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Manchester Center, VT 05255
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May 3
UVM professor Luis Vivanco explores the fascinating early history of the bicycle in Vermont, an invention that generated widespread curiosity when it arrived here in the 1880s. Over the next decade, enthusiasm exploded statewide as bicycles became safer, women took to the wheel, roads improved, and retailers developed novel advertising techniques to draw in buyers.
Statewide Underwriters: The Institute of Museum & Library Services through the Vermont Department of Libraries
Program Underwriters: Burr & Burton Academy; Middlebury College and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Peter Gilbert Endowment Fund; Woolmington, Campbell, Bent & Stasny, P.C.
Poet Sarah Audsley joined us at the Taconic Mountains Ramble State Park for Words in the Woods.
Humanities Camps are filled with reading and writing projects, field trips, and outdoor activities.
We won a 2020 Schwartz Prize for best public humanities programming in the U.S. for Vermont Reads 2019: “March: Book One.”
We supported Historic New England’s “More than a Market” project that explored the experiences of new Americans through food markets.
Our free public events help bring the power of the humanities to communities across Vermont.
