GUILFORD — Stroll around the Packer Corners neighborhood on Monday, June 13, at 10:30 a.m. Explore historic “Total Loss Farm” with Verandah Porche then cross the road to South Belden Hill to marvel at Lana’s and Myron’s meandering gardens featuring unique stone creations and view Susan’s and Gordon’s once one-room schoolhouse, now a B&B.
GUILFORD — For most people, a life that involves splitting time between two places can be a headache. Consider the pain double if the places are situated at opposite corners of the globe, and a distance that takes an ensuing flight 21 hours to cover.
The Green River Bridge Inn has a new owner and a new focus in the same bucolic setting. Jamie Mohr, director of Epsilon Spires, said the inn is designed to “bring international artists here to really experience Southern Vermont in a way that’s inspiring and memorable. I think a stay here while they’re working on projects will be really exciting to them and also a great way to showcase Windham County.”
Local hemp producers, Bravo Botanicals, begins a trial of cannabis cultivation. This new endeavor, Encore, will explore if there is a market for similar products to those produced by Bravo.
Ava Joyal, who competed in the Harris Hill Junior Jumper competition last February, continues her quest by traveling to Alaska for a ski jumping camp. The young seamstress is making "Brattle Bears" to sell to help her fund her adventure.
To encourage area seniors to get outdoors for some moderate exercise, see scenic Guilford and enjoy good company along the way, Guilford Cares is leading both monthly and weekly walks.
Due to COVID, the traditional Sugar-on-Snow Supper at Guilford Community Church is being replaced by a “Celebration of Maple” via Zoom at 3 p.m. Saturday, March 19. Join in for songs and stories from Peter and Mary Alice Amidon and Andy Davis, and the raffling off of six gallons of local maple syrup donated by Coombs Family Farms, Deer Ridge Farm and Jon and Tammy Sargent.
GUILFORD — In the fall of 2022, if all goes as planned, the Grange building on Guilford Center Road will be open once again to the community as it has been for more than 100 years, as a place for residents to gather, celebrate and vote.
GUILFORD — At Gaines Farm in Guilford, you can pick your own pumpkins, buy down-home maple syrup, knock heads in a bouncy house, take a dusty roll in the “corn box,” pet a piglet, stroke a pony and for an extra 13 bucks, be chased in the dark through a 7-acre corn maze by a pack of axe wielding killer clowns.
I’d like to apologize because I’ve been keeping a secret. Sitting in a Guilford, Vermont farmhouse, I’ve known for several months about the Pandora Papers. But like 600 journalists in 117 countries around the world, I was sworn to secrecy.
It’s a rite of passage for young hunters in Vermont and thousands of Vermont kids can thank a Guilford man for the hunter education course they have taken.
Herb Meyer was teaching hunter education before the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department started and before it became a mandatory part of today’s hunting preparation.