Oral history interview with Tom Plumb

Oral history interview with Tom Plumb

Tom Plumb describes being a student at Middlebury College from 1971 to 1975, and of being involved in environmental activism, including protesting Seabrook, working with the Clamshell Alliance, and joining the board of the Vermont Railroad Passengers Association to help foster rail travel. He also speaks of his involvement with the Radical Education Action Project (REAP), being elected to the Board of Trustees of Middlebury College, and, in 1974, of running for the state legislature as a Liberty Union candidate. As well, he talks of his work after college with Chittenden Community Action and Addison County Community Action Group and their anti-poverty programs, including forming a buying cooperative, starting community gardens, forming a fund for dental expenses, organizing the first Vermont walk-a-thon, cutting his hair to look respectable, and raising money for a summer program in Bristol by auctioning off his beard, $50 an inch.

4 September 2015

AudioFile1970s-16

MP3

Audio File

Addison County (Vt.)

Permission to publish material from the Vermont 1970s Counterculture Project must be obtained from the Vermont Historical Society.

Guston, Amanda

Plumb, Tom

1 hr., 28 min., 15 sec.

Vermont Historical Society Library, 60 Washington Street, Barre, VT 05641-4209