Travel in Time with Dan | Bennington, Vermont — the Bennington Mob Era ⚠️ Author’s Note: The following is a fictional historical interview. Ethan Allen (1738–1789) and Seth Warner (1743–1784) were real American patriots who led the Green Mountain Boys — a militia that began as a rough frontier resistance group and evolved into a […]
Travel in Time with Dan | The Davis Log House, Winooski River, Montpelier, Vermont ⚠️ Author’s Note: The following is a fictional historical interview. Colonel Jacob Davis and his nephew General Parley Davis were real pioneers who became the first people of European descent to permanently settle in the area that would become Montpelier, Vermont.
From Local Mob to Revolutionary Heroes: The Story of the Green Mountain Boys If you ever find yourself standing before the towering Bennington Battle Monument in Vermont, you’re standing on the site of a Continental storehouse that changed the course of history. It was here that the British were repulsed on August 16, 1777,
A Conversation with Jefferson and Madison at Chimney Point Tavern, VT Dan Blanchard (DB): Gentlemen, welcome back to Chimney Point. The last time you were here, this was a bustling tavern. Today, it’s a museum preserving all that history. What’s it like seeing it in this new form? Thomas Jefferson (TJ): Remarkable, sir. In my
