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  • Picture of the removal of a bronze Confederate statue as two men in safety equipment attach a crane to the statue arms.

    Public Art, Monuments, and What We Choose to Remember

    Vermont State University Castleton, Jeffords Auditorium 233 South St, Castleton, Vermont, United States

    Join artist and educator Jen Berger for a presentation that places monuments within the broader field of public art, examining how objects in shared space shape memory, belonging, and power, and how monuments, often permanent and officially sanctioned, are mistaken for neutral history. Moving from participatory public artworks to the political histories and social impacts of monuments, including Confederate memorials and their removal after 2020, we look towards Vermont to ask what our monuments say about public history and whose stories are centered or missing.

  • A german gothic church stands at a street corner during fall with a rainbow curving over the main steeple

    Strange Bedfellows: How Religious Liberties Have Aligned with Nondiscrimination Policies and Can Again

    Waterbury Public Library 28 N Main St, Waterbury, VT, United States

    The First Amendment protects the free exercise of religion. The Fourteenth Amendment affords all persons equal protection under the law. What happens when those two rights collide, as happened in the in the Masterpiece Cake case? Must protections for religious liberties come at the expense of non-discrimination statutes?

  • Two cartoon women - Charity and Sylvia - do sewing work before a fireplace

    Pins and Pies, Linens and Lamps: Imagining the World of Charity & Sylvia

    Putney Public Library 55 Main St, Putney, VT, United States

    The publication of Tillie Walden’s recent graphic novel Charity & Sylvia–and its selection as the 2026 “Vermont Reads”–was a wonderful impetus for the Henry Sheldon Museum to rethink how we might feature the story of Charity Bryant and Sylvia Drake in the museum galleries.

  • A german gothic church stands at a street corner during fall with a rainbow curving over the main steeple

    Strange Bedfellows: How Religious Liberties Have Aligned with Nondiscrimination Policies and Can Again

    Springfield Town Library 43 Main St, Springfield, VT, United States

    The First Amendment protects the free exercise of religion. The Fourteenth Amendment affords all persons equal protection under the law. What happens when those two rights collide, as happened in the in the Masterpiece Cake case? Must protections for religious liberties come at the expense of non-discrimination statutes?