Vermont Humanities

More About the Book’s Themes

Painting of two girls in 1950s San Francisco in a corner under a streetlamp
Vermont Reads

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

A woman with gray hair wearing a blue shirt reads from a music stand in front of a seated crowd in a state park

Our seasonal “Words in the Woods” program allows Vermonters and visitors to enjoy our state’s natural beauty while listening to and reading literature in the outdoors.

Middle school students in costume on stage during Shakespeare play

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.”

African man in dark pants and shirt leading a group of children in a dance in a school gymnasium

We supported the Chandler Center for the Arts’ Global Connections Youth Outreach program, which highlights artists from around the world.

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