| Barre | 10:30 a.m. | Story Hour — Tuesdays For young people ages 3 - 5. Location: Aldrich Library, Katherine Paterson Children's Room, 6 Washington Street. Karen Lane, 476-7550. | |
| Barre Town | 6:30 p.m. | Selectboard Meeting — Tuesdays | |
| East Barre | 9:30 a.m. | Story Hour For ages 3 - 4. Location: Aldrich Library: East Barre Branch. John Poeton, 476-5118. | |
| East Barre | 10:30 a.m. | Story Hour For ages 4 - 5. Location: Aldrich Library: East Barre Branch. John Poeton, 476-5118. | |
| East Montpelier | 12:00 noon. | Cross-Country Skating Clinic — Tuesdays, Fridays, & Saturdays Learn or just improve your skating technique. Beginner to advanced. Please register. $12/person does not include equipment. Contact Terry Solomon. Onion River Sports. folks@onionriver.com, 229-9409, (800) 894-7547. Location: Morse Farm, 1168 Country Road. Burr Morse, 242-2740. | |
| Today's Montpelier listings are sponsored by Lost Nation Theater. City Hall Arts Center, 39 Main Street. 229-0492. info@lostnationtheater.org. Theater with Heart in the Heart of Vermont. | |||
| Montpelier | Book Sale — March 22nd - April 10th Thousands of books sorted by subject and at very reasonable prices. Location: Kellogg-Hubbard Library, 135 Main Street. Ellen Miles, 223-3338. | ||
| Montpelier | 6:30 p.m. | Film: My Architect — March 29th - April 1st Louis Kahn was one of the great 20th century architects, whose work includes the Salk Institute in La Jolla and his most ambitious achievement, the capital of Bangladesh in Dacca. When Louis Kahn died of a heart attack in 1976, he had already been a mostly absent father to 11-year-old Nathaniel, whose mother was one of Louis Kahn's two long-time secret partners. In Kahn's obituary in the New York Times, there was no mention of Nathaniel, his mother, or Kahn's other secret family. In this film, recently nominated for the Best Documentary Oscar, Nathaniel Kahn attempts to uncover and understand the mystery and complexity of Louis Kahn as both a father and an artist. Not rated. 116 minutes. Location: Savoy Theater, 26 Main Street. film@savoytheater.com, 229-0509, (800) 676-0509. | |
| Montpelier | 7:00 p.m. | Cabin Fever If the vernal delights of spring won't arrive soon enough for you, let visions of birds and butterflies be your cure for cabin fever. With slides, music and stories, naturalist and author Bryan Pfeiffer will present a whimsical blend of color, flight and harmony found only in the lives of birds, glittering insects and other hopeful signs of spring. And in the spirit of the season, you'll even learn the secrets of duck romance, butterfly foreplay, and salamander procreation. (Rated PG for "politely graphic."). All are welcome. Free. Location: Kellogg-Hubbard Library, 135 Main Street. Ellen Miles, 223-3338. | |
| Montpelier | 7:00 p.m. | Howard Norman Highly-acclaimed author of the bestseller The Bird Artist, Howard Norman of Calais will read from his latest book, My Famous Evening: Nova Scotia Sojourns, Diaries & Preoccupations. In his new book, Norman, who is also an accomplished collector and translator of Native American folktales, offers a vivid and varied catalog of the scenes, themes, personalities and stories of Nova Scotia. From the bizarre story of a woman who abandons her family to travel to New York for a reading by Joseph Conrad, to native Mi'kmaq creation tales, to vignettes of Mrs. Leon Trotsky on a visit to Halifax, Norman interweaves the voices of Nova Scotians past and present to present a portrait of place and the people of this maritime province. All are welcome. Free. Location: Bear Pond Books, 77 Main Street. bearpond@adelphia.net, 229-0774. | |
| Montpelier | 8:45 p.m. | Film: My Architect — March 29th - April 1st Louis Kahn was one of the great 20th century architects, whose work includes the Salk Institute in La Jolla and his most ambitious achievement, the capital of Bangladesh in Dacca. When Louis Kahn died of a heart attack in 1976, he had already been a mostly absent father to 11-year-old Nathaniel, whose mother was one of Louis Kahn's two long-time secret partners. In Kahn's obituary in the New York Times, there was no mention of Nathaniel, his mother, or Kahn's other secret family. In this film, recently nominated for the Best Documentary Oscar, Nathaniel Kahn attempts to uncover and understand the mystery and complexity of Louis Kahn as both a father and an artist. Not rated. 116 minutes. Location: Savoy Theater, 26 Main Street. film@savoytheater.com, 229-0509, (800) 676-0509. | |
| Plainfield | 9:30 - 11:00 a.m. | Play Group — Tuesdays; not held when schools are closed. For children birth to five and their adults. Town residency is not required. Family Center of Washington County. thefamilycenter@fcwcvt.org, 828-8765, 828-8779. Location: Grace United Methodist Church, Main Street. 454-8343. | |
| St. Johnsbury | 7:00 p.m. | Film: House of Sand and Fog — March 26th - April 1st Ben Kingsley and Jennifer Connelly star in this powerful drama as two people fighting over the same house. Connelly is Kathy, a troubled young woman struggling with addiction and her husband's departure. Lost in her funk, she fails to check her mail, which includes letters threatening to evict her. After she is thrown out of the house she grew up in — wrongly, it turns out, so she seeks legal representation — Massoud Amir Behrani (Kingsley) buys the property at auction with the goal of selling it at a huge profit so his family can live a better life. Behrani, a former colonel in the Iranian army, is determined to make his family's move to the United States a successful one — nothing matters more to him than his wife and son's well-being. But when he sees Kathy sleeping in a car outside his fence, he knows he is in for a fight. 126 minutes. Rated R. Location: Catamount Arts Center, 139 Eastern Avenue. catamountarts@charter.net, 748-2600, (888) 757-5559. | |
| Wolcott | 7:00 p.m. | Film: The Secret of Roan Inish Irish myth comes to life in this fantasy about family and place, seen through the eyes of 10-year-old Fiona Coneelly, who's sent to live with her grandparents in post-WWII County Donegal. Fiona's drawn to her grandfather's stories about the family's ancestral home on the island of Roan Inish and the loss of her baby brother Jamie. When Fiona visits Roan Inish, she becomes convinced that jamie is alive and being cared for by the island's seals in their guise as humans, or selkies. Location: Center for Northern Studies at Sterling College, 479 Crossroads. 888-4331. | |