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America’s Strangest HistoryAmerica SNUBBED Ethan Allen — What REALLY happened in 1775? #TheRealEthanAllenEthan Allen led one of the most daring victories of the Revolutionary War, capturing Fort Ticonderoga in 1775 without a shot fired. He was bold, charismatic, and beloved by the Green Mountain Boys. So why wasn’t he chosen to lead them afterward?In this episode of America’s Strangest History, we explore the overlooked political rivalries, cultural tensions, and personal dynamics that led to Allen being passed over — and why it still matters today.Was it about strategy… or ego?Was it fear… or politics?Discover the story behind one of America’s most underrated Revolutionary figures.Please visit our website...2025-07-0113 min

The Paranormal 60 NetworkThe Haunting of Whipple Hollow - A New England Legends PodcastA ghost experience so shocking it stopped the presses—literally. In 1938, a phantom near a crumbling Vermont quarry made headlines and sent the town of West Rutland into a frenzy. In this spine-tingling episode of New England Legends, Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger explore the haunted ruins of Whipple Hollow, where locals claim the restless spirit of a quarry worker still lingers after a tragic accident. Was it just a tale carved from small-town superstition… or does something truly supernatural echo in the stone? The Haunting of Whipple Hollow - A New Engl...2025-06-0220 min

Late Night LegendsEmily's BridgeIn this episode, the Legends visit the Hallmark Holiday moving setting of Vermont to talk about their most famous haunting. Joan tells the Legends about Emily’s Bridge and how even though it is a literal bridge, this ghost seems to have a hard time crossing over to the otherside. Late Night Legends is a paranormal podcast and stream which believes Spooky Season should be all year long. Listen every week to learn what paratopic the Legends are getting into. Join our Discord! https://discord.gg/jcEGgpZHqE ...2025-01-1354 min

Vermont Artists & Authors(Episode 71): From Page to Legacy: Bill Tulp’s Journey with Alexander Twilight#StorycomicPresents #BillTulp #AlexanderTwilight #GraphicBiography #VermontHistory #HistoricalFigures #AfricanAmericanHistory #IllustratorsOnInstagram #BookRelease #ArtAndHistory #EducationThroughArt #LocalArtists #BiographyBooks #AmericanHistory #OldStoneHouseMuseum Join host Barney Smith is honored to chat with Bill Tulp, an award-winning author and illustrator, about his latest project, 'The Life and Times of Alexander Twilight.' This graphic biography, published by Onion River Press, beautifully details the life of Alexander Twilight, the first African American to earn a Bachelor’s degree and serve in a state legislature in the U.S. Bill delves into the research and creative processes behind illustrating this monumental figure, exploring Twilight's impact as an...2024-12-1829 min

Vermont Artists & Authors(Episode 69): Behind the Legend: Glenn Fay Jr. on Ethan Allen’s Family and Legacy#Vermontauthors #GlennFayJr #EthanAllen #VermontHistory #AmericanHistory #NewEnglandHistory #HistoricalBooks #HistoryLovers #AmericanRevolution #FamilyDynamics #VermontFounding #HistoricalResearch #HistoryAuthors #ArcadiaPublishing #EarlyAmericanLife #OnionRiverPress Host Barney Smith is honored to welcome historian and author Glenn Fay Jr. for a fascinating discussion about his upcoming book, "Ambition: The Remarkable Family of Ethan Allen." This episode delves into the often-overlooked aspects of Ethan Allen's family life, exploring their early struggles and significant contributions to Vermont's founding during a tumultuous period in American history. Glenn provides an in-depth look at the Allen family’s life in Connecticut, their ventures into Vermont, and their myriad challenges, from ha...2024-12-0426 min

The Montpelier Happy HourThe Myth is a Myth and Other Stories of Vermont and HippiesAugust 8, 2024: A quiz, dear listeners: In the 1970s, did the hippies A) save Vermont or B) ruin Vermont?Or, there's C) From guest Amanda Kay Gustin: "History is more interesting when it's more complicated." In this week's episode, we're going with "C" (as if regular listeners would be surprised). This week's guest, Amanda Kay Gustin, director of Collections and Access at the Vermont Historical Society, helps us dig into the stories around Vermont in the 1970s, the Counter Culture movement, and the myth of 50,000 hippies. Theme music by Red Heart the Ticker: http...2024-08-0351 min

Storycomic Presents: Interviews with Amazing Storytellers and Artists(Episode 362): From Page to Legacy: Bill Tulp’s Journey with Alexander Twilight#StorycomicPresents #BillTulp #AlexanderTwilight #GraphicBiography #VermontHistory #HistoricalFigures #AfricanAmericanHistory #IllustratorsOnInstagram #BookRelease #ArtAndHistory #EducationThroughArt #LocalArtists #BiographyBooks #AmericanHistory #OldStoneHouseMuseum Join us in Episode 362 of Storycomic Presents, where host Barney Smith is honored to chat with Bill Tulp, an award-winning author and illustrator, about his latest project, 'The Life and Times of Alexander Twilight.' This graphic biography, published by Onion River Press, beautifully details the life of Alexander Twilight, the first African American to earn a Bachelor’s degree and serve in a state legislature in the U.S. Bill delves into the research and creative processes behind illustrating th...2024-06-1330 min

Storycomic Presents: Interviews with Amazing Storytellers and Artists(Episode 360): Behind the Legend: Glenn Fay Jr. on Ethan Allen’s Family and Legacy#StorycomicPresents #GlennFayJr #EthanAllen #VermontHistory #AmericanHistory #NewEnglandHistory #HistoricalBooks #HistoryLovers #AmericanRevolution #FamilyDynamics #VermontFounding #HistoricalResearch #HistoryAuthors #ArcadiaPublishing #EarlyAmericanLife #OnionRiverPress In Episode 360 of Storycomic Presents, host Barney Smith is honored to welcome historian and author Glenn Fay Jr. for a fascinating discussion about his upcoming book, "Ambition: The Remarkable Family of Ethan Allen." This episode delves into the often-overlooked aspects of Ethan Allen's family life, exploring their early struggles and significant contributions to Vermont's founding during a tumultuous period in American history. Glenn provides an in-depth look at the Allen family’s life in Connecticut, their ventures into Vermont, an...2024-06-0227 min

The DissidentsThe Legacies of Black Pioneers: Lemuel HaynesWelcome to our the first episode of our monthly series of the Dissidents Podcast on the legacies of black pioneers, brought to you by the Black Institute of Liberal Values (a joint project of Free Black Thought and the Institute for Liberal Values). In this inaugural episode, Winkfield Twyman, Jr & Jennifer Richmond, speak with Bill Paine and Tom Miller, two descendants of the first ordained black minister, Lemuel Haynes. Jen & Wink talk about what it means for people to come together across the color line in celebration of pioneering ancestors and in community as “Old Americans”. 2024-02-281h 18

Vermont Artists & Authors(Episode 52): Brendan Buckley, ‘The Morse Code’#VermontSports #VermontAuthor #VermontProud #SportswritingLegacy #DaveMorse #VermontCommunity #RootstockPublishing #VermontBooks #SportsJournalism #VermontHistory #SportsWriting #CommunityLegacy #VermontLife #BookLovers #Bookworms #SportsFans #SportsBiography #VermontAuthors #SportsCulture #bookrecommendations Join us on Storycomic Presents as host Barney Smith of storycomic.com engages in a captivating interview with Brendan Buckley, the author of "The Morse Code: Legacy of a Vermont Sportswriter." Discover the fascinating story of Dave Morse, a legendary sportswriter whose unwavering dedication to his craft and community left an indelible mark. Impeccably researched and beautifully written, this book takes you on a journey through the life of a complicated, generous, and incredibly talented man. ...2023-10-2633 min

History SpelunkersEP 28: The American Civil War AbroadWelcome back one and all to another episode of History Spelunkers. Today our journey into the niche and obscure will take us back to the American Civil War. Mostly when one thinks of this conflict they imagine fighting in the fields of Gettysburg, Vicksburg, or Shiloh. But have you ever thought about the gray and blue duking it out off the shores of Northern France? Learn about that battle and more in today's episode!Shownotes:Photo Engraving of the Sinking of the CSS Alabama by Harper's Weekly Magazine. In the public domain accessed...2023-08-2157 min

Storycomic Presents: Interviews with Amazing Storytellers and Artists(Episode 283) From Ink to Immortality: The Life of Dave Morse Revealed | Interview with Brendan Buckley#VermontSports #VermontAuthor #VermontProud #SportswritingLegacy #DaveMorse #VermontCommunity #RootstockPublishing #VermontBooks #SportsJournalism #VermontHistory #SportsWriting #CommunityLegacy #VermontLife #BookLovers #Bookworms #SportsFans #SportsBiography #VermontAuthors #SportsCulture #bookrecommendations Join us on Storycomic Presents as host Barney Smith of storycomic.com engages in a captivating interview with Brendan Buckley, the author of "The Morse Code: Legacy of a Vermont Sportswriter." Discover the fascinating story of Dave Morse, a legendary sportswriter whose unwavering dedication to his craft and community left an indelible mark. Impeccably researched and beautifully written, this book takes you on a journey through the life of a complicated, generous, and incredibly talented man. ...2023-07-1434 min

Status: PendingCase Overview: Orville Gibson (1957)Orville Gibson rose from bed at his usual hour of 3:30 on the morning of December 31, 1957. The upper Vermont dairy farmer disappeared soon after.Episode Links:https://vsp.vermont.gov/unsolved/homicide/gibson https://newengland.com/today/living/profiles/the-haunting-case-of-orville-gibson/ https://vermonthistory.org/orville-gibson https://transom.org/2014/murder-memory-in-a-new-england-village-the-story-of-orville-gibson/ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2985899/In-Vermont-blotting-old-stain-towns-reputation.html 2022-11-2550 min

The Montpelier Happy HourAbolishing Slavery in VermontSeptember 30, 2022: Vermonters will consider two amendments to the state constitution this November. Proposition 2, makes it clear that slavery and indentured servitude are prohibited. In so doing, the amendment would close a loophole that currently exists. Rev. Mark Hughes, Executive Director of the Vermont Racial Justice Alliance, joins the show to discuss the Proposition. To read Proposition 2 in full: https://legislature.vermont.gov/bill/status/2022/PR.2Vermont Racial Justice Alliance: https://www.vtracialjusticealliance.org/Abolish Slavery Vermont campaign: https://abolishslaveryvt.org/To locate the book mentioned in this episode, "The P...2022-10-0155 min

The Montpelier Happy HourAct 250 and a history of land use in VT"It's always been a controversial law and I think that's because it touches upon some very important issues. That is, how do we regulate what people can do with their land? More importantly, why do we even regulate it?"-Judge Thomas Durkin-April 15, 2022 (prerecorded 4/8): Judge Thomas Durkin joins the show to talk about land use in Vermont and Act 250's role in that use. Act 250 is a landmark law that almost everyone knows of, but few actually understand.More about the Act 250 program: https://nrb.vermont.gov/act250-programVermont Historical...2022-04-1545 min

Green Mountain ChroniclesEpisode 51: RailroadsFor more background on this episode, please visit: https://vermonthistory.org/railroads-1989 2021-01-0505 min

Green Mountain ChroniclesEpisode 50: School ConsolidationFor more background on this episode, please visit: https://vermonthistory.org/school-consolidation-farewell-to-the-one-room-schoolhouse-1986 2020-12-3105 min

Green Mountain ChroniclesEpisode 49: The First Vermonters, the AbenakiFor more background on this episode, please visit: https://vermonthistory.org/first-vermonters-the-abenakis-1976 2020-12-2905 min

Green Mountain ChroniclesEpisode 48: Act 250For more background on this episode, please visit: https://vermonthistory.org/act-250-1970 2020-12-2405 min

Green Mountain ChroniclesEpisode 47: Back to the Land: Communes in VermontIn the 1960s and early 1970s, Vermont acquired a reputation for being a haven for hippies and a hotbed of counter-cultural communal living. There was some truth to that. But the communes and alternative life-styles of that generation had a deeper history than most outsiders—and most of the commune residents themselves—knew. And, like their predecessors in the nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, the often colorful, sometimes controversial, and much-discussed communal experiments of the late twentieth century ended up having a profound impact on the next generation of Vermonters.For more background on this episode, please visit: https...2020-12-2205 min

Green Mountain ChroniclesEpisode 46: The VT/NY Youth ProjectFor more background on this episode, please visit: https://vermonthistory.org/vt-ny-youth-project-1968 2020-12-1705 min

Green Mountain ChroniclesEpisode 45: The Aiken FormulaFor more background on this episode, please visit: https://vermonthistory.org/aiken-formula-myth-and-reality-1966 2020-12-1505 min

Green Mountain ChroniclesEpisode 44: Dowsing in DanvilleFor more background on this episode, please visit: https://vermonthistory.org/dowsing-in-danville-1961 2020-12-1005 min

Green Mountain ChroniclesEpisode 43: Democrats RisingFor more background on this episode, please visit: https://vermonthistory.org/democrats-rising-1958 2020-12-0905 min

Green Mountain ChroniclesEpisode 42: High Tech Comes to VermontFor more background on this episode, please visit: https://vermonthistory.org/hi-tech-comes-to-vermont-1957 2020-11-1905 min

Green Mountain ChroniclesEpisode 42: Consuelo Northrop BaileyFor more background on this episode, please visit: https://vermonthistory.org/consuela-northrop-bailey-1954 2020-11-1705 min

Green Mountain ChroniclesEpisode 39: The Case of Alex B. NovikoffThe most noteworthy expression of McCarthyism in Vermont involved the University of Vermont’s 1953 firing of Professor Alex B. Novikoff for the “crime” of invoking the Fifth Amendment before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee.For more background on this episode, please visit: https://vermonthistory.org/case-of-alex-b-novikoff-1953 2020-11-1005 min

Green Mountain ChroniclesEpisode 38: Maple SugaringFor more background on this episode, please visit: https://vermonthistory.org/maple-sugaring-1947 2020-10-2905 min

Green Mountain ChroniclesEpisode 37: Town BandsFor more background on this episode, please visit: https://vermonthistory.org/town-bands-1946 2020-10-2705 min

Green Mountain ChroniclesEpisode 36: Senator Ralph FlandersFor more background on this episode, please visit: https://vermonthistory.org/senator-ralph-flanders-1946 2020-10-2205 min

Green Mountain ChroniclesEpisode 35: Electricity Comes to Rural VermontFor more information on this episode, please visit: https://vermonthistory.org/turning-on-the-lights-1943 2020-10-2005 min

Green Mountain ChroniclesEpisode 34: World War II at HomeEven though the United States did not officially enter World War II until December 8, 1941, Vermonters had been involved—mostly indirectly—in the war effort for over a year. On September 1940, the Secretary of War ordered units of the Vermont National Guard into active duty; and in October—following the enactment by Congress of the Selective Service Act, creating the first peace-time draft in U.S. history—young Vermont men began receiving draft notices. Over the winter of 1940-1941, facilities at Fort Ethan Allen were expanded to house the 1,700 men of the Guard and their equipment. Meanwhile, efforts were underway to gain supp...2020-09-0300 min

Green Mountain ChroniclesEpisode 32: Fighting Silicosis, Dust Control in the Granite IndustryFor more background on this episode, please visit: https://vermonthistory.org/fighting-silicosis-dust-control-in-granite-industry-1937 2020-08-2700 min

Green Mountain ChroniclesEpisode 31: The OWLS, Vermont's Women LegislatorsThe Vermont Women's Legislative Caucus began its political life as the Vermont Chapter of the Order of Women Legislators, the OWLs. In June 1936, the women then in the Vermont legislature met at the Fletcher Farm in Proctor for a two day organizational meeting. Following the lead of Julia Emery of Connecticut, founder of the first OWLs group in the nation in 1927, the Vermont legislators joined together to form an organization, which, according to the Rutland Herald reported at the time, "is something else again, a legislative noman's land, as it were, social, informative, discursive, and instructive in its scop...2020-08-2500 min

Green Mountain ChroniclesEpisode 30: Legislative ReapportionmentFor more background on this episode, visit: https://vermonthistory.org/legislative-reappointment-1965 2020-08-1300 min

Green Mountain ChroniclesEpisode 29: The WPAFor more background on this episode, visit: https://vermonthistory.org/wpa-1935 2020-08-1100 min

Green Mountain ChroniclesEpisode 28: The Early Days of SkiingTelling the story of the development of the sport of skiing in Vermont often begins in 1934, when the first rope tow, a contraption powered by a Model-T Ford truck, was set up on a slope at Clint Gilbert’s farm in Woodstock. This mechanized apparatus did, indeed, launch a new era as well as a new technology in the history of skiing. But the story begins with the coming of skis to the north country that involved two Vermonters not often enough mentioned in today’s skiing memoirs: Fred Garey of Thetford and Fred H. Harris of Brattleboro. 2020-07-3000 min

Green Mountain ChroniclesEpisode 27: The Vermont Symphony OrchestraFor more background on this episode, please visit: https://vermonthistory.org/symphony-vso-1934 2020-07-2900 min

Green Mountain ChroniclesEpisode 27: The Green Mountain ParkwayIn 1933, the midst of the Great Depression, Col William J. Wilgus, former chief engineer of the New York Central Railroad, propose the construction of a scenic highway with a 1,000-foot right of way through the Green Mountains. Modeled after Virginia’s Skyline Drive in the Blue Ridge Mountains, the road was viewed, in historian Richard Judd’s words, “as an imaginative solution to the state’s apparent need for a big project which would employ many people, stimulate the Vermont economy, and confer lasting benefits on everyone concerned.” For more information on this episode, please visit: http...2020-07-2300 min

Green Mountain ChroniclesEpisode 26: Fighting the Great Depression with the CCCIncluded in President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s monumental Emergency Work Act in March 1933 was an authorization to create a Civilian Conservation Corps, or C.C.C. as it came to be known, to recruit thousands of young men in a peace-time army to work in forests and parks and to pursue a broad array of conservation activities. Vermont was originally allocated four C.C.C. camps, but thanks to the dynamic presence of Perry H. Merrill, State Forester, received considerably more assistance. For more information on this episode, visit: https://vermonthistory.org...2020-07-2100 min

Green Mountain ChroniclesEpisode 25: Collecting Old Songs: Helen Hartness FlandersIn 1930, the Committee on Traditions and Ideals of the Vermont Commission on Country Life appointed Helen Hartness Flanders (1890-1972), of Springfield, Vermont, to spearhead a project to document the traditional music of Vermont. Mrs. Flanders, daughter of former Governor of Vermont James Hartness, and wife of Ralph Flanders, a leader in the Vermont machine-tool industry and later Republican Senator from Vermont from 1946-1959, was a trained musician, writer, and arts patron. With the assistance of George Brown of Boston, a member of the Springfield Symphony, Mrs. Flanders traveled throughout the state, sought out singers of old ballads, wrote down...2020-07-1600 min

Green Mountain ChroniclesEpisode 24: Vermont in the Great DepressionUntil recently, little has been written about Vermont during the Great Depression. Two major and now classic scholarly works addressed some aspects of the era. Richard M. Judd's New Deal in Vermont covers a broad expanse of time and focuses on the major political events and the players who shaped New Deal legislation in Vermont. Elin Anderson's We Americans offers a remarkably insightful look at patterns of social interaction between Burlingtonians of varying social and ethnic identities ca. 1930, but does little to convey the overall reality of Depression-era life throughout the state. What was the nature of suffering, misery, desp...2020-07-1400 min

Green Mountain ChroniclesEpisode 23: The Flood of 1927Vermont has had a long history of flooding. Of its approximately twenty major floods in the last two hundred years, the flood of November 3-4, 1927, was one of the most devastating (rivaled, and perhaps exceeded, by the floods in May 2011 in Central Vermont and the widespread damage from flooding related to Tropical Storm Irene in August 2011). A severe rainfall had swept across all of New England on that November weekend. But when the deluge hit Vermont, the state’s soil had already become saturated and the streams were running full because of an unusually heavy precipitation in late summer an...2020-07-0900 min

Green Mountain ChroniclesEpisode 22: Memories of Silent CalCalvin Coolidge became president of the United States as a consequence of Warren Harding’s death from a cerebral embolism on August 2, 1923. Coolidge completed Harding’s term and was elected to a term of his own in 1924, finally leaving office in March 1929. He was fortunate to have been president during a period of relative peach and expanding apparent prosperity. His conservative Republican policies of inaction toward domestic and international problems came to symbolize the era between World War I and the Great Depression. He skillfully restored integrity to government following the Harding scandals, and his plain-and-simple style was an appe...2020-07-0700 min

Green Mountain ChroniclesEpisode 20: Vermont Country FairsAgricultural fairs have been popular annual attractions of Vermont’s summer and fall seasons for at least 150 years.For more background on this episode, visit: https://vermonthistory.org/vermont-country-fairs-1924 2020-06-1800 min

Green Mountain ChroniclesEpisode 19: Walter Hard, Storekeeper-WriterVermont claims several writers and artists who, intentionally or otherwise, have become the makers or recorders of the Vermont mythology, the shapers of its image of itself or the image the rest of the world appears to share of the place and its people. Writers Rowland Robinson, Daniel L. Cady, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, and Robert Frost; as well as painters Thomas Waterman Wood, James Franklin Gilman, Norman Rockwell, and Wolf Kahn are some of the best known. Few, however, seem as universally admired as Walter Hard.For more background on this episode, visit: https://vermonthistory.org/walter-hard-sr-1924 2020-06-1700 min

Green Mountain ChroniclesEpisode 18: The KKK in VermontFor more background on this episode, please visit: https://vermonthistory.org/kkk-in-vermont-1924 2020-06-0400 min

Green Mountain ChroniclesEpisode 17: Edna BeardFor more background information on this episode, visit: https://vermonthistory.org/edna-beard-vermonts-first-woman-legislator-1921 2020-06-0200 min

Green Mountain ChroniclesEpisode 16: The Anarchist Movement in BarreFor more background on this episode, visit: https://vermonthistory.org/anarchist-movement-in-barre-1920 2020-05-2800 min

Green Mountain ChroniclesEpisode 15: Women Get the VoteFor more background on this episode, please visit: https://vermonthistory.org/women-get-vote-1920 2020-05-2600 min

En Masse5) “Everybody’s got to live.”If work couldn’t be found in the formal job market, people would find or make work for themselves in the informal market, which is often criminalized. During the heydays of the granite industry, widows of deceased workers supported themselves and their families by running boarding houses or making and selling food, wine, and spirits. Melicenda makes Italian dinners for the wealthier residents of Montpelier, but she does so at great risk. She lives in constant fear of the police raiding her home.Oral history transcript to be performed: Melicenda Bartoletti, Cook and Caterer (1930s, Federal Writers’ Proj...2020-05-2242 min

Green Mountain ChroniclesEpisode 14: ProhibitionFor more background on this episode, visit: https://vermonthistory.org/prohibition-1920 2020-05-2100 min

Green Mountain ChroniclesEpisode 13: The Early Days of RadioFor more background on this episode, visit: https://vermonthistory.org/early-days-of-radio-1920 2020-05-1900 min

Green Mountain ChroniclesEpisode 12: The Co-op MovementSince the first dairy coop in Vermont began marketing mild in 1895, there has been a steady growth in the volume of dairy products handled by these organizations and the scope of their services to Vermont’s agricultural community. Available statistics show two dramatic tendencies—the gradual dominance by coops over proprietary dairies in the marketing of milk, and the consolidation of the dairy coops themselves over time.For more background on this episode, visit: https://vermonthistory.org/the-coop-movement-1919 2020-05-1400 min

Green Mountain ChroniclesEpisode 11: The 1918 Flu EpidemicIn the late summer and autumn of 1918, the population of Vermont was ravaged by the pandemic of “Spanish Influenza” that struck nationwide and worldwide. The disease, which attacked the lungs, caused high fever, delirium, excruciating pains in the back and limbs, and nausea, swept across the state rapidly.For more background on this episode, visit: https://vermonthistory.org/flu-epidemic-1918 2020-05-1200 min

Green Mountain ChroniclesEpisode 10: World War I & Camp VailCamp Vail was organized in the summer of 1917 because of wartime concern about an inadequate supply of farm labor within the state. To deal with the issue, the Vermont Farm War Council, composed of representatives of agricultural organizations and agencies in the state, appointed Frederick H. Bickford of Bradford as Farm Labor Agent. Bickford conceived the idea of creating a camp to train young Vermont boys in farm work as a means of helping assure an adequate work force at wage rates Vermont farmers could afford to pay. Camp Vail at Lyndon Center, Vermont, was the result. The location...2020-05-0700 min

Green Mountain ChroniclesEpisode 9: Traveling Entertainment: The ChautauquasIn the early years of the twentieth century, before the days of radio and movies, an annual entertainment and cultural highlight for rural Vermonters was “Chautauqua Week.”The tent Chautauquas were traveling groups that operated in many parts of the United States from 1904 to 1930, usually in villages and towns of 500 to 10,000 people. Each stop lasted approximately three to seven days during which audiences could enjoy a diversified program of lectures, music, drama, and humorous entertainment.For more background on this episode, visit: https://vermonthistory.org/traveling-entertainment-chautauquas-1915 2020-05-0500 min

Green Mountain ChroniclesEpisode 8: 4-H in VermontWith the decline of the Grange movement during the early part of the twentieth century, new instruments were developed to sustain the vitality of Vermont’s agricultural community. The Smith-Lever Act, passed by Congress in 1914 to provide for “the advancement of agriculture,” funded the fledgling Vermont Extension Service, operating under the aegis of the University of Vermont. Monies were channeled into three broad program areas, each to be administered by the Extension Service. The first was designed to promote extensive agricultural experimentation, the second sponsored “home demonstrations” across the state to acquaint farm families with innovations in “scientific” farming, and the third...2020-04-3000 min

Green Mountain ChroniclesEpisode 7: Early AviationFollowing news of the Wright Brothers’ exciting success at Kitty Hawk, exuberant Vermont youths took to their garages and workshops to construct their own flying machines.For more background on this episode, please visit: https://vermonthistory.org/early-aviation-1910 2020-04-2800 min

Green Mountain ChroniclesEpisode 6: The Long TrailPreparations for hiking Vermont’s 270-mile Long Trail, the first long-distance wilderness hiking trail in America, have changed considerably since the first Long Trail Guide was published in 1917. Men were advised to wear “ordinary height shoes with hobnails, felt hat, ‘generous sized’ silk bandana, inch-wide leather belt with cup attached, wool underwear, wool shirt and stout wool trousers,” while female hikers should have high-laced boots with “Hungarian nails,” and wear bloomers.For more information on this episode, visit: https://vermonthistory.org/long-trail-1910 2020-04-2300 min

Green Mountain ChroniclesEpisode 5: The Telephone Comes to VermontFor more information about this episode, visit: https://vermonthistory.org/number-please-telephone-comes-to-vermont-1910 2020-04-2100 min

Green Mountain ChroniclesEpisode 4: Dorothy Canfield FisherFor more background on this episode, visit https://vermonthistory.org/dorothy-canfield-fisher-1907 2020-04-1600 min

Green Mountain ChroniclesEpisode 3: Early Autos in VermontPrior to World War I, automobiles in Vermont functioned by and large as novelties or objects of curiosity. They were few in number (in 1906, there were 373 registered vehicles) and, according to William Wilgus (The Role of Transportation in the Development of Vermont), usage was confined to “individual pleasure and convenience.”For more background on this episode, visit https://vermonthistory.org/early-autos-in-vermont-1902 2020-04-1400 min

Green Mountain ChroniclesEpisode 2: The Age of TrolleysIn the years before the First World War, the electric trolley, spitting blue sparks, saw its heyday in Vermont, also its decline. The little four-wheel “bobbers” and the big eight-wheel, two-trucked interurbans carried 10 million passengers a year.For more background on this episode, visit: https://vermonthistory.org/age-of-trolleys-1901 2020-04-0900 min

Green Mountain ChroniclesEpisode 1: Dewey DayThe “Dewey Day” celebration in Vermont occurred in Montpelier on October 12, 1899. On that day Vermonters staged a historic welcome home for native son Admiral George Dewey, whose success in destroying the Spanish fleet at Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War made him the nation’s number one naval hero. Dewey’s exploit in the Philippines seemed to bring glory to Vermont and it became one the highlights of standard histories of the state.For more background on this episode, visit https://vermonthistory.org/dewey-day-a-century-ends-1899 2020-04-0600 min

GraveYard TalesEP 30 Lake Champlain MonsterTonight we discuss CHAMP, or Champy….. or Phil if you know him well enough. Join us as we go through some sightings, history, and theories! Poddy Break Twisted Philly Patreon https://www.patreon.com/GraveYardTales Do you want GraveYard Merch?!?! WWW.GraveYardPodcast.com to get you some! Visit DarkMyths.org Thank You Darron for our Logo!! You can get in touch with Darron for art work by searching Darron DuBose on Facebook or Emailing him at art_injector@yahoo.com Thank yo...2018-06-151h 30