The Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park is the only national park to focus on conservation history and the evolving nature of land stewardship in America. Opened in June 1998, Vermont's first national park preserves and interprets the historic Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller property. The park is named for George Perkins Marsh, Frederick Billings and his granddaughter, Mary French Rockefeller and her husband, Laurance S. Rockefeller. Tours are given of the Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller mansion and the surrounding 550-acre forest. The mansion contains an extensive art collection with American landscape paintings in the mid to late 1800's. The forest has been actively managed for wood products, public recreation, aesthetics, education and ecological values for more than a century, making it one of the oldest planned and continuously managed woodlands in America.
Location:
P.O. Box 178, 54 Elm St., Woodstock Vermont 05091
Telephone
802-457-3368
(Concord) Audubon Society of New Hampshire
(Woodstock) Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller Nat'l. Hist.
(Cornish) Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site
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01/10 Coming to The Woodstock area
Taste of the Valley Plymouth NH March21 Experience all of your favorite local flavors. Several restaurants from the region will be there hoping to win your vote in the "Best in Show" competition.
Seacoast Home and Garden Show Durham NH March23-24 The 19th annual show features more than 225 exhibitors showcasing the latest products and services for your home.
Green Mountain Film Festival Montpelier VT March22-31 Culture reigns at the Green Mountain Film Festival, featuring powerful programming on a wide range of subjects, interesting and often unexpected guests, and a convivial atmosphere.
Spring Plant Sale Westford NH April27 The Middlesex Conservation District will be holding its annual Spring Plant Sale at the 4H Fairgrounds.
Vermont Maple Festival St Albans VT April26-28 Pancake breakfast and maple buffet, the annual “Sap Run” race, exhibits and sugarhouse tours, antiques, crafts, cooking demonstrations, youth talent, fiddlers’ shows, and a Grand Parade featuring teen “Maple Ambassadors.”
Lethal Beauty: Samurai Weapons and Armor Manchester NH March17-May5 A display at the Currier Museum of Art shows the striking duality of deadly weaponry and artistic beauty from the Samurai culture of centuries past.
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