The Vermont Historical Society is pleased to announce the recipient of the 2025 Richard O. Hathaway Award: Burlington filmmaker Travis Van Alstyne, for his animated short film Love of the Land.
A crystal ball was donated to VHS in 1958 without any indication of a connection to Vermont. Why keep it? It represents a time when spiritualism was popular in the state
The Vermont Historical Society is pleased to announce the expansion of its Freedom & Unity exhibit at the Vermont History Museum in Montpelier: an examination of Vermont’s maple industry.
This exhibit will explore the long history of maple syrup, its importance to the state’s economy, and how it has…
The Vermont Historical Society is partnering with Vermont Public for a series of screenings of Ken Burns' next documentary.
The Vermont Historical Society is helping volunteer organizations with collections stewardship
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…
