20 episodes

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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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.

    Episode 51: Railroads

    Episode 51: Railroads

    For more background on this episode, please visit: https://vermonthistory.org/railroads-1989

    • 5 min
    Episode 50: School Consolidation

    Episode 50: School Consolidation

    For more background on this episode, please visit: https://vermonthistory.org/school-consolidation-farewell-to-the-one-room-schoolhouse-1986

    • 5 min
    Episode 49: The First Vermonters, the Abenaki

    Episode 49: The First Vermonters, the Abenaki

    For more background on this episode, please visit: https://vermonthistory.org/first-vermonters-the-abenakis-1976

    • 5 min
    Episode 48: Act 250

    Episode 48: Act 250

    For more background on this episode, please visit: https://vermonthistory.org/act-250-1970

    • 5 min
    Episode 47: Back to the Land: Communes in Vermont

    Episode 47: Back to the Land: Communes in Vermont

    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 predecessors in the nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, the often colorful, sometimes controversial, and much-discussed communal experiments of the late twentieth century ended up having a profound impact on the next generation of Vermonters.
    For more background on this episode, please visit: https://vermonthistory.org/back-to-the-land-communes-in-vt-1968

    • 5 min
    Episode 46: The VT/NY Youth Project

    Episode 46: The VT/NY Youth Project

    For more background on this episode, please visit: https://vermonthistory.org/vt-ny-youth-project-1968

    • 5 min

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