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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 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
Thursday Dec 17, 2020
Thursday Dec 17, 2020
For more background on this episode, please visit: https://vermonthistory.org/vt-ny-youth-project-1968
Tuesday Dec 15, 2020
Tuesday Dec 15, 2020
For more background on this episode, please visit: https://vermonthistory.org/aiken-formula-myth-and-reality-1966
Thursday Dec 10, 2020
Thursday Dec 10, 2020
For more background on this episode, please visit: https://vermonthistory.org/dowsing-in-danville-1961
Wednesday Dec 09, 2020
Wednesday Dec 09, 2020
For more background on this episode, please visit: https://vermonthistory.org/democrats-rising-1958
Thursday Nov 19, 2020
Thursday Nov 19, 2020
For more background on this episode, please visit: https://vermonthistory.org/hi-tech-comes-to-vermont-1957
Tuesday Nov 17, 2020
Tuesday Nov 17, 2020
For more background on this episode, please visit: https://vermonthistory.org/consuela-northrop-bailey-1954
Tuesday Nov 10, 2020
Tuesday Nov 10, 2020
The most noteworthy expression of McCarthyism in Vermont involved the University of Vermont’s 1953 firing of Professor Alex B. Novikoff for the “crime” of invoking the Fifth Amendment before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee.
For more background on this episode, please visit: https://vermonthistory.org/case-of-alex-b-novikoff-1953
Thursday Oct 29, 2020
Thursday Oct 29, 2020
For more background on this episode, please visit: https://vermonthistory.org/maple-sugaring-1947