Vermont Architects Oral History Project
Working in partnership with Devin Colman of the Vermont Division for Historic Preservation, we are interviewing a selection of Vermont architects whose work has shaped the built environment of the state.
Anna & Elizabeth - A Benefit Concert for the Vermont Folklife Center
Spellbinding reinterpretations of traditional New England songs learned from the Vermont Folklife Center Archive and the Helen Hartness Flanders Ballad Collection at Middlebury College.
Exploring Community in the Vermont Grange
Exploring and documenting the role of the Grange in Vermont today - specifically focusing on two active community Granges: Middle Branch Grange in East Bethel and Riverside Grange in West Topsham.
Peoples Academy: Stories on the Road to Proficiency
Visit Peoples Academy in Morrisville, VT as a part of our “Stories on the Road to Proficiency” series -films to explore, spark dialogue, and further understanding about the implementation of proficiency-based learning.
CVU: Stories on the Road to Proficiency
Visit Champlain Valley Union HS in Hinesburg, VT as a part of our “Stories on the Road to Proficiency” series -films to explore, spark dialogue, and further understanding about the implementation of proficiency-based learning.
Harwood: Stories on the Road to Proficiency
Visit Harwood Union HS in Duxbury, VT as a part of our “Stories on the Road to Proficiency” series -films to explore, spark dialogue, and further understanding about the implementation of proficiency-based learning.
BFA St. Albans: Stories on the Road to Proficiency
Visit Bellows Free Academy in St. Albans as a part of our “Stories on the Road to Proficiency” series -films to explore, spark dialogue, and further understanding about the implementation of proficiency-based learning.
Trailer: Stories on the Road to Proficiency
Film trailer for “Stories on the Road to Proficiency” a compendium of films to explore, spark dialogue, and further understanding about the implementation of proficiency-based learning.
Growing Food, Growing Farmers
The Growing Food, Growing Farmers audio series focuses on agricultural activity - and agricultural revival - in Rutland County from the perspectives of the farmers themselves.
Migmar Tsering - "Yamdrok Yumtso"
Migmar Tsering, an accomplished singer and player of dramyin - a long-necked, seven-stringed lute - is a Tibetan refugee who has lived in Vermont since 2011.
Harold Luce and Adam Boyce - "Fisher's Hornpipe"
Harold Luce of Chelsea, VT learned to play fiddle as a boy in the 1930s and performed as a member of the Ed Larkin Contra Dancers from 1933 up until his death in 2014. In 2007 folklorist Andy Kolovos recorded Harold and his accompanist, Adam Boyce, in Chelsea, VT.
Alberta Gagné - "C'était une bergere"
"C'était une bergere" is a French language folk song that tells the story of an ill-fated encounter between a shepherdess and kitten. This version of the song was performed by Alberta Gagné of Highgate, VT and recorded by Vermont Franco-American performer and cultural advocate, Martha Pellerin in 1995
Fred Atwood - "Springfield Mountain"
"Springfield Mountain" (Laws G16) is a widely-distributed American folksong that details the story of a young man who dies of a rattlesnake bite. This version was performed by Fred Atwood and recorded in 1964.
Vermont Nepali Cultural Heritage Dance Group
Early this past summer, members of the Bhutanese Nepali New American community formed a folk dance and music group for young people in Burlington’s Old North End neighborhood
Daisy Turner
In 1983 Jane Beck, the founder of the Vermont Folklife Center, first met Daisy Turner, who then was 100 years old, born in Grafton, Vermont, the daughter of slaves.