The Underwater Archaeology of the American Revolution on Lake Champlain
In the years running up to the current 250th commemorations of 1776, the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum has focused its research activities on the American Revolution.
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- Manchester Community Library 138 Cemetery Ave, Manchester Center, United States
A Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted
Platt Memorial Library 279 Main St, Shoreham, VT, United StatesAt this presentation you will learn that the mission statement of A Revolutionary Press, inspired by the Declaration of Independence, directs us in our efforts to bring about an entirely distinct Revolution for the present and the future, as we listen to, and print some of today’s lesser known radical and revolutionary visionaries. Everyone at this event will have the opportunity to print one of these pieces to help imagine that next Revolution.
Vermont Sampler Stories
Vermont State University Castleton, Jeffords Auditorium 233 South St, Castleton, Vermont, United StatesThis presentation is based on the research Michele Pagan has done into the Revolutionary War ancestors of the girls who made 19th century schoolgirl samplers. Needlework samplers are a visual record of the values that guided early female education in Vermont, including its focus on needlework as an essential skill for all girls and women. As artifacts of female education, they provide insight into family dynamics, local history, and community values.
The Underwater Archaeology of the American Revolution on Lake Champlain
Worcester Town Hall 12 Worcester Village Rd, Worcester, VT, United StatesIn the years running up to the current 250th commemorations of 1776, the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum has focused its research activities on the American Revolution.
Pins and Pies, Linens and Lamps: Imagining the World of Charity & Sylvia
Ilsley Public Library 75 Main St, Middlebury, VT, United StatesThe publication of Tillie Walden’s recent graphic novel Charity & Sylvia–and its selection as the 2026 “Vermont Reads”–was a wonderful impetus for the Henry Sheldon Museum to rethink how we might feature the story of Charity Bryant and Sylvia Drake in the museum galleries.
Strange Bedfellows: How Religious Liberties Have Aligned with Nondiscrimination Policies and Can Again
Dudley H. Davis Center 590 Main Street, Burlington, VT, United StatesThe First Amendment protects the free exercise of religion. The Fourteenth Amendment affords all persons equal protection under the law. What happens when those two rights collide, as happened in the in the Masterpiece Cake case? Must protections for religious liberties come at the expense of non-discrimination statutes?
Vermont Sampler Stories
Charlotte Library 115 Ferry Road, Charlotte, VT, United StatesThis presentation is based on the research Michele Pagan has done into the Revolutionary War ancestors of the girls who made 19th century schoolgirl samplers. Needlework samplers are a visual record of the values that guided early female education in Vermont, including its focus on needlework as an essential skill for all girls and women. As artifacts of female education, they provide insight into family dynamics, local history, and community values.
CALLING: Reclaiming Shared Humanity in America’s 250th Year
Fletcher Free Library 235 College St, Burlington, United StatesCALLING is a participatory, interdisciplinary humanities offering that invites communities to reflect, create, and reimagine what it means to be American at the threshold of our nation’s 250th anniversary. Rooted in the belief that creativity is a liberating force and a civic practice, CALLING brings together spoken word, storytelling, and imaginative inquiry with Rajnii Eddins and block printing with A Revolutionary Press to engage participants in courageous conversation and hands-on art-making.
Ira Allen and the Green Mountain Frontier
First Congregational Church of Brookfield 48 N Ridge Road, Brookfield, United StatesLand speculator, revolutionary, pamphleteer, politician, and empire-builder, Ira Allen was a key figure on the late eighteenth-century Green Mountain frontier. Based on his 2024 book Ira Allen: A Biography, J. Kevin Graffagnino’s lively talk evaluates Allen’s checkered career and makes the case for including him in our picture of Vermont’s formative decades.
Vermont Sampler Stories
Wardsboro Public Library 170 Main St, Wardsboro, VT, United StatesThis presentation is based on the research Michele Pagan has done into the Revolutionary War ancestors of the girls who made 19th century schoolgirl samplers. Needlework samplers are a visual record of the values that guided early female education in Vermont, including its focus on needlework as an essential skill for all girls and women. As artifacts of female education, they provide insight into family dynamics, local history, and community values.
