Bennington Garden Club Program Schedule – 2024 – 2025 

Finding Solutions to Beat Plastic Pollution

  

SPEAKER:  PAUL BURNS

Paul Burns is Vermont Public Interest Research Group’s executive director, a position he’s held since 2001. VPIRG is Vermont’s largest nonprofit, consumer and environmental advocacy organization.  We will be hearing about how we, as individuals, can make an impact against plastic proliferation in our state along with other pollutants, including PFAS and pesticides.

10:00 Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Community Welcome 

Bennington Museum – Paresky Wing

Bennington, VT

Floral/Greens Design Workshop

10:00 Monday, November 25, 2024

Guests of Members Welcome

Hildene Beckwith Room

Manchester, VT

Holiday Luncheon

11:00 Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Meeting and Lunch

Guests of Members Welcome

Four Chimneys Inn

Old Bennington, VT

Winter Business Meeting

11:00 Tuesday, February 25, 2025

Meeting and Lunch

Bennington Potters

Bennington, VT

The Fine Art of Photography 

 “Photographer Jim Westphalen has always had an affinity for the built landscape; those features and patterns reflecting human occupation within the natural surroundings.  His current body of work, entitled Vanish, is an ongoing narrative that speaks to the decay of iconic structures in rural America.  Inspired by such painters as Andrew Wyeth, A. Hale Johnson and Edward Hopper, Jim’s photographs open like windows to a world that is rapidly disappearing before our eyes.  Originally starting this journey in his home state of Vermont, Jim now travels the country “visually preserving” as many of these American treasures as possible before they entirely disappear.”

Photographer:  Jim Westphalen

2:00 Saturday, March 29, 2025

Public Welcome

Manchester Community Library

138 Cemetery Ave.

Manchester Ctr., VT

Spring Ephemeral Walks

With Christy Nevius and Erin Labovitz

Every Tuesday in April and May

8:30 am sharp, rain or shine

Meet in the parking lot of Park McCullough House

Public Welcome, (dogs must be leashed)

Park McCullough Mile Around Trail

N. Bennington, VT

Scented Geranium Workshop

Presenter:  Mary Schwartz

10:00 Tuesday April 22, 2025

Guests Welcome

Old First Church Barn

Old Bennington, VT

Annual Meeting

10:00 Tuesday May 20, 2025

Business Meeting Followed by Potluck Lunch

Members Only

Private Residence

North Bennington, VT