The Grange’s Program Committee is busy dreaming and planning this year’s events and invites you to join in on the fun. Everyone is welcome to help us plan events on an ongoing basis or to volunteer the day of an event! Our goal is to build community in all sorts of interesting ways. We meet monthly on the 4th Friday of the month, 8:30-10 AM at the Grange Hall.

To learn more contact: GrangeProgramsVT@gmail.com

Poets and poetry lovers are once again warmly invited to our monthly poetry program on November 12 from 1-2:30  (note shift to winter hours). Please note that the November program will be our last for the winter.  The ongoing and wonderful renovations as well as the temporary lack of water just reduce the cozy ambiance for the time being.

On November 12 we are pleased to welcome popular husband and wife team David Cavanagh and Sharon Webster, who will present poetry from their newest books. David’s sixth book, Please Hold, expresses woes of the world and of an individual life, as well as the bounteous, raucous, overwhelming beauty of being alive — “Sadness and uncertainty walk side by side with joy and humor.”  His work has appeared in anthologies in the U.S., Canada, and several countries in Europe, including poems translated into Italian.

Sharon’s second book, O Song, "sings the richness of everyday life: its outrageous surprises, abundant sensuality, unavoidable losses, and nuanced emotions".  Sharon combines her poems with her own visual art, lending a soulful, non-verbal dimension to the depth, beauty and music of her perspectives.

Learn more by visiting their websites :  davecavanagh.com and sharonwebster.com.

As always, we  will save time for your original and favorite poetry following the featured speakers, and you can win a prize for a memorized poem. Or, as always, just come to listen!

All are invited to a Vets Town Hall at the Charlotte Grange on Monday November 9th, at 6:30pm. Veterans are invited to speak about what their service means to them. Non-veterans are encouraged to attend and listen. This event is free, non-political, and all perspectives are valued. There will be no debate on American foreign policy.

RSVPs are optional, but encouraged. If you are interested in speaking, we'd especially appreciate an RSVP! Spontaneous speakers are also very welcome. Snacks will be available.

More information available at https://www.vtvetstownhall.org/event/charlotte-vets-town-hall-2026/

What to Expect

For all attendees: All community members are invited to this event. Only veterans will speak, but non-veterans are encouraged to attend and listen. Throughout the event, you may hear something you agree or disagree with. You may have a question. Or you may want to say encouraging words with the intention to help. However, we ask that you please refrain from responding. We are simply here to listen and learn about what it was like to serve in the wars that this nation has chosen to fight.

For speakers: Tell us what your service means to you. Please tell us about your own experiences, whatever they may be, rather than speaking broadly about an issue or organization. You’re a member of our community, and it’s your stories, reflections, and insights that we’re anxious to hear. If you’re interested in speaking but aren’t sure what to speak about, click here for some questions that can serve as starting points. Each veteran will be given up to 10 minutes to speak. Veterans who would like to speak can mark that preference when registering. If you’re considering speaking but prefer not to register, we encourage you to attend. After pre-registered speakers go, the host will take speakers from the floor, time permitting. The goal is for every veteran who would like to speak to have a chance to do so. Of course, veterans (and all community members) are also welcome to simply attend and listen.

A 43rd anniversary edition of 1983’s “Real Vermonters Don’t Milk Goats” — the state’s all-time bestselling humor book — is debuting this month with a few 21st century tweaks. Join Chris Hadsel and friends to celebrate the book’s republication at the Charlotte Grange. Join us to learn what motivated Chris's husband Bill Mares to take up his pen about real Vermonters and what has changed since the debut. Teatime refreshments will be served.

The Building Committee is hosting a Grange Hall fall clean-up on Sunday November 2nd at 1pm.  

The entire effort should be complete in about two hours.  There will be indoor and outdoor tasks, plenty of chatting opportunities with work partners, and the chance to collectively help tidy things up after a busy year of programming at the Hall.

Event questions can be sent to Katie at Katie_devoid@hotmail.com

The Charlotte Grange is busy dreaming about the future and we want to make sure that your ideas and voices are part of our process!  Learn more and share your ideas.

We are in a many-year process of improving and restoring the Charlotte Grange Hall so it can remain a vibrant community resource for years to come.  The Grange Hall is currently home to our organization, The Charlotte Grange, and the site of most of the community events, programming, and meetings that we organize. 

This fall we'd love to hear from YOU.  As building restoration and improvement efforts wrap up on the outside of our Charlotte Grange Hall, we are taking the very first steps of turning our attention inward.  Our Grange Hall is a community gathering space that sits unused most of the time.  We want to hear the dreams and ideas for this space from our broader community!  Please consider joining us at a Charlotte Grange Listening Session at the Charlotte Library or at the Charlotte Grange Hall this October.  If you aren't able to make it in person, please consider sharing your thoughts in this online survey.  Thanks - we appreciate you and your feedback!

What do you envision for the future of this historic east Charlotte community gathering place?  Help the Charlotte Grange Hall be a vibrant part of our community today and into the future.  We welcome your ideas!

Join us for “Thursday Night Live at The Grange” music open mic!  Bring your instrument and your inspiration, and join the community of joyful noises.  Hosted by Abby Killey, Nick Carter and Dave Vallett, the music will begin at 6:30pm and will stop at 8:30pm or when the last singer sings their song.   

To move the evening along at an enjoyable pace, we ask all players to think in terms of 10 minutes or 2 songs, which ever comes first. (For the intrepid soloist, "MacArthur Park” is always welcome!!)   We will provide mics and sound for those wishing to plug in.  Please mark your calendars for our monthly rhythm: “Thursday Night Live at The Grange” is scheduled for the Fourth Thursday of the month. 

Join neighbors and members of the Charlotte Grange for FREE coffee, tea, and fresh local cider donuts at the Grange Hall.  Coffee is OUR Happy Hour - stop by and stay for a moment or an hour!

We encourage folks who enjoy moving outdoors with good company to participate in this morning’s “Charlotte Walks” and then come enjoy coffee and donuts afterwards!

We hope you can join us at Plouffe Lane for our monthly "Charlotte Walks" meet-up!

On the Plouffe Lane trail network we'll experience a variety of terrain (some hilly, some level) and scenery including fields, woods, and an overlook of the LaPlatte River.  

DIRECTIONS: To get there, take Carpenter Road to Plouffe Lane. Please drive slowly and with deference down the private Plouffe Lane. At the end of the lane, you'll keep to the RIGHT where there's a fork in the road - that will take you down to the parking area.

About Charlotte Walks:

Once a month, usually on the third Friday of the month, we meet at 8:30am at a different Charlotte trailhead for a morning walk. It's a great way to get more familiar with Charlotte's public trails, and to meet up and chat with other Charlotters. Walks usually last about an hour to an hour and a half, and are generally led at a comfortable adult walking pace, but we definitely stop to look at the flowers and listen to the birds.

Please note this event is now scheduled for Wednesday October 14th.

The Charlotte Grange is busy dreaming about the future and we want to make sure that your ideas and voices are part of our process!  Learn more and share your ideas.

We are in a many-year process of improving and restoring the Charlotte Grange Hall so it can remain a vibrant community resource for years to come.  The Grange Hall is currently home to our organization, The Charlotte Grange, and the site of most of the community events, programming, and meetings that we organize. 

This fall we'd love to hear from YOU.  As building restoration and improvement efforts wrap up on the outside of our Charlotte Grange Hall, we are taking the very first steps of turning our attention inward.  Our Grange Hall is a community gathering space that sits unused most of the time.  We want to hear the dreams and ideas for this space from our broader community!  Please consider joining us at a Charlotte Grange Listening Session at the Charlotte Library or at the Charlotte Grange Hall this October.  If you aren't able to make it in person, please consider sharing your thoughts in this online survey.  Thanks - we appreciate you and your feedback!

What do you envision for the future of this historic east Charlotte community gathering place?  Help the Charlotte Grange Hall be a vibrant part of our community today and into the future.  We welcome your ideas!

Save the date for the 2026 East Charlotte Tractor Parade!

The Charlotte Library, the Charlotte Grange, Charlotte's 4-H Club, and the Cotton Candy Lady will be stationed in the Grange parking lot with children's games and activities, free popcorn, a free children's book bin, and cotton candy for purchase.  The Grange Hall will be open if you want to take a look around.  Our parking lot is just one stop along a family friendly event-filled stretch of Spear St. between Green Mountain Hay and Charlotte General Store. Tractor Parade starts at 1pm, departing from Green Mountain Hay.

More info: https://www.facebook.com/tractorparade

The Grange’s Program Committee is busy dreaming and planning this year’s events and invites you to join in on the fun. Everyone is welcome to help us plan events on an ongoing basis or to volunteer the day of an event! Our goal is to build community in all sorts of interesting ways. We meet monthly on the 4th Friday of the month, 8:30-10 AM at the Grange Hall.

To learn more contact: GrangeProgramsVT@gmail.com

Poets and poetry lovers are warmly invited to our monthly Poetry at the Grange series.  Bring a few of your favorite poems or your own poetry to read or recite or just come to listen.

In October we will welcome Cindy Hill back to ring in the Halloween season. Cindy will read excerpts from her newly published book “Leed’s Point, A Gothic Novel in Verse”. The spooky scene is set in 1702 in the coastal marshes of a West Jersey colony. Be prepared for a little horror, but in sonnet verse.  She will also read other horror poetry from “The Raven” and other contemporary collections. Cindy Hill is a writer-musician-poet hailing from Middlebury and author of four other poetry collections.  Poet participants are encouraged to bring seasonal or Halloween-themed poems (or not!).

Should our parking lot fill up, please park at the Catholic Church just south of the Grange, by the fence.  Kindly stay home if you are feeling sick and mask up if you have been exposed to someone with a contagious respiratory ailment.

Poetry at the Grange is held every second Thursday at the Grange in collaboration with the Charlotte Public Library. The spring, summer, and fall Poetry Programs run from 6:30-8pm. This is just one of many events run by the Charlotte Grange, located at 2858 Spear St.  For more information about the Charlotte Grange and to view a full calendar of interesting events, we hope you will check out our website:  https://www.charlottegrange.org/

The Charlotte Library and the Charlotte Grange are teaming up to start the Vermont Reads season with a community supper. We will share produce from the Library’s 250 Commemorative Garden to give us a flavor of 19th century cooking and include ingredients from our local farms and purveyors. A wonderful way to start the autumn season! Copies of "Charity & Sylvia" will be available to pick up along with a menu of our VT Reads offerings for 2026 and 2027.

Vermont Reads is a program of the Vermont Humanities Council with support from The Trout Lily Foundation and the Jack & Dorothy Byrne Foundation.

Join us for a FIRST FRIDAY BONUS HIKE!

Want to get more familiar with Charlotte’s public trails or meet and chat with other Charlotters? Join us for Charlotte Walks!

On October 2, you are invited to join us at 8:30am at the parking lot of the Charlotte Park and Wildlife Refuge. Please note, dogs are not permitted at the Charlotte Park and Wildlife Refuge. Walks generally last about an hour and will be led at an adult walking pace.

“Ariel Zevon and The Wolf”

A Duo of Old Souls with Visions of a New World.

 

Come listen to the original music of Vermont’s very own Ariel Zevon and her duet partner, The Wolf. Come experience this multi-instrumental duet performing many of Ariel’s songs which have been resurrected, reinvented, and repurposed. Be prepared for a truly fantastic musical journey back to the singer-songwriter era, when music and lyrics truly meant something.

Join neighbors and members of the Charlotte Grange for FREE coffee, tea, and homemade muffins at the Grange Hall.  Proudly serving locally-ground coffee from Paradiso Farms. Coffee is OUR Happy Hour - stop by and stay for a moment or an hour!

Join us for a SATURDAY BONUS HIKE this month!

In addition to our regular hike on the third friday of the month, we’ll be gathering on Saturday for a wonderful hike that we expect to take about 2.5 hours to complete.

The Raven Ridge Natural Area is on the border of Charlotte and Monkton and has been preserved through efforts of several conservation groups and individuals due to its exceptional wildlife habitat and location within a wildlife corridor.  

The trail begins with an accessible 0.3 mile board walk trail which leads through a beautiful cattail marsh to a peaceful beaver pond. The ascent up to the ridge rewards hikers with magnificent views of Lake Champlain and the Champlain Valley. The area offers views of cliffs, vernal pools, interesting geological outcrops, historic artifacts, and even a cave for the very adventurous. The entire loop is 2.6 miles long with some elevation gain.

We will meet on Saturday 9/26 at 8:30 at the parking area located at 1279 Rotax Road. Parking is extremely limited so please carpool if you can. You can park along the road a bit but be cautious and respect parking signage. If you have questions, you can text or call Abby at 802-343-6807.

On September 24th we look forward to hosting our third open mic “Thursday Night Live at The Grange”.  Bring your instrument and your inspiration, and join the community of joyful noises.  Hosted by Abby Killey, Nick Carter and Dave Vallett, the music will begin at 6:30pm and will stop at 8:30pm or when the last singer sings their song.   

To move the evening along at an enjoyable pace, we ask all players to think in terms of 10 minutes or 2 songs, which ever comes first. (For the intrepid soloist, "MacArthur Park” is always welcome!!)   We will provide mics and sound for those wishing to plug in.  Please mark your calendars for our monthly rhythm: “Thursday Night Live at The Grange” is scheduled for the Fourth Thursday of the month. 

We hope you can join us for our monthly "Charlotte Walks" meet-up! As we did last month, we’ll meet at the ball field parking lot by Sweet Roots farm and walk a portion of the Town Link Trail. (We hear Sweet Roots has some berry delicious creemees if you need a refreshment after the walk!) This time we’ll head east towards Mount Philo.

About Charlotte Walks:

Once a month, usually on the third Friday of the month, we meet at 8:30am at a different Charlotte trailhead for a morning walk. It's a great way to get more familiar with Charlotte's public trails, and to meet up and chat with other Charlotters. Walks usually last about an hour to an hour and a half, and are generally led at a comfortable adult walking pace, but we definitely stop to look at the flowers and listen to the birds.

The Grange’s Program Committee is busy dreaming and planning this year’s events and invites you to join in on the fun. Everyone is welcome to help us plan events on an ongoing basis or to volunteer the day of an event! Our goal is to build community in all sorts of interesting ways. We meet monthly on the 4th Friday of the month, 8:30-10 AM at the Grange Hall.

To learn more contact: GrangeProgramsVT@gmail.com

In September our gathering will be in the form of a Poetry Open Mic.  Poets and poetry lovers will have time to recite a few of their own poems or those of their favorite poets.  Prizes are awarded for memorized recitals. Come just to enjoy as well. No featured poet.

Should our parking lot fill up, please park at the Catholic Church just south of the Grange, by the fence.  Kindly stay home if you are feeling sick and mask up if you have been exposed to someone with a contagious respiratory ailment.

Poetry at the Grange is held every second Thursday at the Grange in collaboration with the Charlotte Public Library. The spring, summer, and fall Poetry Programs run from 6:30-8pm. This is just one of many events run by the Charlotte Grange, located at 2858 Spear St.  For more information about the Charlotte Grange and to view a full calendar of interesting events, we hope you will check out our website:  https://www.charlottegrange.org/

On August 27, we look forward to hosting our second open mic “Thursday Night Live at The Grange”.  Bring your instrument and your inspiration, and join the community of joyful noises.  Hosted by Abby Killey, Nick Carter and Dave Vallett, the music will begin at 6:30pm and will stop at 8:30pm or when the last singer sings their song.   

To move the evening along at an enjoyable pace, we ask all players to think in terms of 10 minutes or 2 songs, which ever comes first. (For the intrepid soloist, "MacArthur Park” is always welcome!!)   We will provide mics and sound for those wishing to plug in.  Please mark your calendars for our monthly rhythm: “Thursday Night Live at The Grange” is scheduled for the Fourth Thursday of the month. 

We hope you can join us for our monthly "Charlotte Walks" meet-up! This month we’ll meet at the ball field parking lot by Sweet Roots farm and walk a portion of the Town Link Trail. (We hear Sweet Roots has some berry delicious creemees if you need a refreshment after the walk!)

About Charlotte Walks:

Once a month, usually on the third Friday of the month, we meet at 8:30am at a different Charlotte trailhead for a morning walk. It's a great way to get more familiar with Charlotte's public trails, and to meet up and chat with other Charlotters. Walks usually last about an hour to an hour and a half, and are generally led at a comfortable adult walking pace, but we definitely stop to look at the flowers and listen to the birds.

As America marks 250 years, the American Conversation Project is bringing people together across the country to share stories, listen deeply, and strengthen the bonds that hold us together. This summer, libraries across the country will host recorded small-group conversations where neighbors share what's on their minds: what they love about where they live, what feels broken, what they hope for, and how they want to take action.

Whether you've lived in Charlotte for 60 years or 6 weeks.  What needs attention?  Come and meet neighbors to create community connection.  You can RSVP here or call the Library to let us know you're interested in attending. Dinner and light refreshments served! 

Co-presented by the Charlotte Grange and the Charlotte Library.

All poetry lovers and those interested in poetry are invited to “Poetry at the Grange!”  Our Thursday, August 13 program will be held back at the Grange, 2858 Spear St. in East Charlotte, from 6:30-8 PM. Local husband and wife poets, Angela Patten and Daniel Lusk will be our featured speakers.

Born in Dublin, Ireland, Angela Patten’s publications include five poetry collections, most recently “Feeding the Wild Rabbit “(Kelsay 2024), and a memoir, “High Tea at a Low Table: Stories from an Irish Childhood” (Wind Ridge 2013). She maintains citizenship in Ireland and the U.S. and lives in Burlington, Vermont.

Daniel Lusk is author of eight poetry collections and other books, among them “Lake Studies: Meditations on Lake Champlain” and “KIN, poems from the edge of wilderness in Vermont”. Well-known for his teaching, his work also is published widely in literary journals. His essay, “Bomb” (New Letters), was awarded a 2016 Pushcart Prize.

After Angela and Daniel present some of their work, audience members will be invited to share their own poetry or favorite poetry by others.  Those who memorize their poems will be awarded prizes.

Poetry at the Grange! is held every second Thursday from 6:30 to 8 pm at the Grange, (hours will shift to afternoons for winter), and is held in collaboration with the Charlotte Public Library. This is just one of many events run by the Charlotte Grange, based at 2858 Spear St. 

Reminders: Kindly stay home if you feel sick or are contagious, and please mask up if you have been exposed to someone with a contagious respiratory condition.  Overflow parking can be found at the white Catholic Church just south of the Grange Hall.  Please do not park at the private residence to the NORTH.

Questions: abigailkilley@me.com.  

As America marks 250 years, the American Conversation Project is bringing people together across the country to share stories, listen deeply, and strengthen the bonds that hold us together. This summer, libraries across the country will host recorded small-group conversations where neighbors share what's on their minds: what they love about where they live, what feels broken, what they hope for, and how they want to take action.

Whether you've lived in Charlotte for 60 years or 6 weeks.  What needs attention?  Come and meet neighbors to create community connection.  You can RSVP here or call the Library to let us know you're interested in attending. Dinner and light refreshments served! 

Co-presented by the Charlotte Grange and the Charlotte Library.

The Charlotte Grange invites friends and neighbors to enjoy evenings of music and merriment on the Charlotte town green this summer. Bring a picnic and enjoy local music in good company. The music starts at 5:30 PM and ends at 7:00 PM. Co-hosted by the Charlotte Library.

This week the musical guest is Remember Baker, a five-piece string band playing bluegrass and old-time music, sponsored by Cookie Love(with cookies for everyone!)

Thank you to this season’s Grange on the Green sponsors: Shearer Audi/VW/Acura & Point Bay Marina

Rain location: Charlotte Senior Center

Check our website for day of updates regarding changes due to weather. Should the weather be bad the event will move to the Charlotte Senior Center.