CHS Monthly Programs and Past Events
The Cambridge Historical Society hosts a historical program and/or meeting on the 2nd Wednesday of the month at 7:00 pm at the Warner Lodge building, 49 School Street in Jeffersonville, VT. Our programs, meetings and events are free and open to the public. All are welcome!
In an effort to make our programs more accessible to all, we have begun making our them available on YouTube. Our YouTube channel can be found here Cambridge_H. Society - YouTube. You may also access the programs by clicking on the program titles below or on our Facebook page.
In an effort to make our programs more accessible to all, we have begun making our them available on YouTube. Our YouTube channel can be found here Cambridge_H. Society - YouTube. You may also access the programs by clicking on the program titles below or on our Facebook page.
Watch our past programs by clicking on the titles below:
Grand Army of the Republic Highway
The history and events behind designating VT Route 15 as the Grand Army of the Republic Highway.
The history and events behind designating VT Route 15 as the Grand Army of the Republic Highway.
The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman
According to the medieval Icelandic sagas, a Viking woman came to the New World 500 years before Columbus. Gudrid the Far-Traveler, sister-in-law of the explorer Leif Eiriksson, tried to set up a colony on the shores of the Gulf of St Lawrence around the year 1000.
While this story was long thought to be a myth, author Nancy Marie Brown tells how more and more of Gudrid's story is being proved true by recent archaeological digs in Newfoundland, Greenland, and Iceland
According to the medieval Icelandic sagas, a Viking woman came to the New World 500 years before Columbus. Gudrid the Far-Traveler, sister-in-law of the explorer Leif Eiriksson, tried to set up a colony on the shores of the Gulf of St Lawrence around the year 1000.
While this story was long thought to be a myth, author Nancy Marie Brown tells how more and more of Gudrid's story is being proved true by recent archaeological digs in Newfoundland, Greenland, and Iceland
Growing up in Cambridge Jct. in the 1940s and 50s.
Donna Burnor Nolan grew up in Cambridge Junction Vermont in the 1940s and 50s. Her family was greatly impacted by the death of her father, one of three railroad workers, killed in a tragic train accident, near the Junction, in October, 1949. Her interesting story of growing up in the mid-20th century is part of the Cambridge Historical Society's oral history project.
Donna Burnor Nolan grew up in Cambridge Junction Vermont in the 1940s and 50s. Her family was greatly impacted by the death of her father, one of three railroad workers, killed in a tragic train accident, near the Junction, in October, 1949. Her interesting story of growing up in the mid-20th century is part of the Cambridge Historical Society's oral history project.
A Peek at Puritan Gravestone Symbology
Ever wondered what a grimacing or grinning skull means on old 17th & 18th century gravestones? Why do they have wings? Are those geometric shapes just decoration? Jen Bartlau discusses all this and more.
Produced by Richard Gagne and the CHS, featuring Jen Bartlau - Sept 2023
Ever wondered what a grimacing or grinning skull means on old 17th & 18th century gravestones? Why do they have wings? Are those geometric shapes just decoration? Jen Bartlau discusses all this and more.
Produced by Richard Gagne and the CHS, featuring Jen Bartlau - Sept 2023
A History of Cambridge (VT) High School
Produced by Richard Gagne and the CHS, featuring CHS alum, Reg Wilcox - July 2023
The Morse/Mann Mansion - Dr Roger Mann Hospital Part 1
Produced by Richard Gagne and the CHS, featuring Kristin Wells (Dr Mann's daughter) - March 2023
The Morse/Mann Mansion - Dr Roger Mann Hospital House Tour Part 2
Produced by Richard Gagne and the CHS, featuring Kristin Wells (Dr Mann's daughter) - May 2023
Cambridge Village Is Going National
Cambridge Village (Vermont) is in the process of applying for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places
Presented by Geana Little - October 2022
History of Cambridge VT Post Offices
Presented by Bonnie Hitchcock - September 2022
1800s and Froze to Death
Presented by Howard Coffin - July 2022 - A VT Humanities Speakers Bureau program
Jeffersonville 2nd Congregational Church History
Presented by Melody Tobin - June 2022
Cambridge Vermont Churches 1805 - 2020
Presented by Beth Cole - April 2021
Reading Frederick Douglass
Co-hosted by the Varnum Memorial Library and the Cambridge Historical Society - July 2015
A Vermont Humanities Council program
Wrong-Way Bridge - PDF only- March 2017
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