Calendar of Events 
All kinds of activities are available—from antiquing to visiting historic places to playing golf. With Jay Peak a next-door neighbor, skiing is a given. From ice-fishing to auctions, there are always things to do. Or if you just want to relax, you can stroll in the village, sit by the Trout River, or have drinks in our gardens.
June 2013
June 1, 2013
"2 at a Time Socks" Knitting Class at the Old Stone House Museum
On two consecutive Saturdays, June 1 and 8, from 1 to 4 p.m., expert knitter, Diana Foster, will teach knitters how to knit a pair of socks, 2 at a time, on a 40 inch needle.
Class cost is $25 or $20 for Museum members, plus a $28 material fee. Materials include a beautiful 138 page book w/additional patterns, a 40 inch needle and 2 balls of colorful superwash wool yarn of your choice. Please register by Monday, May 13. For more information, please call The Old Stone House Museum at: 802.754.2022 or Diana Foster at: 802.487.4137. Register at: www.oldstonehousemuseum.org or email: or call the Museum at the number above.
Time: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location: Old Stone House Museum Brownington, VT 
Email: edassistant@oldstonehousemuseum.org
Website: http://www.oldstonehousemuseum.org
June 1, 2013
Craftsbury Common Farmers' Market
Get your fresh produce, Vermont made crafts and products, baked goods and more.
Time: 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Location: Craftsbury Common, Craftsbury, VT
June 1, 2013
Farmers' Market in Newport
Fresh, locally grown produce, crafts, VT made products, and lots more. Between the end of the I-91 access road, next to the Welcome Center in Newport, VT.
Time: 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Location: Between the end of the I-91 access road in Newport, VT
June 1, 2013
Groton Growers Summer Market
Vendors offer locally grown vegetables, fruits, honey, maple syrup, goat cheese, home-baked pastries and breads. Weekly events.
Time: 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Location: Route 302, Groton Village Groton, VT
June 2, 2013
Shawn Smith Memorial Tournament at Newport Country Club
Golf tournament in memory of Shawn Smith - 1:00pm Shotgun
Time: 1:00 PM
Location: 590 Mount Vernon St Newport, VT
Website: http://www.newportscountryclub.com
June 5, 2013
Farmers' Market in Newport
Fresh, locally grown produce, crafts, VT made products, and lots more. Between the end of the I-91 access road, next to the Welcome Center in Newport, VT.
Time: 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Location: Between the end of the I-91 access road in Newport, VT
June 5, 2013 - June 9, 2013
Tour de Kingdom
The 2013 Tour de Kingdom offers one to five days of recreational and competitive cycling through one of most scenic areas of Vermont, the Northeast Kingdom - one of the very first geotourism areas in the world specially designated by National Geographic. The five day Tour also ventures into Northern New Hampshire and the Eastern Townships of Quebec.
The event is hosted by Indoor Recreation of Orleans County, the Kingdom Velo Group and White Mountain Velo, Technical support is offered by The Village Bike Shop in Derby, VT and the Littleton Bike Shop from Littleton, NH.
The Tour is a charity ride to support IROC’s Healthy Changes Initiative, a groundbreaking discount membership and exercise program for people suffering from diabetes, obesity, heart disease, and rheumatoid arthritis, as well as cancer patients and survivors and seniors age 65 and older. The Initiative is presently engaging hundreds of participants to manage, control and improve their conditions and take back control of their lives.
Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday offer guided tours hosted by the Kingdom Velo Group, White Mountain Velo, and veteran Kingdom Riders. Each day offers a shorter ride and a longer ride. Each of these days will have four guides to accommodate slower and faster groups of cyclists.
Saturday and Sunday shifts to our increasingly popular, Double Century Challenge, Gran Fondo style “timed event.” It will “Grind Your Gears.” On each of these weekend days, in addition to the Challenge, we offer fully supported routes of 25, 50, 80 and 100 miles for all ages and all skill levels.
Website: http://www.tourdekingdom.org
June 6, 2013
Men's State Day at Newport Country Club
Call for more details
Location: 590 Mount Vernon St Newport, VT
Website: http://www.newportscountryclub.com
June 7, 2013
DEMO Day at Newport Country Club
Product Demo at the NCC Driving Range and Practice Facility.
Time: 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Location: 590 Mount Vernon St Newport, VT
Website: http://www.newportscountryclub.com
June 7, 2013
Hardwick Farmers' Market
Buy Local! Come to the Hardwick Farmers' Market for produce, baked goods, fresh bread, ethnic foods, fresh bread, ethnic foods, soy products, meat, eggs, maple syrup, jams & jellies, cold drinks, free spinal screenings, composting worms and castings, cut flowers, and garden plants (annuals, vegetable, fruit-bearing, trees, shrubs, perennials and houseplants) And Entertainment! Come join the fun!
Time: 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location: 150 Granite St. Hardwick, VT
June 8, 2013
"2 at a Time Socks" Knitting Class at the Old Stone House Museum
On two consecutive Saturdays, June 1 and 8, from 1 to 4 p.m., expert knitter, Diana Foster, will teach knitters how to knit a pair of socks, 2 at a time, on a 40 inch needle.
Class cost is $25 or $20 for Museum members, plus a $28 material fee. Materials include a beautiful 138 page book w/additional patterns, a 40 inch needle and 2 balls of colorful superwash wool yarn of your choice. Please register by Monday, May 13. For more information, please call The Old Stone House Museum at: 802.754.2022 or Diana Foster at: 802.487.4137. Register at: www.oldstonehousemuseum.org or email: or call the Museum at the number above.
Time: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location: Old Stone House Museum Brownington, VT
Email: edassistant@oldstonehousemuseum.org
Website: http://www.oldstonehousemuseum.org
June 8, 2013 - June 9, 2013
Charlie Scott Best Ball at Orleans Country Club
A very popular tournament deep in tradition named after Charlie Scott one of the original members of the club back in 1929.
Location: Orleans Country Club 316 Country Club Lane Orleans, VT
Website: http://www.orleanscc.com
June 8, 2013
Craftsbury Common Farmers' Market
Get your fresh produce, Vermont made crafts and products, baked goods and more.
Time: 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Location: Craftsbury Common, Craftsbury, VT
June 8, 2013
Farmers' Market in Newport
Fresh, locally grown produce, crafts, VT made products, and lots more. Between the end of the I-91 access road, next to the Welcome Center in Newport, VT.
Time: 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Location: Between the end of the I-91 access road in Newport, VT
June 8, 2013 - June 9, 2013
Vermont Days
The popular weekend celebration when day use entry into all state parks and historic sites is FREE! In addition, you can fish in any state park without a license. Come join in the festivites and enjoy all Vermont State Parks have to offer.
June 12, 2013
Artists from Vermonts Northeast Kingdom
Exhibit of work by NEK Artists through October
Location: Old Firehouse Gallery, 59 Mill st. Hardwick, VT
Website: http://www.graceart.org/exhibitions.html
June 12, 2013
Farmers' Market in Newport
Fresh, locally grown produce, crafts, VT made products, and lots more. Between the end of the I-91 access road, next to the Welcome Center in Newport, VT.
Time: 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Location: Between the end of the I-91 access road in Newport, VT
June 14, 2013 - June 16, 2013
Green Mountain Classic at Newport Country Club
Green Mountain Classic - Practice Round on Thursday. Round 1 on Friday. round 2 Saturday
Location: 590 Mount Vernon St Newport, VT
Website: http://www.newportscountryclub.com
June 14, 2013
Hardwick Farmers' Market
Buy Local! Come to the Hardwick Farmers' Market for produce, baked goods, fresh bread, ethnic foods, fresh bread, ethnic foods, soy products, meat, eggs, maple syrup, jams & jellies, cold drinks, free spinal screenings, composting worms and castings, cut flowers, and garden plants (annuals, vegetable, fruit-bearing, trees, shrubs, perennials and houseplants) And Entertainment! Come join the fun!
Time: 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location: 150 Granite St. Hardwick, VT
June 15, 2013
Antique Engine Show & Barbeque
The Vermont Antique Engine Association will set up their vintage engines and other collections on the lawn. Postcards, antique cars, and pie a' la mode at the Hall House. Free admission to the engine show.
Time: 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Location: Old Stone House Museum, 109 Old Stone House Rd. Brownington, VT
Email: information@oldstonehousemuseum.org
Website: http://www.oldstonehousemuseum.org
June 15, 2013
Craftsbury Common Farmers' Market
Get your fresh produce, Vermont made crafts and products, baked goods and more.
Time: 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Location: Craftsbury Common, Craftsbury, VT
June 15, 2013
Farmers' Market in Newport
Fresh, locally grown produce, crafts, VT made products, and lots more. Between the end of the I-91 access road, next to the Welcome Center in Newport, VT.
Time: 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Location: Between the end of the I-91 access road in Newport, VT
June 15, 2013
Magic of Master Fiddlers
Tickets: $30 adult front row, $20 adults non-front row, $16 seniors, $10 students. The Magic of Master Fiddlers has been a most popular benefit concert for the Hospice Program of the Orleans Essex VNA & Hospice, Inc. and this year it celebrates ten years of production.
Canadian Master, Louis Schryer from Ottawa will be joined by New England Master, Scott Campbell, of Vermont who will both perform solo numbers and together to ensure an evening of great entertainment. Step dancers, Chelsey and Kaitlyn Schryer will offer foot-stomping, open-minded fusion of many influences mingled into the fiddlin’ tunes.
Louis has been playing the fiddle since the age of eight, receiving training in both classical and traditional music. Louis is an eight-time Canadian Open Fiddle Champion and four-time Grand Master Fiddle Champion and consecutive four-time Winner of the famous Pembroke Competition. He recorded his first album as a member of the Schryer Triplets at the tender age of fourteen entitled “Triple Fiddle”.
Scott is a multi-instrumentalist Master bringing emotion and humor to the stage with both self-composed music and original style to fiddle music including Country, Pop, Rock, Classical and Classical Pop. Scott has competed throughout New England and Canada earning numerous championship titles.
The Hospice Program of the Orleans Essex VNA & Hospice, Inc. has been a small yet mighty program since 1980 with the Orleans Essex VNA & Hospice, Inc. offering services to Northeast Kingdom residents since 1969. All proceeds from ticket sales will be used for end of life care to residents of the Northeast Kingdom.
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: Haskell Opera House, Derby Line, VT
Website: http://www.catamountarts.org
June 16, 2013
Annual Open House at the Bread & Puppet Theater
The Bread and Puppet Museum celebrates its thirty-eighth season with a festive open house. Music, the ceremonial opening of the Museum door, and small shows start at 2pm. At 4pm, the puppeteers will present a performance of Piero Della Francesca’s Legend of the True Cross (Exultation Manufacture with Crucifixion of Oppositionist) in The Paper Mache Cathedral behind the Museum. Following the performance, there will be an information meeting, open to all, about Bread and Puppet Theater’s Summer Programs.
Time: 2:00 PM
Location: Bread and Puppet Theater & Museum, 753 Heights Rd. Glover, VT
Website: http://www.breadandpuppet.org
Croquet will be set up on the lawn, and complimentary boutonnieres for fathers. Reservations recommended.
Time: 11:30 AM - 4:00 PM
Location: Perennial Pleasures Nursery and Tea Garden, 63 Brick House Road, East Hardwick, VT
Email: annex@perennialpleasures.net
Website: http://www.perennialpleasures.net
June 16, 2013
Free Garden Skills Workshops and Tours at Perennial Pleasures Nursery and Tea Garden
Free Garden Skills Workshops –Sunday mornings from mid-June to mid-August. Let’s have a fun and a relaxing time together talking plants! Rachel has set this time aside to answer any questions you care to bring in, or show you a new gardening technique. We can talk about seed saving, plant propagation, plant and weed id, aphids, edibles – you name it. Free Sunday Garden Tours start at noon lasting 30 minutes. No charge, but please phone us first, by the day before if possible, to let us know you’re coming.
Time: 10:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Location: Perennial Pleasures Nursery and Tea Garden, 63 Brick House Road, East Hardwick, VT
Email: annex@perennialpleasures.net
Website: http://www.perennialpleasures.net
June 19, 2013
3rd Annual Taste of Newport
Community National Bank Presents the 2013 Taste of Newport, a one-of-a-kind culinary festival featuring signature dishes from renowned Newport chefs made with products from farms in Newport's neighboring communities. Farmers participating in Green Mountain Farm Direct will be present at the restaurants. A portion of the proceeds will go to support Newport's community gardens. The Taste of Newport takes place on Wednesday, 19 June in Downtown Newport, Vermont. Tickets go on sale Monday, 15 April (only 100 tickets available). 802-323-1056 or DiscoverNewportVT.com/fresh
Time: 5:30 PM
Location: Newport, VT
Email: info@discovernewportvt.com
Website: http://www.discovernewportvt.com
June 19, 2013
Farmers' Market in Newport
Fresh, locally grown produce, crafts, VT made products, and lots more. Between the end of the I-91 access road, next to the Welcome Center in Newport, VT.
Time: 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Location: Between the end of the I-91 access road in Newport, VT
June 22, 2013
Craftsbury Common Farmers' Market
Get your fresh produce, Vermont made crafts and products, baked goods and more.
Time: 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Location: Craftsbury Common, Craftsbury, VT
June 22, 2013
Farmers' Market in Newport
Fresh, locally grown produce, crafts, VT made products, and lots more. Between the end of the I-91 access road, next to the Welcome Center in Newport, VT.
Time: 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Location: Between the end of the I-91 access road in Newport, VT
June 23, 2013
Free Garden Skills Workshops and Tours at Perennial Pleasures Nursery and Tea Garden
Free Garden Skills Workshops –Sunday mornings from mid-June to mid-August. Let’s have a fun and a relaxing time together talking plants! Rachel has set this time aside to answer any questions you care to bring in, or show you a new gardening technique. We can talk about seed saving, plant propagation, plant and weed id, aphids, edibles – you name it. Free Sunday Garden Tours start at noon lasting 30 minutes. No charge, but please phone us first, by the day before if possible, to let us know you’re coming.
Time: 10:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Location: Perennial Pleasures Nursery and Tea Garden, 63 Brick House Road, East Hardwick, VT
Email: annex@perennialpleasures.net
Website: http://www.perennialpleasures.net
June 26, 2013
Artists from Vermonts Northeast Kingdom
Exhibit of work by NEK Artists through October
Location: Old Firehouse Gallery, 59 Mill st. Hardwick, VT
Website: http://www.graceart.org/exhibitions.html
June 26, 2013
Farmers' Market in Newport
Fresh, locally grown produce, crafts, VT made products, and lots more. Between the end of the I-91 access road, next to the Welcome Center in Newport, VT.
Time: 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Location: Between the end of the I-91 access road in Newport, VT
The Raleigh Ringers is an internationally acclaimed, advanced community handbell choir based in Raleigh, North Carolina. Since its founding in 1990, The Raleigh Ringers has been dazzling concert audiences with unique interpretations of sacred, secular and popular music, including famous rock ‘n’ roll tunes arranged just for handbells.
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: Lyndon Institute Auditorium, Lyndonville, VT
Website: http://www.catamountarts.org/shows/raleigh-ringers
June 28, 2013
Hardwick Farmers' Market
Buy Local! Come to the Hardwick Farmers' Market for produce, baked goods, fresh bread, ethnic foods, fresh bread, ethnic foods, soy products, meat, eggs, maple syrup, jams & jellies, cold drinks, free spinal screenings, composting worms and castings, cut flowers, and garden plants (annuals, vegetable, fruit-bearing, trees, shrubs, perennials and houseplants) And Entertainment! Come join the fun!
Time: 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location: 150 Granite St. Hardwick, VT
June 29, 2013
Craftsbury Common Farmers' Market
Get your fresh produce, Vermont made crafts and products, baked goods and more.
Time: 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Location: Craftsbury Common, Craftsbury, VT
June 29, 2013
Farmers' Market in Newport
Fresh, locally grown produce, crafts, VT made products, and lots more. Between the end of the I-91 access road, next to the Welcome Center in Newport, VT.
Time: 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Location: Between the end of the I-91 access road in Newport, VT
June 30, 2013
30th Annual Monique Dudley Memorial Golf Tournament at Orleans Country Club
(9:00 AM shotgun start). This women's tournament was established in memory of Monique Dudley who loved the game of golf for the game as well as for the friendships that come from the game. This event is a fund raiser for the Susan G. Komen foundation -- VT affiliate, which raised $5000 in 2011. The format is a two-woman best ball with two divisions. Gross and net prizes are given, with the overall winners coming from the net division in honor of Monique.
Time: 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Location: Orleans Country Club 316 Country Club Lane Orleans, VT
Website: http://www.orleanscc.com
June 30, 2013
Free Garden Skills Workshops and Tours at Perennial Pleasures Nursery and Tea Garden
Free Garden Skills Workshops –Sunday mornings from mid-June to mid-August. Let’s have a fun and a relaxing time together talking plants! Rachel has set this time aside to answer any questions you care to bring in, or show you a new gardening technique. We can talk about seed saving, plant propagation, plant and weed id, aphids, edibles – you name it. Free Sunday Garden Tours start at noon lasting 30 minutes. No charge, but please phone us first, by the day before if possible, to let us know you’re coming.
Time: 10:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Location: Perennial Pleasures Nursery and Tea Garden, 63 Brick House Road, East Hardwick, VT
Email: annex@perennialpleasures.net
Website: http://www.perennialpleasures.net
