Vermont
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2.8KCharles Manley Smith – Vermont’s Bank Robbing Governor
The best way to rob a bank is to own one. The saying that's true today was just as true for Charles...
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9.4K5Susannah Johnson, Indian Captive, Gives Birth in the Wild and Commemorates the Spot 45 Years Later
In August 1754, Susannah Johnson gave birth to a daughter in the Vermont wilderness during a forced march by her Indian captors....
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4.2K1Winston Titus, 18, Killed for Driving Beer Over the Border
Northern Vermonters who knew Winston Titus thought of him as a good kid from a fine family of farmers. They probably didn’t...
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8.0K3Neshobe Island, The Algonquin Round Table Summer Home in Vermont
During the 1920s and 1930s, rumors about the crazy doings on Neshobe Island flew through the resort hotels along Vermont’s Lake Bomoseen....
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9.3KThe First Black Phi Beta Kappas of New England
The Phi Beta Kappa Society, established at the College of William and Mary in 1776, is America's oldest and most prestigious honor...
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3.4KVermont’s Disappearing/Reappearing Catherine Packard
In August of 1929, police in Chester, Vt., discovered the body of a young woman buried in a grove of spruce trees....
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3.2K2In 1777 a Deadly Fog of War Swept Across Vermont and Claimed John Irish
On a hot summer day, July 27, 1777, John Irish, a Quaker farmer, had just finished threshing his wheat and was mowing...
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4.7KCanada’s Confederate Plot Against St. Albans, Vermont
Sitting on the Canadian border didn't insulate St. Albans, Vt., from Confederate attack during the American Civil War. Canadians viewed New England...
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3.6KValcour Island – America’s Victorious Defeat on Lake Champlain
On October 11, 1776, British military forces finally drove the American military from Lake Champlain at the Battle of Valcour Island. Connecticut’s...
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5.5K1A Vermont School Rebuilds From the 1927 Flood — With Pennies
A little Vermont schoolhouse washed away in the 1927 flood became an inspiring symbol of the state’s resilience when schoolchildren around the...
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