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10.14.22 The Caledonian Record: Old Stone House Museum Plans Oct. 23 Trick Or Treat 

9.15.22 The Caledonian Record: Old Stone House Museum Honors Twilight Sept. 25

9.14.2022 The Caledonian Record: Local Man Named Mount Washington Observatory Director

9.7.2022 The Chronicle: Stars Party Goes On Despite Cloudy Skies

9.2.2022 The North Star Monthly: 2022 Twilight Stars Party

9.1.2022 The Newport Dispatch: Twilight Stars Party This Sunday on Prospect Hill in Brownington

8.31.2022 The Barton Chronicle: Twilight Stars Party at the Old Stone House Museum

8.29.2022 The Caledonian Record: Old Stone House Museum’s Twilight Stars Party Returns Sept. 4

8.26.2022 The Caledonian Record: Old Stone House Museum Plans Star Party

8.17.2022: The Barton Chronicle: Old Stone House Day Draws A Crowd

8.16.2022: The Barton Chronicle: Old Stone House Day Draws A Crowd

8.14.2022: The Newport Daily Express: New Artwork Unveiled at Old Stone House Day

8.10.2022: The Barton Chronicle: Old Stone House Day 2022

8.9.2022 The Newport Dispatch: Old Stone House Day Taking Place August 14

8.9.2022 The Caledonian Record: Modern Art to Enliven Old Stone House Day August 14

7.21.2022 Best Things Vermont: The 8 Best Guided Tours in Vermont!

7.7.2022 The Caledonian Record: Abenaki Culture Is Focus Of July 17 Talk In Brownington

7.1.2022 VTDigger: After pandemic pause, Vermont 4th of July Festivities Return With a Bang

7.1.2022 The Caledonian Record: Old Stone House Plans Festive Fourth

6.20.2022 The Newport Daily Express: Juneteenth at the Old Stone House

6.20.2022 The Caledonian Record: Juneteenth Celebrated At Old Stone House Museum In Brownington

6.19.2022 WCAX: Old Stone House Museum Unveils New Juneteenth Exhibit

6.15.2022 NBC5: Where to Celebrate Juneteenth in Vermont

6.15.2022 The Chronicle: Juneteenth—Solemn History and New Point of View

6.15.2022 The Newport Dispatch: Juneteenth celebration and “In A Different Hue” exhibit opens this weekend at the OSH

6.15.2022 The Chronicle: Brownington Beekeepers aim to educate

6.14.2022 The Burlington Free Press: Free museum programs, storytelling, music and fun mark Vermont Juneteenth celebrations

6.8.2022 The Chronicle: Old Stone House Celebrates Juneteenth

6.4.2022 Working the Flame: Blacksmithing Classes in Vermont 2022 [Updated]

June 2. 2022 Newport Daily Express: Open For Interpretation, Art at the Old Stone House

5.26.2022 The Addison County Independent: Runde’s Twilight portrait unveiled at Statehouse

5.25.2022 The Caledonian Record: Annual Plant Sale May 28 At Old Stone House Museum

5.22.2022 The Newport Dispatch: Old Stone House Museum Annual Plant Sale This Saturday

5.16.2022 The Caledonian Record: Old Stone House Museum Opens May 21

5.11.2022 Vermont League of Cities and Towns: Juneteenth Events

5.11.2022 The Bridge: First Black Man to Graduate College in U.S. and Become State Legislator Honored with Portrait in Statehouse

5.10.2022 The Caledonian Record: Governor, Legislators Unveil Portrait Of Alexander Twilight At Statehouse

5.9.2022 VTDigger: Vermont Arts Council Announces Public Art Awards to Enliven Communities

5.5.2022 VTDigger: Final Reading: A First in a Frame

4.9.2022 The Caledonian Record: Old Stone House Museum Expanding Educational Services with $376K Grant

4.6.2022 The Chronicle: Beekeepers Emerge from Winter Slumber

4.3.2022 WCAX: Old Stone House Museum Gets More Than $300K in Federal Funding

3.30.2022 The North Star Monthly: Expanding Educational Services: $376,000 Awarded to Old Stone House

3.30.2022 Newport Dispatch: Old Stone House awarded $376,000 to expand educational services

3.16.2022 The Chronicle: Earmarks Return to Pay for Orleans County Projects

2.20.2022 The Caledonian Record: Old Stone House Museum Exhibit Honors Black History Month

1.24.2022 The Caledonian Record: Students Enrichment Programs Return To The Old Stone House Museum & Historic Village

12.1.2021 TripSavvy: Best for History Buffs, Editor’s Choice

10.22.2021 VSECU Blog: Things to Do This Fall: Some of Vermont’s Hidden Gems

10.8.2021 American Association of Colleges and Universities, Liberal Education Blog: Twilight’s legacy: Lessons from America’s first black college graduate and legislator

9.23.2021 The Newport Dispatch: Alexander Twilight Day, Apple and Cheese Festival this Sunday in Brownington

9.22.2021 The Chronicle: Alexander Twilight Day back at Old Stone House 

9.22.2021 Seven Days: Alexander Twilight Day Apple and Cheese Festival

9.17.2021 The Caledonain Record: Old Stone House Museum Celebrates Alexander Twilight’s 226th Birthday Sept. 26

9.8.2021 The Chronicle: Brownington Over Labor Day Weekend

9.4.2021 WCAX: Twilight Stars Party returns to Old Stone House & Museum

8.30.2021 Seven Days: The Magnificent 7: Must See, Must Do, September 1 to 7 

8.30.2021 Newport Daily Express: A call for teaching artists

8.30.2021 The Caledonian Record: Old Stone House Museum’s Twilight Stars Party returns September 4

8.27.2021 The Newport Dispatch: Twilight Stars Party returns September 4

8.26.2021 The Caledonian Record: Honking tunnel, Stone House calls to artists extended to Sept. 15

8.11.2021 The Chronicle: Museum and circus draw crowds

8.8.2021 The Caledonian Record: Old Stone House Day makes sweet return

8.5.2021 WDEV: Commission on women, rinktoberfest, museum, community farm

8.1.2021 WCAX: Old Stone House Museum seeking artists to transform trail into art display

7.29.2021 Newport Dispatch: Old Stone House Day kicks off August 8: The year of local history through art

7.27.2021 Seven Days: Mind the Gap: A getaway on and around Lake Willoughby

7.21.2021 Newport Dispatch: Old Stone House issuing call to artists for new project

7.16.2021 The Caledonian Record: Stone House Museum ‘Calling all artists’

7.11.2021 The Caledonian Record: Old Stone House hosts reading of Frederick Douglass’s famous speech: Words of Alexander Twilight, Howard Frank Mosher, also shared at event

7.7.2021 The Chronicle: Grant brings art to Twlight trail

6.30.2021 The Chronicle: July Fourth Celebrations

6.30.2021 Seven Days: Some Kind of Wonderful: Day Tripping With Guster’s Ryan Miller 

6.22.2021 Seven Days: Brownington’s Old Stone House Harnesses History to Inform Current Conversations About Race

6.21.2021 The Caledonian Record: Juneteenth celebration held at Old Stone House Museum

6.19.2021 WCAX: Brownington museum unveils new exhibit on Juneteenth

6.19.2021 VTDigger: Juneteenth events across Vermont to acknowledge and ‘celebrate Black liberation’

6.18.2021 Vermont Public Radio: News roundup

6.18.2021 Vermont Public Radio’s The Frequency: A museum exhibit on Alexander Twilight

6.18.2021 The Washington Post: The Daily 202: Here’s how Juneteenth looks outside the Beltway

6.17.2021 The Caledonian Record: Old Stone House Museum has new exhibit as part of Saturday’s grand reopening

6.16.2021 Burlington Free Press: Big year for Alexander Twilight continues with Juneteenth celebration at his Vermont home

6.16.2021 The Newport Dispatch: Old Stone House Museum grand reopening, free tours offered this Saturday

6.16.2021 The Chronicle: Old Stone House Museum to unveil Twilight exhibit

6.16.2021 The Chronicle: Opinion: Don’t let Juneteenth go unnoticed

5.26.2021 The Chronicle: Plant sale at Old Stone House Museum

5.20.2021 Vermont Biz: Vermont gets over $100,000 for Northern Forest Destination Development Initiative

5.12.2021 The Chronicle: Old Stone House opening events

5.11.2021 Seven Days: The Magnificent 7: Must See, Must Do, May 12 to 18 

5.8.2021 The Caledonian Record: Virtual collectors fair at Old Stone House Museum May 12-16

Spring 2021 New England Museum Association News: Acknowledging black scholars, educators and legislators in Vermont

4.29.2021 The Caledonian Record: Time Traveler’s Day Camps at Old Stone House Museum & Historic Village

4.17.2021 The Caledonian Record: A new look for centuries of Vermont history

3.25.2021 VTDigger: Letter to the Editor: Hope through history

3.10.2021 The Newport Dispatch: New brand, new direction for Old Stone House Museum & Historic Village

3.10.2021 The Chronicle: A new dirction for the Old Stone House

3.10.2021 The Chronicle: A trib­ute to Fred Web­ster

3.3.2021 The Chronicle: Letter to the Editor: Old Stone House Museum supports efforts to achieve equity

March-April 2021 Vermont League of Cities and Towns News: Vermontscapes, the Brownington Historic District

2.24.2021 Vermont Public Radio: ‘Tremendously Humbling’: Katie Runde on painting Alexander Twilight for the Statehouse

2.15.2021 Newport Daily Express: Vermont artist commissioned to paint Alexander Twilight portrait for Vermont State House

2.11.2021 Seven Days: Katie Runde to paint Alexander Twilight Portrait for the Statehouse

2.8.2021 USA Today: The complex history of Alexander Twilight, nation’s first African American to earn a bachelor’s degree

1.25.2021 ABC Local 22: This place in history: Alexander Twilight

1.10.2021 The Caledonian Record: The Old Stone House Museum Plans MLK Day Celebration

12.26.20020 Boston Globe: ‘They just sort of showed up’: The Amish find a home in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom

12.23.2020 The Caledonian Record: Free Community Wi-Fi Comes To Old Stone House Museum And Village

11.13.2020 The Optional Facts: Alexander Twilight

11.4.2020 Seven Days: Art Review: ‘Unprecedented?’ at BCA Center 

10.4.2020 VTDigger: Statehouse portrait planned for Alexander Twilight, first African American lawmaker in U.S.

9.25.2020 The Burlington Free Press: Portrait of first African-American legislator in U.S. planned for Vermont Statehouse

9.23.2020 Vermont Public Radio: Today is Alexander Twilight’s birthday

9.23.2020 The Chronicle: Or­leans County His­tor­i­cal So­ci­ety cel­e­brates Alexan­der Twi­light

9.20.2020 WCAX3: Country’s first Black person to earn bachelor’s honored

9.20.2020 NBC5: Vermont state officials declare Alexander Twilight Day

9.20.2020 The Caledonian Record: The Life Of Alexander Lucius Twilight Celebrated At Old Stone House Museum

9.18.2020 The Caledonian Record: Editorial: Another Good Week

9.18.2020 The Boston Globe: Vermont museum to honor Alexander Twilight, America’s first Black college graduate and state legislator

9.8.2020 AP: Vermont Statehouse to have portrait of Black lawmaker

8.5.2020 The Chronicle: Old Stone House Museum Day

8.5.2020 The Chronicle: OSH kids program wraps up

7.15.2020 The Chronicle: Barton’s Pierce-Barrows Block showcased

7.10.2020 The Caledonian Record:A walking path through history.

6.28.2020 VTDigger:How the national reckoning on race pushed Alexander Twilight Day forward.

6.18.2020 The Caledonian Record:Local legislators honor Twilight with resolution on ‘Juneteenth.’

6.17.2020 The Chronicle: OSH Board Stands With Protestors

6.17.2020 The Chronicle: OPINION: Juneteenth, remembering our shared history

6.18.2020 The Burlington Free Press: Vermont to name Sept. 23 Alexander Twilight Day, resolution coming on Juneteenth.

6.1.2020 The North Star Monthly: Old Stone House open with restrictions.

6.1.2020 The North Star Monthly: Alexander Twilight’s Legacy at the Old Stone House Museum.

5.21.2020 VTDigger: Museums move online and outside to deal with Covid distancing.

5.7.2020 The North Star Monthly: Old Stone House opens May 13.

2.24.2020 The Caledonian Record: Old Stone House Launches year-long Alexander Twilight celebration.

2.11.2020 The Caledonian Record: In the Kingdom, historians look to build on the legacy of Alexander Twilight

2.9.2020 VTDigger: In the Kingdom, historians look to build on the legacy of Alexander Twilight.

3.27.2019 The Caledonian Record: Old Stone House Museum acknowledged Women’s History Month

2.22.2019 The Caledonian Record: Moving ONWARD: Recognizing Black History Month – Part 4

2.16.2019 The Caledonian Record: ONWARD: The man who hid his race – Black history at the Old Stone House, Part 3

2.9.2019 The Caledonian Record: ONWARD: Alexander Twilight and the education of women – Part 2

2.1.2019 The Caledonian Record: ONWARD: African American history In Northern Vermont – Part 1

9.12.2019 The Caledonian Record: Community to commemorate the spirit of Alexander Twilight