Food festivals
Grafton Food Festival http://www.graftonfoodfestival.com/ July 8: The Fifth Annual Grafton Food Festival is a food-lover’s event celebrating local food and farms in Southern Vermont. We celebrate our local “taste of place” by featuring local food and beverage vendors with tastings, cooking demonstrations, and farmers’ market tables. This year, celebrity chef and cookbook author Sara Moulton joins the festivities as guest chef. Stay in...
Farmers’ markets
Tuesdays Rutland Downtown Farmers’ Market Depot Park, 3-6p http://www.rcfmvt.org Bennington Walloomsac Farmers’ Market Bennington Station, 10a-1p http://www.facebook.com/BenningtonFarmersMarket, 802 442-8934 Wednesdays Brattleboro Area Farmers’ Market Brattleboro Food Co-op Parking Lot, 10a-2p http://www.brattleborofarmersmarket.com Woodstock Market on the Green 3-6p http://www.woodstockvt.com Thursdays Manchester Farmers’ Market...
Grandma Moses: American Modern
Would you ever associate Grandma Moses with Modernism? The same people who embraced Modernism in America in the 1930s and ’40s were also collecting folk art. It was at this time that curators and collectors began to make connections between what they called the “American Primitives” and the most advanced contemporary art. In fact, the first public exhibition of Grandma Moses’s paintings was held at the Museum of Modern Art in 1939,...
Garden events
Boyd Family Farm 125 E. Dover Road, Wilmington http://www.boydfamilyfarm.com, 802 464-5618 The Boyd Family Farm, in the Deerfield Valley just minutes from Wilmington Center, is a gorgeous summer destination. Pick your own flowers and blueberries here and find an extensive array of annuals and perennials. Many workshops are offered, such as “Hanging Basket and Planter Workshop” and “Fruit Trees and Berry Bushes for Fathers.” The...
Arts accolades for Bennington and Brattleboro
Bennington among top small vibrant arts communities Bennington’s local color and character have been recognized for the second time by a prominent clearinghouse for arts research, trailing only that of Breckenridge, Colo., and Summit Park, Utah, in rankings for small arts-vibrant communities. The National Center for Arts Research (NCAR), an extension of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, has heaped praise on the Bennington...
Big cheese: Seven Vermont cheeses win first place honors
Congratulations to the five skilled Vermont artisans who walked away with seven first-place honors at this year’s United States Championship Cheese Contest in Green Bay, Wisconsin. According to the Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association, which hosts the annual competition, the nation’s largest technical cheese, butter, and yogurt competition breaks records each year for the number of entries and number of cheesemakers participating. At...
ART Manchester set to pop: Southern Vermont Arts Center puts town in spotlight
Southern Vermont Arts Center is gearing up to offer exhibition space throughout the town of Manchester. The initiative, dubbed ART Manchester, aims to connect Vermont artists with visitors and residents by converting storefronts into pop-up art galleries. Organizers say the exhibits will provide opportunities for local artists to display and sell their work. The showcase is set to run from late June through Labor Day, with artists...
With a song in their hearts: Green Mountain Camp for Girls celebrates 100 years
By Joyce Marcel It’s not every day that you hear of something that’s still going strong after 100 years. Especially not something for girls. And certainly not in the tiny town of Dummerston, Vermont. But this summer, the Green Mountain Camp for Girls is celebrating its 100th year with reunions, shared memories, singing, feasting, dancing, sport, and yes, s’mores. It’s also mounting a Centennial Campaign to raise $100,000 for capital...
Radiant at 25: Rock River Arts Open Studios Tour marks milestone
By Ann C. Landenberger The arts thrive along the winding, craggy Rock River in Southern Vermont. Witness the Rock River Artists Open Studio Tour: What started as a humble cooperative among Williamsville, South Newfane, and Newfane artists now heralds its quarter-century mark. In 1993 photographer Christine Triebert, then new to South Newfane from a career in Boston, noted a cluster of area artists all producing extraordinary work in a...
Wired for change: Artist Mary Admasian transforms materials of nature
By Meg Brazill A visit to Mary Admasian’s studio is like chancing upon an archeological dig. A rectangular table runs the length of her studio. It is covered with a curious array of objects, from a neat stack of thin, flat stones to a pitcher of wild turkey feathers to handfuls of royal blue petals drying inside a clear bag. Small white shells nestle inside a pink lined box and a pair of rusty barbed-wire knots rests on a flowered...
Chef-owned T.J. Buckley’s: Eight tables, dinner only, and amazing
The movement that would sweep the world didn’t yet exist when Chef Michael Fuller went into business 34 years ago, but even then he was running his restaurant and living his life according to its main tenet: local is king. Fuller opened T.J. Buckley’s in a restored 1925 Worcester dining car that had housed a so-called greasy spoon eatery. “We served breakfast and brunch. It was a small place with a limited menu and a lot of attention...
Chef-owned Williamsville Eatery: Keeping it real
By Nicole Colson When Dylan Richardson was in high school, he worked making pizzas at what was then the 185-year-old Williamsville General Store. The store, which opened in 1828 and closed in 2007, still enjoys standing as one of the longest continually run general stores in Vermont. At the time, however, Richardson couldn’t have imagined that he’d be operating a restaurant on the same spot years later with his family. But opportunity...
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