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Scott Wheeler: Recording the History of the Northeast Kingdom and its People

  • St. Johnsbury Athenaeum 1171 Main Street St. Johnsbury, VT, 05819 United States (map)

Born and raised in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, Vermont’s Northland Journal publisher Scott Wheeler is on a 23-year mission to preserve the history and culture of the land of his birth. He writes about the good, the bad, the ugly, and the beautiful, all which make the Kingdom the amazing place it is today. He sees no reason to sanitize its history to portray the Northeast Kingdom as something it isn’t, or to bend reality a bit to entice visitors. Instead, he insists the beauty of the working landscape, its history and culture, and the people speak loud enough to attract visitors from every corner of the world.

Scott, a Johnson State College graduate and a former Vermont legislator, hosts a weekly television show on NEK-TV called The Northeast Kingdom Voice and a weekly radio show on WJJZ Country called The Vermont Voice. Each program is designed to serve as a forum for people to tell their stories and/or to promote community events.

 Scott is also the author of six regional history books: “Rumrunners and Revenuers: Prohibition in Vermont”; “When Salmon was King: Voices from the Clyde River”; “Don ‘Sleepy’ McNally: From Vaudeville to Drive-In Pioneer”; “Newport’s Centennial: Voices from a Lakeside Community”; “Jay Peak: Voices from the Mountain”; and “Booze in the Kingdom: Voices from Prohibition”.

 All of Scott’s books are in the Athenaeum’s NEK Authors Collection.

 This event is free, ADA accessible, and open to the public.

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