Rick Winston
Red Scare in the Green Mountains: Vermont in the McCarthy Era, 1946-1960
Event date: Saturday, February 23, 2019 – 6:00pm
Event address: 4869 Main St Manchester Center, VT 05255
The historian explores the forgotten history of Vermont during the anti-communist red scare: a high-profile academic firing, left-leaning summer residents, courageous newspaper editors, and a conservative senator who helped take down McCarthy.