Ethan Allen Homestead Trust

Address: 1 Ethan Allen Homestead, Suite 2, Burlington, VT 05401
Phone: 802-865-4556
Fax: 802-865-0661
Website: www.ethanallen.together.com

Education Contact Person: David Bryan

Seasonal and Space Limitations: Walk-in May 15 – October 15 or by reservation. September – June school tours always by reservation. School tours’ maximum 40 students per 90 minutes. Bus tour 90 minutes. Tours of historic house, approx. 25 persons per hour.

On-Site Programs
School group field trip programs:
Topics: Early Vermont life; French colonial presence; Native American; Historic Archaeology.

Summer Programs:
Topics: Tour of the historic Allen house with15 minute multi-media show on the formation of Vermont and Ethan’s part in all that. Historic crafts’ education. Fiddlers reunion and Folk Festival.

Off-Site Programs
Programs offered in schools:
Topics: Visiting Actor Program: Colonial Innkeeper; French Voyageur; Ethan Allen; British Soldier; Colonial farmer.

Other Education Programs:
Elderhostels: Colonial life in the Champlain Valley. Ethan Allen & his times.

Teacher workshops: "Secrets of the Land:" Deducing history from surviving species, soil deposits, etc. Abenaki Life in the 20th Century.

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