Shire Business and Arts and Sciences Meetings

Panther Vale Business Meetings

The Shire of Panther Vale holds  monthly business meetings.  They are normally held on the first Sunday of the month at the Worcester Town Hall, Worcester, Vermont starting at 12:00 noon.  However, meeting times and places change from time to time. For up-to-date information, please go to the Meetings section of the  Home page or contact the Panther Vale Seneschal;

Lady Siubhan Wallace (Judi Tazelaar)
642 West Street
Brookfield, VT 05036
siubhanwallace@yahoo.com

Anyone interested in learning more about the Society for Creative Anachronism in general, or Panther Vale in particular, is welcome to attend.  The meetings usually start with a pot luck lunch.  Visitors are welcome to contribute to the lunch but  a contribution is not necessary to attend.

Directions to the Worcester Town Hall.

From the south and west, drive to Montpelier and take VT Rt 12 north for about 8.8 miles.  This will bring you to the center of Worcester.  The Town Hall is on the right as you drive north.  It is about 2/10th of a mile north of the LBJ's store and gas station and is at the intersection of  Rt 12 and Calais Road.

From the north, drive to Morrisville and take VT Rt 12 south for about 17.5 miles.  This will bring you to the center of Worcester.  The Town Hall is on the left as you drive south and is at the intersection of  Rt 12 and Calais Road.  If you reach LBJ's store and gas station, turn around and backtrack about 2/10th of a mile to the Town Hall, which is now on your right.

From the east, (you can't get to Worcster from there, at least not conveniently) take US Rt 2 west to Montpelier. Then take VT Rt 12 north for about 8.8 miles.  This will bring you to the center of Worcester.  The Town Hall is on the right as you drive north.  It is about 2/10th of a mile north of the LBJ's store and gas station and is at the intersection of  Rt 12 and Calais Road.  
Or for the more adventureous types, tun off US Rt 2 in Marshfield and go cross country to Worcester.  This is the route recommended by Google maps as the quickest.  See the link to Google maps below.

Directions to Concord Town Hall

From the Barre-Montpelier area:
Take your best route to Rt 2 heading eastward toward St. Johnsbury. Continue following Rt 2 through St. J (follow the signs, Rt 2 takes some strange turns in town). The town hall is a large brown building with a clock tower in the middle of Concord. You can park either along the road in front of the town hall or in the small lot next to the post office just down the street.
From points south: Take I-91 north to the junction of I-91 and I-93. Take the exit onto I-93, and follow that and take the first exit. Turn left off of the ramp. You'll come to a T-intersection, turn right onto Rt. 2 and follow that into Concord. 

Google Map for the Concord Town Hall

Directions to Camp Farnsworth

From the Barre-Montpelier area:Take your Washington Street - US 302 heading eastward. Continue following US 302 for about 11 miles to junction of Rt 25 in Orange. Follow Rt 25 about 16.5 miles to Bradford.  Take I91 south about 13.5 miles to exit 14 and Rt 113.  Take Rt 113 west toward Chelsea about 1.5 miles and Camp Farnsworth is on the right.

From points south: Take I-91 north to exit 14 and Rt 113.  Take Rt 113 west toward Chelsea about 1.5 miles and Camp Farnsworth is on the right.

From points north: Take I-91 south to exit 14 and Rt 113.  Take Rt 113 west toward Chelsea about 1.5 miles and Camp Farnsworth is on the right.

Google Map for Camp Farnsworth

Directions to Wheelock Town Hall

Google Map for the Wheelock Town Hall

Directions to Goodrich Castle

Google Map for Goodrich Castle

Directions to Tom Dent Cabin

Google Map for the Tom Dent Cabin, Hanover, NH   Note that Boathouse Road is shown as a second Tuck Drive on the Google map.

Arts and Sciences Meetings:

Generally, Arts and Sciences (A&S) meetings are held immediately following a Shire business meeting.  This is arranged ahead of time by one of the artisans of the Shire.  Some times the meeting is designed to provide the shire or the Kingdom with some useful product, such as tokens for a local event or scrolls for kingdom awards.  At other times, these meeting are an opportunity for one of the members to teach a class that is of interest to other members.  More detail about next month's A&S activity may be available in the meeting section in the upper left corner of the Home page.

In the past the topics have included: scroll making (illumination and calligraphy), silk painting, pewter casting, making medieval shoes, fletching (arrow making), naal binding (early Norse knitting), brewing, cooking, singing, and dancing.

Directions to Christ Church, Montpelier

Google Map for the Christ Episcopal Church, Montpelier, VT