What if you only had one hundred days?

As the snow melts away and the early bulbs push through the crystalized dirt, we’re given a performance by the Middlebury Acting Company to help us process a question that is spring eternal: How do we make the most of the time that we have?

Four-part course on the American Musical is back

‏When Doug Anderson first taught a course on the “American Musical,” he didn’t have a lot of technology at his disposal. He had, basically, a pile of cassette tapes.

Sparrow Art Supply announces its debut show in new location

With a nod to Robert Frost’s iconic poem, “Nothing Gold Can Stay,” seven artists explore growth, transition and renewal.

College students explore ‘risk and necessity’ of touch, pets and ribbon dancing

The Middlebury College Department of Theatre will present “The Found Dog Ribbon Dance,” a modern comedy about love and longing and the power of touch, written by Dominic Finocchiaro, directed by Olga Sanchez Saltveit.

Weybridge artist opens exhibit at Vt. Supreme Court Gallery

This spring the Vermont Supreme Court Gallery presents “Material Matters,” a collection of hand-colored and black and white photographic images and mixed media collage by Weybridge artist Victoria Blewer. 

Ask a Master Gardener: How to garden in a cold frame

Get a jump start on the growing season by adding a cold frame to your garden. A cold frame allows you to start some plants two to four weeks before the recommended planting time.

Pet Spotlight: Wheel

Wheel is a 4-year-old Checkered-mix rabbit who is fully litter box trained. She was adopted not long ago but returned to the shelter because she didn’t get along with the other rabbit in the home.

The Outside Story: The solar eclipse

In the cosmic dance of heavenly bodies, no phenomenon possesses the drama of a solar eclipse, when the moon passes directly between the sun and earth.

Robert Frost at age 150 is still worthy of recollection

For around five decades, Jay Parini has returned to Frost’s poems as a reader, a fellow writer, an academic and a biographer. He spent more than 20 of those years poring over Frost’s work and interviewing those close to the poet to compile his 1999 biogra … (read more)

‘Just Getting By’ makes a stop in Middlebury

On Saturday, March 30, come to Town Hall Theater in Middlebury to see Bess O’Brien’s new documentary “Just Getting By.” This film is a sweeping, and yet intimate look at the lives of Vermonters who are struggling with food and housing insecurity.

New exhibit by Anna Fugaro at Bixby Library

‏If you missed her exhibit at Middlebury’s Ilsley Library this winter, experience the original, mixed-media artwork of New Haven artist Anna Fugaro on display now at the Bixby Memorial Free Library.

Cellist Sophie Shao and Friends perform at MAC on Mar. 29

Applauded by the New York Times for her “eloquent, powerful” interpretations, world-renowned cellist Sophie Shao has a gift for assembling impromptu chamber ensembles that are brimming with passion and talent.

Krishna Guthrie band to rock Vergennes

The Krishna Guthrie Band is coming to Vergennes for an evening of “hard rockin’, folkin’, blues” on Saturday, March 30. Bristol native Helen Hummel will open at 7 p.m.

Ask a Master Gardener: Is it too late to prune fruit trees?

This time of year, when plants are normally in their dormant stage, usually finds gardeners conducting late-winter pruning of apple and other fruit trees.

The Outside Story: Maple sugaring adapts to climate change

Boiling maple sap into syrup is a time-honored tradition in the Northeast, to the olfactory delight of anyone who has spent time in a steamy sugarhouse while inhaling the sweet maple scent of the season.

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