The Green Mountain Chronicles was a radio show produced by the Vermont Historical Society in the 1980s. We're re-releasing it today for you to listen to at home.
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Episode 49: The First Vermonters, the Abenaki
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Episode 47: Back to the Land: Communes in Vermont
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In the 1960s and early 1970s, Vermont acquired a reputation for being a haven for hippies and a hotbed of counter-cultural communal living. There was some truth to that. But the communes and alternative life-styles of that generation had a deeper history than most outsiders—and most of the commune residents themselves—knew. And, like their predeces…
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Episode 42: High Tech Comes to Vermont
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Episode 39: The Case of Alex B. Novikoff
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The most noteworthy expression of McCarthyism in Vermont involved the University of Vermont’s 1953 firing of Professor Alex B. Novikoff for the “crime” of invoking the Fifth Amendment before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee. For more background on this episode, please visit: https://vermonthistory.org/case-of-alex-b-novikoff-1953…
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Episode 35: Electricity Comes to Rural Vermont
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Even though the United States did not officially enter World War II until December 8, 1941, Vermonters had been involved—mostly indirectly—in the war effort for over a year. On September 1940, the Secretary of War ordered units of the Vermont National Guard into active duty; and in October—following the enactment by Congress of the Selective Servic…
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Episode 32: Fighting Silicosis, Dust Control in the Granite Industry
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Episode 31: The OWLS, Vermont's Women Legislators
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The Vermont Women's Legislative Caucus began its political life as the Vermont Chapter of the Order of Women Legislators, the OWLs. In June 1936, the women then in the Vermont legislature met at the Fletcher Farm in Proctor for a two day organizational meeting. Following the lead of Julia Emery of Connecticut, founder of the first OWLs group in the…
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Episode 30: Legislative Reapportionment
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