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”Life Became Very Blurry” is a podcast sharing the voices of Vermonters as they recall the experience of COVID-19. It is based on a three year project collecting oral histories and other records of the pandemic, and released in March 2025 for the fifth anniversary of the first lockdown. This podcast feed is home to a series of audio productions from the Vermont Historical Society, which believes that understanding the past changes lives and builds better communities. Our purpose is to engage Vermonters and Vermonters-at-Heart with outstanding collections, state-wide outreach, and dynamic programming.
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32 minutes ago
32 minutes ago
No single group of people had more direct experience of COVID-19 than medical professionals. The entire healthcare field experienced seismic turmoil during the pandemic, and for many people who worked in it, their lives would never be the same.
In the fourth episode of our new limited-series podcast, "Life Became Very Blurry," we share the experiences of Vermont's medical professionals during COVID-19.
”Life Became Very Blurry” is a podcast sharing the voices of Vermonters as they recall the experience of COVID-19. It is based on a three year project collecting oral histories and other records of the pandemic, and released in March 2025 for the fifth anniversary of the first lockdown.
Funding for the COVID-19 collecting project was provided by the Institute for Museum and Library Services.
The Life Became Very Blurry Podcast is produced by Amanda Gustin of the Vermont Historical Society and Mary Wesley, Andy Kolovos and Will Hamilton of Vermont Folklife. Oliver Purdue mixed this episode.
Our theme music is the track “Never Mind The Forecast” from Jericho based artist “Expected Guest.” Find more from Expected Guest on Bandcamp.com
7 days ago
7 days ago
For many people, family was central to their experience of COVID-19. That could be both a good thing and a bad thing. Missing family meant sadness and grief, but isolation from the larger world could mean more quality time together.
In the second episode of our new limited-series podcast, "Life Became Very Blurry," we share stories of people's experiences with their families during COVID-19.
”Life Became Very Blurry” is a podcast sharing the voices of Vermonters as they recall the experience of COVID-19. It is based on a three year project collecting oral histories and other records of the pandemic, and released in March 2025 for the fifth anniversary of the first lockdown.
Funding for the COVID-19 collecting project was provided by the Institute for Museum and Library Services.
The Life Became Very Blurry Podcast is produced by Amanda Gustin of the Vermont Historical Society and Mary Wesley, Andy Kolovos and Will Hamilton of Vermont Folklife. Oliver Purdue mixed this episode.
Our theme music is the track “Never Mind The Forecast” from Jericho based artist “Expected Guest.” Find more from Expected Guest on Bandcamp.com
Friday Apr 11, 2025
Friday Apr 11, 2025
The threat of COVID-19 upended almost everything about daily life, but what was it like to actually experience the disease itself? For some people, it was a bad cold; for others, it changed everything.
In the second episode of our new limited-series podcast, "Life Became Very Blurry," we share stories of people's experiences with having COVID-19.
”Life Became Very Blurry” is a podcast sharing the voices of Vermonters as they recall the experience of COVID-19. It is based on a three year project collecting oral histories and other records of the pandemic, and released in March 2025 for the fifth anniversary of the first lockdown.
Funding for the COVID-19 collecting project was provided by the Institute for Museum and Library Services.
The Life Became Very Blurry Podcast is produced by Amanda Gustin of the Vermont Historical Society and Mary Wesley, Andy Kolovos and Will Hamilton of Vermont Folklife. Oliver Purdue mixed this episode.
Our theme music is the track “Never Mind The Forecast” from Jericho based artist “Expected Guest.” Find more from Expected Guest on Bandcamp.com
Friday Apr 04, 2025
Friday Apr 04, 2025
Pretty much no one alive today has experienced anything as far-reaching or as completely overwhelming as the COVID-19 pandemic. It felt like the whole world had turned inside out in a matter of weeks, days, or even hours.
In the first episode of our new limited-series podcast, "Life Became Very Blurry," we tell the story of March 2020 - those first few hectic weeks when COVID-19 arrived in Vermont.
”Life Became Very Blurry” is a podcast sharing the voices of Vermonters as they recall the experience of COVID-19. It is based on a three year project collecting oral histories and other records of the pandemic, and released in March 2025 for the fifth anniversary of the first lockdown.
Funding for the COVID-19 collecting project was provided by the Institute for Museum and Library Services.
The Life Became Very Blurry Podcast is produced by Amanda Gustin of the Vermont Historical Society and Mary Wesley, Andy Kolovos and Will Hamilton of Vermont Folklife. Oliver Purdue mixed this episode.
Our theme music is the track “Never Mind The Forecast” from Jericho based artist “Expected Guest.” Find more from Expected Guest on Bandcamp.com
Sunday Mar 30, 2025
Sunday Mar 30, 2025
”Life Became Very Blurry” is a podcast sharing the voices of Vermonters as they recall the experience of COVID-19. It is based on a three year project collecting oral histories and other records of the pandemic, and released in March 2025 for the fifth anniversary of the first lockdown.
Funding for the COVID-19 collecting project was provided by the Institute for Museum and Library Services.
The Life Became Very Blurry Podcast is produced by Amanda Gustin of the Vermont Historical Society and Mary Wesley, Andy Kolovos and Will Hamilton of Vermont Folklife. Oliver Purdue mixed this episode.
Our theme music is the track “Never Mind The Forecast” from Jericho based artist “Expected Guest.” Find more from Expected Guest on Bandcamp.com
Tuesday Jan 05, 2021
Tuesday Jan 05, 2021
For more background on this episode, please visit: https://vermonthistory.org/railroads-1989
Thursday Dec 31, 2020
Thursday Dec 31, 2020
For more background on this episode, please visit: https://vermonthistory.org/school-consolidation-farewell-to-the-one-room-schoolhouse-1986
Tuesday Dec 29, 2020
Tuesday Dec 29, 2020
For more background on this episode, please visit: https://vermonthistory.org/first-vermonters-the-abenakis-1976
Thursday Dec 24, 2020
Thursday Dec 24, 2020
For more background on this episode, please visit: https://vermonthistory.org/act-250-1970
Tuesday Dec 22, 2020
Tuesday Dec 22, 2020
In the 1960s and early 1970s, Vermont acquired a reputation for being a haven for hippies and a hotbed of counter-cultural communal living. There was some truth to that. But the communes and alternative life-styles of that generation had a deeper history than most outsiders—and most of the commune residents themselves—knew. And, like their predecessors in the nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, the often colorful, sometimes controversial, and much-discussed communal experiments of the late twentieth century ended up having a profound impact on the next generation of Vermonters.
For more background on this episode, please visit: https://vermonthistory.org/back-to-the-land-communes-in-vt-1968