Jill Mudgett
CommentatorJill Mudgett is on the board of the Vermont Historical Society and writes about cultural, environmental, and regional topics from her home in Lamoille County.
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Everyone has holiday food traditions that can be traced to individuals or to family ethnicity or nationality, and sometimes to a wider community. Every… -
The next time you visit Boston Common consider this: at one time the squirrels who inhabited the Common were Vermonters. Vermont squirrels. That’s because…
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As an undergraduate during the 1990s, I majored in historic preservation at a small college in suburban Baltimore. I was drawn to Baltimore city, to…
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Every year the Vermont press run the Town Meeting Day stories: reports in which community tradition and the democratic process are juxtaposed against the… -
I noticed not long after moving to Morrisville that the town has a thing for the colors green and yellow. The school colors of People’s Academy - or PA,… -
I don’t usually like reality TV, but I’m intrigued by the way a new reality show on the History Channel portrays regional culture. It follows a group of… -
I recently read Book of Ages, Jill Lepore’s new book on Jane Franklin and her relationship with her famous brother Benjamin Franklin. The book is about a… -
Recently, a photo made the rounds on Facebook of a new so-called face spotted in a Smugglers’ Notch rock outcropping. Vermonter Ben Koch took the… -
It would be hard to teach Vermont history without encountering Barre granite.First there were the waves of immigration from places like Scotland, Italy,…
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We have lots of spring birthdays in my family. At one backyard birthday BBQ last weekend, the discussion turned to the rhubarb patch. We were eating…
