On Sunday, October 13th, Jill Mudgett, the featured speaker at the annual meeting of the Brookfield Historical Society, will present "The Hills of Home: Mountains and Identity in Vermont History."

Vermonters have strong ideas about the importance of their mountain topography. Where did our pride in Vermont's landscape come from, and why is it that we see our shared identity as rooted in the land? Evolving human ideas about the Vermont mountains form the base of this lecture.

The story begins with the state's founders and moves forward through Vermont history to explain how environmental understandings changed over time. This lecture by historian Jill Mudgett is timely and relevant in its relationship to current interdisciplinary scholarship and offers us tools to understand the origins and meaning of our own strongly held attachments to the Vermont landscape.

A Vermont Humanities Council event hosted by Brookfield Historical Society in the Fellowship Hall of the Brookfield Pond Village Church, 49 Ridge Road, 4:00 p.m., Gary Lord, (802) 276-3927. This talk is free, open to the public, and accessible to those with disabilities. Following the program all are invited to a community potluck supper in the Fellowship Hall of the church.

Nov 23, 2024, 1 to 3 PM

Nov 23, 2024, 5 to 8 PM

Nov 24, 2024, 2 to 5 PM