After we complete the annual business meeting, this year’s theme will be the sharing of something from Barre’s 200th or 225th Anniversary Celebrations.

The fourth installment in our traditional arts series, this class will be led by Directors Eileen Bohigian and Kay Potter Flick. Attendees will be given the basics of stringing paper decorations, following a banner design to hang in your own home in preparation of celebrating Barre’s 250th Birthday on June 17, 2024 and throughout the year!

All materials will be provided for this free class fit for ages 4-104!

This is a members only event.

Join us on the grounds of the Society as we celebrate Barre’s actual Founding Day, June 17, 1774, and welcome in the summer season at the same time! This will be an outdoor lawn party featuring area offerings while overlooking the beautiful Barre Common as the new season begins.

This program is held in partnership with the No. 4 Schoolhouse and the 250th Anniversary Committee.

Meet some of the people who lived in the old “District 4” of Barre (Farrington Road/Christian Hill/Sunrise Ave. area) and who are buried in its cemetery, including a young soldier who lost his life in the Civil War, a well-known female abolitionist poet… and who knows who else? Open house and refreshments will be available at the No. 4 Schoolhouse throughout.

They comprised one-half of our town’s population, but women often worked behind the scenes until about a century ago.

Join us as BHS&M Historian Lucy Allen introduces some of the women whose cumulative efforts brought greater freedom and more job opportunities for women, and eventually, the right to vote! We will meet Catharine Brown of “Dr. Brown’s Institution,” “Farmerettes” who worked at the Gaston Estate during World War I, and women who replaced men in the industry at the Chas. G. Allen Co. and Barre Wool Combing Co. during World War II.

Please note: The location and time for this event is still being determined. Please continue to check this page for more information.