We’re going to be looking back at Tropical Storm Irene over the next few days. We start today’s program speaking with Kevin O’Connor about what the state has learned in the decade since Irene came roaring into Vermont. Next, noted film producer Jay Craven joins us to talk about the Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival, which begins today. After that, we have open phone lines to hear from listeners! And then we talk with Jeff Folb of Vermont Gatherings about upcoming events they have planned including the Vermont Sci-Fi and Fantasy Expo and the Living History Expo. 

Vermont’s Northland Journal publisher Scott Wheeler has written a series of books on the history of the Northeast Kingdom. To star the show, he’ll share stories from his latest, “Newport: Voices from an Evolving Community” and his other NEK histories. After that, we get wine suggestions from Lara Atkins of The Kitchen Table Bistro and master sommelier David Keck of the Vermont Wine Shepherd. 

State Epidemiologist Dr. Patsy Kelso joins us to discuss the threat of the COVID Delta Variant. Next, we hear about the scholarship fund created in the name of the late Warren Miller, who was known as the Mayor of Elmore. We’ll also learn about the Elmore Community Trust’s efforts to keep the Elmore Store as a vital part of the town. And then, as the Canadian Football League season has begun, we’ll check in with Vermont’s nearest professional football team, the Montreal Alouettes.  

Michael Moser, Coordinator of the Vermont State Data Center, helps us parse the numbers from last year’s census. No doubt about it, Vermont is growing, but how? Next, we do more math. This time combined with physics and learn how students from those two majors at NVU-Lyndon studied the safety of demolition derbies. Then, National correspondent Bob Ney provides an news update. After that we then move to Norwich University when Anne Wallace Allen of Seven Days explains how the Northfield school is adding stone arts as a field of study. And we finish the morning at St. Michael’s College to learn about un-lawning! 

UVM Sociology Professor Alice Fothergill studies disasters. She has turned her attention to the COVID-19 pandemic and the impact on children and elderly populations and opens the show sharing what she has found. Next, as the extended unemployment insurance benefits come to an end, we’ll hear about what those people collecting unemployment need to know and about what local support is available to them. After that, we’ll learn about when the idea of a Green Mountain National Park was proposed and why it might be time for this to happen now. And we finish the show in the most delicious way possible, with a visit to Canteen Creemee in Waitsfield. 

As we celebrate WDEV’s 90th Anniversary, we’re bringing back many of the voices you’ve grown to love through the years. We open the show by catching up with Dana Jewell, who retired last year. Then we spend the next hour getting some perspective on Afghanistan. First UVM Political Science Professor Peter Henne explains how Muslim states use religion in their foreign policies, and how ties between religion and state affect politics. Steve Terry, who served as Senator George Aiken’s legislative assistant, discusses the parallels between Afghanistan and Vietnam. And we end the show by heading up Route 14 past Hardwick Lake to visit the beautiful Jeudevine Falls.  

We'll start the morning in Windsor getting a tour of the American Precision Museum, that celebrates the manufacturing history of the country and is home to the largest collection of historically-significant machine tools in the nation. Then we hear about the work of Waterbury LEAP and the Electric Vehicle Fest being held on Wednesday. We finish the morning by meeting entrepreneur Alan Newman, founder of Gardner’s Supply, Seventh Generation and Magic Hat. He’ll tell us what he’s got planned for his latest project, Arts Riot in Burlington.  

Cats, comics and beer! What a way to start a week! To start the show, we meet the couple who have cat fanciers purring with the opening of Catland Vintage in Winooski. Next, we’ll open the phones to hear how you spent the beautiful weekend we just had. Then we head to White River Junction and the Center for Cartoon Studies. And we finish off in Tunbridge to hear about Brocklebank Craft Brewing and the Vermont NanoFest coming up this Saturday. 

We begin the morning in Enosburg Falls strolling around the Cold Hollow Sculpture Park, checking out the work of artist David Stromeyer. Next, UVM Film and Television Studies Professor Hilary Neroni discusses her essay on South Burlington High School changing its mascot from Rebels to Wolves.  After that, national correspondent Bob Ney stops by with his take on world and national news. Then Alison Novak of Seven Days discusses how some Vermont companies are offering their workers family-friendly perks.  And we finish up with a look at an 1883 labor dispute at a Vershire copper mine that got very, very ugly. 

We’ll start in the arts with The Chaffee in Rutland as it gets ready for its 60th Annual Art in the Park event being held this weekend. Next, we learn about Ric’s favorite animal – the Fisher (sometimes referred to incorrectly as the fishercat). After that, Grace Elletson of VTDigger talks about the recent investigation into the Vermont National Guard that found a culture that perpetuated the harassment and abuse of female Guard members. And we finish the show by meeting the new associate director of Norwich University’s Center for Global Resilience and Security, Dr. Kaitlin Thomas.