Vermont

Ron Wanamaker is joined by Liisa Reimann Rivera over the phone to discuss upcoming Preservation Burlington events and tours.

More information on Preservation Burlington. 

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 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.

Senator Patrick Leahy, Vice Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and Vermont educators discuss the impact on Vermont of proposed cuts in President Trump’s budget to the U.S. Department of Education.

Community College of Vermont, 1 Abenaki Way, Winooski.

For more info visit: https://www.leahy.senate.gov/

Long before the first European settler arrived, Vermont was home to a diverse community with a distinct culture and language. George Larrabee is a Tribal Council Member of the Abenaki Clan of the Hawk. living in Woodbury, VT. He has impersonated Chief Grey Lock at various festivals. George has written extensively about the Abenaki culture. Using hand-crafted items, he will explain and demonstrate the Abenaki culture and language tracing the origin of some Abenaki words.

For more info visit: http://www.ethanallenhomestead.org/

Hosts Liisa Reimann Rivera and Ron Wanamaker discuss Historic New England with Charlotte Barrett, Community Preservation Manager, Western New England, Historic New England.

More information on Preservation Burlington. 

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 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.