CABOT — Sunday, March 30, at 2 pm, Howard Coffin will be speaking at the Willey Building about “Vermont Women and the Civil War.” Coffin is a seventh-generation Vermonter, an author and historian, whose area of expertise is the Civil War. With nearly 35,000 of the state’s able-bodied men at war, Howard speaks about how women took on farming, worked in factories, served as nurses in the state’s military hospitals, and more. At least one Vermont woman appears to have secretly enlisted and fought in a Vermont regiment. Admission is free and the talk is sponsored by the Vermont Humanities Council and the Cabot Historical Society.
