Vermont State Historic Sites celebrate 250th birthday of the U.S. with events and readings

The Vermont Division for Historic Preservation invites visitors to readings of the Declaration of Independence at State Historic Sites on July 4.

The program’s topic is “What Were You Thinking Philip Schuyler, Benedict Arnold, and John Trumbull?”

“Return of an Army” is meticulously designed using contemporary letters, journals and drawings to reflect the conditions of 1776 and is the centerpiece of Fort Ticonderoga’s full season of 250th anniversary programming.

I encourage everyone to go enjoy this Middlebury gem.

A new play by Doug Anderson tells the story of Joseph Addison, the man whose name appears all around us.

Pulitzer Prize winner Beverly Gage will the lecture “This Land is Your Land: Grappling with the American Past on the 250th Anniversary of the Nation’s Founding” at Middlebury College.

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.