Ethan Allen Homestead Museum

Ethan Allen Homestead Enrichment Program: Preachers Behaving Badly - Religious Scandal in Early Vermont 05/16/2021

Vermont was home to several religious communities across the spectrum. Join us as Shelby Balik from the Metropolitan State University of Denver presents on the religious communities in early Vermont and some of their documented scandals.

Ethan Allen Homestead Enrichment Program: The Woodland Period in Vermont 04/18/2021

Join us as Jess Robinson, the Vermont State Archaeologist, shares some of the newest findings about the Woodland Period (3,000 - 400 years before the present) with a description of various sites and some of the interesting things found there!

Ethan Allen Homestead Enrichment Program: Historical Treasures in the Vermont State Archives 03/21/2021

The Vermont State Archives are a valuable resource for researchers and historians. They contain documents and items that tell a lot about the history of the state. They also contain interesting items and stories that don't often see the light of day. Join us as Mariessa Dobrick, Records & Information Management Specialist for the State of Vermont, presents some of the known and lesser known things found in the State Archives.

Ethan Allen Homestead Enrichment Program: The Revolutionary Gunboat “Spitfire” 02/21/2021

Susan Evans McClure, the Executive Director of the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, shares the story of Benedict Arnold's gondola, "The Spitfire", which was sunk by the British at the Battle of Valcour Island. Susan discusses the ship discovered sitting upright on the lake bottom in 1997 and the efforts of the LCMM to preserve it.

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Ethan Allen Homestead Enrichment Program: The Old East End of Burlington 01/17/2021

Dave Cawley presents the history of the Old East End of Burlington, a neighborhood that connected not only through land ownership, but by family ties, farming, mill enterprises, and religious connections.

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.

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.

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.

Ethan Allen Homestead Enrichment Program: The Rebel and the Tory - Ethan Allen, Philip Skene, and the Dawn of Vermont 08/16/2020

Historian Gary Shattuck discusses the Pre-Revolutionary efforts of Philip Skene and Ethan Allen to form a British colony focusing on the shores of Lake Champlain.

Ethan Allen Homestead Enrichment Program: Revolutionary Westminster, Vermont 04/14/2020

The Westminster Massacre was a tragic occurrence that resulted from mistrust, partisan differences, and economic challenges. Learn more as Jessie Haas of the Westminster Historical Society shares her research into this event, which occurred only a month before Lexington and Concord.

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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!