CELEBRATING SOLZHENITSYN’S ARRIVAL IN CAVENDISH: During the next three months, CHS will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s arrival in Cavendish. The Soviet dissident and Nobel Prize winner in literature, lived in Cavendish 18 of the 20 years he was in exile
Exhibit: The Vermont Historical Society exhibit, “Solzhenitsyn in Vermont,” will be at the Cavendish Library starting around Oct. 8. We’re picking up the exhibit on Friday and will mount it the first few days of next week. It will be up until early December at the Library ( 753 Main St. Proctorsville)
Book Talk-Love the Revolution: On November 17, for the first time, Solzhenitsyn’s unfinished novel “Love the Revolution” will be published in English by Harper Perennial. This is the same day that “One Day in the Life of Ivan Densovitch” was published in 1962. A date for this talk will be determined later this month.
Russian Ornament and Tea Workshop: On Saturday, December 5, CHS will offer a free Russian ornament making workshop accompanied by a Russian Tea. This will be at the Cavendish Library from 10-noon.
DMITRI SOLZHENITSYN: The grandson of A. Solzhenitsyn, he is the author of Reuniting Rome with the Orthodox, forthcoming from Creed & Culture in fall 2026. Solzhenitsyn attended Cavendish Town Elementary School and Green Mountain Union High School and graduated from St. Paul’s School and Harvard College, where he studied philosophy and mathematics and was named a John Harvard Scholar. The founder of Paulie Prep, an educational admissions consulting firm, Solzhenitsyn previously served as a senior business analyst at McKinsey & Company. His articles have appeared in The Catholic Herald, National Review Online, and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and he has translated or edited several of his grandfather Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s texts, including The Calf Who Butted the Oak and the forthcoming Diary of a Red Wheel.Solzhenitsyn primarily resides in Texas (along with his wife and daughter) and serves in the choir at St. Vladimir’s Russian Orthodox Church.
UPCOMING EVENTS
October-November: Aleksandr Solzhenitysn exhibit at the Cavendish Fletcher Memorial Library, 753 Main St. Proctorsville.
October 7 (Wednesday): Young Historians: Preserve and Serve 5/6th grades @ CTES
October 8 (Thursday): Young Historians Preserve & Serve RiverSweep 5/6th grades
October 11 (Sunday): Last day the Museum is open for the season.
October 13 (Tuesday): High School visit to Solzhenitsyn Exhibit.
October 23 (Friday): Old Sturbridge Village 5/6th grades
October 30 (Friday): Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) workshop 5/6th grades @ CTES
October 31 (Saturday): Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) workshop at the Cavendish Library from 10-noon
November 15 (Sunday): Annual Proctorsville Ghost Walk. Meet at 2 pm in front of Proctorsville War Memorial.
December 5 (Saturday): 10-noon Russian Ornament making and tea at the Cavendish Library.
Donations for CHS can be sent to CHS, PO Box 472, Cavendish, VT 05142. Checks should be payable to the Cavendish Historical Society.
