Rokeby Museum offers talk, trail story-walk and story time

The Rokeby Museum in Ferrisburgh is busy this month. These three new offerings caught our eye.

On July 5, Rokeby Museum and the Friends of Union Meeting Hall are hosting two family-friendly events that honor the life and legacy of Frederick Douglass.

“Lift Every Voice” is an exhibition of 15 hooked rugs reproduced from Elizabeth Catlett’s 1947 “I am the Black Woman” series. Catlett’s 15 linocuts commemorate African American women’s historical oppression, resistance, and survival.

Rokeby Museum will host Music with the Museum, an evening of food and music with renowned musicians Paul Asbell and Bob Stannard at the historic Ferrisburgh Town Community Center on Thursday, May 25, at 6 p.m.

“This exhibition of hooked rugs is a beautiful and powerful display of Elizabeth Catlett’s 1947 series ‘I am a Black Woman,’” said Rokeby Museum Director Lindsay Varner.

Rokeby Museum has announced it will join museums nationwide in the Blue Star Museums initiative, which provides free admission to currently serving U.S. military personnel and their families this summer.

Readers of all stripes are invited to join in each month, January through March, for free virtual discussions about three powerful books. 

Rokeby Museum is saying goodbye to two board trustees and welcoming three new members to the board. Priscilla Baker and Dean Leary officially stepped down from the board of trustees on Nov. 16. 

This participatory dramatization allows you to witness what an actual séance was like for the Robinsons 170 years ago.

Rokeby Museum has received a three-year $75,000 grant from the Trout Lily Foundation to support organizational work at the institution.

Rokeby Museum recently announced that is has openings for new members of the Board of Trustees starting in January 2023.

FERRISBURGH — The Rokeby Museum recently garnered more than $130,000 in new funding. A $75,000 anonymous gift will enable the Rokeby to continue sustainable growth, said officials at the Ferrisburgh institution. Starting this month, an anonymous donor is … (read more)

Ferrisburgh’s Rokeby Museum is set to open this month for the 2022 season.

As part of Rokeby Museum’s vision to enhance the history of Vermont and explore an inclusive telling of the American story, the Museum is launching a series of new education programs in 2022.

Mingo Niles was likely the longest serving employee of the Robinson family. He worked for them intermittently for about 30 years, his name appearing here and there in farm ledgers.