| Cabot | Staff Development Day No school. Location: Cabot School, 25 Common Road. Dawn Sicard, 563-2289. | ||
| Cabot | 10:00 a.m. | Story Hour — Fridays Stories, songs, art, and fun. For young people up to age 5. Location: Cabot Public Library, Willey Building, 3084 Main Street. Connie Koeller, 563-2721. | |
| Craftsbury Common | Staff Development Day No school. | ||
| Danville | 8:00 p.m. | Danville Family Contra & Square Dance — First Fridays, October - May The dances are taught and are easily learned by young and old. The contra and square dances are traditional Vermont and New England social dances that have been danced for many generations in the town halls, barns, and kitchens around Vermont. The music is provided by piano and an assortment of fiddles, mandolins, guitars, and the occasional surprise instrument. Musicians are always invited to sit in and join with the fun of playing traditional dance tunes. Hull's Union Suit Victory String Band features David Carpenter and Jason Bergman on fiddle, Ron Langley on piano, and Kate Abrams on mandolin. Chip Hedler, caller. All are welcome. Small donation is requested. Contact David Carpenter, 563-3225. Location: Knights of Pythias Hall, Hill Street. | |
| Greensboro | Staff Development Day No school. | ||
| Hardwick | Staff Development Day No school. | ||
| Marshfield | 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. | Peace Vigil — Fridays Contact 633-3226. U.S. Route 2 | |
| 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 | 9:30 - 11:00 a.m. | Play Group — Fridays; not held when schools are closed. For children birth to five and their adults. Town residency is not required. Location: Family Center of Washington County, 32 College Street. 828-8765, 476-8757. | |
| Montpelier | 12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m. | Peace Vigil — Fridays Location: the United States Post Office, 87 State Street. 229-1718. | |
| Montpelier | 6:00 - 7:30 p.m. | Quilt Group — Fridays This is the place to be if you are an experienced quilt maker or want to learn how. Work on your own projects and on the Family Center annual raffle quilt. Free child care on site. Location: Family Center of Washington County, 32 College Street. 828-8765, 476-8757. | |
| Montpelier | 6:30 p.m. | Film: The Barbarian Invasions — April 2nd - 8th A.O. Scott, The New York Times: "Denys Arcand resembles many of the same lustful, left-wing French-Canadian intellectuals who populated his 'Decline of the American Empire,' his 1986 comedy of intellectual grandiosity and sexual duplicity. This time, the bawdy talk and political banter is shadowed by mortality, and by the rueful awareness that history has had the last laugh. Remy (Remy Girard) is dying of cancer, and his friends, former lovers, and estranged wife gather round his death bed for a sentimental seminar replete with naughty jokes and wistful nostalgia. Joining them are two members of the younger generation — Remy's son Sebastien, a wealthy international banker, and Nathalie, a heroin addict — who lack both the bravado and narcissism of their parents. What makes this much more than a facile study in generational conflict is Mr. Arcand's acute sense of history: he has made the cultural contradictions of global capitalism into the material of heartfelt domestic drama that is also a broad, accessible and devilishly funny sex farce." Rated R, 99 minutes, in French with subtitles. Location: Savoy Theater, 26 Main Street. film@savoytheater.com, 229-0509, (800) 676-0509. | |
| 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 | 7:30 - 10:00 p.m. | Colin McCaffrey & Will Patton Jazz. Location: J. Morgan's, Capital Plaza Hotel, 100 State Street. 223-5222. | |
| Montpelier | 8:30 p.m. | Film: The Barbarian Invasions — April 2nd - 8th A.O. Scott, The New York Times: "Denys Arcand resembles many of the same lustful, left-wing French-Canadian intellectuals who populated his 'Decline of the American Empire,' his 1986 comedy of intellectual grandiosity and sexual duplicity. This time, the bawdy talk and political banter is shadowed by mortality, and by the rueful awareness that history has had the last laugh. Remy (Remy Girard) is dying of cancer, and his friends, former lovers, and estranged wife gather round his death bed for a sentimental seminar replete with naughty jokes and wistful nostalgia. Joining them are two members of the younger generation — Remy's son Sebastien, a wealthy international banker, and Nathalie, a heroin addict — who lack both the bravado and narcissism of their parents. What makes this much more than a facile study in generational conflict is Mr. Arcand's acute sense of history: he has made the cultural contradictions of global capitalism into the material of heartfelt domestic drama that is also a broad, accessible and devilishly funny sex farce." Rated R, 99 minutes, in French with subtitles. Location: Savoy Theater, 26 Main Street. film@savoytheater.com, 229-0509, (800) 676-0509. | |
| Morrisville | Staff Development Day — No school. | ||
| Plainfield | 6:30 p.m. | Film: Monkey Business First Friday Films $2/suggested donation. Location: Plainfield Community Center, 153 Main Street, above the Plainfield Co-op. | |
| St. Johnsbury | 12:00 noon - 12:30 p.m. | Silent Vigil — Fridays Women in Black. Contact Ann Marie O'Brien. North Country Coalition for Justice and Peace. sarahb@together.net, 748-3663. Location: the United States Post Office, 1153 Main Street. 748-3301. | |
| St. Johnsbury | 12:30 - 1:00 p.m. | Peace Vigil — Fridays Location: the United States Post Office, 1153 Main Street. 748-3301. | |
| St. Johnsbury | 7:00 p.m. | Film: Girl with a Pearl Earring — April 2nd - 8th In a visually stunning adaptation of Tracy Chevalier's best-selling novel, a resilient Dutch girl (Scarlet Johansson) becomes a maid in the house of painter Johannes Vermeer (Colin Firth) and ultimately the subject of one of the artist's most famous works. Though from vastly different backgrounds, the artist and the maid strike a unique emotional chord in one another and develop a societally taboo relationship responsible for the passion behind the creation of one of his greatest paintings. Tom Wilkinson and Cillian Murphy also star. It has just been nominated for Oscars for Costume Design and Art Direction. Rated R, 99 minutes. Location: Catamount Arts Center, 139 Eastern Avenue. catamountarts@charter.net, 748-2600, (888) 757-5559. | |
| Stannard | Staff Development Day No school. | ||
| Wolcott | Staff Development Day No school. | ||
| Woodbury | Staff Development Day No school. | ||