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Category Archives: Vermontiana
Tons of Honey: The Forbes Apiary
When Bill Mares and Ross Conrad were doing research for their 2018 book, The Land of Milk and Honey: A History of Beekeeping in Vermont, they discovered a number of helpful resources in Silver Special Collections. Unfortunately, we found few … Continue reading
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Tagged apiary, beekeeper, honey, West Haven VT
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Special Collections Honors Women’s History Month With New Digital Collection
In celebration of Women’s History Month, we are pleased to announce the launch of our latest digital collection, Diaries. The collection provides access to more than thirty digitized and transcribed diaries from the late eighteenth to early twentieth century, with … Continue reading
Portraits of Black Vermonters: The Hazard and Mero Families
To celebrate Black History Month, we are sharing portraits of the Hazard and Mero families of Woodstock, Vermont. Both families were part of the town’s small Black community that had roots extending back to the late 1820s. The collection includes … Continue reading
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Tagged Black Vermonters, Hazard Family, Mero Family, Woodstock VT
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Hot Beef Tea…In Great Demand
Earlier this month, I shared a photo from our Burlington Photo Collection with Mark Bushnell for his article, Burlington’s Winter Carnival was a Smash Hit, in VTDigger. Shot from Church Street, the photo shows the Main Street coasting hill and … Continue reading
Wild Salad, Nettle Beer and the Mysterious Aristene Pixley
The fourth post in our series on cooking with recipes from our Vermont cookbook collection was contributed by Richard Witting, a UVM History graduate student as well as a chef, caterer and avid wildcrafter (forager). He joined Special Collections staff … Continue reading
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Tagged foraging, nettle beer, Vermont cookbooks, wild salad, wildcrafting
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Consuelo Northrop Bailey, UVM ’21: A Political Trailblazer
Consuelo Northrop Bailey helped paved the way for Vermont women in politics. Her list of political firsts is impressive. Here we outline her long career and bring it to life with photographs from UVM’s Consuelo Northrop Bailey Papers. Born in … Continue reading
Posted in Manuscript Collection, Vermontiana
Tagged election, politician, Republican
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Sweet and Rich: Maple Pie
When we developed an outline for a series of blog posts on making recipes from Vermont cookbooks, we quickly agreed that we should feature maple recipes in March, and more specifically, we should bake pies to celebrate Pi Day on … Continue reading
Baking with Substitute Flours: A Patriotic Sacrifice
When I encountered the 1918 UVM Extension Circular No. 13, “Substitute” Breads, Biscuits and Muffins, I knew I had found the topic for my first post in our year-long Vermont cookbook series. I started substituting whole wheat flour for white … Continue reading
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Tagged Bertha M. Terrill, bread substitutes, wheat conservation, wheatless, World War 1
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Pullin’ in the New Year!
Ingrid Bower continues our cookbook series with a post about making molasses taffy. December is generally known as a time to gather and celebrate with friends and family. It is a time when even mageirocophobes (those with a fear of … Continue reading
Posted in Manuscript Collection, Vermontiana
Tagged candy pull, Genieve Lamson, taffy, Vermont cookbooks
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