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From Preservation Burlington:

Co-hosts Ron Wanamaker and Liisa Reimann chat with Bill Mares about his upcoming beer program.  

More information: preservationburlington.org

Local artist Rebecca Schwarz hosts an art instillation at Champlain College from January 8-31, 2024. 

From Rebecca Schwarz:

Rebecca is a community engaged artist working to foster creativity and connectedness between people of many ages and abilities. Goals of increasing health on many scales from the personal, to community, to environmental levels, and patterns in nature inspire her work in a range of modes: sculpture, collaborations, and communication. She teaches at Champlain College, and works to connect volunteers, patients, families, and caregivers with the arts in the hospital, coordinating Art from the Heart - a program of Burlington City Arts and UVM Medical Center and Children’s Hospital.

For more information visit: www.rebeccaschwarz.com

The current opioid epidemic has many connections to the past. Champlain College's eighth annual Local History Event features two historians' research on opium, morphine, and opioid addiction in nineteenth-century Burlington.

Independent scholar Gary G. Shattuck presents the history and context of opioids in the Queen City and the State of Vermont in his talk titled "Behind the Curtain: Examining the Causes of Addiction in Nineteenth-Century Vermont."

Champlain College Special Collections Director Erica Donnis presents "The Vibrant Life and Tragic Death of Lucy Benedict Henderson." A resident of Adams and South Union Streets, Mrs. Henderson (1861-1896) was in many ways an ordinary middle class wife and mother, but she suffered from chronic illness, and eventually, morphine addiction.

2018 Champlain College Graduation  

For more info please visit the Champlain College website.