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MONTPELIER, Vt. – May in Vermont is an ideal time to experience the famous green that blankets and defines the entire state. Across the state you’ll find festivals, marathons, art galleries and so much more. Here’s a look at what’s happening in May. For a comprehensive listing of events in Vermont, visit www.VermontVacation.com
Farm Festival at Billings Farm & Museum
Woodstock – May 1-2, 2010
Enjoy an entire weekend of traditional spring farm activities, including the annual shearing of the Southdown flock. Farmers from the region will match plowing skills in the fields with their teams of draft animals: oxen on Saturday, draft horses on Sunday. The event also features visitor plowing with the Billings’ teams and the farm’s first-ever visitor-plowing competition. Horse-drawn wagon rides, too. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 5302 River Road. Visit www.billingsfarm.org
Vermont Maple Festival
May 1-2, 2010 – St. Albans
The 44th annual Vermont Maple Festival will feature entertainment, a maple exhibit hall, antique, craft and specialty food shows, cooking demonstrations, sugarhouse tours, face painting, a pancake breakfast, fiddling and youth talent shows. Various locations. For more information and a schedule, visit www.vermontmaplefestival.org.
Southern Vermont Wild Foods Festival
May 2, 2010 – Putney
This is a day-long celebration of wild spring edibles featuring ramps, nettles, dandelion greens, and more. Join area foragers and herbalists for discussions on how to incorporate these plants into your diet. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. South Field, 8 Carol Brown Way. For more information, visit http://putneyfoodcoop.blogspot.com.
Mothers for Daughters Motorcycle Weekend
May 14-16, 2010 – Dover
With the help of other motorcyclists, motorcycle groups and local businesses, people are making a difference in working to find a cure for these two types of cancer. This third annual benefit event helped raise more than $15,000 in 2009 for The Breast Cancer Research Foundation and The Ovarian Cancer Research Fund. For more information, visit www.visitvermont.com.
Annual Jamaica Fiber Festival
May 15, 2010 – Jamaica
Enjoy sheep shearing, spinning, weaving, demonstrations, live music, food and more in the heart of Jamaica Village. Buy spindles, homespun and hand-dyed yarn, and knitted, crocheted, woven, felted and sewn creations. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Route 30. For details, visit www.JamaicaFiberFestival.org.
Ludlow’s Largest Rummage Sale
May 21-23, 2010 – Ludlow
Black River Good Neighbors once again puts on Ludlow's Largest Rummage Sale with bargains for everyone. Pre-owned (and sometimes with the price tags still on) furniture, rugs, clothing, baby items, toys, games, etc. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Fletcher Farm School for the Arts and Crafts, Route 103. For more information, visit www.yourplaceinvermont.com.
Kingdom Dandelion Run
May 22, 2010 – Derby
A relay half-marathon along roads passes along the Northeast Kingdom’s glorious fields of dandelions. The Dandelion Run is a competitive and recreational 13.1 half-marathon for runners of all ages and abilities. Walkers welcome on a five-mile course. Race starts at 9 a.m. For more information, visit www.dandelionrun.org.
State of Craft
May 22-Oct. 31, 2010 – Bennington and Statewide
State of Craft is a landmark exhibition at the Bennington Museum examining the evolution of the contemporary studio craft movement in Vermont (1960-2010). On view from May 22 through October 31, State of Craft features more than 120 objects by 90 Vermont craftspeople, including master artists, emerging artists, and key individuals throughout the more than fifty-year time-frame of the studio craft movement, c. 1960-2010. This exhibition is the centerpiece of a statewide showcase of Vermont crafts coordinated by the Vermont Crafts Council, in celebration of their 20th anniversary. For more information, visit www.stateofcraft.org.
Adamant Blackfly Festival
May 22, 2010 – Adamant
This festival has two purposes – to benefit the Adamant Co-op, the oldest food co-op in Vermont, and to have some serious fun celebrating the bugs we love to hate. The event includes a blackfly fashion show, a parade with eclectic costumes, local farm equipment, blackfly pie contest, grilled food and more. 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. 1313 Haggett Road. Visit www.adamantcoop.org.
Green Mountain Opera Festival
May 26-June 20, 2010 – Waitsfield
The Green Mountain Opera Festival celebrates its fifth anniversary with more than three weeks of events, classes and concerts. The mainstage production will feature Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, which will be performed at the Barre Opera House June 18-20, accompanied by a festival orchestra and chorus. The Emerging Artist production will feature Handel’s Orlando at Middlebury’s Town Hall Theater on June 13 and in Waitsfield’s Neill Barn on June 17. For more information, visit www.greenmountainoperafestival.com.
Annual Mayfest Arts & Crafts Festival
May 29, 2010 – Bennington
More than 10,000 people fill Main Street, which becomes a pedestrian-only thoroughfare loaded with artisans and entertainers. Mayfest plays host to some of the finest jewelers, potters and art displays from around New England. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information, visit www.betterbennington.com.
Open Studio Weekend
May 29-30, 2010 – Statewide
Open Studio Weekend is a statewide celebration of the visual arts and the creative process in which Vermont artists and craftspeople invite the public to visit them working in their studios during Memorial Day Weekend. More than 236 sites will be open during this event, with more than 300 artists and artisans participating. www.vermontcrafts.com.
KeyBank Vermont City Marathon & Relay
May 30, 2010 – Burlington
The 22nd annual marathon in Vermont’s largest city will include about 8,000 athletes. See runners in various locations across the city, including Battery Park, Church Street and Waterfront Park. Race begins at 8:05 a.m. Post-race activities at 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Waterfront Park. For more information, visit http://vermontcitymarathon.org.
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