Seven Days: Vermont's Independent Voice

State of Mind

Remember elementary-school book fairs? The Vermont Humanities Council hosts a similar shindig this Saturday to encourage people of all ages to tackle this year’s “Vermont Reads” pick: A Restless Spirit, Natalie Bober’s accessible biography of Robert Frost (pictured). The plainspoken poet and four-time Pulitzer Prize winner, who spent nearly 40 summers teaching at Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf campus, receives a day-long tribute featuring a book discussion by Bober and Robin Hudnut, Frost’s granddaughter. The Middlebury Community Chorus sings composer Randall Thompson’s “Frostiana,” and companion exhibits and activities at the Ilsley Public Library, Vermont Folklife Center and Henry Sheldon Museum include poetry-writing workshops, recordings of family oral histories, and servings of milk and cake. Not up for the commute? For $9, Essex-area Frost fans can hop on the Brownell Library’s south-bound bus.