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More About the Book’s Themes

Painting of two girls in 1950s San Francisco in a corner under a streetlamp
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Notes from The Telegraph Club

Malinda Lo’s blog includes a special section about the creation of Last Night at the Telegraph Club. It includes these entries:

  1. Chinese Food in 1950s America
  2. The Making of Miss Chinatown
  3. A Guide to Lily’s San Francisco
  4. Racism and the Chinese American Experience
  5. A Brief History of Male Impersonation
  6. Finding Queer Asian America in the Margins
  7. The True Story of the Raid on Tommy’s Place

Read “Notes from The Telegraph Club”

Vermont Humanities*** March 6, 2023

Poet Sarah Audsley in a black dress in front of a large gray rock.

Poet Sarah Audsley joined us at the Taconic Mountains Ramble State Park for Words in the Woods.

Group of students walking on a boardwalk into the woods

Humanities Camps are filled with reading and writing projects, field trips, and outdoor activities.

Rep. John Lewis and Andrew Aydin with students in front of a schoolbus

We won a 2020 Schwartz Prize for best public humanities programming in the U.S. for Vermont Reads 2019: “March: Book One.”

Group on tour in snowy Burlington

We supported Historic New England’s “More than a Market” project that explored the experiences of new Americans through food markets.

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Our free public events help bring the power of the humanities to communities across Vermont.