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March is Women’s History Month, and once again VPR is offering a special series
featuring the voices and stories of a cross-section of Vermont women about
the lasting contributions women have made to our life and culture here in
Vermont. Also join us for Switchboard on Thursday March 22 when Fran Stoddard
talks
about women in Vermont history ­ some famous, and some completely unknown.

 


Monday,
March 19

Deb Markowitz speaks about Edna Beard who in 1920, became the first woman
elected to the Vermont General Assembly.

Transcript and Audio

Deb
Markowitz is the first woman elected as Vt Secretary of State

 

 

 


Tuesday,
March 20

Amy Cunningham speaks on the letters and other writings of Sylvia Bliss, archived
at the Vermont History Center. Bliss was an early 20th Century musician, botanist,
poet and writer of short stories and articles to the American Journal of Psychology.

Transcript and Audio

Amy
Cunningham is Education Director for the Vermont Historical Society.

 

 


Wednesday, March 21
Barbara Snelling on her mother Hazel M. Weil, who lived a life of quiet, willing
and uncomplaining service as the Minister’s wife in a large suburban church.

Transcript and Audio

Barbara
Snelling is a former two-term Lieutenant Governor and State Senator.

 

 


Thursday, March 22
Deborah Luskin on the Diane Eickoff book about Clarina Howard Nichols, the first
woman ever to address the Vt legislature. Nichols was also a pioneering newspaper
editor and a founding mother of the women’s movement.

Transcript and Audio

Deborah
Luskin is a Visiting Scholar for the Vermont Humanities Council.

 

 


Friday,
March 23

Cyndy Bittinger will tell how Grace Coolidge and Dorothy Thompson attempted to
rescue Jewish children from Germany in 1939. Both were Vermont humanitarians.

Transcript and Audio

Grace Coolidge & Dorothy Thompson
Photos: Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation/Smith College Archives

Cyndy
Bittinger is Executive Director of The Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation.

 

 



Thursday,
March 22 – Women in Vermont History

Fran
Stoddard talks about women in Vermont history ­ some famous, and
some completely unknown­ with guests Susan Ouellete, chair of the Saint Michael’s
History Department; Deborah Clifford, a writer on women in Vermont history; and
Judith Irving of the Vermont Women’s History Project, which will open a public
database this month on the women in Vermont history.

 

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