Video Media

“Sometime between November and the first of May the Lord made ice. When it was right you had to cut it.” Gile Kendall The story of the natural ice business in a small Vermont town told by the residence of Strafford who lived in a time before refrigeration.

Rolf Diamant’s recorded presentation From Yosemite’s Half Dome to the Capitol Dome: The Intersecting Lives of Frederick Law Olmsted and Justin Morrill. The Friends of the Morrill Homestead is a proud partner of the Olmsted 200 campaign, a nationwide bicentennial birthday celebration of the democratic values and enduring influence of visionary American landscape artist Frederick Law […]

The Abenaki Experience: Prehistory to Present – Part 3 A Speakers Series hosted by Friends of the Morrill Homestead

The Abenaki Experience: Prehistory To Present – Part 2 A Speakers Series hosted by Friends of The Morrill Homestead The Vermont Abenakis: Un-writing History with Fred Wiseman Prof. Frederick Wiseman discusses three critical, but little known cultural periods of Vermont Indigenous history. Misunderstanding of these periods by academics, politicians, bureaucrats, and even some Indigenous people […]

Archaeological History of the CT River Valley with Jess Robinson A Speakers Series hosted by the Friends of The Morrill Homestead Jess Robinson, Vermont State Archaeologist presents an overview of the archaeological history of Vermont’s Connecticut River valley and adjacent areas from the arrival of its first Native inhabitants approximately 13,000 years ago through to […]

Julius Jefferson Talk

Watch this YouTube video shared by the Vermont Historical Society.