Can you smell the bread baking? Not quite yet, but we are getting closer. In the first two weeks of December, volunteers will be helping to build the base ready for the installation of the wood-fired oven.
Wood-fired oven is coming to the Bakery!
Category: News
Community Conversation and Book Reading with Elizabeth Minnich
Wednesday, September 6, 7:00 pm at Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier
The Barre Historical Society and the Kellogg-Hubbard Library are co-sponsoring a discussion and book reading led by scholar Dr. Elizabeth Minnich on the subject of her recent book The Evil of Banality: The Life and Death Importance of Thinking which draws on literature, psychology, economics, journalism, and pop culture to explore how people both perpetrate and resist genocide and other “extensive” evils.
Southern Civil Rights and Labor Songs – Labor Day Singalong with Si Kahn
Organizing for Action — a Workshop with Si Kahn
Monday, September 4 at 4:00 pm (note time & date change)
Si Kahn will lead a participatory workshop about organizing for action in your community. This event will take place before the Labor Day singalong honoring fellow civil rights organizer the late Chet Briggs for the benefit of the Old Labor Hall. (This is the rescheduled event that was snowed out in March.)
Bernie Sanders endorses designation of Old Labor Hall as UNESCO World Heritage Site
Senator Bernie Sanders has generously used his worldwide popularity to highlight the international importance of the Socialist Labor Party Hall National Historic Landmark
The Worst Song Ever (aka “The Stupid Bowl”)
Worst. Song. Ever contestants perform really bad pop songs, from any era. The audience votes for its unfavorite with $$, half of which support the Hall.
Bakery restoration update 2017: the future looks bright
The restoration of the historic Union Cooperative Store bakery building is moving ahead at warp speed. Here is an update on the most recent grants and news about future plans, community support offers, and still unmet needs.
Frederick Douglass “speaks” – a different take on the Fourth of July
July 3 at 5:00 pm at the Aldrich Public Library In 1852, the day after the usual 4th of July razzmatazz and patriotic speeches celebrating the Declaration of Independence and birth of the United States, by invitation of the Rochester Anti Slavery Sewing Society, Frederick Douglass provided another more qualified view of the birth of the …
Anne Feeney — Raising Hell: Songs of Labor & Protest
Sunday, June 18, 7 pm
Anne Feeney, self-described "unionmaid & hellraiser", will be performing songs of labor and protest for the benefit of the Old Labor Hall. We have been looking forward to hosting her at the hall for a long time. At last she is coming, along with special guest Charlie King.
2017 Global Labor Film Festival – “A Day’s Work”
Saturday, May 13 at 7:00 pm
For the fifth year, the Old Labor Hall is participating in the 2017 Global Labor Film Festival This year, we are hosting the Vermont premier of the award-winning documentary A Day's Work.
The film uses the story of one "temp worker's" first day on the job to introduce the implications of this modern temp work for all working people.