Leisure

Children play in the woods at a previous nature walk.

Hogback Mountain walk for kids

MARLBORO - Interested in learning more about the wintery world? Come up to Hogback on Saturday, December 4, to join Southern Vermont Natural History Museum educators for a casual walk around the Hogback Mountain Conservation Area. This will be a kid-directed event intended to foster activity,...

Santa and an elf ask children if they were naughty or nice at a visit to the Dover Free Library in 2015. File

Santa Claus is coming to Dover

DOVER - Santa Claus cometh to the Dover Free Library, bearing gifts for children on Saturday, December 4, from 3 to 5 pm. There will be music by Andy Davis and craft activities. Food pantry donations are requested at this event. Facemasks are required.
On Monday, December 6, the Dover...

Workshop tour part of BMAC show

PUTNEY - Fine woodworker Richard Bissell will lead a tour of his workshop and showroom on Sunday, December 5, at 2 pm. This event is offered in connection with the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center exhibit “Guild of Vermont Furniture Makers: Evolving Traditions.”
Bissell is among the 21...

Vermont Maple Conference returns

VERMONT - The 2021 Vermont Maple Conference will be held Monday, December 8, to Thursday, December 11. The conference will offer options for both online and in-person learning with 15 informative sessions led by maple industry experts and maple producers. This is the first time since January 2020...

CLiF Rural Libraries conference

VERMONT - The Children’s Literacy Foundation will host its biennial Rural Libraries conference online from Tuesday, November 30, to Thursday, December 2, from 8:30 to 10 am each day. The conference is open to librarians in rural communities. As with past in-person conferences, the three-day...

Bob Burch

Craft tour hits its 43rd year

PUTNEY - The 43rd annual Putney Craft Tour, the oldest continuing crafts tour in the country, will be held Thanksgiving weekend, from Friday, November 26, to Sunday, November 28, 10 am to 5 pm each day. Nineteen artists - glass blowers, potters, jewelers, weavers, painters, artisan cheesemakers,...

“Zoo Story” to be staged

PUTNEY - On Friday and Saturday, November 26, and 27, at 7:30 pm, Next Stage Arts will present the Wild Goose Players’ production of “The Zoo Story” by Edward Albee.
Among the most famous one-act plays in the English language, “Zoo Story” is the story of two men, Peter and Jerry - played...

“Crankies” to invade orchard

PUTNEY - Sandglass Theater will offer “A Rafter of Crankies” at Green Mountain Orchard, located on West Hill Road, on Friday, November 26, at 7 pm, and Saturday, November 27, at 5 and 7:30 pm. Performances will feature Sandglass co-founders Ines Zeller Bass and Eric Bass, as well as local crankie...

William Ransom

Sculptor to talk about art

BRATTLEBORO - The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center will present a free talk by sculptor William Ransom on Thursday, December 2, at 7 pm via Zoom and Facebook Live. Ransom will discuss the BMAC exhibit “Keep Up/Hold Up.” Included in the exhibit are sculptures in which the literal tensions in...

Art for the exhibit “Transient Beauty” is based on the photos of “Snowflake” Bentley.

Museum offers unique art show and auction based on snowflakes

BENNINGTON - On Friday, November 26, Bennington Museum will open the annual winter exhibition and closed-bid auction “Transient Beauty: Responding to ‘Snowflake’ Bentley,” featuring 25 contemporary artists responding to the magical photomicrographs of Wilson “Snowflake” Bentley. Completely self-...