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...

Meet some of your favorite superheroes at this event with The Guardian Legion!  We'll have activities and themed snacks, as well.  The Guardian Legion is a Vermont based Cosplay & Charity group.

ADMISSION:  All ages are welcome to this free event.

Join us for an evening of inspiration with Bessie, a beautiful chocolate lab, and her owner (and author), Thomas Farmen who discovers just how much dogs can teach us about ourselves in his book, Bessie's Story: Watching the Lights Go Out.

Praise for BESSIE’S STORY -
Author Steven Bauer (The Strange and Wonderful Story of Robert McDoodle: The Boy Who Wanted To Be a Dog) writes of Bessie's Story:
This is the first-person non-fiction account of several years in the lives of a man approaching retirement and his chocolate Lab as she gradually loses her sight. It painstakingly traces the subtle but inexorable changes in Bessie, an exuberant passionate retriever and lover of humanity, as she struggles to make sense of a world of increasing darkness and learns to...

Join Suzanne S. Rancourt for a reading from her new book of poetry, murmurs at the gate.

ABOUT THE BOOK:  Suzanne S. Rancourt’s second book of poetry uses both fictional and auto-biographical events to create a chorus of survivors. These poems for the unspeakable, the marginalized, the “in-betweeners,” create a chorus of survivors in the theatre of life’s sorrow, love, tragedy, beauty, and profound human resiliency.  Ms. Rancourt’s life attests to being a survivor, and states, “Prejudice is non-discriminatory.”  murmurs at the gate, is a poetic narrative that explores the harsh measures of life’s wars. “If we are at war with everything, who are the Warriors? Who are the survivors? And, for how long does the war cry...