As part of the nationwide commemoration of America’s 250th anniversary, join us for an evening with journalist and Northeast Kingdom native Jasper Craven.

In the tradition of Sebastian Junger’s Tribe and Chris Hedges’s classic War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning, God Forgives, Brothers Don't is a powerful investigation into the fraught history and ominous future of military education in the United States, and how it formed and fuels increasingly volatile strains of American masculinity.

Author Jasper Craven is a Northeast Kingdom native who got his start in journalism at the Caledonian Record. He today covers the military and veterans' issues for outlets including The New York Times, Harper's, The New Republic, The Nation, and New York magazine. In addition to God Forgives, Brothers Don’t (published on May 19, 2026), he is also the coauthor, with Suzanne Gordon and Steve Early, of the academic book Our Veterans. Follow him on X @Jasper_Craven.

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Tom Stamp plays in the Athenaeum Art Gallery. From April 17, 2026.

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Sue Persson is a singer/songwriter/guitarist who grew up in the Boston area. Originally a classical flute player, she was a member of the Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra in high school but ignored her flute teacher’s urging that she attend conservatory after she discovered the guitar. In 1979 she moved to Vermont and has performed in the area since 1980, originally with her late husband Ed Ryan in the band Full Moon Revue. They were featured vocalists on the Re-Bops Oldies for Kids records released on Re-Bop Records. Sue taught vocal and instrumental music for 30 years at the Concord, Barnet and Monroe (NH) schools. After her retirement in 2019, she opened her private studio in Barnet and currently has a busy schedule teaching songwriting, guitar, ukulele, percussion, brass and wind instruments. She is also a regular performer at the Danville Inn and Restaurant, appearing the second and fourth Thursday of every month.

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This bicycle week, come join a discussion about bike safety from a neighborhood perspective.  Learn steps you can take to slow traffic on your individual block and make walking and biking safer, especially for children and other vulnerable users.  Learn how these changes can benefit you and your loved ones' health, save you money, and even lower our taxes. 

Dr. John Raser is a family physician and local community health advocate based in St Johnsbury.  He has served as leader and consultant for active transportation advocacy, safe routes to school, and transit oriented development efforts.  He currently serves on the St Johnsbury Bicycle Pedestrian Committee and Board President of the non-profit community bicycle program Link Vermont. 

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David Childs brings his special talent of creating playful, spontaneous jazz performances of well-known classics and standards.

Originally from Indianapolis, Indiana, Dave Childs has been working as a pianist for 30 years. At seven years old, he began playing piano, started French horn in grade school and the drums in junior high. He spent his last summer of high school in Europe where he traveled and played drums in a big band. Dave attended Berklee College of Music in Boston and has been fortunate to study under such jazz luminaries as Steve Allee, James Williams, and Donald Brown. In the mid-1980’s, Dave spent several years traveling and working as a pianist in the Far East.

Dave has shared the stage with jazz greats Jimmy Heath, Eddie Bert, James Moody, Lionel Hampton, Larry Ridley, Roswell Rudd, Dick Oatts, Bill Watrous, and the Nelson Riddle Orchestra, to name a few.

Over the years, Dave has been featured on a variety of recordings including three of his own full-length CDs, including a jazz trio with sax and bass. 

Dave’s interest in a variety of musical genres has led him to various positions as a church musician, including at Hastings on the Hudson Lutheran and Rowayton Methodist Churches. For over 6 years, Dave has been the pianist for the Unitarian Universalist Church of Greater Bridgeport where he combines jazz, classical, pop, folk, and world music for services and other events.

In addition to performing, Dave teaches piano at Fairfield University and the Cider Mill Conservatory in Wilton, Connecticut.

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Ever wonder why Vermont’s weather feels different these days? Presented in collaboration with the Fairbanks Museum, this talk features Megan Duncan, a member of the Eye on the Sky team and an expert on extreme precipitation and flooding. It explores the science behind our changing climate—from warmer temperatures to shifting patterns of rain and snow—and shows how these changes are affecting our rivers, forests, and communities. The talk also considers what this could mean for life here in the Northeast Kingdom and the landscapes we care about. Participants will leave with a sense of connection to the land, the science, and the community as we navigate climate change together.

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While he writes in many different styles and for multiple genres, Bob is widely known as a top-notch bluegrass songwriter. Bob was the lead vocalist, guitarist, songwriter and front man for Front Range, one of the top contemporary bluegrass bands of the 1990s. Their album One Beautiful Day, consisting mostly of original material written by Bob, won the International Bluegrass Music Association's Gospel Recorded Event of the Year. Bob's son Nate Amos's acclaimed new album,“This Is Lorelei: Box For Buddy, Box For Star," made Rolling Stone's Top albums on 2024 list and has received stellar reviews in the Indie music world. Recently Nate released a deluxe version of the album which includes Bob and Sarah Amos performing “Angel's Eye.” “...Bob Amos is one of the most consistently interesting and intelligent songwriters in American music.” - John Lupton, Singout! magazine “...one of the most talented bluegrass artists in the country..." - Art Edelstein, Times-Argus, VT

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"Music Man" Ed Morgan performs at the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, playing his favorite songs by musicians who influenced him. From October 20, 2026.

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Autumn Chamberlain brings her strong songwriting, singing and guitar playing talent to the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum for the first concert in our new Music in the Gallery series. Recorded on Friday, January 16, 2026.

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The Athenaeum Art Gallery hosted a celebratory book launch of 2050: Vermonters Take a Swipe at the Future, essays collected by Bill Mares, edited by Jane Smith, illustrated by Don Hooper. This collection of humorous, serious, and dystopian essays and stories features contributions from thirty-seven Vermonters. Readers will be Mark Breen, Jane Kitchel, Scudder Parker, Eric Duncan, Brett Stanciu, Ben Doyle. Thirty-seven Vermonters—from students and octogenarians, businesspeople and academics, to poets and journalists—take a half-serious, half-humorous approach to imagining life in Vermont in twenty-five years. What they all have in common is a deep love of Vermont. 2050: Vermonters Take a Swipe at the Future is the final literary project of Bill Mares, who died in 2024. “As this marvelous book makes clear…that sense of underlying community will bring us through.” —Bill McKibben, author and climate activist “Humans have a hard time seeing the future. With the exception of a few visionaries, we are a species mired in survival mode. But in this collection of essays, Vermonters dare to imagine what the state could feel like 25 years hence, based on knowns and unknowns. No one drives anymore. An 80-story skyscraper towers over Burlington. Most of the population is non-white and fiscally conservative. And yet, Vermont is a place full of potential and remarkable for its lack of nostalgia. A place apart from what we know now.” —Anne Galloway, founder of VTDigger CONTRIBUTING WRITERS: Samantha A. Alger, Emily Bernard, Al Boright, Mark Breen, Kevin Chu, Steve Conant, Ben Doyle, Eric Duncan, Tom Evslin, Val Gardner, Allen Gilbert, Midhat Hadzik, Joseph F. Hagan Jr., Adam Hall, Mairead Harris, Allison Hooper, Stephen Kiernan, Jen Kimmich, Jane Kitchell, Jim Lengel, Astrid Longstreth, Neale F. Lunderville, Emma Marvin, Christy Mitchell, Melinda Moulton, Scudder Parker, Jordan Posner, Fred Schmidt, Bill Schubart, Angela Shambaugh, Brian Shupe, Gus Speth, Toussaint St. Negritude, Brett Ann Stanciu, Bob Stannard, Leath Tonino, and Jim Welch What will Vermont be like in 25 years? A wide array of Vermonters – from teachers to maple syrup producers, and meteorologists to former legislators – predict our future in this fascinating collection of essays. Some are gloriously optimistic; some are disturbingly dark. What shines through is the writers’ love for Vermont. The state is full of idealistic people with great ideas, and one of the best features of our little state is that aspirations can often become reality. Read closely as even the funny submissions put forth some serious predictions – and solutions – to the challenges Vermont is facing. “My hope is that this collection of essays by Vermonters about Vermont’s future will inspire people to take action. It’s wise, insightful, provocative, and underscores the importance of being proactive. It is also a ton of fun!” Howard Dean, Governor of Vermont 1991-2003 “By every statistical measure--volunteerism, trust in neighbors, faith in leaders--Vermont has more social cohesion than anyplace in the country. As this marvelous book makes clear, it's that solidarity--that sense of underlying community--that will bring us through, in some form or another. Freedom, unity, beer, syrup, a commitment to our neighbors; as Ethan Allen once remarked, 'the gods of the valley are not the gods of the hills.' Long may it be so!” Bill McKibben, Author and Climate Activist

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Singer/guitarist Tom Stamp with Alive and Well, Tim Berry and Suzan Derby. Tom plays a mix of time-tested classics and under-the-radar gems, including music of the 60s and 70s: folk, rock, country and blues. From Saturday, September 27, 2005

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Vermont poets Chard deNiord and Rachel Hadas read from their recent publications in the splendid setting of the Athenaeum Art Gallery. From September 28, 2025.

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Alexander von Humboldt was a Prussian polymath, geographer, naturalist, and explorer who visited the United States in 1804--specifically to meet President Thomas Jefferson. Humboldt used his influential voice to urge the United States to live up to its democratic ideals. Eleanor Jones Harvey, senior curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, explores Humboldt’s influence on America’s cultural values.

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Explore the physical, emotional, and hormonal changes associated with menopause in this free health information series for you and those who live with you. Panelists include Dr. Jennifer Wetherald, OB/GYN and Midwifery; Katherine Harris, MSW, LICSW, PMH-C, Behavioral Health Specialist; Kelly Largay, MN NUTR, Hormone Specialist; Jill Kimball, APR.

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Vermont poet April Ossman reads from her new book of poetry, "WE," and invites the audience to share their memories.

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NEK Poetry Readings in the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum's beautiful Art Gallery in celebration of Poem Town and National Poetry month. Northeast Kingdom poets Louise Rader and Judy Janoo read selections from their new and published works.

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In our historic Art Gallery, enjoy music played by the Kingdom Mountain Dulcimers and poetry read by Reeve Lindbergh.

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March Legislative Breakfast in the Athenaeum.

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Bob Joly's last day as the Executive Director of the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum. A film by Scott Davis.

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New St. Johnsbury Athenaeum Director Kacy Guill talks about why she came to Vermont from California, her opinions on the Athenaeum, and her short and long-term goals for the Athenaeum. Intereviewed by Athenaeum Trustee Brooke Pierce.

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Long-time St. Johnsbury Athenaeum Director Bob Joly talks about his upcoming retirement, his time at the Athenaeum, and living in Vermont. Interviewed by Athenaeum Trustee Brooke Pierce.

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Vermont Legislative Breakfast Feb. 24, 2025. Recorded at the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum.

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Children's book author David Martin of Lyndon has just released a collection of five non-fiction stories for grown ups. In David's Stories he's written about real things that happened in Vermont, and one piece about his travels to Africa. David’s Stories features humor in the hills, mystery, and armchair travel. “Unlike my picture books for young children, David’s Stories is a collection of true stories. Some are funny - like why would some people want to beat us after they stole our truck - and some - like my encounter with a fisher cat, are just magical and mysterious.”

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Born and raised in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, Vermont’s Northland Journal publisher Scott Wheeler is on a 23-year mission to preserve the history and culture of the land of his birth. He writes about the good, the bad, the ugly, and the beautiful, all which make the Kingdom the amazing place it is today. He sees no reason to sanitize its history to portray the Northeast Kingdom as something it isn’t, or to bend reality a bit to entice visitors. Instead, he insists the beauty of the working landscape, its history and culture, and the people speak loud enough to attract visitors from every corner of the world. Scott, a Johnson State College graduate and a former Vermont legislator, hosts a weekly television show on NEK-TV called The Northeast Kingdom Voice and a weekly radio show on WJJZ Country called The Vermont Voice. Each program is designed to serve as a forum for people to tell their stories and/or to promote community events. Scott is also the author of six regional history books: “Rumrunners and Revenuers: Prohibition in Vermont”; “When Salmon was King: Voices from the Clyde River”; “Don ‘Sleepy’ McNally: From Vaudeville to Drive-In Pioneer”; “Newport’s Centennial: Voices from a Lakeside Community”; “Jay Peak: Voices from the Mountain”; and “Booze in the Kingdom: Voices from Prohibition”. All of Scott’s books are in the Athenaeum’s NEK Authors Collection.

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The Northeast Kingdom Council on Aging's presentation to learn about who they are, what they offer, and how they support older adults in our community.

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Legislative Breakfast Jan. 27, 2025 at the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum.

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Vermont historian J. Kevin Graffagnino discusses his new biography on Ira Allen, brother of Ethan Allen. Land speculator, revolutionary, pamphleteer, politician, and empire-builder, Allen was one of the founders of the U.S. state of Vermont and a leader of the Green Mountain Boys. Graffagnino’s lively talk on March 4 (the anniversary of Vermont achieving statehood in 1791) evaluates Allen’s checkered career and make the case for including him in our picture of Vermont’s formative decades.

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Drag Story Hour at the Athenaeum with performers Katniss Everqueer and Emoji Nightmare in the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum Art Gallery on Saturday, November 16, 2024.

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Professional jazz pianist David Childs puts his spin on classic rock and pop tunes in this fun and educational concert recorded on November 7, 2024 in Athenaeum Hall.

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Toussaint St. Negritude reads from his newly-released book of poetry, Mountain Spells, at the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum on October 27, 2024.

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The League of Women Voters of Vermont (LWVVT) hosted an in-person Candidate Forum for the office of Lieutenant Governor on Thursday, September 26 at the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum. The participating candidates were David Zuckerman and John Rodgers. This event will be simulcast on KATV on their YouTube channel at https://youtube.com/live/WXaJlCz51T4?feature=share. This event was presented by the League of Women Voters of Vermont and the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum.

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Rachel Hadas, a poet, essayist, and translator, and the author of more than twenty books, recently retired from Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey, where she taught English for many years. She and her husband, filmmaker Shalom Gorewitz, are now able to spend almost half their time in Danville, where Rachel has summered for most of her life.

St. Johnsbury-born Murray Dewart is an American sculptor best known for his large gate-like structures in granite and bronze. Dewart's sculptures are often created for site-specific locations and installed in parks and gardens. His work is in more than thirty museums and public collections around the world. He is the editor of the anthology Poems About Sculpture. Each reads from their works and discuss their views of art and literature.

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Forum with Caledonia Senate candidates Amanda Cochrane and Rep. Scott Beck. Recorded Thursday, August 29 at the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum.

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Poet/musician Toussaint St. Negritude performs his work “Through the Wilderness.”

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Poet and musician Toussaint St. Negritude reading in the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum Gallery:July 2023

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After the catastrophic fire of 2019, Carpenters Without Borders was instrumental in convincing the French government to re-build “a l’identique.” Remy and Loïc Desmonts, passionate father and son members of CSF, won the contract to rebuild the roof above the Nave and invited a number of American and English carpenters including presenter Josh Jackson, to join their family company in that work.

 About the Presenter

Josh received his BSME from Yale in 1989 and promptly bicycled across country to San Francisco where he worked for Pacific Gas & Electric on energy conservation. A desire to bring head, hands and heart together led Josh to Heartwood School in Massachusetts where he fell in love with timber framing and ecological building. In 2005 Josh co-founded TimberHomes Vermont, now a worker cooperative, specializing in timber framing. In 2019 Josh went to France with his wife and sons for a year-long sabbatical which turned into four years, culminating in the chance to participate in the rebuilding of Notre Dame.

 

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Music Man Ed Morgan performs songs about love on Valentine's Day 2024 in the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum Art Gallery.

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Holiday music and traditional dulcimer tunes!

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St. Johnsbury Academy Hilltones

Bill Tobin, Harpist

Afternoon program and refreshments sponsored by the Friends of the Athenaeum and the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum.

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Former Vermont Poet Laureate Sydnea Lea reads from his poems at the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, September 2023.

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Darryll Rudy, who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease, gives a presentation on facing death head-on.

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Renowned children’s book author Natalie Kinsey-Warnock reads from her brother Leyland’s poetry, Athenaeum Director Bob Joly reads Loudon Young’s work, and Bob Hunt, Associate Director of Operations at the Old Stone House Museum, reads from Daisy Dopp’s writings.

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Vin Tabone is the writer, producer and director of the very successful 2-part series on the Hudson River School paintings, which played on PBS. He will discuss some of the Athenaeum’s paintings and introduce the video. Video is available at the Athenaeum (DVD), and on Amazon (DVD or streaming): https://www.amazon.com/Hudson-River-School-Cultivating-Tradition/dp/B07XHZNLVT/ref=sr_1_1?crid=9H145PP9X16C&keywords=hudson+river+school+part+2&qid=1687882616&sprefix=hudson+river+school+part+2%2Caps%2C110&sr=8-1

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David Childs plays a selection of classics and standards in this musical presention. Childs attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, and has studied under such jazz luminaries as Steve Allee, James Williams, and Donald Brown. Childs has been featured on a variety of recordings including his own full-length CDs.

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Tara Goreau talks about her exhibit in Athenaeum Hall, Surface Tension. This dynamic installation features her recent mural, The Bubble, created with help from the community for the Caledonia Food Co-op. Goreau’s work features bold colors and compositions focusing on humor and socio-political themes.

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With its hand-drawn panels, tiers, gutters, and speech bubbles, what can comics do that other documentary media—such as photography and film—can’t? What makes comics particularly well suited to explore the complexities of history, trauma, and human behavior? What makes it effective as a form of therapy? How can nonfiction comics help students of literature become better close readers and critical thinkers? Drawing on The Most Costly Journey (the 2022 Vermont Reads book) as well as works of art and criticism by Kate Beaton, Hilary Chute, Art Spiegelman, and others, this talk takes up these questions and reflects on the ways that contemporary nonfiction comics is challenging and revitalizing the study of literature. Kevin Cattrell is an English and Humanities teacher at St. Johnsbury Academy, where his courses include a senior elective on graphic narrative that first ran in the fall of 2022. He has a Ph.D. in English from Rutgers, where he specialized in Early American literature.

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Madeline Sharrow from Migrant Justice talks about the migrant dairy farm workers in Vermont and their organization Milk with Dignity. This is part of the Vermont Reads program.

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The NEK Dulcimers play a Holiday Concert in the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum Art Gallery in December, 2022.

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Visiting student Nikoloz Gvasalia from Tbilisi State University shares about the culture, customs and life from his home country of Georgia. This lecture is in conjunction with our temporary exhibit Let’s Build a Roof over the World from the Fermata Arts Foundation.

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Middlebury College professor Enrique García reviews the American superhero genre and how it has served as a tool to disseminate utopian ideas about immigration and the American Dream. While discussing characters such as Superman, Wonder Woman, Black Panther, and La Borinqueña, García reflects on comic artists’ struggles to overcome imperial ideas of white supremacy, heteronormativity, and American exceptionalism. About Enrique García Enrique García is Professor of Hispanic Visual Culture in the Luso-Hispanic Studies department at Middlebury College. His research focuses on international Hispanic/Latinx genre cinema and comic books. Enrique has published a book on Latinx comic book artists Jaime and Gilbert Hernández (The Hernandez Brothers: Love, Rockets, and Alternative Comics) and is currently preparing his book on Puerto Rico and the Superhero Genre. Partner: Middlebury College and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Statewide Underwriters: Vermont Department of Libraries; Institute of Museum and Library Services

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Holiday Concert: December 10, 2022 St. Johnsbury Academy Hilltones Nat Tripp reading from “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” by Dylan Thomas Bill Tobin, Harpist

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Singer and historian Linda Radtke, in period garb and “Votes for Women” sash, celebrates the centennial of the passage of the 19th Amendment, specifically highlighting the decades-long persistence of Vermonters, both women and men. Radtke also traces the movement’s alignment with other social justice initiatives such as temperance, labor conditions, wage equity, peace, and children’s welfare. Both the songs and stories in Radtke’s engaging presentation, accompanied by pianist Cameron Steinmetz, highlight Vermonters’ efforts from 1840-1921, as they lobbied in churches, at “parlor meetings” at town halls and at the State House for total enfranchisement. About Linda Radtke Linda Radtke, a classically trained singer, was a Vermont high school teacher for thirty-one years and now produces the VPR Choral Hour on Vermont Public.

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Author and theologian Damian Costello explores how the practice of maple sugaring connects us to the land, our ancestors, and all that surrounds us. He discusses sugarmaking-informed by Indigenous wisdom-as a communal medicine of connection teaching reciprocity with land. Underwriter: Passumpsic Bank, FDIC.

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From the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum Arts & Culture Series One of six online presentations to hear from published authors who will help you think about: Who you are writing for, What resources you need to move your project along, What the publishing world looks like today. These are not manuscript workshops: they are focused on your next steps to getting your work published. January 12: Reeve Lindbergh on Memoir/History February 9: Bill Schubart on Fiction March 9: Doreen Lyon on Cookbook/Food April 13: David Martin on Children’s Picture Books May 18: Archer/Margot Mayor on Mystery June 8: Rachel Hadas on Poetry.

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From the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum Arts & Culture Series One of six online presentations to hear from published authors who will help you think about: Who you are writing for, What resources you need to move your project along, What the publishing world looks like today. These are not manuscript workshops: they are focused on your next steps to getting your work published. January 12: Reeve Lindbergh on Memoir/History February 9: Bill Schubart on Fiction March 9: Doreen Lyon on Cookbook/Food April 13: David Martin on Children’s Picture Books May 18: Archer/Margot Mayor on Mystery June 8: Rachel Hadas on Poetry.

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From the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum Arts & Culture Series One of six online presentations to hear from published authors who will help you think about: Who you are writing for, What resources you need to move your project along, What the publishing world looks like today. These are not manuscript workshops: they are focused on your next steps to getting your work published. January 12: Reeve Lindbergh on Memoir/History February 9: Bill Schubart on Fiction March 9: Doreen Lyon on Cookbook/Food April 13: David Martin on Children’s Picture Books May 18: Archer/Margot Mayor on Mystery June 8: Rachel Hadas on Poetry.

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From the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum Arts & Culture Series One of six online presentations to hear from published authors who will help you think about: Who you are writing for, What resources you need to move your project along, What the publishing world looks like today. These are not manuscript workshops: they are focused on your next steps to getting your work published. January 12: Reeve Lindbergh on Memoir/History February 9: Bill Schubart on Fiction March 9: Doreen Lyon on Cookbook/Food April 13: David Martin on Children’s Picture Books May 18: Archer/Margot Mayor on Mystery June 8: Rachel Hadas on Poetry.

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From the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum Arts & Culture Series One of six online presentations to hear from published authors who will help you think about: Who you are writing for, What resources you need to move your project along, What the publishing world looks like today. These are not manuscript workshops: they are focused on your next steps to getting your work published. January 12: Reeve Lindbergh on Memoir/History February 9: Bill Schubart on Fiction March 9: Doreen Lyon on Cookbook/Food April 13: David Martin on Children’s Picture Books May 18: Archer/Margot Mayor on Mystery June 8: Rachel Hadas on Poetry.

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The St. Johnsbury Athenaeum presents Poemtown’s Open Mic via Zoom. Vermont poets read their works. April 2022.

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Author Shanta Lee Gander, a named 2022 finalist for the Vermont Book Awards, will be joining the St Johnsbury Athenaeum online via Zoom on Wednesday, April 20 at 7:00 PM to provide a reading from her current and forthcoming works, GHETTOCLAUSTROPHOBIA: Dreamin of Mama While Trying to Speak Woman in Woke Tongues and Black Metamorphoses.

In addition to a reading from GHETTOCLAUSTROPHOBIA: Dreamin of Mama While Trying to Speak Woman in Woke Tongues, Shanta Lee Gander will read from her forthcoming illustrated poetry collection, Black Metamorphoses (Etruscan Press, 2023),  Black Metamorphoses is what Shanta Lee describes as a 2000+ year old phone line opened to Ovid as well as an interrogation of the Greek mythos while creating her own new language in this work.

Shanta has received a number of New England Newspaper & Press Association (NENPA) awards for her contributing work on several investigative journalism pieces for The Commons. She is the 2020 recipient of the Arthur Williams Award for Meritorious Service to the Arts and 2020, and is the 2020 gubernatorial appointee to the Vermont Humanities Council’s board of directors.

Collaborating is a part of Shanta Lee’s creative practice and  projects have included co-curating the I AM… exhibition with the Vermont Arts Council along with her work on the statewide CreateVT, a strategic plan geared towards the creative sector. In addition to teaching media studies at The Putney School, she is a Vermont Public Radio producer and reporter, and a regular contributor to Art New England, and Ms. Magazine.

 To learn more about Shanta Lee Gander’s visual art and written work, visit: www.Shantaleegander.com.

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St. Johnsbury Athenaeum presents First Wednesdays: Lucy Terry Prince: Witness, Voice, and Poetics within the American Tradition.

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St. Johnsbury Athenaeum Presents First Wednesdays: One Hundred Years of Solitude: The Bible of Latin America. Gabriel García Márquez established the aesthetics of Magical Realism through his novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, which reintroduced Latin America to the rest of the world. Author Ilan Stavans, professor of Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College, describes how Márquez became a spokesperson for a continent besieged by inequality, corruption, and dictatorship.

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St. Johnsbury Athenaeum presents First Wednesdays: The Legacy of Nicholas Back Elk. Historian Damian Costello explores the life of the man behind the famous book Black Elk Speaks. Nicholas Black Elk’s Lakota philosophy can help us see the natural world as a unified whole, and his continued hope amidst great tragedy can inform how we approach contemporary crises.

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UVM Professor Luis Vivanco explores the fascinating early history of the bicycle in Vermont, an invention that generated widespread curiosity when it arrived in the 1880’s - helping spark important changes in industrial production, consumerism, road policies, gender relations, and cultural ideas.

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In the United States, all power is derived from the people. While this sounds noble in theory, can we expect the American public to have the wits and self-control to meet the demands of climate change? Constitutional scholar Meg Mott explores the paradox of self-governance when the natural foundations of life itself are changing. Join Meg Mott in conversation about this topic on Wednesday, October 20 at 7:00 pm on Zoom. Register for the conversation at this link: https://www.vermonthumanities.org/eve... Underwriters: University of Vermont Center for Community Engagement as part of the Fall Conference 2021, “This Mazed World: The Humanities and Climate Change” and the Peter Gilbert Endowment Fund.

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The St. Johnsbury Athenaeum staff at the end of the 150th Birthday party.

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St. Johnsbury Athenaeum presents Northeast Kingdom authors reading in the gallery: Beth Kanell; Don Bredes; Jay Craven.

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The St. Johnsbury Athenaeum presents Northeast Kingdom authors reading in the gallery for the Athenaeum's 150th birthday. Ellen McCulloch-Lovell reads Galway Kinnell; Reeve Lindbergh; Rachel Hadas.

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St. Johnsbury Athenaeum Staff Sings Happy 150th Birthday

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The Friends of the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum Wish It A Happy Birthday

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St. Johnsbury Athenaeum Trustees Sign Happy Birthday

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A Message from Sen. John Leahy; Staff Sings Happy Birthday; Athenaeum Retrospective.

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Einstein’s most famous contribution to science—his theory of relativity—is based on an idea so simple it can be stated in one sentence. Yet from that simple idea, explains Middlebury professor Richard Wolfson, follow conclusions that have revolutionized our notions of space, time, and causality. Underwriter: Peter Gilbert Endowment Fund Partner: Middlebury College and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

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The Northeast Storytellers organizieda Robert Frost remembrance through the auspices of the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum.

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The St. Johnsbury Athenaeum's Arts & Culture Series presents a Zoom presentation and interview with author and poet Adrienne Raphel, author of "Thinking Inside The Box."

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The St. Johnsbury Athenaeum's Coordinator of Library Services Adele West-Fisher discusses books which focus on food and/or recipes.

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St. Johnsbury Atheneum's Coordinator of Library Services talks about book and movie pairs available at the Athenaeum.

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Here's how to check out new books in person and online at the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum.

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Halloween Blues affects the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum staff.

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St. Johnsbury Athenaeum's Youth Services Librarian Miss Becky recommends Young Adult books from the Green Mountain Book Award.

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St. Johnsbury Athenaeum's Youth Services Librarian Miss Becky performs This is the Way. Worksheet available HERE

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St. Johnsbury Athenaeum's Youth Services Librarian Miss Becky performs Five Birthday Candles. You can find a worksheet HERE

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St. Johnsbury Athenaeum’s Youth Services Librarian Miss Becky performs Dragon Hunt.

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St. Johnsbury Athenaeum's Youth Services Librarian Miss Becky performs Teasing Mr. Shark. See worksheet HERE.

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St. Johnsbury Athenaeum's Youth Services Librarian Miss Becky reads Reeve Lindbergh's Homer the Library Cat. See related worksheet HERE.

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St. Johnsbury Athenaeum's Youth Services Librarian Miss Becky performs a Butterfly Panel.

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St. Johnsbury Athenaeum's Youth Services Librarian Miss Becky reads Reeve Lindbergh's North Country Spring. With permission from Reeve Lindbergh.

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St. Johnsbury Athenaeum's Youth Services Librarian Miss Becky recites 5 Little Monkeys in this Mini Storytime. You can access a downloadable worksheet HERE.

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Visible in Vermont: Our Stories Our Voices focuses on the experiences of people of color throughout the state of Vermont, challenging racial microaggressions and the racists acts and behaviors that often go unchecked. This project is an opportunity for dialogue and reflection for majority white communities who are unaware of the impact that their racial actions have on our community. Sha’an Mouliert will lead a panel and community discussion. Visible in Vermont: Our Stories Our Voices is a project of The Root Social Justice Center.

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In conjunction with her retrospective exhibition at Catamount Arts, Dona Ann McAdams discusses and shows her empathetic black-and-white portraits of performing artists, AIDS activists, political protests, people living with schizophrenia, Appalachian farmers, cloistered nuns, and others.

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Henry David Thoreau advocated for both civil disobedience to unjust political authority and also for nature’s appropriate role in our economic, moral, and spiritual lives. UVM professor Bob Pepperman Taylor discusses the relationship between Thoreau’s political and environmental messages and how they resonate today. Underwriter: University of Vermont Humanities Center

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The Kingdom Mountain Dulcimers perform traditional and holiday tunes.

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Musical performers include the St. Johnsbury Academy Hilltones at the direction of Alan Rowe; harpist Bill Tobin; North Country Youth Chorus with director Lewis Botelho-Gomes; featuring a reading by Nat Tripp from Dylan Thomas' "A Child's Christmas in Wales."

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Sydney Lea was Poet Laureate of Vermont from 2011 to 2015. His thirteenth collection of poems, Here, is now available from Four Way Books.

Lea founded New England Review in 1977 and edited it until 1989. Of his twelve previous poetry collections, Pursuit of a Wound was one of three finalists for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for poetry.

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Losang Tendar (Simon de Boer) was born in the Netherlands in 1961 and was ordained in January 2002 at Bodhgaya. Venerable Tendar discusses life as a Buddhist monk, how he came to be on this path, and what it all means!

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Vermont Secretary of State Jim Condos will travel St. Johnsbury to provide training and facilitate discussion on Vermont's transparency laws; Vermont's Public Records Act, and Open Meeting Law.

Government officials at all levels, from local volunteer board and commission members, to elected officials and state employees, and interested members of the public, are invited and encouraged to attend.

This year's Transparency Tour will include an overview of Vermont's election procedures, and the steps the Secretary of State's office is taking to ensure the integrity and security of our elections.

"The public's right to know is enshrined in our Vermont Constitution. Vermonters deserve openness and transparency in government." – Secretary of State Jim Condos

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Would you take off on a cross country trip in an all-electric car, not knowing where you could re-charge it? Duane Leffel did. Come listen to him describe his grueling 44-day journey from Charleston, South Carolina to San Francisco with a group of other electric vehicle owners as they attempt to set four Guinness World Records.

Handicapped accessible and free to the public.

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In Willa Cather’s pioneer fiction, landscape is as important as any character in the story. Amherst College professor Michele Barale examines the relationship between Cather’s art and her very tangible earth.

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Because of this habit, we experience the world through a filter of conditioned tendencies, preconceptions, and attitudes that we mistake for reality. In order to see more clearly, we need to train our minds. Mindfulness practice is a tool with which we learn to direct our attention, giving us a fresh perspective on our inner world. Applying mindfulness, we learn to detect our own habitual patterns so we can discern with more clarity patterns in our environment, enabling us to harness our inherent resourcefulness to skillfully deliver benefit in this world, regardless of our circumstances.

This seminar, consisting of four classes a month apart, will include basic mindfulness practice instruction at each session and will introduce other contemplative disciplines including using mindful journaling as a tool for exploring experience.

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Northern Vermont University professor Paul Searls discusses themes and events from his newly published, book, Repeopling Vermont: The Paradox of Development in the 20th Century.

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Charles Fergus is a local author whose historical mystery A Stranger Here Below (Skyhorse Publishing, NY) is set in 1830s America. Its title is drawn from a shape-note hymn, a dis-tinctive form of American music popular in the early nineteenth century. Fergus will read from the novel and explain why he set his story in central Pennsylvania’s ironmaking region during the Presidency of Andrew Jackson. Fergus believes that good mysteries should deal with important issues and timeless truths, and his talk will also explore the question: “Can mystery fiction be thoughtful, literary, and profound?”

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Minders of the Mountain follows the story of Sara as she begins her journey to become a special protector of the White Mountains. Author Sara Martin shares her story.

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Yosemite was more than the first federally protected American landscape; it was an emblem of freedom in the years surrounding the Civil War. Eleanor Jones Harvey, senior curator at Smithsonian American Art Museum, discusses the story behind Albert Bierstadt’s monumental painting, weaving together several historical threads to deepen our appreciation of Yosemite as part of our national identity. Underwriter: Passumpsic Savings Bank Member FDIC

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An Address in Amsterdam follows a Jewish family and the resistance movement in Amsterdam during the Nazi occupation. Event sponsored by Beth El Synagogue and the Ben and Rosalie Harris Community Fund.

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An ongoing seminar with Carol S. Hyman and Reeve Lindbergh.

April 24: Three Reasons to Meet Your Mind

May 22: Making Fear Your Ally

June 26: The Gift of Challenging Relationships

July 24: Communication: The Key to Creating Community

Human beings have a tendency to believe everything we think. Because of this habit, we experience the world through a filter of conditioned tendencies, preconceptions, and attitudes that we mistake for reality. In order to see more clearly, we need to train our minds.

Mindfulness practice is a tool with which we learn to direct our attention, giving us a fresh perspective on our inner world.

This seminar will include basic mindfulness practice instruction at each session. Beginners are welcome at any time.

This seminar is free and open to the public. No registration is required. Appropriate for both beginning and experienced meditators. For more information: appliedmindfulnesstraining.org.

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Have you ever wondered about that place off of Route 5 in Barnet with the really steep driveway and all the colorful flags? And what about that monument thing on the hill that overlooks the Interstate? Are they part of the other Buddhist place in Barnet? Learn all about Milarepa Center; who we are, what we do, why we do it, and more! With Milarepa Center director Dawn Holtz.

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Local poets read their works in the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum's beautiful Art Gallery.

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Come celebrate Poem Town and National Poetry Month on Wednesdays at Noon during April. Share your original poetry or poetry from a favorite poet. Everyone is welcome to attend and enjoy the poetry and gallery space.

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We celebrate Poem Town and National Poetry Month on Wednesdays at Noon during April with original poetry or poetry from a favorite poet in the art gallery.

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Picture frames—we see them in museums and galleries, but do we really pay attention to them? Learn about the significance of picture frames and their history, styles materials and how they related (or don’t) to the art they surround.

Hugh Glover was the frame conservator at Williamstown Art Conservation Center for more than 30 years where he conserved, made, evaluated, and studied picture frames.

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Program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, as well as an MA and BA in English from Stockholm University. He teaches in the BFA program at Northern Vermont University- Johnson, where he is fiction editor of Green Mountains Review.

See more about Jensen Beach
https://jensenwbeach.com/

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http://www.rescuepress.co/shop/what-was-it-for). Here is the publisher’s description of the book, "In her debut collection What Was It For, Adrienne Raphel revitalizes the topsy-turvy lyric and its evergreen sagacity. Through playground doggerel, charm, and riddle, these poems cry fair and foul to a world where pâté geese dabble in fields of lavender, crises get wallpapered over, hot air balloons stalk pleasurably, cash changes for gold, and the moon sinks into the sea to the thrum of the metronome. That world is this, our own and only, so reader, climb aboard: like a carousel, each poem loops round and round, granting dizzying vistas. All the while, these poems spill over with wonder—as in query, as in jubilee—just as a child chants why, but why, but why. By way of answer, What Was It For offers an immortal, resounding question.” Poet Cathy Park Hong selected it as the winner of the Black Box Poetry Prize.

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Rose McLarney has published two collections of poems, Its Day Being Gone (Penguin Books, 2014), and The Always Broken Plates of Mountains (Four Way Books, 2012).  Its Day Being Gone is the 2013 National Poetry Series winner. Rose has been awarded fellowships by the MacDowell Colony, Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences, and Warren Wilson College, and won the Fellowship of Southern Writers’ New Writing Award for Poetry and Alligator Juniper’s 2011 National Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in publications including The Kenyon Review, Orion, Slate, New England Review, Missouri Review, and dozens of other journals. Rose earned her MFA from Warren Wilson’s MFA Program for Writers and has taught at Warren Wilson, among other institutions. Currently, she is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Auburn University and Poetry Editor of The Southern Humanities Review/.

See more about Rose McLarney
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/rose-mclarney

 

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Human beings have a tendency to believe everything we think. Because of this habit, we experience the world through a filter of conditioned tendencies, preconceptions, and attitudes that we mistake for reality. In order to see more clearly, we need to train our minds. Mindfulness practice is a tool with which we learn to direct our attention, giving us a fresh perspective on our inner world.

This seminar will include basic mindfulness practice instruction at each session. Beginners are welcome at any time.

April 24: Three Reasons to Meet Your Mind

May 22: Making Fear Your Ally

June 26: The Gift of Challenging Relationships

July 24: Communication—The Key to Creating Community

This seminar is free and open to the public. No registration is required. Appropriate for both beginning and experienced meditators. For more information: appliedmindfulnesstraining.org.

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The St. Johnsbury Athenaeum presents Northeast Kingdom authors reading in the gallery for the Athenaeum's 150th birthday. Ellen McCulloch-Lovell reads Galway Kinnell; Reeve Lindbergh; Rachel Hadas.

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In conjunction with her retrospective exhibition at Catamount Arts, Dona Ann McAdams discusses and shows her empathetic black-and-white portraits of performing artists, AIDS activists, political protests, people living with schizophrenia, Appalachian farmers, cloistered nuns, and others.

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Dan Swainbank reads from his new book, Fairbanks: The Family That Created an Industry, Built a Thriving Town, Endowed It with Cultural Institutions & Led the State of Vermont.

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Nancy Marie Brown has written five non-fiction books, including The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman. In 2012 her book Song of the Vikings: Snorri and the Making of Norse Myths was a Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year. Bill Mares has been a reporter-photographer, state legislator, and high school teacher. He has co-authored 17 books, including several books on Vermont Humor.

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St. J Sparkles event from Saturday, December 13 at the Athenaeum. Featuring a reading from Bob Joly, harp music from Bill Tobin, and the Academy Hilltop Singers.

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