About
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Hosting the porch quilt raffle at the spring Shopping Day (yard sales galore and a barbecue thanks to the East Randolph Fire Department)
Along the Middle Branch of Vermont’s White River, the East Valley community loosely includes the villages from South Randolph to East Brookfield. We grow together.
The East Valley Community Group honors and promotes the talents, warmth, and eclecticism of our gifted villagers. We ask you to join in the fun! It takes a village (or two, three, four…) to celebrate village life.
Our volunteers within the East Valley have been hard at work for several years. We’ve hosted events like the ice-cream social, pumpkin carving contest, porch quilt scavenger hunt, local Green-Up projects, community-wide yard sales, and summer bingo.
We’ve added giant puppets to Randolph’s 4th of July parade and designed custom porch-quilt panels for local homes and farms.
Ultimately, our goal is to bring the East Randolph Hall back into full community service.
Our Community Emerges
This area was settled by Europeans shortly before 1780. “Middlesex,” a parcel of land covering what is now Randolph and Bethel, had been granted to settlers by the government of New York, which claimed the region.
When a group from New Hampshire tried to purchase property in the area, they reportedly searched for the original grantees without success. In 1781—during the Revolutionary War—the land was chartered by Vermont, an unrecognized state, to Aaron Storrs and 70 others. The area had productive soil and farming became a dominant industry.
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More local history on other pages
Image: Early Morning Mist in the East Valley (Jane Cooper, 1974); US National Archives
EVCG volunteers gather in front of the historic theater backdrop at the Hall