Leisure

Fair day auction

TOWNSHEND - Grace Cottage Family Health & Hospital will hold its 2021 hospital fair day as both a virtual and an in-person event this year.
More than 200 unique items are available via the online auction, which opens for bidding on Sunday, August 1, and ends on Sunday, August 8. The...

Oldcastle one-woman production

BENNINGTON - Oldcastle Theatre Company’s 49th season continues with “Shakespeare’s Will,” Canadian playwright Vern Thiessen’s one-woman show about the wife of William Shakespeare, Anne Hathaway.
The production will run from August 6 to 15. Immediately following the 2 pm show on August 7...

Silhouette of Bill Adams, owner of Adams Farm, where the bonfire and jam session will be taking place.

OHW bonfire, bluegrass

WILMINGTON - A kickoff to Wilmington’s Old Home Week festivities will occur on Thursday, August 5, from 6 to 10 pm, with a bonfire and jam session at the Adams Farm along with local bluegrass band The Ridge Runners.
Guests are encouraged to bring an instrument and lawn chairs or picnic...

Twilight Music and Next Stage Arts Project present roots and world music quartet The Gaslight Tinkers on Sunday, August 1, at 6 pm, on the Putney Tavern lawn or at Next Stage at 15 Kimball Hill in case of rain.

Twilight tinkerers

PUTNEY – Twilight Music and Next Stage Arts Project present roots and world music quartet The Gaslight Tinkers on Sunday, August 1, at 6 pm, on the Putney Tavern lawn or at Next Stage at 15 Kimball Hill in case of rain. The concert is free; donations are accepted. Food will be available. Bring a...

Guitarist and vocalist Kevin Parry will be playing at two venues next week.

Parry plays the blues

WINDHAM COUNTY - Kevin Parry will be playing at two venues next week. He will play 60s and 70s standards at the Last Chair, Route 100, in West Dover, Saturdays from 6 to 9 pm, and blues and rock at the Grafton Inn, in Grafton, on Wednesday, August 4, from 5:30 to 8 pm. Call (802) 843-2248 for...

Delano Dunn and others, including his mother, will work together virtually to make pies in a free Zoom conversation hosted by BMAC on Thursday, July 29, at 7:30 pm.

Artists bake pies

BRATTLEBORO - The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center will be hosting a free Zoom conversation on Thursday, July 29, at 7:30 pm. Artists Delano Dunn and Susan Luss, baker Megan Sway, and Dunn’s mother, Diane Mangle, will work together virtually to make pies, discuss African American foodways, and...

Plan now for theater auditions

BENNINGTON - Auditions for Bennington Community Theater’s production of “The Haunting of Hill House” will be held on Monday, August 28, and Tuesday, August 29, from 1 to 4 pm at the Second Congregational Church, 115 Hillside Street. For more information visit bpacvt.org.

One-Minute Book Reviews: A memoir of Vermont and a bee picture book, both for gardeners

“The Last Garden”
Liza Ketchum
Shires Press, 2021. “Begin with a Bee”
Liza Ketchum, Jaqueline Briggs Martin, Phyllis Root; Claudia McGhee, illustrator
University of Minnesota Press, 2021. When Liza Ketchum and her husband bought a...

Bennington Union soldier memorial, featuring a plaque by a local sculptor.

Museum will use grant to restore Civil War monument

BENNINGTON - Bennington Museum has been awarded a grant of $3,000 from the Robert Fleming & Jane Howe Patrick Foundation to aid in the onsite restoration of an important Civil War memorial.
This historic marker stands on a rise in the ground directly in front of the museum. It features...

Web series drills into sugaring

BURLINGTON - A free webinar series offered through University of Vermont Extension covers a broad array of topics of interest to maple producers, from maple production and forestry practices to business management.
Seven online sessions will be held from late July to October. Presenters...