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...
by Ryan Newswanger | Feb 19, 2021 | Uncategorized
Send Me a Box Transcript Back to the Send Me a Box episode. (Sounds of walking to a house and knocking) Ryan Newswanger: Do you consider that you live in East Barnard, or in Pomfret? John Leavitt: I always called it East Barnard, but I’m actually in Pomfret. But a lot...
by Ryan Newswanger | Feb 19, 2021 | Episodes
Send Me a Box We examine some of the products that people have mailed to and from Vermont, from maple syrup to complete houses and almost everything in between. Download the Episode Subscribe to the Show This Episode’s Featured Object: Civil War Letters Sent...
