Cribbage

Join fellow cribbage enthusiasts in the Jessica Swift Community room.  All skill levels welcome.

Community Room, 75 Main St., Middlebury

After School Table Top Games

This is the new and improved Chess Club!  Still play chess or any table top game you want!  Please bring a snack and water.

Used Book Sale

Middlebury United Methodist Church, 43 N. Pleasant St., Middlebury.The sale entrance is on the east side of the building where the parking lot is located. There is also a locked entrance on the north side of the building, which we can open for any shoppers unable to man......More

Middlebury United Methodist Church, 43 N. Pleasant St., Middlebury.The sale entrance is on the east side of the building where the parking lot is located. There is also a locked entrance on the north side of the building, which we can open for any shoppers unable to manage stairs. However, there is no car parking near that door.

Fossils in the Champlain Valley

Alivia Hartz – Middlebury College StudentWhat did the Champlain Valley look like millions of years ago? What kinds of critters were roaming the area at that time? How do we study the past using rocks? In this program, you’ll learn what the world appeared like during the......More

Alivia Hartz – Middlebury College StudentWhat did the Champlain Valley look like millions of years ago? What kinds of critters were roaming the area at that time? How do we study the past using rocks? In this program, you’ll learn what the world appeared like during the Ordovician Period (485 to 444 million years ago – that’s how old the rocks here are!) and how paleontologists have used the rocks and fossils from Vermont and New York to understand the previous environment and climate. There will also be an introduction to the kind of fieldwork that geologists do to collect data. Finally, you will know what those spirals and lumps in the rocks around Middlebury are (spoiler: they’re not just weird rocks).

True Crime Podcast Club

The Clearing – Season 1 When April Balascio was 40 years old, something she’d feared for decades was finally proven true. Her father, Edward Wayne Edwards, really was a murderer. The Clearing is about what came after April called a detective in 2009 to tell him about he......More

The Clearing – Season 1 When April Balascio was 40 years old, something she’d feared for decades was finally proven true. Her father, Edward Wayne Edwards, really was a murderer. The Clearing is about what came after April called a detective in 2009 to tell him about her suspicions — a call that led to her father’s arrest and eventual conviction on multiple murders — and tracks the emotional journey as she and host Josh Dean dig back into her childhood, unravel the truth of her father’s life, and overturn a viral online narrative that had turned Edward Wayne Edwards into a kind of serial killer caricature.  Listen to the podcast on your own before the discussion. This program is for participants 18+.  Listen to the podcast wherever you get your podcasts or ask Renee for assistance.

Mini Ilsley, 30 Main ST, Middlebury, VT, 05753, United States

Cribbage

Join fellow cribbage enthusiasts in the Jessica Swift Community room.  All skill levels welcome.

Community Room, 75 Main St., Middlebury

After School Table Top Games

This is the new and improved Chess Club!  Still play chess or any table top game you want!  Please bring a snack and water.

Financial Planning with Greenhill Financial Partners

Kassie Reid – Financial Planner Location: NBM meeting roomIn this seminar, Kassie will talk about topics specific to women and how these topics can broaden everyone’s investing success. She will highlight what strengths women bring to the investing landscape, the barrie......More

Kassie Reid – Financial Planner Location: NBM meeting roomIn this seminar, Kassie will talk about topics specific to women and how these topics can broaden everyone’s investing success. She will highlight what strengths women bring to the investing landscape, the barriers, and some actionable steps to move forward that are applicable to anyone, regardless of where you are in your investing journey.  This is a free seminar provided by Greenhill Financial Partners. Space is limited – Register Here

Mini Ilsley, 30 Main ST, Middlebury, VT, 05753, United States

Financial Planning with Greenhill Financial Partners

Kassie Reid – Financial Planner Location: NBM meeting roomIn this seminar, Kassie will talk about topics specific to women and how these topics can broaden everyone’s investing success. She will highlight what strengths women bring to the investing landscape, the barrie......More

Kassie Reid – Financial Planner Location: NBM meeting roomIn this seminar, Kassie will talk about topics specific to women and how these topics can broaden everyone’s investing success. She will highlight what strengths women bring to the investing landscape, the barriers, and some actionable steps to move forward that are applicable to anyone, regardless of where you are in your investing journey.  This is a free seminar provided by Greenhill Financial Partners. Space is Limited – Register Here

Mini Ilsley, 30 Main ST, Middlebury, VT, 05753, United States

Classic Film Club

1PM @ Marquis Theater The Rose Tattoo, 1955 – Version of Tennessee Williams’ earthy play about Italians in Louisiana, with Anna Magnani in an Oscar-winning performance as Serafina. As the film opens, she is still mourning the death of her beloved husband, constantly tel......More

1PM @ Marquis Theater The Rose Tattoo, 1955 – Version of Tennessee Williams’ earthy play about Italians in Louisiana, with Anna Magnani in an Oscar-winning performance as Serafina. As the film opens, she is still mourning the death of her beloved husband, constantly telling herself stories of their time together. Her fragile emotional existence is shattered when she discovers that her husband had been cheating on her with another woman.

Middlebury Marquis Theater, 65 Main St, Middlebury, VT, 05753

VT Author Series

Kirk WebsterMany Best Kept Secrets: A Wonderful and Unusual Life Around Honey BeesMany Best Kept Secrets is the story of local beekeeper Kirk Webster’s lifetime lived in close association with honeybees and the land that sustained them. It is a book about bees, yes—but ......More

Kirk WebsterMany Best Kept Secrets: A Wonderful and Unusual Life Around Honey BeesMany Best Kept Secrets is the story of local beekeeper Kirk Webster’s lifetime lived in close association with honeybees and the land that sustained them. It is a book about bees, yes—but more deeply, it’s about mentorship, memory, discovery, loss, and the pursuit of a meaningful life. It follows a trajectory from suburban alienation to rural immersion from stumbling first steps on a school farm to a resilient apiary built with homemade tools and hard-won knowledge. It’s also a clear-eyed account of how small-scale, nature-oriented farming and beekeeping can succeed—when the work is guided by observation, patience, humility, and respect for systems older and wiser than ourselves.

Mini Ilsley, 30 Main ST, Middlebury, VT, 05753, United States

Cribbage

Join fellow cribbage enthusiasts in the Jessica Swift Community room.  All skill levels welcome.

Community Room, 75 Main St., Middlebury

After School Table Top Games

This is the new and improved Chess Club!  Still play chess or any table top game you want!  Please bring a snack and water.

Annual Puzzle Swap

Location: NBM Meeting RoomYay, it is puzzle season.  Stop in at Mini Ilsley with any puzzles you no longer want to keep.  Leave them for someone else and go home with new to you puzzles.  We will be taking donations of puzzles from folks who do not want to go home with ......More

Location: NBM Meeting RoomYay, it is puzzle season.  Stop in at Mini Ilsley with any puzzles you no longer want to keep.  Leave them for someone else and go home with new to you puzzles.  We will be taking donations of puzzles from folks who do not want to go home with new puzzles until Nov. 8.  Please bring only complete puzzles.  Don’t miss out on this well loved event.

Mini Ilsley, 30 Main ST, Middlebury, VT, 05753, United States

VT Author Series

Kirk KardashianMilk Money: Cash, Cows, and the Death of the American Dairy FarmKirk Kardashian is a senior writer at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and a freelance journalist who writes about agriculture, business, and the outdoors. None other than Ber......More

Kirk KardashianMilk Money: Cash, Cows, and the Death of the American Dairy FarmKirk Kardashian is a senior writer at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and a freelance journalist who writes about agriculture, business, and the outdoors. None other than Bernie Sanders wrote the forward to Milk Money, published by Brandeis University Press, which asks whether it is right that family farmers in America should toil so hard, produce a food so wholesome and so popular, and still lose money.

Mini Ilsley, 30 Main ST, Middlebury, VT, 05753, United States

Tome Talk

Join this lively and informed group for a discussion of this month’s title. To see this sessions list of books, click here.

Mini Ilsley, 30 Main ST, Middlebury, VT, 05753, United States