These Dark Mountains

By These Dark Mountains

Vermont is known for the beauty of its woods and mountains, but the cost of that beauty is often forgotten. For much of our history, Vermonters endured unimaginable hardship and poverty that limited o... more

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March 13, 2020 Almon and Emeline (Alice Meaker, Part 3)
Duxbury, 1880. Following the discovery of the body, a woman and her son stand trial for the murder of Alice Meaker.
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49min
March 13, 2020 Atherton and Almon (Alice Meaker, Part 2)
Duxbury, 1880. A Sheriff’s Deputy searches for the missing Alice Meaker and a suspect agrees to lead him to the body. A story of two late night carriage-rides into the Little River district of Waterbury, culminating in an awful discovery.
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33min
March 13, 2020 Alice and Emeline (Alice Meaker, Part 1)
Duxbury, 1879. Eight year-old Alice Meaker and her brother are taken in by an older half-brother in exchange for $50. 11 months later, she disappears in the night.
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31min
December 19, 2019 Agnes Willis: The Cherry Court Murder
December 11, 1899 dawned gray and cold, rain blowing in waves with the winds up Cherry Street. Agnes Willis spent the day at work as a “scrub woman,” or cleaner, before meeting up with Gilbert Farmer and returning with him to her Cherry Street tenement. They took supper with the neighbors. A blade was needed to cut the chicken and Gilbert offered up his knife, a folding dirk. Its edge glittered.
Sources:
Guyette, Elise A. Discovering Black Vermont: African American Farmers in Hinesburgh, 1790-1890. University Press of New England, 2010.
Williamson, Jane. “African Americans in Addison County, Charlotte, and Hinesburgh, Vermont, 1790–1860.” Vermont History Vol. 78 No. 1: 15-42, 2010.
Whitfield, Harvey Amani. “African Americans in Burlington, Vermont, 1880–1900.” Vermont History Vol. 75, No. 2: 101-123, 2007.
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32min
November 01, 2019 In the Barn: Luman & Alma Smith
It’s early afternoon, not yet two o’clock on October 23, 1879, when Luman Smith returns to his farm in Williston. His little girl runs out to meet him and they go to the barn together, talking of this or that, then turning at the sound of footsteps, his father-in-law coming over.
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37min
October 08, 2019 The Suncook Town Tragedy (Marietta Ball, Part 2)
October 6, 1875. Wednesday morning in St. Albans and Aldis Brainerd is reading the paper. He’s at his house on North Main Street or at his offices in the Brainerd Block. He’s taking breakfast, perhaps, or sitting at his desk when he unfolds The Daily Messenger to its second page, a headline reading:
Another New Hampshire Horror
A School Girl Outraged & Murdered
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41min
September 23, 2019 The East Hill Murder (Marietta Ball, Part 1)
On Friday, July 24, 1874, Marietta Ball dismissed her class and closed up the No 2 schoolhouse. As usual she intended to pass the weekend with Clara Paige and left directly from the school, carrying her nightdress, slippers, and underclothes in a bundle under arm.
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32min
September 04, 2019 The Murder of Perry Russell
The moon was in the window. The bedroom swam silver in its light. Half-past eight o’clock on October 3, 1868, and Hannah Russell lay awake, her husband Perry beside her. He slept deeply and didn’t stir, though wind shook the roof-slates and rattled the shutters and somebody rapped at the side-door.
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30min
August 13, 2019 The Starch Box Mystery
Henry Beumond worked at Guild & Wetherbee’s paper mill in Westminster, Vermont. Late in the afternoon of June 12, 1895, he descended to the mill-race to rake out the debris and spied a starch box caught up on the racks. He fished it out and was surprised to find the lid was nailed shut. He pried it open.
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29min
July 30, 2019 The Disappearance of Victory Ploof
The hills were on fire. It was the spring of 1877, windy and dry. In West Jay, Vermont, Mitchell Ploof was at work in his clearing when he smelled smoke and heard a rustling in the undergrowth. Rabbits. They poured out of the forest, “whole droves” of them running, and there were other animals too, squirrels and chipmunks. The fire followed, ten minutes behind.
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23min

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How many episodes does These Dark Mountains have?

The podcast currently has 12 episodes available.