Honoring Vermont LGBTQ+ Elders and Ancestors; Envisioning Support for Aging and Caregiving in the Future

Senior Solutions is proud to sponsor this event in Bellows Falls. Scott Belt, case manager at Senior Solutions, will be one of the event speakers. it will focus on LGBTQ+ Vermonters whose stories and legacies serve to reimagine care for elders today and in the future. “Looking Back/Moving Forward: Vermont: Stories of LGBTQ+ Caregiving & Community” will take place on October 24 at the Rockingham Free Public Library in Bellows Falls and on November 8 at the Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History in Middlebury.

These gatherings – featuring a performative talk with slides by scholar, writer, and performer Andrew Ingall, discussions with community leaders about LGBTQ+ aging and caregiving, Q&A, and receptions – are part of Resilient Patterns, a state-wide festival presented by Vermont Humanities centered on the theme of finding hope and solace in a changing world of social and environmental crisis.

The primary focus of Ingall’s lively presentation is on his distant cousins Warren Kronemeyer and Leon Ingall, who lived in Townshend, Vermont from 1980 to 2007. In his multi-platform project “Warlé”, Andy uses genealogical research, archival documents, photography, artifacts, oral history, movement, and creative nonfiction to “re-member” ancestors he never met.