You can search our entire selection via our website (www.vermonthistory.org/shop) or at the Vermont History Museum store in Montpelier.

To ensure that your order will arrive before the holidays, we encourage you to place an order before Friday, December 19th.

The 2026 group includes the Bellows Falls Historical Society, the Craftsbury Historical Society, the Fayston Historical Society, the Milton Historical Society, the Rupert Historical Society, and the Saint Albans Museum!

Here's our announcement with details about the program:

🏛️ how we’re continuing the building’s educational legacy
🔮 a look at a crystal ball in our collection
📚 our annual holiday book list!

Members should be getting their copy in the mail soon and will have some copies at the Vermont History Center and Vermont History Museum.

🏫 The history of the building
🧱 The work and challenges that go into its upkeep
🎩 look at three objects connected to the building’s history
🍾 an article about a beverage dealer in Barre

We're going to miss her very much. Please join us in wishing her the best in her new adventures!

Daphne has been with us since 2022, and has been an indispensable presence at the Vermont History Center: she worked closely with members, helped coordinate a ton of events, and if you ever called VHS, you probably spoke with her on the phone.

“People in Barre, I think, have a real love of the building because many of them went to school there. But for Vermonters in general, it’s what the building houses. It is a very complex climate-controlled storage facility for, as I describe it, Vermont’s treasures,” said the center’s Steve Perkins.

You can order a copy of God Save Benedict Arnold here: vermont-historical-society-museum.square.site/product/god-...

Copies are now available at the Vermont History Museum, Vermont History Center, and online.

You can order a copy of Valcour here: vermont-historical-society-museum.square.site/product/valc...

You might know her name from Colchester's Fanny Allen Hospital, which was established in 1894 by six Sisters from the Religious Hospitalers of St. Joseph.

In 1811, she took her final vows became a nun, spending the rest of her life as a nurse, caring for the wounded during the War of 1812, and ultimately died of consumption in 1819 at the age of 35.

While there, she claims to have had a supernatural encounter, and ended up converting to Catholicism (notable, given her father's skepticism of religion and at a time when Catholicism was rare in Vermont) and entered the Religious Hospitalers of St. Joseph as a novice in 1808.

She studied at the Middlebury Seminary, and in 1807 she traveled to Montreal to study French, where stayed with the French Sisters of the Congregation of Notre Dame.