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Ethan Allen Homestead Enrichment Program: How Vermont Became Iconic: From Backwater to Wonderland 11/17/2025

From Ethan Allen Homestead:

Presented by Dr. Douglas Slaybaugh.

For more information: ethanallenhomestead.org

Ethan Allen Homestead Enrichment Program: The ‘Losers’ of the American Revolution: Loyalists, What They Lost, and Why We Should Care 10/18/2025

From Ethan Allen Homestead:

Presented by Alexandra Garrett, professor of early American history at Saint Michael’s College.

For more information: ethanallenhomestead.org

Ethan Allen Homestead Enrichment Program: Uncovering Artifacts in the Attic: the Archaeology of the Archaeology at Ethan Allen Homestead and Interpreting its Changing Landscape 09/21/2025

From Ethan Allen Homestead:

Presented by Niels Rinehart, archaeologist and Lands Administration and Historic Resources Coordinator with the Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation.

This presentation is part of a 3-year conservation project sponsored in part by grants from Vermont Humanities and the Champlain Valley National Heritage Partnership — as well as over 1,000 volunteer hours from over 100 volunteers!

For more information: ethanallenhomestead.org

4th Annual Town of Essex Community Day Festival 09/20/2025

From the Town of Essex:

Join us for our 4th annual Town of Essex Community Day Festival!

Our Community Day Festival celebrates everything that makes the Town of Essex Special. Town residents and neighbors from surrounding communities are invited to join us for a day of fun and entertainment. Kids will enjoy hay rides, festival games, and treats at our Kids Carnival, while adults can shop local vendors, enjoy fare from area food trucks, and network with local businesses and organizations. Whether you explore our expansive touch a truck, relax on a hay-drawn wagon ride, or dance to the live music, there's sure to be something for everyone.

Essex is a great place to live, work, and play. We strive to build a culture of community through fun events for all ages. Join us for Community Day.  

For more information visit: https://www.essexvt.gov/1466/Community-Day-Festival-2025

Ethan Allen Homestead Enrichment Program: Vermont: The State with an Outsized Influence on our Country 08/17/2025

From Ethan Allen Homestead:

Presented by Jim Douglas, former Governor of Vermont.

For more information: ethanallenhomestead.org

Ethan Allen Homestead Enrichment Program: Thomas M. Achenbach Memorial Talk - Was This Owned By Ethan Allen?: A Look at the Artifacts (and Legacy) Ethan Allen Left Behind 07/20/2025

From Ethan Allen Homestead:

Presented by Katie Grant, Collections Manager at Vermont Historical Society.

For more information: ethanallenhomestead.org

Lafayette 200 - Bicentennial Farewell Tour of America: Winooski Farmer’s Market 06/29/2025

From Lafeyette 200:

Now in its 20th year, French Heritage Day celebrates Vermont’s rich French history and heritage, as well as Québecois culture. The celebration features: live French music, guest market vendors with French-inspired goods, a French Bread and Pouding Chomeur baking contest, kids and professional Waiter Races, a visit from Revolutionary War General Marquis de Lafayette, Plein Air painting, Petanque lawn games, local history and genealogy resources, and French language speaking, all in addition to a full farmers market. The Heritage Winooski Mill Museum will be open in the Champlain Mill.

For more information visit: https://lafayette200.org/

Lafayette 200 - Bicentennial Farewell Tour of America: Burlington Old Mill Cornerstone Rededication 06/29/2025

From Lafeyette 200:

After meeting with old soldiers and the public downtown at City Hall Park, Lafayette travelled up to UVM to lay the cornerstone for the new Old Mill building, which was destroyed by fire a year earlier. He was met by students and the new UVM president, Willard Preston. Lafayette had laid the cornerstone for the massive Bunker Hill Monument in Boston just a week earlier. He and many Burlington dignitaries were members of the Masonic Fraternity. One of the well-known public ceremonies that Freemasons perform is the consecration of a cornerstone as it is being laid during the construction of a new building. The Grand Lodge of Vermont will be performing this ceremony to commemorate Lafayette’s action 200 years ago, at what is now the historic Old Mill building on the UVM campus at 26 University Place. Local musician/singer Matt Van Wagner will open the ceremony with a rendition of La Marseillaise to recognize the importance of the French legacy Lafayette left for America. The public is welcome to attend!

For more information visit: https://lafayette200.org/

Lafayette 200 - Bicentennial Farewell Tour of America: Essex Junction Wreath Dedication 06/29/2025

From Lafeyette 200:

Although Lafayette did not stop in Essex in 1825, he will stop by for a re-enactment and wreath-laying in the village cemetery for David Day II. Sergeant Day had served with Lafayette in the pivotal Yorktown campaign of 1781, which sealed the American victory. Join us graveside for the emotional story of their reunion in Burlington, where Day presented the sword given to him by Lafayette almost fifty years earlier. Participating in honoring Essex’s Revolutionary War soldiers will be the Burlington Chapter of the DAR and staff from the Josiah Day House in West Springfield, Massachusetts, the town where David Day II enlisted in 1780 at age 22.

For more information visit: https://lafayette200.org/

Lafayette 200 - Bicentennial Farewell Tour of America: Williston Trail Marker Unveiling 06/29/2025

From Lafeyette 200:

The Williston Historical Society is excited to host Julien Icher of the Lafayette Trail, Inc. (a leading expert on the topic) and a General Lafayette actor (of Lafayette 200 in Vermont) to celebrate the unveiling of the Lafayette trail marker on the Williston Village Green (7773 Williston Rd, Williston, VT 05495) in honor of Lafayette’s reception in Williston on the same day in 1825. The event will last approximately 30 minutes and include remarks from the various stakeholders involved in the preparation of this historic occasion.

In conformity with the spirit of republican education championed by Lafayette in his time to promote a greater understanding by Americans of the ideals of freedom and democratic equality upon which their nation was founded, the event will be free of charge and open to the general public.

We find comfort in knowing that once installed and dedicated, this monument will tell the story of Lafayette’s connection to Williston and Vermont and educate younger Americans about its meaning, thereby fulfilling Lafayette’s political goal of institutionalizing freedom across generations in the United States.

For more information visit: https://lafayette200.org/

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