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EBackroad Discovery offers guided tours designed for people who only have a day or two to spend in the area, & who wish to explore the region’s best-kept secrets! If you are not well-acquainted with the Manchester/Dorset area, this tour will be a real treat! We travel in a comfortable 10-passenger tour vehicle or for smaller groups of 2 or 4, we use our SUV. You will discover a sweeping mountain/valley overlook, an international woodworking facility/kitchen store, the oldest abandoned marble quarry in the U.S., an antique covered bridge, and a unique country shop selling locally made goodies. Along the way, you will hear the intriguing facts and stories about the area. This is a great holiday or winter afternoon and an alternative to a day on the slopes.
Learn fly tying basics in one of our free Fly Tying 101 classes. The 2-hour class will cover tools, materials and techniques. You will learn to tie the famous Woolly Bugger to take home and try your next time out on the water. There will be some great money saving offers to get you started in tying or other in store purchases.
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes Jon Mowry to lead this five-part woodworking course. This workshop will provide an introduction to woodworking using both machinery and hand tools. We will explore some of the properties of wood along with basic principles of design and furniture construction. Participants will complete a small project of their choosing. Class will meet Sundays, February 24, March 3, 10, 17, 24. Preregistration is required and costs $200 for the five-session course, which includes all materials. For more information or to register, please call our office 802-867-0111 or visit www.greenmtnacademy.org.
Join us in welcoming back to Northshire Pam Houston whose new book Deep Creek delivers her most profound meditations yet on how "to live simultaneously inside the wonder and the grief…to love the damaged world and do what I can to help it thrive" in essays as lucid and invigorating as mountain air. On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, beloved writer Pam Houston learns what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it. Elk calves and bluebirds mark the changing seasons, winter temperatures drop to 35 below, and lightning sparks a 110,000-acre wildfire, threatening her century-old barn and all its inhabitants. Through her travels from the Gulf of Mexico to Alaska, she explores what ties her to the earth, the ranch most of all. Alongside her devoted Irish wolfhounds and a spirited troupe of horses, donkeys, and Icelandic sheep, the ranch becomes Houston's sanctuary, a place where she discovers how the natural world has mothered and healed her after a childhood of horrific parental abuse and neglect.
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes Union College Professor George H. Shaw to talk about the emergence of life on Earth. The transition from inanimate molecular mixes to something we would agree is “alive” is one of the most profound events that have occurred on Earth. Based on what we know about modern living systems, two questions immediately arise. First… How do we get sufficient amounts and concentrations of essential raw materials (pre-biotic compounds) such that the formation of self-contained systems has a reasonable chance of emerging? Second… Is there anything in current living systems that may be construed as representative (or critical) to the emergence of life? Registration is $15 in advance or $20 at the door. For more information or to register, please call our office at 802-867-0111 or visit www.greenmtnacademy.org.
