Before Your Time Podcast
1) Vermont Reads 2025: Episode Two: Water
The Light Pirate is divided into four sections. This second episode focuses on Water. We speak with author Lily Brooks-Dalton, along with: Filmmaker Jay Craven Dan Nott, author of the Vermont Book Aw...Show More
2) Vermont Reads 2025 Episode One: Power
We are releasing two podcast episodes featuring interviews with people whose work intersects with the themes in "The Light Pirate," our Vermont Reads 2025 book. The episodes are centered around the fi...Show More
3) Circumnavigating the Wilson Globe
James Wilson is an almost mythical figure in Vermont History, reputedly a lone genius who created the first globe in America. For several years, the Vermont Historical Society researched more about Wi...Show More
4) Acid Rain and Vermont's Waterways
Vermont’s water quality has long been a top concern for scientists and residents, and in the 1980s it reached national attention as acid rain came to the forefront of public understanding. What is aci...Show More
5) The Library Map of Vermont
The “Library Map of Vermont” was created in 1914 under the auspices of the State Free Public Library Commission – what is today the Vermont Department of Libraries – to track all 225 brick and mortar ...Show More
6) Forests And Frontiers
Vermont's extensive old-growth forests drew representatives from the King's Navy looking for mast trees. What can their map of timber resources tell us about our relationship to the land, how Vermont ...Show More
7) Canal Fever
In the summer of 1829, three Army surveyors created a map exploring a potential canal route that would have connected Lake Champlain and the Connecticut River. "Canal Fever" was gripping the region, w...Show More
8) Call it a New Life
Technological improvements, from butter churns to electricity, transformed life on Vermont farms from the 1890s through the mid-20th century. Many of these changes eased the workload of Vermont's farm...Show More
9) A Foot in Both Worlds
People speaking Spanish as they milk cows may not fit our traditional image of a Vermont farm. But workers from Mexico and Central America are crucial to the state’s economy. And such migrant labor ha...Show More
10) The Curious Catamount
Though said to be extinct, catamounts live on in the minds of many Vermonters. In this episode we retrace a Barnard panther hunt from 1881 and consider the hold that these big cats continue to have on...Show More