History

Ron Wanamaker, Liisa Reimann, and Britta Fenniman-Tonn join in a discussion on Burlington's Historic Women. Preservation Burlington will be hosting events during March which is Women's History Month.

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Britta Fenniman Tonn

Britta joined the board in 2012. She has coordinated PB's walking tour program since 2010, an activity which merges her background and interest in education, historic preservation, and local history. Britta currently works as an architectural historian for EBI Consulting, an environmental consulting firm. Britta also works with the Church Street Marketplace to prepare historical reports and plaques for downtown Burlington buildings, teaches piano lessons to young children, and serves on the Winooski Planning Commission. A native New Yorker, Britta has lived full-time in Vermont since 2005 and spends much of her free time slowly repairing her 1860s vernacular home in Winooski.

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 Wanamaker 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.

Always controversial, Ethan Allen still inspires lively debate over his importance to the founding of the Fourteenth State. Was he a brawling, land-hungry drunkard or a persistent effective force in breaking away the Green Mountains from the grips of New York oligarchs? Just how should we think of the man who captured a British fort, languished in an English dungeon, and ended his days in a modest farmhouse in Burlington's intervale? Presented by Willard Sterne Randall, Distinguished Scholar in History and Professor Emeritus, Champlain College.

For more information, contact the Ethan Homestead Museum at (802) 865-4556.

Community activist and lawyer Sandy Baird offers commentary on Russia's Vladimir Putin.

Whether you are trying to reach out to volunteers for cemetery restoration, increase attendance at a historic museum, or just raise awareness of local history and our built heritage this is the show for you.

Ron Wanamaker and Liisa Reimann welcome Kaitlin O’Shea of the web blog Preservation in Pink and formally of Vtrans where she was part of the team that monitored historic resources that might be impacted by transportation projects throughout Vermont.

Also, Erin Barnaby joins the conversation. Erin is from Shelburne Museum where she maintains and encourages blogs from the disparate departments that keep the place running and interesting. Erin also teaches about media at St. Michael’s College.

And Preservation Burlington's own Liisa Reimann, web host of Preservation Burlington's website, Facebook page, and Twitter account, shares her insights into making sure the word goes out about Preservation Burlington's work and resources.

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