John Vincent of A Revolutionary Press will also discuss how typesetting and printing in the New Haven, Vermont print shop compare to the methods used during the Revolutionary period in America.

Everyone present will have the opportunity to hand-ink the type set by hand, one letter at a time, and letterpress print their own broadside excerpt from this historical and controversial manifesto on the Threads of History unique handmade paper.

John Vincent is a retired police officer, poet, letterpress printer, and director of A Revolutionary Press, a 501c3 nonprofit and volunteer-run collective of artists in service to the Common Good in New Haven, Vermont.

The full Threads of History program series:

• Taconic Music with Tunes and Textiles of the Past | Saturday, October 3, 3:00 pm
• The Jane A. Stickle Quilt | Thursday, October 8, 5:30 pm
• Pulping the Green Mountains – How Manchester Helped Feed the Nation’s Hunger for Paper | Saturday, October 10, 11:00 am
• The Remarkable Life of Fred Nicklewhite: Tailor, Jazz Lover, and Village Icon | Thursday, October 15, 5:30 pm
• The Story of the Manchester Journal: 165+ Years of “Local Intelligence” | Thursday, October 29, 5:30 pm
• Broadside Printing with A Revolutionary Press | Saturday, November 14, 11:00 am (link to follow)

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This program is supported in part by the Vermont Humanities, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. www.vermonthumanities.org. 

The Threads of History program series at MCL, in partnership with MHS, features Manchester and Southern Vermont’s textile past and weaves the fabric of history into auditory, visual, and tactile experiences of the Industrial Revolution. The series, supported in part by Vermont Humanities, explores themes from this year’s Vermont Reads book, Charity and Sylvia by Tillie Walden.