Coming up Thursday on Central Vermont Community Radio: Worcester celebrates local artistic talents with a new festival, and a bookseller digs into the controversy around author Dorothy Canfield Fisher's connections with the eugenics movement.

9:00 - 10:00 am
The inaugural Worcester Arts Festival is happening this Saturday near the town office on Route 12, highlighting the abundance of artists and performers from Worcester and environs. Two festival organizers will tell us why they were inspired to organize the festival and what to expect in the 8-hour celebration, from noon to 8 pm. David Book of the Worcester Historical Society is the co-author of The Cow Who Swallowed a Potato, a book of transcribed stories and oral history published by the Historical Society. Chad Hollister is a musician who found when he moved to Worcester 19 years ago that his music didn't make him stand out; his kids reported "everyone's dad is in a band."
http://www.worcestervthistoricalsociety.org/worcester-arts-festival.html

For over 60 years, one children's author each year was chosen each year by a vote of Vermont schoolchildren to receive the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award for excellence in children's literature. Canfield Fisher's name has been stripped from the award, in the wake of complaints that she stereotyped Native Americans and French Canadians and was part of the eugenics movement. Ben Koenig has sold her books at his store in Plainfield, The Country Bookshop, and he was inspired to dig into the controversy. He'll present his findings at the Socialist Labor Party Hall in Barre this coming Sunday at 3 pm, and he'll give listeners a preview of his discoveries and why they led him to doubt the accusations against Canfield Fisher.

https://libraries.vermont.gov/vermont-golden-dome-book-award

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 https://lostnationtheater.org/pass-over.html With on-demand streaming for two weeks after air date at archive.wgdr.org

Event Info

Dec 31, 2024, 6 to 11:55 PM

Dec 31, 2024, 8 PM

Jan 2, 2025, 11 AM to 12:30 PM