Lost her home to a savage British raid and her menfolk to captivity by the British forces.

The valor of a Vermonter, in peace and war

In 1854, Dewey entered the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, embarking on a path that would define his legacy.

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.”

George Robinson Thorne and the making of Montgomery Ward.

Amelia Earhart had an important personal connection to Vermont – the wife of the Norwich University president.

On March 4, 1791, Vermont became the 14th state!

The 10th Cavalry Regiment, also known as the Buffalo Soldiers, was stationed at Fort Ethan Allen in Colchester in the early 1900’s.

The malaise of Abraham Lincoln, Part Two

Long before he ambled out of the backwoods, depression haunted the gangling 6’4” yokel.

Hawkins tried in vain to regain his vision. He learned from doctors in this country that an opthamologist in Europe was his only hope. With no money to pay his passage over, he needed help. 

A glimpse into the devastating fire of January 18, 1898.

Old forts have always intrigued me, the more obscure the better. On Route 12 in the northwestern portion of Barnard, Vermont, there’s a Fort Defiance Hill that has long begged me for further investigation. 

Despite persistent reports of sightings of mountain lions/panthers/catamounts in Vermont, state wildlife officials say the last known catamount in Vermont fell to a hunter’s rifle on Thanksgiving Day, 1881.

Montpelier chosen as a capital for its central location? Kinda… but mostly it was about the money.

The 1938 hurricane was a disaster that hurt many New Englanders. Over 600 people died across 7 states. The storm destroyed many homes and businesses in Vermont.

Wearing full gear wearing 45-50 pounds, two firefighters stair-climbed the equivalent of 110 stories.

When America dragged its heels giving women the right to Vermont, a Grafton activist picketed the White House and got arrested in 1917. Three years later, Vermont state government decided against taking action to support the 19th Amendment.

122 years ago today, a telephone rang in Isle LaMotte. Little did he know that Theodore Roosevelt was about to step into his role as the Father of the American Century.

Vermont was one of many American states to adopt eugenics as the basis for public policies such as family separation, institutionalization, and sterilization that targeted the most vulnerable Vermonters.

The first account of gold being discovered in Plymouth was published in the Vermont Watchman and State Journal of 5 January 1855 and credits William Hankerson with the find.

After a day of non-stop rain, the American forces led by Gen. John Stark and Col. Seth Warner defeated the British and German troops desperately trying to capture much needed provisions from the colonial arsenal in Bennington.

His prompt call for all Americans to provide earthquake relief to Japan was classic Coolidge – compassionate, frugal with government resources, trusting in the generosity of individual Americans and private organizations.

Calvin Coolidge of Vermont is the only president who left government federal smaller than when he took office.

A son of East Calais moved to Georgia, where he enthusiastically published a pro-slavery, pro-secession newspaper.

Of its roughly twenty major floods in the last two hundred-plus years, the flood of November 3-4, 1927, was one of the most devastating.

Black Hole Hollow Farm: Not exactly a working farm with cows and pigs, but more of an equestrian and drinking facility frequented by artists, espionage agents, and Princess Margaret. Really.

A rabbi from Danby, Vermont will speak about the first sermon preached to a synagogue congregation in the New World in 1773, and the resulting Hebraic influence in the coming Revolution.

RocketJ’s birth came in 1984 at Dascomb Rowe Ball Park in Waterbury, where Bean slugged out cheeseburgers, hotdogs, fries, onion rings, sausage subs, fried clams, etc., and he is still doing it today.

In the newsroom three nights before Ike’s visit, a young man overheard Judge Smith tell managing editor Bud Mattison of a plan to fill the presidential creel.

Holocaust Remembrance Day will be celebrated in Stowe April 16.

Back then, the Birkenhaus was my second home, and Ann and Emo my second parents. In one of the more insane decisions ever, my first parents drove from New Jersey to Stratton almost every weekend in winter.

A Scottish-born pastor brought hundreds of Black children from Harlem to visit Vermont in 1946 with the help of legendary civil rights leader Adam Clayton Powell.

Preserving Vermont history costs money.

The only sober person in the room was a teenager without a driver’s license.

The boy kneels on the thick wool carpet before the 1941 Zenith console radio, with its wood veneer cabinet impersonating fine furniture.

The 151-year-old bell in the Cambridge Town Hall had been hidden for decades, until local third-graders brought it back to life and rang it on Veterans Day.

She came from Mississippi.

The Martin family left Massachusetts because of the Salem witch trials and relocated to New Hampshire and then to Vermont.

A.St. Albans man recalls when he parachuted into the occupied Netherlands with the 101st Airborne and fought in the Battle of the Bulge.

A homicide remains unsolved 34 years after a man’s body was found in the overgrowth of a Waterbury state park.

Betty the Royal Swan and her heir, Betty II, have held court in Swanton since 1961.

For some combatants, the fight was personal. Former friends who had grown up together in Vermont found themselves facing off with each other.

Celtics great Bill Russell was at the peak of his career in 1965 when he spoke to the Lions Club in Bradford.

An Irasburg man recalls how Vermont Antifa activists brought him to Middlebury College to participate in an attack on speaker Charles Murray in 2017.

Today, Grange president Mike Walker still wants Charlotters to honor the hall’s history, but he also wants them to see the organization in a new light: As a place for the whole community, not just farmers.

Come and enjoy a suitably understated celebration of the July 4 birthday of the United States and its 30th president, Calvin Coolidge of Plymouth Notch, Vermont.

A new historic marker in Burlington’s City Hall Park commemorates Vermont’s first gay pride parade in 1983.

The June 25-26 celebration of Ethan Allen Weekend is as good an occasion as any to retell two of the many scandalous, scatalogical stories about the legendary leader of the Green Mountain Boys.

A South Burlington cow given to President Dwight Eisenhower during his June 1955 visit to Rutland was sent to his working dairy farm in Gettysburg, PA.

A Rutland native, UVM grad, and recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor at Guadalcanal was the founder of the Vermont State Police in 1947.

The United States’ first known polio epidemic broke out in Rutland, killing 10 people, including children.

Pull up a chair, sit on a fence, wave to the marchers and cheer them on.

On the beaches of Normandy, June 6 1944, German gunfire took a terrific gouge out of a Norwich, Vermont man’s Army helmet – but he survived to write to his parents: “don’t worry.”

Awakened in the night and dressed in only his nightshirt, Green Mountain Boy Remember Baker attempted to defend his family from the mob of Yorkers with an ax.

Almost half of young Vermonters know little about the Holocaust.

Bestselling author Amity Shlaes will be the keynote speaker at the Ethan Allen Institute Jefferson Day Dinner Oct. 2 at the President Calvin Coolidge Historic Site in Plymouth.

Ruth Reynolds Freeman of Burlington, a pioneer woman architect, also pioneered the design of the passive solar home.

Vermonter Louise McCarren remembers New York City, September 11 2001.