The Town of Manchester, Vermont, Municipal leaders were bewildered by what they read on the front page of the Wall Street Journal’s July 29, 1976, edition. It was unwelcome news. They were still contemplating the fate of the 412-acre, 24-room Georgian Revival ancestral home of Robert Todd Lincoln (1843-1926).   A year had passed since Abraham Lincoln’s great-granddaughter, Mary (Peg) Lincoln Beckwith’s Hildene home became vacant after an illness took her life at a Rutland hospital.

Many non-biblical historians and objective, skeptical scholars insist that he was a historical figure.

Safeguarding liberties in a new nation

When the Civil War erupted, Willie’s father answered the call to defend his adopted country, enlisting in the 3rd Vermont Infantry in June 1861. The boy, desperate not to be separated from his father, begged to accompany him to war.

December 1, 1946, an 18-year-old college student named Paula Welden vanished while taking a hike on the Long Trail near Glastenbury Mountain. Welden had informed her roommate that she intended to go for a walk, but she never returned. The subsequent search involved hundreds of volunteers, including military personnel, but no concrete evidence was discovered.

Branded “SS” (stirrer of sedition) on his forehead, William Brewster’s ears were cut off and he was put in prison “until a convenient time.”

Three retired U.S. Marines now wearing VSP green honor the 250th birthday of the Corps today.

“The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down….”

So, Jimmy Carter did indeed set foot in the Green Mountains in 1976, but Republican incumbent Gerald Ford won Vermont with 54.34% of the vote. Carter garnered the remaining 43.14%.

While Edson’s military exploits drew national attention, his commitment to Vermont shaped the state far beyond his battlefield record.

It is called a castle, but it never was. Wealth built it, and filled it with the finest that the Old and New Worlds had to offer, but even the Robins’ fortune couldn’t satisfy “Doctor” Johnson’s unbridled ambitions.

Designated Vermont’s state terrestrial fossil in 2014, the mammoth continues to inspire research into the region’s Ice Age past.

On September 14, 1923, the Champlain Valley Fair finished its first season in its current location. Some may say it was never bigger than when in 2008 Sir Elton John graced its grandstand.

Vermonters have always been an innovative breed, and yet most of the Green Mountain State’s iconic manufacturers built their companies elsewhere. Henry Wells, co-founder of both American Express and Wells Fargo, left Thetford for New York, as did Elisha Graves Otis of Halifax, founder of Otis Elevator. John Deere left Rutland for Moline, Illinois. One Vermonter, however, managed to achieve iconic status without leaving his hometown of Manchester.

Vermont probably wouldn’t exist today if not for the Battle of Bennington.

“Special interest groups certainly don’t have anything to do with the anniversary of the Revolutionary War battles fought by Vermont forefathers,” the petition claims.

The Lafayette Trail is an organization (Sponsored by the The William G. Pomeroy Foundation) that commemorates Lafayette’s grand tour. 2024 marked the 200th anniversary of his visit, and over the course of his return, he stopped by a number of locations in Vermont.

The forgotten potential fourteenth colony and its relation to the Fourteenth Star

The British and Hessian troops met unexpectedly stiff resistance from the Green Mountain Boys.

“Sylvia Drake and Charity Bryant lived together in Weybridge from 1807 until Charity’s death in 1851 as one of the most well-documented same-sex couples in early America,” according to a Middlebury College website. 

June 17 is the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill. Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes!

Albert Sponheimer, of East Rygate, was there that day, and was awarded the Silver Star for his heroic work as a medic…. He saved countless lives while exposing himself to heavy enemy fire on the shores of Omaha Beach.

Being one of the earliest forms of taxation, it is not surprising that tariffs produced one of the earliest forms of tax evasion: smuggling.

Someone’s grandparents always seem to remember one, and sometimes you can still find the scruffs and scrapes of shoes and boots on the floors. But where’d those hoedowns go? What were they like? And what did they do for small, rural communities?

An elegant piece of Vermont history made a public appearance Thursday evening, April 24 for the 70th birthday party of Sen. Alison Clarkson of Windsor County.

The 80th anniversary of two significant events, this Spring.

1,600 miles as a prisoner of war and escapee across a collapsing Confederacy

Closed borders racist? Not according to our nation’s greatest civil rights leaders.

Not until the close of the 20th century did a black woman sit in the Vermont Legislature.

Flying explorer Amelia Earhart had many important personal connections to Vermont. Here’s one more….

Radio station owner and history-making car enthusiast…..sounds a little like Ken Squier.

If a marsh rabbit can care about politics, the one in this story was surely a Republican.

The life and times of Joshua Young, the deaf abolitionist minister of Vermont

The place where the great marine explorer first learned to work underwater is not where you’d expect. 

Our Brave Little State knew the war was coming.

Two UVM grad students are disputing the widely held notion that Vermont during the early 20th century targeted native Americans with a eugenics-related sterilization policy.

One of the most colorful “doctors” of that era was “Sleeping Lucy” Cooke, a trance medium who made medical diagnoses and set broken limbs while in a hypnotic state from which she claimed to remember nothing.

As America itself became the root cause of the attack on so many campuses, the symbol that soothed the heart of many after the bombings, the American flag, became a source of endless hate.

Like Amelia Earhart on her attempt to circle the world a mere five years later, their fate remains one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in aviation history.

A legacy of architectural innovation

Vermont probably wouldn’t exist today if not for the Battle of Bennington.

Potash production was high-tech in 1790. A Vermonter – kinda – was on the cutting edge.