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I am the fortunate son. My parents reminded me whenever my behavior merited it that I could have been born in a “gutter in Calcutta.” Instead, I was born white, male, to a wealthy family in America in 1962. As if these blessings were not enough, the most blessed and valuable blessing was that I had two good parents.

Non-native invasive plant species have long threatened the health of ecosystems, wildlife habitat and populations of native plants in the Lewis Creek watershed. Management can be difficult because they are easily spread via seeds, roots, fragments, animals and humans.

When it comes to winter in the North Country, brown is not beautiful. Climate change has brought sudden and extreme fluctuations in weather along with a dramatic decline in the amount of snowfall that blankets the ground. This is especially marked in the Northeast, where winter is warming faster than the national average.

Join Faith United Methodist Church for a drive-thru homemade lasagna dinner fundraiser with salad, bread and dessert (maple and chocolate fudge), at 899 Dorset St., South Burlington, on Saturday, March 23, to support of Machia Wilderness Camp.

The Vermont Watercolor Society is exhibiting its annual spring membership show, “Spring Release,” at the South Burlington Public Art Gallery from Saturday, March 16, through May 29. The juried exhibition showcases 40 paintings that illustrate the diverse styles of expression possible with this dynamic medium.

Master of Fine Arts student Amy Kolb Noyes’s show, “Bitter Brew: Consumption Choices & Consequences,” runs at the Julian Scott Memorial Gallery on the campus of Vermont State University-Johnson through April 5. The show features work in mixed media and installations. For more information, contact the gallery at 802-635-1469.

“Rosie’s Mom: Forgotten Women of the First World War” is the topic of the Lamoille Valley Osher Lifelong Learning series at the Stowe Cinema, 454 Mountain Road, from 1-2 p.m. on Wednesday, March 20.

The Stowe Free Library is one of 50 U.S. libraries selected to host “Americans and the Holocaust,” a traveling exhibition from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the American Library Association that examines the motives, pressures and fears that shaped Americans’ responses to Nazism, war and genocide in Europe during the 1930s and 1940s.

The role that fathers play in the lives of their families is changing. What are the expectations of male parents today? Do dad’s parent differently? Is a father’s involvement important? What do studies on fatherhood suggest?

Second Congregational United Church of Christ, 16 Church St., invites the community to come breathe, relax, rest your mind, body, soul, meditate and pray, be still and rejuvenate on Friday, March 15, 4:30-6:30 p.m.

The film follows several storylines: Indigenous forest guardian Marçal Guajajara and activist Puyr Tembé as they fight to protect territories from deforestation; an illegal logger who has no choice but to cut the forest down; and a large landowner at the mercy of thousands of invaders and extractive industries.

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In its first year, South Burlington’s winter artisan fair, Illuminate VT, was by any measure very successful, drawing anywhere from 1,200 to 1,500 folks from the city and surrounding communities to the event.

The Bakersfield Historical Society is holding its 24th annual sugar on snow party with live music by Rusty Bucket on Sunday, March 24, 1-3 p.m., at the society’s building, 80 East Bakersfield Road.

The Evans/Asbell Duo will present a free program of jazz from the 1940s and 1950s on Saturday, March 23, noon-1 p.m., in the auditorium. Doors open at 11:45 a.m.

“Our Songs Remember” is a combination lecture and performance focusing on the ways in which the Abenaki oral traditions of storytelling and music play a part in the preservation of Indigenous ways.

A founding member of The Head and the Heart, Jonathan Russell will perform some of the band’s favorite and most well-known and beloved songs at Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, 122 Hourglass Drive, Stowe, on Saturday, March 16, 7 p.m. For information or tickets, go to sprucepeakarts.org

On tour from Sweden, the multi-award-winning, Lena Jonsson Trio continues to break new ground internationally with its unique mix of deeply rooted Swedish folk, jazz, American old-time and electro-acoustic sounds.

Mat Kearney, the Nashville-based, Oregon-born artist with a career filled with chart-topping hits, comes to Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, 122 Hourglass Drive, Stowe, on Friday, March 22, 7 p.m., to showcase his multi-platinum songwriting. For information or tickets, go to sprucepeakarts.org.

As a celebration of bringing joy and music to the community, the Hinesburg Artist Series will present its 25th anniversary St. Patrick’s Day concert featuring the “Requiem for the Living” by Dan Forrest on Sunday, March 17.

Four Peoples Academy students recently won the 40th Troitsky bridge building competition in Montreal with their adviser, Karsten Weiss, who teaches design and technology at the school.

Forty 4-H’ers competed Feb. 24 in the 2024 Northeast Region 4-H Dairy Quiz Bowl in Orleans.

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