![](/assets/artwork/1x1-42817eea7ade52607a760cbee00d1495.gif)
20 episodes
![](/assets/artwork/1x1-42817eea7ade52607a760cbee00d1495.gif)
Green Mountain Chronicles vermonthistory
-
- History
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
For more background on this episode, please visit: https://vermonthistory.org/railroads-1989
-
Episode 50: School Consolidation
For more background on this episode, please visit: https://vermonthistory.org/school-consolidation-farewell-to-the-one-room-schoolhouse-1986
-
Episode 49: The First Vermonters, the Abenaki
For more background on this episode, please visit: https://vermonthistory.org/first-vermonters-the-abenakis-1976
-
Episode 48: Act 250
For more background on this episode, please visit: https://vermonthistory.org/act-250-1970
-
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 -
Episode 46: The VT/NY Youth Project
For more background on this episode, please visit: https://vermonthistory.org/vt-ny-youth-project-1968