Grange Notes by Tim Swartz, Grange President (with everyone’s help) October 3, 2025
Please join us for a brief meeting, and a fascinating program
I’m sending out this reminder for an interesting meeting, and also a program that gives us a chance to think about what happens to our bodies after we die. And to discuss options with an expert!
Our informal Grange meeting will give us time to discuss the immediate future: planning for the State Grange Session on 10/24-25, our finances, and progress on our ventilation project.
At 5:00 PM, we’ll turn to our “Community Program”–Patty Giavara has booked what promises to be a fascinating presentation about something that will happen to all of us–we’ll all die–and about an option you can choose about what happens to your physical remains–your body. The presentation start with about film about 20 minutes in length: From Earth to Earth: the Lost Art of Dying in America. This film about natural burial is produced by the Vermont Forest Cemetery.
The film will be followed by a Q&A session with Michelle Hogle Acciavatti, Founder of VT Forest Cemetery in 2023. Michelle has the reputation of making discussion of funerals and burials meaningful and involving–even with flashes of humor.
A link to a Google Meet which will stream the Grange meeting and also the Program is posted on the Grange website’s Calendar listing for the program. We’ll be happy to have you join us in person, but we also welcome anyone via the virtual link as well.
The picture above is from the VT Forest Cemetery’s website.
We also hope you’ll join us for:
Community Potluck, 6:00 to 7:00!
Everyone is welcome to join us for this monthly event, whether you have been part of the meeting or program, or just want to eat! We typically have a wide variety of dishes, including choices for carnivores, vegans, and omnivores! We’d love to have you bring a special dish you’ve made to share, but we’ll also happily eat chips/dips/hummus/cookies/