Friday, July 8, at 5 p.m. — QUECHEE — The Vermont Institute of Natural Science (VINS) invites adventure-seeking adults, 21 and above, to join VINS naturalists and L.L. Bean instructors for a guided kayak tour on the serene waters of the Connecticut River on Friday, July 8, from 5 to 8:30 p.m. Discover helpful paddling…

Friday, July 1 at 7:15 p.m. — GRANVILLE, N.Y. — Jon Mathewson will give a gallery talk titled “A New Deal for the Hills and the Valleys,” for the Slate Valley Museum’s July First Friday program. Jon Mathewson is the curator at the Dorset Historical Society and Bley House Museum and is an expert on these WPA…

July 3-4 at 10 a.m. — MOUNT HOLLY — Mount Holly Library’s Independence Day book sale is Sunday, July 3 and Monday, July 4 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., rain or shine, at the Mount Holly Town Library, 26 Maple Hill Road, Belmont. There will be thousands of books waiting to be purchased, including adult nonfiction…

CAVENDISH — Cavendish, Vt. is known for having been the home of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the Soviet dissident and Nobel Prize winner who lived there for almost 18 of the 20 years after he was exiled from Russia. The town’s willingness to protect his privacy from outsiders is legendary, and as a recent visitor to the Cavendish…

Wednesday, June 22 at 7 p.m. — CASTLETON — Award-winning storyteller Simon Brooks returns to Castleton Free Library to help celebrate the official start of summer in a free performance, part of the library’s “On Your Mark, Get Set, Read!” summer reading program. Brooks was born in Gloucestershire, England, and lived in Worcester, London, Brighton, and Hastings,…

Thursday, June 23 at 5:30 p.m. — RUTLAND — Taste area brews and snacks catered by Roots the Restaurant and enjoy live music by George’s Back Pocket while overlooking historic downtown Rutland from the top of the LAZ parking garage, 102 West St., in the 2nd annual Hops on Top Craft and Micro Brew Festival. Admission is…

Saturday, June 25 at 7 p.m. — KILLINGTON — Now in its 34th season of presenting fine chamber music, the Killington Music Festival will open its 2016 concert schedule on Saturday, June 25 with a concert titled “Season’s Opening on KMF’s Grand,” featuring Simon Ghraichy, who has been dubbed “the classical piano-rock star” by Quien Mag, and…

Saturday, June 25 at 7:30 p.m. — BRANDON — Maple Jam is Vermont’s own a cappella jazz octet specializing in close-harmony vocal arrangements of sweet love songs and swinging big band favorites. The band returns to Brandon Music on Saturday, June 25 at 7:30 p.m. No one in New England does it the way Maple…

Saturday, June 25 at 7 p.m. — GRANVILLE, N.Y. — The Slate Valley Museum invites offers a night of bluegrass and old time country by the popular local band, Northern Homespun. The museum opened its exhibit, “A New Deal for the Hills and Valleys,” on May 6. This exhibit explores the reality of FDR’s New Deal throughout…

Saturday, June 25 at 7:30 p.m. — SOUTH POMFRET — The Contenders, Jay Nash and Josh Day, will be performing in concert on Saturday, June 25 at 7:30 p.m. at ArtisTree Community Center for the Arts. Nash and Day have been players and poets for the better part of two decades. They have been making music, telling…

Sunday, June 26 at 2 p.m. — MIDDLETOWN SPRINGS — Local artists, craftsmakers and musicians will join Historical Society volunteers to present the 41st annual Middletown Springs Strawberry Festival at the Historical Society on the village green, Sunday, June 26 from 2 to 4 p.m. The festival features strawberry shortcake made with fresh local strawberries, homemade biscuits,…

Sunday, June 26 at 12 p.m. — BOMOSEEN — The Fly Dogs has moved from Killington, to the Palms at Prospect Bay on Lake Bomoseen! On Sunday, June 26 the group will hold the first of three dog jumping events this summer, beginning at noon and jumping in the finals around 2 p.m. or until all the…

Tuesday, June 28 at 7 p.m. — CASTLETON — Castleton University is presents Extra Stout as part of the 21st annual Castleton Summer Concerts at the Castleton Pavilion on Tuesday, June 28 at 7 p.m. Continuing every Tuesday evening throughout the summer, the ten-show series highlights live entertainment by outstanding local area professional musicians. A traditional Irish…

Saturday, June 25—LUDLOW—Coleman Brook Tavern, Okemo Mountain Resort’s premier restaurant, introduces its Farmhouse Dinner series. Six communal, artisanal dinners featuring great hospitality, a fun atmosphere and delicious local foods are scheduled on Saturday evenings throughout the summer: June 25, July 9, July 23, Aug. 20, Sept. 3 and Sept. 17. Coleman Brook Tavern’s Farmhouse Dinners…

WOODSTOCK — Woodstock Area Jewish Community Congregation Shir Shalom welcomes scholar-in-residence Rabbi Sheldon Zimmerman, currently Rabbi of the Jewish Center of the Hamptons and previous president of Hebrew Union College-Institute of Religion, who will lead a series of thought-provoking sessions entitled “Revealing Some Mysteries of the Bible.” On Friday, June 24 from 6-7 p.m., join the…