
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.
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.
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.)
The Barre Historical Society is sponsoring a series of events to celebrate Labor Day in the United States and to supplement our annual commemoration of international workers day on Primo Maggio (May Day). The theme of using your voice for social change will run through the three events. Two will be held at the Old Labor …
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 …