RUTLAND — The Rutland Recreation and Parks Department is offering programs of all types, to all ages during the summer. Seven-to-Sunset concerts in Main Street Park Join them in Main Street Park on Wednesday, July 6 for the popular local band, Satin and Steel. Satin and Steel is a 10-piece horn band based in Rutland. With…

Monday, July 4 at 10 a.m. — PLYMOUTH NOTCH — On Monday, July 4, the President Calvin Coolidge State Historic Site celebrates the birth of the nation as well as its 30th president with special activities scheduled from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The public is invited to gather at the village green at 12 noon, when…

Monday, July 4 at 8 a.m — WOODSTOCK — Join the 40th annual John Langhan’s Green Mile road race on July 4 at 8 a.m. — a 7.1 challenging run or walk through the village of Woodstock to celebrate the 4th of July. All participants receive a free t-shirt and snacks. Bring a group of friends and family…

Saturday, July 2 at 4 p.m. — MOUNT HOLLY — Reinbow Riding Center, a volunteer based non-profit therapeutic riding center, is hosting a silent auction at the Mt. Holly Community Center on July 2 from 4 to 6:30 p.m., all proceeds to benefit the Reinbow Riding Center. There will be refreshments from Crowley Cheese factory and other…

SHREWSBURY — The Shrewsbury Historical Society Museum, Route 103, Cuttingsville, opens Sunday, July 3, 1-3 p.m., and continues Sundays at the same times until Oct. 30. Come view the exhibit on Brown Bridge, a national historic landmark (now restored but unusable after Tropical Storm Irene), and the dedication of the new Jim Jeffords State Forest. Admission…

Monday, July 4 — WOODSTOCK — Celebrate Monday, July 4 in Woodstock, rain or shine. Festivities begin early, with the 40th Annual John Langhans 7.1 Green Mile Road Race and Kids Fun Run sponsored by the Spectrum Teen Center. Check-in/same day registration begins at 8 a.m. and runners and walkers start at 8:30 a.m. Then pop over…

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…