RAISING RESILIENT CHILDREN SPEAKER SERIES Empowering Families: Navigating Youth Mental Health
RAISING RESILIENT CHILDREN SPEAKER SERIES Empowering Families: Navigating Youth Mental Health Tuesday, October 17 from 5:30pm - 7:00pm at the Souther Vermont Arts Center We are introducing this series to help bring awareness, support, and access to resource information for kids’ mental health and wellness in the shires. This panel discussion aims to empower families with the knowledge, tools, and strategies...
Outside the Artist’s Studio: Meet Modern Master Stephen Hannock
Outside the Artist's Studio: Meet Modern Master Stephen Hannock Thursday, September 21 from 5:30 - 7:00pm at the Southern Vermont Arts Center, Arkell Pavilion 4:30pm - Reception with Stephen Hannock in Yester House Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL), in partnership with Southern Vermont Arts Center and Green Mountain Girls, is thrilled to present a program with internationally...
Fall Fest
Fall Fest Mettowee Mint Saturday, September 16th, 4pm -7pm-ish Hey friends, we're once again donning party hats to celebrate the season's end! Join us for good music, food, libations and family fun! The mighty Saints & Liars will be with us, so get ready to boogie yourself into fall foliage. Watch for more details to come.
Explore Smokey House Center: Forest Bird Habitat Walk
Explore Smokey House Center: Forest Bird Habitat Walk Smokey House Center Join Walker Cammack, Program Director Living Labs at Smokey House, and Tim Duclos, Healthy Forest Program Senior Associate and Woods, Wildlife and Warblers project lead with Audubon Vermont for an educational walk of the forests at Smokey House Center. Walker and Tim will take you on a tour and...
Harvest Festival
Harvest Festival Merck Forest & Farmland Center Join us for an autumn celebration of forests and timber at MFFC! Explore the woods, see our timber processing equipment, and learn about all the ways that trees and forests are part of our lives. The day will include forest-focused activities for the whole family. Admission is $5pp (suggested donation) at the...
Monarch Monitoring
Monarch Monitoring Merck Forest & Farmland Center Join us as we investigate the pollinators of Merck Forest, exploring some of the habitats and hangouts of these critical critters. We’ll try our hands at catching and tagging monarch butterflies, and search for and observe other pollinators at work. Admission: $5pp; please register HERE.
Fairy Tale Festival
Fairy Tale Festival Dorset Village Library Join the Dorset Library in Killington at the Sherburne Library on September 16th for the 4th annual Fairy Tale Festival. This year, the Dorset Library will be presenting Pirates of the Caribbean! If you can get past the tentacles of the Kraken, take a few minutes to visit the MerPugs, do a craft, and...
September Book Club
September Book Club Dorset Village Library Join us for a special book club featuring guest author, Caren McVicker. Caren will discuss with the group her new book, Henderson House. Anyone is welcome to this program, you do not have to be a regular member of the book club!
The Last Garden
The Last Garden with Liza Ketchum Dorset Village Library Bees and gardens are a perfect match! Dorset author, and gardener, Liza Ketchum will discuss her most recent publications: the picture book, “Begin with a Bee” (co-authored with Jackie Briggs Martin and Phyllis Root; illustrated by Claudia McGehee) and “The Last Garden,” a memoir about her experience with many gardens,...
For the Love of Vermont: the Lyman Orton Collection
For the Love of Vermont: the Lyman Orton Collection Dorset Village Library This book is about the private collection of Lyman Orton, proprietor of The Vermont Country Store. The book was written to accompany the first comprehensive public exhibition in the summer and fall of 2023 of his collection of paintings, prints, and drawings of Vermont, with a focus...
