Session Americana, a coffeehouse trio and 500 years of guitar.

Superstar violinist Itzhak Perlman shares Passover music from many traditions, plus songs and memories from his childhood in Israel. Listen today at 3 pm.

A movie with Vermont-ties about America's War on Drugs will be shown this week with a question-and-answer period after. "The House I Live In" was directed, written and produced by Vermonter Eugene Jarecki.

A collection of athlete portraits by pop artist Andy Warhol is currently on display at UVM's Fleming Museum.

Lunch at the General Store.

Deborah Luskin is celebrating Passover this week. And she says the story of Exodus is one demonstration of how many different people have fled their homelands in search of religious and political freedom and economic opportunity in America.

"The Story Teller" by New Hampshire author Jodi Picoult presents a post-Holocaust moral dilemma. It's about a very old man who befriends a young woman.

Puppets portray human emotion, an artist's abstracts and a band plays dreamy songs.

Vermont author Kim MacQueen explores the thin line between humans and apes in her new novel "Out Out". 

Agricultural writer and editor, Susan Harlow, talks with Vermont Edtion about a new exhibit at the Vermont History Museum that brings to life the stories of some small-scale farmers in the 60s and 70s who were among the first to pioneer organic farming methods.

An original work by Middlebury College dance instructor Christal Brown was inspired by the life and legend of Muhammad Ali.

This week, Sally Pollak talks with Ric Cengeri about the many ways that food is the catalyst for creating community.

A 1950s cabaret, a library's 180th and Bread & Puppet.

A fictional lake in a cold, remote section of New Hampshire haunts the characters of the new book "Lake People" by Abi Maxwell.

Brattleboro's Women's Film Festival will present 26 films at the New England Youth Theatre this weekend. 

Clara Henderson, a freshman at The Sharon Academy, writes about how to stay special.

This week on the VPR Cafe, Ric Cengeri talks with free lance writer Melissa Pasanen about the New England Tradition of baked beans - and how we bake them.

There's a new sculpture spending this year on the Dartmouth campus, and it's designed to make noise when it freezes. Icy weather has not been as dependable this year as its creators had expected. So the sculpture may move even farther north next year.

Sebastian Junger and Jamaica Kincaid share true stories this week on The Moth Radio Hour.

Bellows Falls Opera House shows fan favorites, a look back at the work of Mark Awodey and Family Day at the Calvin Coolidge Musuem.

This week's Young Writers Project selection by ninth-grader Lydia Smith takes a surprising look at the limited time we have to spend.

A Mad River Valley ski and snowboard enthusiast has written a series of children's travel books.

The band, After The Rodeo visits Vermont Edition for a live performance and talk about the group.

Maple Sugaring season is fast approaching. On this first episode of the VPR Cafe, Ric talks with Candy Page about what the new international maple grading system means for producers and consumers. She also brings us into Ginger Isham's kitchen in Williston where maple is king.  

Author, Sarah Stewart Taylor, talks about her book, The Expeditioners and the Treasure of Drowned Man's Canyon, the first in a planned series of Expeditioners books.