Oral history interview with Molly Stone

Oral history interview with Molly Stone

Molly Stone discusses her work as artistic director at Catamount Arts in Saint Johnsbury, Vermont, during the COVID-19 pandemic. She describes in detail how various programs and initiatives were adapted to continue amidst COVID restrictions. Specifically, some examples she mentions include short weekly video updates called the Cata-Moment series, the Kingdom COVID Chronicles focusing on experiences of Northeast Kingdom residents, and a COVID Quilt where people would create their own quilt squares during lockdown. She also talks about their return to in-person events starting with outdoor concert events in August 2020. She explains their use of mobile stages at locations such as parking lots at state college campuses or for a vertical concert at Burke Mountain Resort. Other topics she addresses include her family's experience balancing remote work and online school, the need for some staff to use unemployment at the start of the pandemic, and Vermont's creative sector more broadly.

Molly Stone was the artistic director at Catamount Arts in Saint Johnsbury, Vermont, during the COVID-19 pandemic and at the time of this interview in 2023. She graduated from the University of Vermont in 2006 and from the Vermont Leadership Institute in 2020. Her three children were in elementary or middle school during the pandemic.

Sponsored by the Institute of Museum and Library Services MA-251676-OMS-22.

2023-10-10

Collecting COVID-19: A Vermont Story Project

AudioFileCOVID-083

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Permission to publish material from the Collecting COVID-19: A Vermont Story Project may be obtained from the Vermont Historical Society.

Wingerson, Amber

Stone, Molly

1 hr., 17 min., 50 sec.

Vermont Historical Society Library, 60 Washington Street, Barre, VT 05641-4215