History

Artful Word: Dragonboat Racing 08/06/2017

Community producer James Gero comes to the Dragonboat Races on the Burlington Waterfront. The Lake Champlain Dragon Boat Festival includes 1,600 Vermonters racing 41-foot long dragon boats for fitness, fun, and fundraising. Community teams are made up of local businesses, non-profits, service groups, neighbors, and families who make a difference in the lives of our friends and neighbors with cancer.

Native Voices: A Traveling Encampment 07/30/2017

This program features an event at Burlington's Fletcher Free Library with short stories and music from three indigenous cultures shared beside a Native American tipi and a Bedouin tent.

Old North End Ramble Round-Up 07/29/2017

Revelers join MC Eric Dreiblatt, dance leader Lois Trombley, DJ Rush, and musical guests ReVibe, A2VT, Appalled Eagles, and Binger at the Old North End Ramble's culminating event, the Round-Up.

Church Street Marketplace Pioneers 07/28/2017

Jim Rader interviews Bill Truex, Pat Robins, and Paul Bruhn at Leunig's Bistro about their visionary concept for, and savvy creation of, Burlington's Church Street Marketplace, which incorperates four consecutive downtown blocks reserved for pedestrians and is filled with shops, services, and residences.

Preview of the 2017 Old North End Ramble 07/27/2017

Organizers of The Ramble invite viewers to their annual street festival to spend a day exploring the Old North End. They detail how to get involved by hosting, performing, playing music, barbecuing, showing off your artwork or garden, having a yard sale, leading games, doing workshops, vending, and more!

Preservation Burlington: Memorial Auditorium 07/27/2017

Ron Wanamaker is joined by Liisa Reimann Rivera to discuss the Memorial Auditorium and the upcoming events of the Preservation Burlington Old North End Ramble tour and the Maritime Festival.

More information on Preservation Burlington.

Liisa Reimann Rivera - Originally from England, Liisa has lived in Burlington since 2006. She earned her Master's in Historic Preservation from the University of Vermont and is a principal with Blue Brick Preservation. Liisa lives in a 1954 ranch house, whose historic wooden windows she thinks are of a genius design seldom seen since, in Burlington's New North End. Liisa's passions include historic industrial buildings, firehouses and little-known builder-architects of the vernacular landscape.

Ron Wanamaker - Ron has been a member of the Board since 2007 and has served as Vice President and President. A passionate preservationist, he continues to serve on the Education Committee for Preservation Burlington and is also a member of Burlington’s Design Advisory Board. A contractor since 1988, he has lived and worked in Burlington since 1998 and managed Wanamaker Restoration as well as Champlain Valley Millworks.

Ethan Allen Homestead Enrichment Program: The Homestead After Ethan 07/16/2017

Ethan Allen died on February 12th, 1789, leaving behind his wife and children. The story of his Homestead does not end there, however. Legal battles, world events, and family dynamics colored the lives of the inhabitants of the Ethan Allen Homestead for many years to come. Dan O’Neil presents the stories of some of the people who called the Homestead home and the events and social conditions that shaped their lives.

What's Going On?: Revolution - Bastille Day and the Second Vermont Republic 07/14/2017

Sandy discusses the French Revolution's legacy through the American and Haitian Revolutions and into a contemporary secessionist movement in Vermont.

Familiar guests Kurt Mehta, Peter Garritano, and Marc Estrin are joined by Rob Williams of the Second Vermont Republic for this Bastille Day episode.

Veritas: What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? 07/07/2017

A discussion of the meaning of Frederick Douglas' Fourth of July Speech.

Robert Maynard was one of many individuals with the Vermont Humanities Council who hosted events commemorating the Fourth of July Speech by escaped slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglas on July 5, 1852 in Rochester, New York. Listen to this show to learn about why this speech is still very relevant to today.

Artful Word: Lilian Baker Carlisle Book Opening at Shelburne Museum 06/26/2017

Community Producer and videographer James A. Gero comes to the Shelburne Museum for a very special event. A book opening gala for noted local historian and instrumental archivist, Lilian Baker Carlisle. Carlisle's work spans over 60 years of cataloging and documenting many of the museum's spectacular exhibits. Now finally you can relive much of her life and love of the Shelburne Museum through this amazing new book.

Featured Story

CCTV Receives NEH Grant to Support Community Archives

CCTV Center for Media & Democracy is pleased to announce receipt of a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grant alongside 32 peer archival institutions across the country. This $49,927 grant award will support efforts to preserve and expand access to audio/visual community history materials in the CCTV Archives. Read more about this opportunity here!