11/09 - 11/30 Rural Vermont’s Activist Farmers: Photos & Stories
A Traveling Exhibit Visits the Bethel Public Library for November
Rural Vermont’s Activist Farmers: Photos and Stories
A Traveling Exhibit Visits the Bethel Public Library
Throughout most of November, an exhibit featuring Rural Vermont’s farmer-activist Board of Directors will be on display at the Bethel Public Library. Professional photographs and interviews tell the stories behind the farmers driving the nonprofit Rural Vermont and its work to secure fair prices for farmers and local food options for Vermonters. On Wednesday, November 18th from 6:30 - 8 pm, Rural Vermont and the Bethel Public Library will host a free reception with refreshments and live storytelling about the farmers and foods sustaining rural communities.
Rural Vermont’s Activist Farmers: Photos and Stories gives a glimpse into the lives of fifteen farmers who are united around a common vision of economic justice. Local photographer Corey Hendrickson of Hendrickson Photography traveled the state to capture Rural Vermont’s board members in their element and on their farms. Volunteers spent an afternoon with each of these folks and documented why they are finding time between haying, weeding, milking, marketing, and everything else farmers do from sun up until sun down to make Rural Vermont a top priority.
At the reception on Wednesday, November 18th, join Rural Vermont and local Board members Lisa McCrory and Carl Russell of Earthwise Farm & Forest in Bethel to take in the exhibit while munching and mingling with neighbors and friends. We will celebrate and honor the greater community’s farmers and food producers with some informal storytelling, so bring along poems, stories, or readings to share about favorite farmers, special meals, or the harvest season!
The exhibit will be on display at the Bethel Public Library for three weeks, starting Monday, November 9th and through Monday, November 30th. The library is open on Mondays from 2 - 7 pm, Wednesdays from 1 - 7 pm, and Saturdays 9 am - 1 pm. The library will extend its hours on Wednesday, November 18th to host the reception.
Through the month of November (starting 11/9)
Bethel Public Library
106 Main St., BETHEL
Reception on Wed 11/18, 6:30 - 8 pm
Through the month of December
Salisbury Free Public Library
918 Maple St., SALISBURY
Reception on Wed 12/2, 6:30 - 8 pm
Through the month of January
Pierson Library
5376 Shelburne Rd., SHELBURNE
Reception on Thurs 1/7, 6:30 - 8 pm
Through the month of February
Griswold Library
Green Mountain College, POULTNEY
Reception date TBD