Happy Holidays from VTDNP!

Happy holidays, everyone, from the Vermont Digital Newspaper Project! May you have a warm (emphasis on warm!!), happy, and safe holiday in whatever form that may take.

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An advertisement for a radio from the Caledonian-Record in 1922.

 

Here’s to a fantastic 2014 and an even better 2015.  In honor of the holiday season, we put together a small  album of assorted holiday newspaper clippings from Vermont (all found on                              Chronicling America).

 

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“The Arrival of the New Year” in the Spirit of the Age out of Woodstock, Vermont.

 

Cheers,

The VTDNP team

P.S. Also, a note on holiday craft ideas: old newspaper clippings make for great holiday cards!

P.P.S. Have you seen the Chronicling America Topics Pages for “Yes Virginia, There is a Santa Claus”?

VTDNP @ the 2014 Vermont Alliance for the Social Studies Conference

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The Equinox Resort & Spa, home to the conference this year, boosts a 200 year history, 6 different architectural styles, and 17 structures–it’s quite the complex!

The Vermont Digital Newspaper Project (VTDNP) was invited to give a workshop to teachers at this year’s Vermont Alliance for the Social Studies Conference in Manchester, Vermont, at the Equinox Resort & Spa, on  Friday, December 5, 2014.

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VTDNP at NELA Conference 2014 & History Day Workshop

It’s been a busy week for VTDNP crew. On Monday, October 20, 2014, our project librarian, Erenst Anip presented at the New England Library Association (NELA) Annual Conference in Boxborough, MA (about an hour drive from Boston). There, he co-presented with Gail Hurley from the Connecticut Digital Newspaper Project (CTDNP) on NDNP to spread the word about Chronicling America to the wider New England area and hopefully other neighboring states of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Maine will join NDNP soon. Gail presented on an overview of NDNP grant and Erenst talked about the details of the grant.

Gail Hurley CTDNP at NELA 2014

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150 Years Ago: The St. Albans Raid as Recounted in the News

“The town is full of the wildest rumors, and speculation runs rife,”     reported the Vermont Transcript on October 21, 1864, only a few days after the northern-most land attack in the Civil War in the town of St. Albans on October 19th, 1864.

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The news spread quickly in Vermont, thanks to telegraph dispatches from St. Albans. This was from the Vermont Watchman & State Journal on October 21, 1864.

The raiders first appeared a few days earlier, staying at a variety of St. Albans lodgings, according to the Vermont Transcript:

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Click on the article to go directly to the newspaper page.

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