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April 2009
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green mountain
sugar house
Visitors Welcome!
Watch Maple Syrup Being
Made In Sugaring Season.
Country Gift Shop, Vermont
Gifts, Maple & Food Products.
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Finest Maple Products.
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VT. Travel Div. photo
Sap buckets are hung on the old maples by the road while the snow goes off from Mt. Mansfield beyond.
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Open Sat & Sun 9:30–5, Tues–Fri noon to 5, closed Mon
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Protecting and
Maintaining
Vermont’s
Long Trail
Since 1910
Now cocks are crowing on the valley farms
And in the mist the slap of kitchen doors
Marks where tall boys with milk pails on their arms
Are going to the barn to help with chores.
Along the river’s edge with clanking bells
Slow ghosts of cattle seek familiar trails
Through willows drenched with dew, and meadow smells
Come on the fog across the fence gate rails.
Far down the valley, through the wooded hollows,
The village stirs around its waking mills.
A freight puffs somewhere in the mist and follows
The winding river deeper into the hills.
The pale light grows and brightens; wood birds rouse.
The farm boys whistle, turning out the cows.
— CHARLES MALAM
Send $35 Individual Fee
$45 Family Fee to the:
Green Mountain Club
4711 Waterbury-Stowe Rd.
Waterbury Center, VT 05677
(802) 244-7037
[email protected]
www.greenmountainclub.org
Hand Selected Gift Packages
Ideal for thank you and host gifts or just to take home.
Mary’s own handmade jams, fresh fruit syrups, maple icicle pickles,
Grandma’s ketchup, maple syrup, and more. Call for brochure.
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Anywhere
Open 9–5
Closed Tues
It’s Sugaring Time!
Visit Harlow’s Working Sugar House
2009 Fresh Maple Syrup
Vermont Cheeses, Jams & Jellies
Gift Shop. Sugar-on-Snow on Weekends.
We will be boiling off and on all March.
— Open 7 Days —
MOUNTAIN MOWINGS FARM
Harlow’s Sugar House
1999 Black Mt. Rd, Dummerston, VT 05301
Rt. 5, 3 miles north of Putney, VT
(802) 387-5852
(2 miles west of Dummerston Center) • (802) 254-2146
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A Vermont Almanac for Early Spring
by Bill Felker
The first excitement of the daybook was a simple one.
I saw a parallel to my own seeming lack of growth
and change, I saw that nature was as deliberate as I
was, that the movements I made in a day toward my
purposes were as slow as the progress of a season;
so, I thought, my seasons might, in time, take on the
bright color, the clear direction, the good sense, and
the harmony of the year.
—Bill Felker
MARCH
The Shining Grackle Moon
& The Singing Toad Moon
After grackles arrive and begin pairing up for mating,
American toads start to sing and court, laying their eggs
in early April. Within the parentheses of the grackles and
tadpoles, early spring engulfs the entire nation. March 18:
The moon enters its last quarter at 12:47 p.m. March 26:
The Singing Toad Moon is new at 11:06 a.m.
The Sun’s Progress
Daylight Savings Time begins at 2:00 a.m. on Sunday,
March 8. Equinox brings equal day and night at exactly 7:44
a.m. (EDT) March 20 in the whole country. On the 20th, the
sun enters the stars of Aries, the constellation that completes
the cycle of early spring and on April 1, brings the greener
and more vibrant season of middle spring.
The Planets
Venus remains in Pisces, much lower in the west than
it was last month near sunset. Jupiter in Capricorn is the
morning star this month. Mars lies in Aquarius, following
Jupiter low in the east before sunrise. Saturn keeps its place
in Leo, coming up in the evening, setting in the northeast
before dawn.
The Stars
The late evenings of March show the crocus, aconite and
snowdrop stars of Leo overhead, the daffodil budding stars
of Bootes in the east, and the pussy willow opening stars
and the red and silver maple flowering stars of Gemini and
Orion in the west.
The Shooting Stars
photo by Nancy Cassidy
The woodlamd creatures will have it easier now that Spring has arrived.
APRIL
The Phases of the Singing Toad Moon
And the Warbler Moon
from Aquarius. Jupiter rises in Capricorn several hours after
midnight, coming almost due south by dawn. Saturn, in Leo,
is visible overhead at dusk, and sets as Jupiter comes up.
Middle spring keeps company with mating toads and
frogs; then, warblers move up from the South, overwhelming America as tulips turn to roses. April 2: The Singing
Toad Moon enters its second quarter at 9:34 a.m. April 9:
The moon is full at 9:56 a.m. April 17: The moon enters
its final quarter at 8:36 a.m. April 24: The Warbler Moon
is new at 10:23 p.m.
When the Big Dipper pushes deep into the late evening sky
and reaches its southernmost position, its pointers pointing
exactly north-south, then middle spring is at its zenith. This
evening sky of May is also the sky of midday in the middle
of September, the invisible autumn noon chart that promises
spring in only half a year.
The Stars
The Sun’s Progress
The Shooting Stars
The Delta Leonid meteors fall after midnight throughout
April
21
is
Cross-Quarter
Day, the day on which the sun’s
The Lyrid Meteors are active after midnight between
the first week of this month. Look for them in Leo in the
position reaches its halfway point to summer solstice. The Cygnus and Hercules during the second and third week of
middle of the sky.
sun has advanced quickly to this point in the sky; from now, April. These shooting stars often appear at the rate of 15 to
it moves more leisurely toward its June height, warming the 25 per hour.
lengthening days.
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Michael and Ruth Merenda
To Perform A Benefit Concert
Ruth Unger Merenda and
Michael Merenda will perform at 8 p.m., Saturday,
April 11, at the Hooker-Dunham Theatre in Brattleboro,
VT. The concert is a benefit
for Post Oil Solutions’ Food
Security Project.
The daughter of the acclaimed fiddler Jay Unger,
Ruthy Merenda performed
before a sold-out audience
in Brattleboro this past February with the group, Sometimes Why.
As well as performing with
Ruthy, and being a member
of The Mammals, Michael
Merenda has an active solo
career with three CDs in his
own name. Both perform on
the guitar, banjo and ukulele,
do vocals, and write songs.
Ruthy is also a standout
fiddle player.
Together with Tao Rodriguez (grandson of Pete
The Planets
Bill Felker observes and writes about our seasons for
Venus remains in Pisces throughout April, no longer several periodicals. More of his almanack information
Seger), they founded the visible as the evening star, but appearing in the east as the is available at www.poorwillsalmanack.com. To hear his
indie-string band, The Mam- morning star. Mars joins Venus in Pisces, moving retrograde weekly almanack on the radio, visit www.wyso.org.
mals (themammals.net) in
2001 where, over the period
of 6 years, they cut five alROCKINGHAM ARTS AND
bums and played before
international audiences. They
MUSEUM PROJECT (RAMP)
also formed their own group,
KLICK’S
Economic Development
The Honeymoon Agenda
ANTIQUES & CRAFTS
Bought & Sold
(mikeandruthy.com).
Through the Arts
SPECIALIZING IN RAG RUGS,
Post Oil Solutions is a
7 Canal Street
COUNTRY ANTIQUES, FOLK ART.
community organizing projWatch rag rugs & placemats being made
Bellows Falls, VT 05101
ect empowering the people
Open Mon–Sat 10–5 or by appointment
(802)463-3252
19 Westminster St • Bellows Falls, VT
of the Central Connecticut
www.ramp-vt.org
Just south of the square • (802) 463-9656
River Valley to develop a
The Exner Block provides live-work spaces for artists and retail
sustainable, self-sufficient
spaces supporting the arts: Hillary Smith Patternmaker,
post-petroleum society. POS
One Piece at a Time, The Gallery at 17, Hraefnwood Café
has projects in energy, transportation, local economy, and
education, and it’s principal
focus: food.
Tickets are $12/$10. For
reservations call (802) 8692141. For info about POS,
call (802) 869-2141 or go to
www.postoilsolutions.org.
~ Homemade Pies ~
24 Delicious Assorted Varieties!
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SINCE 1994
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Located in the St. Edmund of Canterbury Church Basement
Main Street, Saxtons River, VT • Open Thurs & Sat 9 am to 3 pm
pies
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A Christian Resale Shop
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Pies also available at:
Flames Stables
Route 100 South, Wilmington, VT
(802) 464-8329
Scenic Year-Round
Trail Rides
Children Over 6 Can Ride Alone
Pony Rides for Younger Children
Winhall Market
in Bondville
The Colonial House
Inn & Motel in
Weston
Jamaica Country
Market in Jamaica
Lynne & David
Nunnikoven
Bakers & Owners
Fresh Baked or Oven Ready
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Peach • Raspberry • Raspberry-Peach
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Special Orders Welcome (802) 824-4032.
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Vermont Country Sampler, April 2009 Page 3
Whitewater Enthusiasts
Gather at Jamaica State Park
Jamaica State Park in Jamaica, VT will be the center
of activity for the West River
whitewater event that takes
place April 11 & 12, 2009
when the US Army Corps
of Engineers will do a controlled release of water from
its Ball Mountain Dam producing ideal rafting, kayaking, canoeing and paddling
on the West River.
Whitewater enthusiasts
come from all around the
northeast—kayakers, canoeists and river rafters all join
in the fun of paddling the
class II to class IV rapids.
Thousands of people come
to the park to watch the action on the West River and
hike along the three-mile
long former rail bed hiking
trail that gently winds up the
steep valley.
Concessionaires are stationed at the park’s day park-
ing area to vend food, equipment and gear. Shuttle services are available for a fee
from the park day use area to
the top of the Ball Mountain
Dam. Shuttles leave every
half-hour, rider-permitting,
beginning at 9 a.m.
Entry to the park is just
$3.00 per adult and $2.00
per child and is collected at
the park entrance. Camping space at the park fills
quickly for event weekends,
so book your stay as early as
possible.
For more information on
Jamaica State Park or for
reservation information, visit
www.vtstateparks.com or
call (888) 409-7579. To get to
the park which is in southern
Vermont, take Rts. 100/30 to
Jamaica, VT. From the center
of the village, go 1/2 mile east
on Depot St.
THE WARMTH OF SPRING
Little colts caper and kick up their heels.
They race toward their mothers when ready for meals.
Spring plowing in the fertile fields of the Connecticut River Valley near Plainfield, NH.
Main Street Arts
Wobbly-kneed calves stand close to the barn
Out of the wind where it’s sheltered and warm.
Noted Folk Musicians Perform in Saxtons River
Woolly lambs, all of them, know right away
That the first thing to do is to learn how to play.
Folk song collector and fiddler Alan Jabbour and clawhammer banjo player Ken Perlman will bring the rich sounds
of the Appalachian music tradition to Saxtons River on
Saturday, April 4 in a concert at Main Street Arts beginning
at 8 p.m. The musicians will also offer a workshop at MSA
Sunday, April 5 from noon to 3 p.m.
Both performers have long experience seeking out and
preserving folk music. Jabbour learned the style and repertory of 80-year-old master fiddler Henry Reed of Virginia
and researched, recorded and photographed the Hammons
family of West Virginia. An ethnomusicologist, Jabbour was
head of the Archive of Folk Song at the Library of Congress,
director of the folk arts program at the National Endowment
for the Arts, and founding director of the American Folklife
Center at the Library of Congress.In 2002, Jabbour released
New kittens are mewing; new mice try to squeak;
New birds in their nests will fly in a week.
In spring, in warm weather, all over our farm,
There’s hardly a baby that hasn’t been born.
— DOROTHY ALDIS
Fine
American
Craft
Gallery 103
A beautiful space filled
with handmade craft of
over 100 Vermont and
New England artisans.
Owned by artists
~ Elise and Payne Junker ~
Exclusive showroom of
Junker Studio Ironwork.
JEWELRY, GIFTS & FINE WOOLENS
We support American made craft!
Thurs–Mon 10–5 • Rt. 103, Chester, VT
802-875-7400 • www.gallery103.com
Jack’s Diner
ON THE GREEN, CHESTER, VT • 802-875-5463
HOURS: THURSDAY
THROUGH
SUNDAY ~ 11
TO
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a new CD of his own fiddling, joined by Bertram Levy and
James Reed, entitled “A Henry Reed Reunion,” and in 2005,
he and Perlman collaborated on the fiddling CD “Southern
Summits.”
Perlman, called “the Heifetz of the banjo,” spent over a
decade collecting tunes and oral histories of traditional fiddle
players on Prince Edward Island, and has also incorporated
the music of Scotland, Ireland, Cape Breton Island, and
the American South into his playing. He is a pioneer of the
five-string banjo style known as “melodic clawhammer,”
and a master of fingerstyle guitar. He is considered one of
the top clawhammer players in the world. His research on
P.E.I. has led to the publication of the tune book “The Fiddle
Music of Prince Edward Island” and a two-CD anthology
of field recordings entitled “The Prince Edward Island Style
of Fiddling.”
Both men have also directed banjo and music camps, including the Northeast Heritage Music Camp held each year
at Johnson State College in Johnson, VT, the American Banjo
Camp, Banjo Camp North and Bath Banjo Festival.
The Sunday workshop is open to all levels and will be divided between fiddle and banjo. Registration is requested.
Tickets for the concert are $10, from MSA, at local ticket
outlets, or while they last at the door. Maximum capacity
is 100. Cost for the workshop is $20, or $25 for both the
concert and the workshop.
Information and reservations can be made by calling MSA
at (802) 869-2960 or e-mailing [email protected].
Route 103 S., Chester, VT
Daily Specials
(802) 875-1062
Open 7 days 5:30 a.m. – 9 p.m.
Till 10:30 p.m. Fri & Sat night
Delicious Daily Specials • Homemade Desserts
Friday Night Fish Fry • Take Out Available
Beer & Wine • All Major Credit Cards
• Gluten-Free Crust
“Call Ahead”
802-875-2121 CHESTER, VT
Home-Style Cooking • Local Products
52 South Main St, Chester, VT • 802-875-6227
• Gift Certificates
Open Sun–Thurs 11 am – 11 pm
Fri & Sat 11 am – Midnight, Closed Tuesday
287 Main St.
Chester, VT
“Scottish hospitality in the hills of Vermont.”
Serving pub fare all day including burgers, sandwiches
and a few Scottish favorites. Also carrying a wide variety
of Scottish and other fine ales. Take-out available.
CURTIS’
Chester
Vermont
ALL AMERICAN
RESTAURANT
Open Wednesday-Sunday
For Lunch and Dinner
(from 11 am on)
Barbeque—Eat-in or Take-out
Beer & Wine
All-You-Can-Eat Buffet: Sat 4–7, Sun 12–3
$13.99 adults, $6.99 kids up to 10 yrs. old.
We Do Catering • (802) 875-6999
www.huggingbear.com
Rt.103, south of Chester, VT
Billings Farm & Museum
Hosts Annual Plowing Match
in Woodstock, VT, kicks off
the season on Sunday, May 3
with the 23rd Annual Plowing Match. Teams of horses
and oxen from the region’s
farms will once again compete in the farm fields.
Doors open at 9:00 a.m.
Competition begins at 10:30
a.m. with the team walking
plow contest and continues
into the afternoon with the
team sulky competition.
Enjoy horse-drawn wagon
rides, visitor plowing with
the Billings team, ox programs, and rope making
demonstrations.
Competitors, working
carefully with their teams,
will be judged on their technical skills and how well they
work with their animals as a
team. The Teago Volunteer
Fire Department will sell
lunch and tasty snacks, with
proceeds to benefit the fire
department.
Billings Farm is an operating Jersey dairy farm that
continues a century-long
tradition of agricultural excellence and offers farm programs and historical exhibits
that explore Vermont’s rural
heritage. It is owned and
operated by The Woodstock
Foundation Inc., founded by
Mary French and Laurance
Spelman Rockefeller.
is open daily from 10 a.m. to
5 p.m., starting May 1, 2009.
Admission: adults $11; 62 &
over $10; children 5-15, $6;
3-4, $3; 2 & under free.
It is located one-half mile
north of the Woodstock village green on Rt. 12. For
more info, contact the museum at (802) 457-2355 or
www.billingsfarm.org.
POSSESSION
I might move into the village—
A hired man could work my land—
I think I’ve earned a rest;
I wouldn’t haveto turn my hand
To milking cows or planting corn—or plowing it,
But come-to-think, I wonder if I’d fit
That kind of life;
If for a farmer bred-and-born
The easy life is best.
Grandfather settled here when land was free,
My father lived here to his dying day;
The land became a part of them
And they were part of it
And now it has become a part of me.
I might move into the village—
But there’s part of me would stay
Here on the farm. I’ve earned a rest—
But like-as-not I’ll never move away.
— NELLIE BURCH TENNANT
1939
Donna’s Twice Is Nice
Thrifty Boutique
Collectibles
Antiques
—Donna Whitney, Owner—
(802) 875-1517 • Open Tues–Fri 10–4, Sat & Sun 11–3
268 South Main Street, Chester, VT
Spring nursery duties are as old as the ages. All we know about this photo is that written on the back was the inscription
“Every year we had to feed ‘bum’ lambs, the ones who had been abandoned by their mothers.”
Stone
House
Primitives • Furniture • Woodenware
Tools • Old Hardware • Cast Iron Cookware
Glass & China • Photos & Postcards
Owners:
George & Mary
Bittner
(802) 272-7525
Mon, Thurs,
& Sat 9–5:30
and by chance
or appointment
Just ½ Mile North of Stone House Antiques
389 Route 103, Chester, VT
ANTIQUES CENTER
A multitude of antiques, collectibles and crafts.
Over 250 booths featuring fine furniture, primitives,
folk art, farm implements, quilts, books and bottles.
Open Daily 10 am to 5 pm. (802) 875-4477.
Route 103, Chester, VT. 8 miles west of Exit 6, I-91.
“Help Bring Some
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Shut-Ins!”
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Contact:
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Bradford, VT
05033
Simply Country
Rte. 103, 527 North St., Chester, VT 05143
[email protected] • (802) 875-7500
Mon, Wed, Thurs, Fri, & Sat 10–5,
Sun 11–4, Closed Tues.
• Rugs
• Candles
• Quilts & Linens
• Pictures
• Lamps & Shades
• Dolls
• Framed Pictures
• Barn Stars
• Signs
• Furniture
• Florals
• Pottery
• And much
more
Great primitive and
country finds to decorate
your home with.
SIMPLY COUNTRY
Endless Creations
Pottery Studio
442 Elm Street, Chester • (802) 875-2008
Open Wed & Fri 12–7, Thurs 10–9,
Sat 10–7, Sun by appointment.
Great for Birthday Parties!
Early Springtime Maple Treats
MAPLE EGG NOG
½ cup Vermont maple syrup 3 well beaten eggs
2 cups milk
¼ cup brandy or rum
½ cup heavy cream
(may omit)
1
(whipped)
⁄8 teaspoon ginger
Combine ginger, eggs, milk, maple syrup and salt, beat until
well blended. Add the rum or brandy. Four into glasses. Top
with whipped cream.
MAPLE JOHNNY CAKE
1
⁄3 cup Vermont maple syrup 11⁄3 cups flour
2
⁄3 cup cornmeal
3 tablespoons baking powder
2
½ teaspoon salt
⁄3 cup milk
2 eggs
½ cup melted shortening
Sift flour, cornmeal, baking powder and salt together. Beat
eggs. Add milk, maple syrup and eggs. Add dry ingredients
then melted shortening. Bake in a 9˝x9˝ pan at 350–375°F
20–30 minutes. Recipe may also bake 12 muffins.
MAPLE OATMEAL BREAD
¾ cup boiling water
1 cup hot coffee
1
1 cup rolled oats,
⁄3 cup shortening
regular or old-fashioned ½ cup Vermont maple syrup
5½ cups sifted bread flour or ½ cup sugar
enough to make stiff dough 2 teaspoons salt
2 packages dry yeast
¼ cup lukewarm water
2 eggs, unbeaten
Combine boiling water, coffee, rolled oats, shortening, maple
syrup, sugar and salt. Let this mixture cool until lukewarm.
Dissolve yeast in ¼ cup lukewarm water and add to the first
mixture. Blend in the eggs. Gradually add the sifted flour
and mix until smooth. Add enough more flour to make a
stiff dough. Place in a greased bowl, cover and let rise until
double in size. Knead a very little and divide into two loaves.
Place in two well-greased bread pans. Let rise again. Bake
in moderate oven 350°F one hour.
Gallery
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Visual Art Using Local Talent
Art Gallery & Gift Shop
68 MAIN ST., SPRINGFIELD, VT
Tues–Sat 11–5
802-885-7111
www.galleryvault.org
Natural & Organic Food ~ Local Products
335 River St., Springfield, VT
802-885-3363
photo by Jennifer Gilson
GMAC Center Director Kim Guertin demonstrates how to tap a tree on one of several educational tours during the day.
MAPLE BRAN MUFFINS
MAPLE DROP COOKIES
2
½ cup shortening
1 cup Vermont maple syrup
1 beaten egg
2¼ cups flour
2 teaspoons baking powder ½ teaspoon salt
½ cup chopped pecans
Combine in order given, let stand 5–10 minutes before baking
in a 375°F oven 10–12 minutes.
1 cup commercial sour cream ⁄3 cup Vermont maple syrup
3 well beaten eggs
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 cup all-bran
1 teaspoon baking powder
½ cup each raisins
½ teaspoon baking soda
and chopped nuts
Combine cream, syrup and eggs. Mix sifted flour, baking
powder, baking soda, bran, raisins and nuts. Add liquid to
dry ingredients and mix quickly. Pour into greased muffin
tins. Fill 2⁄3 full. Bake in oven 350°F about 20 minutes.
¾ cup Vermont maple syrup 2 eggs
½ cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 unbaked 8˝ pie shell
1 cup maple sugar
¼ cup brown sugar or
¼ teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon flour
1 teaspoon cinnamon
granulated maple sugar 1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon nutmeg
1 teaspoon allspice
½ teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon cinnamon
2 beaten eggs
1 cup sour cream
½ teaspoon ginger
1½ cups flour
Combine flour, sugar and spices. Add cream to eggs. Stir Combine maple syrup, eggs, milk, vanilla, and brown or
in sugar mixture. Four into unbaked pie shell and bake at granulated maple sugar. Add remaining ingredients and mix
325°F until just firm.
well. Pour into greased 9˝ square baking pan. Bake at 350°F
25–30 minutes.
Maple Glaze:
1½ cups confectioner’s sugar ½ cup Vermont maple syrup
1 tablespoon water
Mix well and drizzle over warm cake.
SOUR CREAM MAPLE PIE
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Route 11, W. Andover, VT
23rd Annual Horse & Ox Competition
Between Londonderry & Chester
(802) 875-1042 • Ken & Shirley Trabold
Plowing Match
MAPLE GINGERBREAD SQUARES
TOPPED WITH MAPLE WALNUT GLAZE
Open Weekends 11 am – 4 pm
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These recipes are excerpted with permission from The
Vermont Maple Cookbook. You can order a copy for $12.00
plus $4.00 s.h. from the Vermont Maple Festival, PO Box
255, St. Albans, VT 05478. (802) 524-5800.
Est.
1952
R. B. Erskine, Inc.
Grain & Supplies
Mon-Fri, 7:30-5:00; Sat 7:30-3:00
Rural Needs From A To Z
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Wagon Rides & Visitor Plowing
Working Dairy Farm • 1890 Farm House
Farm Life Exhibits • A Place in the Land film
Lunch & snacks by the
Teago Volunteer Fire Dept.
Proceeds benefit Fire Department
Rte. 12 • Woodstock, VT • 802-457-2355
Breakfast • Lunch
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A…Ax & Adze Handles
B…Buckets of De-icer
C…Chimney Pipes, 3” to 10”
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G…Gates 12’ to 16’
H…High Tensile Fencing
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Mud, Sun, Snow and the Glories of Sugaring!
Visit a Vermont Maple Sugarhouse This Spring!
Vermont is the leading producer of maple
syrup in the United States with an annual
average yield of half a million gallons. While
many sugar houses have gift stores open yearround, the actual tapping of maple trees and
boiling of sap is limited to the early spring.
The sugaring season begins in southern
Vermont in late February and continues
through March and well into April in northern Vermont. The sap flows when weather
conditions provide the right combination
of freezing nights and warmer days. To
make one gallon syrup sugarmakers must
boil down approximately forty gallons of
sap. These stands of trees are called “sugarbushes” or “maple orchards” and the boiling
of sap takes place in a sugarhouse with a
characteristic vented roof.
With few exceptions many sugarmakers
will have their welcome mats out for visitors
this season, to watch the sap being boiled. Be
sure to call ahead whether it is just to look
around or to arrange a sugar-on-snow party.
Some sugar makers offer horse and sleigh or
wagon rides, and some have other scheduled
festivities.
Here is a sampling of the many Vermont
sugarhouses that welcome your visit. Wear
warm and weatherproof clothing for touring
sugarhouses and the sugarbush, and bring
your sweet tooth!
educational video, maple museum. Maple
trail to walk. Maple syrup, maple cream,
maple sugar, maple candies, gift baskets.
Maple creemees served every day. Live
music March 28 & 29. Public is welcome
to enjoy our sugar-on-snow parties during
March and April!
HUNTINGTON
Green Mountain Audubon Center, Steve
Hagenbuch. 255 Sherman Hollow Rd,
Huntington, VT 05462. (HuntingtonRichmond Rd., 5 miles from Richmond
village, off 1-89 Exit 11.) (802) 434-3068.
Mon–Fri. Educational programs, sugar-onsnow parties & self-guided trail. Native
American sugaring demonstrations. Maple
syrup and sugar sold here, by mail order,
and online at www.vt.audubon.org. Sugaron-snow parties open to the public, March
28. 29 & April 5 from noon to 4 pm. Free.
LUDLOW
Green Mountain Sugar House, Ann &
Doug Rose. 820 Rte. 100 N, Ludlow, VT
05149. (North of Ludlow on Rte 100 N. on
the shore of Lake Pauline in the scenic lakes
district.) (800) 643-9338, (802) 228-7151.
[email protected]. www.gmsh.com. Open daily,
year-round, 9–6. Easy-to-find sugarhouse,
with charming giftshop attached with a
very red roof! Sugaring parties arranged.
Complimentary sugar-on-snow and other
Vermont Sugarhouses
maple treats. Come see maple syrup being
BRATTLEBORO
made and take some home. Maple syrup,
Robb Family Farm, Helen T. Robb. 827 maple cream, maple sugar, and gift baskets
Ames Hill Road, Brattleboro, VT 05301. at the gift shop and by mail order.
(Exit 2, I-91, go right (west) onto Rte. 9. Go
1.3 miles to 7-11 convenience store; immediMANCHESTER
ately past store, take left onto Greenleaf St., Dutton Farmstand, Paul and Wendy Dutton.
go 1½ miles to intersection, go straight onto Rt. 11/30, Manchester Center, VT 05255.
Ames Hill Road. Then go 1½ miles, sugar- (Rts. 11/30, up the mountain from center of
house is on the left next to Country Shop.) Manchester Center, on left hand side across
(802) 257-0163. (802) 258-9087. robbfarm@ from Red Sled Motel.) (802) 362-3083. duttogether.net. www.piecesofvermont.com. [email protected]. www.duttonberryfarm.
Open daily. Family-operated working dairy com. Open every day. 2,400 taps, buckets
farm. 2,200-tap wood-fueled operation. and tubing. Demonstration of all aspects of
Come experience hands-on sugaring. Help sugarmaking. Complete tour of sugarhouse
gather sap, load firewood onto cart, sample and surroundings, easily accessible. Public
warm syrup or just sit and watch, taking in welcome to our sugarhouse whenever we
the wonderful aroma.
are boiling. Free syrup and cider samples.
Farmstores open in Manchester and Newfane
DUMMERSTON
Dwight Miller Orchards, D. Read Miller. year round, W. Brattleboro from Spring on.
511 Miller Rd., E. Dummerston, VT 05346. Produce, greenhouses, maple products, baked
(802) 254-9635. Open year round. Mail or- goods and much more!
der. Organic maple syrup, maple sugar. Also
MONTPELIER
organic fruits: apples and cider year round,
Morse
Farm
Maple Sugar Works, Burr
other fruits from April till the snow flies!
Morse. 1168 County Road, Montpelier, VT
EAST MONTPELIER
05602. (Follow signs north on Main Street
Bragg Farm Sugarhouse & Gift Shop, in Montpelier. We are 2.7 miles from center
Douglas & Barbara Bragg. P.O. Box 201, of Montpelier.) (802) 223-2740.maple@
East Montpelier, VT 05651. (1005 VT Rte. morsefarm.com.www.morsefarm.com. The
14 North, 1 mi. north of East Montpelier seventh and eighth generation of Morses
Village, 5 miles from Barre or Montpelier.) currently produce syrup from 3000 maple
(800) 376-5757. (802)223-5757. www. trees. Large gift shop with maple products
braggfarm.com. Open year round, daily from and goodies. Maple creemees. Sugarhouse
8:30 am – 6 pm. Visit a traditional family- tours and multimedia slide show—Morse
operated sugarhouse, 5 generations! 2,200 Farm video. Woodshed theater. Ski right
buckets, gathered with tractor, boiled with to our maple trees on the Morse Farm Ski
wood-fired arch. Large retail gift shop with Touring Trail System. Rentals available.
food and maple products right on Rte. 14N. Stop at the sugarhouse for a free voucher to
Mail order. Free personal tours and tasting, ski. See our folk art sculptures and dioramas
“Help Bring Some Joy to Vermont Shut-Ins!”
Join The
Vermont Sunshine Society
Volunteers Needed
Monthly Newsletter
Free Memberships
Contact: Bev Grimes
225 Plateau Acres, Bradford, VT 05033
photo by Peter Miller
Gathering sap by horse and sled on a bright March day at Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe, VT.
depicting Vermont farm life. Sugar-on-snow month of March. Year-round complete farm
parties from noon to 4 p.m. every weekend gift shop and seasonal farm stand and mail
in March.
order. Our own maple syrup, maple cream,
maple sugar, maple candies, Vermont crafts,
POULTNEY
jams and jellies, and gift baskets.
Green’s Sugar House, 1846 Finel Hollow
ROYALTON
Rd., Poultney, VT 05764. (Take Rte. 140
east to East Poultney. Go 2 miles up Finel Eaton’s Sugar House, Frank Candelier,
Hollow Rd. Sugarhouse is on the right.) 5894 Vermont Rte. 14, Royalton, VT 05068.
(802) 287-5745. Open daily while boiling (I-89, Exit 3, at the Junction of Rte. 14 and
sap. Friendly family operation. 5,000 taps, Rte. 107.) (802) 763-8809. sugarhouse@
half buckets, half pipeline. Easy access. Free vtmaple.com. Open year round, 7 am – 3 pm.
syrup samples. Mail order. Maple syrup, Sugarhouse Restaurant, breakfast served all
maple cream, maple candy, maple fudge, and day, daily specials. Gift shop and mail order.
granulated maple sugar. Gift boxes for every Maple syrup, sugar, candy, cream, Vermont
specialty foods, gift baskets.
occasion. Open House March 28 & 29.
PUTNEY
Harlow’s Sugar House, Donald Harlow,
556 Bellows Falls Rd., Putney, VT 05346.
(3 miles north Putney Village on Rte. 5,
Exit 4, I-91.) (802) 387-5852. Open March
1 – Dec. 31 from 9 am – 5 pm. A family
farm with working sugar house during the
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Wood Roasted BBQ Take-Out & Catering
For a complete brochure of Vermont
Sugarhouses con tact Ver mont Dept. of
Ag ri cul ture, Food and Markets, 116
State Sreet, Montpelier, VT 05620-2901.
(802) 828-2500. Or visit these websites:
www.vermontmaple.org, www.vermont
agriculture.com.
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Hearthstone Village
Route 100,
S. Londonderry, VT
Sleigh and Wagon Rides
Karl Pfister • 802-824-4663
Landgrove, VT
Full Caretaking Services
Lawn Care • Snowplowing
Excavation • Gravel • Topsoil
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Come Visit Our Farm!
Cheese tasting & demos, woodworking,
horse-drawn wagon and sleigh rides, farm animals.
~ Farm Store ~
We Make Our Own
Award-Winning Farmstead Gouda Cheese!
Rt. 11 West, Londonderry, VT
(20 min. from Manchester or Stratton)
(802) 824-5690. [email protected].
From Zeke To Sally
by Sally O’Kane McClintock Tell all my friends that my ship just came
sailing in!
It was filled with the holy spirit, it was
filled with joy divine.
Wouldn’t you like to sail on a ship like
mine?
The little paper boat sits on my desk, “From Zeke To Sally”
hand-printed on its hull, a memento from my trip to Florida.
I wonder how long the little boy who made it, my seat-mate
on the return trip, will remember me.
My trip to Naples started out badly. I was trying to visit my
daughter Alice’s family and with bad storms and floods, there
were long lines, urgent phone calls and unkept airline promises.Then after two days of cancelled and rescheduled flights,
I was stuck in the Dallas airport for 7 hours. Although the
airline had promised the connecting flight would wait for my
plane, it had left. “Planes never wait,” the agent told me.
When I finally got to Florida at 5 p.m., it was so good to see
Alice, Brian and Lauren meeting my plane. A year had passed
since our last visit and I was looking forward to watching my
granddaughter in a children’s musical. We had time for the
drive to Naples and a tasty dinner before the play.
The hassles of the trip were worth it, seeing Lauren’s joy
as she sang and danced with the cast, the pride of the parents,
the excited children, the bouquets, our stroll down the avenue
afterward in the warm evening, the ice cream to celebrate.
Brian, concerned about the ups and downs of my trip and
the false promise of a “waiting airplane,” had e-mailed a
complaint to the airline. They replied with a letter of regret
for “Gramma Sally’s” experience and a voucher for $200
for my next trip.
After a too-short visit of a week, Alice dropped me off at
the airport for my return to Tacoma and home. This time the
flight was on time. When I went down the aisle to locate my
seat, I found a small blond boy sitting by the window with a
large back-pack and a comic book under his feet.
“Are you traveling alone?” I asked. Soberly he nodded. I
asked his name and he pointed to a large card hanging around
his neck by a chain—Ezekiel.
“Have you traveled alone before?” He nodded yes. I asked
a few more questions and he nodded or shook his head. “You
don’t have to talk if you don’t want to,” I said. I opened my
book. I didn’t want to intrude.
Finally he told me in a soft little voice that he was seven
years old and had been visiting his grandmother in Naples.
He was flying home to Dallas. I told him I was a grandmother
too. My granddaughter was eight.
He turned to the window and pulled down the shade and I
resumed reading my book. Then, hearing a muffled sound,
I looked over and saw his head buried in the window, his
shoulders shaking with sobs.
I didn’t know what to do. My instinct was to hug him but
he didn’t know me. I decided that talking might help him
feel better. I asked questions about his friends, his pets, his
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school. Did he have any brothers or sisters? He shook his
head, then said in a stifled voice, “I miss my Gramma.”
Gradually he became more talkative. He said he was really
six, he was in the first grade, and he had “a Naples gramma”
and “a Dallas gramma.” His mother worked and “My Daddy
is in heaven. He died when he was twenty-one.”
I gave up on reading my book and we passed the time
conversing with each other. As we neared the end of our
flight, he asked me, “Do you want me to make you a boat?”
I tore a page from my journal, and with his little fingers, he
nimbly folded and refolded it until, with a little twist, he
transformed the paper into a little boat.
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He took my pen and printed in capital letters “From Zeke”
onto the hull. “How do you spell Sally?” Carefully he printed
the rest of the message: “To Sally.” I thanked him and put
the little boat in my purse.
Zeke kept chatting with me, then turned around and got
on his knees to converse with the couple behind him. As we
prepared to land, I advised him to sit down and fasten his
seat-belt. “But I want to talk to them,” he objected. With my
insistence, he complied.
When the plane landed in Dallas, I felt uncomfortable
leaving Zeke at his seat. He started to follow me out, but I
motioned him back to wait for the stewardess. I hoped the
couple behind him would look out for him until then.
I changed planes, again with no problem. Arriving in
Seattle, I took the shuttle to Tacoma and got home at 1:30
a.m., heading straight for bed.
When I unpacked in the morning, I put the little boat on
my desk next to the program for Lauren’s musical. I reflected
how I had been two grandmothers on my trip—“a Naples
gramma” and “an airplane gramma.”
With the voucher, I expect to see Lauren sooner the next
time, but I don’t expect to see Zeke again. I think he will soon
forget me as he resumes his life in Dallas with his mother
and grandmothers, his pets, and his school. But I find myself
remembering him whenever I look at the little boat.
www.thebeanrestaurant.com • (802) 362-0110
Dutton’s Sugarhouse in Manchester Center, VT is well-stocked for sugaring with their wood-fired evaporator.
THE LAMB
Little Lamb, who made thee?
Dost thou know who made thee?
Gave thee life and bid thee feed
By the stream and o’er the mead;
Gave thee clothing of delight,
Softest clothing, woolly, bright;
Gave thee such a tender voice,
Making all the vales rejoice?
Little Lamb, who made thee?
Dost thou know who made thee?
Little Lamb, I’ll tell thee;
Little Lamb, I’ll tell thee;
He is called by thy name,
For He calls Himself a Lamb.
He is meek and He is mild,
He became a little child.
I a child, and thou a lamb,
We are called by His name;
Little Lamb, God bless thee!
Little Lamb, God bless thee!
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West Mt. Rd., Shaftsbury, VT
Off Historic Rt. 7A
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8 miles north of Bennington
15 miles south of Manchester
New Maple Syrup!
~ Come Watch Us Boil ~
Tour our sugarhouse in Manchester Center
Come and see us
Call to sign up
for ongoing classes.
Black Sheep Yarns, 25 Stonewall Lane
just off Route 30, in Dorset, VT.
Open daily 10–5, closed Tuesdays.
(802) 362-2411.
Independent Living Apartments and
Cottages, Residential Care Apartments
and coming soon, Rose Lane,
our Memory Care Wing.
Call for details!
(802) 447-7000
300 Village Lane, Bennington, VT
www.villageatfillmorepond.com
Free Samples of Maple Syrup
and Fresh Sweet Cider
Spring is Coming!
Watch for our Greenhouse Opening
Fresh Apples
From Our Own Orchards
Homemade Baked Goods—Fresh Fruit Pies,
Pastries, Cookies, Bread. Our Own Jams,
Jellies, Honey, and Vermont Cheeses.
Fresh Produce—Gilfeather Turnips, Carrots,
Potatoes, and all your favorite
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Vermont’s Trout Season
Opens Saturday, April 11th
Opening day of Vermont’s trout fishing season—April
11th this year—is big on tradition. It marks the beginning
of another year of memorable angling experiences, alone,
or with family or friends, at streamside, or on quiet lakes
and ponds.
Early trout fishing provides a great reason to get outdoors,
enjoy our warmer weather and try your luck at catching
colorful brook, brown or rainbow trout as they become
more active.
“This year’s trout season signals the start of another year
of enjoyable fishing on Vermont streams and lakes” said
John Hall with the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department.
“Although many lakes and ponds will still have ice, opportunities for good trout fishing will be available at inlets
and outlets.”
Experienced anglers say worms or nightcrawlers make
excellent bait for trout that are often lethargic due to the cold
water present in early April.
Anglers are reminded to use sinkers that are not made of
lead. It is unlawful to use a lead sinker weighing one-half
ounce or less while fishing in Vermont. Weighted fly line,
lead-core line, downrigger cannonballs, weighted flies, lure,
spoons, or jig heads are not prohibited.
Fishing license fees are $20 for adult residents, $8 for
residents 15–17 years of age, $41 for adult nonresidents, and
$15 for nonresidents 15–17 years old. One, three and seven
day fishing licenses also are available for nonresidents. Children under age 15 do not need a fishing license in Vermont.
Licenses are available at agents statewide and from Fish &
Wildlife’s website.
“Although early trout fishing requires special tactics,
Vermont’s long-standing tradition of getting out on opening
day of trout season always tempts anglers who have been
dreaming about the opportunity all winter” added Hall.
Planning a Vermont spring trout fishing trip is easy. The
Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department offers a free 2009
Guide to Hunting, Fishing and Trapping that is full of
useful and interesting information. Get a free copy where
fishing licenses are sold, or from the Vermont Fish & Wildlife
Department, 103 South Main Street, Waterbury, VT 05671.
(802) 241-3700. vtfishandwildlife.com.
The Vermont Outdoor Guides Association (www.VOGA.
org) offers help in locating fishing guides and overnight facilities. For additional help finding a place to stay overnight
visit www.VermontVacation.com.
Early spring fishing in the chilly waters of southern Vermont.
The Spring Walk We had a pleasant walk to-day
Over the meadows and far away,
Across the bridge by the water-mill,
By the woodside and up the hill.
And from the earth the plow turned up
There came a sweet, refreshing smell,
Such as the lily of the vale
Sends forth from many a woodland dell.
And if you listen to what I say,
I’ll tell you what we saw to-day...
And leaning from the old stone bridge,
Below, we saw our shadows lie;
And through the gloomy arches watched
The swift and fearless swallows fly.
Amid a hedge, where the first leaves
Were peeping from their sheathes so sly,
We saw four eggs within a nest,
And they were blue as a summer sky.
An elder branch dipped in the brook;
We wondered why it moved, and found
A silken-haired smooth water-rat
Nibbling, and swimming round and round.
Where daisies open’d to the sun,
In a broad meadow, green and white,
The lambs were racing eagerly —
We never saw a prettier sight.
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[email protected] | 802.446.3705
—Re-Opening Daily Mid-April—
Home Baked Breads
Pastries,
Pies,
Cookies.
— Orders Taken —
Also, Maple Syrup & Eggs
The Otter Creek
Academy for the
Performing Arts
Piano, Organ, Brass, Voice,
Theater Arts, Liturgical
Music & Arts.
Jim and Jane McKeon, Proprietors
5280 Rt. 7, South Wallingford, VT • (802) 446-3967
Black Goat
Folk Art
Original Folk Art Paintings
by Rich ard Chalmers
825 Rt. 7A, East Dorset, VT • 802-379-1239
4 miles north of Manchester Center, VT
We saw upon the shady banks
Long rows of golden flowers shine,
And first mistook for buttercups
The star-shaped yellow celandine.
Anemones and primroses,
And the blue violets of spring,
We found, while listening by a hedge
To hear a merry plowman sing.
We heard the speckle-breasted lark
As it sang somewhere out of sight,
And tried to find it, but the sky
Was filled with clouds of dazzling light.
We saw young rabbits near the woods
And heard the pheasant’s wings go “whir”;
And then we saw a squirrel leap
From an old oak tree to a fir.
We came back by the village fields,
A pleasant walk it was across ‘em,
For all behind the houses lay
The orchards red and white with blossom.
Were I to tell you all we saw,
I’m sure that it would take me hours;
For the whole landscape was alive
With bees, and birds, and buds, and flowers.
— THOMAS MILLER
England, 1807–1874
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Vermont’s Long Trail Since 1910
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Groceries, Cold Beer & Soda, Ice, Videos.
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Daily dinner specials including: meatballs, shrimp,
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Open till 7:30 daily, 6:30 Sunday.
Mill River Auto Sales
Rt. 7 South, Wallingford, VT • (802) 446-3388
Open 9–5 daily, 10–2 Sat, evenings by appointment
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And Reproductions
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1764 Timouth Rd., Danby Four Corners, VT
“Housewarming Party 1905”
(1.5 miles north of Danby Four Corners)
Open Most Days—Call Ahead • (802) 293-2489
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82 South Main Street
Danby, Vermont 05739
802-293-2820
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GMC — Killington Section
Enjoy An Early Spring Outing With The Green Mountain Club!
Spring is officially coming this month but you might not
know it in the upper elevations of the Green Mountains! In
any case, a variety of outing are planned by the Killington
Section of the Green Mountain Club and you are invited to
come along. Newcomers and nonmembers are welcome and
the outings are free. Bring drinking water and a lunch. Wear
sturdy footwear, dress appropriately for the weather, and be
prepared for weather changes. This is Vermont!
Unless otherwise noted, all trips leave from Rutland’s Main
Street Park, near the east end of the fire station. Distances
are round trip and are approximate, as are elevation gains.
Trips vary considerably in level of difficulty. Call the leader
in each listing if you have any questions.
Saturday, March 28, 6 p.m.
GMC Killington Section
Annual Meeting, Rutland, VT
Bring a dish to share and you own place setting for a pot
luck supper followed by a short business meeting and election of officers. All are welcome! Good Shepherd Lutheran
Church on Hillside Avenue. Leader: Sue Thomas, (802)
773-2185.
Sunday, April 5, 10 a.m.
Grandpa’s Knob, Castleton, VT
Climb to the site of the first municipal wind turbine
(1940s). Views in all directions of the Greens, the Adirondacks, and the Taconics, and some very silly rocks. Moderate, 3 miles, 1000-foot elevation gain. Leader: Tom Copps,
(802) 770-9394.
Saturday, April 18, 10 a.m.
Mt. Zion, Hubbardton, VT
Hikers from an earlier time climb to a ridgeline in the Green Mountains of Vermont.
A Green Mountain Club Publication
1931 Journal Tells of Hiking on the New Long Trail
Visit a Japanese garden and see waterfalls, rolling meadIn 1931 Vermont’s Long
ows, and mountain views at this unique site, home to Moot Trail, the first long distance
Point. Moderate, 3 miles, with some steep spots. Rain date: hiking trail in the United
April 19. Leaders: Barb & Barry Griffith, (802) 492-3573. States, had just been completed. Hikers wore hobSaturday, April 25, 9 a.m.
nailed army shoes, canvas
Cook Mountain, Ticonderoga, NY
leggings, and woolen underView Lake George and the Champlain Valley from the top wear. In their pack baskets
of the Tongue Mountain Range. Moderate, 4 miles, 900-foot they carried heavy blankets,
elevation gain. Leader: Allison Henry, (802) 775-1627.
bread wrapped in wax paper,
and an axe to kill the abunSaturday, May 2, 9 a.m.
dant porcupines.
Bald Top Mountain, Fairlee, VT
Dartmouth College stuSweeping views of the White and Green Mountains from dents James Gordon Hindes
the 1776-foot summit alongside Lake Morey. Moderate, and John Eames decided to
6.5 miles, 1375-foot elevation gain. Leaders: Viv & Larry undertake the challenge of
Walter, (802) 775-3855.
walking the new trail from
Saturday, May 9, 9 a.m.
Massachusetts to the Canadian border. On their monthWild Flower Hike
A slow-paced hike to identify early spring wildflowers and long journey the young men
birds. Location to be determined. Leader: Connie Young- would fight drenching rains
and physical discomfort.
strom, (802) 492-3502.
Long Trail Spring Cleaning
All are welcome to help prepare the trail for the summer
hiking season. We’ll clear water bars, trim brush, and cut
blowdowns on the lower elevation stretches. Bring work
gloves, sturdy shoes, and lunch. Tools will be provided.
Have fun while doing a good deed. Leader: Herb Ogden,
(802) 293-2510.
Send for a free
guide to over 100
campgrounds
and many
state parks
They would marvel at sweeping vistas that few others had
seen. And they would find
shelter with farm families
who welcomed them into
their homes and shared their
meals, despite the hardships
of the Great Depression.
So Clear, So Cool, So
Grand is the Green Mountain
Club’s publication of the
wonderful trail journal that
Hindes wrote along the way.
It is one of the first accounts
of a Long Trail end-to-end
hike. It offers an entertaining
and enlightening look at the
early days of long-distance
hiking, and a glimpse of
life in Vermont when telephones needed switchboard
operators, listening to the
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Campground
Association
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For information about the GMC Killington Section visit
web.mac.com/gmckillington. For GMC membership and activities contact the Green Mountain Club at (802) 244-7037
or [email protected]. greenmountainclub.org.
MIKE’S COUNTRY STORE
Mom’s
Country Kitchen
Ann M. Lattuca, proprietor
(802) 446-2693
[email protected]
Climb to a sweeping view atop a spectacular cliff. Moderate, 3 to 4 miles with some steep pitches and a little bushwhacking. Leader: Tom Copps, (802) 770-9394.
Rt. 7 Clarendon (Just So. of Rutland) (802) 773-7100
So Clear, So Cool, So
Grand by James Gordon
Hindes and edited by Reidun
Nuquist is available from
The Green Mountain Club’s
online store for $8.95.
Contact The Green Mountain Club, 4711 WaterburyStowe Rd., Waterbury Center,
VT 05677. (802) 244-7037.
greenmountainclub.org.
The
Bird Mountain (aka Birdseye), Castleton, VT
All “In-Stock”
Kayaks & Canoes
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radio was the primary form
of entertainment, and fire
wardens still kept watch
from the mountaintops. This
historic account, edited and
with an introduction by longtime GMC volunteer and
research librarian Reidun
Nuqist, comes on the eve of
the Green Mountain Club’s
centennial anniversary.
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Open Mon–Fri, 8 am – 4 pm; Sat, 8 am – 1 pm
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Lighting
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Hooks & Coat Racks
Custom Work Accepted
Visit Our Working Blacksmith Shop
Or Browse Our Gallery
41 Cook Dr. at Rt. 7, just south of Wallingford, VT
Open daily • (802) 446-3900
vermontforgings.com
(802) 773-8650 • Rt 7 S, North Clarendon, VT
Waiting for Spring
by W. L. Felker
Waiting for spring can tion, the fruit of persistence
be like trying to go to sleep and dogged hope.
when you have insomnia.
Like counting sheep or
Sometimes the best thing to breaths or numerals, countdo is to count. Counting is ing dimensions of the interval
a simple measure of time, between autumn and April
limits time to individual requires no rules or ethics,
pieces, takes away some of is not competitive, does not
its mystery and emptiness. require special study or skill.
Counting is an act of will, And like counting sheep
forces focus, works against or breaths or numerals, the
discouragement, places the choice of things to be counted
counter in opposition to the is arbitrary, has no necessary
psychology and physiology socially redeeming value,
of sleeplessness.
does not end poverty or bring
Numbers are infinite, and peace, has no theology.
so are the pieces of winter.
This is the anarchy, the
Counting in sequence cre- freedom of mindfulness that
ates apparent progress and looses the mind’s eye to
finite limits. Even though rhythm or accumulation or
awareness of winter’s events listing or repetition or the
seems to produce few results, emptiness of any single object
seems to have no sum or sub- until something new suddenly
stance, observations can be occurs without our creating it,
like digits in a sprawling but and we fall asleep and dream
promising nighttime equa- or discover spring.
Mid-State
DRAFT PONY
Association
Includes draft horses
and ponies
Your membership is welcomed.
Send $5/yearly dues to:
Robert Tracy • (802) 234-5109
560 Stackpole Rd., Bethel, VT 05032
Fashion Corner
Bridal Dresses • Bridesmaid
Gowns • Mother of the Bride
Flower Girl Dresses • Tuxedos
Shoes • Prom Dresses • Special
Occasion Jewelry & Invitations
Hours: Mon–Fri 10–5, Sat 10–3, Closed Sun
4325 Main St. • Port Henry, NY • (518) 546-7499
Leaves burst forth as spring comes to East Topsham, VT.
Sowing Early Crops
And Other Spring Gardening Tips
By Charlie Nardozzi, Senior Horticulturist, National Gardening Association,
and Dr. Leonard Perry, Extension Professor, University of Vermont
The first crops that can be sown in the ground once the soil close to the surface; better yet, pull the weeds by hand so
has dried out enough are beets, carrots, lettuce, parsley, peas, you don’t accidentally cut off a plant.
radishes, spinach, and Swiss chard. Plan to make successive
Moving a woody plant before it begins new spring growth
sowings to prolong the harvest.
causes less stress on the plant, so try to do this type of transOnce the soil reaches 45 degrees and is dried out enough planting as soon as the soil is workable. The larger the plant,
to dig, it’s time to plant peas. Choose a location in full sun the more the timing matters.
and orient the rows north-south to take full advantage of the
Spraying dormant oil, sowing early crops, and preventing
sunlight. Turn over the soil with a garden fork, or rototill if weed germination in lawns, are some of the gardening tips
it’s a new bed. Soak the seeds for a few hours or overnight for this month.
(no longer or they may rot), and dust the seeds with an inIf scale or aphids have been a problem on trees and shrubs,
oculant of nitrogen-fixing bacteria to help the roots take in get the dormant oil spray ready for a day above 40 degrees
more nitrogen. You can find this inoculant online or at many with no wind. Coat the branches, and repeat if directed on
full service garden centers.
the label. Early spring, when young scales are in the crawler
Set up your pea trellis first, then plant the seeds 1 to 2 stage, is the best time to control these pests.
inches deep. Cultivate very shallowly because the roots grow
Before annual crabgrass and other lawn weeds germinate
this spring, spread corn gluten pre-emergent herbicide/fertilwith a lawn spreader. The corn gluten suppresses seed
47 South Main Street, Fair Haven, VT izer
germination and also provides nutrients to the grass. Use the
blooming time of forsythia to signal that it’s time to spread
the crabgrass control.
Easter
Bunnies
COSTUME
Rentals & Sales
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2 W. MAIN ST., GRANVILLE, NY
HAZEL’S GIFT SHOP
Dolls • Doll Houses
Toys • Home Made Items
Open daily 10 am to 9 pm
Slate Clocks, Plaques, House Signs, Trivets,
Coasters. Personalized & Custom Orders.
And a Variety of Other Gifts.
Hours: Monday–Friday 9–5, Saturday 9–2
(518) 642-2781 • 1-800-849-3257
Fair Haven, VT • 802-265-4437
At the corner of Prospect St.,
One mile east of the Welcome Center on Old Rt. 4A
Bittersweet
Bridal Accessories
CONSIGMENT BOUTIQUE
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Women’s Clothing • Maternity • Children’s
“Where the Smart Shopper shops first.”
Gifts & Gift Baskets
Designs by Denise
MAPLE SUGAR HOUSE
150 Main St., Poultney, VT • (802) 287-9277
518-642-1799
THE ORIGINAL VERMONT STORE
Off Rt. 22 In North Granville, NY.
Mother Nature’s
Stoneware ®
Collection
***
Watch for signs! www.rathbunsmaple.com
Specializing in Homemade Pancakes
with our own Pure Maple Syrup…
French Toast and Waffles • Old Fashioned Oatmeal
and Eggs many styles • Sausage Gravy & Biscuits
Rathbun’s is family-owned operating since 1961.
A place where people are greeted with a smile
and feel the comforts of home.
For the Kitchen
Open Mon–Fri 9–5,
Sat 9–1, Closed Sunday
(802) 265-9756
31 Main Street, Fair Haven, VT
Memory Lane
Antiques
Collectables
Open Monday–Saturday
9 am – 6 pm
Multi-Dealer Shop • Buy & Sell
***
10120 Rt. 4, Whitehall, NY 12887
(802) 287-9111
163 Main St., Poultney, VT
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Tues, Wed, Fri 10–5; Thurs 10-6:30; Sat 10–4 • Annette Arnold
Open
Fri., Sat. & Sun,
7 am – 1 pm
Come Watch Us Boiling
and Try Some Sugar-on-Snow.
photo courtesy VT Travel Div.
Open 7 Days a Week, 10 am to 5 pm
(518) 499-2915, (518) 499-2545
Historical Playwrights
Workshop Begins in April
The Middletown Springs
Historical Society is once
again presenting an “Historical Playwrights Workshop,” starting on Thursday,
April 16, 7:00–9:00 p.m. The
workshop takes place at the
Middletown Springs Historical Society, On the Green at
Four Corners in Middletown
Springs, VT.
Participants learn to write
an historical play and explore
playwriting skills in a comfortable and intimate setting
at the Society’s museum. The
workshop runs for six consecutive Thursday evenings.
Your instructor, Karen
Klami, has studied with playwrights Romulus Linney and
Tina Howe. She has produced
many plays in New York City
and currently teaches in the
Theatre Arts Department
at Castleton State College.
Karen is co-founder and
director of Round Barn Theatre in Middletown Springs,
where she develops original
theatre and music. She is
also a member of the Horace
Greeley Foundation and HG
Writers’ Guild.
Registration for the workshop is $120 for the 6 sessions, $60 for students. For
registration and further information, call Karen at (802)
235-1383, write to [email protected] or
visit www.middletownsprings
historicalsociety.org
Middletown Springs Hosts
Children’s Theater Camp
How would your kids
like to write, star in, and
stage their very own musical
this summer? The Round
Barn Theatre in Middletown
Springs, VT will be holding
an Original Musical Theatre
Summer Camp for children
ages 6–10. The two-week
camp runs June 29 – July
3 and July 6–10, Monday–
Friday, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
During week one, campers will be introduced to
theater skills such as acting,
improvisation, make-up,
costume and prop making,
set design and movement.
Drama exercises and games
will spark development of
original characters and inventive story lines to be organized into musical theater
material.
Then in week two, campers will work as an ensemble
crafting an original musical
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play, including song lyrics
and music. They will write,
act, sing, play instruments
and design movement as
part of their musical theater
work.
On the last day, campers
will create a stage and set,
and will perform their original musical for family and
friends.
The camp takes place at
the Middletown Springs
Community Church Hall in
Middletown Springs, VT.
The cost is $200 for both
weeks ($175 for additional
students in same family).
Bring lunch, snacks provided.
For further information
and registration, please contact Leslie or Karen Klami at
(802) 235-1383, roundbarn
[email protected], or www.
roundbarntheatre.com
Commercial
& Custom
Slaughtering
& Processing
Call for
scheduling
“Pop” Green and a helper gather sap for Green’s Sugarhouse in Poultney, VT.
Poultney Maple Fest Celebrate sugaring season
at Maple Fest in Poultney,
VT on March 28, 2009. Start
with the traditional maple
pancake breakfast.
Take the kids to Maple
Story Hour at the Library.
Pick up a sweet treat from
the Boy Scouts in front of
William’s Hardware. Join in
the sugaring scavenger hunt
throughout town; hop on
a horse-drawn wagon ride
at the Stonebridge Inn, and
enjoy lunch at St. Raphael’s
Catholic Center. Local restaurants will serve maple
specials all day. Enjoy a
guided nature walk from
Stonebridge Inn at 1:30 p.m.
And end the day with a delicious dinner at the Baptist
Church in E. Poultney!
There are free sugar house
tours both Saturday and Sunday at Green’s Sugar House,
Poverty Hill Sugar House,
Riverside Maples, and Brayton’s Sugar House. There
will be demonstrations from
tree tap to table and complimentary goodies.
For more information contact (802) 287-2010 or email
[email protected].
Brand New Youth Bows by Mission:
17–30˝ Draw, 16–52 lbs. Range.
Matthew’s Solo Cam Bows
Lacrosse Boots
Mart’s Sporting Goods
Spiritual, Healing & Teaching Center
Experience, learn & grow to heal yourself & your life!!!
Women’s Medicine Day once a month. Call for details.
432 Kelley Hill Rd, Pawlet, VT
(802) 325-3880
[email protected]
heronbrookhaven.com
THE CA$H BOX
Buying & Selling
New & Used Merchandise!
Over 400 DVDs, Computers, Fishing Gear,
Guitars & Musical Equipment, TVs, Video Games,
Clothing, Sporting Goods & Much More!
105 Main Street, Poultney, VT
Open Tues–Sat 11–6 or by appt.
(802) 287-0140
Hunting & Fishing Supplies
Stop at the Shop!
—Open 7 Days—
(802) 287-9022 • Martin VanBuren Jr.
The coffee and tea are
ready, so come join us.
The Wing Family • Over the Hill Farm
502 Stage Rd., Benson, VT • 802-537-2811
VOF #01038 • USDA Plant #31561 Certified Organic Facility
Classes too!
Open Wed & Fri 10–5
Thurs 10–8, Sat 10–4
VT & NY Lakes Region from Glens Falls to Rutland
Free
Estimates
The Shoppe
At 105 Main
Poultney, VT
New & Gently Used
Furniture, Housewares,
Bed ’n’ Bath, Books,
Collectibles, Antiques,
Framed Prints, Artwork,
Clothing & Jewelry
Tues, Thurs, Sat 10–5
Wed & Fri 1-5
(till mid-May)
Meadow Lane
Antiques
& Collectibles
A walk back in time.
Primitives, furniture,
vintage linens, old books,
prints, jewelry, tools.
Katherine Morey
(802) 287-2239
634 VT Rte 31, Poultney, VT
Where you’ll find a place
of supreme & artfully
rustic junk!
DECORATIVE LAMPSHADES
PAWLET VILLAGE, VT
802.325.6308
www.lakeslampshades.com
Workshops Available
802-287-4114
Mary Lee Harris, Owner
1 to 5 Man Crew
Large &
Small Jobs
Dan Cenate
(802) 287-0140
(518) 642-2247
(518) 932-7903 (cell)
It’s Maple Time at
GREEN’S
LAKE’S LAMPSHADES
photo by Pam Green
SUGARHOUSE
[email protected]
Country Craft
Corner
Open
10 am – 5 pm
Closed
Tuesday
87 Grove St.,
Corner Rts. 30 & 31
Poultney, VT
(802) 287-5573
1846 Finel Hollow Rd., Poultney, VT
802-287-5745
www.greenssugarhouse.com
Quality
Maple Products
Guided Tours
Free Samples
Mail Order Catalog
We Ship
Homemade
Bunnies and Cows
Birdhouses
Everything New
For Spring!
Mrs. T’s Country Store
Homemade
daily
luncheon
specials.
Groceries, Beer & Soda,
VT Products, Crafts, Ice,
Lottery, Gas, Propane Gas,
Kerosene, Ethanol-Free Gas
Vermont Map
Sun–Thurs 8–8, Fri & Sat 8–9 • (802) 265-2226
(Across from Bomoseen Inn)
Route 4A, Hydeville, VT
Up-Country Gifts & Crafts
Come Visit Us!
Hydeville Plaza, Rt. 4A, Bomoseen, VT
(802) 468-3053
Open Wed – Sat, noon to 5:30 pm
Lake Bomoseen T-Shirts
A Nice Variety of Loose Teas
~ We Have Genuine Sheepskin Products ~
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on furniture a specialty
Gift Shop–Artist Studio That Will Delight Your
Senses! Wonderful Gift Items from VT & Beyond
Ellie Chiccarelli—Vermont Artist & Owner
Open Tuesday–Saturday 10–5 • (802) 468-3191
Benson
Route 4A West at Castleton Corners, VT
Green Mt. Country Depot
Coffee Shop, Bakery & Deli
Marlboro
266 Main Street, Castleton, Vermont • 802-468-0077
Join us for Vermont’s
Best Waterfront Dining
Lunch: Fri, Sat & Sun
Dinner: Thurs–Sun
Friday Nights • 8PM—Aaron Audet Live
Sunday
From 4:00 pm
1/2 Price Entrees
Located 3 miles north of Rt. 4 on Rt. 30
Lake Bomoseen, VT • 802-273-3000
Moments to Memories
Scrapbooking, Stamps & Cardmaking
Laurene Dickinson, Owner • (802) 265-3133
Scrapbooking Classes • Tues 6:30 pm
Cardmaking Classes • Thurs 6:30 pm
Open M-W-F 10–5, T-Th 12–8, Sat 10–3
912 Rt. 4A Ste 5, Hydeville, VT
Owned and operated by a registered pharmacist,
The Vermont Herbal General Store has all the answers you need!
Monthly
Reiki Healings & Classes
Pet Therapy
Healing Herb Garden
Training & Installation
The
Vermont
GENERAL STORE
Handmade Herbal Medicines
Teas, Lotions, Capsules • Nature’s Cures • Chinese Ear Coning
578 Main St., W. Rutland, VT • (802) 438-2766
Open: Thurs & Fri 11–6, Sat 10–6, Sun 11–4
www.vermontherbal.com
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Horse Barns • Wood Sheds • Run-In Sheds • Chicken Coops • Kid Play Structures
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Open 7 Days a Week
Hours: Mon–Sat 5 am – 6 pm, Sundays till 5 pm
(802) 265-8654 • [email protected] • Rob Steele
All in Stock Sheds
All Garages in Stock
All Gazebos in Stock
Example
10x12 Cape reg. $3,460
Now $2,768.00
Example
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Now $4,656.00
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Half Pint $2.50 • Pint $4.50
Quart $6.50 • Cheese or Gravy $1.00
Ice Cream • Black Raspberry Creamees!
Burgers • Hot Dogs • Sandwiches
Our Own Homemade Relish • New Extended Menu
Previous sales excluded • not to be combined with other offers
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Limited Winter Hours -www.gardentimeinc.com
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1091 US Rt. 7 North, Rutland 05701 • (802)747-0700
652 Quaker Road, Queensbury, NY 12804 • (518)793-8555
Open 11:30 am to 9:00 pm, 7 Days a Week
West of Castleton Corners. (802) 468-2800
Vermont Country
Calendar
ONGOING EVENTS
STATEWIDE. Vermont Trout Season Opens April 11.
Fishing license fees $20 adult residents, $8 residents 15–17
years, $41 adult nonresidents, and $15 for nonresidents
15–17 years. Licenses available at agents statewide and
from Fish & Wildlife’s website. 2009 Guide to Hunting,
Fishing and Trapping available where fishing licenses
are sold or from Vermont Fish & Wildlife Dept., 103 S.
Main St., Waterbury, VT 05671-0501. (802) 241-3700.
vtfishandwildlife.com.
BARRE. Art Exhibits—Whole New Ball Game and More.
Three new shows at Studio Place Arts, 201 N. Main St.
Tue–Fri 10–5, Sat 12–4. Free admission. (802) 479-7069.
[email protected]. www.studioplacearts.com.
March 10 through April 18.
Winter’s
End
Outside the window, dark and still,
Lambs are calling upon the hill
With a bleating, wavering, quavering cry,
Calling and calling, they don’t know why.
They are so little, so leggy, so lost,
They hate the dark and they fear the frost;
All of them running, sisters and brothers,
Calling aloud for their milky mothers.
None of them guesses, how could they know,
That a warm wind out of the south will blow
To soften the grass with sun and flowers,
To bring the babies out of their wraps,
Their gaiters and woollies, their mittens and caps,
All the babies, so round and sweet,
Waving their hands and their dimpled feet
To welcome the light and the kind spring weather
When lambs and children can play together.
BELLOWS FALLS. Third Friday Art Walk. Stores
and galleries in town, and in the surrounding area, host
special exhibits and events. 5-8 pm. (802) 463-9404.
villagesquarebooks.com. Monthly on the third Friday.
— EILUNED LEWIS
BELLOWS FALLS. Workshop—Creative Writing:
Short Stories with Pam Mandell. Designed for beginners
but open to everyone, this class will introduce students
to techniques in short fiction and help them develop their
own work. Runs April 14 to May 19 from 4 to 7 pm. Fee
$225. Great River Arts Institute. (802) 463-3330, info@
greatriverarts.org, www.greatriverarts.org.
Preserving Vermont’s
Last Great Places
Since 1960
BRANDON. Chess Club and Dungeons & Dragons.
Chess players of all ages and abilities welcome. Our loyal
group is always looking for new players to join our ranks!
Ongoing at 12:30 pm on Sundays. Immediately following
Chess Club, D&D players gather for an afternoon of
fantasy and fun at 2:30 pm on Sundays. Briggs Carriage
Bookstore, 16 Park St. (802) 247-0050.
www.briggscarriage.com.
CHESTER. Free Crochet Lessons. For anyone who
is interested in learning how to crochet. Everyone is
welcome, open to the public. Free refreshments and coffee
served. Every Thursday 2-4 pm. Gassetts Grange Hall,
junction of Rts. 10 and 103. For more information contact
Bonnie at (802) 875-3500.
BRANDON. French Roundtable—Parlez-vous français?
Meet and practice your French speaking. Everyone—any
ability—is welcome to participate in a little international
conversation. Ongoing at 9:30 am Saturday mornings.
Briggs Carriage Bookstore, 16 Park St. (802) 247-0050.
www.briggscarriage.com.
CHESTER. You’re invited to community events held
at the Gassetts Grange Hall on Rt. 103 North. Everyone
is welcome. We have a community breakfast the first
Saturday of every month at 8-10 am. Menu consists of
bacon, sausage, eggs, home fries, pancakes, VT maple
syrup, and beverages. $5.00 a person. For info contact
Donna at (802) 228-3108. [email protected].
BRATTLEBORO. Fair Winds Farm Nature Trail. A
lovely one-mile loop trail winds its way through fields,
forests, and along a brook, on very gentle terrain. Free,
self-guided, with a nature trail guide. Enjoy the trail, farm
animals, gardens, and farm store. At Fair Winds Farm, a
“Diversified, Horse Powered, Vermont Family Farm” on
Upper Dummerston Rd. (802) 254-9067.
BRATTLEBORO. Gallery Walk. Monthly celebration of
the arts in downtown and nearby locations! Live music,
dance, theater. Free. First Fridays from 5:30-8 pm.
(802) 257-2616. www.GalleryWalk.org.
BRATTLEBORO. Winter Farmer’s Market. Local
farm-fresh produce, meats, local wine, preserves and
baked goods, local crafts and jewelry, lunch foods, cafe,
entertainment. Sponsored by Post Oil Solutions. 10 am 3 pm at The River Garden, downtown. (802) 869-2141.
[email protected]. www.postoilsolutions.org.
Mar 7 & 21.
BURLINGTON. Exhibit—“Indigenous Expressions:
Native Peoples of the Lake Champlain Basin.” Through
hands-on exhibits, live species, a contemporary Portrait
Gallery, speaker’s series, film screenings, and artifacts,
ECHO sheds more light on indigenous stories. Admission:
$7–$9.50; children under 3 free. Open year-round, 10 am –
5 pm. Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, One College St.
1-877-ECHOFUN. www.echovermont.org. Through
May 14.
BURLINGTON. Vermont Stage Company presents
Prelude To A Kiss. FlynnSpace, 153 Main St. Wed–Sat
7:30 pm, Sat–Sun 2 pm. For tickets call (802) 86-FLYNN.
www.vtstage.org. Runs April 22 through May 10.
BURLINGTON. American Buffalo. A play by David
Mamet, presented by The Green Candle Theatre Company
at the Outer Space Cafe in the Flynndog, 208 Flynn Ave.
Fridays and Saturdays 8–10 pm, Sundays 7–9 pm.
For tickets call (802) 373-1639. [email protected].
www.greencandletheatre.com. Runs March 13–29.
BURLINGTON. First Friday Art Walk. Galleries, studios,
and interesting venues all around town. See works in
progress and finished works. Explore with a map. Free.
5-8 pm. (802) 264-4839. www.artmapburlington.com.
BURLINGTON. “People, Places and Pageantry:”
Exhibition and Exploration. Interactive Exhibitions!
Sun, Tues-Thurs, 12-5 pm; Fri 12-8 pm; Sat 9 am - 8 pm.
Firehouse Center for the Visual Arts. 135 Church Street.
(802) 865-7166. burlingtoncityarts.com. Through June 30.
CENTER RUTLAND. The Center Rutland Railroad
Depot Museum. See exhibits including HO & N scale
model railroads. Open Thursdays from 6-8 pm. The
museum is also available to educational groups and
schools for tours by appointment. Rutland Railway
Association, 79 Depot Lane. [email protected].
www.rutlandrailway.org.
CHESTER. Bingo. Refreshments on sale in the
kitchen. Every Thursday night at 6:30–9 pm.
Doors open at 4:30 pm. Gassetts Grange Hall,
junction of Rts. 10 and 103. For more info
call Donna at (802) 228-3108.
CHESTER. Gallery 103. Dedicated to promoting fine
American Craft and Design, with an exclusive showroom
of Junker Studio Ironwork. Monthly “Featured Artists.”
Owned and operated by Elise & Payne Junker. Gallery is
open Thurs-Mon, 10 am - 5 pm. On Rt. 103, just south of
town. (802) 875-7400. Gallery103.com.
CHESTER. Square Dance and Round. With Arnie
Stoddard, caller, on the first Saturday of every month from
7-11 pm. Also Bluegrass Open Mike Jam, the second
Sunday every month from 1-4 pm. Raffles and 50/50
drawing. Refreshments on sale in the kitchen. Donations
taken at the door, everyone is welcome. At Gassetts Grange
Hall on Rt. 103 North. For more information contact Ted at
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EAST THETFORD. Cedar Circle Farm and Education
Center. A certified organic, fifty-acre farm. Winter sleigh
and wagon rides. Call for schedule. Cedar Circle Farm
& Education Center, 225 Pavillion Road off Route 5.
www.cedarcirclefarm.org.
GRANVILLE, NY. The Slate Valley Museum. Exhibits,
events, demonstrations, programs, and gift shop. Open
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is downtown at 17 Water Street. (518) 642-1417.
www.slatevalleymuseum.org.
LAKE ELMORE. Dog Sled Tours. Join us at Lake
Elmore for dog sledding and touring. Watch our digital
slide show on the history of dog sledding in the US.
Ken Haggett, 239 Cross Road. (802) 888-7733.
www.peacepupsdogsledding.com.
LEBANON, NH. ValleyNet Community Technology
Center. 10-seat computer lab in the new Grafton County
Senior Citizens Council building, Campbell St., downtown.
Center is open for walk-ins 9 am - 4:30 pm, Mon-Fri. Free.
(802) 649-2126.
MANCHESTER. Exhibit: Patti Zeigler. An award
winning still life painter inspired by everyday objects.
Her paintings are layers of vibrant color and texture with
painterly brushwork. At Southern Vermont Arts Center,
West Rd. (802) 362-1405. svac.org. Through April 9.
MIDDLEBURY. Exhibit. Art Now: Doug and Mike Starn.
Tues-Fri 10 am - 5 pm, Sat-Sun noon - 5 pm. Middlebury
College, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Museum of Art.
Rte. 30. Free. (802) 443-5007. middlebury.edu. cfa@
middlebury.edu. Through April 19.
MONTPELIER. Performance: The Miracle Worker.
William Gibson’s play about Helen Keller & her teacher
Annie Sullivan. Lost Nation Theater, City Hall Arts
Center, 39 Main St. Thurs 7 pm, Fri & Sat 8 pm,
Sunday 7 pm except final Sunday at 2 pm. For
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PITTSFORD. New England Maple Museum. Tour through
Vermont’s famous Maple Industry and visit our gift shop.
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(802) 483-9414. www.maplemuseum.com.
ST. JOHNSBURY. First Wednesdays Lecture Series. Also
seminars, exhibits, writers’ group, scrabble club. Free. 7 pm.
St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 1171 Main St. (802) 748-8291.
www.stjathenaeum.org/events.htm. [email protected].
STOWE. Evening dogsled tours at Stowe Mountain resort
throughout the ski season. For a completely different view of
QUECHEE. The Vermont Institute of Natural Science Nature
Mount Mansfield. Inn at The Mountain, Mountain Road.
Center is open Wed-Sun 10 am – 4 pm thru April 30, then Spring Tues, Wed, Thurs, 5, 6, and 7 pm. (802) 253-3656.
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top of the Stowe Gondola. The evening begins with hot Vermont
cider, fleece blanket and camp lantern on an adventurous climb to
RUTLAND. Vermont Backroad Maple Sugar Tours. Visit an
the Cliff House. Menus highlight fresh Vermont handcrafted food
original “on the farm” maple sugarhouse. Learn the history
products. 6 pm or 7 pm; 9-9:30 pm Gondola ride down. Stowe
of “sugaring” in Vermont and look at the process of boiling
Mountain Resort, 5781 Mountain Rd. For reservations call
down maple sap into syrup. Fee: $30–$50. (802) 446-3131.
(802) 253-3000. [email protected]. www.stowe.com.
vermontbackroadtours.com/sugar.html. Through April 16.
Through April 12.
RUTLAND. WalkRutland. Get out and get your exercise with
friends and neighbors in volunteer-led groups. Lots of great
locations and convenient schedules. Call for the schedule in your
town or to volunteer. (802) 775-0555, www.WalkRutland.com.
RUTLAND. Winter Farmer’s Market. 42 vendors with local
produce, meat, cheese, food products, and crafts. Entertainment.
Every Saturday 10 am - 2 pm. At the Old Strand Theater (enter
through the Rutland Natural Food Market at 77 Wales St.)
(802) 287-9311. rutlandfarmandfood.org.
SAXTONS RIVER. Main St. Arts. Workshops and classes
for adults, teens, and children. Something for every interest.
(802) 869-2960. www.mainstreetarts.org.
SHELBURNE. Shelburne Farms. Welcome Center, Farm, and
Farm Store. Open year round 10 am – 5 pm. Enjoy eight miles
of walking trails, weather permitting, in woodlands, meadows.
Walkers, check in with the Welcome Center. Admission.
Shelburne Farms, 1611 Harbor Rd. off Rt. 7. (802) 985-8686.
www.shelburnefarms.org.
TINMOUTH. Contra Dance every fourth Friday of the month.
Admission $8, $6 for teens, $3 for children 5-12, under 5 free.
Refreshments available. 8 pm at Tinmouth Community Center,
Rt. 140, 5 miles west of Wallingford. For info or directions call
(802) 446-2928. tinmouthvt.org.
WOODSTOCK. First Run Movies at the Woodstock Town Hall
Theatre. Old-fashioned movie-going experience, with state-ofthe-art Dolby Digital sound system and the largest movie screen
in the Upper Valley! Fri-Mon, 7:30 pm. Adult $7, senior $6,
under 12, $5. (802) 457-3981. www.pentanglearts.org.
WOODSTOCK. Hand-in-Hand Community Meal. All are
welcome. Free, donations accepted. Every Thursday, 5-7 pm in
the Social Hall of the Unitarian Church, 7 Church Street.
(802) 457-9272.
FRIDAY, MARCH 27
ARLINGTON. Concert: Evita Cobo Trio. Friday Night Fireside
Music Series. Admission. 7-9 pm. West Mountain Inn Tavern, 144
West Mountain Inn Rd. (802) 375-6516. westmountaininn.com.
[email protected].
BRANDON. Fran Robideau & The Shader Croft Band return
to the Ball & Chain Café to delight the audience with acoustic
country, folk, rock & roll tunes and some good old, knee-slapping
humor. 7 pm. Briggs Carriage Bookstore, 16 Park St.
(802) 247-0050. www.briggscarriage.com.
WESTMINSTER. Homemade soup and bread. Every
Wednesday noon to 2 pm at the First Congregational Church on
Rt. 5 in Westminster. Free, donations accepted. (802) 722- 4148.
EAST BERKSHIRE. Greene’s Ox Pasture Maples Open House
Weekend. Sugarhouse tours, free taste testing, sugar-on-snow
and more. Free. 10 am – 4 pm. Greene’s Ox Pasture Maples
Sugarhouse, 1147 Montgomery Road. (802) 309-8275.
[email protected]. www.oxpasturemaples.com.
Through March 29.
WEST NEWBURY. Eastern Dance. Traditional singing squares,
waltzes, polkas, foxtrots, two-steps, Virginia Reel, Portland
Fancy, Paul Jones, others. With Adam Boyce,fiddler/caller.
8 pm at the Community Hall on Tyler Farm Rd. (802) 484-7719
or [email protected]. Fourth Saturdays.
RANDOLPH. Concert: Cherryholmes. Bluegrass band featuring
twin fiddles, Irish step-dancing, classic country yodeling, oldtime clawhammer banjo and soulful gospel. 7:30 pm at Chandler
Music Hall, 71-73 Main St. For tickets call (802) 728-6464.
[email protected]. www.chandler-arts.org.
WEST RUTLAND. Free Financial Fitness Classes by
NeighborWorks® of Western Vermont. Topics covered include:
Basic Budgeting, Using a Checkbook, Saving and Investing,
Borrowing Basics, Credit, and Renting in Vermont. Call to find
out the dates of topics that interest you. 3-5 pm Thursdays at the
NeighborWorks office at 110 Marble St. (802) 438-2303 x 216.
RUTLAND. Singer-Songwriter Showcase at The Palms. Four acts
perform throughout the evening. Opener and host Jim Sabataso.
Featured are Great Elk from New York City, Josh Brooks from
Vergenes, VT, and George’s Back Pocket from Rutland, VT. $5
donation, bar and pizza available. 7 pm at The Palms Restaurant,
36 Strongs Ave. For info contact: George Nostrand, Oak Street
Studios (802) [email protected].
WEST RUTLAND. Reiki Experience. Classes at 11 am with
Sylvie Lio and open-share healings at 3 pm. All are welcome.
Vermont Herbal General Store, 518 Main St. (802) 438-2766.
[email protected]. www.vermontherbal.com. The last
Sunday of each month.
STATEWIDE. The Eighth Annual Vermont Maple Open House
Weekend. Tours, festivities, sugaring! Held at sugarhouses
throughout Vermont. Map and locations available. (800) 8376668. www.vermontmaple.org. Through March 29.
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION. “Appreciate Your Life,”
Shambhala Buddhist meditation practice and discussion on
Tuesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm. Shambhala Meditation Center of White
River, 158 S. Main St. (802) 785-4304. whiteriver.shambhala.org.
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION. Play: The Glass Menagerie.
Often hailed as Tennessee William’s first masterpiece, The
Glass Menagerie is the story of a factory worker doing his best
to support a widowed woman and her family in mid-twentieth
century America. $25–$66. Northern Stage, 12 N. Main St.
Tuesday–Saturday 7:30 pm, Sunday 5 pm. (802) 296-7000.
www.northernstage.org. Through April 11.
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION. Listen Community Dinner.
Free nutritious meals served 5:15-5:45 pm every Monday and
Wednesday, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 749 Hartford Ave. For
information call (603) 448-4553.
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION. Second Hand Rose Shop at the
United Methodist Church, 106 Gates St. is open Wednesdays
from noon to 3 pm and Saturdays from 10 am to 1 pm.
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION. Musical: Take Two, by Catherine
Doherty. Is it possible to find true love the second time around?
Tickets: $34–$66. Tuesday–Saturday 7:30 pm, Sunday
5 pm. Northern Stage, 12 North Main Street. (802 296-7000.
www.northernstage.org. April 22 through May 17.
SWANTON. Free Community Dinner. 5:30-6:45 pm. Holy Trinity Episcopal Church Parish Hall, 38 Grand Ave. (802) 868-7185
x 10. www.holytrinityswanton.org. [email protected].
SATURDAY, MARCH 28
BRANDON. Wintergrass—Annual Dinner and Music. Menu:
baked chicken breast, potatoes, carrots, dessert. Bluegrass and
classic country music by Dave Nichols and Spare Change from
NY and Crossover from CT. 5 pm –10 pm. Neshobe Sportsman
Club, 97 Frog Hollow Rd. Admission. (802) 247-3275.
[email protected].
BRANDON. Fifth Annual Art in the Snow. Over twenty open
artist studios and galleries. Saturday 11 am - 4:30 pm, Sunday till
3:30. www.artinthesnow.com. Also March 29.
CABOT. Cabot Maple Festival. Free admission. 7 am - 6 pm.
Cabot School, Main St. (802) 563-3338. www.cabotmedia.org.
[email protected].
EAST PUTNEY. Putney Community Contra Dance. Harry
Brauser, calling with music by Steve Howland, Becky
Hollingsworth, and Kevin Blanchard. All ages and experience
welcome, all dances taught, no partner necessary. Donation at the
door. Beginner’s workshop at 7:30 pm, dance at 8 pm, At Pierce’s
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LUNENBURG. Fourth Annual Maple Festival. Exhibits, house
tours, tree tapping, contests, meals. 8 am – 7 pm. Lunenburg
Elementary School. (802) 892-6654. topofthecommon.org.
POULTNEY. Maple Fest Weekend. Pancake breakfast,
sugarhouse tours, horse and wagon rides, store bargains,
children’s maple story hour, maple treats, children’s
entertainment, maple recipe contest, guided nature walk to town
overlook, and maple glazed ham dinner! Pick up information
from the Poultney Chamber of Commerce at the Stonebridge Inn.
For more details call (802) 287-2010.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1
BURLINGTON. Choral Concert. UVM Concert Choir and
Catamount Singers perform works from American musical
theater. Free admission. 7:30 pm. UVM Recital Hall, 384 S.
Prospect St. (802) 656-3040. www.uvm.edu/music.
ESSEX. Phoenix Books Open Mic Night. Want to perform? Call
to sign up. Free admission. 6–8 pm. Phoenix Books and Cafe at
Essex Shoppes and Cinema, 21 Essex Way #407. (802) 872-7111.
www.phoenixbooks.biz.
SAXTONS RIVER. First Annual Crawfish Rising Cajun Dance
Party. Featuring Lil’ Orphans Cajun Band with Will Danforth.
8:30 pm to 12 midnight at Pleasant Valley Brewing. (802) 8694602. [email protected].
ST. JOHNSBURY. First Wednesdays Lecture Series. The Great
Camps of the Adirondacks. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum. 1171 Main
St. 7 pm. Free. (802) 748-8291. www.stjathenaeum.org. lvkann@
stjathenaeum.org.
SOUTH STRAFFORD. Contra Dance. With Cuckoo’s Nest and
Ruth Sylvester, caller. All dances taught, no partner necessary.
Bring a separate pair of clean, soft-soled shoes for dancing.
Admission $8, over 60 by donation, under 16 are free. Local
Foods Benefit Dinner 6-7:30 pm. Family dance precedes the
8 pm contra dance. At Barrett Hall. (802) 785-4607. rbarrows@
cs.dartmouth.edu.
BURLINGTON. Musical: Hello Dolly! Presented by Lyric Theatre Company. Thurs & Fri 7:30 pm, Sat 1:30 & 7:30 pm, Sun
1:30 pm. Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St. For
tickets please call (802) 863-5966. www.lyrictheatrevt.org. [email protected]. Through April 5.
STARKSBORO. Starksboro Village Meeting House Annual
Sugar-on-Snow Party. Complete with donuts, pickles and
beverages! To benefit the Meeting House restoration. Admission.
1–3 pm. Starksboro First Baptist Church, Route 116.
(802) 453-5227. www.starksboromeetinghouse.org.
NORWICH. Homeschoolers’ Series: Earth and Sky. Three-part
series explores fossils, the night sky, and daytime astronomy. Fee:
$60. For ages 6-12. Continues April 9 and 16. Montshire Museum
of Science, One Montshire Rd, off Rt 5. For registration please
call (802) 649-2200 or register online. [email protected].
www.montshire.org.
SUNDAY, MARCH 29
BARRE. Vermont Philharmonic Youth Concert. Admission. 3:30
pm. Barre Opera House, 6 N. Main St. (802) 244-6828. events@
vermontphilharmonic.org. www.vermontphilharmonic.org.
BRANDON. Fifth Annual Art in the Snow. Over 20 open artist
studios and galleries. 11 am - 3:30 pm. Raffle drawing at 4 pm at
the Brandon Artists Guild. www.artinthesnow.com.
BRATTLEBORO. Screening. Soy Andina, a documentary film.
Two Peruvians in New York return to Peru to reconnect with their
roots. Admission. 2–4 pm. Hooker-Dunham Theater & Gallery,
139 Main Street. (802) 254-9276. [email protected].
www.soyandina.com.
KILLINGTON. Spring Loaded—Snowboarding. Riders compete in superpipe, night rail jam and slopestyle as part of a great
spring party at Bear Mountain, 4763 Killington Rd. (802) 4223333. www.killington.com. [email protected]. Also March 30.
THURSDAY, APRIL 2
RUTLAND. Grant Seeker Workshop for Artists, Organizations
& Educators. Free admission. 1:30–5 pm. Paramount Theatre,
30 Center St. (802) 828-0152. www.vermontartscouncil.org.
WOODSTOCK. Hand-in-Hand Community Meal. Tonight’s
theme is “International Children’s Book Day.” All are welcome.
Free, donations accepted. Every Thursday, 5-7 pm in the Social
Hall of the Unitarian Church, 7 Church St. (802) 457-9272.
Continues every Thursday with different themes.
FRIDAY, APRIL 3
BRATTLEBORO. Concert. Master Scottish fiddler Alasdair
Fraser and brilliant cellist, Natalie Haas, perform traditional
Scottish music. 7:30 pm. First Baptist Church, 190 Main St. For
tickets call (802) 257-1571. [email protected]. culburnie.com.
BURLINGTON. Friday Night Concert—Alan Jabbour and
Ken Perlman Perform. With the Pickpockets Band opening.
Presented by the UVM Old Time Music Club and Events for
Tom. There will be an open session after the concert. 7:30 pm
at UVM’s Billings North Lounge, 48 University Place. Tickets
at the door (no advance tickets). For workshop reservations
contact: [email protected].
POULTNEY. Maple Fest Weekend. Free sugar house tours
at Green’s Sugar House, Finel Hollow Rd., Poverty Hill
Sugar House on Rt. 140 East, Riverside Maples, Rt. 140 East,
and Brayton’s Sugar House on Brayton Rd. There will be
demonstrations from tree tap to table with lots of complimentary BURLINGTON. Concert: Eliza Gilkyson, John Gorka, and Cliff
goodies like maple snow cones, cotton candy and a taste of all the Eberhardt. Three of the country’s most influential and talented
different grades of syrup. For more details call (802) 287-2010.
singer-songwriters will be performing. At the University of
Vermont Recital Hall, Music Building on Redstone Campus.
MONDAY, MARCH 30
7:30 pm. For tickets please call (802) 656-4455. www.uvm.edu.
MIDDLEBURY. Concert: Middlebury College Choir. Jeff
CLAREMONT, NH. Concert: “Beatlemania Now.” 8 pm.
Buettner, director. 8 pm. Middlebury College, Mahaney Center
Claremont Opera House, 58 Opera House Square. Tickets are
for the Arts. Rt. 30. For tickets call (802) 443-6433. boxoffice@
$33.50 and $28.50. For reservations please call (603) 542-4433.
middlebury.edu. www.middlebury.edu/arts.
claremontoperahouse.com.
TUESDAY, MARCH 31
BENNINGTON. Healthcare Lecture by Dr. Justin Coffey. Free
admission. 2:30-3:30 pm. Southern Vermont College, Everett
Mansion Theatre, 982 Mansion Dr. (802) 447-6388.
www.svc.edu. [email protected].
ESSEX JUNCTION. Northeast Wars IX: Trolls in Love. A tabletop gaming convention. Fri 6-11 pm, Sat 8 am - 11 pm, Sun 8 am
- 6 pm. Registration Fee. The Inn at Essex, 70 Essex Way. (802)
863-3666. www.northeastwars.com. [email protected].
Through April 5.
LYNDONVILLE. Workshop. The History and Art of
Bookmaking. Free. 1:15 pm. Samuel Read Hall Library, Lyndon
State College, 1001 College Rd. (802) 626-6447.
www.lyndonstate.edu.
RUTLAND. Performance. Golden Dragon Acrobats: Cirque
D’Or. Admission: $23.50/34.50. 8 pm. Paramount Theatre, 30
Center St. For tickets, reservations, and information please call
(802) 775-0570. www.paramountvt.org.
SATURDAY, APRIL 4
ASCUTNEY. Spring Hike on Mt. Ascutney. We ascend via gated
road, a moderate to difficult climb, 8.8 mi., 2600’ elevation gain.
Hike ends where the pavement ends, if there is mud beyond (7.4
miles). Great views. Free. Non-members welcome. Sponsored by
the Ottauquechee Section of the Green Mountain Club. Leader:
Dick Andrews, (802) 885-3201. www.greenmountainclub.org.
BARRE. Pastel Art Workshop: The Muse of the Spring Landscape. 9:30 am - 4:30 pm. Studio Place Arts, 201 North Main
Street. Free. (802) 479-7069. www.studioplacearts.com.
BURLINGTON. Saturday Old Time Fiddle and Banjo
Workshops. With Bruce Molskey (fiddle from 12 noon to 3
pm), Alan Jabbour (fiddle from 9:30 am to 11:30 am) and Ken
Perlman (banjo from 9:30 am to 11:30 am). Presented by UVM
Old Time Music Club and Events for Tom. At UVM’s Billings
North Lounge, 48 University Place. Fee. For reservations
BURLINGTON. Saturday Night Concert—Bruce Molsky and an
opening set by Mayfly (Katie Trautz and Julia Wayne.) Presented
by UVM Old Time Music Club and Events for Tom. Open session
after the concert. Tickets at the door. 7:30 pm at UVM’s Billings
North Lounge, 48 University Place. For workshop reservations
BURLINGTON. Cabin Fever Reliever 2009. A fun night with
grammy-nominated Bill Kirchen, known for his trademark guitar
licks, performing with Vermont’s favorite honky-tonk band, The
Starline Rhythm Boys. Special guests, Girl Howdy and Elisabeth
von Trapp. $18. 8 pm. Sheraton Burlington, Emerald Grand
Ballroom, 870 Williston Rd. (802) 863-5966. www.flynntix.org.
BURLINGTON. Song as Poetry—Folk Music Concert. A
Benefit for the Champlain Valley Folk Festival. 7:30 pm. At the
Burlington City Arts Firehouse Center for the Visual Arts, Church
St. For tickets call (877) 850-0206. [email protected]. cvfest.org.
BURLINGTON. Concert. Social Band presents Veni Creator
Spiritus: Come Creator Spirit! Premieres of choral works by
Vermont composers. 7:30 pm. Unitarian Church. Donation $15,
$10. (802) 863-5966). (802) 658-8488. flynntix.org.
COLCHESTER. Reel Paddling Film Festival 2009. Tickets
$12 at door, $8 student, available at Canoe Imports.
8–10:30 pm (doors open at 7:30 pm). McCarthy Recital
Hall at St. Michael’s College. Info: (802) 651-8760.
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Vermont Country Calendar
(April 4 continued)
CRAFTSBURY. Sugar-On-Snow Party. Beat
Cabin Fever with a sweet treat! Join your neighbors
and friends for a taste of Vermont. 2–4 pm. Craftsbury
Community Care Center, 1784 East Craftsbury Road.
Free admission. (802) 586-2414. [email protected].
craftsburycommunitycarecenter.org/.
EAST CHARLESTON. Northeast Kingdom Maple
Sugaring. Tour a local sugar house and wood-lot in
nearby Island Pond. Admission by donation. 9 am – 2 pm.
NorthWood’s Stewardship Center, Ten Mile Square Rd.
(802) 723-6551 x117. www.northwoodscenter.org.
ESSEX JUNCTION. Green Mt. Derby Dames—Roller
Derby Bout. $15. 6 pm. Champlain Valley Exposition,
105 Pearl St. (802) 878-5545. [email protected].
www.gmderbydames.com. www.cvfair.com.
FERRISBURGH. Dakin Farm Sugar-on-Snow Party.
Pancake Breakfast 7:30–11:30 am, $6.75 per person,
children half price. Sugar-on-snow party and live music
from noon–4 pm, moderate charge. Dakin Farm Sugar
House, 5797 Rt. 7. (802) 425-3971. customerservice@
dakinfarm.com. www.dakinfarm.com. Also April 5.
KILLINGTON. Bear Mountain Mogul Challenge. The
biggest party in the east centered around a full weekend of
mogul skiing on Bear Mountain’s Outer Limits, 4763 Killington Rd. (802) 422-3333. killington.com. Also April 5.
NORTH BENNINGTON. VAE’s Basement Music Series
favorite Howard Fishman returns! Sage St Mill. 8 pm.
Admission. (802) 442-5549. www.ticketalternative.com.
NORWICH. Lecture: A Short History of Astronomy. Hear
Brazilian-born astronomer Marcelo Gleiser, known for his
dynamic lectures and interest in spreading the excitement of
science to all audiences. Admission. 7-8:30 pm. Montshire
Museum of Science, One Montshire Rd, off Rt. 5. (802)
649-2200. [email protected]. www.montshire.org.
PROCTORSVILLE. Film Festival: Dinner and a Movie.
Screening of James Cameron’s hit Titanic. Menu includes
cream of barley soup, chicken Lyonnaise, stuffed zucchini
farsi, and eclairs. Free admission, everyone welcome.
Sponsored by the Cavendish Community Fund. 1 pm at
Cavendish Fletcher Community Library, 573 Main St.
(802) 226-7503. www.cavendishlibrary.org.
RANDOLPH. Canadian Nuevo flamenco guitarist Jesse
Cook performs Latin fusion. 7:30 pm. Chandler Music Hall,
71-73 Main St. For tickets call (802) 728-6464.
www.jessecook.com. [email protected].
RANDOLPH CENTER. Turkey Hill Farm Maple Cooking
Series. Taught by lifetime farm cook, Margaret Osha. Learn
to make Raised Donuts Dipped in Maple Syrup. A light
lunch of homemade soup and bread will be provided
and we’ll also sample what we prepare. Turkey Hill
Farm will provide maple syrup, raw milk and other
ingredients for the recipes. Cost: $50 per class. 10
am - 2 pm. Turkey Hill Farm, 55 Turkey Hill
Road. Pre-registration required. Info:
(802) 728-7064.
ST. ALBANS. Franklin County Annual Quilt Show. See over
100 beautiful quilts and special exhibits. Viewers’ choice
awards, vendors, a silent auction, demonstrations, door prizes
and a quilt raffle. Free admission. Saturday 9 am – 4 pm,
Sunday 10 am – 3 pm at St. Albans City Hall, 100 North
Main Street. (802) 326-3135. www.vtmooses.us/fcqg.html.
Also April 5.
HUNTINGTON. Sugar-on-Snow Party. Celebrate the
maple sugaring season out in the woods with sweet maple
treats, free sugarbush tours, sugaring demonstrations, and a
delicious taste of maple syrup! All ages welcome! Free, a
charge for food. Noon to 4 pm. Green Mountain Audubon
Center Sugarhouse on the Main Rd. in Huntington.
(802) 434-3068 vt.audubon.org.
WATERBURY. Spring Hike on Worcester Mountain.
Moderate hike with strong pace, 5.8 miles, 1,970’ elevation
gain. Well-behaved dogs are allowed. Free, non-members
and newcomers are welcome to join us. Bring water and wear
sturdy shoes. Sponsored by the Burlington Section of the
Green Mountain Club. To reserve a spot contact leader by
April 2: Robynn Albert, (802) 878-4036 or robynnalbert@
hotmail.com. www.greenmountainclub.org.
LUDLOW. Harpoon Brewery Cardboard Box Race. Sleds
must be at the starting line by 1:15 pm and in running order.
The race begins at 1:30 pm. Helmets are required. Feel
free to wear costumes and bribe the judges. $20 per team.
Okemo Mountain Resort, 77 Okemo Ridge Rd. (802) 2281313. www.okemo.com.
SUNDAY, APRIL 5
BARRE. Sundays Live at LACE with Rebecca Padula and
Rik Palieri. Folk songs and originals on banjo, guitar and
native flute. Free. 10 am – 1 pm. LACE, 159 N Main St.
(802) 476-4276 . www.lacevt.org.
BRISTOL. Concert. Social Band presents Veni Creator
Spiritus: Come Creator Spirit! Premieres of three new
choral works by Vermont composers Pete Sutherland, Sara
Doncaster and John Harrison. 4 pm at the First Baptist
Church. Donation $15, $10. Tickets: (802) 863-5966). Info:
(802) 658-8488. www.flynntix.org. [email protected].
www.socialband.org.
BURLINGTON. Sunday Afternoon Shape Note Singing
School with Ian Smiley. Presented by the UVM Old Time
Music Club and Events for Tom. From 2-5 pm at University
of Vermont’s Ira Allen Chapel, 411 Main St. For information
and registration contact [email protected].
CASTLETON. Green Mountain Club Spring Outing on
Grandpa’s Knob. Climb to the site of the first municipal
wind turbine (1940s). Moderate, 3 miles, 1000-foot elevation
gain. Non-members welcome. Bring water and a lunch. Wear
sturdy footwear and dress for the weather. Free. Leave from
Rutland’s Main St. Park, near the east end of the fire station at
10 am. Leader: Tom Copps, (802) 770-9394. web.mac.com/
gmckillington.
SPRINGFIELD. Springfield Community Chorus
Spring Concert. Admission by donation. 3 pm at First
Congregational Church UCC, 77 Main St. (802) 885-5475.
[email protected].
ST. ALBANS. 11th Annual Franklin County Quilt Show.
Over 100 quilts, silent auction, vendors, demonstrations,
and special quilt exhibits. Free admission. 10 am – 3 pm.
St. Albans City Hall, 100 N. Main St. (802) 326-3135.
[email protected]. vtmooses.us/fcqg.html.
STOWE. Spring Hike to Prospect Rock and Round Top.
Starts with a short steep climb to Prospect Rock with an
excellent view of the Lamoille Valley. Then an easy trip to
Round Top Shelter for lunch and return by the same route.
Easy to moderate, 7 miles, slow pace. Free. Non-members
welcome. Sponsored by the Burlington Section of the Green
Mountain Club. Contact leader in advance. Dot Myer,
(802) 863-2433 or [email protected].
www.greenmountainclub.org.
WOODSTOCK. Spring Outing on Mt. Peg. We’ll X-C ski,
snowshoe or hike depending on the weather and conditions.
Free. Non-members welcome. Option to use fitness center
sauna & hot tub for a fee. Sponsored by the Ottauquechee
Section of the Green Mountain Club. Call leader in advance:
Emily Jones, (802) 457-9110. greenmountainclub.org.
CHESTER. Benefit Jamboree. For Ted Lee, lead singer of
the Green Mtn. Express and Friends. Donations at the door,
Remember this is a Benefit and all proceeds go to Ted Lee.
Bring family and friends, and musical talents! Raffle and
refreshments. Please come and support a good person. 1 pm
to close at the Gassetts Grange (Jct. 10 & 103N). For info
call Dave at (802) 875-2637.
ESSEX JUNCTION. WOKO Flea Market. Sponsored
by Global Garage Sale. Admission $3. 8:30 am - 2 pm.
Champlain Valley Exposition, 105 Pearl St. (802) 878-5545.
[email protected]. www.cvfair.com.
FERRISBURGH. Dakin Farm Sugar-on-Snow Party and
Pancake Breakfast. Pancake Breakfast 7:30–11:30 am, $6.75
per person, children half price. Sugar-on-Snow Party and
Live Music from noon–4 pm, moderate charge. Dakin Farm
Sugar House, 5797 Rt. 7. (802) 425-3971. customerservice@
dakinfarm.com. www.dakinfarm.com.
New England Wild Flower Society’s
Northern Gardening Symposium
Join three inspirational
speakers as they share insights and tips for lifting your
garden a notch above the
ordinary at “Design Inspirations,” New England Wild
Flower Society’s Northern
Gardening Symposium, on
April 11, 2009.
The symposium is held at
Vermont Technical College
in Randolph Center, VT and
runs from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Co-sponsors include The
Fells, Hardy Plant Club,
Friends of the Hort Farm and
Master Gardeners.
Symposium guest Richard Enser will be presenting “Backyard Biodiversity:
Conservation Biology for
the Landowner;” Elizabeth
Farnsworth will be presenting “Ferns in the Wild and
in the Garden;” and Gordon
Hayward will be presenting
“Fine Painting as Inspiration
for Garden Design.”
The fee is $53 and includes
cafeteria lunch, symposium
packet, and parking.
For information about The
New England Wildflower
Society and Symposium registration contact: Thelma
K. Hewitt (508) 877-7630
x 3303. [email protected].
www.newfs.org.
“We Put Our Harte In Every Job”
Harte’s Flooring
VERMONT
Castings
Experience the Warmth and
Comfort of Vermont Castings Gas & Wood Stoves and
Fireplaces. With numerous sizes, styles and colors from
which to choose, it is the perfect way to enjoy winter indoors.
COUNTRY STOVES
43A Woodstock Ave, Rutland, VT
(802) 775-6289 • Alan Currier, owner
Open Friday and Saturday 10 am – 5 pm
One Scale Avenue, Building 6W
Howe Center, Rutland, VT • (802) 747-9955
Custom tile, laminate, carpet, hardwoods.
Professional installation of everything we sell.
If you have your own material, we will
gladly guarantee a professional installation.
Restretching and repairs.
Open Monday–Friday 8:30 am – 5:00 pm,
Sat 8:30 am – 1:00 pm, Sunday by appointment.
Vermont Country
Calendar
Antiques & Uniques
In the “Brick House” at Garden Time
• Open Daily 10 am – 5 pm •
MONDAY, APRIL 6
Buy • Sell • Dealer Space
Consignments
BURLINGTON. Taize Evening Prayer. Inclusive of
music, scripture, meditation and silence done in the
manner of the Taize Community in France. 7:30-8:30 pm.
Cathedral Church of St. Paul, 2 Cherry Street. Free.
(802) 864-0471. www.stpaulscathedralvt.org.
[email protected].
•LeeAnn Tyminski•
Tel (802) 770-1774 • Cell (802) 747-8018
Rt. 7, 2 mi. north of Rt. 4 • Rutland, VT
— Now Open! —
NORWICH. Science for Preschoolers—Books and
Beyond! Ages 3 to 5 and their parents or caregivers. Free
with Museum admission: adults $10; children 2 to 17 $8;
under 2, free. 10:15 or 11:30 a.m. Montshire Museum of
Science, One Montshire Rd., off Rt. 5. (802) 649-2200.
[email protected]. www.montshire.org.
TUESDAY, APRIL 7
WEST RUTLAND. Home Buyer Education Class.
Sponsored by NeighborWorks of Western Vermont.
Fee: $50/individual, $60/household includes materials.
Refreshments provided. 5-9 pm at NeighborWorks, 110
Marble St. Please call for confirmation and to register:
(802) 438-2303 x 216. nwwvt.org. Also April 8.
NEW ENGLAND MAPLE MUSEUM
North of Rutland, US Rt. 7 in Pittsford, VT
The Complete Story of Maple Sugaring
Vermont Foods & Maple Products
(802) 483-9414 • Open Daily 8:30 am – 5:30 pm
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8
ESSEX. Phoenix Books Knit Night (and Crocheters, too!).
All skill levels welcome. Free. 6–8 pm. Phoenix Books and
Cafe at Essex Shoppes and Cinema, 21 Essex Way #407.
(802) 872-7111. www.phoenixbooks.biz.
— Introducing —
HATHAWAY
FARM BEEF
THURSDAY, APRIL 9
BENNINGTON. Ruth Unger and Mike Merenda in
Concert—Honeymoon Tour. 8 pm. Meetinghouse Cafe of
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 108 School St. Admission. (802) 440-9816. www.uubennington.org.
[email protected].
BURLINGTON. Concert: Greg Brown with Bo Ramsey.
Singer/songwriter performs with long time collaborator
and guitar player. $27. 7:30 pm. Contois Auditorium,
149 Church St. (802) 652-0777. [email protected].
highergroundmusic.com. gregbrown.org. boramsey.com.
FAIR HAVEN. “Set Me Free” Easter Production. Free.
New Life Ministries at First Baptist Church, South Park
Place. 7 pm. Also April 12.
QUECHEE. Program—Wintering Raptors of the Great
Basin: Oasis in the High Desert. Speaker: Al Hinde,
ornithologist. Free. 4:30 pm. Held at the Vermont Institute
of Natural Science, Nature Center Classroom, Route 4.
(802) 359-5000. www.vinsweb.org.
SATURDAY, APRIL 11
STATEWIDE. Vermont Trout Season Opens. Fishing
license fees $20 adult residents, $8 residents 15–17
years, $41 adult nonresidents, and $15 for nonresidents
15–17 years. Licenses available at agents statewide and
from Fish & Wildlife’s website. 2009 Guide to Hunting,
Fishing and Trapping available where fishing licenses
are sold or from Vermont Fish & Wildlife Dept., 103 S.
Main St., Waterbury, VT 05671-0501. (802) 241-3700.
vtfishandwildlife.com.
BURLINGTON. Dance Performance: Pilobolus. This
troupe of superhuman artist-athletes are also acrobats,
theater and mime artists; as zany as the Marx Brothers,
as clever as Houdini. $29–$43. 8 pm. Flynn Center for
the Performing Arts, 153 Main St. (802) 656-4455.
www.flynntix.org.
JAMAICA. West River Spring Release at Jamaica State
Park. Grab your canoe, kayak, or raft and join paddlers
from around the Northeast to ride class II to class IV
rapids. Thousands of people come to watch the action on
the West River and hike along the three-mile long former
rail bed hiking trail that gently winds up the steep valley.
Food and equipment concessions. $3/adult, $2/child.
Jamaica State Park, 1/2 mile east on Depot St. from town.
(888) 409-7579. www.vtstateparks.com/htm/jamaica.cfm.
Also April 12.
JERICHO. Early Spring Walk in Mills Riverside Park.
This is an easy walk in park right outside of Underhill
Flats. Bring a potluck dish to share after the hike
at leaders’ home. Free, non-members welcome.
Sponsored by the Bread Loaf Section of the
Green Mountain Club. Contact leaders in
advance: Jan and Harris Abbott, (802) 8784873, [email protected]. www.
greenmountainclub.org.
hathawayfarm.com ~ 802.775.2624
MIDDLEBURY. Otter Creek Classic Fly Fishing
Tournament. On Otter Creek, Middlebury River, and New
Haven River. Meet at 7:30 am for rules and preferred
techniques before fishing. Entry fee: $13, paid at
Middlebury Mountaineer; must show valid 2009 fishing
license. Registrations now open, so secure your spot.
Middlebury Mountaineer, (802) 388-7245.
[email protected].
Route 7,
Brandon, VT
Next to
the Mobil Station
MONTPELIER. Cycling for a Sustainable Future—Book
Reading and Signing. With Jim Merkel, author of Radical
Simplicity: Small Footprints on a Finite Earth, and fellow
cyclists. These Vermonters and New Hampshirites are
cycling 350 miles from Norwich, VT to Canton, NY
to speak about climate-safe lifestyles in towns along
the way. Free. 4:30 pm. Bear Pond Books, 77 Main St.
(802) 229-0774. communitywalk.com, ncenergy.org,
radicalsimplicity.org, 350.org.
Call ahead…
we’ll have it ready!
802-247-9622
— Best Sandwich in Town! —
Specialty Sandwiches
Hot Soups • Chili • Chowder
NORWICH. Contradance with Northern Spy. guest
musician: Alan Bradbury on bass. Caller: David Millstone.
Please bring a separate pair of clean, soft-soled shoes for
dancing. All dances are taught, no partner is necessary,
and beginners are welcome! Admission $8, over 60 by
donation, and under 16 are free. 8 pm at Tracy Hall.
(802) 785-4607.
RANDOLPH CENTER. New England Wild Flower
Society’s Northern Gardening Symposium. Hear Richard
Enser, Elizabeth Farnsworth, and Gordon Hayward address
topics of biodiversity, botany, and art as they relate to our
designed landscapes. 9 am - 2 pm. Vermont Technical
College. Fee: $53 includes cafeteria lunch, symposium
packet, and parking. For info and to register: Thelma K.
Hewitt: (508) 877-7630 x 3303. [email protected].
www.newfs.org.
RUPERT. Workshop: Rug Hooking. Liz Williams of
McAdoo Rugs will teach punch rug hooking. $12 fee
includes use of the materials—frames, needles, scissors,
yarn, etc. Participants will be working on individual
6”x6” samplers. Chairpads and rug kits, materials and an
instruction book will be available for sale. 10 am – noon.
Merck Forest and Farmland Center, 3270 Rt. 315. (802)
394-7836. [email protected]. www.merckforest.org.
RUPERT. Spring Festivities—Meet Our Lambs. This is
your chance to get up close and introduce yourself to this
year’s lambs! Farm staff will be on hand to give you a
guided tour of the nursery and answer all of your questions
about lambing and sheep care. Farm staff will be at the
sheep house on the farm, just a short walk from the Visitor
Center. Rain or shine. Fee: $5. 10 am – noon. Merck Forest
and Farmland Center, 3270 Rt. 315. (802) 394-7836.
[email protected]. www.merckforest.org.
SHELBURNE. Sheep Shearing Clinic. Learn the hands-on
basics of sheep shearing in this day-long workshop guided
by professional sheep shearer, Chet Parsons. Sponsored by
UVM Extension. Fee: $125 for shearing (must bring own
equipment); $50 for lectures & observation. Suitable for
adults. 9 am – 3 pm. Shelburne Farms, 1611 Harbor Rd.
To register: (802) 524-6501. www.shelburnefarms.org.
STRATTON MOUNTAIN. Spring Fling Weekend.
Celebrate the end of the ski season! 8:30 am - 4 pm.
Stratton Mountain Resort. (802) 297-2000.
www.stratton.com. Through April 12.
Mon–Wed 10–3, Thurs & Fri 10–7, Sat & Sun 10–4
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Jewett’s
Green Mountain
Furniture Barn
Furniture is Our Business
New—Used—Vermont Made—Antiques
10% Off: Vermont Made Furniture,
New Furniture, Antique Furniture
25% Off: Good Used Furniture
6,500 Square Foot Showroom Floor:
Tables—50 or more to choose from.
Chairs—300 or more to choose from.
We Buy—We Sell—We Trade—We Deliver
New & Used: Beds, Headboards, Mattress,
Foundations, Bed Frames. All Sizes: Twin, Full, Queen,
King. Sofas. Loves, Cushion Chairs, Recliners, Hide
Aways, and Ottomans. Dressers, Mirrors, Chests, Night
Stands, Lingerie Chest. Desks, Bookcases, Hutches,
Wicker Furniture, Coffee Tables, Storage Chest, Rocking
Chairs, China Hutches, Commodes, Lining Closets,
End Stands, Vanities, Cedar Chest, Bar Pub Tables, Bar
Stools, VT Made Cabinets, VT Made Plank Tables, Child’s
Rockers, Sofa Tables, Benches, Bunk Beds.
THE STORE WHERE
YOU DEAL WITH THE OWNER
Open Tues–Sun 10 am – 5 pm, closed Monday
2128 Rt. 7, Pittsford, VT • 802-483-6844
Richard L. Jewett, Owner
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RUTLAND. ArtHop Rutland. Exhibits, demos and live
music—all free. 5–8 pm. Downtown and around Rutland.
For info call Patricia Kreitzer (802) 353-1904. www.
arthoprutland.com. Every second Friday of the month.
Hathaway Farm, Rutland, VT
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FRIDAY, APRIL 10
KILLINGTON. Sunshine Daydream Festival. A tribute to
the Grateful Dead featuring live music all day, drum circles
and tie-dying. 4763 Killington Rd. (802) 422-3333.
www.killington.com. [email protected].
& You’re the Boss • 10% Off Furniture &
WOODSTOCK. Hand-in-Hand Community Meal.
Tonight’s theme is “Easter.” All are welcome. Free,
donations accepted. Every Thursday, 5-7 pm in the Social
Hall of the Unitarian Church, 7 Church St. (802) 457-9272.
Continues every Thursday with different themes.
All Natural Beef raised on our historic Vermont
Farm, grown without using any growth hormones or
antibiotics, is now available by the package or by the
box. We ship. Stop by the Farm or give us a holler
by phone or check our website for more information.
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WEST RUTLAND. Home Buyer Education Class.
Fee: $50/individual, $60/household includes materials.
Refreshments provided. 5-9 pm at NeighborWorks, 110
Marble St. Please call for confirmation and to register:
(802) 438-2303 x 216. nwwvt.org.
(April 11 continued)
SWANTON. Old Railroad Passage Trail Walk. Join
Friends of Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge Board
President, Joe Belanger for a walk along the Railroad
Passage Trail. Dress for the weather and bring sturdy
waterproof boots. Free. Meet at the Tabor Rd parking area
at 10 am. Call to reserve: (802) 868-4781. www.fws.gov.
UNDERHILL. Early Spring Snowshoe/Hike to Taylor
Lodge—Dog Friendly. We’ll hike to Taylor Lodge via
Nebraska Notch Valley, to enjoy cookies and conversation.
A moderate outing with a moderate pace, 4.5 miles, 470’
elevation gain. Free, non-members welcome. Sponsored by
the Burlington Section of the Green Mountain Club. Contact
leader by April 9: Kelley Mackison, (802) 999-7839 or
[email protected]. www.greenmountainclub.org.
WILMINGTON. Easter Egg Hunt at Adams Farm. Easter
Egg Hunts, decorating Easter eggs, breaking an egg piñata,
milking a goat, pin the tail on the bunny, pony rides, storytelling, and a visit from the Easter Bunny. Prize-winning
traditional games including the Egg and Spoon Race.
Admission fee. 10 am - 5 pm. Adams Farm, 15 Higley Hill
Rd. 802-464-3762 or visit www.adamsfamilyfarm.com.
WOODSTOCK. Celebrate Springtime at Billings Farm.
Family-centered programs with the farm’s lambs, chicks,
and calves, plus heirloom garden activities, and wagon
rides. Admission: $8 adults, $4 ages 5–15, 2 & under free,
includes all programs and activities, plus the working dairy
farm and horse-drawn wagon rides. 10 am – 5 pm. Billings
Farm & Museum, one-half mile north of Woodstock village
green, Rt. 12. (802) 457-2355. www.billingsfarm.org.
SUNDAY, APRIL 12
KILLINGTON. Easter Sunday Services and Easter Egg
Hunt. What better way to start off Easter Sunday than with
the Sunrise service at the Peak? 4763 Killington Rd.
(802) 422-3333. www.killington.com.
WATERVILLE. Snowshoe/Hike to Laraway Mt. Follow
the Long Trail from Codding Hollow Rd. to the summit of
Laraway Mountain. A fairly easy hike in summer, but it can
be more challenging on snowshoes, which we will probably
need. 4.5 miles. Free. Non-members welcome. Sponsored by
the Burlington Section of the Green Mountain Club. Contact
leader in advance: David Hathaway, (802) 899-9982 or
[email protected]. greenmountainclub.org.
MONDAY, APRIL 13
NORTH BENNINGTON. VAE’s Vacation Art Camps.
VAE’s Sage St Mill. Mon-Fri, 10 am to 3 pm. Admission fee.
(802) 442-5549. www.vtartxchange.org. Through April 17.
TUESDAY, APRIL 14
RUPERT. Workshop: Knitting for Beginners & Advanced.
Help for the beginner getting started or the more experienced
with a problem pattern. Bring a project you’re working on
or begin one with Merck Forest’s own wool. Beginners can
bring size 6 needles and a ball of sport weight cotton to make
a washcloth. Free. Merck Forest and Farmland Center, 3270
Rt. 315. 1–4 pm. (802) 394-7836. [email protected].
www.merckforest.org.
FRIDAY, APRIL 17
BELLOWS FALLS. Author Appearance. Sy Montgomery,
author of Spell of the Tiger and Journey of the Pink Dolphin.
Village Square Booksellers, 32 The Square. Call for
reservations, (802) 463-9404. www.villagesquarebooks.com.
BENNINGTON. Benefit Performance: Rusty Dewees—
“The Logger.” True Vermont blue collar comedy, plus music.
Tickets: $20. 8 pm. Mount Anthony Union High School, 301
Park St. (802) 447-4567, [email protected], svhealthcare.org/
services/vna-hospice. Also April 18.
BURLINGTON. Performance. The Vermont Earth Institute
presents Think Global, Laugh Local. Tickets are $12 in
advance and $15 at the door. There will be a delectable bake
sale at intermission, bring your own mug. Join us at Contois
Auditorium from 7 to 9:30 pm. (802) 881-2039, vt.earth.
[email protected], vtearthinstitute.org.
ESSEX JUNCTION. Vermont Home & Garden Show. $6,
seniors $5, children under 15 free. Fri 12-8 pm, Sat 10 am 8 pm, Sun 10 am - 5 pm. Champlain Valley Exposition,
105 Pearl St. Admission. (802) 878-5545. www.cvfair.com.
Through April 19.
MANCHESTER CENTER. Book & Author Event: Hillary
Jordan presents her book Mudbound. Free. 7 pm at the
Northshire Bookstore, 4869 Main St. (802) 362-2200.
www.northshire.com.
MONTPELIER. 12th Annual Open Poetry Reading. 7 pm
at Bear Pond Books, 77 Main St. You do need to sign up, and
you do need to limit your poetry to five minutes. Sign up by
phone or come into the store and put your name on the list.
(802) 229-0774.
EAST CHARLESTON. Presentation: Kroka Expeditions—
THURSDAY, APRIL 16
The World in Your Backyard. Students and teachers share a
COLCHESTER.
VYO Chorus & Concert Chorale Spring
new outlook on our surroundings. Admission by donation. 4
Concert. Elley-Long Music Center at Saint Michael’s
pm. NorthWoods Stewardship Center, Ten Mile Square Rd.
College, 223 Ethan Allen Ave. 8 pm. For tickets call
(802) 723-6551 x 115. www.northwoodscenter.org.
(802) 86-Flynn. www.vyo.org. [email protected].
FAIR HAVEN. Play: Set Me Free—Easter Production. A
RUTLAND. Performance: “All Stressed Up” with Loretta
powerful silent play. Free. 11 am at New Life Ministries
LaRoche. Tickets: $20-30. Presented by Loretta Laroche and
at First Baptist Church, South Park Place. Contact: Holly
Co. 7:30 pm at the Paramount Theatre, 30 Center St.
Savage, (802) 265-8879. [email protected].
(802) 775-0570. www.paramountvt.org.
JAMAICA. West River Spring Release at Jamaica
State Park. Grab your canoe, kayak, or raft and join
paddlers from around the Northeast to ride class II theme is “De Diego’s Birthday” (Puerto Rico). All are
to class IV rapids. Or watch the action and hike
welcome. Free, donations accepted. Every Thursday, 5-7 pm
along the former rail bed hiking trail. $3/adult, in the Social Hall of the Unitarian Church, 7 Church St. (802)
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PRAYER FOR EARLY LAMBS
Vermont Country
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NORTH BENNINGTON. Basement Music Series presents An Evening of Blues. Local favorites The Prescriptions perform with special guests in two evening concerts!
VAE’s Basement Music Series Studio, Sage St Mill, Sage
St. 8 pm. Admission. (802) 442-5549. vtartxchange.org.
Also April 18.
The stars burn white,
But the stars burn cold;
The moon hangs sallow
And chilly and old.
With wary eyes
And lambent tongue
The old ewes hover
Over their young.
Down in the shed
New lambs bleat;
They totter and tremble
On weak black feet.
The frost-pricked air
Is bleak and raw.
The gray lambs shiver
Against the straw.
Temper the winds, Lord,
Their fleeces are thin;
Send enough springtime
To wrap them in.
RANDOLPH. Mud Season Variety Show. An intergenerational showcase of talent from the region. Chandler Music
Hall. 71-73 Main St. 7:30 pm. Admission. (802) 728-6464.
www.chandler-arts.org. [email protected]. Also
April 18.
—BESSIE MARLIN MASON
RUTLAND. Concert: Herman’s Hermits perform, starring
Peter Noone. Tickets: $26.50 - 36.50. 8 pm at Paramount
Theatre, 30 Center St. (802) 775-0570. paramountvt.org.
Country Breakfast
SATURDAY, APRIL 18
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BURLINGTON. Vermont Cycling Safety Course. Do
you want to be a more confident cyclist and learn how to
ride safely on Vermont’s urban and rural roads? Taught
by Nancy Schulz of the Vermont Bike/Ped Coalition and
Local Motion member David Jacobowitz. 8:30 am –
5:30 pm. Burlington Dept. of Public Works, 645 Pine St.
Registration and info at www.localmotion.org.
BURLINGTON. Performance: National Geographic Live!
A unique multimedia tribute to the spirit of exploration,
with NPR’s Neal Conan, actress Lily Knight, and the
Celtic/early music crossover group Ensemble Galilei.
Evocative music and artwork, maps, and thrilling shots
from the Geographic’s image collection. $27–$47. 8 pm.
Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St.
(802) 656-4455. www.flynntix.org.
COLCHESTER. Map and Compass Workshop. Learn
the basics of map reading and using a compass to get
from Point A to Point B. We’ll hike and bushwhack near
Colchester Pond to test our skills. Moderate, 5 miles
with little elevation gain. Free. Non-members welcome.
Sponsored by the Burlington Section of the Green
Mountain Club. Call for details: Phil Hazen, (802) 3557181 or [email protected]. greenmountainclub.org.
COLCHESTER. Concert: Carmina Burana. Presented by
the VSO Chorus. 7:30 pm. Elley-Long Music Center, St.
Michael’s College. Tickets: (802) 863-5966. www.vso.org.
COLCHESTER. Concert. The Vermont Symphony
Orchestra Chorus celebrates spring with a concert of Carl
Orff’s Carmina Burana and a new work, Journey on the
Open Road, by Gwyneth Walker of Braintree, VT. Tickets:
$20 adults, $9 children under 18. At Elley-Long Music
Center, St. Michael’s College at 7:30 pm. For information
or tickets, call (802) 86-FLYNN. www.vso.org.
DERBY LINE. Spring Fling Craft Show. The art and
crafts of the Wooden Horse Arts Guild members will be
on display and sale to celebrate the coming of the beautiful
Vermont spring season. Paintings, photography, jewelry,
quilts and much more. Free. 10 am – 4 pm. Derby Line
Village Hall, Main St. (802) 988-4300.
www.woodenhorsearts.com.
HUBBARDTON. Green Mountain Club Spring Outing
on Mt. Zion. Visit a Japanese garden and see waterfalls,
rolling meadows, and mountain views at this unique site,
home to Moot Point. Moderate, 3 miles, with some steep
spots. Newcomers and nonmembers welcome. Bring
drinking water and a lunch. Wear sturdy footwear and
dress for the weather. Free. Leave from Rutland’s Main
Street Park, near the east end of the fire station at 10 am.
Leaders: Barb & Barry Griffith, (802) 492-3573. web.mac.
com/gmckillington. Rain date: April 19.
JAY PEAK. Pond Skimming. Skiers/riders and whatever
else can slide down the mountain—try and pick up speed
going down. Free. Register at the base of the pond.
12–4 pm. Jay Peak Resort. jaypeakresort.com.
MANCHESTER CENTER. Book & Author Event:
Kevin Phillips and Bad Money. Free. 7 pm at the
www.northshire.com.
MANCHESTER VILLAGE. Equinox Naturalist Hike.
Hike the trails of the Equinox Preserve! Join a naturalist
from the Vermont Institute of Natural Science to hike to
Robin’s Lookout and view Equinox Pond. Bring a warm
sweater and water. A moderate-intensity hike, elevation
gain 250 feet. Fee: $8 to $15. 10–11:30 am. Meet at the
Lincoln Terrace of the Equinox Resort, Rt. 7A. Call
(802) 362-4374 to register. vinsweb.org.
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RANDOLPH. Mud Season Variety Show. A vibrant
tradition, this intergenerational celebration of community
has become an eagerly anticipated annual event. $15, $8
students and seniors. 7:30 pm. Chandler Music Hall, 71-73
Main St. (802) 728-6464. chandler-arts.org.
SHELBURNE. Family Program: Leaping Lambs & Shear
Delights! Come celebrate this special time of year! Visit
our new lambs, watch their moms get sheared, wash the
fleece and learn how to hand spin. Try your hand at the art
of felting, taste some sheep’s milk cheese, and much more!
$7/adult; $5/child. 10 am – 1 pm. At Shelburne Farms,
1611 Harbor Rd. To register, call (802) 985-8686 x 41.
www.shelburnefarms.org.
S. STRAFFORD. Spring Road Hike. Approximately
11 miles over hill and dale, past marsh and pond. No
dogs. Free, non-members welcome. Sponsored by the
Ottauquechee Section of the Green Mountain Club.
Contact leader in advance: Lynne Miller, (802) 785-4410.
STOWE. Second Annual Spring Turkey Hunting Field
Day & Calling Seminar. Free. 9 am – 4:30 pm, rain or
shine (please bring your lunch). At the Fly Rod Shop.
Registration required. Call (802) 253-7346.
SUNDAY, APRIL 19
BELLOWS FALLS. Mary Gauthier in Concert. Presented
by Vermont Festivals. Advance tickets $20/$25 door.
Tickets at Boccelli’s On The Canal, Village Square
Booksellers and Fat Franks in Bellows Falls. Online at
Brattleborotix.com. Doors open 7 pm, showtime 7:30 pm.
At Boccelli’s on the Canal. (802) 460-1190. www.vermont
festivalsllc.com. www.marygauthier.com.
CHESTER. Country Bluegrass Jam—Open Mike. Lots of
good music from the Green Mtn. Express and Friends and
much more. Raffles & 50/50 drawing. Refreshments on
sale in the kitchen. Donations taken at the door, everyone
is welcome. Come and join in the fun! 1-4 pm. At Gassetts
Grange Hall on Rt. 103 North. For more information
contact call Dave at (802) 875-2637.
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KILLINGTON. Pond Skimming. A wacky right of spring,
skim the pond or watch while others try. 4763 Killington
Rd. (802) 422-3333. killington.com. [email protected].
NORWICH. English Country Dance. Music by Trip to
Norwich (Carol Compton, Thal Aylward, and friends).
Calling by Chris Levey. All dances will be taught. No
partner needed. All are welcome. Bring refreshments to
share at the break. Clean, non-marking, soft-soled shoes
only (or socks). $7 Admission, $4 for under age 25. 3-6 pm
at Tracy Hall. (802) 785-4121.
MIDDLEBURY. Concert—Tom Paxton. Sponsored by
the After Dark Music Series. 7 pm at the United Methodist
Church, Rt. 7, Seminary St. For tickets call (802) 3880216. [email protected]. afterdarkmusicseries.com.
S. BURLINGTON. 16th Annual Vermont Antiquarian
Spring Book & Ephemera Fair. A Champlain
Quadricentennial Event. Over 40 dealers offering used,
rare and antiquarian books and ephemera in all subjects.
Meet authors David Hackett Fisher at 11 am & Beth Kanell
at 10 am & 2 pm. Admission $4, under 16 free. 10 am 4 pm. Sheraton Hotel, 870 Williston Rd. (802) 527-7243.
www.vermontisbookcountry.com.
MIDDLEBURY. Family Hike in Wright Park. Varied
lengths, stroller accessible and easy access to trails. Free.
Non-members welcome. Sponsored by the Bread Loaf
Section of the Green Mountain Club. Contact leader in
advance: Cecilia Elwert, (802) 453-8447.
S. BURLINGTON. Lilac Pruning Workday. Presenter:
Jeff Young, lilac curator for the Hort Farm. Help spruce
up the lilacs for the Bloomtime Festival on May 16. 8 am 4 pm at the UVM Horticultural Research Complex, 65
Green Mountain Dr. off Rt. 7. (802) 864-3073.
www.friendsofthehortfarm.org.
MIDDLEBURY. Home Buyer Education Class.
Fee: $50/individual, $60/household includes
materials. Refreshments provided. 10 am to 5 pm
at Ilsley Library, 75 Main St. Please call for
confirmation and to register: (802) 438-2303
x 216. nwwvt.org.
Family-style meals
like grandma used to make.
STOWE. Easy Hike to Moss Glenn, Sterling Falls Gorge.
Dog friendly, leashes required. Leisurely 3 miles with
little ascent. Free, non-members welcome. Sponsored
by the Burlington Section of the Green Mountain
Club. Contact leader by 4/18: Robert Chaperon Jr.,
(802) 868-5132 or [email protected].
www.greenmountainbikes.com
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Gifts & Jewelry
Crystals & Mineral Specimens
Lapidary Equipment & Supplies
Gem Cutting Instruction
Collecting Equipment
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(April 19 continued)
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22
WOODSTOCK. Spring Mountain Bike Ride. Leader’s
choice, depending on conditions. Free, non-members
welcome. Sponsored by the Ottauquechee Section of the
Green Mountain Club. Contact leader in advance: Dick
Ruben, (802) 234-9093. www.greenmountainclub.org.
MONDAY, APRIL 20
BARRE. Create It—Clay Camp II. Kids’ 7-10 vacation clay
camp! Studio Place Arts, 201 N. Main St. Admission fee.
(802) 479-7069. www.studioplacearts.com. [email protected]. April 20, 21, and 24.
LYNDONVILLE. Earth Week. Environmental events.
Lyndon State College, 1001 College Rd. Free admission.
(802) 626-6459. lyndonstate.edu/sustain. Through April 25.
SHELBURNE. Children’s Program: Farmer For A Day.
Pitch in to prepare the farm for spring! Work in our
sugarbush, and walk the trails or swimming beaches. For
ages: 5–12. Before & after care for the children available
upon request; please contact Peter Bullock at (802) 9850309. Fee: $50/child. 9 am – 3:30 pm. At Shelburne Farms,
1611 Harbor Rd. Registration required: (802) 985-8686 x
341. Through April 22 (1, 2, or all 3 days).
FRIDAY, APRIL 24
BURLINGTON. Vermont Stage Company presents Prelude
to a Kiss. FlynnSpace, 153 Main St. Wed-Sat, 7:30 pm, SatSun, 2 pm. Admission. (802) 86-FLYNN. www.vtstage.org.
[email protected]. Through May 10.
HINESBURG. Music Night with the Chick Peas. A mildly
sweet vocal infusion with strings, keys and a little spice!
Jody Albright—vocals, keyboard; Darienne Oaks—vocals,
violin; and Linda Pervier—vocals. Free. Brown Dog Books
& Gifts, 22 Commerce St. #3. For more information call
MANCHESTER VILLAGE. Earth Day Program: “Thinking Natacha Liuzzi at (802) 482-5189.
about the Wild—Philosophy and Nature.” Walk the paths of
the Equinox Preserve and discover the common ground that
HYDE PARK. An Evening of Magic. 7 pm. Hyde Park
thinkers like Plato and Thoreau stand upon. Fee: $8 to $15.
Opera House, Main St. For tickets call (802) 888-3252.
4–5:30 pm. Vermont Institute of Natural Science. Call
[email protected]. www.uwlamoille.org.
(802) 362-4374 to register. www.vinsweb.org.
HYDE PARK. Concert: Banjo Dan and the Mid-nite
QUECHEE. Earth Day Program: “Silvio O. Conte National
Plowboys. Tickets $10 at the door. 7:30 pm at the Hyde Park
Fish and Wildlife Refuge—A New Way of Conserving Our
Opera House. (802) 223-6965. www.banjodan.com.
Trust Resources.” The National Wildlife Refuge System is the
world’s premier system of public lands and waters set aside
MANCHESTER CENTER. Book & Author Event: Jim
to conserve America’s fish, wildlife and plants. Free. 4:30 pm Fitzgerald presents Reflections of the Eye Sage. Free. 7 pm.
at the Vermont Institute of Natural Science, Nature Center
Classroom, Route 4. (802) 359-5000. www.vinsweb.org.
www.northshire.com.
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION. World Premiere Musical—
Take Two. Tues–Sat 7:30 pm, Sun 5 pm. Briggs Opera House.
Admission. (802) 296-7000. www.northernstage.org.
[email protected]. Through May 17.
THURSDAY, APRIL 23
MANCHESTER CENTER. Second Annual Manchester
and the Mountains Literary Event. Workshops, readings and
performances showcasing emerging writers. Peter Palmer
Property, Rt. 7A North. Admission fee. (802) 362-6313.
[email protected]. www.greatermanchesterarts.org.
Through April 26.
TUESDAY, APRIL 21
BENNINGTON. Lecture by Anita Hill. Sponsored by Four
NORTH BENNINGTON. Film Festival: “The Immigrant
BURLINGTON. Concert— Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6. College’s Symposium. Bennington Center for the Arts, Gypsy Experience in America.” Fri 7 pm; Sat 10 am, 2 pm and
Lane. Free admission. (802) 447-6388. www.svc.edu.
7 pm; Sun 2 pm. Five films from 1948 to the present
Performed by the UVM Orchestra. 7:30 pm. UVM Recital
screened over three days. Free. Historic Park-McCullough
Hall, 384 S. Prospect St. Free admission. (802) 656-3040.
BENNINGTON. Home Buyer Education Class. Sponsored
Carriage Barn, One Park St. (802) 442-5441. info@
www.uvm.edu/music.
by NeighborWorks of Western Vermont. Fee: $50/individual, parkmccullough.org. Through April 26.
$60/household includes materials. Refreshments provided. 9
HANOVER, NH. Spring Outing to Girl Brook and Storrs
am to 5 pm at the Bennington Free Library, Wills Room. Call ST. ALBANS. 43rd Annual Vermont Maple Festival. A
Pond. Easy on the knees. Free, non-members welcome.
to register: (802) 438-2303 x 216. nwwvt.org.
Champlain Quadricentennial event celebrating maple from
Sponsored by the Ottauquechee Section of the Green
1609 to 2009 with exciting activities and the fun of someMountain Club. Contact leader in advance: Peter Hope,
LYNDONVILLE. Performance: All Shook Up. Alexander
thing for everyone! 10 am - 6 pm. Free admission. Down(603) 863-6456. www.greenmountainclub.org.
Twilight Theatre, Lyndon State College, 1001 College Rd.
town, Main St. (802) 524-5800. VermontMapleFestival.org.
Thurs., Fri., Sat., 7 pm; Sat. and Sun, 2 pm. Admission by
NORWICH. Children’s Workshop: Lego Madness. Learn
[email protected]. Also April 26.
donation. (802) 626-4846. [email protected].
about motion while making vehicles and other contraptions
with everyday materials and Lego building systems. Grades www.lyndonstate.edu. Through April 26.
WATERBURY CENTER. Take-Out Turkey Dinner. Pick
1-3. Fee: $50 for 2 days (4/21 & 4/23). 10 am - 12 noon.
up from 4–6 pm. Cost $8. For reservations call (802) 244RUTLAND. Performance. Vermont Actors’ Repertory
Montshire Museum of Science, One Montshire Rd., off Rt.
8089. Waterbury Center Community Church next to Cold
Theatre presents Almost Maine. 8 pm. Presented at The Brick Hollow Cider Mill, Rt. 100. (802) 244-8089. bbtravelers@
5. (802) 649-2200. www.montshire.org.
Box, Paramount Theatre, 30 Center St. (802) 775-0570.
aol.com.
paramountvt.org. Through May 2.
NORWICH. Children’s Workshop: Toys, Machines,
and Legos. Make crazy contraptions using a variety
SATURDAY, APRIL 25
of materials including Lego building systems and
your limitless imaginations. Grades 4-6. Fee: $75
BRATTLEBORO. Jazz Concert: Howard Brofsky
theme is “Kitchen Crew’s Choice.” All are welcome. Free,
for 3 days (4/21, 22, 23). 1-3 pm. Montshire
donations accepted. 5-7 pm in the Social Hall of the Unitarian and Friends. Tickets $20/$15. 8 pm at the Vermont
Museum of Science, One Montshire Rd, off
Jazz Center, 72 Cotton Mill Hill, Suite 222.
Church, 7 Church St. (802) 457-9272. Continues every
Rt 5. (802) 649-2200. montshire.org.
(802) 254-9088. www.vtjazz.org.
Thursday with different themes.
Lukana’s Dream
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Interesting gifts including
Himalayan Salt Lamps,
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802-234-9444
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Vermont Castings
The Year’s at the spring,
And day’s at the morn;
Morning’s at seven,
The hillside’s dew-pearled.
The lark’s on the wing,
The snail’s on the thorn:
God’s in His Heaven—
All’s right with the world!
— ROBERT BROWNING
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Homemade Pastries, Pies,
Cakes, Breads. Catering.
Special Orders Welcome.
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12% Horse Feed – Sweet
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Expelled Soybean
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16% Sheep & Goat Pellet
26% Turkey Starter Mash
21% Turkey Grower Pellets
Whole Barley
15% Whole Grain Mix
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Open Sat 10–4; Sun 11–3; Mon, Thurs, Fri 11–5
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Calendar
ESSEX JUNCTION. Horsin’ Around on Saturday Night.
Equine variety show. Admission $12 (does not include
admission to Everything Equine). 6 pm. Champlain Valley
Exposition, 105 Pearl St. Admission. (802) 878-5545.
[email protected]. www.cvfair.com.
CHESTER. The Annual Steiff Collectibles Teddy Bear
Party. Starts 11 am. Refreshments at noon, presentation
1 pm. Door prizes. The Hugging Bear Inn & Shoppe,
244 Main St. Free admission. (800) 325-0519. info@
huggingbear.com. www.huggingbear.com.
SUNDAY, APRIL 26
BARRE. Sundays Live at LACE. Eric Goodenough and
Kristina Stykos, songs and lush guitar instrumentals. Free.
10 am – 1 pm. LACE, 159 N. Main St. (802) 476-4276.
www.lacevt.org.
ESSEX JUNCTION. Spring Bike Ride. A variation from
the usual hikes and shoes, a road ride for all interested
cyclists. Essex Junction to North Ferrisburgh and back.
Approximately 55-60 miles, 12-14 mph average. Helmet
required, no exceptions. Free, non-members welcome.
MANCHESTER VILLAGE. Beginner Map and Compass Sponsored by the Burlington Section of the Green
Workshop. Learn how to find your way through the woods Mountain Club. Contact leader by April 24: Robynn
Albert, (802) 878-4036 or [email protected].
using just a map, compass and your senses. Learn how
to “read the landscape,” bushwhack and take advantage
of natural road signs. Bring water and snacks. Suited for
families, older children, and adults. Fee: $8 to $15. 1–3:30 SHELBURNE. Multi-media Presentation: Cultural
Connections. Join author Jan Reynolds in celebrating
pm. Vermont Institute of Natural Science. Call (802) 362her new book, Cycle of Rice, Cycle of Life. Learn about
4374 to register. www.vinsweb.org.
Indonesian rice farmers who have farmed the same way
for over 1,000 years without detriment to the environment.
NORWICH. Annual Egg Drop. Design a container
Journey among other indigenous tribes around the world.
that will protect a raw egg from a harrowing 18-foot
Free. 5:30–7 pm. Coach Barn at Shelburne Farms, 1611
plunge! Build your egg container and bring it or stop by
Harbor Rd. (802) 985-8686. www.shelburnefarms.org.
the Community Room from noon to 2 pm for some help
($2 material fee, one egg included). Free with museum
admission: adults $10; children 2 to 17, $8; under 2, free.
MONDAY, APRIL 27
2 pm at Montshire Museum of Science, One Montshire Rd,
BURLINGTON.
Chamber Ensembles Concert. UVM
off Rt 5. (802) 649-2200. [email protected].
Student chamber groups perform classical music. 7:30 pm.
www.montshire.org.
UVM Recital Hall, 384 S. Prospect St. Free admission.
(802) 656-3040. www.uvm.edu/music.
QUECHEE. Earth Day Extravaganza: Be Water Wise!
Examine our use of water and learn more about the plants
TUESDAY, APRIL 28
and animals that rely on wetlands as their habitat. 11 am
– 12 pm: “Wild about Wetlands,” a Live Animal Program
BURLINGTON. Nonet and Latin Jazz Concert—
with Turtle and Salamander with a field trip to the Vernal
Something Old, Something New. 7:30 pm. UVM Recital
Pool. 1–5 pm: “Be Water Wise”—paint your own tile.
Hall, 384 South Prospect Street. Free. (802) 656-3040.
3–4 pm: Live Bird Program; possible rehabilitated bird
www.uvm.edu/music.
release. Adults $9, Seniors $8, Youth (3–18) $7, 2 and
under free. Held at the Vermont Institute of Natural
JAMAICA. Spring Hike on the West River Trail. From
Science, Route 4. (802) 359-5000. www.vinsweb.org.
Jamaica State Park to South Londonderry (with car spot).
Mostly old railroad bed. a moderate 9.3 mi., little elevation
SO. BURLINGTON. Spring Clean-Up and Perennial
change. Free, non-members welcome. Sponsored by
Garden Wake-Up. Presenter: Brian Vaughan, perennial
the Ottauquechee Section of the Green Mountain Club.
garden curator for the Hort Farm. Volunteers should bring
Contact leader in advance: Peter Hope, (603) 863-6456.
pruning shears and weeding tools if they have them.
9 am - 12 pm at the UVM Horticultural Research
Complex, 65 Green Mountain Dr. off Rt. 7. (802) 864WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29
3073. www.friendsofthehortfarm.org.
BURLINGTON. Percussion Ensemble/Hand Drumming
SO. BURLINGTON. Lilac Pruning Workday. Presenter:
Concert. Students perform. 7:30 pm. UVM Recital
Jeff Young, lilac curator for the Hort Farm. Help spruce up Hall, 384 South Prospect St., Redstone Campus. Free
the lilacs for the Bloomtime Festival on May 16. 8 am admission. (802) 656-3040. www.uvm.edu/music.
4 pm at the UVM Horticultural Research Complex,
65 Green Mountain Dr. off Rt. 7. (802) 864-3073.
THURSDAY, APRIL 30
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RUTLAND. Performance. TheatreworksUSA presents:
Freedom Train. Part of the OMYA Education is Paramount
TICONDEROGA, NY. Green Mountain Club Spring
Series. At the Paramount Theatre, 30 Center St. (802) 775Outing on Cook Mountain. View Lake George and
0570. www.paramountvt.org.
the Champlain Valley from the top of the Tongue
Mountain Range. Moderate, 4 miles, 900-foot elevation
NORWICH. Discussion: “Doing Science—How We
gain. Newcomers and nonmembers welcome. Bring
Know What We Know.” With Dr. John Thorstensen, an
drinking water and a lunch. Wear sturdy footwear and
optical astronomer at Dartmouth College who studies
dress appropriately. Free. Leave from Rutland’s Main
binary star systems—cataclysmic binaries. Admission.
Street Park, near the east end of the fire station at 9 am.
7-8:30 pm. Montshire Museum of Science, One Montshire
Leader: Allison Henry, (802) 775-1627. web.mac.com/
Rd, off Rt 5. (802) 649-2200. [email protected].
gmckillington.
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VERGENNES. Spring Outing to Snake Mountain. Hike
WOODSTOCK. Hand-in-Hand Community Meal.
along old carriage roads and a trail to an outstanding view
of the Adirondacks and the southern part of the Champlain Tonight’s theme is “Poem In Your Pocket Day.” All are
welcome. Free, donations accepted. Every Thursday,
Valley. Easy to moderate with moderate pace, four miles,
5-7 pm in the Social Hall of the Unitarian Church,
1000’ elevation gain. Free, non-members are welcome.
Sponsored by the Burlington Section of the Green Mountain 7 Church St. (802) 457-9272. Continues every Thursday
with different themes.
Club. Contact leader by April 24: Len Carpenter,
(802) 655-3071. www.greenmountainclub.org.
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ice cream from raw milk in your kitchen! With Marian
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Portland Fancy, Paul Jones, others. With Adam Boyce,
fiddler/caller. 8 pm at the Community Hall on Tyler Farm
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of the book, It’s a Frog’s Life and ending with an evening
outdoors. Admission by donation. 6–8 pm. NorthWoods
Stewardship Center, Ten Mile Square Rd. (802) 723-6551.
[email protected]. northwoodscenter.org.
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views east over the Connecticut River. Free, non-members
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A Champlain Quadricentennial Event
VT Antiquarian Book & Paper Fair Comes to Burlington
On Sunday April 19th, the
Sixteenth Vermont Antiquarian Book & Ephemera Fair
in will be held in Burlington, Vermont. Over thirty
booksellers from all over
Vermont and New England
fill the Exhibition Hall at the
Sheraton Hotel on Williston
Road, giving collectors and
book lovers the opportunity
to see a variety of books,
postcards, maps, prints and
ephemera of all kinds .
This year, the fair will be
an official Champlain Quadricentennial event. The Quad-
ricentennial celebrates the
400th anniversary of Samuel
de Champlain’s discovery of
Lake Champlain. Events will
be held throughout Vermont,
New York and Quebec celebrating the area’s rich heritage, natural resources and
beauty, cultural traditions,
native inhabitants and more.
The Vermont Antiquarian
Booksellers Association will
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by several other dealers.
Beth Kanell of Waterford,
VT will be discussing her
young adult novel The Darkness Under The Water, which
explores a dark episode in
Vermont in the 1930s when
Abenakis and French-Canadians were being targeted by
government officials in an
effort to cleanse the state of
so-called “poor citizens.” She
will be available from 10 a.m.
to 2 p.m. to talk about her
book and sign copies.
David Hackett Fisher will
be discussing his latest book,
Champlain’s Dream, a definitive biography of Samuel de
Champlain and his explorations in North America. Dr.
Fisher is the author of eight
books, including Paul Revere1s Ride and his Pulitzer
Prize winning Washington’s
Crossing. He will be giving
a talk at 11 a.m. and will sign
books.
While the fair will be focusing on Lake Champlain,
much more will be offered.
Many dealers at this show
have “modern first editions,”
mysteries, poetry, cookbooks,
military history, even art and
music books. Several dealers
will be offering thousands of
postcards, from every state
and on every conceivable
subject. Of course children’s
books are always popular,
whether Dr. Seuss or original
editions of the Nancy Drew
series or valued treasures
from the Victorian era. Take
time to visit with the dealers,
who are glad to explain the
highlights of their collections
and fill in the fine points of
how books become valued.
Ardent readers and beginning collectors are welcome,
“The mind is God in each of us.”
along with scholars, historians, and librarians.
—Menander
The show hours are 10 a.m.
I have kept a notebook for more than half a century,
to 4 p.m., and there is a mod- pretending I would do something important with it. I have
est admission charge of $4 more information than I know what to do with. I only write
for adults (under 16 free).
a page or two every few days; but the journals go back to
one decisive date, April 7th, 1957, on which I realized that
For more information, I was meant to keep track of things.
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I wanted to think those pieces of me would find the mind
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and acts in safe keeping for all eternity. I had fantasized that
I would eventually transcend the limitations of my brain and
body, and fly to that spirit home to blissfully know and be
known forever.
I grew up surrounded by holy cards and statues, in a world
of prayers and symbols. There was no wasted or lost movement along that Path, no object or creature without meaning. God saw my most hidden thoughts, and remembered
everything. For a while, I rebelled against such a Big Brother;
finally I got lonely for him.
With new faith, I saw the light. At my earlier crisis of
religion and my later crisis of personal worth, I had fallen
into grievous doubt.
I had needed a Heaven to affirm everything about me. I
had wanted the Father to see and count this or that poem, the
calendars of wildflowers, the weather graphs, the secrets of
the diaries, every artifact, word after word: like he did with
the birds of the air and the lilies of the fields.
I still save letters and take my notes, but now the oversoul,
reborn, is not outside me. The molecules of God have become
perfect here and now. They reflect, as Menander knew, the
cosmos like a mirror, nothing missing, and show the image
and likeness of the Great Accumulator.
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Golden Times Tales Through the Sugarhouse Window
By Burr Morse
(Published by Historical Pages Co, Poultney, VT)
This is the time of year that Vermont sugarhouses, with
their clouds of smoke and steam, attract a large number of
visitors eager to get outside after a long winter and to sample
the new season’s maple syrup. One Vermont family sugaring
operation with an eight-generation tradition is Morse Farm
on County Road in Montpelier, VT.
In Golden Times: Tales Through the Sugarhouse Window, sugar-maker and farmer Burr Morse gives us a warm
and often humorous look into maple sugaring, the people
who visit, and farming as it really is. This series of essays
takes us on a journey of 60 years, from his childhood on the
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farm to present day. Dedicated to his wife Betsy, “the love
of my life,” Golden Times is a reflection on the value of
family in a farming life.
His earliest sugaring memory was when he watched his
father handling the dippers and hydrometers used to test
the syrup, the same task he’s doing himself today. Another
early memory was of his grandfather cooking hot dogs in
the boiling sap.
Burr tells us about when he was a child, crawling into
and painting an old and rusty iron sap tank. “I even found
myself singing Oh, What a Beautiful Morning at the top of
my rust-blackened lungs.” Thankfully the singing alerted his
father who coaxed him out of the tank’s porthole for a walk
and some fresh air, and a word about what a stupid thing he
had done, breathing paint fumes in a closed space.
In another sugaring adventure, Burr tells us of a seventh
grade school science project where he was to see if other
hardwood trees (beech, yellow birch, ash and elm) would
yield sap that could be made into syrup. His buckets continued to be empty until on day he found a “bubbly, puckery
mass” in the bottom of the elm bucket. He found out later
that his siblings had spied on him and put the foul concoction in the elm bucket!
“In the 46 years since then, I never tapped anything but a
maple,” he tells the reader.
Even with hay fever a continuing problem, Burr agreed
photo by Donald G. Lockhart, Perceptions, Inc.
A long row of stately old maples are hung with sap buckets. From Sweet Days and Beyond by Burr Morse.
to stay on the farm after his father decided in 1966 to sell
off their dairy herd and concentrate on maple sugaring, beef
cows, and vegetables. That was also the beginning of the
farm moving into the agri-tourism business.
Today visitors come to purchase maple and other Vermont
products, watch the sugaring process, and enjoy some sugaron-snow. During the winter they cross-country ski on the
many trails Burr maintains on the property.
We learn that 450 buses of tourists visit Morse Farm each
year. A surprise visitor on a motorcycle was the CEO of a
large charter bus company who asked Burr not to tell anyone
he saw him on a cycle. Burr surmised that here was a bus
czar who could “think outside the box.”
Green Living Journal Comes to Upper Valley
Publication Has Served
“Friends of the
Environment” Since 1990
There’s no doubt that
“green” is hot, and green
is cool. One publication,
however, predates the green
bandwagon. Green Living:
has been published continuously since 1990, serving a
community of eco-friendly
readers in the tri-state area of
southeastern Vermont, southwestern New Hampshire, and
northern Massachusetts.
For many years the publication was well-known
within its bioregion, but not
beyond. Stephen Morris,
whose experience includes
stints as a book publisher
with Chelsea Green and
Executive Director of the Intervale Foundation, acquired
the publication in 2004 with
an eye towards replicating
its business model in new
markets.
“Green Living has succeeded while higher profile
attempts at environmental
publishing have not, due to
its commitment to operating
at a grassroots level. While
most of the publishing world
is still captive to the biggeris-better mentality, the rest
of the world is realizing the
power and necessity of being
local.” He points to various
“localvore” movements as
evidence.
In 2006 Morris established
new editions, under local
ownership and management,
on the West Coast. Then,
in 2007, he established the
Champlain edition of Green
Living in association with local publisher, Ellen Shapiro.
Morris, who lives in Bethel, VT, sees the Upper Valley
as an ideal location for Green
Living. “There’s great environmental awareness here.
The region has world class
institutions like Dartmouth
and Vermont Law School;
the nation’s oldest food cooperative, the Hanover/Lebanon Co-op; fabulous farmer’s
markets; and communityminded organizations such
as Vital Communities, that
have promoted farm-to-table
initiatives.”
The circulation of 16,000
copies will extend on both
sides of the Connecticut River from the Canadian border
to as far south as Springfield,
Burr (real name Harry) has three older siblings, Elliott
(Punk), Sherwood (Tick) and Susan (no nickname). Susan,
age three when Harry was born, called him “Burr” for “baby
brother,” and the nickname has endured. But during childhood, the older brothers (as they are known to do) teased
and gave Burr a hard time.
When musical instruments were passed out at school, Burr
ended up with a trombone. At age 10 his right arm was too
short to reach the sixth and seventh positions. “So I developed
an ingenious way to catch the slide with my big toe,” Burr
recalls. His arm eventually grew into the job. Although he
disliked the drudgery of practicing, he did it anyway—in
part because it annoyed the siblings who teased him.
Music teachers spotted his talent and refused to let him
quit. He went on to play professionally, which he still does
to this day. His two grown sons are both accomplished
musicians as well.
Being a good musician qualified Burr for Vermont National
Guard’s 40th Army Band, and he was sent to Fort Dix for
basic training. While there he made friends with a lanky lad
from Louisiana. One day at the firing range, on their last
walk to the targets, his friend told Burr in a soft voice, “Ah
see you a fahmah, too.” “Yeh, I am. How do you tell?” Burr
asked. “You have hanes of a fahma.”
Burr writes, “I looked down at my farmer hands with pride,
and told him I was a maple sugarmaker from Vermont.”
VT and Claremont, NH. The
center is the Hanover/Lebanon/White River Junction
area. “The Upper Valley has
always been a commercial
crossroad,”says Morris. “The
roads and rivers meet here.”
Green Living, a free publication, is offered at more than
200 locations. Publication
of the inaugural issue was in
Golden Times: Tales Through the Sugarhouse Window
March, 2009.
is $19.95. Burr’s first book on sugaring, Sweet Days &
Beyond, is $24.95 (hardcover) or $14.95 (softcover). Both
For more information books can be ordered directly from Morse Farm, 1168 County
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The whole family, especially the kids and the dog, turned out to gather sap by oxen in the early nineteen-hundreds.
In Sugarin’ Timeddd
It’s sugarin’time up country, and settin’ here in town
I seem to hear the “drip, drip, drip” of sap a tricklin’ down,
Into them wooden buckets in our old sugar place;
Afore Josiah died, and our only daughter Grace,
Insisted ’twasn’t noways safe for me to live alone
Up in that old brown farm-house that long’s I live I own.
And naught would do but I must come and stay along o’her
Where sugarin’ might be hayin’ time, and all this bustlin’ stir;
Where smells o’spring, and tricklin’ sap, and wild flowers never come.
There ain’t no chance for such things around Grace’s city home;
And sugarin’time no different ain’t from summer or from fall.
I wisht Josiah’n me was back—a-workin’ hard and all.
The children on these brick-paved walks they make me think o’Jim,
What we had hoped would stay by us — the farm was meant for him.
He died when he was twenty. Yes, there was young Josiah,
Professor in a college now, with hope of something higher.
And Grace, our girl, she married what they called a railroad king,
And lives on Beacon Street, in all the styles that she can swing.
But all the same when April comes, I see ‘em all agin,
Jest runnin’ wild around that farm, them three, and in
All sorts of mischief daily, from early spring to fall.
I wisht that we was back there now— a-workin’ hard and all.
I seem to see the tossels shakin’ out upon the trees,
I seem to smell the perfume of the May-flowers in the breeze.
I seem to feel the summer a-coming ‘crost the hills.
I seem, up in the pastur’, to hear the sharpen’ of the blades.
I hear the cattle lowin’, I go berryin’ in the glades;
I smell the harvest ripenin’ over in the corner lot.
I see Josiah bringin’ home that last new pair he bought.
I remember how together, when the children went away —
Grown big and married — by the fire we sat at close of day.
And how together we had lived there fifty year – come fall.
I wisht Josiah’n me was back — a-workin’ hard and all.
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It's sugarin’ time up country, but never once agin
Shall I, now goin’ on eighty, see the spring a-comin’ in
The old way, thru’ the maple trees, ‘crost the pasture’s brown;
For I must stay— in sugarin’ time— on Beacon Street in town.
The children never, as of old, shall I tuck in at night,
Their little feet so tired, but their happy hearts so light.
They wouldn’t go back if they could, and I’m too old they say,
And since Josiah isn’t there, I let them have their way.
It’s sugarin’ time up country, though, and memories, like the sap,
Start up and set me longin’ for Mother Nature’s lap —
And him, and Jim — the farm, the hens, the horses in the stall,
It’s sugarin’ time up country, I’m homesick — that is all.
—HELEN M. WINSLOW
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Nine Generations of Maple Sugar in the Blood
by Mim Herwig, Randolph Center, VT
As you taste the first delectable maple syrup of the season,
did you ever wonder who was the first white man in Vermont
to make this ambrosia? (Surely the Greek and Roman gods
could have no more exquisite food!)
History books proclaim Alexander Kathan of Dummerston
as the first white sugar-maker, for he recorded in the spring
of 1764 that he made 21 pounds of “molasses,” as it was
called then.
Such information was of great interest to me, because
Alexander was great uncle of my great-great-grandmother,
Sally Kathan Snow. But why hadn’t Uncle Alec, as I shall
refer to him hereafter, sugared before?
His father, Dummerston’s first settler, had moved his family there in January 1752 when Alec was already 22 years old.
With his three brothers and father he had helped clear land,
“When the sap comes surging up in the
maples, as it has since time immemorial,
I am seized with sugaring fever.”
build a house, barn, sawmill and potash works, surrounded
by a fort in this hostile wilderness. Maple sugar would have
been a prized addition to their diet.
A study of history revealed that the French and Indian Wars
had just ended in 1763, and before that time it was extremely
dangerous for a man to be out in the woods alone.
In fact, it was downright hazardous just to live in the region,
as Uncle Alec well knew. His sister, Margaret K. Moor, had
been 27 on the night of March 6, 1758 when Indians came to
the door of her cabin in Brattleboro, hatcheted her husband
and his father and took her and her two baby girls captive.
They searched the cabin for provisions, finding beans
which they dumped into heated lard. As soon as this “porridge” had cooled enough, they poured it into a leather bag
to provide sustenance on their 10-day trip to Ticonderoga.
Nothing was heard from the young mother and her little girls
for two and a half years, until Col. Peter Schuyler ransomed
them from Montreal for $74.
No wonder Uncle Alec took advantage of the first peaceful
spring to start sugaring. Instead of tapping the trees, Uncle
Alex “boxed” them, by cutting a Y-shaped gash with two
blows of his axe. A spout was inserted at the lower corner
to direct sap down to a trough resting on the snow. Spouts
were whittled from elder stems, hollowed out for two inches,
then trough-like for a foot or more.
The troughs were made of soft basswood, cut into 30-inch
lengths, split in two, hollowed out with axe and adze and
charred to prevent seepage. When sugaring ended, these
St. Johnsbury Annual Maple
Festival Coming April 18
The St. Johnsbury Maple
Festival will be held on Saturday, April 18th from 10
a.m. to 5 p.m. in downtown
St. Johnsbury. The street
festival celebrates Vermont’s
Maple industry and features
a syrup tasting competition,
sugar-on-snow party, sugarhouse, science and historical
exhibits, and competitions
for sap bucket carrying and
wood cutting. Artisan and
craft vendors featuring Vermont products will line Railroad Street.
Entertainment will include
live music on two stages. A
rock climbing wall is provided by the Vermont National
Guard, and there will be a
kids's activity area. The food
court at the Pomerleau Welcome Center on Eastern Ave.
includes a pancake breakfast
at 9 a.m. This festival is a rain
or shine event and admission
is free to all.
For more about the Festival, please visit www.stjmaplefestival.org.
Author Mim Herwig's father, Earl Boyce of Williamstown, VT, is shown here stoking the fire while boiling down the sap
back in the 1970s. Earl has since passed away but for many years he enjoyed sugaring.
troughs were overturned at the foot of the maples until late
fall, when they were put on end, the better to be found in the
following spring snow.
Uncle Alec boiled down his sap in a potash kettle, suspended by a chain from a pole held up by two forked poles,
with burning logs rolled as close as possible. The yield
of Uncle Alec’s maples, and all others of the period, was
colossal. Each tree might be expected to run as much as 15
gallons daily.
As the years rolled by, Uncle Alec’s descendants adopted
less crude methods. Wooden buckets with wooded hoops
made by coopers were an improvement over troughs. An
auger replaced the boxing method, but it was believed that
the bigger and deeper the hole, the greater the flow of sap, so
sometimes a two-inch hole was bore four inches deep.
Arches of stone were built in the sugar woods for boiling
down the sap, instead of hanging a kettle from a pole. Such
an arch caused the death of Uncle Alec’s great-grandson,
Horace, who at the age of 10, was helping his father lift off
a kettle of hot syrup when a leg of the kettle caught on the
arch and the little fellow was scalded. His father plunged him
into a tub of cold sap, but Horace Kathan died on March 8,
1833, after nine days of excruciating pain.
Until the hurricane of 1938, my father, Earl Adams Boyce,
had conducted a sugaring operation along the roadsides,
much as his father had done. He boiled in pans on a brick
arch, with sugaring off done in the kitchen.
But the hurricane, which had destroyed a million maple
trees in Vermont, favored Dad. His second growth sugar
woods facing north were spared.
The pinnacle of his sugaring career came in 1953, when he
won the Peter bent Brigham Northrup award for Best Maple
Syrup at the Vermont Farm Show.
And now, when the sap comes surging up in the maples,
as it has since time immemorial, I am seized with sugaring
fever. Buckets must be hung on nearby trees, and gathering
done with the help of whatever grandchild is handy.
About four gallons of syrup are boiled down on my old
black kitchen stove each season, providing generous samples
for this ninth generation of Vermonters with sugaring in
their blood.
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Vermont Maple Festival
Sugarmakers work hard
during the six to eight weeks
of the maple sugaring season.
By the end of April they’re
ready to celebrate the new
crop.
The 43nd Annual Vermont
Maple Festival takes place in
downtown St. Albans, VT,
April 24th through April
26th, 2009.
This year it’s a Champlain
Quadricentennial Event commemorating 400 years of
maple history. The popular
festival has been chosen as
one of the Top Ten Events
of the season by the Vermont
Chamber of Commerce.
The Maple Festival comes
after the end of winter, when
folks are ready to get outside and enjoy the coming
of warmer weather. There
is something to make every member of the family happy—the carnival, the
parade, great food, plenty of
interesting things to explore,
and a chance to do something
outdoors. Even if it’s jacket
weather, everyone has fun.
Come and enjoy the Maple
Exhibit Hall and Contests,
Antiques, Crafts, Fiddlers’
Variety, Youth Talent, and
Specialty Food Shows, a Sap
Run Road Race, Sugarhouse
Tours, Pancake Breakfasts,
Carnival, Historical Museum, Entertainment, Traditional Maple Treats, topped
off by the Grand Parade!
There is no admission fee
to the festival, only a moderate charge for food and rides,
and there are lots of things to
do for free, making it easy
for families to have a good
time. Many of the venues are
handicapped accessible.
For more information and
a complete schedule go to
www.vtmaplefestival.org or
call (802) 524-5800.
8th Annual “Flavors of the Valley”
Comes to the Upper Valley
Flavors of the Valley, the
Upper Valley’s premier tasting, informational, and buying event for locally grown
foods, is coming to White
River Junction, VT on April
21, 2009.
The event takes place at the
Hartford High School from
2–7 p.m. Whether you are a
chef, gardener, wholesale or
retail buyer, or just a connoisseur of delicious food, you’ll
want to be there.
Dozens of local farmers
and chefs answer questions
about their food and farm
products, including meats,
produce, maple, dairy, baked
goods, and prepared foods.
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Admission is $7 per person, free for kids 6 and under,
family maximum of $25.
Plan to come and bring
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come home full of ideas
about how to prepare great,
healthy meals for you and
your family, and where to
buy the locally produced
foods to do it with.
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Everyone loves the parade at the late April Vermont Maple Festival in St. Albans, VT.
Maple Syrup Facts
by Dr. Leonard Perry,
Extension Professor, University of Vermont
Most people know maple syrup comes from the sap of the
sugar maple tree, collected and boiled down each spring to
make more dense. Whether you make your own maple syrup
as a fun family activity, for income, or just enjoy using it,
you should know some of the interesting facts about this
important agricultural product in our region.
It takes about 43 gallons of sap boiled down to make a
gallon of maple syrup. A tree in the forest may produce 10
to 15 gallons of sap in the spring, while roadside trees may
produce 15 to 20 gallons. So in a good season, it would
take at least two roadside trees to produce enough sap for
about a gallon of syrup. The amount of sap will vary with
the tree, weather, length of the sap season, and method of
collecting the sap.
Why the sugar maple has sweeter sap with better flavor
than other maples is not really known. The reason may lie
in the structure of the wood where the sap is stored. If sap
is collected once buds develop on the trees, it becomes less
pleasing. The sugar maple has the longest period before
buds develop, so the longest season to collect sap among
the maples.
The sugar maple primarily grows in the northeastern and
eastern midwest United States, and eastern Canada, so this
is where maple syrup is produced. A less sweet syrup with
different flavor is made in Alaska and Siberia from the sap
of birch trees. Another species of maple is tapped in Korea,
but only to drink the sap.
The maple syrup we find in containers begins its life as
sugar in the leaves of maples, produced by the process of
photosynthesis. The sugars are transported into the wood for
winter storage in the form of carbohydrates. In spring they
are converted to sucrose and dissolved in the sap to flow
through the tree.
Sugarmakers drill holes in sugar maple trees each spring,
just under a half inch wide and about two to three inches
deep, at an upward angle. Bits are inserted on which to hang
buckets or similar containers (home sugarmakers may use
plastic containers), or to insert the colorful vacuum tubing
one sees throughout maple stands in spring.
To avoid stresses to trees, only those 10 inches or more
across should be tapped. This is measured at a standard four
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and one half feet above the ground (which may be seen as
DBH or diameter at breast height). A tree 10 to 18 inches
should have one tap; one 18 to 24 inches, two taps; and one
larger across, three taps. Proper tapping of sugar maples
should cause no injury or stress to them, and they may remain
productive for 100 years or more.
With warm temperatures above freezing in spring, pressure
develops in the tree and causes the sap to flow out these openings or taps. Then with colder temperatures below freezing,
suction within the tree pulls in more water to make more sap.
When the fluctuations in temperature lessen, the sap stops
flowing. This period of sap flow usually falls within early
March to mid-April, depending on the season.
The sweetness of the sap, and so of the resulting syrup,
may vary yearly depending on factors the previous season.
If the tree is too vigorous, it may use up more sugars and so
result in less sweet sap. Or if the tree is attacked by pests,
or grows poorly, it may produce less sugars.
The sap is boiled to evaporate water and concentrate
the sugar. The end product will boil at about 219 degrees,
seven degrees above the boiling point of the sap. This can
be checked with a candy thermometer. The top quality syrup
will contain about 66 percent sugar (measured as “Brix”.)
Quality of syrup will be affected by the season, time of season
the sap is collected, and how it is processed.
When buying maple syrup you may be confronted with
some choices in grades—the darker the color, the stronger
the maple flavor. Make sure when buying maple syrup to read
the label to be sure it is pure, and of the flavor you desire.
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Leonard P. Perry, Extension Professor, Department of
Plant and Soil Science, can be contacted at 11 Hills Building, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405, (802)
656-0479, Fax: (802) 656-4656. Check out Perry’s Perennial
Pages at www.uvm.edu/~pass/perry/.
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Country Homes in Vermont circa 1923
Vermont has always been a destination for people seeking rest, relaxation, or a second home in the country. These
homes were listed in a 1923 booklet from the state of Vermont. Just reading about them makes you feel like you’ve
been somewhere.
PUTNEY
Large House and Farm of 140 Acres. Place known as
“Fairview Farm”. The house is n old New England tavern, in
good repair, but needs painting. Altitude, 800 feet. Wonderful views afforded. House has two piazzas and four-paned
windows. Two barns, sheds, carriage house, granary and hen
house, 10x36 feet. Farm divided into 60 acres of tillage, 50
acres of woodland and 30 acres of pasture. Running water.
Three springs and cold well on place. There is a small pond
on the farm. A brook flows along one side of the property
and there are other brooks near. On rural mail route and
good automobile road. Nearest railroad station, Putney, 4
miles. Sale price, $5,000; or $3,000 plus a $2,000 Land Bank
mortgage, bearing interest at 5 per cent.
WESTON
Livable Shack, Five Acres of Land and Old Water Power
Site. This was once the location of a saw mill, supplied from
the outlet of a small lake now owned by a trout club nearby.
Included in this purchase is one or more shares in the club.
Owner may develop electricity for himself and the club if
he desires. The land includes a garden and some woodland.
Altitude, 1,500 feet. Near a well kept country road. Nearest
railroad stations, South Londonderry, 7 miles; Ludlow, 10
miles; Manchester, 15 miles. Sale price, $500; half cash.
WESTMINSTER
Nine-Room House and Farm of 39 Acres. Located in hill
country. Large trout brook runs through farm. Good fishing
and hunting. Within 2 minutes’ walk of large, open zone in
which deer may be taken any time of year. Farm divided
into 25 acres of tillage and 14 acres of wood and timber.
Good shade in front of house. Hay barn 30x40 feet with
stable for 7 head of cattle and cellar under barn. Horse barn
18x30 feet, with 3 stalls and barn cellar. Shed between house
and barn. Good granary. Buildings in good repair. On mail
route. Telephone in house. Quarter-mile to a school and one
and one-half miles to store, church and post office. Nearest
railroad station, Putney, 5 miles. On good automobile road.
Opportunity on place for hydro-electric plant and trout pond.
Spring water piped to house and barn. Sale price, $2,800.
SPRINGFIELD
Colonial House and Property of 400 Acres. This was originally three farms and there are three sets of buildings. Located on Connecticut River, near Mt. Ascutney and affording
excellent views. Altitude, 500 feet. Water boating or canoeing
for many miles up or down the river. One hundred acres of
level meadows that may be worked with a tractor and ample
pasture. A big cut of wood and timber arid 1,000,000 young
pines on a ridge above the valley. One house in the bend of
the river, suitable for summer residence or house for farm
hand. Another house, famous for its old-style architecture,
with barns adjacent. A third commodious and convenient
house has furnace, bath and gas. On rural mail route and
good State road. Nearest railroad station, Charlestown, N.H.,
3 miles. Sale price, $12,000.
ANDOVER
Seven Room House and Hill Farm of 120 Acres. Altitude,
2,000 feet. Far reaching views to south and east, including Mt. Ascutney, Mt. Monadnock, and on clear days, the
Atlantic Ocean. Only one farm beyond, and that a summer
home. Two-story house, painted red with white trimmings.
Some hardwood floors and good cellar. Water piped from
never failing spring. Stocked trout brook crosses farm. An
orchard of 800 maple trees, Large apple orchard containing
numerous varieties, also pears, plums and berries. Two large
barns, sheds for automobiles and sugar house. On good
back country road, and a half mile from rural mail route.
Nearest railroad stations, Cavendish, 8 miles; Woodstock,
10 miles; Windsor, 15 miles. Sale price, $2,000, half cash.
Photographs on request.
Visitors hike up to Dana Howard’s sugarhouse in Braintree, VT.
HARTFORD
Twelve-Room, Colonial House and Farm of 35 Acres.
Located at Quechee, on Ottauquechee River, at an attitude
of about 600 feet. Beautiful valley surrounded by mountains.
One mile from a gorge 180 feet deep, the deepest in New England. Near lakes. Five miles to first class summer and winter
resort. House constructed of brick. Has carbide gas lighting
system. Electric power line passes house. Large maple trees
on front lawn. Excellent modern poultry plant. Good trade
in summer with tourists. Ice cream and refreshments served.
Strawberries and market gardening. Two never-failing soft
water springs. Post-office, church and stores one mile away.
One-half mile to railroad station. Sale price, $6,500, including stock and tools.
WINDSOR
Farm House, Nine-Room Bungalow and 90 Acres of
Land. Located almost under the shadow of Mt. Ascutney.
Large, comfortable, old fashioned house and barns, suitable
for small dairy use, truck or fruit. Bungalow is new. Water
piped from spring Altitude, 750 feet. Good trout brooks in
nearby hills. Shooting in the vicinity in season. On rural
mail route and State road. Nearest railroad station, Windsor,
4 miles. Sale price, $4,500. The price includes a lot of old
style but serviceable furniture, probably sufficient to care for
a family, also several cows, a horse and hens.
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