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Category Archives: Manuscript Collection
Traveling with Caroline Crane Marsh
Although our transcription team has been working from home, they simultaneously have been traveling in Italy with Caroline Crane Marsh. Team members Ingrid Bower, Chris Burns, Erin Doyle, Hannah Johnson and Sharon Thayer are transcribing the diaries Caroline kept from … Continue reading
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Tagged Caroline Crane Marsh, diaries, George Perkins Marsh, Monte Rosa, Pegli, Piobesi, Turin
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President Eisenhower at the Vermont Dairy Festival
The summer of 1955 was an especially busy time for Vermonters engaged in dairy farming. June was declared Dairy Month and a series of public events, including a parade, square dance displays, and dairy exhibits, culminated in President Dwight D. … Continue reading
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Tagged cows, Dairy, Dwight D. Eisenhower, milk, Vermont Dairy Month
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Haven in the Mountains: The Lake Mansfield Trout Club
This post was contributed by Erin Clauss, who has been working as a processing archivist in Special Collections since August 2016. Erin graduated from UVM in 2016 with a degree in history and classical civilization. In September, she will start … Continue reading
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Tagged Lake Mansfield Trout Club, Stowe VT, trout fishing
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Literary Archives at UVM: Kinsey, Mosher, and Budbill
Vermont lost three literary giants in the last year: Leland Kinsey, Howard Frank Mosher, and David Budbill. Special Collections is fortunate to house the papers of all three of these authors, and their collections serve as a rich source for … Continue reading
UVM Experiments with Rubber Plant
I’ve been on the lookout for photos of local World War II victory gardens, so this image caught my eye as I was searching through a carton of publicity photographs that Special Collections received from UVM’s Extension Service. It is … Continue reading
Vermont Statehood: A Dissenting Opinion from the Allen Family
Vermont celebrates 225 years of statehood in 2016, having formally entered the Union as the fourteenth state on March 4, 1791. There was a great deal of popular support for joining the United States at the time, but it was … Continue reading
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Tagged Allen Family Papers, Ethan Allen, Levi Allen, Vermont statehood
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Vermonter Henry Stevens, Jr., Joins Yale’s “Skull & Bones” Secret Society
Bookseller Henry Stevens, Jr. (1819-1886) achieved distinction as a builder of library collections in a career that took him from his home in Barnet, Vermont, to London, where he spent most of his life after graduating from Yale in 1843. … Continue reading
Longhouse Records Now Available
The records of Longhouse, Publishers and Booksellers of Guilford, Vermont are now available for research. Poet and editor Bob Arnold established Longhouse in 1971 and was joined by Susan Arnold in 1974. Specializing in poetry, they have published hundreds of … Continue reading
Unexpected Gifts
People periodically contact Special Collections to ask if we would be interested in acquiring some old Vermont books that they found in an attic or received from an elderly relative. One recent box contained a collection of home economics textbooks … Continue reading
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Tagged Ellen H. Richards Clubs, home economics, recipes, Vermont
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