Episode 9 "History is very personal." has been released!

EPISODE 9 "HISTORY IS VERY PERSONAL."
Christine is a true Vermonter in every way: she is part Abenaki, and her entire family has been here for generations. Growing up working-class in a working-class town, she knows what it feels like to be disregarded. When she finally gets the chance to go to college as a working mother, she is awakened to her own intelligence. She decides to teach history, focusing on the history of women and Native Americans. She believes history is very personal, and her students learn history by making it personal. She makes a decent living, but it is only because her union has fought hard for it -- and they have to keep on fighting for it.

Oral history transcript to be performed: Christine Smith, Librarian at Spaulding, former History Teacher at Spaulding HS (2017, original).

Narrator: Sb Sowbel

THEME SONG CREDIT
The “John Henry” song at the beginning of our show is from the Alan Lomax Collection at the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress. Used courtesy of the Association for Cultural Equity.

RESEARCH CITATIONS

• Cronon, William. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England. Hill and Wang, 2003.
• “Native Americans / Native Vermonters.” The Vermont Movie, 2016, thevermontmovie.com/pdfs/abenakis.pdf.
• Post, Charles. The American Road to Capitalism: Studies in Class-Structure, Economic Development and Political Conflict, 1620-1877. Haymarket, 2012.
• Rooker, Sarah. “English Settlement In The Connecticut River Valley: 1691-1791.” Flow of History, 20 Feb. 2014, www.flowofhistory.org/english-settlement-in-the-connecticut-river-valley-1691-1791/.
• Matthewson, R. Duncan. “Western Abenaki of TheUpper Connecticut River Basin:Preliminary Notes on Native AmericanPre-Contact Culture in Northern New England.” The Journal of Vermont Archaeology, vol. 12, 2011, pp. 1–45.
• Rooker, Sarah. “The French Settlement Of Vermont: 1609-1929.” Flow of History, 10 Jan. 2014, www.flowofhistory.org/the-french-settlement-of-vermont-1609-1929/.
• Rooker, Sarah. “Stories of Forced Migrations to Vermont.” Flow of History, 14 Mar. 2014, www.flowofhistory.org/stories-of-forced-migragion/.
• Wood, Paul. “Granite Columm Early Uses of Stone Were Primitive, Helpful.” Times Argus, 18 Oct. 2018, www.timesargus.com/news/granite-columm-early-uses-of-stone-were-primitive-helpful/article_4c95190f-3669-5eea-a707-381da7ca7b52.html.

SOUND & MUSIC CREDITS
Music: "Cascade" by Parallel Park. From Free Music Archive. CC BY-NC-SA
Music: "Coming Round" by Parallel Park. From Free Music Archive. CC BY-NC-SA
Sound Effect: "ambience house with tv" by H0ugH. From freesound.org. CC BY-NC
Sound Effect: "atm money bank machine" by Nkzdra. From freesound.org. CC BY
Sound Effect: "Ambience, Seaside Waves, Close, A" by InspectorJ. From freesound.org. CC BY
Sound Effect: "Cafe busy with children" by Stevious42. From freesound.org. CC BY
Sound Effect: "Classroom" by sarcasticbracket. From freesound.org. CC BY-NC
Sound Effect: "College library ambience" by Hourofmidnight. From freesound.org. CC  BY-NC
Sound Effect: "GroupOfCollegeStudentsInClassroom" by adamlhumphreys. From freesound.org. CC BY-NC
Sound Effect: "Library sounds" by artemis_ch. From freesound.org. CC BY
Sound Effect: "Paintings at the exhibition » Lecture01" by LG. From freesound.org. CC BY
Sound Effect: "Prinknash Abbey Ground (Graveyard) at Dusk" by kernowrules. From freesound.org. CC BY-NC
Sound Effect: "Sad or Happy Movie Scene" by Soundscapes55. From freesound.org. CC BY
Sound Effect: "Wall Clock Ticking" by straget. From freesound.org. CC BY