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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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Thursday Apr 23, 2020
Thursday Apr 23, 2020
Preparations for hiking Vermont’s 270-mile Long Trail, the first long-distance wilderness hiking trail in America, have changed considerably since the first Long Trail Guide was published in 1917. Men were advised to wear “ordinary height shoes with hobnails, felt hat, ‘generous sized’ silk bandana, inch-wide leather belt with cup attached, wool underwear, wool shirt and stout wool trousers,” while female hikers should have high-laced boots with “Hungarian nails,” and wear bloomers.
For more information on this episode, visit: https://vermonthistory.org/long-trail-1910
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I want to listen to the entire episode of ”Episode 6: The Long Trail” which is My Grandfather John Todd Cowles, speaking about Mt. Mansfield and other family history. Inasmuch as it is very nice to have access to the approximately (44) forty-four pages of transcript of the broadcast, it would be very nice to hear it in the voice of my Grandfather that I haven’t heard speak in well over (20) twenty years, when I saw him last. Is there a copy of this recording that I can access? Denis G. Cowles
Sunday Mar 13, 2022
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