All are welcome to Brookfield Community Partnership’s annual Potluck Dinner. Bring a dish to share, a place setting and your own beverages. It’ll be great to see neighbors and friends, and to welcome new folks to the Brookfield Old Town Hall after the long winter and cold/rainy spring.  Learn about this year’s calendar of events and during dessert enjoy live acoustic music with local talents Erica Fayrie and Zac Johnson. On fiddle, guitar, and banjo, they’ll play traditional country music of the 1920s and beyond and before. 

This will be a moderated, informal discussion with the representatives and senator of the Orange-Washington-Addison district.  The legislators will give a synopsis of the 2025 legislative session and take questions.

In this talk, Ethan Tapper, will draw from his work as a forester and author of How to Love a Forest, to discuss what it means to care for forests and other ecosystems at this moment in time.  How do we respond to the harmful legacies of the past?  How do we use our species’ incredible power to heal rather than to harm?  How do we reach toward a better future?  In a time in which many believe that ‘protecting’ ecosystems means protecting them from ourselves, Ethan argues that humans must take action to help ecosystems heal and to move into a more abundant future, and that to do so is an act of care and compassion - of love.  

Ethan’s message is at once compassionate and pragmatic, clear-eyed and hopeful, sobering and inspiring.  It is a new vision for how we can build a world that works for all of its ecosystems and all of its people.

Join Vermont Public at Brookfield Old Town Hall for a mini film screening and social hour! First, dive into a 45-minute excerpt of the highly acclaimed 2023 documentary “Join or Die” by Pete and Rebecca Davis. Join or Die is a film about why you should join a community group or club—and why the fate of America depends on it. Joined by Hillary Clinton, Priya Parker, and others, Robert Putnam, author of Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, will explore three urgent civic questions: What makes democracy work? Why is American democracy in crisis? And, most importantly… What can we do about it?

Following the screening, join us for a social hour to practice what we’ve learned. Whether you’re passionate about your favorite pastime and want to connect with others or just looking to meet new people in your community, we’ll have prompts and icebreakers to help spark authentic connections. Please register at:

Free but Registration Required

Join us at the Brookfield Floating Bridge for a one-of-a-kind experience to meet “America’s favorite fighting Frenchman.”  General Lafayette will visit Brookfield on his historical reenactment of an 1825 tour through the still young, 40-year-old, United States, as the “Guest of the Nation.”  Enjoy some period refreshments during the event. General Lafayette will stop in Brookfield as he did 200 years ago after his stop in Royalton, on his way to Barre and Montpelier. In case of rain, we will host the General in the Brookfield Old Town Hall. Bring a chair if needed to enjoy the event.

• This event is brought to you by The American Friends of Lafayette, Brookfield Community Partnership and the Brookfield Historical Society.