Swords to Ploughshares: Turning Guns into Garden Tools--Learn How and Why.
Saturday, April 29, 11am to 1pm, Retreat Farm, Rte. 30, in Brattleboro. Free, rain or shine.
Participants: Swords to Plowshares co-founder, speaker & forge demonstration leader, The Rt. Rev. Jim Curry and Steffen Gillom, Pres. Windham County NAACP; Marc Thurman, Education Chair, NAACP; The Rt. Rev. Thomas Ely; Cliff L. Wood, EdD; Brattleboro Police Chief Norma Hardy; Windham Co. Sheriff Mark Anderson; Shoulder Narrows, BUHS Acapella Choir. Honorees: Edible Brattleboro & SUSU Community Farm.
Presented by St. Michael's Episcopal Church, Windham County Sheriff's Department, Brattleboro Police Department, Windham County NAACP, & community sponsors: All Souls Church, Unitarian Universalist; Brattleboro Area Jewish Community; Brattleboro Zen Center; Centre Congregational Church, UCC; Dummerston Congregational Church, UCC; First Congregational Church of Brattleboro, UCC; First United Methodist Church; Guilford Community Church, UCC; Newfane Congregational Church, UCC; Trinity Lutheran Church; Putney Friends Meeting; Vermont Insight Meditation; Putney Friends Meeting; and Vermont Interfaith Initiative www.s2pnortheast.org.