by Ryan Newswanger | May 8, 2023 | Episodes
A Foot in Both Worlds People speaking Spanish as they milk cows may not fit our traditional image of a Vermont farm. But workers from Mexico and Central America are crucial to the state’s economy. And such migrant labor has a long history in Vermont. Download the...
by Ryan Newswanger | Mar 21, 2023 | Uncategorized
The Curious Catamount Transcript Back to The Curious Catamount episode. Paige Gibbs: Now, if you could please close your eyes while I count to 10. One, two, three, four… Ryan Newswanger: Hi, Ryan Newswanger here. I’m one of the producers of Before Your Time. Paige:...
by Ryan Newswanger | Mar 21, 2023 | Episodes
The Curious Catamount Though said to be extinct, catamounts live on in the minds of many Vermonters. In this episode we retrace a Barnard panther hunt from 1881 and consider the hold that these big cats continue to have on our imaginations. Download the Episode...
by Ryan Newswanger | Mar 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
A Town Solves a Problem Transcript Back to the A Town Solves a Problem episode. [Sound of bell ringing, archival movie audio] Film Narrator: On Town Meeting Day, the church bells bring the people out…they gather at their town hall, the center of every town’s civic...
by Ryan Newswanger | Mar 1, 2021 | Episodes
A Town Solves a Problem Town meeting is central to our identity as a little state on a human scale that does things differently. But what happens to town meeting when it needs to change during a pandemic? Or when it changes because Vermont itself has changed? Download...
