Gather is the Vermont Reads book from July 2024 through June 2025. It’s an award-winning novel that touches on themes of rural life, resilience, class differences, addiction, housing and food insecurity, a deep relationship to the land, and the power of community.
Throughout the program year, we’ll create and post videos here to reflect upon the book and deepen your study of Gather.
This special Farmers Night presentation with Kenneth Cadow, author of Gather – the Vermont Reads selection for 2024 and a National Book Award Finalist – was recorded at the Vermont State House. Kenneth read from his book and talked with Miciah Bay Gault about the themes of rural life, resilience, class differences, addiction and recovery, housing and food insecurity, a deep relationship to the land, and the power of community.
As part of the 50 Forward Fall Festival, we partnered with the Green Mountain Book Festival and The Fletcher Free Library for a talk in their Featured Author Series with Vermont Reads “Gather” author Kenneth Cadow moderated by Miciah Bay Gault.
Our seasonal “Words in the Woods” program allows Vermonters and visitors to enjoy our state’s natural beauty while listening to and reading literature in the outdoors.
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 the Chandler Center for the Arts’ Global Connections Youth Outreach program, which highlights artists from around the world.
Our free public events help bring the power of the humanities to communities across Vermont.
