
In the midst of a global energy crisis, Winooski’s ingenious city planners applied for a $55,000 federal grant to study the possibility of constructing a dome over the city.
In the midst of a global energy crisis, Winooski’s ingenious city planners applied for a $55,000 federal grant to study the possibility of constructing a dome over the city.
A Brandon blacksmith patented the first electric motor. Who knew?
“You are crazy,” said my partner with an emphasis on “crazy.” It probably never occurred to her that we were scheduled to play Julio’s Restaurant, the team that shared first place in league play.
Between 1840 and 1860, a great wave of Irish immigrants washed up on the shores of Lake Champlain. So many, in fact, that Vermont’s inland sea has been nicknamed the Irish Lake, according to a presentation by Vermont’s pre-eminent historian of Irish-Americans in the Green Mountain State, Vince Feeney.
Anna Chandler of Orange, age 100, earned her commercial pilot’s license in 1967.
Famed Green Mountain Boy Remember Baker’s kidnapping and rescue will be celebrated in Arlington March 21.
Holy Cow! historian Mark Powell tells the story of a U.S. president who had a ‘love child’ during the Roaring Twenties.
A retired schoolteacher explains the birthday of Vermont in three easy paragraphs.
He never visited Vermont, but Lincoln did visit compassion on her soldiers. Vermont gave Lincoln votes, elections, stone for many monuments, and – finally – a home for three generations of descendants.
The Vermont House of Representatives today honored Tuskegee Airman Lt. Col. Woody Woodhouse.