New book highlights American heroes

Middlebury professor Connor Williams recently co-authored “A Promise Delivered,” which details his work on a Congressional commission tasked with renaming military bases previously honoring Confederate leaders.

The Vermont Historical Society is launching its first annual Women’s History and Material Culture Fellowship.

In a July 19 ceremony on School Road across from the Shoreham town green, a State Historic Preservation Officer unveiled the large green marker that told a brief story of Newton Academy and Shoreham High School.

The walk is at the State Historic Site in Orwell on Sunday, Aug. 3, from 1 to 3 p.m.

When Chase Purinton first arrived in Lincoln in 1803, he might not have imagined his descendants would continue to gather annually in that same corner of Addison County over two centuries later. But that’s exactly what has happened.    

Mount Independence State Historic Site’s long-time site interpreter Paul Andriscin will talk about his new work of historic fiction, “The Memoirs of Isaac Kendall, Soldier of the Revolution, 1776-1777.”

The DAR John Strong Mansion/Museum in Addison will host a talk by Ellen Thompson Saturday, Aug. 2, at 1 p.m.: “Education, values, creativity: Samplers of Post-revolutionary War Vermont.”

Soon, community members will have yet another reason to stop by the town hall, as a group of residents has been working on a new Monkton History Museum that will open in the lower level of the building next week.

New Haven native Homer Hulbert became a missionary, linguist, writer and national hero in Korea for his peaceful advocacy of Korean independence during the Japanese occupation.

On Sunday, May 18, at 2 p.m., Chief Don Stevens, Nulhegan Band of the Coosuk – Abenaki Nation will talk about the Abenaki culture and beliefs, what peoples were in this area, how the area was used.

In Vermont, painted curtains graced stages in town and grange halls, opera houses, and community theaters between 180 and World War II. Learn more at May 1 talk in Starksboro.

The Mount Independence State Historic Site is offering a spring guided history walk on and off the trails on Saturday, May 3.

I’ll play my new film, “Lost Nation,” this Saturday at Middlebury Town Hall Theater, as a part of the film’s Vermont 50 Town Tour. It will screen here again on Aug. 10. JAY CRAVEN The film is a Revolutionary War-era action drama set in the early upstart R … (read more)

This Revolutionary War-era action drama is set in the early upstart Republic of Vermont with some notable historic characters fleshed out in an exciting story.

PANTON — Agricola Farm in Panton was among 20 farms to receive a Barn Preservation Grant recently from The Vermont Division for Historic Preservation and the Vermont Advisory Council on Historic Preservation. This year, the program will award $350,235 to … (read more)