Continuing over a three decade's long tradition, The Shires of Southwestern Vermont’s Holiday Inn Tours, coordinated by the Manchester Business Association & The Shires of Southwestern Vermont, invites you to join us on Saturday, December 3 and/or Saturday, December 10 and take a self-guided tour of some of the best lodging establishments in VT. Fifteen […]
Manchester's annual Lighted Tractor Parade will once again bring plenty of holiday cheer to brighten your holiday season. Line the streets and support all of the fun times. Prizes, generously donated by Dorr Oil and Propane, will be awarded in several categories including favorite tractor decoration. Here's the route: Parade will begin at MEMS and […]
Florence Dore is a Nashville-born, North Carolina-based independent musical artist putting out a new record, Highways and Rocketships. The road from her first LP Perfect City (Slewfoot 2001) to Highways and Rocketships has been anything but straight—and that’s not even counting the pandemic delays. She has spent a lot of that time between then and […]
Broadway chanteuse and beloved star of many Wilburton Murder Mysteries, Melissa Marlin, is delighted to return to The Wilburton to perform her cabaret act: “A Broadway Christmas in Vermont.” All welcome. $25 cover charge includes a glass of champagne. Melissa's ties with The Wilburton are very deep because long before she performed on Broadway, she […]
Learn to needle felt holiday ornaments, Sunday, December 4, from 1:00 to 3:00 pm. Join Hildene Farm managers Kim Pinsonneault and Misty Hosley to felt holidays-inspired ornaments using wool roving from Hildene’s flock of Corriedale sheep. Handmade ornaments make lovely gifts as well as cheerful decorations on holiday packages. $30 members/$35 non-members, includes materials fee. […]
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes arts educator Stacy Gates to lead this needle felting workshop. Perk up your holiday décor with one of these adorable needle felted gnomes. In this beginner friendly workshop, you will learn to create a solid 3D sculpture from just wool fibers using a special barbed needle. There […]
Mondays, from 12 to 3pm - weekly Canasta Masters Can we deal you in for the Canasta Masters? Come learn how to play the Modern American Canasta @ Manchester Community Library on Mondays. The game of Canasta was developed in 1939 in Montevideo, Uruguay. Canasta is the Spanish word for Basket. There are many versions […]
Tuesdays from 3-4:30 - weekly Knitty Bitty The Manchester Community Library has a knitting group that meets every Monday - the Knit Wits - but the group is branching out to offer knitting lessons to kids who want to learn. If you are or know someone who is between the ages of 10 and 16 […]
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes Jamie Franklin, curator at the Bennington Museum, to talk about the convergence of folk and modern art. This presentation, originally created in conjunction with the 2014 Bennington Museum exhibition Alice Neel/Erastus Salisbury Field: Painting the People (named one of the nine most memorable exhibitions in North America […]
