History

YMCA plans for new building 03/14/2018

A short video on the future of the Greater Burlington YMCA.

What's Race Got to Do with It? 03/09/2018

Paul Yoon is the Senior Advisor for Strategic Diversity Research and Assessment at the University of Vermont, Burlington. He is also a former Assistant Principal of Tuttle Middle School and a former lecturer on the History of Racism at Boston College.

Positively Vermont: Vermont Folklife Center 03/05/2018

Host Dennis McMahon talks with Executive Director Kathleen Haughey and archivist Andy Kolovos of the Vermont Folklife Center about the resources and opportunities available.

For information can be found at VermontFolkLifeCenter.org.

Education and Enrichment for Everyone: Marijuana, Poverty, and Taxes: The Focus for Vermont Lawmakers in 2018 03/02/2018

Neal Goswami, Capital Bureau Chief for WCAX-TV, hosts this forum on state legislative priorities.

FOCUS: The Irish Woman's Voice in Poetry with Angela Patten 03/01/2018

In conjunction with the Burlington Irish Heritage Festival, Angela Patten, Dublin born poet and senior lecturer at the University of Vermont, visits with Margaret Harrington on the Channel 17 TV series FOCUS. Angela Patten reads selections from her three poetry collections: "In Praise of Usefulness," "Reliquaries," and "Still Listening." She also reads from her prose memoir "High Tea at a Low Table: Stories from an Irish Childhood." Angela and Margaret talk about the Irish woman's voice in poetry and read selections from "The White Page / An Bhileog Bhan: 20th Century Irish Women Poets."

Ethan Allen Homestead Enrichment Program: An Extraordinary Ordinary Woman - The Journal of Phebe Orvis 02/18/2018

St. Michael’s College professor Susan Ouellette discusses the amazing journal of a woman whose diary captures not only the everyday life of an ordinary woman in early nineteenth-century Vermont and New York, but also the unusual happenings of her family, neighborhood, and beyond.

Artful Word: Lake and Sea Smoke 02/01/2018

Community producer James Gero records high wind lake waves, sea smoke, and ambient visuals and noise.

Preservation Burlington: Woodworking at South End Joinery 01/30/2018

Liisa Reimann and Karl LuKhaup, President of Preservation Burlington, sit down with Hannah Bush, an educator and a maker at the South End Joinery, to introduce the opportunities available from this community resource operated by ReSource.

More information on Preservation Burlington.

FOCUS: The Dorothy Canfield Fisher Name Should be Removed from the Vermont Book Award 01/29/2018

In this discussion of why Dorothy Canfield Fisher's name should be removed from the Vermont Book Award, evidence is presented that the author had a direct connection with the Vermont Eugenics Survey. Judy Dow, Franco American/ Abenaki educator, artist, and writer, presents a compelling power point on the history of eugenics and documentation on the reasons to change the Dorothy Canfield Fisher book award name. Kim Chase, third generation, Franco American writer and educator, and Kathy Olwell, retired social worker and social activist, talk about how the impact of the Vermont Eugenics Survey is still pertinent and discuss the vital need for acknowledgment, education, and a chance to heal.

Vermont Book Award: vcfa.edu/vermont-book-award/about-vermont-book-award

Ethan Allen Homestead Enrichment Program: The Role of Local Militias in the Revolutionary War 01/21/2018

Award-winning author of books on American military history, Robert Grandchamp, challenges your perception of the role the common American helped play in the American Revolution.