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From YouTube: The Founding Fathers of the Homestead Museum - How Ethan Allen's Home was Rediscovered
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From the Ethan Allen Homestead:
On Father's Day, guest lecturer Tom Anderson talks about the founding of the Ethan Allen Homestead Museum.
Tom Anderson was one of a small group of visionaries who worked with Ralph Nading Hill to develop the homestead park and museum as it exists today. Tom shares stories of those early days and how they rediscovered and restored the 1787 home of Vermont founder and Revolutionary War leader Ethan Allen.
For more information: ethanallenhomestead.org
6/19/2022
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A
C
B
So
hi
everyone
thank
you
for
coming.
This
is
my
very
first
monthly
lecture
series
live,
but
I
have
been
enjoying
them
via
zoom
even
before
I
became
the
director,
but
we're
very
excited
to
be
back
in
person
and
thanks
for
joining
us
for
this.
So
I
have
the
honor
of
introducing
our
guest
speaker
for
today,
tom
anderson
tom
grew
up
in
essex
vermont,
and
he
first
came
to
the
homestead
on
the
winooski
intervale
as
an
unsuspecting
youth
back
when
this
place
was
still
a
working
family
farm
owned
by
the
morrill
family.
B
B
tom
lived
here
at
the
homestead
for
three
years
back
then
the
historic
importance
of
this
site
and
the
little
house
city
near
the
river
was
not
well
known
to
the
general
public.
Then
along
came
ralph
mading
hill,
a
prominent
vermont
historian
and
preservationist,
and
tom
worked
closely
with
ralph
until
ralph's.
Unexpected
passing
in
1987.,
after
which
tom
worked
effortless
effortlessly
to
see
his
friend's
vision
come
to
fruition.
B
D
D
D
I've
been
doing
it
for
since
last
september
and
I'm
still
doing
it,
and
I
can't
find
all
of
the
records
and
pictures
that
would
have
helped
us
today.
But
at
any
rate
here
we
are,
and
so
for
two
weeks
I
have
been
writing
my
memories.
Is
this
too
loud
for
you?
No
and
I
compiled
20
handwritten
pages
and
then
after
reading
it
a
couple
of
times.
I
said
you
know:
that's
really
not
right.
D
D
D
D
D
D
D
D
When
the
flood
of
27
hit
it
wiped
out,
the
ethan
allen
factory
in
beecher's
falls
vermont
if
you've
never
been
to
beecher's
falls
it's
hard
to
tell
you
how
to
get
there,
because
there's
almost
no
roads
that
go
there.
It's
way
up
in
the
northeast
corner
of
vermont,
and
you
have
to
drive
from
here-
probably
take
you
four
hours
to
drive
up
there
very
remote.
D
So
as
long
as
I'm
on
that
subject,
I'll
tell
you,
nathan,
ansell
was
born
and
raised
in
new
york
city.
He
he
grew
up.
His
brother-in-law
owned
a
furniture
store
in
new
york
and
at
one
point
right
after
nate
as
he
was
called
graduated
from
college,
he
didn't
have
a
job.
He
was
an
attorney
but
no
clients,
so
the
brother
last
him
if
he
would
attend
the
store.
While
he
went
on
vacation,
so
he
agreed
he
did
and
because
there
was
again
no
law,
business
or
anything
else
to
do.
D
So
he
walked
into
nate's
furniture
store
and
said,
I'd
like
to
sell
you
a
furniture
factory
and
so
nate
said
he.
I
laughed
at
him
and
told
him
well,
you
can't
sell
me
anything
because
I
don't
have
any
money
and
the
agent
laughed
and
he
said:
well,
you
don't
need
any
money,
he
said
well.
Well,
what
do
I
need?
He
said
I
just
need
you
to
go
to.
D
D
D
So
they
recounted
and
said
well
we'll
stay
and
we
can
rebuild
the
factory
we'll
clean
it
up
and
we'll
oil
all
the
equipment
and
we'll
go
out
and
find
as
much
slumber
as
we
could
and
bring
it
back
and
so
on,
and
so
so
they
did
and
and
as
a
result
of
their
doing,
that
the
the
company
stayed
in
business
and
I
knew
about
this
firsthand.
Because
years
later
in
the
80s,
I
had
become
nate.
D
Nate
ansel
nathan
ansell
became
very
famous.
He
was
the
the
sort
of
the
original
founder
of
the
eastern
allen,
the
furniture
company
in
new
york.
It
wasn't
called
easy
now
and
then,
but
he
said
that
in
the
early
days
when
he
went
there,
he
said
there
was
no
store
where
you
could
go
in,
and
a
woman
could
walk
around
and
furnish
a
house.
If
you
wanted
to
buy
a
table,
you
had
to
go
to
a
table
store.
D
So
that's
what
happened
and
as
they
progressed,
the
company
became
successful,
but
it
still
wasn't
called
the
ethan
allen
furniture
company,
but
he
had
made
a
number
of
trips
to
beecher's,
falls
and
checked
on
the
employees
and
what
they
were
making
and
so
on.
Well,
on
one
of
his
trips,
just
in
1936,
he
was
going
to
be
going
to
the
world's
fair
and
taking
some
furniture
there.
So
when
he
went
to
beecher's
falls,
he
stayed
at
the
colebrook
hotel
in
coldbrook
new
hampshire,
just
on
the
connecticut
river,
and
he
liked
to
play
poker.
D
So
on
this
last
trip
just
before
he
was
going
to
take
some
furniture
to
the
world's
fair
in
chicago,
he
was
playing
poker
and
stuart
holbrook
and
others
chided
him
about
the
name
of
the
company,
because
he
had
named
the
company,
the
israel,
putnam
furniture
company
and
holbrook
chastised
him
and
said
who
the
hell
ever
heard
of
israel
putnam.
He
said
if
you
want
a
successful
name,
it
ought
to
be
ethan
allen
because
everybody
in
vermont
and
the
surrounding
states
knows
ethan
allen.
D
So,
the
next
day
after
the
poker
game,
he
went
back
to
the
factory
and
they
had
an
in-house
blacksmith
who
made
up
a
square
plug
and
they
got
all
the
furniture
together
that
had
been
stamped
israel
putnam
and
they
burned
out
the
name
of
this
hero
putnam
and
replaced
it
with
the
eastern
allen,
furniture
company.
So
that's
how
it
got
its
name
and
so
then
holbrook
following
that
continued
to
write
his
book
on
the
history
of
ethan
allen
and
if
you
read
various
book
reviews
about
the
books
that
have
been
written
on
allen.
D
So
I've
never
seen
that
written
anywhere.
But
ralph
told
me
that
that
that's
how
they
started
and
you
you
can
read
various
accounts
of
that
land,
because
obviously
it
was
the
most
beautiful
piece
of
land
along
the
lakefront
there
and
because
it
goes
back
into
the
1700s,
it's
the
first
piece
of
property
that
was
settled
by
the
settlers.
D
I
don't
know
just
how
many
small
farms
there
were,
that
comprised
several
thousand
acres,
that
they
ended
up
owning,
but
the
webb
started,
buying
those
farms
up
and
took
a
quite
a
long
time,
but
they
succeeded
in
in
buying
all
those
small
farms
and
converting
them
into
what
we
now
know
as
the
shelburne
farms,
which
I
think
consisted
of.
I
think
it
was
about
5
000
acres
because
it
went
from
the
just
south
of
shelburne
point
and
it
went
all
the
way
down
through
sherlock
and
took
in
several
miles
of
lakefront.
D
That
would
become
the
shelburne
museum
and
as
a
youngster
I
was
around.
I
I
saw
that
process.
They
brought
the
boat
down,
they
dug
a
huge
moat
and
they
moved
the
boat
into
a
a
moat
and
then
they
put
dirt
behind
it,
made
a
complete
surrounding
moat,
and
then
they
flooded
it
and
started
hauling
it
forward
towards
the
museum,
and
then
they
laid
tracks
from
where
the
boat
was
all
the
way
across.
D
D
About
that
time,
ralph
had
a
lifelong
desire
to
find
ethan
allen's
house
and,
and
of
course
he
was
a
student
of
the
lands
and
in
this
area,
and
everybody
knew
where
ethan's
lands
were.
But
people
wouldn't
wouldn't
agree
with
him
in
terms
of
specifically
where
it
was
because
the
town
clerk's
office
in
burlington
had
burned
to
the
ground
twice
destroying
all
the
records,
so
they
didn't
have
any
specific
records
of
of
where
the
house
might
have
been.
D
D
When
I
first
came
here,
there
wasn't
a
tree
to
be
seen,
it
was
all
meadowland
and
it
was
flat
and
the
only
structure
here
was
ethan's
house
and
in
this
barn,
and
this
barn
was
built
by
al
morrow
who
married
burrow
and
they
own
the
peace
green
company
together,
and
they
built
that
barn
to
store
hay
in
crops
that
they
raised
here,
and
so
the
the
only
house
was
was
the
the
allen
house.
But
you
couldn't
tell
that
it
was
a
primitive
house.
It
had
been
added
onto
several
times.
D
Kept
looking
and
looking-
and
he
told
me-
I
would
come
here
and
I
would
sit
out
there
and
I'd
look
at
this
house
and
say
it
has
to
be
his
house
so
somewhere
along
those
years.
He
got
involved
with
what
would
become
the
winooski
valley
park
district,
which
were,
I
think,
five
towns
that
fronted
on
the
river
that
were
trying
to
put
together
an
association
to
have
some
input
into
how
their
towns
were
going
to
develop
along
the
river.
D
D
Personally
surveyed
and
was
responsible
for
taking
apart
every
house
on
the
shelving
museum
and
moving
it
from
either
out
of
state
or
some
other
town.
There
were
some
buildings
that
came
from
southern
vermont
from
new
hampshire.
He
took
two
major
buildings
from
shelburne
and
they
were
brick
philippines
and
he
took
them.
Apart
brought
him
back
to
museum
resurrected
him,
that's
no
easy
tags
and
so
ralph
not
rough,
but
bob
had
retired.
D
By
the
time
ralph
said,
I've
got
to
prove
that
this
is
ethan's
house,
so
he
went
to
bob
said
you
know:
will
you
come
out
of
retirement
and
come
down
and
now
that
we
own
this
house,
you
can
start
taking
it
apart
to
see
if
the
original
dimensions
match
what
ethan
ordered.
So
he
did.
I
don't
know
how
long
that
took,
but
they
ended
up
with
a
house
that
was
what
20
something
by
22
by
32
22
by
32.
D
D
D
People
who
had
bought
policies
and
their
agents
had
died,
moved
away,
retired
or
whatever,
and
I
was
supposed
to
call
them
make
an
appointment
go
out
and
talk
with
them
say
you
know,
is
your
beneficiary
current?
Do
you
need
any
more?
Do
you
have
any
questions
this
and
that
so
I
did
that
for
a
year
and
it
was
a
lot
of
fun
and
one
of
the
people
that
I
called
on
was
burrell
morrow.
Who
was
the
owner
of
the
bee's
grain
company?
She
was
a
direct
descendant
of
daniel
webster's.
D
She
went
to
a
business
college
somewhere
in
new
england
and
when
she
finished
she
came
to
burlington
got
a
job
with
the
peace
green
company
and
after
a
number
of
years
mrs
pease
died
and
sold
solar
the
company.
I
don't
know
anything
about
mrs
pease
and
she
was
an
old
maid
as
I
understand
it,
and
the
company
was
a
successful
operating
company,
but
it
wasn't
huge,
so
girl
ran
the
company
one
day.
D
A
salesman
came
in
looking
for
a
job
and
she
hired
him
and
his
name
was
al
morrow
and
I
don't
know
how
long
he
stayed
there
before
they
got
married,
but
they
did,
and
he
was
pretty
aggressive,
guy
and
he's
this
barn
and-
and
he
was
first
great
guy,
and
so
she
was
one
of
the
people
that
I
had
to
call
on
and
being
very
interested.
She
liked
to
talk.
D
D
So
so
I
did
that
for
a
long
time
and
one
day
I
went
there
and
she
said
that
she
asked
me
where
I
lived
and-
and
I
said
I
live
on
king
street
and
she
said
well
how
much
rent
do
you
pay
and
I
said
36
a
month,
including
heat
and
hot
water,
so
she
said
well,
do
you
think
you
could
afford
50
a
month
and
I
said
yeah?
I
could
probably
manage
that
why
she
said.
Well,
I
have
a
tenant's
house
and
I'd
like
you
to
move
in.
So
that's
how
I
got
here.
D
D
They
sold
everything.
You
can
imagine
that
a
general
store
would
sell
fishing,
tackle
guns,
no
food,
but
bags
clothes
every
possible
thing.
You
can
imagine
so
these
two
young
guys
wanted
to
buy
the
business
and
they
went
to
leslie
davis
and
dudley
said
he
would
finance
the
business
but
not
the
building.
D
D
It
had
closed
in
1953
when
the
korean
war
ended
from
about
1900
to
the
50s.
It
produced
only
woolen
clothing
for
the
military,
and
so
these
two
old
gentlemen,
the
the
cohen
brothers,
bought
the
the
property
and
they
started
this
wholesale
supply
company
and
they
did
very
well
and
and
then
they
wanted
to
retire.
So
I
don't
know
how
they
found
these
two
young
guys,
but
they
they
came
to
me
and
said:
would
you
consider
buying
the
building
and
leasing
it
back
to
us?
So
again
I
went.
D
So
I
thought
that
was
a
lot.
They
said
I
was
protected,
so
the
business
operated
for
about
18
months.
I
got
my
check
every
month
and
they
put
money
into
escrow
for
the
repair
of
the
building
and
so
on
and
at
the
end
of
the
18th
month
the
rent
stopped
coming.
So
I
went
over
there.
They
had
one
employee,
the
employee
said
that
they
left
on
friday
and
said
they
were
never
coming
back,
and
so
here
I
am,
you
know,
standing
there
wondering
what
do
I
do
now.
D
So
I
said,
that's
no
problem
come
on
over
bring
your
your
big
truck
and
I'll
help.
You
load
it.
So
we
went
out
we
one
day
it
took
us
about
a
day
to
go
through.
They
had
a
list
of
things
that
they
wanted,
and
so
we
filled
up
a
tractor-trailer
truck.
They
left.
I
never
heard
from
them
again
and
I
never
heard
from
any
other
creditor.
D
D
D
Imagine
this
in
all
of
greater
burlington
and
chapman
county.
There
wasn't
one
tin
building.
There
were
no
ten
buildings,
as
we
know
today
that
businesses
have
nothing.
If
you
wanted
a
space
to
start
a
business,
you
were
in
trouble,
there
wasn't
much
available,
so
I
thought
well
I'll.
Just
the
whole
building
was
divided
into
columns
12
feet
by
24
feet.
Deep
and
so
people
would
come.
We'd
walk
down
the
aisles
we'd
count
off
the
divisions,
and
I
would
look
back
at
the
space
and
I'd
say
to
him.
Well
how
much
space
do
you
need?
D
Well,
I
don't
know
well
look
at
the
space.
Is
that
enough
to
do
what
you
need
to
do
so
they'd
say:
yes,
nobody
brought
an
attorney.
Nobody
brought
an
architect.
It
just
didn't
happen
that
way.
So
I
I
walked
everybody
off.
I
hired
carpenters,
plumbers
and
in
two
years
when
I
got
through,
I
had
52
tenants
in
the
building
and
every
major
company
of
burlington
started
their
biotech
job
bra
american
mailings
resolution.
D
They
all
came,
and
I
built
their
space
formula
and
it
was
beautiful
space
they
loved
it
had
oil
wood
floors
and
the
floors
were
pine
planks
about
10
inches
wide
with
a
spline
in
them
and
they
oiled
the
floors
when
the
mill
was
running
every
friday
night.
So
the
whole
place
was
wreaked
of
oil,
and
so
anyway,
that's
how
I
rented
the
the
mellow
and-
and
it
was
it-
was
the
best
10
years
of
my
life.
D
D
C
D
D
D
Bowl
wheels
sticking
out
of
the
silt,
and
so
you
have
two
gigantic
wheels
that
you'll
see
that
were
they
were
about
10
feet
high.
They
had
these
huge
cast
iron
lugs
in
between
the
spindles
that
held
the
wood
together
and
they
faced
the
river
and
literally
was
there,
and
there
was
a
slot
in
the
wall
behind
one
of
the
wheels
and
those
wheels
were
about
30
inches
wide
and
they
had
leather
belts
on
them.
D
D
D
So
I
got
all
of
a
big
excavator
brought
him
in
against
the
the
what
would
have
been
the
east
end
of
the
building
and
I
had
him
dig
a
hole,
a
big
hole
about
half
the
size
of
this
porch
and
he
went
down
10
feet
and
there
we
hit
all
this
beautiful
redstone,
which
is
very
hard.
It's
on
the
order
of
granite
and
the
white
went
around
and
I
made
a
width
on
the
bottom
for
years.
D
D
So
when
you
went
outside
the
wall,
the
land
dropped
off
like
this,
so
I
filled
it
all
back
in
made
a
nice
lawn
had
flower
gardens
and
so
on.
By
the
time
I
got
through,
I
had
2500
square
feet
of
nice
space
that
I
could
develop
into
an
office,
so
I
did
and
when
you
look
at
those
wheels,
that's
after
my
office
was
finished.
My
desk
was
right
in
front
of
it,
and
my
office
was
900
square
feet,
which
is
a
big
room,
and
so
after
I
I
met
ralph
and
he
started
coming
down
there.
D
They
all
wanted
to
hang
out
in
my
office
so
about
once
every
two
weeks
I'd
have
ralph
george
little
hilton
wick,
all
kinds
of
people
would
come
there
and
we
would
sit
there
and
we
would
talk
about
how
we're
going
to
resurrect
homestead,
and
so
that's
where
it
all
started
was
in
the
basement
of
that
metal.
In
terms
of
how
do
we
do
it
so.
D
We
we
talked,
and
we
talked
and
we
meet
periodically
out
here
and
we'd,
look
at
the
house
and
and
we
just
had
an
understanding
that
the
house
had
to
be
presented
to
the
public,
so
ralph
told
us
one
day.
He
said
I
know
an
architect
in
new
york
that
might
give
us
some
advice.
His
name
is
richard
ropinowitz
and
he
was
the
architect
of
south
street
seaport
miracle,
philadelphia
and
so
on,
a
really
knowledgeable
guy.
So
we
invited
him
up.
D
D
Lola
aiken
lincoln
brownell,
hilton,
wick
and
forgotten
the
others,
but
we
drove
to
new
york.
We
stayed
over
two
nights
and-
and
we
talked
at
length
with
robinowitz-
and
he
said
I'll
be
back
in
touch,
so
we
go
back
to
burlington
and
he
he
then
sent
us
some
drawings
and
said
you
know
you
have
you
finished
a
house.
D
You've
done
a
nice
job,
but
now
you
have
to
present
it
to
the
public
and
you
need
a
place
to
do
that
and
he
said
you've
got
this
nice
barn
finish
that
barn
off,
so
you
can
have
meetings
in
there.
People
can
be
in
and
out
of
the
weather
and
this
and
that
so
we
talked
about
it
and,
and
that
was
before
before
ralph
died.
D
D
So
ralph
had
told
me
that
he
had
bone
cancer
and
that
it
was
slow,
growing
and
he'd
probably
be
around
to
give
us
advice
and
so
on.
But
if
he
wasn't,
would
I
promise
him
that
I'd
finish
finished
job?
So
that's
how
I
really
got
tucked
in
I
said:
yeah
I'll
finish
it.
So
you
know
ruff.
Instead
of
having
bone
cancer
and
dying,
he
had
a
cerebral,
hemorrhage
one
night
and
died
in
his
sleep.
D
D
I
got
together
was
george
little
lincoln,
brownell
nathan,
ansell
lola
aiken,
sylvia
kaiser,
john
ewing
and
hilton
wick
and
myself,
and
we
said
what
are
we
going
to
do
by
that
time?
I
had
gotten
some
estimates
in
and
the
estimates
were
all
coming
in
at
eight
or
nine
hundred
thousand
dollars
to
do
what
we
wanted
to
do
here.
D
So
we
we
had
several
meetings
and
we
talked-
and
I
had
narrowed
it
down
to
doing
business
with
the
farrington
construction
company
because
they
were
local.
They
were
honest.
They
had
some
good
thoughts
and
so
on,
so
we
decided
to
go
with
them
and
the
price
was
eight
hundred
and
fifty
thousand
dollars.
D
D
D
So
that's
how
we
we
raised
the
money
to
to
turn
this
building
into
the,
what
we
call
the
orientation
center
and
it
was
decided
to
be
the
brownell
hilton
orientation
center,
because
lincoln
brownell
guaranteed
the
most
money.
My
my
recollection
was
that
he
gave
us
about
350
000
to
get
started
and
lincoln
had
been
a
childhood
friend
of
ralph's.
They
both
grew
up
on
south
willard
street
in
burlington.
They
went
to
schools
together
and
then
they
separated
when
they
went
to
college
and
lincoln,
went
in.
D
Just
pack
your
planes
get
them
out
and
and
every
day
they
would
check
with
them
to
see
how
many
people
got
out
well
came
down
to
the
final
two
days
and
they
told
them
tomorrow
morning
at
six
o'clock,
you
and
your
wife
and
another
officer
and
his
wife
who
were
there,
who
had
been
processing
paperwork
beyond
the
six
o'clock
plane.
It's
the
last
plane
hanukkah,
so
he
left,
and
that
was
it.
He
left
everything
behind
his
business
and
everything
and
his
partner
stayed
they
they
arrested
him
put
him
in
jail.
D
So
that's
how
lincoln
made
his
money
and
was
generous
with
it
to
us,
and
I
have
lincoln
used
to
come
into
my
office
and
he
would
sit
there
by
the
hour
and
narrate
the
history
of
what
happened
and
I've
got
about
10
hours
of
tape,
recordings
that
he
recorded
in
my
office
about
his
experiences
in
vietnam,
and
I
have
never
shared
those
with
anybody.
I
still
have
them
and
one
of
the
things
I
hope
to
do.
If
I
live
long
enough
is
to
resurrect
them
get
them
out
and
see
what
might
be
with
them.
D
D
D
C
D
A
D
And
right
up
into
burlington,
I
mean
this
was
considered
burlington,
even
though
the
other
side
of
the
river
was
colchester
and
after
he
died.
A
lot
of
family
members
stepped
in
and
helped
to
raise
money
for
and
initially
the
lands
on,
the
other
side
of
the
river,
I
believe,
were
leased
out
for
farmlands
and
then
eventually
they
were
sold
off.
A
We
have
14
files
of
of
notes
and
papers
as
angry
wants.
We
need
to
do
something
about
moving
those
and
digitizing
them
and
so
forth.
So
I
took
a
couple
folders
home
last
night
and
one
of
those
I
was
looking
at
was
a
letter
written
by
ralph
lady
hill,
updated
august
6
1985
to
the
secretary
of
the
agency
of
transportation.
A
So
the
letter
says
dear
secretary
crampton,
in
view
of
the
fact
that
the
northern
connector
the
belt
line
right
around
north
avenue
in
burlington,
crosses
through
the
heart
of
ethan
allen's
farm
and
passes
his
restored
homestead,
which
will
become
a
national
historic
site
in
park.
I
would
like
to
propose
that
the
road
from
where
it
leaves
the
intervale
in
the
intramale
avenue
until
it
reaches
the
new
bridge
over
the
winter
ski,
be
called
the
ethan
allen
memorial
drive
and
then
it
be
appropriately
marked
at
either
end.
A
D
D
Ethan
allen
captured
the
fork
in
1775
and
two
days
after
he
captured
it.
He
wrote
a
personal
letter
to
george
washington,
telling
him
about
the
state
of
affairs
and
how
dismal
it
was
and
this
and
that-
and
he
personally
signed
it,
which
was
interesting
because
in
those
days
they
had
scribes
that
made
the
copies
and
then
the
principals
who
maybe
dictated
the
letter
like
in
this
case
allen,
would
sign
her.
You
know
alan
alan
would
sign
it
well.
D
D
The
inside
was
all
painted
with
oils
and
pictures,
and
I
bought
it
on
the
ground
for
350
bucks
and
had
them
deliver
it
to
my
office
at
the
case,
mill
four
feet
wide
and
six
feet
high
way
dice.
When
I
sold
it,
we
had
to
weigh
it
weighed
5035
pounds,
and
so
anyway,
this
guy
that
I
got
to
know
quite
well
wanted
to
know
if
I
would
store
this
original
letter
from
him.
So
he
gave
me
the
letter.
D
D
A
A
B
Okay,
so
coming
up
next
week,
we
have
our
biggest
week
of
the
year
here
at
the
ethan
ellen
homestead
museum
thursday
is
a
vermont
state
holiday
called
ethan
allen
day,
and
so
we
have
free
admission
here
at
the
ethan
allen,
homestead
museum
on
thursday.
So
please
come
by.
If
you
haven't
yet
been
to
the
allen
house,
you
can
take
a
tour
and
then
the
following
weekend.
So
next
weekend
is
ethan
allen
weekend
and
we
have
revolutionary
war
reenactors
traditional
artisans
doing
demonstrations.