Coming up Thursday on Goddard College Community Radio - a story from 1912 of the power of immigrant women workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts and how it affects central Vermont and the U.S. labor movement today, plus an interview with a French cheesemaker who is teaching artisan techniques in Vermont.
9:00 - 10:00 am
Robert Forrant, Distinguished History Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, will speak at the Vermont History Center in Barre Monday at 2 pm on "Still They Persisted: Immigrant and Community Solidarity in the 1912 Bread and Roses Strike.” He’ll give a preview of his talk on immigration, worker’s rights, and industrialization as seen in the strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Plus Amy Cunningham of the Vermont Humanities Council will talk about this year’s book in their Vermont Reads project, Katherine Paterson’s Bread and Roses, Too. And Amanda Gustin of the Vermont History Center will tie all this into a new exhibit on the Barre granite industry that opens Monday.
https://www.vermonthumanities.org/vermont-reads/vermont-reads-2018/
Ivan Larcher and his wife make butter, yogurt, cheese, and rice pudding on their 20-cow farm in France, and he travels the world teaching tricks of cheesemaking. He’ll be at Sterling College again this winter and spring, teaching Fundamentals of Artisan Cheese. He may give a few tips on how to find the best cheese, too. The school is part of The School of the New American Farmstead at Sterling College; director Heather Jerrett will give an overview of what the school has been doing for the three years it’s been around.
https://sterlingcollege.edu/course/artisan-cheese-making/
10:00 - 10:30 am
Resilience Thoughts, a locally told Extempo story, plus upcoming events related to energy, food, and the local economy at the end of the age of oil.
Please tune in! Relocalizing Vermont runs Thursdays, 9:00 - 10:30 am Eastern, on WGDR Plainfield 91.1 FM / WGDH Hardwick 91.7 FM / streaming at wgdr.org
Now with on-demand streaming for two weeks after air date at www.wgdr.org/on-demand
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