2011 Events
Saturday, June 25, 2:00-5:00 p.m.
Opening day & Fiber Arts Showcase
Read more about this event in Woodstock Magazine and the Rutland Magazine...
Join us for free demonstrations of vintage and traditional fiber arts: Spinning, Knitting, Weaving, Bobbin Lace, Rug Braiding, Rug Hooking, and Quilting
There will be antique quilts, braided, woven and hooked rugs on display. In addition, sheep and a working dog will be on the Academy lawn!
Professional and talented people from the Woodstock area will demonstrate the following traditional skills, and more. Several will be joining us just for this event.
Fiber Art Demonstrations features:
Making bobbin-lace
Spinning wool
Rugs by weaving, hooking and braiding
Knitting with handspun wool
Quilting
Each presenter will be available to discuss the history and technique of their work.
GMPA's summer concert: Saturday, August 6, 3:30 p.m.
The newmont military band
On the lawn of the Academy, music from the late 19th century!
Band members from Vermont and New Hampshire play rousing anthems using antique instruments. A large audience enjoyed the afternoon.
(Photos from 2010's Summer Concert courtesy of GMPA Board member Dale Kjerulff)
Saturday, September 10, 2:00 p.m.
Academy Annual Meeting and Program
Book Release!
"made in South Woodstock, Vermont"
Authored by GMPA Board Member Karl Wood
On sale locally (contact us for outlets)...a great gift which also supports the Green Mountain Perkins Academy!
Karl Wood Pens Book, 200+ Years in the Making
by Paul Regan
Special to the "Vermont Standard"
"Karl marked his 50 years of Perkins Academy board membership just a few years ago and this November has completed his wonderfully revealing and entertaining manuscript “Made in South Woodstock, Vermont, Tales From the Village That Raised Me.” This could be the perfect holiday gift for that Woodstock resident who thought they had everything!
"Anyone who has known Karl through the years or has spent time with him around the table at The South Woodstock Country Store is well aware of Karl’s story-telling expertise. As Karl penned in the forward to his new manuscript, I could say I’m here in the same village where I grew up, but that is not really correct; South Woodstock, Vermont, and I have changed every day of the nearly eighty years we’ve been together.” Karl went on to say, “It’s been my good fortune to be the repository of a great deal of history: old family letters and journals, town records, and stories that I have heard (and overheard). This information has given insight, not only into those who came before me, but perhaps a better look into the world that I have occupied and will leave to those who follow me.”
"As always, our mission at GMPA & HA is to educate by preserving the Academy building, its artifacts, personal papers, and records pertaining to the Academy, its students, and the South Woodstock community, of which Karl Wood, his family, and his ancestors have been such an integral part since the late 1770s."