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Comics

May 19, 2021

The Most Costly Journey

May 19, 2021

El viaje más caro is an ethnographic cartooning and graphic medicine project that uses collaborative storytelling as a tool to mitigate loneliness, isolation, and despair among Latin American migrant farm workers on Vermont dairy farms. This May, the project released The Most Costly Journey, a 252 page collection of these comics for an English speaking audience.

May 19, 2021

VT Untapped Podcast

November 25, 2020

Episode 16: 2020 Thanksgiving Special!

November 25, 2020

As we’re all gearing up for what is likely to be one of the most, shall we say “unusual,” Thanksgivings of our lifetimes (thanks again, 2020), here at VT Untapped™ we reached out to the VFC founder Jane Beck once more in search of suggestions for a seasonal story. Not surprisingly, once again Jane came through! Listen in to hear Earle Fuller’s story of driving (by this we really mean herding) over 500 turkeys from Vermont to market in Boston. Happy Thanksgiving!

November 25, 2020

June 28, 2019

Episode 8: The Perks of Being a Storyteller

June 28, 2019

June is a month when we celebrate our fathers, so we would like to use this months VT Untapped episode to show you Vermont through the eyes of a unique father and daughter team: Perkins Flint and Katharine Flint DuClos.

June 28, 2019

VT Untapped Podcast

Comics

Exhibits

August 2, 2018

Growing Food, Growing Farmers

August 2, 2018

August 1, 2018

NOFA's Vermont Farm Kids

August 1, 2018

Vermont Farm Kids: Rooted in the Land is a documentary exhibit and film celebrating the lives of a diverse array of youth who have grown up in farming families. Photo: Maeve Leslie-Gawalt and Kate Wehmeyer on Cedar Mountain Farm in Hartland, Vermont.

August 1, 2018

October 3, 2017

The LAST of the HILL FARMS: Photographs by Richard Brown

October 3, 2017

On display at the Hartness Library at Vermont Technical College in Randolph Center through May 19, 2020.

Richard Brown’s recently published retrospective—The Last of the Hill Farms: Echoes of Vermont’s Past—showcases the photographer’s most cherished subject: Vermont’s hill farmers. This exhibition, which bears the same name, offers the chance to experience the Vermont that Richard entered and began to photograph in the 1970s.

October 3, 2017