Cartoonist Emily Zea brings to life Norwich history. This exhibit presents Emily’s illustrations and connects them to the artifacts, portraits, photographs, and archives that she used for her art. Learn more about the Abenaki people who were here when the settlers from Connecticut first arrived, Norwich’s early years, and big debates and decisions made at town meeting.
Join Groton Public Library for a facilitated book discussion of this year's Vermont Reads book, "The Most Costly Journey."
1816 has long been known as the year without summer. Vermonters still call it “1800 and Froze to Death,” a year of frosts every month, dark skies, and mysterious lights that caused a widespread belief that a higher power was displeased. In this talk, historian Howard Coffin includes scores of anecdotes on the dark year of failed crops, scarce food, and religious revival.
The Villalobos Brothers are an award-winning family band, acclaimed as one of today’s leading Contemporary Mexican ensembles. Their original compositions and arrangements fuse and celebrate the richness of Mexican folk with jazz and classical music.
Join lead cartoonist of the Freedom and Unity: A Graphic Guide to Civics and Democracy in Vermont, Dan Nott, for this lively presentation about the making of the book. The presentation includes perspectives of the cartoonists and scholars that helped create a comic book about the past, present, and potential of democracy and civics in Vermont. Learn more about our brave little state, cartooning, and using comics to teach civic and history.
Come join in an interesting and informative community book discussion of The Most Costly Journey, a Vermont Reads book drawn by New England cartoonists.
One biography each year is awarded a Pulitzer Prize, but these character studies wouldn't count - each is a Pulitzer-winning work of fiction, with portions based on one person's real life story. Wallace Stegner's Pultizer Prize-winning novel Angle of Repose is a story of discovery—personal, historical, and geographical.
The Most Costly Journey (El viaje más caro) tells the stories of 19 of migrant farm workers in their own words. Illustrated by New England cartoonists in a variety of styles, each short chapter describes aspects of life as an immigrant farm worker in Vermont: crossing the southern border, struggling with English, adapting to winter, growing gardens, raising children, dealing with health crises, and working long hours.
Join the library's Evening Book Group for a facilitated conversation about The Most Costly Journey.
To celebrate the conclusion of the Villalobos Brothers Global Music Residency in conjunction with Vermont Reads pick "The Most Costly Journey, " BarnArts is putting on a public concert outdoors at the Barnard Town Hall! Accessible parking and bathroom available. Potluck and opening act begins at 5:30 with the Brothers high-octane Mexican fiddling starting at 7.
Vermonters have strong ideas about the importance of their mountain topography. Where did our pride in Vermont’s landscape come from, and why is it that we see our shared identity as rooted in the land? This lecture by historian Jill Mudgett is timely and relevant in its relationship to current interdisciplinary scholarship, and offers us tools to understand the origins and meaning of our own strongly-held attachments to the Vermont landscape.
Poet Sarah Audsley joined us at the Taconic Mountains Ramble State Park for Words in the Woods.
Humanities Camps are filled with reading and writing projects, field trips, and outdoor activities.
We won a 2020 Schwartz Prize for best public humanities programming in the U.S. for Vermont Reads 2019: “March: Book One.”
We supported Historic New England’s “More than a Market” project that explored the experiences of new Americans through food markets.
Our free public events help bring the power of the humanities to communities across Vermont.
