Vermont Historical Society’s Booklist 2009 is Available Now!

BARRE, VT: Vermont Historical Society has published its 2009 Booklist, which lists the titles that the VHS store is carrying for the year 2009. Vermont History buffs will have a wide variety to choose from in this 44-page catalog with 365 listings, including prices and brief descriptions of paperbacks, hard-covers and other media, on a variety of topics including: agriculture and industry, children’s books, cookbooks, genealogy, military history, Native American, oral histories, social histories, teaching resources, town histories and travel. Media also includes cassettes, compact disks, videotapes and DVDS.

VHS’s most recent offerings are available through the booklist. These include Montpelier, Images of Vermont’s Capital City by Paul A. Carnahan and Bill Fish, timeless photographs of Montpelier’s citizens and landscape through both tragic triumphant times, published in October 2008; and the recently published Almost Utopia: The Residents and Radicals of Pikes Falls, Vermont 1950, a luscious group of photographs taken by Rebecca Lepkoff, with text by Nearing scholar Greg Joly.

The Booklist is free. Call to order, 802-828-1417, or you may order books through our website at www.vermonthistory.org/store.

The Vermont Historical Society is a nonprofit organization with offices in Barre and Montpelier, engaging both Vermonters and "Vermonters at heart" in the exploration of our state's rich heritage. Its purpose is to reach a broad audience through outstanding collections, statewide outreach, and dynamic programming. The Vermont Historical Society believes that an understanding of the past changes lives and builds better communities. ###