Programs and Events
Throughout the year, the Poultney Historical Society offers several events celebrating the town’s rich history.
The premier event of the year is East Poultney Day, an annual family history festival on the second Saturday in August on the East Poultney Green. This year’s event will take place on August 13, 2011 from 9 AM to 4 PM. For more details, just click here.
Our November program usually offers a lecture, always on a different aspect of Poultney history. This year we’re proud to be able to expand this program with the George Jones Lecture Series, in partnership with the United Baptist Church.
Born in Poultney and co-founder of The New York Times, George Jones was one of the town’s most famous sons. The series will honor him on the 200th anniversary of his birth by presenting three lectures on journalism throughout the year…the first on April 29, 2011, the second on August 12, and the third on November 13. For details about these lectures, click here.
Horace Greeley Writers Conference
The conference, held annually in Poultney (this year at the Poultney Methodist Church on October 15, 2011) is sponsored by the Horace Greeley Foundation. Through speakers and interactive workshops, this event explores the art of writing as presented by publshers, poets, and writers of all types. During the conference, participants will tour places where Greeley lived, worked, debated and voraciously read the books and journals that fed his intellectual curiosity as a young man. For more information visit the Greeley Foundation website.