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We're pleased to announce next publication: Winters’ Time: A Secret Pledge, a Severed Head, and the Murder That Brought America's Most Famous Lawyer to Vermont. It's a fascinating account of a dramatic episode in Vermont’s history: the time that Clarence Darrow, America’s most famous lawyer, came to…
By Sydney Washburn, 2025 Geiger Fellow
It’s easy to imagine picking up any big-name soda brand in grocery stores or gas stations now, but nestled in Barre, Vermont, one local soda manufacturer named F.W. Langlois used to supply the area with high quality soda water in the early 20th century. Granite…
Former Vermont Supreme Court Chief Justice Jeffrey L. Amestoy is the author of a new book about a notorious murder trial that took place in Vermont in which famed lawyer Clarence Darrow arrived to defend the accused during his appeal.
By Katie Grant, VHS Collections Manager
The world as we knew it shifted in 2020 with the COVID-19 pandemic, and one of the ways that the state of Vermont worked to protect its citizens was by issuing quarantine requirements for out of state visitors. Soon after the pandemic began in March 2020, the…
By Emily Lev, VHS Director of Stewardship & Public Relations
It’s a bright winter’s day at the Leahy Library in the Vermont History Center in Barre, where Steve Picazio, Vermont Historical Society’s librarian, is explaining the importance of acquiring, conserving, and sharing items in the VHS’s vast…
Visitors to the Vermont History Center in Barre might notice a new addition to the grounds: a trio of boxes set atop cedar poles. The insignia on the front should give you an idea of what they might be for: bats!
The VHC is located in the historic Spaulding School Building in downtown Barre. It was…
The Vermont Historical Society is pleased to announce a new exhibit at the Vermont History Museum in Montpelier: Illustrating History, which will remain on display through June 2026.
Illustration of historical events has been an important way of teaching and sharing certain narratives about the ideals…
VHS Staff and members of the Activating 21st Century Local History cohort were honored with the opportunity to speak about our work at the Maine Active Collections Forum.
On June 28, 1825, the Marquis de Lafayette, war hero of the American Revolution, arrived in Montpelier at about 9:00PM. He had begun the day in Windsor at 7:00AM and made stops in Woodstock, Royalton, and Barre along the way, changing horses for his carriage every 10 miles.
Vermonters turned out to…
