Cyndy Bittinger
CommentatorCyndy Bittinger is a writer and historian, who teaches at the Community College of Vermont. Her latest book is, "Vermont Women, Native Americans and African Americans: Out of the Shadows of History."
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I was visiting my brother in Charlotte one hot summer day in the '80s, when he suggested heading over to Lake Champlain for a swim. But my brother had MS鈥� -
Calvin and Grace Coolidge both grew up in Vermont. And most of us know that Calvin worked his way up the political ladder to be Vice President - then鈥� -
Weddings bring friends and families together, and a new wedding gown exhibit in Woodstock has also brought townspeople together as they鈥檝e gone through鈥� -
Looking back at history taught before the 1970s, the stories of men who ruled the world were what mattered. Unless you were a queen and ruled an empire,鈥�
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Ernest Everett Just rose through the academic ranks like a meteor, a path of brilliance in his wake, but his roots were grounded in the vestiges of the鈥� -
Calvin Coolidge鈥檚 boyhood village is preserved at Plymouth, Vermont and Daniel Webster鈥檚 college boarding house is run by the Hanover New Hampshire鈥� -
According to the numbers, women today nationally surpass men in educational achievement. To quote the Department of Labor, 鈥淎mong the employed ages 25 and鈥�
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When I had my first child thirty seven years ago, I went looking for a day care provider. Eventually I found clean, safe, pleasant toddler care, but first鈥�
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When Clara Sipprell tucked her knee length hair into her safari hat and jumped into her convertible automobile to drive through New York City in the鈥� -
William John Anderson, Jr. of Shoreham was born in 1876. He and his sister, Nettie, two years older, were children of a freed slave from Virginia who鈥�
