Kchi Pôntegok Akiôtloka: The Land Speaks Its Story

On June 5th, the Village of Bellows Falls hosted the annual (2024) statewide Downtown & Historic Preservation Conference. The conference was sponsored by the Preservation Trust of Vermont and the Vermont Department of Housing and Community Development in partnership with the Town of Rockingham, the Bellows Falls Downtown Development Alliance and the Vermont Arts Council. One of the featured late morning presentations - held in the Rockingham Free Library - was entitled Kchi Pôntegok Akiôtloka: The Land Speaks Its Stories.

The Kchi Pôntegok Petroglyph Project received a National Parks Service Underrepresented Communities Grant in 2022 to amend the National Register listing of the Bellows Fall petroglyph site. The team members discussed their research and the implications underlying the context that is developing through that work. The local community media station FACT-TV recorded the sessions and this is the video record of that day.