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Migrant farmhands are here to stay. Over the past 25 years, workers from Mexico and Central America have become the backbone of Vermont's dairy industry...

MONTPELIER, VT—The Vermont Creative Network, the Vermont Arts Council, Vermont Humanities, and other creative sector supporters from across the state met with legislators at the Vermont Statehouse on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023, as a part of Creative Sector Day at the Statehouse. Testimony was given in a number of House Committees to demonstrate the power of the arts and culture to transform individual lives, connect people more deeply to each other, energize the economy, and sustain the vibrant ...

According to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, high school students in 22 states are required to learn about the Holocaust, the period between 1933 and...

The Most Costly Journey, is an initiative from the Open Door Clinic in Middlebury, along with several other partners, that shares the stories and experiences of migrant farmworkers in Vermont. The stories are told using illustrations drawn by New England cartoonists.Now, these stories have been compiled into an English language anthology that promises to be unlike almost any other book or graphic novel you’ve ever encountered. VPR’s Mitch Wertlieb spoke with Julia Doucet, an outreach nurse ...

Julia DoucetOpen Door Clinic outreach nurse, Middlebury Julia Doucet of Middleburys Open Door Clinic had just vaccinated two workers on an Addison County dairy farm last month when she spied another one a short distance away, walking toward an outbuilding. click image "Dont you want the COVID vaccine?" Doucet called out in Spanish. "Why not, right?" she nudged gently. The man paused and approached the...

Thu, 04/29/2021 - 3:27pm meganj By:  John Flowers OPEN DOOR CLINIC RN Martha Redpath administers a first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to a worker at a Salisbury farm in late March as part of the clinic’s push to vaccinate as many farmworkers as they can. Photo courtesy of Open Door Clinic FORMER LONGTIME MARY Hogan Elementary School nurse Mary Gill has volunteered for the past month and a half administering COVID-19 vaccines to Addison County farmworkers li...