Threads of History
Ruminations on the history and cultural heritage of the Champlain Valley.
“History is a tangled skein that one may take up at any point, and break when one has unraveled enough.” – The Education of Henry Adams
Definition of skein
\ : a loosely coiled length of yarn or thread wound on a reel
If anyone can reel in a listener with a good yarn, Dr. John Krueger can. John is a former professor of history, chair of the LCBP’s Heritage Advisory Program Advisory Committee, and passionate reveler in the lore of the Northeast and Champlain Valley. In the Threads of History blog, John shares the stories of our rich history and reflects on how the past has shaped the landscape and culture of the Champlain Valley today.
March 9, 2023
The American War for Independence was set about by thousands of men and women, each with an individual story to ... Read more >>
August 16, 2022
George Washington excepted, no one contributed as much to the British victory in the French and Indian War and to ... Read more >>
June 17, 2022
“I will either set my country free or shed my last drop of blood to make her so." Joseph Warren, ... Read more >>
May 6, 2022
During her lifetime, the New York World described Kate Field as the “brainiest woman in the United States.” Born in ... Read more >>
March 31, 2022
The snowy New Year’s morning of 1776 held little hope for the troops of the various American colonies huddled outside ... Read more >>
February 22, 2022
None of the hardy individuals who populated early Vermont was more passionate about liberty than the frontier philosopher from the ... Read more >>
January 7, 2022
Henry Brooks Adams’s life and work traced the early political and social forces of a nation in whose making the ... Read more >>
December 11, 2021
William Henry Harrison Murray, a prominent clergyman at the historic Park Street Church in Boston, wrote Adventures in the Wilderness ... Read more >>
October 7, 2021
With 13,000 British and German troops under General Sir Guy Carleton waiting to move south from Canada and a badly ... Read more >>