Treasures from the Collection Discussion and Activity Suggestions Discussion History is not only about famous hereos, military battles, and monumental events.
History is also about ordinary people and their everyday lives.
Someday the treasures of your lives could join the collection at the Vermont Historical Society. The printing press in the exhibition was Vermont's first. It was very important for Vermonters to have a printing press. In a democratic society based on a uniform set of written laws and documented legal cases, a press is needed to print copies of all the laws and court cases so that every citizen has access to them. The coins had important symbolism for Vermonters in the eighteenth century.