Welcome

To the Rockingham Arts and Museum Project (RAMP) in downtown Bellows Falls, VT.
Robert McBride

Revitalizing the community by developing awareness of the arts, creating vitality in the community with the arts, and demonstrating that the arts favorably impact the local economy.

Art Makes a Difference is our theme.

Discover the many events and projects happening in the greater Rockingham, Vermont community...and beyond here on our website. The arts in our community have grown exponentially, contributing to the revitalization of our community.

Perhaps you have your own ideas that you would like to see put into action. Whether you are a doer, a contributor, a supporter, a visitor...or just an observer, it's hard to deny that...art makes a difference!

Robert McBride, founding director

RAMP Apartment Raffle

RAMP hosts two annual fund raisers a year.
In the spring the the RAMP Apartment Raffle and in the Fall the RAMP Art Raffle.
People generously donate their apartments to the spring apartment raffle and artists generously donate work for the fall art raffle.
There is a party hosted around each event.
The existence of RAMP depends on the success of these events.
We appreciate your support and spread the word to friends.
Sincerely,
Robert McBride, founding director

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Tickets by phone: (1-800-838-3006), or online: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/113887

In DC with Sen LeahyROBERT MCBRIDE OF BELLOWS FALLS, VT APPOINTED CHAIR OF THE NORTHEASTBOARD OF ADVISORS OF THE NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION (Washington, DC, November 16, 2009)... Robert McBride of Bellows Falls, VT has been appointed Chair of the Northeast Advisors of the National Trust for Historic Preservation (NTHP).

http://www.smartgrowthvermont.org/toolbox/casestudies/downtowndesignationbellowsfalls/

Bellows Falls has been a hub for southeastern Vermont and neighboring portions of New Hampshire for well over two centuries. In years past, its regional leadership was based on manufacturing that grew up in the mid-1900s along the canal around the nearby falls on the Connecticut River. Several decades later, railroads replaced rivers and canals as the primary mode of transportation, but Bellows Falls remained a major hub thanks to the narrow gorge at the falls, which made it the best place to build a railroad bridge across the river. Today, though, Bellows Falls is more a cultural hub than an industrial one. Community leaders in this village of 3,500 residents were among the first in Vermont to recognize the value of taking advantage of state incentives for downtown revitalization, and over the last decade or so, they have brought the village out of a period of decline by repositioning it as a vibrant community that can attract twenty-first century high-tech industries looking for great places to relocate.

Rockingham Arts & Museum Project
7 Canal Street, Bellows Falls, Vermont 05101
tel/fax: (802) 463-3252, e-mail: ramp@sover.net,
www.ramp-vt.org
Mills to Main Streets Main Street Arts Great River Arts Institute Stone Church Arts Flying Under Radar
Housing Vermont Vermont Arts Council Preservation Trust of Vermont Vermont Community Foundation Vermont Council on Rural Development:Council on the Future of Vermont Sovernet
Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation Annual Gowanus Artists Studio Tour, Brooklyn, New York National Endowment for the Arts National Trust for Historic Preservation