History

From Ethan Allen Homestead:

Our Songs Remember is a combination lecture and performance focusing on the ways in which the Abenaki oral traditions of storytelling and music play a part in the preservation of indigenous ways. Incorporating Pakholigan (the drum) and Pabekongan (the flute), father and son Joseph and Jesse Bruchac take you on a journey to the enduring roots of the Western Abenaki nations, showing how songs carry the heart and meaning of this enduring Native American culture.

Both English and Abenaki language are heard throughout the presentation and several stories are told that exemplify the way oral tradition has always served at least two purposes—to entertain and to instruct. A well-published author in many genres, Joseph Bruchac is a citizen and honored elder of the Nulhegan Band of the Coosuk Abenaki Nation. Jesse Bruchac, also an enrolled Nulhegan citizen, is the founder and Director of the School of Abenaki at Middlebury College, a musician, and frequent language consultant for television and movies. Both can be seen in the new PBS documentary MONADNOCK, The Mountain That Stands Alone, posted on joebruchac.com.

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Presented by Erik Esselstrom, PhD, Professor of East Asian History and Director of Asian Studies Program, UVM.

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From the Chittenden County Historical Society:

The Story of Anne Connelly, who, as a blind woman, ran her own business and was the first to have a trained guide dog.

Development Director of the Vermont Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired (VABVI) John Thomas presents the fascinating story of Anne Connelly, entitled: "Anne Connelly: The Blind Merchant of Burlington". Connelly (1899-1939) came to Vermont as a blind adult, and worked for VABVI (then the Vermont Association for the Blind), introduced our community to trained guide dogs and white canes, and ran her own business - all while supporting the blind community.

For more information, go to www.cchsvt.org

From Dr. Wetchi:

Host Dr. Wetchi chats with Robin Lloyd and Sandy Baird about Pan-Africanism. Pan-Africanism is in essence a movement of ideas and emotions. It is a social and political vision, a philosophy and a movement that seeks to unify Africans in Africa and members of the African diaspora into a global African community, and that calls for the political unity of Africa. For the founders of Pan-Africanism, there is an African personality common to all black men and women. This black personality contains specific values of wisdom, intelligence, sensitivity.

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Le panafricanisme est par essence un mouvement d’idées et d’émotions. Il s’agit d’une vision sociale et politique, d’une philosophie et d’un mouvement qui cherche à unifier les Africains d’Afrique et les membres de la diaspora africaine au sein d’une communauté africaine mondiale, et qui appelle à l’unité politique de l’Afrique.
Pour les fondateurs du panafricanisme, il existe une personnalité africaine commune à tous les hommes et femmes noirs. Cette personnalité noire renferme des valeurs spécifiques de sagesse, d’intelligence, de sensibilité.