We welcome you to Season 3 of TSLoD Podcast with the prologue to Episode 8: Identity~
We’re doing this prologue to help set up the Episode 8: Identity series because for this show, we’re going to be doing things a little differently. The Episode 8: Identity series is about a place called Andrews Inn, an LGBTQ+ hotel and bar that existed in Bellows Falls, VT during the 1970s and 80s. So, a more modern history, a more local history and a more personal history - for me - because Bellows Falls is where I grew up and where my family have lived for generations.
For a change, history wasn’t some abstract thing, happening to people I didn’t know in a place I had never been. It had happened in my backyard, within my lifetime and I knew very little about it.
In learning about the history of Andrews Inn and the LGBTQ+ movement in VT and NH, I began to wonder about history itself. How and why certain events and people get committed to the record while others, don’t, and the dangers of hanging our hats on an incomplete and inaccurate version of history.