Commentary Series
Commentary Series
If Only I Had Known!: Another Path
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For an annual brunch this year, VPR commentators wrote on the theme, "If Only I Had Known." We’re hearing excerpts from those essays this week. Today, Cyndy Bittinger talks about a career deferred..Commentary Series
Bittinger: Memorial Day
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This Memorial Day, commentator Cyndy Bittinger will be thinking about the Medal of Honor and a Civil War drummer from Vermont.Commentary Series
Bittinger: The Story Of Nettie Anderson
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This week, VPR is presenting a series of stories about Black Women in Vermont History. Today, commentator Cyndy Bittinger writes about Nettie Anderson – the first Black woman to graduate from Middlebury College and the first in the nation to be inducted into the national honor society, Phi Beta Kappa.Commentary Series
Bittinger: Reverend Lemuel Haynes
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In observation of Martin Luther King Day, commentator Cyndy Bittinger has the story of an early Vermonter – a Rutland minister who also happened to be the first African American to be ordained by any religious denomination in this country.Commentary Series
Bittinger: Freya von Moltke
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Commentator Cyndy Bittinger notes the recent passing of a major figure from the German resistance during World War Two – and she has this remembrance.Commentary Series
Bittinger: Women’s Equality Day
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As a member of the steering committee of the Vermont Women’s History Project – created by Vermont’s Commission on Women – commentator Cyndy Bittinger is thinking about important milestones in women’s history.Commentary Series
Bittinger: A visit to Rokeby
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Commentator Cyndy Bittinger has been thinking about the Obama’s visit to Ghana and Vermont’s abolitionist past.Commentary Series
Bittinger: Anticipating the Fourth
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Commentator Cyndy Bittinger has been anticipating the Fourth, and wondering what comments we may hear from President Obama on this occasion.Commentary Series
