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Exhibitions

  • Full Duty: The Civil War Collection of Howard Coffin, at the American Precision Museum, opening May 2012. Featuring letters, diaries, photographs, maps, paintings, and newspapers, along with uniform parts, weapons, and other military accoutrements, this exhibition will explore the day-to-day life of Vermont soldiers in camp and on the battlefield. It will also provide glimpses into life on the home front.

  • Arming the Union: Civil War Gun Makers in Vermont,  at the American Precision Museum, opening May 2012. The machinery that made the rifles and pistols, and the men who made that machinery, will be featured in this first-ever exploration of the critical role that Vermont machinists and gun makers played in the Civil War.


    • Articles, Presentations, and Sesquicentennial Planning

  •   "Vermont Women Go to War as Nurses," Civil War Book of Days, Vermont Humanities Council.

  •  "Guns for Billy Yank: The Armory in Windsor Meets the Challenge of Civil War."  Vermont History, The Journal of the Vermont Historical Society, Summer/Fall 2011.

  •  Here Comes the Civil War Sesquicentennial: Will Your Museum Be Ready?  Session Chair and Speaker, New England Museum Association Annual Conference, November 2010.

  •  Member of Vermont's Civil War Sesquicentennial Planning Committee, 2010. 

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