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  • Sepia-toned cartoon drawing of two 19th century women on a dirt road in Vermont

    Vermont Reads 2026 Author Presentation

    Community College of Vermont - Winooski 1 Abenaki Way, Winooski, United States

    Join us for this special presentation from Tillie Walden about the creation of graphic novel Charity and Sylvia.

  • 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

    Dudley H. Davis Center 590 Main Street, Burlington, 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?

  • Black and white photo from Vermont Lesbian and Gay Pride march in 1983

    Stories from the Vermont Queer Archives

    Brownell Library 6 Lincoln St, Essex Junction, VT, United States

    Objects such as banners, T-shirts, and buttons in the Vermont Queer Archives at the Pride Center of Vermont reflect currents and changes in the lives of Vermont’s LGBTQ+ community. Meg Tamulonis, volunteer curator of the Archives, discusses how these objects mark various milestones, from Pride events to legal rulings, and considers why some parts of the queer community aren’t well-represented in the Archives.

  • A needlwork sampler that is in a wooden frame. The sampler has two sets of alphabets in needlework with floral designs throughout

    Vermont Sampler Stories

    Charlotte Library 115 Ferry Road, Charlotte, VT, United States

    This presentation is based on the research Michele Pagan has done into the Revolutionary War ancestors of the girls who made 19th century schoolgirl samplers. Needlework samplers are a visual record of the values that guided early female education in Vermont, including its focus on needlework as an essential skill for all girls and women. As artifacts of female education, they provide insight into family dynamics, local history, and community values.

  • Part of a broadside printing of the poem Calling with a black and white image of a man speaking into a megaphone with swirls of sound and light as a dove flies by.

    CALLING: Reclaiming Shared Humanity in America’s 250th Year

    Fletcher Free Library 235 College St, Burlington, United States

    CALLING is a participatory, interdisciplinary humanities offering that invites communities to reflect, create, and reimagine what it means to be American at the threshold of our nation’s 250th anniversary. Rooted in the belief that creativity is a liberating force and a civic practice, CALLING brings together spoken word, storytelling, and imaginative inquiry with Rajnii Eddins and block printing with A Revolutionary Press to engage participants in courageous conversation and hands-on art-making.

  • A cartoon of a man giving a presentation to a large audience of different people and animals

    Picturing Language: An Introduction to the Magic of Comics

    Dorothy Alling Memorial Library 21 Library Ln, Williston, VT, United States

    Comics are a powerful and often misunderstood storytelling language—one that is immersive, visually rich, and accessible across age groups and reading levels. From preschool classrooms to graduate seminars, comics have a unique ability to engage learners, including those who struggle with reading or communicate best through visual narratives.

  • Image of Vermont field in winter

    Vermont, 1800 and Froze to Death: The Cold Year of 1816

    Richmond Free Library 201 Bridge St, Richmond, United States

    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.

  • An old slate gravestone with a skull and angle wing motif sits in a graveyard covered in fall leaves.

    Grave Secrets of the Green Mountains

    Burnham Memorial Library 898 Main St, Colchester, VT, United States

    You probably pass by your local cemetery every day—but did you know that the images carved into those stones contain secret messages? Vermont Book Award Winner and folklorist GennaRose Nethercott will teach you to crack the codes hidden in old New England gravestone art… plus discuss the elaborate, eccentric, and downright eerie burial practices Puritan New Englanders participated in while entombing their dead—from purple gloves to mirror magic.

  • Image of abolitionist print

    The War Before the War: Radical Abolition in Antebellum America

    Burnham Memorial Library 898 Main St, Colchester, VT, United States

    A new wave of antislavery thinking swept the country in the 1830s as some churches demanded immediate emancipation of slaves and equal rights for free blacks. In this illustrated lecture, historian and former Rokeby Museum director Jane Williamson presents the philosophies, strategies, and tactics of these abolitionists, compares their efforts with those of earlier abolitionists, and explores their impact on American society.