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Valentine's Concert at the Henry Sheldon

On Thursday, Feb. 14, Peter and Karen Sutherland will perform work songs "from the farms and factories" at the Henry Sheldon Museum. The event costs $7 for members of the museum and $10 for non-members. So if you are looking for an unconventional Valentine's Day date, take your favorite girl or guy to the Henry Sheldon for some good old-fashioned crooning. The event is in accompaniment to the Hines exhibit now on display.To make a reservation or to get more information about the concert, call 802-388-2117.


Benefit Fish Fry in Middlebury

Looking for a way to kick off this year's Lenten season with a bang? Then be sure to mark your calendar for the Benefit Fish Fry on Friday, Feb. 15. at the VFW post on Exchange Street from 4-6 p.m. The cost is $8 per person. So head on down and support a good, if highly ambiguous, cause. And you just cannot get your fill of fishy goodness and have not given up glutony for lent, hop in your car and drive to Bristol to their All-You-Can-Eat Fish Fry from 5-7 at St. Ambrose Church. Dessert and Coleslaw are promised for a mere $9.


Black History Month Puppet Show

So, did you ever want to play a musical instrument like your friends Norma and Mary Beth, but your mommy said your family couldn't afford the cost of an instrument? And you feel all sad and dejected, until a new boy comes to your school and teaches you lessons about life, love and racial equality? (Okay, neither did we. But we figured we would check, in case our dysfunctional chilhoods deprived us of this essential coming-of-age experience.) Live vicariously through The Travelling Storyteller and Company as they present "Susan's Friend" on Feb. 16 at 10:30 a.m. at Ilsley Public Library.


Billings Farm Sleigh Ride Weekend

Although the season during which it is appropriate to whistle "Jingle Bells" has long since passed, who says you can't go riding on a one-horse open sleigh? Certainly not Billings Farm, in Woodstock. So confident is this living museum of Vermont's rural past that 'tis the season to trek through frosty farm fields and defy death on a "jack jumper" sled that they are devoting the weekend of Feb. 16-18 to an open house featuring "visits to the working dairy farm and restored farmhouse, farm programs, and hands-on activities."