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Bordertown
by Vic Guadagno
Our goal is to serve as an instrument for relationship building and communication, and to encourage the conversation around resiliency, equity and justice. Our intention is to celebrate life and community - and to help create conditions for all life to thrive.
Episodes
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Episode 75 - Ginny Sassaman
Ginny Sassaman is a co-founder, past president, and advisory board member of Gross National Happiness USA, and the creator of the Happiness Paradigm. Since 2013, she has served as a lay preacher at Unitarian Universalist churches in Vermont, Massachusetts, Wisconsin and South Carolina. Originally...
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Episode 74 - D. Davis
D. Davis is an amazing musician who has performed with a wide range of artists in Vermont since he arrived in Burlington in 1997. Originally from Brielle, NJ, D. grew up walking the beaches at the New Jersey Shore. Music was a big part of family life and Dee found joy in family music sessions...
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Episode 73 - Charlie Watt, Homecoming Seeds
Charlie Watt is the owner and operator of Home Coming Seeds, an open-pollinated seed farm specializing in vegetable, flower and herb seeds with a focus on bioregional adaptation. Charlie was hired in May of 2023 to manage the Montpelier Community Feast Farm, a no-till farm run by the Parks and...
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Episode 72 - Karen Hatcher
Born and raised in New Jersey, Karen Hatcher spent much of her career, managing nonprofit organizations. She made her way to New England about 13 years ago and lives with her husband Mark who is a luthier. Since the flood of July 10th 2024, Karen, along with Michael Zahner, has been managing...
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Episode 71 - Meg Mott
Meg Mott has been called a Constitutional Wrangler, whose stated mission is “teach ordinary citizens how to think through the various constitutional issues in a specific controversy”. Meg is a writer, teacher and the town moderator of Putney, Vermont. She uses dynamic and innovative strategies to...
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Episode 70 - Don Taylor, MSMS_SUSTAIN
Don Taylor is a middle school educator at the Main Street Middle School (MSMS) in Montpelier, Vermont. After spending 17 years teaching language arts and social studies, Don was the driving force behind the creation of the MSMS_SUSTAIN program, which he co-directs with Drew McNaughton.…
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Episode 69 - Kianna Bromley, The Montpelier Performing Arts Hub
Kianna Bromley is the Founder and Director of the Montpelier Performing Arts Hub. She has been involved in theater & performance throughout her life and attributes her love for theater (as well as her approach to theater, to the summer camp she attended throughout her childhood, The Young…
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Episode 68 - Ben Matchstick, Cardboard Teck Instantute & Hadestown!
Professor Ben t. Matchstick founded Cardboard Teck Instantute in 2005. He is a performing artist working in the mediums of cardboard, games, and stories. Ben has worked as a youth advocate, librarian, cafe owner, educator, puppeteer, artist, and entrepreneur in Vermont for 20+ years. He is the...
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Episode 67 - Eric Zencey
This week’s podcast is the Posthumous interview with Eric Zencey. Eric was a professor, writer and social critic. He passed on July 1st, 2019. Eric Zencey, novelist, essayist, lecturer, and social thinker was a tireless evangelist for a new way of thinking about humankind’s relationship with...
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Episode 66 - Ecological Planning Lab, 2024 Symposium
The Ecological Planning Laboratory (EPL) at the University of Vermont is a partnership between UVM Extension and the Field Naturalist Graduate program, in year two of a three-year pilot phase. The EPL helps communities tackle vital projects on their land, with an emphasis on social-ecological...
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Episode 65 - Paul Gambill, Community Engagement Lab
Paul Gambill is the Executive Director of the Community Engagement Lab. Their mission is to "bring people of all ages together in projects that activate their creativity to imagine and build more just and thriving communities". Their current project, The Montpelier Bridges to Belonging shares the...
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Episode 64 - Paul Carnahan
This episode features Paul Carnahan. Librarian of the Vermont Historical Society (VHS) from 1990 to 2022. Paul currently serves on Montpelier’s Historic Preservation Commission and the board of the Montpelier Historical Society. He recently became part of Montpelier’s Commission for Recovery and...
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Episode 63 - Pat Moulton, Central Vermont Recovery Officer
Today on the podcast we welcome Pat Moulton. In November of 2023 Pat was appointed by Governor Phil Scott as the Central Vermont Recovery Officer for the State of Vermont. The Recovery Office is the state-level entity tasked with coordinating available federal funds and local mitigation and...
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Episode 62 - Paul Costello
Today we welcome Paul Costello, the former Executive Director of the Vermont Council on Rural Development. Paul retired from this position in 2021. Lifetime Vermonter, Paul dedicated most of his career to helping Vermont towns and cities build community, identify goals and visions and build...
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Episode 61 - Jon Copans, The Commission for Recovery and Resilience
Today we welcome Jon Copans, the Executive Director of The Commission for Recovery & Resilience. On July 11th, 2023, intense and widespread rainfall led to catastrophic flooding throughout the state of Vermont, leaving the entire downtown of the capitol city, Montpelier, underwater. Immediately...
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Episode 60 - Hans Estrin, UVM's Ecological Planning Laboratory
Today we welcome Hans Estrin from the University of Vermont’s Ecological Planning Laboratory. Hans talks about his childhood days in the Plainfield/Marshfield, VT area, describes the trajectory of his career and gives a glimpse of the Ecological Planning Laboratory emerging out the UVM. The...
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Episode 59 - Ben Doyle & Aly Richards, The Montpelier Commission for Recovery & Resilience
Today on the podcast we welcome Ben Doyle and Aly Richards, from The Commission for Recovery and Resilience. On July 11th, 2023, intense and widespread rainfall led to catastrophic flooding throughout the State, leaving the entire downtown of the capitol city, Montpelier, underwater. As the...
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Episode 58 - Flood Series - Daphne Larkin & Beth Rusnock, The National Life Group
The Bordertown Flood series tells the stories of Central Vermonters experiencing the 2023 flood disaster. This episode features Beth Rusnock, president of the National Life Group Foundation and Daphne Larkin, Communications and Media Relations Director of the National Life Group. Beth Rusnock…
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Episode 57 - Flood Series - Katie Trautz, Montpelier Alive
The Bordertown Flood series tells the stories of Central Vermonters experiencing the 2023 flood disaster. This episode feature Katie Trautz, the Executive Director of Montpelier Alive. Katie describes that Montpelier is not set-up as a resilient town in terms of systems, however, the community is...
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Episode 56 - Flood Series - Jaquelyn Rieke, Onion River Campground
The Bordertown Flood series tells the stories of Central Vermonters experiencing the 2023 flood disaster. Jaquelyn Rieke is the owner/operator of the Onion River Campground, the founder of Nutty Steph’s and a co-founder of the Rabble-Rouser Chocolate & Craft Co. in Montpelier. Jaquelyn speaks of...
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Episode 55 - Flood Series - Bill Fraser, Montpelier City Manager
The Bordertown Flood series tells the stories of Central Vermonters experiencing the 2023 flood disaster. Bill Fraser is the City Manager for Montpelier, Vermont, and has been in this role since 1995. The city manager is Appointed by the City Council, the City Manager is responsible for…
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Episode 54 - Flood Series - Kathleen Keenan/Kim Bent, Lost Nation Theater
The Bordertown Flood series tells the stories of Central Vermonters experiencing the 2023 flood disaster. The Lost Nation Theater has been called “One of the Best Regional Theaters in America” — NYC Drama League. Incorporated in 1977 in Bristol Vermont, Lost Nation Theater moved to it’s home in...
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Episode 53 - Flood Series - Jaime Bedard
The Bordertown Flood series tells the stories of Central Vermonters experiencing the 2023 flood disaster. Jaime Bedard. Jamie is the Executive Director of Just Basics, whose mission is to confront cycles of injustice by providing programs that increase awareness and access to basic resources…
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Episode 52 - Flood Series - Marek Zajac
The Bordertown Flood series tells the stories of Central Vermonters experiencing the 2023 flood disaster. Marek Zajac is the Farm & Forest Community Coordinator for the Montpelier Parks Department. He found himself at the center of volunteer activity as the City shifted the duties of the Parks...
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Episode 51 - Flood Series - Dan Groberg, Kellogg Hubbard Library
The Bordertown Flood series tells the stories of Central Vermonters experiencing the 2023 flood disaster. Today we welcome Dan Groberg, who started his new job as Executive Director of the Kellogg Hubbard Library just 13 days before the flood. In the past Dan has also served as Executive Director...
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Episode 50 - Flood Series - Julia Watson, Capital Grounds
The Bordertown Flood series tells the stories of Central Vermonters experiencing the 2023 flood disaster. Today we welcome Julia Watson the owner of Capital Grounds. Julia took over ownership of Capitol Grounds in January of 2020 from her father Bob, who started the business with Bob Plante in...
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Episode 49 - Flood Series - Lalitha Mailwaganam
The Bordertown Flood series tells the stories of Central Vermonters experiencing the 2023 flood disaster. Today we welcome Lalitha Mailwaganam. Lalitha moved to Vermont from Malaysia in 2002. She is a single mom to two teens, a dog, two cats and a couple of chickens. She is an avid gardener…
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Episode 48 - Flood Series - Alec Long, Chill Gelato
The Bordertown Flood series tells the stories of Central Vermonters experiencing the 2023 flood disaster. Today we welcome Alec Long. Alec and his wife Amanda purchased Chill Gelato last year and had reopened it in March. Chill has been a Montpelier staple since 2012 and Alec is enjoying his new...
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Episode 47 - Flood Series - Katie Swick
The Bordertown Flood series will introduce you to some of Vermont’s small businesses, community members, government officials anyone in the community that is collectively experiencing the 2023 flood disaster in Vermont. On July 11th A State of Disaster was declared for all 14 counties of the…
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Episode 46 - Flood Series - Tim Heney
The Bordertown Flood series will introduce you to some of Vermont’s small businesses, community members, government officials anyone in the community that is collectively experiencing the 2023 flood disaster in Vermont. On July 11th A State of Disaster was declared for all 14 counties of the…
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Episode 45 - Flood Series - Cindra Conison, Quirky Pet
The Bordertown Flood Series! The Bordertown Flood series will introduce you to some of Vermont’s small businesses, community members, government officials anyone in the community that is collectively experiencing the 2023 flood disaster in Vermont. On July 11th A State of Disaster was declared…
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Episode 44 - Elena & Juniper
This episode features my daughter Elena, and her friend Juniper! Recorded on Dec. 16th, 2019 this is a fun conversation we had at the Rabble Rouser Chocolate Factory! A fun chat with two 9-10 year-olds...pre-pandemic! Stay Informed Subscribe to Bordertown Email
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Episode 43 - Cara Robechek
Cara Robechek is the Executive Director of the Vermont Energy Education Program, whose mission is to build a deep understanding of energy through education, encouraging choices that result in sustainability in our communities, economy and environment. Cara has been with VEEP since 2014. Cara has...
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Episode 42 - Skyler Perkins
Skyler currently worksin Washington DC as Project Manager for the Center for the Advancement of a Steady State Economy. He joined that organization in June, 2018, following his completion of his Masters program in Community Development and Applied Economics from the University of Vermont. Skyler...
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Episode 41 - Libby Bonesteel
Libby Bonesteel is the Montpelier/Roxbury School District Superintendent. Prior to that she was the director of communication and instruction at Franklin Northwest Supervisory Union. She also has experience as a consultant, adjunct professor, teacher, co-principal, principal and teacher. Libby...
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Episode 40 - Michele Braun, Executive Director, Friends of the Winooski River
In this episode we welcome Michele Braun, the Executive Director of the Friends of the Winooski River. Michele took the helm at the Friends of the Winooski in 2018. She was the founding president of the watershed organization twenty years earlier. In her prior role as the planner for the Town of...
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Episode 39 - Tom Sabo, Executive Director, Center for Sustainable Systems
n this episode we welcome Tom Sabo, the Executive Director of the Center for Sustainable Systems. Tom is an award-winning high school teacher, leading sustainability educator, prominent local food activist, and most recently the founding executive director of the Center for Sustainable Systems.…
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Episode 38 - Jim Birmingham, Director of Food Services, Montpelier Schools
In this episode we welcome Jim Birmingham, Food Service Director of the Montpelier Roxbury School District. He is a graduate of Johnson State College and attended culinary school at Le Cordon Blue, London, UK. He is an American Culinary Federation Certified Executive Chef who spent several years...
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Episode 37 - David Zuckerman, Lieutenant Governor of Vermont
In this episode we welcome David Zuckerman, The Lieutenant Governor of Vermont. David Zuckerman is the co-founder of Full Moon Farm, a NOFA-certified organic farm in Hinesburg, Vermont. Inspired by then Congressman Bernie Sanders, David first ran for the Vermont House in 1994 while enrolled at…
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Episode 36 - Halloween Special featuring author, William Alexander
In this special "Halloweed Episode" we welcome author, William Alexander.William shares a few ghost stories and his experience as an author of fantasy, science fiction, and other unrealisms for young readers. His novels include Goblin Secrets, Ghoulish Song, Ambassador and Nomad. His latest…
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Episode 35 - Walter Poleman
In this episode we welcome Walt Poleman , Senior Lecturer and Director of the Ecological Planning Program at the University of Vermont. Walt specializes in natural history, place-based landscape analysis, and education for sustainability. He teaches courses in natural history and human ecology,...
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Episode 34 - Ryan Geary
In this episode we welcome Ryan Geary, owner the of The Hive , and co-owner of Rabble-Rouser. He works in a variety of mediums and disciplines, including wood carving, furniture making and painting, but his preferred art form and main focus over the past 5 years has been 2D and 3D collage. Ryan...
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Episode 33 - Janice Walrafen, All Together Now!
In this episode we welcome Janice Walrefen of All Together Now. Janice Walrefen co-creates AllTogetherNow!, Community Arts Center in East Montpelier, with Ellen Leonard. Together they teach summer camp and produce our community seasonal pageants, parades and puppet shows. Janice has her Art Tiles...
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Episode 32 - Matthew Binginot
Matthew Binginot is a designer producer, and lover of all forms of media creativity. He is especially drawn towards photography, music, film and graphic design, although he is always seeking new forms of creative epression to tell stories and share his inspiration. When not producing his own…
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Episode 31 - Bennett Shapiro
This week our guest is Bennett Shapiro of Madtech Sound. If you go to a live music event in this area, you are bound to see Bennett, walking around with his magic tablet, making things sound good. We talk to Bennett about his journey as a sound engineer, the music scene in central Vermont and his...
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Episode 30 - Rabble-Rouser Creative Vision, with Jaquelyn Rieke
This episode is a conversation about how the Bordertown podcast aligns with the Rabble-Rouser creative vision. Our guest is the founder of Nutty Steph’s and one of the visionary’s behind Rabble-Rouser, Jaquelyn Rieke. She will provide background on the formation of the Rabble Rouser,...
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Episode 29 - Rabble Rousers-Opening Celebration
We're taking the show on the road. After several years of recording interviews in our home studio, we are embarking on a public conversation at Montpelier’s new Rabble Rouser – Chocolate Factory and Community Center. In this episode we join the Rabble Rouser community at their launch party. We…
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Episode 28 - Chuck Collins
Chuck Collins is a Senior Policy Analyst for the Institute for Policy Studies. He is the author of many books including Born on Third Base , The Community Resilience Reader and Is inequality in America irreversible? He is the co-editor of the Inequality.org website. Chuck has dedicated his life…
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Episode 27 - Sherri Mitchell
Sherri Mitchell, Weh'na Ha'mu Kwasset is an Indigenous rights activist, spiritual teacher, and transformational change maker. She was born and raised on the Penobscot Indian reservation with a family of strong advocates and social justice activists. It was engrained in her from a very young age...
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Episode 26 - Christine Hanna
Christine Hanna is the Executive Director of Yes Media Christine grew up in Virginia, received her bachelors degree in economics from UVA and after graduation had the opportunity to travel to the former Czechoslovakia to study comparative economics. It was during that time she was able to witness...
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Our goal is to serve as an instrument for relationship building and communication, and to encourage the conversation around resiliency, equity and justice. Our intention is to celebrate life and community - and to help create conditions for all life to thrive.
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Vic Guadagno
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