Ethan Allen Homestead Enrichment Program
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The Ethan Allen Homestead hosts many educational programming opportunities. For a comprehensive listing, visit their website at www.ethanallenhomestead.org email: info@ethanallenhomestead.org phone: 802.865-4556Programs in this Series
Dr Scott McLaughlin talks of 'Whiskey on the Lake'. Rather than risk being caught along the roads that crisscrossed the United States-Canadian border in New York and Vermont, many professional smugglers and others avoided lawmen altogether...
John Duffy and Nick Muller pose serious questions about Ethan Allen’s political and personal motives, intentions and accomplishments, as well as his political and military tactics and their effectiveness, and his place in the story of Vermont...
Every community with a long history has had strange and unexplained occurrences. Thea Lewis, the Host of Burlington's Ghost Walks, shares some of the lesser known history of Burlington and surrounding areas.
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An author’s use of personal experience combined with details from Ethan Allen’s life to create a children’s book will be the focus of this presentation. Allen’s troubled early life in Puritan Connecticut, his role as a voice...
Acclaimed biographer Willard Sterne Randall presents 'Burgoyne's March' during the Saratoga Campaign. This invasion, during the early days of the American Revolution, played a critical role in securing the necessary foreign support that...
UVM Special Collections director Jeffrey Marshall discusses some of the treasures in its archives dealing with early Vermont, including the Allen Family. Learn how they might use these documents to do historical research.
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"Wolf Peaches, Poisoned Peas, and Madame Pompadour's Underwear: The Surprising Histories of Common Garden Vegetables". Spring will come, and with it planting season! Many of us look at vegetables as side dishes and simple food...
Art Cohn, underwater archaeologist and historian from the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum presents on local events and his discoveries while exploring and cataloging shipwrecks. For more information, contact the Ethan Homestead Museum at www....
When the Minutemen assembled at Lexington and Concord, did they know that they were firing the first shots in a struggle that would lead to the dissolution of the union between Great Britain and her American Colonies? Most historic records indicate...
A look at historical, unusual, (and at times comical) Vermont court cases from 1779 to the present, which have laid the foundation for our judicial system of today. Presented by author and lawyer, Paul Gillies.
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Professor Mark Stoler from the University of Vermont speaks on these two groundbreaking documents, and their impact on American and Vermont History. Presented by Ethan Allen Homestead Museum and supported by a Vermont Humanities Council grant....
Archeologist and University of Vermont professor Scott A. McLaughlin explores how artifacts provide a window on the life of a typical Revolutionary War soldier in the Champlain Valley. This program is supported by a Vermont Humanities Council grant...
Presenter Mark Hudson of the Vermont Historical Society, shares the history of the 'Benning Wentworth Grants of 1763', grants which resulted in the many Vermont Towns celebrating their 250th anniversary of incorporation this year.
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John Ewing looks back over thirty years to the formation of the Winooski Valley Park District and the creation of the Ethan Allen Homestead. Ewing also presents history of the intervale and the discovery of the Ethan Allen Homestead. One of the...
Executive Director Dan O'Neil provides background to the Homestead and highlights some of the events coming up in the summer/fall of 2013.
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Featured Story
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!