Apologies for duplicate messages.
This week the Regional Educational Technology Network (RETN) will
broadcast "The Great Flood of 1927: A Commemoration," which was
sponsored by the Center for Research on Vermont with the National Weather
Service on November 3, 2002, the seventy-fifth anniversary of this
watershed event. The event will air on Adelphia cable television in the
Greater Burlington area.
The interdisciplinary panel of speakers include Samuel B. Hand, Emeritus,
History, University of Vermont; Gregory Hanson, National Weather Service;
Paul Sisson, National Weather Service; Richard Sweterlitsch, Oral
Historian, University of Vermont; and Arthur Woolf, Economics, University
of Vermont.
The event drew an overflow crowd, and a number of witnesses to the flood
spoke about their experiences during the program.
The program runs about two hours and will air as follows:
Wednesday,
July 23, 2003, at 11 a.m., again at 8 p.m., and again at midnight
Saturday,
July 26, at 8 a.m.
Sunday,
July 27, at 9 p.m.
Note: The schedule is the same for both RETN North
(Burlington, Essex, Essex Junction, Williston, and Winooski) and RETN
South (Charlotte, Ferrisburgh, Hinesburg, Shelburne, and
Vergennes).
For a more detailed description of the presentation, please visit the
Center's Web site at
<www.uvm.edu/~crvt>
and click on the Quick Link for Video Library Catalogue. For more
information about RETN, please visit its Web site at
<www.retn.org>.
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Kristin Peterson-Ishaq
Coordinator, Center for Research on Vermont
and Vermont Studies Program
University of Vermont
589 Main Street, Nolin House
Burlington, VT 05401-3439
Email: <[log in to unmask]>; Telephone: 802-656-8363
Fax: 802-656-8518; Web site:
<www.uvm.edu/~crvt>