Jolivette Anderson-Douoning shares the lived experience of Mrs. Goldleana, whose story illuminates the role Black women played as laborers in the Louisiana cotton and timber industries—and in their own families—in the 1940s and 50s. She also highlights geographical differences in Black migration: some left the South while others remained.
Jolivette Anderson-Douoning is a PhD Candidate in American Studies and currently serves as the Inaugural Edmundite African American Fellow at Saint Michael’s College. Her research focuses on race, space, and place, and the lived experiences of Black women and Black families in segregated neighborhoods of Shreveport, Louisiana after World War II.
[/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_2third_end]A finalist for the Vermont Book Award, North is a moving story about a Vermont monk, a Somali refugee, and an Afghan war veteran whose lives converge on a snowy Vermont night. Author Brad Kessler reviews the creation of the novel and his ongoing work with new Americans in Vermont.
Recorded 11/2/22.[/ezcol_2third_end][ezcol_1third] Producer: Ilsley Public Library
[/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_2third_end]Food—like music and language—is a strong link to our past, no matter the shores on which we arrive. Natalie Neuert, director of UVM’s Lane Series, explores the recipes that Jews took with them to the Balkans, Europe, North Africa, and America, from British fish and chips to Bubbe’s brisket to the ubiquitous Ashkenazi Shabbos supper of cholent.
Recorded 5/4/22.[/ezcol_2third_end][ezcol_1third] Producer: Ilsley Public Library
[/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_2third_end]Artist, legislator, and former director of the Flynn Center in Burlington, John R. Killacky draws on commentaries from his book Because Art to relate his experiences as dancer in New York in the late 1970s and ’80s, the maelstrom of the culture Wars of the 1990s, and his work advocating for artists with disabilities.
Recorded 11/3/21.[/ezcol_2third_end][ezcol_1third] Producer: Ilsley Public Library
[/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_2third_end]As the first woman governor for the State of Vermont and the holder of other prestigious positions, Madeleine Kunin has inspired women and girls to discover their own voices as leaders. Governor Kunin speaks about her life in politics and reads from her newest book of poetry, Red Kite, Blue Sky.
[/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_2third_end]Whitney Kimball Coe, coordinator of the National Rural Assembly, shows that although rural communities are hurting, they also hold a wealth of solutions for a nation struggling to fuel its economy, feed a hungry planet, and take on global issues like climate change. Recorded 3/4/20.[/ezcol_2third_end][ezcol_1third] Producer: Ilsley Public Library
[/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_2third_end]UVM Professor Luis Vivanco explores the fascinating early history of the bicycle in Vermont, an invention that generated widespread curiosity when it arrived in the 1880s – helping spark important changes in the industrial production, consumerism, road policies, gender relations, and cultural ideas. A program of Vermont Humanities. Recorded 2/4/20.[/ezcol_2third_end][ezcol_1third] Producer: Ilsley Public Library
[/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_2third_end]In 1959, Broadway’s Lunt-Fontanne Theatre premiered a musical on an unlikely topic: an Austrian family who had become famous for escaping Nazi Germany. The Sound of Music went on to win five Tony Awards, along with five Academy Awards in its film adaptation. Pianist and scholar Robert Wyatt discusses the history of the musical as well as the audience’s reaction, then and now. Recorded 1/8/20.[/ezcol_2third_end][ezcol_1third] Producer: Ilsley Public Library
[/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_2third_end]Most Americans associate evangelicals with the hard-right precincts of the Republican Party. But as Dartmouth religion professor Randall Balmer explains, evangelicalism in America has a much longer and more complex history, including a distinguished pedigree of working for progressive reforms. What happened? Recorded 5/22/19 by Middlebury Community Television.[/ezcol_2third_end][ezcol_1third] Producer: Ilsley Public Library
[/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_2third_end]Frederic Church painted landscapes of distinctive American features, including Natural Bridge in Virginia and Niagara Falls in New York. Eleanor Jones Harvey, senior curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, explores how and why we used these American landscapes to distinguish the scale and scope of our cultural ambitions. Recorded 5/1/19.[/ezcol_2third_end][ezcol_1third] Producer: Ilsley Public Library
[/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_2third_end]Author and advocate Susan Clark explains the Slow Democracy movement in which ordinary people mobilize to find local solutions to local problems. In the process some find they can bridge the “us-them” divide so prevalent in our national politics. Recorded 4/3/19.[/ezcol_2third_end][ezcol_1third] Producer: Ilsley Public Library
[/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_2third_end]Dartmouth professor Peter Travis discusses the subtle irony with which Chaucer depicts his pilgrims, leaving us to judge them for ourselves. Recorded 3/6/19.[/ezcol_2third_end][ezcol_1third] Producer: Ilsley Public Library
[/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_2third_end]Shelburne Museum director Thomas Denenberg discusses the Wyeths–N.C. (1882-1945), Andrew (1917-2009), and Jamie (b. 1946)–and offers new perspectives on these painters. Recorded 12/5/18.[/ezcol_2third_end][ezcol_1third] Producer: Ilsley Public Library
[/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_2third_end]UVM History Professor Mark A. Stoler examines the important personal relationship between Britain’s Prime Minister and America’s President during their World War II alliance. Recorded 6/6/18.[/ezcol_2third_end][ezcol_1third] Producer: Ilsley Public Library
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