Relocalizing Vermont is Thursday morning on Goddard College Community Radio: A local historian who just published a book on the Black Death, talks about what we can learn from that pandemic that killed up to half the population of Europe, and we preview the virtual Common Ground Fair, usually held in Maine this year.

9:00 - 10:00 am
This month, Oxford University Press published Duxbury-based historian John Aberth's book, The Black Death: The Great Mortality of 1348-1350. The book provides background on the origins and spread of the bubonic plague plus nearly 50 documents organized into sections on the origin and spread of the illness; the responses of medical practitioners; the societal and economic impact, and more. Aberth will talk about how the plague reshaped European and Middle Eastern society and what long-term consequences we can expect from the much milder Covid-19 pandemic.
https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780199937981

This coming weekend is the date of the Common Ground Fair in Maine, an event that draws 20,000 people a day for three days to the fairground in Unity, Maine. This year, the event is online and free to all, without a drive to Maine. Probably the most popular event there is the sheep dog demonstration; we'll talk with at least one of the men who dazzles audiences with his dogs' ability to simultaneously herd sheep and Indian Runner ducks. We'll also tell you how you can sign up to be part of a live audience for the Fungi of the Forest workshop when it is recorded for the fair.
https://fair.mofga.org/fair-schedule

10:00 - 10:30 am
Resilience Thoughts, a locally told Extempo story, and more.

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

With on-demand streaming for two weeks after air date at www.wgdr.org/on-demand