Re-enactment of the St. Albans raid part of town’s heritage weekend on July...
Contact: Gary Rutkowski stalbansraid@gmail.com www.stalbansraid.com St. Albans Historical Museum: Allyn McDonald, director St. Albans Heritage Weekend: St. Albans, Vermont to showcase its Civil War...
View ArticleVermont Historical Society wins national awards for Civil War photo book,...
For Immediate Release AASLH Contact: Bethany Hawkins hawkins@aaslh.org 615-320-3203 AASLH Local Contact: Jane Campbell, Vermont Historical Society Jane.campbell@state.vt.us 802-479-8516 Vermont...
View ArticleNorwich’s Sullivan Museum opens new exhibit on Civil War
NEWS RELEASE Aug. 7, 2012 Contact: Daphne Larkin Media Relations Manager Office of Communications Norwich University 802-485-2886 or 595-3613(m) dlarkin@norwich.edu NORTHFIELD, Vt. – The Sullivan...
View ArticleLook what’s online for researchers now!
For Immediate Release September 10, 2011 Contact: Julie Nelson Vermont Historical Society and Museum 60 Washington Street, Barre, VT 05641 julie.nelson@state.vt.us (802) 479-8519 Look what’s online for...
View ArticleThe Power of the Past makes dynamic topic for Annual Meeting
NEWS RELEASE Oct. 4, 2012 Contact: Julie Nelson Vermont Historical Society and Museum 60 Washington Street, Barre, VT 05641 julie.nelson@state.vt.us (802) 479-8519 Woodstock, Vt. ― The Vermont...
View ArticleVermont Humanities Council to hold Civil War talk
NEWS RELEASE Oct. 23, 2012 Contact: Sylvia Plumb, Director of Communications, 802.262.2626 x302 Former National Park Superintendent Discusses Civil War’s Impact on Vermont at Essex Junction’s Brownell...
View ArticleVermont Historical Society to open new Civil War exhibit
NEWS RELEASE Oct. 25, 2012 Contact: Julie Nelson Vermont Historical Society and Museum 60 Washington Street, Barre, VT 05641 julie.nelson@state.vt.us (802) 479-8519 Barre, Vt. — The Vermont Historical...
View ArticleSecond Saturday Gallery Talks at Vermont History Center begin with Gettysburg
News Release — Vermont Historical Society July 1, 2013 Contact Julie Nelson Vermont Historical Society 60 Washington Street, Barre, VT 05641 julie.nelson@state.vt.us (802) 479-8519 Barre, VT –...
View ArticleDunsmore: The Battle of Gettysburg echos in today’s America
Editor’s note: This op-ed by retired ABC News diplomatic correspondent Barrie Dunsmore first appeared in the Barre-Montpelier Times Argus and Rutland Herald Sunday edition. All his columns can be found...
View ArticleCORRECTED: Howard Coffin to speak at a Civil War conference in St. Albans
Correction: The date of the Civil War event in St. Albans is Saturday October 26th NOT the 28th. NEWS RELEASE — Vermont Academy of the Arts and Sciences Aug. 30, 2013 Contact Connell Gallagher,...
View ArticleSecond Saturday Gallery Talk: Howard Coffin, Vermonters at Cedar Creek
News Release October 1, 2013 Contact: Julie Nelson Vermont Historical Society julie.nelson@state.vt.us (802) 479-8519 Barre, VT – On October 12, the public can learn more about Cedar Creek, one of the...
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In This State: Veteran Gilbert Lucier embodied Vermont’s deep passion for the...
After the Civil War, war memorabilia began to take over the Statehouse. Nothing demonstrates this more clearly than Vermont artist Julian Scott’s magnificent painting “The Battle of Cedar Creek.”...
View ArticleCedar Creek 150th anniversary/Vermont historical marker unveiling
News Release — Sen. Joe Benning Aug. 29, 2014 Contact: Joe Benning State Senator Caledonia-Orange District 802-274-1346 On Sunday, October 19th, at 11:30am, a monument honoring Vermont’s Civil War...
View ArticleSt. Albans Raid 150th Anniversary Commemoration is this weekend
News Release — St. Albans Raid Sept. 16, 2014 Contact: stalbansraid@gmail.com During the St. Albans Raid 150th Anniversary Commemoration this weekend visitors to St. Albans — including descendants and...
View ArticleVermont Humanities Council Fall Conference announced: How the Civil War...
News Release — Vermont Humanities Council September 24, 2014 Contact: Sylvia Plumb, Director of Communications, 802.262.1354 or Amy Cunningham, Program Director, 802.262.1356 The Vermont Humanities...
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In This State: Son of a slave became an orchardist, a legislator and more
William John Anderson started his orchard in 1911 on his father’s farm behind Shoreham’s St. Genevieve’s Catholic Church. By the late 1920s Anderson’s Diamond A Orchard had expanded along Route 22A and...
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Joe Benning: A Cedar Creek story
Re-enactors at the commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War’s Battle of Cedar Creek. Photo courtesy Joe Benning Editor’s note: This commentary is by state Sen. Joe Benning, who...
View ArticleDon Peterson: My great-grandfather left me a lesson on race
Editor’s note: Don Peterson is a contractor and a self-described unpaid lobbyist for the natural world. He is a longtime resident of Lowell. My dad was a bulldozer operator, working in Alaska. He had...
View ArticleNorwich University museum celebrates opening of fifth and final exhibition in...
News Release — Norwich University January 14, 2015 Contact: Daphne Larkin 802-485-2886 or 595-3613(m) Follow us on Twitter @NorwichNews dlarkin@norwich.edu NORTHFIELD, Vt. – Norwich University’s...
View ArticleRe-enactment of the St. Albans raid part of town’s heritage weekend on July...
Contact: Gary Rutkowski stalbansraid@gmail.com www.stalbansraid.com St. Albans Historical Museum: Allyn McDonald, director St. Albans Heritage Weekend: St. Albans, Vermont to showcase its Civil War...
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