by Ryan Newswanger | Jul 22, 2024 | Uncategorized
Acid Rain and Vermont’s Waterways Transcript Back to Acid Rain and Vermont’s Waterways 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...
by Ryan Newswanger | May 23, 2024 | Episodes
Forests and Frontiers Vermont’s extensive old-growth forests drew representatives from the King’s Navy looking for mast trees. What can their map of timber resources tell us about our relationship to the land, how Vermont defined itself, and how history is...
by Ryan Newswanger | May 23, 2024 | Uncategorized
Forests and Frontiers Transcript Back to Forests and Frontiers episode. David Paganelli: Our forests relative to the forests that are depicted on this map, which. Which might have been 200 years old or 300 years old from our forests. Seldom are that old. Or forests...
by Ryan Newswanger | Apr 18, 2024 | Uncategorized
Canal Fever Transcript Back to Canal Fever episode. Art Cohn: Every one of those communities that could see the success of the canal. Read about the success of the canal. We want one. If it could work over there, it can work over here. Why not? We’ve got water....
by Ryan Newswanger | Apr 18, 2024 | Episodes
Canal Fever In the summer of 1829, three Army surveyors created a map exploring a potential canal route that would have connected Lake Champlain and the Connecticut River. “Canal Fever” was gripping the region, with the success of the Erie Canal. But this...
