Ten Treasures of the Vermont Historical Society’s Leahy Library

Celebrating the Launch of Reiko and Charles E. Tuttle, Jr. Fund

BARRE, VT:  Get a first-hand look at Ethan Allen’s “Reason, the Only Oracle of Man,” the earliest photographic images of Vermont, the original map for the proposed highway across the tops of the Green Mountains, plus seven other priceless materials in the VHS Leahy Library vaults!  Exhibit will be open to the public through December 2008 at The Vermont History Center and its Leahy Library, 60 Washington St., Barre, VT.

The Ten Treasures event celebrates the launch of the Reiko and Charles E. Tuttle, Jr. Fund, which will benefit the Vermont Historical Society Leahy Library for years to come, making it possible to preserve and share treasures like these.  

As teacher and historian, Richard O. Hathaway opened doors to the past and in doing so enlightened the present. His journey as a scholar and historian began at Bates College, and he later earned a graduate degree at Northwestern University. Professor Hathway’s long teaching career started at Bowdoin College in Maine. He joined the faculty at Goddard College in 1965, and subsequently taught at Norwich University and Vermont College. Hathaway inspired hundreds of students in the study of history.   His students benefited from his gifts as an exuberant and witty lecturer; his colleagues extolled his encyclopedic knowledge of American history. He authored more than 300 articles, essays, book reviews, and commentaries and served as a humanities scholar with the Vermont Humanities Council, president of the Vermont Labor History Society, and trustee of the Vermont Historical Society.  Richard O. Hathaway was, in every sense of the word, a legend in the field of Vermont history.