Vermont Reads 2025: Episode Two: Water

The Light Pirate is divided into four sections. This second episode focuses on Water.

We speak with author Lily Brooks-Dalton, along with:

• Filmmaker Jay Craven


• Dan Nott, author of the Vermont Book Award-winning graphic novel “Hidden Systems”


• Paul W. Gates from the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum


• Writer and environmental journalist Megan Mayhew Bergman


• Cyril Brunner, Innovation and Technology Leader at Vermont Electric Cooperative

The Vermont Reads 2025 podcast was produced by Ryan Newswanger; with script, interview and production help from Noel Clark; and with script and narration help from Miciah Bay Gault.

We’re grateful to our supporters: the Trout Lily Foundation and the Jack & Dorothy Byrne Foundation. Vermont Public is our Media Sponsor. And thanks to Junction Arts and Media for the use of their recording studio.

Music in this episode was created by:

• Theo Gerard


• Adi Goldstein


• Rick Gallagher