The Green Mountain Chronicles radio shows
The Green Mountain Chronicles staff receiving a grant from New England Telephone in 1987.The Green Mountain Chronicles is a series of 52 five-minute radio programs created by the Vermont Historical Society between 1987 and 1988. They were broadcast by commercial and public radio stations throughout the state in late 1988 and early 1989. The radio series tells the history of Vermont in the twentieth century using archival sound recordings and oral history interviews.
This web site has been organized chronologically by subject. Users can click on a subject to go to a page that will contain a link to an audio file of the program, background notes about the subject, and transcriptions of interviews that were taken to make the program (when available).
The interviewers spoke with well known Vermonters such as Governors Philip Hoff, Deane Davis, and Madeleine Kunin; lesser known personalities such as Catherine Robbins Clifford, one of the first women to hike the entire length of the Long Trail; historians such as Weston Cate; and "ordinary" Vermonters.
Please note:You must have Quicktime installed to listen to these shows.
- Dewey Day: A Century Ends, 1899/1900
- The Age of Trolleys, 1901
- Early Autos in Vermont, 1902
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher, 1907
- “Number Please”: The Telephone Comes to Vermont, 1910
- The Long Trail, 1910
- Early Aviation, 1910
- The 4-H in Vermont, 1914
- Traveling Entertainment: The Chatauquas, 1915
- World War I: Camp Vail, 1916
- The 1918 Flu Epidemic, 1918
- The Co-op Movement, 1919
- Early Days of Radio, 1920
- Prohibition, 1920
- Women Get the Vote, 1920
- The Anarchist Movement in Barre, 1920
- Edna Beard: Vermont’s First Woman Legislator, 1921
- The K.K.K. in Vermont, 1924
- Walter Hard, Sr.: Vermont’s Storekeeper—Writer, 1924
- Vermont Country Fairs, 1924
- Memories of Silent Cal
- The Flood of ‘27, 1927
- Vermont in the Great Depression, 1929
- Collecting Old Songs: Helen Hartness Flanders, 1930
- Fighting the Depression: The C.C.C., 1933
- The Green Mountain Parkway, 1933
- A Symphony is Born: The VSO, 1934
- The Early Days of Skiing, 1934
- The WPA, 1935
- The OWLS: Vermont’s Women Legislators, 1936
- Fighting Silicosis: Dust Control in the Granite Industry, 1937
- Robert Frost: Poet Laureate, 1938
- World War II at Home, 1942
- Turning on the Lights: Electricity Comes to Rural Vermont, 1943
- Senator Ralph Flanders, 1946
- Town Bands, 1946
- Maple Sugaring, 1947
- Hi—Tech Comes to Vermont, 1957
- The Case of Alex B. Novikoff, 1953
- The Coming of the Bulk Tanks, 1954
- Consuela Northrop Bailey, 1954
- Democrats Rising, 1958
- Dowsing in Danville, 1961
- Legislative Reapportionment, 1965
- The Aiken Formula, Myth and Reality, 1966
- The VT/NY Youth Project, 1968
- Back to the Land: Communes in Vermont, 1968
- Act 250, 1970
- The First Vermonters: The Abenakis, 1976
- School Consolidation: Farewell to the One-Room Schoolhouse, 1986
- Railroads, 1989
- Overview, 1900-1989
The Green Mountain Chronicles project was undertaken by the VHS in celebration of its 150th anniversary and was funded by a grant from the Vermont Council on the Humanities and Public Issues with additional support from New England Telephone Company. Interviews were conducted and recorded by Mary Kasamatsu & Mark Greenberg; the broadcasts were written and produced by Mary Kasamatsu & Mark Greenberg of Woodsmoke Productions; advisors and researchers were Michael Sherman, Eleanor Ott, Jeffrey Potash, and Gene Sessions; and technical assistance was provided by Steve Zind.
Indicates subjects with background information in addition to radio broadcasts.
