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Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Celebrations: Martin Luther King Jr. Remembrance Ceremony 2021 01/17/2021

Keynote Speaker: Tim Wise

Tim Wise is among the most prominent anti-racist writers and educators in the United States. He has spent the past 25 years speaking to audiences in all 50 states, on over 1500 college and high school campuses, at hundreds of professional and academic conferences, and to community groups across the country.

Ethan Allen Homestead Enrichment Program: The Jagged Edge of Progress 11/15/2020

Dr. Elise Guyette presents a hard hitting update on the lives of some of the people highlighted in her 2010 book, "Discovering Black Vermont," the story of three generations of free blacks trying to build a life and community in northern Vermont in the years following statehood. She follows them all over the United States, but especially to Reconstruction Era South Carolina, and examines their role in still unresolved social and historical struggles that shape our national discussions to this day.

Burlington Reparations Task Force: Burlington Reparations Task Force 11/11/2020

Mayor Weinberger calls the first meeting of the Reparations Task Force.

Members:

  • Pablo Bose, Professor of Geography at the University of Vermont
  • Hal Colston, State Representative, Director of Partnership for Change
  • Tyeastia Green, City of Burlington Director of Racial Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging
  • Christine Hughes, New Seasons Vermont and Racial Justice Alliance
  • Rebecca Zietlow, Professor of Law and Values at the University of Toledo College of Law

The City’s role in the institution of slavery and what is right for us to do in response is not yet clear, but we will never fully realize the ideals of our country until the issue of reparations is fully addressed. The formation of this task force is an important step toward that crucial goal.

Ethan Allen Homestead Enrichment Program: Vermont’s Ebenezer Allen - Patriot, Commando, and Emancipator 10/18/2020

Glenn Fay is a seventh-generation Vermonter and was an educator for many years as an adjunct professor at UVM and a chemistry teacher at CVU High School in Hinesburg. He became hooked on primary source research related to the American Revolution and maritime War of 1812 on Lake Champlain while completing an NSF Grant. As a result, he is now researching the life and characters in New England during the same moment in history. He has a BS in biology and earned a doctorate in educational leadership and policy studies. His book, "Vermont's Ebenezer Allen: Patriot, Commando, Emancipator," is due out on or before July 4, 2021.

Indigenous Peoples Day Teach In 10/12/2020

Nationally recognized Abenaki activist, teacher, and historian, Judy Dow will educate about the past, present, and future of the indigenous people of Vermont.

Ethan Allen Homestead Enrichment Program: The Life of Alexander Twilight 09/20/2020

Bob Hunt from the Old Stone House Museum in Brownington discusses the achievements of the first African American to earn a college degree in the United States (Middlebury College) as well as his contributions to Vermont.

Stopping Stones Dedication for Lavinia and Francis Parker 09/13/2020

Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, and Stopping Stones presented an in-person and virtual ceremony recognizing the lives of Lavinia Parker and her child, Francis, both enslaved from 1835-1841 in Burlington, Vermont. Stopping Stones is an historical reparations endeavor designed to help you and your organization eliminate institutional racism through 1) Research, 2) Recognition, and 3) Repair.

For more information: www.stoppingstones.org or send a message to info@stoppingstones.org

A Call to Honor Suffragists on Women’s Equality Day 08/26/2020

The Vermont Suffrage Centennial Alliance (VSCA) and the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF Burlington) commemorate the historic passage of the 19th Amendment in front of Burlington’s City Hall (149 Church Street).

August 2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the landmark 19th Amendment which prohibits the federal government and any state from denying citizens their right to vote on account of sex. In the final push for suffrage, women picketed in front of the White House six days a week, holding banners and using silence as protest. These Silent Sentinels, numbering approximately 2,000 over two and a half years, faced arrest, derision, torture, and jail.

Silent no longer, Vermont women and men urge passers-by to reflect on the importance of the vote for all citizens in our democracy while carrying non-partisan signs, wearing 1920s apparel or Votes for Women sashes, engaging in dialog about the importance of voting, and passing out voter information. We encourage attendees to wear the suffrage colors: white, purple, and/or gold.

Some of our guest speakers include: Lisa Senecal, Chair of the Vermont Commission on Women; Right Reverend Shannon MacVean-Brown, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Vermont; Jean Hopkins, League of Women Voters of Champlain Valley; Robin Lloyd, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom; Kesha Ram, candidate for the Vermont Senate; Molly Gray, candidate for Vermont Lt. Governor; Sarah Carpenter, Burlington City Council; Ericka Redic, candidate for Vermont Senate; Madeline Kunin, former Vermont Governor; Zoraya Hightower, Burlington City Council; Kristine Lott, Mayor of Winooski; Carolyn Branagan, candidate for Vermont Treasurer; and more.

Cleaning Up Bilwi - A Report From Our Sister City 08/25/2020

Cassia Chow reports from Bilwi, Puerto Cabezas on cleaning up the beaches, streets and community in Burlington's Nicaraguan sister city.

Middlebury College Faculty at Home: Abenaki, in Relation to the Language 08/19/2020

This summer, Middlebury added a pilot program in Abenaki to the Language Schools. For the last three decades, Jesse Bowman Bruchac and Conor McDonough Quinn have worked in Abenaki and other Eastern Algonquian language revitalization efforts.

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