Did You Know? - Visitn’ with Hollis Squier
The VT Folklife Archive is full of amazing first-person accounts of everyday life in Vermont and New England–past and present. One of these interviews was with Hollis Squier of Tinmouth, VT. Hollis's family moved to Vermont in the early 1950's from upstate New York and took up farming in Tinmouth. Hollis took to small-town life, and from a young age got involved in town government. One of Hollis's early town positions was as the road commissioner - a role he took on as a young man in his early twenties.
Did You Know? The Snelling Collection - Part 2
Between 2002 and 2004, on behalf of the Snelling Center for Government, VFC founder Jane Beck interviewed 35 current and former Vermont legislators to explore the culture of Vermont’s citizen legislature and the personal relationships from which this culture emerges.
VT Folklife Goes to Tulsa!
This month, the VT Folklife Education team, Sasha Antohin and Mary Wesley, attended the annual meeting of the American Folklore Society (AFS) in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Read about their trip!
Roots of Renewable Energy
Don Mayer, David Sellers, and Jito Coleman recently gathered to share stories about the beginnings of North Wind Power in Warren, Vermont, in the early 1970s.