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Then Again: Ethan and Ira’s Canadian debacles

by Mark Bushnell May 4, 2025, 7:13 am

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Ethan Allen has an image problem. Is the internet and present-day polarization to blame?

by Kevin O'Connor May 4, 2025, 6:48 amMay 4, 2025, 6:48 am

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Richard Witting: The shameful state of Native American affairs in Vermont

by Opinion March 12, 2025, 7:04 amMarch 12, 2025, 7:39 am

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A spark that ignited a revolution

by The Commons News March 12, 2025, 6:55 amJune 6, 2025, 3:27 pm

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Ethan Allen Homestead Museum burglarized but exhibits were untouched

by Auditi Guha October 15, 2024, 5:02 pmOctober 15, 2024, 5:03 pm

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Did Ethan Allen cross paths with the nation’s first known Black poet? Jay Craven has reason to think so.

by Kevin O'Connor July 8, 2024, 4:00 pmJuly 8, 2024, 4:01 pm

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Then Again: Vermont and New Hampshire, a long rivalry

by Mark Bushnell May 19, 2024, 7:01 amAugust 20, 2024, 12:48 pm

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Then Again: Vermont wouldn’t have been Vermont without Thomas Young

by Mark Bushnell December 18, 2023, 10:36 amDecember 18, 2023, 2:09 pm

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Then Again: American Revolution’s ‘necessary man’ mentored Ethan Allen

by Mark Bushnell December 3, 2023, 5:56 amDecember 18, 2023, 10:37 am

Then Again: 2 authors give a glimpse of a more human Ethan Allen

by Mark Bushnell July 17, 2022, 7:28 amJuly 19, 2022, 9:24 am

Then Again: Ethan Allen’s self-confidence worked for and against him

by Mark Bushnell March 20, 2022, 11:03 am

Then Again: Sharp-edged politics at the sign of the catamount

by Mark Bushnell November 28, 2021, 8:32 am

Government & Politics

Then Again: An early Vermont settler, a Green Mountain Boy, was also a spy

by Mark Bushnell April 25, 2021, 11:35 amApril 25, 2021, 11:35 am

Then Again: Ethan Allen was inoculated against smallpox, and brought up on charges

by Mark Bushnell March 7, 2021, 3:10 pmMarch 10, 2021, 5:48 pm