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VFC's First Anniversary!
Sat, Oct 12
|Roxbury
Join us as we celebrate our first "birthday" with music, poetry, art, and presentations.
Time & Location
Oct 12, 2024, 12:00 PM
Roxbury, 750 Beaver Meadow Rd, Roxbury, VT 05669, USA
Guests
About the event
Vermont's first (and still only!) cemetery dedicated to natural burial opened in October of 2023. Join us for some (or all!) of the tours, performances, discussions, art and poetry that will celebrate our first year.
- 12pm -1pm A special Cemetery Tour with Founder & Head Cemeterian Michelle Hogle Acciavatti
- 1pm - 2pm Musical Performance by John Smyth
- 2pm - 3pm [in the clearing] Soil Testing with the District Manager of White River Natural Resources Conservation District, Jennifer Byrne
- 2pm - 3pm [in the Spruce Grove] Poetry Readings by Michael Metivier
- 3:30pm - 4:30pm Musical Performance by Avery Lavoie
You are welcome to come and explore the cemetery throughout our celebration! We will have members of our board, our Assistant Cemeterian and volunteers stationed throughout the forest to answer questions and tell you the history of our residents. We will also have a rich display of visual arts, a woven casket, shrouds and much more!
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