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Ethan Allen Homestead Enrichment Program: Myra Colby Bradwell - First Woman Lawyer in the U.S. 08/21/2016

Born in Vermont, Myra Colby Bradwell rose to fame in her lifetime and made friends with celebrities of her day -- such as Mrs. Abraham Lincoln. But today she's all but forgotten.

Presentation by Nancy Nahra, Professor Emeritus of Humanities, Champlain College, and co-author of "Forgotten Americans: Footnote Figures Who Changed American History."

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Ethan Allen Homestead Enrichment Program: Hamilton - The Play, The Man, and The Music 07/17/2016

Soldier, Statesman, Economist, Constitutional Scholar, and Star in his own musical? Alexander Hamilton remains one of America's most controversial founding fathers.
Join us as Hamilton biographer Professor Willard Sterne Randall presents on the Founding Father behind the smash Broadway hit.

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This program remains in our archives but will no longer be available for viewing online because of possible copyright infringements.

Ethan Allen Homestead Enrichment Program: Pumpkins, Parsnips, Potatoes, and… Violets - Tales of Early American Vegetables 06/26/2016

What grew – or didn’t grow – in early American gardens? Why or why not?

Rebecca Rupp, author of How Carrots Won the Trojan War, discusses the ups and downs of our ancestors’ garden choices – among them the under-appreciated turnip, now Vermont’s official state vegetable.

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Ethan Allen Homestead Enrichment Program: Ethan Allen Day Celebration 06/23/2016

In recognition of his efforts on behalf of Vermont Frontiersmen, the State of Vermont has declared June 23rd, 2016 "Ethan Allen Day." Governor Peter Shumlin, in accordance with the Board of Trustees at the Ethan Allen Homestead Museum, has proclaimed June 23 to be the first annual Ethan Allen Day in Vermont. On this day in 1775, the Continental Congress honored Ethan Allen at Independence Hall in Philadelphia for his courageous actions at Fort Ticonderoga. Allen was commissioned a Lieutenant Colonel of the Green Mountain Regiment, one of the first regiments of the Continental Army of the United States.

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Ethan Allen Homestead Enrichment Program: Mount Independence and the Two Controversial Decisions that Helped Win the Revolutionary War 05/15/2016

Twice during the opening years of the War the Mount was the focal point of command decisions that created consternation and even anger among America's revolutionary leaders. Mt. Independence Coalition president Stephen Zeoli examines the consequences of those decisions while exploring Mount Independence's significant role in winning America's freedom.

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Ethan Allen Homestead Enrichment Program: A Paddlers Guide to the Champlain Valley 04/17/2016

Authors Cathy Frank and Margy Holden share stories and pictures of their 42 guided adventures along the rivers and through the wetlands and wildlife refuges of this region’s uniquely beautiful natural environment, providing a wealth of information along the way on the ecology, geology, history, plants, & wildlife.

Cathy Frank and Margy Holden's Lake Champlain Paddling Guides

http://www.kayakinglakechamplain.com/KayakGuide/?page_id=2

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Ethan Allen Homestead Enrichment Program: One Family, Four Generations, Two Hundred Years 03/20/2016

Jane Williamson, Director of the Rokeby Museum, tells the story of early VT resident Thomas Robinson and his descendants, one of Vermont’s most influential families.

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Ethan Allen Homestead Enrichment Program: Ethan Allen, Vermont's Founding Father? 02/21/2016

Always controversial, Ethan Allen still inspires lively debate over his importance to the founding of the Fourteenth State. Was he a brawling, land-hungry drunkard or a persistent effective force in breaking away the Green Mountains from the grips of New York oligarchs? Just how should we think of the man who captured a British fort, languished in an English dungeon, and ended his days in a modest farmhouse in Burlington's intervale? Presented by Willard Sterne Randall, Distinguished Scholar in History and Professor Emeritus, Champlain College.

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Ethan Allen Homestead Enrichment Program: Ethan Allen, Philosopher 01/24/2016

St. Michael’s College professor Patrick Standen explores and explains Ethan Allen’s philosophy as set forth in his controversial text, “Reason – the Only Oracle of Man”.

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Ethan Allen Homestead Enrichment Program: The World of Living History and Re-enactment 10/18/2015

They live, work, and walk among us. They have jobs as doctors, teachers, computer programmers, soldiers, carpenters, and office workers. Like everyone else they own cell phones, drive cars, post on social media, and enjoy all the conveniences of modern living. But these people all live a double life, their secret is that their idea of fun is to live as if none of these conveniences exist yet, and they strive to live as a group of people did years ago. These people are called re-enactors or Living Historians. Dan O'Neil pulls back the curtain on the world of Living History, and discusses what role living history plays in historical scholarship and how it is used as an educational tool.

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