Broad St.
Lyndonville, VT
July 19th - Car Talk at Teuscher's Antique Auto Enclave
1 PM. Teuscher's Antique Auto Enclave is a mini-museum of sorts that houses perhaps one of the most original collections of all steel antique customized cars in the northeast. Car Talk happens every Sunday at one o'clock noting the stories and history of rare examples of pre-WW2 manufacturing before the idea of planned obsolescence homogenized the automobile industry. Teuscher's Antique Auto Enclave
629 Keene Road
East Hardwick, VT
July 19th - Cooking with Lavender
1 – 5 PM. $45. An entire delicious afternoon dedicated to lavender! Learn about creating vinegars, honey, syrups and liqueurs, plus lavender truffles and more, with hands-on participation by all. Free samples to take home. Please call to reserve your space.
Phone: 802-533-2117
Perennial Pleasures Nursery and Tea Garden
63 Brick House Road
East Hardwick, VT
Email: annex@perennialpleasures.net Web: www.perennialpleasures.net
July 19th - The Food Tells Me What to Make
3 PM. Ryan O’Malley, the chef at Elements Restaurant, will offer a program on The Food Tells Me What to Make, which will detail his efforts to use locally produced products to create dishes that are original and representative of the local area.
Phone: 802-748-2600
Catamount Arts
115 Eastern Ave.
St. Johnsbury, VT
Web: www.catamountarts.org
July 19th - Concerts On the Green in Danville every Sunday night during July and August
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM. Concerts on the Green are held throughout the summer from July every Sunday through August. The concerts are sponsored by the Danville Pope Library and will feature various local bands, donations are appreciated. In the event of rain, the concerts move into the Danville United Methodist Church, also located on the Green.
July 19th – 24th - ideRide All Mountain Coed Camp, ages 12 - 17, levels 1 - 3
Cost: $700 per person. ideRide camps teaches those enthusiastic about biking to; learn new riding skills, better understand bike mechanics, improve confidence, live healthy, enhance their love for the sport and camaraderie of mountain biking. Operating on the number one rated trail system in the U.S., Kingdom Trails, ideRide has customized a one of a kind professional camp program that incorporates a balance of enthusiastic, highly skilled coaches, counselors, professional riders, photographers, videographers, bike mechanics and a personal chef, helping participants to take their riding, health and exposure to the next level and beyond. With Mocean 365 professional photographers and videographers on staff, everyone gets a chance to see how they ride and watch their skills improve on film. Unique to ideRide camps, each participant receives their very own online rider profile, professionally produced by Mocean 365, that chronicles their riding throughout the week and features them riding like the pros, with the pros. Each camp ends with a feature presentation of a professionally stylized bike video, for campers and families to watch on the big screen at our weeks end dinner. Each profile, unique to every individual, will be a treasure to show family and friends or, dependent on their level of riding, to use as a tool in obtaining pro sponsorship. ideRide Camps: building confidence, fueling success, and enriching lives through mountain biking.
Phone: 802-535-6247
ideRide
East Burke, VT
Email: linden@ideride.com Web: www.ideride.com
July 19th – 24th - Residential Camp, Co-ed, ages 8-12 at Coutts-Moriarty Camp
$330/week. We provide a supportive overnight camping environment that enables campers to build close friendships and memories to last a lifetime. Residential campers join day campers for a mix of group activities throughout the day. Our naturalist staff will offer evening programs including campfires, night hikes, and whole camp games.
Phone: 802-673-5638
Coutts-Moriarty Camp
Lake Salem
Derby, VT
Email: programs@siskinea.org Web: www.couttsmoriarty.com
July 19th – 25th - NorthWoods Eco-Experience
Cost $800. This fun, intensive week-long program offers high school students a unique opportunity to explore the world of conservation science. Work alongside professional wildlife biologists and ecologists on real field science projects in the rich and varied habitats of the Northern Forest. The program offers hands-on experience with the region’s diverse flora and fauna and exposes students to a variety of field science methods and equipment
Call or email to register.
Phone: 802-723-6551 ext 113
Northwoods Stewardship Center
154 Leadership Drive
East Charleston, VT
Email: jayson@northwoodscenter.org Web: www.northwoodscenter.org
July 20th - St. Johnsbury - Concerts in the Park all summer
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM. Cost: Donation. Band Concerts in the Park.
Phone: 802-748-8891
At the Bandstand
Monument Square (Main Street)
St. Johnsbury, VT
Web: www.stjohnsburyband.org
July 20th – 24th - Nature Quest for 7-10 year-olds!
1 – 4 PM. Tuition $105 ($80 Early Bird Special with Registration by April 28). Multiple sibling tuition discount available. Amazing hands-on discoveries await us each day as we explore the miracles of food chains, adaptations, and finally, a celebration of the web of life. Prepare to roll up your sleeves to grub and muck around! Call Anne at (802) 586-8065 for registration forms, more info.
Porter Brook Environmental Center at Highland Lodge
1608 E Craftsbury Road
Greensboro, VT
July 20th – 24th - Day Camp, Co-ed, ages 5-12 at Coutts-Moriarty Camp on Lake Salem
Cost: $175. Drop off 8:30 & pick-up 4 - 4:30 PM. Overnight option on Thursday nights on select weeks!!! Friday’s camp slideshow/pick-up starts at 2pm. Each day we provide a healthy hot lunch and two snacks. Campers sign-up daily for a mix of group activities. Camp Activities: woodworking, woodcarving, traditional and primitive fire building, survival shelters, music, theater, cooking and baking, archery, canoeing, kayaking, swimming, climbing, ropes course, mountain biking, trail hiking, fishing, capture the flags, candle making, soap making, friendship bracelets, jewelry, sewing and more.
Phone: 802-673-5638
Coutts-Moriarty Camp
Lake Salem
Derby, VT
Email: programs@siskinea.org Web: www.couttsmoriarty.com
July 20th – 24th - Bear Cub Science Camp, ages 3 - 6 at Coutts-Moriarty Camp
8:30 – 11:30 AM. $75/week. Campers will explore the wonders of nature as they create, learn, read, play, hike, canoe, dance, sing, and have fun in an enriching safe environment. We provide a healthy snack each day.
Phone: 802-673-5638
Coutts-Moriarty Camp
Lake Salem
Derby, VT
Email: programs@siskinea.org Web: www.couttsmoriarty.com
July 21st - Summer Music From Greensboro - The Zajkowski Trio
8:00 PM. General admission $16. Orchestra concert $18. Seniors $15. Students under 18 FREE. Season subscription $70 for 5 concerts. Come out and hear The Zajkowski Trio - Alexander Romanul, violin; Cynthia Forbes, Cello; Thomas Zajkowski, Piano.
Phone: 802-525-3291
United Church of Christ
165 Wilson St.
Greensboro, VT
Email: SummerMusicFromGreensboro@gmail.com
July 21
Summer Music From Greensboro
The Zajkowski Trio
Alexander Romanul, violin
Cynthia Forbes, Cello
Thomas Zajkowski, Piano
8:00 PM
United Church of Christ - Greensboro
Contact: Vincent Nicolosi
SummerMusicFromGreensboro@gmail.com
Phone: 802-525-3291
General admission $16
Orchestra concert $18
Seniors $15
Students under 18 FREE
Season subscription $70 for 5 concerts
July 22nd - Farmer's Market - On the Green in Danville, VT
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM. The Danville Farmers Market operates from the first week in June through October, the weekly market is held on Wednesday Mornings on the Town Green. Many local gardeners and farmers will be setup every week with fresh vegetables, most picked that day. Many have signs indicating that their vegetables are organically grown. Others sell donuts and bread that they have made, yarn that they have woven, maple syrup they have processed and goat cheese that they have made. New vendors and new shoppers always welcome.
July 22nd– Newport Farmers Market
9 AM – 2 PM. Fresh produce, baked goods, crafts, Vermont made products and more at the Farmers Market in Newport. At the Causeway in Newport between Gazebo & Info Center.
July 22nd - Concerts at Bandstand Park all summer in Lyndonville
7 - 9 PM. Band Concerts by the Lyndon Town Band take place every Wednesday evening in Bandstand Park in Lyndonville starting in June and running through the summer.
July 23rd – 26th - Aquafest - fun on land and sea
Vermont's premier community summer event takes place every July with new events, new entertainment and some older events that are back by popular demand such as the Aquafest Bed Races. Events include The Parade of the Pets, Newport's Got Talent, The Kingdom Swim, a volleyball tournament, kayak races, live entertainment, children's events, great food and lots more. Vermont's North Country Chamber of Commerce, IROC and The Newport Recreation Department sponsor the event. It's sure to be fun for the entire family and a weekend to mark on your summer calendar.
Phone: 802-334-7742
Web: www.kingdomaquafest.com
July 24th – Island Pond Farmers Market
Noon – 4 PM. Fresh produce, locally made products, baked goods and more…
Across from the Grace Brethren Church
640 Charleston Rd (Rte 105)
East Charleston, VT
July 24th – Hardwick Farmers Market
3 – 6 PM. Local produce, homemade goods, Vermont made crafts and more. Located at Granite Junction (b/w Aubuchon Hardware & Greensboro Garage) Rte 15 West in Hardwick.
July 24th – Wine and Cheese Reception / Silent Auction Fundraiser
6 – 8 PM. Admission is free; however, an $8 per person ($15/couple) donation is suggested. The Montgomery Public Library is proud to announce its first Wine & Cheese Reception / Silent Auction Fundraiser. Come enjoy the summer evening ambiance of Phineas Swann as you and your party sip Chardonnay and nibble exquisite cheeses. The Silent Auction fundraising event will be proudly displaying local and regional craft and food items, gift certificates to restaurants, B&B, service stations, and much more. All proceeds will benefit the Montgomery Public Library. Your item donations and attendance at this entertaining fundraiser will be enthusiastically appreciated. Please contact Jay Kerch (802) 326-4306 for more information or to donate to this exciting event!
Phineas Swann Bed and Breakfast Inn
Route 118
Montgomery Center, VT
Email: info@phineasswann.com Web: www.phineasswann.com
July 25th - The First Annual Kingdom Swim
A 100 yard, ¼ mile, 1 mile, 5 mile and 10 mile swim in Lake Memphremagog. Designed for young and old alike and all swimming skill levels -- a great way to celebrate our lake. Plus a grand kayak race for the ages. Special prize to any one who spots and photographs our very own lake monster. This event is being run in conjunction with Kingdom Aquafest, a full weekend of fun activities on the shores of the Northeast Kingdom's Great Lake. For more information, please contact Pete Kellaway or Julie Gunn at IROC.
Phone: 802-334-8511
Web: www.kingdomswim.org.
July 25th – Newport Farmers Market
9 AM – 2 PM. Fresh produce, baked goods, crafts, Vermont made products and more at the Farmers Market in Newport. At the Causeway in Newport between Gazebo and COC Info Center.
July 25th – Groton Growers Summer Market
9 AM – noon. The Groton Growers Summer Market features local growers and their produce. The market runs every Saturday in Veterans Memorial Park across from the old general store in Gorton Village.
July 25th – St. Johnsbury Caledonia Farmers Market
9 AM – 1 PM. Locally grown, homemade baked goods, Vermont made crafts and more...Downtown St Johnsbury on Pearl St behind Bank North
July 25th - The Peacham Library Antique Show and Sale
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM. Lunch Available on the Grounds. Featuring the Following Quality Antique Dealers: Little Red Hen Antiques, East Calais VT, Joan Nielsen, Troy NY, B. Hertz Antiques, East Burke VT, Kent Degoosh, Richford VT, Virginia Beardmore, Mt Holly VT, Mrs Douglas Kittell, Enosburg Falls VT, Olde Times Remembered, Plainfield VT.
Peacham Elementary School
340 Bayley Hazen Rd.
Peacham, VT
July 25th – Craftsbury Common Farmers Market
11 AM - 1 PM. Come to the Farmers Market on the Common. Get your fresh produce, Vermont made crafts and products, baked goods and more.
Craftsbury Common, VT
July 25th - VINS (VT Institute of Natural Science) Raptor Encounter
7 PM. This first-hand encounter with live falcons, hawks, and owls focuses on the natural history, ecology, and adaptations of these efficient predators. Touchable artifacts and hands-on materials round out this special experience.
Phone: 802-584-3822
Stillwater State Park
44 Stillwater Rd.
Groton, VT
July 25th – “Love Letters” starring Nancy and Mark Rumery at the Haskell Opera House
7:30 PM. Tickets $10. A.R. Gurney's profound and touching Readers Theatre. Tickets at Woodknot Bookshop, Wider Than the Sky Bookstore, Haskell Library, QNEK Box Office 802-334-2216 or the Opera House 802-873-3022.
Haskell Opera House
93 Caswell Ave.
Derby Line, VT
July 25th & 26th - Men’s, Women’s, and Junior’s Stroke Play Championship Golf
Men’s Stroke Play Championship Tee Times 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM.
Women’s Stroke Play Championship Tee Times 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM.
Junior Stroke Play Championship Tee Times 11:00 AM to 11:30 AM.
Phone: 802-748-9894
St. Johnsbury Country Club
Route 5
St. Johnsbury, VT
Web: www.thestjcc.com
July 25th - 26th - The ideRide Shuttle to Kingdom Trails runs every summer weekend
9 AM – 5 PM. Come to East Burke Village any summer weekend, bring 20 bucks for the shuttle and 10 for Kingdom Trails. Single rides are $5. The ideRide shuttle service accesses Kingdom Trails, East Burke, VT, named best trail system and best flow in 2008 by Bike Magazine. ideRide offers a safe, legal and reliable ride up Burke Mountain where you can access the KT downhill trails. The shuttle carries 14 riders and will run from East Burke village to the top of Burke Mountain.
Phone: 802-535-6247
ideRide
East Burke, VT
Email: linden@ideride.com Web: www.ideride.com
July 26th - Newark Old Home Day
Service, 10:30 am. Fleamarket and BBQ 11-3 pm. Newark Old Home Day, Chicken BBQ & Flea Market. Newark Volunteer Fire Department flea market and chicken BBQ.
Phone: 802-467-3788
At Town Park (Newark Street) in Newark, VT
July 26th - Free Garden Skills Workshops and Garden tours
10:30 AM – 1 PM. Free Garden Skills Workshops –Sunday mornings from mid-June to mid-August. Let’s have a fun and a relaxing time together talking plants! Rachel has set this time aside to answer any questions you care to bring in, or show you a new gardening technique. We can talk about seed saving, plant propagation, plant and weed id, aphids, edibles – you name it. Free Sunday Garden Tours start at noon lasting 30-45 minutes. No charge, but please phone us first, by the day before if possible, to let us know you’re coming.
Phone: 802-472-5104
Perennial Pleasures Nursery and Tea Garden
63 Brick House Road
East Hardwick, VT
Email: annex@perennialpleasures.net Web: www.perennialpleasures.net
July 26th - Masks - an exhibit at White Water Gallery
11 AM – 3 PM. White Water Gallery showcases the work of local and regional internationally recognized artists who are living in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont and the Eastern Townships of Quebec. The name references the raging falls of the Mighty Lamoille as it carves through the village of East Hardwick. Adjacent to the Gallery is Teuscher's Antique Auto Enclave, a mini-museum of sorts that houses perhaps one of the most original collections of all steel antique customized cars in the northeast. The second show of the season features masks by noted mask-maker, Ellis Jacobson.
Phone: 802-563-2037
White Water Gallery
629 Keene Road
East Hardwick, VT
July 26th – Lyndonville Farmers Market
11:30 AM – 3 PM. Fresh local vegetables, beef, milk, baked goods and maple syrup are just some of the things we have available. We're located just beyond the Lyndonville Freighthouse in the park.
1000 Broad St.
Lyndonville, VT
July 26th - Car Talk at Teuscher's Antique Auto Enclave
1 PM. Teuscher's Antique Auto Enclave is a mini-museum of sorts that houses perhaps one of the most original collections of all steel antique customized cars in the northeast. Car Talk happens every Sunday at one o'clock noting the stories and history of rare examples of pre-WW2 manufacturing before the idea of planned obsolescence homogenized the automobile industry. Teuscher's Antique Auto Enclave
629 Keene Road
East Hardwick, VT
July 26th - Old Home Day Lamplight Service in North Danville, VT
6:30 PM. Lemonade & cookies served at 6:30 pm. Lamplight Service and hymn sing at 7:30 pm. At the Old North Church
North Church Road and Wheelock Road
North Danville, VT
July 26th - Concerts On the Green in Danville every Sunday night during July and August
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM. Concerts on the Green are held throughout the summer from July every Sunday through August. The concerts are sponsored by the Danville Pope Library and will feature various local bands, donations are appreciated. In the event of rain, the concerts move into the Danville United Methodist Church, also located on the Green.
July 26th – 31st - ideRide All Mountain Coed Camp, ages 12 - 17, levels 4 - 6
Cost: $700 per person. ideRide camps teaches those enthusiastic about biking to; learn new riding skills, better understand bike mechanics, improve confidence, live healthy, enhance their love for the sport and camaraderie of mountain biking. Operating on the number one rated trail system in the U.S., Kingdom Trails, ideRide has customized a one of a kind professional camp program that incorporates a balance of enthusiastic, highly skilled coaches, counselors, professional riders, photographers, videographers, bike mechanics and a personal chef, helping participants to take their riding, health and exposure to the next level and beyond. With Mocean 365 professional photographers and videographers on staff, everyone gets a chance to see how they ride and watch their skills improve on film. Unique to ideRide camps, each participant receives their very own online rider profile, professionally produced by Mocean 365, that chronicles their riding throughout the week and features them riding like the pros, with the pros. Each camp ends with a feature presentation of a professionally stylized bike video, for campers and families to watch on the big screen at our weeks end dinner. Each profile, unique to every individual, will be a treasure to show family and friends or, dependent on their level of riding, to use as a tool in obtaining pro sponsorship. ideRide Camps: building confidence, fueling success, and enriching lives through mountain biking.
Phone: 802-535-6247
ideRide
East Burke, VT
Email: linden@ideride.com Web: www.ideride.com
July 26th – 31st - Residential Camp, Co-ed, ages 8-12 at Coutts-Moriarty Camp
$330/week. Campers arrive Sunday at 4pm. Friday’s camp slideshow/pick-up starts at 2 pm. We provide a supportive overnight camping environment that enables campers to build close friendships and memories to last a lifetime. Residential campers join day campers for a mix of group activities throughout the day. Our naturalist staff will offer evening programs including campfires, night hikes, and whole camp games.
Phone: 802-673-5638
Coutts-Moriarty Camp
Lake Salem
Derby, VT
Email: programs@siskinea.org Web: www.couttsmoriarty.com
July 26th – 31st - Canoe to Camp Residential only, ages 12 - 15 at Coutts-Moriarty Camp
$330/week. After a crash course in paddling, one night in camp, and a big breakfast, we’ll head out to the headwaters of the Clyde River. After two nights on the river, campers will have paddled their way back to the beach at camp where they will spend the rest the week challenging themselves with our in camp activities.
Phone: 802-673-5638
Coutts-Moriarty Camp
Lake Salem
Derby, VT
Email: programs@siskinea.org Web: www.couttsmoriarty.com
July 26th - August 1st - Teen Wilderness Survival
Cost: $600. Deposit: $200. Prerequisites: None. For a million years every human being on earth lived in and with the wild land. In Roots Teen Survival Course, all lessons will be experiential as students put their hard work, resourcefulness, and adaptability to the test as they: build survival shelters, make friction fire, gather and purify water, make rock tools, learn primitive hunting and trapping, harvest wild plants, and practice a wide variety of other skills. Along with this training, students will begin to connect with the land around them through wildlife tracking and nature awareness. This course is open to all skill levels.
Phone: 802-456-1253
ROOTS School -Reclaiming Our Origins Through Traditional Skills
East Calais, VT
Email: info@rootsvt.com Web: www.rootsvt.com
July 27th - St. Johnsbury - Concerts in the Park all summer
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM. Cost: Donation. Band Concerts in the Park.
Phone: 802-748-8891
At the Bandstand
Monument Square (Main Street)
St. Johnsbury, VT
Web: www.stjohnsburyband.org
July 27th – 31st – Time Travelers Day Camp at the Old Stone House Museum
8:30 AM – 3 PM. Monday – Fridays. History Day Camp for kids ages 8 – 12. This year’s theme is the Cultural Heritage of Orleans County. Traditional crafts, afternoon focus groups, and daily specials.
Phone: 802-754-2022
Old Stone House Museum
109 Old Stone House Rd.
Brownington, VT
Web: www.oldstonehousemuseum.org
July 27th – 31st - Day Camp, Co-ed, ages 5-12 at Coutts-Moriarty Camp on Lake Salem
Cost: $175. Drop off 8:30 & pick-up 4 - 4:30 PM. Overnight option on Thursday nights on select weeks!!! Friday’s camp slideshow/pick-up starts at 2pm. Each day we provide a healthy hot lunch and two snacks. Campers sign-up daily for a mix of group activities. Camp Activities: woodworking, woodcarving, traditional and primitive fire building, survival shelters, music, theater, cooking and baking, archery, canoeing, kayaking, swimming, climbing, ropes course, mountain biking, trail hiking, fishing, capture the flags, candle making, soap making, friendship bracelets, jewelry, sewing and more.
Phone: 802-673-5638
Coutts-Moriarty Camp
Lake Salem
Derby, VT
Email: programs@siskinea.org Web: www.couttsmoriarty.com
July 28th - Summer Music from Greensboro - the Altschuler-Mouffee Duo
8:00 PM. General admission $16. Orchestra concert $18. Seniors $15. Students under 18 FREE. Season subscription $70 for 5 concerts. Come out and hear the Altschuler-Mouffee Duo - Emil Altschuler, Violin and Jerome Mouffee, Guitar. Music of de Falla, Paganini, Bach and Piazolla. Phone: 802-525-3291
United Church of Christ
165 Wilson St.
Greensboro, VT
Email: SummerMusicFromGreensboro@gmail.com
July 29th – Newport Farmers Market
9 AM – 2 PM. Fresh produce, baked goods, crafts, Vermont made products and more at the Farmers Market in Newport. At the Causeway in Newport between Gazebo and COC Info Center.
July 29th - Farmer's Market - On the Green in Danville, VT
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM. The Danville Farmers Market operates from the first week in June through October, the weekly market is held on Wednesday Mornings on the Town Green. Many local gardeners and farmers will be setup every week with fresh vegetables, most picked that day. Many have signs indicating that their vegetables are organically grown. Others sell donuts and bread that they have made, yarn that they have woven, maple syrup they have processed and goat cheese that they have made. New vendors and new shoppers always welcome.
July 29th - Concerts at Bandstand Park all summer in Lyndonville
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM. Band Concerts by the Lyndon Town Band take place every Wednesday evening in Bandstand Park in Lyndonville starting in June and running through the summer.
July 30th - Living on the Land Series: Garden Pests & Diseases: Discussion and Exploration
5:30 PM. $5, registration required. Join NorthWoods for a discussion and exploration into the interesting and, at times, formidable world of gardens pests and diseases. Ann Hazelrigg, UVM Extension Plant and Soil Scientist, and Jon Turmel, State Entomologist for the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, will present an informative and active workshop geared towards gardeners, farmers, and landowners. Following the presentation, all participants will be invited to tour a few local gardens, experiencing first hand the issues discussed by Jon and Ann. Call or email to register.
Phone: 802-723-6551 ext 113
Northwoods Stewardship Center
154 Leadership Drive
East Charleston, VT
Email: jayson@northwoodscenter.org Web: www.northwoodscenter.org
July 31st – Island Pond Farmers Market
Noon – 4 PM. Fresh produce, locally made products, baked goods and more…
Across from the Grace Brethren Church
640 Charleston Rd (Rte 105)
East Charleston, VT
July 31st – Hardwick Farmers Market
3 – 6 PM. Local produce, homemade goods, Vermont made crafts and more. Located at Granite Junction (b/w Aubuchon Hardware & Greensboro Garage) Rte 15 West in Hardwick.
AUGUST
August 1st – Intro to Alpacas - Hands-On Workshop for New & Aspiring Alpaca Owners
Time TBA. Cost $45 for up to two people from the same farm. Please join us for this hands-on workshop on basic alpaca care. The day will be geared towards new and aspiring alpaca owners. We will cover topics such as: Alpaca behavior, handling alpacas, Fitting halters, Body condition scoring, Teeth and toenails, Vaccinations and deworming, Nutrition, Breeding & reproduction, Shearing & fiber, Showing, Barns & fencing, Question & answer session. The workshop will be presented by Snowshoe Farm owners, Ron & Terry Miller, alpaca breeders since 1999. Participants will take home a notebook of "alpaca resources" - a handy reference book for new owners. Continental breakfast and lunch will be provided.
Phone: 802-592-3153
Snowshoe Farm
520 The Great Rd.
Peacham, VT
Email: terry@snowshoefarm.com Web: www.snowshoefarm.com
August 1st – St. Johnsbury Caledonia Farmers Market
9 AM – 1 PM. Locally grown, homemade baked goods, Vermont made crafts and more...Downtown St Johnsbury on Pearl St behind Bank North
August 1st - – Newport Farmers Market
9 AM – 2 PM. Fresh produce, baked goods, crafts, Vermont made products and more at the Farmers Market in Newport. At the Causeway in Newport between Gazebo and COC Info Center.
August 1st – Groton Growers Summer Market
9 AM – noon. The Groton Growers Summer Market features local growers and their produce. The market runs every Saturday in Veterans Memorial Park across from the old general store in Gorton Village.
August 1st - Arts and Crafts Fair in Derby
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM. 60+ crafters, admission $1, 12/under free. 2009 will be the Fair's 52nd year. The Fair was established in 1957 as a public service to provide a market for hand-crafted products made locally.
Phone: 802-334-7325 x911
Elks Club
3736 US Route 5
Derby, VT
Web: www.geocities.com/artsandcraftsfair
August 1st - Opening Day at the Great Vermont Corn Maze in North Danville
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM. Opens for the Season - weather permitting. 10 acres of good old fashioned fun! Challenging miles of pathways of corn, 50' bridges, emergency exits and helpful hints. Explore our Barn-yard Center with 100' of underground tunnels, pedal tractors, korny kid korn maze and petting animals.
Phone: 802-748-1399
The Great Vermont Corn Maze
1404 Wheelock Road
North Danville, VT
Email: info@vermontcornmaze.com Web: www.vermontcornmaze.com
August 1st – Craftsbury Common Farmers Market
11 AM - 1 PM. Come to the Farmers Market on the Common. Get your fresh produce, Vermont made crafts and products, baked goods and more.
Craftsbury Common, VT
August 1st - 12-Strings perform at Stillwater State Park in Groton
7 PM. Acoustic guitar duo, Joe & Mike, will entertain park visitors with soothing sounds from the1960 to 1980's. This concert is easy listening and enjoyable for the whole family.
Phone: 802-584-3822
Stillwater State Park
44 Stillwater Rd.
Groton, VT
August 1st – 9th – Phlox Festival
More than 60 varieties should be blooming in the gardens. Daily garden tours at 11 am. Doorprizes. Tea room. Leonard Perry is scheduled to lead the garden tour on August 12.
Phone: 802-472-5104
Perennial Pleasures Nursery
63 Brickhouse Rd.
East Hardwick, VT
Email: rkane@perennialpleasures.net Web: www.perennialpleasures.net
August 1st & 2nd - The ideRide Shuttle to Kingdom Trails runs every summer weekend
9 AM – 5 PM. Come to East Burke Village any summer weekend, bring 20 bucks for the shuttle and 10 for Kingdom Trails. Single rides are $5. The ideRide shuttle service accesses Kingdom Trails, East Burke, VT, named best trail system and best flow in 2008 by Bike Magazine. ideRide offers a safe, legal and reliable ride up Burke Mountain where you can access the KT downhill trails. The shuttle carries 14 riders and will run from East Burke village to the top of Burke Mountain.
Phone: 802-535-6247
ideRide
East Burke, VT
Email: linden@ideride.com Web: www.ideride.com
August 1st – 9th - Family Camp at Kharme Choling
Call or visit website for costs and to register. Welcome to Family Camp, a wonderful opportunity to gather with family, friends, and new and old acquaintances during one of the most stunning times of the year to be in Vermont, a time of the year when people often say I think I'm in heaven. And for parents and children, what better place to be than at Karme Choling's Family Camp! During the morning children's programs, parents have time for meditation, study, meditation instruction, and contemplation. Afternoons are filled with structured and spontaneous activities, on Karmê Chöling grounds and in the surrounding area, including the local swimming holes and lakes. Evenings include dinner and supervised campfires. Songs and stories by the campfire are part of the tradition.
Phone: 802-633-2384
Karme Choling
369 Patneaude Lane
Barnet, VT
Email: reception@karmecholing.org Web: www.karmecholing.org
August 2nd - Plum Island Shore Bird Fiasco
Meet at exit 44 rest stop of I-93 at 6 a.m. Plum Island Shore Bird Fiasco Join us for a trip to the Massachusetts coast as we look for migrating shore birds, some still in their breeding plumage. For more information or to register for NEK Audubon trips email or call Tom at (802)626-9071. Note: All events are subject to change so be sure to register beforehand. We go regardless of the weather (unless weather would in some way pose a danger). Dress appropriately!
Email: blackpoll@myfairpoint.net Web: www.nekaudubon.org
August 2nd - Free Garden Skills Workshops and Garden tours
10:30 AM – 1 PM. Free Garden Skills Workshops –Sunday mornings from mid-June to mid-August. Let’s have a fun and a relaxing time together talking plants! Rachel has set this time aside to answer any questions you care to bring in, or show you a new gardening technique. We can talk about seed saving, plant propagation, plant and weed id, aphids, edibles – you name it. Free Sunday Garden Tours start at noon lasting 30-45 minutes. No charge, but please phone us first, by the day before if possible, to let us know you’re coming.
Phone: 802-472-5104
Perennial Pleasures Nursery and Tea Garden
63 Brick House Road
East Hardwick, VT
Email: annex@perennialpleasures.net Web: www.perennialpleasures.net
August 2nd - Masks - an exhibit at White Water Gallery
11 AM – 3 PM. White Water Gallery showcases the work of local and regional internationally recognized artists who are living in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont and the Eastern Townships of Quebec. The name references the raging falls of the Mighty Lamoille as it carves through the village of East Hardwick. Adjacent to the Gallery is Teuscher's Antique Auto Enclave, a mini-museum of sorts that houses perhaps one of the most original collections of all steel antique customized cars in the northeast. The second show of the season features masks by noted mask-maker, Ellis Jacobson.
Phone: 802-563-2037
White Water Gallery
629 Keene Road
East Hardwick, VT
August 2nd – Lyndonville Farmers Market
11:30 AM – 3 PM. Fresh local vegetables, beef, milk, baked goods and maple syrup are just some of the things we have available. We're located just beyond the Lyndonville Freighthouse in the park.
1000 Broad St.
Lyndonville, VT
August 2nd - Car Talk at Teuscher's Antique Auto Enclave
1 PM. Teuscher's Antique Auto Enclave is a mini-museum of sorts that houses perhaps one of the most original collections of all steel antique customized cars in the northeast. Car Talk happens every Sunday at one o'clock noting the stories and history of rare examples of pre-WW2 manufacturing before the idea of planned obsolescence homogenized the automobile industry. Teuscher's Antique Auto Enclave
629 Keene Road
East Hardwick, VT
August 2nd - Concerts On The Green in Danville every Sunday during July and August
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM. Concerts on the Green are held throughout the summer from July every Sunday through August. The concerts are sponsored by the Danville Pope Library and will feature various local bands, donations are appreciated. In the event of rain, the concerts move into the Danville United Methodist Church, also located on the Green.
August 2nd – 7th - ideRide All Mountain Girls Camp, ages 12 - 17, levels 1 - 6
Cost: $700 per person. ideRide camps teaches those enthusiastic about biking to; learn new riding skills, better understand bike mechanics, improve confidence, live healthy, enhance their love for the sport and camaraderie of mountain biking. Operating on the number one rated trail system in the U.S., Kingdom Trails, ideRide has customized a one of a kind professional camp program that incorporates a balance of enthusiastic, highly skilled coaches, counselors, professional riders, photographers, videographers, bike mechanics and a personal chef, helping participants to take their riding, health and exposure to the next level and beyond. With Mocean 365 professional photographers and videographers on staff, everyone gets a chance to see how they ride and watch their skills improve on film. Unique to ideRide camps, each participant receives their very own online rider profile, professionally produced by Mocean 365, that chronicles their riding throughout the week and features them riding like the pros, with the pros. Each camp ends with a feature presentation of a professionally stylized bike video, for campers and families to watch on the big screen at our weeks end dinner. Each profile, unique to every individual, will be a treasure to show family and friends or, dependent on their level of riding, to use as a tool in obtaining pro sponsorship. ideRide Camps: building confidence, fueling success, and enriching lives through mountain biking.
Phone: 802-535-6247
ideRide
East Burke, VT
Email: linden@ideride.com Web: www.ideride.com
August 2nd – 7th - Residential Camp, Co-ed, ages 8-12 at Coutts-Moriarty Camp
$330/week. Campers arrive Sunday at 4pm. Friday’s camp slideshow/pick-up starts at 2 pm. We provide a supportive overnight camping environment that enables campers to build close friendships and memories to last a lifetime. Residential campers join day campers for a mix of group activities throughout the day. Our naturalist staff will offer evening programs including campfires, night hikes, and whole camp games.
Phone: 802-673-5638
Coutts-Moriarty Camp
Lake Salem
Derby, VT
Email: programs@siskinea.org Web: www.couttsmoriarty.com
August 3rd - St. Johnsbury - Concerts in the Park all summer
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM. Cost: Donation. Band Concerts in the Park.
Phone: 802-748-8891
At the Bandstand
Monument Square (Main Street)
St. Johnsbury, VT
Web: www.stjohnsburyband.org
August 3rd – 7th - Northern Forest Canoe Camp II: Lake Umbagog
Cost $350. Join NorthWoods on a canoeing adventure and explore the natural beauty of the Northern Forest. Our skilled staff will lead these exciting multi-day canoe trips and provide paddling instruction, water safety tips, excellent backcountry meals, and insight into the region’s unique natural and cultural history. Enjoy first-rate flatwater paddling, remote waterside camping, and excellent wildlife viewing as we explore Lake Umbagog and the Magalloway and Androscoggin Rivers in northern New Hampshire. Camperships available. Call or email to register.
Phone: 802-723-6551 ext 115
Northwoods Stewardship Center
154 Leadership Drive
East Charleston, VT
Email: maria@northwoodscenter.org Web: www.northwoodscenter.org
August 3rd – 7th - Day Camp, Co-ed, ages 5-12 at Coutts-Moriarty Camp on Lake Salem
Cost: $175. Drop off 8:30 & pick-up 4 - 4:30 PM. Overnight option on Thursday nights on select weeks!!! Friday’s camp slideshow/pick-up starts at 2pm. Each day we provide a healthy hot lunch and two snacks. Campers sign-up daily for a mix of group activities. Camp Activities: woodworking, woodcarving, traditional and primitive fire building, survival shelters, music, theater, cooking and baking, archery, canoeing, kayaking, swimming, climbing, ropes course, mountain biking, trail hiking, fishing, capture the flags, candle making, soap making, friendship bracelets, jewelry, sewing and more.
Phone: 802-673-5638
Coutts-Moriarty Camp
Lake Salem
Derby, VT
Email: programs@siskinea.org Web: www.couttsmoriarty.com
August 3rd – 7th - Bear Cub Science Camp, ages 3 - 6 at Coutts-Moriarty Camp
8:30 – 11:30 AM. $75/week. Campers will explore the wonders of nature as they create, learn, read, play, hike, canoe, dance, sing, and have fun in an enriching safe environment. We provide a healthy snack each day.
Phone: 802-673-5638
Coutts-Moriarty Camp
Lake Salem
Derby, VT
Email: programs@siskinea.org Web: www.couttsmoriarty.com
August 4th - Summer Music From Greensboro - the Piano Trio
8:00 PM. General admission $16. Orchestra concert $18. Seniors $15. Students under 18 FREE. Season subscription $70 for 5 concerts. Come out and hear the Piano Trio - Harrison Pugh, Violin; Nicholas Dinnerstein, Cello; Mark Seelig, Piano. Music of Kahn, Anderson and Tschaikowsky.
Phone: 802-525-3291
United Church of Christ
165 Wilson St.
Greensboro, VT
Email: SummerMusicFromGreensboro@gmail.com
August 5th - – Newport Farmers Market
9 AM – 2 PM. Fresh produce, baked goods, crafts, Vermont made products and more at the Farmers Market in Newport. At the Causeway in Newport between Gazebo and COC Info Center.
August 5th - Farmer's Market - On the Green in Danville, VT
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM. The Danville Farmers Market operates from the first week in June through October, the weekly market is held on Wednesday Mornings on the Town Green. Many local gardeners and farmers will be setup every week with fresh vegetables, most picked that day. Many have signs indicating that their vegetables are organically grown. Others sell donuts and bread that they have made, yarn that they have woven, maple syrup they have processed and goat cheese that they have made. New vendors and new shoppers always welcome.
August 5th - Concerts at Bandstand Park all summer in Lyndonville
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM. Band Concerts by the Lyndon Town Band take place every Wednesday evening in Bandstand Park in Lyndonville starting in June and running through the summer.
August 5th – Moonlit Paddle on the Clyde River
7 PM. $10/adult $5/child. With its shallow, slow moving water and abundant wildlife, the Clyde River is an ideal location for paddling. Siskin staff will provide canoes, paddles, life jackets, and be your guide on two Moonlit Paddles.
Phone: 802-673-5638
Siskin Ecological Adventures
Ten Mile Square rd.
East Charleston, VT
Email: programs@siskinea.org Web: www.siskinea.org
August 6th – Full Moon Paddle
7 PM. $10. NorthWoods staff will provide a guided tour on the Clyde River where we will enjoy the summer air and abundant wildlife. Our evening will culminate with a return paddle under the light of the rising moon. Weather permitting; dress appropriately. Call or email to register. Phone: 802-723-6551 ext 112
Northwoods Stewardship Center
154 Leadership Drive
East Charleston, VT
Email: events@northwoodscenter.org Web: www.northwoodscenter.org
August 7th – Island Pond Farmers Market
Noon – 4 PM. Fresh produce, locally made products, baked goods and more…
Across from the Grace Brethren Church
640 Charleston Rd (Rte 105)
East Charleston, VT
August 7th – Hardwick Farmers Market
3 – 6 PM. Local produce, homemade goods, Vermont made crafts and more. Located at Granite Junction (b/w Aubuchon Hardware & Greensboro Garage) Rte 15 West in Hardwick.
August 7th & 8th - The Danville Fair
The tradition of the Danville Fair goes back further then most of us. The Fair is always scheduled for the first weekend in August and centers on The Town Green. This is truly a good ole’ country fair, starting with a street dance on Friday night. Saturday will begin with the parade starting at 10AM through town, and then followed by the Grand Horse Pulling as a major event drawing the best teams in the area. Other ongoing activities include carnival rides, games, fried food, home cooked food, and more food!
Web: www.danvillevt.com
August 7th & 8th - NEK Music Festival
The N.E.K fest is an intimate festival of epic proportions, capturing the dynamic and diverse sounds of larger festivals without the crowds, lines, far-away campsites, and high prices. Our crowd knows how to party and party smart. Consciousness is expected and our multi-generational audience delivers. If you know how to have a good time, and like good music, this is the fest for you. Every year you'll find hip-hop, bluegrass, funk, reggae, folk, rock, traditional, and various other types of music featured on our two stages. We generally eschew booking the Jam-Bands that are often popular with multi-headliner festivals, and instead favor a diverse musical lineup that is dynamic and danceable. Our festival includes the best bands you've never heard of, and each year our attendees discover new amazing acts that they've never seen before. Many artists go on to future success, and you'll be able to say, I saw them when...
Email: info@nekmf.com Web: www.nekmf.com
August 7th – 16th - Cole Porter's Music provides madcap mischief on the high seas
call for times and tickets. Cole Porter's Music provides an evening of delightfully madcap mischief on the high seas.
Phone: 802-334-2216
Haskell Free Library and Opera House
93 Caswell Ave.
Derby Line, VT
Web: qnekproductions@yahoo.com
August 8th – Craftsbury Old Home Day
Time TBA. The traditional Old Home Day in August with games and a parade is a highlight of the summer at Craftsbury Common.
Web: www.townofcraftsbury.com
August 8th - 2nd Annual Jay/Westfield Summer Fest
Time TBA. Come to the Annual Summer Fest! New this year, will be a Pie Judging Contest. It is free to enter. You must bring 2 pies - 1 for judges and the other to auction off after winners are announced. Details still to be worked out. Other events include but not limited to: Cow Plop 50/50 Raffle, Horseshoe Tournament at Jay Village Inn, Donate 2 cans of non-perishable food or $3 to Jay Food Shelf to receive free bottle of water - in either Jay or Westfield, Arts & Crafts Booths, Tag Sale Fundraiser, Bake Sale Fundraiser, Flea Market Tables, Food Booths, Farmers Market, Jay Volunteer Appreciation Booth, Take a walk on the Land Trust in Jay and tag and buy your Christmas Tree, Town Wide Yard Sales in Jay & Westfield, Art Show sponsored by Wooden Horse Arts Guild, Best Pie Contest, Cake Walk, Square Dance Demonstration, Silent Auction, Tug of War contest between Jay & Westfield.
Jay Town Hall
1036 VT RT 242
Jay, VT
Web: www.jayvt.com
August 8th - – Newport Farmers Market
9 AM – 2 PM. Fresh produce, baked goods, crafts, Vermont made products and more at the Farmers Market in Newport. At the Causeway in Newport between Gazebo and COC Info Center.
August 8th – St. Johnsbury Caledonia Farmers Market
9 AM – 1 PM. Locally grown, homemade baked goods, Vermont made crafts and more...Downtown St Johnsbury on Pearl St behind Bank North
August 8th – Groton Growers Summer Market
9 AM – noon. The Groton Growers Summer Market features local growers and their produce. The market runs every Saturday in Veterans Memorial Park across from the old general store in Gorton Village.
August 8th – Craftsbury Common Farmers Market
11 AM - 1 PM. Come to the Farmers Market on the Common. Get your fresh produce, Vermont made crafts and products, baked goods and more.
Craftsbury Common, VT
August 8th - 5th Annual August West Festival at Jay Peak
Noon - 6 PM. The August West festival takes place in beautiful Jay, Vermont. The organizers have put together a show that captures the whole Grateful Dead experience, although attendees need not be a Dead-Head fan per se. The headliner, Rick Redington, will be featured along with other bands at this year's festival. Ben & Jerry's will offer free ice cream and the opportunity to make your own one-of-a-kind tie-dyed tee shirt are just a couple of perks offered by the festival. Admission to the festival is free, and it kicks off at noon in the field in front of The Lodge at Jay. For more information, please call Brian Keet.
Phone: 802-327-2198
Email: bkeet@jaypeakresort.com
August 8th & 9th - The ideRide Shuttle to Kingdom Trails runs every summer weekend
9 AM – 5 PM. Come to East Burke Village any summer weekend, bring 20 bucks for the shuttle and 10 for Kingdom Trails. Single rides are $5. The ideRide shuttle service accesses Kingdom Trails, East Burke, VT, named best trail system and best flow in 2008 by Bike Magazine. ideRide offers a safe, legal and reliable ride up Burke Mountain where you can access the KT downhill trails. The shuttle carries 14 riders and will run from East Burke village to the top of Burke Mountain.
Phone: 802-535-6247
ideRide
East Burke, VT
Email: linden@ideride.com Web: www.ideride.com
August 8th & 9th - ideRide Skills Clinics for Women over 17, levels 1 - 3
Cost: $50 per person/per day. ideRide camps and clinics teach those enthusiastic about biking to; learn new riding skills, better understand bike mechanics, improve confidence, live healthy, enhance their love for the sport and camaraderie of mountain biking. Operating on the number one rated trail system in the U.S., Kingdom Trails, ideRide has customized a one of a kind professional camp program that incorporates a balance of enthusiastic, highly skilled coaches, counselors, professional riders, photographers, videographers, bike mechanics and a personal chef, helping participants to take their riding, health and exposure to the next level and beyond. With Mocean 365 professional photographers and videographers on staff, everyone gets a chance to see how they ride and watch their skills improve on film. Unique to ideRide camps, each participant receives their very own online rider profile, professionally produced by Mocean 365, that chronicles their riding throughout the week and features them riding like the pros, with the pros. Each camp ends with a feature presentation of a professionally stylized bike video, for campers and families to watch on the big screen at our weeks end dinner. Each profile, unique to every individual, will be a treasure to show family and friends or, dependent on their level of riding, to use as a tool in obtaining pro sponsorship.
Phone: 802-535-6247
ideRide
East Burke, VT
Email: linden@ideride.com Web: www.ideride.com
August 9th - Breakfast Golf Scramble at St. Johnsbury Country Club
9:00 AM Shotgun start. Breakfast scramble.
Phone: 802-748-9894
St. Johnsbury Country Club
Route 5
St. Johnsbury, VT
Web: www.thestjcc.com
August 9th - Old Stone House Day at the Old Stone House Museum
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM. Self guided tours and much more...demos of traditional skills, farmers market, old time music, kids activities, and animals. This year’s theme is, Many Roads Home: The Cultural Patchwork of Orleans County.
Phone: 802-754-2022
The Old Stone House Museum
109 Old Stone House Rd.
Brownington, VT
Web: www.oldstonehousemuseum.org
August 9th - Free Garden Skills Workshops and Garden tours
10:30 AM – 1 PM. Free Garden Skills Workshops –Sunday mornings from mid-June to mid-August. Let’s have a fun and a relaxing time together talking plants! Rachel has set this time aside to answer any questions you care to bring in, or show you a new gardening technique. We can talk about seed saving, plant propagation, plant and weed id, aphids, edibles – you name it. Free Sunday Garden Tours start at noon lasting 30-45 minutes. No charge, but please phone us first, by the day before if possible, to let us know you’re coming.
Phone: 802-472-5104
Perennial Pleasures Nursery and Tea Garden
63 Brick House Road
East Hardwick, VT
Email: annex@perennialpleasures.net Web: www.perennialpleasures.net
August 9th - Masks - an exhibit at White Water Gallery
11 AM – 3 PM. White Water Gallery showcases the work of local and regional internationally recognized artists who are living in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont and the Eastern Townships of Quebec. The name references the raging falls of the Mighty Lamoille as it carves through the village of East Hardwick. Adjacent to the Gallery is Teuscher's Antique Auto Enclave, a mini-museum of sorts that houses perhaps one of the most original collections of all steel antique customized cars in the northeast. The second show of the season features masks by noted mask-maker, Ellis Jacobson.
Phone: 802-563-2037
White Water Gallery
629 Keene Road
East Hardwick, VT
August 9th – Lyndonville Farmers Market
11:30 AM – 3 PM. Fresh local vegetables, beef, milk, baked goods and maple syrup are just some of the things we have available. We're located just beyond the Lyndonville Freighthouse in the park.
1000 Broad St.
Lyndonville, VT
August 9th - Car Talk at Teuscher's Antique Auto Enclave
1 PM. Teuscher's Antique Auto Enclave is a mini-museum of sorts that houses perhaps one of the most original collections of all steel antique customized cars in the northeast. Car Talk happens every Sunday at one o'clock noting the stories and history of rare examples of pre-WW2 manufacturing before the idea of planned obsolescence homogenized the automobile industry. Teuscher's Antique Auto Enclave
629 Keene Road
East Hardwick, VT
August 9th - Concerts On The Green in Danville every Sunday during July and August
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM. Concerts on the Green are held throughout the summer from July every Sunday through August. The concerts are sponsored by the Danville Pope Library and will feature various local bands, donations are appreciated. In the event of rain, the concerts move into the Danville United Methodist Church, also located on the Green.
August 9th – 15th - Ancient Scout Workshop
Cost: $650. For many tribes of native people, survival depended on the awareness, skill, and cunning of their scouts. The scouts held the role of protectors by being the eyes and ears of the tribe. The skills of high speed invisible survival, stealth, natural camouflage, martial arts, traps, tracking, team movement, and advanced awareness were all brought to their highest levels by the ancient scouts who protected our ancestors. This course will be an introduction to this vast world. Days will be long and filled with a variety of the previously mentioned skills, and nights will be late with nighttime exercises challenging students to apply what they have learned. Must be willing to work through demanding situations in a team and learn through edge experiences. Fast-paced, high-intensity, and as much fun as we know how to have. As well as the Roots Instructor Staff, Ben Goodrich, of New England Ninjutsu will joining us to instruct in basic Taijustsu techniques.
Phone: 802-456-1253
ROOTS School -Reclaiming Our Origins Through Traditional Skills
East Calais, VT
Email: info@rootsvt.com Web: www.rootsvt.com
August 10th - St. Johnsbury - Concerts in the Park all summer
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM. Cost: Donation. Band Concerts in the Park.
Phone: 802-748-8891
At the Bandstand
Monument Square (Main Street)
St. Johnsbury, VT
Web: www.stjohnsburyband.org
August 11th - Summer Music From Greensboro - Back to Bach
8:00 PM. General admission $16. Orchestra concert $18. Seniors $15. Students under 18 FREE. Season subscription $70 for 5 concerts. Come out and hear Chamber Orchestra perform Back to Bach - music of members of the Bach family.
Phone: 802-525-3291
United Church of Christ
165 Wilson St.
Greensboro, VT
Email: SummerMusicFromGreensboro@gmail.com
August 12th - – Newport Farmers Market
9 AM – 2 PM. Fresh produce, baked goods, crafts, Vermont made products and more at the Farmers Market in Newport. At the Causeway in Newport between Gazebo and COC Info Center.
August 12th - Farmer's Market - On the Green in Danville, VT
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM. The Danville Farmers Market operates from the first week in June through October, the weekly market is held on Wednesday Mornings on the Town Green. Many local gardeners and farmers will be setup every week with fresh vegetables, most picked that day. Many have signs indicating that their vegetables are organically grown. Others sell donuts and bread that they have made, yarn that they have woven, maple syrup they have processed and goat cheese that they have made. New vendors and new shoppers always welcome.
August 12th - Concerts at Bandstand Park all summer in Lyndonville
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM. Band Concerts by the Lyndon Town Band take place every Wednesday evening in Bandstand Park in Lyndonville starting in June and running through the summer.
August 14th – Island Pond Farmers Market
Noon – 4 PM. Fresh produce, locally made products, baked goods and more…
Across from the Grace Brethren Church
640 Charleston Rd (Rte 105)
East Charleston, VT
August 14th – Hardwick Farmers Market
3 – 6 PM. Local produce, homemade goods, Vermont made crafts and more. Located at Granite Junction (b/w Aubuchon Hardware & Greensboro Garage) Rte 15 West in Hardwick.
August 15th - The Second Annual Kingdom Triathlon
A 500 yard swim, 13 mile bike, and 5 mile run. (We hope to add a shorter youth course to help kick start the next generation of Triathletes.) Our first year was a total blast. We're ready to bring on the world to see who can beat Ryley Walker's course record of 83:00 minutes.
Phone: 802-334-8511
Web: www.kingdomtriathlon.org
August 15th - The Four Seasons Naturalist - A Field Study Experience in Jericho, VT with the Fairbanks Museum
9 AM – 3 PM. A unique exploration of the wilds of Vermont with Naturalist, Susan Morse: observing, interpreting, immersing, ourselves in the habitats that define our region. The Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium is pleased to present The Four Season Naturalist program with Susan Morse of Keeping Track, Inc. Susan Morse is a nationally recognized naturalist and habitat specialist with thirty years of experience tracking and interpreting wildlife uses of habitat. This five-part experiential workshop series begins with an evening presentation to set the stage for our four days in the field, one field day per season in Vermont. A project of the Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium in St. Johnsbury and Keeping Track, Inc of Jericho. Call or email to register or learn more.
Phone: 802-748-2372
This event takes place in the field at Wolfrun, Jericho.
Email: tholt@fairbanksmuseum.org Web: www.fairbanksmuseum.org
August 15th – Groton Growers Summer Market
9 AM – noon. The Groton Growers Summer Market features local growers and their produce. The market runs every Saturday in Veterans Memorial Park across from the old general store in Gorton Village.
August 15th – St. Johnsbury Caledonia Farmers Market
9 AM – 1 PM. Locally grown, homemade baked goods, Vermont made crafts and more...Downtown St. Johnsbury on Pearl St behind Bank North
August 15th - – Newport Farmers Market
9 AM – 2 PM. Fresh produce, baked goods, crafts, Vermont made products and more at the Farmers Market in Newport. At the Causeway in Newport between Gazebo and COC Info Center.
August 15th - NorthWoods 20th Anniversary Festival
Time: TBA. After 20 years, NorthWoods is going strong! Join us for this Open House celebration as we commemorate 20 years of education, conservation, science, and service. Enjoy local foods and crafts, live music, and displays celebrating two decades at NorthWoods.
Phone: 802-723-6551 ext 112
Northwoods Stewardship Center
154 Leadership Drive
East Charleston, VT
Email: events@northwoodscenter.org Web: www.northwoodscenter.org
August 15th – Craftsbury Common Farmers Market
11 AM - 1 PM. Come to the Farmers Market on the Common. Get your fresh produce, Vermont made crafts and products, baked goods and more.
Craftsbury Common, VT
August 15th – Maple Day at Willoughby Gap Farmstand
11 AM – 6 PM. It's Maple Day at the Farmstand! Bring the kids by for maple creamies and more. There's more than just fruits and veggies here - Homemade Pies and homemade pies to order, Homemade breads and homemade breads to order, their own beef cuts, New Story Walk and more fun things for the children. Visit the goats, the lambs, the calves, and chickens, too. Phone: 802-467-3921
Willoughby Gap Farmstand
3 Route 5A
West Burke, VT
Web: www.willoughbygap.com
August 15th - Husband-Wife Golf Tournament
1:00 PM Shotgun Start. Husband-Wife Tournament.
Phone: 802-748-9894
St. Johnsbury Country Club
Route 5
St. Johnsbury, VT
Web: www.thestjcc.com
August 15th & 16th - The ideRide Shuttle to Kingdom Trails runs every summer weekend
9 AM – 5 PM. Come to East Burke Village any summer weekend, bring 20 bucks for the shuttle and 10 for Kingdom Trails. Single rides are $5. The ideRide shuttle service accesses Kingdom Trails, East Burke, VT, named best trail system and best flow in 2008 by Bike Magazine. ideRide offers a safe, legal and reliable ride up Burke Mountain where you can access the KT downhill trails. The shuttle carries 14 riders and will run from East Burke village to the top of Burke Mountain.
Phone: 802-535-6247
ideRide
East Burke, VT
Email: linden@ideride.com Web: www.ideride.com
August 15th & 16th - Circus Smirkus 2009 Big Top Tour
Time TBA. Tickets go on sale May 1st! Every summer, a company of talented Smirkus Troupers, ages 10 to 18, go on a two-month performance tour around New England. Backed by coaches, cooks, crew, and musicians, the Troupers perform to sell-out crowds in a 750-seat European-style one-ring Big Top tent! In 2009, it's Smirkus Ever After: A Big Top Fairytale. Our talented Troupers will turn the pages on Aesop, the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen, bringing classic fairytales to life through the spectacle and enchantment of circus. It’s fee, fi, fo fun!, sure to delight circus-goers of all ages! Circus Smirkus is presented in most towns by a local non-profit youth or community organization. The ticket sales and sponsorships they raise through our performances provide a major source of income for their programs.
Phone: 1-877-SMIRKUS
Circus Smirkus
1 Circus Rd.
Greensboro, VT
Web: www.circussmirkus.org
August 16th - Free Garden Skills Workshops and Garden tours
10:30 AM – 1 PM. Free Garden Skills Workshops –Sunday mornings from mid-June to mid-August. Let’s have a fun and a relaxing time together talking plants! Rachel has set this time aside to answer any questions you care to bring in, or show you a new gardening technique. We can talk about seed saving, plant propagation, plant and weed id, aphids, edibles – you name it. Free Sunday Garden Tours start at noon lasting 30-45 minutes. No charge, but please phone us first, by the day before if possible, to let us know you’re coming.
Phone: 802-472-5104
Perennial Pleasures Nursery and Tea Garden
63 Brick House Road
East Hardwick, VT
Email: annex@perennialpleasures.net Web: www.perennialpleasures.net
August 16th - Masks - an exhibit at White Water Gallery
11 AM – 3 PM. White Water Gallery showcases the work of local and regional internationally recognized artists who are living in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont and the Eastern Townships of Quebec. The name references the raging falls of the Mighty Lamoille as it carves through the village of East Hardwick. Adjacent to the Gallery is Teuscher's Antique Auto Enclave, a mini-museum of sorts that houses perhaps one of the most original collections of all steel antique customized cars in the northeast. The second show of the season features masks by noted mask-maker, Ellis Jacobson.
Phone: 802-563-2037
White Water Gallery
629 Keene Road
East Hardwick, VT
August 16th – Lyndonville Farmers Market
11:30 AM – 3 PM. Fresh local vegetables, beef, milk, baked goods and maple syrup are just some of the things we have available. We're located just beyond the Lyndonville Freighthouse in the park.
1000 Broad St.
Lyndonville, VT
August 16th - Car Talk at Teuscher's Antique Auto Enclave
1 PM. Teuscher's Antique Auto Enclave is a mini-museum of sorts that houses perhaps one of the most original collections of all steel antique customized cars in the northeast. Car Talk happens every Sunday at one o'clock noting the stories and history of rare examples of pre-WW2 manufacturing before the idea of planned obsolescence homogenized the automobile industry. Teuscher's Antique Auto Enclave
629 Keene Road
East Hardwick, VT
August 16th - how to appreciate Black and White Photography
3 PM. Rosie Prevost, a local photographer and in-coming chairperson of the Fine Arts Department at St. Johnsbury Academy, will present a lecture on how to appreciate Black and White Photography.
Phone: 802-748-2600
Catamount Arts
115 Eastern Ave.
St. Johnsbury, VT
Web: www.catamountarts.org
August 16th - Concerts On The Green in Danville every Sunday during July and August
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM. Concerts on the Green are held throughout the summer from July every Sunday through August. The concerts are sponsored by the Danville Pope Library and will feature various local bands, donations are appreciated. In the event of rain, the concerts move into the Danville United Methodist Church, also located on the Green.
August 17th - St. Johnsbury - Concerts in the Park all summer
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM. Cost: Donation. Band Concerts in the Park.
Phone: 802-748-8891
At the Bandstand
Monument Square (Main Street)
St. Johnsbury, VT
Web: www.stjohnsburyband.org
August 18th – 22nd – Teen Scout Workshop
Cost: $550. Deposit: $150. Many native tribes world wide relied on their scouts to be the eyes and ears of the tribe. They depended on the scouts for safety and sustenance, both in times of war and in peace. A scout’s training began young, as they learned the lessons of high speed invisible survival, deep levels of tracking and counter tracking, stealth and camouflage, self defense, and of course, awesome levels of awareness. The ultimate goal of the scout was to make those around them safer because of their high levels of training. This course will begin a student’s journey into learning these potent skills. Action packed and high speed, this course will provide intense lessons into the way of the scout.
Phone: 802-456-1253
ROOTS School -Reclaiming Our Origins Through Traditional Skills
East Calais, VT
Email: info@rootsvt.com Web: www.rootsvt.com
August 19th - Farmer's Market - On the Green in Danville, VT
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM. The Danville Farmers Market operates from the first week in June through October, the weekly market is held on Wednesday Mornings on the Town Green. Many local gardeners and farmers will be setup every week with fresh vegetables, most picked that day. Many have signs indicating that their vegetables are organically grown. Others sell donuts and bread that they have made, yarn that they have woven, maple syrup they have processed and goats cheese that they have made. New vendors and new shoppers always welcome.
August 19th - – Newport Farmers Market
9 AM – 2 PM. Fresh produce, baked goods, crafts, Vermont made products and more at the Farmers Market in Newport. At the Causeway in Newport between Gazebo and COC Info Center.
August 19th - Concerts at Bandstand Park all summer in Lyndonville
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM. Band Concerts by the Lyndon Town Band take place every Wednesday evening in Bandstand Park in Lyndonville starting in June and running through the summer.
August 19th – 21st - Northern Waters Canoe Trip
Cost $300/pp Limit 12. Join NorthWoods on a canoeing adventure and explore the natural beauty of the Northern Forest. Our skilled staff will lead this exciting multi-day canoe trip and provide paddling instruction, water safety tips, excellent backcountry meals, and insight into the region’s unique natural and cultural history. Enjoy first-rate flatwater paddling, remote waterside camping, and excellent wildlife viewing as we explore Lake Umbagog and the Magalloway and Androscoggin Rivers in northern New Hampshire. (Early Bird Discount: $275/pp before July 1). Call or email to register.
Phone: 802-723-6551 ext 112
Northwoods Stewardship Center
154 Leadership Drive
East Charleston, VT
Email: events@northwoodscenter.org Web: www.northwoodscenter.org
August 19th – 23rd – 142nd Annual Orleans County Fair
Join us in the tradition of the 142nd Orleans County Fair located just off Interstate 91 (exit 25) in the Northeast Kingdom's scenic Barton, Vermont. This is an old-time agricultural county fair with entertainment and fun for the entire family. Children one year of age to 100 will enjoy the animal exhibits and judging shows; (horse shows, horse pulls, horse harness racing, gymkhana, dairy cattle shows, beef shows, oxen show, ox pulling, milking parlor demonstrations, sheep shows, petting zoo, poultry exhibit, rabbit exhibit, alpaca exhibit). Other agricultural displays include; horticulture display, arts & crafts, wool spinning, farm machinery dealer display, antique farm machinery. The evening entertainment is comprised of 4x4 truck pulling, music, and the Demolition Derby. Experience a historic county fair in a picturesque setting snuggled in rural Vermont. See Website for complete schedule of events.
Web: www.orleanscountyfair.org
August 20th – Ladies 9-hole Fun Night at St. Johnsbury Country Club
5:00 pm Shotgun Start. Ladies 9-hole Fun Night.
Phone: 802-748-9894
St. Johnsbury Country Club
Route 5
St. Johnsbury, VT
Web: www.thestjcc.com
August 21st – Island Pond Farmers Market
Noon – 4 PM. Fresh produce, locally made products, baked goods and more…
Across from the Grace Brethren Church
640 Charleston Rd (Rte 105)
East Charleston, VT
August 21st – Hardwick Farmers Market
3 – 6 PM. Local produce, homemade goods, Vermont made crafts and more. Located at Granite Junction (b/w Aubuchon Hardware & Greensboro Garage) Rte 15 West in Hardwick.
August 22nd - Burke Mountain Birding
Meet at 6 a.m. at White's/Agway parking lot in Lyndonville at exit 23 off I-91. We'll hike up from lower lodge area to the top of Burke Mountain. For more information or to register for NEK Audubon trips email or call Tom at (802)626-9071. We go regardless of the weather (unless weather would in some way pose a danger). Dress appropriately!
Email: blackpoll@myfairpoint.net. Web: www.nekaudubon.org
August 22nd – Groton Growers Summer Market
9 AM – noon. The Groton Growers Summer Market features local growers and their produce. The market runs every Saturday in Veterans Memorial Park across from the old general store in Gorton Village.
August 22nd – St. Johnsbury Caledonia Farmers Market
9 AM – 1 PM. Locally grown, homemade baked goods, Vermont made crafts and more...Downtown St Johnsbury on Pearl St behind Bank North
August 22nd - – Newport Farmers Market
9 AM – 2 PM. Fresh produce, baked goods, crafts, Vermont made products and more at the Farmers Market in Newport. At the Causeway in Newport between Gazebo and COC Info Center.
August 22nd - Living on the Land Series: Plant Sex and Seed Saving
9:30 AM – 1 PM. (Rain date: Sat. August 29th) $20, plus $2 materials fee; Pre-registration Required. Over 250,000 species of plants, including most culinary and medicinal garden plants, produce seeds. Until recently most gardeners saved their own seeds to plant, trade, gift, sell, and pass on from generation to generation. Join local gardener Penelope Newcomb in her garden to learn to harvest, wet and dry process, clean and store the seeds of many garden vegetables and herbs. We will discuss the structure and function of flowers, vectors of pollination, isolation distances, the importance of genetic diversity, and more. Please bring a bag lunch!
Call or email to register.
Phone: 802-723-6551 ext 115
Northwoods Stewardship Center
154 Leadership Drive
East Charleston, VT
Email: emily@northwoodscenter.org Web: www.northwoodscenter.org
August 22nd – Craftsbury Common Farmers Market
11 AM - 1 PM. Come to the Farmers Market on the Common. Get your fresh produce, Vermont made crafts and products, baked goods and more.
Craftsbury Common, VT
August 22nd & 23rd - The ideRide Shuttle to Kingdom Trails runs every summer weekend
9 AM – 5 PM. Come to East Burke Village any summer weekend, bring 20 bucks for the shuttle and 10 for Kingdom Trails. Single rides are $5. The ideRide shuttle service accesses Kingdom Trails, East Burke, VT, named best trail system and best flow in 2008 by Bike Magazine. ideRide offers a safe, legal and reliable ride up Burke Mountain where you can access the KT downhill trails. The shuttle carries 14 riders and will run from East Burke village to the top of Burke Mountain.
Phone: 802-535-6247
ideRide
East Burke, VT
Email: linden@ideride.com Web: www.ideride.com
August 23rd - Masks - an exhibit at White Water Gallery
11 AM – 3 PM. White Water Gallery showcases the work of local and regional internationally recognized artists who are living in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont and the Eastern Townships of Quebec. The name references the raging falls of the Mighty Lamoille as it carves through the village of East Hardwick. Adjacent to the Gallery is Teuscher's Antique Auto Enclave, a mini-museum of sorts that houses perhaps one of the most original collections of all steel antique customized cars in the northeast. The second show of the season features masks by noted mask-maker, Ellis Jacobson.
Phone: 802-563-2037
White Water Gallery
629 Keene Road
East Hardwick, VT
August 23rd – Lyndonville Farmers Market
11:30 AM – 3 PM. Fresh local vegetables, beef, milk, baked goods and maple syrup are just some of the things we have available. We're located just beyond the Lyndonville Freighthouse in the park.
1000 Broad St.
Lyndonville, VT
August 23rd - Car Talk at Teuscher's Antique Auto Enclave
1 PM. Teuscher's Antique Auto Enclave is a mini-museum of sorts that houses perhaps one of the most original collections of all steel antique customized cars in the northeast. Car Talk happens every Sunday at one o'clock noting the stories and history of rare examples of pre-WW2 manufacturing before the idea of planned obsolescence homogenized the automobile industry. Teuscher's Antique Auto Enclave
629 Keene Road
East Hardwick, VT
August 23rd - Concerts On the Green in Danville every Sunday during July and August
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM. Concerts on the Green are held throughout the summer from July every Sunday through August. The concerts are sponsored by the Danville Pope Library and will feature various local bands, donations are appreciated. In the event of rain, the concerts move into the Danville United Methodist Church, also located on the Green.
August 26th - Farmer's Market - On the Green in Danville, VT
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM. The Danville Farmers Market operates from the first week in June through October, the weekly market is held on Wednesday Mornings on the Town Green. Many local gardeners and farmers will be setup every week with fresh vegetables, most picked that day. Many have signs indicating that their vegetables are organically grown. Others sell donuts and bread that they have made, yarn that they have woven, maple syrup they have processed and goats cheese that they have made. New vendors and new shoppers always welcome.
August 26th - – Newport Farmers Market
9 AM – 2 PM. Fresh produce, baked goods, crafts, Vermont made products and more at the Farmers Market in Newport. At the Causeway in Newport between Gazebo and COC Info Center.
August 26th - Concerts at Bandstand Park all summer in Lyndonville
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM. Band Concerts by the Lyndon Town Band take place every Wednesday evening in Bandstand Park in Lyndonville starting in June and running through the summer.
August 26th – 30th – Caledonia County Fair
A good ole' fashioned county fair! Big Aerial Show, 4-H Exhibits, Antique Demo and Display, Cattle/Sheep/Poultry/Aquarium Exhibits, Floral Hall and Craft Exhibits, Maple Display, Alpaca Demonstrations, Ways of the Woods, Kirby Quilters Country Store, Children's Freedom Train, Trout Pond/Wildlife Display and more.
Web: www.vtfair.com
August 28th – Island Pond Farmers Market
Noon – 4 PM. Fresh produce, locally made products, baked goods and more…
Across from the Grace Brethren Church
640 Charleston Rd (Rte 105)
East Charleston, VT
August 28th – Hardwick Farmers Market
3 – 6 PM. Local produce, homemade goods, Vermont made crafts and more. Located at Granite Junction (b/w Aubuchon Hardware & Greensboro Garage) Rte 15 West in Hardwick.
August 29th - 18th Annual Moose Festival in Canaan
7 AM – 3 PM. Celebrate Moose starting with a Moose Lovers Breakfast! Fun and Entertainment for the whole family. Arts and Crafts, Bands, Auto Show, Photography Contest, pony rides, dog show, moose calling contest and more...
Canaan Community Park
Canaan, VT
Web: www.northcountrychamber.org/MooseFestival.htm
August 29th - 17th Annual Echo Lake Road Race
9 AM start, with registration from 8- 8:45 AM. Cost: $20.00 (Free T-shirt if you register by August 20). Options: 5 or 10 mile run, or 10 mile bike, or 5 mile fun walk - all on dirt roads.
Event to benefit the Orleans County Citizen Advocacy, a nonprofit group that matches community volunteers with people with disabilities in one-to-one relationships of friendship and advocacy. For more info call 802 525 6212, or write Joan Alexander, 2513 Glover St., Glover, VT 05839.
Meet at the Echo Lake Fishing Access
East Charleston, VT
Web: http://www.interlog.com/~jedward/EchoLake.html
August 29th – Groton Growers Summer Market
9 AM – noon. The Groton Growers Summer Market features local growers and their produce. The market runs every Saturday in Veterans Memorial Park across from the old general store in Gorton Village.
August 29th – St. Johnsbury Caledonia Farmers Market
9 AM – 1 PM. Locally grown, homemade baked goods, Vermont made crafts and more...Downtown St Johnsbury on Pearl St behind Bank North
August 29th - – Newport Farmers Market
9 AM – 2 PM. Fresh produce, baked goods, crafts, Vermont made products and more at the Farmers Market in Newport. At the Causeway in Newport between Gazebo and COC Info Center.
August 29th - Living on the Land Series: Fall Wild Edibles
10 AM – 3 PM. $15. Pete Rodin - Northeast Kingdom resident, naturalist, and founder of the Northern Exposure Guide Service - will again share his knowledge about local wild edible plants, now focusing on species that ripen in late summer/ early fall. Learn where to search for the choicest fruits, roots and mushrooms; identification techniques; and tips for sustainable harvest and preparation. Take a break from your garden and learn how to partake of the natural greenery all around us. Please bring a bag lunch, waterproof footwear, and your favorite plant field guide (optional). Space is limited – register early. Call or email to register.
Phone: 802-723-6551 ext 115
Northwoods Stewardship Center
154 Leadership Drive
East Charleston, VT
Email: events@northwoodscenter.org Web: www.northwoodscenter.org
August 29th – Craftsbury Common Farmers Market
11 AM - 1 PM. Come to the Farmers Market on the Common. Get your fresh produce, Vermont made crafts and products, baked goods and more.
Craftsbury Common, VT
August 29th & 30th - The ideRide Shuttle to Kingdom Trails runs every summer weekend
9 AM – 5 PM. Come to East Burke Village any summer weekend, bring 20 bucks for the shuttle and 10 for Kingdom Trails. Single rides are $5. The ideRide shuttle service accesses Kingdom Trails, East Burke, VT, named best trail system and best flow in 2008 by Bike Magazine. ideRide offers a safe, legal and reliable ride up Burke Mountain where you can access the KT downhill trails. The shuttle carries 14 riders and will run from East Burke village to the top of Burke Mountain.
Phone: 802-535-6247
ideRide
East Burke, VT
Email: linden@ideride.com Web: www.ideride.com
August 30th – Lyndonville Farmers Market
11:30 AM – 3 PM. Fresh local vegetables, beef, milk, baked goods and maple syrup are just some of the things we have available. We're located just beyond the Lyndonville Freighthouse in the park.
1000 Broad St.
Lyndonville, VT
August 30th - Car Talk at Teuscher's Antique Auto Enclave
1 PM. Teuscher's Antique Auto Enclave is a mini-museum of sorts that houses perhaps one of the most original collections of all steel antique customized cars in the northeast. Car Talk happens every Sunday at one o'clock noting the stories and history of rare examples of pre-WW2 manufacturing before the idea of planned obsolescence homogenized the automobile industry. Teuscher's Antique Auto Enclave
629 Keene Road
East Hardwick, VT
August 30th - Medicinal Herbs 101
1 – 4 PM. $15. Herbal medicine is the original form of health care and the basis of much of our modern pharmacopeia. This workshop will introduce the world of herbal medicine with experienced herbalist Sarah Damsell. Empower yourself and improve your well being by learning the basics of herbal medicine-making using familiar local plants. Learn tips on proper harvesting, storing, and preparing herbs. Take an identification walk, bring home the tincture that you made, and begin to experience the benefits of herbal home health care. Call or email to register.
Phone: 802-723-6551 ext 112
Northwoods Stewardship Center
154 Leadership Drive
East Charleston, VT
Email: events@northwoodscenter.org Web: www.northwoodscenter.org
August 30th - Concerts On The Green in Danville every Sunday during July and August
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM. Concerts on the Green are held throughout the summer from July every Sunday through August. The concerts are sponsored by the Danville Pope Library and will feature various local bands, donations are appreciated. In the event of rain, the concerts move into the Danville United Methodist Church, also located on the Green.
SEPTEMBER
September 2nd - Jumping Mouse Program
8 AM – 4 PM. Cost: $1500. The Jumping Mouse program facilitates a deep connection with the land and a practical understanding of key concepts of ecology. Children learn thru games, wildlife tracking, stories, “expeditions”, wilderness survival skills, group initiative challenges, and sensory awareness/direct observation. The Jumping Mouse program curriculum emphasizes direct interaction and exploration of the natural world, creative problem-solving, teamwork, playful exploration, as well as journaling, drawing, and storytelling as tools for integrating lessons and experiences.
Phone: 802-456-1253
ROOTS School -Reclaiming Our Origins Through Traditional Skills
East Calais, VT
Email: info@rootsvt.com Web: www.rootsvt.com
September 2nd - Clovis Program
8 AM - 4 PM. Cost: $1500. The Clovis people were the great masters of the hunt, living through the last ice age 12,000 years ago through their skill, strength, and community. The Clovis Program is focused on the ancient human lineage of hunting and tracking and the lessons it has to teach us. The program takes place on location at Roots School, one day a week, from September to June. Each week the students will be guided to further their education of indigenous hunting including: - Hunting Ethics and Caretaking - Wildlife Tracking - Bird Language - Ecology and Natural History - Primitive Weapons-Throwing Sticks, Atl-Atls, Bows, Spears, Bolas, Slings - Survival Traps-Deadfalls and Snares - Skinning, Cleaning, and Processing Game - Hearth Cooking - Hide Tanning - Leather Working - Bone Carving & more… It is the mission of the Clovis Program to bring children on the cusp of being young adults into a deeper relationship with their communities, both wild and human, through the roll of the provider. In learning these skills students may cultivate personal strength and understanding of oneself such as it has been across the earth and the ages.
Phone: 802-456-1253
ROOTS School -Reclaiming Our Origins Through Traditional Skills
East Calais, VT
Email: info@rootsvt.com Web: www.rootsvt.com
September 2nd - Farmer's Market - On the Green in Danville, VT
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM. The Danville Farmers Market operates from the first week in June through October, the weekly market is held on Wednesday Mornings on the Town Green. Many local gardeners and farmers will be setup every week with fresh vegetables, most picked that day. Many have signs indicating that their vegetables are organically grown. Others sell donuts and bread that they have made, yarn that they have woven, maple syrup they have processed and goats cheese that they have made. New vendors and new shoppers always welcome.
September 2nd – Newport Farmers Market
9 AM – 2 PM. Fresh produce, baked goods, crafts, Vermont made products and more at the Farmers Market in Newport. At the Causeway in Newport between Gazebo and COC Info Center.
September 2nd - Concerts at Bandstand Park all summer in Lyndonville
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM. Band Concerts by the Lyndon Town Band take place every Wednesday evening in Bandstand Park in Lyndonville starting in June and running through the summer.
September 3rd - The Catalyst Program
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM. Tuition: $1,500 Deposit: $300 is due the time of registration. The balance of the tuition can then be paid either at the start of the program, or in three trimester payments of $400 throughout the year. The Catalyst Program is designed to mentor students in their journey to their ancestral birthright: a deeper knowledge of self though the practice of primitive survival, connection to the land base, and the pursuit of greater internal and external awareness. The four main goals of the Catalyst Program are: To teach teenagers practical wilderness skills. To expand student’s knowledge and awareness of the living world around them. To refine and develop their creativity and innate problem-solving abilities both primitive and modern context. To enrich their land ethic and sense of place. Each day at Catalyst includes the following Program Elements: Naturalist Study and Training Students explore nature through first-hand interactions, direct observation and focused field guide research. Discoveries are documented in the student’s nature journal through writing, drawing, and photography. Students will choose, research, design, and make several projects throughout the year. All of these elements are focused into a cohesive year long curriculum which also includes three overnights and three field trips spaced throughout the year. Catalyst’s maximum enrollment is limited to ten to ensure low student to instructor ratios. The program takes place on location at Roots School and offers students access to the facilities and land. Occasionally local experts and guest instructors will join us to add breadth and dimension to our teachings.
Phone: 802-456-1253
ROOTS School -Reclaiming Our Origins Through Traditional Skills
East Calais, VT
Email: info@rootsvt.com Web: www.rootsvt.com
September 4th – Island Pond Farmers Market
Noon – 4 PM. Fresh produce, locally made products, baked goods and more…
Across from the Grace Brethren Church
640 Charleston Rd (Rte 105)
East Charleston, VT
September 4th – Hardwick Farmers Market
3 – 6 PM. Local produce, homemade goods, Vermont made crafts and more. Located at Granite Junction (b/w Aubuchon Hardware & Greensboro Garage) Rte 15 West in Hardwick.
September 4th – Moonlit Paddle on the Clyde River
6:30 PM. $10/adult $5/child. With its shallow, slow moving water and abundant wildlife, the Clyde River is an ideal location for paddling. Siskin staff will provide canoes, paddles, life jackets, and be your guide on two Moonlit Paddles.
Phone: 802-673-5638
Siskin Ecological Adventures
Ten Mile Square rd.
East Charleston, VT
Email: programs@siskinea.org Web: www.siskinea.org
September 5th – Groton Growers Summer Market
9 AM – noon. The Groton Growers Summer Market features local growers and their produce. The market runs every Saturday in Veterans Memorial Park across from the old general store in Gorton Village.
September 5th – St. Johnsbury Caledonia Farmers Market
9 AM – 1 PM. Locally grown, homemade baked goods, Vermont made crafts and more...Downtown St Johnsbury on Pearl St behind Bank North
September 5th – Newport Farmers Market
9 AM – 2 PM. Fresh produce, baked goods, crafts, Vermont made products and more at the Farmers Market in Newport. At the Causeway in Newport between Gazebo and COC Info Center
September 5th – Craftsbury Common Farmers Market
11 AM - 1 PM. Come to the Farmers Market on the Common. Get your fresh produce, Vermont made crafts and products, baked goods and more.
Craftsbury Common, VT
September 5th - Rebecca Hall & Ken Anderson perform in Brighton State Park
5 PM. Price: Free w/ park admission. Rebecca Hall’s compositions don’t so much ignore modern songcraft as transcend it. Combined with husband Ken Anderson’s old-school musical arrangements and ‘60s-era pop harmonies, the result is an altogether new, yet curiously familiar, style they call retro folk.
Phone: 802-723-4360
Brighton State Park
102 State Park Rd.
Island Pond VT
September 5th & 6th - The ideRide Shuttle to Kingdom Trails runs every summer weekend
9 AM – 5 PM. Come to East Burke Village any summer weekend, bring 20 bucks for the shuttle and 10 for Kingdom Trails. Single rides are $5. The ideRide shuttle service accesses Kingdom Trails, East Burke, VT, named best trail system and best flow in 2008 by Bike Magazine. ideRide offers a safe, legal and reliable ride up Burke Mountain where you can access the KT downhill trails. The shuttle carries 14 riders and will run from East Burke village to the top of Burke Mountain.
Phone: 802-535-6247
ideRide
East Burke, VT
Email: linden@ideride.com Web: www.ideride.com
September 6th – Lyndonville Farmers Market
11:30 AM – 3 PM. Fresh local vegetables, beef, milk, baked goods and maple syrup are just some of the things we have available. We're located just beyond the Lyndonville Freighthouse in the park.
1000 Broad St.
Lyndonville, VT
September 6th - Car Talk at Teuscher's Antique Auto Enclave
1 PM. Teuscher's Antique Auto Enclave is a mini-museum of sorts that houses perhaps one of the most original collections of all steel antique customized cars in the northeast. Car Talk happens every Sunday at one o'clock noting the stories and history of rare examples of pre-WW2 manufacturing before the idea of planned obsolescence homogenized the automobile industry. Teuscher's Antique Auto Enclave
629 Keene Road
East Hardwick, VT
September 9th - Jumping Mouse Program
8 AM – 4 PM. Cost: $1500, available in payments. Deposit: $300 at registration. Beginning September 2009, Wednesdays, 8-4. Schedule TBA. The Roots School Jumping Mouse program facilitates a deep connection with the land and a practical understanding of key concepts of ecology. Children learn thru games, wildlife tracking, stories, “expeditions”, wilderness survival skills, group initiative challenges, and sensory awareness/direct observation. Students gain physical skills, such as the safe and effective use of tools, and the harvest, preparation and use of nature’s materials in order to make useful and beautiful projects from the land. Children also develop awareness skills, such as critical observation and synthesis of sensory information. The Jumping Mouse program curriculum emphasizes direct interaction and exploration of the natural world, creative problem-solving, teamwork, playful exploration, as well as journaling, drawing, and storytelling as tools for integrating lessons and experiences.
Phone: 802-456-1253
ROOTS School -Reclaiming Our Origins Through Traditional Skills
East Calais, VT
Email: info@rootsvt.com Web: www.rootsvt.com
September 9th - Clovis Program
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM. Cost: $1500. The Clovis people were the great masters of the hunt, living through the last ice age 12,000 years ago through their skill, strength, and community. The Clovis Program is focused on the ancient human lineage of hunting and tracking and the lessons it has to teach us. The program takes place on location at Roots School, one day a week, from September to June. Each week the students will be guided to further their education of indigenous hunting including: - Hunting Ethics and Caretaking - Wildlife Tracking - Bird Language - Ecology and Natural History - Primitive Weapons-Throwing Sticks, Atl-Atls, Bows, Spears, Bolas, Slings - Survival Traps-Deadfalls and Snares - Skinning, Cleaning, and Processing Game - Hearth Cooking - Hide Tanning - Leather Working - Bone Carving & more… It is the mission of the Clovis Program to bring children on the cusp of being young adults into a deeper relationship with their communities, both wild and human, through the roll of the provider. In learning these skills students may cultivate personal strength and understanding of oneself such as it has been across the earth and the ages.
Phone: 802-456-1253
ROOTS School -Reclaiming Our Origins Through Traditional Skills
East Calais, VT
Email: info@rootsvt.com Web: www.rootsvt.com
September 9th - Farmer's Market - On the Green in Danville, VT
9 AM - noon. The Danville Farmers Market operates from the first week in June through October, the weekly market is held on Wednesday Mornings on the Town Green. Many local gardeners and farmers will be setup every week with fresh vegetables, most picked that day. Many have signs indicating that their vegetables are organically grown. Others sell donuts and bread that they have made, yarn that they have woven, maple syrup they have processed and goats cheese that they have made. New vendors and new shoppers always welcome.
September 9th – Newport Farmers Market
9 AM – 2 PM. Fresh produce, baked goods, crafts, Vermont made products and more at the Farmers Market in Newport. At the Causeway in Newport between Gazebo and COC Info Center
September 10th - The Catalyst Program
8 AM - 4 PM. Tuition: $1,500 Deposit: $300 is due the time of registration. The balance of the tuition can then be paid either at the start of the program, or in three trimester payments of $400 throughout the year. The Catalyst Program is designed to mentor students in their journey to their ancestral birthright: a deeper knowledge of self though the practice of primitive survival, connection to the land base, and the pursuit of greater internal and external awareness. The four main goals of the Catalyst Program are: To teach teenagers practical wilderness skills. To expand student’s knowledge and awareness of the living world around them. To refine and develop their creativity and innate problem-solving abilities both primitive and modern context. To enrich their land ethic and sense of place. Each day at Catalyst includes the following Program Elements: Naturalist Study and Training Students explore nature through first-hand interactions, direct observation and focused field guide research. Discoveries are documented in the student’s nature journal through writing, drawing, and photography. Students will choose, research, design, and make several projects throughout the year. All of these elements are focused into a cohesive year long curriculum which also includes three overnights and three field trips spaced throughout the year. Catalyst’s maximum enrollment is limited to ten to ensure low student to instructor ratios. The program takes place on location at Roots School and offers students access to the facilities and land. Occasionally local experts and guest instructors will join us to add breadth and dimension to our teachings.
Phone: 802-456-1253
ROOTS School -Reclaiming Our Origins Through Traditional Skills
East Calais, VT
Email: info@rootsvt.com Web: www.rootsvt.com
September 10th - Ladies Best Ball and Luncheon at Orleans Country Club
9:30 AM shotgun start. Two-women best ball tournament open to all clubs. One of the most incredible collection of prizes. Tournament also is planned around an annual fun-filled theme.
Phone: 802-754-2333
Orleans Country Club
316 Country Club Lane
Orleans, VT
Email: irene@pshift.com Web: www.orleanscc.com
September 10th & 11th - Tracking & Awareness
Cost: $200.Arguably the oldest human science, tracking takes human cerebral abilities to their ultimate limits. So much more than simply answering questions, tracking is an entirely new way of looking at the world. This class is directed at hunters, naturalists, and any and all who love to read the stories of wild in the earth beneath their feet. The class will cover the basics of tracking such as clear print identification, gait studies and interpretation, sign tracking, cluster tracking and much more. We will spend time looking at compression tracks and learning to track in different substrates. As well as tracking we will be discussing the importance of awareness and learn ancient techniques of how to open your senses to the world around you and observe a greater depth in the forests.
Phone: 802-456-1253
ROOTS School -Reclaiming Our Origins Through Traditional Skills
East Calais, VT
Email: info@rootsvt.com Web: www.rootsvt.com
September 11th – Island Pond Farmers Market
Noon – 4 PM. Fresh produce, locally made products, baked goods and more…
Across from the Grace Brethren Church
640 Charleston Rd (Rte 105)
East Charleston, VT
September 11th – Hardwick Farmers Market
3 – 6 PM. Local produce, homemade goods, Vermont made crafts and more. Located at Granite Junction (b/w Aubuchon Hardware & Greensboro Garage) Rte 15 West in Hardwick.
September 12th – Groton Growers Summer Market
9 AM – noon. The Groton Growers Summer Market features local growers and their produce. The market runs every Saturday in Veterans Memorial Park across from the old general store in Gorton Village.
September 12th – St. Johnsbury Caledonia Farmers Market
9 AM – 1 PM. Locally grown, homemade baked goods, Vermont made crafts and more...Downtown St Johnsbury on Pearl St behind Bank North
September 12th – Newport Farmers Market
9 AM – 2 PM. Fresh produce, baked goods, crafts, Vermont made products and more at the Farmers Market in Newport. At the Causeway in Newport between Gazebo and COC Info Center.
September 12th – Craftsbury Common Farmers Market
11 AM - 1 PM. Come to the Farmers Market on the Common. Get your fresh produce, Vermont made crafts and products, baked goods and more.
Craftsbury Common, VT
September 12th - The 2nd Annual Woodsman Competition
Time TBA. A fun-filled and spirited competition in the best of the NEK’s grand logging traditions cross cut saw, four dot split, pulp toss, log rolling (in the pool) and more with four divisions: Fire Departments, Loggers, Law Enforcement, and Open. Some serious cash prizes for the winning teams. This event is run in conjunction with the Second Annual Northern Vermont Outdoor Recreation and Sportsman Show.
Phone: 802-334-8511
IROC
400 Quarry Rd.
Derby, VT
Web: www.woodsmancompetition.org
September 12th & 13th - The ideRide Shuttle to Kingdom Trails runs every weekend
9 AM – 5 PM. Come to East Burke Village any summer weekend, bring 20 bucks for the shuttle and 10 for Kingdom Trails. Single rides are $5. The ideRide shuttle service accesses Kingdom Trails, East Burke, VT, named best trail system and best flow in 2008 by Bike Magazine. ideRide offers a safe, legal and reliable ride up Burke Mountain where you can access the KT downhill trails. The shuttle carries 14 riders and will run from East Burke village to the top of Burke Mountain.
Phone: 802-535-6247
ideRide
East Burke, VT
Email: linden@ideride.com Web: www.ideride.com
September 12th & 13th - Advanced Tracking & Awareness
Cost: $200.This new class builds directly on the experience and information of our Tracking and Awareness Class. Tracking is much like learning to read. In the first class, we teach the alphabet and begin to look at how the words are put together. In this class we begin to turn the words into sentences by learning techniques and ancient understandings for seeing more in each track and sign we encounter. Advanced gait interpretation and basic pressure release studies, track aging, and compression tracking on increasingly difficult substrates will push students to new levels of tracking ability. The intensive tracking will be complimented by a wide range of awareness exercises allowing us to experience the natural world in new ways, from minute to majestic.
Phone: 802-456-1253
ROOTS School -Reclaiming Our Origins Through Traditional Skills
East Calais, VT
Email: info@rootsvt.com Web: www.rootsvt.com
September 12th & 13th - Fall Scott Best Ball at Orleans Country Club
A spin off from the Charlie Scott held in the spring. This is a men's two-day event open to all clubs. A two-man best ball format which includes a Friday practice round. Flights determined by combined handicap indexes with adjustments.
Phone: (802) 754-2333
Orleans Country Club
316 Country Club Lane
Orleans, VT
Email: irene@pshift.com Web: www.orleanscc.com
September 13th - 2nd Annual Town of Jay Golf Tournament at Jay Peak Resort
2nd Annual Golf tournament to benefit the Jay Focus Group Land Trust Committee, the Jay Town Hall Community Center Committee and the Jay Area Community Food Shelf.
Jay Peak Resort
Route 242
Jay, VT
Web: www.jaypeakresort.com
September 13th – Lyndonville Farmers Market
11:30 AM – 3 PM. Fresh local vegetables, beef, milk, baked goods and maple syrup are just some of the things we have available. We're located just beyond the Lyndonville Freighthouse in the park.
1000 Broad St.
Lyndonville, VT
September 13th - Car Talk at Teuscher's Antique Auto Enclave
1 PM. Teuscher's Antique Auto Enclave is a mini-museum of sorts that houses perhaps one of the most original collections of all steel antique customized cars in the northeast. Car Talk happens every Sunday at one o'clock noting the stories and history of rare examples of pre-WW2 manufacturing before the idea of planned obsolescence homogenized the automobile industry. Teuscher's Antique Auto Enclave
629 Keene Road
East Hardwick, VT
September 14th – 19th - Photovoltaic Design and Installation
A popular 6-day workshop covering all aspects of photovoltaics, beginning with electricity basics and continuing through safety procedures, site analysis, system sizing, components, wiring, installation, operations, and maintenance. The course culminates with the installation of a PV system. Call or email to register.
Phone: 802-723-6551 ext 113
Northwoods Stewardship Center
154 Leadership Drive
East Charleston, VT
Email: jayson@northwoodscenter.org Web: www.northwoodscenter.org
September 16th - Jumping Mouse Program
8 AM – 4 PM. Cost: $1500, available in payments. Deposit: $300 at registration. Beginning September 2009, Wednesdays, 8-4. Schedule TBA. The Roots School Jumping Mouse program facilitates a deep connection with the land and a practical understanding of key concepts of ecology. Children learn thru games, wildlife tracking, stories, “expeditions”, wilderness survival skills, group initiative challenges, and sensory awareness/direct observation. Students gain physical skills, such as the safe and effective use of tools, and the harvest, preparation and use of nature’s materials in order to make useful and beautiful projects from the land. Children also develop awareness skills, such as critical observation and synthesis of sensory information. The Jumping Mouse program curriculum emphasizes direct interaction and exploration of the natural world, creative problem-solving, teamwork, playful exploration, as well as journaling, drawing, and storytelling as tools for integrating lessons and experiences.
Phone: 802-456-1253
ROOTS School -Reclaiming Our Origins Through Traditional Skills
East Calais, VT
Email: info@rootsvt.com Web: www.rootsvt.com
September 16th - Clovis Program
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM. Cost: $1500. The Clovis people were the great masters of the hunt, living through the last ice age 12,000 years ago through their skill, strength, and community. The Clovis Program is focused on the ancient human lineage of hunting and tracking and the lessons it has to teach us. The program takes place on location at Roots School, one day a week, from September to June. Each week the students will be guided to further their education of indigenous hunting including: - Hunting Ethics and Caretaking - Wildlife Tracking - Bird Language - Ecology and Natural History - Primitive Weapons-Throwing Sticks, Atl-Atls, Bows, Spears, Bolas, Slings - Survival Traps-Deadfalls and Snares - Skinning, Cleaning, and Processing Game - Hearth Cooking - Hide Tanning - Leather Working - Bone Carving & more… It is the mission of the Clovis Program to bring children on the cusp of being young adults into a deeper relationship with their communities, both wild and human, through the roll of the provider. In learning these skills students may cultivate personal strength and understanding of oneself such as it has been across the earth and the ages.
Phone: 802-456-1253
ROOTS School -Reclaiming Our Origins Through Traditional Skills
East Calais, VT
Email: info@rootsvt.com Web: www.rootsvt.com
September 16th – Newport Farmers Market
9 AM – 2 PM. Fresh produce, baked goods, crafts, Vermont made products and more at the Farmers Market in Newport. At the Causeway in Newport between Gazebo and COC Info Center.
September 16th - Farmer's Market - On the Green in Danville, VT
9 AM - noon. The Danville Farmers Market operates from first week in June through October, the weekly market is held on Wednesday Mornings on the Town Green. Many local gardeners and farmers will be setup every week with fresh vegetables, most picked that day. Many have signs indicating that their vegetables are organically grown. Others sell donuts and bread that they have made, yarn that they have woven, maple syrup they have processed and goats cheese that they have made. New vendors and new shoppers always welcome.
September 17th - The Catalyst Program
8 AM - 4 PM. Tuition: $1,500. The Catalyst Program is designed to mentor students in their journey to their ancestral birthright: a deeper knowledge of self though the practice of primitive survival, connection to the land base, and the pursuit of greater internal and external awareness. The four main goals of the Catalyst Program are: To teach teenagers practical wilderness skills. To expand student’s knowledge and awareness of the living world around them. To refine and develop their creativity and innate problem-solving abilities both primitive and modern context. To enrich their land ethic and sense of place. Students explore nature through first-hand interactions, direct observation and focused field guide research. Discoveries are documented in the student’s nature journal through writing, drawing, and photography. Students will choose, research, design, and make several projects throughout the year. All of these elements are focused into a cohesive year long curriculum which also includes three overnights and three field trips spaced throughout the year. The program takes place on location at Roots School and offers students access to the facilities and land. Occasionally local experts and guest instructors will join us to add breadth and dimension to our teachings.
Phone: 802-456-1253
ROOTS School -Reclaiming Our Origins Through Traditional Skills
East Calais, VT
Email: info@rootsvt.com Web: www.rootsvt.com
September 18th – Island Pond Farmers Market
Noon – 4 PM. Fresh produce, locally made products, baked goods and more…
Across from the Grace Brethren Church
640 Charleston Rd (Rte 105)
East Charleston, VT
September 18th – Hardwick Farmers Market
3 – 6 PM. Local produce, homemade goods, Vermont made crafts and more. Located at Granite Junction (b/w Aubuchon Hardware & Greensboro Garage) Rte 15 West in Hardwick.
September 18th – 20th – Musical Tribute for the Anniversary of the Opera House & Library
Call for times and tickets. Tin Pan Alley provides the music for a tribute to the 105th Anniversary of the Opera House and Library.
Phone: 802-334-2216
Haskell Free Library and Opera House
93 Caswell Ave.
Derby Line, VT
Web: qnekproductions@yahoo.com
September 19th - 12th Annual Terry & Ben Claassen Memorial Northeast Kingdom Lakes Century Bike Tour
7 – 10 AM Start. Cost: $50.00 (and free T-shirt) if pre-register by September 10; $60.00 thereafter. Riders choose 25, 50, 75 or 100-mile loops on paved roads, past the Northeast Kingdom’s lakes and ponds. Benefits the Orleans County Citizen Advocacy, a nonprofit group that matches community volunteers with people with disabilities in one-to-one relationships of friendship and advocacy. Call 802-525-6212, or write Joan Alexander, 2513 Glover St., Glover, VT 05839 for more info.
All loops begin and end at Crystal Lake State Park
Barton, VT
Website: http://www.interlog.com/~jedward/century.html
September 19th - Golf Scramble for a Cystic Fibrosis Benefit
8:30AM Shotgun Start. Contact 18 Hole Foursome Scramble to benefit the 98-Mile Foundation. Call Shawn or Debbie to sign up at 802-472-6786.
Barton Golf Club
548 Telfer Hill Road
Barton, VT
Web: www.bartongolfclub.com
September 19th – Groton Growers Summer Market
9 AM – noon. The Groton Growers Summer Market features local growers and their produce. The market runs every Saturday in Veterans Memorial Park across from the old general store in Gorton Village.
September 19th – St. Johnsbury Caledonia Farmers Market
9 AM – 1 PM. Locally grown, homemade baked goods, Vermont made crafts and more...Downtown St Johnsbury on Pearl St behind Bank North
September 19th – Newport Farmers Market
9 AM – 2 PM. Fresh produce, baked goods, crafts, Vermont made products and more at the Farmers Market in Newport. At the Causeway in Newport between Gazebo and COC Info Center.
September 19th - Fairbanks Festival of Traditional Crafts
10 AM – 4 PM.Try your hand at blacksmithing or rug braiding! This is your chance to talk with traditional artisans and experts who demonstrate rural life skills, such as barrel making, bee keeping, basket weaving, sheep shearing, chair caning, and much more! Come with questions for an old-time orchardist or Abenaki herbalist. You’ll carry home a sense of the heritage and practices that have been passed through generations, from one hand to the next.
Phone: 802-748-2372
Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium
1302 Main St.
St. Johnsbury, VT
Email: info@fairbanksmuseum.org
Web: www.fairbanksmuseum.org
September 19th – Craftsbury Common Farmers Market
11 AM - 1 PM. Come to the Farmers Market on the Common. Get your fresh produce, Vermont made crafts and products, baked goods and more.
Craftsbury Common, VT
September 19th – Hayrides at Willoughby Gap Farmstand
11 AM – 6 PM. Hayrides at the Farmstand! Bring the kids by for maple creamies, a hayride and more fun. Get some fresh produce and pick your own pumpkins. Try their homemade pies and breads, and their own beef cuts. Have your photo taken with the witch or pumpkin. There's a new story walk and more fun things for the children. Visit the goats, the lambs, the calves, and chickens, too.
Phone: 802-467-3921
Willoughby Gap Farmstand
3 Route 5A
West Burke, VT
Web: www.willoughbygap.com
September 19th & 20th - The ideRide Shuttle to Kingdom Trails runs every weekend
9 AM – 5 PM. Come to East Burke Village any summer weekend, bring 20 bucks for the shuttle and 10 for Kingdom Trails. Single rides are $5. The ideRide shuttle service accesses Kingdom Trails, East Burke, VT, named best trail system and best flow in 2008 by Bike Magazine. ideRide offers a safe, legal and reliable ride up Burke Mountain where you can access the KT downhill trails. The shuttle carries 14 riders and will run from East Burke village to the top of Burke Mountain.
Phone: 802-535-6247
ideRide
East Burke, VT
Email: linden@ideride.com Web: www.ideride.com
September 19th – 20th - Flint Knapping
Cost: $200. The first evidence of human beings using rock tools is between two and three million years ago. Over such a long time the process of tool making has advanced from simple sharp edges and choppers to an art form of complexity and beauty. This class will begin the journey of flint knapping by looking into how rocks break and which ones will provide the best tools. We will cover the two main methods of shaping, direct percussion and pressure flaking. Tools and materials will be provided as we work on spalling, preforming, finishing and sharpening stone arrowheads and knives. Hand axes and large projectile points will also be demonstrated and taught.
Phone: 802-456-1253
ROOTS School -Reclaiming Our Origins Through Traditional Skills
East Calais, VT
Email: info@rootsvt.com Web: www.rootsvt.com
September 20th - Pondichery Autumn
Trip starts at 7 a.m. Meet in front of the Fairbanks Museum in St. Johnsbury, VT for car-pooling. We'll hike through the Pondichery Division refuge in NH where all the fall juveniles look alike. For more information or to register for NEK Audubon trips email or call Tom at (802)626-9071. Note: All events are subject to change so be sure to register beforehand. We go regardless of the weather (unless weather would in some way pose a danger). Dress appropriately!
Email: blackpoll@myfairpoint.net. Web: www.nekaudubon.org
September 20th - Al Bontempo Fall Classic at Orleans Country Club
Al Bontempo Fall Classic - In memory of Al Bontempo a long time OCC pro. A one-day stroke play event that is open to all clubs and players with a current USGA GHIN handicap. Eighteen-hole event with classifications. Gross/net prizes are awarded.
Phone: 802-754-2333
Orleans Country Club
316 Country Club Lane
Orleans, VT
Email: irene@pshift.com Web: www.orleanscc.com
September 20th - Barton Golf Club - Member-Guest Day
2 Person 18 Hole Combined Score format. Contact Bill King for information 802-525-1126. Please sign up in the pro shop.
Barton Golf Club
548 Telfer Hill Road
Barton, VT
Web: www.bartongolfclub.com
September 20th – Lyndonville Farmers Market
11:30 AM – 3 PM. Fresh local vegetables, beef, milk, baked goods and maple syrup are just some of the things we have available. We're located just beyond the Lyndonville Freighthouse in the park.
1000 Broad St.
Lyndonville, VT
September 20th - Car Talk at Teuscher's Antique Auto Enclave
1 PM. Teuscher's Antique Auto Enclave is a mini-museum of sorts that houses perhaps one of the most original collections of all steel antique customized cars in the northeast. Car Talk happens every Sunday at one o'clock noting the stories and history of rare examples of pre-WW2 manufacturing before the idea of planned obsolescence homogenized the automobile industry. Teuscher's Antique Auto Enclave
629 Keene Road
East Hardwick, VT
September 20th - The Art of Book Binding
3 PM. Bob Joly of the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum will offer a special presentation on The Art of Book Binding, in which he shares his experiences with the many rare and unusual volumes he has encountered over the years.
Phone: 802-748-2600
Catamount Arts
115 Eastern Ave.
St. Johnsbury, VT
Web: www.catamountarts.org
September 21st – 22nd - Flint Knapping II
Cost: $200.Prerequisite: Flint Knapping I-Basic Techniques. After establishing the basics of pressure flaking, percussion, and performing, knappers can begin to pursue a new level of skill. By looking into the past to study specific projectile point styles and beginning to learn to replicate them, knappers can bring new challenges and levels of proficiency. In this course students will learn to recognize several different types of points as well as the specific techniques needed to make them such as oblique parallel flaking, fluting, and several notching options. We also look at eccentric points as well as their value in learning precision and detail. Finally we will cover two advanced sharpening techniques to leave you with razor sharp arrowheads, atl-atl dart heads, and spear points.
Phone: 802-456-1253
ROOTS School -Reclaiming Our Origins Through Traditional Skills
East Calais, VT
Email: info@rootsvt.com Web: www.rootsvt.com
September 23rd - Jumping Mouse Program
8 AM – 4 PM. Cost: $1500, available in payments. Deposit: $300 at registration. Beginning September 2009, Wednesdays, 8-4. Schedule TBA. The Roots School Jumping Mouse program facilitates a deep connection with the land and a practical understanding of key concepts of ecology. Children learn thru games, wildlife tracking, stories, “expeditions”, wilderness survival skills, group initiative challenges, and sensory awareness/direct observation. Students gain physical skills, such as the safe and effective use of tools, and the harvest, preparation and use of nature’s materials in order to make useful and beautiful projects from the land. Children also develop awareness skills, such as critical observation and synthesis of sensory information. The Jumping Mouse program curriculum emphasizes direct interaction and exploration of the natural world, creative problem-solving, teamwork, playful exploration, as well as journaling, drawing, and storytelling as tools for integrating lessons and experiences.
Phone: 802-456-1253
ROOTS School -Reclaiming Our Origins Through Traditional Skills
East Calais, VT
Email: info@rootsvt.com Web: www.rootsvt.com
September 23rd - Clovis Program
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM. Cost: $1500. The Clovis people were the great masters of the hunt, living through the last ice age 12,000 years ago through their skill, strength, and community. The Clovis Program is focused on the ancient human lineage of hunting and tracking and the lessons it has to teach us. The program takes place on location at Roots School, one day a week, from September to June. Each week the students will be guided to further their education of indigenous hunting including: - Hunting Ethics and Caretaking - Wildlife Tracking - Bird Language - Ecology and Natural History - Primitive Weapons-Throwing Sticks, Atl-Atls, Bows, Spears, Bolas, Slings - Survival Traps-Deadfalls and Snares - Skinning, Cleaning, and Processing Game - Hearth Cooking - Hide Tanning - Leather Working - Bone Carving & more… It is the mission of the Clovis Program to bring children on the cusp of being young adults into a deeper relationship with their communities, both wild and human, through the roll of the provider. In learning these skills students may cultivate personal strength and understanding of oneself such as it has been across the earth and the ages.
Phone: 802-456-1253
ROOTS School -Reclaiming Our Origins Through Traditional Skills
East Calais, VT
Email: info@rootsvt.com Web: www.rootsvt.com
September 23rd - Farmer's Market - On the Green in Danville, VT
9 AM – noon. The Danville Farmers Market operates from the first week in June through October, the weekly market is held on Wednesday Mornings on the Town Green. Many local gardeners and farmers will be setup every week with fresh vegetables, most picked that day. Many have signs indicating that their vegetables are organically grown. Others sell donuts and bread that they have made, yarn that they have woven, maple syrup they have processed and goats cheese that they have made. New vendors and new shoppers always welcome.
September 23rd – Newport Farmers Market
9 AM – 2 PM. Fresh produce, baked goods, crafts, Vermont made products and more at the Farmers Market in Newport. At the Causeway in Newport between Gazebo and COC Info Center.
September 24th - The Catalyst Program
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM. Tuition: $1,500 The Catalyst Program is designed to mentor students in their journey to their ancestral birthright: a deeper knowledge of self though the practice of primitive survival, connection to the land base, and the pursuit of greater internal and external awareness. The four main goals of the Catalyst Program are: To teach teenagers practical wilderness skills. To expand student’s knowledge and awareness of the living world around them. To refine and develop their creativity and innate problem-solving abilities both primitive and modern context. To enrich their land ethic and sense of place. Students explore nature through first-hand interactions, direct observation and focused field guide research. Discoveries are documented in the student’s nature journal through writing, drawing, and photography. All of these elements are focused into a cohesive year long curriculum which also includes three overnights and three field trips spaced throughout the year. Catalyst’s maximum enrollment is limited to ten to ensure low student to instructor ratios. The program takes place on location at Roots School and offers students access to the facilities and land. Occasionally local experts and guest instructors will join us to add breadth and dimension to our teachings.
Phone: 802-456-1253
ROOTS School -Reclaiming Our Origins Through Traditional Skills
East Calais, VT
Email: info@rootsvt.com Web: www.rootsvt.com
September 25th – Island Pond Farmers Market
Noon – 4 PM. Fresh produce, locally made products, baked goods and more…
Across from the Grace Brethren Church
640 Charleston Rd (Rte 105)
East Charleston, VT
September 25th – Hardwick Farmers Market
3 – 6 PM. Local produce, homemade goods, Vermont made crafts and more. Located at Granite Junction (b/w Aubuchon Hardware & Greensboro Garage) Rte 15 West in Hardwick.
September 25th – 27th - Fall Rendezvous
Cost: $50 for the whole weekend includes camping and dinner on Friday and Saturday. $20 a day includes enrollment to all workshops and dinner Deposit: $20 for camping reservation. Prerequisites: None. The Roots Rendezvous is a several day event that begins on Friday afternoon at 4:00 PM on September 25, and goes all day Saturday and ends on Sunday, September 27, at 4 PM. Throughout the course of the weekend participants will be able to choose from a wide variety of workshops including: From Roots School:• Fire by Friction• Primitive Weapon Making and Throwing Arts• Hide Tanning• Wildlife Tracking• Instinctive Archery• Flint Knapping• Weaving• Shelter Making• Cordage Making• Fire Side Cooking• Stalking and Movement• Awareness Training• and more…For Children-We will be offering several workshops and adventures for children of all ages such as: Awareness Games, Tracking and Plant walks, Throwing sticks, and ancient games of skill.All Ages! Children under 16 must be accompanied by and adult. Please do not leave your children unattended. Children under 12 are Free!
Phone: 802-456-1253
ROOTS School -Reclaiming Our Origins Through Traditional Skills
East Calais, VT
Email: info@rootsvt.com Web: www.rootsvt.com
September 26th - Burke Fall Foliage Festival
Time TBA. On the last Saturday of September the village of East Burke host its annual Fall Foliage Festival. This festival is complete with arts and crafts, music, and church suppers. Join the fun at this annual popular Northeast Kingdom event which features crafts, food, games, demonstrations, and more. Sponsored by the Burke Area Chamber of Commerce.
Phone: 802-467-1266
September 26th – Golf Scramble to benefit the Glover Community Church
9 AM Shotgun start. 18 Hole Foursome Scramble to benefit the Glover Community Church. Contact Paulette Rogers for sign-up at 802-525-2030.
Barton Golf Club
548 Telfer Hill Road
Barton, VT
Web: www.bartongolfclub.com
September 26th – Groton Growers Summer Market
9 AM – noon. The Groton Growers Summer Market features local growers and their produce. The market runs every Saturday in Veterans Memorial Park across from the old general store in Gorton Village.
September 26th - Birds and Beyond: Habitat Enhancement for Bird Diversity
9: AM - noon. Registration fees: museum members: $20 per session.non-members: $25 per session. Join Fairbanks Museum's Executive Director, Charlie Browne, as he leads us into the homes and habitats of birds in our region. This program series is offered in loving memory of Fairbanks Museum Fellow, Airie Lindsay. This series of conservation workshops and field programs begins this March and integrates the life cycles, needs and habits of birds that flock to Northern New England. We'll make nest boxes, explore diverse ecosystems, study populations and demystify bird feeding. Take part in one or all of these workshops and field programs to round out your birding vocabulary...and get to know the neighbors who fly in your backyard every year! In this Fourth Session, Feeders, Foods, and Fallacies, our focus will be on the distinctive needs of migrating and wintering bird populations. We'll examine cyclical wild foods and the role of bird feeders in the conservation of bird populations. All participants will take away plans and recommendations for winter bird feeding stations.
Fairbanks Museum
1302 Main St.
St. Johnsbury, VT
Email: tholt@fairbanksmuseum.org Web: www.fairbanksmuseum.org
September 26th – St. Johnsbury Caledonia Farmers Market
9 AM – 1 PM. Locally grown, homemade baked goods, Vermont made crafts and more...Downtown St Johnsbury on Pearl St behind Bank North
September 26th – Newport Farmers Market
9 AM – 2 PM. Fresh produce, baked goods, crafts, Vermont made products and more at the Farmers Market in Newport. At the Causeway in Newport between Gazebo and COC Info Center.
September 26th – Craftsbury Common Farmers Market
11 AM - 1 PM. Come to the Farmers Market on the Common. Get your fresh produce, Vermont made crafts and products, baked goods and more.
Craftsbury Common, VT
September 26th – Hayrides at Willoughby Gap Farmstand
11 AM – 6 PM. Hayrides at the Farmstand! Bring the kids by for maple creamies, a hayride and more fun. Get some fresh produce and pick your own pumpkins. Try their homemade pies and breads, and their own beef cuts. Have your photo taken with the witch or pumpkin. There's a new story walk and more fun things for the children. Visit the goats, the lambs, the calves, and chickens, too.
Phone: 802-467-3921
Willoughby Gap Farmstand
3 Route 5A
West Burke, VT
Web: www.willoughbygap.com
September 26th - One Day Member Guest Tournament at St. Johnsbury Country Club
1:00 pm Shotgun Start. One day member guest tournament.
Phone: 802-748-9894
St. Johnsbury Country Club
Route 5
St. Johnsbury, VT
Web: www.thestjcc.com
September 26th - Newark Volunteer Fire Dept Chicken Pie Supper
5 – 7 PM. Traditional chicken pie supper to benefit the Fire Department.
Phone: 802-467-3788 or 802-467-3783
At the Newark Street School (Newark Street), Newark, VT
September 26th & 27th - The ideRide Shuttle to Kingdom Trails runs every weekend
9 AM – 5 PM. Come to East Burke Village any summer weekend, bring 20 bucks for the shuttle and 10 for Kingdom Trails. Single rides are $5. The ideRide shuttle service accesses Kingdom Trails, East Burke, VT, named best trail system and best flow in 2008 by Bike Magazine. ideRide offers a safe, legal and reliable ride up Burke Mountain where you can access the KT downhill trails. The shuttle carries 14 riders and will run from East Burke village to the top of Burke Mountain.
Phone: 802-535-6247
ideRide
East Burke, VT
Email: linden@ideride.com Web: www.ideride.com
September 27th - Breakfast Golf Scramble at St. Johnsbury Country Club
9:00 AM Shotgun start. Breakfast scramble.
Phone: 802-748-9894
St. Johnsbury Country Club
Route 5
St. Johnsbury, VT
Web: www.thestjcc.com
September 27th - 3rd Annual Art on Main in downtown Newport
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM. Artists and crafters line Main Street for your browsing and purchasing of some great arts and crafts. Performers include the Fiddleheads - a group of youngsters (ages 5 - 19) learning and performing on the fiddle, and the Green Mountain Cloggers. There's also a chilifest from noon - 2.
Main St.
Newport, VT
Web: www.memphremagogartscollaborative.com
September 27th – Lyndonville Farmers Market
11:30 AM – 3 PM. Fresh local vegetables, beef, milk, baked goods and maple syrup are just some of the things we have available. We're located just beyond the Lyndonville Freighthouse in the park.
1000 Broad St.
Lyndonville, VT
September 27th - Car Talk at Teuscher's Antique Auto Enclave
1 PM. Teuscher's Antique Auto Enclave is a mini-museum of sorts that houses perhaps one of the most original collections of all steel antique customized cars in the northeast. Car Talk happens every Sunday at one o'clock noting the stories and history of rare examples of pre-WW2 manufacturing before the idea of planned obsolescence homogenized the automobile industry. Teuscher's Antique Auto Enclave
629 Keene Road
East Hardwick, VT
September 27th - Vermont Symphony Orchestra - Made in Vermont Music Festival
7 PM. Adults $22; Seniors $18; Students $12. Autumn in Vermont signals the return of gorgeous foliage and also gorgeous music, as the Vermont Symphony Orchestra's Made in Vermont Music Festival tour visits all corners of the state. Between September 24 and October 4, Anthony Princiotti and the VSO present a program brimming with melodic riches: an arrangement of a Mozart string quartet; Bizet's charming Jeux d'enfants (Childrens' Games); and Haydn's marvelous Symphony No. 82 (The Bear). This year's world premiere commission is by Derrik Jordan, of Brattleboro, who pays tribute in his piece to the Lake Champlain Quadricentennial. Tickets: Woodknot Bookshop, Haskell Library, 802-873-3022 or visit the VSO website, www.vso.org.
Haskell Opera House
93 Caswell Ave.
Derby Line, VT
September 28th – October 4th - Fall Foliage Festival
Week-long event hosted by seven Northeast Kingdom towns.
Local history, entertainment, photo ops, church suppers, crafts and tours in Walden, Cabot, Plainfield, Peacham, Barnet, Groton and St. Johnsbury. Each has special historic and cultural background and the local volunteer hosts are pleasant and informative. Plenty of places to stay only a few miles to each town. Experience the Northeast aglow with color.
Phone: 802-563-2380
Email: nekinfo@nekchamber.com Web: www.nekchamber.com
September 30th - Jumping Mouse Program
8 AM – 4 PM. Cost: $1500, available in payments. Deposit: $300 at registration. Beginning September 2009, Wednesdays, 8-4. Schedule TBA. The Roots School Jumping Mouse program facilitates a deep connection with the land and a practical understanding of key concepts of ecology. Children learn thru games, wildlife tracking, stories, “expeditions”, wilderness survival skills, group initiative challenges, and sensory awareness/direct observation. Students gain physical skills, such as the safe and effective use of tools, and the harvest, preparation and use of nature’s materials in order to make useful and beautiful projects from the land. Children also develop awareness skills, such as critical observation and synthesis of sensory information. The Jumping Mouse program curriculum emphasizes direct interaction and exploration of the natural world, creative problem-solving, teamwork, playful exploration, as well as journaling, drawing, and storytelling as tools for integrating lessons and experiences.
Phone: 802-456-1253
ROOTS School -Reclaiming Our Origins Through Traditional Skills
East Calais, VT
Email: info@rootsvt.com Web: www.rootsvt.com
September 30th - Clovis Program
8 AM - 4 PM. Cost: $1500. The Clovis people were the great masters of the hunt, living through the last ice age 12,000 years ago through their skill, strength, and community. The Clovis Program is focused on the ancient human lineage of hunting and tracking and the lessons it has to teach us. The program takes place on location at Roots School, one day a week, from September to June. Each week the students will be guided to further their education of indigenous hunting including: - Hunting Ethics and Caretaking - Wildlife Tracking - Bird Language - Ecology and Natural History - Primitive Weapons-Throwing Sticks, Atl-Atls, Bows, Spears, Bolas, Slings - Survival Traps-Deadfalls and Snares - Skinning, Cleaning, and Processing Game - Hearth Cooking - Hide Tanning - Leather Working - Bone Carving & more… It is the mission of the Clovis Program to bring children on the cusp of being young adults into a deeper relationship with their communities, both wild and human, through the roll of the provider. In learning these skills students may cultivate personal strength and understanding of oneself such as it has been across the earth and the ages.
Phone: 802-456-1253
ROOTS School -Reclaiming Our Origins Through Traditional Skills
East Calais, VT
Email: info@rootsvt.com Web: www.rootsvt.com
September 30th - Farmer's Market - On the Green in Danville, VT
9 AM – noon. The Danville Farmers Market operates from the first week in June through October, the weekly market is held on Wednesday Mornings on the Town Green. Many local gardeners and farmers will be setup every week with fresh vegetables, most picked that day. Many have signs indicating that their vegetables are organically grown. Others sell donuts and bread that they have made, yarn that they have woven, maple syrup they have processed and goats cheese that they have made. New vendors and new shoppers always welcome.
September 30th – Newport Farmers Market
9 AM – 2 PM. Fresh produce, baked goods, crafts, Vermont made products and more at the Farmers Market in Newport. At the Causeway in Newport between Gazebo and COC Info Center.
OCTOBER
October 1st - The Catalyst Program
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM. Tuition: $1,500 The Catalyst Program is designed to mentor students in their journey to their ancestral birthright: a deeper knowledge of self though the practice of primitive survival, connection to the land base, and the pursuit of greater internal and external awareness. The four main goals of the Catalyst Program are: To teach teenagers practical wilderness skills. To expand student’s knowledge and awareness of the living world around them. To refine and develop their creativity and innate problem-solving abilities both primitive and modern context. To enrich their land ethic and sense of place. Each day at Catalyst includes the following Program Elements: Naturalist Study and Training Students explore nature through first-hand interactions, direct observation and focused field guide research. Discoveries are documented in the student’s nature journal through writing, drawing, and photography. Students will choose, research, design, and make several projects throughout the year. All of these elements are focused into a cohesive year long curriculum which also includes three overnights and three field trips spaced throughout the year. Occasionally local experts and guest instructors will join us to add breadth and dimension to our teachings.
Phone: 802-456-1253
ROOTS School -Reclaiming Our Origins Through Traditional Skills
East Calais, VT
Email: info@rootsvt.com Web: www.rootsvt.com
October 1st - Fall Foliage day in Peacham, VT
9 AM - 6 PM. Spend a day in our historic village settled in 1776. Artifacts, Historical Displays, local VT Arts & Crafts, Blacksmith Shop Demonstrations, Library Book Sale, Friendly Hour (cheese, crackers and Cider), Scenic Bus Tour, Hospitality Stop, Guided Nature Walk, Self-Guided Walking Tour of Village, Lunch, Ghost Walk at the Peacham Cemetery, Concert at the Congregational Church Sanctuary, Spaghetti Supper For more information, call Noreen Crane. Phone: 802-592-3558
October 2nd – Island Pond Farmers Market
Noon – 4 PM. Fresh produce, locally made products, baked goods and more…
Across from the Grace Brethren Church
640 Charleston Rd (Rte 105)
East Charleston, VT
October 2nd – Hardwick Farmers Market
3 – 6 PM. Local produce, homemade goods, Vermont made crafts and more. Located at Granite Junction (b/w Aubuchon Hardware & Greensboro Garage) Rte 15 West in Hardwick.
October 2nd – Moonlit Paddle on the Clyde River
6 PM. $10/adult $5/child. With its shallow, slow moving water and abundant wildlife, the Clyde River is an ideal location for paddling. Siskin staff will provide canoes, paddles, life jackets, and be your guide on two Moonlit Paddles.
Phone: 802-673-5638
Siskin Ecological Adventures
Ten Mile Square rd.
East Charleston, VT
Email: programs@siskinea.org Web: www.siskinea.org
October 2nd & 3rd - DEAD NORTH - a night of terror at the Great Vermont Corn Maze
Friday October 2 at 7:30 PM/Saturday October 3 at 9:30 PM. DEAD NORTH - farmland of terror at the Great Vermont Corn Maze. Tickets on sale beginning July 1 - get them before it sells out. Phone: 802-748-1399
Great Vermont Corn Maze
1404 Wheelock Road
North Danville, VT
Email: info@vermontcornmaze.com Web: www.vermontcornmaze.com
October 3rd – St. Johnsbury Caledonia Farmers Market
9 AM – 1 PM. Locally grown, homemade baked goods, Vermont made crafts and more...Downtown St Johnsbury on Pearl St behind Bank North
October 3rd – Newport Farmers Market
9 AM – 2 PM. Fresh produce, baked goods, crafts, Vermont made products and more at the Farmers Market in Newport. At the Causeway in Newport between Gazebo and COC Info Center.
October 3rd – Craftsbury Common Farmers Market
11 AM - 1 PM. Come to the Farmers Market on the Common. Get your fresh produce, Vermont made crafts and products, baked goods and more.
Craftsbury Common, VT
October 3rd – Hayrides at Willoughby Gap Farmstand
11 AM – 6 PM. Hayrides at the Farmstand! Bring the kids by for maple creamies, a hayride and more fun. Get some fresh produce and pick your own pumpkins. Try their homemade pies and breads, and their own beef cuts. Have your photo taken with the witch or pumpkin. There's a new story walk and more fun things for the children. Visit the goats, the lambs, the calves, and chickens, too.
Phone: 802-467-3921
Willoughby Gap Farmstand
3 Route 5A
West Burke, VT
Web: www.willoughbygap.com
October 3rd – Fall Foliage Paddle on the Clyde River
1 PM. $10/adult $5/child. With its shallow, slow moving water and abundant wildlife, the Clyde River is an ideal location for paddling. Siskin staff will provide canoes, paddles, life jackets, and be your guide on a lazy paddle through the some of our region’s finest fall colors.
Phone: 802-673-5638
Siskin Ecological Adventures
Ten Mile Square rd.
East Charleston, VT
Email: programs@siskinea.org Web: www.siskinea.org
October 3rd & 4th - The ideRide Shuttle to Kingdom Trails runs every summer weekend
9 AM – 5 PM. Come to East Burke Village any summer weekend, bring 20 bucks for the shuttle and 10 for Kingdom Trails. Single rides are $5. The ideRide shuttle service accesses Kingdom Trails, East Burke, VT, named best trail system and best flow in 2008 by Bike Magazine. ideRide offers a safe, legal and reliable ride up Burke Mountain where you can access the KT downhill trails. The shuttle carries 14 riders and will run from East Burke village to the top of Burke Mountain.
Phone: 802-535-6247
ideRide
East Burke, VT
Email: linden@ideride.com Web: www.ideride.com
October 4th - Autumn on the Green in Danville
10 AM - 4 PM. Autumn on the Green is an award-winning showcase for artisans, crafters, cottage industries and businesses amidst the spectacular views and color of autumn in Danville. With the feel of an old-fashioned exhibition, visitors roam the Village Green and Town Hall among the plethora of wares and displays while musicians play from the bandstand. Demonstrations by the American Society of Dowsers, a blacksmith, chair maker, and wood turner, plus delicious food offered on the green embody the welcome of a New England village sharing autumn at its peak. Over 100 vendors offer items from whimsical to practical and feature Vermont specialty products and foods. The Pope Library hosts a chicken and biscuit lunch at the Creamery Restaurant, just off the Green. Located on the picturesque Route 2 corridor the festivities are free, accessible, begin at 10 am. and concluding at 4 pm. Buses are welcome and bus parking is available.
Web: www.autumnonthegreen.com
October 4th – Lyndonville Farmers Market
11:30 AM – 3 PM. Fresh local vegetables, beef, milk, baked goods and maple syrup are just some of the things we have available. We're located just beyond the Lyndonville Freighthouse in the park.
1000 Broad St.
Lyndonville, VT
October 4th - Car Talk at Teuscher's Antique Auto Enclave
1 PM. Teuscher's Antique Auto Enclave is a mini-museum of sorts that houses perhaps one of the most original collections of all steel antique customized cars in the northeast. Car Talk happens every Sunday at one o'clock noting the stories and history of rare examples of pre-WW2 manufacturing before the idea of planned obsolescence homogenized the automobile industry. Teuscher's Antique Auto Enclave
629 Keene Road
East Hardwick, VT
October 4th – Fall Foliage Paddle on the Clyde River
1 PM. $10/adult $5/child. With its shallow, slow moving water and abundant wildlife, the Clyde River is an ideal location for paddling. Siskin staff will provide canoes, paddles, life jackets, and be your guide on a lazy paddle through the some of our region’s finest fall colors.
Phone: 802-673-5638
Siskin Ecological Adventures
Ten Mile Square rd.
East Charleston, VT
Email: programs@siskinea.org Web: www.siskinea.org
October 7th - Jumping Mouse Program
8 AM – 4 PM. Cost: $1500, available in payments. Deposit: $300 at registration. Beginning September 2009, Wednesdays, 8-4. Schedule TBA. The Roots School Jumping Mouse program facilitates a deep connection with the land and a practical understanding of key concepts of ecology. Children learn thru games, wildlife tracking, stories, “expeditions”, wilderness survival skills, group initiative challenges, and sensory awareness/direct observation. Students gain physical skills, such as the safe and effective use of tools, and the harvest, preparation and use of nature’s materials in order to make useful and beautiful projects from the land. Children also develop awareness skills, such as critical observation and synthesis of sensory information. The Jumping Mouse program curriculum emphasizes direct interaction and exploration of the natural world, creative problem-solving, teamwork, playful exploration, as well as journaling, drawing, and storytelling as tools for integrating lessons and experiences.
Phone: 802-456-1253
ROOTS School -Reclaiming Our Origins Through Traditional Skills
East Calais, VT
Email: info@rootsvt.com Web: www.rootsvt.com
October 7th - Clovis Program
8 AM - 4 PM. Cost: $1500. A deposit of $300 is due the time of registration. The balance of the tuition can then be paid either at the start of the program on or in three payments of $400 throughout the program. In September 2009 Roots School begins its first year of the Clovis program. The Clovis people were the great masters of the hunt, living through the last ice age 12,000 years ago through their skill, strength, and community. The Clovis Program is focused on the ancient human lineage of hunting and tracking and the lessons it has to teach us. The program takes place on location at Roots School, one day a week, from September to June. Each week the students will be guided to further their education of indigenous hunting including: - Hunting Ethics and Caretaking - Wildlife Tracking - Bird Language - Ecology and Natural History - Primitive Weapons-Throwing Sticks, Atl-Atls, Bows, Spears, Bolas, Slings - Survival Traps-Deadfalls and Snares - Skinning, Cleaning, and Processing Game - Hearth Cooking - Hide Tanning - Leather Working - Bone Carving & more… It is the mission of the Clovis Program to bring children on the cusp of being young adults into a deeper relationship with their communities, both wild and human, through the roll of the provider. In learning these skills students may cultivate personal strength and understanding of oneself such as it has been across the earth and the ages.
Phone: 802-456-1253
ROOTS School -Reclaiming Our Origins Through Traditional Skills
East Calais, VT
Email: info@rootsvt.com Web: www.rootsvt.com
October 7th - Farmer's Market - On the Green in Danville, VT
9 AM – noon. The Danville Farmers Market operates from the first week in June through October, the weekly market is held on Wednesday Mornings on the Town Green. Many local gardeners and farmers will be setup every week with fresh vegetables, most picked that day. Many have signs indicating that their vegetables are organically grown. Others sell donuts and bread that they have made, yarn that they have woven, maple syrup they have processed and goats cheese that they have made. New vendors and new shoppers always welcome.
October 8th - The Catalyst Program
8 AM - 4 PM. Tuition: $1,500. The Catalyst Program is designed to mentor students in their journey to their ancestral birthright: a deeper knowledge of self though the practice of primitive survival, connection to the land base, and the pursuit of greater internal and external awareness. The four main goals of the Catalyst Program are: To teach teenagers practical wilderness skills. To expand student’s knowledge and awareness of the living world around them. To refine and develop their creativity and innate problem-solving abilities both primitive and modern context. To enrich their land ethic and sense of place. Each day at Catalyst includes the following Program Elements: Naturalist Study and Training Students explore nature through first-hand interactions, direct observation and focused field guide research. Discoveries are documented in the student’s nature journal through writing, drawing, and photography. Students will choose, research, design, and make several projects throughout the year. All of these elements are focused into a cohesive year long curriculum which also includes three overnights and three field trips spaced throughout the year. Catalyst’s maximum enrollment is limited to ten to ensure low student to instructor ratios. The program takes place on location at Roots School and offers students access to the facilities and land. Occasionally local experts and guest instructors will join us to add breadth and dimension to our teachings.
Phone: 802-456-1253
ROOTS School -Reclaiming Our Origins Through Traditional Skills
East Calais, VT
Email: info@rootsvt.com Web: www.rootsvt.com
October 9th – Hardwick Farmers Market
3 – 6 PM. Local produce, homemade goods, Vermont made crafts and more. Located at Granite Junction (b/w Aubuchon Hardware & Greensboro Garage) Rte 15 West in Hardwick
October 9th & 10th - DEAD NORTH - a night of terror at the Great Vermont Corn Maze
Friday 7:30 PM/Saturday 9:30 PM. DEAD NORTH - farmland of terror at the Great Vermont Corn Maze. Tickets on sale beginning July 1 - get them before it sells out. Phone: 802-748-1399
Great Vermont Corn Maze
1404 Wheelock Road
North Danville, VT
Email: info@vermontcornmaze.com Web: www.vermontcornmaze.com
October 10th – St. Johnsbury Caledonia Farmers Market
9 AM – 1 PM. Locally grown, homemade baked goods, Vermont made crafts and more...Downtown St Johnsbury on Pearl St behind Bank North
October 10th – Hayrides at Willoughby Gap Farmstand
11 AM – 6 PM. Hayrides at the Farmstand! Bring the kids by for maple creamies, a hayride and more fun. Get some fresh produce and pick your own pumpkins. Try their homemade pies and breads, and their own beef cuts. Have your photo taken with the witch or pumpkin. There's a new story walk and more fun things for the children. Visit the goats, the lambs, the calves, and chickens, too.
Phone: 802-467-3921
Willoughby Gap Farmstand
3 Route 5A
West Burke, VT
Web: www.willoughbygap.com
October 10th & 11th - Fall Foliage Festival
Time TBA. Crafters, entertainment, vendors, old fashioned family fun!
Phone: 802-525-3555
Orleans County Fairgrounds
Roaring Brook Rd.
Barton, VT
Web: www.orleanscountyfair.org
October 10th & 11th – Columbus Day Weekend in Jay
Columbus Day weekend is one of the busiest days in Jay. Visitors and townspeople alike make their annual trek up to Jay Peak to visit the Arts & Crafts fair, pick up their Ski Pass, possibly take in a last game of golf, take the Tram to the top of the mountain, enjoy lunch and visit with friends. In the center of town the Jay Country Store and Snow Job Inc normally have their annual Tent Sale. A flea market pops up in front of Mike's Electric and lunch is available at JVI. A coin drop has been part of the weekend for over 8 years, through the years the money has gone to the Jay School for various school sports and needs. In 2008 the Coin Drop generated $1200.00 for the Jay Focus Group, split evenly between the Community Center and Land Trust property. You never what the weather will be. This past Columbus Day weekend it was sunny and in the high 60's. Some years there have been snow flurries in the day.
October 10th & 11th - 32nd Annual Jay Peak Arts & Crafts Fair
10 AM – 4 PM. The fair is held in the Base Lodge, which are located on the tram side at Jay Peak. There will be no charge for admission on either day. Over 60 artisans will be displaying their works, which will feature arts and crafts such as pottery, paintings, jewelry, woodcarvings, home spun yarns, handmade hats, maple syrups, basketry, quilting, candles, and more. There will be some live demos put on by a few artisans over the weekend. Along with the craft show, Jay Peak offers scenic tram rides to elevation of 4000' to view the valley in fall color. You can also take advantage of Jay Peak's newest addition. Enjoy a round of golf on the newest 18-hole Championship Golf Course in New England. Also there will be a fall buffet in the hotel dining room and a Harvest Barbecue on the Tram Deck both Saturday and Sunday. For more information please call Brian Keet.
Phone: 802-327-2198
Jay Peak Resort
Route 242
Jay, VT
Email: bkeet@jaypeakresort.com Web: www.jaypeakresort.com
October 10th – 12th - Hide Tanning
Cost: $400.For most of our species existence, humans have been using the skins of animals for clothing, a very important consideration in the art of providing shelter for one's self and others. In this 3-day workshop you will learn how to transform a fresh deer hide into soft, luxuriant buckskin. We will be focusing on the wet-scrape method, taking participants step-by-step through the sequence of this ancient process. This workshop is a direct learning, experiential event where participants learn by doing. Lecture content includes the details of each stage of the wet-scrape process, as well as what to make with the rest of the animal, such as the bones and sinew. We will also cover patterns and design ideas for what to make with the beautiful buckskin that you will tan during the weekend.
Phone: 802-456-1253
ROOTS School -Reclaiming Our Origins Through Traditional Skills
East Calais, VT
Email: info@rootsvt.com Web: www.rootsvt.com
October 14th - Jumping Mouse Program
8 AM – 4 PM. Cost: $1500, available in payments. Deposit: $300 at registration. Beginning September 2009, Wednesdays, 8-4. Schedule TBA. The Roots School Jumping Mouse program facilitates a deep connection with the land and a practical understanding of key concepts of ecology. Children learn thru games, wildlife tracking, stories, “expeditions”, wilderness survival skills, group initiative challenges, and sensory awareness/direct observation. Students gain physical skills, such as the safe and effective use of tools, and the harvest, preparation and use of nature’s materials in order to make useful and beautiful projects from the land. Children also develop awareness skills, such as critical observation and synthesis of sensory information. The Jumping Mouse program curriculum emphasizes direct interaction and exploration of the natural world, creative problem-solving, teamwork, playful exploration, as well as journaling, drawing, and storytelling as tools for integrating lessons and experiences.
Phone: 802-456-1253
ROOTS School -Reclaiming Our Origins Through Traditional Skills
East Calais, VT
Email: info@rootsvt.com Web: www.rootsvt.com
October 14th - Clovis Program
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM. Cost: $1500. A deposit of $300 is due the time of registration. The balance of the tuition can then be paid either at the start of the program on or in three payments of $400 throughout the program. In September 2009 Roots School begins its first year of the Clovis program. The Clovis people were the great masters of the hunt, living through the last ice age 12,000 years ago through their skill, strength, and community. The Clovis Program is focused on the ancient human lineage of hunting and tracking and the lessons it has to teach us. The program takes place on location at Roots School, one day a week, from September to June. Each week the students will be guided to further their education of indigenous hunting including: - Hunting Ethics and Caretaking - Wildlife Tracking - Bird Language - Ecology and Natural History - Primitive Weapons-Throwing Sticks, Atl-Atls, Bows, Spears, Bolas, Slings - Survival Traps-Deadfalls and Snares - Skinning, Cleaning, and Processing Game - Hearth Cooking - Hide Tanning - Leather Working - Bone Carving & more… It is the mission of the Clovis Program to bring children on the cusp of being young adults into a deeper relationship with their communities, both wild and human, through the roll of the provider. In learning these skills students may cultivate personal strength and understanding of oneself such as it has been across the earth and the ages.
Phone: 802-456-1253
ROOTS School -Reclaiming Our Origins Through Traditional Skills
East Calais, VT
Email: info@rootsvt.com Web: www.rootsvt.com
October 15th - The Catalyst Program
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM. Tuition: $1,500 Deposit: $300 is due the time of registration. The balance of the tuition can then be paid either at the start of the program, or in three trimester payments of $400 throughout the year. The Catalyst Program is designed to mentor students in their journey to their ancestral birthright: a deeper knowledge of self though the practice of primitive survival, connection to the land base, and the pursuit of greater internal and external awareness. The four main goals of the Catalyst Program are: To teach teenagers practical wilderness skills. To expand student’s knowledge and awareness of the living world around them. To refine and develop their creativity and innate problem-solving abilities both primitive and modern context. To enrich their land ethic and sense of place. Each day at Catalyst includes the following Program Elements: Naturalist Study and Training Students explore nature through first-hand interactions, direct observation and focused field guide research. Discoveries are documented in the student’s nature journal through writing, drawing, and photography. Students will choose, research, design, and make several projects throughout the year. All of these elements are focused into a cohesive year long curriculum which also includes three overnights and three field trips spaced throughout the year. Catalyst’s maximum enrollment is limited to ten to ensure low student to instructor ratios. The program takes place on location at Roots School and offers students access to the facilities and land. Occasionally local experts and guest instructors will join us to add breadth and dimension to our teachings.
Phone: 802-456-1253
ROOTS School -Reclaiming Our Origins Through Traditional Skills
East Calais, VT
Email: info@rootsvt.com Web: www.rootsvt.com
October 17th - The Annual Dead Creek Snow Goose Show
Meet at Joe's Pond park 'n ride in Danville at 7 a.m., intersection of rtes. #2 and #15. The Annual Dead Creek Snow Goose Show. Dead Creek Wildlife Management Area is in Addison County, VT. For more information or to register for NEK Audubon trips email or call Tom at (802)626-9071. Note: All events are subject to change so be sure to register beforehand. We go regardless of the weather (unless weather would in some way pose a danger). Dress appropriately!
Email: blackpoll@myfairpoint.net Web: www.nekaudubon.org
October 18th - Crafting Wooden Bowls
3 PM. local businessman and artisan Don Fogg will share his knowledge and mastery of Crafting Wooden Bowls.
Phone: 802-748-2600
Catamount Arts
115 Eastern Ave.
St. Johnsbury, VT
Web: www.catamountarts.org
October 21st - Jumping Mouse Program
8 AM – 4 PM. Cost: $1500, available in payments. The Roots School Jumping Mouse program facilitates a deep connection with the land and a practical understanding of key concepts of ecology. Children learn thru games, wildlife tracking, stories, “expeditions”, wilderness survival skills, group initiative challenges, and sensory awareness/direct observation. Students gain physical skills, such as the safe and effective use of tools, and the harvest, preparation and use of nature’s materials in order to make useful and beautiful projects from the land. Children also develop awareness skills, such as critical observation and synthesis of sensory information. The Jumping Mouse program curriculum emphasizes direct interaction and exploration of the natural world, creative problem-solving, teamwork, playful exploration, as well as journaling, drawing, and storytelling as tools for integrating lessons and experiences.
Phone: 802-456-1253
ROOTS School -Reclaiming Our Origins Through Traditional Skills
East Calais, VT
Email: info@rootsvt.com Web: www.rootsvt.com
October 21st - Clovis Program
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM. Cost: $1500. The Clovis people were the great masters of the hunt, living through the last ice age 12,000 years ago through their skill, strength, and community. The Clovis Program is focused on the ancient human lineage of hunting and tracking and the lessons it has to teach us. The program takes place on location at Roots School, one day a week, from September to June. Each week the students will be guided to further their education of indigenous hunting including: - Hunting Ethics and Caretaking - Wildlife Tracking - Bird Language - Ecology and Natural History - Primitive Weapons-Throwing Sticks, Atl-Atls, Bows, Spears, Bolas, Slings - Survival Traps-Deadfalls and Snares - Skinning, Cleaning, and Processing Game - Hearth Cooking - Hide Tanning - Leather Working - Bone Carving & more… It is the mission of the Clovis Program to bring children on the cusp of being young adults into a deeper relationship with their communities, both wild and human, through the roll of the provider. In learning these skills students may cultivate personal strength and understanding of oneself such as it has been across the earth and the ages.
Phone: 802-456-1253
ROOTS School -Reclaiming Our Origins Through Traditional Skills
East Calais, VT
Email: info@rootsvt.com Web: www.rootsvt.com
October 22nd - The Catalyst Program
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM. Tuition: $1,500 Deposit: $300 is due the time of registration. The balance of the tuition can then be paid either at the start of the program, or in three trimester payments of $400 throughout the year. The Catalyst Program is designed to mentor students in their journey to their ancestral birthright: a deeper knowledge of self though the practice of primitive survival, connection to the land base, and the pursuit of greater internal and external awareness. The four main goals of the Catalyst Program are: To teach teenagers practical wilderness skills. To expand student’s knowledge and awareness of the living world around them. To refine and develop their creativity and innate problem-solving abilities both primitive and modern context. To enrich their land ethic and sense of place. Each day at Catalyst includes the following Program Elements: Naturalist Study and Training Students explore nature through first-hand interactions, direct observation and focused field guide research. Discoveries are documented in the student’s nature journal through writing, drawing, and photography. Students will choose, research, design, and make several projects throughout the year. All of these elements are focused into a cohesive year long curriculum which also includes three overnights and three field trips spaced throughout the year. Catalyst’s maximum enrollment is limited to ten to ensure low student to instructor ratios. The program takes place on location at Roots School and offers students access to the facilities and land. Occasionally local experts and guest instructors will join us to add breadth and dimension to our teachings.
Phone: 802-456-1253
ROOTS School -Reclaiming Our Origins Through Traditional Skills
East Calais, VT
Email: info@rootsvt.com Web: www.rootsvt.com
October 24th & 25th - Basketry Course at ROOTS School
Cost: $150.In the basketry class students will learn how to locate, harvest, propagate, and weave willow, an incredibly pliable and resilient material. This class will focus on waling, or three-strand twining, an ancient technique of weaving that creates a beautiful pattern and a very durable basket. We will also focus on two-strand twining, perhaps one of the earliest ways of turning a collection of twigs into a solid, multi-use vessel. Participants will make and go home with a finished basket. Early registration is strongly recommended.
Phone: 802-456-1253
ROOTS School -Reclaiming Our Origins Through Traditional Skills
East Calais, VT
Email: info@rootsvt.com Web: www.rootsvt.com
October 28th - Jumping Mouse Program
8 AM – 4 PM. Cost: $1500, available in payments The Roots School Jumping Mouse program facilitates a deep connection with the land and a practical understanding of key concepts of ecology. Children learn thru games, wildlife tracking, stories, “expeditions”, wilderness survival skills, group initiative challenges, and sensory awareness/direct observation. Students gain physical skills, such as the safe and effective use of tools, and the harvest, preparation and use of nature’s materials in order to make useful and beautiful projects from the land. Children also develop awareness skills, such as critical observation and synthesis of sensory information. The Jumping Mouse program curriculum emphasizes direct interaction and exploration of the natural world, creative problem-solving, teamwork, playful exploration, as well as journaling, drawing, and storytelling as tools for integrating lessons and experiences.
Phone: 802-456-1253
ROOTS School -Reclaiming Our Origins Through Traditional Skills
East Calais, VT
Email: info@rootsvt.com Web: www.rootsvt.com
October 28th - Clovis Program
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM. Cost: $1500. A deposit of $300 is due the time of registration. The balance of the tuition can then be paid either at the start of the program on or in three payments of $400 throughout the program. In September 2009 Roots School begins its first year of the Clovis program. The Clovis people were the great masters of the hunt, living through the last ice age 12,000 years ago through their skill, strength, and community. The Clovis Program is focused on the ancient human lineage of hunting and tracking and the lessons it has to teach us. The program takes place on location at Roots School, one day a week, from September to June. Each week the students will be guided to further their education of indigenous hunting including: - Hunting Ethics and Caretaking - Wildlife Tracking - Bird Language - Ecology and Natural History - Primitive Weapons-Throwing Sticks, Atl-Atls, Bows, Spears, Bolas, Slings - Survival Traps-Deadfalls and Snares - Skinning, Cleaning, and Processing Game - Hearth Cooking - Hide Tanning - Leather Working - Bone Carving & more… It is the mission of the Clovis Program to bring children on the cusp of being young adults into a deeper relationship with their communities, both wild and human, through the roll of the provider. In learning these skills students may cultivate personal strength and understanding of oneself such as it has been across the earth and the ages.
Phone: 802-456-1253
ROOTS School -Reclaiming Our Origins Through Traditional Skills
East Calais, VT
Email: info@rootsvt.com Web: www.rootsvt.com
October 29th - The Catalyst Program
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM. Tuition: $1,500 Deposit: $300 is due the time of registration. The balance of the tuition can then be paid either at the start of the program, or in three trimester payments of $400 throughout the year. The Catalyst Program is designed to mentor students in their journey to their ancestral birthright: a deeper knowledge of self though the practice of primitive survival, connection to the land base, and the pursuit of greater internal and external awareness. The four main goals of the Catalyst Program are: To teach teenagers practical wilderness skills. To expand student’s knowledge and awareness of the living world around them. To refine and develop their creativity and innate problem-solving abilities both primitive and modern context. To enrich their land ethic and sense of place. Each day at Catalyst includes the following Program Elements: Naturalist Study and Training Students explore nature through first-hand interactions, direct observation and focused field guide research. Discoveries are documented in the student’s nature journal through writing, drawing, and photography. Students will choose, research, design, and make several projects throughout the year. All of these elements are focused into a cohesive year long curriculum which also includes three overnights and three field trips spaced throughout the year. Catalyst’s maximum enrollment is limited to ten to ensure low student to instructor ratios. The program takes place on location at Roots School and offers students access to the facilities and land. Occasionally local experts and guest instructors will join us to add breadth and dimension to our teachings.
Phone: 802-456-1253
ROOTS School -Reclaiming Our Origins Through Traditional Skills
East Calais, VT
Email: info@rootsvt.com Web: www.rootsvt.com
October 30th - 2nd Annual Adult Halloween Party at the Inglenook Lodge
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM. Benefits the Jay Recreational Land Trust Park. Costumes, dancing, and ghoulish fun.
Phone: 800-331-4346
Inglenook Lodge
Route 242
Jay, VT
NOVEMBER
November 1st - 8th Annual Children's Halloween Party in Jay
2:30 PM - 4:30 PM. FREE. The party is for all area children 6th grade and younger including toddlers and infants. All children must be accompanied by an adult. Children and adults enjoy the Carnival like atmosphere with plenty of games, prizes and candy. Free hot dogs, and large munchie table is popular. Prizes include everything from Learn to Ski/Snowboard Lessons donated by Jay Peak to stuffed animals, books, games, videos and plenty of candy. The party is sponsored by the Jay Volunteer Fire Dept and Auxiliary, the Friends of the Jay/Westfield Elementary School Committee, and The Jay Focus Group as well as area businesses and caring individuals.
At the Jay Volunteer Fire Station
157 Revoir Flats Rd
Jay, VT
November 4th - Jumping Mouse Program
8 AM – 4 PM. Cost: $1500, available in payments. The Roots School Jumping Mouse program facilitates a deep connection with the land and a practical understanding of key concepts of ecology. Children learn thru games, wildlife tracking, stories, “expeditions”, wilderness survival skills, group initiative challenges, and sensory awareness/direct observation. Students gain physical skills, such as the safe and effective use of tools, and the harvest, preparation and use of nature’s materials in order to make useful and beautiful projects from the land. Children also develop awareness skills, such as critical observation and synthesis of sensory information. The Jumping Mouse program curriculum emphasizes direct interaction and exploration of the natural world, creative problem-solving, teamwork, playful exploration, as well as journaling, drawing, and storytelling as tools for integrating lessons and experiences.
Phone: 802-456-1253
ROOTS School -Reclaiming Our Origins Through Traditional Skills
East Calais, VT
Email: info@rootsvt.com Web: www.rootsvt.com
November 4th - Clovis Program
8AM - 4PM. Cost: $1500. The Clovis people were the great masters of the hunt, living through the last ice age 12,000 years ago through their skill, strength, and community. The Clovis Program is focused on the ancient human lineage of hunting and tracking and the lessons it has to teach us. The program takes place on location at Roots School, one day a week, from September to June. Each week the students will be guided to further their education of indigenous hunting including: - Hunting Ethics and Caretaking - Wildlife Tracking - Bird Language - Ecology and Natural History - Primitive Weapons-Throwing Sticks, Atl-Atls, Bows, Spears, Bolas, Slings - Survival Traps-Deadfalls and Snares - Skinning, Cleaning, and Processing Game - Hearth Cooking - Hide Tanning - Leather Working - Bone Carving & more… It is the mission of the Clovis Program to bring children on the cusp of being young adults into a deeper relationship with their communities, both wild and human, through the roll of the provider. In learning these skills students may cultivate personal strength and understanding of oneself such as it has been across the earth and the ages.
Phone: 802-456-1253
ROOTS School -Reclaiming Our Origins Through Traditional Skills
East Calais, VT
Email: info@rootsvt.com Web: www.rootsvt.com
November 5th - The Catalyst Program
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM. Tuition: $1,500 Deposit: $300 is due the time of registration. The balance of the tuition can then be paid either at the start of the program, or in three trimester payments of $400 throughout the year. The Catalyst Program is designed to mentor students in their journey to their ancestral birthright: a deeper knowledge of self though the practice of primitive survival, connection to the land base, and the pursuit of greater internal and external awareness. The four main goals of the Catalyst Program are: To teach teenagers practical wilderness skills. To expand student’s knowledge and awareness of the living world around them. To refine and develop their creativity and innate problem-solving abilities both primitive and modern context. To enrich their land ethic and sense of place. Each day at Catalyst includes the following Program Elements: Naturalist Study and Training Students explore nature through first-hand interactions, direct observation and focused field guide research. Discoveries are documented in the student’s nature journal through writing, drawing, and photography. Students will choose, research, design, and make several projects throughout the year. All of these elements are focused into a cohesive year long curriculum which also includes three overnights and three field trips spaced throughout the year. Catalyst’s maximum enrollment is limited to ten to ensure low student to instructor ratios. The program takes place on location at Roots School and offers students access to the facilities and land. Occasionally local experts and guest instructors will join us to add breadth and dimension to our teachings.
Phone: 802-456-1253
ROOTS School -Reclaiming Our Origins Through Traditional Skills
East Calais, VT
Email: info@rootsvt.com Web: www.rootsvt.com
November 11th - Jumping Mouse Program
8 AM – 4 PM. Cost: $1500, available in payments. The Roots School Jumping Mouse program facilitates a deep connection with the land and a practical understanding of key concepts of ecology. Children learn thru games, wildlife tracking, stories, “expeditions”, wilderness survival skills, group initiative challenges, and sensory awareness/direct observation. Students gain physical skills, such as the safe and effective use of tools, and the harvest, preparation and use of nature’s materials in order to make useful and beautiful projects from the land. Children also develop awareness skills, such as critical observation and synthesis of sensory information. The Jumping Mouse program curriculum emphasizes direct interaction and exploration of the natural world, creative problem-solving, teamwork, playful exploration, as well as journaling, drawing, and storytelling as tools for integrating lessons and experiences.
Phone: 802-456-1253
ROOTS School -Reclaiming Our Origins Through Traditional Skills
East Calais, VT
Email: info@rootsvt.com Web: www.rootsvt.com
November 11th - Clovis Program
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM. Cost: $1500. The Clovis people were the great masters of the hunt, living through the last ice age 12,000 years ago through their skill, strength, and community. The Clovis Program is focused on the ancient human lineage of hunting and tracking and the lessons it has to teach us. The program takes place on location at Roots School, one day a week, from September to June. Each week the students will be guided to further their education of indigenous hunting including: - Hunting Ethics and Caretaking - Wildlife Tracking - Bird Language - Ecology and Natural History - Primitive Weapons-Throwing Sticks, Atl-Atls, Bows, Spears, Bolas, Slings - Survival Traps-Deadfalls and Snares - Skinning, Cleaning, and Processing Game - Hearth Cooking - Hide Tanning - Leather Working - Bone Carving & more… It is the mission of the Clovis Program to bring children on the cusp of being young adults into a deeper relationship with their communities, both wild and human, through the roll of the provider. Phone: 802-456-1253
ROOTS School -Reclaiming Our Origins Through Traditional Skills
East Calais, VT
Email: info@rootsvt.com Web: www.rootsvt.com
November 12th - The Catalyst Program
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM. Tuition: $1,500. The Catalyst Program is designed to mentor students in their journey to their ancestral birthright: a deeper knowledge of self though the practice of primitive survival, connection to the land base, and the pursuit of greater internal and external awareness. The four main goals of the Catalyst Program are: To teach teenagers practical wilderness skills. To expand student’s knowledge and awareness of the living world around them. To refine and develop their creativity and innate problem-solving abilities both primitive and modern context. To enrich their land ethic and sense of place. Each day at Catalyst includes the following Program Elements: Naturalist Study and Training Students explore nature through first-hand interactions, direct observation and focused field guide research. Discoveries are documented in the student’s nature journal through writing, drawing, and photography. Students will choose, research, design, and make several projects throughout the year. All of these elements are focused into a cohesive year long curriculum which also includes three overnights and three field trips spaced throughout the year.
Phone: 802-456-1253
ROOTS School -Reclaiming Our Origins Through Traditional Skills
East Calais, VT
Email: info@rootsvt.com Web: www.rootsvt.com
November 14th & 15th - Advanced Fire Skills
Cost: $200.After establishing a basic relationship to friction fire through bow drill and hand drill, a wide variety of new skills and techniques become approachable. In Advanced Fire Skills we will look at a collection of methods from around the world including the bamboo fire saw, the fire piston, the pump drill, fire crutch, and the Egyptian and Inuit bow drill. We will also revisit the bow drill and hand drill and look at advanced techniques and problem solving for these methods. This broadening and deepening of skill allows for a greater flexibility to environments in a survival situation as well as furthering ones overall understanding of friction fire as a whole.
Phone: 802-456-1253
ROOTS School -Reclaiming Our Origins Through Traditional Skills
East Calais, VT
Email: info@rootsvt.com Web: www.rootsvt.com
November 18th - Jumping Mouse Program
8 AM – 4 PM. Cost: $1500, available in payments. The Roots School Jumping Mouse program facilitates a deep connection with the land and a practical understanding of key concepts of ecology. Children learn thru games, wildlife tracking, stories, “expeditions”, wilderness survival skills, group initiative challenges, and sensory awareness/direct observation. Students gain physical skills, such as the safe and effective use of tools, and the harvest, preparation and use of nature’s materials in order to make useful and beautiful projects from the land. Children also develop awareness skills, such as critical observation and synthesis of sensory information. The Jumping Mouse program curriculum emphasizes direct interaction and exploration of the natural world, creative problem-solving, teamwork, playful exploration, as well as journaling, drawing, and storytelling as tools for integrating lessons and experiences.
Phone: 802-456-1253
ROOTS School -Reclaiming Our Origins Through Traditional Skills
East Calais, VT
Email: info@rootsvt.com Web: www.rootsvt.com
November 18th - Clovis Program
8 AM - 4 PM. Cost: $1500. The Clovis people were the great masters of the hunt, living through the last ice age 12,000 years ago through their skill, strength, and community. The Clovis Program is focused on the ancient human lineage of hunting and tracking and the lessons it has to teach us. The program takes place on location at Roots School, one day a week, from September to June. Each week the students will be guided to further their education of indigenous hunting including: - Hunting Ethics and Caretaking - Wildlife Tracking - Bird Language - Ecology and Natural History - Primitive Weapons-Throwing Sticks, Atl-Atls, Bows, Spears, Bolas, Slings - Survival Traps-Deadfalls and Snares - Skinning, Cleaning, and Processing Game - Hearth Cooking - Hide Tanning - Leather Working - Bone Carving & more… It is the mission of the Clovis Program to bring children on the cusp of being young adults into a deeper relationship with their communities, both wild and human, through the roll of the provider. In learning these skills students may cultivate personal strength and understanding of oneself such as it has been across the earth and the ages.
Phone: 802-456-1253
ROOTS School -Reclaiming Our Origins Through Traditional Skills
East Calais, VT
Email: info@rootsvt.com Web: www.rootsvt.com
November 19th - The Catalyst Program
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM. Tuition: $1,500 Deposit: $300 is due the time of registration. The balance of the tuition can then be paid either at the start of the program, or in three trimester payments of $400 throughout the year. The Catalyst Program is designed to mentor students in their journey to their ancestral birthright: a deeper knowledge of self though the practice of primitive survival, connection to the land base, and the pursuit of greater internal and external awareness. The four main goals of the Catalyst Program are: To teach teenagers practical wilderness skills. To expand student’s knowledge and awareness of the living world around them. To refine and develop their creativity and innate problem-solving abilities both primitive and modern context. To enrich their land ethic and sense of place. Each day at Catalyst includes the following Program Elements: Naturalist Study and Training Students explore nature through first-hand interactions, direct observation and focused field guide research. Discoveries are documented in the student’s nature journal through writing, drawing, and photography. Students will choose, research, design, and make several projects throughout the year. All of these elements are focused into a cohesive year long curriculum which also includes three overnights and three field trips spaced throughout the year. Catalyst’s maximum enrollment is limited to ten to ensure low student to instructor ratios. The program takes place on location at Roots School and offers students access to the facilities and land. Occasionally local experts and guest instructors will join us to add breadth and dimension to our teachings.
Phone: 802-456-1253
ROOTS School -Reclaiming Our Origins Through Traditional Skills
East Calais, VT
Email: info@rootsvt.com Web: www.rootsvt.com
November 19th - The Game Supper in Danville
4 PM. The Danville Methodist Game Supper, begun in 1921, is not only the oldest game supper in Vermont, but considered by many to be one of the finest in the region. Once featured in Yankee Magazine's Book of Special New England Days, the game supper takes place on the Thursday before Thanksgiving at the Danville United Methodist Church on the southwest corner of the Green. Meat pies are featured, typically venison, moose, bear, coon, beaver, rabbit, and chicken. The tables groan with side dishes, squash, potato, glazed carrots, green beans, cranberry sauce, coleslaw, and pickles, topped off with dinner rolls, coffee, and homemade dessert pies. Reservations maybe made by emailing Toby within a month of the event.
Danville United Methodist Church
201 South Main St.
Danville, VT
Email: tobybalivet@netscape.net Web: www.danvillevt.com/Activities.htm
November 28th – Holiday Open House at the Old Stone House Museum
Time TBA. The Annual Holiday Open House will be at the newly restored Samuel Read Hall House. Holiday crafts, food, and fun for the whole family. Enjoy an old time community social – warm up near a glowing fireplace, listen to live old time music and shop leisurely for just the right gifts.
Phone: 802-754-2022
The Old Stone House Museum
109 Old Stone House Rd.
Brownington, VT
Web: www.oldstonehousemuseum.org |
