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A crew from Vermont Natural Homes assembles the timber frame that will be the roof for the new pavilion of the new Guilford Community Park on …

GUILDFORD — The Friends of the Guilford Free Library raised money to “Send a Kid to Camp” with a Raffle Concert at the Guilford Fairgrounds on Saturday, June 11.

Jerry Smith, co-owner of Deer Ridge Farm, in Guilford, Vt., keeps an eye on the sap while it pours out of the spout during the sugaring process on …

This past winter, Pixies decamped to Guilford, Vermont to record their first new album in three years, Doggerel. While the album won’t be arriving until Sept. 30, fans can get a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the record in a new short documentary.

The clip opens with frontman Black Francis offering one side of how the Doggerel sessions came about. “Fortunately my kids are old enough now that they’re not gonna burn the place down or anything, so I just said, ‘Guys, just leave me alone for a couple of weeks. I gotta do this thing,’” he recalls, adding with a laugh, “And they’re like, ‘Yeah, whatever fine. We don’t want you bothering us anyway!’”

Pixies recorded Doggerel — their eighth studio album — at Guilford Sound, an eco-friendly studio in Guilford, Vermont. It was an ideal space, their manager Richard Jones explains in the doc, outfitted with a big room where Pixies could track live together and a top-notch mixing board for producer Tom Dalgety. 

Not only was the space right for Pixies, but so was the band’s mindset. Coming into the sessions, bassist Paz Lenchantin notes that Francis had amassed a much larger tranche of demos than usual in the years since Pixies’ last LP, 2019’s Beneath the Eyrie. And as guitarist Joey Santiago says, “I was always in full music mode on this one. My headspace was a lot better.” 

Elsewhere, the doc is filled with plenty of behind-the-scenes moments and anecdotes. For instance, Dalgety recalls how a freak snowstorm at the start of the sessions allowed for some crucial early rehearsal time, while drummer David Lovering explains why the tambourine is actually the most difficult instrument to play.

Later this week, on June 10, Pixies will also release a special “bonus episode” of their It’s a Pixies Podcast, which they launched around the release of Beneath the Eyrie. The group will not only discuss their new music, but also recount the rather harrowing story of how their tour in Australia was cut short by the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020.

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.

Greensky Bluegrass unveiled a video featuring keyboardist Holly Bowling performing “Last Winter In The Copper Country” with the band during the September 2020 sessions that helped yield GSBG’s 2022 studio album, Stress Dreams. The +14-minute clip was filmed at Guilford Sound studios in Guilford, Vermont, on September 22, 2020.