by Ryan Newswanger | May 29, 2020 | Episodes
Green Up Day Vermont’s Green Up Day celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. In 1970, the day featured closed interstate highways, coerced schoolchildren, and shouted encouragement from a buzzing Cessna. Download the Episode Subscribe to the Show This...
by Ryan Newswanger | Feb 20, 2020 | Uncategorized
The Long Enough Trail Transcript Back to the Long Enough Trail episode. Ben Rose: I used to say that the Appalachian Trail takes five or six months to hike and it’s a couple thousand miles of forced march, and that the Long Trail could really be called the Long...
by Ryan Newswanger | Feb 20, 2020 | Episodes
The Long Enough Trail Stories from those who founded, hiked, and loved Vermont’s Long Trail, including the first women to through-hike the “footpath in the wilderness” in 1927. Download the Episode Subscribe to the Show This Episode’s Featured...
by Ryan Newswanger | Dec 19, 2019 | Uncategorized
Princes and Free Men Transcript Back to the Princes and Free Men episode. [Recitation of Bars Fight poem]Shanta Lee Gander strides down Abijah Prince Road in Guilford, Vermont, reciting a poem. She’s wearing a white homespun blouse and a red skirt. It’s Fall.[Bars...
by Ryan Newswanger | Dec 19, 2019 | Episodes
Princes and Free Men It’s well-known that Vermont is one of the whitest states in the Union. And so the stories of African American Vermonters can sometimes get forgotten, no matter how important they have been to our state’s and our nation’s history. Mural of Martin...
