Join us for a craft and a snack (maybe even a story) and time to decompress and reinvigorate your brain. Low pressure and low key, all ages are welcome to the craft table!

Join us to practice, practice, practice our ASL with the guidance of experienced practitioners. No pressure but lots of fun in explorations in communication!

Norah’s Beads

Norah loved beautiful stones and crystals. She collected them, wore them as bracelets and necklaces, and kept notes on the healing properties of her favorite stones.

After losing Norah to suicide, creating these bracelets began as a way to remember and feel connected to her.

Each bracelet is made using Norah’s favorite stones, and each one contains an ‘N’ bead to remember her by.

The process of making and sharing Norah Beads bracelets has sparked conversations in our community about mental illness, suicide prevention, wellness, and resiliency. We hope that these conversations will be a path toward breaking the silence and ending the stigma around mental illness. 

We hope that each bracelet will be a reminder to be kind to yourselves and each other, to spread love and hope, to keep going, and to know that even in the darkest times, there are people who wish nothing more than to help you find your way back into the light. 

Please join us as Susan, Norah’s Mother, guides us through this thoughtful process of creating your own unique bracelet and one you can create to gift to someone else.

Generously Sponsored by: Healthy Lamoille Valley

Thank you!

Join us to practice, practice, practice our ASL with the guidance of experienced practitioners. No pressure but lots of fun in explorations in communication!

The Varnum wishes to support all members of our communities in their educational and community-needs, and we would love to hear from you! Please join us as we make space and time to figure out collaboratively how best to support our homeschooling folks.

We will gather to do a small project together and have the space for socialization. Come meet your homeschooling community members!

Please bring your needs, ideas and young ones to create a supportive community for our homeschooling families. The more, the better!

Come with a mug or without, we’ll fill you up a cup of hot coffee while we talk around the table with each other and build community. Have a particular interest you’d like to discuss with the group? Bring it! We talk birds, fitness and anything else that builds excitement and connection within our fabulous community. All ages welcome, all encouraged to attend!

Join us for a craft and a snack (maybe even a story) and time to decompress and reinvigorate your brain. Low pressure and low key, all ages are welcome to the craft table!

Join us to practice, practice, practice our ASL with the guidance of experienced practitioners. No pressure but lots of fun in explorations in communication!

In this workshop, we will explore ways to upcycle and reuse old clothing through the art of macrame plant hangars. Plants and pots will not be provided, but some old T-shirts will be if you’re unable to bring your own.

Snacks and take-home educational materials will be provided, including some ideas and instructions on other upcycled art projects. Registration is required.

Example tutorial: https://www.instructables.com/T-Shirt-Plant-Holder/

Join us to practice, practice, practice our ASL with the guidance of experienced practitioners. No pressure but lots of fun in explorations in communication!

Come with a mug or without, we’ll fill you up a cup of hot coffee while we talk around the table with each other and build community. Have a particular interest you’d like to discuss with the group? Bring it! We talk birds, fitness and anything else that builds excitement and connection within our fabulous community. All ages welcome, all encouraged to attend!

Join us for a craft and a snack (maybe even a story) and time to decompress and reinvigorate your brain. Low pressure and low key, all ages are welcome to the craft table!

Join us to practice, practice, practice our ASL with the guidance of experienced practitioners. No pressure but lots of fun in explorations in communication!

Help Lamoille County Public Libraries and Vermont Public Kick-off National Library Week with a free screening of the documentary, Free For All: The Public Library on Sunday, April 6th, 1:00 at Vermont State University, Johnson Campus, Bentley 207.

Indie Lens Pop-Up, presented by ITVS, INDEPENDENT LENS, and Lamoille County Public Libraries, will host an event featuring a shortened, preview version of "Free for All: The Public Library" and a panel discussion facilitated by Amy Olsen, Library Director of the Lanpher Memorial Library with panelists including Kendra Aber-Ferri, Director of the Morristown Centennial Library; Aurora River, Director of the Varnum Memorial Library, and Mary Danko, President of the Vermont Library Association & Director fof the Fletcher Free Library in Burlington.

"Free for All: The Public Library" tells the story of the quiet revolutionaries who created a civic institution where everything is free and the doors are open to all.

The public library is one of America's most valued yet endangered institutions. Director Dawn Logsdon travels the United States, discovering historic and modern-day figures, especially women, who contributed to the library's integral position within democracy. "Free for All: The Public Library" chronicles the evolution of the nation's public libraries, tracing the battles over who can enter, what belongs there, and who makes these decisions, while exploring how public commons are defined and defended.

Celebrate Poetry Month with a deep dive into the world of haiku starting with a brief history, using examples some of our own local poet, Susan, and others and then we will brainstorm ideas using listing and freewriting to create subject matter. This is an opportunity to stretch your mind and engage with others in your community using words for play. Come see what we can create!

All ages welcomed; no experience necessary!

Spring isn’t just for plants—it’s for fresh starts, big dreams, and getting our hands a little dirty (in the best way possible)!

Join us for the Community Plant & Plot Party, where we’ll plan our gardens, trade seeds, and create vision boards to set our intentions for the season ahead. Whether you’re a seasoned gardener or just starting out, this is the perfect space to swap gardening tips, share inspiration, and connect with fellow plant lovers.

What to Bring:

Seeds to trade (flowers, veggies, herbs—you name it!)
Gardening tools you no longer need (think trowels, pruners, gloves, seed trays, watering cans, even extra pots or raised bed materials)!
Magazines, pictures, art supplies and anything else to personalize your vision board!
Your dreams for the season ahead!

What to Expect:

Maybe you wish to work on a vision board because you aren't into gardening? Maybe you wish to plot out your garden and ask about other's best practices? Maybe you wish to do both!

Good company, great conversation, and a community ready to bloom together!

Let’s plant, plot, and grow—together!

All are welcome!

Join us to practice, practice, practice our ASL with the guidance of experienced practitioners. No pressure but lots of fun in explorations in communication!

The Varnum wishes to support all members of our communities in their educational and community-needs, and we would love to hear from you! Please join us as we make space and time to figure out collaboratively how best to support our homeschooling folks.

We will gather to do a small project together and have the space for socialization. Come meet your homeschooling community members!

Please bring your needs, ideas and young ones to create a supportive community for our homeschooling families. The more, the better!

Come with a mug or without, we’ll fill you up a cup of hot coffee while we talk around the table with each other and build community. Have a particular interest you’d like to discuss with the group? Bring it! We talk birds, fitness and anything else that builds excitement and connection within our fabulous community. All ages welcome, all encouraged to attend!

Join us for a craft and a snack (maybe even a story) and time to decompress and reinvigorate your brain. Low pressure and low key, all ages are welcome to the craft table!

Join us to practice, practice, practice our ASL with the guidance of experienced practitioners. No pressure but lots of fun in explorations in communication!

Got chip bags or wrappers? Snack bags and wrappers are packaged in materials that are often challenging to avoid, and impossible to recycle (with a few exceptions). Because they’re multi layered – usually with a plastic, a resin, and a thin coat of aluminum – the components are too challenging to separate for recycling. In this workshop, we will turn old snack bags into paper chains, from which you will have the option to make your own book mark or jewelry. Materials will be provided, including snacks and take-home educational materials, but please try to bring your own snack bags and wrappers. Registration is required.

Example tutorial: https://artprojectsforkids.org/paper-cactus/