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Episode 20: A Year of Listening in Place

Over a year since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic we take a moment to look back on a year of the Listening in Place project, focusing on submissions to our Sound Archive. The project began with a small collection of audio recordings submitted via a portal on our website in response to an invitation to sit down and interview someone in your household, or remotely, during our first weeks of lockdown. In this episode we hear a selection of the first interviews shared through Listening in Place.

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Episode 17: The Audio Diary of Pete Sutherland

Our Listening in Place initiative is a participatory interviewing and sound recording project offering a way to connect and document the experiences of Vermonters during the COVID-19 emergency. This month we bring you excerpts from the audio diary of Pete Sutherland, who has been using the Voice Memo app on his smartphone to record his thoughts and reflections since early March.

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Episode 13: Sounds of Camp

Our Listening in Place initiative is a participatory interviewing and sound recording project offering a way to connect and document the experiences of Vermonters during the COVID-19 emergency. We’ll be sharing audio recordings generated by the project in our podcast feed. This month we visit Camp Killooleet in Hancock, VT, closed this summer for the first time in 93 years.

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Episode 12: Project Independence

Our Listening in Place initiative is a participatory interviewing and sound recording project offering a way to connect and document the experiences of Vermonters during the COVID-19 emergency. We’ll be sharing audio recordings generated by the project in our podcast feed. This month we visit Project Independence, an elderly day care facility in Middlebury, VT.

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VT Untapped Special: Story Circles

Our Listening in Place initiative is a participatory interviewing and sound recording project offering a way to connect and document the experiences of Vermonters during the COVID-19 emergency. We’ll be sharing audio recordings generated by the project in our podcast feed. This special episode of VT Untapped features three stories shared in a Virtual Story Circle hosted by VFC staff on April 5, 2020.

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