As part of the Carmine Guica Young Historians (CGYH) program, the Cavendish Historical Society (CHS) provides teachers, students, families and the community with information on town, state and national history for the month ahead.
GENERAL INFORMATION
• If you have questions, want to arrange for a program or need more information, call 802-226-7807 or e-mail margocaulfield@icloud.com
• To learn more about the various programs that CHS offers for students and community, as well as opportunities close to Cavendish, go to the Resource Page.
• The CHS Cares Closet, located next to the steps of the Museum is free, open 24/7, and offers a wide array of things to do, read etc. for both children and adults.
The CHS Winter 2022 newsletter is now available on-line.
March is both National Women’s History Month as well as Irish-American Heritage Month. We will be celebrating St. Patrick’s Day, on March 17th at CTES for grades 3-6. Home school families should check with respective teachers about home learners participating in the program. And yes, we will have Irish Soda bread.
NATIONAL WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH: This year’s theme is “Women Providing Healing, Promoting Hope.” It is both a tribute to the ceaseless work of caregivers and frontline workers during this ongoing pandemic and also a recognition of the thousands of ways that women of all cultures have provided both healing and hope throughout history.
CHS has been running a series for the last several years called Cavendish Women You Should Know. More stories will be added this coming month.
• March 8 (Tuesday): International Women’s Day: This year’s theme is #Break The Bias
• Download a free copy of Think Like a Girl: A Coloring Book of Women Pioneers in STEM
• Women’s History Month: The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum join in commemorating and encouraging the study, observance and celebration of the vital role of women in American history.
• National Women’s History Museum The Museum offers free 30 minute electronic field trips for classes on a wide variety of historic topics, posters and much more for students and teachers.
IRISH-AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH: March, with St. Patrick’s Day, is a good time to talk about the influence of the Irish on Vermont and Cavendish.
• NationalArchives Irish American Heritage Month
• Samhain in Vermont from the Burlington Irish Heritage Festival. This includes an hour long film including dance and music from Ireland.
• Pre-Famine Irish in Vermont, 1815–1844 Vermont History 74 (Summer/Fall 2006): 101–126.©
2006 by the Vermont Historical Society.
HISTORICAL DATES FOR MARCH
• March 4, 1933: Franklin Roosevelt delivered his famous inaugural address “"Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself...”
• March 5,1770: The Boston Massacre The first man killed was Crispus Attucks, an African American.
• March 10, 1862 - The first issue of U.S. government paper money occurred as $5, $10 and $20 bills began circulation.
1880 - The Salvation Army was founded in the United States. The social service organization was first founded in England by William Booth and operates today in 90 countries.
• March 11, 1918: The 'Spanish' influenza first reached America as 107 soldiers become sick at Fort Riley, Kansas. One quarter of the U.S. population eventually became ill from the deadly virus, resulting in 500,000 deaths. The death toll worldwide approached 22 million by the end of 1920.
• March 15, 44 B.C: “Beware the Ides of March,” Julius Caesar was assassinated in the Senate.
• March 17: Happy St. Patrick’s Day.
1776 – During the American Revolution the British completed their evacuation of Boston following a successful siege conducted by Patriots. The event is still commemorated in Boston as Evacuation Day.
• March 22, 1972 - The Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed by the U.S. Senate and then sent to the states for ratification. The ERA, as it became known, prohibited discrimination on the basis of gender, stating, "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex," and that "the Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article." Although 22 of the required 38 states quickly ratified the Amendment, opposition arose over concerns that women would be subject to the draft and combat duty, along with other legal concerns. The ERA eventually failed (by 3 states) to achieve ratification despite an extension of the deadline to June 1982.
• March 23, 1775 – Patrick Henry gave his famous speech, which ignited the American Revolution before the Virginia convention in Richmond, stating, "I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!"
• March 28, 1979 - Near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant accident occurred in which uranium in the reactor core overheated due to the failure of a cooling valve. A pressure relief valve then stuck causing the water level to plummet, threatening a catastrophic nuclear meltdown. The accident resulted in the release of radioactive steam into the atmosphere, and created a storm of controversy over the necessity and safety of nuclear power plants.
• March 29, 1974 : After having been expelled from Russia, the Nobel Prize winner and Soviet dissident, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, was reunited with his wife and family after a six week exile in Switzerland. The family would ultimately settle in Cavendish in 1976. Read an account of his arrival from the New York Times
• March 30, 1981: Assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan
• March 31, 1933 - The Civilian Conservation Corps, the CCC, was founded. Unemployed men and youths were organized into quasi-military formations and worked outdoors in national parks and forests. One of the CCC camps was located in the Proctor Forest in Proctorsville. This area is being restored. If there is interest, CHS can arrange for a walking tour there in the spring.
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