by Ryan Newswanger | Sep 4, 2024 | Episodes
Circumnavigating the Wilson Globe James Wilson is an almost mythical figure in Vermont History, reputedly a lone genius who created the first globe in America. For several years, the Vermont Historical Society researched more about Wilson and his globes – and...
by Ryan Newswanger | Sep 4, 2024 | Uncategorized
Circumnavigating the Wilson Globe Transcript Back to Circumnavigating the Wilson Globe episode. Teresa Greene: The story with James Wilson goes that he didn’t even know how to read. And he taught himself how to make a globe from scratch without ever looking at a...
by Ryan Newswanger | Aug 8, 2024 | Uncategorized
The Library Map of Vermont Transcript Back to The Library Map of Vermont episode. Amanda: This is Before Your Time, presented by the Vermont Historical Society and Vermont Humanities. Every episode, we go inside the stacks at the Vermont Historical Society to look at...
by Ryan Newswanger | Aug 8, 2024 | Episodes
Acid Rain and Vermont’s Waterways Vermont’s water quality has long been a top concern for scientists and residents, and in the 1980s it reached national attention as acid rain came to the forefront of public understanding. What is acid rain, anyway? Why...
by Ryan Newswanger | Jul 22, 2024 | Episodes
The Library Map of Vermont The “Library Map of Vermont” was created in 1914 to track all 225 brick and mortar libraries as well as 267 traveling library stations around the state. In this episode we’ll ask; Can a map truly show what it means for a community to have a...
