Part 2: Under The Surface.

Format:

Video

Series:

Freedom & Unity: The Vermont Movie ; Series 1, Episode 2

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (84 minutes)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Off The Grid Productions, 2014.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

video file

Summary:

Part Two deepens the journey, digging beneath the surface of Vermont’s bucolic image to explore labor wars,eugenics experiments, the McCarthy era, and progressive Republicanism. Covering over a century—from pre-Civil War to 2009—it chronicles the rise of unions and quarry work, Barre’s Socialist Labor Party Hall, the marketing of Vermont, the state’s reaction to New Deal policies, George Aiken's gentle populism, and Republican Ralph Flanders’ heroic stand against Joe McCarthy during the Red Scare. Emigrés from urban areas, “back-to-the-landers” like Helen and Scott Nearing and lmmaker Nora Jacobson’s father, Nicholas Jacobson, came to Vermont in search of an alternative lifestyle.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed July 13, 2026).