A house is more than a box sitting on a lawn; it is, instead, a complex union of interactions between a dwelling, the environment, the earth and the sun. 

Join Alan Benoit, local architect; Paul Myers, retired geology professor and president of the Perfect House Committee; and Karen Lee, co-owner of Solar Pro, as they explore some of these interactions and how they affect your home and your life.  

An exceptional book and an exceptional event - Please join us as we welcome Richard and Kate Russo. In what many perceive as a coldly relentless digital age, Pulitzer-prize winning author, Richard Russo has teamed up with his daughter, artist Kate Russo, to create Interventions, their tribute to the printed book.

Interventions: Three previously published stories, Horseman, High and Dry, and The Whore's Child, and the title novella, Intervention, a never-before-published story, positively crackle with Russo's piercing and understated insight into the lives of ordinary people. Beautifully packaged, each story is an individually soft-bound volume with a cover illustration by Kate. Framable prints of her paintings accompany each book and all are collected into a slipcase.

Judith Rosen, of Publishers Weekly, interviews Richard Russo: "Richard Russo is no stranger to collaboration..." 

Stories on the Hill Katie's Sunday Afternoon, Sunday, June 24, 1:00-2:30 p.m. Travel back in time and meet many colorful characters from the art world past that include artists such as Van Gogh, Monet and Seurat. After looking at paintings of these artists in the special exhibition, "Mining the Part and Present, Works by Joe Fig," in the Wilson Museum and reading James Mayhew's story Katie's Sunday Afternoon, children will create their own work of art using active lines and vibrant colors.

In partnership with Southern Vermont Art Center, this series of free programs connects listening to stories, looking at art and creating a hands-on project during a fun and engaging afternoon. Programs are held at Southern Vermont Art Center and are free, but pre-registration is encouraged to reserve a space.  

~

Storytime Every Wednesday morning at 10:30 am the Northshire welcomes kids to Storytime! Wednesday, June 20th, Bookseller Alice brings her guitar and leads StorySongs - sing along to This Land is Your Land, I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly, Over in the Meadow, and more. Each week will have a theme, coming soon: Construction/Function Junction! 

Head on down, grab yourself a coffee in the cafe, and cozy in for some pre-naptime entertainment!  

The novel, said D.H. Lawrence, is the "one bright book of life." Among the great books of civilization and the glories of English and American fiction are these five novels:

Henry Fielding's Tom Jones, Jane Austen's Emma, Charles Dickens's Great Expectations, Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, and George Eliot's Middlemarch.

What qualities make these five novels so special? Examining these books in chronological sequence, this lecture traces the development of the novel as the most important and popular form of literature and considers the connecting links among Fielding, Austen, Dickens, Melville, and Eliot  

For more information and to reserve a seat, CLICK HERE or call Renee Bornstein at 802.362.1199.