April

April 10 - Bird Walk - Hildene The Vermont Bird Place & Sky Watch and local birders meet to conduct a survey of the wild birds present on the grounds of Hildene. Meet at the Welcome Center Parking Lot, 8:00 am

April 13 - History Lecture - Hildene Author and historian Jason Emerson on "Robert Todd Lincoln; The Family Man". Free, 7:00 pm in the Welcome Center Beckwith Room.

April 15 - Pete Nelson - Northshire Bookstore Join award-winning author and singer-songwriter Pete Nelson as he presents his new novel, I Thought You Were Dead and performs some of his original music. 7:00 pm.

April 16 - Ben Hewitt - Northshire Bookstore Vermont author and farmer Ben Hewitt presents his new book, The Town That Food Saved: How One Community Found Vitality in Local Food. 7:00 pm

April 20 - Pat Musick-Equinox Village Local Vermont and award-winning sculptor Pat Musick will present her new book No New Thing Under the Sun: One Artist's Chosen Journey. 5-7 pm.

April 22- Sustainable Living in Vermont - Northshire Bookstore Join Alan Benoit for this month's free Sustainable Living in Vermont series as they present “Vermont's Sustainable Forests”. This talk will feature Chris Brooks of the Vermont Pellet Company and Alan Calfee of Calfee Woodland Management LLC.

April 23-25 - The Greater Manchester Arts Council will host the 3rd Annual Poets & Writers Weekend: Text in Motion, Image, Story, and Song. The weekend will include readings, seminars and workshops on a variety of topics including: memoir writing, Journalism, writing children's literature, writing fiction, play writing, story telling and more. The Northshire Bookstore will be hosting three sessions: Faculty and Guest Readings, a Publishing Panel, and Publishing on Demand.

April 24 - Andrea Raynor - Northshire Bookstore Andrea Raynor presents The Voice That Calls You Home , a profound and intensely personal collection of stories and essays that are poignant, humorous, heartbreaking, and inspiring - all taken from her real-life experiences as a hospice chaplain and breast cancer survivor.

April 24 - Bird Walk-Hildene The Vermont Bird Place & Sky Watch and local birders meet to conduct a survey of the wild birds present on the grounds of Hildene. Meet at the Welcome Center Parking Lot, 7:00 am

April 30 - Angela Miller - Northshire Bookstore Local Vermont author and cheesemaker Angela Miller will present her new memoir, Hay Fever: Out of the Office and Into the Barnyard. 7:00 pm

May

May 2 - Daylily Workshop - Hildene Hildene's garden heirlooms; daylilies planted by the Lincoln family. Hands-on workshop - learn to divide and maintain daylilies. Take home the fruits of your labor - a piece of living history from our garden to yours or in time for Mother's Day. In the Pavilion at 1:00

May 8 - Bird Walk - Hildene The Vermont Bird Place & Sky Watch and local birders meet to conduct a survey of the wild birds present on the grounds of Hildene. Meet at the Welcome Center Parking Lot, 7:00 am.

May 22 - Bird Walk - Hildene The Vermont Bird Place & Sky Watch and local birders meet to conduct a survey of the wild birds present on the grounds of Hildene. Meet at the Welcome Center Parking Lot, 7:00 am.

May 23- The Ties that Bind II: Find Your Inner Klezmer - Manchester Music Festival 3:00 pm

June

June 6 - Plan Bee - Hildene Author and scientist, Loree Griffin Burns (The Hive Detective) will lead an interactive program for appropriate for ages 8 to adult in the Welcome Center Beckwith Room. It will end at the Observation Hive followed by a booksigning. Registration is strongly recommended. 1:00 to 2:30 pm. $3 per person - Members are free.

June 12 - Bird Walk - Hildene The Vermont Bird Place & Sky Watch and local birders meet to conduct a survey of the wild birds present on the grounds of Hildene. Meet at the Welcome Center Parking Lot, 7:00 am.

June 30-July 11 - The Pavillion - Dorset Theatre Festival. By Craig Wright.