Sheldon kicks off lunchtime series on mental health, gender & creativity

This is a relaxed summer series that uses “The Yellow Wallpaper,” a short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, as a starting point to explore ideas around mental health, gender, creativity and history.

The Samara Fund at the Vermont Community Foundation announced grants that will go to 35 organizations across Vermont.

Discover the forgotten history of Jewish peddlers, merchants, and junk dealers in rural Vermont. Professor Peggy Nelson’s upcoming book explores their unique, isolated lives, incredible resilience, and lasting community legacy.

I encourage everyone to go enjoy this Middlebury gem.

Charity and Sylvia debut as cartoons in Tillie Walden’s new graphic novel about 19th Century Weybridge life.

The Henry Sheldon Museum will open for the season on May 20 with some exiting new exhibits. Check it out!

A community-created fiber art piece will show how temperatures in Addison County have risen over the past 101 years.

The public is invited to the Henry Sheldon Museum’s 2025 Annual Meeting at the Middlebury Inn on Tuesday, Nov. 18, from 5-6:30 p.m.

See a new exhibit at the Henry Sheldon Museum that features striking portraits of female farmers in Vermont by photographer JuanCarlos González.

Middlebury’s Henry Sheldon of Vermont History, now in its 140th year, contains thousands of furnishings, paintings, documents, household objects and artifacts that provide a glimpse into Addison County and Vermont’s past.

Henry Sheldon Museum’s Wednesday, Aug. 23, noon gallery talk is “Such Treatises May Be Found Elsewhere’: Uncovering Middlebury’s Legacy for the Recognition of Native American Voices and Lands.”

When the executive director departed after less than a year, the Henry Sheldon Museum developed some new ways to accomplish its mission.

MIDDLEBURY — Officials at the Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History is inviting everyone to join them this Thursday, Aug. 19, at 7 p.m. at Middlebury’s St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church for an organ recital by George Matthew, Jr.— Henry L. Sheldon’s presen … (read more)

MIDDLEBURY — The public is invited to join in the festivities at the Sheldon Museum to celebrate the 200th birthday of museum founder Henry Sheldon on Sunday, Aug. 15, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.Henry’s Birthday Bash will be fun for all ages and will take plac … (read more)

MIDDLEBURY — Henry Sheldon purchased a Roman coin for one dollar in 1875.He was an inveterate collector, and the ancient coin was just one of many, many, many unique and special objects that the Addison County icon gathered together in his house in Middle … (read more)