The exhibit has been up ten months and we've had over 2,000 visitors who have come to listen, learn and reminisce about their experiences. If you haven't had a chance, we hope you'll stop by before it closes in December and create your own 70s memories.
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Special Exhibit Hours Saturday, July 29 9:00 am-4:00 pm The exhibits will be open at the History Center as part of Barre Heritage Festival activities. There will also be historic games on the front lawn and a Book Sale. More info here. |
The Vietnam War Screening & Community Conversation Wednesday, August 23 5:00 pm-8:00 pm The exhibits will be open at the History Center and we'll be screening an excerpt and holding a community conversation on Ken Burns' & Lynn Novick's documentary The Vietnam War, in conjunction with Vermont Public Television. More here. |
The first thing you see when you walk into the exhibition at the Vermont History Center is a case filled with reading material. So many of the people who were involved in the 1970s counterculture were highly literate and used the written word as a point of connection, as a learning tool, and as a way to spread their ideas. They wrote essays, newspapers, pamphlets, and books and were voracious consumers of how-to books, philosophical treatises, memoirs, agricultural theory, and more.
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e thought for the summer we'd put together a list of the books that we included in that exhibit case, as well as others that people we surveyed named as important or influential. You can still find many of these books in reprint or in used copies at a local bookstore, so if you want some summer counterculture reading, check them out!
- Living the Good Life, by Helen and Scott Nearing
- Getting Back Together, by Robert Houriet
- Burnt Toast, by Peter Gould
- The Whole Earth Catalogue
- Mother Earth News
- Country Commune Cooking by Lucy Horton
- Horn of the Moon Cookbook by Ginny Callan
- Home Comfort: Stories and Scenes of Life on Total Loss Farm ed. Richard Wizansky and Verandah Porch, with contributors Peter Gould, Marty Jezer, Raymond Mungo et al.
- Our Bodies, Ourselves by the Boston Women's Health Collective
- Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown
- Stalking the Wild Asparagus by Euell Gibbons
- The Greening of America by Charles Reich
- The Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening from Rodale Press
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Support the Project
This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Grant #MA-10-14-0279-14
Additional support provided by Cabot Creamery Cooperative, UVM Extension Service, and Yankee Farm Credit.
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The exhibit is normally open Monday-Friday,
9:00 am to 4:00 pm at the Vermont History Center, 60 Washington St, Barre
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Talking 70s
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When I started out, people would have blankets on the ground and maybe tree branches they would hang their jewelry off of. When I left, people had videos in their booths and the only people who were really making it were the husbands and wives where one did the business and the other one created the stuff.
--Diane Gabriel
Discussing how the crafts movement has changed from the 1970s to today. From an oral history collected October 16, 2015 |
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