DOCUMENT RESUME ED 350 245 SO 022 632 AUTHOR True, Marshall, Ed.; And Others TITLE Teaching Vermont's Heritage. Proceedingsof the Working Conference on Vermont's Heritagefor Teachers (2nd, Burlington, Vermont,July 9-13, 1984). INSTITUTION Vermont Univ., Burlington. Center forResearch on Vermont. SPONS AGENCY Vermont Council on the Humanities and PublicIssues, Hyde Park. PUB DATE 84 NOTE 167p.; For a related document,see SO 022 631. PUB TYPE Collected Works Conference Proceedings (021) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC07 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Cultural Background; EducationalResources; Elementary Secondary Education; *HeritageEducation; History Instruction; *InterdisciplinaryApproach; Local History; Social Studies; *StateHistory; *Teaching Methods IDENTIFIERS *Vermont ABSTRACT This document presents the proceedingsof a conference devoted to the developmentof teaching materialson the heritage of Vermont to be used inVermont's classrooms. The following articles are included: "EverybodyHas to be Somewhere, Sometime" (S. Hand); "A Vermont Geography:The Dynamic Map of the State" (S. Farrow); "The Vermont Environment:Landscapes and People" (J. Flack); "Living Spaces and Moving Places: Housing and Transportation inthe Vermont Environment" (W. Ramey; D. Davidson);"Nature's Great Potential: The Forest" (Sr. A. Deslauriers);"A Choice to Make--Vermont Careers" (K. Lovering;J. Spidell); "Sifting the Dirt: Archaeology in the Elementary Classroom" (D.Plumb; J. Benjamin); "Literacy, Machinery, and RegionalPoetry" (F. Gardner); "Cobwebsand Cookbooks" (A. Sullivan); "Musicand Songwriting" (J. Gailmor); "Opening Grammy's Memory Box inthe Classroom: Folklore in the Schools" (E. Ott); "SeeingVermont with Our Ears" (M. Woods); "Musings on Clio: Life in the LittleRepublics of Vermont" (D. Sanford); "Was this Trip Necessary? 'Lt. Gen. John Burgoynein the Champlain Valley in 1777'" (K. St. Germain); "Politics and BedLice: A Historical Study of Vermont Inns" (M.Paretti and others); "Mythor Reality? The Underground Railroadin Vermont" (R. Angell); "The Burlington Waterfront" (D. Orr);"Alternative Sources for the Teaching of Vermont History" (C. Denker); "Partnerships: Museumsand Schools" (D. Dunn); "A Vermont Heritage Festival: A Celebrationof Our Cultural Past and Present" (R.Bellstrom); and "Preserving Vermont's Political Heritage: Cosmetics or Culture?" (F. Bryan).Two appendices that list theprogram and participants for the conference also are included. (DB) **************;.,, ***************************************************** AeproaucLions supplieo Dy LDAS areErie nest that can be made from the original document. *********************************************************************** rjli t At 15 J. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Once of Educalonal Research and Improvement EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) This document has been reproducedas recetved from the person or organization originating .1 0 Woo/ changes have been made to improve fsf" reproduction quality ,t'i Points of new or opintons Stated in this doCu moot do not necessaniy represent official It: OERI positron or policy )1L115.5II 14 I-M.-Y.5 ./4 NJ 0"PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THIS Proce MA RIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY -4vprtite secondwo tit of- ("_(2_;t0N1 onNerni-dfit's heri' TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC).- A Aa tATP--4-0441-0 3:44102,,,e4.3A0,1* 4 , V VI k' riqA iN Et/ Edited By Marshall True Mary Woodruff Kristin Peterson-Ishaq THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT BURLINGTON, VERMONT 2 LIST COPY AVAILABLE TEACHING VERMONT'S HERITAGE PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECOND WORKINGCONFERENCE ON VERMONT'S HERITAGE FOR TEACHERS EDITED BY MARSHALL TRUE MARY WOODRUFF KRISTIN PETERSON-ISHAQ THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT BURLINGTON, VERMONT The Center for Research on Vermont College of. Arts and Sciences The University of Vermont Burlington, VT 05405 Copyright 1984 by the University of Vermont "Vermont's Heritage: A Working Conference for Teachers II" was held at the University of Vermont on July 9-13, 1984. The conference and this publication were funded in part by a grant from the Vermont Council on the Humanities and Public Issues and by the University of Vermont's Center for Research on Vermont. CONTENTS lntroduction Everybody has to BeSomewhere, Sometime Samuel. B. Hand the State A Vermont Geography: The Dynamic Map of Steven Farrow Landscapes and People The Vermont Environment: 13 Jean RichardsonFlack Rousing and Living Spaces andMoving Places: Vermont Environment Transportation in the 22 Wayne Ramey and DaveDavidson The Forest Nature's Great Potential: 27 Sr. Agatha Ocslaurierc A Choice to Nlakc -Vermont Careers ,Videll 31 CaCltc ringLovering and Joann( Sifting Away the Dirt: Archaeology in the Elementary Classroom 44 DorisPlumb (rnd JoanBenjamin and Regional. Poetry Literacy, Machinery, 49 Frieda Gard;ier Cobwebs and Cookbooks 59 Ann Stal[van Music and Songwriting 63 Jon dal'. /mot, Opening Grammy's MemoryBox in the Classroom: Folklore in the Schools 65 Eleanor Ott Seeing Vermont withOur Ears 82 Mari Zyit ti( h.; Republics of Vermont Musings on Clio: Life in the Little 86 P. arcgory:)*(o/PPri "Lt. Gen. John Burgoynein the Was This TripNecessary? Champlain Valley in1777" 92 Kenneth 31. Cf2rmain Politics and Bed Lire: A Historical Study of Vermont Inns Michael Paretti, Sue Lewis, and Andrea Torello 97 Myth or Reality? The Underground Railroadin Vermont Rosalie Angell 101 The Burlington Waterfront David Orr 108 Alternative Sources for theTeaching of Vermont History Cornelia Donkor 124 Partnerships: Museums and Schools Dorothy Dw'n 130 A Vermont Heritage Festival: A Celebration of Cur Cultural Past and Present Regina BeVstrom 136 Preserving Vermont's PoliticalHeritage: Cosmetics or Culture? Prank Brywr 144 Appendix 1 Program, "Vermont's Heritage: A Working Conference for Teachers II" Appendix 2 Participants, "Vermont'sHeritage: A Working Conference for Teachers 11" INTRODUCTION Abenaki mythology has it that Lake Champlain was the last work of Odzihozo, ("He Makes Himself from Something"), a legendary creature who built himself from dust. Odzihozo's drawn-out struggles to shape himself in turn created the mountains, streams, meadows, rivers, and lakes which make up Vermont. Odzihozo also transformed this environment, making it more suitable for human habitation. Moreover, so the legend goes, Odzihozo liked his work so well that he clambered upon a rock in Burlington Bay (which later arrivals named Rock Bonder), turned himself to stone, and there he chose to remain. Those who would teach about Vermont's heritage often resemble Odzihozo as they assemble materials to create a Vermont curriculum fromsomething. And creating a Vermont curriculum can be a challenging task. Vermont is too small a market: to attract the attention of commercial publishers interested in a national market. Therefore teachers here must develop their own materials for teaching about Vermont. Yet, as the proceedings of this conference suggest, Vermont is fortunate in a number of ways. We have a rich variety of materials available for teachers ranging from cook- books and memories from Grandma's attic to the latest environmental impact survey. Additionally, as Sam Hand pointed out in his keynote address, Vermont is sufficiently small to be studied as a coherent whole.Moreover, Vermont, perhaps in a manifestation of what Frank Bryan identifies as its commitment to human scale communities, has attracted a group of dedicated and energetic people--Vermonters by choice or by birth--to teach about. Vermont's heritage in the state's schools.These professionals are the people who are her able to create, shape, and maintain a Vermont curriculum. These proceedings, as well as the conference from which they were drawn, represent the continuing commitment of the Center for Research on Vermont and the Vermont Council on the Humanities and Public Issues to help teachers solve some of the problems of developing curricular materials for Vermont's classrooms. Our formula was simply to bring together a distin- guished group of Vermont scholars to talk about their work to an audience of interested teachers. We particularly asked the scholars to address the question of how the materials they were discussing might be taught. We then invited the teachers to develop curricular units for classroom use. We also asked both scholar-teachers and teacher-scholars to work together to establish some initial guideposts to resources that arecurrently available for teachers interested in exploring some aspects ofVermont's heritage. Our reasoning was that scholars and teachers should work cooperatively lo begin to identify. suggest, and develop teaching materials for Vermont classrooms and that these materials should then be offered to teachers all over rho stare. We believe these proceedings contain many suggestions for teaching about the heritage of this marvelously idiosyncratic place called Vermont. We hope that this volume will he useful; more than that, we hope itwill be used. vi We believe that this year's conference,the second we have held on Vermont's heritage, succeeded in a number of ways. As the following con- tributions from scholars and teachers suggest,there are dozens of ways in which Vermont material may be used inthe classroom. To mention just some of the cross-disciplinary waysthat might he used to introduce Vermont materials into the curriculum is only to hint atthe range of discussion which occurred at the conference itself. For example, the nature poetry of St. Albans' Frances Frost might he used tointroduce a unit of botany or geology