Our Listening in Place initiative is a participatory interviewing and sound recording project offering a way to connect and document the experiences of Vermonters during the COVID-19 emergency. This month’s episode touches on two themes that have consistently emerged through Listening in Place: resilience and human connections. Less of a “meet cute,” this year’s February episode of VT Untapped explores Covid as a catalyst for strengthening an existing relationship--a story about love across distance and across borders.

As we’re all gearing up for what is likely to be one of the most, shall we say “unusual,” Thanksgivings of our lifetimes (thanks again, 2020), here at VT Untapped™ we reached out to the VFC founder Jane Beck once more in search of suggestions for a seasonal story. Not surprisingly, once again Jane came through! Listen in to hear Earle Fuller’s story of driving (by this we really mean herding) over 500 turkeys from Vermont to market in Boston. Happy Thanksgiving!

It’s the 2020 VT Untapped Spooky Halloween Special! Are you brave enough to descend the creaking stairs down to the depths of the VFC archive as we dust off an old tape and listen to Floyd Cowdrey tell us about the most haunted of Vermont houses?

VT Untapped kicks off Season 2 with another round of “meet-cutes.” Adorable and surprising stories from Vermonters about meeting their sweeties. It’s 2020 after all so some meet online, some owe it to the Seven Days personals and thank goodness, some still meet in a good, old fashioned, hipster coffee shop. Hear them all in this month’s episode of VT Untapped.

This month on VT Untapped we hear spooky stories told by Kim Chase of Essex Junction. Kim is a second-generation, bilingual Franco-American and the stories she shares were passed down through generations of her family members. Gather round Kim’s rocking chair and listen up. Don’t be too scared!

The “meet-cute” is as old as love itself. This term refers to the conditions under which two potential partners meet. Your true love could be on the other side of the desk at a job interview, at the end of a scavenger hunt, or the last one out of the clown car. Yes, these are all true stories. Hear them in this month’s episode of VT Untapped.