Vermont Humanities

Brattleboro First Wednesdays

Van Gogh painting of cafe at night
First Wednesdays

Venue: Brooks Memorial Library

224 Main Street, Brattleboro
Library phone: (802) 254-5290
Library website
Directions to the library

Brattleboro First Wednesdays Talks

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Statewide Underwriters: The Institute of Museum & Library Services through the Vermont Department of Libraries

Program Underwriters: A More Perfect Union – An NEH Special Initiative; Anne Commire Fund for Women in the Humanities; Middlebury College and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Peter Gilbert Endowment Fund; Preservation Trust of Vermont; The Samara Fund of the Vermont Community Foundation

Library Sponsors: Friends of the Brooks Memorial Library

Printed Brattleboro First Wednesdays brochure

Download the 2021-2022 Brattleboro Schedule (PDF).

Vermont Humanities*** November 20, 2014

Poet Sarah Audsley in a black dress in front of a large gray rock.

Poet Sarah Audsley joined us at the Taconic Mountains Ramble State Park for Words in the Woods.

Group of students walking on a boardwalk into the woods

Humanities Camps are filled with reading and writing projects, field trips, and outdoor activities.

Rep. John Lewis and Andrew Aydin with students in front of a schoolbus

We won a 2020 Schwartz Prize for best public humanities programming in the U.S. for Vermont Reads 2019: “March: Book One.”

Group on tour in snowy Burlington

We supported Historic New England’s “More than a Market” project that explored the experiences of new Americans through food markets.

Woman raising her hand during a public event

Our free public events help bring the power of the humanities to communities across Vermont.