Best place to begin is at the beginning.

Where to begin? 
Perhaps an introduction is in order.  My name is Somara and I moved to Brookline Vermont almost two years ago with my husband and our dogs.  What a change for us!  We left Chicago city-living and bright-lit night skies for a quiet country back road and soot-black night skies  (except for the countless stars which of course we can now see).  Our little community of Brookline, Vermont has a town hall, a historic round schoolhouse (perhaps the only one in the U.S.A) a small elementary school building and the Historic Church of Brookline - about which much more will be written.

After our belongings arrived via moving van -  no, actually before all our belongings arrived -  one of the first things we did was go looking for the closest library - which we found one town over in Newfane VT.  This is where we first met Judy, the current president of the Historic Brookline Church Preservation Initiative - or HBCPI for short.  Judy was one of the volunteers in the library that afternoon and she asked if I was interested in joining the HBCPI: I said yes,  we pass by this lovely place going to and from home, I'd be glad to help ensure it's continued existence.

And that was the very beginning of my involvement with this lovely group of folks, whose mission has been to preserve this lovely old historic building and to find new ways to make it available to the community.  There is much more to tell, so more posts will be up shortly --especially as the annual "Moonlight in Vermont" Quilt is well underway!