Brave Little State

A few years ago, one man was digging around in his backyard when his shovel hit a glass bottle. Then he found another, and another — all with words like “remedy,” “tonic” and “quick cure” embossed on them.

Question-asker Manny recently got out of prison. He’s curious about finding a place where he could stay sober while readjusting to life outside a prison cell. It turns out, his options look different today than they would have even a few years ago.

Rutland — or, “RutVegas” — gets a pretty bad rap. But some residents say there’s a side of the city most people are missing.

Leave your grocery store apples at home and join our search for this most unusual Vermont fruit.

From the mysterious Gibou to the law that asks you eat a serving cheese with apple pie, Brave Little State digs into its archive to answer listener questions while celebrating 200 episodes.

It’s a Brave Little State milestone! Vermont Public’s listener-powered journalism podcast published its 200th episode. To celebrate, the team set themselves a challenge: answer 20 listener questions in a single episode.

“There was this huge divide in, like, social grouping and connection … No one really talked to each other.”

A recent episode answers the question: Who uses a park and ride?

The Midwest is home to five Great Lakes. But for a short time in the late 1990s, there were six — after one Vermont lake crashed the party.

Three reporters spent 12 straight hours at one of the busiest park and rides in the state — on one of the busiest travel days of the year — to get to know Vermont from a new perspective.