June is a month when we celebrate our fathers, so we would like to use this months VT Untapped episode to show you Vermont through the eyes of a unique father and daughter team: Perkins Flint and Katharine Flint DuClos.

Inspired by the exhibit currently on display on our Middlebury Gallery, Ice Shanties: Fishing, People and Culture, this month we focus on the seasonal community of fishers that remerges each winter on the ice at the Retreat Meadows in Brattleboro.

This month’s episode explores the persistence of Franco-American culture in Vermont through the life and work of the late Martha Pellerin. Learn about Martha and her work to promote, validate and share the contributions made by Vermonters of French Canadian descent to the culture of contemporary Vermont.

To celebrate Women’s History Month, we honor the achievements of three extraordinary women: Nellie Staves, Daisy Turner, and Gert Lepine—all of whom were interviewed extensively by Vermont Folklife Center founder (and pioneer in her own right) Jane C. Beck.

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.

Major J. Francis Angier tells the gripping story of being shot down over Germany during World War II, surviving as a prisoner of war, and saving two ships carrying hundreds of soldiers from certain doom.

Based on interviews with hunters conducted by the Vermont Folklife Center, “Deer Stories” doesn’t advocate for or condemn hunting but rather explores the experience from an insider’s point of view.

“What’s my drag?” That’s the question photographer Evie Lovett found herself asking after spending time with Kitty, Mama, Candi, and Sophia, all drag queens at the Rainbow Cattle Company, a gay bar in Dummerston, Vermont.

Welcome to VT Untapped, a podcast from the Vermont Folklife Center that explores the cultures of Vermont through the voices of its own residents. Check out our preview and look for the first full episodes in early December!