Jane Beck
CommentatorJane Beck is the founder of the Vermont Folklife Center.
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Smart phones are omnipresent, communication today is instantaneous and global. My grandchildren can’t conceive of a party line or the fact that in the…
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Few of us remember how dangerous diseases like measles and polio were before vaccination, but a story told by Everett Palmer of Waitsfield and archived by…
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Alec Turner, once enslaved on a Virginian plantation, always maintained that he had heard the hoof beats of John Wilkes Booth’s horse as he fled the scene… -
Daisy Turner was born the daughter of slaves in Grafton, and she was one hundred by the time I first met and began to interview her in 1983. I’d heard she…
