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 | 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 | Jul 23, 2020 | Uncategorized
Vermont on the Silver Screen Transcript Back to the Vermont on the Silver Screen episode. [Music from A Vermont Romance] Fred Pond: It’s called A Vermont Romance. And the title itself sounds very romantic, but it’s really not a romance film. It’s almost a political...
by Ryan Newswanger | May 29, 2020 | Uncategorized
Green Up Day Transcript Back to the Green Up Day episode. It’s the first Saturday in May – where are you? [background audio of Kentucky Derby] Not if you’re from Vermont. Melinda Vieux: “Hartland, it is a lovely time for residents across the generations to meet, mix...
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 | 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...
