History

Sandy Baird comments on the 'Pledge of Allegiance' requirements exemplified by current debate for the Woodbury, Vt. school.

Sandy Baird comments on remembering Armistice Day.

Tour of city cemetery

Continuing saga of the stone circle project on Burlington's waterfront.

Paul Gatanga speaks of the turmoil in the Congo and approaches to remedy the situation.

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Willard Sterne Randall, Champlain College’s Distinguished Scholar in History, delivers a lecture which puts the spotlight on Samuel de Champlain. Mapmaker to the King of France, Samuel de Champlain married the 14-year-old daughter of a Parisian courtier. Champlain’s passion for exploration carried him from Labrador to Panama (he was the first to suggest a canal) to Canada. Quebec’s founding father, he also discovered and put his name on our lake.

Host Dennis McMahon speaks with Laura Need, Interim Director, of the Ethan Allen Homestead on the history, events and opportunities for public participation.  www.ethanallenhomestead.org

Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author David Cay Johnston reads from his most recent book, 'Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and stick you with the bill)', taking questions from the audience on the recent economic crisis.

Program host, Patricia Araujo, will talk about some of the local residents of Lakeview Cemetery. Some of these people include: Charles Heyde, General George Jerrison Stannard and Louisa May Howard.  Also discussed was the Rural Cemetery Movement and the role it played in Landscape Architecture.

Veteran Washington Post reporter and author Michael Dobbs shows that the real danger of war during the Cuban Missile Crisis came not from the decisions of Kennedy and Khrushchev, but from chance events largely beyond their control.