Tag Archives: Ilsley Public Library

Financing Projects: Resources, Capital Campaigns, and Fundraising 09/08/2025

Join Alex Armani-Munn, Executive Director, Addison County EDC, Dana Hart, Director, Ilsley Public Library, Lisa Mitchell, Executive Director, Town Hall Theater, Susan Schaefer, Treasurer, Friends of the Vergennes Opera House, and Gerianne Smart, President, Friends of the Vergennes Opera House for a discussion on fundraising for capital projects. This event was filmed at the Town Hall Theater

First Wednesday: “The Sound of Music: Diamond Jubilee” with Robert Wyatt

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[/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_2third_end]In 1959, Broadway’s Lunt-Fontanne Theatre premiered a musical on an unlikely topic: an Austrian family who had become famous for escaping Nazi Germany.  The Sound of Music went on to win five Tony Awards, along with five Academy Awards in its film adaptation.  Pianist and scholar Robert Wyatt discusses the history of the musical as well as the audience’s reaction, then and now. Recorded 1/8/20.[/ezcol_2third_end][ezcol_1third]
Producer: Ilsley Public Library

First Wednesday: Robert Frost in the World by Jay Parini

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[/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_2third_end]Middlebury professor and Frost biographer Jay Parini explores how Robert Frost became America’s favorite poet by writing accessible poems, creating a uniquely appealing persona, and pioneering the public reading of poems. Recorded 5/4/16.[/ezcol_2third_end][ezcol_1third]
Producer: Ilsley Public Library