Throughout the year, the Poultney Historical Society offers several events celebrating the town’s rich history.

East Poultney Day

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 14, 2010 from 9 AM to 4 PM. For more details, just click on the link in this paragraph.

Horace Greeley Writers Conference

The conference is held annually in Poultney, this year at the Poultney Methodist Church  on October 23, 2010. For more information visit the Greeley Foundation website.

November Lecture Series

Our November program offers a lecture series, always on a different aspect of Poultney history. This past year we were pleased to offer a lively program with slides by Historian Patricia Moore, PhD on November 15 at 2 PM. She presented a talk called  Ashes for Cash: 1820’s Poultney as seen through the Northern Spectator.