Vermont Community Fellows Program Launches!
The Vermont Community Fellows Program (VCFP), a partnership between Vermont Folklife and Conversations from the Open Road, is a three-year initiative to build statewide capacity for community-based, action-oriented field research. This year the program accepted 15 applicants into its first cohort. Over the next 12-18 months, the Fellows will receive in-depth training to inform and guide their ongoing work with the people and places that matter to them most
Partner Profile - Mary Simons
The recently launched Vermont Community Fellows Program is a partnership between Vermont Folklife and Conversations from the Open Road. CFTOR founder Mary Simons has worked with Vermont Folklife for over a decade, the relationship evolving from thought partners, to collaborators on a wide variety of projects. We are thrilled to be partnering with Mary on the Vermont Community Fellows Program, where she will be mentoring primarily student fellows over the next two years.
Partner Project: 50 Years of Feeding Champlain Valley
For the past two years, VT Folklife Associate Director, Andy Kolovs and Executive Director, Kate Haughey have been conducting research in partnership with the Champlain Office of Economic Opportunity (CVOEO). Last year we produced the exhibit “In our words, in our community” for CVOEO. More recently, we completed a second exhibit, celebrating 50 years of Feeding Champlain Valley (formerly known as Feeding Chittenden.
Moore Free Library’s Community Memory Project
In the Fall of 2020 the Moore Free Library in Newfane, VT started a community-wide interviewing/oral history project to preserve the memories of residents of their town and the surrounding towns of Williamsville, South Newfane and Brookline. The Project has been an amazing success and as it project moves into its second year, we wanted to hear what participants have to say about their efforts and the experience of working on the project. Read more here!