American Cuisine with Paul Freedman
2023-03-29 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York)
Please join the Yale Club of Vermont for an evening with Paul Freedman, Charles D. Tripp Professor of History: American Cuisine … And How It Got This Way While we have a good (if not completely accurate) idea of what Italian, Mexican or Indian cuisine is, American cuisine could be anything from fast food to regional to eclectic and international. Many people, in other countries especially, don’t think there is such a thing as American cuisine. The talk considers the history of what American have eaten and what constitutes our culinary aesthetic.

Register here.

About Professor FreedmanProfessor Freedman specializes in medieval social history, the history of Catalonia, comparative studies of the peasantry, trade in luxury products, and the history of cuisine. His latest book is American Cuisine and How It Got This Way (Liveright/Norton, 2020).

Freedman earned his BA at the University of California at Santa Cruz and an MLS from the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. He received a Ph.D. in History at Berkeley in 1978. His doctoral work focused on medieval Catalonia and how the bishop and canons interacted with the powerful and weak elements of lay society in Vic, north of Barcelona. This resulted in the publication of The Diocese of Vic: Tradition and Regeneration in Medieval Catalonia(1983).

Freedman taught for eighteen years at Vanderbilt University before joining the Yale faculty in 1997. At Vanderbilt, he focused on the history of Catalan peasantry, papal correspondence with Catalonia and a comparative history of European seigneurial regimes. He was awarded Vanderbilt’s Nordhaus Teaching Prize in 1989 and was the Robert Penn Warren Humanities Center Fellow there in 1991-1992. During that time, he published his second book, Origins of Peasant Servitude in Medieval Catalonia (1991).Since coming to Yale, Professor Freedman has served as Director of Undergraduate Studies in History, Director of the Medieval Studies Program, Chair of the History Department, and Chair of the Program in the History of Science and Medicine He has offered graduate seminars on the social history of the Middle Ages, church, society and politics, and agrarian studies (as part of a team-taught course).

Freedman was a visiting fellow at the Max-Planck-Institut für Geschichte in Göttingen in 2000 and Directeur d’Études Associé at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris in 1995. His third book was Images of the Medieval Peasant (1999) and there are two collections of his essays: Church, Law and Society in Catalonia, 900-1500 and Assaigs d’historia de la pagesia catalana ( “Essays on the History of the Catalan Peasantry,” translated into Catalan).

Freedman edited Food: The History of Taste, an illustrated collection of essays about food from prehistoric to contemporary times published by Thames & Hudson (London) and in the US by the University of California Press (2007). His book on the demand for spices in medieval Europe was published in 2008 by Yale University Press. It is entitled Out of the East: Spices and the Medieval Imagination. In the field of culinary history, he published Ten Restaurants That Changed America in 2016 (Liveright/Norton). A book for Yale University Press entitled Why Food Matters will appear in 2021.

Annual Meeting (via Zoom)
2023-06-07 17:30
Join us (via Zoom) on June 7, 5:30 pm as we elect the roster of officers and directors for the coming year. Candidates are:

OfficersMary Jane Mona, President (nominated)Terry Hook, Secretary

Vice President, openTreasurer, open

Board of DirectorsStephen Morris, ex-officioLisa Catapano-Friedman, ex-officio

(all below are in year 2 of 3 year terms)Elaine GustafsonMary Jane MonaTerry HookJacqui HoodJim LengelLinda DanilekMichael JacobsonMerideth Wright

Yale Alumni Association Leadership DelegatesElaine Gustafson (nominated, 3 year term)Jacqui Hood (2 year term)

Outgoing BOD members– Kathryn Blume, Kevin Burget

Register for meeting HERE .

Vermont Green Soccer
2023-06-21 18:00
Yale Club of Vermont at Vermont Green

Come join fellow Yalies on June 21 to watch our very own local soccer team—-VERMONT GREEN FC—-versus the Boston Bolts. VGFC plays in the USL2 League and their second season promises to be as exciting and successful as their first. It’s a really fun way to enjoy great soccer!. The game is at Virtue Field at the University of Vermont. Gates open at 6—it’s good to get there early because the center section of the stands is the most comfortable (the seats have backs!) and fills up quickly. Wear some Yale regalia so we can find each other. Tickets are all general admission. Adults: $15. Children: $8 VGFC is dedicated not just to winning soccer games but to promoting social and environmental justice. An important cause and a great way to show your support! For more on VGFC, check out their website: VermontGreenFC.com

Book Club
2023-07-12 19:00 - 20:00
Next Book Club. Wednesday, July 12, 2023, 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai. Makkai graduated from Middlebury College, and spends her summers in the Middlebury area. In this novel/mystery her New England sensibility is apparent. The novel takes place at the prep school Granby, in a fictitious town suspiciously like Hanover, New Hampshire. Makkai captures winter, ice and mud season perfectly. Register here!

Tour of BETA Technologies
2023-08-01 13:00 - 15:00
The Yale Club of Vermont is invited to tour BETA Technologies, one of the most exciting start-up companies in Vermont if not the nation. Get an up-close and personal look at the technologies and people behind this pioneering attempt to build the world’s first-ever all-electric aircraft. You will get to see the prototype and even to fly in their immersive simulator. Join fellow Yalies on Tuesday, August 1, from 1 to 3 pm at North Hangar Headquarters, 1150 Airport Drive, South Burlington. (Thanks to Jacqui Hood for arranging this.)

Yale won The Game: Yale v. Harvard
2023-11-18 12:00 - 16:00
The 20 Yale and Harvard Vermont alums who gathered at Essex Junction on Saturday, November 18, cheered the Bulldogs to victory, 23 – 18. We once again partnered with the Harvard-Radcliffe Club of Vermont for this annual viewing party. Perhaps it was the Bulldog gear and team spirit and singing that fomented Yale’s victory.

Book Club November 29
2023-11-29 19:00 - 20:30
For our next Yale Club of Vermont Book Club, we are reading The Personal Librarian, historical fiction by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray.

A remarkable novel about J. P. Morgan’s personal librarian, Belle da Costa Greene, daughter of the first African-American graduate of Harvard. Hiding her racial identity to be hired by Morgan, Greene becomes a fixture in the New York book and art world, and leaves a lasting legacy — the collection of rare manuscripts, books and artwork of the J.P. Morgan Library. Thanks to Elaine Gustafson for this timely suggestion. There is currently an exhibition of some of the prize manuscripts of the library — including Gutenberg bibles — on exhibition at the J.P.Morgan Library, through January 2024. And next year, the Library will open an exhibition devoted to the life and work of Belle da Costa Greene herself. Happy Reading! Click here to register.

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Yale-Dartmouth Women's Basketball
2024-02-24 13:00 - 16:00 | Leede Arena, 6 S Park St, Hanover, NH, 03755, United States
Joint Event with the Dartmouth Club

Update: Yale won. See the report and the pictures from this event. Join Yalies and friends from the Dartmouth Club of the Upper Valley to cheer on the Yale team. Doors open at noon, and we’ve arranged for a pre-game meeting with the Dartmouth Club at 11:00 in the Oberlander Room in Alumni Gym. Use the link below to buy tickets for our special seating area.

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Salon with Ken Ellingwood
2024-03-23 14:00 - 16:30
The Yale Club of Vermont’ s March Salon will feature one of its own members, Ken Ellingwood, Yale College ’82 (BK). Now a Vermonter, this globetrotting journalist and author will lead a discussion of his book, First to Fall: Elijah Lovejoy and the Fight for a Free Press in the Age of Slavery. This work of narrative nonfiction tells the story of a courageous newspaper editor (Lovejoy) who stood up to violent mobs in order to combat slavery. A staunch defender of freedom of the press, Lovejoy was ultimately killed by pro-slavery attackers, the first American journalist killed in the line of duty. His story has particular resonance at the moment, as America continues to deal with issues of a free press and the legacy of slavery.

To order your own copy of “First to Fall,” click on this link:https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/First-to-Fall/Ken-Ellingwood/9781643137025.

Following an introductory presentation there will be ample opportunity for questions and discussion. Light refreshments will be served.

We’ll gather on Saturday, March 23, 2024, from 2:00 to 4:30 p.m. at the Duxbury home of Yale Club Board Member Jim Lengel, Yale College ’71. RSVP below to receive directions to Jim’s house.

Ken Ellingwood

April Book Club: Daughters of Yalta
2024-04-17 07:00 - 20:00
Save the date: Next Book Club April 17, 2024. The next selection will be the club’s first dive into non-fiction. The Three Daughters of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts and Harrimans: A Story of Love and War by Catherine Grace Katz tells the dramatic story of three remarkable young women who accompanied their famous fathers to the Yalta Conference in the waning days of World War II. A zoom link will be sent to registrants in a separate email the day before the Book Club.

To register, please RSVP via email to Mary Jane Mona at maryjanemona@gmail.com. You will receive a confirmation email upon registering.

More about the book from The New York Times:

The Daughters of Yalta is Katz’s first book, and gives a “detailed behind-the-scenes account of the conference.” Katz “skillfully marshals diaries, letters, oral histories and memoirs to support her thesis that the pressures of wartime had warped normal familial bonds, so that the Western leaders’ relationships with their daughters had become more like those between business partners than between parent and child.” This eminently readable account is “packed with vivid personalities, jockeying aides and insider observations about a pivotal moment in history.

Webinar on U.S. - China Relations
2024-04-29 19:00 - 19:30
The Yale Club of Vermont and the YAA Regional Clubs Team invite you to a talk presented by Arne Westad, Elihu Professor of History and Global Affairs: The Past, Present and Future of U.S.-China Relations, on Monday, April 29, 2024 at 7:00 p.m. on ZoomRegister at:https://bit.ly/YCVTWestadWebinar

Odd Arne Westad is a scholar of modern international and global history, with a specialization in the history of eastern Asia since the 18th century. He studied history, philosophy, and modern languages at the University of Oslo before doing a graduate degree in US/international history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he primarily worked with Michael H. Hunt. Westad has published sixteen books, most of which deal with twentieth century Asian and global history.

Yale Day of Service
2024-05-11 11:30 - 14:00
Yalies around the world will be gathering in May to give back to the community in a variety of ways. Here is one opportunity for service in Vermont: On Saturday, May 11, join fellow Yalies at Josh’s House in Colchester to support Vermont veterans. Thanks to one of our own, Dr. Laura McGevna Nelson, Yale College 2001, for organizing this event.

Many of our veterans are in need of support, grappling with food or housing insecurity and chronic illnesses including PTSD. Josh’s House is a non-profit recreational center whose entire mission is caring for these veterans.

Do you love to cook? We are signed up for their meal train on May 11. So we need to donate enough food to feed 40-50 people. We’ll also help spruce up the grounds and stock the pantry with non-perishable items. (You don’t need to donate items to participate.) It’s for a great cause and a remarkably appreciative group!

To volunteer for this Day of Service, contact Laura McGevna Nelson.

Summer Picnic July 28
2024-07-28 12:00 - 16:00
Yale Club of Vermont’s Summer Picnic will take place, rain or shine, on Sunday, July 28, 2024, from noon until 4:00 pm at the home of Jacqui Hood in Georgia, Vermont, overlooking Lake Champlain from the hilltop. Meet fellow Vermont Yalies of all ages! Families are encouraged to participate. The registration fee covers a catered picnic lunch ($25 per person, $10 for children under 12). Bring your own beverages. We will have yard games aplenty on hand, including Jacqui’s very own Yale Cornhole set. Children are welcome at this event. If you have any questions feel free to email the Club’s President Mary Mona (maryjanemona@gmail.com). Register by July 23.

Click here to register and pay for adults @ $25.

Click here to register and pay for children @ $10.

Happy Summer, and Hope to See You There . . .

Salon with Ken Ellingwood, August 24
2024-08-24 14:00 - 16:30
The Yale Club of Vermont’s Summer Salon will feature one of its own members, Ken Ellingwood, Yale College ’82 (BK). Now a Vermonter, this globetrotting journalist and author will lead a discussion of his book, First to Fall: Elijah Lovejoy and the Fight for a Free Press in the Age of Slavery. This work of narrative nonfiction tells the story of a courageous newspaper editor (Lovejoy) who stood up to violent mobs in order to combat slavery. A staunch defender of freedom of the press, Lovejoy was ultimately killed by pro-slavery attackers, the first American journalist killed in the line of duty. His story has particular resonance at the moment, as America continues to deal with issues of a free press and the legacy of slavery. Register below.

Following an introductory presentation there will be ample opportunity for questions and discussion. Light refreshments will be served. (This salon is rescheduled from the snowed-out event of March 24.)

We’ll gather on Saturday, August 24, 2024, from 2:00 to 4:30 p.m. at the Duxbury home of Yale Club Board Member Jim Lengel, Yale College ’71. Register below to receive directions to Jim’s house.

Book Club September 25
2024-09-25 19:00 - 20:30
The book for September is Norwich: One Tiny Vermont Town’s Secret to Happiness, by Karen Crouse.

As we come to nearly the end of the Paris Summer Olympic Games, why not keep themagic going, and bring it closer to home? This delightful book chronicles the Town of Norwich,Vermont and explores why it produces the largest number of Olympic athletes percapita than anywhere else in the Country. Spoiler: It’s all about how great Vermont is!Author Karen Crouse, a New York Times reporter, is an excellent storyteller.Although published in 2019, the book’s thesis remains valid: A Norwich native iscompeting at the 2024 summer games, even though most of the past Norwich athletesare winter Olympians: https://www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2024-07-10/here-are-the-vermonters-at-the-2024-paris-olympics-team-usa)Please register here for the Book Club discussion (via Zoom) on Wednesday, September 25, 2024 from 7:00-8:30 p.m.

The Game: Yale-Harvard Viewing Party
2024-11-23 12:00 - 16:00 | McGillicuddy’s Pub in Essex Junction, 4 Pearl St., Essex Junction, Vermont, 05452, United States
Join with our frenemies at the Harvard-Radcliffe Club of Vermont for a rollicking good time cheering on our respective teams from the comfort of McGillicuddy’s in Essex Junction. Food and beverage available for purchase. Game time at noon November 23 – come anytime from kickoff to the final play. There’s no cost but please RSVP below.

Join your Yale and Harvard friends…

Don’t be afraid to show your support…

Don’t get stuck in the past…

Book Club: Birnam Wood
2025-01-29 19:00 - 20:30
Join fellow Vermont Yalies for an online discussion of Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton, on January 29 from 7:00 until 8:30 PM on Zoom.

Birnam Wood is the third novel by New Zealand writer Eleanor Catton. Published in February 2023, the novel follows members of guerilla gardening collective Birnam Wood as, with the help of a charismatic tech billionaire, they undertake a new project on abandoned farmland.

Like her previous novel The Luminaries, the book is set in a fictionalised New Zealand, primarily in and around a national park in the South Canterbury region. The title is taken from a line in Macbeth.

Register here.

Ski with Harvard and Brown February 21
2025-02-21 16:00 - 22:00
On Friday February 21 the combined Yale and Brown Clubs hit the slopes at Bolton Valley. The night shift started at 4:00 pm as the lights came on from the summit to the base. The intrepid participants soldiered on through the unexpected snow to conquer the mountain in true Ivy fashion. We were ever true and ever blue!

It’s not all work and no play, so seven of us gathered in the Tavern for dinner – three from Brown, three from Yale, and one with dual citizenship.Some had to head home afterwards, but others went back out for some post-prandial and post-libational runs. We’ll do it again next year!The weather is really cooperating for the ski event at Bolton on the 21st. Epic nor’easter rolling in this weekend – be there with the Bulldogs and Brunonians on Friday.The lifts are open from 4:00 pm to 10:00 pm for top-to-bottom green-to-black illuminated skiing. Buy your tickets soon.Don’t forget that as the overall snow coverage is great, afternoon Nordic Skiing is also available at Bolton, and passes are $25 per person. If you plan to ski Nordic, before meeting up in the Lodge, feel free to text our organizer Terry Hook at (802) 355-4943 if you want to connect with other Nordic enthusiasts. Nordic tickets are here.

You may come and go anytime, but some of us plan to be “booting up” in the lodge at 4:00 pm – look for the Brown banner and any other collegiate paraphernalia. RSVP not necessary, but we can keep an eye out for you. You can also text Terry Hook at (802) 355-4943.After a few early runs (the sun sets at 5:30pm) some food, libations, and socialization would go well at around six pm. The James Moore Tavern is open until 9pm for food and drinks.

Book Club to Welcome Back Archer Mayor
2025-04-09 19:00 - 20:30
Yale Grad and popular Vermont Author Archer Mayor Will Join us for a lively discussion of his Joe Gunther Mystery Tucker Peak.

Tucker Peak is a quintessential Vermont Story about a small ski resort struggling to survive, and a string of burglaries at the ski condos that leave resort management even more beleaguered. Joe has left his work in Brattleboro to oversee the newly-minted Vermont Bureau of Investigation. Gunther’s elite squad sniffs at first about assisting with such small-potatoes crime, but as quick as you can say maple syrup, the problems escalate to murder, drugs, embezzlement, the ethics of snowmaking, and beyond.

This action-packed crime novel about the underbelly of a one-company town is a particular delight for Vermont readers, sure to connect with local themes.

This event will be held via Zoom on Wednesday, April 9, 2025, from 7:00 – 8:30 p.m. Register here.

Summer Picnic
2025-08-02 12:00 - 16:00
Deadline for Registration is July 25

Show off your bocce and cornhole skills, take a dip in the lake, enjoy lunch catered by Woodbelly of Montpelier, best of all, engage in intelligent(?), witty(!) conversation with fellow Yalies. For additional information and to register, go to our club website:

Register HERE(additional event information and directions provided upon registration)

The Annual Meeting of the Yale Club of Vermont will be held in conjunction with the Summer Picnic.

Register at: https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/62FYSV66MEZ7W

Details on parking, etc. to follow upon registration.

Bring lawn chairs, any other games you like, sunscreen (we hope), umbrella (we hope not), beverage of choice (water provided).

Book Club
2025-10-15 19:00 - 20:30
The Yale Club of Vermont Book Club’s next meeting happens on Wednesday, October 15, 2025, from 7:00 – 8:30 p.m. on Zoom. The book is Twist, by Collum McCann. Register here.

“EVERYTHING GETS FIXED, AND WE ALL STAY BROKEN”

Twist is a propulsive novel of rupture and repair in the digital age, delving into a hidden world deep under the ocean—from the New York Times bestselling author of Apeirogon and Let the Great World Spin.

Anthony Fennell, an Irish journalist and playwright, is assigned to cover the underwater cables that carry the world’s information. But sometimes the tubes break, at an unfathomable depth. He meets a fellow Irishman, John Conway, the chief of mission on a cable repair ship. The mysterious Conway is a skilled engineer and a freediver capable of reaching extraordinary depths. When the ship is sent up the coast to repair a series of major underwater breaks, both men learn that the very cables they seek to fix carry the news that may cause their lives to unravel.

“Colum McCann gives us a powerfully realist novel of men at sea, literally, emotionally, and metaphorically. It speaks of the brokenness of our time, the successful and unsuccessful attempts at repairs, and the vulnerability of our world. The spirit of Joseph Conrad hovers over the text, but here the heart of darkness lies at the bottom of the ocean.”—Salman Rushdie

“McCann may follow Coppola upriver and Conrad to the heart of darkness, but the concerns of his novel are contemporary and urgent and utterly compelling. This is an ambitious novel, note-perfect, wild but controlled, with its deft apparatus mapping our most mysterious twenty-first-century malaise—the great loneliness of the connected world.”—Kevin Barry

THE GAME in Vermont
2025-11-22 12:00 - 16:00
Watch and cheer with the Yale and Harvard Clubs of Vermont gather at McGillicuddy’s Pub in Essex Junction for this annual event. We’ll have a private room, a big television, old friends and new. You’ll order off the menu as you wish. RSVP below to let us know you’re coming.

Book Club: January 14: The Director
2026-01-14 19:00 - 20:30
The Director, by Daniel Kehlman, is a New York Times top five fiction books of 2025

This fascinating historical novel follows the later career of G.W. Pabst, the brilliant German film director who created Pandora’s Box and the Threepenny Opera, and who made both Garbo and Louise Brooks world famous. A few years before World War II, Pabst and his wife and son settle in Hollywood, then in Paris, before he is pressured to return to Austria where his aging mother lives, on the eve of the invasion of Poland. We observe him and his family as they each learn to live in the Third Reich’s reality of strongmen, implicit threats and ethical choices. Pabst remains a director first and foremost, attempting to imprint his visual style to any film he may find himself forced to make. He faces the prospect of compromising every creative principle he once held. Timely and complex, and often quite funny, this is a portrait of one man’s test of integrity in an increasing fracturing world. You must register to participate.

Feb Club, February 27 in Stowe
2026-02-27 16:00 - 18:00 | Trapp Bierhall, 1333 Luce Hill Road, Stowe, Vermont, 05672, United States
Here’s the plan … go downhill skiing at Stowe, do Nordic at the von Trapp Family Lodge and Resort, or go to the Ben & Jerry’s factory in Waterbury and spend the rest of the day shopping in Stowe Village. Suit Yourself, then come by the Trapp Bierhall from 4-6 pm to bend an elbow with some fellow Yalies and some friendly folks from Brown. Who knows? Afterwards, stay for some food, head off to dinner elsewhere, or call it a day and call it a Feb Club. a mid-winter excuse for conviviality.

Book Club April 22
2026-04-22 19:00 - 20:30
Henry Knox’s Noble Train: The Story of a Boston Bookseller’s Heroic Expedition That Saved the American Revolution.

Mark your calendar April 22, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

During the brutal winter of 1775-1776, an untested Boston bookseller named Henry Knox commandeered an oxen train hauling 60 tons of cannons and other artillery from Fort Ticonderoga near the Canadian border. He and his men journeyed some 300 miles south and east over frozen, often treacherous terrain to supply George Washington for his attack of British troops occupying Boston. The result was the British surrender of Boston and the first major victory for the Colonial Army. This is one of the great stories of the American Revolution, still little known by comparison with the more famous battles of Concord, Lexington, and Bunker Hill.

This exciting tale of daunting odds and undaunted determination highlights a pivotal episode that changed history. Register here.

Special Guest Announcement:We are delighted to welcome Stuart Lilie, Vice President of Public History at the Fort Ticonderoga Association, who will join our discussion to share insights on Henry Knox’s remarkable journey and the enduring legacy of Fort Ticonderoga in Revolutionary history.

For Spring 2026, the Yale Club of Vermont Book Club features a work that is both timely and of local interest. Almost exactly 250 years ago, Henry Knox transported cannons through frozen terrain from Fort Ticonderoga to Massachusetts to help relieve Boston from the British.

Fort Ticonderoga is a regional gem and, along with the Ethan Allen associations, looms large in Vermont history. The 250th anniversary of the “Noble Train” has been marked by extensive reenactments between our region and Boston.

Join us on Zoom on Wednesday, April 22, from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. for a lively discussion of the book and the history of the Revolution in northern New England.

The Yale Club of Vermont now formally invites all New England Yale Clubs to join us for these virtual book gatherings. Many of our clubs include members spread across remote islands, mountain towns, and wooded communities, where coming together online offers a meaningful way to connect. Alumni from across the region — and others who find their way to us — are warmly welcome.

Registration is now open!

Yale Day of Service
2026-05-09 08:00 - 20:00
Two Options for May Day of Service:

South: Board member Lisa Catapano-Friedman writes: Help Habitat for Humanity complete a beautiful, highly energy efficient home on Greenview Drive in Bennington that they are building with a family of six refugees. This is the fourth Habitat home on this road, with another currently in progress in the neighborhood. The organizer for Habitat is Tye Poquette and he can be contacted at HERE, and he can tell you how to sign up.

North: The Yale Club of Vermont is honored to participate in the Yale Day of Service on Sat 5/9/26. Join us at ANEW Place in Burlington, Vermont, a transitional shelter for homeless individuals with a focus on supporting their goal to permanent housing. Our group of Yale volunteers will plan and prepare a meal in the shelter’s kitchen and serve dinner to around twenty guests. Feel free to bring a dish or side to prepare if you wish, but no need! There will be plenty to prepare. Also please feel free to bring your musical instrument to entertain the guests during dinner if inspired! We will meet at 4:30 and dinner is served around 6 or 6:30. If you can’t join us that day, drop a line to let us know if you might be available and interested another time, as we are sure to return throughout the year. Being together and being of service in the spirit of Yale is the goal of the evening! Email Laura McGevna to sign up.

Summer Picnic
2026-07-26 12:00 - 16:00 | Lake Elmore State Park, 856 VT Route 12, Lake Elmore, Vermont, 05657, United States
Enjoy yourself at the Yale Club of Vermont’s 2026 summer picnic at Lake Elmore State Park. We’ll meet at the Picnic Pavilion, close to the beach, with swimming, boat rentals, hiking trails, camping, and snack bar. Elmore is particularly amenable to children. We’ll listen to readings from several contributors to 2050: Vermonters Take a Swipe at the Future, by Bill Mares and Jane Smith. We’ll have grills for cooking, so bring your own food and drink. Questions may be directed to Jim Lengel, Yale College ’71, who has a camp on Lake Elmore. RSVP below.

Book Club: This is Where the Serpent Lives
2026-08-19 19:00 - 20:00
This is Where the Serpent Lives, by Daniel Mueennuddin (Yale Author!)

In the great tradition of lawyers turned writers (Kafka, Henry Fielding, Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Strout, and so on) Daniel Mueenduddin is a graduate of Yale Law School, but his passion is writing. Join us to discuss This is Where the Serpent Lives; his prior collection of short stories In Other Rooms, Other Wonders was longlisted for the the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.In this debut, four separate stories in Pakistan interconnect across generations to weave a tale of Pakistani society, ambition, love, corruption, from top to bottom, including chauffeurs, aristocrats, gangsters, and the elite class educated in the West. The Guardian proclaims the book an “epic of power and class across generations in Pakistan [that] is brutal, funny and brilliantly told.” We agree!

Join us on Zoom Wednesday, June 24th, from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. for a lively discussion!

Register here.

Questions? Feel free to email YCV Book Club Liaison Mary Jane Mona, maryjanemona@gmail.com
