The Lakes Region FreePress - August 10, 2012 - 7
by Jim Carrigan SALEM Al Budd and Jay Kerr will star in “Significant Others,” three oneact plays about marriage, separation, reconciliation and more at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Aug. 17 and 18, 24 and 25, and 2 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 19 and 26. You’ll find this show at the Fort Salem Theater in Salem. Information/tickets: 518-854-9200, or www.fortsalemtheater.com.
Sat 8/18
The Poultney-Granville Town Band will perform in concert at 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 12, at Veterans Park on Quaker Street in Granville. Waltzes, marches, show tunes and blues music will be featured. Free and open to all. Wednesday, Aug. 15, at the Historic Salem Courthouse. Everyone with “an interest in the evening skies” will be welcome and you don’t need to own a telescope to join this club that meets on the third Wednesday each month, with few exceptions. Information: Courthouse at 8547053, or email wfrederi@gotsky. com.
Thu 8/16
HUBBARDTON/ORWELL Admission will be free on Bennington Battle Day, Thursday, Aug. 16, at the Hubbardton Battlefield State Historic Site, 5696 Monument Hill Road, and the Mount Independence State Historic Site, 497 Mount Independence Road in Orwell. Information: Hubbardton, 802-2732282, Orwell, 802-948-2000, or www.HistoricVermont.org. CASTLETON The Castleton Village Farmers Market will be open from 3:30 to 6 p.m. on Thursdays during the summer, across from the Castleton Free Library on Main Street, Route 4A. POULTNEY The Poultney Farmers’ Market will be open from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Thursdays through Oct. 4 on Main Street in Poultney. Offered will be bedding plants, specialty foods, range-fed meat and eggs, farmstead cheeses, Vermont crafts, and more. Information: 802-468-5805. CASTLETON The Higley House at 407 Main Street, Route 4A, in Castleton will be open on Thursdays from 2 to 4 p.m. through Oct. 4. This is a lovely historic residence that also features a collection of antique carriages and tools. GRANVILLE The 2012 Summer Concert Series will present the Air Tight band from 7 to 9 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 16, at Veterans Park on Quaker Street in Granville. Standards from the 1960s through the ‘80s to today will be featured. Free and open to all. MANCHESTER The Manchester Music Festival will present four rising stars of the Metropolitan Opera with a program of the greatest operatic hits at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 16. You’ll find this event at the Arkell Pavilion of the Southern Vermont Arts Center off West Road in Manchester. Cost: $45 adults; $10 students with identification; $15 lawn seating, weather permitting. Information /802-
362-1956, or www.mmfvt.org. DORSET The Dorset Theatre Festival will stage Ira Levin’s murder-mystery, “Deathtrap,” from Thursday, Aug. 16, through Saturday, Sept. 1, at the Dorset Playhouse, 104 Cheney Road. Information/times: 802-867-5777, or www.dorsettheatrefestival.org.
Fri 8/17 GRANVILLE Sylvan Star/ Skenesborough Chapter 122 will hold a Rummage Sale from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 17, at the Slate Valley Masonic Center, 95 North Street in Granville. Donations of clothing, household items and toys may be brought to the Masonic Center on the day of the sale. Information: Jean MacLeod at 518-260-0460. MANCHESTER Monica Knorr, director of the Spicer Center’s Growing Older Program, will discuss “Transitioning to Retirement Living Proactively” at 3 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 17, at Equinox Village in Manchester. Free and open to all; light refreshments will be served. Information/reservations: Ashley Brenon Jowett at 802-362-4061. SALEM The Salem Courthouse Community Center will host an opening reception for an exhibit of the pottery of artist Jordan Becker from 5 to 7 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 17. Becker is director of ceramics at the CCC and director of the ceramics program at Salem Art Works. The exhibit will be on display through the end of September. The CCC is located at 58 East Broadway in Salem. GRANVILLE Movie Night for children of all ages will be held at 6 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 17, at the Pember Library, 33 W. Main Street in Granville. Information: 518-642-2525. WHITEHALL The Music in the Park Concert Series will present the Rutland City Band from 7 to 9 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 17, at the 1892 bandstand in Whitehall’s Riverside Park. Free and open to all; bring a lawn chair or blanket. RUTLAND The Rutland Countybased Watertower Theater will present two comedic plays about Russia at 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, Aug. 17 and 18, at The Chaffee Art Center, 16 S. Main Street in Rutland. Featured will be Anton Chekhov’s “The Bear” and David Johnston’s “Play Russia.” Cost: Donation. Information: 802-779-5473.
FAIR HAVEN A Community Breakfast will be served from 8 to 10 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 18, at handicap-accessible St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, corner of N. Main and Allen streets in Fair Haven. Cost: $1; free age 14 and younger. This breakfast will be served on the third Saturday each month by the Episcopalians of the Slate Valley Region and everyone will be welcome. WHITEHALL The New York vs. Vermont Border War Charity Golf Tournament will be held on Saturday, Aug. 18, at the Valley View Golf Course, 2616 Route 12 in Whitehall. Tee time will be 8:30 a.m., with a scramble format and four-person teams. Cost: $60, including greens fees, cart, lunch and prizes. Information/registration: Valley View at 518-499-2634.
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RUTLAND The Green Mountain Club will offer a moderate, five-mile Hike at Silver Lake in Ripton on Saturday, Aug. 18. Cool off with a swim at the beach. Meet at 9 a.m. at Main Street Park, near the east end of the fire station off Center Street in Rutland City. Information: Tom Copps at 774-5144. MANCHESTER Equinox Healing Therapies will offer “Blueprints to Wellbeing,” workshops on holistic health, starting at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, August 18 at 5053 Main Street in Manchester. Topics include “Our Life Adventures,” “Authentic Choices,” and “What’s Stress Got to Do with It?” A threesession pass is $30; single session costs $15. Tickets in advance or at the door. Information: 802362-3911 ext. 5 or kathy@honorwellness.com. CASTLETON The annual Castleton Colonial Day House Tour will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 18. Included will be period homes, public buildings, galleries and historic sites. Antique tools, carriages, and period costumes, too, along with demonstrations of earlyAmerican crafts. There’ll be an ice cream social from 2 to 4 p.m. at the library, and a ham dinner at 5 p.m. at the Federated Church. Tour cost: $20; $18 age 62 and older. Tour tickets may be purchased on Aug. 18 at the Castleton Federated Church and at the Langdon Hitchcock House, both on Main Street. Dinner cost: $8 adults; $5 age 12 and younger. Information: 802-468-5691. SALEM The Summer Sounds of Salem concert series will present Nathan Knowles from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 18, on the green next to the train depot, Main Street/Route 22, in Salem. Songs of John Prine, Delbert McClinton, Louis Armstrong and others will be featured. Free and open to all. WHITEHALL The Bridge Theater Cabaret Series will present the Jonathan Newell Trio with “Chamber Music at the Armory” at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 18, at the Whitehall Armory, corner of Williams Street and Route 4. All seats are reserved at $19, $17 senior citizens, and $15 students at 518-874-0800.
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