By Robert A. Mello, author of When The Trees Came Back
A dense forest thousands of years in the making once covered Vermont. Great elms, oaks, beeches, walnuts, butternuts, chestnuts, maples, birches, cedars, spruces, pines, and hemlocks, some of them hundreds of years old and over one hundred feet…
VHS is honored by Lockridge’s trust in our ability to preserve and ultimately share this incredible offering of Vermont’s music and is grateful for the opportunity to steward the next phase of this remarkable collection
The latest issue of our scholarly journal
The workshop will take place in Lyndonville in February 2027
A new look for our education portal
Did Montpelier really once require bicycles to carry license plates?
VHS visited 16 libraries throughout the state to bring Vermont History to public libraries.
A beautiful book of essays and photographs
The energy is palpable
Today, we mark the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, reflecting on not just one event but the entirety of our nation’s past 250 years. Vermont has been part of America’s multifaceted story from the start. We honor that role when we consider the full history of Vermont,…
