National

From VICII:

On June 24, 2022, the US Supreme Court overturned the landmark decision of Roe v. Wade. When decided in 1973, the Court decided that the 14th Amendment declaring all persons born in the United States are citizens of the United States, these born women and girls are therefore entitled to the equal protection of the law and the Constitution. Roe insured that women and girls were guaranteed the same rights as men to make medical decisions in privacy with their doctors and families or in the privacy of their own conscience without the interference of the State, the politicians, family, or church. The Roe decision stated that as moral agents women were to be trusted to make important decisions about their pregnancies, their families, their futures and their destinies on their own.

Join the Vermont Institute of Community and International Involvement as Kurt Mehta, Esq.; Sandy Baird, Esq.; and Justine Snow, Esq. discuss this new reality.

For more information: vicii.org

Protesters gather at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Burlington to protest the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe V. Wade. 

From the Ethan Allen Homestead:

On Father's Day, guest lecturer Tom Anderson talks about the founding of the Ethan Allen Homestead Museum.

Tom Anderson was one of a small group of visionaries who worked with Ralph Nading Hill to develop the homestead park and museum as it exists today. Tom shares stories of those early days and how they rediscovered and restored the 1787 home of Vermont founder and Revolutionary War leader Ethan Allen.

For more information: ethanallenhomestead.org

From the Ethan Allen Homestead:

Ethan Allen was many things to many people. This presentation focuses on his role as a folk hero. Allen’s initial contact with Vermont was as a frontiersman, exploring the land in the late 1760s. As a hunter and trapper, he lived in the wilderness, beyond the bounds of the early settlements. The knowledge of the land and settlers he met along the way paved the way for later land speculation, settlements, and governance.

Don Miller compares the folk heroes from the 15th, 16th, and 17th states, from Daniel Boone to Davy Crocket. What do the contemporaries have in common? How are they different? What role does Allen, our folk hero play in our Vermont story? Allen more than holds his own among his contemporaries.

Don Miller is an active student of history, past President of the Bennington Historical Society, and currently a Board member of the Vermont Historical Society.

For more information: ethanallenhomestead.org