Upcoming Events
2021 Annual Meeting and Winter Program: Early History through Newspapers. Sunday, March 21 at 3:00 pm via Google Meet. Hear about Richmond's early social events, floods, fires, celebrations, politics, development and even Justice Rehnquist's brush with the law as reported in the papers.
2021 Events Calendar
Date and time TBD
Monday, January 11 at 1:30 pm. This virtual presentation by Rick Winston, author of Red Scare in the Green Mountains, explores what happened in Vermont when the anti-Communist fear known as the "Red Scare" swept the country. Co-sponsored with the Community Senior Center
Thursday, February 18 at 1:30 pm Virtual program about the critical role that Pullman Porters played in giving rise to America's black middle class, the formation of the black labor movement, and the momentum for the civil rights movement. Co-sponsored with the Community Senior Center
Sunday, February 28 at 3:00 pm Accounts of pressing community business ranging from highway expenses, liquor sales and floods to lawsuits and school issues, as recorded in Town Annual Reports from the late 1800s and early 1900s. Moderated by Richmond Town Moderator Clint Buxton (on leave this year due to Covid-19 cancellation of Richmond's in-person Town Meeting). Co-sponsored with the Community Senior Center and the Bolton History Group
Monday, March 1 at 1:30 pm. Virtual presentation by Alison O'Leary. This is the true story of a German U-Boat in the Gulf of Mexico that torpedoes a freighter. A family with two children happens to be on board the freighter and end up in the water and separated: mother and one child - father and another child. O'Leary has read the log of the U-boat captain and has written a book about it. Co-sponsored with the Community Senior Center
Sunday, March 21 at 3:00 pm via Google Meet. Photos and narrated accounts of newspaper-worthy events in early Richmond. A brief business meeting and election of officers will precede the program.
Summer 2021 (tentative). Date TBD Burlington's lively a cappellla choral group draws on classical and folk traditions for a perfomance that is both powerful and playful. socialband.org
Sunday, September 12 at 10:00 am. For more than 80 years an annual pilgrimage worship service has been held in the Old Round Church to celebrate its heritage as Richmond's first community meeting hall. This event is sponsored by the Richmond Congregational Church. All are welcome
Saturday in November at 6:00 pm
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