May
18
9:00 AM09:00

A Williston Historical Landscape Walking Tour

The Williston Historical Society presents:

 “A Williston Historical Landscape Walking Tour”

 

Saturday, May 18th

9:00am-11:00am

Samantha Ford will be leading us on a historical landscape walking tour in Williston. We will discover how to “read” old forested farmscapes and agricultural architecture to trace 300 years of land use history in Vermont. Stone walls, old roads, and other mysteries “lost” in the woods reveal stories of the families who shaped the landscape as we see it today. Samantha is the founder of Turn Stone Research and has a Historical Preservation degree from the University of Vermont. 

Space is Limited to 20 people

Please email willistonhistoricalsociety@gmail.com to reserve your spot. Registration will be on a first come first serve basis. The WHS will respond with an email to confirm your registration.

All participants will meet at the Williston Central School parking lot near the tennis courts at 8:45 to carpool to the Sucker Brook Hollow Trail Parking Lot - 5035 St. George Road (Route 2A) as parking space is very limited.

Note: This tour will require walking on uneven terrain.

Photography is not permitted on the private land segment of the tour. 

Rain date - Sunday, May 19th, 9-11am

Anyone unable to attend can watch an excellent presentation called “Hiking Through Time at Sucker Brook Hollow” by Vermont Naturalist on YouTube.



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Mar
9
2:00 PM14:00

The Captain Wore Petticoats

Saturday, March 9, 2-4 pm. A first-person portrayal of Captain Philomene Daniels, the first licensed female steamboat pilot, presented by Jane Vincent of Waltham, VT. Philomene and her husband, Louis, began the Daniels’ Boat Line in 1877, which operated out of the basin area in Vergennes, VT and was the last commercial steamboat business on Otter Creek. “Captain Phil” was reported to be “one of the most picturesque and colorful figures in the history of steamboating on Otter Creek.”

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