Where’s Waldo? In Rutland, of course!  The iconic children’s book character in the striped shirt and black-rimmed specs is visiting twenty-five local businesses throughout our community this July. Find Waldo Local is a great summer vacation activity and a wonderful way to support local businesses and the Shop Local movement in our community, including these partners:

• Timco Jewelers, 59 Center Street
• Wonderfeet Kids Museum, 11 Center Street
• Rutland Area Food Co-op, 77 Wales Street
• Frogs and Lily Pads, 25 Center Street
• Vermont Truffle Company, 37 Center Street
• Handcarved by Ernie, 26 Center Street
• Bookmobile, 17 Center Street
• Fruition, 56 Merchants Row
• Triumph Barre and Pilates Studio, 96...

This summer, kids entering grades K-12 are invited to take the Reading Without Walls challenge! 

National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature Gene Luen Yang started the Reading Without Walls program to celebrate reading and diversity by challenging children nationwide to read a book about a character who doesn’t look or live like them; read a book about a topic they don’t know much about; and/or read a book in a format that they don’t normally read for fun.

Come on in to Phoenix Books in Essex, Burlington, or Rutland to get...

Join Teresa Mares for a talk on her new book, Life on the Other Border: Farmworkers and Food Justice in Vermont.

ABOUT THE BOOK:  In her timely new book, Teresa M. Mares explores the intersections of structural vulnerability and food insecurity experienced by migrant farmworkers in the northeastern borderlands of the United States. Through ethnographic portraits of Latinx farmworkers who labor in Vermont’s dairy industry, Mares powerfully illuminates the complex and resilient ways workers sustain themselves and their families while also serving as the backbone of the state’s agricultural economy. In doing so, Life on the Other Border exposes how broader movements for food justice and labor rights play out in the agricultural sector, and...