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A Classy Rummage Sale in Vergennes
Beef up your wardrobe and benefit the Champlain Valley Christian School on Feb. 20-23 from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. when the Your Turn Consignment Shop in Vergennes holds its "Classy Rummage Sale." Besides slashing every item in the store to rummage sale prices, Your Turn will feature a "50 Percent Off Day" as well as a "Bag Day" to augment your savings. More information is available at (802) 877-3028. (We'll give the shop the benefit of the doubt and assume its overt insistence that this is a classy rummage sale is not tantamount to an event which - to borrow from the Bard - "doth protest too much.")
Art in the Snow in Brandon
The artists, merchants, restaurants and inns of Brandon, Vt. are gearing up for a stream of visitors on Feb. 23 and 24 from 11 a.m.-3:30 p.m. in conjunction with the town's Fourth Annual Art in the Snow Winter Weekend Celebration, during which nearly two dozen artists will open their studio spaces to those interested in sampling the range of folk and fabric artists, potters, painters, sculptors and jewelers who practice their craft therein. For more information, visit www.artinthesnow.com.
Ten Questions for the Dali Lama
Prepare your most burning inquiries for His Holiness, come to terms with the fact that you likely will not be granted the opportunity to pose them within the bounds of Addison County this week and then head on over to the Bristol Bakery on Feb. 21 at 7 p.m. to vicariously satisfy your thirst for knowledge by means of a screening of "Ten Questions for the Dali Lama: One Man's Journey through the Northern Himalayas," a 2006 film which, according to a synopsis by director by Rick Ray, "explores some of the fundamental questions of our time" and "contains rare historical footage as well as footage supplied by individuals at great personal risk, filmed with hidden cameras within Tibet." The event, sponsored by the Bristol Recreation Department, will conclude with a group discussion.
Addison Historical Society Meeting
For a refreshing brush-up on that 11th-grade U.S. History class you regularly dozed off in, look no further than the Addison County Baptist Church on Feb. 24 at 2 p.m. Civil War reenactors Jim and Susan Peden will engage visitors in a discussion of Civil War firearms and women's clothing. Reenactments of the Battle of Fredericksburg from the altar - while not entirely implausible - are not guaranteed. Refreshments, however, are.
Scrapbooking Workshop in Salisbury
All those searching to display their Winter Carnival mementos in a more appealing venue than that stained, yucky, school-provided corkboard on the wall of their dorm room are in luck. On Feb. 25 at 6:30 p.m., Blanca Jenne - owner of Scrapbook Paradise in East Middlebury - will hold a scrapbooking workshop at the Salisbury Free Public Library, aimed at extolling the fundamentals of planning and designing scrapbook pages. Participants are asked only to pre-register, and bring with them adhesive, scissors and all the creative energy they can muster. For more information, call (802) 388-4014 or e-mail Jennifer.Stefani@gmail.com.